The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-09-14
ROAD AND BRIDGE WORK.
Business Transacted at Meeting
of Board of Road Supervisors
Many Bills Audited.

The board of road supervisors
was in regular session Monday
for the transaction of routine
business. The following claims
were passed:
Supervisors, Road and Bridge
Work-Wm. Tiddy, Smiths
township, $99.12; A. S. Wishart,
Back Swamp, $74.68; Ed. T.
Taylor, part Of Howellsville,
S2i1. 70; Walter Mcmillan, Red |
Springs, $248. SIS; w. H. Lamb,
BIRTHS, 1885; Duncan Mussel-
white, part of Howellsville, SAP
70; J. M. Powell, Raft Swamp,
$9l.71; J. M. Smith, Wishart's,
$40. 80; w. L. Thames, Parkton,
$25. 35; W. Tiddy, Maxton, $751;
"a; w. P. Oliver, part of White
House, S139.85; S. G. PreVatt,
Lumberton, S277.05; F. M.
Townsend, ThOmpson's, $165; 28;
w. H. Andrews, part of White
House, $3I. 90; d. S. Carlyle, Sad
die Tree, $98.17; Luther E. Am
mons, Alfordsville, $165; part of
Thompson's, $78 50; C. w. Jones,
St. Pauls, $67.55; D. J. Dalton,
Blue Springs, 1856. 10; R. W.
Livermore, money advanced to
w. A. Smith, supervisor of Burnt
Swamp, $3.50. AZ; M. L. Marley,
money advanced to supervisor of
Lumber Bridge, $215.84; R. A.
Melvin, money advanced to su-
pervisor of Burnt Swamp, $40. 95.
Total, So, 141.44.
Miscellaneous Crowley Lock-
lear, for $50 yards etching,
Smiths, $3.50; Neill Afford,
lumber for Smiths, $40. 40; A. D.
McGirt, lumber for Smiths, $19.-
&c; J. l.. Memory, blacksmith
work, Lumberton, $10.05; Bank
of Maxton, Sc, discount on note
charged to Smiths, and $40, dis
count on note charged to AL
fordsvile; Bank of Lumberton,
discount on note charged to
Raft Swamp, $4.03; CarverBros.
2,567 feet of lumber, Lum-
berton, $1,000; J. M. Smith,
road work under contract, Lum-
Der Bridge, $50; Rowland Hdw.
Co., nails and repairs for road
pillow, Alfordsville, $3.50; Purvis
Lumber Mills, 3,348 feet of lum-
Der, Alfordsvile, $50. %; Neil AL
ford, for 81 days hauling on
roads, Smiths, $3.50; J. E,
Forbis, running road plow
Maxton, $25. 87; Mckay Flowers,
damage to land using dirt, Wis.
harris, SO; T. R. Smith, fixing
ditch bridges on Creek road, Lum
berton, So; J. B. Mcleod, roaC
plow point, Thompson's, $3.50
w. D. Prevatt, keeper Of chair
gang, $50, salary; three
guards, $50; cook, 1898; w. J.
Prevatt, mule feed, Lumberton,
$28.81; shoes and clothing, $38.,
OF; Mrs. J. B. Lewis, damage t
land, White House, $40; j. w
Smith, road work, Lumber Bridge
$685.. r. Boahn, road worl
under contract, Lumber Bridge
S23.15; Adcox Bros, repairing
bridge, Lumber Bridge, $3.90;D
z. McGoogan, road work unde
contract, Lumber Bridge, $35
McAllister Hdw. Co., materia
for roads, Lumberton, So. SO; c
T. Pate & Co., supplies for chair
gang, $22. 81; Rowland Hdw. Co.
supplies, $20.99; H. K. McCor
mac, 1876 feet of lumber, 1914
H. D. Morrison, road work, Max
ton, S.; H. C. McNair $13. 40, W
A. Graham $14, A. E. White 81.
per diem and mileage for Jul
and August as members of tn
board John H. Mcneil, secretar,
to the board, salary and postage
$3.50; D. P. Shaw, office rem
So; B.F. Barnard, lumber, Thomr
sons, $38.04; Miller Bros, lum
Der, Thompson's, $14.73; E. T
Bryant$75. Is, Toon Pate, Sc, roa
work, Thompson's; Frank Cough
two sets Of harness, Lumbertor
$22; John A. Brown, claying IL
yards of road, Burnt Swamp, 50
Total, $888.64.
Thompson's township w:
charged $512 for the hire of tn
chain gang for the month of Al
gust.
1t was ordered that the boar
borrow from the Bank of Re
Springs $500 for the necessar
road work of Blue Springs tow
ship and $500 for Red Sprin,
township;from the Bank of Ma
ton, $500 for Burnt Swamp fro
the first National Bank of Lur
berton, $500 for Britt's; from tt
Bank of Rowland, $1,000 f,
Thompson's S, these notes to be d,
December LIST, 1908.
1t was ordered that W.R. Po7
ell, of Britt's township, be allo7
ed to change the public road
or near his place so as to RI
straight by his house a distan
of about $50 feet, for which
agrees to put the new part
good repair and to keep it up f
one year.
1t was ordered that the sett
ment of the road fund with Sht
if Mcneil for the year 1907
in accordance with the certifi
copy from the board of cour
commissioners, subject to the {
proval of the board of audit a
finance.
At Fort Meyer, WashingtC
Orville Wright made on Tuesd