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t- rpiij Ten 101E80MM TQB DATE ON THE LABEL ISf Tit E DATE YOUR PAPER WILL BE STOPPED. WATCH -.- I.aim.V TOUHTPAPEJf DONTP LET SUB SCRIPTION EXPHOL ESTABLISHED 1870. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. COUNTRY, GOD AND TRUTH- $3.00 A YEAR. DUE IN ADVANCE, LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5. 1920 VOLUME LL NUMBER 44 TfiRArrrvPRirFS HIGHER YES- ' AUTO TURNS ACROSS ROAD AND SPECIAL COMMITTEE INVESTI TERD4Y ON LOCAL MARKET DASHES INTO STANDING CAR; GATES GRAHAtyl SHOOTING Largest Sale ofleason Was Conduc-; Mr. Owen Deese Stopped Hi8 ; Car! Report Wlil Be Made to Got. Bick- txl Hpf. Ymterdav and r rices Averaged Higher Big Break Ex pected Tomorrow. The largest sale of the season was conducted on the Lumberton tobacco market yesterday and prices averag-i ed higher than any day since the nmniAff rt the market. I Vfv.a..a m. ..... f wie iiuhr,". ..Quite a lot or tooacco soia ior - ..-..v. T ... --- i Vm .trfl. and and its occupants received other injuries bove $50 the hundred yesterday .J,Snnd aftern00n near the Edmund ratH all good, ripe, bright tobacco sold for, rf & driyen fcy Mr R satisfactory prices. . IS. Barnes of Orrnm crashed squarely into Owing to th early morning rami;, tom aide the sales were flight today, ' but a j big break is expected tomorrow if! the weather is clear. 1 -J NO CAUSE FOR DISCOUR AGEMENT IN ROBESON Crop Prospects Are Much Better Than in Many Other Counties, Ac cording to Crop Reporting Expert. The corn crop in Robeson is fine; tobacco will make at least 90 per cent of last year's crop; cotlon is much better in Robeson than in most other counties. This is the opinion of Mr. Frank Par ker, head of the crop reporting bureau of the Stale Department of Agriculture who syent Tuesday in Lumberton. Mr Parker's bureau has worked out a stem of crop reporting that has attracted national attention. Secretary of Agricul ture. Meredith has commended it. and inquiries have been' received from other Slates It is now pretty generally known that North Carolina umped last year from low down in the scale to the fourth State in the Union in value of farm products, ami it stands ri-ht at the head of the list among ari-ultiiraJ.Slates in value of farm products per acre. Now itis winning dis. tinction- in the execellence of its crop-reporting system, and Mr. Parker is working (lit a ss'tem now that will make the crop reports even better than they now are. INDIAN WOMAN SHOT BY WILL HAMMOND IN SADDLETREE Lonie Hardin Was on Visit at Home of Her ' Father, Bill Hardin, When Shot Was Fired She is in Hospi tal With Wound in Thigh. Lonie Hardin. Indian, is in the Thomp son Hospital as a result of being shot through the right thigh Monday. Her in juries are not thought to be serious. Will Hammond was arrested and placed in jail charged with the shooting, which t.Kik place at the home of Bill Hardin, f.tlher of Lonie. in Saddletree tiwnship. Hammond was released Monday night un der a $300 bond. Lonie lives in South Carolina and was isiting at the home of her father when thee shooting otcurred. Hammond was irunk when he fired the shot, it is said. WAR VESSELS ORDERED TO PRE VENT LANDING OF CABLE Four destrofers are patrolling the entrance to the Miami, Florida harbor under orders from President Wilson to prevent, by force if necessary, the landing- of a cable the Western Union Telegraph company is havfing laid laid from Barbadoes, a British pso session n the West Indies, states a Washington dispatch of the 4th. Jurors for September Court. The following names were drawn from thP jury box by the county commis sioners at their meeting Monday to serve as jurors for a two weeks' term of civil court beginning Monday, Sep tember 6th: FIRST WEEK W. A. Griffin, C. I OormicK. w. r. cuuara, akjx owne, g; 9' Rnt,y ,JVA' uMcMiiIanil m F- Blackwell. T. J. Graham Hugh Mon- roe. J S. Harrngton, R. K. Ivey. Aus- .'