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THE ROBESONIAN. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1914. PAGE FOUR THE BOBESONIAN Published MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS By BOBESONIAN PUBLISHING CO. f. A. SHARPE , . President SUBSCRIPTION RATES Pne Year L6 Hx Months 75 Three Months . . . . 40 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1914. THE WOUNDS OF A FRIEND. "Faithful are the wounds of a friend." Everybody in I.-imber-ton knows Mr. Archibald Johnson and they are prepay ed to believe that he is, as he says, "fond of Lumberton"; and nobody will doubt that he wrote the follow ing, which apppeared in last weeks Charity and Children, of which he is editor, in any other than a spirit of love: Wo nr fnnA of Lumberton. It is a prosperous and most attractive town. Its churches are strong and active and the Baptist church is one of the greatest in the State, its dusi ness houses would do credit to High Point and its business men are pro gressive and able. In fact it is one of North Carolina's finest towns in all respects but one it has no hotel. I And it is a matter to us oi continual surprise that these wide awake business men do not see that men who travel must have a place to stay or they will quit going to Lumberton, or if they must go, give the town a bad name every where. These re marks are inspired by some plain words on the subject which we find in The Robesonian of the 12th. Lum berton must have an adequate hotel, or take a lower place among our progressive towns than she de serves." It is not going to be long before the reproach of being a "hotelless" town is going to be removed. A new spirit is in the air. Lumberton's pro gressive citizens have finally bestir red themselves and gotten together with the determination to go after Borne things the town needs; and of course everybody realizes that a ho tel is the immediate pressing need. o A TOBACCO MARKE At last it has been definitely settled that Lumberton is to furnish a market for tobacco this year. Sufficient stock has been subscribed to purchase a lot and build a warehouse, and a charier has been applied for for the Farm ers Tobacco Warehouse of Lumber ton. This means that Lumberton will furnish as good a market for tobae-j co as any town in this section. Hav ing taken hold of this matter the business men of Lumberton and the fai'mers, l.vho are interested withi them will not stop at half-way meas ures. The Robesonian feels safe in predicting that farmers who bri"K their tobacco to this market will be j so well pleased with the treatment they receive that they will continue j to come. ! If reports are to be" credited, a j large acreage will be planted in to- j bacco in Robeson this year, twenty live per cent, larger, it is generally estimated, than ever before, and pre parations are being made to take care of all the tobacco raised in the coun ty at home markets. Tobacco grow ers will get the benefit of friendly ri valry between Lumberton and Fair, mont this year. 0 The interesting announcement was made in last week's Laurinburg Ex change that Mr. J. P. Wiggins has sold The Exchange ot Mr. Treylon Browne of Charlotte, Mr. Brown tak ing charge of the paper the latter part of last week. " The Exchange ' is a capital paper and serves one of j the best newspaper fields in the j State. Mr. Browne is an experienced newspaper man, haying been connect- i ed with The Charlotte Observer for j the past seven years. We wonder I where Mr. Wiggins will break out next. Buying newspapers, develop-' ing them into good paying proposi- , tions and then selling is a sort of dis ease with him. One of these days he will quit practicing law in Max ton and settle down to running a ' newspaper for keeps. . o The Robesonian has been informed , that the idea seems to prevail that only one farm-life school can be es tablished in a county and that when the location of the farm-life school for which the commissioners have made an appropriation of $1,500 is de termined other places in the county will miss their only chance for such a school. It is our understanding that there is no limit to the number of such schools that may be established in a county, so when the location of this school is deteremined other places may get similar schools by complying with the requirements. o Accidents will happen; but the best regulated families keep Dr. Thomas