THE
ROBESON
IAN
Established 1870. Country, God and Truth. Single Copies Five Cents
VOLXm NO. 56. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1911. WHOLE TnO. 2697
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AN ATTEMPT AT MURDER
Mr. and Mr. J. G. Tolar the Victims, at Their Home Near
McDonald -Midnight Assassin Enters Home, Crushes
Mr. Tolar's Head With an Iron Bar and Lays Hands
Upon Mrs. Tolar hut is Frightened Away by Her
Screams Mrs. Tolar Goes Half a Mile Through the
Darkness With Her Babies to Summon AidTwo
Negroes ArrestedMr. Tolar's Condition Serious.
Wakened by the hand of a man
uDon her at midnight Saturday
nitrht in her home near Mc
Donald, Mrs. J. G. Tolar called
her husband, received no re
sponse save a gruff "Hush" from
the strange man, screamed, heard
in the darkness the intruder jump
through a window, hastily rose
and lighted a lamp-and found
her husband, who was on another
bed in the same room with his 3-years-old
daughter, lying uncon
scious in a pool of his own blood.
Mr. Tolar was lying with his
head to the foot of the bed, which
was near the window through
which the would-be murderer
made his entrance, and hia head
had been crushed in by a blow
with an iron plow-bar. The in
truder then deposited the piece
of iron -at the foot of the bed.
Where it was left when he made
hi flicht. and made- hisl
way to the bed occupied by
Mrs. Tolar and her 18-months-old
baby. That robbery was not
the purpose seems to be evidenc
ed by the fact that in a pocket
of Mr. Tolar's overalls, upon
which the deadly piece of iron
was deposited, was found more
than $100.
Mrs. Tolar at first thought that
her husband had been cut to
pieces. She screamed for help
while ministering to her husband
as best she could. Tolar, in. a
semi-conscious condition, stag
gered to his feet and to the fire
place, where he fell with his
head upon the hearth; and there
he lay. After doing all she could
and being unable to summon aid
by her screams, Mrs. .Tolar took
her baby upon one arm, a pistol
in her hand, and with her 3-year-old
tot in front went half a mile
to the home of a neighbor, Mr
Kelly Bass, where she implored
aid for her husband. Mr. Bass
and Messrs. Jno. Lamb" and Val
Faulk went at once to the Tolar
home and found Mr. Tolar as
Mrs. Tolar had left him. They
did not know what to do and
each was afraid to either go for
other help or stay alone, so the
three of them left the wounded
man alone and went to the home
of Mr. J. EdgarTrice, about half
a mile away. Mr. Colon Price re
turned with them and they found
that Mr. Tolar had crawled into
the hall. Mr. Tolar tried to get I
. .
up and it took the tour men to
Jiold him for a while. Mr
Pri
went to Fairmont and returned
.about 4 o'clock with Dr. J. P.
Brown. About 1 o'clock yester-
day afternoon Mr. Tolar was
brought to the Thompson hospital
here and the pressure on his
brain was relieved by taking out
.some pieces of bone on the left
side of his head, just above the
left ear, but he did not regain
consciousness until this morning,
when he recognized his brother,
Mr. T. R. Tolar, and showed other
signs of being conscious. His
'condition is considered much
more hopeful today, but his re
covery is still very doubtful.
The attempt at murder and
criminal assault seems to have
been minutely planned. The
piece of iron with which Mr.
Tolar was struck had been lying
on the porch of a barn across
the road from the house for
months. The window through
-which entrance was effected is
about 5 feet from the ground
and was open. Mrs. Tolar sug
gested to Mr. Tolar to close the
window before he lay down about
: H o'clock but he thought it was
' too hot, and he lay with his head
to the window and the foot of
the bed. There are signs of
fingernail scratches on the win
dow ledge and there are several
tracks beneath the window, some
of them made by a man in stock
! inged feet or barefooted. Thi3
; seems to indicate that more than
one person was involved in the
crime. Mr. and tlrs. Tolar were
.up pretty much all night the
.night before 6n account of sick
vJiess and slept, soundly. When
the murderer entered the -indow
he was within three feet ' Mr.
".Tolar's head. He stood di :ily
AND CRIMINAL ASSAULT
over his victim and delivered a
terrific blow on the left side of
his head. When Mrs. Tolar was
wakened she felt a slick cap on
the man's head but could not
see whether he was white or
black, though she is sure from
his odor that he was a negro.
