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nniH it1 ROBES OMAN ESTABLISHED 1870. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. COUNTRY. GOD AND TRUTH $IJ0 A YEAR. DUE IN ADVAlfCM I . , . VOL XLVI. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1915. NUMBER 37 i.- i a Mr WOODMEN PICNIC JULY 5 Thousands of Woodmen Expected in Lumberton on That Occasion Chamber of Commerce Appoints Committee to Decorate TtVwn and Co-operate With Woodmen in Pre paring to Take Care of Crowd Races, Parade, Big Picnic Dinner Mr. W. J. Bryan invited But It Is Hardly Expected That He Can Come. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday evening at the court house, Messrs. J. P. Townsend, D. D. French, W. O. Thompson, P. P. Green and E. G. Sipher were appointed a committee, the first-named being chairman, to decorate the town for the Woodmen of the World picnic which will be held in Lumber ton July 5. The two last-named rep resent the Woodmen. It is expected -that from 3,000 to 5,000 people will Visit Lumberton on that occasion and preparations are being made by the Woodmen to entertain all Woodmen at a picnic dinner. This is really going to be a Wood men's day and picnic but of course the town of Lumberton is going to assist in every possible way to make all visitors enjoy the day. President J. P. Russell called the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday evening for the purpose of deternv. Ining what could be done. Mr. E. G. Sipher, speaking for the Wood men, said tnat financial assistance was not needed or asked for, that the Woodmen expected to take care of that end, but that they wanted the co-operation of the Chamber of Com merce and the business men of Lum berton in order to swell 'the attrac tions. Mr. Sipher said he thought a conservative estimate of the number of pople that might be expected J would be 2,000 to 3,000, and that if j there were some star attraction the crowd might reach 6,000. There are somc 700 Woodmen alone right around Lumberton. There will be foot races, bicycle races, parade and a picnic dinner. The dinner will be spread in Mr. J. P. Townsend's park at the foot of Sixth street, at the overflow well or, if it is seen that the crowd will be too large to be accommodated there, it his been suggested that Sixth street from Elm to the river be roped off. The speaking will be where the dinner will be served. There will not be much speaking. It bas been decided not to pro out Fide the order f" speakers. Mr. V. J. Bryan has been invited, but noth ing has been heard from him. It : hardly probable tint he will corn' State Senator G. B. McLeod suggest ed that a committee renresenting the Woodmen and the Chamber of Com merce go to Asheville the last part f this week and invite Mr. Bryan in such a way that he would be apt to accept, and Mr. Sipher was asked to get in touch with Mr. Brysn by wire and find out when he would be in Asheville, but later the Woodmen decided that would make the occas ion assume proportions larger than they were prepared to cope with, and the idea was abandoned. Mr. Bryan would cause the town to be over run with people and t"ev wuld De welcome, of course, but the Woodmen feel that they would not be able to take care of the crowd. Mayor White thought the mer chant would help but did not think much ofhe idea that was first sug gested of having floats. They were more trouble than they were worth, and there was nothing in the occas ion that called for floats. Mr. J. P. Newman, manager of C. H. Cartee's 6tore, was of the same opinion. Senator McLeod thought Lumber ton should loosen up and help to have a big occasion. He wanted to go after Mr. Bryan in such a way as to be sure to get him, and predict ed that if that were done there would be 20,000 people i town. Anyway, whether Mr. Bryan comes or not, the Woodmen picnic on the fifth will be a great occasion and thore will be a large crowd in Lum berton on that day. Bryan Can't Come It is learned from a news item in today's Greensboro Daily News that Mr. Bryan will deliver an address at San Francisco on July' 4, hence of course he cannot be in Lumberton on the oth. PERSONAL Mr. J. F. Raybon returned yester day from Bladen county, where he spent several days, lie reports pood crops and but little grass in Bladen. Rev. L. M. Chaffin of Fayettev'ille. pastor of the Fayetteville cirouit, is a guest today at the home of his brother, Mr. Robert Chaffin. Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Varser left this morning for Wrightsville Beach to spend two days at the Baptist cbautauqua. Miss Alice Phelps of Plymouth, this State, arrived Tuesday and will spend some time in town J visiting Miss Amanda McDairmid. RUSSIANS LOSE LEMBERG Galician Capital, Occupied by Rus sians Early in September, Captur ed by Austro-German Forces Teu tons Predict Blow Will Prove Crushing t) German Arms Berlin and Vienna Joyful Over Victory. London Dispatch, 23u. The Russians have lost Lemberg. They occupied the Galician capital esrly in September and held it con tinuously until Tuesday, 'when the ccmbined Austro-German forces com plied them to retreat from the city, which is only sixty odd mile3 due west from the nearest point of the Russian frontier Whether the fall of Lemberg means that the Russian army operating south of it in Southern Galicia is effectively cut off from the army to the north stretching across Poland to the Baltic, cannot yet be said. Vienna and .Berlin newspaper say this is the case, and that the Rus sian arms have received a blow from which they cannot recover. If the stroke proves as crushing as the Teutons predict, its effect, mili tary observers here say, soon should be felt in the transfer of vast German forces to the West, where for days they have been hard pressed by the French. Up to 10:30 o'clock tonight Petro grad had not' conceded the fall of Lemberg. Previous dispatches from the Russian capital, however, related details of what purported to be the systematic withdrawal of the Rus sians from the to4vn and if these de tails shou'Id prove correct it is be lieved in military circles that when the count is taken of the Austro German booty it will not be large, for, as wa.T the ca'fte'at Przemysl, the Russians are sai,j to have worked hard to move everything of military value. Telegrams from Vienna concern ing the capture of Lemberg and re counting the celebration of the pop ulace in Vienna over the victory add that the newspaper correspondent! with the Teutonic armies pay tAbute to the magnificent rear guard action fought by the Russians, who are de clared to have retreated eastward in good order, leaving behind few pris oners and even removing the Rusian documents from the city which, since the Russians occupied it, has "been called DV them Lwow. One telegram from Vi"ma says Emperor William and Empenr Francis-Joseph purpose to meet soon in lh recaptured Galician capital for "fitting ceremonies to mnrk the end of Russian's dominance of Galicia." The news of the fall of Lemberg was known on the continfi yester day but it did not reach London un til late today. Then bulletins ar rived almost simultaneously hv wire less from Berlin and Vienna by way of Amsterdam. The British press had been expecting such a develop ment and there was no more than passing comment on it, though it drove home, according to military ob servers, the fact how ample must have been the Austro-German am munition supply to accomplish the feat. Berlin and Vienna are reported joy ful over the victory of their forces. Archduke Frederick of Austria, commander-in-chief of the Australian forces, and General August Von Mac kenzen, of the German army, both have been made field marshals of the Prussian army in recognition of their services in the Galician campaign. On the river Dneister, south of Lemberg, the battle still rages. Trying to Find Out Abut Hotel. At the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday evening, after consideration of the Woodmen pic nic, President J. P. Russell brought up the question of a hotel and ex pressed the opinion that it would not be amiss for the Chamber of Com merce to ask the Lumberton Hotel Co. to make some definite announce ment of its intentions in regard to building a hotel. He said that if the company has no idea of building soon and would say so, perhaps-some private parties wouid build, but that no private parties woul(i build