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ONROE JQURKA L 4 Volume XVII. No. 35. Monroe, N. C, Tuesday, September 27, 1910. One Dollar a Year.' 'HE M VISITS HOME OF HIS FATHERS Expected to Find at Least Those Old Apple Trees, But Was Great ly Disappointed Mr. flcCo! turn's Interesting Recollections, Corrwixinilnic of The Journal. Baconton, Ga., Sept 21.-After continued absenceof fifty-eight years, the morning of Julv" Hth, 1010, found mv brother of Bushnell, Fla. and myself ready to start from J. II McColIum s. on the west side o; Richardson's creek, to visit the hil where our grandfather and grand mother McColIum lived and died both of whom had passed to the great beyond before I saw the light of day. I had a recollection of two shor visits to this mil. I hen it wa9 oc cupied by a small two-story frame building untenanted, and a splendid apple orchard. There I met my first disappointment, for I thought an ap ple tree in North Carolina classed with the oak and hickory for Ion gevity. But we found only a hill in grow ing cotton. It seemed that we would not find a single evidence of its ever having been a homestead, but 1 dis covered a small piece of crockery which seemed to have been a part ol a dinner plate, with a blue border one-half an inch deep around the edge. The hill and adjacent lands looked natural, but I could only give audience as "my kind brother Ike pointed to the springs and told o the accidents and incidents of his boyhood enacted on the hill. Next we marched down the hill to take a look at old Richardson creek just across which lay the bottom land3 of our old homeplace and known as the upper and lower low grounds. The water w as far above normal, and the growth of briars on the bank testified that it was not the play placo for boys as it was in the days of yore; but the opposite side of the creek, w here our interest most ly centered, was yet to be seen. Soon we were back at J. II. McCol- lum's, where I inspected the old oak trees in the yard which 1 had known as a selection of small saplings left from the native growth when the hill was first cleared for settlement. The next day we visited the home of John A. McColIum, better known to us as "Uncle Moses," for this was the home of our mother's brother, Moses Cuthbertson, and where he lived a long and useful life and died near the close of the Civil war had visited this uncle one time in childhood and spent several days, and now I could talk familiarly of many things as they were and mark the changes of roads and buildings. That day I was shown a barbecue pick used in 1812 on the occasion of a great hig rally or the Harrison rally when multitudes of people as sembled here, and log cabins built on wagons and drawn by oxen came all the way from t adesboro to con tribute to and take part in a great hig rally. Then I remembered in early life to hear people occasionally hallo, "Hurrah for log cabin hard cider!" But to this day I don't un derstand the significance of the log cabins and that hard cider business. Great Scott! The first and only glass of it I ever drank was cn my trip in North Carolina in July. A gentleman in vited me to his cellar for a drink of cider, and had the courtesy to ask me it I would have it hard or "fresh." I told him hard. He drew it with a trembling hand, and as he passed it to me I read in his eyes doubt, fear, mistrust, apprehension, and general uncertainty. It was hard work to turn off that glass of hard cider, and my stomach put me on notice if it was repeated there would bo present rebellion. But from reading The Journal I get the idea that people sometimes get drunk on it and fight. I caught up with all I will ever need of it. Our next movement wa9 a visit to our old homeplace, which we found occupied by Mr. E. P. Stewart and his interesting family, who treated us with much cordiality, extended to us the priviledges of the place, and showed such kindness as made a place for them in each heart before the day had passed. This was indeed the occasion of a lifetime. There was the old oak tree, under which an ur broken family of thirteen members used to gather for dinner, and where preserves and jellies were made for future refer ence and many hours of social pleas ure were passed by visiting neigh bors. And to the further interest of the occasion, it was the seventy seventh birthday of "my kind broth er Ike" which we were celebrating under the old oak. Messrs. J. A. and J. II. McColIum and families were present with an abundant sup ply of dinner and entertained the party, after which Mr. K. P. Stewart joined us for a general ramble. And Oh the changes, the changes! The absence of all the fences cut a large figure toward changing general ap pearances. Fields newly cleared be fore we left, had long since returned to an unbroken wilderness; and old piney fields that had been abandon ed from time immemorial, were now under cultivation and the plows were moving across the