TEE KOBtCSOMAN. .MONDAY. FEBRUARY 7, 1916
Mw is The: Tame
To Do Spring Cleaning. After
Spring Cleaning Buy New Furni
ture, Floor!! Coverings, Window
Shadesand Lace Curtains.
We'have some of the Latest Models in Fur
niture, Newest Designs" in Floor Coverings and
Window Drapery and we can make your Home
look Brightand Cheerful. We sell for Cash or on
Reasonable terms.
When interested you can't do better than to
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well before you buy elsewhere.
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Don't Forget? to Take. Stock
IN
Robeson
NEW
Building
January 1st, 1916
All stockholders iri first series should take new stock in new se
ries because the first series will mature before another series opens.
BEGIN THE NEW YEAR RIGHT
STOP PAYING RENT AND OWN YOUR OWN HCME BY PAY
ING FOR IT WITH RENT MONEY
CALL ON C. V. BROWN AT THE NATIONAL BANK OF LUM
BERTON, who will cheerfully give any information you may de
sire on this subject. .
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PSsJ FINISH FOR THE' f0
lmSlM WALLS OF YOUR HOUSE
iff Pfe W
They
ATTENTION Landowners !
I am atill making loans on improved farm lands
in Robeson, Scotland and Hoke Counties.
i have the best loan proposition ever offered
in this section to owners of improved farms.
If you wish to borrow money on long time at
a low rate of interest with which to further improve
your farms, or buy other lands, call on or write me
at once.
No application considered for less than $3,000.00
A. T. McLEAN,
LUVBERTON, N. C.
HE ROBESCNIAN
N. C
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A CHILD'S TONGUE
- QUHWC IE 1 1 VCD flD
PftWFf ARF APTlVF
if
Cross, Feverish, Sick, Bilious,
Give Fruit Laxative at
Once
Every mother realizes, after piv-' area and we should be reasonably
ing her children "California Syrup' safe in getting seed free from Po.
of Figs," that this is their ideal lax-i toU Scao. For a precaution, how
ative, because they love its pleas-'ever, the following treatment is us
ant taste and it thoroughly cleanses; ed to destroy the scab disease on
the tender little stomach, liver and,1 before planting: Formalin (40
bowels without griping. " ! Pr cent) 8 .oz. to 15 gallons of wa-
WThen cross, irritable, feverish or : Soak seed before cutting for
breatrirhadrBtomacfi sourrlookn2
the tongue, Mother! If coated eive I , Colorado Belle or "Potato Bug".
a teaspoonful of this harmless "fruit Thl3 mwct does not come every sea
laxative," and in a few hours all the son. but the grower should keep a
foul, constipated .'waste, sour bile: fitse lookout for the bug nd begin
and undigested food passes out of .to spray as soon as the bugs show
the bowels, and you have a well, themselves. The most common and
playful child again. When its little1 ffecIV way ? control the potato
system is full of cotd, throat sore,! bu is to use Paris Green either m
5ias 'stomach-ache, diarrhoea. Sndi-I Per form putting on when the
gestion, colic-remember, a good in.;Plants are wet from dew or rain or
side cleansing" should always be the by ; fPT, "f. the Pans Green
fW treatment e-iven J solution. The following formula has
f ions o 'mothers fceeo "Cali-i Proved effective: One-half pound
fornia Syrup of Figs" handy: thev 1-2), of . Pans Green, f our pounds
know a teasooonful today saves a , " 1,me.
.i!u .u callons of water. Add enough wa-
. ... . , ... .
druererist lor-a ou-cent nou e --01 - t m-v.
' J c r?x
acres and grown-uns printed on the
bottler Beware of counterfeit sold
here, so dc-n't be fooled. Got M
c-enuine. made by "California Fi?
Sjrrup Company."
IRISH POTATO AND BEAN
Cultivation of These Two Important
CrcDS Value of Irish Potato as
Monev Cron is Now Thorouehlv Es-
tablished
(Bulletin prepared by H. T. Pros-
cot aoaictonf Tnrliiotrial Ifpnt. nf
the Seaboard Air Line Railway, Co.,
with headauarters at Hamlet. N . C. )
The Irish Potato
The value of the Irish potato as a
money crop is nw throughly estab-
lished in the South. To assure sue.
