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HE SEMI-WEEKLY ROBESONIAN. .a . ... - . - ....... .. . - . , . , THE ROBESONIAN Published MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS By ROBESONIAN PUBLISHING CO J. A. SHARPE, President SUBSCRIPTION RATES Om Year 1B0 Six Months 75 Three Months 40 THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1913. WELCOME DELEGATES The Robesonian extends, in behalf of the Methodists and all other citi zens of Lumberton, a cordial welcome to all the preachers and delegates who will attend the sessions of the Rockingham district conference wl ich will be held in Chestnut Street Meth odist church next week. The town will be turned over to all who come to attend this conference and it is to be hoped that the visitors will en joy their stay in Lumberton as much as Lumberton will enjoy having them. A list of those who have volunteered to provide homes for the preachers and delegates and a partial list of the delegates will be found elsewhere in this paper. Lumberton will be mighty glad to entertain them. o 'WARE TOWN WATER. In Monday's Robesonian it was stated that the analysis of the river water furnished houses through the town's water system indicates that it is not even safe for use in washing dishes. It must not be supposed by outsiders that this water is intended for drinking purposes. The purest drinking water is supplied here from artesian wells. But that notice was intended for some whp regard the danger from the use of the river water as slight and would rather use it in a push than to go out of their way. For instance, some people think it all right to use river water for brushing their teeth. Rather odd that anybody should think so unless such persons think it fit to drink, for no water is safe for such intimate use unless it is safe to drink. Safety lies only in being very careful in the use of the river water. A COMMENDABLE ACT. Representative Young, Republican, of Michigan, rose nobly the other day to an opportunity to do what few once firmly seated in office have ever done. It seems that the board of canvassers had acted within the law in throwing out, on a technicality, 458 votes cast for his opponent, McDonald, but there was no doubt that the voters intend ed to vote for McDonald. Mr. Young was given the certificate of election but he refused to take avantage of the trick that defeated his opponent and iatt Saturday after ten years ser vice in the House, he announced his . determination to resign. There are no doubt other Congressmen with just as high a sense of honor as that, but it is probably true that more would have laid "the flattering unc tion of their souls" that it was no business of theirs to go behind the I decision of the board the duty of which it was to decide who was enti tled to the seat. All honor to Mr. Young and may his tribe increase. o JOBS FOR DEMOCRATS. Mr. A. W. McLean of Lumberton says that while in Washington the first of this week he made some inves tigations into the situation in regard to postoffices which do not pay more than $500 and that there is no reason why they should not be filled by Dem ocrats. As stated in The Robesonian recently, these offices have been thrown open to competitive examina tions and Mr McLean thinks there will be no trouble about Democrats get ting them wherever they apply. There are several offices in this county that might just as well be filled by Demo - crats and MrL McLean thinks Demi crats can get them by going after them. O : "I suffeied habitually from -'consti pation. Doan's Regulets relieve and strengthened the bowels so that they have been regular every since" E. T ; r r- i i n b wAvia, .grocer, auipnur tjpnngs, lex, BUYING AT THE MILLS Mr. Jonathan Peele dared The Rob esonian to ask the Charlotte Observer why cotton mills- do not buy cotton direct from the farmers and vowed that The Observer would not answer it. We told Brother Peele that we knew the mills here formerly bought their cotton direct and might buy some cotton now that way for all we knew to the contrary, and ex pressed doubt about the question be ing anything of a poser for The Ob server; but we passed it along and The Observer comes back with the following perfectly candid and intelli gible explanation: "Editor Sharpe of The LumbeVton Robesonian puts a question to The Observer in this shape: " 'The Robesonian was glad to receive a call yesterday from Pol ly Peele, from up Laurinburg way, and is happy to note that his health is improving. Polly sicks The Robesonian on to ask The Charlotte Observer why it is that its particular pets, the cot-' ton mills, don't buy cotton direct from the farmers. Mr. Peele says we can ask The Observer this question any way we please and that The Observer will not answer it.' v "'The question our friend Peele would have The Robesonian ask The Observer is a perfectly proper one and we do not know why he should think this paper will not answer it. As a matter of fact a number of mills in the State buy cotton direct from such of the farmers as care to sell to the mills. That the mills do not buy as a general thing from the farm ers is conditioned upon the same rea son that farmers do not buy their sugar from the factories. They go direct to the merchant, because he keeps a stock