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ONIA A r N Established 1870 - , . County, God and Truth Single Copy Five CeaU VOL XL1V NO. 8S LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER, 11 1913. WHOLE N0.2922 J '. " " ' I -MaaaaaaaaaaaaaMaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiaaaaaaaaa - " m i I - FREE DELIVERY APRIL 1ST. A - i t rSt lYoliv. try for Lumberton Effective April First Next with Two Carriers PoBtoffice Site Will Be Purchased Within Ten Days. An order will be issued shortly by the Postoffice Department at Wash ington for city delivery of mail for Lumberton beginning April 1st next, with two carriers, - This welcome information .is con tained in a letter to Representative Godwin from Daniel C. Roper, First Assistant Postmaster General, a copy of which letter has been received by Mayor A. E. White. Mr. Roper says that the report of the inspector de tailed to investigate the situation has been received and approved and that an order to the effect noted above will be issued shortly. Mayor White kept right after this matter, which had been hanging fire far some time,, until he got this defi- things ready for free-delivery for a year or more, but it is probable that there would have been nothing defi nite as to when it would be put on had not somebody got on the job. la the same way that is, by keep iag constantly after 'em: they are proverbially slow,, you know, in offi cial circles, about these littte matters unless somebody keeps after them Mayor White has secured from Mr. Godwin definite assurance that the matter of purchasing a site for a postoffice here will be settled within ten days. Just as soon as the matter of a site is Out of the way the thing to do will be 'to get on the job after that fT3, 000 postoffice building and make those fellows who are prophecying that it will be ten years before that post office building is a reality admit that they are not worth shucks as, pro phets. County Teachers and Corn Club Boys Meet Saturday. "Tab was mentioned in Monday's Rob esonian a meeting of the county school teachers will be held in Lumberton Saturday and Supt J. R. Poole says that be is expecting it to be one of best-attended meetings he has ever had. An excellent program has been arranged for the occasion and it is expected to be a time of much educa tional interest for the county. The meeting will be held in the graded school auditorium and the exercises will begin promptly at 11 o'clock. The hustling and wide awake firm of Messrs White & Gough have kindly offered to give all the teachers dinner on this day, and arrangements have been made to give them dinner in a body at the- Dixie cafe at 2 o'clock. At the same time and place, as has been mentioned in The Robesonian, the Corn Club boys of the county will meet to round up the year's work. There will be a corn exhibit and prizes will be awarded. Marietta Corn Club Br.y Wins Trip to Washington. Master E. C. Morgan of Marietta, a member of the boys' corn club, won a trip to Washington. He left .today for Washington. Supt. Poole says that' the corn club managers at Ra leigh say that Robeson has all the ether counties in the State going when it comes to raising corn, judging from the work done by the corn club boys this year. True, and it might be add ed, that Robeson is not to bs left be hind when it comes to raising any thing in the agricultural line. Cotton Ginning Report 10,397 Bales Behind Last Year in Robeson. There-were 43,431 bales of coutTa, counting round as half bales, ginned in Robeson county from the crop of 19X3 prior to December 1 as compar ed with 53,828 bales ginned prior to December 1, 1912, according to a re port sent The Robesonian by Mr. J. W. Barnes of Barnesville, special agent of the Bureau of the Census.. Rente Big Postoffice Boxes Goes Up. After January 1 the rent of the large size boxes at the postoffice will be increased to $1.50 the quarter to . from $1.00, the present 'figure. There will be no change in the rent of the small boxes, which re main 60 cents the quarter. Everything increases the tariff except The Robe sonian For Weakness and Loss of Appetite The OM Standard general atreogttienliir tonic ROVES TASTELESS chill TONIC drive out Malaria and bullrtt tip h mtrm. A true tonic adaareAp:et:.