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1 ROBES ONIAI N Established 1870. ' Country, God and Truth. Single Copies Five Cents VOL XLIV NO. 17 LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 17. 1913. WHOLE NO 2854 WEATHER BUREAU CHIEF OUT HOPE MILLS NEWS. STAND BY FREE WOOL. DISEASE GERMS. HOTEL NOW ASSURED. BRIEF LOCAL NEWS ITEMS. Prof. Willis Moore Dismissed by Pres ident Grave Charges of Irregular ity. Washington Dispatch, 16th. Prof.,, Willis L. Moore, chief of the Weather Bureau since 1895, and an appointee of the Cleveland ad ministration, today was summarily re moved from office by President Wil on. His resignation recently had been accepted to take effect July 31st, but after an investigation of his alleged fforts to become Secretary of Agri culture in the present Cabinet, grave harges of irregularity were prefer red and the President today withdrew-his acceptance of the resigna tion, dismissing Prof. Moore, later fce referred the subject to the Depavt- f nt of Justice for inquiry. Secretary Houston, of the Agri cultural Department, conferred with 4he President before the removal of ilr. Moore was announced. The Sec retary then issued the following state ment: . . ., " "Immediately after the resignation ' f Prof. Moore, of the Weather Bu . eau, w. assubmitted to the -President and accepted by him, charges were filed with the Secretary of Agricul ture by responsible men within the service. These charges were of such grave nature that the Secretary of Agriculture called upon the Depart ment of Justice for an investigation. "The investigation is still under way but the facts so far secured and laid before the President yesterday, were sufficient to warrant him in de ciding to withdraw his acceptance of Prof. 'Moore's resignation and re move him summarily, which has been done today. The President also di rected the Secretary of Agriculture to suspend Mr. Charles T. Burns, an employee of the Weather Bureau, pending a further investigation of his case, and take such disciplinary meas ures as he may deem necessary with such other employees of the Weather Bureau as may be found to have been unduly active in using the public ser--rice for private and personal ends." EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS Provided for By Seaboard Double Track Raleigh to Hamlet. Norfolk Dispatch, 15th. In addition to $3,000,000 to be ex pended for the purchase of additional equipment, Seaboard Air Line Rail way in its annual budget has provided i for extensive improvements all along the line of the system, to cost $2,500, 000. One of the most important features of the program is the double tracking of the North Carolina division from Raleigh to Hamlet. Double track will also be installed at Jacksonville on the South Caro lina division. Large improvements will be made at the Raleigh, N. C, Richmond, Va., and Monroe, N. C, yards, while ad ditional phosphate elevators will be erected at Tampa and Femandina, Fla. Hog Staked Out to Grass A Praying Contest. Reported for The Robesonian: Fred Brown, of Antioch, who was in town Monday, reports two new depar tures in the new county of Hoke. He deposes and says that on a cer tain day he and Commissioner J. A. McPhaul were traveling in a cer tain section of the county, to their astonishment they found an old sow staked out to grass, a ropo around her neck and a chain tied to the rope. Wonder what will Hoke do next? Mr. rown also tells of a recent meeting at a negro church in which two of Ham's sons, ministers, con tested for a prize, the prize being of fered to the negro who could make the best prayer. This contest was de cided by judges and one of course was accorded second place. Appointments Please North Caro linians. Washington Cor., 15th, News and Ob server. The appointment of Col. William H. Osborne, of Greensboro to suc ceed R. E. Cabell, as commissioner of internal revenue, and Walter H. Page, as Ambassador to England, to day by President Wflsen, caused much rejoicing among North Carolinians here today. Both positions are im portant ones. Colonel Osborne, in addition to hav ing charge of all of the moonshine destroyers will have to collect the cor poration tax. He will he a busy man. j Mr. Page roes to fill the largest task ever undertaken by a recent day Tar Heel. The Bank of Claremont, Catawba county, was closed Monday by State Bank Examiner Hubbard.