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VOL.XLV. V LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1914. NUMBER 25.
MODEL HEALTH COMMUNITY: ;
Community Work Will be Taken Up
at Philadelphus by North Carolina
. State Board of Health Purpose
to Make Model Health Communi
ty, "v - J
. Dr. B."W. Page, county superin
tendent of health, has just received
the following letter, dated Raleighr
May 13, and signed by W. P. Ja
- cocks, acting director of the Hook
worm Commission- of the North Caro-'
Una State Board of Health: v
"Dr, D. C. Absher of our force
is leaving today for Lumberton .. in
order to consult with you in regard
to taking up community work in the
Philadelphus community. We are
pleased to learn from Dr. Leonard
that this community was a very' suit
able one for this work. Dr. Absher
will stop on the. way to" confer" with'
' another member of our force, who has
already begun this work Jn the Salem
burg community, ;, Sampson, county,
but he should reach Lumberton Thurs
day or Friday. ,"; " - ,
"I know that you will give Dr.
Absher all the support that is at your
hand; and I hope that the work done
in Philadelphus community will "be a
model for the rest of the State. .
"I hope to visit Dr. Absher- while
be is at work there and at that time
i I hope to have the chance of meet
ing you." ' '
. , Some time ago it was stated in
The Robesonian that a representative,
of the State Board of Health was con
sulting "with County Health Officer
Page and inspecting conditions with
a view to establishing' an ideal health
district In Robeson. It is understood
that four or five such districts are
to be established ' in North Carolina
with the purpose of : seeing what it
is possible to do in making health
conditions ideal. . . -
Philadelphus is a favored section,
about four miles from Red Springs.
It is at this point that a farm life
school is to be established.
Alleged "White Slaver" Discharged
Tyson Gets Two Years in Federal
Prison.
Some time ago in The Robesonian
was given an account of the trials and
tribulations of one Don Woodle, a
young white mart who was? brought
from Rockingham to the Robeson
county jail here to await trial at the
f Federal court on the charge of vio
la ting the "white slave" law." It was.
alleged that he took young Addie
Phillips from her home at Rocking
ham to McColl, S. C, for immoral
purposes. Woodle was taken to
' Wilmington Monday by Deputy Mar
shall Smith but the grand jury failed
to find a true bill, according to a news
item in this morning's Staj, and he
was discharged. .'.i
Charles Tyson, one of the two men
arrested just across the line in Bla
den county Saturday, April 18,
brought to jail here and given a pre
liminary hearing the following Tues
day before U. S. Commissioner W.
H. Kimaw on the charge of illicit
distilling, submitted in Federal Court
at Wilmington Tuesday and was sen
tenced by Judge Connor to serve two
years in the United States peniten
tiary at Atlanta. In reporting the
case The Star states that he made a
statement in his own behalf but in
view of the fact that he-had been in
court before on a similar charge
Judge Connor felt that he would have
' to go to prison.
It was in evidence at the prelim
1 that when Tvson was ar
tested at the still he drew on the offi-
eers a 6-shooter shotgun, ; wortn
mbVi a nenhew of Tvson. was ar
rested at the latter's home, where lie
lives, when the latter was taken back
there, and was aiso Drougni 10 jan
Vsm anA hnnnd to court bv commis-
sioner Kinlaw, but no mention was
made of him in tne report m ine
Star. . - "
Superior Cost,
fiivil court has been slowly grind
ing away since Monday.- Only two
jury trials -have -been disposed of
S. B. Davis vs. Bruce Lindsay, judg
ment for plaintiff in sum oi J
B. McCallum vs Alma Lum. Co. judg
tn ninintifT in the sum of $60.
