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THE ROBESOMA N ESTABLISHED 1870. SINGLE COPyN FIVE CENTS. . COUNTRY, GOP AND TKUTH $1.50 A YEAR. DUE IN ADVANCE. VOL XLV. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, AUGUST 31. 1914. NUMBER 56 Important, meeting yonighiy Chamber of Commerce Will Meet r.t Eight O'clock at Court House 'o Take Some Action in Regard lo Cotton Warehouse A meeting of the Chamber of Com merce will be held tonight at eight o'clock at the court house to discus; the cotton warehouse situation, it is thought thatat wil be oest to fur nish more facilities for warehousirg totton. All who are interested in holding cotton for higher prices, whether members of the Chamber of Coin merce or not, are invited to attend this meeting. Will Attend Meeting at Raleigh To morrow . Several business man of LumbertDii no do.bt will attend the meeting Gov ernor Craig has called to be held at Raleigh tomorrow to consider plans to prevent the sacrifice of the cotton crop. It is probable that the meeting tomorrow will take the place of th-. meeting Governor Craig called to be held in Atlanta, Ga., September 3d The Robeson county committee as a result of whose visit Governor Craijr called the Atlanta meeting, were ask ed Thuisday to come to Raleigh Fri day for another conference, as stated in Thuisday's Robesonian, but Tate r the Governor decided to call a meeting of representative business men 11 ver the State to be held in Raleigh tomorrow and the conference with th' men composing the Robeson county committee was called offor postponed till tomorrow. Each member of th; committes-pMessrs. K. M. Barnes, P.. D. Caldwell, G. B. McLeod, A. J. McKinr.on, D. H. Britt, A. McEachem, and A. L. Bullock v. eived a personal letter 'rem the Go. er.er al ing him to attend the con ference tomorrow, and Mr. A. W. Mr em whu was not nemoi 01 tfie cctMitiUec but who has bet.c. ti- ;;. p an -o help th . farmers, it-. is in f-iipt of a personal letter from the Governor asking him to attend. Corner Stone Laying at Antioch Sep tember 5. The corner stone of the Antioch .school building, Hoke county, will oe laid Saturday of this week, Septem ber 6. Dr. Joyner, State Superinten dent of Public Instruction, will de liver the address, and there will be public dinner. It was intended to have this on the 12th, but Dr. Joyner .could not be prssent on that date and and it wa.s necessary to change.- Supt. J. A. McGougan writes The Robe sonian that they are planning to have a big crowd and will be glfld to have their Robeson friends with them. Extending Railroad Spur to Big Tim. ber Tract. The Kingsdale Lumber Company has a force of hands at work extend ing the spur of the V. & C. S. Rail road from the Lumberton cotton mill to their plant,! and as soon as com pleted they will begin to cut the Ro sier timber, an eleven million feet tract brought by the company near St. Pj.i:1s some two years ago. Th': logs will be hauled by the company's tram engines over the V. & C. S Toad. Hoch kr Farmer Who Raises Home Supplied. "I don't know what I will do with my cotton, but I am going to turn ivmir can.l intrt TTtpnl nnH turn Kir m.ul into corn, and turn part of my corn into r.ieat, was the remark of a nnpsn i la: Mif r iclciiliv. ins iarm- Vio fno viirilt iHpn anr SF mantr -frli ii i . l .1 i a. . . . u r ii l ... to eat ij souig to oe on ton m tne future. Indian Tirarhers' Institute" Begins rat Pembroke Today. An institute for Indian teachers be gins at Pembroke today at the Nor mal school building and will last two weeks. It will be conducted by Prof. O. V. Hamrick, principal of the Nor mal school, and Miss Mildred Moses ol Chapel Hill. Picnic at Antioch Saturday. Then will be a fermers union- WonHmen of The World Sunday 1)11. . i j " - . - - hF. Bis. ell or jmi. raiam win mans a . . J Ill T-l- -11 'arme".' Union address, and both fjnda- xhool and Woodmen addr2S3- will "? made by otlier speakers. Ae pv is inviteci. help fight the battle Now is the Time For All Interests lo Co-operate for Relief of Farmers ' It is Necessary to Hold Cotton Crop To the Editor of The Robesonian: Members of the Farmers' Union have often resolved to hold their cot ; tonfor higher prices, but never nas ' there there been a time when it wxs : more essential to hold a cotton crop : and I wish to appeal to all mambsi? . i of the Union to co-operate with th? 