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r 1 ESONIA H A Established 1870. Country, God and Truth. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, MARCH 21, 19 lO WHOLE NO. 2547 ROB! Single Copies Five Cents. VOL XL1 NO. 9. MORRISON PAYS PENALTY. FAIRMONT NEWS LETTER. First Electrocution in the State Negro Rapist from Robeson Breaks Down and Cries Pite ously' Held Cross in His Hands His Criminal Record. Raleigh News and Observer. 19t.h. Having lost his nerve as he faced the mysterious electric chair so different from the famil iar gallows, Walter Morrison piteously called for mercy, until the head-gear had been adjusted, and with a final prayer half spoken, his body became rigid and lite was extinct. Thus at 10:19 o'clock yesterday morning the hrst infliction ot the death penalty in North Carolina by electrocution was successfully carried out. But to entirely sat isfy all for a second time the powerful voltage was shot through the body. There was no burning of the parts of the body where the con tact with the current was ar ranged, no accident or mishap to make the electrocution more gruesome than anticipated, though after the application of the current of eighteen hundred volts, there still remained suffi cient heart throb and pulse beat to cause the prison physicians. Drs. McGeachy and Riddick, to call for the application of the current again. The skin on the leg later appeared flabby at the point ot contact, but it was not broken or burned. It appeared very much like a huge blister. With Warden Sale immediate ly by his side, the inventor of the electric chair, E. F. Davis, of New York, -assisted in throwing the switch that carried the death current. There was no harrow ing scene and but for the knowl edge mat a human Demg was being hurled into eternity the in cidents would have been void of special interest. The electric current travelling at fifty thou sand feet a second was through the entire body before another nerve conduit came into action the latter travelling only 111 feet per minute. Work of the Beaufcrt Lumber Co. Commencements A Protracted Meeting Prepara tions for Easter. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Fairmont, March 18 Mr. Lauch McLean will bring home his bride. Miss Sinclair, who lives near Maxton, next Sunday. We are glad to welcome her and wish the young couple a pleasant journey together. Mesdames Lewis and Burk head, of Whiteville, were guests of Miss Lorena Lewis and Mrs. C. W. Smith last Thursday. Mr. N. T. Andrews and Mr. Henry Purvis, of No. 2, are at tending a National meeting of RED SPRINGS REVIEWS. A Recital this Evening Miss Ethel Johnson Entertains the Good Times Club Personal. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Red Springs, March 19-- Miss Lillian Farquhar, assisted by Mr. bharles Vardell, will give a reel MILLINERY OPENINGS. The Gladdest Days of all Glad New Year for the dies Beautiful Shapes Shades. Comes now one of the annual occasions when the the semi- luck- tal in the college auditorium I less reporter must write of thiners Monday evening. Any one who of which he knows not, must has heard Miss Farquhar play cudgel his brains for some fit knows how well she manages her way to tell the ladies of things violin, how beautiful her solos of which they already know are, but she has arranged a spe- more at a glance than he will ev cially good program for this oc- er know, must walk as in a dream casion, and the recital promises in a garden of dreams with nev to be a great treat for music lov- er a nttmg word at command to ers. Mr. Vardell is a skilled describe the perfect dreams." young pianist who always gives tne lovely creations," the "too mucn pleasure whenever he plays. ULtJ - i o r - anyinings r - tne the Farmers' Union in Washing- We hope many from the neigh- 'Aren't they darlings," the on City this week. Rev. Alex. Pitman, of Green wood, S. C, is the gue&t of his sister, Mrs. A. E. Floyd, coming most especially to be with his brother, Rev. N. R. Pitman. Mrs. Talbot, of Richmond, Va., has been spending some time with her sister, Mrs. Spivey. One ot the tram engines of the Beaufort Co. arrived last Mon boring towns can come and hear Aren't they sweets?" and this recital. Misses Katie McNeill, Hattie mayes and Daisy Edwards are spending the week-end with rel atives and friends in Lumberton. Misses Emma Belle McRae and Sallie Lou McKinnon, of Maxton, were in town Thursday attend ing Miss Katie Brown's beautiful For opening days millinery opening days spring