-r. .. - lulu and children. SCc DURHAM RE-ELECTED PRESI DENT. Pastor of First Church of Lumberton Unanimously Chosen by Baptist i State Convention for Third Time Unusual Honor Will Establish Summer Encampment Christian Education Made Regular Object of 1 Benevolence. The Baptist State Convention, which convened Tuesday at Shelby in its 83d annual session, which will last through tomorrow, bestowed an unus ual honor upon Rev. C. H. Durham, pastor of the First Baptist church of Lumberton, by electing him president of the Convention for the third time in successive years. It is the cus tom for a president to serve only two years. The honor was unani mously bestowed, no other man be ing mentioned or apparently thought of for this, high office. In thus hon oring the popular pastor of the Lumberton church "the Baptist State Convention honored itself, the denom ination and the cause "to quote from the report sent newspapers by T. W. Chambliss. Mr. Durham is a native of Shelby. This is the third time the Convention has been held in the meet ing house of the Shelby Baptist church. The Convention completed organi zation by. electing the following offi cers: Vice presidents, Congressman E. Y. Webb, C. F. Meserve, John A. Oates; corresponding secretary, Liv ingston Johnson; auditor, F. H. Briggs; treasurer, Walter Durham; trustees, W. C. Tyree, Noah Biggs, W. N. Jones, D. L. Gore, H. C. Brld ger. The address of welcome was deliv ered by Mr. O. Max Gardner, an at torney of Shelby, and the response was made by Rev. Dr. W. M: Vines of Charlotte. The annual sermon was preached Tuesday night by Rev. Walter N. Johnson, pastor at Wake Forest, Congressman E. Y. Webb Tuesday night presented to the president of the Convention, in behalf of 'King'? Mountain Association, a gavel from the wood of a hickory tree from the center of King's Mountain battle ground.' The Convention, which represents more than 245,000 church members, the largest church organization in the State, unanimously decided last night to establish a summer encamp ment along the line of the Virginia Baptist encampment at Virginia Beach. A committee will select a location Wilmington has offered the Convention $500 to locate there. Christian education will hereafter take a place in the budget of benevo lences in Baptist churches along with missions and orphanage. This was decided last night. A committee will formulate the plan and report next year. The charters of Wake Forest and Meredith Colleges have been amended and now these institutions are absolutely controlled by the con vention. Wake Forest's enrollment is 433, Meredith'3 329. A new dormitory and a new, church building are being erected at Wake Forest, and in CO minutes last night the Convention raised $12,000 for this church follow ing the report of a committee which recommended that that amount be raised. - Encouraging reports were made yesterday by the State mission board, the board of eeducation, the treasurer, indicating progress along all lines. Expect Huerta to Remain in Power Till After New Elections Called by Mexican Congress. Mexico City Dispatch, 9th. The Mexican Congress today nulli fied the recent Presidential elections. New elections are called for next July. Congress according to this action expects General Huerta to remain in the presidency for at least Steven months more and if the time neces sary for the selection and installation of his successor is taken into consid eration, it will be well towards , the end of' September next year, before he yields his power to another. The deputies fixed the first Sunday in July, 1914, as the date for the new election. They also confirmed the position of General Huerta as provis ional President until then. Residence Burned Narrow Escape. The residence of Mr. Jasper Barnes who lived near Back Swamp, was de stroyed by fire Monday night with all its contents.' The house was falling in when the family awoke, and they had a narrow escape. The loss was about $2500, with no insurance. -WITHIN THE STATE. MinorNews Matters Gathered From All Over North Carolina. Earl Morrow, a prominent drugst of Hamlet, was instantly killed and his brother-in-law Wilson Page, a lumberman seriously' injured when Mr. Morrow's auto turned turtle on Tuesday near West End. The men had left Hamlet earlier in the day on a hunting trip. John" T. Olliver, who was recom mended by Representative Stedman for postmaster at Reidsville, has at last asked that his name be with drawn as a candidate, realizing that tne opposition of Senator . Simmons makes his confirmation impossible and that holding out as a candidate only keeps some other Democrat out of the job. Curtis Koontz about 18 years old, accidentally shot and wounded his mother and his 7 year old sister near his home near Lexington, Davidson county, Saturday. Running to get his' gun from the edge of a field where the family were picking cotton, he tripped and fell as he turned to shoot at a rabbit and the load took effect in his small sister and mother. Chairman M. H. Justice of the special commission for adjustment of intra-State rates has changed the time of hearings on the exceptions from Deiember 17 to January 12 This is on account of the fact that the Inter-State Commerce Commis sion is to hold a special series of hearings on inter-State rates begin ning December 16 in Greensboro. It was found to be impossible for the Inter-State