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H v ROiisQBflAK ..-V. THE DATE 031. THE LABEL IS ' THE DATE YOUR TAPER WILL BE STOPPED. WATCH LABEL OX TOUR PAPER AJfD DONT LET SUB SCRIPTION EXPIRI ESTABLISHED 1870. SINOLE COPT FIVE CENTS. COUNTRY. GOD AND TRUTH. $3.00 A YEAR. DUE IN ADVANCE. LULX2ERT0N, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY. SEFTSMBER 6, UIO VOLUME LL NUMBER 53 -4 boll weevil - has Arrived Cotton Pests Have Played -Havoc With Top Crop on Mr. A- H. McLeod'a Plantation, Nax- Lumberton. ' -Since the,ewB item befcw;t was put in type Mr. C. A ,Whittington, who farms on Mr. 'A. H. MeLeod plantation two miles north of town on the Fayetteville road, hag discov ered that boll weevils are plen tiful in his cotton crop. Mr. Whittmgton says the ,wieevil and a worm have (destroyed practically all his top cotton crop. ... Mr. Whittington brought a weevil to town and 'the weevil can be seen at The Roh;onian office. J . . ' .BOLL WEEVIL WBES0N First Found in Robeson Brousrht to Town Friday by Mr. R. B. Baxley Farm Demonstrator Dukes Has This Rascal Bottled Up. ..town Friday byhartmahorahorhrrd A well-grown Robeson county boll weevil, and he very much alive, was brought to town Friday by Mr. R. B. Baxley of the Saddletree section. Thig was the first Robeson county boll weevil seen here and of course he attracted considerable attention for a visitor of his size. The weevil is now in possession of Mr. 0. O. Dukes, county firm demonstrator, who has him bottled up. The weevil was found on Mr. Baxlsy'g wagon and not in his cotton field. This is evi . dence that there are other weevils in that section, no doubt, According to theory, one female weevil can produce a crop of twelve and a half million weevils aunng one cotton-growing season. " ' Mr. Dukes has had a number of worms, bugs and other insects brought to him by people who took them to be boll weevils during the last few weeks, but the one brought in by Mr. Baxley is the only original .cotton boll weevil yet brought to town. HEALTH CARIPAIGN IN ROBESON A health campaign aganst venereal diseases wil begin in Robeson Mon day of next week, Sept. 13. The U. S. Government's social hygiene ex hibitions will b given at all the towns and school house centers in the coun. ty Dr. ' Chas.' V. ' Herdliska, of the U,' S. Public Health Service, is in Lumberton today and the county com missioners will make an appropria tion for the work. Details n regard to this allimportant campaign will be given in Thursday's Robesonian, SMALL GIRL INJURED - IN AUTO MISHAP Eutha Snipes is in Hospital as Re sult of Swinging on to Moving Eutha Snipes, 12-year-old daughter of Mr. Junius Snipes, who lives near TjW View. S. C. was brought to the Thompson hospital Friday suffering from internal injuries received when an auto trailer passed over her body. Her condition this morning was as 'favorable as could be expected. The young girl was swinging on to a truck which carried a trailer behind. The truck brushed her off against a tree and she fell beneath the wheels No bones were broken but she suf fered internal injuries. TOBACCO MARKET OPEN TILL .CROP IS SOLD .Itiis JExpected That All The Crop "Will Be Sold by End of This Week ! The Lumberton. tobacco market will be open until all the crop has been sold. It is expected that practically all the crop will have been, sold by the end of this week. , 1 . Marriaare Invitations Issued; '. Invitations reading as follows have been received here: , f - "H's.Henry Treat Boody requests the honor . of your, presence , at the marriage of her" daughter," Abby Treat, to Mr. Marion Fonteyn Hatch er on Saturday, 25th September, at 4:30 o'clock, at Christ church, New Brighton, New York." Hatcher represents the .Equitable Life Insurance Co. in Lumberton. 