Newspapers / The Robesonian (Lumberton, N.C.) / Aug. 5, 1918, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Robesonian (Lumberton, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
THE I ESTABLISHED 1870. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. ROBESONIAN COUNTRY, GOO AND TRUTH VOL. IXL LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY. AUGUST 5, 1918. $2.00 A YEAR. DUE IN ADVANCE NUMBER 51 FISMES OCCUPIED BY FRANCO-AMERICANS CALLED TO REPORT AUG. 8. Germany's Great Storehouse Town on Aisne Front Taken by Americans and French German Retreat Con tinued Yesterday With Allies in Hot Pursuit Americans Alone Captur ed 8,400 Prisoners and 133 Guns. Fismes, Germany's great storehouse town on the Aisne front, midway or. the railway between soissc Rheims, was taken yesterday American troops, supp TVPTirh. The French a Vesle river at several poin wri taken after a heav that began in the middle noon. General Pershing's ArriTi(r VPStPl'dav's Wltiu'S . , .... I nr J. -V re-1 i'laALuii Registrants of Robeson Division No. 2 To Be Sent to Camp Wads worth Registration Cards Received. Special to The Robesonian: Red Springs, Aug. 2. List of reg istrants from local board for Robeson county No. 2 called to report for mil itary duty and entrainment to be sent to Camp Wadsworth, S. C, Thursday, August 8: Donnie Averv Oxendine. Pembroke; ARMY PLANS BEFORE CONGRESS THIS WEEK Draft May be Extended Between Ages 19 to 36 Army May Be Increas ed to 5,000,000 Men. War Department recommendations for enlarging the army and for the extension of draft age limits in order to provide new reserves of man power to back up the forces already at the NEGROES TO CAMP GREENE. 1 1 - mm m wivaii BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS List of Registrants of Robeson Dis- EXAMLNATION trict No. 1 Sent to Camp Thursday j Registrants Called to Report at Red Etta Shaw Of Last Week. Springs August The following colored registrants o I T -1 , . . . . rvooeson district Io. 1 were entrain License has been issued for the marriage of D. Archie Brigman and 8th. ed in Lumberton Thursday by the lo cal board for Camp Greene, Charlotte Atha Inman. lahnrpr T.nmSovfnn Special to The Robesonian: ; Miss Margaret C. Shelby has ac cepted a position as stenojrrapher for ! the Hammond Grocery Co. at Laurin I burg. Mr. John Stone, who liv'ea ah mt Red Springs. Aug. 3. List of reg-'? mile northeast of town, reports cnat istrants called by local board fnr ' JLi! J." . J? I ? . s Y'i .un paLcn luesaay oi last week. w-,,thInman' laborer' Emberton: Grants called by local board f0r "0 'patch Tue-dav of U TPhTP9on' abrer'- McDonald;! Robeson county No. 2 at Red Spring,; -Mr HenrV L Pon TO FaTT examination Friday, H card list wead vising the first time cast aside military serve and declared "the full frui victory" had been realized. This morning's Associated Press summarv states that the German re treat continues unabated with the Al lies everywhere in hot pursuit. Apparently the situation now has esolved itself into a race for the northern bank of the Aisne river by the Germans who have been evicted from strategic potions aiong xne Vesle river, in the center of the line and directly east of Rheims which seemingly renders necessary that they put the Aisne between themselves and their pursuers as quickly as possible in order to escape further large losses of men made prisoner. Just how large this bag of captives is, at present cannot be reckoned, but unofficial advices from Paris assert that when the figures are made pub lic they will thrill the allied world. Oneral Pershing in his communique ts of : James Locklear, isullard. Maxtor Red Springs; Mc- Laurin Jacobs, Buie. Following is a partial list of regis tration cards received since June tS, 1918, showing registration numbers: 147 John Lewis Wilkins, Indian. St. Pauls; 148 Arthur William Locklear, Indian, Pembroke; 149 Willie Oxen dine, Indian, Pembroke; 150 Ed John son, Indian, Pembroke. Registrants of Robeson District No. 1 to Be Entrained for Camp August 8. The following registrants of Robe son district No. 1 have been