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Established 1870.
Country, God and Truth.
Single Copies Five Cents.
VOL XLI NO. 68.
LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 19 10
WEEK STARTS WITH
GOOD RESULTS FOR
CONTESTANTS.
Don't Forget the 5,000 Bonus
mis w eeK uontestants At
tention Called to Change
Scale of Votes.
m
Last week was a very good ! day and will be good exercise; to
A-eek m the contest department, Uet ont . in th(i ' n nIr nn
This is
but we want
exceed any
Wonder who
this week to
previous week,
will capture the
o
ai. i . C t
wiiat suine oi us neea.
a good time to get the fresh air
5.0U0 bonus offer this week?! and be using your time to good
Remember, it is fcr the one that
brings in the largest number of
subscriptions amounting to the
largest number of votes. Let us
.all get a hustle on ourselves and
win that bonus; it will count in
the end, and who knows! the one
who wins that may be the one to
win the piano. To the contest
ants that are behind a little,
J. F. L. ARMFIELD PASSES.
DEMOCRATIC SPEAKERS.
Death Occurred Yesterday at
St. Luke's Hospital in Fayette
viile A Prominent and Useful
Citizen.
Mr. J. F. L. Armfield, one of J
Lne most prominent business men
of Fayetteville, died at St. Luke's
hospital in that city yesterday
morning about 4 o'clock. He had
been a sufferer from Blight's
disease and stomach trouble for
some time and a few days before
his death was taken to St. Luke's
hospital for an operation for ap
pendicitis, whicn proved unsuc
cessful. The funeral takes place
this afternoon in Fayetteville at
3 o'clock. Rev. Dr. H. G. Hill,
of Maxton, will assist in conduct
ing the services.
Mr. Armfield was about 53
years oia. .tie is survived by his
advantage. The next few days
spent in earnest efforts will make
a radical change in your votes.
We also call your attention to the
change of votes. This will be
used after this issue. You ought
all to get up and hustle now for
the new yearly subscriptions,
for you will get more votes on a
new year s subscription than on
this will be your chance to get in old or, renewals. Let's make this
the lead. Why not try? It will
cnly take a few hours time evt r
the best week of all, and watch
out for special offers every week.
Democratic Club Organized
Precinct Clubs To Work for
Big Majority.
Mr. A. L. Brooks, of Greens
boro, was expected to speak in
Lumberton Thursday evening
and his failure to come disap
pointed many who were anxious
to hear him. He missed his train
at Fayetteville. It became known
before the hour for speaking that
Mr. Brooks would not be present
so it was not a very large crowd
tnat gathered in the court house.
Had it been known that a Demo
cratic club would be organized a
rauch larger crowd would have
been present. That was what
was done and the following
St. Paul tomorrow, Parkton
Wednesday and Lumber Bridge
Thursday.
The sheriff's collections Satur
day at Rowland amounted to
nearly $3,000, the best by far
that he has had on this round.
Annual Meeting of Farmers' Un
ion meeting riace cnangea.
A meeting of the county Farm
ers' Union was held in Lumber
ton Thursday but nothing was
given out for publication except
the following notice from Secre
tary E. W. Stone in regard to the
annual meeting and change of
meet n r place:
It is desired that members of
officers were elected: M. . j the Farmers' Union bear in mind
T"1 1 1 - T-1 TIT T- ' i x. T I O j. I 11 1
that on December 8 there will be
an annual meeting held at Raft
Swamp school house tor the elect
ion oi officers lor 1911 The
county Union in session Thursday
established definite dates for
future county meetings, which
will be held on the -third Thurs
day of the first month of each
quarter. Until further notice, all
county meetings, whether regular
or called, will be held at Raft
Swamp school house. This change
of meeting place is for the purpose
of confining members strictly to
Union business and to avoid a
mixing of business. We would
like to assure the people of Lum
berton that this change is not for
any feeling toward the town but
for what we consider the best
interests of the Union.
E. W. Stone, Sec'y.
Dixon's Leading Man Drown
ed Dixon Will Take the
Part.
