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The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-06-21
ARMY LIES THE LIFE

Training Fine for Any Boy-Young
Recruit Writes Back That He Likes
the Life Fine and Advises All
Young Men to Enlist From a Bus
mess Standpoint, if for No Other
Reason
The, following letter has been
handed The Robesonian for publica-
ton:
Fort Thomas, KY.
"June IL, 1917. j;
sergeant Wetzel:
Dear Sir-Just few lines to let
and how I like the life. The trip up
here was fine and | enjoyed it all
the way. The scenery from Lynch
burg to Cincinnati is grand and !
was. especially interested in the coal
fields We saw all along the way.
We reached Fort Thomas Sunday
night and were examined on Monday
and piven our uniforms on Monday
and assigned to tents as the fort is
overrun with men and the barracks
will only hold fraction of the rock
les. l believe l like the tents better
than I do the barracks. They are.
! cooler and a good deal more comfort
! able than the barracks. The food is
fine and We get more than we can
, eat. 1t is Of good quality and we'll
cooked, and it is varied SO that we
do not have the same thing twice in
succession. It is rich, but with lots
of vegetables and fruits, there is no
| danger Of dyspepsia. All Of my time
is full from morning till night and
1 am kept busy but don't mind that
bit. 1 like the drilling and am
j learning quite a bit about it. Can
j almost go all the way through drill
and not fall over by own feet more
than dozen times.
$50 many of the boys who are now
enlisting are intelligent and educa-
f, ted that it make its easier to learn
the drills for they don't have to be
! shown a movement many times be-
! fore they catch on. They are send
ing squads out daily to the posts all
over the nation and more recruits
!, keep coming in on almost every
!, train, but thousands more are need
!, ed. l guess 1 will be sent out in a
week or so. Don't know where I will
i be sent, but hope that it will be to
the border or California. Believe me
this is the life and the training is
fine for any boy and will be great
benefit to them in civil life The boys
} here are all eager to see a bit Of
service and we are all hoping thai
5 We will be among the lucky ones il
the first division sent to France, but
l don't suppose there is much chance
of that as they will likely send OLE
service men. would advise al
2 young men to enlist from business
standpoint if for no other, for tn
t sooner we can whale the everlastin.
stuffing out of the Germans the bet
:. ter it will be for the whole country
So tell all the boys to come on an
do their bit. That is what an
writing all TIE boys back home to dc
Taking this chance to thank yo
again for the kindness and courtes
el shown me, am
t ROBERT H. WELLS,
"22nd Company, Squad 251
e ."Fort Thomas, KY.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-06-21
BAPTIST SEASIDE ASSEMBLY

Meets at Wrightsvllle Beach June 27-
July 4-Splendid Program-List of
Speakers
The Baptist Seaside assembly will
meet at Wrightsvi.le Beach June 81
to July A.
This assembly is a serious effort
to build up at Wrightsville Beach
great religious Chatauqua which shall
bring together each year a thousand
or two of the most aggressive Bap-
lists ofNorth Carolina. NoState is push
ing it's assembly more thanh orthC Car
| Dina. Mr.. Carey ]. Hunter has sold
SO season tickets in the First church
of Raleigh; Senator John A. Oates
says Fayetteville will take Is tickets;
the Sunday school at Dunn has sub
scribed for 10 tickets for it's teach
ers; and Secretary Walter johnson
is writing 40 churches asking that
they release their pastors for assem-
bly, week and pay their expenses to
the meeting.
At heavy expense the MANAGEMENT
. has provided superb program. A
season ticket to all attractions will
cost 81 only. Board may be had from
81 a day up. Reduced round trip
! rates are offered by the railroads
The round-trip rate from Lumbertor
is $2.4O.
This Seasons Talent
Following is list of the speakers
Hon. 2. W. Beckett. LID, Cover
nor of North Carolina.
A. T. Robertson, ID, LID, Louis
vile, KY, Professor of New Tesla
ment, S. B. T. Seminary.
Weston Bruner, DID,, Raleigh, Pas
tor of Tabernacle church.
B. D. Gray, D. D., LID, Atlanta
Ga, Corresponding Secretary O
Home Mission Board.
R. F. Y. Pierce, D. D., New Yorl
| City, Pastor North Baptist church.
] H. M. Wharton, D. D., Baltimore
Md, preacher, author, lecturer.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-06-21
WIFE ADVISES
LUMBERTON WOMEN

