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, , ""A r THE SEMI-WEEICLY ROBESONIAN. 4 THE ROBESONIAN Published MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS By ROBESONIAN PUBLISHING CO. T. A. SHARPE. . President. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Oni Year $1-50 Six Months 75 Three Months 40 MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1913. THE TOWN FLY PROBLEM. If Mayor White and the town com missioners will adopt the following suggestions, which The Robesonian passes along from the State Board of Health, they will take a long step toward ridding Lumberton of the dan gerous and pestiferous fly: "Under this heading are included all populations of such density ' that the flies produced in one person's horse stable may pester and endanger a neighbor's home, or any community where there are several barns in four or five hundred years of a number of homes. "Under these conditions the fight on the fly should be directed against his breeding place. Stables should be so constructed as to permit the complete removal of manure every two weeks between the middle of April and the middle of October. The word complete is the key-word to the accuracy of the last sentence. "Now, the best way to get this done is, first, for the municipality to require a license for the maintenance of every horse stable, cow stable, or hog pen, and refuse to license stables that cannot be completely cleaned; second, to require the owner of such stables or pens to pay a sufficient li cense fee to compensate the municipal ity for cleaning the stables and pens. This fee would be small, as the sale of manure to neighboring farmers would pay a large part of the cost of removal. If the owner of the stable wanted to use the manure he should be allowed to do so (a) if he spreads the manure every four days on his land in such a way that the sun will thoroughly dry it, or (b) if he will keep the manure in a fly-tight bin. "It is right and just that a munici pality should protect the many from the annoyances, the unnecessary cost of screening houses, and the danger from flies produced by the compara tively few stable owners. The insup erable obstacle to this bit of idealism is that sacred, constitutionally guar anteed "personal liberty" of the mi croscopically visioned individualist. When the property rights of the few are in conflict with the human rights of the many, it ought not to be hard for men of intelligence and a fair amount of courage to decide the is sue promptly and justly. 'However, there are municipalities where suitable regulations are more distasteful to the liberty-loving popu lace than the annoyance of flies and the suffering from unnecessary sick ness. Here the urban fly problem is very much the same as the rural fly problem, with this exception: the rural resident is annoyed by nobody's flies except his own; the urban resi dent usually suffers from the flies that somebody else produces. o It is to be hoped that the town com missioners will take some action soon which will abate the nuisance of ob structing sidewalks on Elm street with displays of merchandise. A lib erally signed petition that "this be done was presented to the board at its first meeting more than a month ago. We understand that the mat ter was referred to Messrs. J. D. Proctor, G. L. Thompson and C E. Redmond, members of the town board. There is no question but that a majority of the citizens of the town want to see this done. o- Messrs. L. T. Townsend and Geo. L. Thompson, who compose the sani tary committee of the board of town commissioners, are doing their best to bring about more sanitary conditions and should be supported in their ef forts by all good citizens. They are playing no favorites, of course. Back lots need cleaning up and it is to be hoped that every one who is given notice to clean up wil do so cheer fully. - To paraphrase what Emerson said of a certain man, what the -railroads are doing to North Carolina in the mailer of freight rates roars mo loud in its unfairness that what the rail roads say cannot be heard. F armers,- me-h ni ra n J.-.. laborers, rely on Dr. Thomas' Ecclec- o ,1" .Fine for cuts burns, bruises, fcnould be kept in every home, 25c -aiiiVI WTO DOWN MARIETTA WAY. 1 Prospects For Grass Crop Good- Personal Mention, Correspondence of The Robesonian. Marietta, June 11 Our farmers are very blue over the prospects of their crops this year. For several day3 heavy rains have been falling daily and it is beginning to look like the grass crop will exceed any thing else. Mr. J. J. Oliver went to Richmond several days ago, where he has un dergone a serious operation for ap pendicitis. We are glad to know that he is doing as well as can be ex pected. We are sorry to report the sick ness of Mr. Oscar Page and hope that he may soon be able to be out again. Miss Sallie Ford, who had been with her niece Mrs. Janie Oliver for several weeks, has returned to her home in Marion, S. C. Miss Helen Oliver, a student of the State Normal and Industrial Col lege, has come home for her sum mer vacation. Her sister Miss Ra chel went to Greensboro some time