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t2M A YEAR. . DUB IX ADYAJtCJI
Vol; v
LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY; AUGUST 14f 1919
NUMBER 54
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TOBACCO MARKET MAY DPEN
AGAIN NEXT MONDAY.
Strike Situation is Clearing , Up
Farmers Advised Not to Rush To
bacco On Markets Toflr Fast When
Sales Are Put, on Again.
Present indications - are that the
Lumberton tobacco market, as well
as the other markets ? in the South
-.. o'.ina belt which have been close!
since Friday of last week on account
et the nation-wide strike ."of railroad
employees, will open . agaui ' for vue
sale of tobacco 'Monday ; cf next
veek. ' "v.
The strine situation is gradually
clearing up, many
RED SPRINGS NEWS1TEMS.
of the strikers
having returned to work and others
returning daily, and -it is thomtht allt T"? " :
the strikers will bebf.tt on the job. 'Mi83 K;tie Brown spent the week-
v.iv iiva b tru ji butty u jr n.
Flora Macdonald Has Promise-? of
r. Very Successful Year Newspaper
Will Be Started Again Soon Pic
nie August 30 Personal Mention.
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
' Red Springs Aug. 12. Dr. and
Mrs. J. L. McMillan are off on a. ten
days vacation at Brevard.
Mr. J. H. McKay spent several days
last week at Sbuthport. ,
- Mrs. Ann McGeachy is out from
Fayette ville on a vistt to her niece
Mrs. J. C. McPhail. 1
: Rev. John Moore's manyf friend j
are glad to greet him on our streets
again. He is spending some time
with his parents, Rev. and Mrs. R.
PARKTON NEWS LETTER, j EAST ROBESON INSTITOTE.
Last -of Boys Home From Overseas' Quarterly Meeting Will Be Held With
; rreparing For New Cotton Mill Antioch School 5th Sunday.
i New' Garages SUrtedfcnionj Correspondence of The Robesonian.
lent meeting Begins Aug. 20 A The quarterly meeting of the Last
Bad Auto Wreck Tobacco Barns Robeson institute will be held with
If is the ODinloa of local railroaJ
neii and the tobacco warehousemen
I end at Wrightsville Beach.
I Misses Altie Marsh and Ruth Cov-
4 1,.., .... ... . . . . 111 Lull icib'Aurauo) iui a vww-wccn.ii
taai conamons wm nave ciearea Dy . n New York city
Monday so that all the tobaccco buy- B F. McMillan and family are
Im I 1 b n ? the Tf!f 8aJn-4 Jspending August in Saluda.
will.be well, however, !f the farmer 8pMr8. V V Vaurhn of Ardlussa
do not rush their tobacco on the mar
ket too fast when the warehouses
reopen for a few days.
The Robesonian will keep Its read
ers posted as to the developments in
the situation.
IMPORT VNEWDEv u:
VELOPMENTS IN FIGHT
TO REDUCE H. C. OF L.
Retail Grocer Fined $500 for Selling
Sugar at 15 Cents a Pound Palm
er Wants to Extend Food Control
Provisions to Clothing. '
Important new developments in the
government's fight to reduce the high
cost of living -came yesterday, stau
Washington dispatch. .io- !
One of the most interesting was
Burned A New Species of Mos
quito That .Wears Gas Mask-Other-
Items. j
BY C. D. WILLIAMSON. - j
Parkton, Aug. 11Our good
mend Henry B. , Culbreth arrived
home today from Germany. He spent
about seven months in Germany and
he is like all the other boys-r-glad
to get home. He is in the best of
health, says he has not been sick a
day since he left home. This is the
last of our boys to be discharged
from Uncle Sam. , r
Mrs. Chappel and daughter, Miss
Browng, of Aberdeen, are spend
ing a few days with friends in town.
Miss Louise Garris is on a visit
to relatives and friends in Charlotte.
the Sunday school at Antioch Bap
tist church the 5th Sunday in Aujf.
beginnnsr at 10 o'clock a. m. (old
time;. The program will be as fol
lows:
--' 10 m. Metln called to order by presi
dent. Prayer by president, Rt. L. E. Dailey.
