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y I ; ' rJ r"-'-,- J" Ljlll-X." ' !''" V ,V - .. - ' " . ": . x ' - ; .- v'-:. -- ... . ,. - ; - - . . .- " M Oe;'.--. ' i .. . - - i t m : -iJUBELiisTttE h'r c:;: 25tI -4 1 w - --: , tocr paper and - ; Al TOUE PAEB l -:.l " '.- tVIH 1 i-Nifl 1 1 VV ' . DONT LET 8tT. - ' , WILL BE STOPPED. J J r f jj r Afyj Hf Cj X W SCRIPTION ETPIB F ESTABLISHED . 1870 SWINGLE , COPY FIVE CENTS. : COUNTRT, GOD ASD TRUTH- $3.00 A YEAR. DUE IX ADVANCE . II-:.' I, LUMBERTON. NORTH CAROLINA, . THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1920 VOLUME U.. NUMBER 50 ' ' ' III I I. I I I ,1 , TOBACCO PRICES HIGHER Ilr&Vjr Slen Yesterday and Farmers Declared the Prices Beic of the ' Seasqn. .;. , . . ; t. Aroand a cjOt.rter-milI'on poundj ;f to :eco wa o!d in t'.e Lum'be'Vou mrlet : y;'? ' ari et than f c ever.l days,' acordi to the iarwers. Tboae who4ld tolwceo here yesterday were .well . pleased and some of , the farmers de 'claied that the sale yesterday was the ''best of the 'season,' '1. " -vv EQUAL SUFFRAGE t- THE LAW OF THE LAND SecreUry Colby Issued Proelaniation This Morning Upon Receipt of Of. ficial Certification of. Ratification ' of 19th Amendment by 36th Mate. . . . j- . . v. tOfVill"1 LrZn L ;f.lif majority of the vote cast shall amendment, gioiinug. - fraee, was issued this - morning at . WiaahintrtoTi bv Secretary 01 tfi&w Colby, upon receipt of official certi f ication of Tennessee's ratification of the amendment. A last effort of the antUsiiffrage forces was blocked yes terday when Justice Siddens of the District of Columbia Supreme court refused to issue a "show cause" or der against Secretary Colby. Gov Roberts certified Tennessee s ratification Tuesday after receiving from his Attorney General an opinion that a writ issued by Chief Justice Lansden of the State SupTeme court set aside a lower court order tem porarily restraining the . Governor from taking such action. Upon re ceipt of Governor Roberta official no tice Secretary Colby proclaimed the amendment in effect and equal .suf frage the law of the land. RATE FOR STOVES RAISED OVER 60 PEE CENT. Price of Electric Current for Cooking n . Fhihi 1 in fi 1-2 rSokinir the Purchase cf Street Track. ' The price of current used for cook ing purposes was advancec". from 4 to 6 1-2 cents the k. w. at a meeting of the mayor and town commission ers Monday evening. The meeting was called foe tha pur rose of considering the matter o. purchasing a ruck to be used on the streets. Some trucks are bei.ig. dem onstrated here this week an-i the mat ter was deferrd until a Ut3r date. WIFE MURDERER HANGS HIMSELF IN STATE PRISON Simon Blount, Colored, Was Sent Up From Rbbjson at Last Term of Court for' Shooting Wife. Simon Blount, colored, committed suicide at the-State prison one day re cently, according to information .re ceived here. y Blount hung himself, it is said. Simon was sentenced to ten years in tlie State prison by Judge r ti rinimi at the last term of Robe- v. " , , M' son criminal court on tne cnarge oMceny; six months on tne roaas. naa--wtincr n,n killme his wife. Blount -n,icpr wa convicted of stealing ix shot his wife to death jat their home, yn sheets from one of the tobac ' ' near Waku'la. last spring 1 and then c0 wareh0uses. Hr-aA toad of shot into his own face, Jealousy was said to have been at the bottom of the trouble. Revisiting Scenes of His Youth. Kev. JUverew niw.i i II who has been in the county for the l -v. triritinv relatives, is a Lumberton visitor today. He is on the program tomorrow for the union - meeting of th RosoR .Baptist as aociation, which will brheld; at fo xier tomorrow and Saturday. Mr. Ward was born and raised on the Creek road, at what is now the Joe Stone place.. He is a brother of Mrs. A. W. Israel