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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1917-03-01

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The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-11-05
NORTH CAROLINA SYNOD
1O4th Session Being Held in Fay
etteville- Report From Semln-
arv-Foreign Missions.

The 1O4th annual session of the
North Carolina Presbyterian synod
convened in the First Presbyterian
church of Fayetteville Tuesday. Rev.
DR.. Peter Mcintyre preached the OPP
ening sermon for the retiring modera-
tor. Rev. J. H. N. Summerell Of New
bern. DR.. D. H. Rolston OF the First
church of Charlotte was elected mod
orator.
DR.. Walter Moore, president Of TN
ion theological seminary at Richmond,
in his report outlined the expansion
and progress. of the institution. He
reported: 5 courses Of study for I'M
dergraduates, postgraduates, pastors
and missionaries; LOT students; per
|manent funds increased by nearly $780,
900; ample provisions made for cours-
es in English, Bible and missions; do
nation of 100000 for erection, equip
ment and maintenance. of a model
Sunday school building where students
may be trained in all phases Of Sun
day school work. To make this gift
available the synods of Virginia and
North Carolina are required to raise
an equal amount. Of this sum, $95, ;
600 is in hand. Endowment Of the
seminary amounts to $67O,0OO; value
Of buildings and grounds, $29G,0O0;
library has been increased to 2734O
volumns.
A meeting in the interest Of foreign
missions was held Tuesday night
Gratifying increase in the number OF
converts in foreign fields was report
ed, the number being 5,256, larger
by rs than any previous year. The
endowment fund has grown to $780,.
3O3 and receipts to 1886, 544.: The con
| tribution of the North Carolina synod
was $117,785. The change in ex-
change will add 100000 tothe cost Of
the work this year. The report rec
commended that pastors present this
cause frequently from their pulpits. Il
also was recommended that churches
in addition to the support unde
veloped~ mission fields take subscrip
tions for the second class appropria
tons of the executive committee which
are for native evangelists, native
teachers and native medical workers
in foreign work.
The North Carolina synod was Or
gained 1O4 years ago at old Ala
nance church, Greensboro. This is
the 18th time it has met in Fayette
vile. First church, where it is beins
held, was organized in 1900, IL year:
before the organization Of the synod
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-11-05
NOTICE OF COMMISSIONERS SAFE

Under and by virtue of the power vaste,f :,
the undersigned comnliss Toner by virtue - -
decree lately rendered by the Superior Co.
of Robson county in certain cause therai
pending, entitled ''W S. Rozier ct al oIsintiffs
vs. Lottie Rozier Wooten ct al defeada,+s .,
the undersigned will offer for sale at NJ;
auction for cash, to the highest bidder At fhS
court house door in Lumberton, N C. m IL e
3rd , day Of December, 1917, at about noon of
following described lands to-wit: LIE
Lyings and being in Howellsville township
said county and State adjoining the IL nd -
Jim :. Allen t and others, being the share allt
who was the first wife of D. s. Rozier ISL ne.
deceased. in the division of the lands Nv
Hughie Flowers, deceased father of sad VI
tie Flowers Rozier, and containing SO acre
This the Soth day of October, 1917
DICKSON MCLEAN
Time Of sale: 3rd day of December isf7
at IL o'clock m. i7A's
Place Of sale: Court house door. Irnabx,..
ton, N. c..
Terms of sale: Cash.
MCLEAN, VARSER & MCLEAN
- 4'ioi Attorneys.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-11-05
STATE QUARANTINE
LAW AT WORK IN SEW
ENTY-SEVEN COUNTIES
TwentyThree Counties Made Bad Re-
ports-State Board of Health Will
Enforce Law

