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'he Monroe Journal VOLUME XVIII. NO. 21. MONROE, N. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1911. ONE DOLLAR A TEAS. Shute Brothers Divide Property Messrs II. A., J. K. and J. T. Shute, who have always done business under co-partnership s J. Shute & Sons, have dissolved their copartnership and divid. their jroiierty. In passing tl real estate deeds among them selves the jmjicrs involved the largest holdings of private real estate ever passed at one time iu this county. Their large real estate iHtssessions iu the town and county were divided equally among the three and deed. for eaeh were given by the others. A value was plaeed upon eaeh piece and the selections then made ly lot, agreeable to all. Kneli division carried a part of the valuable business houses and its quota if miuor pieces. Kaeh of these gentlemen is now the sole ud individual owner of the fol lowing: II. A. Shute : The two citv MocJis upon which are situate the new store rooms erected last summer on Irankliu street and the block upon which the stuM occupied ny rowier & l.ee is, The Gloucester Hotel ami th Houston lot back of itdlie Kx press of ice block at the depot two lot known as (V Medliu lot two known as Shade houses; four south of town known as Uriah Robinson lots; two houses at end of Franklin street; Poster house and lot iu front of Presbyterian church; 05 acres of farming laud near town known as Broom land 11 (J acres Millie Helms place; 5!J acres on ( harlotte road. I. T. Shute: Opera house am post office block; brick van tract mid sewerage svstem ; bard Ware building on LaFayctte sti t; eight houses and lots near cemetery; three houses near th county home; two llinson houses on Bryan street: Poster house on church street; Kz.ell lot near G C. McLarty s; l!l4 acres Crook land; 1-1 acres Lewis Williams land; !() acres Ayeock place J. It. Shute: Bank of Union block; Ceu trul Hotel; both gin ning plants and 1!) acres on Bear Skin; lumber yard mid old Meth odist church building; dipt. J. AV. Whitfield house and lot; 7 acres Sikes laud near oil mill; '2'2'.l acres on Charlotte road ; 10 acres Tom Simpson gin place; 10 acres Polly Harris place; Lnoeh Hart corner on Franklin street. Besides this tile?.' we re some holdings iu Cabarrus county that were divided. Started the Thing Unbeknowenst. The other day when Mr. I). B. Snyder left his automobile in front of T. C. Lee & Co.'s store near the oil mill. Mr. Lee Grif fin went out to look it over. lie inadvertently touched the toueh ous spot about it and off the thing started, making straight for a telephone pole down the road. Mr. Griffin being in the fix of the man who was obliged to catch his horse, put out after it. But when he caught up and veiled whoa! it had no effect ami th machine shot right on with him trotting along side of it. When it was about to smash its nose against the pole some one holler e.l, gran the reverse lever, am Mr. Griffin grabbed like a drown ing man catchinir at a straw. But he made a fortunate grab and sav ed the day as well as the ma chine. Kver since then he has been looking at machines afar off Indian Trail Young Lady Mar ned. ; lVrresjKindcu.ee of The Journal) On Sunday afteriuKin, the lth hist., Mr. Will Burnett of Mat thws and Miss Bright Broom of Indian Trail boarded the train at the hitter place, and all here just thought In was taking his best girl up to Charlotte to spend the iiny us Ihey had been in the habit of doing. But, alas! there was a greater significance to their mm cial trip, and this glorious Sab bath day Charlotte was too small a place for this romantic coujil this time. They only stopjed long enough to get a tumout.and then went speeding on their way to the land where nil love-sick souls are want to go.and there at the bcautitul home of Ksq. W. O. Bailes they were happilv united in the holy bonds of niatriinonv. The happy couple will make their home iu Matthews. They have many friends who wish them all that a married life can give, and the writer would say may heav en's richest blessings rest ujiou them and give them a long and happy life. Mr. Willie Swindell of Kimber liu Heights. Teiin., has recently been visiting his friend and schoolmate, Mr. Thomas Smith. I Mr. James Hitch ot this qhtcej has gone to Blacksburg, S.C., to engage in the restaurant business, we were very sorrv to give up such a good citizen as Mr. Bitch, hut here is wishing him much sue cess in his new business. Mr. Willie Baker has been ap pointed dejmt agent at this place. Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey laudle gave tin ice cream supy at their home last Saturdav night. Mr. Tom Condcr of Columbia. ! I.., is visiting relatives here this week. Mrs. W. B. Houston and chil- Ircn of Monroe spent a few days here the past week visiting Dr. and Mrs. -Fitzgerald. Mr. L. A. Cornier has just re turned from Newberrv, S. ('..and xjiccts to spend the summer at Home. 1.. Mr. Melton Gone to Montrose. Mr. D. .1. Melton of Buford township, being in bad health for some time, recently went to a hosjiital at Chesr. Here they mgnosed his trouble as pellagra, and advised him to go to a sue- ialist in Wilmiugtou. He did this and there was told that he had no symptoms of pellagra, lint ad tuberculosis ot the throat. and was advised to go to a hos pital. lshinir to be as near ome as possible, he went to Charlotte. Here they advised him to go to Montrose, in Cum berland county, the State's San itoruin for tuberculosis, and he went there last Fridav. Had Lived in Three Centuries. Mrs. Mary Rodorignez, a na tive of Mexico, dieil at Dasker ville, Cal., Monday, at the age of 123 years, months and 11 days. She was born November 1, 1788, A fall in which she sustained a fractured hip compelled her to spend the last five months of her life in bed. but heretofore she had hardly known illness and re tained all of her faculties. Change of Appointment. Rev. G. C. Briukinaii, having accepted an invitation to preach a sermon at the unveiling of a monument to the late L. AV. 11a glcr at AVaxhaw.by the Woodmen of the orld, next Sunday at 2 o'clock, his appointment at Beth lehem has been changed to 10, a. in., and no services at the arbor. The editors of the Marshville Home and the Waxhaw Kilter prise will please not J'ight jover our heads. Crops Good Elsewhere. "1 was in Anson, Richmond, Hoke, Cumberland, Robeson ami Scotland lust week," said Mr. T. J. W. Broom yesterday, "and corn is exceptionally fine, and lots of it there, but cotton is spot ted. On some fields you see cot ton knee high and just coming uj iu another. In these counties tin farmers are praying for dry wea ther. They have been we two weeks and the grass is about to take them. I tiud that in the eastern part ot the count v there has been more moisture than other sections of the county. we get rain this week crops will grow very tast. Woman Killed on Track. (Charlotte Observer. Monday.) Unheeding th whistle's siren shriek, the headlight's glare and rumble of the npiroaching train which stood clearly revealed iu the semi-light of breaking dawn. au unknown white woman about t5 years of age, calmly walked into death yesterday morning at 4:10 o'clock. Apparently the fa tal collision was the result of carelessness, or miscalculation of her nearness to the track. She was struck about the waist bv the wooden Wain of the engine's pilot and instantly killed. The accident occurred on the Seaboard Air Line Railroad about four miles east of Charlotte. A sjiecial freight train running on the schedule of No. i'.i was head ed for this city. The woman was walking in the opposite direction towards Sardis and Matthews. When Kiigineer R. L. Barrett first saw her she was 100 vards distant from the train, walking on the south shle of the track. He blew his whistle and watched er cross over to the other side. clear of the track. The next time he saw her sli" was 25 yards away ami had strayed too close to the track for safetv. The train was stojtjted within half a length, not having been running verv fast. The woinau's body was brought to this city and placed in charge of Coroner Z. A. Hovis, who was awakened .Mr. Hons, tjuiugh an undertaker himself, sent the body to the es tablishment of .1. M. Harry &. Co and held an inquest there iu the afternoon at 2 o'clock. A jury consisting of Messrs. (!. H. Mc Ginn, William Johnson, R. K. Co chrane, W. K. Long, M. M. Wal lace and J. O. Thomas rendered a verdict that the woman met leath as a result ot her own neg ligence. Five railroad men, mem bers of the crew, testified. Only two had sc. ii her prior to the ac cident, the engineer and a brake man who was riding iu the fire man's cab at the time. The lat ter saw her cross the track, but did uot see her thereafter. The identity of the victim be ing mute unknown et torts were at once, made by the railroad com pauy and others to find out her name. She was badly used uj by the contact with the engine, chief ly about the ujipcr portion of her body. The ribs and arms broken ami the scalp lacerated. She was evidently of advanced age, her hair being quite white. Farmer Killed in Lancaster. Lancaster, S. C., June 18th. Joseph Suies. a white farmer, is dead and Albert Cunningham and Manly Cook, young white men, are charged by Coroner King's jury of inquest, held to-day, with killing him. The homicide occur red yesterday afternoon about 16 miles cast of Lancaster. Recorder's Court Proceedings. June I I to June 31th. Horace Allen, larceny, 4 mouth on roads. Plumuier Helms, perjury, bound over to next criminal t-rin of s- Krir Court, under bond of $Iin In April a man named I.m Cook was indi.