'move that has been, and is bein;r, ' mada to warehouse, insure end hold ! the present crop off the market till j there isa demand for it. The business men of Lumberton ; have arranged for the storing of r.t J least 12,000 bales, and. Mr A W' Mc-; Lean, who is doing all possible to hot-' tef the situation, says he is willing for the farmers to use his lot neai the Seaboard station or a lot near the V. & C. S. station for a tem porary warehouse, and he will not charge a penny for the use of the lot".. Some may say, and no doubt have j already said, that the business msn, I are working for their interest. Heni 1 would like to say that they ana working for their interest and for the interest of the farmer as well. When it is well with the farmer it is woll with all classes, and the crisjs that 's now on is .not only going to effect tha farmer, but men of all ther clas30J as well, so it is up to the people to co-operate and. try to best manage th? situation. Co-operation, and only co-operation, can bring relief to the cotton grow ers. The farmers alone cannot d anything, neither :an the bankers or the merchant; but all together can better he situation. Readthe papers and keep up with the steps that are being taken for your interest and for the interest of the South and country generally, and esolve to help fight the battle for living prices for your produce. Last, but not least, resolve to raise more foodstuffs in the future and not so mueh cotton and othe things that you cannot use yourself. If you have not been living at home and on home supplies, decide to better play that part of farm life in the fu ture. F. GROVER BRITT, Sec.-Treas. Robeson Union. A ROUGH YOUTH. Dcspercdo in Kn?e Pants Sentenced t-. Roads Shct Up Cotton Mill at St Pauls: Fred Butler of St Pauls, a 17-year-;' old white boy wearing knee pan tit was before Recorder R. A. McLean this morning under five warrants two for carrying concealed weapprr, one for resisting officers, for drtfr.'c eness and oae for assault. Iqf . t!.f, cdse for assault udgment wat i '-.suspended on payment of costs, fdso Jr the case of resisting officers; 4hvicsa for drunkeness was dismissed! la the two cases for carryingj; .v;ulwl weapons he was sentenced', .'tr -.font" months on the roads. Tje ince was that Butler raised a 4fougT heuso in the St. Pauls cotton icuA recently, shooting through window- iiy the r-iiltliiitr. inid 'afterward j f a two. tw- h.indrecl pound au is t lf in arresting him He hf 1 i j'four or five times before. lie, thr$ug!i his attorneys, Britt4r Cr" gare no tice of appeal andfpfi? ; "M nder a $200 appeal bonlkV 5 '"'.' - -If. Board of Elections ofjlhc in Ses. sion. The board of electia- Robeson county, composed of Fjf8,,t Gawgh )f Lumberton, McKay McKinnon of Max ton and E. G. Johnson ?I Paub, met in the court house to Jay mt 12 o'clock for the purpose of c ' - rtzing appointing registars, pojj. ' ;t 'i.djers, changing vote precincts, creating- inew ones and any other business ih&t May call the attention of the bctrd. 'A full report of the proceedings wil! be published in in Thursday's Robe sonian. j- - t oflsaj Using Cane Syrup Instead Mr. W. J. Wilkerson of-rotita3 from Lumberton was in town f ' ijr day. Mr. Wilkerson says ha naz be in market for much sugar at it'ie present prices, as he has plenty t home-made syrup and plenty of can to BVike more . It pays to , ra ii "cantr' sometimes. 4 . Presiden Wilson left WasbJr".oh Thursday for the summer CVii.it House at Cornish. N. Hvto remain un til to norrow or probably W'edntgjayl GERMANS NEAR I N G P A R I S I 'U-;,t!' Lines Falling Back Bi'c-c (.; :.an A.vance German Aire 1 1 op IJonih.i in Paris Aeroplane dv'.-'.-ii Pi' is That German rin is ::t Her Gates and Surrender i Inevitable England Tells of Los. of (;,000 Briff Notes of War Priss Dispatch, 30th Thit the French lines are still fac ing back before the German advan is indicated in an official stateme 'ssued by the French War Office, which says the progress of the Ger man right wing has obliged th: French left to yield ground Earl Kitchener, British Secretary for War, gives in detail the part pla ed by British troops in the operation- extended from August 23 to Augus. j 6 and tne British losses numbji i about 6,000. I The condition and spirits of the Biitish troops at the front are de scribed as excellent and reinforce ments have been sent up to more than fill the gaps created by the casualti- A German aviator has appeared over Paris and was engaged Sunday in dropping bombs in a populous sec. tion of the city. Several bombs fail ed to explode, according to the ?.c countants, and the only two person. inured were women. Paris is preparing for a seigc sh-uld the lines opposing the German) be broken. Enormous stocks of foo; L have been placed 'in the State wary1 houses and sheep and cattle -in vaf" numbers have been herded in thejjf dn Baulogne. wiKi A