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THE ROBESOMA N Established 1870. Country, God and Truth. Single Copies Five Cent VOL XLU NO. 83. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1911. WHOLE NO. 2714 i ' " i - - - FULLER-CRICHTON. Mtts Jessie Fuller Becomes the Bride of Mr. R. H Cric&ton A Pretty Home Wedding. Ht'Dorted for The Robesonian. An vent of much interest to friends in Lumberton and else where was the marriage of Miss Jessie Gray Fuller to Mr. R. H. Crichton, which took place at the home of the bride's father. Mr. C. M. Fuller. Chestnut and Sixth streets, at 6 o'clock yester-J day afternoon, in the presence f the immediate family, and ether relatives. At the appointed hour Miss Jessie Woolen of Randlcman very sweetly rendered Mendelssohn's wedding: march. First entered Rev. A. P. Tyre of Maxton. who took his place at the improvised altar. Then come the groom with his best man, Mr. John Fuller. ,Tthe bride, aitied in handsome traveling suit of blue and carrying a snower boquec of bride's roses slowly descended the stairs and entered the parlor leaning on the arm of her maid of honor, Miss Annie McKay of Wilmington, who wore cream siessaline and carried white carnations. The bride was join ed by the groom at Je. .altar, where the solemn vWs " Were spoken in a most impressive manner, the ring service being ased Immediately after the cere mony Mr. and Mrs. Crichton, amid showers of congratulations, left for Jackson ville.FIa , Colum bus, Ga , and other points South. A delightful course dinner was served the guests, those from ut of town being Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fuller and Master Henry f Bennettsville, S C.Mrs. D. A. Starton and Miss-Clara Stanton f High Point. Miss Jessie Woolen of Randleman, Miss An nie McKay of Wilmington, Miss Anna Neal Fuller, a student at Greensboro Female College, and Mr. David Fuller, a student of Trinity College, Durham. Mr. and Mrs. Crichton will be at home in Lumberton after the 16th inst. at the residence of Mrs. Essie McLean, north Elm street. "Something Doing" In Special Sales. This week marks the begin ning of several special sales for Lumberton and the indications are that business will be good. John T. Biggs Co. 's store doors were opened yesterday morning at nine o clock and the store was stormed with a crowd of anxious ' purchasers that numbered almost ThTn-H Ki fnt.i more than the store would hold :f7u': anma rrL' doors were opened, and the store is thronged with customers today, which shows how advertising in The Robesonian brings results. Mr. A.Weinstein, King clothier, as he styles himself, who is oft en conducting big and successful ' oiui c owmc uiuc utiui c HIC Z mZnTo 7qiirr. row morning at 8:30 o clock to a i 1 1 u ,j . morning at nine o'clock the doors of Caldwell & Carlyle's big de partment store will be thrown open for a 'Piercing Arrow Sale' ' ; and in this issue the hustling 4 f i;u: p. u j uiiuul rvfiu: . wuru ib nuvcr-, tising a -Christmas Carnival i Sale". So in i he busy town of Lumberton there is ''something doing". New Pastors Arrive. Rev. J. W. Bradley, the new pastor of Chestnut Street Meth odist church, will arrive this evening from Raeford, his form er charge. The ladies of the church are stocking the pantry at the parsonage, where they will welcome Mr. and Mrs. Bradley with a warm supper when they arrive about nijjht. Rev. R. li Caraway, the new pastor of the newly-formed Lumberton circuit, arrived yes terday and will be a guest for . a few days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A E White. Mr. Caraway c mes from Ayden circuit, Washington district. Mrs. Caraway is visiting friends in Tarboroand will join him here later. They will occupy the house on Pine street, between Eight and Ninth, recently vac ated by Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Rey nolds, who have moved into the Carlyle house. Chestnut streeet . and Elizabeth road. COUNTY SGHOOL MATTERS. Petition for Special Tax Election Approved Bills Paid and Oth er Business Transacted at Meeting of Board of Education. The regular monthly meeting of the county board of education was held Monday, Chairman Lu cius McRae and Mr. L.R. Hamer being present. A petition from Alfordsville township, district 5, for an elec tion to vote a special tax of 30 cents on the H00 worth of prop erty and 90 cents on the poll was approved and the same day the election was ordered to be held January 5 by the commissioners, as