THE
ROBESONT A N
ESTABLISHED 1870. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS.
COUNTRY. GOD AND TRUTH
VOL. IXL
LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 12, 1918.
S2.00 A YEAR. DI'F iv
IMPORTANT GROUND GAINED
SCHOOL OPENS SEPT. 17. , REGISTRANTS TO CAMP.
Daring and Successful Attack by
Americans and French in Lorraine
British Also Are Making Gains
There Was a Pause in the Allied
Offensive Yesterday.
Latest reports from the front tell
of a daring attack made by the Amer- ness for the opening of the Lumberton wil be entrained here Saturday, Se- date
Getting Ready for Opening Tuesday 22 Whites and 1 Indian Will Leave
Of Next Week-All Pupils Should For Camp Jackson Saturday and 3
fcnter Promptly Commercial De
partment May be Added Cabinets
For Library.
Colored Leave For Camp Greene!
This Evening.
Twenty-two white and 1 Indian reg-
DOWN BOARDMAN WAY. ! BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL NE7
iiUMBE- 62
Anniversary at Lennon's Well Attend
edPersonal and Other Items.
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
"TOiumau, iv. r . u. oepc. y. we
Relatives here have been advi-ed
cf the safe arrival overseas of Lieut.
R. A. McLean of Lumberton.
License has been issued for the
nn.rriage of Lonnie Ward and Letfe
:.tts; C. T. Harrington and Katie
Pa-e. ,
Mies Marjorfie Steele left this
CASH IN ADVANCE!
Jwerythmg is being nut in readi- Grants of Robeson division No. I1 are having mmi n .u . .u. m.?.rnin. .Whiteville, where she
leans and French in the St. MUnel; graded and high schools Tuesday of er 14 by the local board f& The anniversary held with Lennons'
ecur m jLiuiiainc in nu.u iiiipui tdiiL , iiext weeK. school will open at 9
a. m. lhe facultv will hp n n
Superintendent, Prof. W. H. Cale;
principal of high school and teacher
of the eleventh grade, Miss Kate Mc.
Daniel of Kinston; tenth grade, Miss
Pauline Edwards of Henderson; ninth
grade, Miss Ruth Stanley of Guil
ford Co.'lee; eighth grade, Miss Mat
tie Dawson of Eion College; Seventh
grade, Miss Ruth Britt, Lumbc-rton.
R. 1; sixth grade, Miss Elizabeth
Snead, Lumberton; fifth grade, Miss
LiMiian marker, Lumberton
Lean, Lumberton, Miss Rosalie LytchJ mint' AAm. lels
ground was gained. The report says
that the British are also making im
nortant gains iin the northern sector
of the battlefront. ' Reports coming
n today look much better than those
.f yesterday.
The Associated Press gave this
;ornin the following summary of
i iie war news :
Eight weeks to the day and for the
fist time the great allied offensive of
Marshal Foch is at a virtual pause.
True, both the British and French
mi isolated sectors on the front ex
ending from Flanders to the east o.
-Soissons again have recorded ad
vances, but Wednesday witnessed no
.such progresss by the Allies toward
strategic objectives as past days has
brought them before the torrential
rahlfl turned the lowlands into im
passable marshes and the. badly worst-
. i i
ed enemy rusnea large remorcements
forward to stop the gaps through
which the British, French and Ameri
can armies were threatening to filter
and wreck his entire military situa
tion. During the eight weeks that have
elapsed, the allied troops have cleared
imost in its entirety the enemy-held
territory from the Marne to the Aisne
in the great triangle which had Chateau-Thierry
at its apex and Soissons
and Rheims respectively its western
and eastern anchor points. From
Soissons t Arras, the old bulge west
ward to Montdider and toward i the
doorstep of Amiens has all but been
oblterated and the Allies now are
standing across a large portion of the
the old Hindenburg defense line and
virtually are upon the remainder of it,
while to the north in Flanders, the
deep salients which threatened the I r
English channel ports have bent east-! ... ... D , 0. . ,
thA Pnpmv im pvupIW from A11 Soldiers Rescued, the Ship Beach-
lhe vantage points from which he had
expected ultimately to make his dr?vef
i nan endeavor to gain the seaboard
Lamp Jackson. S. C, -foil
Millard Dawkitis, Lumberton R. 8;
Richard Croxton Nance, Marietta:
Paul Willoughby, Bcardman; IM
Martin, Lumberton, 4; Willie Clarence
Britt. Ravnham: Willis
T t,,V,j- . i- -r . a'
i will teach in the graded school. School
win open Monday. .
