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4 i. i F nn E "ROBESONIA N Established 1870. Country, God and Truth. Single Copies Five Cents VOL XUV NCX9. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARC -I 20, 1913. WHOLE NO. 2846 SCHOOL BONDS ELECTIONS. 1 Red Springs, Philadelphia, St. Paul's and Lumber Bridge to Vote on Bond ; Issues for School Buildings To j Pave Stdfwalk Around County Jail. During the recent session of the t Legislature bills were passed allowing j Bed Springs and St Paul's graded school districts and Lumber Bridge and Philadelphus high school districts , each to issue bonds in a sum not ex ceeding $15,000 for school buildings. At a special meeting of the county ' commissioners held yesterday elec tionswere ordered to be held in each of these districts on the first Mon- day in May to vote on this issue, it being necessary to hold a special meeting in order to give the required 30 days notice. A new registration is ordered for each district and the following have been appointed regis trars and judges of election: Red Springs J. H. Willis, registrar, J. D. Gibson, L. M. Cook, judges; St. Paul's G. T. Fisher, registrar, A. E. How ard, Walter F. Johnson, judges; Phila delphus J. B. Humphrey, registrar, Reuben Brown, Chas. Terry, judges; Lumber Bridge J. H. Jones, regis trar, W. E. Marley, J. W. Hall, judges. The only othe business transacted by the board at this meeting was the appointment of Mr C. B. JTownsend as a -commitfee J- g.. sidewalk around the county jail and the appointment of County Auditor Parmele to purchase mattresses for the jail. THE FINAL SUMMONS. John Beykin McAlester of Florala, Alabama. , Reported for The Robesonian. .The many friends throughout the county of John Boykin . RfcAlester ! will regret exceedingly to learn 'of his" death, which occurred at DeFuniak' j Springs, Florida, on Saturday, the , 15th instant. The remains were inter- j red at Florala, Alabama, the following Sunday. For the past five months he had been in New Mexico, and his death was not unexpected. John Boykin McAlester was the son of Rev. David S. McAlester, a well-known Presbyterian minister and brother of Mr. J. A. McAlester. He was graduated with honors from Da vidson College in 1907, and since that time had been teaching preparatory schools for boys, first at Red Springs and later at Memphis, Tennessee. Mr. II. C. Roberts of Raeford. Mr. II. C. Roberts died Tuesday rfight at 9 o'clock at his home at Raeford. He had been in ill health for several months and death was not unexpected. The funeral took place yesterday at Raeford. Deceased was about 65 years old and is survived by his wife, 3 sons and 5 daughters. Mr. Roberts was a brother of Mr. Furd Roberts, who lives in East Lum berton. Iona Items. Corresponaence of The Robesonian. Fairmont, R. F. D. 1, March 17 The farmers are working hard pre paring the land for a new crop, which we all hope will be a most successful one Everything seems mighty still and sad around here. The gloomy weather will make a real swift per son slow. I don't mean we have slow people around here for this is a good section and contains no what we call slow draggers, for everyone is al ways on time with a heart and hand willing to do. A few of our young people from around here went to the entertain ment at Pleasant Hope and report a nice time. The children proved that they had a fine teacher, and we hope to have a more pleasant time at the quarterly which will soon be the ap pointed Sunday. Misses Flossie and Ethel Odonj were visitors at Lumberton Saturday and Sunday last. It seems that all the schools are closing. But the doors are still open at our school and will be for quite a while yet. Easter will soon be here. We are planning for an egg hunt and hope to have a successful time of it. It seems that horses are bad for walking away from hitching places these days. Old Bill was not sat isfied with the concert. Ican't blame him. What are roads for if not to walk on ? Courting a-walking is just as good as courting riding. I think the women in this section expect more cold weather from the way quilting is going on. Maybe the girls are preparing for the future as well as the old folks. The women are going to be more saving this year. All are making old black tar soap.. Our school is coming on fine with our teacher Miss Josie ;MceNill and TssTstiTOTis The sin ye do by two and two y must pay for one by one Kipling. KING OF GREECE ASSASSINATED King George Shot Through Heart on Streets of Saloniki Assassin a Greek Degenerate Crown prince Constantine Succeeds to Throne. Saloniki Dispatch, 18th. King George of Greece was assas sinated while walking in the streets of Saloniki this afternoon. The assassin was a Greek of low mental type, who gave his name as Aleko Schinas. He shot the King through the heart. The King was accompanied only by an aide de camp, Lieutenant Colo nel Francoudis. The assassin came suddenly at the King and fired one shot from a seven-chamber revolver. The tragedy- caused immense excite ment. Schinas was seized immediate ly and overpowered. The wounded king was lifted into a carriage and taken to the Papafion Hospital. He was