have been erranted in the
nrttiin mses: J. A. Love vs. Dix-
i vim Tnenrnnpfi Co.: J. W. Ward
vs. M. A. Buie; In Re Tooler Hayes,
- infant, habeas corpus proceedings;
tw.v ramnhpll vs. J. M. Butler et
: al; Red Springs Trading Company vs
1 W. W. Hall et ai; uea .springs irnu
McDonald W. J
Walters vs Virgil Atkinson; Sarah
Conolly vs. A. W. wyuonaia ei ai;
pi.f MatinnnT Bank vs. H. H. Red-
fern; G. H. Hall vs. M. L. Marley
et al. -----
First Ship Through Panama Canal
Next Week.
tl. ... chin tn nnsn throuffh the
A UK o.i. . vw f " o ----
Panama Canal under regular condi-
:n nAKnK1ir malro thA trin far.
ly next week. According to Governor
Goethals the channel through Cucara
cha will be completed about Thurs
day and ODservauons wm ,ue nm-
tained on tne suae ior a snun ume.
npth of Mr. Artemus McNair.
. Mr. Artemus McNair, aged 71, died
t. Maxton Mondav nieht.
Interment was made in the new ceme
tery at Maxton Tuesaay aiiernoon.
nr. M.Koli- wns one of Robeson's
- most highly respected citizens, and
had many friends who will be sorry
-kiAnth. Mr.- M.' G.
McKenzie attended the -funeral from
Liimberton.
ELECT OFFICERS TOMORROW
Town Commissioners Will Elect Chief
of Police and Fill Other Townf
Offices Tomorrow Afternoon Mr.
Jas. D. Proctor, Elected to Fill Va
cancy on Board.
;tsXL of the town fathers except two,
Messrs. W. P. McAllister and S. H.
Hamilton; met Monday-afternoon. Mr.
P. Proctor, who was a member of
the board of commissioners last year
was elected a member of the Doard to
fill the vacancy caused by the failure
of Mr. Tr-L. Johnson to qualify on
account of being a member of the
county board of education, the law
prohioiting any one man from holding
any two remunerative positions of
trust, Mr. Proctor received the high
est vote next to. those nominated in
the recent town primary.
. Another meeting of the board will
be held tomorrfiw afternoon at,thi:ee
o'cloek, at which time a chief of police,
a night policeman, a superintendent
for .the light water plant and a
secretary treasurer will be elected. All
applicants for the above positions
must file their application before time
of meeting.
SOUTHERN BAPTISTS MEET '
Dr. Lansing Burrows Elected Presi
dent. Largest Number of Bap
tisms. . - ':: . '
Nashville, Tenn.', Dispatch, 13th.
Dr. Lansing Burrows, of Americus,
Ga., late today was elected president
of the Southern Baptist Convention
which convened here for a five-days
session." Dr. Burrows selection ter-j
minated . an exciting three-ballot
contest in which his four opponents
for the honor were eliminated.
The first session of the convention
was attended by 1.459 authorized del
egates representing a constituency of
more than ' two million persons from
every Southern State and Illinois .
The foreign mission report showed
5,253 baptisms during the year just
ended, "the largest number ever re
ported in one year."
Tne- report also snowed that re
ceipts for the current year amounted
to $578,478.97 or $44,000 more than
ast year s receipts. -.
Tne annual report of the Woman's
Missionary Union was Submitted to
night. It recommends improvements
on .the Missionary Training school at
Louisville, Ky amounting to $80,000.
In the report it also announced that
the union had raised $54,119.58 for
the Judson Centennial Memorial fund.
Church Services Sunday Series
of Meetings Closes.
A nine-days' series of meetings held
by Rev. W. R. Davis, assisted by
Rev; R. A. Hedgpeth of Barnesville
at the Jenning's cotton mill, closed
Tuesday evening. There were fifteen
applications for Baptism and member
ship in the first Baptist church as a
result of the meeting and there were
about ten other professions.
Rev and Mrs. Howard VanUyck,
returned missionaries from South
China, under the Christian and Mis
sionary Alliance, will conduct services
at the Gospel Tabernacle next Sun
day morning and -night It will be
remembered that Mrs. VanDyck (nee
Anna Hotz) was associated with the
Gospel Tabernacle' work before going
as -a missionary to China. The pubr
lie is cordially invited toa come out
and hear these interesting 'speakers.
