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New MiM Town of Butter* Lumber Co. ^yjU bp Named Miriam yen MiB Town Wi!! be treated ! Mites from Biadenhoro—Machinery itcing Moved From Boardman _Schoo) Opens Mith Fme Ehro!! -,ent—Matson M ingate Marriage— WMr Soria! and Persona! Items. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Biadenboro. Sept. 7.—Mrs. J. L Brwtgcr entertained at a dehghtfut tea Wednesday aiternoon in honor of Mrs. Miiier Bridget- of ^ianii Beach. F!a After an intetesting contest, tea and sandwiches. foHowfbv nuts and mints, were served. Mrs. Brtdger was idso the attract)ve honor a. a bridge and rook patty given by Mrs. n. H. Bridger Saturtiay afternoon. Mrs. H. C. Bridger made tie highest scofe in bridge and was presented a jeweled sitpper horn. Miss Lauta Mae Watson receiwd the pri^e for the highest score in rook, a unique penci!. At the ciose of the game an elaborate saiad course was served. CuSsie Wabbers. n was host at an cnjoyaMe party Monday evening in honor of his friends from Newark, N. J., Messrs. Monte. Rommiic, and; McGuirit, at the home of Misses Thei ma #ad Carrie Powei). The evening's entertainment consisted of various < n^sts games. Ice crcatn and cake WCre sem-dd. Miss Julia Vann Bridger entertain ed a number of her iittie friends in hAnor of i.'et lith birthday. Mrk. J. 6. Freeman entertained her boarders and a few invited guests at a picnic at Lake Waccamaw Monday afternoon. After a refreshing swim in the lake a most bountifu! picnic supper was served to the foiiowing: Mr. and Mrs. Henry Poweti, Mrs. Coolie Paige, Misses Bvelyn Free man, Pear! Hiiburn, Carrie Powe!!. Til!y Ruth and Louise Wabhcrson.j Messrs. Harry Howard, Eirie Cook, Hugh Saiisbury. Clarence Knight,! Morgan Letrher, Junius Freeman, Mr. and Mrs. Freeman. &cnoo) st.oens The Bladenboro school opened Mon day morning with a splendid enrol ment. The auditorium was Idled with pupils, teachers and friends of the school. Appropriate remarks were made by Supt. Barbee, R. C. Bridger, chairman of the board of trustees, C. C. Cra vens, head of the agriculture depart ment, and Mrs. R. C. Bridger, presi dent of, the Rarent-Teacher associa tion. - New Mil! Town. Miriam will be the name of the new town that will be built four miles from town, where the Butler's Lum ber Co. is located. Work on the rhill is progressing rapidly under the sup ervision oi A. L. Cooler, assisted by a number of capable mill wrights. The machinery is being moved from Boardman and placed in the new mil). ^ It fs thought that the mill will be completed about the first of the year. *pre following was copied from The Charleston News and Courier of Sept. 4th:' Wh^aon-Wingate Last Wednesday. Beautiful simplicity marked the w ending Wednesday afternoon of MtsW Elva Louise Wingate, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wingate, of 151 ^unje^ge avenue, and Mr. Paul South erne p^atson, of Bladenboro, N. C., p^o is a student at the Medical col lege of South Carolina. The cere tndtiy took place at 2:45 o'clock in Trinity Methodist church, the Rev. S. 1^. Watson, father of the groom, offi ciating. me cnurcn was arusrtcany aecor ated with palms and tail baskets filly^ with gladioli. Messrs. Everett Wingate, brother of ti e bride, and Jack Norris acted as ushers and Miss Sarah Moore played the wedding march. The two ushers preceded the bride, who entered the church on the arm of the groom. She was becom ingly gowned in black satin, trimmed with tan and beaded in silver and cor al. She wore a black hat and tan and black accessories. Her costume was completed by a corsage ot pink roses and lilies of the valley. Immediately after the ceremony the bride and groom left for a wedding trip to North Carolina. On their re turn they w)li be nt ,:ome at 151 Rut ledge avenue. Out-of-town guests for the wedding included Mrs. E. L. Dominick . sister of the bride, with her two sons, James and Esdorne, Jr., cf Norfolk, Va.; Mrs. W K. McIntosh, aunt of the bride, with her daughter, Willie Eleanor, of Kingstree; Mr. R. D. Epps, uncle of the bride of Kingstree. and thg Rev. S. N. Watson father of the groom, of Bladenboro, N. C. Rev. L. E. Dutton filled the pulpit of the First Baptist church Sunday morning, preaching a spiendid sermon on "good citizenship." Up was on his way to Western Prong, where, he witl assist the pastor, Rev. S. N. Watson, in a revival this week. * Miss Laura Mae Watson left Tues day morning for Greenville, S. C., Woman's college. Miss Watson is a where she will re-enter Greenvi He member of the senior class. Miss Edith Dunn returned last week from Baker's hospital, where she had an operation for appendicitis. Miss