TwentyThree Counties Made Bad Re-
ports-State Board of Health Will
Enforce Law.
State Board of Health Bulletin.
Seventy-seven counties are at work
putting into operation the new State
quarantine law, according to a map
published in the September issue of
the Health Bulletin, which is just from
the press. Twenty three counties had
done practically nothing when the re-
ports were made September 1. These
were: Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank,
Gates, Dare, Tyrrell, Hyde, Beaufort,
Craven, Carteret, Jones, Green, Bruins
wick. Moore, Person, Stokes, Allie
ghant, Wautauga, Avery, Henderson,
Jackson, Graham and Clay.
The counties doing good wrok when
the reports were made were: North
ampton, Martin, Pitt, Edgcombe
Mash, Wayne, Johnston, Wake, Gran
vile, Durham, Guilford, Forsyth
Yadkin, Davidson, Cabarrus, Iredell
Catawba, Lincoln, Yancey, Buncombe
and Haywood. The other counties of
the State are represented as having
started the work but which are moi
yet doing satisfactory work.
The rating of the counties was bas-
ed mainly on the number of contagi.
Gus diseases reported by the county
quarantine officers. Those reporting
the greatest number were considered
as doing the best work. The Bulletin
says: "County quarantine officers who
fail to report cases under the pre-
tense that they do not exist in the
county, Or that it will hurt some in
dustry or offend some family, will
most likely have in the end more
9"ft@s ard more epidemics to dea
-. \ hiya cGsc-1a.e for any coun
ty is not bad, but a high death-rat,
from preventable diseases is a dis
grace"
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-11-05
State Banks of North Carolina Show
Great Increase in Resources.

Great Increase In resources.
A statement Of the condition Of
State banks of North Carolina at the
close of business Sept. II, issued Mon
day by the Corporation Commission,
shows a net increase in resources the
past year of $28,749,855, practically
enough in net increase Of resources
for the State banks alone to take care
of the second Liberty loan bonds as
sessed against North Carolina. There
are 443 of these State banks, includ
IGN rs branch banks.
The resources are $132, 1876 ,566 as
compared with 103,476,687 for, Sep
TENDER one year ago.
The deposits aggregate close around
S100,000,000, gain of S425,OO0 for
year.
The capital stock at this time is
$12,261 GOT, a gain Of $781 ,257 for the
year. The surplus fund is SAIL, GOT,
gain Of $436,217, undivided profits,
81, 021 ,429, gain of S6O7,7S2.
The leans and discounts aggregate
$90,674 ,O67, a gain Of $1S,098,310; ov-
erdrafts s611, 131, gain of S131 ,628;
United States bonds $1,206, 404. "a gain
Of ISL ,2O3 ,0Q4 for the year, there hav-
ing been only $1,000 in United States
bonds1year ago. All other stocks bonds
and mortgages aggregated s2,947,-
26S, an increase Of 1888, 1854 for the
year.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-11-05
Select Seed Cotton for Next Years


Select Seed Cotton for Next Years
Planting.
West Raleigh, Nov. with cotton,
as with corn, it is Of the highest i'm
portance that seed shall be selecteds
at the right time and in the right place
in order that best results may be Sc
cured next year.
Mr.. C. B. Williams, chief of the di-
vision of agronomy of the experiment
station, says, that in order to get the
best yielding strains of cotton of any
variety, it will be necessary to Sc
lect seed in the field from the stalks
that are of good shape and bear the
largest number of well-developed bolls
when grown under the average con-
dition in the field. It is especially i'm
portant to see that plants from which
the selections are made are not the
specially favored ones in the way of
perturbation, manuring, or spacing,
tor II this precaution is not observed
the larger yields of these plants may
have been due, to a large extent, if
not entirely, to these specially favor
able conditions. It is necessary that
the bolls not only be large. but that
they all be we'll matured, SO that the
plants will be the ones which will pro-
duce the largest amount of lint per
acre.
1t also is necessary that due consid-
Grafton be given the selection of seed
from plants that have a fairly long
staple, uniform in length, where up
| land cotton is considered.
The place to make these selections
is in the field just before the second
picking, and make them from the
standing stalks. Pick the cotton sep
arately and put it in bag. Keep
this cototn in dry place, and later
on, when a spare time presents itself
1T may be ginned separately and the
seed saved for next years planting
1t is firmly believed from the infor-
nation obtained at the station that
the work devoted to the careful Sc
Letting of seed Of this crop in the field
will pay as we'll as any other work
that may be done on the farm. Care
should be exercised to see that the
press of other work at this time does
not crowd out the proper + SELECTING
OF seed for next years planting of cot
ton.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-11-05
NOTICE OF COMMISSIONERS SALE