mentioned in the report of the meeting of the commissioners, elsewhere in this paper. J no. Dees was appointed school committeeman for district 1, In- C.ldian. Alfordsville township, and a'L. M. deVane committeeman for district 1, colored. Red sprjngs. C. F. Mercer was transferred from No. 4, Wishart's. to No. 6, Howellsville. A petition for a hearing in re gard to location of a school site in No. 5, White House, was pre sented and after hearing evi dence on both sides it was ordered-that .the. former approval of the location by the board be con firmed. The following bills were order ed paid: C. B. Skipper, clerk of court, court cost in condemna tion of school site in district 2, colored. Alfordsville,$5.05; J.W. Buie, insurance on Pniladelphus school building, $9; J E. Blue, in surance on school building dis trict 2, Fairmont, $18.90; J.D. McMillan & Son. typewriter rib bons for Supt Poole's office, 75 cts.;Freeman Printing Co., print ing matter for board, $10 50. To tal, $44.20. A large number of rebates were allowed. Transfer orders were made as follows:$6.97 from No. 3, Briit's, to No. 2, Pem broke; $13 45, special taxes of C. F. Davis, from No. 8, Thomp son's t No. 6, Thorn pson's;42 -50 from 2, Orrum to 3 Sterling's; $1.60 from 6. Sterling's, to 3, S'erling's;$7.37 from 2, Orrum, to 6 Sterling's; $4 17 from Fair mont, to 3, Britt's. It was ordered that $39.15 be placed to credit of district 2 Pembroke, out of general school fund, one-half cost of painting school house in this district. Fifty Cents For Privilege of Put ting on a Collar. Mr. Robt. Fender, a traveling salesman, had a rare and delight ful experience at the Waverly hotel yesterday, Tuesday night, to begin at the beginning, Mr. fer tried to get a room at the hotel but tailed; it was mied up; u U ..A f hl- nlon so he had to hunt some place else to lav his head. Which is half of this story. The next day, the same being yesterday, Mr. Fen der while up town decided that he wanted to change his collar and stepped into the Waverly and asked the autocrat at the desk nooffens all hotel clerks and ' anata vn are know -if he could change his collar there. So Mr. Fender says, and he deposes and says further that the hotel man told him that it would cost him just 50 cents to do it. Wherefore Mp nonla- cava rhor ho .uoa .a r'V.riX;." "Z;. unusually courteous treatment taat he complimented the hotel man highly. And a brother trav eling man, seeing the situation, offered to let Mr Fender change collars in his rom; "For," said he, "some day I might strike a hotel where you had a room and might have to change collars." Which is given just as Mr. Fehuer told it There are always two sides to astory and one story is good until another is told; but there are not twosides to the pro position that Lumberton needs a hotel better aoie1 to take care of the traveling public Quite a large real estate trans fer was made some few days ago at Fairmont when Mr Sam D jn ie of i hat hustling village pur chased of Dr. W. F Stephens two stores and a dwelling with two va ant lots. He also purchased a. third store building from Messrs. J B. Stephens and Jet ter D Lewis. The ntire purchase involved something like $8 000. Mr. Dunie has been in the mer- cantile business at Fairmont for several years. IMPORTANT MASS MEETING To be Held in Lumberton De cember 16 Everybody Inter ested in Price of Cotton Urged to be Present. At a meeting of the executive committee of the county Farm ers' Union in Lumberton Mon day, December 4, in accordance with a call made by a number of the Governors of Southern States for a meeting of the cotton grow ers of every county in the cotton belt at the various county seat, we, the executive committee, decided to ask the citizens of Robeson county to meet in mass meeting in the town of Lumber ton on Saturday, December 16. Everybody that is interested in the price of cotton is expected to be there on that date at 10 o'clock a. m. sharp. This is a meeting that concerns every man, woman and child in the South where cotton is the main money crop. There are several questions to be discussed at this meeting for the good of the Southern farmer, so it is necessary for everybody to be there whe is interested in the farmers of Robeson county. Merchants and all other classss and professions are invited x to meet on that date. W. K. Culbreth. Sec-Treas. , D. H. Britt F. W. Walters N. A. Townsend N. T. Andrews, Ex. Com. Some Interesting Facts Concern