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f'l i ESTABLISHED 1870. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS- COUNTRY, GOD AND TliLTH $1.50 A YEAR. DUE IN ADVANCB VOL XL VII LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3,-1916. NUMBER 49 THE ROBESONIAN . i OPENING SALES AT FARMERS TOBACCO WAREHOUSE FINE GOOD PRICES ALSO TODAY .Average Price of $12.46 Paid for 31,172 Pounds of Tobacco on Lo cal Market at Opening Sales Yes terdayHighest Prices Ever Known at Opening Sales, Say Those Who Have Followed Sales For Years Many Buyers Here, All Leading Firms Being Represented Pros pects Bright for Good Prices to Continue Lumberton's tobacco market open ed yesterday with splendid sales at the Farmers Tobacco Warehouse. Men who have been attending sales for years said that the prices were the best they had ever known. Thirty-one thousand one hundred and seventy-two pounds of tobacco were sold at an average price of $12.46 the hundred. A large crowd attend ed the sales and all leading tobacco ron ns were represented. Mr. I n t t.,a v, iTJ v tir. FvnoT Tobacco i & l'ErAnTd?raCh s spirited biddine the sales were lively. :rwjijs;rh-Vi.. r. livlv. Other buyers on the floor were: L- B. Currin, representing R. P. Watson- & Co., of Wilson; John Hutchings, American Tobacco Co.; 'S. 0. Riley, R. J Reynolds Co. and Liggett & Myers; McEachern, Ex port Tobacco Co.; T. J. Bruton, Die ble Bros, of Danville; Warren, S. W. Venable Tobacco Co. of Durham; W. H. Willoughby, Whitehead To bacco Co. of Wilson; H. T., R. T. and R. M. Beasley, H. T. & R.T. Beasley & Co. of Apex; C. H. Par ham, C. H. Parham & Co. of Ox ford; W. H. Perry, Perry & Co. of Durham; W. T. Burton, Burton & . Co. of Danville. i' Buyers were all eager for obac co and farmers were, delighted with prices. Mr. R. R. Barnes of Barnes ville was an interested visitor on the floor and he declared the prices most satisfactory. Mr. E. 0. (Billy) Bransford says that prospects for good prices are bright. Associated with Mr. Brans ford in the warehouse this year is Mr. T. J. Noblin, who has been connected with the Mullins market for the past ten years and is a most successful tobacco man. He is well known to the farmers. There will be sales every day at this warehouse beginning at 10 o'clock, and Mr. Barnsford will be there to look after the interests of the farmers. The tobacco crop has been damag ed by excessive rains, of course, but he prices bid fair to continue good and much or tne snonage in qun tity no doubt will ne maae up iu - Collision of Autos the farmers by the prices. Lumbr-l Mr wflHe Bond son of the late ton people and all who visited the p; j Bond of Lumberton, was se market here yesterday were im-j rim,sIv injure(j jn a collision of autos mensely pleased with the sales at his home at New Bern Friday night Just. before gomgto press it is of ,agt week When th(J machines learned that about 10,000 pounds of YiAeA th machine in which Mr. tobacco were "d torfiy at Pri.! . 1 A , tZ start r a Tnrf' n pound. rartcrincr iroi iu tu ov v. FAIRMONT TOBACCO MARKET OPENS WELL Best Prices Ever Known Croo Short But Good Prices may Mane".. ITn Shortage to Grower Around 300,000 Pounds Already SoldCot ton Crop Badly Damaged by Rains But Corn is Good Special to The Rbesonian. Fairmont. AUff. Z ine riiiiiu. morirof nnnnoH nn vesterdavi ry? urtU7; "Witn prices me mnircov "here, considering the quality of the ""weed". The sales vesterdav amount ed to 113,814 pounds, mostly "lugs" tind the price avernged around 11 cents the pound. While the crop is much shorter than usual it is safe to pay that if prices remain as they are the shortage will be made up by nrices. Up to last night around 300 000 pounds of tobacco had been sold on the market here and it is expected that this market will handle two and onf-'half million pounds. The cotton crop in this section has teen badly damaeed by the heavv rains. The corn crop is lairiy gooa, Stat" Supt. Joyner Will Visit Phil fAi 'ohns Saturday State Superintendent J. Y. Joyner will arrive here tomorrow nrht aM pnerd the night here with Supt. J. "R. Poole, who will take