called by the local board to report in Lumber ton August 8 to be entrained for camp: Henry Bullard, Orrum; John Al len, Lumberton, R. 7; Melton O'Berry Sellers, Barnesville; Theodore Hunt, Fairmont; Hoke Mercer Parnell, Lumberton. R. 5: John David Ham mond, Lumberton, R. 1: Luther Cha e receive ng that his broth- is in the safely over- who lives on roujrht the e tinest to- fine Belle leslady for .cf-.tilnir f . . mt Lumberton; Oscar L. McQueen, farm-! Rovdfmd; John Wesley McMillan, St.' Asheville to attend, August 5 to 10 er, Rowland: Rowland Reiss. laborer, Pauls; Luther B. McNeill. Red a convention of corsetires which it is' VVest Lumberton; Octo McArthur, i Springs; John Brown McNeill, St. said, will be the largest convention of farmer, Pembroke; Henrv Dewitt,l Pauls; Prince Patterson, Red Springs;! the kind ever held in the South lumberman, Fairmont: Richard Wor-i John Wesley Jones, Maxton, R. 5;i A special meeting of Lumberton quate number of men for the enlarg-i Sffi&- sfA? FlwfflL! detatehment of the 21st company, N. ed military program. If the ages v' A :-"tw5i r'l S ' 7"" wr,; i. reserve militia, is called for Thun- IS. 1 1 T , . -r IT,.-" Tli.l. T 1 ri i 'l J WMMM OI, lictiiiis, laoorer, j-.uniDerton, t. z; i-uiubi jrictti,. LourmDuri;; samp mc- Hayes Kemp, horseman, Lumberton; Queen, Maxton; John Murphey, Max- Luke Row- ns ana: r lilio.ui von ljowery, cuie: oonr.nie;- ; I JyicJNeill. laborer Fairmont- Tnlina R ust -n at tu a. m.: w mr. jonn a. rope, who by the! cochlear, Maxton; Luther Locklear, i "V. "' m.-.j -iij Greene, farmer. Marietta: John tUMi Georjre Camnbell. Miiimi WarH nixl service, had arrived i orted by the Maxton; Kufus Oxendine. Pembroke;!, r 1 en. laborer. Fairmont: Ediar Lnvrf 1 Clark . M. I p r n Iso crossed tne vvinKiey LocKiear. iuaxton; Willie D. T, ; " : uV 7 " Pittman. laborer. rWWtnr.- F, ,....,. . . ' Mr. W ,D. Barfipld j. x: i- i i . tr . cs r t . tt--ii: t Li.e riuuse cuiiiiil 11 Lee. Liia.L 111s iiiLieao-i t r- ' - , -uu .1 r ps snrmno . i r. z ts. rismesi xianieL. o. p.. -.T, imam u. , . . 1 . , beons farmer 1 nihAfni V 1 . ' ui"'"53i t iu. u. x trm Lummrton h y artillery Tire: oanuerson, maxton, K. 0; Alirea raui, i e ii;; " i i " Zv.ll I Koy Rhodes, laborer. Fairmont- Will uuocx, nowiana; j. L,eon Uraham.. editor Saturday two of th ot the atter- cuie; Jonn wesiey Jones, Maxton. K j id been setti-d mion norl lle R.rers- farmer, Lumberton, R. l.: Lumber Bridge; James Hilton Bracv,; lles he has seen also a offril renor I Walter Locklear Maxton R V Rufus ' indicate in any way the size' of t$ attnew Htggms, fireman, Coinyay,; Kowland; PerceU Scott Red Soring. . orgia peach. iLrePl S lL .T1' RtV? army he is planning. . I L Jo??sA laborer.' Fair-1 nolas Smith, Pembroke, Mancie . -Miss Ethel Pittman, sa ; will be, he said, because the con- current action of the two houses is I necessary to secure assent to them. "Any suggestion to extend the draft ! ages is to produce in Class 1 an ade- j. CTJ .W ar revised they will have to be eith er below 21 or above 31, or both. I Chairman Dent was even more reti- WiUi,s. YoA farmer, Marietta: John! ton; Henry Fields, Rowland; minor tn trn1 "awKins, laDorer, i,umoerton; uenus : r xaxtou; rranK jacc-os, cent, but he said he was willing to go Thompson, farmer, McDonald; Henry' land; David McEachern, St. Pauls; P. Evans, farmer, Marietta; Austin! James Piatt, Laurinburg; William Pittman, farmer, Marietta; John Mc- Leach, Baltimore, Md.; Josh Easters, Kay, farmer. Lumberton, R. 4; Wal- St. Pauls; Oscar Burman Lovett, Spar ter McNeill, laborer, Fairmont; rows, Point. Md.; Lewis McMillan, Lreorge Key, laborer, Orrum; Curhe.Kea bpnngs, K. 1. either up or down in extending age limits of the draft to win the war. "My personal preference is to go up first," he added. The onlv snccific information re garding the new age limits to be drawn! eorfe. f'- laborer, urrum; Uurli Tvr r i. 4- Council, laborer. Fairmont: John Row the limits of 19 to 40 had been among Snd; laborer Fairmont; James; Not Only the i.o-o-aaHnn pnr,veori hut mcs e larmer, Pembroke r t . i i v o ciock in tiie new town building. Each member is urjr- J - .1 T T 1M ? . umionns win De issued. C. Murphy and family week from Atkinson to Mr. Murphy will em ed to attend Mr. C. moved last Lun.berton. the real in but . . . . , -ri t- i . Ti-:n: the Americans alone have taKenivis, lumDerton, it. x; riODeix rnuuta, amgm v..