Robert Barton Pahr, leading
man in Thomas Dixon's latest
play, "The Sins of The Father,"
was drowned a t Wrightsville
Beach yesterday while in surf
bathing. Mr. Dixon will take
the part of the deceased in the
play until a man can be secured.
The play will be presented in
With the Candidates-Sheriff's andm any win g0 f rom Lumber-
Collections, ton on a special train over the
The candidates are still on(V. & C. S., leaving here at 6
their rounds and at some of the 1 o'clock p. m.
appointments there is something
Floyd, president; E. M. Briti,
secretary; T. L. Johnson and E.
J. Britt, vice presidents. Every
man present joined and other
clubs will be organized in every
precinct in the county. The
chairman of each township Demo
cratic executive committee is
urged to organize such a club, to
arrange for speakers, and to see
to it that every Democratic voter
in his township is properly reg
istered. Chairman E. M. Britt,
of the executive committee of
Lumberton township, suggested
that each township chairman
make the matter of seeing that
all Democrats are registered his
own particular care: and it is a
most important matter.
Suggestions were made by
various ones as to the best
methods for working. The meet
ing was an enthusiastic one and
all present pledged themselves
to do all in their power to aid the
Democratic cause in the county.
The time is short r.ow and it be
nooves all to get - to work in
earnest. All the Democratic
candidates will be elected, of
coarse, but the thing to strive
for is to make the majority as
large a3 possible, and it should
be not less than 2,000 or 2,500.
third wife, an infant daughter,
and two sons, Messrs. M. D.
and Dennis Armfield. Hs second
wife was xviiss Etta McLean
daughter of Mrs. Lina McLean,
of Maxton and sister of Messrs.
A. W. and A. T. McLean of
Lumberton. About 15 years ago
the deceased came to Maxton as
representative of Sparger Bros.,
tobacco manufacturers of Mount
Airy, and since then he has been
prominent in the business life of
this section, r or some years he
has been perhaps the most prom
inent business man of Fayette
ville. He was president the
Armfield Co., which he organized
about 10 years ago and which is
one of the largest wholesal
grocery concerns in the b:ate;
and was until about a year ago
president and since then first
vice president and general mana-
ger oi the Virginia &; uaronna
Southern Ry., which was con
structed by him and Mr. A. W.
McLean of Lumberton and the
Messrs. Blue of Aberdeen.
Mr. A. T. McLean went to
ravettevi e Saturday .night in
response to a message advising
him that Mr. Armfield's condi
tion was serious, and returned
last evening. He and Messrs.
J. P. Russell and E. B. Huggins,
superintendent and local agent,
respectively, of the V. &. G. S.
Ky., nave gone to ayettevilie
today to attend the funeral. Mr.
A. V. McLean reached Fayette
ville yesterday afternoon from
New York, he and Mrs. McLean
having left for New York Friday
night.
' Mr. Armfield was a useful
citizen whose passing brings
genuine sorrow to hosts of
friends.
Ex-Governor Glenn Will Speak
in Lumberton Saturday Con
gressman Godwin's Appoint
ments for Robeson.
Ex-Gover-nor R. R. Glpnn will
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uiscu&o uie puimcai issues Satur
day of this week, the 22d, in
Lumberton. The speaking will
be about noon. Watch Thurs
day's paper for further particulars.
Besides the appointments for
the joint discussion with Mr.
ireaeu lueares, pubiisned in
Thursday's Robesonian, Con
gressman Godwin's appointments
for Robeson county are as fol
lows: lhursday of this week,
the 20th Lumber Bridge 11 a,
m., bt. raul s 4 p. m., Urrum
7:30 p. m.; Friday, 21st--Allen-
ton 11 a. m.. Ten Mile 3:30 p.
m., Kait swamp p. m.
INDIANS OF ROBESON.
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Miss Bessie Powell Entertains
the Lucky Thirteen Club.
Reported for The Robesonian.
Friday afternoon Miss Bessie
Powell delightfully entertained
the Lucky Thirteen Club at the
home of Mr. John P. McNeill, the
club name having been changed
from Merry -go-Round" on ac
count ot one or that name in
Maxton.
