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VOL XLI NO. 45.
LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1910
WHOLE NO. 25S3
PARKTON PARAGRAPHS. .
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Crops Doing Nicely Road and ;
Brid ge Work Needed - The j
Old Soldiers' Picnic A Revi
val Meeting.
Corre,I)uvnce of The Robesonian:
Parkton, July 26-The farmers
. uori a harder battle than
that of last week, but by what
HOPE MILLS NEWS. I FARMERS' UNION MEETING, j ANTIOCH PICNIC.
we can observe they have about
erL "tteperalCren" ard
tne eruo . - - -onrn . i a series oi meetings
Two Marriages Town linorove-
ments Church Services Per
sonal. Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Hope Mills, July 26-Rev. N.
L. Duncan will preach in Hope
Mills at 11 a. m. and 8 p.m. Sunday.
Rev. J. D. Pegram will besrin
at Marvin
. i i -v- nil f iiiiu c; - - -
though cotton their! next Sunday
farmers have decided that tneir.
wiU not need any more
and eay that they are
through. Let me say a word
S here, that the farmer that
XI plowing his cotton th sear
r i acrrft. it later on, as the
cultivation will run out and the
cS ton wiU soon begin to shed its
leaves and forms. My advice is
to Sow your cotton through till
& WA OT 15th pi August.
Capt. J. D. Oliver has moved
hack to our town from Launn-P:-J
ic nnnviner the Liv-
ingston house.
Mrs T W. Thompson and son,
little Jack, returned home from
McColl, S. C yesterday.
The bride and groom, Mr. and
Mrs J P Watts, returned home
Friday after spending a few days
at the Beacn.
On next Sunday Rev.P.T.Britt
will begin a series of meetings at
Singletary's Cross Roads
Mrs. J. V. Marr, of Raleigh,
who had been visiting relatives
Agricultural Farm Schools Del
egates to Charlotte Conven
tion. The North Carolina Division of
the National Farmers' Union be-
RAFT SWAMP RAFTS.
LOCAL BRIEFS.
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A Series of Meetings begins Sun- The series of meetings which
j p i were announced to re held at
day - Personal. Clyborn church daring thii
Correspondence of The Robesonian. mnnth havohoon nnstnAn, o.-l
1 ...... U.VU JUi3imllCU till 1
will begin August 8 and continue
day one week. Rev. A. H. Porter is
pastor of the church.
An Ideal Place for Picnicking
Some Good Speeches and an
Excellent Dinner.
Yesterday was a great day for
about three hundred or more seems to be the order of the
gan a two-days session in Kal- people wno assembled at Antioch wTith some of our farmers.
VAkJVAV. J A. tuv AVUU J V. kj, VA U UlllcJ -L. 1 Will I IV I I Uo who fV Uoa Tl T 4 1 j
V III Lev lilt; i tnrrl cnonf lost ir-,i.' K.. untU r r tt r-i t- - n ,
wo olonforl Holonofac to tho mart trt nai-Hno in 1 7- ' "" UJ. lYir. XI. r . BlSSeil, WHO UVeS OQ
Mr- and Alrs rural route No. 4 from Lumber-
uauunai tuuvcuuuu 111 vjuauuuc uico uj. a. tJiv,mj given uuuei tiic Kflrhnm U u i. rr-i. t- i.
sentemoer b: resident u. h. ausmces 01 tne SL!nflav sohool t , . . "TA' .
nft'no a onri m r.niiocro AntWh irtoi : Mr. u. Lt. lownsend made a omcetne other day a curiosity
Raipio-h w r rhesnn Trorfoi'i TTnion anrl'fh wman f business trip to Laurinburg last in the shape of twin cantaloupes
.T.T.Smith. Snrrvrnnntv The for an occasion of this kind and Sorry to report Mrs. W. K. V m stunt is something unusual
State is entitled to onlv four del- no one seemed to be disaDDointed Vul9reth on the sick list. Hope lor caniaioupes.
