The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-09-22
IAXT0N HAPPENING S.
-OOaL AND PERSONAL NEWS OF
OUR SISTER TOWN.
N. G. MCKENZIE, REFoTTEP.


is on the sick list.
Miss Bessie Payne left Monday |
for her school in Virginia.
J. G. McCaskill was in Fayette-
vile Oh business Wednesday.
J. S. Smiths foreman was in
Fayetteville last week after hands. |
G.. B. Patterson went to Lum-
berton Thursday on legal business. |
Miss Annie McRae has returned
from a visit to friends in McColl, |
S. G.
Miss Amy Henderson left last
week for Greensboro Female Col |
lege.
Ernest Austin, who is assisting
his father, was in town Wednes-
day.
Archie Morrison has been in the
country several days on insurance
business.
Miss Lottie Frostick is quite
sick but We hope she will soon be
out again.
Frank Carter and L. A. Win
aton went to Laurinburg Friday
on business.
D. R. Klmball was on the streets
last week. He has a good many
friends here.
II. W. Ritchard is very sick
with fever. We hope he may
soon recover.
Bascom Groom and S. H. Nc
Kinnon, of Red Springs, spent
Sunday in town.
Guy Love, one Of the firm of
Love & Co., of Wilmington, spent
Tuesday night here.
Sam McKinnon spent Friday
night iii town. He came down to
dispose of his cotton.
The cotton factory started up on
full time last week after being
still for several weeks.
NJ. McNair and D. C. McNeill
are having their handsome resi-
dences newly painted.
Cotton receipts were q little
short the first Of the week but i'm
proved as the week passed.
Mrs. Mabel Sides and Eiss Alma
Randall, Of Bennettsyille, $. c.,
are visiting Mrs. P. S. S;eed.
Mr.. Austin, the ex-depot agent
ut this place, spent Sunday and
Monday with his family here.
Allen Stced has accepted a posi-
ton with w. S. McNair & Co.
We welcome him to our town.
| Misses Cammie McCashill, Allie
| McCormac and Annie Hill re-
| turned to Peace Institute Wednes-
day.
Miss MayStewart returned to the
seminary at Red Springs last week.
| Miss Annie McRae returned Mon
day.
! Coroner Byrnes went to Shan
non for the purpose of holding an
inquest over the body of colored
girl.
| J. w. Bruton, of Gibson, was
here Wednesday on his way to Red
Springs. He contemplates teach
ing either at the Springs or this
place.
We hear that there Is to be q
marriage soon and that one party
lives in Maxton. Let tie good
work go on.
, Cambells bridge, on the nortl,
side Of Maxton, is being repaired
which stops many bales of cotton
from coming in.
; Mrs. J. D. Groom and daughter
Miss Mamie, who have been spend.
ing the summer at Red Springs
returned home last week.
, Bob Patterson, one of the G. f
d 7. V. depot agents, left Maxtor
) Friday to take charge of posi-.
ton at Wilmington. We hate tc
, see our boys leave, but wish hin
success IN his new position.
Keep in mind that the Maxtor
| fair comes the 9th, 18th and 29tl
of October. This is to be the bio
gest fair of the age. The people
: of Robson will show you wha-
our county can do. Come and see
it.
Miss Gertrude Elan, Of Virgin.
ia, who has been spending som,
time with Mrs. Holland, Of thi.
} place, went to Fayetteville Mon
day OH her way home. Mrs. Hol
land accompanied her to Eayette
vile.
, Twenty years ago G. i, Shuaf,
: baggage master on the Wcsterl
North Carolina Railroad, got
bug in his ear. During tie inter