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JWrviini H CI ESTABLISHED 187o. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. COUNTRY. GOD AfD TRUTH $2.00 A YEAR. DUE IN ADVANC VOL. IXL LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY JANUARY 16, 1919. NUMBER 98 OMAN INFLUJENZA LID ON AGAIN. Churches, Sdwob, Picture Shows, Bar ber Shop and all Public Gatherings Prohibited in Luinberton Does Not Apply to Other Places in County- Health Officer McPhaul Says There is No Occasios for Panic. At a joint meeting of the board of town commissioners, the physicians of the town and the emergency hospital committee last evening it was decided to close all schools, picture shows and other public meetings, including churches and Sunday schools and bar ber shops in town, at once. This ordi nance will be in effect until lifted by the board of town commissioners. None of these regulations apply to, any portion of thecounty outside Lam-, berton. Dr. McFhaul, county neann officer, says that he was not informed gainst closing churches. At a meeting of the meeting last night and that if he had been he would have protested a day it was decided to leave each com of the county health board here Mon munity to govern itself in regard to closing schools, etc. Dr. McPhaul says th einfluenza now is very mild, not half as bad as it was last September and October, and there is no occasion whatever for panic. He spent yesterday in Wilmington and ..feund Biany.cases there." In fact, it is alPover the country but above all things panic is to' be avoided. COUNTY AGRICULTURAL DE PARTMENT ORGANIZED. Comnosed of 3 .Members From. Each Township Farmers of County Will be Organized At a public meeting of the Robeson division of the Farmers' Union hsid here Tuesday a county agricultural de partment was organized. The de partment is composed of three mem bers from each township in the county. The names of those appointed on the board will be published in Monday's Robesonian. The department;, will be called together as soon as the influenza- epidemic subside, when .by-laws, etc., will be "adopted. The county department of agricul tural will undertake to organize the farmers of the county. . The meeting' Tuesday was well at tended, considering the amount of sick ness in the county, ad no doubt some thino-worth-while will grow out of the I meetintr i.. e a- onstrator, addressed the meeting and short talks were made by others in at tendance. Dr.'W. A. McPhaul, county health ; officer, made a short talk on the im portance of rural sanitation'and told of some methods which will be undertak en by the county board of health to improve sanitary conditions in the rur al districts. 9,000 BALES COTTON GRADED. More Than Twice as Many Bales of Robeson County Coltoh Graded This Seasdn as Were Graded Last Gov ernment Grading bffice Will Close February 1 The local government cotton grading! office will close for the sason reoru-, ary 1. Mr. T. W. Trbdgen, who been in charge of the office here sice it was opened two years ago, has graded to date this season samples from 9,000 hales of Robeson cotton. He expects to grade at least 10,000 bales by Feb ruary 1. He only graded 4,000 bales for Robeson farmers all last season. The farmers are becoming more inter ested in the government grading each year. . Farmers who have cotton which they want graded after the office here is closed should communicate with the Bureau of Markets, Raleigh. All who have cotton they wish graded should, however, send samples in at once if possible. Two Assistant Health Officers Ap for County. . .' Mr. John McLeod of Red Springs and Mr. J L. Thaggard of Parkton have been appointed assistant health officers the county by Dr. W. A. Mc Phkul, county health, officer.. They Mill do sanitary work, in the .small towns and rural sections. Mr. McLeod, who is a aon of Mr A. C. McLeod, a former member .of the Legislature, rectatlr returned from prance, wher hid Anitay .wok. : FARMERS' INSTITUTE CALLED , OFF. Th farmers' ihsitutes which were to have been held at Ten Mile January 20 and Orrum January 23, hw len called off on account of the ufii" RtY?Rr. Chai. H. Durham, pastor "of the First Baptist church of Lumber ton, is attending the.Baptis