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THE ROBESONIAN ESTABLISHED 1870. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. COUNTRY. GOD AND TRUTH VOL. XLI GERMANS ENTER ODESSA. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. MARCH 14, 1918. SECOND DRAFT a YEAR. DUE IN ADVANCE NUMBER 10 MEN SENT TO CAMP. tfinatest Russia Port on Black Sea and Center of Great Agricultural I Section Congress of Russian So viets Postponed Till Today Ainer itan Sector Most Active on French Front Air Raids. BEGINS MARfH Men Sent to CaiPS By Local Board v iiiiuiwia mm J This mornin's Associated 3c ess summary irives the following: While the Entente allies are "nib-1 hiing" at the German lines from the North Sea to Switzerland, but are making little or no serious attempts! to break through or to btfmg about aj eliminating struggle, the Teutor.b. powers have taken another ste;- in the exploitation of the cast. The advance guards oi the ueimans have entered Odessa, the greatest R -s .dan port on the Black, Sea and the ronter of a creat agricultural section the products of which are desired to feed the hungry peoples of the Cen tral emnires. The German advance t hrough Moldavia and Bessarabia has been virtually unopposed. With Odessa safely in their hands, the Teutons will have access to vast stores of wheat which can be trans ported overland or by sea to points where it can be readily shipped into Austria and Germany. But the capture of Odessa will mean something more an advance over the route to Persia and Afghan istan and possibly India which is to be followed now that the British have severed the famous Berlin-to-Bagdad route to the east. The congress of Russian Soviets which was to have convened at Mos cow on Tuesday, postponed its meet ing until Thursday. This gathering may be historic as it will be asked to ratify or reject the peace forced upon the Bolshevik peace delegates by tlu Germans at Brest-Litovsk. When the congress meets it is probable that the message of President WilsOh to the Russian people will be read. It is ex pected to make a profound impression upon the assembly. The American sector in Lorraine, which is now definitely located east of Luneville, is the most active on the French front. Great artillery combats are being carried out by the Ameri cans, who have demonstrated by raid ing operations that their artillery fire has forced the Germans virtually to abandon their front lines. Two hun dred gas projectors installed f r the purpose of supporting attacks on the Americans have been destroyed by shells. The gallant conduct of the Ameri can soldiers in the fields is reflected by their brothers in arms, the Ameri can sailors of the destroyer squadrm in British waters. The courageous action of eight American sailors who plunged overboard from the destroyer Parker to rescue survivors of the hos pital ship Glenart Castle has been the subject of complimentary remarks in the British house of commons. German airships reappeared over the northeast coast of England Wed nesday night, according to an official statement. The German Zeppelih raid on Eng land Tuesday night was not success ful. It reached no objects of mili tary importance and only one airship uc.-.ec'id in dropping bombs on a town. Four bombs fell at Hull, but the rest of the aerial raiders wander ed aimlessly about the country and their bombs fell in open fields. The Germans who raided Paris on Monday night did "not escape unscath ed. An official report from Paris states that four of the enemy's ma chines wove brought down and 15 trained airmen were either killed or made prisoners. 800,000 Men Are to be Called to The Colors Gradually During The Year 80,000 Men of First Draft To Be Mobilized First o isuji. v&ru win rse laiten to anu iuie For Robeson Division No. 2 4C Ne groes to Entrain for Camp Grant April 1st. i Correspondence of The Robesonian. Red Springs, March 13. The fol- Ifw.Ii ........ i l ri . y 1 I luwmji juunt; men oi tne ot. jrauis sections, seeing that they would have to be sent to the colors if they did not enlist while they could, i have enlisted in the coast artillery and were sent to "Fort Slocum, N. Y., for c- . . . , , , , I duty Wednesday night by local board fcigK rumored thousand men are to. for Robeson No 2: James R Mr- Avoid Interference With Farm Work. THE RECORD OF DEATHS. Widow of Late Timothy Page Died of Pneumonia at Marietta Yesterday Funeral This Afternoon. Mrs. Matilda Coleman Page, relict of the late Timothy Page, died of meumonia yesterday at 2 p. m. at Marietta at the home of her son Mr. G. S. Page, with whom she lived. The funeral takes place this afternoon at 3 o'clock from the residence of Mr. G. S. Page and interment will be made in the family burying ground near Marietta. The service will be con ducted by Rev. Joel I. Allen of Dil lon, pastor of Bear Swamp Baptist church, of which deceased had been a member for 50 years. Mrs. Page was 84 years old last Oc tober and up to a week ago, when she was taken sick, had been remark ably active. Her husband died about 13 years ago She is susvived by two daughters Mrs. W. C. Oliver of Lyons, Ga., and Mrs. J. E. Inman of Metter, Ga and four sons Mr. R. L. Page of Lyons, Ga., Mr. W. H. Page of Reidsville, Ga., Messrs. Timo thy and G. S. Page of Marietta all of whom were with her when the end came. Deceased was the mother of nine children, three daughters having preceded her to the grave. 45 COLORED MEN TO CAMP GRANT APRIL 1 be called to the colors gradually dur ing the present year under the second army draft, which begins March 20. An announcement Tuesday by Pro vost Marshal General Crowder of the number to he called was followed closely by an ed"er for the mobiliza tion of 95,000 men during the five-day period beginning March 29, some 15, 000 of them to be assembled under the second draft. Eighty thousand will be men of the first draft of 087, 000 not yet summoned into service. Details of how the second draft is to be applied will be made public later, after Congress has acted upon proposed legislation providing for the registration of youths attaining the age of 21 years and for basing State district quotas on the number of reg istrants in class 1. In his first of ficial statement on the subject, how ever, General Crowder assures the country that no sweeping withdrawal of large number sof men at ono time is contemplated, and that care will be taken to avoid interference with harvesting. Fill Up Existing Organizations. The 95,000 men now called, it is un derstood, are needed at once to fill up divisions and other units scheduled for early departure or to take the place of men transferred from other divisions to make up such deficiencies. Newly organized regular divisions are particularly short of men and heavy drafts on national army divisions to make these good have been nec essary, seriously interfering with the training work of the national army di visions drawn upon. The call for new men makes it probable that no .fur ther transfers will be necessary. The 800,000 men to be summoned this year represent the number neces sary to fill up all existing divisions, to create all the army corps and field army corps to fill out the war machine for which the framework already ex ists, and to provide a quarter of a mil lion replacement troops When they have been mobilized, which will not be completed before the first of next year, there will be more than 40 full infantry divisions of 27,700 men each and all the additional units. No ad ditional units of the national army or national guard will be created this year, although the program for the regular army, now composed of eight infantry and one cavalry division, may be enlarged. Five Army Corps. The firs- purpose of the War De partment is to complete the first field army in France. Probably this will be composed of five ai'my corps of rix infantry divisions each. It hs been estimated that with that force and its necessary auxiliaries at Ids disposal, General Pershing would be able to hold a 100 mile sector of the battlefront, relieving the strain upon Fifr.eh manpower during 1918 tj that! extent. What that would mean to France may be judged from published rtatements pf French officials that m January 1, 1918, the Belgian army held about 15 miles of the westeiTi frnt, the British forces about 250 miles. No" Sudden Withdrawal of Men From Industry and Agriculture. Provost Marshal General Crowder i concludes his official statement on the subject as follows: "To sum up, it may be said that there will be no sudden withdrawal of great numbers of men from the ranks of industry and agriculture dur ing the coming summer, but that men will be drawn in relatively small groups throughout the year in such a way as to create the least possible in terference with industry and com merce. Men in deferred elapses as well as men in class one will be se lected in small numbers either on ac count of their special qualifications or for the purpose of sending them to schools where they will be given an opportunity to acquire such qualifications." Leod, Walter T. Glover, Wade 11. Glover, all of Buie; John Belton