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THE ROBESONIAN Established 1870. Country, God and Truth. Single Ccpfes Fire Ccrtf VOL XL1V NO. 1 4. LUMBER I ON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, APRIL 7, IB 13. - WHOLE NO. 2851 "WILL SET ASIDE PRECEDENTS. President. Wilson will Appear in Halls of Congress Tomorrow and Deliver Message in Person, Washington Dispatch, 6th. Setting aside precedents of more than a Centutir, President Wilson will appear in the nails of Congress on Tuesday to deliver his first legislative message in person. He announced to Democratic congressional leaders to night that he would go to the floor of the House when it convened Tues day and there give that body his views on the tariff. This decision of the President evok ed much comment among the con gressional leaders. He will be the first President of the United States to appear officially before either branch of Congress in deliberative session since John Adams, in the first few years of the last century. An at tempt-was made exactly 100 -years ago in 1813, to revive the custom, but President Madison declined an inyita tion of the Senate to discuss foreign relations with the Senate. Since then no President has even suggested join ing in the deliberations of Congress. President Wilson made his plans known to Majority Leader Under wood of the House, Representative A. Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania, and the other House Democratic leaders that they might prepare for the event. The Presiden believes that he can . get in closer touch with the members of both houses of Congress, by per sonally expressing his views to them. In addition to his official visits to the House, which will become a matter of White House policy, the President will take advantage of these visits to hold conferences with the party lead ers in Congress. The President has been told by his friends that such a procedure is fraught with embarrassments unless he tactfully keeps his purpose mere ly of giving advice as the leader of his party and offering suggestions to those with whom he confers. Those - who have discussed the matter with him say he is convinced that Con gress will not misunderstand his intentions, that he will go to the Capi tol in a spirit of friendly co-operation, so that there may be at all times a 'unanimity of purpose between, the executive and the legislative depart ments of the Government. TWO BANKS CLOSED. Both Recently Promoted and Opened by State Trust Co. of Wilmington. Raleigh Special, 6th, to Charlotte Ob server. The Corporation Commission closed two banks today, both recently pro moted and opened by the. State Trust Company of Wilmington, a corpora tion purporting to have for its special purpose the organization of country banks and thatis now offering to sell its stock as a stock building company in many parts of the State. The banks closed are the Bank of Angier, Har nett county, and the Bank of Maccles field, Edgecombe county, each having $5,000 capital and both organized within the past two months. According to the statements made at the Corporation Commission's offi ces, the State Trust Company organ ized these banks on condition that the business men would take stock in the company, one fourth in cash and the balance in notes around $2,500. The company put in $5,000 capital in each bank but withdrew , $2,000 for furniture and fixtures supplied by its interests and had the little bank to discount the notes of citizens for de ferred payments on the stock in the company. Local men as directors, were issued a share each in the bank and after organization this stock was transferred to the Trust Company. There were other manipulations that the examiners found had transferred capital of the banks to the promoting corporation. The State Trust Company has $200,000 authorized capital, was char tered last November and had Ector H. Smith, Birmingham, Ala., W. O. Tarver, Wilmington, and Virgil P. Walker, Newbern, for incorporators. Assistant Bank Examiner Bateman returned tonight from Macclesfield, where he closed the Bank of Maccles field and brought with him in his grip all the cash and paper assets of the institution, he says, that was left by the promoting corporation. He brought to the Corporation Commis sion $1,250. He says that he found charges of $2,366 for banking fix tures for a $5,000 bank. Of the fix tures to show for it there was $1,500 for an old and very poor safe and $300 for a practically worthless, old adding machine. Deposits in the bank are about $6,000. The deposits in the Angier Bank werej $4,000. Among the items of as sets in the banks are amounts due from banks and bankers, and in the Macclesfield Bank this item aggre gates over $7,000. If these assets anything like pan out, there will be no trouble about depositors