A special meeting of Pine Cair p!
was very largely attended, with good AVVY , W-' meet at
songs and speeches from all schools ! ,,?nch Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. I
represented. 1 A1J members urged to be present.
Rev. Mr. Chaffin, our pastor, and L iss Iae Seabolt of Roper spent!
Rev. Mr. Newton of Whiteville heid ; Fneldfy he visaing friends. She !
a rpvivol vo . i. urLM. . went from here to Ma-xton. whorp a.,o
Lumberton; Leroy Fentress Hard;: r" nmde8 n addltlnS the eoming term " " V
fSS I flex HaTev Si -d Mrs. Luther Stanley from! -Mr. M. B. Bobbins of Council .u, !
u. reiax ves recently. i l-u'.r ware stove. Mr Krvhhm
E
ton,
mnt;
CillCU
Rai ley, Fairmont; Leander W
;hefe
ArchJs
will
', iUls.s E. Lumberton- DnviH Trl Tn&'Lfr' rma' 91 near .Raeford, sncnt can secure a house
tA T'-JrriV..,V ' t 011 McDonald: Neill Hi,in T.. Vi'i 1 weeK wiwi ner parents, Air.
6'"i j.'iioo iiiigie ivussen, LumDer- c; r x o r f v; ' v -X -JHBm
ton; third grade, Miss Winifred Row- K; 2i Raymond Daniel Bra,
land, Lumberton; second grade, Miss u5mon4' T l Shlton Malone, Lum
Pennie Rowland, Lumberton: first ,er.ton h Frank Avant Jennings,
first grade, Miss Mary Belle" Gary,! aint; Durham L- Stone, Orrujna,
ic Mis? Aptips Mr I A worge .owiana mitcnen, jajr-
lefT Jordan and little daugh- move his family here as soon as h
Pates; Kelly
Rowland
All the ministers of the town have
been invited to attend the opening
exercises, as well as all others who
are interested in the school.
Prof. Cale says he is anxious for all
who will be old enough to enter at
any time during the fall term to en
ter Tuesday in order not to have pu
pils coming in all during the session.
It is, probable that a commercial
department will be opened later in
which shorthand, typewrting and
book-keeping will be taught. Prof.
Cale is heartily in favor of adding a
business department to the school.
Cabinets are being built for a li
brary. Around 1,000 books are al
ready in sight and others will be add
ed. The graded school building has
been repainted on the inside and over
hauled in general.
TROOPSHIP TORPEDOED.
ed and the Enemy Submarine Be-
Johnson, Fairmont; Levi Hunt, In
uian, ljumoerton.
The following colored registrants
will be entrained here this evening
for Camp Greene, Charlotte:
Joe Harps, Jr., Newport News, Va.;
Harrison Whitted, Lumberton. R. 7;
John Powell, Fairmont.
Dr. J. A. Martin Has Enlisted in
The Navy.
Dr. J. A. Martin of Lumberton has
enlisted in the U. S. navy. He return
ed Tuesday from Norfolk, "l, to
wnicn place ne .went Sunday and
where he successfully passed the ffcy
sical examination. He will be com
missioned lieutenant and expects his
call for duty at an early date. FTe
applied for enlistment two months
ago. Dr. Martin came to Lumberton
three years ago and has served as a
member of the local examining tipurd
since the task of examining regis
trants was begun. He was in class 4
and was not likely to. have been call
ed for military duty 'had he not vol
unteered. Mrs. Martin and their
by Justice M. G. McKenzie
His host of friends were delight
ed to see ex-Judge T. A. McNeill on
the streets yesterday. This is the
frst time Judge McNeill has walked
down town in some months.
