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ROB ESONIAN A Established 1870. Country. God and Truth. Single Copies Five Cent VOL XUU NO. 59. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1912. WHOLE NO. 2793 . 7 ' j PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER ENDS LIFE Rev. R. E. Steele, Pastor of the ' Lumberton Presbyterian Church, Commits Suicide by Taking Poisonous Drugs Funeral Yesterday Story of His Life. This town and community were greatly shocked Tuesday afternoon when it was announc ed that Rev. R. E Steele, pastor of the Presbyterian church, was dead. He died at 2:35 o'clock at the Presbyterian manse, Tenth and Chestnut streets, as the re sultTof taking poisonous drugs with suicidal intent He had been slightly ill for several days and seemed much dis tressed mentally, but the tragic ending of his life came as a great surprise. The funeral was conducted yes terday morning at U o'clock from the manse by Rev. Byron C. Clark of Salisbury, an inti mate friend of the deceased, as sisted by Rev. C. H. Durham, pastor of the First Baptist church of Lumberton, Revs. R. r N. Cashwell and I. P. Hedg peth, both of Lumberton, and in terment was made in Meadow Brook cemetery. The music at both the home and cemetery was by a quartette consisting of Messrs. C. B. SkijJper, Frank Gough. E. B. Freeman and Pope Stephens. The pall bearers, active, were Messrs. A. W. McLean, J. P. Russell, H. M. McAllister, John. S. McNeill, T. A. McNeill, Jr., and W. K. Bethune; hon orary, Messrs. J. A. McAllister, M. G. McKenzie. A. Nash and ex-Judge T. A. McNeill. The floral tributes were numerous and beautiful. Among the most at tractive designs were those given by the elders and deacons of the church, the Christian Endeavor Society, Ladies' Aid Society, Sunday school and the local troop of Boy Scouts of America, which Mr. Steele organized shortly after coming to Lumber ton. He also organized trje Christian Eadeavor Society. Deceased is survived bv his wife, four daughters Misses Cornelia, Louise, Marjorie and Dorothy and . one son, Mr. Robert E., Jr. At the time of Mr. Steele's death all the mem bers of the family were present except the son. He arrived this morning from Millard, Va., where since the first of July he had been with a civil engin eering force. He was unable to reach here in time for the fun eral. Robert Edward Steele was born December 5th, 1863, near Unyn'onn Va nnrl t.hprpfnrp would have been 49 years old next December. His father was a Methodist minister, Rev. W. C. Steele, who for several years was pastor of a prominent church in New York city. He was unit ed in marriage November 2nd, 1887, to Miss Cornelia FitzGerald of Brunswick, Ga., who survives. At the time of his marriage he was a professor of music, but shortly afterwards entered the ministry. For a year he did evangelistic work, then for about two years he was pastor of the Presbyterian church at Mt Varnnn Ci& Frnm Mt. Vernon the family went to New Orleans, La., where for about seven years, or until ine opanisn-Ainerican war. he was chaDlam of the American Seamen's Friend so ciety. At the outbreak of the war he went to Key West, Fla., here he organized a sailors 1-1 X 1 i ome. ror inree years lmrae- iatelv after the war he was haplain in the United States avy, the hrst year Demg spent ? ' -1-1. XT Vl. I n rsrooKiyn, new j.urn., wucre p. organized the Naval i. M. U. the last two years Deing nont on board the nartiord. r . 1 1 j. 1 A. J urine wnicn lime ne visiiea many parts oi me worm, ne pent three years at JNewport pws. where he organized a Merchant sailors' rest society 7nlCn lO DL111 111 CAlSbCUkC. A ear was spent in Boston, Mass., chaplain of the beamen s riend society, thence he went Rntten. Va.. and served as Utor of a group of Presbyterian hurches for tour years; tnence Lexington, va., where lor two afs he served as pastor Momouth Presbyterian hurch. He also preached at a ission church there, ror aoout yo years he was pastor oi a oup of churches at apencer, IREDELL MEARES HEADS TICKET. Nominated for Governor by Bull Meese and Roosevelt Republi cans When Walter Declines to Run Two Factions Unite on Ticket At a joint session in Greens boro Tuesday of the executive committee of the Roosevelt Pro gressive party and a committee of, the Roosevelt Republicans who bolted the Charlotte Re publican convention, Iredell Meares