The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-08-02
BOOSTING LUMBERTON.
Some Things Her Enterp rising
Citizens Have Done-Its Ad-
vantages and Opportunities
Bright Prospects for the Fu-
ture-A Comm g City.
Wilmington Star, %.


ture-A Comm g City.
Wilmington Star. %.
Lumberton is one of your COM
ng towns in Eastern North Caro-
ina and it will not be long before
t gets in the city class. The
citizens of that good town recent
Iy got the boosting idea in their
heads and started a movement to
boom their town. However, the
Lumberton Robesonian is impa-
tent and wants the boosting
business rushed, thus speaking
about it:
eve don't think that commit
tee appointed to report to anoth-
err meeting about ways and
means to organize for boosting
the town is going to sleep on the
Job, but it would be we'll to strike
while the iron is hot. All who
attended the former meeting
were enthusiastic then about the
proposed organization, but if
there is too long delay their ardor
may cool. "
Lumberton is a town whose
citizens have made it what is. Not
many years ago it was a sleepy
village nesting on the Lumber
river, content with a fairly good
merchantile business sustained
by a healthy country trade. 1t
is surrounded by the finest agri-
cultural lands in North Carolina
and is in the States biggest cot
ton county. The lands also pro-
duce a fine quality of tobacco and
as for that matter nearly every
thing that the ground produces
finds a generous soil in Robson
county.
However, Lumberton was in
need of something to be done for
| it. When you pass through there
on the train look out the car WIN
dow on both sides Of the town
and you will observe that some
body did do something. You will
see three prosperous cotton mills
and a cursory glimpse of the
town as you pass it clearly indi-
Gates thrift and makes a good
impression upon the onlooker. 1t
was Lumberton's own citizens
who did things for their town.
Their enterprise and foresight
led them into the cotton milling
industry and they have made q
success of it. The mills stimula
ted other industries and stirred
up activity along all lines and
thus we have in Lumberton a
prosperous, progressive and am
bilious town.
1t is all right to organize the
booster brigade, but somehow o.
other the Star feels like calling
attention to the fact that some
enterprising spirits about Lum
berton have done things instead
of talking things. Hot air ant
boasting and boosting are all t
the mustard" and we approve it
but the practical booming of
town is to have faith in it your
self. get the local capital togethe
and establish industries withou
waiting for outsiders to come i
and do what you neglect to d
yourself. Lumbertonians ez
hibited that faith by their work:
1t is a plain proposition that
any town or city has advantage:
those advantages are as good an
- the opportunities are as ripe f
: home capital as they are for tt
outside investor. 1t will be four
| that when the home people NAL
! a success the outsiders will be a
, tracted, and we make the DO
statement that every town tn
is going ahead today got it's sta
from the home men with ente
prise and nerve.
Lumberton's three SUGGEST
!, cotton mills are proof that s
- has citizens of initiative, organi
ing and administrative abilit
and the town has a start that W
place it in the ranks of Nor
Cardinals best towns. The tov
is surrounded by an ideal agric
tural region, and it has th1
railroads, giving it the advanta
of freight facilities over two
the Souths' great trunk line:
the Atlantic Coast Line and
Seaboard Air Line. The towr
also on the Lumber river, {
with Government improvem
of that stream, probably t
hundred miles of navigation '
be available.
. Lumberton is a good town
D. an unrivaled county inhabited
y splendid people, and it is VIC
being boosted. Let the boost
business proceed whenever
boosters get their plans IN Sne
OrviIle Wright Friday even
attained the zenith Of hard e;
ed success, in a ten mile G.
country flight in the fan
aeroplane built by himself
his elder brother, Wilbur,
o 90 accompanied by Lieutenant 1
o 90 jamin D. Loulois, an intrepid
2 % ficer of the army signal co
% - He not only surpassed the 81
Q " requirements on his cont
% 90 with the United States gov
81 81 ment but accomplished the I
difficult and daring flight
AZ 81 planned for heavier-thal
flying machine.
oA', Twas a Glorious Victory
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