The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-07-16
MT. ELAN MATTERS.

Hard Thing to Break The
People Should Stop and Let
the Commissioners Get off :
Honor to the Mothers.
Correspondence of The Robesonian
AS it is raining and nothing do
ing, only am curing tobacco, |
will try to write a few lines of
nothing. News is like hens teeth
here at the present. | am like
boy told Mr.. Ottie Stone, when
he asked him what he knew. He
told him he knew he was trying
to live, and that's most all | |
know.
Well, anyway, | have been cur
ed myself since | wrote before. |
Something shut the barn door
when l went in to see what the
heat was. l found out it was
high before | got out, but | was
already yellowed, so it didn't
take but about Is minutes to kill
the leaf, as it was one hundred
and seventy in the barn at the
time l was in there. Don't you
know it was hot times with me!
But l have got cool now, for |
went to another ice cream supper
at Mr.. Jas. Stones Saturday
night-and of course it was en-
joyed by all who were present.
think sometimes | will stop
writing, as Sarah Jane drags me
so; but | think habit is a hard
thing to lose, for when you take
''h" away you still have "abit"
left; take "a' away and you still
have bit" take 'b" away and
you still have ''it'' left: so l sup
pose | will have to keep writing,
Sarah or no Sarah.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. J. Britt, of
Lumberton, visited their children
here last week. twas Mr.. Britt S
first visit to his old home in two
years. We were glad to learn that
! his health has improved.
Sorry to report the death of
Mr.. Pink Britt's baby.
l agree with the Red Springs
man who thinks the commission
ers have eaten Lumberton fod-
der and Robeson corn longenough,
but it looks like they will hang
around, whether elected or not.
The commissioners are all fine
men, but just think of saying
Don't know how" Didn't they
say that? That's enough said. L
looks like people could see aftel
= the board of audit and finance
found things in such a shape
5 Now doesn't it. If live and d.
we'll it will be five years before
can vote, but l can talk, if l d'
4 stutter. When you get a gooC
thing it pays to keepit, but whel
t you get bad one, get it out o
/ the way. The people should d.
r the commissioners like a hors
did a little boy one time. He start
: ed off on the horse and soon re
t turned. His father asked hin
: if he got thrown. He boo
g hood" No. We'll, what happen
s ed, SOM" He just stopped an
= | couldn't. " Now, if the peopl
il will stop the commissioner
can't.
It Now, that Barker's write
e brings to my mind a story lik
e this: One morning a little bo
o came down stairs crying an
O wouldn't speak. His mothe
r asked him what was the matter
he spoke after awhile and sale
my nose is wrong and won
= = work.. He just had cold
- and | think that Barker writer
D. nose is wrong and won't work.
, Thank you, Sarah Jane,
f. IT. would be glad to be with thos
y ~ girls on the sixteenth and sever
" " teenth. l don't suppose [ cal
g though.
w | think the mothers of OIL
country deserve about as muC
~ credit as the old soldiers, becau:
or a. they saved the men of toda
q While the men were off at w;
- they were at home with w;
" against starvation some of ther
I anyway. They plowed and h
- ed, hauled all their wood, rake
their straw, raised their hog
and, worst of all, raised the
children. They would work
Ct day and at night it was, NAM
L. | want water; mama, Pm sick
of and the baby crying, and it W
ce not, Get up John or Henr
Ter and get little Jimmie some W
le- ter" but they had to get
Id themselves. If l was going
Nk pin a cross of honor on anybo
nd it weuld be an old woman W
ad- had a large crowd of childr
en- and no help. What do you thi
ill about it, Mr.. Editor?
ion We would be glad to have t
iss editor come to Mt. Eliam a
to get some good cool cantalouE
are and watermelons.
The HAPPY JACK.
Mt. Eliam, N. c., July
1908.
;, ;Ia, The editor would like We
~; much indeed to accept Hap
W. W. Jacks" invitation, andperhaps
ND NAV he able to enjoy q treat |