fields without re card to the roads as they were once traveled. The hands were plowing that day in what we called "The field around the barn." The first cotton I ever saw grow was in this field, and yet it is in cotton today and looking well. We found Richardson creek doing a lively business at the old stand, but all the marks of youthful interest had disappeared, and its bank unap proachable on account of an unbrok en line of heavy briars. On this side the creek I could bring up my part, for here was the first duties ever re quired of me that took the form of work. It was my daily task to mind a yoKe oi oxen on a meadow and commit to memory one verse in the New Testament. But a sad feature of it all is that nowhere in all my rambles did I see a peach or apple tree that I could say I had ever looked upon before. A. S. MoCoixoi. (To be Continued). What is to be Done at the Good Roads Meeting Next Monday? The Journal has been frequently asked if the good roads meeting to be held at two o clock in the court house next Monday will recommend a bond issue. It will not. It is not called for that purpose. It is called for the purpose of hearing Dr. Pratt and for forming a good roads association. The business of tl;3 association will be to find out what is the best thing to do and let the people know, what in its judgment is the quickest, cheapest and best way to improve our roads. It will take some time to do this, and therefore our wisest and most public spirited men snculd attend that meeting and help elect first-class officers for the association, men who will be willing to give some timo and thought to the work and find out what it is necessary to do. This is a public spirited meeting, and every public spirited citizen in the county is invited to be present and take paat. This is only the be ginning of the work. Everybody claims to be in favor of good roads and the associatfon is for the purpose of getting this sentiment organized and working. An Epoch in Showdom. When Mr. llaag decided to inau gurate his 15th year as a successful purveyor of first class amusements, to the public he mapped out his route from coast to coast, opening his season in early March at Shreve port. Since then the show has tra versed the States of Texas, Califor nia, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Indiana, West Virginia, Ken tucky, Virginia, Tennessee, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, and part of Georgia; and before closing will make Florida, Alabama, Missis sippi, and Louisiana, establishing a transcontinental record never at tempted by any show in any one season. 1 he show has used ob rail roads so far this season, exhibiting twice daily with the exception of Sunday. Nature has been very good to the mighty llaag shows this season, hav ing been exceptionally so in the wild animal dcpartment. The baby camel, ..ula, .3 easily the favorite baby, with the baby elephant close behind. )aily you can witness the children of the different cities picking their avorite baby in the big menagerie, which is most always the baby camel. The mighty llaag shows will ex hibit at Monroe October 13th. he Question is How to Get 'Em. Our llomp. It is well worth your time to at tend the good roads meeting at the court house, Monroe, on Monday, Oc tober 3rd, at 2 o clock p. m., when Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, State geolo gist, will address the people of Union county and organize a good roads association. It's not necessary to talk to the citizens of this good coun- about the benehts of having good roads. They are intelligent enough to see that. What we want is to earn how to go about this improve ment of roads and that's what Dr. Pratt will talk about. THINQS TO BE CONSIDERED. Mr. Philer Points Out How Wrong It is to Fail to Meet Obligations, and to Be on Time in fleeting Demands. To ibr Kdi tot of T!i Journal : This is a wonderful age of the world in which we live. The great mass of people are too busy. God says, "My people will not consider." Too many follow the multitude in doing evil. Failing in fulfilling promises. Makin; a note due No vember 1st, 1010, and passing the date by with impunity, not realizing that this date comes but once in the history of the world. Therefore failure to meet this promise or obli gation, the opportunity is gone, and gone lorever, as lar as this date is concerned. What an amount of trou ble would be avoided if people would be prompt in meeting all of their obligations, and attend all meetings strictly on time! Nine o clock Mon day morning, September 2Cth, 1010, will not come but once in a lifetime. I have found it just as easy to be on time as it is to be ten, fifteen or thir ty minutes late. Failing in all of these, is not the proper consideration for other people's rights or time. There are those who are members of some branch of the Christian church, who will make a promise or obhga' tion, and repudiate the whole by failure