The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-09-10
COUNTY BUSINESS.

Commissioners in Regular Ses-
sion Monday and Many Claims
Audited-Petition for Special
Term of Court Special Tax
Elections Ordered Floods Ne
cessitate Outlays for Bridge
Repairs To Meet Again Mon
day.
The county commissioners
met in regular session Monday
and transacted much business.
The damage to bridges through
out the county wrought by the
recent floods made extra busi-
ness. On account of the fact
that in the arrangement of
Superior Courts for Robson
county by the Legislature Of
1907 the September term was
omitted, no provision being made
for a civil term of court from
June until December, and there
being such an accumulation of
cases as to make a special term
necessary, it was ordered by
the board that Governor Glenn
be requested to call a special
term of Robson Superior court
for the trial of civil cases for one
week, beginning October 5;
The commissioners will be in
session again next Monday, the
14th. The following claims
were passed:
Jail and Prisoners-F. J.
Adams, conveying Arthur Leak
to Jail, SIS; conveying Jno. Platt
to Jail, SIS; Lumberton Electric
Light Department, lights for
August, $11.90; H. J. Carlyle,
conveying Bill Floyd to Jail, SO;
]. NJ. Deese, repairing water
works in jail, So. so; E. E. Shoot
er, repairs, So. SO; K. M. Biggs,
supplies, Sc 30; ]. H. Floyd, jail
er, for August, $94.9 E G.
Sipher, supplies and work, $3.50;
D. E. McNair, conveying Bill
Wilson to Jail, $5.65. Total,
S138.8O.
County Home and Paupers-
w. G. Reynolds, keeper, fol
August, $6O.50; Martha Platt,
So per month, Henry Avery,
$3.50, and both placed on regu
lar list; Mary T. Baxley, month.
, ly allowance increased to So
VIM. Woodell, $3.50 per month
= for September, October and No
vember; Oliver Thompson, $1.5C
: and placed on regular list.
Court House and Court-H. l.
Lazenby, inspector of work or
new court house, salary fol
! August, $1O0; B. F. Smith Con
struction Co., ninth estimate O.
i work on new court house, So, IA.
O8; Freeman Printing Co., fo
y registers office, $3.50; 70
sh3rifrs's 5 office, $108. 80; for treas
urer, $4; for clerk of court
- $3.50 all for supplies; W. H
Humphrey, clerk Superior Court
work for county, $10.59; Nc
, Allister & French, rent fo
offices of Sheriff and treasure
and lights, $3.50; w. C. Cape
insolvent costs in State VS.. H
M. Quick, $4. 40; Walter Quick
= in same case, $435. Total, So,
3O1.82.
> Bridges E. T. Taylor, labo
and material on Maysville bridg
L on Big swamp and bridge on Te
Mile swamp, $28.13; A. S. Wish
art, work on Inman bridge, $12.
25; Warren Phillips, work onWi
liams' bridge, 81; Walter McMi1
Ian, two bridges on Big RAT
swamp and two bridges on Littl
Raft swamp, $22. 20; Thomas Pit
'' man, repairing bridge on Gum
!, swamp, S3;B. E. Barnard, labor an
. material for bridges on Ashpol
swamp, $18. "A; Make McRae, wor
on New, Red Banks and Harper
Ferry bridges, $12. so; Jack Pur
cell, repairs on McGirt bridge
So. 80; Hector Morrison, repairs o
Alma Bridge, $5. Total, $111.32
q A petition for the rebuildin
{ of the Davis bridge across Roc
Fish creek was referred to 4
R. McEachern with instruction
to confer with a committee al
pointed by the commissioners
D., Cumberland county.
Miscellaneous-D. w. Bigg
special coroner, holding inque
over body of Henry Washin!
ton, $3.50; J. A. Hodgin, G.
Biggs, J. C, Gibson, E. G. Hod
es in, M. J. McPhaul, jury in abo'
, inquest, So each; Pope Drug CO
salary for county physician al
- supplies, $24.4O; G. E. Ranck
coroner, investigating death
Foster Thompson, SIS; A. Mas
> register of deeds, calculating a
81 copying State school poll a
propery taxes for 1908, 1852.
E. J.Britt, attorney for the boar
$50; D. A. Wilkerson, conveyi
Mary Ann Purnell from Ralei
to Lumberton, $3.50; Daniel "
kerson, two days services no
ing prohibition election inSmitl
township, $4. Total, $465. .35.
A. Nash, clerk to the boa
was ordered to turn o7
to Sheriff E. C. Mcneil
tax books for the year 1908 w
the order endorsed thereon,
- prescribed by law, for the coll
ton of the taxes therein enU
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