to meet his needs. The cotton buyer performs the identical function. He is a distributor for the cotton farmer. A mill takes cotton according to the grade U uses. It can .: bui. ( ne grade, becaujj ihc rolls are set to the length of that par ticular grade, and the running of dif ferent grades would necessitate the changing of all the machinery of that particular mill. No mill could buy a miscellaneous lot of cotton. A farm er might bring in a lot of four bales. Going say, to the Atherton Mill, he would find that mill could take only ! one grade of the lot. He would drive to another mill and have a grade suit able for t:iat ii ill to rjn, and s, op until he had disposed of his four bales to as many mills. The Cotton buyer takes all the cotton and supplies the demand of the mills by grades. The buyer is thus a distributing agent, just as the merchant is. He is as much of a necessity to the cotton pro ducer as the merchant is to the con sumer, performing the same function in trade economics. One marketing season without the utility of the cot ton buyer would be an interesting ex periment, but we fear it would prove an unsatisfactory experience for the producer. Meanwhile, we see no res son why any farmer who wants to sell direct to the mil may not exerche that privilege. For cotton of the desired grade and in the quantity needed, tie would find a customer at the mil!." Doorkeeping at the office of the various departments of the Govern ment in Washington is a cinch. About all the doorkeepers have had to do heretofore has been to warm a seat for 7 or 8 hours a day and draw their pay. Wherefore a wail went up mighty strong when Joseph A. Holmes, chief of the bureau of mines (professor in the science department of the University of North Carolina several years ago), put the doorkeep ers whose duty it was to loaf about his office to work addressing envel opes and coppying things. If that gets popular the ancient and honor able job of keeping a door will look like work and that sort of job will be a sort of training school for those who want to get up speed in the use of the typewriter. The hand that rocks the cradle and the hand that throws the rocks must be cautiously differentiated in all es says on modern feminism. The cradle-rockers are in a vast majority. Brooklyn Eagle. Urge Appointment of Watts Choice of 90 Per Cent, of Voters. A party of North Carolinians head ed by Senator Simmons and Governor Craig called at the White House Mon day and were in conference with Pres ident Wilson, about an hour urging him to appoint A. D. Watts collector of the western district of North Car olina. Gov. Craig was the principal spokesman- He stated that Watts was the choice of 90 per cent, of the Demorcatic voters of the State, an untiring party worker, a competent business man of excellent character and a man to be thoroughly trusted in every respect. Several others of the party spoke in behalf of Mr. Watts, sayiflg it would be a disastrous blow to the Democratic party in the State if the wishes of tens of thous ands of his endorsers were not fol lowed. Included in the party were A. W. McLean of Lumberton, Jas. W. Pou and J. W. Bailey of Raleigh, E. L. Travis, Corporation Commissioner. The party also called at the Treasury Department and held a long interview with Secretary McAdoo. Both the President and Secretary McAdoo lis tened attentively to the urging of the North Carolinians and assured them their endorsements would be ro- membered when the rush of exe cutive business permitted them to take up tho matter of the North Carolina collectorship. The conference was hastily arranged when it was learned that Governor Craig would pass through the city on his way to visit his son at Annapolis. The ab sence of Senator Overman from the party was explained by the fact that he had not returned from a week-end trip to New York, and Secretary of the Navy Daniels was also out of the city, not having returned from a tour of the Southern Navy yards. Farmers Insist on Better Rates. Charlotte Observer,13th. The North Carolina officials and executive committee of the Fanners' Educational and Co-Operative Union of America; mailed from their head quarters, the office of President IT (. Alexander, at Matthews, last night, letters to the 2,200 locals comprising the North Carolina Division calling upon them to rally to the aid of the Just Freight Rate Association ot' North Carolina, and to urge upon Governor Locke Craig and the Ley's lature the necessity for action with regard to the discrimnatory fr -ight rates charp-td by railroa.l-: of this State. Immediate action is urged by the officials of the union and every locai union is asked to call meetings at once, pass resolutions and mail them to Governor Craig at the vr!ies ros sible moment. Asheville Bankers Must Go to Prison. Asheville Dispatch, 13th. - Joseph E. Dickerson, director in the defunct First National Bank of this city, who, in company with Major W. E, Bfeese, the president, was found guilty of conspiracy in connection with the failure of the bank and was sentenced to serve two years in the penitentiary, was formally sentenced today and placed in the custody oi the marshal. He will be taken to Atlanta tomorrow. Major Breese, who also had been ordered to report for sen tence today was not in court, his at torneys declaring that it would be a physical impossibility for him to be present. His bond was forfeited and a capias issued for him. The case of these two men has been in court for 16 years and the Supreme Court, to which it was finally carried last year, confirmed the judgment of the lower court. Mrs. Longstreet Fails of Re-Appoint ment. ' Washington Dispatch, 13th. Denied reappointment as osi master at Gainesville, Ga., Mrs. Helen 1. L.