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"X- J- WATCH LABEL ON YOUR PAPER AND DONT LET SUB. SCRIPTION EXPIRE. THE DATE ON THE LABEL . IS THE DATE'TOUE TAPER WILL BE STOPPED. ESTABLISHED 1870.-SINGLE 00 PY- FIVE CENTS.' country; cod and truth- 43.00 A YEAR. DUE IN AD VAN OS. ( VOLUME LL LtJMBERTON, N. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, JL920. NUMBER 8 Christmas At , Local Churches ; Special Christmas Concert at First Baptist Church Sunday Evening:. The following program will be given by the choir of the First Bap tist church in th church, auditoroum fiunday evenjng.at 7l30, tft which, the public is cordially Invited. - ' Hymn flark the- Herald: Angels.! Song Wesley- Choir and congrega tion, Prayer Anthem "The First Christmas Morn" Newton Traditional Carols. 1. Jacobs Ladder. 2. - The Coventry Caroi3. Anthem Oh, Little Town or Betn lehem Neidlinger. Soprano Solo "Oh Holy Night j Aaam. Quartette Silent Night, Holy Night Gruber. Artham Sing Oh, Daughter of Zion Rogers. Quintette with Sop. Obligato "In. flammatus est" from "Stabot Ma ter'' Rossini, i Carols: 1. Fair Christmas Morn Mat thews. ' Russian Children's Hymn from White Russia Gaul. 3. Wjhat Child is This ? Ohl. Sextette with - Baritone and Sopra- tio Solos, "List theCherubicHOst' rrom tne 'Holy City." Gaul. J Violin solis. ''Hallelujah Chorus" from The Mes- sian nauaei. 1 There will be special solo work by HTto T aoISa faf r a k I North Lumberton Baptist Christmas Eve. . - There will be a Christmas tree and l exercises at he North Lumberton uapusi cnurcn rriuay eveuniK i mo week, beginning at 7 o'clock. I West Lumberton IJapUst ihursdayi rjr. T. C. Johnson, exceeding the Evening. 'speed limit; judgment suspended upon There will be special Christmas ex- payment 0f the cost. The doctor was ercires and a Christmas tree at the Speeding in order t6 catch a train, ac- Werl Lumberton Baptist church to-1 cording to, he evidence. morrow (Thursday) evening, begin-1 Biu Mehrtn, colored, being drunk,' ning- at 7 o'clock. ! fined $25, j J. P. Strickland, Indian, disposing Chestnut Street Methodist TWs Af-0f mortgaged property; fined $35. ternoon ana lomorrow evening. The. children of Mrs. DajsyJV. Jen-, kins' class of Chestnut Street MetTio- r dist Sunday school will navp a.wnnsi. mas tree and exercises tnis aiternoon at S o'clock. - The boys of Mr. W. H.' Hunfphrey's class of Chestnut Street Methodist Sunday school will have a Christmas tree and a special Christmas pro- gram tomorrow (Thursday) evening at 7:30. First Presbyterian Tomorrow After noon. The primary department, of. the First Presbyterian church will render a Christmas program tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon at 4 o'clock. Presents will be distributed to the members of this department after the i exercises. Gospel Tabernacle on Christmas Day. There will be a Christmas tree and exercises by the children of the Gos pel Tabernacle Sunday school Satur day evening at 7 o'clock. Service for th Poor at First Baptist Evening of Christmas Day. On the evening of Christmas day, . , . it j at 7-r?n nVmrk a Rervicp specially for contributions for the poor will be held, ren , street, died at Watts hospital There will bn a s.iort song service : there Monday as the result of burns and all are requested to bring some- suffered , Saturday morning at her thing for the poor. Contributions , home while in the act of praying, wil be distributed abong the dcserv.Miss Blackler was prftying, was said, ing ones before an open grate fife. A flannel East Lumberton Baptist Evening of gown in which she was dressed, be Christmas Day. jcame ignited and before help could The Sunday school of the East reach hef had flared into a mass of Lumberton Baptist church will give fla:::c3. Her screams brought other some special exercises Saturday eve. ' members of the family but the flames ning, beginning at 7 o'clock. A col. ; were extinguished too late. Death i lection ' will be taken for the suf- ,came at 7:30 a. m. iering m cjurooe. Mr. u. r. ixance s superintendent of the bunday school B. Y. P .U. Social Next Monday Eve ning. The B. Y. P. U. of the First Bap tist church wiH. have a social meet ing at the church Monday evening, Dec. 27th, at 