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r ... nn E ROBESONIAN WATCH LABEL ON TOUR PAPER AND DONT LET SUB SCRIPTION EI PI HE THE DATE ON THE LABEL IS THE DATE YOUR PAPER WILL BE STOPPED. ESTABLISHED 1870. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. COUNTRY, GOD AND TRUTH $2.00 A TEAR. DUE IN AD VAN VOL. L LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY, AUGUST 18,1919. NUMBER 55 MARKET RE-OPENS Big Sales On AU Floors After Being Closed a. Week. PRICES HIGH AS BEFORE Warehouses Will Remain Open Until i . n T A XT crop ,s aoM-r. to Rush Tobacco to Market looj, Fast. Mrs. A. C. Johnston, who was play- I ing on the sidewalk with several opened today wrth fitnesses, had the Ford not struck Vmg closed foyrX,it8 the lives of at least five small of the strike wark last' childrn would have been greatly en- Th.. strikers returned to wjrk in. d The n was gven a ;r,kd ss&r 0 T E- " Bt,,t i.e.e wclc "u 'h V (some on the charge of carving yuintus and prices are as high pn(s0T McLaurin, colored, with a knife. Ac th nk hiirher than) when, tne ' Wo4. wVin think higher than) when, tne market was temporanry closed a week ago. " The buyers are all back on the job and seem anxious for the tobacco being jofferted. The ware houses will remain open until the crop has been sold and the ware housemen are urging the farmers not to rush their tobacco on the mar ket Taster than it can be handled. Other warehouses throughout the South Carolina belt, all of which were closed last week, re-openel to day. ;ii;aflk SCHOOL BEGINS SEPT. 0. Fall Term of Local Schools Will Open Second Tuesday in Sep tember Several New Teachers. The fall term of the Lumberton graded and high schools will begin Tuesday. Sept. 9, at 9 a. m. Supt. W. H. Cale has engaged the following teachers: Miss Eilene Lewis of Henlerson-i ville, science; Miss Ruth Maniey oi Guilford College, English; Miss Mar tha Dawson of Elon college, history : Miss Evelyn Reade of Durham (A. M. Trinity). Latin; Mies Delia Watson of Mount Airy, mathematics and French. ,, Grammar grades: Miss Mary Belle Gary of Henderson and Miss Georgia Mack Antley of Cordova, S C., first grade; Misses Pennie Rowland and Louise Townsend, second; Miss Wini fred Rowland, third; Miss Dovic Ira vtft fourth; Miss Ruth Davenpo.t of Winton, fifth; Miss Lillie Bai-Ker, sixth Seventh not yet supplied. It will be seen from the fore-going that there are several new teachers -Misses Reade and Watson in the high school, and in the grammar grades: Miss Antley, who received her train ing at Columbia university; M w Townsend of Robeson, who has been Caching at Brevard for some time; Mis Dovie Prevatt of Lumbert-.m, has taught in North Lumber-ton; Miss r..rrt ha been in farm-life school work at Rich Square, North ampton county. I KNOCKED OFF TRUCK BY LIMB, Miss Esther DeMann Was Knocked Auto Truck and Badly Hurt- She Was With Party of Young j People Coming From Jennings' Bcacn- , Miss Esther DeMann, one of sev- aL , The' f - f an work today of the Ttruck owned by e Dresden Co Yuroterton Baptist church left ton Mill Co. Miss DeMann and . . ' 1 . fcr Johns Hopkins hos rumber of young people from the .. Md for pur. min v"6- , t f the lpnnines beach when the top ot tne ViMr:Ln he ton of the Jennings - , v truck CaUgni a umu oi'u - trUCK tl, Voi. anH I truck caugm, a - limb was released it .truck ner ana knocked her on. ner -' buy tobacco in the town of Lum- was sprained and she was bad y purchase bc made Shaken up. Miss DeMann was u - ; b f im sale in a licensed conscious for some time and at first, M tY liew ord.