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ROBESONIAN
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Established 1870.
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VOL XLUI NO. 51.
LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1912.
WHOLE NO. 27C5
LUMBER BRIDGE LOCALS
A Successful Meeting-The Pri
mary A Good High School
Personal. GoRMOQiidme. of Tb. Robwonian.
Lumber Bridge, Aug. 13. Rev.
J. W. Rowell closed a meeting
which lasted a week at the Bap
tist church here, on last Sunday
night Rev. Mr. McClelland of
Maxton did the preaching. The
people were highly pleased with
him. His sermons were clear
cut logical, convincing, and are
destined to accomplish great
good. Nine members were
added to the church, 2 by letter
and 7 by baptism.
The- farmers in this section
are somewhat discouraged. Crops
are cut short on account of the
drought Cotton is not fruiting.
While the weed is unusually
large, a lot of it will not make
more than one-half of an ordi
nary yield. Some of the farmers
are consoling themselves with
the fact that if the crop is short
they will not have so much to
gather.
Mr. W. A. Chason, our very
efficient road overseer, is doing
some much-needed work. He
has gone over the road from the
Red Springs township line to the
Cumberland county line, via:
Lumber Bridge and Parkton.
This stretch of road is now in
fine shape. He has now nearly
completed the work on the road
from Lumber Bridge to St. Paul's.
Mr. D. J. Graham and daugh
ter Miss Bonnie, of Cordele, Ga.,
are visiting their people here.
Mr. Graham was raised near this
place and went to Georgia 16
years ago and is extensively en
gaged in farming. He says
crops are fine in his section, but
the army worm has made its ap
pearance, and he fears the crops
will be seriously damaged.
Mr Arch Usher, who is taking
a commercial course at King's
Business College, Raleigh, is at
home for a few days.
The primary passed off quietly.
While we were somewhat disap
pointed at results, we must sub
mit cheerfully to the inevitable
and do all in our power to elect
the entire Democratic nominees
from President to township con
stable. We had hoped that this
section of the county would be
represented on the board of
county commissioners. There
were four candidates whose hats
were in the ring and we had
hoped one of them would be
nominated, as all are good men
and well qualified for the place,
3 of whom are eliminated from
the second primary. We have
one candidate who will be before
the people in the second primary
and we sincerely hope that the
voters of Robeson will come to
our aid and help us nominate
him. I think in justice to all
concerned the commissioners
should be distributed so that
every section of the county will
be represented. Should we fail,
you can start at Lumber ton, go
via St. Paul's, Lumber Bridge,
Parkton and the uttermost bound
ary of the county and we have
no representation on the board.
I think you can see the justness
of our cause and I believe that
a spirit of fair play will impel
you to vote for our candidate.
Mrs. A. L. Shaw and daugh
ter Miss Lena, Mr. L. L. Shaw
and wife and son little Angus,
have gone to Jackson Springs to
spend several days.
Mrs. Neilt Shaw has returned
from Jonesboro, where she had
been for about two weeks visit
ing at the home of her son Rev.
A. W. Shaw.
Master Macon Williams of Wil
son is visiting Mr. D. B. Mon
roe, our affable and efficient
depot agent
Mr. U. A. rarreii oi winston-
Salem spent a couple of weeks
Mr. J. il. Jones, who was
room mate last year at Wake
Forest College. He left here
Saturday for Wnghtsville to
spend a snort time Deiore re
turning nome.
Prof. H. a. Jones, principal of
ii- I 1 I
our pUDiic niK" Bcnuui,- oaa re
turned to Lumber bridge from
Chapel Hill, where he spent two
months of the summer in study,
and is now perfecting the ar
rangements for opening school
on September 2nd. He states
that the plans ior tne coming
session have developed with per
fect satisfaction. The larger ap
portionment which was asked
for was secured, making it posj-
sible to secure a larger teaching
force and offer a fourth year of
high school work. The arrange
ment for accommodating stu
dents who wish to come here
from a distance in a club build
ing and in homes of the village
will do much for the school and
at the same time will serve a
good purpose in the educational
work of the county. Our school
has the distinction of being the
second State high school estab
lished under the law of J 907,
which provides for the system
of State high schools. The school
has moved forward rapidly dur
ing the last two years. Our
principal, who has had the finest
support of our efficient commit
teemen. Messrs. M. L. Marley,
W. S. Cobb and L. L. Shaw, has
done a constructive work, and
we are expecting greater things
during the coming session. From
the standpoint of experience in
important positions and prepara
tion for the work, the assistants
are considered the strongest
teaching force the school has
ever had, and we have been for
tunate at all times in having effi
cient teachers. Jawbone.