YIc Neill, Maxton; Angus A. Inman, Hay nes Rhodes, Raymond L. Deaton, Vi'o. Andrew Bennett, Walter Harris. Roy Waiters, all of St. Pauls On Friday of last week the follow ing men were entrained for the avia tion section of the signal corp and sent to post of duty at Kellysfield, San An-' tonio, Texas: Wm. Archie Inman, j Chancey McK. McDonald and Wil liam A. McDonald, all of St. Pauls. There have been two voluntary en listments prior to these men above named James E. Tew, Red Springs, to Fort Leavensworth. Kansas, sig nal corps, and James H. Miller, Ro.v- land, to the coast artillery at Fortj biocum, N. i. This makes fifteen voluntary en listments since February 1st, for lo cal board Robeson countv No. 2. The board received orders today to entrain on April 1st forty colored men for Camp Grant, 111., this being on quota due last fall. t t WmmFJSmm H ' mm B FARMERS' INSTITUTE BRIEF , mi. -r ... -Work has been lcirun on t'o wmmm Three Institutes Will Be Conduct- b,,5ck tobacco warehouse, pint Vnd j -r, , Cedar streets ed in Robeson Next Week . .Miss Nt-lh.- Tvson , :is an -it a position with Messrs. Stt-ph.-ns j.d i .. . ....... oi i . i uai""' onf negM work yesterday. Mr. C. M. Fuller left inct t.v,.n" ing for St. Lottia, Mo., when- ! will spend sever;.! day buying males for his sales stables Ex-Gov. w. W. Kitchen of Ha!- 'H'il ;ii1 t - I f OI I i. ate la-re today confering wich the law firm .f !,-; V. ! ..: . . . . ..v.,,,vo- ...in ..4 llj t ' IV lit' I l'f i..- ...i, - , . - . 1 mm eonourt ieuai nia'.ci .... ,. ,c : 1 1 ah.!au near Alm-wr-i Mr. T. B. Parker, director of fwM ers institutes in North Carolina, and Mr. Jeffenea, an expert in gardening, mil conduct three farmers' institute in Robeson next week. They will con and an institute in connection with ; meeting of th Robeson division of the rarmi .V union at Ten Mil u.i... - ---'- v 1 I I . ta. ihursday March 21, an ter, near Fairmont. FHHv UmJ, The public ts invited to attend these institutes. Messrs. Parker and Jef fenes are working in connection with me c-umy department of tore agricul- OUT BARKER'S WAY RECORDER'S COURT. Negro Soldier Given Road Sentence For Stealing Launch Not Wanted Back in Army Riding Bicycles on Sidewalks Must Be Stopped. GEORGE E. GALLOWAY. Private Geo. E. Galloway, son of Mrs. D. W. Galloway of Fairmont, who died in France on the 27th ult. as ! the result of being "gassed" by Ger mans in the French trenches the day before. Private Galloway was 22 years old and volunteered immediately after the United States formally rec ognized that it was in a state of war with Germany. He sailed from New York August 4. last, and was among i the first American soldiers to see ser vice at the front. Young Galloway was a fine specimen of manho .d and was somethine of an athlete. He was a nephew of Mrs. E. I. Poole of Lum-berton Will Faulk, the colored soldier who was arrested several weeks ago on the charge of stealing a gasoline launch belonging to Mr. V. B. Mc Millan, was given a hearing before Recorder E. M. Britt yesterday. He wras sentenced to 12 months on the roads. Recorder Britt had some doubts as to whether or not he had a right to pass on the case and is hold ing Faulk in jail for further inves tigation of the matter. Army officials 1" 11 1 il ill tPT S Garden Plants Killed by Frost Care less With Fire in the Woods Personal Mention. Correspondence of The Robeson Lumberton, R. 1, March 12. The frost that came Sundav nip-ht kill! all the little plants in the gardens in this section Last Sunday was a windy day for fire to be out in the wood3 Several people in this section had a' close call Sunday" afternoon by fire that Zeak Sutton had in a new ground. Sutton put the fire out in the woods Fri,l.nv and left it Sunday and it crossed the The YV O V t Cen-1 w)l mwa;i .. .' ' .......i ,i iniTiii m ii,. .,.., ofSov. Lundy Barefoot Sunday. A aril .. at 2:30 p. m. Neighboring camps are invited to take part. Mr and Mrs. A. Weit stein re tained yesterday from New York and Baltimore, where they spent sev eral days buying goods for Mr. Wehv Steins department store. . Mr A1f Rowland enlisted in the. infantry of the V. S. army Tuesdav at the local recruiting station. He eft for Fort Thomas, Ky. Mr. Row- lanu is only l years old and enlisted of his own free will. Miss Alva Hardee, an experienc ed trimmer of Baltimore, Md., arriv ed Tuesday evening and will work in the millinery department of Messrs R. D. Caldwell & Son's department store during the spring season. Mr. J. Frank Stephens of R. r from Orrum was among the business visitors in