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The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
NOTICE OF SUMMONS AND WAR
RANT OF ATTACHMENT

NAN Vt A1lACHM Elm
North Carolina,
Robson County.
Inthe Superior Court.
T.. G.. Floyd VS.. Buffers Lumber
Company, B. F. Powell and Ora Pow
To the Defendant Ora Powell:
You are hereby notified that YOU
have been made a party defendant in
the above entitled action at the in
stance of the defendant Buffers Lum-
Der Company for the purpose of de-
termining your liability upon a gen
eral warranty of conveyance set out
IN certain deed executed by Ora
Powell and B. F. Powell to the de-
PENDANT Buffers Lumber Company,
registered in book P, page $40, Rob
eson county registry; and that by vir-
tue of the breach of the covenant of
seizin and other covenants therein.
the defendant Buffers Lumber Com
pany has suffered damages in the
sum of $409.15, with interest there
on from July 27, 1915, and that a
warrant of attachment has been is
sued in this cause against you and
levy hereunder has been made up
on all your right, title, interest and
estate IN and to the following de-
scribed lands:
Lying and being in Sterling town.
ship, Robson county, North Caro-
lima, adjoining the lands of Oliver
and Everett Page, and beginning in
the edge of Coward swamp at
sweet gum by the side of the road
ana very near north with the road to
q stake in line granted to Isaac
Odum; thence about east with Odum's
me to Everett Pages line; thence
Win MS line S along the run of a
branch, Pages corner; thence E with
Pages to spring at the head of =
ditch; thence N with the ditch to
William B. Jenkins line w to the
William B. jenkins corner on the
ditch bank; thence with jenkins line
w to the beginning, containing 100
acres, more or less;
ana That you are hereby summoned
TO be and appear before the Judge of
our superior court, at a term Of our
superior court to be held at the court
mouse IN Lumberton, North Caro-
INA, on the ninth Monday after the
first Monday in September. 1912. #
being the 9Th day of November. 1917
or the said defendant Buffers Lum,
per Company will apply to the court
Tor the relief set out in this COM
plant against you.
And of all this you will take due
This 9th day of September. 1917
c. B. SKIPPER,
I Clerk Superior Court.
Mcintyre, Lawrence & Proctor.
| Mclean, Varser & Mclean,
Attorneys for Buffers Lumber Com
pahy. 10 l 4mon
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
LEADERS IN BANK CREDITS
university News Letter.

university News Letter.
New Hanover lead the State In
bank loans and discounts with a total
business of ten millions in round num-
bers in 1915. Mecklenburg was a
close second with more than nine mil
lions, Forsyth followed with seven
millions, Wake with six millions, Bun
combe with three millions and Edge
combe, Wayne, and Wilson with two
millions each. There are twenty -one
other counties with business in bank
credits amounting to more than one
but less than two millions each. Nam
ed in descending order these FL coun-
ties are: Pitt, Robson, CASTOR, Crav-
en-, Rowan, Granville, Cumberland,
Iredell Cleveland, u Mon, Cabarrus ,Dav-
idson, Catawba, Surry, Rockingham,
Halifax, Vance Beaufort, Scotland, Pas
quotank, and Richmond.
When the business of lank loans
and discounts is reduced to per
capital basis, it appears that in 1915
only Is counties were above the State
average of $45.28.
At the bototm of the list are 16
counties with bank credit amounting
to less than $40 per inhabitant. Four
of these counties fall below five dol
lars per inhabitant, while three coun-
ties, Graham, Camden, and Currituck
had no banks at all. The last two
counties do their banking most largely
with Norfolk and Elizabeth City.
New Hanover Leads.
Both in the total volume and the per
capital amount of bank business in
loans and discounts New Hanover lead
the State in 1915; in the first instance
because Wilmington is the big bank
ing center for all the lower Cape Fear
counties, and in the second instance
because New Hanover is a very small
county with four fifths of the popu-
lation dwelling in Wilmington.
Banking in New Hanover has al
ways been prosperous enterprise
In 1916 the business in bank loans
and discounts amounted to IA dol
lars for every dollar of capital in
vested in bank capital.
The demand for bank credit is man
ifestly brisk in this area. The small
banks in seven other counties in this
region are also active and the bust
ness they did in loans and discounts
compared with their capital in 1915
was as follows: Brunswick to 1
Duplin 81 to 1, Columbus and Bla.
den GA to 1, Fender rs to 1, Samp.
son 9 to 1, and Onslow go to 1
These ratios are all beyond the aver.
age of the State, which was 5.3 tt
/ in 1915.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND


Under and by virtue Of an order
the superior court of Robson county,
North Carolina, made in the special
proceeding entitled Keith Davis ct al
VS.. Norah Davis ct al. the same being
No. 4O78 upon the special proceeding
docket of said court, the undersigned
commissioners will, on the 22nd day
of October, 1917, at IL o'clock, noon.
at the court house door in Lumberton.
North Carolina, offer for sale to the
highest bidder for cash that certain
tract of land, lying and being in Back
Swamp township, Robson county,
North Carolina and more particular
ly described as follows, to-wit: this
land is to be sold subject to the dow
er right of the widow, Addie Davis.
which dover right has already been
determined and set apart by a jury
and which consists of fifteen acres)
Beginning at stake in Gatewood
Lewis second line of a two hundred
acre survey, about six chains from
the corner and runs with his line
south rs east % chains to the cor
ner; thence south east Is chains
to a. stake by pine; thence with the
line OF the said Lewis other survey
north 80 west "A chains to Charles
Ihompson's line; thence with his line
north IS east 27 chains and so links
! TO the beginning, containing SO acres,
IL PEN" the same tract of land con-
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE

Having qualified as administrators
Of the estate of Nancy Ann Carter,
deceased, late of Robson county,
North Carolina, this is to notify all
persons having claims against the
estate of said deceased to exhibit
them to the undersigned at Penn
broke, N. c., on or before the 9Th
day of September, 1918, or this no.
tice will be pleaded in bar of their
recovery. All persons indebted to
said estate will please make immed-
late payment.
This 3rd day of September, 1917.
M. B. CARTER,
Administrator of Nancy Ann Garter,
deceased. 9 8 6mon
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08

The reduction of unnecessary eor.
sumption is>perhaps matter of taste
The discipline of action and endur.
ance is a stern necessity.
The time for proving that we COIN
ed money in no base spirit, and that
we hold it at no base value, is at hand
For our own sake, no less than
for the worlds sake, this truth must
stand the test. The angel who look.
ed too long at Heavens golden pave
ment was flung into hell.-Agnes
Repplier in the Atlantic Monthly,
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
COMMISSIONERS SALE


Under and by virtue of a Judgment
in the Superior Court rendered in a
special proceeding entitled, "R. c..
Lewis, Administrator of Caledonia
Lewis, Deceased, VS.. w. D. Lewis, ct
als.", the undersigned commissioner
will, on Monday, the 9Th day Of No
vember, 1917, at IL, noon, at the
court house door in the town of Lum-
berton, offer for sale at public auc-
ton to the highest bidder for cash,
the following described lands and
premises, to-wit:
"In Howellsville township, Robson
county, North Carolina, bounded and
described as follows: to-wit: On the
south side of the Elizabeth road,
southwest of the Big swamp, adjoin-
ing the lands of George Graham, But
tiers Lumber Company and others.
Beginning at stake and stump on
the north side of the Georgia branch,
Graham's corner, and runs south 83
IL east IL chains to stake and
pointers in Georgia branch; thence
south 81 east chains to a stake with
two cypress pointers supposed to be
in the line of the Buffers Lumber
company; thence with that line 38
ga east 1-2 chains to stake, the
corner of Lodge land; thence with
that line south IL IL west 4 1-2
chains to the corner; thence south 20
west 1880 to a stake; thence north
SO west to and with the north edge
of the Elizabeth road, 1882 chains
to George Graham's corner in the
edge of said road; thence with his line
and ditch north IL east 9.15 chains
to stake; thence with another ditch
south IS east 6.13 chains; thence
north 6 IL east IL chains to a
stake at the bend of said ditch; then
with the various courses of a ditch
and dream to the run of Georgia
branch; thence straight out of branch
about 2 chains to the beginning, con.
tanning 81 ga acres Ito the begin
ning), being part Of the lands of w
H. Fisher, deceased, conveyed by J
D. Mclean and E. M. Britt, commits.
sioners, to T. w. Maxwell by deed
duly recorded in the office of the reg.
lister of deeds, and by T. w. Maxwell
and wife, Quessie Maxwell, conveyed
to Caledonia Lewis, by deed duly
recorded in book 6-F, page sos in the
| office of the register Of deeds of Rob
eson county"
This the 3rd day of October, 1917
E. M. JOHNSON,
Commissioners
Johnson & johnson,
Attorneys for Plaintiff. 10 8 Amor
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF
COMPREHENSIVE

