t THE DATE ON THE LABEL IS -THE' DATE YOUR PAPER WILL BE STOPPED. WATCH LABEL ON TOUR PAPER ND DONT LET rt SUB SCRIPTION EXPIRE. ESTABLISHED 1870. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. COUNTRY, GOD AND TRUTH. $2.00 A YEAR. DUE IN ADVANCE VOLUME LII LUMBEETON, N. C, MONDAY; APEIL 11, 1921. NUMBER 17 Summitt Gets Ver- diet For $93.75 $10,800 Damages Was Asked for Alleged Assault by George Allen in Primary Last June Second Weeki of Superior Conrt Began This Morning. .The second week of Robeson Superior-court for the trial of civil cases convened this morning with Judge . Frank A. Daniels of Goldsboro pre siding. Judge Daniels spent the week-end with his family at Golds boro. fri - r. - ... ine case oi n. u. summitt - vs. tieorge Allen, in which Summitt was!near Jnf nome. ine tuneral was suing Allen for $10,800 for an assault Poached by Rev. A. E. Paul, pastor made upon him on the day of theiof Raf SwamP Baptist church, of primary last June, took up mosr of ! wmch the deceased was a member at Thursday and Friday. Summitt was th , time f ,his death. given a verdict by the jury for $93.75 The bunal w conducted by the damages. The plea of the plaintiff Lumberton post of the American was that Allen "beat him ud" at the Le&in. the remains being interred voting place in Wisharts .townshin on the day pf the primary, the row starting about the way Summitt voted. Summitt was represented by Messrs. G. B. Patterson and J. E. Carpenter of Maxton and N. A. Sin clair of Fayetteville, while Alleq was represented by Messrs. T. L. Johnson, S. Mclntyre and H. E. Stacy of Lum berton. The case of E. L. Haynes vs. D. R. Rhodes was compromised after the evidence in the case had been taken. Judgement- the pmrttiff was given in the case of H. A. Page, Jr., vs. .G. C. Smith and also in the case f H. A. Page, Jr., vs. James McMil- an. The hearing in re the Will of the late Miss Matilla L. Edens, set for today, was continued until the May term of court. It is not thought court will last through. this week, as but few cases appeac on the -calendar. Alleged Blockaders Caught In The Act Rowland K. Stone and Norwood Barnes Were Busily Engaged About 2 Stills When Officers Sur prised Them in Juniper Bay, Near Proctorville, Saturday They Made Bond and Will be Given Hearing April 19 Lard-Tub Stills and Some Juice Captured. Officers . captured two 30-gallon capacity whiskey stills in the Juniper bay near Proctorville, Saturday afternoon and arrested Rowland K. Stone and Norwood Barnes, two young white men, who were busily engaged in operating the stills when the officer,, approached. Stone and Barnes made bond in the sum of $500 each and will be given a hearing be fore Recorder David H. Fuller on Tuesday, April 19. The raid was made by Sheriff R. E. Lewis, Police man Vance McGill and Deputy F. A. Wishart. y Tmi stills were made of lard tubs and accessories to match and were located close together in the bay. They were being operated when reach ed by the officers. Around 80 gal lons of beer and a very small supply of the finished "stuff" was also cap tured. Not Much Interest in Town Politics. Town politics is milder than is usually the case this near the pri mary. There are three candidates in the field for mayor A. E. White, incumbent, A. P. Mitchell and B. N. Brigman but the race is very calm up to this time. It is expected to warm up somewhat during the next few days, however. As has been stated in The Robe sonian, Mr. J. L. Stephens is offering for commissioner from ward No. 3, and Dr. N. A. Thompson stated Sat urday that he would offer for re election in ward No. 1. Only two commissioners are to be elected! The primary will be held April 26. Recorder's Court. Two cases made top the recorder's court this morning' These were: Mack Campbell, colored, charged with cursing and raising a distur bance in the town of Lumberton. Prayer for judgment was continued for 12 months upon payment of the cost. f , W. T. Mercer, being drunk in the town of Lumberton; judgement sus pended upon payment of the cost. Kitchen Named Minority Leader. Representative Claude Kitchen of North Carolina Saturday was elected by a caucus of House Democrats in Washington as minority leader for the 67th Congress. There was no opposition. Mr. Kitchen alsoreceived the nomination for the speakership, but as the' Republicans are in control this is an empty honor. 