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i- THE ROBESONIAN Ccfhltshed 1 R7H " BMBHMH Single Copied Five Cents. VOL XLI NO. I9. COMMENCEMENT EXERCIS ES. Country, God and Truth. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1910 ST. PAUL PACKAGE, WHOLE NO. 25S7 1 i ' Orrum High School Commence ment Attended by Large Crowds Excellent Addresses and Exercises Well Carried Out. R. iioi tcil fcr The Kolesonian by Lee Correll, of ' the tenth jrrade of the Lumberton graded SCtHiul.J The closing exercises of the high school at Orram, Prof. S. p. Wilson, principal, were held Thursday evening and Friday and were attended and enjoyed by large crowds. Thursday eve ning the following programme was rendered: PROGRAMME. 1. Song ' 'Pretty SummerFlow ers." Mrs. Waton. Primary Grades. 2. Duet "March of the Dwarfs." Hoist. Misses Docia and Athesia Powell. 3. Drill Drill." -Girls. 4. Play - "New Tambourine Rook. Sixteen Little Gadsby Girls" Characters. JosephParker, Mr.BroughtonNye MorrisYoung Enoch McConnell Richard Stanley Bert Ivey MabelParkms MissFloraCarlyle Esther Carrol Tommie Nye Concert a Success Commence ment Wednesday Personal. Correspondence of The Eobesonian. St. Paul, April 23-Messrs. Harry Fisher, J. A. Johnsn and J. C. Blanchard went to Lumber ton Monday. -Mrs. W. P. McAl lister, of Lumberton, spent Mon day with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John McArthur. Miss Fan nie mc Arthur, who is a student at the Southern Preshvtevinn College, spentSunday at her home and returned to Red Springs Monday. Mr. G. G. French, of Lumberton, spent Monday in town on business. Mr. C. L. Baker, of Lumberton, made a business trio to cur town Tues day. The Robesonian man, Mr. W. K. Bethune, was here Wed nesday. Mrs. L. Shaw went to Fayetteville Friday, also Mr. J. A. Johnson. Mr. L. A. McGea chy went to Lumberton Friday. Mr. and Mrs. N. T. Humph rey, of route 1, were in our town Thursday. Mr. W. K. Brock, who is run ning Mr. R. R. Covington's farm at Oakland, has moved his fam ily out there and has rented his house to Mr. H: E. Carter, sales man tor McAllister Hardware Co. We welcome Mr. and Mrs. Carter to our town. Mr. H. C. LUMBERTON GRADED SCHOOL. Always a Treat to Attend Morn ing Exercises Rev. C. H. Durham to Talk About Mam- moth Cave Commencement. Wednesday morning of this week Rev. C. H. Durham, pas tor of the first Baptist church, will deliver an address at the graded school, just after the opening exercises, on the far famed Mammoth Cave of Ken tucky, which he visited last sum mer. The public is cordially in vited and all who can take ad vantage of this opportunity will be given a treat. It is a treat at any time to at- l fc.Lfc.PHON E IMPROVE MENTS. Reasons for Delay in Promised Improvements Preliminaries Over and Work Will be Rush-ed-Toll One. Lumberton people are begin ning to feel that it is taking the Southern Bell Telephone & Tele- grapft bo., which took over the local plant last Novemhpv n mighty long time to make the promised improvements and Mayor J. A. Rowland has been writing to the officials of the company to find out the reason tor the delay. He received a let ter Fridav. dated 20th i irom J. H,pps Brown, vice presi tend the opening exercises at the dent and general manager of the graded school and Supt. R. E. Sentelle and his excellent assist ants gladly welcome visitors. The children are well trained and to see their orderly march into the auditorium and to hear it i i . i them nit tneir voices in song is as good as a tonic to begin the day A representative of The Robeson ian had this pleasure Friday morning and after seeing the children and teachers march in, some 250 of them, hearing them sing two verses each of On ward Christian Soldiers, Joy to the World" and "Carolina," cumyauv, wnicn tnrows some light on the subject. It was un derstood that the He 1 neonle A LARGER HOTEL. Plans for Enlarging and Remod eling Waverly Hotel Better Facilities Needed. A meeting which was opened in the pool room of the Industri al and Commercial Club and ad journed for more room to the Pythian hall on the same floor was held Thursday evening to consider the matter of enlarging the Waverly hotel. The meeting was called by Mr. R. D.Caldwell, president of the club, and its ob ject was known only to a few un til, at the request of Mr. Cald well, it was explained by Mr. A. W. McLean. Plans have been prepared which provide for extensive im provements. They contemplate extending the present buildinar 20 feet on the south side, putting LOCAL BRIEFS. would immediately reconstruct, inanew front of pressed brick, i . j i r ii.'