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nn ROBESONIAN H Established 1S70. Country, God and Truth. Single Copies Five Cents. VOL XLI NO. 64. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 19 lO WHOLE NO. 2602 J THE RACE IS ON IN EARNEST, MUCH INTEREST MANIFESTED AND MANY NOMINATIONS MADE, That's the Right SpiritNo One Has Advantage Yet City and Surround ing Territory Interested Enter Now Votes will be Announced in a Few Weeks. RED SPRINGS REVIEWS. Recital Monday Evening Death of Mrs. Roach Personal. COUGHS UP BUTTON. The contest race is on! One, two, three. Go! One who have the advantage of an early stare are forging just ahead, but some ot the best racers are just starting in, or two a little they ana are fresh and enthusiastic. Anyway, it will be only when they come in on the home stretch that vs e will be able to name the winners.The nominations are still coming in, and those who did not have the little advantage of an early start are working doubly hard to get ahead. TTr to this time we have been organizing our forces and now in a few days we will be down to real, go;d, hard work, and it's go ing to make the votes pile up, too. Tne contestants have begun to be enthusiastic and they are saying, '-'If I enter the contest, I will enter to win." That's just the spirit that we want, and if results show that there is enough spirit and determination to make their work ffood. we feel justified in naming our girls as the best on earth. A number of the young ladies of the surrounding towns and some in the country have been nominated and there is no reason why their chance of winning some of the big prizes is not as great as that of the city girl. The manager thinks that if the balance tips in favor of either it will be for our out-of-town girls. Now that cool weather is coming on there is no reason why our contestants cannot roll up the votes in a big pile. "To the victor belongs the spoils," and to have one of The Robesonian prizes in .your house will always be a gentle reminder of a work well done, of fairly-won victory, and a cause ot gratitaction that tne mends that assisted you were so numerous and loyal. If you show tnat vou are in earnest about winning the prize, your friends and ad mirers will help you and the contest manager of Tne Robesonian office is ready to give you any assistance and advice. Girls, organize your forces by getting your friends to work for you in every section of the county, in and around your vicinity. Some circular letters distributed among your friends will often bring forth good results. TO OUR MORE SERIOUS READERS SOME VALU ABLE ADVICE ABOUT THE CONTEST. To our more serious readers, we want to explain the motive which prompted us to put on this couie&t. In the first place, it is going iu make several people, the winners of the different prizes, happy. We bilieve, too, that those contest ants who for some reason are not among the fortunate ones are great enough of soul to rejoice with their most strenuous work. Even I though a man is the editor, he still has some nunian instincts, and among them is the desire to make some others happy. That sounds J incredible, but it sometimes is true, even in this day of money making and self-interest. In the second place, and perhaps this should Jhave been put in the first place, we want your help to put as in the way of gratify ing an ambition, and that ambition is to edit a paper which shall be a more important factor in the affairs of our town, our county, our State. To accomplish our ambition we need your help and your encour agement. We want to place The Robesonian in the hands of every intelligent man- and woman in Robeson and surrounding counties. If we can once get the paper in your hands we have no fear of the results. Now, you know what we want, and why we want it. Will you help us? As several nominees are just starting we are not publishing the number of vote3 each contestant has obtained in this issue, as wTe want to give them a little more time to work. The young ladies who have been nominated by their friends are as follows: Miss Theo. McLean, Maxton, N. C. Miss Mable Price, Proctorville, N. C. Miss R: S. Edmond, Lumberton. N. C. R. F. D. No. 3. Miss Cora Baxley, St. Paul, N. C, R. F. D. No. 1. Mrs. N. C. Stubbs, Buie. N. C. Miss Viola Jenkins, Lumberton, N. C. Miss Eva Gaddy, Rowland, N. C. The diamond ring that will be given awray by The Robesonian in this contest is on exhibition at the Lumberton drug store. Call th.3re and see it. