Items of Local Interest in Robesonian, Jan. 11, 1926

Items of Local Interest

--Mr. Oscar Israel left last night for Northern markets, where he will spend a few days purchasing shoes for the Guarantee Shoe store here.

--Mr. Clinton Norment left Thursday evening for Angola, Ind., to finish his senior year in civil engineering at the Tri-State College of Engineering.

--Thursday night the first snow of the season fell here. A mixture of snow and sleep remained on housetops practically all day Friday in spite of rain.

--Governor A.W. McLean is expected to arrive here tomorrow from Raleigh and will spend the day in his office in the National Bank building attending to business matters.

--On account of the funeral of Mr. D.M. Hollowell, the Woman’s Club has postponed its regular meeting this afternoon until tomorrow afternoon at 3:30. This meeting will be held in the Domestic Science room of the high school building.

--Mr. and Mrs. John D. Purvis and children and Mr. R. Paul Blake have returned from a trip to Norfolk, Va., and Baltimore. They went to Norfolk by automobile the first of last week, and Mr. Purvis went thence by boat to Baltimore on business connect with his tailoring establishment.

--Messrs. J.H. and E.R. Ratley of Lumberton and Geo. Ratley of Red Springs returned Saturday from Roaring River, Wilkes County, where they went to purchase supplies for their extensive bee hives. When they left Roaring River Friday p.m. snow was 5 inches deep there, and they passed through a snow-covered land pretty much all the way to Aberdeen.

--The condition of Mr. Frank McLeod, who was accompanied to the Charlotte Sanatorium Saturday by his sister, Mrs. W.W. Parker, and Dr. T.C. Johnson is reported as improved today. Dr. Johnson returned home Saturday night. Mrs. Parker is expected home tonight or tomorrow. This is Mr. McLeod’s second stay at the sanatorium, and it is thought that he is now on the road to recovery.

--Mrs. L.O. Pulliam, who before her marriage here October 31 was Miss Berta McNeill, and who had lived in Atlanta until the Christmas holidays, is spending a few weeks here with friends and relatives. Mr. Pulliam spent the holidays here, returning to his work in Atlanta several days ago. Mr. and Mrs. Pulliam will move about the last of the month to Charlotte, where Mr. Pulliam will make headquarters.

--The condition of Mr. George Small of Fairmont who was seriously injured on the night of the 3rd when an automobile he was driving turned over on the Main street in Fairmont, and who underwent a serious operation at the Baker sanatorium here the following day, is improving, according to Dr. H.M. Baker, who extracted a large area of bone on account of pressure on the brain caused from the fracture. Mr. Small was unconscious from the time of the accident until after the operation and is now at times in a semi-conscious condition.

From the front page of the Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, Jan. 11, 1926

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