Rev. W. H. Brown, pastor of
Aberdeen and Biscoe circuit, will
preach at Chestnut street Methodist
church Sunday morning and even
ing. .
Kev. C. L. Greaves, of Hawkins-
ville, -Ga., will preach Sunday morn
ing and evening at the First Baptist
church. Mr. Greaves is a noted
preacher and it is expected that he
will be greeted by large congrega
tions Sunday.
Mission Study Class.
Reported for The Robesonian.
The mission study class of Chestnut
Street Methodist church met with
Mrs W. B. North (their teacher)
Monday afternoon and had a most
interesting study of their new book
The New America. This class
will meet weekly on Monday after
noons at four o'clock until the book
is finished. '
All the ladies of the church are
cordially invited to attend these meet
ings, "whether members of the class
or not.
Mighty Dry on Tobacco Had to Re
plant Cotton.
Mr. John T. Single tary, who lives
on route 3'from Lumberton, was
among the visitors in town Tuesday.
He says it is mighty dry on tobac
co plants out his way' and that they
have to water their plants every eve
ning, hauling water in barrels. Dur
ing, the .heavy wind storm Tuesday
of last week, he says, some tobacco
plants were covered up with sand.
Mr, G. W. Wilder, who lives near
Parkton and who is a juror in court
this week, says that some had to re
plant cotton where plants were cov
ered up during the sand storm last
Tuesday. "Mr. Wilder says he was
working on a house at the time and
that he had to hold shingles when he
would open a bundle to keep them
from blowing away. .
Dath of An Infant.
Ruth, 'infant daughter of Mr. and
Mrs.R. C. Thrower, died at the
home of her parents in West Lumber
ttm yesterday. Interment was made
in the family burying ground ' near
Baker s chapel today.
METHODISTS LV CONFERENCE
Plans Proposed for Creation of Three
Episcopal District General Con
ference Declines to , Make Any
Change in Apostles Creed. "
Oklahoma City, Okla, Dispatch 13th.
Plans for the creation of three-.
Episcopal districts, one for Latin
American countries and Africa; an
other for Mexico and Cuba, and the
other for the Far East, including Ja
pan and China, to provide a closer
superintendency -of the foreign mis
sion fields and a proposal for the re
tirement of "bishops at any age and
for any reason deemed sufficient by
the General Conference," were pre
sented today to the General Conf r
ence of the - Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, in session here.
The conference today also disposed
of the proposal to eliminate - the
phrase "Holy Catholic Church" from
the Apostles' Creed, declining by a
vote of 159 to 132 to make any
changes in the wording of the Creed.
It had been suggested, by the commit
tee on irevisals that, the words "the
Church of God" be substituted for
the "Holy Catholic Churcji." The
vote represented a majority of - both
lay and clerical delegates.
Two annual conferences, to " be
known as the "Mexican border con
ference and the central Mexican con
ference" were created at Monday's
Session of the General Conference of
the M . E . Church, South, meet
ing at Oklahoma City, Okla., in quad-
Lrennial session. A proposal to es
tablish an Indian conference to have
jurisdiction over the extreme Western
States was rejected. A rsolution was
adopted urging "the necessity of addi
tional chaplains in the United States
Army and Navy.
"Our people must be brought to
see that education divorced from re
ligion leads to the spread of 'de
pravity and the destruction of the
basic . element of our Christian civili
zation and that the distinctive mission
of the Church schools is the develop
ment of spiritual leadership.
This was the keynote of the report
of the committee on education, sub
mitted Tuesday .
The committee commends, the wis
dom of the Board of Education in
proposing to create a million dol
lar endowment, the income of which
is to be used in efforts to advance
Christian education. The policies of
the board in bringing the charters of
the church schools and colleges into
conformity to the laws of the Church
in the matter of selection of boards
of trustees is indorsed and the com
mittee recommends that the board of
missions, Sunday schools and educa
tion unite in an endeavor to advance
the work of Christian education and
in raising $500,000 of the proposed
million dollar endowment fund dur
ing the present quadrennium.