- j 1 OO ! r D Tomoc- T.n-t-Viav Ham. 0,-VV , - . -D..1 T -, . T nfliav r iiiuiiu, ot. rauia, iv. j. , xjubiici guns. NO QUARTER FOR LOAFERS. Town Passes Stringent Vagrancy Or dinance Citizens Urged to Lay in Supply of Wood for Winter Rest to be Employed Room Matron Other Matters. and a t o n-.eptitic of the mayor board of "wn commissioners Friday afternoon an ordinance pertaining to vagrancy was passed which will make it hard for loafers to hold down their job in Lumberton. The ordinance is the came as passed recently by the ;,r ..4 rv.rint.t.P. It nrovides that LLLV J A- - mr-m - any person trieu m umuvi j nury shall be deemed guilty of the I jcc np nas lii ins vuaomm.. card showing The ; larcc lUnr ifl5ririf iration a muvL . 7 . r nrr;r otnnlnviripnt in some lawti iCuiai v. . . . . " -- .,..-.fi -.nrl vff.crnized business. town vill provide these labor identi fication cards to employers and em ployes who call for them. The board passed an order calling the attention of the public to the fact that according to mformaaon from Federal officials the fuel snort aee will be greater next winter than ;f ,OQ iQOf that a considerable Wal ters, Barnesville, R. 1; Lawrence W. McCormick, Rowland; Dave Cox, Lum berton, R. 4; Lonnie Dial, Fairmont; Isham Rause, Lumberton, R. 4; Alva M. Simmons, Mariejtta; Henry S. Mus selwhite, Lumberton, R. 1; Robert B. Andrews, Fairmont; Jessie Missue, Flrod. R. 1: Wilson Brooks. Lumber- ton, R. 2; Pink Cha vis, Portsmouth, Va.; Randall Jones, Lumberton; Har vey Oxendine, Fairmont; A. von Glahn Wishart, Lumberton; Richard E. Townsend, McDonalds; Bill Leg sett. Lumberton F Alva Brown Floyd, Fairmont; Henry G. Pope, Lumberton, R. 4; Woodie Rice, Lumberton, R. 4; Victor H. Britt, Lumberton, R. 4; Ar ber Oxendine, Fairmont; Martin Franklin Britt, Lumberton. R. 4; John N. Bowen, Raynham, R. 1; Bosley Britt, Lumberton, R. 4; Wilmer Thompson, Fairmont; Clarence Lonnie Cnx. Fairmont: Tate Lee Williams, Lumberton; Dan Prevatt, Lumberton,! R. 2; Luther Augusta Willoughby, Boardman: Samuel Harvey Tucker,! TtfArth Lumberton: Joe Atkinson,', Fairmont; Daniel A. Regan, Lumber, ton, R. 2; Johnnie Hyatt, Elrod; Jut ter David Hardin, Fadrmont; Ray mond J. Sessoms. Fairmont; Charles A Waldrop, Liecester; Eddie Lewis McNeill, Lumberton: William Arthur Kinlaw, Lumberton, R. 7; Kelly John son, Fairmont; Wallace L. Mclntyre, r.nT.l,Prtnn: Georsre Carter, Lumber- the su2:2.estions canvassea, but reject extension to the ages of 19 and 36 will' Fail UAPIUKE SOISSONS. . From the Opus Majus of Roger Ba be recommended con. As to the size of the army for which I "Hence the Sa.acens and pagans in this increased Class 1 is necessary, no jit Was Ker of German Right Flank many parts of the world are becom- othcial has dropped a hint, witn trei in vvnoie oi Aisne-marne sia, and the lands bordering on Ger many, because the brethren of the exception ot (jeneral March, who in; announcing the creation of a July' schedule of six new divisions followed; by an August schedule for the same' number, has indicated the embarka tion upon such a monthly program A" this rate approximately 250,000 mer a month would be sent overseas, their places in the home cantonments to be taken by 250,000 new men. Lnder &uch a schedule, with provisions now existing for the housing and training n-f 1 70 nnn man in t. ho TTnirerl Stnr.PS a full six months of training on this side, both in divisional and replace ment camos before men were jent ever to complete their courses behind the lines would be possible. estate business. He has not yet decided where he will have his omce. Mr. Marion Lovstt, who has been at Camp Jackson, S. C, since la?t September, was a Lumberton visitor Thursday. He was on his way back to camp from Fairmont, where he spent a few days with home folks. A