to pay their honest debts, until the debts become so old that they conclude that they are out of date, therefore make no effort to pay them. A debt or promise not ful filled remains through time and will stand in the Judgment against those who have failed to meet same. There seems to be an idea that if we can evade the law of the land by some "nigh cut" or technicality of the law. or to fail to make proper returns in listing our property for taxes, or getting someone else to make it for us, it will all be well By this mcan.i we may escape the penalty of the law of tiio land, but let us not forget that 'here is a tri bunal before whom we shall appear, and the Judge will know. Oh, what a fearful revelation there will be in that day! The poet hath said, "It is not all of life to live, nor all of death to die." What a happy world this would be if all of the people would live up to the golden rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." You will say that this cannot be, never has been and never will be. Why not? The only reason is that people do not want to do what is right. They like darkness rather than light. Let us think on these thing3, and so far as it appears to you and me let us right the wrong, and then we will have a conscience void of offense towards God and man. Truly, W. II. Pmi --er. Georgia Farmers Fight to Death Before Wives. Stopping their buggies when they met each other in the public road near Pelham, Ga., ednesday, Chas, Tate and John Marchant, both prom inent men, fought a duel with pistols, both dropping to the ground dead af ter half a dozen shots had been fired, The wives of the men sat in the buggies while the fight was in prog ress and saw their husbands kill each other. Tate W8S a bridegroom of two months and his bride was the widow of Frank Marchant, a brother of the man who he killed and who killed him. The fight, it is alleged, grew out of an old grudge. hen they met Marchant called Tate to his buggy. The men ex changed hardly a word when the shooting began. Tate tired three times, every bullet finding its mark. While the bullets were cutting into his body, Marchant fired twice, one bullet striking Tate's hand and the other passing through his heart. The widows called aid and the bod ies were removed. Get Your Cotton Ginned Free. Did you ever get your cotton gin ned free before? Well, you can get it now. The Monroe Oil Mill will gin it free if you sell them the seed. If you take the seed home the charge is one dollar for ginning and fifty cents for the bagging and ties. If you sell us the seed you only pay us 50c. for bagging and ties. e pay the highest market price for seed and we invite you to inspect our ginning and see that we do as good work as you ever saw in your life. Our capacity is 200 bales in a day and night, and some of the buy ers in Monroe are buying cotton gin ned by us without even sampling it. Monroe Oil mill. The Brilliant Hits of the Blind 5enator. Hon. Thomas P. Gore, the blind Senator from Oklahoma, who has made such a great reputation in the United States Senate as a ready de bater and exponent of Democratic principles, made speeches in Reids ville, Salisbury and Charlotte last week. Some of his brilliant sayings are given below. ; o J "President Tift for IS months has been busy carrying out Roosevelt's policies on a stretcher. "The ship subsidy proposition is the most brazen and unblushing graft ever attempted against the American people and for that reason has never been enacted. o o o "'All governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed,' is a principle for which the Democracy still stands. It be lieves in the direct election of Unit ed States Senators. The Republicans in their convention declared against it eight to one. O 9 O "The Democracy would bring the Senate close to the hearts, lives, hopes and aspirations of the people, and the House also. The people would make the Congress a place where their views are faithfully rep resented. Instead, under the Repub lican party, the House has been brought under the domination of an absolute czar, a Speaker not of this but of a former generation. Q 0 "Inequality of fortune has result ed irom special privileges. Democ racy believes a man should get what he earns, no more, no less. J he Re publican party favors legislation which will enable one man to get something lor nothing by lorcing millions cf people to get nothing for something. The Republican party believes that r.r.tioasl prosperity is due to national taxation. The Dem ocratic party believes a tax is a bur den; the higher the tax the greater the burden, the lower the tax the less the burden, but it's a burden all the time. All taxation is a necessary evil a a a "The Republican party denies all credit for prosperity to the thrift and industry of the people, to the fact that we are a resourceful and developing nation, and to the kind ness of Providence. They think the panic of May, 1603, was