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ESTABLISHED 1870. SINGLE COPY FIVE . CENTS. ' COUNTRY, GOD AND TRUTH $1.50 A YEAR. DUE IN ADVANC VOL XLVI. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, JULY 5, 1915. NUMBER 40 iTTmm TS : : : : : : ' ; 'i - . ... "3 WOODMEN PICNIC TODAY Several Thousand Woodmen Cele brating Fourth in Lumberton To day Spectacular V. Parade This Morning- Rev. J. M. Hester and State Senator Geo. B. McLeod the . Speakers Foot and Motorcycle "Races and Ball Game This After; noon. In spite of the -inclement weather, several thousand people are here to day to attend the Woodmen of the World picnic. Most all the business, houses in town are decorated with flags and pennants: and the Fourth of July spirit is being demonstrated in beautiful style. The Woodmen parade at 11 a.- m. was the most striking thing to take place up' to the time of going to press at noon today. The parade, in which were several hundred 8ons of the order, was headed by several marshals mounted on "f irey" steeds. Next came the Parkton Concert Band,, playing patriotic music, which great ly added to the spirit of the occas ion. A float prepared by the local . camp of the W. O. W. was very at tractive. After the parade, which formed on West Sixth street, marched down -Sixth to thestnurthence'down ""Chest-" nut' to Second, then across "to Elm and up Elm to the court house, a crowd that filled the court room to its , capacity gathered to hear ad dresses on Woodcraft by Rev. J. M. Hester and State Senator G. B. Mc Leod. After the speaking the members of the Woodmen order will enjoy a picnic dinner beside the river at the foot of Sixth street The afternoon will be taken up with foot races, jumping contests, a motorcycle race and a ball game. M. T. BOBBITT PASSES Young Attorney of Rowland Suc cumbs to Typhoid Practiced Short While in Lumberton Remains In terred This Morning at Hillsboro. Mr. M. T. Bobbittr whose rserious illness has been mentioned in re cent issues of The Robesonian, died Saturday night at 9:30 o'clock in the Cumberland General hospital, Fay eiteville, of . typhoid fever, with which - he had been suffering, for three weeks. Interment was made it IJilsboro this morning. . Mont Thomas Bobbitte was 26 years of age and ' W3S well known in Lumberton. where he practiced law during the vear 1914, being associated with Mr. R. E. Lee. Early this year-Mr. Bob hitt cnenc-d. vp 'an office in Rowland for the practice of his, profession. He was later appointed solicitor of the recorder's court for the Rowland district. Deceased was a loyal mem ber of the First Baptist church here, an active Sunday school worker, and his pleasant unassuming disposition won for him many friends wherever he went. II 3 in survived by his par ents and several brothers, and sisters, " besides a large number of friends throughout Robeson and otner ?ec' tions of the State. In his death Robeson loses an adopted' son whose future seemed most bright and use ful. .TOWN AFFAIRS Old Town Ordinances to be ReviBed and Amended Ordinance Against I);strib'-t5n;j Hand-Bills Amended. The town commissioners were in session Friday evening" and ordered that the town ordinances be revised and the new ordinances riissed, which have been published in TheRob esonian, be added, and that a new list be printed. The only other matter of -interest transacted was the rescinding-of the ordinance passed some months ago which says no hand-bills shall be put out in town; All persons do ing business in town will be allow ed to put out circulars and hand bills in town, but "must either place them in the hands of the people or in houses, and must not tack them up on posts, throw them on the streets or in the' yards - around homes; Examinations For , Public School Teachers This Weds. : "7 As has been mentioned in The Robesonian before. Prof. J. R. Poole, county superintendent of public in struction, will hold teachers exam inations Thursday of this -"7 week for white teachers, Friday for- colored and - Saturday for Indian. In con nection with the regular examina tions, those -wishing can stand the high school, five-year State and A. & M. examination at the same time. The examinations will be held in Prof. Poole's office.. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. McLean and .. son, Master A. W- Jr., returned last 'evening from Maxton,- where Mrs. McLean and son Spent some time vis iting relatives. Mr. McLean went to Maxton Saturday night. CAPITAL DYNAMITED Senate Reception Room Wrecked by I Same Man Who Later Shot Mor j gnh Havot Terrific. Washington Dispatch, 3d.- Investigation of the explosion late last night which wrecked the Senate reception room of the National Cap itol was interrupted tonight by the confession in New York of Frank Holt, the man who shot J. P. Mor gan at his home in Glen Cove, L. I., this morning that he also had been responsible for ?, the Washington crime. .... . The havoc wrought by the bomb was terrific. In the reception room telephone 'booths lined the wall near the window where the bomb was placed behind a telephone switch board. The frame work around this window was of iron and was shatter ed by the concussion. The telephone booths were blown into splinters and bits of metal were Imbedded in the splinters gathered up by the investi gators. Directly in front of the switch board no vestige of which could be l'oun'd save a few pieces of the metal, was a mantle on which stood a large gilt-framed mirror admired by Cap itol visitors for." years. . It was , shat tered -irif o -thousands of - pieces -and souvenir nuncci-, seeking these frag ments, .had to be restrained by the police while the inquiry into the ex plosion progressed. An onyx clock, a fixture of the re ception room for 20 ' years, was ground almost into powder. , Experts declared that the destruc tion would have been more complete had the reception room been entire ly closed, but a window was open and t ne opposite end of the room is an arch leading to the Senate hall way. Notwithstanding this outlet for the force of the explosion it wrecked a portion of the arched ceil ing The doors . leading to the of' fice of the Senate were wrecked and doors to the office of the Vice Pres ident, were sprung from their hinges. The floor of the room was sprinkled with bits of glass from the great chandeliers. " The damage to ,hese will be difficult to repair. J. P. MORGAN SHOT BY CRANK Financier Wounded by Frank Holt Wanted Morgan to Stop the War. Gkn Cove, N. Y., Dispatch, 3d. J. P. Morgan, head of the bank in? house of J. P. Monran & Co., was shot twice today -at his country home near here by frank Holt, a native American, a former student and instructor at Cornell University, who was to have- become the head of h? department of French in the Southwestern Methodist University at Dallas, Tex., next fall. Both shots took effect in the re gion of the hip. . A bulletin issued hv snecialists at his bedside late to day stated that there were no un favorable symptoms -and that Mr. Morgan was resting easily. Holt was overpowered by Morgan and Henry Fiske, the butler in the Morean household, wno grappiea with him in the hallway. He was locked up in jail here and from his cell issued a written statement say ing that he had intended no harm to Mr. Morgan, "but had come to Glen Cove to persuade the banker to stop Uo pMnment abroard of munitions ol wa. from this country. He went in to the Morgan home, he said, with a pistol in his hand and a suck oi dy namite in his oocket,. intending to remain there till Mr. Morgan "did something." . Arother loaded pistol was found i Holt's Docket and more dynamite was in n suit case which he had tak en to the Morgan house. In addi tion there were numerous newspaper clippings in the siut case, all bear- ing on the European war. . Mrs. Morgan and Children Were to be Held as Hostages. Glen Cove. N. Y., Dispatch, 4th. Mrs J P. Morgan and Morean chil- to he held as hostaees in their own home and killed with dy- narpite if J. P. Morgan retused to use his influence to stop the exporta tion of war munitions, Frank Holt, whn' vestrrdav1- attempte,T"to assas sinate Mr. Morgan at his home near here, told Police Commissioner Ar thur Woods in a cell at Minebla to day. Holt said his plans miscarried; that he planned to send wr. Morgan out to stop the exportation of muni tinna van II he held the other mem bers of the family in an upstairs room. Mr. "Moriran. the victim of the bul lets which Holt fired, continued to show improvement .today. A Perfectly Glorious Lumber River Trout.