--Mr. Frank McLeod returned Thursday from St. Louis, Mo., where he spent several days buying mules for Mr. C. M. Fuller.
--Mr. John A. Currie of Lumber Bridge has been commissioned a notary public by Governor W. A. McLean.
--The Gospel Tabernacle Missionary Society will have a quilting Thursday at 1:30 at the home of Miss Helen Evers.
--Mrs. Stephen McIntyre has returned home from Statesville, where she was a patient for six weeks in Dr. Long’s sanatorium.
--Mr. Oscar M. Israel left Saturday night for New York City to purchase goods for th eI. & W. Store and the Guarantee Shoe Store.
--Miss Mary Perry, who received burns from a gasoline torch a few weeks ago, while working in the dentist office of Dr. W. G. Nimmocks, is able to resume her work today.
--Fire Thursday afternoon did a small amount of damage to the roof of the Lumberton Family Laundry. The blaze caught from the chimney and was quickly extinguished.
--Miss Dovie Britt will leave Wednesday for Erwin, where she will have charge of the 4th grade in the graded school. Miss Britt has taught in the Erwin school for the past three years.
--The American Legion Auxiliary will meet with Miss Janie Carlyle Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock for a business session and social hour. Every member is urged to be present as very important business is to be brought up.
--An unusually successful revival which began Sept. 7 at the Christian church closed last evening. Dr. John W. Tyndall, evangelist of Atlanta, who conducted the services, preached splendid sermons and was heard by large congregations.
--Mrs. T. A. McNeill returned Friday from Wilmington, where she attended a conference of officers of the woman’s auxiliary of the diocese of eastern North Carolina of the Episcopal Church. Mrs. McNeill is educational secretary.
--Mr. Aaron Turner of Mayodan, Rockingham county, known throughout the State as “Pee Wee,” of college baseball fame, arrived last week and is buying tobacco on the Lumberton market. Mr. Turner will be remembered here as shortstop on the Lumberton baseball team a few years ago when Lumberton was in a league with Maxton, Laurinburg and Hamlet.
--Mrs. Graham McKinnon of Rowland will spend the winter in Lumberton with her daughter, Miss Allie Bird McKinnon, who is a member of the music faculty of the local schools. They are guests at the home of Mrs. N. A. McLean, North Elm. Mrs. and Miss McKinnon returned recently from Melbourne, Fla., where they spent the summer with their son and brother, Mr. Prather McKinnon, who holds a responsible position there.
--Rev. Dr. l. E. Dutton of Cartersville, Ga., Baptist evangelist who assisted Dr. C. H. Durham in a series of meetings at the First Baptist Church here some months ago, was a guest at the Baptist parsonage a few days last week. Beginning yesterday at Cedar Creek Baptist Church in Cumberland county, Dr. Dutton will assist Rev. I. P. Hedgpeth in protracted meetings at several of the latter’s churches. Next week, beginning Sunday, they will begin a week’s series of meetings at Big Branch Church at Orrum, and meetings will follow at Proctorville and Mt. Elim churches.
--Among those leaving for college are Mr. James Carter for University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Mr. Clarence Deese, instead of Mr. Edgar Deese as stated in Thursday’s Robesonian, for Wake Forest; and Messrs. William Ritter, William Jones and Knox Andrews for Duke University, Durham.
Editor’s Note: Were you wondering why Mary Perry was using a gasoline torch in the dentist’s office? The torch was standard equipment in dental offices in the 1920s, where is was used to sterilize instruments and tools. Burns were an occupational hazard for dental assistants.
From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N. C., Monday, September 20, 1926
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