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

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The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-07-16
For Register of Deeds.

To the Democrats of Robson Count:
l take this method to announce my
self a candidate for the office of Register
of Deeds, subject to the ac ION of the
Democratic primary.
Respectfully,
4-2ot w. .. THOMPSON
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-07-16
For Register of Deeds.

I hereby announce myself a candidate
for the office of Register of Deeds for
Robson county, subject to the action of
the Democratic primaries.
RESPECTFULLY,
4-3O-tf JOHN MEDALLION.
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For County Commissioner.

To the Democratic Voters of Robson
County:
After a consideration of the matter
and at the request of number of Dem
ocratic friends, | hereby announce my
self candidate for reelection to the
office OF County Commissioner, subject
to the action Of the Democratic Prima-
ry.
This June Is, 1908.
6-15-tf A R. MCEACHERN.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-07-16
For Register of Deeds

] hereby announce myself candidate
for the office of Register of Deeds FOR
Robson County, subject to the acton
OF the Democratic primaries
5-ZS-tf j. E. PURCELL. !
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7-9-tt
For Register Of Deeds.

| hereby announce myself candidate
for the office OF Register of Deeds for
Robeson county, subject to the action
OF the Democratic primaries.
JOHN M. MCNAIR.
6-1l-tf
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-07-16
$5O5.75 1904. 80
Balance due sheriff
for taxes of 1906

Balance due sheriff
for taxes Of 1906 1898. 81
This report was audited and
approved by Graham McKinnon
and J. M. Butler for the board of
audit and finance and the COM
mittee from the board of COM
missioners, and thzy certified that
the differences occurring in this
account and the one heretofore
published occurred by some err
rors which the expert account
ants overlooked in making their
statement.
This report was accepted by the
board Of commissioners and it
was ordered that the settlement
with ex-Sheriff Mcleod of his
tax accounts for the year 1906
OF be made in accordance there
with.
To review this matter briefly:
The county board of audit and fl
nance filed a final report some
months ago in which it was
claimed that ex-Sheriff Mcleod
was due the county for taxes col
) lected in 1906-07 the sum OF
$521.03. Mr.. Mcleod refused tc
settle in accordance with the
,, report, claiming that it was in
accurate, and the board of com
missioners refused also to accep
> the report. Ex-Sheriff Mcleod
! several times asked for a settle
:. ment, the commissioners claim
y ing each time that they had no
. made an estimate Of the amour
due and that they were waitin!
n for this estimate from the audi
!. and finance board, the frs
:. estimate submitted being in
s. correct, according to their cor
# tention and the contention Of ez
,e Sheriff Mcleod. Mr.. McLeo
tt Finally brought suit against tn
2 commissioners for a settlemer
,e and the board of audit and finanC
lie asked to be made parties defer
ID dant to the suit, the conclusiC
r. Of the whole matter being
lie reported above. In final VOL
a. from ex-Sheriff Mcleod, whiC
lie was crowded out of this issl
he but will appear in Mondays Ro
esonian, he says that the repO
of the experts employed by Il
board of audit and finance furth
Sc shows that the county is due hi
Sc the sum of $476. 90 on account
n taxes for 19O5-06 making a tot
es of $874.66 due him by the coun
st which was over paid by him
of his tax settlements during /
i'm last term of office.
is The tax accounts having be
re- settled as above, the action viii
nd ex-Sheriff Mcleod broght agar
ne the board of commissioners h
1T. been dismissed.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-07-16
China's Girl Wives,

