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I . ' , ' 1 ' " m 1 Monroe Drug Company For One Week Only A 25c pound can of TALCUM POWDER For 9 cents. Monroe Drug' Company HOGWALLOW NEWS voi;i.i's uim.u: fok bread SEEN IX SOARING WHEAT PRICES Sim Flinders thinks protracted meetings should be held oftener, both ! for the benefit of the sinners and the' preacher. An all-day singing, with dinner on' the ground, was given at Dog Hill church Sur.iay. Kaz Barlow present and conducted himself very well with the exception that he made several ugly tracks on the table cloth by stepping on them in reaching af ter the best thing to eat. The threatened ord distillers cut out the manufacture of licker to conserve grain will not af fect the Hog Ford moonshine still. If that war order is made, this Insti tution may have to run some in day time also. The Methodists are preparing to give a picnic a! Hog Ford next week. Everybody in that section is expected t be present except the Pollock family. They are Baptists. The dty goods store at Tickville is putting on another g: if T IKES xeapir acksmkh hi Shop. We have Expert Workmen and are prepared to do all kinds o f repair work. ae bikes Co Greetings to Our Customers: The ice (Team season finds us prepared to make better cream than ever. We luvt? recently purchased a cream separator, which enables us to make craim for our customers at any time. And we are now ready to deliver cr".un on Sunday. We have on hand at all timc3 skim milk for sale at ten cents a gal Jon. Give u? a trial, and we will give satisfaction. Phono 129 N. D. SALEEBY, Every Woman !H not just to have one, no ii merely for the purpose of saying she has one, but for the same reason exactly as a man has a bank ac countand the added reason that it's the i: est possible way to teach her to be careful and conservative. every woman takes pride in the belief that she can take a3 good oil better care op money than her husband, and she will be a distinct asset if she has a bank account to help foster that belief. this bank especially invites the accounts of frugal and careful wives and mothers, and will welcome and give earnest and in dividual attention to such accounts. The Savings, Loan and Trust Co. R. B. RED WINE, President. H. B. CLARK, Cashier. Corn Meal AND Graham Flour Our mill is now turning out sonic good home-ground meal from the best com the market affords. It Is whole ground; made from bone-dry corn, which makes It perfectly safe to handle. We are also supplying our customers with Graham flour. Doctor ..recommend this as a hearty, and flesh-building food. It Is fine. We have on hand a supply of wheat-brand for food purposes. Tne Henflerson Roller Mills MOWROSL JL C Men Natctui.g the Rhukhoanl in j i mcasii nv .nitre man the loM. HevorU I llie liw of Sui-itlT and lieni.tiHl Hear Despairing I'Hf Hoi;i liuiiiiij ( mes. Cuieago. May 12. At the close of a dav such as the fhicaeo It.i.ir.l of a- Trade never taw before, traders were asking one another what measures would be taken, if any. to check the sensational upward Uight of wheat prices. And in other markets Min- .... ....l:.. t. -!... ... j na,1,r,rJrJ,lnr,Lrnri,.,.l I,.. '.' .. I ;'. rwausas till. Kl. L.UU13 BUU . ... ..., ,..,......... r ''""r ourses the same query was being put. There was no answer. save m the resolutions of such bodies as the Illinois Council of Defense, which urged congress to take rigid control of the whole food and basic commodity situation. May wheat was legislated out of existence by the board directors as a "patriotic duty." because its sky rocketing course might inspire a run away market. As a cheek for ad vanees th.' move failed signally. At the opening prices for July and Sep tember options hesitated a few cents below the previous close, but in a short time began to boom. When the closing gong sounded at noon. July n .mi mown a ret rise of 22 3-4 to 2: ceius. with final litres rang ing from 2.T3 to 2.7a, and Septem ber an tven more startling jump of 26 to 2! cen's. with lust sales vary ing from 2.t4 ! 2. 4 6. The coarse of the market was best visualized in the big smoking room of the board v here quotations from the markets if t!u world, as w, !1 as t'l.is: of t'.ie heme mr.rket, are posted. There were those watching' the blackboard who saw more in the !':--'.ir s ::.an the cold record m' the law of su'dy and demand. To them, ii tol l s.,:y e! a stricken world's d'-m.i:id I i" ';: f;:d, the cry of de.-per-ation from the ruined cities and the wasted farms of Europe, the plea of emaciated clulurcn and tahe ravage with th- nil,! dr.-w on at t- " pos'Sfiice p- rch Monday. No serious ,. '"-'p'V" ira ung room, wun rv r,.i-'-... t'.,i nnil -t v . -v " l Jt.uutl JMl.