Eclectic Oil for such emergencies. Two sizes 25 and.50p at all stores. S IOWV v. TESTIMONY IN JETTON CASE. Widow of Dr W. H. Wooten Gives j EI Paso Citizens Greatly Excited Strong Evidence-Says Her Him- Over Execution of British Subject band Had Been Particularly Invited j by Rebels at Juarex Pass Keso- By Mrs. Jetton to See Her New; lutions. Dress. ! EI Paso, Tex., Dispatch, 20th. Charlotte Observer, 21st. j 'A storm ot indignation today broke That Dr W. H. Wooten, the victim ' along the border when it became of the tragedy that shook the little known that William S. Benton, a Brit town of Davidson to its foundations 1 ish subject and wealthy landholder and this section of the State as well in Mexico, who disappeared Tuesday, on Thursday evening of last week, had had been executed by rebels in Jua been particularly invited by Mrs. R. 1 res after he had made a protest to M Jetton wife of the man who fired Gen. Francisco Villa about alleged the fatal shot, to "come down and see : depredations of the Constitutionalists, her new dress" which she was to I A mass meeting was arranged and wear to Mardi Gras thus acefcunting resolutions were adopted censuring uio nran in the home on the i the State Department at Washington "evenimr of the homicide; and that Mrs Jetton had expressed tne aeiermina- sumr icpn ui uic ueuwu woe uu tion on the afternoon of January 20 calling on Congress to demand from to Miss Rena Potts, a sister-in-law the Department of State a full record of the dead man, to send for Doctor , of alleged crimes and outrages Wooten if her temperature continued against foeigneis in Mexico, and if she did not feel better thus in- j The resolutions read m part: dicating the professional status of the ; "Whereas Mr. William S. Benton, dead man in the home in question; a highly respected and honored citizen that Mrs. Wooten would have accom- j of the State of Chihuahua and a 8uh panied her husband to the Jetton ; ject of Great Britain was brutally home on the evening of the homicide murdered and assassinated at Ciudad had she been dressed at the tinje and 'Juarez, Mexico, by Francisco Villa we had she had on any slippers thus i the citizens of El Paso, Texas, and showing that it was not a clandestine j refugees from Mexico, at an indigna visit as would otherwise appear; that I tion meeting held in El Paso, Febru on the evening of February 7 that ary 20, 1914 wishing to protest most Dr. Wooten could not have paid the emphatically against the cruel and visit alleged to the Jetton home be-j violent treatment accorded foreign tween 7 and 7:30 o'clock for the rea- ! ers during the past three years of son that his movements were traced revolutions in that country, beg to all this time thus tending to rebut submit to the world and the Ameri Mrs. Jetton's statement as to pre- can people the following brief state- vious visits; that Monroe Jetton was more like a boy in the Wooten fam ily than a simple kinsman or friend and frequently visited at the house arid in the absence of Doctor Wooten had slept in the home as a meaens of protection thus indicating the inti macy between the two families these were some of the principal points brought out by the State in the pros ecution of the case wherein the young Davidson druggist stands indicted for first degree murder for the killing of Doctor Wooten. For the Defense. The substance of the testimony ad duced by the defense consisted of a re-statement of the facts surround ing the tragedy as given by Mrs. Jetton, wife of the accused; the story of the accused himself in which he recounted the hearing of the entrea ties of his wife for Doctor Wooten to leave and then of the tell-tale shadows on the drawn screen when Dr. Wooten pushed his jwife over on the bed, of his breaking into the room and of the assault of the larger j and stronger man upon him and of i fear of serious bodily harm, fol- jg the encounter and of the firing fatal shot; which was followed UU5 by the testimony of Messrs. C. M. j who is of bad repute. Ernest Smith Stiles, John Christie, T. F. Lothery, and his 11-year-old brother accom J. A. Johnson, and others all tending j panied Hall to the latter's home, the corroborate the versions of the i There was reference by the boys to circumstances as offered by the only a shotgun hanging on the wall. Hall two surviving eye-witnesses. Promi- took the weapon down, inserted a net character