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VOL XUV NO. 28 LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, MAY 26, 1913. WHOLE NO 2865
BEST OF CONFERENCES
Methodists of Rockingham District
Adjourned Friday Conference
Well Attended Best in His Min
istry of 32 Years, Declared Presid
ing Elder McCullen Much Busi
ness Transacted and Excellent
; Preaching Hoffman Next Year.
Rockingham district conference,
which began Thursday morning at
:30 o'clock in Chestnut Street Meth
odist church, closed its business ses
sions at 4:45 o'clock Friday afternoon.
Two business sessions were held each
day, Friday morning beginning as
early as 9 o'clock, and there were two
preaching services each day, at 11 a.
at. 'and 8 p. m. All the 24 charges
mi the district, which includes Robe
son, Scotland, Richmond, Moore and
Hoke counties and parts of Cumber
land and Bladen, were represen
There were 90 delerates-iiratend
ance.
Rev. A. McCullen, presiding elder,
who presided at all the sessions, at
tfae closing business session Friday
afternoon stated that he had been
very much gratified at the attendance,
which was the largest of any confer
ence that he has ever attended during
tfce 32 years of his work in the active
Ministry. The interest manifested by
the laymen was especially gratifying.
It is a great pleasure, he said, to be
residing elder of a district where
there is such harmony. There are
bo complaints from any quarters, all
seem satisfied with their pastors.
There are some hard places to fill, but
o man need look for easy places in
the ministry. He expressed the hope
that all had been greatly benefitted
by the conference and that all the
preachers would go back to their
charges inspired to do greater work.
Much business was disposed of dur
ing the conference. Presiding Elder
McCullen is an excellent presiding
'Officer, transacting business with dis
patch and ease.
Large congregations attended all
the preaching services and excellent
.sermons were preached. The opening
sermon was preached Wednesday eve
ning at 8 o'clock by Rev. H. M. Eure
of Red Springs. Rev. E. B. Craven
of Raeford preached Thursday at 11
o'clock and Thursday evening Rev.
E. M. Hoyle of Greenville, who was
pastor of Chestnut Street church four
years prior to the beginning of the
pastorate of Rev. J. W. Bradley 18
months ago, filled the pulpit of this
new church for the first time. Mr.
Hoyle labored to raise funds
for the new church during his
pastorate and it was during his pas
torate that the cornerstone of the
church was laid. Friday morning
Rev. J. D. Bundy, pastor of Grace
Street church of Wilmington, who was
pastor of the Lumberton church 15
years ago, preached, and Rev. E. H.
Davis of Rockingham preached Fri
day evening.
By a rising vote a resolution was
adopted at the closing session Friday
thanking the congregation of Chest
nut Street Methodist church and the
town of Lumberton for the hospital
ity extended visiting brethren and for
the royal manner in which they were
entertained.
At the closing session Rev. J. D.
Bundy, who is a member of the mis
sion board of the North Carolina
Conference, presented to the confer
ence the cause of missions. He com
plimented the Rockingham district on
its fine record. For foreign missions
this district was assessed $1,782 and
paid $3,165; for conference and home
missions the district was assessed
$2,154 and paid $2,190, receiving back
from the board $1,650, leaving a sur
plus to the district over what it re
ceives of $450. This is one of the
best records made. Mr. Bundy de
clared that Rockingham is one of the
most God-blessed districts in any con
ference. But the strong ought to
help the weak. The assessment of the
North Carolina Conference last year
(fpr conference and home missions
was $19,700, and only $19,240 were
paid. That deficit must be wiped out.
Of the entire assessment, $5,200 is for
home missions and $14,500 is for con
ference missions (missions entirely
confined to the conference). There is
only the sum of $14,500 available for
the work and it would take at least
$16,000 to meet the demands. Hence
it has been necessary to cripple the
work in some directions by cutting as
sessments. Mr. Bundy appealed to
the Rockingham district to make its
surplus above its assessment $500 this
year instead of $36, in order that
weak places might be helped.
Mr. Bundy made the startling state
ment, which was. news to a majority
of his Hearers, that there are 800
charges in the Southern Methodist
Jhurch without .pastors, served mere
L (Continued on page four.) ; .
PIER COLLAPSES; 34 KILLED
Hundreds Fall on Heads of Other
Hundreds and All Hurled Down
Chute of Shattered Woodwork.
Long Beach, Cal., Dispatch, 24th.
