The Robesonian., 1918-11-28
BRIEF ITEMS LOCAL NEWS

Mr.. Ira Barker and family moved
Monday from their farm near Ten
Mile church into a residence owned
by Mr.. Barker in the eastern part of
town.
st. Adams lodge A. F. & A. M.
made Thanksgiving contribution of
$500 to the Masonic orphanage at OK
.oiu. Inc money was forwarded yes
terday.
Local banks, stores and other bus
mess houses are observing Thanksgiv-
ing today. Services were held in all
the churches this morning and collec-
tlons were taken for the various
church orphanages.
SO few people attended the meet
ing OF the LumDerton Red Cross chap
Ter tuesday evening that the election
OF ofhcers was again postponed. A
meeting will be called again at an
early date by Chairman A. E. White.
Mr.. Forest McGill of Camp Jack
son, Columbia, S. c., arrived tuesday
night and will spend some time here
kylsFlpg his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
4. McGin. MIR. McGill is employed in
the military postoffice at Camp jack
son.
~ bountiful Thanksgiving dinner.
contributed by citizens of the town,
was prepared for the inmates of the
county nome. The edibles were COL
!ected by Mr.. M. G. Mckenzie, who
looks after the dinner for the inmates
each Thanksgiving day.
/ Mrs. L. R. Stephens left last eve
ming for Charlotte, where she Joined
her husband, and they went to Fort
MIL, >. g., to visit at the home OF
Mrs. Stephens parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Alex Barber. Mr.. Stephens is in the
army and stationed at Camp Sewer,
: Greenville, S. c..
Judge c. C. Lyon spent last night
IN Lumberton on Ills way to his home
in ElizabethtOwn. Today is the first
thanksgiving he has spent at home In
{ ten years. He came yesterday from
. Raeford, term of court which began
Monday closing yesterday. Judge Lyon
5 Will preside at court here next week.
t Mrs. ]. L. Williams returned
$ home Monday night from Jackson
vile, Fla, where she spent several
), weeks with her husband, who has just
n recovered from a severe attack of in
l fluenza- pneumonia. Mr.. Williams is
e IN the U. S. army and is stationed al
!. Camp Johnston, near Jacksonville.
g Mr.. j. c. Baxley of the Buie sec
n tion brought to Lumberton yesterda,
a quantity of fine ripe home grown
n tomatoes. Mr.. Baxley says the to
e mato bushes have been bearing al
: during the summer and fall and ar,
: still full of green tomatots. He GOV
= cred them with cotton sheets durin.
: the recent cold weather.
i Mayor A. B. Mercer of Alma. Ga
W is visiting home folks in Howellsvill
It township. He and his brother MI
e N. A. Mercer of Howellsville wer,
It Lumberton visitors yesterday. Mayo
e Mercer left Robson for Georgia abou
Y 8 years ago, is engaged in the mer
le camille business at Alma, and is nov
n mayor Of that thriving town.
lr Master Hoyle Dougherty an
Wylie Barnes found while playing il
n a field in the eastern part of tow
d Monday an old suit of clothes 1t i
$ supposed it was suit worn by a rob
IS ber who robbed several Lumbertol
S, homes Saturday night and that h
ID put on one of Mr.. n. P. Andrews
I'd suits and left his own. An account O
the robbery was published in Monday
a Robesonian
i i Mr.. Wright ]. Prevatt, proprieto
8 of the Lumberton barber shop, ha
~ purchased the National barber shoI
- Mr.. George Collins, proprietor, an
u has combined the two shops unde
= the name of the Lumberton. Tn
= = Lumberton shop is being moved toda
l.e le from the corner of Elm and Fourt
y to the room in the Columbia hote
d building heretofore occupied by tn
$ National. 1t is understood that tin
~ prominent corner vacated by the Lun
III berton shop will be occupied by som
other business in a short while.