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#NE R0BES0N1AN ruMish'A * Monday anu Thursday Afternoon Br THE mtBKSONfAN. I^C. A. SHARfE .President 8UBSCRiPT!ON RATES: One Year. t2<M Sim Months . Three Months.30 Oeiivered by carrier in Lumberton One Year. $140 Six Months . L2# Three Months. 60 Entered as second c!ass mai! matter at the postoffice in Lumberton, N. C. Teiephone Ko. 20. Office West Fifth Street THURSDAY, JUNE^O, 1927. TWENTY YEARS. This issue of The Robesonian winds up twenty years of its publication un der the present management. The present editor took charge of the paper twenty years ago tomorrow, on July 1, 1907. Many changes have taken place in Lumberton during these twenty years. The town has steadily grown from a village to a busy, thriving town which looks like a city. Twenty years ago The Robesonian occupied a tumbledown ' hole in the wall" on Fourth street and was print ed on a press that rocked on insecure foundation and proclaimed its activi ties afar. It was a marvel how a paper was printed on it without shaking the whole works to pieces. AH type for the paper was set by hand. Now the paper occupies a brick building of its own on Fifth street, has two lino* type machines and a perfecting press which prints the entire paper at one operation, instead of two. Nearly ev ery year during the past twenty, old machinery has been discarded and more modern machinery installed, un til now the paper has equipment suf ficient to publish a daily when the time is ripe for that venture-— Twenty years ago the only paving in Lumberton was three blocks of sidewalk on Elm street from Second to Fifth. Twenty years ago, and for some years after, vehicles would mire down on any street in town in ex tremely wet weather. Now the town has 16 1-2 miles of sidewalks and about 9 miles of street paving. There is not now standing on the west side of Elm, on the block from Second to Third, a building that was there twenty years ago. The only buildings on that block then were a building used for a <h ug store on the comer of Elm and Third and the old Waverly hotel building next to it. On Chestnut street, from First to Fifth, there is not now a single build ing that was there 20 years ago. It} was given over to a few straggling livery and sales stables. The first per manent structure on that street in the business section was the present LaFayette Lifp Insurance Co. build ing, erected in 1913 for the Farmers & Merchants Bank, which began bus iness in 1910 on a goods box in the building now occupied by Grantham Bros, drug stroe, Elm and 4th. Now the business section of Chestnut is lined with handsome buildings, in cluding the Lorraine hotel and the building occupied by the Planters Bank, successor to the F. & Seven other business houses are now being erected on that street, a handsome theatre building will in the near fu ture occupy the corner of Chestnut and 4th, and when these buildings are completed that entire section will be almost filled up with substantial buildings. To give just one instance now of the increase in property values: Mr. A. E. White purchased 29 years ago the lot 66 x 100 feet on the west corner of Chestnut and 4th for the then extravagant price of $600. A few days ago he sold the lot to the Lum* berton Theatre Co. for $30,000, and an isolated plot 16 x 24 just back of that lot, purchased by the late Mr. Godwin about the same time for $50, was sold to the same company for $1,300. Even a sketchy review of the last 20 years in Lumbertrn offers almost unlimited possibilities, but it must be cut short today on account of un avoidable delays caused by sickness in the family of the editor. It will be resumed at the earliest possible date. QUARRELING WITH FACTS The Raleigh News and Observer is raising a small tempest because the results of the calculations of the State board charged with apportion ment of the State school equalization fund of $3,250,000 do not meet with Sts approval. The esteemed Raleigh paper seems determined that instead of a sweet smell there shall be stink. The N. and O. seems to think that there must ire something wrong some where because Robeson county and some other counties get this year so j much more than they heretofore have i been getting, but the secretary of the ! equalization board has pointed out ' that the law was changed, that the ! act increasing the appropriation spe ! cified how it should be apportioned, that the former method of distrubu ' tion was entirely different, and that v.'hnt a county had been getting had nothing whatever to do with what it is entitled to under the present me thod. it is contended that Ihe valuation t^on which Robeson county's share was j based is too low. Rut it is on the I seme basis that calculations were j made for other counties, that is, 7 iper cent increase over 1920 valuation. In some quarters the idea seems to ; be that the 1920 Robeson valuation ' of $72,000,000 ought to have figured. i!ut that year tax values in Robeson, as if) other counties, were inflated, and in addition to the usual inflation Robeson's valuation suffered in up ward trend by reason of a fierce coun ty fight. The $47,000,000 valuation upon which calculation was made