The Robesonian., 1918-09-05
BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWs

Meeting Lumbee tent Maccabees
tonight at $3.50. Degree work.
Miss Narva Clark arrived here
yesterday from Baltimore, Md. She
will be trimmer for Miss Amelia
Linkhauer this season.
The executive committee of the
local Red Cross chapter will meet Fri
day evening at $3.50 in the commits
sioners' room at the court house.
Red Springs Citizen: We gladly
welcome Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Jones as
residents Of Red Springs. They will
move over from Lumberton in the
next few days.
"A small machine, said to be a
lately invented cotton picker. was
: brought to Lumberton last night. The
machine is at the union station and
| it has not been learned whether or
not demonstration will be given here.
james Nj. Mcmillan and Dollie
McRae, colored couple, were married
in the office of Register of Deeds M.
w. Floyd Tuesday at 6 D. m. Justice
M. G. Mckenzie officiated. This was
Justice McKenZie's 118th matrimonia,
performance.
/ In brief note received this
morning by The Robesonian, Mr.
Junius J. Goodwin, who left last Fri
day for the officers training camp at
/ Carp Gordon, Ca, writes: "No time
to do anything but work, eat and
sleep, hardly stop to have smoke"
Mr.. Ira Barker bought today g.
l room residence on East Fifth street
from Mr.. E. s. Miller. Mr.. Barker
and family expect to move from Ten
Mile into the residence at an early
date. Mr.. Barker says he has al
ready harvested eight bales Of cotton.
Il Mrs. John s. Holman has been ad-
vised that her husband, who is man.
\ ager of the Lorraine hotel, was re-
Gently slightly injured in an automo-
bile. accident in Baltimore, Md. Mr.
Holman was visiting in Baltimore
when hurt. He is expected home
a Saturday.
, The fire company was called out
! about o'clock Tuesday on account of
blaze on the roof of a small resi-
!, dence in the northeastern part of
town. The blaze had been extinguish-
=, ed by bucket brigade before the fire
company reached the scene No dam
age was done.
"A new bridge has been put in
across the Rowland road just west Of
Lumber river. The bridge is 40 feet
I wide and was made of wood. This
/. /. bridge had been in bad condition
z since the floods of 1916 On account
i Of the bridge being torn out it was
impossible to get in and out of town
;. that way Tuesday and yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j.. E. Whaley and
e two children, Miss Evelyn and
Mr.. Ralph, returned yesterday
\ from Hendersonville, where they
= spent two months. Mr. E. L.
: Whaley. of the U. S. army
= spent 10 days at Hendersonville with
r his parents while they were there.
= Mr.. Whaley sailed for France soon
, after he left Hendersonville and is
now overseas.
t Prof. M. Shepherd of Orrum has
n been drafted" into teaching service
n again as principal of the Bladenboro
!. nigh school, which opened Monday.
!. Prof. Shepherd was formerly the eff
cient principal of the Orrum high
school, is also successful farmer.
e and has represented Robson in the
lower house of the Legislature. He
cid not intend to teach this year but
consented to take charge Of the Blad-
: enboro school upon urgent request.
Chief of Police E. l.. Hanna asks
n The Robesonian to remind folks, es-
i pecially children, Of the danger Of
: rushing into the streets when fire
/ alarm is sounded. The danger is
y caused by so many automobiles rusn-
I ing about the streets when an alarm
} is turned in. Another danger that
a has attracted the attention of Chief
= Hanna is the fact that so many boys
. riding bicycles line up in front of
o moving automobiles going to the
= scene of fire.