The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-28

in these columns Mr.. Jones is a
skilled and experienced contract
Or and builder, and the work will
be we'll done.
Mr.. l.. H. Caldwell has, we un-
contracted with Mr.. A.
J. Cottingham, of Maxton, for the
brick with which to erect the new
stores fvr the Caldwell heirs Mr..
Cottingham will move his ma
chincry to Laamberton and begin
work as soon as possible
Business is very dull in the mat
rimonial market and few calls are
made upon Register of Deeds
Thompson. Only two licenses
were issued during the week end
ing Monday, they being for
Dwight Britt and Ida Mays, white
and J. G. Rozier and Belle Mer-
rift, colored.
Improvement is the order of the
day in Lumberton. The city
fathers continue their good work
of laying sewers and opening up
drains, and repairs and additions
are being made to q number of
dwelling and other houses There
is no such thing as failure or de-
spondeney among our people.
In another column we publish a
letter from Gen. George Moor
man Adjutant General of the Uni
ted Confederate Veterans. This
letter is of interest to surviving
ex-Confederate soldiers as it gives
the date of the next reunion and
speaks of other matters of much
Importance to the organization.
The cases disposed of by the
criminal court last week were most
" of trivial nature and of mi
nor Importance. If some method
could be adopted by which these
misdemeanors could be disposed
of without putting the county to
so great an expense the tax pay
ers would he relieved of a consid-
cradle burden.
Mr.. S. P McNair, a native OF
this county, now successful
wholesale grocer of Wilmington
was here last week attending
court and visiting his father neal
Tolarsvllle. Mr.. MeNair is a be-
lever in the RoBEsoNIAN and ont
of the first things he did here wa,
to have his advertisement placed
in its columns.
| We do not half realize how
much the happiness and prospect
ty of our lives depends upon on
own effort. We blame our par
4 ents, our circumstances, our i'll
health, everything but ourselves
yet there is no situation in whicl
we can be placed that we canno
be great in if we make the mos
and the best of ourselves.
: Last weeks cold snap was gen
eral over the Southern States all
much damage to fruit and earl
! vegetables is reported. There wa
considerable damage in North Cal
: DINA, the loss to truckers and frui
: growers being estimated at owe
s 81 900, 900, Tuesday was the colo
e est day. Several towns reprted t
1.-THE State Weather Observer 8
: Raleigh, giving the minimum ten
r perature for the day. These were
Raleigh 81, Charlotte 36, Wi
# mington 35, Goldsboro 80, Lumbe
ton 35, Greensboro 81. Heay
; frosts occurred on three or fol
. mornings and ice formed in sew
: rel places.
"a The RoBEsoNIAN was mistake
last week in stating the destin
ton of its young friend Mr.. Hug
" MeAllister. 1t is true that h
= ticket read Charlotte as the "sto
" ping off" place, but the fact
that Hugh lost the train at Mo
roe and got no further we.
n Whether or not his being left
ut the capital of Union was an &C,
st dent or was premeditated we a
I'd not fully advised, but the rum
is that it was premeditated a
If the ticket to Charlotte was an
NJ fort to throw certain ones off
be track. Be this as it may g
IN young friend did not seem d
heartened when he returned ho,
and his pleasant face had nj
happy smile than usual. Her
y good luck to you, Hugh.
of All arrangements have BIZ
made by the Baptists of Lumbert
for an excursion to Wilmingt
" during the session of the South'
" Baptist Convention. A train
" been chartered and the day