The Robesonian., 1917-12-10
NUMBER 81
BRIEF ITEMS LOCAL NEVIS

BRIEF ITEMS LOCAL NEVIS
Regular meeting X. o. T. NJ. to-
morrow evening 7:30. Election of of
ficers. All members urged to be pres :
ent.
-Lumberton chapter No. 116, O.
z: s., will hold its regular meeting
thursday evening December 13, IN
Masonic hall at 7:3O. All memberx
are urged to be present.
MIR. W. P. McAllister left Satur-
day evening for Hendersonville, where
his family has been for several
months on account Of Mrs MeAllis-
ter's health. He will return with his
family the latter part of this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. 1. Grantham, who
were married on November q, arriv-
ed here Friday evening. Thew are
rooming at the home of Dr.. and Mrs-
WA. McPhaul, Elm street, and board
ing with Mrs. n. 4. Mclean, same
street.
License has been issued for the
marriage of Willie Hanchey and Ka-
| tie Benton; Jno. H. West and Florida
Floyd; Gregory G. Phillips and Mary
Howard; montgomery Evans and Mary
/ Ivey; Carl n. Dunn and Emma Bell
McRae.
-Messrs. L. Byrd and E. F. McCul-
lcck of Elizabethtown are among the
visitors IN town today. They made the
trip IN an auto and had to get out
into the water in the Big swamp ear
" this morning when the car stuck.
Mighty cold to wade early this morn
ing.
An examination for clerk In the
!. local postoffice was held by the local
examining board Saturday in the COM
mlsSlonerS room at the court house.
, There were 9 competitors-6 men and
: women. All vacancies will be filled
| in the future from those who become
{ eligible from this examination.
: Major ]. B. Malloy of Parkton is
Lumberton visitor today. Major
: Malloy attained the rank of major in
: the army during service on the Me6-
can border and he is also captain of
the county home guards. He says he
5 will send The Rohesonian a commun-
4 ication soon in regard to the duties
: of the home guard. 1t is expected
] that guns and uniforms will be pro-
S Vlded IN the near future.
n Mrs. R. R. Carlyle, who has been
{ visiting at the home of her mother,
S Mrs. E. K. Proctor, for the past four
+ weeks, will leave Wednesday for San
{ Antonio, Texas, where she and Mr..
" Carlyle have made their h0Ilo -or
= tie past year or mere on account of
q Mr.. Carlyle's health. II Mr. Carlyle's
- health continues tC improve as il has
y been improving they expect 70 re-
!. ,,. turn to Lumberton to live next fall.
Mr.. ]. A. Sharpe, editor of The
# Robesonian, returned yesterday from
# Greenville, where he attended Friday
% evening a banquet of Trinity college
At alumni, held in the large and well.
as arranged dining room at East Caro-.
,d lima teachers training school. He al
II SO looked in on the North Carolms
40 Greenville today, and heard a splendif
n address on education by Bishop w
L. A. Gambler Friday evening.
ce Mr.. Frank Wilkins of R. z from
se Lumberton is among the visitors II
I'd town today. Mr. Wilkins brough
ed along a piece of silver money the siz,
Ell. of dollar which is said to be Span
lis ish dollar. Mr.. Wilkins found tn,
Id coin under the dirt while working ol
20 the road in the Big swamp, nea
Smiths bridge, one day recently
e. Although the coin bears the date 1873
b. 1t looks new as a 1917 dollar. Mn
Nv Wilkins says his father, who is aroun,
We 80 years of age, remembers seein,
# dollars like that one when he was
N small boy.
Mrs. G. R. Hennigar left Satur
day afternoon for her home at Hall
fax, n. S., after spending some tim
here visiting her parents, Mr.. an
Mrs. ]. A. Barker Mrs Hennigar'
- husbands office was right near th
- harbor where the terrible explosio
. occurred Thursday and she was muc
concerned about his safety until FIR
ngI day, when she received a wire mes
sage from him stating that he escape
10 unhurt. The Hennigar home wa
within two blocks of the wharf an
Mrs. Hennigar said she was sure ths
. it was wrecked by the explosion.
-, e. Tilly, aged II years, and Harv
M Brigham, aged IL years, each was SCI
rty fenced to Sunday school for twely
the months Saturday by Assistant Recors
m er E. NJ. Johnson. The boys wei
ng. hailed into court on the charge I
OF boarding trains about town while IL
for trains were moving and after ridin
the some distance jumping off. The 10,
had not been attending Sunday schol
re- according to the evidence, and the SCI
en, tence provides that they must after
Sunday school every Sunday for
ass year and take statement from the
rhe teacher to the recorder every 90 d.,
go, to prove that they attend regularly.
on -
his Messrs. H. S. Nye. and Condary Britt
Orrum were among the visitors in town s
urday.
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