THE ROBESONIAN,
THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1917
PAGE TRRK1
New Oxffoirds
aurad SHioes
Several hundied pairs of the t latest and most
comfortable styles in Men's, Women's, Misses', Boy's
and Children's Oxfords have just arrived direct from
the factory. Also a large lot of Work Shoes for
Men and Boys. These Oxfords and Shoes were
bought before some of the latest advances in' leather
and we are going to give our customers the advan
tage of it.
Make Your Purchases Early
and Save Money
Hosiery and Neckwear
Ladies' Black and White Silk Hose 50c and $1.00
Men's Black and Colored Lisle Thread and Silk Hose
25c and 50c
A new lot of the latest patterns in Men's Ties
25c and 50c
K. M. BIGGS
"CASCARETS" BEST IF
HEADACHY, BILIOUS,
SICK, CONSTIPATED
Best for liver and bowels, bad breath,
bad colds, sour stomach
DEPARTMENT STORE
LUMBERTON,
N. C.
Get a 10-cent box.
Sick headache, biliousness, coated
tongue, head and nose clop-e-ed ut
with a cold always trace this to tor-
pia liver; delayed, lermenting food in
the bowels or sour, gassy stomach.
roisonous matter clogged m the in
testines, instead of being cast out
cf the system is re-absorbed into the
blood. When this Doison reaches? the
delicate brain tissue it causes con
gestion and that dull, throbbing, sick
ening headache.
Cascarets immediately cleanse the
stomach, remove the sour, undigested
food and foul gases, take the excess
bile from the liver and carry out all
the constipated wate "matter and
poisons in the bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will surely
straighten you out by morning. They
work while you sleep a 10-cent box
from your druggist means your head
clear, stomach sweet, and your liver
and bowels regular for months.
HIGH COMPLIMENT TO
LUMBERTON CITIZEN
A. W. McLean Given High Praise by
Rational Chairman McCormick
Was Seated Next the President at
Luncheon
Washington Special, March 6, to Wil-
Vance McCormick, chairman of the
Of Your System Ds Poisoned
xrith acids, you cannot know what it
is to be healthy. Acids poison the
blood and are the source of many dis
eases affectin2 the heart and arteries.
'Avviiui,n, .III tin wl lIlC l j - y
EKin ana mucous surfaces, loints and
W. W. Marsh, treasurer of the' com-1 Inuscles an the brain and general
itteef paid a high complimentoi lJFlJT of-these -dis-National
Committeeman A. W. Mc-i ,Rhatism in various
ean in particular and North Caro-i t0JCr f,czemfr fmpies,
lma m general at today's meeting of th? skm d,1SSeSJ
the committee, when he declared tnl??iS STcrofuJa and general blood
the other members nrpt tw iuv lr . , , oraer to restore yourself
McLean dSlsSfrSS IS a heaIty cndition W t drive
1 . - .1 .v.
NORTH CAROLINIANS
AT INAUGURATION
I
Go To BULLOCK'S GARAGE
For Automobile Repairs, Auto
Supplies and Accessories
Auto Livery Service Day or Night
L. F. BULLOCK, Owner & Mgr.
LUMBERTON, N. C.
Night Phone No. 55 : Day Phone No. 231
Loans To Farmers-
On improved real estate
None too large to handle
Write or Call to See
GEO. L. THOMPSON Trust Officer
PLANTERS BANK & TRUST; CO.
LUMBERTON, N. C.
-I GET OUT A POLICY
and do it now. Fires are dis
astrous and delays are dan
gerous. You can't bring back what
is consumed by fire. You can,
though,
BE REIMBURSED ON
YOUR FIRE LOSS
if it's one of our companies.
Premiums on doubtful policies
is money thrown away.
Be sure and insure with us.
C. T. WILLIAMS
Lumberton, N. C.
MONEY TO LOAN
On Improved Farm Lands Desirablyl Located.
EASY TERMS. WRITE OR CALLJONUS.
THE MUTUAL LOAN & TRUST GO.
H. M. MCALLISTER, President THOS. L. JOHNSON, Sec-Treas.
FIFTEENTH SERIES
Robeson Building & Loan Association
NOW OPEN
DO NOT PUT OFF UNTIL TOMORROW
What you ought to do today. Take stock
in this Series and begin to plant that NEW
HOME that YOU have wanted so long.
