The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-06-14
SUNDAY SCHOOL EXCUR-
SION.
A Great Trip to jackson Springs
An Ideal Summer Resort
Some of the Things That Hap
pened Going and Coming.

Some of the Things That Hap
pened Going and Coming.
The Sunday school excursion
from Lumberton to Jackson
Springs and return Friday was
the first excursion to leave here
over the new road and it was al
so the first Sunday school excur-
sion ever conducted from Lum-
berton to Jackson Springs; and
as one would naturally expect,
the occasion was one of many in
teresting features. Not more
than forty or fifty of the 425 that
took advantage of this opportuni-
ty to spend a few hours at Jack
son Springs had ever been there
before, and the hills of Cumber-
land and Moore, with the crook
ed road, were a source of interest
to many, to say nothing of the
time spent at the Springs.
TO begin at the beginning and
name some of the things that
happened, one would have to
mention the attention attracted
when an eX-superintendent of a
Sunday school in Lumberton was
seen on his way to the train with
a one-gallon jug in his hand.
When approached in regard to his
conduct he replied that he would
like to swap it for a two-gallon
one". He returned with his jug
full and behaved nicely.
The train left Lumberton about
7:20 in the morning and made
good time to Hope Mills and on
ly spent a short while there
shifting over on the Aberdeen &
Rockfish road. But here is where
things went different. The en-
CINE was heavily loaded and up
on reaching the summit of one of
those tall Cumberland hills, some
eight or ten miles from Hope
Mills, she had to stop and catch
breath; but no one cared for that.
as the position offered gooo
view of the country and an OPP
portunity of catching a breath of
that pleasant breeze that only
strikes the high places. The next
attraction along the line was q
creation at Raeford for the bene-
fit of the passengers from east
Robson. 1t was a large canvas
stretched across the street at the
depot with the inscription "Hoke
County. But in spite of the
declaration of the bold letters in.
scribed upon this canvas the pas
sengers from lower Robson are
yet to be convinced that this sec.
ton does not constitute a desir.
able portion of Robson county.
Quite a number of passengers
got on at Raeford and the trair
went on to take another rest up.
on a hill between there and Aber
deem, and while catching the
needed breath some of the boy.
got out and killed a snake. Ii
was a coach-whip, about five fee
long. There was always some
thing doing and nobody kicked
on the waits. A very short time
was spent in shifting to the
Aberdeen & Ashboro road and
the train rolled up to the Spring:
about 1920, in plenty time fol
dinner.
Jackson Springs is IN idea
summer resort and the place ha:
undergone great change in The
last year or so, and MANY i'm
provements are being made al
present. There are about Z;
nice cottages there, some of then
costing as much as So, 900. The
hotel is erected upon a high hill
about 200 yards from the sprins
and will accommodate 300 guests
Music is furnished by an Italian
orchestra that stays there
throughout the season. The place
has a nice pavilion, a bowling al
ley, tennis counts and quite ;
t number of things of the kind
t and about a quarter of a mil
from the spring is a large lax
VT" Vt; boats and place for bathing
3 One viii naturally fall in low
i with the place and find it hard t
3 leave. (The train had to max
three efforts before it got away.
> The place will not be opened Z
in full until about the first G
: July. There are only betwee
forty and fifty guests at the hot
+ at present.
8 The train left the Springs {
f 5 o'clock, but went back thre
l. times in the effort to get ava.
o. An extra engine was sent OF
:. from Aberdeen and helped tt
train across the hills as far l.;
Raeford and all went we'll
: Hope Mills, but there the engir
got out of fix and was delaye
something over an hour, and tt
e train got to Lumberton about
o'clock.
The occasion was a great Of
and no one is expressing any r
gret for having taken the tri
1t is to be hoped that the peol
of this section may have anoth
such opportunity to visit t
Springs as soon as the place
at opened up in full.