He told her to hush when she
called her husband, but when
she began to scream he became
frightened and fled through the
window. Yesterday large crowds
gathered at the Tolir home and
feeling ran high. Two negroes,
T. Lyon and Jim Suggs, were
arrested yesterday afternoon and
brought to jail. There is no
evidence as yet directly connect
ing either of them with the crime,
but Suggs had blood on his
pants. Another negro who is
wanted, Jno. Douglas, alias Wes
ley, escaped.
Mr. Tolar has been operating
a saw-mill for his brother, Mr.
T. R. Tolar of Lumberton, near
his home, which is the old Edgar
Price place. Tne nearest neigh
bors are negroes, less than a
quarter of a mile away.
Another negro, Ed Martin.was
arrested" this morning and search
is being made for Jim Crawtord
and Wesley, members of4'a party
that was together Saturday night.
Mr., N. S. Tolar of Lumber
Bridge, a brother of Mr. J. G.
Tolar, has offered a reward of
tfMO for the rnnhire nf tho prim,
inal, and the county has offered
$200.
Two Houses Struck by Lightning
.Thursday Night Mrs. J. S.
Thompson Shocked.
During the electric storm
Thursday night, about 10 o'clock,
tne residence or Air. J. b. Ihomp-1 papers offered for registration,
son, east Fifth street, was struck , Heretofore "courtesies" have
by lightning and Mrs. Thompson, been extended when asked for.
received a severe shock from 'Now the clerk cai't do it. That
which she did not fully recover , is also written. Soil is U3eless
u.'ifhin tVmr hnnr9 On thp hprl ,-. oah-
with Mrs. Thompson was her;
not shocked at all, apparently, ,
and her 3-years-o:d daughter, ;
on another bed in the same room, !
also escaped without a shock
Mr. Thompson had left this room
only a few minutes before. The
chimney to this room was wreck
ed, the plastering in this room
and in the parlor across the hall
was knocked down to some ex-
tent, and plastering in the hall
was cracked, lhe ligntnmg
seemed to leap from the bedroom
to the back porch, where the
screen door was torn up. The
damage amounts to $50 or $60,
About the same time lightning
struck Mr. Graves' house, in the
same part of town, doing con
siderable damage to a chimney
and the kitchen.
A Rainbow Turnout at Piney
Grove.
To the Editor of The Robeaonian:
The Piney , Grove Rainbow
League No. 2 will have a "Rain
bow" turnout September 16 for
the purpose of celebrating the
first secret order that was ever
granted the Indian race. We
want to make the day a great
one to be enjoyed by everybody.
We invite everybody. The open
ing speech will be delivered at 10
a. m. by A. A. Locklear; preach
ing at 11 by Rev. J. E. Hunt. A
free dinner will be given and a
pasade by the brethren. mere
win be speeches by visiting
brethren and friends.
Stephen Hunt.
Hamer, S. C, R. F. D. 1.
-Revs. F. Weiss and F, R.
Card well started last evening a
series of meetings in the schoo
auditorium at the Lumberton
Cotton Mills. It is expected
that the meetings will continue
ten days or two weeks. .
Before You Reach Ibe L!mlt
of physical en lurance and while your
condition is still curable, take Foley
Kidney Pills, lhair quick acton and
imsitive results will delight y ju. For
bickicna. nervousness. rheurnatiam,
and all kidney, an-1 bladder and urinary
troubles. J. D McM:l!an & Son.
THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH
Robeson County Officers Now
On Salary Basis No More
the Festive Fee Makes Glad
the Heart of the County
Official -And "Charge it.
Please" Goes no More Ail
Transactions Strictly Cash
County Will Save Some Seven
Thousand Plunks.
It hath been advertised plen
teously aforetime that when the
solons were in session at the city
of Raleigh during the first
months of this present year of
grace they did enact that, come
the first of September, also this
present year of grace, the high
officials of the county of Robeson
should feast no more upon the
festive fee but should receive as
compensation for the arduous
labors pertaining to their respec
tive unites tci lam sctiucu
omAmt. r,i ,. fniL. tn
witt: sheriff, $4,800; clerk of the
court, $4,100; register of deeds,
$4,300; treasurer, $2,400. By
which it is estimated that some
$7,000 will be saved.
So. And it came to pass that
on Friday of last week, the same
being the first day of the ninth
mdnth of the year-of grace 1911,
the officers of the aforesaid
countv of Robeson bade a sad
farewell, a long farewell, to the
laforementioned festive fee that
hath had so goodly an aspect in
their eyes and in the eyes of their
predecessors, and henceforth they
shall take down their so much
-per so much and no more so
far and no farther. It is wi itten.
