Robert Monroe, Thomas Jenrette Injured, Other News Briefs, April 7, 1924

--Mr. Robert Monroe was seriously injured Thursday afternoon when a tractor he was driving on his farm near Lumber Bridge turned over, falling across his head and chest. According to meagre details, Mr. Monroe was near a ditch when the weight of the tractor caused the bank to cave in. Reports from Lumber Bridge this morning state that his condition is improving.

--Angus Wilton McLean Jr. has been confined for the past few days with measles, but his condition is improving. Mr. McLean has been at home for several days on account of his son’s illness but will leave tomorrow or Wednesday on a speaking tour that will take him into every county in the state and will keep him away form home much of the time until the primary on June 7th.

--Thomas, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Jenrette of Marietta, accidentally shot himself in the left eye at his home Thursday afternoon. He was brought at once to the Thompson hospital by his parents, Mrs. Jenrette remaining with him. Dr. R.S. Beam, who is treating him, says it is impossible to determine yet the extent of the injury but that it if is possible to save the eye, its vision will be much impaired. He shot himself with an air rifle.

--Mr. Paul Ransom of the State Department of Vocational Training and Habilitation, will arrived Wednesday and spend the day at the courthouse here for the purpose of finding employment and getting artificial limbs.

--The collection for the Thomasville orphanage taken at the First Baptist church yesterday morning during Sunday school, amounted to $412.53. Of this amount the 71 members present of the Men’s Bible class paid $174.45.

--Mr. O.C. Posey of Dublin, Ga., has accepted a position as operator with the local Western Union office. He began work Saturday.

--Mr. T.J. Graham and family moved recently from Rowland to Morrisville, this state. Mr. and Mrs. Graham were Lumberton visitors Friday.

--Mr. Jack Cox, who resigned his position with the North State Drug Co. April 1st, spent several days last week in Raleigh and Wake Forest on business. Mr. Cox is contemplating going into business in that section in the near future.

--President Ernest J. Green of Carolina college, Maxton, was a Lumberton visitor this morning on his way to Elizabethtown and other points in the interest of summer school that will be held at the college. He says the new dormitory building is going up rapidly and it is expected that it will be completed by June.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, April 7, 1924