Chicago News.
Girl children are often unwel-
come in China. A terrible wit
dess to this is a stone standing
near a pool outside the City of
Foochow. On it is the inscrip-
ton, Girls may not be drowned
here" Poor parents often sell
or give away a daughter when
but a few weeks or months old,
to be the future wife of a boy
about her own age. The child
who becomes a bride by a rear
ing marriage" is taken home and
brought up by the family of her
future husband. An English
woman, when visiting a school,
observed a bright boy about
| years of age carrying a baby
girl. She asked if she were his
| sister, whereupon the boy looked
shy and did not answer. His
brother volunteered the informa
; ton: "She is his wife"
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Mrs. J. H. Harrell and two
children, who had been visiting
here at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
r. E. L. Correll, left yesterday for
their home in Charlotte.
Mrs. Eugene Wright and son,
Master Eugene, Jr., of Blue
Field, w. Va, are expected to
arrive tonight for a visit at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. H. c..
Freeman
Mr.. B. M. Tedder, of Char
lotte, spent yesterday and last
night here at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. R. E. L. Correll.
Mr.. Tedder left this morning fol
Wilmington where he will sIenC
a few days.
Scores of persons have beer
4 killed and hundreds Frustrated
in New York by the intense hea-
recently.
Samuel Gompers, president O.
the American Federation of La
, Dor, will support W. ]. Bryan il
= the coming presidential cam
! paign.
, A. H. Slocumb's turpentin
t distillerv at Fayetteville wa
a completely destroyed by freMor
q day afternoon, the loss being be
IL tween two and three thousan
dollars, The fire was caused b
spontaneous combustion.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-07-16

S or 6 doses 1855" will cure
any case of CHILLS and FEVER.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-07-16
FINAL SETTLEMENT MADE

Committees Appointed to go
Over Tax Accounts of Ex-Sheiff
Mcleod Report That County
Owes Him $398.57-Report
Accepted by Commissioners
and Settlement Made in Ac-
cordance Herewith.
The committees from the coun-
ty board of audit and finance and
the board of commissioners which
were appointed to investigate
the tax accounts of ex-Sheriff
Geo. B. Mcleod for the fiscal
year 19O6-07 made their report
Monday afternoon, finding that
the county is dueeX-Sheriff NJ =
Leod for taxes over paid by him
for that year the sum of sos
81.
1t will be recalled that wherlp-
plication was made by the board
of audit and finance to be made
parties defendant in the suit of
Geo. B. Mcleod against the
commissioners for the settlement
OF his tax accounts, Judge Long,
before whom the matter was ar
gued, agreed to withhold his de-
cisiOn in the matter until a final
effort was made to reach a basis
Of settlement. The board of
commissioners appointed a COM
mittee, composed of Messrs. j.
W. Carter, A. R. McEachern and
A. L. Bullock, to go over with
the board of audit and finance the
tax accounts of ex-Sheriff Nc
Leod for the year in question.
Messrs. j. P. Stansel and A. T.
Parmele, special accountants en-
plOyed, respectfully, by the
board of audit and finance and
the committee from the board of
commissioners, submitted at the
meeting of these commit
tees Monday afternoon Messrs.
}. Nj. Butler and Graham McKin-
non being the committee from
the board of audit and finance
the following sworn statement:
REHABILITATION OF TAXES FOR
1906.
Due sheriff by State S 52l.75
Due sheriff by county 382. 81
Due by sheriff to
schools $291.O7
Due by sheriff to
special schools 17G.14
Due by sheriff to
roads 44.54
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Fer County Commissioner.

10 the Democratic Voters of Robson
County:
AT the urgent request of L number of
~ Democratic friends ana after a con-
sideration of the matter here by an
nounce myself a candidate for 're-elec-
ton to the office of County Commission
er, subject to the action OF the Demo-
5 attic Primary.
This June Is, 1908.
6-l5-tf J. w. CARTER.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
COMFORTING WORDS
many a Dawson Household Will
Find Them SO.

10 have the aches and pains of a
bad back removed; to be entirely
free from annoying, dangerous url-
nary disorders, is enough to make
any kidney sufferer grateful. 10
tell how this great change can De
brought about will prove comforting
words to hundreds of Dawson read
ers.
J, j. Worsham, Living at II W;
10th St, Cordele Ga, says: Il had
been suffering from a continuous
pain in my right side and a soreness
across my kidney regions for weeks
My condition finally became so mis-
cradle that | could not lie on my
right side at all. l was very lame,
could hardly assume an erect posi-
ton after stopping, and could find
nothing to give me relief. Someone
told me about Doan's Fidney Pills
and l procured a box. | used the
contents of one box when the pain
disappeared, and the soreness lett
q me, l have been working ever
Il since and have felt no symptoms OF
a return of my old trouble. | know
poan's Kidney Pills to be fine kid
hey remedy"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
FOUND HER AFFINITY IN A PIE.
Twas Mince, and So Good Col. Bart
lett Welded the Maker.

