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r EOBE80NIAN 7 Advertising Rates On Application. One Dollar and Fifty cents the Year. Established 1807. Country, God and Truth. Single Copies Five Cents. VOL. XXXIX NO. 47 LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY AUGUST 3 1908. WHOLE NO. 2378, f,,,,,,,,, SO Just Received 50 We Carry in Stock one of the Best Makes on the Market of little Alarm Clocks. These Clocks are Guaranteed by us f or one year; will last for many more, and any Clock failing to give satisfaction will be replaced with a new one. If its a Re liable Clock or Watch you want WE HAVE IT. & fi & Boylin's Jewelry Store. THE NATIONAL BANK, Fayetteville, N. C. -.!...- 153 n um i ! i : )-;'Ss, EVERYBODY REGARDS A DOLLAR As well worth making. Has it occurred to you that after you have made it, it IB foolish not to take care of it in the best possible manner? Deposited la the National Bankot Fayetteville, your cash is far safer than if you kept it yourself. Fire cannot destroy our vaults and they offer very little temptation to burglars. The latter gentry know it is much easier and safer to rob a store, office or home where money is known to be Kept. Make your cash sate by depositing it with this bank. W. A. VANSTORY, Pkesidfnt. Vice-Presidents Active V. Pres. I. M. SHAW, Assistant Cashier. B. McMILLAN, Cashier. DIRECTORS: J. VANCE McGOUGAN, W. A. VANSTORY, E. II. WILLIAMSON, A. L. SHAW, H. L. COOK, W. J. JOHNSON, E. H. WILLIAMSON, JOHN ELLIOTT, ) A. JNO. H. CULRRETH, HUNTER G. SMITH, II. McD. RORINSON, W. E. KlNDLEY, A. R. McEACHERN, W. H. SIKES, C. J. COOPER, 6-21-lm JNO. R. TOLAR, JOHN ELLIOT, JOHN A. OATES, S. W. COOPER, W. L. HOLT, J. W. McLAUCHLIN, T. B. UPCHUCRH Peter ni 11 rs oneiis to the Front ! They Have Forged Their Way To The TOP BY MERIT. nni ww w t i i r iney nave an unequaied Kecord for Accuracy. Try Them and you will be SATISFIED. For Sale by Your Live Merchants. N. Jacobi Hardware Company, Wholesale Distributors, Wilmington, N. C G-29 The Most Skilful Player HE HOMESTEAD TION. Cannot produce really fine music from a poor Piano. The purchase of such au instrument is a mistake, the selling of one is worse. When You Select a Piano Here we are always glad to have you bring hii expert player with you. Then the tone and volume of our pianos are brought out in all their beauty. Then the quality of our instruments is proven better llmi any attempt at description we miglit make. Eagle Furniture and Carpet Co. Luitibertoti, N C. A Reliable Bank Is one which puts the Interests of its Depositors above the Interests of its Officers and Stockholders. Conservative and Safe Management is more Important than Bio; Dividends. It has been the Policy of this Bank to follow these Ideals. Our President and Cashier borrow no money of the bank. We reouire the same security of every one who bor rows from us. Not a Dollar Eleven Years. Lost by Bad Loans in our Existence of Is it to Yom Interest to Deal TOli Such a Bank ? Open an Account with us and be Convinced. The Bank of Lumbertoii, Lumbertoii, N. C. A. W. McLEAN, President, A. E. WHITK, Vice-l'res. TIIOS, OFFICERS! R. f). CALDWELL, Vice-Pres, C. B. TOWNSKND, Cashier, J. MOORE, Ass't Cashier. ime for the Legislators to re fer this Matter to a Vote of the People Partnership and the Bankruptcy Law. The Robesonian has been re quested by the local Retail Mer chants' Association to publish the following editorial from The Asheville-Gazette News, and the letter which follows it. The Gazette-News respectfully invites the consideration of all business organizations and all newspapers in the state to the position it has taken in regard to the homestead law. We take the position: First, that a very plain prin ciple of right and wrong is in volved. Second, that the operation of the homestead exemption in bankruptcy is uneconomic, in that it imposes a burden, the ex cess the dealer must charge tor his risk, upon the entire com munity. In a letter to blayden, .bakes& Co., which we are publishing to day, F. W. Thomas, referee in bankruptcy, discusses the appli cation of this under a decision of the State Supreme Court, as affecting partnerships. Doubt- ess, as he argues, the practice ot partnership exemptions, although sanctioned by law, is wrong in principle: the way to correct it is to correct the fundamental law in regard to exemptions. The view ot the Retail Mer chants' Association of North Carolina, of the subject generally is furnished the Gazette-News by a prominent official of that organization : We contend that this law has served its day. The protection it afforded in days past was a ne cessity, but the need for such law has long since ceased to exist. "The exemption is a bulwark against honest men s credit, making it necessary for an hon est man to own above $2,000 to $3,000 before he really has any credit (estimated by the way the homesteads are laid off by the average jury, to the amount of $1,500). Dishonest