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PAGE FOUR THE ROBESONIAN, LUMBERTON, N. FRIDAY, JUNE 16,1939. Published at Lumberton. North Carolina Monday, Wednesday and Friday By THE ROBESONIAN, INC. EDITOR AND SPEAKER The coming of Dr.

Julian S. Miller, editor of The Charlotte Observer, to speak tonight to the Lumberton Rotary club is an went of more than passing importance. It marks the visit to Lumberton of a man of more than ordinary position, talents and at- jininments. i Manv regard Dr. Miller as the On 90th Birthday A.

SHARPC. A Editor J. A. SHARPS Editor LOUIS EVANS. Local News Editor MARGARET i Society Editor i outstanding editorial writer oi JASPER HUTTO, AdvertisJno Mflr.

SUBSCRIPTION RATESi By One Yeer $2.50 Six Months 1-25 Three Months -75 Delivered by carrier in Lunxbertoti One Year $3.25 crowds. Six Months 1-65 Three Months -85 Entered as second class mall matter at the postoffice in Lumberton, N. under the act of March 1879. Office 119-121 Fifth Street Telephones--20 and 633. Tht AttoeUted Mtitled to for reoublicatlon of All credited to ft not otherwlta credited In itee locil publitheti All rlghta of republlcstlon of apodal herein are reserved.

Friday, June 16. 1939. the Carulinas, and certainly he is ono of the most popular speakers of the state. His page in The Observer is sought after daily by disc i i a i readers. Wherever he goes to spenk he draws the and whatever he has to say is always stimulating and thought-provoking.

A man not iar beyond the 50- year mark. Dr. Miller has already established his reputation in his native state as both an accomplished journalist and a profound I orator. A serious-minded man always, he is never flippant nor clownish, no sort of journalistic playboy. He feels that life has a purpose, and as for himself he jseeks to fulfill that purpose.

i Dr. Miller is a native of Meck- lenburg county, a country-born the son of a distinguished minister who long was regarded perhaps the leader of that i branch of the Presbyterian faith which designates itself as the As- jsociate Reform Presbyterians. And Dr. Miller still resides in Sardis, News Letter From Fairmont I tian for ten days. A.

L. McDaniel attended this week at Wrightsville Beach the hardware merchants association Program by Radio Artists tuesdav Eve--Bishop Pctlc Will Dedicate meeting. Mmes. R. L.

Pittman, Trinity Methodist Church July 16--Sunbeams in Meet for Study Monday--Parents of Mrs. Fennesah Celebrate 72nd Wedding An- niversary--Other Items. Johnson and Hybert Leggett attended Thursday in Lillingtoh the W. M. U.

Wilmington division summer meeting. By Mrs. H. G. Inman Fairmont, June 1'i I The Tennessee Ramblers, radi" 'artists, will present a program the Fairmont school next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock under the auspices of the Junior Study Iclub, proceeds to be used hi.

ing books for the library. iwhich they arc Om of the groups of the club which I Mrs. Hugh Collins is i-; responsible Tor bringing these pop- a artists to Fairmont. family. Mrs.

Holmes returned Sunday from Henderson, where she vis- 1 ited Mr. and Mrs. Lee Averctt. i i Mrs. Belle Ward and Miss Katy Two Marriages, Teal-Shaw and Andrews returned Saturday j'romj Clinton, where they visited the! former's son-in-law and daugh- Mr.

and Mrs. W. J. Calhoun. vrrespTu1onoe af The.

RobesonJan. Btedenboro, June 16--Miss Mar- Bladenboro News Items of News. personal service for the month amounted to $6.50. In the absence of Mrs. ,1 L.

Bridger, who had prepared the program, Miss Evelyn Thompson presented it, a most interesting one on the V. W. A. After the meeting the hostess, assisted by Mrs. Paul Johnson served a frozen salad course with ice Personals Miss Hudlow Hill and Junius Freeman of Concord spent the week-end with his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. J. G. Freeman, spending Sunday with Mr. jand Mrs.

