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r OBESONIAN JLJLJLi -- 1 1 . Established 1870. Country, God and Truth. Single Copies Five Cent - " VOL XUH NO. 3. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1912. WHOLE NO. 2737 THESE TWO WEEKS SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE TO BE THE BATTLE CRY Do Not be the Only One at the Bottom of the Lit The People Living in District No. 2 Have a Grand Oppor tunity to Win Last of the Special Prizes. Special prizes to be given away March 9: $25 in gold. White lace dress by White & Gough. Comb and brush by J. D. Mc Millan & Son. High chair by Lumberton Fur niture store. Pair of shoes by R. D. Cald well & Son. Pair of shoes by Townsend Bros. Have you started work for the twenty-five dollars in gold? Which District will be lucky enough to have a baby popular enough to win this money? are questions we hear on all sides. These two weeks ought to be the best of all for our contestants, &$ you all have a chance to get and also will get the votes to count on the large prizes at the end, to say nothing about the other prizes that are offered. If you do anything at all you can hardly help winning one of the prizes. '"Subscriptions" are to be the battle cry this week; get them for a year or two years or three years or four years or five years, and if you cannot get the long ones take one for four months or six months or eight months, they all count, and avail yourself of this grand opportunity to win twenty-five dollars in gold. Make an active campaign among your friends, relatives and ac quaintances during the interven ing days. Don't wait until the last minute to do your work, take that subscription book of yours and get busy. If you don't some one else will and later on when you do bestir yourself, it will be to hear your friends say, 4'0h, why didn't you come be fore. I have just given my sub scription to one of your neigh bors." Get to work and show every one that you love your baby just as much as anyone can love their baby. Do not be the only one at the bottom of the list. Get in your subscriptions and vote your baby up toward the top. Work hard and faithfully and by Sat urday night, March 9, you wil be surprised at the amount you will have done. Make up your mind that your baby is going to win. that it just must be one of the lucky onep, and then proceed to put your determination into eftVct. Keep s'eadily at work is about all we can say to you: it means success if you are industrious enough. Tis said that opportunity .knocks but once at a man's door, and this may be your oppon un ity to tret a good start towards winning the gold and ghry. Grasp your opportunity and be a winner. 1. ?. . v I-' ' " " r, vU- '.4 ... WOODBERRY THOMPSON. This is to introduce to you Master Woodberry Thompson, little son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Thompson. Master Woodberry was the winner of the first prize in district No. 1, for the largest number of yearly subsctiptions turned in up to the 24th of Feb ruary. He is one of our finest PROMISE TO BE THE LIVELIEST OF little chaps and has hosts of friend who will d all in their power to see tarn fi'it'sn a winner. - ' . t . - MIRIAM ADELE ANDREWS. Thi3 is Mis3 Miriaii Adele An drews or remoroke, the winner of the ten dollar poid piece ' in district No 2. She is the daugh ter of Dr. N H. Andrews. She is a very charming little lady and has a great many friends in the county. J t . 5 - 7.. ? h CAREY HEDGPETH. This i? the scord ti:tie that Master Carev Hedppth has been a prize winner and he needs no introduction to you. He was the winner of the second prize in district No 1 pnd we must say that if Master Carey kreps up at this r ite hp wil) surely fl ush first on the last ni'i:ht. 1 - CHAS MAY BURNS Hern we have Muster Chas. May Bump, little son of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Br rns, c i' Max ton. He won the s-rond prize in dis trict No. 2 last Saturday ar-d his friends say they intend he is go ing to be a winner right through the contest, and as d ax ton is one of the liveliest towns m the Old North State if they start out to do anything you may fetil assur ed that it will be acccmplished. Sedentary habits, lack of outdoor ex ercise, insumcient mastication of lood. constipation, a torpid liver, worry and anxiety, are the most common causes of stomach troubles. Correct your habits' and take Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and you will soon be well again For sale by all dealers. -' VfN V'V t fivSt'i Tin THE BABY CONTEST IMPORTANT BUSINESS CHANGES. Well-Known Firm of Caldwell & Carlyle Succeeded by R. D. Caldwell & Son. The dissolution of the well known mercantile firm of Cald well & Carlyle, which is succeed- 1 1 Vfc W v" 11 r eu Dy k. u. uaidweii & son, is mentioned, in an advertisement j