The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-07-15
LOCAL BRIEFS.

License has been issued for
the marriage of Lucy }. Fisher
and Reuben Brisson.
There will be an ice cream
supper tomorrow evening at
Buies for the benefit of the
Methodist church. The public
is invited.
Mr.. Edgar Nance, who un-
derwent an operation at the
Thompson Hospital few days
ago, is improving rapidly and IS
expectlA to be out in a few days.
For the quarter ending June
80 this year the tota' receipts at
the Lumberton I s'nt!l'" we're
81, 763. SIS. For tn SIN qu&r er
last year. the receipts were SL'-
3 752. Is. +.
An inspector will visit all
places in which there are water
works within the next ten or Is
davs and all leaky fixtures will
be cut out unless they are fixed
at once.
The dust house at the mill of
the Carolina Lumber Co. was de-
stroyed by fire Tuesday afternoon
about 3 o'clock, the damage
amounting to about $50. The fire
originated from the furnace.
Rev. Edward Stanley, of
Palatka, Fla, will begin a re-
vival meeting in the auditorium
in East Lumberton this evening
at 8 o'clock. Services will con-
tinue through Sunday. The
public is cordially invited.
AT the regular annual meet
ing of the stockholders of the
National Cotton Mills, held yes
terday, all the directors were re-
elected and at a subsequent
meeting of the directors the same
officers were reelected for an
other year.
The motion picture show cong
tinues to draw large crowds eS
cry evening and the pictures -
always amusing, entertaining
and instructive. Tomorrow eve
ming, beginning at $50, several
high-class vaudeville acts will be
put on in connection with the
pictures.
Invitations reading as fol
lows have been received here:
Mr.. and Mrs. John Wilson Bivens
invite you to be present
at the marriage of their daughter
Mary 70 Lee
Mr.. Bunyan Yates Tyner,
on the evening of July the twenty-eight
at seven O'Clock,
Baptist Church,
Wingate, North Carolina.
DIR. and Mrs. w. A. McPhau
and infant son returned las
night from Wrightsville Beach
where they spent about ten day:
while DR.. McPhaul was regain
ing strength after an attack o:
typhoid fever. DR.. McPhaul wa'
greatly benefited by his stay q
the beach.
The first tobacco of the sea
son was sold this morning at thu
Lumberton Tobacco Warehouse
of which Mr.. W. M. Morley il
manager. About 10000 pound
of primings were sold, price
ranging from 3 to 6 cents, con
sidered fair prices. The auction
enr was Mr.. J. S. Ball, auction
err for the Fairmont Tobacco
Warehouse.
-Mr.J. B. Doar, of Georgetown
SC, began work Tuesday assist
ing County Auditor A. Nash il
Taking out the tax lists, whicl
nrk Mr.. Doar has been employ
81 to do for several years past
NJ. and Mrs. Doar and thei
fuLr children are living wit
IT, air brother-in-law and sister
M. and Mrs. Shelton Mckenzie
at their home on Caldwell street
They will be in Lumberton fc
about two months.
T. R. Mccormick, formerl
employed by the Lumberton TIE
ephone Co. and for sever;
m,nths past in the employ of tn
tom at the power house, was a
rested a few days ago and place
in Jail on the charge of misal
propriating funds to the amour
of $408.35 belonging to the loo
camp of the Woodmen of Il
World-Cypress Camp No. IL
He was clerk of the camp durir
1908 for about ten months. +
was arrested at the instance of
bonding company and consents
to go to jail without a trial un
the matter can be adjusted, whit
it is thought will be done with
n foNu 1auc