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The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-08-22
MAXTON NEWS NOTES.
A Runaway-A Bad Negro With
Gun-Personal.
Correspondence of The Robesonian.


Maxton, Aug. 20-Mr.A Nc
Kinnon returned Thursday from
Ellerbee Springs, where he went
for rest of serveral days. s.-Mr.
A. NJ. McNair left Monday night
for Baltimore on business. Mr..
GilbertBaldwin returnedWednes-
day night from Asheville. Mr..
Mckay McKinnon came home
Thursday night after a pleasant
stay at Jackson Springs. Mr..
ArchieCurrie ofLaurinburg spent
Sunday with home folks.
Messrs. Leach Patterson and Gil
bert McKinnon returned Tuesday
from an outing atJacksonSprings.
Miss Mary Johnson of Frank
lin, Va, passed through Maxton
on her way home after visit to
Riverton, her former home.
We are glad to learn that Mr..
J. W. Davis and family, who now
live in Lexington, will move back
to Maxton soon and will live in
the Mckenzie house on WestSan-
ders street.
Misses Clarke Mclean and
Cammie McCaskill left last night
for Montreal and other mountain
resorts. They expect to be gone
quite a while. Miss Katie Lee
McKinnon visited friends ir
Lumberton Thursday.-Mrs. Johr
Black of Shelby is visiting Mr.
and Mrs. J. P. Virgins thi'
week. Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Car
, ter and Lena returned Tuesda,
from Hendersonville. DIR. G. G
; Vardell passed through Max
) ton Tuesday morning on his wa
: to Red Springs. He had bee7
e spending the summer at BLOWN
t Rock with his family.-Mrs. ]
! l. Eason Of Bennettsville, S. C.
4 spent Sunday with relatives. :
e Mr.. M. L. Mclean of Lumberto
spent Sunday with home folks.
d Mr.. G. J. Lide, formerly {
8 this place but now of Bennett
y vile, will move back to Maxto
; the first Of September. We al
i glad to have them back. 4
o Mr.. and Mrs. R. P. Williams
: Columbia, Ala, visited Mr.. ar
8 Mrs. Luther Mclean this week
% A mule belonging to Mr.. A.
~ McKinnon ran away last We
nesday, throwing the driver O
. and hurting him severely. Oh
limb and several ribs were bro
" en-. He was carried to the hospit
= and given good attention.
Several shooting scrapes ha
taken place here recently amol
le the negroes. Another o
IL occurred yesterday mornin
d No one was killed, but sever
Ve were shot at by one negro and
ay last report he was still at lars
Ll shooting and daring any one
nc nc arrest him.
he DIR. and Mrs. NJ. R. Gibs
rk visited McColl, S. c., the first
no the week.
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Miss Mildred Mcintyre Enter
tains the Xxx Club.

Miss Mildred Mcintyre enter
tanned the Xxx Club Friday eve
ming at the home of her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Mcintyre. cor
1e- Of Sixth and Walnut streets,
The guests were met at the
door bv Ine hostess and usbe~e0
to the punch bowl, where Mr.
Mcintyre presIoeu. Among the
amusements of the evening was
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-08-22
EDUCATIONAL RALLY.
The County Farmers Union and
Teachers Will Unite to make
Friday a Great Day in Lum-
berton-The Speakers.

The Farmers Union education
al rally which will be held in
Lumberton Friday will, it is ex-
pected, be attended by a very
large crowd of people from all
over the county. Excellent
speakers have been engaged and
it will be an occasion which no
one who is interested in education
in Robson can afford to miss.
The rally will be held in con-
nection with the county teachers
institute, which has been in
session since last Monday and
will close on that day. At 1920
o'clock Friday morning the exer-
cises will begin in the auditorium
of the graded school building.
DR.. Harrison, of the A. and NJ.
College at Raleigh, will deliver
an address on Agricultural
Education; DR.. J. B. Carlyle, of
Wake Forest College, a native of
Robson and too we'll known
throughout the county to require
any special introduction, will
deliver an address on the subject
'Hack to the Farm; and Supt.
w. H. Swift, of the Greensboro
graded school, will deliver an ad-
dress on education.
President w. S. Cobb, of the
county Farmers Union, writes
The Robesonian that the Unior
is very anxious for all to join il
with itand make this a great day
He has issued the following cal
to locals:
To ALL LOCAL UNIONS:
1t is very important that eacl
local have a large representation
at Lumberton on the educations
rally day August 26th so that w
can make the day a great success
and further the cause of agricu,
tural education. All Union
should see that the local schot
committeeman are present and
many young people as possible
Bring your baskets.
Fraternally,
w. S. Cobb, Pres.
County Superintendent o
Public instruction J. R. Poo
urges all school committeeme
and other friends of education
attend.
President Cobb requests tt
executive committee and all tt
committees appointed at the la
county meeting of the Union
meet at the court house at
o'clock Friday morning.
The Parkton Concert Bal
will be on hand to furnish mus
for the day.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-08-22
LOCAL BRIEFS.

