The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-04-29
LOCAL BRIEFS.

Licenses have been issued for
the marriage Of Fannie ID. Will
lard and Thomas A. Fisher; An
ME Smith and d. A. Perry.
Three automobiles full of
young people went to st. Paul
last night to attend the closing
concert of the school at that
place.
Mr.. J. p. Mcneil expects tc
move into his new store on Elm
street next week. Finishine
touches are being put upon the
building now.
Mr.. T. N. McDiarmid, who
has occupied offices with Messrs.
Shaw q Cook since he began the
practice of law here some months
ago, has rented an office over the
Pope Drug Store and is moving
into 1T today.
The boilers at the power
house were inspected yesterday
and condemned and the town
commissioners are considering
bids today for two new 10O-horse-
power boilers to replace the 40
horsepower boilers now in use.
Superintendent Mcclure ex-
poets to be ready to turn water
into the new reservoir, which is
about completed, some time
next week. The river water now
in use in the water system will
then be replaced by good we'll
water.
Revival services will begin
at the Gospel tabernacle Sunday
morning. The pastor, Rev. f.
Weiss, will be assisted by Rev.
w. }. Yarbrough, Of LeesVille, S.
G. Services will be held after
moons at 3 O'Clock and evenings
at 1870.
Misses Clarke Belle Nc
Nair, Bessie Williams and Emma
Belle McRac, Of Maxton, and
Messrs. G.. B. Van Duzen and J.
d. Bellamy, Jr., Of Wilmington.
spent few hours in Lumberton
Tuesday. coming over from Max
ton in Mr.. Van Duzen's automo-
bile.
Mayor J. A. Rowland says
that MesSrs. w. |. Linkhaw and
d. w. Millsaps are happy as the
days are long now. for somebody
sent them a new checker-board
the other day and now they can
sit in the shade from morning
till night and play, and play and
play.
Mary Addie, aged 5 years
and Z months, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. w. 0. Blake, who live
on rural route No. 5 from Lum-
berton, died Monday afternoon.
The remains were inferred near
the residence Tuesday afternoon,
the funeral being conducted by
Rev. |. p. Hedgpeth.
Mr.. J. P. Stansel returned
the first of the week from Rock
ingham, where he had been
figuring with the authorities of
Richmond county on contract
to audit the books of the coun-
ty. If he secures the contract
Mr.. Stansel will return to Rock
ingham Monday to begin the
work.
Mr.. E. l.. .Whaley, who has
held a position as delivery clerk
at the Seaboard depot for several
months, has resigned, his resig-
nation to take effect tomorrow.
Mr.. Percy Cole, of Carthage, will
take Mr.. Whaley's place and he
is expected to arrive here to-
borrow. Mr.. Whaley's plans
for the future are not known.
Deputy Sheriff w. D. Dixon,
Of Pembroke, caught an escaped
convict, a negro whose name has
not been learned, at Pembroke
Sunday, spotting the negro by
his penitentiary shoes, the only
articles of prison wear he had on.
The negro has served about two
years of a 10-year sentence and
he escaped from a force at work
at Selma.
Lumber is being placed on
the grounds and work. will begin
right away on a two-story 7-room
house which Misses Emma and
Laura Norment will build or
North Elm street on the lot adj
joining the one on which Mr.. A
T. Parmele is now building a res.
idence. The Misses Norment
will continue to live with Mr..
and Mrs. A. T. Parmele and DR.
and Mrs. T. D. Kitchin will oc,
cupy the house they are building.
Speaking of what Sheriff
Mcneil said about going to the
fire the other night and not 60
ing to church, Mr.. M. Chicken
zie says that that particular Sun
day evening was the first time
Sheriff Mcneil had been present
at an evening service since the
year one, and it just happened
that he and ex-Judge T. A. Nc
Neil and Mr.. ]. A. McAllister
who are regular attendants, al