The Robesonian., 1918-05-23
BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS

BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS
-Lumberton Chapter 116, o. E. s..
will meet this evening at $3.50.
Mr.. w. L. Hocutt has accepted a
position in Grantham Brothers drug
store.
MIR. 4. M.Barnes, treasurer of the
Planters Bank & Trust Co., is attend
ing meeting of the State Bankers
association in Raleigh this week.
The Civilian Relief committee Of
the Lumberton Red Cross chapter will
meet tonight in the commissioners
room at the court house at $50.
The hours for meeting in the local
Red Cross work rooms have been
changed to to o'clock. Hereto
fore the hours have been from 4 to 6.
Mr.. c. M. Barker, vino is pur-
chasing agent for the Hillsboro Lum-
be- Co., of Tampa, Fla, came home
last night and will be here for a few
days. '
trained nurses passed by the State
board of examiners last week and
licensed Monday were Misses Lille
Townsend and Hester Bridger of Lum-
berton.
Mr.. E. L. Hamilton returned yes
terday from Fayetteville, where he
took his small son Jack to hospital
and had his adenoids and tonsils re-
moved Tuesday. He is getting on
nicely.
Miss Sarah Stone passed through
town yesterday evening en- route to
her home at Mt. Elm from Green's
boro, where she was student at the
State Normal college during the tern:
just closed.
Lieut. J. P. Cashwell, who has
been stationed at Camp Jackson, s. c.,
spent yesterday here visiting his par
ents, Rev. and Mrs. R. n. Cashwell.
Lieut.. Cashwell left last evening for
some Northern point.
| Il. j. Wilkins and letter j. Branch,
the two men arrested with a whiskey
still on an automobile near Pembroke
more than a week ago, will be given
a hearing before Recorder E. N. Britt
/ Saturday at 10 a. m.
Rev. j. r. Miller, pastor of the
Baptist church at Fairmont, passed
! through town yesterday en- route home
from the Southern Baptist Convention,
which met at Hot Springs, Ark. He
reported history making session.
Mr. G. 0. Bagwell, who for some
time had held position in the Office
/ of the Lumberton, Dresden and Jeu-
nings cotton mill companies here, left
Tuesday for Raleigh, where Saturday
he will be entrained for army duty.
The two Federal road trucks re-
Gently purchased by the board of road
commissioners arrived yesterday. AS
has been stated in The Robesonian,
the trucks will be used for pulling
road drags and hauling dirt on the
roads.
An automobile driven by young
girl and truck driven by colored
man collided on East Fourth street
yesterday afternoon. Both were run
ming slowly and the only damage was
to the automobile, which was slightly
bruised.
DIR. w. E. Evans of Rowland was
Ia Lumberton visitor Monday. DR..
Evans says Rowland's tobacco ware
house is coming right along. This
will be the first season Rowland has
had tobacco warehouse, he says, in
10 years.
Sgt. R. Luther Cox of Camp Sc
vier, Greenville, S. c., arrived yester-
day to spend ten-days' furlougn vis-
/. iting relatives and friends in Robeson.
Sgt. Cox says he has been unlucky
so far in the fact that he has not been
sent "over there"
Mr.. Geo. C. Thomas of Roseboro,
Sampson county, expects to open a
drygoods business in the former
stand of the and 10 cent store, next
next month Mr.. Thomas was Lun-
:. berton visitor Monday.
Mrs. L. R. Varser, who has not
e been well for several weeks, went
!. Monday evening to a Charlotte hos
She was accompanied to Charlotte by
f Mr.. Varser and her physician, Drl
: T. C. johnson, who returned Tuesday.
4: The Robesonian has received from
DR.. j. P Brown, who moved last week
practice medicine, postcard showing
|. the White Sulphur Springs hotel at
Haywood. Here" DIR. Brown writes,
e sis where the sick soldiers are being
: treated by Uncle Sam for tuberculosis
n and wounds received in France"
/ Mr.. and Mrs. C. Frank Clyburn
e Of Kershaw, S. c., spent yesterday
5 here visiting at the home of Mr.. ely
burns brother-in-law and sister, Mr.
and Mrs. w. S. Britt, Elm street. Mr.
o Clyburn is member of the lower
house of the South Carolina Legisla-
ture. He is confident that Ben Till
r man will be re-nominated for U. S
e Senator in the coming primary.
d The following Lumberton peopl
i. attended the commencement of Flora
d Macdonald college at Red Springs
} yesterday: Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Nc
ID Leod, Mrs. F. ]. Thomas, Mrs. ]. L
1T Williamson, Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Good
E. win and Messrs. H. E. Stacy, ]. M
ze lIcCallum and Fred Brown. Miss Vir