THE SEMI-WEEKLY ROBESONIAN
MT. EL! AM MATTERS.
Great Prayermeetings About
Cotton and Speculators Chil
dren's Day Public Debate
Other Matters.
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Mt. Eliam, June 27 Messrs.
Flossie Britt, Orion Martin and
Hcr.vl2.nd Stone spent Sunday at
Lurnberton attending the Chil
dren's Day exercises at East
Lurnberton, and report a nice
time.
Mr. I. V. Britt spent Saturday
at Lurnberton on business.
The prayermeetings continue
lugiow. They are held at M
Joe Britt's Sunday and Tuesday
nights, at the church Wednesday
night and at V r, Isham Stone's
Sr., Thursday night. As a result
ol the meetings many souls are
being saved. All that will arei
requested to attend these servi
ces. Ireceived a letter this week
from "Cracker Jack, "of Elpaso,
111. He says if I will go to Illi
nois I will have somthing to
write about, and he speaks a
good word about The Robsonian;
everybody likes to read it. He
also states that one can get $2.00
per day and '"rash." on the
farms during harvesting time
some of us who are 50cts. should
go and last, but not least, girls
are plentiful. But the State of
Robeson is good enough for
"Happy Jack."
We learn that the speculators
are trying to engage this year's
crop of cotton for 15 cts. per
pound. That's a tempting price,
but think of last year and risk
getting more. If there is any
clear money for anyone you
should have it You are standing
in your own light if you engage
it at any price.
Mr. Okey Stephens says he
killed a snake which he thinks
was a coach-whip. The snake
was 5 feet and two inches long.
Mr. Stephens thinks it was fol
lowing his sister. She was com
ing in and when she got to the
house looked back and the snake
was coming, too, at automobile
speed.
The writer cut his tobacco
down where it drowned to see
what the suckers would do;
they are growing O. K.
fill i 1 W
ine tniiaren's my was a
success in every way. The chil
dren all did fine and the girls de
serve credit for the way they act
ed and spoke in the dialogue
which they presented to the au
dience, which was the largest ev
er at mi. JMiam to witness a
Children's Day or most any kind
oi a day. 1 he number present
was near 1,000. The peopl
said they enjoyed it, though
mere were most too many in
place.
There will be a public debate
and lc-cream supper at the
school house here Saturday nieht.
The Literary Society will furnish
the debate and the Farmers' Un
ion will serve the cream. The
query is: "Resolved, That the
farm oners brighter induce
ments ior the young man to
make a success in life than anv
a 1 1 1 m v
otner caning." Uome.
Mr. B. B. Britt and family, of
OerroGorda, spent Saturday and
Sunday with inends here.
Mr. Oliver Britt of Lurnberton,
spent Sunday here greeting
inends.
Mr. Jeff. Taylor and family, o
fcast Lurnberton, spent Sunday
nere visiting inends.
Messrs. Albert and Tillman
Britt, of Kingsdale, spent Sunday
anernoon nere.
me nuie cnornsh sparrows
which are as th ck here as in any
wmcr town nave got tne same
disease that killed all the chick
ens, and they are dying just as
if they were chickens, too.
I f hereby announce myself a
candidate for a sweetheart, sub
ject to the action of the girls of
Robeson county.
"Happy Jack'
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THE FARMER.
Upon His Prosperity
perity Depende A
Proper Recognition
all Pros
Plea for
and En-
couragement.
To the Editor of The Robesonian:
Will you please allow me space
in the farmers' column of your
paper to express my views as to
just a few points as I see it
claiming our attention.
I noticed in some of our papers
where some, it seems, would
like to advance the idea that the
Farmers' Union is taking too
much stock in politics. I wish to
call your attention to an article
written some time ago by our
county president, W. S. Cobb,
stating that that was false. Our
president is an honorable gentle
man and I want to vouch for the
truthtu ness ol the statement so
ar as mv information goes. The
armers' Union is vrying to bet-
er conditions without antagoniz
ing any other interest, which is
its legitimate right, ihe puz
zling question to me is why the
masses are not willing for the
agricultural classes to have rep
resentation equal to the otner
vocations unless its an over zeal
for office. I want to say just
here that we have some just as
competent men among the farm
ers as you will find anywhere
and a man belonging to the
armers'Union has a right to free
speech as much as any one else.
The merchant, doctor, lawyer,
and! corporations haveUheir or
ganization or association. Ine
farmers have no fight to make
. i .
on you; as we see it, you nave
this right. We would like very
much to know wherein it s any
more out of place for a farmer to
a '.e stock in politics or hold oi-
fice, ability being equal, than to
select them from any other voca
tion of life. If you want to find
a real practical man, among the
agricultural class is the place to
find some of them. Then let's
stop treating them as lunatics
and adopt the Golden Rule do
o others as you would have them
do to you and stop preachingDe
mocracy or practice it.