British offifficial statement say that of the 1,200 men comprfsl j t;.e crews of the "five German . V. ari'.fjj: sunk off Helgoland only? -wt saved. A Berlin dispatch Baf i f Cerma: army is energetically- k jag th Russians in the neif.' i, jd of Al lenstein, East Pryjr.Ia " x The German! v: ".tor who dropn bombs into Fix: ; . ..lerday and who signed hims4? I tenant Von Hei.i sen, dropped! ! jtos on which was written: 'L'Lz jrrnan army is at gates ot t'zx'.. ; .'you can do nothi; but a Aw," ) o 1 r r VAR NOTES. r .;. A rnii dispatch states that the lit tl V if' of Etain, near .Longwy, F; , was subected to two bombard, jfcer.t tjpthe Germans last week anc jthat' tM telephone service was leit in tl.i'liands of a young girl, wh stuckf to hr post while bombs were tur'stihg all around the telephone of " r and falling even in the rooii, where she was at work. fyA London dispatch of the 30 i $tates that desperate fighting con. tinues along the Austrian frontier Scattered encounters in eastern Gal icia have developed into a great bat tle extending 100 miles from thv southern districts of Iubin in Russian Poland to a point beyond Lemberg n Galicia. The St. Petersburg cores pondent of the Daily Mail says: "In East Prussia the Germans hare been driven farther back. Their loss, es wore particularly heavy at Muhien and it is only a question of a few days when the Germans will be driv en beyond the Vistula. "Panic reigns in Dannzig. Th population is fleeing to Berlin. The result of the General battle now beinp, fought is expected to influence large ly the whole campaign against stria. The scant reports received in dicate that Russia is on the road to a decisive victory." The British public was reassure yesterday by Field Marshal Sir Joh, French's statement that the Briti:': army in theeld is in good conditf nnd spirits and has been reinforce by twice as many men as were lo3. during the four days battle and treat, and is ready to met the enem again ' The probable entrance of Turkey h to the En rniuan ot.iii. ii aiiuggie as an any o. Germany and Austria and possible up-"1 '.gs among ureat Britain's Moham meda subects are forecast in a wiro. less message to the German Embassy at Washington rceived yesterday from its foreign office in Berlin. 5. A London dispatch dated 1:05 thi Biorning, states that only bulletins 6i Napoleonic brevity have come m the SUDDEN FINAL SUMMONS Mr. J. B. Leg get t Died Suddenly at Home at Center Saturday Ni;tht. Mr. .1. B. Leggett, aged 4;',, died suddenly at his home at Center Sat urday iiight at 8 o'clock, a stroke of paralysis being the cause. Mr. Leg gett was in Lumberton Saturday morning appearing to be in good health. He is survived by his wife and several children. The funeril was conducted from his home by the pastor, Rev. W.R. Davis, at 4 ocloc yesterday afternoon and intermont was made in the Lewis cemetery. Reviving Defunct Farmers' Union Local. i Mr. Hector Blackwell of Howel's- j ville township was in town Saturday i Mr. Blackwell is making arrange ments, to visit some of the defunct Locals of the Farmers' Union and tl"J to re-organize, them. It is a't5" when ihe farmers need orgar : s Here's hoping he may suerV ' i i timely work, and' may f ' " i 3 seen fit to stray""'5 , ' ,V 'back into the fold,' ' last 24 hod, i. the far-sprea. battle lu. ry is being made on thrf! t i;eld3 of action alonjj 250 milpi a jrench frontier.'on mile tf V AustroHungaraian- bor cie : J t .ough a wide area of East yYf'4;f VA Marshal Lord Roberts in . t . b in v London Saturday referred te continuance of football and ot. e games and said this is not the t play games while the nation is en gaged in a life and death struccle. H declared that the country was in g. . , danger and defeat would mean "ruin, shame and slavery." It was announced by the French War Office Saturday that the military governor of Paris had ordered all res idents within the zone of action of the forts around Paris to evacuate ana raz their houses within four days. President Wilson Thursday issued proclamation of neutrality recognizing "that a State of war unhappily . ists between Japan and Austria-Hungary." It is similar to other prjo'fc nations previously issue. France Thursday expressed to !ha United States disapproval of cert tin phases of the Administration's p-m to build up a merchant marine through the purchase of foreign ships. iT: objection was raised that the pur chase of German-owned ships now ma rooned n neutral ports would ur. -vsh Rvlin money to carry on the wa; . In a battle with British warship! off the island of Heligoland, in the North Sea, Friday the . Germans ar? leported to have