PfiOFESSlOHAL CABDS.
Wade Hampton Kihlaw,
Attorney at law,
LUMBERTON, - ' -V N.C.
Office over Webster, Tin Shop
- St. A. HoUu.
A.J. MeiM
r. . McComlc
IcLEil.IcLEUAIcCOBlICK,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
LUIBERTON, - - N C.
Offloei on 2nd floor of Bank'of Lnm.
berton Building, Roomi 1, ,,
Prompt attention given to H bnrineM.
CHAS. B. SKIPPER,
Attorney at Law,
LUMBERTON, - - N. C.
All basin etui entrusted to htm will re
ceive prompt and careful attention.
Office in First National Bank Building
rfver Post Office.
E. M. BBITT, -'.
Attorney at Law,
LUMBERTON, N. 0.
Office npsUira in Argus Building.
All business promptly transacted.
McTntyre & Lawrence
Attorneys and Counselors at Law,
LUMBERTON. : c;
' eTj. britt,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Lumberton, N. C.
Office over Pope's Drug Store.
R. O..PARVIN,
.. Contractor and Builder.
Lumberton, N. C.
Plans, Specifications and Prices furn
ished on application.
McLean & Black,
Attorneys at Law,
MAXTON, N. C.
Office on and floor McCaskill Building,
Rooms 6-8.
Dr. N. A. Thompson,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
r.nmWnn : : : : N. 0
V ,
Office nextdooi above Savings Bank
DR. R. T. ALLEN,
Dentist,
LUMBERTON, N. C.
Office over Dr. McMillan's Drug Store
DR. J. D. REGAN,
DENTIST,
Lumberton, N. 0.
Office In
Shaw building,
drug store.
over Pope's
Dr. F. H. PITMAN,
DENTIST.
Ash pole,
N. C
Dr. R. B. BECKWITH,
Physician and Surgeon,
Offers his services to the people of Lnm
berton and surrounding country,
nffio. In ..f MrLeod Building. Phon
No. 6. Can be found at night at residence
formerly occupied by Mr. oeurgc ax
Whitfield.
JOHNSON & BRITT,
Real Estate and Insurance Agents,
LUMBERTON, N- C.
Office over Argus Buil ling.
"THE OLIVER"
The Typewriter WitL
the
LONGEST,
STRONGEST and
BROADEST .Guarantee.
Catalog for the AikiDg.
J-&. Grayton & 1G0-
General Ageate,
Trust (Building,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
flThlilQOiDMUlSfl
Jou Forever.
Onr Photographs are Beautiful and Life
life, finished in the most up-to-date styles.
Come and see Our work. We make Fami
ly Groripet, Views, Etc Come while the
weather is pleasant and bring the little
folks.
E. J. WAITS,
LUMBEBTONIART STUDIO,
Oyer Pooe'a Drug Store. f
INCOMPLETE SCHOOL SYSTEM.
Superintendent Jfoyner's View
ol the Sltnatlon.
, The following is an extract of
State Superintendent Joyner's
report:
"It is still painfully manifest
mat our public acnooi system is
incomplete, that. our public
scnoois, tne only nope ior the eu
ucation of all the people's chil
dren, are still unequal totheedu
cational demands of the century
and still intferiorinmo'st respects
to the public school of most other
sections of our common country:
that they are still inadequate to
their stupendous task in houses
and equipment, in teachers and
length of school term, in super
vision and in available schoo
funds, as long as tne average
length of the public school term
in North Carolina is only 88 days
and the average length in the ru
ral districts is only 85 days,
while the average length of the
publict school term in the South
ern States is 99 days, the average
length in the Jorth Atlantic
States 178 days and the average
length in the United States 147
days: as long as North Carolina
spends but fl.Od for every man,
woman and child of its popula
tion, while the average spent in
the United States is 43.15 and
spent but $3.12 for every child of
school age and if 4. 12 for every
child enrolled and $0.97 for every
child in daily attendance while
the average spent in the United
States for every child of school
age is $11.09. for every child en
roiled is $ia.u and ior every
child in daily attendance is $22,
75.
