DR. THEODORE L. NORTHROP
FALLS UPON SLEEP.
Pr—tniot Phyriciam and Buaiaaaa Mu W Bt Paula DM la CharMta
BaaplUl Early Manila? Mara lac—Waa Barm and Kaarad la Laarta
fcur»—Paaaral Tmaaday.
Although not unexpected, the an
nouncement of the paaalng of Dr.
Theodore U Northrop, which occur
red is e Charlotte hospital Monday
morning at 4 o’clock, brought with
It a great weight of sorrow to all
Lanrinbvrg and community.
For several year* he ted eoffered
from Bright’s disease, and more then
a year ago was compelled to give op
hie work aa a practicing physician.
He sought relief in numerous hos
pitals and received treatment from
the most skilled specialists, but with
out any Insting benefits.
Two weeks ago kit cohdition grow
m serious that bo wai carried from
hie home at 8t. Paula to the Charlotte
Sanatorium. Ha continued to grow
weaker and weaker each day, and it
waa evident to all for tome days past
that the end waa bat a little way off.
Dr. Northrop waa 41 yean eld, waa
bom end reared in Leuiinburg. He
received bit preparatory education ai
der the late Prof. W. G. Quakenbuah.
After finishing hie literary education
at the University of North Carolina,
he studied medicine at the University
at Maryland and when be finished this
preparation for hie life's work, grad
uating in 1897, bn secured hie license
to practice and located at St. Pauls
in Robeson county.
Prom the first be was recognised
si a physician of unmans] ability and
enjoyed a wide and select practice.
He waa not only a good physician, but
was a progressive and successful busi
ness men end bad accumulated an at
tractive little fortune. He lived not
tor himself alone, but because of his
flue character, culture and ability, his
good deeds sad kindly disposition he
had won aa amiable place in the
hearts of the people ha chose to live
among. He held many positions of
ing president of the Bank of St. Pauls,
a director in the St. Pauls Cotton
Mills. He was a Meson of high rank,
e loyal member end deacon of the
St. Pauls Presbyterian church, and
was a large land owner end extensive
planter.
The body was curled to St. Pauls
Monday night. The funeral was held
from the Presbyterian church Tues
day morning end the burial was made
with Masonic honors.
Dr. Northrop la survived by Us wife
(Miss Bettis McGeachy before mar
riage) and six children. He is also
survleod by bis mother, Mrs. Laura
Northrop Hitch, of this city.
STRUCK WITH BRICK.
George Rich, Colored, ia Dangereaa
CeadMoa—Win Smith ia Jail
Lata Saturday afternoon George
Rkh, colored, who ie employed aa a
•table boy by J. T, Beetfck * Bro.,
waa (truck in the bead with a brick
which was buried at him by Will
Smith, also colored, and an employe
ef Stubbs' Stubbs. Rich is at his
heaaa ia a precariooi condition and
SmRhbia jatL
The trouble grow out of the toot
that Rich slapped a brother cd
Smith’s, aad be. Smith, had gone to
Bostick StaMee to me Rich about the
matter. They had soma words, aad
Rich emurieg a whip ran Smith away
from the stab lea. Aa they raa away,
Rich strode Mm mviral timm with
the whip. Smarting uadrr the lash
ing ho waa gutting ha stopped aad
gathering a nearby brick buried It at
hie pursuer. Rick attempted to dodge,
Vut only managed to yet the sida of
hb baud tamed right for a danger
ous blow. The brick (truck him Joat
above the eel- and knocked him ancon
sciuue. A physician was called aad
teeter stives administered. The in
jured man was carried to hb hams,
and baaauaa of the uncertainty at hb
condition. Smith waa refused the td
vmntage ad bond aad la kc Jafl await
ing the uate oca i of the injuries, which
may prove fatal.
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BIG COMMUNITY FESTIVAL.
A Wondsrfnl Get Together Meeting
la to ba HeM at tte Grated itheal
Friday, tte 13rd.
Are you looking for a good time,
and would you Uka to wand an even
ing with everybody else io town In a
“Got Together Meeting"?
Are yon anxious to spend a while
with tte children, and show your in
terest in them and in tha work that
they are tntereeUd In?
. Wouldn't you Uka te have au oppor
tunity to taka some active part In
perhaps tte greatest work that you
I have occasion to engage in?
Will you not invest a little more
in that which ia more importaat and
which Is dearer te yon than anything
also in tte world—your child?