caused by the Wilson Gorman tariff bill of August, 104, and for a party which believes that taxation brings pros perity there is nothing irrational about that belief. o a o "The reiuvenated Democracy still stands for the principles enunciated in the Mecklenburg Declaration and the national Declaration of Inde pendence. It believes that all men are created eoual not in physical prowess, or intellect, or moral worth, or material wealih, but equal in rights and in the protection of the Kinc of kines. On that orincinle stand all our institutions. That prin ciple has been abandoned by the Remibliean party. It and its brood of trusts and monopolies deny the 'quality ot man s rights. o a a "In 1S93 under Cleveland about 00 banks closed and thev called it a panic. In 1007 under Roosevelt they closed all the banks and called it a holiday. Q Q "We cannot lone prosper behind the wall of a monopoly tariff. A re cent Congress appropriated 55,- 000,000 to open rivers and harbors or the stimulation of trade, lhe same Congress raised the tariff to discourage trade. When were we irhtand when were we wronc? The real way to success lies in making better American goods cheaper than thev can bo made elsewhere, and the cotton manufacturer of Charlotte at that could beat the world, so much igher is the efficiency of labor in America. It is true that you pay your operators 30 to 10 per cent, more than they do abroad, but this is true of all businesses. The farm hand in America gets ten times as much as the farm hand of India, ret the American farmer competes with the world successfully. "If vou rea v want to protect American labor, keen out these pau per laborers who are coming over hpre. rortv-six per cent, oi the pop ulation of Rhode Island is foreign- born. 0 9 9 "Yes. the tariS was reduced from 195 to 190 on sugar. Eat a hundred pounds and you'll save a nickel. Eat a ton and you will sare 1. They advanced the tariff 5 cents a bushel on corn in the Senate. You might as well tax waterfalls to protect Ni agara or levy a tariff on the aurora borealis to protect John D.'s oil. "There is no legerdermain by which the farmer may profit by the tariff. He has to compete in world markets with other nations. He can never profit by it, so h,ng as he has to buy in a closed market and sell in an open market. O i o "Two things are responsible for the awakening: the Payne-Aldrich law is not what the Republican par ty promised; second, it is not what the people expected. Four times the Republican party has premised re vision downward and four times the American people have been betrayed. Why should the promise have been believed at the last election? But the people are not going to be fcoled any more. o o o "Trusts have flourished because of two special privileges: That of the tariff, which shielded them from for eign competition, and that of freight rebates which made them immune from competition at home. Democ racy regards trade as a blessing. We should realize that we cannot close our doors to keep imports out without closing our doors to keep exports in. Cotton men of the South should realize that they cannot sell to the man across the seas unless we in turn buy abroad." The Real Business Hen Do the Advertising. Our H"iin. Home merchants should stop and consider what means the mail order houses employ in building up the large trade that they enjoy. The whole thing is plain they use printers' ink. And the home mer chants who really do things are the ones who are not afraid to adverl'se. When we see a merchant sitt.ng around waiting for somebody to hunt him up and ask him if he has any thing for sale and at the same time cussin out the mail order houses, it makes us tired, and we feel like telling him that he is getting all the trade ho deserves. This is a day of hustle and the fellow who goes after the business is the fellow who gets it. The most progressive merchants of any town, and the ones upon whom you can depend for what you want, can be known by a reference to the newspaper published in the town in which they do business. Analysis of Monroe Well Water. Mr. C. A. Shore, director of the State Laboratory of Hygiene of the North Carolina Board cf Health, made an analysis of the new well from which Monroe is using water, on September 20th. The full report is as follows, and shows a perfectly pure water: Sediment 0 Color 0 Turbidity Slight Odor, cold 0 Odor, hot ..Slight Alkalinity 115.0 Chlorine I'ti Nitrogen as Nitrates 2.5 Nitrogen us Nitrites ..Slight Trnce Free Ammonia .