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VOL XUV NO. 62 LUMBERTON. NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22. 1913. WHOLE NO 2899
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MR. GEO. G. FRENCH PASSES.
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Upon the Look Sleep in Early
Hours This Morning' Found Dead
in Bed by Wife Had Been in Poor
Health for Several Yeara -Funeral
Tomorrow Afternoon.
Mr. George Godwin French died
this morning at his home on East
Fourth street. He was found dead
in bed about 7 o'clock by Mrs. French
and is thought to have been dead
about two hours. It is .thought that
he died while asleep.- Mrs. French
was talking with him between one
and two o'clock this morning, at which
time he seemed to be no worse than
usual. She stayed with him until he
went to -sleep. She didn't sleep any
after leaving him and says that she
heard no noise from his room at all.
When Mrs. French went to Mr.
French's room to wake him up she dis
covered that he was dead.
Mr. French had been in bad health
for two or more years. Buffering from
Bright's disease, and while at several
times during the past year his con.
dition had been regarded as very ser
ious his death came as a great shock
to the entire town. On account of his
health he went the first of March
to Richmond, Va., where he spent
some time in a hospital, going from
there with his family, to Buffalo Lith
thia Springs, Va., where he remained
time he had been at home-, and for a
greater part of the time had been able
to be up looking after his business
About a week ago he suffered an at
tack of rheumatism, since which time
he had been confined at home, but was
much better yesterday than he had
been since the attack. He was up and
about the house a srreat deal of the
time yesterday and expressed his in
tention of going today, if the weather
should be favorable, to his farm, about
3 miles from town
Mr. French was 35 years old and is
survived by his wife and two children
a son, Master Berry Godwin, 5 years
old, and daughter, Margaret, about 2
years old. He is also survived by his
mother, Mrs. J. W. Griffith of Greens
boro, and sister, Mrs. A. W. McLean
of Lumberton. Mrs. Griffith is ex
pected to arrive this afternoon, and
Mrs. McLean, who has been spending
the summer at Kanuga Lake, Hen
dersonville, will arrive tomorrow mor
ning. The funeral will be conducted from
the residence tomorrow afternoon at
3 o'clock and interment will be made
in Meadowbrook cemetery.
POSTOFFICE SITE GUESSES
French Lot, Walnut and Fifth, Avail
able Options. Being Secured on Lot
on Elm and Seventh.
When it was stated in -Thursday's
Robesonian that some interesting de
velopments might be expected in a few
days in regard to a possible post
office site the paper was wot then at
liberty to state that an .Effort was
being made to secure an opinion on the
lot or the corner of Walnut and Fifth
streets, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ira B.
Townsend of Charlotte. The o ption
was signed Friday and a petition, cir
culated by Mr. A. E. White, asking
that this lot be selected was liberally
signed. The lot fronts on Fifth street
181 -feet and extends 108 feet on Wal
nut. It is convenient and centrally
located and would make an excellent
site for a posoffice building. When the
site inspector made his report on lots
it was not known that the French lot
ct uld be had.
Options are being secured from the
owners of the half-acre vacant lot
north of the residences of Messrs. L.
E. Whaley and C. M. Fuller with a
view to offering a part of it for a
building. This property was sold last
February and is owned by Messrs. L.
E. Whaley, C. M. Fuller and C. B.
Townsend and Mrs., A. T. Pannele. It
is understood that the owners have
agreed to sell enough of this property
for the government building site at
just what they paid for it. The effort
being made is to secure enough pro.
Jperty on the corner of Elm and Sev
enth strets for the site, wnich win De
115 feet facing Elm street and 115
eet facing Seventh. It is estimated
hat this site can be had for about $9,
KM). This also would make an excel-
ent location for the postoffice.-
Good School Attendance.
Superintendent of Public Instruction
R. Poole says that thirty public
Ichools have opened to date in Robe-
En, Wun uie ueai ottcu-
nce ever in Robeson's school history
tor this season of the year. Prof,
oole thinks -this is brought about by
he compulsory school law passed at
he last session of the Legislature.
