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r E -ROBE SOMAN !l!l ' f Established 1870. Country, God and Truth. Single Copies Five Cent VOL XLIII NO. 11. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 28. 1912. WHOLE NoT2745 - " . , . - 1 ' 1 T : 1 1 FAIRMONT NEWS LETTER. Death of Mrs. May Thompson Kyle Protracted Meeting Closes A New Residence Personal. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Fairmont, March 26. -The protacted meeting of the Baptist church closed Thursday night of last week and while the visible results were disappointing, yet we trust much good was done. Rev. Mr. Kendrick returned to Greensboro on Friday bearing with him the good wishes of many new friends. Mrs. Judith Griffen of route No. 1 is quite ill at this writing, but improving. Her son Mr. Robt. who lives near Whiteville, was summoned last Saturday and spent several days with his mother. Mrs. Nettie Ashley, who has also been on the sick list for some time, is now improving. Mr. George Calhoun left last week for an extended visit to relatives at several Northern cities. Miss Louise Morrell, a charm ing young lady cf Baltimore, Md., is trimmer for Miss Lewis' millinery parlors tor the spring season and . Mmi&ijtroperty owners within by the young people Messrs. McEachern and Mc Innis, and possibly a few other Mc's, of St. Paul had some motor experience in our community last week on their way to and from Gaddysville. Come again, gentlemen, when the sun has had a few days chanc on our roads and you will have a more favorable opinion of our south Robeson. Mr. Kelly Bray is building a nice residence on South Main street and will, with his lovely young wife, go to housekeeping in the near future. Mr. D. A. Blue of Raeford was the welcome guest of his son F. L. last week. Misses Fannie Belle Taylor, Bes sie McLeod, Mildred MeCubbins and Maggie Floyd made a jolly party who spent last Saturday with friends in Boardman. They enjoyed the hospitality of their friends so much that only stern duty called them home. The entire town was greatly shocked and grieved over the sudden and untimely death of Mrs. May Thompson Kyle, which sad event occurred on Sunday afternoon. May was known and loved by everybody, a dear sweet girl, married but two short years ago, and her young husband and the large tamiiy circle are re ceiving the sincere sympathy of friends. She leaves a lovely baby girl only a few hours old as a loving remembrance of her sweet self. She was a sincere Christian and we feel assured of her safety and rest. Miss Eva Thompson of Oxford Seminary and Edgar S. Thompson of Dell high school were called home to the funeral of their sister, as also Mrs. N. A. Carter and little Miss Frances of Laurinburg, aunt and cousin. Mrs. Taylor Fisher of Parkton and Mrs. Julian Moore of Raleigh were among those from a distance who were here for Mrs. Kyle's funeral. We are sorry to report Miss Annie May Smith not at all well. She left Tuesday for her home at Raeford. 0. I. Floyd left last Monday for a business visit to Baltimore, Md. Mr. Sam Dunie is among the spring goods in Baltimore and other points. Broad Ridge Breezes. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Lumberton, R. F. D. 4, March 25 Our Sunday school was not very well attended Sunday on ac count of inclement weather. Mr. Joseph Bullard spent to day in Evergreen on business. Our school will give its exer cises Thursday night, which will consist of speeches, songs, dia logues and tableaux. The farmers are busy prepar ing the soil for another crop. Our Sunday school is prepar ing to sing at the quarterly at East Lumberton Sunday. "Winter Rose." John R. King, of Raleigh, a flagman on the Seaboard Air Line, was shot to death Tuesday night at Norlina by tramps he was trying to force off his train, a freight running from Raleigh to Richmond. REDUCE INSURANCE RATES. A Plan to Equip the Fire De partment so as to Give Lum ber ton Second Class Rate of Insurance Instead of Third Class. a A plan has been hit upon by which Lumberton's fire depart ment may be equipped so as to place the town in the second class as to insurance rates, in stead of the third class, as at present, by simply paying to the town, instead of to insurance companies, the difference be tween the third and second class rates for a period of three years. Mayor A. E. White and Chief J. P. Townsend, of the fire depart ment, were appointed recently to investigate the cost of equip ping the fire department so as to give the town second-clas3 insur ance rates, and they estimate that the difference between the amount now being paid under the third-class rate and the second-class rate for a period of three years will be sufficient. In view of these