Our wits were sharpened by a
contest in wThich Miss Louise
Townsend and Miss Ruth Jackson
cut for the first prize. The
former was tne lucky one and
carried orf a very pretty box of
writing paper. All of the others
cut for the booby prize. Miss
Eva fcStubbs won and was pre
sented with a 6ox of Hoyt's Ger
man cologne.
Dainty refreshments were
served, consisting ot ice cream
and nabiscos.
STATE NEWS.
The census bureau report
Thursday gives the population of
Wilmington as 25,748, an in
crease of 4,772 or 22.7 per cent,
over 20,976 in 1900.
The United Daughters of the
Confederacy of North Carolina
met at Rocky Mount last week
in annual session. Mrs. F. M.
Williams, or JNewton, was re
elected president.
Adjutant General Joseph
Franklin Armfield, head of the
North Carolina National Guard,
died at his home in Statesville,
where he went two weeks before
on account of illness, last Wed
were interred in Statesville Fri
day.
Winston Covington, colored,
last Wednesday night shot and
fatally wounded Archie McAllis
ter, also colored, his guest at an
ice-cream supper at Raeford.
Covington was taken to jail at
Fayetteville Thursday by Chief of
Police McDuffie of Raeford. He
was entertaining a number of his
friends when he and McAllister
became involved in a quarrel and
both drew pistols and began fir
ing' Miss Emma Norton, 17-year-old
daughter of Mr., and Mrs.
Yancev Norton, who live near
John Station, Scotland county,
committed suicide last Tuesday
by taking strychnine. She and
a young man to whom she was
engaged to be married had
started -to South Carolina
and had gotten as far as Red
Banks when her father overtook
them and made her return home.
Disappointment in this love affair
is said to have been the cause of
her suicide.
Charlotte is the first city of
the State to learn its new cen
sus figures." According to a re
port of the census bureau Tues
day it now has a population of
34.014, as compared with 19,091
in 1900, an increase of 88 per
cent. In nearly doubling her pop
ulation of ten years ago Char
lotte has surpassed both Atlanta
and Richmond by a small frac
tion in the ratio of gains, and is
only surpassed among Southern
cities by Birmingham, which
made a gain of nearly 250 per
cent, which is greater than any
other city in the entire country.
Their True Stalus-What Thev
Desire and Should Have.
To trie Editor of The Robesonian:
Various comments coming from
many and intelligent sources con
vince me that the status of the
Croatan Indians is not under
stood by their white neighbors.
With your permission, Mr.
Editor, I will state briefly a few
facts which may throw l ent on
the present agitation among
them.
"Croatan" was conferred upon
them by act of legislation in
1887. It commemorates the name
of the island upon which their
Indian ancestors were encamped
at the time of Gov. White's visit
to Roanoke in 1587. As they
prefer the name Cherokee they
will ask the Legislature to make
the change. The gratification of
this desire cannot affect other
races, therefore the change ought
to be made.
They ask better school facilities
for the following reasons: They
are full citizens and as such
ought not to be discriminated
against. The while and the negro
races have excellent educational
institutions well taken care of by
the State. The negroes have
three well-equipped normal
schools, besides other excellent
schools in North Carolina. The
poorly-equipped and meagerly
supported school at Pembroke is
the only school in this State that
these Indian people can look to
for higher culture. Their leaders
are proud and ambitious and feel
that the future of their children
depends upon how they are taken
care of at present. When they
see how generously their State
has provided for the other races,
and how sorely they have been
neglected, they know that unless
something is speedily done they
will be placed at a great disad
vantage in life's fields of com
petion in the future. They are
entitled to afl they ask. From
the formation of this government,
or from the earliest records of
this section, they owned lands,
negroes, and other property, as
did the whites; they have always
paid taxes and performed any
public duties demanded of them.
Throughout their entiie history
they never received a penny to
educate their own children till
subsequent to 1887; though pre-
vious to that date, tney were
forced to contribute to the sup
port of the white and negro
schools. At present they num
ber about seven thousand in
Robeson county and pay taxes on
nearly half a million dollars
worth of property. Their in
creasing interest in education,
their rapid accumulation of pro
perty their respectful treatment
of white ladies, and their almost
solid support of Democratic
nominees, should be a sufficient
guarantee that the Indians of
Robeson county are and will be
among the State's most progres
sive and law-abiding citizens.