j df R. 6, Mrs. AMred LawTon of Orrum, Mrs. Marshall Britt, near Orrom, and Mr. W; V. Ward, near Tobermory, and a first coSS of Mr. Archie Ward of Um ; Krton. Next SmyJTe- - i begin with Pastor W. H. Dodd a se ri of meetmgs at . the. old home church, Mt. Elim. ' . , , , Arthur McNair Gives Himself Up. Arthur McNair, coiorea, car8 .with shooting Luther Hicks, also col ored, near' St.1 Pauls Sunday, .gave himself up to' Mr, J. Browne Evans " of St. Pauls Tuesday and was brought here and placed, jail: As was stat ed in vMonday's JRobesoniait, Hicks was shot m the face with; a shotgun, the shooting following, ' 'crap gameV"i:i m ... . 4 THB RECORD QF DTHS,; ' - T. C- Barker SfJIelkmMe, Mr. T C.! Barker, 32 , years old, died yesterday at the. home of to ' SSnt?Mr. and'Mr.. W. J. Barker, 'vta HowellsviUe township. ? Deceased bad been sick for a year or more wrth some head trdubl. The funeral and interment will Uke place this after, .noon at 4 o'clock at Ten Mile church. ' Six people were killed anil ,4 in - jured at Camden, N. J, Sunday when . . train struck a motor bus. - " -' i i. .. . Tii- st wireless -message to be around tho world" 'was received Augusfr21st by .Secretary' Daniels at . whinirti from tne LArayene ra ! dk station at Bordeaux," France. SPECIAL SESSION I v :, ADJOURNS TODAY j House - Refuses t Raise Salaries 'Repeal of Primary Will Be Submit tied to Voters Registration knd Voting: of Women Prorided For. .Both" houses of the General .As sembly held sessions; last night and speeded -op with tilepurpose-of ad- journing today at noon, the time fixed by both: .houses for the end of the special. session. . - .The House defeated by a large ma jority 4 bills to. raise salaries of con stitutional officers, :. State officers, judges, and clerks of the several, de partments, n , Under the provision sof's a bill which passed both the.' Senate and the -House this week, repeal of the primary will be submitted to both parties m the November election and favor repeal, the bill will be in force from "that date. r The constitutional amendment bill, which previously had passed the House, passed the Senate Tuesday. The Senate Tuesday passed a meas ure providing for the registration and voting of women. The act provides that "nothing in any of the lawd of North Carolina shall be construed as to prevent the registration and vot ing of women 21 years of age and having other qualifications provided for men and that women shall not be required to pay poll tax as a prere quisite to voting. ' . A bill was passed to increase the salary of solicitors, a sliding scale of fees ranging downward from the $40 given for conviction in capital cases to $10 in lesser offenses: The maxi mum in the old schedule was -$25 for murder cases. The House rejected the Governor's proposal to create a commission to prepare a suitable road bill for t.ie regular session in January it passea a resolution asuing uk iaiiiuiw" Commds&ion to maintain the present intra-State passenger rates. RECORDER BRITT'S BUSY DAY. Temporary Theft of Auto Draws Road Sentence Other Cases. Monday was a busy day in Record, er E. M.'Britt's court, the following cases being aired: ' Rowland Norris, .abandoning his iwife; nol pressed. Mrs. Norris, who swore out the warrant charging aban donment, failed to show up for the trial. Joseph- Brittain, colored, temporary on the roads. The auto belonged to larceny of auto; sentenced to 30 days a traveling man, who hired Brittain to wash- the car. When he started to takerfch'e car to the place where he was to wash it, Brittain drove it about town for a spell, taking a num ber of his colored friends for a ride. John Wannamaker, . colored, iar ' . . . ' : nr.. s Bill Ganus, using profane language on the public highway; thirty days on the