The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-11-18
LOCAL BRIEFS.

street. She is a patient of DR..
H. T. Pope. -
Mr.. w. J. Prevatt, who was
severely injured iu the recent
wreck at Armour, is not improv-
ing very fast.
Material is being hauled for
a residence which Mr.. John
Wishart will build on Fifth street
near his present residence.
| Licenses have been issued for
themarriage of Gerphelia Howard
and Geo. E. Thompson; Mrs.
Elizabeth A. Pate and VIM, Lacy
Price; Lela Denny and J. G. Hill.
The waste house of the
cotton mill at St. Pauls was
burned last night, the loss be-
ing about $500. It is thought
that spontaneous combustion
caused the fire.
Invitations have been issued
to an entertainment tomorrow
evening from 7.30 to 10 o'clock
at the Methodist parsonage, on
Seventh street, the home of Rev.
and Mrs. E. M. Hoyle.
Rev. J. M. Fleming, pastor
of the East Lumberton Baptist
church, is rapidly recovering from
the injuries received in the recent
wreck at Armour. He received
cuts on his right hand and wrist.
| AT the Gospel tabernacle
Sunday morning the pastor, Rev.
F. Weiss, will preach from a
chart on "The Progress of Chris
tianity"; at the evening service
at Z o'clock he will preach on
Jonah at Sea-, which will be
the first of a series of sermons on
the book of Jonah.
Mr.. Geo. B. Wishart, who
lives 3 miles from town on the
Fairmont road, brought to Lum-
berton yesterday a bale of cotton
which weighed 72z pounds and
which he sold for $128.7O, includ-
ling the seed. He sold the cotton
to Mr.. w. J. Prevatt for SOL. 08
and the seed brought $1a62.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Caldwell
returned Tuesday from Balti-
more, Md, where they spent
some time while Mr.. Caldwells
hands were being treated at the
Johns Hopkins Hospital for some
form of poison from which they
were badly swollen and other
wise affected. Only a partial
1 cure has been effected and the
treatment is being continued. -
| -Ex-Sheriff and Mrs. Geo.
| B. Mcleod left last evening for
Norfolk, Va, to attend the
second annual convention of the
Atlantic Deeper Waterways AS
sociation, to which Mr.. Mcleod
was appointed a delegate by
Governor Kitchin. The conven-
ton began yesterday and will
continue through tomorrow.
President Taft will attend the
tconvention tomorrow,
| County Auditor Abner Nash
and snr, Master Abner Jr.. re-
7 turned Tuesday from Raleigh,
where they went to be present
: at the presentation Monday to
. the State by the Sons of the
. Revolution of a portrait of Mr..
Nash's great-grandfather, Gov
ernor Abner Nash. Mr.. Nash
, and other descendants of Gov
ernor Nash were present by
special invitation and it is said
, that a larger crowd attended the
, presentation, which took place in
] the hall of the House Of Represen.
) tatives, than ever assembled or
any other occasion of the kind.
2 While feeding yesterday
. morning in rear of the postoffice
D with the bit out of his mouth
! and tied, the horse belonging t
=. Walter Wilson, Tar Heel mai
$ carrier, became frightened at the
Tapping of a curtain on the toy
f buggy to which it was hitchet
: and broke loose and ran. Ii
+ passing the back door of the Nc
1 Allister hardware store a from
q wheel was smashed against thu
y door facing, the singletree wa
!, broken and the horse, freed from
J. the shafts, ran to Fourth street
y thence to Elm and down Elm an,
was caught soon thereafter in
q lot down that street. Some part
! of the harness were also broken
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