Build your home with rent money.
INFORMATION CHEERFULLY FURNISHED
v C. .V. BROWN, Secretary.
Senator Overman Rode in Carriage
With President Mr. and Mrs. A.
W. McLean at White House Lunch
eon Washington Cor., March 5, Wilming
ton Star.
Senator Overman was the most
conspicuous brave North Carolina
man in connection with the inaugu.
ration of President Wilson today. It
was the junior North Carolina Sen
ator who prepared the plans and
made the arrangements for the sec
ond inauguration of Mr. Wilson.
It was Mr. Overman who called at
the White House promptly at 11
o'clock today and escorted the Presi
dent to the Capitol, where h-3 took
the cath of office and mads the in
augural address. It was Senator
Overman who rode in the same car
riage with the President from the
Capitol to the White House and saw
to it that he was given proper pro
tection. At White House Luncheon
Senator Overman and Mr. and Mrs.
A. W. McLean of Lumberton were
among those who were invited and
participated in the luncheon given
at the White House by the Presi-
dert and Mrs. Wilson immdeiately
after the President's arrival at the
White House from the Capitol.
North Carolina did not have as
prominent a part in the great parade
tcday as has been the case on for
mer occasions. The absence of Gov
ernor Bickett and his staff was a dis
appointment to his many admirers
here in Washington. The Governor
wired R. H. McNeill, president cf
the North Carolina Society of Wash
ington ,that he could not come to the
inauguration without neglecting his
duties as Governor. He does not pro
pose to do this at any time during
his 4years administration os Governor
not even to see a Democrat inaugu
rated President of the greatest coun
try in the world.
Wilmington Boys Here
Wilmington sent a troop of militia
and Gastonia her famous drum corps
of some thirty-odd men. James R.
Collie of Louisburg, assisted as one
of the chief aid3 to Marshall Line-
kin of the Citizen division, and Ed
ward Pou, of Smithfield, a son of
Representative and Mrs. Edward W
Pou, rode with Company B of the
Distrct calvary. Young Pou is a
member of the troop and served with
them on the Mexican border the best
part of last year.
Aside from these and the very ac
tive part taken by Senator Overman
and National Committeeman McLean,
North Carolina was not represented
except bv the hundreds of visitors
who came here to do honor to the
man whom many believe will go down
m historv as one of the greatest
presidents the country has ever had.
Much Dynamite Discovered . .
With the knowledge that the Wash
ington police had discovered several
hundreds of pounds ol dvnamite stor
ed along Pennsylvania avenue and
had taken into custodv a number oi
crooks whom, they had suspected of
havmcr connection with a plot to do
bodily harm to the President or prom
inent men connected with the gov
ernment, every man, woman and
child, who could appreciate the situa
ting, breathed a sisrht of relief when
the President finally drove by tne
rpvip-wiTicr stands and entered the
east gate of the White House grounds
accompanied Dy mrs. vvusuu, ocn-
tor Overman and Representative
Rucker of Missouri.
nrecaution was taken to
safeguard the life of President Wil
son on his perilous ride to ana irom
the Capitol. Not only were an ine
secret service men of the entire Umt-
Pri States stationed at every point
alone- the route, but hundreds of po
licemen from practically every city in
America had been brouerht here to
protect the Nation's President against
harm from, purely ordinary cranes,
or some treacherous agent of the
German government who might be
induced to take the President's life.
Thp writer has been in Washing
ton at every inauguration since Mc
kinley's second term. At no time has
there been such apprehension for the
safety of the President as was to
day. At no time have newspaper
men taken such precautions not only
to assist the secret service men in
protecting the life of the President
but in making arrangements lor any
emergency that might arise.
Line of News Men
To illustrate: One large press as
sociation had a newsDaner man sta
tioned on every square between the
Capitol and the White House, eacn
man having direct telephone connec
tions with the contral office of the
association here. The White House
is 22 squares from the Capitol.
tnat he desired the committep tr pt
on record as expressing it apprecia
te0" of the work performed by the
North Carolina committeeman and
his assistants in organizing and col
lecting a large fund for the re-election
of President Wilson.
Only four States, of which North
Carolina was one, and the other na
tional committeeman, Judge Moore
of Ohio, reached the high degree of
efficiency attained by Mr. McLean in
the performance of his duties as na
tional committeeman. Treasurer
Marsh and Chairman McCormick
made speeches to the committee com
plimenting this work and assured
them both that their services were
appreciated, " not only by the party
but by the entire country.