roads. . W. F. McLeod, assault with deaaiy I weapon upon Edmund Hunt, Indian; 1 not guilty, Edmund Hunt assault upon W. F. McLeod; fined $25 and cost. OFFICER SHOT DEAD IN PRESENCE OF HIS FAMILY Belfast, August 22 Police Inspec tor Swansey, against whom a verdict of wilful murder was given by a cor oner's jury in connection with the assassination of Mayor McCurtain in March was shot dead today while proceeding to his home from church at Lisburn to which town he had been .transferred after the finding of the coroner's jury. The killing of In spector Swansey was among the most daring of a long series. tw nnsreirations were leaving all the protestant churches at the. time. The officer had been with, his mother and sister in attendance upon the ser vice at; Christ church and had reach ed the corner .of. Railway street, where he resided. : ' ; H , Here three men armed with nfles confronted Swansey andHred on him in the presence of bis homfied fam ily. Swansey, fell, r but, to make ii fk .uiioini diacnanred thetf 'weapons again mto bis body. W' U,S. Senate eanrpaiga invest tigattng 'committjse bas .&1 -.1 A mmmnoad - WOUlO : ba a i,'c nd exhaustive inyestjga tion ka to the Republican maa vur . ftktvni camnaiens." ... Tbe ,m- -Mtiotion. it was announced, would not only deal with methods of ob taining and expending money m the campaigns, but would cover reports of alleged offers of Federal positions is an inducement to political acti- Irity. :; - h - Ufarshall Foch will visit the Unit ed States when the ' European situ-1 atiom permits him to take a -vacation nr thA remirrea lenirui, cv patch states. - . ; t v NEGRO LYNCHED AT GRA- " t HAM . ASSAULTED CHILD Mcb Tock Prisoner - From Sheriff "Neai'1 Scene of Conflict Between Machine Gunners and Masked Mob Negro Admitted Crime. give9 following: im tna Taiinwinir! : - -'--.rn r - On almost the identical spot where James Ray fell morallywouiided during the battle between a masked f mob and tne utrrnam maenme . gun wpmpuny guarding the .Alamance county jail, on the night of July 19, another mob this afternoon "overpow- ered.Snerrff D Storey and six uepuvicB an uuiu& irj iivut John . Jef f ress, a negro charged ' with assaulting a four-year-old child. Afterwards .the mob carried the ne. ... x.. spot half-way between Burlington and gro. witnout resistance xo a roneiy Belmont cotton mills, west of ura ham, and riddled his body with bul lets. He was reported to Sheriff Sto rey, afterwards, as dead. The crime for which the young ne gro was put to death is alleged to have been committed at 10 ocloc- thin morninz near the child's home, Cries of her mother, it is said, caused the negro to Tun, leaving the little girl without serious injury. ly after the crime was reported, but ! An armed posse iormea lmmeaiaie- it was sheriff Storey's posse, com noseH of denutv sheriffs and police officers of both Graham and Burling ton, that landed the prisoner. They found him crouched in a honeysuckle vine near the Graham railroad sta tion. He was arrested and placed in, the Alamance county jail shortly af ter tbe noon hour; He admitted the crime, Sheriff Storey said. FIRST REUNION OP MMT ' WILDCAT DIVISION Special Trains and Reduced Rates to Reunion at Columbia Sept. 20-21. j Columbia, S. C, Aug. 23. Much enthusiasm is being manifested by j the citizens of Columbia and of South Carolina in anticipation of the first; reunion of the 81st (Wildcat) DivU sion, which is to be held in Columbia September 20-21. Special trains will be run from different sections of the country and reduced rates have been granted by all railroads to those ex pecting to attend the reunion.