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Established 1S70. Country, Qod and Truth. Single Copies Five Cent VOL XLIII NO. 23. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1912. " WHOLE NO. 2757 ; ! : : '( : r ! ' ' . 1 . 1 . '" GRADED SCHOOL CLOSING. Commencement Exercises Mon day and Tuesday Nine Mem bers of Graduating Class Graduating Exercises Far Above Average Prizes Awarded Notable Literary Address by Rev. Plato Dur ham on "An Undeveloped Re source of North Cnrolina" Two Splendid Entertainments at Opera House. Superintendent, teachers and pupils of the Lumberton graded school are to be congratulated cn their commencement exercis es for the year-1912. They were i nteresting and decidedly above the average. The entertain ments at the opera house Mon day evening by the pupils of the primary grades, Tuesday eve ning by pupils of the higher grades -r showed that there is considerable talent among the pupils and that that, talent is being trained to express itself; the graduating exercises Tuesday would have done credit to any school; and the literary address by Rev. Plato T. Durham, presid ing elder of Winstpn-Salem dis trict of the WesterrkNorth Caro lina Conference, was a gem of hiffh and noble thought and ex- pression that held the rapt at tention of a large audience. To begin with the graduating exercises for of course all cen tered about the graduating class beginning at 10:30 o'clock Tuesday morning in the school auditorium the following exercis es by the graduating class were held: " 'Tis Summer," chorus, by a large crowd of girls; salu tatory, Miss Mildred Williams; class history, Miss Ida Mae Ses soms; class poem, Miss Louise Town send; class prophesy, Miss Ruth Britt; trophy bearer, Miss Gertrude McConnaughey; class will. Miss Georgia Whitfield; i valedictory, Miss Lois Boone; "Farewell," song by class. The graduating class consisted of eight girls and one boy, the members besides those mention ed above being Miss Margaret Britt and Mr. Chappel Wilson. The officers of the class were: Chappell Wilson, president; Ger- trude McConnaughey, vice pres ident; Mildred Williams, secre tary; Margaret Britt, treasurer. The second number of the Lum berton High School Magazine, is sued just before commencement, contains the pictures of the grad uating class and all the exercises outlined above. It is qfuite an interesting number. All who took, part in the above given programme acquitted themselves well and it was all enjoyed by the audience which comfortably filled the auditorium. The appreciation of the audience was keen for every flight.of fan cy and flash of wit, and a spirit of fun ran through it all that was delightful. Where everyone's part was up to such a high stand ard, it would not be, just to single out any one for particular mention, but the trophies dis tributed by Miss McConnaughey must be explained. They, were supposed to be puculiarly appro priate and suggestive gifts; thus: a large lump of salt was present ed the seventh grade, Miss Ep sie Fuller being asked to come forward and receive it, for fresh ness; to Miss Vashti White, for the eighth grade, a bottle of ' -Electric Bitters" to bring aboat the desired change in that grade from dullness to brightness; to the juniors, "the most conceited class," a picture of a peacock; to Supt. Sentellej who is a mighty hunter, a dog and horn; to Miss McNair, teacher of mathematics, a mallet to heh her, pound a knowledge of Math. into the heads of the juniors and so -on, gifts too numerous to mention; all set forth in tbr magazine and each one bringing fresh laughter. Prizes were presented by Mr. Woodberry Lennon as follows: From x the music department, pupils of Miss Mary Weddell, two prizes, .first prize to Miss Hilda Weinstein for highest number of honor marks, second to Miss Drina Hedgpethfor most impr6ve ment; Miss Ethel Williams' pupils, two prizes, first to Miss Carrie- Mae Hedgpefh and second to Miss Viola Jenkins, -both for faithful practice; and from Miss Mary Jeffries, fourth grade, to Miss Lucile Jackson for ; best work in spelling. - Following this Supt. Sentelle delivered diplomas to the gradu ating class and at 11:30 o'clock the audience was dismissed to the First Baptist church, which had been tendered for the-4iterary address and where it had been decided to hold this part of the exercises on account of the greater seating capacity and bet ter acoustic properties of the church Following a violin solo by Mr. Woodberry Lennon, Miss Ethel Williams at the organ, two songs, "Onward Christian Soldiers" and "Ancientftf Days" by the school and the audience, and prayer by Rev. R. E. Steele, pastor of the Presbyterian church, the speaker of the occa sion, Rev. Plato T. Durham, was introduced by Mr. R. C. Lawrence in brief and appropriate words. He said that much was expected in this community of a man named Durham, for an honored preacher of that name lives here, and that the audience would not be disappointed, for the speaker was an orator and writer of note and belonged to a family tnat has done the State some service. "An Undeveloped Resource of North Carolina." 