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T E ROBESONIAN Established 1870. Country, God and Truth. Single Copies Five Cents VOL XLII NO. 33. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNt IS, 1911. WHOLE NoT2674 I UP WAGRAM WAY. Preacher Rap Hi Flock for Attending F iddlers' Conven tion -Where are . the Old Fiddlers?-Death of Dr. Julian Wood Per tonal. Correspondence of The Robeaonian. Wagrara, June 13. Rev. T. G. Wood received a telegram a few days ago announcing the death of his brother Dr. Julian Wood of Elizabeth City. Dr. Wood was one of the most prominent and popular physicians in Eastern Carolina. Owing to a delay in the telegram, Mr. Wood did not receive it in time to attend his brother's funeral. Mr. & C. Smith, the agent at Wagram, is not responsible for the delay, as the telegram was sent to Max ton. Misses Isabel and Mary Mc Kenzie, of thePhiladelphus com munity, visited their grand parents, Mr and Mrs. A. A. Mc Millan, at Riverton a few days ago. They were accompanied by Mr. McArthur of the same community. Miss Ida Thomas, who for the past few months was milliner for Mrs. S. T. Thrower, left last Saturday for her home at Lynchburg, S C. Mr. and Mrs. R. I. Rivenbark have moved into the new resi dence which was recently built for Mr. E. C. Smith. Let others follow Mr. Smith example. Miss Estelle Mason of Thomas ville is visiting Miss Lola Thrower of Wagram. Mr. P. C. Cochran of Greenwood, S. C, superintendent of agencies for the North Carolina Home In surance Co., was here last Satur day. Her friends will be glad to know that Mrs. Annie Adams of Aberdeen, who had for some time been in the Highsmith hospital at Fayetteville but who is now at the home of Mr. VV. W. Bullard, in the Spring Hill community, is improving. Miss Jennette Johnson return ed home last Friday from South Carolina, where she taught last term. Miss Virginia Everett of Maxton is visiting the Misses Cooley of this community. Misses Annie Goodwyn, Annie Roper and Anna Stewart, all of Laurinburg, are visiting at the home of Miss Mae Shaw. Mrs C. S. McMillan and son, Guy, of Laurel Hill township, were among the visitors at Wagram last Monday. Mrs. Hugh Liv ingston and daughter, Miss Mary, of Woodville visited the Riverton community last Monday, guests of Mrs. D. A. Watson Dr. W. G. Shaw and family, accompanied by Mr. Russell 5haw, returned a few days ago from a visit to Smithfield. They made the trip in Dr. Shaw's new -Overland car in about 7 hours, a distance of more than 100 miles. The doctor says the trip was a delightful one, not an accident occurring on the way. He says the crops in Johnston county are considerably in advance of those in this community. At the conclusion of his ser mon at Spring Hill last Sunday, Rev. T. G. Wood, the pastor, ad ministered a mild rebuke to those of his members who attended the old fiddlers'convention at Wagram ilast Friday night. Mr. Wood said that he was sorry the new town Wagram celebrated its en trance into social life with fiddling and dancing, and that he was also sorry that some of his members had participated in those exercises, which he did not j think conducive to the spiritual life of the church. It is estimated that about 400 or 500 people at tended the old fiddlers'conven tion, and only three fiddlers pres ent. Mr. Ben McNeill, himself a fiddler, who worked up the convention and who was supposed to be in touch with the fiddlers in Scotland and adjoining coun ties, has been criticized for the small attendance oi fiddlers. Where are all the old fiddlers .anyway? Have they nearly all passed over the river? What has become of Murdock McDuffie, .Jim McLean and bi Daniel Mc Neill? It is the consensus of opinion (hat Prof. R. L. McMillan saved the day at the convention and but for him the .whole thing would have been a tame affair. .Some of the young people who attended said there was no danc ing, it was only clogging. As your correspondent was not pres- ent, and has no experience in either dancing or clogging, he HOPE MILLS NEWS. Much Sickness Among Children and Several Deaths Depot Being Improved Death of Mr. Charlie Biggs Bank Building Sold Wedding In vitations. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Hope Mills, June 12. The de pot is now being greatly improv ed by the A. C. L. Railroad Co., and when the work is finished Hope Mills will have a very neat and commodious passenger sta tion. On last Thursday evening Mr. Charlie Biggs died after a long period of illness. The funeral was conducted Saturday after noon trom the Episcopal church by Rev. N. C. Duncan, and the burial took place in the Hope Mills cemetery. Mr. biggs was a faithful member of the Episco pal church. He leaves a wife and three little children. Mr. Biggs was a member of the Jr. Order of United American Mechanics. There seems to be quite a lot of sickness among children in this vicinity. Mr. Hemon Deaver's child died last night after an illness of several weeks. Mr. Lige Walden's little child died about two week3 ago. Mr. D. Campbell's little child died on the 2nd inst. Mr. A. M. Vestal of Winston Salem is conducting a singing class in the Baptist church. Miss Maggie Carter is visiting lelatives in Concord this week. The bank building has been sold to W. W. Bullard of Cotton, who will very likely open up a store in Hope Mills. It has been reported that the Bank of Hope Mills will be able to pay 100 per cent of the amount due deposi tors' and many of our people who have money tied up in this bank will be glad to hear the probability of an adjustment in the near future. Many friends of Rev. N. C. Duncan have received the follow ing invitation announcing his marriage on the 28th inst: Mra. Maggie Butt invites you to be present at the marriage of her daughter Mary Olivia to Rev. Norvin Cornelius Duncan on Wednesday, June the twenty-eighth Nineteen Hundred and Eleven at twelve o'clock Christ Church, Arden, N. C. At home after July tenth Hope Mills. N. C. County School Matters Ap propriation For Building. A called meeting of the county board of education was held Monday in the fffice of County Supt. Poole and, as mentioned in Monday's Robesonian, the principal business transa -ted was the approval ot petitions for three special tax elections. Elec tions were ordered the same day by the commissioners, as men tioned elsewhere in this paper. It was ordered that district No. 1, Burnt Swamp township, be ailowed $500 out of the county building fund, when available, if the committee of this school decide to build a house that will cost $1,500. If the committee decide to build only an additional room to the present building the district is to be allowed $300, provided that in either case the district contribute an equal amount. D. P. Buie was ap pointed to fill out the unexpired term of Jno. A. Humphrey, de ceased, as committeeman of Philadelphus high school. A. T. McCallum was ordered paid $22, insurance on the Pniladelphua building. T. A. Fisher, of dis trict 3, Alfordsville, wa allowed rebate of 75 cents, error in list ing. Rowland to Have Large Ginnery At Rowland yesterday after noon an informal meeting of cit izens of that town and commun ity was held for the purpose of taking steps to organize a com pany to operate one of the larg est ginning plants in this section of tne country. It is expected that the plant will be put in operation this fall. will have to let some one else ex plain what clogging is. Thr prize for the best fiddler was divided between Messrs. Rache;. and Clark, while Prof. R. L. Mc Millan received the prize for tL. best dancer. ANTIOCH NEWS NOTES. From Dry to Wet School Fac ultyEducational Rally Pro posedPersonal. Conwrandence of Th Robesonian. Antioch, June 13. We have always heard that one extreme iouows anomer. a jew uays ago everybody we met was ? n " xi it e j ingana lorgmg ior rain, noff!gervicea wereMn(ued bv u the same people would like to see a few days cessation. We indeed hard to please. are T .1 I- 1 J euiy popular wiui uuu patrons. aim puuiis aim win uc giouijr welcomed back to Antioch. With a State high school and with good dormitories this should be the best year in the history of the school. It is probable the two other members of the faculty will be elected in a few days. There are several applicants, among them two graduates of S. P. C, to which we are all partial; and while it is sometimes hard to make a selection where all are good, yet we trust our board of trustees will give the young ladies from our own college pref erence. We hear talk of a big educational rally to be held here about July 8th in connection with the annual nicnic which is usual ly helH the 1st Saturday in Jnlv. This would mean postponing our picnic one week. We hope this nan he rinne This will also he settled in a few days and we will tell our readers in our next letter. Mr. Harrison Skipper and daughter, of the Mt. Tabor sec tion, spent a few days at An tioch recently with Mr. Skipper's son Mr. D. T. Skipper. Mrs