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-II Inl JHi ESTABLISHED 187(f. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. COUNTRY, GOD AND TRUTH SIJ50 A YEAR. DUE IN ADVAMO VOL XLVI. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1915. NUMBER 66 J V SUPERIOR COURT " Tarlvl ViH Case Continued " to De. ? cember Two Dtvorses " Granted 2-Weeks' Civil Term Begins. " " A two-weeks' term of court for - the trial of civil cases convened this morning . at 10 o'clock with ' Judge H.W.Whedbee of Greenville presiding. - The' following out of town attbrneys are "attending court today: Messrs. B. F. and S. B. McLean and G. ' B. Patterson of Maxton, Ex-Gover-. nor W. W. Kitchen-of Raleigh, Bland and Bland of Burgaw. Mr. Win. E. . ' lynch of South Carolina, who has located at Rowland, was sworn in , as " an attorney ', this morning. , He : was presented to thecourt by At-. torney RT"ATMcXean ofLumberfohTj flnin. two rnspst were tried at the morning session G. W, Locklear vs ; M . M. Locklear and W. A. MeShaw -vs Lonie MeShaw, both divorse cases in which divorse was graniea. It was expected that a most in- tcraefinir nsa woulj COm6 UD for t ' liearing today. This is one in which an etiort will be maae to Drean ine -will nt tli lslt Miss Thesia Carlvle. sister of the late Jno. B. Carlyle. The amount involved is said to be about tinnnn Mr K M. Rices is the executor and will Be represented in the case by the law nrms 01 juciniyre, Lawrence & Proctor and McLean, "Varser & McLean of Lumberton. The Mvsstnra nr rpnresente1 bv MeSSrS. Britt & Britt of Lumberton, Bland & Bland of Burgaw, ana n,x-iiov. w. W. Kitchen of Raleigh. The case continued till December 13 h account of the fact that some of the eirs had not been made parties to the suit. TOOK SHOT AT HEAD Frank Lowrey Charged with Taking Pot Shot at Jno. Oxendine In Jail. Frank Lowrey. Indian, charged -with taking a shot at Jno. R. Oxen dine, also Indian, some two weeks arm vana nrrpstpj in Hoke COUntV lS3t night and is now resting in jail Ihere. Lowrey had been evading of ficers since the alleged shooting took -ninno f fVo hnnu Af fWpnHine in lMav,v fc" v HowellsYille township. Jtf is said that Dxendme had his neaa out oi a win dow at his home and that Lowrey sVint nt It. the ball enterins a post right near Oxendine's head. Sheriff R. E. Lewis, Deputy a. n. Prevatt and Rural Policeman L. H. Townsend brought Lowrey to jail. Germany Fails to Satisfy U. S. in Arabic Case. "Washington Dispatch, Oct. 3 . Germany has failed to satisfy the Toquesi of the United States that the sinking of the Arabic with a loss of American lives be disavowed and liability for the act assumed by the imperial government. This became known after a conference tonight be ' tween President Wilson and Secretary Lansing at which the latter submit ted a note given him yesterday in New York by Count von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador. No an nouncement was made after the White House conference. Secretary Lansing delcined to say what the next step would be, but it was learned lat er the German Ambassador would e asked to come to Washington soon to receive the view which the Ameri can government takes of the last German note. Count von Bernstorff Is fully authorized , by his govern, ment to conduct the submarine ne gotiations. Mav Teach Saturdays 423 Pupils in Graded School. Superintendent R. E. bentcne ot the graded schools says that recent ly the teachers , have been grading the work done by the pupils on Mon day and the work done on the other four school days and comparing same, and says that Monday's work will " -not anything like compare with the work of the other days. He expects in the near future to try the plan in use in high schools and colleges that is, teach on Saturday and ob- . -serve Monday as a holiday. There are now 425 pupils enroll ed and everything , is moving alonjy in good order. IV. Lennon of Lumberton Appointed Referee in Bankruptcy. Hon. H. G. Connor, iudge of the "United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, last week appointed Woodberry Len Tion' of Lumberton as referee in bank ruptcy for the fifth division of the Eastern District, which comprises the counties of