ing Recent Visitors to Lum berton. Mr. and Mrs. Angus H. Mc Lean of Jala pa, State of Vera Cruz. Republic of Mexico, who had been guests since last Thura day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. McLean, left Tuesday night for Chicago and thence they will goto Memphis, Tenn., to spend Christmas with relatives of Mrs. McLean before returning home. As stated in Monday's Robe sonian, this visit to Robeson was the hrst Mr. Ale Lean has ever made to the home of his ances tors. His father was Hector R McLean, a brother of the late Neill A. McLean, Sr., and uncle of the late lamented Col. Mc Lean of Lumberton and the old home of all of these is just a few miles north of Red Springs, upon the farms now owned by Messrs A. T. McCallum and N. J. John son, where their Scotch ances tor Hector McLean settled upon his arrival from Scotland before the Revolutionary War. Mr. Angus H McLean's fath er graduated at Davidson College and taught school in this county for a few years, and then emi grated to Alabama about the year 1840 He married the daugh ter of Governor Murphy of that State, who was also a native of Robeson county, and then went to Louisiana. After residing in Louisiana for some years they moved to Texas, and soon the Mexican War came on and Mr. McLean volunteered and served throughout that war. He joined the "forty-niners" and spent several years in the gold fields of California Return ing to Texas, he practiced law for some time, until the Civil War broke out, when he volun teered and soon became a major, and served with marked distinc tion throughout that war. After the Civil War he returned to his home in Texas and was a noted lawyer thereuntil his death. Mr. Angus H McLean was the only son. and was a few years old when both his father and mother died. He went in early man hood to the State of Vera Cruz, in Mexico, where he succeeded inf business rapidly. He has been for some time general manager for the great coffee dealers, Ar buckle Bros., in Mexico, and in this capacity has charge of all the buing and exporting. He also has large banking interests and owns several coffee planta tions. He and Mrs. McLean talk interestingly of the revolu tion in Mexico, and of Mexican affairs generally. They had nev er seen any of their relatives in this State before. When your feet are wet and cold, and your body chilled through and through from exposure, take a big dose of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, bathe your feet in hot water before going to bed, and you are almost certain toward off a -severe cold. For aale by dealers. SHORT BUT TIGHT. j A Marriage in the Register of Deeds' Office A Short Cere mony After A Long Wait. Tuesday morning, shortly be fore noon, a young man of 21 blue into the office of the regis ter oi aeeas and asked for mar riage license. When Deputy Earl Thompson got busy fixing up the necessary papers it devel oped that the young man, Alex Dawkins by name, wanted li cense to marry Mrs. Annie Brown, and he wanted to know if there was anybody around,who could perform the ceremony, for the lady was waiting down the street If there is anything that Register Higley would rath er see than to see a couple married it is to see two couples married, so he told the young man to wait and he switched out in search of a minister or magis trate. Soon Mr. Higley returned from a fruitless search. Not a magistrate or minister could be found. Meanwhile the young man had returned with the bride-to-be and they were waiting. After waiting some more the young man thought that if there -JUte-n sale of town lots ait tie ,d cm 9mrig6pfl6r ve9terday for business. Which the same they did, and when they returned at the end of ten minutes there was still no person authorized to per form the ceremony. Some more wait Mr. Higley chased out again and this time he was for tunate enough to run across Jus tice E. C. Nye of Orrum on the streets. If securing somebody to perform it had taken a long time there was nothing long about the ceremony as Justice Nye goes through it. Join your right hands, WilTyou take this woman for your wi'e? Yes, Will you take this man for your hus band, an up and down nod of the head and it was all over. N t quite so abrupt as that, to be sure, but just as short. As soon as it became known that there was to be a marriage a few fellows who would not miss a marriage if they could help it, not for nothing, blew in and waited patiently with the expect ant couple, but