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News and Comment Former “Mineral Spring” and Changes Wrought in 50 Years— diction That Bailey Will Lose in Crops—Negro Exodus—An An dent and Historic Church—Pre His Little Game. By A ant Becky Old Pork, June 20—Since my last article to The Robesonian, I have crossed over the State line and spent two weeks among friends in the charming little town of Blenheim, Marlboro county, known in former years as “Mineral Spring”, from a natural spring in the edge of Three creaks, whose waters from analysis, r.nd beneficial effects, are strongly impregnated with various minerals. According to tradition this spring was discovered during the Revolu tionary War, by a Tory whose name was Spear while hiding out in the ewamps, from the vengeance of the Whigs. In the year 1864-5 I was hoarding with an uncle and aunt, and attending a spendid school near by the above-named place, which was then but a small hamlet composed of six dwellings, a wood and blacksmith shop,and a gunsmith’s establishment. After the lapse of 58 years, I found a progressive little town of *00 inha bitants, a postoffice, garage, two physicians, three nice churches, an elegant manse, several nice resi dences, large, fine high school build ing, and the same strain of cultured, highbred people that I knew in Ante bellum days. But alas’ not one of my former school-mates remained to greet me, and but three familiar faces met my eyes. However, the children and grandchildren had grown up, who showed me every kindness and royal hospitality. The manse was my headquarters, which is the present delightful home of our former Scotch pastor, Dr. Dugald McIntyre, and family. He and his good wife are a busy pair, and doing a great work in the Master’s vine yard. During his three years of pas toral service there he has, from a mission station, near the great Pee Dee, built up and organized a new church, and several Y. P. C. E.’s and ladies Aid societies. The cotton crops in Marlboro, are materially in advance of Robeson, but scarcity of labor is very obvious, and I noted many fields of fine cotton in desperate condition from weeds and grass. Some of those progressive planters were preparing for warfare upon the common enemy. Calcium arsenate is the most popular weapon in use. One week-end I spent most pleas-: antly with friends in Bennettsville, j where I was informed that the negro exodus continued, and on Saturday p. m. 72, recruits boarded the train for different Northern points. Up to date, 5,000 are reported as having left that county. I noted some bodies of fine land deserted, and lying idle. Not much news in circulation here about. The busy farming season is on hand, and so are the weevils. Our farmers have opened the battle against them, and it is high time to take action, as thirty or forty more days will tell the tale. Some are jis ing Hill’s mixture, and others, cal cium arsenate. Com is looking well, and d fine crop of small grain has been harvested. Since beginning this writing, we have had a heavy rain of which gar dens were much in need, as the vegetables were drying up, and had almost quit bearing. I am just in receipt of an invita tion from a friend neaT Aberdeen, to attend a homecoming on Sunday next at Bethesda, an ancient and historic church in Moore county, which was organized upward of a century ago. f visited this landmark three summers since and found it quite an interesting spot, especially the two cemeteries, the old and the new situated on either side of the church. In the former, I found manv crumbling to decay, having date of the 17th century, and almost excep tionally bearing names of the “Scotch Macs”, by whom that section had been first settled. In the later ceme tery. stood many beautiful, and eost’y monuments, among which was that of our late Ambassador Page. We entered the old church which has hoen in disuse for some years, and the organization removed to Aberdeen. It is beautifully located and well preserved, standing a lone ly sentinel amid the grove of ma jesti- oaks, as keeping watch and guard over the last resting place ot those sturdy Christian pioneers who were wont to worship within its walls. A feeling of sadness came over me as I viewed the interior, the empty and deserted pews, with here and there, an old-time song or hymn book; the little, old-fashioned organ whose keys had perhaps been press ed by fair young hands now turned to dust in the adjacent cemetery; and the high pulpit, a facismile of those known in the long ago, whence the word of God was delivered by voice* now silent in- the grave. I note in some of the late paper* that Candidate Bailey has a peditl