-. The bank was organized under the auspices of the State's Trust Co. of Wilmington, which promoted the Bank of Angier, Harnett county, and the Bank of Mac clesfield. Edgecomb county. which were closed by order of the State Cor-' poration Commission Saturday. ' Death of Albert Buckingham A Busi ness Change Local Talent Plays Personal. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Hope Mills, April 14 On Friday evening, April 25, at 7:30 o'clock the ladies of Roslin will give a concert in the Masonic hall. The exercises will consist of two plays one "The Disagreeable Family," and the other "Taking the Census." These plays are both humorous and will please you. Another feature of the pro gram will be some fine choruses by Miss Annie Blunt and Miss Cora Jackson at the piano. A small en trance fee will be charged which will go to the library fund of the school at Roslin. Dr. C. G. Vardell, of the Southern Presbyterian College, delivered the literary address at the closing exer cises of the Hope Mills graded and high school Wednesday evening, which was a treat to all who heard him. His discourse was most appropriate for the occasion. The music rendered by the school was excellent. Another successful year's work has been com pleted . Mrs. John H. Rodgers will leave this place tomorrow for Wa gram, where she will visit relatives, also attend the Presbytery which will be held Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Mr. and Mrs. L. McDonald will attend the Pres bytery at Wagram this week. Rev. W. A. Humphrey filled the Methocjist pulpit here Sunday and preached a very helpful sermon. Mrs. Janet Ray and daughter, Miss Sallie, are visiting in Hope Mills this week. Mr. E. L. McDonald is back at Hope Mills as agent of the A. C. L. Railroad Company, to the de light of his many friends. The firm of Brady & Rogers has re cently been dissolved, Mr. L. Brady having sold out his interest in that business to his partner, Mr. Owen C. Rogers I . Mr . and Mrs. T. F. Buckingham's little son, Albert died on last Mon day morning, being in the fourth year of his age. The funeral was preached by the Rev. N. C. Duncan at the residence, and the burial took place in Cross Creek cemetery, Fay etteville Tuesday afternoon. Movements of the People Up Red Springs Way Baseball Game. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Red Springs, April 15 Mrs. E. L. Hamilton and children returned Sunday night after a week's visit in Bennettsville, S. C. On Monday of this week the Red Springs second nine had a game of baseball with teh Fayetteville" second nine on the local diamond. Fayette ville won by the score of 8 to 3. Both sides put up a good game but the Red Springs boys were clearly outclassed . On Monday evening the students of the Southern Presbyterian College gave their third quarterly recital. Mrs. R. L. Lovin has returned from Highsmith hospital, Fa yetteville, where she had been under tnuumcnt nr the last few weeks. Mr. J. N. Savage has recently mov ed his family to Red Springs from Hartsville, S. C Mr. and Mrs. T. A. McNeill, Jr. of Lumberton' spent the week end at the home of Mrs. McNeill's parents, Captain and Mrs. W. F. Williams. Notices of New Advertisements Townsend Bros, spring announce ment and Special Sales Day offers. Time to place order for tobacco flues McAllister Hdw. Co A good time to begin, Sales Day, April 25 Bank of Lumberton. Real economy R. D Caldwell & Son. Report of condition of Bank of Mc Donald. Parlor grand piano for bale at bar gain J. McCombie Murray, Maxton. "The furniture store that it pays to visit" Lumberton Furniture Store. Special offer to customers on Spec ial Sales Day, April 25 C. M. Ful ler & Son. Weeders, transplanters, cultivators L. H .Caldwell. Big auction sale of real estate on Snecial Sales Day, April 25 A.K. J. W. Co. Raleigh dispatch, 15th: One "hitch" after another seems to beset the ef forts on the part of the Corporation Commission and the Attorney General of North Carolina to extradite Ector H. Smith, the fugitive president of the States Trust Company of Wilm ington. The latest is habeas corpus proceedings started in Birmingham and continued for hearing there next Saturday. A Card. .This is to certify that all , drug, gists are authorized to refund vour money if Foley's Honey and Tar Com pound fails to cure your cough or cold. John Bemet. Tell., Wis., states: "I use Foley's Honey and Jar Com pound for five years, and it always gives the best ofsatisfaction and al ways cures a cough or cold." Refuse substitutes. For sale by all dealers. Democratic Caucus Supports Wool Schedule of Tariff Bill----Underwood Defends President and