. vr -r T- l ai tin Barnes. Sandy McNeill, T. M. ! Moore. I Second Week L. T. Cottingham. j W J. DuBois, W. W. Mearcs, J. S. McQueen, W. A. Smith, Andrew Ivey. J P. Taylor, W. H. Faulk, A. F. Is rael Thmas Kinlaw, R. F. Gregory, L E. Whaley. W. C. Brown, F. W. Floyd, I. J. Lancaster, S. G. William son, E. T. Lewis, John H. Johnson. .E. W Bass, H. S. McLean. -ST Fairmont Chamber of Commerce is Advertising the Town. "Fairmont Pays More for Tobacco Labor Cotton Corn" is the advertise ment, attractively arranged, which the J-'airmoht Chamber of Commerce is putt ing out on large metal signs. The ad vertisement was written by Master George K. Blue," son of Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Blue of Fairmont. George thereby winning a prize offered by the Chamber of Com merce for . the best advertisement to be placed on sign boards ,' ' Fairmont has a live Chamber of Com nerce with Mr Geo. Cole president and Mr. Hal V. Brown secretary'-treasurer That chamber does things. The -signs were just received Tuesday; four of them and tbey cost $135 ; v ' - First Osen Cottiimv Mr. W. J. Wilkerson of R. 3, Lum- berton, who is a Lumberton. visitor today, is the first report open cotton to this office. Vivian Doby. Vivian, 11-months.old daughter of j c. 1 Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Doby of North Lumberton, died Tuesday morning ofi colitis. Interment' was 11 made at Al bemarle 'yesterday afternoon. -'William Beardt 3 yean old, was killed by a streetcar ia -Wilmington Monday in front of his home. The child was tod dling across the. street to his mother, af ter waiting for an auto M pass, and stum bled in -front of a streetcar. His head was cut off and an arm broken. W. Sessoms, C. S. MdKenzie, J. R. Fairmon N C We exoect to re- -t "8ni arrivea ounaay p. m. They PhfP WHArdamS-'tP'nN-ATTfn- feW rdativeSi send, W. H. McCormick, D. A. Mc-lf(Jmhnr hf w fv,r,,ffhW n. Barkers. and Hugged Side of Road When He Saw Car Dashng Madly Down and Digested. ( Road, But That That Did Not Save The special commitiee appointed by Gov. Htm Other Our Struck Sandbed ; Bickett to investigate the gun battle be .and Turned and Dashed Into Deese teen the Durham machine gun company, tar CaT Wrecked and Occupants guarding 3 negroes held in the Alamance Slightly Injured. t "u"ty Crahani against mob violence Both front wheels of Mr Owen IeeseV !... j j .1 wnen Mr. Deese, who had with him in the car his wife and children and his sister Miss Ellen Deese. saw a car coming down the road swaving from its rapid j j r . I i pace he drew as far to one side as he could and stopped his car right up against an embankment, thinking that surely there all would be safe. But he reckoned without taking into account a bed of sand hard by. When the other 1 .1 . 1 ' . -J 1.1.. M- car nil inai sana n was koou-iiikiii. u, r u . .i -. . ..,-,! Barnes could- not control it, it turned . .. iiij ' , , across the road and dashed squarely into I r, -r u 1 1 th. aija nl Mr I li par ac if it hHll come across the field at right angles. Besides the total wreck of the front wheels of Mr. Deese car. the lower wind shield was broken and his baby's face was cut. Mrs. Deese came out of the wreck with a bruised place on her head. Others escaped uninjured. Mr. Barnes assumed entire responsibility for the wreck and came to town Monday to straighten things out The accident happened about 5 o'clock Sundav afternoon and it was about 2 o' clock the next morning befoie the Deese car got back to Lumberton FORD RAN OFF McMILLAN DAM AND TURNED OVER Mr. Marvin Kornegay Landed Under the Car But Escaped With Painful Bruiser Watching Men Fish and Drove off Embankment. Mr. Marvin Kornegay had a close call yesterday about noon when a Ford car wfti'cn ne was driving ran on me dam at the McMillan mill pond, two miles fromt own on the Carthage road. The car ran down a 15-foot embankment and turned over and Mr. Kornegay was caught underneath it. Mr P. S. Kornegay and another man, who were near by, prized the car up so Mr. Kornegay could get from un der it. He suffered no broken bones, but was painfully bruised about the chesl He was carried to tre Thomp son hospital and is still there The car was running at slow speed whe nit ran off the embankment and was while watching sonie men fish ing in the pond that Mr. Kornegay drove so Close the edge that the car ran off. The car was badly dam aged. Mr. Kornegay is a traveling salesman and a cousin of Messrs. P. S. and R. C. Kornegay of Lum berton. He formerly lived here. IN THE "LAND OF THE SKY." Robeson Woman Enjoying Life There But Cannot Thoroughly Enjoy Even That Beautiful Country - Without ThP Robesonian. To the Editor of The Robesonian. Please send to me at Ridgecrest, N. C, your paper for