--Miss Eula Groom has accepted a position in the office of Dr. Graham McLean, Planters building.
--The condition of Mrs. Haynes Prevatt, who has been ill at her home on North Pine Street for several weeks, is improving.
--License has been issued for the marriage of Mrs. Annie Everett and Mr. D.J. Bunnell; Miss Irene Jackson and Mr. J.A. Townsend; Miss Ellon [Ellen?} Willis and Mr. Walter Haywood Hall.
--Robeson Chapter U.D.C. will meet in the club room Thursday afternoon at 3:30. All members are urged to be present as business of importance will be transacted at this meeting.
--Mr. and Mrs. J. Dickson McLean attended the New Year’s reception given by the Governor and Mrs. A.W. McLean at the executive mansion in Raleigh, returning home Saturday.
--On account of the series of meetings being conducted at the First Baptist church this week, the regular communication of St. Alban’s Lodge No. 114, A.F. & A.M., will not be held.
--Mr. E. McQ. Rowan of R. 4 from Lumberton was among the visitors in town Saturday. He has just recovered from an attack of flu which kept him confined for a few weeks.
Mr. Howard Linkhaw left today for Mars Hill College, where he will resume his studies. Mr. Linkhaw entered there in the fall but had to return home on account of a serious operation from which he has fully recovered.
--County officers captured a 36-gallon whiskey still Saturday afternoon in Howellsville township. The outfit was of the gasoline-drum type and looked as if it had not been used in several weeks.
--Bullard & Lewis is a new concern just starting here in fertilizer and cotton seed business. Former Sheriff R.E. Lewis, Messrs. Andrew Bullard and J.M. McCallum are the active members of the firm, and one of them will be at the Carlyle warehouse, Chestnut and First streets, their place of business, at all times.
--Miss Draper Fultz has returned to Lumberton after having spent the holidays with friends and relatives in Fairfield, Va. Miss Anne Lamb, who, with Miss Fultz, is assisting in carrying on experimental work in the county for the State Board of Health, has also returned from her home in Garland after spending the holidays thee with friends and relatives.
--Mr. John D. Purvis left this morning for Baltimore, where he will spend several days taking a special course in designing styles of men’s clothing for the spring and summer season. He was accompanied as far as Norfolk by Mrs. Purvis and children, and Mr. R. Paul Blake. Mr. Blake will visit his sister, Mrs. J.B. Sessler, in Newport News.
--Miss Mattie Wade began work Saturday as stenographer in the National Bank of Lumberton. She has for the past several months been employed by the law firm of McIntyre, Lawrence & Proctor, and is succeeded by Miss Hettie K. Aiken, who began work Saturday with the new firm of Varser, Lawrence, Proctor & McIntyre. Miss Aiken was Judge Varser’s stenographer before he went to Raleigh on the Supreme Court, and during his term there.
--Mr. M.O. Nelson and son of Danville, Va., passed here Thursday on their way to Whiteville, where Mr. Nelson has leased the Big Banner warehouse and will operate it next season. Mr. Nelson was at Whiteville for a number of years, and last year he and Mr. Neal built a new warehouse at Fairmont which was burned before their opening sale. Whiteville is fortunate in securing Mr. Nelson as he is one of the most popular warehouse men in the South. He operates the largest warehouse in Virginia and has done the leading business in Danville for the past 20 years. His son, M.O. Nelson Jr., will be interested with him in the business at Whiteville.
--Mr. N.T. McLean, who lives near Roland, is 83 years old today—83 years young, rather, for he is active and loves to fox hunt so well that he usually goes about twice a week during the season when the weather permits. The excessive cold broke up some planned hunts last week, but maybe at least one hunt was gotten to last week after Mr. McLean was in Lumberton Friday morning, for the weather moderated considerably that day. Mr. McLean served four years during the war between the States and next to Mr. W.H. Graham of the same section, who is a few years older, he perhaps is the oldest Confederate veteran in the county.
--When Mr. J.M. Huggins heard Rev. J.G. Johnson of Laurinburg, superannuated Methodist preacher, peach last Sunday, he recognized by his voice that he was the man who performed the wedding ceremony when Mrs. Huggins and he were married in Sampson County 28 years ago. He had not seen Mr. Johnson, who preached at Chestnut Street Methodist Church last Sunday, since a few years after the marriage.
--Mr. J.F. Lockey, who farmed last year near St. Paul on a place belonging to Mr. L.H. Townsend of St. Paul, was in Lumberton Friday looking for a house to rent, wanting to move his family to Lumberton right away, but at last account he had not succeeded in locating a house. There has been considerable demand lately for houses for rent, the demand exceeding the supply.
--No services were held at Chestnut Street Methodist Church last evening on account of the physical condition of the pastor, Rev. T. McM. Grant, who is recovering from an attack of flu and whose strength was taxed by preaching at the morning hour. Mr. and Mrs. Grant and daughter, Miss Ruby, expected to leave today for Sunbury, Gates County, to visit relatives until Mr. Grant’s health improves, but on account of the weather the trip has been postponed. They may go later in the week if weather conditions permit.
From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, Jan. 4, 1926
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