7:30 in honor of the girls and boys homA from school for the- holidays; " "" Christmas Dinner for County Home Inmates. As was stated in Monday's Robe sonian, Miss Lizzie Caldwell ' Is ar. ranging for a Christmas dinner, for the inmates of the .county home. Thos who wish to contribute some. tr.ing.to make th day one of pleasure for those unfortunates are requested to send their contributions to the home of Miss Caldwell not later thatf Fri day afternoon. ' " ' ' A collection ottalling $317.17 was taken for the starving ' people in Europe at the First 'Baptist . church last Sunday. Shoppers, coming into Lumberton from other towns say local merchants have finer displays . of Christmas goods than they find eleswhere. The merchants are apparently enjoying a good Christmas trade. Cecil and Dock Hefner and Lone Young, young whit, men, were found gulty of murder in the second degree last night at Morgantown by th jury in the Oelnn Lippard murder case, KOU LmiK CHILDKEX EVKUY WW EJUS J JOYOUS HEASOJf STILL W B HKKj T JfcLaf3 1..j t!f mw f 111 1 s 8 1 Law Student Pleads Own Case He Won It, Too By Gum John Blount McLeod Comes Clear in Recorder's Court of Charge of Speeding Dr. Johnson Was "Bleeged" to Catch a " Traln-r-Other Cases.- The outstanding feature of the Mon- day'e grind in recorder's court was the trial or John ciount Mcleod, cnargea withxceedlng the speed limit. Mr. McLeod is.-a law student at Wake Fer- e3t college and he conducted his own cage . and conducted it well in fact he won his . case and was acquitted. Quite a crowd of spectators heard the a XT a. i j!j r iirT J 3 trial. I(ot ohly did Mr. McLeod cross" examine- the witnesses for the State, j,e pea(i case before Recorder D, h. -Fuller; and to tell the truth, the Wh0le . truth and nothing but ' the truth, he made a forceful presenta- tion of the facts in the case, other cases disposed of Monday 'were: Strickland cave notice of appeal to SujjpriormiutUSrsi;- Howard McNair, colored being drunk; fined $25, Heflin Says Board Overestimated Crop by 1,500,000 Bales. The estimate of this vears cotton crot) bv the Board of Crop Estimates at 12,987,000 bales was challenged in th Senate Monday by Senator Hef lin, Democrat, of Alabama, who said this was an over-estimate of 1,500,000 bales. . . ... . MI contend that the Board of Crop Estimates has, overestimated the pre. sent cotton crop by at' least 1,250,000 bales-." he continued. "We had ginned ' to JDecember 1st of this year 10,144,. 000 bales. in tnp otner two . years in wnicn I the amount ginned to December 1st was around lU.uuu.uuu Dales, tne amount remaining to bp ginned in both of thoseyears afterDecember 1st was less than 1,500,000 bales. Burned to D.'ath Whle at Prayer. A Durham dispatch of Dec. 20 says that Miss Nettie Blackler, of 527 War- Moving Pictures and Xmas Tree at Clyborn Friday Evening. There will be moving pictures and a Christmas tree at Clyborn School hous Friday evening of this week. Exercises begin at 6:36. The public is cordially invited to be present. Clyborn School will close Thursday for the holidays and will begin the spring term January 3. Billy Sunday, famous evangelist, was heard in a sermon in Charlotte last night by a crowd which the Char, lotte Observer says between 4,000 and 5,000 Among . other thngs, he flayed the modern dance which he said "is doing t more to wreck women's lives than any other thing this side of hell." . - . r-, V, . . The mixed trains over the Ral eigh & Charleston between Lumber, ton and Marion will be operated Fri day, December 24, instead of Satur day Christmas Day.. . t : Mr. L. B Barnes of K. 3, Lumber ton were among the visitors in town yesterday. Mrs. J. N. 