Dunn will leave for Meredith college in a few days. Mrs. S. S. Hutchinson and little girls, Elizabeth and Sankey, have re turned from a two-weeks' visit to Carolina Beach. Rev. Bee Pridgen of Star and Rob ert Pridgen of Charleston spent the week-end with their parents, Rev. and Mrs. W. D. Pridgen. Joe Watson left Tuesday morning for Spindale, where he will take a commercial course in the Rutherford ton-Spindale high school. Miss Clara Buie spent the week-end with friends in Lilesville. Bom, to Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. W^ite, Thursday, September 2nd, a -JUICE M1DYETTE HAS NOT YET ANNOUNCED DECISION 1^ HOAD CASE (From page one ) ' and it h d no right to change it. i abandon that route and select another. He contended that there was only one thrng tor his honor to do, and that was to cot.Lndd the injunction to the hearing before the Supreme court. Might Kill Whoie System Mr. Dickson Me Dean thought the defendants admitted themselves out of court when they admitted that they h d changed route 70 ontlfely. !f they touid abandon route TO and connect with route 20 at pcthht'oke, they wouid have the same right to connect at Maxton. or H Laurinburg, and save even more money. !n the New ton ease the Highway Commission said it would save $2O0,0i)O, and in this c'isc ?22H,O00. but it they could abandon an established route, destroy an ancient landmark, to save mbney, they could save money and destroy the whole State highway system by making short cuts to roads already paved. That Legislative Map Solicitor T. A. McMeill, speaking for the interveners, who contend for the route as laid down on the map that is a part of the original high way act, pointed cut that the act calls for five highways coming into Lum berton, whereas three of them now enter the town over route 20- He con tended that the Legist .tore adopted a map, which is a part of the taw, and that a substantial departure from that map is a vfhlh'tion of the taw. Route 70, he raid. IWtii R <cford to Humberto)!, 'violates the law its now laid out because it leaves the town a qusiter of it mile from the court house and g'?cs south to Fairrhoht. The map that is a part of the' law, he showed, e dls fer a practically stright road from Lumberton to Raeford, by way of Red Springs, being only 16 mites from Lumberton to Red Springs, 1 and 7 miles shorter than the other mutes. Mr. R. E. Lee also represented tin; interveners. Does Nut Dmconnect. Air. Ross declared that Lumberton is wei) served with highways enter ing it and that t'trs would be no diminution of service by relocating route 70 by way.of Pembroke, as pro posed and as the Highway Commis sion had the power to do. That would not be a violatiomof the? provision of the law that courtty schtk should be connected, he s :hl. Route 70 came into being when the highway map was posted at the court hoUS6''Rere for 60 days and no object Mn't..if fa ised. The routes hi id down as a putt 'of the law were not meant asfoutes'to be paved but merely showed the places to be connected. If they were to be follow ed in every instance, he said, it would mean building 20,000 miles of roads, instead of 6,000. It was unthinkable that the Legisl&ture meant to locate the highways for purpbscs of con struction. It was hot intended that the roads should he built according to the map hut accordih^; 'Id th& tnost feasi ble routes deteiifhihed ^ surveys. I.umberton is we'd served, he said. Former Senator-Varser did a good job in locating roads in Robeson. The map looks like a great spider spraw ling out from Lumberton in all di rections. But it was found-that there was not money enough to build all the roads called for in this eastern sec tion, and the commissioners of Robe son entered into contract with the Highway Commission to lend the State a million dollars to build cer tain roads—route!^2, Lumberton to Rowland, routs 76, Lumberton to Fairmont and LumbertonA to Red Springs. It was found tha^there' was not enough money to construct an tSree roads iSthe road to Red Springs lyl!tiSW^J*toutp "0, so tho contract re ^a^Jrapute^t) via Pembroke. Noob rmsed. he saidj until con struction of two-thi:ds of the roads designated was assured. The Rowland road has been paved and grading o( the Fairmont road is nearing com pletion, but if this contract is declar ed void the Highway Commission will <not have a contract with the county and c nnot cal! on the county for money to pave th(. Fairmont road. It was necessary to shorten the mileage, he said, and go by way of Pembroke, otherwise t!n. road to Rowland and Fairmont couid not have been paved. AH were in the sanM* contract. If you j ean cut into route 2t) 3 miles