so long as there was uncertainty as to what the Lumberton Hotel Co. would do,' for this company would command the majority of the trade, since so many business men of the to'wn are interested in it. It was the sense of the meeting that it could do no harm to ask for the information desired, but the majority of those present were of opinion that nothing could be done, that the hotel company could not say definitely when it would be able to build and that it would not be willing to obligate itself not to build. The meeting was not largely attended. Misg Harriet Humphrey, a sales lady at White & Gough's depart ment store, returned this morning from St. Pauls, where she visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. B; Humphrey. ANTI-TYPHOID CAMPAIGN County Officer Page Begins Cam - ; paign at .Maxton o0 Vaccinated I F'.rst Day Appointments for Bal- ance of This Week. j Dr. B. W. Page, county health of jficer, began Tuesday 3t Maxton an anti-typhoid campaign for the county. Dr. Page will go into every section nf rVlk PAilntlf oa Vioc Koftn maniinno jef vaccinating against typhoid fever. land to entertain the old soldiers and i hereZ wi! n , a j wherever as many as 15 person, omejall othe,- visitors on that dav, as will!'' '' ' .... . r,i, , t tn tVB th tr0!,fm.t pif J .u ,..n...:- V .v:.'ftw !as w,th another uncle. Di. J. together to take the treatment. Fif ty were vaccinated at Maxton on the first dy of the campaign. Dr. Page had an appointment at J. W. Burns' place near Alfordsville this morning at 11 o'clock, at Oakdale, near Marietta, this afternoon at 3, and Marietta this afternoon at 4:30. Saturday Dr. Page will be in Lum berton to give this treatment all day up to 5 p. m. and he will be at Ten Mile at 6 o'clock on that day. The campaign will continue for some weeks and everybody in the county will be given opportunity to be vaccinated against typhoid. Dr. Page's appointments will be pub lished in The Robesonian as they are furnished the paper by Dr. Page. LANSING SECRETARY OF STATE Washington Dispatch, 23d. Robert Lansing:, who as counsel lor cf the State Department, has ad vised President Wftson in law and precedent, in the policy pursued in the United States toward belligerent governments since the outbreak of the European war, was namef today Secretary of State to succeed William Jennings Bryan. Heavy Wind and Rain Near Pem broke Mcliday Mule Killed by Lightning. The rain Monday afternoon was much heavier in some other sections of Robeson than at Lumberton. Mr. W. H. Edwards, who was in town Tuesday, reports that at his place, between Moss Neck and Pembroke, the hardest rain he ever saw fell for about 20 or 30 minutes between 4 and 5 o'clock. Water flowed in a ftream around his house. Tobacco I in a field of 18 acres on his place R. F. Whitlock, J. M. I.ytch and Miss was beaten down, and Tuesday morn- Sallie McLeod, music, ing much of his corn was lying flat, The athletic comm:Uee has decid some of it broken and whipped to j ed on the contests and the prizes pieces. It was impossible to tell then i have been raised. One new and in just how much damage was done, i teresting feature of the program will ine wind took oil a part ot ; I ne top ot one Mr. jiawaras Darns. 1 wieii or ine town, a msi oi me con The heavy rain and wind seems to tet and prizes offered is given be have been confined to a small area, j low: Mr. Edwards saw no damage on the Reel race prize by Mr. MeKellar. way to Lumberton except at what is known as the Culbreth place, where he noticed some trees blown down and two chimneys partly blown off. A mule belonging to Chas. Oxendine, near Pembroke, was killed by light ning the same afternoon and Mr- Ed wards heard of a cow being killed by lightning near Pembroke during the same storm, but he did not know to whom the cow belonged. Indian Shot in Hand by Negroi Thought to be Accident. Libby Ammons, Indian, was shot in the hand by Billie Jones, colored, at Raft Swamp Tuesday morning. Ammons and Jones both are in the employ of the Beaufort County Lum-1 ber Company. It seems that Am-1 mons was not working Tuesday but j was taking a day off. Jones went to Ammons' home Tuesday morning af ter a bucket of water