"A meeting of the merchants
OF the town will be held in the
commissioners room at the court
house this evening at S:30o O. clock
to perfect plans for refunding
railroad fare fromvarious stations
when certain amounts are traded.
Miss Josephine Breeze left
last evening for Baltimore. Md.
to purchase her fall stock of mil
llnery. Miss Grace Redmund
will keep the store open during
Miss Breece's absence.
The old saw mill plant for
merly operated by the Carolina
Lumber Co. where the Kingsdale
plant is now being operated, wi |
be moved some time within the
next few weeks. ito the site on
the river just below the trestle,
where Mr.. Humphrey Williams
operated a plant for a number of
years. The mill will be operated
by the same company.
Mr.. j. H. Turner has resign-
ed his position as salesman for
Messrs. White and Cough and
left Saturday evening for his
home in Norwood, Stanly coun-
ty, where he will start a mercan-
tile business Of his own. Mr.. Tur-
ner did not intend for his resip-
nation to go into effect until Sep
tember 1st but was called home
Saturday on account of the i'll
ness OF his mother. He has many
friends IN Lumberton who regret
his decision to leave and wish
,, him much success in his new ven.
! ture.
In the account of the Lum.
8 ber Bridge picnic in Thursdays
r paper mention was inadvertently
omitted of the reception giver
: last Tuesday evening at the res.
idence of Mr.. w. S. Cobb at tha
t place in honor of Governor Kirch
8 in. It is estimated that 600 or 7O
people attended the reception.
~ The McAllister Hdw. Co. il
. stalled last week for the Freema
- Printing Co. a new 5-horse-powe
at gasoline engine to take the plac
N N Of its 2-horse-power engine, il
~ creased business making it nee
" essary to have more power.
ut The primary class of tn
s. East Lumberton Baptist Sunda,
e. school will be given free ente
tainment at the moving pictul
IS show tomorrow evening. II
he tickets are furnished by tt
h. management.
af VIM. Rowland, colored, abo
ty IS years old, a former slave
he DR.. Jno. S. Rowland, decease
died yesterday at the home
en- John Hooper, colored. two mil
he from town on the Marion sta,
n road. The remains will be
nd tered today at Sandy Gro
,se church.
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Notices of New Advertisement.

Hardware that is right in quail
ity and price McAllister Hdw.
Co.
How to assure your boy of an
education-First National Bank.
Reward for return of lost
pocketbook.
The V. & c.. S. and Coast Line
| advertise an excursion to Rich
mOnd.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-08-22
FARMERS INSTITUTE.
An Institute for Men and Wo-
men to be Held at Philadel-
hus-Premiums Offered.

Kan tor the farmers lnsti-
tutes! Men, women, boys and
girls should attend. An in
stitute for men and one for wo-
men will be held at PhiIadelphus
Friday and Saturday, September
10Th and 18th.
Premiums as follows are offer
ed:
$1.0O for the best five ears of
pure bred corn. For particulars
see programs of the Institutes.
S1.OO for the best loaf of bread
baked and exhibited by girl or
woman living on the farm.
! A years subscription to The
Progressive Farmer for the best
plate of biscuit, not less than ten
biscuit, baked by a girl or woman
living on the farm.
These offers should bring out
a fine exhibit of bread and bis
cult at every woman's institute.
i T. B. Parker,
! Director of Farmers Institutes.
In addition to the above The
Robesonian will give years sub
scription for the second best loaf
of bread baked and exhibited Ky
a girl or woman living on the
T farm.
, Interesting programs have beer
: prepared for these meetings. The
institute for women will be con.
, Quoted by Mrs. FL. Stevens ano
!, Miss Bates. The objects of these
+ Institutes are to bring together
8 the women from tie farm home!
+ that they may become better &C
: quainted and talk over among
i themselves subjects tending t
y the betterment of conditions il
a rural homes, such as better AM
J. more economical foods and bet
d ter methods of preparing them
n home sanitation, home fruit an
70 vegetable gardening, fern dairy
d ing, poultry raising, the beaut
n flying Of ,he home and home SUI
# rounds, etc. Wives and daugf
,e ters are urged to attend in larg
. numbers. At night there wi
m be stereopticon views and a LEI
ID ture by Mrs. Stevens.
is The following institute lectu1
&c ers will be present: DR.. B. v
3 Kilgore, State Chemist; T.B. Pa
an ker, director of Farmers Inst
nd tutes; w. N. HUT, State Hort
culturist; Franklin Sherman, il
at Entomologist, and others. A
q. farmers and their wives, sol
a and daughters, and all others i
w. terested in farming and the be
IN. terment of the farm homes a
40 urged to attend these meetin
for and join in the discussions. Nor
a. ing sessions will be open at
re- o'clock and afternoon sessio
am at 13O.
Boys are especially invited
attend and learn about the Bo.
Corn Clubs.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-08-22
Sixth District Republican Con

