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-.IT ft -4 THE DATE ONITHEJ WATCH LABEL 6 tour papes yum DONT LET SUB SCRIPTION EXPHEK LABEL . IS THE DATE TOUB PAPER WILL BE STOPPED. ESTABLISHED 1870. SINGLE CO PYIFIVE CENTS. ' COUNTRT, OD AND TRUTH- 13.00 A YEAR, DUE IN ADVANCE. VOLUME LL LUMBEETON. NORTH CABOLINA, , . MONDAY. JULY, 26, 1920. NUMBER 41 JOHN HENRY BETHEA ARRESTED Negro Charged With Killing Deputy Sheriff J. A. Kitchin Arrested- in Sooth Carolina In Columbia Jail Will Probably Be Carried to Ra leieh From Columbia. John Henry Bethea, colored, charg ed with killing. Deputy Sheriff J. A; Kitchin on the jiight of July' 2, has bee arrested and is ' In jail at v. Co lumbia, S.'. C.,; according to $ wire message received by Bhen" b I Lewis yesterday from the' South Car olina authorities. Bethea wUl prob ably be removed to Raleigh' as soon as the proper requisition papers have been furnished. As was stated in The-Robeaonian at the time, Deputy Kitdpm died as a result of being shot as he stepped out of his "auto when he with Rural Policeman W..W. Smith came upon a car in the road in Alfordsville town ship on the night of July 2. On ne-' ero, Dave -Bethea, brother of John Henry, was killed at the same time, the other nesrro escaping. The car driven by the negroes was loaded wjth whiskey and sugar. The Be thea negroes lived in Dillon county, South Carolina, and according to the testimony of some colored women who were with them in the car, had been v to Cumberland county after whiskey and were returning home when they had a puncture. It was while they were patching the tire that the offi cers overtook them. Near-Serious Auto-Truck Collision. A near-serious automobile-truck collision occurred on North Elm street Saturday afternoon when a Dodge car driven by Mr. W. H. Mc Lellan of Rowland and a Ford truck driven by Jerry McKellar, colored, collided. McKellar drove the truck, which belonged to Mr. L. H. Caldwell, into Elm street from Eighth street and Mr. McLellan was driving up north on Elm, the collision occurring just as the truck entered Elm. ,Mr. McLellan's right hand was cut -by parts of his windshield and Lonzo Walker, colored, who was in the car with him, suffered a nugly gash in his forehead a"d other bruises about hig face. McKellar vwas also cut on the arms and hands. V The front end of the truck was com pletely demolished and the Dodge was also badly damaged, both being put out of running commission as a result of the accident. Master Knox Thompson Had Close Call. Knox, 12-year-old son of Mr. , and Mrs. Geo. L. Thompson, had the two front fine-era on his riirht hand ampu tated at the first ioint Saturday after- noon as a result of injuries received when a piano upon which he was rid ing fell off a truck on West-Fifth St. Young Thompson fell with the piano to the street and his hand was caught under the piano. His right arm was also bruised and it is feaTed the oth er fingers on his right hand were nm paired. He was carried; to the Thompson hospital, where the fingers were amputated and the wound dressed. The piano belonged to Mr, J. W. Griffi", proprietor of the Pastime theatre, and. Mr. Griffin had loaded the piano upon the truck for the pur pose of sendmgit to Red Springs. The piano was badly 'damaged. T - .1 I1TT.I III HI f Severe Electric Storm. Mrs. W. L. Parham was badly shocked by lightning about 9:15 last evening just as she was leaving the First Baptist church. While she has suffered with a Severe headache since the shock, her condition is fa vorable today. The electric storm which broke over town about 9 o'clock was one of the severest ever witnessed here. The lights were off for a short time as a result of the storm. A hard wind and rain storm visit ed the Barker's section yesterday af- ternoon, but no serious damage has been reported. - Good Tobacco Selling High. Good sales were .conducted on the Lumberton tobacco market each day last' week after, the opening on Tuesday. Practically all the tobacco sold last week. was first primings, prices ranged as.high as 65. cents the pound and the better grades are sell ing at very satisfactory prices, ac cording to the farmers. The offer ings this week are expected to grade better. .'