1S.-1S a. m. Welcome addreie bf Mr. A.
E. brael, auperintendent of . Antioch San
day school.
1 18 :29 a. m. Response by Mr. L. E. Tyeer
of Rait Swamp Sunday school.
i:2S a. m. Sons. "Stand up for Jetiu,
by the several schools.
a. m. Roll call of school and letters
read from each schoot giving names of dele-
vatee and speakers from each school. An
tioch school speaker, Mr. Pope Pittman;
musie furnished by Antioch school. Cedar
Grove speaker. Mr. W. H. Bullock ! manic by
school. Raft Swamp speaker, L. P. Odum;
music by school. East Lumberton speaker
Mr. A. Huifgios; music by school.
spent the week-end with her sister
Mrs. J. H. McKay. --
Miss Flora Boyce of Raleigh is un
a visit to Mrs: D. P. McEachern.
, Miss Bess Jones is home from Nor
folk on a ten-days' visit. She was
accompanied by two friends, Misses
Jane Normaa and Nellie.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Purcell and
Miss Louise Purcell are in Elkin on
a visit to Mrs. A. M. Smith.
Mesdames Adams and Mcllwayne
of Bennettsville are spending some
time in wn.
Mr. and Mrs. A. T. McCallum and
Mrs. Lou Fulmore have ffone to Moa
treat for the rest of the summer.
- ' The college has a promise of a
verv successful year. For some time
past Mr. Dupuy has been obliged to
refuse admission to any more s; u-
lh announcement bv Attorney Gen- dents, while the homes near tne col
eral Palmer that the first Federal lege have all let vacant rooms lac-
ontention for- profiteering had been
obtained. District Aflwrntey Lucey
telegraphed from Bmghampton, N.
Y., that a retail grocety had been fin
ed $500 for selling sugar at 15 cents
a pound. No details were given and
the law under which the case was
brought was. not knovm here.
"A few good cases of profiteering
in each state will settle that trouble,
remarked Mr. Palmer.
In order to bring to book, person?
guilty of rasng prces exorbtantly
or hoarding food to advance prices,
Mr. Palmer submitted to the agri
culture committees of Congress the
draft of an amendment to the food
control act extending its provisions
to clothing and containers of foods
and feeds, and providing for a penal
ty of $5,000 fine or two years im
prisonment or both for violation of
the law. Chairman Haugen, of the
House committee, announced that the
amendment would be considered im
mediately by a subcommittee and
that a report might be made today.
STREET SPIELERS BLOCKED
Ordinance Aimed at Stopping Prae
tice of Giving Entertainments and
Selling Goods in Streets.
An ordinance - was passed by he
mayor and board of town commis
sioners at a special meeting Monday
afternoon making it unlawful for
any person, firm or corporation to
use any paved street in the town for
the purpose of conducting entertain
ments, selling pctor.t medicines or
any other articles or to engage In
such within forty, feet of any paved
street. Any person, firm or eorpor-j
ation convicted of such an " olfense'
will be liable to a fine of not, n ore
than $50 or imprisonment of not more
than 30 days.
Many street spellers have been on
commodate the overflow,
' There is a rumor to the effect that
Red Springs is soon to have a news-
naDer once more. - Speed the flay:
But, brethren, let's don't change the
name: It ha been "The 'Citizen" for
many a long year and the majority
of us would feel as though we had
lost an old familiar friend were we
to have handed to us the "Scotch
Scion." or some such sheet, instead
f the Red Springs Citizen. No doubt
It's to be a much better paper than
ever before, but it isn't necessary,
you know, to change your name when
you get a hew, dress.
A word about the iig picnic. By
error the date wa3 m ; in last 'week's
oarjer for the 18th. It is to come off,
instead, the 6th Saturday, which is
the 30th. Keep the date in raind and
also the dinner basket
WELCOME HOME FOR SOL
DIERS AND ANNUAL 'PICNIC
Great Celebration Will Be Held at
Red Springs August 30th. " .
r,i . , , . , - .( 11 ao a. m. The prineipai feature of the
Messrs. uiaua jernigan ana oan morning service will be a Sunday school ad-
canon oi teacners . ,
12:1 p. m. Song, "Must Jesus Bear the
Cross Alone," by the several schools.