Committee. Washington Dispatch, 16th. The Democratic caucus voted decis ively late today to support the wool schedule of the Underwood tariff bill, placing raw wool on the free list, after Representative Underwood had made a stirring appeal for support of the caucus. By a vote of 190 to 42, an amendment offered by Representative Dies, of Texas, to place raw wool on the dutible list, was rejected. epresentative Dies' amendment proposed to place a duty of 15 per cent, ad valorem on raw wool, he and other champions of dutiable wool asserting that this was the judgment of the ways and means committee be fore President Wilson saw the bill and suggested a change. Majority Leader Underwood, in winding up with the discussion, warm ly defended both the committee and the President. He declared the Pres ident had a right to make suggestions to Congress relating'"to the tariff, but that the bill as a whole met with the Cheif Executive's approval when4 he first read it a3' it came from the committee. "Out of 4,000 and more items in the bill," said Mr. Underwood, "the President only made two suggestions, those affecting the sugar and wool schedules. It seems to me that we should accept those suggestions from the President of the United States." HEALTH AND HYGIENE Springtime Conservatism. North Carolina State Board of Health Be conservative about Spring. Don't let the small boys and girls get too optimistic, either, about these warm days. Shoes and stockings will not hurt them much for a few days longer. The ground has not gotten thoroughly warmed yet. There is still too good a chance to catch that last spring cold if we let all the fires go out, change from heavy to light underwear, lay off our vests, or cast aside the shoes and stockings all at once. Better do these things gradual ly, one at a time, instead of all v at once the first warm day.' It is rather strange how otherwise sensible men and women will go from a hot dry-baked air indoors to the other extreme outdoors these days, and then refer to the resulting cold or pneumonia as a "mysterious dispensation of Providence." Their own conduct ordinarily is the only mysterious thing about it. Spring Hints. Here are a few suggestions to aid the ambitious in the worthy project of getting through the spring alive: Don't shift your underclothing prema turely. Better a little discomfort to the skin than a sore spot on the lungs. Control your fireplaces and the fur nace fire by the thermometer, not by the calendar. Keep the air in your house moder ately moist by means 6f pans of wa ter placed under the radiators or near the registers. ' Take a cold bath every morning; there is no better defense against taking cold. Keep your distance from people who cough or snuffle; a cold is as con tagious as smallpox. Avoid dust. Don't say, "Oh' it's only a cold." The cemetaries are full of people who will never say that again. Neatness and order are as conta gious as diptheria. Watch your neighbor follow your example when you clean the yard, and plant flow ers, and care for the lawn. No individual and no health de partment alone can ever cope with the fly problem. But all of us, working together, can very effectively cope with it. Cleanliness offers a solution for al most every sanitary problem; it will do more than anything else to solve the fly problem. Joseph Smith, a farmer who en tered the State Hospital inn Raleigh last Deceer rmbofm Chatham county, committed suicide at the hospital Monday by cutting his throat with a penknife. He had suffered from mel ancholia with suicidal tendencies and had made attempts on his life before. He was 44 years old and Is sur vived by a wife and 6 children. No matter how long you suffered, or what other remedies failed to cure, Foley Kidney Pills will surely help you. They are genuinely tonic, strengthening and curative, build up the kidneys and restore their remlar action. John Velbert, Poster, Calif, savs: "I Buffered manv tmn witfe kidney trouble and could never get re- Itia? -until T, ;,4 TU! T r--- .which effected a complete cure. For sale by all dealers. Why some Diseases Are-Catching - Importance of Stopping Spread of Disease Germs. From Ritchie-Caldwell's Primer of Sanitation. A person who lives with a con sumptive sometimes catches consump tion. A man takes care of a neigh bor who has typhoid fever, and he too takes typhoid fever. A child brings measles or whooping cough to school, and soon a great number of children have the same disease. Why are some diseases "catching?" What is there