him Sat urday to Philadelphus for a confer- ence witn. unairman l.ucius nf miintv board of education. Trustees oi me. wmi V"m tv, ci,i Farm Demonstrator L. K. Kiancn- ard in regard to eouipment : for .the) T,rm-..ie &c..u",. VT "7, "hat find out from Sup tie Jchoof I emiipment is necessary for tne scnooi. TTa will also b consulted about teach ers and other matters pertaining to -the school. No. of Teachers Who Have Been Awarded Certficiates At examinations for public school teachers held by Supt. J. R. Poole July 13, 14 and 15 the numbers who stood the examinations and were awarded certificates were: white 43 applied, 7 awarded first grade cer tificates, 25 second grade, 3 third grade; colored 32 applied, none first crade, 18 second grade, 1 third grade: Indian 15 applied, 3 first grade, 2 second grade, 2 third grade. Local Deal for 500 Bales of Cotton at 13 Cents Middling Base Mr. John T. Biggs of Lumberton, representing Mr. Sprunt of Wilming ton, purchased from Mr. R. R. Barnes of Barnesvile 500 bales 'of cotton at 13 cents, middling base, yesterday. BUIE NEWS BATCH Protracted Meeting Going On Crops Damaged by Rains and Roads in Bad Condition Rural Mail Car riers On the Job Personal Men tion Correspondence of The Robesonian. Buie, Aug. 2 Preaching istarted here last Sunday and will continue this week and probably longer. Kev. N. L. Seabolt is in charge. Ser vices at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. The heavy rains which have vis ited this section lately, as reported throughout the county have dam aged crops trough here badly and also have left roads in bad condi tion for travel. Mr. Paisley McMillan and some of his family are visiting at the home of his brother Mr. Hector McMilan, near Laurinburg, who has been very sick. Dr. Page visited Philadelphus yes terday and vaccinated several against typhoid. Messrs. ' Messrs. 'Warren Lurrie and K. f. prown and Miss Lena Brown spent Sunday evening at the home of Mr. mother, Mrs. Mary (Jurrie. We understand the rual earners here. Messrs. Ed Parnell and Jas. A. Townsend, have made their trips without much trouble during the heavy rains and bad roads , they had to encounter. Messrs. Douglas McMillan and Tom Lovin spent a few days at Atlantic Cilv and New York. ' We are sorry to report the con tinued sickness of Mr. and Mrs. John M ' Brown's litlte daughter, Cary, and a'so Miss Marguerite, who has been sick for a few days. CAPT. SHAW OF LUMBER BRIDGE BEST SHOT Commander of Co. A Yesterday Scor ed 174 Out of a Possible 200 Camp Glenn Special, Aug. 2, to Greensboro News. Two companies of the second in fantry took up the instruction rifle practice today after a lull of several days caused by a temporary short age of ammunition. These were com panies A, Tarboro, and B, Kinston. Capt. J. L. Shaw of Lumber Bridge, recently regimental adjutant and now commander of company A, led the shooting with a score of 174 out of a possible 200. For the past 30 years, the target record for the North Carolina troops lhas been claimed by the men of Lumber Bridge, and it was of interest to note that one of their number led on the range today. Mr Willi RnnH Sprionslv Injured in Bor.d was riding, but which some one ' . tifse was driving, was knocked 20 1 feet and turned completely around.) Mr. Bond is in St. Luke's hospital j in New Bern suffering with a dis located hip and ankle and a cut leg. If- ic limn rv flilf Yta will fDCArnr Xo one was killed. Mr. Bond, who . . 2S Vfiar ol(i ig a cousin ofl Mips Josephine Breece of Lumberton and a nephew of Mr. R. S. Bond of Rowland. 