1 Mr. Durham's address is hard to report. Challenging the at tention of his audience with his firstordsr-hehehHvided-and rapt for the space of an hour thatf seemed, under the spell of his eloquence, but a mo ment. He lifted his audience clean out of itself, and within the sound of his voice there was none so dull but that felt the pulse of high purpose back of evoked by the serious message clothed in words so beautiful and simple and aptly spoken, withal, that they awakened something that ran like fire through one's veins. Nothing short of a ver batim report would do his ad dress justice, and this halting and feeble effort does ndt profess to convey a tithe of what it meant to those who heard and understood his message. His subject was "An Unde veloped Resource of North Caro lina." When our fathers re turned from the field of battle at the conclusion of the War Be tween the States North Caro lina's resources were undevelop ed, her mineral wealth was un tried, her fields were uncultivat ed, she had no educational sys temshe wa3 known for years thereafter as the Rip van Winkle of States; but now she is no lon ger under that reproach, her vast resources, which have been and are being developed, are known the world over, and thanks to that small company of men in cluding Mclver, Alderman and Aycock, whose hands unbarred the gates of the mind to her children, North Carolina is no longer known a3 an illiterate State. But there is still one de partment of our life which lies in undevelopment, one source of wealth untouched which shall open to us our fullest and final power one page still on which North Carolina's name has not been written the page of Liter ature. In no history of the lit erature of this country is the name of North Carolina written, though this classification he does not admit as just. There is John Henry Bonner, whose name de serves to be on that page; and he looks forward to the day when a name that is very dear to him, that of. John Charles McNeill, who at one time made Lumber ton his home and who was na tive to this section of the State, shall be written there. That North Carolina, with all her wealth of resources, is silent, must ask at the hands of Massa chusetts and Virginia and other States the things her own chil dren must know, the speaker de clared to be a great and lasting tragedy ; and he declared that he "wiiraBk','fifldiences'"M"'oyer''';'the State, as he has asked, Why is North Carolina silent? with the hope that he may awaken among her sons some. Milton or Carlyle or Tennyson. Why is North Carolina silent? No man has been able to answer it to his satisfaction, he said. One answers that it is a question of inheritance, a gift that runs in the blood of a people. And that is true. The genius of the He brew people was prophecy, and in all their , history, no statue was carved, no picture painted; Germany, music; France, art But who are we? We. are of the Continued -on page 8. . NEW TOWN OFFICERS. Retiring Mayor White and Old Board of Commissioners Turn Town Aff air3 Over to New Administration Headed by Mayor A. P. Caldwell Elec tion Vote Light An Error in . First Count of Primary Vote Corrected. The retiring mayor and old board of town commissioners met yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the city hall to round up their affairs and turn the busi ness of the town over to the new administration. The election re turns were canvassed and &H the candidates as declared by the primary on the 30th inst. were declared elected: mayor, A. P. Caldwell; commissioners J. D. Proctor, D. P. Walters, C. B. Redmond; school trustees R. D. Caldwell, Alf H. McLeod, Q. T. Williams, C. B. Townsend (re elected) ; board of audit and fi nance T. A. McNeill, Sr., Frank Gough, W. S. Britt (re-elected.) Chief of Police H. H. Redfern presented his final report on the collection of taxes and same was