about a person who has consumption, typhoid fever, measles that should cause another person to take the disease? What passes from a sick person that causes another person to take the disease and how does it pass? Let us see if we can find the answer to these ques tions . Catching Diseases That are Caused By Germs That Are Passing From One Person to Another Person. All catching diseases are caused by germs, when a person catches a disease he does so by getting germs into his body. Every case of smallpox is caused by germs that came from some other case of smallpox. All cases of mumps and measles are caused by germs that came from other cases of these diseases. All the many mil lion cases of catching diseases that are found in our country each year are caused by germs that came from other cases of the disease. Get it firmly fixed in your mind that the germs that make us sick do not fall from the clouds or spring up from the earth, but come from the peo ple who are sick with germ diseases. Disease Germs Very Small. We do not see the germ as it passes from the person who gives us grip or measles. This is because disease germs are so very small that? we can seen them only with a very pow erful microscope. They are so tiny that millions of them can swim in a single drop of water. Even when there are hundreds of millions of them on the hands or on a drinking cup, the hands or the cup may yet seem perfectly clean. We can see a street car coming and get out of its way but germs we must learn to escape without seeing them. Some Diseases that Are Caused by Germs. Among diseases that are caused by germs are colds,, catarrh, diptheria, pneumonia and consumption; typhoid fever, dysentery,' cholera, and all of the diseases of the intestine from which so many little children die; boils, carbuncles, blood poisoning, ton silitis, appendicitis and inflamed sores and wounds; malaria, lockjaw, meningitis and leprosy whooping cough scarlet fever, measles, chicken pox, smallpox and mumps. All these and many other diseases are caused by germs. From reading this list you can easily understand that the greater part; of the sickness that is in the world would disappear, if the spread of disease germs from .one person to another could be stopped. Graded School Will Close April 25. The spring term of the graded school will close on the 25th inst., one week from tomorrow. The graduat ing exercises will be held the fol lowing Monday night, the 28th, and on that day there will be some ath Ieic contests. It was not known until a few days ago just when the school would close and Supt. Sentelh has not yet secured a man to preach the co-'ivi.onct'mcnt sermon, be: omc mc will nrobally be engaged in a few ddys. Kinston dispatch, 14th: J. N. Price a ayne county farmer, has a gallinaceous curiosity in a hen which lays eleven eggs a week regularly. The program of his industrious fowl is to produce one egg one day and two the next alternately, and she has been at it since February 1. Part of the eggs have double yolks, and all are with unusual hard shells. The hen's nest is in a child's crib in Mr. Price's home, and he has watched it carefully to see that no other fowl entered it. His neighbors bear wit ness to the extraordinary record of the hen. A portrait of Dr. Patrick Living son Murphy, the first superintendent of the State Hospital at Morganton, was presented to the State by the State Medical Society Tuesday. The exercises in connection with the pre sentation were held in the State eSn ate hall. The portrait was accepted by Governor Craig. Recommended for a Good Reason C. H. Grant, 230 Waverly St, Peo ria, . His., says, "Backache and con gested kidneys made me suffer in tense pains. Was always tired and floating specks bothered me. Took Foley Kidney Pills and saw big im provement after third day. I kept on antil entirely freed of all trouble and suffering. That's why I recommend Foley Kidney Pills. They cured, me." For sale by aHdealersv- Subscribe for The Robesonian. Deal Mentioned in Monday's Robe sonian Clotted and a 40-Room Hotel Will Be Erected at Seaboard Station Within 12 Months by Dr. W. A. McPhaul Will Meet Town's Great est Need. It was stated in Monday's Robeson ian that as the paper went to press a deal was being made which would mean a new hotel of 40 rooms for Lumberton within 12 months, but that the paper was not at liberty to give the particulars because there was the probability of a hitch, since all the papers had not been signed at that time. Later Monday afternoon