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The Robesonian., 1918-09-12
OUT BARKER S WAY.
Much Needed Rains-Cotton Crop
Short-Death Of Mr.. Edgar Kin
law-SundayaS School Picnics-Per-
sonal Mention.
Correspondence of The Robesonian.

Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Lunnberton, R. l.. Sept. 9.-We
have bed several nuch-needed show
ers in the last few days, which makes
ever. l,.it IN tie iis.dS :n,i SarutnS
look much refreshed.
Picking cotton seems to be the or
der of the day in this section. l think
the crop will be much shorter than
was expected.
Our community was greatly shocked
last Wednesday to learn Of the death
of Mr.. Edgar Kinlaw. He had been
in poor health for some time and
willing to go when God called. He was
about 18 years of age and leaves a
host of friends and relatives to mourn
their loss. We feel that he is at rest
with his father, and mother, who had
gone on before.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Edwards spent
Sunday last with Mr.. Edwards par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. S. G. Edwards.
Little Miss Ruby Monroe is spend
ing some time with her grand parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Powers.
Mrs. Robert Rozier, who has been
confined to her room for some time,
is much improved.
Misses Dovie ard Ruth Britt OF
Ten Mile spent while Saturday p
m. with Misses. Annie and Matte
Carter. -
Mr.. Floyd M'White of South Caro-
lima is spending some time with his
cousin Mr.. Roland M'White.
Messrs. John Blackwell and Purvls
Kinlaw of the Tabernacle section and
Mr.. Charlie Malone Of Ten Mile spent
a while Sunday evening in these parts
Quite a number Of our young folks
enjoyed a cream party given at Mr.
Charlie Powers tobacco barn on last
Wednesday evening.
There will be Sunday school pic
mic at Barkers on Monday, the 18th
and at Regans the 18th. Everybody
is welcome. :.,. - -
The Robesonian., 1918-09-12
REGISTRANTS TO CAMP.
~ Whites and l Indian Will Leave
For Camp Jackson Saturday and 8
Colored Leave For Camp Greene
This Evening. s.


This Evening. s.
Twenty-Five white and 1 Indian reg
lstrants of Robson division No. j
will be entrained here Saturday, Sep
tember IA, by the local board fof
camp jackson, S. c., as follows:
Millard Dawkins, Lumberton r. S;
Richard Croxton Nance, Marietta;
Paul Willoughby, Boardman; Iri
Martin, Lumberton, 4; Willie Clarence
Britt, Raynham; Willis Pope Ivey,
p. Lumberton; Oliver Curtis Duncan
Lumberton; Leroy Fentress Hardin
Fa!rmont, R. 1; Earl Powell Floyd
Fairmont, R. 2; Alex Harvey Town
send, Lnnberton, 2. 6; John Pochene
Eu ok, Fairraont; Warren Archie
Rat!ey, Fairmont; Leander Wilson
p: Lumberton; David Earl Townsesd
Mcdonald; Neill Higgins, Lake View
S. c., R. 2; Raymond Daniel Branch
Fairmont,, R. 1 Shelton Malone, Lum
berton, R. 1; Frank Avant Jennings
Fairmont; Durham L. Stone, Orrum
R. 1; George Rowland Mitchell, Fair
mont; Adam Fields, Pates; Kell,
Johnson, Fairmont; Levi Hunt, In
dian, Lumberton.
The following colored registrant.
will be entrained here this evening
for Camp Greene, Charlotte:
Joe Harps, Jr., Newport News, Va.
Harrison Whitted, Lumberton. r. z
John Powell, Fairmont.
The Robesonian., 1918-09-12
DOWN BOARDMAN WAY.
anniversary at Lemons Well Attend.
ed-Personal and Other Items.