short "war" praver service was held at Chestnut Street Methodist church last pvoninv at nVlnrt- hmmt ing quite impossible to convert; and! before the regular evening service De position especially beyond the sea, and in Prus- ginning at 8:30. A similar service In the Blood " Bred in the Bone." Germans Sent Backward m Pre cipitate Retreat. French troops Friday entered the German house (i. e., Teutonic knights) ruin all hopes of converting them ow ing to the wars which they are al- will be held regularly at the same hour each Sunday evening until fur ther notice. Mr. A. W. McLean, one of the town of 'Soissons, the western anchor i ways stirring up, and because of MLJ?S TSH.UXS point of what remains of the famous; lust lor domination. I here is no doubt: u QatrHav frnm Mm vnri, whor(, salient, and all along the 2 30 mile, that r all the heathen nation , beyond nr&dSV business from' Wash of curving battle lines from Soissona Germany would long ago have beer ini?ton anj .ri T tnnio-ht fnr to Thriilois, which lies about 3 miles converted but for the brutality of the wtsbm eton where his timJ is ta west of Rheims, French, AmericMi and brethren of the German house, be- S"; oftSS EtiT Eritish troops pushed in the entiiej cause the pagan race has again and F 1 enemy front and sent the Germans again been ready to receive the faith " V- eaR a"d sn, Master baclcward everywhere in precipitate ; in peace through preaching. But they James, returned Saturday from a 10 fetreat. of the German house will not allow days trip to Atlantic City and other A Uashmorm disnatn starts that It. because they want tr, subrogate P . IW: LIl;y went u see ir. and Penn- manv vpars rippAiveri trip Knman oyivttnia siiica scvcio-i iiiuiitiia. rhviroh Ths is notorious ot.hprwisp A David Reid returned home by rail I would hot make the charge. The French were forced out of the city, the largest on that sector of the front, in the first German assault on the Chemin-des-Dames last May. Its capture by the enemy was a long stride on the road to Paris, a stride "NEVER BE CAPTURED. Mr. J. lfc SfwfA wfll ha'e to b used I ton, R. 5; James Thomas Dean, Lum- rrwltZSrr 1 The order berton, R. 3; J.-aea.A wr Vip hoard urees citizens ofR. 1; UJ-OOCli UJ v. " " " o . . the town to begin now to lay in store a supply of wood for use next winte--The town clerk and treasurer was instructed to employ a responsible colored woman as a matron of the new municipal building to have charge of the ladies' rest room on the second floor of the building. -rn i nr.T nwinlnvaH m flrive the fire truck at a salary of $50 the ; Lumberton, R. 4. month. A driver will be empiou to drive the other truck as soon as it has been completed. The chief of police was instrucad to pay strict attention to the ordi nance which forbids riding of bicy cles on the sidewalks in town. Rowland Davis, Buies, r. ton; James A. nerring, Ernest Leslie Higley, Lumberton; Claudy Chavis, Rennert; Isaac Bendict Lone. Tabor, R. 1; Grady D. Smith, Lumberton; Arthur W. Bissell, Or rum; Donald T. Townsend, Bolton; Sam Haves. Rowland; Rufus A. Brew ington, St. Pauls, R. 1; Quincyvil- Barnesville; roresu a. , son, E. L. Travis Arrested in Washing ton on Serious Charge De clares He is Innocent. Son of Fayetteville Man Killed in Action. Fayetteville Observer, Aug. 1. NTra moo rprpived last night an- nouncing that young Robert PorceUi, highway the re-entrv of Soissons. the kev ..fithem and reduce them to slavery, and! Regans son David Reid, who has been . . . - . . . . , . i i iii j r i.1 i P i xirr,vLrir, rr in IJaiir 1 at-catr ond Unn r it is not pprtnn the department is;t.h prmnr rio-ht. t ank- m thP who p by suDtie nersuations tney nave ior " BW xj aiming at the creation of a iorce oi j Aisne-Marne position, is noteworthy any definite size. There are now up wards of 1;300,000 American troops either overseas or en route. Secretary Baker said Thursday the shipment rate of the early part of July had been maintained throughout the month, al though he did not have available the total shipment. Under the 250,000 a month sugges tion and without mishap to