Too weak to uphold the burden of
nearly 10,000 human beings .-ustmb-led
for the festivities of "British
Empire Day," the land end of the
big double decked municipal pier in
front of the city auditorium collaps
ed today. Hundreds of persons on
the top deck were plunged down on
the heads of other hundreds crowded
on the second deck. The lower deck
then eave way. and all were dropped
down a chute of shattered woodwork
to the tidewashed sands 25 feet below.
Thirty-four persons, mostly women,
were killed by the shivered timbers
or crushed to death by the falling
bodies of companions and friends. Fif
ty more were seriously injured, while
hysteria and fright caused the disab
ling of scores of others.
A section of the auditorium, which
went down in the crash, and the deb
ris from it, was added to the wreck
that fell on top of the injured and
dead.
The victims were subjects, or for
mer subjects of Great Britain, resi
dents in southern California.
All of the seriously injured are res
idents of Los Angeles and vicinity.
ARRAIGNMENT OF TENDENCIES
Distressing Loss of Membership in
Many Synods Worldly Church
Members.
Atlanta Dispatch, 23rd.
An arraignment of the "tendencies
of the time" was contained in the re
port of the committee on narrative,
presented today before the Northern
Presbyterian Assembly in session
here. The report deplored the
"distressing loss of membership in
many Synods of the church."
, Nearly 4,000 churches during the
past ecclesiastical year failed to se
cure a new member through con
fession 'of faith according to the re
port. Other unusial features brought
out were that some of the Church's
i
most intelligent and influential mem
bers spend the Sabbath on the golf
links instead of attending divine wor
ship; that the extent and boldness of
the white slave traffic has become ap
palling, . even extending, the report
declares, into Sabbath schools and
Christian Endeavor societies.
The report stated that a total of
87,000 new members through confes
sion of faith were enrolled during the
past year by the Church.
W. H. Houston, of Columbus, Ohio,
secretary of the permanent commit
tee on vacancy and supply, declared
that the problem of securing pastors
was one of most distressing in every
non-Episcopal church. Whatever else
may be said of the Methodist Episco
pal Church," he said, "we must ad
mit that it has the most effective sys
tem that we know anything about of
supplying churches with pastors."
Superior Court Week's Term Closes.
A week's term of Robeson Superior
Court for the trial of civil causes,
Judge G. S. Ferguson of Waynes
ville presiding, came to a close Satur
day. The jury in the case of Katie
Ann Locklear vs. W. A. Savage et al,
for conversion of timber, rendered a
verdict Thursday afternoon in favor
of the plaintiff for 100 acres of land
and $500 damages with interest from
1905. The trial of this case began
Monday morning and it was given to
the jui at noon Thursday. The firms
of McNeill & McNeill and Britt &
Britt appeared for the plaintiff, the
firms of McLean, Varser &McLean
and Mclntyre, Lawrence & Proctor
appearing for the defendant.
Other cases tried were: M. B. Grif
fin vs. A. C. L. Ry. Co., verdict for
defendant; Sellers & Co. vs. R. C.
Townsend (protest by defendant),
verdict for plaintiff, $73.04. Some
cases not on the calendar were settled,
compromise judgments were signed in
the following: Murdock Smith vs.
Patterson & Ware, A. Weinstein vs.
A. C. L. Ry. Co., J. D. Bridgers vs. J.
F McDonald, Admr. Other cases on
the calendar were continued except
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. vs. O.
I. Floyd et al, in which non-suit was
entered.
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WRITTEN AND SPOKEN WORD
Careless About PaperDon't Throw
Glass in the Streets The just King
Who Gave an Eye for His Son.
Some people are mighty careless
about scraps of paper. They seem
not to care at all that paper which
they carelessly pile out in front of
their houses blows all over the yards
of their neighbors. It looks like folks
real folks would be ashamed to be
the cause of littering up their neigh
bors' yards that way; but It is just
thoughtlessness and carelessness. It
is much nicer and more considerate
to burn your scraps of paper and put
on your scrap-pile for the town wag
on only such refuse as a passing
gust of wind will not deposit in your
neighbor's yard.
The Robesonian called attention re
cently to the danger that lies in
throwing glass in the streets. There
is a town ordinance against this and
Chief of Police Redfern says he is
going to enforce it to the best of his
ability. A little carelessness in that
regard may result in crippling a
small boy or girl or may puncture an
auto tire or do even more serious dam
age. Carelessness about throwing
glass, boards with nails sticking up,
etc., into the streets is criminal.
