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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-29
FoRETELLETH CHRIST

AS the people were in expectation
and all men mused in their hearts of|
John, whether he were the Christ or|
not; John answered saying unto them
ell, / indeed baptize you with water |:
but one mightier than I cometh, the
latchet of whose shoes am not
worthy to unloose; he shall baptize
you with the Holy Ghost and with
fire.-Luke ill, Is and 16.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-29
SOLDIERS TO DECIDE

tFrom the Kansas City Star1
What are you knitting. my pretty
maid?"
She purled, then dropped stitch,
"A sock or a sweater, sir" she said,
And darned IF I know which!"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-29

Sleeping cars were more extensively
used last year than at any time in
our history, and strange as it may
seem. the Pullman Company believes
this was due to the fact that business
men were more wide-awake than ever
before.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-29

"You never can tell what a woman
is knitting" observes an exchange
and we venture to suggest that in
some cases we're no worse off in this
respect than some of the women
themselves.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-29

The second Liberty Loan being due,
we will repeat the popular American
sport of loaning ourselves a lot more
money while we sit back and collect
the interest thereon. It's fine game
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-29

''The French and English" says a
Berlin writer. ARE on their last legs"
and judging from recent news from
Flanders, they are the same kind our
own American soldiers possess
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-29

Pennsylvania has law for apple
standard" says the Worcester Even
ing Post. Yes. and standard apples.
too.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-29

this helping lick the Kaiser and at the
same time making profitable invest
ment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-29
SATURDAY EVENING, SEPT. 20

For if ye forgive men their tres
passes, your Heavenly Father tciH
also forgiue yoU.-JEsUs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-29
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg is furnishing
skilled men for work on can
tonments?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-29
OHIO PRoVINCIALIsM

Provincialism in the way of proc
nunciation are common, the country
over; and are not always easily ac-
counted for. We of Ohio are not
guiltless; nine out of ten of us do
not pronounce the name of our State
correctly. We say, "Ohiah"-not
"Ohio." Years ago a backwoods
journalist wrote a doggered rhyme
to illustrate this fact. 1t ran:
A charming young miss named
Mariah
Lived out in the State of Ohiah;
And she often would sail
Down a banister rail-
When she thought that no one was
nigh-ah.
Her impish young brother Josiah
Fixed the rail with a piece of barbed
wiah;
And I never shall tell
What that maiden befell--
For I'm blushing already like fiah.
James Ball Naylon in Marion (O.)
Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-29
POST OFFICE INKWELL

How many humble hearts have
dipped!
In you, and scrawled their manu-
script!
Have shared their secrets. told their
cares,
Their curious and quaint affairs!
Your pool of ink, your scratchy pen,
Have moved the lives of unborn
men,
And watched young, people, breath
ing hard,
Put Heaven on a postal card.
Christopher Morley in Golfers
Weekly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-29

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The first bridge here got the man
who built 1t into trouble for debt.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-29

THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING Co..
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-29

E. J. .STACKPoLE,P Prss't s Edisor-in- Chief
r. r. OYSTER. Business Moadger.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ. Mdndging Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-29

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication OF
all news credited to It or not other
wise credited in this paper and also
the local news published herein.
All rights of republication OF special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-29

State draft headquarters gets some|
funny letters in addition to such ad
came last night from Philadelphia
local board threatening to resign ID
some way was not found to check
activities of attorneys who charge
large sums for making affidavits. The
ether day a letter came addressed
10 "Mr. Governor Brumbaugh." AMI
other was addressed to the Head
Drafter" and another correspondent
took liberties with the name of the
prov ost marshal general, referring to|
him as General Chowder."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-29

The formal Improvements OF
the candidacy of Representative Asa
A. Weimer. of Lebanon. for the Re
publican nomination for Governor.
contain statement of his ambitions
together with some things about his
business career. pointing out his
qualifications for the place of Gov
ernor. He sets forth his willingness
to sacrifice private business interests
for the good of the state. The state
ment also says: He is not q Fourth
of July orator. neither does he have
barrel with which to buy his
nomination, but the reflection of his
energy, integrity and ability in the
performance of his duties in the ad-
ministration of the states affairs
would be in conscientious, economic
\ and businesslike way"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-29