- , Mr UlovA Roach cauerht a typical Lumber river trout Friday morning. This trout- measured two feet and one inch and weighed 9 pounds and for it Mr. Roach realized, $1.25 " GERMANS STILL ADVANCING .. In - Another Week Russians Have to Give Up Warsaw May and 1 '. Whole Line. . London Dispatch, 4th. At a rate estimated at five miles day, General von Mackensen's German forces are still swinging northward in Galicia and Poland in a colossal and daring endeavor to drive. a "Wedge into the Russian cen ter and dislodge the Russians from the Vistula river and force them oack over the ' Bug, thus splitting the Grand Duke's forces into two sec tions, (with thousands of acres of swamp and marsh land between them. If the Austro-Germans can con tinue their progress another week even the 'British press admits the Russians will have to give up War saw and with it the whole line. Mean while, the Germans are massing more troops in the Baltic provinces and the recent encounter in the Bal tic seems to suggest that they con template co-ordinate naval action, but it is possible that the sea ope rations only were a feint. In Southwest Galicia the Russians are fighting tenaciously .and have the advantage of a remarkble series of parallel rivers beyond the Gnila Lipa 3M -eZAnstmGeehi&AAvs-iS' likely to be costly. Thus, on their two extreme wings the Russians appear to be firm, and where they are retreating it still is claimed, their retirement is orderly and accompanied ty Vigorous Tea- guard operations. STATUE OF GREENE UNVEILED Unveiling Statue of "Savior of South'Trincipal Event Annual Cel ebration at Guilford Battleground. Greensboro Daily News, 4th. The unveiling of an equestrian statue to the memory of General Nathaniel Greene, the man. who in 1780 v."as placed in command of the Continental forces iri. the South -for the campaign against Lord Corn walfis, commander of the British forces, and on whom has been be stowed the sobriquet "The Saviour of the South" was the principal eveit of the 26th annual celebration on the historic field of the battle of Guilford court house here yesterday. Ivvs-! in reality a Joint celere lion o tlte people of North Carolina t.u: Rhode Island, but one m which each of the original 13 States of the Union had a very deep patriotic in terest. Many of these States were officially "represented. To the oth ers besides this State and Rhode Is land, the greatest individual interest of any commonwealth was that of Georgia, where General Greene spent the last years of his life and where his body has rested for over a cen tury. - It was the greatest of all the cel ebrations ever held here, and possi bly the greatest the State has ever seen. It was conservatively esti mated that over 10,000 people were in attendance. A .military taspect that added much to the splendor of the occasion was the presence of a large number of State and Federal troops. r TWO DEATHS Mrs. Exia Ivey of Raynham Small Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Britt, Jr., of McDonalds. Correspondence of The Robesonian. McDonalds, July 3 Mrs. Exia Ivey, 83 years of age, died Thursday July 1, at Raynham and the remains were buried at Raynham Baptist church, services being conducted by her pastor, Rev. D.- P. Bridges, as sisted by Rev. J. P. Hedgpeth of Lumberton. She had been in failing htnlth for several weeks. Master Clifford Bownaan, 11- months-old child of Mr. and "Mjrs. D. H. Britt, Jr., after a brief ill ness died Wednesday p. m. The funeral services were conducted at McDonalds Thursday morning by Rev. D. P. Bridges and interment; was made in family cemetery near McDonald. No Noise of Guns Along British Front. Brtish Headquarters in France, July 3. .. - One might have gone t miles along the British front this week without Jiearing a .gun. -It seems as if both sides were - taking a holiday out of respect fo-r beautiful summer weather, or else the silence was sig nificant, of preparation and accumu lation of shells by one side or the other for some great effort. Beyond : the occasion explosion of a mine, or routine shelling there has been nd action. Soldiers in reserve have been swimming in . the canal, resting under shade trees, playing cricket and football and tending' their flower gardens about their quarters which have been made to look like those one sees in front of of