The Robesonian from Lumberton, North Carolina • Page 1

THE ROBESONIAN ESTABLISHED 1870. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. COUNTRY, GOD AND TRUTH $2.00 A YEAR. DUE IN ADVANCE VOL. IXL LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY JANUARY 16, 1919.

NUMBER 98 INFLUZNZA LID ON AGAIN. Churches, Scheols, Picture Shows, Barber Shops and all Public Gatherings Prohibited in Lumberton- -Does Not Apply to Other Places in CountyHealth Officer McPhaul Says There is No Occasios for Panic. At a joint meeting of the board of town commissioners, the physicians of the town and the emergency hospital committee last evening it was decided to close all schools, picture shows and other public meetings, including churches and Sunday schools and barber shops in town, at once. This ordinance will be in effect until lifted by the board of town commissioners. None of these regulations apply to any portion of the county outside Lumberton.

Dr. McPhaul, county health officer, says that he was not informed gainst closing churches. At a meeting of the meeting last night and that if he had been he would have protested a- day it was decided to leave each comof the county health board here Monmunity to govern itself in regard to closing schools, etc. Dr. McPhaul says th influenza now is very mild, not half as bad as it was last September and October, and there is no occasion whatever for panic.

He spent yesterday in Wilmington and found many cases there. In fact, it is all over the country; but above all things panic is to be avoided. COUNTY AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT ORGANIZED. Composed of 3 From. Each Township--Farmers of County Will be Organized At: a public meeting of the Robeson division of the Farmers' Union heid here Tuesday a county agricultural department was organized.

The derartment is composed of three members from each township in the county. The names of those appointed on the board will be published in Monday's Robesonian. The department will be called together as soon as the influenza epidemic subsides, when will be adopted. The county department of agricultural will undertake to organize the farmers of the county. The meeting' Tuesday was well attended, considering the amount of sickness in the county, ad no doubt someworth-while will grow out of the thing meeting.

Mr. 0. O. Dukes, county farm demaddressed the meeting and onstrator, short talks were made by others in attendance. W.

A. McPhaul, county health officer, made a short talk, on the imof rural sanitation and told of portance some methods which will be undertakby the county board of health to en improve sanitary conditions in the rural districts. 9,000 BALES COTTON GRADED, Than Twice as Many Bales of More Robeson County Cotton Graded This Season as Were Graded Last-Gov-0 ernment Grading 'Office Will Close February 1 The local government cotton grading office will close for the sason FebruMr. T. W.

Trodgen, who been ary 1. of the office here sice it was in charge opened two years ago, has graded to date this season samples from 9,000 bales of Robeson cotton. He expects to grade at He least only graded 4,000 bales 10,000 bales by February 1. Robeson farmers all last season, for The 1 farmers are becoming more interthe government grading each ested in year. Farmers who have cotton which they after the office here is want graded should communicate with the closed Markets, Raleigh.

All who Bureau of have cotton they wish graded should, send samples in at once if however, possible. Assistant Health Officers ApTwo for County. Mr. John McLeod of Red Springs L. Thaggard of Parkton and Mr.

appointed assistant health have been by Dr. W. A. Mcofficers the county county health. They Phaul, sanitary work.

in the will do towns and rural sections. Mr. McLeod, who is a son of Mr. A. former member the C.

McLeod, a recently returned wok. from France, wher did sanitay FARMERS' INSTITUTE CALLED OFF. The farmers' insitutes which were have been held at Ten Mile January to Orrum January 23, have been 20 and called off on account of the "flu." -Rtv. Rr. Chas, H.

Durham, pastor of the First Baptist church of Lumberis attending the Baptist State conton, vention at Greensboro. EMERGENCY HOSPITAL High School Building Will -be Used to Take Care of Influenza PatientsThose Not Able to Pay Will be Looked After-Soup Kitchen. An emergency hospital was opened in the high school building today for the purpose of taking care of za patients. A soup kitchen will be operated in connectio with the hospital and soup will be sent to homes where it is needed. It was decided to optn the hospital at a meeting at the court house attended by a number of citizens yesterday afternoon, The meeting was called by the physicians of the town.

Dr. N. A. Thompson was elected chairman of the meeting and F. Grover Britt was elected secretary.

Messrs Ira B. Townsend, R. C. Lawrence, John T. Biggs, R.