still breathing when placed in the carriage. Prince Nicholas, the King's third son, and other officers hurried to the hospital.' Arriving first Prince Nicholas sum moned the officers and speaking in a voice choked with sobs, said: "It is my deep grief to have to an nounce to you the death of our be loved King and invite you to swear fidelity to your new sovereign, King Crown Prince Constantine, who suc ceeds King George, is at present at Janina. He is expected to come here with all possible speed. The assassin of the King is an evil looking fellow about 40 years of age. On being arrested he refused to ex plain his motive for the crime. He declared his name was Aleko Schinas and in reply to an officer who asked him if he had no pity for his country announced that he ywas against gov ernments, j f Schinas maintained a perfectly im passive demeanor which was suggest ive of being irresponsible for his ac tions. Notwithstanding the rapidity with which the King received attention, he was dead on his arrival at the hospi tal. Precautions at once were taken throughout the city and perfect or der is being maintained. WITHIN THE STATE. Brief Items of News Gathered From AH Over North Carolina. Vice President Marshall will deliver the commencement address at the State University in June. Mrs. Sarah Amanda Russell, widow of former Governor Daniel L. Russell, died at her home in Brunswick coun ty Tuesday evening. She was 69 years old. The trustees of Greensboro Col lege for Women (formerly known as the Greensboro Female College) elected Tuesday Dr. S. B. Turrentine, presiding elder of the Shelby district, Western North Carolina Conference, president of the institution to suc ceed Mrs. Lucy Robertson, who did not seek re-election. . Mrs. Robertson, who for many years was the only woman president of a college in this State, was elected president emeritus for life. Charlotte Observer, 17th: Prevent ed by paralysis from escaping from a room which was swept by flames, Mrs. Nancy, Nash a woman of advanced years, was burned todeath yesterday morning at her home, 913 Calvine street. Although she had been bed ridden for a year and unable to walk, when found by two neighboring men who rushed into the building, she was lying by a couch which was on the op posite side of the room from her bed. Her entire body was badly burned. The trustees of the Methodist Chil dren's Home at Winston-Salem is sued a statement Tuesday to the ef fect that former Supt. H. A. Hayes, who resigned about a month ago, was short in his accounts $5,531.58, the shortage being in maintainance fund and not involving the building fund. Mr. Hayes has been placed by his family in a sanatorium in Richmond for examination as to his sanity. The trustees will prosecute unless Hayes is committed to an institution for the insane by due process of law. Washington dispatch, 18th: Secre tray of the Navy and Mrs. Daniels will live at "Single Oak," in Woodley lane, the most exclusive and fash ionable residence section in Washing ton. The new home of Mr. and Mrs. Daniels a'djoins that of Senator New lands of Nevada, and is only a short distance from the residence occupied by Grover Cleveland as a summer home while he was President. Mr. and Mrs.. Daniels left tonight for Ra leigh. hTe Secretary will return to Washington the latter part of the week. . Mrr W.R.:tkTny5n;-" who" lives oh rural route No. 3 from Lumberton, was amor? the v's'tors in town Tuesday. HEARD ON THE STREETS. A High Compliment to Lumberton When the Three Met Again Bay Scouts' Obligations A Tot of Six and Her Beaux, A commercial traveler from Balti more, which, as everybody knows, is no mean city, the other day on his second Or third visit to Lumberton re marked to a local merchant that it is a pleasure and inspiration to do business in this town-, that it is such a good compact town, with no shack ledown buildings, stores well kept and well arranged, and that he has found the merchants without exception cour teous, wide awake and up to date. A high compliment and deserved no hot air about i just a simple, straightforward statement of how the town impressed a visitor. Mr. R. D. Caldwell received a high compliment from a fellow-merchant the other day that naturally pleased him very much. Mr. Dennis Biggs stopped Mr. Caldwell as he was pass ing his (Mr. Biggs') store and told him that in passing through the store of R. D. Caldwell & Son that morning he was struck with its neatness, with the tasteful arrangement of the stock, its well-kept and shipshape appear ance, that it was one of the pret tiest stores he ever. saw. Mr. Biggs having an eye for that sort of thing he was generous enough to compli ment another merchant on attaining an ideal he has set for himself. And when Mr. Caldwell went back into his own store he noticed things that he had passed many times a day without any special attention. Which illus trates the fact that one finds, or notes- the absence of, what one is looking for. sji sj: e Mr. H. McE. McMillan says he saw a sight on the street Tuesday evening, such a sight as he never expected to see. That sight which gave Mr. McMillan pause was Senator Geo. B. McLeod, who has just returned