millinery opening days are here. Wake me early, wake me early, .mother dear, lhese are the gladdest dajs of all the glad new year; For I'm going to look at hats, moth er, look at hats all day, And I'll buy a few "creations," and father 11 have to pay. Miss Josephine Breece's open ing was ihursday and Friday display of millinery. Mr. Ham rlav and was nut to work at onr.A Hton McMillan is visiting his son, hp nino- in trark av no- Thp ivir. donn MCMinan, in tfiauen stnrP anH nffifPS of tho pnmnanv COUH y. Mrs. beorge Bullock will soon bp pomnlpt.pH and little daughter have returned opening will be . T 1 J i i 1 . I TTT 1 "I j 1 Messrs F C. Jones and Hen- irora a Pleasant visit to relatives weanesaay, so this comes -w v i T i I it T nnnirrMimrt ' 1 - r r- nit nils 1 fTiU t v l- - itt 4-L rv rurvis wpnt to ljaiinnnnro" 111 uounuwuig. '"jios xviaxv mt- wiuicu m uctwccu me ., , 1111 i IT last week and returned in a ie?Je,r wn naa oeen teacning m Alabama the past winter, has come home to spend the summer with her mother, Mrs. Jennie Mc-Alester. Miss Ethel Johnson delightful ly entertained the Good Times Club Thursday evening. Miss Johnson gave her guests a pleas- LOCAL BRIEFS. Mayor J. A. Rowland has been confined at home several davs with rheumatism. His con dition is somewhat improved to day. Mr. H. E. Carter, formerly with Messrs. White & Gough and recently with Mr. J. P. McNeill, began work Thursday with the McAllister Hdw.Co. At an election held in dis trict No. 3, Blue Springs town ship, Bethel school, last Wednes day, a special tax was voted of 30 cents on the 100 and 90 cents on the poll. The colored people had? "a baptizing at the old wooden bridge yesterday afternoon. Quite a large crowd witnessed the ceremony, many white peo ple being among the number. Fifteen or twenty members of St. Albans lodge of Masons, constituting a third-degree team, will go to Fairmont this after noon to do some degree work and attend a banquet there this evening. Mr. John N.Regan.who lives on rural route No. 1 from Lum berton, brought to this office Sat handsome Buick machine which Mr. Purvis bought from Jno. F. McNair & Co. It is one of the prettiest machines we have ever seen. This is commencement week with the colored school and they are having very interesting exer- and Messrs. Caldwell & Carlyle's urday some Blue Andalusian hen eggs that are beauties. They are at least a third larger than the ordinary hen egg. Latest reports from Mr. A. W. McLean, who, accompanied by Mrs. McLean, went to Balti more last week for treatment, are to the effect that his condi tion is improving. It is not known just when he will return home. tomorrow and sand- in Detween the two. Beautiful creations vou need not turn up your nose at that ex pression; it's a good expression, an opening expression, a milli nery opening expression beau tiful creations of the milliner's art have been tpn exhibition, are on exhibition, will be on exhibi tion. For days and days expert Miss Katie Kerr, of Kerr. Sampson county, began work th a mcrning as bookkeeper and ste nographer for the Pope Drug Co., and she will ao do stenographic work for Mr. E. J. Biitt She ar rived last evening, coming ove r from Fayettevillewith her broth er. Mr. Jas. Kerr, who is phar macist for the Pope Drug Co. Mr. David Fuller began work this morning as clerk at the Pope drug store, succeeding Mr. P. J. Redmond.who resignedlast week. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wein- stem, who were married in Balti more, Md., the home of thebric'e. a week ago yesterday, arrivedFri- day and are living at tbe home of the groom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. Weinstein. on Third ttreet. Mrs. Weinstein was Miss Yett Katzen. Mrs. S. Weinstein ai d Mr. and Mrs. A. Wienstein ard children, who attended the wed ding, Mr. A. Weinstein also visit ing the Northern markets while away, returned the first of last week. Will McByrd, one of the ne groes wounded in the pistol duel near Elrod on the 6th, - reported in The Robesonian of the 10th, was brought to jail Thursday night by Duputy Sheriff J. A. Kitchin. McBryde was too seri ously wourded to move when Ed. Campbell, the oth r negro in the duel, who received a flesh wound in his left thigh, was brought to jail on the 9th, but he was rapid ly recovering and was making preparations to vamoose. Botn will await trial at the nex.t term of criminal couit. cises. They haze had a splendid an evenmS and firmly establish- milliners trained in Northern cit The testing apparatus