81 had stomach trouble so bad l
could eat nothing but toast, fruit
and hot water. Everything else
soured and form d gas. Dieting did
no good. I was miserable until l tri-
ed buckthorn bark, glyccrine, etc, as
mixed in Adler-i-ka. ONE SPOON
Full benefited me INSTANTLY.
Because Adler-i-ka empties BOTH
large and small intestine it relieves
ANY CASE constipation, sour stoc1-
ach or gas and prevents appendicitis.
It has QUICKEST action of anything
VIC ever sold. Gran+harn Bros, drug
pistS
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John Roach Straton, D. D., Nor

John Roach Straton, D. D., Nor
folk, Va, pastor First Baptist church.
w. L. Poteat,, LID, Wake Forest,
n. c., president Wake Forest college,
w. M. Vines, DID,, Charlotte, N.
c., pastor First Baptist church.
r. T. Vann, D. D., Raleigh, N. c.,
Secretary of Board of Education
Rev. w. C. Barrett, Gastonia, N.
c., pastor Baptist church.
Rev. C. D. Graves, Wake Forest,
N. c., pastor Baptist church.
Fred D. Hale, D. D., Lexington, N.
c., pastor Baptist church.
c. l.. Greaves, D. D., Lumberton,
N. c., pastor Baptist church.
Mr.. E. L. Wolslagel, Atlanta, Ga,
singer with Home Board Evangelists.
Hon. John A. Oates, Fayetteville
N. c., president Baptist State conven-
ton.
Miss Annie L. Williams, Birming.
ham, Ala, field worker Of Sunday
school board.
Miss Bertha Carroll, Raleigh, N
c., corresponding secretary w. M. u
convention.
Mrs. w. N. Jones, Raleigh, N. C.
president State w. M. U. convention
Mrs. 81. T. Pope, Lumberton, N. G
Mrs. H. C. Moore, Raleigh, NJ C.
Mrs. w. ]. Jones, Salemburg, NC
Miss Ruth Caldwell, Lumberton, N
C.
Mrs. w. B. Muse, Wilmington, N
C.
Acme Quartet, Wilmington, N.
i High School Orchestra, Whining
ton, N, C..
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-06-21
2 CANNING RECIPES
How to Can Beans and Peas-Prob-
lem Now is How to Save Vegetables

for Winter
To the Editor of The Robesonian:
There has been a great deal said
in regard to the planting of gardens
and food stuff thru our papers, which
we think wise thing. The next
thing is how to save it for the win
ter. There are so many Of our house
wives that do not know that vege-
tables such as beans, cornfield peas
and garden peas can be canned in
glass and are as nice as when they
were picked from the garden. have
two recipes that l have used with
success. They might be Of benefit
to some.
Recipe No. IL fix my beans or
peas, ready for cooking; put in pot
and boil about 8 minutes; skim out,
cool and packin jars and cover with
salty water, about one teaspoonful
of salt to the quart; put rubber and
lid on but do not tighten down; put
in pot and boil 2 hours, then tight
en- the lids down Immediately. ]
use a lard stand to boil my jars in.
Always place something in the bot
tom of the boiler under the jars to
prevent the heat from breaking
them.
Recipe No. 2-8 quarts of beans
OF peas, quarts of water, IL pint
of vinegar, 1-2 cup of sugar; put in
pot and boil 80 minutes; put in jars
and seal.
When you go to cook those nexi
! winter rinse off and scald with boil.
ing water.
canned a good many this way las
summer and expect to do still NOR;
this summer. I think if lot of thu
people over the country would write
! some of their experiences along thi.
line it would be a great help during
these war times. I have never came,
any corn or butterbeans, so if Their
is anybody that has had any exper
fence along this line in glass, pleas,
write. l think it would help tn
farmers wives ever so much to ge
some information thru our home pa
per. MRS. C. M. HALL
st. Pauls, N. c., R. 1.
). June IL, 1917.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-06-21
WAR TIMES THEN AND NOW