-. . Army Worm. Invades County. ; The army worm has appeared in some sections of the county. 1 Mr. Scott Stone of the Raynham Section, who was a Lumberton visitor Friday", ftBTs the worm has appeared on his farm. The greatest damage from the army "worm is expected to the hay crop. - Tobacco Barn Burned. - " Fira destroyed a barn filled with tobacco belonging to Mr. E. McQ. Rowan, who lives .near "Smyrna ' church, Thursday night. It is thought the fire started from dry tobacco fall ing upon a hot flue. Th,, barn was filled with good tobacco. Mr. W. W. Whaley of Wilmington spent the week-end here visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L, E. Whaley, Elm street. ' - , . ' FOR - SALE NEW . DODGE BROS. ROADSTER. R. M. BALLARD.. MUST REMOVE GAS STATIONS, i v ..' Ordinance Passed' by Town Fathers r Provide. That All Gasoline . Filling Stations be Moved Off Streets and' : SSdeWaflo. ' : All. 'gasoline filling stations most L romnvnH from th sidewalks andi istreets of Lunrton by-January l,t 1921, according to an ordinance pawed by the town ! lathed - - " - . . . . must be removed to somtf oiner, ioca- tion . 'according to the nrovisions ' of. the ordinance, and no further permits will ' be granted for , tnstalling- sta tions on; any fwmt street or sidewalk. Messrs. E. M. Johnso" and. R. H. Crlchton,, members or tne ooara oi town commissioners, were appointed a committee to draft hew parking or dinances and present sanTe at the next' regular meeting of the board. SOVIET WILLING TO AN ARMISTICE "WITH POLAND London. July 26. The Russian So. 7iet government has notified Great Britain that it is willing to meet the leading allies for a peace conference in London, but as a preliminary to such a conference it demands the sur- Tender of GeneralWrangel, the anti- ... it lL bolsheviki commander in tne souin under a- guarantee of personal safety according to the Daily Mail. In a note conveying this demand .... i ts willingness to agree to an armis- tice with Poland. Warsaw, July 25. Armistice ne gotiations between Poland and Soviet Russia- probably wil be held at Brest Littisvosk, according to diet cricles today. Negotiations to bring about the ini tial meeine of the military com manders to arrange for a conference between the deputaion of both.- sides already are under way. x BASEBALL. Several Games Expected This Week New Players Added to Club. PnTxvrtofI fnr The Rnhennninn. Thp present week will probably be the busiest of the season for the T.nmWin hnsehall cluh. CamD . . . , .i and the locals go to tne ump to i return the game Friday. Sanford,' which won from Lumberton' at San- ford last week 4 to comes here1 v. K, T,atl to turn the tables on them. Raeford'man, presided at tne ceremonies, anu Massachusetts, who i i i i. i t dv and Wednesdavl making- it a full Week date of his nomination in a speech to run this great republic. 'Our first Five or six new faces will be seen rapping President Wilson's league ofcommital is the restoration of rep in the local line-up this wek. Two nations and raising the part Senator resentative POP"'" government, un pitchers joined the club this morning Harding had taken in preventing its der the constitution .through the and both of them came highly rec ommended. Hayle, a catcher from Columbia and a. new third baseman joined the club Friday, and the prejlcteristic gravity, the nominee de- tore of a world supergovernment tak ent line-up is -xpected to be a greatlflared his declaration of policy in a j mg. visionary form, joined in a be-l ,T,o,f Ir. - rwKih ,par. full voice that penetrated far coming warning of our devotion to. fmnrovemetit over an- tea ' which ' has represented Lumberton this sea- son WILLIAM