Good Roads in
Union County
Mr. Ira B. Mullis offered a prize
of 5 in gold for the. best one of
six essays by students of the Wingate
high school on the "Benefits of Good
Roads For Union County." and the
school added 12.50 as a second prize.
The Advantage and Benefits of Good
Hood to l iiion County.
(By E. H. Trull.)
As we are living in an age of
steaui. electricity and inventions
Then nearly everybody knows what
is meant by the word "socialism",
and has read about the "Industrial
Revolution", it is an age when Union
county should be thinking about her
present and future progress :nd pros
perity. And the future pr.:iss and
prosperity of Union county depends
largely upon her roads. Our roads
are simple in form and outline and
are pleasing in some ways, though at
large they are a bit monotonous. In
all ages good roads have been an in
spiration to man's nobler thoughts
and higher aspirations.' In the days
of Cicero and Napoleon, people be
lieved in good roads. Even as the
traveler today glides along on these
old roads that were constructed years
ago he is filled with admiration.
For Union county to compete with
her neighboring counties and the
other counties of the State and Na
tion. Union county must have good
roads for several economic advan
tages. It we had good roads it would
mean for us to move more easily
along. We would not have to keep
so many horses to draw a Email load.
We could use motor trucks which
would never grow tired and would
not cost us anything while not in use.
A farmer in Sullivan county, Tenn.,
in 190S, had to haul barbed wire
from Bristol to Kingsport, a distance
of 23 miles. He found that with a
two horse team his maximum lead
was 500 pounds and that three days
were necessary to make one round
trip. To haul one ton, required 12
days at $3.00 a day. For the man
and team, the cost was $36.00. This
was before Sullivan county issued
bonds for road Improvement. After
the road had been improved the same
team can now readily draw a ton to
the load and make one round trip in
two days at a cost of $6.00. The ton
mile cost under the old condition was
$1.56, and this cost was reduced to
22 cents by the improved road.
Another instance, at Crosby, Tex
as., is significant: There a shell road
was built for one mile out of town.
A farmer, four miles out, came to
town with a team of two mules and
loaded on his wagon at the railroad
station two tons of wire fencing. At
the end of the Improved road on his
return, the farmer was compelled to
throw off 3000 pounds of wire. He
then hitched three additional mules
to haul the 1000 pounds on the re
maining three miles of unimproved
road. This man then had to make
three more trips for the remaining
3000 pounds of wire, and it requir
ed his time for the four miles from
ten o'clock one morning until eleven
o'clock the next morning to finish the
hauling. If the improved road had
extended four miles to the farm, the
original team of two mules could
have hauled the two tons of wire iu
two and one half hours.
In determining the economic ad
vantages of good roads to any coun
ty there are three items which must
be included, but for which no specific
figures can be given. These items
are: The wear and tear on vehicles
and harness, the Interest charged on
the investment in extra houses, and
the wear and tear on the horses.
Where there are good roads there
are good farms. The business of
farming is essentially dependent on
the condition of country roads, for
what Is not produced on the farm
must be hauled to the farm, and
many crops of the farm must be haul
ed away to the railroad station and
locnl markets.
For sake of example: Let us sup
pose that two farmers living in sep
aratj counties but r.t equal distances
from the cotton market, learn by
telephone that cotton has advanced
in price one dollar -per bale. The
farmer living on the bad road can
haul one bale of cotton, while the
other farmer can haul four bales be
cause he lives on a good road. This
rise in price means a profit of four
dollars to one man but only one dol
lar to the other.
Land on good road is worth more
than land on a bad road. Not that
the good road makes it more fertile,
but that the road brings the farm in
touch with the outside world there
fore making the farm easier to im
prove. In Lee county, Virginia, a
farmer owned 100 acres between
Ben Hurr and Jonesville. which he
offered to sell for $1,800. In 190S
the road by his farm was Improved,
and although the farmer had fought
the Improvement he has since re
fused $3,000 for his farm.
If Union county had good roads
there would be many more social ad
vantages. Illiteracy would be de
molished to a great extent, for on
good roads there is no loneliness, no
isolation and no abandoned farms.
A farmer living oa a bad road whose
wife had recently been committed
an asylum, in discussing the matter
with his physician raid: "I do not
know v. hat made my wife go Insane,
she had nothing to bother her; she
has lived in a quiet place. Why.
she has not been out of the kitchen
hardly for 18 years." Poor roads
mean insanity and illiteracy.
The question of better schools U
today an important one la the public
mind. It is a common practice to
keep the children at home from
school on account of bad, muddy
roads, and frequently the average
small attendance is so greatly reduc
ed that the efficiency of the one-room
school Is materially affected. But
good roads would make it different
The consolidated schools on good
roads is fast becoming the social and
intellectual center of the community.
The school wagons are frequently
pressed Into service to haul the chil
dren to school. Not only the chil
dren, but to haul farmers and farm
er's wives to grange meetings, lec
tures, musicals, entertainments, and
short courses or Institute work at the
school.