Civil War Sometimes Seems a Mere
Skirmish Beside the Present HOr-
ribIe COnflict-A Civil War Incl
dent-Forgot Shoes But Oh You
Candy!
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Red Springs, June 18-In these
DAYS of war and rumors of war it is
mighty hard to get one'smind down to
a peaceful attitude. l was thinking
of those horrible trenches we read
about every day, in which the Allies
and the Germans are fighting, and
am thankful that in our late war we
had nothing of the kind, except in
few instances; and, come to think
over it, if we are to believe the tales
that the papers daily serve up for our
edification, our war was nothing but
a big skirmish in comparison.
After fifty-two years of recon-
struction, free negroes and low-priced
cotton, an old veterans mind is apt
to wonder a little about passing
events and he is apt, at times, to ex-
aggerate unconsciously about things
that happened in the long -ago-some
things that he tells about NAV. have
actually happened, or he may have
dreamed Cnem, DuC WHdI . IHc ouuS :
Yon better not call him liar, for,
old as he is, he hasn't forgotten how
to fight.
/ remember once (now this is fact
rcmember) while marching some
where in Virginia we came to a place
called the Panhandle, which had new
err Teen invaded by the Yankees, and
where the stores were selling goois
at the old-time prices. A crowd was
soon formed to go down there and dc
some trading. Among the crowd was
a fellow who had no shoes and whose
main business was to get himself {
pair of shoes, but he had no money
and as 1 had $40 bill on the ole
Cape Fear bank of Fayetteville,
offered to lend it to him on condition
that he would bring me some confec
tioneries. In due time he came bacl
with ten dollars worth of CONNECTION
cries, but had forgotten to buy him
self any shoes. I've never been pal,
back and never expect to be, evel
if cotton goes to SOC.
SNYDER
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5 Per Cent Profits Tax on Publishers
Washington Dispatch.

5 Per Cent Profits Tax on Publishers
Washington Dispatch.
A new tax of per cent on the net
profits of all newspapers and maya
zines publishers was written into the
war bill today by the senate finance
committee, in lieu Of the per cent
advertising tax previously agreed up
on and of the second-class mail rate
increases proposed in the house bill.
The profits tax plan estimated to
raise about 100000 or about the
same as the advertising tax previ-
ously proposed, was adopted by a
bare majority Of one vote with sew
eral members absent. There now is
pending a motion by Senator Pen
rose, who voted for the levy, to re-
consider the revision Monday.
The committee also decided by q
majority Of one vote to repeal the
drawback" allowance to sugar re.
finers, raising $19,00O,O0O additional
revenues.
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RED SPRINGS NEWS LETTER
Concert at College by Alumnae AS
sociatIOn-Marriage of Miss Dora
,KElg and Mr.. Tom Loyin-Per-


sociation-Marriage of Miss Dora
,KESg and Mr.. Tom LOyin-Per-
sonal
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Red Springs, June 18-Mrs. Tom
Ingram and daughter, Myrtle, of
Candor are visiting Mrs. Ingram's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. L. M. Cook.
Mrs. J. J. Goodwin of Lumberton
has returned to her home after Wis
iting her parents Mr.. and Mrs. A. B.
Pearsall, for a few days.
Mr.. ard Mrs. ]. H. Mckay spent
the weekend with Mr.. McKay's
father, who lives near Maxton.
Something over $28 was raised at
the college Friday night when the
Following is the program:
Selection-Boy's Band
Drill-Children
Negro melodies, banjo accompani-
ment-Mary Livingston.
The Gray Man, Flora McDonald's
ghost-Thomas Hunter
Humoresque-Miss Louise Dixon
The Star-Miss Mildred Mcintyre
Twas ever Thus-Miss Irene Nc
Leod
1ut Quar- OpdHStru DdHHeT-CHOTuS.
Miss Wyatt left today for Gard
1ussa" to spend the summer with her
sister, Mrs. Fred Vaughn.
Miss Blanche Grantham of Smith
field visited Mrs. Hiram Grantham
few days the past week.
Mr.. Jim Hall has returned from
Wilmington, where he spent the
weekend.
Mrs. R. D. Mcmillan and children
are visiting Mrs. McMillan's moth.
er in Virginia.
Mr.. Tom Lovin was married OF
thursday to Miss Dora King of st
Paul. They went to Wilmington or
heir honeymoon and will be at hom,
this week.
Mrs. Margaret Skies and daughter
Mss Bessie, are visiting Mrs. R. !.
Pittman in Fayetteville.
Mr.. R. T. deVane spent the week
end at home.
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will be assisted by Rev. P. 7. Britt
Sorry to report Mr.. Isham Kinlaw
on the feeble list, also Mr.. Isham
1vey and wife, Mrs. Malsy Ivey.
Mr.. Editor. I will close nv letter
y asking so--le of the readers of The
Robesonian question: Where in
the Bible is the word "lady" found ?
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-06-21

Feel languid, weak run down?
Headache? Stomach "off"? A good
remedy is Burdock Blood Bitters.
Ask your druggist. Price $1.O0.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-26
PALACE.