Then get interested in the “Big
Party" that la to te held at tte Grad
ed School Building on Friday night,
March the twenty-fourth. This ia for
everybody from tte youngest to the
oldest, and everybody can take part ia
it It Is under tte direction of tte
ladies of tte town, and origins ted in
the minds of several visitors at tte
morning exercises of the school last
Friday. Of course some one had to
make a start, so a committee waa ap
pointed and through Ha efforts other
committees arc at work on special
feat urea of tha program Though
you may not be on a committee, and
have not beard of tha movement be
fore this, do not feel slighted, but
gladly contribute your Interest end
adviea.
What ia the plan? Well as far, it
ia lomothlng like thia: Pint of all,
gat la the spirit, and be reedy to have
* good time •mingling with every one
that it there. Bo not expect to have
to pay aa adaelaslon fas, for It Is your
party and thoaa who famish the en
tertainment are not usually required
to pay each a fee. Another require
ment ie that you come hungry, for
you will regret it if you de not, when
you eee the tempting thing, that we
will have to eat By word of advice,
we might say that all the boya and
men had better make an engagement
with tome lady to aat lunch with
them. Who Mid “Leap Tear"! Led in,
"enough said." Tim music club will
edd to the pleasure of the evening,
and then, aa “Old-Time Spelling Baa".
InH thU enough to show you that
them ia a “Good Time ComJng".
Who'* coming T everybody, whether
they hare children or not Come
early, and stay aa late aa yen ftltain
torn** Grove Items.
Bnood** Otovejdan* II, 1918.
“A Poor Married Mon," a three act
farce-comedy, will be praoouted by
tbo High School and young people of
this csoamnnHy, Friday night, Mew*
17th. A grant doe] of herd work ho*
boon done la getting np thh ploy, and
H ohoeld aaafty ha tho boot play ever
given at tho Snead's Grave School
Hoaoa Tho p minds turn tfaio oloy
bo oaod in paying off a debt on
■efaool property, and it !* hoped that
o good etowd will ooo tho p redaction
ct thh ieoghoblo comedy.
In oa intonating game of baseball
Friday afternoon tho Sneed's Grove
toaw defeated tho Laurel Hill School
by tho score 74. Tho gents eras played
on the local dhuaond end srae wit
nessed by a good cswwd.
Mro. Cottnnbue Snead, who boo bona
eeriooely e*ek for two mem the, died
Friday afternoon at her borne throe
"dies north of hero. Her hatband,
| Mr. Cel am bus Snood, has boon quite
SI for sometime, bat in bettor at this
writing. r
Born to Mr. and Mrs. 8. A. Snood,
Fob. 11, o eon, 8. A. Jr.
Bara to Mr. and Mrs Ed Livingston
on r»b. 89, n ton.
Preparations for County Com
moosswsnt are on la as meet. Tho
•jjMoIjMiopio in particular and tho
id !• to LwWtesrg AptiTtk”^
P«M Tntm.
tnta mm frooa
I Jt»t »ft*r it toft
mrfhi wto
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THINGS PERTAINING TO LIFE •
Br Harry M. Nartk.
BOMB ELEMENTS OF MANHOOD—TRUTHFULNESS AND OBEDI
ENCE.
Thor* are only a ft* elements in
tha natural world, and all tho many
other tillage that wo oaa art mado
ap of combinations of two or mort
of thooa original oleomata. Thoy do
not grow old, bat manifoot thorn
talrot today in flower and fruit, in
air and wator thth aa much beauty
and vigor at thoy did la tho begin
ning. And boildoa this, all tho uoo
fal and beautiful things of the fit
taro matt bo formed oat of that,
aamc element*. Now tom. of them
aro very modeet and homely, bat
they appear gloriooa when they aro
mado into a root or tho light or tho
human body.
Likewise there ere certain sle
■M«ta that go to the amkiog of a
man. Tbeee are not aeer but are at
old ii human life, yet they are aa val
; "We in thie time ai they were when
they appeared in the characters at
the first men who walked the earth.
The world wonder* when they come
oat In their perfection In rahie in
this time as they were now being
rwreelad for the first time, and I am
euro that no age will come when they
can be left out In the building of
manhood.
1 notice truthfulness s» one of
tbooe essential characteristics. Can
any life be mado strong that has not
truth at the bottom of It? 1 have
had to deal with many cleeaea of peo
ple, and it seesot to me that the least
hopeful of them all is the men who
will lie. The false »m< is diseased
to the very core of his being. Nearly
any wrong even to the point of crime
is possible to him who will tail you
a deliberate untruth. On the other
hand be that speaks the truth in hie
heart has in him a certain tittitwItisss
upon which yoe may build the iofti
eat structure and know that k wfl]
stand. Such a man always keeps
fnkh with himself end with you, but
the man who lies wifi not keep faith
with anybody. What ia In him will
eo«u show itself in leak and wok}
and manner. You strike him and be
rings hollow.
