rriTTT t?nni^nxri a ivr —«—i FRIDAY.* OR T0NICHT FA|R 1 | | | Pj _LVVy D1 1 J-\ [\ I PAGES TODAY. | VOL. LVL—NO. 60. LUMBEltTON, N. 0., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1925. covmiT, son anp rainra utailmMd im nm nvi uim TOBACCO PRICES . TAKE BIG SLUMP ON ALL MARKETS Monday’s Sales on All Markets Heavy With Good Prices Prevailing—More Than Half-Million/ Pounds Sold Here During Week at Average of $14.57— Million Pounds Missed by Wilson Estimator—No Visible Rea son For Slump in Prices—Farmers May Be Marketing Too Fast. EXPECT LUMBERTON MARKET TO SELL SIX MILLION POUNDS. For the week ending September 4 the Lumber ton auction tobacco mark et sold more than a half-million pounds of the weed for nearly one hundred thousand dollars, which was slightly less than the week before. Monday Sales Lead. Like it was on practically all South Carolina belt markets, Monday’s sales led for the week when 184,832 pounds were sold for the sum of $33,154.97, an average price of $17.90 per hun dred pounds. Wednesday took the booby prize for the week, only 98,934 pounds being sold for the sum of $13, 730.73, an average of $13.89. The next day prices went to pieces and the average was only $11.11 per hundred. Prices Take Slump Those who were on the sales here possible understood why the price was off some, but the great reduction is still a partial mystery to everybody, even the warehousemen. Some of the warehousemen and buyers claim that the majority of the tobacco .offered \ Thursday was very sorry and nobody ha3 claimed that the large reports sent out from the Eastern Carolina markets had anything to do with the decrease in price here. Wilson was re ported in daily newspapers as selling 1,900,000 pounds the opening day, but somebody called for figures which show that the estimator (supervisor of sales) had missed his guess by just a million pounds, slightly over 900,000 being offered and sold on the open ing. Big Buyers Buy Less. Prices throughout the week on both the markets in the county were a great disappointment to growers, some stating, however that Monday and Friday the prices were very good. Explanations of the slump in price can be heard most anywhere, but no body seems to have a very plausible one, for the prices on the Lumberton and Fairmont markets have been very j satisfactory throughout the entire! season until last week. There is no! visible reason for the great slump. I Why some of the larger tobacco com panies are buying much lighter than j during the previous week is unex-j plained, for of course the buyers on the markets will not tell a newspaper man, even if the buyer knew himself. A Bad Practice. There is reason to believe that prices will be better this week, and continue to climb until a more satis factory average is made on the entire crop. It is very noticeable that on £he markets of Robeson county a large quanity of tobacco is offered on Mon day of each week, the sales being in some instances more than double those on other days. This large quan ity of tobacco is of very good grade, containing a large quanity of the kind of tobacco the larger manufacturing companies want. Is the farmer taking more time preparing tobacco for Mon days’ sales than any other? It seems this is the case and that while he is taking this unusuaj care for the sale on Monday he is badly neglecting the rest of the tobacco he has to offer the other days of the week. This is no doubt one reason for the prices being not so good as they are on Mon days. This is a very unfair practice, if such is the reason, and if it, is dene. It makes the average for the week show bad when daily reports are is sued and it cripples the Robeson coun ty markets when comparing figures wth markets where this is not prac-' ticed. Selling Too Fast. n is very prooauie mat tne rarmers are marketing too fast, without first having taken sufficient time to pre pare their tobacco. As the writer sees it, there is no necessity for the grow ers of Robeson county to lose thou-, sands of dollars because they do not take time to properly grade and tie their tobacco. One warehouseman has bfen heard to remark that the mark ets will be open until at least the 15th of October, and another warehouse man states that his place of business will be open until the first of Nov ember. With more than half of the large crop raised in this county marketed, there is no reason for flooding the markets with tobacco just because ample facilities for handling it have been made at Lum berton and Fairmont. Over 3 Millions Sold. Lumberton has sold during the season, including the sales last week, 3,376.260 pounds for the handsome sum of $556,894.55, an average of $16.49 per hundred pounds. This of course includes the sales and very low prices paid here the past week The average was much hotter until the slump