Not without some confusion at
first, and some inconvenience
withal, is the change made as
per usual when an old order
i giveth place to new,
have papers to be
Those who
doctored at
the court house must not fail to
accompany their papers with the
proper amount of cash. No more
charging can be done. Remember
that. So shall time and tiouble
be saved. All cash basis jiow.
The clerk of the court muslcol-
lect in advance both the clerk's
i and
the register'3 fees on all
At the first of each month an
and turn over all fees to the'
treasurer, and all these fees are
to be kept separately in a "salary !
fund. " At the first of each year I
the treasurer is to report thej
amount of this fund to thej
commissioners, together withj
amounts paid out in salaries, and j
all that is left over will go into:
the general county fund. It is
estimated that there will be a
saving to the county of some
$7,000: maybe more. The dif-
ference between fees and salaries
will be, roughly, about: register.
$2,000; clerk of caurt, $2,000;
sheriff $2,000; treasurer, $600,
The saving to the county will not 1 . . ,
be quite as much as this estimate. ! Trace of . People Drowned Dur
for there is the new office of ng the Flood,
auditor, with a salary of $2,600; i Mr. A. G. Edwards, who runs
but it is of course estimated that I a 8aw mju 0n the old Sinclair
tnis new omce win save money
in other ways
The high sheriff is the man
who is hardest hit. it would : jan reporter about coming across
really seem that his salary was something a little out of the ordi
placed too low. The expense of nary a few days ago while dig
his office, not counting his own!gjng a weu at hi3 mill. He said
time and expenses, has been that he found about a double
running around $4,030. so it; handfull of what looked to be
would seem that a salary of $4.- human hair and it was 22 feet
800. OUt Of Which he has to bear under the crrnnnd Hp airi nme
all the expenses he ha3 had to
bear heretofore except making
bond: the county pays for mak
ing bonds of all officers under
the new law places him in evil
case.
If the working of the new law
proves that any officer's al
lowance for assistants is too low
the commissioners have the
pDWtr to increase the amounts
specified as much as, but no more
than. $300. If the commissioners
are triendly they may ease the
burden ot
any officers who mav
ltt J00 mih'f and '
the other wiy about.
old
Order changeth, the.keDL SuDti o p,,,,,:, h "
joyous tee departeth the zc -
fee
customed pocket
Diarrhoea ia always more or less pre-
va'ent during September. Be prepared
for it Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera) ,-I suffered habitually from constipa
and I iarraoa Remedy ia prompt and tion. Uoan's Reguleta relieved and
effectual. It fan always be depended ! strengthened the bowels, so that thy
upon and is pleasant to take. For said j have been regular ever since." L.
by all de il rs. I Uai , fernr, iilpaj. i.js, TstJi
THE LATTER RAINS.
Rain, and Then Some, Thurs
day night Washouts Delay
Seaboard Trains from 12 to i
24 Hours Surprising Lack
of Information on Part of
the Railroad People Causes
Passengers Great Inconven
ience and Hardship Cotton
Damaged.
The rain Thursday night was
a record-breaker, and the light
ning and thunder were fierce.
During the 24 hours ending 7 a
m. rnday 6.L mcnes or rain reii
here, and most of it fell Thurs
day night Exactly 26 years ago
that night was the Charleston
earthquake. Lumber river is al
most as high now as it was 8
ears ago last month, when it
broke all previous records.
No mail was received here
Seabed
: . . F4,i..
j from the west Friday,
Q-KR m running ahnut 94
i i i i . : i
iiuurs iaie auu uui passing
uuui oaturuay illuming. noma
from Wilmington passed here
uA..t IP-win .. u..t v,
... ulu 0,
Maxton on account of a washout;
k ,l, i j i,., i
between that place and Hamlet,
and passengers could not get
through until Friday night. Fri
day morning part of the track
between Pembroke and Maxton
became submerged in water and
was rendered unsafe and west-
bound Seaboard passenger No
"7.' f?" u?jiu?.i
not leave Pembroke until about
to !'it is sprouting in the ear, caused
to say, although it was known in
Maxton as early as noon Friday
that the condition of the tracks
between Pembroke and Maxton
would not permit of the passage
of trains under 12 hours at least,
nothing was known of it in Lum
berton until Friday night, after
the evening west-bound train
had passed. The Seaboard agent
here was under the impression
that No. 39 would go through to
Hamlet practically on time, while
as a matter of fact even when
thattrain passed here the rail
road authorities up the road
knew it could not go through.