cess it's necessary to observe nrecau-
tions as to soil, preparation, fertil-
ization, seeds, etc. -
Soil. The Irish potato requires a
deen sandv soil well filled with or-
ganic matter. This combination of
soil nnd oftranic matter is especial-
-ly.--valuable- because - of its - natural and cut potatoes- can be used to
friableness, which prevents its pack- great advantage in feeding same to
in,? after a rain or baking in . a stock. The average yield of pota
drouffht and allows the free devel- mea should be from -40 to 50 bar-
epment of tubers. Soil should be rels per acre, varying . according to
well drained. climatic conditions, fertilization and
Preparation of Soil. Potatoes root cultivation? If potatoes are plant
deep and need the ground deeply and ed from the first to middle of Feb.
thoroughly prepared. It is advis-! ruary they should be ready for mar
able to prepare land several weeks ket about the first 'of June, this pe
bef ore nlantine. usine a two-horse ricd bein? between the Florida sea-
plow, turning over broadcast. The
depth of plowing will of course vary; ginia shipping season,
with the soil. If the land is deficient1 In Laurins county, S. C, a produc
in . vegetable matter the plowing: tion equal to 200 bushels per acre
should not be so deep; but the hu. has been readily secured as a fall
mus content of the soil increased and crop.
the depth of plowing increased pro-: Marketing. Standardize your pack
portionally. When subsoiling is done' eration to the best package demand
care must be taken not to do the ed by the trade. Grade your pota.
work when the subsoil is too wet j toes carefully.
or it will "puddle" and produce the. It should be borne in mind that
same bad effects as result from "pud-1 the coming season bears promise of
dling" the true soil. The running of; good returns from Irish potato cul
a disc harrow over the land just be-j tivation. Most careful investigation
fore planting has proved advantage- 0n the part of the United States De
ous. y partment of Agriculture shows that
Fertilizing. When rows have been the present shortage in the States
layed off with big shovel or middle! 0f Maine, New York, Pennsylvania
burster put down the fertilizer with' and Ohio exceeds 55,000,000 bushels,
distributor in bottom of furrow and j equal to about forty per cent short
mix well by using small shovel or j age in their usual crop production,
closed harrow. If seed come in con-' The very great prosperity in the
tact with fertilizer it might cause j manufacturing districts north and
them to decay. A balanced fertilizer! west of Washington is reflecting in
applied at the rate of 1,000 to 1,500, the prices of agricultural products,
pounds per acre should produce good' and the movement of the price of
results. All fertilizer should be ap-j Irish potatoes at the present time is
plied in row because the potato plants upward. ...
do not run their roots out far. Doj Under ordinary conditions this
not use lime or fresh stable manure1 country imports several million bush
on potato land as they induce growth! els of Irish potatoes. The conditions
of fungus which causes scab and' prevailing have, prevented, and will
h irhf if stah e manure is an-
nlied broadcast a few weeks before
planting it may be used to pood ad
vantage. Planting. In no other crop is the
securing ofeood seed of more im. I
portance. Northern grown seed are munerative crop for the coming sea
best for Southern production. Among. son.
the varieties which have given besti Other Crops After Potatoes. You
results are: . : should consider the fact that a well
"Norm western Rose," a medium prepared and cultivated Irish potato
early and large yielding potato: ; crop w 11 . bring you a cash return,
"Irish Cobbler," a -white potato and will enable you to use the same
with uniform size and shape, an ear- niprp. of land for other standard crops.
ly and big yieldcr: .
"Bliss Triumph," a round, fair
size potato, with red skin.
ien uuauus vl eu puiaiuca
are required to plant an acre wnen
the sows are 6 leet apart and po-
tatoes planted 15 to 18 inches ;n
the drill. Potatoes are usually Cut
with two pvbs to each niece or if
cut with a machine an ordinary size p
nntort intrt A nr R nippps. rptrarHlpss'
of the number of eyes. If potatoes' The bean crop is readily produced
are planted at an unfavorable sea- an,i in many sections has given ex
son dust lime over the cut surfaces; cellent returns. Among the favorite
to dry them so that decay ; may be varieties are the Red and Black Val
prevented. Planting should be done! entine, a stringless, round, green
from late January to and riot later j bean which is preferred in the mar
than the 20th of February in or-i ket. A very considerable demand
der to obtain best results. Cover; for this product exists in the cities
seed about four inches deep. land in the manufacturing communi-
Cultivation. Before the plants ap-1 ties of the Carolinas.
pear, a narrow snouia De run over;
'FJ0 l.Xh & 5IP 5!!
plants will come out more easily.