Little Miss Sue Blount Shaw en
tertaned a number of her little
friends Tuesday afternoon at the
home of her mother, Mrs. D. P. Shaw,
in honor of her 8th birthday.
Mr. "Rab" Love a member of
the Lumberton baseball team Hn-n'-n ti
the 1916 season, died recentlv in
and Mrs. A M Kelly iNancy (.havis and Fairley Lowric
School opened at Bladenboro the were f of Regis-!
first Monday. Several boys and girls T Det'ls M' -W- Floyd yesterday
from ths section are attending, amone- , ,,"u"'. service Deing periormea
whom are Messrs. Wilbur Brown,
Francis Lennon. Harly Sineletarv ani
Galand Davis, Misses Gertie Lennon!
and Mozelle Kelly.
Mrs. Leeroy Hemmingway and lit
tle daughter, Francis, of Wilson and
Miss Lizzie Lennon of Bladenboro
spent Thursday at the home of Mr.
J. E. Hill.
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Lennon f
Whiteville attended church service at
Lennon Saturday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith of the
Hope Mills section visited the home of
Mr. Dan Pery Saturday and Sunday.
Messrs. R. F. Hester and J. L.
Brown made a business trip to Lum
berton last Wednesday.
- Mrs. F. , G. Kelly and small son
David Hughes are spending some time
in Peachland.
Mr. and Mrs. Stacy Martin of the
Orrum section visited at the hjme of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew
BrXt, Sr., the past week.
Duval and Eloise, children of Mr.
C. C. Britt. were on the sick list
the past week but are better now.
We think most all the farmers of
Allied Success Than Disaster.
News of the torpedoing of the Brit-
and thus cause a diversion of the
transport service from England to!
southern France.
has been no letup in the allied offen-ii511 1 .VVit" -ouu lu
sive, notwithstanding the fact that the! g PS on board, m the war zone , Sep
German high command had stiff ened ' tembfr 6 was given to the American
its resistance everywhere, discarding ?Pl8. yejterdaj, first through ,he
infantry units as such, and training ! gntish Admiralty and then later
them into machine gun companies and! rou?h . the Jt
bringing up large numbers of guns t Washington. All the soldiers were
of all calibres to hold the aggressors ! s uefd by 7 mBSSSl
back. Wherefore it is not improbable e steamer itself was beached and
4v,. ir.u -a. -i,: v..,o .i0.,v J the enemy submarine is believed to
u ai a will wiicu wc amca iwiv. witci- , , . . -
j e.v,CT AimA nave been accounted for
will take up with full impetus his
task of putting the enemy on hismet-
small son, J. A. Jr.. will so to Rich-
lieved to Have Been Sunk More an; mond, Va., when Dr. Martin is called
and remain there with Mrs. Martin s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Jones,
until the war is over.
Dr. Martin expects to resume his
practice here when the war is over.
Harris Won in Georgia Priinary
Yesterday.
William J. Harris, former chairman
of the Federal Trade commsision,
whose candidacy was endorsed by ;
, ) ' - W..V.J ...
Florida, accordmsr to reoorts receiv
ed here. Mr. Love made many friends
while here.
Mr. E. M. Paul resigned yester
day his position as clerk in the oitice
of Sheriff R. E. Lewis. He left last
evening for his home at Pembroke.
where he has accepted a position with
tne tfank of Pembroke.
Mr. Swain Britt of R. 1 from Or
rum was among the visitors in town
yesterday. Mr. Britt returned Tues
day from a trip to Timmonsville and
Hartsville. S. C. He renorts crons
this section are through barning to-1 damaged in. South Carolina by the
bacco at last and many have begun j recent drought.
to pick cotton.
OUT BARKER'S WAY.
Much-Needed Rains Cotton Crop
Short Death of Mr. Edgar Kin
law Sunday s-School Picnics Per
sonal Mention.
Correspondenee of The Robesonian.