NOTICE OF COMMISSIONERS oALE
Under and by virtue of the power vested
in the undersigned commissioner by virtue
of a decree lately rendered by the Superior
therein pending, entitled John S. Brown ct
al. plaintiffs, vs.. Williak K. Brown ct al. de-
fendants' the undersigned will offer for sale
at public auction, for cash., to the highest
bidder at the court house door in Lumber
ton N. c., the 3rd day Of December, 1917,
at about noon of said day, for the purposes
of said decree, the following described lands
to-wit:
Lying and being in the county of Robson
described as follows, to-wit: Adjoining the
lands of the late Duncan Brown, deceased
and known the Buie lands: Beginning at
stake among four pines by the side of
small branch, about 200 yards north of Pop
lar Bay, and S 35 w chains to a
stake among four pines thence N GA w Is
chains to a stake by three pines, about 200
| yards south Of Hunters Bay by the north side
of the road leading from McArthurs mill
thence due east IA chains to stake by three
pines; thence a direct line to the beginning,
containing six acres. Deed for said land be-
| ing recorded in the office of the register of
| deeds of Robson county, N. G.. in book 60
| at page 1922, reference to which registry is
hereby made
| This the Goth day of October, 1917.
H. E. STACY and DICKSON MCLEAN,
Commss toner's.
Time of sale: srd day of December, 1917,
| at IL o'clock m.
Place Of sale: Court house door, Lumber
| ton, N. G.
| Terms of sale: Cash.
| MCLEAN, VARsER & MCLEAN,
| IL Anon Attorneys.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-11-05
Read a Newspaper Or You're a Slack

Read Newspaper or You're Slack
er.
"The man or woman who in these
critical times fails to read a good
newspaper regularly is slacker.n
declared Prof. Willard G. Bleyer. head
OF the Department of Journalism at
the University of Wisconsin, in adj
dressing the students of the Library
school last week.
1T is the patriotic duty of every
person IN this country to keep inform
ed IN regard to the epoch-mak ino
events and utterances that are report
ed IN the press from day to day." he
continued.
The food of opinion is the news
OF the day. as President Wilson has
well said, and it behooves every cit
lien not only to read the news. but
to form Intelligent opinions in regard
I, 20 it. s''- u
,'lntelligent public opinion. without
which we cannot have true democra-
cy, is the sum total of the opinions
OF individual citizens, and the onin-
ions of these citizens must be formed
largely from the news which is print.
ed IN newspapers.
by failing to read the news and
to consider its significance. man i
Sinking his duty to his country inst
as truly as he is when he fails to az.
press his opinions by casting his vote
at an election Press Bulletin.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-11-05

Expectation of refined sugar from
Cuba to neutral countries is prohib-
tied in presidential decree made pub
lie Tuesday night. The decree also
fixes the wholesale and retail prices
at which sugar may be sold in Cuba
for domestic consumption. The max
imum price for refined sugar is plac-
ed at 7.25 wholesale and $50 pound
retail; crude sugar at Ats wholesale
and 1915 retaiL Havana retailers
have been charging as high as IS
cents for five-pound sack of sugar.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-11-05
FIVE FILTHY FINGERS.

Did you ever make a diary of your
fingers? Did you ever set down in
cold black and white the things your
fingers touch every day and did you
ever consider the number of times
daily that your unwashed fingers seek
your mouth?
When surgeons discovered that it
was their own infected fingers which
carried germs into wounds they set
about trying to discover means
whereby their hands could be render
ed surgically clean, i. e., free from
germs The whole realm Of chemistry
was ransacked for agents which would
disinfect hands, and the scrubbings
and dimensions to which they sub
jected their hands are even yet ten
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-11-05
Germany Has Lost 100000 Men Dur
ing 3 Years of War.

ing Years of War.
Germany lost six million men IN
three years Of war, according to the
declaration made in the Reichstag by
the Independent socialist Ledebour. A
report of his speech reaching Wash
ington through Switzerland states
that, contemplating the prospect OF
a fourth winter campaign, the social
list leader said:
"You have not evidently, gentle
man. an exact conception of what war
means. We have had 100000 dead;
three or four million wounded, OF
whom 100000 are crippled for life
and two million absolutely invalided
That makes it. altogether six million
men lost during three years"
It is stated that official informa-
ton confirmatory Of these figures has
been in the possession OF American
officials for some time.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-11-05

