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The Robesonian., 1918-12-13
FINAL NOTICE
TO REG1sTRANTs
Time For Filing Questionnaires of
September Registrars Extended
To December 21st.

of The Robesonian.
Red Springs, Dec. 11.-Enclose
herewith a notice to all registrants
that were 18 years old on the day Of
registration that we will thank you
to publish.
By direction of the Board.
w. F. LOVE,
Local Board for Robeson County
Division No. 2.
Final Notice to all Registrars 18
Years of Age On Sept. IL, 1918.
The time for filing the question
naires of the September registration
has been extended by the War De-
partment until December 21st.
All men that were 18 years old on
the 18th of September we're required
to file with their local board a ques-
tionnaire. If you have not already
done so you are hereby directed to file
same at once. All men that fail to
receive a questionable can get same
by calling at the Office Of the local
board having jurisdiction Of their reg
istration.
All men that fail to file their ques
tionnaires before December 21st w
be reported as deserters subject to one
year in prison or $1,000 fine.
A. P. McEACHERN, Chm
G. B. SELLERS, Sec'y.
B. F. MCMILLAN, NJ. D.
The Robesonian., 1918-12-13
MURDER AT ST. .PAULS|
Hezzie Connor of East Lumberton
Shot and Killed by H. Q.
Beard of st. Pauls.
BEARD ADMITS THE DEED
Says He Had Right to Shoot But Did
Not Intend to Kill-He Intimates
Trouble About His Wife.
In Jail Here.

Mr.. Hezzie Connor of East Lum-
berton was shot and killed by H. @.
Beard at st. Pauls yesterday afternoon
at 5 o'clock. The fatal shot was fired
while Mr.. Connor was on the engine
of moving train. He was fireman
on V. & G. S. freight train and as
the train was pulling into St. Pauls
Beard shot him, using a breechload-
ing shotgun, loaded with No. 2 shot.
The load took effect in the right side,
after passing through the right arm
of the unfortunate man, death result
ing in a short time.
After firing the shot Beard went TO
his home in St. Pauls and was later
arrested by Policeman M. P. Newton
of that town. Sheriff R. E. Lewis
went to St. Pauls last evening and
When asked about the affair by a
Robesonian reporter this morning
Beard said he did the shooting and
told about the gun used and the size
of the shot with which the gun was
loaded He added, 81 had a right to
shoot but no right to kill. 1 had nc
idea | would kill him when l shot
When asked what his right was, he
stated that he did not care to tell al
that time. However, he intimated that
the trouble started about his (Beard's)
wife. Beard said he was a native
of Bladen county, having been borr
near Tar Heel. He lived in Lumber.
ton short time some eight months
ago.
Connor was about % years old, moi
married, and lived near Barnesville be-
fore moving to East Lumberton sew
eral years ago. The remains were tax
en- in charge by Messrs. Stephens &
Barnes, local undertakers, and inter
ment will be made near Barnesvillt
tomorrow
The Robesonian., 1918-12-13
LONG BRANCH LOCALS.

Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Long Branch Uumberton, R. ~,
Dec. 9-People are about through
gathering their crops in this section.
Thanksgiving passed off very quiet
ly around here.
Misses Mae Branch and Henrietta
Ammons spent Thanksgiving at Nc
Donald visiting relatives.-Mrs. Mar
TIA Turner has returned from Bait
more, Md, where she went to consult
a special;st.-Mrs. John Bullock from
near Lumberton spent Sunday at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Ammons.
Miss Mae Branch, who is teaching.
at Dock Ridge, spent the week end
with home folks.-Misses Sueneal
Thompson and Clara Britt, who are
attending school at Lumberton, spent
the weekend with home folks.
The quarterly which was to- have
been at Smyrna the 5th Sunday in De-
cember is expected to come to Long
Branch. A large crowd is expected.
We think the wedding bells will
ring soon. :
Misses Wilma Branch and Annie
Ammons, who are in school at Orrun
spent the weekend with home folks
Remember next Sunday our regular
preaching day. Everybody is invited
| to come.
The Robesonian., 1918-12-13
ROZIER NEWS ITEMS.
Christmas SOOn-Preaching Saturday
and Sunday-Farmers Holding
CottOn-PersOnal.

Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Rozier (Lumberton, R. p, Dec. 10
Soon Merry Christmas will be here
with its Joys for both the tots and
the old. This season is always one
that is looked forward to as a time
of Joys, and may it be to every one.
Several ladies from here attended
the w. M. u. which was held at East
Lumberton Baptist church Wednesday
of last week and reported a splendid
meeting.
Next Saturday and Sunday is our
regular preaching time. Everybody is
cordially invited to come.
Lots of the farmers through this
section are holding their cotton. Some
are keeping it at home while others
are storing theirs in the warehouse
for higher prices. We don't see how
the speculator thinks the farmers are
going to live and sell their cotton at
the present prices. When farmers are
having to pay such high prices for the
things the merchants have to sell. VI
course it it speculation the reason that
cotton is selling at such low price
and every one knows it.
Mr.. Parnell and Mr.. John Willis and
! little son Merten, of Maxton, were
visitors in this section Sunday
Messrs. Bennett Martin and Frank
Seals of Ten Mile were visitors IN
this community Sunday.-Mr. and
Mrs. D. F. Britt and family visited
friends and relatives near Fayetteville
recently.-Messrs. Durham and Thur
man Rice of Long Branch were visi-
tors in this section recently.-We are
glad to report Mrs. G. L. Willis, who
\ IS in a hospital at Fayetteville, i'm
proving.-Mr. w. K. Bethune of Lum-
berton was in this section today on
The Robesonian., 1918-12-13
MORE SOLDIERS ARRIVE.
Tales of DOughbOy HerOism and Sac
rifice Parallel Incredible.

Welcomed home as heroic sons of
the nation, 7,740 more soldiers, sailors,
marines and aviatorS representing viz
tually every State in the nation en-
tered New York harbor Wednesday
on large transports from European
ports. A New York dispatch states
that the tales these men told about
one another were narrations of Amer
lean high courage on French battle
fields, on the open seas and in the
air above France and England. Hun
dreds of the men, MANNED for life
by wounds received in some of the
wars heaviest fighting, were hurried
to hospitals, and the others went to
camps where they will be demobilized.
Many stories were told by the troops
who had escaped the wars dangers. A
press dispatch states:
illustrative of Yankee heroism was
the account given of Captain c. E.
Glazebrook of Washington, D. c., a
member of the 18th field artillery.
Shot in the lung, gassed, wounded IN
the leg, removed to hospital, Cap
tain Glazebrook, arrivals said, stole
away from his cot, assembled a uni
form, attached captains bars, climb
ed through a window, rode thirty-six
! hours on an army Cruck WlLnOut leL-
ting his companions know of his con-
dition, and entered action in the
American advance on the ST. Mihiel
salient. Four days later, once more
gassed, he was back in the same hos
pital.
asked about this incident, Captain
Glazebrook said; The chief surgeon
gave me hell. If you don't die,' he
!; said, 'and you probably will, you will
be court-martialed.' But outside the
door | heard him laugh and | knew it
was all right"
Behind the crosses of war which
many of the returned soldiers wore
. gifts from the French government
lie incidents of dough-boy grit and
sacrifice which parallel the incredible,
: and the telling of which would fill
pages of newspapers"
The Robesonian., 1918-12-13
President Will Be Given Great
Reception in Paris.