Col. John H. Bartlett, a Grand
Army veteran, formerly on the staff
of National Commander James Tan
ner, has just been married to Mrs.
Susie ]. Reese of Cambridge, Mass,
champion mince pie maker of the
state. The gallant colonel and the
bride declare that mince pie, lus-
cious and tempting, was the agency
of fate or destiny in making them
acquainted and causing the growth
of an intense and lasting love.
Mrs. Reese relates the story of the
pie as follows:
II had no use for men except to
save them from drink and make
them better until I met Col Bart
lett. One marriage was enough for
me, but after the colonel and l be-
came acquainted I knew that fate
had decreed that | should marry
again in order to satisfy a longing
of my soul. He is my affinity in the
highest sense.
''He bought my pie at a Boston
pie social, and was so pleased with
it that he sought and obtained an
introduction, which was followed by
frequent meetings. 1t certainly was
fate that brought US together"
Col. Bartlett is said to have de-
clared after eating the pie: "A wo-
man who can make pies like that is
worth loving and marrying"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
When the Caller Went.

The caller who drops i'll for half
a minute" had exceeded the time
limit by about four hours. and there
was no prospect if relief, when the
small boy OF the house came in for
the third time during the afternoon
and stopped in amazement at seeing
the visitor.
"Ain't you gone yet? he asked,
"bout time for you to be goin', ain t
it?"
Hush Freddie" cried his mother
in distress. you mustn't mind
what he says, Mrs. Jones. Children
don't seem to know any better than
to blurt the truth right outsome-
times, do they?"
Whereupon the visitor departed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
THE PROSECUTORS OF POWERS
Sudden and Tragic Death the Fate
of Many Connected With the Trial.

Sudden and Tragic Death the Fate
of Many Connected With the Trial.
Some of the newspaper correspond
ents want to make it appear that
Providence has had a hand in pun
ishing those who prosecuted Caleb
Powers. We are told that in the
eight years since the first trial of
Powers seven of the jurors who tried
him have dropped dead. One of the
prosecutors in the first trial, Thomas
Campbell, starved to death in a
launch after shipwreck. Another
prosecutor, ''Vic" Bradley, died sud-
denly. One of the states witnesses,
"Tallow Dick" Combs, was killed by
train. His fellow witness, w. H.
Culton, starved to death while pros
pecting for gold in Nevada. The
daughter of one prosecutor, Benja-
min Williams, was burned to death.
Justice James E. Cantrill, judge at
Powers first trial, died of paralysis
on April last.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
AN ODD MIXTURE.
Uncle Sans Army Composed of Many
Races of People.

Races of People.
The American army of today is a
great nucleus of white men sur
rounded by black, red and yellow
men; the children of Shem, Ham and
Japhet. marching side by side under
the Stars and Stripes.
The American army is not yet so
heterogeneous in its makeup as is
the British, which is drawn from COL
onies in every quarter of the globe,
nor have we any regiment or brigade
which combines in itself such a vari-
ETY. of races as the Foreign Legion of
France, but we have negro regiments,
Filipino regiments, companies of In
dian scouts, while the very nature
Of American citizenship brings to
wear the uniform of Uncle Sam men
in whose veins flow the blood of ev-
cry race-Celt, Scandinavian, Latin,
Jew, Saxon, Slav, Malay-so one
might almost say that our whole
army was foreign legion. Our Off
GERS are, with few exceptions, white
men. The exceptions are a handful
of negro officers commanding COM
panies of Filipinos, or assigned to
special service" at home.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
Wasted Sympathy.

The Montgomery Advertiser eX-
presses sympathy for the Georgians'
because, with the legislature and a
convention both at hand, there is
mot julep to cheer them" But
that's all right! A scientist has just
declared that water is both exhili-
rating and intoxicating, and Georgia
has got plenty of the finest and wet
test water in the world.-Savannah
News
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
A Grand Family Medicine.

'It gives me pleasure to speak a
good word for Electric Bitters, -
writes Mr.. Frank Conlsn of No. 436
Houston street, New York. tits a
grand family medicine for dyspepsia
and liver complications, while for
lame back it cannot be too highly
recommended. Electric Bitters reg
ulate the digestive functions, purify
the blood, and impart renewed vigor
and vitality to the weak and debili-
tated of both sexes. Sold under
guarantee at Dawson Drug Co.'S. soc.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
pARDONED FOR BRAVERY
Wallace Johnson, Convict, May Get
Carnegie Hero Medal.