Encourage agriculture. Why,
without it the streets of our cit
ies and towns would be foul with
weeds, the hum of mills would
cease, the locomotives would be
side-tracked to corrode, our
schools would be closed. So let's
encourage the tillers oi the
sou and educate our farmers so
they can analyze the soil, select
such formulas as to fertilizers as
will be best adapted to the differ
ent crops and soils. It requires
just as much preparation to farm
successfully as any other voca
tion, so in heaven's name let's
encourage them in every possible
way. Farming is an honorable
calling and we hope by the co
operation of the masses to make
it more so. All other industries
and enterprises prosper in pro-t-O.-tion
to the prosperity of the
farmer. So let's lend all aid to
his success. His failure paraly
zes all other business.
W. P. Barker.
Lurnberton, June 27, 1910.
Robeson County.
This dear old Robeson, the goodly land.
She has the clay, also the sand,
And no dearer spot did a planter
ever stand.
For cotton and corn she is hard to beat,
And some of her land is good for wheat;
She is the trucker's friend, you know,
i.nd ships her goods to a Northern
shore.
For crops in rotation, they are too nu
merous to mention
Cotton and cantaloupes, corn and cane.
Peas,rice and potatoes she makes just
the same.
If I was a poet I tell you what 1 would
do,
I would scratch a piece for Robeson,
That would fool a kangaroo.
Away down South in Robeson,
Where the cotton blooms and bolls,
It would make a sick man happy
To ride along her roads.
Yes, good old Robeson has her churches,
Also her schools,
And lots of boys and girls
That try to obey the rules.
This is not an idle dream,
Nor an artificial show,
It is because our country
Is always on the. glow,
Cime on fellow comrades,
You are welcome in our gates,
Though we have to hold Robeson
So we can love our State.
Wherever over this great domain
1 may perchance to roam.
I never will be ashamed
f hat Robesm is my home. .
H. J. McRae.
Elrod, N. C.
This contractor got results.
Some years ago a contractor build
ing a railroad in a warm climate was
troubled a great deal by sickness
among the laborers.
He turned his attention at once to
their food and found that they were
getting full rations of meat and were
drinking water from a stream near by.
He issued orders to cut down the
amount of meat and to increase greatly
the quantity of Quaker Oats fed to the
men.
He also boiled Quaker Oats and
mixed the thin oatmeal water with
their drinking water. Almost instantly
all signs of stomach disorders passed
and his men showed a decided improve
ment in strength and spirits. This con
tractor had experience that taught him
the great value of good oatmeal. 53
Packed in regular size packages,
and in hermetically sealed tins for hot
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STATE GETS $1,237,500.
Senator Overman Holds Every
Item of the Public Building
Bill and Adds $320,000.
Washington Cor., 24th, Charlotte Observer
The public buildings bill as it
now stands carries an appropria
tion of $1,237,500 for North Car
olina. This is three times as much
as Virginia. No other Southern
State has fared half so well. Sen
ator Overman succeeded in hold
ing every item put on in the
House and adding $320,000.
The different items as they ap
pear in the bill, now a law, are:
House Items.
Charlotte
Winston-Salem
$250,000
250,000
70,000
70,000
50,000
60,000
45,000
45,000
35,000
30,000
7,500
5,000
Hendersonville
Rocky Mount
Tarboro
Hickory
Greenville
Monroe
Reidsville
Washington
Waynesville
Lurnberton
Total $917,500
Items Added By Senator Over
man.
Shelby
$10,000
10,000
10,000
5,000
50,000
10,000
225,000
Burlington
Greenville
Monroe
Oxford
Tarboro
Raleigh
Total $320,000
Grand total $1,237,500
The North Carolina members
of the public building commit
tees have done good work for
their State. On the House com-
mittee are Representatives
Thomas and Grant. On the Sen
ate committee Senator Over
man. The North Carolina people
should realize from what has
been done here this year by Sen
ators Overman and Simmons on
the public building committee
and the judiciary committee, on
the finance and commerce com-
miuee, wnat it means to kc p
men here until they getfirst-cU. s
committee assignments. No two
Senators have done better woi k
for their State, and the beauty
of it appears in dollars and cents
m me pudiic Dunamgs Din ana
the rivers and harbors bill.
The same can be said of House,
committeemen. Committee work
tells.
Lightning Photographs House
on the Back of a Man.
Hickory Special, 26th, to Charlotte Observer,
The latest freak of lightning.
which is always pranky, is
amateur photography. A few
days ago lightning struck the
house of a Mr. Smith, living
near Mr. George B. Hiss' Rhode
hiss. Almost at the same time
it struck a tree in the yard, and,
going into the house, it struck
Mr. Smith, stunning him. An el
egant picture of the house was
made both on the bark of the
tree and on the skin of Mr.
Smith's back.
Representatives of 58 cotton
mills in Gaston, Mecklenburg, j
Catawba, Lincoln and Cleveland I
counties, this State, and York!
county, S. C, met in Gastoniaj
Saturday and signed an agree-;
ment to shut down for four'
weeks in July and August. This
plan of curtailment means that
between 600,000 and 700.000
spindles will be idle during that
period and that 1,000,000 pounds
of yarn and cloth will be taken
off the market weekly for a
month. !
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