-.i ;si cc;. "'dew oF th; famous Confederate general, has neon offered a position by a former Unioi soldier. Mrs. T.oivrstrec t said todw that Col. Albert E. Boone of Clarksburg, W. Va., had offered me the office, she added. "I shall accept his 600 a year If I find that I am fitted to do :he work in Colonel Boone'i office,11 she added, "I shall accept his offer in the same spirit in which Ceneral Long street accepted a commission from President Grant when he found him self an outcast in the land whose bat tle flags he had followed with supreme devotion." Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercury as mercury will eurely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they wilt do Is ten fold to the pood you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. rh.n A Cn.. Toledo. O . contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting; directly upon me oiooa ana mucous nur faees of the system. In buyinsr Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the frenu !ne. It Is taken internally and mad in Toledo. Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Tes timonials rree. Sold by DruKKlsts. Price 75c per bottle. Take Ball's Family Pulaor coBsupaUco. STATE NEWS. '-j,- ,, , ; , .. .. '. f ' " : " ' - Three townships v in McDowell county voted 'Tuesday bonds .or bet ter roads, one a bond issue of $50,000, one of $10,000 and the xrther of $20, 000. ' "" Material is being assembled for the rebuilding of the Rajeigh News and Observer building, which is to be re stored in much more complete and adequate shape than before. The work will require several months. At the Memorial Day celebration in Asheville Saturday Mrs. Zebulon Baird Vance was presented the cross of honor of her late husband, who though a hard fighter and good sol dier, did not receive a cross of honor during his lifetime. While tearing down an old resi dence in Salem the other day work men found $1,300 tucked snugly away in a little oening made by the removal of a brick in the old chimney place.. It is supposed to have been hid den there from the Yankees during the 60's. Former Judge Armistead Burwell, for a number of years one of the as sociate justices of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, died at his home in Charlotte Tuesday. He was one of the leading attorneys of the Char lotte bar, as well as one of thai city's most prominent citizens. He was about 65 years of age. Linville Falls dispatch, 12th: The mountains, it seems, will indeed be without fruit this year. In addition to losing the greater part of the blackberries and nearly all the huck leberries by fire, the late frosts have killed the peaches and now the ap ples. The peaches were destroyed in all this region, even as low as an al titude of 1,700 feet, two or three weeks ago. Saturday and Sunday nights severe frosts laid all early vegetation low and it is the general opinion that all apples, except in shel tered coves away from watercourses, have been killed. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. The Federal Government's "money laundry" will be in full swing this week when the Treasury Department will begin the operation of four cur rency washing machines, turning out daily 100,000 washed and ironed notes which otherwise would be destroyed. A 2-days conference at which Re publican leaders outlined plans for reorganizing the party closed in Chi cago Monday. It was attended by 6 Senators, many members of the House of Representatives and lead ers from various States. The senti ment expressed was in favor of unit ing the Progressive and Republican parties. Washington dispatch, 13th: Special agents of the Department of Justice, officers of a nationally-known detec tive agency and the local police have been called in by the Navy Depart ment to investigate a "leak," through which during the last four months several relatively unimportant plans of ships and also minor documents have disappeeared. Navy officials are inclined to minimize the importance of the losses. Washington dispatch, 13th: A state ment given out by Secretary of Com merce Redfield indicates that the quantities of manufacturers' mater ials imported into the United States during the the present fiscal year will greatly exceed the imports of last year and will exceed the mark of any previous year in the history of our country. If the figures for the nine months ended March, 1913, b any criterion. Of the 10 important arti cles forming the bulk of the imports of such materials i. e., cotton, wool, fibers, silk, tin, copper, rubber, hides, lumber, and tobacco the imports will with but two exceptions, exceed the former high record mark School Progress in Robeson. Raleigh Times, 14th. Prof. Brogden, field worker of the North Carolina Department of Pub lic Instruction, came in today from