K. VANDERBILT PACcptf a wav iw r apic' sv n t? r& & in a nitiu Paris, July 22. William K. Vander. bilt ,the American financier, died liere today. Mr. Vanderbilt's death occurred at 6 o'clock this evening. " At the bed side were his wife, his daughter, the Duchess of Marlboroutrh: his two sons. William K. Jr., and Harold, and! Dr. Edmund Gros, the family physi cian in Paris. The funeral will be held on Mon day next from the American church in the D'Alma. The body later will be taken to the United States, where it will be buried' in the family plot on Staten Island. Negro Says He Murdered Seven. Los Angeles, Dispatch, July 23. California authorities tonight were communicating with Florida and Louisiana officials in an effort to assist in confirming he - confession of Mos.e Gibson, negro, that he had murdered seven persons during the last few years, including a woman at Orange City Junction, -Fla., killed in November, 1919. Gibson is under sentence to hang for the murder of Boy Trapp, of Fuierton, Cal., ranch er. . . ' ." ,....' - . ' . !- Gjbson has confessed to having killed J. R. Reavis, Baton Rouge, La., about 1Q years ago, a watchman at a sugar mill at Gramercy, La., in No vember, 1910, and a storekeeper at Wagoner, La.. lo in November, 19 JO. Gibson, since his sentence, nas- Deen nt, invotatifn in rrrwcTi with ! th- murd.er- of Mr. and Mrs Jacob Earheart, an . aged couple, in - their home here the nignt of June o - , -.i : x; Annual Indian Picnic' August ?th.vf .Tne annual inaian picnic wi bujuuiiok, hiuw held at Union chapel Saturday, Au-participant in the conservation of na-j gust Calvin Lowrey, Indian, of, tions to a new relationship, to commit, .The annual Indian picnic wdl be the Union chapel section, wno was ; the moral lorces oi me wonu.Aiu. , r I Zl a Lumberton visitor Saturday, says -included, to peace and mte'rnational mark the paths to thA failure oi gov olans are beine perfectedfor making I justice, still leaving America freer, ernment itself. , - - the picnic: hisear one. of the. "big- sest-'and best", ever held. This an nual picnic always draws large crowds. . ' Mrs. , T. W. Bullock and small daughter, Ruth weal, are expectea. uuKuvi, kuwu , ' . i where they spent some time.' - J luvma Tnifnr rmitv- -tumafnuonvvuie. HARDING PROMISES . EFFECTIVE PEACE ' '.Mrs. Clarence Britt of Back Swamp. Proposes Peace Resolution in Liea of . Mrs. Clarence Britt, aged about 17 j j, .League Wilson Arraigned, .i Years, died at the Thompson hospi-j i , Jtal yesterday at 4 p. bl, death molt.! Marion, Ohio, Dispatch,' July ;22. ling from Bright's disease. Deceased Peace bv a resolution of congress, is urvived bv her husband. The and afte association of nations mat wouia noi a. m. byKev. ut. tnas. n. uur - I 1 . ' 1 i 1 . V 1 " speecn .accepting in; rrpoutu jtviii - inatioii f or the presidency. " V J H declared the time had come to recotrnize the lauurp anenamg as. sumption, obstinacy, impracticability and delay" in President Wilson s at tempt to form f league of ..nations ard.that a new pathway must be found to peace and world content, i Jn reaching formally M' party's mandate the nominee also ouumes a stand for government by party, ra ther than by industries. Railway em. ployes might well be accorded a sta tus of public servants, indorsed co operative marketing for farmers, and pronounced increased production tne I key to a lower cost of living. Tho address constituting tru can didate's personal platform in the campaign, was delivered here at the climax of a day of celebration, which brought to Marion a notable company of party chiefs and a crowd of many thousands. Their plaudits and sere nading kept the nominee the center hour receDtion, as delega i f MniP c'-ntoo rrx TrHtn nftfit ' uon num many 0.0 u the Harding residence in a clamoring cavalcade. Start Early Celebration. Snnn after sunuD the march of the first delegation brought th,, senator j to his front; door step and after that, there scarcely was a