MARIETTA MAN MISSING
Mr. Arch McQueen Left Home Two
Weeks Ago and His Whereabouts
Are Unknown to His Family Last
Seen in Lumberton On Evening of
th Inst.' No Reason for Disappear,
ance.
Mr. Arch McQueen of Marietta
came to Lumberton two weeks ago,
Saturday, on the 6th inst., and his
movements since then are as a sealed
book to his family, who are very
much distressed and at a loss to ac
count for his disappearance.
Mr. J. N, Paul of Buie, a brother-in-
law of 'Mr. McQueen, who was in town
Saturday, brought the first informa
tion that had been received here of
Mr. McQueen's disappearance. Mr.
Paul says that Mr. McQueen left
home on the morning of the 6th to
attend a trial here as a witness, and
was expected home that evening. He
was seen at the Seaboard depot a few
minutes before time for the evening
train, 5:35, but beyond that everything
is a blank so far as knowledge of his
movements by his relatives is con
cerned. Mr. McQueen had $80 or $90
on his person when he left home. His
wife asked him to buy some things
'for her and he was seen making some
purchases in Messrs. White & Gough's
store in the afternoon.
Mr. McQueen has a wife and six
children living in Marietta and his
mother, Mrs. Flora A. McQueen, also
lives there. His family know of no
reason why he should have left home
and are inclined to suspect foul play
Mr. McQueen is said to be a man
of good habits and had all the work
he eould do as carpenter and black
smith. He is about 35 years ofii, about
6 feet tall and weisrhs about 180
pounds.
BURGLAR ENTERS HOTEL
Visited Four Rooms in Lumberton Ho.
tel Saturday Night and Robbed Oc
cupants While They Peacefully
Slept Got $35 in Cash and $50
Worth of Jewelry.
A burglar or burglars entered the
Lumberton hotel Saturday night, took
what he or they wanted and left the
balance for the owners. The burglar
went into four rooms. In one room,
occupied by Mr. W. O. Britt, proprie
tor of the hotel, he took between $12
and $15 and a watch out of Mr. Britt's
pockets and Utterly ransacked the
room. In the' roome ccupied by Mr.
Willie Cox of Orrum, he failed to
get anything as Mr. Cox had put his
money into his shoe. In a room occu.
pied by Mr. H. L. Benson, a represen
tative of The Atlanta Journal he took
his coat, pants and grip. He carried
Mr. Benson's grip into a woodhouse
near the hotel and cut it open, but
found nothing' he wanted ' sa v a - 25
cent pocket knife, so Mr. Benson's loss
w ... s -
and pants were left m the wood-house.
However, it looked like, at one time,
he was both coatless and pantless. In
a room occupied by a Mr. Biggs, he
got $20 in cash, a watch worth $42.50
and a pair, of cuff buttons worth $10,
The thief got about $35 in' clean
cash and something over. $50 worth
of jewelry. He entered the rooms
at the doors, not any of them being
locked.
Mr. Britt thinks he used something
to ,make the folks whose rooms he en
tered sleep good and sound. He also
thinks it certainly was somebody who
knew the building well, and he, like all
the other folks at the hotel, thinks it
probably was the work of a man who
had been around the hotel since Wed.
nesday of last .week, not claiming to
have any occupation, and left Satur
day p. m. without paying his board
bill.
W. A. Devin of Oxford Appointed
Judge of Tenth District.
W. A. Devin of Oxford was commis,
sioned Saturday by Governor Craitf
as, Superior Court judge in the tenth
judicial district to succeed Judge H.
A. Foushee of Durham, who resigned
on account of poor health. Judge De.
vin convenes his court first in Dur
ham county today.
Judp Devin is 35 ytars oi i a mem.
ber of the law firm of Graham & De
vin, 'Jxford, has servei tw terms in
the Legislature and is now chairman
of important committees and a mem.
ber of the Commission on Constitu
tional Amendments. His acceptance
of the judgeship necessitates his resig
nation from the Legislature and there
is not time for the election of a suc
cessor for the impending special ses
sion. He has ;been prominently men.
tioned as a possible successsor to Geo.
