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THE WEATHER: FAIR TONIGHT AND FRIDAY. Twetve Pages Today TWO SECTIONS VOL. LVINO. 61. LUMBERTON, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1827. COPWTBT, oon AMO MOTH. MtTAHUHHKD W#. M!CH WVHt CHMW 18 Prizes Offered Growers Selling Tobacco In Lumberton Next Week Six Prizes Offered On Each Of 3 Days Chamber of Commerce Through Co operation of Lora) Merchants W't/ Give Away 6 Prizes on Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday. j The Lumbermen Chamber of } Commerce, through the co-opera tion of the Lumberton merchants and business men, will give away 6 prizes per day or a total of 18 prtzes for the three days, lues- ! day, Wednesday and Thursday, of j next week to tobacco growers. The first grand prize will go to the farmer having the iargest quantity of the best grade- of to- . bacco here that day, the second ! grand prize to the farmer having the biggest quantity, 'and the third to the farmer having Gie ! best grade. A second prize vfit) t be given to the farmers having j the second iargest quantity of the ^ be-st grade, the biggest quantity ) and the best grade. The prizes i wiil be given out after each day's sale on the basis of the warehouse records. A detailed account of the prizes j and their donors wit) appear in Monday's issue of The Kobeson- j ian [ Edwards Will Case On Trial 5 Ghitdrcn of Late F. P. Edwards of Parkton Trying to Break Wii! Which !,eaves Property to Their Mother and Brother. hive chitdren of the iate F. P. Ed wards of Parkton—T. J. Edwards. Mrs Jane Edwards Brown, Mrs. 0. Staniey, Mrs. Mary B. Edwards and, Mrs. Gertrude Edwards R yaii—are! trying to break their father's wiH, j which teaves his estate to their moth er, Mrs. EHen. Edwards, to go at her ! death to their brother, Herbert G. Ed- t wards. Undue influence and insanity. are urged by the caveators as reasons for breaking the wi!i. The case has j - been on trial since yesterday morn-) ing. and aU the evidence has not yet i been offered. . The iist of case disposed of this) week is heid over to the next issue on account of iack of space. Judge W. M. .JgpHit,. Edcnt. u is presiding over a 2 weeks' term of Superior court for the triai of civii cases. North Lumberton School Opens 12th North Lumberton school witt open Monday, Sept. 12. Miss Ruby Thomp son is principai and other teachers are Misses Janie K Wishart, Eliza . beth Ciifton and Edith Barker. JUDGE W. !). MCKAY OF TEXAS ON VISIT TO NATIVE COUNTY One of Robeson's Scattered Abroad ] Who Has Made Good in His Adopt ed State. Judge W. D. McKay of Fort Worth. Texas, is visiting his nieces Mesdames D. W. 'Biggs and Frank McLeod. Judge McKay is a native Robesonian. torn and reared at Phiiadetphus. He is a brother of Mr. J. Frank McKay, and has been in Texas for 43 years. That he has made good in the State of his adoption is evidenced by the fact that for years he has been a pop utar and efficient judge in the state of his adopticn. Judge McKay taiks interestingly of conditions in the Lone Star State. 't he bod weevii has made Texas far mers a diversifying peopie, he says, and good times stitt prcvai!. He no tices many changes and marked im provement in Lumberton since his last visit five years ago. Judge McKay is accompanied by his wife. They pian to spend three more weeks in North Carolina. He and Mrs. McKay wii] go today to Row tand, where they wit) spend a few days with reiativcs. Judge McKay is one of Robeson's dispersed sons of whom she is proud. Building Permits. Budding permits have been issued] to Mr. A. E. tBoney for the erection! oi a 4 room residence costing $1,000) <<t) S uth Chestnut street; F. J. Pate] tor a fitting station and grocery cost-) tng $i,800 on the corner of Second] and (trace streets; Watters brothers ofj Biadenboro Hr a 2-story brick build mg costing $t,000 next to the grocery ^ store of Mr. L. M. Biggs on South] Chestnut street. Mr. S. A. Branch' has the contract for the tatter huitd-' ing, woich is to be finished in 60 days.] 