of Wilmington, who had been named as a State elector, was nominated for Governor in place of Zeb Vance Walser, who declined to run; V. S. Lusk was named to succeed Meares on the electoral ticket; Jas. N. Wil liamspn, Jr., withdrew as Char lotte nominee for Insurance Commissioner and Thos. McMul lens of Rocky Mount was named. All other nominations made at Charlotte were ratified. It was agreed to maintain separate organizations. Z. V. Walser was named as chairman and W. S. Pearson as secretary of the Progressive State commit tee. The Roosevelt Republicans agreed upon C. H. Cowles as chairman. Marion Butler, who was turned down by both factions at Char lotte, was a conspicuous figure in the meeting. His brother George was mentioned for the nomination for Governor ' when Walser declined and pro bably would have been the nominee, but Marion declared that, his brother could not make the race. A commit tee w,as appointed to redraft the platform adopted at Greensboro by the Progressive committee. The Roosevelt wing adopted a resolution declaring allegiance to the Chicago platform and the principles of the Republican party, though repudiating the nomination of Taft Advisory Committees ot the Democratic National Commit tee. New York Dispatch, Tth. Ail the candidates for the Democratic nomination for Pres ident before the recent Baltimore convention were today appointed the advisory committees of the Democratic national committee for the campaign of 1912 with William J. Bryan chairman. The candidates named were: Oscar W. Underwood, of Ala bama; Governor John Burke, of North Dakota, Governor Judson Harmon, of Ohio; Governor Eu gene N. Fobs, of Massachusetts, Speaker Clark, Senator John W. Kern, of Indiana, and Governor Simeon E. Baldwin, of Connecti cut. Their acceptances were re ceived by wire today at Demo cratic national headquarters. One more additional member from each State was appointed on the advisory committee. Among them is one woman, Mrs. E. J. Walsh, of Tacoma, Wash. The list as given out by the na tional committee includes: Alabama Henry D. Clayton, Bibb Graves. Florida-Duncan U. Fletcher, N. P. Bryan. Georgia A. 0. Bacon. Hoke Smith. North Carolina Lee S. Over man1, Julian S. Carr. South Carolina E. D. Smith, B. R. Tillman. Virginia-R. E. Byrd. R. Tate Irvine. Ice Cream Supper at Rozier. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Rozier, Sept. 9. There will be an ice-Ceam supper at Rozier school house Saturday night, the 21st inst The proceeds will be for the benefit of the woman's missionary society. Everybody is invited. cominsr from there to Lumberton. He served here one year this month. Mr. Steele was president of the State Christian Endeavor Society and presided at a State meeting of the society held recently in Wilmington. He was also State president of the same organization while in Virginia. Beside the immediate members of the family Mr. Steele is sur vived by one brother, who lives in Chiracm ntpn mother, In half brother and a half sister, who live in New York. SUPERIOR COURT. Cumberland County Chain-Gang Guard Who Shot a Negro at Buie, Mistaking Him for an Escaped Convict, Found Guilty of Manslaughter and Given Minimum Penalty Other Cases. The most important case dis posed of since superior court con vened Monday morning, Judge Stephen C. Bragaw of Washing ton presiding, was the case against C. F. Matthis, a Cumber land county chain-gang guard, for killing Pate Bynum, colored, whom he supposed to be an es caped convict The jury was selected Tuesday afternoon and after being out 25 minutes yes terday afternoon returned ver dict of manslaughter. Matthis was given the minimum penalty, four months in jail with leave to commissioners to hire out. Solicitor Sinclair, who was assisted in prosecuting the case by Mr. J. A. McLean of Fayetteville, did not ask for murder in first degree. The kil ling occurred at Buie last June. Matthis was hunting for an es caped convict He went to the trestle force at work on the Coast Line near Buie and think ing that Bynum was the escaped convict, whom he had never seen, according to the descrip tion given him, when Bynum refused to be arrested, shot him. Mclntyre, Lawrence & Proctor of Xumberton, W. C. Bullard and Stringfield & String field of Fayetteville represented the prisoner. . Other "cases have been dis posed of as follows: A. C. Smith, retailing; plead