L. A. Bridger at Cause Landing. Mrs. E.

B. Dunn, Miss Elizabeth Bunn, Mrs. C. H. Dunn and children spent Thursday in Greenville with Mr.

and Mrs. S. A. Or- yrs. Calhoun and daughter, Miss Jean, accompanied them home for! tha Susan Teal and Cecil Alex- rell.

a few days. ander Shaw were married on i Frank Tyson Jr. returned to his Gordon Grantham has returned Monday, June 12, in Dillon, S. C. JAMES fKANK McKAY Cut shown above was made from picture taken beside the Philadelphia communtiy hut on the occa- as ij ng until 11:30.

sion of celebration of Mr. McKay's 90th birthday, June 7. Mr. McKay is holding on his knees the huge birthday cake carrying 90 candles. Photo bv author of the stars have also appeared, in Uv pictures.

The Sunbeams will study book, "They love Him fining Monday morning at 8 and i Each party t'rorn Columbia, S. where he was a patient in the government hospital. T. Andrews of Goldsboro Mrs. Shaw is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Paul Teal of Wadesboro. She is a graduate of E. C. T.

C. and has been a member of days in town on bus- the Bladenboro school faculty for is asked to carry some crackers for a lunch. Bishop To Dedicate Church On Sunday. -luly 16, at o'clock. Trinity Methodist church is Ocean Drive beach for following additional report (which I be dedicate by Bishop happens to have been the first eelc 10 a brother of.

a written) of that happy occasion. THOSE DEAR HIDDEN TAXES The women arc getting wise to the hidden taxes that increase the cost of everything they have to buy. Families in Lumberton pay an estimated S47.736 in hidden taxes Charlottef the place his birth, annually through their purchases of food, a National Consumers Tax commission survey shows. "Nearly 8 per cent of the total food bill represents shifted taxes McKay Birthday Celebration former pastor Rev. F.

B. Peek, The church's indebtedness was i paid a few years ago but -they have been unable to make at two weeks. His mother, Mrs. i Marvin Faulk, and her sister, Mrs. I Carson Lewis, spent this week 'there.

Miss Lorene Moody of near Dillon is the guest of her aunt Mrs. Sallie Pittman. Mr. and Mrs. Robah S.

Brim of i the past four years. Mr. Shaw is the son of Mrs. Mattie Shipman and the late Cecil Shaw, and. is one of the most popular young men of Bladenboro.

He holds a position with the Bridger drug store and the young couple will make their home here. Smith-Pridpen Miss Thelma Smith, daughter of Mr. Mrs. Thomas Smith of By Ruby Crockett Newsom More than three hundred well- from I wishers gathered on the ancient 'grounds of Philadelphia Presby- the rural community out grounds oi rnmiaeipnus ru terian church on June 7, to cele- Excepting a few brief months brate tne ninetieth birthday with a large Pittsburgh paper. Dr.

James Frank McKay. Scotch veter- Millcr has devoted virtually his entire adult life to writing for rangements with the bishop for date. Rev. F. B.

Joyner is. the pastor. Jim Corcoran of Blackburn, and Arthur Newlander of fraternity brothers of P. A. Pittman.

Mrs. Md'unt Airy spent several days! Bladenboro, and Ernest Pridgen last week with her mother, Mrs. of White ville were married Sun- Brim was -day, June 11, in Marion, S. C. The young couple will make their home in WhiteviHe, where Mr.

Pridgen is contractor. Birth formerly Miss Flora Pittman. Miss -till Floyd returned Satur. dav from Kingstree, where she re i a tiWs for several weeks. Mrs.

J. Waterman Humphrey Mr. Mrs. D. A.

Armstrong an- returned Monday from Lumber-Bounce the birth of a son, Robert Purvis at N. C. university spent at Powell) on June at Thompson from Wednesday until Saturday at the home of Purvis' parents. Charlotte papers. Something like buried in tine price of every pur- 2g ye (rs agQ hg wag thfe editOr of the Charlotte Chronicle, then an i afternoon newspaper in the Queen jCity.

When that paper was bought over and merged with the an of this section. The picnic dinner was spread on long tables arranged in the agri i Mr. and Mrs. P. C.

Purvis. 72 Wedding: Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. S. E.

Fennegan and children. Edgar and Michael, and Misses Ann Reaves and Faith will culture building. Mr. McKay headed the principle table which centered the three-tiered cake flanked with ninety candles and around which sat thirty- Charlotte News. Dr.

Miller went! laden tables, with The News, first as sports ed-, itor. Upon the 'resignation of a' other "favorite" 7ongs of the assumed the editorial post of News. I After the death of W. C. Dowd, of Governor Max Gardner to head the state welfare department.

