--Born to Mr. and Mrs. Shep Wiggins of Pembroke, at the Baker sanatorium, Saturday, a boy.
--The Alathean Bible class of the First Baptist church will meet with Mrs. A.F. Ward Wednesday at 4 o’clock.
--Mr. Junius J. Goodwin, attorney-at-law, has moved his office from the Lorraine hotel building to the new Planters office building.
--The regular meeting of the Woman’s Christian league will be held tomorrow afternoon at 5 o’clock in the Episcopal church. Everybody is invited.
--Mr. and Mrs. L.C. Townsend and children and Mr. and Mrs. H.V. Brown and children went this morning to Lake Waccamaw, where they have rented a cottage for a week.
--Mrs. A.B. McElyea of Old Fork (Maxton R. 2), known and loved by Robesonian readers as “Aunt Becky,” is a guest in the home of Dr. and Mrs. W.W. Parker, 14th street. Her daughter, Mrs. D.L. Olmstead of Maxton, is in Baker sanatorium.
--Messrs. S.F. Caldwell and Tom Parker will leave tonight for the northern markets to buy fall merchandise for R.D. Caldwell and Son’s department store. They will visit Baltimore and New York and expect to return the latter part of this week.
--Several Lumberton people have gone today to Elizabethtown, where they have been summoned to appear before the Bladen county grand jury in connection with the failure of the Bank of Councils, which closed its doors about a year ago.
--Mr. A.S. Pittman, secretary of the Robeson Rural Letter Carriers’ association, attended in Salisbury Friday and Saturday the annual convention of the state association. He returned Saturday night. The convention goes next year to Sanford and probably will be invited to Lumberton in 1927.
--Mrs. J.W. Edmondson of Jacksonville, Fla., is visiting in the home of Dr. and Mrs. John Knox for a few days. She is on her way to Baltimore, Md., to join her husband and another party in Baltimore, after which they will tour the New England states the rest of the summer.
--The condition of Miss Lillie Kyle of Fairmont, who was injured several days ago while bathing in White Lake, is improving, according to advices from the Baker Sanatorium here, where she was brought after the accident, an account of which appears elsewhere in this issue.
--Mr. Frank L. Jernegan of Delco, Columbus county, manager of the “Bilt Rite Farm”, stopped over in Lumberton today on his way home from Salisbury, where he attended the convention of the Rural Letter Carriers’ association Friday and Saturday. He says he drove through 18 counties and will have to hand it to Robeson and Columbus farmers for having the best crops he saw on his trip.
--Mrs. A.V.G. Wishart and mother, Mrs. Jackson, and Mr. Carey Hedgpeth left Saturday morning for Greenville, S.C. Mrs. Wishart and mother will visit Mrs. Jackson’s son, Dr. Brocker, who is professor of philosophy at Furman university. Mr. Hedgpeth will be with his sister, Mrs. John Cushman, until the 17th, where he will go to Mars Hill to attend school at the Mars Hill Junior college.
--A movement is on foot to organize a high school band for Lumberton. At a meeting the other night Messrs. J.L. Stephens and E.L. Hamilton and Dr. W.W. Parker were appointed a committee to enroll boys, and several already have been enrolled. Practically new instruments which belonged to the now disbanded East Lumberton Band are available at a greatly reduced price, and much interest is being manifested in the project.
From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, August 10, 1925
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