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THE ROBESON I AX ESTABLISHED 1870. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. COUNTRY, GOD AND TRUTH VOL. XLIX IN RE NITRATE OF SODA TYSON AND CLIFTON TO REPORT FOR BOUND TO COURT PHYSICAL EXAMINATION Senator Simmons is Convinced This i Fertilizer Will Be Available In Time. In Lumberton For Examination This Week. A Washington dispatch of the 2nd to the Greensboro Daily News quotes Senator Simmons as saying that his information is that every order placed, with Government for nitrate of soda will be filled in plenty of time for the spring crop, that his information from the Department of Agriculture was to the effect that already 4,500 tons of soda have been landed at Wil mington and that another cargo 1 ex pected to reach that port some time this month. Mr. W. K. Bethune, chairman of the committee appointed in Robeson to inVo orders for nitrate of soda to h?. furnished farmers at; cost by the (Government, says he has written C n gressman Godwin asking that he make inquiry and advise him as soon as possible as to how much soda the farmers of Robeson will get and when they may expect it. SUMMARY OF WAR NEWS. Story of Robbery of Store at St. List of Registrants Ordered to Report Pauls To'd in Recorder's Court Clifton Turns State's Evidence'; Supply of Presumably Stolen Goods I Found Under Old Barn at Tyson's Home at Hope Mills. i r. I I. 1 i 4 I 2 i J i $2.00 A YEAR. DI E IN ADVANCB 3 LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY. MARCH 4, 1918. NUMBER 7 CHICKEN THIEF CAUGHT. FAIRMONT SOLDIER KILLED IN FRANCE PA PBSS 1 X DELI V EH ED. Parker Catches a Lady of Color me Act ot Keacrung tor a Hen Geo. E. Gallowav Gassed in Trenches in His i ! Following is a list of registrants 1 for military service of Robeson divi ! sion No. 1 who have been called to re- Neill Tyson and Ed Clifton, the two! port in Lumberton Wednesday of this white men arrested Monday night of; week, March 6, for physical examina last week on the charge of robbing the ! T . Pauls, were given a preliminary hear- Ottis Kittrell, Fairmont; Woodie j I 1. C T i -r- -n r i- . . i , tt " w i a T 1 A T . 1 ms Peiore uecoraea ju. M. Britt nere I luce. MimDerton, K. 4; jonn a. ueg- p j however as it was around riday. Tyson was bound over to the j gett, Lumberton; William Ferney, fil5 of the clock that he saw the form Henhouse Caught Dpllie Love After a Lively Chase. Dollie Love, a lady of color, was caught in the act of raiding Dr. W W. Parker's henhouse Saturday even- just after aark. Dr. Parker lost fee chickens Saturday night a week o and had missed one before that. termind that if anybody feasted on V of his chickens vesterdav it would w himself, Dr. Parker was on guard Saturday night. He did not have to The Robesonian received complaints Saturday from subscribers on R. 7 from Lumberton that Thursday! Kobeaonian was not delivered on that Somewhere in France Well Known routc Friday, as usual. Inquiry re veals the fact that the papers for R 7 lay in the Lumberton postofhee until Saturday: They were mailed from The Robesonian oflice as usual Thurs day afternoon. Here and Elsewhere in Robeson ; He Volunteered Soon After LT. SJ Entered War and Sailed For France Last August. Private Geo. E. Galloway of Fair-! BRIEF ITEMS LOCAL NEWS mont died Wednesday in France as aj result of being "gassed" on Tueslay Mr. W. F. French returned Satur- superior court under a $2,1)00 justi- Fairmont; Fork Davis, Fairmont; nea oona, wnne ciuton was bound Watt Lewis, Lumberton; Neil A. Mc over under a $500 justified bond. I Laughlin, Rennert, R. 1; Haskell Gra Both made bond and were released. I ham, Lumberton; Harrison Kinlaw, Simons oiuijr oi nuuuu). j Liumoerton, it. ; nenry n. nam-1 was reaching lor a hen when uv. The two men were tried separately , monds, Lumberton, R. 2; Rudolph j Parker let her know that he was and neitner went on tne star.d m his ! Mears. Lumherton. R. 5: Sidnev Moore.; about.. Cft somebody who he took to be a man headed towards his henhouse. Dollie ent into the chicken yard and had Opened