for Robeson certainly would seem to be high enough. This is a county that is largely rural, with a large area of swamp lands, and no one familiar with conditions would contend that the $47,000,000 valu&tion is too low. There is no quarrel here with the work of the equalization board. The only trouble seems t<, be that results of calculations made in accordance with the legislative act do not meet with approval in certain quarters. THE PASSING SHOW (Hy M. Monte.) While we arc poking around trying to find something e!se to piaster with a tax tag, the effete oid haiiiwick of Don Quixote, has discovered it with out any troubie. We are not sure what this tax is called but it works this way. The fair senoritas pay the tax ac cording to the iength of their skirts, ankic iength bearing the ieast bur den, after which it is graduated by the inch. We don't know how they wear 'em over there but you can take it-from us, there ate some foiks over this way whose taxes wouid -prove burdensome. __ While on this we are reminded that in the good oid days, senoritas and mademoiseiies and so forth, were as sumed to possess iimbs, but never a leg. And even so it was never proven that they possessed cither—it had to be taken for granted. Circumstantia! evidence wouid easily bring convic tion just now. We have at various and sundry mo ments remarked on the surprising capabilities of the iaw. We note in one of our big daiiies that John Doe—or maybe it was his twin brother Richard Roe—was ar rested in Charlotte for driving a car white drunk. He proved innocent of this but was fined fifteen plunks for being intoxicated. We are perhaps wrong, but we trad been carrying around a hazy idea that the differ ence between the two was too fine for the lay mind to distinguish. Per haps if the said John or Richard had been merely inebriated a medal would have been in order. It is not so surprising when one thinks of it,—which we usually do not do, for thinking is the rarest of virtues; if, perchance wc do think, then, we should not be surprised that the laws, ordinances etcetera are fractured with such uniform regular ity. The genus home has discovered that such things are largely ' scraps of paper", a la Billiam Hohenzollern. Ever in so often the city fathers decide that festive biddy must quit flying the coop, but must chase elus ive bugs in its own yard and that Towser, Fido and Fifi must get home eariy and stay there. Then they grow wall eyed in admiration of what a whale of an ordinance they have pro mulgated or engrossed or something, and the police department makes a more or less magnificent gesture, spiils a bit of newspaper ink and lets it go at that. Meanwhile biddy flaps her wings; Fido curls his tail a bit niftier and proceeds the one to the lama h#3Mc*0!!s ^ mosque; I should be killed! Bee Bread Powder or Liquid Mils Fiies,F!eas, Mosquitoes, Roaches, data, Water Bugs, Bed Bugs, Moths, Crickets, Poultry Lice and many other insects. Powder Uqaid rot end !SC s°c md ;oc tad Si.oo $t rs :ot_Sprty Grtn. ^sc Unbontttndeurdtntnsectt MtConm!t!t & Co. BttUmort. Md. Bee Brand )NSECT PPWDKB lettuce bed next door, the other to , take charge of the streets. Neither cares a whoop for the guardians the bailiwick. and what's more to the j point, neither does the owner of the said packages of feathers and fur. And now the odoriferous bunch of animais who waik iike ntcn, y-ciept the Association of Advancement of , Atheists, wit! proceed to invade the South. We woutdn't behove that 'bunch under oath, but if they have accidentty stumbled on the truth, sun dry cottcges, universities, etc. are Waiting turbulent waters. The A. A. A.'s give a list of these institutions wherein they are intrenched, and add I that Duke will he one of them shot-tty. j They tet the proverbial cat out of jthe bag. and prove what the Passing 'Show has ever contended that evolu Ition was the means by which they tripped the unwary. Straight atheism ) woutd not go down, hence it was sugar coated with evolution, itgelf veneered with sdcncc. Science, you understand, will roll the near highbrow, the would be highbrow, and its ilk, up in cot ton batting and place them safely on a shelf. Personally we think The Association of American Asses, are suffering from complicated idiocy in one haif of their btain cells and chronic loco ataxia in the rest of them. TAR HEEL TOPICS i Protracted Meeting Begins Night of July 4 at Baptist Church—B. Y. P. U. Elects Officers—Personal. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Tar Heel, June 2^—Mrs. W. J. Monroe and Mrs. Sallie Averitte spent last Friday in Lumberton. A number of young people from here went to Bryans mill pond last Saturday evening and enjoyed fish ' ing, boating and swimming for a while. Miss Mina Frazee of Marion, N. 1C., spent part of the past week wrjth ; her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Frazce. Mr. J. R. Hawes and small son, I John Robert, Jr., of Atkinson, were in town one day recently. Miss Maggie Page of Fayetteville is spending a while with her sister Mrs. L. B. Grimes, of this vicinity. Messrs. C. P. and J. B. Allens of Elizabethtown spent the week-end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Allen, here. ..... Dr. and Mrs. Miller, Rev. and Mrs. Lockby, Mr. and Mrs. Cutlar and Miss Mary Emerson, all of Marion, N. C., passed through town tast Wednesday enroute to White Lake, where they will spend several days at their cot tage. We are sorry to report the serious illness of Mrs. Hobson Singletary. She is undergoing treatment in a Fay etteville hospital. All her friends wish her a speedy recovery. Mr. Fred Cain of the Tolarsville section was at Mr. H. C. Brisson's Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Frazee and sons, George and Arthur, of WaHace, spent the week-end with Mr. H. T. Frazee here. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frazee, Miss Mina Frazee, ac companied them home to spend the remainder of her vacation, after which she wiii return to Marion, N.. C., to resume her training at the Marion hospitai. Messrs. Bundy and N. A. Kiniaw and Miss Liiiian Kiniaw, of Taber nacle section, and Mr. Herbert Chasan and Miss Mary Cbason of Toiarsvilie attended B. Y. P. U. here Sunday night. Mrs. J. McKay Robeson. Miss Sai-i !ie Lewis and Mr. Thomas Lewis were visitors in the Barnesville section Sunday. Miss Lewis is spending this week with her sister, Mrs. Ciaude Barnes, of that piace. Miss Alice Smith was a visitor at the Lome of her uncie, Mr. James Roberts, of Tabernacle, Sunday. B. Y.!'. U. Eiects Officers. Sunday night was time for election of new officers in B. Y. P. U., so the following officers were elected: pres ident, Mrs. Wayman Meivin; V. pres ident, Lewson Bryan; sec-treas.. Hazel Monroe; group captains, Nonie Smith, Maxine Ailen, Myrtie Toiar; pianist, Ruth Singletary. Everybody is cordi aiiy invited to attend our B. Y. P. U. at 7:30 Sunday evoning. Protracted Meeting. The protracted meeting wiii begin at the Tar Heel Baptist church Monday night, Juiy 4th. Everybody come and help us have a good revival. TUBERCULAR FREE CATTLE To Whom It May Concern: My herd cf 13 Jersey cows were al! recentiy adjudged tubercular free by the Bureau of Anima! Husbandry, U. S. Department of Agriculture. W. H. Stone R. 2, Lumberton, N. C. Mr. C. T. McQueen and Mrs. M. C. McQueen of R. 3, Rowiand, were in town today. What Shouid Be Done To Help Agriculture Farmers of America Asked to State What They Think WHi Aid in Re storing the Nation's Basic Indus try—$300 in Cash Prizes for Best Answers inc hed by September 1. The paramount question of the hour is, WHAT CAN BE DONE TO HELP AGRICULTURE?" When that query is properly answered, the sunshihe of happiness and prosperity wiH once again beam upon the homes of more than thirty million American citizens and the Nation itself wiii come into possession of a iegacy which wiii mean more than the fabuious riches now tucked away in the thousands of vaults in her banking institutions or the tremendous dividends now being declared regularly by her gigantic in A nr?/: By^er^M^ ?A:ly Fc??erFrcaJ AMERICAN 1)AKEK!ZS Co t f two n.tta - t Sing!e and Sp):t Loaf / 3^?MAZ?<3!7y / ynPHtyoKrCmw/ BUILDS STURDY HEALTH THE CLEAN UP VOL.! JUNE 30, 1927 NO. 4 Published in the in terest of the peopie of Lumber ton vicin ity by WILLIAMS Cieaners & Dyers Dewey Wiiiiams M. W. WiHiams Editors Phone No. 430 Announcement From now on we ex pect to iisten to some whopping fish stories. -o The sermons deiivered by Rev. Mr. MMiiian, a missionary from Ci ina, were very in spiring and enjoyed by large audiences at the First Baptist church last Sunday. When Noah sailed the well know blue He had troubles as well as you ^or days and days he drove the ark Before he found a place to park. "It always pays to look well' said the fel low who narrowly miss ed being run down by a passing auto yester day. Fourth of July just ahead, examine your clothes and hats now, and if soiled, send them to us at once. -o Just wait fellows to have that cleaning done at the last minute now, and you'll certainly miss that snappy date for the 4th. (Moral) Send in your cleaning to us early so that we can give you our usua! good service. -o Love makes the world go 'round when the thing ought to be asieep. -o Mai! in your subscrip tion. i -o We are stilt clean- ' ing and blocking hats. , -o "You should have seen Mabe! dance the Charleston last night." "Dance nothing; she was just standing there watching when a June Bug fell down her back. due trial institutions. Plana Already Suggested. Some have suggested that Coopera tive Marketing will aolve the problem, others have claimed that Standardiza tion of Products will greatly help, while still others have argued that the only hope lies in securing legis lation which will control the indus try from planting season until its out put reaches the ultimate consumer. Any, all or none of these suggestions may aolve the problem but each may contribute to some extent. For almost a decade past, our ba sic industry has been slipping into the wallowing troughs of despair un til to day it is a rare thing to meet an American farmer who is not strug gling under severe mortgage bur dens or desperately striving to keep his head above the flood waters of financial destruction. SOMETHING MUST BE DONE QUICKLY or agri culture will no longer appeal to the husbandmen of the soil: Industry, failing to secure its usual supply of raw materials will shrivel and die; Commerce will become merely a name and no longer a strong arm of na tional business; and Skilled Labor, now so prosperous in our large cities, will become a moving army of idle and hungry souls. THE NATIONAL FARM NEWS, the National Voice of the American Farmer, published weekly at the Na tion's Capital, is determined to solve the great problem which now con fronts agriculture. That there is a solution no sane man or woman can honestly deny. It may be found in the avenues of economics or it may be discovered in the fields of political discussion. Wherever it is, it is the MMKSHOM GOME TtanawMmW** WomeJ Co# dMaraMy PdM,oa Advice of AoAcqEMahMa, He Began To (ho BhA-dhanght. Sewanee, Tenn.