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V THE BOBESOHIAH, LUHBEETOII, HOIlTn CAROLIHA MONDAY, DECEMBER 12. 1921. AGS TWO IPHOFESSIONALCARDS V.W.KEITH Attorney at Law Office on second floor Jones building . Fairmont, N. 0. Practice la State and Federal Courts attention given td all business F. ERTEL CARLYLE ATTORNEY AT LAW Lamberton, N. C Offices orer Freeman Printing Co. Vnmpt attenUon given to aU buBl. PRESS COMMENT ON HIGHWAY LUMBERTON TO WILMINGTON The Best Route? ' The article from Lumberton in to day's Dispatch provides food for thouffht. and especially for Wilming ton people, who are deeply interested in the proposed nignway wnicn wm link the state's only port city with the western and central parts of North Carolina. If the speakers at the Lumberton meeting were well informed, and con fiued themselves strictly to facts in regard to their arguments, it would appear that on the face of the pro blem the argument is all in favor of the Seaboard route being followed, u for no other reason than that it is mjr A X71 111 'the shortest route. Due allowance, of Dr. Maurice A. yvaaaeHicourge mugt ma(Je or the naturai TiPrVTTST OfHe- Second Floor Cotton Mill Of Ac- Bailding. Elm and Second Sts. . LUMBERTON. N. C ' " DAVID H. FULLEB Attorney at Law Second floor cotton mill office build lag, offices formerly occupied by Dr. Baker. LUMBERTON. N. C. DB. a B. McKAY DENTIST OSes on first floor ef The Nationa Bank of Lamberton Bailding. PHONE 283. X. JL MtKXILL. Jr. r. P. OACKRT. J UcZrETXL & HACKETT Attoraeya-At-Law. Toodberry Lennon ATTORNEY AT LAW Lamberton, N. C Offices over First National Bank. JUNIUS J. GOODWIN ATTORNEY-AT-L AW. OSes on ground floor McLeod Bld Opposite Robesonian Office. Edward K. Proctor ATTORNEY AT LAW Office next to Lumberton Motor Car Co, fat Building formerly occupied by ayJudge T. A. McNeill A. W. McLean Dickson McLeai I R. Varser H. E. Staej BeLEAN, VARSEE, McLEAN A STACY. Attorneys At Law. LUMBERTON. - North Carollpt W. B. IVEY Attorney and Counselor at Law. Office on Second Floor Cotton Mil) Office Building, Elm Street. Lumberton, N. C DR. GRAHAM McLEAN DENTIST Second Floor Jones Building FAIRMONT. N. C. Stephen Mclntyre R. C. Lawrenci Janes D. Proctor Robt. A. Mclntyrs McINTYRE, LAWRENCE A PROCTOR, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law LUMBERTON, N. C. Practice in State and Federal Courts Prompt attention given to all business H. J. BRITT and LUTHER J. BRITT, Attornsjs Practicing law under the firm ram of E. J. BRITT & CO.. with offices in the Pope Building lamberton, N. CL Practice in botib State and Federal courts. Prompt Attention Given All Business Thomas L. Johnson E. M. Johpsoi JOHNSON & JOHNSON Attorneys and Counsellors at Law . LUMBERTON, N. C. Practice in State and Federal Courts Notary Public in Office. Offices First National Bank. new'9 anxiety of rival claimants to have a state "highway pass througlr tneir re spective territories and no doubt the residents of the oiher and tentative route will quickly come forward with excellent reasons why the highway commissioners should stick " to the route as at present projected. It seems t oThe Dispatch that with the state paying for the road it is only right and proper that the route which will be of the most benefit to the people of North Carolina should be followed. If, as the Lumberton dis. patch claims, the distance from Lum berton to Wilmington is fifteen to twenty miles shorter, "that seems a valid reason for looking further into the question of the road, unless the highway commissioners have infor mation which contradicts or offsets the Lumberton claims. It is a question in which Wilming ton is interested for selfish reasons as well as those inspired by a desire to be public spirited citizens with the interests of the whole state af heart. Charlotte is a rival of Wilmington for business in the territory lying, rough ly, half way. between the two cities, As the crow flies Lumberton is near er to Wilmington than to Charlotte, but the country west of Lumberton gradually gets into the Charlotte ter ritory. If the A. C. L. route adds 20 miles to a drive from Lumberton to Wilmington over the Seaboard route it is obvious that the A. C. L. route would mean the contracting of Wilmington s trading territory in the country west of Lumberton by just that distance, The chamber of commerce of Wil mington realized the importance to the state and to this city of the best selection of a route for the highway last summer when the chamber de clined to approve the tentative route on the ground that the highway should be built to serve the greatest number of North Carolinians, and the chamber was not prepared to take the responsibility of endorsing any route. The Dispatch at the time was of the opinion that the chamber showed mighty good judgment in its decision, and the events of the last two or three days confirm the belief, as it seems evident that all sides of the question have not yet been studied sufficiently to warrant the assertion that the A. C. L. route is actually the best. An investigation may prove that the ten tative route -is in the best interests of the state and if that be so, then The Dispatch is for that route, but it seems reasonable that a survey should be conducted before an opinion is formed one way or another. Wil ington Dispatch. county seat to county seat highways and roads v that will serve the need3 of the greatest number of people. The Robesonian calls for fairness and a hearing from commissioner McGirt. We feel sure that both will be grant ed, even if the latter is called for at this the eleventh hour. We feel sure that Mr. McGirt has no idea v of lending his power to building a speed way for ; tourists in . defiance "to all the commercial advantages of the road, and to the state's road building plans. Whiteville News Reporter. States Senator whom he had appoint ed. The sub-committee will make some amendments to exempt this . class ; of appointees and probably members of board of State institutions, and let it go to the House. ' ? ; - v Yesterday Senator Burgwin, of New . (. ' 11 1, mf " " -.mi:.,.