36 Men Found Gilty in Express Case. A jury in Federal court at Macon, Ga., Saturday returned verdicts of guilty on all five counts against 36 persons accused of conspiracy to rob the American Railway Express com pany of poperty valued at $1,000,000. Picnic and Concert. Correspondence Of The Robesonian Lake View, S. C, April 9-There will be an afternoon picnic and con cert following on the 15th of April. The public is cordially invited. Miss Laura Stephens spent the week-end at friends. Laurel Hill visiting iBig Crowd Attends -Military Funeral Remain,, of James T. Smith, World War, Hero, Interred With Military Honors at Home of Parents Near Lowe He Was Killed in Action in France November 7, 1918. A crowd estimated at 1,500 attend ed the funeral of James ,T. -Smith, World War hero, yesterday at 3:30 p! m. The funeral was conducted from the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. . J. Smith, parents of the deceased sol dier, near Lowe, and interment was made in the Smith burying ground, Wltn fuU military honors. Appro priate music was furnished by the East Lumberton band. The pall bearers were: ex-Captain David H. Fuller in charge, R. F. Thomas, Don. N. McGill, A. P. Page, Rufus Kinlaw, I..L. McGill, J. E. Walters; honorary, B. M. Sibley, B. R. Cheek, and D. J. Jolly. At the conclusion of the grave-side service a firing squad of ex-soldiers j of the World War fired the regula tion salute of three volleys. The I firing squad was composed of ex- Captain F. Eh Wishart, in charge. Earl Crump, Leslie Cashwell, Ed, J. Glover, J. R. Bridgers, Jr., Harry 'H. Memory, Clarence A. Moore, Oliver F. Nance and Welt Fisher. Taps were sounded by D. J. Jolly. The Lumberton Red Cross chapter was represented by Miss Mary Mc Neill, Mrs. S. H. Hamilton and Miss Eulalia McGill, who had charge of the arrangement of the , numerous beautiful floral attractions. Deceased was killed in action at the front in France on November 7, 1918, just four days before the armis tice was signed. He went into the service of his country as a soldier on May 28, 4918,' and went overseas m July of the same year. He went overseas with the '81st (Wildcat) division and was later transferred to the 42nd (Rainbow) division and was killed while fighting with that divi sion. He was about 23 years old. It was one of the largest crowds that ever attended a funeral in Robe son county who gathered .to pay their last tribute of respect to this Robe sonian who gave his life for his country. The members of the local post of the American Legion con ducted the funeral in a creditable manner. The remains arrived here Wednes day night from France, accompanied by Sgt. Raymond W. Jacques of Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C. Sgt. Jacques went to New York and ac companied the remains irom that place. He remained here until after the funeral, leaving last evening for Camp Jackson. Mr: Frank L. Smith of Callahan. Fla., arrived Friday to attend the funeral of hi8 brother. Two Fires At Marietta Store and Stock of Goods of Mr. Leon Henly Destroyed Thursday Night and Mr. R. C. Oliver Lost Tobacco Barn and 17 Bales of Cot ton That Afternoon. T-U n ltuilslin rr on4 efrwL- rf ' goods of Mr. Leon Henly at Marietta were destroyed by fire of unknown origin Thursday night. While the loss, was large, itis learned that it was largely covered by insurance. This was the second fire in that section Thursday, a tobacco barn be longing to Mr. R. C. Oliver, in which 17 bales of cotton were stored, being burned Thursday, afternoon. Only seven bales of the cotton were burned. The origin of the fires is unknown. Commissioner Wade Stands by His Guns. State Insurance Commissioner Wade is not impressed with the claim of officers of the International Petroleum Co. of Texas that they are within the law in carrying on a mail order business. He says that the Federal government often does not check up these companies that offer glittering stock values through the mails until thousands of people have been fleeced, and adverts to the fact that a half w billion dollars was lost last year in fake stocks and that $125,000,000 additiinal was traded in Liberty bonds for these worthless Securities. He says he has no inten tion of waiting until