der memory to the surgeons of that
neriod. But all Of these efforts prov
ed useless and at last in despair sur
oeons took to wearing rubber gloves
which could be boiled, thus bringing
to each patient, as it were, fresn
nair Of sterile hands. In other words,
try as you will you can't by any
known method make your hands ao-
solutely clean. -
The great agent in the spread OF
those diseases whose causatlve organ
ism is present in the secretions OF the
mouth and nose, is the human hand;
and if saliva was bright green we
would be amazed at the color OF our
fingers. AS a matter Of fact most
of us carry our fingers to our mouth
or nose many times daily, there to
implant the germs of disease winch
other careless people have spread
about, there to collect fresh cargo
Of infectious material to scatter Tor
somebody else. >.
It is true that most germs Of dis
ease die quickly once khey leave the
human body but what does the death
of a few billion germs matter sc
long as the supply is copious and new
er ending.
What an enormous number Of in
fected things we touch during the day
and how infrequent and cursory are
the hand washings we perform.
The answer is to keep your finger:
out of your mouth and nose. Thu:
we limit the spread of disease from
these orifices at least, thus we eliml
nate the danger of contracting dis
ease from someone else who was no
quite so careful.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-11-05
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE

Having qualified as administrator Of +hs
tate of W. R. oxendine, deceased, late Of f.
county Of Robson and State of North Ca
claims against the estate of the said dec s.as
ed to exhibit them to the undersiened ~
Pembroke on or before the 18th day of o..
tobers 1918, or this notice will be pleaded ::
bar of their recovery. All persons indeb-t a.!
to said estate will please make imnedisto
payment.
= Dated this the 10th day of October. 1917
j. d. OXENDINE, (Xsignea\
Administrator w. R. Oxendine estste
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-11-05

:, Itch; Itch! Itch-Scratch! Scratch'
scratch! The more you scratch. the
worse the itch. Try Doan's Ointment
Tor hor eczema, any skin itching. 6Oc a
The Dolores star., 1917-02-23
FUNSTON IS DEAD
MEMO or ARaav nRope DEAD op
MEANT FAILURE At 0oRpea
POST IN TgxAo.
Nis Lase Order Sent ouardemsa
Heme.-otrteksR while Piaylne
win chlsd.-Psrshins viii succeed
ceA. Funston.

Western Newspaper unioa News Service.
San Antonio, Tex. Feb. 71.-Maj.
Gen. Frederick Funston. Commander
Of the Department Of the Southwest.
responsible for the direction of al the
troops. regulars and guardsmsn. on
the border. died almost instantly In
the lobby OF . hotel here Monday
night. He was 81 years old. Death
came ~ he was talking to group Of
friends with whom he had had . din
ner few minutes earlier.
Gen. Funston. apparently In the best
Of health. was playing with Ines sfl-
verberg. q Des Moines child who Ii
visiting the hotel with her parents.
The orchestra In the adjoining room
was playing blue Danube" waltz.
The group ceased talking. to listen.
and Gen. Funston remarked. "How
beautiful 1t all isl" and collapsed. He
passed away without recovering con-
sciousness or speaking another word.
Two weeks ago Gen. Funston suf.
fered an attack Of acute indigestion.
The Dolores star., 1917-02-23
DADCN'S EVENING
TALEH
-.rvo sGAaa
3 NAN 0AhAM BOWER

do tho Bears 60 to deep In tAa
winterf" asked Nancy.
They're awake In the Zoo" said
Nick.
Yea know" said Nancy. nut Z
mean the ones who live ofE-o6-well,
wherever they liver
'The Bears live In rocks and caves"
said Daddy. "And they do 20 to sleep
In the winter. But every little while
they come out 20 they are unlike the
kinds Of Animals that sleep straight
through the whole winter and who do
not get mp until spring II here. /,
"One day Billy Bear and his broth
er Brownie Bear went on on hunt
ing excursion. They had great deal
Of luck and came back to their cave
with all sorts Of good things to eat.
"But the things they had found that
they liked best. and which they had
only taken on q short distance In the
woods where they had had . feast,
were the things they had found In an
old Farmyard.
'They had seen the most delicious
Of things therei For on a porch Of
the Farmhouse they had found an old
garbage pail. And this they dragged
OF Into the woods. There were old
tins which had once held jam. there
were old jars to be licked out, and
there were many delicacies which the
Bears don't always get.
'-They scattered the old tins, after
they had left them quite shiny and
clean, through the woods adjoining the
Farmyard. and they didn't bother to
pick up anythingl
"And, then they heard the Farmer
come out into his Farmyard.
| "I do believe that those Bears who
live on In the Caves Of the Woods
have been here. They know Just how
to get at tins with their claws-and
they love jam and sweet thfngs.'
'Then he heard rustic through the
woods. They're there now, he ex-
claimed. Maybe I could get a shot
at one Of them
"And he went for his gun. After
all, the Bears had only taken his gar
bage tins, and garbage wasn't such
q tremendous thing to steal but the
Farmer was feeling angry and cross.
"On went his gun, and Billie and
Brownie Bear rushed back to their
Cave for all they were worth.
"How selfish Of him. they growled,
when we were cleaning up his place
for him..
'But before they reached the Cave
they had picked up some more good
things.
/ "They knew that the Farmer
wouldn't chase them into the deer
woods for there were more Bear
where they lived, and he was afraid
Of more than one or two.
.'He just thought he could get us.
said Billy Bear, because there were
The Dolores star., 1917-02-23
New Mexico,