above Humbert on, why not 13 miles? The difference between tins and the Newton case was, he said, ^that route : 10 is a main artery across^the state, caited the State's "Main street", and Newton contended that on Account of the outstanding imuortanc^ of route 10 it would deprive Newton of its rights and privileges not to<run it by the court house. But in thi$ case, he ! contended, there would he hj6 such re !sult. I.uniberton would b^ as well ; served as it wouid be if thy road cut j in 3 mites west of town, ^n either I case route 70 would enter t& town of ! t.umberton over* roU&H*Wi,?3jut would } not- come to the court house. If route i 70 merged with route 20 at Pembroke that route to Lumberton then would be marked route 70 and route 20. Must Not Put Asunder, i Judge Varser argued that to con juect route 70 with route 20 at Pem j broke was no compliancy with the law, j that under that systefh of locating ! roads they could run roads into a common stem and call'it connecting county scats. You ^otfhl call it con ' necting l.umht rton and Fayetteville to go by Itaeford. 1- was not the In tention of the law that one should j run all over the State to get from one i county seat to another. There would be no end to it if they started cut —.-.t __..." tin? into a common stem. In this case they might as wc!i cut in at Laurinburg and save more money. The Highway Commission had noth i.t? to do with the cost. "What the Legislature has joined together iet not the Highway Commission put asunder", he quoted from the Suprem„ Court decision, as written by Justice Hrogden. in the Newton case. The Legislature has spoken and the High way Commission, it creature, should not assume more power than was giv en it. Relocating route 70 from Phii adelpbns to Pembroke was not a com pliance with the law. ParaMe) Roads. Mr. Ross Set otit in his answer to the pleadings that route 70 parallels , route 20 and that it would be a usc ! less and extravagant waste of money, costing §225,000 more. plain tiffs contended that rcute 70 as now I known would be abandoned, depriving i the people along that route of rights and privileges. Mr. Ross contended that the old road would be taken over by the county and maintained, and no rights and privileges would be taken away. He contended tl at by accert ing tbe part of the contract which provides for paving the Faifmont and Rowland roads. tumbefton was estopped from objecting to carrying out the third part. Numerous affidavits were offered. One by Mr. W. A. MGirt. highway commissioner for this district, set f irth that it was understood that the con tract entered Into with the commis sioners, wl ereby the county was to lend one million dollar? to paVe cer tain roads, was the result of a con ference ami that he neyur hem-d hf any objection unti) the Rowiand and Fairmopt roads were under way. It \vas brought out tha^ there was a ' gentlemen's agreement" whereby the road to "Rf. Pauls and Fayetteville was to be paved if the county advanc ed funds to pdvc the other roads, and that influenced the decision of the county commissioners. mr. r. iiacnett reaa an amuavie from Mr. G. S. Harreli, surveyor, to the effect that the Saddletree route is only 1G miles from Lumberton to Red Springs. County Attorney E. J. Britt read the act under which the county com missioners agreed to advance the money. Judge Midyette thought that "begs the question" if it purported to prove that it gave authority to re locate a road. Among the affidavits submitted were from the following: Dr. R. S. Beam of Lumberton, W. J. Council, county commissioner, t. O. pvans of Maxton, chairman of the road board, B. A. Edens, mayor of Rowland^ H. B. Toon, mayor of Red Springk; S. T. Smithy, principal of the Indian Normal school, and Oscar Sampson, a trustee of that school, setting forth that 10,000 Indians would be served by the road to Pembroke, and that it would be a great help to the Indian Normal; Dr. C. G. Vardell, president of Flora Macdonald college, claiming advantages for that institution; It. H. Livermore of Pembroke, G. A. Mc Kay, member of the county road board; J. B. Humphrey of Phiiadel phus; W. E. Garrett, J. H. McKay and Ernest Graham of Red Springs. Some of these affidavits were read by Mr. J. E. Carpenter of Maxton and others by Mr. A. P. Spelt of Red Springs. There were so many that Messrs. Carpenter and Spell was ask ed to merely give the substance cf each one, but Mr. Spell enlarged so upon the contentions that lawyers on the other side accused him of taking longer to give the substance than it would take to read them. Other lawyers present to represent the defendants were J. G. McCormick of Wilmington and