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R0BES0N-M IJlIJdj Established 1870. Country, God and Truth. Single Copies Five Cents VOL XUV NO. 23 LUMBERTON, NORTH .CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1913. WHOLE NO 2860 OLD OFF; NEW ON Mayor White and New Board of Com missioners Will Hold First Meeting Tonight Mayor Will Make Im- portant Recommendations Elec tion Results Final Meeting of Retiring Mayor and Commission ers. " ' '', Mayor A. E. White took the oath sf office Tuesday before Clerk of the Court C. B. Skipper "and he and the sew board of town commissioners will hold their first meeting at the town hall this evening at 8 o'clock, ifr. White will have some important recommendations to make to the board at this, meeting' in regard to what it is hoped may be accomplish ed for the good of the town during tie coming twelve .months. He says that the doors of the town hall will be wide open and that every citizen f the town is invited to be present, even urged to be present if there are any matters to be considered in which you are interested. . In the election held Monday to con firm the nominations made in the primary held Tuesday of last week, 144 votes were cast and the following were declared duly elected: Mayor for one year A. E. White; commis sioners for two years S. H. Hamil ton, L. T .Townsend, Geo. L. Thomp son; graded school trustees for two years L. R. Varser, L. H. Cald well, L. E. Whaley; board of audit and finance for one year Frank Cough, W. S. Britt, H.,M. McAllis ter. The commissioners whose terms expire next year are Messrs. C. B. Redmond, D. P. Walters, Jas. D. Proctor. The school trustees whose terms expire next year are C. B. Townsend (chairman), R. D. Cald- well, Q. T. Williams, Alf. H. Mc Leod. Retiring members of the board of commissioners .are Messrs. If . W. Floyd, W. J. Prevatt and D. D. French, who have given the town good service, the first-named having served as commissioner for 7 years continuously. Neither of these of fered for re-election. Mr. Varser is the only new member of the school board, succeeding Mr. W. S. Britt, who did not offer for re-election, and Mr. McAllister is the only new mem ber of the board of audit and finance, succeeding its former chairman, ex Jiltige T. A. McNeill. Retiring Mayor A. P. Caldwell and the old board of commissioners held their final- meeting Tuesday Else where in this issue will be found a re port submitted at this meeting by Town Attorney R. E. Lee, as a mem ber of the committee, Mayor Caldwell being the other member, which went to Goldsboro to investigate light and power contracts. The street committee reported all streets of the town in good condi tion, all having been worked during , the past year. It was ordered that $21.42 be paid the chairman of the board of audit and finance, who is custodian of the sinking fund, this being estimated as the amount due from the taxes of the year ending April 30, 1913. The town clerk and treasurer was instructed to post statements show ing all receipts and disbursements for the year 1912-13 and all out standing obligations. It was ordered that R. E. Lee be paid $75 for extra services rendered the town while acting as town at torney and that he be credited $5 on this account for automobile tax. , On motion of Jas. D. Proctor, sec onded by C. B. Redmond, the board extended a vote of thanks to Mayor Caldwell for the uniform courtesy and fairness shown each member of the board during his administration. The following bills were ordered paid: J. B. Bowen, registrar, $10; W. Lennon, J. D. Norment, C. P. MacAllister, Alf. H. McLeod and E. A. Thompson, managers of town pri mary, $1.50 each; R. R. Carlyle, J. i. Williamson and W. P. Barker, judges of election, $1 each; Kings dale Lumber Co., $29.07; Frederick Disinfectant ,Co, for disinfectants, $169.96; Geo. D. Barnard & Co., $161.60. Total $381.03. Atnr5ef Session of the newly elected board of audit and finance . yesterday afternoon Mr. Frank Gough wVas elected chairman and Mr. H. M. McAllister was elected secretary. It is expected that a meeting will be held this afternoon with the former chairman to formally take over mat ters from the old board. Perfection is attained by slow de agrees; she requjresjthe hand of time. o1taTre7 " " FAIRMONT NEWS LETTER. Anti Saloon League Given Black Eye High Tribute to Late Mrs. A. E. Floyd ' Miss Lizzie Andrews Passes Store Burned PersonaL Correspondence of The Robesonian. Fairmont, May 6 Fairmont base ball team won two notable victories last week, over Fair Bluff on Thurs day and Marion Friday, both games here. The closing exercises of the school last week were very enjoyable. This hai been the most successful school year in its