Tuesday. Basing estimates on the amount already usold, Lumber ton should sell at least 6.000,00& pounds lifts season, which will be NEGRO WRECKS “BORROWED” CAR Horace Gavin Wanted by Police— Wrecks Borrowed Buick on Return From Bi^ Birthday Celebration at Giles Rower’s Home—One Negro in Hospital and Five Others Out Un der Bonds of $50 Each. GAVIN TAKES TO THE UNKNOWN Police and county officers are look ing for Horace Gavin, and Prentice and William Love, Mack Blue and Charlie Stewart are under $50 bonds each for appearance before Recorder P. S. Kornegay and Sam Bullock is in the Baker sanatorium, all of which is the result of too much celebration Fri day night when they attended the festival held at the home of Giles Rozier, colored, honoring his 79th birthday, BuIiock was injured when a Buick automobile, ovfned by a Mr. Lerch, traveling salesman, and driven by Gavin, ran into a ditch. Gavin had found the car very convenient Friday afternoon after finishing his day’s work at the sales stables of Mr. W. I. Linkhaw, where Mr. Lerch had stored it Having access, to the stables and knowing the big Buick would be the very thing to carry some of his friends to the birthday celebration, Gavin could not resist the temptation. There was no use asking anyone about using it, for he was going to bring it right back and leave it just as it was. But he didn’t think about getting a little too much “celegra tion.” While returning from the party about midnight the Buick became un manageable for his liquor-weakened mind and into the ditch she went, tearing down a wheel and badly dam aging another wheel and fender. m i n uiiving ui vjravin or tne nara Inch they were having made the other boys mad and they began cursing and using boisterous language near a home about a mile from Rozier’s home. A telephone message was re ceived by the county officers, who went at once and found everybody at the car except Gavin, who had left for parts unknown. The others were brought to jail and later released on bond. It is expected a hearing will be held tomorrow morning. Lhuis McDowell, colored also under $50 bond for his appearance before the recorder as a result of the.birthday celebration. He was not with the au tomobile crowd, but found in another community in a drunken condition. ROBESON CHAPTER HAS INTERESTING MEETING Mrs. J. H. Anderson, State Historian, Delivers Address and Presents Chapter a Book. Mrs. J. H. Anderson of Fayetteville, State historian, delivered an interest ing address at the meeting of Robe son chapter, U. D. C., held in the high school auditorium here last Thursday afternoon. She told some thing of the work of the Daughters and presented the chapter a book, “Recollections and Reflections,” by Col. Greenem, a life-long friend of General Robert E. Lee. Historical papers were read by Mes dames E. K. Proctor and C. B. Skip per and several musical numbers were rendered. Hearing on Petition to Discontinue Trains. As has been stated in The Robeson ian, a hearing: will be held before the Corporation Commission in Raleigh Thursday, Sept. 10, at 3 p. m., on the matter of petition of the S.A.L. rail road to discontinue trains 31 and 34 between Hamlet and Wilmington. Any citizen who care to do so may file protest with the Corporation Commis sion. —Car load of milk cows expected by Prevatt Bros. Saturday, as adver tised in Thursday’s Robesonian, ar rived this morning ‘fore day. Mr. N. D. McCallum of Rowland -R. 1 was a Lumberton visitor this morn ing. more than ever before and nearly three times as much as was sold last season. The acreage planted in this immediate section was not increased materially, but the local market took a healthy swing at the business, and as a consequence has become a record breaking place for marketing tobac co. The tobacco is weighing much more than last year, and the grow ers are realizing handsomely from this angle. Daily Sales. The sales on the Lumberton market for the past week were as follows: Monday, 184,832 pounds for $33,154. 97; Tuesday, 126,698 pounds for $19, 566.73; Wednesday, 98,834 pounds for $13,730.73; Thursday, 122,515 pounds for $13,622.36; Friday, 118,073 pounds for $14,750.86. WE ARE PLEASED with the work oar new Dry Clearing plant ie turning nut. YOU WllX BE PLEA8ED with your clothes it yen send them to as. WE PRESS WHILE YOU WAIT LUMBERTON DRY CLEANING CO, __ Phone 94 SUPERIOR COURT Civil Term Convened Here This Morn ing With Jndge Dunn of Greenville Presiding. Robeson Superior court i"ar the trial of civil cases convened here this morn ing with Judge Albion H. Dunn of Greenville Presiding. If this term of evil procedure is handled with the same speed the criminal term was when Judge Dunn was here before, adjournment may be expected any time. Civil court here is generally a term of about 48 hours a jury trial being unusual. The