12 :ii p. m. Location of next quarterly
meeting and other business.
12:80 p. m. Intermission of one hour.
1 :0 p. m. Song service conducted iiy Mr.
Willie Prevatt of Raft Swamp.
Prayer by Mr. William 'Barnes of Uast
Lumberton."" '" W-;r : . t--.'K. v" M.
The several Lumberton "schools will
have three rounds of music each, and
special song services by the children
is earnestly requested.
EV ANDER I. STONE,
J Chairman Program Committee.
Lancaster spent last . week at Jack'
son Springs; returned home today
and report a lovely time.
The Parkton Cotton Mills Co. held
its first business meeting Tuesday
evening. Below we give proposed
officers and directors: A. R. McEach
ern, president; directors J. D. Mc
RainSy, J. G. HugKes, A. H. Perry,
J. M. Butler, W. D. Johnson, Mr. Wil
liams of Rex, L. E. Hughes, Murphy
McMillan, Dr. D. S. Currie and prob
ably others. A charter will be ap
plied for shortly and every step will
be taken to promote the cause. We
believe these men mean business.
The foundation of two brick ga
rages have been laid and the- work
will -progress rapidly, we presume.
. The next and greatest thing of in
terest will be the union tent meet
ing August 20th to 30th, conducted
by Rev. J. W. Ham 'of Atlanta, Ga.,
hours 11 a. m. and 8:30 p. m. You
are cordially invited to attend and. to
bring others with you. 1 1 Our I town
and community have been ' looking
forward for - several months to this
union meeting and no doubt a sue
HOME FROM THE WAR.
'.Br'.
Mr. Nathaniel Spivey recently re
cently. home from - Germany, having
been a member of the army- of oc
cupation on the Rhine for severs
months. He spent more than a year
overseas.
TREND IS TOWARD
AGREEMENT
Administration Forces Said to Be
WATCH THE LABEL.
Watch the date oddosIU the
on the label en your paper. When year
Republican Senators Plelge Vote
For Reservations.
The trend toward agreement On re-!
. if f as. - . . f
serrations in me peace treaty, states
a Washington dispatch, reached the
stage yesterday where the group of
Republican Senators advocating res
ervations received assurances wnica
they accepted as guaranteeing Dem
ocratic assent to their program.
, Word received by members of the
group, it was said, stated that as
soon as the ycould pledge a score of
Republican votes for reservations to!
the league of nations covenant along
the line recently agreed on by seven
Republican Senators, the administra
tion forces in the Senate would be
willing to line up on that basis or
ratification of the treaty.
There was an intimation also that
the reservationists had reason to be
lieve their ranks eventually would in
clude Senator Lodge, chairman wf the
foreign relations committee and Re
publican leader in the Senate.
Twenty Republicans, it was declar-
3 t i. a.
ea, wouia oe enougn witn tne aamin-
istration Democrats to make up he
two-thirds necessary for ratification.
The program on which it is sought
to unite these elements contemplates
reservations to further protect the
Monroe doctrine, to insure domestic
control over domestic questions, to
amplify the right of withdrawal, and
to fortify the power of Congress to
decide questions of peace or war un
der article 10.
c libers.
BRIEF ITEMS LOCAL NEW8
TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
12th and Chestnut Streets.
Lieut. Geo. W. Thorndyke is spend
ing a few days' furlough here with
relatives and friends. Lieut. Trnrn-
cessful meeting will result. The tent; dyke recently returned to the States
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Red Springs, Aur. 12. Since AprU
there have been celebrations through
out the county for our returned .sol
diers, but Red Springs is saving the
r. for the last Naturally a com
bination of welcome home and the old
annual picnic can't possibly be ex
celled.: Those of us fortunate enougn
to have attended the old "annuals"
realize that fact and those of us wno
missed then are anxious to find out.