Lumberton. R. 1.. Sept. 9. We
President Wilson, apparently swept! bave hrd severa ch-nd sHaw
the State of Georgia yesterday in the; s m the last few days, .hich makes
ftlliciflls at. Uashincrton viewed the cQ-'al nr.Tvurnti r.rimsrv Or ever- Ci.i. in u.fcr iuj.as eJu baiu.iB
result of the attack more as an allied unofficial returns he had carried lWlok much refreshed.
X ICMIlg tUtlUll lU ""-
m this section, l tninK
be much vshorter than
in
i.l T1, J
wiui ins uwii iiuw Kitviu iun:es iu nivc - . . . - i i ,1 t .. - -n.,,. ci ii Tt f jut COmmunlXV was ureawy suuckcu
The British and French troops ap- t at submarine c mmanaeib sl a behind Senator tiardwicK du - "or halth for some time and; Daisy Jenkins, received news
narentlv are in a hard race for the fearful of attacking troops ships in tions were that neither had received : SiiFrS to ro when Go d called. He was I day that her youngest son, Si
prize of St. Quentin, forces of both i f-l"'nvy Ana tne aim .x . . -: a sufficient numoer oi votes to raa , - - - f d leaves a Watson had arrived safely overseas ,
armies now being at equi-distant : ? s tei 5 second pr.ary necessary s Ss and relatives to mourn! Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Stack arrived'
points west of the city, the British in 9 V," W i l " dl Z " I' their loss. We feel that he is at rest; this morning from Columbus, Ga., and
v 1 ... l - p j.! 3 n4-lnv, .r-K Wq.H Ml 3 - 1 . i 1 . -l
Witn nis lamer, aiiu muuici , ..c- w:n speim a weeK or iu uays ai we;
home of Mrs. Stack s parents, Mr. andi
Mr. C- C. Murphy, of Murphy
Bros. Land & Auction Co., has open
ed an office in Lumberton, in the
Planters' Bank & Trust Co. buildinjr.
The company also has an office
Greensboro and does a large business
in handling real estate.
Mr. J. A. Carlyle of R. 6 from
Lumberton returned home Tuesd iy
from Camp Hancock, Augusta, G2.,
where he spent Tsome time visiting
Robeson county registrants. He
says the boys are getting along fine
and having a good 'time.
Rev. Dr. R. C. Beaman went this
morning to Hamlet to meet Mrs. Bea
man, who will return home tonight
from Henderson, where she sent
about 2' months with relatives. Mrs.
Beaman's health has improved some
what since she has been away.
Mrs. Harriett Watson of Ben
nettsville, S. C, who has been spend
ing some time here visiting her daugh
ters, Mesdames Nannie Crump and
Mon-
C.
1
am
ii.. ; . ? ... p
me viciniiv 01 verma mi aim r re;ir..i 1 . . , iialW , 7 .
at Etrillers and Coupv. . system now m xogue is piactically . popular vote.
To the nnrth thp Rrit.ish. m local ,
operations, have made, fuither prog-
Attack on troop ships by subma-
constantly are expected by on-.
res. north' of Kpehy in the operation i "nes constantly are expecteu uy a -which
has for its purpose the driving als and it may be that a new ai;u
j , , - 1 : mnre netermmed campaiern nas tie -n
German Helmet Received By Mrs.
Andrews of Fairmont From Son
cf a wedge midway between Cambrai ; more 4."""" tC arrnnwhe- Mr. N. A. Andrews of Fairmont
and St. Quentin and also has success - Se sf ereTby their was a Lumberton visitor Tuesday an J
fully sustained heavy counter attacks ; cause s of the ooSSte told The Robesonian that his mother,
by the Germans near Grouzescouri ; .lfi SfaoS anS this ' Mrs. N. T. Andrews, received that
where the Germans are trying hard to ! fion 1 TSvSffo I morning a German helmet, sent to her
hold back the British push toward "r"r zon e are added to by new! by her son Mr. Leon T. Andrews, who
- . , 4.1. - construction in American yards.
iMortn 01 tne ot. uoDain niassn uie -- - , u:,,j v,r Ua lm,:r .
xne recuiua atmrvcu uj v..
illied navies in the transport
Fvonnn Vo-n w wl n :. rl i f l rwr0 1 cl 1 ffll t".
