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THE WEATHER: PROBABLY SHOWERS TONIGHT AND FRIDAY. Fourteen Page# Today TWO SECTIONS VOL. LVINO. 53. LUMBERTON, N- C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 11. 1927. COUNTRY, COD ANB TROTH. RRTABLMHZD M7*. TRtCR TTVR CRNTR Young Girl Killed By Lightning At Black's Bridge Stroke That Kilted Mary Phillips Also Seriously Injured Hei 'Mother and Latter s Infant, DURING S. S. PICNIC Many Others in Bath Mouse When; t atal Mott Struck But No One Else Was Injured. , (By C. D. Williamson) i 1'arktun, Aiig. 10—Mary Phillips, ! 1H years otd, was instantiy sided, her ; roomer, Mrs. Am mumps, was ser- j i^usly if not iatady injured, and tne j latter's youngest child, 3 or 4 years om, was badiy hurt when lightning j snuck the lathes dressing roctn at knack's midge beam about 4 p. or. j ruesuay. roe 1'nnhpses hve neai humoer Bridge, on a farm beiongin^ to Mrs. Cobb. immediately after the tragedy the j dead girt and the injured were rush-) ed to harkton, to the office of Dr. D. j S. Currie, where the injured were j rendered every possible aid, after; whim they were taken to their home ; near Lumber Bridge, on a iarm be- ! longing to Mrs. Cooo. Many otners were in the room at, the tune of the stroke but no one j was hurt except members of the l'bd- , ips family, it was uurmg a ptemc! hehl at the beach by the Presbyterian j Sunday school. ! Mr. and Mrs. Phillips are highly-: respected citizens of i.umoer Bridge; atnt tne tragedy has cast a gloom ov-, er t,.e entire community and the sin-j eere sympathy of their many friends ) goes out to the heart-stricken family, i MOTHER AND CHILD BADLY STUNNED BUT Wild, RECOVER By Phone to The Robesonian. j 'Lumber Bridge, Aug. 11—Mrs. i Kenneth Phillips and her small daughter Sarah, who were badly j stunned by lightning at Black s ! bridge beach Tuesday afternoon when ^ the former's 12-year-otd daughter Mary was instantly killed by a bolt j that struck a bath house, are getting along nicely, though still confined to! bed, and it is expected that they will recover. They were unable to attend j the funeral yesterday at 4 p m. at j the Presbyterian church. Interment j was madc^.f Phdadclpkus. UCHTN1NC DESTROYS HOME NEAR (LARKTON; Eire Caused hi- Mining Destroys Home of Arph Nance—Mrs. Nance Stunned. Clarkton, Aug. 9—Fire, caused by lightning this aftern on, destroyed, the home of Arph Nance, farmer,! about four mites of this place, Con tents of the house also were destroy ed. ) According to information recetveo here after the severe electrica! and ra'nst tun that visited this section late in the afternoon, Mrs, Nance was! atone in the house when the bolt; struck and was badly stunned, al-j though she recovered sufficiently to, toave the buitding before the fiames^ had gained much headway. Other members of the family were at a to bacco barn some distance away. )n the dwelling was cured and graded tobacco valued at several hun dred dollars which went up in smoke with the dweiting and househoid furn iture. The loss was estimated gt about $l,20t) with no insurance. McIntyre Released Under Bond Andrew McIntyre, colored, of Al fordsvillc township, who was arrest-! ed by county officers Saturday after noon because it was alleged he sold liquor to John Burns, colored, who died shortly afterwards, mention of ! which was marie in Monday's Robe sonian, has been released under bond inthe sum of $o0(). flic inquest will he completed Tues day, according to Coroner D. W Biggs. who summoned a jury Satur day a.ftgrnoon to view the body of the dead man. MI LE WRECKS FORD A one horsepower mute wreck- ; ed a 2h horsepower Ford automo i bile this morning, causing the ; mayor of Dumbarton, county and town officers and many Lumber- j } ton citizens to be called to the court house square to witness one } of the most unusual scenes ever ' seen in Lumberton. 'lhc mule.