J. B. Clark of Fayetteville. The hearing was set for Tuesday, but the bank-IIamer case got in the way and held it up untii Weduwxla; afternoon. ***** Buie Newp Patch (Hy W. H M. Brawn) Buies, Sept. 8—Mr. Jo^. McN^i!i of St. Pauts, was a Buie visitor Tuesday. MissR.D. Buie was a Lumberton visitor Tuesday. Mrs. Ste)!a M. Brown and son, Woodrow, were Lumberton visitors Wednesday. Mr. Paui !). McNeii! and Mr. Q. A. Afc^Han were Fairmont visitors Thursday. Mr. !). M. Everett of Nichols, Ga., spent the week-end here visiting his sister, Mrs. Z. G. Ha!!. Mrs. Ora Carmichaei has accepted again her former position with The Buie Gin Go., as bookkeeper. Rev. Mr. Johnson of Laurinburg preached here Saturday and Sunday nights. Mr. W. H. Graham visited Mr. and Mrs. Henry SeHers Sunday who )ive near Bsrnesvi!!e. Miss Io!a Britt !cft here Friday for Valdese, where she goes to ac cept a position as teacher. Miss Marthy V. McLeod returned to her house here the past week af ter having spent some time visiting re!atives at Lumberton and Parkton. Miss McLeod aiso spent some of the time at Wrightsviiie Beach. Messrp. S. B. Wiiiiams, W. E. Bax !cy and Mrs. Z. G. Ha!! spent Mon day at Lumberton. This wi!! probabiy be a good year to swamp cotton seed for mea! or fer tilizers so as to have !ess cash outlay next spring. SMITHFIELD, Sept. 6.—Bernice F. Smith and B C. Bethune, of Golds boro the !atfer recentty of Lakeland, F!a., were instantly killed late tonight when their automobile was demolish t ! by Atlantic Coast Line passenger trdn No. 33, Richmond to Faywtte vi!!e, at Hotts Lake crossing, four mites south of Smithfieid Newton Win# Decision In Highway Contest Associate Justice Hrotjgtp Denies Rc Heariwg in Highway Routing Case —Commission's first Reverse in Courts—Highway Must Pass Through Center of Town of Newton and by the Court Rouse. The fjnai word so far as the courts are concerned was spoken Tuesday in the ceiehrated Newton Highway case requiring the highway to pass through the center of the town and by the court house when Associate Justice W. J. Brogden denied a re hearing of the ease which was deter mined in favor of the town of New toh and against the State Highway : Commission at the last term of court, states the News and Observer and continues: !n hts decision Judge Brogden re fuses to go behind the record of the case as to facts. The rules of the court prescribe that when there are two dissenting opinions, as was true in the Newton decision, only on^ justice need act in granting a rehearing. However, the rules aiso prescribe that when the losing side has taken the case to the judge of its choice that application cannot be made to any other member of the court. the Newton case, which, was the Highway commission's first defeat in the courts. Justice Brogden wrote the opinion of the court, which was concurred in by Justices Connor and C}arkson, while Chief Justice Sta^y wrote what is considered the most vigorous opinion of his career on the ft^nch. Justice Adams aiso dissented. '^he State Highway Commission elected, for reasons satisfactory to itself, to take the ease to Justice Brodgen on ;* petition to reopen, but if anything, the views of the youngest member of the court are more decid ed in denying the petition than they were in the cn iginai opinion. "What the statute hath jomett to gether the defendant cannot put asunder" declares Judge Brogden in his memorandum, which bristles with underset red words. ; The Supreme Court in its opinion; at the last term held that the State ; Highway Commission in running route i ten through the edges of the cor porate limits of Newton had exceeded its authority and had in fact discon-; nected Newton, the county seat of Catawba county, from the State High way system. The commission which has hereto fore been upheld by the courts in the power to run highways according to the best judgment of its engineers, was greatly alarmed by the decision, which was regarded as of fundamen tal importance. ' It was stated immediately after the decision by Chief Justice Stacy that the court had, in effect, adopted the dissent of Justice Clarkson in the celebrated Stem case brought by the late Benehan Cameron, as the opin ion of -the court in the Newton case. It was estimated by the Highway Commission that had the Newton pase been rendered at the beginning of the expansion of the road pro gram in 1921 that it would have great ly changed the complexion of the present State Highway system. and the woman were quartered at a local hotel, while they made arrange ments for the robbery here, officers said. McCarthey was placed in jail Sat urday and a veil of secrecy was thrown around the