ago, where she spent a few days. They visited Jonesboro before re turning home. Mrs. Robert Page of Lyons, Ga., and Mrs. Jno. Sellers and daughters, Misses Elizabeth and Kathleen, of Sellers, S. C, are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Oli ver Mrs W. W. Early, who had been in Richmond for several days, came home Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Henley have returned home after spending some time with relatives in Mt Airy. Mr. Jackson Townsend, who was graduated last week from the State University at Chapel Hill, came home" Thursday. He left Saturday for Jacksonville, Fla. where he has accepted a position. Miss Estelle Rogers, of Marion, S. C. visited last week at the home of her aunt Mrs. L. H. Price Mesdames C. A. Inman and A. L. Jones of Fairmont visited relatives here last week. Miss Eva Jones of Nichols, S. C, was a guest of her cousin Miss Myr tle Atkinson last week. INCENDIARY EDITORIAL. Gets Editor in Trouble Wrote That "Blease Should be Shot." Raleigh News and Observer, 13th. W. 0. Saunders and Governor Cole Blease figured yesterday in Federal court when the case growing out of the "Blease Should Be Shot" editorial was transferred to Elizabeth City for trial in October. Governor Blease is not the com plaining witness, so far as the court officials here know. The editorial that followed the Blease "To Hell With the Constitution" speech in Richmond, fell into the hands of Inspector G. G. Himmelwright, of Newport News, and he was the chief witness before the grand jury that brought a true bill against Mr. Saunders. The editorial was printed in the Elizabeth City "Down Homer," and is partly reprinted in the bill of indict ment, charging violation of sec. 211 of the Federal code. That section covers such offenses as inciting to ar son and murder. The proportion of it reproduced begins with the caption of the Saunders article: "Blease Should Be Shot." The editorial says in part: "Gover nor Blease of South Carolina, is one of those hot-headed fools who have made the South ludicrous in the eyes of the nation. Men of the Blease tvpe should be shot. The McNamara dynamiters are not ialf the meance to the life and property of the country that Blease and his kind are." The editorial then defines treason and concludes: "The mob is an enemy to the State. Governor Blease open ly gives aid and comfort to traitor. Therefore, I repeat, he should be shot, unless the constitution has gone to hell sure enough." By transferring this case to Eliza beth City, it will not be tried in Ra leigh. It comes up in October. Washington dispatch, 14th: Henry T. Oxnard, the millionaire vice- presi dent of the American Beet Sugar Company, testified today before the Senate Lobby Committee that he es timated that he had spent on an av erage of $20,000 a year in Washing ton for the last 23 years in behalf of the beet sugar industry. He said not a cent had been spent illegally. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Re ward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's -Catarrh. Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. O. ;. the muli'r;-l;Hi'l. li:u kil'i'VM Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfwtly honorable la all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mu cous surface of the system. Testimonial .nt ,f,re prloe 75 cent V" bottle. Boll Take Hall'a Family Pills for constipation. DRAINAGE OF MATAS1USKEET Reclaim 100,000 Acres of Finest Land Largest Drainage District of its Kind in the World Will Make Hyde County Rich and 'Prosperous. Raleigh Times. The drainage of Mattamuskeet Lake and adjacent lands in Hyde county, North Carolina, is now an as sured fact. Five hundred thousand dollars in bonds, issued to pay for the work to be done in completing this great enterprise have been sold and the contracts for erecting the pumps and for digging the canals have been let, and the work will be begun re soon as the equipment of the contrac tors can be assembled. The contracts call for the completion of the jntire work in about twenty-four months. When completed this will bo the largest drainage district of its kind in the world. The district embraces one hundred thousand acres of as fine land as can be found in the world. Fifty thousand acres of the district lie in the bottom of what has been known as Mattamuskeet Lake. If it wert called Mattamuskeet pond it would convey a much more accurate idea of the real facts. Mattamuskeet Lake is a body of fresh water lying in about the center of Hyde county. When the lake is full of water the deepest place will not exceed five or five a'.d one half feet. There are no springs in the bed of the lake, and no streams run out of it except n canal which ws constructed to carry off the water when the rains should fill it to overflowing. Surrounding the lake and distant from it on an average of about one-fourth of a mile, is a sand ridge, varying in height from three to nine feet. All the water falling within this ridge line runs by gravity into tha lake. BicV of this ridge lies some twenty thousand acres of land that is naturally as rich as the delta of the N'le, it