—a big fine one—was ! hitched to a coal wagon belonging ! toMt.J.H. Morrison. No driver'} was along. The animal became! ! irightened at s.mething, running into Mr. .!. F. llaug's new Ford I coupe which stood on the cast side j of the court house square on j i Chestnut street, carrying the Ford I at rasa the sidewalk and ti.e curb-! ing about the square into a catt { n n. There the Ford was left ! wrecked upon the cannon, and the mule went on across the lawn } until caught. The fenders and running board on one side of the car were greatly battered up, and the front light on ; the other side was wrecked, so that it appears that these things may lave to he replaced by new equipment. Offerings Heavy On Border Markets -r Biggest in History at Fairmont— Ciarkton. Whiteviiie and Other Markets Had Big Saies. j AH tobacco markets in the border ! counties report big saies on the op : ening day, with prices better than { the opening saie of 1926. Reports ! have teen made as foiiows: i - Fairmont, Aug. 9—Opening of the ! border beit tobacco markets here to- ) j day was marked by the heaviest of- j tfeiings in history for opening saies. ! There were 4,650 baskets on the ! floor, weights running from 10 to 200 (pounds. , ' Ninety-five per cent of the offer- , iings was primings. "Dog taii" prim {ings were siightiy tower than iast {season, with grades from $20 to $30 j selling at last season's figures. Grad- ' jes past $30, if possessing body as well as color, sold a shade stronger and if j lacking in body, a shade weaker. R. W McFarland, secretary of the Tobacco Board of Trade, late tonight gave out the following figures for {the Fairmont market. Total sales, 393,211 pounds, which sold for $76,290.08, an average of $19.41 per hundred. Last season's { opening sales were 160,626 pounds, which brought an average of $61.91. ) Ciarkton, Aug . 9—The average ! price of the large quantity of tobacco j offered on the floors of the tow ware- I i houses here average in the neigh- i {borhood of $20 per hundred. Farmers i {from 8 counties sold on this market at pleasing prices- About 300 baskets j remained unsold at closing and were ! {held for tomorrow's sales. The esti- ! mate is 180,000 at average around $20. Whiteviiie, Aug. 9—Breaking all j former records three warehouses here today sold over 400,000 pounds of the ; golden weed for an average of more than $20 per hundred, according to estimates given newspapermen by warehousemen. Cerro Cordo, Aug. 9—Half million pounds of tobacco was offered for sale on the opening of the markets at Chadburn, Fair Bluff and Mt. Ta bor today. Results of Collision of Two Fords. Mr. Glenn Leggett, son of Mr. W. M. Leggett of the Centerviiie section, ! near Fairmont, is suffering with a . ^ bursted knee cap at the Baker sana- ; toriurn and witi have to remain at the - institution for 2 or 3 weeks as the result of the Ford truck in which he and 5 young men from Fairmont were riding being struck by a Ford road ster occupied by Craven and Marvin Carteret of Coiumbus county, men tion of which was made in The Robe ! sonian August 4. Mr. Wiibur Leggett, son of Mr- Jake Leggett, who suffer ed a cut arm, and Mr. Alex Flow ers, son of Mr. Clyde Fiowers, who had injuries to his hand, have been able to return to their homes from i the same institution. Messrs. Worth ' Stephens, James Atkinson and a 'small Flowers boy, a brother of Mr. Alex. Flowers, all of whom were rid ing on the same truck, were not in jured to such an extent as to require their entering the hospital. The truck on which the young men were riding was struck by the roadster of the Cartercts after the latter car had collided with other cars, among which was one driven by Mr. R. G Allen of Lumberton. The Carterets were ar rested, and trial has been set for Sat iurday hut may have to be continued ! on account of the fact that Mr. Glenn Leggett will not be able to attend. Wren Denies Confessing Forgery. North Wilkesboro, Aug. 9.