'Atwater, of Raleigh, left today for Conway, S. C, to visit relatives after spending a few days here visiting at the home of her broth, er-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs, S. A. Epps. . Mr. William Caldwell arrived home yesterday from Randolph Macon aca demy, Fort Jtoyal,' Va. whev he is a student. T , , r., ; - i -, . - . : - - . ' - ' - ' i. I UK BRING OUB 1 " RVEX FOB THE Sharpshooters Hunt Bandits Iri New York Strenuous Efforts Being Made to Check Crime Wave in New York. Armed with' repeating rifles, 20 sharpshooters of the New York police last night scoured the city in auto mobiles in a hunt for bandits, states a New York dispatch of Dec. 21. The aispatcn continues: Each sharpshooter, a picked! man from the police' rifle squad, was ac- companied by three detectives and a uniformed natrolman. Under orders to shoot every sus-V- In an executive session the commit pect who attempted to escape them tee, according to Senator Calder, Re tire men searched the highways and publican, New York, its chairman, bywtys of the city throughout the was furnished by Mr. Cushing with New York's .crime wave, which to- the name of one man,, said to have n u " been a principal in an operation by Othetf . "drastic measures to curb which a group of men in government day swept beyond the city's border service! obtained 450,000 tons of coal, mto nearby New Jersey towns, were which ithey sold later at a profit of launched by police officials and , $600,000. judges. Removal of Police Commis- j- Rtilroad officials and one army sioner Enright was proposed in a re- officer also participated in the profit- sclution in a meeting of the board of making, Mr. Cushing was said by aldermen. Chairman Calder to have charged. An increase in the police force of This phase of Mr. Cushing's testi- 76!) men was authoi-ized by the. board mony before the committee overshad- of estimate and in order to provide owed the rest of his statement, which funds for paying the extra patrolmen, was tc the effect that hte coal short- an issue of special revenue bends in age last summer was due to "panic' lf21 was approved. Judsre Mclntvre. and latplv caiisorl kv etn of the court of gerieral sessions, or- fdered-150 jiersons novV on bail of from $1,500 to $10,000 on robbery charges to appear tomorrow when, he said, their bail will be inqreased. In five cases today men previously released oa lower bail for similar charges were held in $25,000 each. New Jersey police aroused by to day's crimes an attempted bank rob bery in Milltown, the chloroforming and robbing of a girl,' and two hold ups gave orders that all tube sta tions and ferries in Jersey be kept un dsr'KjiaidVto prevent, the influx of criri-;na!s I driven from New York. WAGRAM PRACTICALLY WIPED OUT BY FIRE About 15 Stores', Railroad Station and 250 Bales of Cotton Consumed. Fryetteville Observer, Dec. 21. . The little town of Wagram in Scot land couffty on the Aberdeen and Rockfish railroad was practically wip ed out by fire at an early hour this morning. The flames starting in the railroad station, swept rapidly over th cotton platform, where, 250 halps we're consumed, and then through the town they went taking in about 15 stores, entailing a loss of about $200, 000. There was insurance to the amount of about $45,000. C"aude Rankin and others went down this morning to adjust the loss es for insurance companies. Ihe Aberdeen and Rockfish station was a complete loss. The fire started in it at 2:30 o'clock this morning and soon the cotton was ablaze and then the fire swept on to the stores. The loss are as follows: W. D. Buie, store $2,500. Postoffice, $1,000. D. W. Wooly, store, $3,000. , Scotland Hardware store $10,000; stock $20,000. Buie and McCoy. building, $15,000 M. Massif f, stock, $25,000. Buie and McCoy, second store $15, 000. - W. P. Covingtonr stock $15,000. S: P. Thrower, building $10,000. S. P. Thrower stock $8,000. , Besides the above there were sever al colored buildings that 'jpere con sumed at small losses. It is not known how the fire started. ' : " - Macon, Ga., Dec. 21. All four of the defendants charged with poison ing Fred D, ShepandJ of Houston county, for jfis- money, wek dis charged here late tonight by judge H - A. Mathews, of superior court. The judge held that, even granting that Shepard was poisoned, the stat had not presented sufficient evi dence to connect them with, the deed. He also declared testimony of ex perts regarding the alleged poison ing . was conflicting. .... . -x Misses Nellie Hamilton and Gladys Floyd1' passed through town today en route to their homes, near Mariet ta, from Carolna college, Maxton, wher they are students. -JMr. and , Mrs. H. J. Sealey, and Messrs. Jim Callahan and Alger Walters-' all of Barnesville section, were Lumberton