'this budding witt be. used as a bus station. Basebatt Saturday. A basebatt game wit] be ptayed here next Saturday at 4 p. tn. at the fair' grounds between the Jennings mid! team and Pembroke Witdcats, Indian team. * ) The Jennings mill team defeated the Witdcats here tast Saturday, the yscre being 7 to 6. in one of the best #A^f the season. ", - -- .' j First Bate Marketed. . The first bate of t927 crop of cot ton offered on the Lumberton Mar-; ket was brought in yesterday by Evander McMittnn, who tives on his own farm near Buie. It was sotd to K. M. Biggs, loca! cotton dealer, at 21 1-2 cents. Mr. and Mrs. Ivey wit] make their home in the Long Branch section, Once tH # Lt/ctiywc ^ R„th Lee Taylor. 20 years old.' of Portland. Ore., is one of the few exceptions who finds sudden fame in the movies. Because she is vouug. — and pretty — and BLONDE—she goes from com fdy filler to lead for Lasky m "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Three More Road Supervisors Named J. T. Hamilton and L. N. Prevatt Will Serve in D. J. Oliver's District and N. C McLeod in W. D. Smith's Dist.—Other Matters Be fore Board. Three additional road supervisors were appointed by the Robeson county road board meeting in regular ses sion here Monday. Messrs. J. T. Ham ilton and L N Prevatt will serve in Mr. D. J. Oliver's district, which is composed of the townships of Back Swamp, Thompson, Fairmont, Gaddy and White House; and Mr. Norman C. McLeod was named in Mr. W. D Smith's district, which is composed of Lumber Bridge, Shannon, Rennert, Red Springs, Burnt Swamp- Phila delphus, Raft Syramp and Smiths townships. Mr. Robert Monroe had previously been made a supervisor in Mr. Smith's district, and supervisors for all the other districts had been appointed. It was ordered that a iame mule now in the possession of O. M- Britt and belonging to the chain gang be sold by Mr. D. B. Lancaster to the highest bidder. The fill across Aaron Swamp was ordered fixed so as to make the cross, ing passable. The secretary was ordered to make requisition to the purchasing agent for sufficient culver^ to complete the belt line. SmiHngs Apply For A Separate Schooi District County Confronted With Problem of a Fourth Race and Hoard of Educa tion Appoints Committee to Inves tigate Matter of Estahiishing Schooi for Ciass of i'eopie Harred From Indian Schoois. Robeson county is confronted with the probiem of a fourth race, and the county board of education at its meeting Monday appointed a com mittee to investigate the matter of estahiishing a separate schooi distnct for it. Some years ago some peoptc by the name of Smiiings moved i- oKooeson county from South Caroiina. The Smiiings chiidren attended the Indian schoois of the county tor two years, anti then Robeson county Indians be gan questioning their 'ignt 'o attend the Indian schools. A couiuiti.ee ap pointed by the State bgidtture de cided at first in favor t f the Stuilings, but when additional information was brought to its attention, it decided against admitting the Smiiings chil dren to the Indian schools of the coun ty. The Smiiings went to Superior court with the matter, and after three days in court a mistriai resuited. An appeal was taken to Supreme court on the technicaiity that the Indian com mittee did not have the tight to change its decision, iut the t.igher court upheid the committee, and the Smiiings were barred from the Indian schoois. Since that time the Smiiings have made appiication to the board of education for a separate schooi dis trict. There arc now approximately 30 < f the Smiiing chiidren. Tt e committee w hich will investi gate the matter is composed of Mr. J. R. Poole, county superintendent of schoois. and Messrs. C. T. Pate and .1. 