The Robesonian., 1918-05-16
NUMBER %
BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS

Mr.. S. Mcintyre is attending the
Southern Baptist convention at Hot
Springs, Ark, this week.
License has been issued for the
marriage Of Norman E. Drum and An
ME Esther Humphrey.
Mr.. John Redmond, who lives on
East Fifth street, has some Of the fin
est onions seen here Nothing has
been shipped in to beat those grown
by Mr.. Redmond.
Mr. Kinchen Britt Of R. 1 from
Lumberton passed through town yes
terday en- route to Charleston, s. c.,
to take up his duties in the U. s.
navy. He enlisted some two weeks
ago in Wilmington.
The 43 jars Of canned fruit and
vegetables donated to the Lumberton
Red Cross chapter by Mr.. p. c. Town
send of the Red Springs section was
were bid off by Mr.. F. A. Wishart
and Chief of Police Alf H. Mcleod
and brought $1,000.
Mr.. and Mrs o. L. Clark of
! Clarkton passed through Lumberton
Monday evening en- route to Durant,
I Okla Mr.. Clark was going as a
to the general assembly of the South
ern Presbyterian church, which con-
{, venes in Durant today.
Mrs. E. l.. Holloway and two
; children will leave tomorrow for
Asheville, where they will spend the
summer. Mrs L. 7. Townsend has
! been appointed temporary chairman
l of the county committee of the Wo-
: mans Council of National Defense
l to serve while Mrs. Holloway is away.
Rev. ]. r. Miller of Fairmont
/ passed through town Monday even
= ing en- route to Hot Springs, Ark, to
: attend the Southern Baptist conven-
/ ton. The Baptist churches at Back
! Swamp, Raynham, Barnesville, Balti-
+ more and Pleasant Hope pay the ex-
~ penses of Mr.. Miller to the. conyen-
= tion.
,r Mr.. Chapel Wilson of R. 7 from
: Lumberton- was sent to Raleigh this
20 morning by the local army exemption
)0 board, where he will take a special
d course in the mechanical department
is One hundred and sixty men were
,e drafted in this State for this purpose
and one of this number was sent from
~ this district.
IN Miss Flowers Coke and brother
t. Mr.. Osbourne Coke, of the Broat
O. Ridge section, and Miss Lillian Stone
nd who lives, near McDonalds, passes
es through town yesterday er route t
On Fayetteville to visit Miss Stone
mother, Mrs. Anna Stone, who ha
~ been in a Fayetteville hospital for In
he past two weeks. Her condition is UT
n. improved.
D DIR. and Mrs. J. P. Brown o
n Fairmont left yesterday for Waynes
r vile, where they will make their hom
a. DR.. Brown is one Of the best-know
of physicians Of the county and is on
ID: of the fathers" Of Fairmont, havin
q. played a large part in building ths
I'd good town. There is scarcity {
M physicians at Waynesville and D
nd Brown sees an opportunity there fc
r real service that is in keeping wit
i!t the action of the recent State col
ST. vertion of physicians looking to tt
p distribution of physicians to meet tt
| demands made by the war. Mr.
Fc- Brown has long been prominent
Ia church work at Fairmont and in Il
country, and both of them will
at missed, while the best wishes of hos
the of friends will follow them to the
urt new home. They have been spendir
ons their summers at Waynesville for
me number of years and are not stran
81 ers there. Their son and daughte
,im in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Hal Brown, I
and main at Fairmont.