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egates. in the place or the iovs of the lor ner a sPeeay recovery. a reception win De given
In an address-. Tuesday evening day. The church is large and Mr, C. Biggs and daughter. tft13 evening from 8:45 to 12
Dr. J. Y. Joyner, State Superin- practically new and across the Miss Ida, attended the picnic at .cl0C.K .m the reading room of
tendent of Public Instruction, road from the church, a distance White Pond last Saturday. the. Industrial and Commercial
home
Miss Estella Scarboro,
of
Gilead, Montgomery county, is outlined the plan of having the making a beautiful grove and Sor'ry to report the serious ill- nleasurof the
viaitinaMrs. W. H. Ballard this Legislature appropriate $50,000 directly m front of the church J JI1 VJ!t!"0US Pasures of the
0 ... At-Simnnn H V.a QnnAKt a. nn thu alorvo V,Q Kill 10 Qn "wo ui iuio. xwin 1M.ULJC4U.
weeK.
The Republican primary will
be held in the Masonic hall on
next Saturday afternoon at 1:30
o'clock.
ine nope mius Mig. uo. is
having its tenement houses
in Hope Mills, has returned declared in favor of establishing of about fifty yards, is an excel- Mr and Mrs Hnmnhrpv Orlnm C,lu b3i th.e y,ung men of the
home. agricultural farm life schools, at lent school buildintr. Manv oaks ,:.Jj J. nJ2 ornrZ Y ,um club. A piano has been bought
Mt least one in each county. He are growing on the grounds, tek iasi by the club recently and music
evening.
or $100,000 and then apportion- on the slope of the hill is an "e!sS Ui mrs wmaicLean. Mn a R Reil of Gfand
ing this in lots of $2,500 to coun- overflowing well just the place Mr. A.W. Powell attended the Rapids, Michigan, was in town
lies in wnicn tne county autnon- lor a gooa time, ana mat is picnic at w nite rona Saturday, yesterday taking some measure
ties and the rteonle will nrovide what the dav Was for a (rood I t ttt ttt ttt?ii? -n I mpnta fVio Mofirvnnl T?oL- nm
suitable iarm and school build- crowd. Ui- pQf cmn Tor,n4. Tu.u maratory to mstalhncr some new
iw ivuii, uiiouip uoliuoi, .11U1V;11 I 2- . -v .. " , .
m.
fixtures. Quite a number of in-
ings, including dormitories, and The exercises of the day began nex(. Sundav at 11 a
raise at least an additional $2,500 m the church about 11 o'clock Mr j nH,,m r;0 t tenor improvements will be made
toward maintenance. He de- when Mr. C.'B, Skipper, of Lum- n 1 'jV j in the bank in order to take care
.7 , ,t . . . I i j 4.u: i 4. j..i -4. U4- -P- u: j V' V0" ' luciiua . . . , :
painted, mis is quite an improve- ciareu una uw iuusl uecuiui aiep uci tuu, oAtci uiaiMUK a. guuu jn Swamp Sunday after- OI 113 ever-ncreasing Dusines3.
ment to our town. " "lc ucchhucih "vuocu iuuuulcu x,Al noon. uoroner ii. k. Kancke re-
otthe educational system oi tne i. u. jonnson, oi lumDerton, A series nfmpptin will turned Mondav niaht from rhe
ITa 4.U.,.k4. 4-l.4. CO nthn kaH Krm 1,t. . .v...& ni uv- --- - -
OLci wr. lie Liiuuuiit tuab a pju,-i vv;u hmu uccu aorvcu w marvc a
The interior of the Presbyteri
an church building is being
U!eue , f w I proved with paint. Mr.
What is the matter with :ThtanQS"wia charge of the
oa and bridees? We notice, 6
more than a month ago til
ing was placed at almost every
bridge in the township.but there
is nothing further doing yet.
Lumber Bridge is going right
ahead with her roads. Hands and
teams are no object with them,
Knf hore in ParktOn tOWnsmp , wprp morrJ loot Thnrsriav ovo
there is nothing doing. Why not j ning, and the ceremony was per-
move up and at least ha termed at Koslm, by John K
bridges. I Smith, J. P. The bride is a very
u:MTuim9 Taii.w. of Fav-1 beautiful and attractive young
4 " ;ii ,-:a;h?r her aunt. I lady, while the groom is an excel
Miss Mary A. Malloy. Miss Re
becca Ward returned home to
Lumberton last Friday after
spending a few days with rela
tives here Mrs. Lily McKinnon
and daughter, Miss Maud, of
Charlotte, are on a visit to rela
tives here.
On next Saturday night the State wThere counties were ready
CddFellows will give a suoper at to undertake this advanced work.
the Masonic hall for the purpose He thought it would be unwise
of raising funds to build a new to undertake to place such schools
hall. in all the counties . at once as it
Mr. James N. Bordan and Miss h1! P&S AT!1!1
May Brown, both of Hope Mills, system Z- a ! u
not be availabTe.