elsewhere in this paper. This announcement has been expected i for some time but The Robeson- ian has not been authorized to make it until this issue.. Mr. W. W. Carlyle has sold his entire in terest in the business to Mr. R. D. Caldwell, who has associated with him his eldest son, Mr. S. F. Caldwell, under the firm name of R. D. Caldwell & Son. The new firm starts out with an in corporated capital of $50,000, fully paid in. The firm of Cald well & Carlyle was for years one of the most prominent in the eastern part of the State and it leaves audrecord for husU ness ifc-fjKhty and honofable dealing. Mr. R. D. Caldwell, the active head of the retiring firm and the head of the new firm, needs no introduction to Robesonian readers. He is one of the best-known business men in this part of the State and his name is a synonym for all that is high and honorable in the busi ness world. His son Mr. S. F. Caldwell, a young man of busi ness ability and training who has been in the office with his father for several years, becomes secre tary and treasurer of the new firm. Mr. Carlyle, the retiring member of the old firm, bas con siderable property, to looking after which he will devote his time. He will not engage in other business, for the present, at least. Aldermen from a Neighboring Town Investigate Lumber ton's Sanitary Ordinances. Messrs. C. M. Watson and W. Stackhouse, a committee from the board of aldermen of Marion, S. C, spent yesterday in Lum berton familiarizing themselves with the sanitary ordinances of this town. Mayor White went over the ordinances with them and they will endeavor to have ordinances similar to them enact ed for Marion. They were es pecially interested in the ordi nance requiring compulsory con nection with sewerage. They have had considerable typhoid fever in Marion and it is with the purpose of making conditions mose sanitary that this commit tee was sent to Lumberton to learn what had been done here. Lumberton is growing in grace and its fame as a town that is trying to be sanitary has spread abroad in the land. When its streets are all paved and a few little kinks are smoothed out it will be recognized as what it really is the best town of its size anywhere. District Agent of Farm Demon stration Work Visits Robeson and Bladen. Mr. T. D. McLean of Carthage, district agent of the farmers' co-operative demonstration work of the National Department of Agriculture, passed through Lumberton this morning on his way to Bladen county. He spent part of yesterday and last night with Mr. J. I Townsend, one of the men in charge of demonstration work in this county, at his home near St. Paul. Mr. McLean will spend some time each month with the local agents in this county, Messrs. J. I. Townsend and F. F. Purvis, and in Bladen during the farm ing period and have general over sight of their work. This work is of course along the line of en couraging better farming meth ods, raising home supplies, etc. It is work that is doing a vast amount of good and deserves the encouragement of all citizens. How to cure a cold is a uuestion in which many are interested just now. Chamberlain's Couch Remedy has won its great reputation and immense Bale by its remarkable cure of colds. It can always be depended upon. For sale by all dealers. PROHIBITION RALLY. Rev. R. L. Da vu, Superintendent of N. C. Anti-Saloon League, Will Speak at Court House on "Jugs and Blind Tigers Must Go" Everybody Invited. ' "Jugs Must Go-Blind Tigers Must Go" these are the twin topics upon which circulars which are beingdistributed all over town say Rev. R. L. Davis, superinten dent of the North Carolina Anti Saloon League, will speak at the court house tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock. Everybody is in vitedmen, women and children and it will be well worth one's while to hear Mr. Davis. He is a forceful speaker, tremendously inearnestin securing enforcement of the liquor laws, and he makes a convincing and entertaining speech. He has been engaged exclusively in this work for the past four years, has made a spc cilty of temperance reform work, and is conversant with the situ ation over the State and nation. Seats in the gallery will be re served for colored people. The Lumberton band will fur nish music for the occasion. B. Charge' of Misappropriating Pos toff ice Funds Released on Bond Mr. B. F. Stephens, whose resignation as clerk in the local postoffice was mentioned in a re cent issue of The Robesonian, was arrested Tuesday by Dep uty Marshal Boyle of Max ton on the charge of misappro priating funds and presenting false records to the assistant postmaster. Mr. Stephens waived examination before United States Commissioner W. H. Kinlaw, before whom he was taken, stating that he would not offer any defense until his case reach es the higher court, and was