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THE ROBESONIAN . . ESTABLISHED 1870. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. COUNTRY. GOD AND TRUTH VOL.JXL LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 2, 1918. $2.00 A YEAR. DUE IN AD C GERMANS STILL GIVE GROUND ON WEST FRONT I'eronne, Important Railroad Center, Taken By Haig's Forces Germans Unable to Hold Back the Allies. Latest news is to the effect that the Allies are Still making telling progress all along the Western front and the German armies continue their1 cept those in the NUMBER 59 REGISTER SEPT. 12TH All Male Citizens of United States Not Already in Service Must Register for Military Duty Thursday of Next Week. All men from 18 to 45 years of age m tne cmtinental United States, ex- retreat. The report says also that the American soldiers are also doing trood work today. Peronne, the railroad center at the bend of the river Somme, taken by the Germans in their offensive of la .March, was recaptured yesterday b,' forces of Field Marshal Haig. The town of Bullecourt and Morval ..Lso were captured by the British. The British have reached the sub urbs of Lens Large fires are burn-i convened tng in the neighborhood 01 bens and Armentieres, states a dispatch of last msht from London. These are re garded as an indication of a further Gorman retirement. In the region north of Soissons French troops Saturday night storm ed the town of Leury and captured a thousand Germans, the French war office announced yesterday. French troopB have crossed the Somme canal at Epenancourt, seven miles south of Peronne. Rouy Le Petit, two mileg northeast of Nesle, has been captured by the French. The American troops in their drive beyond Juvigny Saturday night and yesterday advanced about two miles and captured nearly 600 prisoners, to gether with considerable war sup plies. The advance from Juvigny began at 4 o'clock Saturday and the Americans had gained their objectives by 9 o'clock at night. Ragged points in the new line were smoothed ot yes- In addition to the 600 prisoners two nieces of artillery wore captured and a great number of machine guns and j packers trench mortars. Trenches, shell noios SALES OP SEASON AT LEAST 3 MILLION POUNDS Lumberton Tobacco Market Has Grown Steadily in Favor With Growers Last Week Biggest of Season One Big Warehouse Will Be Doubled in Size Next Year. As the selling season has advanced the Lumberton tobacco market has grown in favor with tobacco growers. Last week was the biggest week of the season, more than a half million ready registered, were summoned by President Wilson Saturday to regis ter for military service on Thursday, September 12. Machinery of the pro vost marshal general' offirP dm' of ii mouon to carrv out tne serrmrl i Rounds havmcr hon ni ua lnol V 1 J- 11 i " i - kJVll V 1 1 Lilt- ! ! !I!a1t5nrUmePt un.der a Presidential market. The market will -n t 1M PresSet h2d Sl at" lfce 3.00,000 during the season Powe r act iJtX?6 "H Whije the Farmers' Warehouse, of The bill connntTi r 3fH which Messrs- Knott & Smh pro a "'Completed in Congress Fn- prietors, has closed for the seison foary'thed Presided t S Sta' and Banner wLehoVesS ior the President s signature Satur- remain onen as In w, Jt VHV4. V J FAR REVENUE BILL READY. State Library mumo ur LOCAL Ni Wg day soon after the House and Senate onvenea. It is estimated that a tl ensh 1 9. 772 758 men will register this time, com pared with nearly 10,000,000 on the first registration of men from 21 to 31 on June 5, 1917. Of those who en roll now, it is estimated that 2,300,000 will be called for general military service, probably two-third? of The number coming from among the 3, 500,000 or more between the ages o 18 and 21. 5 General March has said all regis trants called into the army will be in France before next June 30, swelling the American expeditionary force to more than 4,000,000 men expected to wm the war in 1919. The last to be called will be the youths in the eigh. teenth year, but those of that age who desire and who have the neces sary qualifications may be inducted in to service on October 1 for specific technical or vocational training. Registration this time will be con ducted as heretofore by the local draft boards. All Federal, state, coun ty and municipal officers are call d upon to aid the boards in their work, i.v picserve oraer ana to round up tobacco ottered for sale. Messrs. Knott & Smith left Friday for their homes at Henderson, where they con duct a large warehouse. They ex pressed themselves as being highly pleased with Lumberton and their business during the season. Their house sold more than a million pounds up