-tc.l for making an as sault on Plumuier Helms. After the assault, Helms, who was drinking, gave an account of the fight to five or six persons, say ing that Lou Cook hit him with a chair. At the time of Cook's trial, Helms swore that lie didn't know whether Lou Cook hit him or not. He said that he was too drunk to know anything about it. The Sub Recorder at the hear ing of the perjury ease consider ed this evidence probable cause, and bound him over to court to answer the charge. Connie Stateii. assault and bat tery, to be hired out bv commis sioners for thirtv da vs. Dollie Kivers, assault and bat tery, to be hired out bv commis sioners thirty davs. David Home, larccnv of two boxes cigars from the Henderson Snider Co.. ( mouths on roads David iiorne, larccnv ot ram coat from Austin & Lew's mar kct, 4 months on roads. Gilbert 1'avis, assault and bat iory, $10 ami costs. Hoi ace Rcdfcarii, assault an i'litterv, $15 and costs. Ab, Cook, assault and battery tin and costs, mis man i pI m guilty to heating his wife. Walter Belk, assault and bat tery, uot guilty. Herman springs, disturbing en tcrtaiiiiiicnt of school, judgment suspended on payment ot costs Krncst Taylor, violation of or dinance Tii. $'! and costs. Tom Price, assault and battery judgment suspended on jiaynient if costs. Subject to be reopem when c'ltMii witnesses iijijiear. According to the testimony ta ken at the inquest, Snij.es lived "' ."; on Cunningham s farm and was a; .. ,. -, as the capacity ot the ii nuiiwug it u i tp on snares, i ne men had some trouble Fridav, The Normal College. Ave desire. to call attention to the advertisement of the State Normal - mid Industrial Collegi which appears in this issue. Ev ery year shows a steady growth in this institution devoted 1o the higher education of the women of North Carolina. The college last vear had a to tal enrollment of 'JO! I students, Kighty-scveii of the ninety-eight counties ot the State had repre- sentativcs in the student body x- ... 1 ! 11.1 1 .Miic-icimis oi an Mic graduates if this institution have taught or ire now leaching iu the schools (if North Carolina. The dormitories are furnished iv the State and board is provid ed at actual cost, iwo hundred appointments with free tuition, ajijiortioiied among the several counties according to school pop ulatiou, will be awarded to ajjli eaTfis about the middle of July. Students who wish to attend this institution next year should make as jiossible. HL'acity ot the dormitories is limited. Examination for Postoffice Clerk, An examination for postoffice erk at .Monroe under civil ser vice rules will he held at the courthouse July 11 at !) o'clock, by Mr. John Fullenwider, who ;as been appointed to hold it. Applicants must he between 18 and 45, male or female. AVomen must be unmarried. Male apph ants must be 5 feet 4, and weigh not less than 12j. i nil informa tion can be had from Postmaster ove. Hogs Killed by Lightning. Four fine thoroughbred hogs weighing on an average of no pounds each, belonging to Col. T. V. AVilliams, were killed by light ning Monday afternoon, on his plantation south of town. The hogs were under a tree, which vras struck by the electric bolt. Some sheep were also under the tree, but they escaped unhurt. Lancaster News. I when Cunningham told Snipes Q Blow Ch . G uot to work his mule am more. K 6 uuiuu. Acsterday ( iinningham went to Kershaw and, on returning in thf afternoon , accompanied by his friend, young Cook, was inform ed that Snijies had been working the mule. Cunningham and Cook then went to Snqies home on the place, finding him out iu the yard. After some words, one of the men, it is said, shot at Snipes who ran into the house, followed by both men, where a number of shots were fired. Snipes was hit in the body, neck and both arms bv four of the bullets. Cunningham and Cook were al so snot, the lornier m the arm and the latter in the hand, though Snipes, it is said, did not do any shooting. It is