The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1918-02-14

Miss Amelia Linkhauer left Tues
day for New York and Baltimore TO
buy springs goods for her millinery
store.
Mr. R. A. Powell Of R. from
Lumberton has accepted a position as
salesman in Mr.. X. NJ. Bigg's de-
partment store.
Mr.. F. A. Mcleod returned this
morning from St. Louis, Mo-, where
he went to purchase mules for Mr..
c. NJ. Fuller's sales barn.
The Pickert sisters and their
company pleased large crowds at the
opera house Monday and Tuesday eve
nings and Tusday matinee. Gdod
company, good plays.
! The junior membership commit
tee, Mr.. w. H. Humphrey, chairman,
of the local Red Cross, will meet to-
morrow evening in the commissioners
| room at the court house.
I Mr.. Alfred W. Brown. a special
agent of the North Carolina Corpor-
alton Commission spent yesterday
7 here looking after those who have not
- paid their inheritance tax.
, DR.. T. F. Costner and family NOV
: ed today from the Peterson residence,
. house, Elm street. DR.. Costner pur-
> chased the Millsaps property some
- time ago.
=, The name of the grocery firm of
Powell & Prevatt has been changed
q to shat of Oden & Powell. Mr.. w. III.
is Prevatt sold his interest in the busi-
Il Ness to Mr.. G.. =. Oden, who has
iv charge of the store on Chestnut street.
ut Mr.. Marvin Barker, who had been
h sick in Wilmington for some three
ae weeks arrived here yesterday and will
st spend a few days visiting friends be-
ry fore going back to his work at Hope
IL well, Va His condition is very much
al improved.
ne Mr.. Ira B. Townsend, town clerk
lis and treasurer, is going to order SER
mt vice flag for the town and will be
ng glad to include orders for any who will
lr,, furnish the price of flag. He vii
nd charge nothing for his services in or
no dering. A 2x3 wool flag costs S1.70.
his Its violation of the law to ALLOW
=, " chickens to run at large in town, bu
a., still there are many who are violat
~, ing the law in that respect: Chlcke
lily owners should remember that chick
ems and gardens will not mix to tn
Nv satisfaction of those who own tn
i gardens.
son The fire company was called OF
,ort yesterday afternoon at 3:15 on a.
Of count of a hlaZe on TIE rocf OF q
tine kitchen at the home OF Or. D. ID h
dayi gau, Cedar and Second streets, III
fire was extinguished with chemIca
, before much damage had been dor
1t is supposed the fire started from
AIN: spark, from a stove.
II u Results Of physical examinati
e fnr mil
eSon' eyaa as published in Mondays Robesoni
clock will not stand under the new rul
had and regulations, under which We
MT MT, 4:I o. few men will be discharged for ply
u four ical disability. So that list will
he'd changed almost entirely, so far
,eeani esaad those who failed to pass are concel
could ed. when the local board passes on
why men that compose the list.
Mr.. A. S. Mcmillan, formerly
as &C Fairu1ont but who moved to Hou
= v,q- vol- tey, Fla, about IL years ago, was
e and Lumberton visitor Tuesday. Mr.. \
rs, as MILAN is in the turpentine busln
\. ada tif ;t and during the past year has lived
school McColl, S. c. He says that one
train; recently at a town in Florida he
,otieed t nnd down to table with three men he
given never seen before and it develo
in the course of the meal that eV
ne ne hoI5 fG,I one Of them was from Robson couI
. An Mr.. w. A. Edwards, whose b
u US ito to died Tuesday of last week, the
5wever. mains being brought in Thursday
ID dis interment made near the Edws
,e ,s, nsJ ans home, as stated in Thursdays r.
me for sonian, returned Tuesday night
nection his home at Newport News,
rsx.s Their little daughter is very sick
pneumonia at the home OF MI.
EMS. wards, mother, Mrs. WI vi d. ran1a;n IOWA
with her until she is able to re-
home,