D. T. Skipper are Mr. and visiting relatives near Fayetteville thi3 week. Hon. J. W. McLauchlin and wife of Raeford left Monday for New York, where on Thurs day they will sail tor an ex tended European tour. . expect to be gone for Thev three months. Rev. I . E. Hodgin and family, who had been visiting. relatives here, left Thursday for their home at UreensDoro. tne only objection to their visit was its brevity. Their friends, who number their entire acquaint ances, are always glad to see them and hope they may visit us again in the near future. Mr. R P. Barnes of Barnesville. who .... . . m. had been visiting Mr. J. A, Brown. Jr.. left Mondav for his home. Mr. T. Shelly McLauch-. lin returned Friday from Effing ham, S. C, where he visited his broiherRev. M. B. McLauchlin. Tarboro Bank Cashier Suicides Assistant Cashier Under Ar rest. Raleigh Dispatch, June 14. State Bank Examiner J. K. Doughton telegraphed the Cor poration Commission this ev,f" ; ning that on his arrival at the Bank of Tarboro lo look into financial complications, Cashier . L V. Hart cuii..w v oimnancD and said the stealing had been going on seven years and he was glad it was caught up with. He then went home and soon his wife heard a pistol shot in his room and he was found to be shot over the right ear. He died ac 4 o'c'ock. Examiner Dough ton finds also that Assistant Cashier E. B. Hussey is short in his accounts and he is committed to jail in default of $15,000 bond. The estimated shortage is $12, 500, but the impression is strong that it will prove to be twice that amount. Cashier Hart was 3 years old and leaves a wife and two sons; also three sisters, Mrs. Marvin Nash, of Greens boro; Mrs. Ben Williford, of Rocky Mount, Mrs. Jno. Tyree, of Virginia; two brothers, Capt. Edgar L. Hart, Wilmington, and Richard Hart, of Hartsease. The bank was opened in 1895. has $25,000 capita', $25,000 surplus. $174 918 deposits, and $250, OOu resources. Subscribe for The Robesonian. nis many irienus nere ana time She was taken away in her throughout this entire cuntyjyouthf 5utwe know ..the will be glad to learn that Prot.;doeth all tning3 wel, Sne Jno. E. Evans has oecided to! leaves a fath tWo brothers and again cast his lot with the people one 8i8ter to mourn her lo88t of Antioch. Prof Evans was be3ide3 a host of frjends. We not only one of the btst jnstruc-;extend our lenderest sympathy tors but was also one or the bestj lo lne Dereaved family all-round men who ever camej Miss Janette McKee 'is visiting this way. We weri all glad also her Drother at Eiizabethtown. to know that Miss hachel 0'lverj Messrs. W. M. Monroe and son will again be a member of the!Elia!j 8pent Satuidiy and Sun faculty of Antioch Academy for day witn relative8 heie.-Mise next term. She too was deserv- Mary c Ward of Batimorei Md , CLARKTON NEWS. Death of Miss Berta Pierce Personal. Corrmoridence of The Robesonian Clarkton, June 13-Miss Berta Pierce, daughter of Mr. James Pierce, dieu last Fridey p rn. Her remains were laid to rest . v ' v. .u.v ; Sunday morning at the Brown wish-jMar8h church The fur,eral I Mr. Morton, who is oreachine here for this summer. Miss I ill . m fierce nad oeen sick tor some who haa been 8pendmg awhile here, left for Nashville, Ga., where she will visit her brother before returning to Baltimore. Mr. D. D. McKee of Elizabeth town spent Sunday here. Mr. W. B. Burney of Florida is at home now. Mr. L. L. Wallace of Councils is spending a few days with his son Mr. A. M. Wallace. Mrs. Fodie McLeod of Elizabethtown spent Saturday and Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Katie McEwen. Mac. Meeting of Town Fathers Town Clerk and Treasurer. At a meeting of the town com missioners Tuesday night Mr. Grover Page was elected town clerk and treasurer at a salary of $62 50 per month to succeed Mr. W. Lennon, whc resigned. His bond is fixed at $5,000. He is to devote his entire time to this work, collect electric light and water bills, etc Mr. Page, who has been clerking for L H. CaRfwell, will assume his new duties today. He will have an ! office with the mayor in the fire house as soon as that building is completed. Messrs. G. G. French and J. L. Stephens, members of the board; were appointed a commit tee to see that additional su- ports are added to the fire house 1 that is being built at the foot of Fourth street It was considered by the board that not enough , supports were at first placed . under the building to make it 83 f 6 R.'M Williams and A. E