received and filed for the ap proval of the board of audit and finance. Mayor White and Town Clerk and Treasurer Page made reports, wnicn win De reported later. Mr. H. B. Jennings, one of the members of the board of commissioners who holds over another year, introduced a reso lution commending Mayor White and the retiring members of the board Geo. G. French, Jno. D.McMillan, J. L. Stephens for their able and honorable admin istration. The new mayor took bold and tried his first case this morning when Agnes Gilchrist, colored, appeared before him on a charge of disorderly conduct. The wo man was fined $10 and costs, all of which amounted to something over $17. The new administra tion has not yet met and organ ized, therefore they have no at torney and in the case tried this morning Mr. Robert E. Lee ap peared for the town. The vote in the election Mon day was light, only 119 votes be ing cast for mayor and the others on the ticket receiving one vote less, 118. In a re-count of the vote in the primary held on the 30th ult. it was found that the vote for mayor stood: Thompson, 160; Caldwell 169. The first count gave Caldwell a majority of two, which was an error on the part of the mana gers of the primary. INTO NEW STORE. Mr. A. Weinstein Moves Into His Handsome New Quarters Messrs. H. C. Boylin and K. M, Biggs Will Occupy Store Vacated by Mr. Weinstein. Mr. A. Weinstein completed yesterday the job of moving from the store on Elm street, at which place he has been in busi ness for about 12 years, to his new store, corner of Fourth and Elm. He now has all of his clerk force busy arranging goods in the new place, where he is better able to display goods than ever before. Mr. Wein stein says he . has a solid carload of drygoods on the road how which he expects to have opened up in his new place within the next day or so. The store va cated by Mr. Weinstein will be occupied by Messrs. K. M. Biggs and H. C. Boylin. Mr. -Boylin will occupy the front of the store, 30 feet back, and Mr. Biggs will have the remainder, about 55 feet first floor, and all of the second floor. This store adjoins the one Mr. Biggs now occupies and he expects to have two large doors put through thewall,. con necting "the two stores, which will add greatly to the appear ance and convenience of Mr. Biggs' store. The front of the first floor to be occupied by Mr. Boylin will be cut off by a parti tion and just as soon as this can be put in Mr. Boylin will move in. Mr. Boylin has a lease for the remainder of this year on the place he now occupies, between the stores occupied by Mr. John T. Biggs and Miss Josephine Breece, and says that he has not as yet made any disposition of it but expects to rent it Mr. and Mrs, A. A. Bethune, of Ten Mile, are in town today.. CLARKTON NEWS NOTES. Excellent Commencement Exer cise A Marriage Personal. . CorrMDOfuknc of Th Bobeaonian. Clarkton, May 7 Messrs. S. ;Meares and D. G. McKee attsnd- ed the Republican convention in : E'town Saturday. Mr. , Jim Fait returned last Thursday afternoon from Sampson county, where he and Mr. Walter ' Mac Duffie are engaged in a saw mill plant Mr. W. M. Monroe of Tar Heel spent toe week-end here with his . son. Miss Grace Hester of Bladen boro spent the week-end in town the guest of Miss Ruby Clark. Miss Jennie Evans of Fayetteville is the guest of Mrs. N. A. Currie. Mrs. R E. Lee. of Lumberton attenaed the closing exercises of the Clarkton academy last week, returning home Saturday. The commencement exercises of the Clarkton academy, which took place Thursday-and Friday, were attended by a large crowd each time, especially Friday night the auditorium was crowd ed to its capacity and many were left outside. Thursday night the intermediate , department under the management of Miss Lila Cochran, gave their concert, which showed some good work whijartthe xrWlut triiJ teachers. Friday morning the primary department gave some very pretty marches, drills, songs, etc., which showed the excellent training they had. At H o'clock Mr. O. L. Clark, in his usual clever way, introduced the speak er of the day, Mr. N. A. Sinclair of Fayetteville. Mr. Sinclair spoke on some practical points of education. It was to the point in every way, and showed that he knew what he was talking about. After the speaking dinner was served on the grounds. Talk about a good dinner, but it was there, and plenty of it, too. Every one seemed to enjoy it and ate till they could eat no more. The concert that night by the advanced students