- It was .tlfatlZir.nce will curtail "pin-hooking" on She was hurried the Thoi, npsen ur,itl and it is thought &ne wui .Tn.rihiTifi Breece w5.ll be able to leave the hospital tomor- row. HOME FROM THE WAR. Mr O. K. Barnes of McDonald and Mr Arrie Walters of Proctorville Arrived home yesterday, having been Hven honorable discharge from the 'mv Mr. Walters was attactied to list division and when his division returned to the States he enlisted in the overseas military police forces. jfly t. L. Johnson returned bora Thursday night after a stay of some aim with his family in thewestern western part of the State-Asheville ''md other places. He left Mrs. John cn and children at Hickory with airs. Johnson's parents. GETS 60 DAYS ON ROADS Ford -Driven by Negro Struck Small White Child Negro Carved in General Fight Bound to Court on Charge of Forgery. Lee Melvin, colored, must serve 60) days on the public roads as a re-) nit nf PHTPlesa auto drivinar. Mel-! vin drove a Ford auto upon a side walk, corner First and Chippewa streets, Saturday morning, ana tne f Lee two and a HauB.hter Mr. and cording to the evidence, West, who lives at the National cotton mm, ana sevefol other boys from the mill vil lage engaged in a general fight with a number of colored boys just across the river1 from town Monday evening of last week and cut an ugly gash in McLaurin's left arm. Judgment was suspended upon payment of cost and the physician's charge for dressing the wound. Lennox Thompson was found guil ty of forgery and was bound over to the Superior court under a $200 jus tified bond, in default of which he was remanded to jail. The evidence was that Thompson forged the name of his uncle, Mr. W. L. Thompson, on a check and had it cashed at Gran tham Bros, drug store. Thompson was arrested. Friday morning and has been in jail since that time. CONCERT BY CLASS FROM ODD FELLOWS ORPHANAGE Rectipts From Sale of Tickets and Contributions Amounted to $211.25. A class from the Odd Fellows or phanage of Goldsboro gave a de lightful concert in the graded school auditorium Thursday evening. The class was made up of ten girls and four bovs and was under the direc tion of 'Misses Elzie Tucker and Frances Tull, members of the facul ty of the orphanage. While. only 200 tickets were sold for the concert, the total contributed amounted to $211.25. This was the largest contribution ever made when a class from this orphanage played Lumberton. The contribution a year ago was $202, which was the largest up to that time. The class came here from Sanford arcl went from here to Wilmington, where it gave a concert Friday eve ning The children were entertained in the homes of local Odd Fellow while here. WAR DEPARTMENT OFFERS SURPLUS BLANKETS FOR SALE mi ivo- nonnrtnwnt offers for Asnle to the public its surplus supplp rirf rcrhivBd-fabric wani-ptq of w'f.ch approximately are n0. avRi,able for the .' . i. r,ol Frulav market, u whs cmuv.. that an individual may buy one nvje W.nket. up to the hnnt of rnn from $fi for new a woo1 blanket9 to for re- vv,-,i Ton blankets. The prices in bale lots are cheaper. . . " o.UcloHv in t.hd K from.mt.Pi. wmr; r. - pose of having his eye toreatt-. pose ol nnving ms rJC V(1;nnn(.P has been pas An ovdinance nas umi . . oimm as cners 'Jvymg u , - on a na for Baltimore and New York to purcnase ian mu ter stock for her millinery store. p,ne will be accomnanied to Washington bv little Miss Anna Courtney Sharpe, who will visjt her grandmother, "Mrf. Anna P. Courtney, and aunt, Mrs. M. J. Boucher, at the latter's home in Washington, for a week. According to latest report?, the condition of Mr. J. M. Jones, who de veloped a case of fever at Augusta, Ga., early last we"ek, is imprving. Mr. tnnom is an engineer on the South ern railroad out of Auguste. His family live here, Mrs. Jones and their1 small daughter, Mary Julia, were with him when he was taken sick and their son Mr. Worth Jones brought Mary Julia home Friday. Mr. Worth Jones left yesterday, for, Rich mond, Va., where he will spend a few daps before returning, to, Augusta. HELD FOR RANSOM Mexican Bandits Demand $15,000 Ransom for Two American Army Aviators. Letters purporting to be from Lieuts. Paul H. Davis and Harold G. Peterson, American army aviators missing since last Sunday, were re ceived at Warfa, Tex., yesterday at military healquarters, states a press dispatch. The letters stated we a da tors were