—"For several years," ^ays Mr. J. L. Ruaaell, of this place, "I suffered continuously with spells of indigestion. Everything I ate disagreed with me, and I waa in a bad way. "Nothing did me any goodrmtil I found Black-Draught. One day a man in a store where we traded toid me to try Black-Draught. He said he knew of it relieving indigestion, so I decided to give it a trial. "In my case it seemed to go right to the very root of my trouble. It straightened me out, and ever since that thne. over thirty years ago. I have used Black-Draught "When I have a spell of indiges tion coming on, I begin on Black Draught. I take several small doses, in a regular course, and I Rnd it will usually have me well in less than no time. Now I never suffer—I take Black-Draught. "I also found it &ne to break-up a bad cold, hr the winter time; f al waya keep a box handy, so when ! sneeze, or feel chilly down my spine, I take a few doses of Black-Draught, and that wards off the cold." Sold everywhere; 25c. wen#? MACK-MAUGHT Purely Ve^etabie duty of every loyal American to help find it. For several weeks past, the fifteen thousand editors of weekly newspapers have been considering this great question and a large num ber of them have written their solu tions and forwarded them to The National Farm News. We now turn to the farmers themselves and ask them to write us what they think ought to be done for agriculture. If any man on earth ought to know what the trouble is and how best it can be remedied, that man should be in the individual who follows the plow, cul tivates the soil, harvests the grain, and markets the crops. We don't care three "whoops" about the literary value of what you farm ers write. We are seeking sugges tions and looking earnestly for the road that will lead agriculture out of darkness into light, from bankruptcy back to prosperity, from its unstable condition back to a point where the farmer can secure a fair profit on his arduous labor. The man who can give us the "key" to unlock the door which enters honest agricultural rec ognition will become at once the "Moses" of the nation's basic indus try. Proper Compensation. The National Farm News does not expect any man or woman to sit down and struggle with this great problem without proper compensation. To that end. we are going to give cash prizes for the best suggestions offer ed by those who reside in farm homes and earn their living in the fields of agriculture. There are no other con ditions, no strings to OUT offer which is made for no other purpose but to help the American farmers. Here is a list of prizes which will be awarded September 1st, or as soon thereafter as our judges of the contest can reach fair decisions. First prize; $200; 2nd prize: $100; 3rd prize = $75; 4th prize: $50; 5th prize: $25; 6th prize: $15; 7th prize $10; 8th prize: $5; For the next twenty suggestions which are deemed worthy of honor able mention we will pay one dollar each. Making a total of twenty-eight prizes amounting to Five Hundred Dollars. If you are not acquainted with The National Farm News, the greatest dollar a year national weekly farm newspaper, drop us a line and secure a free sample copy. It will be found well worth reading by every man who tills the soil, as well as by the other members of his household. Sim ply address, THE NATIONAL FARM NEWS, 339-341 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C.—Adv SEE US ^ FOR YOUR WANTS IN ^ ^ Galvanized and Composition Roofing, Nails, Brick, Mowers, Rakes, Hay, Tobacco Twine, Thermometers, Lanterns, Arsenate Of Lead, ^aris Green, Calcium Arsenate and Beetle Mort. t ** * ^ TOBACCO FLUES Get your Flues and Repairs now and avoid the rush later. v K. M. BtGGS Lumberton, N. C. NOT!CE! Beginning July^st the laws of Nor A Carolina require that a tail light he carried on all vehicles at night. We have these lights in stock and would be pleased to show them to you. Our prices are right on Arsenate of Lead and Tobacco Twine, Come to see us for your requirements. L. H. Caldwel! THE HOME OF GOOD MERCHANDISE LUMBERTON, N. C. CONSULT US REGARDING YOUR INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS We specialize in Automobile Insurance of all kinds. Losses adjusted and paid within forty-eight hours. Call on us at our offices, McLeod Bulding, or Phone No. 419 for prompt service. H. M. MeALL1STER, General Agent, McLeod Building, Lumberton, N. C.
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