-". l!ie oroKe; s ami t en that trip. " their vlerks were clamoring for wheat still higher went their bids, but those with wheat were indisposed to sell , it. and there wre few who would take a chance, even at the top. of silling short, as it is termed when a trader sells something he has not tor lutuiv delivety, hoping that the , future will enable him to buv in a lower price what he sold at the apex before delivery day comes around. , Prices continued tlnir ascent until the shorts had "covered" and taken their losses, probably very heavy in many cases. ' The opinion was expressed tiiat a d-.creasM in tiading might lie expect ed Monday; that contracts had boon largely evened up and that specul.i . tors would be slow to bind them selves to cotitraeis which might be affected by action such as that taken iwith regard to May options. I it is said that agents for the allies have been "long of wheat as much j as 21.on0.mio bushels at oue time, in various markets. They are at present said to be big owners of spot wheat that Is, the actual wheat. There is no disposition to accuse them of 'speculation. They needed the cereal more than they needed money, and nobodv around here "Vlf to bid apiVf' American millers for a crop which was short I the world over. America-had to bid to keep her own wheat, and prices soared. With these immense purchases for future delivery the allies in time I found that they could not provide WANT ADS. One cent a word each insertion. it ri ling on Lis i:to. ran into the : the postoiiiec :.'.'!,; all be moved M.i for t!u protection ad "Closing- Out-to-Quit-Business Sale." These sales are proving tuite popular, and tae proprietor has them often. Criekett Hicks who has been read ing in a farm magazine about genu ia d;i::ki:is water, now always looks in the bucket before drinkiug out .el it. Columbus AlU'op has put up a mar ten box for his English sparrows. He says we should look after them, a we are now on u.igiity good terms with England. i There is talk of having another .-;net ia T:ck:lio. If this is done ;;. sight-st t-rs won t have to walk ba k dowr. the same street. t Yam Sim-, w hile :.:ul" a few ewr.hii- iiteh just this ;J 'i hose ditches' s!:.r back from th ot travelers. The Mail Carrier ran over Jeffer son I'othtk-' foot when he came in n.iry resuT'-d :'- the mail wa.i very ig'.t en t:iat trip. Tobo Moseby has been Rittin- atouad and saying nothing for so Ions; it is thought by some that his wife is enforcing a strict censorship. A movemint has been started by ime one to put the Horse Doctor of the Calf Kibs neighborhood into le race for Coroner. If he enters the race he will strive to be elected. as the of'ko when properly managed, pays .well. 1 he Horse Doctor is wide ly known over this section, there be ii'g very few horses and cattle end ogs tint he has not attended. He roinoe.: if elected to attend all places where there will likely be kul- ti.'s. giving as much time as possible to the two moonshine stills. err it tie is known of tin- Horse Doctor's iast life, its he hns always been ca ro il! to keep thai guarded from public rum-ion. He has made :i great suc-o-s in the practice of his profession since coming here several years ago. having built up a practice to the point where nearly everybody owes him. Last week while Fletcher llenstep n 1 Raz Barlow were seining in Gim let creek they brought out a bottle of whiskey and a deck of cards from he bottom of the stream. It is be lieved they were thrown in there by stranger, as has reformed. KIII.S FAMILY; THEN" HIMSELF. FOR SALE Two good cheap horses. L. G. Helms. W. Jl. WAKEFIELD. M. D.. will be at The Gloucester hotel in Monroe on Saturday, May 26. The doctor limits his work to eye. ear. nose and thoat troubles and fittin glasses. FOR SALE Fresh Jersey Cow. frank Richardson. REGISTERED Poland China pigs sir eif by R. Big Bone, a thousand pounder at maturity, out of seven hundred pound sows. These pigs nave size. bone, quality. E. Row ell, Jr., Hanover, Va. WANTED Ten or fifteen cords of good 4-foot pine wood. N. G Russell. WATT ASHCRAFT. Veterinarian, Day calls, 113; night calls, lftl-R. Office on Franklin street, Monroe. A. C. FOR SERVICE Registered Duroc- Jersey Boar. Geo. Hart. FOR SALE Fine farm 53 j acres. o;.e mile from Monroe, tenant hojse, good orchard and plonty of water. Just the place for a dairy and vegetable farm. Reason for selling, leaving the State. See X. W. Griffin, Charlotte. N. C. R. C Griffin will show farm to interest ed parlies. WAXEFIELD cabbp.ge rlaitts now ready. One dollar per 1.000; 15 cents per 100 Springdale Farm, Medliti Bros., Monroe. Young Farmer's .Mind iave Way Hi'iMMting Over III Health. Elkton, Ky., May 10. Frank Mill-' ships to tran.