—"1 have never signed or forged any man's name to a Wilkes school or county note in my life," was the emphatic statement given out today by Clem Wrenn, who is confined to his room by sickness. Mr. Wrenn was emphatic in saying that be had not given out any signed statement to his attorneys, Julius A. Rousseau, of this city, or John 11. Folger, tf Mt. Airy, or to Solicitor Jol t) R. Jones, from whom much in formation is said to have come rela tive to Wrenn's actions in the issu ance of $159,000 alleged t;urous i county nutes. Two Airmen Killed When Platte Hits Promontory. 1 San Diego, Calif., Aug. 10.—Lieu tenants George Cove! and Richard S Waggoner were killed today in the crash of the airplane they had entered in the Dole flight to Honolulu Friday, 15 minutes after they left their sta tion at North Island, their machine struck the lofty promontory of Point Loma, which was hidden in fog. The plane burst into flames, and tumbied to the foot of a gully, a mass of burning wreckage. Covell and ! waggener, imprisoned in the cockpit I of the plane, did not have a chance to ^-sca, <-. Their bodies were badly I c! acred. Cotton Market ] Middling cotton is selling on the ; local market today at 17 cents the pountf___ DRIVE TO ONE OF ! FULLER'S SERVICE STATIONS - You get prompt and courteous ser I'ice at either mot of the three ylaces Parkton Rems 26 Persons Baptized and 35 Added to Churches—Clean- C p \Y eek—Cios ing of Fayetteville Bank a Severe Blow. (By C. D. Williamson.) Parkton, Aug. It)—twenty-six per sons were bapttzed Sunday at 4 p. m. oy Rev. J. R. Powers, pastor of the (daptist church. In all, including by letter of otherwise, 31 memoers were! added to the Baptist churcn and 4 ad-t dmons to the Presoyterian church as the result of the meeting recently neld, as previously mentioned. it was reported that 25 members) of the 4-H. c)ub of Parkton and some tnree or four chaperones, all left at! 8:20 o clock this morning for Lake! YYaccamaw for their annual outing,! all happy, and in great anticipations j of a great time. Miss Gertrude Brown of Sanford! and Miss Louise Ellis of Loldston ar- i rived this afternoon for a visit to rei atives, also Miss Marie McMillan re-! turned from Norfolk, Va., where she; spent a very enjoyable outing, enjoy-! mg boat-rihing wr.ich was ner iirsti rioc on a steamboat. ! Mr. Joel Matthews of Quitman, La., j has-been on a visit to his cousin Mrs- { Mollie McNatt. Mr. and Mrs. Justin McNeill and { daughter, Marie, and son, Justin Jr., [ of Lumberton, made us a brie! visit) Monday evening and on their return ! little Miss Mary Currie accompanied^ them to Lumberton for a few days' j visit. It was reported this afternoon that' Mr. T. W. Thompson was sick and! that it was feared he might develop fever. Clean-Up Week This week the town fathers desig- j hate "Clean-Up Week", and we oust heartily endorse the suggestion. The M. E. church grounds were greatly improved today by some of the breth ren. in a few minutes after 12 o'clock Mcnday p. m. the sad news of the closing of the National Bank of Fay etteville quickly spread over our town. Men, women and children were sadly and sorely disappointed. Some women wept over their misfortune and it is heart-rending to be robbed in any such way. The same old excuse, but not much relief. j Mrs. Roy McGumrey and small { daughter, of High Point, are on a { visit to Mrs. McGumrey's parents,) Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Godwin, on Penn { avenue, RECORDER'S COURT F. N. JoMy and C D. Driggers were before the recorder Monday on charg es of giving worthiess checks and were required to pay the amounts of the checks and the costs. Edgar Jackson, aiias Henry Mc Neill and Chariie McNeili, charged with forgery of a check for $8 on Russell Livermore, wos found to be of unsound mind and ordered turned over to Dr. E. R. Hardin, county j health officer, for examination as to his mental capacity, but was bound over to Superior court under a $50 bond- Warrant for Jackson's arrest { was issued by L. H. Caldwell's de-} partment store, to which he gave the j check and was caught before getting ! out of the store. The sentence of Zion Moore, color ed, who was sent to the roads a few days ago for 30 days on a charge of I assault, was