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VOL XUI NO. 98. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY; FEBRUARY 1, 1912. WHOLE NO. 2729
THE GOLD CONTEST IS ON
Six Babies are Going to Get Those Five Dollar Gold Pieces
Saturday Night, February 10, 1912.
ITS EASY ENOUGH TO WIN
The Way to Do it is to Get
in and Not Only Stay in,
But Keep Working, for the
Incentive U Pure Gold
Workers Already in the
Field are Doing FineNew
Names Should be Sent in
at Once so That Subscrib
ers Can Get Their Papers
This is Important.
The contest for the six five
dollar gold pieces that The Rob
esonian is going to award to
some six babies, Saturday, Feb
uary 10, is on with a rush. In
the last few days scores of en
tries have been received, and
men, women, and children all
over Robeson and adjoining
counties are striving to win one
of the special prizes and also one
of the large prizes for their
friends' babies.
Several persons have sent in
coupons nominating in the con
test babies for whom they have
promised to work, and many of
these persons have asked for
subscripton books in order to
help the one they nominated.
Remember, the contest has
only j ust begun. There is plenty
of time to get busy and start in
with a rush and forge into the
lead. While everyone is work
ing no one has a big lead, and
anyone starting now will have an
easy time reaching the mark set
by the present leaders in the
contest.
The contest does not close un
til March 23, 1912, and not Feb
uary 10. That date is set for
the closing of the lists in the
race for the five dollar gold
pieces. You have only a little
more than seven weeks in which
to get subscriptions, for the race
from now until the closing day,
March 3, 1912, will be for sub
scriptions. Be up and doing
every minute, for a moment now
will be worth an hour later on.
Do not let any of the other con
testants reach your neighbors
and friends before you do. It is
rather discouraging to approach
a friend whose assistance you
have been counting on for your
own baby, only to find that that
friend has already been ap
proached by some other contest
ant and has already subscribed
or has promised that person to
subscribe later on. Get into im
mediate touch with your friends
either in person or by 'phone or
mail, ask them to give you their
subscription, get a promise and
later on get the subscription.
Do not put this off, for it is one
of the most important details of
the race and demands immediate
attention.
There is, 'tis said, a certain
place down below that is paved
with good intentions. Also the
"Valley of Pretty Soon" is
white with the bleaching bones
of those who succumbed while
telling others that they were just
about ready to do so-and-so. Do
not be one of these.
Do not deceive yonrself with
the belief that if you go out one
day and are successful in getting
subscriptions, you can rest On
your oars the balance of the
week. Someone else, elated at
their success, will only,work the
harder next day and on all en
suing days, and you will be left
far behind. You " should work
steadily and continuously in this
contest, you must make every
moment count. You are not
alone in the race by any means,
and in order to win you must be
just a little-more ambitious, just
a little more energetic than any
one else.
You may have until 10 o'clock
Saturday night, February 10, to
get in with the yearly subscrip
tions. Turn in both new and old,
take out your voting cerficates.
These certficates you may keep
until the last day of the contest,
if you so desire, so that no one
else will know just where you
stand, even though you do nke
your report of the subscri 3ns
secured. You must report . :ub-
ecriptions every few da "
those from whom you secure
subscriptions expect their papers
promptly, and this cannot be
done until we have heard from
you.
The contest is for all babies
under five years of age in Robe
son and adjoining counties. This
means that any of the babies in
any of the towns or in the country
in Robeson county or any other
counties joining Robeson, are eli
gible. The contest is not for the
babies of Lumberton alone. We
want all the pretty babies in this
part of the State in the contest
and we will be very sorry if
there is a popular or a pretty ba
by left out. We wish that the
mothers would see to it that
their babies' names are sent in
to the Contest Manager. Write
to him and he will send you all
the necessary information as to
how to go to wcrlwto win one of
the prizes. There are six to be
given away February 10 and
there will be others as the con
test progresses on its way, to
say nothing about the large
prizes at the end of the contest.
Why not get in and get your
share? Yon have just as good a
chance as anyone else.
GOLD FOR THE BABIES.
Six of Them Will be Sure to Get
That $30.00-Is Your Baby
In?
Some six babies whose names
appear below, are going to win
five dollars each before the 10th
of Febuary. If your baby's name
appears below and you have not
made an effort to help the little
one, get in touch with the Con
test Manager at once. Read all
the rules and regulations care
fully, secure a subscription book
at once and watch your baby come
to the head of the list.
Vote! Everybody vote! Vote
for a baby! Do something to
help the little one.
DISTRICT NO. 1.
