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The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-01
HAVE A COMMUNITY BOOTH
Every Community in Robeson is Urg-
ed to Have a Booth at the County

Fair
Correspondence of The Robesonian
1t is very important that any sec
ton land we want them all) in the
county wishing to have a community
booth at the coming fair in Lumber
ton, reserve the space at an early
date.
There is no display that interests
more people and shows to the pub
!lc just what can be done by the lad
les of different localities than the
community booth. In them YOU can
see we'll displayed fruits of all kinds.
canned and dried, fancy work, ancient
articles that were the results of many
hours tedious labor done by our fore
fathers and mothers, representing
your own sections and managed by
your own people.
Let several ladies get together and
see what can be done in your section.
1t will not be much trouble and a
source of pride to see other
people admiring what you have and
can do.
The fair will be glad to give all in
formation and space to those inter-
ested. All you will have to do is
write w. O. Thompson, secretary
that your section wishes the space
reserved and it will have his atten-
| ton.
The time is drawing near, there is
no time to lose. We don't wish any
section left out; want them all repre-.
sented.. It's your fair and you car
make it just what you want to. Helr
us and we will help you.
The premiums for the booths art
SIS for the best one, $40 for the sec
ond, SIS for the third best. 1t is wortl
more than the premium you will get
as an advertisement for your section
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-01
VOL. XLVIII
OF THE WAR NEWS
Ban on News From British Front in
Belgium and Northern France
Italians Start Another Big Often


Belgium and Northern France
Italians Start Another Big Often
sive.
The veil of secrecy which has hung
over the operations along the British
frontin Belgium and northern France
since the latter part of the week still
remains impenetrable, so far as the
news offerings of the British war Of
flee are concerned.
Since Friday nothing except brief
statements have reached the outside
world from Field Marshal Haig's
headquarters. Saturday nights re-
port chronicles the repulse of three
German attacks in the Ypres sector,
with losses to the attackers, including
a number of prisoners and several
machine guns. The Germans, the
British statement says, after heavily
bombarding their objectives, employ
ed a thick smoke barrage to cloak
their advance and also used flame
throwing apparatus. The artillery
activity continues between the Ypres-
Confines canal and Zonnebeke and in
the Nieuport sector.
Bombing Severe Says Berlin.
The Berlin official communication
of Sunday characterizes the artillery
duel along the Belgian coast and
southwark to the Ypres- Confines can
al as severe. Berlin also indicates
that the British troops are keeping the
ouspoints from accommodating par
ties-those little forays that always
make the Germans anxious as to COM
ing events.
Italians Take 1,4O9 Prisoners.
Meanwhile, with the French and
Germans still engaged in the usual
artillery battles along the southern
front in France, the Italians have
started another big offensive against
the Austrians on the 1sonZo front
where for fortnight virtual quiet
ude had prevailed. On the Bainsizza
plateau height positions have been
stormed and taken by Gen. Cadorna' s
forces and 1,409 prisoners captured
By their new successes the Italians
have brought their line almost to the
bridgehead of the Chiappovano river
near Podlaca and Madonl, which also
gives them possession of nearly al
of the southeastern portion of the
plateau.
Ausfrians Counter Attack.
The Austrians, realizing the strate
gic value of the Italian gain, have de-
hvered extremely heavy counter at
tacks, but to no purpose. Likewise
fruitless have been attempts to dis
lodge the Italians from the sother1
slopes of Monte San Gabrielle.
Daily the Italians continue theil
aerial bombardment of Austrian po
sitions. The great fortress of Pol;
again has received visit and enem!
depots at Birie, near Nabresina, north
east of Triest on the Gulf Of Triest
have been bombed.
Turks Main Position Captured.
A stronger hold has been obtaine'
bv the British on Bagdad through tn
capture from the. Turks of the mai
Ottoman position in the region Of Re
madie. The Ottoman general Ahme
Bey, his staff and several thousan
men were taken prisoner and larg
quantity of guns and ammunitio
was captured.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-01

Heavy Rains.
During the "a hours ending Sat-
urday at 5 p. m. rainfall Of 4.26 in
ches fell here, according to Mr.. B. M:
Davis, who has charge Of the local
government weather station. Friday
the fall was lao inches. This was
the heaviest rain that has visited this
section during the same length of
time in several years. While the
streets were washed in many places,
no serious damage was reported.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-01
Travis Fails to Land on l. c. C..