Governor Smith has granted par
don to Wallace Johnson, who was
serving twelve years for manslaugh-
ter committed in Floyd county, as a
reward for heroic action. In the
convict camp one of the prisoners
set fire to fuse Connected with sew
enty-five sticks of dynamite. At the
risk of his life Johnson put it out,
and saved the lives of five men. An
effort will be made to get him a
Carnegie medal as an additional re-
ward.
The governor declined to com
mute the sentence of Sonnie Will
liams, and he was hanged in Miller
county Saturday. He was already
serving a life sentence and killed
a fellow convict.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
The Oldest Ordinary.

Judge George c. Edwards, ordi-
nary of Lee county, is said to be the
Oldest ordinary in Georgia. He is
eighty-three years old, and has held
his present Office for twenty-eight
years. Judge P. T. McGriff has held
his present office of ordinary of Pu-
laski county for thirty-six years, and
has just been elected for another
term of four years. He is now in his
18th year and is we'll preserved for
a man of his age.-Hawkinsville Dis
patch
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
RURAL CARRIERS TO MEET.
Annual State Convention Will Con-
vene in Albany on July 3.


vene in Albany on July 3.
The convention of the Georgia AS
ISOLATION of Rural Letter Carriers. to
be held in Albany, Ca, July 8 and
4, Will be one of statewide interest
and the most important ever held by
the association. Much business will
be transacted at the convention. The
fact that the Georgia association
stands first among state organizations
in the United States, having more
members in proportion to the num-
bers of carries than any othe state,
Indiana Ohio and Illinois following
Geogia in this respect, and that the
national president, Hon. Paul L. Lind
say, of Tucker, Ca, is a Georgian,
adds interest to the convention.
There will be present at the con-
vention representatives o the postof
flee department at Washington, Mr..
F. B. Heidel, of the bureau of public
roads, Congressman James M. Griggs,
Of the Second, and Charles G. Ed
wards, of the First Congressional
district, who will deliver addresses.
the national and state presidents.
Postmaster H. M. Brlmberry, of AL
bany, and others to be selected later.
The growth if the Georgia asso-
citation has been nothing short of
phenomenal. In 1905 there was a
membership of only SIS; in 1906, 200
and at the state convention in 1907
membership of 492. There is now
membership of more than 500. This
increase in membership is due very
largely to the untiring efforts of
State President George DuBrosse,
Before his election to the Office of
president he was president of the
First district association.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
CENTRAL TO RESUME WORK
NOW TO GO FORWARD WITH Elk,
rENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS.
Order for All the Electrical Equip
ment Was Given on the Morning
After the Election.

After the E1eCC1Ons
r has been a matter OF general re-
-no+ that the Central of Georgia Rail-
nav Company ceased work on the
now and extensive shops at Macon.
These we're planned to be the larg-
osr and most complete. in the south
for the reason that all the machinery
,ork the building and rebuilding of
oars and the repairs of all rolling
s+oc. for the entire Central of Geor-
ola system would be done in these
shOps in Macon.
Covering acres of ground with
their walls the shops gave promise
of giving employment to great num-
hers of men, and their location in
Macon was regarded as one of the
most forward steps Macon has taken.
Then came the depressions, and
with it a stoppage of work. Instead
of big hive of industry the immense
shops were almost empty. There
were contracts out for the completion
of the shops, but these were held in
allowance with no hope held out
as to when they would be called on
to be filled.
One of these untitled and waiting
contracts was for the installation of
electrical machinery and lighting,
running far into the thousands of
dollars.
This contract called for the placing
of 60 arc lamps in the shops and
Yards the erection and construction
of the lighting and transmission lines
not only over the yards and shops
and the union depot, but from the
shops on Pine street to the river for
the pumping station. For all of this
as well as for other electrical work,
there was vast amount of electri-
cal machinery necessary, so that one
can readily figure out the extent of
the work that had been held up.
This contract had been made with
Morris Putzel, the electrical contrac-
tor, and the stopping of the contract
added to the general depression of
business.
On last Friday morning the public
learned of the election of Joe Brown
as governor. To Mr.. Putzel the
news was gratifying because he be-
lieyed that it meant much in the way
OF lettering and Frightening bus
mess, but he did not think that it
would materially affect him.
On that morning, howevir, as pho
pie We're reading the election results
there came the message to go at once
to work on the Central shops and
complete the contract.
This message meant that a large
force of electricians and laborers
would be put to work at once and
thousands of dollars be turned loose
IN the city, and it meant that the
iong-hoped for resumption of work
on the shops would begin, and that
when the shops were completed hun
Qreds of men would be set to work
in them.
There are several other contracts,
not so large as that of the Central,
waiting for the word to start, and
mere are several that have been or
uered TO be proceeded with.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
vegetable Milk, >"