the sun- ply line, October should see 2,000,000 Americans overseas and the opening of the spring campaign of 1919 when many officers believe the final scenes of the German defeat will begin in a great combined drive against the Ger man, might easily see three million ready for action with another force of substantially 2,000,000 organized at home. That would represent the army of 5,000,000 men, at which in a gen eral way, the War Department may be aiming, Recorder's Court. The following cases have been dis posed of by Recorder E. M. Britt: Bessie Godwin, Indian, drunk and disorderly on the pilblic 1ighway; prayer for judgment suspended upon payment of the cost, the defendant to leave Saddletree township. Norman. Clarence and Jarvy Har din and Quince Godwin all Indians, drunk and disorderly on the public Norman Hardin entrained E. Tyner, of Tyner & Co., sold a barn of first-cropping tobacco on the local market last week for $562.56. Mr. Tyner lives 4 or 5 miles that was. in fact, definitely checked ! rolod Prelche. Advises Reeistrarts ' f V0Vl Lumoerton, just 0ff the Elm only when the Germans met American 1 Lotore reacher Advises Registrants bethtown roadi and has 16 acres of Of His Race Going to Camp Never! fine tobacco, is acres ot as nne corn j as ever grew on anybody s land, ne To Be Captured by The Huns. says, and IS acres of fine cotton. t t- j- ; v, rf Mr- Ernest Jones of the U. S. , 5jj7!! !hZ 55 navy is spending ten days visitmg uuuae r iiuav n;ui mat vv. v. s j.. rell, colored, pastor of Sandy Grove Baptist church, near Lumberton, told the colored registrants who entrained Friday for Camp Greene never to be caotured bv the Huns. He urged them ried Visit Home on Way to Em- to do all possible to help crush Pros- oniy troops northwest ot (Jnateau-lhierry, weeks later and were halted in their attacks an dharled taok. To many of ilcials here the little stretch of line where the first two American divisions came into action below the Villers Cotterets forest, will mark the Ger man highwater mark. Capt. J. Dixon McLean Pays Hur- barkation Port. Capt. J. Dixon McLean spent Sat urday night in Lumberton on his way from Camp Jackson to a port of em barkation on the Atlantic coast. He was ordered to report to the command ing officer at a port near New York, and while he does not know where he is going the supposition is that he will be sent immediately to France to take up work in the regular army were alive. The address was overflow ing with patriotism and was well re ceived by the registrants, who ap plauded the speaker freely. his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Jones of Fairmont. Mr. Jones was a Lum berton visitor Saturday. He works on a transport and says he has made six trips to France. It takes about 8 days to take a boat load of soldiers across. Mr. Jones has seen a number of Ger man U-boats. Dr. J. P. Brown, who moved from ! Fairmont to Waynesville some months ago, left here yesterday morning for Waynesville in his auto after a week s Eobeson Young Lady Volunteers j SftST For Course in Nurse Training. Miss Carlene Bracey of Rowland Waynesville with Dr. Brown a week ago. Something ot Mr. L.inKnaw s ex periences in the mountains is reiatea son "of Mr. Antone Porcelli of Grove street, Fayetteville, had been killed in action on July 17 with the Ameri- irmirv -force. He was the LOU VAJ. TT 1 I n-t cnmnatlV H. anrl h S OOSltlOn WQUIO OB i" "uu" E. L. Travis, chairman 0f the North ranks 0f the company- el-vt(lfri Carolina Corporation Commission for Robert Force U enlisted sixteen a number of years pr or years v rder, He of this month, wnen , "K 1 Z on retui for the U. S. army on the day of trial those duties after tendering his resig- continued m tn r' w nation some weeks ago, was arresteu, f rom the boroer anu ""K, rr and was let off. Clarence and Jarvy Hardin were fined $10 each and the crst. while in Godwin's case prayer 119th infantry, f0r judgment was continued upon pay- monf nf ensr. Clarence Britt and Harry Dillard of the Orrum section, stealing water melon from D. Rowland Stephens field; judgment suspended upon pay ment of cost y ' , , ... 