President Wilson Saturday sent to
the Senate the following appoint
ments to fill vacancies on the Inter-
State Commerce commission: Robt.
w. Woolley of Virginia, Clyde B. At
Gibson of Oregon, Geo. w. Anderson
of Boston. Woolley will be in charge
of the section which includes North
Carolina and practically all those
States which have commercial rela-
tions with this State
1t had been confidently expected
that Chairman E. L. Travis of the
North Carolina Commerce commission
would be appointed to fill one of
these vacancies.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-01
Sent Home From Camp Jackson.

Mr. Jack Johnson, who lives on R.
1 from Fairmont and who was among
the selected men who left Lumbertton
ten days ago for Camp Jackson, re-
turned Friday night to Lumberton,
having been discharged because he
failed to pass the physical examina-
ton at the camp. He said that Mr..
Floyd and Mr.. David C. Barnes, both
of Barnesville, returned with him, dis
charged for the same reason. Mr.:
johnson says he liked the camp and
would have been glad to stay for the
training.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-01

Storm Takes Toll of at Least Ia
Lives.
A New Orleans dispatch of Sept. 20
states that at least Ia persons lost
their lives in the hurricane which
swept the east Gulf coast Friday and
property damage inland apparently
was greater than at first supposed.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-01

Robson Man Named as Medical Ar
my Officer
Among North Carolinians named
Thursday at Washington officers In
the reserve corps of the medical de-
partment of the. army is one Robe
son county man, Nathan H. Andrews
of Rowland.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-01

N. C. Negroes Will go to Camp Oct.
to
It has been announced that negroes
from North Carolina, South Carolina
and Florida will be sent to Camp
Jackson at Columbia, S. c., October
3 to 6.
Sixty-eight men from North Car
olina reached Camp Jackson Friday,
making the Tar Heel quota in camp
,497.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-01

Examination for Teachers
An examination for teachers of all
three races in Robson will be CIV
en- in Lumberton beginning Tuesday,
October g. All who expect to take
the examination will have to report
on the first day Of the examination.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-01
Trade Week-Reduced Rate From
EliZabethtOwn.

On account of "Trade week" in
Lumberton the Virginia & Carolina
Southern will give a round trip rate
from Elizabethtown to Lumberton all
through this week of $1.50 The reg
uiar fare is $2.10. There will not be
any reduced rates from any other
point except Elizabethtown. The train
leaves Elizabethtown at 6:30 a. m.
and arrives here at 9:10 a. m. Re-
turning the train for Elizabethtown
leaVes Lumberton at 6:25 p. m.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-01
Forfeited Bonds.

Forfeited Bonds.
Dock and Norman Hardin, Indians,
who were summoned to appear be-
fore Recorder E. M. Britt Friday on
the charge of retailing, failed to show
up for trial. They had made bond in
the sum of $500 each and the bonds
were forfeited.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-01
xempted by District Board

Exempted by District Board
Mr.. Wilbur R. Britt-of R. 2 from
army duty by the district exemption
board. His exemption was recon-
mended by the local exemption board
on the ground that he is married.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-01
THINGS SEEN AND HEARD
tby The Robeson1an's local reporter
while on and off his beat).
Canned Vegetables and Fruits

