The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-11-12
BRIEF ITEMS LOCAL NEWS
X. o. T. Nj. meets Tuesday night

k. o. T. M. meets Tuesday night
License has been issued for the
marriage of Clifford T. Mcclellan and
Sarah Lee Johnson; Jno. w. Davis
and Linnie Malone.
MIR. Haywood Smith, who lives on
r. 2 from st. Paul, had the misfor.
tune to lose in Lumberton Thursday
q purse containing between $50 and
The Woman's club will meet at
$3.50 p. m. Wednesday in the directors
room of the National Bank of Lum-
berton. The president urges all MEM
bers to be present.
Mr.. Bright Morgan of Dunn has
arrived to take charge Of Messrs. Bell
{ Jardon's jewelry store. succeeding
Mr. ]. 3. Strickland. who left Satur-
day for Camp jackson.
Sgt. r. L. Cox, of Co. l., known
as the Lumber Bridge light infantry,
spent last week here visiting rela-
tives. He left yesterday for Camp
Sewer, S. c., where his company Is
stationed.
DR.. W. A McPhaul, county health
officer, left Friday evening for Mem
phis. Tenn, to attend meeting of
the Southern Medical association. The
meeting opens today and will last
through Thursday.
The president of Robeson chap
! ter, U. D. c., requests all who viii
contribute fruit and vegetables to the
| Confederate woman's home in Fay
etteville to send them this week to
Mrs.T. F. Costner.
| Mrs. Cunningham, representing
the State insurance department, will
address the National Aid society In
its room at the Lumberton cotton mills
office building this afternoon at 4:30
on food conservation, war prepara-
ton and fire prevention.
Red Springs Citizen: Mr.. D. P.
Mcleod Of Tarboro, spent the week
end with his Red Springs friends, re-
turning home Tuesday. 1t is good
news to state that Nir. Mcleod and
family will return to Red Springs in
: December to make it their permanent
home.
-Maxton Scottish Chief: Prof Fl.
H. Mclean left last Friday for the
, eastern part of the State, where he
was married yesterday to Miss Ruby
Gray Stilley of Edward, n. c. They
went North on bridal tour and will
be at home in MaXton in about two
: weeks.
+ Red Springs Citizen: The track
4 mas heer laid correcting tfa A. Z. l..
with TIE cotton mill site, and the
f M uling &C hrick and other material
= for building purposes has commenc-
ed. Frorl now on the work will be
: pushed as rapidly as possible until
t the mill is completed.
S -MrC.L.T .Thaggard and two daugh-
do of
a from Parkton, were among those who
e visited the fair Thursday. Mr.. Thag-
:, gard paid The Robesonian a pleasant
Ii call and declared that he could never
S get along without The Rohesonian' s
l. semi-weekly visits to his home.
-Maxton Scottish Chief The friends
) of Corporal Dan Mcqueen are delight
ed to meet him at home this week.
:, He came in last Saturday on fur
- -. lough lasting until today, when he
- - will return to Camp Sewer. He re-
y ports the Maxton boys we'll and al
~ of them have been made officers.
h As the result of his gun becom-
20 ing unbreeched when he fired it at 9
IN squirrel Thursday, Mr.. H. A. M'White
of R. l from Lumberton came very
t near losing his right eye. A piece
of metal from the shell flew bacl
and stuck in his eyeball. Mr.. M'Whits
l. went to Fayetteville to consult spec
IN ialist. -
IS, Lee Locklear, Indian, drove ;
s. Ford against horse driven by jim
On Kelly, colored, on the Rowland roas
about mile west of town late Sat
urday night. The horse was badE,
US hurt Locklear and his load abandon
on ed the auto as soon as the collisiol
IS. occurred and left it in the road. Tn
r. auto was still there this morning.
II "A Ford auto driven by Will Cav
as in ,colored, collided with a two-hors
ss wagon driven by Mr.. S. ]. Gore of +
Isl from Lumberton, corner Elm an
ne Fourth street, early Saturday morn
IS; ing. The wagon tongue was broker
cy Careless driving of the Ford is san
gu to have been the cause. The negr
m paid Mr.. Gore $3.50 to have ne
ie- tongue put on his wagon, however.
Mr.. F. H. Walters of Kansas
rs section bordering on Lumber rive
~, about Princess Anne in the Souther
"a part of the county, is a Lumbertc
ff visitor today. Mr.. Walters says tv
ar. women mixed it up in kansas" ye
,rn terday. He says they p'
70 up a bad fight. However, neither I
as the women were dangerously hur
,aS Mr.. Walters says they were drunk {
oh wine.
rot Mrs. F. A. Crabtree received
wire message early yesterday NOR
ing stating that her father, Mr.. Joi
T. Whitaker of Atlanta, Ga, had bet
vas killed by train. Mr.. Whitaker W;
ire killed Saturday night. No particula
the were given. He was II years ol
vas Mr.. and Mrs. Crabtree and three ch
the dren and Mr. Crabtree's mother, Nh
an Mary C. Crabtree, left last evenn
100. for Atlanta to attend the funeral. N
fire Crabtree will return home Wedne
ate day.
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