town Tuesday. Mr. Ste phens said that the farmers down hia way have their land prepared for planting . Some will plant corn next week. Rev. lan H. A- Grantham, priest in Following is a list of additional members of the Lumberton Red Cross advised local authorities that FacilfiPter not heretofore published was undesirable for the army and was not wanted back. The negro admitted stealing the boat and said he intended making his way back to his camp in the boat. Lee French, colored, was tried on the charge of riding a bicycle on the sidewalk. Judgment was suspended upon payment of the cost. Riding bi cycles on the sidewalks of the town has became a habit with many bicycle riders, and Recorder Britt says it must be stopped. DRESSED TO ASTONISH. Strange Looking Wanderers Blow Into Town-Style Themselves "Is- NEW RED CROSS MEMBERS. Total Membership of Lumberton Chap er is Now 452. woods. Better mind his fire next time he has any out in the woods. Rev. J. L. Powers filled his regular appointments in Chatham county. Miss Nannie Lloyd of Lumberton spent Sunday in this section visiting relatives. Mr. Howard Powers of Norfolk, Va. is home on a visit. Miss Nellar Carter of Lumberton, R. 5, spent last week with relatives at Barkers. There was preachfng at Barker's Sunday a. m. by the paster. Rev A. S. Parker. Mrs. Lloyd Townsend of Lumber ton attended preaching at Barkevs Sunday -1 jr rr. : - rno a v 4- mm - crawge oi 1 rir.uy r.niscona rhiirrh uunii box. m it. rowers . . . : . ' . u. m.uihiiuiii wciii. i.im NIKrn to Wilmington, where thev will at tend services in St. Philip's church the balance of the week. They will be away over Sunday. There will be a patriotic rally at the East Lumberton school building tonight. Those who will take part in the program are: Messrs. R P. Cald well and H. E. Stacy, Dr. A. H. Eeer, county farm demonstrator, Miss Lulu M. Cassldey, home demonstration agent and Mrs. p. L. Nash. Miss Josephine Brecce has her millinery opening today and tomor row. The spring opening at the Lum berton Bargain House beirins todxiv and continues throughout the week. Mrs. Alexander Inman and daugh- Messrs. R. D. Caldwell & Son wilt Mrs. Jessie Wishart, Miss Pennie Rowland, Mrs. H. B. Robinson, S. Weinstein, Mrs. S. Weinstein, Furman Freeman, Mrs. H. J. Roerers, Mrs. F. G. Boersig, Mrs. Wright Prevatt, Mrs Ellen Shooter, Mrs. Sam A. Branch, Miss Miriam Weinstein, Mrs. D. M. Hollqwell, Dougald Drake McNeill, Mrs. Fonnie Townsend, Mffe. Eddie McNeill, Mrs. T. A. Ramseur. Mrs Owen Dees, Mrs. W. W. Carl vie, J. M. McCallum, Dr. J. D. Regan. Miss Mat tie Lee Pittman, Miss Mattie Am nions, Miss Alice Tate, Miss Kate Tate, Mrs. Ed. Freeman, Mrs. Emma Higley, Mrs. Eliza Fuller, Miss Mar tha Britt, Miss Nannie McQueen. Mrs. Robert Chafnn, Mrs. John C. Fuller, W K. Bethune, Mrs. Ralph Shaw. Mrs. R C Kornegav, Mrs. J. A. Bar ker. Miss Sailie Dick, Mrs. S. A. Floyd, Mrs. R. N. Thv'rp Riftino- Now Bat Epps, Mrs. Ben J - " Cashwelk, Mrs. W. L. Norwood, Mrs Have Taken Occasional Strolls. H. B. Jennings, W. J. Prevatt, C. H. i BoVd, Miss Ida Williams. Miss Tame Wrapped in a white robe and wear- Williams, Mrs. C. A. Gay. Miss Arte ine neither shoes nor hat, his hair mjsice Rozier, Mrs. A. P. McAllister, long like a woman's and not a dime iyrrs josa Nance. Mrs. Joe Thompson, Mr. T L. Johnson, chairman of Robesor. army exemption board No. 1, Agricultural Club Organized at Mt. Moriah. The young people of the Mt. Mo riah community were organized into an agricultural club Monday evening. Dr. A. H. Kerr, county farm demon strator, and Miss Lulu M. Cassidey, home demonstration agent, perfected the organization. To Look Out For Robeson Farm ers of Draft Age. Dr. A. H. Kerr, county farm demon strator, has been advised by the U. S. Department of Agriculture to see that Robeson farmers of the draft age be dealt with according to the draft reg ulations that apply to the agricultur al classes. received a wire message y ester 1 ry , 0f Orders for Nitrate of Soda. irom tne war department aavisin him to send 45 colored men from this district to Camp Grant, 111., on April 1. A list of the orders for nitrate of soda from Robeson farmers has been sent to the State Department of Agri- s-.prii- for t, shave m manv vears, he attracted no small amount of atten tion. A man whose description is giv en above spent yesterday here. He had with him a boy or girl, y-m could not tell which, who looked to be around 12 years old and who was "rigged" up in the same manner as the older "Israelite," as he termed himself. When interviewed by a Robesonian