I» 1* Mid that tha belt wherewith
Cod glide him self is truth, and the
throne of "God la founded upon truth.
80 that which guards that Holy Ufa
and tha thing which upholds His
everlasting kingdom, is this mi
eternal element. There far nothings
more dear to Cod than the truth, and
1 suppose that wa are moat like Hhn
when we live and ipeak it.
Again the spirit of obedience must
be u large factor in the formation of
■haraeter. No lift can be symmetri
cal that has not ‘israsil to yield «iy
tfanee to all right authority. Some
■sen hare the idea that they wUl
loae the raepect of others and la
■oma way forfait their own self-rs
•puct if they obey anything. It to
trur that if they obey low things
Uwdr Ufa will hamms corresponding
ly base. Bat a man finds his true
salf nowhere so surely as he doM to
a loyal obedience to some great law
er truth .or peemm. Only to this way
can he be ennobled and —free.
Can you give me to a sentence, why
the old generation of negroes are
hotter than tha newt Tha answer
lies to this one thiag that they warn
toagfat to obey. It wan a hard school
to Which they learned, but to a very
raal sense aU of as mutt haar tha
yoka in sur youth er suffer for it
Parents with mistaken ideas at
kindness often fail to rsqaire their
children to obey. At n result the
cUM will be hampered all He life.
Re will not make an acceptable em
ployee beeaaae he haa never learned
to obey, and Ms mnpleyer will not
lent boar with him. Re will net ba
successful as a man at btuints* with
men order him. for no man la able to
control others until be himself haa
learned to obey. Soon he finds fit
he does not fit life at any point So
after awhile he must be krohan open
the great harsh unsympathetic world
beeaaae he finda nothing within him
that yields to ouUdde authority.
DO sot think that 70s eaa enter
“7 large told at ondosoor or of
happiness unless 70a on willing to
oboy too tow* that govern in that
raatoa. Maa am eeaetaatly trying to
ooado this- Ons will took to bo
rfak without obeying tho tow of bnr>
mty. Asothor wd try to boooaM
tosmod and pot refuse to hoop tho
tow at patent drill sad hard study.
Another thinks tost ha ess make
asd hold friends without okaying the
tow ad kiadnaaa.
Mad Pant urged the rMldreu to
obey their pamats, aad toe ouly ns
ma ho gam was that h waa tight.
He kaow they woaM laata the **why~
Of Um matter later on. Pant said
that ha waa himself the equal at sth
•r men at kia time It waa not for
«* ta pay allegiance to them. Bat
when Iww stood before hia ia all
the gtaadeur of hia matchless Ufa, ha
■•id, -I hew nay kmee to HlauT it k
• *r*ot thing to bo able to recognise
the supreme authority when it ap
panra. It ia atiH nobler far the soul
te yield tha utmost obedience to tha
ttinge that claim Ha loyalty. Tha
by respect to the eternal laws with*
«»d by obeying the highest lawn
of your oem inner Ufa, we come after
a while to that anriabte estate at naif
■natery. or seif-control.
COLORED CIVIC LfAGCK.
Nagru Organisation to Hold Week at
BpecUl Excretes s.
TTm Negro Civic League, as organi
Mtioa mwipoaad of the colored peopta
of th* town and community, will have
a wnak of interesting exercises begin
aing next Monday night
They have arranged a program,
which we pabliah below, that will be
of unusual Interest to both the white
and colored citlieaa of the community.
They have enlisted the co-operation
of a number of the leading whita pao
ple of Laurinburg in their affects te
•rouse e more sincere interest in the
Physical spiritual and morel welfare
M the rues, and it Is sure to result
to great good to them.
Special arrangements have been
amde to provide for the comfort of
tho white people who will attend upon
the exercises.
There will bo special mueic each
night.
The program follows:
. _ UmdMy Night
1- President’s Annual Address.
*- Address, Mr. R. G Staae.
*•' A it dr am. Dr. K. A. Erwin.
. 4- Samson. Eev. R. P. Bumpet
I. FAddress, Dr. J. U. Gibson.
* ' Address, Dr. Pstsr
». Sermon, Rev. J. B. Thomp^
W»dasadey Night.