2-Weeks' Teachers' Institute Begins j .... .. . . As has been mentioned m The Robesonian, a 2-weeks' institute for white teachers will begin in Lumber- ton August 14. The sessions will be held in the graded school build ing. The institute will be conducted bv Supt. J. H. Huffington of the Goldsboro graded schools, iassisted by Miss Mary Arrington of the Rocky Mount cifcy Schools. Supt. J. R. Poole is confident that this will be one of the best institutes ever held in the county. Fresh Alligator Tried to Nab Dog and "Aunt" I.011 Departed in Haste "Aunt" Lou Whitted, colored, who J lives beside the road just beyond the overflow well across the river from town, deposes and says that during the rectnt riotous behavior of Lum ber river, when waters covered the face of the earth in that part of town, an alligator tried to yank a dog right off 'n her porch. "Aunt" Lou says that alligator looked as bie as a horse and that, man, she wont away from there as fast as she " " "- Qne of the heaviest raing of the season is reported to have fallen in e Ten Mile section Tuesday night, ' Miss Grace Barber, night ope rator for the Southern Bell Tele phone Co., arrived Monday from a visit to Blowing Rock. She was re lieved while away by Miss Elizabeth Burrows, Who returned to her home at Hamlet Tuesday afternoon. Mr. H. J. Sawyer, a rember of th-; Robeson Wholesale Grocery More, moved with his family Mon day into the McMillan house on East Fifth street Mr. Ira B. Mullis returned this morning from the western part of the State, where he has been investi gating damage to bridges for the State Highway Commission. He found all bridges washed away from Winston-Salem to Lenoir, with one exception. The State Highway Com mission has engineers investigating conditions in order that it may be able, jto advise boards of commission ers. ,of the various counties what is the- best thing to do, how bridges may be replaced most economically. DEUTSCHLAND PUTS TO SEA Giant German Submarine Cleared United States Shores Last Night and is Homeward Bound She Was Apparently Unobserved by Enemy Warships Norfolk, Va., Dispatch, August 2. The Deutschland, the giant German submarine, cleared the United States shores at 8:30 tonight, apparently unobserved by hostile craft, and now, so far as is known here, is safely on her homeward-bound journey. No untoward incident marred the departure of the Deutschland shortly before nighfall. She was accompan ied only by her tug nd a newspaper dispatch boat. She began an 18-mile dash from lower Chesapeake Bay to the Virginia capes, which ended about two hours later when her last light blinked out in the gloom. None of the Allied cruisers which has been waiting to intercept the sub sea liner nor the United States neu trality ships which have been patroll ing the neutral line so closely re cently was in sight at the time of the submarine's departure from the Capes. The Deutschland cleared from Bal timore Tuesday with a cargo of rub ber, nickle and possibly gold, 23 davs after her . sensational arrival in American waters from Bremen. The Bremen, sister ship of the Deutsch land, was expected to arrive with the Deutschland's departure, but up to last night she had not appeared. ANTI TYPHOID VACCINATION Appointments of County Health Of ficer Page for Free Vaccination Fine Interest Being Shown and 100 Doses Being Administered Each Day Dr. B. W. Page, county health of ficer, says that fine interest is be ing shown by the people about over the county in anti-typhoid vaccina tion and that he is vaccinating an rverage of 100 people a day. The treatment is free to all. Dr. Page's appointment for the next few days are: Barnesville Friday (Au gust 4), 4 p. .m.; Lumberton all day Saturday August 5 in his office; Tuesday, August 8, Ten Mile 3:30 p. m., Tolarsville 5 p. m.; Wednes day, August 9, Philadelphus 2:30 p. m., Red Springs 4 p. m.; Thursday, August 10, St Paul 5 p. m.; Friday, August 11, Fairmont 2 p. m., Pleas ant Grove 3:30 p. m., Reedy Branch 5 p. m. Congress Appropriates $540,000 for x Relief of Flood Sufferers . , . Washingtoir Dispatch7-AugT2. The House late today by unanimous vote, adopted the resolution as ap proved yesterday by the Senate ap propriating $540,000 for the relief of flood sufferers in Alabama, Mis sissippi, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina and North Carolina. The measure now goes to President Wilson and the fund will be available as soon as he signs it. The fund is to be spent under the direction of the War Department and will be used in purchasing food and medical supplies for the sufferers, and also rebuilding destroyed high ways and in purchasing seed for food