The meeting, which wa3 at
tended by about 400 delegates,
adjourned yesterday afternoon.
A plan of agricultural education,
providing for an agricultural
school in each county, was out
lined by the committee on educa
tion, of which President W. S.
Cobb, of the Robeson Union, is
secretary, restriction of foreign
was urged,
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iugm?lCuiaiMupuH uic ouiiudr mh and asr. no- o-nnH K0
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There was some good music and
then it was announced that there We are expecting to hear the
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wouiu ue a recess ior amner anu i wedding oeus ringing as we
then some more speaking. heard of one young man "dod
Now that dinner for it came ping"the question. He asked his
next and commanded the atten- best girl which she had rather
tion oi all was something the have, a preacher or a minister.
like of which one seldom ever We guess, though, she under-
enjoys. It was a dinner of many stood all right, as we guess he
varieties and tilled a long, long was somewhat dashed.
! lent gentleman. Mr. JNordan is
an assistant in the orhce oi the
A.C.L Railroad company at this
point. May this popular young
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coupie have a long and -prosper
ous lite.
Rev. J. D. Pegram filled his
regular appointment at the M.
E. church here Sunday morning
and at night.
Mr. A. M. Culbreth. one of the
clerks at the Parkton Mercantile
Co., is enjoying his annual vaca
tion this week. Mr. Ed. John
son was off last week.
A great deal has beensaid about
the old soldiers' picnic which
will be held on the 4th of August.
Now, what about dinner for ev
erybody ? Well, if you want din
ner for everybody, why every
body bring a well-filled basket or
trunk, and that will settle it.
You farmers that have plenty of
old ham and chickens, prepare
heavily, and let's have a picnic
right It will take a good many
well-filled boxes and trunks to
accommodate 3 or 4 thousand
people, but if everybody that
3hould will bring these necessi
ties everybody will be fed.
. The ice-cream festival given
by the Sunbeam Society of the
Baptist chruch last Saturday
Pveninsr was a decided success.
The children, and grown people
aiso, enjoyed the cream lm
mensely. The directors, Mrs.
V E. McNair, Misses Rena Un
derwood and Ethel Cashwell.
feel much gratified that their
efforts were crowned with such
great success.
.Rev. C. S. Cashwell, of Mocks
ville, is expected here the 8th of
August to assist Pastor J. M.
Dunaway in a revival at the
Baptist church. Bro. Cashwell
is well known here, and a good
tneeting is looked forward to.
Flour Mill at Pembroke Starts
Up.
President W. K. Culbreth, of
tne Kaft bwamp Co-operative
wining Co., asks The Robesonian
to announce that the flour mill
at Pembroke will begin operat
ng this week and all stockhold
-era and friends are requested to
meet him at the mill Tuesday of
ext week. Those
immigration was urged, and a
Mr. J.P. Eagle and Miss Kate resolution was passed opposing
Hamilton wTere most happily unit- reduction of tax on oleomar
ed in the holy bonds of matrimo- garine.
last Sunday evening at
Roslin, John R. Smith, J. P., offi- Moving Picture Shows Again-
ciating. The bride is a very ine iruman quartette.
sweet young lady, while the Mr. Badger McLeod has closed
groom is an excellent gentleman, his moving picture show which
Mr. Eagle is telegraph operator had been running for some time
for the A-. C. L. Railroad Co. at and beginning Monday evening
this point and is a first-class rail- of next week Mr. W. S. Wishart
road man. This popular young will open a motion picture show
couple have a host of friends at the opera house, of which he
who wish for them a long and is manager. Mr. Wishart has
happy life of usefulness and pros- had experience in motion picture
penty. showTs at the opera house and to
say that he will have charge is
Mr. J. N. Buie Thinks the God- equivalent to saying that the pic-
. , tures will be good, clean and well
win onvennon me regular worth going to see. And there
Convention. is no doubt that they will be well
patronized. One-half the gross
receipts every Friday evening
You say in Monday's paper will be given to the Associated
that Godwin was nominated by Charities of Lumberton. On the
the bolters m the Wrightsville opening evening next Monday
convention. Are you the judge and Friday evening of next
To the Editor of The Robesonian:
of this question ? If so, I'll say
no more and await the verdict of
the people in November. I was
in the convention and thought he
was nominated by the legal con
vention. Yours respectfully,
J. N. Buie,
Red Springs, N. C, July 27, 1910.