the horse is stolen to warn the people against such investments. Saturday he directed police authorities of Wilming ton to arrest and hold J. C. Wright, an alleged representative of the Texas Eagle Oil and Refining Co., which is said not to have observed formalities required for resident salesmen of its stock. Not Son, of A. L. McCaskill. The Earl McCaskill referred to in a dispatch printed in Thursday's Robe sonian as involved with an encounter with members of the Law and Order League of Cumberland county when a raid was made on a whiskey still is not a son of A. L. McCaskill, pro minent Republican politician, but a son of John McCaskill, brother of A. II, according to a Fayetteville dis patch of the 7th. APP1L SHOWERS , ZL&tSitf W'OlO TrllS 6VE r&PPEM TO YOU? JUDGE PRITCHARD PASSES. Famous Jurist Died at His Home in Asheville Yesterday of Pneumonia. Federal Judge Jeter Coney Pritch- ard, of the United States Circuit court of the Fourth district, died at his home in Asheville yesterday morning following an illness of sever al months. Death of the famous jurist was due directly to pneumonia, which, developed Thursday and served to aggravate his previous physical afflictions. He was in his 64th year. The funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon from the " First Baptist church of Asheville, of which he was a leading member, and business of the city will be stopped) for 10 min utes as a token of respect. Judge Pritchard was born in Jones boro, Tenn., April 12, 1857. While still in his teens he walked 35 miles across the mountains of east Tenn essee and western North Carolina to Bakersville, where he arrived with only 10 cents and the clothes he wore. He went to work in a print shop and studied at night. He was elected to the State Legislature in 1875 and in 1887, the year he obtained law license, and again in 1891. He served in the United States Senate 1895 to 1903, when he was appointed by President Roosevelt to the Supreme Court bench of the District of Columbia, and later was advanced to judgeship of the United States Circuit Court for the Fourth districts Georgia "Death Farm" Owner Con victed of Murder. John Si ' Williams, Jasper county, Ga., "farmer, was taken to Atlanta and placed in jail Saturday to await action April 30 on his motion for a new trial, which was made at Cov ington, Ga., Saturday immediately after he was convicted and sentenced to life-time imprisonment on a charge of murder., He expressed confidence he would finally be cleared of the charges. The trial was the first one arising from accusations that Williams caus ed the killing of eleven negro farm hands after Department of Justice agent8 had started to investigate al leged peonage charges on his farm February 18, last. Three of the negroes, including Lindsay Patterson, whom he was specifically charged with killing at the trial, were alleged to have been brought into Newton county and drowned. The other eight negroes were de clared by Manning, negro farm boss and srf -confessed accomplice, to have been killed in Jasper county and in quiry by the fand jury with a view to indicting Williams and three of his sons is to open there today. Snow Reported in Richmond and Other Sections. A Richmond, Va., dispatch says that snow fell for an hour or more there yesterday afternoon but melted as fast as it fell. A Bristol, Tenn., dispatch states that snow, sleet and rain fell in that section yesterday and that a heavy snow was falling there last night at 10 o'clock. Five inches of snow is reported at Rowlesburg, W. Va.. with temperature of 28, and snow flew in that section all day yesterday, states a Cumberland, Md., dispatch. Sleet and snow fell in the Blowing Rock section of this . State yesterday morning, the Charlotte Ob server was informed by members of motor parties returning to Charlotte yesterday afternoon. Marshal 'Foch to Visit America. Washington, April 7. Marshal Foch Is to follow M. Viviani to this country. It is the plan of the French government to send him with a view to improving relations between this country and France. The date of his visit is indeterminate. Here in Wash ington it was understood that he would leave Paris shortly after the return. there of Viviani. But a' dis patch from Kansas City says that he ha3 been invited by the American