If Union county had good roads
there would not be so much mis
management and oppression on every
hand. The county of Union would be
looked upon as a wonderful piece of
mechanism with the different town
ships working together in perfect
harmony and showing due respect to
each other.
Lincoln did not know horses; he
learned them in a hard school. In his
earlier years he had a political con
vention to attend, and that in a
hurry. The only liveryman In the
place favored the opposition, and
took good care to harness up the
slowest animal he had in the stable.
Nevertheless, he reached the con
vention in time, for he' could have
.cmt nneod nut of the carpenter's
jhorse he offered the Judge. But when
he returned ne owea me nverymun
only backhanded thanks, which he
duly gave:
"Keep this horse tor tunerais, i
suppose?"
"No, not a bit of it," answered the
liveryman, with an air of injury.
"Mighty glad or mat migniy
glad," declared Lincoln, pleasedly.
"If von did. you'd never get the
corpse to the grave in time for the
resurrection."
ITII sixteen years of ex
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Young Scribbler had Just laken his
new bride to the tiny flat he had pre
pared for their home when she began
to cry. "Darling," she said, "I must
make a terrible confession to you;
I can't cook."
"There, there," said Scribbler,
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to make; I'm a poet and there won't
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Germans Turn Dead Into Fertiliser.
That the Germans are systemati
cally collecting the corpses of their
dead and shipping them to render
ing plants where they are subjected
to a process fot recovering the oil
and fats for use as fertilizers seems
to be a fact established by Ameri
can, Belgian, Dutch and finally by
German testimony. The London and
Paris newspapers accept the story '
ter careful investigation and print
editorials on it.
The Belgian newspaper L'lnde
pendence Beige of April 10 prints
an account of the industry. The
London Times reproducted the Bel
gian paper's story, but it was so hor
rible that it seemed unbelievable,
even in England. It says:
. "We have long known that the
Germans stripped their dead be
hind the firing lines, fastened them
Into bundles of three or four bodies
with iron wire and then dispatched
these bundles to the rear. Until re
cently trains laden with the dead
were sent to a town near Leige
and a point near Brussels. Much
surprhe was caused by ih: fact that
of late ibis traffic has p oeeedd in
the dl.ecticn of Cerolaiein. and that
en each wagon was written D. A. V.
G.
"The factory deals c?recially with
the dead from the webiern front. If
the results are as good a3 the com
pany hopes, another will be establish
ed on the eastern front. The factory
is invisible from the railway and is
deep in the forest country. Elec
trically charged wires surround it. A
special double tract leads to it. The
works are about 700 feet long, 110
feet broad, and the railway runs com
pletely arcucd them.
"The trains arrive full of bodies
which are unloaded by workers who
live at the works. The men wear
oilskin overalls and masks with mica
eyepieces and are equipped with long
hooked poles. They push the bun
dies of bodies to an endless chain
which picks them up by means of
hooks at intervals of two feet. The
bodies are transported on an endless
chain Into a long, nar.-cw compart
ment where they pass through a bath
which disinfects them. They go
through a drying chamber and are
automatically carried to a great caul
dron Into which they are dropped by
an apparatus which detaches them
from the chain.
"They remain six or eight hours
in the cauldron, where they are treat
ed by steam, which breaks thera up,
while they are slowly stirred by ma
chinery. The fats are broken Into
stearline, a form of tallow and oils
which require to be redistilled be
fore they can be used. Distillation
is carried out by boiling the oil with
cartfonate of soda, and some part of
the by-products resulting Is used by
the soapmakers. This refined oil is
sent out in small casks like those used
for petroleum and Is yellowish
brown."
In Spite of Himself.
One of the justices of the Supreme
Court tells of a young lawyer in the
West who was trying his first case
before the late Justice Harlan. The
youthful attorney had evidently con
ned his argument until he knew it
by heart. Before be had consumed
ten minutes in bis oratorical effort
the Justice had decided the case in
his favor and told him so. Despite
this, the young lawyer would not
cease. It seemed that he had attain
ed such a momentum that be could
not stop.
Finally Justice Harlan leaned for
ward and. in the politest tones, said:
"Mr. Smith, despite your arguments,
the court has concluded to decide this
case In your favor."
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NOTICE OF SUMMONS AND
WARRANT OF ATTACHMENT
State of North Carolina Union
County In the Superior Court.
W. S. Blakeney, administrator of J.
M. Porter, deceased, vs. W. H.
Porter.
The Defendant, W. H. Porter, will
take notice:
That on the 21st day of March,
1917, a summons In the above-entitled
action was issued against said
defendant by R. W. Lemmond, Clerk
of the Superior Court of Union coun
ty, N. C, plaintiff claiming the sum
of $775.00 due him for money had
and received to his use defendant,
which summons is returnable to the
next term of the Superior Court of
Union county to be held at tie court
house in Monroe, N. C, on the 9th
day of May, 1917. The defendant W.