to Friday when it closed. This house will be doubled in size before the next selling season, which means that it will be one of the largest sales warehouses in the State. preme Sacrifice. and the open Held were strewn witni KILLED IN FRANCE German dead. All along the western battle front J tates this morning's Associated, Press summary, the Germans continue Uther Kobeson Boys Make the Su- to give ground before the Lntente Al lies. Daily the trend of events ac centuate the insecurity ot the German; Mr. Ephriam Sutton, who lives a lines and the inability of the German j bout a mile east of Lumberton, re high command to hold back the ag- ceived yesterday a cablegram advis- jOMaoxs. i in$ that his son, Mr. Donnie Sutton, Where two months ago great sal-; ws lalled at the front in France Au ients projected into the aiiied front ; gust 17 ast- Young Sutton had these have either been flattened or been in France some time. are in process of being blotted out an din some instances the Allies them selves have driven in wedges that seriously menace the enemy. Mont St. Quentin, dominating Pe ronne and the angle of the Somme riv er, was taken Saturday by the Aus tralians, together with Feuillaucouit, lying to the west. In this operation, which was in the nature of a surprise attack, more than 1,500 prisoners were taken. FOR LIMITED SERVICE. 10 Men Called to Go to Camp Thurs day for Limited Military Service 4 Left Friday. It is reported that Mr. Claud Bul lard of Georgia, a grandson of Mr. Tom Bullard cf Lumberton was re cently killed in France. Mr. Bullard is a son of Mr. George Bullard, who moved several years ago to Georgia. Relatives of Mr Bullard here have not been able to confirm the report of his death. Club Agent Robertson Goes Wayne County. to Mr. J. J. Goodwin Goes to Train ing Camp. Mr. Junius J. Goodwin, who has been in Lumberton since 1912, having form erly lived at Raleigh, and who-has been a member of the law firm of McLean, Varser and McLean, left for Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga., last, Fri day, at which place he reported for duty at the officers' training school, (infantry). If he is successful in the work required, he will be eligible to commission of second lieutenant about January 1, next. Mr. Goodwin vol unteered and says he is willing to take the chances, stand or fall, on his own merits. He is willing to be a private for Uncle Sam, if he cannot get the. commission, and this he will be if un able to get through the school suc cessfully. Mr. Goodwin is a Class IV man, and while he says it has been his earnest desire to get in the conflict since it; started, his personal affairs have been such that he could not fulfil his own desires before this time. Now, having been selected for service, he goes Completed By Committee and Ready To Report Greatest Revenue Pro ducing Bill Ever Presented to Con gress. The House of Congress ways and means committee agreed Friday to report the eight billion dollar war revenue bill today. It carried greatly increased income taxes beginning with a normal tax of six per cent, on all below $4,000 a year and above the exemption limits. To reach war profits a flat war profits tax of 80 per cent, is levied, with an alternative plan of excess Birofits taxes ranging from 35 to 70 per cent. The minimum surtax of in comes is raised to 65 per cent and the normal tax on all incomes over $4,0C0 is .made 12 per cent. The bill which will affect either di rectly or indirectly every person and business concern in the United States. probably will be taken in the House for consideration next Thursday, with prospects that it can be disposed of within a week or ten days. Treasury experts have estimated, Chairman Kitchin stated, that the as finally agreed upon, will pro duce an annual revenue of between $8,100,000,000 and $8,200,000,000, thus making the measure by far the great est Tevenue producing proposal which congress has ever been called upon to enact. Remains of Edgar Lovett ArjLived Here This Morning Enlisted in 1916 and Was in Coast Artillery. , , , I I ' V i w.e u. . Tlapr i he funera wn I be conducted from the Lovett home! this afternoon at 3 o'clock by Ren J. r lennnir anrl inform d" wmvu 111 UU e in the family burying ground, near Smyrna church. ' THE RECORD OF DEATHS. Big Shipbuilding Plant to Be Built at New Bern- . New Bern has been selected as the site of a big shipbuilding plant, it was announced by Senator Simmons iFridav. Several million dollars will !be spent there The West Coast Shipbuilding Co., Of Everett, Washington, which has consecrated f.hri several large plants on the Atlantic leaves a wife and seven children hd Pacific