The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-05-31
BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS

BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS
Indications are that there will
be wedding in Lumberton before
many hours.
Mr.. ]. G. Grantham of Fairmont
has accepted position as salesman
In the department store of Messrs.
White & Cough.
Mr.. Abner Nash has accepted a
position as salesman in Mr.. K. NJ.
Biggs' department store. He began
work Monday.
AT the regular meeting of the
local tent of the Maccabees next Tues
day night officers will be elected and
other important business will be
transacted. All members are urged
to be present.
Mr.. w. K Bethune returned this
morning from Washington, D. c..
where he made final arrangements
for entertaining those who 90 with
him his annual educational tour of
! Washington next week.
Mr.. H. H. Stanley of the Ten
Mile section was Lumberton visitor
Tuesday. Mr.. Stanley reported a
! good rain and some hail in his sec
! tlon Monday afternoon. The hail did
not damage crops, however.
Mr.. E. V. Mcdaniel merchant,
OF Fairmont, was a Lumberton visi-
tor yesterday. Mr.. Mcdaniel reports
crops growing and looking we'll down
| his way. He says the prospect for a
!; good tobacco crop is very bright
According to reports received by
home folks of young men who went
! from Lumberton to the officers train
J ing camp at Fort Oglethorpe, life at
> the training camp is strenuous. The
men drill from a. m. till night and
then have to spend while studying.
r MIR. G. E. Rancke, proprietor of
d the Jennings beach, which is located
). about two miles west of town, just
t that the road to the beach has been
worked and put in good condition and
: that autoists need not hesitate to
a make the trip now.
- DIR. C. S. Dietz will go tomorL
a a row to Conway, S. c., to visit his
= three sons there. Two of them will
: draft bill on June and another, who
\. lS uiiuC1 q years Olu, Will JUN s1S
~ U. S. navy at an early date. DIR.
= Dietz expects to return on June Z.
s. Miss Eunice Britt will leave this
rs afternoon for Mansfield, La, after
Isl spending two weeks visiting at the
III home of her father,rMr D. n. Britt,
jr on R. 6 from Lumberton. Miss Britt
t. is choir leader at the First Baptist
church at Mansfield, which position
ty she has held for nearly year. She
~ also teaches vocal music.
u; Rev. ]. F. Davis and family left
III Tuesday for Milton, Caswell county,
e. where they will make their home. Mr..
Davis having accepted a call as pas
tor of several Baptist churches near
y. Milton, as has been mentioned in The
Robesonian. Mr.. Davis resigned re-
Gently the pastorate of Pembroke,
r North Lumberton, Rozier and Oak
ck Grove churches.
VI "A man with trick horse that
Gu figures and does other stunts visited
% Lumberton Monday and small crowd
of folks gathered at the corner of
= Chestnut and Third streets about
III of the clock in the evening to see.
'ii That looks like might precarus
way to earn eats for a man and a
nK woman and a horse-but maybe that
q was side line only.
National Committeeman A. w
Mclean of Lumberton introduced
ne Hon. Henry Morgenthau, former
cy United States Ambassador to Turkey
" y. wher the latter delivered the com.
d. ntncement address at the State col.
lege of agriculture and engineering
ed at Raleigh Tuesday. In introducing
a., the speaker Mr.. Mclean paid splen
IN did tribute to the service Mr.. Nor
iet genthau has rendered the country ane
lr' the Democratic party.
w. Wilmington Star, Goth: Mr.. r. D
ar Caldwell of Lumberton was in th'
"a city yesterday, a guest Of the Orton
me of r. D. Caldwell & Son, one of th'
US eson county, and is also president O
uD the Lumberton Cotton Mills compan!
and is prominently connected witt
red the banking and industrial life o
c. Lumberton incidentally, he is sup
ich erinfendent of the First Baptist Sun
-ay day school of his town, having beel
by elected for life, after having serves
ter in this capacity some twenty year
rk- or more.
mo Mr.. w. K Scott of Alamanc
county, who spent two weeks in Rob
the eson lately helping in the food con
the servation campaign and addressed
ing number of audiences about over tn
Of county, won the medal for the bes
nal senior grafton at the commencement
The Tuesday of the State college of ag
oc;; riculture and engineering at Raleigh
'cal His subject was Government Own
ership of Railroads. The Raleig
Ids correspondent of the Greensboro Dali
we'd News wrote his paper that Scot
the "won without serious debate anon
will the people and received beautifr
nth gold medal"
are The sun was shining bright an
Who all was calm and peaceful there
All abouts, but still tears fell from fou
Wit, ewes. Two of those ewes were thos