JNow. ieuow-citizens, in our
An unknown negro waskilled
by a Coast Line train at Pem
broke Saturday night.
Mr. Albert Friedman, of
New York, began work last week
as salesman as for4 Mr. A. Wein
stein. Thers will be a regular meet'
ing tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock
of St. Alban's Lodge No. 114. A.
F. & A. M. There will be de.
gree work and full attendance is .
desired.
On account of the State fair
the V. & C. S. and Seaboard are
giving a special rate of $4.35
round-trip to Raleigh, including
one admission to the fair, thi3
rata going into effect this mora-
;ing.
Mr. C. A. McDonald brought
to The Robesonian cffice Friday
a curiosity in the shape of a triple
ear of corn, raised on Water
street. Double ears of corn are
not so rare, but three ears in or.e
that's rare as rare.
Mesdames Irvin Jenkins and
W. P. McAllister were delegates
from the Robeson Chapter, U. D.
C, to the State convention held
last week at Rocky Mount. Mrs.
Jenkins returned Saturday and
Mrs. McAllister came home last
evening.
Charity and Children: The
splendid temple of the Lumber
ton church is rapidly approaching
completion. We learn that no
church building of any denomina
tion in "the State of Robeson"
will be in its class. It is none
too good for the Lord's Royalty
who worship there.
Cordelia Pitman, 6 year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Pitman, of Wishart's township,
diedluesday night of diphtheria.
The remains were interred Thurs
day morning in the family
cemetery at the home of Mr.
Louis Scott, the funeral services
being conducted by Rev. J. M.
Fleming, pastor of East Lumber
ton Baptist church.
Mr. E. G. Sipher has ju3t
begun work wiring the new
Baptis; church on Walnut street
and the bell is being moved to
day from the old building, corner
of Walnut and Fifth, to the new.
Work was also begun this morn
ing toward putting in the pipe
organ. There has been unavoiu
able delay in putting in the win
dows, but it is the intention to
hold the first service in the new
church Thanksgiving Day.
During a re:ent visit to his
son-in-law and daughter in Lum
berton, Mr. and Mrs. R. S.
Sledge, Mr. W. T. Burton made
many acquaintances who will re
gret to learn that one of his legs
was broke.-, in two places Thurs
day as the result of the stumb
ling of his horse as he was 'rid
ing on the streets of his home
town, Danville, Va. Mrs. Sledge
left that morning for Danville
labors here may we not hope forjvlth her l,"fant lighter to visit
Annual Indian Educational Ral-
The Indians of the county will
hold their annual educational
doing and at others things are
quiet. They were at Rodger's
store Thursday and had a go"d
crowd to hear discussed the issu s
of the day. At Alfordsville Fri
day there was nothing doing for
the candidates. A great many
called to settle with the sheriff
but did not seem to think they
owed the candidates anything
and immediately upon receiving Drincipai speaker of the occasion
ma receipt uiey niaue men uc- ml a arSre attendance is ex
parture, and the candidates soon npet9 The exercises will be
did likewise. But at Rowland ' in at 10:30 o'ci0ck a. m.
Saturday a fairly good crowd was j
m evidence and much speaking!
v.'as done. Mr. T. L. Johnson,
Bank of Hope Mills in Bad
Shape.
The Bank of Hope Mills, Cum
berland county, was closed
Thursday by order of the Cor
At The Opera House.
The motion picture show, which
was closed last week on account
of the 10-cent show across the
street from the opera house, will
be reopened again to-night with
entirely new pictures.
"The Music Hall Girl," a farce
comedy with singing and dancing
specialties, will be the attraction
at the opera house
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Mondav msrnt i nis
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your active or passive support?
Those who can give neither, I
know, will generously grant us
the charity of silence.
H. L. Ld-ns.
Pembroke, N. C.
A Good Meeting at Oakdale
Dea h of an Infant.
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Marietta, R. F. D. 1, Oct. 12
Picking cotton and mowing hay
is the order of the day.
