The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-06-10

recently will be shipped the first
of next week.
The travelling public will be
glad to know that parlor car SER
vice will be inaugurated between
Charlotte and Wilmington on
Seaboard trains Nos. 80 and 40.
The first car will be on train No.
40-due at Lumberton at 10:4O a
m. Saturday morning. 18th.
The Virginia & Carolina
Southern passenger from Hope
Mills, due here at $50 p. M,
blew into the edge of town Tues
day afternoon on time, but the
loss of a bolt from some part OF
the engine caused a halt and at
ter waiting for some time many
of the passengers walked in.
Miss Lizzie Caldwell is max
ing quite an improvement in the
appearance of her home on the
corner of Water and Eighth
streets by enlarging two rooms
and extending the porch around
the west end of the house. AS
soon as the carpenters finish
their work she will have the
house reprinted.
For the remainder of this
month weekend tickets will be
on sale from Lumberton to John
son City, Tenn, and returned
over the Seaboard and &C. & o,
rate SO. 45 for round trip. This
affords a delightful day trip at
small cost through the mountains
of Western North Carolina and
Eastern Tennessee.
The other day a lady who
was sitting in a store across the
street from Mr.. John d. McMil-
lan's exceedingly attractive drug
store noticed that wheel for post
cards in the window andimediate-
ly concluded that it must be a
den of vice. She asked if it was
not a gambling den. Just asked
" hilO", yOo hilO"'
"A larger wire has been run
down Elm street to carry lights
to the two new buildings below
the Waverly Hotel-Mr. j. P.
McNeill's store building and the
Lumberton Cotton Mills office
building. This new office build
ing is an exceedingly handsome
building and it attracts consider
able admiring comment.
A meeting of the directors of
the Lumberton Cotton Oil & Gin
ming Co. was held here yester-
day. No dividend was declared
but the directors were we'll pleas
ed with the report made. The
officers were reelected, as fol.
lows: A. A. James, Laurinburg,
president; r. D. Caldwell, vice
president; J. G. Blanchard, secre
tary-treasurer; R. E. L. Correll
manager.
Mrs. C. B. Townsend return
ed Tuesday from Richmond, Va.
where she had been for severa
months with her daughters
Misses Claire and Vivian. Mis-
Vivian having been under treat
ment there in hospital. TIL
Misses Townsend and a traine'
nurse, Miss Lerla Blocker. ar
rived yesterday. Miss Vivian
condition is considered much bet
ter than when she was taken t.
Richmond.
"A letter from Supt. R. {
Sentelle, of the Lumberto
AIDED Schools, who went las
Eek to his home near Waynes
vile to join Mrs. Sentelle an
their children. who preceded hlr
to The mountains, brings the il
formation that he found his PEI
pie in fine shape, healthier tina
they have been in years. TT
summer school at Knoxvill,
Tenn, where Prof. and Mr.
Sentelle will spend some tim
opens about the first of ne,
month.
Three automobile parti
went to Fayetteville Tuesday
witness the ball game betwe,
Fayetteville and Raleigh, t
game resulting in victory f
Raleigh by the score of 3 to
DIR. T. G. Johnson and Mess
A. H. Mcleod and w. B. We
carried the following over
their automobiles: Messrs. T
wood Whaley, H. M. McAllist,
E. M. Britt, Gerald Pittman,
P. Shaw, F. J. Thomas, Dem
Biggs, T. A. Mcneil, Jr., and
D. Hinson and ex-Sheriff G.
B. Mcleod.
A wire fence has be
stretched to the ground from
iron rail recently placed by
town from the landing of
steps leading to the upper al
sian well across the old gully,
that it is impossible for eve
small child to fall off the w
along the embankment.
town furnished the material ;
Mr.. J. P. Townsend, whose pl
erty is just beyond the old gu
did the work. Mr.. Towns
has also made great imprt
ments at his place by film,
washed out places.
Mrs. Fred Beall, wife
prominent lawyer in Wash
ton, d. c., is a guest at
home of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
MI oop Mrc Roall,c mo-