visitors yesterday. PKECIOLS tilKTS TO THEM "1 DEAR CHILD JESUS' HAKK. Chkrged With Prof - iteering In Coal Some Government Officials Are Charg ed iWith Having Joined in Coal Profiteering During Period of Short ago Last Summer. Charges that government officials joined in coal profiteering during the period of shortage last summer were made by George H. Cushing, manag ing "director of the American Whole sale Cqal association, testifying under.; oatn yesterday in Washington before a Senate investieatinsr committee. the ta$xtate Commerce commission, the geological survey, the railroad ad- ministration, and the Senate Inter- state Commerce commission telling the consuming public about a coal this winter. Farmers Relief Bill -Goes To President Resolution Directing Revival of War Finance Corporation Passed by Senate. Legislative enactment of the joint resolution directing "revival of the War Finance Corporation as a meas. ure of relief for farmers against .fal ling prices was completed Monday j wnen me oenate, witnout a recora vote, concurred in House amendments eliminating the section suggesting that the Federal Reserve board extend liberal credits to farmers. The re. solution now goes to the President, Senators and representatives were divided, stated a Washington dispatch, in their opinion as to a possible vc Some believe the President I still would veto the measure- whilewthp hookkepivnir Mass started off others were inclined to the belief ; with Mr. Gray as conductor, as gay , has made th reputation of the Lumb that with th elimination of advice j a crowd of boys and girls as any- erton mills. to the Federal Reserve board approv. j body needs. WRAPPING AND SHIPPING, al of the executive would be given' DYE HQUSE. This va3 the first 'The finished yarn is wound on large thP measure. place to which Mr. Gray took us and ! cones, which are wrapped in paper, ieaaers wno were responsmie ior the final enactment of the resolution, j however, expressed confidence of their ability to override a veto both in the Senate aind Housed. They were as sured, they said, of votes for Southern members in such a contingency. GOV. BICKETT TELLS ABOUT HIS PARDON RECORD. On Eve of Issuing Batch of Christ mas Pardons and Paroe3 Governor Issues a Confession of Faith. Prior to the extension of executive clemency to the last batch of prisoners who will be pardoned and paroled by Governor. Dickett, the governor has prepared a statement about his pardon record-' which he says is not a de fense of that record, but a confes sion of faith, states a Raleigh Dis patch of Dec 21, which continues": The governor admits that he has made some mistakes every governor before him has Mnad mistakes and all those who follow him will make mistakes, he says but he has pur. sued his pardon policy along well defined lines. The iltatement which follows is made on. the eve of issuance of par dons to a number of prisoners as Christmas presents. The governor has had & number of thes cases under consideration for somP tam and the pardons will be get to their hom.es and loved ones byj Christmas day. - j Rev. and Mrs. E. A. Paul and three children left today for Davis, where they will spend the holidays visiting at the home of Mrs. Paul's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaiah Davis. BllsilieSS Cla.S VlClf Pnf f nri Mille V 151 IS VOLLOn IVllilS In a Search for Corporations Bui. nesst Pupila of Lumber ton High School ,Teu Interesting of Tript! Through Cotton Mills At . First I Ail th water has been cleared They Thought a Corporation Might TOm the basement at the high school Ba Wild Goose or Some Kind of build.nd no more trouble is ex New Embroidery, but They laves- r'ected, accordfhg to Supt. Wi II. tigated Till They Ksww to a T-y. t Cle. 1, ' . CorrcsnondenrA nf Th RrthMonian ' Mr. Edmund Davis of R. 6. Lum. From conrt house to corporation is not so far and t.ie business class . In lff yesieraay, suueci mat rl since its visit to the court hous hasi!nowed thick and fast for a while at i . . . . ... M . u : , l i j i . Deen trying to learn something aoout corporations. The first tuns we heard that word, corporation, we were sure down. The boys thought it wa3 som kind of a wild goosp and the girls reckoned it