getting their money out of both banks. The Corporation Commission be lieves that the heaviest losers in the collapse of the scheme will be the pur chasers of stock in the State Trust TARIFF REVISION BILL " Spite-Work Charges of Retailing Against Men of High Character Interesting Developments Expect ed. ' The people of Fairmont and sur rounding country are naturally indig nant about the work done in that section last week by some so-called ""blind tiger" detectives and some in teresting developments are expected. I In Thursday's Robesonian was pub- lished a batch of names of people j Company there being probabl about against whom charges of retailing ; $90(000 of thig stock so,d in the gtate had been made by these "detectives," . forpart caeh and negotiable notes for among them the names of Mr. J. P. deferred payments, these notes being Brown and Mr. H. Pitman of Fair- discounted by the promoters on a mont, men of integrity and high iarge scale. The Trust Company has standing, and- while The Robesonian ; organized only three banks in this knew there was something beneath State yet, the third being in a western the surface which would make the county. State Bank Examiner Hub charges against these men ridiculous, bard went tonight to this bank and "aiiiVD awwiiu All LHXblll Ul Will littVC tt 1UUK at It IVlOnuay. Iflti papers just before time for the pa- Secretary of the Corporation Commis per to go to press and it was neces- 1 sion stated tonight that the commis sary to publish all or none of the sion has determined to charner no more names and there was no time to in- banks organized by the State Trust vestigate then. j Company or under any kindred It develops thatthe charge against scheme. Dr. Brown had nothing for basis I Investigations are under way that except a prescription written for at-. are expected to lead to a number of -cohol for a man who-goes about tak- arrts following the developments ing pictures and said he wanted it to today lt is said- develop his pictures. And the charge Modeled in Accord With Ideas of President Wilson Cut Below Pres ent Protective Rates. Washington Dispatch, 4th. The Democratic tariff revision bill is completed tonight with the ex ception of a final decision upon sugar. From beginning to end it is modeled in accord with the ideas of President Wilson, with wool, meats and many other food stuffs and clothing mater ials on the free list; with low duties upon all agricultural products and foodstuffs that are not free; and with tariff on chemicals and steel and other commercial products cut far below the present protective rates. Senate tariff leaders today asked for an opportunity to study the bill until Sunday afternoon. They will then confer with Chairman Under wood of the House Committee of Ways and Means and later will have a final conference with President Wilson. A careful analysis of the Senate will be made in the meantime, to determine whether free wool, "one-cent sugar" and low rates on "market basket pro ducts" will prove acceptable to a ma jority of the Democrats. Briefly summarized, the tariff de velopments of the day were: President Wilson's ultimatum to sugar interests that they must agree to a tariff of one cent per pound for three years, with free sugar after that time, or he would attempt to provide for free sugar at once. Completion of the bill by the Ways and Means comittee, with the excep tion of the sugar schedule, and on this the committee is prepared to agree on free sugar, if the President insists. Income tax rates fixed at one per cent for all corporation incomes above $5,000; one per cent on personal .a comes from $4,000 to C,u00; two per cent frorp, 20,o00 to $50,000; 3 per cc.t from $50,000 to $100,000; four per cent above $100,000. WRITTEN AND SPOKEN WORD. RED SPRINGS REVIEWS. Who Runs the Farm? Shooting a Hawk With a Hoe It's Unsafe to Leave Things in Conveyances On Back Lota Meanness and Liquor Sales Day A Story That la Not Told. Mr. G. A. Boone, who lives on ru- Ladies' Betterment Association Gives imei tainmeni tomorrow Night i'crsonal Mention. Correspondence ot 'lhe Robesonuui. KeU bpnngs, April 4 A good many from Red Spnngs attended the track meet of the rloke county scnools Ohio's Loss in Recent Flood Relief Situatioin Being 'Fully Covered. Washington Dispatch, 4th. Ohio's loss in the recent flood was estimated tonight in a telegram from ' va,ue in their conveyances. Some- m was brought against Mr. Pitman be- Coburn's Greater Minstrels Delight cause he filed the prescription. Dr. . T . , , ,-r, . x. , To say that J. A. Coburn's Greater ;Brown and Mr. Pitman were entirely . , . .. ,x . .. , . . . ... t . , -. ' i Minstrels delighted a, capacity house within the law, of course, and bring- ... c . . . . : . , x .. . - . ,,. . A here Saturday night is saying about ing a charge of retailing