-port it to the hungry n. a prominent young farmi-r, aged ones ai nome. iney soui meir op- 3n, insane, it Is supposed from brood- lions on a market which had advanc ing over ill health, this morning kill-'''! enormously, and to an extent con- d hi? father, Charles Milien, his tracteu more distant futures in me iiioth. r, his brother. Elmo, and the n,,l"1 'hat the shipping situation liter's wile, a bride of three months, would improve. Their unsought VICTOR vicfrolas and records- W. J. Rudge Co. -ihe WANTED To buy land, J. R. Rus sell. Itadin. N. C. LADIES CAN secure a car from J. C Maynor with the assurance of oourteous treatment and careful drivers. Just call either 316 or 171-Ii. WANTED You to see my Dixie Fly er and Empire automobiles before you buy. E. G. Fletcher. LOST Brindle bull dog, male, un trimmed. Return to yard office r.nd get reward. J. I). Calder. GLOEE-WERNICKE book cases. The W. J. Uudge Co. SEE US b. fore you buy your oats. corn, mill feed, sweet food and nour. e can save you money. Sikes-Minders Co. PRESTON'S PLANTS Cabbage 1.50; sweet potatoes, 2,50; totiiii- toes, Jl-50 and 2.50; transplanted plants, $1.00 per 1O0; $7.50 per 1000. Trice list. Fred M. I'rest- ton, Orlando, Fla. THOROUGHTiRED Guernsey bull for service. Fee $1.00 cash. E. L. May, Wingate. - CALL WALTERS and get his prices berore you buy your fresh meats He sells them right. PLEASE CALL at any time for hack work. Henry Lily, rhone 268. md then ended his own lite hv hang- ; and shooting himself, at the fam lie'.ne, three miles from this place. News of the tragedy, the most aw ful ia the history of Todd county, aehd the authorities at this place through a telephone message from rank Millen himself to Coroner proiits wore said into the millions. to have run vel! The "Baseball (iremule." An oiticer of the Ordnance Division of the War Department has recently invented a hand grenade that may enable our army to use effectively artlett about G:3n his morning. The '' national ability to play baseball. fl'U . 1 .... 1 ... 1 ! U .. . lessage said: i lat new implement oi waiiare uas "Come out to Charley Millen's at me snape ana size ot tne American lice, the wlioli) family Is dead but uaneuaii, aim tue turower ueuvers Hit, and 111 ue dead when you get n w uu tne motion mat a pitcoei uses here." I for an outcurve. It is a thin steel The coroner notified Sheriff Chest- shell tilled with a very, powerful ex- nutt and Chief of Police Edwards, plosive, nut. unilKe tne European and with other officers went to the grenades, It can be bandied with im scene at once. I punity, for unless a hidden spring Is When they are arrived at the Mill- touched the grenade will not explode, en farm a bloody scene was present- no matter how roughly It may be ed. The bodies of Charles Millen and struck. ife, and Mrs. Elmo Millen were Reports of American military ob- found in various rooms of the house, servers along the European front They had been killed with an axe to have indicated, ever since the corn all appearances. Elmo Millen's body mencement of the war. that the use was found In a stable. He had been of the ordinary grenade Is very dan- shot. Frank Millen's body was lound gerous not only to the enemy but al- hanglng In the porch with a shotgun so the the men who handle it. Fre- ound through the heart. All were quentiy wnen a soldier drops or dressed, the victims apparently hav- strikes it by accident It explodies ing been engaged In their customary ; witn ternnc force. morning occupations when struck! The "baseball grenade" differ? down. In a room back of the porch 'rom the weapons of a similar nature was found this note: lused abroad mainly In the manner "May !th. This deed was done to' ' handling It. The man in the void suffering on this earth. To ex-, trenches who "pitches" these gre- ecutors: Sell all live stock at once. 1 nades will have a peculiar metal con signed) "Last Heir, "Frank Millen. The family had lived happily to- trivance strapped to his hand. As the mlssle leaves his fingers one of tne prongs or tne device touches a ther and were verv nrocnerous. hidden spring In the grenade, and by Elmo Millen was well known in po- j removing the shock absorber inside litical circles in the county. Frank the weapon makes the ball explode .Millen had been known as a quiet, ' instantly upon contact. industrious young man. and was weil The inventor, who was formerly a liked generally. His deed ran only pitcher on the West Point team, has be explained bv the suipnocltlon that done away with the two principal ob- hi3 mind had given way. under brood- Jt ions to the European grenades ing over fpars of tuberculosis, with unwieunness and liability to prema- hich doctors are said to have told lure explosion ana nas developed him he was afflicted. . . weapon that will feel familiar to v, every American soldier. Only a com- Tie Oulnlw Thrt Does Not Affect T1 Hiad I,arativel' puia11 percentage of men Eecmiw ot iu tonic mi laxative eflrcu lax a. can snoot accurately, out a mucn TiVKHROMout iMNKin btttrrihiironiintr? j larger number can throw a baspball SKta?.. ufnclent force and direction to look lor th iinaturt o k. w. tjROVK. 