re quired to give bond in the sum of $700, in default of which he was taken to jail, where he re mained until about sunset (it was about 2 p. m. when he was taken to jail), when his bond was sign ed by Mr. C. B. Redmond and Mr. Stephens was set at liberty. He is charged with a shortage of $456.37. Mr. Stephens was clerk at the postoffice for several years until about two weeks ago. About three years ago the stamp ac count and books were turned over to him and he handled that part of the work exclusively. He claims that when he took over the books there was a short age which he made good and that since that time he has made good other shortages. He has sign ed an affidavit to the effect that he knew there was a shortage but that he never received a cent of it, Deputy Boyle made the ar rest at the instance of Postoffice Inspector W. F. Chester. The case will come up for trial at the May term of the Federal court in Wilmington. Mr. Stephens says he first reported the short age to Assistant Postmaster Edmund, who then sent for the inspector. Dr. and Mrs. Tebeau Return. Dr. and Mrs. A. C. Tebeau, who were married here two weeks ago last night, returned last night from Rocky Mount, where they had been since their marriage, and are at present at at the home of the bride's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Whaley, Elm and Sixth streets. Begin ning with next Monday they will board at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd C. Townsend, Chestnut street. It will be re called that Dr. Tebeau and his wife, who was Miss Ruth Whaley, were married without the con sent or knowledge of the bride's parents, at the home of the of ficiating minister, Rev. F. R. Card well, going thence to the Pasttime theater and sitting through the pictures . just as though nothing had happened witnessing a picture of a run away marriage while Mr. R. R. Carlyle arranged getting bag gage to the depot, and left town before the parents of the bride knew what had happened. But "All's well that ends well" You are probably aware that pneu- monia always results irom a cold. Dut you never heard of a cold resulting in pneumonia when UbamberiauvB uougn Remedy was used. Why take the risk when the remedy may be bad for a trifle? For sale by all dealers. TOWN MATTERS. New Guard House to be Built Permission Granted for Small Building on Elm Street But Held up for Further Consider ation. At a special meeting of the town commissioners Monday eve ning a committee consisting of Messrs. W. J. Prevatt. M. W. V W . ft rioyuandj. Lu btepnens was appointed to supervise the con struction of a town guard house, the grand jury at the last terra of court having recommended a change of place for keeping town prisoners. Heretofore the town has had an agreement with the sheriff to lock its prisoners in the jail. It is probable that a guard house will be built under the mayor's office and fire house, as one can be fixed rp there with very little expense. However, the matter of locking prisoners in the county jail will be looked into further and if the town's charter gives that right it will be continued. Mr. A. W. McLean was grant ed a permit for the erection of a frame building fronting 56 feet on Elm street and 50 feet deep, corner Elm and Second streets. covergld TAni tne outsioe wun corrugaiecnron and Cary's asphalt and gravel roofing. Mr. McLean contem plates building one-story tempor ary structures only, for use as small store buildings, to take the place of the buildings recently destroyed by fire. Since this ac tion the board has been advised by the chief of the fire depart ment that it is against a State law to grant permission for such a building within the fire limits and the matter has been held up until the board is advised by the town attorney, who has been out of town for a few days but is ex pected to return today. Republican State Convention to Meet in Raleigh May 15 Taft Endorsed. Raleigh Dispatch. 28th. The Republican State execu tive committee, J. M. Morehead, chairman, in a meeting here this af tei noon selected Raleigh and I May 15 for the meeting of the Republican State convention to elect delegates to the National convention. In resolutions adopted, the ad ministration of President Taft was endorsed and commended and he was declared to be the embodiment of progressive con servatism." The resolutions were adopted in executive ses sion, but it is learned tnat tne original resolution introduced by Thomas Settle, of Asheville, now an assistant for the Department of Justice in New York, endors ed and recommended the 're nomination and election of Pres ident Taft by the Republicans from this State aod the country at large." Thi3 was stricken out. Taft's position on the tariff was commended, as was his "un yielding attitude in opposition to the assaults upon the