Mexicans Attack Pasenger Train
and Brutally Murder Soldiers
and Passengers.
UaJoa citar Dispatch, 12Ui.
Thirty-six soldiers and more
than twenty passengers were
slaughtered by Zapatistas in a
canyon 110 miles southeast of
Mexico City yesterday when a
passenger train southbound from
this city was attacked from am
bush. Only meagre details had
reached this city tonight. So
far as known only a part of the
train crew escaped.
After a murderous rifle fire
had ceased the rebels swarmed
down the hillside and set fire to
the' three cars composing the
train. A few of the wounded
had crawled out on to the right-of-way,
thus escaping the fate
of those unable to leave the cars
who were burned. According to
reports, the leader of the rebels
made absolutely no effort o res
train his men from acts of brutal
ity. The wounded, pleading for
their lives, were struck down
without pity and even looting
was held in abeyance until the
slaughter was complete.
Not satisfied with robbing their
victims in an ordinary manner
the fingers of men and women
were chopped off with machetes
that rings they wore might be
more quickly obtained. Or
naments were torn from ears of
women and their bodies were
otherwise mutilated.
A Disappointed Lover Tries to
Blow a Young Lady Up With
an Infernal Machine.
At High Point last Saturday
W. H. Busbee, manager of the
express office of that place, and
his cashier, Alton Morton, were
seriously injured by the explo
sion of an infernal machine when
they opened a package that had
remained in the office since last
December. The package was
addressed to Charlie Hoover,
and there was no such person in
the town to deliver the package
to and it had remained undeliv
ered. The police began investi
gating immediately and found
that the package had been sent
from Thomas ville and was billed
to Ollie Hoover, a young lady of
Thomasville, instead of "Char
lie" Hoover, daughter of Mrs.
Howard Maxwell, and it is
charged that the package was
sent to her by Ed. R. Mclntyre,
a well-to-do young man of High
Point who had been attentive to
Miss Hoover and whose atten
tions had been refused. Mcln
tyre became angry when Miss
Hoover repulsed him and threat
ened to "blow her up with a ma
chine he had." Immediately af
ter the explosion of the package
Mclntyre left town. His move
ments were traced to Asheville
and to Barbor Junction, but at
the latter place he was lost It
is thought that he is trying to
make his way to Birmingham, to
the home of a brother. The po
lice of two States are on the
lookout for him and h&will prob
ably be caught before this gets
into print
The sixth ahnual meeting of
the Country Bankers Association
of North Carolina will be held at
Wrightsville Beach Thursday and
Friday, August 22 and 23.
OVER PRESIDENT'S VETO.
House Passes Wool, Steel and
Iron TariffRevision Bills Over
Taft's Veto.
Waahinatoa Diapatch. ISth.
By the narrow margin of five
votes, the House today passed
the wool tariff revision bill over
President's Taft's veto. The
vote, 174 to 80, was made possible
only by the defection of 21 Re-
Eublicans who voted with the
eraocrata. The announcement
of Democratic success created a
wild scene in the House and
amid great confusion the Repub
lican leaders protested that
Speaker Clark must count as
voting ten members who an
swered "present" to their
names, a ruling which would
have defeated the Democratic
program overcoming the five-vote
margin and making impossible
the recording cf the necessary
two-thirds vote of the House.
This the Speaker declined to do.
While Democratic and Pro.
gressive leaders of the Senate do
not believe the wool bill can be
passed in that body over the
President's veto, they will con
tinue the demand for action on
the cotton tariff measure.
Not in the memory -of the old
est member of the House has a
tariff measure ever been passed
over the President's veto by the
lower branch of Congress.
Neither Speaker Clark nor Ma
jority Leader Underwood could
recollect such an occurence.
WuhingtOB Ditp.tab, 11th.
Repeating its action of yester
day when it passed the wool tar
iff bill over President Taft's
veto, the House today re-passed
the vetoed steel and iron tariff
bill within two hours after it
had been returned from the
White House with the Presi
dent's veto message. The vote
was 173 to 83, a margin of only
two over the two-thirds neces
sary to over-ride the President
The Progressives Get Busy Re
publican Party in North Car.
olina a Neglible Quantity.