the door to the henhouse and own behalf. Clifton was put on the stand by the State in the case against Lumberton; Charlie Purdie, Rocky .The doctor said it was very dark Mnnnt- Walter Flnvd. T.umherton. R. ' find ho throw hi enn on thp wnmnn Tyson. He testified that he saw Ty- h; Isaac McMillan, Lumberton, R. 1; 'still thinking it was a man with whom son at Fayetteville Sunday nigntjEdd Gilchrist, Lumberton; Elmer he was engaged, and ordered that the apout 10 o clock and that lyson told i Hedgepeth, Fairmont; Henry Jones, I thief throw up "his" hands . Dollie Russia Has Bowed to. Teutonic Allies and German Invasion Halts Japan May Take Charge in Siberia. Russia has bowed to the Teutonic allies- The Bolsheviki commissioners sent to Brest-Litovsk have signed the treaty of peace presented by the Gr mans, according to an official state ment from Benin wnicn aaas mat military movements in Great Russia have ceased. One of the immediate effects of the signing of Germany's peace terms by the Russian Bolsheviki representa tives, according to a Washington dis patch of the 3rd, will be to bring to a quick conclusion negotiations among the Allies an dthe United States over steps to be take nin Siberia to pro tect military stores there and check any move the Teutons may make in that direction, mere sun is every it dicaion that the American Governmenc will join with the Allies in agreeing to action by Japan alone, with an un derstanding as to the scope of any operations to be undertaken. FOUNdIdEAD IN BED. Mrs. Haynes Johnson of Barnesville Funeral This Afternoon. Mrs. Haynes Johnson was found dead in bed at her home near Barnes ville yesterday morning about 3 o'clock. Deceased was 67 years of age and while she had been suffering with grippe, she had not been in bed and her death came as a shock to . er many friends. Deceased is sus vived by seven chlidren, one of whom Mr. Fred Johnson, is at Camp Jackson. The funeral was conducted from the home this afternoon at 3 o'clock by Rev. J. R. Miller, pastor of the Bap tist church at Barnesville, of which deceased was a member. Deceased was a good woman and had many friends. CANADY dies of wounds. him that he wanted him to make a trip with him the following Monday night. He said Tyson told him he would be on the road about 9 o'clock and that if he did not find him on the road to go to his (Tyson's) home at Hope Mills. He left Fayetteville about 10 o clock on Monday night and found Tyson on the road near Hope Mills. Tyson told him that he wanted him to take him to St. Pauls as he wanted to see a man there. They drove to St. Pauls and he drove his automobile through town twice at Tyson's re quest. He said Tyson told him that he did not know where the man he was looking for lived and told him to drive his car in front of the McEachern store and race the engine and prob ably the man he was looking for would come to them. He saw a man walk up to where Tyson was and while he was racing the engine of his auto mobile Tyson broke the plate glass out on each side of the door in the store building and loaded the 31 au tomobile tires on the auto. He was not sure whether or not the other man 1 1 ii j ; i jj . wnom ne am not recognize. iuaueu any of the tires on the auto. The job was completed in about two minutes and he drove towards Fayetteville. He said he told Tyson to put the tires out of his car, but Tyson refused to do so until after they had sighted an au tomobile near them. At Tyson's re quest they drove off the main road and Tyson hid the tires in a swamp. He then took Tyson near Hope Mills and put him out and went on towards Favetteville Before reaching Fay etteville his gasoline gave out and he had to stoo. The party irom bt Pauls came upon him and he told them about the robbery and agreed to take them to where the tires were hidden, which he did. On cross examination the witness testified that the party that over took him shot a few times and called for a rope, but denied that he refused to tell about the robbery until after this had taken olace. The witnss said he had only known Tyson a few