levup untu ne Jeft f or ' the notification ceremonies on the but- skirts of the city at z o cioca. Old friends from nearoy points mixed with rep resentatives of the powerful re publican clubs of distant cities in the procession, gay with decorations an blatant with noise. At the Chautauqua pavilion where the notification took place seats had been provided for 4,000 any many times that number surged about the 'park and surrounding fields unable i tfTcet' within earshot of the sPeakerf. !tVio nrnnnuneements of the candidate i j. 1. t nW were receivea mm a iukiuh vm. r plause and hA was. ch.eered. back to bis home through crowded street a tired, but smiling man. . will h Hv. the national -chair.' , v,a;mor nf tho rhiraco con- vention. formerly notified the candi-i unreserved acceptance. Emnhasized- Points. Speaking slowly and with a char- clear, full voice that penetrated far , into thp crowded outskirts of the pa-: I vuion. i-oinvs . nc wuucu w home with particular forced he em nhasized by aesrressive Restores and Bpvpral time he srot the crowd on its - . i feet cheering as he hiunmered with clinched fist to land his blows where they would tell. His thrusts at the league of nations were answered by repentful thunder rtcic ,hhottvi.w - - claps of cheering, but the passage the j crowd seemed to nice Dest, came al most at the end of th hour and a half of speaking, when he voiced his hu. mility in the presence of the respon sibilities of the presidency and then, squaring his broad shoulders, added that his confidence in the support of hSfi fellow ciliaens ' madrt him "wholly unafraid. - i In his dfecussion of the league, he made no direct recommendation for re jection of the peace treaty and did not take up in detail tne league oi .imn. rwitwitinir himself with th' IIB VtVI 10 V " wva declaration that the league as con- ceived by the president was unthink-! w nosuul nn'tn state his own: yiew on what should be done. ' Promises Effective Peace. "In the call 'of' the conscienc of America, is peace, he .said, 'peace that closes the gaping-wound of world war v and silences th impassioned .voices of international envy and d- trust, iieeuing, as uvf wis wu .! knowing as I do, the disposition oi' congress, I promise you formal and ef-l fective peace so quickly as a repub- lican congress can pass its declara-! tion for a represerftative to sign dis-j nosed as wa are the way is simple.' Let the failure attending assumption of obstinacy, impracticability and de. lflv h. recoCTiized. and let lis find tne big, pracicable unselfish way to do ' . .Alir, o' the constitution contemplates, I would independent and self-reliant, but o fering friendship to all the world.", rnlltiva Ttartmininp-. I x o ui a . vwiin - ' c e i r briefly i many other planks of the party plat-j form, the candidate declared for coL . . - . . - m m. lective. pargaimng ior ishuhs, ,i,.wii 'irenerous1 nresaiun ui lua federal co-operation' in rehabiliutingj THE RECORD OF DEATHS. ...... :near Back swamp enurcn, loaay L 1 1 . I " . A - i. icnurcn oi juumoerion, ana iniwmen. Lv..s made in the family burying , ground. Funeral of Mr. L. C Tilley. The funeral, of Mr. LC. Tilley, whose sudden death at Wallace, Wed nesday morning of last week was re ported in Thursday's Robesonian. was conducted from the Tilley home in the eastrn part of town yester day a 4 p. m. The services were conducted by Rev. Dr. G. E. Moore house, nastor of th Presbyterian; church. A large number attended the funeral and the floral offerings were numerous anil beautiful The pall-bearers were: Messrs. K. M. Biggs, Jno. D. McAllister, A. E. Spivey, John Lewis, C. C. Clewis and E. S. Miller. Interment was made in Meadowbrook cemetery. CLEAN UP TIME EXTENDED. All who failed to clean up their premises last week are urged by Mayor A. E. White to'clean them up this week. The rains interfered somewhat with the c'fjah up woric bijt Mayor White is anxious that the work be continued until the town has has been put in good condi tion. n Messrs. Ralph Whaley and Robert Trnn ,i,Cr,f fnifiv tn Wricrhtaviiio A " Villi IVUMJ w Mms Beach, where they will spend several davs .'