Col. W. S. Pearson, a welli
known former Republican of
Charlotte, now a Progressive and
active for Col. Roosevelt and
Johnson, returned Sunday night
from Chicago, where he attend
ed the convention of the Progres
sive party, and in an interview
published in Monday's Charlotte
Observer said' that the Progres
sive mass convention would be
held in the State, at a time and
place to be named later, for the
purpose of selecting an electoral
ticket for the new party. Col.
Pearson declared that the Re
publican party in this State na
tionally is a neglible quantity.
He does not believe that Presi
dent Taf t will receive 5,000 votes
in the entire State and he does
believe that Roosevelt and
Johnson will receive a large vote
in this State, "a staggering
one," he predicts,, "to the hopes
of the Taft supporters." Head
quarters for the Bull Moose party,
otherwise known as the Progres
sive, were opened Monday in
Greensboro under the general
supervision of National Commit
teeman J. HWilliamson, Jr.,
with Col. Pearson in charge.
(50,000 for Indian School at
Pembroke.
Fifty thousand dollars for In
dian school buildings at Pembroke
was provided in a bill by Senator
Simmons which passed the Senate
on the 8th. It also appropriated
$10,000 for care of the buildings
the first year after their erection.
For the first time in the his
tory of the United States a Sec
retary of State has been desig
nated as special ambassador to a
foreign power. President Taft
has assigned Secretary of State
Knox as special ambassador to
Japan to attend the funeral of
the late Emperor Mutsuhito on
September 1, with the statement
that the mission was given to
the Premier of the Cabinet as an
evidence of the American friend
ship for Japan. When Viscount
Chinda, Japanese ambassador to
Washington, heard of the mis
sion, he asserted that it would
be taken by the Japanese people
and government as an act of the
greatest courtesy and one calcu
lated to make even warmer and
more cordial the existing rela
tions 'between the two governments.
COUNTY GCCTEXT&I BITS.
Results of Primary as An
nounced in Monday's Robe
sonian Correct With One Ex
ception Second Primary to
Select One Member of Legis
lature, Two County Commit
sioners and Road Commis
sioner for District No. 1 .
Delegates to the county con
vention, one from each town
ship, met here Tuesday to can
vass returns from the Democrat
ic primary held last Saturday.
The results as published in Mon
day's Robeson ian were found to
be substantially correct, there
being only a few minor errors
which did not change any re
suits announced in that issue
with one exception no candi
date for road commissioner in
district No. 1 received a major
ity and in the second primary
Mr. W. P. McAllister, who
received 624 votes, and Mr.
Ira Townsend, who received
404 votes, will be voted for.
The other candidate in this
district was Mr. D. B. McNeill,
who received 283 votes.
So accurate was the tabulat
ed vote published in Monday's
Robesonian that that table was
used in checking returns, and
there were very few correc
tions to be made.
The nominees as officially de
clared are as given in Monday's
Robesonian except, as men
tioned above, there was no
nomination for road commis
sioner in district No. 1, and the
candidates to be voted for in
the primary to be held on the
24th inst are as follows:
For Legislature, Dr. B. F,
McMillan of Red Springs, Dr.
W. A. McPhaul of Lumberton.
For '.county commissioner, 4
year term, J. F. McKay, C.
A. OUter, Jno. W. Ward, M.
L. Marley.
For' ' road commissioner, dis
trict N. 1. W. P. McAllister,
Ira Townsend.
A Change at the Lumberton
Drug Store.
Mr. Howard McLarty. who
for about two years had held a
position as pharmacist in the
Lumberton Drug Co. store, re
signed a week or so ago, to be
effective today, to accept a posi
tion with Park Davis & Co., a
wholesale drug bouse of Balti
more, Md. Mr. McLarty left
yesterday afternoon for his home
in Monroe, where he will spend
about six weeks and thence he
will go to Baltimore to begin
work October 1st He has a host
of friends here who will regret
to learn of his departure. Mr.
McLarty is succeeded by Mr. G.
W. Hart, of Rocky Mount, who
arrived Tuesday and began
work yesterday. Mr. Hart has a
wife and five children and ex
pects to move his family here
just as soon as he can find a
suitable house for rent.