weeks and denied owing Tyson $45 in money which he borrowed about Christmas. He said Tyson did not pay him for the trip, but premised to pay him Inter Tires Worth $400; Building Damaged $300 or $400, Mr. G. T. Fisher, manager of the Me'Raehern store, testitied tnat on Fairmont; Henil- McNeill, Barnes-, did not throw un her hands but put ville; Simon Leggett, Fairmont; Ar- up a race that Dr. Parker will not thur Morbray, Kingstree, S. C; Gike t soon forget. He fired his gun and McKellar, Lumberton, R. 3; Clarence I ordered Dollie to stop, but she got Kelly, Lumberton, Richard A. Dial,! faster. He then found out that the Lumberton; Colin Caesar Boone, Lum-j thief was of the feminine persuasion berton; James McDougal, Rennert, R.jand decided not to shoot her, but to 1; Joseph Dawson, Lumberton; Dock catch her, which he did after he had Oliver, Fairmont; Lonnie Leach, Lum-i taken one of the greatest races of his berton; Joseph Swinton, Lumberton; life. When he caught Dollie she declar- George Key, Orrum; John Hunt, Mc- ed that she could not walk, as she Donalds; Rufie Jacobs, Hillsboro; I was shot to pieces. After a spell, Henry McLean, Lumberton; Fred however, he managed to gt hr back to Clark, Lumberton; John Burgess, Fair- , the house and 'phoned for an officer, mont; Plummer Lowery, Raynham, R. Night Policeman J. B. Boyle went to 1; Willie French McNair, Lumberton; the scene and accompanied Dollie to Robert B. Andrews, Fairmont; Hardy j jail. She made bond later and was Campbell. Jr., Marietta; Pink Barnes, released. Lumberton; George Carter, Lumber Other people living near Dr. Park ton, R. 5; Sandy J. Glover, er have been missing chickens re Lumberton, R. 2; Charlie cently, it is said. Hill, Marietta; Albert Hill, Lumber- ton; Willie Oxendine, Rowland; Sam- DEBATERS SELECTED, uel Jackson, Lumberton; Clyde Sparksman, Barnesville; Walter Page, LUJertrGAe,S 'rfJ:koe Girl Among Debaters Selected to Represent Lumberton in Triangular Debates This Year Preliminary Held Friday Evening. Miss Carolyn Shooter and Messrs. Gaston Bruton, Harry Russell and Reddin Britt were selected Friday eve- by the Germans. Young Galioway 1 day from the West, where he went to was fighting in the French trenches bu' mules for his ales stables, when gassed. He was well '.-own! Miss Francis Holloway of Balti here and was a son of the late D. W , m?'e .rxvei week and will be Galloway of Fairmont. His mother, w'th M'ss Amelia Linkhaeur at the Mrs TV W Gallowav lives at Fair- st'le shoP th,s season. mont, but is visiting her daughter. Mrs. tt. J. L,namDers at uretna, va. Mr James Galloway, a brother of de ceased, also lives at Fairmont. He was a nephew of Mrs. E. I. Pool of Lumberton. Private Galloway was 22 years old and volunteered his services to his country immediately after war was declared against Germany by the United States He sailed from New York for France August 4, last year, and was among the first American soldiers to see service at the front. Young Galloway was a fine speci men of manhood and had numerous friends throughout this section. He was somewhat of an athlete and play- j ed ball with the Fairmont team sev eral seasons. rum; Thad Johnson, Fairmont, R. 1; John Baxley, Lumberton, R. 2; Gra ham McLean, McDonalds; John Daw kins, Lumberton; Kemper Byrd, Mari etta; Alonzo W. Hardin, Lumberton; O'Quinn Brooks, Lumberton, R. 2; Haynes A. Collins, Lumberton; Sam Haves. Rowland: Jas. Rowland Mer- . ' . ' si 1 n 1 1 I Ixcal fertilizer dealers say the I xiti iiicis aie uuyiiig muie leruuzers 1 than they bought last year. Here's hoping they get results. Register of Deeds M. W. Floyd issued 4.r) marriage licenses during the month of February 14 to whites, 10 to Indians and 21 to colored. Mr. R. A. Hedgepeth, Jr.. has ac cepted a position us salesman in Messrs. Grantham Brothers drug store. He began work Friday. License has been issued for the marriage of Raymond Rogers and Mishie Ivey; Hal I. Shook and Martha P. Klarpp; W. S. Atkinson and Annie Page. Sgt. J. B. Bradford, of the local army recruiting office, went today to Wilmington, where he will spend some time recruiting men for the army. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Britt began housekeeping Saturday in Mr. Britt's residence, Second and Walnut streets. They had boarded at the Lorraine ho tel since their marriage. Mr. S. F. Caldwell returned Fri- The Lumberton division of the 21st company, Robeson reserve mili tia, will meet at the court house every Thursday evening at 8 for drill. Mr. W. R. Singletary of Richard son passed through town this morn ing en route to Charleston, S. C, where he will enlist in the navy. The board of county commission-1 day night from New York, where he ers, the board of education and the spent 10 days buying spring goods county road board are holding regular for the firm of R. D. Caldwell & Son, cer, Lumberton, R. 5; Grady Smith, lffi3 EES. ft Lumberton; Jasper Bryant, L-fratoriii to repre ton; Otis M. Barnes, Elrod R. 7? lr s Lumberton school m the State triangular debating contest the last Friday in March. Five speakers entered the contest, Mr. Erwin Williams being the fifth. Messrs. L. R. Varser and T. L. John son were the judges to select the four debaters and they had a difficult un dertaking, as all the speakers spoke well and produced strong argutnent. The subject to be debated this year is, "Resolved, mat an lnaustrmi ms the night of the robbery he went to Jol TCinlnw. T.umherton. R. 7: .) hn A. Chavis, Lumberton, R. 1; Earl W. Caldwell, Charlotte; Ed. Williams, Lumberton, R. 2. To Report Thursday. List of men ordered to report for physical examination Thursday, March 7: Haywood T. Hux, Washington; Lock Shaw Currie, Lumberton, R. 7; T Z If aXTam T nwiVtAvtAyi TcrnoTV) Rause, Lumberton, R. 4; Pink Chavis,! putes should be settled by compulson tYz. 'iL " 'r i'i iw' HTUtnttum" All the sneakers spoke Walter Smith, St. Paul, R. 1; Clyde ! on the negative Friday evening except Hatcher, Lumberton R. 1; Emory H. Mr. Bruton, wno upneia tne auuma cii o..;nN . Wovran A Bnwpn. tive Ravnham; Oscar B. Blackwell, Lum- This is the fifth year Lumberton 1 1 t. d n. MoTTlc-ir Thnmnsnn. has entered the contest. Mr. Robert Lumberton; Joseph E. Sturgess, Pine Proctor president of the society pre Level R. 2; James T. Dean, Lumber- sided at the meeting Friday evening ton R. 3; George Melton Sessoms,! and Mr. Rufus Sanderson acted as Lumberton'; Ernest C. Inman, Fair-j It has not been decided yet who i. TT,.1- I'nnvic k" onncrT 1-: 1: Will lbUlCSCHU Llic auii.inii.' v o atlve SiUcb Oi uic 111 'i".-. mont : Vn r. Ro-ne. LumDerton. it. A Lowery, Raynham, K. 1 ; ' gulai contest. The Lumberton speaK- 1 rrio crr.vo a Tin : iiiiui 1 1 i : 1 laaa ui: i :uc t... r. 1 . 1 n , ar-.i I . "-. "V", ; V7j v.,...i, i t i. -ixr c!4. t limKartnn T? A- JnhTi- will ffo up against tne w iinung laa vno riaci ristoi uuei wunieacn side ot tne cioor nau ueeu wumu j jiui ""11J"J"TO'""' t'. " LIZ j psWn schools as did zhe Shot k, a BU O0.ee, DtEd M ! J- tos tft fes SiMfiSSSK. Krt Caswell dSws and that the toes were worth 3; Wiliiara G. Gilchrist, Lumberton, R. two oj the Lumberton tj,wtote ort Caswell. OOWS anu l damaged I 7 Arthur Bozier, Lumberton, E. 1; , two of the speakers from the U mbm .i . . - , , .. vu" . i cAnn I t v MiTUAmnA Fin Ambra ! ton school will eitnei go to winning On pace 3 of this issue of The Robe sonian is carried a story of the shoot- ins; of Wilson Canady, alleged desert er. m olton officer Thursday. ' between $300 and $400 Hid Tires in Swamp. Mr. J. C. Lindsay of St. Pauls tes tif ied that he was with the crowd that a iy was carried to Fort Caswell and overtook Clifton and that Clifton told a news item in Saturday's Wilming-1 the crowd that the tires were ra a ton S ar states that he died of his ! swamp and went and showed where vounii early Friday morning. As stat- the tires were. He also said that one ed in the item on page 3, Canady is! of the same lot of tires was found on supposed to have been the same man the road between St. Pauls and the "who had a pistol duel vith Sheriff i point where the tires were found in a Lewis of Robeson one nisrht last Oc tober. Ke Put