Town officers were called out Thursday night on account of a disturbance alleged to have been made by several young men preparing to attend a masquerade ball at Lake Waccamaw. It was reported that the men were using loud language, some of which was interspersed with profanity, and that a pistol was fired by one of them.
Going to the scene, the officers found a pistol in a Chrysler automobile, and, leaving one of the men with the car, they went behind the house—a so-called potato house in the yard of Governor A. W. McLean. When the officers left the car, a man dashed off down the street at a rapid rate in the car.
Ladies living in the neighborhood were frighted by the disturbance made by the young men, but none of them agreed to appear in court as witnesses against the men, and so no case was made out against them.
From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., August 9, 1926
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