The Robesonian., 1918-06-20
NUMBER 80
BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS

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License has been issued for the
marriage of A. Bolton Beasley and
Bessie Odum; Johnson Lane and Nina
Hayes
Register of Deeds M. W. Floyd
went this morning to Wilmington to
take his small son, NJ w., Jr., to an
eye specialist
Mr.. Frank Cough spent yesterday
at Wilmington inspecting State con-
wet camps. Mr.. Cough is a member
OF the State prison board.
Mr.. A. E. Spivey has accepted a
position with Messrs Knott & Smith.
proprietors of the Farmers tobacco
sales warehouse of Lumberton.
The condition of Mrs. w. P. Bar
ker, who has been seriously i'll at
her home, North Elm street, for the
last few days, remains unchanged.
John Baker was arrested near
Pembroke Tuesday by Sheriff R. e.
Lewis on the charge of making and
selling spirituous liquors He is m
Jail.
Mr.. Lee Stone, who is home on a
visit from Hopewell, Va, saws that
the other night in Hopewell he count
ed l3 Lumberton boys gathered at one
place. ~
Mrs. L. w. Bullock went today to
wilmington to have her eyes exam
lned by a specialist. She was accom-
panied by her daughter little Miss
Ruth Neill Bullock.
Mr.. L. T. Townsend was able tn
be out again the first of the week
after being confined for 8 or 4 weeks
at his home on Walnut and T'.ird
with a deep cold and complications.
MIR. Nash Townsend of R. 6 from
Lumberton brought bushels of green
field peas to town yesterday. He sold
them at 35 cents the peck. Mr.. Town
send says he had his first mess Sat-
urday.
The Robesonian is asked to state
that ladies will be notified later when
to bring potted plants to the graded
school grounds in compliance with the
appeal in the report of the Woman's
club work published elsewhere in this
issue.
-Messrs. M. G. Mckenzie and Alex.
Dawkins left this afternoon in Mr..
Dawkins' auto for Richmond and New
! port News, Va, where they will spend
ten days. Mr.. Mckenzie will visit
his son Mr.. C. S. Mckenzie at New
port News.
/ -Messrs. S. E. Davis of Raft
1 Swamp and S. r. Barfield of R. 2
from Lumberton brought green peas
to town yesterday. Mr. Barfield who
was accompanied to town by his SON
Master Carl, says he sold his for SO
cents the peck.
AN unsigned card from Fairmont
/ to The Robesonian states that Mrs.
1 N. I. Andrews of that place has re-
ceived card announcing the safe az
rival overseas of her son Corporal
Leon P. Andrews, 120 Amb. Co. 1O5
Sanitary Train.
-Drs. J. D. Regan, B. L. Frink and
!! D. D. King are attending the meet
ing of the State Dental association,
which opened at Wrightsville Beach
last evening. DR.. R. T. Allen will
!. leave tonight to attend the meeting,
i which closes tomorrow night.
\ MIR. and Mrs w. H. Graham of
Rowland have just been advised that
| their son Sergeant Burton NJ. Gra-
ham, who joined the engineer corps
when Co. A of Wilmington was on
guard duty here last year. has arriv-
: ed safely overseas. Sgt. Graham is a
nephew Of Mr.. Ira B. Townsend of
:. Lumberton.
Mr.. J. A. Raine has received a
gold fob from the jefferson Stand
ard Life Insurance Co. of Greensboro,
which he represents, with his name
engraved upon it. Mr.. Raine was
presented with the fob because of the
fact that he sold more than 100000
, worth of insurance during the first
three months of this year.
DIR. w. T. Martin of Benson spent
Tuesday night here visiting at the
home of his brother and sister-in-law
DR.. and Mrs. J. A. Martin, East Fifth
l street. DR.. Martin is secretary of the
State Dental association and went
from here to Wrightsville Beach to
attend the annual meeting Of the as
, sociation, which opened there last
evening.
-Messrs. Robt Proctor and Harry
Russell are among the Robson county
boys at Asheville taking training ur-
der Capt. Allen Of the British armv
who has been at the State university
l for the past year or more giving stu.
: dents military training. The ground;
r of the Bingham school were offered the
o university as training grounds fol
: young men who expect to enter the
n university next fall.
: : Mr. A. r. Tarry of Townsville
: Vance county, was Lumberton visi
:, tor Tuesday. He will represent Tit
Export Leaf Tobacco Co. of Richmo1c
: on the Lumberton market this yea
: and will return to Lumberton a few
days before the market opens. Nj
Tarry expects high prices for tobacc,
this season. He says that he ha
known Messrs. Knott and Smith, VIII
have become identified with the Lum
:, berton market. for years and tina
there are no finer warehousemen il
the State than they.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. E. Stone an
e Mr.. and Mrs. j. W. Perry of Augusts
L Ca, and Mr.. Lee Stone of Hopewel