correspondence of The Robesonian.
Boardman, R. F. D. Sept. 9.-We
are having ideal fall weather at this
date
The anniversary held with Lemons
was very largely attended, with good
songs and speeches from all schools
represented.
Kew: Mr.. Chaffin, our pastor, and
Rev. Mr.: Newton Of Whiteville held
a revival the past week. While the
preaching was good no new additions
were made.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Stanley from
brunswick county spent few days
VICE relatives recently.
Mrs: JEFF Jordan and little daugh.
ter, Erma, of near ,Raeford, spent
the past week with her parents, Mr.
and, Mrs. A. M. Kelly.
School opened at Bladen5oro the
first Monday. Several boys ard girl.
from tbs section are attending, among
whom are Messrs. Wilbur Brown
Francis Lennon. Harry Singletary an:
Galand Davis, Misses Gertie Lennon
and Mozelle Kelly.
Mrs. Leeroy Hemingway and lit
tie daughter, Francis, Of Wilson an,
Miss Lizzie Lennon of Bladenbor'
spent Thursday at the home of MI
j. E. Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. B. Lennon :
| Whiteville attended church service a
Lennon Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs Fred Smith of tn
Hope Mills section visited the home o
Mr.. Dan Perry Saturday and Sunday
Messrs. R. F. Hester and J. 1
Brown made a business trip to Lum
berton last Wednesday.
Mrs. F. G. Kelly and small so
| David Hughes are spending some tim
! in Peachland.
:, Mr.. and Mrs. Stacy Martin of tn
Orrum section visited at the h 3me Q
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Andre,
I Brit, ST., the past week.
Duval and Eloise,- children of Nj
C. C. Britt, were on the sick lis
/ the past week but are better now.
We think most all the farmers Q
| this section are through barning tc
j bacco at last and many have begu
| to pick cotton.
The Robesonian., 1918-09-12
TROOPsHIP TORPEDOED.
All Soldiers Rescued, the Ship Beach
ed and the Enemy Submarine Be-
iieved to Have Been Sunk-MOre an
Allied Success Than Disaster.

News of the torpedoing of the Brit
ism liner Persic with $500 American
troops on board, in the war zone, Sep
tember was given to the American
people yesterday, first through the
British Admiralty and then later
through the Navy Department at
Washington. All the soldiers were
rescued by accompanying dest1oyers,
the steamer itself was beached and
the enemy submarine is believed to
have been accounted for.
Officials at " asnlngton viewed the
result of the attack more as an allied
success than as a disaster. The fact
the steamer was torpedced when she
was endeavoring to overtake the con-
voyed fleet of transports after over
coming engine trouble which had fore
ed her to lag. convinced the officers
t. at submarine mmanders still are
fearful of attacking troops ships In
convoy. And the Immediate and ccn'-
plete successful assistance rendered
by the destroyers was taken as an ad-
81 iorai ev derce that the conveying
system now in vogue IS practically
perfect.
Attack on troop ships by subma-
rines constantly are expected by off,
cials and it may be that a new ant.
more determined campaign has be n
determined upon by the Germans be-
cause of the reverses suffered by their
srn1ies. The greatest possible pretec-
ton is afforded troop ships and this
increases as the American naval forces
in the war zone are added to by new
construction in American yards.
The records achieved by the Amarl-
can and allied navies in the transport
ing of more than 100000 American
soldiers overseas with the loss OF only
291 of them, still is considered mira,
culous. And it is accepted by naval
officers as testifying to the success
Of the convoy system.
The Robesonian., 1918-09-12
Recorders s Court.

Eighteen months on the pubic
roads of Robson was the sentence I'M
posed upon Walter Locklear, Indian
by Recorder E. M. Britt yesterday
afternoon. Locklear was found gurl,,
ty of assault upon Neill Burnett and
James Brigman.- The evidence was
that Walter beat Brigham, who IS
his step father-ir-law, with gun.
',sing it as a. club. AS a result Ct
The assault Brigham was carrying
lis left arm irs a swing ard Sad MS
back was in. bad shape. Wa..er &C
cused Brigman Of being too intimate
with his wife.
Carson Locklear was tried on the
charge of assault upon Neill Burnett
and prayer for judgment was con-
tinued upon payment of the cost.
The Robesonian., 1918-09-12
CASH IN ADVANCE!