changed, and Moore was let off with the costs. Tobacco Market Notes. Mr. F M. Ivey of R. 4 from Lum- { berton was an interested spectator : on the Dumbarton market Tuesday. { Mr. Ivey did not have any tobacco, on the opening sales, his policy being to hold off the first day. He says he has the best tobacco crop he ever had. Mr. Collier Cobb of Parkton was j among the growers who sold tobacco ! in Lumberton on the opening day j T uesday. , } W. D. Oxendine, Indian, who lives i out Buie way, sold some tobacco on the Lumberton market Tuesday. He says the bugs are getting his short staple cotton but do not seem to be bothering his long staple. Mr. W. B. Barker of St Pauls R.! 2 sold tobacco on the Lumberton market Wednesday. He says the weevils are getting the cotton and! will get all the bolls that are not j grown. Mr. Roy Ivey of the Saddletree sec tion was a Lumberton visitor today. He sold tobacco on the Lumberton market and said he was well pleased with the price it brought. COTTON PRICES FALL OFF AFTER SPECTACULAR RISE New York, Aug. 9—The price of i cotton rose nearly $7 a bale in wild j trading on the New York Cotton Ex- [ change today, Buoyed on a flood of I orders resulting from the government prediction of a crop only 69 per cent !normal, fear of floods in Arkansas, and Oklahoma and news of unfavor- ! i able weather throughout the cotton' j belt. j New York, Aug 10—The cotton market was less active today with j ' fluctuations nervous and irregular. , ! After selling up to 20.07 early De- ; cember broke to 16.95, then rallied to about 19.90 and finally closed at j j 19.72, compared with 19.90 at the close ! ! of the previous day. The general mar- ! ket closed barely steady at a net de cline of 12 to 18 points, i ______. Call at BUDDIE'S SERVICE STATION for quick service. Open all <he time. Phone 217L2. 1 ' ^TO DAY3^BACG() SALES As The Kobes^nian goes to press the warehouse ftours are practi caHy fuii with prices good. The estimate is around 300,000 pounds at the Sye houses with prices up to ! p. nt. quite consid erabiy better than 20 cents. The break appears to be near eveniy divided between ioca) growers and those from a distance Dr. W. W. Parker Studies Aviation At Tri-City Airport Lumtferton Optometrist Enrotis in Hying Schooi at Greensboro—Goes in for Aviation Without iteserva-' tion and Likes Nose Dives. Greensboro Daily News of August 8. The reporter puts the doctor down j as a physician, whereas he is an j optometrist, and Dr. Parker says he ! is 46 years oid, instead of 60, as the ; Daiiy News story has it Otherwise ; no objection is raised to the story which foiiows: "Five years ago if a man past 50 ! had announced his intention to take ; up aviation as a, means of getting from one piace to another, he would have been pronounced somewhat iacking in menta] equilibrium. The idea of a man 60 years oid fiying an airpiane in North Carotina, doing i nose dives and the iike, can be classed j as news. "The aviation class being conduct-} ed by pilots at Tri-City airport has { as its latest addition Dr. W. W.! Parker, prominent physican of Lum- i berton. Dr. Parker enroiled in the school August 1, and Saturday he had completed his first week in training. He left yesterday for his: home in Lumberton to get caught! up with his work. "Dr Parker will return to Greens boro each week-end untii he has completed 10 hours in the air. Mean while he will continue his program to have Lumberton equipped with a first class airport. The "Doc" as he is known at Tri-City airport, is somewhat of a pioneer on his na tive heath so far as flying is con cerned. "Just why Greensboro citizens have not yet availed themselves of the op portunity to learn flying. Dr. Park er does not know. It is beyond him. He had thought before coming here that he would find at least 20 civ ilians taking lessons. His own belief in the safety of handling an airplane : is lest expressed by the fact that he closed up his office for an entire week, turned over his medical prac- * tice to another physician, and