legion to be present at a convention to be held there at the end of October. The state department' will furnish a ship to bring him to this country C. W. Gilbert in Greensboro News. EXPECT EARLY RELIEF OF COT TON SITUATION IN SOUTH War Finance Corporation and South ern Bankers Working Out Plans. A New Orleans dispatc of the 9th gives the following: Belief of the cotton situation in the South through substantial financial assistance on the part of the War Finance Corporation was expected to be brought about shortly, in the opin ion of representatives of the War Finance Corporation, Federal Inter national Banking Company and the Federal Resepve Bank of Atlanta, who tonight announced after an all day consultation that they would meet again in Atlanta the latter part of thig month to take action along those lines. The Federal International Banking Company's headquarters here will se. cure from the 1,300 members of the corporation, recently organized under the Edge Act, data and statistics touching all angles of the cotton trade.. These statistics will be In dexed and studied at the Atlanta meeting, after which it waa expected definite plans would be made for or ganization under the Webb-Pomerene Act of a company abte to finance and move cotton. Cotton exporters of the South will be called upon to have representatives at the Atlanta meeting, it was an nounced. Mr. Meyer, in aneicplanation of the views of the Warv Finance Corporation stated the best results for the South would be accomplished by "the proper spirit of co-operation among cotton exporters and bankers, acting in conjunction with the Federal International Banking Company." Both Mr. Meyer and Mr. Davis as sured thg bankers that any practical plan of co-operation devised by the bankers and exporters would meet with the hearty co-operation of the War Finance Corporation. The meeting here today was for the purpose of cntinuing the discussion of the cotton export situation which was taken up at the recent Washing ton conference with Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce. Meeting Places for Community Ser vice. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Marietta Monday, April 11th. Old Prospect (Ind.) Tuesday. April 12th. Rex Wednesday, April 13th. -Baltimore Thursday, April 14th. Parkton Friday, April 15th. Pembroke Normal Saturday, April 16th. Programme Robinson Crusoe (3 reels); Jerry's Finishing Touch (one reel); The Wealth of the Nation (one reel); Mutt and Jeff in Switzerland. Any schools closing with exercises in the morning, and none in the after noon, we will be glad to darken the rooms and put on the pictures in the afternoons. We have some unusually good pictures and the price to all is only ten cents. Any teacher wishing to have these pictures in their schools Will please write me at once. M. N. FOLGER, Director Community service. - - Frost Expected Tonight. The "cool snap in April" arrived yesterday afternoon and it came near being a cold snap. The temperature dropped to 37 last night, according to Mr. B. M. Davis, local government weather man. It was cold enough to frost last night, according to Mr. Davis, and present indications are that it will frost tonight. Warmer weather is promised tomorrow. It is feared that the cool weather will have a bad effect upon tobacco, much of which wag transplanted last week. Picnic Supper at Alfordsville 15th. The picnic supper at Alfordsville school house will be Friday evening, April 15, instead of Monday evening, April 18,' as stated in correspondence from Rowland published elsewhere in today's paper. The Woman's club will meet with Mrs. E. L. Holloway Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. THE RECORD OF DEATHS, Funeral of Mr. Boyd Williams Re mains Interred near Barnetmlle. The funeral of Mr. Boyd V. Williams- who was shot and killed at Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga., was con ducted from the home of the father of deceased, Mr. Thompson Williams, near Barnes ville, Friday at 2:30 p. m. by Rev. Mr. Dodd, pastor of the Earnesville Baptist church, of which deceased was a member, assisted by Rev, R. A. Hedgpeth, a former pas tor of - that church. The remains were accompanied from Atlanta by several fronds and numerous beau- Mr. Jaracs M N . -t.ful floral offerings from friends ,1IC8, market on the 8th t in Atlanta also accompanied the re-;neas( fr0in hi, truck Urm nearKLuni. mams. I berton. As was stated in Thursday's Robe-. Mr. J. H. Felts, Jr., will go to sonian, Mr. Williams died Wednes- j morrow to Charlotte to' attend the day afternoon from the effects of Charlotte auto .hov, which opens being shot early Tuesday night as t here this evening he was leaving his office at Camp! Lumberton merchants who ad Gordon. He was chief clerk of the . vertised special Di.Ilar-Day bargains salvage department at the camp. He j Thursday, F riday and Saturday were was struck in the back, the bullet I P-eased with their snles. passing through his body. The! Mrs. Li-r.ie G. Proctor and daugh guard who shot him was a member tt-r. Mips IIiian Pro tor, wen4 today of a Baraca class of which the de-1 t( -Greensboro to a. lend a concert ceased was president, in Atlanta. 10 De,f,vffn y Ul.u The guard mistook him for a burg- f- ? '; M -Kenzie has opened lar. it is said. Th guard was placed "? ?ff,cp Lthe commissioners' room The guard was placed under arrest, however. Mrs. C. L. Martin of Boardman. Mrs. C. L. Martin, aged 39 years, died Friday night at her home at Boardman, Columbus vounty, death resulting from measles and compli cations. Deceased is survived by her husband and eight children. The re mains were sent to Critz, Va., former home of the deceased, for interment. Mrs. Joe Williams of Pembroke. Mrs. Joe Williams, aged about 35 years, died yesterday at her home at Pembroke. Deceased is survived by her husband and several children. The funeral took place this afternoon and interment was made in the family burying grounds, near Dillion, S. C. Rhoda Carlyle, Colored. Rhoda Carlyle, colored, aged 76 years, died yesterday at her home, in Saddletree township. Rev. J. E. Sykes, Colored, Victim of Murderous Attack. Rev. J. E. Sykes, colored, was at tacked and stabbed in the neck early Saturday morning by a negro whose name he says is Donnie Cornear. The affair took place between 5 and 6 o'clock in the "Bottom", just beyond the Seaboard trestle. Rev. Sykes says he was on his way to get hands, that Cornear held him up, snatched him out of his buggy and made at hia throat with a knife, succeeding in stabbing him slightly in the left side of his neck. Sykes managed to throw his assailant, who got up and ran. No report of the affair has been made to offiecrs. Sykes says he learned later that Cornear had said he had had it in for him for 2 yeara because he put an officer on him for beating Sykes' 9-year-old niece, and that the negro had been waiting in the street every morning for him to pass for 3 or 4 mornings, intending to kill him; but Rev. Sykes says he does not believe that story and thinks rather that the negro was "supported to slay him by some unknown enemies," for he has never had any "talk or dealings with that nigger." and that "it is the evil powers that bas been giving him trouble for some years." Dr. J. D. Quick, colored, dressed the wound, which was not serious but which might have proved fatal if it had gone deeper. Chances Good For Settlement of Miners' Strike in England. The . strike of coal miners in Eng land, which threatened to carry with it a general strike of railway men and transport workers in the great est labor struggle in the history of England, seems now to be in a fair way of settlement through negotia tions, states a London dispatch of the j 9th. It was expected Friday that approximately 2,000,000 would cease their duties at midnight tomorrow night in pitest against what they consider o be an organized attempt on the part of employers to enforce a general reduction in wages, but it was announced Saturday night that the miners had yielded and that a conference with the coal owners had been arranged for today to dis cuss the( questiorts involved, whila notices were sent to the mining dis tricts urging abstention from any ac tion that would interfere with neces sary measures for the safety of the mines. Railroad accidents resulted in the death of 2,044 persons for the quar ter ending September 30, 1920, and injury of 17,947 others as against 1, 763 killed and 14,738 injured for the same quarter in 1919 and 2, 429 killed and 13,446 injured for the third quar ter of 1918, according to a report is sued Saturday