vention.
The Republican congressional
convention for the sixth district
has been called to meet in the
county court house in Wilmington
at noon August 80. The delegates
from Robson county are a. fol
lows: J. L. Mclean, w. R. At
kinson, Alfred Britt, M. NJ.
Campbell. S. L. Parker, J. R
| Kinlaw, J. E. Clifton, B. F. Nc
Lean, Rod Lawson, Us. McNeill
Giles Davis and w. A. Wilkes.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-08-22

Mr.. Norman Perry, of Psrk-
-OL, Was aiii0lS lnS vioi-0.S al
Gown Friday.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-08-22

Mr.. A. E. White spent Frida!
in Charlotte on business.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-08-22

a telegram contest. Each guest
was asked to write a telegram
using the letters in the words
summer time" The messages
were varied and interesting. Miss
Annie Neill Fuller won the prize
and presentedit to MissGenevieve
Mcmillan, of Red Springs, who is
a guest at the home of Sheriff
anc Mrs. &C. McNeill. Ice cream
and cake were served, and the
evening was one of many pleas
ures.
Miss Alice Toon, of Chadbourn.
who is a guest at the home of
Mrs. Lizzie G. Proctor, and
Messrs. Douglas Mcmillan and
Will Townsend, of Red Springs,
We're among the out-of-town
guests.
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Little Julia Thompson, 7 years
old, entertained Friday after
noon from 5 to 6 O'Clock at a
birthday party at the home of
her father, DR.. n. A. Thompson,
corner of Fourth and Walnut
streets. Refreshments consist
ing of watermelons, ice cream
and cake were served, games
were played and it was a gooc
time in general for the little
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13
LINCOLN's BIRTHDAY

TN THE celebration OF Lincoln s
birthday united nation joined
u with an enthusiasm that knew no
seetionalism. Lincoln's birthday calls
TO mind not the war of the Rebellion.
but the REUNION OF THE STATES,
a reunion that was accomplished with
broad-minded generosity and an unpre-
cedented regard for the interests of the
losers in a great controversy.
The principles of President Lincoln
were the principles of Americanism.
The emancipation proclamation was a
necessary incident in his career, be-
cause as an exemplification- of restora-
tion of the first principles of Ameri-
canism it reminded the nation of the
incongruity and Gf it were not for its
tragedy the absurdity of any institu-
tion which deprived human heings of
personal liberty while the nation for
mally declared ALL men were created
equal, endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable rights, among
which are life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness.
Lincoln's birthday celebration should
stimulate the revival of Americanism.
The best political policy for the United
States is that which produces the great
est good for the greatest number. The
extent of happiness and contentment
in the nation is the measure of the
success of any administration, and is
the measure of the happiness of the
nation.
1t is we'll to remember the birthdays
of the nations greatest men, and to re-
member the republic not only conferred
upon those men the opportunity of be-
coming great, but derived greatness
from them. Their deeds. their words,
survive them. Their souls go march
ing on
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13
LUX MUNDI