advances, notwithstanding the bad ; Cfen ana
condition 01 tne terrain and the strong f "ZZTxriih
forces of the enemy aligned against jgb jSSji
thorn or, A,t r,rorDnt HT-T1- i OT W"1? SU"
i tl lit ail WVA SJ Mr V. v w-.
ing of -this important position from
the west. Heavy artillery activity is cmc?r B"",tem
in n,nTOOO on ;in rv,in -Tr-ont nri of the convoy system
fe VOO C. 1 J MlVUg bills' a.. vw
enlisted with the company of engineer
located in Lumberton more than a
vear aero and was with the first troops
1 J IC V ICO 111 MlUilUMWi- " ... t-,
ing of more than 1,600,000 American T?:;;;
i tne loss or cniiy
considered mira-
culous. And it is accepted by naai
officers as testifying to the success
ikewise on the sector northeast oft n m- i n nr. nnArfl
Soissons and between the Aisne and
Veale-rivers, the operations on which
have a direct bearing on those of the
St. Gobain forest.
In Flanders the British have been
at Front in France.
Relatives of Mr. Clarence MooreJ
formerly of Lumberton, have been ad-.
Armentieres and in the region of La
Bassee canal.
CROIX DE GUERE WITH PALM
Brother of Mrs. Greaves Awarded
Highest Order of French
Service.
War
successful in local encounters near i vised by letter that he received a
flesh wound wmie ngnnB -front
in France on August 7. He was
in a hospital at the time the letter
was written and wrote the letter him
self. He stated in the letter that he
expected to be oat soon. .
Aucrnsta Blake received the
other day a letter from her brother
Joseph B. Blake aavismg maw nc :
ceived a flesh wound just below the
right knee from a. machine-gun bul
let on July 19 and bad been in a
French hospital since July 20, but
was then the letter was dated Aug.
7 in a Casualty camp,' getting along
fine, and would go back to his com
Private Blake, who is a
vuii ovum , .
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Blake who
live near Lumberton, was oniy x
old when he volunteered on Feb
ruary 28, 1917, and he went oyer
with the first troops in June, jui.
He is a member of Co. F, 28th U. b.
Inf.
Ex-Empress and Her 4 Daughters
Reported Murdered-
A London dispatch of the 12th
states that the Daily Express claims
to have unquestionable information
that the former empress of Russia
and her four daughters have been
murdered by Bosheviki.
Mrs. C. L. Greaves has been inform
ed that her brother, Maj. Paul C. Pas
chal, who is with our forces in France,
has been awarded the Croix de Guere
with Palm, which is the highest order
of French war crosses. He command
ed one of the battalions during the
terriffic German attact in the Marne
offensive on July 15th, which "did not
i?ive an inch." In recognition of his
conspicious gallantry and the ability
with which he handled his men he has
teen decorated. He has also receiv
ed a safety razor marked in the gen
eral's hand writing, "'Souvenir from
General Petain."
A false fire alarm was turned in
from Seven Pines, in the northeast
ern part of town, about 11 o'clock
Jast night.
cone on before.
Mr. and Mrs. T. jcawarus spenv mrs. . Mcintyre, Walnut street. Ml.
Sunday last with Mr. Edwards' par- Stack underwent an operation for an-
ent.s. Mr. and Mrs. o. vj. auwdius. i oenaicitis at a nosmtai in ooiumous i
irs.
Little Miss Ruby Monroe is spend-1 two weeks ago.
iRg some time with her grand parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Powers.
Mrs. Robert Rozier, who has been
confined to her room for some time,
is much improved.
Misses Dovie and Ruth Britt of
Ten Mile spent a while Saturday p
The Wjr Ii dmtrics BjarJ
has placed Mwsaperj n a
preferred class to receive ma-
terials necessary to ther produc-
tion, provded the newspapers
conform to certain require-
ments. One of these require-
ments limits us to sending THE
ROBESONIAN only to those
who keep their subscription
paid in advance. The War In-
dustries Board will not permit
those from whom we buy pa-
per and other materials neces-
sary to produce THE BO BE-
SON IAN to furnish us these
materials unless we omply
with the provisions of tfca or-
dcr of the board. So our sub-
scribcrs can readily st'e why
we must obey the orders of
the War Industries Hoard.