being held by bandits for $15,000 ransom somewhere in Mexi co anl were threatened with death unless the raasom was paid. A dispatch states - that wrange--lents were being made at El Paso, Texas, last night to obtain $15,000 gold coin and send it to Marfa early this morning for payment of the ransom. The demand for the ransom was re ceived at Marfa Sunday and a report made at once to Major General Dick-, man, commander of the southern de partment. An unconfirmed report also was received that the aviators were being heiti at it point close to the American border :md tnat Chico Cano, a famous bandit of the Big Btnd Ojinaga district, was the lead er of the band holding the aviators. Aviators Petei3cn and Davis are a part of the personnel of the Fort Bliss aviation corps, but vere on de tached duty with the Big Bend dis trict military headquarters at Marfa, rr- ...1 a... .-...-l JirSaSA'tal x hey the usual patrol of Ihe border, plan ning o follow the north oank of the Rio Gr&nde to the end f the district. It is believed by aviation oncers here they confused the Conchos riv er, wh eh flows into tne Rio urande SSndJ ; and The courVTf this river into the interior of Mar- ico. Anotner meory auvanceu uj fellow aviators is that they were forced to land, either on the Ameri can or Mexican side of the border, in the wild country of the Big Beril district, and were made prisoners .y the Mexican bandit3, who make ma rauding trips across the border at frequent intervals Li search of cat tle and other property which they carry off to Mexico. When it became known at Fort Bliss last night that the aviators were reported held by Mexican ban dits, there was much discussion among army officers of the possibility of American troops crossing the bor der in search of the bandits. - This was discredited by higher officers 'or two reasons. The principal one ad vanced was that the American avia tors would be killed if an erpeditiun crossed in pursuit. The other was that for expeditions to cross the bor der in the Big Bend district apply only to the pursuit of bandit? who have stolen property on the Ameri can side and then only t ) follow a "hot trail." .i j 1 J 1 V .. FRANK TOWNSEND Son of Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Townsend of Lumberton, R. 6. He has been in tho naw ohMit d vaariK nr,H iq r.nu ! on the U. S. S- Arethusa. SEEN AND HEARD (BY HAPPY JACK.) While discussing the h. c. 1. with a Lumberton business man he le marked that the cost of high iving is affecting the country more than 4he high cost of iving. After think ing over what he said I came to the conclusion that he has an idea with founlation. The business man nam ed many things that peope are spenling money for that they could leave off and by so doing reduce their living expenses. THE RECORD OF DEATHS "Sis" Monrie, Indian, aged about 60 years, died Thursday afternoon at her home near town. Deceased had been, ill for some time. I, SALE OF SURPLUS ARMY f FOOD BEGINS TODAY! Postage Rates Are Made the Same to AIl-You Can Save Money On' Some Articles. Lumberton is in the fourth postal zone from Atlanta and if the zonej V? " Wilmington, rates of postage applied, postage! Mr. Dan F. McNeill of Hamlet was would amount to more than the price j a Lumberton visitor Friday, of the food and distribution of army; Mr. L. A. Turner of R. 4, Lumber food would be of no advantage to' ton, was in town Saturday. points situated, as Lumberton is sit- uafed, in zone 4. But a V ashingtonl dispatch of the 16lh states that the! Fostottice Department has announced Misses Alice Kelly and Nannie Lee that the postage rats on surplus ar-Rog8 gpent the week-end at Wrights my food, sale of which through the;vjne Beach z yotc-.a Huafc ocguis luu.y mug. would be the sai. e to Dcrsons uvtnsri bcyona the first zone from the sup ply centers as to those in the first zoni' This would equalize the post age to all purchasers ur.d the dif ference will be made up by the War Department deducting the extra post age