W. Connor as Speaker of the House.
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COTTON CROP SHORT.
It is the General Opinion That Not
More Than Half the Average Crop
Will Be Made in Robeson Those
Who Hold Will Get the Price Mt.
Eliam Matters.
We spent Thursday night on the
"Mount" and found it good and wet.
The farmers are well up with their
cotton picking because of the fact thai
there is but little to pick. We have
talked to people recently from most
every section of Robeson and the
opinion of the public is that the crop
is but from one-third to half an aver.
age one. in the nrst place, the stand
was poor; then the fruitage was short,
the bolls small and the lint short; and
last but not least, the worm, mention
of which has recently been made in
The Robesonian, is destroying from
one-third , to one-half of the bolls in
many sections. Several have said re.
cently that the worm had cut their
crop one-third.
Mr. N. A. Ratley of Fairmont in.
forms us that he has eight acres from
which he expected a bale v and a
half per acre, but the worms had just
riddled it, and it would take three
acres to make one bale. He said he
pulled up nine large stalks and found
only one sound boll on the entire nine.
We think the crop is going to be the
shortest in many years, if not the
shortest ever in Robeson; and, from re
ports,: in all cotton growing States;
and thinking of the fact that many
mills had to stop operation this year
because of the fact that they couldn't
get cotton, and many other things we
could mention, we are sure of the fact
that the man who holds his cotton this
year is the man who will get the
price.
The health of the "Mount" folks is
good as is generally the case with peo
ple who get a mountain breeze
Mr. Rossie Britt, who had been in
South Carolina visiting relatives, re
turned home Thursday. He reports
a much enjoyed trip. He reports the
cotton crop short in some of the sec
tions he visited and he visited some of
the best cotton counties in the State
Miss Pearlie Sellers of Supply,
Brunswick county, who had been vis
iting at the home of Rev. Paul T. Britt
on the "Mount," returned to her home
Friday accompanied by Misses Eva
Britt arid Vadie Phelps,
who will
spend some time visiting Miss Sel
lers.
The Mt. Eliam Lumber & Shingle
Co. cannot fill orders as fast as they
receive them. Business eooa, wun
bright prospects for the future on the
"Mount."
Mr. David Britt left last week for
Mars Bluff, S. C, where he has accept
ed a position.
It was Miss Lora Cash well, instead
of "Flora," as The Robesonian gave
I it Thursday, that Mr. Albert Britt
. . . mia- .
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us, as we did the reporting
There will be preaching at the Bap
tist church on the "Mount" the fourth
Sunday at 11 a. m. Sunday school at
9:30.
The people are beginning to look
forward to Saturday, October 4, when
the annual meeting of the Mt. Eliam
Sunday School Institute will be held
at Orrum.
' HAPPY JACK.
POUND FOR POUND.
Gins Asked to Give As Many Pounds
of Lint and Seed After Ginning as
Cotton Weighs in the Seed.
At the county meeting of the Farm
ers' Union held in Lumberton Thurs
day of last week a committee was ap
pointed to see the manager of the gins
at the oil mill, near Lumberton, and
see if he would agree to weigh cot.
ton before and after it was. ginned,
anil then agree to give as many
pounds as there was before. That is,
when a man had 1,500 pounds of seed
cotton before it is ginned, and his
bale weighs 500 pounds, he will get
pay for 1,000 pounds of seed when he
sells his seed to said company.
For the benefit of the union mem.
bers who want to have their cotton
ginned at the oil mill, we will say
that the manager there has agreed to
do this. A committee will be appoined
in each local to see gins where its
members have their ginning done in
regard to weighing cotton after it is
ginned.
There was quite a bit of complaint
about loss in weight, and this was the
method thought to be best by the
union.
GROVER BRITT,
Sec-Treas. Robeson Union.
