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LAURINBURG, N. G, THURSDAY, MAY 21. 1913.
$1.50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE
LlacQUEEII GUI! TO
MEET I!) OAXTOII
6reit dieting of the UicQeen Clan Will
fee Held Jsss 4th-F,8C8pti3i and B
tertilnsent to Be 61fea t:r Visiting
Cluucen-Clifl Orgului
la 1912.
Maxton, N. C April 30, 1913.
Dear Clansman :
You and your family are cor
dially invited and most earnestly
urged to attend a meeting at
Maxton, North Carolina, June 4,
1913, at 10 a. m., for the pur
pose of effecting a permanent or
ganization of "The Clan Mc
Queen Association, and for the
purpose of. becoming mutually
acquainted with one another.
A reception will be given the
visiting clansmen by the local
members of the Clan and friends
in and near Maxton, on Tuesday
night, June 3, and all the Clans
men from a distance, as well as
all others who can come from
their homes by private convey
ances are invited to this recep
tion. Upon the arrival Tuesday morn
ing, June 3, of Clansmen from a
distance, homes will be assigned
and free entertainment will be
provided. After dinner on Tues
day, an automobile ride will be
given visiting Clansmen, and an
opportunity given to see Queens
dale and the old Stewartsville
cemetery.
On Wednesday morning, June
4, at 10 o'clock, the first meet
ing will be held and a permanent
organization effected, at which
time several addresses will 'be
made and some music will be ren
dered, after which dinner will
be served, furnished by the
Clansmen at Maxton and vicinity,
and others who may be near
enough to help in this part of
the entertainment : and while
dinner is being served, an excel
lent opportunity will be afforded
for becoming acquainted. After
dinner, another brief session will
be held, farewells will be said,
and the Clan will disperse.
You and your family are most
cordially invited and expected to
attend and assist in making this
initial meeting a great success
one worthy of the splendid record
of our distinguished ancestors in
whose honorable and ancient
name our Clan is to meet, and it
is evident that to insure this suc
cess your presence and co-operation
are both necessary.
The members of the Clan at
Maxton and vicinity and other
A G0LUMI1 OF
STATE HEWS
Start Items of North Carolina News of
General Interest To i Scotland Dcaaty
la Cssita&a Fora For Exrtzcgi
Readers 6it!ierei Freo Con
tespsrarits The citizens of Jackson county
have voted to change the county
seat from Webster to Sylva.
Mr. Horace Moore, who is en
gaged in doing detective work
for the Seaboard Railway, has)
been elected chief of police of:
Charlotte.
Last Thursday President Wil
son named fourteen North Caro
lina postmasters.
In a pistol fight between two
negroes at Wilmington, in which
they exchangd a number of shots,
neither was hurt, but a horse
near by received a bullet and
died from its effect.
At Harrisburg last week a
lighted match was carelessly
thrown into a pot of gasoline, ig
niting it, and Mr. E. T. Har
ris, in attempting to extinguish
the flames, received serious and
painful burns.
W. H. Burdett, of Chatham
county, tells the Sanf ord Express
that he recently cut a pine tree
29 feet in circumference, from
which he got 20,000 shingles.
The rings in the tree numbered
269, which would fix its sprout
ing along about the year 1644.
While resisting arrest, Harry
McMillan, colored, was shot and
killed by Deputy Sheriff Walter
Parham, of Robeson county, last
week. The ngro was armed
with a shot gun and attempted
to shoot the officer. The coro
ner's jury justified the killing.
While standing under a tree
for shelter from a storm that
was raging, two children of Wil
liam Harrison, living near Kin
ston, were struck by lightning.
The boy, aged 14 years, was in
stantly killed, and his sister,
aged 15, was injured.
Secretary of State Bryan was
yesterday invited to deliver an
address at the celebration of the
battle of King's Mountain, in
which the Americans defeated
the British troops during the Re
volutionary war, October 7, 1780.
The celebration will be held Oc
tober 7th, next.
Mr. Robert W. Worsley, of
Rocky Mount, has arrived at that
place from the canal zone to
spend a month with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Worsley.
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ted us to meet with them, and. - . ... .
they will spare no pains to make
the occasion a pleasant one to all
who will attend, and a good time, !
with a most cordial Scotch wel
come is assured you. Their hos-
of the chief engineer of the canal.
Before taking the position he
was chief clerk to Mr. J. J.
! Thomas, superintendent of
i tive power for the A. C. L.
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pitality is proverbial, and you' ivir. uonn Cameron pieaa guilty
will miss the time of your life if ! ln Hoke countv Thursday to mur
you fail to attend. j der ln the second deree and was
Homes and free entertainment j sentenced by Judge Ferguson to
will h nrovided all Clansmen twenty years m the State peni-
who come from a distance, and
who cannot come by private con
veyance from their own homes.