1 fvanoTAITPn 1(1 with two other men, at a Washington, Greenville, r " hinh hotel Friday night by Federal autnor- it ontrinor into a conspiracy against the United States and the selective draft law. Travis was held in jail until noon Saturday, whon Kail was furnished bv Represen tative Claude Kitchin, who declares his belief in his innocence and says he will stand by him. Travis and his attorney issued Saturday brief state ments in which they declared Mr. Travis innocent of any wrong. Mr. Travis' friends are indignate over the fact that he spent about 16 hours in jail and was not allowed to commu nicate with his friends. Mr. Wallace Mclntyre Injured in Auto Wreck. Mr Wallapp MrTntvre of R. 3 from Lumberton suffered a compound frae Co H, the Clinton company in which is also Sergeant Ambrose Williams of Fayetteville. He was offered the rank of corporal, but declined it, saying, "He didn't want to be over any other Robert was born in London, his par ents coming from ltaiy, wuc mother, brother and sister are now liv ing He had planned to bring.his mo ther and sister back to America witn i i;,r v,oro with himself and ta- ther, who is an industrious and es teemed citizen of Fayetteville. Fayetteville Camp to Cost $3,000,- 000 was the first young lady in Robeson! in a delightful letter from Mrs. Brown to offer her services for the special l nnhlihH elsewhere in this issue. . YTrvi-n. in I . : t If Capt. McLean since going to camp course in nurse training iui S"vcl", May has made a record of which! ment duty. Miss Bracy read the call Free Dental Examination of School Children. Dr. J. V. Turner, who is doing free dental work among school children in the county, treated the teeth of 165 children last week. He has treated the teeth of 426 children since beginning ! the work three weeks aeo. Dr. Tur ner will be at Red Springs Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week and will be at Lumber Bridge Friday. Saturday he will be in the office of Dr. W. A. McPhaul, county health officer, here. in may nao m""- " . ; - , - mL n i ; I his friends, numbered by his acquaint-1 in a recent issue 0i ine ances, are proud. When he went to! and at once forwarded her name to j rv, , TiLn .a wa aasip-nerl to Mrs. L. T. Townsend of Luntbercon, personnel office, 156 depot brigade,! who is at the head of the work in which has charge of the distribution j Robeson. - of men, making up their records, etc.j ipl He was soon put in charge of this i American Casualties now loiai office, with a large number of, 11Qft cl&rks and stenographers under him.. lO,io. Last week he received a telegram no- rmy ani marine corps casualties tifying him that he had been fommis-j reported from overseas during the sioned'a captain in the judge advocate wek en(iing Sunday increased 1,430 general's department and to report at j compareti with 1,050 the week before, once to the commanding officer of a I Total casuaities reported are 15,196, p0rt of embarkation near N ew York. : inciuding Sunday army list of 283 the lie wouna up nis wuik. i- iar2est number yet reponea in a sm CLAEKTON NEWS ITEMS. ture of the right thigh late yesterday spend no jess .than "d ar- afternoon when his auto ran into a erection of buildings at the ir eia ditch on the Fairmont road about 4 tillery camp near F aettevii ie. i miles from Lumberton. After remain-1 Camp will probably embrace lW.uw ing in the ditch for some 30 minutes i acre8. A Irt,gJa5S the Ton somebody passed and found Mr. McA similar mvrce ZJh AZ- lntyre and broutrht him to the inomp-; tract ior mw T1,-ZI ua lot t, Arrested as Deserter. I i -i t 1 orrocf- Appnrdinff to a report Circuiaceu jonn cummins, inuian, w , Accoraingw o v , Wov. j l. j -o,, w Rural eu yesiei'aay iictii j. aivu Policeman J. H. Carper on the charge of deserting the army. He is m jail Vieve Cummins had a 32 Smith & Wesson revolver on him when arrest ul tn Fridav. writes the was n. niton correspondent of the Wilr toS Star, the War Department son hospital. His condition today is ings would m an www rMtertettw as favorable as could be expected. It