7 First Bale of Cotton.. The first bale of cotton. 1920 crop marketed a Maxton, September 2nd, was raised on Mr. E. L. McCormick's place by Mr. Walter F. Jones, and was sold to J. W. Carter Co., at 30 cents per pound. Maxton Scottish Chief. . -V: 1 . Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Williamson and son, Master J. V. Jr., spent the week end at Lake City, S. C, ysiting rel atives " " "- : w Mr.' J. BV Humphrey -of tie Phila delphug section was ,, a, Lumberton visitor Saturday. BUTLER STORY BELIEVED TO CL A JTAJEj . ; I Story About Dead Body of J. M. But.,UaBe8 Wfcich urew Uut or a uenerai ter is Thought to Have Been &eni mix-up in wisnarts lownsnip. By Bntler Himself Police of Wen- j Friday was a "big day" in record dell Know -Nothing of Nude Body er's court circles, find. - 'I 1 George. Allen 'was fined $5 and cost Relatives of J. M. Butler are in- clined to believe that the story sent out from Norfolk, about nU node body being found dead in the, woods, near Wendell, this State, was written by Bntler himself. t A letter receiv ed by The Robesonian and published in last Monday's paper telling of the finding? of Butler's , body was written on stationery of the Atlantic hotel of J Norfolk; Va., and signed Dy ttooi. r,. Powell,Vwho gave his- address as Knightdaie, N. C. According to a news story in yes-, terday's Raleigh News & Observer, the authorities at the State insane hpital have heard nothing from Butler since-he escaped from the hos pital August 27. On the first of Sep tember another patient at the hospi tal received a card mailed in Wash ington; which it is believed was mail ed by Butler. On the card was scrawled "South America bound." Ac cordng to the News & Observer, the chief of police at Wendell, near where the body was reported to .have been found, says he knows notnng of the find. The hospital authorities state that they believe the story was sent out merely as a ruse in order to throw them off the track of the escaped lunatic. Butler is a native of the Boardman section, where his people now live. He served as a radio operator in the navy during the world war and lost his mind, followin gan attack of in fluenza, it is said. He had escaped the hospital twice before and the last time he escaped he told his peo ple that he would die before he would stay at the hospital. ROBESON WOMEN SWORN IN AS OFFICERS Missies Theresa Patterson and Erma Whitfield Become Deputy Clerk of Court and Deputy Register of Deeds, Respectively Miss Minnie Lennon Appointed Notary Public. Woman suffrage making it possi ble,, Miss Theresa Patterson was sworn in Friday as deputy clerk of the Superior court of Robeson coun ty. Mis3 Patterson vhas been clerk in ,the office of Clerk of the Court C. B. Skipper for several years but this appointment will make it possi ble for her to do much work in con nection with the office which she could not do before the women were given the power to vote. Miss Erma Whitfield was at the same time sworn in as deputy register of deeds. Miss Whitfield has been employed in the office of Register of Deeds M. W. Floyd for some time. Misses Patterson and Whitfield were sworn Sin by Mr. C. B. Skipper. Miss Minnie lennon of L.umDerton was perhaps the first Robeson coun ty lady to be appointed a notary pub lic. Miss Lennon is employed, in the law office of Messrs. McLean, Var. ser, McLean & Stacy. HAYES TOLD LTE UNDER OATH. SAYS COX Gov. Cox Says Republican National Chairman "Deliberately Perpetrat ed Falsehood Under Oath" About Campaign Quotas Hayes Says Quotas Were Only Tentative. Gov. Cox. Democratic candidate for President, in a speech at Milwaukee, Wis., Saturday charged that Will ti. Hayes, Republican national chairman, "deliberately peroetrated