witnesses were brought shell and resting it across a chair forward, the outstanding one of arm, aimed at the smaller boy. Ap course being Senator John Sharp Wil- prehensive, the older brother shoved liams of Mississippi, who gave voice j the little lad out ,of the gun's range to the name and good repute of the but Hall, with a peculiar gleam in his wife of the accused, and who he de- eye, changed his aim and pulled the chared, was a young woman off most j trigger, the right side of Ernest axcellent character. Other character Smith's head being blown away, witnesses were Messrs. W.T. Stewart A married sister of Hall was sitting and G. R. Kemp, both of Gulfport, j in a chair with a baby. Scattering Miss., the former vice president and j shots struck the child's head, but it p-eneral manager of the Gulf and Ship j was not seriously injured. Hall claim Island Railway and the latter claim ed the killing was unintentional. He apent. j was taken almost immediately before Climbed Snow-Covered Mountain Peak to Reach Sick Husband. Asheville Special, 20th, to Charlotte Observer. Learning that her husband was ill at the summit of Mount Pisgah, Mrs. Lee Davis last Sunday climbed 13 miles to the top of the high peak through 12 inches of snow, according to news which was received here to day, Doctor Davis is at Crusoe, and a ! message to Mrs. Davis said that he commander. was desperately ill. Accompanied by I Sir Cecile Spring-Rice, British Am a local physician in an automobile, she bassador, conferred with Secretary made part of trip, but when within : Bryan about it; President Wilson and 13 miles of the place at which her : his Cabinet discussed it briefly, and husband was confined she learned that I the State Department ordered a an automobile could not make the trip ! thorough investigation by Consular over the ice-coated snow and no horse ! representatives on the border, could hold its footing on the slippery In this case for the first time since road. j the present revolution began a year Not daunted, Mrs. Davis set out : aKO, the general warning from the to make the trip on foot alone and a United States Government to Mexican message from Cruesoe brings the in- factions to protect foreigners, , went formation that she reached the bed- unheeded, though there is every evi side of her husband fatigued and 1 dence to show that both the British bruised but happy. She will remain j Ambassador and the State Depart there until Doctor Davis' condition ment were advised too late of Ben improves. ; ton's impending fate to intercede specifically for him. The news shock- r-..t, r. n r-,,A) !ea" tne officials generally who had Catarrh Cannot Be Cured :come to believe that Gneral Villa with -LOCAL, APPLICATION!?, as they ; fully realized the position of the cannot reach the seat of the disease. Ca- . J . fo. ui tarrh Is a blood cr constitutional disease. American Government in regard to and in order to cure it you must take in- ; the protection of foreigners in Mexi ternal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is co particularly in the North of that taken Internally, and acts directly upon ; ',tr,, J e the blood and mucous surface. Hall's ' F? Catarrh Cure Is not a quack medic ne. li " was prescribed by one of the best phy- j Horrible Blotches of Eczema, slclans In this country for years and Is ! . i . , v. a regular prescription. It is composed of Quickly cured by Dr. Hobson's Ec the best tonics known, combined with the zema Ointment. C. P. Caldwell, of best blood purifiers, acting directly on the j New Orleans, La., states: "My doc mucous surfaces. The perfect comblna- . , , ' . ' . r. itA,i tion of the two ingredients Is what pro- ! Jjr advised me to try Dn Hobson s duces such wonderful results in curlnsr i Eczema Salve.' I used three boxes of catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. j Mi1 co.. rrops.. loieao. v. , son8 Derma Soap Today i have, not Bold by Drurelsts. price 75c. , . , r . , , Tke Hu. rila, puis for cooUpuoa. spot anywhere on my body and can I say I am cured. It will do the same Effective March 1st, Mr. F. E. Lit- for y- 1 soothing, healing, anti tie, editor of the Whitesville News-1 ePt,c action will rid you of all skin Reporter, will retire as editor and re- J"11?0"' blackheads, pimples, Eczema turn to-Wilmington to be associated ! b,otches, red unsightly sores, and with his brother, Mr. J. W. Little, ! aves