CIVIC ASSOCIATION MEETS.
Merchants Will Be Asked to Screen
Stores and Clean Up Back Lots
Town Fathers Will Be Asked to
Furnish a Sanitary Inspector and
Take Other Steps For Cleanliness
and. Health.
Reported for The Robesonian.
The Civic Association held its reg
ular meeting in the. library of the
school building yesterday afternoon .
Much business was transacted.
The association was very grateful
for the work done on clean-up days.
While there was a great deal done,
there is still much work to be done,
A committee was appointed to no
tify parties who have vacant lots to
have them cleaned up at once, also
to see merchants, grocerymen, mar
kets and to insist on their screening
the stores, etc., and to ask them es
pecially to have their back lots thor
oughly cleaned and disinfectants used
around the stores.
It was decided to bring the follow
ing requests before the mayor and
town board:
That they request everyone to clean
their sidewalks and to rake the trash
in piles for the wagons. To insist
that the people will not put paper and
other trash ' that will burn on the
street, but have all such burned if
they have to do it on the street. Also
to please have the old cemetery clean
ed off."
To have an officer to go around and
inspect every one's premises, residen
ces and store lots, and if they are not
in proper condition to take some steps
to force thm to put them in shape
The Civic Association is very anx
ious to have all the ladies in town
meet with us, as we need their help
in suggestions, etc.. -.;.'-' '
Wife Ordered From State of Ohio
and Arrived O. K.
It looks like a great county like
Robeson that produces most every
thing man could wish for could fur
nish wives for her sons, but still one
occassionally orders one from afar
It has been reported that a certain
Robesonian ordered one recently from"
the State of Ohio, and on Monday last
she arrived at his nearest station, bt.
Pauls .
The hearing in regard to moving
poles belonging to the Bell Telephone
Company off Elm street, which was
to have been given before Recorder
J. A, Rowland Monday of this week
was postponed until one day next
week, the day to be determined later,
on account of the fact that part of the
counsel for the Bell people were in
. terested in a case in Fayettevul Mon
day. .
UP-TO-DATE IRON FOUNDRY.
Lumberton Motor Car Co. Does All
Kinds of Brass Casting Work
Light Stands for "White Way" Cast
by Local Foundry.
Perhaps there are people in Lum
berton who are not aware of the fact
that there is a. modern and up-to-date
iron foundry in town. "The foundry
belongs to the Lumberton Motor Car
Company and is located just below the
Seaboard, railroad in West Lumber
ton. Mr. J. T. Glover, an exper
ienced foundry man, is manager of the
foundry. The foundry is pre-
Eared to do all kinds of iron and
rass casting work. The plant has
just turned out, 30 light stands to . be
used for the "white way" on Elm and
Chestnut streets, and now has an or
der for moulding the columns for the
Bank of Lumberton building now un
der construction on Elm street. These
columns will weigh 1000 pounds each.
The business of the foundry has so
increased within the last few
months that two new men have re
cently been added to the force. It is
seldom a Lumbertonian needs any
thing he cannot get at home .
PYTHIAN LODGES UNITED
Lumberton and Unity Lodges of Lum
berton United A Strong Lodge the
Result Officers.
Mr. W. W. Wilson of Raleigh,
State Deputy Grand Chancellor of the
Knights' of Pythias, met the members
of Lumberton Lodge No. 35 and Unity
Lodge No. 202, Tuesday evening and
succeeded in .uniting the two. The
following officers were elected: Dr.
N. A. Thompson, U. C; A. t,.
White, V. C: J. H. Floyd, P.; A.
Spivey, M. of W.; Archie Ward,
of R. and S.; H. M. McAllister,
M. of E.; A. W. Prevatt, M. of F.;
W. G. Pittman, M. of A.; Wright J.
Prevatt, I. G.; J. P. Townsend, O.