was above reproach. The faculty is to be commend ed on the year's work and the excellent program gotten up. Miss Nancy C. Monroe of Tar Heel is spending some time with relatives and friends. Last Thursday morning Mr. Lee, a well-known machinist, and a widow, Mrs. Sidney Hes ter, drove over to Whiteville, where they were married. They left the next day for Key West, Fla., to make their future home. We wish them much success. Miss Margaret Cromartie of Elizabethtown attended com mencement here last week. Communion services will be held at the Presbyterian church here next Sunday morning. There will be preparatory servi ces Friday and Saturday night and the regular services Sunday morning and evening. Miss Katie Smiti of Blaney, S. C, is spending this week with her parents here. She is accom panied by Miss Gertrude Evans. Mrs. S. Singletary, Jr., is spending this week with her mother at Orbit Messrs. T. L. and A. M. Wallace spent Mon day in Elizabethtown. --TheEliza-bethtown school was largely rep sented at the commencement ex ercises here Friday night Miss Katie Monroe of Whiteville was in town Friday. ' Dinglefoot. DEALS IN REAL ESTATE. Mr. R. Cv Lawrence Purchases Lots on Chestnut Street Plans for Large Things Per haps on Foot. Mr. R. C. Lawrence has pur chased from Mr. W.-I. Linkhaw two lots fronting Chestnut street, ad joining lots recently purchased from Mr. Linkhaw by Ir. Steph en Mclntyre. Thei;lJtf are 24 feet by 106, the two giving Mr. Lawrence a frontage of 48 feet on Chestnut streett ,The consid eration was $4,000,, i Mr. Law rence says that all of his plans have not materialized yet and therefore he is not in position to say just what he'expects to erect on this property, but it is expect ed that some, large things are being contemplated. Messrs. Mclntyre and Lawrence together now own five Ibuilding lots on this block, giving them a front age on Chestnut y street of 120 feet extending from the corner of Fifth and Chestnut ' A REMEDY. ' A Plan to Right the Wrongs Suf j ferW Under Ou Present Sys- tern of County Government. Tj Um Editor of Tb RobMoataiy Much is being said now about ! reforms being needed in our 1 county government I think the ! whole county is a unit on that : i a.ti . "jim. dui i nave not seen in pur ! ic print a remedy or plan to right tr.e wrongs. When we stop and taink we must admit that our county officers are as a whole tnen that will compare favorably with the average men, therefore there must be something wrong ith the system. My own opinion is, there is too much politics and not enough busing methods in the adminis tration of our affairs; too many officers and too much of their time, that the county pays for, Hevoted to the voter, hoping to keepthpjib. and not enough to ihe duties of the office. In other words, i: there were proper busi ness methods in force in oar coun ty affairs, the same discipline and requirements as is required oi tne employees ot a bank or some other well-regulated busi ness, I think better service could be secured at half the cost Let's our county convention a mass meeting , and all submit, plans looking to legislation necessary to bring the much-needed re forms. Anybody can knock. We all agree that improvement is need ed. Who will furnish a remedy' Mine is to organize the county affairs like a bank, let the people be the stockholders, the stock holders elect the directors, the directors elect the president or head and he employ his assistants and demand service for the money he pays them. It will take some special legis lation to get such system in force, but if we can adopt a plan we can pledge our lawmakers to enact proper laws to execute it A. J. McKinnon. Maxton, N. C , May 8, 1912. COUNTY SCHOOL MATTERS. Business Transacted at Regular Monthly Meeting of County Board of Education. The county board of education was in regular session Monday for the transaction of routine business. Mr. J. I. Stone, Jr. was ap pointed school committeman in district No. 4, Britt's township, to succeed Mr. W. H. Bullard, who resigned. An application for building a house in district No. 3, Lumber ton township, was presented and the board -"agreed to appropriate towards building said house half the coat above $400, formerly ordered by the board, provided the National Cotton Mill pay the other half of such excess and do nate a suitable site, and provid ed further that the total cost of the building shall not exceed $1,200. The following bills were passed : Freeman Printing Co., printing, $2; Eli