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VOLXL1VN0.65 LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1913. WHOLE NO. 2902
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GRADED SCHOOL SITUATION
First Five Grades Badly Crowded
Some Relief Must be Provided or
the Children Will Suffer Possible
Solutions of the Difficulty A Ser
ious Problem.
To the Editor of The Robesonian: .
The people of Lumberton keep ask
ing me what we are going to do about
the crowded condition of the graded
school. Honestly I do not know, and
I want to ask in return what the
people are going to do? The first
five grades are so crowded that we
cannot possibly give the pupils any
individual attention, and they can
not make progress without a cer
tain amount of special work by the
teachers with the individual pupils
In the first grade we now have 64
pupils, and I know not where from
thy keep coming. No primary
teacher can teach 64 children with any
degree of satisfaction to herself or to
the patronage. So we are wonder
ing not only what we are to do with
the 64 now enrolled, but how we are to
manage the others thatare certain to
ask for admission from day to day
hereafter. Many of these children
are too small" to take care of them
selves, and all through the day the
teacher is giving special attention to
the little fellows such as arranging
their clothes after they have been
dismissed from the room for a few
minutes. I wonder what the mothers
of the town think of a teacher giving
these personal attentions to 64 chil
dren and at the same time teaching
them all the things they learn in the
first grade ?
But aside from the burden placed
upon the teacher, that is a larger
number of children than ought to be
placed together in one room. Cold
weather will soon be on hand, and it
will be impossible for us to ventilate
the room so as to give the children
the required amount of fresh air with
out freezing them.
We ventilate the rooms with two
ends in view: 1, To furnish a suffi
cient supply of oxygen to the pupils;
' 2. 'to nmvide air that can earrv off
dust, noxious gases, and moisture.
Scientific men who have made a study
of ventilation, and are in position to
give expert testimony along this line,
tell us that each pupil should have at
least 2,400 cubic feet of fresh air
every hour. Taking this as a basis
we find that it would require 153,600
cu. feet of freesh air in the room
every hour to give 64 children the
amount they must have in order
that their minds may be active, and
their bodies be in a healthful condi
tion. It is an utter impossibility for
us to supply more than half that
much air to the rooms here with our
present methods of ventilation. When
cold weather comes 64 children will
be sitting in our first grade with only
a little more than one half the fresh
air they should have.
Now the conditions that I have put-
lined fnr t.h first. crraHc. with tha ex
ception of personal attention given to
the children, obtain in all the grades
up to the sixth. In the fifth grade
pupns nave uetjn eriroiieu. i, is
utterly impossible for the teachers to
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Hn effiffont. Wnrk nnHnr nnoh ponni-
kltUO.
The first five grades, then, must be
, divided. ' This is a cold fact for the
people of the community to think
about, and the sooner the grades are
divided the better it will be for the
school. In order that they may be
; divtled, more room must be provid-
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cu. ax bus pcupic win xuiiiiait wic
room and the other equipment
necessary to the work I will guarantee
to them satisfactory school work in
return. We try to be progressive,
but, honestly, I see very little hope
of. much progress being made until
something is done to relieve the con
gested conditions in these lower
grades.
What are we going to do about the
school work any way? There is not
a single cent of money to the credit
of the school, and this has been the
usual condition since the graded
school was established; and we have
never been able to put in the neces
sary equipment, especially In the
high school department. We are lack
ing in maps, globes, laboratories, and
any other physical apparatus that
other high schools have, and without
which we cannot thoroughly prepare
students for college. The board of
trustees and the whole faculty are
doing the very best they can with the
facilities we have, and as we under
. stand it the people of the community
are the ones to provide better facili
ties. Several solutions of the problem
nave presented themselves to my
mind: First, to drop the last three
grades of the high school work, and
do only tight grades of work and not
THE BROWNING MEETING.
First Services in Tent on Elm Street
Last Night Day Services Began
This Morning Special Services at
3 :30 Sunday Afternoon.
