The Robesonian., 1917-10-18
BRIEF ITEMS LOCAL NEWS

MIR. A. Weinstein is buying cot
,on on the local market this season.
Mr.. w. C. Seasons has accented
position as salesman in Mr.. N. p.
Andrews store.
Quite a number of Lumberton
people are attending the State fair at
Raleigh this week.
MIR. w. F. French left last evening
Tor the West to buy mules and horses
for his sales stables.
License has been issued for the
of Thomas Walters and Sa-
rah Margaret Carver
Sheriff R. E. Lewis began his
tax collecting rounds Monday. He
reports the folks Coming across" in
a satisfactory manner.
banners advertising the county
fair, which will be held in Lumber
ton November 6, Z, and 9, have been
placed on many local automobiles.
Regular quarterly meetings of
the directors of the Lumberton, Dres-
den and Jennings Cotton Mill COM
panles were held in the offices of the
companies here yesterday.
Mrs. c. M Britt of the Mt. Eliam
section passed through town yester-
day en- route to Charlotte, where she
Will enter hospital. She was ac-
companied by DR.. w. L. Grantham.
All packages mailed to soldiers
IN France must be censored by the
postmaster where the package is mail
ed. Letters are not censored, howey-
er, at the local office, but in Wash
ington.
Several Lumberton boys around
10 years old have recently left home
without the knowledge of their par
ents. Some have been located at Ba-
din, some at Hamlet and others in
| Virginia.
! .-Messrs. B. Tolar and Frank Hall
OF Rennert are Lumberton visitors
today. Mr.. Tolar says he has the
best crop of corn he has had in many
year, and that there are others re-
Joiclng over the same good fortune.
Mr.. D. L. Whiting of Gibson has
accepted position in the hardware
department of Mr.. l.. H. CaldwelPs
department. store. He began work
Monday. Mr.. Whiting will move his
family to Lumberton at an early date.
i Mrs. l.. r. Varser left this after
noon for Kinston, her former home.
where she is on the program to sing
two solos at a recital which will be
given at the First Baptist church of
k1nston tomorrow evening in celebra-
tlon of the installation of a new pipe
organ. Mrs. Varser intended to leave
!, this morning but missed the train and
Mr.. Varser drove her to Fayetteville
this Afternoon in their car.
The Lumberton postoffiee has
| been made central accounting office
for all the other postoffices in the
: county. The reports from all these
, offices are sent to the office here
{ where they are audited and then sent
: to the Postoffice Department at Wash
{ ington. Heretofore each office has
/, mailed reports direct to the depart
5 ment at Washington. Stamps, postal
/ cards, ETC., are distributed to the va
rlous offices in the county by the
postoffice here.
: from distance for the Carlyle viii
: trial was Mrs. Mary H. Klarpp o1
Statesboro, Ca, who nursed the late
e Miss Athesia Carlyle during her Iast
: illness. Mrs. Klarpp- went Monda,
: evening to Red Springs to visit Mrs
Geo. Ratley. On her way to Lumber
+ ton she visited at the home of Mr.
g Dennis Ratley at Florence, S. c., am
e during the trial she was a guest a
r the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Car
S lyle at Rozier. Miss Ethel Carlyl
n Of Rozier was in town with her Mon
; day.
5. Mr.. and Mrs. Angus H. McLea1
% of Vera Cruz, Mexico, arrived thi
s morning from New York, where the,
= spent some time, and will be guest
d for few days at the home Of Nh
and Mrs. A. w. Mclean. Mr.. Nc
5 Lean is the youngest son of the Lat
st Hector R. Mclean, who was broth
ir er of the late Col Neill Archie Nc
n Lean, Sr., Of Lumberton. Mr.. Hee
N tor r. Mclean was born and raise
near Red Springs, in Robson, eE
,r went to Texas shortly after The Civ
st war. His son Mr.. Angus Mclean ha
l. been living in Mexico for the past
If years and is big coffee and suga
a planter.