Commerce Commission and the special commission to hold their hearings at the same time. The special committee of the House of Representatives which investigated charges made against members of the House, by Martin M. Mulhall, lob byist for the Nati6nal Association of Manufacturers, in its report complete ly exhonerated. Representative E. Y. Webb, of North Carolina, whom Mul hall mentioned in his "expose" print ed in the New York World. The de claration of the committee is parti cularly emphatic in regard to Mr. Webb's innocence. FARMERS' UNION CONVENTION. Sixth Annual of North Carolina Divis ion at Shelby December 17-19 Railroad Rates. The sixth annual convention of the North Carolina Division of the Farm ers' Union will be held at Shelby De cember 17-19. This promises to be one of the best and most instructive sessions yet held. This will be the time for the election of new State officers. Arrangemehts have been made so that all delegates and mem bers can get reduced rates on all rail roads. All delegates or members hold ing standard form certificate receipts secured from and executed by agents at starting points' evidencing payment of tariff rate to place of meeting, will be sold tickets for return trip at one half" fust-class fare, plus 50 cents, via routes traveled on going trip as specified on certificate re eipts. We hope that many of our members will take advantage of the opportunity of attending this meeting, which comes off at a time when the farmer has the least to do. Go, it will be a good Christmas resent for yourself. GROVER BRITT, Sec.-Treas. Robeson Division. First Step for Tobacco Market. At a meeting of a few of the busi ness men of the town Monday evening in the commissioners' room at the( court house a committcecomposed of Messrs. A. E. White, Geo. B. Mc Leod, L. H. Caldwell, A. Weinstein and W. K. Bethune was appointed to take some immediate action with re gard to having a tobacco market in Lumberton next year. Something will be done. Death of Mrs. Lenora Pittman. Mrs. Lenora Pittman died at the home of her son Mr. June Pittman near Orrum Tuesday morning after an illness of several months. She was 69 years -old, relict of the late Sion Pitt man. Deceased is survived by one son and five daughters. The inter ment was made in the family burying grounds near Mt. Eliam yesterday. Beginning Monday, Dec. 16th, I will take transient boarders, and can ac commodate a few regular, boarders, Millsaps residence, Elm street. Mrs. A. R. Carter, Lumberton, N. C. Children Ory FOR FLETCHER'S OAS TO R I A FROM ALL OVER Brief Items of News Gathered From Without North Carolina. Jno. K. Tener, Governor of Penn sylvania, Tuesday was elected presi dent of the National League of pro fessional baseball clubs. The salary is $25,000 a year. At Concord, N. H., Tuesday Judge Edgar Aldrich ruled that the mental condition of Harry K. Thaw must be determined in the Federal Courts. The court's announcement was made at the hearing on Thaw's petition for bail. With its authorized strength in creased by 3,352 men, the United States Army lost instead of gained numbers during the fiscal year just closed. Including the Phillippine scout! the army has 85,569 men, compared with 87,965 twelve months before. President Wilson w,ent to the Cap itol Monday as a sightseer, his phy sician having advised a walk after his confinement for it few days with a cold. The President's unexpected and quite democratic appearance in the corridors created something of a sensation. Republican campaign machinery will be put in motion in Washington in a few days, opening the battle to capture the House of Representatives in the election of next November. Headquarters will be opened this week under the direction of Secretary John Eversman. Scott Madison, negro, was fourd guilty at Barnwell, S. C, Monday of the murder of E P. Best, the mer chant who was shot to death in the street in Barnwell a week ago. Madi son was sentenced to be electrocuted and was immediately taken to Co lumbia for safekeeping. Two other negroes indicted with Madison were More than $9,000,000 for the Mis sissippi river, almost $9,000,000 for the Ohio river and more than $2,000, 000 for the Missouri river, almost $2, 000,000 for the Columbia river and $l,000,00o for the Delaware river are the amounts considered necessary by the Chief of Engineers of the Army for improvement and maintenance of those great waterways during the fis cal year of 1915. The House of Congress Monday passed a resolution requesting Presi dent Wilson, as far as he can do so with due regard to the interests of the United States, to co-operate with the suggestion of Winston Churchill, lord of the British Admiralty, for an international naval holiday for one year. Churchill's suggestion is that an agreement be entered into by first class powers not to build any battle