people use it as a legal shield for their protection against paying their honest debts. "Today where in one honest case it is necessary to take ad vantage of the homestead law, as was originally intended there are 100, yes, 200 and more, who take protection behind it to avoid paying their legal obligations. Today it is easier and quicker to make money by failing than it is to nurse a good business through its infancy or a panic to a suc cessful establishment of that business. "For instance, four men go into the grocery business, two men put in $900 each, two put in $100 each, lhey se cure credit and buy merchandise to the amount of $3,000. Two of them manage the business, the four partners agree to draw a salary of $200 monthly and at the end of the year they have increased their stock to $5,000. They have paid out over $9,000 in salaries (two-thirds of which is not profit) which they each put in to real estate. They find they can not meet their obligations; they assign; they have their home stead laid off, $1,500 each; it leaves nothing with which to pay the people who furnished them with goods, then it is necessary for the factory or wholesaler to tack this precentage of loss on to his goods honest merchants and honest consumers are com pelled to pay for these exemp tions. "If $1,000 worth of merchan dise is furnished any man and he uses it to buy property he has no honest moral right, to refuse to pay for the merchandise be cause he has invested in real es tate. If the honest man pays for his groceries, meats, doctor bills, as well as notes and other paper, why should the rascal be allowed to beat for his living be cause he is mean enough to take advantage of the homestead law? This makes it necessary for the honest people to pay more tor their goods and accomoda tions to make good for those who will not pay. It is plain to the average man that this percentage of loss must be added by the dealer to make a legitimate profit. Then why continue to encourage rascal ity and make it harder to be honest? Is it not harmful to the honest business man as well as the honest public? "The time is now at hand for the business interests of the EXEMP- State to require the legislators to refer this matter to a vote of the people and to let them say whether our commonwealth shall retain a law that makes it hard to be honest and easy to be a rascal". The principal embodied in our bankruptcy laws, like most good things in our legal system, goes back to the Mosaic statutes. There might have been honest errors in judgment on the part of either debtor or creditor, or both;if it is apparent the debtor cannot pay his debts, take what he has, and give a discharge of the rest of his debt; do not hold it over him and enslave him for life. But under our State constitu tion, as amended just after the war, it is possible for an enter prising young man to get a start in life by securing credit and then taking refuge behind the homestead exemption. The home stead exemption in real estate may be laid off by kindly neigh bors, who care nothing about the interest of the wholesale dealers who sold the goods, but have a friendly and neighborly interest in the bankrupt. The wholesalers must do busi ness. They must take the risk. They must sell their goods high enough to cover that risk. in the case ot a man who se cures credit, and by the opera tion of the homestead exemption goes through bankruptcy $500, $1,500 or $5,000 to the good where does that profit come from? It comes out of the pock ets of the wholesalers, the other merchants or the consumers. Most of it comes out of the pock ets of the consumers, for the merchants know how to figure out the chances. This movement for the amend ment of the homestead law is i business man's movement, rest ing upon the two-fold motive of clear right, and economy to the general public. We hope none of our contemporaries will oppose it, until they have given the whole matter careful study, at least. The questions involved will be discussed from time to time in these columns, and can didates for the legislature will be expected to devote some consid eration to it. SUPERB PARTNERSHIP AND THE BANK RUPTCY LAW. Letter from Frederick W. Thomas, referee in bankruptcy, to Slay den, Fakes & Co. : Gentlemen: I comply with pleasure with your request, to write you my views of the law relating to the rights of partners, in case of. bankruptcy, to take their exemptions out of the part nership property. The bank ruptcy act provides, section 6, that it shall "not affect the al lowance to bankrupts of the ex emptions which are prescribed hZ Z by the State laws in force at the UKJ Oilier , .en: jj.t. ume 01 mts lining 01 uie yeuuun in the State wherein they have had their domicile." In North Carolina, by its constitution, it is provided (Art. X., Sec. 1) that "the personal property of any resident of this State, to the value of $500, to be selected by such resident, shall be and