The q. S. S. George washington, on
which President Wilson made the voy-
age from the United States, was ex-
pected to arrive at Brest, France, this
morning. The official party of Amerl-
cans to receive the President left Paris
yesterday by special train for Brest.
1t included Col. E. M. House, Am
bassador Sharp, Gen. Pershing, Ad-
miral Benson, Gen. Bliss and Cor
don Auchincloss, son-in-law of Col.
House. A dispatch last evening stat
ed that Paris was hanging out its
flags and preparing to illuminate for
the Presidents reception.
The Robesonian., 1918-12-13
Southern Commercial Congress
Approves Wide Program.

The Southern Commercial congress
practically closed it's general sessions
in Baltimore last night when,. at
Joint assembly on agricultural finance
and shipbuilding, wide program was
approved. The platform included ~
cardinal points, principal among which
were the appreciation Of the Bank
head measure for $5OOOOO,OO0 in five
annual Federal appropriations for
highway and post road facilities and a
oigantic increase of merchant marine
with equal distribution, terminal bet
terment and general economical trade
conditions with the South as merl-
torious beneficiary. .--s.
The Robesonian., 1918-12-13
McAdoo Favors Government Con-
troll of Railroads 5 Years Long

Extension of the period of govern
ment control of railroads for five
years, until January 1, 1924, is rec
commended to Congress by Director
General McAdoo. Advantages of this,
Mr.. McAdoo said, are that it would
take the railroad question out Of poll
tics for the present, give time for
CARRYING out of an extensive program
Of improvements and provide oppor-
tunity for a fair test of unified con-
troll to indicate the permanent solu-
ton Of the railroad problem.
"The President has given me per
mission to say that this conclusion
accords with his own view of the mat
ter" Mr.. McAdoo concluded.
The Robesonian., 1918-12-13
Railroad Executives Oppose Nc
Adoo's Suggestion.

Railroad eXll uEives repres1nting
125 roads and 92 per cent Of the mile
age of the country, last night gave
out formal statement in which they
declared that Director General Nc
Adoo's suggestion that government
control of the railroads until Janu-
ary, 1924, "would simply lead to de-
lay and confusion. decentralization of
the organization of the roads both on
their corporate and operating side,
and defer indefinitely a satisfactory
settlement" of the railroad problem.
The Robesonian., 1918-12-13
Methodist Conference Orphan
age at Raleigh Has Had Good

Year.
The North Carolina Methodist con-
ference convened in it's 82nd annual
session in st. Pauls church at Colds
boro Wednesday, Bishop U. v. w.
Darlington presiding.
The report yesterday of Rev. A. S.
Barnes, superintendent of the Metho-
dist orphanage at Raleigh, indicated
that this has been the best year in
the history of the institution. Two
hundred and forty-five children have
been taken care of and more than
$4,000 has been received. Several
thousand dollars have been added to
the endowment fund.
The Robesonian., 1918-12-13
American Navy Should Be Second
to None.

Neither the end of hostilities nor
proposals for league of nations has
altered the policy of the general board
of the navy in regard to making the
American navy second to none in the
world. Rear Admiral Charles J. Bad
ger, chairman of the executive COM
mittee of the board, yesterday told the
House of Congress naval affairs COM
mittee that the navy sould be equal
to that of any other nation by 1925
and urged that sufficient appropria-
tions to NAE t.lis possible be made
by Congress.
The Robesonian., 1918-12-13
Farmers Union Meeting Adjourns

The Farmers Union annual conven-
ton adjourned at Wilson yesterday.
after two-day session, the chief
event of which was the reelection OF
President H. @. Alexander after a
bitter fight.
Executive committee named were r
G.. Maxwell of Duplin county, Orlan-,
do Crews of Rowan, Gray King OF
Nash. w. B. Gibson Of Iredell, and
/. L. Cherry of Edgecombe.
Miss Gertrude We'll, of Goldsboro
addressed the convention on the sub
iect of woman suffrage.
The Robesonian., 1918-12-13
BRIEF ITEMS LOCAL NEWS

Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Biggs and
Misses Many Tiddy and Amelia Pow
ers of the Saddletree section attended
the McLendon meeting here last eve
ming.
Mr.. Abner Nash, member of the
S. A. T. G. at the State university,
Chapel Hill, arrived home Wednesday
night, having been released from mill
tary duty. He will probably return
to the university after Christmas.
The Robesonian., 1918-12-13

Lieut.. j. F. Love, who was stationed
at Camp Taylor, Louisville, KY, be-
fore receiving his discharge from mil
ltary service is spending few days
at st. Pauls visiting friends. He will
return to his home at Statesville in a
short time. Lieut.. Love is a former
principal of the Lumberton high
school and is well-known here. He was
a Lumberton visitor this morning.
The Robesonian., 1918-12-13
Minor Court Cases.

Otis Duncan was fined $15 and
the cost by Justice M. G. Mckenzie
yesterday on the charge OF driving
an auto against buggy belonging
to Calvin Moore, colored.
Olin Johnson, colored, was before
Recorder E. M. Britt yesterday on
the charge of driving an auto against
a lamp post near the court mousse
breaking down the post. He was re-
quired to pay for the post and the
cost in the case. The total cost was
around $40.
The Robesonian., 1918-12-13

The resignation of Charles M.
Schwab as director general OF the
Emergency Fleet corporation was ac-
cepted Saturday by President Wilson
in a wireless message from the trans
port George Washington.
The Robesonian., 1918-12-13

Mr.. Jno. B. Martin of R. l, St.
Pauls, returned home Tuesday from
Camp Jackson, having been released
from military service. He is a Lum-
berton visitor today.
The Robesonian., 1918-12-13
Box Supper at Baltimore School

Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Fairmont, R. l, Dec. 12.-There Will
be a box supper and entertainment at
the Baltimore school house Friday
night, Dec. goth. -. =.
Proceeds will go for the benefit OF
the school, Everybody is cordially IN
vited to come.
The Robesonian., 1918-12-13
robson CASUALTIES.

The overseas casualty list for to-
today contains the name of Private
Bruce McRae, R. 3, Maxton, wounded
severely.
The Robesonian., 1918-12-13
NUMBER 80
COTTON MARKET.

Middling cotton is selling on the To-
cal market today for "a ga cents the
pound.
The Robesonian., 1918-12-13

Mr.. w. D. johnson and small son,
Duncan, of St. Pauls are Lumberton
visitors today.
The Robesonian., 1918-12-13
LUMBERToN, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY DECEMBER - 1914
WITH robson SOLDIERS.

Relatives of Mr.. Johnnie McNeill,
formerly of Lumberton, now some
where in France" have been advised
that he came out of the big fight O. k.
The Robesonian., 1918-12-13
It's Other Name Is Lumberton.

Charity and Children.
Rev. c.. H. Durham asked us to
change his address ''to the best town
in the state" And the address has
been changed accordingly.
The Robesonian., 1918-12-13
DR.. WILLIAM w. PARKER,

Expert Knowledge of Eye Diseases
aud Fitting Glasses.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1918-08-29
GERMAN VANDALISM
Anglers AMERICANS