following cases have been set for trial: Today—All uncontested divorce cases; W. H. Humphrey vs. R. Ste phens, Admr.; E. S. Walters vs. Wes ley Sellers; Dr. W. T. Herndon vs. D. I W. McDuftie et al.; (jrosland & Tyson i vs. J. W. Currie; li. A. Walker vs. J. B. McCallum; Millard McMillan vs. i H. M. McAllister et al; Dillon Supply I Co. vs. J. D. McArthur; A. C. Wil ! liamson vs. Jack Edmund; D. H. Mc Millan vs. Robeson Hignway Const. I Co.; Mrs. Julia Britt vs. Mrs/. Annie | Bntt; Tooacco Growers Asso. vs. A. j K. Walters; Leota Skipper et al vs. ! Stell Graham et al; Mary C. Brown et j al vs. W. K. Brown et al; Kheiralla ! Brothers vs. J. Brown Bullock and j wife; I. P. Graham, Receiver, vs. Aus I tin Barnes and wife; J. L. Dunham vy. C. H. Taylor; R. M. Sweat vs. C. H. Taylor; f irst National Bank vs. D. A. Parks et al; McCaskey Register Co. V3. Sealey Brothers; Lacy McNair vs. Norman Locklear; E. H. Barton et al, vs. Dockery Oxendine et al; J. W. White vs. Susan C. White, Admx. Tuesday—Clater Leggett vs. H. B. Phillips; First National Bank vs. W. B. Robeson, et al; J. J. Kincaid vs. E. L. McCormac et al; Ginsberg & Sons vs. P. Lein wand; Miflinberg Bank vs. D. R. Connor; Mary E. Baldwin vs. American Nat. Ins. Co.; Levi*Phillips vs. Mansfield Mills Inc; Frank Gough vs. O. L. Joyner et al. (protest.); Wil liams Co. vs. J. A. McKinnon a Co.; T. O. Evans vs. L. W. McKinnon et al; W. T. Rawleigh Co. vs. E. G. Hod gin et al; R. G. Allen, B. F McMillan, Sheriff; Herbert C. Britt vs. Haynes Wilcox (Protest.); Williams Co. vs. .Western Union Tel. Co.; D. Murdock Smith vs. Fred Strickland et al (Pro test.); J. W. Boone, Sr., vs. E. B. Paul. weanesoay—wm. wrigiey jr. uo. vs. H. M. Beasley; E. C. McNeill et al, vs. N. C. Agr. Credit Corp.; Jno. C. Henderson vs. N. C. ^gr. Credit Corp.; J. E. Bridgers et al vs. N. C. Agr. Credit Corp.; Angus Buie et al, vs. Malcumb Buie et al.; Melton Low ry et al vs. Jimmie Lowry et. al.; Rose McNair vs. J. F. McNair; Dora Hold en vs. Raleigh & Charleston R. R. Co.; Luther DeB. Buchanan vs. E. J. Dean; Lillian Harden vs. W. H. Har den et al; Barnes Bros. Drug £o. vs. P. S. Steed. All other cases on the dockets open for motions and orders at all times during the court. MRS. WILLIE DAVIS INJURED WHEN AUTO STRIKES WAGON J. H. Lee of Shelby Makes Bond For Appearance Before Recorder—Says Wreck Whs Accident—Auto And j Wagon Badly Damaged and Mule, Injured. J. H. Lee, medicine Salesman, giv ing his home address as Shelby, is at large under $250 bond for his appear ance before Recorder P. S. Kornegay here this week a£ the result of an ac cident which occured Saturday after-; noon on the Elizabethtown highway ! about 3 miles east of here. According to Mr. Lee, he was driv- j ing his Ford 4fer toward Lumberton1 and accidentally ' ran into a wagon.! driven by Mr. Willie Davis. Mrsfj Davis, who was riding into the wagon j with her husband, was injured and is undergoing treatment at the Baker' sanatorium here, where she was ■ brought immediatedly after the! wreck. It is understood that Mr. Lee | secured transportation to bring her to the sanatorium, and accompanied her, here. The wagon was badly damaged and the mule was slightly Injured.: Mr. Lee’s car was damaged beyond driving. He will be charged with speeding, reckless driving, and pos-; sibly assault with deadly weapon. BUIE NEWS BATCH New Truck for Saddletree School— Much Cotton Coming In. By W. H. M. Brown. Buie, Sept.- 5.—Rev. J. L. Humphrey and G. S. Harrell passed through here Wednesday with a new school truck. The fame is to be used for the pur- j pose of transporting the Saddletree j school pupils to Philadelphus high school. Miss Mary C. Brown of the Phi la. j delphus community is spending a few days at Jackson Springs. The Buie Gin Co. started up their i new gins here yesterday, and already there is much cotton coming in. —Alathcan Bible class will meet1 Wednesday afternoon at 4 o’clock with Mrs. S. F. Caldwell. —Oliver Bros, opened on Sept. 1 a garage on Elm street, at First, for electrical and repair work, and adver- j i tised in The Robesonian, and are well pleased with business the first week, which was much better than expect ed. , .1 .1 ■ . ..I—I If you have nice green peas, write us. We will buy them oV can on shares for you. Elrose Farm, Fair mont, N. C. _ i MANNING TO GET LUMBERTON VOTE Efforts to Change Vole to Stephens of Warsaw Fall—Delegates Leave for State Convention in Fayetteville With Instructions tq Vote For Ra leigh Man on First- Ballot—Other Ballots Optional. W. B. IVEY FOR COMMITTEEMAN. Delegates from Lumberton Tost No. 42, American Legion, trill cast votes in the business meeting of the State convention at Fayetteville tomorrow afternoon for John Hall Manning of Raleigh for State commander, a meet ing called at 9 o’clock this morning in the hall h