State con vention at Greensboro. EMERGENCY HOSPITAL High School Building Will be Used to: Take Care of Influenza Patients- - - Those Not Able to Pay Will be Look - ed After Soup Kitchen. An emergency hospital was opened in the high school building today fori the purpose of taking care of influen - za patients. A soup kitchen will be operated in connectio with the hospital and soup will be sent to homes where it is needed. It was decided to optn the hospital at a meeting at the court house attend ed by a number of citizens yesterday afternoon. The meeting was called by the physicians of the town. Dr. N. A. Thompson wag electrd chairman of the meeti and F GrQver Bfitt wag eec aany. Messrs Ira B. Townsend, R. C. Law rence, John T. : Biggs, R. H. Crichton and D. D. French were appointed a committee to equip and manage the hospital. Mr. Townsend was elected chairman of the committee. Enough single beds and cots were tendered by those present to care for more than a dozen patients and a col lection amounting to $515 was taken at the meeting to defray the expenses of the institution. Several contributions of $50 were made and jRumbe;. of ,0th ci v-- --jyons were made. While the hospital committee will make -whatever charge they see fit for services rendered at the institution, those who are not able to pay will be looked after just as well as those who are able to pay. The physicians of the town will min ister to the needs of the patients and an effort willlje made to get agradu ate nurse to head the institution, assis ted by ohrs who can be secured. If it becomes necessary a like bes pit: will be opened for colored people in one of the colored school build;ngs in town. STOCKHOLDERS MEETINGS First National Bank Had Most Pros perous Year of its 15 Years Exis tence Quarterly Dividend of 5 Per Cent by Bank and Nat ional Cotton Mills. The stockholder of the First Nat-! , . , ional Bank met in annual session Tuesday. The old board of directors. was re-elected as follows: Messrs,1 t ir vr 1 r v i..,-0 T I. w. warn, . Johnson, R. E. LLewis, H. M. listerR. McA. Nixon. Mr. D. C. ;ected a member of the 'noard,! was e succeeding the late J. A. McAllister The report of the president showel fVinh tne vear 1918 was the mos: pros-l - percus in the 15 years history of the institution: The earnings were larger and the deposits were increased more than 50 per cent during ihe year. In a quarterly meeting Tuesday the board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of 5 per cent and the surpius fund was increased $2, 000. All the old officers were reelect ed. Tlese are: H. M. McAllister, pres ident; C. T. Pate, 1st vice president; T. L. Johnson, 2d vicee president; R. McA. Niron, cashier; V. B. McMillan, assistant cashier; Miss F. Gladys Barr.s, secretary to the president. Natior.al Cotton Mills A quarterly meeting of the directors of the National Cotton Mills Co. was held on January 9. The regular quar terly dvdend of 5 iper cent Was declar ed. INVITATION RECALLED Daughters of Confederacy Will Not be Able to Serve Dinner to. Veterans Saturday on Account of. -Influenza Epidemic. Correspondence of- The Robesonian. Robeson chapter, United Daughters of he Confederacy, exceedingly regrets that the epidemic of influenza raging in Lumberton necessitates the recall of the invitation to Confederate veterans for dinner on January 18th. Miss Mary G. McNeill, Pres., Robeson Chapter, U. D. C. COTTON GINNED IN ROBESON 58,452 Bales Ginned to January 1st as Compared With. 46,055. Ginned to Same Date Last Year. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Barnesville, Jan. 15 There were 58,452 bales of cotton, counting round as half bales, ginned in Robeson county from the crop of 1818, prior to Janu ary 1st, as compared with 46,055 bales ginned to January 1st, 1918. J. W. Barnes, Special Agent. -A will be seen from a half -page ad elsewhere in this issue, Mr. Hat V ttMnrn koa nnrrhnsed the whjlfiV.ale grocery business of E. G. . Floyd Co. of Fairmont. .. f THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Phibition Amndment Passed SSn - ate Closes Lobbies to Outsiders on ,' Account of the "Flu".