two months. Send statement and I'll send check for same. "Th Land of the Sky" in western N. C. is wonderfully beautiful. I am thoroughly eniovinsr beine ud here iat Ridgecrest, with my son, Dr. E. S. ! T'nrtrMnann Tjixir Vlr fr on4 x iivnipuvii) 4i viii v. vv iuin Vb i i j i auu our gt without the semi-weekly visits fro our standby at home, The Robesonia Wjth b t w;shes MRS. C. B. THOMPSON. Ridgecrest, N. C, Aug. 2, 1920. REMAINS OF ELBERT JOHNSON ARE ON WAY HOME He Was Drowned Near Nance, France, Two Year8 Ago. The remains of the late Elbert Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Johnson of the Barnesville section, who was drowned near Nance France, June 1918, are be- ing sent home, the remains- were ex pected to arrive in New Yrk Tuesday, August 3, according to word received from the war Department by Mr. Kelly John son, who is a Lumberton visitor today. The remains will probably reach Barnes ville tomorrow or Saturday and interment will be made in the family burying ground. Young Johnson was in the. navy at the time of his death. He was djowned while bathing near the shores of France. RAILROADS GRANTED RATE IN CREASE F BILLION AND HALF . Authority for th railroads of1 the country. . to : jncrease 'their revenues . . '"'out " approximately one ., billion . ' and' a half- dolkraf was granted Saturday by the Inter, states Commerce Commission. Freight rates will tpadvaneft about one-third; passenger fares one-fifth and Pull man charges one-half. - Columbus, Ohio, Aug - 1. Gaston C"1,6' Bet a new word's record for 1 Wfl Milan nrm i dit4 want hnra tri. V ""V" "V" " "tli 'Til h7-. day, when he covered the distanc without a stop, in 89 minutes and 23 seconds. Cevrolt drove the same car with which he won th $80,000 Indianapolis Decoration --Day .,--raceV The former record of 91 minutes and 30 seconds was et by Tom Alley at Minneapolis in 1914 . - . , . . . Miss Noha' Jones of Tunmonsville. & C arrived last evening and will spend several days here visiting Miss Marion Allen. row rlaiitrhrr Kanni. I hnmnsnn from t-wi , i ett When Evidence is Typewriftes ' w'oJ"'x V'T m . J" T"! , mi wiucn jas. nay, a uranam aniens lost his life and 2 others were wounded. brought its official hearings to a close at Graham Tuesday afternoon without ren dering a verdict on specific charges filed by 66 Alamance citizens that the machine gunners had fired without provication. ' The hearings began at Durham Mon. day, where members of the machine-gun company testified that while no mob ...71" ' . -u laiuimni me I 11, men 1CIC 111 U1C ucai-UT i c , .u' . . .i j cirnfield, there were many threats and taunting of soldiers, and there was talk of lynching the negroes. ' At. Graham witnesses declared that no masked mob was formed there on the night of the shooting and that there was no . r , . . , sign of a mobaround the jail, although , , , . . , J, ' . . several of .them admitted that the atti- , , . . .. , . .. tude of the crowd surrounding the jail on Sunday, Julv 18. was threatening The commission, composed of Col. A. H. Boy den of Salisbiry, Gen. E. S. Royster of Oxford and Judge H. W. Whedbee of Greenville, will meet in Raleigh as soon as twpewritten copy of the evidence can be obtained and designated to draft a written obtained and digested to draft a writ ten report to tre Governor. OUT BARKERS WAY. Ten Milei Teachers Elected Pro tracted Meeting Begins at Barkers' 4th Sunday and at Ten, Mile 5th Sunday Tobacco-Barn, . Ice-Cream Suppers Personal Mention. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Lumberton. Aue 3. Curinc to- vacco is thP order of the day in this section. Mr. R. C. -Burns of Rowland spent he week-end in this vicinitv. Mrs. Lucy Kinlaw is in a hospital at Fayetteville for treatment JVIfes Annie M'Whrte hi Red Springs spent last week with her cousin Miss Beulah Kinlaw. Mr. Floyd White of Richmond, Va., is spending a few days in this sec tion with friends and relatives. Miss Louise Corbitt of Ivanhoe spent last week with her srSter and brother-in-law Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Burns. J The teaciiers elected to teach at' Ten -Mile this winter are Mr, Oliver,! principal, Miss Amelia Powers, in-' termediate, Mrs. Oliver, primary. The protracted meeting wifl com mence at Barker the 4th Sunday in this month and commences at Ten Mile 5th Sunday. Mr. Lawrence