Parkton, Robeson county. It is a town of about 500 people, but has a $12,500 public school building, and a very handsome one, well equipped and largely attended. Prof, tirogden says the progress in Robeson is re markable and that during the past 30 days four places have voted $15, 000 each in bonds for the erection of school buildings. For the Weak and Nervous. Tired-out, weak, nervous men and women would feel ambitious, energe tic, full of life and always have a good appetite, if they would do the sensible thing for health take Electric Bit ters. Nothing better for the stom ach, liver or kidneys. . Thousands say they ,owe their lives to this wonder ful home remedy. Mrs. O. Rhine vault, of Vestal Center, N. Y.t says: "I regai d Electric Bitters as one of the greatest of gifts. I can never forget what it has done for me." Get a bottle yourself and see what a dif ference it will make in your health. Only 50c and $1.00. Recommended by all dealers. T I H NC LE S AM S M A I L W are safe and sure, and our splendid facilities for giving prompt attention to mailed deposits are the result of a carefully studied effort to satisfactorily serve a lare and constantly growing list of out-of-town depositors. When you can't come to town use the mails. If you will drop us a line we will gladly tell you more about it, and incidently a few good reasons why you should use this Bank. First National Bank, Lumberton, N. C ANNOUNCEMENT ! On Sunday morning April 6th, about 2:30 o'clock my place of busi. ness in the Carlyle building on Fourth street was burned out. I lost all I had in place, amounting to about $1,000." I wish in this way to express my appreciation of help and encourage ment given me by many friends. I wish to announce that I have opened up again for business. I'm up staris over Mr. U. M. Edward's bicycle shop and will greatly appre ciate any business given me. WILL FAULK, Proprietor. NATIONAL PRESSING CLUB, Lumberton N. C The Reason Why la The reason why our Glasses give relief to the eyes is because we know where and how to place them. It's our business. Make it your business to see us. Spectacles and Eye Glasses correctly fitted to your eyes for $1.00 and Up. Eyes Examined Free Dr. Vineburg, Masonic Temple, Wilmington, - -., North Carolina PROFESSIONAL CARDS Woodberry Lennon H. E. Stacy LENNON & STACY Attorneys and Counsellors at Law Lumberton, N. C. Practice in State and Federal Courts. DR. R. T. ALLEN Dentist LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA. Office Over Bank cf Lumberton. 327tf R. A. McLEAN, Attorney-at-law Lumberton, - - - - North Carolina Office in Weinstein building.-9-18 SMS DR. W. L, GRAN IH AM Physician and Surgeon Office at Lumberton Drug Co. Store. Office phone No. 26. itesiaeuce pnone pto. . 7-4 tf M. R. GIBSON, M. D. Practice limited to Eye, Ear, Nose and Throbt Hours 8 a. m. to 1 p. m., Maxton, N. C Will be in Lumberton at Thomp son's Hospital each Thursday 10:30 a. m. to 4:30 p. m. 12-5 DR. ROWLAND DEES Veterinary Surgeon, Lumberton - - - . N. C. Calls answered promptly day or night. 3-23-tf Phone No. 197. A. W. McLean L. R. Varser J. D. McLeea McLean, Varser & McLean Attorneys at Law, LUMBERTON, N. C. Offices on 2nd floor of Bank of Lum berton Building, Rooms 1, 2, 8, and 4. THE RIVER SIDE A private home nicely fitted up for the care of a limited number of patients. Medical and obstetrical. H. T. POPE, M. D. Dr. Thomas C. Johnson, . Pkyllan and Surgeon, J Lumberton N. C. Office over McMillan's Drug Store. Calls answered Promptly day or night Residence at Prof. J. R. Poole's. -27-tf. T. A. McNeilL T. A. McNeill, J McNeill) & mcneill, Attorneys at Law, LUMBRf ON, N. C. Will practice in ill the Courts. BnaV ness attended to promptly. , E. M. Britt, v W..S. Britt, Britt & Britt. Attorneys at Law, LUMBERTQN, N. C. All business given prompt and care ful attention. Office upstairs in Argun Building. : ' ; -! Stephen Mclntyre, a. C Lawrence Jamea D. Proctor. Hclntjre, Iawrence 4 Prtdor, Attorney! and-Xounselors at Law, LUMBERTON,,;- - - N. G Practice In State and federal Court. Prompt attention given to all business. r (jAsipher, ELECTRICIAN.: - Lumberton ' N, C. office in Shaw Building, Phone No. 11 V. 5 ..- - 1-6 Dr. W. O. EDMUND Veterinary ' Surgeon. Manufacturer of hone Remedies. Lumberton, N. C. Calls filled promptly. Phone No. 52. 8-1 1 Thomas L. Johnson. Attorney and Counsellor at Law, . LUMBERTON, N. C Practice in State and Federal Court. Prompt attention given to all businese Offices over First National Bank. The Matnal Life Iasnrance Co. of New York. Otdaat la America. "K Stongaat fat tb World Largest amount of dividends paid to policy kold r of any company In exiafenoa. Aawta '.$678.000.000.. . J. A. Barker. Manager Wilmington district. Office rooms 804-106 Soathn-n building, Wilmlno ton.N.C ; f-6L E. . BRITT, . ATTOaNST-AT-LAW, LUMBERTON, N. a Office orer Pope'e Drug Store. DR. JOHN KNOX, JR. Physician and Surgeon, Lumberton, ;- - - - North Carolina Residence phone No. 64, at Mrs. N. A. McLean's. ? Office 'phone No. 26, t-a-tf DESTROYED BY FIRE and no insurance- DON'T let hia happen to yea. Insure today. U9-tf S. H. HAMILTON. DR. D. D. KING . Dentist LUMBERTON, : . N. C. Offices upstairs in Weinstein building. 417 1 ' A
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