The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-02-22
FAIRMONT NEWS LETTER.
Practicing for All Entertainment
An Afternoon Tea-Other
News Items.
Correspondence Of The Robesorian.

All AiICiHooA Gu
News Items.
of The Robesorian.
Daily practice has begun for
the entertainment on the night
Of March the fifth. The Old Maids
will be most gorgeously appar-
relied. Old trunks undisturbed |
for many days are giving up
treasures for the occasion.
Messrs. Mcintyre and Mclean,
of the Lumberton bar, were IN
town Wednesday to appear in a !
trial before Justice 4. A. Garter,
but happily a compromise was
made of the case without trial.
Mrs. J. E. Anderson and little
daughter are visiting home folks
at Doves, sc. for a few weeks.
Mr.. George Jones, pleasantly
remembered here = by many
friends. came from NeWbern, his
present home. last Wednesday
and spent few days with his
brother, T. C. Jones.
Mrs. Julia Thompson has been
right i'll with grippe at the home
of her son, A. S. Thompson, dur
ing the past week, but is improV-
ing, we are glad to learn.
DR.. H. F. Pitman has moved
into his handsome new suite of
offices in the Pitman block and
has fitted them up to compare
favorably with the very best
anywhere.
Mr.. F. S. Floyd has been shut
in with rheumatism for two
weeks. We are glad to hear he
is improving some, though not
yet able to be out.
The ladies of the Woman's
Mission Society entertained the
lady members of the Methodist
church at a tea last Friday af-
ternoon and a most pleasant af-
ternoon was spent by those who
accepted the society's invitation.
1t was especially for the purpose
of making all the members &C.
quainted with Mrs. Smith, wife
of the new pastor of the church
who greeted most kindly all Wh(
, came.
Master Hal Brown has entered
= the arena of business as a sellel
of 1.-THE best magazine in tn
world" THE Saturday Evenin!
!, Post. He has several regula
! buyers and hopes to make tn
: nickles jingle lively before tim
for summer vacations.
\ Mrs. A.U. Ashley visited rela
f tives at Bolton last week. Sh
:. was accompanied home by he
y, mother, Mrs. Haegy, who Wi
: spend several weeks here.
o Mr.. ]. E. Thompson and littl
daughters spent Sunday an
l. Monday at Purvis with relatives
: Mrs. P. B. Thompson and sol
t Neill, came over from ROWAN
+ last Sunday with Rev. J. NJ. MI
u Lean and were gladly greeted /
X many old friends.
+ Miss Lorena Lewis will go
Whiteville this week for a sho
% vacation before leaving for Ba
- timore to select her spring mill
u merry.
! The Children's Missionary b
gade of the NJ. E. church wi
'. have Mite Box opening par
- Saturday afternoon. They alwa
- have a good time.
r. A match game Of baseball w
70 played Thursday afternoon b
or tween the school boys and t
p young men Of the town, resultil
le in the score Of II to II in fav
v of the school boys.
ne Fairmont, n. c., Feb. 10, 19(
a J. L. Fox, proprietor of a bs
Der shop at Wade5boro, is char
Sc ed with having shot and kill
10 Stephen Watson, a rural m
81 carrier, in the wareroom of t
u store Of W. N. Pinkston,
as Wadesboro, Thursday nigl
d The only witness to the kill
". was a negro girl. Fox was ;
OH rested at his home in bed and
ge MED all knowledge of the kill
III but his hat and eyeglasses we
y: Is found beside the body of
~. dead man and the coroner's ju
laC returned Us its verdict that F
~ was the murderer, Fox and
IRE u dead man were thought to
ne; the best of friends and tn
!!e5r families were intimate. It v
a. in evidence that both W.
Ih' drinking.
.rk A liquor bill affecting ira
ng between the States which
yes passed Congress and will beco