This work he handled in splendid honored man. Rev. I. P. Hedgepeth from Lumberton gave the invocation.

which to I'd take the next fifty years, for you will see things happening that the world has i never before Other speak- ash ion because of his social- ers were Fred Brown and George mindedness and his capacity as a public speaker. death of Col. Harris, Dr. Miller was immediately named as his Since that time he has given the state one of its outstanding editorial pages and has contributed in a wonderful way of Robeson county in 1792. was born ter place in his time and talents to the betterment and upbuilding of Charlotte and North Carolina.

TOBACCO YIELD IN N. C. IN 1938 WAS 516,850,000 LB. chase' 1 the report staled. "These unseen levies, for example, take 11 per cent of butter costs.

6 1-2 per cent of bread costs. 10 1-2 per cent of sliced bacon and 14 1-2 per cent of the cost of coffee." And so it goes. These dead hidden taxes, which add to the as editor. Dr. Mil- cost of living.

Folks complain mightily sometimes about the poor little sales tax, because they can see that, Sr Qwner of The NewSf Dr Miller present could have rny choice but they pay cheerfully many took an appointment at the hands the period from all history in times the sales tax in hidden taxes because they are hidden and nothing is said about them i some lax group brings them to light in an effort to make the consumers tax-conscious. EXPLAIN VOTE ON TVA Observer called him back to his Representative J- Bayard a home-town as assistant to Col. oi 1 the seventh district was one of Wade Harris, the then aged edi- the three North Carolina members itor of The Observer. Upon the who voted with the house of Congress majority to restrict operations of the Tennessee Valley authority. The others were another veteran member.

A. L. Bui- winkle of Gastonia. and a first- termer, Carl T. Durham of Chapel Hill.

The house by a vote of 192 to 167 adopted amendments to the TVA act limiting its area of operation to the Tennessee valley, cutting the proposed bond issuing authority to buy private utilities from 5100.000,000 to SGl.500,000, and requiring submission of fiscal policies to the general accounting office. Representatives Clark and Bui- winkle are quoted in a Washington AP dispatch as expressing the opinion that TVA was an experiment to establish a "yardstick" for power rates and not a stick" to run private utilities out of business, that $61.500,000 is enough for the TVA to pay for private properties it intends to purchase, that TVA was established as a yardstick and that it should remain a yardstick with its territory restricted instead of flying loose over the United States. Mr. Clark said the TVA should not be circulating over the country with power investors not knowing where it is going to light. It has come to pass that when a of Congress votes for a lower appropriation for anything than' is proposed, to save a few millions, or to save private investors from being put out of business by the government, he must render an account.

He must explain why he.did not vote to spend more public funds and maybe throw a lot of people out of. i a ployment. It is only those who vote for spending without i i don't have to explain. Clark' Thompson Memorial hospital with an abscessed tooth. Miss Peggy Holmes left Monday for Chapel Hill where for 12 weeks she will take saimmer school spend Friday at Latta, S.

where Mrs. Fennegan's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R.

Reaves will observe their- 72nd wedding anniversary. Mr. Reaves will be 92 in Sep- hospital in Lumberton. Y. W.

A. Meeting: The Y. W. A. of the First Baptist church met Friday night with Mrs.

Frank Gibson. Fourteen members were present and the of his closest friends. The others feast- tember while Mrs. Reaves recent- ed picnic fashion from heavily ly celebrated her 88th birthday. Mr.

and Mrs. Paul Cochrane will The program opened with a leave Sunday for Elkin to spend choir singing "Happy Birthday" a few days with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Don W. Cochrane.

From there they may spend a few days at the beach. Mr. and Mrs. S. E.

Fennegan Principle speaker, E. J. Britt of'spent Sunday in Laurinburg with Lumberton, told the young people is brother Oscar Fennegan and der cover. Other than his contact with the Lowry gang of Indians his life has been spent in serenity. He contributes his long and healthy McLeod of Lumberton and A.

life to an. early marriage and re- Spell of Red'Springs. Others sponsibiJity. speaking words of tribute were C. I home in Georgetown Monday after a ten days visit with his sister and brother-in-law Mr.

and Mrs. R. C. Bridger. D.

C. Miller left Monday to attend summer school at State college. BIRTHDAY DINNER Preachers Deacons Conference June 23 At Harpers Ferry and deacons meeting will be held with Harper's Ferry church Friday, June 23. Following is the program: 10:30. Devotional--by Bro.