coasts, will build the rard. Five hundred to one thousand hnen will be employed at the outset Lin construction of the yard. In reali ty, it will be two plants, as both wood en and concrete ships are to be built. The number of ways is undetermined. The Emergency Fleet corporation, through General Manager Piez, ap proved the site, which was really se lected by the War Department, since the vessels to be built are for that department. Five 265-foot car fer ries will be the first products of the with a lull heart and a quickened spir- 1 -abrot. Tugs, concrete schooners, riv it, that he may do his f tril-dirty, a tif taesnu-and transports will a!s sees it, on tne iiem 01 nonor. Mrs. Goodwin will make her home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Pearsall, at Red Springs, until Mr. Goodwin returns. Since war was declared Mr. Good win has been active in patriotic work and has given much time, without compensation, in helping fill out ques tionnaires, advice to registrants and dependents seeking allowances made by the government; to Liberty loan campaigns, devoting practically -all his time for two months to the second and third Liberty loans; to the Red West Raleigh, Sept. 1. Mr. A. K.j Cross, in organizing the local chapter Robertson, the friend of the North Carolina farm boy and the organizer of corn and other agricultural clubs over the State, has resigned his posi tion as assistant in club work for the and acting as treasurer and member 01 executive and finance committees of this chapter; in local army Y. M. C. A. work, acting as local secretary in securing recruits, a number having has accented the offer made him by The following registrants of Robe. , Disirict Agent R. W. Freeman to go ?on division No. 1 have been called; to Wayne county. He will begin his by the local board to report in Lum- j new work Monday, September 2. He berton September 5th to be entrained and Mrs. Robertson and children will for Camp Humphrey. Va., for limited i make their future home in GoldsLoro. service: I Mr. Robertson is a graduate of the Joseoh Robert Prevatt, Lumberton; j State college of agriculture, class of Luther Harrison Prevatt, Buie, R. P. 1912. and has spent the last six years so be built there. .New Bern is thirty miles from the I Atlantic ocean, but is on tne JNeuse river, which has a splendid depth and is said to be ideally suitable for a ship yard in the vicinity of New Bern. Agricultural Extension Service and Wn obtained who have entered both the foreisrn and home service. Mr. Goodwin is the third member of the firm of McLean, Varser & Mc Lean who has entered the service of D.; Eugene Thomas Miller, Lumber ton; William Farson Tyler, Lumber ton, R. 5; Johnnie A. Hedgepeth, Or rum: Frank T ,. Nash. Lumberton; Ralph Howell, Barnesville; Walter A.: made many friends of farm boys out Fowler, Lumberton, JK. z; lucser over the state encouraging tnem to Rritt Fairmont- Simeon Williamson, cro to school and later to college. The in agricultural , club work, devoting most of his tlnle to organizing corn c'.ubs. Not only has he been very successful in this but he has also Ravnham The following were entrained here Friday for Camp Greene, Charlotte, also for limited service: Edgar T. Elliott, Lumberton; Greg ory A. Hardin, Orrum; Tom L- Free man, Elrod.R. 1; Forest O'Berry Lew is. Fairmont. Dr. McPhaul Re-Elected County Health Officer. Dr. W. A. McPhaul was re-elected county health officer by the board of county commissioners today. His sal ary was ordered increased from $2,100 to $3,000 the year. This raise in salary was recommended both by the county board of health and the State board of health. Dr. McPhaul tendered his resignation a month ago to become effective September 1, but he has decided to continue with the health department. Not Much Autoing Sunday. Scarcity of autos on the streets here yesterday was very noticeable. The first Sunday under the request of the fuel administration that use of coui ties of the State are dotted with farms which are better managed and are oroducing more food in this world's crisis because of the '.rained. club members on them. the Government. Mr. A. W. McJLean, senior member of the firm, is a mem ber of the War Finance board at Washington; Mr. J. Dickson McLean was recently commissioned as a cap tain and is now at Port Hoboken, N. J. Mr. L. R. Varser is the only mem ber of the firm left to take care of the firm's business. SOLDIER ACCIDENTLY KILLED IN NEW YORK. The St. Pauls graded school will open September 9. Mrs. Jessie Wfshart, who has been ill for the past week, is greatly im proved. Mr. L. J. Perrv left this morninr The remains of Mr. Edgar Lovett 1 fr Wilmington, where he will work son of Mrs. Ellen Lovett of R. 4 from! " the Sl"P yard' Lumberton, arrived here this morn-' u ?! " ThmPson has returned ing from New York where he was me from Baltimore, where he went killed accidentally while on duty Fri-to consult a specialist. 