The convention that nomi
nated Godwin was referred to as
the bolting convention in only
one place in the line under God
win s picture. We are not the
judge nor do we want to be.
We do not care a cuss which con
vention is considered regular,
which "bolting. "-Editor.
Disturbance Last Night.
Jake Rogers, colored, was be
fore the mayor this morning on
a charge of disorderly conduct
and was fined $10, the limit of
the law, and cost, a total of about
$14. It, seems that Jake got
mixed up with too much bad
juice last night and made some
bad threats that caused a num
ber of colored women down in
that portion of town known as
"Cuba" to do a lot of screaming
and "hollering' on the streets
about 12 o'clock. Jake and John
Leak, colored, had some trouble
this morning and this case wil
who have
Wheat to crrind are urcred to raVe
.t to the mill at once, while an be heard . before the mayor this
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w. w ... vum a t . ii ii vini caw LFvcrvs v wiuvni
table; and after they all had fin
ished many trunks-full for
that is the way this dinner wa3
brought and not in baskets were
gathered up of that which was
left.
The feasting was over some
thing after one o'clock and
at two o'clock some benches were
placed in the grove and the crowd
was called together to hear some
talk on farming. Mr. M. G. Mc
Kenzie. of Lumberton, started
the ball to rolling with a ten
minutes speech. He was unwell
but made an interesting and ear
nest appeal to the farmers to
continue their efiorts along all
lines of progress. Mr. McKenzie
introduced W. K. Bethune, of
Lumberton, who spoke for about
half an hour, being stopped by a
shower of ram. He addressed
the farmers and had much to say
about scratching in the dirt and
grappling with the gras?.The W,
O. W. was to have been repre
sented in a speech, but the man
agers were unable to secure a
speaker. So Mr. Bethune's speech
ended the speech making tor
the day.
Messrs. W. S. Cobb, of Lumber
Bridge, president of the county
Union, and W. P. Barker, of
Lumberton, were to have made
speeches in the interest of the
Farmers' Union, but they were
not present on account of the
fact that they are attending a
State meeting of the Union at
Raleigh this week.
The day was one of all the
pleasures expected, perfect order
prevailed, and there was evidence
a-plenty of a working, intelligent
and progressive people.
Jenny Lynn
week the well-known Truman
Quartette, composed of Messrs.
A. T. Parmele, K. R. Carlyle,
Woodberry Lennon and Pope
Stephens, will add to the pleas
ures of the show by discoursing
sweet music. And that's no
joke. They will, really. Those
fellows know how to sing, they
sing with the spirit and the un
derstanding, and it does one good
to hear them unless one is fit
for treasons, stratagems and
spoils."
So the moving picture shows
will start up again and will be
all right.
Charles Manly Stedman Nom
inated in the Fifth.
Major Charles Manly Stedman,
of Guilford county, was nominat
ed for Congress by the fifth dis
trict Democratic convention at
Greensboro yesterday morning
after an all-night session, on the
438tn naiiot. ine result came
after a hard-fought battle be
tween Stedman, ex-Judge Jones
and Royster.
The world's most successful medicine
for bwel complaints is Chamberlain's
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoe Remedy.
lt has relived more pain and suffering
and saved more lives than any other
medicine in use. Invulnerable for
cniwren ana aauits. &okj dv ut. j. u., , - ar,i.,Wi,-,n, u,f
McMillan Son and The &pe Drug had been in Spartanburg about
Uompany. tne time uie tumug waw wuc
Mr. John M'White, of Howells
ville, Hurt in a Runaway This
Afternoon.
Mr. John Mu3selwhite, of How
ells ville, about 60 or 65 years old,
was badly bruised in a runaway
at 2 o'clock this afternoon, which
occurred back of Messrs. White
& Gough's store.
Mr. M'White wras driving a
mule to a one-horse wagon loaded
with flour, and just as he started
to get on the wagon Mr. Tom
Pate ran an automobile out of
the garage on Chestnut street,
about 25 yards away, and the
mule dashed to run. Mr.
M'Whitefelldown undertheshafts
and held on to his lines until the
wTagon struck Jake Powell's dray,
which was near by. The mule
ran down behind Mr. John Wish
art's store and across Fourth
street and was stopped just be
hind the Columbia hotel building.
