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VOL XLH NO. 103.
LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 19 12.
WHOLE NO. 2734
NO PATH OF FLOWERS LEADS TO GLORY;
If Yon Want One of Those Special Prizes There is No Time
to LoafEveryone Seems to be BusyDo Not let the
little One Get Behind Ask Everyone You Meet for a
Subscription-Do Not Let Anyone Escape You-It is a
Good Time to Find Out Who Your Friends Are. -
The special offer for this week
seems to . have aroused a great
deal of enthusiasm among the
friends of the babies and there
are certainly some workers in
this contest and we are glad to
see them keep ahead. A mother
who will get out and work for
her little one, especially in such
weather as we had last week, is
surely deserving of a great deal
of praise. But what about the
mother who does not care if her
darling never wins a prize or
never has any special honor
shown to her. We cannot under
stand it, it means so little to get
a few subscribers and send your
darline far into the lead. Just
think of it in time and do. notj
wuif nnt.il it is inn lt1-!',ith'
say, "Oh, if I had only worked
like some of the women, my baby
would have won, but I just didn't
care." Yes, you do care, and
everybody knows that you care,
and if you do not do all that you
possibly can for your baby you
are going to care a whole lot
more. Now is the time to put in
pour best efforts and not have
that sorry lonesome feeling when
it is all over.
Don't give up the fight. Put
in every moment . that you can
spare. It only means a few days,
and just now this is the most im
portant thing on the calendar.
What is the use of sitting down
and bemoaning the fact that your
baby is at the bottom of the list
or at best only a few votes?
Haven't you a friend at all
that you can go to and ask for
one subscription to The Robeson
ian? And just one subscription
means nine thousand votes. How
many of. these will it take to put
your darling in the lead and per
haps win the $150.00 and the ac
companying honors? It will do
you good to get out among your
friends and work a little. It is a
good thing for you because it
will show you just who vour
friends are. You know a friend
in need is a friend indeed and
will there ever be a time when
vou will want tnendly aid any
more than you do right now? If
you get the subscribers it will be
a kooq tnmg ior your oauy.
Wonder if you realize what it
means to be at the top of the list
when the closing night comes.
It is surely worth working for,
and it isn't very hard work either,
at any rate it will be a work of
love and everybody knows that
we can always do a lot for those
who are near and dear to us. We
know if we had a little niece or
nephew or even a little friend in
the race, we would exhaust
every effort in an endeavor
to put them ahead. We would
ask everyone we ever knew, and
we really believe we would be
tempted to ask some that we did
not know, to help us, and if we
did not win we would at least
make it so warm for the rest of
the contestants that they would
know that we were in the race.
This is no time for day dreaming
and sleeping. It is a time to be
busy every minute. There will
be plenty of time to loaf when
the race is ended Try real hard
and see how it will seem to be
busy for a few days.
Standing of Contestants.
DI3TRICT NO. 1.
Includes all territory within
one and one-half miles from
the court house in Lumberton.
Emma Fances McNeill 35,950
Mary Lawrence 1, 050
Mary Julia Jones 16,550
Alice McLean 1,000
Thelma Meares, 16,950
Francis Jennincs 1. 40'
Marie Townsend 34,550
.Ruth Neil Bullock 12.125
Evelyn McNeill 19.600
Hoyle Doughtery 18,675
Woodberry Thompson 2,i 0
-John Coble McNeill 2,850
Sara Hamilton 1,150
Emma Earl Baggett 12 450
Anna Holtz Freeman 2,475
Julia Elizabeth Huggins 1,000
Lambert Holloway 1,000
William Parmelee 1,000
James Poole 1,000
Fred B. Singletary, Jr. 1,400
Tr i. I .1- . , .. 1 fli
Hugh McAlliBter, Jr. 1,000
1.000
12,200
20,900
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1.000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1.000
1,000
1.000
2,000
1,000
1.000
19,575
1,650
1.000
17,700
25,800
4,200
Carey Hedgpeth
Ames Delia Pedneau
J4Jeverlv
iDleson Davis
Gilchrist Crump
Pearl Lamb
1,925
1.000
21,350
DISTRICT NO. 2.
