The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-03-07
LOCAL BRIEFS.

The county commissioners
and the county hr;. uI educa-
ton are holding their regular
monthly meetings today.
Mr.. w. R. Ivey. of Maxton.
was in town Saturday and he
brought the pleasing information
that his father. Mr.. B. A. Ivey.
who has been very sick for soma
time, is improving in health.
Licenses have been issued
for the marriage ofMary Pridgen
and Joseph Howell: Rosanna
Marsh and Neill F. M'White Lena
Smith and w. L. Rice Pennie
kinlaw and F. P. Pitman Martha
Dowlass and Walter Il. Barker.
MIR. D. w. Biggs. who was
formerly in charge Of the street
force in Lumberton and who
went to Rowland some months
ago to engage in the saw-mill
business with Mr.. ]. M. Butler,
has returned to Lumberton to
live.
MIR. John r. Morris, the bak-
er man, made two of the fetch
INCEST wedding cakes Friday, to
be sure. They We're things of
beauty-all covered over with
icing, with dates and banio-work.
and things. They looked weo-
dingey for fact.
Mr.. C.. B. Meares has sold
, his barber-shop business, in the
: Columbia hotel building on Elm
street, to Mr.. Wright ]. Prevatt.
who has been employed in the
shop Mr.. Meares will continue
!, to work in the shop. The deal
was made Saturday.
: -Messrs. T. N.McDiarmid and
C. r. Skipper, who defended
Walter Morrison, the negro rapist
Of this county who is under SEN
: tence to be electrocuted on the
18th inst, will go to Raleigh to-
night to see Governor Kitchin in
an effort to get Morrison's SEN
tence commuted to life imprison-
ment.
d MIR. r. L. Furgeson, who
y was d member of the senior class
v at Trinity [ College last fall but is
Staving out this spring on accom-,
10 Of i'll health, is a guest a. the
e hone Of Rev. and Mrs. E n Hoyle
s at the Methodist parsonage,
.e where he will probably stay dur.
; ing the summer. Mr.. Furgesor
Is was raised at the Ok ford Orphan
age.
The baseball meeting called
'e for Thursday evening was post
g poned on account of the fact thai
0 it had not been advertised suffi.
ID GENTLY. Another meeting will
be called in the near future anc
- lit is to be hoped that it will be
=. - we'll attended and that Lumber
- :, ton will make good use OF its ma
= terial and put a good tea n in the
= x field, as it can easily do.
,e Miss Amelia Linkhaw, VIII.
es is in charge of the millinery de
a. partment of Messrs. Caldwell (
IN Carlyle, returned yesterday from
5, New York, where she spent tel
d. days purchasing spring millinery
n Misses Anna Beck, of New York
and Elizabeth Thomas, of Balti
more, expert trimmers who have
u been at work in wholesale house
h. in New York and Baltimore, cams
on with Miss Linkhaw and will b'
of with her this season. This will
no be the first season in Lumbertof
On for Misses Beck and Thomas.
>. Fayetteville Observer. 4th
II ~ The Robesonian of Thursday ha.
Lli : the following: License ha!
y been issued for the marriage O.
u. y. Alice Humphrey and w. A
81 Graham" They are both vel
r. known in Fayetteville. Mr.. Ora
ham is popular young business
man of Proctorville, Robesor
e. county, and Miss Humphrey il
n the be autiful and accomplished
k. daughter of Mr.. Simpson A
Sc Humphrey, Of Orrum, Robesor
ry county, and a neice of Mr.. WA
Of Humphrey, of this city.
IN There will be music recital
as as at the st. Paul high school at St
~ u, Paul Friday evening. The pro
Ss Se gramme will consist of songs
Nv duets and solos to be rendered
= by the ''B Sharp" music club
- - and there will also be some drill.