White were allowed rebates on sanitary tax of $5 and $2.50, respectively. Notice was given Tuesday to property owners on Elm street of the order for the paving of the sidewalks, 4 feet wide, granolithic, from bixth street, towhichthesidewalks were paved some years ago, to fourteenth street. The work must be done in 30 days. Notice is being given today of the order for connect ing with sewerage. This order must be complied with in 10 and 15 days from time notice is given. Bloomingdale News Batch. Correspondence of The Rubsonian. Bioomingdale, June 13. -The farmers are very busy now since i the rain. In my traveling I see some kind ot little crreen snme. thing coming all over the fields whien the larmers don t ike to see. Mr. J. D. Barne?, Jr., is hold ing a high heao: it's a boy. Mr. Harrison Sealy was the guest of Mr. B. C. Rhodes Sun day. Among those on the sick list are Mrs. Robert Davis, who is being attended by Dr. W. W. Early of Marietta; Mr. Austin and Mrs. J. D Barnes, Sr.. who are being attended by Dr. J. P. Brown of Fairmont. Mesdames Lenora, Emma and Hellen Carroll spent Saturday and Sunday with friends and relatives at Boardman. A good many of our young people are expecting to be pres ent at the Children's Day at Bethesda Sunday, June 18. Mr. Robert Byrd was the guest at Roger Davis Sunday. The severe wind blew down lots of corn last night "Happy Dick." License had been issued for the marriage of Bessie J. Var num and Rudie Jacksor. COLORED SWANN CAUGHT. Wanted on Thiee Charges Caught After Stiff Race at Pembroke Officer and Negro Both Surprised. Geo. Swann, colored, was tried yesterday morning before Justice A. E. White on three charges an affray, resisting officer and carrying concealed weapon. For the first offense a $100 bond was n quired for his appearance at court, the second was dismissed, and for carrying concealed wea pon a $100 bund was also requir ed; and upon faiiure to make bonds Swann was remanded to jail. The trouble all started at the Lumberton Cotton Mills Tuesday morning when Swann and Jim Dockery, also colored, got in a mix up over some misunderstand ing and Swann struck Dockery on the heai twice with a brick. The trouble happened in the engine room at the mill, where both of the negroes were at work. After the fight Swann ran off some distance from the mill and when a policeman of the mill village tried to arrest him he puhed a pistol and succeded in escaping from the policeman, going in the direction of Proctor ville. The trouble was reported to Sheriff McNeill and Deputy T. C. Barnes went down the Raleigh & Charleston railroad and spent Tuesday in search of the negro. But Mr. Barnes was off the track, for late Tuesday afternoon Cmef ot Police H. H Redfern of Lumberton arrested Swann at Pembroke The arrest was rather unexpected by both the negro and Mr. Redfern. Mr. Redfern left town Tuesday eve ning for Wadesboro and just as the train was pulling out of Pem broke he saw Swann some dis tance from the station, and, re cognizing the negro, he stopped the train and after a race f about a mile the arrest was made. After running some distance Mr. Redfern saw that he was no equal for the negro in a race, so while passing through a bunch of hands at work on the railroad, somewhere about the beginning of the race, he made a quick offer of $5 to the man that would catch Swann; and a big negro, who is said to be some in a race, took a chance for the $5; but Swann was the first man to the swamp. Mr. Redfern was not very far laway when Swann went into the bushes, so as soon as he reached the spot where the coon faded from the landscape he and the faithful negro, who was doing his levelest to make $5, went in to the swamp and found Swann crouched under a log about twenty yards from where he en tered the swamp. Mr. Redfern brought the prisoner to Lumber ton Tuesday night on the 10 o'clock train and placed him in jail to await trial yesterday morning. Swann has been in trouble several times before. The negro who aided in the chase did not eirn the $5, but Redfern gave him $1 for his assistance. Tax Kate for Robeson-Seven Cents Higher on Property, 21 Csnt? Higher on Po!l. At the meeting of the county commissioners Monday the tax rate was fixed as follows: State 2lcts.; State pensions, 4cts.; pub lic schools, 20cts. ; roads, 25cts. ; general county purposes, 20cts.; court nouse bend sinking funr, 2its. ; funding bond fund, let ; county pensions, 2cts. Total, 95 cents. Poll, three times that o qs: It will