The Copartnership heretofore
known as the Farmers Bonded Ware
house Company of Robson County
in the Town of Lumberton, State OF
North Carolina, is hereby dissolved
by mutual consent. All parties hay
ing any unfinished business with said
concern are hereby directed to con-
fer with the undersigned late Man.
ager.
L. B. TOWNSEND, Manager.
Lumberton, N. c. Sept. IA, 1917.
9 II Anon
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
CURE MALARIA IN THE FALL
Human Beings Are Winter car
riers'' of Malaria-Mosqulto
More Sinned Against Than

State Board of Health Bulletin.
The best way to prevent malaria
in the spring is to get every Dody
completely cured of malaria IN the
fall. Mosquitoes carry malaria IN the
summer time but human being are
the winter carriers. They get 1t
from infected mosquitoes and unless
they take a sufficient quantity OF
quinine to kill the malaria organism
in their systems, they carry the, IN
When the first warm days come in
the spring, they have their first
''touch Of malaria" and are ready to
infect the first mosquito that bites
them. Thus malaria is always with
us. Man infects the mosquito and
the mosquito in turn infects man.
In the spread of malaria, the ques-
ton is, who is sinned against most,
man OF mosquito? If man got rid OF
malaria in the winter as the mosqul-
to does, the charges against both
would be equal. But as man becomes
the agent that carries over malaria
from one season to another and he
himself infects the mosquito, he sins
more than he is sinned against. AS
matter of fact, if every malarial
person should cure himself of this
disease in the fall there would be
neither infected mosquitoes nor in
fected human beings the next spring
and summer.
Quinine is the only cure for nlala-
ria. But the trouble is persons with
malaria will not take enough to get
completely cured. They take a few
doses and feel so much better that
they consider themselves cured, and
take no more quinine. Consequently
they go all fall and winter only half
cured to have chills and fever again
next summer Everybody who has
had an attack of malaria this sum-
mer should see his physician and know
how much quinine constitutes sure
cure for malaria and proceed to take
it without let or hindrance
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
The Time is at Hand

Bishop Lawrence has denied in
very simple and gallant words
that Americans are we'd
ded to ease or enthralled by money.
Their strength and their wealth are
at the service of the nation, and they
stand prepared to spend for noble ends
the accumulated riches of the coun-
try.
God will not sell safety In so far
as we are prepared to lay down our
lives for justice and humanity. in so
far is our welfare secured.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08

veyed by deed from Michael MCINTYRE
to Marian L. Mcintyre and children.
said deed being recorded in book go.
page 346, in the office of the register
OF deeds of Robson county, North
Carolina, reference to said deed is
hereby made for more complete de-
scrlption of said land.
This End day of Oct. 1917.
DAVID FULLER,
w. S. BRITT,
10 2mon Comn,iss;o,o,s
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08
COUNTY GOVERNMENT
IN NORTH CAROLINA
The Jungle of American Democ-
racy "A Wasteful System
Which Calls for Thorough Con-
sideration.


Chapel Hill, Oct. 5-The N. C. club
held it's first meeting here Monday
night and began its years work on
county government and county af-
fairs. Dr. Hamilton, head of the his
tory department, opened the series
of FL topics by giving some interest
ing facts about The County-Its ORR
gin, Place and Functions; Conflic-
tons and Commissions in North Caro-
lima. Among other things he said:
The county had it's origin in Eng
land. Early settlers in New England
adopted the town system while the
settlers in the South adopted the
county system Of the mother country.
The county lost power after the Rev.
olution but it remained fairly strong
organization with us until about 1868,
when the Legislature took the su-
preme power which it today holds.
Local self-government which has
worked so we'll in New England is a
farce in the South, although we still
boast of being a locally self-govern-
ed people.
Self-rule has entirely passed from
local bodies into the hands of our
Legislature, which makes laws fer
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08

Johnson & Johnson,
Attorneys for Plaintiff. 10 8 anon
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-10-08

tice and govern yourselves according
ly.
This 28th day of September, 1917.
C. B. SKIPPER,
Clerk Superior Court.
Mclean, Varser & Mclean,
Attorneys for Plaintiff. 10 s Anon
The Parker post., 1917-08-25
HOLDS OFF POLICE
WITH HOT POkERS
insane Man Keeps Big Squad of
Policemen at Bay for
Hours.

