The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-01-01
NUMBER 90
BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS

BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS
Regular meeting of Lumbee tent -
NO. Is, Maccabees, tomorrow night
at s O'Clock. Degree work
Miss Maria Nash has accented
a position in the office of Register of
Deeds NJ. w. Floyd. She begac work
this morning.
Another leap year has leaped
away and it will be four years before
the girls will have the chances leap
years give them again.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. E. Nance will
move tomorrow from the Biggs place,
about mile from town on the White
vile road, where they have lived for
several years, to Proctorville.
Mr.. w F. Baxley and SON, Mr..
Oscar, of R. from Lumberton, were
IN town Saturday. Mr.. Baxley re-
ported measles epidemic in his sec
| tion and case in his own family.
Register of Deeds NJ. w. FLOYD
! had one of the best months ever in
+ the marriage license business during
December. He sold 73 licenses dur
/ 1rg the month, which at So each
D, emG'nted TO SLY.
License has been issued for the
! marriage Of James Avne- Britt and
/ ilian Freeman; Thos. W. Holliday
ard Mona McLein; Ernest Mcthaul
ard Miriam Toon; A. R. Wilson ard
Flora E. Prevatt
] Sheriff and Mrs. R. E. Lewis
moved Thursday from the Correll
house on North Elm street, where
> they had been keeping house for sew
/ eral yearsa to the Lorraine hotel,
where they have suite of rooms.
Mr.. J. T. Mcintyre and family
moved Thursday from farm near
Rennert, which he recently sold, to
farm about miles from Lumber
ton on the Whiteville road which he
5 recently bought from Mr.. ]. T. Biggs.
Mr.. Colin A. Britt of Orrum
was a Lumberton visitor Saturday.
He remarked as he paid his sub
scription to The Robesonian that that
;, left him square with everybody and
he had corn and meat a-plenty. Well
: fixed
y Mr. and Mrs. ]. G. Parnell will
+ move this week from Mr.. VIM. Stones
- place miles from Lumberton on
R. 2 to a place belonging to Mr.. G.
9 E. Lineberry on r. 1 from st. Paul.
+ Mr.. Parnell was Lumberton visitor
this morning.
d Price & Bonnelli's Greater New
j. York minstrels held the boards at
/, the local opera house Thursday night.
vi II is one of the best minstrel shows
that has visited Lumberton and the
lie performance was enjoyed by large
g audience. -
it -Messrs. S. L. Parker and Charley
e Hickman passed through town Sat
urday morning about II o'clock with
l. a wagon filled with fox dogs and
at dead fox. They caught the fox
o, about a miles from town On the
Strong Wishart plantation, now own
er ed by Messrs. White & Cough. The
s. dogs chased the fox for four hours
t. before they caught him.
Mr.. NJ. A. Odum, who came to
u Lumberton a few months ago from
- Farmville, Va, purchasing an inter-
IL est in the grocery store of Mr.. M.
n. Folger, sold his interest back to
&c Mr.. Folger last week and left Fri
;;se dav night for Farmville, where he
Ill will keen books for w. ]. Hillsman
& Co. 1t is understood that Mr..
~ Odum is to marry a Farmville lady
~ soon and that his return to Farm
- vile was for reasons other than bus
~ mess.
Mr.. w. C. Boone, who left Robe
son county some months ago fol
China, where he is employed by the
American Tobacco Co. in farm dem
90 onstration work relative to raising
: Tobacco, remembers his friends in
nd Robeson. From the Far East, Fantse
he China, he sends The Robesonian &
av postcard reading as follows: Here:
~ wishing The Robesonian and its man!
ol. readers a Merry Christmsa and {
n prosperous New Year. The card wa.
ar mailed November 20 and reachet
Ir Lumberton December 80.
Sc DIR. Lucian Edgar Follansbee
ok who has been on the Chautauqua ant
Lyceum platform for 20 years ant
re- who is said to inspire and hold al
wo audience as few lecturers are able t,
ed do, will deliver a lecture at the op
m era house Thursday evening of thi
,n- week, at $50. This is one of tn
his numbers of the Lyceum course un
nd der the auspices of the Lumbertol
I'VE Civic association. Attractions so ia
to given in this course have been ia
his above the average and Or. Follans
bees lecture will be looked forwar
to with pleasure.
on Mr.. 1. V. Hooper, who sold hi
ca interest in the Iumberton Marbl
tn & Granite Co. some months ago an
st had since been salesman for tha
company, has purchased the Fayette
lily Vile Monument works and went t
ty, Fayetteville this morning to tax
all charge of that business. Mr.. HOOP
rch er is an experienced monument ma
to and made numerous friends throue1
ew out this section during his reside. /
a of 7 wears in Lumberton. Mrs. Hoot
St. er and their infant son will renal
eat in Lumberton about weeks befor
gn- moving to Fayetteville.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd W. McMi