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Red Springs, Sept. 30 Quite a number of Episcopal ministers are in Red Springs this week attending a convoca tion which is being held in St. Stephen's Episcopal church. We note with pleasure that Rev. I. W. Hughes, of Henderson, is present. Mr. Hughes is very popular here and his many friends are glad to welcome him. Miss Morris has arrived from her home in Baltimore and will assist Mrs. Nellie Shooter again this season in her millinery store. Misses Clarkie Belle McNair and Emma Belle McRae were visitors in Red Springs a few hours Friday. They returned to Maxton Friday afternoon Dr. Roscoe McMillan spent Wednes day in Red Springs Mr. Russel H. Deane, of Jacksonville, Fla., visited his sister, a student in S. 1'. C, for a few days this week. Mr. Deane is studying medicine in the University of Maryland, and he left for Baltimore Friday nijrht. Miss Clara de Vane has returned from a visit to friends in Wadesboro. We sympathize with Mrs. J. A. Singleton in the death of her sis ter, Mrs. Roach, who died in Fay etteville at Highsmith's hospital Wednesday night. The remains were brought here Thursday and interred at Alloway cemeter Master Ertle Carlyle Coug ns Up Collar Button That had Been Lodged in His Windpipe Fotr Years. Thursday at school Master Er tle Carlyle, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Carlvle. cousrhed ud a collar button that had remained in his windpipe for four years. It was a small button like the ones usually found in new shirts. When Master Ertle swallowed it some four years ago a special ist was consulted who said that it had lodged in the windpipe and nothing could be done. It has been giving more or less trouble all the time, causing the boy to cough frequently and to some extent affecting his breath ing and speech. When Master Ertle was seized with a severe coughing spell Thursday up came the innocent cause of much troub le and anxiety. The back of the button, in grooves when new, had been worn quite smooth. SKIPPER NOMINATED. Second Democratic Primary Sat urday for Clerk Superior Court of Robeson Results in Defeat of W. H. Humphrey. Present Incumbent, by C. B. Skipper. Mr. C. B. Skipper, of Lumber- ton, was nominated for clerk of the Superior Court of Robeson county in the second Democratic primary held Saturday, defeat ing Mr. W. H. Humphrey, who has held the office for the past lz years. Official returns are slow coming in, only ten town ships having reported so far, but returns, official and otherwise, from 22 of the 23 townships give Skipper between 400 and 500,majority. The vote in Lum berton township was, Skipper, A AO T T 1 m 1 4uo; numpnrey, zuy. inis is the heaviest vote ever cast in this townshin a.?id t is sm'rl tVint several Republicans voted. It!"' is also said that Republicans! voted in Britt's township, perhaps others. LOCAL Bh 3V Mr. Frank Nash went yes terday to Charlotte to take a month's course in cotton trad ing. There will be a regular meet ing of Sf, Albans Lodge No. 114. A. F. & A. M,, tomorrow eve ning at 8 o'clock. Mr. Irvin Jenkins, who has been sick for the past week, ij much better today and it is ex pected that he will be able in a few days to be out again. There was a disturbance at the Dixie cafe about 1 o'clock Sunday morning which will prob ably be aired in the mayor's court this afternoon or tomorrow. The Robeson Chapter, U. D. C, will hold its regular meeting Thursday afternojn at 4:30 o'clock at the home of the presi dent, Mrs. J. A. McAllister, cor- of Cnestnut and Sixth street. Miss Anna de Vane, who has been in the Maxton hospital for several, weeks as head nurse, is at home for a while. Mr. Her bert Singleton is at home again after an absence of several months in Virginia. Mrs. L. M. Cooke is visiting her daughter, who lives at Mt. Gilead. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Bowen. of Fay- etteville, are visitors in Red Springs, 1 Miss Nichols, the expression teacher at S P. C, will give a recital in the college auditorium Monday evening. Everybody is cordially invited. Mtv. John Robeson and little daughter, of Savannah, Ga., are visiting relatives in Red Springs. Mr. David Robeson, of Cum berland, was in town for a few days this week. Mr. Wight, of Richmond, Va., spent Svnday in Red Springs. Mr. Fleming, of Hope Mills, spent a tew hours in town last Sunday. Legislation Desired by Robeson County Indians Col. N. A. McLean Addresses Mass Meeting. About 300 Indian citizens, all voters, from all sections of the county, held a mass meeting at Pembroke last Thursday night for the purpese of formulating some requests for legislation they desire. By spec'al request Col. N. A.. McLean, of Lumberton, ad dressed the meeting. Resolutions wrere unanimously adopted as follows: Asking for change of name from Croatan to Death of Mrs. S. E. Martin Remains Interred This After noon at Antioch. Mrs. S. E. Martin died of ty phoid fever at the Thompson hospital yesterday morning at 11 o'clock after an illness of about five weeks. She had been in the hospital three weeks. The re mains were taken yesterday af ternoon to Antioch, upper end of the county, the former home of the deceased, where the funeral and interment will take place this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Martin