The place of holding services in the
series of meetings which began Sun
day at Chestnut Street Methodist
church shifted last evening from the
church to a large tent on Elm street,
and they will be held in the tent from
now on. This tent belongs to Rev.
Raymond Browning, who is conduct
ing the meeting, and will seat about
1,800 people.
Day services were held this ihorn
ing for the first time and will be held
until further notice at 10 a. m. each
day for one hour only. Evening song
service begins at 7:30 and preaching
begins about 8 o'clock. The choir is
seated on a platform which will seat
quite a number and the singing, led
by Mr. Joseph H. Chamberlain, is
good.
Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock
Mr. Browning will preach a special
sermon to girls and boys. He says
he calls this a bear story." Older
people may of course attend this ser
vice but it is intended especially for
girls and boys.
Like a thunderbolt out of a clear
sky came a hot "roast" from the pu
pil Tuesday night at the church be
cause Mr. Browning thought he had
not been given the proper help in
erecting hif ieWTitesday. The mem
bers of the official board of the church
say they were dumbfounded at what
Mr. Browning had to say, for they
quite naturally assumed that all the
machinery would be attended to on
the outside and that they would be
notified, as usual, of anything to be
done, through the regular channels,
this is, that the chairman of the board
of stewards would be notified of what
was expected and that it would be
done speedily and without friction.
The officials of the church say they
were waiting for notice of any work
to be done from the cnairman, and
the chairman says he was not asked
to have any work done. The "roast"
struck those who were conversant
with the facts as being so unfair and
unjust that considerable resentment
was felt, butthe matter has blown
over and the damper it threatened to
throw on the meeting happily has
been avoided and a great meeting is
expected.
Personal Items From Clarkton.
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Clarkton, Sept. 30 Mr. and Mrs,
Hector Gooden of Wilmington, for
merly of this place, have moved back
here, where Mr. Gooden has accepted
a position.
Dr. and Mrs. G. L. Clark returned
Friday from Richmond, where Dr
Clark had been under treatment at
the Johnston Willis sanatorium. Glad
to report Mr. Clark's condition im
proved.
Mr. John Skipper has returned to
his home at Red Springs after spend
ing a week with his uncle here. Mr.
and Mrs. H. L. Cromartie returned to
their home near White Oak last week
after spending a few days in this vi
cinity with relatives. Senator L. B.
Evans is attending the extra session
of Legislature. He spent last Sun
day in town. Mr. W. M. Monroe
spent the week-end in town with rela
tives.
Barn and Contents Burned.
Special to The Robesonian.
Bellamy, Sept. 30 Mr. J. D. Dun
can had the misfortune to lose his
barn and its contents yesterday by
fire. No one knows how the fire ori
ginated. There was no one at home,
the family being a mile from home.
Mr. Duncan is a hard working man.
Luckily , the wind was not blowing
toward his dwelling; if it had been
his dwelling would have been burned
also. Mr. Duncan's loss is $500 or
$600.
Working for Equal Rights.
Mr. Frank Gough, president of the
Lumberton branch of the Just Freight
Rate Association, will leave tonight
for Raleigh, i where tomorrow he will
attend a joint meeting of the Just
Freight Rate Association and the
members of the Legislature. Mr.
Gough is working hard for the peo
ple of this section of North Carolina,
and says no compromise for him, but
rather equal rights for all.
try to prepare for college; second,
to add five rooms to the present build
ing; third, to build a high school
building separate and apart from the
other building. One of these plans
must be carried out in the near future.
The people must say which, and it
is of vital importance to the commu
nity that some action be taken at
the, earliest possible date.
R. E. SENTEI.LE, Supt.
BARNE3VILLE NEWS BATCH
New Residence School Progress
Sunday School Rally and Other
Items.
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Barnesville, Sept. 30 Rev. Mr.