So in consequence well all be there
on Saturday. Aug. SOth. - '
The program for the day's enter
tainment has not yet been announced
hut suffice it to say that there will
be something doing all right. And
don't fnrcet to brine along , tnat
7 i V 1 QOIlt .' IOrEn W " Bring ."'
the job in Lumberton since tne to- lunch basketr thUs contributing your,
bacco market opened, which . resu.t-j Mt twitia making-it a perfect day.
d in the above oramance Deing pass
ed.
YOUTHFUL POSTOFFICE v. ;
ROBBERS BOUND TO
COURT; GIVE BOND
FOODSTUFFS SEIZED
f BY DPARTMENT OF
i : JUSTICE AGENTS
vv4- ' 'r-:'': '.fc'' :'
Mor than a million eggs, Hundreds
iriil-u.i.ir;.Mi-o thousands of tins of canned goods
Burney Tilley, Mack - Haney , and v 3Q 0Q0 d agar
Wilbur Cox, ged 13 and 14 years, ntln i rFot foodstuffs-t
were bound over toteJMer I? sSday ,by Depart
on the charge of robbing the .East nnJ-tin nn-
will be put up on the graded school
grounds.. .
. Reader, if you never were scared,
you take part in an automobile wrecs
you will likely get scared. On Sunt
day night a week ago, this scribe,
his brother and family, were on their
way from Regans church, where we
all attended services and enjoyed an
able sermon by Rev. S, E. Mercer,
and after services enjoyed . greeting
several of our old acquaintances. We
boarded our Ford for Parkton and at
11:40 p. m. were met ; by a car of
like manner loaded with three young
men from, one' of neighboring towns,
and good friends, ' too, but the road
was not wide enough for hs the Fords
struck Jiubs, nd the cars were badly
crippled, and the.ientire crews of the
said Fords were hurled to' the ground,
some through the wind shields and
others thrown several , feet in the
air and landed in the thicket This
was some wreck, but fortunately none
of us was killed. vNo one was very
seriously hurt, but stove up to some
extent Mr. J. D. McRainey was im
mediately informed of the serious
trouble and played the good Sama
ritan and within An hohr's time land
ed us at the residence of . Dr. D. S.
Currie. where the wounds were dress
ed and by 2:30 we were safely at
home and very thankful, it was no
worse. '.
But you ask how about the cars?
Well, they are still in the hospital,
but will soon be out again, we .trust.
The wreck- occurred about - two or
three miles north of St. Pauls on the
Lumberton road. . ..- .
There .wai a .successful sunbeam
rally program at the Baptist church
last hieht.v-'-5 ?'' '
Mr. Emory Monroe of . McColI, S.J
C., , spent Sunday ; in our town witn
from Germany. He spent two years
overseas and is now stationed at
Camp Gordon, , Atlanta, Ga.
PERSONALS
Mr. E. C. Nye of Crruai is in town
today
Mr. E. D. Pittman of R. 3, Lumber
ton visitor Tuesday. )
Mr. W. H. M. Brown of Buie was
a Lumberton visitor Tuesday.
Mr. Richard Prevatt of R. 3, Lum
berton, was a Lumberton visitor yes
terday.
Mr. D. C. Lowe of R. 2, Lumber
ton, was among the, visitors in town
Tuesday.
Mr. C-W. Byrd of R. 5, Lumber
ton, was .among the visitors in town
yesterday. :
Mr. W. F. Howell 5f R. 6, Lum
berton, was a caller at Tha Robe
sonian office Tuesday.
Mrs. . W, I Norwood and little
grand-daughter, Mary Lawrence, left
Tuesday morning for Brevard, where
they will spend some time.
Mrs.' Irvin Jenkins and daughter,
Miss Mattie, returned Monday night
from an extended trip to Cheraw, S.
C, and Mt. Vernon Springs.