reporter, the "Israelite" said he walk ed more than 3,000 miles last year because he did not have the price to. ride, but that he was riding now be cause he had the price. He said the youngster with him also walked all the while he was walking the more than 3,000 miles. . This strange-looking wanderer said he had spent many hours in prison and expected to spend some more there. He said Chief H. H. Redfearn of Laurinburg wanted to arrest him for vagrancy and he left town. Mr. J. S. Oliver Announces Can didacy for House of Represen tatives. Mr. J. S. Oliver of Marietta an nounces in this issue that he is a can didate for the Democratic nomination to represent Robeson in the lowed house Of the , next Legislature. Mr. Oliver was orfe of Robeson's two lep resentatives in the House of the last Legislature and is well land favorably known all over the county. It is expected that Mr. G. B. Sel lers of Maxton, Robeson's other Rep resentative in the last House, will be a candidate to succeed himself, and his announcement is expected soon. Tn Mnndav's Robesonian Mr. H. E. Stacy announced his candidacy for Joseph Thompson, Miss Vivian Town send, Miss Lillian Barker, Mrs. Caro line Skipper, Vance Skipper, Mrs. Vance Skipper, Miss Ida Pittman. Grady Sessoms, R. N. Barnes, Mis R. N. Barnes, Mrs. Ed. Boone, Miss Gertie Barnes, Miss Mattie Weaver Miss Polly Ann West, W. H. Stallings: Mrs. E. L. Hamilton. Miss Addig West Mrs. H. G. Jones, Mrs. Abner Nash Miss May Seabolt, Miss Margaret Pittman, J. D. Lewis, E. B. McMillan, Evander M. Britt, Mrs. Evander M. Britt, Mrs. Amos King, Mrs. J. H. Perry, Mrs. J. A. Bethea, Mrs. P. S. Kornegay, Mrs. W. A. McNeill, Miss Eulalia McGill, Mrs. N. H. Mussel white, Mrs. A. C. Johnston, Mrs. W. R. McNeill, McMillan Fisher. The following of St. Pauls, R. 1: A H. Graham, E. J. Martin, Miss Flos sie Bullard, J. Talmage Graham, Ed. W. Britt, Roy Cain, D. W. Parnell, Mrs. Carrie Hedgepeth, Mrs. T. W. Maxwell, Miss Gertrude Maxwell, T W. Maxwell. This makes a total of 452 paid mem bers of the Lumberton chapter. Addresses Before Community Club At Rex. Prof. R. A. Jehle, extension pathol ogist of the North Carolina Depart ment of Agriculture, spent Tuesday in Robeson. He made an address at Rex Tuesday evening on the diseases of potato and the cause for rotting. The monthly meeting of the com munity club at Rex was held Tuesday evening and Dr. A. H. Kerr, county farm demonstrator, also made an ad dress before the club. Must Quit Plowing Into Roads. ters, Misses Rubie and Jennie, of St Pauls, spent Sunday in this vicinity. Mrs. Marthie M'White is visiting her daughter and son-ifPTfiwTn this section. Mr. Evander Britt of Lumberton spent Monday at his farm in this sec tion dynamiting stumps. Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Riddle spent Sat urday in Lumberton on business. Soldier boys, hurry up and write to The Robesonian. Your letters are so interesting. Miss Mamie Jones of Lumberton spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. Jones, at Powers Station. Sorry to report that the bovs Tri Camp Jackson are being sent away.! the Lumberton school to go n ?l v iT D?VC JnhaSitheGoldsboroandVilmin-toi sailed for Fiance. He is a son of Mr. Goldsboro will send its spe Jones With best wishes to the dear old Robesonian. Bridge Across Big Swamp Burned i (-cn have their millinery opening Thurs day, Friday and Saturday of next week. Mr. P. A. Wishart, county super intendent of roads, says it will cost around $1,000 to repair the road at Edmund's mill pond, which washed out last week. When asked what caused the dam to break Mr. Wishart said the abutments were not nut in right and the owners of the pond were trying to make it bold too much wa ter. The Wilmington high school will not enter the State triangular debat ing contest this year. Arrangements had been made for the debaters from up against ton schools. akers o ! Lumberton. It has not been 'earned what other school Lumberton speakers will debate against. -Maxton Scottish Chief: Presi t Wilson has sent to the Senate the name of Mrs. B.