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1 , . __ J’HB ROBESONIAN ln|n aai Tkmdi/ Aftcraooa By T THE ROBESONIAN, INC. '1LJ_g--JLjK'jEi-L I. A. 8HABPB >.PreeMeOt r SUBSCRIPHoRI BATES: Qm Year —.W.0® .‘JJ MliwiI hj oata,:lii Lnmberton OmTw ..!!VAJ?.r..W.40 Bt M«rtk ^ tlm Month* , ■ ■ _ fcHt* M iIl11ttl~*1— Mil Mtlcr M Hi pfretnBn at Laabertea. N. C OSee Wert Fifth Street Telephoae No. JO. THURSDAY, SEPT. 3, 1925. ,_ l 1 ,u' *T “ T . o LORD REVIVE THY WORK IN j the MIDST OF THE YEARS. —Habikkuk 3:2. VISITOR WRITES ABOUT HIS NATIVE COUNTY OF ROBESON Mr. ft A. Parham, managing edi tor of the Charlotte Observer, spent a few days recently visiting relatives in his native county of Robeson and ahortly after his return to Charlotte j he tokU Observer readers something about conditions “down east” in the j following interesting editorial f While the piedmont section of North Carolina has been suffering from the severest drought in a third of a century and the mountain sec tions have suffered perhaps even , more, the coastal plains portion of j the State has been enjoying adequate if -not abundant rainfall during the summer. The difference is to be seen in the crops—the magnificent crops of the east as compared with the rather poor crops of the west. » ' One has to travel only the distance from Charlotte to Lumberton—less than 125 miles by rail—to view a cross section of the conditions in con trast. Making the tfip for the first time daring the season, one is im pressed as he travels eastward, down the old Carolina Central Railroad or the Wilmington-Charlotte-Asheville Highway, by the gradual improve ment in agricultural conditions. The Crops along the way in Mecklenburg, Union and Anson are comparatively small and unpromising, showing the ravages of drought in a great many Instances, as compared with the much larger and more prolific crops in .'Shetland and Robeson. The crops of cbtton and corn in those counties are really magnificent, as viewed from the train or highway. And a few lit tle excursions out through the coun- i ties reveal the fact that fine crops ire the rule generally and that they ire not confined to the farms that lie dleng the railroad or the hard-sur faced road. * - Farmers, merchants and business men generally in Robeson are just setting their feet once more on pplid ground after a year in the ‘‘Slough of Despond.” Money is cir culating, business is good, business •iiien are in the best of humor and the farmers are cheerful. In years past 3t has been nothing unusual for Robe son County to produce around 60,000 bales of cotton. Last year she pro duced 28,000 bales, in round figures. None but those who have lived in or .bad intimate dependence upon cotton for thajr prosperty can appreciate just what a half crop means to the farmers and to business generally. It means "dull times if not hard times for tho, greater portion of the follow ing year. So it has been in the “State of Robeson” since last fall—until to bacco began to sell two or three weeks ago. The tobacco crop is turning out well, although it is not so good as was indicated a month ago. In the field the tobacco appeared somewhat t ii it a. • . wwi miiau it, is turning out to oe when aired and marketed. Neverthe-1 ta less, for the last week several hun- I died thousand pounds have been sold j Ij daily on the auction warehouse floors! S at Lunsberton and perhaps an equal j ot larger amount at Fairmont, ati prices averaging about 20 cents a pound. The«*farmers are receiving in the aggregate a copious shower of cash, which is being put into ready circu- j I lation. Debts made this year and last are being paid, relieving the farmers ( from heavy pressure and giving the | 'credit merchants a big lift, while at I the same time foooMing cash trade | and business generally. Following the 1 f tobacco selling seasdn comes the cot- " ton marketing season, and the cotton i I crop promises a generous yield in that section. AH indications point to I a fall $nd wintqamf wood business and prosperity. He»l Hrirybody seems I cheerful and b^^^pn spirit. And the conditions just described are not confined to Robeson, but they are said to be general throughout the eastern North Carolina cotton and . tobacco belt, entirely across the State." . The occasional visitor to Lumber ton must be impressed by the evi- j dence of progress which are to be ] seen on every hand# The Thompson Memorial hospital is in the course of i Hall’s Catarrh! |f a illsslatm 1* 11 Combined JWlfWaWSaMaC Treatment,both local dad internal, and has been success ful toJh* treatment of Catarrh foe over forty