The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-04-13

A1 81 raul, ROOeSOn county.
there Is the prophesy of larger
things 10 the very air. The old
town of st. Paul has been a good
country town for years and
years, and ones prophetic soul
Is inclined to tell that the new
st. Paul-which is just the old
town spreading out aud reaching
for larger things-will be q busy,
hustling, thriving town that will
astonish even those who have
dreamed Of the days of big
Things. Yes, there is prophesy
ia the air,
1t is situated on an eminence
high and dry-not so very high.
you understand, but high
enough between Big marsh and
Little marsh, and at what is now
the terminus of the Virginia &
Carolina Southern Railway. And
it any body should happen to ask
you why st. Paul is doing like
she Is dOing-going forward, as
certain hot air artists are fond of
saying, by leaps and bounds, -
that is The answer: St. Paul is
now railroad town, and she is
behaving herself accordingly.
/ The Virginia & Carolina South
ern Railway, which is to run from
Lumberton to Hope Mills, con.
Meeting there with the Atlantic
Coast Line and the Aberdeen
Il Rockfish Railroad, has been
OniIt as far as St. Paul, which is
just about half way between
Lum berton and Fayetteville
The present stations of the road
are Bee Gee-frSt station GU,
from Lum bertOn-POwersville
WOODWORK, and then, at the end
Of 15-mile run over a road. bed
that is remarkably good for {
new road, the conductor shouts
Every body out for St. Paul, ;
aud the passengers, each and
several, grab their baggage and
pile off. This road is already dc
veloping the country through
which it passes, and the smiling
villages that are budding int
life along its path are but ear
nests of what shall be when thu
line is completed.
AS was just said, St. Paul is
looking up. Quite so. Within tn,
! last six months p new dwellings
f. have been built or have beef
started in the new part of ST
! Paul McEachern, Johnson 1
, McGeachy, who have for som
time conducted a large business
in the older section of the town
o have put up a store in the ne'
part of town, and four other store
, have been built. And a cotto
>. mill is to be built there, the me
, jority of the houses that hav
= been built there recently bein
for the operatives, and the wor
y on the factory will begin som
, time in the not distant future.
Throughout this stunt it wi
. be observed that the name of tt
town has been written IS
Paul, " and not st. Paul's" as
o is often written. Not that an
y attempt is being made here
], change the spelling of the nam
u or to say that it must henc fort
l. be spelled the shorter way, bl
K what's the use of the apostropl
j. and anyway? St. Paul's wha
III Why not have the name st. Pau
u standing up straight, just so, al
. not leaning on anything? II
G. sym bols denoting possessiC
seem to say that it is simply t
le townships town, but railro
has moved up to it now, and it
ID going to be animportant shippil
D point and it looks like the day h
in passed for the old way of spe
b. ing.
Ill Which is justthrown in by VI
'n Of parenthesis. Anyway,
G Paul or st, Paul's, she has got
or which, being interpreted, mes
Is that she is all right and has
re bright future. with all that Il
CHI implies; and the Virginia & L;
be DINA Southern Railroad has {
Im it too, and the way it's freis
les train phys up and down that
he mile stretch between Lumbert
and St. Paul, piling off freight
I'll the stations aforementioned, i
cid caution. IT'S so, sir.
ms Death of Mrs. Martha Roberts.
Ter Mrs Martha Roberts, a
TIC about 60 years, died Thurst
III night at the residence of
"ill daughter, Mrs. Alma Skipper