In the course of a" sermon at the
Presbyterian church here recently
Bishop Robt. Strange of Wilming
ton told a beautiful story to illustrate
the love of God for His children and
the necessity of conforming to God's
laws. The Robesonian man has to
show his ignorance in attempting to
tell this story, for he could not
catch the name of the King about
whom the story centers and it was
new to him. Bishop Strange said
though, that he does not know wheth
er it is history or legend, and many
others in the bishop's congregation
on this occasion were as ignorant as
The Robesonian man. But to the
story:
A certain King, in some far away
country long ago, was famed far and
near as the most wise and just King
in the world. His people were pros
perous and good and happy. There
was no other kingdom like unto it.
By and by a certain crime against de
cency and morals began to become so
common as to cause officials of the
realm alarm, and finally it was
brought to the attention of the King,
who issued a decree that any one ac
cused of committing this crime should
be brought into the great council
chamber and tried, and if found guil
ty both his eyes should be burned out
with a red-hot iron. -
The Prince of the realm, the King's
own son, was the first one caught
committing this crime after the de
cree was issued. The Prime Minis
ter was horrified to learn of the
charge against the prince and won
dered what was to be done. Not for
a moment did it occur to him that the
decree would apply literally to the
Prince. He hastened to the King and
told him of what had chanced. "Sire,
shall the Prince be released and the
matter be passed over without fur
ther notice, or shall the Prince be
sent to you for private reprimand?"
"Neither," said the King; "let him be
brought into the great council cham
ber at noon tomorrow and answer the
charge."
On the morrow at the stroke of
noon the great council chamber was
crowded with people from all parts of
the kingdom to see what would be the
action of the Just King. The Prince
entered the council chamber with a
confident smile, certain that his pun
ishment would be nothing more than
a public reprimand. The decree set
ting forth that anyone committing
the crime should have both his eyes
put out was read and to the inquiry
as to whether he was guilty or not
the Prince replied that he was and
expressed no sorrow over his act. The
King ordered the executioner to pre
pare a red-hot iron, the Prince was
bound upon a marble table and at
the command of the King the execu
tioner put out the Prince's left eye.
But when the executioner started to
pass the red-hot iron over the Prince's
right eye the King ordered him to
wait, desceneded from his throne and
approached the table whereon his son
lay bound. His devoted subjects, per
ceiving: the King's purpose, began to
crowd forward and to plead with the
King not to do this thing: But the
King was firm. He commanded the
people to stand back, commanded that
his son be released, and that he him
self be bound in Jiis son's stead, and
that his own. right eye should be put
out with the red-nod iron in place of
the other eye of his son.
. When the King's eye had been put
Tut"andTie"h'ad' been assisted back to
TO REBUILD PARTY.
Leaders of Republican Party Lay
Plans.
Washington Dispatch, 24th.
Leaders of the Republican party
laid preliminary plans today for the
congressional campaign of 1914 and
the National political battle two
years later to regain control of Con
gress and possession of the White
House.
As a result the Republican Na
tional committee will meet 60 days
after adjournment of the extra ses
sion of Congress and an extraordinary
Republican convention is expected
not later than a year hence.
Changes in the basis of represen
tation in National conventions and re
forms of methods of party proce.dure,
which have been subject to criticism,
will be disposed of through these
agencies.
Today's conference was the first
formal meeting of Republican leaders
since the 1912 campaign and it was
harmonious from the time Chairman
Charles D. Hilles of the National com
mittee called for order until the last
motion was adopted.
The need for reform within the
party was not denied. The suggestion
of a progressive element for a Na
tional convention in the near future
was heard and it was practically the
unanimous opinion that such a con
vention would be called.
NEW LAW FIRM.
Mr. T. L. Johnson Enters Into Co
partnership With Brother.
Mr. T. L. Johnson and his brother
Mr. E. M. Johnson formed Satur
day a copartnership for the practice
of law under the firm name of John
son & Johnson, Mr. T. L. Johnson be
ing senior member of the firm. Mr.
E . M . Johnson arrived Friday even
ing from Wake Forest College, where
he has just finished the LL. B. course.
He stood the State examination be
fore the Supreme Court in February,
at which time he was granted license
for the practice of law. He spent last
summer in Lumberton in the law
office with his brother.
Mr. T. L. Johnson received his law
education at Wake Forest College and
has been practicing his profession in
Lumberton since 1908, first forming
a co-partnership with Mr. J. Abner
Barker under the firm name of Bar
ker & Johnson. After about a year
this firm was dissolved and Mr. John
son became the junior member of the
law firm of Shaw" & Johnson. Since
Mr. Shaw's death in December, 1910,
Mr. Johnson has practised alone, oc
cupying offices over the First National
Bank formerly used by the firm of
Shaw & Johnson.