H. Crichton and D. D. French were appointed a committee to equip and manage the hospital. Mr.

Townsend was elected chairman of the committee. Enough single beds and cots were tendered by those present to care for more than a dozen patients and a collection amounting to $515 was taken at the meeting to defray the expenses of the institution, Several contributions of $50 were made and a number of othations were made. While the hospital committee will make whatever charge they see fit for services rendered at the institution, those who are not able to pay will be looked after just as well as those who are able to pay. The physicians of the town will minister to the needs of the patients and effort will be made to: get agraduate nurse to head the institution, assisted by ohrs who can be secured. If it becomes necessary a like hespital will be opened for colored people one of the colored school buildings town.

STOCKHOLDERS MEETINGS First National Bank Had Most Prosperous Year of its 15 Years Exis-Quarterly Dividend of 5 Per Cent by Bank and Nationa! Cotton Mills. The stockholders of the First National Bank met in annual session, Tuesday. The oid board of was re-elected as follows: Messrs, Jno. W. Ward, C.

T. Pare, T. L. Johnson, R. E.

LLewis, H. M. MeAl-: lister R. McA. Nixon.

Mr. D. C. Regan was elected a member of the board, succeeding the late J. A.

McAllister. The report of the president showel thah the year 1918 was the most prospercus in the 15 years' history of the institution. The earnings were and the deposits were increased more than 50 per cent during the year. In a quarterly meeting Tuesdavi the board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of 5 per cent and the surpius fund was increased 000. All the old officers were reelected.

These are: H. M. McAllister, ident; C. T. Pate, Ist vice president; T.

L. Johnson, 2d vicee president; R. McA. Niron, cashier; V. B.

McMillan, assistant cashier; Miss F. Gladys Barns, secretary to the president. National Cotton Mills A quarterly meeting of the of the National Cotton Mills Co. was held on January 9. The regular quar-! dvdend of 5 iper cent was declarterly ed.

INVITATION RECALLED of Confederacy Will Not be Daughters Able to Serve Dinner to. Veterans Saturday on Account of. Influenza Epidemic. Correspondence Robeson of. chapter, The United Robesonian.

Daughters of he Confederacy, exceedingly that the epidemic of influenza raging necessitates the recall of in Lumberton the invitation to Confederate veterans for dinner on January 18th. Miss Mary G. McNeill, Robeson Chapter, U. D. C.

COTTON GINNED IN ROBESON Bales Ginned to January 1st as 58,452 Compared With. 46,055. Ginned to Same Date Last Year. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Barnesville, Jan.

15 There were bales of cotton, counting round 58,452 as half bales, ginned in Robeson county from the crop of 1818, prior to Janucompared with 46,055 bales ary 1st, as ginned to January 1st, 1918. J. W. Barnes, Special Agent. --As will be seen from a half-page ad elsewhere in this issue, Mr.

Hal Brown has purchased the wholesale grocery business of E. G. Floyd Co. of Fairmont, THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Phibition Amndment Passed---SSenate Closes Lobbies to Outsiders On Account of the Appointments for Robeson Members! The eGneral Assembly remains on the job in spite of the but the Senate yesterday on account of the epidemic adopted a.

rule excluding from the lobbies all. persons except legislators and State officials. The House of the Legislature voted to ratify the Federal prohibition a- mendment to the constitution 93 to 10. It was the Senate resolution voted upon, Senator Long of Halifax introduced Tuesday an important bill to increase the salaries of judges. Passage of the bill would mean Supreme Court judges would receive $5,000 instead of $4,000 and the Superior Court judges $4,000 instead of $3,250, and would make the expense fund of each $1,500 instead of $750.

Gov. Bickett Monday asked both houses for an immediate appropriation of $75,000 for rebuilding the burned dormitory at Cashwell Training school. The Senate Monday passed the House resolution memorialing the eace conference at Paris to make war forever impossible in the peace terms: Robeson members of the ture have received the following committee appointments: Oliver---chairman of claims, mmbr of- privilgs and Ictions, agricultur; SSellars---chairma nrloled bills, member ofbanks and currenccy, judiciary No. agriculture, public roads and turnplkes; of military affairs, membtr of judiciary No. rules proppositions and grievances, education, finance, banking and currency, commerce, judicial districts, counties, ies and towns, salaries and fees, ptnal institutions and health.