Tacts the town au thorities and the fire depart ment make the following propo sition to all property owners ithm he town limits the town obligate themselves to pay to the town of Lumberton, for a period of three years, the difference between the costs of insurance in the third class, which we are now in, and the second class, in which, by the proper equipment of the fire department, we will be placed, the result of which obligation will be the material reduction of insurance rates and charges that now exist in the town of Lumberton; or, in other words, the securing of the second-class rate of insurance upon all property of every description within the town: and. further that after the expiration of the said period of three years all citi zens of the town will be relieved entirely from all costs or obliga tions above the actual rating of a second-class basis of insur ance." In order to put this proposition before the people the following petition is being circulated: "We, the undersigned citizens and property owners of the town of Lumberton, do hereby peti tion the mayor and the board of commissioners of the town to proceed at once to so equip and organize the fire department of the town so as to place the town within the second class fire in surance rate or basis; and we do hereby agree and obligate our selves each to pay to the town of Lumberton the difference in cost between the third-class rate or basis of fire insurance and the seCoTYd-class rate or basis for a term of three years from the date jf change from the third class to the second class, wnich difference we understand to be 35 cents on the $100 insurance on merchandise in brick stores, about 25 cents on the $100 on brick stores, and 15 cents on the $100 on residences. " This petition is being circulat ed by Mr. J. P. Townsend, chief of the fire department, and as it does not mean any additional out lay and means that better pro tection will be afforded, of course it is hardly probable that any body will object to signing it, Revival Services. Rev. E. G. Glenn of Greens boro, a Methodist evangelist, is conducting a series of meetings at East Lumberton and Rev. J. W. Bradley, pastor of Chestnut Street church, asks The Robesonian to state that on account of this meeting there will be no preach ing services at his church Sun day morning and evening. Mr. Glenn's meeting, which began last Sunday, probably will close Sunday evening. A series of revival services will begin at the Gospel taberna cle Sunday morning. The pas tor, Rev. F. R. Card well, will be assisted by Rev. A. B. Grumpier of Clinton, who has assisted in former meetings at this church and is well known here. It is expected that there will be something worth while at the Lumberton opera house next Thursday evening, at which time and place there will be giv en a concert by the Truman j quartet, Lumberton orchestra and the new brass band. . U x ; : y yx.j7 f v "fcr MT. ELIAM MATTERS. Annual Fast-Day and Praver meeting Better Keep Kick ingNot Much Road iWork Being Done. CorresDundence of The Robesonian. Mt. Eliam, March 25 The services which were held at the church here Thursday and Fri day of last week were well at tended and much enjoyed. Rev. C. B. Thompson was here Thurs day in the interest of Meridith College. A collection of about $200 was taken. Friday was our annual fast day and prayermeet ing to ask God's blessings on our efforts during 1912. There is no better place in all the world to live than on the "Mount." One of Mr. W. F. Britt's chil dren died one day last week. Croup was the cause of its death Mrs. H. S. Nye of Orrum spent the week-end with her sisters, Mesdames J. I. Stone and I. V. Britt, of this place. 'Tis said that once upon a time when a lady put a pail of sweet milk into a spring to keep it cool two frogs got into the pail of milk and couldn t get And the frogs soon got kicking and one gave it up drowned, while the other out. tired and kept kicking till he had caused the butter to come; and when the lady came for her milk she found it all churned and the frog sit ting on a ball of butter, doing fine. So we see it don't pay to give up as frog No. 1, but keep kicking and better things will come. The executive committee of the Farmers' Union will meet at the court house in Lumberton the first Monday in April at 10 o'clock. Miss Minnie Thompson of Bladenboro is visiting relatives here this week. It has not been long since we heard a tax-payer say he would be pleased when the road officers got enough money so some could be put on the roads. We only know there is not much work done on our roads. For the information of the lo cal secretaries of the Farmers' Union, we will say our postoffice address is Orrum and not