(a is Albuminoid Ammonia .OMi Colon Haeilli 1 c. c... 0 Colon Haeilli 10 c.e Total Iturtcria per c. c lS'O io rollution. There r.eed be no fear about water. The officials would promptly r itify the public if there should be any thing wrong. Death of Mr. T. F. Medlin. Mr. Thomas F. Medlin died at his home five miles south of Monrce at three o'clock Sunday afternoon. He lad been sick of typhoid fever for thirty-five days. The rt mains were buried at Macedonia yesterday after noon by the Woodmen of the World, of which order l;c was a member. Ie is survived by his wife and thir teen children, some of whom are grown, lie was about lorty-nve years of age. Mr. Medlin was reared in New Salem township. Ho was a son of the late Mr. Willis Medlin, and a few years ago moved to land which he bought south of Monroe. Ie was a good farmer, an honest man, and a good neighbor. Mr. Medlin carried insurance to the extent of $5,000.00 on his life. Come and See Them. You want to see some fine brood mares and good mules, don't you? ell, we have them, and they are crackajacks. Bought to suit the market and will be sold as cheaply as good stock can be bought in the nited States. Fowler & Lee. ODD FELLOWS' FINE nEETINQ Declared to Be the Best Since This District Was Created Synopsis of Great Work of the Order New Officers Elected. The convention of the twelfth dis trict of the Independent Order of Oild Fellows, which met in regular semi-annual session with Monroe Ixige No. 210, was called to order on last Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock by President W. A. Cochrane of Charlotte. The first session waj taken up with the enrollment of del egates and receiving reports from the various lodges. ( a Wednesday night at the close of the Orphans' concert, Mr. John C. Sikes was in troduced, and in a well prepared speech bade the delegates welcome to our city, consigning the city to them "to have and to hold" while they remained within her limits. Oa behalf of the local lodge, Hon. R. W. Lemmond extended a wel come, speaking in high terms of the work of the order. He mentioned the fads that there are now in the United States over 2,000,000 Odd Fellows, spending annually for chari table purposes over $3,000,000; that there is now on foot a plan for the erection of a sanatarium for the treatment of tuberculosis; that there are now in North Carolina over 1G, 000 Odd Fellows, spending during the year 1000 over $25,000 for char ity and sick benefits, these benefits covering a period of 6,811 weeks; that during that same year 102 per sons were buried; that there were enrolled at the Odd Fellow's Orpha nage daring 1000 151 children, be ing supported at an average cost of 7.00 per month. In the absence of .Mr. S. J. Durham, District Supervi sor, Mr. Jas. E. Huneycutt of Char lotte was called upon to respond to these addresses of welcome, which he did in a very able manner. On Ihursday, in addition to the regular routine work of the conven 'ion. the srrei h of Mr. lliinncctl cn "Fraternalism in Odd Fellowship" and that cf Prof. L. P. Wilson, on "A better educated membership in the work and principles of the Or der," were heard with interest. The degree work as exemplified on Thurs day night by the team from Char lotto was not to be surpassed and made a profound impression upon the large crowd which had gathered to witness it. Gastonia was selected as the place of holding the next convention which will meet in March, and the follow ing officers were elected for the term: L. P. Wilson, Monroe, president; E. I). Atkins, Gastonia, vice-president; C. W. Russell, Charlotte, secretary; A. L. Williams, Charlotte, treasur er; S. S. Morris, Gastonia, sentinel. There was not a dull moment dur ing the entire convention and the delegates went away well pleased with our city and declaring that this had been the most interesting con vention since tho creation of the dis trict. Opening of the Public Schools. We expect the public schools to open about November 15th, end com mitteemen, teachers, parents and pupils should bear this fact in mind and give this pronouncedly vital subject the consideration which it merits. All aimless work is fruitless. Nothing of any moment can be done without preparation. Therefore let us bepn now to get ready. Farmeis in many instances can so plan and arrange their work as to carry it on successfully without the aid of their children. In many districts in the county four months in tho year is all the schcol provided for tho chil dren. Let everybody take advantage, of this opportunity. On Saturday, November 12th, wo ask all the teachers cf tho county to meet at the graded school building, Monroe, to discuss plans and talk over the situation generally, and adopt if possiblo the best means for bringing about the most satisfactory results. The same adopted list of books will be used, and all teachers, com mitteemen and parents should see that the adopted books are used to the exclusion, in the main, of all others. We hope the committeemen will secure teachers for their schools just as soon as possible, being careful not to employ uncertified teachers, and send the contracts to the county Superintendent. R. N. Nisbet, Co. Supt All members of the Unionville Farmers' Union are requested to be present at the next regular meeting, Saturday night, October 1st.
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