All passengers on this train had
to spend the night at Pembroke,
and the delay worked great
! hardship and
inconvenience on
passengers, all
of the
which might have been avoided
it the agent here had been in
formed so that he could have
told purchasers of tickets the
true state of affairs.
There was also a bad washout
on the Virginia & Carolina South
ern near Hope Mills and trains
could not pass under about 12
hours, but passengers, mail and
express were transferred and
reached Lumberton only about 4
hours late.
The recent heavy rains have
undoubtedly damaged cotton in
'Robeson, to what extent is hard
! to determine.
mlapp in Hnwellsville tnwnshin.
was among the visitors in town
Thursday and he told a Robeson
of it was straight and some curly.
Mr. El wards thinks that is was
hair of people that were drowned
during the flood.
Public School Closing.
The public school in district
No. 3, Pembroke township, 1
mile east of Pembroke, will close
with aopropriate exercises, such
as drills, pantomimes, dialogues,
etc., Friday night, Septembers.
An invitation is heartily extended
t:. J - : i
o..; u, -,,
addresses. Exercises will begin
m r.H nwIflP ii k.
;winvu0A
"j
D. F. Lowrey, Fr'ncipal.
CROP CONDITIONS.
Cotton and Corn Off Consider
ably From First Estimates
Unfavorable Conditions Since
August 1st.
To th Editor of Th Rul-vnun
I never like to nave nr.- rume
in print, but as I report to the
government in Washington crop
: conditions.
I see so much said
in regard to crops, I will say
right here where it seemed July
15th the old cotton was the
most promising that 1 ever saw
"'"1 iyJ
: .. i;i. u u . e j
acreage, and the other 2-3 came
up from the 1st of June, when
the rains came. AH experienced
farmers know that it would not
make more than 2-3 of a crop,
if frost should come before the
15th of November. Take old
crop with 10 days of extreme
j fcSjn- .a-.. J "M-t -il!
?y.cuu"'K " ' . "J
' "ic
On Sunday morning of the
i 20th the
most destructive hail
;and wind storm that ever visited
this community left devastation
i in its wake. My report of the
a i
per cent of a crop, late cotton
m , on nar . ... .
I
made 30 per cent. I think that
I have given you a correct state
ment in regard to cotton.
As for the corn crop, up un
til the 10th of July or the 1st of
August it looked like the best
corn crop that had ever been
made: as stated, the hot sun and
dry winds
have -cut the corn
crop considerably. Hail and
nri'nrl Vv 1 - TIT r amm Iaiiih m J
from the last 2 weeks rain, which
will cut the cum crop consider
ably short.
It is hard to tell how every
thing may turn out. There are
too many people that give mort
gages on their crops, go to the
town and state that they have
such a fine crop, when there is
not a word of it true. I be!iee
it would pay every merchant
that does a time business'to em
ploy an expert and report month
ly as to the condition of their
croppers.
John Bridgers.
EIrod, N. C, Sept. 1, 1911
Mis3 Frankie -Lennon, of
Bellamy, who underwent an
operation at the Thompson hospit
tal lastweek,is getting ;n nicely.
i Mrg John Barfield, of Ten Mile,
underwent an operation at the
hospital this morning.
. Miss Annie Neil Fuller will
entertain this evening from 8:30
to 11 oclock in honor of Misses
Mary Helen Sheetz and Lillie
Poe, of Fayetteville. who are ex
pected to arrive this afternoon
to spend a few days with Miss
Fuller.
Because of exceeding the
speed limit for driving in town,
Mr. Charley Kinlaw, a young
tellow trom noweiisviiie, was
before the mayor Saturday after
noon. He was taxed with $2.50
and costs. Lawrence Currie.
also of
at the
drunk.
C03t3.
-Dr.
Howellsville, was tried
same time for being
He was fined $2.50 and
E P. Wocd.
assistant
State veterinarian, of Raleigh,
arrived this morning and will go
this afternoon to Mr. Joe A.
Boone's dairy, about 3 miles
from town on the Carthage road,
to test cattle for tuberculosis.
Dr. Wood will be in town Wed
nesday and will make test3 for
any who have cows they want
examined. The tests are made
free.