Among the Sick.
Mr. A. M. Hartley, stenog
rapher in the Lumberton cotton
mill office, has been sick with
fever for several days at the
Thompson hospital. His condi
tion is not thougnt to be serious.
Mrs. Ira Wilkins. of Bellamy.
has been a patient since Tues
day at the Thompson hospital.
She is getting along nicely and it
is exDected that she will be able
to return home in four or five
days.
Woodmen and Sunday School
Picnic.
There will be a Woodmen and
Sunday school picnic at Antioch
BaDtist cnurcn. o miles soutn oi
Lumberton on the Whiteville
road, Saturday of this week, the
17th. Thera will be both Sundav
school and Woodmen SDeakers
and it is expected that it will be
a most enjoyable occasion. Every
body is invited to come and bring
well-filled baskets.
Oh Happy Day."
Mr. M. G. McKenxie, Robeson's
handsome and veteran treasurer
who was renominated in the
county primary last Saturday, is
also superintendent of the Pres
byterian Sunday school, and
Sunday morning, with the joy of
victory fresh upon him, he an
nounced as the first song during
Sunday school that good old
song, "Oh, Happy Day, That
Fixed My Choice."
East Lumberton Church Notes.
rUd tar Th Bob ln.
Owing to our absence in a re
vival meeting with our church at
White Oak, Bladen county, last
week, Rev. J. M. Hester of 8t
Paul's filled our pulpit at East
Lumberton Sunday morning and
evening, and to our delight good
things are said about the excel
lent services he rendered.
Our pastorate with these good
people ceases at the close of this
associational year. We are very
much concerned for their yr$l
fare; but having been with them
seven years we feel like some one
else should take hold of the work
which we have loved and enjoy
ed so long, while we joyfully
take up the work elsewhere as
the Holy Spirit shall lead.
Our meeting at White Oak,
covering nine days and closing
Sunday, was a glorious success.
Rev. R. G. Kendrick of Greens
boro was with us six days and
preached the Gospel in demonstra
tion of the Spirit and of power.
He does not appeal to the feel
ings but to the hearts and lives
of the people, taking for his ex
ample the methods employed by
the Master.
Mr. Kendrick is at Ray n ham
this week with Pastor Bridgers
of Fairmont and will also aid at
Back Swamp and Pleasant Hope
before returning to bis home.
Congratulations and blessings on
both pastor and people.
J. M. Fleming
Gaddysville Grits.
ComaMmdaoca at Tb Boboaoniao.
Fairmont, R. F. D. 1, Aug. 12
The writer and his father
spent Friday p. m. in the grow
ing town of Fairmont
There is another great town-4
Lumberton. We have heard it
"cussed and becussed" butofo
body believes it and the ones that
are kicking it around just say it
to have something to say.
The writer's father received
letters from those red-hot office
men every day last week. There
are so many that it looks like
there could be enough to fill that
office so badly prayed for.
What ails the people? It's an
office and its a county. Thty
seem to want a court house and
county in every town3hip in the
State.
Mr. !Franklin Burns of Ashe
boro, is visiting his brother Mr.
J. R. Burns.
Mr. Frank Page of Latta, S
C, is visiting his wife's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Burnes.
Bill
Notices of New Advertisements.
Final summer sale White &
Gough.
$10 reward offered.
Milch cow for sale.
Notice of summons, Mrs. Etta
Dunn Marley vs. A. J. and
M. L Marley.
Dr. W. A McPhaul states po
sition. Spartanburg school of telegra
phy. Automobile painting, trimming
and upholstering.
Dr. B. F. McMillan's position
on division of the county.
Marion, the highest tobacco
market in South Carolina.
J. B. Regan has qualified as
administrator of estate of Geo.
Sinclair.
Mrs. Maggie Norment has qual
ified as executrix of estate of Dr.
R. M. Norment
Adjutant General R. L. Letnster
Dead,
Wilmington Star. 16th.
Adjutant General Roy Lutterell
Leinster, for the past 20 months
in command of the North Caro
lina National Guard, died yester
day morning at 9:30 o'clock at
the James Walker Memorial hos
pital, where he Was carried last
Saturday, after he had suffered
a stroke of paralysis at the Qrton
hotel while on his way to Fort
Caswell, where the companies of
the Coast Artillery Corps, N. C.
