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- i '-- 1 -. THE- RQBESO-M A N ESTABLISHED 1870. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. COUNTRY, GOD AND TRUTH tlZQ A YEAR. DUE, IN ADYAHCB VOL XLVI. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1915. NUMBER 59 GRADED SCHOOL OPENS WELL 397 Enrolled Up to Today Largest Opening in History or Hcnooi Delay in Starting to Work Third Primary Teacher Necessary Emer gency Grade to Relieve Congested Condition in Fifth and Sixth. The graded school opened Tuesday morning with ithe largest enroll ment in its history, the number on roll today being 397. The largest enrollment at the beginning any pre vious term was last fall, when . the number readied 374. There has been no delay in getting' down to work, teachers and pupils buckling ; down from the very first day. .'" A rather unusual situation exists in the primary grade, INot , more than 40 new pupils ; were expected, tut the number of new ones has al - reay reached 52,- and more are ex pected. Tuesday morning there were 110 tots in this grade. Twenty-eight -were promoted ; o second, leaving 82 pupil3 for Miss Elizabeth Dexter and her assistant, Miss Janie Carlyle, to instruct. That makes it necessary to engapre the services of another teach er. For the present iMiss Dexter takes the 52 new pupns in the morn ing till noon recess, and Miss Car lyle takesthe30 -pupils who have been to school before in the after- noon, at 1 o'clock . There is a congested condition also in the fifth grade, where there are 38 pupils, and in the sixth, with 50 pupils. A few students will be taken from each of these grades and an tmergency grade formed under Miss Annie Neal Fuller, assistant in fifth. For the present, until other rooms can be provided, the fifth grade proper will attend under Miss Lillian Bark er during the morning session and the emergency grade will use the same room under Miss Fuller in the afternoon, from 1 to 4. It is ex torted that it will be-possible to make other arrangements in about three weeks. Supt. Sentelle is greatly pleased with the manner in which teachers and pupils have gotton down to work without loss of time or confusion. He is determined that nothing shall interfere with he school work this year1 than caw be avoided. At teachers meeting Monday afternoon Prof. Sentelle impressejcl upon the teachers the fact that they must plan their work ahead, that each teacher must know just what work is to be done in her room every day, that the "movies" and social engagements must not be allowed to interfere with school work in the slightest degree. Of course it is not expected that teachers would neglect their work in any way, but it is proper to state that it will be this year the fixed policy of the school management to frown upon any diversions that tend to in terfere with the most thorough work in the school room. FARM-LIFE SCHOOL OPENS County Farm Demonstrator Blanch ard Succeeds S. J. Kirby in Charge of Farm-Life School at Philadel phiis Demonstration Work Will he Carried On Also School Open ed Well Tuesday. The farm-life school at Philadel. phus opened well Tuesday, the. dor mitory, which recently has been paint ed, being filled to overflowing. Mr. L. E. Bl a chard, county farm demonstrator, will have charge of the school, succeeding Mr. S. J. Kirby who has resigned to accept work elsewhere. Mr. Blanchard will devote half of his time to the school and the other half to farm demon, stration work. He will leave this evening for Raleigh for the purpose of securing additional equipment for the school. There were some 'rumors Monday to the effect that the farm-life school was to be discontinued, but The Rob esonian has been asked to state that there is no doubt whatever about this 5mportant work being carried on and the school will be better equipped than ever before. Mr. Blanchard is a young man of intelligence and en ergy who is well equipped for the work. The names of the teachers of the Philadelphus high school, which is Connected with the farm-life school, are: M. C. McLeod, principal; Miss Mabel Currie, music; ; Miss Marga - ret Edwards of Dillon, S. C, domes tic science; Miss Berta Cox of Red Springs, Miss KaCie Buie of Phila delphus, Miss Sarah Townsend of McDonalds. . - )eath of Infant Daughter of Mr. and " ,Mrs. Lyde Rogers. Mamie ' Hellen, , 11-raonths-old-. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lyde "Rogers, died at 2 o'clock this mora ine at the home of her parents, Chestnut street The funeral will be conducted from the home tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 and interment will be made in Meadow-Brook cemetery. Mrs. G.-Mr Whitfield returned last evening from Laurinburg. where 'she spent a month visiting relative, BION IL BUTLER ' VISITS LUMBERTON' This is a Great County With a Lot of Mighty Good Towns, He Says Most Favorably Impressed With! Kobeson as a Live ana rrogressive County Should Have Exhibit at State Fail Drainage Canals a Great Work. Bion H. Butler of Southern Pines was in Lumberton yesterday, looking the town over. To The Rob esonian man he expressed his sat isfaction in the" progress town and county are making. Said Mr. But ler: . ' : ; "You have a great county, and a lot of mighty good towns. You folks down" this way give us credit up in the Sandhills for having a lot of progressiveness land energy, but I am candid enough to say that if you make a note of what you have done in the last thirty years, which is about the length of time that the Sandhill country has been coming to the front, you will not have to take a back seat for anything our people are doing up' there. ' "It is gratifying to me to see the people- of the StatePPreciate the progress the folks around Southern Pines and Pinehurst are making, but I find a lot of satisfaction in seeing other sections of the State making gratifying progress. When I pick ed North Carolina to make a hgme in for myself and family I was not looking for a dead one. I figured triat this is the State that is g6 ing to give an account of itself, and you can see that it pleases me to find that I did not make a mistake in my judgment. "Robeson is a lively and progres sive county? and if .you do not realize that ii: is moving ahead like a run away steer, all you0 have to do is to look backward a quarter of a century to about the. time when John T. Pat rick commenced to make Southern Pines, and just figure what Lum Itrton and this county have done in that length of time. . "But what is more gratifying is that by all the signs you have a big ger future ahead of you than you ever expected in the past to have at any time. This introducing of tobac co and wheat and the building of grist mills, and all of "that sort of thing indicates a lot of new leads and shows that you have only started to grow, and to do things. "I hope the folks of the county will follow The Robesonian's sugges tions of a couple of weeks ago and send down to the State fair a lot of fine things you are making here and let the world know what you are do ing. Your county deserves one of the best spaces in the county dis plays and it ought to make the rest of the counties hustle for any of the nremiums thev win. Our Sandhills r rountrv is fitrurintr on showing up w,rr tWo and so are some of the " : - . . other counties, but Kobeson can trav el with the classy ones if she will make an effort. Tell your people," said Mr. Butler to the reporter, "To have a Robeson county exhibit, and show this big progressive county to the world "I have just been out looking ov er the drainage canals. There is a great work and one that you will hear from before a great while. The ad dition to vour farm products on the drained land will be a big factor in your community progress and pros perity. Yes, I think mightly highly of Robeson, and we are not a bit asham ed of having your county for a neigh bor." - Mr. Butler is the well-known press agent of the State Publicity Asso ciation which was organized some weeks ago in Raleign with some of the leading men in the State as its officers. He will visit Lumberton again in the course of a few weeks and at that time he will be invited to address a meeting of citizens of the town. Superior Court" The two weeks' ter mof court for the trial of civil cases, which con vened Monday morning at 10 o'clock, with Judge H. W. Whedbee of Green ville, presiding1, has been moving along slowly, all the time since Tues day morning having been taken up with thes case of Geo. B. McLeod ys. A. & R- Ry- Co- 'n which Mr-lc Leod is suing the railroad for $19, 000 damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained November 4, 1910, when a train on the A, & R. road struck an auto in which he was riding, tearing upthe car. The case was given to the jury at 11 o'clock a. m. today, but up' to the time