yeant—SStd 'EyTffi"«inuggt»a. ~ t f. J. CHENEY fit CO., Toledo, Ohio 1 •*V- - * 11 . . I ~~ | erection; within the last year or so a I magnificent high school building has been completed, and it would be a credit to a city much larger than the capital of Robeson; two new and mod ern bank buildings have been com pleted; a large brick tobacco ware house has been built and is being used for the first time this fall. The Robesonian is comfortably and con veniently housed in its own new building, and numbers of new resi dences are in course of erection or have been completed within the last year. Robeson as yet has but one hard surfaced highway, State Highway No. 20, from Lumberton to the coun ty line between Maxton and Laurin burg, which now is continuous to a point west of Rockingham. But sur veys are being made for hard-sur facing the highway from Lumberton to Fairmont. 11 miles to the south, the county having decided to lend the money to the State Highway Commission for the purpose. Through out the greater part of the county are splendid sand-clay roads built by the State Highway Commission or by the county itself. While these are not so good as the .Jiard-^surfaced highways, it is a far cry from the present system of roads back to the old mud roads and deep dry sand roads—horse killers and vehicle breakers—of a score of years ago. It is probable that no other coun ty in the State can quite match Robe son in a county home for the poor. Certainly, if there are any that can boast an institution of its kind equal to that recently completed and open ed in Robeson, they could be counted on the fingers of one hand. It has been in use only a few months. It is located right on Route &0, three and a half miles west of Lumberton, just' where Route 70 breaks away toward | Greensboro. The home as it stands cost around $200,000, the money having been raised by bond issue. About one-tenth of the amount was invested in the site, which contains a splendid farm, on which vegetables of all sorts can be produced in abundance. The build ings are of brick, of beautiful archi tectural design, comfortable and con venient; only one story high, of course, but planned so that all rooms are outside rooms, with plenty of win dows, porches, etc. The buildings are located on a ridge ih a beautiful grove of shady trees. It is a place of beauty. Robeson county has never done I anything that reflected more credit! upon her people or spoke in more! eloquent terms of their qualities of heart and soul than in providing this magnificent institution for helping those unable to help themselves. DANGEROUS PRACTICE “Conditional sentences in the State prison were imposed” on the presi dent and cashier of a defunct bank, a Henderson dispatch of a few days ago stated, three to five years in one case and two to three years in the other. They were held responsible for loans amounting to $24,000, and the dis patch left the impression that if they pay the money they will escape prison. In another instance within recent months a convicted banker was offer ed release from imprisonment on con dition that restitution be made. No doubt those who have lost money by reason of misplaced confidence and violation of the banking laws by bank officials in many, instances would rather have their losses made good than to see the guilty official im prisoned, if they must accept the al ! temative, and in some instances it may be all right, but, as Mr. R. R. : Clark points out in his editorial de partment of the % Greensboro Daily ! News, it sets a bad precedent. It does 1 not help to bolster the idea that all I men are equal before the law. Among i other cases cited by Mr. Clark, a sen tence of some years in the State prison i _ for an aggravated case of assau|J pr&s rescinded on piynsent of a certalh sum of money. Such instances leave the impression that only those able to command money can tiolate the law with im punity, that money covers a multitude of sins and that if you first make sure that you can. meet any monetary de mand you may monkey with the law with impunity. That impression is too widespread already; and allowing men j to pay out when their offences call for a prison sentence is a* dangerous practice. -o NO CAUSE FOR ALARM •» / Conditions at the State sanatorium for treatment of tubercular patients turn out to be just as The Robesonian stated in a recent issue. No new mat ter was turned up by the investiga tion made by Governor McLean upon his return from his vacation, the re sults of which investigation being published in daily papers Sunday. As The Robesonian stated in its issue of