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HE MONROE JOURNi JL Volume XVII. No. 29. Monroe, N. C, Tuesday, August 16, 1910. One Dollar a Year. J Miss Addle Griffith Called Home. On last Wednesday nigbt at ten o'clock, the dread messenger of death entered the home of Sheriff and Mrs. John Griffith and called from their love and care their daughter, Addie. For eight weeks she had been fight ing the terrible disease, typhoid fe ver. The fight she put up was won derful. Life had so many charms for this noble girl, but when the final summons came she submitted with the grace that characterizes the really brave. Miss Addie Griffith had been given as a blessing to her home for 21 years. She was a com fort to father and mother, an ever ready helpful companion to brothers, sisters and friends. She was a chris tian of the highest type, a member of the Methodist church and teacher in the Sunday school, llcr's was a nature that bore intimate acquaint ance. It wa3 in close association with her one came to feel and know the true worth of character of this perfectly developed specimen of young womanhood. Of the many admirable qualities that constituted her makeup, self-sacrifice was one; and modesty, the crowning jewel of womanhood, sat enthroned in queen ly majesty within her soul. Her na ture was as pure, her mind and heart as chaste as the angels with whom Bhe has gone to dwell. The flowers in their snowy whiteness were em blematic of her character, and by their prodigal profusion bore testi mony to the love and affection felt for her by her friends. The large crowd gathered at Central Methodist church on Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock to attend the funeral services, gave evidence that her friends were numbered by her acquaintances. Rev. G. C. Brinkman conducted the services. The members of the family who bow with sorrowing hearts are two sisters, Mrs. R. L. Helms and Miss Mary Griflith; and four brothers, Messrs. Benjamin, Julian, Frank and Paul Grillith. The pall bearers were Messrs. Code Morgan, William Nivens, Sam Thi fer, Cyrus Stewart, Boyce Williams and Clayton Smith. M. H. S. The Modern Woodmen of America Organize a Camp in Monroe. In the Fraternity hall on Wednes day evening, August 10th, Deputy Head Consul Wm. G. Amick of the Modern Woodmen of America install ed Monroe camp No. 15131. About forty of the sixty men who have made application for membership in the fraternity were adopted and given the secret work. The remaining ap plicants will be adopted at a subse quent meeting. . Officers were elected as follows: Dr. B. C. Redfearn, Venerable Con sul; W. J. Rudge, Worthy Adviser; Julian V. Griffith, Banker; Luther Williams, Clerk; J. 0. Fulen wider, I'ast Consul; C. II. Hasty, Escort; R. C. Funderburk, Watchman; C. D. Morgan, Sentry; Dr. John M. Blair, Camp Physician; and a board of man agers consisting of J. W. Hill, R. II Ilargett and G. E. Porterfield. The officers were then installed and fol lowing such installation, life benefit certificates were presented to the members by Head Consul Amick. The Modern Woodmen is the pioneer of all the Woodmen orders throughout the world. In the United States nearly one and one-half mil lion men have made themselves neighbors under this banner of Woodcraft. The strength of the or der lies chiefly in the West and great Southwest, where membership and good citizenship are almost synony mous terms, but the order is spread ing over the Atlantic States with a rate of growth never before attained by a secret order. We are glad that Monroe has add ed this to her already large list of secret fraternities, and with an initial membership of nearly sixty of Union county's foremost men in business and society, we bespeak for this new order a long, growing and prosper ous existence. Horrible Hurder in Davie County. Raleigh Dlapatch, 11th. Thomas Jarvis, a young Davie county farmer, was killed in a hor rible manner by his father, William Jarvis, near Advance. It appears that the father and son got into a dispute, when the former drew his knife and cut the latter across the abdomen from the hip to hip, after which the father stamped the son until his bowels protruded. The son died and the father has thus far es caped arrest. Get your neighbor to go to the primary election Saturday. BALLOONIST DROPS TO DEATH. In Making a Double Leap, Second Parachute Fails to Open and Luckless Han Falls to Earth Head Impaled on Limb of Tree. Sew York Inuh. :j.h. Benny Prinz, a young balloonist, met a horrible death this afternoon at the close of the aviation meet at Asbury Park, N. J. In making a double parachute drop, the second parachute failed to open and he fell more than 2,000 feet As the sway ing body neared the ground, it struck the limb of an apple tree and the boy's head was transfixed on the limb like an apple on a spit As it struck the ground, the headless body was crushed into an unrecognizable mass. Prinz was 26 years old and a dar ing balloonist With Samuel Hart land of Newark he went up