The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-08-20
NUMBER SIS
BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS

Mr.. A. E. White, senior member
of the firm of White & Cough, will
. leave this evening for New York to
purchase fall and winter stock of
goods.
Rosa Smith and Sam Harris, col
ored, were married in the office of
Register of Deeds M. w. Floyd YES
terday morning at 9:15 o'clock Jus
tice M. G. Mckenzie officiated.
Friday was rattlesnake day with
the rural mail carriers out of Lum-
berton. Mr.. w. R. Townsend, car
rier on route 6, killed one with 13
rattles and Mr.. ]. B. Meares, carrier
on route 5, killed one with 5 rattles.
Mr.. R. B. Lee, who had held a
position in the office of the Kings
dale Lumber corporation for several
months, resigned Saturday and left
/ yesterday for his home at Aurora.
Mr.. Lee resigned his position in order
i to resume his studies at the Appa-
lachian training school.
The WESTERN Union Telegraph
! Co. has authorized Mr.. S. H. Hamil
ton, local agent, to employ clerk
to assist him in the office. 1t is un-
derstood that Mrs. Hamilton will ac
cept the position. Mr.. Hamilton has
needed an assistant for some time, as
there stoo much work here for one
. person to keep up with.
Mrs. A. E. White and daughter,
Miss Vashti, and mother, Mrs. Eliza
! Fuller, will go tomorrow to Charlotte
in their auto, accompanied by Mr.. and
!. Mrs. Ira B. Townsend. Mrs. Fuller
will go from Charlotte to Statesville,
where she will visit relatives. The
others will spend a day or so in Char
, lotte before coming home.
r Mr.. L. E. Ellis of the Tolarsville
e sect1Nn returned Saturday evening
e from Wilmington, where he took his
l.. wife to the James Walker Memorial
: hospital for an operation. Mrs. Ellis
a underwent very serious opera
: ton Thursday. Her condition was as
n favorable as could be expected when
: Mr.. Ellis left Wilmington.
! Mr.. and Mrs. N. B. Macarthur,
|, q Mr.. and Mrs. Mack Macarthur, Mr..
/ and Mrs. Paisley Mcmillan and Miss
8 Katie Mel. Buie, all of the Philtdel-
;, phus section, passed through Lum-
. berton Friday evening on their way
i home from Lake Waccamaw, where
- they went Wednesday on fishing
N trip. Mr.. N B. Macarthur says the
:, party averaged 100 fish day.
~ Mrs. A. Weinstein ard daughters.
= - Misses Miriam and Mildred, returned
Friday evening from Ahoskie, where
~ they attended the wedding of niece
70 of Mrs .Weinstein. Miss Miriam
~ Weinstein, who spent the greater part
to of the summer with relatives in At
~ ~ lantic City, New York and Asbury
" y Park, N. j., joined her mother and
- sister at Ahoskie for the wedding.
1r Mr.. J. C. Mcintyre Of Ardmore
f. Okla, who had been on a visit to his
sister Mrs. w. C. Tolar at Dillon, S
c., was a Lumberton visitor Satur
L. day and went Saturday night te
Us Wrightsville Beach. He will leave
the beach tomorrow night for home
Mr.. Mcintyre is a native of Robe
lie son and lived in Lumberton and neal
On here before going to Oklahoma ter
h years ago.
e.. Mr.. N. WI Jenkins of Fairmont
ay came to town this afternoon with g
ce rattlesnake some 1-2 or feet
ly long, and big around, neatly packed
in a box. The snake had rattles ane
Mt a button. Mr.. Jenkins killed it JUS
below the Wishart place, some mile:
as from town. Mr. Jenkins was accom-
r. panied to town by Mr.. D. c. Bullocl
d. who lives below Fairmont and is OF
his way to Badin.
IS. Mr.. A. w. Mclean left Saturda!
er night for Cincinnati, Ohio, and theme.
:" he will go to Saratoga Springs, N
- Y, to attend the annual meeting O.
VIC VIC the American Bar association. b!
Ill virtue of his office as president O.
the North Carolina Bar association
30 Mr.. Mclean is member OF the gen
eral council of the American Bar as
VII sociation, which council meets in ad
- vance of the meeting of the assocla
III ton. He will be away until the hrs
do week in September.
no The following Lumberton peopl
spent the weekend at Wrightsvlll
r. Beach: Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Pope, Nh
. and Mrs. Ben G. Floyd, Misses Pear
rs Howard, Ethel Pittman, Murch Ray
~. bon, Mrs. L. R. Bullard, Messrs. Gee
re E. Thompson, w. F. Edwards, N
nd Beverly, r. McA. Nixon, E. NJ. Nc
q Connell, F. Grover Britt, II. L. Hu.
10 Rossie B. Britt. Mr.. 7. W. Maxwe
f. of Tolarsville and Mr.. |. V. Britt o
R. l from Lumberton also spent tn
nd weekend at the beach.
at Mr.. A. S. Morrison, who ha
been agent at the local Southern es
led press office since last February, CON
w. ing here from Wadesboro, was re
Gently drafted into the army. Nj
nd Morrison resigned his position her
on, affective last Monday, and left Tue:
IN day for his home at Wadesboro I
await the call of his country. MI
md Morrison is succeeded by Mrs. ClaI
ton Thomas, who has been clerk at th
md office here for some time. Mr.. j.
Williamson succeeds Mrs. Thomas
ra- clerk.
ave SANITARY Officer F. A. Wishar
ley who is also town tax collector, r,