The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-11-08
COUNTY CLAIMS PAID
Business Transacted at Regular
Monthly Meeting of County
Commissioners.

Monthly Meeting of County
Commissioners.
The county commissioners were IN
regular session Monday for the trans
action Of routine business. The fol-
lowing claims were ordered paid:
Court and Court House-John 5.
Butler, recorder St. Paul district, sal
airy, $40; j. N. Buie, recorder Red
Springs district, salary, $50; r. M.
Williams, recorder Maxton district,
salary, $65; D. w. Bullock, recorder
Rowland district, salary, $50; A. o..
Floyd, recorder Fairnnont district, sal
airy, $50; E. NJ. Britt, recorder Lum-
berton district, salary, $75; C. B.Skip-
per, clerk Superior court, salary $685.
SO. stamps s3.45, jury tickets $61o.80,
preparing receipts for drainage tax
$3.50; Edwards & Broughton, sup
plies for county officials, s2.62; Ben
Biount, ianitor, salary, SIS; +. f.
Lewis, sheriff, salary $316.ee, stamps
$3.50; Everett-Waddy Co., supplies
for county officers, S4270; McAllis-
ter Hdw. Co., supplies for court house
1913; Lumberton Furniture Store, 2
oil heaters for court house, 81; Lum-
berton Motor Car Co., repairs on
court house boiler, $17.98; Geo. D.
Barnard Co., steel safe for sheriff 8
office, 1892; ]. M. McCallum, county
auditor, salary $3.50, stamps and
expenses $500; M. w. Floyd, regis
ter of deeds, salary $316.66, stamps
s1O.64; Miss Minnie Lennon, court
stenographer, recording court pro-
ceedings, $50; W. Lennon, solicitor
recorders court, Lumberton district
$14; Moore & Evans, flag for court
house Sill; Mclean, Varser & Nc
Lean, representing National Bank Of
Lumberton, treasurer of the county
in drainage tax suit, $47.35. Total
$2,482.O2.
Jail and Prisoners-six rural po-
licemen, SIS each-$45O; A. H. Pre-
watt, jailer, salary $50, feeding pris-
oners S52.85; J. V. Faulk, conveying
prisoner and solvent court cost, $4.55
Total $557.4O.
Neutrality-suspicious. W. Ward, ex-
penses to State convention of county
commissioners, $10.O8; J. P. Town
send, special coroner holding inquest
over body of Irwin Sampson $7.70
six jurymen in inquest 81 each-$12
DIR. T. A. Norment, special coroner
holding inquest over body of Ernest
Hunt $3.50, six jurymen in inquest 81
each-S12; Haynes Barnes, wood fol
county home, 81; Miss Lula M. Gas.
sidy, home demonstration agent, sal
airy $685.; L. E. Blanchard, county
farm demonstrator, salary, S85; /. j
Flowers, keeper county home ,s124;Dr
W. A. McPhaul, county health off
low I c4o u
Hughes, burial of Eliza J. sealey
drugs for county, $3.50; Pope Drug
ern Stamp &. Stationery Co., supplies
Machine Co., work on machine, SIP
Town Of Lumberton, light and water
for court house and jail, $28:o2; Ste
phens & Barnes, burial of Irwin Samp
son, $15; Stephens & Barnes, buria
of Julia Steele, pauper, .s12.5O; Free
man Printing Co., supplies for coun
ty, $27;35; D.. B. Hardin, burial o
Phelix Hardin, pensioner, SIS; Jas. A
Johnson, special coroner, holding in
quest over body Of Bill Smith, $3.50
six jurymen, So each-$12; Reming
ton Typewriter Co., typewriter rib
bons for county, 81; Robesonian Pub
a lisshhiIngg Co., publishing tax notice
$26.7o; State Hospital, Goldsboro, in
digent pupils, $35; o. J: Mcconnell
expense cotton grading, $57.65; T. F
Tolar, wood for county home, $29.75
G; +. Pate & Co., burial Of Cathrin
Medlin, pensioner, SIS; White
$43.36; John Dial, wood for Jail, ST.
l 4o4 =
THE following rebates were allow
ed: totosho moving picture show
| Maxton, $685.; W. J. Britt, Orrur
Brown, Alfordsville township, SIS
property, $3.50; Sandy Thompson
Br1tts township, $500 property, 81
| W. T. Adams, St. Paul township, SIS
property, $3.50; A. NJ. Davis, Fail
mont township, $3.50 poll, $3.50; ia
McCallum, Thompson township, $2.9
poll, $3.50; Archie Mcleod, Raj
Swamp township $3.50 poll, $3.50.
Messrs. G. B. Townsend and E.
Britt were appointed a committee I
purchase a boiler for heating pla1
at county Jail.
The regular pauper list was ALLOW
ed and the following special order
were made: William Herring, place
on list at 81 per month on account ,
blindness; Henry Kelly, placed on Ii
;. at 50 per month, partial insanit,
regular monthly allowance of Oil,
1 Stocks increased from So to SIS on a
e count Of feeble condition, and Ne
y Mcmillan from $3.50 to $40 on a
d count Of absolutely helpless conditio
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