the deal was finally closed. The hotel will be built on the lot at the Seaboard station on which there are at present tobacco wareh r.ses and prize houses. The lot is on the corner of Elm and First street and extend through to Chestnut street and fro.it First to the railway right-of-way. It is sixty-one hundredths of an acre, 78 feet on Elm, 163 feet on Chestnut, 214 feet on First. It was purchased by Dr. W. A. McPhaul from its four former owners, Messrs. R. D". Cald well, L. H. Caldwell, W. W. Car lyle, and Q T. Williams, and it is a part of the purchase contract that within 12 months from the date of the sale of the lot a hotel of 40 rooms, modernly heated and lighted and equipped, shall be erected on it. This is an ideal location for a hotel and Dr. McPhaul's reputation for doing things on a big scale makes it certain that a hotel of which Lumber ton will be proud will be built. Lum berton needs nothing more than a ho tel and such a hotel as will be built will be the best possible advertisement for the town, and at the same time will doubtless prove a good investment. With the purchase of the lot Dr. McPhaul gets the 2-story and 3-story wooden buildings on the lot and the former owners keep the big tobacco warehouse, which they will move off the lot. Public Debate at Graded School To morrow Evening. The boys' debating society of the graded school will give a public debate in the auditorium a tthe school build ing tomorrow evening beginninng at eight o'clock. The boyj have made considerable preparation for the occasion and it is expected that it will be interesting entertainment. Sev eral of the boys who will take part in this debate have never before h. r part to plav in a public occasion of the kind. The subject is, "Resolved. That United States Senators shoHd be elected by diiect vote of the r' -ple of the State represents. The af firmative will be presented by Mei.s.s. Rufus Sanderson, Earl Townsend and Robert Caldwell; negative, Marion Beckwith, Furman Biggs and Robert Mclntyre. The public is invited and the boys desire that inspiration that comes from a good audience. Representatives of Robeson County Schools Win Prizes. The annual meeting in Fayetteville' last week of the Southeastern High School Division of North Carolina was closed with an old-time spelling match, ladies' recitation and men's declama tion contests, and representatives from two Robeson county schools won two of the prizes. Miss Ethel Brown of the Philadelphus high school won the spelling match after a spirited contest, and the declamation prize went to Burton Graham of the Row land high J school. The medals for these contests were given by business and professional men of Fayetteville. Miss Gladys Bernard of Burgaw won the ladies recitation prize. Wilmington Star, lt8h: A party of four persons, one woman and three men, driving an automobile at a criminal rate of speed on the Castle Haynes road toward the city about 9 o'clock last night, ran into a buggy driven by Mrs A. F. Eilers, tore the buggy to splinters, hurled Mrs. Eil ers to the middle of the road, sense less, and threw her two children to the ground, one with the mother and the other some distance away. The party of joy riders never paused, never slackened their mad rate of speed, and all trace of them was lost last night. President Sends in Nominations Washington Dispatch, 15th. President Wilson today nominated former Governor John E. Osborne, of Wyoming to be first assistant sec retary of State; Walter H. Page, of New York, to be Ambassador to Great Britain; William H. Osborne, of Greensboro, N. C, to be commis I sioner of internal revenue; H. Snow I den Marshall to be United States dis I trict attorney for the southern district or ew xorlc. The town of Wilson voted Tuesday for a bond issue of $160,000 for street and electric light improvement. Rheumatism7 as a result of kidney trouble, stiff and aching joints, back ache and sore kidneys will all yield to the use of Foley Kidney Pills. They are tonic in action quick in results, curative always. W. S. Skelton, Stanley, Ind., says: "I would not ney trouble I received from one sin gle box of Foley Kidney Pills.' For There will be an ice-cream supper at the Methodist church at Buiq Wednesday nght of next week for the benefit of the church. Mr. C. B. Redmond, proprietor of the Parlor Grocery, estimates that the damage to his stock by water on account of the fire Saturday night is $1,500. County Supt. J. R. Poole and Prof. H. E. Stacy are attending com mencement