<ET AM the LIGHT OF the world"
said Jesus. Christianity is syn
u onymous with enlightenment.
There is no doubt about it. The illu-
mination of Christianity shines in our
modern civilization, and 1t is an i'm
perfect civilization because it is not
thoroughly Christian civilization.
Every one of it's imperfections Is
traceable to a neglect of the Golden
Rule, the great fundamental principle
that kind, considerate treatment must
be extended by us to all others If we
are to expect kind, eonsiderate treat
ment in return.
To be unkind or unjust. and to ex-
pect kindness and justice, is as absurd
as to expect TO raise a crop of wheat
from a sowing of thistles. On the
other hand, kindness and consideration
irradiated from a human being pro-
duce for him perhaps not an equal
amount of kindness and consideration
(for we have not yet reached the mil
lennium), but more kindness and con-
sideration than would fall to his share
if he We're of what is commonly called
a "mean disposition"
The hardest man in the world to rea-
son with and the hardest to under
stand is he who goes around roaring
for a square deal while he never let's
pass an opportunity of indulging in a
deal that is not square If he thinks he
may without retribution take advan-
tage of his neighbor and profit by him.
Such an one may flourish for awhile,
but he Is destined to find out long ere
his life cycle is completed that the
spiritual law of recompense aids and
abets the fixed principle of the Golden
Rule in the natural world. The law
works with such unerring certainty
that various non-Christians have
taken notice of it, the Mohammedans
naming it "kismet," or fate, and the
Theosophical Buddhists, who have
been making Caucasian converts,
"karma."
If every human being, no matter
with what church he may find him
self allied or may choose to ally him
self, were to study for himself the
first principles of Christianity in their
uncommentated force, untheologued
purity, undoctrinated simplicity and
uncreeded power, he would find the
illumination that comes to all who are
willing to accept the teachings of
Christ and to turn their faces to "the
light of the world"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13
MILK

M ATTAIN STRAUS is one of the
greatest benefactors Of the hui
AZ man race. He found raw milk was
the cause of numerous cases of tuber-
culosis, typhoid and scarlet fever, diph-
iberia, etc. 1t required courage to
make the assertion milk in its nat
ural condition was an enemy of man
kind. because for many years people
had been taught that fresh milk was
as the nectar of the gods and a pana-
cea for all diseases.
Mr. Straus said milk was a perfect
food after it had been treated for the
elimination of disease germs. Before
it had been thus treated it was pro-
life source of disease.
The pasteurization of milk has been
so effective in lessening the malignancy
and frequency of disease that all the
virtues of vaccination may be claimed
for it, without any OF the drawbacks
which make vaccination Objectionable
to many good people.
With a clean, fresh water supply and
a clean, fresh milk supply any COM
munity is reasonably safe from dis
eases of a malignant type. With good
water and clean milk, the work of
maintaining a high standard of good
health i'm city is much easier than
when either of these important funda-
mentals is neglected.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13
GOLFERS

~ oLF is one of the oldest games in
IN the world, but it is responding
~ nobly to the newest conditions,
for many excellent, expert golfers are
women. For several hundred years
men enjoyed a selfish monopoly of golf
just as for years they enjoyed a mo-
nopoly Of many other of the good
things of this life.
What was the consequence? De-
plorable to relate, a golf tournament
often was followed by a whisky car
niva1. The men, left to their own de-
vices, dropped the de"
California affords much better golf
links than Scotland, where the game
originated, and here it can be played
at time of year when everything in
the original land of golf is either
frozen black or is covered with slush.
There is not any outdoor pastime
that does not flourish in California,
and golf should be the most popular
pastime of them all, because it should
be the cheapest. Many Scottish mu-
inequalities long ago saw the virtue
VI bSbLlilS dSluS u SpdbS IOI illc IlilhS,
and the links in Edinburgh, for in
stance, are free to any citizen who
has a golfng set. In Scotland golf is
the poor mans game, and is so thor
oughly democratic that marquis,
duke an a. that when challenged by
the plain citizen must play him.
And golf is the best medicine
in the world for aristocracy No
titled parsonage can become an hab-
itual golfer without becoming demo-
cratic. In the United States nothing
would more tend to bring about
good understanding among all sorts
and conditions Of men than the popu-
larization of golf, and the establish
nent of a game at which everybody is
free and equal; excepting the caddie.
who has been known to put on lugs
and be slightly superior.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13
FEDERAL STEAMSHIP LINE
/ os ANGELES demand for fed