Mrs. R. R. Barnes of Bamesville is
spending some time at the home ofl
.her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. K. M; Barnes, Chestnut street
Mr. R. A, Moore returned home
Monday night from Lindsay, Califor
nia, where he spent "about three
months visiting his brother, Mr. G.
B. Moore.
Mrs. G. E. Moorehouse and daugh
ter, Miss Christabel Moorehouse, re
turned this morning from Laurin
Burg. where they spent some time
visiting relatives. A -
Miss Calidonia 'Pickett and little
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
While your pastor is' away come
and worship with us. In this period
of reconstruction when we are using
every . possible means to realize the
universal brotherhood of mankind,
let us start in our religious and
church life by putting the teachings
of Christianity into practice and not
be Christian brothers in name only.
Forget our differences in , doctrine
and .worship. Cast away our preju
dices and let us follow the example
of our dear Master. .
We are always mighty glad to see
you and anxious ' to make you feel
that it was worth your coming. Come
and bring your friends.
Evening prayer and short sermon
at 8:30 p. m. - .
Special music next Sunday night
by Mr. Murphy McLean, violinist,
and Miss Agnes McLean, uccouipan
ist. Everybody welcome.
WAR DEPARTMENT WILL SELL
PUBLIC 2 MILLION BLANKETS
Offering to the public of 2,000,000
surplus ''all-wool cotton-and-wool, and
cotton blankets was announced Mon
day by the War Department, ar
rangements havi?r been completed
f or .... their distribution , through . post
office and municipal channels on the
same plan as that adopted for food
stuffs. "' l
For individual purchasers, prices
will be $6 for new. wool blanket and
$5 for. reclaimed wool; 5 for new
cotton-mixed and ?3.50 for reclaimed;
S3 for new cotton, and $125 for re
claimed cotton. The-reclaimed, it is
explained, are blankets used less than
a year, which have been renovated
and laundered.
APPLE CIDER MAY BE
MADE AND SOLD AS OF YORE
relatives. .He, spent twelve K.tbtni:Wto-h-TUktttf.ot Wa-
Lumberton POftoffi. ,er federal district attorney,: , . .
states : , Six wholesale concerns were, serv-
mi.a hAnia utafoiitiim r r s.rii
ineir wuu. v"-. , ... i;Kolinr hnffe stocks
of goods, the charge being that the
goods so libeled are being held for
an advance -in prices. H , ,
STRIKE OF RAILROAD SHOPMEN
C , OFFICIALLY CALLED OFF. c
The strike of allied railroad shop
men in the southeast was officially
called off at a- convention .in Atlanta
Tuesday of representatives of the va
rious unions. ' Decision . to end the
strike pending the adjustment of
matters by . President Wilson ani Di
rector General Hines came in the
form of a. resolution which was .r"v
imously adooted. .. The men were
dered to return to work this T4trs
day)' morning . .
iMr. H. B.' Israel of Lumberton, R.
S. is among the visitors in ' town to
day. - -
TiAnn
anh which they made
As was stated in Monday's Robe
gonian, the three boys were caught
in the Lumberton Cotton- Mills store
by Mr. E. L. 'Hamilton, wno is also
postmaster of . East - Lumbertrti, the
postoffice being in the store, ;.about
usk Thunday evening of last week.
The postoffice-tvs robbed of $17.37
Monday night of last week, and the
boys admitted the theft. v.,
Rev. Dr. G..E. Moorehouse, pas
tor of the First' Presbyterian church,
has been granted "a month's vacation
Bnd left' Monday evening for St. Pe
tersburg, Fla where he wil spend
ten days, after which he. will return
to Asheville.. Mrs. Moorehouse and
their daughter, Miss ' Christable
Moorehouse,. will join Dr. J Moore
house at Asheville, where they will
remain unttt early -tin Septbmber,!
Ahen they will return home, -i-
overseas and can ' tell something of
Europe, He. was in Germany. Beven
months.'" ' '. . ., '
Mr. Warren Ratleyl of Fairmont,
was a caller in town Sunday after
noon, also Mr. J. W. Williamson of
St." Pauls ; spent a few hours with
home folks. . - ,
.Our community was blessed, witn a
splendid rain Friday evening and
now cotton is ' looking some better.