Mr. McLean thanked the committ
tee for its praise but assured them
that any success he had made in the
campaign work in North Carolina
must be shared by Hugh MacRae of
wumington; .Lawrence MacKae ol
Winston-Salem, and thp other mem
bers of the committee in his State
who worked with him day ard night
these acids from your system ami
purify your blood.
S. S. S. has been purifying and re
vitalizing the blood of thousands foir
fifty years. l is a purely vegetable
remedy, and is the most efficient agent
known for cleansing the blood nwt
building up the system.
Ask for it at your druggist's, an
don't accept a substitute. For speci&l
medical advice write to Medical De
partment, Swift Specific Co., 308 Swif
Building, Atlanta. Ga.
A WORLD SCARCITY OF
FOODSTUFFS AND THE
LESSON FOR THE SOUTH
Manufacturers Record.
Whether there be war or peace
between this country and Germany,
whether war be continued in Flnrnnp
for another year or two. or whether
peace 3hould come, the demand for
food stuffs will exceed the supply,
uoui m tnis country and abroad
ine shortage in the world's food
crops last year, taken in connection
with conditions created by the war,
unngs us nearer a famine situation
'in loodstuffs than the world ha
known in this generation. If the
crops of this countrv should, hv un
favorable weather conditions or by
a lessened acreage, be short of a
full acreage yield, we would have
almost ffeirJrB fcondjkfcms, because
we win go into the next crop prac
tically barren of food supplies.
Nothing less than a bumper crop
of grain will save us from exorbitant.
V " vA VVA " 1 vll mill ViCAJf C411.1 III tilt. , "I - ,
After the committee meeting the ly rh. Pnces for wheat and corn
embers werp thp lunrhpon crnests "ext winter. It is important that
the whole country should understand
this situation, but it is doublv
important that the farmers of the
South should understand it and plant
the largest acreage in grain which
they have ever had in order to save
themselves from having to pay the
highest prices they have ever paid
for their foodstuffs.
Every business man in the South
should do all in his power to uree
upon Southern farmers the planting
of grain and the raising foodstuffs
of all kinds this spring and summer.
It is hardly possible to predict
what may happen to cotton. The
price, judged by the world's demand,
ought to be high, but in view of the
uncertainties of conditions here and
elsewhere, a large cotton crop might
members were thp luncheon eruests
of President Wilson and Mrs. Wil
son at the White House.
McLean Next to Wilson
Mr. McLean was given a seat next
to President Wilson ,and it is said
by some of those present that the
North Carolinian and the President
were in earnest conversation for quite
a time while the other members were
discussing general matters. Later
Mr. McLean reluctantly admitted that
he had talked with the President
about "many Snteresting ("subjects"
and that he and the President dis
cussed quite a number of important
matters relating to North Carolina.
Mr. and Mrs. McLean left for Lum
berton tonight.
P. R. A.
PRELIMINARYCOMMENCEMENTS
WAR RELIEF WORK PRAC
TICALLY UNINTERRUPTED
a
Channels Remain Open Funds Con
veyed by Cable and Wireless
Reports From War Relief Organizations
That the channels for the distribu
tion of war relief funds are open as
formerly, notwithstanding the break
with Germany, and that they are ex
pected to remain open, is the report
made by the war relief organizations,
according to a statement made by
the Federal Council of the Churches
of Christ in America, which, since
the early part of the war, has con
ducted a campaign to stimulate war
relief gifts, especially through the
churches of the country, to the van
ous relief committees. Inquiries from
nous relief committees. kaahii.lliil
all parts of the country, it is said,
show that many are overlooking the
fact that gifts for war relief are
chiefly in the form of cash and that
this is sent by cable and wireless.