indepen dence and integrity of the courts of justice. . The committee with about 500 other Republicans are tonight at a banquet given by chairman Morehead. Mr. John Y. Smith, Formerly of Lnmberton, Elected President of Atlanta Democrats A recent issue of the Atlanta Journal contained a picture of Mr. John Y. Smith with the in formation that he had just been elected president of the city Democratic executive committee of Atlanta. Mr. Smith is well known in Lumberton,, having formerly lived here and being for a long time in the office of Mc Lean & McLean. He is a young attorney and has been making a great success. The office to which he has been elected is an important one and shows that Mr. Smith has won his way to the front in Atlanta. Rufus Moore, a young man, was roasted to death at Hazel wood, the manufacturing suburb of Waynesville, in a peculiar manner Saturday morning. He went into the furnace room of the Unagusta M'f 'g. Co. do re plenish the fires and get steam up for the day's work. His over alls were saturated with gasoline and when he opened the doors of one of the furnaces flames leaped out and set his clothes on fire. LOCAL BRIEFS Middling cotton today, 9i cents. Messrs. E. G. Sipher and F. D. Jordan went to Fairmont this morning to look after wiring the new theatre in that prosperous town. The Lumberton Presbyter ian church will make a special contribution Sunday for the re lief of the famine sufferers in China. At the Pasttime theatre to morrow night Miss Lucile Jones will sing two illustrated songs entitled "Mv Alabama Rose"and "Island of Roses." She will sing at 8 o'clock and again at 9. Mrs. A. W. McLean has been sick with diphtheria at her home on Chestnut street for the past few days. Her condition was considered improved this morn ing. Mr. C. B. Redmond, whose parlor grocery was burned out in the recent fire, has about gotten straightened out at his new stand on Fourth street, the old express office, with a new line of goods. .Arec ent, m eeti of- J&e r board of deacons of the freabv terian church the following offi cers were elected for this year: Messrs. H. M. McAllister, chair man; Jno. S. McNeill, secretary; T. C. Evans, treasurer. Mr. Frank A. Wishart, who for two or three years had been following the carpenter's trade in Wilmington, moved with his family a few days ago to his farm about three miles from town on route 3. He will farm this year. -Dr. B. W. Page will enter upon his duties as county super intendent of health tomorrow and his first day in office will be devoted to a visit to the schools at Barnesville and Bethesda with County Supt. Poole. It will be an important part of Dr. Page's work to see that sanitary condi tions are kept about all the pub lic school buildings in the county. -Mr. Geo. M. Whitfield sold Tuesday the 5-room house and 1 acre lot on Fourth street, oppo site Mr. Geo. G. French's resi dence, to Mr. H. C. Boylin. Mr. Whitfield recently purchased the house and lot from Mrs. A W. Bennett. It is less than three blocks from Elm street and is a valuable piece of property. Mr. Boylin and family occupy a house on an adjoining lot Dr. David A. Humphrey, of Saddle Tree, spent a short while in town Tuesday evening en route home from Burgaw, where he spent some two or three days looking over the situation with a view to locating there for the practice of his profession. He says that he has not yet decided exactly what he will do. Dr. Humphrey has a fine practice at home, but says he will make a chanee if the inducement is suf ficient -Dr. B. W. Page, who was elected county superintendent of health at a meeting of the county health board on the 19th inst, and Mrs. Page arrived Tuesday night from Raleigh, where they made their home while Dr. Page was connected with the State Board of Health, and are board ing for the present at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Caldwell, Caldwell street. They will begin housekeeping as soon as they can secure a house, une oi tne houses they have in view is the house on Fifth street recently vacated by Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Thomas. A small blaze on the roof of the house on Water street occu pied by Mr. Ira Bullard and family caused the fire whistle to be blown yesterday afternoon about 2 o'clock. Fire Chiet J. P. Townsend was at the power house at the time and he and others reached the house with hose in such short order that the fire had no chance at all-it was - put out before it got started good and before it had time to do any damage. The house belongs to Mr. J. H. Floyd. For the infor mation of those who do not know it may be well to state in this connection that the single blast . blown after an alarm of fie has been given indicates that the fire is out or under controL
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