yur kn cleiLh and hfLhJ Esq., in the management of the Wilm- I yet a. b today. Guaranteed. All ington Stamp and Printing Company, i druggists, 50c, or by mail. Pfeiffer He-will be succeeded by Mr .F.R. Put- ! Chemical Co, Philadelphia & St, nam, an experienced newspaper 'man, i koulg- who has been with the Wilmington i Ti ... . Stamn Printing rmon , i It matters more which way one s time. I Successful Everywhere. Pi v,"' . ,, " 1 . i eopie everywhere are talking of rSdnv VUUZ " ? ESTi.. 11 matisrn kiHn, .a m.. . J ' i f" ' matism, kidney and bladder troubles You ran'r til UD'es' ; ou can t take them into your system j without good results That is just be-! boro, Ga., says: "I have used Foley's SV oley .Vd"ey P,Us ive t0 the I oney and Tar Compound in my fam .TS,J J dder just what nature ; ily and have sold it in my store tails or to Jieal these weakened and and it never fails to cure." Refuse a inactive organs. I A STORM OF INDIGNATION, for its alleged suppression of the Con- ment of facts: , ine com Diooaea ana nearness as sassination of Mr. William S. Benton without any cause whatever other than the fact that he went to Juarez to protest against the confiscation of his property, 'Los Remedios' ranch in northern Mexico which has been re peatedly looted, is but another crime to be added to the hundreds that al ready have been committed against all foreigners living in Mexico who have been driven from their homes, their property .destroyed, in many cases women have been outraged and foreigners murdered in cold blood and for no other reason than on account xf their Nationality ." 5-Year-olld 1 Son of Duplin County Farmer Killed by Negro. Kins ton Special, 20th, to Wilmington Star. A report reaches Kinston today of a brutal murder in Smith township, uupim county, near the Lenoir line In an out-of-the-way locality, David Hall, a 16-year-old negro, shot and instantly killed the 5 year old son of Mr. Jonas Smith, a white planter A personal difference had existed between Smith and the colored bo v. the Superior Court at Kenansville and sentenced to 20 years, it is said, al though this was not verified. British Subject Killed by Villa. Washington Dispatch, 20th. A slumbering Mexican situation to day was brought quickly to a point of intense international interest by the flash of a message saying Wil liam S. Benton, a British subject, had been killed by order of 'General Francisco Villa, the Constitutionalist Ointment and three Cakes of Dr. Hob-1 'ace "s set than how fast one pro- i ceeds. ArthurChristopher Benson. Safe for Babies, Effective for G ir. rown That's Foley's Honey and Tar Com- Pound- " has the V- " "a8.lne commence oi your druggist, who knows it will give you Katisfft,t Ln. W. W. MRRmith SrX i - satisfaction. W. W. Nessmith, States. substitute. All dealers. All 1 i . ,F CASTOR I A For Infant and Chfldrca. Tfea Kind Yea Ha? a Ahrajs BscgM Bignatnra of BROAD RIDGE BREEZES Tobacco Plants Doing Well Prepar ing for Quarterly at East Lumber- ton. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Orrum, R. 1, Feb. 19 The snow is gone and we are busy once more. . Mr. C. A. Bell, a merchant of Lin. den was in these parts Sunday p m. While erecting a tobacco barn near here for Mr. J.R. Lawson, Jas. Davis, colored, fell from the top and was severely hurt. -Our choir is making preparations for the quarterly at East Lumber ton. Sorry to report the illness of little Fred Bissell, hope he will soon recov er. Tobacco plants seem to be doing well in spite of the extreme cold weather. Mr. K. M. Britt made a business trip to Lumberton and Proctorville yesterday. Mr. Herman Britt of Long Branch . . 'a , 1 1 . n visiiea in mese pans aunaay p. m. Miss Quessie Prevatt visited friends in Lumberon Sunday. "The Best Laxative I Know Of." "I'have sold Chamberlain's Tablets for several years. People who have used them' will take nothing else. I can recommend them to my customers as the best laxative and cure for can stipation that I know of," writes Frank Strouse, Fruitland, Iowa. For sale by all dealers. Ten Thoroughbred Horses Smothered to Death. Sumter, S. C, Dispatch, 20th. Ten thoroughbred horses on their way to the Sumter Horse Show, were suffocated while being shipped here from Lexington, Ky. The animals were part of a shipment of 18 travel ing in an ordinary box car. The Sum ter purchaser today stated that an or dinary stock car had not been