- All "wildcats" expecting to. attend the re union should communicate with the secretary of the Wildcat Veterans association at once requesting that they be sent an identification certifi cate entitling them to this reduced railroad rates. Tne members bave been requested to bring their punt forms, but this is not compulsory Be tween eight and ten thousandvare. expected to attend the reunion. ' tt Thompson Hospital Notea-C Reported for The Robesonian. V Mrs.:lra Bullard. tity, "Jf patient at the hospitaler aome days, was able to return home last weeK.--Mrs. H. C. Barnes, Orrum jad mitted to the hospltalfor trtatment vesterday.-Mrs. Roy Tyner R. F. D , Buies, who was operated weeks ago, returiied homeyeJterday. Mr. d7 G. Williams, R. F; D.. Fair mont, is a patient at the hospital and will be operated on this week.-jMiss Irma Spivey, narowa, w TL hospital nd will undergo an operation taw weeSj " . T 1 ' East Lumberton, was operated on TuesdajKfor fractured bones in his face as result of being struck by base ball. He is gettmg along mcely. Davie Chavis, Indian, Rennert who underwent a very serious operation for lngrenous P.-lK 18 gerXl ig W"B . expected. ; V; a Work on tne zu-room ,"lCAJ" t.nitot i. imwressinir nicely, with l to 15 men working wguUrly. We hope to move in by October 15th. European Outlook More Optimistic. An Associated Press dispatch of the 25th from Paris gives the follow mgt . ., j . An optimistic feeling prevailed at the French foreign office today re garding the European situation. The opinion was freely expresscdthat t4 situation is clearer and that the al lies are more closely united -than at any other time since the armistice. - Endorsement of the French policy toward Russia by the Uni States wM.ir a.TMl bv Great Britain and Italy yesterday is fett .bew to Have cleared up the atmpspbettr and-tba anxiety,. which has-; ben 'evident ax tlie1 foreign offic thji past,jfeweek, hasdisappeard. Te Census Bureau bas announced tb.fonowing;. papulation figures for towns- in Lee cmtyBroadway, 250; ffoneabord; 886 Sanf ord, 276. A The population of Southport in Brunswick i -given aa 1,664. f Bolivia, 199; Shal lotte, 174. v tv ' : "'- y : BASE BALL. v I LUMBERTON, N. a k ' Caaip Brgg. Monday, Aug.' 38. : - BELMONT, NT C. ;, " : Wednesday and Thursday,'' ( ' Sept. 1st and 2nd. '' " PARKTON PARAGRAPHS Sunday School Picnics and Other So. , rial Items A Trip - to Jackaon " Springs The Ubiquitous Mosquito t Personal and Other Items. BY C. D. WILLIAMSON. ' Parkton. Aug. 24. The M. E. Sun day school will hold its annual picnic 1 1.1 . , ... ' - wscniDie at tne cnurcn at 3 p. m. and leave in cars, and a roid time is anticipated. We also hear that one of the classes of the Presbyterian Sunday school, including their fami Uef, will have a picnic at the same place in the forenoon. Bathing will p9 the order of the occasion. Aside from the good things to eat, a s jolly time awaits them. Mrs., Nan Carter will entertain her Sunday school at her home on Thursday p. m., 5 till 7 o'clock. The Christian Endeavor society is holding a social at the, home of Mr. (and Mrs. S. J. ThomasfloH tonight. Mr. A. F. Hughes left Saturday night for Lodewisha, Ga., where he will attend the funeral of one of, his brothers, who was drowned during the late war in the waters of Scot- iland Mr. ami Mrs, J. C. Lancaster- spent a few days last week in - Charlotte, and her sister, Mrs. Jackson, 'who has been on a visit and who enjoyed the trip with them, has returned to 'her nome. . . . Mrs. Katie Fields and two children, of Florida, are spending a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.t"L Thaines, Mrv Joe Thomas and little boy of Rajdigh spent the week-end with? his parents. ' ' 4 Rev. Graham Stubbs and -wife, who have been on a visit to his ' brother, Mr. A. M. Stubbs, of our town, and other relativesKleft this afternoon for their home in Florida. f - , ,Mss Nellie Stubbs returned home Sunday afternoon after "spending a week with relatives at Clio, S; C, and at Johns, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. Angus MEauirin Of Johns spent the week-end with honte folks. ' ,. Mr. McLaurin returned hohie Mon day p. ni. whil Mrs. McLaurin will remain, for a few days. This ascribe "and the following friends spent Friday at Jackson Springs: T. W. Thompson, Dr. Hern don, Collier Cobb and Jack Thomp son. The day was rainy but we en joyed the day just the same. Thou sands of people were there that day. This was my first trip there and as to the water, ,1 can say I never en joyed any better only wish I could live there a mdnth or more. We saw hundreds of acres oi tobacco and more than hundreds of acres of peaches. The peach industry of that section is becoming .more and more important. While at the Springs we met scores 'of old friends andniet as many new acquaintances. UV," Just "here the mosquitoes? hay ap peared and trouble no little. Will Wome one advise us wher tber6 Is nd mosquitoes T They entertain aay nu night, and so 'long as I hear their deceitful musk there is no "sweet sleep. Only wish it was in rty power to blot.them off the globe. Mr. W. 'W. Gainey is placing build ing material on his lot in town for a nice residence. The work will be rushed to completion. , ' The Parkton pharmacy changed hands last week. Mr. W. G. Britt and Mr. J. M. Johnson purchasers. Mr Jahnaon is manager Mr. L. M. Powell left last night' for fcnltimdre on a business Wip vr. MArman - nerrv and his attrac- tive bride spent ten days with tneix parents, Mr. and Mrs. K. rerry, - a ift for thir ' borne ' Monday of last week in Baltimore, where Mr. prrv nnorates an extensive .delivery kno;tuH W were glad to have LI) trill Ul vui i Mrs Katie Stubbs of Purvis spent the week-end with her . brother and !..! Mr. and Mrs. TA. -M Stubbs. Mr. Wm. Canady and family mov- d today to Fayetteville.. v . a , . Mr .r4 Mr. D- T. Hasty ' are . tha fond parents of a fine 10Jb.boy, of the Zlst. . - ' . " v. - - H. Marym.H'oIUday, an electrician, Sunday mornmg went 'to a reioenee on one of tbe main streets of Greeas boro, called Tbop:Kinror W Vs old; to the door anfireiM shots at bisa from a pistoL neither shot tak ffot wnt in tha woodwork of tbe house.- - HoUiday tk -.flrove. H the jaU Snd surrendered to tne aner" He. claimed that . Monroe had had im proper " relations with 'his wife and said that be shot to kill the boy. " At a bearing Monday Holliday was boujid over to court. . r ; : ' ViTifltv-pichtannlioants for license to practice law in North CaroHna, in cluding 2 women ana z negiw, ed the! examination ixiore soe su preme court Monday.; ; i. z . .-, '.. IPLACE YOUR ORDERS NOW FOB) k ' .VoCxt Bros. AUUmiouue wim m. PniLA DELPHI'S SCHOOL . IbRTEF ITEMS rnnr vvwa BEGINS SEPTEMBER 7TH! ITEMS LOCAL KIWI New Dormitory Will Be Equipped wifh Electric Lights and Steam Heat. Correspondence of The Robesonian. - Red Springs, Aug. 25, School will begin at Philadelphus on. Tuesday, September 7th. Ail the teachers for the coming year have been appointed and everything is now ready for the opening of school. -' . The new dormitory - will be com pleted by that time and ready for use also the buddings will all be furnish ed with, electric lights this year. The new dormitory will be heated with steam heat. There is still room for about eight or ten more girls and twelve or fourteen boys in the dor mitories and anyone wishing board at the dormitories and go to school here should write A. J. Caldwell at Red Springs, and reserve room at once, or for any information concerning the- school. QUARTERLY MEETING East Robeson Quarterly Meeting In stitute Will Be Held at Cedar Grove Next Sunday. Correspondence of The Robesonian. The East Robeson quarterly meet ing institute will meet with the, Ce