against them, what be said JJJ -was a piece of spite wort : Dr. Brown this show visits Lumberton. And the -says. Dr. Brown and Mr. Prtman show wag better this time than eyer are men of high character against before. It is a 8Cream the way Tvhom such a charge could not have ; through and to go into particulars -weight for a moment with those who wouid require more space than there "know them. js room for The singing and danc- It is said too that no proof can ing were fine, the work of Charley "be made of the charges brought by , Gano and Nicodemus Glynn, the prin these so-called detectives against ne- cipal comedians, was side-splitting, jrroes who were put in jail here last and "Buster, the clown and their little week and that the county will be put red house' were all to the good. It to the-expense -of-keeping them in is more than two hours of - good fun, jail for nothing, besides the Injustice J . done them. I . DON'T WAIT for a statement of Dr. Brown will have a statement the Bmount Ja re du on aubscrip- o make through The Robesonian lat- .WV? h UM ? f?Ur PaPe.r , . . .. . , That is statemea enough. If renewals erand some interesting developments w in w D l,k-i..i.-.-.ni : are expected. i be stopped. I the American Red Cross agent charge at Columbus as follows: 4G0 lives lost, . 4,200 homes destroyed. 40,500 persons homeless. 9,000 families outside of Dayton Columbus and Cincinnati in need of rehabilitation. It has been extremely difficult to get information, according to the agent, because wires are still down and transportation facilities uncer tain. "Emergency relief situation in each flooded district in Ohio being well covered," the telegram said: "Day ton, Columbus, Piqua, Troy, Otta wa, Sidney, Hamilton, Miamisburg, Middleton and Zanesville covered by the Red Cross representatives. In these places information is being rap idly accumulated on which to base re habilitation. We are pushing men into other flooded towns as fast as water subsides and we can get men Colonel Miller, chief quartermaster, reports need of underwear of all sorts, bedding and blankets." Superior-Court. The jury in the case of W. W. Carlyle vs. the Aberdeen & Rockfish Ky., a suit for damages in the sum of $1,000 for the destruction of an automobile near Raeford in the fall of 1911, could not reach an agree ment, one man holding out against 11 for damages, and a juror was with drawn and a mistrial ordered Satur day. The whole matter is to be thresh ed over again. M. A. Baie vs. the Coast Line suit for $2,000 for two cars of lumber is now on triaL One of the cars was shipped to Pennsylva nia and the court has ruled that it has no jurisdiction as to that car. Ap peal has been taken to the Supreme Court to decide that point No other cases of importance except those men tioned in Thursday's Robesonian, have occupied the attention of the court. Judge J. G. Ferguson i presiding. Heed the Cough that Hangs On. The seeds of consumption may be the cause, and a cough that hangs on weakens the jystenu Foley's Jloney and Tar Compound checks the cough, heals tthe inflamed membranes., and strengthens the tuners. E. D. Roun- 4ee, Stillmore, Ga., says? "Lagrippe left me a deep seated, hacking, pain ful cough which Foley's Honey and TarompietelyncuredFoie-iryi- all dealers. ral route No. 2 from Lumberton, - held in Raeford Friday of last week, knows that it is not always the man Miss Anne Belle Williams, who is who pulls the bell cord over the mole a student at St. Mary's College, Ra or docs the actual work about the 1 leigh, spent Sunday at home. Miss place who runs things. He told his ! Kate Genell of Bennetaville, S. C, boys so the other day when they un- J visited Miss Bessie Jones the lat dertook to guy him, as good-natured ter part of last week. Miss Hallie and hard-working boys will some- Currie, who has been teaching in times do when they are perfectly sat- Cumberland, has returned home. isfied to give the head of the house- J Messrs . L. J. Bright, A. P. Spell hold as easy a time as possible. The and J. A. Singleton attended court boys were plowing and while Mr. J in Lumberton Monday Mr. M. A. Boone was doing odd jobs about the Buie, formerly of Red Springe, but house he made a hawk lose his din- Uov cf Florida is BDendinir a few dav - r cp in Red Springs. Mrs. D. P. Mc Eachern, who has been spending the winter with her daughter, Mrs. Leo. T. Bulloch in Abonita, Porto Rico, is expected home the latter part of this week. Dr. J. L. McMillan spent Tuesday in Lumberton. Rev. J. W. Orr, of Steele Creek Presbyterian church has just closed revival ser vices in Red Springs. Rev. and Mrs. Dougald Monroe, of Four Oaks are visiting at the home of Mrs. Monroe's sister Miss Katie McC. Buie. The John J. Thrower Co. casiod eled the corner store of the Townsend block and has moved its dry rrta department on the tCner. ReV. Mr. orse of Bennettsville, neK i.ne devotional exercises at the graded school Monday morning. Miss Lucile Dowd spent a few days las week in Clio where she attended the marriage of her cousin Miss Bes sie McQueen, Capt. J. G. Williams is spending the week at his old home in Virginia. Miss Rosa McMillan returned Thursday from a visit to relatives and friends in Bennettsville. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Hotchkiss of Gorming- ton, Conn., were Red Springs visitors last Wednesday and were .warmly welcomed by their numerous friends who called at the hotel during their brief stay. They spent the winter at Southern Pines and will return to their home about the first of May. The Ladies Betterment Association of Red Springs is to give an enter tainment in the Opera House on next Tuesday night, April 8, for the im provement of our public school. The cause is a worthy one, and the enter tainment will be pleasing. A large crowd is expected. r.cr. ilr. Eoone saw the hawk as it swooped down and caught a chicken and clapped his hands and made Mr. Hawk drop the chicken. The boys said that they were glad to learn about it, that Mr. Boone, Senior, was some good about there after all, and Mr. Boone told them that he was just about running that farm. That hawk business reminded Mr. Boone, who was in town Saturday, that the last time he shot a gun it was not a gun at all but a hoe. He was hoeing along in the field and saw a hawk flying away with a chick en and raised his hoe, took aim, said "Boom!" like that and the hawk dropped the chicken and flew away. You see, the silly hawk thought it was a gun sure enough, and it answered the purpose just as well, so far a saving the chicken was Concerned. But that would -jo's workf Mr. Boone recalled, in the caM of the boy wh) started to shoot at a squirrel with no hammer or trigger 0? something: else necessary for deadly work on his gun. When a companion called his attention to the crippled condition of his gun the boy said "Sh, the squirrel don't know it." People who drive into town from the country will do well to remember that it is not safe to leave things of body may walk off with things, es pecially when left in conveyances on back lots. Mr. B. Tyner, of route No. 2 from Buie, who was in town Saturday,- lost a pair of shoes that way. He left them in his bugy while he was doing some trading and when he went back to his buggy they were gone. If you are careless about leav ing things that way somebody may "swipe" them. Some ladies were enjoying a ride in the country in an automobile the other day, the auto being driven by a negro chauffeur, and were fright ened nearly out of their wits when they were cursed by some men whom they passed. The men did not even have the excuse of a frightened horse, for their horse did not shy at the machine. Mean liquor, most likely. But no amount of mean liquor could bring that sort of cussedness out of a decent man. There has got to be meanness in a man before liquor can bring it out. The special salesday for Lumberton, mentioned in Thursday's Robesonian, is already being talked about a great deal. That is going to be a ereat day. April 25 is the date. There will be something doing in Lumberton on that day and it will be worth while to be here. The Robesonian man could tell about an automobile that slid into a ditch about three miles from town Friday night and would have been stuck there for the night, but for the help of a friendly Indian and hia mule but that would be telline-. It was not the fault of the driver of the machine. It was hist after t.h heavy rain and the roads were as slick as slick, and in giving a buggy more than room enough to pass the auto fast slid quietly Into the ditch and stuck there. One pessimistic soul In the car got out, rolled up his pants and vowed there was nn Ha1t for it but a hike to town through the mud and darkness it was dark as a stack of black cats. Three men Body of White Man Killed By Train Near Pembroke Claimed by His People. In The Robesonian of a week ago today was published an account of the finding of the body of a young white man beside the Atlantic Coast Line Railway's tracks near Pembroke on the 29th ult. and the coroner's in quest over the remains. It was stated in that story that there was found on the body a letter from the young man's sister from Toronto, Canada, signed "Agnes Raven," (and giving her street number as 56 Stafford. This made it possible to locate the dead man's people and yesterday they arrived at Pembroke on a special train from Fayetteville, had the body disinterred from where it had been buried beside the railroad, and left immediately on the return trip to Toronto . pushing and grunting- at the rear while the owner of the car turned on the power, which did not give enough