8. McLeod, members of the board of education. Protracted Meeting Continues at Raynham. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Raynham- Sept. 7—The protracted meeting which began Aug. 28 wtii continue during the week Services are being conducted by the pastor, Rev. A. E. Paul, assisted by Mr. Ed wards of Lumberton. —Mrs. R H. Taylor and son, Mr. Richard Hugh Jr., returned to their home at Beaverdam, Va., Tuesday after spending several days in and around Lumberton on business. They were accompanied home by Miss Es sie Prevatt, of Lumberton, R. 2, who v :I! sH<=nd srha ! there +his '''inter Lumberton Schools Open With Largest Number In History Attendance First Day 511 in Primary ind Grammar Grades and 242 in High School, Colored Schools 131— /Talks Made by Revs. T. M. Grant / and Fred Brown. Supt. Crumpton and Principal Hudson. I BEST SESSION PREDICTED The Lumberton graded and high i school got off to a fine opening Wed. ^ i nesday morning with an attendance of 511 in the primary and grammar ! grades and 242 in the high school. ! This attendance is probably the high est on record. The high school attend ance of 242 pupils this year compares with 212 last year and 231 } on the opening day two j i years ago The enrollment in the , grammar school and primary grades {at the end of the first week last year, { } after several more pupils had enter- { ied school, was 518. It is expected that this number will be surpassed this j week. Rev. T. M Grant, pastor of Chest ' nut Street Methodist church, read a part of the fifth chapter of Mat thew for the Scripture lesson, and i Rev. Fred Brown made the invoca tion, after which one stanza of "Amer ica" was sung. Supt. Crumpton then ! called on Mr. Grant for "a word", but ; Mr. Grant said several of an appro priate nature, urging the students to ' let work be their motto, and told ) them that he was saving his "speech" until they had some hard math or Latin lesson and wanted him to talk during that hour He advised the boys not to ask any favors simply because they happened to belong to a base ball or football team and ended his j remarks by telling the students to go to their work and do their jobs and do them like they ought to be done. How Many Governors? Rev. Fred Brown said he asked some one on the platform with him as the students were coming into the build- ; ing how many governors there were in that group of students. God has no material out of which to make men and women except hoys and girls, he said, and he dwelt briefly on the hid den possibilities of youth. Mr. Brown said that he had taught school long enough to know that Job never did j teach. He told the parents that when they had done their duty towards children, they would come to the end ' i of their lives by seeing their fondest hopes realized. To the boys and gi.\s , i going away to college—and there i ! were several of these in the audience ; ; —he said their homes were not what ' they ought to be if they did not be come homesick, but he urged them to take advantage of their opportun ities. Hardest Sentor Year. ' Supt. Crumpton urged the parents to see that students from the fourth I grade on through the high school study at night, but he asked parents of pupiis in the first grade not to try to teach their children but to let ! the teachers do that job- The 8th ; grade he urged to think seriousiy of j what was going to be taken to give ! ! if! units for graduation, and he told j ! the senior ciass that he and the prin- I cipa] were going to do ail in their ! power to make this year the hardest . ever. The more required in high school, the easier the students wiii j get along in college, he declared. He introduced Mr. H. H. Powell, athletic j coach, and Mr.