falsehood under oath" at Chicago at the Sen ate's investigation of Republican con tributions. Mr. Hayes, in a statement issued yesterday, said that at different pe riods quotas had been suggested and that the quotas meant little. MT. EI.TM DISTRICT VOTES SPECIAL SCHOUL 1AA 10 Cents on the $100 and 30 Cents On Poll Only Two Votes Cast Againfttt "V; ,.,. . - Mt: Elira public school , district Sat urday boted special schooV.taz of 10 cents oti the $100 valuation and 39 cents oif "the 1 polli - Only fcwo votes were casi against the measure. ... "fiW -i f-fv:-i ? MrCSpell Returned Home Yesterday. Mr. Al P., Spelf, who1 was shot' a week ago yesterday by Clarence Tra wick of Blenheim. S. (H. "following an auto collision, was able yesterday to leave the Thompson hospital, where he had been under treatment, and re turn to his home at t Red Springs. As stated in Thursday's Robesonian, Tra wkk, who was released under $5,000 bond Wednesday night, will be given a preliminary hearing next Monday before Recorder E. M. Bntt A Fine Strinjr of Trout. Now for a fisn story. Mr. R. Law Greeorv of the Raft Swamp section went a fishing last week and caught 18 nice Lumber river trout in two days, according tov information glean ed from Mr. Gregory by The Robe sonian man. The catch would have sold for at least $25 Jrat Mr. Greg ory says he fishes for the sport and not for money; therefore he , never sells, fish. .. CASE FROM WISHARTS ADZ- &D LW KCUUKUttU UOUKI 1 by Assistant Recorder E. M. John- 'son on the charge of assault upon Ernest Jackson. . Allen wag also found guilty of trespass and judgment was suspended upon payment of cost in this ease. : Wellie Meares was found gnilty of trespass and was fined $5 and cost. . Will Mercer was fined $25 and cost on the charge of assault with deadly weapon upon Ernest Jackson. Mer cer was also found guilty of tres pass and judgment was suspended upon payment of cost in this case. Ernest Jackson was fined $5 and cost on the charge of assault, upon George Allen. Jackson was also found guilty of rsing profane lan guage on the public highway. Judg ment wag suspended upon payment of. cost. Jackson gave notice of ap peal. The suits grew out of a general mix-up between Jackson and the oth er defendants named above. Accord ing to the evidence, a number of shots were fired during the row, but nobody was "kilt" or seriously in jured Will Mercer was peppered with shot, it was stated, but he show, ed no signg of having been shot. The defendants live in Wisharts township. Jackson was represented by N. A. Sinclair of Fayetteville, J. E. Car penter of Maxton and J. D. Canady of St. Pauls, while the other defend ants were represented by S. Mcln tyre of Lhmberton. 6.15 INCHES OF RAIN IN THIRTEEN HOURS Heaviest Rainfall of Tear Thursday Night It Rained All Night and Poured Part of the Time. The heaviest rain of the year fell hereabouts Thursday night and Fri day morning. . The fall from Thurs day 6 p. m. to 9 a. m. Friday totalled 6.15 inches, "according to Mr. B. M. Davis, who has chage of the local government weather station. The rain started : with a thunder cloud and it rained in torrents for a spell. The rain kept up practically all Thursday night and up to 9 o'clock Friday morning. . The rain did not reach far north of Lumberton, it is said. At Buie and Rennert the rain was very light and in the Ten Mile section it was not heavy, according to people who live there. According to reports, the rain wag heavy as far south as llarnesville and all the way down the Seaboard to Wilmington the fall was heavy. ' 1 While the roads Were washed Un some places and a few small bridges floated as a result of swollen streams, but little damage has been reported. DRAINAGE- DISTRICT COMMIS SIONERS WILL MEET