His Money in the Bank and Foiled Robbers. The home of Early Bullard, Indian, vho lives in Smith's township, was robbed yesterday morning while the Bullard family was at church. Two trunks was taken from the house and carried some distance into the woods and broken open with an axe. The only thine missed was $2 in money. Bullard sold several bales of cotton Saturday and it is supposed that the ro'iber thought he would have the money in one of the trunks. However, Early acted wise ;ind deposited the money he received for his cotton in th bank Fla Ambr C Bracv, Raynham: Leroy Copeland,! ton or Goldsboro. Buies R. 1; William A. '"McCormick.j Quite a number heard tne debate McDonalds; Clarence Stone, Lumber-iriday evening. ton, R. 4; Frank Barnes, Barnesville,, - R. F. D.; Rufus A. Brewington, Lum-j Struck by Tram A Close Calb berton R. 2; Lawrence G. Prevatt, Qnivev of R 3 from High Prices Paid For Warehouse Stock. c-arftmn npflr the road He said the tires found had the firm name of A. R. McEachern Co. on them. ! Sheriff R. E. Lewis testified that Clifton told him about the robbery Tuesday after he had been arrested in a manner which corroborated the story told on the stand. The State was represented by Soli citor W. Lennon of the recorder's nmirt Messrs McLean. Varser & Mc Lean, Messrs. Mclntyre, Lawrence & Proctor, and Messrs Johnson & John son. Clifton was represented by Mr. H. E. Stacy of Lumberton and Mr. V ' C. Bullard of Fayetteville. Tyson was represented by Mr. T." A. McNeill. Jr. Other Goods Found Under Barn. Sheriff R. E. Lewis, Rural Police man A H. Prevatt, Policeman M. P. Npwton of St. Pauls and Mr. G. T. Fisher went to the home of Tyson at Hope Mills Friday night and found under an old barn at his home one 45 pound tub of lard, three 10-pound buckets of lard, two hams and one cheese. The cheese cover bore the following inscription: "L. H. Caldwell, Lumberton, N. C." The names on the other articles found had been scratch- Grover U 'lownsend, lowe; Josepn . tQVm nKnnt. 9. o'clock 1 tl " J i ,- t ; w irflfe 9tonp i Wnen tne logging engine uj. u'cu..go 'I dale Lumber Co. struck Mr. Spivey': Smith, Lumberton, R. 5; Quincy son, Barnesville; forest x. Lumberton, R. 4. mule and wogan while he was driving across the railroad tracK near tne Dresden cotton vmill. Mr. Spivey s left leg and hip were slightly hurt when he was thrown from the wagon and the mule was also slightly hurt about the right hip. The wagon was demolished. Mr Spivey said his mule was trying were tried after the report of the pro- to run away and he was looking at ceedings published in Thursday's two freight trains on the Seaboard tracks near by ana aia nob see approaching train until it Jiad struck his wncon and mule. The mule was Superior Court Lasted Only One Week. Superior court for the trial of civil cases closed Saturday after being in session a week. Judge Geo. W. Con nor nresided. The following cases TJohesonian was written: Blacker Brother vs. John Wright; judgment for plaintiffs. Ed Humphrey vs. D. A. Humphrey; judgment for plaintiff. J. W. Watson vs. S. A. L. Ry. Co.; case dismissed. Mr. Watson was the man who had to have a leg amputated last summer as the result of being struck by a motor car on the Seaboard J track near Allenton hurled against a building near the roadside. The wagortwas loaded with wood. Twenty-three shares of the stock of the Farmers Tobacco Warehouse Co. Were sold at auction Friday by Mr. W. O. Thompson, secretary-treasurer of the company. The shares in said company are $10 each. However, there ed off. , , n . whs liv w,AA;nr, ivwi fi ehnrne crUl Mr Tnlrlwell checked 9 cheeses fro. h $22 to $120 each. The srverr ge short in an order which came through Pv ,hare w as 40.13. As a matter I Hope Mills and which was shipped on of value the shares are only worth I January 15. Several other articles around $20 sach, but some of the bus-1 were short from the same order, lard in-iss firms in town wanted :o get era. - i being among the other things short. trolling interest in the varehouse,! ; . which was built five years ago, and