No damage was done other
than Mr. M'White was very
much bruised. Dr. W. A.
McPhaul was on hand in two or
hree minutes after the runaway
and upon ah examination stated
that he did not think there were
any bones broken. Mr. M'White
was bleeding from several flesh
wounds.
home of Mr. vVill Hamer, at Old
I? ork, and he was very favorably
impressed with crops in Alforos-
ville township.
Dr. R. T. Allen's and Mrs.
I. P. Hedgpeth's Sunday school
classes picnicked at Lennon's
mill Tuesday and the pleasures
of the day for the members of
these two classes were great.
The crowd numbered about 25 or
30andthey left town in the morn
ing about 10 o'clock, returning
late in the afternoon.
That excursion billed for
Johnson City, Tenn., starting at
Clarkton this morning something
after 6 o'clock, left Lumberton
at 8 o'clock with a large crowd,
many more than were expected
to go. The railroad authorities
placed 100 tickets on sale here
and they were sold long before
the train arrived. About 150
boarded the train here and
among them were quite a num
ber from town. The train will
return Saturday.
--Mr. A. G. McKay. of Launn-
burg, has succeeded Mr. T. E.
Petty as chief clerk and ticket
agent for the Seaboard in Lum
berton, Mr. Petty having been
transferred to Raleigh, where he
i3 accountant for the agent at
ehat place. Mr. Petty wa3 t"ck
tt agent here for three years and
was deservedly popular witn
Lumberton people, who regret
to give him up, though rejoicing
m his piomotion to a more re
sponsible position.
Arrested for Alleged Murder
but Proves to be Wrong Man.
Deputy Sheriff A. E. Spivey
arrested Monday a negro who
was thought to be wanted in
Spartanburg, S. C, for killing
another negro last February.
A rjhotosrraDh was taken and
sent to the sheriff of Spartan
burff county and yesterday word
came that the negro is not the
man wanted and he was releas
ed. It seemed positive that the
alleged murderer had oeen cap
tured, all things indicating that
he was the man. He had been
writing to the wife of the man
who did the killing and had been
getting letters from her, and it
wa3 by means of these letters
that he was arrested. At first
the negro captured denied that
he had been to South Carolina,
but later he admitted that he
Republican County Convention
Being Held in Lumberton To
day.
The Republicans of the county
have met here today in conven
tion, assembling this morning at
11 o'clock, for the purpose of el
ecting delegates to the State,
judicial and congressional ccn
ventions. The convention is well
attended, ail tne townsnips, ex
cept Alfordsville and Back
Swamp, being represented. The
organization was perfected in a
very few minutes atter assem
bling with Mr. S. A. Edmund,
of Lumberton, chairman and Mr.
B. b. McLean, ot Maxton, as
socretary.
Local Tobacco Maiket Opens.
The local tobacco market was
opened Tuesday with quite a bit
of the weed in evidence. About
20,000 pounds were marketed
Tuesday and there was a good
deal sld yesterdayand today.The
prices seem to be satisfactory
except on extremely low grades
and that is not so good, a3 is al ways
the case in the opening o
the season. There are five buy
ers on the floor at present and
three more are expected tomor
row or Saturday.
Former Mayor A. H. Bou3man,
55 years old, of Ridgeway, Va.,
was assassinated at his home
Sunday night by some unknown
person who threw a stick of dy
namite beneath the hammock in
which Mr. Bousman was sleeping
in his yard. The body of the
former mayor was terribly man
gled ' and he died in agony an
It is thought that
hour later.
Mr. Edmund made a? the deed was committed bv some
rousing speech in which he stated1 one who held a grudge against
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that any one in the convention
who wished to speak would be
heard and thac there would be
no hissing or cursing. After Mr.
Edmund's speech a motion was
made and carried that the chair
appoint a committee to recom
mend delegates to the State con
ven tion. The chair appointed
this committee, composed of nine
men, and that ends the business
completed at the time of going
to press.
the mayor for a sentence in hi.
court.
A week of festivities in eel -bration
of th? 200 th amivers-ir.
of its founding in 17L") bear1'
Monday at New'oern with a p -ge3nt
representing' the landing
of de Graff enreid and hi3 aide,
John Lawson. The State Fire
men's Association is holding its
annual convention in Newhern
this week
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