Mt. Eli am, as some may think. As usual in the spring months, the people are complaining about dogs eating eggs, but it seems to be worse this year, as they say the cats are eating them too. Woe unto your egg-eating cats and dogs. Mr. and Mrs. Jno. E. Britt of Broswell spent the week-end on the "Mount." Rah for the F. E. and C. U. of A., the greatest of them all. Happy Jack Washington, March 27. Sena tor Stephenson, of Wisconsin, octogenarian millionaire, banker and lumberman, retains hisseat. By a vote of 40 to 34 the Senate today declared his election valid and rejected the charge that $107,793, which the Senator ad mitted spending in the Wiscon sin primaries, had been used cor ruptly1. A Brief Explanation of Disposi tion of Walker Case by Solici tor Sinclair. To the Editor of The Robesonian: In view of the correction of the statement about the Walker case, made in your issue of the 12th inst., it will be unnecessary to publish the statement sent you by me. It is only necessary to say.'ithat the case has never been finally disposed of, but is still on the docket today. My motion for judgment was con tinued by the judge (not with my consent) because the judge had doubts as to the defendant s mental condition, a number of his neighbors having sworn at the trial that his mind was not right. I am satisfied that no injustice was intended by any one, that the whole mistake grew out of an honest misapprehension of the facts by your informant, and that it would be profitless to give the matter any further consider ation. The entries upon the court docket will disclose the facts to any one who cares to know them. N. A. Sinclair. Fayetteville, N. C. Demonstration of Cameron Ranges at R. D. Caldwell & Son's Lectures on Domestic Science. The celebrated Cameron malle able and ingot iron ranges being demonstrated this week in the hardware department of R. D. Caldwell & Son's big department store are attracting large crowds. Mrs. J. M. Whitted of Durham is demonstrating the stoves and is giving interesting lectures on domestic science, lectures that are well worth the while of any one. One of the many things she teaches in the use of her stove is economy in the use of wood. As Mr. R. D. Caldwell expressed it, "It looks as though she will not use an armfull of wood in the whole week of cook ing." Mrs. Whitted prepares many dainty and palatable dish es. Yesterday she prepared steak cooked in paper bags and black chocolate cake with boiled iceing. Today she will prepare "surprise" salad, mayonaise dressing and cheese and tomato rarebit. Tomorrow she will pre pare chicken eri paper bags, French peach pies, and demi tasse. Saturday she will fix shad en paper bags, potato rose, bis cuit, etc. These demonstrations are well worth the while of any who may care to attend them. Mack McQueen and Hattie McEachern, both colored, were placed in jail here this morning by Chief of Police S. H. Dunlap of Maxton on a charge of retail ing. Sampson McEachern, fath er of Hattie, was also tried and bound to court, but he gave a $500 bond for his appearance. They were given a hearing be fore Mr. McKay McKinnon, may or of Maxton, and one witness testified that he had purchased as much as 40 gallons from the accused. Fined for Cruelty to Animals Negro Bicycle-Riding Nuis ances. A negro riding a bicycle ran over a hound belonging to Mr. Jas. Kerr, near his home, Pine and Twelfth streets, yesterday afternoon, injuring the dog so eriously that it will have to be killed, and another negro, also on a bicycle, close behind the first one, slowed up long enough to kick the injured dog, which was one of the most valuable hounds Mr. Kerr owns. Mr. Kerr did not wait for a police man but got on his horse and went after the negroes. He found the one who ran over his dog, Gennis Gilmore, at Prof. Allen's school, and brought him up town and turned him over to a policeman. Gilmore was taken before Acting Mayor M. W. Floyd, but as exceeding the speed limit was the only thing the town executive could hold him on, and as there were no witnesses present to prove that, Gilmore was in a fair way to be turned loose. But Mr. Kerr had him tried a few minutes later before Justice J. A. Rowland on a charge of cruelty to animals and he was taxed $5 and costs. The negro who kicked the dog, Cephas McNair, who is wanted on the same charge, has not yet been arrested. Mr. Kerr says that in the part of town in which he lives negroes recklessly riding on bicycles are a nuisance negro boys who ought to be at work. There is evidently some work for the of ficers to do along the line of giv ing vagrant young negroes trouble. Aycock Will Open Campaign in Raleigh April 12. Raleigh Special. 