of. going to press the jury had not ren dered a verdict. -The following cases were heard Mon day: Jno. D. McRainey vs. V. & C. S. Ry. Co., judgment; TC. Lewis vs. Isaac McCallum, judgment; Ada L. Dunn vs. E. B. Dunn, divorce granted. A number of judgments have been signed SUPERVISOR FOR COLORED SCHOOLS County Board of Education Passes Order to Employ Colored Woman to Supervise Work in Colored .Schools of County Part of Salary to be Furnished by Jeanes Fund. At its meeting Monday the coun. ty board of education passed an or der to employ Maggie Truman, col' ored, of Durham a3 supervisor of col. ored schools of Robeson. To pay the s-alary of this teacher the board appropriated $130, provided $250 bc- ioir.es available from the Jcain Furd and $100 from the General I'ducation Bo&rd to supplement the part the coun'v pays, making a i al ary ft $40 the :nonth the year rouni. Sunt J. R. I bole has received a letter from Dr. James HDillard of Charlottesville, Va., .. advising him that the Jeanes Fund will be glad to co-operate with him in the employ ment of a supervising industrial teacher for the colored schools of the county and will make an appro priation of $30 per month from 6 to 9 months, provided the county supple ment the salary -by at least half what the Jeanes Fund contributes. This-., teacher will devote her en tire time to visiting colored schools anj doing work among the colored people. She will instruct teachers in proper methods of sanitation, sew ing, cooking, housekeeping, some branches of manual training, etc. Dur. ing summer months she will carry on gardening and canning club work. She will give talks and lessons on sani. tation, personal cleanliness, etc.; teach some form fef imdustry at s each school; encourage the people to sup port their schools; encourage the building of better school houses, the employment of better teachers, ete. Work of thia kind will mean much to the colored people of Robeson. A SURE-THING WINNER Lumberton Tobacco Market Continues to Grow in Favor With Farmers Good Sales This Week Follow ing Peas With Tobacco Bad Prac tice. Beween 35,000 and 40,000 pounds of tobacco were sold on the Lumber ton market at the Farmers Ware house Tuesday at an average of 10 cents and yesterday about 25,000 pounds of the weed were sold iat prices ranging from 3 to 16 cents, farmers being well pleased. Mr. D. J. Holcombe, who is in the leaf tobacco business at Dan ville, Va., and who is visiting the markets in this State, visited the warehouse here yesterday afternoon, having visited he Fairmont market in the morning. In conversation with a Robesonian reporter, while the two were standing beside a pile of tobac- .co, Mr. tloicombe remarked tnat bright tobacco is what should be rais ed in this section and that preced- '(ing tobacco with peas takes all the 'color out of the tobacco. He pick- , , -. ed up some leaves from a pile and said that planting peas on the land where that tobacco had been grown had taken all the color out of it. HARD FIGHTING IN EAST Russian Emperor Assumes Command German Submarine Sunk Arabic Berlin Doubts if Hesperian Was Torpedoed. Press Summary. Grand Duke Nicholas has been transferred to the Caucasus and the Russian Emperor has assumed com mand of" all his land and sea forces. Hard fighting is in progress along the estern front, as well as in France, Germany has made another air raid on the London district, loss of life and material damage resulting. Heavy fighting has been going on in Gal lipoli, the troops on land being as sisted by the fleet'. . It was a German submarine that sunk the"1 White Star steamer Arabic August 19, with the loss of 39 lives, among them two Americans. The commander of the U-boat responsible for the disaster at last has returned to his base and has so reported. He declares that while the submarine was sinking a freighter, the Arabic swung around and headed toward the scene as if to attack or ram the sub marine and that he fired in self defense. Germany, also has spoken officially concerning the recent sinking of the Allan line steamer Hesperian. In a message to Ambassador Bernstorff, the German foreign office says it ap pears improba'Me that the Hesperian was torpedoed;; and that it is much more likely tfifjboat ran on a mine: Washington, ipwever, still is' await ing Germany', .formal statement'.. Germany, hya note to the United States, has acknowledged that the White' Star liner Arabic was sunk by a German submarine. The note declares self-defense Ivas the mo. tie of the submarine commander. Regret is - expressed that American live3 were lost and the offer is made to submit question of reparation U The Hague. UP PHILADELPHUS WAY High School Opens Well No Kick On 40 Cents for Picking Cotton Young Corn Doing Fine Fine Cot tonPersonal. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Buie, Sept. 8 Messrs. Albert and Wallace Prior, Paul McNeill and Thomas Williams were Fayetteville visitors Thursday. Miss Maggie Brown of the Phila delphus community spent Friday in Lumberton. ' . Messrs. Paisly McMillan and W. A. Smith were among the business visitors from Philadelphus Saturday in Lumberton. The Philadelphus high school open ed up this morning, all the . old teachers, ; which were ProL Mr C. McLeod, principal, Misses Katie Buie, Berta Coxe and Mabel Currie. There is also an additional teacher, Miss Townsend of McDonalds. Miss Parish of Virginih. tomes in Miss Mclntyre's place. The prospects for the school this year are all that could be expected. There was , an enrollment of about 100. The cotton fields through this sec tion are fast being entered by hands and the pries which was agreed oh by tho farmers, at 50c per hunured, 13 still being paid and we hear of no! kick coming from any one. 'Mr. Paisly McMillan, our progres sive farmer and ginner, will start his gin this week. We also hear of oth ers starting up. Mr. Walter McMilhn-and Allen Brown were Fayetteville visitors this week". . Miss Georgia McMillan will leave Tuesday for Greensboro College to enter school duties there. young farmer, who lives near Philadelphus, is not only ' making good at farming, but in addition to this, is a live wire in the insurance business. We learn that out of 480 insurance men he has sold enough the last quarter to make second high est in the amount sold. Mr. Walter McMillan spent Sat urday in Fayetteville. Mr; and Mrs. Alfred Britt spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Tom Britt over at St. Pauls, Mrs. Britt re maining for a few days. Mr. Parish is spending a few days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paisly McMillan. Mr. W. B. Malloy of Fayetteville spent a short while at the home of Mr. J. B. Humphrey Monday. Messrs. A. C. McLeod, J. B. Humphrey, W. A. Smith and Alien Brown were Lumberton visitors Mon. day. , We notice through this section there is lots of young corn coming on, which is doing fine, and if it holds out like it has started it will make better than the late corn.. Among the finest cotton we have seen is on the farm of Mr. Dad Evans, over in the St. Pauls section. It is hard to beat. Messrs. N. B. McTuther, D. P. Buie, J. T. McKay and Paisly Mc Millan, together with Prof. S. J. Kirby, spent yesterday in Lumberton. W. H. Brown spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. McGoogan at Rennert. Messrs. Hughey and Oscar Mc Googan of Rennert spent Sunday at Bide-A-Wee farm visiting relatives. Little Miss Mattie Britt of Ma rietta spent several days visiting lit tle Misses Iola, Iula and Lillian Britt. Messrs. S. B. Williams, W. Glov er and A. Britt are Lumberton vis itors today. OUT BARKER'S WAY Protracted Meeting Closes Cotton Very Short Persona1. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Barkers (Lumberton, R. 1), Sept. 7 The protracted meeting closed at Ten Mile church Sunday with the ad dition of sixteen members. Rev. J. A. Snow, was assisted by Rev. Fred Day. Mr. Lonnie Powers : lat Monday for Wake Forest College, where he will be a student. Mrs. J. D. Monroe and two chil dren and Mrs. Mary Callihan of Tar Heel spent last week vith Mrs. Monroe's parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Powers. - Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Riddle and little dauhgter of St. Pauls spent last week with Mrs. Riddle's par ents, Mr . and Mrs . S . A Powers. There will be preaching at Bark ers. M. E.; church- Sunday by the pastor,' Rev. A. J. Groves. ; ( Mr . G . R . Monroe of Tar Heel spent Monday at : Barker's visiting friends. Cotton is very short in this seel tion; it don't look as if there will be half as much cotton as people thought there would be. I think it was caused by the cotton boll weevil. Mr. Frank - Powers and sons, Messrs. Ralph, Ruff in and Carv, of St. Pauls made a flying trip to Bark, er's Sundayin their new auto. MT. ELI AM MATTERS Great Revivsl Closes 16 Additions to Church Movements of the Peo ple. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Mt Eliam (Lumberton, R. 4), Sept. 8 One of the best revival meetings known in the history of Mt Eliam church closed yesterday with 16 ad ditions to the church; and hardly ev er ha3 the church been so revived. Rev. E. A. Paul of Davis, N.C., did the preaching. Mr. Paul is one of the best preachers we ever heard and we were all sorry to see him leave n. We gave him a contribution of $40 and heleft jflast njght for his home. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Britt of Board men have been attending preaching and visiting friends and relatives ov er here this week and last. Mr. Spurgeon Caulk, who lives near Fairmont has been visiting rel atives on the Mount for the last week. . Mrs. Britt left this a. n: for Brunswick county where she will be with her husband Rev. P. T. Britt, who is preaching down' there. Rev. J. I. Stone went with her, He will help Mr, Britt in his meeting. They made the trip in Mr. Stone's car, Messrs. Forest Stone and Cheston Branch spent Sunday night in the Bellamy section. Mr. Clarence Britt of McDonalds spent a few days this week visiting friends and relatives on the Mount, Mr. Norley F. Britt left this morning for Brunswick county, where he will possibly accept a position. Mr. Lonnie Bullock and wife and Mrs. J. W. Bullock and Miss Monnie Collins attended preaching here yes terday. They all came down in Mr. Bullock's new-car"" ,. Diplomats Will Meet Next Week to Discuss Mexican Situation. Washington Dispatch, Sept. 7. Secretary Lansing and the Latin American diplomats co-operating with him for reestablishment of consti tutionalist government in Mexico will meet next week to consider replies to their appeal to the Mexican fac tions for a peace conference and to formulate the next step in their plan. Mr. Lansing said today the meet ing would be held before September 15, because the Argentine Ambas. sador, Mr. Naon, leaves on that date for a visit to his home. Mr. J. L. Rhyne, who for sev eral years had been chief clerk to Agent M. Beverly, of the Seaboard, resigned a few days ago to accept a position as bookkeeper at the com. par.y store of the Lumberton and Dresden cotton mills. " Announcement ha been made of fthe engagement of Mr. W. S. Britt, junior member of the law firm of Britt & Bri'.t of Lumberton, and M.a Ada Clyburn of Kershaw, S. C. The nurriage will take place ths latter j'f:rt of October Mr. W. P. McAllister left Mon day evening for Hemdersonville to accompany his mother, Mrs. J. A. McAllister, who has been spending some time at Hendprsonville With Mrs. W. P. McAllister, home. Mrs. W. (P. MeAllisteir; whose health has been greatly improved during her stay at Hendersonville, will remain there until the weather gets cooler. Dr. W. L. Grantham returned last night from Reidsville, where he went last Saturday in company with his family in response to a tel egram to the effect that Mrs. Gran tham's mother, Mrs. Mary Shelton, of that town, was very ill. Mrs. Shel ton's condition was very much improved when Dr. Grantham left Reidsville. Mrs. Grantham and children will spend some time at Reidsville before returning home. Off to college. . The following left Tuesday morning: for Meredith College, Raleigh Misses Vivian Mc Neill, Sadie Rae Pope, Carrie Mae Hedgpeth, Rosa Wlshart; to Wake Forest Furman Biggs and John Proctor; to University of N. C. Knox Proctor. Miss Mildred Mc Intyre also went to Raleigh Tuesday to teach pipe organ at Meredith. Mrs. H. T. Pope accompanied the young ladies to Raleigh and is ex pected to return home tonight. The name of Robt McNeill, col ored, got in the headlines of a news item in Monday's Robesonian when it did not belong there. Robt Mc Nair was the person referred to, as the news item told. It was the item in regard-to Robt McNair being sent to the roads for receiving part of the money small Ellliott Merrick stole from the Farmers & Merchants Bank. Robt. McNeill says he is 49 years old nd nas never got into any trou ble yet. The name McNair wa3 giv en in the body of the item, but by some strange slip it was printed Mc Neill in the headlines. Capt. E. J. Parish, president of the North Carolina State Fair, has ap pointed R. O. Everett of Durham chief marshal of the fair. WEEKLY WEATHER FORECAST Issued by the U. S. Weather Boreas, Washington, D. C, for the Week Beginning Wednesday, September 8, For South Atlantic and East Gulf States: The week will be one of gen erally fair weather and normal tem peratures. BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS Rev. C. L. Greaves is assist ing in a meetinr at Hnnm tl .