Canned Vegetables and Fruits
we've got enough vegetables and
irult canned at our house to last us
Two years, remarked a Robson far
mer to the reporter recently. How
40 you like the remark? Doesn't #
sound good? There are hundreds of
farmers in the county who are in the
same fix. Some of them have canned
vegetables on small scale before this
year,but none cf them has taken so
much interest in canning before un-
I'll this year. The reporter happens
to know of many families that have
canned vegetables this year that new
er canned any before The money ap-
proprlated by the county commission
ers Tor the canning campaign was
money well spent.
= Hog Meat and Prosperity
II don't think there is much pros
perity where there is no hog meat"
That's what farmer told the report
er the other day. He was speaking
OF the money the farmers are hand
ing, and his remark was brought to
mind by the fact that many of the
farmers who are making money from
tobacco and cotton will have to spend
that money for corn and meat. He
has it sized up about right, too.
*
Mule Pulls a Ford
It's not often it has to be done, but
it happens occasionally that a Ard
| auto has to be pulled by a mule. The
reporter saw mule come into town
one day recently pulling one of the
things.
Good, Place for Rest Room
why don't the town fathers build
a ladies' rest room in connection with
the new town hall? was the question
asked the reporter by Lumberton
lady Friday. The reporter was un-
able to answer the question and re-
ferred the lady to the mayor of the
town. The lady thinks (and the re-
porter thinks the same thing) that
1t would be very nice indeed if a pub
lie rest room could be built in connec-
tlon with the town hall. The lady de-
clared that a public rest room was
thing which the town ought by all
means to have, and said that if the
town would build the room the ladies
Of the town would furnish it. The
location of the new town hall would
be an ideal one for a rest room. Is
the suggestion worth considering?
| X X *
t Cotton Gins Running at Night
1t is not an unusual thing for cot
: ton mills to be operated at night, bu
not until recently had the reporter
heard Of cotton gins being operated a
night. 1t is said that one Of the GIN
saeaf town has haAn running both da,
and night. -
Taking on New Life
Already the towns in the tobacco
growing sections of the county ar
Caklng on new spirit. New store
and other places of business (garag
es being among them) are bein.
built.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-01
AGAIN FIRST TO PAY TAXES
For 22nd Time Mr.. Ellis Miller Came
Across With Tax Money First
Walked From His Home 18 Miles
orI WoII,ol DooI,

Away and Walked Back
This is the twenty-second year
that Mr.. Ellis Miller of Gaddy town.
ship was the first man in Robson
to pay his State and county taxes.
Mr.: Miller, who is 70 years young,
walked all the way from his home to
Lumberton, Is long miles, and back
home, making SO miles, Friday to pay
his taxes. While the tax books were
not turned over to the sheriff until
today, Mr.. Miller left his money with
Sheriff Lewis. Mr. Miller did not
walk that So miles because he did
not have way to ride. He has plen-
ty Of stock and if he does not own an
auto it's not because he is not able.
mind hae sborf ana ma neafy e iha ahat a M
graFsuSOn, VINO Is UI1Iy5 yEd7%s UIc1
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-01
Cotton Gins Running at Night
Visiting Schools-Prospects Bright

Prof. J. R. Poole, county super
intendent of schools, visited the
schools at Fairmont, Orrum, St. Paul,
Parkton, Red Springs and Philadel-
phus last week. DIR. w. A. McPhaul,
county health officer accompanied him
to Orrum and Fairmont. Prof. Poole
says the attendance at all the schools
visited is better than it was at the
opening last year. He says prospects
are bright for a good year along ed
ucational lines in the county.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-01
National Aid Needs Two More Ma

chimes
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
The National Aid needs two more
sewing machines. Any one who has
machine that is not in use, we would
very much appreciate the use OF it
for awhile.
We also need some packing wood
en- boxes and merchants can greatly
assist US by holding for us or send
ing down to our National Aid rooms
in the Dresden cotton mill office any
such boxes that they can spare.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-01
S. C. Farmers Demand 35 Cents for

Cotton
A dispatch from Columbia states
that 100 representative farmers from
every section of South Carolina met
at the State warehouse in that city
Thursday and adopted resolutions
calling on all the cotton growers of
the State to hold their staple for a
flat price of 35 cents pound. The
meeting was held under the auspices
of the South Carolina Farmers uni
on.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-01
Bridges Washed Away and Roads
Damaged,

Damaged.
People living in the southern part OF
the county report that considerable
damage was done to the roads by the
rains Saturday. Several bridges have
been washed away. The dam across
Ashpole swamp at White House is
reported as being broken and part
of it gone. The dam across Old
Field swamp near Fairmont on the
Lumberton road also was badly wash
ed.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-01
Floods Have Rendered Million Chinese
People Homeless, is Estimated

