The Robesonian., 1918-09-23
BRIEF ITEMS LOCAL NEWS.

BRIEF ITEMS LOCAL NEWS.
Sparks circus is billed appear in
Lumberton October 5.
The East Lumberton public school
will open Monday, September 80.
Good cotton is selling on the local
market today for 80 1-2 cents the
pound.
License has been issued for the
marriage Of Andrew White and Eva
Watts.
Mr.. Rowland Williams has accept
ed position in the Pope drug store.
He began work Friday.
Miss Emily Darlington Of R. 5
from Maxton has accepted position
N Mr.. John 7. Biggs' store.
Mr.. John B. Smith lost fine
Jersey milch cow yesterday. 1t IS
thought the cow ate poison.
Mr.. L. w. Mcmillan is serving
as city mail carrier succeeding Mr..
Carlyle Bethea, who resigned Friday.
Miss Flora Carlyle of R. : from
Lumberton has accepted position in
the office of the National Cotton Mill
Co.
Miss Lucille Johnson of White
Oak, Bladen county, has accepted
position in Messrs. Grantham Broth
; ers drug store.
The Fair, new dry goods store,
has been opened in the Williams
building, Chestnut street. N. Khoury
is proprietor of the new store.
: Mr.. V. D. Baker, knight of the
e grip, returned to his home here Sat-
urday from West Va, where he spent
!. two months at work out of his regular
!. territory.
: Chief of Police E. l.. Hanna has
l been instructed to ''pull" all who op-
: crate an auto in town at night with
i, out the rear light and DINNERS as
prescribed by the State law. He has
!. also been instructed to arrest any
~ person who runs an auto In town
with muffler cut out. He says he is
~ going to enforce the law to the letter
in the future.
y Mr.. B. F. Smoot, representing the
''(!Laurinburg Electric Service Co., was
a Lumberton visitor Friday. He has
IN sold in Robson during the past few
r months 21 Delco light plants, adver-
y. tised in The Robesonian, some OF the
r. plants being complete light and water.
i. One of his recent purchasers was MT.
n Zion church. colored, near Wakuila.
= Delco light looks like blessing.
The printer got the ad Of Muir
ply Bros. real estate agents OF Lum-
o.: berton and Greensboro, all mixed up
- in in the he last issue in making correc-
r. ton. In trying to correct one error
l.. worse one was made. 1t reads right
d in this issue, though. If you don't
of believe it, look it up and read 1t.
r. P. S.. This special mention is due
|. for getting the ad balled up.
Reports of conditions of the Bank
r. of Fairmont, the Merchants Farm
ers Bank of Rowland and the Bank
~ cf Bladenboro, published elsewhere In
MI this issue, should have appeared In
es, THURSDAYS paper 1t is not the fault
E. Of the bank cashiers that they did
not. Bank statements published IN
this and recent issues Of The Robesor-
p;i ian show that banks in this section
m are in an exceedingly flourlshlng con
,sn tv dition.
w. W. Mr.. w. H. Graham Of Rowland
.on .on and Rev. Wesley Thompson OF NC
'ee Donalds, boarded the train here Sat
IT, urday evening for Tulsa. Okla.,
T. attend the annual reunion OF the Eon
=. federate veterans. Maj. Geo. Hall O
u.s. US Red Springs. one of the three dele
gss'l gates from Robson, has also gen
u to Tulsa to attend the reunion. Tn
= county commissioners are paying tn
~ ~ expenses of a delegate from each
o on the three camps in the county.
r. MIR. A. Brisson, who lives nea
III St. Pauls, was Lumberton vls1to
n. Friday. Mr.. Brisson is Confedera,
}. veteran, serving from April ~, $50
to January Is, 1865, "When the Yal
.en- KEGS took Fort Fisher (wnere ne ".
her a gunner) just like we are gong =.
air Brisson was after that a prisoner
nv: Point Lookout till June %, 1865. N
ght, Brisson says folks don't know an
:. D. thing about high prices now, al
ton: recalled that in 1863 he paid $5 Tor
Rex. dozen guinea eggs, and ne was dra'
a