Yes" interjected Mr.. Baker. n
was the mayor who did 1t. We god
pure ice cream, chased out the fakirsI
sold in large quantities and gave the'
children better and more ice cream.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
Robson Chapter Meets-Dele-
gates to Convention.
Robe

Reported for The Robesonian.
Robson chapter, United Daughters
of the Confederacy, held its regular
meeting in the directors room of the
National Bank of Lumberton, October
4th.
In the absence of the president,
Mrs. E. K. Proctor, Mrs. L. T. Town
send presided. The routine of bus
mess was carried out. Certificates
for Mrs. L. B. Townsend and Miss
Dora Thompson were received. Miss
Lois Thompson's application for mem
bership was handed in. The report
for the State convention was compil-
ed and turned over to Mrs. T. F.
Costner, who will represent the chap
ter at Kinston. Mrs L. T. Townsend
will represent the Eleventh district
of which she is director.
Mrs. Costner and Mrs. Townsend
will leave for Kinston next Tuesday
morning.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
SUPERIOR COURT
Carlyle Will Case This Week and
Court Probably Will Last the
Full 2 Weeks.

Indications are that the two-weeks'
term of Superior court for the trial
of civil cases, which convened Mon
day Of last week with Judge w. NJ.
Bond of Edenton presiding, will last
throughout the week.
Only one jury trial was completed
last week after the report of the
proceedings published in Thursdays
Robesonian was written This was
the case of Minnie and Shelton Surles
VS.. w. A. Hedgpeth, ct ux. Judg-
ment was rendered in favor of the
plaintiffs.
The hearing in the case of F. l..
Nash, ct al VS.. A. C. L. Ry. Co. was
begun Friday and has not been COM
pleted yet. When this case is COM
pleted the case in re will Of the late
Miss Athesia Carlyle will be taken
up. Ex-Gov. w. W. Kitchin of Raj
eigh, Messrs. Bland & Bland of Bur-
gaw and Messrs. Britt & Britt Of Lum-
berton are representing the caveators
in this case, while the law firms of
Messrs. Mclean, ,Varser & Mclean and
Messrs. Mcintyre, Lawrence & Proc
tor are counsel for the propounders.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
Plant of Maxton Gin Company
Burned.

Maxton Special, Oct. 6, to Whining
ton Dispatch.
The plant of the Maxton Gin COM
pany burned down this afternoon.
Fire, which was discovered in the gin
house shortly after 1 o'clock, rapidly
grew into the most spectacular blaze
ever seen in Maxton. Catching the in
flammable material the flames shot
through the enveloping smoke high
into the air and threatened to lap up
the adjoining buildings. These, too,
were of the most inflammable char
acter. A large seed house and the
storage tanks Of the Standard Oil
company were on one side and those
of the Texas Oil company on the 9TH
er. Exceptional work by the fire de-
partment prevented disastrous con-
flagration, in which the loss Of the
gin Give thousand dollars) partial
ly covered by insurance, shrinks into
insignificance.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
RED SPRINGS NEWS ITEMS
A Youthful Globe-Trotter-Fac-
ulty Recital Wednesday Eve
ning-Persohal Mention.

Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Red Springs, Oct. 6-Mr. Jasper
Llsk of st. Paul has accepted a DO
sitlon with the Red Springs Drug Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lisk will live in the
house formerly occupied by Mr.. and
Mrs. Graham Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Coley and family of
Lumberton have moved into Mrs. w.
F. Williams house. Mr.. Coley will
have charge of building the cotton
mill. ''O-
Mrs. Kennith Denny and little
daughter, Sallie Mae, have returned
from visit to Mrs. Denny's sister
in-law, Mrs. Hill, in High Point.
Mr.. Cohen Love has returned from
trip to South America. He sailed
from New York and stopped at eigh-
teen ports in South America, passing
through the straits of Magellan and
the Panama canal on his return to
New York. Mr.. Love is quite youth
fui traveller being only nineteen years
old. This is his second trip to foreign
ports, his first being through the
Mediterranean to Egypt.
Miss Glennie Graham has return
ed from a visit of a few days in Fay
etteville.
MlSS IdnCeS ue Vane spent IhurS-
day and Friday in Lumber Bridge at
tending a missionary conference.
Mrs. j. C. McPhail has returned
from Highsmith's hospital very much
improved in health.
There will be a faculty recital a,
Flora Mcdonald college Monday, Oct
9th at 8 p. m. Those taking part will
be Miss Beam, expression, and Miss
Craig, piano. This is the first of 9
series of faculty recitals that will be
given during the winter.
Mrs. ]. D. Callahan left Saturday
for Greensboro in response to a tel
egram stating the lines of hel
daughter-in-law, Mrs. John Callahan
Mrs. Callahan has been i'll for sew
eral weeks, but for the last few days
had been better.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
MORE MEN OFF FOR CAMP
II White Men of Robson District
1 Left for Camp Jackson Sat-
urday-6O Men Went to Camp
From This District Last Week.