THURSDAY Landowners Who Want Adjustments Made Are Requested to Present Claims That Day. The commissioners of the Back and Jacob Swamps Drainage district Representative G. B. Sellers, Messrs. A. W. Pate and D. B. McNeill will meet at the court house in Lumberton Thursday of this week, besrianine at 11 a. m., and landown ers 1 o want adjustments made are requeued to brine the matter to the attention of the commssioners on that day. Arf has been stated in The Robeson ian. the Corporation Commission has ordered the valuation of the lands in these districts reduced 20 per cent, under the valuations as now carried on the tax. rolls. ASSAULT WITH PISTOL COST HIM $75 A. McRacken of Rennert Fined for Assaalt on Lacy McNair. Correspondence of The Bobesanton. Red Springs, Sept. 4. J. A. Mc Racken of the Rennert section was given a hearing before Recorder J. N. Buie . on the charge of assault up on Lacy McNair of . the same section with a pistol. . He was fined $75 and. taxed wih; the cost.. . V, t' Meeting ; Places for. Community . Ser vice, .... 1.1 , Union CbapeL Monday, Sept. 6. ,A - Pliiladelphua Tuesday, Sept 7. . . Oakdale Wednesday, Sept. '8. Floral College, Thursday, Sept 9. .Centenar .Friday, Sept. 10. . . Tabernacle -Saturray. Sept. 11. PROGRAMME Milk Natures Best Food (two reels). Steps to Somewhere, or Do Chil dren Count? (two reels). Disposing of a Lover. The Ladder of Fame, (comedy). - -M. N. FOLGER, Director Community Service Robeson County. Mr. Jno. D. McNeill of Red Springs was in town Saturday. Rogers-Carrin. Mr.'E. C. ("Jack") Rogers of Lum berton and Miss Leora Carrin of Cannon City, Colorado, were married in Charlotte Saturday , morning. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers went from Charlotte to: Western. North Carolina, where they will spend their honeymoon. '40 CENTS MINIMUM rtmT rsu. UALiJ r UK UUiiun ' .- ouv?rn 1 ouon Asn. itecemmciius That Cotton Be Held for Minimum , of 40 Cents. Middling Basis Co'' operative Marketing Systesi. Ur. ed. At it8 ineeti . . . ... ng in Montgomery, e Southern Cotton as-! Ala.; Friday the '.tinn ..Lnt.H nmrtfiATi to members that cotton oe held lor r ..Yi 1 T.V nTJ if? Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 at the minimum price of 40 cents, middling f. C. ""J." P'. J' home of Mrs. T F. Costner. All basis, with 1 cent per month added rkS' f'LSl mb.n a.re urged to be prt. after November 1. lU'JI'Sr T SLS ? I. Mr- A- Hedgpeth, Jr . will go A committee of 55 Southern bank- ,h LsS H nA 'tomorrow to Wake Forest, where he ers, business men and officials of the greatly, both spiritually and finan-,wiJ, enter Wake Forest coiiege. This various divisions of the -'American I cia"y p. w . . is Mr. Hedgpeth'g second year at Cotton association was appointed to I Mrs- Durham Mercer returned home gke pomt. confer wit hthe governor and mem-w.etk roni Wilmington 1, where Tha board of county commis ber. of the Federal Reserve board he had been vis J"" h ; rfoners, the county road board and on Sept. 15 for the purpose of as-; I been ill, but is now convales- -y of .doc.tion are certaining a clear-cut pronouncement enjv v. . holding ' regular first-Monday meet- of policy on the financing of the 1920 r. and Mb Norton and children, . cotton crop. of ""f0" JMefW.ESf -Mr. L. J. Britt ha. ..listed Other proposals adopted urged es- Mr. and Mrs. A. C. McGoogan, have,., ,f -th M E j Britt f the tablishment of co-operative market-! ing systems in every cotton growing county; the formation of an expert corporation to sell cotton in Central Europe; the reduction of acreage to cotton and increasing acreage for food and forage crops and retirement of 25 per cent of the higher grade , cotton. f ', ' Southern banks with Joans in 1 Eastern bank8 are requested in a peneral resolution adopted to recall these loans in order thrUYthe man- att m mxr Ka A i vefai1 r fiWontfrinflr rnB KAnfh'M rrnns nd a rPAOlution hv former Governor Manning of South! Carolina calls on the governors of I cotton states to proclaim septemoer 20, "Cotton Day," on which date meetings are to held in all counties n . , . , . . ' to develop) interest in the program of 1 tne association. FLORA MACDONALD COLLEGE ' WILL OPEN SEPTEMBER 14TH More Than 125 Applicants Have Been Refused Admission 8 States and 2 Countries Represented Faculty Changes. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Flora- Macdonald , College, Red Springs, Sept. 3. Flora Macdonald college will open for the 25th annu al session on Tuesday, September 14th. Since July 10th, wheti the reg istration closed, more than 125 appli cants have been refused admission owing to-iack of space. States repre sented ihig year are North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Virginia, Arkansas, Texas-, Mississippi, and two j countries Cuba and Japan. North Carolina leads in number 01 students registered, with South Carolina, Georgia, Virg inia and Florida follow- j tTK vi; Ruth lles hitched to a mowing machine der named. The regis-; near Tolarsville. j started while he was m fron of he ine in the order tration this year is made up chiefly of students in the college department who will work for a degr.ee. By a recent aetira of the board of trustees only the lasUwo years of high school are retained. , Sevexal changes have Deen maue m ute xotuitjr uui4io: Elizabeth Fain, ' profess it of history i and political economy, ana tuwmr Sample, of the mathematics and Eng lish Departments, will return after a years aosencc. G. Vardell, Jr., will be in charge ,01 1 the conservatory of music and a num- i ber of important changes have been made in the course. Various mem bers of the faculty have been doing special work thig summer at Colum bia ,and other graduate schools. Population Figures for Anson and Bladen Counties. Anson and Bladen counties had fubstantial increases this year over 1910. the Census Bureau announced Friday. Anson county went from j r iaih j.n 00 Ml and Rlnnpn Z0.4OO i " " . r ,,a T. ini county from m iw 10 - this year. Wadesooro nas increaseu from 2,376 in 1910 to 2,648. Eliza. bethtown, which had fewer people m 1910 than it had in 1900, more than doublea us Popuiao uu... w.: oast ten years, the 1920 population S35 against 117 hi.1970 and 144 in 1900. Here are tne popuut inTB for Bladen bv township, first .figures being for 1920, second figures being tor laiu ana xnira uruico v- ing for 1900: . . Abbots township, including, Ab bottsburg town, 1,190 1,080-948; Bethel township, including Dublin town, U37-l,016-l,080; Bladen boro township, including Bladenboro town, -2,7781.9101,572; Brown Marsh, including Clarkton lown. 1.48S 1301 U70; Carvers .Creek, including Council town, 1,9161,907 1,633; Central, 420548;; r Colly, 569 834 93; Cypress Creek, 781 862652 ; Elizabethtown township, including the town, of the same Aanie, 9 ftio 1.387-1-2.175: French Creek, 1,4141,2751,378; Hollow, 1,462 1,185 1,200; Lake Creek, 825--53 746; Turnbull, 431 523 453; fWhite. nak. 15551.7702.066; Whites Whites Creek. 1,7461.5551,511 Incorporated places: Abbottsburg, 781 59 : Bladenboro. 459276 : riar'-ton. 368r-276: Council, 92-117 Dublin, 99; Elizabethtown, 335117 144 Prof. J. R. Poole and Mr. -Fred Brown snent yesterday at the home of Mr. J. A. McPhauL. at Antioch, Hbke'cdunty. . PLACE YOUR ORDERS NOW FOl - Dodge Bros. Automobile with M. F , Cobb. : ' RENNERT NEWS ITEMS. , .. . . - . Splendid Meeting at Baptist Church uua. "TL! nT'mn,' ,k R?nert, Sept. 1. One of the best eve, Rent Ba? Anrnt nrl onntinmwi tr tn dan "r?. - 7",- " Editions and a reat "Piritual awakening among the Chris- returnea nome. Mr. and Mrs. J. I-. Oraham and a8gociated with Messrs. Johnson & children of Florence, S. C, gpent a 1 j0hnson for the last three months, few days here lest week visit re!