cal scheme on foot hereby he hopei to defeat our great Scotchman, Mr A* W. McLean, In the coming guber natorial election. I predict that hi will be the loser in his little game and that the undertaking will be fitfi more difficult than he dreams of Mr. McLean has made a record o: which the whole state should fee proud, and which has establish©* the confidence of Ms constituency in, unques tioned ability in every emergency. Our fruit crop in fire Fork ia al most a failure this season, excep £/»/» Omw M^*ri», Chills Boll «K»r»*y. D«a«M « JM1B9U0 •wfW# frapes. Peaches, pears, and plums i mostly were killed, and we will have but little except vegetables to can. Messrs. Robert McLaurin and Tom Rorier of Latta, S. C., were in the Fork Sunday p. «n. They report very i dry weather in Dillon county, and I the tobacco and com crops badly in need of rain. They are also in the throes of the weevil down there. Mr. J. B. McColl of Hasty section i is seriously ill, also Mrs. Sallie Davis, a Hear neighbor. We are having some lingering cases of meas les in the Fork, but all are now con valescing. IS THE NORTH THE PLACE FOR THE COLORED MAN? One of the Race Now In the North Answers Emphatically in the Nag* ' ative. <*• To the Editor of The Robesonian: This is a question that every col ored man ahold ask his race. I have thought it over times after times, and have reached the conclusion of the whole matter, and am able to answer it in one word and that is in the negative—No. First, let us consider what disan vantages confront us in the North. , The climates of the north is so se i vere that one who is not accustomed to such would stand chances of being j victims of various diseases, because 'the winters are much colder here i than we have in the South. In the summer months the cool breezes ! cannot reach you in the North as they can in the South. There are so many hills and mountains until they impede the progress ocf the little cooling winds that might reach you. Second, let us consider the prices in the North. Labor is in its bloom as to price, it is not anything for a common laborer to make $100 per month, and then it is not anything for it to cost a common laborer $125 per month to stay up here. So you can readily see he is likely to come out $25 in debt every month. - Third, there doesnt come any Sab bath among the laboring class of people, they work on Sunday as any other day. Stores are open on Sun day, garages, and parks, so you see there is every inducement that is needed to carry man astray. Fourth, we should lose sight of the financial part of this life and try to gain sight on life eternal; we should try to keep our younger ones in such way that they will not want the dancing, the bar room, the gamb ling,, and parties for their destiny, and to do so, my friends, we must keep them from the North. We depend on the North for our machinery, coal, etc., but we depend on the South for manhood and wo manhood; so let us teach in our Sab bath and every-day schools that we have not got to imigrate from the South to make a living just. “Let down your bucket where you are.” .. FREDERICK D. F. WORLEY, Duquesne, Pa. OVER A MILLION BOY SCOUTS USE LEFT HANDSHAKE The 1922 annual report of the Boy Scout association of England,-Of which Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of scouting, is chief scout, gives the total number of Boy Scouts belonging to associations through out the world registered with the In ternational Scout Bureau, last Au gust, as 1,072,800. In the entire Bri tish dominions the world over, there were 233,532 scouts with 17,841 leaders, and 85,002 Wolf Cubs— younger boys in training for scout ling—with 4,720 leaders. In the United States on the same date there was 411,767 scouts With 40,232 volunteer leaders besides some 80,000 members | of local councils, troop committees, and so . forth. Of course, these num bers have increased for both coun tries and for the world at large since then, the Boy Scouts of America numbering somewhere around 608, 000 scouts and officials at the pre sent time. j Scouting has grown so, the move iinent now has an International Bu reau or clearing house for informa tion, and this bureau has notified Chief Scout Executive James E. West of the Boy Scouts of America that all registered associations have re ported the adoption of the left handshake as the official hand shake for scouts. The left handshake idea is popular with scouts, for it adds a touch of fraternalism, oJ mysticism and, what is perhaps oi jmore importance to the boy, leaves ;his right hand free for a salute oi some act of friendly service. The 1 Boy Scouts of America fell into line j with other nations already using the left handshake when the practice was made official by the executive boars: very recently; it has always been the official scout handshake in Englanc and some other countries. In Ameri ca the boys have a peculiar scoul grip which goes with the handshake and it is believed that this may be made a part of the left handshaki by all countries. Rural Policeman Smith Captures Escaped Prisoner. Max ton, June 27.