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1 ONIAI KOBES Established 1S70. . Country, God and Truth. Single Copies Five Cento T ' VOL XUII NO. 91. "LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1913. WHOLE NO. 2825 LEGISLATURE MEETS WEDNESDAY. North Carolina General (Assembly Convenes Wednesday for a Session of 60 Days Important Legislation Expected Proposed , Loca) Legisla ' ion. - The North Carolina General As sembly convenes Wednesday "for its regular biennial session of 60 days. More than the usual interest will cen ter about this Legislature, for it is expected that legislation of more than usual importance will be enacted. The most important law this Legis lature will be asked to make will be to provide for a school term of six months. Also it will be asked to pro vide for compulsory .education be tween t:. ages of 6 and 12 or J5 years. Besides these two important matters, a State-wide primary law is proposed, reform in our system of assessing property for taxation, child labor and health legislation, a blanket form of commission government for. towns and cities, the lorrens system of registering land titles. In addition to keen interest in the matters mentioned above and other general legislation, the people of Robeson county feel most interest, perhaps, in what sort of road law will 8e given the county this time. y The past several Legislatures have been asked to change the road law for this county, ' and' each time it has been found unsatisfactory. The present roadlaw, passed by the Legislature in 1911, has come in for the usual amountof kicks and, like its immediate predecessors, it will probably be rele gated to the scrap pile by this Legis lature and a new law enacted. Town ship meetings have been called to be held Saturday of this week,,, as has been mentioned in The Robesonian, to give the people a chance, to say what changes, if any, they want made in the present law, the townships at these meetings to elect delegates to a county meeting to be held it the Kourt house in Lumberton on the li$$hn inst., when the county's representa tives in the Legislature will be pres ent to learn the will of the sovereign people. After the road law there" are sev eral things in which the' people of Robeson are interested. There has been some tajk of a recorder's court for the county in fact all the candi dates for the Senate expressed them selves in favor of a recorder's court for the county, and 'Senator McLeod will advocate a measure providing for such a court. There has been some talk, too, of providing for the election of the county superintendent of pub lic instruction by the people, structlon by the people. Robeson's county officers were plac ed on a salary basis by the last Legis lature and so far as has been observ ed the new plan is giving satisfaction and there is no desire on the part of the people to change. A change back to the fee system would be going backward, of course marching 'up the hill only to march clown again. The office of county superintendent of health was created by the last Legislature and it has met with gen eral favor. It is perhaps . the most important office in the., county cerT tainly it can be made woTth more to the county than any other two offices and it is presumed that no change will be made there. There is strong sentiment through out the county against creating any new offices for Robeson. Ex-Sheriff Geo. B. McLeod, of Lum berton, Robeson's v representative in the Upper House of the Legislature, will leave for Raleigh this evening. The county's representatives in the Lower House are Mr. H. C.McNair of Max ton and Dr. B. F. McMillan of Red Springs. In the Mayor's Court. John Broadway, colored, was taxed $5 and costs in the mayor's court this morning by Mayor Pro Tern. James Proctor for a display of insolence at the Seaboard station last evening just as passenger train No. 39 was coming in. Mr. Badger McLeod, who was leaving for Staunton, Va., to resume his studies at Staunton Military Acad emy after the holidays, was in haste to get to the baggage room. The negro blocked the way and would not budge. Badger shoved him aside and Broad . way raised a stick to strike. Badger's ' father ,ex-Sheriff G. B. McLeod, grab bed the stick and called an officer. The negro would not get out of the way when Chief Redfern told him to and was inclined to be heap big muck-muck. That did not suit the officer and ' Broadway ws locked up to think it over till litis morning. It did not come out on trial, but it is understood that the thing that had the most soothing effect on Broadway was a pistol with which he was con fronted in the hands of Mr. Alf. H. McLeod, who