cottages at this season in England. - .. , PARTY NEEDS FUNDS Loyal Democrats Asked to Contrib " ute. to tlelp National Committee in Publicity Work. Mr. A. W. McLean of Lumberton was appointed last year by the Dem ocratic National Committee to raise funds .in North Carolina for the pub- licity work the committee is carry ing. on all" the time. The old idea of inactivity all the time except just before an election, when Herculean efforts were put forth, has been abandoned and the .new idea now is to keep up the work of the "National Committee all the time. Mr. Mc Lean makes the following appeal to loyal Democrats all over North Caro lina to conrtibute to this cause: "You will no doubt recall the de cision of the Democratic National Committee, made immediately after the last Presidential election,, to main tain -permanent headquarters, all the year round Jn Washington, for the purpose of carrying on the publicity work. The, work done by the Nation al Committee along this line has been of very great benefit to the party and it has been determined to continue this publicity work,' not on ly during the present year, but dur ing next year also Wo ronii th,t iewereUnlo4A present position, the Democratic par ty must put up an. aggressive fight all the time. It is not sufficient to prepare for a campaign just before an election.. I think you will agree with me that not only regular E-em- ocrats, but all fair-minded people, irrespective of former party affili bns, have great confidence in the constructive achievements of the present, administration, led by our able President. Great good for the country at large is being accomplish ed, notwithstanding the fact that the difficulties which have to be met are world-wide,' and almost overwhelm ing. "If we have faith in the wisdom of the present administration, we ought to hae courage to fight for Demo cratic success in' 1916. We cannot win without constantly displaying a millitant party spirit. The oppose tion is becoming very active. They hope to take advantage of the present unprecedented war conditions -to per suade as many people as possible into voting against the Democratis party. Preparing to wage an elaborate and expensive campaign; and, as evidence of this, they have already created r.nd are now maintaining three sep arate organizations. Our Democratic National Committee desires to con tinue its campaign of national educa tion and publicity. Immediately funds are necessary to do this work. Un like our opponents, we propose to appeal to individual Democrats who conscientiously believe in the prin ciples of the Democratic party to fur nish the campaign funds, instead of relying upon special interests who expect favors in return. . "If you believe , the Democratic party deserves to remain in control of this Government and that it is to the interest of the American people that Woodrow Wilson should remain President, in "these times which try men's souls," then, we confidently ex pect you to help us in our effort to raise sufficient funds ito maintain our headquarters and carry on our cam paign, of education and publicity. "The National Committee has ap portioned the amount necessary to be raised among the various States on the basis of the electoral vote of each State. Last year North Carolina did her part - faithfully, although the amount was subscribed by a compar atively small number. "I earnestly appeal to you to make as large contribution as possible for this great work. Just , at the present time the committee is urgently need ing a considerable amount. A check for such amount as you feel that you can give, will be greatly appreciated. I should also like to have any sug gestions that you may be able to make -with reference to the work." Notices of Neiv Advertisements. Maxwell touring car for sale T. A. Ramsaur. Terra cotta pipe for sale Dres dren Cotton Mills. , Large second-hand refrigerator for sale, Four room-cottage "for rent Wr J. Prevatt. Reason why the First National Bank of Lumberton has grown. Notice of meeting: -nf county board of eoualization July 12. Welcome Woodmen Pastime thea tre. ' Robesonian's Reports of Sermons During Baptist Meeting Appre ciated. At prayermeeting service at the First Baptist church Wtdne.sday eve ning of last week a resolution was passed unanimously