Robeson, Scotland, Rich mond, and possibly others. This position has heretofore been held by Mr. Geo. H. Howell of Wilmington. This appointment adds greatly to the . convenience of the bar of this ' District by having referee in bank runtcy nearer the home of the prac titioners. Naval Officers Believe Hesperian Wrecked by Mine. : Washington Dispatch. - Oct. 3. Naval officers assigned to exam ine pieces ot metai sam to nave nrfn fround aboard the Allan liner Hes perian before she sank off the Irish coast September 4, are virtually con vinced that the vessel was wrecked by a mine. Their findings will be submitted to Secretary Daniels this "week. J. M. Powers, engineer, was run over and killed by nis own train near Mount Olive Saturday, according tc a dispatch from that place. With hi engine going at slow speed Powers ieft his cab to remove a log on the track aheadr His death was discov ered when his engine ran wild into the camp Cf lumber firm by which Powers was employed. CRISIS IX BALKAN SITUATION I Russia's , Ultimatum - Gives Bulgaria 24 Hours to Break Off Relations With Central Powers Paiis CU'ins Capture of New Territory Teui f onic Allies v Claim ' Progress in East Nothing Decisive. ' Press Summary. ; ',. ' : 1 The crisis in the Balkan -situation has been reached. Russia's ultima tum to Bulgaria has gone forth. King Ferdinand's Government, it says, must, openly break off relations with the Central Powers and dismiss the German and Austria officers with its army, or the Russian Minis- TT::" ' - . ; - The note sent by Russia to Bulga- i ria sets forth that the presence of j German and Austrian officers in Bul ( earia, the concentration of troops on the ' Serbian border ana tne accept ance of financial support by Bul garia from the Teutonic Allies, leave no doubt as to the object of Bulgaria's military preparations '.and declares that Russia therefore cannot .sanc tion by theJpresence in that country of her Minster "preparations for fra tricidal aggression against , a Slav and Allied people." While the Bulgarian Premier es reported in a semi-official statement as saying that Bulgaria is not threat ening any of her neighbors and still hopes for a pacific settlement "which will take her interests into account," an Athens dispatch reports that the Quadruple Entente Powers have with drawn their proffered concessions of Macedonian territory to Bulgaria and that an "Anglo-French expedition is about to be landed at Saloniki with the approval of Greece. . It is reported from Italy that the chief of the Italian general staff has conferred with the Italian Cabinet Ministers with reference to a possible Italian expedition to Balkans, suffic ient troops for which are concentrat. ed at Bdindisi. . On the western front from the North Sea to the Vosges Mountains there have been artillery bombard ments infantry attacks, fighting by means of bombs and grenades and arial raids by both sides. The only claims of a capture of territory is made bv Pans, which as serts that in Artois the French have taken a German blockhouse an en trenchment to the south of the Given chy wood. Berlin acknowledges the loss of a few yards of trenches to the French near Neuville, but declares that a British attack north of Los wpr repulsed with heavy, casualties and that th French offensives east f Sochez -and i" Champagne were beaten back. 1 Allied aeroplanes have bombarded the station, railroad bridge and mil itary buildings at Luxemburg. Ber lin says the French dirigible airshio "Alsace" has been forced to make a landing near Retvel and that . its crew was captured by the Germans. Along the eastern the Germans and Austrians still claim that they are, making, progress against the Russians but no great engagements Jnvo occurred anywhere in this re gion. Switzerland has ordered the as rpmb'inf of several squadrons of cav. dry which will be stationed along the German frontier. ' , VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS Railroad Tanks Thrown Down in Ne vanda But Little Other Damage Don". t Sa Francisco Dispatch. Octo 3. There were no further seismis dis turbances today as . result; vester ''"V of .a series of earthquakes, be lieved to have1 originated in the WiFatch' fault underlying