The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-06-07
MT. ELAN MATTERS
Living Without Food Every
Day Rest Day Oldest Mule
Death of an Infant Sunday
School Institute.

berton Thursday.
Mr.. Roy Britt moved TO Cerro
GOrdo last week. We hate ,o
lose him from the community.
Miss Annie Garter, of the LONG
Branch section, visited at Mr.. j !
L. Stones Sunday.
Mr.. Thad. Stone has accented
a position at Cerro Gordo.
More rain, more grass.
Happy Jacks" farm is lust
fine; he has young melons.
Mr.. Isom V. Britt went To Or
rum yesterday.
Mr.. E. H. Britt, of Lumber |
ton, is here this week. >at
The common tick is peculiar
little fellow. He can live ON |
land or he can live in the water
and can live with food or without
food. One man says he put one
in a joint of a reed and stopped
up both ends of the reed and laid
the reed away for twelve months
and opened it and Mr.. Tick was
as fat and handsome as when he
put him into the reed. What's
that but living without food?
They can't swim, but can walk
on the bottom.
1t is truthfully said that every
day in the week is kept as day
of rest by some part of the hu-
man race. For example Chris
tians, Sunday; Greeks, Monday;
Persians, Tuesday; Assyrians,
Wednesday: Egyptians, Thurs
day; Turks, Friday; Jews, Satur-
day.
Mr.. Jim Sellers has resigned
his position at Cerro Gordo.
The farmers say they only have
about two-thirds of a stand of
tobacco, which is for the best,
think.
: Mrs. Oscar Britt, proprietress
of the Britt Hotel at Boardman,
: was in this section Wednesday.
E Mrs. Marshal Britt is on the
sick list.
Mr.. Orion Martin has accepted
! position with J. Z. Stone 4 Co.
The mule Frank" owned by
= Mr.. Atlas Britt, is probably the
a oldest mule in Robson county.
2 He is forty-four years old and is
f a good mule yet.
a Mr.. Leonard Britt has some
: cabbages that made seed just as
: collards would.
The pasture was not made in
, Globe Swamp and the people who
had hogs over there are having
lots of fun-or trouble getting
q them now. Some have been in:
! dicted, | hear.
i hear of some tobacco blossom.
= ing where it is not two hands
/ high.
J. Mr.. Benjamin Lovett, wh'
e holds a position with the Butter!
g Lumber Co. at Boardman, was IL
e town today.
q Mr.. Bart Britt went to Orrun
Is Thursday.
10 Mr.. Leonard Britt went t
le Boardman Thursday on business
v Miss Lettie Branch, of Bacl
n r Swamp, is visiting Miss Dola
+ Stephens this week.
,r Messrs. J. M. Sellers and Home
It Stephens went to Illion today ol
IS business.
n Mr.. Homer Stephens is grin
le ming: it's not another boy, bu
le it's the first.
Id Messrs. Okey Stephens and (
m B. Stone attended the Union a
IS Great Marsh Saturday.
III Mr.. D. C. Martin and daugf
u ter, Katie, went to Lumberton tt
" day on business.
=. Mr.. John Parker went to Boarc
10 man today on business.
sh Julia Mace, the infant child {
n Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Nye, die
do some days ago. She was 4
sh months old.
'ol Rev. M. A. Stephens attende
IS the Columbus Union last Satu
nd day and Sunday,
all Sorry to report the illness
Mrs. Holmes Britt.
nd Mr.. and Mrs. |. V. Britt spe1
iii m Sunday at hingsdale.
~ Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Bri
spent Sunday at Stephens CroS
: ing.
i'd Most of the people of Mt. Ella
1at attended the Mt. ELAN S. S. |
be stitute at Long Branch Sunds
ro- Rev. R. A. Hedgpeth, Messrs.
T. Collins, E. B. Stone, IF. Br
. and Will Collins were the spea
ru- ers of the occasion. All ma
fine speeches on Sunday sch'
work, and the music by t
to schools of Long branch, \
,as4 ,alh Eliam and Smyrna was fine. L
am am next one will be held at Oakt
rom the fifth Sunday in August.
eep Mrs. L. A. Edmund has so
ong extra fine tobacco. 1t will
lsed ts ready for cropping in two wee
lave happy Jdch.
rug Mt. Eliam, N. C.. June l, ~
. Womea who Are Envied.
Those attractive women who are II
.,l:lc l.. II, faca form and tennner are the