guilty; judgment suspended on payment of costs. John Whitted, c c- w., $20 and costs. Alex. Fulmdre, a. d. w. ; plead guilty; prayer for judgement continued on payment of costs and bond of $100 to keep peace towards Roscoe Fulmore, who voluntarily gave bond in same amount to keep peace toward de fendant. Walter Locklear, a. d. w.; plead guilty; prayer for judg ment continued on payment of costs. Sam Sanderson, c. c. w. ; plead guilty. Jno. McLean, c c. w. ; plead guilty; $5 and costs. Mack Goodman, retailing and c. c. w.; plead guilty; judg ment suspended on payment of costs. Jack McRae, c. c. w.; plead guilty; $10 and costs. Fletcher Cobb, c c w. ; plead guilty; judgment suspended on payment of costs. Fred Ellis, larceny and receiv ing; plead guilty; 12 months on roads. Van Walters, allowing stock to run at large; jury verdict of guilty in one case and plead guilty in another; prayer for judgment continued on pay ment of costs and defendant recognized in sum of $100 to ap pear at November term and show that he has fixed his fence so as to comply with the law. Neill Taylor, a. d. w. ; plead guilty of forcible trespass; judg ment suspended on payment of costs. Alex Blue and Sandv Preist, muddying waters fishing, appeal from justice of the peace, plead guilty; judgment suspended on payment of costs. Henry Graham, c. c. w., and forcible trespass; plead guilty; $5 and costs in first, judgment suspended in second. Nathan Bruce, retailing; guilty; a. d. w., on trial. A number of cases have been continued and Nol. Pros., with leave or otherwise, has been en tered ir a number of other cases, Mr. R. F. Simmons of Fayette ville was presented to the court Monday by Mr. A. W. McLean and sworn in as an attorney. Messrs. J. E. Carpenter of Maxton, V. C. Bullard and D. M. Stringfield of Fayetteville and R. S. White of Elizrfbethtown are the out-of-town attorneys attending court besides those mentioned in Monday's paper. Mr. J. M. Monroe, of Tar Heel, was in town Tuesday and brought the editor a box of the most delicious scuppernong grapes he has tasted -this-season. Needless to say, they were great ly appreciated. WHAT'S DEMOCRATIC TICKET ? State Democratic Executive Comittee Will Decide That and Other Matters at Meeting in Raleigh September 19. Raleigh Special. th to Wilmington Star. Chairman Chas. A. W3bb, of the North" Carolina Democratic executive committee, issued a call tonight for the State commit tee to meet in Raleigh Thursday night, September 19th, "to transact such business as may come before it" It is understood that at this time there will be thrashed out the matter of what further spec ification, if any, there shall be by the committee as to what con stitutes the "Democratic ticket" rh nualifvinc the voter to partici pate in the senatorial primary in which Senator Simmons, Gover nor Kitchin and Chief Justice Walter Clark are pitted against each other. It will be remembered that Governor Kitchin made formal demand some weeks ago on Chairman Webb that the com mittee be called together to act He is contending that the com mittee should interpret the rule adoDted bv the State convention for the primary by declaring that Democratic ticket" must mean the complete national and State tickets with, possibly, some right to scratch one or another of the names of State or county candidates on personal grounds. There will be other matters bearing on the conduct of the campaign that will be laid before the committee by Chairman Webb. . East Lumberton Brevities. i Reported for The Bobesonian. The public school opened Mon day morning with Prof. A. B. Mercer of Howellsville, princi pal. His assistants are Miss Annabel Blackwell, also of How ellsville, who has charge of the second grade, and Miss Janie Carlyle of Lumberton, who has charge of the first grade. A splendid corps, this, and the suc cess of the school is assured. Sunday was a good day with us. There were splendid congre gations both morning and even ing. The order was excellent and the attention serious. This is nn figment of the imagination. for our people have been brought up that way. There were as usual a goodly number of visitors representing other communities, whom we were glad to welcome. The Sunday school was well attended also. Among the num ber of visitors recognized were Dr. M. L. Hooper of Goldsboro, who made a splendid address in behalf of