--Born Saturday to Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Lamb, a son.
--Mr. A.J. Steed of Maxton was among the notaries public commissioned by Governor McLean last week.
--Mr. and Mrs. M.A. Odum are moving this week to Hamlet, where Mr. Odum has accepted a position with Bagwell Real Estate Co.
--Mary Florence is the name of the daughter born Friday in the Thompson Memorial Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Claude Boone of Lumberton. This was the first birth to occur in the new institution.
--License has been issued for the marriage of Miss Ruth Wincy of Cumberland County and Mr. Leslie Owen; Miss Nina L. Parrish and Mr. James C. Smith, both of Robeson County.
--The condition of Mr. J.B. Walters, who suffered a stroke of paralysis at his home near Rowland Wednesday, is unimproved. Mr. Walters is 74 years old and the father of Mr. Ellie Walters of Lumberton.
--Mr. and Mrs. A.E. White returned Saturday from Raleigh, where Mr. White attended a meeting of the State prison board, of which he is a member.
Another meeting of the board will be held Thursday of this week to make final disposition of a vexed matter that is mentioned in the Raleigh letter elsewhere in this issue. [of Chaplain Shacklette’s accusation that Prison Superintendent G.R. Pou and Pardon Commissioner H. Hoyle Sink had been selling pardons.]
--Owing to the failure of stock to arrive, the opening of the Carolina-Willys Light Company’s branch here in the Saleeby building, scheduled for last week, has been postponed until Thursday. An advertisement announcing the opening appears in this issue. [On the bottom of page 6. See: newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn84026483/1926-03-29/ed-1/seq-6/]
--On account of the cooking school this week the regular monthly meeting of Robeson chapter U.D.C. has been postponed from Thursday to Tuesday of next week, April 6, at 4 p.m., when the meeting will be held in the domestic science room at the high school building.
--Mr. Louis Stovall expects to leave Thursday for Shelby, where he has accepted a position in the offices of Mr. Max Gardner. Mrs. Stovall and her mother, Mrs. Mollie Norment, expect to go to Shelby about April 15. Mr. and Mrs. C.V. Baker will move Wednesday into the Beaman residence, Pine and Fourteenth, into Mrs. Norment’s residence, Elm Street.
--Ollie Hamilton’s shows played a week’s engagement here last week and pleased large crowds. The Charleston dancing contest Friday and Saturday night drew large crowds. In the Friday night contest, which was for white people only three took part, the cash prize going to Master Wallace Dunham.
--Two mules belonging to Mr. Fuller Harris who lives about three miles east of town, became frightened this morning and ran from the vacant lot behind the R.D. Caldwell & son store across Third Street up the alley, and stopped behind Mr. A.H. Hinds’ market after the wagon had struck a light-pole. The force of the collision was so great that the mules were thrown to the ground and the pole, near the transformer, was broken. No one was in the wagon. --Rev. Dr. C.H. Durham, pastor of the First Baptist Church, attended in Greensboro Saturday a meeting of the State board of public welfare, of which he is a member. He also heard Friday night the two outstanding addresses before the State social service conference during its annual meeting in Greensboro last week by Bishop McConnell of the Northern Methodist Church and Mr. Newton P. Baker, secretary of war during the Wilson administration. --A town officer driving a Ford the other day ran into another ford driven by a traveling man. It seems that it was an unavoidable accident, some stating that the sun blinded the officer, and when asked about it the officer said the other man got in his way. Very little damage was done, but excitement was stirred considerably. The accident occurred at the intersection of East Fourth and Chestnut streets during a busy time.
From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., March 29, 1926
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