G. A. meeting will be held tomorrow
evening at which time the officers will
be installed . All old members are
requested to be present. In uniting
these two lodges it is hoped to make
the Lumberton Lodge the strongest
in the State.
Complaint Against Laurinburg Post
master for Political Activity.
W. R. McEachin and D. Stewart
of Laurinburg have written Postmas
ter General Burleson complaining that
Postmaster G. H. Russell of Laurin
burg has been selected manager for
Representative Page in Scotland
county and they want to know if
this is not a violation of the Civil Ser
vice law which prohibits postmasters
and others holding i ederal jobs from
being too active in political move
ments. The letter also refers to a
statement in the papers that Repre
sentative Page had sent Mr. Russell
$100 to do political work in Scotland
county and says:
It would seem to us that this is
a flagrant violation of the rules of
the postofnee department and is cal
culated to bring upon the Democratic
party the same odium we have attach
ed for many years to the Republicans
for the partisan activities of r ederal
ofhee holders
"We are also prepared to show that
on the night of the 4th instant he left
the town and went off to a district
meeting of the Democcratic party's
executive committee and participated
actively m a meeting. We are Uem
ocrats."
Mr. Page states that he did send
the $100, to be used for distributing
literature, taking a poll of the voters.
etc., thinking at the time of Mr
Russell only as his personal and polit
ical inend and losmcr sieht of his offl
cial capacity, but that he was sure
Mr. Russell had been more thought
ful than he and had turned the money
over to some one else and had done
nothing against the regulations of the
f ostomce Department.
It is thought that the incident will
not amount to anything.
Sells Wagon Load of Home-Grown
Meat.
Mr. J. I. Townsend of Ten Mile
was in town this morniner. brineine
a wagon load of home-grown meat
for sale. Mr. Townsend is one of
the many Robesonians who believe in
raising all a man needs, and then
some, at home. He says he killed
over 7,000 pounds of pork last win
ter. Mr. lownsend is the type of
farmer that doesn t nave to buy
things on fall Itime and pay two
prices for them. The farmer who
farms right is the happiest and most
independent man in the world
Recorder's Court.
The following cases have been be
fore the recorder since Monday; Jno.
L. Scott, carrying concealed weapons,
four months on roads. L. A. Wilkes
and Boyd Thompson, thfi two men
arrested . near St. Pauls, charged
with and confessing to distilling li
quor, an account of which was given
in Monday's Robesonian, were tried
Monday afternoon. They admitted
operating a still, but the evidence
turned in was that they were trying
to help out somebody else, who own
ed the still. Wilkes was fined $75
and cost, and Thompson was fined $50
and cost
Miss E. True Worthen of Char
lotte was run down and fatally in
jured by an-automobile in Atlanta,
Ga., Monday. She died shortly after
ward. She was a sister of Herbert
C. Worthen, general manager of the
Southern Division of the Western
Union Telegraph Co. '
PRECINCT MEETINGS SATURDAY
Precinct Meetings Will Be Held at 3
uciock in the Afternoon, May 16,
to Nominate Delegates to County
Convention, Which Will Be Held
May 23 How Vote to Which Each
Precinct is Entitled in County-Convention
is Calculated.
Lest any forget though it has been
mentioned time and again in The
Robesonian. attention is called again
to the precinct meetings which will
be held Saturday afternoon, May 16,
at 3 o'clock.
At these precinct meetings dele
gates will be elected to a county con
vention to be held in Lumberton Sat
urday, May 23. At the county con
vention delegates will be elected to
the State and judicial conventions.