7 essaSe received by I Daniel B. McDonald ha been ap- wJv mJ f ST state in what! Pointed rural letter carrier on route way Mr. Lovett, who was serving In 3 from Rod Springs, the army, met his death. I ou J b Deceased enlisted in the armv Julv . 7 hn"iff R. E. Lewis had four 20, 1916, and was in the coast' artil- ba,es of 1918 cotton ginned Thursdav me casKet was draped witn . - oamruay xor License has been issaed for the marriage; of Wm. Seller sand Nellie Woodell; Neill Barker and Mrs. Mar tha Shaw; K. C. Stone and Hattie Graham. Mr. Z. R. Lytton and family mov ed last week from Lumberton to Winston-Salem, where Mr. Lytton has accepted a position with the Haynes cotton mill company. Sgt. W. B. Shooter of the U. army, stationed at Camn Meade. Md., is spending today here visiting home folks. Sgt. Shooter enlisted in the army four years ago. Mrs. L. R. Stephens succeeds her husband as clerk in the office of Prof. J. R. Poole, county superintendent of public instruction. Mr. Stephens left last week for the army. The condition of Miss Harriett Humphrey, saleslady at Messrs. White & Gough's store, who has been ill for two weeks, is unimproved. She is at the home of her parents at St. Pauls. Lumberton is to have a circus some time during the month of Octo ber. The advance agent of Robeson's greater shows spent Wednesday of last week here making arrangements for the coming of the circus. Mr. W. C. Brown, the tobacco king of Fairmont, boarded the train here Saturday nigtt for Washington, D. C., where he will spend several days. Mr. Brown's tobacco crop this year sold for more than $17,000. Mr. E. J. Davis, senior member of the firm of E. J. Davis & Sons, which firm conducts the Robeson county tobacco warehouse at Fair mont, spent the week-end at his home in Martinsville, Va. He returned to Fairmont today. Mr. P. W. Townsend of Lakeview, S. C., passed through town Saturday en route to Rock Hill, S. C., where he has accepted a position as book-keeper for the Anderson Motor Co. Mr. Townsend expects to move his family to Rock Hill at an early date. Mr. G. B. Kinlaw of the Center section was a Lumberton visitor Sat urday. Mr. Kinlaw says slow-down notices will be posted on the road passing the Center school house be fore school opens and where the or der is not complied with by autoists they will be indicted. Mr. R. Lewis Shelby, cashier of the National Bank of Hopewell, Mr. W. R. Covington, teller, and Mr. O. Clinton Norment, book-keeper for the same bank, are spending the day here visiting relatives and friends. Mr. Wearn Shelby, another Lumberton boy, is also employed in this bank. Messrs. Ellie Walters and Pren tiss Barker, of the U. S. army, who are taking a special course in motor mechanical work at Clemson College, Mr. Wm. Brewer f Back Swamp. Mr. Wm. Brewer, aged 40 years, died at his home in Back Swamp niuiui ruuay at i.u:ju a. m. of ty phoid fever. Interment was made at pleasant Grove, church, near Rayn ham, Saturday at 10 a. m. Former Lumberton Citizen Dies in Georgia. Mr. W. S. Wishart calls to the at tention of The Robesonian the follow ing dispatch published in the Char lotte Observer of Aug. 24: "Tpccoa, Ga., Aug. 23. Mr. John 5" jlje' father ot John S. Blake and Fred D. Blake of this city, died sud denly Sunday morning while attend. in gservices at his church in Toccoa, Ga. Mr. Blake was nenrino- eightieth birthday. He was a true. ine deceased DanaaoaI 1 J . . J I T i ... "v.ucvu uvcu in jjumDerton 4U or 50 years ago. He was a brother of tne late W.. B. Blake 0f Lumberton and a great uncle of Mr. Clifton Blake, who works in the postoffice here. During the residence of the deceased in Lumberton his father made his home with him, the family living in the old Lumberton hotel. Spain Will Seize German Ships Because of Submarine Sinkings. A dispatch from Madrid states that the Spanish government decided Sat urday night to take over all the Ger man steamships interned in Spanish ports in accordance with Spain's re cent note to Berlin, because of the torpedoing of Spanish vessels by Ger man submarines. Mr. A. K. Robertson is a son of Giles Robertson of Rowland, this county. iR. C. Sessoms Safely Overseas First-Class Gunner. Correspondence of The Robesonian. St. Pauls, Sept. 2. Mr. R. C. R. Sessoms received a card Saturday that his son R. Casper had arrived safely 0V6TSG3-S. Casper went to Fort Screven, Ga., last February and in a