the Wa satch mountains in Utah. The sever est shock was at 10:56 last night. Th qnakes were felt in Utah. Ne vada. California, Oregon and Idaho. So violent were the tremors in Ne vada thnt railroad water tanks elon the Southern Pacific were thrown down. At Baker, Ore., and at Sac ramento and Fresno, Cal., buildings swayed and residents rushed into the stwts. v The disturbances preached xs far north as Victoria, B. C. In San Franc'sco the shocks were bare ly perceptible. Although the vibrations ' were un psually strong and the duration of the shocks alarming, comparatively litt.'e damge was caused. v'vy Nowhere except in Nevada was real damare, acordie to reports received tonight. Hot Snrings at Gerlach, Nev.. were dried up by the earth nrnVe while similar springs at Gal conrfa.. 200 miles east, rose six inch es and the flow increased. At Carson Cit.v, Nev.. the canital was eeverelv shaken and th n'O'ht "tchman fled to the street. The Federal building at Carson Citv was jprred and master was knocked down. Woman Supervisor for Colored Schools. c Maggie Truman, colored, of Dur ham arrived last night to tak un th, work of supervising th colored schools in Robeson coubty. The duty of the supervisor will be to visit the colored schools, to spend a few days at each school giving instructions in sanitation and to hclo the teachers in eradincr and classifyig the stu dents. As has h"en mentioned in The Robesonian. the matter of em ploying the supervisor was taken uo by the counts board of education at it3 last monthly meeting and it was decided to employ Maggie Truman for the Ttosition- She seems to be well qualified for the position, hav ing attended the A. & M. for color M at Greensboro, also the Hampton Institute at Hampton, Va. DEAD MAY EXCEED 300 Relief Vessels Searching . Storm- Stricken District Refugees Bring . Stories of Hardship and Suffering New Orleans, Oct 3. . Scores of relief vessels despatched from almost every point along the Louisiana and Mississippi gulf coast3 today were searching the storm stricken district where hundreds of persons were reported marooned and without food as a result of Wednes day's hurricane.' j The list of known dea dstill stood at 202 early tonight but it was believed that the total death list will be ' well above 300 as more thanOjjewonsjrejeport- - m missing. as missing. - Refugees were arriving on every boat, bringing with them stories of hardship and suffering. In nearly every instance they were being landed with no belongings other than the clothes they wore. Most of them were penniless. ; - -"r.T""" Committees in' charge of the res cue work were still sending out ves - seis witn supplies as rapiaiy as Doais could be obtained and it has been arranged to forward large quantities of food and clothing to central sud ply stations to be established through out the stricken area. Conditions in New Orleans were be ing improved rapidly. Telegraph and telephone companies today had succeeded in running near ly a score of wires into New Orleans from points where interrupted corrt munciation . had been maintained through the storm. - The cotton and other exchanges which ceased opera tions Wednesday when telegraphic communication .with the outside world was interrupted wilt resume trading tomorrow, it was said. New Orleans La., Dispatch, Oct 1 Reports from scattered sections- cf the storm swept area in Louisiana r.nd along the Mississippi Gulf Coast tonight placed the" number of known dead at 149; reported dead 106, and missing 103, Tin property damage will run into millions. ? The known dead in Louisiana .in cluded: New Orleans and environs, 24;Rigolets, 21; Lake Catherine, 22; Near Frenier. 25; eight drowned in sinking packet Hazel, near Grand Isle. Reported dead and missing in Louisiana: Shell Beach, St. Bernard Parish, 16; Island '.de la Croix, 22; Yolosky, 15 (negroes). Couriers bv boat and train as well as mail advices brought in ; reports cf tremendous property loss and ru mors of many drowned along both sides, of the JMissippi river; south of here. - ' Boat passengers arriving ' today from Empire, about 50 miles down the Missiissippi, reported that only four large houses still stood at Em pire and that about 200 persons were marooned in them. The State Con servation Commission here started a rescue vessel for that point. Many inhabitants elsewhere were reported marooned and: some were said to be clinging to tree tops.'