history, more of the pupils remaining to the end of the session. We were very sorry indeed not to have Professor Sentelle" to address the .school ias't Friday but Mr. Wood berry Lennon filled his place most admirably . and pleased his audience very much. The presence of Miss Margaret Mclver, former music teacher,, was a great pleasure to her friends and help to the commence-rn,-nt. We are sorry to note that the re cent blackmailing detective business in our town has given a black eye to the Anti-saloon League of North (Carolina. We have heard f several gentlemen who say they will never give another cent to h, as these men claim to have the endorsement of the league. The death of Mrs. A. E. Floyd Saturday evening, May 3d, removed from our list one of the eldest la dies of the old school. Her pastor at her funeral called her "the ideal woman," which was indeed true. She was laid to rest among her own peo ple near the church she loved so well and friends who sorrowed over their loss and her gain covered het lowly grave with the loveliest flowers of the spring. Not the least and perhaps the greatest pleasure of the commence ment was the sermon preached in the school auditorium Sunday morning by Rev. J. Mcl. Wicker of St. Pauls. We heard it complimented on all sides. Mr. D. W. Galloway went to Southport last week to look after the finishing up of his summer home. This weather makes us all think of summer delights fishing, swim ming and the like. Mr. Clem Thompson of Philadel phia is at home resting, his health having rather given away. His many friends wish for him a speedy recov ery. Quite a number of Lumberton friends attended the funeral of Mrs. Floyd Sunday afternoon. We didn't get all their names. Others were here from South Carolina, both friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. John Smith of Latta, were guests of Mr. A. S. Thompson and family Saturday and Sunday. Miss Lizzie Andrews, who was everybody's friend and one of the most faithful women we have ever known, died Friday, May 2d, at the home of her brother N. T. Andrews, where she had been tenderly cared for during long months of illness and pain, and was buried at the Ionia cemetery Saturday afternoon, the services being conducted by her loved pastor, Rev. R. S. Lattimer. During a long quiet life of helping others Miss Lizzie went her way en dearing everyone to her and all are grieving for her, even though we know she is at rest after long suf fering. Messrs. Flowers and ' Thompson had the misfortune of losing their store at Mt. Tabor by fire last week, entailing a large loss. ( MEMORIAL DAY EXERCISES Meeting of Camp Pope to be Held Saturday Address by H. E. Stacy Dinner for Veterans and Their Wives. As has been stated in The Robe fonian, the annual meeting of Camp Willis H. Pope will be held at the cour house here Saturday morning. Officers and delegates to the annual reurion will be elected, after which thers will be an address by Mr. H. E. Stacy of Lumberton. FoJIowing the address the Daughters of the Confederacy, , Robeson Chapter, will serve dinner for the veterans and their wives. Graves of the Confed erate dead will be . decorated by the Daughters in the afternoon. It is hoped that all the veterans who can possibly do so will attend and will also bring their wives. A warm welcome awaits all who can come. Subscribe for The Robesonian. COUNTY SCHOOL MATTERS Proctorville Citizens Win Fight for School District Boundaries Chang ed Petition for New District Will Be Heard at Next Meeting of Board of Education. The county board of education was in regular monthly session Monday with Messrs. L. R. Hamer and T. L. Johnson present. In the absence of the chairman, Mr. Lucius McRae, Mr. Johnson was elected chairman pro Tern. A question which has been agitat ing the people of the Orrum and Proctorville sections for some time was settled at this meeting of the board by the order that if the citi zens of Proctorville will provide a suitable school building and equip ment and this they agree to do the children of the territory describ ed below, which is a part of the Or rum high school district, shall be given the privilege of attending the school at Proctorville up to and in cluding the seventh grade. The Proc torville school shall be entitled to as capable a teacher as similar grades in the Orrum high school and shall be paid the same salary as said teachers. Funds for' support of the school shall be provided out of the county school fund and shall in no way affect the funds of the Orrum school district. This school shall be a part of and under the same super vision as the Orrum high school. The territory taken in by the Proctor ville school is bounded as follows: Beginning