Confederate Veterans Gather at Chat
tanooga This Week.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Dispatch, 24th.
Pitched in the shadow of Mission
ary Ridge where "the battle above the
clouds" was fought 50 years ago,
Camp Stewart now awaits the ar
rival of survivors of that and other
noted engagements in the War Be
tween the States, who will attend the
United Confederate Veterans' twenty
third annual reunion here May 27
to 29. Hundreds of Army tents ten
dered by the United States Govern
ment compose the camp, located in
Jackson Park, and named after Gen.
A. P. Stewart, the famous Confeder
ate leader.
his throne the Prince, who had been
unpenitent and careless when he en
tered the council chamber, staggered
to the throne fell at his father's feet
and implored forgiveness, saying that
he saw clearly now that his father's
law was to be obeyed and begged to
be allowed to remain at the court in
the capacity of the meanest hired
servant in order to prove his loyalty
and love.
If parents tell a child to do some
thing and when the child does not do
it pass it by unnoticed, said the
bishop; or tell a child not to do some
thing and pass it by unnoticed when
the child does the forbidden thing,
it does not take that child long to
conclude that it does not make much
difference whether it obeys its par
ents or not. That is not God's meth
od and it is not kindness to the child.
It is merely weakness on the part
of the parents weakness for which
those parents will pay dearly.
The great calamity in Omaha was
quickly. over-shadowed by the terribly
disastrous floods in Ohio. Great
suffering and sickness from colds and
exposure resulted. L. Poole, 2217 Cal
ifornia street, Omaha, writes: My
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CHURCH NOTES.
Quarterly Conference at Chestnut
Street Methodist Children's Day
Exercises at Presbyterian.
Presiding Elder A. McCullen, who
presided over the sessions of the
Rockingham district conference, men
tioned elsewhere in this paper, Thurs
day and Friday, preached at Chest
nut Street Methodist church to a
large congregation yesterday morn
ing and held the second quarterly con
ference for the year for this church
last evening following a sermon to
another large congregation by Rev.
O. W. Dowd, pastor of St. John and
Gibson circuit. Routine business oc
cupied the attention of the conference
and there was little of general inter
est. Mr. N. P. Andrews was elected
a member of the board of trustees
of the church to succeed the late B.
Stansel and a committee was appoint
ed to draw up suitable resolutions in
memory of the deceased. Messrs. C.
V. Brown and F. W. Walters were re
cognized as ex officio members of the
official board of the church, the for
mer as president of the recently-organized
Epworth League, the latter as
an exhorter. Mr. G. Y. Jones was
elected secretary of the "conference.
Mr. McCullen left this morning for his
home at Rockingham. He was a
guest while here at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. J. A. McAllister.
The Lumberton Presbyterian Sun
day school had children's day exer
cises yesterday. The exercises be
gan at 11 o'clock, taking the place of
the regular preaching hour. Recita
tions, dialogues, songs and the like
by the little ones, principally, consti
tuted the exercises and they all did
fine. Mr. J. P. Russell, one of the
teachers in the school, made a shrrt
but interesting talk, using as the nvb
ject of his remarks "Citizenship ind
Missions." Mrs. J. Q. Beckwith san,r
a solo and Rev. J. F. Gorrell, pastor
of the church, made a short talk
explaining the needs of the cause
for which a contribution was made
a school in Mexico. The contribution
amounted to $35.28. Mr. M. G. Mc
Kenzie is superintendent of the school
and he offer? a prize to be award
ed to the class making th largest
contribution, the contest being limited
to classes Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.
The prize was awarded to class No.
8, its offering amounting to $6.31.
Fire Plays Havoc With Colored Res
taurant. The alarm was turned in Thursday
night about 10:30 o'clock for fire on
West Third street in a colored res
taurant conducted by Lizzie Houston.
The place had been closed up for the
night an hour or more when the fire
was discovered. The fire is supposed
to have started in the rear of the
building where the cooking was done.
When discovered the rear end of the
building was in a blaze. The alarm
was turned in and in a very short
time the fire-fighting force had the
fire out, but the building and con
tents were ruined. It is understood
that there was no insurance on either
the building or its contents. The
building belonged to Mrs. J. W. Grif
fith of Greensboro.
Mr. J. S. McDonald Succeeds Mr. C
H. Craven at Lumberton Drug
Store.
Mr. C. H. Craven of Greensboro,
who for some time held a position as
pharmacist for the Lumberton Drug
Co., resigned last week and left Sat
urday for Murphy, where he accepted
a position. He is succeeded by Mr. J.
