North Carolina Newspapers

r n ESTABLISHED 1870. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. SIM A YEAR, .DUB IN ADVA VOL XLVI LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1 , 1915. NUMBER 74 tUUniUI, UUU - AJiU 1KU III . . VILLA WILL DEFY U. S, ' Says He Will Attack Mexican Town of Agua Prieta Regardless of Any Actioa United States Troops May .Take. Dcuglass, Ariz., Dispatch, Oct. SI. ' , Villa troops invading Sonora ar rived tadav within striking distance - of Agua Prieta, opposite here, and - the expected attack against the Car "ranza rarrison apparently is a mat- ur of boors. Advance cavalry of the - - invaders halted late today. 3 1-2 miles east of Agua, pritta. General Fran cesco Villa; who arrived at tne in ( ternational border, several miles fur ther east, a few hours earlier, talked with Americans across the boundary and ennounced that he intended to at tack the Mexican town, regardless of any action United States troop3 might .take. "If necessary, I will fight the United States army assembled along . the border, he said. t General Villa learned for the first , time today that permission had been given by the United States govern ment for Carranza to move troops - through American territory to ' rein- " force the Agua Prieta garrison. : Four Carranza troop trains journeying through United States territory ar rived tonight bringing the fighting '.strength of thesCarranza garrison to 6,000 men. Villa, according to Teihblte f stlmatjis has 10,000 ol . -' cl'ers. .:" v " It was expected here that Villa would open thft engagement as quick. ' v aa nnasihlA Hfxniio nf tht rondi- tioit-of -lite J",mwar fcfsf iW were thirsty tonight in, positions for from water and yscant supplies of food. It is believed Villa contemplates moving his main" body, into position sometime during tni night, follow ing OTie of his favorite plans, ; Synod Meets Next at Salisbury Ba rium Springs Orphanage Report. . The synod of North Carolina,; in session at-Gastonia last week, se. lected Fivrst church Salisbury, R as r Hit place . for tha" meeting. nextyear and thd time is the 4th Tuesday m '. Occobcr.; ;, ' i h "t ? A " ' Thi.' report of the Barium Springs )rphanage shewed 202 children in "tlio instiutien; a 'school building and ' auditorium recently completed , ahd, a - contract Jet tor rntfal heating plant at the , cost of 511,500. The tarm howd Ti nrofit nf flhtvut i.E00t tfMirVl " fawn. .900. and dairv 8400. --Thef support fund last year amounted 'to k . S25.104.90: building and eriuipment ' fund, $4,726.68; . bequests, $2,025.2'. ' The report ' recommended apportion ment of $52,000 among churches tcr - "upport of orph'inage during the com ing year. Dr. H. G. Hill submitted the report and despite )iis '-'80-odd years made a splendid impression. - A hitn Man Taken "From Jail and Lynched in Mississippi Columbia; Miss., Dispatch, Oct. 31 Jack Hughes, SO years old, member of a prominent family of Washington Parish, La., was taken from the coun. tv mil here earlv today by a party of masked men and hanged to a tree a short distance outside the city nm its. Hughes was under arrest in connection with the death of Larue Holloway, a well known young man cf this place, -' who was shot and killed near here on the night of Oc tober 21 According to the authorities, per ; sons who witnesse dthe killing of Holloway in a lumber camp near here, said that Hughes shot the young man , in the back without provocation. Hol- loway St me i:me, It wis emu, was engaged in a fight with another per son whil Hughes was cn-looker. U. S. Troops Entrenched Near Mex ican Border. Douglass, Ariz., Dispatch, Oct. 30. Three thousand men of the Sixth United States infantry brigade en trenched today within a few fnet of the Mexican boundary, ready to in terfere if an attack on the Carran za garrison of Agua Prieta, Sonera, bv the Villa Army, expected bunctay or Monday, should result in shoot- ; ing into American tentory. COTTON GINNED IN ROBESON Special to The Robesonian. Red Springs, R. F. D. 2, Nov. 1 There were 26,203 bales of cotton counting round as half bales, ginned in Robeson county from the crop of 1915 prior to October 18,. 