and as he went into the yard ne saw Ammons oiling a pistol. He at once went over and asked him to let him see the pistol, which Ammons did. Jones took the pistol and looked at it care fully. While he was inspecting the pistol Ammons turned his head a lit tle and when he did the pistol was discharged, the ball hitting a finger on his right hand and glancing a lit tle inflicting an ugly flesh wound on the arm. Jones gave no reason for the affair more than he did not mean to do it. Jones and Ammons had been on good terms and it is thought that it was accidental. No warrant has been issued ye- Kindergarten Meeting fdr Boys and Girls. Correspondence of The Robesonian. On Tuesday afternoon, June 29th, at five o'clock, Miss Janie Carlyle : will open a Kindergarten class with spiritual application for the children of the town. The meetings will be held in Miss Carlyle's class room in the Gospel Tabernacle church. All boys and girls of the town be tween the ages of nine and fifteen are cordially invited to be present. This is a prescription pTpared epecial!y -or MALARIA cr CHILuS & FVER. Five or ix dotes will break any care, and if taken then as a tonic tbp Fever will no: return. It acts on the liver better man Calomel and dees not gripe or icken. 25 OLD SOLDIERS REUNION ! Robeson Cohnty Veterans Will Hold A tin ii a t Xt ah ninn I? ta I n n s! fulv 6 Rowland is Preparing to En-1 tertain the Veterans in Great Shape Contests and Prizes. I It has been stated in The Robeson- ian that the annual reunion of Robe- j son county Confederate veterans will . 1. U ..1.1 - T . 1 ,1 T . 1 f S be seen from the following from this weeK s Kowianaer: i The citizeng and committees have been very active arranging for the reunion this week. A mass meeting of the citizens was largely attended Friday night and Mr. W. F. Bristow was elected manager to take the place of Lawyer M. T. Bobbitt, who has typhoid an( wiU De unable to act. Several new committees were ap pointed and things are booming loud ly. Evidently the people of Rowland don't do things by halves. A grand parade about ten o'clock is to start the day off. Thi3 will be led by a number of mounted mar shals and citizens and followed by a band flat and a float carrying twen ty young girls singing the old-time songs. The old soldiers, fire com panies and a number of other things will be listed in the parade. The speaker of the day will be Mr. Josfh W. Little of- Wilmington. Mr. H. E. Stacy will deliver the address of welcome to the soldiers and visi tors and introduce the speaker. The following are the committee- . ,j rr: - .1 . 1 . r x." y W. K Bristow. manager. Chas. Cox, chief marshall. Br, M,C.LeT0d' ?ro""d a"a?"- D. D. McLaunn, C. D. Smith, din - ner committee iuesuameq u . u. iin i.auiin "d Kj- . D. Smith, Messrs. O. P. Chitty, ana D. L. McLaurin, committee on dec oration. A. P. Travis, Wade Pitman, mana - gers fire company fire company. W. R r.vans, k. r. i.ranam ana F Blue, athletic contests. S. J. Barker, E. B. Ward, committee. n finance oe a lire reel race Dy tne two com- 50 yard dash, girls under 12 prize, sash by McLaurin Br6s. 100 yard dash, free for all prize.tie by Hedgepeth & Chitty. 100 yard dash, boys under 14 knife by Hub Hardware Co. 100 yard dash for boys under 12 cap by J. W. Edgerton. 220 yard dash, free for all prize, shirt by J. W,. Ward. 440 yard dash, boys under 14 cuff bottons by Ward's Pharmacy. 440 yard dash for all nice fur hat by A. L. Bullock. Potato rate, girls under 14 prize, embroidery scissors, B. B. Hwd. Potato race, boys under 12 prize, by Rowland Drug Co. Bag race for all knife, Rowland Hardware Supply Co. Barrel race for all tie given by J. McR. Bracy. Ball game, team not engaged. The finance committee has been active and has nearly all money need ed to foot the bills. They are scour- ting the country for twelve pigs to j barbecue. Any one having pigs to sell will do themselves and the com- mittee a favor to see them or write them. Congres8man Godwin Visitor. a Lumberton ; Congressman H. L. Godwin, who has represented this, the sixth, con gressional district in Congress for several successive terms, and who no doubt will be in the field during the next campaign, spent