—Robert Devery, jailed here on a warrant from Scot* lnd county charging him with a se rious crime, made his escape yester day by some one aiding him front ithe outiside and succeded in getting away. Rural Policeman W. W. Smith, who first arrested him, executed one > of his “Sherlock Holmes'* stunts and I soon had his range and after an ex r citing chase captured him in a deep ' ditch tuto miles from town under a wilderness of honeysuckle vines; -< Robert semed to be of the confirmed t j criminal .class as he had gathered up « a suit of clothes belonging to an other negro that morning and had them on when captorOd. daMrwi* to the Scotland duuttmum. - THIS TEST PROVES AD- _ VERTISING TURNS TRICK Frequent Tarns Enable Retailer To Reinvest Dollars Which Are “Workmen” And The Faster They Work, The Store Money They Make. Turnover of stocks is the goal of i every business undertaking, and fre quent turnover is the profitable turn iover^ j T<r obtain turnover the merchant must make sales. Sales are the life blood of the profitable turnover of {Working capital, says the Chicago i Retailer. Those two factors are more inter-related than any other two in business. A newspaper of national reputa tion has completed a survey which shows that the advertised goods were turning over three to four times faster than those that were not ad vertised, and comparison of adver tised and nonadvertised goods was made by this newspaper. The amount of capital invested in stock was the same in each case.—$10,000. It was assumed that profits were ten per cent of the sales. Here are the results: NON -ADVERTISED GOODS $10,000 capital, forty per cent I mark-up. $14,000 retail value of stock, three number of turnovers. $42,000 total business for the year. jTen per cent percentage of net pro fit. $4,200 net profit at end of year. ADVERTISED GOODS $10,000 capital, twenty per cent mark-up. $12,000 retail value "of stock, six number of turnovers. $72,000 total business for the year, ten per cent percentage of net profit. $7,200 net profit at end of year. It will'1 be seen in the above in stance that though the mark-up was twice as large in the case of non-ad vertised goods yet they yielded a smaller profit than the advertised. This is due solely to the fact that the turnover of the latter was twice as fast. The merchant who needs to he “sold” on this idea is a back num ber, but a little reminder now and | then serves to keep one from weak ening when a “long margin proposi tion” is offered. WHAT TURNOVER MEANS. Turnover means the investment of dollars in goods, the sate of those goods, reinvestment, resale—repeat ing the process often and at a profit. When the merchant invests money in merchandise, then sells the merchan dise and extracts his profit, that is one turnover. When he invests again and resells, that is another turnover. The merchant does not turn over goods. He sells goods and that turns over the working capital invested in them. Every merchant should know how many times a year he turns over his invested capital. Profits does not de pend so much upon the amount of money invested in a business as it does upon the way in which that money is made to work. Dollars are workmen, and the faster they work the more they accomplish for the merchant,—The Fourth Estate. NOTICE OP MOKTOACmre SALE OP LAND Under and by'Yhrtue of authority contain*} in that certain aMttggge Attd Ctaeutod on the th^M4wtS^wT>Ie^f'ffeto yJaadyl eigned mortgagee, Mrtd mortgage deed being recorded in booh »1 St m|t m, hi the of flee ef the Regietar Deeds of Robeson county. Notice & hereby given that the un demigned Mortgagee will, on Monday the Wth day of July IMS, at it o’clock noon at the court houaa door of Robeson county, Lum barton. N. C. offer for sale for cash to the highest bidder to aatbftr the torn* of aaM mortgage the following tract of lend lying aSfdSrfhrf to Gaddy TffWMjnlp, wmndw and (MenDea m 6? AfJtVSJ£?’nX£& scree. Bounded on the North by land of Mack Locklear: on the eut by Joe Arnettee land, on the south tor land of F. F. MUee, and on the west by the land of tho wife of Boh Horton. This the 8th day of June IMS. .... PALMETTO HARDWARE COMPANY D. P. McKinnon, Mortgagee. Attorney for Mortgagee. 