1915, as compared with 30.984'" bales ginned prior to October 18, 1914 F D. McK. McARTHUR. Cotton Crop Almost Harvested. From all sections of the . county comes the report that the cotton crop :v almost harvested. Wnile the crop is short the ideal weather which has prevailed during tne fall months has had a deal to do with the crop be ing so quickly gathered. Many of the gins are now only rnnning about half time. Fsranpl Convict Captured. Nole Jordan, colored, who recently " escaped. fronTchain gang No. 1, aftoi serving 9 months of a 14 montha' sentence for larceny, has been cap tured, and now has his same joo on the roads. - : Candidate Hartness in Town. Mr. J. A. Harness of Statesville. who is a candidate for Secretary of State, lis h Lumberton visitor to day. Mf. Hartness savs he came to see the folks down this way. COTTON AND COTTON SEED ' M'dding cotton is selling on .the local maret today fcr" 11 t-4,eents ihe pound; strict middling 11-1-2. Seed, 55 1-2 cents the bushel. SUMMARY OF THE WAR - JfEWS Large Secticii ofScrbia in Hands of invaders Strong Fortress of Piroi rails to Bulgarians rrench and . Germans Figuting Desperately in France Germans Make Advance on Russian- Front. . . : -A large section of Serbia is now in tko hands of the invaders. The Aus trians have penetrated Serbian terri tory c-n.lhe Bosnian frontier and an Austrian column nas advanced south, ward from Valjevo to Razana, while German-forces, moving from the north and northwest have entered Milantivac. These places, lie from 85 to 45 miles couth of the SaveC river, indicating that the Austro-German advance has not been so slow as might be inferred from recent reports.? V'V,. ; '' -. In southern Serbja, the strong fort ress of Pirc t, east of Nish and guard ing the war capital, has fallen to the Bulgarians. . Still further south the Bulgarians are lreportedto have re captured Veles.'at a cost of 25,000 men. ;.''-.' ' : ' Austrians and Gentians are also moving against Kraguyevatz in the norlh, the Serbian munitions strong hold, and according to 'the Austrian official statement the - height south west of Lapowa,," only i short dis. tanis f rom , Kraguyevatz, is in Ger man hands. : It is reported from Sofia that the Anglo-French fleet has resumed the bombardment of Bulgaria's Aegean coast. " I k . rf-ii . . v. - . ir'.vta and nampagros' regions - oi i ii. . - " A - both sides claim successes at dif "arent points, but each also admits defeat. Thft Germans . in :Cham . -ne attacked over a five mile front ""t . -"vHh tl?e exception of reaching the summit of Tahurs' Hill were re nilsed'with heavy losses, according to Tha Germans, on their nart, an nounc? theca-ture of a French po. fii-'fcn exteri'dinr ever 1,200 yards in -trf.'but ndmit tnat north of ' Le Wnil, -in Champagnes projecting trpuch section was lost to Overwhelm- " numbers On.the Runshn front tha Germans t.- driven hick the Russians from Plakanan on the Missa river south of Fr.-a while farther south in the re Winn -kf Cirtorysk "additional posi tions have been taken from the Rus- elim?. bv General vo von Lingen's forces Afon-r the Stirpa river in GMcia the Rv-'ians ?re "n the bffpnsive: The great offensive of the Itnliini ij?nrf- th Tolmino and -Gorizia bj'.'-fTerhofldi n-innR -The .semi-official Overseas News, i,-v flf TerTin denios reports that. Pr'rpe von Buelcw has taken steos to. i!,'rd te opnine of near? negotia tions. It is nsseHed that he has not been churared with such a task. Vonrs Mffoo "inJ Purannnla Trnm ' -1 irCx :-n,7.r Pp. cZ Raynham, Oct. 80 Picking peas is (-ihe ordar o fthe day around here and lb?v; m s bumper crop. ,Mrs. J. R. Talbot and two children leff lust Wednesday for Pittburg, Pa to join ner husband. Hope she will; s her new heme. Mr. Thomas Cul-j like crem BPCM,.sunaay p. m.-in rair: wont ...-Mrs. F. M. Ivey and three. fn?iary RTlftrnS;lVnVffcn I I.uUcr Bullock, j near Raft Swamp., ... v Mr. Herbert Culbreth spent last; veek near Moss Neck. Miss Naomi Ivey is spending some time with her aunts near Rowland. Messrs. Dewey Hr.ll and Luther Hall left Wednesday n. r.i. to attend tha fair at Fayetteville. Thev are expected home-tonight. ?Jr. Joel Ivey says he is going to. mc-ve back to nis place ana eat nog ond hominy and dry peas. He has olrsady picked 75 bushels and is still risking pens. ' Misses Bertha and Nettie Town "nd and brother Harvie of Raft Swamp attended church here Sunday. Afonrr the Sick. v TVemnon hosoital notes: Mrs. M. M. Singletary. R. F. D. - No. 3, who 73S operated on last Thursday, is( melting On nicely. Miss Gertrude, Arhwortb.