had only been married about three months, since which time they had made Mr. N. H. Musslewhiie and and j family. wt: moved to Fayette I viile some six months ago, re turned Saturday to Lumoerton and are occupying a house on Pine street which Mr.Muselwhite purchased recently iromMr.A.E. White. Mr. Musslewhiie is a carpenter. Beginning this evening at 6 o clock the Jewish people will observe their New Year until Wednesday evening at the same hour. Messrs. A. vVeinstein and H. Dunie give notice that their stores will be closed tomorrow land Wednesday on account of i this occasion. The manager oi the motion picture show will announce thi3 evening at 9 o'clock that some one in the opera house is occu- P.hprftlrpp for inprpnsprJ nnnrn. ' IT IT IT 1 j j 1 1 H. - 1 . 1 priation for their Normal school, ' lumoerton tneir nome, ;ur. iviar-; pying a numoerea cnair tnat en with an amount sufficient "to se-tm following the carpenter's i titles the occupant to one silver the teaching of scientific i traae nere- Mrs martin was dollar, rso one oui tne manager !n all its branches a.uuul years oiu anu was a will know unui v o ciuck wno is uaugnter oi tne late Mr. .rcnie , occupying tne cnu:r vl uie lucxy number. cure agriculture NOMINATION COUPON The first one of these coupons sent in for each contest ant, entitles them to 1,000 free votes. Only one of these ecupens will be allov td to each contestant.) I nominate Mr. Mrs. or Miss Of - State as a candidate in The Robesonian contest. Nominated by . of State While it is not absolutely necessary that a coupon be used, it will facilitate matters to send one for each con testant. Under no circumstances will the nominator's name be divulged. Robesonian Contest Manager. Remarkable Record of the Lum berton Baptist Sunday-School. Charity and Children. The record of the Lumberton Baptist Sunday-schoolfor 1909, which has been published in a neat folder, has come into our hands. As Lumberton is one of the leading Sunday schools in tne country we taKe it that our readers will be interested in some facts we have gathered from this remarkable record. The pastor of the church is Rev. C. H. Durham. The officers of the school are: R. D. Caldwell, Supt.; Stephen Mclntyre, Asst. Supt.; John T. Biggs, Sec. and Treas.; D. B. McNeill, librarian. There are thirteen teachers, 410 scholars and eleven classes, lhere are two tsaraca classes, one of 58 and the other of 36 schol ars. Class No. 8 taught, by Mr. Stephen Mclntyre, gave during the year $418.87. Class No. 7, taught by Mr. E. J. Brit.t, gave $228.58. These are the Baraca classes. Class No. 2, composed of boys, and taught by Dr. R. T, A hn. gave $101.07 during the year. The total contributions of the school for the year were $1, 194.98. Of this amount $883.64 was sent to the Orphanage, an average of $73.63 a month. for provision for their insane. A committee was api look after these matter ManiagCii. A committee was appointed to; aviuugan, yi ahuuciu cne is' ters. i survived by her husbaiiu; two i brothers, Messrs. H. L. and J. ! . h.t ., .. . .. .. .t . . ; a. mcvjfougan, anu inree sister I Misses Margaret j Gougan, and Elmodel, Ga. gan is a student at the Univer 1 sity. Chapel Hill, and arrived in A two-weeks' term of Robe son Superior Court for the trial Miss Hazel Penny, 01 Bladen- boro, who has'been living at the National Cotton Mills village, and Mr. Geo. McNeill, engineer at. thp nnwpr hnnsp. wprpmnrrifrl " " t 1 , n, . 1 .... Saturday evening about 9 o'clock umperton o uuroay night to see nis sister, yuite a numoer 01 the relatives and friends of the deceased were at the hospital when the death occurred. 1 t xt : z 1 and Katie Me-i?1 Cl !.P5cnvainisrn Mrs. Howard, of nZ J n. u:iver, 01 kins Mr. J. A. McGou- Presiding. It is not prob aoie LiictL uie court win i'dsz at the home of Mr. A. P. Cald well, on Third street. The cerf mony was performed by Rev. C. H. Durham, pastor of the First Baptist church. Mr. and Mrs. McNeill went to Bladenboro Saturday night to visit the bride's people and returned to Lumber- ton yesterday. Miss Pearl Taylor and Mr. Craton West, and Miss Athia Thompson and Mr. A. J. Carrol', all of East Lumberton, were married yesterday at the county home, the residence of the offi ciating magistrate, Justice W. G. Reynolds, the first couple being married yesterday morn ing, the second yesterday afternoon. Tall Business at the Postoffice. Stamp receipts at the Lum berton postoffice for September reached the unprecedented figure of about $1,300. Sending out campaign literature during the recent amented hot inter-party campaign was responsible for be tween $300 and $40 of this Things Are Not Always What They Seem. Some excitement was created Friday afternoon wh?n it was reported on the streets that the dead body of a man had been pulled out of Lumber river near the old wooden bridge. As John Chinaman