The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-09-01
B. L. Page, of Gaddysville, was
here yesterday on business.

Jack Burnett, the popular
drummer, was here yesterday.
Col. n. A. Mclean paid pro-
fessional visit to Red Springs last
week.
Miss Katie D. McKethan of Fay
etteyllie, is visiting at Prof j. A.
McAllister's this week.
The brick work has been COM
pleted on the stores of Proctor
u Mcleod and the carpenters are
at work on the interior.
McIver Rogers and sister, Miss
Ida, of Latta, S. c., were here last
week, visiting their aunt, Mrs. C.
B. Townsend.
r. D. Caldwell and w. w. Car
lyle have bought handsome iron
fence to be placed around their
cemetery lot near the county
home.
l.. S. Townsend, of Union, S. c.,
who had been visiting his father
and other relatives at his old home
near Fillmore, spent Saturday here
with his brother, G. B. Townsend.
Miss Anna Rancke left Satur-
day for Gaddysville, to visit her
aunt, Mrs. J. R. Burns, and to
assist her cousin in making prepa-
rations to enter Greensboro Fe-
male College.
Col. 7. F. Toon and wife and
E. K. Proctor, Jr., attended Robe
son Union at Ephesus last week
The meeting was we'll attended
and the proceedings interesting.
The next meeting will be held at
Bloomingdale.
An error occurred in the notice
tonon-residents published in the
last issue of the RoBEsoNIAN. The
plaintiff in the action is J. c..
Harrell, instead of J. G.. Hand.
The necessary correction is made
this week.
Notwithstanding the fact that
the RoBEsoNIAN Office has been
moved since last issue the paper
goes to its patrons this week at
the usual time. The Office is not
yet Strengthened up but things
will be gotten in shape gradually.
The farm of Mrs. Ann Ray, near
MaXton, contains seventy-nine
acres, instead of seventy-two
acres, as stated in the ADVERTISE
ment. The mistake occurred in
the copy of the advertisement
sent the RoBEsoNIAN for publica-
ton.
The town accepted the PROPOSE
ton of the Seaboard Air Line to
build the new passenger depot on
the east side of Main street, and
Contractor Williams is now at
work on the building. 1t will be
completed at an early a date as
possible.
The RoBEsoNIAx is now in it's
new home, in the building built
especially for it by w. w. Car
lyle, Oh Trade street, and invites
it's friends and patrons to call
whenever they are in town. 1t is
on the ground floor, in q we'll
lighted and comfortable room,
and the latch-string hangs on the
outside.
The RoBEsoNIAN learns with re-
greet that Rev. D. w. Fox has ac-
cepted the call extended him by
Antioch and Red Springs churches,
and that Lumberton will lose him.
Mt. Fox has not yet decided when
he will go to his new charges.
Since his residence in Lumberton
he has won the confidence and es-
TEEN of all our people and they
will be sorry at his departure.
Lumberton's delegation to the
Nashville Exposition have re-
turned and report the trip as a
most pleasant one and the exposi-
ton a success. The display was
larger and more complete than
they expected. The Lumberton
day reception attracted considera-
BILE attention and WAS splendidly
managed and carried out. The
guests at the reception numbered
five hundred.
| A London grocer who has made
$50, 100000 in the past twenty
years says printers Ink and adver-
Using III the newspapers did it.
John Wanamaker, of Philadel.
phia, says he owes his success to
the newspapers. Notwithstand.
ing the experience of these mer
and others, whose persistent and
4 intel lIGpDt Use of DpwsnoDnrc he.