action by the police and postai inspectors. PEMBROKE CITIZENS , , MAKE STRONG PROTEST Pembroke, Sept."2—A mass meet ing df something like 300 people was held at the Pembroke college auditor ium last night in protest to the in junction proceedings started in behalf of the town of Lumberton and several of her most prominent citizens against the highway commission enjoining the commission from building the high way from Red Springs to Lumberton by way of Pembroke and restraining them from carrying out a signed con tract between the Highway commis sion and county commissioners where by the county commissioners were to loan the Highway commission the money wherewith to build this road. Still Puffing Away. Nearly 8,000,000,000 cigarattes were produced in the United States in July according to figures made public by the Bureau of Internal Revenue. During the same period the production of large cigars was in excess of 568, 000,000. Cigarettes are being pro duced at this time in large numbers thsn they were a year ago, while there is a Corresponding decrease in the numbuf of cigars that are manufac tured. 3 Dead in School Attendance Row Allentown, Pa., Sept. 8.—(AP) Granville Holben, a well to do farmer, was shot to death tonight after he had shot and killed a sheriff and hts deputy and wounded two other offi cers who were attempting to arrest him on a charge of violating the compulsory school law. Barricading himself in his house, Holben held the officers at bay for several hours. All other means to dislodge him having failed, the offi cers finally decided to set fire to the house and the farmer was shot and instantly killed as he tied from the flames. The two wounded men were not seriously hurt. "Papa, what's a pedestrian?" "A man who owns a worn out sec 'ond hand car." SUM KMMK Kp Heatga bCo PtaM*, TtMShe 6 Pwwqtti BfBef. Langsville, Ohio.—Tor years and years I suffered with severe head ache," aays Mrs. Jane Campbell, of this place, "pr wasn't any pleasure for the to go places, for I came home with sick headache. IfTwent to chufch or to ahy social gather aay'< ing or to town to shop, when I got back I would have these'headaches and have to go to bed for a day or more, till I would just get out of heart and would-not try to go. "About 15 _ that Black-Draught Waa good for these headaches. 1 began Using it I Would MkO it two or three nights in Succession if I felt the-least bad, and it sure did wonders for me. It & about 14 years since T had sick headaches, and 1 cango places gad reaOy en^oy Ufa. A surely is splen di&" Headache often is a symptom of constipation. The best relief is se cured by treating the cause of the trouble and in such a case many people have been greatly helped by the Use of Thedford's Black Draught Purdy vegetable. Recommended for young and did. No harmful after effects. Sold everywhere. jyc-169 Th rdf it'd': If only partial success is had with the vetch the first year, the same j acre should be planted again, states j Mr. Biair, without indcuiating the soii at the second planting. Once the first acre is established, it wii! supply inoculation for the en- < tire farm and when once the land is ! thoroughly inoculated, all one needs to do to get good Stand of vetch is to plant about 15 or 20 pounds ;f seed per acre each year. Ho dtess Body Found in Mountains Asheville, Sept. 2—The body of Jesse Masters who had been missing from his home near Rosman, in Tran sylvania county, since August 15, was found in a remote section of the moun tains today with the head severed. From ail appearance Masters had. been dead at ieast two weeks. Sheriff J. B. Sitton and members of , his department have been c a wide search for Masters disappeared. Investigation disclosed j that Masters was last seen drinking heaviiy, and members of his family disclosed that he had seyera! hundred dollars on Hi# person. ! the finding of Us body created s sensation, and the whole country-side turned out to aid in the search that was conducted by Sheriff Sitton to discover any clues that might cast iight upon the murder. Protecting The Suckers. The Post Office Department has is sued a fraud order against McNickle and Company, of Spring Hill, West Virginia, who have made claims for a medicai preparation known as onductmg' since he ! cosuipheno." The [Manufacturers and distributors of this high-sounding stuff ciaim that by putting a "pinch" of the powder in each shoe of the patient each morning for 72 days a "cure" wouid be effective for various diseases. The Post Office Department is is suing fraud orders every month to protect the pubiic ^against ruthless j schemers. 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