6-11-4 Mon. } “Feeling | Fine!” | *'I was pale and thin, hardly I able to go," saya Mrs. Bessie f Bearden, of Central, S. C. “I } would suffer, when 1 stood on ► my feet, with bearing-down puns in my sides and the lower 8 part of my Dody. I did not rest sir igSusiuSi M felt miserable. A friend of \ mine told me of iCARDUl i Dm Woman’s Tonic , bHMtl «M better. I \ ^2S|to fl^rS«^ai3f *00? ! gj&sndriV&l ^ ^Thousands of other women \ wslfegsgB 9 brought relief where other i ■#“■»•<« to* Mtol. ■ n if you suncr ironi ietnaie lu 9 menu, triteCafriui. It Is a k woman's medicine. It may be k ittfl wnii you neca. [ At year druggist's or dealer's. r_ THE CHAMPION BOOSTER. j In the meeting at Blowing Bock last week the editors learned a great I many things they didn’t know about, their own state. Dr. B. B. Dougherty, who is perhaps the best informed . man in North Carolina now living, 1 told them much in the brief time he ( occupied the Door when called oui,< for a speech. He limited his informs- {1 tion to Watauga county and a fewjJ other nearby counties, but, had be < desired to take the time, could have! called the roll of counties one by one; and done for each what he did for! Watauea. Then there was A. C. Honeycutt, of the Albemarle Enterprise, who told of the glories of Stanly and her monntain range and refused to be discouraged when he was charged with making a mountain out of a mole hill and was asked to hitch! five-ton truck to his pet mountains! and bring them to the next press | convention. But if a prize had .been offered for; the biggest booster in the associa-j tion, it unquestionably would' have ! gone to Editor Atkins, of the Gas tonia Gazette, when he closed his! speech on the county of Gaston with J the following: “If it were possible for m^n to fly; such a distance, he could leave Gas-] ton county with a ball of yarn repre-j senting the total yarn production of! Gaston county for 12 months and be-; fore the ball was exhausted he couldj do the following: Wrap a strand! around Venus and Mercury, switch j back past the earth and do the same ! to Mars, Saturn, Uranus and Nep tune, circle the moon 16 times wrap one strand around the sun. Returning to the earth he could lay a double track of eighty-ply cotton yarn from New York to San j Francisco. Starting at the] Golden Gate on a world tour, he p could present a pair of hose, made from this Gaston county yarn, to every girl and woman in Japan China, India, France, Italy, Germany, Greece, the Balkans, Poland and England. Returning to New York he would still have enough of the cotton yarn to provide a gingham dress for the wife of every governor, congress man and senator in the United States. And then there would be enough ^re maining, if manufactured into mer cerized goods or imitation silk, to weave a gossamer shawl and a rain bow garland for every angel that stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops of America.”—Winston-Salem Journal. Did you know that bees may be developed into a profitable side line on the average North Carolina farm. C. L. Sams, extension beekeeper for the State College and Department of Agriculture, will tell you about it if you will write him. _ 66 6 Cures Malaria, Chills and Fever, Dengtte or Bilious Fever. It de gtroyg the Genas._ Suite Made to Measure That Fit Old SUM* Made Over Min D. Purvis, Tailor National Bank Building Third Street ■PB.1"W ll""l')!Jt,-k ..j. ... ■ . .1 n Lotsjfor Sale Corner Let, 54xl«fl, Walnut and 13th, $1)860. Inside Lot, Walnut street, 54x108, $1,566. Cower Lot, 54x216, Walnut and 13th, $2,200. Inside Lot, 54x216, Walnut, $1,800. These are as desirable residence lots as there are in Lumberton, on paved street, in most desirable resi dential section. See or write .... .. J. A. Sharpe Notice-Paving Notes Notice is hereby given to property owners and residents along Elizabeth Road (Elm to Chestnut); CHEST* NUT St. (6th. to 14th.); ELM St. , (6th. to Town Limits); FOUR TEENTH St., (Elm to Walnut); 4th. St. (Chestnut to Walnut); that any assessment contained in the assess ment roll hereinbefore adopted by the board of commissioners covering the local, improvements on; ELIZABETH Rd. (Elm to Chest nut); CHESTNUT St. (6th. to 14th.) ELM St (6th to Town Limits); FOURTEENTH St (Elm to Wal nut); FOURTH St (Chestnut to Walnut) ; may be paid to the signed 7 tax collector, at any ti«ne before the •expiration of THIRTY DATS the first publication of this notice with out additional cost or interest Fur ther notice is given that in the event assessments arm not paid within the THIRTY DAYS hereinbefore mast* tiotied, all said assessments shall bear interest at the rate of SIX per centum per annum, from the date of