in a hot air balloon. At the height of 1,000 feet Hartland cut loose with one para chute and made a successful land ing. Lightened by the drop of Hart land, the craft shot up until it reach ed about 4,000 feet. Then Printzcut loose. Those who saw his figure, say he fell 500 feet before his parachute opened. He sailed slowly earthward for another thousand feet and then cut loose again. There was another terrific drop of about 500 feet when the second parachute opened. It checked his fall for a second, then the ropes snapped and the body of the young man shot straight down. Over and over the figure turned, faster and faster, gaining momentum with each revolution. He was shoot ing down head first when he crush ed into the tree, impaling his head on a limb. In the headless trunk every bone was broken. Several of thoso who witnessed the accident fainted from horror of the tragedy. For Road Commissioners. The importance of offices that pay well is too evident, because of the number of worthy aspirants for same. But the other kind, in which there is no pay and nothing material ex cept unjust criticism, are too little emphasized. So when through love of their county and a wealth of pub lic spirit, good, sound, competent men allow themselves to be run for these offices, they should be elected with a hurrah. Of no office can this be said with greater truth than of the road commissioners an office which gives little compensation for the work done, but one which re quires a good and worthy man. To day Union county ranks high in the column of the best road counties in the State, and it is all due to the system now in practice. Can we af ford to let this system go to pieces, when even the casual obserrer sees the large benefits derived from it? We say no, and so does every other sober minded man. If a canvass was made of every man available for the office, no three men could be found who would be more competent, or more just in the equal distribution of good roads, than J. M. Fairley, Frank Wolfe, and M. K. Lee. J. M. Fairley is the veteran road commissioner, and never has there been a better one. Although he has come in for his share of censure, it was always from some hothead and undeserved. He is free from the taint of partiality, and deserves more credit than any other man for the present good roads of Union county. M. K. Iee is another sound man, who is soft of speech, but who does things. And a man who has done things for himself, can be depended on to do things for other people. , So elect M. K. Lee and you will have a man who will be faithful to his trust and one who will honor the office. Of Frank Wolfe the same can be said. He is the kind of man Shakes peare must have been thinking about when he said, "An honest man is the noblest work of God." These three men would form a tri umvirate of road commissioners who would make road history in Union county just as the old triumvirs made Roman history. So let all honest voters, who have a conscience and a desire for good in Union county, elect these men and thus advance our county higher in column of counties with good roads in North Carolina. Voters. Notice. Hon. A. C. Shuford will speak to the farmers in Buford township, Au gust 24, at Altan at 11 o'clock. Let everybody come and bring well filled baskets and have a general picnic. Don't stay away from the primary Saturday and then grumble if the men you want to fill the office are not nominated. For Representative. If I am not mistaken the constitu tion of North Carolina says the leg islature shall meet bi-annually, on the first Wednesday in January. On the 20th day of August, 1910, the Democratic voters of Union county are asked to go to their vot ing precincts and there vote for their choice of candidates to represent them in the House of Representa tives. The candidates are all good men but only two of them can go, and the two who get the majority of votes will be the Democratic candi dates. As a Democrat I cast my first vote in 1SC8 for Seymour and Blair for President and ice President Francis E. Shaver for Congress, and Lemuel Presaon for the House of Commons. And I ask you to consid the name of one of the five Demo cratic candidates when you cast your ballot He ha3 been loyal to Dem ocracy from our restoration into the Union to the present time. He wore the gray from 18C1 to 18G5, and there is no man in Union county who has done more for tho battle-scarred vet erans of the lost cause than he. Just before the State reunion of the North Carolina veterans in Char lotte, August 25, 1909, an old veteran of Major Frank Wyatt's company went to Monroe and was asked if he was going to the reunion. He was poor, and had six motherless grand children in his house. He said his clothes were not fit to wear on that grand occasion. Before he left town he was standing in an eight-dollar gray uniform. There are fifteen Con federate veterans in Union county who are wearing gray uniforms; there is a man in Monroe who paid for five of them out of his own pocket and