The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-08-30
BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS

The East Lumberton school will
open September II.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. N.
Folger, Tuesday, fine boy.
Mr.. w. S. Wishart returned home
Tuesday night from the western part
of the State, where he spent a weeks
vacation. He reports a most pleas
ant trip.
-Monday-Labor DAYS. a ma
tional holiday and the banks in town
will be closed. Sunday hours will be
observed at the local postoffice and
the rural carriers will take the day.
Prof. George Graham of Char
lotte, principal of the Fairmont grad
ed school, passed through town yes
terday en- route to Fairmont. The
Fairmont school will open next Mon
day.
MIR. VIM. X. Brown of Birming-
ham, Ala, is spending some time in
the county visiting relatives He is
a Lumberton visitor today. Mr..
Brown is practicing law in Birming-
ham.
The Robson Manuf acturing conn.,
pany has moved it's office from the
Mcleod building, Fourth street, to
| the plant of the company west of
| town. 1t maintained an uptown Of
| flee about a year.
Mr.. Jno. T. Warwick has accept
| ed a position as bookkeeper in the of
flee of the Wishart Co., wholesale
grocers. Mr.. Warwick had been keep
ing books at Greenville, S. c., and
i resigned to accept the position at
home.
Mr.. G. M. Whitfield sold recent
ly to Mrs. T. F. Costner the d. W.
i Millsaps house and lot, Elm street
and Elizabethtown road. The proper
ty was owned by Mr.. Millsaps and
Mr.. Whitfield made the sale for him.
! The house is occupied by the Colon
ade club.
! Its a bear Mr.. Julius F. Ste
t phens, who lives in Howellsville town.
/ ship, says large bear track was Wis
ible in the road near his home yester-
day morning. Messrs. Leonard and
2 Robert Pate also saw the bear track.
2 The bear went into the woods, Mr..
). Stephens says.
Owing to high price Of lemons,
: it is now impossible to get lemon
e ade at any of the drug stores in town
{. for less than a dime. A five cent
piece would buy lemonade since
e they have been making them until re-
q Gently, when the price of lecons has
: reached new high ground.
Mr.. L. Mex. Parker received yes
:, terday letter from Mr.. E. A. Thomp
e son, ope of the Lumberton young mer
, who left Saturday for the second of
q ficers' training camp at Fort Ogle
|; thorpe, Ca, in which he stated tina
u all the boys were getting on fine. NJ
u two men from Lumberton are in tn
r same company, however.
le Mrs. J. H. Morrison receives
9, yesterday letter from her son MI
I'd J. F. Morrison, who recently joine
e, the army, stating that he had arriv
III ed safely in France. Messrs. T. G
is Edens and Furman Williams o
r. Lumberton joined the same compan
Mr.. Morrison joined and it is SUP
lie posed that they are also in France
m Mr.. 1. L. McGill took the men
en- bers of the Fidelis class, of whic
lie he is teacher, of the East Lumberto
d Baptist Sunday school, on picni
IN trip to Philadelphus Saturday aftel
Ia noon Of last week. Supper was sci
~, we'd and the people living about PHI
at adelphus served the class waterme
he ons. Members of the class report
m most pleasant occasion.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Sharpe ar
* children, Anna Courtney and ]. A
End, Mrs. Sharpe's mother, Mrs. Al
ter ma P. Courtney of Baltimore, Nd, al
,ut Mr.. w. K. Bethune returned yeste
Wis day from a short auto trip to Il
The western part of the State, Miss Jos
led phine Breeze, in whose car the tr
re- was made, leaving the party on t
he return trip at Spartanburg and goil
inc thence to Baltimore and New Yo
led to purchase fall and winter stock f
ady her millinery store The party we
ON to Hendersonville and Asheville v
If the Bat Cave route, spending mig
ne. at Chimney Rock, and returned do1
va Saluda mountain via Saluda a.