The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-11-15
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Sold One Bale Cotton and. Seed
for $21O-' Possuns for Thanks
-giving-Community Fair atMin-
turn-speech by Senator Smith.
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Parkton, Nov. 13-Mr. David Cal
boun breaks all records with one bale
cotton selling with seed for $2lO on
the local market Saturday evening
OF course the bale weighed little
more than 600 pounds.
Mr.. l.. P. Johnson went down to
Maxton Sunday to visit his uncle Mr..
q. c.. Nicholson, who is very i'll. Mr..
e. v. Johnson and Miss Teeter made
a visit to Red Springs Sunday after
noon.-Mr. H. 3. Culbreth came down
from Slocombs Sunday and spent the
day with relatives and friends.-Miss
Henrietta Mcmillan also spent Sun
day with home folks. She is teaching
up at Linden.-Mr. and Mrs. ID. M.
johnson of Minturn, S. c., are spend,
ing some time with relatives and
friends in town.
Hog killing is right on and we are
done with much of the beef market
and white dry meat. Some cons Collation.
witt two fine o'possums IN store Tor
Thanksgiving. If our beloved editor
and readers will indulge US for a few
lin we will give a brief report Of
ou, trip to South Carolina. On las;
Fr;!ay our band was due to play
do IN in Minturn for the community
fai We boarded train No. 70, which
lea YES our station $50, seven Of our
number. We landed in Dillon on
sci cdule time. We were met with
two touring cars and after breakfast
at Dillon we found ourselves very
pleasantly situated at Minturn, ten
mics away. We were met there by
MI. w. w. Evans, one of the large
hec rted and most substantial farm
ers of his section. We were tagged
wi 4 the fai' tags and were free for
a few minutI 5. We then gave band
cor.cert owe in the fair grounds on
the band stand. We were agreebly
SUI prised to see so much interest IN
the community fair.
TIE exhibition was splendid, both
live stock and agriculture. | could not
mention all we saw, but only in part
TIE floral hall was most equal to that
of the Cape Fear fair at Fayetteville.
The graded school building was used
TO- this department and it was lit
erG.ly full. All kinds of canned
gods and preserves. Some very
queer looking things there, such as
the slippers with wooden soles; saw
fish's nose yard long or more; some
of the prettiest baker pound cakes.
Fortunately we purchased one for
home consumption which is unequaled
to the taste. Also the most gorgeous
and beautiful flowers. The live stock
was worth your while-beautiful
colts, both mules and horses, Jersey
COWS and calvesand red Duroc hogs.
How about the agricultural line?
Well, there we saw the finest and
largest sweet potatoes, weighing from
six to twelve hounds, mostly Porto
Rico 'anls. son o!d-timey G1c l;s7
yarhs =. . j -, and corn. Il
the fines ~ We saw, and turil,I'-
cane. vel-2 a.d :oy beans, large GU
ed y rs. ~ colls 'ds-one taller than
this scribe.
Several of our number carried
away some of those prize-winning
potatoes which was a curiosity to ev-
cry one on our return trip. Mr.. Clar-
ence McLaurn of Dillon county grew
some of those large prize winning
potatoes.
There were several kinds of racing in
the -potato-racing, egg-racing
bag-racing; and the funniest of all
were a dozen or more young girls
with ROSTERS with cords and riding
whips and raced those fowl down the
track. Boys races, from all ages up
n Of
Chas. Williamson of our band was per-
mitted to contest in the boys race, age
from IL to Is, and was successful and
wore off the blue ribbon.
Z. The afternoon was spent mostly
displaying fine horses, which was very
interesting. Some of the finest
buggy nags you ever saw, driven by
both men and ladies.
This brings us to the grand speech
delivered by Senator Smith of Soutl
Carolina, one of the very best speak
ers we ever heard. only regret tina
was not "short handler" so / coul(
give some brief reports Of his splen
did speech. Commenting on the splen
did success as community fair, n
said he would tell some jokes, onl,
he was too near a preacher for any
thing of the kind, and said he woul
tell how near he might have been
preacher-said he was the son Of
preacher and that his mother was tn
wife of a preacher and that he ha
two brothers and they were bot
preachers, and that his two sister
both married preachers; so he say
you see how near I am to being
preacher, but said that people used t
go to preaching and get happy an
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