1. Address, Judge EL H. Gibson.
** H H«re« Brown,
*- Address by a Representative of
Nosth Carolina Sanatorium, Sana
torium, N. C.
Tkanday Sight.
t **/—. Rob7 Haaui, colored.
Jl^ddre^ Her. J. A. LoatfUia.
*. Addreoo, Dr. N. K. Jackaoa.
COWPKL
' A Addreoe, Attorney G. H. Rtuoell
Friday NltM.
*• Addreoa, Attorney M. L. Jotsa.
A Addreoa, Boo. Haary D. TU1
aaa, colored.
A Boraaon. Boy. Jama Loo*
Saaday Night, Mart* MU, Trtrial
1. Addreoa, B. L. Wall, colored.
A Addreoo, Mr. A. D Curia.
A Addreoo. Boy. M. G. CrtuepUr,
noforad.
A Bonaao, Boy, C 8. Cruaalar.
colors. *
Tha ondaraigned committee waa ap~
Pritoad by the Scotland Chaptar «d
the U. D C., to make arrangaamota if
P*—Ihla, to kara a fall nhsan-dara ed
Manorial Day, which is May tha ltth,
thramhoat tha obanty. It i* tha per
riiaptar to hart tha graces
of afl tha Confederate catenas in tha
eoaaty dmmtid that day.
It is earnestly arced that tlmaa
tknaghoat tha eeanty whs an la
tecaatad in this andottakteg wBI meat
with the undersigned <w.stM it the
eaart boose in Imuriabotg SaUnlay
afteraoea at 4 o'oloek.
If yoa are Inter sated and can not
attend this meeting, please write Mrs.
K totehaaon, Laurinbcrg. n orbs
fora that date lndieatiag that you will
aaaist to carrying out these plans to
year neighborhood.
Mrs. J. T. John
Mrs. Doagald Stewart.
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law. X. O. Kendrick, for years pad
tor of tha Feraat Ac BaptJat
S' his
. __I 4d
Fair View Baptist chore*. Parte
•math. Va. The call wsa extended to
JAMES P. McRAE ANSWERS
THE CALL OP DEATH.
iVaataM Lailrtl>*T» OtUaa DM at Ba AahavUa B—m YaatarAa?
KBV. SAM W. SMALL, D. D.
Seaageltot, Orator. National AH-Sa
Uoa Loagoo Motor Who WIS
*Mwi a Croat Wtllraal
Prohibit loo Bally to Om
City Stmday Night.
Bov. Soar W. Small, tha fr«<nr
Southern BrangeUrt, Editor aad Lae-'
taro, to oaltod “A Prtoea at tha Flat- ’
form."
Ha to a maa at exceptional attain-'
manta. He waa bora in Knoxville.
Tran amee. in tha city faaadad by Ma
family forbear*; graduatad with Ugh
honor* from Kmory aad Henry OoL1
lege to Vtogtoto. and after adauaeien
to the bar to Taaaeaaae became pri- I
> »u secretary to — Pr.airt.nt An-1
drew Johnson and followed that!
atatcsnun’a political fortunes to the
United States -rusts Ha holds the
literary degrees ef A. B ead A. M.
fraas ton Alma Meter; Dl D. fnm
Taylor University, and D. D. frees the!
Ohio Northern University Ha ia s
trained Journalist, many yearn sdU.
tor of loading Southern newspapers,
principally the noted “Atlanta Con
stitution." lie is the aether of ear-'
oral hooka. By appointment of Pres-'
IdatH Hayes he served as secretary
of the American Commission ia Paris1
in 1*7*. end ae a delegate from this
country to the International Literary
Congreaa of that year. Ha has serv
ed in many notable national conven
tions of political, commercial and re
formatory character. While ia the
UnHad States Army in Cuba hi UN
ha was Military ITiqiai riser of PnhUe
Instruction, engaging in the reorgan
isation of the public schools of the
Island,
A Soldier of the Oeaatry and dm
In IMS Mr. Small, than a promi
nent editor and pahBe offlelal, was
eeuvstfed through the (tea till eg af
lev. Sam Jones, the grset Geergle
•rengaHat. and Joined with Urn in
holding evangolietic service. hi all the
grmtm cities ad the United to-*
and Canada. Those warn (ha moat
Umnm and missaafal religious maet
*M» aver bald In this or any other
Dr. Small has- lad oam
P^sna rmtiUng to the rioatog of
mom than ISAM drink timuo, aad la
recogaimd to aS quartern ofth.ua
tlaa as cue cf the foremost ap .atlas
of Prohibition.