II. Porter will also take notice that a
warrant of attachment was issued by
the Clerk of the Superior Court o"
the 21st day of March, 1917, ngaln.st
the property of said defendant, which
warrant is returnable to the next
term of th6 Superior Court of Union
county N. C, at the time and place
named for the return of the sum
mons, and said warrant of attach
ment has been levied by the sheriff
upon ten shares of stock of W. H.
Porter In the Lake Land and Lum
ber Company and upon all moneys
and dividends to which the said W.
H. Porter may be entitled to by rea
son of his ownership of said stock.
The said W. H. Porter will further
take notice that he U required to ap
pear and answer or demur to the
complaint at the term of court above
mentioned, or the relief demanded
will be granted.
This the 23rd day of March, 1917.
R. W. LEMMOND, C. S. C.
Stack & Parker, Attys. for Plaintiff.
NOTICE
North Carolina, Union County In
the Superior Court Bertie Hurt
vs. Cleveland Hurt. Alias Cleve
land Ramsey
The defendant above-named will
take notice that an action entitled as
above has been commenced in the
Superior Court of Union county by
the plantift to oltnin an absolute
divorce from the defendant on the
ground of fornicition and adulteiy
on the part of defendant; and said
defendant will further take notice
that he Is required to appear at the
term of the Superior Court of Union
county to be held oa the 9th Mon
duy after the 1st Monday In March.
1917, same being the 7th day of May,
1917, at the court houae in said coun
ty, in Monroe, N. C, and answer or
demur to the complaint iu said ao
tion, or the plaintiff will apply to the
court for the relief demanded in said
complaint.
This the 17lh day of March. 1917.
R. W. LEMMOND, C. S. C.
Stack & Parker. Attys.
TRUSTEE'S 6 U.E OF
REAL ESTATE
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained In a certain deed
of trust executed by T. J. Payne and
wife, S. K. rayne, to the Savings,
Loan & Trust Company, trustee, on
the 20th day of February, 1909, re
corded in the office of the Register of
Deeds of Union county in Book A. J.,
page 530, said deed of trust having
been executed to secure the payment
of certain Indebtedness to the Se
curity Life & Annuity Company of
Greensboro, N. C, default having
been made In the payment of said in
debtedness, the undersigned will ex
pose to sale at public auction to the
highest bidder, for cash, at the court
house door in Monroe, Union county,
North Carolina, on
Thursday, 21tu day of May, 1917,
at 12 o'clock noon, the following described-real
estate situated, lying and
being in Monroe, county of Union,
State of North Carolina, bounded as
follows:
First Tract: Adjoining the lands of
colored M. E. church lot, C. N. Simp
son's head lot, and others; beginning
at a stake on the E. edpe of Broad
street (called McCauley street in the
deed from M. S. and J. W. Stephen
son to J. F. Williams) in the old line
and runs with said lot CO feet to a
rock; thence with said line, passing
the S. W. corner of line thereof 60
feet to a stake in said line; thence
S. 60 W. 128 feet with the old line
to a stake on the E. si-'- of said
street 82 feet to the beginning, con
taining 10,168 square feet, more or
less, and being the East end of Esq.
Broom' estate land. Conveyed by
said J. F. Williams by M. S. and J.
W. Stephenson by deed dated 5th
day of March, 1906, registered In the
office of Register of Deeds of said
county, In record of Deeds No. 39,
page 33 and so forth.
Sesond Tract: In Monroe, N. C,
adjoining the above lot and others,
beginning at an iron stake on the
East edge of said Broad street (er
roneously called Mourice street), the
the beginning coiner of the above lot
in old line of Beedy Broom tract and
runs with Easter edge of said street
at Intersection of Everett street,
thence with said S. edge of said
Everett street, which Is 40 feet wide,
N. 89 E. 180 feet to an Iron stake;
thence 12 1-2 S. 116 feet to an Iron
stake In the old faulk line; thence
N. 65 W. 73 1-2 feet to an Iron stake
or sone corner of the C. N. Simpson's
Hart lot; thence N. 67 3-4 W. 32 1-2
feet to a stone; thence N 88 3-4 W.
55 feet to the beginning, being lot
No. 1 subdivided by English and
Blair from the C. N. Simpson and
Ellen E. Fitzgerald land, conveyed
to J. F. Williams by J. R. English
and wife and S. O. Blair and wife by
deed dated Aug. 3. 1906.
Said two tracts or parcels of land
were deeded to T. J. Payne by John
F. Williams and wife, Mamie A. Wil
liams, by deed dated March 26, 1907,
to which deed reference 13 hereby
made for a more complete descrip
tion of same.
This the 24th day of April, 1917.
SAVINGS, LOAN & TRUST CO.
Trustee.
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