At the precinct meetings there shall
if requested, be a vote taken for the
candidates for State and judicial
offices whose names may be presented,
and if such vote is taken it shall be
certified to the county convention
along with other returns.
bach, precinct shall be entitled to
cast in the county convention one vote
ior every zo uemocratic votes, and
one vote for fractions over 12 Demo
cratic votes, cast by the precinct for
Governor at the last Gubernatorial
election, and. each precinct may ap
point as many delegates to the coun
ty convention as it may see fit, not
exceeding 3 delegates and 3 alternates
for each vote to which it may be en
titled in the county convention. Also
at the precinct meetings 5 Democrats
shall be elected by each precinct as
an executive committee. Each pre
cinct (or township) executive com
mittee shall elect one of its members
chairman. The chairmen of the sev
eral precinct committees will compose
the county executive committee,
which will meet at the county con
vention in Lumberton May 23 and
elect a county chairman. Mr. S. B.
McLean of Maxton, who has been
chairman for the past two years, has
resigned on account of the fact that
he is a candidate for the nomination
for solicitor of the ninth judicial dis
trict, and will not be a candidate for
the chairmanship again. The execu
tive committee usually selects as
chairman some man not a member of
the committee.
Vote in County Convention.
As stated above, at the county con
vention which will be held in Lumber
ton Saturday of next week each pre
cinct will be entitled to cast one vote
for every 25 Democratic votes, and
one vote for each fraction over 12
Democratic votes, cast by the precinct
in the last election for Governor. The
number of Democratic votes cast in
the election of 1912 by the townships
then formed was as follows:
Alfordsville .81
Back Swamp 72
Britts 99
Burnt Swamp 106
Fairmont 217
Howellsville 129
Lumberton ..518
Lumber Bridge 91
Maxton 234
Orrum 40
Pembroke ..94
Parkton ...118
Rennert 30
Red Springs 185
Raft Swamp 37
Saddle Tree 97
St. Pauls 159
Smiths ., 125
Sterlings 81
Thompson's 144
Rowland 250
White House ...i 213
Wishart's 83
Some townships have been formed
since the last election. They do not
appear in the above table. These
townships will, it is understood, at
the meetings Saturday, elect to the
county convention as many delegates
as they may choose and the county
convention will determine the number
of votes to which each of them is en
titled according to the number of
votes cast by the townships from
which it was formed . A nrettv srood
estimate can be made of the number
of votes to which efcch new township
is entitled in that way.
Chamber of Commerce Meets Tonight.
The regular monthly meetine of
the Chamber of Commerce will be held j
this evening at 8:30 'clock at the!
court house. It is desired that every
member be present.
1
Messrs. W. J. DuBois and E. B.
Freeman returned from the High
Hills about noon yesterday with a
dandy string of fish . They left town
about 4 o'clock in the morning. --i
Wake Foreft special, 12th, to
Wilmington Star: In the contest for
the John E. White medal, Mr. D. M.
Johnson; Philomathesvan, of Robe
son county, was the winner. Mr.
Johnson lives up St. Paul's way.
Messrs. H. M. McAllister, A.
P. McAllister and W. I. Linkhaw,
left yesterday afternoon for Raleigh,
where Mr. H. M. McAllister, who
is cashier of the First National Bank,
goes to attend the meeting of the
North Carolina Bankers Association.
They made the trip in Mr. H. M. Mc
Allister's auto.
Mr. T. N. Higley, who . has' been
register of deeds for several years,
says he will be in the race same as
ever.
He will have his card m Mon-
day's Robesonian. Mr. Higley hasi
many friends throughout the county
He has one opponent up to this time,
Mrs H. A. MWhite, and; it is ru
mored that others will have their hats
in the ring.
BRIEF LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.
-Mr. G. S. Harrell of Rennert
is in town today Mr. Harrell says
the farmers in his section are not
needing rain so much as they most
all have a good stand of corn and
cottton and it seems to be growing
well.
Mr. Cullen Jones, an S. A. L.
conductor with headquarters at Co
lumbia, S. C, is spending the day
in town on business. Mr. Jones is
well known in Lumberton, having
been conductor on the Seaboard be
tween Hamlet and Wilmington for
a number of years.