"No Carolinian who believes in
equality of educational opportu
nity for the children of North
Carolina, can doubt the necessity
of unrelaxed ' and strenuous ef
fort for an increase in the public
school fund and in the length of
the public school term, as long
as the average monthly salary of
white teachers in North Carolina
is but $41.40 for the city schools
and $28.80 for the rural schools
and the average annual salary of
white teachers is but $341 57 for
the city schools and $125.21 for
the rural schools, realizing that
the teacher makes the school,
that teaching is a difficult and
delicate art, that preparation for
citizenship and civic righteous
ness, the formation of human
character and the shaping of
human ideals, the betterment and
the very preservation of civiliza
tion, society and government are
more dependent upon the work
of the teacher in the school than
upon any other single agency,
except perhaps, the work of the
home and the w6rk of the church
that such a sacred and vital work
should be committed only to the
best and strongest: that these
can be commanded and retained
for this work only" by a compen
sation somewhat commensurate
with thatf which they can easily
command in a hundred other av
enues of employment, and which
will be sufficient to enable them
to command for themselves the
opportunities that will make and
keep them the best and the
strongest, no friend of education,
no true lover of his State, can
afford to relax any effort for, the
quickening of the public con
science to an appreciation of the
work of the real teacher and the
necessity of an expression of this
oppreciation in better compen
sation for that work.
as long as we have in the ru
ral districts, where more than
82 per cent of our people dwell,
,294 rural white schools, only
861 of which have two or more
teachers and only 832 of which
offer any instruction in any high
school, because no thoughtful
man can doubt the necessity of
finding or making a way by con
solidation, local taxation, the es
tablishment of township and
county high schools and other
means for increasing the number
of schools with two or more
teachers and providing for the
children of the rural districts
better facilities, somewhat equal
facilities with those of the chil-
ren of the towns and cities far
more thorough instruction in
more advanced studies as will
give the needful preparation for
intelligent citizenship and for suc
cessful competition with others
in all States and lands that have
provided for: their people such
facilities.
As lon as only 68 per cent of
the total school population of the
State, 69 per cent of the white
and 65 per cent of the colored is
enrolled in the public schools, and
only 42 per cent of the white
school population and 37 per cent
of the colored school population
is in daily attendance; no con
scientious citizens of this State
that has recntly adopted by con
stitutional amendment an edu
cational qualification for suffrage
and citizenship; no citizen that
believes In the safety of intelli
gence and the danger of igno
rance, in the power of intelli
gence and the weakness of igno
rance, in the ireedom ol intelli
gence and the bondage of , igno-1
ranee, in the divine right of
every child to have a chance to
develop every power that ' God
has created in him and the con
stitutional right of every child of
c republic to make the most pos
sible of himself In spit of any
sort of environment in childhood,
for which he can in nosense be
held responsible; that acceps the
fundamental doctrine established
by the experience of man kind;
that in universal education is to
be found the best protection to
life, liberty and property; that,
therefore, the goverment has the
right to tax, every citizen to se
cure this protection to itself and
to every citizen ad that every
citizen taxed has the right to de
mand from the government the
protection Ithat he has paid for
against the ignorance of every
child; that no man !or woman has
any right to deprive any child
during the period of helpness
and irresponsible childhood, of
the rijrht and the privilege of
education, or to deprive any tax
payer of the protection that he
pays for against the ignorance of
ever child, can doubt for a mo
ment that some way must be
found to increase the enrollment
and attendance, to bring all the
children into the schools provid
ed for them in order to necure to
every child his right, to the gov
erment its safety, and to the
taxpayer the protection that he
pays for. In the face of these
tacts, in consideration of the
further fact that all important
foreign countries, except the
ignorant countries of Russia,
Spain and Turkey, have found it
necessary to adopt compulsory
attendance laws in order to over
come illiterarcv and that 23 of
the 45 States of the American
Union have been compelled to re
sort to the same means of over
coming it and are finding the
means effective. I am forced to
the conclusion that North Caro
lina will be compelled to adopt
the same means to rid itself of
illiteracy. "
A Thompson Voter For Patterson
To the Kdltor of The Robesonian.
When the sixth district elects
congressman this year, each
voter should bear in mind the
fact that the office is one of trust
and honor and that it was created
for the good that its incumbent
might accomplish for his district
and the country at large in the
aw-making body of our land, not
for the emolument or the stow
age of a political favorite. In so
much as it is a place of trust, it
behooves the voters to elect a
man of honor, integrity and, a
the same time, a man of experi
ence. The great 'lights in the
House of Representatives today
are not first-term men, but men
who have gathered wisdom and
experience by years of close
study of the parliamentary ma
nipulation necessary to brim a
bill before the House and secure
its passage. This knowledge can
not be gained in one term, and a
man who has served his district
well in this capacity is the man
who deserves re-election. His
service record, if it be worthy,
should elect him. The office, as
mont.inriArl hffnrt urna rrt,nfl
, .v j. . . . . . .1
for the district, not for the mail,
and tne districts that remain un-
known quantities in Congress are
those that persist in sending a
recruit there after each election.
