THE SEMf-WEfeKLY ROBESONIAN.
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trap covering turned into a modern fire-proof, storm-proof, lightning-proof
roof at a very moderate cost a roof that will last as long a the building
and never need repairs.
For Sale by
McAllister Hardware Co,
Lumberton, N. C.
Let Us Demonstrate
No-Rim-Cut Tires
You know theso tires, and know
tney outsell every other tirp
made today.
You have heard of the sales
doubling over and over, until the
output is now 100,000 per month.
But you don't know perhaps,
just why these tires have become
such a famous sensation.
It's somethinp you ought to
know.
SAVE ONE-HALF
No-SimCut tires, with tens of
thousands of users, have cut tire
bills right in two.
We can show you in five min
utes why this thing is possible.
You can see that the tires never
rim-cut. You can seo the 10 per
cent oversize.
When you see these features you
are bound to want them, like
everyone else who knows.
WE SELL THEM
No-Rim-Cut tires art fast be
coming the universal tires. That
:f why we sell them.
We ere ready at all time? to
help you to know them.
From that time on your tire up
keep will be immensely less than
now. We can prove this to you
in five minutes. It will save you
not less than $10. A minute, and
you'll be glad you came.
GOODJEAR
No-Rim-Cat Tires
With or Without Non-Skid
Treads.
R. D. Caldwell & Son. Inc.
Lumberton, N. C.
The Supply House
FOR THE FARMER
It matters not what you need in
the way of Groceries, Dry Goods,
Hardware, Wagons, Buggies,
farm implements, etc,
Wc can Snpply Your Wants
We have everything for everybody
at the right prices. Call and let us
show you.
McEachern, Johnson & McGeachy Co.
St. Pauls, ...... N. G.
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BEARING THIS LABE1
Soap, water and a brush are all that i3
Heeded to keep the outside of an Ostermoor
Mattress sweet and clean. The inside never
needs attention. Costs nothing for repairs.
An occasional "outing" in the sun keeps it fresh and
new, because it is built (not stuffed) of elastic, fibrous
Ostermoor sheets. It cannot sag, lump nor pack
like hair." ' ' --( V
Make sure you get the genuine Ostermoor." Note"
the label put there to protect you against worthless
imitations. We sell at factory, prices and iavita
Inspection.
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LUMBERTON FU RXITURE STORE.
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HOME MARKETS NEGLECTED.
In a recent Robesonian .mention
was made of the fact that while this
is almost in tho heart of the best
strawberry producing section it ia out
of the question to get strawberries
for the local market, and inquiry was
made as to why somebody does not
raise berries for the home market.
As good prices could be obtainod for
berries in Lumberton and other towns
throughout this section as are obtain
ed from the Northern buyers in fact,
as suggested below, if the home mar
kets were cultivated better prices
could be obtained from those who
buy for the Northern markets.
One trouble is that the dealers in
small towns hereabouts have left
the field for the Northern markets. If
they would get together and put a
buyer out to bid for berries in large
quantities they could perhaps get all
the berries they want.
But this mention mer.ly brings in
the following from the Conway, S. C,
Field, noted in Friday's Wilmington
Star:
"Last week we attended the Metho
dist district conference at Dillon.
While there we were struck by the
absence of strawberries. Here in Hor
ry we are shipping them out by the
carload and delighted to get 10 and
20 cents a quart for them, while oyer
in Dillon and Marion counties you
hardly find any, and such as you get
costs 25 cents a quart. We have a
great home market close at hand that
would take almost our entire output
if our people would only take a little
trouble to organize properly for it.
If we would cultivate the home mar
ket we could practically dictate prices
to the Northern markets. In other
words they would have to pay us
gilt-edge prices or get no berries."
And The Star, commenting on the
above, adds:
"Whose fault is it that markets
nearby are not supplied while those
far away are glutted? It must be the
fault of local dealers who do not keep
in touch with producers. Certainly
the producers would only be too wil
ling to sell in the home markets as
well as abroad. It might also be said
that the producer does not look
around him for the markets that he
can get nearer home.
"Recently we published a statement
to the effect that while potatoes were
rotting in one Maine county the peo
ple were paying exhorbitant prices
in another county of the same State.
Producers and consumers will have
to find some way of getting closer to
gether. Producers will have to give
moro attention to looking for custo
mers, and consumers will have to give
more thought to the source from
which they can secure what they need.
So far as the local markets are con
cerned the middlemen seem to " be
asleep. So do the producers in failing
to have a co-operative marketing sys
tem."
AN UNJUST TAX.
Robeson county's new road law be
comes effective on the first of next
month. Whatever may be its merits
or demerits otherwise, The Robeson
ian has been convinced all along that
its provision for alabor tax is ujijust.
It calls for only 4 days' labor or $2
in lieu of labor, but reverting to this
old custom, which is "more honored in
the breach than in the observance,"
is a step backward, no matter how
few days of labor are required. It is
true, too, that the majority of the
sentiment expressed at the meeting
held in Lumberton before the bill was
framed to instruct the county's repre
sentatives in the Legislature as to
what was wanted was in favor of a
labor tax, but it is also true that the
people upon whom this tax will fall
most heavily were not represented
at that meeting they were at work
earning their small daily wage and
could not afford to co'me to the meet
ing and let their representatives know
what they wanted.