crops. Employment also would be given to the destitute flood suffer ers during the next 90 days. At the Pastime The Pastime theatre offers today "Little Mary Sunshine", one of the most beautiful 5-reel feature pictures put out by Pathe. In this picture will be seen Mr. Henry King, who is well remembered in "Lumberton, hav ing been leading man in "Graustark" when it was presented in the opera house two or three years ago. Mr. King has been seen on the stage here several times and never failed to delight. If he was good on the legitimate stage he should be much better in pictures. A good regular service show is promised for tomor row. The "Mysteries of Myra," a 14-episode serial, will begin Satur day. Wednesday night of next week the "Iron Claw" will come to a close. On that night Francis X. Bushman and Henry B. Walthall will also be on the program. Recorder's Court Doug Alford, colorti, was tried before Recorder E. M. Britt Tues day on the charge of assault with deadly weapon on a son of Mr. C. K. Morgan, who lives near Marietta, and was given 6 months on the roads. It was in evidence that Alford struck Mr. Morgan's son on the head with ?. hoe. Three negroes were before the re corder yesterday on the charce of ""'mblini but the cause was dismiss ed. Farmers Union Picnic Saturday As has been mentioned in The Robesonian, there will be a Farm ers' Union picnic at Red Springs next Saturday. A colored excursion from Ma rion, S. C, is spending the day in town. On account of weather con ditions in that section, less than 100 excursionists made the trip. The train will leave on the return about 6 o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Barnes and lit tle daughter. Miss Marguerite, and Miss Ora Pitman of Back Swamp were among the shoppers in town yesterday. Mrs. Nannie Crump and children. Masters Luther Daniel and Gilchrist, (returned! Tuesday night from a i hree-weeks' visit at Tatum and Dar lington, S. C. PARKTON PARAGRAPHS ! Farmers in the Gras and Still it 1 Rains But There Has Ben No ! Great Disaster Death of Mrs. W. E. Alley Sawmill Business Cur tailed Baseball Mr. J. G. Hughes Loses Mill Dam Personal Correspondence of The Robesonian. Parkton, Aug 1 The . farmers are somewhat blue over the condition of, cotton as the rains have prevented the ( late plowing and it's raining right on j and not much hopes of doing much ; more plowing this sesaon; hence thef grass will do much damage and leave I it in bad condition for picking. , Last! Friday night's rain was the largest' that ever fell in this section. But; we should be a thankful people as there has not been much disaster with: all the rainfall. " i Our town was made extremely sad on last Saturday evening when the! news was received that Mrs. W. E j Alley was dead. She died at the j home of her father-in-law at Cataw-1 ba. Mrs. Alley had been sick' for! several months and her husband hadi carried her to specialists and also' she was treated at the hospital near! nis oia nome. in ract, ne aia an in his power for her recovery, but all was in vain. She suffered mostly of trouble of the head, something of the nature of congestion of the brain. Mrs. Alley was one of our town's best women, was highly edu cated and accomplished, a college graduate, a consecrated Christian, a devoted member of the M. E. church of our town. She was a young wom an of about 22 years. She is surviv ed by her husband and one daughter, aged two years. The bereaved fam ily toave the sympathy of our entire town and community. Rev. H. B. Porter, pastor of deceased, left Sat urday evening for Catawba to attend the funeral and returned home to dayj Mr. Alley has not returned yet. Mrs. C. A. Hodges and daughter, Miss Addie, returned home Satur day; from an extended trip to Mrs. Hodges' daughter and son-in-law Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Thames at Waeram. Mrs. R. F. Council and children. Miss Ruby and Clyde, returned 'home Saturday from an extended visit to relatives and friends in Scotland and Robeson. Mrs. C. E. Porter, and children of Mecklenburg county are visiting relatives, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Thomasson