the boys and young men.and the clever mayor of Lum berton was introduced to the school and on the occasion of his first visit to our Sunday school he made a few brief but pointed and interesting remarks in which he expressed his deep and abiding interest, faith and confidence in the great Sunday school work. Rev. Mr. Hartsell preached for our people by invitation Tuesday night. He is a very earnest preacher and our best wishes fol low him wherever he may go. The pastor, together with Mrs. Fleming and Mrs. Laura Bullock, went to Bladenboro yesterday to attend the marriage of the lat ter 's brother, Mr. F. F. Hayes, an account of which will be given in the columns of The Robesoraan later. J. M. Fleming. Notices of New Advertisements. "The first step is all the diffi culty" Bank of Lumberton. C. K. Morgan announces can didacy for road commissioner. Report of condition of the Bank of Lumberton. "Under direct supesision of United States government" First National Bank. House and lot in Lumberton for sale-Geo. M. Whitfield. Excursion from Lumberton to Richmond. Land for sale in Howellsville township. Runaway boys advertised. Farm for sale near Clinton, Sampson county. Executor's notice Everett Atkisson. ' Executor's notice W. S.At- kjBS01liS?!!i---; ' 1 - ;" - Report of condition of Farm ers & Merchants Bank. GRADED SCHOOL OPENS WELL Largest Opening in History f the School Committee Ap pointed to Investigate Finan cial Status of School Visiting and Advisory Committees Ap pointed. The Lumberton graded school opened for the fall term Tuesday morning with the largest num ber of students it has ever had on an opening day. The num ber present was 329, which was 26 more than were present on the opening day of last term, when the record up to that time was broken. Several visitors were present at the opening exercises, in which Rev. C. H. Durham, pastor of the First Baptist church, and Rev. J. M. Fleming, pastor of the East Lumberton Baptist church, assisted the superten dent, Rev. R. E. Sentelle.. All the teachers were present except Miss Patrick, who was detained in order to attend a wedding and arrived yesterday. The teachers are as follows: Misses Fannie Knight of Raleigh, first grade; Pennie Rowland of Lumberton, second grade; Winifred Rowland of Lumberton, third grade; Mary Jeffress of Canton, fourth grade; Marguerite Townsend of Union, S. C, fifth grade; Nina Patrick of Lowell, sixth grade; Elizabeth McNair of Maxton, seventh and eighth grades; and Hassie Lou Ponder of Mar's Hill, Madison county, ninth and tenth grades. Supt Sentelle as sists in teaching the four high est grades. Miss Knight had 511 tots on the opening day, which shows that there is nothing short about the crop of little folks in Lumberton, though it is proba ble that some of these are under the age limit, 6 years, and the number may be reduced when these are sent back home. AH the teachers belonged to the faculty last year except Miss Patrick, who succeeds Miss Ma mie Avent, who, as has been mentioned in The Robesonian, resigned to accept a Behoof at Pembroke. Misses Ethel Wil liams of Lumbertdh and Mary ! Weddell of Tarboro have charge of the music department again this year. At a meeting of the board of trustees, of which Mr. C. B. Townsend is chairman, Monday evening Messrs. R. D. Caldwell and W. S. Britt, members of the board, and Supt Sentelle were appointed a committee to inves tigate with the town clerk and treasurer the financial status of the school and it was ordered that all vouchers against the graded school fund be made out in the office of the superinten dent ,and a record of the num bers and amounts be kept At the request of Supt. Sentelle two other committees were appointed, one to be known as the visiting committee of the board, the duty of which shall be to visit the school, composed of Messrs. L E. Whaley and Alf H. McLeod; the other to be an advisory com mittee, to advise with the super intendent and act in conjunction with him in anything pertaining to school matters, composed of Messrs. Q. T. Williams and W. S. Britt The school starts the fall term with the brightest Of prospects. Off For School. The following young ladies have left for school during the past few days:Misses Agnes Mc Lean, Monday evening, Southern Presbyterian College at Rgd Springs; Georgia Whitfield and Anna Neal Fuller, Tuesday, for Greensboro Female