dar Grove Sunday School on the 5th Sunday in, August 1920. PROGRAM 10:30 Meeting called to order by the president, Rev. L. E. Daily. Song, "I Must Need Go on By, the Way of the Cross." Prayer, by L. K. Tyner, nait Swamp. The roll of schools will be called and letter read from each school. Each school will be represented' by speaker and music. At 11:30 Mr. Luther Britt of Lum berton will deliver a Sunday school address. . Mr. Britt is a young law ver of Lumberton and it will be worth while to any one in Robeson county to hear him speak on Sunday school that day. In the afternoon the singing con test will come off. .Every school is earnestly requested to be represent ed with plenty of music and more special songs from the children. Come one, come all, and enjoy a good day at Cedar Grove. EVANDER D. STONE, Chairman Program Com. CHURCH NOTES. Rv. C W. Walters will begin a tent meeting at Fairmont tomorrow night. The meeting will last two weeks or longer. , A series of meetings will begin at w.ltimore Baotist church, near Fair- the second Sunday in Septem- ber instead of the vnira .oimumj, , first announced. Rev. E. A. Paul frill - - . . . . . assist the .pastor, Kev. j, h. snw Revo Dr. C, H. Durham, pastor of the First Baptist churcn, U assisting in a meeting at Marietta .gua.f but wiH return in time to fill bis pul pit Sunday, both morning and eve ning- . . x..J fa Mr W. W. tewis 01- a Lomberton visitor today. ' Mr. D. P. Buie of Philadelphus is a Lumberton visitor toaay. , m. .a Mm. E. M. Hines and three sons,' Messrs. E. M. Jr., WUey and nL..io. nf Itowland were WvfUl among the visitors in town yester- MesJsrs SH. M. and Duncan Smith of R. 5, Lumberton, were in town yes terday. ; ' . ' . Mr. J.CLCarlyle of tbe Rosier sec tion was a Lumberton visitor Mon- day. ' ' , ' . ' Mr. J S. Gore returned Monday from a week's visit, to Conway and other points in South Carolina. Mr R C. Lawrence spent yester day in Charlotte on legal business. Miss Margaret Woodward left yes- terday for her home at Morganton after spending tnree weeiw u iting at the home of her brotber-m-lafr and sister, Mr. and Mrs. L.. Townsend, Sixth and Walnut streets. Mis Hellicee Miller; left . Tuesday evening for Lancaster, Pa, to join he mother, Mrs.. E. S. Miller.. . .. fve ' executi commitjc of r Wake 'rL r-nlWe . Alumn! ass. ciauoo I.mm tlie aoooratment; of Mr. Trela; p. 'Collins as secretory of the association to succeed F. K. Pool, rej signed. Mr. Collins began last week with tho"work as eecre tarji msd be ktes' tbot before the openmg of e coUege - he hopes to visit- the various alumni associations . of the state. ,T Charles" Bowles, an ex-soldier, Sun day in Durham county shot and killed Thelbert Elluv a prosperous young farmer of .Person county, who mar ried, the girl Bowles wanted. Mrs. Ellis' was the only witness. WANTED TOBACCO GROWERS to deposit their: warehouse checks in The National Bank of Lumberton ton. ; . License has been issued for the , murmtse of Miis Pattie Bullfw-k. lUa'.f. of Mr . W Bull, and Mr. ayde PIttman, boh of Fairmont. A negro minstre troupe gave a band concert on the streets at noon yesterday and a performance under tnt across from the town ball last evening,'.. , . ,. Among local 6u1s introduced by Senator Stacy, in addition to those heretofore mentlonedwas one to al low Rowland to sen its water works and electric right plant. Miss Amelia i,nkbauer and her rephew Master Frank Gough return ed yesterday from Ntw York, whne Miss Linknucr-wrPt U pnhase mil Lnery for her 3;;le Sbon." The ice cream supper advertised for Saturday night at Barnesville will be given tonight instead of .Saturday night. The supper will be given for the benefit of the Methodist church. Speaking of good, crops. Mr. E. C. Graham sayg that Mr. E. T. Taylor of HowellsviUe township has the fin. est field of cotton he has seen this year. 