Bridges filled his regular appointment
here Sunday. The baptising was in
the afternoon. Thirteen were baptiz
ed and a big crowd witnessed the
scene. Such experiences reassure us
of this fact, that we are conquering
in the fight for God and right. We
hope to see the day when all shall en
list in the work.
The anniversary of Orrum is near
at hand. We are expecting a great
time.
Mr. Pitman Barnes has just return
ed from Red Springs, where he spent
a week with friends and relatives.
Mr. E. T. Lewis has completed his
new home, a ten room house, which
isvery attractive
The Barnesville band filled an en
gagement with Pennix Bros, of the
Greensboro Realty Co. at a land sale
near Nichols, S. C, Saturday. They
report a great time.
The school at this place is progress
ing nicely. Prof. Owens is doing
efficient work. He seems to have
taken hold of it with a determination
to develop the minds of ouf boys and
girls, wKb will soon have to take up
the tasks which we must soon lay
down.
The instrumental quartette and
the prominent voices of our .choir will
attend a Sunday School Rally day at
Western Prong, Bladen County, third
Sunday in October. The object is to
arouse greater interest and encour
age the work.
Cold Lunches vs. Hot Dinneri
-Alert-
ness vs. Dullness.
The Robesonian received this morn
ing from Supt. Sentelle a communi
cation explaining why announcement
has been made that, beginning next
Monday, school children will be requir
ed to bring lunches and stay on the
grounds until the school day's work
closes. On account of the length of
the communication and the crowded
condition of the paper today it is ne
sarry to hold this over until Monday's
paper. Experience at the school here
and everywhere else has demonstrated
that a continuous session of course
ample time is allowed for dinner; in
fact the pupils have more time for
dinner, since , time does not have to
be wasted going home and returning
is far and away better for the chil
dren. A petition is being circula'ed asking
that a dinner hour during which the
children may go home be given. Some
have signed this under a misappre
hension of the rel facts in the case
and without a knowledge of what
is best for the pupils.
But read Supt. Sentelle's arguments
in Monday's Robesonian and then see
if you can muster up any argument
as sound on the other side. If you
cannot, then it would be the part of
wisdom not to dry , to interfere with
the conduct of the- schools on the part
of those who are employed for that
purpose.
Auto Attacks a Telephone Pole.
Something of an auto wreck that
was yesterday when Dr. W. L. Gran
tham and Mr. R. McA. Nixon, riding
in a ford car, came in contact with
a telephone pole on North Elm street.
The wheel on the steering gear came
off, and Dr. Grantham, who was driv
ing, says that he didn't have the least
bit of a chance to control the car. The
telephone pole was up-rooted and
broken in two. The car, which belong
ed to Mr. Evander Faulk, was damag
ed to some extent. Both Mr. Nixon
and Dr. Grantham were shaken up
very badly, but nobody was "kilt."
Cotton and Hay Difference in Mak
ing.
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Marrietta, Sept. 30 All the farm
ers in and around Marietta are more
than glad to see the weather so beau
tiful again so their cotton will open.
For cotton picking and hay cutting
seem to be the leading occupations,
and it seem;: like the latter is yielding
the more bountiful harvest. The only
difference we find in making them
is it takes work to make one and
fishing or some other pleasure trip
to make the other.
Superior Court.
Nothing of special interest except
to the litigants concerned is transpir
ing in Superior Court, Judge C. C.
Lyon presiding. Many cases have been
disposed of, among them two divorces
granted W. M. vs. Drucilla Demery,
William vs. Barbara . Roseborough.
Court will continue into next week.
UBiuosaqoy eqx J0J aqt-iosqng
HOPE MILLS NEWS.
The Final Summons Successful
Meeting Clows Cotton Gin Burn
edSchool Prospects Bright.
(By Owen C. Rogers.)
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Hope Mills, Sept. 29 Mrs. Virginia
Novella Ray, wife of Mr. J. G. Ray,
died at her home three miles from
Hope Mills, Sunday afternoon. Mrs.