from the sale prici and turning XT 0 - . r . an example, are listed by ho gov ernment at 11 cents each, or $2.64 a case of 24 cans. Postage on it case would be 75 cents, making the total cost of a case of No. 3 cans of to matoes $3,119, more than a dollar less than te local price, whereas if the zone rate of postage were used t e postage would be $'2.87, and the case laid lown here would cost over a dollar more than the local price. But with zone one rates effective to; everybody, one can go to the post-u and order articles of surplus army food at a saving. Your post master has a price list showing ar ticles and prices Postmaster D. D. French has re leived price lists of army food to be sold direct to the consumer by the government and is ready to ac- -pt" orders for same. The food to North Car ol n 13 to be BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS Short Paragraphs Giving General News Items of Interest. What orbmises to be one of the crucial weeks of the peace treaty fight in the U S. Senate began yes terday with the issuance of a formal statement by Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, the administration Senate leader, declaring conditions through out the country demanded that the treaty be brought out of the foreign relation committee promptly and ratifiel. . Cleveland, Aug. 17. A 35 to 65 ner cent increase in wages is de- manded for 117.000 firemen and hos tlprs on railroads in the Unitel States and Canada, in a wage scale adopted, before adjournment today Dy duu general chairman of the Brother hool of Locomotive Firemen and En einemen in session here since Tues day. Washington, Aug. 17 The gov ernment's fight to reduce the cost of living is expected to result in action in many States this week to force hoarded food on the market whil Congress is debating legislation deal ing with the question. New York. Aug. 17. The vast sub way and elevated system of the In- terborough Rapicl Transit Co., op erating in Manhattan, the Bronx and parts of Brooklyn and Queens, was comDletelv paralyzed todap by a strike -railed last nicht by P. J. Con nolly, acting president of the Broth erhood of Interborough Rapid Tran sit company employes. The day pass ed without violence. x Washington, Aug. 17. Despite the pre-eminence of the peace treaty controversy and the high cost of liv ing question much other important, legislation faces congress wis, week. Railroad legislation will be pressed in both branches. Before the end of the week the Senate inter state commerce sub-committee, draft ing permanent legislation, hopes to report its recommendations with a tentative bill, to the full committee. Hearings wil be continued by the House interstate commerce commit tee with, representatives of the rail way executives advisory committee to be heard tomorrow. Town auto license numbers have come and those who have paid may obtain same. Miss Henrietta Ammons has re sumed her work in Messrs. White& Cough's department store, after be ing out for several weeks on account of, an attack of appendicitis. Maxton Scottish Chief-.Dr. T. A. Norment has most kindly presented Carolina college library a set of Washington Irving's works, in 27 vol umes. This generous example is worthy of following by many others. Why not send your surplus books to the college? . j Misses Glennie McGregor and Ad die Belle Burns spent the week nd with Miss Ethel Pittman in Luinber ton, i returning Tuesday. Maxton Scottish Chief. PERSONALS Mr. C. M. Stone of R. 3, Lumber- ton, was in town Friday Mr. J. K. Currie of Parkton was ILumhprtnn viaitnr Prirl.v i Mr- .and .Mr?. ..Earl Tuton spent Mr. W. M. Davis of R. 2. Fair- mont. was amone the visitor in Saturday M.r Jf T SK J T T t j I of the Rex section were Lumberton visitors Friday. i Messrs. W. J Bitter and W. W. Bishop spent the week-end at Wrightsville Beach. Mr. D. M. Rogers of the Marietta section was among the business is itors in town Friday. Mr. David Smith of R. 7, Lum berton, was among the callers at The Robesonian office Saturday. 