The sixth district is repre
sented by a man eminently wor
thy of the honor he wears, and
how could any loyal citizen think
of voting to remove him, for the
purpose of putting a man untried
and untrained in his place, when
he has not xet reached the zenith
of his effectiveness. The real
men in the House today are men
who have represented their con
stituency for a succession of
terms. Our district is repre
sented by a man whose sun is
still ascending. Then, voter, send
him back. It is your duty to
yourself, your district, your coun
try and last, but not least, to the
man himself.
Thompson's Township Voter.
Rowland,, June 19th.
An Eye for Business.
An Kxcbsngr.
If you are superstitious about
the number 13 you had better
give us your quarter dollars, for
on each one are 13 stars, 13 let
ters in the scroll of the eagle's
beak, 13 leaves on the olive
branch, 13 arrows heads and 13
letters in the words "quarter
dollar;" No it's not safe to keep
them, so just bring them in and
get credit on your subscription
for the full amount-
Subscribe for The Robesonian
now-
ronly 75 cents till Jan. (07.
Special Bargains
Iii High Grtd9 Sqnars Pianos,
If you hard the room It is far
preferable to buy god square
piano rather than a cheap upright.
Our square piano have been thor
oughly overhauled by skillet work
men, and if it was not for the fact
that tbey are entirely out of style
not one would bring less lb. n
f4 io.oo to f 700,00.
Stieff
StHnway & Sons
Hazleton Brothers
Krainch & Bach
James & Ilolmstrom
Waters & Sons
Waters
Bacon & Raven
New England
Wagener
Knabe
$'75fo
17500
I2S-CO
ri s (X)
105.00
100.00
95.00
90.00
K5.00
75-00
60.00
5r-.oo
Stleii,
Julio Galling
Gilds.
Southern Wareroom:
5 West Trade St.,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
C. H. W1LMOTH. Mar.
FOR TREATMENT OF
, Cocaine
me
Habits.
I am prenared to offer to all candidates.
friends and relatives interest ;d m game,
who desire to reform and refrain from
the d ink, cocaine and morphine haMts,
in lli-r town of Lumberton ami country
at large, the well known ami wonderful
MacKay Trea mint which lias b.-en l e
foie he public for a quarter of a century,
and hence thoroughly tested Ixamine
literature and testimonials and notice its
ad ption by the Canadian Government.
I'or limber intormatlon, apply to
R. B. BECKWITH. M. D.,
McLeod Building,
Lumberton, - - - N. C.
5 i3r
Something New.
Bed Springs. Bed Springs.
If you need a First-Class. Up-to-r'ate
Bed Spring, go to Humphrey & I'illynw.
at the Lumberton Novell y Wot Its, Lumber
ton, N. C, Manufacturers of the Cele
brated IIieh-Grade Excelsior Foliliue
Bed Spring This Bed SpriuS possesses
many points of superiority over the ordi
nary Bed Spring sold by the trade. The
Excelsior Spring is made of the best
Spring Steel Wire, manufactured espe
cially for that purpose. Tbe bed is com
posed of Spring!, put tip in independent
sections to that lying on one part of the
Deu Uoes not attract the other.
e otner. 1 wo nr
more may occupy the bed at the same
lime ana rest comioriaoiy. 1 ney will not
sag or masn to one side, ana are so con
structed as to render them absolutely
noiseless.
. - 1
To Whom it May Concern:
This is to certify that we the under
signed are now using the Spring sold by
nnyaw ac Humphrey, ana lo testify to
their merits as leiug just as represented,
the most comfortable Spring we have
ever used.
Signed Mrs. W. J. Pate, W. B. Flow
ers, K. L. Owens, B. Edwards, Z. M.
While, II. D. Miles. W. K. Brock. I. El-
wood Porter, J. I). Regan, D. D. S.
Any one desiring to purchase a. set of
First-Class Bed Springs, we would be
pleased to have th em call and examine
ours befor buying. We nse nothing but
the best of material, and put them up un-
der a ten years guarantee, and sell direct
" rP'e at Manufacturers' Prices.
Yours Truly,
Fill yaw & Humphrey,
Ma lufacturers and Proprietors,
LUMBERTON, N. C.
We also have a few machines and
choice counties that we will consign to
parties that wish to go into the Manufac
ture and Sale of Bed Springs. Only
small capital needed. For particulars
call on or address
Fillyaw & Humphrey.
Special Rates via tbe Seaboard.
The Seaboard begs to announce that on
account of the occasions mentioned be
low the rates and conditions named will
apply.
San Francisco, Cal. Los Angeles, Cal.
