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R OBESONIAN 1 ilrLi Established 1870. Country, God and Truth. Single Copies Five Cents VOL XU NO. 103. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 191 1. WHOLE NO. 2641 ' ' I "IN-.. , , . .,. " ' ' ' FUNERAL OF COL. McLEAN. &att Sad Kites Over Remain of Robeson's Foremost Gtizen Funeral Friday From First Baptist Church-Floral Trib utes Many and Beautiful - Many Out-of-Town People Attended Funeral and Busi ness Practically Suspended for the Day. The funeral of Col. N. A. Mc "Lean, whose sudden death in Haleigh last Wednesday nightcast pall of gloom not only over his . immediate home community but " over all of Robeson county, and carried sadness to many hearts 4iU over North Carolina, was con ducted from the First Baptist church Friday morning between 11 and 12 o'clock and the remains were interred in what is known as the old Norment cemetery on Fifth street. Long before the ..announced hour for the service. 11 o'clock, every seat in this spacious building, save the ones reserved for those in the funera orocession, was filled. About a third of the seats in the gallery were reserved for colored people and every one of these seats was also filled, for the deceased was Jtoved by all. The funeral procession reached the church about 11:30 o'clock from the residence on North Elm street, where the remains had reposed since Thursday morning ..at 11 o clock, when they arrived from Raleigh, in the following order: Pastor and visiting clergymen in carriages in front of the hearse; honorary pall bearers, two by two, in front of hearse; hearse; active pallbearers, two bv two. wallking on each side of hearse: family, in order of relationship; committee from State Senate: members of the bar of Robeson county; members of the bar from other counties; Knights of Pythias. Miss Marion Mooring, one of the music teachers at the graded school, presided at the pipe or gan and played softly while the "oartv entered the church. The service was conducted by Rev A. E. Baker, former pastor of the Presbyterian church of Lum berton, of which the deceased was a member, now of Lynch burg. Va., assisted by Rev. Dr. C. G. Vardell, president of the .Southern Presbyterian College at Red Springs, and Rev. Dr. J. , M. Rose of Laurinburg. The .first hymn was "Come Ye Dis consolate. " This was followed by reading of passages of scripture bv Mr. Baker; prayer by Dr. Rose; hymn, "Lead, Kindly Light;" remarks by Mr. Baker; 4iymn, "Peace, Perfect Peace." The hymns were read in most impressive manner by Dr. Var lell and were beautifully render ed by the choir. The order of procession was observed from the church to the grave, where the services were concluded by the reading of the service by Dr. Rose and a touch ing prayer by Mr. Baker. The services were held in the First Baptist church because the Presbyterian church was recently damaged by fire, but even that large building failed to accommo date the immense crowd; and the crowd that followed the re mains to their last resting place in the cemetery was a touching tribute to the deceased and gave some slight token of the love and esteem in which he was held by the people among whom he had spent his life and by whom he was best known. A large crowd met the train that brought home the corpse Thursday morning, all ages and conditions, both white and colored, being repre sented, and business was practi cally suspended in town Friday until after the funeral. Massed high upon the grave until no earth was shown, the floral tribu e j, more than thirty in number, were simply exquisite and bore besutiful mute testi mony to the Hearts left aching IN MY the best interests of the school, was dismissed for the day after the morning exercises, when a brief explanation . of the reason had been made by Supt. Sen telle, and one of the most beauti ful of the fU ril tributes was from the pupils of the school, who contributed neurly $16 for that purpose. The pallbearers were: Active, Alf. H. McLeod, A. E. White, A. J. McKinnon of Maxton, Stephen Mclntyre, R. C. Law rence, E. M. Bntt, L. H. Cald well, T. A. McNeill. Jr.; honor ary, Capt. E. B. Wright of Board man, Marten McKinnon, A. B. Pearsall and W. F. Williams of Red Springs. Col. E. F. McRae, Maj. T. J. Woo ten and W. B. Harker of Maxton, W. B. Snow of Raleigh, J. G. McCormick of Wilmington, S. A. Edmund, ex- Judge T. A. McNeill, W. J. Pre- vatt. Rev. W. H. Townsend, of High Point, a brother of the first wife of the deceased, attended the funeral and returned home Friday night. Mr. J. R. Stewart, of Charleston, S. C . a brother of Mrs. McLean, and Mrs. M. B. Spier, of Charlotte, a sister, came Thursday. Mr. Stewart went yesterday to Raleigh and will go thence to his home in Charleston. Mrs. Spier will spend a few days with Mrs. Mc Lean. Senators Geo. H. Bellamy of Brunswick and J. W. McLaugh- in of Cumberland attended the funeral as a committee from the State Senate, and Representative W. A. McPhaul of Robeson at tended from the House. Besides those already menti ned, among the out-of-town people who at tended the funeral were the fol- owing: Messrs. A. T. Mc- Callum. J. G. Brown, B. M. Townsend, D. P. McEachern, Martin McKinnon and Lucius McRae, of Red Springs; Drs P. McLean and C. W. Regan and Messrs. Hector McLean and W. A. Cox, of Laurinburg; Mrs. Lina and Mis3 Mattie McLean, Messrs. J. A. and S. B. McLean and J. W. Carter. Capt- G. B. Sellers and Maj. T. J. Wooten, of Maxton; Rev. Wm. Black, of Charlotte; Mr. Fred Brown, of Antioch; Messrs. A. L. Bullock, Graham McKinnon and W. A. Graham, of Rowland; A. D. Mc Lean, of Washington; Mr. R. M. McQueen, of Blue Springs; Mrs. D. 0. Sinclair, of Raleigh; Mrs. R. T. McElyea, who lives near Maxton well known to Robeson ian readers as "Aunt Becky," and the following, mentioned in a dispatch of the 17th from White ville to the Wilmington Star. "The entire Whiteville bar went over to Lumberton today to at tend the funeral of the late CoL THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Commissioner of Agriculture for Robeson No Recorder's Court for Robeson Farm-Life Schools Meet with Favor Torrens Land System Special Order for Wednesday State Primary Bills Revenue Bill. A sub-committee representing each house has been appointed by joint committees on congres sional apportionments to prepare a feasible plan for redisricting the State and report to a joint caucus of the Democrats of the Legislature to be held Wednes day night of this week instead of Friday night of last week. Representative McPhaul, of Robeson, introduced a bill in the House Thursday to prohibit the sale of pistols and cartridges tQ minors. News and Observer 17th. Senator Cobb, chairman of the Senate committee on agriculture, has secured the passage of a bill for a commissioner of agriculture in Robeson county and naming as commissioner Mr, R. E. Sen- telle, superintendent of the Lum berton graded schools, who will have charge of the agricultural work in the county, including the boys' corn clubs. He will also act as assistant county superintendent of schools, and principal of the farm life high school. Mr. Sen telle was for merly of Wake county and while here served ss a member of the House of Representatives. Rob eson is the first county to take this step. report without prejudice from the judiciary committee. When first introduced it went to the committee on agriculture and re ceived a favorable report with recommendation that it be re ferred to the judiciary commit tee, and now, after being in the hands of that committee for two weeks or more, it goes back to the Senate to be fought out on the floor and has been made special order for Wednesday at noon. The revenue bill, as completed by the finance committees of the Senate and House and just pre sented to the House in printed form, makes very few changes in the act passed two years ago. It. increases the tax on horse dealers from $25 to $50; tax on peddlers of clocks, stoves and because all that was mortal of , N. A. McLean. The party went Col. N. A. McLean, the best-' over in automobiles and consisted loved and most honored citizen J of Messrs. D. J. Lewis, J. B. of Robeson county, lay sleeping Schulken, H. L. Lyon, Jackson beneath the sod. The largest 1 Greer, Donald McRackan, I. B. and perhaps the most beauiif ul i Tucker. H. M. Schulken, L. V. wreath was given by the bar of Gradv, J. R. Williamson and E. the county. M. Toon. Col. McLean was The graded school, of the beard of trustees of which the deceased . Columbus county and his sudden was chairman, serving in that death was a great shock to them, capacity faithfully, as in all In the mention of Col. McLean's others, and with an eye single to Continued on page 8. Unfavorable committee report has been made on the bill to es tabhsh a recorder's court for Robeson county, so that seems to be dead for the present. The bill of Senator Cobb, of Robeson, to establish State farm- life schools, passed second read ing in the Senate Friday and was re-referred to the committee on education to be printed. Sen timent seems to favor the bill. This bill was published in a re cent issue of The Robesonian. Shipman, in the