1 Miss Nannie Lee Ross of Washing ton, D. C, is spending some time here visiting Miss Alice Kelly. Mrs. J. Q. Beckwith and two chil dren, James and John, went Saturday to Norfolk, Va., to visit relatives. Messrs. P. W. Wilson and Liley Al len of R. 7 from Lumberton were among the visitors in town Friday. Miss Ruby Bowen left Saturday evening for Norfolk and Ocean View, Va., where she will spend two weeks.) Mr. and Mrs. John MlGildarp of Fayetteville are visiting at the hoi . of Mr.- and Mrs. C. H. Rudd, Eighth i street. Miss Pearl Raybon of Wilmington arrived Saturday afternoon and will spend some time here with home folks. Mrs. Claire Thomas went Satur day to Henderson, where she will spend some time vbiting relatives and friends. Mr. J. J. Goodwin spent the week end at Wrightsville Beach with his family, who are spending some time at the beach. Misses Ada Smith and Edna Barnes of R. 5, Lumberton, were cah ers at The Robesonian office Thurs day afternoon. Mrs. M. J. Merritt returned Thurs day evening from Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach, where she spent some time visiting friends. Mr. K. M. Biggs went Saturday to Ridgecrest, where he will spend sev eral days with Mrs. Biggs, who is spending the summer there. Mrs. W. C. Reynolds and two chil dren, Ruth and Mae, went Saturday to Salisbury, where they will spend some time visiting relatives. Mr. R. Lewis Shelby, cashier of the National Bank of Hopewell, Va., is splendid the day here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Shelby. Mr. and Mm. Ben G. Floyd and small daughter, Helen Taylor, and Miss Mattie Lee Pittman went Sat urday to Wrightsville Beach, where they will spend several days. Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Petty of Nor folk, Va., arrived Saturday and will spend some time here visiting & J the home of Mrs. Petty's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Thompson, Elm street. Mrs. S. F. Caldwell and sor, Mas ter S. F. Jr., left Friday for Pulaski, Va., where they will spend several weeks visiting at the home of Mrs. Caldwell's father. Dr. J. W. Keisier. Miss Esther Rose of Goldsboro left Friday for Four Oaks, where she will visit relatives, after spending sjtne time visiting at the home of her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Beasley, East Fifth street. - Miss Theresa Patterson, returned Friday night from a trip Lo Ashe- vjjje amj 0ther points in the vest went ein mrt of the State. She with a party from Fayettevi' j r.nd the trip was male through the coun try in an auto. Mr. John Suter returned FTiday to his home at New Bern after spend ing a few days here visiting at the home of hi3 father-in-law, Rev. Dr. R. C. Beaman. Mrs. Suter and their two children will spend some time here before returning home. Miss Nicie Freeman returned Fri day, to her home in Hamlet after spending several days here visiting relatives. She was accompaifed home by Miss Leila Bullard, who will spend some time at Hamlet visiting relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. W. S- Britt and Miss Nettie Pillips Returned Thursday night from Chimney Rock, where they spent a week. They returned by way of Kershaw, S- C.t and were accom panied home by Mrs. Britt's sister, Sirs. J. C, Jenkins, and two children, Mary Ada and Esther. Mrs. .C1L Boyd and thre chil lren, Charles, Jr., Katherinc anl J An Robert, returned Friday night from Hendersonvilfie, where ttiey spent some time. They were accompanied home by Mrs. Boyd's sister, Mrs. F. E. Wilson, and her son, Eugene, of Gaffney, S. C, who will spend 3 ;v 5 time here. WATCH THE LABEL. Watch the date opposite the mm or the label on your paper. Whea yi a!"p",n tiff"? w "POlieS W all - eribers. BRIEF ITEMS LOCAL NEW8 Born, to Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Parham, last night, afboy. License has been issued far the me 01 ""d" Edwards and KraiiMtllUM JLf I lib. Miss Amelia Linkhauer and Mm. L. C. Townsend. left Friday