The War Industries Boarl
has placed ne" papers Sn a
preferred class to receive ma
terials necessary to ther prOduc-
tiOn, provided the newspapers
conform to certain require
ments. One of these require
ments limits us to sending THE
ROBESONiAN only to those
who keep their subscription
paid in advance. The War In
dustries Board will not permit
those from whom we buy pa
per and other materials neces-
sary to produce THE ROBE
SONIAN to furnish us these
materials unless we comply
with the provisions of the or
der of the board. So our sub
scribers can readily see why
we must obey the orders of
the War Industries Board.
The last copy of The Robe
sOnian any subscriber will re-
ceive unless and until his sub
scriptiOn is paid in advance will
be MONDAY. SEPTEMBER
80. If you get your paper
through the mails DO NOT
wait for a statement. The
RObesOnian's force is kept SO
busy getting out the paper that
there is scant time for sending
cut statements. On every
paper sent through the mails
there is printed label that
will enable each subscriber to
know how his subscription
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showing the date to which the
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the label on your paper. If it
shows that your subscription is
not paid beyond October, 1918.
please attend to the matter at
once. To those who receive
their paper by The Robson
ian's own carriers a notice will
be mailed, as there is no label
on these papers by which the
subscriber may know how he
stands.
We hope every one of The
RObesonian's subscribers will
get her or his subscription in
shape-paid up and in advance.
before October 1. We do not
want to lose or cut off a single
one, but we cannot take any
chances of having ourselves
cut off from materials necessary
to issue The Robesonian. What
ever the Government asks of
us we are going to do.
We are not going to set the
time ahead to which you must
pay your subscription. All we
are concerned about is that it
be kept paid in advance. On
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, we
will print just enough papers
to supply subscribers who have
paid in advance of that date.
Each issue after October / we
will print just enough papers
to supply those whose subscrip-
tions are paid in advance of
the date of the paper on the
day it is printed.
InOSe OF Inc RODeSOm2n 8
subscribers who are not paid in
advance are just as good as
gold. We have shown our faith
n them by sending them the pa
per. But we are under differ
ent conditions now. Whatever
the War Industries Board says
goes. We are going to comply
with its requirements and we
will appreciate a prompt and
loyal response from all sub
scribers. Keep the matter in
mind, watch the label On your
paper, and do not let your SUBJ
scription get behind after
Tuesday, October l.
THE ROBESONIAN.
The Robesonian., 1918-09-12
SCHOOL OPENS SEPT. II.
Getting Ready for Opening Tuesday
VI Next Week-All Pupils Should
Enter Promptly-Commercial De-
partment May be Added-Cabinets
For Library.

pdftment May be Cabinets
For Library.
Everything is being put in readi-
ness for the opening of the Lumberton
graded and high schools Tuesday of
next week. School will open at 9
a. m. The faculty will be as follows:
Superintendent, Prof. W. H. Gale;
principal of high school and teacher
OF the eleventh grade, Miss Kate Nc
Daniel of Kinston; tenth grade, Miss
Pauline Edwards of Henderson,; ninth
grade, Miss Ruth Stanley Of Gull
ford College; eighth grade, Miss Mat
tie Dawson Of Elon College; Seventh
grade, Miss Ruth Britt, Lumberton
R. /; sixth grade, Miss Elizabeth
Snead, Lumberton; fifth grade, Miss
Lillian Barker, Lumberton: fourth
grade, Miss Margie Russell, Lumber
ton; third grade, Miss Winifred Row.
land, Lumberton; second grade, Miss
Pennie Rowland, Lumberton: first
first grade, Miss Mary Belle Gary
Henderson; music, Miss Agnes Nc
Lean, Lumberton, Miss Rosalie Lytch
Rowland.
All the ministers of the town have
been invited to attend the opening
exercises, as we'll as all others wh(
are interested in the school.
Prof. Gale says he is anxious for al
who will be old enough to enter al
any time during the fall term to en-
ter Tuesday in order not to have pu
pills coming in all during the session
1t is. probable that a commercial
department will be opened later il
which shorthand, typewrting ant
bookkeeping will be taught. Prof
Gale is heartily in favor Of adding :
business department to the school.
Cabinets are being built for a Ii
brary. Around 1000 books are al
ready in sight and others will be add
ed. The graded school building ha
been repainted on the inside and over
hauled in general.
The Robesonian., 1918-09-12

DIR. w. A. McPhaul, county health
officer, has recently been appointed
assistant collaborating epidemlologl!s,t
of the United States Public Health
Service. BY receiving this appoint
ment DIR. McPhaul will be able to use
franked postage on all mail with rel
erence to quarantine and other pubic
health service.
The Robesonian., 1918-09-12
Military Registration Going On
smoothay.

Registration for military duty OF
youths 18 to 21 and men 3 to as is
going on smoothly at the court house
for Lumberton township. Up to 2:30-
this afternoon 400 had registered.
The registrars are being assisted by
a number of young ladies and men
and the work is being handled quickly.
The Robesonian., 1918-09-12
Ex- Empress and Her 4 Daughters
Reported Murdered:

A London dispatch of the 18th
states that the Daily Express claims
to have unquestionable information
that the former empress of Russia
and her four daughters have been
murdered by Bolsheviki.
The Robesonian., 1918-09-12
Mr.. Alex Willis Fell Dead Mon

Mr.. Alex Willis, aged 81 years, fell
dead at his home at Fayetteville ear
ly Monday morning. Deceased form
erly lived near Ten Mile church IN
Robson county and is survived by his
wife and several children. lnterment
was made in the family burylng
ground on a farm belonging to de-
ceased near Ten Mile Tuesday about
noon.
The Robesonian., 1918-09-12
Boston Americans Won Champoln'
ship.

