The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-09-28

Coughs store.
The trouble at the electric
light plant has been remedied
and the street lights are back on
the job.
Mr.. NJ. Beverly, new agent
al the Seaboard depot, arrived
Friday and took charge of the
work Saturday. Mrs. Beverly
and their two children will arrive
in a week or ten days.
The Dixie Amusement Co.,
a popular price company which
gives a good show, will appear at
the opera house Thursday and
Friday evenings. The prices will
be Is, 25 and 35 cents.
DIR. J. D. Regain, who for
several years has occupied
offices in the Shaw building,
which is now owned by Messrs.
White & Cough, moved last
week and occupies a large front
room in the Columbia Hotel
building.
The ladies of the Methodist
church of GAINESVILLE will give a
box supper at the church Thurs
day evening. Ice cream, fruit
and other refreshments will be
served. The public is invited and
an enjoyable evening is promised
all who attend.
"A force of hands began work
Saturday breaking ground for
the new office building which the
Lumberton Cotton Mills will
erect on the vacant lot near the
Waverly Hotel. Mr.. l. J. Moore
has moved his little store, which
was on the corner of the lot,
nearer the hotel.
Superintendent R. E. Sen
telle, of the Lumberton Graded
Schools, will preach at Smyrna
Baptist church, near Kingsdale,
once a month until the congrega-
ton. can secure a pastor to
succeed Rev. E. A. Paul, who
has returned to Wake Forest
College to resume his studies.
"A train will be run on the
Virginia & Carolina Southern
from st. Pauls and intermediate
points to Lumberton tomorrow
to the great Democratic rally.
The train will leave st. Pauls at
$50 a. HI. and will arrive here at
9:15. On return trip it will leave
Lumberton at a o'clock in the
afternoon. The round-trip fare
from st. Pauls is Is cents.
Mr.. Dallas S. Townsend, son
of Rev. Il. w. Townsend, of Rae
ford, who is Il student at Colum.
bia University, New York, has
been awarded a scholarship
known as the McClymond':
Scholarship, which is worth $65(
a year. Mr.. Townsend is a neph-
ew of Messrs. G. B. and l.. T
q, Townsend, Of Lumberton.
"A special train will be run
tomorrow to Lumberton from
Marietta and intermediate points
on account of the great rally
The train will leave Marietta a
8o'clock in the morning and will
arrive here at 9:15. On thu
return trip it will leave Lumber
ton at 6 o'clock p. m. The round
trip fare from Marietta is g.
cents.
Rowland Sun: Miss Her
bert, of Newberry, S. c., ha:
been engaged to teach in tn
Rowland Public High School an,
entered upon her duties Wednes
day. The enrolment was mucl
larger than the Board of Trustee
anticipated, which necessitate,
another assistant to Prof. Her
bert, making six teachers, in
Guiding the music department
The statement in the Lum
berton correspondence of TIL
WilmingtonStar on Sunday, goth
that the Lumberton Baker
would furnish 1000 dinners O.
Tuesday, the day of the grea
Democratic rally, was evidentl
a typographical error, and it
amusing to see that it has bee
taken seriously in some quarter.
The Lumberton Bakery & CAT
will rise to the occasion and ful
nish dinners according to il
capacity, but it will hardly b
able to furnish so many as A, OC
dinners. When you come
think of it, 1000 dinners is
good many.
Mrs. J. P. Brown, of Fai
mont, and Mrs. E. W. Parker,
Wilson, who is visiting MI
Brown, spent a part of Thursd;
and Friday in Lumberton Wis
ing at the homes of Mr.. and Mr.
A. f. White and DR.. and Mrs.
d. Regan. They spent THU
day night at the home of N
and Mrs. B. Stansel, at AllentC
Twenty-one years agoMrs. BroI
taught school at Attention, a
when she decided to become M
Brown she secured the sch,
= for the following year
her college friend, who aft
wards became the wife of ]
Parker. 1t vas the first Vi
either Mrs. Brown or Mrs. P
ker had made to the place VIII
they taughtin their girlhood d;
n, fyUantU UparS