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paper. If renewals are not in by date
on label will be stopped. ? .
EXTRA SESSION LEGISLATURE
Convenes Wednesday of This Week
Freight Rates Great Issue to be
Considered Will Last 20 Days.
Raleigh News and Observer, 21st.
The General Assembly meets here
in extraordinary session Wednesday
morning September 24th and will sit
twenty days with the freight matter
its largest consideration.
The extra session was provided for
in the closing days of the last session
when many constitutional matters
were placed in the hands of a consti.
tutionai commission, lhat commis
sion went to work, recast the fourteen
articles of the North Carolina instru
ment and offered them to Governor
Craig and the coming Assembly.
No data was suggested at the ad.
journment of the last session and the
early call was made necessary by the
failure of the State to receive such
rate concessions as would justify their
acceptance. Governor Craig issued
his call July 18, 1913, and in doing so
declared he did not think the hope
of an agreement bright enough to de.
lay the special session and the consti
tutional work was important.
In issuing the proclamation, Gov.
ernor Craig placed the freight rate
matter first. Objects of the call were
twofold. It was to "provide for the
people of North Carolina just trans,
portation .rates and adjust the rela.
turns between the state or North Car
olina and the railroads Operating with.
in the territory of the State.
"To receive the report of the consti
tutional commission and to consid
er the submission of amendments to
the constitution.
Freight Rate Meeting.
On the opening day of the session
Wednsday, the business men of the
State, all people who are in the fight
for just freight rates for North Caro
lioa are called to meet in Raleigh at
2 o'clock p. m. The meeting was call
ed by President Tate, of the North
Carolina Just Freight Rate Associa
tion, to express the demands of all
North Carolina for justice from the
railroads.
Good Roads Association Meeting
A special meeting of the Good
Roads Association will be held in Ra
leigh Wednesday to receive the re
port of the committe on resolutions
appointed at the Morehead convention,
and to take up ways and means of
bringing to the attention of the Gen
eral Assembly the two State road
questions which the convention con
sidered as being of paramount im.
portance at the present time, viz,
1
The appropriation of a sufficient
amount to enable the State to meet
the needs and demands of the counties
and townships for engineering assist
ance. 2. The use of all able-bodied State
convicts on the public roads.
WITHIN THE STATE
Brief Items of News From All Over
North Carolina.
Greensboro News, 18th: Within
the next few days the Revolution Man
ufacturing Company expects to have
in hand thep lans and specifications
for an addition to its present plants
north, of the city that will more than
double its size, and give it approxi
mately the same floor space as the
Mammoth White Oak cotton mill, that
is edclared to be the largest denim
mill in the world. The addition will
cost from $1,250,000 to $1,500,000 and
will probably be ready for operation
by the end of the year 1914.
Joshua B. Hill, a Confederate veteran
and a leading business man of Raleigh
died suddenly from heart failure at
his home in Raleigh Thursday. For
15 years he was United States mar
shal of the eastern district of North
Carolina, serving under the adminis
tration of five Presidents: Hayes, Gar
field, Arthur, Cleveland and Harri
son. Southport'News: Col. Robert Stride
informs The News that he has al
ready been pledged a sum amounting
to nearly $40,000 for the building of
a $100,000 tourist hotel in Southport.
With proper advertising, we have good
reasons to believe that such an insti
tution would pay handsomely, and
those capitalists seeking first class in
vestments would do well to consider
this proposition.
The committees from the State
Board of Agriculture and A. & M.
College to bring about complete co
operation and elimination of duplica
tion in the work of the college and
of the department received reports in
annual meeting in Raleigh Friday,
which declare that this co-operation
and elimination of duplication is now
working perfectly and large sums
of momy are being saved the State
as a result. -
GRADED SCHOOL CROWDED
Attendance Reached 392 at Close sf
Last Week First Five Grades Bad
ly Crowded No Assistants will be
Elected for Colored School Until Af.
ter School Opens.