HlrPweridnoJze" enough t owner hiked up the road a piece and The county road board, board of education and commissioners are holding their regular monthly meet ings today. The question of forming a new township, to be known as Mc Donald, dividing Thompson, will be" decided by the commissioners this afternoon. Ex-Judge Francis D. Winston, of Windsor, Bertie county, is among the out-of-town attorneys in town today, being here to take some depositions, roused a friendly Cherokee, who was obliging and kind. His mule has pulled so many cars out of that tame ditch that he suffered himself to be backed up to the car without saying a word, and when the power was turned he walked out with the car with the utmost nonchalance. There are four men in Lumberton who will always have the kindest feeling for that mule and his master. Subscribe for The Robesonian. BRIEF LOCAL NEWS ITEMS. Middling cotton today, 12 cent. A meeting of St Alban's Lodgw No. 114 will be held tomorrow even ing at 7:30 o'clock. Work in third degree. Mrs. Moses Blacker returned yesterday from Richmond, Va., where in a hospital she spent about aix weeks undergoing treatment. Her condition has been greatly improved. Mrs. Lizie G. Proctor is having the iron fence in front of her resi dence on Elm street removed and a cement curbing put down. The change is greatly improving the appearance of the home. There will be an ice cream vup per at the church at Rennert Wednes day evening of this jveek for the par pose of completing the church. Rev. Samra Smith of Washington, D. C, will give a lecture. Admission 2S cents. Miss Mattie Morris, of Atlanta, G-, who is traveling in the interest of the Judson Centennial Mission fund of the Southern Baptist Conven tion, spent yesterday in town a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R.TD. Caldwell, going from here to Fayette ville, Mr. John Jones and family moved last week to Charleston, 6. C, where they will make their future home. Mr. Jones has a position on the. SCuinrrrti Railroad v.ith headquarters at 1,. leston, which is tb Teason for -the mv?: , -C' household effects were snipped about the middle of the wefek, Mrs. Jones going at the same time. Mr. Worth oJnes left yesterday. Mr. John T. Glover of Sumpter, S. C, has accepted a position -as manager of the Lumberton Motor Car Company's foundry He began work Friday. He has had about 30 jtfira experience in the business and hk some fine samples of his work at the Luhiberton Motor Car Conv pany'a shop on Fourth street. St Pauls Messenger, 3d: At the primary held Tuesday Mayor J. A. Townsend was renominated and Messrs. A. R. McEachern, J. M. Butler, L. I. Grantham and J. C. Blanchard were nominated for com missioners. Mr. Blanchard is the only one of the present board who stood for re-election. At the Pastime theatre tonight will be seen a "Redskin's Appeal" by Pathe, and "Honeyboy's First Quar rel." by Essany. Both of these pic tures ought to please. Music will be furnished from 8 to 9 o'clock by an Italian orchestra of Wilmington. This will be a musical treat. There will be no 'change in prices. During the last few days the general appearance of things has been greatly improved at the Lumberton drug store by the application of a fresh coat of paint on the front of the store and ceiling the interior; and a new shining awning has been put up to the front of the store. The show windows to the store have been redressed and in one of them is 3 fine display of kodaks. The Lumberton baseball team, consisting of Messrs. James Cowan, Lewis Shelby, Eli Wishart, Knox Proctor, Guy Townsend, John Ed wards, Ike Deese, Clarence Moore and Eddie McNejll, went Friday to St. Paul, where they tried a game with the St. Paul team. The score it's shame to tell and the Lumberton ' boys will not talk about it, even though they did win was 19 to 20. The boys say they are going to prac tice up some. Mr. G. W. Hart, for about two years pharmacist for the Lumberton Drug Co., has resigned to accept a position as traveling salesman for the H. K. Fulford Drug Co. of Philadel phia, Pa. Mr. Hart will travel wes tern South Carolina and will begin work May 1st, his resignation being effective at that time. Mr. Hart will not move his family. He says &at Lumberton is too good a town to leave. Charley West, who lives near town, was before the mayor fins morning to answer to the charge st being drunk. He was fined $5 and costs. The offense was last Mon day and this is the same case as mentioned in Thursday's Robesonian wherein the victim of mean liquor was hauled to the lockup in a one-horse the streets! This wasTowell's" first also before the mayor this mornityr to answer charge of being drunk: an the streets. This was powell's first ojffenseand judtnnentwas8uspended upon payment of costs.
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