confirmation of the assessment roll, to-wit MAY 28th. 1628; and shall ha come du« and payable in each year on the date on which taxaa are due and payable, viz., OctObee 1st O. J. P. RUSSELL, Tax collector Town of Ldmhertou, N. I O' * 1’Kishf r NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. Bid* wil be received by the undersigned for the construction of modern school bulld og* »t DW School hi Lmnberton Townhip, ind Prospect School In Smith’* Township] Robeson County. North Carolina, for six ami wven room bandings, exclusive of auditorium. Respective plans of specifications may be seen md examined at the office of th* undersigned it anytime. Heating equipment may be hid or a* the hasw for Use at wood as wall aa »al Alternate bids with sealing in lieu if plastering may be submitted. Buildings oust be completed and ready for use with efficient time to Install equipment by Go ober 16th, 1MI. Bids may he submitted on ay part or the who)* at such construction, • jCl> 1-fa jhjf ’ *e'■ including separate and joint bids tor both building*. Satisfactory bonds to insure faith. . fn] performance may be required in a sum equal to the bid submitted; also a deposit equal to five per cent of the bid may be required aa an earnest* of good faith. The time for the oompletion of the said buildings will be an amentia part of sueh bids. Bids will be considered at th« office of the undersigned at ten o’clock a. m., July 14th, 1928. Right to reject any and all bids is re flated this 2«th day of June. 1928. J. R. POOLS. Co. Supt. «4Mi ■aa—■mmmsammbassimnisnamnmmimsmmjfcmi *: «.< V*.., -- ,v*A*;*e «• .„ „ :i The real reason 1 - «• ■ ; v : f for buying Columbias —they last longer The largest laboratory, devoted to dry cell research, experiments contin uously to make them "last longer.” Columbia Hot Shot or Columbia Ignitors are "right” for your needs. That’s why people have die habit of asking for Columbias. Columbia Dry Batteries for all purposes are sold by hardware andrgeneral stores, electrical and auto supply shops, garages and implement dealers. Columbia Diy Batteries * —they last longer < Fahnextork Spring Cip Bintlinj.’ Porta t % i on Ignitor* at no extra <.h.<rgi . .- . —:— - . NORTH CAROLINA STATE COLLEGE A6l!!S!,SJSf5iaD EB£gJS8™6 Technical Education at Suite College prepared He graduates for personal rtrnirt f end for leaderahlpln Industrial progress. IbrittBegrafter* 'r KSaSSr*™* WurtoHryi AgrlCultueel Chemistry, TUMI* rtilsiNli i tod tou. Civil EaslMsfiag, Architecture and Highway Engineering/ ~ ~ Electrical Engineering. ^&nE,:Si%^"y£ia5^"%iffi,'£12ruw “a n”u* General Science. Physics, Biolflgy. ! TWO YEAR COURSES INt Agriculture, Mechanic Arte, Textile Manufacturing. ... w^ss-c*,rLft.'iffi.,rfSu Summer Session fur Teacher*, for Collet* Bntrauco and Mr College Credit. MttnBWOt In 111 depflrtDMNft Session 1923-1924 begins September 4. „ .V 1ST Cla*8, IS units—English, 8; Hletory, I; Mathematics, 2% ; Science, 1; Elective, •%. For caUlof, Illustrated circulars, and entrance blanks, writ* E. B. OWEN. Realstrar. Condensed Statement of the First National Bank LUMBERTON, N. C. At Close of Business April 3rd, 1923. (Condensed from Report to Comptroller. RESOURCES Loans and Diaeoonta.. .$572,621.38 Overdrafts, .. 324.65 Real Estate Owned,.. . 13,547.66 Furniture and Fixtures $2,69M8 United States Bonds 57,234.50 Stock Fed. Reserve Bank 2,500.00 Cash * dae from Banks U4,642J2» $763,605.67 LIABILITIES Capital Stock $50,000.00 Surplus and Profits 84,880.70 Circulation,.47.000.00 DEPOSITS,.546,084-82 BiUs Payable, .. ..25,000.00 Re-Discoants. .... 60,6O0J6$ . H'/i ’ $768,60847 . vjst&d Wingate Junior College (TUB WINGATE SCHOOL) ' W Located in the heart of Piedmont Carolina, freo from the exeeeeire i heet of the plains and the extrema cold of the mountains. Four year aeeroditod Ugh school department. IS units required for entrance to college department. Owned and controlled by the Baptist State i Ceuventlea of North .Carolina. - *«a«d J • 58 hours of standard college work offered, 82 required for grades* i tion,, Special courses la Education for teachers. Strong departments in Piano and Voice. Highly teamed and carefully selected faculty. Splendid athletics under directien of faculty coach (captain of football team Of Mereer University 1821.) Expenses for session of nine months including electric lights, steam heat, water and sewerage, room rent, fees, board, and literary tuition: Hiph School Department ... .$180 I College Department ... — 8228 Next aesaion opens August 20, 1828. F«r catalogue and stMte information, addreqs, ; C. M. BEACH, President, WINGATE, N. C.
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