exercises at Oakdale school, near Marietta, today. Mr. Stacy delivers the commencement ad dress. Mr. John E. Gilmore, clerk of the local camp of the W. O. W. receiv ed yesterday a voucher for $1,000 te be paid to the estate of the late Ira L. Pope. This covers an insurance policy which Mr. Pope had with the order. Mr. W. S. Britt who has beea a member of the board of gratfed school trustees and the. town board ef audit and finance for the past tw years, says that he positively will net be a candidate for the school board im the approaching town primary. Rev. C. II . Durham left this morning for Delway, Sampson county, where tomorrow he will deliver the commencement address for the Delway school. On account of his absence the mission study class which Mr. Dur ham conducts at the First Baptist church Friday afternoons will not meet tomorrow. Sujt. R. E. Sentelle, of the Lumberton graded school, has beers appointed by Gov. Craig a delegate to the Southern Sociological Congress, which has for its purpose the study and improvement of social, civic and economic conditions in the South and which will meet in Atlanta, April 25-29.. Rev. R. E. Sentelle will preach Sunday morning at Baptist church in Fairmont for Rev. R. L. Byrd, pastor of the church. On Friday, May 2, Mr. Sentelle wil! deliver the commencement speech at the Fair mont school. Mr. Sentelle delivered the literary address last Thurrsday evening at the closing exercises of the school at Abbottsburg. Miss Fannie Walters, daughter ef D. P. Walters underwent an operatiea for gpnendicitis at the Thompson hos pital Monday night. Mrs. M. F. Cald veil, vho underwent an operation at tha hospital sone time ago, return ed to her home on Caldwell street Tuesday. Mrs. Andrew Ivey, whe has been a patient rt the hospital fer i few dars, will rrtrrn to her home - Rrynhsm this week. - "..v. A. McA. Pittman, of Car !!?, S. C , preached last evening at :h ; Hrsc Daptist church. He spent the night in town a guest at theome of Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Floyd, arriv ing here yesterday afternoon from Fairmont, where he had been spend ing a few days on a visit at the home of his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Floyd. Mr. Pittmaa left this morning for his home. Miss Lyly Duke of Durham, field secretary of woman's missionary so cieties of the North Carolina Confer ence, addressed the ladies of Chest nut Street Methodist church in the Sunday school room of the church Tuesday afternoon. She went yes terday to St. Paul's and will visit other churches in the county. Miss Duke was a guest while here at the hoir of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. White. Mr. J. A. Hursey, one of Robe son county's scattered abroad who now lives in Dillon, S. C, wants his many friends in his native county of Robeson to know that he is still alive and makes Dillon his home. In renewing his subscription to The Robesonian Mr. Hursey writes, "As I am an old Robesonian and have many friends in that dear old coun ty it gives me much pleasure to read the dear old county paper." A Cottage at the National cottoa mill village was destroyed by fire Tuesday night about 1 o'clock. The house was occupied by Mrs. Eliza Swan and family. The family suc ceeded in escaping without injury, bat all of the household effects were lost. The origin of the fire is unknown. When discovered the roof was in a blaze. The mill company had insur ance on the building, but it is under stood that Mrs. Swan had none. It was stated in The Robesonian some time ago that Prof. J. McCom bie Muray had resigned as instructor in voice and elocution at Carolina Col lege in Maxton. effective April 1st, and that some time shortly after the first of month he would give a concert-, in Lumberton. Prof. Murray writes that he has been delayed on ac count of having to help at the college until relieved, that he will give his final concert in Maxton on the 28th inst, and that he will make a date for Lumberton the first week in May. No Picnic Dinner at Marietta School Closing. In Monday's Robesonian it was stated that the Marietta school would close on Friday, May 2, with a big picnic dinner . The reporter misun understood Prof. W. T. Jenrette, the principal of the school, in that parti cular. He writes that it has not yet been decided whether there will be a picnic dinner on this occasion or not. The. balance:: of the progran;-asr.pnb-- "" lished in Monday's Robesonian is cor-
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