The American committee for Ar
menian and Syrian relief reports that
nearly all its aid is financial and is
sent by cable and that funds are sent
funinterrruptedly rto Armenjtfis in.
side and outside of Turkey. The
American Red Cross continues its
work without change in most of the
warring countries. The B. F. B. per
manent blind relief war fund says
there is no slackening in work nor in
receipt of funds, nor in remittances
to the other side. The commission
for relief in Belgium says that the
latest cables confirm earlier reports
that the work for Belgian relief is
continuing and is expected to con
tinue. The fund for starving children
states that funds go as
formerly to children in Po
land, Belgium, Armenia and oth
er countries. The joint distribution
committee, representing three Jewish
relief committees, reports that the
work of collection and distribution
i5 Tvrnrt.ip&llv normal. The Polish
victims' relief fund continues with
out interruption to send lunos to
Poland by way of Switzerland. The
worV of the Serbian relief commttee
proceeds wthout change. The same
situation applies to the work of the
American Huguenot committee which
aids Protestant churcnes in r ranee
prove a misfortune by forcing prices
below a fair profit.
ihe South mght raise too big a
cotton crop for its own prosperity,
but it cannot raise too big a grain
crop nor too much livestock. Every
available acre should be put into the
raising of foodstuffs, into gram, m
to vegetables, potatoes, and as much
attention as possible should be giv
en to livestock, and even to the rais
ing of chickens and to dairying, for
the purpose of meeting the home de
mand for foodstuffs.
It will be almost a crime for any
Before County Commencement in
Lumberton April 6 Preliminary
Commencements Will be Held
Before the final county commence
ment which will be held in Lumber-
ton Friday, April 6, preliminary com
mencements will be held at Fair
mont, Rowland, Lumberton, Red
borings and St. Paul. The date and
schools to take part in the various
piei:minary commencements f.ilow:
(Regular County Commencement
program to be used).
Fairmont District
At Fairmont. March 27th. at 11
o'clock. .
Schools assigned for this district
are as follows:
Fairmont High School, Baltimore,
Gaddys, White Pond, Orrum High
School, Proctorville, Oakton, Bloom
mgdale, Oakdale, Marietta, McDon
alds, Iona, Pleasant Hope, Center,
Fairmont No. 3 (Oliver School),
Bethesda, Nye, Barnesville.
Rowland District
At Rowand, March 30th, at 11
o'clock.
Schools assigned for this district
are as follows:
Rowland High School, Centenary.
Raynham., Purvis. Elrod. Alfordsvilli
I Student's Hope, Hillside, Mt. Moriah,
daemon, Turnout, Uak Grove (Max
ton No. 1), Alma, Pembroke, Mc
Leod's. Lumberton District
(Schools will only send contestants)
At Lumberton March 31. at 2:30.
o'clock.
Schools assigned for this district
are as follows:
Lumberton Graded School. Lum
berton Cotton Mills, National Cotton
Mills, Jennings Cotton Mill, Raft
bwamp, Oak Grove, Long Branch,
Mt. Eliam, Smiths, Tabernacle, Bak
er's Chapel, Ten Mile. Meadow. Civ-
bourn, Back Swamp, Beulah, Antioch,
bmyrna, Broad Kidge, Glennwood,
Saddle Tree, Bethany, Cedar Grove,
Sand Hill, Regan's.
Red Springs District
At Red Springs April 2nd, 11 o'
clock. Schools assigned for this district:
Maxton Graded School, Red Springs
Graded School, Floral College, -Wakulla,
Philadelphus, Harmony, Lum
ber Bridge, Mt. Tabor, Shannon, New
Southern farmer not to provide, dur
ing the coming spring and summer, i Home.
for all the foodstuffs which his fam-1 st. Paul District
ily will need for the next twelve I At St. Paul April 4th, 11 o'clock.
months. Anything short of that, Schools assigned for this district
would be ignoring every con
dition which this country and the
world confronts in the lack of food
stuffs, and in the certainty of high
prices. Business men, State govern
ments and the national government
owe it to the farmers and to the wel
fare of the country to stress these
points with all possible emphasis.
The South can become independent for
foodstuffs by quick and vigorous ac
tion this spring and summer by its
farmers, and if it fails to do so, it
will be drained of hundreds of mil
lions of dollars for high-priced food
stuffs, which should have been rais
ed at home, and there will be pov
erty in many homes where there
should be abundance.
OAK GROVE LEAFLETS
YOU CAN'T FIND ANY
DANDRUFF, AND HAIR
STOPS COMING OUT
Save your hair! Make it thick, wavy,
glossy and beautiful at
once.
Preparing to Have Concert at Close
of School Personal
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Oak Grove (Buie, R. 1) ,March 6
Mr .and Mrs. Oliver Prevatte of
Clybornville spent Saturday night
and Sunday at the home of Mrs. Pre
vatte's father, Mr. H. Parnell.