is hereby exempted from sale under execution, or other final process of any court, issued for the collection of any debt. In 1870, soon after the civil war. when the court was no doubt greatly influenced by the reduced financial condition of the citizens of the State, our Supreme Court decided, in Burns vs. Har ris, 67 N. C. (contrary, as I think, to correct principle) that each member of a partnership, if the other- members of the firm con sented, might take $500 worth of the firm assets as exemptions. This is generally regarded by the profession as the law now in this State, although I think the principle there announced has been much shaken by recent cases; for instance, in Stout vs. McNeil, 98 N. C, 4, Chief Jus tice Smith says lhe common effects are properly applicable to the common liabilities, (by com mon" he refers to partnership effects) and their diversion to the rjersonal advantage ot one of the members (of the firm) when the creditors are unpaid, though legally capable of being done, is little short of and may, as involving an attempt to de fraud, be carried so far as to amount to a remedial wrong." And in Southern Commission Co. vs. sorter izzjn. j. oyz, aecia ed in 1898, where the court con sidered an assignment by a firm which provided that the assignee should pay, out of the the firm assets, the debts of one of the members of the firm, it was said that this nrovision was a fraud on the creditors of the firm." However, as I have said. it is generally understood that the law in North Car olina is as it was announced in Burns vs. Harris, and the Feder al courts have adopted the rule of Burns vs. Harris as the law in this State, which under section 6 of the bakruptcy act, (providing that in bankruptcy the same ex emptions are to be given as in proceedings under theState law) , must be followed in ascertaining the rights of bankrupts in North Carolina as to exemptions. The result in many cases is dis astrous to firm creditors: For instance, there is a case now before me, as referee in bankruptcy, where a husband and wife assert that they are partners in a small business, the stock in trade being appraised at $1,631. The cash invested in this .business by these parties was less than $125. Each of them claim S500 as exemptions out of the stock, leaving $631 for the creditors, whose claims ag gregate $3,166. In several cases within my experience the entire assets there being two or three, sometimes four, partners have been taken to give to the several partners the exemptions to which they are entitled under the law of this State. As I have said, I do not think Burns vs. Harris. upon which the law on this subject in North Carolina is based, was correctly decided. If it be law that a member of the partner ship has the right, with the con sent of his partners, to take his exemptions out of the firm property, then it must also be right, if the principle is carried out, of every stockholder in a corporation (with the consent of his co-stockholders) to receivs $500 in personal property, as ex emptions, out of the assets of the corporation, to the- exclusion of the claims against the corporate assets of the creditors of the corporation. Should any lawyer advocate this last proposition, he would be laughed at; and yet it ought not to be regarded as so absurd, in view of decisions like Burns vs. Harris, because the interest of each member of a firm in the partnership property is precisely the same as that of- each stockholder of a corporation m the corporate property, viz, his share of the. surplus assets, after the payment of the debts of the corporation. - I have otten thought that the bankruptcy act, in order that the respective rights of creditors and debtors all over the country might be well understood, should disregard the various exemption laws of the btate, and adopt one measure of exemptions for bank rupts throughout the United States. Should this not be thought capable of accomplish ment, efforts should certainly be made by the different commer cial associations to secure legis lation, federal and State, to the effect that partners should not be, as in the greater number of States they are not, entitled to exemptions out of partnership property until the firm debts are paid; nor should any debtor be entitled to property as exempt ions when that property is un paid for, as against the claim of the creditor for the purchase price; nor should any person be entitled as exemptions to gocds out of his stock in trade of a greater value than what he has actually, either in money or property, put into the business. It the business men of the coun try would bend their efforts to secure legislation of this charac ter, I feel sure that they would meet with prompt success. Very truly yours, F. W. Thomas. EDUCATIONAL AWAKEN-ING. ELIZABETHTOWN ECHOES. R, CHOCOLATES All other chocolates seem just ordinary after you once try Huyler's. They are just as pure and wholesome as they