had been placed on the death chair and the current was sent through it for a second's time just as the prisoner was being brought from his cell. Hurriedly it was removed and as it was taken through the door, at 10:18 o'clock the condemned man appeared with prison guards N. S. Smith, K. B. Ewing, W. R. Campbell and H. H. Hunnicut, two on ei ther side. He had been dressed in a newt but plain suit of brown with a heavy jeans shirt open loose at the neck. He wore new and heavy shoes whieh made much noise on the hard floor. He was sobbing and crying and a pitiful pleading for mercy I oured from his lips. Th? actual moment of death was without horror to compare with that of the moment of pray er; pity was on many faces with in the death chamber. Morrison carried in hi? right hand a Cross. Firm in his grip he clung to it through death and this afforded the one spectacular incident of the electrocution. "Jesus please help me'' .were the first words of his plaintive moan that could be heard , as he approached his death. "Lord have mercy. Jesus I pray to you. At last I meant to do what was right Lard have mercy up on me." He was crying bitterly, but not loudly. There was none of the sensational shouting or hys terical screaming that have so of ten attended hangings. Morri son appeared not to notice the witnesses. He kept his eyes firmly upon the Cross in his hand except for a brief moment as he looked at the chair. If he had looked at the auditors he would have seen no members of his race there to witness his death. On ly one, a minister, had asked for a card of admission and he came after the electrocution was over. The condemned man's eyes went back to his Cross and again he poured forth his prayers and lamentations. Jesus, My Lord, take me to r?st for mercy sake. Have mercy, O Jesus," repeated the prisoner as without resistance, he took (Continued on page 8.) school. The most interesting event of the week to the ladies has been the millinery opening on Thurs day and Friday of Miss Lorena Lewis. The protracted meeting of the Baptist church is growing in in terest daily. The congregations are larger each day and former friends and new ones of the preacher, Rev. N. R. Pitman, are enjoying his fine sermons. Commencement for our grad ed school will be here in two months. The school is holding up well, very few stopping to go to work. The Children's Missionary Brigade of the Methodist church will have an egg hunt Saturday before Easter and we suppose there will be other Easter cele brations. Eggs are cheaper and the little folks can have, lots of fun dyeing them. Miss Pearl Adams, of Purvis, visited Mr. J. E. Thompson's family last week. ed her reputation as a charming and idear hostess. Many games and contests were indulged in ies to fashion what Dame Fash ion demands have been busv adorning with deft, accustomed An arch of Tungsten lamps has been strung across Elm street where it crosses Fourth and these lamps will be substituted for the and at a late hour the guests re- fingers the latest shapes, and the arc lamps from the Seaboard de luctantly departed. A good many from Red Springs expect to attend the Laymen s Missionary Convention to be held in Antioch Presbyterian church tomorrow. The college girls are all going. Maxton News Notes and Person als. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Maxton, March 18 Dr. W. A. McPhaul, of Lumberton, was in town Tuesday. Mr. Drennon. of Sumter, S. C, visited his brother, Mr. J. H. Drennon, the first of the week. Mr. G. B. Mc Callum, of the American Realty Co., was in town Friday. Mr. Lucius McLean has returned from Baltimore. results are all that hearts can desire. Casting about for good expres a?f-ns, now, What do you think ot self-colored ostrich plumes"? or Chantecler red, ' 'that bright color seen in the wattles of a white Leghorn rooster"? H'm. That last is copied right out of a book, and they say it s having a tre feminine pot to the opera house, ihey make a greater show and a much more attractive appearance, and cost less. Dr. W. A. McPhaul has pur chased for the Pope drug store at Maxton, of which store he is principal owner, a large soda fountain weighing 10, 000 pounds. It was bought from the same News Notes and Personals from Raft Swamp. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Raft Swamp, March 18 -Plowing seems to be the order of the day. 5 Miss Appie Dav's returned home Sunday after visiting friends and relatives in Bladen and Columbus counties. She was accompanied by Miss Callie Phil- hps, who expects to remain two weeks. : : Mr. Luther Tyner is all smiles: it's a boy. Mr. J. D. Davis, the brick mas- on, returned home r riday irom Fairmont. Miss Addie Tyner speut Sun day in Fayette vi lie. Mrs. Quince Powell and chil dren, of Page's Mill, S. C, have been visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Powell. Mr. W. R. Tyner, of Lowe, was taken ill Wednesday morning. Hope he will soon recover. Mr. J. A. Townsend, mail car rier of Buie, R. F. D. 1, has pur chased a new automobile. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Townsend, of Buie, were visiting relatives here Sunday. Miss Ina Poole, who is teach ing near Parkton, was the guest of her sister, Miss Ella Maie Poole, Friday and Saturday. Sorry to report Mr. Roy Tyner sick with the appendicitis and hope for him a speedy recovery. Mr., and Mrs. W. Q. Davis visited friends and relatives near Mt. Eliam Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. N. C. Stubbs is visiting friends and relatives at Bennetts ville, S,C. of the newest shades, as are al so gold, and electric blue. Dull plumes with those same self-colored ostrich plumes is one of the latest combinations. Flowers and wheat are used much to .i i i it getner; amethyst shades are used with black ; lots of lace veil ing is used . with crowns of flowers: there are -facings, of gold cloth, there are French rose of the Stieff piano, is in town th's week. He has several hne pianos on exhibition m the vacant store adjoining Mr. Strickland's. Mrs. N. H. D. Wilson, of Lau rinburg, was the guest of Mrs. a j MTCinnnn last. WpHhasHji v these things have to be seen to Mrs T .iir7 McOiiPon whn Vina be appreciated. This is but look been visiting Mrs. H. W. McNatt inS through a glass darkly. for several weeks, . returned to Miss Breece's store was crowd her home in Richmond. Va.t last ed during her opening, arid to Tuesdav. Miss Bessie McKav. I morrow and next day the ladies of Rowland, is visiting her sister, mendous vogue They are some company from which the beauti- W j 1 ill . -v- a ful fountiam at the Fope drug store in Lumberton wa3 purchas ed. Mr. E. M. Britt returned Friday from New Orleans, La., where he went to investigate Lwhat might be done in the case of Alex. M White, a former citi zen of Howellsville township, who was recently sentenced to 20 years in the .Louisiana peniten tiary for incest. Mr. Britt has not much hope of accomplishing anything toward securing a par upturned vdoul soo nave ueen coneci ed to put the old oaseball grounds in shape for the season asd it is thought that the amount will be raised to $50 dollars in a few days. The grounds have been rented for the season and are being put in shape. With proper encourage Mr W. H. Bass, representative buds, lots of French turbans, and andyou don't need to be told that they are all prettier than ever. . Shapes? Well, the Dnm is one or the wrinkles, up turned in many ways. But all Mrs. T. B. Sellars, this week. Miss Mamie Best, of Goldsboro, and the Misses Covington, of Laurinburg, were the guests of :n;. Iment the boys will give Lumber e Moa nJAran U ton a good team this year and it Car ;ie: And on Easter Sunda i to be hoped that they will re which follows hard upon thele ceive liberal support. oDeniners. the men wm eraze ud- v iviiip3uii iciunr Mrs. Robert Everette this week, on and wonder about the beauti- ed yesterday morning from Beav We are glad to learn that Mrs. J. T. Poole was very much bene fitted by her treatment at Hot Springs, Ark. Mrs. S. H. Cotton, of Fayette ville, and Mrs. Turner, of Ches ter, Pa., returned to their homes after several days' visit with the family of Mr. A. J. McKinnon. A representative of the Postof- fice Department was in town to day. Mr. Hugh McNeill was in Fayetteville the first of the week. Mr. John McKay, assistant cashier of theBank of Maxton, re turned Tuesday from Camden. S. C Mrs. Wm. Alford and sister, Mrs. Rouse, are visiting Mrs. Alford's son. Mr. McP. McL. Alford, near town. Mr.R. D. Croom went to Rowland on business this week. Mr. Ben Barnes and family moved into their new home on Elm street Wednesday. Chkmberlain's Stomach and Liver f ablets are safe, sure and reliable,' and ave been praised by thousands of wo men who have been restored to health through their gentle aid and curative properties. Sold by Dr. J. D. McMil lan & Son and The Pope DrugCo. ful creationsthere it is again!