-who was operated on for -'-ver.dicitis last Wednesday, is gt- t nc along very well. Mrs. Charlie Tnvlcr of .West Lumberton, who-ad been very sick If or several weeks with fever, was able to return home Sunday. Mrs. J. V. Free, who was onprated on few days ago, will be ''e to return to her home in town this week. Mrs. J. R. Poole and lit tle Elizabeth Thomas, both of whom as mentioned before, underwent ope ntion . pome time aeo. were able to! return to their homes last week. The colored boy Sheltcn Thompson, who was so badly wounded in the abdo men by a pistol shot two. weeks ago and was immediately. .operated on, having received severe bullet punc tures of intestines, will be able to go home Wednesday, Charles M. Walters died in Ral f itrbt vesterdav as he was serving the last day as chief of police of that city, which position he had held for rwo end a half years. Charles r . Koonce succeeds him today. George Bates was stabbed to, death Saturday, night in Asheville, and his father, Andrew Bates, . at whose V'ome the killing occurred, and John -Killian , were arrested, the coroner's jurv finding that one of them was guilty The plant of the Royster Mills at Tnrboro has been eouipped with ma chinery especially designed for the production of oil from peanuts. The oeajiut produces from 50 to 60 gal lons to the ton. while the average from cotton seed is 47 gallons, and peanut on sells higher than the cot ton seed product. ROWLAND AND COTTON VALLEY A Good Town in "a Good Fj3iin SerUCn Weil-Lighted Streets Up to-Date Business Houses, , Good . School, Attractive - Hemes Abo Beautiful Homes, Supplied With Modern Conveniences in Surround' ing Country - Breaking f Away From Dependence on Cotton Brings Prosperity .-.-'.- . t. -' . Bounded on the south by the f am ous "Cotton Valley" and" on the west. north and east by farming lands that are just as productive as those of 4he "vality'Y: 'Rowland, one -t ot Kobeson'aJnany . fast-growing and progressive towns 13 . already a ingnty good town with a future, as bright as t)ie stars that shine on a uiir October night. It was the good fortune of this reporter to spend a few hours " in Rowland and among (lie kind and hospitable people that make up its citizenry ; Saturday of last week. Perhaps the firsc thing that ' im presses a visitor to that town is its "white way",-which makes the town, it is said, the best-lighted of its size in the world. The thing that next attracts one is . the. handsome and up-to-date business houses that line the well-lighted streets. In these buildings can be seen well kept stocks oi merchandise of - all kinds, and the pleasant " way 1 In which th salesmen and salesladies in these merchandising makes one i . i ,i . l- L : rr . .T Krt. nnniiCtflrl-fcr' ' - rreA apprewated Aside from ths business houses. Rowland has one of , the best high- school buildings to be found in this entire section, the, scnool oeing a State high school and public school combined. The beautiful w?H-kapt grounds about tne school building show .the i interest the progressive people of that entire section take in th.5ir school. ' The town is spotted ttlso, with churches -of the . ' Various denominations and there are rseme of . the mo3t beautiful residences in to? town to be found anywhere "Riding cut into the country round ; r.bout Rowland cne -will see country homes just as beautiful and costly and well cared for as those in town. These beautiful f arm3 . and " modern farm homes surrounded by all mod. crn conveniences give one an idea of many of the attractive things that make farm' and country life . ideal. Here we might add.it takes a prd" gressive and enterprising agricul tural district to back un ft' town in order that it may be one worth while. Perhans the irreatest mistake the Perhaps - the greatest mistake the farmers of , the section round about Rowland ever made is that in the past they have relied too much on "King Coton". Only one year. ago we were in the same good town, but - l i ' : t L" "1K ""5 i on account of the low price of