ThU insnra a hpttr stand. Ao soon
inta j
m wo mi ? w iJr- -ttin vuun t.
me
with harrow or cultivator and;
keep it up. frequently, until the plants . On good land, with careful prep
bloom. Every cultivation judicious-1 oration, 250 to 300 baskets per acr?
ly civen from the time the plants are; ran b? secured, and last season "t
up till they shade the ground will -;
!
now Mr. Jlavis God Rid of a Bad
Cough l
"Some time aeo-1 had a very had
cough" writes Lewis T. Davis. Black-1
water, Del. "My brother McCabe'"! had a severe pain .5n my back
Davis gave me a small bottle of i and could hardly move. I took about',
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Af-i two-thirds of -a 50c box of Foley;
ter taking this I bought half a doz-j Kidney Pills and now feel entirely
en bottles of it but only used one j well." Middle-aged and older men
of them as the cough left me and, and women find these safe pills re
I have not been troubled since." Ob-ieve sleep disturbing bladder ail-JsinahlelfiYerywhere-
omenta.
increase the yield, particularly
; there is a lack of rainfall. Lay by
i tfe crP with sma11 be'J s water will
stand around plant.
PoUto Scab. During the past sea-:
Agriculture has made strong efforts'
to prevent any diseased potatoes
iseeoj oeing snipped Irom part ofj
i lJie ortnern sea potato growing
1 tpr to slslfft lime then make naste
-.-- : . L -- 1 . t
end mix in the. Paris Green and add
Jfcga-are easily controlled
:- . 4ua k-1B r
in this way.
Digrinff. A turn plow is common,
ly used for digging. Three Yows
are thrown into one when potatoes
are graded in the field as is practic
ed in many sections. Sorters come
behind the plow and grade potatoes
in piles, making l's an d2'sv and culls.
Do not let potatoes stay in the sun
nftpr dia-o-iner. Place them imrned-
lately in barrels and cover. If pota-
toes are hauled to a grading house
m. cVioH a ho crrnHprl tVlfV Should bs
mbedTt4Jf!fiJ
possible and
should be handled care-
fully to prevent bruising. Potatoes
should be packed in bright clean
barrels, with clean covera These
Krrpls hold ten (ten) fpecks ami
are covered with burlap. If straight
Finve barrels are used two holes
should be cut in sides to give venti-
lation. -Ventilated or veneer barrels
sro used in manv s-ections. The cost
0f these barrels varies from 22c to
30c each at the factory. The small
son and the beginning of the Vir-
Hmiht ess continue to prevent uur
ine continuance of the war, the im
portation of any foreign grown po
tatoes to the United States. This
fact tends to the conclusion that the
Irish potato can be made a most re-
in Robeson county, N. C, the PasMeeling aroUnd, he said, to see how
season after a good yield of Irish, he stod
potatoes the area 'was- planted in j ,R f' said Mr Smitn j jon't
tpo aouuie crup ui " j-j
beans, yielding a. luxuriant remm w
both; and on your insn potato idaa-
you can plant corn, soja beans, peas,
sore-hum cane, and any otn
or- mnH ernn which coes into the
ground in June or july.
Tho Tican
Planting. flant your Dean crops
rly a5 Possiblefterdaneer f ro j
tt,pr first half of Anril.
mean me 1001. uou ...... v.., -
m.;. u.,iA nr1nf atv Ik:
Illiri S uuuiu uut cue I' 1 v "
market the latter part of May
was noted that a price enual to $1.0.1;
i 0 1 " r 1 1 . . tVmsiA ntinr
to $1.50 per basket (three .pert;!
measure) wa3 obtained.
Now Feels Entirely Well
A. H. Francis, Zenith, Kas., writes1,
Calomel, Sickens!
Don't Stay Bilious, Constipated
. t
4 ""nil:l s
BEST LIVER AND BOWEL
.? !l-niane7 yU, 8.ick: 8e 8
day s v work. Calomel is quicksilver
ana it salivates; calomel injures your
liver. -
If you are bilious; feel lazy, slug,
gish and all knocked out, if your
bowels are constipated and your head
aches or stomach is sour, just aVe a
poonful of harmless Dodson's Liv.
tr Tone instead of using sickening,
salivating calomel. Dodon's Liver
Tone i real liver medicine. You 11
know it next morning because you
will wake up feeling fine, your liver
will be working, your headache and
dizziness gone, your stomach will be
sweet and bowels regular. You will
feel like working. You'll be cheer,
ful; full of vigor and ambition.
Your druggist or dealer cells you
DEFENSE PROGRAM STRONG
tC?;. W-fEf.
vnange , SeaU.
Washington Cor., Feb. p. Raleigh
iicwa aim uDserver.
