The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-03-26
NUMBER IL
BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS

The Wishart company has recent
!!y added 40-H. P. motor truck to
its business.
-Lumberton Chapter No. n will
install Officers for the coming year
tonight, 1880.
Regular meeting X. o. T. M. To-
morrow evening at o'clock. All
members urged to attend.
License has been issued for the
marriage of Ralph C. Moore and
Maude Oliver; Thomas Simmons and
Dairy Adams.
Mrs. w. 7. Jenrette of Marietta
underwent an operation at the
Thompson hospital Friday and is get
ting along as well as could be ex-
pected.
1t is understood that a bowling
alley will be opened in the Griffith
building, Elm street, formerly occu-
pied by the Lumberton barber shop,
at an early date.
-Messrs. Gurley Fields and Troy
V. Kissam of Evergreen Joined Uncle
Sans army at the local recruiting
station Saturday. They left Saturday
afternoon for Fort Thomas Ky.
Mrs. J. B. Ward of r. 2 from
Lumberton went Thursday to Char
lotte, where she entered a hospital
for an operation. She was accom-
panied by DR.. w. L. Grantham.
Archie Grantham. indiana who
lives near McColl, S. c., was a Lum-
berton visitor Saturday. Archie SAYS
ne doesn't know his exact age, but is
sure that he is more than 90 years
old. He has raised % children to
manhood and womanhood
Miss Ellen Jordan and Mr.. E. d.
Sheriff., both of East Lumberton,
We're married at the home of the Of
ficiating officer, Justice M. G. Nc
Kenzie, Elm street, Saturday after
noon at o'clock. Only a few friends
witnessed the marriage.
i Miss Daisy Adams and Mr. Thur
man Simmons, both of the Marietta
section, were married here in the
store of Messrs. White & Cough FRI
day afternoon at $50 o'clock. May
or A. E. White officiated. Quite a
number witnessed the marriage.
s. Miss Eva Mace of Marion, S. c.,
arrived Saturday and is relieving Miss
!; Helen Cannon, stenographer for the
t law firm of Messrs. Mclean, Varser
;! & Mclean, this week. Miss Cannon
1 has gone to her home at Florence,
/ S. c., for visit. Miss Mace was
., formerly stenographer for this firm,
: resigning recently.
News has been received here of
the death of Mrs. R. M. Gaffney of
Gaffney, S. c., mother of Mrs. Chas.
/ H. Boyd of Lumberton. Mrs. Gaff-
ney died Wednesday night of last
e week after a few weeks illness. Mrs.
t Boyd was with her mother when the
: end came. She will return home
Thursday of this week. Deceased was
65 years old.
This reporter has heard much
! kick recently from people who have
to wait about the union station about
the condition of the waiting room.
The seats are allowed to go undusted
and ladies who would like to sit down
on the seats in the waiting room have
> to take the risk of soiling their
: clothes. One man remarked that the
union station is the dirtiest place in
town.
| The auto wheel which has been
turning from the breeze of an cleo
tric fan for several days in the show
window in the hardware department
. of Messrs. R. D. Caldwell & Sons
r store, will be stopped tomorrow night.
The committee appointed to determ-
, ne who came the nearest guessing
: he number of miles it would run in
, IA days will make its report Wednes-
! day at 10 o'clock a. m. Several hun
! dred guesses have been made.
Good and artistic work has been
: done around the Gospel Tabernacle
church and its nearby parsonage re-
Gently by the pastor, Rev. W.. d.
Combs. A ravine that runs back OF
J the church and residence wanted to
eat it's way further toward the street
and Mr.. Combs reinforced the wall
of earth with heavy timbers. Then
| on the edge of the ravine at his house
and at the church he has built the
: cunningest rustic fence you ever saw.
| Useful and ornamental work.