College; and this morning, Lina Gough, Edna Prevatt, Annie Ruth Caldwell, Marie Linkhaw.Mildred Williams, Mildred and Lillian Mclntyre and Lillian Nance, for Meredith Col lege, Raleigh. These young lad ies, and others who are away at school, will want The Robeson ian while away from home. Let it follow them. The Seaboard authorities have made a change in the ap pearance of things at the local station by placing an iron rail ing between the railroad track And the sunken carden which will be fixed up, maybe, about the artesian well near the sta tion. Before putting up this rail in er there was some danerer of passengers - falling off the'-enr-bankment in getting off night trains. ' BRIEF LOCAL NEWS ITEMS Cotton today. 11 18 cents. Mr. Sam A. Branch has for several days been sick at his home, Third street His condi tion today is not thought to be much improved. . The condition of Mrs. A. R. 1 Small, who has been confined at her home, Second and Cedar streets, with typhoid fever for the past three weeks, is improv ing. Mr. S. H. Hamilton and family moved last week from a cottage on Third street to the hoase at the foot of Walnut street recently vacated by Mr. E. B. Huggins and family. "Pathe Weekly No. 20" and "Enchanted Fifer" will be the feature films at the Pastime theatre tonight These two reels wiil be run in addition to the regular two-reel service. The town authorities are to be congratulated on their efforts to improve the public watering places over town. Cement troughs have been placed at five of the principal watering places. This was a much needed im provement -Mr. John Prevatt, of Raft Swamp, was among the business visitors in town Monday, and in formed The Robesonian that the flour mill at Pembroke will open Monday for business. Mr. Pre vatt will have the management of the mill this season. Mr. T. F. Reeves, one of the buyers of the Fairmont tobacco market, was in town Monday af ternoon on bus;ness and says the Fairmont market will close for this season the 26th of this month. Mr. Reeves says lots of tobacco is being handled and good prices are paid. Mrs. Octavia Thomas, who spent some months here last win ter and spring keeping house for her cousin Rev. C. H. Durham and caring for his children, re turned Monday night from Ridge rest, where she spent some time, and is again at the home of Mr. Durham, Fifth street Today and tomorrow being Jewish holidays the stores of, Messrs. A. Weinstein, H. Dunie' and Blacker Bros, are closed. The stores will be opened Satur day morning. During the two days services will be conducted at the synagogue, Seventh street, by Rev. J. Golsten of Charlotte. Quite a number from adjoining towns are here s to at tend these services. 39 North Carolina Counties Quarantined on Account of Texas Fever. Washington Soeciai, th, to Charlotte Observe. It was announced tonight by the Department of Agriculture that the counties of Moore, Har nett, Johnston, Northampton, Bertie, Gates, Chowan, Perquim ans, Pasquotank, Camden, Cur rituck, Edgecombe, Martin, Washington, Tyrrell, Dare, Hyde, Beaufort Pitt, Wayne, Sampson, Cumberland, Hoke, Scotland, Robeson, Bladen, Greene, Lenoir, Craven, Pamlico, Carteret, Jones, Duplin, Onslow, Pender, Colum bus, Brunswick, Hertford and New Hanover are quarantined, because of Texas fever. From the counties in the State of North Carolina quarantined for splenetic, Southern, or Texas fever, cattle shall only be moved or allowed to move interstate to points outside of the quarantined area in accordance with the reg ulations of immediate slaughter. In Re the Erection of a Union Station at Maxton. Raleigh Correspondence. 9th. Wilmington Star. The Corporation Commission announces that the S. A. L. Rail road has withdrawn its excep tions to the order of the Com mission for the erection of a union passenger station at Max ton on the site of the present" Seaboard freight depot and the Commission modified the order to the extent that the Seaboard has until September 23d, to submit plans and specifications for the union station to the Commission. The Atlantic Coast Line is to use the station with the Seaboard under lease term that the com panies are to- agree upon, .the, Commission intimating that jf any difficulty irrthis respect "de velops the Commission will make an order settling this matter also.
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