All territory exceeding onepnd
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 3,600
Forest Townsend, route 6 4,150
Kathryn Singletary, route 3 21,100
Elmer Kermit Stevens, route 4 19,900
Evander Lee Atkinson, route 1 1,000
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 1,100
James Edward Pait 1,000
Carrie Powell 1,000
Gladys Wilson 1,000
Katie Williamson 1,050
Baxter Haymour, Jr., 1,000
St. Paul. N. C.
John Chas. Rozier 18.775
Gladice Leggett 12,525
John Alex. Bynum 1,550
Ruth Blanchard 1,000
Emma Brvan 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 l,ooo
Theodore Northrop l,ooo
Mary Lois McGougan l.ooo
David Mclnnis l,ooo
Elizabeth McGeachy l.ooo
Earnest Odum l.ooo
Robert Redfern l.ooo
Windle Thagard l.ooo
Rosa Lee Townsend l,ooo
Mildred Townsend l.ooo
Pearle Townsend l,ooo
Leon Weston l.ooo
Vera Deaton 1,750
Robert Wright l.ooo
Laurinburg, N. C.
Dorothy E. Hammond l.ooo
Rowland, N. C.
Paul Stuart, route 2 20,025
Buie, N. C.
Rudolph Townsend, route 1 l.ooo
Annie N. Townsend, route 1 20,300
Flora Lee Prevatt, route 1 14.300
Maxton, N. C.
Pansy Wren l.ooo
Alice McQueen 22,125
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 Looo
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 19,ooo
Robert D. Croom l.ooo
Carlton Evans l.ooo
Marietta, N. C.
Thelma Lewis 11.000
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
Harriet Ella McPhail 19,275
Mary Watkins Bullock 21.925
Baby Singleton l.ooo
Billy Hall l.ooo
Maryline Brewer l.ooo
Liza McEachern l.ooo
Mary Cook l.ooo
Preston Covington l.ooo
Love Twins l.ooo
Baby Lee l.ooo
Baby Kay l.ooo
Mary Roberts l.ooo
Morgan Branch l.ooo
Virginia Gaston, R. F. D. l,ooo
Clark ton, N. C.
Edward Douglass Heustess l.ooo
Boy ce McKinnon Phi ffer l.ooo
Daphne Clarke - . Looo
Elizabeth Peace
Louise Kinlaw
Agnes Wetmore Welch
G. Thomas Cox, Jr.
Elizabeth Proctor
Clan Evans, Jr.
Frances Thomas
Lilly Varser
Neal Archie Thompson
William Carlyle, Jr.
Addie Emily Jones
Richard Norment
Berry Godwin French
Woodward Townsend
Elizabeth Shaw
Hinton McLeod
Roberta Nash
Henry P. Allen
Margaret Biggs
Annie Laurie Caraway
Bruce M' White
Mildred Weinstein
Daniel Neil Collum
Isabella Cox l.oob
SUCCESS MEANS WORK
Ida Withers Currie
Eikton, N. C.
Louise Blue
Fairmont, N. C.
Gerald Jones
Fannie Belle Lewis
Dosie Selars
Hope Mills, N. C.
Wesley Clement Carver
Margaret Barber
Kathleen McDaniel
Pauline Smith
Esther Parker
Erneat Williams,
Pages Mill, S. C.
Herbert Ford
Elizabethtown, N. C.
Betty Hall Singletary
Lillian Dale Tyson
Dublin, N. C.
William Calder Guyton
Tar Heel, N. C
Herman Wilson
Orrum, N. C.
LeRoyce Shepherd
Pembroke, N. C.
Miriam Adele Andrews
Parkton, N. C.
Margaret Cashwell
Currie McCorraick
Garress Twins
William Cochran
Kathleen McArthur
Jack Thompson
VjtJJtret.Ann McDonald
Sara Currie
Julia Betz Mc Don aid
Margaret Beard
Sara McCormick
Merdis Hughes
Sara Elizabeth Cobb
Sara Stack
Isabel Blunt
Lumber Bridge, N. C.
Angust Lamont Shaw
Margaret Gertrude Willford
Gray Cobb
Chas. Vernon McGougan
Roger Hall
L. C. Hubbard, Jr..
Rowland, N. C.
Sara Graham McKinnon
Chas. Cox, Jr.
Mary Sutton
Mary Kate Webster
Louise MacNeill
1,000
1,000
13,125
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10,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
I, 000
21,525
II, 325
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l.ooo
"1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
1.000
1,000
1,000
1,000
32.225
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If we have omitted your baby's
name or do not have it spelled
correctly please notify us and we
will carefully correct same.