Editor W. B. Harker of the Maxton this was responsible tue high 1 Scottish Chief is a Lumberton visitor prices being paid for the shares. today- Ask Commissioners to UniformsT At a meeting of the 21st company, Robeson reserve militia, held in Lum berton Friday, it was decided to ask the county commissioners to pur chase uniforms for the members cf lif rfimnanv. the recular uniform adopted for State reserve militia. The enmnanv voted for each member to nnwliasp his own armv shoes. First C. V. Brown and Messrs R. H. Crichton and T. A. McJNein, jr., were appointed a committee to go be fore the commissioners with the re quest for uniforms. The matter will be taken up this afternoon. Nephew of Mr. A. J. Floyd Dies In S:ace of Washington. Mr. A. J. Floyd, chairman of the is attending a meeting of the board here today, was advised tnis muring of the death at Vv'ancouvre, Wash., ot his nephew Henry G. Floyd. Deceas ed was a son of Dr. A. G. Floyd of Fair Bluff and his death was aue to pneumonia. The body will oe rent to the home at Fair Bluff for interment. Young Floyd was only 17 years old. lie enlisted in the aviation corps of the U. S. army and was discharged on account of defective vision. Un counted, he then went with the aero construction forces to the State of Washington to pick timber for the construction of airplanes. " was while in this work that he contracted pneumonia. first-Monday meetings here today. Mr. and Mrs. A. Weinstein left last evening for Baltimore and New York, where they will purchase goods for the A. Weinstein department store. SuDt. R. E. Sentelle of the Lum berton graded and high school has been invited to deliver the comemnce ment address of the high school at Rocky Mount on April 30th. Miss Lillian Rice is sick with pneumonia at the home of her sister Mrs. W. W. Singletary, rntn street. Miss Rice has been teaching in Blad en county and had to discontinue her school the first of last week. Mrs. Lillie Langdon, who has charge of the millinery department of Messrs. R. U. Caldwell & son s ae- nartment store, returned Saturday from New York, where she went to buy spring millinery for the Caldwell store. Phil Douglass and Mullins Smith, the two negroes arrested in connection with the attack made by a negro upon a young white woman at Maxton some three weeks ago, will be given a pre liminary hearing at Maxton Thursday of this week. Miss Meshie Ivey and Mr. Ray mond Rogers of Barnesville were mar ried yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home of Mr. B. L. Doby, super intendent of the Jennings cotton mills. The ceremony was performed by Jus tice M. G. McKenzie. The county commissioners at their meeting t his morning passed an order to employ a secretary to take care of the clerical work for the coun fcv food administration, the county War Savings committee, and th county farm and home demonstration agents. Miss Edith Courtney cf Balti more will arrive tomorrow and will be head trimmer for Miss Josephine Breeca again this season. Miss Court ney spent last week in New York studying styles and buying goods for Miss Breece's millinery store. Miss Breece returned yesterday from Bal timore, where she spnt two weeks. Johnnie Mosley, an 11-year-old colored boy, was before Recorder E. M. Britt Saturday on the charge of shooting a small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Barker with a sling shot. Judgment was suspended upon pay ment of the cost with the understand-ine- that the bov's father give him a whipping. The evidence was that the boy shot the child with a rock, which struck her on the nose between the eyes. Have you ever seen a panther ? If you have not you can see one in the show window in the grocery depar. ment of Mr. L. H. Caldwell's store. The panther was caught in a trap in the Globe swamp section recently by Mr. Tom Pittman. The panther was skinned and the hide stuffed. He is a dangerous looking animal and Mr. Pittman says he killed seven dogs and one hog the day before he caught him. Mrs N. T. Pittman of Wilmine- fon, who is visiting relatives in town, has just received a letter from her son Lieut. Milton Pittman, who was I on the ill-fated transport Tuscania. I T. W I".'