helped the other ten to get theirs. A few day3 before the Confederate reunion at Birmingham a poor, battle-scarred veteran of the Redwine Deauregards from Union couuty, Company F, 35th North Carolina, was asked if he was going. He said he had no money, but a few days be fore Camp Walkup left for Birming ham the old veteran got a check from Monroe that gave him the round trip free. A few months ago a poor widow in Union county had a wayward boy. He got into trouble and was taken before our recorder. The crime would not admit of a fine less than fifteen dollars, and if it was not paid his poor mother knew what was next. She only had ten dollars of her hard earnings and had tried in vain to borrow the other five dollars. She had almost given up in despair when a friend told her to go to a certain man in Monroe and try him. She went, and with tears trickling down her face told him her troubles; and without a word he handed her the money. A few men who witnessed the scene told him his money was gone forever. A month or so later, a small boy handed him a package and told him that his mother had sent it to him; and on opening it, he saw a five-dollar bill. So, Democratic voters of Union oounty, when you cast your ballots on the 20th day of August, 1010, for representative, remember tnat good Samaritan who bought the gray uni forms and paid the way of the battle scarred veteran of the Confederacy in these declining years, and the poor widow in her application. That grand man was R. V. Houston, Esq., of Monroe, N. C. SANDY RlttGE. Spreading Consumption by House Infection and Family Infection. T have onlv recentlv observed some eases of consumDtion where there was much irregular, unrestricted vis iting. The patients were spitting here and there instead of spitting into sputum cups containing carbolic acid or other disinfectants. There is intelligent visiting with crood iudgment. and there is ignor ant visiting with very poor j udgment The Hies naa an tne ireeaom oi the place and were coins from sou- tum to table, to drinking water back and forth. It is probable that some social snurl-dipping was going on. All the family and all the visitors were in a measure unconsciously ex posed to the disease. And this is n-hv mnsumntion goes through fam ilies instead of being limited to the first case. Right here in Union coun ts whole families have taken the dis ease and died by shutting them selves in with the first case. This thing is still going on in the county, nd the death rate everv tear is in creased a large per cent from this one cause. The consumptive should be isolated in a sense: he and the family should be told and taught everything they ougnt to mow. ii would be cruel and very unkind to make him feel that he is shunned or undesired. This is not necessary, The family can be in free and easy communication and help to him with' out exposing anyone, if they will all only observe the proper precautions. Every consumptive house should be thoroughly disinfected occasion ally. There is only one hope of freeing the race from the bonds of this dis ease, and that is by educating the masses, even against their will, in regard to the disease and the best methods to prevent its spread. No one need die of consumption. You can get all the literature you need just for the asking. Dr. W. S. Rankin, secretary of the State Board of Health, would like to have your name as a free subscriber on a free mailing list to the Monthly Health Bulletin and other health pamphlets. Please send at once your name, your county, and your postoffice address to Dr. W. S. Rankin, Raleigh, N. C, asking him to send you the Monthly Bulletin and other literature. It is free and will cost you nothing. I should lik-5 for Union county to have 5,000 free subscribers to this literature. Especially are all the teachers, preachers, parents, lawyers and doctors desired. Send your names at once. Don't forget it. Very truly, II. D. Stewart. Jackson Township for HcNeely for Recorder. There is no man anywhere better fitted for the position of Recorder than Mr. Vance McNeely. He is one of the best scholars in Union county, a man of wide experience, fine sense and good judgment. He is a splen did lawyer, having met with marked success in his practice since going to the bar, and having studed law un der that Prince of teachers, Prof. Gulley at Y'ake Forest. He is a young mar? who was raised on a farm end kcows what it is to work. He is a young man of high aspira tions. Mid working hard to be a real beuoai to hu fellowman lleis a worthy man, with a big heart, a firm and steady hand, and a quick and active mind, a clear and perfect memory, a sympathetic feeling, a love for law and order, and a high sense of honor. Come one and all and let us elect him Recorder. Voters of Jackson Township. Jerre C. Laney for County Com missioner. On next Saturday, Aug. 20, it is your duty to cast your ballot for the nomination of men who are to handle the affairs of the county. You want the best and it is your duty as a citizen