are delicious. We secured the agency for the Huyler line knowing there is nothing finer, and because we know too that people will unconsciously judge the value of our stock by the individual lines we carry. We will be glad to have you judge this confectionary as soon as conven ient. In packages from S cents up. "Act normal," says Roosevelt, "and there will be no hard times." That means, send HER a box of Huyler's. McLEAN-ROZIER CO 7-9 tf Diarrhoea Cured. "My father has for years been troubled with diarrhoea, and tried every means possible to effect a cure without avail," writes John H. Zirkle of Philippi, W. Va. "He saw Chamberlain's Colic, Colera and Diarrhoea Remedy advertised in the Philippi Repub lican and decided to try it. The result is one bottle cured him and he has not suffered with the dis ease for eighteen months. Before taking this remedy he was a con stant sufferer. He is now sound and well, and although sixty years old, can do as much work as a young man." Sold by all druggists. Why James Lee Got Well. Everybody in Zanesville, Ohio, knows Mrs. Mary Lee, of rural route 8. She writes: "My hus band, James Lee, firmly believes he owes his life to the use of Dr. King's New Discovery. His luDgs were so severely "affected that con sumption seemed inevitable, when a friend recommended New Dis covery. We tried it, and its use has restored him to perfect health.' Dr. King's New Discovery is the King of throat and lung remedies. For coughs and colds it has no equal The first dose gives relief. Try it! Sold under guarantee at all drug stores. 50. and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Wants Decision Revised in Stand ard Oil Case. Lenox, Mass., Dispatch. July :29. After an all-day conference of the leading government prose cuting officers and Frank E. Kellogg, of Minnesota, one of the special counsel for the gov ernment in certain civil suits, it was announced by Attorney General Bonaparte that every effort would be made to secure a revision of the recent decision and opinion of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of the Standard Oil Com pany of Indiana, and that an application for a reargument of the case and motion for a modification of the opinion would be submitted to that court. Al though no time is fixed, this action by the government will be taken at the earliest possible moment, while the pending prosecutions against the Stand- Oil Company and all other prose cutions in which the ' giving or receiving of rebates is charged, will be pressed for trial. The decision to take this action was unanimous. North Carolina First A Splen did Tribute to the Achieve ments of the Old North State in Educational Progress. Mr. Ray Stannard Baker, a well-known magazine writer, is contributing a notable series of articles to The American Maga zine on "The Negro Problem." In the August issue of that pub lication, under the title "The New Southern Statesmanship," in elaboration of the idea that the only sure foundation for de mocracy is universal education. Mr. Baker has the following to say of conditions obtaining in this State: ' 'Not unnaturally the movement found its earliest expression in North Carolina, which has been the most instinctively democratic of Southern States. From the beginning of the country North Carolina, with its population of Scotch-Presbyterians and Qua kers, has been inspired with a peculiar spirit of independence. When I was in Charlotte I went to see the monument which com memorates the Mecklenburg Dec laration of Independence; the work of a group of stouthearted citizens who decided, before the country at large was ready for it, to declare their independence ot British rule. North Carolina was among the last of the Southern States to secede from the Union, and its treatment of its negroes all along has been 11 11 y -i-i singuiariy noerai. .f or exam pie, in several Southern States little or no provision is made for the negro defective classes, but at Raleigh I visited a large asy lum for negro deaf, dumb, and blind which is conducted accord ing to the most improved meth ods. And to-day North Carolina is ireer politically, the btate is nearer a new and healthy party alignment, than any other South ern State except Tennessee and possibly Kentucky. Such a soil was fertile for new ideas and new movements. In 1885 two young men, Charles D. Mclver and Edwin A. Alder man, now president of the Uni I t T T 1 versity oi Virginia, oegan a se- nes oi educational campaigns uner the supervision of the State I hey spoke in every county rousing the people to build bet ter school houses and to send leg islators to Raleigh who should be more liberal m educational ap propriations. In many cases their rallies were comparable with the most enthusiastic politi cal meeting only no one was asking to be elected to office, and the only object was public ser vice. As Alderman has said: ' ' 'It was an effort to move the centre of gravity from the court