With the American Army in France
Aug. 5.-The order had just come to
move the division headquarters. The
Germans, turning their backs on Par
is, were retreating northward before
the victorious French and Americans
soldiers out of the salient which the
Crown Prince had constructed as a
base for his victory drive" which
was to engulf the French capital and
win the war. They had just crossed
the Vesle River, and the infantry
operating from this division head
quarters had got miles ahead, so far
that the General and his staff had to
move up closer to keep in better
touch. And so when reached divi-
sion headquarters the order had Just
come to pack up and go forward.
The headquarters had been in one
of the beautiful chateaux, whose
grace four years Of war had not
blotted out and the magnificance of
which could not die while even rem
nants of the structure remained. Maps
and tables and chairs were packed up
by Americans and loaded on trucks,
Then orderlies swept the floors clean,
carried out all scrap paper on the
lawn and burned it and did every
thing to make the place spotless.
Then the Major in charge took
from his pocket large key and open
ed room which had been sealed
since the day the Americans arrived.
At his direction soldiers took from
that room costly furniture, china,
silverware, and paintings and with
minute care put them back where
they had been found. AS the head
quarters pulled out Of the place it
was in most excellent condition. No
souvenirs had been taken away, no
sacrilege committed, no looting per-
petrated.
With the headquarters staff l went
on the highway a distance of ten
kilometers until we reached another
chateau, the new headquarters. On
the front door were chalked German
names and insignia-the foe had quit
the place two days before and he
had used it for division headquarters.
Inside was the customary sight to
be witnessed after the passage of the
boche. Confusion and wreckage were
everywhere. Empty wine bottles from
the pillaged cellar Of the handsome
place and broken chinaware filled the
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1918-08-29
PALMETTO

Farmers in this section are busy
pulling fodder and cotton is about
ready to pick, but they want to see
good rain more than they wish to
pull fodder or pick cotton.
Mr.. q. \. Clanton and family Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. l.. S. Brown Satur-
day and Sunday. Mr.. and Mrs. J.
Clanton visited the latter's father
Sunday.
Mrs. B. c. Clanton, Rev J. d. Pur-
Wis and Mr.. Barrett Deese were din
ner guests at the home of Mr.. B. G.
Clanton Sunday.
Messrs. Rcece Clanton and Will
Brown, of Camp Jackson, visited
home folks Saturday and Sunday.
The boys are looking well and say
they are having good time.
Mrs. Will Sellers, of Wadesboro,
was the weekend guest of her moth
er-in-law, Mrs. l.. J. Sellers. Little
Wilbur Sellers, of Wadesboro, visited
his grandparents last week, Mr.. and
Mrs. l.. j. Sellers.
Odom-Hancock
The friends of Miss Mollie Han
cock and Mr.. Henry Ion were tai
en- completely by surprise when this
popular young couple were married
last Sunday evening at 5 80 o'clock.
The wedding took place at the home
of Mr. Charlie Clantons, the Rev. J.
d. Purvis officiating The bride is the
charming daughter of Mr.. Wesley
Hancock. The groom is a progress
sivc young farmer of this community.
They both were born and reared in
the White Oak section, but Mr.. Odom
has made this section his home for
he past year We welcome the hap
py young couple to our community
and hope for them all good luck and
"A long and happy life together.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1918-08-29

The order reducing the mount of
print paper that may be used by
weekly Newspaper Is per cent has
been prepared by the pulo and paper
section of the War Industire. Board.
Publishers of weekly newspapers
must be ready to comply with this
regulation. Every weekly newspaper
publisher must be prepared to swear
to the amount of paper he used dur
the IL months-September /, 1917
to September I, 1918; and then figure
n reduction of Is per cent from that
amount used.
Every newspaper published must be
prepared to mail out no paper that is
not paid for in advance.
Now, dear reader-subscriber, if
your paper is not paid for in advance
1T is UP TO YOU.
Look at your label now. Back sub
scriptions MUST be paid, or the pa
per MUST stop. These orders MUST
be complied with by publishers just
as consumers MUST and DO comply
with the sugar, flour, coal and other
regulations. We MUST obey these
rulings and orders.
If you do not drop in and renew
your subscription, do not blame us if
your paper is discontinued. WATCH
YOUR LABEL AND RENEW BE-
FORE YOUR TIME lie OUT as we
have no choice in the matter, but will
be compelled to obey this ruling of
the board and stop all papers not
paid for in advance.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1918-08-29
HUN LINES CRUMBLE
BEFORE ALLIED ARMS