Tonawanda, n. Y.-John f. Parks
Of III William street, d former North
TOnawanda policeman, who was TAX
en- to the Buffalo State hospital, held
squad of policemen at bay for sew
eral hours before he surrendered. His
weapons were two red-hOt stove pOk-
ers. The officers were forced to draw
their revolvers to check the madman's
attack.
Parks was examined by DR.. w. w.
Britt and DR.. H. NJ Edmonds about
week ago. While the officers were
making out the commitment papers,
Parks walked out Of the police station.
When the police went to his house af-
ter him, he armed himself with a carv-
ing knife and threatened to defend
himself with It should an attempt be
made to take him by force. The po-
The Parker post., 1917-08-25

lice obtained a court order from Coun-
ty Judge Laing at Buffalo, which di-
rected that the insane man be taken
to the state hospital. When Police
Chief A. f. EllicOtt and a squad of
policemen went to the Parks home
the man saw them coming and bar
ricaded himself in his home. He heat
ed two stove pOkers in a coal range
and then, taking them from the stove,
opened the side door of his home and
rushed on the policemen. They drew
their revOlvers and halted him.
After several hours of waiting, Po-
lice Chief Ellicott got Parks to con-
sent to talk with him. Parks direct
ed the chief to send his men away.
The chief entered the house and
talked with Parks, who finally put on
his hat and coat and went to the sta
tion house. He was placed in a cell
and later taken to the Buffalo hos
pital.
Parks, it Is said, imagined that he
was very rich and had not worked in
months. He has been wandering aim
lessly about the two cities daily.
The Parker post., 1917-08-25
C0L0RED MAN HAD ID WIVES
All Were White Women Averred Man
Who Claimed to Be 1926 Years
of Age.

MiddletOwn, N. Y.-Nicholas Vann,
an old colored man, known through
out Orange and adjoining counties as
Doctor Vann, was found dead in his
lonely cabin, four miles from this city
and half mile from the highway. He
Is believed to have died two weeks
ago, but as very few had occasion to
visit his home, his death was not dis
covered until parties investigated be-
cause he had not been seen in several
days.
Vann achieved considerable nOtOri-
ETY. by claiming that he was one hun
dred and twenty-five years old. He as
serted that he had been the husband
of IA wives, all of whom were white
women, and are dead.
Tann recently announced he was
seeking fifteenth wife, but that he
could not be induced under any cir
umstances to marry colored woman.
The Parker post., 1917-08-25
Suhstitute for Conner.

The use Of soft steel and iron as
q partial substitute for copper in the
manufacture Of decorative metals is
being experimental with in the depart
ment Of manual arts at the University
OF Wisconsin.
For years 1t has been traditional for
decorative metal products to be made
wholly or in large part Of copper, brass
or some other alloy Of copper. The
price Of copper Is now so high, more
than 30 cents a pound, that substi-
tute is needed In decorative metal.
The kind Of steel and iron required
in this kind Of work costs at present
II cents q pound. In many respects
this steel is as good, IL not better, than
copper, 1t works easily, wears as
well. is not discolored or oxidized as
quickly, and for many uses Is even
stronger than copper. 1t lacks the
red-gold luster but can be given a
silver-bued burnfsh, or can be decorat-
ed with paints.-Universityo Of Wiscon-
sin Bulletin.
The Parker post., 1917-08-25
HANGING IS TOO GOOD.

Hanging is too good for the l. w.
w., the pro-German, the pacifist and
the anarchist who is attempting to
thwart the government in its prose
cution of our righteous war against
the brutal foe that is at war with
nearly all mankind.
The greatest menace to the peace
and prosperity Of the United States
at the present time are these self
same individuals whose patriotism is
nil, but who have arrayed themselves
against all that is for the best in
terest of the American people.
They are assassins as we'll as arrant
towards and, taking pay from
foreign foe are doing their utmost
to undermine the loyalty of the Am
erican people, and at a time when
the very life of our republic Is at
stake. They are towards for the
reason that they assail our govern
ment at time when every thought
and action must be taken in the fur
therance of war preparations; and
towards for the reason that they
they have now taken if our country
were not at war with nation of
murderers. dishonored and contempt
ible.
Without principle, without honor
and shamefully disloyal, these en-
emies of our government and of the
American people are a greater men
ace to this country and it's future
peace and prosperity than are the
armed foes whose destruction means
the peace of the world.
Hanging Is too good for them, for
all their acts imperil the welfare of
this country, and, unless summarily
checked, will mean that thousands
of loyal Americans must sacrifice
their lives as a result of such
villathy.
Why men calling themselves Am
orleans and who have enjoyed the
privileges and blessings of our gov
ernment can become traitors to their
cause is one of the mysteries of civ
ilization. But, they should be silenc-
ed II a reward has to be offered at
so much a head for the Offenders
Salt Lake Mining Review.
The Parker post., 1917-08-25

