The Robesonian., 1918-06-17
BRIke ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS

Bklbr ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS
Regular communication st. AL
bans lodge No. ia, Tuesday evening
at $3.50. Election of officers.
A bunch of boy scouts from Nc
Coll, ). e., passed through Lumberton
IN three autos this morning bound
for Lake Waccamaw. where they will
camp out for a spell.
MIR. E.. Odum, who lives near Buie.
was Lumberton visitor Saturday and
brought the editor fine pear from
one of two trees at his place that are
loaded down with delicious fruit.
Mrs L. r. Varser returned Sat
urday night from Charlotte, where
she spent several weeks in a hospital
under the care of a specialist. Her
condition Is very much improved.
Lucy j. Sampson. Indian who lives
on r. 6 from Lumberton, says she
had green peas from her garden for
dinner Tuesday of last week. She
says she can get another mess in a
few days.
Mrs. w. P. Barker is critically
i'll at her home, North Elm street.
Chief Of Police Alf H. Mcleod
left Thursday evening for Baltimore,
Md, where he will take treatment un-
der specialist.
Mr.. ]. A. Barker has been advised
! by wire that his daughter. Mrs. G.. R.
Hennigar of Halifax, Nova Scotia,
! Canada, recently underwent an oper-
alton for appendicitis. Her condi-
tlon was as favorable as could be ex-
pected.
MIR. S. F. Caldwell returned Sat
urday from Baltimore, Md, where he
! spent Friday with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. R. D. Caldwell, who are un-
dergolng treatment at Johns Hopkins
hospital. Both are getting along well
and are improving in health.
:. MIR. Shepard X. Nash, son of Mrs.
A. Nash of Lumberton, has been
!, transferred back to France, where he
was last fall, from Italy, where he
! was In training for SOME time for
fighting in the air. He was at Lyons.
in the southeastern part of France,
when last heard from
-Messrs. G. w. Knott and C. j.
Smith, of Henderson, proprietors of
the Farmers tobacco sales warehouse
of Lumberton, arrived here last eve
ming and will spend the time from
now unity the opening of the selling
season getting acquainted with the
farmers and making ready for the
:; opening.
,, License has been issued for the
marriage of Kelton Powers and Nam
ME Townsend; Clarence Lovett and
Bodie Lovett, Henry Martin and Nam
ME Tatum; Travis Brisson and Alma
Startling; G.. Darden Smith and Bera
, Tedder; J. Marvin Adams and Mary
Edens; W. Pink Floyd and SalIie
Connelley.
An automobile driven by Proctor
! Stephens, colored, of Proctorvilie, and
a bicycle ridden by a colored boy,
whose name could not be learned,
> collided on Elm street in front of Mr..
; A. Weinstein's store about o'clock
last evening. The bicIcle was torn
n up and the front wheel of the auto
0 passed over the colored boy riding the
Q bicycle He was taken to the Thomp-
!. son hospital, where it was found that
he was not hurt.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. E. Petty, Of
: Greenville, S. c., whose infant son
died last Wednesday night at the
home of Mrs. Petty's parents, MIR.
end Mrs. J. A. Thomps on, where they
were visiting, and Mrs Petty's sister
:. Miss Ruby Thompson, left Saturday
morning for Norfolk, Va. Miss Stein,
: a nurse who had been with Mrs. Pet
ty, left Saturday morning for Char
Il lotte. Mr.. Petty is accounting rep
resentative of South Carolina for the
United States railroad administration
e Dorothy, aged two and half
e years, was the proud possessor
n of dog. That is, she
f thought, before her father
e bought big dog for her, that she
d would love it better than anything
s., at all, if she had one; but after she
$ got the dog she seemed unable to de-
n eide whether she owned the dog or
the dog owned her. She cringed and
It. audibly sucked her breath when the
y dog started toward her. whats
Al the matter, Dorothy?" asked her
'e mother, "Are you afraid of the dog?"
l. NOM, bravely maintained Dorothy
y 'Dog's 'fraid of me-"