short time got to be first-class gunner. He won a nice silver medal on long-range shoot ing 1,550 yards, and on the 4th of July Casper and a Mr. West won $2r on long-range shooting against an other company. Just before he sailed for trance he won a cross and a badge for being an expert rifleman at 1,000 yards. Columbus and Brunswick Will Build Good Roads. Wilmington Star. That Wilmington and Charlotte are destined to be connected by a modern highway sometime in the near future is indicated by the increased enthu siasm over good roads that is becom ing more and more evident every day among the road officials of Columbus and Brunswick counties, says D. H. Winslow, State highway maintenance engineer. With modern roadways leading through these counties there will be little left to be done in tha way of construction to complete this much-agitated highway, as the roads through most of the other counties, through which the proposed highway to pass, are in goou conuiwuu, is one or two exceptions. autos for pleasure driving be discon-1 The biggest intensive round-up of tinned seems to have been religiously illicit whiskey distillers ever unaei- taken by the government ims jusv, been completed in Southern mountain districts by revenue agents, aided by local officials, under direction of In ternal Revenue Commissioner Dan iel C Roper. The activities of the agents resulted in the seizure of 486 stills, arrest of 200 moonshiners, kill ing of five outlaws and two shenfls and wounding of a number of other government men and liquor maKers. observed bv moat autoists hereabouts A few autos were observed, but wheth er they were driven for pleasure, in defiance of the request of the Gov ernmnt to save gasoline for war ieeds, or were driven for business 8 not known. . . Safely Overseas. Relatives of Mr. Ambrose C. Wil liamson of R. 4 from Lumberton have received a cablegram announcing his afe arrival overseas. National Prohibition Moves Step Forward. National prohibition moved a con siderable step forward rnursaay Congress. , , Without a record vote being taken or requested, the Senate adopted the ij.r. rTVkrkvnmiM on "bone dry prohibition, effective July 1, 1919, and continuing during the war, and until the American troops are brought home and demobilized. The compromise amendment ty Senator Sheppard, of Texas, prohibi tion leader, to the $11,000,000 emer gency agricultural bill, is expected to remain in the measure under the har mony agreement of "wet" and dry factions, although technically subject to another vote. Lenine Reported to Have Died of Wounds. Nikolai Lenine, the Bolshevik pre mier, who was shot twice by an as sassin last Friday night at Moscow, has died of his wounds, according to a telegram from Petrograd. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Virginia's first lady, Mrs. West moreland Davis, donned gingham, car ried her own lunch and journeyed to the United States bag loading plant at Seven Pines Thursday to enter the training school to be made a full fledged Munitions worker. As presi dent of the woman's munitions re serve, states a dispatch, Mrs. Davis feels that she should lose no time in becoming an e cpert in sewing raw silk bags and filling them with smoke less powder. The government Thursday paid out $156,000,000 for ordinary war ex- ii l j 1 penses, maKing tne largest suigw civi cageg convened tnis morning at day's expenditures for these purposes, 10.30 with Jud c c T f Ef. ; son nnn nnn ucunowii piehiuing. aUUlUUIl tU UlSUUiamg p4.v,vvu,uxv w The condition of Master William Carlyle, who has been confined to bis bed for a week, is slightly improved. The U .D. C. will meet in the di rectors room at the National Bank of Lumberton Thursday afternoon at 4:30. Superior court for the trial of S. C, spent the week-end here visit- foreign loans, and a number of minor expenses. David Evans, negro, was sentenced tn 9( vears in the State orison by .Tnrto-P T.von in Cumberland Superior free dental work for the school chil court at Fayetteville Friday following dren of the county, will be at Max -m ii J A . TTT 11 i mi Dr. N. A. Thompson has made application to the National Council of Defense to join the medical re serve corps of the army. Dr. J. V. Turner, who is doing t x Wnltor Townsend of Rayn Mr. R. A. Hedgepeth, Jr., spent yes- ham was a Lumberton visitor Satur- terday at Dunn. day. a iurv verdict of murder in the second degree for killing Vivian L- Bundy on July 13 at a sawmill, of which Bundy was superintendent, in a dispute over the amount due the negro on pay day. PERSONALS Mr. D. A. McCall of Elrod was a Lumberton visitor Friday. Mr. F. G. Odum of Buie, R. 1, was Lumberton visitor