'Sure it must be dandy cotton. Mr. J. R. Phillips, who lives near Allenton, was a Lumberton visitor yesterday. During this summer of abundant peach crop not much has been said about apples, but Mr. Phil- hps comes along with some "Seed lings" as big as your two fists. Important 'meeting of the Lum berton Post of the American Legion this evening at 8 o'clock. AH mem- berg are urged to be present, as some matters of interest will be consider ed. Meeting in the Legion hall, sec ond floor of the municipal building. Miss Josephine 3rcecp returned yesterday from Baltimore and New lork, wae'3 she bought goods for her mill ncry tcre. She was accom panied to Xw'Wk by Miss Cora C. Collins, hcrj.e.vl t i wer, who is erf pected to unve here Sunday. Misses Hilda and Miriam Wein stein delightfully entertained at a dinner party at the home of 'their parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Weinstein, Elm street, last evening in honor of their guests, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Nathan of New Bern; and Wilmington and Mr. F. Hahn of Norfolk, Va. . , ' 7?-The Southern Truck & Car Cor-" poration of Greensboro is beginning today a series of demonstrations of its trucks in Robeson. ( As will be s.een from its advertisement else where in this pa permits schedule takes in St. Pauls, Red Springs, Lumber : Bridge, Maxton. Pembroke, Rowland . Proctorville, Marietta, Lumberton, and Pages Mill and Dillon, S, C. Mr. K. F. Kintaw cf K. 7, jan. berton, was awr.jr t?.e visitors in tiwn yesti d 7. .-Mr. Kr?aw did ws'l , with tobacco this year.. He will real-' ize around $350 the acre.; Mr. Kinla -f says he bas heard tobacco was bring ing better prices at some other places ( than Lumberton but that he has seen it sell for less on other markets. - Mr. J. A." Greene, Jr., who baa' been with the New Orleans Item for the past 4 years, arrived here yester day to spend a few days with his paA . rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Green. Mr, , Greene recently returned from Guay 111, Ecuador, South America, where be ' spent nearly 5 months with a party of newspaper men working on a his tory of Ecuador's part In the war for the Fighting Journalists. A new Studebaker auto belonging. to Mr. W. R. McNeill of Buie was burned one night recently. The car stuck in the mud and when a lighted , latnern was carried near the ear in order to furnish light so the ear could be moved some gasoline that bad leak ed out of the gat tank caught from the lantern. The flame spread to tbe tank and the car was burned up before the flames could be extinguish ed. Miss Lucy Williams, who had been a guest ; at the home of. her brother-in-law' and sister, Mr. .and . Mrs. T. A. McNeill, Jr, left yester. day for Wilmington, where she will visit her sister Mrs. Louis Hall before, . returning to her home in New York. She came to Lumberton Friday of last week with her mother, Mrs. W. F. Williams, ' from Culpepper, Va, where they attended the funeral of Mr. Jas. A. Williams, whose death in Costa Rica , has been mentioned in The . Robesonian. Mr. C.'B. Hocutt is hobbling on crutches as. a -"result of a street ac cident in Darlington,' S. C, last Fri- ; day. A big Buiek auto knocked him down-and ran over his left foot, ' As Mr. Hocutt dodged a rapidly ap proaching Ford, driven by a negro, , he jumped m front of a slowly-driven Buick. - The negro who was to blame for the accident drove rapidly away. Mr. Hocutt's sides ' and legs were bruised and he has to wear his left foot in a bandage. He had a nar. ; row escape from death as he was knocked 'down with his head nearly under the Ford. DR, WILLIAU W. PARIES " i .BTB SPECIALISTS - Otace; aUenai itaas es Bofldiag. 7 si I . 1, K -1 ...X