Phillips, work in special tax election, $2; M. M. Single tary, register and poll holder in special tax election, $12; J. . F. McDonald, register and poll hold er in special election, $12. A number of rebates, all small, was allowed, all on account of errors in listing special school tax. Sixth District Republicans Name Roosevelt Delegates. The sixth district Republican congressional convention, held in Fayetteville yesterday, -instructed its two delegates for Roose velt R S. White of Bladen county and D. H. .Senter of Har nett were elected delegates to the Chicago convention. Mr. Iredell Meares of Wilmington was elected chairman of the convention. A number of promi nent . Republicans from various sections of the State were pres ent Those who attended from Robeson were W. H. Kinlaw, S. L. Parker, W. J. Currie, W. R. Atkinson, J. C. Snoddy, H. Mc Kay McNeill, N. T. Andrews, J. C. Brown. Mr. Marcus Allen, of route 5 from Lumberton; is in town to- LOCAL BRIEFS Middling cotton tt.day, U cents. Rev. A. B. Crura pier, of Clinton, will preach at the. Gos pel tabernacle Sunday morning and evening. Miss Annie McArthur, of Lumber Bridge, has accepted a position as saleslady in Mr. W. J. Prevatt's stor he be gan work a few das a-. Coroner G. E. Rar c -coroner sine the oldest innibitaat knows when will hav t . look to his laurels. Mr. Geo. A Barnes is after the office, is wul be seen from his announcement in this paper. The commencement of Phil adelphus hign schoui. Prof. R. L. McMillan principal, will begin tomorrow evening and last through Tuesday of next week. Governor Kitchin will be the speaker on the last day, Tuesday. As a result of injuries to his right hand, sustained at the Lumberton cotton mills, Mr. B. B. Britt was taken Tuesday to the Thompson hospital, where his right arm was amputated just above the wrist He is get-4Bg-alng-iciyr- At the past time theatre to morrow, besides the "-special Memorial Day pictures, "The Passing of the Gray," and the regular picture service, life-size pictures will be shown of Gen. Robt. E. Lee. Presidents Lincoln and Taft The pictures will be on from 10 o'clock in the morn ing. Veterans will be admitted free. -Messrs. A. E. White, W. E. Jackson, Geo. M. Whitfield and L. C. Lownsend went this morn ing to Red Springs to attend the Methodist district conference be ing held there this week. The meeting began Tuesday and will close tomorrow. Rev. J. W. Bradley, pastor of Chestnut Street Methodist church.and Mr. W. H. Humphrey are already at Red Springs, having gone Tues day. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. McLean returned this morning from Max tox, where Mrs. McLean for sev eral days had been at the home af her mother-in-law, Mrs. Lina A. McLean, and Mr. McLean ar rived at Maxton last evening from a business trip of two or three days spent in Baltimore, Md. Mr. McLean says that the condition of his brother, Mr. Hec tor McLean, who has been very ill for several months, continues about the same. UP ST. PAUL WAY. Rain Will Delay Crops -Wet in Georgia A Quilting. Cotrspondenc of Tba RobesonUn. St. Paul, R. F. D. 1, May 7- Planting corn is the Order of the day around here. Crops will be late on account of so much rain in this section. Some of the land is standing under water. Miss Maggie Alice Johnson spent last week at the home of her uncle Mr. E J. Johnson, on route 1 from Richardson, and re turned home Saturday accom panied by Mr. A. Z. Singletary and Miss Annie Louis. Mr. E. O. Johnson and family spent the week-end at the home of Mrs. Johnson's mother, Mrs. McCoy Rozier. near Lumberton. Miss Katie Broad well, who had been visiting and teaching in Anson county the past winter, is home, to the delight of her many friends. Mrs. N. T. Humphrey has gone to Sellers, S. C, to spend some time with her hus band, who is working there. Mr. James Johnson received news" Friday" from his son in Waycross, Ga., stating that it was so wet out there that the farmers could not do any work and they thought if it did not cease to rain it would be so thee would ot be- any crops made this year. Aunt Becky, we were glad to welcome you back to the columns of The Robesonian and wish you would write every week. Mrs. W. J. Johnson is to have a quilting this week and "Hazel Eyes" is invited. "Suffered day and night the torment of itching piles. Nothing helped me until I U9ed Dean's Ointment. The re sult was laatine." Hon. John R. Gar- reWMajorGir? 9
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