would say, many flocked for to look see. And what went they for to see? The body of a man overcome of the waters? Verily. And thereby hangs a tale. Some evenings ago some boys! on mischief bent secured a clothes dummy and hanged it by the neck from the iron bridge. It was a fcarbome sight and it mace the blood of belated wayfarers run cold. Lone ome and cold and stiff it hung there in the dark, and many passed by on the other side before one passed who was bold enougn to approach near amount, but exclusive of what ; enough to see what the dreadful that brought in the receipts j sight really wras. By and by it mounted higher than the amount -was cut down and allowed to for any month heretofore 5987. ; sink in the waters below. Aviator Walter Brookins sail ed his Wright biplane Thursday from Chicago to Springfield, III., a distance af 192i miles, in 7 hours and 4 minutes, making on ly two 3tops on the journey. 'The longest sustained flight was 88 miles, Cha3. K. Hamilton's record forsustained cross-country fli.tr ht of 86 miles from New Yoik to Philadelphia being brok en. Brookins made the longest cr ss-country continued flight in America and thereby won the ilO 000 prize offered by the Chi cago Record-Hera'd, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Weinstein, o? McColl, S. C, arrived Satur day and will be in town until Wednesday. Receipts from money orders for the last 15 days of the month just closed amounted to $1,388, the largest amount ever taken in for the same length of time. Exclusive of the stamp sales for campaign literature, the re ceipts from both sources repre sent the steady increase in busi ness that is going on all the time. Which the same explains the gruesome find of Friday after noon. Coroner Rancke went piomptly to investigate, as is his custom. Shucks! When asked about it, though, he said that it was clearly murder in the first degree. New Social Club Organized. Testimony Easily Believed. Raleigh Christian Advocate. From The Robesonian we learn i thatMissLeilaMayGill, of Laurin- burg, has been elected to a posi out the term. The county commis sioners and the county board of education are holding their regu lar monthly meetings today. -Mr. H. E. Carter, of St. Paul, who until recently held a position there as salesman for the McAllister Hardware Co., has accepted a position in Fayette ville as salesman in the Watson Clothing & Shoe store. Mr. Carter was in Lumberton Friday and went to Fayetteville Friday night and began work Satur day. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Hinds have the sympathy of the com munity in the death of their in fant daughter, 11 months old, which occurred at their home on Walnut street Thursday night. The child ha 1 been in poor health for some months. The remains were interred Friday afternoon in Meadowbrojk cemetery. Mr. Hinds is still c nrined at home on account of th severe stab he accidentally gave himself in the ! left leg nearly four weeks ago while cutting beef at his butcher shop on Fourth street. Quarterly Meeting of Robeson County Woodmen. The Robeson County Woodmen of the World Association held its quarterly meeting Thurday at Rowland. There was a public dinner and many of the Wood men from over the county were there to enjoy the pleasures of the occasion. AH the camp3 in the county except two were rep resented. Dinner was had about one o'clock, and that dinner was all right so say the Woodmen. The meeting was held in the af noon in the W. O. W. hall over the Rowland drug store. Messra John Gilmore, E. G. Sipher ar i H. B. Humphrey were amon th-se who attended from Lum berton. The next the association will jRed Springs about t December meeting be held in the last of Reported for The Robesonian. On last Saturday afternoon at ! tion in the graded school of Lum- A verdict of guilty of a charge ! 4:30 o'clock a number of girls i berton,and The Robesonian testi o retailing waa returned against met at the home of Georgia Whit- ties that it would have been im- ,he Colonial Club of Charlotte j nerd for the purpose of organiz- possible to have secured a more j lqot wppk nnrl rh ilnh was finpd inc a club. It was siicpstfnliv nr. efficient teacher. We can easily $'500 by Judge B, F. Long. Iti ganized and ts known as the I believe this testimony, and know Messrs. A. P. fepeil, Red v as a special verdict based upon i 4,Merry-Go-Round" Club. The of ourself that it would be diffi-: Spn".?r?. G. B. Pat'ern, .T. P. evidence as to the manner of j following officers were elected:! cult to find anywheie a finer; W;vr:n and B. t. ana b. c-. k dispensing beer at the club. The j Ruth Jackson, president; Esther type of young womanhood. Lean, ot Maxton. are the out-ct-nestion will be passed' upon by! McNeill, vice president; Be3sie, Lumberton is to be congratulat-1 1 wn attorneys attending court t le Supreme Court. Powell, secretary. rj. i today.