Ray was the daughter of Mr. C. L.
Thagard and is survived by her
husband and two small children. The
burial took place in the cemetery at
Green Springs Baptist church, of
which she had been a faithful member
for a number of years.
Mrs. Caroline Smith, aged sixty
four years, died this morning in the
home of her daughter, Mrs. J. W.
Butler at Cotton. The funeral will
take place at Lumber Bridge tomor -
row at at 2 o'clock, and will be con
ducted by Rev. Mr. Strickland, pastor
of the Methodist church here. Mrs.
Smith had been a faithful member of
the Methodist church for a number of
years.
A very successful meeting was
closed at the Presbyterian church on
the third Sunday. Rev. Mr. Fairley
of Fayetteville did the preaching, and
six additions were made to the church.
The ladies of the Presbyterian
church will serve refreshments at the
parish house on next Saturday night,
the proceeds of which will go to theJ
. . l - v rr-i i i ' f
.rresoyxenan nurcn.-. mwp.uuiic is
cordially invited.
Mr. J. M. Morgan has a position at I
Winston-Salem, and his fam
ily will move there within the next
few weeks. The people of Hope Mills
will regret to lose these good people
from their midst.
Early Sunday morning Dr. J. C.
Gilbert's cotton gin was destroyed by
fire. The origin of the fire is unknown.
The loss was moreHhan $4,000 with
about $2,000 insurance.
The Hope Mills graded and high
school will open on Monday, October
6th; and the principal, Prof. E. I.
Olive, will be assisted by Mrs. Lochlin
McDonald, Mrs. Maggie Butt, Miss
Irene Parker, Miss Annie McLauchlin
and Miss Crocket of Fayetteville, who
will be in charge of the music depart
ment. With the success the school
has made in past years, and with
a strong faculty of experience and
ability, the prospects are indeed
bright for still greater achievements
during the ensuing year. Each depart
ment is offered a prize of $5 in gold
for the best average grade by the Jr.
O. U. A. M. of Hope Mills, while
the best debater is offered a prize of
an unabridged dictionary by the
writer.
OUT BARKER'S WAY.
Cotton Crop Short Old-Time
Corn
Husking Personal Mention.
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Lumberton, R. F. D. 1, Sept. 30
Rev. and Mrs. A. J. Groves, who for
some time had been in a hospital in
Richmond have returned home.
Rev. Mr. Massey, editor of The Ra
leigh Christian Advocate, preached
at Barker's Sunday p. m.
Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Holden of St.
Paul's spent Sunday with Mrs. Hol
den's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. P.
Inman, at Barker's Mr. B. L. Kin
law of Wilson spent last week with
his mother, Mrs. Lucy Kinlaw, at
Barker's. Mrs. Ada Brisson of St.
Paul's is visiting her sister, Mrs. R.
A. Rozier at Barker's. Miss Lottie
Rozier of Rozier is visiting her sis
ter Mrs. N. A. Russ at Powersville.
Miss Eva Powers of Powersville left
a few days ago to go to Clarkton,
where she entered college. Mrs. Cle
lia McDonald and children of St.
Paul's spent last week with her moth
er, Mrs. D. L. Kinlaw, at Barker's.
Miss Lilly Townsend of Ten Mile,
who has been at Buie's Creek going:
to school, was taken a few days ago
to the Thompson hospital for treat
ment.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Patterson are
all smiles: it's a girl.
Owing to the boll weevil and cot
ton boll worm cotton is very short.
The worms have eaten up the, cot
ton until the cotton is about all open.
Old-time corn huskings are coming.
Unknown Negro Killed by Log Train
A negro whose name has not been
learned, was killed by a log train on
the Beaufort County Lumber Com-
pany's track ' near Ten Mile church
yesterday afternoon. It .is said that
the negro who was in the employ of
the lumber company, got sick in the
woods where he worked and tried
to catch a moving train, getting under
the cars. His head was cut off and
his body terribly mangled.