by the Interstate Com merce Commission John Elliott, . who committed sui cide at his home near Fayetteville last Tuesday, left $10,000 to' , the Fayetteville presbytery of the Presbyterian church, to be used in home or foreign missions, or both, as rulers of the church may deem best. His estate is estimated at $100, 000. Among the bequests was $1,000 to Jeff Williams, a faithful negro servant. . f COTTON MARKET. Middling cotton -is quoted on the local market today at 10 cents; strict middling 10V cents. BRIEF ITEMS LOCAL NEWS The cemetery near the union station hr-being cleaned off. The interior of the j bakery has been treated to a new- coat or paint. License has been issued for the marriage of Frank P. Kinlaw and , Fannie Sanderson. at the court house to take care of his growing business as justice of the peace and notary public. Mr. Dixon McLean of Lumberton is among the delegates named by Governor Morrison for the meeting of the United States Good Roads Association in Greensboro. Grace Locklear and James Dewey Locklear, Indians, were married Fri day at noon at the home of Justice M. G. McKenzie, who officiated. The newly-weds live near Wakulla. Dr. J. P. Brown of Fairmont and Mr. W. I. Linkhaw of Lumberton . attended Friday at Pinehurst a dog show and some other attractions there. They reported a great time. Rev. Frank Hare, pastor of the St. Pauls Baptist church and field, returned this afternoon from Char lotte, where he recently underwent an operation at the Charlotte sana torium. Much clean-up work was done here last, week, according to 5Ir. H. B. Robson, superintendent of streets. He had two trucks engaged in battl ing of' trash and rubbish ard the trucks will continue the work until all trash has been moved off the streets. Geo. Blunt, colored, who lives on R. 2 from Lumberton, sent to The Robesonian office - Saturday a most unusual hen egg. It is rather small and resembles a kershaw or gourd more than anything c!se in shape- bat is white in color. It was said to have beenlaid by a "non-setter," a h?n that has never set. The Lumberton "raded and high schools will close Tuesday, May 31. Mr. Gilbert T. Stephenson of Wins tomSalem will deliver the literary address on Tuesday at 11 a. m. The commencement sermon will be preach ed on Sunday, May 29. It ha8 not yet been learned who will preach the sermon. Class day exercises wilt be held,on Monday evening, May 30. He succeeded in getting off. A man boarded the V. & C. S. passenger train here yesterday morning. After the train, passed the "Y" in the eas tern part of town without stopping the man asked .another passenger if the traiadid not "belong" to stop. He was advised that it dM not and he made his way to the rear of the tram and jumped off. After turning about in the air and rolling on the ground for a speJl he managed to come ti a stop. It was not learned wetber he was hurt. He was able to walk, how ever. That's one way of getting off a train. & MT. ELIM SCHOOL CLOSES FRIDAY NIGHT, APRIL 15. A Concert and Play, "A Poor Married Man", Will be GIr-a. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Mt. Elim school closes PriHnw ni'trhf April 15th, with a concert tha night- A play will be given: title. "A Poor Married Man." Everybody is cordfclly invited to attend. Margaret Odum and Annie Caine, Teachers. Miss Neta Harrid, daughter of T. J. Harris of Beaufort county, com mitted suicide one day last week in Pitt county, where sh? had been teaching school, by hanging herself to a tree. Despondency over ill health is supposed to Lave been the cause. Miss Julia Stewart of Laurinburg, the first North Carolina woman to become a justice of the peace by legislative appointment, took the oath of office April 1st, says the Laurin burg Exchange. Archie McDuffie, a Moore county young man. in a game of baseball at Jackson Springs last week was hit on the head by a ball and his skull was fractured, but an operation was performed in a Charlotte hospital and it is thought that he will recover. NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS All taxes due the town of Lum- berton remaining tnpaid on May ? T, 1921 will be turned over to the Town Attorney for advertisement and sale. ' J. P. RUSSELL, "Town Clerk and Treasurer. ... . .,-,

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