last night in ; ,umberton. ana today is out among Mr j A B g hag ingtaU the farmers of the county. I ami a ut mill neaf the Dresden cot. here to ascertain the wishes of the ; mm He is ati the mill reople of thi, section, and to fretwith . r furnished b the first hand their wishes, and not for ..... - SK. political purposes," Mr. Godwin re-1 marked. "Ft is er.tirelv too soon to : start the race for Congress yet." he i says. When asked how he felt asiF to the outlook for his retrrn to Con-! gress, Mr. Godwin declared - that it wa, very satisfactorv Mr. iiodwin ; v 11 v... has many staunch friends 'and sup- j linear Monrie instead of John Dun porters in Robeson. 'especially among ,c'in- the farmers whe. recfa him as one' Manager. Wishart says he has who looks after their interest in Na tional affairs. Mr. Godwin is a truest of Mr. W. K. Bethune, who is clerk to the committee on ref orm in the Civil Service, of which Mr. God win is chairman. Mr. C. B. Rhodes of St. Pauls was p.mong the business visitors in town 'yesterday. - OUKUAI OCCURRENCES Marriage of .Mis Flora Frink and Prof. W. E. Flem'.ng Personal Mention. Correspondence of The Rohesonian. Orrum, J'ane 23 Misses Martha 'and Nellie McCallum and Jaunita Murry of Burkhaw who have been isnpnrlinir simp time here with tneir j c('ullen Miss Alma Floyd of Fairmont is visiting her friend Miss Lillie Oak ley here this week. Mrs. Edna Spivey spent the week end at Back Swamp with her sister, Mrs. Townsend. Messrs. B. L. Floyd and Bayce Pre vatte were business visitors in Fair mont Saturday. Messrs. E. G. Floyd and Isaac Pittman of Fairmont visited friends here Sunday. Mr. Dempsy H. Williams of Chad bourn was in town Tuesday visiting friends. Prof. W. E. Fleming left this p. m. for Bladenboro where thig evening at 8 o'clock he will be married to Miss Flora, the accomplished daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Frink. May thty have a long any happy life,' their path filled with roses, and no thorns is the wishes of their many friends. We are glad to rePcrt Mrs. S. Johnson, who has been very ill for some time at her home on Main street, much improved. : Notices of New Advertiement. ) Nice Bpotted pony for sale-C. 'Fuller I Complete line of buggies-C. F v. q M. j TwQ . mueg fof galec M. Fuller. New car load f wagons C M. Fuller & Son. TfnrnnQa fnl1ni3 rnhoa f! M Pnl- o Crt t I B ie wa(fons and harness C. P1W A Snn F tourinp car for 8ale A bar. ains. s, Stephens. Waterman fountain pen lost. Special attraction at Star theatre. Demorest Stock Co. will give per formances tomorrow and Saturday. Notice of application for pardon of Oscar Thompson. "The Girl I Left Behind Me," "big- tres.t thi that ever hit lumberton," at Star theatre Monday "Pictures of Quality" Pastime theatre The Virginia & Carolina Southern will give special rate3 to Lumberton July 5. License has been issued for the marriage of G. C. Taylor and Irene Kinlaw Mr. J. S. Oliver of Marietta is among the business visitors in town today. Mr. Oliver reports crops growing nicely down his way. Mr. R. A. Rozier, who lives on route 1 from Lumberton, brought to the editor this morning a nice mess of green peas, which are appreciated. Mr. Rozier is something of a truck er. Mr. McKay Byrd and son, Mas ter Frank, who live 10 miles from Lumberton on route 5, were Lumber ton visitors yesterday. Mr. Byrd says crops are looking fine down his his way. Cotton blossoms are no variety now. This morning's mail brought one from W. F. Fulmore, who lives on route 1 from Orrum. Others are mentioned elsewhere in this issue. In spite of the weather reports which declared the "hot spell" was jhere to stay for some time, the mer cury has dropped considerably and it has been delightful for the past two days. "Lumberton is the most progres sive town jn eastern North Carolina," was the remark of a traveling man, who visits all the towns in this sec tion, this morning, lie Knows a g00d thing when he sees it. ing been extended to the mill. ln Monaay s issue oi i ne tiooe- - rnn a news uem appeared tnaij "tn?e ha1 been iilsued the mar-j '.?e of John Durban and Bessie Jean j gathered in about 3.300 cans at the Pastime theatre during the five r'shts boys and girls have been ad mitted to the show for six cans on a string. At that rate the town will be rid of- cans in the near future. Mr. N. A. Kinlaw of Lumberton, route 7, is among the. visitors in town tDday. , WEEKLY WEATHER FORECAST Issued by the U. S. Weather Bureau. Washington. D. C, for the Week Beginning Wednesday, June 23. 