Fodder-pulling is in progress.
Mr. Gordon Britt lost a barn load
ed with fine tobacco Fridaw evening
during the rain. Loss $400 or $500.
Also Mr., Z. X. McMillan lost a to
bacco barn full of the weed Friday
night.
.If some one . will send recipe for
removal of mosquitoes would
graciously thank you, as they have
tormented us for more than a week.
Our county 'physician should ake a
trio ; up, .our way and investigate.
This is.no joke. There seems to be
a new kind this year.ViWe tall them
the German- mosquitoes. You' may
smokerthem away one night and the
next night they come with there 'gas
masks and they never , care for the
smoke 'etny:'more. Screens do not
turn, them away. " . . '
Mrs. E. B. Daniel was taken to a
Richmond, Va, hospital a few. days
ago for treatment and we learn, a
ham, arrived yesterday and will
spend some time visiting at the home
ol Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Holmes, Sixth
and Pine streets.' 7
Miss' Emma Lou Moore returned
yesterday to her home at Dillon, S.
C.,, after spending several days here
visiting at the home of Mrs. Sue Mc
Leod. She was accompanied by Miss
Julia Bethea, who will spend some
time at Dillon visiting friends.
Mr. and Mrs. John Suter, Jr., and
small daughter, Mary Beaman, of
New Bern, ' arrived Tuesday night
and are guests at the home of Mrs.
Suter's father, Rev. Dr. R. C. Bea
man, at' the Methodist parsonage.
Another small daughter, Dudley, has
been here for some time. Mr. Suter
will return home -tomorrow.
AWashington dispatch states that
apple growers in North Carolina may
make cider and offer it for sale. At
torney General A. 'Mitchell Palmer
has ruled that apple - eider is not a
vinous liquor and that the farmer
who can afford to pay the tax when
sold as wine or when bottled and sold
as a soft drink may proceed with
out any, legal restrictions.
POLICE TURN ON CURRENT.
Concert by class from Odd Fel
lows orphanage at Goldsboro in high
school auditorium this evening at
8:30.
AH members of Lumbee tent No.
18, Maccabees, are urged to attend:
a special meeting of the tent tomor
row evening. Refreshments will be
served.
Miss Leila Davis of Bladenboro
has accepted a position as cashier In
the grocery department of Mr. L H.
Caldwell's department store. She be
gan work yesterday.
A Raleigh man is contemplat
ing opening an ice cream factory in
some good town and is making In
quiry about the possibilities of Luu
berton. If he is hunting a good town,
this is the place.
Lumberton's graded and rfgh
schools will open fdr the fall term
on Sept 9 or 16. The date will per
haps be determined in time for defi
nite announcement in the next issue
of The Robesonian.
Mr. E. L. Hanna, former chief of
police here, Is here for the purpose
of shipping his furniture to Red
Springs, where he has accepted a po
sition as chief of police. He win be
gin work at Red Springs Monday.
Mr. Jack Greene arrived yester
day from. New Orleans to spend a
week here with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Greene. He is on the
staff of the New Orleans Item, the
Inrgest afternoon daily in the South.
Mesrsrs. John F. French, Wi F. .
Edwards, J. S. Cox and A. V. G.
Wishart spent yesterday in Char
lotte. X They went to Charlotte to
witness a double-header ball ran
between Charlotte and Spartanburr.
The Charlotte team won both games.
'The East Carolina Realty Co.
of Lumberton has recently been char- ,
tered with an authorized capital of
$50,000, with $25,000 paid in by
Messrs. Robt. E. Lee, J. A. Carlyle,
E. E. Page, and Dr. T. F. Costlier. '
The new corporation will buy and sell
real estate
Misses Ollia and "Addie Biggs
returned today, to their home at An
tioch, Hoke county, after spending a .
week here at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Wright J. Prevatt, Second and
Seneca streets. Their brother, Mr.
W. L. Biggs, came for them today,
making the trip in his auto. -
Mr. E. S. Kinlaw and daughter.