There will also be ample room
for all these, inasmuch as there
are several hundred members of
the Clan living near-by. It would,
of course, be impossible to find
lodging places for all of these,
but there need be no fear but
that plenty of homes and the
most royal welcome will be ex
tended to every one. There is
no limitation to the hospitality of
the Maxton Clansmen, and they
only regret that there is a limi
tation to their lodging rooms ;
otherwise, every member, near
as well as far, would be invited
not only to come and eat with
them and commune with one an
other, but lodge there as well.
A few of the kinsfolk met on
December 11, 1912, and planned
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tentiary. Cameron, while on a
drunken debauch last August,
shot and killed Chief of Police
Oakes, of Raef ord and wounded
three others. The only evidence
introduced in the case was ex
pert testimony regarding the san
ity of Cameron.
Goldsboro township, Wayne
county, will vote on $100,000
good roads bonds and $40,000 of
graded school bonds May 27th ;
and Fork twnship, same county,
will on the same date vote on
$15,000 of good roads bonds. On
the same date New Hanover
will vote on $175,000 of school
bonds and $100, 000 of good roads
bonds. During the past two
weeks an unusual number of
Western counties have carried
bond issues for good roads, the
aggregate running up into sever
al hundred thousands.
CONDENSED HEWS
FROM EVERYWHERE
A Column of the Week's Happenings
Tferosgteiit tli Wwli Told In Brief
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ui Boiled Coin For Oar Reid
ers. Domingo Ro&sillo, a Cuban
aviator, made the first successful
flight from the United States to
Cuba, Saturday, and .won a prize
of $10,000.
On account of continued riot
ing by strikers at Cincinnati,
Mayor Huntjcalled on the Govern
or for troops. The request was
refused by the Governor.
In Tokio, Japan, Saturday, at
a mass meeting of business and
educational men, war rumors,
which they declared irresponsi
ble, were condemned.
The Southern Baptist Conven
tion, in session at St Louis, Mo,,
selected Nashville, Tenn., as the
next place of meeting, and fixed
May 13, 1914, as the date.
Gov. Hunt Friday signed Ari
zona's new alien bill. It prohib
its any alien, whether of Cauca
sian or Mongolian descent, from
owning land in Arizona if he has
not declared his intention of be
coming a citizen.
Tuesday, June 3, the Chiquola
Club, of Cheraw, S. C, will con
duct an inter-state checker tour
ney. Capt. Fishburne, champion
of South Carolina, will play Geo.
C. Anderson, the great Scotch
player of Mt. Airy, this State.
A letter which was posted in
Oakland. Dal.. 9.0 vpnra nrn
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was rtalivprpH n fpxxr r?nra arm in A
San Francisco. The letter bore
the written explanation for its
delay, "Found in box by car
rier. The contents of the letter
was the announcement of a mar
riage that occurred May 18, 1893.
John N. Anhut, a prominent
New York attorney, was con
victed Saturday night of attempt
ed bribery in trying to secure
the freedom of Harry K. Thaw
from Mattewan Asylum. It was
proved that Anhut offered Dr.
John W. Russell, former head of
the institution, $20,000 to release
Thaw.
FUIIERAL -SERVICES OF
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COMMENCEMENT. EX- ,
ERASES JUliE 5 0 6
The Funeral Sendees of jlr. Minima Tie Graded School ta.Haie CoEsence-
Jisid at Ceasfry Residence Interment
-t EtsttUt.Cebtory, Uaxton-Dr.
' Rose Assisted In Funeral,
t" Mas Attended.
Maxton Scottish Chief.
The funeral services were held
at 10 o'clock Wednesday morn
ing at the residence conducted
by Rev. H. G. Hill, D. D., as
sisted by Rev. W.'B. Mcllwain
and Rev. John M. Rose D D., of
Uurinburg. Rev T. G. Wood of
Spring Hill, was also present to
gether with a large number of
relatives and friends from Laur
inburg, Wagram and through
out Scotland county; also from
South Carolina and from Maxton.
The interment was at Eatside
Cemetery, Maxton, where a very
large number were congregated.
The pall bears were: Active
T. O. Evans, R. M. Williams,
Lacy Williams. J. G. Baldwin, B.
St. Barnes, and W. M. Currie, of
Maxton, and Sheriff W. D. Mc
Laurin and Frank McCormick,
of Laurinburg, and J. F. Camp
bell, Wakulla. Honorary A. H.
McLauchlin, A. L. James, Jno F.