had just arrived on the Raleigh & Charleston train, on which he was relieving Conductor King, and so of course he had a perfect right to have the gun; and Mr. McLeod helped arrest the negro. Thursday from Atlanta, Ga., "where he purchased a car-load of mules for .his sales stables. , SEVERE WIND STORM A Gale Sweeps Atlantic Coast States and Does Much Damage to Proper ty Small Damage in Lumberton. A south-west gale swept the At lantic Coast 'States Friday with great fury. In its path it left much dam age to shipping and property and crip pled wire communication. Storm warnings were displayed on the At lantic from Eastport Me., to Wilming ton this State. A Washington dis patch of! the 3d states that Newport News, Norfolk and Richmond suffered the heaviest damage from the storm. Shipping at Newport News was considerably damaged, roofs of dwellings were lifted and the city cut oft from communication with the out side world part of the day. Nor folk suffered some property damage and demorilization of wires and much damage was done to property. The gale was so terrific at Newport News that the water from "the James river surged up into the lower streets of the city with the violence of a tidal wave. Damage amounting to several thou sand dollars was' done in Durham, con .fined to glass in the windows of homes and business houses, roofs and tele phone lines- Locally the wind rose about 4:30 a. m. and continued to blow a stiff gale all day. Those-who happen ed to fie ewake in the early morning hours or who were awakened by" the violence of therwind were uneasy as to what might happen. Some signs were blown down, some awnings were whip ped, to pieces, part of a box-ball alley in rear of the postoffice was blown down, one of the smokestacks at the power plant was broken off near the top,, the . damage' being slight; and the wind did other minor capers. Some long distance telephone lines Were put out of business, but all have been repaired and are in working or der .except the line from Lumberton to St. Paul, - and it is expected that that will be put in shape today. President Taft Makes Funeral Ora tion Over His Own Political Corpse. New York Dispatch, 4th. President Taft , presided here to night at what he styled his own "po litical wake." He made the funeral oration over his political corpse; ask ed modest praise for the deeds that he did while he lived in the White House; recited at length the cause that led to his "demise," amj attacked the ene mies he held responsible for his tak ing off. ' The President was the only speaker at the Republican "re-organization" dinner, given at the Waldorf-Astoria, to more than 1,000 Republicans from all over the country. He spoke for more than an hour. His defense of his administration was the legislative results it had produced; his reply to personal criticism was .that he had been more misunderstood tha"n blame worthy. His attacks upon his politi cal opponents confined almost ex clusively to the Progressives was not bitter, but sorrowful. In spite of all the misrepresenta tions, the unrest, the present-day de sire for change, the President said, he saw in the future a return to the old ideas of government, the awaken ing of the people to an understanding that social changes must be made slowly and with suft steps. He closed with an appeal to Republicans who left the party to return and join hands with the.millions who remain ed faithful. ' In the course of his speech, the president made his first public refer ence to Colonel Roosevelt since the close of the campaign, asserting that probably one million voters, normally Republican, cast their ballots for Mr. Wilson, "in oroer to avert the danger of Mr. RooseveltJs election." A Score of Lives Lost in Chesapeake Bay. Newport Nevs, Va., Dispatch, 4th. Eight survivors of the Julian Luck enbach, rammed and sunk in Chesa peake Bay early yesterday by the British tramp , Indrakuala, arrived here today and told of how 22 of their number had gone down without a chance for life. The fortunate eight of the crew were taken from the rig ging of their sunken ship by the Dan ish steamer Pennsylvania and brought here.. The Luckenbach, from Port Tampa to Baltimore, was about to anchor off the Tangier gas buoy, at the mouth of the Potomac, early yesterday when .the Indrakuala caught her and cut her practically in two. She went down immediately v and only the men on deck had a chance for life. The Indra kuala, badly damaged and in danger of sinking, drew off and beached to save herself. Captain Gilbert of the Luckenbatch and his wife were among the lost. Foils a Foul Plot. When a shameful plot exists be tween liver and bowels to cause dis tress by refusing to act,: take Dr. King's New Life Pills, and end such compel riffht a action of stomachfliveVT and bowels, and restore your health and all good feelings. 