"Tf / had my way" said George
Beban. the celebrated character CO.
mcdian who will be seen at the Palace
today and Monday In the Morosco-
Paramount production, "The Cook Of
Canyon Camp" "all OF my pictures
would be taken In the mountains, but
they would be taken in the summer
time instead OF In the spring or win
ter.
I'VE were up In the mountains taxi
ing the scenes of The Cook OF Canyon
Camp for two weeks and really IL was
so cold ] never expect to get warm
again. The scenes I'm the picture only
show patches OF snow. but | want to
tell YOU that there was ice and the
cpldest kind OF ice in the air every
minute we were thcrc. or course we
were all dressed for the cold hut
clothes did not seem to keep out the
chill, AMI the man that handled the
OIL stoves was the most popular man
In the company. We had To keep an
oil stove under the camera all tho
time and then five or six others
around when we were not working in
tie scenes.
when Donald Crisp and I worked
out the story in my enthusiasm as nm
au'hcr ! gave Jean. the character
which ] play, some clever scenes I'm
which he tumbles around i'm a snow
bank. These scenes were concocted in
n nice warm room In Los Angeles, but
they were taken In the ice-cold noun
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-26
At the TheaterS
EMPRESS.
"Thc Fatal Ring''--Eplsodc

'Inc tuttI King S'-fipiSOdc l.
Pearl Standish ......P Pearl White
Nicholas Knox ...... Earl Foke
Richard Carslake. Warner Oland
High Priestess Ruby Hoffman
Pearl Standlsh, the wealthiest young
woman in America, beautiful. abso-
lutely her own mistress, is bored. She
is weary OF parties, dances and din
ncrs Of wealth and the thiGgs that
wealth Will buy. She longs for some
thing something different, eX-
cIts tsment--danger--
All OF these things are nearer 10 her
at the moment than she guesscs.
Her father, Samuel Standish, now
dead, has been "A famous collector OF
gems. H. Arabia some time before his
death while on n pleasure trip, ac-
compan!cd only by his secretary, Rich
ard Carslake he has bribed the High
Priest Amfi OF the temple Of the Nio-
let God OF Daroon to steal for him
the violet diamond, which Is In Il
quantity carved ring on the IDOLS
finger
ami steals the ring and gives 1t to
him. but he pries out the diamond and
returns the setting.
Amfi-fearful Of the anger OF his
fellow worshippcrs-bc refu-
goe-a wandercr upon the face OF the
earth. The high priestcss and certain
Arab followers set out to track him
down.
They find him in Now York and
forco him to confess. He delivers to
them the setting OF the ring and tells
that that Pearl Standish must have
the violet diamond since shc has In
nerited her fathe-'s property.
IL is hinted that some secret value
Is possessed by the ring. but that II Is
of no use without the diamond.
Amfi. the faithless priest. is slain
in punishment for his crime. and the
sacred lizard s set upon the table,
while all the followers of the Violet
Goo ga ather about II. The person be-
fore whom the sacred lizard stops Is
chosen 10 recover the diamond from
Pearl San1ish.
Nicholas Knos, an American soldier
of fortune, is chosen.
Masked as n burglar. he holds up
Pearl on her way to u masked hall
nud demands tho diamond She invites
him in, delighted at making the ac-
qu2lniance OF n burglar. and charmed
at the mystery In which she finds her
felf involved. However, she Is forced
10 confess that she has never heard
of the violet diamond
She looks among her fathers effects
but fHilS 10 find II and hethinks her
self of Richard Carslake. form erly her
fathers secretary. She summons him.
altho he and her father had uuarreled
just before her fathers death
Carslake comes and admits having
seen the dia anond He is told thar
Knox has the setting. and instantly
uios to obtain possession of IL by
drawing his revolver and covering
them. But the buffers timely arrival
saves the day.
Carslate flees. Pearl questions
Knox about the mystery surrounding
the ring and the Identity of the high
priestess ard the Arabs who are how
erinr IN the garden. He refuses to
explain
Imnatientlv she draws revolver
ard forces Knox to turn the setting
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tains about eight thousand feet above
sea Level.
I'VE went out to take the scenes
where | turned cartwheels thru "A snow
bank. | was carrying an oil stove in
each hand and wishing ! could ball
ance one on my head when Crisp told
me to get ready for the tumbles. Right
then and there my good opinion of tho
author vanished and | began to ram
sack my mind for ways to rewrite
the story. The wind WIS coming from
"A great field OF snow above at the rate
OF about sixty miles an hour and the
snow w3s the coldest- looking snow /
ever saw in my life
81 suggested TO Crisp, the director,
that we eliminate these scenes bat he
was n doggoned sight crisper than the
the wca ther and he told me that, as I
helped write the story, | snot Id stand
by II and go thru with it, so there was
no argument | had to tumble thru
the snow for nearly an hour and altho
that was four months ago my hands
are not warm vet.
THE only thing | had to bring any
pleasure into my life at all was tho
fact that the trout season opened
when we were up there and Crisp and
| bagged the biggest catch OF the day.
The next time we go INTO the noun
tains we will zee that 1t is good and
warm before | suggest any ideas for
mountain stories"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-26
OFFICER J. J. MORAN MEETS OFFICER
J. J. MORAN THRU THEATER BOOKING
'.ficer Moran. Officer Moran!