^,1. B. Hudson, princi pal. Mr Hudson predicted the best year in the history of the Lumherton high i school and said that at the end of the year he hoped to present Mr. Crumpton with the best graduating ciass that has ever finished at Lum berton. Among, the things he said he wanted the students to strive for this . year are the best scholarship, good character and fine discipline. Faculty. The faculty this year is composed j yf the following: Superintendent—Mr. W. B. Crump. ! ton. Lumberton. High school: Principal—Mr. Isham R Hudson of Chapel Hiil; English—; Mrs. Isham B. Hudson of Chapel Hill. Miss Beulah Johnson of Wilson, S.j C.; French—Miss Fannie Northrop of Wilmington; mathematics—Miss } Matilda Wood of Bishopville, 4L C.; history—Miss Hannah Washburn of i Shelby; science—Mr. H. H. Powell of! Perry, Mo ; Latin—Mrs. Alf H. Me-' Leod of Lumberton; home economics —Miss Jaunita Sprinkle of Keids ville. Grammar school: Seventh grade — Miss Sally King of St. Pauls, Mrs. J. H. Barrington of Lumberton; Sixth —Miss Anne Wester of Franklinton, Miss Ruth Wolcott of Lumberton; ' Fifth—Miss Bertha Barker of Lum- ! berton, Miss Agnes Edwards of Sea- ! hoard; Fourth—Miss Dovie Prevatte t of Lumberton, Miss Katherine Red- j wine of Monroe; Third—Miss Wini- , fred Rowland of Lumberton, Miss Lucy Hunsuckcr of Gibson; Second —Miss Pennie Rowland of Lumber- ! ton, Miss Lillian Edgerton of Kenly; : First—Misses Emma Norment and j Rachel McNamara of Lumherton,' Miss Elizabeth White of Norfolk; of- } fice assistant—Miss Nina Bebber of ! Lumberton; public school music—' Miss,Isabel deVlaming of Roxboro;! music—Miss Allie Bird McKinnon of Rowland. Enrollment in the white schorls of Lumberton on the opening day yester day was 753. colored schools 131, mak j ing a grand total of 884. DRIVE ID ONE OF FULLERS SERVICE STATIONS ! You get prompt and courteous set vice at either cue of th: three places. ' —Messrs. Jfsck Parson of Red Springs and Archie Stone of Lumber ton have accepted positions with the Lumberton Drag Co. —Mrs. J. L ' Aiien has returned from a month's stay at Wrightsviiie Beach and has taken up reguiariy the work for the Paton studio on West Fifth street. ^ —Messrs. F. D. McLean and F. R. Singietary of Biadenboro were Lum herton visitors yesterday. They re port the largest opening of the Bia denboro hign schoot in tts history. —Mr. and Mrs. Furman Biggs re turned this morning from New York city and other Northern markets, where they spent severai days pur chasing goods for Mr K. M. Biggs' department store. —Miss Eiizabeth Shaw has return ed to RobersonviHe, where she wtii again teach. Miss Shaw is this year principal of the high schooi, which is evtdence of an unusuai record as Miss Shaw was graduated at Saiem oniy 2 years ago and has taught onty one year. —Fairmont, Sept. 8: Miss Saiiy Margaree Johnson of Fairmont wiH teturn Friday a^ter attending the iast course of summer schooi at the uni versity of N. , Chapei Hiii. Wiii start to work $s librarian at Pem broke Sept. J2. She is now visiting relatives at Benson. —Mr. and Mt{6. W. Y. Foiyd, who were married at Orrum on August 27, have returned from their wed ding trip to Western North Caroiina and are iiving &! the McLean apart ments, Wainut and Fifth. Mrs. Fioyd was Miss Reva Newton of Orrum. Mr Fioyd is junior member of the iaw firm of John&on, Johnson & Fioyd. —The Robeson county fair grounds are being repaired and cicaned pre paratory to the thirteenth annua) fa;r, October 18^2). A if x M ft. addition is beiah? buiit between the main exhibit has! and the pouitry house, connecting the buiidings. Seats wiH provided in the place for a rest room. —Miss Amelia I inkhauer, miiiiner, wii! on Monday move the Styie Shop, of which she is proprietor, from the McNeiii buiiding on South E!m street to the Proctor buiiding. Eim between Fourth and Fifth, next to the jeweiry store