.. 1 J U1 ivirs. rittman receiveu a cntw&pium on Friday night after the sinking of the ship on Wednesday, stating that he was safe. His letter states that he and his companions had a close call but were received by open arms when they reached shore. The letter stated that he was in gc id health md did not feel the effects of the ex posure, though he lost everything, even did not have a hat to saluto the British destroyers that accompanied them and saved them from the tlaep. The letter shows he boys in good spirits and-with the deternr.nr ion co win. of which he is junior member. Mr. H. E. Stacy of Lumberton was one of the more than one hun dred delegates commissioned Friday by Governor Bickett to the annual meeting of the National Good Roads association to be held in Little Rock Ark., April 15-19. A Robeson county man who was old enough to register under the draft act took his first ride on a train Fri day when he went to Fayettevihe to be examined by the district examin ing board. Uncle Sam paid for his. first ride on the tTain. m Sgt. C. P. Ieggett, who is station ed at Camp Greene, Charlotte, spent the week-end visiting at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Lieg gett, on R. 2 from Fairmont. Sgt. Leggett says the mud at Camp Greene has all disappeared and things are in fine shape now. There will be a box supper at the Meadow school house, about two miles from Lumberton on the Meadow road, Thursday night at 7:30. Supt. R. E. Sentelle of the Lumberton graded and hitrh school will make a speech on War Savings and Thrift stamps. Miss. Martha Britt is teacher. "I hope it does not turn cold again this spring," remarked Mr. H. E. Thompson of the Allenton section to a Robesonian repoiter Saturday. Mr. Thompson said he planted 5 acres of corn Friday and was afraid he would have to plant it again. Tis a little early to plant corn. Mr. Ben G. Floyd has returned from Maiden this State where he went to attend the funeral of a one-year-old sister of Mrs. Floyd. Tne child died Wednesday, death being due to pneumonia. Mrs. Floyd was at the '"rhe of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Taylor at Maiden, when her sister died and will remain there for some time. Mrs. A. C. Tebeau, who has been a guest for several days at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Whaley, will leave tomorrow for her home at Hendersonville. She came to Lumberton with the expectation of meeting her brother, Mr. Elwood Wha ley, who is stationed at New York in the aviation corps of the army, but Mr. Whaley has been delayed in com ing home. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. McAllister and small daughter, Nancy Pope, will leave Wednesday for their summer home at Hendersonville, where Mrs. McAllister and daughter, who came home the middle of December, will spend the summer. Mr. McAllister will spend a week or ten days at Hen dersonville before coming home, and will divide his time between Lumber ton and Hendersonville duping the summer. Chief of Police Alf H. McLeod asks The Robesonian to inform auto drivers that many of them are run ning too fast on the streets of the town and to warn them that he is going to begin again "pulling" those who are breaking the speed limit. The chief "pulled" a number for speeding some months ago and this had effect for a spell, but the folks seem to have forgotten about that. Why have in termissions, though, in enforcing this law? Dr. C. F. Bullock, a former Robe sonian who has been practicing medi cine at Nichols, S. C, recently was commissioned as first lieutenant cf the medical reserve of the U. S. amy. He is now stationed at Charleston, S. C, as a member of the examining board of the aviation unit. Lieut. Bvliock spent Saturday and yester day visiting at the home cf his father, Mr. V. A. Bullock, on R. 3 from Lum berton. Lieut. Bullock and his father spent a few hours hr Lumberton Sat urday afternoon. .
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