house to the school house. ' "And it really move; the State took fire and has been afire ever since. Governor Aycock made the educational movement a part of his campaign; Governor Glenn has been hardly less enthusias tic; and the development of the school system has been little short of amazing. When I was in Raleigh last spring J. Y. Joy- ner, btate buperintendent ot Ed ucation, who was also one of the pioneer campaigners, told me that a new school house was be ingbuilt for every dayin the year, and new school libraries estab lished at the same rate. Be tween 1900 and 1906 the total amount of money expended for schools in North Carolina has more than doubled, and while the school population in the same years had increased only b per cent., the daily attendance has increased 28 per cent. North Carolina Compared With Massachusetts. "To give a graphic idea of the progress in education, I can do no better than to show the increase in public expenditures since 1872: 1872 total school expenditures 1880 1S90 1900 lyo6 "I have looked into the tics and I find that North lina spends more per hundred dollars of taxable property for school purposes than Massachu setts, which is perhaps the lead ing American State in education al expenditures. In 1906 North Carolina raised $.40 on everyone hundred dollars, while Massachu setts raised $.387. This does'not mean, of course, that North Car olina has reached the standard of Massachusetts; it only shows hew the people, though not ncn, hve been willing to tax them selves. And they have only just begun; the rate of illiteracy of the State, as in all the South, is still excessive both among the white and colored people. Ac- PROFESSIONAL CARDS $ 42.856 349.831 787.145 1.091.610 2,291,053 statis-Caro- Bladen Teachers Institute Death of Mr. Oscar Bascom Cromartie, an Excellent Young Man Other News Items. t'orespomlence of The Robesonian. Mr. Percy Smith is spending this week at White I.ake. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Davis and daughter spent part of this week at Wrightsville. Rev. Mr. Sheivlar, of Atlanta, Ga., delivered two fine sermons in the Presbyterian church here last Sunday. The Bladen Teachers' Institute this year will be held at White ake, from July 27th to Aug 7th. rof. R. A. Merrit and Miss Dunn, ot the Normal, will assist in the work. Hfl- XT j T 1 " i mrs. iNewton rtoDison and son spent part of last week at W nghtsville. Many friends of Mr. and Mrs B. Cromartie will deeDlv sympathize with them in the death of their onlv son. Oscar Bascom Cramartie, which occurr ed at their home near here Mon day, after a long and severe ill ness of typhoid fever. He con tracted that dread disease while at work at Bolton. The voung man was about 23 vears of aee anh had been a member of the Presbyterian church of this place ever since he was a small boy, He was very active in church and Sunday school work. He will be greatly missed in this church. And it was larerelv through his efforts that a church was recently organized at Bol ton. The remains were laid to rest in the Clarkton cemetery rn iii luesaay, ana tne lunerai was attended by many sorrowing friends and relatives. Besides his parents, Mr. Cramartie leaves nve aevotea sisters to mourn his untimely death. Miss Mamie Bizzell, of Laurin- burg, spent Saturday and Sun day in town the guest of Misses Louisa and Lizzie May Hall. She will attend the Teachers'Institute at the Lake. MissMamie Ly tie, who had been spending some time at Red Springs, has returned home. Mr. D. L. Blue, of Clarkton, was in town yesterday a short while. Among those who attended the burial of Mr. O. B. Cramartie from this place were Mrs. W. M. Wnitted, Mrs. D. C. Sinclair, Misses Emma Whitted, Lena Hall and Annie McLeod, Messrs. j. jvi. iarK, Jim McLeod and Loyd Whitted. Court will be here next week The Ladies Aid Society served icecream Saturday in the after noon for the benefit of the church. Judge C. C. Lyon arrived home today. mi i i a. .i j. nose wno leit this morning for the Teachers' Institute at White Lake were Misses Annie McLeod and Lousia and Annie Hall. The young people of this place and around about here had a big dance Saturday night in the old Masonic Lodge. There was some good dancing. Music was furnished by the Gill Bros, string band Mr. J. M. McEwen, of Clark ton, spent Monday with his sis ter, Mrs. F. T. McLeod, on his way home from White Lake. Mr. R. S. White spent several days at Wrightsville last week. Miss Katie McLeod spent Sun day and Monday at White Lake the guest of Miss Jocelyn Hall. Mr. D. S. White spent Sunday and Monday at White Lake. Crops in this section would look much better if they had more rain. Elizabeth town, N. C, July 28, 1908. W. H. KIN LAW, Attorney-at Law LUMBERTON, N. All business promptly transac-tiil. 4-1 Gtf Stephen Mclntyro, K. C. Lawrence James 1). Proctor. MclntjTe, Lawrence & Proctor, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, LUMBERTON, N. C. Practiee