National Educational Association, July
7th-14th, from Raleigh, $77.50: Wil
mington, $77 50: Charlotte, $77-5o; cor
responding low rates from other points.
Monteag;e, Tenn. Monteagle Sunday
School Institute July I5tb-Augusl 5th,
one first-cjass fare plus 3$ cents for
round trip.
Monteagle, Tenn. Monteagle Bible
Training School Jnly 22nd-3ist, one first
class fare plus 25 cents for round trip.
Monte igle, Tenn. Woman's Congress
July 3oth-August 20th one first class
faae p us 25 cents for round trip.
AHheville, N. C. Convention Com
mercial Law League of America, July
3otb-August 4th one fiist -class fare plus
25 cents fsr round trip.
For further information as to rates
from any point or schedules apply to
your nearest Agent or address the under- i
signed.
C. II. OATTIS,
Traveling Passenger Agent,
Raleigh, N. C.
Dissolution Notice.
The partnership exi . ting between D -.
W. A. McPbaul and myself has been dis
solved by mutual consent. All' business
of the firm will be settled by me. All
indebted to said firm will please make
prompt payment.
Dr. J. P. BROWN,
Ashpole, N. C , June 8th 4ft)
Read our Business Builders.
Readjf for
Business.
We ore now ready to do your
work, and do it right. We
make aneciaRy of mantels,
turn work, repair furniture
and upholster; builders' fin
ishers, etc. We also make
tables, dusks, ctiplmards,
safes, etc., etc.
Freeman's Woodworking Plant,
H O. FREEMAN,
Proprietor.
Just acioas the
River foot
of Iron
I Briihre.
6-1
w.l.Uihaw&Go
1906.
With gratefnl feelings for the very lib
eral business received during the rear
! just closed, we oass another milestone,
and enter the nc. 1 ear beiter prepared
than ever to supply (he trade with any
thing in our line. At all times our peu
will be found well filled with the best
Tennessee Mules
Experience has taught 11s that thl
class is much better suited to our climat
than those bought in the far west. Ou
BUGGY AND WAGON
REPOSITORY
Was
never better supplied.
We carr
GRAD1
only STANDARD am
d HIGH
work. The
Hackney Wagon
Is the peer of all in Eastern North Caro
lina. 1 be old reliable
Piedmont
I Is too well known for comment. In Bug
ifies. we are prepared to slio you trom
1 50 to 100 at all times froniwhich to select
Our Leaders are
Wrenn, Eackney, Bab
cock and Hummer.
Latest designs and up-to-date finish.
MaSBBBl
Everything in the Harness Line
Terms, Cash or on Time
with Approved Security.
W.I. LINKHAW & GO.
Lumberton, N. O.
Jan. 8.
RALEIGH ADD CHARLESTON RAILROAD
Schedule in effect June 3 1906
SOUTH.
No. 1. No. 5
Lve Lumberton to. 25 am I2 30 p n
Pope 10.34 12.40
Kingsdale .10.40 1.10
Polopolis 10.45 l.f3
Proctorville 10.57 1.30
Delia 11.06 I.40
Barnesville ..-.'11.12 1.55
Flowers ri. 18 2.05
Marietta 11.24 2.25
Holmesville... 11.29 2.35
Page's Mill 11.33 a.55
Kemper 11.41 308
May... -11-44 3 1
Squires.. 11.49 3-20
Fork 11.52 330
Zion 12.01 p m 3 47
Rogers .ia.10 4.C5
r. Marion.. 12.25 4.35
MORTH.
No. 6 No. 1
Lve Marion. ...... 6.00am 3.25 pa.
Rogers ..- 6.20 3.39
Zion 6.30 3.47
Fork 6.53 3.5 s
Squires 6.57 3.58
May 7.05 4.04
Kemper 7.12 4,17
Page's Mill 7.18 4.ro
Holmesville 7.30 4.19
Marietta....... 7.50 4.25
Flowers.... 8.00 4.30
Barn, s vl lie 8.15 4.39
Delia 8.25 4.44
Proctorville 8.40 4.52
Polopolis ...... 8 50 s.oo
Kingsdale 9.10 5.05
Pope 9.20 5.10
Ar. Lumberton ....ic.oo 5.25
Nos. 1 and 2 Passenger, Mail and Ex
press, r ri nail .
Nos. 5 a. d 6, Mixed Trains, run daily
except Si m ay.
J. y.TURNEr.,
O neral Manag r
Trinity Park School.
A flrstclara preparatory school. Oe-tlflcates
of graduation accepted for entrance to leading
Sonthern colleges.
Best Equipped Preparatory School In tbe
Sonth.