Seventeen more selected white men
from Robson district No. left Lum-
berton Saturday morning at 7:20 ov-
erthe Seaboard for Camp Jackson,
near Columbia, S. G. Mr.. Carl Thomp-
son of Fairmont was made captain
of the party and Mr.. B. M. Sibley of
Lunberton was made lieutenant cap
tain.
This made a total of so men sent
to camp from this district last week
25 white men and 18 Indians leaving
for camp Thursday, their names be-
ing published in The Robesonian
Those who left Saturday were:
Elester Lovett
William Rembert Parnell
Ambrose c.. Williamson
Giles Clifton Taylor
Duckery Calder
Ralza Braxton Kinlaw
Bedford M. Sibley
Hardy B. Walters
| Furman Speight
Will John Griffin
James Luther Byrd
James R. Chason
| Samuel P Tyner
Richard S. Barnes
Carl A. Thompson
David Herring Jones
| Reddin Gaskins.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
REMARKABLE
SESSION CLOSES
Session of Congress Which Ad-
journed Saturday Made Record
OF Achievement Probably I'm
paralleled.
Washington Dispatch, Oct. 6.

Washington Dispatch, Oct. 6.
A record Of achievement pro. ABLY |
unparalleled in worldwide legislative
history, was closed with adjourned
today OF the session of Congress
written into the nations statutes in
SIX months are laws in numbers, scope
ana unanlmlty unsurpassed.
Called April 2 by President Wilson
(wlthin month after his second in
auguration) to enroll the United
States among Germany's foes, from
the passage of the war resolution
April 9th until the Presidents sig
nature of the last law today, Congress-
has worked incessantly on legislation
of vital present and future import in
national and world developments. It
now secures a 2-months' respite,
returning December for the regular
session and facing another stipend
Gus programme of war and domestic
action.
! Marking the session passing into
history were it's war preparation pro-
vision for quick and large increase
in the nations fighting forces on
land, sea and in the air; appropria-
tions of more than $4,000 ,OO0, 900;
measures of taxation and credits to
meet the financial drafts, and vesting
the President with vast powers.
Looming ahead for disposition at
the December session are further
enormous appropriations for this and
next year, great tax and bond bills
and a mass of other war and domestic
legislation, with Congressional pri-
maries and elections closely follow
ing.
Among the most important meas
ures enacted were:
it's measures, authorizing loans to the
Allies and sale of domestic bonds; the
war tax law, appropriation of $780,
100000 for airplanes, the espionage
act, control of foods, feeds and fuel;
the trading ith-the-enemy act, in
cluding authority for the President to
embargo exports, the sailors and sol
diers' insurance act and the war bud
get bills.
Congress also found time to take
important action on two important
domestic matters.prohibition and
woman suffrage.
Besides prohibiting further manu-
facture or importation of distilled
beverages and authorizing the Presi-
dent, in the food control bill, to STOP
or curtail that of beer and wines, the
Senate by a vote of IS to 20 also
passed the Sheppard resolution, pro-
Eposing national dry amendment to
the Federal constitution. It is pend
ing in the House for action at the
December session.
The House created special COM
mittee on woman suffrage, while the
Senate favorably reported the Susan
B. Anthony amendment proposing ar
equal franchise amendment to the con-
stitution. The latter will be press
ed next session.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
LuMBERToN NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY OCTOBER 8 1e17
= x !: =
FIRE PREVENTION
AND CLEAN UP DAY.

