The Robesonian., 1917-09-27
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENT

NEWS NO1 Ed AM
Protraoted Meetings W: =.
Townsend's Sudden Death-Blad1en
Honors Her Soldiers-"Old Folks
Day" at CEDAR Grove Sunday
Correspondence of The Pooesonlan'
Proctorville, Sept. 25-.Two weeks
ago it was a high privilege. to oe
with Pastor F. 7. Wooten OF oedo5
bourn, in revival with MS gooo
church at Western Prong. Tnls Is
great church, and in a verltaole
garden spot of that grand .old coun-
tv which bears the name Of the dls-
coverer of America. Everything
went we'll until the storm gods be-
gan their clash over on the eastern
coast. and kicked up so that the Wa
ter splashed out on US in great torc
rents. There We're. four days Oh
that sort of weather which never
agrees with a protracted meesing'
However. we went through nicely,
having good crowds and very inter-
asting Services, except on one Oc-
casion, we were entirely rained out.
There were seven additions to the
membership, and others will join
when the pastor fills his next ap-
pointment.
1t must have been an inexpressible
shock to Mr.. w. c. Townsend OF Ratt
Swamp when he awoke from his
sleep Tuesday morning, the 18th
instant, and found his good wife cold
in death. She, too, had gone to sleep
the night before in her usual health
but never walked up in this world
again. Before her marriage she was
Miss Sarah Margaret Baxley, and
was born the 18th of April, 1865.
Her death, therefore, occurred IN
the 63rd year Of her age.
She ard Mr.. Townsend were mar
ried March 9Th, 1877-4O years ago
last March-and the union was hon
ored with ten children, seven of
whom survive. One brother, Mr.. j.
C. Baxley, and one sister, Mrs. Har-
die Parnell, besides the widowed
husband, also survive.
Early in life she professed faith
in the sinners Saviour and became
a member of the Baptist church, to
which she was ever faithful.
Funeral services We're conducted
by her pastor, Rev. L. E. Daily, at
1880 a. m. Wednesday morning at
the grave in the Odum cemetery, as
sisted by the writer, who was a for
mer pastor. A very large congrega-
tion of friends and relatives We're
present to bear a part in the great
sorrow which had come to the fam
lily, and the grave was profusely COW
cred with beautiful flowers.
AS to Mrs. Townsend's happiness
there can be no doubt; for her faith
in Christ was we'll founded, and she
lived her religion. All her loved
ones are affectionately commended to
GCd and to the word Of His grace,
which is able to build them up, and
give them an inheritance among al
them all are sanctified.
Thursday of last week found US
in good old historic Elizabethtown
sharing the hospitality and sweet
fellowship of our friends whose So
cial affections in the homes, love and
loyalty for and to the church work
We enjoyed for more than four hap
py years.
It was an esteemed privilege to
address fifty or more of Bladen's
sOhdier boys in the court house that
evening. The boys were there en-
training for Camp Jackson in Co.
lumbia, and the patriots of Eliza
bethtown and other parts of Bladen
We're giving the boys a reception.
The court house was packed. Mus
lc was furnished by the East Lum-
berton band and it was splendid.
Messrs. A. H. Pait and J. B. CLARK
of the Elizabethtown bar, and Mr..
Oscar L. Clark of Clarkton made
very eloquent speeches which were
thoroughly alive with the fire of pa
triotic enthusiasm, and the ladies
of the Red Cross unit in that town
gave every boy a kit filled with use
full articles needed in camp life "On
to Berlin" is Bladen's slogan, and
the boys got a good send-off.
We are in the midst of another
glorious meeting with Pastor Woot-
en- and the noble people Of Oakton
church. The. people in this section
Of old Robson are doing we'll. They
are among those who make up the
salt OF the earth and any man is
immeasurably fortunate in being
their pastor. 1T was our lot to hold
SN~A ~ POO1o1Oil Will C11C1ll IOI lOul
Years, and that makes US know how
to speak concerning them.
! The first Sunday in next month
will be "Old Folks Day" at Cedar
Grove, and all the old folks within
reach Of the church are very cordi-
ally invited to be present. There
will be special music for the occas-
ION, and the pastor will preach at II
a. m. an appropriate sermon.
Lunch will be served on the grounc
but only as such, and not a picnic
and the exercises will be conducted
IN the afternoon, when we hope to
have the Lumberton quartet, in the
event We fail to get it for the morn.
ing service.
I J. M. FLEMING
Increased Savings Necessary to Wiz
the War
Atlantic City, N. j., Dispatch, Sept