Adispatch of September 25 from
Peking states that the city of Tien-
Tsin is threatened with destruction
by flood and that it is estimated that
as a result one million Chinese are
homeless.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-12-12
QUICK RELIEF
FROM CONSTIPATION
Get DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets

That is the joyful cry Of thousands
since Dr.. Edwards produced Olive Tablets,
che substitute for calomel.
Dr.. Edwards, practicing physician for
IL years and c2lcmeps old-une ene0ae.
discovered the formula for Olive Tasl=ss
while treating patents for Chronic cen.
stipation and torpid livers.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets do net
contain calomel, but healing. soothing
vegetable laxative.
No gripping is the '9ieynete" q tseze
little sugar-coated, olive-cclsrsa
They cause the bowels and liver to AZ.
normally. They never force them to
unnatural action.
II you have dark brown mouth" now
and then - bad breath - dull, tired
feeling-sick headache torpid liver and
are constipated, you'll find quick, sure ard
only pleasant results nom one or two liz.
sse Dr.. Edwards Olive Tablets al bedtime.
Thousands take one or two every night
gust 10 keep right. Try them. lCc and
25c per box All druggists,
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-12-12
FOUR COUNTIES NOT
REPRESENTED THERE

N. / shawkey state sugerinten.
gem Of schools and president OF the
-.afs board OF regent tIe latter o.
which has charge Of the management
o. The state educational institutions,
TINS Just eeeiyed a blue Print map o.
Vest Virginia showing the distribu.
son OF the 9l5 students now in at.
tendance at the state uniye, sity It
M0rGantown. Only four OF the SIS
counties of the commonwealth arr
" thout representation At the un.vor-
sity They are Wayne. Lincoln.
Boone and Loan. small group in
tho far southwestern section OF the
state III these counties. however
have had students at the university
ir other years. Thirteen sndento
go from Berkeley counyr.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-24
H. H. SWANBERC TELLS
OF OFFICERS CAMP

Attorney Leon l.. Bulen is in recent
OF Il letter from Captain Hugo II
Swanberg. who is in camp at the Pre-
sidio at San Francisco, with Comrany
3. OF the United States army reserve
officers. The letter, dated July 1s
says:
another three weeks and our work
mere Is completed. The last week we
have been studying trench warfare,
hand grenade. bomb throwing, bayonet
lighting and similar lines. It is dirty
work. all about how to get the other
Fellow. / hope this will be the last
OF war. but suppose It will not be.
nave passed well in the law examina.
uons: also In map making. sketching
ana the like. am still n captain. /
had hoped to be able to make a ma ior-
ship but the war department seems to
think am too young. They are try
ing to get old. matured mon in the field
OFFICERS positions. it seems. II GER.
tainfy costs n lot to live here. So
many OF the fellows in the reserve Of
ncers' camn have incomes that run
10 millions of dollars ana when the
rest OF us go down town with them we
are supposed to dine and live in their
class. 1t will make no difference. I
presume. II We get to go into battle
across the Atlantic ocean,"
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-24
WAR CALLS DISBAND
FOREST SURVEYORS
Crew Broken Up by Enlist
ment Of Six Members.

The war has put at least one survey
crew OF the forest service out of ac-
ton. District Forester F. A. Silcox
yesterday ordered the tiisbandin. of a
timber survey crew. because six of tho
experienced men Of the crew have been
selected for military service. Four
nave been assigned to the Tenth En-
gineers, the forestry regiment; another
was drafted. while the cook left to ac-
cept position In Uncle Sans cult
nary department.. Surveyor Kuhl-
becker. who was in command of the
party. Is one Of the men who has been
detailed to service with the forestry
regiment.
According to reports received at the
district office. Coert Dubois, district
forester of district No. 5, has been
designated as major OF the forestry
regiment. vice W. B. Greeley, who has
gone to France with Forester Graves.
Mr.. Greeley was formerly located In
Mtssoula as the head of district No. 1.
Joseph Kittridge. from the Missoula
office. and Donald Bruce, who was sta .
toned In district No. until two years
ago. were among the members OF the
party that accompanied Mr.. Graves to
France. .a.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-24
Lemons Beauty!
Strain lemon juice we'll before
mixing and massage face,
neck, arms, hands.