Horace Jacobs. 11:00. Sermon--Rev. Ptircell Locklear. 12:00.

Noon recess and 1:00 p. m. Devotional. 1:15 p. m.

1st. Topic: Ministers' Retirement Plan--Bro. Sanford Sampson. p. rn.

2nd. Topic: Why Join A Church--Rev. M. C. Lunsford.

2:00 p. m. 3rd. Topic: The Responsibility of a Church to Reach People--Bro. Charles W.

Maynor. 2:30 p. m. Adjournment. Prograrh committee--Rev.

S. A. Hammond, Rev. L. A.

Maynor, Bro. Wiley Jones. REVIVAL SERIES OPENS AT PEMBROKE SUNDAY Correspondence of The Orrum-- Mrs. R. V.

was honored May at 28 her home in celebration Sunday 59th birthday. Dinner was served picnic style in the yard. Guests were her children, grandchildren and friends. Those present were--Mr. and Mrs.

BernicS Lewis and family, Eloise, Elsie Ray, Dixie; Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Ashley and family, Nannie Wells, Murriel, Essie, Bill, Hazel and Jimmie; Mr.

Mrs. Lonza Stone and family, Mary Lois, Myrtle Rose and Wiley Roberts; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Lewis family, Hal, Bob, Earl Wayne, Miss Nina Lewis; Mr. Warren Sealy, Mrs.

Anna Bell Stone, Mrs. Kelly Johnson. Miss Sadie McLellan, Miss Collen Adams. Miss Rudatrus Hardin. Revival services begin at the Pembroke Methodist church Sunday, June 18, at 8 p.

with Rev. P. O. Lee, pastor of Maxton Methodist church, delivering the sermons, Rev. N.

B. Strickland the pastor states. The public is cordially invited to all services, beginning at 8 each night. Say, "1 Saw It In The Johnson's Flbof Wax Old English Floor Wax S. F.

Caldwcll Co. The Complete Hardware Store He was interrupted in his re- Skipper, Lumberton; Dr. John! miniscing to receive a letter from Brown. Fairmont; Rev. I.

P. radio station W. B. T. in Char- Hedgpeth.

Lumberton; Douglas lotte announcing that he would be McMillan, Red Springs; Rev. Neil saluted on their noon program. Al- Mclnnis, Philadelphus: Rev. R. ready it was too late to hear it, Kirkpatrick, Maxton.

Mrs. Clif- but he tucked it away in his pocket ton Adams was toastinistress and, with other greeting cards to be Miss Margaret Mills, great-grand- opened on a less exciting day when daughter of Mr. McKay, presided! he would open his numerous gifts. at the register. I Using the words of E.

J. Britt, Mr. McKay, a direct descendentj "Frank has grown old in honor- of Scottash ancestry which settled' able service. Miss Ann Reaves Fennegan left Monday for Latta to join her aunt Miss Caroline Reaves and Tuesday they left for Myrtle Beach for a vacation. Miss Essye Neal Ward returned Sunday from Tarboro.

where was a member the faculty. She spent last week in Apex with her brother-in-law and sister Mr. and Mrs. Ralph D. Pee.

Mr. and Mrs. Mem Stubbs went Monday to Tar Heel, where they visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.

J. Melvin. Their son DuVall, who had been there 1'or a visit, and Mrs. Stubb's sister Miss Mary Kathleen accompanied them home. Those attending a bridge party in Lake View Tuesday given by Mrs.

Wade Temple, were Mmcs. A. Byron Holmes, S. R. Clary.

Paul H. Thompson, Van Floyd, Wilton McDaniel, J. H. Meadows. Miss Kathleen Johnson left Thursday for Raleigh, where she will work with Perry Crouch, secretary of the State Baptist.

Chris- Raleigh, June Carolina last year produced 516,850.000 pounds of tobacco on 611-, 700 acres, revised estimates by the state department of show. The figures compared with The county is a bet- to live for two miles from Red Springs and'; James Franklin McKay having liv- with the exception of a couple of ed in it." years residence in Rockinghamj and Maxton, has lived in this community his entire life. He resides across the road from his birthplace. He married Miss Ann Flora McPherson, who died a number of years ago. He has eight living children and fourteen grandchildren, and several great grandchildren.