in State and Federal Courts. Prompt attention given to all business. LEON. T. COOK, Attorney at Law, LUMBEUTON, N. C. Office in First National Bank Building. T. A. McNeill, T. A. McNeill. Jr. McNeill & McNeill, Attorneys at Law. LUMBRTON, N. C. Will practice in all the Courts. nesa attended to promptly. WADE WISHART, Attorney at Law, LUMBERTON. N. C. Prompt attention given to all business. Office over Bank of Lumbertoii. s'-l F.usi- D. P. SHAW, Attorney at Law. LUMBERTON, N. C. All business entrusted to him nromiit- ly attended. to. Otlice in hhaw building. N. A. McLean. A. W. McLean. McLEAN & McLEAN, Attorneys at Law, LUMBERTON. N. C. Offices on 2nd floor of Bank of Lum bertoii Building, Rooms 1, 2, 3, and 4. Prompt attention given to all business. CHAS. B. SKIPPER, attorney-at-law, LUMBERTON, N. C. All business entrusted to him wil receive prompt and careful attention. Office in First National Bank Build ing over Post Office. E. M. BRITT, attorn ey-at-law, LUMBERTON, N. C. Office upstairs in Argus Building. All business promptly transacted. E. J. BRITT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, LUMBERTON, N. C. Office over Pope's Drug Store. STOCK REMEDIES. Every bottle of Dr. Edmond's Colic and Lung Fever Cure is Guaranteed for colic, gravel, pneumonia, stomach and lung disorders. Also a blood prurifier. DR. W. O. EDMUND, 3-21 Lumberton, N. C. Thurman D. Kitchin, M. D., Pbyslclan and Surgeon. LUMBERTON, N. C. County Office next door to Robeson Loan and Trust Company. Utlice phone 12b C. S. Martin, from Athens, Ga., a clerk in the Seaboard Air Line offices, Portsmouth, was drowned Monday at Ocean View, in attempting to save the life of a young lady bather. Rescuers brought the young woman ashore but could not recover Martin's body in time when he went down. Foley's Kidney Remedy will cure any case of kidney or bladder troublethat is not leyond the reach of medicine. No medicine can do more. Sold by all druggists. Excellent Health Advice. Mrs M. M. Davidson, of No. 37'. Gill'urd Ave , San Jo&e, Cal , says: '"The worth of Electric Bit ters as a geneial iatnily remedy, for headache, biliousness and tor por of the liver and bowels is so pionounced that I am prompted to say a word in its favor, for the b; nefit ( f U ose seeking relief from 8K:h afliii'tions There 's more hi ulth for the digestive orgHns in a bottle tf Electric l)i Iters than in ai y other remedy I know of ' Sc Id under gua autee at all drug stores. 50c. 5 or 6 doses "666" will cure I any case of Chills and Fever. cording to the last census, North Carolina has more illiterate white people than any other State in the Union, a condition due, of course, to its large population of mountaineers. While the pro gress already made is notable, the leaders still have a stupend uous task before them. At the present time, although taxing itself more per hundred dollars worth of property than Massa chusetts, JNorth Carolina pays only $2.63 each year for the edu cation of each child, whereas Massachnsetts expends .$24.89 nearly ten times as much. '"I do not wish to over-empha size the work in North Carolina I am merely using conditions there as a convenient illustration of what is going on in greater or less degree all over the South" 7-9 J. M. LILLY, M. D. Practice limited to diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. 115 Green St. Fayetteville, N. C. 4-16-tf Dr. Thomas C. Johnson, Physician and Surgeon. Lumberton, N. C. Office over McMillan's Drug Store. Calls answered Promptly day or night. Residence at Waverly Hotel. 4-27-tf. DR. N. A. THOMPSON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, LUMBERTON, - - N. C. Office at Hospital. Phone No. 41. Down town office over McMillan's Drug Store. Calls promptly answered night or day, in town or in the country. DR. R.T. ALLEN, DENTIST, LUMBERTON, - N. C. Office over Dr. McMillan's Drug Store. DR. JOHN KNOX, JR., Physician and Snrgeon, Lumbertoii, N. C. Office at McLean-Rozier Drug Store. 1-2-08 J. G. MURPHY, M. D., Practice Limited to Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, Wilmington, N. C. 6-1-tf Cured Uay Fever and Summer Cold. S. Nubbaum, liatesville, In- writts: ''Lastyearl sufl'er- 811111- it in I had A. diaua. eu lor three months Willi a mer cold po distressing that terfered with my husiness. many of the symptc nis of hay fe ver, ana a doctor's piescpription did not reach my case, and I took several medicines which eeennd only to aggravate it. Fortunately I insisted upon having Foley's Honey and Tar. It quickly cured me. My wife has since used Foley's Honey and lar with same succi ts. Sold by all druggists. J. A. MacKETHAN, M. D., MacKathan); Building. FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat a Specialty. 1-13 E. G. SIPHER, ELECTRICIAN, Lumberton, N. C, Office in Shaw Building, Phone No. 118. 1-6 DR. R. F. GRAHAM, DENTIST, LUMBERTON, N. C. Office over Bank of Lumherton. Rooms No 7 and 8. 1-20-08