extending . to The Robesonian a vote of thanks for the full reports gven in this paper of, services during the series of meetings held at that church recently,- . ' ELROD ECHOES I Many Farmers Disappointed When Health Officer Failed to Keep Ap pointment Preparing for' New - Prejyterian Church Personal Correspondence of The Robesonian. Elrod, July 3 About fifty peo ple met at Elrod Friday morning ex- t peeling to take. the treatment against typhoid, but Dr. B. W. Page, county health officer, failed to meet his ap pointment. The farmers and oth ers seemed very much disappointed and after waiting here until twelve o'clock, a message was wired to Dr. Page inquiring if he would come. The answer received was that he was out of typhoid vaccine and would make another appointment. We hope that he will be able to come the next time or let the people know in time to prevent the farmers losing half a day in their crops at the very busiest season. ' ' . , Mrs. John Bridgers returned home Thursday from a few days' visit to friends in Dillon. She was accom panied DV ms little granddaughter, Margaret Bridgers. Miss . Delia May Smith; of Rowland spent Fri day with Mrs. . D. H. McCall. Mr. Frank Sinclair and sister, Miss AI joun raie ana cnuuren visiiea stirs Join McCall Fridays-Mr. J. H. Jones paid a flying, visit to McDon ald Saturday. Mr. Norman Brid gers of Rockingham is visiting at the home cf his father, Mr.' John Bridgers. Mrs. R. H. Poole, who ha3 been right sik for the past fewdays. is improving. Rev. Mr;-Smith bf Fayetteville preached for us Friday night and will hold services here Saturday night, Sunday morning and Sunday evening. He will elect and ordain officers in the Presbyterian church, which is expected to be built here in the near future. ABBOTTSBURG NEWS F'.ne Crops and Plenty of Vegetables Personal. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Abbottsburg, July 2 Quite a lit tie storm came just at day. light this morning, blowing down corn and cot ton, but no serious damage, Crops are fine and the larmers are smil ing. The war does not hurt when a man has his home supplies, when the ladies go to the garden and have so many thing3 to cook they hardly know what to cook for dinner. Master Robert M. Owen and sis ter, Miss-v'Mary Kate, visited near Elizabethtodwn Sunday. Several are expecting to celebrate the 4th at the lake tomorrow. , Mr. A. S. McEwen has been catch ing some fine fish for the last week. He knows how. Rev. R. A. Lapsley and little daughter, Jane Campbell, and Mrs. Abenathy were pleasant visitors at Mrs. McEwen's this week. We are sorry to say that Profes sor Howard of the high school will not be here this year. He.has been offered more salary but he will car ry the good wishes of the Abbotts burg school, as there's no better teacher in, the county. He is in sum mer school at Chapel Hill now. Miss Katie McLeod or Elizabeth town passed through town a few days ago en route to Chapel Hill to attend the summer school. Mrs. Walton McCallum spent ast week with her mother, Mrs. Kate Mc Ewen. ; Rev. W. M. Shaw preached at Presbyterian church Sunday at Clarkton. Rev. Mr. Oaksley preach ed for Dr. Wells in Wilmington.' The Robesonian. gets better and better as each copy comes out. The 45th anniversary edition was good history and will be preserved with care. BOARDMAN NEWS BATCH Crops Very Good Tobacco-Curing Time Near Death of Mr. James Cooper. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Boardman, . R. F. D. 1, July 3 Mr. Pedro. Sandstrun, who was call ed' to the bedside of his mother in Michigan, returned to Boardman yesterday morning. Mr. Haynes, machinist for Butters Lumber Co7who-trltnowTra8-wDaddy Haynes", and son, Robert, will start this p. m. for Sadeaville, Pa. They will be accompanied by Mr. Ezra Hewing,who hasabrother in Penn sylvania. - Mr."