to inform yourself on this point. Of the requirements for any office of trust, Jerre C. Laney stands un impeached. He is is a man of hon esty, integrity, plain and unassum ing, generous to a fault, more liable individually to speak in discredit than to praise his merits. To elect him the humble will have a representative, the high will have no room for complaint. So let us be just in this ballot on next Saturday and repudiate that personal preju dice which defeated a man against whom an honest tongue can say naught. An Observer. Elopes with 5tep-Daughter. John W. Rollins of Mecklenburg county, near the Union line, ran away Monday night, Aug. Stb, with his step-daughter, a young married woman. When he left he was driv ing a light sorrel mare mule, about 7 years old, attached to a top buggy. The mule and buggy belongs to the Sikes Company and they want them. They also want Rollins. He is about 45 years old, dark complexion, with black hair and mustache, and has a blue scar over his left eye. He weighs about 175 pounds. For Road Commissioner. We hereby announce the name of M. K. Lee for road commissioner of Monroe township, subject to the ac tion of the Democratic primary. Voters. The nflonle of old Tabernacle church and commuity in Goose Creek township are requested to meet at tne old cemetery on luesoay morn ing, August 30th, for the purpose of rlpaniiiff off the craves of our de parted loved ones. It is hoped that fi . : :n i ... i i me commuuuy wm iuru ouv largely nd rive our last resting place on earth a general cleaning up. Our Lord had great respect for the dead, so should we. An Interested One. Short Locals. Primary election Saturday. There will be an educational rally and picnic at ueddington Friday. Everybody is invited. The Wed- dington High School will open Mon day, August 22nd. Mr. A. S. Mungo of Chesterfield county brought 52 bales of cotton to Monroe yesterday which he sold to Messrs. Stack & Hudson for lo cents. Mr. Mungo raises annually four or five hundred bales. There will be a family reunion at Mr. Wilson Stegall's, in Goose Creek, next Thursday, August 18th. All members of the family are requested to attend and bring well filled bas kets. Miss Loma Alexander, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Alexander, who has been in the Presbyterian hospi tal at Charlotte for treatment for a broken ankle, which accident occur red some months ago, is improving and will be able to walk in a short time. Morrow Bros. & Heath Co., doing a large business at Albemarle, Mon roe and several other towns, will erect a large brick store and several warehouses at Ansonville, on the new Southbound railroad. It means much to Ansonville to secure a branch of this large firm. Stanly Enterprise. Mr. C. E. Brown of Wingate has a hen that has been laying every day for about nine months has layed about 300 eggs, which would be 25 dozen, and she is still laying and shows no sign of letting up. She is of the Rhode Island Red breed. Who can beat it? Mr. J. J. Parker of the Monroe bar was nominated for Congress by the Republican Congressional conven tion which was held in Lexington Wednesday. Mr. Parker is a son of Mr. J. D. Parker of Monroe, lie is a graduate of the State University and is a popular young man and promi nent attorney. The members of the Young Peo ple's Missionary Society of Central Methodist church have planned a big time for all who care to take advant age of it, in the form of a lawn party to be given on the church grounds Thursday evening. Ices, cakes and candies to please the palates of the most fastidious will be served. Both old and young are in invited to come. Mr. II. W. Brown, employee of the Virginia Bridge Co., sustained a painful injury Saturday while at work on the over-head bridge here. In crossing a train his foot slip ped and was caught and crushed be tween the bumpers, the foot, ankle and part of the leg being injured. Drs. Blair and Ashcraf t attended the wounded man. He was sent to his home at Plymouth, N. C. The Farmers' Union picnic held at Mr. P. B. Blakeney's Friday was both profitable and pleasant. Mr. C. B. Williams of Raleigh, direc tor of the experiment station, was present and added much to the oc casion. Quite a representative crowd of farmers from all parts of the coun ty were present, numbering about 200. It was voted quite the biggest success in the way of a demonstra tion picnic up to date. Mr. Hosea T. Ross died at his home in Marshville township August 5th. lie was CC years old. During the Civil war he was a member of Com pany C, 10th Battalion N. C. Troops, and made a good soldier. He was sick but a few days. Messrs. J. M. and T. A. Ross are sons and Mes dames E. W. Helms, W. Ii. Williams, A. W. Whittle and J. M. Morgan are daughters of the deceased. Elder J. F. Mills conducted the funoral ser vices and the burial was in the fam ily burying ground in Anson county. Hard cider is still causing trouble in this vicinity. Friday it came a little nearer home, when James Kel ley met Horace Mitchell