25c at all druggist;. FARMERS' AND WOMEN'S INSTITUTES Premiums Offered for Best Loaf of Bread and Best Five Ears of Corn Farmers and Their Wives, Sons and Daughters Urged to Help Make the Institutes. Worth While. v f 1 In Thursday's paper was published dates of farmers' institutes which will be held this month in Robeson and nearby counties under the direction of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture . Several institutes are to be held in this county next week and Mr. J. A. McAllister of Lumberton and other well-known farmers are par ticularly anxious, that they be made as successful as possible and that the attendance be large. The following from Mr. T. B. Parker, director of institutes, will be found of espec ial interest: "Please announce that farmers' and women's institutes will be held in your section as per below. Also please an nounce that a premiumof a year's sub scription to a goodmagazine will be given the girl or woman living on the farm who will bake and exhibit the best loaf of bread, the following rules to be observed: "Bought or home made yeast may be used, but bread made by the "salt rising" process will not be awarded a premium; nor will bread scoring less than 75 points, out of a posible 100 points for perfect .bread, be given a premium. The following score card will be used: Flavor, 35 points; lightness, 15 points; grain and texture 20 points; crust-color, depth and tex ture, 10 points; crumb color and mois ture, 10 points; shape and size, 10 points; total 100 points. Size of pan recommended, 7x2x3 inches. r "We will also offer a prize of one year's subscription to a good agricul tural journal to the farmer exhibiting the five best ears of corn. Also a year's subscription to an agricultural journal to the boy under 17 years old who exhibits the highest scoring 5 ears of corn. However, no award will be made unless the exhibit is meritor ious and worthy of a premium. "To win either of the above prem iums care must be taken in selecting the five ears of corn. The ears should be of uniform Jength, that is, all of them practically of the same length; uniform in size; in shape, size and color of grain; in color of cob, either all of the cobs in an exhibit red or all of them white. The corn must be sound and considered good seed corn, and well filled at the tips and butts of the ears. "We want the farmers, their wives, sons and daughters to come out to the institutes and make them worth while. To get the most out of them they peed to show their interest by asking questions of the speakers, and giving their own experience along lines of the discussion. "I will very much appreciate it if you will urge your farmer friends to attend. Get them to take their fam ilies and go prepared to spend the day. The institute belongs to them and iL is their privilege to get the most out of them. v "T. B. PARKER." State Director of Institutes. Dates of Institutes. For the first party: January 13 Lumber Bridge. January 14 Red Springs, January 15 John Station. January 16 Lumberton. January 17 Dublin. January 18 St. Paul. January 20 Wrightsboro. January 21 Burgaw. January 22 Battleboro. January 23 Fairmont. January 24 Chadbourn. January 25 Tabor. Making Ready for Inauguration of Locke Craig As Governor. Rafeigh News and Observer, 4th. Rapid work is now to be done by the citizens of Raleigh to make the inauguration of Hon. Locke Craig as Governor a notable event, one worthy of the capital city and of the distin guished man who is for the next four years to be at the head cf ths State administration. Steps were taken yesterday to put into practical shape plans for the in auguration exercises . to be held on Wednesday, the fifteenth of January, and from now oh the members of the various committees which are to be in charge will be Busily engaged in pre parations to make the day noteworthy. These committees of Raleigh citizens will work in harmony with the committees to be appointed by the General Assembly. The plans to be worked out are those for the escort of Governor-elect Locke Craig to the city, his reception here, the military and civic parade, the reception to be given to the public and the inaugural ball as the closing fea ture. The military of the State is to be invited and cared for during the stay' of the companies in Raleigh, in vitations are to be sent to all the mayors of towns in North Carolina to attend, the one hundred chairmen of the county Democratic executive com mittees are to be invited to be pres- Cltlzens