Items of Local News
--There will be an important meeting of the local post of the American Legion in the legion hall this evening at 8 o’clock.
--Dr. G.E. Moorehouse and Mrs. H.M. McAllister left Tuesday for Lyndon to attend the Presbyterial that is held there this week. They expect to return tonight.
--Directors of the Mansfield and Jennings cotton mills held their regular quarterly meeting in the offices here yesterday. Routine business was transacted and the usual dividend declared.
--Rev. T. McM. Grant, pastor of Chestnut Street Methodist Church, is attending Fayetteville district conference in Siler City today and will present the claims of Carolina college before that body.
--Governor A.W. McLean, accompanied by Mr. A.W. Meshaw, one of his secretaries, spent yesterday here attending directors’ meetings of the Mansfield and Jennings Cotton mills, returning to Raleigh last night.
--Under the supervision of the county home and farm agents, with one of the poultry-club boys of the county in charge, poultry will be bought Saturday up to noon at the American Express office in Lumberton, Cash will be paid.
--At the regular annual meeting of the officers and directors of the Virginia & Carolina Railroad Co., held in the company’s offices here yesterday, all officers were re-elected, and usual routine business was transacted.
--Much improvement is being made in the interior of the Lumberton drug store by fresh coats of paper and paint. Another notable improvement is the fresh coat of paint recently applied to the exterior of Mr. J.H. Wishart’s store, Chestnut street.
--Mr. Francis Stubbs of Macon, Ga., is the new bookkeeper and stenographer in the offices of the Mansfield and Jennings cotton mills. He succeeds Mr. W.L. Stovall, who left the first of April for Shelby to begin his duties as secretary to Mr. O. Max Gardner.
--Mrs. Robert Caldwell Jr., who for the past several months has been undergoing special treatment at St. Joseph’s sanatorium, Asheville, returned Sunday night with Mr. Caldwell who went to Asheville the latter part of the week. Mrs. Caldwell’s condition is greatly improved.
--Mr. Charles B. Newcomb and other prominent Scottish Rite Masons of Wilmington will attend a meeting of the Scottish Rite Masons in the local Masonic lodge Tuesday evening, the 27th, according to an announcement today by Dr. R.T. Allen. All members of the rite in this section are especially invited to the meeting.
--Mr. M.A. Geddie returned this morning from Baltimore, Md., where he went Sunday with Mrs. Geddie and small daughter, Virginia Rose, mention of which was made in Monday’s Robesonian. Miss Virginia Rose will undergo an operation tomorrow morning to relieve a crippled condition, the result of infantile paralysis she suffered at the age of four years.
From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Thursday, April 22, 1926
According to Merriam Webster Dictionary, the term presbyterial is derived from the Green word for “elder” and is used to describe matters associated with presbyters, who are ordained leaders or elders in Presbyterian churches. It also relates to a presbytery, which is a governing body composed of multiple congregations and their elected elders, responsible for decision-making and oversight in the church.
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