and Mrs. C. E. Clontz, sister of Mrs Porter. Mr. J. M. Johnson of City Point, Va., came home on a visit yesterday and is a little sick. Mrs. Johnson and little son Jack are expected to ar rive by the latter part of the week. Several of the young ladies who have-been -attending1 the -summer school at Chapel Hill arrived home Saturday, as follows: Misses Ruth Cashwell, Blanch Thames, Douglas Beard. Little Miss Lois May Cash well of Lumberton and Miss Marga ret Monroe of Lumber Bridge visit ed relatives in our town last week. Mr. Chas. Pate and brother have purchased a saw mill and the first location is on the timber of Mr. A. B. Williamson, about two miles east of town. The mill will soon be in operation. The wet weather has cur taibd the saw mill business up our way. .Mr. E. M. Monroe of -McColl, S. C, has enjoyed a week's vacation with relatives in town and near Edonia and will return to his work tomor row. Mr. C. S. McArthur returned home today after spending a few days in the western part of the State, and reports a grand time. Mr. L. P. Johnson is enjoying a week's needed rest and vacation, and is visiting rel atives at Jackson Springs and in South Carolina. Mr. C. D. Williamson spent Sun in the thriving town of St. Paul and attended the revival meeting at the Presbyterian church and reports a jreat meeting and much interest. No better town in Robeson than St. Paul. Our local ball team went down to Lumberton vesterdav for a game of ball with the fast Lumberton team and suffered a slight defeat. They say the Lumberton boys can sure run fast and we observe that this is a feature of their team. Our boys ex pect to make it quite interesting in the next game with them. Dunn's fast team came down for their first game on our diamond this afternoon and the game was a wood one, score 3 to 1 in favor of Parkton. Rodgers pitched a nohit game for the locals. Gibson, one of the local's new pitch ers, will hold the mound tomorrow and a good game is expected. Mr. J. G. Hughes lost his mill dam near town Friday night. This was a great loss to Mr. Hughes; we fear that he has lost the larger por tion of his fish. Names Suggested for Lumberton's New Hotel Tnere na3 been a falling off in the deluge of suggested names for Lum berton's new hotel. Maybe all the possible names have been suggested; or maybe somebody is holding back just the right one. Anyway, if you want to suegest a name, it is not too late. ' The following have been sent in since the last list of sueges tions was published: Oasis, Mecca, Traveler's Need. Carolina, Tarry more, Tranquil, Tranquility, Heaven'3 (Heavens!). Explosion Causes Property Loss of 525,000,000 Property losses estimated at $25,- 000.000 were caused Sunday by a series of terrific explosions of am munition awaiting shipment to the Entente Allies and stored on Black Tom Island, a small strip of land jut ting into New York Bay off Jersey City. A number of lives were lost. Some arrests have been made. HEAVY DAMAGE TO COTTON CROP dTiwiftilssrto i hi re9idenc on NortH Eim 'trwt- Washington Dispatch, Aug 1. ; rolr. Row'?ni Williams has ac Ma o J .1 . cepted a position as salesman n the Heavy damage to the growing cot-j store of Mr. K. M. Biggs. He began ton crop between June 25 and July1 work Monday. , 25 has caused a reduction of 1,350,- i r v , . , . 000 bales in the respective produc-l m 1,. , il b?5n ,33a tot th? tion. The August cotton report of , cJl u iJhlllaZeyJel the Department of Agriculture n-ltienAntti a-,h Smith nounced today indicated a production a "?f A,Ien V of 12,916,000 equivalent 500 bales' "?"r- Nasn Kinlaw has accepted a compared with 14,266,000 bales fore- Portion in the office of County Treas cast from the condition of the crop '' ire. Mckenzie, succeeding Mr, Wayne June 25. The condition during the! Caldwell, who has resigned. ;,, montn dropped . per cent to 72.3 of a normal. Reviewing cotton conditions for the month, the bureau of crop estimates said: "The month' ending July 25 has beeni only fair for cotton in most of the! belt west of the Mississippi river and in Tennessee and unfavorable