from eacTi county. IHf uie yuipuse oi me comrmiiees , to make the occasion, one of State-wide interest. NORTH CAROLINA IN LEAD. Increase of $15,000,000 in Total Re v Sources of State Banks. Raleigh News and Observer, 4th. The increase of fifteen million dol lars in total resources of State banks in North Carolina during 1912, ac cording to the figures of the Corpora tiort Commission has evidently put North Carolina in the lead of her sister 'States on either side in total resources of State banks. The last figuresfrom South Carolina and Vir ginia have not yet been received, but the relatively greater percentage of increase maintained by the North Car olina State banks for several years makes it practically certain that the gain of eight millions made by the North Carolina banks from Septem ber to November of this year puts the North Carolina State banks in the lead in total resources. There .is a good prospect that the State banks will pass the hundred million mark in 1913. The items of chief interest are these: The total amount of resources for the "year 1912 amounted to $33,583, 741.32, as against $68,400,179.97 for the year 1911. The gain was over fifteen million dollars. Time certifi cates of deposit for year 1912 amounted to $9,052,061.62 as against $7,162,265.40 for 1911, an increase of $1,889,796.43. Deposits subject to check for 1912 were $86,943,411.72, as against $28,016,265.40 for the corres ponding period, an increase of $8,926, 665.55. Saving deposits showed $11, 586,, 56441, as against $9,881,112.49, an increase of $1,705,452.12 There are 388 State banks now li censed, an increase of 26 cer those of 1911. The exact figures of lr.cr-iase are $15,265,898.96. This doesn't 'jct ter indicate the prosperity of the banks than the increase of acciu nl interest to the depositors does. For 1911 the amount was $70,925.88. For 1912 it was $108,103.89 an increase of $37,178.01.. Concerning Patronage Postoffice Appointments to be Made in the Sixth District! Dunn Special, 3d, to Wilmington Star. . Congressman Godwin left last night for Washington to be present at the re-convening, of Congress today. Speaking on the subject of patronage he said that on and after the 4th of March, next, there would be vacan cies in the following postoffices in the sixth district: Clarkton, Dunn, Fair mont, Fayet'teville, Lillington, Lum berton, Southport, Vineland and Wil mington. Appointments to fill these vacancies will likely be made soon after after the 4th of March, unless the Senate confirms some of the nomi nations already made by President Taft, which is not likely to be done. Congressman Godwin said that a mistake crept in the report of a re cent conversation with him by your correspondent, as he has had no ten tative agreement with either of our two Senators or with any one else in reference to patronage. He was sim ply speaking of the long existing cus tom in Washington concerning the distribution of patronage, which he said was in effect, to allow the mem bers of the House to nominate the postmasters, provided that no one ob jectionable to the' Senators should be named. He said this was the cus tom followed by former Presidents of both political parties and no doubt would be observed by President Wil son after the 4th of March. Of course this applies to cases where all belong to the same political party. Bailey Makes Final Speech as Mem ber of Senate. Washington Dispatch, 2d. Senator Joseph W. Bailey, of Tex as, long one of the picturesque fig ures and striking speakers of the United States Senate, delivered today before a crowded floor and galleries, his final speech as a member of that body. Within a day or two his resig nation will be laid before the Senate and communicated to Governor Col quitt, of Texas, his expectation being that R. M. Johnson, of Houston, will be named to fill out his term, which would end March 4. Senator Bailey's speech was an attack upon the prin ciples of the initiative and referen dum, institutions that would, if adopt ed, bring about the overthrow of the present system of government, he declared. They originated, he said, in the desire of politicians to escape the responsibility for action on such pet ty questions as the location of State capitals and the settlement of pro hibition fights.. An institution of the government, he declared that the schemes for direct legislation by the people would convert the United States' from a republic into a demo cracy, and. would give its control into "the hands -of the unskilled, the idle, and the vicious." Mr. Henry L. Pope resigned Sat urday his position as pharmacist in the Pope Drug Company's store. He accepted this position last September to work until January, but stayed over a few days to help through tak mg stocK7;inf.