avail able. Railway rules prevented the side door being nailed open. When the car reached Knoxville 10 of the 18 horses were dead and another had developed pneumonia. All were high priced horses and two were valued at $1,000 each. The King of All Laxatives. For constipation, use Dr. King's New Life Pills. Paul Mathulka of Buffalo, N. Y., says they are the king of all laxatives. . They are a blessing to all my family and I always keep a box at home." Get a box and get well again. Price 25c. At Drug gists or by mail. H. E. Bucklen & Co, . Philadelphia or : St. Louis. Life is like walkinc aon& a crowd 3d street; there always seem to be 1, a .... rewer ODstacies to getting along on the opposite navement: and vet if one crosses over matters are rarely menaea. i nomas Huxlev. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA For Sale Frost Proof Cabbage Plants! Best Varieties, such as Charleston Wakefield, early Jersey Wakefield, Flat Dutch, and Succession. Our plants are carefully selected and put up in bundles of 25, which makes them easy to handle. Prices less than 3,000, 90c. per thousand; 4,C00 to 7,000, 85c; 8,000 to 10,000 75c, per thousand. Special prices on large orders. Plants shipped same day order receiv ed. Cash with order, Cabbage plants by mail, 25c per hundred delivered. C. P. Hethington, BOX 24, MEGGETT, S. C. NOTICE. Complying with section 3 of the Guilford County Farm Life" School Law and Sectioin 12 of the same Law as Amended, March 10th, 1913, notice is hereby given to Lumber Bridge High School, Orrum High School, Philadelphua, High School and Row land High School that the County Board of Education will receive bids for the location of a Farm Life school. Such bids may embrace financial in ducement for the maintenance and equipment, desirable location, etc. . ' All bids must be filed in the office of the '.County Superintendent of Public Instruction on or before the first Monday. in March, 1914. j . COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, ROBESON COUNTY, By J R. POOLE, Secretary. tie Ddnfeecrrs money Jn the : &usfe&s Our successful business men began by saving; the first money they earned so that -when a busi ness chance arose they were in a position to grasp it, Alany senior members of great firm became junior members of that same firm by having MOZilSY SAVED with which to buy the first interest they had in the business. Start a bank account and see how happy you will be to see it growf it will be the best friend you hav& and the HBST PARTNER. Do YOUR banking with US We pay 4 per cen t-interest compounded quarterly First National Bank, Lumberton, N. C Two-Thirds of the Homes of the Largest City in North Carolina Were Built Through Building and Loan Associations. Therefore by Talking the Building and Loan Plan you Boost Your Town. City Builders are Home Owners Those who own Building and Loan stock regard it as one of the Best Ways to Save Money. It is the Quickest Asset You Can Have. Come in and Let us explain it to you. ROBESON BUILDING AND v LOAN ASSOCIATION C. V. BROWN, Secretary At the Bank of Lumberton . A Farmer Without Farm! m (IV You never heard of a farmer without a farm did you? Did you ever hear of a rich or successful man who had no bank account? You can no more succeed without a Bank Ac count than you can farm without a farm. The Bank of Lum berton is a Bank of Personal service meets YOUR needs fits YOUR case. The same hearty welcome is here for the man who opens an account with $1.00, as for the man who opens it with thousands ... WE ARE THE OLDEST, BIGEST AND STRONG EST BANK IN ROBESON COUNTY. IF STRENGTH APPEALS TO YOU, MAY WE HAVE YOUR BUSI NESS? riisjnnsrriSLirassiJ- (IV (!) r. ft ft Bank of Lumberton Lumberton, NrCr Fire in the McDonald Drug Company's Store Loss r Fully Covered by Insurance1 . ' - The fire was confined to the ends of our good cigars being smoked by Lumberton's choice smokers and The Insurance was the satisfac tion enjoyed by the smokers. - Some of the cigars that we carry: Nuricaa, Prince Pedegales, Gatos, Havanna Ribbons, Cincos, Owls, Lafolwins, Exports, Franklins, Zaza racs, Sabarosas, Little Nuricas, Live Indiana, Portuguese, RanitosV Royal Robes, Little Bobbies and many other popular brands. Also every kind of chewing and smoking tobaccos. McDonald Drug Company ..(On The Corner.) as TV (0 (it to to to to
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