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THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Stock Law for Sampson County Be
ginning of End of Free Range Lo
cal Bills.
Robeson's Legislators have intro
duced several local bills. Local bills
have been introduced as follows: Mc
Leod to amend the road law; amend
ing the charter of Rowland so as to
provide for municipal improvements,
for the proper deposit of public
funds of Robeson; Change name of
special tax district in Rowland town
ship, and to authorize, board of trus
tees to issue bonds; protect birds in
Kobe?on; amend charter of town of
Lumberton, allowing town to borrow
money from sinking fund for im
provements; McMillan To provide
for rural policemen in Robeson pre-
"'"re c.ear.y me au-
, 'es . of rural Policement provided
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for in a bill which passed at the regu
lar session.
The Senate Tuesday passed the bill
for the protection of uniforms of the
army, navy and State militia. This
bill had caused more debate in the
Senate than any other measure tak
en up by the body at this session. It
would prohibit any person other
than members of the army, navy and
State militia from wearing the uni
forms of these organizations.
The Senate and House adopted a
joint resolution inviting President
Woodrow Wilson to deliver an address
at the unveiling of the monument to
the Confederate women tne-' gift o
Hon. Ashley Home next year.
Representative D. M. Clark intro
duced a bill in the House to reduce
passenger rates in North Carolina to
two cents a mile.
The House of Representatives Tues
day night passed on its second and
third and final readings the bill intro
duced last week by Senator George
L. Peterson to put Sampson county
under the stock law. The bill was
passed after an amendment by Repre
sentative Faircloth, of Sampson, to
leave the question to a vote of the
people of the county had been defeat
ed, on a roll call of 70 to 19. The bill
had already passed the Senate. Samp
son county has stock law at last.
Applying stock law to Sampson
county is believed to be the begin
ning of the end of "free range" in
Eastern Carolina, and over the whole
State. The courts have ruled that
the adjacent "free range" counties
and not the "stock law" townships or
county, must provide the fencing
about stock law territory. This
means that in making Sampson coun
ty "stock law" territory, Pender and
other adjacent territory, still having
"free range," must do the fencing
against Sampson. This condition
brought yesterday a bill from Rep re
aentatives tiawes, or lender, lor a
stock law election in this county, and
other counties are to follow suit
, "SNEAK" BILL CAUSES STIR
House "Unbeknownst" Passed Bill
That Would Change Political Com
plexion of State.
Raleigh Special, 1st, to Charlotte Ob
server.
A stir was created in the Legisla
tive circles tonight when it was found
that the House had, without knowing
it passed and sent to tne Senate a
bill that would take Wilkes county
from the seventh congressional dis
trict and restore it to the eighth, the
scheme behind the attempted legisla
tion being alleged to be to upset the
political complexion of the two dis
tricts and restore the eighth to the
Republican column. It is charged to
be a "sneak bill" and was introduced
by Representative Bumgarner of
Wilkes and the house passed it with
out reading it onhe assurance, it is
is said, of Bumgarner that it was a
local bill affecting hist county.
Senator Daniels of Halifax was run
ning through his bills for the Senate
calendar tonight and found it. Its ti
tle is "a bil lto be entitled an act re
lative to Wilkeks county, to repeal
chapter 593 Public Laws of 1913."
Chapter 593 is relative to the board
of county commissioners of Wilkes
county and allowances for clerk hire
by the commissioners. There is an
other section of the bill that proceeds
to specify that the section of the law
as to congressional districts that puts
Wilkes county in the seventh district
be amended so as to restore Wilkes to
the Eighth district.
Leaders of the Democratic side of
the House declareed that they will
call Representative Bumgarner to ac
count tomorrow morning for this piece
of attempted legislation. Mr. Bum
garner's ' friends insist that they do
not believe that he knew of this fea
ture of the bill, and hint that he has
been duped as well as his Dedocratic
colleagues. It is known that the bill
was sent to him from Wilkes to be
introduced.