of Mr. A. J. Hoimes. The iatter buiiding recently has been remodeied and a new front has been put in. —Fire of unknown origin caught in a clothes ciose^in the home of Mr M. Schaeman on East Fifth street at 8 a. m today and destroyed the clothing of Miss Liiiie Schaeman. Both of Miss Schaeman's hands were burned, one pretty seriousiy. Littie damage was done to the house before the biaze was extinguished. The fire department was not caiied out. —Mr. and Mrs J. T. Mcintyre and chiidren, Misses Theima and Mildred, of Oriando, Fia., are on a three-weeks' visit to reiatives in Rowiand, Lum berton and other piaces in Robeson county Another chiid of Mr. and Mrs. Mcintyre, Master J. T. Jr., who iives with his uncie Mr. D. C. Mc Intyre of Rowiand, was in town with them Tuesday. —Mr. T. A. Rasbury, assistant manager of the Sir Waiter hotel of Raieigh, was a guest iast night at the home of Judge and Mrs. T. L. Johnson, Eim street Judge Johnson entertained a few friends last evening at a stag dinner at his home in honor of Mr- Rasbury, those present being Prof. W. B. Crumpton, former Sena tor Frank Cough, Messrs. Frank Mc Neiii and J. A. Sharpe. Mr. Rasbury returned to Raieigh this morning with Mayor E M. Johnson, who is spend ing the day there on [egai business. —Mr. J. T. Davis of R. 6 from Lumberton, who was a Lumberton visitor yesterday afternoon, said that he went to the Buie miff pond fishing yesterday morning and that there was the nearest no fish there he ever saw. The pond had not been drawn off in 100 years and everybody thought there wouid be more fish there than Carter had oats, but Mr. Davis said if it had been a sacrament and fish had been used there wouid not have been enough to go arotfnd. —Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Currie and chiidren, iittie Misses Barbara and Irene and Master Paui, of Red Banks.' N. J.. are visiting at the home of M'*. Currie's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. J. Currie, in Howeiisviiie township, aiso at the home of his brother-in iaw and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Spurgeon Kiniaw, at St. Pauls. Mr. Currie iett Robeson six years ago and this is his second visit to the oid home, the oth er being some 3 years ago. He and his ianiiiy came in their auto and found good roads ai) the way. They w:)i be in the county about 2 weeks. —Mr. Richard N. McArthur of the Huggins McArthur Co., printers, of Atianta, Ca, and Mrs. McArthur passed through Lumberton Tuesday enroute to St. Pauis, where they visit ed scenes of Mr. McArthur's eariy boyhood Mr. McArthur was born in Lumberton, a son of Mr. and Mrs. N. T. McArthur, and he was named for Dr. Richard Norment of Lumberton. His parents iater went to a farm near St. Pauis. Mr. McArthur said he had not been in Lumberton in 17 or 18 years, and he was impressed with the prosperity of the town and county. Cotton Market Middling cotton is selling on the local market today at 22 1-2 cents the pound. Mr. Luther Daniel Crump, who holds a position in Sanford, spent last week here visiting his mother, Mrs. Ed B Freeman. Mre-Nr-MeLonis of Pembroke was a Lumbertou visiter Tuesday. Series Of Meetmgs Begins Sunday At Gospe! Tabernade Dr. W W. Coiby^f Westfieid. X. J.. WiH Conduct Evanxeiistic Services at Locat Church for 3 Weeks. Cot respondence of The Robesonian. t;r. w. w.' by. M. D . from Westfield. N. k J., wi!! conduct ^ 3-weeks evan ^ geiistic ser H vices at the H Gospei Taber W naetc, ia'gin y ning Sunday * night, Sept. !ith. Services every night at 8 os tuck except Saturday. Dr. Colby is a strong evangelist with a message from the Bible. He is well known hy the local pastor ant) ! comes well recommended. If you hear him once you wii) want to hear him again. Dr. Colby has discon tinued his practice of medicine and i surgery and is devoting his entire time to evangelistic work. Monday ! night his message will be on Divine healing. Come and hear him. , The public is invited. County Board Borrows $30,000 To Pay Debts $13,606 for Ceneral School and $13, 000 for Cenera! County Funds— i l oans Made to Ceneral School Fund and 1'arkton School Debt Scr. vice—Other Matters Before Hoard WILL SETTLE FOR 1926 TAXES ON SEPTEMBER 22 The county commissioners at their regular monthly session here Monday j ordered that notes in the sum of $30, ! 