home after attending to his duties as a member of the State Legislature, Mr. H. E. Stacy, who has just come to Lumberton to practice law, and Mr. T. A. McNeill, Jr., another young Lumberton attorney, in close and friendly converse. For you remember, O Reader, that during the hot days which preceded the primary last Au gust 10, when Messrs. McLeod, Stacy and McNeill were rival candidates for the nomination which Mr. McLeod won, tjiese three were camping on each other's trail most eagerly. But Mr. McMillan need not have been sur prised. It Was the difference, merely, between before and afler. When the sovereign people gave expression to their choice last August Mr. McLeod of course was satisfied and Messrs. Stacy and McNeill, being "forward looking" young men, wiped all" trace of the conflict out of their hearts and wished the winner well. A Lumberton lady wanted to pay a boy the other day for performing a service in finding a ring. "No'm," said the boy, "I don't charge you any thing." "Yes, do take the money," said the lady, "I appreciate your find ing the ring and want to pay you for it." "No'm," said the boy, "I can't take it, it's against tlta rules of the Boy Scouts to take pay for things like that and I'm a Scout." And then, af ter a moment's silence, the boy sighed and remarked naively, "I b'lieve I'll quit being a Boy Scout." A Lumberton maid of six sum mers was up against a problem the other day that puzzles sometimes some of her older sisters. She could not make up her mind which of two admirers she would let come to see her that afternoon. She cut the knot by deciding to let them draw straws for the privilege. One admirer held the straws and the other drew? draw ing the short straw, which gave him the privilege of going to see the little lady and meant that the other ad mirer should go way back and sit down qr suck his thumb. But that solution of the problem was not sat isfactory to the one who got left, so he promptly rolled the winner in the mud and soiled his clothes so that he had to go home and change them; and then the long-straw holder, who, according- to the decree of Chance, should have gone about his business, remained to enjoy the society of the small charmer. And the chances are, O Reader, that this same small charm er smiled , even more sweetly upon the usurper who defied the decree of Chance than she would have smiled upon the other admirer who could not hold the ground he had won even as her older sisters are prone' to do; for The colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skinsv No man knows so well where the shoe pinches as he who wears it. : 1 Lincoln. NEW LAW FIRM. Mr. H. E. Stacy, Who Has Just Lo cated in Lumberton, and Mr. Wood berry Lennon Have Formed Part nership. Mr. Woodberry Lennon, who has been practicing law alone for the past few years, and Mr. H. E. Stacy, who has just come to Lumberton to locate, have formed a partnership for the practice of law under the firm name of Lennon & Stacy. Mr. Stacy is already well known in Robeson county. He was principal of the Rowland high school for two years immediately succeeding his graduation at the State University in 1910. He so impressed the people of that town and section with his ability as a public speaker and in other ways that they prevailed upon him to become a can didate for the State Senate in the primary last August. Though defeat ed, Mr. Stacy made a good campaign and received a flattering vote. While a student at the University he repre sented that institution in two inter collegiate debates, one against Tulane University and one against Washing ton & Lee, winning both. At his grad uation he won the Wiley P. Mangum orator's medal. He received his li cense to practice law last month and w-f .clerk to the Senate committee odl! -counties,-cities -and towns-dur-in-tn' recent session of the Legislature. He arrived in Lumberton Tuesday after spending a few days in Rowland. Mr. Stacy is a son of a Methodist preach- er, Rev. L. E. Stacy, now pastor of the Methodist church at Shelby, hence he is from the State at Large. Mr. Lennon needs no introduction to Robesonian readers. He is a cap able and talented young man and has been practicing law in his home town since receiving his license three years ago. Sidewalk Paving Being Extended. At a special meeting of the coun ty commissioners yesterday it was ordered that the sidewalk around the county jail be paved with concrete. In mentioning recently the paving being laid for Mr. W. W, Carlyle on the north side of West Fifth street, be tween Elm and Water, and from the corner of Elm and Water to the jail, it was stated that Mr. Carlyle would ex tend the paving on the south side of West Sixth street to Mrs. Lizzie G. Proctor's if the county would pave around the jail. Mrs. Proctor has agreed to extend the paying on her property to Elm, so that this block will be paved entirely around with the exception of a small stretch between Elm and the Freeman Printing Co.'s office. Mr. M. B. Sutton, has also secured contract for paving the south side of West Fifth from the First Na tional Bank to below the Lumberton Motor Car Co.'s garage, with the ex ception of 