is so low that unless the season is very dry, but small crops can be pro duced on it. To relieve this wetness the owners of these lands have dug an indefinite number of ditches, running from these wet lands through the sand ridge into the lake. Thus the lake has been made the receptacle of th" water that falls into it when it rains, the water that runs into it from natural water shed, and also the wa ter falling on these back lands and running into the laku through these . numberless ditches. The original depth of the lake is unknown. As recently as seventy five years ago the records of Hyde county are said to show that the depth was from twelve to fifteen feet. The washing from the lands, and the emptyings of the ditches have filled it to its present condition. The plan proposed for draining this lake and the surrounding lands con templates the erection of a pumping plant on the south shore of the lake, and distant from Pamlico Sound about seven miles. This pumping plant will consist of eight centrifugal pumps, the discharge pipe f'n each pump being 60 inches. The ,3 pumps, will be driven by four steam engines of eight hundred and fifty horse power each. The capacity of the pumps will be two thousand cubic feet of vater per second. This means that the pumps will be capable of discharging one billion, two hundred and fifty n il- lions of gallons of water in twenty four hours. The canals of the' district are so arranged that v they all converge Rt the pumping plant, so that all water falling within the district will reach the pumps as soon as it can run there. Between pumping plant and Pamlico Sound will be constructed an outfall canal, sixty feet wide on the bottom, seventy feet wide on the top, and from eight to nine feet deep. The pvjmps will lift the water from the collecting basin on the north side of the pump house, and discharge it into the out fall canal, which will carry it to Pam lico sound. There will be between 80 and 90 miles of canals in the district. This does not include the lateral ca nals or ditches which it will be nece3 sary to construct before the land is properly prepared for farming. As an indication of the magnitude of this work, it is estimated by ths con tractors that it will require three hun dred freight carloads, to transport to the pumping plant the material neces sary to erect the pumps and pumping house and foundations. The cubic yards of earth to be re moved by the dnedging contractors, will approximate three million five hundred thousand. This drainage district was organ ized under the general drainage law of the State of North Carolina in the fall of 1910by the State Board of Education, then owner, of the Lake bed, and the adjacent land owner3 in Hyde county. As soon as the district was organized the State sold its interest to th Southern Land Reclamation Company for the sjm of $100,000. The drainage commis; sioners having this great work in charge are Hon. J. S. Mann, of Mid- dJeton, Jfyde County, " chairman r Charles E. Mann, of Middleton, vice chairman and John P. Kerr, f Ashe- villey-?N5iera has been dilligently at work for the past two years trying to get the af fairs of the district ready to begin the work of development. The lat of these suits was decided in Decom ber last. Of course the bonds of ths district could not be placed while this litigation was pending. The bands are now sold, and the work wi'l be begun at ionce , and prosecuted will all speed to completion. When finished this enterprise will reclaim about 70,000 acres of as fine land as can be found in the United States, and will make Hyde county the richest and most prosperous county in North Carolina. The Southern Land Reclamation Company, owners of the lake bed in this district, is a North Carolina cor poration, and C. A. Webb and J. P. Kerr of Asheville are stockholders. Estate of Col. John Jacob Astor. New York Dispatch, 13th. The estate of Col. John Jacob As tor who perished in the Titantic dis aster, was officially appraised this af ternoon at $88,000,000, of which Vin cent Astor receives $68,964,499; Mrs. Adeline Force Astor $7,678,896; Mu riel Astor $4,856,758, and John Ja cob Astor's son by his second mar- riage $2,922,672. The estate is declared to be the largest ever appraised in this coun try. The cost of determining its value was made remarkably low, owing to an understanding by which the Astor estate bore one-half the expenses and the State of New York the other half. How to Prevent People Looking Through Your Screens. In the July Woman's Home Com panion a department called "Tha Ex change" which is a collection oi practical household ideas contributed by (readers. Following is one of the suggestions: "For the screened door or window which is so situated that the curious passers-by can look into the room, simply paint the screen wire with white paint (not too thick). It does not obstruct the view from the room at all, but anyone on the outside can not see in unless against the screen. Of course the paint makes no difference when the lamps are light ed." "Blind Tiger" Escapes. Scottish Chief. One-armed Sam McEachin, colored. who was in