was' a hew kind of embroidery like Batterburg or cross stitch, and we ail p.anned to and laraiy any yara lelt. have a little of it on our next new ; Mr. W. M. Warwick, of the Allen-blouse- But W - soon learned there -on fiecirm- ho a Luinberfeon was no gose aoout a cornoration gose arifl little, embroidery, t.iat it was just plain, common sen.se business and hard work. Our next step was investigation. Miss Butler told us to look around and see if there were any corpora tions in Lumberton or the country near. We spent two days on the hunt but things were .looking bad for us, when, one day Da'hiel Britt came flying in with a light in his eye and declared he had a corporation located on Caldwell's corner. He said he read on the window, MR. D. Caldwell & Son, Inc.," and he knew that if INC. meant incorporated, then R. "D. Caldwell and Son must be a. corpora, tion because if was incorporated!, Miss Butler told him his reasoning was not bad but his IF was ton big and that he had. better get more evi dence. Daniel's discovery gave us a start and we beean auizzine around soma more. Now, we have under suspi- cion the First National Bank, the Nauonal Bank of Lumberton, the Planters' Bank and Trust Company, and wA arp most certain the cotton rnihs must be operated by a corpora. tion for there are so many different I departments to be looked after and '' it must take a pil,, of money to run j such a big business. We are looking over several ot.ier business houses i but we can't get what Daniel Britt cajjs "convincing evidence" against ahy of them. ' " ft Miss Butler tells us just to go ahead and find out what we can for ourselves, and we think we have fig ured out a way to gather in a pretty good stock of information and to "put on, over" on our teacher. We wiil thank our friends and all who are interested in our success as a busi ness department if they will send us name of any corporation with which they ar connected or about which they surely know within 20 miles of Lumberton. . A list of ten corpora tions will grade us higr and may put a figure 1 on our report cards. COTTON MILLS. We had to learn in some way how a corporation man ages a big business and th cotton I miiis was our best guess We were hannv and nronH whon nn MnnHnv I December 13, Mr. Gray and Mr. Boyd came with" their automobiles to givp thP business class the pleasure and thp advantage of a trin through the mills. Unfortunately, the short- hand class were too busy with exam-1 Nations to be excused, so they could not sro and that kent Mr. Bovri from not go and that kept Mr. Boyd from being one of our entertainers; but class to some of us it was the most inter- esting. There are two i big dyeing! machines, one for black cotton and ; neaaea ana usea. we Know mere can th,, other for all the other colors. I be no cotton yarn more carefully and -The cotton i3 placed in a large cylin. j thoroughly mad,, than the yarn of the der that revolves through a tapk j Lumberton cotton mills, and if these which holds th.e dyeing liquid. When mil's are operated by a corporation the liquid has washed through the I w hope the yarn will sell so well that cotton enough to givp the right shade ! ever stockholder .will realize about of color the cotton is dumped into a 1 100 Per cent on his stock, and then tray and carried to the first drying j some. We are all planning to work machine. It is placed in a large for Mr. Gray and Mr. Boyd and the tank which revolves so rapidly that Lumberton cotton mills when we fin- the water is thrown off and passes from th,, tank through a pipe. Tje cotton may be dried also by the hy. draulic pressure machine which presses the cotton dry. The last pro cess of drying is don by spreading thp cotton over an immense gridiron which is carefully heated to just the temperature to -produce the right de gree of evaporation. PICKING ROOM. The cotton is brought here from the drying room and by different machines it is pick ed to increasing states of fluffiness. CARDING ROOM. - Carding is. one of the most Tnteresting processes. The first carding machin grabs, an amount of rough, lumpy cotton and proceeds to smooth it into a wide even sheets which is rolled upon a large spool or cylinder. From this machine the