ships for one year. Federal aid for highways through out the United States, unless planned upon some comprehensive system was not favored by those who addressed the tenth annual convention of the American Road Builders' Association at Philadelphia Tuesday. Several speakers declared the numerous bills now before Congress providing for Federal aid for good roads are de signed more to open "pork barrels" than to give the. States good, perman ent highways. REBELS ATTACK TAMPICO. United States Batleship Ordered there Foreigners Warned to Leave. Vera Cruz Dispatch, 10th. A rebel attack on Tampico began shortly before noon today. The rebels were advancing on the city from va rious points. The United States bat tleship Louisiana has been ordered to Tampico and is leaving Vera Cruz. A message from General Villa, rebel commander, reached the American consulate in Tampico last night with information that 4,000 rebels com manded by Generals Villa and Castro, were approaching the city. General Villa declar! his inten tion of assaulting the city with the least possible delay. He said that he had given his, followers strict orders to refrain as far as possible from de struction of property and to protect the lives of foreigners, but he feared they would be gravely imperilled in the attack on the city. He earnestly requested the American authorities to take immediate 'steps to remove all foreign residents from the place. Rear Admiral Fletcher made prepara tions to take all foreigners' on board The jury rendered a verdict this morn his vessels at a moments notice, and ing in the case of W. J. Prevatt vs. Uo land marines if it appeared advis able. Mr. T. A. McNeill, Jr., spent yes terday in Wilmington on legal business. WILL 151 ILI NKW RESIDENCE Ex-Sheriff Geo. B. McLeod will Erect Three issues of The Robesonian will Handsome Residence Fronting' on be published next week Mob?, Mm Street Present Residence Be- Wednesday and Friday. This wtW ing Moved and Will Be Remodeled, jrive four issues besides today's ism A force of hands began work ves- before Christmas. After the 22d a terday moving the residence ,i c- issue will be skipped, and the next in Sheriff Geo. B, McLeod, Elm and sue after the 22d will be the 29t. Fifth streets from the west corner of Printing an extra issue next week wil the lot to the east corner. That por-' give 104 issues during the year,, 108 tion of the house which has been used issues being the usual number imv4 for a dining room and kitchen will be ' during the year. house and will be placed on the north-' east corner of the lot, just back of the ! residence proper, and for the present ! will probably be used for the Fame' purpose but later for a servant houfe. I All this old home, when placed, will be remodeled, unti nn th woct nrl .if lot, from which house is being mov ed, Mr. McLeod will erect a modern home. It will be a handsome two-' story building with about 15 room'-. In architecture and design it will prob i Mr- N"" Freeman of He ably equal any home in town; and Swamp klIIed a ho Monday that that's saying a great deal, for in Lum weihed 560- "Some" hog. berton are many beautiful homes. Mr.' Miss Elizabeth Gouch who work McLeod has a drawing of the- new j ed in Jhe millinery department of L home, but the detail drawings have I). Caldwell & Son's department store, not yet been completed. The home left yesterday for her home at Ox-' will front Elm street, with a side en-j ford. Miss Gouch made many f Heads trance from the court house side, and while here who will be sorry to bear there will also be a side entrance she is not coming back next seasoa. from Sixth street. Work will be , . started on the new home jutt as soon 1 , .Mw" May Roger, who has been a as the old home can be moved. I tr!m.mer n M'ss JoPh" BreeeV. Messrs. Steams Bros of Charlotte 5 ra,nnpj; the past two sea. hit. , , . . iii building. Mr. Frank B. Simpson, ar chitect of Raleigh, made the draw ing for the new home and will proba bly be awarded the job of drawing the complete plans. METHODIST APPOINTMENTS Rev. J. W. Bradley to Hookerton Cir cuit New Pastor at Chestnut Street Church Other Appoint ments. . Rev. J. W. Bradley, who had been pastor of Chestnut Street Methodist church for two years, was appointed by the Conference which closed Mon day to serve during the next year the Hookerton circuit, Greene county Newbern district. This is one of the best circuits in the Conference. Mr. and Mrs. Bradley are packing up and expect to leave for their new home Saturday of this week. Rev. W. B. North, who succeeds Mr. Bradley as pastor of Chestnut street, comes to this charge from the Nort hampton circuit, considered about the strongest circuit in the Conference. r xt iu u w j ic Dr. North has had about 15 years ex perience on station charges and is considered one of the strongest preachers in