at the mouth of Little Indian swamp and running north with Little Indian swamp canal to to the Hugh Lamb place, thence west a straight line to Big Indian swamp; thence s6uth with Big In dian swamp to the beginning, being the territory embraced between the two swamps, about half a mile wide and two miles long at the farthest points. A petition to change the bounda ries between districts 9 and 10, Thompson township, was approved. The changes, so as to place the lands of Mrs. G. E. Bracey, C. T. Pate and Jno. Bridgers from district No. 10 to district No. 9, are as follows: Con tinuing where W. M. Bridgers and L. R. Hamer's lines come to Clark's branch, thence as Clark's branch to Jno. Bridgers' line, thence as Mrs. Anna J. McCall's line and Jno. Brid gers' line to Ashpole swamp. A petition was presented asking for the creation of a new district out of parts of districts 1, 5 and 4, Britt's township, and ,Supt. J. R. Poole was requested to investigate and report at the next meeting of the board, when the matter will be heard. Petition asking for a change in the boundary lines between dis tricts 6 and 8, Thompson's township, was continued indefinitely. Geo. B. Lamb was appointed school committeeman for district) No. 10, Thompson's to fill, unexpired term of Jno. Bridgers, who does not live in the district. A special appropriation of $18 was made to district No. 4, Lumber ton township, on account of per cap ita apportionment Jfor children of Mr. E. H. Britt. R. R. Barnes was allowed $10 for rent of school house in district No. 1, (col,) Sterlings, amount to be charg ed to the district. Rebates were al lowed as follows: D. H. Britt, No. 2, Thompson's, 53 cents; J. K. McRae, No. 1, Maxton, $13.40; Norman Stewart, No. 2 Maxton, $5.28; Mary J. McNeill, administrator, No. 4; St. Paul's, $13.38; C. C. York, No. 1, Maxton, $3.60. Kobeson Far in the Lead. According to the report of the Bureau of the Census for the cotton crops of the years 1910, 1911 and 1912 for North Carolina, total num ber of bales , ginned, counting round bals as half , bales and excluding lint ers, Robeson county raised: in 1910, 62,944 bales;, in 1911, 76,812; in 1912, 62,332. The total yield of the State last year was 906,246; in 1911, 1,126, 276; in 1910, 753,087. Robeson is far in the lead of any other county in the State, the yield of its nearest competitor, Johnton,being last year 44,309. Washington, May 7 After all fire works preparatory to passage of the Underwood tariff bill in the Housi had been set off, a Republican parlia mentary maneuver blocked progress by the Democratic majority and the House was forced to adjourn until tomorrow with the bill still pend-1 ing. - - ': ' ' - SCHOOL BUILDING BONDS Lumber Bridge Philadelphus, Red Springs and St. Paul's Vote Bonds For School Buildings Will Build Handsome Brick Structures In elections held Monday, St Pauls, Lumber Bridge, Philadelphus and Red Springs each voted a bond issue in a sum not to exceed $15,000 for the purpose of building a graded school building. It was stated in Monday's Robesonian that enough votes had been cast up to the time of going to press to make the carrying of the election for the "bonds certain at St. St. Pauls and it has since been learn ed that the bond issues were voted by a large majority in each of these districts. Trust a Robeson county school dis trict to vote bonds for a longer school term or any other sqrt of school im provement when the matter is put squarely up to the voters. Handsome brick school buildings will be erected at each of these places. Rowland and Parkton put up hand some brick buildings two or three years ago. LIGHT AND POWER REPORT. Former Town Attorney Lee Reports Results of Investigations at Golds boro Into Sale of Light and Power Plant. At the final meeting of the retirhig mayor and old board of commission ers Tuesday, former Town Attorney R. E. Lee, who, with Mayor Cald well, went to Goldsboro as a commit tee to investigate the sale and con tracts of Goldsboro with the Carolina Electric & Power Co., submitted a report, which was in substance as follows: "The 'city of Goldsboro sjld iis lighting plant which was a soi-ond hand plant when the city bougnt it, and said by city officials not to be woith anything like what it coot the city when purchased, about $40,000 for $125,000, granting a franchise but the company contracting to fur nish lights to the city for a term of only 10 years. Lights are no better than lights furnished Lumberton now. The old plant the city sold is being used by the company and in that respect Goldsboro has not improv ed any. Citizens generally are dis satisfied with conditions but on ac count of the protecting contracts with the company seemed to think