The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-05-20
TWO GOOD TOWNS.


Villages of Upper Robeson-
Growing Trucking Industry
A Model Truck Farm.
A representative of The Robe
sonian spent Friday of last week
in Lumber Bridge and Parkton,
and observed many evidences of
progress in and around these
hustling and enterprising villages
of upper Robson. One could
hardly pass through these parts
without being inspired to under
take greater things, especially in
the trucking industry. Evidences
of trucking can be seen all along
the road from Maxton to Park
ton, but there is probably more
of it done around Lumber Bridge
and Parkton than in any other
part of the county.
LUMBER BRIDGE.
Lumber Bridge is a small place
and does not yet claim the title
"city," though a great deal of
business is done there. 1t has
six mercantile establishments,
all of which are lined up on the
west side of the railroad. The
merchants and firms are as fol-
lows: D.B.Lancaster, l.. Shaw,
N. Shaw & Co., DIM. Hall & Co.,
M. L. Marley, w. H. Hall. Of
the above-named, Messrs. M. L.
Marley, J. L. Shaw and N. Shaw
& Co. do the bulk of the business,
though they all have a good
trade. Mr.. M. L. Marley has the
largest store and probably does
more business than any other one
establishment in the place. He
has a millinery department to his
store and sells lots of head-ware.
DIR. Thomas Stamps is the only
practicing physician there and
he has an office in a small build
ing next toMr. Marley's store. DR..
Stamps has big territory to
work and usually has about all
that he can do. Lumber Bridge
has an excellent hotel and a good
livery stable, both run by Mr.. D.
E. McNair. Mr.. D. B. Lancas-
ter operates a saw-mill plant on
the edge of town and handles lots
of lumber.
| Lumber Bridge has two nice
churches, Baptist and Presby-
}terian, and an excellent school
building. School closed about
two weeks ago. There were five
teachers employed in the school
| this year, Prof. P. C. Cullum be-
ling the principal. There is only
one brick building in the town
except very nice barber shop,
which is ldn by W. T. Locklear
la Croatan--and this is a large
ltwo-story building which is be
ing built by the local lodge of tht
Masonic order. The buiiding viii
soon be completed and the firm
lof N. Shaw & Co. will occupy tn
first floor and the second will b.
used by the Masonic lodge.
To get out of town and tall
labout what is going on arount
the village one would have to sa,
much about trucking. Mr.. N
lShaw has about Is acres in Iris
Ipotatoes and on the edge of tow
he has a nice patch of early cor
(which he expects to ship. MI
I'M. L. Marley has quite a bit o
truck planted and a number o
others have watermelons, can
taloupes, beans and the like
which they expect to ship
but trucking proper is nc
lseen until one goes about a quar-
Ter of a mile northeast of tn
town and views Mr.. w. S.Cobb'
50O-acre plantation, PRACTICAL
all of which is planted in truck
This farm is all in one openin
and about the middle of it is
$4,000 or $3.50 home, whic
Twas just completed last veal
end to look out across this fiel
: and see from Is to 100 people q
Z work, which is nothing unusua
at this time of the year, is
sight to behold. Mr.. Cobb ha
100 acres in Irish potatoes, plant
ed in rows five feet apart an
cotton up in the middle, whic
has been cultivated once. He hs
Is acres in English peas, frol
which he expects to realize $40
above expenses. to say nothin
of the cotton, which is coming O
after the peas. The peas hay
practically all been shipped. II
has Is acres in beans, which al
now blooming; $50 acres in car
taloupes; 60 acres lin waite
melons; $50 acres in cotto1
(which includes of cours
that planted between the p
tatoes; 40 acres in oats that al
about as fine as they ever groy
10 acres in wheat; so acres
corn, planted for stock, and
acres in early corn, planted Fl
shipping. Mr.. Cobb is a wo
derful farmer and any one g
ing over his plantation can lea1
Imany good lessons in farmin
| He makes two crops on near
every acre he has under cultiv
ton. Year before last he ma
ovor $4,000 clear of expense
+ Last syear he made but lit
above expenses, prices were
low on cantaloupes and watt