cot- ton; but this year the farmers have farmed in a way to be able to be independent and the faces that' were wrinkled with frowns a year ago are ! now beaming like the golden sun- Hght and smile3 are evident on ev. e s:je . Ff0m personal observation, the cotton this year seems to be better n tht Rprtinn shmit Rowland thnn nywhere else in the great county of ptMft fimi. mil that On farmer remarked that " . the crop was going to be even bet ter than had been expected before it was gathered. This fact, and the high prices, and the fact that the farmers have their corn, hay, pota toes, syrup- and other things they have been buying, at home, is enough to make folks smile and be happy. This . short .article does not pre tend to show up the many good im. pression made'-bv my visit. To ap preciate the kindness and hospitality of the good people vof that good town you will have to go and see. HAPPY JACK. Recorder's Court. The following cases have been ia- poted of by Recorder E. M. Britt since Thursday of last week: L. Fair- cloth, false pretense, prayer for th. nairfflcnt of cost; Dolph Hardin, Indian, drunk! and disorderly, judgment sispjnded cn payment of cost; Walter Inmau. drunk and disorderly, prayer for judg. ment continued on payment of cot; Joel Britt, false pretense, judgment suspended on the payment of c;bt; Emerson McRae, colored, vagrancy, 90 days on roads; Chas. Beatie, coi oredj retailing, prayer for judgment continued on payment of cost; Tra.-y Lamb, colored, retailing, $25 and cost. "" STATE NEWS Wilmington Star, Nov. 1: The wood. working plant of the Levering Man uf acturing Co., Inc., situated just out side the city limits, on Smith's Creek, was totally destroyed by fir of an unknown origin yesterday morning shortly before noon. The loss is estimated at upward of $60,000, par tially covered by insurance, although officers of the company would make no statement whatever as to the fire beyond the fact that it had taken ilace. . ' The North Carolina Shakespeare Ter-CentenaryAssociation was formal ly organized in Winston.Salem Fri day. Mrs. Lindsay Patterson of Winston-Salem was elected president. The work of this organization is to fos ter Statewide interest in the celebra tion of Shakespeare's ter-centenary. In the leading cities of the Common wealth pageants and plays will be fiv en with a celebration of wide propor tions by the W5nston.ShIem chap ter in conjunction with Salem College. CHAUTAUQUA, NEXT FALL ""- ii I. fc. Six -Chautauqua, Attractions Last Week Enjoyed by Large Audiences! Pl?irae'4l' lting Thi. Week tl ' :" TJy board of county commissi,-Three-Davs' Cour- nu,r.nHi Chestnut Street Methodist Unar-f Pnd the eountv boarrf f Three-Davs ; Course C. for Next:.Fa-t : Tbe 8-day Chautauqua last week was enjoyed "by fairly large -cmwus at t hft afternoon ' performances and by a .full ; house for every evehing cuvniisiitc. jrrscucaiiy me enure lower floor, of the opera-house was sold in advance In season tickets' and the gallery was j also lull for nearly every performsnce.T 4 Between tho lecture and the con cert Saturdays evening Mr. R. D. Caldwell announced fcr the local com. mitteetQatsfuarahteed tbe" $300 nec essary to? secure' the Chautauqua, that receipts had amounted to some thing overr$340, hence the local com mittee not only does not lse any thing on the guarantee this year but has a small surplus, as half of all over 300 is retained by the com :Ue2. This will be used as a nucleus for a fund for a' community rest room, v Mr. Caldwell announced that nlreedy 25 men had signed the con tract guaranteeing ths Chautaumm for next years and names sufficient to bring the number of guarantors to more than thirty i were secured i a few minutes upon .Mr. Caldwell's in vitation. After Enough -signatures cre secured to the contract, cards were distributed in the audience and nany signed for the number of seats they would, obligate to take for the next Chautauqua., - Ihe Chautauqua bids fair to be a I . vauo B1 v i a lr4f nsoV's JiXvi-m,' Ai ,V Last week's cftUrBe was the" second. and the attractions last week were attended by much larger crowds than attended last spring. All the at tractions are high class. '.The lec. tures by Col. George A. Gearhart and Dr. Albert Marion Hyde, the