-Fosa'yTrthaTW two. or three positions offered him, I but has not yet definitely decided i trouble with which she has been suf what he will do. , fering for some time. WITHIN THE STATE. Brief Items of News Gathered From All Over North Carolina. Col. W. II. S. Burgwyn.a prominent citizen ofWeldon, died in Richmond, Va., Thursday. Beginning tomorrow evening and continuing until Thursday, the North Carolina Grand Lodge of Masons will hold its 126th annual communication in Raleigh. Governor-elect Craig sold his home in Asheville the other day for $9,000. His home has been on the market for some time and he also disposed of farm interests at wannanoa. Rev. Jas. W. Wheeler, one of the oldest Methodist minister in the State, died in Charlotte Thursday fol lowing a year's illness. He was a re tired rnember of the Western North Carolina Conference. Thos. J. Pence, formerly of Raleigh, now a Washington newspaper corres pondent, is mentioned as a probable successor to Wm. J. Loeb, Jr., as collector of the port of New York. The place pays $12,000. i A news dispatch from Dunn States that public sentiment seerns to be crystalizing in favor of a new coun ty with Dunn as the county seat. Dunn wants Johnston, Sampson and Harnett counties to contribute to form a new county. Arrangements are being made for a peace convention to be held in Ra leigh along about the last of P'eb ruary or the first of March. A branch peace society will then be organized and maintained under the operation of the American Peace Society. James Wilson of Youngsvilfe, Wake county, secured license in 1909 to mar ry Miss Kate Penny, also of Youngs ville, and after carrying the license three years got another license the other day and says he is going to marry the girl this time sure pop. The affairs of the Cumberland Lum ber Co. of Fayetteville have been placed in the hands of a receiver. The failure is said to have been due to the failure of the Harbing-Finley Lumber Co. of Philadelphia, the Cumberland company holding thousands of dol lars of the Philadelphia .company's paper. J. W. Moir, a leading merchant of Kinston, died at his home on the first of blood poisoning from a most unusual cause. He had to undergo an operation to remove slivers of wood which had entered his system from the constant chewing of tooth picks, blood poison set in after the operation and death resulted. Representative-elect R. R. Williams of Asheville advocates holding two sessions of the General Assembly, holding one session of 25 or 30 days, adjourning for something like 60 days in, order to give the people a chance to say what they think about proposed legislation, then reconvening and putting through the work. He does not know whether his plan would conflict with the constitution. Last week's issue of the Traction Weekly carries a statement saying that a contract has been let by the Southern Power Co. for the con struction of an interurban railway from Winston-Salem to Durham, by way of Greensboro, and a number of the smaller towns between Durham and Greensboro, including Chapel Hill. The article further states that the work will be done in sections. Special Service at Presbyterian Church No Pastor Called. Rev. Dr. J. M. Rose, of Laurinburg, will conduct a special service at the Presbyterian church Wednesday eve ning of this week in the interest of the millicm-and-a-half-dollar cam paign. The well known ability of Dr. Rose insures an interesting and in structive address and it is hoped a large audience will attend. At the congregational meeting held yesterday morning at the Presbyter ian church to consider the question of calling a pastor no definite action was taken. At this meeting a report of the church's financial condition wa3 read by Mr. H. M. McAllister, chair man of the board of deacons. The re port showed that the church is in bet ter financial condition than it has oeen in many years. Mr. J. I. Stone Celebrates 72nd Birth Day. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Lumberton, R. F. D. 4, Jan. 5 Sat urday, December 28, Mr. J. I. Stone, Sr's. children and grandchildren cele brated his 72d birthday. It was' an occasion of enjoyment. Dinner was prepared upon the yard and it was something fitting. There were 5 children, 29 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren. Mrs. E. K. Stone and four children of Raleigh, Fla., came home to be present. Mrs. Stone is a daughter of Mr. J. I. They returned to Florida yesterday. Mr. Stone received many handsome and useful presents. We wish for him many more happy birthdays. -Miss Lillian Proctor left this I will undergo treatment for a throat BRIEF LOCAL NEWS ITEMS. Coton today, 124 cents. Mr. W. F. French expects to leave this afternoon for the Western markets to purchase mules and horses. The regular monthly meetings of the county commissioners, road com missioners and county board of edu cation are being held at the court house today, and rather more than the usual first-Monday crowd is in town. Mr. Henry Pittman of Bellamy, one of the oldest subscribers of The Robesonian, was a Lumberton visitor Saturday. Mr. Pittman was born in 1824 and is therefore 89 years old. He is still able to get about and says he enjoys reading The Robesonian, which he has taken ever since it was start ed back in 1870. . Mr. J. A. Barker, of Lumberton, district manager, with office in Wil mington, for the Mutual Life Insur ance Co. of New York, left Saturday night for New York on a trip given him free by the company offered by the company for most paid busines3 written and won by Mr. Barker. He personally wrote $287,000 paid-for business last year, and his district paid for close to $700,00 of business, i As stated recently in The Robe sonian, a social club, to take the place of the abandoned social part of the Industrial & Commercial Club, is being organized. It will have rtwafi. over Mr. A. Weinstein's store. Tempo rary organization has been formed with Mr. C. V. Brown as president and Mr. W.Lennon as secretary;treas urer. About 35 young men have sig nified their intention of joining up to date. Mr. and Mrs. John Carlyle, of Rozier, were among the visitors in town Saturday., Mr. Carlyle says that on Wednesday he expects to leave with his invalid son Master Dennis for Baltimore, Md., where ho will place him in a hospital for treat ment. Master Dennis is 9 years old and has been practically an invalid for 5 years, having sustained injuries from a fall from which he has never recovered. ; Prof. R. E. Sentelle, superinten dent of the Lumberton graded schools, purchased last week from Mr. A. W. Peace of Fayetteville the handsome residence on Elm street recently va cated by Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Crich ton. Prof. Sentelle and family moved Saturday into their new home. For a year or more the family had been liv ing with Miss Mattie Barrett, Seventh and Pine streets. The consideration" in this purchase was $5,000. The local Seaboard telegraph of fice was removed Saturday from the freight depot to the passenger sta tion and is fitted up in the ticket of fice. By this change there will be some one at the passenger station all the time that can look after check ing baggage and selling tickets. Here tofore there was no one at the station only for a short time before the ar rival of each train to sell tickets. The change is a good one for both the rail road employees and the traveling pub lic. Mr. John McKenzie, of Standard, Florida, arrived Thursday evening and is a guest at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. G. McKen zie. Mr. McKenzie left his wife and three children at Cheraw, S. C, where they will spend sometime visiting rel atives. Mr. McKenzie has been in Florida for several years, though he has only been at Standard for a year. During his stay in Florida he wa3 practically all the time in the naval store business. He has sold out all his interests in the State and ex pects to locate at some place in this county, probably Lumberton or Max ton. Off For School. The following students have re turned to school: Miss Agnes Mc Lean, Presbyterian College, Red Springs; Misse Annie Ruth Caldwell, Mildred Williams, Edna Prevatt, Mil dred Mclntyre and Lina Gough, Mere dith College, Raleigh; Miss Irene Mc Leod, Elizabeth College,. Charlotte; Misses Annie Neill Fuller and Georgia Whitfield, G. F. C, Greensboro; Miss Louise Townsend, Normal, Greens boro; Messrs. .Frank L. Nash and Douglas McLean, Davidson College, Davidson; Mr. Robert Prevatt, Uni versity, Chapel Hill; Mr. Basil Skip per, Fishburn Military Academy, Waynesboro, Va.; G. Badger McLeod, Staunton Military Academy, Staun ton, Va. North Carolinians Appointed to As sist in Inauguration. Thomas Nelson Page, chairman of the reception committee for the inau guration, has apointed the following named North Carolinians to assist him: J. Allen Holt, Oak Ridge; Bene han Cameron, Stagville; P. D. Gold, Jr., Raleigh; W. C. Dowd and Wade H. Harris, Charlotte; Josephu3 Dan iels, Raleigh; R. M. Phillips, Greens boro; J. S. Carr, Durham; Joe E. Thompson, S. Sprunt, Hugh F. Mc- Rae and M. F. H- Gouveneur, Wil- man. Fayetteville;. R. B. Glenn and A. H. Eller, Winston-Salem, and W. H. Osborne, Greensboro.
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