000 be sold to take care of the gen I eral county and genera! school debts for 90 days, $15,000 for the general school fund and $15,000 for the gen eral county fund. These notes will be j sold on the fitst Monday in October. The general county fund loaned the! general school fund the sum of $10-' ! 000, which amount is to be returned j i out of the current collection of taxes, and it was also ordered that $1,500) be loaned to the Parkton No. 1 { White school district debt service, which is to be repaid the general fund ; out of collection of taxes. Loans to D M. Barker and C. A. Cox for $2,000 and $1,500, respective ly, were approved. The board of education was author- j tzed to provide for the payment of , a $121 note for Philadelphus town ) 'ship. The bond of H. C. Stanton, cotton ) weigher and grader for Red Springs,! in the sum of $500, with W. E. Wat son, T. and H. C Stanton as surety was ordered approved and filed, and the same order was passed as to C. McD. Smith of Rowland, who had as surety himself and J. H. McQueen. Fodie Oxendine was placed on the mother's aid list at $10 per month and Mary Addie Smith at $15. The amount Carroll Murray re- [ ceives on the pauper's list was in-j I creased from $3 per month to $7 50 ; per month. L. B. Townsend and Troy M'Whitc ) were advanc#th$300 on tax-computing; work. An order was passed that the coun. ty should take charge of all gas and oil bills for Mark Page, motorcycle , policeman, not to exceed $15 per ' month. The county attorney was appointed to collect all back taxes up to and including the year 1925- for which he wdl be allowed 7 1-2 per cent. The regular pauper list was al lowed. Monthly reports were filed for Miss Flora Lee Carl, home demonstration agent; Miss Elizabeth Frye, county welfare officer, and Dr E R. Hardin, county health officer. Settlement with the tax collector for taxes for the year 1926, was post poned until Monday, September 22, at which time the commissioners will ^ieet with the tax collector for this purpose. Walter Henderson was appointed ; cotton weigher ami grader for Max ] ton and John Canady for Wakulla I j , NECRO HURT IN CAR WRECK NEAR ST PALLS Hen Reeves of Durham Taken to Fay-j etteville Hospital After Studehaker! Car Is L'fted Off Him—Woman With Him Escapes With Minor In juries. Ben Reeves, colored, of Durham, i was carried to a Fayetteville hospital 'Tuesday afternoon with painful in juries after a Studebaker automobile which he was driving had been lifted, off him on route 22. 5 or 6 miles above St. Pauls. A colored woman with him escaped with minor injuries, j The car which Reeves was driving went off an embankment when he looked at a brush the woman with him had dropped on the fender and was trying to get. With the excep tion of a knocked-off door, the car j was not damaged. Forty percent of the cotton fields ; in the lower tier of counties near the South Carolina line are heavily in i fested with boll weevil. The weevil [continues to do heavy damage. Moore': Gift Shop The place to buy gifts for all occasions. j Chestnut St. Phone 454 Opemng Of Eastern Carolina Houses Fails To Affect Robeson Co. Markets COTTON JCMPM H'. !2.(!&2,00b bates is the estimate of the cotton*^crop given in the U. h government report issued at noon today. The market respond ed to the report by a rise of a rent and a ha if. Cotton went to 22 !