In accordance with a statute
passed by the last General AS
sembly the Governor of North
Carolina has designated Tues
day, the 9th day of October,
1917, as FIRE PREVEN-
T1ON DAY" "Oand l hereby call
upon all citizens of the town to
observe the day both for fire
prevention and a general "clean
up.
Kindly gather up all trash
and inflammable material and
place same at some. convenient
place for removal. The town
carts will gather the rubbish
and remove it on the days fol-
lowing, and if placed on the
edge Of the sidewalk the work
can be completed more quick
ly than if left in back lots or
places not easy of access.
Let's do our bit toward stop
ping the useless fire waste and
at the same time render our
town cleaner and more health
full.
October 5th, 1917.
JAMES D. PROCTOR,
Mayor.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
LaFollette Tries to Justify His
Course.

The session of the Senate Saturday,
the day Congress adjourned, was fea-
tured by a thrilling debate on the al
legged disolyalty of Senator LaF gillette
of Wisconsin. In a 3-hours' speech
LaFollette. defended his criticisms of
war questions. Without mentioning
his recent address before the Non
Partisan league of St. Paul, for in
vestigation Of which arrangements
were completed Saturday by a Sen
ate subcommittee, or naming any Of
his critics, LaFollette read defense
of his course and declared his inten-
tion Of following it in future.
Senators Kellogg Of Minnesota and
Fall Of New Mexico, Republicans, and
Robinson of Arkansas, Democrat, re-
piled with criticism Of Mr.. LaF GILLETTE S
public statements. They denounced
what they termed unpatriotic stand,
Senator Robinson asserting that if he
held such opinions, he would seek a
place in the German Bundesrath
Statements accredited to the Wiscon-
sin member in his st. Paul speech
were flatly contradicted, especially
that regarding former Secretary OF
State Bryan's knowledge of ammunl-
ton being on the Lusitania before she
sailed on her fatal voyage.
There was little to mark the fina
session in the House except submis.
sion of a committee report mildly cen
suring Representative Heflin of Ala
bama for criticising fellow members IL
connection with Count Won Berns
torff's request for Berlin to furnish
funds to be used to influence Con
preSS
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
MIR. BENSON DIED FRIDAY
Unfortunate Man Who Was Bit
ten by Cat Died in Bladen Jail
Where He Was Taken for Safe
Keeping.

Mr.. Thomas Benson, the Bladen
county man who was put off Sea-
board train here Wednesday evening
of last week and who declared he was
suffering with hydrophobia as a re-
suit of being bitten by a rabbid cat,
died in the county jail at Elizabeth
town Friday afternoon. The condi-
ton of the unfortunate man contin-
ued to grow worse after he left Lum-
berton Wednesday night, and he was
confined in the county Jail.
AS was stated in Thursdays Rob-
esonian, Mr.. and Mrs. Benson board
ed the Seaboard train at Richardson
Wednesday afternoon with the in
tention Of going to Raleigh in order
that Mr.. Benson might take the sec
ond Pasteur treatment. Mr.. Benson's
actions frightened the passengers on
the train and the conductor thought
it best to put him off here. He and
Mrs. Benson returned to their home
in Bladen Wednesday night on the
Seaboard train.
Most of the people here who saw
the unfortunate man were inclined to
believe that he had studied about be-
ing bitten by the rabbid cat and his
chances of "going mad" so much
that he had come to the conclusion
that he was suffering with hydro
phobia when he was not.
Mr.. Benson and three Of his chill
dren were bitten by a rabbid cat last
June and all took the Pasteur treat,
ment at Raleigh. It is reported that
one of Mr.. Benson's children which
was bitten by the cat has not beer
acting right for some days.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08

DR.. o. G. Falk of R. 3 from Max
Ton Is Lumberton visitor today.
\, Mr. and Mrs. j. T. Hamilton of
MARIETTA are among the visitors in
town today.
- Mr.. X, K. Harrell of r. 2 from St.
paul was among the callers at The
h0nesonian office this afternoon.
NJ Mr. j. L. Biggs and Misses Ethel
rlttman and Ruby Thompson spent
yesterday at Camp Jackson, near Co
tiumbia, S: c., visiting the soldier
ppoys who have gone from Lumberton
10 Camp Jackson.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
THE RECORD OF DEATHS