. l . i i i auumg a inira story, doubling capacity of the office and kitch en, adding about 40 bed rooms, including 6 with private baths, providing 3 or 4 sample rooms I e i . making, in iact. practica v a the local plant, replacing the open wires with lead-covered ca bles and installing additional fa cilities. Mr. Brown writes that plans and specifications have been made and material has been ordered but that it is neces- ne building, with steam heat sary to have the cables made es pecially to order and is requiring about 45 days to secure delivery. Mr. .Brown further states that the material for building a toll Grace Chester Maggie Graham Roberts, who has been helping toJhe Vor d and VCarohna," line from Maxtor the present hotel was Mrs. Dodge Agnes Stroud in the hardware store here, went and seeing them march out again, has been ordfred about 7 years ago the Maximilian Gadsby Mr. I.P.Gra- WU- to Tmmhertnn Uerlnesriav he fel that the children who D51n iS"? more than doubled in ham Steve Carl Nye 5. Recitation "Aunt Cindy's George Washington." Miss Lil lian Humphrey. 6. Solo "Hunting Song" Mendelssohn. MissTommieNye. back to Lumberton Wednesday and resumed his duties there. The concert at the academy last Monday night was a success, although the weather was not very favorable. The Parkton concert band furnished good music all the wav throuerh and 7. Operetta-"Boating Party" the ice cream was very much en- tfoardman. sixteen airis. invert hv ail the crowd. 8. Monologue "Dr. Sprout's First Case." - Griffith. Mr. Worth Hatcher. 9. Solo, "Invitation to the Dance" Weber. Miss Flora Car lyle. 10. Pantomime-"TheHolyCity" Adams. Several Girls. Exercises opened Friday morn ing with a song by the audience, after which Maj. A.J.McKinnon, of Maxton, was introduced by A. J. McConnell. Mr. McKinnon delivered an interesting address on "Agricultural Education and the Need of It." At 11:30 o'clock Rev. L. R. Pruit. of Charlotte, preached a sermon on "Love," making sev eral good examples of living, what we should live for, our highest ambitions, etc. Mr. D. P. Bridgers offered prayer and the services closed with a song, "Holy Zion," and benediction by Rev. I. P. Hedgpeth. Public dinner was served at 12:30 and at 2:30 p. m. exercises were resumed by a song by the school. Prof. J. B. Carlyle will deliver the educational address at the commencement exercises here have the privilege of attending the Lumberton graded school are fortunate, indeed As mentioned in Thursday's Robesonian, an effort is being made to improve conditions on the school grounds and much im provement has already been made, and in a short talk after the songs Friday morning Prof. Sentelle urged all the children to put every scrap of paper in re and the work of strineriner the wires for this toll line will besrin in 30 days. It is the purpose to begin the work in Lumberton within this period and to have it completed as early in the sum- In explaining the need for the enlargement of the hotel Mr. Mc Lean called attention to the evi dent tact that the town has out grown its hotel facilities. Since remodeled town has more than doubled in population and material wealth and it can not afford to delay longer the important matter of providing creditable hotel facilities. Capt. A. Bicherey, proprietor of the -A called meeting of St. Al bans Lodge A. F. & A. M. will be held tomorrow evening for the work of the Master Mason's de gree. On account of unavoidable delays in starting, Nathan Bros, shows, advertised to be in Lum berton last Friday, will not ex hibit here until Friday of this week. -From May 1 to September 1 the stores in Lumberton will be closed every evening except Saturdays at b:30 o'clock. One wonders why the time was not made 6 o'clock instead of 6:30, but that is better than closing later. A Methodist chruch was or ganized at St. Paul last night by nev. a. j. ivicuonnell, who is in charge of Methodist missions in Lumberton. Rev. E.M. Hoyle. pastor of the Methodist church here, has gone to St. Paul today to attend to some of the