S. McDonald, who, as mentioned in
Thursday's Robesonian, has just re
signed as pharmacist with the Pope
Drug Co. Mr. McDonald has been
elected manager and pharmacist of
the Lumberton drug store and he will
probably take charge about the last
of the week. He went yesterday to
Raleigh, where he joined Mrs. McDon
ald, who has been visiting in Raleigh
since last Friday. They are expected
to return Wednesday.
$100 Reward For Ross..
Governor Craig Friday offered a re
ward of $50 for the capture of Joe
Ross, colored, who shot and killed
Will McMillan, also colored, at Wa
kulla on the 10th inst. The county
offered a reward of $50 immediately
after the killing, so that rewards
amounting to $100 are now offered for
his capture.
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BRIEF LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.
Good middling cotton today lie
License has been issued for the
marriage of Jimmie Smith and J. F.
Herring.
Miss Lillie Oakley, of Red
Springs, started this morning teach
ing school at the Jennings Cotton
Mill village.
There will be a special meeting to
morrow evening of St. Alban's Lodge
No. 114, A. F .and A. M., for degree
work. The meeting will be at 8
o'clock.
Chief of Police Redfern has com
plied with a recent order of the board
of town commissioners by putting a
phone in his residence. His number
is 221.
The Secretary of State charters
the Red Spring Motor Company, Red
Springs, capital $10,000 authorized
and $5,000 subscribed by J. J. Throw
er, Wm. Jones and others.
The county road commissioners
are in session today preparatory to
winding up the business of the board
at the last meeting Monday of next
week. The new road law goes into
effect June 1st.
Mr. M. G. McKenzie, received
last week from his son, Mr. W. B.
McKenzie at Wimauma, Fla., a nice
watermelon. The melon was express
ed from Wimauma on the 20th. It
weighed about 35 pounds and Mr. Mc
Kenzie says it was good and ripe. The
melon was cut yesterday.
Arrested for Skipping Board Bill.
J. C. Kelly of Clarkton, a young
white man who had been in Lumber
ton for about two months working
part of the time at the Seaboard
freight depot, was arrested Saturday
at Bladenboro and brought to Lum
berton to answer a charge of "skip
ping" a board bill amounting to $30.
The warrant for Kelly was sworn
out by Mr. W. O. Britt, proprietor of
the Lumberton hotel. Kelly's fath
ed, who lives at Clarkton, came back
with him and paid the board bill and
there was no trial about the matter.
Kelly left Lumberton Saturday morn
ing without giving the proprietor of
the hotel any notice of his intended
departure, and as soon as Mr. Britt
learned of Kelly's absence he had
papers issued.
Among the Sick.
Miss Epsie Fuller has been sick
since Thursday at the home of her
father, Mr. C. M. Fuller, Sixth and
Chestnut streets, with typhoid fever.
Her condition was improved and very
favorable this morning.
Mr. A. E. Belch, who underwent an
operation at the Thompson hospi
tal a few days ago, returned Friday
to his home at Bellamy. Miss Jeru
sha Todd, who underwent an opera
tion for appendicitis at the hospital
2 weeks ago, will return home this
week. Mrs. Andrew Ivey of Rayn
ham is a patient at the hospital.
Date for Accepting Challenge Ex
tended to June 10.
The time in which the challenge for
public debate extended by Messrs. F.
M. Barnes and S. R. McKay may
be accepted has been extended
from May twenty-seven to June ten.
Any two high school boys in the
county may accept. The challenge
must be publicly accepted through The
Robesonian.
Steamer Goes Down in Gulf of Smyr
na Many Perish.
Smyrna Dispatch, 24th.
The steamer Nevada, with 200 pas
sengers on board, struck three mines
in succesesion today in the Gulf of
Smyrna and sank. Only 80 of the
passengers are reported saved. The
mines were strewn on the coast wa
ters by the Turks to prevent attack
by the Greek fleet during the Balkan
war.
Killed at Rifle Practice.
While looking from behind the wall
surrounding the target pit at the
close of the Third Regiment shoot
this afternoon, Lewis White, a well
known Raleigh boy, was shot through
the head by a stray bullet and killed
instantly. It was the first accident in
ten years' rifle contests at which 150
Third Regiment men contested. White
was 18 years old.
It is estimated that shipments of
fertilizers from Wilmington during
the 4-months' season this spring
reached the total of at least 313,580
tons, valued at the lowest estimate,
at $8,780,240. , -
Piles Cored in 6 to 14 Days
Your druggist will refund money if PAZO
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