The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-07-18
LOCAL BRIEFS.

License has been issued for
the marriage of Della Britt and
Andrew Britt; Sallie Parnell and
Emory c. Kinlaw.
There will be- a regu ar meet
ing tomorrow evening of st. Al
bans Lodge No. ia, A. F. and
A. NJ. Degree work. A full al
tendance is desired.
The Industrial and Cemme.-
cial Club has just purchased a
Church & Co. piano from the
Eagle Carpet & Furniture CO.
for the club rooms on Elm street.
-Twenty-seven colored appli-
cants stood the examination held
Friday by CountySuperintendent
J.R.Poole for public school teach
ers and eleven Indian applicants
stood the examination Saturday.
Sheriff E. C. McNeill carri-
ed to Raleigh Saturday SidDoug-
lass. colored, who was tried tor
larceny at the recent term ofRob-
eson Superior Court. was adjudg-
ed dangerously insane and was
sent to the department. for the
insane at the State penitentiary.
| The Scottish Chief says that
a satisfactory test run of the oil
mill, fertilizer factory and gin of
the Elba Manufacturing Co. at
Maxton was made last Wedneg-
day. Mr.. w. O. Bennett, for
merly manager of the plant of the
Southern Cotton Oil Co. at
Wadesboro, will be manager of
the plant.
Mr.. Raymond Thompson,
, formerly with theJenrerte-Single-
. tary Co. and later withTownsend
. Bros. when the business of the
: former was purchased by the
: last-named firm. has resigned his
! position and after spending the
. summer with his parents. Mr.. and
a Mrs. ]. A. Thompson, in Back
Swamp township, will enter
school in the fall.
Deputy Sheriff T. C. Barnes,
who received a bullet wound in
his right leg while arresting some
negroes at Maxton a few weeks
w ago, is expected home tonight
- from Charlotte, where ne went
" about ten days ago for an opera
: ton. An operation was perform.
n ed to remove a clot of blood tn 1t
70 had been giving Mr.. Barnes
r. trouble, but it was not thought
th necessary to remove the ball.
ne Mr.. Tom Tolar lost his fine
lis mare. valued at S400, at his home
as near the county home Saturday
r. night. The cause of her death
i'll is mystery. She was aDpar.
or emily sound and we'll Saturday
SIS evening, eating heartily. and Sun
Ch day morning Mr.. Tolar found hel
dead in her STALL Her dead bod!
re was swollen, but there was n,
ed sign that death was accompanied
so by any struggle. She was th'
en- mother of two-months-old colt
Prof. w. T. Jenrette, prin
c;pal of Baltimore high school
dt. near Fairmont, passed througI
Lumberton Saturday on his wa
to the home of his father-in-law
rly Mr.. J. S. Oliver, at Marietta
81 .ch from Greenville, where he at
th. tended a summer school for tw
pe months. Mrs. Jenrette, who j
assistant teacher at Baltimore
er- also attended the summer schoc
< atGreenville but was called hom
a few weeks ago on account G
ca sickness in the family Of her p;
aer rents. The Baltimore school Wi
open for the fall term about tn
first of September.
l. 1t is said that it came
pass when the Robson coun:
delegation to the recent Sta,
convention reached Charlotte
ted certain Lumberton politicia
de. went at once and registered /;
Who chairman of the delegation fro
ice. this county, no meeting for ee
ng, ton of chairman having at tn
ent. time been held. And by and /
it came to pass that the delega-
- held a meeting to organi
nan and elected Col. N. A. McLes
in chairman. and the man who h;
cul- nominated and elected himse
the chairman and in that capacity h;
gotten badges for the delegat
was asked to turn over the afor
said badges. Selah.
uty Mr.. James A. Jshnson. of
ked Paul, is among the visitors