Messrs. Martin Powell of Saddle
Tree and Roy Lee Johnson of St.
Paul were callers in this vicinity
Sunday p. m.
Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Paul and two
small children spent Sunday with
Mrs. Paul's mother, Mrs. Prevatte.
Sorry to report William, small son
of Mr. Roy Tyner, is very ill.
Mr. Archie Britt of Roziers and
Misses Mary Humphrey and Mary
Regan of Saddletree attended pray
er service at Oak Grove Sunday af-
tPTnnnn.
Our school is still progressing, we
are preparing to have a concert at
the close wnich win pe in Apm.
nvRnpnsia is America's curse. To
restore digestion, normal weight,
pood heath and purify the blood, use
Burdock Blood Bitters, boia at au
drug stores. Price $1.00
The name Doan's inspires conti
dence Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney
ills. Doan's Ointment fo rskin itch
ing. Doan's Regulets for a rr.i'd lax
ative. So' it all dug stores.
Try as you will, after an applica.
tion of Danderine, you can not find
a single trace of dandruff or falling
hair and your scalp will not itch, but
what will please you most, wm ue
after a few weeks' use, when you see
new hair, fine and downy at ursi
yesbut really new hair growing
oil aitOV
A little Danderine immediately
jmc. Vippmtv of vour hair. No
difference how dull, faded, brittle
and scraggy, just moisten a cloth
with Danderine and carefully draw
it through your hair, taking one
small strand at a time. The ellect
is immediate and amazing your hair
will be light, lluliy ana wavy, um
have an appearance oj- auuuuii.c,
an incomparable lustre, softness and
luxuriance, the beauty and shimmer
of true hair health.
Get a 25-cent bottle of Knowlton s
rinnrlprino from any drug store or
toilet counter, and prove that your
hair is as pretty and soft as any
that it has been neglected or injured
by careless treatment. A 25-cent
bottle will be double the beauty of
your hair.
FOLEY HIDNEY PILLS
FOR BACKACHE KIDNEYS AND BLAD DB.fi
St. Paul Graded School. Rex, Oak
Grove, Roziers, Rozier's Siding, Mc
Millan's, Tolarsville, Centerville,
Parkton, Rennert.
WORK OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The House passed Friday the man
nicipal bill providing machinery for
city government under the constitu
tional amendments. The Housp ta
bled a bill by Rav of Chatham for
two emergency judges. The Senate
passed a bill to prohibit Iquor adver
tisements in this State; the Tor
rens lard title bill; concorrence in the
House amendment to the Austarlian
ballot bill apply to Buncombe, Hen
derson and Madison counties.
The McNider ouster bill passed to
apply to a number of counties in
cluding Buncombe, New Hanover,
Brunswick, Robeson and Mecklen
burg. Bills to amend the constitution
passed the Senate Friday in rapid
succession, subiect to ratification by
the people. They were the Scales
bill for initiative and referedum; the
Governor Bickett measure to exempt
from taxation notes and mortgages
to the amount of $3,000 when given
for purchase of farm homes, and the
Oates bill to amend the constitution
to assure six months schools for ev
ery county. One other, that to limit
State officers to two successive terms
of office and county officers to three
terms, another Governor Bickett prop
osition, went to the table because
passage was useless since the House
had tabled a duplicate.
A Senate bill to remodle the South
port court house died in the House
Thursday and a House bill for an
election between Southport, Supply
and Bolivia for the county seat and
for $60,000 bonds for a new court
house. died in the Senate the same
day.
Bilious? Feel heavy after dinner?
Bitter taste? Complexion sallow?
Liver perhaps needs waking up.
Doan's Regulets for bilious attacks.
25c at all stores.
FEWER PEOPLE GROWING OLDER
The Public Health Service reports that more people live to
the age of forty years to-day, but from forty to sixty years
mortality is increasing from degenerative diseases.
Thousands of well-informed men and women to-day are
learning the true value of
OF NORWEGIAN COD LIVER OIL
as a powerful blood-enricher and strength-builder
to ward off the headaches and backaches that mean
weakness. SCOTT'S helps fortify the body against
grippe, pneumonia and weakening colds, through
its force of medicinal nourishment
Refuse Alcoholic Extracts That Do Not Contain Cod Liver OiL
Scott & Bowne. B loo infield. N. J.
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