The campaign which has been
hislan for proper preparedness has
v. j 1 icatucui, nuauu in iavor Oil
forcibly demonst.ratpfl tn
day when it became known that in
the South, where the sentiment
against a large standing army and
formidable navy has been especially
wronjfj at least, u the views enter
by ..many representatives; from
uiai section" eouid be relied upon,
there has been a complete change
smce tne rresiaent started out on
his speech-making- tour. ; -
The people of the South have been
reading what the President has had
to say upon this question, which is
such vital importance to every one
of them. He has placed the true sit
uation squarely and plainly before
them, and the Congressmen are be.
ginning to hear from the folks at
home, -warning them against oppo
sition to the preparedness policy.
While a. week ago, it. was predict
ed by the antis in Congress that
they could count upon nearly half of
the members from the Southern
States to line up against the Pres
ident, today there are ..not a dozen
members from this section outspok
en in their antagonism to the up
building of the national defense.
A poll of the Southern Congress
men would show the line-up of the
various btate delegates as follows
Virginia, 11 Jar preparedness, " 1
against; North Carolina, 6 for. A
against; Tennessee, solid for prepar
edness; bouth Carolina, isolid for
preparedness; Georgia, 9 for,
against; Alabama, solid for prepar.
edness; Mississippi, 5 for, 1 against:
Louisiana, 5 for, 1 against; Texas,
11 for, 7 against, and Florida, 3 for,
1 against.
' The only Democrats who are still
outspoken in their opposition to the
National defense policy of the Presi
dent are Representatives Kitchin of
North Carolina; Tibbie, of Georgia;
Hensley. of Missouri; )ies, Davis
and Callaway, of Texas; Saunders,
of Virginia, and Bailey of Pennsyl
vania; Tavenner, of Illinois.
Mr.. Kitchin, the majority leader in
the House, stated today that up to
the present time he had received no
protests Ifrom Ihi3 district vigamst
the stand he has taken.
ROBESON POLITICAL TALK
As Seen by Candidate T. hi Smith
He Expects Robeson County Pol
itics Will Make You Sit Up and
Watch This Year Smith Thinks
His Candidacy Maybe Worries Bob
Lewis
Fayetteville Cor., Jan. 30, Wilming.
ton Star, by Asa L. Biggs.
Mr. Thomas Leak Smith, of Max
ton, was interviewed by your cor
respondent in regard to the outlook
for politics in Robeson county this
year.
Mr. Smith will be a candidate for
sheriff of Robeson county. He ha3
just been on a tour of the county,
think any of our fellows nave ex-
presse(i the desire to be congress-
Thpro is talk of one or more
. h la ers wno may how-
ever, none of them have made an-
nouncements to that effect.
"But talk about something inter
efting, Robeson county politics will
make you sit up and watch this year.
There art two factions in that couny
.i,d both of them are strong. One
vows it will put it over the other.
The farmers are lining up on both
s'des and the division is about equal.
When those two factions come tc-
getner at tne Pou3, imn
fun eoing on. I
"Well, I am running for sheriff and
t J T 1 1 - A 1 '11 t. '
t 4a.-A ia 'PaK' T-owia lnomiritr tin on.
the th 8ide. 'Bob' and myself are'
npiicvo it. wottips mm a wnoie im, iu
?.J ' ' v v v- - .int
.. r---i7 i" ii. .
naa its enect not only in the sections! todav from Vwinf u ' "s.tu'
visited by the execut.ve but in ev-i with Mra M S' t8 ha3
ery other part of the country as well. I al for treatment I t ru h3p,t-
Tms was forcibly demonstrator! tn. t .. v treatment. -Mrs. Mills is very
, K'mm "rran5 lo ue "CA jfubject of a grand jury investisra-
shenff rf Robeson . t pn jn Wavne Sunerior Court last
Mr. Smith is a Scotchman of the w.eekv Page killed a. negro in
old school and retain many Scotch, WayT1(? aftor the attor ha,j refUSed
! idpas. "Evn if it was my great
ereat grandfather that hailed from
n i .Ml I 1
.Scotland, I still pride myself that
there is some Scotch blood in me.
he concluded.
CHICHESTER S PlLLS
Wy- THE IAMON BR.VNI.- 'A.
Dranlat. Ask frilI.'fIKi-TEB,S
UIAUUVD KKANi PI LI, torts
ym k aowa u Best. Safest. Always Reliable
SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE
Its Horrible
iO.NL" WILL GIVE
CLEANSING TOU LVF.U HAD
V f I T" r , r-
50 cert bottIe of DodW Li.er
Tone under
that it will clean your sluggish Uv.
er better Chan nasty calomel; it
won't make vnn o!-L- q m.I
"' ;uu uiu cat
anything you trant without4being
salivated Your druggist guarantees
thatacbponf ol-will-start -yoor
liver, clean your bowels and straigBt
en you up by morning or you gel
your money back. Children gladly
take Dodson's Liver Tone because ft
i, pleasant asting and doesn't gripe
or cvramp or make them sick.