INSULT TO U. S.
Grave Diplomatic Sitnation Pre
cipitated by Action of Colum
bian Minister.
Washington Dispatch, 17th.
A grave diplomatic situation
between the United States and
Columbia has been precipitated
by the publication of a letter
which Senor Pedro Nel Ospina,
the Columbian minister, has
written to Acting Secretary
Huntington Wilson of the State
Department suggesting that it
might be "inopportune" for
Secretary Knox to visit Colum
bia daring his projected tour of
Central America.
The Colombian minister, stat
ing views are his own and not
officially those of his government,
seriously criticises the United
States for not submitting to
arbitration the differences with
Colombia growing out of this
government's acquisition of the
Panama canal zone.
Inasmuch as the letter, admit
tedly, is the personal expression
of the minister, written without
having communicated with his
government, it was received at
the State Department in the
nature of a personal insult to
this government.
No action has been taken and
uo official would comment on it
tonight, but the incident is
known to have stirred the offi
cials of the United States to such
an extent that the recall of the
Colombian minister is expected
as a matter of course. At pres
ent, however, the United States
is disposed to wait until Senor
Ospina receives the instructions
he has asked for.
In diplomatic circles it was be
lieved that Colombia, smarting
under eight years of ineffectual
attempts to secure arbritration
of the canal zone differences,
would confirm the unofficial
views of her accredited represen
tee. A more profound sensation is
looked for, and it is believed
that a termination of diplomatic
relations between this country
and Colombia is in prospect.
A Warning Against Wet Feet
Wet and chilled feet usually affect the
mucous membrane of the nose, throat
and lungs, and la grippe, bronchitis or
pneumonia may result. Watch care
fully, particularly the children, and for
the racking stubborn coughs give
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound. It
soothes the inflamed membranes, and
heals the cough quickly. Take no sub
stitute'. J. D. McMilian & Soiu
FAIRMONT NEWS LETTER.
'. Bad Weather Hindering Building
New Residences Among
the Sick Personal Mention.
Gorrwpondenea of Tha RotMMnian.
I Fairmont, Feb. 15 The snow
! is more news than anything else
in these parts. How much did
you get out of your roof?" is the
question on every side. No ser
vices were held in either church
last Sunday. Mr. J. P. Mitchell
and Miss Janie Grantham, the
two faithful representatives of
the firm of White & Gough, were
invited by Mr. and Mrs. White
to dinner on Thursday evening,
an annual pleasant affair given
the firm's employes. Miss Viola
Boddie of the State Normal Col
lege, Greensboro, and Mrs. Grif
fin of Nashville were guests of
their sister Mrs. S. F. Moyle
last week. Mrs. Griffin will re
main for some weeks. Mr. A. J.
Surles of Proctorsville passed
through here Wednesday accom
panied by his physician, on his
way to Bichmond, Va., to be
operated on for appendicitis.
As he is not very sick we trust
he will soon be over his trouble
and at home again. Mr: Frank
.Lewis, .. the well-known stock
dealer of Whiteville, spent a
night here last week and though
he clerked for A. J. Floyd when
a youth he was lost in the city of
Fairmont. His many former
friends were glad to see him
again. We regret to note no
improvement in the condition of
W. B. Grantham, who has been
sick since last November.
The sale conducted by White
& Gough is proving very success
ful, more so than any they have
held outside of Lumberton.
Mr. Van Taylor and wife of
Lumberton arrived here for a
permanancy last week and are
for the present with Mrs. Belle
Baker. Mr. Taylor's law office
is over the Pittman Drug Co.
We regret to note the continued
ill health of Mrs. A. E. Floyd,
one of the elect ladies of the com
munity. Dr. W. F. Stephens
ana lamiiy are now occupying
their new home near the school
building.
The continued bad weather is
hindering greatly the work on
the Jones brick block on Main
street but the brick work is about
complete, and will be an orna
ment to the town.
Mr. Chas. Baker's pretty lit
tle bungalow in N. Fairmont is
almost completed.
Mrs. Nettie Ashley, who was
on the sick list last week, is out
again. Mrs. Mary Ivey, who has
been ill since Christmas, is now
able to walk about the room, to
the great pleasure of her numer
ous friends. Her daughter Mrs.