Includes all territory within
one and one-half miles from
the court house in Lumberton.
Emma Fances McNeill 19,050
Mary Lawrence 1,050
Mary JuliaJonea 9,850
Alice McLean 1,000
Thelma Meares, 12,600
Francis Jennings 1,400
Marie Townsend 12,250
Ruth Neil Bullock 8.650
Evelyn McNeill 12,850
Hoyle Doughtery 15,200
Woodberry Thompson 17,200
John Coble McNeill 2,850
Sara Hamilton 1,150
Emma Earl Baggett 7,650
Anna Holtz Freeman 2,250
Julia Elizabeth Huggins 1,000
Lambert Holloway 1,000
William Parmelee 1,000
James Poole 1,000
Fred B. Singletary, Jr. 1,050
Frank McLeod, Jr. 1,000
Hugh McAllister, Jr. 1,000
Elizabeth Peace 1.000
Louise Kinlaw 12,200
Agnes Wetmore Welch 10,600
G. Thomas Cox, Jr. 1,000
Elizabeth Proctor 1,000
Clan Evans, Jr. 1,000
Frances Thomas 1,000
Lilly Varser 1.000
Neal Archie Thompson 1.000
William Carlyle, Jr. 1,000
Addie Emily Jones 1.000
Richard Norment 1,000
Berry Godwin French 1,000
Woodward Townsend 1,000
Elizabeth Shaw 1,000
Hinton McLeod 1,000
Roberta Nash 1,000
Henry P. Allen 1.000
Margaret Biggs 1,000
Annie Laurie Caraway 1,000
Bruce M'White - 1,000
Mildred Weinstein 1.000
Daniel Neil Collum 2,750
Carey Hedgpeth 11,450
Agnes Delia Pedneau 4,200
Edward Dula Beverly 1,550
Olison Davis 1,400
DISTRICT NO. 2.
All territory exceeding one and
one-half miles from the court
house including all rural routes
and towns in Robeson and adjoin:
ing counties. ,
Lumberton, N. C, R. F. D.
Miss Clyde Pope, route 4 2,450
Forest Townsend, route 6 3,200
Kathryn Singletary, route 3 11,850
Elmer Kermit Stevens, route 4 10,800
Pearl Lamb, route 4 1,350
Bladenboro, N. C.
Lorena Hester 1,000
Carrie Love Bridgers 1,000
Margaret Elizabeth Freeman 1,000
Hester Freeman 1,000
William Hester 1,000
Herbert Jordan 1.000
Craven Pait 1,000
tames Kdward Pait 1,000
Carrie Powell 1,000
WITH A RUSH
Gladys Wilson 1,000
Katie Williamson 1,000
Baxter Haymour, Jr., 1,000
St. Paul, N. C.
John Chas. Rozier 14.900
Gladice Leggett 12,150
John Alex. Bynum 1,550
Ruth Blanchard 1,000
Emma Bryan 1,000
Addie Lee Brock 1.000
Ethel Beard 1.000
Lester Clark 1.000
Cary Caudell 1,000
Ethel Fisher 1,000
Chas. Hester 1 ooo
Theodore Northroo l.ooo
Mary Lois McGougan l.ooo
David Mclnnis l.ooo
Elizabeth McGeachy l,ooo
Earnest Odum l.ooo
Robert Redfern l.ooo
Windle ThRgard l.ooo
Rosa Lee Townsend l,ooo
Mildred Townsend l.ooo
Pearle Townsend l.ooo
Leon Weston l.ooo
Vera Deaton l.ooo
Robert Wright l.ooo
Laurinburg, N. C.
Dorothy E. Hammond l.ooo
Rowland, N. C.
Paul Stuart, route 2 1,750
BuiAN. C
Rudolph Townsend route 1 l,ooo
Annie N. Townsend, route 1 2,100
Flora Lee Prevatt, route 1 . 4,900
Maxton, N. C.
Pansy Wren l.ooo
Alice McQueen l.ooo
Frank Stead l,ooo
Donald McQueen l.ooo
Maude Croom l.ooo
Randolph Kirkpatrick l.ooo
Sylvester McLean, Jr. l.ooo
J. C. McCaskill, Jr. l.ooo
Lenwood Smith l,ooo
John Sumpter McRae l.ooo
Francis Gibson l.ooo
Laura Wall Everett l.ooo
Murphy McKinnon l.ooo
Elizabeth Currie l,ooo
Kathryn McKinnon l.ooo
Elizabeth McKinnon l.ooo
James Hawley McKinnon l.ooo
Arthur Cottingham l.ooo
Chas. May Burns l.ooo
Robert D. Croom l.ooo
Carlton Evans l.ooo
Marietta, N. C.
