The Robesonian., 1918-04-11
BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS

1t is said by some that a small
amount of snow fell hereabouts Tues
day night.
License has been issued fer the
marriage of Ernest Graham and Car
RE Belle McNeill.
Tom Graham and Maggie John
son, colored, were married by Justice
VI. u. Mckenzie in the court house
last evening about 7:30.
Miss Harriet Humphrey went
yesterday to St. Pauls in response to
a message advising her that her
mother, Mrs. K. Z. Humphrey, was
ill.,
There will be n concert at the
Bethesda school house Wednesday
night, April 18th. Misses Mary Wet
more and Stella Murray are the teach
ers.
There will be 4 chidren's exer-
else at Tolarsville Sunday evening
April lith, at o'clock. by the Sun
( beams and y. W. AS. The public is
I invited.
Mr.. A. f. White spent Tuesday in
Wilmington on business. He meard
Secretary Of the Treasury Y. c. Nc
Adoc speak in Wilmington Tuesday
evening.
DR.. w. a. McPhaul, county health
( oficcr, VII attend a meeting of the
/ State county health officers associa-
! ton at IinehursC Monday and Tues
/ day of next week
The Flying Squadron" campaign
has been called Off by agreement with
! State director Fries and the thirty
! Bond campaign management, hence
no meeting in Lumberton today.
I Farmers coming to Lumberton
from the Rennert section say Irish po-
tatoes in that section were killed by
the recent cold. They were surprised to
find potatoes about Lumberton appar-
emily unhurt by the cold.
Mr.. j. ID. Monroe, who for some
time has held position with the Nc
Allister Hardware Co., moved his
family yesterday from Laurinburg to
; Lumberton. They moved into the
), Barnes residence, Chestnut street.
"A history of Antioch church,
Hoke county, written by Messrs. Jno.
A. McGougan and Fred Brown, has
, just been completed and will be pub
lished in pamphlet form. 1t is deli
Gated to Mr.. A. w. Mclean of Lum-
berton.
4 -"Stop my ad The first insertion
' moved the goods" was the word The
Robesonian received yesterday from
: a Robson farmer who placed an ad
e in the Business Builder" column re-
Gently. Robesonian advertising sells
r the goods. s,s..s.
J. Miss M. V. D. Costello and little
t Miss Margaret Redmond went yester-
1 terday morning to Charleston, s. c.,
to attend the wedding of Miss Co.'S
: tello's neice, Miss Marguerite Barrett.
t They will visit other relatives before
e returning home.
ALI Red Cross members are urg-
! ed by the chairman of soldiers litera-
= = ture committee not to forget to send
: magazines to the local workrooms ev-
: cry week. They will be stamped and
: mailed Immediately to the soldiers,
who need them.
Saddletree township, will close Tues
day, April 16. There will be exercises
by the school on the night of the 10th
e beginning at $50 told time). The
public is invited. Miss Henrietta
Duncan is teacher.
\ Vance, 6-months-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. G. v Hardie of Boardman,
died at the Thompson hospital here
! Tuesday afternoon. Death was due
TO pneumonia. Interment was made
in the Ward cemetery, near Orrum,
yesterday afternoon.
}, The D'Esta Rhoads company will
l. give entertainments in the graded
u school building at Fairmont Tuesday
"a and Wednesday nights of next week.
r This company delighted large audi
g ences at the school auditorium here
le Tuesday evening and last evening.
~ ~ News has been received here to
e the effect that Mr.. T. Olin Edins,
;, formerly of Lumberton, had his left
,, y arm broken while engaged in a battle
= on the French front. Mr.. Edens join
: ed the U. S. engineers soon after war
~ was declared against Germany by the
u n United States.
1e Mrs. c. B. Skipper, Sr., returned
is Tuesday night from Columbia, S. c.,
Or where she spent some time visiting
oil her son and daughter-in-law, Lieut..
ne and Mrs. c. B. Skipper, Jr. She was
IN accompanied by Mrs. C. B. Skipper
re Jr. Lieut. Skipper left Camp Jack
&C son Yesterday with his command for
a somewhere"
ed The "keep well" campaign is still
going on and Dr. McPhaul, county
er health officer, says he is still receiving
nd applications for the free medical ex-
Cd aminations and a good many are be-
ed ing examined Mondays and Tuesdays
nd of each week. School children of the
or county are being examined other
IS days in the week.
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n Frank Spear of Charlotte, native
,ol of Germany but for 33 years resi-
he dent of America, was convicted II