The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1918-04-08
NUMBER II
BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS

Heavy frost and ice Saturday
morning.
License has been issued for the
marriage of ]. NJ. Wilcox and Hattie
Scott; Ernest c. Inman and Lizzie
Jenkins.
Mr.. E. F. Lamb of r. 4 from
Lumberton was among the visitors In
town Saturday. Mr.. Lamb said he
had set acres Of tobacco.
Mrs. L. R. varser, who had been
SICK at her home on East Fifth street
for few days, was taken Yesterday
to the Thompson hospital
The regular quarterly meeting of
the directors of the National Cotton
Mill company was held Thursday TIE
usual quarterly dividend was declared.
MIR. w. w. Hester of Bladenboro
mas accepted a position in Messrs. r.
ID. Caldwell & Sons department store.
He began work this morning.
"A Liberty loan rally will be held
at st. Pauls Saturday afternoon at 3.
Inc chairman of that district SAYS his
district will raise its entire quota of
the third Liberty Loan.
| Oak Grove school, near Buie. Miss
Hattie Powell, teacher, closes with an
entertalnment tomorrow evening.
Supt. K. E. Sentelle of the Lumberton
school will deliver the address.
"A. w. 0. w. monument erected
at the grave OF Sovereign j L. Bare
foot at Ten Mile church was unveiled
by the Ten Mile camp yesterday af-
ternoon. A large crowd witnessed the
unveiling.
The East Lumberton Thrift So
clety will meet in the East Lumberton
school building Wednesday morning
at 1880 All members are urged to
attend. Miss Dollar Pittman is secre-
tary of the society.
i Lieut.. j. M Russell, son of Mr..
and Mrs. j. P. Russell of Lumberton.
has recently been transferred from
camp Gordon, to Peoria, ILL.,, where
ne will study motor being manufac-
tured at plant taken over by the
government for handling field artil-
lery.
Mr.. j. S. Oliver, Mr.. and Mrs.
W. ). Jenrette and Misses Lenora and
Helen Oliver, all of Marietta, were
Lumberton visitors Saturday. Miss
= Helen Oliver returned yesterday to
Gastonla, where she teaches. She
came home for Easter and was de-
: tanned there with an attack of German
measles.
Miss Lillian Rice, who had been
visiting IN Lunberton at tie home of
ner brother-in-law and sister, Mr.. and
! Mrs. ": W. Singletary, since her
d school closed recently at Tobermory,
Bladen county. went Saturday even
ing to the home of her father. Mr.
I, Asbury Rice, at Long Branch, and
! ! left yesterday for Wilmington, where
1 she has accepted position
The D'Esta Rhodes company will
give an entertainment at the school
auditorium tomorrow and Wednesday
evenings under the auspices of the
school. The surplus will go to the
Junior Red Cross. This company
comes highly recommended by princi-
pals of other schools, among them
n Plof. Mclean of the Maxton school,
where the entertainment was given
recently.
S The "Victory Flying Squadron" !"
: composed of Mr.. D. F. Giles and S
S other influential men, will come to
; Lumberton Thursday of this week for
: the purpose of holding meeting in
the thrift campaign. These men will
be ready Thursday and Friday to
e make personal canvass over such
It parts of the county as may be desired
t both in the interest of the War Saw
e ings stamps and the Liberty loan.
e County Chairman Varser has wired
State headquarters that these men
can be used as long as they can stay
What are the laying hens saying
: In Thursdays Robesonian it was told
l how hen had laid an egg on the
: small end of which was a capital C,
I A hen belonging to Rev. J. L. Hum.
r phrey Of Saddletree no doubt read
a about that in The Robesonian and
a turned right around and laid an egg
e on the small end of which is a capital
Q P in the same style of architecture as
the capital c. The two hens together
i no doubt are saying, "Crush Prus.
s sianism." Mr.. Humphrey sent the
N egg to The Robesonian office Saturday
by Mr.. M. C. Powell.