The Robesonian., 1918-06-27
NUMBER 40
BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS

lows orphanage at Goldsboro Friday
evening at $50.
License has been issued for the
marriage of W R. Taylor and Lilliar
Baker, both of Fairmont.
The condition Of Mrs. w. p. Bar.
kcr whose illness has bean mentioned
IN recent issues of The Robesonian.
continues critical.
-Lumbee Tent No. IS, Maccabees.
has changed the tine of meeting from
$50 on Tuesday evening of each week
to $50 on Thursday evening.
At the meeting of the county
board of education Monday one COM
mitteeman will be appointed for each
school district in the county.
MIR. X. S. Monroe left last eve
ming for Charleston, S. c., upon re-
'elpt Of message advising him that
his wife, who is visiting her parents
| there, was ill.
--,5r 5 McIntv~e attended q -,,cct-
ing CT the beard Of trustees OF the
rfoinasville Baptist orohanage, of
, winch he IS a members, at Thomas
vile Tuesday.
-Nir. T.. l.. Parnell of Raft Swamp
township brought to town yesterday
, load OF peaches which he sold readi-
ly at $l.50 the bushel They were
early E!bertas, most delicious peach.
DR.. and Mrs. H. T. Pope left this
morning for Wrightsville Beach to
attend the Baptist Seaside assembly
which opens tonight. Mrs. Pore will
! haVe charge Of the woman's mission
ary union work at the assembly.
Mrs. G. B. Mcleod left Tuesday
evening for Baltimore, Nd, where she
: will spend few days She will visit
her son Mr.. G. Badger Mcleod, who
; IS in the Z. S. army stationed al New
J; ark, n. j., before returning home.
:, Fire OF unknown origin des :royed
:. the barn and all the ccrn and other
ICED Of Giles Rozier, colored, who
, lives three miles northeast Of town,
Monday afternoon. The loss is esti-
mated at $1,000, with no insurance.
Mr.. A. IL. Kinds Tuesday bought
: 5 fine cows from a farmer who lives
beauties and Mr.. Kinds will butcher
and sell them for beef. The eight
: COWS weighed between seven ard eight
thousand pounds. Z
: Mr.. and Mrs o. H. Bracy return
ed home Monday evening from
: Wrightsville Beach, where they had
been since tfeir marriage June Is.
They are boarding at the present at
the home of Mrs. Daisy ". jenkins,
Sixth and Walnut streets.
Lieut.. J. P. Cashwell of Camp
Jackson arrived yesterday and will
spend few days here Visiting at the
home of his parents, Rev. and Mrs.
I r. \. Cashwell. Lieut.. Cashwell re-
= Gently took months course in small
4 arm firing at Camp Perry, Ohio.
:. Mr.. Ben Edwards, who lives in
the eastern part of town, brought 20
: The Robeson!an Office yesterday
hen egg with capital rs" on the end
of it. Of course the hen that laid
f that egg meant to advise the people
generally to save and buy War Saw
D ings stamps.
: Mr. n F. Kinlaw of Howellsville
, township was a Lumberton visitor
Robesonian that Mr.. D. J. Kinlaw of
his section killed a large alligator
Tuesday. The gator was in Mr.. Kin
laws field trying to cross a wire
fence when found.
;, DIR. E. K. Mclean has accepted
a position with county board of health.
;. DR.. Mclean is a native of Scotland
a and came to Robson some eight
e years ago. He is a student at the
t university of Texas, Galveston. Dr.
: Mclean will do sanitary work in the
$ towns of the county
i Mr. j. P Virgins of Maxton,
t chairman of the Robeson War Saw
n ings publicity committee, spent yes
t terday travelling through the county
$ In the interest of the War Savings
: drive. He reported the drive moving
r along very satisfactorily in the various
e sections of the county.
i Mrs. ]. C. Carlyle, Mrs. Josephine
Y Mcdonald and the latter's son, Mr..
Carey Mcdonald, all of RoZier, were
Lumberton visitors yesterday. Mrs.
Mcdonald has just purchased part
of the old Carlyle place. Mrs. Carlyle
says the ladies on the farms are work
: ing in the fields in addition to doing
Il their house work.
Mr.. S. E. Davis, Red Springs
road, r. 6 from Lunlherton, brought
to Lumberton yesterday the first
. load Of watermelons of the season and
sold the largest ones at 81 each. They
;, were fine melons. No finer melon ever
II grew than the one Mr. Davis present
: ed to the edito1 and it was duly ap-
;, preciated and enjoyed.
= = A woman who apparently was
''tanked up" created some excite
= men. at the union station Tuesday
= evening. She accompanied one of the
.. registrants who entrained for Camp
: Jackson to the station and the two
:. had a great time for a spell before
i the train left. Lemon extract is said
to have been the cause of it all.
. Mr.. o. L. Joyner, of Greenville.
president cf the o. L. Joyner Co.,
which company will operate the Big
Banner warehouse, one Of the large
: new brick sales warehouses here, spent
IS Monday and Tuesday in Lumbertor.
e Mr.. Joyner and Mr.. r. j. Cobb, also
, of the Joyner firm, will spend most
e of the time here during the selling
e season. Mr.. C. A. D. Fakes will have
charge of the warehouse. This COM
pany operated a small warehouse here
II last season and made many friends
among the farmers. This company
has a half-page ad in today's paper