19ir. j For South Atlantic and East Gulf States: Fair weather with con tinued high temperature is probable throughout the week. BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS A larsre number from here are attending, the Baptist Seaside Chao "tauqua at Wrightsville Beach this week Messrs. Walter Mears anj Joe iThorndyke went yesterday to Peter , burg. Va., where they have accepted j positions. -Mr. Edmund Britt of the ML. Eliam section passed through town (yesterday en route to FayettevfRe, J where he has accepted a position. Mr. A. W. Legirett of route 2 from Fairmont was among the vis itors in town Monday. Mr. Leggett reports crops small, but says they now have a "move on" down his way. Mr. W. P. Barker was out in the Back Swamp section Tuesday. He says a severe wind storm visited that section Monday afternoon, but not serves that crops have taken a new start. Mr. and Mrs. Willie J. Prevatt spent the week-end in the Globe Swamp section visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hellgren. Mr. Prevatt says crops which are most ly corn, oats and other foodstuffs are good in that section. As was mentioned in Monday's Robesonian. the Seaboard will ope rate a special train from Hamlet to Wilmington Sunday. The train will leave Hamlet at 6:30 a. m., pass Lumberton at 8:12 and arrive at Wil mington at 10:43 a. m. Reluming the train will leave Wilmington at 7 P. m. Mr. A. W. McLean left yesterday afternoon fir Charloice to look into a case of the American Trust Cr of Charlotte, vs Whitney Construction Co. ,of New 'York, a $20,000 damage suit. Mr. McLean has bien appoint ed as referee in the case, which means that his decisio- will settle the case. Mrs. Lizzie G. Procf nd two children, Miss Lillian and Mr. Knox, will leave this evening for the Ex position at San Francisco, and many other Western points of interest. They will also visit several points in Canada. They will be away about six weeks. They will join a Gatti touring party at Hamlet. Mr. R. J. Reynolds, superintend ent ef Jennings cotton mill, ami Mr. J. A. Green left early Tuesday for Asheville in Mr. Reynolds' car to at tend the Southern Textile Associatioir meeting. A wire from Mr. Green yesterday advised of their safe ar rived in Asheville Tuesday eveninsf 9:30, making the trip in about 15 hours. They will return Sunday. Mr. David H. Fuller, son of Mr. C. M. Fuller of Lumberton, was among the graduates of the Trinity College Law School, which has just completed its eleventh year with the largest class in its history. Mr Fuller is at Hendersonville, where his father and sisters are spending the summer. He will be in Durham dur ing August preparing to stand the. examination for license before the Supreme Court in August. Mr. Frank Gough returned yes terday from Morehead City where Tuesday he attended a meeting of the directors of the A. & N. C. Ry. Co.. of which he is a member. Mr. Gough says everything i.s looking bright up that way. He thinks Morehead City is the most sanitary town in North- Carolina, and add, that any one wish ing to take a pleasant "outing" can not find a better place to go than to that town, which offers great sport n the way of fishing and other things. Mrs. C. L. Greaves and small daughter, Mary Ruth, deft yesterday morning for Roxboro, where they will visit Mrs. Greaves' sister, Mrs. A. M. Burns. Masters Carl and Richard. -rns of Rev. and Mr. Greaves, left at the same time fo Goldston to vis t their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Paschal. Mr. Greaves will join Mrs. Greaves some time in July and they will make a trip North, visit 'n'j; several points of interest, after which they will return to their s' ru mor home at Hi:lcTccrr"-t. where Mrs. Greaves and thi chilt'ren .will spend the balance of the summer. Mr. Greaves will oriy jp rjt of tjwn for four week-. 1. STARTS IT PLUS 0& 0