Miss Marjoline, of R. 1 from Lum
berton, were Lumberton . visitors
Monday. Mr. Kinlaw was very much
pleased with prices he got. for tobac
co on the local market Monday at the
last sales before the market closed
temporarily until the freight situa
tion should improve.
Prof. W H. Cale, superintend- "
ent of the Lumberton graded and
high schools, Mrs, Cale and their
children, Masters John and William
and little Miss Agnes, arrived home
Tuesday night from Winton, Hert
ford oounty, where they spent some
time at the home of Mrs. Calea
mother. Prof. Cale also visited Chap
el Hill during the summer schooL
They made the trip in their auto.
- Mr. Jno. A. McLeod, assistant
county health officer, is making a
sanitary survey of the town. -He be
gan the work Monday and. when he
has completed bis work here a report
of conditions will be made to the may
or and board of commissioners. Mr.
McLeod has already made a like sui- ,
vey of a number of Robeson towns.
. Mr. E. J. Britt, county attorney,
and Mr. C. B. Townsend, a member
of the board of county commission
ers, went yesterday, to Wrightsville
Beach to attend the good roads.
meeting, which opened yesterday and;
will close tomorrow. Mr. J. G. Pm-;
vatt of the. Back Swamp section also
left! yesterday fbr Wrightsville to
attend the meeting.
Mr. Owen C. Deese received
Electricians" employed by thejwire this mornmg advising that his
Snrhrn Pnhli! ITtiliti Co. went onl brother-in-law Mr. ' John Jones is
strike at Charlotte Tuesday in sym-i
pathy with street car men, who went
Children's story hour tomorrow
afternoon at 6 o'clock at the home, of
Mrs. Alf. H. McLeod. '-
Mr. Carey McDonald of R. 2, St
Pauls, received $555.60 for just part
of one barn . of tobacco that he sold
. on Lumberton - market . .Monday - of
.Register of Deeds M. W. Ftod
has issued license' for the marriage
of Luther Hardin and Carrie Wil
Joughby; Salter Bozier and Pearle
Callihan; Leon Johnson and , Vinui
Harris : Jesse Bri srman and Susan
successful operation, and now she is i Britt; . Bundy ' Powers and -Euphia
improving and will soon return home. Jones.
i
on strike Sunday in Charlotte, Winston-Salem
and Anderson, S. C, they
pulled out switches to cut off Char
lotte and that entire section from
electric current Under order of
Mayor McNtnch a police squad went
to the power plant and promptly
threw the switches back into place.
An appropriation of $500,000 for
investigation of the increased cost of
living by the Federal Trade commis
sion was asked of Congress Tuesday
by Acting Chairman Murdock of the
commission in a letter to Speaker
GHlett J Funds for the commission
already authoijixed are insufficient
to conduct the proposed inquiry, the
letter said. J-
.-Mrs. J. T. Singletary and her sis
ter, Miss Adlie Mitchell of HiU
crest farm, and Miss Kathlene Cot
tingham of McColL S C, who is vis
iting Miss Mitchell were Lumberun
visitors Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Jones and their small daughter.
Miss Mary Julia, went last Satur
day to Charleston, where Mr. Jones
makes headquarters on his run as a
railroad engineer, to spend some
time. ; Mrs. Deese expected to leave
tomorrow for Charlston but may
postpone her visit on account of the
illness of Mrv Jones. , 7
Prof. A. H. Flowers left Tues
day, for Palmetto, Fla-, of the city
schools of which place he is super
vising: principal. He atteijded the
summer school at- Chapel Hill ana
arrived here ; Sundap night ' from
Goldsboro with his, small daugh ser,
Virginia Lee, whose mother died at
Palmetto last fall and who lives with
her grandmother, Mrs. J. R. Sauls
near Goldsboro. Prof. Flowers car
ried bis daughter back to Goldsboro
before going to. Palmetto. . ; ,.
' DR WILLIAM W. PARKER
EYE SPECULIST
Office: National Bank of Ltunbertea
Building. 1 . '
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