came to Greensboro to study under avia tion experts. "Last week he spent several hours in the air, paying close attention to instructions. He had made a compre hensive study of the subject before I coming here and for that reason he is an apt and intelligent pupil He has gone so far as to map out im- ; provements in airplanes. He never; overlooks a point and is free in dis cussing problems that have taxed the minds of aviators for two decades. "Of course Dr. Parker would not ! like to get killed in an airplane; that! is only natural. He is glad also that Mrs. Parker thinks enough of him to fear for his safety. But he believes j that 90 per cent of the airplane ac- j cidents today are caused by careless ness on the part of the man at the stick. He has studied the fundamen- ; tals of flying enough to qualify this ! statement, he says. There is less dan- ; ger in intelligently handling an air plane than there is in driving an au tomobile in the average city or on the } average highway. "Being an accomplished physician,; he believes that a person with a sum mer cold is in more ganger on the ground than a healthy person 2,000 , feet above earth in a plane- In a few i more weeks Dr. Parker plans to don his gray head with a helmet and j hop off from his home in Lumberton ' for Greensboro to further pursue his j studies." REVIVAL BEGINS AT PEMBROKE SUNDAY Series of Meetings Will Start at Pem broke Baptist Church—Personal and Other Items. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Pembroke, Aug- 10—Mr. J. W. Wil liams and children, Misses Aleine and Sarah, and Masters Ociel and Joseph Earl spent last week-end in Wilming ton with relatives. Miss Eldridge Tyner was taken sick j {quite suddenly last Friday and was; rushed to the Baker sanatorium,; - where she is undergoing treatment, i She was doing nicely at last report. Mrs. Warren Cain left last night ! for Rocky Mount with her little ; ! granddaughter, Evelyn Cole, w;ho has ! I been sick for several days, but was I ***** YOL RE INVITED. ), "The Robesonian for a few is- j . sues is going to some people who ; ' are not now subscribers. This is an invitation to non-subscribers to }i THE ROBESONIAN to subscribe. ^ ; i No matter how many other papers ) ! t you may get, every Robeson coun !i ty family needs THE ROBESON { IAN. Send in vour subscription TODAY. Moore's Gift Shop ] The place t" buy gifts for alt occasions. Chestnut St Phone 454 ; Lumberton Schools WiH Open Sept. 7 Mra. E. R Hardin Succeeds Mrs. AM H. Mcl^ml vn Rchvvt Board a#d Mrs. McLeod ftecmwea Latin Teach er—Mrs. H. T Pope Granted Year's Leave of Absence. SEVERAL NEW TEACHERS Lumberton's schoots wi!! open for the fa!! term on Wednesday, Septem ber 7. This date was se!ectcd for the opening upon recommendation of Supt. W. B. Crumpton at a meeting of the schoo! board he!d in the high schoo! budding Tuesday night. At this meeting of the board Mrs E. R. Hardin was etected a member of the board to succeed Mrs. A!f H. McLeod, who resigned to accept the position of teacher of Latin in the high schoo), and Mrs. H. T. Pope, who has been a member of the fac u!ty for severa! years, was granted a year's teave of absence. Supt Crumpton announces the fo! !owing teachers etected at the meet ing Tuesday night: High schoo!: Principa!—Mr. Isham B. Hudson of Chape! Hi!!; Kngtish— Mrs. Isham B. Hudson of Chape! Hi!!, Miss Beu!ah Johnson of Wiison, S. C. ; French—Miss Fannie Northrop of Wi!mington; mathematics—Miss Matiida Wood of Bishopvide, S. C.; history—Miss Hannah Washburn of Shelby; science—Mr H. H. Powe!! of Perry, Mo.; Latin—Mrs. A!f H. Mc Leod of Lumberton; home economics —Miss Juanita Sprinkte of Reids vi!!e. Grammar school: Seventh grade— Miss Sa!)y King of St. Pauts, Mrs. J. H. Barrington of Lumberton; Sixth —Miss Anne Wester of Franklinton, Miss Ruth Wotcott of Lumberton; Fifth—Miss Bertha Barker of Lum- j berton, Miss Agnes Edwards of Sea-1 board; Fourth—Miss Dovio Prevattej of Lumberton, Miss Katherine Red- I wine of Monroe; Third—Miss Wini-! fred Rowland of