His parents were Duncan McKay and Harriet McNeil Me- Brick, Lime, Cement, WLodowa and Doors, Nails and All Kinds of Building Hardware. S. F. CALDWELL Co. The "Complete Hardware Store TOO CANT Kay.

He was county commissioner for i agriculture a number of years. Once he was appointed magistrate by a governor whose name he could not re- 590.000 pounds on 611,700 acres 1937. Estimates belts were: Old Bright. 195,570,000 pounds and 246,000 acres; New Bright 251,980.000 pounds and 293,000 acres, Border 61,920.000 pounds and 64,000 acres: Burley 7.380,000 pounds and 8,200 acres. MRS.

CATHERINE McMILLAN. Raeford, June Cath- ererine A. McMillan, 83, wife of the late W. B. McMillan, died Wednesday morning at her home in Blue Springs township.

Mrs. McMillan, the former Miss Cath- ierine Alford McGirt, was a mem- jber of two prominent north Robe! st)n. now Hoke county, families. 1 Surviving are a son, Monroe McMillan oi 1 Wagram; four daughters, Misses Lettie, Mary, Jennie, and Annie McMillan of Raeford; and a grandson, Fulford McMillan of Raeford. The funeral was conducted from the home Thursday at 4 p.

burial was made in the McMillan cemetery. the Uivel-headcd Congressmen are not easily swept, off their -'feet by every wild government project. SERENA LOCKLEAR Last rites for Serena Locklear, aged Indian woman of Maxton township, who died at her home Tuesday, were-held at old Prospect church Thursday at 4 p. A large of friends and relatives attended the services for the prominent Indian. Miss Snllie McLean of Moxton, is the'finest of her brother, A.

T. McLean. call. He boasts that he never issued a warrant in six years. The reason he gave, that he hates courts and their excessive cost.

"When negroes fought. I'd get them together and make them make up." In his" early twenties he was a member of the posse which took) up arms against the famous Lowry gang which terrified that section of Robeson over a period of ten years from 1864-1874. His body now bears some of the shot from a wound he received from the bandits. After their capture of Henry Oxendine, the only member of the gang who was hung by the state, he was "'outlawed by the outlaws' 7 when he 7 eceived a note that his name'was on their list. Hid Out in Swamp.

Such brave citizens as J. Brantley Harris, James P. Barnes, Owen C. Norment, Murdock A. McLean, Hugh McLean, John Taylor, Archibald McMillan, Hector McNeil, Alexander Brown, Col.

F. Wishart and Jiles Inman had already been shot dead from the ambush by that blood-thirsty gang. Not wanting his name added to that already too long list, he spent the next 18 months hiding in the swamps i his gun cocked not daring to return home except tin- 666 checks MALARIA 7 days and relieves BEAUTY OF- rf TOT fdaUd and wwdwark. Ctttfal It wbm you your pmtottf wttfc lALfftl PUT WALL NUIT ItA CuNtf ItfkMV, nunw GLOSS ULSNIFLOM MB KM PIIIT IT rm TI toot pwura Liquid, Tablet-, Salve, Nose Drops symptoms first day Try Wonderful Linimont S. F.

CALUWELL CO. "The Complete Hardware Store" A A a 3 Lumberton Trading Inc. (Formerly Li verm ore Cotton Co.) Announces Expansion In Business We are extending our business to include all general farm supplies is our purpose to supply the needs of all the farmers in this territory, and we invite them to come to see us at any time We are prepared to deal on terms of cash or credit to those who are qualified. HERE ARE SOME OF THE GOODS WE ARE FEATURING NOW Seed Peas And Beans Tobacco Sticks Tobacco And Cotton Poison Tobacco Barn Flues--Complete Sets Or Parts Furnace Grates And Doors Buckeye Oil Burners Dodd Economical Tobacco Curer Solution Of Your Curing Calcium Arsenate And Black Strap Molasses For Boll Weevil Poisoning Arsenate Of Lead And Paris Green For Tobacco Worm Poisoning Boyette Tobacco Sprayer COMPLETE STOCKS OF Fertilizers, Nitrate Of Soda And Potashes WE WANT TO BUY 1000 BUSHELS OF CORN IN THE SIIUCK OR SHELLED WE BUY COTTON Come to see us about your needs Lumberton Trading Offices And Warehouses On First Street Opposite Main Entrance To Liberty Warehouse No. 2.

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