-Committee Appointments for Robeson Members The eGneral Assembly remains on the job in spite of the "'flu", but the 1 . Senate yesterday on account of the epidemic .adopted a. rule excluding , from the lobbies' all. persons except ' legislators and State officials. The House of theLegislature voted to ratify the Federal prohibition a mendment to the constitution 93 to 10. It was the Senate resolution voted up on. Senator Long of Halifax introduced Tuesday an important bill to increase the salaries of judges. Passage of the bill would mean Supreme Court judges would receive $5,000 instead of $4,000 and the Superior Court judges $4,000 j instead of $3,250, and would make the, expense fund of each $1,500 instead of $750. ' Gov, Bickett Monday asked both houses for an immediate appropriation of $75,000 for rebuilding the burned dormitory at Cashwell Trainins school. c tvto passed the' House r esolution memorialing the p eace conference at Paris' to make War forever impossible in the peace Robeson members of the Legisla-j ture have received the following com mittee appointments : Oliver chair man of claims, rambr of privilgs and lctions, agricilltuf ; SSeilars char ma f nrloled .bills , member of banks and currenccy, judicciary No. 2, ag riculture, public roads and turnpikes; Stacy-chairman of military affairs, membtr of judiciary No. 1, rules prop positions and grievances, education. finance, banking and currency, com" merce, judicial districts, counties, cit ies and towns, salaries and fees, ptn al institutions and health. JUNIOR RED CROSS All Schools Are Urged to. Organize Between Lincoln s .and. Washing ton's Birthdays. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Rowland, Jan.7 All schools are urg ed to organize Junior Red Cross, chap ters betwwen Lincoln's and Washing- ton s oircnaays. is nopea eve- ry school in Robeson county will re- ' . t thi n 1 t 1 '. II. 1 Ti ' - 1 1 4.1 J. - The engraved certificate given each, school will be a credit in the coming years, n tne wacners wouia Decorae,rmn r a B. Bntt. wno w- M..A : interested, in this it would be only a, with tne 8ist division in France. Be j : short time till every school would be jow are some extracts from the letter: Keiran: enrolled Raisin? 25c Der nuDil can be; imrj.nn nn a lino Am cettinar raised, by each child paying 25c or by I entertainment I the0unty; organize! Let every school, large and small, ini Kate McKenzie. McCormick May Succeed. Sharpe Ambassador to France. - as Vance C. McCormick has resigned as . . .. " .. ,! chairman of tne democratic national committee and it is understood that he ! is under consideration for appointment I a3 American Ambassador to France to 'succeed William Graves Sharp. Mr. ' Sharp's resignation, it is said, is now I in the hands of the Presdent, but no annoucement of the fact has yet been made. Mr. McCormick went to France in his capacity as chairman of the War Trade board. Mr. Sharp is unber stood to hav edesired for some time to return to this country for a rest afer his arduous duties as the American representative at the French capital during the long years of war. Thirtieth Division Will Disembark at Charleston - j ,The War Department definitely in formed Senator Pollock of South Caro lina Tuesday that the 3(th division would be diembarked at Charleston and would be demobalized either at Camp Jackson or Camp Sevier." The date of the troops arrival has not been fixed,but indications are that they will arrive at Charleston between Febru ary' 1 nd 15. , SenatOrxSimmons and Overman used their influence to have the North Caro lina troops disembark at Wilmington and demobilized at Camp Greene but the latest advices from the war de partment upset their. ambitions. Baptist State Convention in Session in Greensboro. The 88tb annual session of tbe Bap fiat Stat convention convened in the First Baptist . churcn of Gretnsboro Tuesday, the meeting having been pos nd last month on'account of the "flu". Rev. B. W. Spilman of Kinston wafr elected president, succeeding John A. Oate of Fayettevilje .'