Here is told how to prepare an in
expensive lemon lotion which can be
used to bring back to any skin the
sweet freshness of which II has been
robbed by trying atmospheric condi-
tons. Wind-chafe. ronghness, tan and
redness are Warded off and those tell
tale lines of care or of age are softcned
away. -s.
The juice of two fresh lemons
strained into n bottle containing three
ounces Of orchard white makes a
whole quarter pint OF the most re-
markable lemon skin beautifier ut
about the cost one must pay for a
small Jar OF the ordinary cold creams.
Care should be taken to strain the
lemon juice through a fine cloth SO no
lemon pulp gets in. then this lotion
will keep fresh for months. Every
woman knows that lemon juice u
used to bleach and remove such blem-
tshes as freckles. sallowness and tan.
and is the ideal skin softener, smooth
ener and beautifier.
Just try It! Get three ounces of or
charl white at any pharmacy and two
lemons from the grocer and make up
quarter pint of this sweetly fragrant
lemon lotion and massage 1t daily into
the FACE. neck. arms and hands, and
see FOR yoursclf.-Adv.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-24

Then there will be the Davenny FEES
tival and Smith Spring Holmes quin
tets who will furnish some of thu
clever music for the clautauqua pro-
gram.
Others who will be heard in Mis-
soula during the chautauqua will b
DR.. Henry Smith Williams, one o
Americas great physicians: DIR. Frnnl
Bonn. European correspondent for tn,
New York Times: the Onwaga com
pany. noted Japanese artists, an,
list.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-24
CHOSE JAIL ALLEY
AS SPOT FOR CRIME

Al Clark chose the wrong SPOT and
the wrong time to pass a bottle OF
whiskey to Corporal ]. W. Jackson of
the United States army yesterday.
AS a result he landed in the city jail
AHer preliminary arrangements for
tne delivery Of the booze" had been
made, the khaki-clad one waited in the
aaiey behind the police station for
lark TO bring the whiskey. Clark
did. but before jackson could down n
single drink both he and Clark were
arrested arrested and placed in the city Jail. a
lew rect away. Clark will be turned
over to the federal authorities on the
charge of furnishing liquor to a sol.
der, which Is punishable by a, heavy
Tine and Imprisonment. Clark is the
second man to he arrested on this
charge. In this city. William Ford
the first offender to be arrested. Is ~
present confined in the county iai,
awaiting trial.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-24
Saving il, Food
Must Not Hurt
Human, Machine
Woman Expert Warns
Against Economy Which
Will Lower Vitality.

Feeding the Individual was the
subject Of the talk which Miss Bess
Rowe. home economies specialist of
the state College of Agriculture, gave
yesterday afternoon as the fifth lee
ture Of the series on Food Conserva-
ton and Preservation" at the Univer-
sity. In order to talk conservation,
according to Miss Rowe. we must first
understand what foods the body needs
! in order to conserve what is now our
main concern--men, women and chill
dren.
The two kinds Of fuel" with which
the human body must be stocked" are
fats and carbohydrates. The body
must have sufficient quantity of
these In order to keep the machine
running" Cereals. containing much
starch. arc a cheap source of fuel.
An element which Miss Rowe said
was absolutely essential in the dietary.
is fat. She told of an instance in
Germany. where this substance is now
so scarce, of a servant in hotel eat
ing cold cream on bread to satisfy the
craving for fats, and said that there
soap had become millionaire's lux
lry owing to the scarcity OF fats.
A given amount of proteins will
serve n man working in the lumber
camp as well az one working in an Of
flee. Besides being the most expen-
sive form of food, too much of it over
works the kidneys. The American
family is apt to eat too much meat.
Miss Rowe emphasized the great
need of drinking large quantities of
water and the body's need of mineral
matter and vitamnes. Fruits. vege-
tables and the coarser grains supply
| the need of bulk.
Miss Rowe will continue her lectures
over Tuesday. Wednesday and Thurs
| day at 4 o'clock in the afternoon at
! the university and Missoula women
are invited to attend. She will take
! up the question of substituting the ex-
| pensive foods with the more inexpen-
sive ones and yet supplying the needs
of the human body.