Thursday. Mr. J. F. Stephens of Grrum, R. 1, was a Lumberton visitor Friday. Mr. L- B. Britt of R. 4 from Lum berton is among the visitors in town today. Mr. N. T. Wilso nof R. 7 from Lum berton was among the visitors in town Saturday. Mr. W. D. Kinlaw of R. 7 from Lumberton was among the visitors in town Saturday. Mr. Richardson Britt and small son, Robert, of 4 from Lumberton were &mong the callers at The Robesonian office this afternoon. Mr. C. P. Powers of the U. S. army stationed at Camp Wheeler, Macon, Ga., is spending a few days' furlough in Robeson visiting relatives. Messrs J V.. Nve and N. F. Bar- den, Mrs. M. H. Warwick and Miss Nye of R. 2 from Fairmont are among the visitors in town today. Miss Nannie McQueen has returned from Wilmington ad Greenville Sound, where she spent ten days vis iting her brother Mr. H. C. McQueen. Mr. and Mrs. J. Z. Nash and three children and Mr. Jake Aycock, who live near Monroe, spent the week-end here visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S- J- Starnes, Third street. They made the trip in Mr. Nash's auto, re turning home today. ton tomorrow, Wednesday and Thur day of this week. - The board of county commission ers, the county road board and the county board of education are all holding regular fint-Monday meet ings here today. Large crowd in towr.. Mr. J. E. Fisher of the U. S. ing relatives. They returned to Clem son today. Th yehave about com pleted the course and expect to be transferred to some camp soon. ('an you guess how long it took to make the "fire dogs"? Capt. J. T. Glover, of the iron foundry depart ment of the Lumberton Motor Car Co., has contributed the "dogs" to the Red Cross and it costs 25 cents for a guess. The one guessing nearest the time required in perfecting the "dogs" will get them. The contest will close Saturday at 8 p. m. The guessing is going on at the Pastime theatre. Sergeants A. M. Quinsby and J. R. Bell, the two soldiers who were invalided home on account of being army stationed at Camp Logan, Hous- gassed, and who spent last week in ton, Texas, arrived here Saturday Robeson in the interest of the sale night on a visit to relatives. He will! oi war savings stamps, asx ine be at home a week. Mr. Fisher en- j Robesonian to thank in their behalf listed in the army Feb. 5, 1914 and; the people of Lumberton and other has spent much time on the Mexican border since he enlisted. He was an emlpoyee of The Robesonian before he enlisted. t A letter which relatives of Lieut. J. M. Russell, who has been in France since May, recently received from him stated that he had been selected with a number of other officers to return to the States to instruct soldiers in special work before they sailed for France. He stated in the letter that he was trying to change the plans so he could remain in France in or der that he might go to the front with his regiment. As was stated in Thursday's Robesonian, the Lumberton graded and high schools will open for the fall term Tuesday, September 17. Prof. W. H. Cale has already arrived herj from Henderson and is preparing for the opening. Mrs. Cale and their 3 children are expected to arrive Wednes day and Prof. Cale and family will live in Mr. L. R. Stephens' residence, parts of the county for the manner in which they were received and the many kindnesses shown them while here. Mr. S. Mclntyre and daughter, Mrs. L- P. Stack, left Thursday eve ning for Colv.mbus, Ga., in response to a wire message advising that Mrs. Stack's husband had undergone an operation in a Columbus hospital for appendicitis. Mr. Mclntyre returned home last night. Mr. Stack's condi tion was as favorable as could be ex pected when Mr. Mclntyre left Columbus- Mr. A. W. McLean has been home since Saturday from Washington. He had an interesting trip last week out West, to Dallas, Texas, and Kansas City, where a fearful drought has ruined grazing lands, causing cattle to be sacrificed by the thousands. Mr. McLean investigated conditions for the Government War Finance board, of which he is a member, and money will be made avanaDie Dy mai uoau Fifth rmH Walnut, streets. Their fnr-l to relieve the distressing Conditions. niture has already arrived. Prof.! Mr. McLean will leave for Washing- Cale expects some trouble in finding places for teachers and is anxious that any who could take teachers to board advise him at once. He is also anxious that all children who will be old enough to enter school by Decem ber 1 enter at the opening. ton this evening. DR. WILLIAM W. PARKER Optometrist Glasses Fitted by Superior MetbWa Expert Knowledge of Eye Diseases LUMBERTON, N. C.
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