.License has been issued for the m.i9ffn AfJ. Strong Floyd and Ed- Ina Atkinson; Peter Evans Monroe and Carrie Falk. EVANGELISTC CAPAIGN CLOSES.! L , . . Enjelwtic Campaign Clos- I Maim) Vbahi m m Wit I. rAwJ V ed Monday Evening With Crowd of 5,000 at Warehouse Over 200 Per sons Professed Faith .and Will be' (B Migs Janje Caf, ,e) Added to Different Churches Throu- For five long weeks B: F. McLLen out This Section. idon and his party conduce ted one of The 5-weeks' evangelistic campaien - weeks under the leadership of Evange - list B. F. McLenden and under the aus - pices oi vnesinut street jneinoaisit- f miwmhr wowii v church, closed Monday U great service which was attended by;rain and cold Christmas holidaysand a crowd that some place as high as 5,- an epidemic of influenza there was 500 hundred but which Sir. McLendon no let-up. Instead of the great crowds estimates at 5,000. hat attended the meetings dimmish- T . .. , , ..... ... . ,:ing, they increased all the time. In spite of great difficulties, one of, Some ' na. weH gaid that Mr u . rIT Z: the campaign by all the churches, the campaign was a great success. Large crowds attended the services, which were held at the Banner warehouse, the evening crowds rarely falling be low 3,000. Over 200 people will join different churche,3 ? the re8"!t of e "mpaign, K "l - more than 100 miles away . , . , , ' , . T ". . , towila uiiu I'uuimy ciiuitucg uuuug"- UUli U113 BCCklUU Will cb yilUlLU intiii bers from the campaign. In addi tioh. hundreds of church members were Personal contributions to Mr. McLen don for his work amounted to $2,117.33 and $t,284 was the amount collected for. incidental expenses .Eyjmgelist McLendon and his party of co-workl's won warm friends and admirers Vhere., Mny who went to scoff, at first went again and agii un til they became among the most en thusiastic admirers of the evangelist The campaign was argreat blessing "to Lumberton and many people here and throughout this section will,, follow the work of Mr. McLendon with j;ft intrest Mr. McLendon intended whence left here yesterday for his home at Bennettsville to preach Sunday in the- Methoktet church at Red Springs in which town he held a great meet ing last summer. WITH ROBESON SOLDIERS. Out cf the Big Fight Unhurt Oliver Nance and Kossie Bntt logetner. Mr, t v. Britt of R. 1, Lumberton, recer,tly Wceived i letter from her son, nn n ir i am not, wiui tuy vuii"j t i. : - u ... AaviTiQ n v now j was sent to a training school Hot)e he back with my company soon. I have been all over this country T was xtn tha front near two months. Was at the front the last day of the fight, f Some glad boy, I was, to get out. It lookea ai times line- u. -possible for a man to ever get out, but I came out without getting a scratch, a t o. fhankfiil The Lord was 7 -w"-e ver 8Cared while in otiryht 4nr T knew that I had a moth er back home praying for her boy, and I felt sure that her prayers were being answered. Hope to be home soon and I will tell you all about it." In a letter dated December 15 Cor poral Britt writes as follows: "I am back with my company now. Was away almost a month. I am sta tioned near Chatillon at this time. (Chatillon is in Southern France). Have been in a good many large towns. Among them St. Die, Duon, St. Mi hiel and Verdon. I was on the Al- Sace-Lorriane sector, or tne -mue-Argone Forest front. I have also hp.r. throuo-h Eneland. Oliver Nance and I have been together today.' 800 Killed in Strike Disorders inBue- . nos Aires. Approximately 800 persons have been killed and 5,000 injured in the strike disorders in Buenos Aires, ac cording to dispatches received Tues day at the State Department at vvasn ington. Of the wounded 1,500 receiv ed treatment in hospitals. In making this announcement, As sistant Secretary of State Phillips said the socialists refused to be further identified with the strike disorders. The anarchistic nature of the upnsig Mr.Phillips said.was shown by attac on churche s and convents. Sacred images were thrown into the streets and one priest was killed. Two Thousand Persons Killed by The Ukrainians. Two.tnousand persons have been i.:i Prrmvul. Galicia. by the Ukrainians, according to a dispatch UH the NewFreie Fresse state a Genev dispatch of the Mtft. TM Ukrainians have been bombar ing Przemysl for several days past by land and air. ahd conditions m the w. ifMfrirted as terrible. , rru- i wtrlc olants have ben destroyed and there is no light m the