the most inter ested spectator was a very young daughter of the bride. She looked on in wonder, as though she did not know what to make of it all. Short, but just as binding. Superior Court Sarah Skipper, administratrix of Andrew Skipper, colored, vs. the Kingsdale Lumber Co. and the Raleigh & Charleston Rail road, a suit for $15, 000 damages, has occupied the attention of the superior court since it got down to business Monday morning with Judge Frank Carter of Ash ville presiding. The husband of the plaintiff was killed by a log train about a year ago District Attorney H F. Sea well of Carth age and Mr. T.L Johnson of Lum- brtonare representing the plain tiff, Messrs. Mclntyre, La wrence& Proctor and McLean, Virser & McLean of Lumberton and J. O. Carrof Wilmington are repre senting the defendant companies The case will go to the j jry this afternoon. The cases set for Tuesday have been moved up to tomorrow and cases for Wednesday have been moved to Monday next week. The following cases have been continued: A. Weinstein vs. A. C L. Ry. : Angus T. Brown vs. A. C. Rv : First National Bank vs. J P Brown and set for first case April term. Non suit hbs been entered in the case of W. B. and Clayton Brice, trading as W. B. Brice & Son, vs. S. M. Chavis Ju Igment has been en tered for $50 in N. A. Barton vs. A. C. L. Ry. Notices of New Advertisements "Piercing arrow" sale, entire $60,000 stock -Caldwelf & Car lyle. Grand Christmas carnival White & Gougti How to prepare for opportun itiesBank of Lumberton. Hot-Tom, aprohibition drink. Holiday announcement of Boy lin's Jewelry Store. A stick-pin has been lost G v'ds for Christmas Whit field & French. Subscribe for The Robesonian. LUMBERTON MINISTER HONORED. Rev. C. H. Durham Elected President of State Baptist Convention. Winilon Si'cm 3pcUl. lh. to Charlotte Obr VXT. For the first time since 1905 the Baptist State con vention tonight elected a minis ter as the presiding officer and Rev. C. H. Durham, pastor of the Baptist church at Lumber ton was chosen president by un animous vote to succeed Mr. W. C. Dowd of Charlotte. There is reason for joy. Sec retary Livingston Johnson of the State mission board brings glor ious news. After a strenuous fall campaign with every possible obstacle tj be overcome, the shortness of crops in some sec tions, the low price of cotton and still other difficulties, the board reports all bils paid and a small balance in the treasury. It is glorious news for the 225 -000 Baptists in the Old North State and those- who could not attend the convention are wait ing anxiously at home for the news. A Successful Sale of Town Lots. conduct Messrs White & Gouj?h by the American Realty & Auction Co. of Greens boro was very successful, many lots being sold. The average price was about $150. The prop erty is the old Higley property, located on Fi ft h street, just be yond the Virginia & Carolina Southern Ry. Penny Bros., the well-known twin auctioneers, cried off the lots and music was furnished by Richardson Bro3.' band. The na'ne selected for the property is Arlington. No name suggested under the offer of $10 was chosen as none of the ladies who entered the contest were present on the grounds, this being one of the conditions. The way this property sold proves that there is demand for Lumberton real estate, notwith standing the tight times. The people who conducted this sale conducted another sale for Messrs. White & Gough at Dub lin this morning. Daniel Boone on the Trait It was a happ'y time at the op era house Tuesday night. The way the gallery gods were tick led was a plcmb sight. For why? Men and brethern, Daniel Boone on the trail was right there on the stage, tvith a great big dog that wagged its tail straight up it didn't care a dog-goner who saw it and wolves and Indians (loaned by the government) B-KR-RR-R-K-K! It was that exciting! And Dan'l hisse'fl Bless him! but Wasn't he the cutethinu? He aid not look very pioneerv. to be sure, but he had Buch a "God-htlp-us, Breth ren.tnis whole-thing-depends-on me kind or look, ond he was so stagey and he sobbed and heav ed with his great lungs so beau tif ully there's nothing to it, you just coulda't help but know he was the real goods. And all the rest of the cast were all right Daniel Boone on the Trail is great guns. North Carolina Day and a Grand Rally at Joe Branch School House. There will be North Carolina Day exercises and a grand rally at Joe Branch school house, Bck Swamp