JUNIOR RED CROSS All Schools Are Urged to. Organize Between Lincoln's Washington's Birthdays. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Rowland, Jan.7-All schools are urged to organize Junior Red Cross, chapters betwwen Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays. It is hoped that every Robeson county will respond to this call.

The engraved certificate given each school will be a credit in the coming years. If the teachers would become interested in would be only a short time till every school would enrolled. Raising 25c per pupil can be raised, by each child paying 25c or by entertainment. Let every school, large and small, in the county, organize! Kate McKenzie. McCormick May Succeed.

Sharpe. as Ambassador to France. Vance C. McCormick has resigned as chairman of the Democratic national committee and it is understood that he is under consideration for appointment as American Ambassador to France tol succeed William Graves Sharp. Mr.

Sharp's resignation, it is said, is now in the hands of Present, but no annoucement of the fact has yet been made. Mr. McCormick went to France in his capacity as chairman of the War Trade board, Mr. Sharp is unberstood to hav edesired for some time to return to this country for a rest his arduous duties as the American representative at the French capital during the long years of war. Thirtieth Division Will Disembark at Charleston The War Department definitely informed Senator Pollock of South Carolina Tuesday that the 30th division would be diembarked at Charleston and would be demobalized either at Jackson or Camp The date of the troops arrival has not Camp been indications are that they will arrive at Charleston between February 1 nd 15.

Senator Simmons and Overman used influence to have the North Carotheir lina troops disembark at Wilmington demobilized at Camp Greene but and latest advices from the War Dethe partment upset their ambitions. Baptist State Convention in Session in Greensboro. The 88th annual session of the Bapconvention convened in the tist State First Baptist church of Gretnaboro Tuesday, the meeting having been poslast month on account of the poned Rev. B. W.

Spilman Kinston was elected president, succeeding, John A. Oates of Fayetteville. has been issued for the Strong Floyd and EdAtkinson; Peter Evans Monroe and marriagtp ofJ. na Carrie Falk, EVANGELISTC CAPAIGN CLOSES. 5-Weeks' Evangelistic Campaign Clos-1 ed Monday Evening With Crowd of 5,000 at Warehou Over 200 Persons Professed Faith Will be Added to Different Churches Throuout This Section.

The 5-weeks' evangelistic campaign which had been in progress here for 5 weeks under the leadership of Evangelist B. F. McLenden and under the auspices of Chestnut Street Methodist church, closed Monday evening with a great service which was attended by a crowd that some place as high as 500 hundred but which Mr. McLendon estimates at 5,000. In spite of great difficulties, one of which was a lack of united support of the campaign by all the churches, the campaign was a great success.

Large crowds attended the services, which were held at the Banner warehouse, the evening crowds rarely falling below 3,000. Over 200 people will join different churches as the result of the campaign, some of these uniting with churches more than 100 miles away. All the towns and country churches throughout this section will get church members from the campaign. In addiItion, hundreds of church members were Personal contributions to Mr. McLendon for his work amounted to $2,117.33 and $1,284 was the amount collected for incidental expenses.

Evangelist McLendon and his party of co-workers won warm friends and admirers there, Many who went to scoff at first went again and again until they became among the most enthusiastle admirers of the evangelist. The campaign was a great blessing to Lumberton and many people here and throughout this section will follow the work of Mr. McLendon with great intrest. Mr. McLendon intended when he left here yesterday for his home at Bennettsville to preach Sunday in the- Methoidst church at Red Springs in which town he held a great meeting last summer, WITH ROBESON SOLDIERS.

Out of the Big Fight Unhurt- Oliver Nance and Rossie Britt Together. Mrs. I. V. Britt of R.

1, Lumberton, recently received a letter from her son, Corporal Rossie B. Britt, who with the alst divisions in France. Below. are some from the letter: Will drop you a line. Am getting on o.

k. I am not with my company now. I was sent to a training school Hope to be back with my company soon. I have been all over this country. I was on the front near two months.

Was at the front the last day of the fight. Some glad boy, I was, to get out. It looked at times it was possible for a man to ever get out, scratch, but came out without getting a and I am thankful. never The Lord while was in with me. was scared for I knew that I had a moththefight er back home praying for her boy, and I felt sure that her prayers were being Hope to be home soon and I will tell you all about it." answered.

In a letter dated December 15 Corporal Britt writes as follows: "I am back with my company now. Was away almost a month. I am stationed near Chatillon at this time. (Chatillon is in Southern France). Have been a good many large towns.