lost 2 cruisers and many of their destroyers were badly battered. The British claimed not to have suffered the loss of a vessel and de. clared there were few fatalities on board the vessels of their fleet. Thj German casualties were not stated. The Island of Heligoland, which lies 45 miles off the mouths of the riv ers Elbe and Weser, always has bee.i regarded as a point of great strategic value for the protection of the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal and otherwise in the liaval defence of Germany. Recent leports had it that a large part f the flower of the German Navy lay in the waters adjacent to the mouth of the Elbe and Weser and in tha Kai. ser Wilhelm Canal. 7 he important announcement was made Friday in the House of Lord ; that Grea Britain would draw on the native f-ces in British India to rein ioue her armies in Europe. LouvaiP, a Belgian town of 5f-.000 inhaoitiTwand with many hutic 1.uiI'jii,i, :. is reported to-have Vieon burned by the Germans as an act of leprisal for alleged firing on German rrldiers by Belgian citizens The Bel gians claim, however, that the people ff Louvain did not commit the hostile act charged, but that it was the Ger mans themselves who fired on their fellow countrymen, mistaking them for Belgians. Because of the non-payment of a war levy of $40,000,000 the Germans, it is said, threaten to seize the fam ous pictore3 and objects of art in the Brussels museums. " " A 96-pound watermelon, rs'.;ed i;. Mecklenburg :fcbunty, fwas f .'.J In Charlotte Tuesday for $5.C3. A 91 pound melon was sold there the other dav for $5.00. "v WITH COLORED TEACHERS. Two Weeks' Institute Closed Friday Most Creditable Exhibition ot Handiwork Betterment Associa tion Organized. A 2-weeks' institute for coloroJ teachers of Robeson county closed Fii djy Jiftcrr.oon. It was held in Allen'-t hall, in the north-western part o" town, ana was wen auenueu. ?upi. graded schools, conducted this insti tute, and he made the colored teach ers make the white teachers sit up and take notice in one special fea ture. This was an exhibit of specimen-s of work doDy the teachers. lt was a most . able exhibit, well ar ranged." L aboirf" " ." J'fljtelle said nothing i ,ontil Wednesday, so I jrbne day to prepare the t ' ."i ,9 Friday. All the teachcis .V! i ,jf in with the suggestion, wer.t .j Vbrk with a will, and the result yi; exhibition Friday was astonishing There were exhibitions of penmansh'o, drawing, paper cutting and foldir, and industrial work There were i. tistic and durable-looking basket! made of grasses and things, basket that would sell well on any market; , there were table mats and scarfs and things things that the women know what to do with about the house done in -all..ajai:ts.oC..Jtrti8ti8tylej; and there were other things. Thesj specimens of the handiwork of the teachers was well arranged for ex hibition and they were so numerou-i as to suggest that every teacher at tending the institute must have put up something. Such exhibits are valuable not only as showing what the teachers can do but in teaching them how to arrangi exhibitions in the school room. Supt. Sentelle conducted the Haywood coun ty institute for white teachers some weeks ago and had the same sort of exhibit there. Another thing done by the colored tachers that is worthy of special mention was the organization of a Robeson County Betterment Associa tion. Loula Hooper was elected pres. ident. And the best thing about it was that eighty teachers pledged themselves to organize local better ment associations in their communi ties . More than 80 of the colored teach ers subscribed for North Carolina. Education . When the institute for white teach ers closed Friday afternoon many of the teachers went over to the colore! institute, at the suggestion- of Supt. Poole, to see the exhibition of work, and all were most agreeably surpris ed. Before the white teachers left the colored teachers entertained them by singing heartily and with spirit fwo sones "My Country Tis jf Thee" and "Columbia the Gem of the Ocean." As the colored teachers appeared during the visit of the white teach ers Friday they are a set that shouh have a most beneficial influence among their sace in Roveson county Tl.ey were tidy in appearance, there was no slouching, they sat erect at their desks and appeared interested in their work. Supt. Sentelle seems to have eot. ten the best of results and to ha sent the colored teachers to their va-l nous communities inspired to do aHi the nplift of their people. Full -f Chicken and Hungry fo Mcf Mr. J. F. Hickman who lives nai Raker's chapel, was in town Tivir'- dny