-2 cents on the Lumberton market when the report was re ceived. Monger Fred Star^_fortncr]/ of Ohio. wht< has been n<a<lc pre-convcn t on manager by fortner Governor f rank () l.owdo of Illinois, it! ins hid for the Rcpstbtican prc.ti Ictitial nonunation McDonald School Will Open Sept. 12 Patrons L rged to He Present at Op ening Exercises—Faculty for Year. The McDonald school wii) open Mon tiay morning at 9 o'clwk, according to Mr W. T. Jenrette of Marietta, principal, who with Mrs Jenrette and their children, Messrs. Thomas and Poe Jenrette, were Lumberton visi tors yesterday. Mr. Jenrette is anxious that the pa trons of the school be present at the opening exercises, as matters of vitai importance to them will be discussed. Other members of the facuity be sides Mr. Jenrette will he Miss Eunice Parker of Aufander, Miss Sarah Wat son of Rowland and Miss English Wade of Barnesville. Orrum Community Fair October 14. 23-Page Premium List Issued—Offi cers and Committees—Students Off for College Next Week—Boys Take Part in Oairy Cattle-Judging Con test in Chariotte. (By M. Wilson Bullard) The following members of the ciass of 1927 leave next week for N- C. State College of Agriculture and En gineering: Leroyce Shepherd, Living stone Shepherd, Rudolph Rhodes, Hil. breth Britt, Marion Taylor, Challance Ivey. Great things are expected of these young men. !t will be remem bered that Marion was valedictorian of his class, and Challance won the medal presented to the best all-round student in vocational agriculture. Boys from last year's class going to other schoo!s are: Hight Warwick, Elliott Britt, and Hubert Hedgpeth, to Wake Forest; Walter Lewis to university of North Carolina. On August 29th, Hollis Ivey and Thomas Taylor visited Charlotte, where they took part in a district dairy cattle-judging contest. The con test was held on the Selwyn dairy farm, where the boys had a splendid opportunity to see the milking ma chines and other modern conven iencies in operation. They were ac companied on the trip by Mr. and Mrs Bullard. Community Fair. The Orrum community fair will be held Friday, October 14th A 23 page premium list has been issued. Follow mg is a hst of the officers, and com mittees: President. M. Shepherd; vice president, I. H Warwick; secretary and treasurer, H. W. Bullard. Com mittees: program and entertainment —Mrs. R L. Pittman, chairman, Clif ton Ashley, Mr McDuffie; general chairman home economies-—Miss Sal lie Harrington; foods—Mrs. M. Shep herd, chairman, Mrs. Will Lewis, Mrs. 1. H. Warwick, Mrs. J. B Ivey; lothing—Mrs. J C. Nye, chairman. Mrs. W. L. Thompson, Mrs. Burke Pittman, Mrs. Wiiton Barden; flow ers—Mrs. H. Warwick, chairman, Mrs. O. L Shepherd. Mrs. J. R. Law son, Mrs. Will Rhodes; field crops— J. C. Atkinson, chairman, R. W. Nye, W R. Barnes,John Stone; garden and orchard—J. A Floyd, chairman, F. J. Nye. Maurice Shepherd; live stock -Purvis Leggette, chairman, J. S. Floyd. Douglas Lewis, Patterson Gra ham; poultry—Hollis Ivey, chairman, Mrs. J.Z. Stone, Mrs. Hezzie Phil lips; shop—Jhe Britt, chairman. Eutice Barden. OHin Lee; school—R L. Pittman, chairman, Miss Annie Horner, Miss Erah Thompson; athle tics—Clifton Ashley, chairman; baby Britt, chairman. Mrs. A. j. Surles, Hiss Xeta Jiedgpeth. t 4 MBERTON MARKET !S ST!L4, GQ4NG STRONG Kate* tst 3 t)ays Thts Week Nearty Tt ree Quarters of Mittion—Today's .*.a)e Approximatety 259.999 Pounds 1 he Eumberton tobacco market is j."tii) going strong, and gates are aver aging approximatety a quarter of a mittion pounds per day. Opening of , the Eastern markets Tuesday has caused no fatting off in offerings, i Sates for the week up untit tast night totated 723 259 pounds for h)it20,3t6.42. The season's totats are <6.222.122 pounds for $t.!49.432.73. I Today's sates are estimated at 250. ! 