- Relief vessels were sent to rescue them. Bay St. Louis, Miss, on the Mis siss'ppi Gulf Joasu, reported rlAnrl nnH nronerty loss heavy. one . Hou-t v rvo-f ' ma, Ln.r and 'Burwood, the most; a braver fellow never trod shoe southerly point on the Gulf Coast, leather and undoubtedly can make reported no loss of life. In, home run iust a little sooner than Twenty-one wen. known to be dead j the other fellow. Miss Pearl Stubbs at Rigolets and 22 at Lake Cathe-j holds the board at the central phone rine, both small places a few .miles j office, day operator, while Mr. John west of the Mississippi-Louisiana' n'e Ferguson speaks "H.ello" at night State line, according to W. O. Pow ell, one of 12 survivors who arrived hero today. Fifteen negroes nnd one white man were reported dead at Shall Beach and 22 white persons at de LaCroix Island, both small set tlements in St. Bernard. Parish, south of here. , . Reports of 25 dead between Frenier and Das Arc, on the west shore of Lake Ponchartrain, was confirmed today by a railroad man arriving at Hammond, La. George Linden, engineer, the sole survivor of a party of nine passen gers and crew of the Grand Isle pAcket Hazel, who arrived here to- rtiy. floated 15 miles on a piece of timbr before being picked up by a passing vessel.. Of the 21 persons known to be dead at Rigolets, three were white persons and 18 negroes. John Eads of Norfolk, Va., cabin boy, was among the white persons aboard the packet Hazel, when the steamer capsized near Grand Isle. Others aboard were: Mrs. Raoul Coulon and her child;. Capt. Charles Mathis. master of tha vessel; and three deck hands. , Advertising Fair at Favettevi'le. Mr. R. M. Jackson of Fayetteyille was in Lumberton Friday in the in terest of the 53rd annual fair of the Cape Fear Fair Association, of which association he is secretary. The fair will be held October 26 to 29. in clusive, and Mr. Jackson says it is expected that it will be the best fair yet held at Fayetteville. Ah attrac tive premieum list has been arrang d and Mr. Jackson savs they want lots of exhibits from Robeson. Farewell Party at Broad Ridge. Special to The Robesonian. Broad Ridre (Orrum. R. 1), Oct 4 There will be a farewell party given by Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Bissell at their new home on Broad Ridge, Tuesday night in honor of E. C. Bissell and K. M. Britt, who will leave Wednesday for Illinois. Friends are invited to come. Mr. B. C. Smith of Wakulla is among the visitors in town today. Mr. Smith reports timea "getting better" op tus way. PARKTON PARAGRAPHS Church Notes High Prices for Cot- ton and Personal a Warning Social and Correspondence of The Robesonian. Parkton, Oct. 1 Rev. IL B. Por ter, pastor of the M. E. church here, left Monday for Carthage circuit, where he will be engaged in revival work. He will be away three or four weeks. He will assists in a meeting at Stedman and the following week at Raeford. Rev. Mr. Wallace of Page's Mill, S. C, filled the pulpit at the Bap- LJenkmsfillefthppulpit arFason'sidMrW m place of Rev. Fred Collins, Mr. Collins being engaged in revival at Pages Mill. There will be Rally Day at the Presbyterian church here Sunday morning, also State Mission Day at the Baptist church. Tonight every car that could go has gone to Fayetteville to the big show. It' is a strange thing to my ;mind that church members can spend so much money theatre-going and run their pastor on crop time, and some never pay at all. Next week we all ex,pect to take in the Chautauqua at St. Pauls. St. I'huIs is to be congratulated on such high-class attractions. If our town cculd aford a merry-go-round we would shout. But never mind, just wait a few weeks until our minstrel gets ready and then we will make things hum. - Mr. A. M. Culbreth left Wednes day evening for Tower,, Ga., and his brother. H. B. Culbreth left Mon day for Davidson College. It will be remembered that their father Mr. D. C. Culbreth was . hurried last week. Quite an extensive social affair at the