the guard house under charge of blind tigering, escapsd last Friday afternoon by removing brick around the window frame with a cotton hook, which he had secured in some unknown way. Chief of Poiice Dunlap was taken by Mr. Campbell MacNair in his auto and he cut Sam off beyond the old McLean pond, and drove him back through East M lxtcn but he ran through a hoivi2 and be fore the officers could rech the house he had escaped from view ha" ing it is supposed got in a deep ditch and escaped. Ulcers and Skin Troubles. If you are suffering with any old running or fever sores, ulcers, boils, eczema or other skin troubles, get a box of Bucklen's Arnica Salve and you will get relief promptly. Mrs. Bruce Jones, of Birmingham, Ala., suffered from an ugly ulcer for nine months and Bucklen s Arnica Salve cured her in two weeks. Will help you. Only 25c. Recommended by all druggists. The Center Of a Trade Zone IS where you are, Mr, Busi ness Man. All around you is a fertile field that awaits only the planting to yield a rich and abundant harvest. Don't let the parcel post help ' the mail ordeor house to your det riment! MAKE IT WORK FOR YOU. You can reach every one with in a radius of fifty miles from your front door at less cost and more quickly than any mail or der bouse can. WHY DON'T YOU TRY IT? Let the people in your district know that you have standard goods at standnrd prices all the year round and that they can get them Jubt as easily and twice as quickly from you as from any outside concern. MAKE UNCLE SAM YOUR MESSENGER BOY! 1 I HIS BANK is at the disposal of our customers at all times, for the transaction of any business. Make your appointments with those with whom you wish to confer, and meet here. Should you also wish to consult us regarding any financial or business matter, you may depend upon our reputation for strictly . honoring your confidence to the utmost degree. WE WANT YOU TO FEEL THAT THIS IS INDEED YOUR BANK First National Bank, Lumberton, N. C A LEADING BOARDING SCHOOL for 2B0 student IitablUatd 184. Praparaa for Oolltft, Bnaia.ia.T.asaiaf.orforLlfa, BMlth, Oaarartar nl lkal aribtp. WlU patroaaf. VEaT MAftOKABLK fcaTEl Baca BtQdant netlni pw aonal attantioa. Bo hod highly ndor. (Location It aar OrMDibora, H. O. For BaauttnU Catalogs, Viawi, t., addrtai tho rr.tid.Dt. W. T. WHITSETT, PH. D. WHITSITT. NORTH CAROLINA The Reason Why The reason wny 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. yineburg, Masonic Temple, Wilmington, - - North Carolina Correspondence of The Robesonian. 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 of Lumberton. 327tf R. A. McLEAN, Attorney-at-law Lumberton, - - - - North Carolina Office in Weinstein building. 9-18 Designing niuarmapq. ll! xinqraving 'Me chon leal TJnwftng , Cute maae for Prinflng to DR. JOHN KNOX, JR. Physician and Surgeon, Lumberton, - - - - North Carolins Residence 'phone No. 54, at Mrs. N. k. McLean's. Office 'phone No. 26. --tf DESTROYED BY FIRE and no insurance. DON'T let this happen to yea. Insure today. 1-19-tf S. H. HAMILTON. DR. D. D. KING DentistT LUMBERTON, N. C Offices upstairs in Wf in stein buildiMJ., & . -m D It. 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 3. V. If cLmb 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, Physician and Snroeon, Lumber-ton, N. C. Office over McMillan 'b Drug Store. Calls answered Promptly day or night Residence at Prof. J. R. Poole's. 4-27-tf. T. A. McNeill, T. A. McNeill, J McNeill & McNeill, Attorney! at Law, LUMBRTON, N. C. Will practice in all the Courts. Bo ness attended to promptly. E. M. Britt W. S. Britt. Britt & Britt. Attorneys at Law, LUMBERTON, N. C All business given prompt and car ful attention. Office upstairs in Argm Building. 9-10 Stephen Mclntyre, A. C. Lawrene James D. Proctor. Mclntyre, Lawrence & Proctor, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, LUMBERTON, - - N. CL Practice in State and Federal Court. Prompt attention given to all business. E. G. SIPHER, ELECTRICIAN Lumberton, N C office in Shaw Building. Phone No. li 1-6 Dr. W. O. EDMUND Veterinary Surgeon. Manufacturer of horse Remedies. Lumberton, N. C Calls filled promptly. Phone No. 52. 8- Thomas L. Johnson E. 31. Johnson JOHNSON & JOHNSON Attorneys and Counselors at Law Lumberton, N. C. Practice in State and Federal Courts. Notary Public in Office. Offices over First National Bank. The Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York. Old sat In America. Sfamrast In th World Larcoat amount of dividend! paid to poller hold an of any company In exiatsnea. Aaavta t67t.ooo.ooa 3. A. Barker. Manager1 Wilmington district. Office rooma 104-106 Southern building. Wilmlnae ton.N.C f-t. E. J. BRITT, ATTOENET-AT-LAW, LUMBERTON, N. C Office over Pope's Drug Store. DR. W. L, GRANTHAM Physician and. Surgeon Office at Lumberton Drug Co. Store. Office phone No. 26. Resideuce phone No. 43. 7-4tf i JOHN S. BUTLER, Attorney-at-Law SL Pauls, - - North Carolina. Practice jwhei ever servicesare re quired. Prompt and careful attention given to all kinds fff business. Offic who J. Browne Jb vans
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