The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-01-17
LOCAL BRIEFS.

day which makes about 800 he
has handled for this season.
The banks of the town will
be closed Wednesday, The 18th,
which is a legal holiday in North
Carolina, the anniversary of the
birth of Robert E. Lee.
The McAllister Hdw. Co. is
adding another story to its large
warehouse in rear of the store.
more floor space being necessary
to take care of increase in busi-
ness.
There will be regular COM
munication of St. Albans Lodge,
A. F. & A. M No. ia, tomo--
row evening. There will be work
IN the masters degree and a full
attendance is desired.
"A charter has been granted
the Farmers Rural Telephone
Co. of Robeson county, capital
SIS, 600. The incorporators are
d. V. Walker, w. G. Mclean
and others of Maxton.
Col. N. A. Mclean and Mr..
T. A. McNeill, Jr., attended a
banquet at Hotel Red Springs at
Red Springs Friday evening CIV
en- by the Robson alumni of tie
University of Noath Narolina.
Mr.. M. L. Mclean, deputy
clerk of the court, went Friday
to Parkton to work for two weeks
in the place of Mr.. E. B. Dan
iels, cashier of the Bank of Park
ton, who is off or a vacation.
Mr.. R. McA. Nixon returned
Friday from his home at Topsail,
near Wilmington, where he had
been recuperating from an attack
of typhoid fever. and has resum-
ed his work as assistant cashier
of the First National Bank.
County Treasurer M. G. Nc
Kenzie and others will address
j. the Farmers Union at Antioch
, church, Z miles from Lnmberton,
Thursday evening, the Goth, at
7.3O O'Clock. Everybody is in
! vited to attend.
Mrs. Mary McCallum, widow
of the late DR.. w. D. McCallum,
. of Alfordsville township. died at
her home near Rowland Friday
night of pneumonia. The funeral
t and interment took place at Ash
, pole church yesterday.
Mr.. Stephen Mcintyre re.
5 turned yesterday from Wingate,
Union county, where he went to
see his father. Mr.. Isaiah McIn-
tyre, who suffered a stroke of pa
,, ralysis two weeks ago. There is
no preceptible change in Mr.. Nc
:, Intyre's condition.
Window lights in a house be-
, longing to Mr.. G. G. French, on
f Second street, were punched out
, by some naughty ones Thursday
night, and Mr.. French is very
anxious to learn who the offend
|, ers are. The house was occupied
by a family that recently moved
to town.
"A meeting of the Croatan
, teachers of the county will be
held in the court house here Sat-
. urday morning at II o'clock.
Supt. Poole has arranged an in
teresting programme for the
meeting and a teachers assecia-
tion will be organized. Every
, Croatan teacher in TIE county is
, urged to attend.
-Messrs. A. E. White and
Frank Cough have bought prop
erty in Dublin amounting to
about half the town. and have
purchased besides large farm
near Dublin. Work on tfe new
, steel and plate-glass store front
of this firm will begin at once.
Mr.. Cough will leave this eve
ming for Rocky Mount to purchase
another bankrupt stock of mer-
chandise.
Miss Daisv Courtney, who
!, was sick with fever for several
weeks at the home of Miss Jose
phine Breeze, on Fifth street, is
able to he out again. She and
her mother, Mrs. Anna P. Court
ney, of Baltimore, Nd. who
came several weeks ago 10 he
with her daughter during her
illness. and Miss Breeze i'll 'eave
t to~orrnw for Or ~enwood, S. c..
: where trey will visit for a week
n.ton dn,,c Of tho homo Of Mrs