latter platform manager, were of a hfcb order and were alone worth the price of a season ticket. The same might be said of any two of the at tractions. Perhaps , the most enjoy able entertainments were given by Durno, the magician and ventrilo quist. Durno did many marvelous stunts and kept his audiences in an rproar of -!aughterduring both per formances. Eugene Lockhart, the : Scotch-Canadian entertainer, was; fine, also the Tyrolean Aln:nr yodlers. " Lumborton was given a treat in the. Chautauqua last week and all wjic enjoyed those entertainments will look forward to the coming of the Chautauqua again. It is hoped that mrcV more will be realized for local ,y;-pOfe3 frcm the next Chautauqua. WAGES IMPROVING Conditions Rapidly Returning to Nor mal According to Trades Figures. Raleigh News and Observer. Wages Wages in the trades in North Car - olint show a considerable improvement over wages of last year and the in dications are that the conditions of employment in the State are rapidly rntcrmng to normal, according to the statement of Commissioner of Labor md Printing M. L. Shipman in the Trades chapter of his annual report now under compilation. Late figures secured bv the office make fuller fig vres possible this year than ever be fore. - . ' "There has been considerable fall- :ng off of employment," says that re port, "since the last report was is sued, due. it is believed, to fright on account of the European war. and on account of the low price of cotton, th influence of which was to stag nate business in this territory. Due to this result, wages show a slight decrease as against last year. At the rresent time a view of the field seems to indicate that improvement has al ready set in, and that conditions of employment will soon return to nor. -1. and that wae-es will rise to their rormr level. "The average wages of the differ ent trades reported are as follows: Avtomobile mechanic, $1.50; black fmith, $1.88; boilermaker, $3.43; brickmason, $4.21; cabinet maker, $1.92; carpenter, $2.16; contractor, $2.31; conductor, $4.25; electrician, tS3.00: electric eneineer. $1.42: en Hneer, $2.50; foreman car shop, $3.50: machinist. $3.07: molder. $2.75; painter, $2.65; plasterer, $4.13; plum ber, $4.50; stonecutter, $3.50; wood worker, $1.53. "Joe Grant, a Greene county farm er, has never had any confidence in hanks and has kept hia savings in" a trunk-at his heme. He had accum utated the sum of . $2,250 and the oth er day when he went' to look at it in hn trunk the motley 'was gone. Some one had Btolen the money and then had locked the trunk. THE SHIFTLESS FARMER AND IHE NON-ADVERTISER The farmer who plants his seed in the ground -and then lets it grow as it will without further cultivation is like the business man who buys a stock of goods, opens his doors and is satisfied with what trade natural- 'v drifts in. But the advertising firm is like the progressive farmer who works In his field day after day and is rewarded with a big crop. True, the shiftless farmer gets as much p?r bushel for his grain as the farm er who spends all summer in the field- but he does not have as many bushels to sell. And so it is with the business house? - The progressive house advertises all the time and as a result makes so many sales at a sma'l rril' that its total gain are far more than the non-advertiser who is satisfied with a few big profits on a . few scattering sales. The wise man or woman knows it pays to trade with firms that advertise. .f -CHURCH NEWS i trnj v-ooierence lui evemag, r A protracted meetinir was bemin at Chestnut Street Methodiiit church yterday;-;Rev. Dr. W. B. North wul do tne oreachinp-. SprvirM will b 9 held each evening until further nouce at o clock. V,8 ",a,Fea5wof Dunn, a gueti Miss Lina Goueh. delihteJ thel congregation at Chestnut Street Methodist cnurch with a solo at the tftnic vesterdav morning Rev. J. H. Hall, presiding elder of the-Rockingham district, preached at ir.is cnurcn last evening and after the service held the last quarterly con ference' for the Conference year. For the ensuing year the old Dowd ot tewards was re-elected, as follows: O. C. Norment, C. B. Townsend, W. H. Humphrey, A. E. White, G. M. Whitfield, N. P. Andrews, L. C. Townsend, L. T. Townsend, J.