still lumpy web is rolled through the next stage and comes out smoother and 'firmer. It goes on to . - . the third machine and when it has passed through tne last one it has Utcw luaucu vn v VVklVllf OllU lb 19 1IVIT icou AWl a&Ww ing. -. ' DRAWING . JROOM Each cotton cylinder Is placed on a revolving bar land as the cotton passes through the j machine it is drawn out into a fine veil-Ike web. It comes out in this ' COTTON MARKET. Middling cotton is selling on th lo cal market today for 12 cents the pound; stnst. middling 13 cents. BRIEF ITEMS LOCAL NEWS berton, who was among the visitors 1,13 cany ycs'eruay morning. Are your chickens running out rx)W? Some irate' citizens ar, request. Ins? fe Robscnian to rmincF their neighbors to shut up those chickens that are giving them so much trouble' They say that they haven't a flower, visnc-r touay, says trial the bridges on the Lumbertcn.Blndenboro road be. iow Warwick's mill have been .re paired.. The bridges had been in bad condition for some tme, but can be crossed safely now, according to Mr. Warrick. Walter Musselwhite, who con ducts a fruit stand, corner Eim and Setjond street, was arrested trite morning on the charge of selling ex tracts for drinking purposes. The "drink" was put up in pint bottles and was labeled 50 per cent, alcohol. Musselwhite gave bond in the sum of $100 for appearance for trial. Lawrence Delude, who was arrest, ed here a week ago on th0 charge of the larceny of an auto at Cerro Gordo, Columbus county was acquitted of the charge in Columbus court at Whiteville yesterday. Delude was arrested by the officers here upon the aavices or Columbus officers. Chief of Police D, M. Barker and Policeman JEd-J. Glover, who made the arrest, went to Whiteville yesterday as wit- ncsses in tne case. The following Lumberton young people havo arrived home from ths various colleges to spend the holi- days besides t-se mentioned in Monday's Robesonian: Misses Hazel and Sarah Carlyle, Greensboro Cok lege for Womea. Greensboro; Miss Marion Allen, Meredith college, RaL eigh; M(ss Drina Hedgpeth, Green-' ville college Gm n?Yil!e. S, C.,; Mias. , LuTa Normamt, Peace, Raleigh; Miss' " Evelina Beckwirth, St. Mary's RaL eigh; Misses Mary Lee Norment and Carolyn Shooter, Teinity, Durham; Messrs. Vernon McNeill and Robt. Proctor State University, Chapel Hill, Beverly Bigg's and W. J. Prevatt, Jr. Wake Forest, Robt. T. Allen. Jr- Mars Hill; Oscar Bulard, King's busi ness college, Raleigh; Harry K. Rus sell, Davidson. way at thp other pnd and is again drawn together onto a soft roll the size of a lady's finger. This roll passes down onto a can about hree or four feet high and is carefully coiled around and around till it is P'le:i UP nearly a foot higher than lle can SINNING ROOM.. Five Cans containing these rolls ar,, placed near together- and'five enl are joined ! 80 that thev are twisted into a loose I thread and wound on a large SDOOl. Tne threads from three spools are twisted by another machine and spun . into a fiat thread. These finer i threads are put through the same j i-' reads are put through the same ; process oi spinning ana twisting till i the thread is of the high quality that anu pcm-u in uuxes io d sinppea ai1 overtnp world where cotton is " r Dusiness course. men we i 1 1 i will have a chance to let them know how much we enjoy our visit and appreciated that they cared to take the time to give us this' treat. THE STORE. This is the p lace to buy your goods. Mr. Hamilton show-. ed us how to make a time check, how to operate his fine, new telephone, what to-do when you are short on onA side of your trial balance, how to keep books and how to be agreeable. In another year we will be ready to help Mr. Hamilton, and that means we will have to be all to th good. Now, THE BOOKKEEPING . CLASS, ALL TOGETHER- RAH! RAH! RAH! MR. GRAYJIR. BOYD, MR. HAMILTON. THE LUMBER TON COTTON MILLS. AND A HAP. PY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL THATS THE WAY WE FEEL. DANIEL BRITT, MARVIN -BARKER. INGRAM HEDGEPETH. MARY WETMORE MYRTLE BRITT; . EFFIE ELLEN BUTLER, DR. WILLIAM W. PARKER EYfi SPECIALIST 4. TNT i i k. Office: National Bank of Lumbertea Building.
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