Vegetable milk" is used in ia
pan. 1t is made from the sofa bean.
The liquid is exactly like cows milk
in appearance, and in taste can hard
ly be distinguished from it. To make
it the beans are first soaked and
then boiled in water. Some sugar
and phosphate of potassium are add
ed, and it is boiled down till it has
the consistency of condensed milk.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
Rising Tide TRAPS CriDD,e.

NEW YORK.-Left alone on the
beach at Wright's Point while his
companions foraged for food James
Torier. "a years old, son of a keeper
on Harris Island, was unable to es-
cape the rising tide and was drowned
in three inches of water. The young
man was cripple, and had been rem
dered even more helpless through a
night of terrible exposure.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
Death from a PimpIe.

GAINESVILLE, O.-Clarence Hank
son, aged 20 of New Lexington, Per-
ry county, died at a local hospital
from blood poisoning, which resulted
from pimple on his face. Several
days ago the young man noticed a
pimple on his face. He scratched
the pimple and in a few hours blood
poisoning developed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
Death from Thumb Scratch.

ATLANTIC CITY.-A scratch with
her thumbnail, which made slight
abrasion on her arm, caused the
death of Miss Eta Conover of this
city. Miss Conover suffered from
rheumatism and was rubbing liniment
into the stir arm and blood poison
resulted.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
New GRANDPA Dies Of Iox.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.--Excitement
brought on by the news that he was
the proud possessor of a bouncing
grandson caused aged John Bowman
OF Berlin, N. j., to drop dead, it is
thought from JOY.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
Won shonId Know This.

Foley's Kidney Remedy will cure
any case of kidney or bladder trouble
that is not beyond tue reach Of med
icine. No medicine can do more.
Dawson Drug Co. and Peoples Drug
Store.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
EPIDEMIC OF STRANGE FATALITIES
Cloud Burst browns Man in His Own Yard; Grandpa Dies
from Joy; Another Meets Gathering Grave Flowers
Killed Gathering Grave Flowers.

COLUMBIA, PA.-Oscar Sheetz.
Columbia youth, climbed to the top
OF tall tree to pluck locust blossoms
to decorate his fathers grave, when
the limb broke and he was dashed to
the ground, landing on his head, re-
ceiving fatal injuries. The lads ia
Their, Oscar Sheetz, was killed two
years ago while climbing a flagpole.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24
Drowned in Own Yard.

CUMBERLAND. Md.-A food
from a cloudburst overwhelmed Mrs.
Reys Redstock, 20 years old, wife of
r. B. Redstock, three miles north of
Durbin, w. Va, while she was in the
yard feeding the chickens, and she
was carried down by wall of water
eight feet high and drowned.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-06-24

DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the
famous little pills, are sold here by
Dawson Drug Co.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-02-20
Safe Blowers obtain $1,000.

A daring bank robbery early Sunday
morning was committed at Sulphur
Springs, which in the bold methods
pursued recalled the exploits of tho
Jesse James gang many years ago. Be-
ore daylight the whole town was
lroused by two explosions. officers and
citizens rushed for the downtown dis
!rict, and on reaching it found that
Iafeblowers had wrecked the build
ng, occupied by the Bank of Sulphur
Springs and completely destroyed the
bank vault. An investigation showed
hat the robbers had secured more
han 81 900 in cash, besides notes and
other valuables. While the officers
we're fastening to the scene they saw
our men mount their horses, which
lad been hitched near the bank, and
tide rapidly westward in the direction
If the mountains. Before pursuit on
horseback could be arranged the men
aad reached the hills, in which are
many gorges and hiding places No
race of them has been found, and it
IS feared they made good their escape.