thought that t ook and t unnitighant acci dentally shot each other. Snipes was about :15 years ohl and leaves a widow and several children, who were witnesses to the tragedy. I jon the rendition of the ju ry s verdict this afternoon. Cor oner JMng issued a warrant tor the arrest of I iiiininghani and Cook and placed it in the hands of Sheriff Hunter who will bring the parties to jail, if the condi tion of their wounds will admit of their removal. An unsuccessful attempt was made Thursday by a member of the chain gang force, negro con vict named Stinson, to kill Guard Williams by exploding some dyn amite near the otticer. Mr. il- liam.s was knocked down and ren dered unconscious lor a snort while. On recovering conscious ness he observed that the con victs were running away. (Quick ly rising and seizing his gun, he ordered the convicts to halt, which they did, none escaping AVho Comes in this Week? List week we juit in three new (holies where there had been - I tl t - none oeioiv. I'eol'le are rcalllliir that a phone is net-tied in ecrv house. And they are also realiz ing that those w, f-..,ii idly need piinne service are not d-:i!g right 111 running over to a neigh bor's house and using a phoi'c that someone else is Jayihg for. We have been frequently asked since these little talks have ! 11 running "Whom do yon mean; what are you striking at 1" We have tried to make plain all along that we mean to break up this continual healing that many peo ple have been guilty of (impos ing on both us and their neigh bors if we could.and if we could n't we were determine,! io let the public know just what the prac tice is. And if you are continu ally using tit her people's phones, we mean you. and you are the one who is doing the beating. That ought to be plain. We do not want anyone to take a phone who does not need it. but we do want taise who use them to pav for them. Of course a great many peojde who have been engaged iu tins practice did so liecatise they never stopped to think a bout it. But hereafter there is no reason to continue it. Very truly, W. II. Norwood. Mgr. Monroe Telephone Company. Convicts Killed by Collapse on Railroad. Newport, Teim., June IS. -Four convicts were killed. B! serioiislv injured and 14 convicts and -l guards shgiiiiy injured today hi collapse ot a nun pen near near Watervillc, N. ('., in th heart ot the Smokies, where two railroad companies are rngaguig iu a war tor the monopoly of tin Kast. The convicts were all in groes, the property ol the .stau of North Carolina, and were In ing worked in connection with the construction work ol tin i'ratiscontineutal Railroad. I'he men killed were; Albert Wynii of Goldsboro, serving sell tence ot 10 years tor receiving stolen goods; Will Green of Ral igh, serving sentence of four years tor murder; lienry rani ol Newberne, serving sentence of it vears for larccnv ; Clarence Wai ver of Western North Carolina, serving sentence ot t vears lor irceiiy. All four men had only lew months ot their time to I'fVe, one or (wo being due to cave the camp in August. .Major ynn ot tioldshoro.coii icted at the same time as his rot her who was kiled, and Svl- ster Parham, serving a thirty ear sentence tor murder, arc not Xpected to live. Cajd. J. K. Iloskins of Raleigh, who was in charge of the jirison- rs went down with the pen and had to be dug from the debris. suffered several jiaiuful injuries. ttiards J. h. Nichols and IM Mc- Keniey had narrow escapes from leath, but were only slightly in jured. Two Big Articles. The isMie of The Democrat of the ::!rl will contain two great big articles that evrvbodv uliout here will be interested in. On,, is the contiuaiioii of tin- discus sion of the four big candidates for the Senate by Bloo'csby. th'i Raleigh correspond -nt of The De mocrat. These articles i: iv at tracting attention all over tin) Stt and people eveiyuir re are guessing who wrote them. They have made a great hit. The oth er article is a splendid write uj of Monroe and Union eouotv he a most gifted writer, who has travelled in the pjist few year in nearly every Slate in the Un ion. This is a page article, ami one that you wiil be proud to semi to your friends elsewhere. The coming issue of The Caro lina Democrat will show the pa per increased to eight pages. Tho publishers are anxious to haven many of the home people sub seibe as jiossible. The paper i going elsew here, and it is expect ed to make it a credit to the town ill which it is published, though it is not a local newspaper. Other i.rliehs of an exceptionally