and Ladd Keife in the road near the Icemorlee Mill. The parties having all par taken freely of the juice of the fruit which caused the downfall of Adam, were in fine trim to revive bad feel ings of old standing. This they did and at once began slashing at each other with open knives. It seemed they desired to give outlet to the ci der in more ways than infuriated temper, thus Jas. Kelly and Mitchell Keife being fuller than the other required more opening, each pro ceeded to fulfill the requirements. Kelly was so slashed fourteeen stitch es were taken in his face, and Keife was cut four times. All three were arrested and lodged in jail. The trial came off Saturday. Butler Wins the Victory. Wilm.Birion Star Just as the Star predicted when the Hon. Marion Butler began his campaign to make Congressman John M. Morehead State Republican Chairman, the Ex-Populist United States Senator won the victory in the Republican State Convention at ( Ireensboro on Wednesday. Duncan, finding that he was beaten to a fraz zle by the wily Sampsonian politician, retired without a shot He did not wait for the steam roller but at the first toot he promised to be good and took the woods. The names of Congressman John Motley Morehead, of Greensboro, E. C. Duncan, of Beaufort and Major J. E. Alexander, of Winston, where placed before the convention for State Chairman, but before Butler and Morehead could man the steam roller the names of Duncan and Alex ander were quickly withdrawn and the harmony bugle was sounded. Duncan saw that the Butler More head combination had him snowed under and be did not wait long enough to test his strength in the convention with that of Morehead. However, the election of the Hon. Thomas Settle of Asheville, as Chair man over the Hon. II. G. Ewart, of Henderson, probably showed that Morehead had in the convection near ly twice as many supporters as Dun can. For instance, Settle, a More- head man, was made convention chairman by 733 votes to 378 for Lwart, a Duncan man. That prob ly was a fair test vote and Butler won his victory by more votes than he claimed would be the result prior to the assemblage of the convention. It show e 1 he knew what he was talk ing about, and we beleived he wa3 going to do what he said, for the Ex - Populist politican is an indi vidual who knows the game. The action of the Republican con vention at Greensboro simply means that the waring faction of the Repub lican party have come together. It means that tho Democrats of North Carolina ned not count upon any serious dissention in the Republican ranks and that, with Butler sched uling Morehead's campaign, the Democrats of North Carolina had better make haste to unite to meet organized opposition that has dan gerous elements in it State Chair man Morehead is a member of the National Congressional campaign committee and if the truth were known his election as State Chair man is part of the National Com mi tee's plan to capture North Carolina for the Republican party. Foresee ing inevitable losses of Republican Congressmen in some of the Western States, doubtless the National com mittee has made up its mind that it is easier to seduce the South with the hope of winning Congressmen in the Southern States where the Re publicans have the slightest chance. Of course, their principal aim is to secure continued control of Congress by the Republican party, but in do ing so they hope to win the State as well, along with the majority in the Legislature of as many States as they can carry. The Republicans made such a big gain in North Carolina in 1908 that they have taken North Carolina for an easy mark. In tho 1908 election the Republicans polled 1 14,884 votes,, and with Taft as the Presidental nom inee the increase in Republican votes over the strength of the party in 190G was 37.8G7. In the Presiden tial year of 1904 the Republicans polled 82,412 votes and in the next Presidential year, 1908, they polled 114,884 votes, making the increase between Presidential election 33,442 votes. In the off year election of 1900 the Republicans polled 77,017 votes, which was a falling off of 5, 425 votes compared with the previ ous election of 1904. We mention this to emphasize the fact that in presidential years the Republican party votes its full strength in North Carolina, and with the negro vote practically eliminated, that party has made a gain which should put the Democratic party on its mettle. We haven't the slightest doubt that the National Congression al Committee has backed Morehead and Butler in their fight to capture the State organization and that it will furnish campaign funds for the work in this campaign. With an or ganization such as Butler and More head are capable of setting on foot with the assistance of the National party organization, with money to backup their plans and schemes, North Carolina Democrats must make up their minds that they must give the new combination the solid est front they are capable of.
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