towns.Water and food also are lack- tow 'ing. M'LENDON MEETING THE EVANGELIST AND HIS PARTY. tne greatest evangelistic campaigns i i has ever been known in this ; The neonle of Lumberton were j skeptical in regard to the success of ,V V Chapman. He can't be said to be el oquent. He very often butchers the kiihg'ss English and his rhetoric is like a cross-cut saw. His mannerisms in the pulpit are altogether different from any other preacheer or evangel iet that has ever been sailing the country. Yet when it comess to his sermons, they are well studied out. He never opens his mouth without savin? something. He is the master of condensed expression without the sacrifice of luccidity. It is very sel dom that he preaches over forty min utes, and yet he says more during that time than the average speakerr will ifi rit tha tmi-.liX'.. .di4WN.jUki.a: ' v - .'. - ' - ;-taa''.'r. rr.,. ... iioi.,.. - - -- f- -V .,; -. : Every sermon .- tnat' he preacnes, whether on faith, Idwe or sin, is a masterpiece, and he preaches them in such a way that people never for get them. He is a judge of human nature, knows how to read people. He hasvery often said in his sermons that they all looked alike to him, whether they were "high-brow" or ' low-brow'r-istocracy or' medioracy." He said that he was not patting any of them on the bacck, rubbing their heads or tickling theirphina and congratulat ing when he ought to be erpostulat ing; and that certainly is true about thir evangelist. You don't see him down the streets shaking hands and palav ering and complimenting people and trying to get into their goob graces. You can notice him at the taberna cle: the poorest and humblest man that attends there gets as much of his attention as the wealthiest and most prominent.-" , ., His preaching is plain, clear and Bib lical. He said that Christ's preachig was plain and that hee wanted to do the same kind. He does not preach in such a way that people have to bring along a dictionary or enclyclopedia j to undeerstand what he means,neith- er do they have to climb up a steQrlad der or run up a fire-escape to see what run up a iire-ecpC w he is driving at. In other words, ner'7 b does not preach as if he were "trying! this afternoon and interment was made to tickle the roof 01 a giraiie s mouth." He is certainly independent from a financial standpoint. He is not grove ling and crawling and begging people for their money. He is not telling people that he is financially embar rassed and has a lot of urgent obliga tions to mmet and begging them to as sist him. About the only thing- that he has said along the financial line is that it was up to Lumberton to pay him what he ought to have for his ser vices and if they didn't pay him that he would live just the same and would not go around dejected and down in the mouth. . . , . Every member of Mr. jyicienaon s party is an expert in his or her line. There is not a drone among the crowd. MR. CAKKULL, Mr. Carroll, the choir director, has been with the leading evangelists 01 H was Sam Jones' choir choir director during his balmy days. He has travelled with Minora t-yon, TtoiHorwolf asd Ostrom. He organiz ed several of the states for the anti- saloon league. Any one mat nears Mr rnrroll as a choir director will know thrft he is all that can be expec ted along that line. He is also an eiiective soio singer. MRS. CARROLL Mr. rnrroll is the secretary and pianist for the party and looks after the cnildrens meetinga. " .-1 ren's meetings have been an attractive fDofnro of the campaign here. 'The The booster chorus excited much inter est. Mrs. Carroll is a very attractive person with a winning disposition. Mrs. Steidley is a great soloist and; A1KS. 1 Cll'i Bible-teacher and has charge of the women's work. She is a very effec tive personal worker and a great as set to the party. "FRED" Fred is the Apostle of Smiles and a peddler of sunshine, and keeps every body that is aroua mm in a guvu nu-. mor. tie iooks aiier tne uuuua j and all the details 01 the same, in other words, he is, a general utility j man He can sine some, pray a lot,: repeat Scripture by the chapter and ! lead more people to uie iront w actcpw Jesus Christ than any 50 ordinary! church members.. Since his conver sion about 19 years ago he has led nearly. 