. the railroads, intelligent deflation of j the currency, enlargement of- govern-; ment- aid in reclamation, a genuine expression of, gratitude to veterans of the world war and maintenance of an ample navy and "a small army but the best in the world." In his promis- of a. "party govern- ' x-ri' " Canofn, HifHiiii, roltorat oA hifl c... .-.. -i- belief that the vice president should Tlave a part in the affairs of the het executive s of f ffiial f amily and declared there also snould De a cor- uiai iMuerBwiuiug ....- tivities" between the executive and ! coneress ' "No man," he said, is big enough .ttlT 1 1 : A 4.U nwntA W "W.e republicans of the senate," he continued, "when we saw the struc coming warning this republic Shoulder Responsibilities. "We do not mean to hold aloof. We, do not mean to shun a single respon- sibilitv oi tnis repupiic. we were re- - solved then, even as we are today, and will be tomorrow, to preserve this I free independent republic Let those now responsible, or seeking responsibility, propose the' surrender, m - " ' i' 1 whether with interpretations, apolo- gies, or reluctant reservations iruui which our rights are to be omitted. We welcome the referendum to the American people on the preservation of America. "With a senate advising as the rnTistitntion contemplates. I would hopefully 'approach the nations of Europe and of the earth, proposing that understanding which makes US a willing participant in the conservation of nations to a new leadership, to commit the moral forces of the world, America included, to peace and inter- - A " national justice, still leaving America free, independent and self-relrant, but offering friendship to all the world. I Declaring railway employes ought ItoTbe th- best paid in the world, the candidate emphasized the responsi bilitv of such service and added: "The eovernment might well stamp railway . employment with the sanc- trty of public tervice an.f""'e u wj iain .... . which 'voices tne American whccr tion of righteousness on the one hand and assures continuity of service on the other.' - Urges Law Enforcement, In his reference to prohibition and law enforcement he said: People ever will differ about the wisdom of the enactment of a law there is. divided opinion regarding tne ;4.-to-ntl, .iMmmit and the laws enacted to make it operative-rbut , t .v- j.i;t-f4' free peop e, whenever the and intelligent pubhc sentient com- : At the exclusion t ox tne a senator returned several visitinsr . V . V t delegates not con- - " tent with their first reception, cau ed again to say good-bye. With Mrs, Harding who had been by th,, side . th. m HnTtni, Tnnsx Or Uie Ui u . mnminpL ha atrain shook hands wrth the callers. SUMMER SCHOOL CLOSES. One Hundred Students Enrolled Un- der a Strong Faculty Work of High Order Done. Saisi t tw " . Bed Springs, July 23. The county . summer school for teachers of Robe.' ",e" My piot a wnu wwi. vam uwrw nuamwirera enrolled onder a faculty made up of .. - ""- cutting the weeds and cleanm it op. ren county schools, Misses Sue Nash, Cotinty.pensloii board wiU meet SHte -i?11"- 8P' Fv nl in thoffice of Oerk of the Court Meledieth . Praiier WQson, Elisabeth j c. B. Skipper next Monday for the Fr- Winston-Sale m, S ira-Korne- purpose of passing upon applications gay, Goldsboro, Annie Watkms, San.for pensions. . ford, Anna S. Daniel, Farmville, Va. Mis, Vashti Whjte went Sator Two schools were conductd, an P-day evening to' Rockingham to Join proved Bummer school granting the,, party' on a camping trip to Ledbet- same creaus as me Diatc summer, schools and a county summer school. The character of th work done was of a hieh order. In the aDDroved school where three 5 hour courses required, almost all of the stu- dents voluntarily took 4 five hour courses. The