August 24, there is no lack of main tenance funds and the policy of turn ing out patients after a reasonable length of time is no menance to the health of the public nor to the fam ilies of those who are discharged af ter treatment and training. The Gov-, ernor’s investigation did reveal the ; fact that conditions are better now! than they were a year ago and that while patients are sent away from • the North Carolina instiution after 18 months, the practice in most institu tions of the same kind is to send pa tients away after 12 months. The conclusion of the whole matter seems , to be that there is no occasion for alarm, the policy of turning patients away after 18 months to make room for others clamoring for admission is no new policy, and there are ample funds to care for the patients. Of course this does not mean that conditions are perfect or that there is ample room to care for all tuber cular patients. It is pointed out that in order to care for all such patients it i? necessary for the counties to sup plement the work of the State by pro-! viding suitable places for the cure of j 1 v’:-1-'.r \ij ~ 3 .tubcrctilesiR. Some «puniiei( already nave done this. • > ■♦' •• ■■■ - . 0-; WHEN HELL FELL. Some Lumberton people recalled Monday of this week that just 39 years , ago on that date, August 31, 1886, the great Charleston earth quake occurred. Mr. C. M. Fuller tells the following Story: At that time he was living in the western part of the State. On the porch, of. a house just, across the yoad tom where he lived some su*- j phur was on * shelf just above a shelf * on which was a bucket of water.* The quake shook up things considerably, and there was a mighty rattling of dishes. The sulphur was shaken into the bucket of water. Everybody was tremendously excit ed, some were crying, some were praying. During the ‘excitement the man of this house went to. the porch to get a drink of water. Taking one s\val- ; low and tasting the sulphur he dropped the dipper and shouted to his wife,— • “ ‘Tain’t worth while to pray any longer, hell has done fell.’ ” Mr. "Wjade Wishart recalls that Rev. J. A. Hornady, now on the re tired list and living at Maxton, where ; then he was* serving the Maxton 1 church as pastor, was preaching that | night in LumbcHon at the church of | the colored people at Seven Pines, 1 and many white folks were there to! hear him. The church was packed, j but when the"*earth trembled and | church began to rock it was emptied ; in short order. All "the' folks went away from there. -o--— DOESN’T LAY IT ON POTEAT Dr. M. L. Kesler, general manager of the Thomasville orphanage, does not take much stock in the report sent out from Raleigh last week, and pub lished in daily papers, to the effect that the general 'falling off in contri butions to various causes of the Bap tist denomination during the past year in North Carolina ik duc to the evo lution teaching of Dr. Poteat, presi dent of Wake Forest college. He at I ) . Ilf1 I ' ' * ;^'r»r <v %r * ■ -• | j I itf '* f: I SPECIAL Announcement I »■; ' '• . ' rr . • ; \ We cordially invite all our friends to be sure ! j to see our /r J f . % . | Saturday Specials i < ; r I ! which will be displayed at the front of our ! I . - 4jt l store, beginning Saturday 15th. ; BE SURE TO SEE THIS DISPLAY. j l"° j A. J. Holmes \ » j I ELM ST. JEWELER PHONE 77 J j * i* «•* ( ! •areid jnQ U ui auio|_j ojq 3ABJ.J uoijejndag inoqii^ 83H3^A\ jj *pa9)irsj«nr) nine jsag atg gy jaMOf U 9UO-X^U9MJL O) U9A9£ UIOJJ 'UO^atjUin'] UI UAVOLJ j 2 43A9 9U1JI VJ)X9 JO JU9UI}.«08*« 3l|X , saipinjw I Bargains a ■ » . rttthWii ^ !n Jewelry of all Kinds will be found here, b oun tain Pens, Bracelets, Choker Beads, Fraternity W Pens. Everything the Best. * C G. L. Canady Lorraine Hotel Bldg. E. Fourth St. ' . v . _. . • ' ‘ - I ..: , - .tributes {Jus falling off to a general let-down and inclination to rest after the 75-million campaign, like the rest period farmers used to have after lay ing by “craps.” He said as much in a sermon at the First Baptist church here Sunday night. Dr. Kesler's idea is strengthened by the fact that this falling off in church contributions has not been confined to the Baptist but is the general com plaint of other denominations as well. Dr. Kesler sees no cause for alarm about that or about the agitation about evolution. When he was a boy, he said, the physical geography he stud* ied taught that the earth had been hurled into space as a ball of fire and it cooled and cooled through the ages until it became habitable, but; nobody raised a row about it. He said | there was ground for a Scopes