The Robesonian., 1918-09-19
BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS

BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. Nc
Neill, Monday, boy.
-Middling cotton is selling on the
local market today for 81 IA cents
the pound.
License has been issued for the
marriage of Frank Earl Walker and
Ollie Gertrude McInnis
Mr.. A. Weinstein has gone to
New York to purchase goods for his
department store.
Mrs P C Williams received q card
yesterday from her son Mr.. Tate viii
. lams, telling of his safe arrival over
seas.
Miss Dorothy McQ. Finlayson
mas gone to Rock Hill, S. c., where
she entered Winthrop college to take
a business course.
Mr. M. j. Merritt makes the pood
suggestion that booth for the sale
OF War Savings and Thrift stamns
be arranged for the county fair.
4 Master Harvey Webster, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Webster, has ac-
cepted a position in the office of Mr..
/, L. w. Trogden, public cotton grader.
misses Viola Alpine Jenkins and
hachel Mcnamara left Tuesday for
= Wlnston-Salem to enter Salem college.
MISS mcnamara was a student at Sa-
lem college last year.
-Charley Robeson and Nav Nc
Kay, colored, of Parkton, were mar
RED the office of the register of
deeds Monday. Justice M. G.. McKen-
: zle performed the ceremony.
MIR. w. c. Bethea has resigned
the position as city mail carrier, eff
It 1ective today He expects to leave
Friday for Spartanburg, S. c., where
ne will enter Wofford college.
Mrs. L. I. Townsend, chairman of
the Woman's Liberty Loan ni.tee
S Tor ,Robeson, went to Raleigh Monday
r night to attend meeting in :he in-
= terest of the 4th Liberty loan. She
Il returned Tuesday night.
% All witnesses and defendants in
J. Robeson who have been summoned to
le attend Federal court at Laurinburg
Is on October need not report until
n October 3, according to U. S. Com
n missioner E. M. Johnson.
10 Reported for The Robesonian;
IS Mrs. K. S. Monroe, who spent the last
J. three months with her parents in
\: Charleston, S. c., returned to heI
II home here Monday. She was accom-.
m panied by her boy, Eugene Martin
III and her mother, Mrs. Ruff
;. Mrs. M. C. Britt of R. 4 from
~ ~ Lumberton recently underwent an op.
W Grafton at the Highsmith hospital
sc Fayetteville. Mr.. Britt spent yester.
,o day in Fayetteville with Mrs Britt
~ and reports her condition very favor
IL III able.
Mr.. C.. w. Smith of P. a from
at Lumberton was among the visitors il
Mt town Monday afternoon. Mr.. Smith
ot is veteran of the war between lht
" States and says he would like to b,
in this war. He wants to live to SCI
Germany beaten good and plenty.
- Mr.. E. C. Wooten. travelling rep
resentative of the Wilmington Morn
ing Star, is a Lumberton visitor to
day. Mn Wooten lives at White
tie vile and informed The Robesonial
that Mr.. Ollie Inman of Whitevill
formerly of Fairmont, is very ill wit
of typhoid fever.
Dr. Mrs. Jas. D. Proctor and childra
he returned home Monday night fror
er, Graham, where they visited at tn
K. home Of Mrs. Proctor's parents, Nj
rs, ard Mrs. ]. D. Kernodle. A brothe
Mt; of Mrs. Proctor who had not bee
pi- home from the naval academy in z
ne, months was at home while they wer
ur- there.
nj; The local army exemption boar
M has extremely heavy clerical woI
'pe and will be glad to get the assistans
els of any women or men who will volul
m teer their services. If you can he
10 an afternoon or evening each wee
notify Chairman T. L. johnson. tn
- is patriotic work that the Cover
w. ment asks of any who can find tiJ
cos to do it.
Mr.. F. G. Odum of Raft Swan
was a Luriberton visitor Jest .rds
He is suffering with one broken a
l. one cracked rib on his right side, 81
,l,;e tanned when he fell last Saturd
of when a box on which he was riding
r;ed his wagon toppled over and thr
,ae him violently to the ground.
.nd Odum was knocked unconscious !
o. several minutes.
mic Mr.. C. P. Grantham, who Ii,
onr near Faifmont. returned yesterd
an from Baltimore, Md, where he spt
at weeks undergoing Urea tment
and Johns Hopkins hospital. He says
health has improved considerably.
son DR.. W. L. Grantham, who has b'
taking a special course at Hopk
since the first OF the year, will retl
+ior- to Lumberton next Tuesday or w
a ges neSday.