The Oaks Company of Mogollon
paid its third consecutive monthly
dividend on outstanding preferred
stock, on Feb. LIST.
The Socorro mines clean up for the
last half of January amounted to
nineteen bars of bullion or between
$4,000 and $4,000 ounces.
The Mogollon Mines Co. produced
sixteen bars of bullion for the last
two weeks Of January. Additional
dwelling houses are being put up for
their men.
New Mexico has an exclusive cor
ner on one of the worlds commodities,
meerschaum, and 1t is likely that
these vast deposits will again be op-
erssed, this time by Lordsburg inter
ests.
= Arrangements have been completed
whereby the Oaks Company have TAX
en- option on the Maude 8. property.
Examinations are now being made
and it is expected that this property
will again enter the productive stage.
Upwards OF a million dollars have
been taken from the mine.
The Dolores star., 1917-02-23
seeks Farm Loan Law DeciaIon.

Gov. Julius C. Gunter requested the
State Board Of Land Commissioners to
confer with Attorney General Leslie
l. Hubbard and prepare an interroga-
tory to the Supreme Court on the
question of the validity Of the farm
loan act that decision may be had
from the high tribunal Immediately.
1t is, planned to have the Legislature
pass bill which will be constitutional
and will provide for farm loans In
case the law passed by the people at
the last election is declared unconstt
tutional
The Dolores star., 1917-02-23
THREE WOMEN ARE HELD
IN vGNEzio TAxlcAo MURDER
Gaze AT PUE0Lo.
slain Driver Rsportsd 10 Have Areused
Jealousy BY Attention 10 One sf
the Suspects.

Western Hswsrapsr Unsoa News Service
Pueblo. Colo.-Six arrests were
made BY the police In the killing OF
Nicholas venezio. . taAxtcab driver.
here. venexio was shot to death. pre-
sumably by one Of two passengers in
his cab. jpst ~ he stopped the car
near the entrance to the Colorado
Fuel q Iron Company's Bessemer
plant.
Three Of the suspects held are
women. The prisoners gave their
names rs May Manning. Elnora
Young. Sylvia Martin. George John.
Carlo Albriea and n. A. Jones.
The shooting. the police believe.
grew out Of . love affair between the
taxi driver and one of the women ar
rested. tits said one OF the men sus-
poets was jealous Of Venezio's atten-
tions to the woman.
A telephone message summoned
Venezio to Northern avende, where
he picked up two fares. He presum-
ably had driven the passengers to q
spot near the steel works fence
when the shooting occurred. The po-
lice found footprints leading away
from the cab, and the driver dead In
his seat, when they arrived ON the
scene. Four bullets took effect In
Venezio's body.
The Dolores star., 1917-02-23

Avoids Aiimony by Binding Self Out.
Gilcrest.-Because he had bound
himself out to w. A. Jack Of Evans
for two years. to learn the black
smithing and automobile repairing
business at fifty cents day. the
alimony Of twenty dollars a month as
sessed against George e. Hubbard by
the District Court in the divorce suit
of his wife, Edith M. Hubbard, does
not begin running until Jan. 1, 1919,
when the husbands period Of appren-
ticeship expires.
The Dolores star., 1917-02-23
colorado Militia Ordered DemobIIIzed

Ell Paso. Feb. 20.-Announcement
was made at district headquarters Of
the assignment Of national guard
troops in this district to the groups
which will be sent home as soon as
transportation can be furnished by
the quartermaster department. The
composition OF these groups. In the
order OF their expected departure
from the border II % follows: Group
1-Colorado, Batteries b and G.: Con.
necticut, Batteries e and r.; District
Of Columbia. Battery a: Georgia.