eleganti home of Mr. J. P. Watts tonight, a birthday party in honor of his sister-in-law Miss Ethel Johnson.' Mrs. Justin McNeill arid small daugh ter Helen Marie of Lumberton came up Sunday night and -will spend sev eral weeks visiting homefolks. Mr. J. W. Williamson was a visitor to Fayetteville today, also Mr. P. II . Fisher. Mr, Lentz and Miss Forest Lancaster of St. Pauls were visitors to our town Wednesday evening and of course extensively advertised the t. Pauls Chautauqua. No doubt it is t;he most extensively advertised attraction ever came this way and a general patronage is predicted. Miss Bessie Cashwell left today for Hitrh Point, , where her school will begin Monday. A new millinery establishment just opened up in the second floor of the Perry building, Miss Estella Byrne proprietor. -Mr. J.; S. Birmingham, pharma cist of Rockingham, has a position with1 the Parkton Pharmacy, and is welcofhed to our town; also Mr. Wil- son' Jones of Rockfish has accepted a! position with Cobb & Johnson and is a ' hustling good jolly fellow. Mr. Jones formerly lived .here when a school boy and he numbers hi3 friends bv his acquaintances. Mr- A. B. Andrews of Fairmont has a posit'ion' with Mr. T. W. Thompson, the par-1 lor crrocer and cotton buyer. Mr. An-! drew3 is a promising young man and n kKOttov follrttlf" TlBlTAf VfA cVinA and we have no complaint of the ser vie but is getting better all the time. The high price of cotton should not affect the acreage for another sea son, not at all, and the farmers ev erywhere should continue to make cotton only as a surplus crop, Another baby to report, arrived at thrt home of Mr. and Mrs. J . J. Cobb on tSie 30th, a fine girl, as fine as silk, says J. J. 1 We place them on the honor roll. Our townsman Mr. J. B. McCor- mick has just finished filling his silo for the season. vMr. D. H. McCormick has been honored with one of the most promin ent positions of the Cumberland coun ty fair, that of the live stock super visor, and a more competent person could not be found, as he is some judge of live stock. Parkton may not have a fair in some years to come, but , we promise to hav one nf the largest baby shows next Fourth July you ever saw, sure as you are born. Mr. J. G. Hughes had the mis fortune of losing a tobacco barn last week and its contents. Sorry to report Mr. M, B. Hav wood on the-sick list yet, Mr. G. W. Bullard made a flyine trip down in Georgia this week. Mr. J. D. McRainev, a progressive farmer of the St. Pauls section, was a business caller in town this afternoon. Listen for the wedding bells, sure enough. Elrod Echoes Movements of the People. Ccrrespondence of The Robesonian. Elrod, Oct. 2. Mr. D. A. McCall and daughter. Miss Rubie, were in Maxton 'Saturday. Mrs. George Lamm and children have returned to their -home in Wauchula, Fla., after visitinsr relatives hero. Dixon, small son of Mr. and M"-R.-D. Jones, who have been quite sick, is improvine'. ! Mr. D. D. McCall has gone to Tampa, Fla., on a pleasure trip. Miss Gussie Mitchel of Fairmont was in Elrod last Monday. Miss Delia Mae Smith of Rowland spent Sunday in Elrod Mr. M. L. Adams of Rocky Mount is spending a few davs with his parents here. Mr. K. II Poole was in Rowland Tuesday... . ' SUN DAY. SCHOOL-1 X3TITUT E Annual Meeting of Mt. Eliam Insti - tute Large Crowd and Delichtful Occasion A Strong Orga : Organization , Officers Next With Broad Ridge School. The weather was Ideal for the oc casion and several hundred people attended the annual meeting of the Mt. Eliam Sunday School Institute held at Center Saturday. The exercises, which were held in the grove, were opened with song service at 10:30 a. m. A Scripture lesson was read by E. J. Britt of I Lumberton, president of thejnstituter Wilkerson offered! the oDenincr nraver, TVi rnll nt thai Rt-roJ ,Alh!' schools was called and the following were represented: Mt. Eliam, Long Branch, Cynter, Hog Swamp, Smyr na, Barnejville. and Oak Dale, the only two ket being represented be ing the Fast - and Wst-Lumberton schools. Two songs and two speeches by children from the various schools were effered before the noon hour. At 12:30 the crowd was dismissed and, partook of a sumptuous dinner, which was spread