-s.sie X'cholson to be postmaster at Maxton. Mrs. Nich olson, widow of our late postmaster Mr. F. A. Wishart, county super intendent of roads, has been informed that the bridge across the Big swamp at the Tar Heel crossing was burned O. C. Nicholson, has been acting post- Monday. The bridge caught from a' master since the death of her nus forest fire. The bridge across the ! band and has given satisfaction to same swamp at Lennqn's crossing caught several times from a forest fire Tuesday and came very near burning. Mr. Lee MacPharland has been appointed a rural letter carrier at! Red Springs. Messrs Mark Page coadministration, the committee on War i wm i ttt:ii: r : the patrons, bhe is receiving con gratulations of friends. Mrs. J. B. Bowen has been em ployed as stenographer in the office of the county farm and home de monstration department. Mrs. Bo wen will also serve the county food Barnesville and B. p. Williams of Lumberton have been appointed rail way mail clerks. The LaFayette Mutual Life Ins. Co. of Lumberton received yesterday a letter from Mr. W. R. Carlyle, exe cutor of the estate of the late J. E. Carlyle, who died on the 4th inst., acknowledging receipt of check in full payment of policy carried by his fath er in this company, which was the first to pay of five companies in which the late Mr. Carlyle carried insurance. Mr. W. H. M. Brown of Buie was a Lumberton visitor yesterday. Mr. Brown returned home Thursday of last week from the State sanatorium for the treatment of tubercular pa tients at Montrose and that his :on dition has improved wonderfully is strikingly apparent. He gained 20 pounds in weight during his stay at the sanatorium and looks a picture of health. Supt, R .E. Sentelle of the Lum berton graded and high school made an inspiring address at the Meadow school house Thursday night of last week which was heard by quite a crowd. After the address the box supper was held. The boxes, only 5 Hvere in Tinmhpr sold for over $10. The those Savings stamps and the county at torney as stenographer. The board of county commissioners at its last meeting provided for the employment of a stenographer. Mr. Wm. L. Craven of the State Highway commission is spending the day here for the purpose of assisting Mr. F. A. Wishart, county superin tendent of roads, in making plans for a new concrete bridge to be put in on the Stage road just beyond the river from -the foot of Fifth street. This bridge was washed out during the floods of August, 1916, and a tempor ary bridge was put in at that time and has been in use since. While it has been decided not to hold a county commencement in Rob eson this year, Prof. J. R. Poole, county superintendent of schools, is arranging for the seventh-grade pu pils to take the examinations as they have been doing heretofore. Exami nation blanks will be mailed to the teachers at an early date. Diplomas signed by the county board of educa tion, the county superintendent of schools and the teacher, will be de livered at the close of the school to in number, sold for over $10. The those passing tne examination. TJoti-or at.nn nlowincr ud the road if the Democratic nomination for the you nave been guilty. It's a fact that Spnat.fi. Senator Frank (jougn oi nonv fnrmprs are euilty and Mr. V . Lumberton, who represented the coun- Wishart, county road superintend- Mr H M Tiiinaw nf p fi from bum- culture with the hope that the suppl berton was among the visitors in I for Robeson farmers may be increas Itown this morning. ed. ....u-ii.ili..y. t.v in the last Leeislature, is prevent ed from offering for office this year by the condition of Mrs. Gough's health, which has been critical for several months. Senator Gough will give a formal statement to the press in a few days. ivni- aavs be is eroine to indict those who continue to plow into the roads after warning appears in The Robe sonian. Some have been cleaning out ditches and throwing the mud in the road. This must be stopped, too, ac cording to Mr. Wishart's statement. proceeds will be used for the benefit of the school. Miss Maie Harden won the cake for the prettiest girl. A cold snap lasting from Sunday evening till Tuesday morning broke into the beautiful spring weather that had lasted almost without a break for a month, but spring-like weather '.as "resumed." And March winds nave been and are on the job. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Reynolds moved Monday from the northern part of town into the old Lumberton hotel building, Third and Chestnut streets. Miss Belle Kornegay, a sister of Messrs. p. S. and R. C. Kornegay of Lumberton, died Monday afternoon in a hospital at Greensboro following an operation for appendicitis. Both Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Kornegay and Mr. R. C. Kornegay were with her when the end came. Deceased was 21 years of age and was a mem ber of the senior class at the State Normal college. She. had been sick a week. Interment was made near Mt. Olive, Duplin county, Tuesday af ternoon. Deceased visited Lumberton 2 summers ago.