Facu'ty of trn officers and tecbre. Campus
of (event? Are acres. Library containing tljjc
ty thousand volumes. Well equipped gymna
sium. High standards and aodern aethoda
of instruction. Frequent lectures by promi
nent lecturer. Expenses exceedingly moder
ate. Seven years of phenomenal success.
For catalogue and other Information, ad
drers, r
H. M. NORTH,
Headmaster
. Durham, N. C
6-18-8-10 0
"In The Good Old Summer Time,"
When money becomes scarce with the Farmers and all other
business men, we make it a rule to furnish our customer? with
nil the money they need, at the rate of six per cent. We lend
011 Roal Estate or other Good Security. All Money Deposited :
with us will earn four percent., comjounded every three months.
RRflfN NOW liy makin a I"0"'1- (it'"ir ,ttrg r small,
1UUlli llUU and see how fast it increases.
Robeson Connty Loan and Trust Company,
Lumberton, N. C.
A. W. McLean,
President.
Visitors to
Will do well to visit our Store where they w ill lind at all
iSao limes, a most select and up-to-date line of
Fine Jewelry,
Cut Glass Good Goods.
We do not sell cheap jewelry. Our aim n to sell KehuMe
(ioods in 1L is line, and every piece isfiiituantn d. We nro
Headquarters for Wedding Present. !ive us a rail.
McLEAN - ROZIBR CO.,
May 15.
Must Be
All of my Two anl Three Piece Suits Mnxt (Jc, even
if t iWk Bottom Prices. So will many
oilier articles in iny store.
If you don't know what real comfort ih, try u pair
of Sfclz Shoes. We Have Then)..
A. WEINSTEU, King Clothier. g
The C. W. Polvogt Company,
Wilmington, N. O.
Ours is the Largest and Handsomest Store, not only in Wilmington, but probably
in the State, and our Stock Is at atl times Full and ompletc. It kclndes every
Article needed for Ladies' Wear antl our Styles and Prices are such as to satisfy
Shopper.
Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention.
SEND FOR SAMPLES.
Who Dobs Your Printing?
If we are not now doing your work let us try your
onler. We expect to turn" out a Kirst-f lass Joh on
tiling- we undertake to do. : : : : :
COMMERCIAL
jk j Our Specialty.
Send us your work.
E. B. FREEMAN, Manager.
SUBSCRIBE FOR
THE ROBESONIAN.
GEO. S. HACKER & SON
-MANUFACTURES OF
Doors. Sash, Blind. Moaldlngs,
Bnlldlno Materia. Sash
Weights and Co. J.
Charleston, S. C
Purchase our makes, which we guar
antee superior to any sold Sonth, and
tnereoy save money. Window and Fan
cy Glass a Specialty 4-10
SEWING MACHINES.
The Singer and the Wheeler
and Wilson Sewing Machines
are on sale at the Singer Store
on West Trade St. Will also
rent machines on easy terms.
1 Wish to Call Special Attention
to Singer Style 66.
A full supply of Oils, Needles,
etc. I also repair machines.
Come and examine machines
and see that they are the best.
S. W. ODOM.
June 8
C II. Morrow,
Cashier.
Lumberton
Silverware and
Sold Out !
next
any-
PRINTING
PRINTING COMPANY.
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A.ir Line Railway.
Direct Line to AH Points in the
South, South-West,
North and North-West.
Doable Daily Service Between
Boston. -New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimdre, Washington, Norfolk,
Richmond. Raleigh, Charlotte, Wil
mington, Atlanta, Birmingham,
Memphis, Chattanooga, Nashville,
Montgomero, Mobile, New Orleans.
Columbia, Savannah. Jacksonville,
Tampa and All Florida Points.
Two Trains
DAILT
Two Trains
DAILY
BETWEEN
New York, Washington, Portsmouth,
AND
Atlant, Birmingham, Memphis, Savannah
and Jacksonville.
TRAINS CCMPOSED OF
Vestibule day coaches, Pullman ilrawiug
room Sleeping Cars and the Lalest
Cafe Dining Cars.
DIRECT CONNECTION AT
Memphis, New Orleans and St. Louis for
poins iu Teias, Calinia. Arkansas,
Colorado and the North-West.
Interchangeable mileage books good
over 15,000 miles road, Southern Linen.
For Time tables, Winter or Summer
Booklets Illustrative of the South and
Soulh-West, afply to Seaboard Passenger
Representatives, or address,
C . P. Ryau, O I. A., Portsmouth, V.
E. F. Cost, ami v. v., f ortsmoum, v.
C. II. Cattis, T. P. A., Raleigh, N .C.