on the grounds. After everybody had feasted to his or her satisfaction and a while had been spent In recreation, the crowd reassembled and two more songs and speeches were v presented from each schco! represented. Quite a num ber of songs by children, also beau tiful speeches, supplemented the pro gram. Both the music and the speeches furnished (were ideal, re frehinfr and hiirhly entertaining. . This organization, which is perhaps one of the strongest Sunday School organizations of its kind in the world, is now more than thirty vears old, and though most of the lamented Sunday school workers, such as Jno. W. Ward, J. J. Britt. J. I. Stone, Sr., Amos Britt and many, many others, have gone to their reward, the - organization ... still lives and is sowing good seed that will mean much to the future gen erations ---------7 Th following officers were elect 4 for the ensu'ng year: president, E. J. Britt of Lumberton. re-elect-! ed; vice-president, K. R. Barnes of Barnesville. re-elected; secretary treasurer, I. F. Britt, re-elected: as sistant secretary-treasurer, S. Jhad Stone cf Mt. Eliam. The followine were elected as the executive board: E. B. Stone of Mt. Eliam W. J. Wilkerson of Center W H. Lamb Long Branch, S. F. Britt of Hog Swamp, R. R. Barnes of Barnes- viji The order or the crowd was pi-aiseworthv -undr everything moved alonp Itka clock work. - f Saturday was indeed a good day for the hundreds of Sunday school . peonle who 'ithered at Center. The next annual meeting will be hsld with the Broad Ridge school "-tnfday - Mart the first Sunday in October, 1916. Married After Many Tria's and Dis appointments. After trvine in vain for many hours and riding many miles. Mr. Rowland C. Stone anH Miss Flora Lawson. both of the Broad Ridire section, were happily married at a lAt.n Vtmiw Oattivlntr nin-'ht f C t rn a jaie nour oatuzuay m'". ,vir. 1 -1-i 1 -.-. C lirst tnea u get ucen c nere, out, being refused on account of the fact; that the bride-to-bc was under age, I16 a-n au.tVan,Jf?ade. 3nl'?Jj to Whiteville, taking the girl along, but W.a3e.f,us?,1 m "i - ner at Vhiteyille However, where there is a will there is a way, and; where there is true love there is a ...111 !, ..f nnA an-I to driver made a cross-country drive to Dillon, S. C, and it "was there that the license was secured and the few words that made two hearts hap- were spoken. The party arriv ed back her,, about 11 o'clock Satur day night. It was of course, a-runaway affair. Notices of New Advertisements. Legal notice of sale of lamd T. L. Johnson. R. E. Lee, commission ers. . , Long-time loans on improved farm lands Fidelity Insurance & Realty Co. 75 acres land for sale near Orrum. Man wanted to help at dairy. Notice of sheriff's sale under ex ecution. . Notice of dissolution of firm of Edmunds & Barnes. I Farm for sale. . ! More extensive service is assured for Ford owners Robeson Auto Co. Notice of sale of -land for town. Cottage for rent. Reward for return of hound dog. "Chain Tread" tires People's Ga ranere. Program at. Pastime. Among the Sick. Mr. P. P. Green, who underwent an operation for head trouble at the Cumberland General hosp;tal in Fay etteville two weeks ago, returned this morninsr tff" Fayetteville for a second operation. Mr. Green has been getting along nicely since the f:rst operation and hones to be com pletely and permanently relieved by the second operation. Washington. Oct. 3 The War De partment tonight announced that there was little prospect of reopen- in? the Panama Canal before o- verflDer 1. . oince me cuanuci w- blocked by a slide from the east bank north of Gold Hill September 20. the movement has continued steadily, pouring earth and rock into the wa- i t wnne tn areages wortea away in a vaia effort to keen ft open. f - Cf )TTOT AND "COTTON SEED ; idling cotton is worth 11 1-4 ine pouna on the local market ,T,' B,r'tt mawiing 11 i-z cents. Coton seed are bringing 52 cents the ousnei. BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL . NEWS An additional room is being built t the Baptist parsonage, Sixth and vValnut streets. v The regular meeting of St. Al- morrow evening at 7:30 . a finn-irahirii t 1 trt M: A t, ".IH- . : . Anderson t their home. Sixth