The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-06-04
NUMBER 81
BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS

BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS
The banks will be closed tomor.
row-Registration Day.
-Maccabees meet Tuesday night,
Election of officers and important
business.
The board of county commission
ers the board of education and the
county road board are all holding
regular monthly meetings here today.
Mr.. A. w. Mclean left this
morning for Chapel Hill to attend a
meeting of the board of directors of
the State University, of which board
he is a member.
Mr.. I. P. Graham, cashier of the
Bank of Proctorville, is among the
business visitors in town today. Mr.,
! Graham reports much-needed rain
in his section yesterday.
MIR. Casper Smith of Monroe
! spent yesterday here with his father,
Mr.. j. B. Smith, who has been ill
for. some time. Mr.. Smiths condi-
ton is slightly improved. It
! Miss Reva Hamilton will finish
i her season tomorrow as head trim
mer at Miss Josephine Breece's mil
linery store and expects to leave in
a few days for her home at Orange.
] License has been issued for the
marriage of Grover Williamson and
Dora Blue Mccormick; Roster Ivey
and Mary Herring; Joseph Edge and
Leila Rozier; Richard A. Hardin and
Minnie Lewis.
? Mr.. C. C. Blake has been ap-
pointed assistant postmaster here.
;. succeeding Mr.. r. o. Edmund. Mr..
;. Blake had been a clerk in the local
office for several years and is famil-
: lar with the work.
: "A meeting of the local chapter
o U d. G. will be held in the directors
:. room in the National Bank Lum-
: berton Thursday afternoon of this
: week at 4:30 o'clock. All members
|. are urged to attend.
$ -ueslls, l5-year-old daughter of
{. Mr.. and Mrs. Wright ]. Prevatt, had
: her left arm broken between the ell
e bow and wrist Saturday night as a
result of being pushed out of the door
" by another small child.
During a wind storm yesterday af-
e ternoon a tree was blown down on
:, - a fine milch cow belonging to Mr..
:. L. E. Tyner, who lives near Lowe.
- and the cow was injured so badly
:. that she had to be killed.
The home of the Lumberton Mo
ID tor Car Co., Sixth street, has beer
d remodeled recently. The office has
" been enlarged and some of the parti.
r tions in the building have been chang
ed so as to give more room.
Mr.. L. Mex Parker returned thi!
IN morning from Mcdonald where hs
went to visit his sister, Mrs. F. M
I'd Davis, who has been ill for some
e. time Mrs. Davis condition was
IS slightly improved this morning.
IS -Messrs. R. D. Caldwell & Sor
IN are having the old wooden warehouse
j, on Chestnut street next to the v.
eo C. S. railroad, torn down. The build
SO ing is old and it is being removed
ls as a matter of fire protection, i
III being too close the railroad track.
" Beginning this morning, tn
-, Lumberton and National barber shop
~ ~ increased the price of a shave from
al 10 to Is cents. The h. c. |. is respon
~ sible for the raise. 1t is understood
81 the barber shops in most towns wher'
20 shayes have been 10 cents have mad.
Id the same raise. lux :
an Mr.. R. C. Birmingham and fam
ne lily returned Saturday night from
k, Quincy, Fla, where they spent twt
q. weeks visiting relatives. They made
the trip in Mr.. Birmingham's Max
g. we'll. The distance from Lumber
ty ton to Quincy is 1853 miles and MI
Birmingham made the trip going ant
no coming in days each.
st Mr.. F. L. Blue of Fairmont me
ne Miss Geneva Morrison of McColl, S
n c., here Saturday and carried her t
Ae Fairmont. Miss Morrison will pla!
er the music for the series of meeting'
r. which Rev. VIM. Black of Charlotte
e. is conducting at the Presbyterian
Sc church at Fairmont this week. Th
Ill meeting started yesterday.
Sc -Messrs. E. S. Miller and o. J
TO Williams are preparing to put in al
70 un-to.date vulcanizing plant in tn
n: n Caldwell building, Elm and SeesG;!
W. street. The machinery has alread,
been ordered. Mr.. Miller will leav
oy Wednesday for Chippewa Falls, n
Y, where he will study the vulcaniz
H 1e ing business in the factory of tn
" ", Fisk Rubber Co.
'st s Chief Of Police Alf. H. McLeo
,II has returned from Fayetteville, wher
III he spent a few days under treatmen
f. for his eyes. 1t was found that ;
ad blood vessel of one of hi
"Eouoc, ic broken and ha will