-A. Boone, Sr., D. D. French, C. V. Brown, J. A. Sharpe. L. T. Town send was elected recording steward; A. E. White, district steward; K. M. Barnes, superintendent of Sunday school, re-elected, O. C. Norment and J. A. Sharpe, Assistants;, II. .,E. Stacy, lay leader." Mr. Hall preached at Pine Grove church, Lumberton circuit,cf which Rev. N. L. Seabolt is pastor, yester day morning and held quarterly con ference for that circuit Saturday: - . i Rehennn Rantint Aawint1nn at I imi.l CTWeeiP' The 33d annual session of the Rub eson Association will be held with the church at Lumber Bridge Wednes day, Thursday and Friday of this week. November 3, 4 and 5. Mr. L. R. Varser.cf Lumberton is moderator, Following is the order of business Wednesday 1J:00 a. m Sermon Alexander Miller; 12:00 m. organiza tion; 1:30 p. m. Biblical Recorder I.. P. Hedgpeth; 1:45 p. m. Ministers' Relief---T. 4t.- Johnson; 2:15 p..m. Laymen s Movement R. D. Cald well; 2:45 p. m. Home Missions J, F. -Davis. Thursday 9:30 a. m. Devotional; 9:45 a. m. Woman's Work D. P. Bridges; 10:15 a. m. Christian Edu cfit on - Rev. C. L. Greaves; 11:00 a; m. State Missions B Townsend; 1:30 p.m. Sunday Schools Frank Gough; 2:30 p.-'m." Orphanage J. i h Jen kins. .,. ,. ;" . : -' Friday 9 :3Q a . m . Devotional ; 9:45 a m. Condition of the Church.es V. R. Davis; 10:30 a. m. Foreign Missions J. A. Snow, 11:00 a. m. Miscellaneous business. - - - - Rev. A. J. Groves returned Sat urday night from Bethlehem church, Bladen county, where cn Saturday he made an address to the Bladen circuit Sunday school conference. Successful Revival at St. Pauls. St. Pauls Messenger, Oct. 28. Quite a successful revival service closed this week at the Baptist church, with ten additions to the church. Methodists Bui'ding Church in East Lumberton. The congregation of the East Lum berton Methodist church have recent ly begun the erection of an up-to-date new church building. The build ing will seat about 400 when com pleted. There will be seven class rooms besides the auditorium to be used by the Sunday school, of which Mayor A. E. White. is superintend ent. Rev. N. L. Seabolt is pastor of the church. In the past the church and Sunday school has used the school building as a house- of worship. Graves of Flora McDonald's Children Sanford Express. .The Raleieh Times states that a large and well taken photograph oi the graves of the two children of Flora McDonald, who are bunea in Richmond county, near Mclntyre church, has been presented to the Hall of History by Mr. W. R. Cop pedge, superintendent of the public schools of that county. While Flora McDonald was living In the southern edge cf Montgomery county two of her children died of typhus fever, and were buried a short distance across the line of what i3 now Richmond county. They are marked only by rough stones from the vicinity, but Mr. A. W. McLean of Lumberton and some other gentlemen are arranging to cover the graves with concrete and erect a grainte shaft. The graves are in the woods and recently the timber was cut and log wagons knocked aside the head-stones. Mr. A. Rowland Bullock of route 1 from Fairmont began work in Mr. A. Weinstein's department store this morning and will assist in the store fox" several days while Mr. Weinstein 3 m New York buying goods. Mr. Frank Gough returned this morning from Union, S. C, where last week he purchased a $10,000 stock of shoes for the large department store of Messrs. White & Gough. Special attention is directed to this purchase in an advertisement else, where in this paper in addition to the page ad of this firm. Postoffice robberies have been so numerous of late that an order has gene forth to all postmasters except of the first-class to keep on hand a rmaller number of stamps and other papers of commercial value and to guard them mere carefully. Reports to the Postoffice Department shows that 1,400 claims, aggregating a loss of $190,000, resulted from robbeiies of postoffices last year. They were received from nearly every section of the country. BRIEF ITOIS OF LOCAL NEWS are in regular session today. Mr. A. Weinstin ttriti VIa 11? whw h j F - " B MM a Wl 11. Vn 'Ir!'day byinjf J?ood for ill " uueai score lIilr. A V, G. WishW"i..'U np a wholesale fruit and nrodBr business in -the