Among and them- Verdon. I was on the Al-St. Die, Dijon, St. Mihiel Sace-Lorriane sector, or the also Forest front. I have been through England.

Oliver Nance Argone and I have been together today." Killed in Strike Disorders in Bue800 nos Aires. 800 persons have killed and 5,000 injured in the Approximately been strike disorders in Buenos Aires, according to dispatches received at the State Department at Washday Of the wounded 1,500 receivington. ed treatment in hospitals. In making this announcement, Asof State Phillips said sistant Secretary refused to be further the socialists identified with the strike disorders. The anarchistic nature shown of the by uprisis, Mr.Phillips said, was churches and convents.

Sacred on thrown into the streets images were and one priest was killed. Thousand Persons Killed by The Two Ukrainians, Two thousand persons have killed at Przemysl, Galicia, by the Ukrainians, according to a dispatch Vienna, to the Neue Freie Presse of states a Geneva dispatch of the 14th. Ukrainians have been bombarseveral days past by ing Przemysl for in the land and air, and conditions town are described as terrible. The gas and electric plants have been destroyed and there is no also light are lack- the in Water and food ling. M'LENDON MEETING THE EVANGELIST AND HIS PARTY.

For five (By long Miss Janie, Carlyle), don and his party conducted one of greatest evangelistic campaigns that" has ever been known in this part of the State. The people of Lumberton were skeptical in regard to the success of the meeting at of the yearr, but Mr. McLLendon came here the 8th of December and through, rain and cold, Christmas holidaysand an epidemic of influenza there was no let-up. Instead of the great crowds that attended the meetings diminishing, they increased all the time. Some one has well said that Mr.

McLendon is in a class by himself, cross between Billy Sunday and Dr. Chapman. He can't be said butchers to be the eloquent. He very often king'ss English and his rhetoric is like a cross-cut saw. His mannerisms in the pulpit are altogether different from any other preacher, or evangeliet that has sailing the country.

Yet when it comess to his sermons, they are well studied out. He never opens his mouth without saying something. He is the master of expression without the sacrifice of lucidity. It is very seldom that he preaches over forty, minutes, and yet he says more during that time than the average speakerr will in twice time Every sermon. he preaches, whether on faith, lovve or sin, is a in such a way that people never formasterpiece, and he preaches them get them.

He is a judge of human nature, knows how to read people. He hasvery often said in his sermons that all looked alike to him, whether they were "high-brow" or low-brow" aristocracy or medioracy." He said that he was not patting any of them on the bacck, rubbing their heads or tickling their chins and congratulating when he ought to be erpostulating; and that certainly is about this evangelist. You don't see him down the streets shaking hands and palavering and complimenting people and trying to get into their goob graces. cle: the poorest and humblest You can notice him at the taberriathat attends there gets as much of his attention as the wealthiest and most His preaching is plain, clear and Bibprominent: lical. He said that Christ's preachig plain and that hee wanted to do was the same kind.

He does not preach such a way that people have to bringing along a dictionary or encyclopedia to understand what he do they have to climb up a step-ladder or run up a fire-escape to see what he is driving In other words, he does not preach as if he were "trying to tickle the roof of a mouth." is certainly independent from a financial standpoint. He is not groveling and crawling and begging people for their money. He is not telling rassed and has a lot of urgent obligapeople that he is financially embartions to mmet and begging them to assist him. About the only thing that he has said along the financial line is that it was up to Lumberton to pay him what he ought to have for his services and if they didn't pay him that he would live just the same and would not go around dejected and down in the mouth. Every member of Mr.

McLendon's party is an expert in his or the her crowd. line. There is not a drone among MR. CARROLL Mr. Carroll, the choir director, has been with the leading evangelists of America.

He was Sam Jones' choir choir director during his balmy days. He has travelled with Milford Lyon, Beiderwolf asd Ostrom. He organized several of the states for the antisaloon league. Any that hears Mr. Carroll as a choir director will know that is all that can be expected along that line.

He is also an effective solo singer. MRS. Mrs. Carroll is the secretary and pianist for the party and looks after childthe children's meetings. The ren's meetings have been an attractive feature of the campaign here.

-The The booster chorus excited much interest. Mrs. Carroll is a very attractive person with a winning disposition. MRS. STEIDLEY Mrs.