Lumberton, Miss Lucy Hunsucker of Gibson; Second —Miss Pennie Row!and of Lumber ton, Miss LiHian Edgerton of Ken!y; First—Misses Emma Norment and Rache! McNamara of Lumberton, Miss Eiizabeth White of Norfoik; of fice assistant—Miss Nina Bebber of Lumberton; public schoo! music— Miss Isabe! deVtaming of Roxboro; music—Miss Ailie Bird McKinnon of Rowland Mr. Hudson, rngh school principal is a graduate of Wake Forest col lege, L. L. B. 192!, A. B. 1925, and is doing M. A. degree work at Chape! Hill He is a native of Sampson county and has had four years ex perience in teaching, the tast two years in Pender county. He and Mrs. Hudson wi)! !ive with Mrs. M. N. Townsend on Wainut street. Mr. Powell, science teacher, also wi!! be athletic director. He is a graduate of Westminster college, Ful ton, Mo-, and has done graduate work at the university of Missouri and the university of Illinois. For the past three years he has been teacher of science and athletic director at the Macon, Mo., high schoo!. Messrs. Hudson and Powc!! wi!! ar rive in Lumberton about September 1st. taken worse yesterday. She wi!! un dergo an operation at once for ap pendicitis at a hospital in Rocky Mount. Messrs. L. M. Odom and J W. Wil iiams have gone to Lumber Bridge to night on business. Mr. Car! Smith is spending his va cation in Ciio with relatves and friends. Mr. Herbert Prevatt of Laurinburg was in town for a short while Sun day p. m. Several from here went over to the county home Sunday afternoon and he!d service for the people there Mrs. W. R. Tyner of Lowe and nephews and niece, Master Herbert Baucom of Wi!mington, Master Eu gene and Miss Carolyn Langston of Danville, Va„ were Pembroke visi tors one day last week. The Christian Endeavor of Presby terian church gave a delightful little program Sunday night. The subject was "Hymns Worth Knowing." Mrs. Simp Prevatt of the Rozier section is spending a few days here with her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs W. E. Baxley. Mrs. Bax ley has been on the sick list for sev eral days. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Glover, last Thursday, a son. Both mother and baby are doing nicely. The revival meeting begins at the Baptist church here next Sunday, the pastor, Mr. Wish^rt, will preach Sun day morning at 11 and Sunday night at H. We expect Mr. Corbit, from F lorence, to be here on Monday and he will assist the pastor in the meet ing Everybody, regardless of denom ination, is cordially invited to attend. Hours for servee during the week wili be announced later. Sorry to report Mrs. Bullard and daughter, Miss Mary Belle, on the sick list. Mr. C. S. Wiggins and Miss Mary Belle Bullard have returned from Baltimore, where they spent several days buying goods for the Pembroke Trading Co. XOTICK TO TOBACCO ME\ The chamber of commerce rooms over the cotton mil! offices . are very comfortable. You are i invited to come there to write your letters or for any information on file. All the tobacco journals are I received. j Lumberton Chamber of Commerce. ) **" *"*" Lumberton Tobacco Market Has Greatest Opening Sate !n Its History ,! _ j. *^====^ — Born, iast week, to Mr. ami Airs R. M. Stroupe of Aiaxton. a daugh ter, at Maker sanatorium. — Mrs. W. R. Poweii of Lumberton is improving after taking medical treatment at the Baker sanatorium. —The atmuai meeting of the Meredith ciuh wit! be heid Fri(iay af ternoon at ") o'etock, at the home of Mrs. H M. Baker. Ftm street. - Mrs Richard Humphrey of the Saddictrec seetton, who had been very sick at Baker sanatorium, was abie to return home Wednesday. —Mr. J. K. Wiiiard ot Fayettevdie ' has accepted a position in th" piumh Mng department of Kirktnaa Wicker's hardware store. —A Booster program that was giv en by the intermediate B. Y. P. U. at the First Baptist church Monday ; evening, was very much enjoyed by ; those who were present, i —Miss Josephine Breece wit] ieave Monday for New York to purchase faii and winter goods for her miiiinery ' store. —Revs, !. P. Hedgpeth and Fred Brown