observation gchool, in charge of Miss Elizabeth Faris of the Reynolds school, Winston-Salem, was a new feature successfully carried out. Twenty four children from the town of Red Springs were in attend ance and primary methods were dem. onstrated. The . government of the schoot was under a student council, ,Mis9 Emma Norment, Lumberton; I chairman, Mrs. J. D. Bobbitt, Fair- ! niont, student-president and an ex- ! ecutive -eommittee made up of Mrs. )M. D. Caster, Fayetteville, Janie D. ! Evans, Ffiyetteville, Lillian McKin- non, Laurinburg, and Agnes Elliott, Fayetteville. I Numerous social events marked the session oi tne scnooi or six weeKS and included a faculty' reception to students, faculty and student recep tion to citizens of the town, compli. mentary recital to students and fac- ultv bv lour oromment alumnae oi l 11 Flora Macdonald college th Misses Dixon, Pearsall and McEachern of 1 itea onnnirs ana xacn-innon oi rinburg, and one evening of folk danc- mg by young students of the obser. vation school and college students. During the session the faculty were the recipients of numerous social at tentions at th0 hands of citizens of the town. Resolutions of appreciation of courtesies extended were drawn up bv tha faculty and sent to the State? uems i me ui.. Visitors during the session were Mrs. Alderman, representine th- lire and accident .prevent on department of the State, Miss Elizabeth Kelly, adult illiteracy department, Miss Katherine Wicker, representing the War Savings department of the Gov. ernment and Miss Susan Fulghum of the board of State examiners and in stitute conductors. BRYAN REFUSED NOMINATION. Cannot Give Entire Time to Prohibi- i tion Not Willing to Sever Connec. tion With Democratic farty. Bozeman, Montana Dispatch, July 22. William Jennings 'Bryan tonight reiterated his refusel to accept the prohibition party nomination. The first intimation of his nomina tion for the presidency by the prohi bition convention at Lincoln, Neb., mat iweivori hv him at 1 o'clock this afternoon at Madison lake upon his. return from a forenoOn of fishing when he read an Associated Press dispatch giving the text of the tele gram, sent by him to Lincoln. It was forty mues irom any teie- graph office at th time, but as soon as he reached Norris, Mont., he sent a telegram declining the nomination. The text of his telegram follows: "Please deliver the following mes sage to the chairwoman of the pro hibition national committe, now in session at Lincoln. Having been away from the railway and telegraph facilities for th past two hours, I have not received your telegram ten dering me the nomination by tne pro. hibition national convention. But up on seeing a copy of it in the Boze man newspapers, I hasten to reply. "I profoundly appreciate the honor done m. in tendering this nomination, and I fully share in ene conquest 01 prohibition , as a permanent policy of nnr pnnntrv. and in the strict en forcement of the Volstead act, without any weakening of its provisions. I Also share the convention's 'dp3apJ pointment at the failure of the dem ocratic and republican parties to pledge their candidates to such a pol icy, but I cannot, in justice to the prohibition party, nor to myself ac- nt the nomination. . "My connection with other relorms focus my attention upon the prohibi tion, question alone, ana oesiae. x m r I mv rnnneetion not jT!.vcCTart. Xch has" with the democratic Part'vra, sostgnauy nonorea n.e m ,r -l nave not aec aeo vote this lair, put wnari. ; . -VULC LUIS iatl. UUV " , my duty, I expect to continue , , a my anj . ."parVand : .v, : i to serve my, country through it. Mr, Joe S. Thompson of Norfolk, Va-' arrived yesterday and wm . , " ,t T1tives spend several days visiting relatives and friends. BRIEF ITEMS LOCAL NEWT License has been issued for the marriage of J no M. Rosier and Mary Edge. -Mr. H. G. Meares left yesterday for Baltimore, where he will enter the tAhn tttHn. h.nH.f ... Street