Thelma Lewis l.ooo
Red Springs, N. C.
Margaret Graham l.ooo
William McLean l.ooo
George Fulton Spell l.ooo
Mary Snoddy l.ooo
Francis Gibson l.ooo
Ella McPhail ,ozo
Marv Watkins Bullock 1.350
Baby Singleton l.ooo
Billv Hall ' l.ooo
Marvlme Brewer l.ooo
Liza McEachern l.ooo
Mary Cook l.ooo
Preston Covington l.ooo
Love Twins l.ooo
Babv Lee l.ooo
Baby Kay l.ooo
Marv Roberts l.ooo
Morgan Branch l.ooo
Clarkton, N. C.
Edward Douglass Heustess l.ooo
Boyce McKinnon Phiffer l.ooo
Daphne Clark l.ooo
Isabella Cox l.ooo
Ida Withers Currie l,ooo
Elkton, N. C.
Louise Blue l.ooo
Fairmont, N. C.
Fannie Belle Lewis l.ooo
Dosie Selars l.ooo
Hope Mills, N. C.
Wesley Clement Carner l.ooo
Margaret Barber l.ooo
Kathleen McDaniel l.ooo
Pauline Smith l.ooo
Esther Parker l,ooo
Ernest Williams, l.ooo
Pages Mill, S. C.
Herbert Ford 10,000
Elizabethtown, N. C.
Betty Hall Singletary l.ooo
Lillian Dale Tyson l.ooo
Dublin, N. C.
William Calder Guyton l,ooo
Tar Heel, N. C.
Herman Wilson l.ooo
Orrum, N. C.
LeRoyce Shepherd 1,200
Pembroke, N. C.
Miriam Adele Andrews 10,450
Parkton, N. C.
Margaret Cashwell l.ooo
Currie McCormick l.ooo
Garress Twins l.ooo
William Cochran l.ooo
Kathleen McArthur l.ooo
Jack Thompson l.ooo
Margaret Ann McDonald l.ooo
Sara Currie l.ooo
Julia Betz McDonald ' l.ooo
Margaret Beard l,ooo
Sara McCormick l.ooo
Merdis Hughes l.ooo
Sara Elizabeth Cobb , l.ooo
Sara Stack ' l.ooo
Isabel Blunt l.ooo
Lumber Bridge, N. C.
Angus t Lamont Shaw 1.600
Margaret Gertrude Willford l.ooo
Gray Cobb l.ooo
Chas. Vernon McGougan l.ooo
Roger Hall l.ooo
L. C. Hubbard, Jr.. l.ooo
If we have omitted your baby's
name or do not have it spelled
correctly please notify us and we
will carefully correct same.
How to cure a cold is a question in
which many are interested just now.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has won
its great reputation and immense sale
by its remarkable cure of colds. It can
a!wayt be depended upon. For saie by
all dealers.
PARKTON PARAGRAPHS.
New Grist Mill, New Private
Light Plant and New Meat
Market Roads Being Re
pairedPreaching Services
Personal.
Correspondence of The RobeeonUn.
Parkton, Jan. 29. Rev. E. L.
Stack filled his regular appoint
ment here Sunday a. m. at 11
and at 7 p. m., preaching two
able sermons. Rev. L. B. Barnes
of Pembroke preached at the
Baptist church at 3:30 p. m.
This was the latter's first sermon
here and he impressed his au
dience as an able and fluent
speaker. Rev. R. B. John, P. E.,
will preach at the M. E. church
on the 2nd Sunday night, Febru
ary 11, and will hold the quarter
ly conference on Monday, the
12th, at 10 o'clock.
There is right much sickness
in town, mostly colds and grip
and throat trouble, but no small
pox. The new grist mill of Hughes
Bros, was completed last Satur
day and is grinding corn to a
finish. Mr. C. F. Graves is op
erator, and a good one, and can
make as good meal as any water
ground mUL
Mr. J. B. McCormick has com
pleted his light plant and has his
nice residence lighted beautiful
ly and satisfactorily.
The car load of mules and
horses of Edgerton & Co. arrived
last week and things are lively
here now.
Mr. J. C. Culbreth has opened
up a beef and all kinds of fresh
meats stand, located in one of
the McCormick stores next to
the barber shop. Mr. Culbreth
has the only sanitary market in
town and deserves the patronage
of the town and community.
Prcf. J. H. Forbis and Miss
Avent attended the teachers'
meeting at Lumberton Saturday.