east of the river and in Louisiana. "Rains in the drought : stricken southern coastal region of Texas per mitted the planting of a considerable late acreage. The crop in the west-, ern belt is well cultivated and mois ture conditions have been favorable although the need for rain U now beginning to be felt. "East of the Mississippi a severe tropical storm through portions of Florida, Alabama and Mississippi early in July and an extremely heavy down-pour at mid-July in the Caro linas, together with heavy and al most constant rains during July throughout the entire eastern belt, have put the crop badly in the grass, leached out much of the already de ficient amount of fertilizer snd great ly facilitated the activity of the boll weevil, where present and its con tinued spread.' The rains at the close of the period in the eastern belt were preventing much needed culti vation." Statistics compiled by the Bureau of Crop Estimates show the value of the 1915 cotton crop was 10 per cent more than that of 1914, while the production was 30 per cent less. To tal value of the 1915 crop was $794. 000,000 compared with $720,000,000. the value of the 1914 crop. The 1913 crop was valued at $1,027,000,000. Lint was valued at $628,000,000 for the 1915 crop, paying producers about 11.22 cents a pound as calculated on averages based upon monthly prices and monthly sales. For the 1914 crop the lint value was $591,000,000, paying producers about 7.33 cents a pound. The value of seed of the 1915 crop was $166,000,000, pavinir I producers $33.60 a ton compared with $129,000. 000. the value of the 1914 crop's seed, which paid producers $17.90 a ton. The increase in the price of the seed over 1914 was greater than the increase in the price of lint. PERSONAL Mr. W. M. Pate of Buie wa3 in town yesterday. Mr. N. F. Barden of Orrum was in town yesterday. Mr. H. J. Sawyer went to St. Paul today on business. Mr. G. K. Grantham of Dunn i3 in town today on business. .Mr. C. A. Parnell of Buie, R. 1, is a Lumberton visitor today. Mr. H. M. King of Tolarsville was a Lumberton visitor yesterday. Mr. W. J. Wilkerson of Lumber ton, R. 3, is a Lumberton visitor to day. Mr. J. C. Baxley and son, Mr. Ri ley, of Buie, R. 1, were Lumberton visitors yesterday. Miss Jones of Eureka arrived -es-terday and is a guest of Misses Ber tha and Lillie Barker. Mr. G. M. D. Howard and son, Mr. Eugene, of St. Paul were Lum berton visitors Tuesday. Messrs. G. E. and C. K. Morgan of Marietta, were among the visi- tors in (own yesurruay. ; Mr Proctor.g Ford car in about three Master Bahnson Barnes of Back;da 3 time each way going via Ral Swamp is spending this week herei pf(h and Richm0nd to Washington, visiting Masters Hubert Thompson ; They f ound the road3 f ine the and James Nance. j exception of two miles of impossible Misses Leila and Pearl Edwards re-jriad between Alevandria, Va and turned Tuesday afternoon from New- Washington. They also visited Al port News, Va., where they had been)i,jnyi ff. Y., going up the Hudson by visiting relatives for some time. j beat. ; ! Mr. T. L. Johnson left Tuesday Indianapolis,. Ind., Aug. 2 Progress j evening for Ashenlle in response to sive party leaders from a number of a message from Mrs. Johnson to the States, who disapproved of the ac'fect that their baby, Christine 3 . ' ., o i .: 1-2 rears old, was very sick with tv- tion of the Progressive national j hoij f Mr Johnson expected committee in ennorsin? mams Hughes ior rresment at w meetm. m cmcago, June en, wm noiu a con-, t ins :ti t . u con-, ference here tomorrow to consideri tide tne aavisaonuy- oi raernimng . im. . . . i ! . - i -i A. L x , a 4; i , party's national convention vithin 30 days to nominate a candidate forj ' Vhn M Parker f LouisTana nom-' been at Ridgecrest for some iL fnr Vi Pidont i weeks with the children, a telegram "Wa LgWc 2. Raleieh! stating that Christine had t yphcid News and Observer: Representative Jd .thatt,she, was. f inJ v, Stedman today introduced a bill ' Menweather hospital . Asheville. asking for the appropriation of $750 -: Telegrams received TaT Jrouirjt 000 for the relief of those who had e information that the child s eon been made destitute by the .recent i dition was considered en l. floods not only in western North i Johnson wanted to eave Monday .but Carolina .but in the eastern part of, learne. i that he could get no train to the tSat- also. The fund, are to be Asheville. He and Rev. C ' L. Greaves, disbursed under the direction of. the-Pastor of the First Baptist church. Secretary of War and will orobably .