details of organization. A special programme has been arranged for the vournr men's union prayer-meeting to morrow evening at 8 o'clock. There will be much good music, and it is to be hoped that a large crowd of the young men of the town will be present. The ex ercises will last one hour. mer as possible. All the prelim- Waverly, is doing the best pos inary work has been completed and the company is ready to pro ceed with the work, Mr. Brown states, as rapidly as possible. Offices for the central station here have been rented in the si ble under the circumstances and there is no criticism of him, but the accommodations are sim ply not sufficient to take care of the traveling public and some- 1 I 1 1 A . ining must be done. As it is cuiiuiieiiveiiiciiL caciuocs ncic - t i h t h uppn rvin. nere nave been rented in the r &, 1 u ryr " a next Wednesday and it is desired e ,5 and to helo Bank of Lumberton building and largely a public enterprise the that all come who can and hear S?,?, t0 help the change from the old exchWe owners of the property decided this address. Messrs. J. B. and B. N. Duke unfolded in Charlotte the other day a gigantic plan by which thev asd their business associ ates propose to build and ope rate an interurban trolley system between Durham and Anderson, S. C. the human race. The dav exercises were closed with a song by the school. The commencement exercises closed with the following pro gramme in the evening: PROGRAMME. 1. Song 'Churning' Eld- drige. Primary Grades, 2. Duet-"Rock Two Step." Streabbog. Misses Norris and McRae. 3. Play "Mr. Bob." Characters. Prof. John B. Carlyle, of Wake Philip Royson Stinson Powell Forest College, introduced by D. P. Bridcrers. delivered an excel lent address on "Larger Life He told how the man who culti vates the physique alone becomes a brute, fit for a brute's work alone, and the man who culti vates the phvsiuue and intellect Robert Brown, Clerk of Benson Miss Garland Brown Rebecca's but G. V. Williams a maiden lady Phreza Purvis Katherine Rogers, her niece Rebecca Lawson & Benson I Jenkins, ler Rebecca Luke, alone might become abrute, cun- Marian Bryan, Katherine's friend ning, crafty and daring; but tne Beulah rrevatte man who cultivates the physical, Patty, Miss Rebecca's maid intellectual and spiritual body in Quessie Prevatte harmonious proportion andsymet- 4. Operetta "Funland" rical fashion becomes God's glo- Spaulding. A number of Boys 7 . , , - rious handiwork a man. w un and wris. vision clear, with body strong, with heart upright in the endow ments of kingship and the quali ties of royalty, the humblest cit izen of Orrum may go to the ballot-box in November a superi or of Edward VII, upon whose princely domain the sun never 3ets. He told what life is and gave it from the standpoint of the nart.isan. the miser, the keep the grounds clean. Teachers and pupils are busy now preparing for the first corn mencement, which will be held Friday, May 6. The commence ment will begin Friday morning at 10:30 o clock with exercises by the graduating class, which has 14 members. Besides these there are four or five of the class last year who may complete the work required and graduate with this year's class. At 11 o'clock there will be an address by Prof. J. A. Bivens, superintendent of color ed andCroatan norman schools of theState, diplomas will be deliver ed by Prof. J. R. Poole, county superintendent of public instruc tion, and Supt. Sentelle will close the day exercises with a tew re marks. In the evening there will be a concert a forest carnival in which 130 children will take part. This will be the most elaborate en tainment of the kind ever at tempted here and it promises to be a rare treat. The platform in the auditorium will be extend ed four feet all the way across in order to stage it. Three hundred and seventy- five pupils are enrolled and the dailv attendance is between zbU and 275. the change from the old exchange to the new will be made after the new . -priones nave been put m. There will be no loss of time to the patrons while the change is being made. MARK TWAIN DEAD. Facts 5. Duet-- Intermezza" Masc agne. Misses Tommie Nye and Phreza Purvis. 6. Monologue A Heartrending Affair" Locke. Miss Meekie Graham. 7. Duet "Moonlight Reverie" Allen. Misses Katie Stone and Hattie Brown. 