The Pope Drug Company has just
installed a sanitary candy refrigera
tor for keeping Ntinnally's candies ice
cold at all times. This is something
news for these parts and it is seldom
one finds anything like it in anything
short of the largest cities.
A letter received from Mr. S. E.
Martin, who left Lumberton about two
weeks ago and went to Joplin, Mo.,
says he likes that country fine, but
not well enough to stay away from
the best place of all, Robeson county.
North Carolina. People who live here
should hot worry.
r-Mr. 0. T. Atkinson of route 2
from Fairmont was among the visi
tors in town yesterday. Mr. At
kinson says that the farmers in his
section are having a tough time try
ing to get any tobacco to live, also
that a good many farmers have only
got about a half stand of cotton.
Mr. C. P. Grantham, who lives
near Fairmont passed through town
Tuesday en route home from the Post
Graduate Hospital, New York, where
he spent several weeks taking treat- '
ment. His many friends will be
pleased to learn that his condition is
greatly improved.
Henderson Roper, colored, who
cleans up several of the offices and
stores in town early each morning,
came down the street last Sunday
morning bright and early, cleaned up
his usual places and brought up wa
ter and went over to Messrs. White
& Gough's store and sat down to wait
for the store to open to do some
shopping. He remembered later.
As has been advertised, "Pilgrims
Progress" will be presented in four
reels of moving pictures at the Pas
time theatre tomorrow afternoon and
night, the first show beginning at two
o'clock. The management earnestly
hopes that all who can do soesepec
ially ladies and children, will visit
the show in the afternoon so as to
prevent crowding at night. The price
of admission to see this great feature
picture will be 10 and20 cents.
An old acquaintance who has
known Judge Geo, Rountree, who is
presiding at Superior Court here this
week, for years and years, remarked
to the judge the other day that he had
never seen him looking so well. Judge
Rountree replied that since he had
been coming to Lumberton to hold
court he had felt better, that his
health seems to have improved. May
be it is the water and maybe it is
partly the general salubrity of the
climate of this favored spot.
Rev. and Mrs. Howard VanDyck,
returned missionaries from NanJin,
China, have been in town since aSt
urday of last week. Mr. VanDyck
lectured at the Gospel Tabernacle
last Sunday morning and evening, and
will lecture next Sunday morn
ing and evening. Those who
heard him last Sunday morning say
Mr. VanDyck is a powerful and
forceful speaker. Rev. and Mrs.
VanDyck will return to China, leav
ing America in July.
A gentleman by the name of
Brooks from the State of Florida was
in town yesterday with view to locat
ing here could he have found a suit
able place for opening up a cafe. He
said he liked the looks of this coun
try about the best of anything he
had struck since he left the city of
New York several months ago. Of
course there "aint no place like
home," but Lumberton and Robeson
county is the next thing to home for
those unlucky enough to have been
bo-n in other parts.
The people had gathered together
for religious worship at East Lum
berton Sunday evening. A machine
with which pictures illustrating a
lecture were to be projected on a
canvass was being adjusted. There
was a sudden flare-up and an explo
sion which did no damage beyond
singeing a man's eyebrows off. And
some audibly profane remarks sound
ed odd in such a gathering. Refus
ing to listen to assurances that there
was no danger, one man pawed the ,
air and called profanely upon the
name of God and demanded to be
allowed to get out. And out he got It
was an exciting time for a little
while. .
Last night during the wee sma'
hours Gilbert Turner, a colored hack-,
man, met his small brother, who was
driving his (Gilbert's) carriage,
while Gilbert was driving his auto
mobile, on the dam just across the
river near the iron bridge at the
foot of Fifth street, and the horse
backed the carriage, driver and all
off the embankment, which, is about
12 feet into the swamp and fell cn
top. The boy who was driving ,
the horse had a narrow escape, as the
horse came very near falling on tcp
of him. The carriasre was some-
what shattered but neither the horse
or driver was hurt Both the auto
and carriage belonged to Turner and
as he was driving one and his broth
er the other he will have to blame
himself.
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