WANTED-Reliable agents to sell
Louisiana-Arizona Copper Mining
Co. stock, references required. Ad-
dress r. A. Clampitt, Bisbee, Arizona
(3t)
The Parker post., 1917-08-25
HvmsnIty's Lenathened Life.

Fifty years ago the average length
OF human life In the United States
was In the neighborhood Of thirty
four years. Today the average Ameri-
can citizen lives to be forty-flve years
Of age. And fifty years from now
the average human life will have
heightened to almost sixty years.
All Of this gain in heightened life
Is due to the practice Of disease pre-
veption. And II the world would put
into practice all that is known Of dis
ease prevention today, the life Of even
the present generation might be
heightened by q dozen years or so.
The Parker post., 1917-08-25
Confession of Another Clears
S0utherner of Murder for
Which He Nearly Died.
IS HANGED AND SAVED
Spared From Death by Seeming provs.
dence and Made to Endure the
Hardships of Years in
Prison.

Purvis, Miss.-COnsider the strange
case Of man who was hanged for the
charge of murder, spared from death
by seeming Providence, made to en-
dure the hardships of years in prison.
and finally, after a quarter Of cen-
tury, proved innocent.
VIII l. Purvis is the man. With his
wife and FIVE children he is quietly
living on his little farm, three miles
north OF this town. Although par
dOned, for over twenty years he was
under the cloud of having killed q
fellow man.
Now he's the happiest person In the
world for he has just been told that
Joe Beard who recently died near Co
lumbus, Miss, confessed he, and not
Purvis, was the murderer of man
named Buckley. for whose killing Pur-
Wis was tried, convicted. and hanged.
Saved When Rope Broke.
Purvis escaped death from the hang
mans moose when the rope with which
he was hanged broke.
"a" "C A0H II o1ll TIC IIaP VI IAc gar
lows Sheriff l. o. Magee ran from the
scene, unwilling to see one die who
might, perchance, be innocent Of the
crime for which he was condemned to
death, and whom it became his official
duty to execute.
Purvis seemed unable to understand
congratulations, but when shown the
telegram from Columbus in which the
confession Of Joe Beard was told, and
before he had time to read the news
item, he asked who it was that had
confessed to the killing of Buckley
and mentioned three names, giving
among them that of Joe Beard.
When informed that 1t was Beard
The Parker post., 1917-08-25
A TINE TO SAVE.

There Is only one thing certain
about the financial and commercial
conditions that peace is going to
bring and that is their uncertainty.
II may be that an era of great pros
Rerity ts upon US; 1t may be an era
Of stGgnation; 1t may be an era of
the severest competition we have
ever experienced.
1t involves q paradox, but in this
present time Of comparative CONNER
c!al peace, for the great war has
largely stopped for time the strug-
gle among nations for foreign COM
nerce. 1t Is wise thing to prepare
for the economic war that will sue
ceed the present worldwide war.
1t Is well for every American citi-
zen to lay aside in some absolutely
safe security something for that day
Is coming. II 1t is great prosperity
one will be able to take advantage
OF 1t. If 1t Is stagnation one will
~ NosTbAOA w A&VO k01OuAD IL, IL IL
be bitter competition one will be
better able to withstand It.
No better provision could be made
for the future than an investment in
Liberty Loan Bonds. They are alb
solutely safe and no possible condi-
ton can destroy their value; exempt
from ell taxation except estate or in
heritance taxes the income from
cannot be lessened: with a market
everywhere In the United States and,
as competent financial authorities
assert, market in every commercial
center in the world when peace
comes, they will be readily convert
1bls into cash. They possess ell OF
tAs elements that would attract d