and Pine, last night The board of county commission ers and the county tward of education are in session today and quite a num ber of neople are. in- town. " The Robeson Auto Co. has install ed a 600 eallcn Wavne self -measur- rr gagolins tank on Chestnut street. near the office and storage rooms occupied by the company. Mr. R. D. Caldwell left Fri day for New York and Baltimore, where he wilt spend several days buy ing goods for the large department store of R. D. Caldwell & Son. Dr. W. O. Edmund and Mr. J. C. Barnes, who had been conducting a grocery store on West Fourth street, have dissolved partnership and Dr. r Edmund will continue the business alone. Mr. D. R. Britt and family, formerly of Robeson, but who have been living at Bolton for some time, passed through town today en route to Dunn, where Mr. Britt has ac cepted a position. Tax Collector H II. Redfearn is advertising in this issue land to be sold on November 1 for town taxes. It is not a long list, which would seem to Indicate that peo ple have been paying taxes,. despite the late lamented hard times. Mr. J. H. Felts, Jr., man ager of the Robeson Auto Co., left Saturday for Charlotte ' where he will make arrangements for another shipment of Ford autos, for which this company is the agent. Mr. Felts says he could sell any quantity of Fords if h was able to get them as fas as orders come in. A small blaze which started in dust at the pIant of the Kinesdale Lumber Company Friday ieht about 11 o'clock was put out oy tne members oi the mill fire com pany bef ore damage had been done. , Xhe first whistle at the mill sr3ve the alarm and many from town htirrjed out to the mill, but found nn thir-nrrivni thnf the i,, been extinguished. " V W License has been issued for the marriage of Harvey Taylor and Cora Britt; Willie Edwards and Dollie Edwards; Pete Miller and Mit tie Grimsley. License was issued during last month for 36 couples and a number were turned away with sad arid aching hearts because of the fact that their beloved ones were under age and the parents would not arrange the proper credentials. Mesdames Irving Jenkins, N. A. HikUllll.l X Thompson and L. T. Townsend will pQ toniom)w to Charlotte to attend the ninet(enth annual convetiorr of the Unite(1 Dao(?hters of the Confed- eracy, which will be held in that citv fcud'avs . lKKinnTJr g tomorro-.v. Mes- ame. Jenkins and Thompson are ele tM from the Robes!0n chapter, c Mrs. Townsend roes a i i,:u... v, n "'"""K" vl vicu a uwr ter. Mrs. R. E. Sentelle and daugh ter, Miss Helen, arrived last week from Prof. Sentelle's country home in the mountains near Waynesville, where Mr. Sentelle and family spent the summer. Mrs. Sentelle brought seme most delicious apples from Mr. Sentelle's orchard, some that are equal in taste and appearance to any to be found anywhere. This report er was presented with some of the apples that's why he is in position to . know so much about them. Mr. Grover Williamson, who lives with his father, Mr S. G. Wil liamson, on rute 4 from Lumberton brought in even one dozen sweet po tatoes that grew on his father's farm Friay that made a nice bushel. Mr. Williamson walked off with the prize offered for the largest potato when . the exhibit was held in Lumberton last fall and will no doubt have some extra large ones on exhibition at the Farm Products and Poultry Exhibit to be held in Lumberton Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, November 10, 11 and 12. Mr. E. S. McNeill, who has been at work for the Du Pont Powder Co. at the plant at Hopewell, Va near Petersburg, came home Friday night and,, left again last "night for Petersburg. Mrs. McNeill will join him at Petersburg in a few days. Mr. McNeill said he had a sample of guncotton along and was going; to bring a piece around to The Rob esonian office to show it and. illus trate how it explodes-r-not that he hns anything against anybody in the office but just to show how. But he did not do it and maybe if he had everybody in the of f icwould have ' I reaten a hasty retreat. ' DR. W. W. PARKER Specialist in Fitting Glasses and Relieving Eye Discomforts Phone, Office 126, Residence 189 Lumberton, N. C V.
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