be seen from the above .?J'ber. 8r,P- Th,s0 hf n that the tax on property is seven ' ovldd ,r 3 T09' 2 of wh,ch cents higher than last year and Dr. Grantnan. will 113 and the the tax on polls-three times the other the Lumberton Drug Co. property tax -is 21 cents higher, j will use. It has been connected This seven cento is made up by w,tn the Lumberton drug store, an increae of the road tax from ' Mrs Jno T. Biggs unde 20 to 25 cento and the school tax went ar0peration at the Thdmp from 18 to 20 cento. hospital a few days ago and It will not be poss.b.e to ap- ij getUnf .dong nicely. Miss proximate the amount of taxes Mjldred Mclntvre and Mr. Shep- U m n II It a maim rkj4 K k in wrt 1 .... " . r mat. win uc loiKu ujr tuc lui-oac until the new assessment is made, Hoke rounty took from Robeson about $300,000 of taxable proper-ty- " About 10,000 gallons of booz? high grade liquors, wine, beer, etc. were seized in a storeroom on Main street in Henderson ville Monday. O. N. Carson, the man in charge, is thoug t to- be the agent of we!l-kr,own A?hevil'e liq lor m?a. LOCAL BRIEFS During the storm Monday afternoon lightning struck one of the Kingsdale Lumber Co.'s houses and its occupant. Will Graddy and family, colored, were all more or less shocked. No serious damage was done. The expert on acoustics who was expected here yesterday to examine the defects of the court house advised County Attorney E. J. Britt that he could not get here until Friday of this week, so he is expected here tomorrow. Mr. Lee Caldwell left Tues day afternoon for Baltimore, Md., where he has accepted a position as traveling salesman for the Royal Blue Tailoring Co. Mr. Caldwell did not know at the time he left what territory he will travel. -Mr. G. S. McKenzie left Tuesday for Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he will take a course in business in Poughkeepsie Bus iness College. Mr. McKenzie recently resigned a position in the office of his father, County Treasurer M. G. McKenzie, as mentioned in The Robesonian at the time. The Board man baseball team will play the Lumberton team this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock on the diamond across the river. The Lumberton boys carried it to a team from Rockingham last Friday and it is expected that the Boardman boys will have to ?.aLS0.L i'Ve,Lb l,f thoy away with any laurels. -Rev. Ira E. Wiihart, son of Mr. Strong Wishart, of route 3 from Lumberton, who recently graduated from Louisville Theo logical Seminary, is now ac Sa luda, S. C. In a card asking that the address of his Robeson ian be changed he says that crops are good in that section, which is a fine farming country. Fayetteville Observer, 12th: We regret to note that Solicitor N. A. Sinclair is qu'te sick at his home on Haymount. Mr. Sin clair was taken violently ill last Monday, and has had high fever ; ever 8in;.e vVe are glad to know, however, that his condition is somewhat improved today, but he is still in bed and unable to give any attention to business. Mr. Geo. W. Lannon, whj lives on the corner of Third and Chestnut streets, has some Tim othy hay growing in his back scattered over the place from Mr. Odell Edens' livery stable which joins the yard and at first Mr. Lennon thought the Timothy was oats. Mr. Lennon think) the farmers would do well to cultivate the grass. Rev. C. H. Durham, pailo.1 of the First Baptist church, and his three children, little Misses Wilma, Margaret and Kathleen, will leave this evening for Gas tonia, and thence Mr. Durh-"i wi'lgo to Philadelphia to attend the convention of the Bapt't World Alliance, yhich holds its fulnnniol AAntmnriAn thorn rAm ! fua iQfh t tho 9f,rh inat Tha 'children will remain in Gastonia iwith their grandmother Mrs. I Moore during Mr. Durham s ab sence. Dr. W. L. Grantham is mov ing today from the office he has occupied over Mr. J. P. McNeill's store to two office rooms he has had fitted up in the Waverly hotel building, in rear of the Lumberfxn drug store, in the old Lumberton Cot- iton Mills office, which was later ftrf who underwent oners- tions for appendicitis Monday. are getting along well. Miss Gladys Barnes, stenographer at the First National Bank, has typhoid fever and was taken to the hospital this morni.ig. Mrs. Maggie Murray of Barfiesville was brought to the hospital yesterday suffering wi'h typhoid. Miss Ethel Godwin of Dillon. S. C, was broueht to he hopp'-al tin m rnng i r -rea m.nt
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