-,! B ..u,,,. jjc win jbe back in time to fill his pulpit at mc ruai Baptist church Sunday. Congressman H. r.. r.Ai - ' "VS W FT StJ passed through town this morning en rouce to fclkton, BIaden county, where today he will address a farm ers picnic. Mr. R. F. Stuart rtf rnnta 9 from Rowland was among the bus iness visitors in town Monday. Mr. btuart is one of the many who stay on The Robesonian's God-blessed list. ; "Place my name back" on your mailing list at once," was the coro-OT3.n4-0.a, man who had only miss, ed one copy of The Robesonian after deciding he could get along without The Robesonian in his home and hav ing the paper stopped. He couldnt get 'along without it. "After living in another county, moving there from Robeson, for sev eral years, I have decided to return to Robeson, for there is no better place to live and live at home," was the remark of a certain man who has found that to make a living is just as easy in Robeson as anywhere. Miss Josephine Breece will have her millinery opening next week, beginning Tuesday and lasting the balance of the week. Miss Breece has just retured from the Northern mar kets. Miss Jean Pratt of Hender sonville, who accompanied her and who has been with Miss Breece as head trimmer for several seasons, ar rived yesterday from Baltimore. Mr. W. B. Taylor, of the firm of Taylor Bros., tobacco manufactur ers of Winston-Salem, made his first visit to Lumberton Monday with Mr. W. A. Godfrey of Jonesboro, who) has been selling the well.known Tay lor brands of tobacco in this section for the past 20 years. Mr. Taylor was most favorably impressed with Robeson as a great county and with Lumberton as a live town. Miss Ruth Britt daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Britt of the Ten Mile section, began teaching in the Creedmore high school, Granville county, on the 5th -inst Miss Britt, desiring to keep posted as to what's going on in Robeson, sends in her subscription to The Robesonian for the time she will be away. Others who are going off to teach, as well as those going off to school, will greatly enjoy hearing the home news, as The Robesonhan will give it twice a week, while away. Better let it follow you. Today, tomorrow and Saturday at . Charlotte the Gastonia team, cham pions of the west, and the Red Springs team, champions of the east, will battle for the amateur champion ship of the State. On account of this occasion the Seaboard gives a round, trip rate of $2.50 to Charlotte and the following left this morning for Charlotte, taking advantage of the low rate and all of them perhaps going to see the games: Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Birmingham, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Worley, Messrs. John and F. F. French, Ed Pope, Jno. and B. Sam Edwards, S. S. Ste phens, Louis Shelby, Don McGill. Rev. N. C. Williams, pastor of the Methodist church at Stanley, passed through Lumberton Tuesday on his way to Fairmont, where he is assisting Rev. B. E. Stanfield in a protracted meeting at the Fairmont Methodist church. Mr. Williams spent a while in LumDerton with Rev. N. L. Seabolt, pastor of the Lum berton circuit 'under whose minis try he was converted while Mr. Sea bolt was pastor of the Rockingham circuit; and Mr. Williams, who is a promising member of the Western North Carolina Conference was edu cated by the Rockingham Methodist church. " A number of out-of-town Jews are here to celebrate Rosh Hoshan ah, the Jewish New Year, an article in regard to which is published else where in this paper .The stores of Messrs. A. Weinstein, Blacker Bros, and H.- Dunie are closed today and will be - closed tomorrow. Among those from out-of-town are: Mr. L- Blacker of Richmond, a guest at the homes of his sons Messrs. M. and' J. Blacker, also visiting the Messrs. Blacker are their brother Mr; Frank 31acker and family of Rockingham nd their cousin Mr. I . Baker of Wadesboro; Mr. Sam Dunie and fara- . ily, Mr. Harry Weinstein and fam ily and Mr. Louis Weinstein of Fair mont and Mr, M. Fine of Maxton are guests at Mr. S. 'Weinstein's.
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