The last copy of The Kobe-
sonian any subscriber will re-
ceive unless and until his sub- .
scription is paid in advance will
be MONDAY, SEPTEMBER
30. If you get your paper
through the mails DO NOT
wait for a state.nent. The
Hobesonian's force is kept so
busy getting out the paper that
there is scant time for sending
cut statements. On every
paper sent through the mails
there is a printed label that
will enable each subscriber to
know how his subscription
stands, the date on each label
showing the date to which the
subscription is paid. Look at
the label on your paper. If it
shows that your subscription is
not paid beyond October, 1918.
please attend to the matter at
once. To those who receive
their paper by The Robeson-
ian's own carriers a notice will
be mailed, as there is no label
on these papers by which the
subscriber may know how he
stands.
We hope every one of The
Robesonian's subscribers will
get her or his subscription in
shaped paid up and in advance.
before October L We do not
want to lose or cut off a single
one, but we cannot take any
chances of having ourselves
cut off from materials necessary
to issue The Robesonian. What-
ever the Government asks of
us we are going to do.
We are not going to set the
time ahead to which you' must
pay your subscription. All we
are concerned about is that it
be kept paid in advance. On
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, we
will print just enough papers
to supply subscribers who have
paid in advance of that date.
Each issue after October 1 we
will print just enough papers
to supply these whose subscrip-
tions are paid in advance of
the date of the paper on the
day it is printed.
Those of The Robesonian's
subscribers who are not paid in
advance are just as good as
gold. We have shown our faith
n them by sending them the pa-
per. But we are under differ-
ent conditions now. Whatever
tbe War Industries Beard says
goes. We are going to comply
with its requirements and we "
will appreciate a prompt and
loyal response frctn all ub-
scribers. Keep the matter in
mind, watch the label en your
paper, and do not let your sub-
scription get behind after
Tuesday, October 1.
THE ROBESONIAN.
Mrs. L- R- Varser and Miss Eliza
beth Snead returned last night from
Charlotte, where they went Monday
night to consult a specialist and to
see their sister Miss Mary Snead,
who is a patient in a Charlotte sana
torium. Miss Mary Snead s cond:-
.Tune last vear. In a letter accom
panyitig the helmet Mr. Andrews
wrote that the Hun that wore it was
then occupying his 6 feet of earth.
Recorder's Court.
Eighteen months on the public
roads of Robeson was the sentence im
posed upon Walter Locklear, Indian
by Recorder E. M. Britt yesterday
afternoon. Locklear was found guil
ty of assault upon Neill Burnett and
TnmPB Brio-man." The evidence was
that Walter beat Brigman, who is
his step father-in-law, with a gun,
-sing it as a club. As a result ct
the assault Brigman was carrym?
His left arm h a swing and s&.d his
lack was in bad shape. Walier ac
cused Brigman of being too intimate
with his wife.
Carson Locklear was tried on the
charge of assault upon Neill Burnett
and prayer for judgment was con
tinued upon payment of the cost.
Tobacco Continues to Come In
Market Will Close September
20th
Much tobacco continues to come in
every day. Tuesday around 25,000
pounds was sold on the local market.
The market will close Friday, Sep
tember 20.
Dr. W. A. McPhaul, county health
rtfRfPr has recently been appointed
assistant collaborating epidemiologist
of the United States Public tieann
Service. By receiving this appoint
ment Dr. McPhaul will be able to use
franked postage on all mail with ref
erence to quarantine and other public
health service.
m. with Misses. Annie and Mattie j tion has improved considerably. Sh
Mr. Floyd M'White of South Caro
lina is spending some time with his
cousin Mr. Roland M'White.
Messrs. John BlackweTl and Purvis
Kinlaw of the Tabernacle section and
Mr. Charlie Malone of Ten Mile spent
a while Sunday evening in these parts.
Quite a number of our young folks
enjoyed a cream party given at Mr.
Charlie Powers' tobacco barn on last
Wednesday evening.