Steidley is a great soloist and Bible-teacher and has charge of the women's work. She is a very effective personal worker and a great asset to the party. "FRED" Fred is the Apostle of Smiles and a that is aroud him in a hupeddler of sunshine, and keeps everyand mor. all the details of the In He looks after the tabernacle other words, he is a general utility man. He can sing some, pray a lot, Scripture by the chapter and lead more people to front repeat to accept Jesus Christ than any 50 ordinary! church Since his conversion about 19 years ago he has led nearly 16,000 people to Christ by.

personal work. Before Fred's he was a horse man out in Waverly, say Iowa, that handling the only way a horse can get Western broncos. They Fred off of him is to throw his hide. off. He won the championship in Cheyenne, Montana.

He was the only man that rode "Slippery Jim. He rode the famous broncho called "Wild Pete" in the world's fair "Buffalo Bills" show. Fred is quite a boxer and is minus several teeth and his face looks like COTTON MARKET. cotton is selling on the Middling local market today for 24.75 cents the pound. BRIEF ITEMS LOCAL NEWS -Miss Elizabeth Whitfield returned home yesterday from where she spent ten weeks Penniman, working for the government.

-Mr. J. B. Ward of the Saddletree section was a Lumberton visitor yesterday. Mr.

Ward is just recovering from an attack of "flu." -Mrs. Mattie Hinson of Wilmington is relieving Mr. C. Rogers, manager of the local Southern Bell TeleI phone exchange, who is sick with the "flu." -Mrs. W.

T. Huchinson and daugh-. ter, Miss yesterday for Charlotte, where theey will make their home. Mr. Hutchinson went to Charlotte the first of the year.

-Mr. J. D. McRainey and son, Mr. A.

T. McRainey, of. R. 1, Parkton, were among the visitors in town Tuesday. Mr.

A. T. McRainey was recently rerelased from the U. S. army.

---A small residence near the tanks of the Standard Oil Co. and the Gulf Refining in the southern part of town, was burned today The building was occupied by a colored family, wh lost all their belogings -Mr. C. P. McGougan of- Lumber Bridge, who was a Lumberton visitor Tuesday, expects to leave today for Cordele, near which place he owns a farm and where he and his family will make their home, Mrs.

McGoogan and four of their children went to Cordele some time ago. Another daughter, Miss RRuby, is bookkeeper for the Farmers' Trading Co. of Lumber Bridge and will join the family at Cordele next summer, Mr. McGoogan has been postmaster at Lumber Bridge ofr the past 4 years. THE RECORD OF DEATHS.

Mrs. J. Bryant. Died. at.

Hospital This Morning of Influenza, Mrs. J. C. Bryant, age about 23 years, died at 2:30 o'clock this mornat the Thompson hospital of influenza-1 Deceased is survived by her husband and two children -one a baby 4 days old. The funeral was conducted at the grave at 3:30 this afternoon and interment was made in Meadowbrook cemetery.

Mrs. Bryant was a loyal member of the First Baptist church and had many friends. Former Lumberton Citizen Killed by Fall in Wilmington. Mr. J.

W. Ellers, formerly of Lumberton, died Monday at the James Walker Memorial hospital, Wilmington, from injuries received Saturday when he fell through a skylight in the roof of the Tidewater Power at Wilmington. Mr. Ellers, who was a carpenter by trade, was working on the roof of the building when he fell. He moved from Lumberton to Wilmington a few weeks ago.

Susie McMillan, Colored, Susie McMillan, colored, died yesterday at her home at Sandy Grove, ntar Lumbtrton, of influenza. Pheba Jane- Manor, Colored; Pheba Jane colored, died Tuesday of influenza. Deceased was from Montrose attending scholl htre. John West SSmith, Colored. John West Smith, colored, died Monday at his home at Sandy Grove of influenza.

35 States. Have. Apporved Federal Prohibition Amendment and Only' 1 Mire Needed to Ratify. Legislatures of 35 States--one less thap the required three-fourths--have ratified the prohibition constitutional amendment. Several State assemblies now are in session and are expected to take action today, with a probablle race between Nebraska, Missouri and Minnesota as to which will be the 36th on the list.

a bull dog has "chawed" it, because of his boxing career. Since his conversion in Waverly, Iowa, he has been with the leading evangelists' of America. He worked with M. B. Williams, and Charlie with AlexanSunday for 10 years.

He is now with dria, French Oliver "Billy' B. F. McLendon and probably he and McLendon will be together the remainder of their lives. DR. WILLIAM W.

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