Corbitt of Ivanhoe j spent the week-end with his sister1 and brother-in-law Mr. and Mrs. C.! C. Burns. Miss Gladys Powers and brother,! Mr. Boyd, spent Sunday p. m. at Efeyetteville. Ice cream suppers at the tobacco' barns are all the go in thjs vicinity.) v' Mr. and Mrs.. Roland M'White are' smiles: it's another boy. Mr. and Mrs.' Ira M'White also: only an-' other girl. j Rev. J. L. Powers of Gulf arrived' nome Monday. He was . accompanied home by Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mcln tyre of Gjilf. They will spend a few days with Mr. Powers' parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Powers. Mr. and Mrs. Weslev Powers of Miss Amelia Powers spent Monday at e-i.i oiw.ieiret: wjm irienas. Tobacco and Tobacco Prices Reck Ies Auto Driving. Mr. and Mrs. E. B: Stone, their sin and 1 daughter-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Thar! Si all of Britts township, were Lumberton j visitors yesterday. Mr. Stone senoir was some what inclined to wonder what is go-1 ing to become of the folks with tobacco not j as good as it has been in years past and i prices ior tne weed not as high as in other, years oy a long shot; but still the word he had gotten during the past few days from some tobacco warehousemen was en couraging and he was not letting that wor ry him. What is inclined to make him r'ar up and get mad, though is the way the folks tear down the Creek road in autos like a house aire at all hours of day and night It is a sight and a sin and death and destruc tion. AH the careful drivers must be in jail, or somewheres, and only the don't-care-a-darn drivers are allowed to drive. There ought to be a law, Mr. Stone thinks, to somehow regulate these reckless driver. They endanger the lives of everybody who has business on the road. They ought, as Mr. Stone said somebody told a lady, to have more respect for a house than to drive by it like some folks do, even if nobody lives there., . - ' . - 22 Killed ia Ireland Oaring July. Tweny.two persons: wen .killed and 57 wounded in furhiiur Jin Ireland during; ithe month oi July, .Premier i-doya ireorge neciarea m ine xiouse ef Commons Monday. The killed were 15 policemen, 4 soldiers and 3 civi lians Wounded were 30 polfcemen, 22 soldiers and 5 civilians. -' Lige Daniels, a negro charged with the-murder of Mrs. Maggie -Hall, a white woman, was taken from the county jail at Center, Texas- Monday by m mob of over 1,000 men -and lynch ed to tre in the court yard. The mob wrecked th. steel cell to get at the negro. The lynching followed an nouncement by officers of a full con fession made to the grand Jury now in session, and also to the district at torney, it was said." THE COUNTY'S BUSINESS. E. K. Campbell -Appointed Cotton Grader for Parktop Registrars of Vital Statistics to be Paid 59 CenU , a Name Quarterly Appropriation of S25 t Colored Civic League. E. K. Campbell was appointed pub lie cotton weigher for the town of Park ton by the county commission er at their regular monthly meeting nonaay. The board ordered that, registrars of Vital statistics in th various town ships be paid 50 cents fw each name registered, provided that the regis trar furnishes all -copies of reports that may be required by th county health offiter. The bills presented by thp various registrars were order ed paid. A quarterly appropriation of 25 was macL to the colored civic league of Robeson county. The regular pauper list was order ed paid and Nellie Shaw-, Thomas Clark, Annie McCallum, John Wil kihs, Pennje Wilkins, W. N. Speight and Chanty Speight were all placed on thP -regular pauper list at $5 each the month. The monthly allowacne of Emeline Howell was increased from $5 to $7.50 thP month, Eliza Bass from $3 to $6. Phylis Thompson from $3 to $.r and Nancy Lowrie from $2.50 The monthy report o"W. E. R. Hardin, county health officer, was approved and ordered filed. It was ordered that Noah Woods be exempted from payinf poll tax on account of thP loss of an arm. He was rebated the poll tax paid for 1019 $3.20. The board will meet again Monday. August 9. A report of the bills paid must be held over for Monday's paper. 6br PE OKE NEWS ITEMS. Splendid Rains Gathering and Sell ing Tobacco Personal .Msniio.i. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Pembroke. Aug. 3. Had splendid Tain throughout this section Sunday afternoon. , The farmers near here ar still gathering amj curing tobacco and have sold a good deal. Mr. E. I. Paul and two oldest sons. Masters, Elliott and Earle, were Lumberton visitors' last Thursday. Mfss Margarette Odum of Way cross, Ga., arrived Sunday and will spend some time with relatives and friends here. Mrs. W. G. Kirk and children, lit tle Miss Mary Page and W. G. Jr., returned home Saturday evening from Roekinli n "WTiere thy visited relatives. Mrs. Bettie Brown and little son Neill Werfl Lumberton visitors last Friday afternoon. Mrs. J. S. Thagard' spent 'Tuesday of last week in Maxton. Mrs. E. M. Paul and daughters. Sa rah and Carroll, spent last Friday afternoon in Lumberton Mrs. Marvin Jones and little son of Fayetteville visaed Mrs. Jones' pa rents last w.eek, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Cain. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Thagard. Mrs. E. H. Cook and sons. Alfred and Isa dore, were Lumberton visitors Fri day. V Mr. and Mrs. Blount McCall of El rod were visitors here last Monday p. m. JAS. WILLIAMS KILLED IN RAIL-i WAY ACCIDENT IN COSTA RICA " Formerly Lived in Red-Springs, Son of Mrs W. F. Williams. Mr. James A. Williams, formerly of Red Springs, was killed in a railroad accident in Costa Rica Tuesday night, according to a wire message received here yesterday afternoon. No particulars were given. Deceased Jas a son of Mrs. W. F. Williams who makes her home with her son-in-law and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Mc Neill, Jr., here. He had made his home at. Limon, Costa Rica, for several months. Deceased was around 36 years old and is survived by his widow, who ,was with him in Costa Rica.- The remains will be sent home and will be interred at Red. Springs or the old Williams home in Virginia. Mrs. Williams, mother of the deceased, is in San Francisco and news of the death of her son was wired her last night. SUNBEAM RALLY AT LONG BRANCH SUNDAY EVENING Correspondence of The Robesonian. There will be a sunbeam rally at Long Branch church Sunday evening, August 8th, beginning at'.8 o'clock. Following is the program: PROGRAM: Opening song by the band Bright Little Sunbeams. Welcome address-Ciaudia Thomp son. ' Little Katrine Carrie May Britt'. Foreign Babies Wood berry Thomp son. Duet Father We Thank ASThee Etta , May Britt, Claudia Thompson. PlayThe Song They . Sang by several girls. v -i - Harry's report Clifton Amnions. Dialogue Vacation Stories Lanie Stone.1 Carrie--May Britt. Solom do'what'I tan for Jesus Claoaia Thompson. - r. . . Recitation---Yrar Smiles'" Returned Rebecca Ivey, . . ! Playlet Tlie ' Light 'of ""a Diamond several girls and boys. Collection. Recitation The ChaUence Ivey. Recitation The Dorcas Lamb. - Faithful Few- Cuban - Shield- ' Duet 'My Wonderful Dream Clifton Ammorrs and - Carrie Mae Britt. Dialogue-The Clock, of the' Year several children. ,'t makes morn cotton per acre and -corn Pantomian O, Zios Hosts several'yoa never saw" it Wt! . The finest gixis, -x ' I Good Night . Song Six girl is. PARKTON NEWS LETTER. A Great Revival Meeting Boy Scouts; On Camping Trip Picnic and Bar-! becue at Maxton TomorrowMar- i ried Men and "Singles" Play Ball j Good Crops Mr. lhas. Ha x ley Fin. Farm. BY C. D. WILLIAMSON. Parkton, Aug. 3 The revival meet ng closed Sunday night, one of the greatest meetings yet ever held in our town. Rev. Mr. Mcuill of Uhar- lotte did the preaching, morning and;. avanini, ttr a uoaL' H a Mv PcMir. I man. of Charotke, leading the sing.i ing and Mrs D. S. Carrie, pianist. All rndered their very best services and wP have never heard better would have been 10 or more preaching by any one; and the sing-1 pages but for the impossibility ing both by the large union cho.r of 'geting typesettng work and the solos by the leader, were splenj .. done. Advertisements and ve- d, JhZ vanhst, h,t.th booz!j rything else had to be cut down and blind t.gers and cussing church . and much matter had to be members harder than we ever heard.! omitted He says that all such members should get out of thP church as they rnrVv TTVMQ tr.nr run were no good to the church. Rev. BRIEF ITEMS LOCAL NIVTfc Mr. McGul is an Englishman, and One of the smartest preachers we I "r-.