The following persons attended
the show in Fayetteville tonight:
W. E. Parham and sisters, Misses
Mamie and Flora, Mr. B. John
son, Miss Essie Lancaster, Miss
Annie Blount, L. C. Malloy, Mr.
and Mrs. Murphy McMillan, P.
H. Fisher, E. B. Daniel, Norman
Perry, Jas. Stubbs, J. M. Mc
Millan, N. P. McArthur, A. A.
Wright, A. J. Garris, Ben Mc
Donald, and I don't know how
many more. Mrs. J. T. Odom
visited home folks at Clayton
last-week. Mr. Odom went the
latter part of the week. Both
returned home Sunday p. m.
The roads are being repaired
and the streets are some better,
but it will take some time yet to
complete them.
Lumberton's Brass Band's First
Appearance.
Lumberton's new and coming
brass band will make its first
public appearance tomorrow eve
ning at the movivg picture show,
Elm street. The music will start
possibly about 7:30 o'clock. Many
of the 20 boys that constitute
this band are entirely new in the
business of music making, and
the progress they hsve made in
so short a time is marvelous. The
band has been organized and
practice started since the first of
January. The officers of the
band are as follows: business
manager, W. K. Bethune; secre
tary and treasurer James Cowen;
music director, Arthur Whitely.
Messrs. C. B. Skipper, Woodber
ry Lennon and R. R. Carlyle con
stitute the executive committee.
The music will be free and cor
dial invitation is extended to all
who care to know what the boys
are doing uuder the direction of
Prof. Whitely.
Criminal Court Next Week
Many Cases on Docket
A two-weeks' term of Robeson
superior court for the trial of
criminal cases will convene Mon
day, Judge R. B. Peebles of
Jackson, judge of the second ju
dicial district, presiding. There
were yesterday 131 cases on the
docket, including 8 cases for cap
ital felonies 6 for murder, 1 for
burglary and one for criminal as
saultand by the time court
opens there will doubtlessly be
more than 150 cases. This is the
largest docket any court has open
ed with in this county in Beveral
years. Clerk of the Court Skip
per says they are doing a-rushing
business now in all sorts of cas
es, more than 60 civii cases hav
ing been added to the docket
since tne November lerm.
ST. PAUL PACKAGE.
A New Brick Store and a New
Residence Personal Mention.
OTMPOTxtonea of The RofaetonUn.
St. Paul, Jan. 31-Mr. Frank
Davis of Bladen county spent a
few hours in our town yesterday.
Mr. Frazier, of the Dublin Store
Co., Dublin, was here yesterday.
Mr. S. T. Moore, who lives on
route 1 from Parkton, spent a
while here yesterday.
Four of our sportsmen went
duck hunting yesterday. Found
ducks but did not bring
any back with them. Shot too
small, perhaps.
Mr. L. Shaw, who is spending
part of the winter in Florida,
came home for a few days
this week but will leave again
Monday. -Mr. Brewer, editor of
The Messenger, spent Sunday in
Elizabethtown. Messrs. J. P.
Russell and A. T. McLean of
I.umhprtnn nassed through here
vesterdav en route for Tar Heel
and other points on the Eliza
bethtown branch. -Prof. J. E.
Redfern and his assistant teach
ers spent Saturday in Lumber
ton attending the teachers' meet-
"firr-J. T. Webb is -having., a
street. The contractor expects
tn have it competed in a very
short while, if the weather per
mits. Messrs. L. Shaw, A. R. Mc
Eachern and W. D. Johnson are
building a nice cottage near the
school house for the benefit of
the school.
Express Office Being Moved
Agent Thomas Granted Three
Months' Leave of Absence
With Full Pay.
The office of the Southern Ex
press Co. is being moved today
from the building on Fourth
street, owned by Mr. W. W. Car
lyle. which it has occupied for
several years, to Mr. A. W. Mc
Lean's new brick building near
the Seaboard passenger station.
There will be an up-town office,
probably at McMillan's drug
store, where money orders may
ho nhtAinpd and Dackages left.
and hereafter packages will be
delivered to all parts of the town.
It was stated in Monday's Robe
sonian that Mr. F. J. Thomas,
express agent, would leave the
latter part of this week for the
western part of the State, where
he will spend soma time for his
health.Mr. Thomas has just heard
from his application for leave
of absence and has been treated
most liberally by the company.
He has been granted 3-months'
leave of absence with full pay.
He will leave tomorrow or next
day. Mr. Albert Boylin, who
has had considerable experience
in this work, will have charge
during Mr. Thomas' absence.