-; Mr and Mr8. w; A. Roach mov 'tives. 'P(j Saturday into the residence re- Mr. Garland Perry of San ford re- j cently purchased by Mr. Roach from turned home today, after a few days j visit with his brother, Mr. E. C Per-1 rv. Mh T.aura Carlisle and mother are visiting Mrs. Luther Mclntyre. ! Mrs Nora Musselwhite of Raeford, and children, visited at the hjme of C Preva't, last week. . ' Mr. Gorham Ford of Lake View.; S. C, is visjtinjr Messrs. rr inK ana jk I ' Mrs. A. M. Tola - is v'. ; ting her lis. Her in Mt. Olive r 1 ' .... jJ and Mrs. R Humphrey raturo- ei home Wednesday after :i visit wiih their brother R L. Humphrey in :'sboro. lia -"Messrs. Gordan Britt and Jud Cobb of aPrkton were in the community Tuesday. Miss Katie Belle Webster and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Biees attended a Sun- iday school quarterly at Tolarsville Sunday. Amonr our sriris and boys who will leave next week for various colleges j are Miss Mae Covington, for Oxford; Miss Marjalene Tolar, for Meredith; Miss Fay Brooks, for Alabama; Messrs. .Ernest McGoogan, Frank and Edgar Graham for State college. Mr, D. F. Webster left Monday for Lakeland, Fla., where he will spend some time visiting his son, Mr. Hen- ry Webster Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Graham spent "reu - " ' .:V c...j.. ,L.i,:W Saturday morning when some D KrNGSDALE NEWS ITEMS. . Hanchey Becomes Wife " fc c MiM Cora f Lamb Personal Mention. BY H. R. CHURCH. Old Kngsdale, Sept. 6 The wed ding bells rang out yesterday when Mibs Lizzpe ttancmey, aaugnter v M d Benjamin Hancnev. T.V -JM, pr-nv Cox of carn . bride of .Mr. Frank Cox of Lumberton. After a short trip taey will make their home at Lumberton. The wedding bells rang again for the marriage of Mis8 Cora Dean, daughter of Mrs. Julia Dean, and Mr. Rufus Lamb. They went to Marion, S. C, also Dillon and other places, and were accompanied by a number of friends. Mr. and Mrs. Lamb will make their home with Mrs. Dean for the present. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Britt were Sun day visitors ef Mr. Britt's sister, Mrs. T. P F.HwnrHa. Mr. and Mrs. John Prevatt are all smiles about another girt Also Mr. and Mrt. Ed Rowen are being con gratulated on the birth of a fine girl, daughter Mrs. aa iBarnesville section. Mnrv rfl- of the Airs, ttacnet onu is '"s Prominent Man Shot to Deth at Ridgecrat. F. W. Monish, 60 years old, was shot and killed Friday at Ridgeerest by J. F. Harris, 52 years old. Mon nish was a prominent business matt of Tuscaloosa, AU ana naa oeen prominent in Baptist assemblies for years. He was a summer nwiaen of Ridgeerest and a beloved eitiun of the town. Harris married a sisi ter of United SUtes Ureuit court Judge Jeter C. Pritchard and was formerly a shoemaker in Ashevule. He owns one of the two stores 01 Ridgeerest. As Mr Monnub was wlkinc alonar the street Harris poured 3 shotg into him from a shot gun, wo reason was assigneu mt the shooting. Superior Court. A two weeks' term 01 ouperiur court for the trial of civil cases con vened this morning at 10 o clock with Judge O. H. Guion of Kinston pre siding. The following out-oftown attorneys are attending court today: N. A. Sinclair and R. H. Dye of Fay etteville; G. B. Patterson, J. E. Car penter and M. A. McKlnnon of Max ton; Jno. S. Butler, of St. Pauls. WANTED TOBACCO GROWERS to deposit their warehouse checks in The National Bank of Lumberton ton. '' ' . , BRIEF ITEMS LOCAL NXW Mr. R. H. Nye and family moved t(Klay from ap,rmont to Anderson, S. C Mr. Nye is employed by the Sta'nd- , rrf oil Co. ' Linkhaw returned Sat 'WJ "m . wne " ..