the Conference. His family consists of his wife, a son about 18 years old, who is a junior at Trinity College, and a daughter about 13 years old. Dr. North is expected to arrive here some time next week. His wife and daughter will join him here some time before the first of the year. Tttkv M T. SpnHnlr. rphirnq tn tVip Lumberton circuit and will continue to make his home in Lumberton. These and other appointments will be noted in the list of appointments pub lished in full elsewhere in this issue. Mailing Christmas Checks. Thnca i -ininorl flna Ttnnlr nf 1 .11 m- hortAn'a rfcriefmna Sav1'no.a flllh lAcsf v j i u . i spring: have now arrived at the time i when they can enjoy the results of their foresight and prudence. The ! bank is mailing out today Christmas saving checks, special cheeks appro priate for the occasion handsome fellows. They look mighty good to those who are receiving them. These checks range in amount from $7.41 to $37.05 and total $1,600. This year the club started March 18 and ran 38 weeks only. Next year the club will start December 29 and run 50 weeks, so those who go in and stick will get larger checks two weeks be fore Christmas, running up to sixty odd dollars for 5-cents-a-week sav ers. Turning loose this amount of mon ey right at Christmas time will help solve the Christmas problem for many people. "A Superior Court. But few cases have been tried in court this week, most of the cases that have come up being continued. R. & C. R. R. Co., allowing Mr. Prevatt $350 for damages to timber caused by fire started by a train. The case of C. W. Ledbetter vs. Western Union Telegraph Co., is being tried today. j THREE PAPERS NEXT WEEK. BRIEF LOCAL NEWS ITEMS. Middling cotton today. 121 -2c. License has been issued for the ' carriage of L. Warner and Neflte Pittman. Mr. Spurgeon Small has accept! a position in the Lumberton barber ( shop. He will begin work tomorrow. owns win jwt ounutty ior ner none at Stanley, Va. Miss Jean Pratt, Greece's head trimmer, will Ieav Tuesday of next week for Charlotte, where she wilt visit her brother Mr. Jim Pratt before returning to ksar home at Hendersonville. Mr. Z. M'White of route 5 frosa Lumberton, who was among the visi tors in town Tuesday says that bu killed some mighty fine hogs Monday for Mr. S. A. Stankwytch, who frras at the Lumberton Cotton Mill.' H killed seven that netted 2,060 pounds, an average of 294 2-7 pounds each. The heaviest one weighed 336 pounds. Mr. Stankwytch rightly believes that it pays to have his "smoke-house" mk home and not in the West. Fire at Residence of Mr. A. W. He- Lean Damage About $1,00. The alarm was turned in Monday afternoon about 4 o'clock for fire the residence of Mr. A. W. McLeaoa, Chestnut street. Quite a number m folks had assembled at the McLeaa . k .1. - f , . . . . ., . . . 'nd after that fire whistle had soond- ed its "blood-curdling" noise a thoaa- and or more people were soon on Um scene. The flames were soon extia guished, but only after the fire and much furniture had been greatly dam aged with water. The fire started from a sleeper running through tha hearth to a fire place on the second floor in the south-east corner room. There had been a fire in the fire-plac the night before and the morning be fore the fire in the afternoon. The f1?61' w8 U"de! ab,U a,footand, a half or two feet of brick. Smoke coming out from under the wallks was discovered by Mrs. McLean and she phoned at once to the office for Mr. McLean, who was at the house withia five minutes and by this time the roar of the fire within the walls could "be neaI"d plainly. Mr. McLean has his home fully equipped with fire fighting J 1 vv . ,. xturef a twatf r nd" oughout tne house and within less than five minutes after hi3 arrival. the water was on the Maze, in fact the water had been turned on the fire before the town fire alarm was torned in. Practically all the furni ture and household effects were moved from the house and the waUs and floors were greatly damaged by the water. The fire itself did but little damage. Mr. McLean says that he hardly thinks the damage will ex ceed much a $1,000, which is fully covered by insurance. On account of over exertion, and possibly some ex citement, Mr. McLean has been confin ed at his home since the fire, but he is better today and will probably spend part of the day in his office. Bibles on Hand. The Robesonian has received an other shipment of those elegant Bi bles which it has been offering sub scribers at 98 cents each. This is the third order. After the second ship ment was exhausted so many calls were made that another order had ta be made. These Bibles make excellent Christmas presents. Ix you want one it will be necessary to call or send early before the supply is alll gone. By mail they are $1.15.
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