are attending today at Saddie Tree the Humphrey reunion, which is being heid at the home of Mr. J. B. Humphrey. —A 21-pound tumor was cut from a coiored woman by Hr H. M. Baker of the Baker sanatorium a few days ago, and the woman has been getting aiong fine since. —Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Green and a party of young foik from Maxton, passed through Lumberton Wednes day on their way to White Lake where they wiii spend a few days. —David, 2-year-oid son of Mr. Ros coe Fioyd of Cerro Gordo, who has made his home at the Baker sanator ium since the death of his mother when he was an infant, was taken yesterday to his home. —Mrs- W. W. Lewis of Fairmont, who underwent an operation for acute appendicitis at the Baker sanatorium a few days ago, is getting aiong nice ! iy. —Mr. Carios Stanley of the Barker Jen Mdesectton is recovertng nicely following an operation for appendici tis at the Baker sanatorium. -^-Mr. and Mrs- t). P. Buie and Miss j Rebecca Buie of Phitadetphus were Lumberton visitors yesterday. They were accompanied home by Mr. Buie's daughter. Miss Annie Bette, who has been taking treatment at I Baker sanatorium. j —Mr. Ottie Townsend is in the Thompson Memoriat hospitat suffer ing with something tike btood poison as the rcsutt of an injury to his hand infiicted by a cow at the county home a few days ago. The cow pushed his hand against a nai), and Mr. Town send tater got dew in the wound, caus ing it to become badty infected. —Jimmie, 7-months'-oid son of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Bridger Jr., of Biad enboro, whose skuit was fractured in an accidentai faii from his nurse's arms severai days ago, necessitating an operation for the removat of part of the broken bone, has been abie to return home from the Baker sana torium. } —Sixteen members of the Ameri can legion band and theif instructor, Mr. Lucian Ward, wiit teave early ! Monday morning for Washington, N C., to attend the Legion convention. The Lumberton boys wii! have a targe part on the program Monday and Tuesday. Reservations have been made for 25 peopie from Lumberton to attend the convention, this num ber inciuding the band and instruc tor. —Mr. and Mrs. f. V. Hooper and children. L V. Jr., H. H , B. F. and P. T. Hooper, returned to their home in Fayetteviiie yesterday after hav ing attended the funeral here Tues day of Mrs. J. I). Barfietd. Mr. and Mrs Hooper iived in Lumberton 10 years ago, Mr. Hooper operating the Lumberton Marble & Granite works here at that time. —Mrs. Albert Lytch of Laurinburg. nee Miss Christabelt Moorehouse of Lumberton, underwent an operation for appendicitis at the Chariotte san atorium this week. Her many friends will be glad to know that she is doing as wel) as could be expected. —Mr, T. J. Burck and grandson, Mr W. J. Burck, both of New Or leans, are guests at the home of the former's son-in-law and daughter. Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Flowers, East Third street. The elder Mr. Burck had some memorable experiences during the recent floods in the Mis sissippi vaitey and talks interestingiy of the harrowing times in and near New Orleans. ^ —Mr. T. D. Stephens, who has been the popular manager of the Atlantic and Pacific tea store on Elm street since it was opened here about the first of the year, has been pro moted to the managership of the head store at Wiimington. He and Mrs, Stephens wiil teave about the last of the week for Wilmington, where Mr. Stephens expects to as sume his duties the first of the week Mrs. Stephens has resigned the posi tion she held with the dry goods de partment of R. D. Caldwell & Son and will he succeeded by Mrs. Elds Britt. Offering* on Firtt Day Near 400,000 Pounds with Average of $19.16 PRICES PLEASE FARMERS Sales Not Completed on Opening Day and It Takes Until 4:30 Yesterday to Clear Floors— Medinm Grades Stronger Than Last Year. The Lumberton tobacco market, with its 5 warehouses, experienced the greatest opening sate in its history Tuesday when ciose to 400,(MO pound