trial there if anybody had been so super-! fluous as to start something; but no body did. ■— -o ■ -— John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, on the eve of suspension of work Sep tember 1st by 158,000 mine workers, makes a parting thrust at the mine owners, indulging in sarcasm. “They are again engaged in their honored and traditional occupation of levying all of the tariff the traffic will bear, .... with their usu al modesty and virtue” they have been holding the public up for exorbi tant prices. Lewis evidently dose not believe that the mine operators are averse to receiving more profits than they are entitled to. The miners will enjoy a vacation, and when they have spent their money and hunger begins to stalk among their families these same operators no doubt will exact another pound of flesh from the min ers. And the dear people will have to pay for the fight. -o-•— Many girls and boys are in low grounds of sorrow and resentment on account of the action of the town fathers in interfering with the pleas ure of skating. If ever a town need ed a public playground, Lumberton is it. That is a( Wttdt- | not be neglected longer. 666 is a prescription for Malaria, Chills and Fever, Dengue or Bilious Fever. It kills the germ*. workers ip, thelSSLite. Oak .mills here,;; largest denim jfcmi in the world, re-, fused to go to tyor^%londay the manv agement of t»&n®l unht it down for an indefinitefcrip^,. This is one of the. Cone mills. Tfc-|tjikera were notified: to get out of fci||h|uses within three, days by the stpcnwrendent of the miH,'' About 1,600 toeopte-are idle as result' of^thejnil^#osh\g^own|^^^^^^/ Big Fishing Fishing hour 10 a. m. Sept. 10, 11,1925. Thj Stewa^CJ*ond, located on the Long swamp, two miles north of RcfBin^1'*, Admission for men $2.00. Seins $1.00. Waij fished eight years ago. Fine for trout, jack and other game fish./ ^ / «■/ hn ■ * B. B. Blue ; EXCURSION ~ it I***; to j’ ttf 0-> WASHINGTON, D.g~ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER-dth vi. >; ■. '"H SEABOARD AIR UNJg, 1 .« .« From all points between (lb!: > j -r r»rn<tn WILMINGTON and HAMLET - ■ • ■ - '• • It : .A ' _ ^ $10.00 Round Trip " , Return Limit Mid-Night Sept. 8th.n t» j I»n« A 'splendid opportunity to visit the Capital City of the United States. See the home of the President, the House of ^on *?,?£% Library, Art Galleries, The Navy Yard, / Smithsopfatf Institute, at. tractive parks, wonderful avenues r%aacd with greawrees. For reservations and further information sec your Wwal agent or 5M22U a,™, J WILMINGToK, n. c._ Prices That M Can’t Afford To Miss i I k t* are waiting for you at the Lumberton Bargain House theCheap-est Store in Robeson County for Good Honest ' Reliable Merchandise that can be fully depended on. Nothing nerer misrepresented and no exaggerated statements you know our reputation for Fair Square dealing. This week we have lots of new Fall goods to shoyf you and all specially priced. Come get your pick. "" NOTE OUR WEEK END SPECItS / , *t _i_ mm ■ - ' Gups and Saucers 16c values for _7c_ Large Plates good quality, Each 7c_' Bowls and Dishes of every description to be closed out at Half its regular value. __ m One special lot of Ladies and Children Shoes and Oxfords Saturday only, Each _49c Ladies and Children’s Coats in the new Fall styles will be sold at a real Bargain Price j One lot of Men’s Shirts without Collal attached Saturday only, each / , 69c_/ Men’s and Boys’ Shirts with attached Cel lars $1.S6 values for j 98c _! ■ 1 y $1.25 Suit Cases for Saturday only, each 89c j , _L—— #• 1 ' I . $2.00 Suit Cases, .each $1.48_j Saturday will be set apart terilpeeial rem nant Day. You will find alliMhds of Rem- ( nants, Silk, Wool and Cotto^/fll priced at attmt Half their regular value;—If you want T * a Bargain be here Sstfucfcay. Saturday at 4 P. M. we will have a I MYSTERY SALE. Be h9r^rat POUR / ct > Ladies’ $1.25 Silk Hose, Pair oq. «■» 'IOil ‘»1M Children’s 50c V* length See? with colored Tops, pair “ ' 39c 9,< •-- 11 ; We have recently added a Jewelry Depart ment. Here you will find all kinds of Nov elty popular Priced Jewelry and all 14 to 18 Karat Gold Filled Jewelry priced at about Half its Regular value. -i'-MKlJi 111 ■ ■! !■>,. ' Toilet Articles of every Description Special ly Priced. Last but not least- Our Stock of Dress Goods is being replenished daily with the new Fall Weaves all at Popular Prices and of the best Quality. 1 11 " " ■ I III ' Lumberton Bargain House M. J. MERRITT, Prop. „ Humber ton, N. C. )KElm 8t. A Phone 6 T '** } , biju *
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