- C. Albritton of the State have ever heard. He is one the 1 of Michigan arrived Monday and will plainest speaking men I ever heard, spend ten days in Robeson surveying and preached hard. He put his i the work done in the drive against whole soul in his work, told the plain the hookworm. Dr. Albritton rep truth. He is a broad man, could ; resents the Rockefeller commission, not tell by his preaching of what de- Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Johnson and nomination he represented. j Mrs. Jas. L. Williamson returned We trust that the influence will yesterday from a trip of 12 days dur be seen and felt for years to come. jng which they visited Washington, Some few members will jo.n th Bap- j Philadelphia, New York, Niagara Falls twt and M E. churches am, Canada Th h d , f . The brick work has begun on the,,.- v w-hkuhih new Presbyterian church and the work seems likely to go steadily on. , "-" u-sun vxjuh There is also work going on at the1 fsue of Postmasters was held Parkton graded school New build- m the court hre yesterday af- ing to accommodate three or four new, ternoon- About 15 members were rooms. Building will cost $11,000 or present. A round table discussion was more. I engaged in by the postmasters. Mr. Boy Scouts on Annual Camping Trip. 'A. A. Thagard of Pembroke, chair. On Monday morning, August 2nd, i man of the league, presided at the the members of the Parkton troop ! meeting. of Boy Scouts left for their annual camping in pin cnarge oi assistant ocout Master raut rarreti. meyt will spend th week at White Lake, , in Bladen county. The twenty one members were in the highest of spirit, all were anticipating the best trip in thp history of the troop. Eve-, ry member was able to go; it is very seldom that we see all the members of an organization turn out togeth. Judge C. C. Lyon spent Tuesday er. Rev. W. L. Maness, scout mas. night at the Lorraine on his way home ter, will be in charge of the boys and to Elizabethtown from Northampton camp, and he also has his family j county, where he held court 30 min with him. The scouts are a worthy utes Monday. The August term is organization, and should have the sup- , nmited by statute in Northampton port of every citizen tn the effort of to tria 0f jaU ca8t.s. There to'SorSr citiZe,rPare P"" ,0und Christian Endeavorers Picnic. tT b,lla frainst both, both plead The Christian Endeavor society of "nd rt waLs over ,n, 30 min- the Presbyterian church left this and everybody, inchufng the morning in automobiles for White ! Jue coulp J"y well go home or Lak for a dav's men c. A fine davi is anticipated. We trust they will have a safe trip and enjoy them selves to the fullest. The Parkton band is rehearsing every night this week, preparing to go to Maxton Friday to fill an en-1 gagenysiu at, wie great picnic anu th afternoon. Maxton promises, like St. Pauls, one of the largest picnics of its history. The game of ba?ebatl on last Fn day afternoon on the local diamond. is vii a, married men vs. single boys, was j a great game, resulting in a victory for the married team. The married men were not in very good practice, as some of them had not played a game in 8 or ten years, yet they put up an interesting game, and came out in reasonable condition, only dislocat ed thumbs, sprained ankles, torn pants, where they made successful slides on bases. It was decided to play the same teams once a week during the remainder of the season. Batteries: for the married team, Canady and Lacaster: single team. Wright and Hemdon. The feature of thP single team was a home run by Herndon in which he lost the ball. Feature for the married team was .the hard hitting by Jas. Blue jn which at four times up he hit for three bases three times. Big Rains Have Damaged Crops. We should mention condition of the crops m this section. The big rains h- - . , , ".w..uti "'"st v our wav. Th cotton at nreserrt looks gloomy, and corn is off some. Itaas the pleasure of this scribe in company with our good friend Col lier Cobb on vesterdav morninz to eo down to Lumberton and while Mr. Cobb was in session with the county school board, gave the writer a chance to visit for just, an hour with loved i ones, round .Justin planting more turnips, so you see just as soon as he markets one crop he is planting another, and by the time he sells all his peaches th,. turnips will be ready; also another tomato crop and other vegetables. Found our little grand