Lumberton's graded school is crowd
ed, the attendance being considerably
larger than ever before. As has been
stated in The Robsonian, the school
opened two weeks ago tomorrow with
351 pupils, 22 more than the largest
attendance heretofore. At the close
last week the attendance had reached
392, and it will no doubt go over the
400 mark this week. Supt. R. E. Sen.
telle says that the first five grades are
crowded to such an extent that they
ought to be divided. In the first grade
there are 60 pupils; in the second, 57;
third, 46; fourth, 42; fifth, 69. More
interest than usual is being taken in
music this year, one of the two teach
ers alone having 35 pupils.
The school board has ordered for
the colored graded school enough
desks to seat 250 to 300 pupils. The
negro principal, W. J. McLean, is at
present at work on the colored school
census. XVo assistants have been elect
ed for the colored school and none will
be elected until after the school opens
and it is definitely known how many
will be needed.
IMPORTANT MEETING.
To be Held at Court House This Eve
ning at 7:45 Delegates to Be Se.
lected to Attend Just Freight Rate
Meeting in Raleigh Wednesday.
The Robesonian is requested to
publish the following:
"All merchants and other citizens,
irrespective of occupation, are request.
ed to meet at the court house this eve.
ning at 7:45 o'clock. Business of im
portance to each and every citizen de.
mands attention now.
FRANK GOUGH,
Pres. Just Freight Rate Association.
Delegates will be selected at this
meeting to attend the meeting of the
State Just Freight Rate Association
in Raleigh Wednesday of this week.
Every citizen should attend this meet
ing. The time for final and vigorous
action on the important matter of se
curing just freight rates is at hand.
New Store Building.
Mr. J. H. Wishart, who owns the
lot adjoining the Farmers' & Mer.
chants Bank new building, Fourth and
Chestnut streets, says that he ex.
pects soon to begin the erection of a
two-story brick store building on his
lot, and Mr. Q. T. Williams, who
owns the next two lots adjoining Mr.
Wishart, says that he is on a deal to
sell the lot next to Mr. Wishart, and
thinks that he will close the matter
within the next day or so. If he sue.
ceeds in selling this lot he will erect
some time this fall a two-story brick
store building on the other lot.
County Commissioners Meet With
County's Legislators.
The county commissioners and the
county's representatives in the Gen
eral Assembly Senator George B .
McLeod of Lumberton and Represen
tatives B. F. McMillan of Red Springs
and H. C. McNair of Maxton met at
Maxton Friday night to discuss mat
ters of local legislation. It is un
derstood that the commissioners re
commended that the duties of rural
policemen be more clearly denned and
some changes in the road law were
discussed, but nothing definite about
the meeting has been given out.
Notices of New Advertisements.
"Best Paint" Devoe.
Fully equipped to fit your eyes cor
rectly Dr. W. W. Parker.
Dodson's Liver Tone livens up the
liver and you stay on your feet.
Bargains in druggets K. M.
Biggs.
K. M. Biggs is cotton buyer for
Rogers & Company.
. R. H. Crichton sells all kinds of in
surance. Millinery opening and ladies' ready-to-wear
display Thursday and Friday
of this week. R. D. Caldwell & Son.
The first steamer to leave Wilming
ton this season with a cargo for for
eign ports sailed Friday. It was the
British steamer King Edgar, and car.
ries 11,786 bales valued at $825,000,
from a Wilmington firm of cotton ex
porters, for Bremen, Germany. The
first cargo last fall -was taken out on
the 23rd of September, the earlier date
this year indicating the rapidity with
which the staple is coming on the mar.
ket. Up to yesterday a total of 18,
550 bales had been received at' Wilm
ington against 10,270 up to the same
date last year.
Subscribe for The Robesonian."
BRIEF LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.
-Cotton today, 13 cent.
License has been issad for the mar.
riage of Arthur Clark and Bessie
Smith.
Special meeting of St. Albcn's
Lodge No. 114, A. F. ft A. M., to.
morrow evening at 7:30. Degree
work.