MIR. Asbury Baxley, Howellsville.
Mr.. Asbury Baxley, aged 78 years,
died at his home i'm Howellsville town.
ship Friday. Deceased had been sick
for several months with cancer and
his death was not unexpected.
Mrs. Mary Baker Jordan.
Reported for The Robesonian.
Mrs. Mary Baker Jordan, an old
inhabitant of Lumberton, died Octo-
Der 3rd. She was 81 years old. De-
ceased was a member of the Baptist
church and for many years had lived
an humble Christian life. Funeral
was conducted at the Gospel Tabef-
nacle church by Rev. w. D. Combs.
Interment was in Meadowbrook GEM
etery.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
KILLED BY ACCI-
DENTAL SHOT
MIR. Bill Smith of Cumberland
County Was Killed Instantly in
Robson Saturday When Gun in
Hands of MIR. Egbert Jackson
Went Off Accidentally - In
quest Held Yesterday.

On their way home from a hunt
Saturday midnight, while crossing a
footlog in Gallberry swamp, near Nc
Millan's, on the Robson side of the
Robson Cumberland county line, Mr..
Egbert Jackson fell off the log, his
gun was accidentally discharged, and
the entire load entered the back of
the head of Mr.. Bill Smith, killing
him instantly. Others in the party
were Mr.. A. D. McNeill and three
small boys.
DR.. w. A. McPhaul, county health
officer, and Mr.. James Johnson OF
st. Paul went to the scene of the trag-
edy yesterday and Mr.. Johnson, act
ing as coroner, held an inquest. The
verdict of the jury was that Mr..
Smith came to his death by acciden-
tai shooting.
Mr.. Smith was about 80 years old
and leaves a wife and three children.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
NEGRO SHOOTING sCRAPE
Wounded Negro in Hospital With
Small Chance to Recover-Man
Who Did Shooting Escaped.

Irwin Sampson, colored, is in the
Thompson hospital with slight chance
of recovery as a result of being shot
by Alex. Bethune, also colored, yes
terday morning. The shooting took
place at the logging camp of the
Kingsdale Lumber Co. near Rozler. 1t
is said that bad blood had existed
between the negroes for some time.
Bethune has not been arrested.
A ball from pistol entered Samp-
sons left side and perforated his IN
testines II times.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
Colored Men Will be Called to
Service Oct. II.

Mr.. I. L. Johnson, chairman Of the
army exemption board in Robson
district No. 1, advises The Robson
ian that the colored men selected from
this district will be called Ocotber ~:
He has not learned where they will
be sent.
Mr.. Johnson has been advised by
the War Department. not to send any
more white men until the colored men
have been sent to camp. There are
around Is colored men in this district
who have been certified by the dis
trict board.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
Lima, Peru, Dispatch, Oct. 7.
U-Boat Thought to Have Been
Sunk by American Destroyer.

The Navy Department made public
Saturday an account of an action be-
tween an American destroyer and a
German submarine, in European wa
ters, in which action all indications
pointed to the destruction of the sub
marine by the destroyer, but the de-
partment avoided any such claim.
German submarine commanders some
times attempt to create the impress
sion on the surface that their craft
nave been destroyed in order to term
mate the pursuit.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
Stocking Berksl.ires.

Messrs. White & Cough of Lum-
berton. who own considerable farm
ing lands in the county, recently
bought 25 registered Berkshire hogs
and will begin hog raising on large
scale. Mr.. A. T. Mclean bought 5
hogs of the same breed and will al
SO 90 into the hog raising business.
They bought the hogs in Moore coun-
tY
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
4,446 Prisoners Captured in Brit
ish Advance.

In addition to the enormous casu-
alties inflicted on the Germans Thurs
day of last week in the British ad-
vance in Flanders, the British captur-
ed 4,446 prisoners, among them la
officers. Il a&sLs
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
Mad Dog Reported.

It was reported that a mad dog
was seen in Wishart township Fri
day. While several shots were fired
at the dog, he escaped alive.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
Diphtheria at Fairmont.

DIR. w. A. McPhaul, county health
officer, has been advised that there
are two cases of diphtheria at Fair
mont.