-:.'. General Assembly ' PERPETUATE the sacred memories f those of your loved ones who have passed by the erection of an endur ing MEMORIAL. Let as assist you la the choosing of an appropriate de. Irnberton Marble Works, - J. IL Floyd, Proprietor Cast Second St. , Lumberton. N. Q COTTON I am in the market at all times for COTTON - in any tile lota. Call me when yon have ootton to Offer.-' r-; -n.U at ' :; .-V.N. HUBBARD r&c XTo, 2, Fairmont N. 0. Commercial or Pleasure? The Lumberton Robesonian is sud denly seeing where a great injustice will be done to the people if they are net given a hearing on the question of whether the Wilmington-Charlotte highway shall pass along a new route through Bladen county or the old and generally accepted one through Col umbus. We were given to understand that the matter was decided some two or three years ago; that things pointed then and still point to the route through Columbus as being the most feasible. The Columbus county road authorities and the Columbus county people have went forward on that knowledge and more than half the read has been built up under Federal specifications, sand-clayed and bridg ed. Contractors are rushing work on other portions and indirectly we have betn given to understand that seven mi.es ot the road between Cadbourn and Whiteville will come in for a hard surfacing contract during the next twelve months. It is therefore something of a shock to this paper to have our good neighboring authority on road build, ins come forward with a fiat state ment that it '11 cost ha'f a million dollars more to build the road the long way round through Columbus. And in addition, according to The Robesonian, it'll make folks go 20 miles out of the way to reach Wil mington, if Commissioner McGirt re fuses a hearing and refuses his aid in building the highway through Bladen. The News Reporter knows nothing about the differences in the cost, which The Robesonian appears to have at its finger tips, but we will grant that a short distance would be saved if the road runs down the Sea board, as The Robesonian desires. On the other hand there's something in Governor Morrison's road building program that calls for these roads to run from county-seat to county-seat It is the plan to ultimately connect up every county seat in North Caro lina, with ' neighboring county seats by means of a hard surfaced road. If the road runs down the Seaboard, as The Robesonian desires, our big neighbor, Robeson county, will ulti mately be connnected not only with neighboring county seats but will have what might be classed as a pri vate road of its own extending across a wilderness in one of its neighbor ing counties and connecting it with a county seat 75 miles away. The Morrison program calls for Thursday's ProceedingsBills r -; to ibolieh Capital Punishment Killed Raleigh, Dec. 8. The educational bill to take care of the $710,000 school fund deficit and the municipal- fi nance act slid through the second reading on a greased track In the House today. The' Hopse. members may have been too busy thinking about the 89 new bills they had just introduced, but committee fights over these two measures, regarded as had omens, failed absolutely to reach the ' main body, and only ten votes were cast against the educational bill and four against the f mace act. Eighty-nine supported the finance act and 83 the school bill. The ever-opposing Tarn Bowie cast his vote in opposition to the school bill and nine , other members joined him. Rep. Cowles, of Wilkes, charging that the finance act was drawn by a New York bond at torney and that it permitted, every municipality save Winston-Salem to double its tax rate, made a vigorous effort to consolidate the vote against that bill but the best he could do was to swing three other members to his side. The bills to abolish capital punish ment were duly executed by the House and Senate judiciary commit tees this afternoon. After some dis cussion of the five bills relating to the abolishment of the death sentence they were relegated to the committee scrap pile and unfavorable report on them reported. While the House was spending the morning receiving its 89 new bills, the Senate was adding 22 to its long list, bringing the total number of bills be fore both houses, local and State wide, to around four hundred. And legal looking papers can be seen yet sticking from the pockets of law makers. The appointment of a sub-commit tee by the propositions and grievance committee of the House this after noon to draw up a suitable State vehicle law for introduction in that body gave evidence of the passage at this session of a State law govern ing traffic. Traffic bills were turned over to the sub-committe, and from these it is supposed to prepare a bill. W. M. Jones, secretary of the Carolinas Automotive Trades asso ciation, was before the committee this afternoon in support f of a meas ure. This body fought during the last regular session for the enactment of