-.j - at 1 l. l spent a week buying mules for his utMe9t -The Woman's club wilt meet practice of law. Mr. Britt had been Miss Minnie Lennon, Cedar street. Mr. and Mrs. Roach had been keeping house in the residence belonging to Mrs. A. Nash, East Fifth street Mr. - W. F. Edwards, proprietor the Lumberton Electric Shoe shop, hag opened branch shoe "pair shop ine. Z J m L ( t- branch -ho whteh is equipped street, air. vj. w. ones naa iursu equipped ihine. , . ewtric renair machine. - Miss Martha Flax Andrews, county home demonstration agent, left yesterday for Charlotte to at tpnrf a SDecial millinery demonstf- tAn Aftr aha mtnrna. Mis. An- drrw, will tach the club women and girlg of Robeson how to make hats. Messrs. Bullock Brothers are as sembling material for the erection of a three-story brick garage build ing on a lot which they recently pur. chased from 1 Mr. S. -F. Caldwell, cor ner Chestnut and Third streets. They will occupy the building when com pleted.. . Messrs. E. Knox Proctor and Al len McGee left Thursday on a canoe and will make the trip to Georgetown, S. C, down Lumber river. The dis tance from Lumberton to Georgetown down the river is "around SOO.mlles. They carried along a camping outfit and expected to, do some fishing on the trip. Rowland Gyant, 15-year-old col- 1 l. f n..,4 n Vn 1 1 . above the ankle. He was brought to the Thompson hospital. Gyant lives near Fairmont. Marriage license has been issued for D. Franklin Hall and Saliie Jane Odum; Dewey Britt and Martha Britt; Frank Shepperd and Mary Ray; J. Bennett Sasser and Frostie Grantham i L. Zach Price and Loundy Boseman; Jno. J. Nance and Emma Pittman; Frank Cox and Lizzie Han chje; Leo Norton and Mary Alma Smith; Marsh Shook and Mary Car ter; Jno. M. Edge and Mary War wick. Mr. P. F. Johnson of Athens, Ga., spent Saturday 'here and while here made preparation for buying cotton on the local market during the com ing season. Mr. Johnson had charge of the government cotton grading here the first part of the last gin ning season and later bought cot ton on the local market for a while. He expects to begin buying here Sep tember 15. Mr. Johnson says he has had attractive offers at other points, but he hkes Lumberton and decided to return here. Master Yates Floyd, son of Reg- ster of Deeds and Mrs. M. W. Floyd, was painfully hurt this morning when struck on the head with a board by Bruce Brown, colored. The wound was dressed by Dr. J. A. Martin, five stitcheg being required in sewing up the gash. According to Floyd, the negro cursed hm and later struck him unawares and, run. The' negro has not been apprehended. ' Both Floyd and the negro were working at' the plant of. the Kingsdaie uunoer 00, where the trouble took place. . Mr .C. M, Reaves, of the Proe torville Brick Co., Iroctorvill, was a Lumberton visitor . . Friday. Mr. Reaves lays his company, which oper ates cotton, .gins in season, has im proved its gin plant very much by building an up-to-date cotton house, adding another gin and installing a crude oil engine. The gins also have been equipped at considerable ex pense for ginning long-staple cotton Mr. Reaves says that Proctorvflle heretofore haanot been a good cotton market but that this fall they will have' buyers there who will give the top of the market for both long and short, staple. Mr. Reaves company has an adv in this issue of The Robe sonian setting forth some of the ad vantages offered. Messrs. Oliver K. Holmeg and Tom Huske of Fayetteville were Lumber, ton visitors yesterday. ' . DR. WILLIAM rW, PARKEB EYE SPECIALIST OfQce: National Bank f Luabwtwlo Bafldlnf. r '
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