high character are in course of prepa ration, and every issue will con tain enough good reading matter to make it worth a year's sub scriptioii. One dollar jays for the pajcr till November, 1!)12. to The Deacon Cut Up Turble. Savannah, Ga., June lSth. A uiad scramble for windows and doors iuteiTiided the silting of a jury of elders at the Clifton Baptist church, five miles from here to-dav, when deacon Joseph Smalls, who was on trial for card (laying, drew a revolver and cov ered the jury and audience while he forced them to listen to his defending argument The hearing was going along smoothly but applause shook th Tried to Follow Sweatheart Grave. AVashingtoii, N. ('., June IS. Despondency caused by the death this morning of his fiance at tho Fo'vle hosjiital here, after a very short illness of appendicitis. drovo Charles Ricks, the eldest sou of Sheriff George K. Ricks of this town and county, to attempted self-destruction about 4 o'clock this afternoon. The rash act was committed in young Ri-'v'.s room at the U'l.'ic of hi:, pare:!!.', uij a. razor was the means used. a deep gash being cut in his throat. A'ouiig Ricks was very devoted to tie young lady, lie had been iu a low-spirited and depressed condition all day and his mother had been constantly at his bed side She happened to leave the room for i few moments and Mr. James McClure.a friend of Ricks, coming in in the mentiine, had pine up to his room to try to cheer him up a little. Finding the dour locked, MeClure slispee- e, something wrong and lias ened to call the family. Tin) lour was forced open and young Ricks found lying on the bed with a deep gash cut in his throat and the bed covered with blood, Heavy Stcrm at Danville. Roanoke, Va., June IS. A cv- clone, wind, rain and electrical -storm swept over this city this afternoon inflicting damage esti mated a t $100,000 to .oO.OOO, chiefly in the unroofing aud flooding of cotton mills, tobacco factories, storage plants, des truction of trees and shruhberv. chimneys, awnings, porches, tcl- graph and telephone and elec tric transmission poles and wires. The trolley service of the city was suspended and tied up for -4 hours. The entire telephone. service ot the citv is out of com mission and the entire city is isolated. Stinson has been entrusted with building every time a point was dynamite to blow up stuinps.etc, in the road. The incident occur red near Caston branch west of town, where the gang is now at work Lancaster News. to Charged with Beating Wife Death. A Spartanburg special savs Because she objected to her hus band's selling whiskev, Mrs .Ma ry Lawtcr, who recently came to Arlington in a remote section of this county, from near Saluda. N. C. was so severely beaten by him with a hickory stick that she died irom ine eiieets ot it. ac cording to the finding of n coro ner s jury, which rendered this verdict at the inouest held hv Haven't yet heard of any "haillCoroiier J. S. Turner Tuesdav cv- as big as heunegs." jniiig. made against the defendant. Just before the jury began the consul eratioii of their verdict. Smalls arose and said he was determin ed to give his side of the cas AN hen he drew his revolver, he quickly cleared the house of all except the scared conference members. Flourishing his pistol he waxed eloquent and before In knew if, two of his hearers jum ped behind him and pinioned his arms, while othres came to dis arm him. At this pond Small's mother entered the church armed with a butcher knife and prom ised to make more trouble, but she soon was quited. Police, were called from Savannah ami Smalls was taken to the station. The elders confined their session and Smalls was deposed us a deacon. Death of a Good Colored Man. Rev. J. R. Robinson, an aged and respected colored Baptist, preacher, died Tuesday night of apoplexy, at his home in the eas tern portion of the county. He was buried on Wednesday' at the colored people's New Hope bury ing ground, many whites attend ing the services. The deceased enjoyed the confidence and res pect of both races. Lancaster News. Thousand-Year-Old Seed has Ger- minated. Greeley, Col.. June 17. After lying in the tomb of an Kgyptian mummy for prhably more than a thousand years ten grains of wheat sent to a (5 reel v farmer aud (danled west of here, ha germinated. Jroiii it eight stalks of wheat nive grown and this promises a variety of wheat. .Air. A. S. Poekery of Rocking ham is critically ill with typhoid fever. Mr. Poekery is a well known young lawyer.
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