St. Paul's Messenger: The Lum.
ber Bridge people have decided to
postpone the erection of their new
school building until next spring.
Mr. S. L. Martin, pharmacist, of
Leaksville has accepted a poiitioa in
the McDonald Drug Company store.
He arrived and began work Friday.
Mr. W. B. Gragg, a photographer
from Black Mountain, near Aaheville,
is spending a few days in town look.
Ing over the location with a view to
locating here for business.
-Fairmont Messenger, 18th: Dr.
and Mrs. J. P. Brown left Monday for
Fayetteville where Mrs. Brown will
enter Highsmith's for treatment. She
will be gone several weeks.
Dr. J.N. Britt left last evening
for Atlanta, Ga., to enter upon his
fourth shd last year at the Atlanta
eMdical College. Dr. Britt assisted
Dr. H. T. Pope during the past
summer. .' .
"Uncle! Toney Faulk, colored,
wants The Robesonian to let folks
know that he is not the "Toney" Faulk
mentioned in court proceedings re.
cently as being up for some trans
gression. The Red Springs Citizen says that
Miss Ola Broom and Mr. Willie Whit
were married on the 13th inst in the
store of Miss Kate Brown at Red
Springs, Rev. Mr. Eure performing
the ceremony.
Mr. A. M. Diggs, second trick
operator at the Seaboard station, left
Friday a. m. for Denver, Col., and oth.
er Western points. He will be away
about 30 days. Mr. W. P. Rowell of
Lattimore will relieve Mr. Diggs
while away.
A car on the local passenger train
on the El rod and Conway Branch of
the A. C. L. was derailed near Orrum
this morning. Nobody was hurt. The
wrecking train had to be sent to get
the car back on the track. The cause
of the derailment is not known.
White and Red Roses," a high.
class Vitagvph feature film in 2 reels,
and "A Western Girl" in on reel by
Essany will be the pictures seen at the
Pastime theatre this evening. It will
be a pleasing three-reel show. Tomor.
row evening another two-reel feature
will be put on, also another one reel
subject, making a three reel show.
, .While switching cart on the local
yard Friday about noon the Raleigh
& Charleston freight engine was de
railed, near the Seaboard freight de
pot. The Virginia & Carolina South
ern freight engine was used to pull the
derailed engine back on the track. No
damage was done and but little delay
wa3 caused on account of the acci
dent, h,
Mr. Arthur Davis of Albany, Ga.,
arrived here Friday and will spend
some time in the county visiting rela
tives. He is a native of Robeson and
says he is thinking strongly of return!
ing to the county to live. He is
doing well in . his adopted State, but
thinks that he can do S3 well back ia
the old "NorthState." From here Mr.
Davis went to St., Paul's, where h
owns a nice farm.
Arrangements were completed
this morning for Mrs. Daisy Jenkins
to conduct a boarding house for the
graded school teachers in the Mc
Lean house on the corner of Walnut
and Sixth streets. Supt. R. E. Sen
telle and family, who moved into
the house at the beginning of this
term, will occupy the Dan Prevatt
house on the comer of Ninth and Pine.
Mrs. Jenkins will move in tomorrow
from her home on East Fifth street.
Governor Craig has appointed Mr.
Chas. P. Matheson of Taylorsville' a
member of the board of directors of
the State Hospital at Morganton to
succeed the late J. G. Hall of Lenoir.
"The Cape Fear Cotton Mill Co., of
aFyetteville, was chartered Friday
with $150,000 capital authorized and
$30,000 subscribed by A. R. MeEach
em, J. M. Butler, A. P. Rhyne, J.
A. Johnson, W. D. Johnson and L.
A. McGeachy for a general cotton
milling business.
Mack Hurst, a stonemason, dyna
mited his house at Bloomington, Ind.,
Friday, killing himself and one daugh
ter and fatally injuring two other
daughters, in addition to demolishing
the house. Mrs. Hurst in a remark
able manner escaped injury. Hurst is
believed to have been insane.