McNair, T. B. Russel, Randolph
McEachin, of Laurinburg: Henry
Fairly, Laurel Hill; W. J. Currie
D. A. Patterson, J. C. Everett,
A C. McCaskill, John Leach, H.
C. Alford, G. B. Patterson, J. B.
Sellers, A. H. Currie, J. L. Mc
Lern, and A. M. L. McRae, of
Maxton; and J. A. amp bell.
Floral College.
Thus the remains were laid to
rest under the beautiful old oak
fejJEastside a'nd the mound above
was covered with beautiful
flowers speaking testimony of
the esteem in which he was held
UOVELIEfiTS OF
THE PEOPLE
On account of a row among
the county commissioners of Dil
lon county, S. C, about road con
struction in the county, seven of
the eight commissioners resign
ed their offices. Gov. Blease
took a hand in the matter, re
fused to accept the resignations
of the seven members and dis
missed Mr. T. W. Berry, of Lat
ta, the one member not resign
ing. As a result of some good-natured
bantering over the speed
of their motor-cars and their
ability as drivers, Mrs. George
Wallace, 93, and Mrs. Mary Lear
dorn, 25, Saturday raced from
Delmont, Pa., to Greensburg, a
distance of 20 miles. The stakes
were the expenses of a shopping
tour. The old lady won by a
margin of two minutes, making
the trip in 53 minutes.
A Chicago judge, in passing
sentence on a milliner who had
violated the 10-hour labor law
the other day, said, "This is the
first time this court has ever had
a chance at a milliner. Milli
ners have had me at their mercy
for a long time, and this is the
first time I have ever had one at
my mercy." The milliner asked
the court if because he was a
milliner was reason why he
should be fined, and the court's
reply was, 'It is easily seen that
you are not a married man. I've
been soaked by milliners ever
since my honeymoon, many years
i ago. Now I will get even." ine
milliner was fined $15 and costs.
Mr. Boggsn to Open Meat Market in
Lnmbertoo.
Mr. C. J. Boggan, of Laurin
burg has rented from the John
T. Biggs Company part of the
store on Chestnut street used by
this company for warehouse.
Mr Boggan has rented 20 feet
of the front of the store in which
he expects to open up a meat
market. Contract for the place
was closed last week and it is ex
pected that the market will be
opened ud within the next few
days. This store adjoins the one
occupied by Messrs. R. C. Birm
ingham and Glonnie Wishart,
whole sale grocers. Lumberton
Robesonian.
Mr. Bogan is a member of the
firm of E. M. Bogan & Son who
are doing a most successful bus
iness here. We regret to lose
Charlie and his good family.
They have made manyfreinds
here who wish them much suc
cess in their new home.
cent Exercises Tkursday and Friday,
Juns 5ft isd 6tSs-Ksr,s cf Perssa
ta Prsicfi Scrr.s.vYil! Ee
6i?ia Later.
THURSDAY EVENING, 8:30.
Celebration of the Philoma
thean Literary Society.
Invocation.
Chorus The Call of Summer
High School.
Address of Welcome Mi irdock
McKinnon.
lustrumental Duet Marche
Militaire Irene Prince and Eliza
beth Gibson.
Oration Colin McArthur.
Vocal Solo Selected Eugenia
Hardeman.
Reading Ruth McKinnon.
Song Sweet and Low Camp
bell Blue, Allen Fields, Laurence
Everett, Douglas McArn.
Debate Resolved that the U.
S. should have tariff for revenue
only. Affirmative Ralph San
ford, '15; Myrtie Humble, '15.
Negative Ben Prince, '14; Ber
rie Bryant, '15.
Song Just a Song at Twilight
Irma Neblett, Berrie Bryant,
Ruth McKinnon, Engenia Harde
man. Decision of Judges.
Valedictory.-
FRIDAY, 11:00 A. M.
Annual sermon.
FRIDAY EVENING 8:30.
Exercises of Graduating Class.
Chorus The Cunning Fox
High School.
Salutatory Hattie Wall Bry
ant. Class History Murdock Mc
Kinnon. Song Summer High School.
Class Prophecy Lois Paylor.
Class Will Marion Clayton.
Class Song.
Instrumental Duet Marche
Hongroise Mable Brooks, Eu
genia Hardeman.
Valedictory Ruth Gilchrist.
Awarding Diplomas D. K.
McRae, Ch'm B'd of School Trustees.
Another Laurinburg Boy Making Good.
The current issue of the Fair
mont Messenger pays a hand
some tribute to a former Laurin
burg boy, who is making good
and doing things in such a telling
manner that this publication has
devoted one half page to the
success of the Bank of Fairmont
and its cashier, Mr. F. L. Blue.
