The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-05-30
NO. 2567
LOCAL BRIEFS.

The Xxx Club picnicked a..
the High Hills, three miles from
town, Friday afternoon.
The local baseball team went
this morning to Rowland, where
it will play the Rowland team
this afternoon.
Mr.. ]. H. Wishart and fam
lily began moving today from their
residence on tae corner of Pine
and Sixth streets to their new
residence on the corner of Pine
and Fifth streets.
-Messrs. H. NJ McAllis.er, T.
A. McNeill, Jr., D. P. Shaw and
R. M. Norment, Jr., have gone
to Fayetteville this afternoon to
witness a ball game between
Wilmington and Fayetteville.
The one-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. r. E. L. Prevatt, of
Pages Mill, S. c., died Thursday
and the remains were Inferred
Friday near Ten Mile at the
M'White graveyard at the home
of Mrs. Prevatt's mother.
The Pleasants-Cox Hdw. Co.
of Rowland has been granted a
charter. authorized stock S25. 900,
subscribed, $4, 500. w. G.. Pleas
ants and D. A. Cox, of Rowland,
and H. E. Peasants, of Ports
mouth, Va, are the incorpora-
tors.
Work was begun this morn
ing on the erection of cottages
for operatives at the new Jeu-
r nings Cotton Mills. on the north
west edge of town. The contract
was awarded to Messrs. Dodd &
{ White, of Vineland. The contract
j for the mill buildings has not
t been awarded yet.
e The Woman's Missionary
e Union of Fayetteville Presbytery
will meet here June 18th and will
o last for two or three days. Many
}, visitors are expected and the la
:. dies of the Presbyterian church
: are beginning on arrangements
:, for the occasion.
: "A pool tournament was
a booked for this afternoon and
: evening between players from
the Argyle Club of Laurinburg
q and the Commercial & Industrial
l. Club of Lumberton in the pool
n room of the Commercial & Indus.
a trial Club, but the local players
a were notified this morning that
IS the Laurinburg men could not
l. come today, so the torrnamen nj
IS has been postponed. Messrs. H
e, B. Jennings, R. H. Crichton, A.
7. Parmele and David Fuller are
the experts who were selected
to represent Lumberton.
MIR. w. ]. Prevatt, who has
r been lame and has had to use q
stick to walk with since ne wa.
injured in the wreck at Armout
November 9 last, has been going
~ without cane for several days
81 and thinks that his trouble vii
{, have disappeared entirely within
~ ~ a few days. 1t was at frs
~ ~ thought that his lameness was
~ ~ caused by the straining of mus
u. cles at his left hip, but an ex
l'i iG animation made a few days agc
~ by DR.. ]. w. Blackmer revealed
~ the fact that the hip bone was
p dislocated. and since the bone
\ ~ was set his improvement has
II been steady.
In "A meeting of the board OF
is graded school trustees will be
ne held one day this week to elect (:
VS. successor to Miss Leila May Gill
st of Laurinburg, whose resignaIiol
k was received a few days ago
Miss Gill has been the exceeding
IF ly efficient teacher Of the 9th anC
,ir 9th grades since the graded schoo
q was established and the fact tina
4 she will not return to the wort
h. towhich she was recently re-elect
or ed is distinct loss to the school
Mt The trustees will also consider
m the election of additional teach
n ers to relieve the work in tn
no four grades that havebeen taugh
- by two teachers.
a Mrs. T. C. Evans and infar
RI son. T. e., Jr. will return Thurs
day morning from Charlotte
ar where they have been spendin
fer some time with Mrs. Evans SIS
ter ters, Misses CharIee and Bessi
to Hutchison. Miss Bessie Hutch
to son will accompany them an
r,;l1 cpop6 cnrpo fipoo with M