daughter and grand-son lively as ever, and pained us to part. Good Farms. As we left Lumberton for a trip westward, by Buies and Red Springs, wf viewed many good farms. Cotton was much better than up our way. Tobacco fine and most '.every barn' passed was loading up. As we landed in Boies for a few minutes,, gave Mr. W, G. Britt, 'who left LusibeWton with us, a chance to speak to friends and loved ones, as Mr. Britts once lived there, and knows nearly every body in the tounty Mr. Chas. Baxley's Fine Farm. We then drovA -up to Mr. Chas. Bailey', farm, a short distance from town, and there we met Mr. Baxleyj and family for the first time..:. We have Beard much of this farm before t225ft1"SL 2&i 'SS And l ever saw grow anywhere: fruit! Why, I never saw so much UNDER DIFFICULTIES. e This issue of The Robesonian ft gotten out under great dif ficulties. Our typesetting ma chine has been out of commis sion all the week until thia morning, and most of the type had to be set at night , at the Freeman Printing Co.' ,hop. Th electric motor trouble that caused this serious interrup tion to wotk in thia office has " been remedied and by Monday's paper we hope to make up for lost time The nanr tvUtr v- . . , , " Mr. H. B. Gibson and small son joz uea Springs were Lumberton vis- vtors Monday. Mr. Gibson said that Red Springs had been without lights since a week ago Sunday night, when the plant at Flora MacdonaTd college was put out of commission. It ia learned from the Fairmont Review that ratrmont was without lights , Tuesday nisrht week auro. mey wanteu. Mr. R. D. Capps, who lives 4 1-2 miles from Lumberton on the Eliza beth road, was a Lumberton visitor Tuesday. Mr. Capps has peaches ga lore and is up against the problem of saving his peach crop right at the , time when everybody on the place is bu3y saving the obacco crop. But at that his folks havP canned no end of them and Mr. Capps brought a few to town to sell to get .more eans. In I tne n Drought to town Tuesday .!.. . were a coupie oi Eiioenas mat naa pulled the stunt of growing a peach each on the side. Mr. F. F. Wetmore went this morning to Cumberland county, where, near Stedman, he will be engaged for the next 3 or 4 months in sur veying drainage districts. Mr. Wet more had extensive experience in drainage work before moving to Robeson from Michigan, he surveyed the Back and Jacob Swamp drainage districts in this county and has done surveying for drainage districts in Cabarrus and other counties, and he says the districts where he will sur vey in Cumberland contains some of the richest, if aot flie richest, land he has seen in North Carolina. A party from Marion, S. C, is expected here this afternoon to inspect the new hospital being erected by Dr. H. M. Baker, Fourteenth street. A WUIJIHUVCC 11 VIII 1TX committee from Marion visited Lum- berton two tswlra m on ; j , . .. . ... T" '""I"'' the hospital with the view of deter mining if a like building should be erected at Marion. Dr. Baker today received a letter advising that the di rectors of the Marion county Memor ial hospital have invited every sub scriber to join the party on the trip to Lumberton today to inspect the Baker hospital building with which the committee that visited it 2 weeks ago was immensely pleased. peaches and apples, canteloupes and watermelons. I could say much more of this farm, as I wa taken all through and while his plows were still running in his cotton, you could scarcely see the mule's back and head and only the plowman's head, and this is no joke. Fine hogs and cows and poultry in fact, I think b has plenty of everything. There we met Mr.. Baxley's aged mother and found her most interest ing and was astonished to find that she. was well acquainted with my fa the rand mother as they were from the same neighborhood. Time was all too short. Mr. Baxley moved to this farm about 15 years ago and j started right in the woods and cleared all the land and now- he is realizing; mor than $300 from this year's Irish; potato--crop, peaches, and now the cotton ia met in 5-feet rows, and tho half not yet told. DR. t7TXLTJLM W. PASSE! , -.v'2TE SPECIALIST ,-. Office: National Bank ef Lambert ttwuoag, -j.
The Robesonian (Lumberton, N.C.)
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Aug. 5, 1920, edition 1
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