The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-06-08
FAIRMONT NEWS LET TER

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crease in Cotton Purchases---
Approaching Marriage Of Miss
Edn1undson-A Great Fourth
of July Celebration - Cfher
News Items.
Correspondence Of The Robeaonian.
Mrs. Matte Brown, cf Raleigh, !
is spending some time with re-
Iatives in town. She came home
with Miss May Thompson, who /
was taken sick at the Baptist
Female University. We&re glad
to know that Miss May is improv-
ing.
Mrs. Z. NJ. Snipes, Of BurlinA-
ton, returned with Mrs. j. p. .
Brown last week and will remain
on a short visit.
Mrs. 4. .. Ashley came home
last Friday from visit to her
mother at Sumter, S. C.
We are glad to greet our young
people home from school. Mr..
Ernest Smith was the last to re-
turn last Saturday.
The concert given by the Oxford
singing class last Saturday night
was much enjoyed by large
audience.
The Waverly Book Club will
have an evening with Sir Wal
ter Scott at it's next meeting.
Miss Odum, a noted reader, is
expected to give an entertain
ment under the auspices Of the
club at an early date. The club
has recently added over fifty
; volumes of the very best fiction
to its library, among them being
the complete works Of Char e
l Dickens and Sir Walter Scott.
The Methodist S. S. expects tc
hold its Children'sDay servicethe
second Sunday in June at eleven
= o'clock, the usual preaching
= hour.
Miss Lourena Lewis visited
Whiteville last Wednesday.
Mr.. J. R. Chambers, our mos
popular tobacco warehouse man
came from Asheville last week t;
view the prospect of this year!
crop. We are glad to know there
l. is plenty of fine tobacco for hin
7. to see. All the crops look we'll
5, but especially the tobacco,
T. D. W. Galloway, buyer for tn
l. Sprunt Co., cotton exporters, re
ports six thousand balesbought il
III his territory, which include
s. Raynham and Mcdonald, durin
) the season just closing. Whe
IS we think of the fact that his frs
y seasons buying here was tW
"a hundred bales, and only min
III years ago, we can see tn
/ growth Of our community. Thre
t. thousand Of the present season
=" number were bought in the tow
IL Of Fairmont itself.
Mrs. Taylor Fisher, of Parkto1
- was a welcome visitor to relative
n in town last week.
IN Friends are much interested i
&C the approaching marriage Of OIL
, dear music teacher, Miss Sud
a. Edmundson, who will marry NJ
- Turner on June 18th and W:
in live in Wake county. While W
>. regretted greatly to give her u
- we are glad to know it was f
1g so happy a cause and wish h,
all joy.
az Mrs. D. C. DeVane went
on StatesvilIe last week and retur
20. ed with her daughter, Miss Lo
rena, who was attending State
Vile college.
Mrs. W. L. Mitchell and Oh
- dren are visiting relatives in Be
i 5n nettsville, S. c.
nd Mr.. Claude Ashley, Of Georg
At town, S. c., came home Ia
'oo Sunday for a visit to his mothe
! Mrs. F. L. Blue has return
De- from a visit to Spartanbur
Id, She was accompanied by t7
Z pretty young girls who are gIa
IS Iy welcomed in our midst.
ars Mrs. Julia Thompson, who h
her been at Parkton for a long viii
I'd, returned last Monday.
y va d Mrs. John Lytch, of Lauri
law burg, and Mrs. Foster Davis,
Mcdonald, spent a day last we
cal with their sister, Mrs. Avert
zen Mitchell.
M Miss Maude Bullock is visit
hot friends at Cerro Gordo and otf
he points.
Ccl- A Kitchen Club was Oro,ani7