15 feet owned by Mr. J. A. Rowland and it is thought that Mr. Rowland will pave this short stretch. Paving on East Fifth street is be ing extended on the south side to Pine street, and it is thought that the property owners on the north side of this street will also extend the pav ing, which already extends about mid way the block, to Pine. Millinery Openings Small Hats in Favor. Miss Amelia Linkhauer, who has charge of the millinery department of R. D. Caldwell & Son's department, store, had her opening Tuesday and yesterday. She says the opening was a big success, many hats being sold. Mention has already been made of Miss Breece's opening last week. Ladies this season should entertain no worry with regard to sizes. All sizes will be worn, but small hats are very much in vogue. In feathers, anything in high, slim style goes. Skeleton ostrich is especially promi nent. These effects are used not only in upright fashion, but also placed horizontally on the brim so as to shoot out at the side or back. The "numidie" feather is evident Among the decided novelties are those in which the various strong Bul garian colors are blended. Among the newest combinations is navy and ce rise. New Revenue Act Demands One Fif teenth of One Per Cent. Instead of One-Twenty-fifth. Raleigh Special, 18th, to Charlotte Observer. It was discovered today that the new revenue act imposes the one-fifteenth of one per cent tax on capital of corporations as originally fixed by the House, instead of the one-twenty-fifth of one per cent to which it was reduced" by Senate amendment and agreed to in conference committee during the closing days of the session. There seems to be no accounting for ihal ejaojrexcept-ihat -the-- Senate t .---rr : - ---amendment did not get included in pestioI1) dizzinoss 4row.si.nerE. For a me engrossing ana enrollment oi me i operi,np medicine use I) a; 's reg measure for ratification. - I ulets. 25c a box it all ctores. CHURCH SERVICES. Special Easter Service at Chestnut Street Methodist Rev. Dr. J. II. Foster of Wilmington at First Bap tist Special Meeting of Presbyter ian Congregation. The congregation of the Presbyter ian church is called to meet on Sun day, 23rd inst., at 11 o'clock for the ! purpose of considering a proposi tion for the supply of the church with preaching. The attendance of every member is earnestly desired. By owdcr of session. ' J. A. M'ALLISTER, Clerk. There will be a special Easter ser vice at Chestnut Street Methodist church Sunday morning and regular preaching service by the pastor, Rev. J. W. Bradley, at the regular hour for evening service. As stated in Monday's Robesonian, Rev. C. II. Durham, pastor of the First Baptist church, and Rev. Dr. J. H. Foster, pastor of the First Bap tist church of Wilmington, will ex change pulpits Sunday. Rev. W. L. Boggs, traveling agent for The Presbyterian Standard, will preach at the Presbyterian church Sunday morning and evening. GENERAL NEWS. f Secretary Je-M'els: win. taKe:a'paity i of Cabinet officers on the presidential yacht Mayflower and the Secretary of the Navy's yacht Dolphin on April 1, to Hampton Roads and Lynnhaven Bay, to witness the vessels of the first division of the Atlantic fleet, engaged in target practice. " The special session of the United States Senate, which began imme diately after the inauguration of Vice President Marshall, March 4, came to an end Monday. In a short executive session the Senate Monday confirmed all civil appointments made to date by President Wilson with the exception of Dr. Charles P. Neill, com missioner of labor statistics. Alexander M. Dockery, former Gov ernor of Missouri, was sworn in as Third Assistant Postmaster General Monday. He will have charge of the receipt and distribution of postal funds, the printing and issuance of stamps, the money order and registra tion service, the classification of do mestic mail matter and the redemp tion of unsalable stamped paper. An East Side burglary perpetrated by clever cracksmen some time last Sunday netted the thieves the largest haul obtained in New York City in many years. Martin Simons & Sons, pawnbrokers in Hester street, were the victims and the property stolen in cludes $250,000 worth of Jewelry, dia monds and other precious stones and $100,000 worth of negotiable securi ties. With assets said to exceed its lia bilities by $40,000,000 the American Naval Stores Company of Savannah, Ga., Monday announced that it has suspended business. In a statement given out by C. J. Deloach, secretary of the company, he asserts that the fight the government has made upon the company and its officers has prac tically destroyed the company's credit and has made it wise to discontinue operations. Washington dispatch, 19th: The House and Senate and the President came together informally today for the first time on the "preliminaries" of tariff revision. A short conference between the President and Chairman Simmons, of the Senate finance com mittee followed by a longer confer ence between a Senate sub-committee and Chairman Underwood of the House ways and means committee, laid the ground work for a series of three-cornered arguments that are to follow