I am selling millions of bottles of
Dodaons Liver Tone to people who
have found that this pleasant yes-e.
table, liver medicine takes the place
of dangerou. calomel. Buy one bot
tle on my sound, reliable guarantee.
Ask your druggist about me
BUSINESS GOOD
AT ROWLAND
tiuU;"aliifference XotpH n..
So and a Vear Aga aClte Good
Newf0" untjr lown-Item9 of
1 Rau1 nrl r- T
Star. "
20, Wilmington
Rev II T
Miller, pastor
niucn improved and will i.
soon to the delight of her
friends.
nome,
many
- Miss Anna McQueen, who ha3 been
doing missionary work in Korea,
China, for the past four years ha3 re
turned homo)Mr. A. I). McKen
zie is in Laurinburg today on busi
ness. ..t. . o. uuuara oi uerro Oor
do, recently, spent several days here
with friendi. ...Mr. Ballard served
the First Baptist church of Rowland
for seven and one-half years. No
man has ever lived in Rowland who
made more friends.
The Rowland Oil and Fertilizer Co.,
13 running on full time, night and
, At tne high prices tne mida
are paying for seed, one can hardly
see how tney can pay very large d.v-
co nicai aim uu are
so high, they may come out all right.
The banks of Rowland have held
their annual meetings and each one
seems to be in prosperous condition.
Since the holidays the local and
through trains on the A. C. L. are
running on time again. The Coast
Line is now operating some very fine
trains in this, the main line from the
North to points South. The M. &
A. S. railroad is again running its
trains on time since the holiday rush.
The M. A. & S., is at all times ac
commodtaing to it3 patrons.
It is very easy to notice the dif
ferences in business now and a year
ago. Mules, buggies and wagons are
coming in by the carload and every
body seems to be in so much better
heart than a year ago. It is very
seldom you hear anyone mention hard
times now. If farmers and mer
chants will just continue this year
as they did last year, we will not
hear of any hard times again next
fall and winter. Almost everv farm
er has a barn full of corn, hay, fod
der and oats. And smokehouses are
full of meat and lard.. And these
good homemade products go to make
good times. The writer has not seen
v utoiu ui any iciLiiucr curuuig tv
this market as yet.
Hon. Joe Brown of Chadbourn
spent a few hours recently. No doubt
but each one of the candidates has
some friends. Capt. J. W. McLean,
the popular conductor on the M. A.
& S. railroad, ha3 moved hi3 family
from Alma here and is occupying the
house of the late Alex Watson.
Mr. F. P. McGirt and family
i i . . ... . .
nave moveu irom town to tneir line
country home about four miles west
of the railroad.
Friends note with much regret the
serious illness of Mrs. M. J. Mc
Cormack. While Mrs. McCormac was
visiting at the home of Mr. J. W.
Ward, she had a very severe stroke
of paralysis. At thi3 time she is not
able to be moved home.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde McCallum are
spending the week with home folks
here. Mr. McCallum represents the
Imperial Guano Company of Nor
folk, Va.
Mr. Tom Rogers of Red Springs is
here today on business. Dr. W. II.
Lennon has been confined to his
home for several days on account
of 'sickness. Mr. and Mrs. R. S.
Bond, of Pates, have moved back to
Rowland. Mr. Bond is in a hospital
in Richmond at present but is ex
pected home soon. He has for sev
eral years been manager for Liver
more & Co., of Pates. Mr. D. A.
Prevatt is spending the week in South
Carolina visiting friends and rela.
Policeman Page Had Right to Kill
effro
n. T-.a
p IStoidSE
the news from that town, and
is
, . ,
stolen to oe not overiy- popular witn
- wie ewmeni oi tne cifzens
. '
to- be arrested and shot the officer
in the face. That occurred a fairly
lne time asro. Friends of the no
Ticeman claim .that certain of his
enemies 7 in LaGmnge were resnon
sihlp for the affair coming before"
te Wayne grand jury. Not a true
bill, was the jury's deciskn. " -
Policeman Page is a son of Mr.
V. K. Pare-of T.'imherton .
F01EYTII DNEV PEIS
(QH BACKACHE. K.1Q H 1 1 SAN H LAQ O fe
of the
i