Commenting upon this most unjust
method of taxation The Progressive
Farmer says:
"The Progressive Farmer recently
uttered a- righteous protest against
the ancient but not time-honored plan
for no length of time can honor
such a vicious system of confiscating
a week's work from poor men every
year for the upkeep of roads, whereas
the only correct plan is to have each
man pay only his proportion to what
he owns. It is an outrageous system
that takes a whole week's labor or
earnings annuall from the . poor
man, who perhaps owns .little or
nothing, and. who needs the proceeds
of hi r-week'jr-ia rr-TnacH -rrter4Jiaa,
does some business man earning $50
tT$500 in aweeFs timeTlf the poor
man earning SI a day must give six
days a year to the roads, then the
rich man earning $25 a day should
give $150 to the roads. We are glad
to find that valia good-roads fighter,
Editor H. B. Varner, of Southern
Good Roads, speaking out on this sub
ject as follows:
" 'There is nothing more unjust
than the labor tax. How long will our
people submit to it? Any law which
taxes the poor man $9 per year and
the man with property, who is able
to pay, the same, is absolutely un
fair. There is nothing right about it
Not far from where I live I have in
mind now a man who ownshorses,
buggies, and wagons and big farms,
who does not even pay one cent to
wards the upkeep of the roads, be
cause he is more than 45 years old.
The chances aro that he will continue
to use the roads daily for 30 years
yet. Every tenant he has on his
farms with the exceptions of two or
three, are still subject to the labor
tax. They must work six days in the
year on the roads. He is worth many
thousands of dollars. His tennants
are comparatively poor men. Where is
the justice of it?"
Commencements of Southern Presby
terian and Davidson Colleges.
The seventh annual commencement
of the Southern Presbyterian College
and Conservatory of Music at Red
Springs will be held from the 18th
to 21st inclusive. The baccalau
reate sermon will be preached Sunday
by Rev. E. R. Leyburn, D. D. of Dur
ham; senior class day exercises will
be held Monday evening at 8 o'clock;
Tuesday at 11 a. m. will be held the
meeting of the board of trustees and
the annual business meeting of the
alumnae; at 4 p. m. reception and art
exhibit; at 8 p. m., annual concert;
Wednosday, Commencement address
Dr. Jas. A. MacDonald of Toronto,
Canada, introduced by Hon. Josephus
Daniels, Secretary of the Navy.
The sevonty-sixth annual com
mencement of Davidson College at
Davidson will be held May 25-28.
Sunday, May 25, baccalaureate ser
mon by Rev. J. S. Lyons, D. D., of
Louisville, Ky.; 8:30 p. m., annual
sermon before Young Men's Christian
Association by Rev. D. H. Ralston,
Charlotte. Monday, 26th, 10 a. m.,
class day exercises; 2:30 p. m., meet
ing of executive committee of board
of trustees; 3:30 p. m., musical en
tertainment of college orchestra and
glee club; 8:30 p. m., re-union of lit
erary societies alumni orators: Phil
anthropic Society, Dr. Henry Elliott
Shepherd of Baltimore; Eumanean
Society, Dr. J. E. Mills, Columbia.
Tuesday, 27th, alumni day, 11 a. m.,
annual address by Mr. Wm. T. Ellis,
Swathmore, Pa.; 2:30 p. m., annual
meeting of the general alumni asso
ciation; 3:30 p. m., senior orations;
8:30 p. m., oratorical contest between
literary societies; 10 p. m., alumni
reception. Wednesday, commencement
day, inauguration of president-elect
Wm. Jos. Martin, addresses graduating
exercises, etc.; 4:30 p. m., gymnastic
entertainment; 8:30 p. m., receptions
by societies, fraternities and student
body.
Veterans Fght Gen. Carr and Maj.
Hamilton Mix it Up.
Durham Dispatch, 10th.
A sensational incident featured Me
morial Day exercises here when Gen.
Julian S. Carr, millionaire tobaccon
ist, and division commander of the
United Confederate Veterans,, and
Major Hamilton, commander of the
Webb camp of Confederate veterans
in Durham county, engaged in a fisti
cuff in the court house. It seems that
the trouble between General Carr and
Major Hamilton grew out of differ
ence of opinion cencerning the line of
march for the veterans. Following a
meeting of the veterans at which Maj.
Hamilton presided General Carr or
dered the Major under arrest. After
the fight Gen. Carr picked up the
Major's glasses and handed them to
the Major and reminded him that he
was still under arrest. The men later
"made up."
An UnGentle Queen.
Baltimore Sun.
The following is told of Queen
Elizabeth upon her visit to Falken
stone. The inhabitants had em
ployed the parish clerk to versify
their address and the mayor being
introduced mounted a three-legged
stool and commenced his poetical
declamation thus:
"O mighty Queen,
Welcome to Falkensteen!"
Elizabeth burst out in a loud roar
of laughter, and without giving his
worship time to recover himself she
replied:
"You great fool,
Get off that stool
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Cheapest accident insurance Dr.
Thomas' Eelectic Oil. For burns,
scalds, cuts and emergencies. All
druggists sell it. 25c and 50c." '
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THE SEVENTH SERIES OF'STQCK
in the
Robeson Building and Loan
Association
is now being1 sold. Have you bought yours?
Take stock now and own your own' home
when you are old and no longer able to pay
rent.
Any information about the Building and
Loan plan cheerfully furnished. ....
Yours to serve,
C. V. BROWN, Sec. and Treas.
Be. Prepared !
This is the season
, of the year when we
are making prepara
tion for the coming of
the time when that
Tobacco which you have planted
will be ready for curing.
Have your flues made
now, so that there will
be no delay. Place
your order now.
McAllister Hdw. 60.
Buggies I Binggies I
The snappiest line of the best
Buggies ever shown in Lum
berton. Style unequaled and
prices right. j
W. I. L INK H A W,
Home of the Hackney Buggy and Wagon.'
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