"The Third Degree" at Opera
House This Evening - "The
Devil'' Monday Evening.
"The Third Degree," which
will be the attraction at the opera
house this evening, will perhaps
be the best play of the season
here and there have been some
exceptionally good plays here
this season. The advance sale
of seats at McMillan's has passed
any advance sales made hereto
fore. Lumberton is the only
town this company plays be
tween Charlotte and Wilmington.
The papers of Fayetteville and
Wilmington, where this play has
been presented recently, have
given it high praise.
"The Devil," a sensational
play with Mr. Eduard Waldmann
in the title role, will hold the
boards Monday evening.
Imperial Family Will Accept
Terms of Republicans.
Peking Dispatch. Jan. 31.
The imperial foreign board an
nounces that the Empress Dow
ager informed the members of
the cabinet at their meeting in
the palace today that the throne
had decided on a solution of the
situation which would insure
peace. She instructed the minis
ters to arrange accordingly.
It i3 understood that the impe
rial family has accepted the con
ditions laid down by the repub
licans and that abdication will be
announced immediately.
There's Trothing so good for a sore
throat as Dr. Thomas' Electric OiL
vures it in a lew hours Relieves any;
pain in any part.
LOCAL BRIEFS
Mr. V. H. Tavlor. who for
three years had been practicing
law here, has moved to Fairmont
for the practice of his profession.
The local cotton market con
tinues to improve ,some. Mr.
Jno. T. Biggs, buyer for the
Messrs. Sprunt, Wilmington, is
paying 9 cents today for good
cotton.
Talking about folks not hav
ing their cotton picked, Mr. Mc
Kay Byrd.who was in town Tues
day, says there are some people
oat on route 5 from Lumberton
who have not even dug their po
toes yet.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Bo wen.
who for several months have
been making their home with
Mrs. Bowen's mother, Mrs. Sue
Lennon, Sixth and Cedar streets,
expect to movs tomorrow into
their handsome new residence.
Fifth and Cedar streets.
Tomorrow is groundhog day.
If his hogship sees his shadow
there will remain, according to
ancient belief, six more weeks of
winter upon the earth and he will
J"" ' to .hi" ho,e to steep it out;.
.7, V lu """i" 0,,v ovY"
there will be the genial warmth
of spring. So it is written.
Today is Dr.R. M. Norment's
birthday. He is 83 years old,
and has been confined to his
home, Sixth street, the greater
part of the past year on account
of ill health. Some local friends
have planned a surprise for him
this afternoon, when he will be
visited by quite a number of
friends. Ladies will call at 3
o'clock and gentlemen at 4
o'clock.
At the Pasttime theatre
Tuesday evening were shown
pictures of the recent review at
New York of the United States
navy. They were great pictures.
Manager Wishart has certainly
tied up with a good film compa
ny. The pictures he has been
showing for some time past are
all to the good. They instruct
and entertain and there is noth
ing about them to which the
most straight-laced could urge
objection.
If one 6hould start out to
write about eggs in Lumberton
he would have to do like a writer
of a natural history of Ireland
who headed a chapter "Snakes
In Ireland" and then wrote un
der that head, "There are no
Snakes in Ireland." Eggs are
like the Frenchman who was not
very familiar with his English
told a lady whom he wanted to
compliment on "ze beauty" of a
picture she had prsented him
they are "vair scarce."
Mr. C. B. Redmond WU1 Have
New Stock of Goods in Build
ing Vacated by Express Of
ficeInsurance Money Allow
ed. Mr. C. B. Redmond, who was
partially burned out in the fire a
week ago last night, has moved
his fruits and other perishable
goods to in front of the building
on Fourth street which is being
vacated today by the Southern
Express Co. He has a 'phone in
the building for the convenience
of his customers but will not
move any of the goods that were
"damaged by fire. Within ten
days or two weeks he will have
an entirely new stock in this
building. In the meantime he
has his hre-damaged goods stor
ed in a warehouse and is offering
them at low prices. Mr. Red
mond had $1,900 insurance and
Mr. Q. T. Williams, through
whom the insurance was placed,
has received draft for this
amount to be paid to Mr. Red
mond as soon as the time-limit
fixed for such payments expires.
Gov. Walter R. Stubbs of Kan
sas, after lunching with former
President Roosevelt at Oyster
Bay the other day, issued a state
ment in which he said that Roose
velt is not a candidate for the
Presidency but that neveriess he
will be nominated and elected.
Doan's Regulets cure constipation,
tone the stomach stimulates the liver,
promote digestion and appetite and
easy passages of the bowels. Ask your
druggist for them. 25 cents a box.
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