8. Duet-"Holliday March" Kimball. Misses Lizzie McCon- Conduc- voluptuary and the soldier, mak- nail and Mary Warwick, ino- vo?iiitifiil rnmnarisons of 9. Recitation "The each with life in ics reality. He tor's Wife." Miss Straudie Ivey. told of the achievments of the 10. Drill-" Sword Drill. the onenincr Morton. Sixteen Boys. VO!. ro ootVi wnt nrv and ask- 11. Drill Tambourine Drill Hurst. Thirteen Young La dies. Large crowds attended the ex ercises and they were among the most enjoyed in the history of the school. The programmes both Thursday and Friday nights were exceedingly well carried out and showed care and work on He closed his address by making the part of teachers and pupils an nr.nco! fw r,ormio trt im- in such excellent preparation. Tirnva v. .nr.jfn.,, nf Ufa I Wo pnn erratiilate ' Prot. Wilson thereby eliminating- the dread and his excellent corps of teach diseases which are a drawback to ers. ed the question what the mighty Julius Caesar would do were he to see Bleritt cross the English Channel to-day in 25 minutes when it took him so many days and the lives of so many men to accomplish his great end. He made like examples of Socrates, Ucero, Cmna and Demosthenes. Dozen Members of the Round Club Entertained. The members of the Round Dozen Club were entertained by voung men of the Industrial and Commercial Club Thursday eve nine- in the readmsr room of the club. Those present were: Miss es Leslie Proctor, Ruth Whaley, Lizzie Whitfield, Jessie Fuller, Josie McNeill. Claudia Davis, Mamie Avent. Pearl Flovd. Lei la May Gill, Same McLean, Mar iou Mooring: Mr. and Mrs. M.F. Cladwell, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs.R.M. Nor- ment, Jr. ; Messrs. John Fuller, F. P. Gray, R, R. Carlyle, Ed Ranke. R. H. Cntchton. C. P McAllister, R. A. McLean, S. F Caldwell, E. J. Britt and Dr. Jno, Knox, Jr. Games of various kinds were played, Miss Proctor played a number of selections on the piano, and (ice-cream was served. The evening was very much enjoyed by all present. Some of the Principal About His Life. Samuel Langhorn Clemens (Mark Twain) died at 6:30 o'clock Thursday evening of angina pec toris, a paroxismal affection of the chest, at his home, Storm field, near Redding, Conn. He was born in Florida, Mo., November 30, 1835, and was in his 75th year. He w7as appren ticed to a printer when 12 years old, later became a Mississippi pilot, was city editor of a Neva da newspaper in 1862 and alter nated between mining and jour nalism. In 1884 he founded the publishing house of C. L. Web ster & Co., the failure of which involved him in heavy losses, and though the debts of the com pany were not his he started at once on a tour ot the world lec turing and writing, and in two years paid them. Some of his best-known books are "The In nocents Abroad" (1869), The Prince and the Pauper" (1880), The Adventures of Huckleber- -11 ft . i ry mnn Articles on Christian Science'' (1903) and "The $30,000 Bequest" (1906). Mark Twain was America s foremost humorist. The remains were interred yesterday at Elmira, N. Y., be side the bodies of his wife and children. to call a meeting and explain the proposition and offer stock for sale. No one was asked to con tribute at this meeting but a com mittee will be selected to solicit subscriptions. No one will question the state ment that the improvements contemplated are badly needed and it is to be hoped that there will be no difficulty in selling the amount of stock necessary and that the wrork will be put under way at once. Commencement at St. Paul Address on Agricultural Edu cation. By its president, Mr. W. S. Cobb, of Lumber Bridge, The Robesonian is requested to an nounce that the Robeson County Farmers' Union will have Prof. E. L.Worthan, State soil chemist, to make an address on agricul tural education at the closing of the school at St. PaulWednesday of this week, at 2 o clock p. m The commencement exercises of this school will begin tomor row evening at a o clock with a concert by the primary and in termediate departments. Wed nesday the exercises will begin at 10:30 o'clock a. m.with a song exercise and at 11 o clock Prof. J. B. Carlyle. of Wake Forest College, will deliver the literary address. Prof. Worthan's ad dress will follow a public dinner on the grounds. Wednesday eve nmg there will be a concert by the advanced