foreman II. B. Robeson has added, touch to the appearance ef the wnken tde t the ionrtatf m by tar'. nlunA nM .vfnri..m sv. will be away ten days. . Mr. and Mrs. J. C Bryant, who were married July 18, returned Fri- day fr0 Ashevjlle, where they spent several days and are at home here on South Chestnut street. The aquatic meet that was to have been held at Jennings Beach Thursday July 29th haa been post., poned until Thursday, August 5th on account of high water. , ' Jno. F. Daniel and Una Martin, a colored couple from Elizabethtown, were married in' The Robesonian of fice Saturday afternoon at 5 of the clock. Justice F. Grover Britt of ficiated. Rev. Theodore Partriek, Jr., pas tor of Trjnity Episcopal church, Lum berton, exchanged pulpits yesterday with Mr. Harvey Cox, student ia charge of the Episcopal churches at Red Springs and Maxton. -Lightning killed seven fine hogs belonging to Dave Ray, 'colored, who lives near Buie, yesterday afternoon. A 300 pound hog belonging to Mr, Will Humphrey of the same section wa, killed by lightning Thursday. Mr. K. M. Biggs returned Fri day morning from Wrightsville Beach, where Thursday he attended a meet ing called for the purpose of organ izing a SatA chamber of commerce. A report of the meeting will be found elsewhere in today's paper. Among the many Lumberton peo ple who spent the week-end at Wrightsville Beach, were Misses Eth el Pittman, Ruth, Jones, Bonnie Ses- T" 'T: IZZ? soms Ahce Kelly and her guest. aim fcwv (.uiiurcii, iiukii, uu Jean, and Miss Elise Payne of Roa noke, Va., who had been a guest at the McAllister home for several days, left Saturday for Montreal, where they will spend some time. They made the trip in Mr. McAllister's auto. , Dr. R. S. Beam expects to sail on the S. S. Adriatic, of the White Star line, on August 14 for England, where in London he will spend some tim in the eye, ear, nose and throat clinics. He will make a special study of the work that is being done in re constructive head surgery there at this time. He will probably visit Paris and other parts of Europe be fore returning home. Members of th Wesley Bible class of Chestnut Street Methodist church enjoyed a barbecue at the ar tesian well beside' the river near the . power plant Thursday eveing. Be sides members of the class a number of invited guests were present Sev eral short talks were made and the barbecue a pig was thoroughly en joyed. Rev. Dr. K. C. Beaman is teacher of the class. Mr. B. H. Covington has resign ed as cashier of the Farmers Savings Bank to accept like position at El lerbe, Richmond county. His resig nation will go into effect August 5. Mr. Covington came i Lumberton from' Richmond county, his native home, about a year ago and has made many friends here. He wfll be suc ceeded here by Mr. C. W. Carter of Richmond, Va. Mr. Carter arrived Thursday. He was formerly employed by the government and has recently been engaged in auditing and general accountant work. OHIO GETS THIRD NOMINEE; W ATKINS HEADS DRT TICKET Lincoln, Neb, July 22. Ohio got fts third presidential candidate for the 1920 campaign when the prohi bition national convention nominated Aaron S. Watkins, of Germantown, Ohio, after learn ign from William J. Bryan that h would not accept the nomination voted hhn yesterday. Mr. P. A. McCormae of Rowland was a Lumberton visitor Saturday. Mr. Clifton Morgan of th Mari etta section was among the visitors in town Saturday. Mr. William C. Steele ,of San Fran- Cisco, caiii, wno dm own vac K"ta- of fiis sister-in-iaw, airs. a. cw, Fifth street, for a week and niece, Miss Dorothy Steele, le.ft yester4ay of his sister-in-law, Mrs. R .E. Steele, - portsmou'th v- . where they will b,, Stee es brother Mr. R. E. sTeV Jr. Mr. Steele willl visit n, , T Steely Jr several northern points before re. turninz to bis nome at a- ma- TB'"S 1 . , DE. WILLIAM W. PAEKEE EYE SPECIALIST Office: NaUonal Bank of Lumbar X
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