s of tobacco were on the fioors, taxing them to capacity. Average for the opening was $19.16. Estimate of 393,092 Lbs. It is regretahie that exact figures on the opening are not obtainable, but a very heavy storm at 4:30 in the af ternoon made it inadvisabte to con tinue the sales, with the resuit that both Tuesday and Wednesday's re ceipts on two fioors were soid togeth er on Wednesday. The amount on the market can be readiiy realized when it is known that one set of buyers spent practically the whole day Wed nesday at the Carlyle and Little Ban ner, where sales were not complete d the day before. Deducting Mr. Sam Watkins' estimate of 30,000 pounds of what was brought in to these two warehouses Wednesday morning, how ever, the opening salt- was 393.992 pounds, which sold for an average of $19 16. These figures are believed to be so nearly correct as to be proper ly acceptable for the Tuesday re ceipts and prices. The total figures inciuding the 30,000 pounds mention ed above are 423,992 which averaged $19.25 per hundred pounds. Big Sales Today. This morning the sates are large, with big truck loads of good tobacco from various distant points. Some of these trucks weigh out as much as 4,000 pounds. Medium Grades Stronger. Medium grades are stronger on the Lumberton market this season than they were last, and the better grades have not yet reached the level of last year. Practically all of the to bacco offered so far, however, has consisted of primings, and it is ex pected that as soon as these have been sold the tobacco companies will be in position to take care of the better grades, and bidding on them will become more active. Farmers Pleased. Farmers are pleased with the prices they are receiving, and present indt eations are that they will make an effort to get their primings market ed at once. Practically no dissatis faction has been heard. The farmers are highly elated with the prices of the lower grades, the opinion having been previously expressed that the demand for the better grades would be the greater flther Counties Represented. In addition to Robeson, several other counties were represented on the Lumberton market the opening days. All Monday and beginning at an early hour Tuesday trucks, autos and wagons not only from the im mediate territory but from distant points were arriving. Johnson, Harnett, Moore, Sampson, Bladen, Columbus, Brunswick, Cumberland, Wake and other counties were repre sented. ' Steals Tobacco Check. A check for $111.88 made out to Al. M. Birdo by a Fairmont tobacco ware house was stolen Tuesday by some one who called for it at the window. County olficers were notified, but they have been unable to locate the check. Condemned Men Granted Respite Boston, Aug. 10.—(AP—Warden William Hendry of the state prison announced at 11:24 that Xrcoia Sacco, Bartlomeo, Vanzetti and Cciestmo Maeiros had been granted a respite to and including August 22. ATTENTION LEG ION A RES i The last meeting of Luniherton post American Legion before the Washington convention will be ! : held at the Legion hail Friday J night, August 12, at 8 o'clock. Please make a special effort to be present at this meeting as wo. have some very important bust- { ness to attend to before the Wash , ington Convention, including elect ing delegates to the convention at i Washington, N. C. We are going to take the A mot- ! ican Legion junior band to the ! convention and it is hoped that we ! can have a large delegation of our ; members to go along. We have a large bus chartered to take the i band and all delegates Any one ; wishing to make this trip can go i on the bus for $5. The American Legion junior band will give a public concert } from the bandstand in the Legion*! park Friday night of this week, ; starting at 8 o'clock. The public t is invited to turn out and hear } these boys play. J 1.. SPIVEY, , Commander.
The Robesonian (Lumberton, N.C.)
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Aug. 11, 1927, edition 1
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