traffic legislation. The same committee this afternoon handed to a sub-committee a bill in. troduced by Representative Glover, of Nash, and Mathews of Mecklenburg, empowering the Governor to "remove his own appointees for cause. This bill was executed at the regular ses sion but Kepresentative Ulover re vised and brought it back with him. The committee thought it was giving the uovernor too much power to al low him to discharge, for instance, a Supreme Court justice or a United Hanover, introduced .. a. bill to "put Brunswick county under the State wide stock laws and today a petition signed by - many Beaufort citizens was laid before the House asking that their county be exempt ed from the operation ' of the law; Some eastern counties want the law and others do not. The stock law is likely to be a part of the daily re port "until the assembly adjourns.- Brock Barkley in Wilmington Star. to a Senate Investigating commit tee by way of denial of charges that scores of soldiers - had been . hanged without trial. - Out of consideration .lor the families of the dead, the J names of the eleven were omitted from the record. DETAILED RECORDS GIVEN OF EXECUTION OF SOLDIERS Watson's Colonel Bethel Says Charges Are False. - Washington, Dec. 8. Detailed re cords of the War Department relat ing to the lega execution of eleven members of the American expedi toinary forces were presented today Read bv-Colonel WnfW ft "Rtiiai General Pershing's judge advocate general in France, the record ahnw. county j ed-that those executed by the mili tary authorities included eight ne. groes, two whites and one Indian. Senator Watson, Democrat, Geor gia, whose presentation of the charges on the floor of the ; Senate led to the. investigation, - appeared before the committee today and declared he was prepared to prove the charges and .submitted affidavits, newspaper clippings and letters bearing on the subject Col. Bethel, who was called after Senator Watson had read several NOTICE OF SALE OP LAND UNDER EXECUTION Under and by virtue rf an execution to me directed and iuued by the Superior-Court of Robeson County. North Carolina, in an action between L. H. Caldwell, and E. C. Bins, the undersigned Sheriff of Robeson County will offer for sale to the highest bid der for Cash, at th eeourthouse door in Lum berton, North Carolina, on the 2nd day of January 1922, same being the first Monday in January 1922, at 12 o'clock. Noon, all the right, title and interest and estate of E. C. Biggs, in and to the following described lands : Situate on the northeast (! nf n. Swamp, and beginning at a large pine stump on the southwest side of a branch, and run due South 10 chains and 50 links to light wood tree; then south 80 degrees west 10 chains to small pine; then south 15 de grees east 85 chains to m stake: then i,th 77 degrees west 88 chain to a stake; then north 10 degrees east 28 chains to a stake: then north 43 east 83 chains to a large pine stump; then a direct line to the beginning, and containing 100 acres, more or less. See Deed registered in Book 111. saae 857. Robe. son County Registry. The interest of the aforesaid defendant in tenancy in common with others snbieet to the life estate of C. B. Biggs. . I This the 28th day of November, 1921. R. EL LEWIS. 12-5-4 Moo. Sheriff, Robeson County.! affidavits, declared with great em phasis that the charges were false. Most of the crimes were against women and children. One of the white soldiers hanged was convicted of murdering another soldier and the other was ..found guilty, of .at tacking an 8-year-old Belgian girl. A French J professor was murdered while trying to protect an old woman and the father of the girl was killed by two negroes as he fought against great odds to save her. ROBESONIAN IS -ONLY $2 THE YEAR We will begin having . regular GIN hAYSnext FRIDAYS. Eixipty stalls to store your cotton any day. vug. tompany Lumberton, N. C. latafw i i-wav ifiitiipa Hit. c tSmS-n&t .iT?tfent- d.2 fiouesun i .-.' r..t,- ( .u v... V ... ....... ... .... ' : : rr.T! m'M fcrt . m A a M k . .. . ... m. ..... i . . . r ' ..'.... . "" v&S v g5 V WIlBfesT spurs . 1 TfaeBrigttest I Hi ffi ! s i T3 m m H m i i i I ANA M W T Pit Have you seen our varied assortment of beauti ful and useful Christmas Gifts? EVERYTHING FROM KODAKS TO MANICURE SETS Fancy Gift Boxes of Toilet faater, Perfumes, Sachets, etc Wonderful Gifts for HER Safety Razors and Shaving Sets, Pipes, Pine Cigars in Gift Boxes. They will be Appreciated by HIM. McMILLAN'S Mf M iir n tit M n 4S m THE OLD RELIABLE DRUG STORE m s MM. MS . m IS NOW ON A coupon given with every Dollar Cash purchase which will entitle you to a chance at one of the three valuable prizes FIRST PRIZE: $250.00 Diamond Ring. SECOND PRIZE: $20.00 Gold Piece. THIRD PRIZE : $10.00 Gold Piece. These prizes are now on display in our window. ; Contest will close Dec. 28th 2:30 p. m. and the Nos. drawn which will claim the prizes will be announced in my ad. in The Robesonian on Thurs day 29th Come in and look at the prizes and let us show you our stock of Christ mas Gifts. . - We want you to feel at ease in ouf store and we are going to try to give every purchaser, valne for every DOLLAR SPENT here. The newest and best of everything for every member of the family can be found at our store Gifts bought now will be laid away until yon want them. A Guaranteed Line of ' Parker Fountain Pen and Pencils. A Pall Line of Hamilton Gents and Ladies Watches JEWELER AND ENGRAVER LUMBERTON, N. C.
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