Uml mo I Craw.
Mra. D. A. Watkins expects to move
lata har mum store tfah weak. She
ha* efaapcad tha Mm of tka stare,
sad H will be known aa tka Cash Bar
gain More.
Mra. Lather Stabba spent tka
week-end with Mr. and Mra. naim
Mr. Daaeaa MePbsnion, ut Sdotfa
Carolina; la rUttlag fah mother this
wssk. His wether baa bean vary HI
bat is asms better st thU writing.
Mr. J. L. Hargrave sad family via
Itad Mr. Hargrave’s brother at Bobor
daO tm I j in using .
la tha absence a# Bar. L M. Clegg.
Pmf. O. a WOUaeeeon will preset at
Sd* MU Bin i lij moralag at U s’otaok
Tha yenag paopta of Ida MOWhank
doty two weeks age infilling sixteen
mumkuuu. Tha eoMoty mot again lata
jhmday night and had a moat latar
Tha people gave tha MsthsdlM ah.
InwlinJrmS^JSS^" **
Mr. iw« F. McJUa 4lad paotardap
Monk 1*0, at his Ashantis bsoM a*
ter o'clock la tha agnkp. -For «aa
irsars Ms hsahfc haa bta fMUap, and
ha haa attaraatad Ja Dviap hlma
his haaM ban aad at AMDs Ha
kapt ap with Ms asaal wash aatil laat
ijrtp, trhaa ha raaipaad as praatdaat af
tha thraa aotte ntlU hara. Far a
aaahsr of roars ha had hasa a an*
bar of tha tern Oaaaril, aad af tha
(fcadad Moot Board of lVaataaa. bat
tans or thraa paara apa, aa aasaaat
af Ms boat*. ha raatpaad thaaa pwi
ttaaa. For nBjranhawuiaaa
bar of tha Mata Baaad af Aprindtaia.
rastpatap from that vhaa Ma haalth
Mafia tha travstiiHr raqatsad too aim
• hifitott to |rim.
«• Neftae w bom April I, l&M,
«a hU fathoms fam fear mites fa tha
mwtnr, » sop af the Bn Peter Me*
1m tad wife Mi*. «-It M. Me
Keo. aad waa aaaaad far hia grand
father, Jamaa Pattsrsoe. Ha attend*
ad tha Cslsdoafa school nil pm*
pemd far tha State University, wham
ha stodlsd two pears. Ha thru ter sir
wp famine aa hia Ufa wort, and was
meat seecesafui. Urine at Stewarts*
riUa, i* an elegant home, srfcich has
bam bemad since Da left tha farm.
Jaasaip «th. UN, ho waa married to
Miaa Kata Mofeor, of Carthago, a
daughter of Jadgs Jsmaa D. Matror.
To this tmioii was horn one daughter,
wba died in infaocy. to be followed
Map 7, IBM, bp the mother. Tor
srrtml years after this ha bmd on
tha farm, alone, bat for tha servant*,
wham ha dlsnsaasd opaa hoaofaalitv
to sO hia anmarrisd frieMuTsodae
casfaaanp with the aid of Me staters
Zr?isr^!t*ta ** friyd* Bmaranp.
M IMB.he waa haaathr marriad to
Vr 1. ft. Coriagtaa aad srifa. Ma
Coahigtae, af thfc rHy. To
me girt whfaTdiod hi hMaacr^Hafai
mrrirad bp hia wW* aad two ooaa
Jamas P, Meftaa, Jr, aad Sodrrfak
Mefta*. also a sister Mias Eflte Me
Sm sad om brothsr, Mr. D. X. Mc
Rae.
Altar the boUdiag of Scotland Cat
ton MB Mr. MeBaa ad than Jefamd ■
to a moveaant to build Dicfcaom Cot
ton Mm, than, tutor n largo nabar
of etortrhaMare. Mr. MeBaa waa
•iaetad to tha Board af Dimtota. and
that hie ability to
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to town. baflt hie elegant
hwa here to UOS. whan. ha ra.idad
tone*, though a»toraaHn» •» Ada.
mia for tha peat ten yearn.
Mr. MeBaa waa wholehearted and
arar^to
to all hie
ehene ta f end the
!| ‘ hihtoea totot
^p~p!h STS* hT** *“
by tto whole
A the; _ ^
thto (Ttmradey) — irrnliig. The*ftok
be made at the etty
f»erel eaeyiaae win to eeuSuetei hr
J. M. Bee., D. D.
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