The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-08-04
MAXTON HAPPENINGS.
LocALAND PERSONAL NEWS OF
OUR SISTER TOWN.


road for few days.
w. J. Thompson and wife spent
at Wrightsville.
NJ. G. Mckenzie and wife have
returned from the mountains.
The Misses Brown, of Fayette-
Vile, are visiting Mrs. G. II. Hol-
land.
The Baptists of Bennettsville
dedicated their $40, 900 church hast
Sunday.
Murphy c. McNair is visiting
his grandfather, Maj .Wooten, near
Laurinburg.
O.C. Nicholson is now domiciled
in A. C. McKinnon's cottage on
Saunders street,
Misses May and Lena Styron,
of Wilmington, are visiting Mrs.
P. A. Mclean.
: Will Payne, of Atlanta, Ga,
spent Saturday here with his Sis
ter, Mrs. l.. HI. Jones.
Jack Burnett, Esq, the popular
drummer, of Wilmington, has been
here for a few days.
Rev. B. w. Spillman, of Raj
eigh, preached in the Baptist
church here last Tuesday night.
We are glad to know that Mrs.
w. S: McNair has almost fully re-
covered from her recent illness.
Misses Mary Page, of Raleigh,
and Carrie Page, of Marion, S. c.,
are visiting Miss Mary Mcqueen.
Misses Jessie and Katie McClen-
chan have returned from a pleas
ant stay of two weeks at Monroe
Mrs. Cliff Wishart has returned
| from Norfolk, where she has beer
visiting her parents for some time
| A protracted meeting began a
CaIedonian church last Sunday
conducted by the pastor, Rev. NJ
Bradshaw.
We learn the Maxton Guard
cleared something in the neighbor
, hood of one hundred dollars OF
their excursion.
: Quite a number of our youn|
l people attended the social at Mis-
l Mary McEachern's, in Laurinburg
last Friday night.
: Mrs. w. C. Wishart, of vii
: mington (nee Annie Armfeld), ha
l been visiting friends and relative
here during the past week.
Prof. J. Gilchrist McCormic
spent Saturday and Sunday a
home with relatives. He report
his school in g fourishing cond
ton.
The many friends of Mrs. J. 7
Payne were glad to see her on OF
T streets last Tuesday, the first tin
', since the accident came near pro-
;s ing fatal to her.
d DR.. Mapp, colored, who recent
! located here and built up a GOO
y practice among the colored peopl
has found it convenient to fold b
b. tent and seek pastures new.
SIS A bicycle parade is scheduled
come off this afternoon at o'cloc
OF All wheelmen and wheelwomen a
n invited to participate. Prizes a
offered for the prettiest decorat
al wheel
Mt Joe Carney, who was assault
~ by a negro at his mill near Flo1
a College recently, and who receiy
a a severe lick with hand-stick,
re improving rapidly we are pleas
or to know.
The ASHFORD Argus says thu
MS is no law to Jail a man for 1
~ paying his tax. If the scht
.ck tax carries he had better suspe
his sheet and go to school and
ne to learn to read.
lit
lc- The Scottish Chief has come
in favorof the school tax, and
IN Red Springs Citizen against
do We believe the school tax is e
IN thing but-will the people S
a port it next Tuesday? That's
me question.
is ~,
: ,, There are numbers of citizens
eff North Carolina who pay $1.O0
cry on a measley cur dog and will
me to the polls next Tuesday and V
W, ~ against giving their children
,ost education. Deliver us from S
hat citizenship.
ion Messrs. A. c. McKinnon and
ino J. Burns have laid out a "straig
at road to their new mill. Their
les no doubt as to its being straig
as they had Squire Patterson
+ l,o veying and s'sighting' for vi
Ak day to get it plumb.
'ate DR.. J. S. Belts, our popular {
fist has q card in this ies1o