the George A. F"Sh oHSfirm it said the radius rod broke, which company 'or the branch of the iirm caused the auto to land in a ditch. The that is now building the shipyard at auto was somewhat damaged. Wilmington. . - - . i . ji ed. It is charged that Cummins ien Camp Sevier last December. Mr. A. Weinstein and sons, Mas ters Israel and Max, motored yester day to Hamlet, where Master Israel boarded a train for Allendale, S. C., where he will spend some time visit ing relatives. Mr. Weinstein and Max returned home yesterday. son at 10 o'clock Fjfiday night, about noon the next dty reached Laurinburg, where he bade relatives goodbye, and about 5 p. m. Saturday arrived in Lumberton. He left Lumberton yes terday morning at 7:40. . Capt. McLean is a member of the well-known law firm of McLean, Var ser & McLean of Lumberton and is well known throughout the county, and deservedly popular. He applied for admission to the tirst oincer-s nam ing camo and was turned down on ac count of his eyes. He then tried to get in the navy and was rejected for the same reason, and the same result met his efforts to enter tne sm officers' training camp last fall. When he went to camp he was told by the examining officer that he could not be accepted, but Mr. McLean begged to be admitted, protesting that he would keen three Dairs of eyeglasses on hand all the time so as to be prepared in case of accident. When the telegram name last week his superior at C amp JaWm "wanted to try to get permis cirtn w MnTan to remain at Camp Jackson, but McLean asked him not mf0 a he wanted to i?o to France. Mr. N. F. Kinlaw of R- ? from Lum berton is in town today. gle day and marine corps list of two. Draft Ages May Be Changed to 18 to 45 Years. Legislation to extend the selective service act to all men Detween -uc ages of 18 and 45 as recommended by the War Department will be intro duced in both houses of Congress this week at the semi-weetciy sessions. Misses Lillian and Voncile Powell of Lake City, Fla., are guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. Powell, Elm Mr 'and Mrs. A. M Stubbs and daughters, Mrs. D. T. Hasty of B. 1 from Red spring ana in&& , c Stubbs, and s?n, Mr. Boyd, of Park ten were Lumberton visitors Friday. Messrs. J. H. Floyd, R. W. Williams, Jesse Seabolt and Ira Bullard re turned Thursday night from a trip to Atlanta Ausrusta. and Athens, Ga. where thev spent several days. They made the trip by auto. Mice Maitland Thompson went Thursday evening to Charlotte, where she joined Dr. A. J. Crowell and fam ily and went to the summer home of Dr. and Mrs. Crowell at Montreal where she will spend some time. Refreshing Rains Pipnic at Lake Waccamaw Tobacco Selling Well Personal. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Clarkton, Aug. 2. The long-looked for rain has come and is making things come back to their own, for we were very dry here for some time. Mr. R. J. Pottes of Wallace spent the past week around here selling peach orchards. From one that he sold two years ago have been picked over 200 crates this year. Quite a crowd composed the three Sunday schools of Clarkton, went yes terday to Lake Waccamaw for a day's picnic, which was greatly enjoyed by oil xxrhn attATided. Misses Janie and Mary Russ of Wil mington spent Sunday in town visit ing relatives. , , Mr. M. E. Warner spent the week end at Raeford with his parents. Mrs. Wilma McBride and Miss Irene Wilkes of Raeford -are spending this week at the home of Mr. M. E. War ner The renlv from a man who sells to bacco, when he is asked h0w is tobac co selling, "Sold well. The only rea son anybody thinks it doesnt sell well is because he has none. Mr D. G. Kelly of Wilmington spent one day in town last week visit ing relatives. Mrs Hector Gooden and two daugh ters, of Wilmington, are spending this week with relatives here. DR. WILLIAM W. PARKER Optometrist Glasses Fitted by Superior Methods Expert Knowledge of Eye Diseases LUMBERTON, N. C. II
The Robesonian (Lumberton, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Aug. 5, 1918, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75