The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-11-04
COUNTY CLAIMS PAID.
Business Transacted at Regular
Monthly Meeting of County
Commissioners.

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Monthly Meeting of County
Commissioners.
The county commissioners
were IN regular session Monday
and transacted routine business.
The following claims were pass
ed:
County home and paupers W.
q. Reynolds, keeper of home, for
October, 1893; D.F. Israel, 16 cords
of wood for the home, $40; Abra-
ham Ross 81, Rhoda Stringfeld
", Eli Kinlaw So, Daniel Archie
Macdonald So. so, Jordan Phillips
So, and all placed on regular pau
per list. Total $144.50.
Court house and COURT. M.
Dees. janitor, salary, $35; sup
plies and work, 81; Sheriff E.. C.
McNeill, work for county, ,$28. 80;
Lumberton Electric Light Co..
lights for September and Octo-
Der, $23. E. G. Sipher, wiring
lights for treasurer's office, So. 10;
R. A. 1vey, moving partition in
treasurer's Office, $5; Register of
DeedsT. N. Higley, work for coun-
ty, S29. Sc; Town of Lumberton,
water, $1O.43; McAllister IIdw.
Co., supplies and fixing wire in
court house, $19.35; Robesonian
Pub. Co., supplies for registers
office, 81. so; Clerk w. H. Humph-
rey, work and supplies for coun-
ty, S133. GA. Total 1921. .O5.
Jail and prisoners-Lumberton
Electric Light Co., lights for Sep
tember and October, $22. J.H.
Floyd, ,jailer, for October, S98. 10;
supplies for Jail, S2;E.G. Sipher,
work, So: Town of Lumberton,
water, S18; White & Cough, sup
plies, $2.4O. Total $145. .63.
Miscellaneous - Abner Nash,
county auditor, salary, $1z5; Pope
DrugCo., salary for county physi-
clan and supplies, s25. IS; J. M.
Smith, for labor and piling for
new Big swamp bridge and re-
newing old piling on Lennon
bridge, SIS. IL; Freeman Printing
Co., supplies and printing for
county, SIS. SO; printing for game
Warden,S4. 25;HenryArey's heirs,
for burial expenses of Henry
Arey, SIS, DR.. I'D. Mcmillan &
Son, supplies, so cents; w. M.
Davis, looking after stock law
fence, S21; E. J. Britt, attorney
for the board, $50. Total $287. .2l.
EFF. McRae and others were
given permission to erect tele-
phone poles on the right of way
OF the public road from Maxton
to Raemont, provided that said
poles shall be erected so as not
to interfere with the travelling
public.
The reports for October of
Sheriff McNeill, Treasurer M. G,
Mckenzie and County Physician
W. A. McPhaul were received
and filed.
A. J. McKinnon was appoint
ed a deputy warden for Maxton
township.
The board received from the
Skies Currie Co. $6.92 for back
taxes due by Annie McPhaul on
30 acres of land in Red Springs
for the year 1907, the same hav-
ing been decided by the sheriff to
the county, and it was ordered
that the county's title be trans
ferred to the Skies Currie Co.
A number of rebates were al
lowed, among them being one on
poll tax for Cornelius McLaugh-
I'm, OF Blue Springs. the said Cor
neliuso being a woman.
w. K. Culbreth and others fill
ed a petition asking for the
,haln-gang to do some work on
The crossing betweenRaftSwamp
and Back Swamp townships.
Sheriff McNeill's report shows
total taxes collected for all coun-
y funds for month ending Octo-
Der 25, $40, AS. 13;amount collect
I'd for State fund, $3,O31.9 92; to-
al paid Treasurer Mckenzie on
al funds, $40, ,267.
Mistrial In Watkins Case.
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