The Germans facing the allied
forces from Arras to Scissors every
where are in direct peril.
On almost every sector of the bat
tlefront, the enemy line continues to
crumble before the allied attack, not
withstanding the violence, born of
desperation, of the counter-offensive
tactics.
Near Arras the old Hindenburg
Line now is well outflanked; from
the Scarpe to the Somme the hostile
line gradually is falling back while
from the south of Somme to Sois-
sons the enemy front has literally
been smashed and the German hosts
apparently are caught in two dis
tinct traps, escape for which without
heavy losses in men made prisoner
and guns and material seems almost
impossible of achievement.
Scores of additional towns have
been captured by British, French and
American troops, the Americans hav-
ing entered the fray with the French
Northwest of Scissors while all of the
old German salients in the allied lines
now have been fiattened out and the
allies themselves have dug deeply into
the enemy's terrain.
The first trap in which the enemy
finds himself is the triangle formed
by the sharp curve of the Somme
River with Peronne it's apex and with
Curlu on the Somme and Fresnes,
respectively it's northern and southern
bases. This triangle is a little more
:han three miles deep and six miles
wide and in it the German are fighting
with their backs towards the Somme
on both north and the east.
Desperate resistance is being Of
fered by the enemy in order that his
men may have time to reach a haven
of safety across the stream but the
British are hard after their quarry,
and with the French a little to the
south almost up to the river to aid
them by an outflanking movement, it
would seem that odds are heavily
against the Germans.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1918-08-29

| dining room, broken because the Ger.
mans could not carry it away.
In the library big mirrors had been
smashed by bullet holes, through the
centre of a glorious old clock bayo-
net had been showed, pillows and mat
tresses had been ripped open var
tonly, big knife had cut across "A
handsome oil portrait in the salon,
women's finery had been dragged all
over the place and muddied and torn.
Ink had been thrown upon the wall %
one room. Every bit of wanton dam
age that could be done had been per-
petrated.
"It was the same thing in thu las.
place we were in," said the Majcr.
He set his men to work clearins
and sweeping. One big room Vas
set aoart in which to store the tn,nss
worth while which the German: Lad
left behind. The Major gave orders
here and there to be careful an l :afr
precautions to harm nothin.
Two hours later the ro,l., viii h
the American General nec,,, had
been set in order. I've American
General found he would have to use
some of the French tablewar A
careful inventory was taken of each
piece used, so that it would be return
ed properly.
| aQ / ahnt,t - 10 H. H.
called me back to show me the nurs-
cry. There must have been four
children before the war, for there
were four little white bedsteads hand
painted in dainty style. Sticking on
the wall was a Teddy bear through
which e German bayonet had been
thrust. The tender playthings OF
childhood had been broken and
thrown about.
On the floor debris lay foot thick
| The closets and wardrobes had been
emptied and what the Germans had
not taken away had been DESTROYED
Handsome pictures had been taken
from the walls and slammed down
over the corner of beds, on chairs
on anything that would smash them
A doll had been torn limb from limb
An American doughboy was care.
fully collecting the ruins and stow
ing them so that the room could be
used for the Majors office.
"Never mind, lad," said the Major
lets not use this room. Lock the
! door. I'll get an Office somewhere
else"
Then turning to me, he said:
I'D like to lay hands on the Ger.
man who lived in that room. It's
things like this that make me fear
the war will end too soon-will end
| before we teach the Huns better
manners"
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1918-08-29
IN MEMORY OF LITTLE VERA
MAJ RIVERS

On August the 6th, 1913. the death
angel visited the hpnr of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Rivers and took FROM them
their precious little dau"htc:.
Though Vera was 10: quite fUu
years old she will ID" missed in ;he
home, in her Sunda! S,hool class ana
by her playmates. Sh" was was an
unusually bright child and though
she suffered about ~ days with few
er she did not Eorgct her Sunday
School and talkei about i: in her las.
words.
Let us emulate IL" beauties Of her
character, glorify he God she loved,
and He that knowrth our every sor-
row will comfort ard bless us and
bring us air at last 10 His rest
BY one who loved her.