The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-14


Rice are chosen from Rob-
.sson county as jurors for the
Spr,~es Term Of the United States
Court, Wien convcnes in Will
mington on the7frst Monday in
May.
The Charlotte Observer G;s-
played its usual enterprise and
progressiveness Monday morning
by publishing E special issue CIV
ing full account of Sundays
wreck. The Observer is North
Cardinals best paper and has
we'll earned its reputation and
standing.
The Robesonian is in much bet
ter shape this week and comes out
OH time. Now that the difficult
ties encountered in starting up
have been overcome we hope to
have no more delays but to get
the paper out promptly and regu-
larly, as heretofore.
Mr.. Walter II. Page, a native
North Gaso1inian, recently editor
of the Forum, i'll New York, now
editor Of magazine. in Boston,
will deliver the annual address. at
the commencement. of the State
Normal and Industrial College,
Greensboro, On the 18th Of next
month. -.t--.-
E. G.. Lineberry, the defaultmg
ok-keeperof the Morehead Bank
ing Company, Of Durham, has re-
turned and made good his short
ago. He left Durham temporari-
ly in order to secure the money to
replace that used, and did not run
away, as at first reported by the
papers.
The Blake Brothers are prepar-
ing to make improvements on the
old Blake hotel property, opposite
Mrs. Fannie Peterson's. The
house will be remodeled and new
sample room and store building
added. AS soon as the work is
completed the house will again be
opened as hotel.
An almost correct estimate OF
the losses and insurance from Knox
ville's big fire has been secured
The total loss is SIGH 600 anc
the total insurance SOL, POS. 80
MANY Of the business men burned
out have secured temporary quar-
tiers. The Wholesale. houses never
stopped filling orders.
The RoBEsoN1AS job office il
splendidly equipped with new ant
modern faces of type, and has ,
large stock of paper on hand. Il
is ready to fill all orders for let
ter and note heads, envelopes
bills, statements, receipts and al
kinds of commercial and lega
printing, Your patronage is solici
ted. .'.-,-.-
Fires and other small things d
not prevent the steady increase il
the population of Lumberton
Within the past few days youn
ladies have arrived at the homes G
Mr.. T. A. Norment, ST., Mr.. D
w. Millsaps, and young gentle
man has made his home with Nj
w. w. Carlyle. All are welcom
visitors. 49,.
{ A seven-year-old son of Jak
+ Powell, the we'll known coIore
/, porter at the store of Mr.. J.
Branch, died of typhoid fevt
Friday morning of last weel
Jake is a very respectable colore
man and has a number of frient
among the white people who syn
pathize with him in the loss of h
son.
The Oxford Public Ledger Civ
the following advice to it's farm
friends, which is worth heedil
and acting upon: ''By all meal
:, let our farmers divide their none
= crop between cotton and tobac'
as the Eastern farmers are dom
= and thus keep pace with the Sc
ton that has made tobacco pa
n of their money crop" -
> The weather of the last two
: three days has had wonderful {
feet upon vegetation around hel
=, The combined rain and wal
weather has produced q rap
"
Il growth and truck shows a gre
9, growth, The frost effects are n
n, visible and the prospect is for. fl
e, crops in this section.-Newbe
k Journal.
Except for the debris and t
- vacant lotsrone- would hardly i,
: agine that Lunlberton had be
visited by a disastrous fire with
bt loco thon two v-ooEc nur ~,