There will be a Sunday school pic
nic at Barkers on Monday, the 16th
and at Regans the 17th. Everybody
is welcome.
Boston Americans Won Champoin
ship. Taps for professional baseball for
the duration of the war was sounded
at Fenway park in Boston yesterday
when the Boston American League
pennant bearers won the baseball
championship of the world by defeat
ing the Chicago National League ti
tle holders in the sixth game of the
series by a score of 2 to 1. This gives
the Red Sox a record of five victories
in as many starts and as the Boston
Nationals won the championship in
1914, it brings to Boston six world
titles.
Mr. Alex Willis Fell Dead Mon
day. Mr AIpv Willis, aeed 67 years, fell
dead at his home at Fayetteville ear
ly Monday morning. Deceased form
erly lived near Ten Mile church in
Robeson county and is survived by his
wife and several children. Interment
was made in the family burying
ground on a farm belonging to de
ceased near Ten Mile Tuesday about
noon,
is able to walk now for the first time
in 7 months.
Mr. H. H. Hemsley. of Balti
more, Md., began work the first of
the week as clerk at the Lorraine
hotel. To accept this position he re
signed a position he had held for 8
years with the Security Trust &
Storage Co. of Baltimore. His wife
and infant child will join him here
in about 2 weeks.
The Hargrove place, 4 miles from
Rowland, 8 miles from Fairmont, on
the Rowland-Fairmont road, has been
subdivided into small farms and will
be sold at auction on Wednesday
September 18, by the Atlantir Coast
Realty Co., which has held a number
of successful land sales in Robeson.
Mr. Chas. E. Best, a representative
of the company who has the sale in
charge and is making headquarters
at Rowland until the sale, was a Lum
berton visitor yesterday.
Charity and Children: We regret
exceedingly to hear of the poor health
of Mr. R. D. Caldwell of Lumberton,
who is in a Baltimore hospital for
treatment, and we pray that he may
be restored to health. Mr. Caldwell
has for a great many years been the
superintendent of the Lumberton
Sunday school which gives more to
the orphanage work than any other
Sunday school in the world.
Mr. H. G. Webster's Ford was
ditched yesterday afternoon 4 mil
from Lumberton on the Fairmont road
when it was struck by a car driven
by Mr. F. L- Blue of Fairmont. The
front of the car went into the ditch
and the car, which was not gotton out
until last mght, was somewhat
wrecked. In the car with Mr. Web
ster were Mrs. Webster and their
two daughters. No one was seriously
hurt. Mr. Blue brought Mrs. Web-J
ster and the children back to town
Fairmont Leads Eastern Tobacco
Markets.
An increase of nearly two million
pounds of tobacco handled on the
North Carolina markets in August,
1918. over August, 1917, is reported
by the Commissioner of Agriculture
in the monthly statement from leaf
tobacco warehouses. During the past,
month, the total for the State was 25,
421,472 pounds as against 22,657,90
pounds in August 1917. Of the last
month's total, 23,517.584 was first
hand; 728,095 dealers, and 1,175,793
resold.
Fairmont led with 3,743,252. Lum-
berton's total for the month was 1,-
191,978, which is a splendid record
for a market only 3 years old. Figures
for other markets in this section and
for other leading markets are: Clark
ton, 597.821; Chadbourn, 1,780,924;
Fair Bluff, 914,684; Greenville, 1,788,
882; Kinston, 2,131,118; Rowland, 732,
757 (first year) Wjhston-Salem, 1,
033,196; Wilson, 1,397,766.
Military Registration Going On
Sm'oottly.
Registration for military duty of
youths 18 to 21 and men 3 to 46 is
going on smootnly at the court house
for Lumberton township. Up to 2i30
this afternoon 450 had registered.
rthe registrars are being assisted by
a number of young ladies and men
and the -Work is being handled quickly.
Miss Minnie McKinnon left Satur
day for Maxton, where she will teach
this year in the Maxton graded
schools. Laurinburg Exchange.
DR.
WILLIAM W. PARKER,
Optometrist
Expert Knowledge of Eye Diseases
and Fitting Glasses.
LUMBERTON, N. C