16,000 people to Christ by. per sonal work. Before Fred's conversion he-was a horse man out in waveriy, low, handlinar Western broncos. They say that the only way a horse can get Fred II 01 nun is 10 wrew nw mue. off. v. . . : He won the championship in uneyr enne, Montana, ne was me amy mu that nufe "Slinnerv JimM He rode m l. ui isaa" in the world's fair "Buffalo Bills Fred is quite a boxer and is minus several teeth and his face looks like COTTON MARXIST. Middling' cotton is selling on the ocal market today for 24.75 cents the pound. BRIEF ITEMS LOCAL NEWS -Miss' Elizabeth Whitfield returned home yesterday from Penniman, Va., where she spent ten weeks working for the government -Mr. J. B. Ward of the Saddletree section was a Lumberton visitor yes terday. Mr. Ward is just recovering from an attack of "flu." Mrs. Mattie Hinson of Wilming ton is relieving Mr. C. C. Rogers, man ager of the local Southern Bell Tele phone exchange, who is sick with the "flu." Mrs. W. T. Huchinson and daugh ter, Miss Lillie,left yesterday for Char lottevwhere theey will make their home. Mr. Hutchinson went to Char lotte the first of the year. Mr. J. D. McRainey and son, Mr. A. T. McRainey, of R. 1, Parkton, were among the visitors in town Tuesday. Mr. A. T. McRainey was recently re relased from the U. S. army. A small residence near the tanks of the Standard Oil Co. and the Gulf Refining Co., in the southern part of 3IWWH. WHS DUmpfl Tnta -i' -, - - ! T, ...... 1 .7" " ' , The building was occupied by a color ed family, wh lost all their belogings Mr. C. P.'McGougan of Lumber Bridge, who was a Luinberton visitor Tuesday, expects to leave today for Cordele, Ga, near which place he owns a farm and where he and his family will make thefr home. Mrs. McGoo- gan and four pf their children wen to Cordele noma time ago. Another dau ghter, Hiss RRuby, is bookkeeper for the Farmers' Trading Co. of Lumber Bridge and will Join the family at Cor dele next summer. Mr. McGoogan has been postmaster at Lumber Bridge oft the past 4 years. THE RECORD OF DEATHS. Mr.. J.C, .Bryant. Died. at. Hospital This Morning of Influenza. Mrs. J. C. Bryant, age about 23 years, died at 2:30 o'clock this morn ing at the Thompson hospital of influ enza-pneumonia. Deceased is sur vived by her husband and two child -en one a baby 4 days old. The fun- UDa . . 0.0A in Meadowbrook cemetery. Mrs. Bryant was a loyal member of the First Baptist church and had many friends. Former Lumberton Citizen Killed by Fall in Wilmington. Mr. J. W. fillers, formerly of Lum berton, died Monday at the James Walker Memorial hospital, Wilming-' ton, from injuries received Saturday when he fell through a skylight in the roof of the Tidewater Power Co., at Woilmington. Mr. Ellers, who was a carpenter by trade, was working on the roof of the building when he fell. He moved from Lumberton to Wilmington a few weeks ago. Susie McMillan, Colored, Susie McMillan, colored, died yes terday at her home at Sandy Grove, ntar Lumbtrton, of influenza. Pheba Jane Manor.Colored Pheba Jane Manor . colored, died Tuesday of influenza. Deceased was from Montrose .and .was attending scholl htre ' John West SSmith.Colored. John West Smith, colored, died Monday at his home at Sandy Grove of influenza. , 35 states. Have. Apporved .Federal Prohibition Amendment and Only' 1 Mire Needed to Ratify. Legislatures of 35 States one less than the required three-fourths have ratified the prohibition constitutional amendment. Several State assemblies now are in session and are expected to take action today, with a probablle race between Nebraska, Missouri and Minnesota as to which will be the 36th on the list. a bull dog has "chawed" it, because of his boxing career. .Since his conversion in Waveriy, Iowa, he has been with the leading evangelists of America. He worked with M. B. Williams, Charlie Alexan dria, French Oliver and with "Billy'. Sunday for 16 years. He is now with B. F. McLendon and probably he and McLendon will be together the remain der of their lives. .v DR. WILLIAM W; PARKCZ : Optometrist Expert Knowledge of Eye Disease and Fitting Glasses. r-r-i..-- v
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