The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-01-25
MONDAY, JANAURY rs, 1909.
KEEP THE COUNTY INTACT.

the aid of the county. Now, if ,
ever. For if you, and you, and
you, citizens who have long been
proud of the fact that you hale
from the largest, and in many
respects the best, county in the
State, are resting in fancied
security in the belief that there
is no danger of a division of the
county, you would better sit up
and take notice. 1t is high time
for those who have any interest
in this matter at all to bestir
themselves. Not meaning to
make any "odorous" compari-
sons at all, "the Philistines are
upon u.s."
For a while we thought we
should have nothing to say about
this matter at all, but the more
we consider the matter the less
desirable does a division seem,
and there can be no harm in
friendly discussion.
Really, when you come to think
of it, there is less reason now for
the formation of new counties
than ever BEFORE Ever >increas-
ing facilities in the way of trans
portation and communication
railroads, the telegraph, tele-
phones, better roads and rural
free mail delivery-are bringing
what were once widely separated
4 sections into closer and closer
touch, and a remoteness from the
county seat that might at one
time have worked hardship up
w THE people of a section is now
mere nothing in comparison
with other things. This county
is now traversed by railroads
from every seats, except BN1
Springs township, and that sin
gle exception will not be for long.
During the past two years the
people of Lumberton have, at a
great outlay, promoted the build
ing, of the Virginia & Carolina
Southern Ry. from Lumberton
to Hope Mills. This road will be
= &H}eted in four months, and
Hope Mills it will connect
With the Aberdeen & Rockfsh,
giving direct communication
from Raeford to Lumberton.
Raeford will then have two
through passenger trains tt
Lumberton and return each day
That removes in a large measure
the complaint of the people o.
Blue Springs township, and thu
people of Red Springs and Lum
Der Bridge and other point.
along the Fayetteville and Ben
nettsville division of the Atlantic
Coast Line have no real com
plant, for they have now, ant
have had for a long time, tw'
passenger trains day, connect
ing at Maxton with the Seaboar'
Air Line, by which they cal
reach Lumberton and return
home the same day.
The attitude of the people O
Red Springs toward the forma
ton of new county seems
y have changed considerably with
in the last two years. Two year
ago, when the people of Raefor
were trying to take the norther
m portion of Blue Springs TOWNSHIP
\ to form the new county of Glenr
the Red Springs people Gale
upon the people of Lumberto
and other people of the lowe
part of the county to aid them
preventing any part of the teri
tory of Robson from being i,
Guided in the Glenn county NOV,
! mentA When this matter We
then heard before the Legisl;
g. prominent citizens Of Re
klngs appeared with large pt
titions and said to the Legisl;
ture that they did not desire an
division of Robson county an
that there was no necessity fl
a division. The people of otht
sections of the county then b,
lieved they were sincere. VIII;
change has come over the spir
~oftheir dreams? 1t would seel
that their efforts then to fight O
the Glenn county movemer
were merely in order that the
themselves might promote ne
county with Red Springs as tn
county seat. 1t would seem, thel
that the Red Springs people al
in the fight not so much for