for New York, where Miss Linkhauer will study fall styles and buy mil linery for the Style shop, of whkh she is proprietress. Mr. Jack Greene left yesterday to return to New Orleans, where he is employed by The Item, a large af ternoon daily newspaper, after send ing a week here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Gpeene. A Civil Service examination will be held here on Sept. 6 for the positions of clerk and city carrier in the local postoffice. The entrance salary of clerks and carriers is $1,000 a year. Substitutes receive 40 centa the hour. Lumbee Tent No. 18, Maccabees, gave a reception in honor 5 of return ed soldiers Friday evening. Qitlte a number of the local soldiers be long to the order and others were invited. A numher of short address es were made and refreshments were served. Messrs. N. F. Barden and W. A. Leggett cf R. 2, Fairmont, passed through town Saturday en route to Hot. Springs, Ark., where they will spend some time. Mr. Leggett has been suffering with rheumatism for several months and goes to Hot Springs with the hope of getting re lief. Mr. C. B. Townsend of Lumber ton, a member of the Robeson coun ty board of commissioners, was elect ed vie president for the fourth dis trict at the meeting of the,itate as sociation of county commissioners at Wrightsville Beach last weekk W. C. Jones of High Point was elected president. Mr G. Badger McLeod returned Friday from Waynesville, to which place he accdmparjjd h&s mother, Mrs. G. B. McLeod, his sister, Mrs. F. L. Nash, Mrs. Lizzie G. Proctor and daughter, Miss Lillian Proctor. They made the trip to Waynes ville by auto and Mr. McLeod re turned by rail. Rev. Dr. R. C. Beaman left this morning for Henderson, where Mrs. Beaman has been visiting relatives for some time. He erpects to return 4iorne nert Saturday. Dr. Beaman an nounced a change in his program at Chestnut Street Methodist church at the morning service yesterday and preached last evening. According to Mr. A. H. Mercer of R. 5, Lumberton, who was a Lum berton visitor Saturday, some of the tobacco growers out his way grew such sorry tobacco that they are al most ashamed to bring it to market. Some farmers, he says, call their best tobacco sand-lugs when they bring it to town. Trying to fool .the folks, you know. The public dance at the Farm ers' tobacco warehouse Friday eve ning was attended mostly by young men. Only one Lumberton girl was present and only a very few from other places. An orchestra from Fayetteville furnished music for, the occasion. Many local young men and still a larger number from other towns nearby were there, but the scarcity of young ladies had a tell ing effect upon the ocrasion. This was the first public dance, for Lum berton in a long, long time. Mr. C. D. Williamson, The Robe soman's valued correspondent at Parkton, is a Lumberton visitor to day. He came over this morning hunting for sugar, a supply of which he was unable to get at home cr Fayetteville and a "big-meeting coming on, too. Mr. Williamson was able to supply his needs here all right which the same anybody can do in any line, it may be stated by way of parenthesis. Mr. Williamson says the tent is being put up for the union revival meeting which will tegin at Parkton Wednesday of thia week and last ten days. Mr. L. R. Varser and daughter, little Miss Lillie Snead, left Saturday night via V. & C S- and Coast Line for Gates county, Mr. Varser's old home, where they will spend a few days. They went to Hamlet Satur day morning to go via Seaboard Air Line, but found when they reached Hamlet that a wash-out down the road would delay ( their train ten hours and thus cause them to miss connection at Norlina for Norfolk, so Mr. Varser 'phoned back to Lumber ton and had his auto sent for them and they returned home in the af ternoon, taking the V. & C S. in the evening. . . ... DR. WILLIAM W. PARKER EYE SPECIALIST Office: National Bank of LombertOB ' Building. 'V
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