pupils. District Conference. Rockingham district confer ence will be held in Rockingham this week, beginning Thursday. The delegates from the Lumber ton Methodist church are Messrs. W. H. Humphrey, C. B. Town- send, O. C. Norment and L. C. Townsend. Mr. Humphrey, who victs. Drought Track Being Laid to Jennings Mill Site. A track a mile and three-quarters long will be completed by the middle of this week from the Virginia & Carolina Southern railroad at a point near the plant of the Acme Brick Co. to the site where the Jennings Cotton Mills will be built. One hundred con front! the road Raeford facts and figures: We heard a Robesonian saying a lew days ago that it wasn't worth while for anybody to run aginst Treasurer McKenzie; that the people had made up their minds to re-elect him. and they will surely do that thing. We do not know how they could im prove on the present incumbent. Mr. L. T. Townsend savs that he saw Halley's comet this morning and that as it now ap pears it is a mighty poor show and not worth getting up to see. He thinks the comet ought to be ashamed of itself to cut such a poor figure after all the fuss that has been made over it. It will do better, though, when it gets down to business as an evening attraction. Mrs. J. P. Russell and four children arrived Friday from Augusta.Ga., their former home, joining Mr. Russell, who came to Lumberton recently to assume the duties of superintendent of the Virginia & Carolina South ern Ry. They are living in the house recently vacated by Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Peace, next to the opera house, on Elm street. The amount of damage done by the cyclone last Sunday at Mr. Wm. Stone s, three miles west of town, was considerably underestimated in Thursday's paper. Instead of being only $1,500 the estimate did not as sume to be accurate it was $2, 500 or $3,000. Mr. Stone, who was in town Saturday, says that no one who has gone carefully over his place since the storm has estimated the loss at less than $2,500. Mrs. Valentine Stone, of Boardman, who was visiting at the home Mr. and Mrs. Murdock Stone and was injured during the cyclone a week ago yester day, was able to leave the Thompson hospital Friday. Mrs. Charity Nicholson, who under went an operation for appendici- is at the hospital last Monday, and Mrs. J. W. Sessoms, of How ellsville, who underwent an operation last Tuesday, are get ting along nicely. Prentice Bar ker, son of Mr. and Mr3. J. A. Barker, was taken to the hospi tal yesterday for treatment for typhoid fever. is district leader of the Laymen's j Movement, has arranged a pro gramme for a laymen's meeting Saturday. Messrs. A.W. Peace, of Lumberton, and Rowland Cov ington, of Laurinburg, will be among the speakers. License has been issued for the marriage of Ida Ivey and Ed. Sealey; Alley D. M alloy and Leslie L. Shaw; Hattie Wilson and Luther M. Wilkins; Mollie Dunn and Fred Meicher; May Julia Thompson and W. S. Kyle. which the V. & C. S. is building from St. Paul to Ehzabethtown, have been on the job for the past week. Work will begin on the mill building as soon as plans for it have been received. Patrons of the local telephone will regret to learn that Miss A lively little scrap in which three young men were mixed oc- Flora Prevatt, who has served so curred on a side street Friday morning. First reports of it on the streets were much exaggerated. There was nothing much to it nobody was "kilt" and nobody hurt. faithfully and with uniform cour tesy in the capacity of operato for the past 6 or 7 years, will not serve in that capacity longer. Her always cheerful and courte ous service will be missed. Saw-Mill Plant Burned. A saw-mill plant about one and t 1 1 i m a nan or two mnes north ot Lowe, belonging to Mr. T.R. To lar, was burned Thursday night between 12 and 1 o clock. The origin of the fire is unknown. Everything was in flames when discovered. The loss, including quite a bit of lumber that was burned, amounts to something over $2,000. The insurance cov ers just about half the los3. Investigations are being made by some Northern capitalists which may result in the estab lishment of a paper manufactur ing plant in Wilmington. . i 3 ' 5 '. I t f i. ri i: -h ti i v A I: .At. 4 '.-? ; 6 ' n ,1 r i i 'A t H 5 I- if J
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