- I so haltingly mentioned here. Advertised Letters. Jr olkmtnflr is a list ot letters remain ing in the postoffice at Lumberton, N. C. . for the week ending March 19s , 1910: Miss Kizzie Bullock. Mrs. Elizabeth Baker. Miss Bailie Basuk. Mrs. Clari- son Breeden. Miss Cody Blount, Effie Crouch. G. S. Dues, Miss Celia Durant, William Jones, Miss Kity Jane Key, Briston Kelly, Miss Lessie D. Malloy, Miss Carrie McMillan. Miss Willie 15. McKinnon. Will McLean, James Nivins, Sherly Pearce, Chas-, Reynolds,' Miss Jessie Richardson, D. W, Ray, Mary Kobmson. Miss Martha Sunders, A. K. Smith. Miss Almener Sikes, S. W. Thompson, Eli West. Persons calline for any of the above will please ask for" 'advertised letters" K M. MormenT, Y. M. Mesdames. R. D. Caldwell and Jno. T. Biggs lett this morning for Oxford, where they will attend the Woman's Missionary Union, which besrins tomorrow and continues until Friday. From Oxford, they expect to go to Wake Forest and Raleigh, where they will visit relatives. They will be away about ten days. er Dam, Va., where he went Fri day to see Mrs. R. H. Taylor, who is very sick with pneumonia. Dr. Thompson thought Mrs.Tay- lor's condition was somewhat ira- improved when he left. Mrs. Tay is a daughter of Mr. Thomas Pre vatt. Mr. Prevatt and two daugh ters. Misses. Flora andKatie, have been with Mrs. Taylor for sever al days. Messrs. W. P. and H. M. McAllister and Sandy McLeod went to Columbia Saturday af ter a 60-hors-power aerocar which Mr. H. M. McAllister has just purchased. They left Col umbia Saturday afternoon with a driver from the the garage where the machine was purchas ed and made the trip to Lumber ton, 192 miles, in Yl hour., an average of more than 15 miles per hour. Stvbborn as Males are liver and bowels sometimes: seem to balk without cause. Then there's trouble Loss of Appetite Indigestion, Nervousness. Despondency, Headache. But sueh troubles fly before Dr. King's New Lifft Pins, the world s best btom- ach and Liver remedy. So easy. 25c 1 atJ-all drugrgiBta. Rowland Sun: Probably the largest crowd that has e er be( n in the academy auditrriuru on a similar occasion was that which greeted the "Home Talent Min strels" of Lumberton, on last Wednesday night. There were abcut twenty-five in the play.and it was thoroughly enjoyed by all. There are some excellent musi- cians and hne voices with the "Home Talent Minstrels," while the "niggers" were hard to beat. Taken in all, it was one of the 1 A. 1 i.1 L 1 il:. ucai duuvvo uiab una wuuic luia way. Rowland Sun: Robeson coun ty has in Mr. W. W. Whaley, of Lumberton, a cartoorist that will in a few years win laurels. At the minstrel show last Wednesda'y night he exhibited a number of drawings, made es pecially for the occasion, for business men of Rowland, and others. Mr. Whaley has already had cartoons in some of the lead ing dailies. He is yet quite a young man, and we predict that, with practice, he will in a few years be ranked with the great cartoonists of the country, such as Davenport and others. "Tempest and Sunshine' was presented to a f air-si zd au dience at the opera house Friday evening. And the audience seemed to enjoy the show very much. 'Tempest" lived up to her name all the way through, playing the very dickens with everybody s happiness, but af ter the inevitable smash came she quieted down to a dead calm. "Sunshine" was "Sunshine" at first, "Showers" in between,and then, Bless her heart! she came into her own again and was "Sunshine" at the' last. One wanted to wring "Tempest's" neck and take "Sunshine" to his heart, which is the way one naturally feels about those op posites; so you see the show wa3 all right. Mrs. A. B. Watson, who had been vtsiting her parents. Mr. and Mr. W. H. Humphr y, re turned Saturday to her homa in Dillou, S. C. . Mr. and Mrs. N. J. The rar son have been visiting the:r sen, Dr, Dunlop Thompson. atMorver.for the past week. 'Ihey are expect ed home tomorrow or Wednesday. Saved a Soldier's Ufe. Facing death from shot and shell in the civil war was more agreeable to J. A. Stone, of Kemp, Tex., than facing it from what doctors said was consumc tion.I contracted a stubborn cold" he writes, ''that developed a cough, that stuck v.o me in spite of all remedies for vars. My weight ran down to 130 pounds. Then I began to use Dr.K'g's New Discovery, which con dlete 1v cured me. I now weieh 178 pounds." For Coughs, Colds, LaGrippe, Asthma, Hemorrhage. Hoa rseness, croup. Whoop ing ough and lung trouble, it's supreme. 50c. 1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by all druggists. y
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