Inman of Albany, Ga., who had
been with her, has returned to
her home and Mrs. Mattie Brown
expects soon to return to her
home in Raleigh. The baby
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. W.
Floyd fell in the edge of the fire
and burned her hands badly last
Saturday, but we are glad to
know she is not seriously burned
Mrs. E. Fisher is visiting rela
tives at Hope Mills. J. R. Poole,
county superintendent of schools,
visited the graded school last
Friday, accompanied by Mr.
Munson of Greensboro, who is
traveling in the interest of a book
company. Mr. Munson made an
interesting talk which the chil
dren greatly enjoyed.
Mr. Dennis Biggs Purchases
Stock of Eagle Furniture Co.
Will Change Name to Lum
berton Furniture Store.
Mr. Dennis Biggs has pur
chased the entire stock of the
Eagle Furniture & Carpet Co.
and the name will be changed to
the Lumberton Furniture Store.
The deal was closed Friday night
and Mr. Biggs took charge Sat
urday. Mr. C. M. Barker, prin
cipal owner and manager of the
Eagle Co., will devote his time
to real estate business. Mr. D.
D. Hilburn, who has been with
the former company for several
years, will remain with Mr.
Biggs and will have charge of
the business entirely until Mr.
Biggs can be released from his
present position as deputy sher
iff, which position he has held
since about the first of the year,
when he sold his interest in the
Jno. T. Biggs Co. Mr. Biggs is
an energetic, industrious young
man and will no doubt succeed
a3mirably in his new busTtfessr
COUNTY HEALTH SUPERINTENDENT.
Dr. B. W. Page, of Duplin
County, Elected at Salary of
$2,500.
At a meeting of the county
board of health this morning Dr.
B. W. Page of Duplin county,
who for the past 20 months , bis
been connected with the hook
worm work of the State Board of
Health, was elected county su
perintendent of health at a sal
ary of $2,500 the year. He will
enter upon his duties March 1st
and will devote bis entire time to
the work. Robeson is the second
county in the State to elect a su
perintendent of health for his en
tire time, Guilford being the
first.
Dr. Page was recommended by
the county medical society,
which met here this morning for
the purpose of considering appli
cations. There were ten appli
cants, all of whom were endors
ed by the society, but the society
was asked by the health board
to recommend a man, which it
did. Dr. Page is a graduate of
the University of Nashville
and received h i s medical
degree at- Tulane University!
New Orleans in -1909; -He-practiced
a year in Onslow county
before becoming associated with
the State Board of Health in its
hookworm work. Dr. Page con
ducted a hookworm campaign in
the county for several weeks last
summer and made many f rinds
throughout the county while
doing that work. He resigned
his position with the State Board
Saturday and intended to return
to private practice. He and Mrs.
Page will no doubt live in Lum
berton.
.V4.V
The Kingsdale Lumber . Co.
started up both departments of
its plant this morning after being
compelled to work only part of
the time last week. On - account
of the snow and rain it was' im
possible to ret logs out of the
woods and the sawmill was oper
ated only part of Tuesday and
all day Saturday. The planing
mill was operated all the week
except Monday and Saturday.
A curious coincidence, not
mentioned in the account in
Thursday's paper of the run
away marriage Wednesday night
of Miss Ruth Whaley and Dr. A.
C. Tebeau, was that when the
couple went to the moving pic
ture show immediately after the
ceremony to wait for train time
a picture of an exciting runaway
marriage was shown. There is
always something doing at the
Prsttime. One of the best pic
tures shown recently was shown
Thursday night. A tramp,
through a verv natural mistake,
was entertained royally by a
young bride who thought she
was making herself solid with
an eccentric wealthy uncle of
her husband. It was a most en
joyable comedy of errors.
Mrs. Kate Phillips ana" two
daughters, Misses Dorothy and
Marjorie, of Edinburg, Scotland,
who have been on route 4 from
Lumberton and in town for nearly
a year on a visit to Messrs. J. M.
and Colen Phillips, expect to
leave tomorrow for Brunswick,
Ga.. where they will spend about
three months with Mr. J. M..
who accepted a position there
the first of January. From
Brunswick Mrs. Phillips and two
daughters expect to return to
Scotland. During their stay here
they have won many friends
who will regret to learn of their
intention to leave. The first of
January Mr. J. M. Phillips ac
cepted a position at Brunswick
and Mr. Colen accepted one at
Bladenboro, since which time
Mrs. Phillips and daughters have
lived in town at the home of
Misses Alice and Kate Tait.