before the tariff bills are pre sented in Congress. Negro Trainman Broken Up by Fall From Box Car. Henry Smith, colored, a brakeman on an' extra Seaboard freight train going west Tuesday night fell from the top of the car to the ground near the oil mill, across the river, break ing his right leg above the knee, colar bone, several ribs and wa3 otherwise bruised up. The train was just get ting up speed on pulling out of the local yard, when in some way the brakeman was tripped and fell. It was about 11 o'clock when the train pulled out of the yard. Smith was seen to fall, the train was stopped and he was picked up from beside the track in an unconscious state. Dr. W. A. McPhaul, local Seaboard surgeon, ren dered medical attention. Smith is about 25 years old and his home is Jacksonville, Fla. He is being taken care of in a home over the river near where he had the fall and his condi tion is as favorable as could be expected. BRIEF LOCAL NEWS ITEMS. WATCH Watch the label on your paper. If renewals are not in by date on label paper will be stopped. Middling cotton today, 11 cents. The local banks will be closed Monday, Easter holiday. Mr. and Mrs. James D. Proctor moved Tuesday into their handsome new home on North Elm street. Mr. W. Chafin Boone left Tuesday morning for Greenville, where he has accepted a position on a stock farm. There will be a special meeting this evening of St. Alban's Lodge No. Ill, A. F. & A. M., for degree work. Miss Ethel Williams and her mu sic class will give a music recital at the graded school auditorium this evening, beginning at 8 o'clock. Mrs. M. F. Caldwell underwent an operation Monday at the Thompson hospital for appendicitis. She is get ting along as nicely as could be ex pected. Miss Sallie Pickett Oldham, read er, will be at the Orrum high school Wednesday night of next week, the 26th. An attractive program will be rendered. Admission fees of 15 and 25 cents will be charged. Mr. Robert Lamb, landscape gar dener of Fayetteville, is at work beau- McPhaul's handsome home recently completed on North Elm street. He began work Tuesday. Mr. T. D. McLean of Carthage, farm demonstration agent for the eastern district, spent Tuesday and yesterday visiting demonstration farms- in this county with Mr. J. A. Boone, county agent. Mr. McLean left last night. In Monday's paper it was stated that the local banks had received some of the new buffalo-Indian-head 5-cent pieces. It should have been stated that only the Bank of Lumberton had received them, for it was ahead of the game. The Robesonian man misun derstood. The school at Clybourn, about 3 miles from town on the Carthage road, will close Saturday, 29th, with a pub lic picnic. There will be a public dinner and several prominent speak ers are expected. A great time is anticipated. Miss Carry D. Baldwin of Columbus county is principal of the school. Mr. Sam Branch will finish to day the job of clearing away the old wooden dormitory which stood in rear of the graded school building and will begin work tomorrow on the new school building for the colored race on the eastern side of town, across the river, in the construction of which the material saved from the dormitory will be used. Miss Athalia Lord, who had :ien spending some time in town a ruct at the home of Mr. an-1 Mrs. E L Holloway, left yesterday uiitvi ton for her home at Asheville. Mis. Hollo way, who is just recovering f-..ni a spell of pneumonia, and son, Master Lambert, went with her and will t pend several days in Asheville, guests of Miss Lord, who is an aunt of Mrs. Holloway. Mr. C. M. Bryant, who lives about 2 miles from town on the Elizabeth road, was in town Monday afternoon. Mr. Bryant on account of sickness had been confined at his home for six weeks and this was his first visit to1 town since he has been able to get out of the house. He was delighted to be in Lumberton and says that he does not recall a time when he stayed away from the town so long. Ordi narily he comes to town several times a week, but for the last six weeks he didn't. He was gripped to home with the, grip. In The Mayor's Court Seaboard En gineer fined for Whistle Blowing. Mr. A. J. Whitfield, an engineer on a Seaboard through freight train, was before Mayor Caldwell Monday to answer to a charge of unnecessary whistle blowing on the local yard last Thursday morning about 3 o'clock. Mr. Whitfield was fined $25 and costs. He took an appeal to the higher court. Mr. Whitfield was represented at the hearing by the firm of Mclntyre, Law rence & Proctor, local attorneys for the Seaboard. Geo. Hardy, a white fellow who is with the carnival that has been loca ted on the corner of Second and Elm streets since Monday a week ago, was before the mayor Monday on a charge of being drunk and disorderly. He was fined $5 and costs. Agnes Gilchrist and June Hays, both colored, were in the mayor's court Monday to answer charges of an affray. They were fined $5 each and costs. Besides this Hays had to answer a charge of raising a rough house some nights ago down in the jjfaottomy":-Tnd - :jh.wajt Jfined 510 and costs.'' Subjorlbe for The Robesonian.
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