"Otficer Moran. Officer Moran!"
This was the call that caused two
men-both apparently acknowledging
ownership to the name and title to
turn around in separate parts of the
crowded lobby OF the new postofficc
last Friday night -.
finally both men spotted the caller.
Both advanced toward the south land
ing leading to the federal court room
urstairS 'In officer Moran" VOL
untcered the first 10 the side of the
becloner
'IIuA,," replied the one who had
called. "You better not be trying to
inpersonate an officer. want Of
fIcer =. J. Moran.
''Tnat's me-" Insisted the stranger
Nav you're rot" broke in the
heckoner again. e! want Officer Nor
an. He's got red hair an everything -
We'll I'm Irish my names J J.
Moran and Pm an officer" explained
the stranger. but that red hair charge
misses me-"
.\ni inst then J. Moran. deputy
United States marshal, hove into the
argument and sripped the hand of ].
J Moran. sergeant of detectives from
st. Louis. old acIuaintances but not
related TO aach other
The earstwhile officers first name
is John, while the officer ]. ]. Moran
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-26
GRAND ACTORS TO
START REHEARSAL.
Incompatible Stock Company
Will Get Into the Harness
This Week.
STILL BUILDING SCENERY
Army of Workers Putting
Things Into Shape for Open
ing Next Sunday.

Weeks of laborious effort at the
Grand opera house are about to crys-
taliZe into the finished product, and
rehearsals will begin tomorrow for
Alias Jimmy Valentine" the opening
bill OF the Incompatible Grand Thea
ter Stock company, which will be pre-
Bented for the first time next Sunday.
1t is a busy seasons work that Man
ager Cliff Hastings and Director
Harry Vickery have outlined for their
all-star aggregation.
We have secured the country for
performers" said Mr.. Hastings yes
terday. "Mr. Powell, manager of the
Grand, insisted that we secure only
the very best people in their lines, re-
gardless of cost, and that is what we
have done. We have had two or three
disappointments on account of men
being drafted for the army. but in each
instance we have replaced them with
others just as capable, so that now
our roster Includes some Of the best
known names in dramatic stock cir
cles. They are all to report Monday
and we will Immediately begin re.
hearsals."
No Novice I'm Part.
Mr.. Hastings will assume the lead
Ing role in Jimmy Valentine He
starred in the road production Of this
name and Is therefore up" in his
part. The scenic production for this
play will be as high class the the COM
pany that is to present it. Scenic
Director Johnson and a force of stage
carpenters have been working for
weeks on the production and have
now completed the last set" Local
theatergoers will be agreeably sur
prised when the curtain goes up on
the first act one week from today.
And the opening bill will be good
criterion OF those that are to follow"
says Mr.. Hastings. THE same atten-
ton to detail will be followed in all
subsequent productions. II anything
we hope to improve our work as we
get better accustomed to working with
one another. This company has never
1een together before. as each member
has been chosen for his individual
merits. and they come from the four
corners OF the continent"
Hard Work Ahead.
Temporarily at least the program
will be changed twice each week.
Every forenoon, seven days a week
will be given over to rehearsals. Mem
bers of the company will practically
live at the theater.
The complete roster Of the company
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hailin6 from st. Louis was chrlstened
James. They frequently have met in
criminal cases. James j. Moran Is in
Tulsa on furloTgh which he is
spending with his two children, Ray
and lucille, twins. playing at the
broadway theatre until last night as
THE Moran Duo" The chilcren are
but II years of age and present one
of the most clever and appropriate
song bills of the local season. Officer
Moran and children altho closing the
engagement here last night remained
in Tulsa today that they might attend
services at the local Catholic church
which edifice was under construction
when the st. Louis officer visited the
then village of Tulsa on his last trip
here a few years ago.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-26

over to her il is carved with quaint
figures that she cannot dccipher.
The butler forces Knox TO leave the
house. The Arabs, seeing the setting
in Pearls possession, attack her. Her
servants come to her aid, and in the
fight that cnsucs one Arab IN killed
and the others flee. Pearl still has
the setting, too. which seems to leave
victory perched on her banner-uutil
n knife comes flYing thru the win
dow inst missing her head. To IL is
attached II piece OF parchment which
reads
"Retdrn tho violet diamond in IS
days or die''