that the city exercised keen financial ability in selling its junk for such a large sum. The city is now prac tically out of debt by reason of the cash realized from this sale and has retained and set aside the sum of $90,000, which is out at interest, in order to offset any unfriendly turn conditions might take and in order to enable the city to erect a new and better plant of its own at the ter mination of existing contracts with Carolina Electric & Power Co. and defray lighting expenses. It costs the citizens more to get lights from the company than they were fur nished for by the city. Mr. Lee adds that he has memo randa of the contracts and all other matters concerning the sale and pur chase of the plant from Goldsboro and that he stands ready to furnish information to the town officials or any other citizens of the town at all times. He adds further that Mr. Caldwell interviewed the citizens of Goldsboro more particularly than he did, as he spent his time reading over and copying contracts referred to in his report. Jurors for June Term of Court Can't Get Special Term. . At the meeting of the county com missioners Monday the following were drawn to serve as jurors at the one-week's term of Robeson Superior Court for the trial of civil cases which will begin Monday, June 16: A. G. Watson, D. C. S. Shaw, D. R. Joh'n, J. C. Barnes, A. Wein stein, D. MciL Brown, J. W. Bass, R. L. McCormick, S. M. Martin, J. M. Thompson, J. F. Roberts, Eli Parham, A. P. Pitman, F. C. Britt, W. B. Stubbs, G. F. Shooter, Jno. McArthur, J. W. Barker. Te commissioners instructed. Coun ty Attorney E. J. Britt to make re quest of Governor Craig to order a special term of court of one week to precede this term, beginning June 9, as Judge Ferguson had no court that week, but before te request could be made a special term was ordered for Bladen county to begin at that time, Judge Fergusson to preside,,. so it will not be possible to get this ex tra -weekiUTtrr ROAD TRUSTEES APPOINTED. Three for Each Township To Serve Under New Law Which Goes Into Effect June 1 Appointees Will Serve Until General Election in 1914. At their meeting Monday the county commissioners appointed road trustees to serve under the new law which goes into effect June 1st. Sec tion 1 of the new road law pro vides: That at the general election to be held in the year 1914, and at each general election to be held thereafter for the election of county officers, there shall be elected by the qualified voters of each township of Robeson county a board of trus tees for each township in the county. The board of commissioners of Robeson county shall, on the first Monday in May, 1913, elect, upon the recommenda tion of the members of the General Assembly from Robeson county, a board of road trustees from each township in the county, who shall serve until their successors are elect ed and qualified as provided for in this act." The act provides that these trus tees in each township shall appoint some competent person supervisor of roads. Supervisors shall receive as compensation not exceeding $2 per day and road trustees shall receive not more than $1.50 per day for days of actual service and not more than 12 days in each year. In Red Springs township no ap pointments were made. J. L. McMil lan, Jno. M. Brown and B. W. Town send were recommended, but there was objection to these nominations and no action was taken by the board. It is supposed that this matter will be settled at a meeting of commission ers to be held the latter part of this month at the call of the chairman. It will be observed, too, that in Burnt Swamp. Rowland and Lumberton townships only two trustees were ap pointed. The third members of these boards had not been selected but were left to State Senator Geo. B. McLeod to appoint. Following are the trustees appoint ed at the meeting of the commis sioners Monday: Alfordsville W. F. Bullock, Fred McDonald, Geo. Willard. Back Swamp E. D. Pitman, J. T. Singletary, Walter Townsend. Britt's Frank Lamb, Wade Lamb, Eli Britt. Burnt Swamp A. C. McLeod, J. B. Humphrey. Fairmont Dr. J. P. Brown, I. M. Thompson, G. H. Floyd. Howellsville N. A. Kinlaw, J. I. Townsend, Spurgeon Jones. Lumber Bridge H. M. John, D. Z. McGougan, J. L. Shaw. ' Lumberton C. M. Barker, Joseph Prevatt, Sf. Maxton R. McLeod, W. H. Mc Cormick, Jas. McBryde. Orrum W. A. Leggett, Frank J. Nye, Jno. K. Atkinson. Parkton E. K. Campbell, tf. P. H. Fisher, Dave McArthur. Pembroke Archie Buie, J. L. Thaggard, Hugh Monroe. Rennert J. T. Denny, A. C. McGougan, D. F. Webster. Rowland G. L. Robertson, Frank Williams. Raft Swamp Nick Stubbs, F. A. Bond, Geo. L. Townsend. Saddle Tree M. G. Prevatt, R. G. Rozier, Richard Humphrey. Smith's Jack