Taps for professional baseball for
the duration of the war was sounded
at Fenway park in Boston yesterday
when the Boston American League
Remnant bearers won the baseball
championship of the world by defeat
ing the Chicago National League tt
tie holders in the sixth game Of the
series BY score of 2 to l: This gives
the Red Sox q record Of five victories
in as many starts and as the Boston
Nationals won the championship in
1914, it brings to Boston six world
titles.
The Robesonian., 1918-09-12

Miss Minnie McKinnon left Satur-
day for Maxton, where she will teach
this year in the Maxton graded
schools Exchange.
The Robesonian., 1918-09-12

"A false fire alarm was turned in
from Seven Pines, in the northeast
eSrn part of town, about II o'clock
last night.
The Robesonian., 1918-09-12

DIR. WILLIAM w. PARKER,
Optometrist
Expert knowledge OF Eye Diseases
and Fitting Glasses.
LUMBERTON, N. c.,
The Robesonian., 1918-09-12
Tobacco Continues to Come In
Market Will Close September

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Much tobacco continues to come IN
every day. Tuesday around 25,OOO
pounds was sold OH the local market
The market will close Friday, Sep
tember 20.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-12-28

food map Of Europe today shows
mot single country in which the fu-
ture does not hold threat of serious
difficulties and only small part which
Is not rapidly approaching the famine
point. With the exception Of the
Ukraine only those countries which
have maintained marine commerce
have sufficient food supplies tc meet
actual needs until next harvest, and
even in the Ukraine, with stores accu-
|mulated on the farms, there is famine
In the large centers of population.
Belgium and northern France, as
we'll as Serbia, appear on the hunger
map distinct from the rest of Europe
because they stand in different rela-
ton from the other nations to the peo-
pie of the United States. America has
for four years maintained the small
war rations Of Belgium and northern
France and Is already making special
Efforts to care for their increased
after-the-war needs, which, with those
Of Serbia, must be included in this
plan, are urgent in the extreme and
must have immediate relief.
The gratitude Of the Belgian nation
for the help America has extended to
her during the war constitutes the
strongest appeal for US to continue our
work there. The moment the German
armies withdrew from her soil and she
was established once more IN her own
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-12-28

gions, with conditions most serious In
Finland.
Bohemia, Serbia, Roumania and
Montenegro have already reached the
famine point and are suffering heavy
toll Of death. The Armenian popula-
tion is falling each week as hunger
takes it's toll, and in Greece, Albania
and Roumania SO serious are the food
shortages thai famine Is near. AL
though starvation Is not yet imminent,
Italy, Switzerland, Bulgaria and Tur-
key are in the throes of serious strin-
gencies.
In order to fulfill Americas pledge
in world relief we will have to export
every ton of food which can be han
died through our ports. This means at
the very least minimum of 2O,OOO,OOO
tons compared with 100000 tons pre-
war exports and 11,820,OO0 tons ex-
ported last year, when we were bound
by the ties of war to the European
allies.
If we fail to tighten the black spots
on the hunger map or II we allow any
portions to become darker the very
peace for which we fought and bled
will be threatened. Revolt and anarchy
inevitably follow famine. Should this
happen we will see in other parts OF
Europe repetition of the Russian de-
bacle and our fight for world peace
will have been in vain.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-12-28
|0T|cE OF FILLING
]. S. TOWNSHIP PLAT
Department of the Interior Uni
ted States Land Office Elko,
Nevada

Notice is hereby given that there
as been received by this office for
Hing, plat Of survey Of the following
ownship:
18 North, Range 48 East.
The said plat will be officially filed
p this Office on January "a, 1919. at
a. M, at which time the lands de-
Pcribed therein will be subject to
Fntry under the different public land
|aws. according to the character
hereof.
Sections 13 to l6 inclusive; E IL
p Section 49,; Sections 20 to 80 in
flusive; E 1-2 Section 81; and all
fections 80 to SO inclusive are within
|he boundaries of the Tioyabe Ma
Ponal Forest.
Those claiming preference right
y entry by virtue of settlement and
Pnprovements should file their ap-
phcations in this office prior to the
|aate of filing said plats, January "a,
|sl9.
JOHN E. ROBBINS, Register.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-12-28