township, December 22 The exercises will consist of es says, dialogues and speeches Everybody is invited to come and let's make it a day of pleas ure for the school. To make the voting contest interesting a nice gold ring will be given to the prettiest lad. A plenty of nice fruit and candies will be served, so come and bring the lady. S A. Hammond, teacher. Notice of Meeting of County Farmers' Union. To the Officers and Members of the Farmers' Union of Robeson County: You are hereby notified that on Friday. December 15. there will be a meeting of the Farm ers' Union in Lumbert n for the purpose of electing officers for the year 19 2 and to transact such other business as may come up. We hope to have a' good at tendance. Yours Fraternally J. E Ctrlyle, Pres. Robeson Advance please cpy. LOCAL BRIEFS - Mr. Pope Stephens will sing at the Past-Time theatre the new moving picture show to night. License has been issued for the marriage of Willie CaMerani C.W. Williams; Dora McKetha and C.V. Spivey. Mr. R.M. Norment, Jr., has sold the Robeson Advance to the Advance Pub. Co , G. S. MeKea zie editor, B.S. Edwards mana ger. Mrs. Amos King left Tuesday for Ash vi lie in response to a mes sage announcing the illness her mother, Mrs. A. C. Camp bell. The regular month 1 meet ing of the town commissioners will be held tomorrow night, postponed fr.im Tuesday night, the regular time :'vr the meet ing. -Mr. W. T. Gilbert of Biag- i. am, o. v ., wu'j ins turn terri tory as agent for Hot Tom, which is .heralded as a prohibition drink, spent yesterday in Lunv- i x.j r xi 7 m oerton aim appoimeu nir. w. 1. Mayers as local agent. A concrete basin was placed around the pump in the court house yard yesterday, which is another great improvement and puts the surroundings of the pump in keeping with the bai ance of the court house square. Mr. M. G. McKenzie, a stockholder in the Lumberton Drug Co., has an option on the stock of Mr. R. S. Sledge, man ager of the business. The op tion is good until January 1st, at which time it is expected that Mr. McKenzie will buy the stock. Mr. W. L. Scott, who lives on route 1 from Lumberton, was in town Tuesday and says he killed hogs Monday. He killed 5 hogs 14 months old, each, that totaled 1618 pounds of pork. And that is pretty good for pigs, averag ing over 300 pounds at 14 months old. The work of installing the new fire pump at the power house was completed yesterday and it is now in commission, with capacity of 1.140 gallons per minute. It was installed by Supt. W. G. Pitman and Mr. Geo. L McNeill, engineer at the power plant Capt. and Mrs. L R. Breece, who have been making their home in Pembroke for the past two years with their son Mr. A. M. Breece, will move back to Lumberton about the first f the year and will occupy their residence on the corner of Chest nut and Fourth streets. It is learned that the local opera house is not a safe place for net does, cats and the like wheo Daniel Boone and his wolves are around A nice fat "pus9y" cat heloneing at the home of Mr. L. E Whaley disappeared Tuesday night, and when last seen it was in the neighborhood of Mr. Boone's den of wolves. The name of the hotel on First street conducted by ex Sheriff W. S. Clark will be the Clark hotel instead of the Carlyle hotel, as stated in Monday's Robesonian. Sheriff Clark has been accommo dating a few guests every day since he opened the hotel some d-iys ago, but says that he will not be in shape for business proper until about the first of Januarv. He has quite a bit of furniture and fixtures ordered that will not be here before about the first of the year. Messrs J. M. and C. H. Phillips, who came over from Scotland fou- or five years ago and have been farming during the past year on the McAllister farm the old Pope plac-4 miles from town on the River nad, are selling their stock, farming implements, etc , and will move to Luraberton before the last of the year Tneir moth er and piVers, Mis'es Dorothy and Marj rie, who have been vis iting them for some time, will remain here with them until next spring. Ends Winter's Troables. To many, winter is a season of trou ble The frot-bitten tos and fingers, chap d hands and 1 p. chilblains, c Id sores, red and rou?h stins. prove thU. But auch troubles fly before Bucklea's Ar ica Salve. A trial convinces. Greatest healer o' Barns, Boil, Piles. 1 Cuts. So es. Bruises. E x-ma. an sprains. Oaly 2 at ail drugjjieta.
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