Purcell, Wm. Tiddy, J. F. Campbell. St. Paul's J. A. Johnson, Dr. T. L. Northrop, M. A. Smith. Sterling's R. R. Barnes, T. J. Noblin, Owen Ward. Thompson's J. L. Townsend, Dr. Geo. PateR. H. Poole. White House D. M. Rogers, Oscar Page, B. M. Hayes. Wishart's Rowland Mercer, W. Q. Warwick, Ed. Tyson. Looking to Cleaning Up Sidewalks. A petition is being circulated among the merchants of the town praying the town board to pass an ordinance prohibiting the obstruction of Elm street or any sidewalk there on with any kind of goods, wares, merchandise or article offered for sale. The peeition is being circulated by Mr. Dennis Biggs. A great many of the merchants have already signed it and it is expected that practically all of them will sign it. The petition- will be presented at ie next meeting of the town board. That state is best ordered where the wicked have no command and the goodJmvtPittachxis.zzrirrr BRIEF LOCAL NEWS ITEM ft. Good middling cotton today lie. Mr. H. E. SUcy of Lumberton will deliver the literary address at the close of Maxton graded school Friday, 23rd inst. A neat little spring house has been built recently around the pump at Meadow Brook cemetery, adding considerable to the attractiveness of this new cemetery. "A Daughter of the Confed eracy," a stirring Civil War drama in three parts, will be shown at the Pastime theatre tomorrow and Satur day. Admission prices will be 10 and 20 cents. At the town election held in Rowland Tuesday Mr. J. M. R. Bracy was elected mayor and Messrs. B. A. Edens, G. K. McNeill, E. M. Hines and J. Mack Bracy were elect ed commissioners. Rev. C. H. Durham, pastor of the First Baptist church, is spend ing today at Lumber Bridge on busi ness connected with the church at that place, which is without a pastor. He will return home tomorrow. In an election held at Maxton Tuesday Major G. B. Sellars was elected recorder for the Maxton district. The other candidates were J. E. Carpenter, J. S. McRae, Geo. C. Fisher and J. L. McLean. The act creating recorders' courts for Robe son county goes into effect June 1. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. B. McLeod of Lumberton spent last night in the city. They came up to attend the graduating recital given by their daughter, Miss Irene McLeod at Elizabeth College last night Char lotte Observer, 7th. Mr. and Mrs. McLeod returned home this morning- The commencement of Thom son institute, the colored Baptist high school for the training of HegTO teachers on the western edge of town, will be held Thursday and Fri day of next week, 15th and 16th, be ginning Sunday with a sermon. W. II. Knuckles is principal of the school. Mr. L. D. Blackburn went yes terday to Marion, S. C, in response to a wire advising that his father, Mr. J. B. Blackburn, was dying. Mr. Blackburn, Sr., had been suffering for the past two months with Bright's disease. Nothing has been heard from Mr. L. B. Blackburn since he left here yesterday afternoon. Mr, J, L. Stephens left yester day a'f ternoon for Durham, where he will attend a meeting of the funeral directors and embalmers association of the State. This is the annual meeting of the association and it lasts for three days, beginning yes terday and closing tomorrow. Mr. Stephens expects to return Satur day. Prof. J. McCombie Murray, who has just resigned his position at Carolina College, Maxton, and will soon move to Richmond, will give a concert at the local opera house1 Monday evening of next week. He will be assisted by some talent from Maxton and some local talent, Miss Leslie Proctor and the well-known Truman quartet, composed of Messrs. W. Lennon, A. T. Parmele, R. R. Car lyle and J. Pope Stephens. Tickets will go on sale at McMillan's Saturday. Elect Infant Clause Retained. Louisville, Ky., Dispatch 6th. For the second time the proposed amendment to the confession of faith, in connection with the much discuss ed elect infant clause, has failed to receive the necessary three-fourths vote of the Presbyteries of the Southern Presbyterian Church. Although defeated on a former oc casion, the eneral Assembly last year again submittedto the Presbyteries the matter of charging the language of the confession of faith.. It has been charged that the lan guage of the confession as it now reads, "elect infants dying in infancy etc.," can be construed as declaring that some infants are elect, and some are not elect.! Those favoring the change argue that the church be lieves all children dying in infancy are saved and that the confession of faith should be revised so as clearly to convey this idea. We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already doRe.Longfeth)wZZ- :
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