-intended to leave together for Ridge b used for food and shelter for those crest the last of the week. wb are actually in need of same, and ' to buv , seed for the farmers who have lost all, repair roads and clean j out streams. Representative Sted-j man said today that letters are com-; ine in every day telling of the ter-j rible condition of the people in the) stricken territory. BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS lhe electric flag sign over the National Bank of Lumberton build ing is a pretty thine at nicrht. It ripples and sparkles like a thinjc niiyt. A dot' ki th Moin.. f, Julia ise, was killed this morrn ing The animal showed rmntnm which (aueed the family to become uneasy jrd they wisely decided to take no chances. Mr. Walter Bowden, who recent ly made application for a position- in the navy yard at Charleston, S. O, haa been ordered to report for duty next Monday. Mr. Bodwen will leave Sunday for Charleston. As heralded f n a page ad in Mon day's Robesonian, Mr. A. Weinstein will begin a big summer clearance sale tomorrow.' Watch . subsequent issues of The Robesonian for further information about this great sale. Mr. J. A. Boone went yesterday to Charlotte, where he will spend a few days romping with the? more than twenty grandchildren he has in that town. He especially wanted to make the acquaintance of two new ones. ' vy Recruiting Officer H. C Goecho arrived yesterday from Charlotte and will be here until August 8 seeking? to enlist men in Uncle Sam's service. ! He wants men from 18 to 85 years old.- He is stopping at Mr., Sandy McNeill's on First street r Dr. W. W. Parker, who has been attendiqg lectures at a summer school of optometry ; at Ohio State University at Columbus, Ohio, for the past month, advises The Robe sonian that he expects to arrive home Monday of next week, August 7. Mr E. G. Sipher, who travels over the State for the Woodmen of the World, has been at home for sev eral davs on account of his engage ments in the western part of the State having been changed by con ditions following the recent floods. Miss Agnes Johnson, who had ben visiting for several weeks at the homes of her brothers, Messrs. T. L. and E. M. Johnson, Jeft this morning for Asheville, near which place she will teach school. Her school opens Monday of next-week. Mayor and Mrs. A. E. White and daughter. Miss Vashti, and Mrs. Ira Townsend left this morning for Winston-Salem instead of yesterday, as they first intended, traveling m Mayor White's auto. They may go to the mountains if conditions of roads will permit. Supt. Lane of the Raleigh & Charleston, who arrived from Mar-on this morning, stated that the heaviest rain of the season fell in hat sect'on yesterday afternoon. Mr. Lfine said that four or five miles this sice of Marion the water ran over the tiack to a depth of several inches. Two traveling men met here this morning, strangers to each fother. It was soon learned that both trav eled for the same concern from the same hou?. One was boosting one line while the other boosted anoth er. While one of them was en gag el with a customer the other ap peared on the scene, and both se cured older.. Messrs. Knox Proctor and Rob ert Caldwell returned SMonday af- S0' ra. AWill onm timo last , . - . wav.of Charlotte ' . , r, . Sn-art-nhll :waikinr or tak- : ' - v f-. m nnH tupn t-vjn,. an. lilt Ullia v'n-v, .vua - auuui live wmra a i m men wiiuiik u- Asheville. He receiv- "V Vr J ti.-o , ..My glasses were fitted by Dr Parker the only specialist la Lumberton licensed by State Boat Examination for this in port aa work.. HIS SERVICE SAT!s FIES ... - . i.
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