and toid a Robesoni-'n reporter a snake storv which he said was th. j truth, the whole truth and nothing bit the truth. He said that one night! recently his chickens kept making a noise like they needed help and cn going to their rescue he found a lar-je chicken snake near eight feet Ion:; in the, coop with his chickens, havin-; eaten eight frying size ones and be ing in the act of squeezing the lif; out of another, acting as if bp didn't have anything like enough. Whether he had a "mess" or not, he had som Much Cotton Already Open. Perhaps not in the history of cot ton, growing in Robeson has there been so much open cotton September 1. .Some of the farmers are picking4! more than a half-bale to the acre now. However, this does not mean that the crop is going to be so large 33 quite a number of the top forms shed ded off on account of the drought. WATCJI Watch the label on your paper. If renewals are not in by date on label will be xtopped. HK1EF LOCAL NEWS ITEMS, The graded school at Maxton ba : the fall term tomorrow. gin. A week's term of criminal court wiil convene next Monday, and thii ... , , , , , , . , will be followed bv a weeks term of civil court. Judge C. M. Cook will preside. The Patime theatre promises a good programme every night th'iA week. "Trapped in the Hem," a Ka lem in two reels, and "Reggie th Daredevil," Biograph will be present- ,cu "u A. J. Van Landingham has bean awarded the contract for the interior finishing of Mr. R. D. Caldwell's new home. Mr. Van Landingham his heretofore done other work of thw kind in Lumbeton. His headquarters arc in Wilmington. Miss Mayce Glassgow of Knox, ville, Tenn., who will teach music at. the graded school again this year, hi returned from Philadelphia, where she studied during the summer vaci- tion and will begin work at the grade;! school building tomorrow. Only two more Sundays to visit" Wilmjngtoh ar.d (he . beach at the summer rate of $1 .25. On the 13tk v -September it is expected that roaatjd oysters will be served in abundance at Wrightsville and that will be the last day of the cheap rates. Mr. Dennis W. Biggs, who ha been suffering for several weeks wit a han which was poisoned by tr scratch of a weed, will leave tonight fcr Johns Hopkins hospital at Balti more, Md., where he will consult a specialist. He has not been able t. obtain any relief so far. Mr. Bigg will take his family this afternoon to the home of Mrs. Biggs' father, ex Sheriff E. C. McNeill, near Rowlanc where they wil remain during hi stay in Baltimore. War Risk InsuraoM Bill Passes. Washington Dispatch, 29th. The Administration bill to create a Federal bureau of War Risk marina insurance, with a $5,000,000 funo to meet possible losses to American ship'i'g, was passed late today n ti e llcuse by a vote of 230 to 53. A;r ndy pas?td by the Senats, it goes to President Wilson. 1'fi Th Other Frank. Mr. Frank Parnell, "who lives on route 2 from Lumberton, was in town last Saturday. Mr. Parnell says he wants it distinctly understood that there are two Frank Parnells, and it is the other Frank that was before the record3r recently for dealing out booze. Mr. Parnell says he is not the man by a large majority. PERSONALS. Mrs. E. L. Hamilton and two chi! d'en returned Saturday night from Scotland Neck, where they spent a month visiting elatives. Mr. A. L. Bullock of Rowland is a Lumberton visitor today. Mrs. M. W. Floyd and two son, Masters Yates and M. W: Jr., are .-pending this week at Fairmont with el (elatives. They went to rairmont yesterday Mr. J. E. Thompson, general man ager, and Mr. W. S. Bernard, sse-rela'-y-treasurer, of the Morning St-.;, Wilmington, spent last night in cove guests at ihc home of Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Townsend. They made the tn in an auto and went today to Mr. Thompson's farm near McDonald's They will spend the night here to night and return to Wilmington t- morrow. Mr. Thompson is Mrj. Townsend's brother. f Last Meeting of Kindergarten Written for The Robesonian. On Tuesday afternoon, September 1st, at 4:30, the kindergarten conduc ed by Miss Janie Carlyle will have its last meeting for this summer. All the children who have been attending the meeting are urged to be presen; to take part in the closing exercise?. There will be an exhibition of the works that has been done this summer and the parents and friends of the chil dren are cordially invited to be pres ent. This meeting will be held in th Gospel tabernacle church, Tuesday af ternoon at 4:30. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S C A3TO R I A 1:. V X
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