N. G.. are in annual encampment
Mrs. Barna Allen land Miss
Josie Allen, of Troy, arrived
here vesterdav afternoon from
Jackson Springs and until this
morning were guests at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. F, P. Gray, go
ing from here to Fayette ville.
Kra T r. Rmtnn hf PavaHa.
ville, spent yesterday in town a
guest at the home of her sorr-in-law
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
r. r. uray. second ana wainui
streets.
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Quite a crowd of the young
folks picnicked Tuesday at the
High hill, about three miles east
Of town on the river.
The Presbyterian Sunday
school is picnicking today at
Page's Mills, S. C. Between 75
and 100 picnickers went down on
the regular train and will return
on the regular train this evening.
"Mrs. Maggie Norment has
been appointed temporary post
mistress by the bonding com
pany in which her late husband.
Dr.' R. M. Norment was bonded
until an appointment is made by
the Post-office Department
-Mr. KarlJansen, the well
known Swedish-American let
turer who visited Lumberton two
years ago, arrived this morning
and lectured at the teachers' in
stitute this morning. He will
also be one of the institute lec
turers tomorrow.
The Corporation Commis
sion Tuesday made an order that
the Seaboard and Atlantic Coast
Line build a union station at
Maxton, work to begin within
30 days. The site of the new
station is to be the old Seaboard
freight station. It is supposed
that the building will cost about
$5,000.
.In the brief item in Mon
day's paper referring to Mr. T. C
Evans successor as cashier of
the Farmers and Merchants Bank
Mr. Barnes' initials were given as
T. C. , It is Mr. Kr M. Barnes, of
course, and not Mr. T. C. Barnes,
who is a deputy sheriff. Mon
day was a strenuous time in this
office and it is a wonder mora
mistakes , like that were not
made, tv
V !.'4Mtv: J. B. Richardson re
turned the first of the week from
Defunlack Springs, Fla., where
he went the last of May to be
with his brother Mr. P. W. Rich
ardson, who died on July 4 of
cancer of the throat Mrs. Rich
ardson spent most of the time in
Charlotte while her husband was
away, -returning home last week.,
Mr. P. W. Richardson is survived
by his wife and 3 children.
The house occupied bv Jno.
McEachern, colored, on Mr. J.
E. Carlyle's place near lxwe,
was entered some time between
10 a. m. and noon Tuesday and
robbed of two suits of clothes,
two pairs of slippers and a shirt
and csp belonging to Lemuel
McEachern and $4.40 in money.
No one was at home at the time
and there is no clue to the thief.
Lemuel offers $10 reward for the
return of the clothes.
Wilmington Star. 13th: Ac
companied by Mr. I. L. Cald
well, cf Lumberton, Messrs.
Arthur Newkirk and D. B. Leon
ard, of this city drove in the lat
ter's automobile from Lumber
ton to Wilmington yesterday,
leaving there at l o'clock and
arriving here at 8. Messrs. New
kirk and Leonard had been at
tending a house party given by
Mr. Caldwell and the latter came
with them to spend some time
as the guest of Mr. Leonard.
In a letter to the editor
from Charlotte, dated August
13. Rev. C H. Durham, pastor
of the First Baptist church of
Lumberton, stated that it was
his intention to go to Hender-
sonville within a day or two to
stay about two weeks and that
he had his daughter Wilma in a
hospital in Charlotte on that
day to have her tonsils removed.
Mr. Durham's daughters, little
Misses Wilma, Margaret and
Kathleen, went to Gastonia sev
eral weeks ago to visit relatives
and Mr. Durham joined them a
few days ago.
Miss Gussie Cameron of
Manly, S. C, who was attending
the teachers' institute here, re
ceived a telegram yesterday af
ternoon advising of the death at
Manly yesterday of her uncle
Mr. J. E. Buchan, a former'
South Carolina State Senator.
Miss Cameron left for Manly
this morning:. Mr. M. G. If c
Kenzie, who was a special friend
of the deceased, was also notifi
ed of the death and will go to
Manly tomorrow to attend the
funeral A daughter of Mr.
Buchan, Miss Flora, taught at
Saddle Tree last fall, and anoth
er niece, Miss Florence Buchan,
taught at the National Cotton
Mills, West Lumberton, last falL
Mrs. Buchan is a sister of Mr.
Giles Robertson of Rowland.