-Geo. Brown. Vho was report ed, very ill in a Richmond hospital, is reported as doing very nicely and will soon be at home. Boardman has started up a mov ing picture show. - Farmers are about ready to begin curing tobacco and "crops are very good, i We are having niorains in this settion, which will insure a dood corn cr James Fridav p ooper of isoardman m. after being sick died with typhoid pneumonia for about 4 weeks He leaves a wife and 2 little girls : BRIEF-ITEMS OF-'LOCAL NEWS License has been issued for the marriage of Oscar Berry and Lucy Berry. St. Albans lodge No. 114, A. F. & A. M., will hold its regular meet--ing tonight in the lodge hall. A week's term of criminal court will convene next Monday, with judge H. W. Whedbee of Greenville presiding. The county commissioner aad , the county board of education are holding their regular monthly meet ings today. --Mr. S. G. Williamson of the. Smyrna section was in town Satur day. Mr. Williamson says crops are Kood out his way. Congressman H. L. Godwin passed through town this morniaf on-his-wajr-to-BiadenboroTwhere he" 3peaks today at a celebration of the. Fourth. " "Mr. W. II. M, Brown, who runs 3n auto livery from Buie to Lumber ton and is The Robesonian's valued correspondent in the Philadelphia section,-was in town Thursday. Mr. Brown say cotton-i-?jcaood as it was last year: out' Buie way and in the Philadelphus section, but that corn is not sa good.. - " As 3ated in-Thursday's Robe sonian, the Lumberton baseball team will cross bats with the Rockingham team on the local diamond here this- -afternoon. Game will be called . at 3:30; admission,25 cents; ladies ad mitted free. Rockingham has . a good team and it is expected that it will "be a close game. Mr. Jos, E. Little of Wilming ton i in tewn today. It ha3 been stated that Mr. Little would deliver "hi principal ade'ress for the Wood- 'vn r cro tolv.y, but as he is a can didate for Congress it was decided that it would not be fair to other candidates to ask Mr. Little to de liver the address, since the Wood men are not in politics as an order. A very attractive window dis play can be seen in a show window in the hardware department of Mr. L. II. Caldwell's department store. Mr. C. Guy Townscnd was the de-. . signer. In this window is a small tobacco barn one that looks just like the original and all 'round the barn is placed nil kinds oi supplies needed in harvesting and curing the "weed". In sending a check for $10 for hi3 home paper, The Robesonian, for twelve months, Mr. Gordon P. Mc Millan, a native Lumbertonian, ' now manager of the Western Union Tel egraph office at Harrisburg, Va., writes that he likes Virginia, which is a mighty good State, inhabited by mighty good people, but he never forgets North Carolina, nor The Robesonian. ) ' .- Mr. Giles Davis, who "lives out Buie way, waked up one morning last week to find that he had gone blind in his left eye. He had gotten so he could see a little bit out of that eye when he was in town Saturday, but not enough to do any good. The doctors tell him that fit is laf fee tion that is very rare and that they do not know just what it , is that ail3 him. Sight in his right eye is not impaired. Mr. Hector Stephens of the Orrurh section brought a 2-horse load of watermelons and cantaloupes to town Saturday, his second load, having brought to town Thursday the first load of watermelons of the 3easor. Mr. Stephens sold ne load of watermelons at 25 cents around. , He has had melons since June 11 and has been hauling them to Board man for more than two weeks. Mr. Stephens manages to have ripe mel- ons .sooner than" anybody. How he does it he says is his secret Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Caldwell have just received a photograph tak en June 17 last on . top of Pike's Peak, Col., altitude 14,147 feet, showing their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Simeon Caldwell,, who are on their wedding tour, and who arrived Saturday night at San Francisco, from which place the fol lowing telegram, received by Mr, Caldwell thi9mornmg,wasdated last night:. "Arrived here last night and was glad to hear from you. We are stopping at St. Frances, the f"m- est" hotel. Bryan is here alse. We . have just spoken to him. Went to . church tonight but it was closed for the summer, i We are enjoying our trip greatly. Love to all." People From Canada Come to Lum berton for Health. Mr. and- Mrs. Geo. B.. Boggs and sen, Albert, arrived here yesterday from Canada to spend some time. Mr. Boggs has been in bad health for several months and was attract ed t Lumberton through theatrical people who declare it the best town of its size on the map. Mr. Boggs is a railroad k- man. '
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