Mr. Emory Prevatt received
a letter Saturday to the effect
that his father and two sisters.
Mr. Thomas J. Prevatt and
Misses Flora and Kattie, who left
about two weeks ago for New
Mexico, had settled at Alamo
gordo. Otero county, and began
housekeepitwr last ek. Mr.,
Prevatt and his. dwjsljtars went
m m , . i " a t.i "
to Mexico for taetr WKtf aju
thev went ftrafr t Tj4ux0Vi,
bit not liking the place much
remained there only two nights
and a day. going from there to
Alamogordo, which is 247 miles
farther south. From the letter
received they are well pleased
with the country, and the climate
is fine.
"I have a world of confidence in
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for f
have used it with perfect urej,"
writ Mrs. M I B'iiH. Pw!e8Yille,
Akl Fur iiie by a. I tit .k-rs.
LOCAL BRIEFS
Today is labor day.
holiday, and the banks
town are closed.
-Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
and their three children
a legal
of the
Collins
moved
last week from Or rum to Lum
berton and are living in the
northern part of twn.
The organ recital and concert
that was to have been given at
the First Baptist church Friday
night was postponed on account
of the exceedingly wet weather.
There will be a bjx sip
per Saturday night at ttie
Beulah school house, near Bel
lamy. The proceeds will be used
for the benefit of the school and
the public is cordially invited.
Mr. A. A. Pedneau returned
Friday night from New York,
where he spent two or three
days purchasing some new ma
chinery for the Lumberton Motor
Co., of which he is manager.
Robeson Messenger (St.
Paul):. Quite an industry nas
been wonted up on this line of
road in shipping lightwood to
the spiritine plant in Fayette
ville. A rfumber of cars aro be
ing shipped from, here this week.
Mrs. Daisy W. Jenkins will
give at her home tomorrow night
the entertainment she announced
tor Tuesday night last week and
postponed on account of the
weather. Tne proceeds will be
used for class No. 10 of Chestnut
Street Methodfst Sunday school.
Mr. R. A. McLean, son of the
late Col. N. A. McLean, has just
completed a course in law at
Chapel Hill and was oneof tnesuc
cessful applicants for license be
fore the Supreme Court last week.
He returned home Thursday
night. He has not definitely de
cided yet where he will locate.
Messrs. E. J. Britt and T. A.
McNeill, Jr., of Lumberton and
Mr. J. P. Scansel of Wilmington
returned Friday night from a
trip of two weeks North and they
nad a most pleasant trip. They
visited Washington, Baltimore,
Philadelphia, Atlantic City, New
York, Boston,-Niagra Fails and
Toronto, Canada. .,
The brick Work on the new
Chestnut Street Methodist church
has been finished and it is thought
that the church will becompleited
by the end of year. It is the
present purpose to have hard
wood floors beneath seats and
aisles of tile. When completed
this will be one of the prettiest
churches in this part of the
State.
More than the usual first
Monday crowd is in town today.
Besides the regular monthly
meetings of the county and road
commissioners and board of ed
ucation which are being held,
there is a meeting of the county
Farmers' Union and the Robeson
Rural Letter Carriers' Associa
tion. Accounts of all these
meetings will be given in Thurs
day's paper.
The Sunday school of the
Gospel Tabernacle picnicked at
Bee Gee, three and a half miles
from Lumberton on the Fayette
ville road, Friday. They were
about 300 strong and a most
pleasant day was spent. Oneof
the bright young ladies of this
Sunday school wrote for The
Robesonian a most interesting
account of this p'enic. but on
account of the crowded condition
of the paper today it is necessary
to hold it over for Thursday's
paper.
Mr. Ed. Tyson, listaker for
Wishart's township, has the dis
tinction of being the only listaker
who has brought in an absolutely
correct boek in years. County
Auditor A. T. Parmele has had
personal knowledge of the re
turns for the past nine years and
he says that during that time
Mr. Tyson is the only man wba
baa brouihit i a. bootc that. w
'Ct ipiataAe Mr- TV-
son a bok tin year l aoeolutely
correct to a t-y. He indexed his
bok, all entries are neatly made,
and a search warrant wuuld not
brig to light a single slightest
mistake in adci ".ion.
For bwel eoTipULnts in children
always give Lhaaib-rlai ' Cotk
Ciolera and TjiirrhOfa Remedy ani
cator "il It s ortain tn effect a cur
and when reduced with water and
HweeteneJ is pi-atanr to lk tin
physician can prescribe a better