000 pounds, which is setting high. I he better grades of tobacco appear to have advanced. FAtRMONT MA4NTA4NS SAME GA4T AM BEFORE One Warehouse Broke AM Records for ' Pounds and Speed in t Day—Sates for tst 3 Mays This Week 4 942,982 Pounds for Average of $24.92. I Opening of the Eastern markets faded to effect the Fairmont market in the matter of receipts, according to itt. W. McFartand, supervisor of sates. Monday's offtciat sates were 945,224 pounds, for an average of $24.06, and one of the warehouses there broke aM formed records for pounds and speed, setting 357,062 for an average of $24.82 per hundred in 6 hours. Tues day's sates were not quite so heavy. For the first 3 days of the week the Fairmont market has sotd 4.942, 682 pounds for an average of $2!.92. The season's sates up unfit tast night were t0,t 33,794 pounds. Better grades have advanced on that market this week, according to word from the market this morning, but the average has been towered on account of the appearance of a good muiy dark tips. Two New School Buildings Approved Apptication* Approved for Fairmont and Shannon—Contract Let for Ad dition to Teacher*ge at & T— i'art of Beuiah Schoo! Diat. Added to Long Branch. SCHWIL BOARD W!LL MEET FRIDAY TO CONSIDER SENDING PEMBROKE PUPILS TO MAXTON The board of education meeting in reguiar session here Monday approv ed applications to the State iiterary fund for (12,000 for the Fairmont coiored schoo] and (6,000 for the Shannon coiored schoo]. New bai!dings wit] be erected at both pieces. Contract was awarded Mr; Bunion M'White for an addition to the teach erage at the Barker Ten Mi!e schooL The addition, consisting of 2 rooms and a porch, wii] cost (800. Some of the teachers in the schoo) will board with Mr. D B. Oliver, the principa!, who iives in the budding Heretofore the house has been large enough to accomodate oniy Mr. Oiiver's famdy. A petition was approved from the Beuiah schoo! that ai! the west side of Cum swamp be added to the Long Branch schoo! district and that the special tax of the Long Branch dis* trict be added to this part of what is now the Beuiah schoo! district. Two oid Indian schoo! buddings. Dogwood and Mahoney, were ordered advertised and soid at pubiic auction. The board requested the county commissioners to borrow (10,000 to pay current bids now due. Patrons from Pembroke appeared before the board and asked that the high schoo! pupiis from that piace be transported to the Maxton graded schooi. The board wiii meet Friday to consider the matter. The county wide pian put these pupiis in the Phii adeiphus district, and the Hth grade went to the Phiiadeiphus schoo! last year. First Cotton Ginned Here. The first cotton of the season was ginned at Lumberton's gins yester day. Mr. M A. Geddie ginned one baie of iast year's cotton, and the Robeson Manufacturing Co. ginned severai of the new crop. Mr. Geddte ginned a baie of new cotton today. How Many ef The First 156? Mr. Frank McKay of Phiiadei phus, who was a Lumberton visi tor Monday, was the i7th subscrib er to The Robesonian when the iate Scott McDiarmid started out in 1869 to get 150 subscribers, the timit he had set to start printing the paper. Mr. McKay was just 17 years oid at the time, and was iiv ing in Lumberton. Mr. McDiarmid was introduced to him by Coi. N. j A. McLean—First, you might say, ) j father of the. iate N. A. Mr. Me- j Kay said he had no dea at the time i that the paper ever wouid be [ } started, iut it was started early ) the next year and he has been a i subscriber ever since. it, wouid be interesting to know { how many of the criginai 150 j subscribers who started with Mr. ( i } McDiarmid are stii! taking the ) paper. The Robesonian wiii be ) giad to hear from any of them. < -A * MR. FARMER SELL YOUR TOBACCO WITH US AND BECOME A LIFE MEMBER IN (H R SATISFACTION CLUB. BIG BANNER WAREHOUSE Lumberton. N. C.