BRIEF LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.
Cotton today, 13.875 rents.
License has been issued for the
marriage of Shock ley Adams and
Margaret McC'lellan.
Mr. T. N Higley since Tuesday
has been confined at his home. Ninth
and Cedar streets, suffering from
chills and fever. His condition today
is thought to be somewhat improved.
Mr. Dan Nye of Fairmont pass
ed through town yesterday en rout
home from Hamlet, where he had
been visiting his brother Mr. Graddy
A. Nye, who was very sick last week
but is better now.
Mr. H. M. MoAlltter, who for
several days had been confined at his
home, Seventh and Chestnut streets,
with chills and fever is able to be out
again. He came down to the First
National Bank, of which he is cash
ier, for a short while yesterday after
noon and he also spent a short while
at the bank today.
"The Retreat From Moscow," one
of Pathe's bestv2-reel feature pictures
will be shown at the Pastime theatre
this evening. The historic retreat of
Napoleon's army from Moscow in
1812 is here reconstructed with the
aid of the Imperial Russian army, on
the exact locations where the events
occurred. A Lubin reel containing
two pictures will also be" run, making
a three-reel show.
REV. C. ft.
Pastor of First Baptist Church Home
After Extended Trip Given Him by
Member of His Congregation
Places Visited.
Rev. C. H. Durham, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Lumberton,
returned home Monday from an ex
tended trip through the West. Mr.
Durham left Lumberton August 19,
went to New Orleans by way of At
lanta, Ga., and Birmingham, Ala.,
stopping over in each of these cities.
From New Orleans he went to Dallas,
Texas, and from Dallas he went to
Oklahoma and Arkansas, where he
visited relatives, then returned to
Dallas, spent a few days, and went to
Colorado Springs, and Denver, Col.,
spending some time in these cities
and visiting many places of interest
about them, such as Manitau, "Garden
of the Gods," South Chyene Canyon,
Seven Falls and Pike's Peak. From
Denver he went to Salt Lake City,
Utah, from there to Yellow Stone
Park, and then to the Grand Canyon
of the Colorado river In Arizona.
From there he went to San Francisco.
Cal., thence to Seattle, Wash., An
returned by way of Chicago, stopping
over in that city for a short while.
Mr. Durham says he waa well every
hour of the six weeks he was away
and he enjoyed the trip immensely.
While away he traveled 11,600
miles, including side trips, and trav
eled twenty-four hours through snow
that was 18 inches deep. This was
in Montano and North Dakota. Just
a week before this Mr. Durham ex
perienced the hottest day of his life,
the themometer registering 115. This
was hi Sacramento Valley, California.
As has been mentioned in The Rob
esonian before, the expenses of Mr.
Durham's trip were paid by a member
of his church, but his name The Robe
osnian is not at liberty to give. This
shows in part the high esteem in
which Mr. Durham is held by his
flock.
Postoffice Site Inspector Here.
Mr. Sedley Chaplin, a postoffice site
inspector, has been in town since yes
terday looking over the lots available
for a Federal building and hearing ar
guments in favor of the the 'different
sites offered. He will not say what
his recommendations will be but it is
guessed that he will recommend as
first choice the lot on the corner of
Elm and Seventh, as second choice the
French lot, Walnut and Fifth. This
leaves the Bond lot, Chestnut and
Third this being offered now, where
as at first the Bond lot on the other
corner of the same lot was offered!
out in the cold. But this is largely
.guess-work, or rather information
that is not authentic. Anyway, every
body hopes that the site will be se
lected soon and that an appropriation
of $75,000 for a building will be put
through at the next session of Con
gress. Mr. Chaplin, who leaves this even
ing for Raleigh, says that it is not a
Federal building Lumberton needs but
a hotel but that'sanother story.
Eczema spreads rapidly; itching al
most drives you mad. For quick re
lief, Doan's Ointment is well recom
mended. 50c at all stores.
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