2.Hh, to charlotte Observer. Ex-Governor Charles B. Ay- cock will open his campaign with a speech in the auditorium here pnl 12, He returned from Philadelphia, where he took a special treatment the past month in a well-known sanitarium with a view to attaining lull restora tion to his old-time health and strength, preparatory to getting into the campaign for United States Senator that he will wage with Senator Simmons, Governor Kitchin and Chief Justice Walter Clark of the Supreme Court as opponents Governor Aycock is greatly improved in health and will get into the senatorial cam paign forthwith. He says a most distinguished North Carolina ed itor (Major Hemphill of The Charlotte Observer) has said that the people of North Carolina want Aycock for Senator, but there is no chance for him to win because he has no money, no or ganization and controls no ma chine. He say3 he proposes to put this up to the people of the State and see if it is a fact that it has come to pass that the peo ple's real choice cannot be named for the. lack of either money, ma chine or organization. He ex presses the utmost confidence that he will win out in the sena torial primaries. LOCAL BRIEFS Civil court next week, Judge R. B. Peebles presiding. Middling cotton todav,10.12 cents; good middling, 10i. Mrs. M. G. McKenzie, who has been very sick for some time, is improving. The fence around the yard where the Messrs. French bach elors live, Walnut and Fifth streets, is being torn away, which is of course improving the looks of the place. Mr. W. W. Singletary won the dinner set given away at the Pasttime theatre Tuesday eve ning. Manager Wishart says that he will give away another set next Tuesday evening. Miss Iris Cashwell. who i3 teaching at Branchville. near Maxton, came home yesterday. She had to close her school a few days on account of measles. The school will possibly be reopened next week. Mrs. I. P. Hedgpeth, super intendent of the Sunbeam work of the Robeson Baptist Associa tion, left this morning, and Mrs. W. J. Prevatt will leave this evening, for Monroe, to attend the woman's missionary meeting being held there. Other dele gates to this meeting were men tioned in Monday '3 Robesonian. -Cards reading as follows have been received here: Graduating Recital Elizabeth College, School of Expres sion Mi98 Irene McLeod Friday evening, March tho twenty ninth nineteen hundred and twelve at ha'f after eight o'clock college Auditorium charlotte, North Carolina. Miss McLeod is the daughter of ex-Sheriff and Mrs. G. B. Mc Leod of Lumberton. In some places on Chestnut street where street crossings are being paved it is quite a dip from the sidewalk to the level of the crossing it's like going down into the cellar at one step. Mr. O. C. Norment calls attention to the fact that a person who has not perfect use of his legs will have difficulty in negotiating some of these steep places. He suggests that the crossings ought to rise to the level of the sidewalk and slope gradually to the center. A horse belonging to Mr. Elmer Stephens, who lives 2 miles from town on the Harlees ville road, became frightened Tuesday afternoon about 3 o'clock while hitched near the residence of Mrs. C. P. Stephens, on Fourth street, and ran, turning over the buggy to which it was hitch ed and dragging it side up into the lot beside Messrs. Britt & Stephens' livery stables, where it was caught. The buggy top was torn to some extent and the horse's feet were hurt slightly, but no great .damage was done. The horse, which was driven to town by Mrs. McNeill, became frightened at a wagon bed into which it stepped. State Republicans Will Meet and Protest Against "Lily White" Methods. Raleigh Special. J'th. to Grcensboru News Notice was received in the city today of a call by the chairman of the executive committee of the "Republican party of North Car olina," for a meeting in Raleigh next Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock. This Republican party, says the call, represents no fac tion, but it does oppose the or ganization of "lily white "parties in the Southern States, and at the meeting here next week the members of the committee show their disapproval of present state of things. will the It has been four years now since the negro Republicans of North Carolina held a meeting. The first was at Greensboro and the second was in Raleigh. At these gatherings the "lily white" element was scored, and at the meeting next week there should be a repetition of the dose. Just as there have been no. negroes at white Republican conventions for years, there will be no white Republicans at the convention to be held here save the reporters and correspondents and a few curious onlookers. 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