T oS ANGELES demand for fed
erai steamship line is unopposed
= excepting by a few shippers and
by interests that find it to their adj
vantage to hinder every movement for
increasing freightage facilities on the
west coast and giving the industrial
shippers of Southern California a
square deal. 1t is notorious that for
years railroad interests have regarded
South California as a private pre-
serves, and the wonderful growth and
prosperity of this section OF the coun-
try are due. not to the support OF the
corporations but to the public spirit of
enterprisIng citizens who have as
serted the industrial independence and
prosperity of Southern California, de-
spite of the strenuous and persistent
endeavors of corporations to create
special industrial privileges for them
selves by taking advantage of the geo.
graphical position of Southern Cali
fornia and of this rich portion of the
state.
It is vitally to the interest of Greater
Los Angeles and this section of the
state that g government-owned steam-
ship line should be established between
Panama and Pacific coast ports. An
overwhelming majority of the shippers
and jobbers of California favor the
establishment Of a governmental line.
1t is only right the shippers of the
Pacific coast should be put on basis
of equality with those of the Atlantic,
and at present a governmentally owned
line on the Atlantic gives that coast an
undue advantage over the Pacific.
1t is absurd to regard the govern
mental steamship service on the Allan
tic as complete" without supple
mentary Pacific coast service.
The truth of the situation was sue
cinctly and forcefully stated by one of
the numerous influential business men
interviewed by a Herald representa-
tive. He said:
1.-THE freight rates are so heavy now
we cannot compete with the east. The
railroads are having everything their
own way WE CAN'T EVEN RELY
ON THEM TO GET OUR GOODS
HERE, TO SAY NOTHING OF THE
TREMENDOUS RATES WE PAY
WHEN WE DO GET THEM. This new
government line plying between Pan
anna and Pacific ports would force the
railroads to basis upon which they
ought to have been operating long
time ago. Los Angeles men, am sure,
ARE ALMOST UNANIMOUSLY IN
FAVOR OF IT"
The people of Los Angeles expect
Senator Flint to stand by them man
fully, courageously and firmly. In this
fight corporationism is aligned against
the business interests of Greater Los
Angeles and Southern California
Harbor development, city development,
state development all make the gov
ernmentally owned line an absolute
necessity, and 1t is to be hoped the
existence of this necessity will be
recognized.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13
Chief Danger Is
It's Disregard OF Justice
(San Joe Mercury

DAUL o. sTENsLAND' former pres,
ident of the Milwaukee Avenue
4 State bank of Chicago, who was
convicted in connection with the
wrecking of the bank and the
disappearance of S3,000,000 of IT'S
funds, and given an indeterminate sem
tenee of from one to ten years, is d
free man after serving but three years
II will he remembered that when the
necuIation was discovered Stensland
disappeared, and was afterward traced
to' Morocco, where he was arrested
ana brought back to Chicago for trlal-
No one has ever located the missing
money, but it is generally beneVea
that Stensland will be able to iiVe very
comfortably the rest of his lie.
Whv criminals of the Stensland stripe
are dealt with so graciously by the
courts is a great mystery to those VINO
do not understand the influences Wh1ch
men of means and business prestlge are
able fo bring to bear in modifying the
nenaitv of the law. Certainly there is
no form of injustice that is SO rapldly
undermining confidence IN the courts Oh
this country.
In Kansas City last week man VINO
stole $3.50 from his business associale
was convicted and sentenced TO Two
wears in the penitentiary. He was Will
out friends and consequently was given
the limit. He will probably serve ms
flu time. In other cities men without
influence who commit small onenses
are sent to the penitentiary for long
terms. It may be said that crltlclsm
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13
"EXTRAr

APANESE newsboys ring a bell
while they are yelling Extra"
- Thus is our effete civilization
again improved upon by the little
brown man. But wasn't the first news
paper man a bellman? In the olden
times, when somebody's pup was miss
ing, or somebody's slave ran away, or
somebody had a consignment of goods
for sale, didn't the newsman with a
bell wander about the city announce
ing the fact?
The first advertising mediums ESQ to
speak) were bell ringers. They told
of wares that were to be exposed for
sale, sometimes at the "mercat cross" F"
sometimes at such and such an ones
warehouse.
BY and by the town crier found his
occupation. somewhat abridged by the
newspaper. But. nothing daunted, in
stead of ringing his bell and, crying
the news, he rang his bell and cried
the newspaper. The earliest vendors
of news bulletins were the bell men.
So in Japan they have merely hit
upon the first principles of newsvend-
ing. There's nothing original about
the Japanese newsboy with the bell.
The white newsboy rang bell to ad-
vertise the Edinburgh Courant when
Daniel Defoe was editing it and spend
ing his spare moments in the whimsi-
cal society of a drunken, lying Scotch
sailor named Sandy SellSirs, from
whose maunderIngs, while he was not