John Ross, the negro under
sentence to die in the electric
chair at Raleigh last Friday for
the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Jno.
Dixon, near Shelby, December 18,
was granted a reprieve by Gov
Kitchin until April 12 in the hope
that he might make a fuller
statement about the killing. Ross
sticks to his original confession
to the effect that Frank Gladden,
a white man who was tried and
acquitted, was the instigator of
the crime and killed Mrs. Dixon
while Ross killed her husband.
There's nothing so good for a sore
throat -s Dr. Thomas' Electric Oil.
Cures, it in a few. hours. Relieves-any.
pafn'ia any part.
LOCAL BRIEFS
The local market for good
cotton today is 9.87J.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
G. French, on the 17th inst. a
9-pound girl.
Mr. Harry McGill, formerly
with the Southern Exnresa Co..
in the local office, has accepted a
position as salesman with C. B.
Redmond.
Aunt Ann Evans, colored,
about 80 years old, died this
morning, a short while before
day, at her home in the northern
part of town.
Mrs. Frank Gough has been
sick for some time at her home.
Chestnut and Third streets, but
her condition today is thought to
be somewhat improved.
-Mr. D. T. Rozier, ofTar Heel,
is among the visitors in town to
day. He says that his father,
Mr. Reuben Rozier, who is 91
years old, has been very sick for
several days.
Mr. B. F. Stephens has re
the position he held for several
years as clerk, in the postiffice.
He 1 not 4nade-
ture intentions and his successor
has not been selected.
Mr. Geo. G. French returned
Thursday night from Richmond,
Va., where he spent several
weeks under treatment at the
Hygeia hospital. His condition
is very much improved.
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. White
entertained the entire force of
employes of Messrs. White &
Gough's department stores at
their elegant home on Chestnut
street St a course dinner Thurs
day evening.
Rev. Father Gallagher of
Wilmington filled his regular
third-Sunday appointments here
yesterday, celebrating mass at
the opera houie at 7:30 a. m. and
lecturing at 3:30 p. m. on "Where
are the dead, or is there a purga
tory?" Miss Josephine Breece will
leave this evening for Baltimore
and New York, where she will
spend two weeks studying spring
styles and purchasing millinery.
Miss Mary Prevatt will have
charge of Miss Breece's store
during her absence.
-Mr. and Mrs. A. E. White
left Friday evening for Winston
Salem in rasponse to a message
to the effect that. Mr. White's
mother was very ill. They re
turned last night, the condition
of Mr. White's mother being
very much improved.
Jeff Beattie, colored, was be
fore Mayor White this morning
on two charges, an affray and
drunk and disorderly conduct.
He was fined $10 and costs in
each case and if he fails to pay
same he will be sent to the roads
for 15 days in each case. At
noon he had not paid the fines.
Biblical Recorder: Rev. J.
W. Rowell -has accepted and
entered upon the pastorate of
our Lumber Bridge church. He
writes that he and Mrs. Rowell
are comfortably housed in the
parsonage and that judging from
"the severe pounding" given
them Febuary 9 they will not
lack in material things.
Mayor White has appointed
Messrs. A. W. McLean, D. D.
Frence, Alf. H. McLeod. W. S.
Britt and J, A. Sharpe delegates
to the second annual convention
of the North Carolina Forestry
Association, which will be held
in Raleigh Wednesday of this
week and which is mentioned
elsewhere in this paper.
The Daughters of the Con
federacy cleared 11 at the silver
tea held at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. S. Mclntyre Friday e 'ening.
Not very many attended but
those who did were given a de
lightful evening. Vocal and in
strumental music was furnished
by Miss Leslie Proctor and other
young ladies.
One negro woman and four
negro men were brought to jail
Thursday by Policeman R. B.
Lindsay of Red Springs and As
sistant Policeman Bowen to await
trial on charges of retailing. They
and several other blind tigers
were rounded up in Red Springs
last week by two negnx detect
ives and were tried before Jus
tice A. B. Pearsall. It is said
that 14 others gave bond