A series of meetings began at
O .kdale Baptist church Monday
night, September lz, and con
tinued till the 22nd. Thanks to
our blessed Master for the good
we think has been done to the
church and community. Forty-
seven were added to the church.
nu TY"ai "Ya"r ! ooration Commission on account I TmH
Sing at Pembroke Saturday ; 2 "ncSef 3t btle be greeted by ot
j? u: i, 4.u ooa oo nuances, it appears tnat ine fni k.-w11Co va
. 35 by baptism, 4 by rastoiatim, 8
by letter. Nearly every member
the church confessed. Uur
pastor, Rev. W. C. Wallace, of
? thlS W6t1.;;51n ThP Vflvvorthless or depreciated paper u.' "enresntative of the Rad-Utta, S. C, did the preaching
been mentioned in Ihe Robeson-! . . . . . j,. , l he representative or tne rtaa . . nnrin t.h hn v ohoat
ian. State Supt. of Public In-;
the bank has on hand will bejp Kff1 Rll' who npnt several" and with power in tne noiy gnost
ian. ouauc j equal to about the whole of the J"7 here Dlacinff tickets for six : dld he Preacn 0SP3U . .
struction J. 1 . Joyner will be the : i - atnnr aaa n ?a 3 nere Placin. "ceis lor six o j Rnrpad over our ne eh-
uauriu miiui uluii. Aw i nn-iim antoftoinmanri: niinntr r-
is thought that depositors will be the season was successful in
saved the full amount of deposits placin, enougn to make the un-
Dy assessing uie biucKiunueis lu dertakine a success, and the first
of Lumberton. made a lively
speech, representing Dr. W. A.
McPhaul, who was unable to be
on hand on account of ;$ome busi
ness that made it impossible.
It Savedjllls Leg.
"All thought I'd lose my leg, "writes
J. A. Swensen,of Watertown, Wia.'Ttn
yenrs of eczema, that 15 doctors coiTc
rt i iirp. had at last laid me up. Thei
! Bu klen's Arnica Salve cured it, souik.
and well. "Infallible for SkinEruntions
V.rv. ima.Salt Kheum, Boils, everoores,
The appointment will be at Bun.a, Scalds, Cuts and Piles
the limit of the law. L. C. Gil
bert is president and L. B. Flem
ing cashier, the latter having
been with the bank only a short
time. The last report of the bank
3howed $29,362 resources, with
loans and discounts $16,358, over
drafts $567, banking house,
furniture and fixtures $5,443 75
attraction will be the Boston
Lyrics on t le 27th inst. Tickets
will be delivered to subscribers
this week.
her parents : nd when she arrived
there she found her father in a
hospital.
Unless the graded school
yard has been t.taned up since
Friday afternoon it is a sight, a
disgrace to the town paper
scattered everywhere and a gen
eral appearance of untidyness
and neglect that would lead a
stranger to think there was some
scourge of sickness in the town
that had caused the school to be
deserted or that both teachers
and pupils were mightv untidy
folks. Neither of which supposi
tions would be true. What's the
matter at the graded school?
Was there a paper-scattering,
yard-littering contest last week?
Nntices of New Advertisement.
All the best styles, the best
selected things To wnsend Bros.
The best in sporting goods and
hardware McAllister Hdw. Co.
Put money in the bank for your
children First National Bank.
The largest depository between
hornood Mondav when the news ! Charlotte and Wilmington Bank
j went out that little Z ni, the 4- j of Lumbarton.
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. j The Lumberton Novelty Works
K. Morgan, was dead. The death j will make your shingles,
angel came Monday morning; Frank Thornton, Fayetteville,
about 8:30 o'clock and carried his i invites visitors to the .Cumber
little sDirit home to God after c i land county fair to make his
days illness with croup. The ! store their head-quarters,
wins and bereaved parents Hqve cu ' T wu lots f al ,r Powland.
Onlv one maioritv
you may have that one, but work sincere sympathy in the lois oi j A runaway boy advertised.
now and make assurance doubly their little son.
sure.
F. J. Morgan.
j A bargain
'Paul s.
in land near St.
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