The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-08-30
HOPE MILLS NEWS.
Deaths Negro Injured by a v.
& c. S. Freight and Cows Kill
ed by Passenger Train Miss
Belle Tyner's Work - Other
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Belle Tyner's Work - Other
Items of Interest.
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. M. Lamb, of
Fayetteville, spent Friday night
with their son and daughter, Rev.
and Mrs. T. H. Sutton.
Miss Buckingham, of Rowland,
has been visiting her uncles,
Messrs. L. M. and F. A. Cul-
breth.
Mr.. N. B. Lindsay has
been visiting IN this place.
Mrs. J. M. Johnson, who had
been visiting her daughter in
Quitman, Fla, has returned
Mrs. J. F. Musslewhite was a
visitor here this week.
Messrs. J. M. Bullard, of Park
ton, and Sam Fort, of this place,
left Monday for Buies Creek,
where they will enter school.
Mr.. Colin A. Britt, a Confed-
crate veteran of Orrum, has been
visiting his son, Rev. P. T. Britt.
Rev. T. H. Sutton and Mr.. L.
R. O'Briant visited Fayetteville
last week.
Pearl and Ethel Bynum have
returned from a visit to their
uncle, S. H. Hamilton, at Lum-
berton.
Mr.. K. B. Newton, of Fries,
Va, who recently came to Hope
Mills on a visit to see his father,
Mr.. B. Newton, has a case of
typhoid fever. His many friends
wish for him a speedy recovery.
Miss Viola Boone, of Clayton,
has been visiting Miss Lille
Barnes.
Mr.. w. M. Warner has accept
ed a position with the Hope
Mills Mercantile Company.
DR.. J. c.. Gilbert is erecting a
handsome dwelling on the Ham
ilton place, which he recently
purchased. This will be a valu-
able addition to Hope Mills.
Mr.. N. C. Duncan, a deacon Of
St. Johns Episcopal church, Fay
etteville, will preach regularly in
Hope Mills Christ church on the
first Sunday in the month. at II
a. m. and 8 p. m.
Rev. P. T. Britt is conducting
a protracted meeting in the Bap-
tist church at Cotton this week.
The meeting is good, and the
awakened interest and CONVEX
sions are cause for rejoicing on
the part of the faithful preach
er.
Rev. A. R. Mcqueen, of Dunn,
is conducting a meeting in Big
Rockfish Presbyterian church
this week. The attendance is
. large, and great interest is being
manifested.
! Miss Belle Tyner, of Lumber
ton, who is travelling under the
auspices of the Robson Associ-
alton, stopped over in Hope Mills
on her way from Raeford Fri
day afternoon, and at night ad-
dressed the Baptist Ladies' For
eign Missionary Society here.
The lecture was very fine, not
only because of the great store
of information conveyed, but in
elegant diction, pleasing delivery,
: and it's strong and tender plea
!. for the heatherc nations. The
audience was delighted and edi.
fed. Thursday night Miss Ty-
ner addressed the Baptists OF
Parkton, Friday afternoon she
spoke in Raeford and Sunday
afternoon at Great Marsh
church near St. Pauls. Miss
: Tyner will shortly go to
Louisville, KY, for her finishing
course in the Baptist Woman's
Training School for Missions
, She gives promise of a future
| filled with useful deeds, and i
can be safely predicted thous
? ands in the lands of superstition
and error will rise up and cal
: her blessed. She is a graduate
t of Meredith College and has spep
) a year in the Training School a
Louisville.
= Mrs. Sarah Johnson, Of Char
n lotte, was found dead in bed Sat
: urday morning, 21st, at the hom
5 of her son-in-law, Mr.. ]. H. Nor
d rison, who lives at this place
p Mrs. Johnson had been visitin
n at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
d Morrison for several days, hay
e ing stopped over on her retur
y from Riggsbee, where she al
:, tended the funeral of her daugf
II ter, Mrs. Jennie Cole, who die
+. about three weeks ago. Mr.:
a Johnson was about sixty year
"a of age, and had been in poo
j. health for some time. Her deaf
10 is supposed to have been cause
1f from heart trouble. She live
d. an exemplary life, was a consi
oI tent Christian, and for long VIZ
III member of the Methods
,e church. The funeral took plas
go Sunday afternoon and the inte
ne ment was in Big Rockfish churt
elr cemetery.
Al Mrs. Mary Mcmillan, wife
Daniel A. Mcmillan, who hv
about five miles south of Ho]
Mills, died Tuesday night, 24t