The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-11-15
NUMBER go
BRIEF ITEMS LOCAL NEWH

DO your Christmas advertising
early
An infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joe 5. Thompson is critically ill with
colitis.
License has been issued for the
marriage of j. Preston Smith and
Frances Walters.
Mr.. c. NJ. Fuller is expected TO
return tomorrow from St. Louis, Mo-,
where he went to buy mules for his =
sales stables.
= Mr.. John McAllister has been Co.
fined to his room for the past feW
days suffering with a sprained foot
He is slowly improving.
Mr.. ". c. West and family, who
have lived on r. from Chadbourn
fer several years, will move next week
back to Robson. They will live on R.
/ 5 from Lumberton.
The Lumberton Cycle Co. has
moved from the Bethune building,
West Fourth street. into the Carlyle
building same street. formerly occu-
pied by Mr.. c. B. Redmond.
Mr.. II. o. Register returned Sun
day night from Raleigh, where he
spent 6 weeks at Pages school of
pharmacy and has resumed his du-
ties with the Pope drug store.
MIR. c. V. Brown, cashier of the
: National Bank of Lumberton, has been
confined to his room since Monday
, He seems to be suffering from ma
laria and general rundown condition
5 from overwork. He expects to be out
in few days.
MIR. S. F. Birthright of the u. s
naval department, formerly of Lum-
= berton, but who has been stationed
in q Sh hIrerf fnr-
: passed through town yesterday en-
: route to Atlanta, Ga, to which place
he has been transferred.
: MIR. w. H. Lamb of R. from
Lumberton was among the callers at
6 The Robesonian office today Mr.
q. Lamb sold three bales of cotton for
q S420.S7. Mr.. Lamb sold a 4-acre to-
}, bacco crop for S1.195.25 this year
W This has been good year for Mr.
e Lamb.
8, -Tts .on of Mr.. Ed Watson
n of T. from Lumberton, who has
N been critically i'll at the Thompson
J. hospital since Monday suffering from
r blood poison, is somewhat improved
y today. The blood poison resulted from
;" a small scratch on Mr.. Watson's hand
s. made by wire.
J. Mr.. C. A Warwick of the u. s
= nav. VIII leavs tomorrow for his
N snip, the louisiana, s'sorc" here" Af-
OF te- spg ldine a weol here vi ting hrs
es not,le, Mrs. Mamie Warwick Mr..
lie Warwick ioineri The navy s.!ou, year
rs ago and says ne lies navy lite fine.
n He is wireless operator.
or Mr.. R. S. I'D of Rowland was
AZ an taken sick wi zip at Wilmington
III last week while attending the corn
or OF show and has not been able to return
til home. His son Mr. -. " ,
Al was with him, returned nomC ii -veul
N, back to Wilmington T-.s....y rig tn
I'd remove his father from tie heel
~ ~, where he had been confined d = hos
u III pital.
M Mrs. R. R. Carlyle arri:ed yes
NJ N terday from San Antonio, Tex-.s, and
will be here some time at the home
m of her mother, Mrs. E. h. Proctor.
m She will sing at the McLeod-Nash
at wedding Tuesday evening of next
rs week. Mr.. and Mrs. Carlyle have been
net living in Texas for year or more
an on account of Mr.. Carlyle's health
he he and Mrs Carlyle is directress of the
ara choir of. the First Baptist church OF
an San Antonio.
ere Mr.. c. B. Townsend has just re-
to ceived a photograph of his nephew
al Capt. R. Warren Townsend of Hot
ved Springs, Ark, who has just been com
ME missioned in the u S. army Capt
ar Townsend is a son of Mr.. j. A. Town
oss send of Hot Springs, formerly Of
on, Robson county. Mr.. C. B. TOWNSEND
lit is proud of the fact that member,
as of his immediate family are now ser
ar wing IN various brancheS OF the ar
at my and navy.
nth Miss Marv M. Snead is very II
and at the home of her brother-in-law an
col sister, Mr.. and Mrs. L. R. Varsel
Idi- East Fifth street. Miss Snead ha
'on been sick for some time and cam
is here Friday of last week from Wash
Ben ington, d. c., where she was teachin
the when she was taken sick. Miss Eliz
Vr- abeth ~Snead, who makes her hom
1ar, here with her brother-in-law and sis
Ieill ter. Mr.. and Mrs. 'Varser. and VIII
ton is a member of the faculty of tn
graded school, accompanied her Sis
ter from Washington, having gon
there several days ago to be with he
dis The Seaboard passenger, Hamle
this to Wilmington, due Lumberton 10:1
a. m, did not arrive here Monday VI
Jeill til about 2 p. m. Mr.. &C." Wishar
auit who is sojourning at Laurinburg wee
ood- days now-whereat his Lumberto
not friends are grieved-sent The Rob-
was sonian from Maxton on that SAN
CON train note stating that the trai
was delayed at MaXton on accoul
as of freight engine splitting a swite
, al at the east eho OF tne gara ana =
not WrecnH-s crew hau " d!iNe iIe
ouad hamiet TO fepiace the 1reignt ensn
was on lhe Grach oSlcre any Tram COT
Nan pass. Inc man 1rom tnat train W.
the opened TOO late LOT the lceni, 10 pe
six eo In MONDAY hooesonlah.
The Perhaps one of the younge
80. American soldiers in France is N
Jack Joseph Blake, son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
udg- 0. Blake of R: 5 from Lumberto
cost. Joseph joined the army February
this year, and left with the fiji
p to American soldiers for France abo
Mr.. the first of June. He was Is yea