House, and Hobgood, in the Senate, intro duced bills for State primaries as to all parties on the same day, to include county and State offi cials and members of Congress, including expression as to United States Senators. It includes provision lo prevent fraud and corruption in primaries and make it a misdemeaner for a voter to vote one party ticket in the primary and then vote fcr the opposite party in the elec tion. In debate on the State highway co n mission bill Friday consider able opposition developed and further consideration was post porel until iomdrrow. A bill has been introduced in the Senate authorizing any coun ty 1 1 levy a special tax to supple ranges from $25 to $50; reduces the tax on sewing machine man ufacturers from $450 to $200 and increases the tax on agents from $2 to $10; increases the tax on piano and organ dealers from $50 to $100 and local dealers' tax from $10 to $20; it increases the tax on express companies municipalities from $25 to These are practically all material changes in the Some of the other acts changed as to wording but involving actual taxes A Bushv-Headed White Man Walks Boldly Out of McAllis ter Hardware Store With Two Pistols. Saturday evening, about the time darkness was spreading her mantle over the land.some bushy headed fellow whose name seems to be unknown to any one in these parts, walked into the Mc Allister Hardware store and exr pressed a desire to look at some pistols, whereupon Mr. Claud Roberts, one of the many hust ling salesmen in this store, got busy to show the stranger some valuable shooting "irons." The stranger soon found the pocket gun that suited him and pulled some blank checks on the Bank of Lumberton from his pocket ! and asked Mr. Roberts if he could accept his check for the price of the pistol. Mr. Roberts informed the stranger, who chose to give his name as J. A. Cohen, that he would see, so Mr. Roberts went back in the rear of the store to the office and called to the bank and learned that the stranger fori had no funds there; but while LOCAL BRIEFS. The Messenger says that there is a move on foot for an oil mill in Fairmont. Mr. Ben Edwards, who has a shoe and harness shop on Fourth street, has a curiosity in the way of a 3-Iegged chicken. -'A regular communication of St Alban's Lodge No. 114. A. F. & A. M., will be held tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock. Impor tant business, and full attend ance is desired. The new fire-alarm system was tested Friday and was found to be in good working condition. In Thursday's paper the location of the boxes will be clearly shown, what the whistles will indicate, etc. Miss Josephine Breece will leave this evening for Baltimore and New York to purchase spring goods for her millinery store. Miss Grace Redmund will pre side over things at the store while Miss Breece is away, which will be about a week. Miss Amelia Linkhaw left yesterday afternoon for Raleigh, where she will spend a day or so, and from there she will go to Blue Field, N. J., for a few days and thence to New York, where she will purchase millinery goods for Caldwell & Carlyle's millin ery department, of which she has charge. At the First Baptist church yesterday morning the pastor. Rev. C. H. Durham, called atten tion to the .famine sufferers in China, mentioned editorially in this paper, and contributions amounting to more than $25 were dropped in a box which had been placed near the exits for that purpose as the congregation re tired. --The convention of the Chris tianandMissionary Alliance which closed a week's sessions at the Gospel tabernacle last night, was very successful. The collections for missionary purposes amount ed to about $422. The speakers, Rev. W. D. Combe, of Durham, and Mrs. Addie Graham, a re turned missionary from Africa, $50. the act. are not this was going on "J. A. Cohen, the bushy-headed chap, walked out the door with two pistols, valued at $30, in his hands and Messrs. J. D. McAllister and S. imposed. R. Sptvey, who were waiting on i customers near tne aoor, were I o Advertise Lumberton or Not j looking right at the bold stranger. to Advertise. Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Fogg, of Boston, Mass., arrived in Lumberton Friday evening from Wilmington and the same eve ning a meeting ot business men Mr. McAllister, realizing what had haDDened. made a dash for the door, where he met two ne groes. One said the stranger went up the street and the other said he went down the street una hflH in the rpadinir room of and of course Mr. McAllister did the Commeicial and Industrial not know which way to go. And Club to consider a proposition I the stranger is gone with two from Mr. Fogg, who represents 1 pistols, which rightly belong to the National Magazine. Dis ; the McAllister H.iw. Co, The turbed conditions on account of pistols stolen are Colt's, one a the funeral Fridav of Col. N. A. , 38-calibre, serial No. 40U9, a"hd the other a 32-calibre, serial No. 70170. The company is offering a reward of $25 for the capture McLean made it impossible to get together a large crowd, but a few business men discussed the proposition, which is simply! of the busy-headed chap. to take a page advertisement in a forthcoming special North Notices of New Advertisements Carolina numhpr of the National ! ... ...... Marina - Thi wiu .net Using the hatchet on prices- $200. If the page is taken there . will be a write-up of the town in Townsend Bros. Builders' hardware in abund- the story about North in this special number. Mr. and Mrs. Fogg spent Saturday in town and were taken over the town by Messrs. W. K Bethune and S. A. Edmund in the for- raro nuance-McAllister Hdw. Co. Carolina: u- t 44.i of I i our reserve in the battle : life First National Bank. Learn automobile business. ! What the Presbyterians are able to do. r l a. mer's auto and they took many ' VropnDsuXanc.ermuerLU" pictures and gained all inf orma-; "n U11 U1 ? V,1 V Mhnm tion necessary to write a story I Thorough bred Brown Leghorn about Lumberton. They went i es Ior 8a,e- to Maxton Saturday night toj make a similar proposition toj "Tir.othy Denano's Court- buub Mnw ohm'' urill nrooon tos 1 o t i Ka decision was made at the : rtrioM krt,iao ho loot of this No meeting Friday night but a meet ing of the business men will be held Thursday evening of this week to decHe what to do about this matte;. Many who have given the matter some thought are convinced that it would be money we.l spent for the town. ment the school fund in the rural: Licenses have been issued greatly admired by the people of districts. ;for the marriage of Ida Towns- Senator Cottens bill to provide end and J. H. Turr.er; Jennie the Torrens land title system for Blackman and N. W. Jackson; North Carolina, hanging fire in committees for some time, gets a Dora M. Humphrey and P. P. Smith. by home-talent More about the play and time will be given in Thursday's paper. ' Mr. Sandy McLeod and nephew, Master Jno. Blount Mc Leod. returned Friday morning from Baltimore, Md., where they went several days ago to consult a sDcialist about &nTe throat j left this morning. -Sheriff E. C. McNeill left this morning for Raleigh with five prisoners Dan Wallace, col ored, 4 years in the penitentiary; Henry Richardson, colored, 12 years; Geo. Roderick, white, 3 years; James Bethea, colored, 2 years; and Herbert Singletary. colored, to be placed in the in sane asylum. The sheriff is ex pected to return this evening. The valentine party which was given at the Glenwood school house onFriday evening under the auspices of the Wo man's Betterment Association was quite a success. . A large crowd was present and $42.75 was realized as the net proceeds. Mr. Poole was unable to be there so the principal of the school. Mr. M. N. Folger, made a tali. -Mr S, A. Emni has sold the Robeiun Advance, the Republi can newspaper v h!ch he estab lished here fono six months ago, to Mr. Richard Norment, who hat been runnpcted with the paper since it was started and ha3 had other newspaper ex perience. Mr. Norment says he will make !h? paper independent and will enlarge and imp;ovj i:. Mr. W. S. Wishart. who ha3 been getting more and better at traction to Lumberton since ne ha3 been manager of the local opera house than ever before, has leased the opera house at Sanford the house being owned by ano'her Lumberton man, Mr. S. A. Edmund and the people of that town may xp"-t that business to look up. Mr. Wishart went to Sandford Saturday to see a production there Saturday night and returned yesterday. Coroner G. E. Rancke re turned Thursday from Blue Springs township, where he held an inquest over tne Oody of Lew it Purcll. colored, who was shot by Ches3 Green, colored, at a ne gro partv on J. K. Blue's planta tion on the night of the 9th inst., as has been mentioned in The Robesonian, death resulting last trouble Master Jno. Ulount has; Sunday night, ureen, who is in been bothered with for some jail here, claimed that he had to time. Jno. took some treatment ' shoot, but he will have to satisfy and his r roved. condition is greatly im- a jury ot tne superior Lourt about that matter. 1 ?
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