seat Of government the little nation S
first thought was to express her graft
tude to the Commission for Relief in
Belgium for preserving the lives of
millions Of her citizens.
Germany, on the other hand. need
not figure in such map for Ameri-
cans because there is no present indi-
cation that we shall be called on at all
to take thought for the food needs Of
Germany. Germany probably can care
for her own food problem if she is
given access to shipping and is enabled
to distribute food to the cities with
dense populations, which are the trou-
BILE centers.
England, France, the Netherlands
and Portugal, all of which have been
maintained from American supplies,
have sufficient food to meet immediate
needs, but their future presents seri-
GUS difficulties. The same is true of
Spain and the northern neutral coun-
tries-Norway, Sweden and Denmark
whose ports have been open and who
have been able to draw to some degree
upon foreign supplies.
Most of Russia is already In, the
throes of famine, and 100000 people
there are beyond the possibility of
help. Before another spring thou
sands of them inevitably must die.
This applies as well to Poland and
practically throughout the Baltic re-
New-York tribune., 1918-03-03

lied and thought out before the out
break of the war, nearly all its feat
ures developed as novelties.
That almost inevitable tendency
by which we see the difficulties of
our own side in war and forget
the corresponding difficulties of the
opponent led opinion among the
Allies to serious overestimate of
the enemy's calculations in the mat
ter of defensive war. If we put our
selves in the position of the German
higher command we shall see things
from very different light. Here
was General Staff which had for
forty years planned and perfected
aggressive war. 1t took for granted
and there was no violent eXagger-
alton in such view-that complete
victory would be achieved immedi-
ately.
A command in this mood finds it.
self and is stupetied to find itself
caught, held, hurled back and at last
pinned by those inferior forces
which not week before it had re-
garded as mere prey. That the
defeated party in such a catastrophe
should produce and develop tena-
cious defensive. should save what it
could and should cling to the first
opportunity for halt, is no more
than the crude necessity of it's po-
sition. That it should have fore
seen and prepared for it is neither
evidence nor probability.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-03

To entertain such. an error would
be, as subsequent study and evil
dence have proved, to misunderstood
the nature of the war and the psy-
chology of the opposing belligerents.
Trench warfare was certainly not
foreseen by the Allies, as certainly it
was not foreseen by the enemy. He
had prepared nothing for it. His just
appreciation of the value of machine
guns and his initial overwhelming
superiority therein were based upon
the idea that the machine gun would
be invaluable in the check of local
counter ofensives and even in the
prosecution Of rapid attack. It's
value for permanent defence he
seized when he was constrained to
that permanent defence. 1t is great
ly to his credit that he should so
rapidly have appreciated the new
conditions; but he did not plan them.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-03
Nothing but Guesses
AS to Their Plans

No one can possibly tell whether
the Germans intend or not to make
this attempt in the near future.
There have been plenty of guesses,
but they have been guesses only.
German prisoners taken by Allied
forces in raids in the last weeks have
alluded in large way to the immi-
nence of such a stroke, and expert
opinion on the Allied side is, upon
the whole, that some such attempt
will be made But some Of the most
acute observers of the war are still
OF the opinion that-in spite of, per-
haps because of, the wide ADVERTISE
ment that this coming offensive has
been given from the German side
it is a bluff that the Central En-
plres will not at this time risk the
very heavy losses which such an ex-
pertinent would entail and the posi-
ble collapse of their whole structure
to which such losses might lead.
The real crux in the judgment of
this question is between those who
think that the Germans must make
such an effort because Of the moral
and material condition Of their civil
ian population, and those who think
they can afford to postpone it in
spite of the increasing strain upon
their peoples, and that they can keep
the population in order in spite of
any discomfort which may develop
during the strain of waiting.
Meanwhile observation from the
air informs us that the Germans are
rehearsing their troops in forma-
tions for use in a "war of move
ment" behind their lines, that they
are using large bodies of men in
this, probably in coordination with
their new tanks, and certainly with
an elaborate new organization pre-
pared for use when and if change
can be made from the trench war
fare of the last three years.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-03
Trains Armies
For Open Warfare

The belief that the Germans ever
voluntarily abandoned the war of
movement in the West is part of a
very general error into which the
present writer fell in common with
most others when this novel develop
ment of trench warfare first ap
peared. That error is the concep-
ton that this new phase was par.
Of deliberate plan already estab-
lished in the enemy's mind.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-03
Better Chance on
Southern Wing

They would have a better chance
to break through the lines and estab-
lish war of movement on the south
ern end of that sector-that is in the
areas around St. Quentin and Cam
brai-than in the northern part, be-
cause at the southern the soils are
much drier; because a rupture at
this point would Immediately
threaten Paris; because though the
German communications are on the
whole better in the north, the COM
parison is to their advantage to the
south, where the British communi-
cations are longer and therefore
more difficult than they are at the
north.
All this is, of course, pure con-
lecture, but it is conjecture based
upon the only elements of calcula-
ton which are available.