Mr. Blue, soon after finishing
his education, came to Laurin
burg, and by the same perseve
rence and energy, that he is im
parting to the Bank of Fairmont
made rapid strides into the bus
iness world of the town, and for
a long while was secretary of the
Scotland Cotton Mills.
It was here that Mr. Blue
found his first wife, who was
Miss Eddie Dowdy.
Mr. Blue has a large circle of
friends in Laurinburg who are
congraulating him on his well
merited success in his Robeson
j county home.
Prof. Caldwell to Remain.
It is with a great deal of pleas
ure that we announce that Prof.
Barron P. Caldwell will continue
as the head of our city graded
schools.
Prof. Caldwell has made the
school a most efficient and satis
factory superintendent, and it is
most gratifying to know that the
Laurinburg schools are fortunate
enough to be able to retain this
scholarly gentleman as its head.
Colored Men Commended.
The Wadesboro Ansonian high
ly commends Wat Spencer and
Ben Pratt, colored men of Anson
county, who stood by an officer
and helped to save a white man
from a mob of their race. The
white man was charged by a
colored girl with an offense that
usually means lynching whenthe
victim is white and the perpet
rator of the deed colored. Un
der the circumstances the negroes
could have followed the example
of the whites and had some just
ification for their conduct.' It is
to the everlasting credit of the
negroes named, who were the
leaders in preventing an outbreak
and others who aided them that
they stood for law and order.
Statesville Landmark.
"Valley Farm" Pleased McColl People.
McColl Special to Charlotte Observer.
Laurinburg local talent came
down and presented 'Valley
Farm" to a large and well pleasd
audience. It was a well trained
company and much ability was
displayed by the members.
k Column of Lcctl Kin toftmi by
tJss Reporter If Yea TnuisJ zzi
Ycsr ffacs ii'tist'&trr
cor&j, See Qt&sr Pirts
of the Pi? tr.
Make it a rule to have the back
yard, at all times, as clean as
the front one.
Attorney G. H. Russell spent
several days during the past
week at Carthage and Troy.
Mr. N. D. Johnson, of Scot
land county, is here visiting rel
atives. Charity and Children.
The Laurinburg Dramatic Com
pany will present "Valley Farm"
at Maxton one night during the
coming week.
Mr. D. D. Hinson, a former
Laurinburg citizen, has been ap
pointed chief of police at Red
Springs.
Messrs. L. M. Peele and W.' T.
McKenzie, from out Mason Cross
Way, were Laurinburg visitors
Monday.
Messrs. Jas. L. McNair and J.
T. Bostick returned Sunday
morning from a fishing trip to
Lake Wacama.
Mrs. Charles Livingston, of
Wagram, is the guest of her
neice, Mrs. L. A. McGeachy.
St. Paul Messenger.
Miss Lottie Bennett, who has
been a guest at the home of Mr,
D. O. Wright, returned to her
home at Fayetteville Saturday.
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. jli. x. li. nuruirup return eu
from New York Monday morn
ing. The Doctor has been learn
ing the latest in medical science.
St. Paul Messenger.
Mr. Wm. Jones, a Scotland
man, now living at Red Springs,
was recently elected a member
of tne town council. The reti
ring mayor, Mr. W. N. Gibson,
is also a Scotland boy.
Mr. H. M. John, of Lumber
Bridge, was in Maxton Friday
evening, having been visiting at
Rowland. He went home to
Johns Station with his brother,
Mr. J. T. John, between trains.
Scottish Chief.
Dr. Spencer Wright, of McColl,
S. C, and Rev. Nathan Wright,
of Jacksonville, N. C, after a
visit to their father, Mr. D. O.
Wright, of the Mason Cross sec
tion, returned to their homes
Saturday morning.
The recital which was to have
been given at the Graded School
last Friday evening, had to be
postponed on account of illness
in the family of one of those
who was to take a part, but will
be given Friday evening the 30th.
The prosperity of a town does
not depend so much upon the
wealth of its citizens as the man
ner in which they pull together.
Let's pull together this spring
and summer, and by fall we can
boast of the best town in the
State.
Mr. Winfred Stewart, who
learned his first lesson in print
ing in the Exchange office, now
holding a responsible position
with the government in its print
ing department, spent Saturday
and Sunday in the city with his
father, Mr. B. L. Stewart.
Miss Hattie Carmichael, of
Laurinburg, visited at the home
of Mr. B. W. McCall for several
days last week. Misses Flora and
Louise Monroe, of Laurinburg,
are spending some time at the
home of their uncle, Mr. Martin
Monroe. Midway items in Scot
tish Chief.