Ri k:iVp,c nut street, near the Union statian Um, t t n ,tat.I0i. tL 8arU,rfay,.hi3 xery store Bti-eet, into hi new store buildinr Cnesfnut street. ; j " - from1 Bar.ri"Ttn route No. S lM, tS s among the visitor Pprte the farmers almost through Piuie cotton in his section. T?w"The rJuh monthly meeting of Rcbeson Chapter. U. D. C will K held tomorrow aternoon .t 4 o"loek t the home of the president, Mrs. K. IJpctor, Elm and Sixth streetsT weVk-'en T1friiay nd Pt the mU t w S home of Mr. and Mrs. T W. Bullock. Mr. Horn the Fairmont Bapffi church yesterday moraning MK Back Swamp yesterdy afternoon. ifTi BJ L Hman and family It? LVPJ?' tor Southport,. wher. tu uixe cnarge as 1TH ; . of the light plant. Mr. ...... ,nnn ffoes 10 take eharge r"uw oy mr. Jonnnie McNeill., The Virgraitt & Carolina South ern wiU operate a Pullman from Lum berton to Richmond for the annual Thanksgiving football game between the Universities of North CarolS and V.rgmia. The V, & C. S. nsS iSVUVa "Zd from Lmberton to Richmond on- these occasions. . Mr. J.-'T. Barker returned Sat- djiph and Guilford counties in search ?;nJC-WS' b.ut e he could ' not f nd any at prices that would permit 9f his purchasing to sell. Mr. Bark fr returned via Fayetteville an! vis ited the Cumberland county fair. .Mr.; ,Uey McNair,who lives about r two miles from town on the Fayetteville road, brought thel edi tor four turnip this morning that are urge enough - to furnish fcr a large family several "messes". This is the second tim Mr.,MeNair t 3 thws remeberod the editor and it Wehlr anreeiatpd . - - eprcciated. r A cari reading- as follows was received this morning by The Robe scnan frcm Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Britt. who wer married in South Carolina nearly two weeks ago: "W .ire new on our way up the Hudson to Albany. From there we will go . Niagara Falls and from there via Lohigh Valley Ry. to New York City. We are having a fine trip." Mr. M. Jr Barker of the St. Fauls section was a Lumberton visi tors Saturday. Miss Pattie Odum, an orphan niece of Mr. Barker, who lives with him, underwent a serious operation at the Highsmith hospital in Fayetteville two weeks ago Satur day. Her condition has improved to such an extent that it is expected she will be abl to return home this week. Mr. and Mrs. II. C. Freeman re turned home Friday night from Blue field. W. Va., where they went early in August on a visit to relatives. While there Mr. Freeman secured employment in the car shops of th N. & W. Railroad, being promoted during his short service over men who had been employed in the shops a much longer time. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman may decide to return to Blue field to live. - While shifting freight cars at the local yards Thursday the R. & C freight crew 'allowed a car to gtt beyond control and it ran against a heavy loaded coal car with such force as to knock one end of it off the track at the end i-ur whi;u t was standing. The wheels were com pletely buried in the sand and while a force of hands worked all day Sat urday trying to get it back in place it is still on the ground. It js said 'st the car had 55 tons of coal on it. -; On account of her health Mrs. W. S. Wishart closed la3t night the board ing house she has been conducting at her home, Elm and Seventh streets. In his weekly letter in the Wilmington Star yesterday Mr. Wishart says of this change, ."For three generations this has been a warding house and more meals have been served there than in any other , Reuse now standing in Lumberton. It will seem strange indeed not- to be able to get meals at Mrs. Wishart's. A petition is being circulated . and signed by interested property owners to grant to the town for the purpose of a street a strip of land along the Carthage road upon their ronerty sufficient to give the road a . uniform width of 30 feet. The grant is to be in consideration of the wid ening and improvement of the road through the property of the signers. Tb'"s part of town' needs sewer and water connections and it is hoped that these improvements will follow improvement of the road or street. DR. W. W. PARKER Specialist in Fitting Glasses and Relieving Eye Discomforts Phone, Office 125, Residence 189 Luberton, N. C N