25c. make the "baseball grenade a very formidable weapon even in the hands of a newly recruited regiment. Youth's 'Companion. Try Our Own Merchants First. Defore marriage a woman worries because she Is single, and after mar riage the worries because she isn't To Car Cold la On Day Tlk LAJC ATTTB BftOMO QatelM. It ftot ttM CougB d4 Hndscht and work off U Cold, rwwwtata nimmi saoacr If it toils to CB(t H. E. COPrLE'S furniture store has a full lice ot all kinds of furniture ond It pays to call there before you buy. WHO DOES your watch and jewelry repairing? Give us a trial and be convinced that you will get the best. The W. J. Itudge Co. WATERMAN'S' fountain pens. W. J. Hudge Co. -The PIGS FOlt SALE. Geo. Hart. W. 0. LEMMONI), Attorney-at-Law. Office in Law Building, old Library Room, Monroe, X. C. Will practice In all the State anc Federal Courts. Will give special al tentlon to collection of claims anc settlement of estates by administra tors and executors. DR. R. L. PAYNE, Physician and Surgeon, MONROE, N. C. Office In old Postoffice Building over Union Drug Co. Office hours 1) to 12 a. m and 2 to 4 p. m. Residence Phone, 273-R. Dr. B. C. Redfearn, pentist, Office one door South of Bruner's Store. Phone 232. MONROE, If. C At Marshvllle on first and thin) Mondays of each month and at Mat tbewi second and fourth Monday. SIRS. JULIA It. TRICE, . Registered Nurse, Monroe, X. C Phone 317. Residence 203 East Windsor. DR. R. II. GARREN, PHYSICIAN ANI SURGEON. Office over Hamllton-Mles Co. Store. Office Phone No. 238. Residence Phone No. 15-J. MONROE, S. C. DR.G.M. SMITH, Physician and Surgeon, MONROE, X. C. Office over The Union Drug Store Monroe, N. C. Calls answered promptly day and night Phone 221. W. B. HOUSTON, Surgeon Dentist M05R0E, If. 9. Offle nn-atalri, ntigerald Building TRUSTEE'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE Under and by virtue of the power of sale containtd in a certain deed of trust executed by T. J. Payne and wife. S. K. Payne, to the Savings. Loan & Trust Company, trustee, on the 20th day of February, 1909, re corded in the oiaee of the Register of Deeds of Union county in Book A. J., page 530. said deed of trust having been execute! to secure the payment of certain indebtedness to the Se curity Life k Annuity Company of Greensboro. X. 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 countv. North Carolina, on Thursday, 2 lilt day of Mar. 1017. at 12 o'clock noon, the following de scribed real estate situated, lying and being in Monroe, county of Union, State of North Carolina, bdunded as follows: First Tract: Adjoinine the lands of colored M. E. church lot. C. N. Simp son's head lot. and others; beginning at a stake on the E. edue of Rrn.id 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 60 feet to a rock; thence with said line, nassinir the S. W. corner of line thereof GO feet to a stake in said line; thence tu w. l8 feet with the old line to a stake on the E. si.'- nf s.-,irt treet $2 feet to the beginniuir. con taining 10.16S souare feet, more or less, and being the East end of Esq. 11 room estate land. Conveved bv said J. F. Williams hv M. S. and .t W. Stephenson hv deed dated 5th lay of March. 1M'6. registered in thi of lice of Register of Deeds of said ottnty. in record of Deeds No. 39. page 33 and so forth. Sesond Tiact: In Monroe. N. C. adjoining the above lot and others. ieg:nni;ig at an Iron stake on the East edge of said I -road street (er roneously called Mouriee street), the the beginning corner of the above lot in old line of Reedy Broom tract and uns with Easter edge of said street at intersection of Everett street. thence with said S. edge of fid Everett street, which Is 40 feet wide N. 89 E. 180 f(t to an iron stake: thence 12 1-2 S. 116 feet to an iron stake in the old faulk line; thence N. 63 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. 5 feet to the beginning, being lot No. 1 subdividtd by English and Iilair from the C. X. Simpson and Ellen h. Fitzgerald land, conveyed to J. F. Williams by J. R. English and wire and S. O. Iilair 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 is hereby made for a more compute .'.ci-crlp-tlon of same. This the 24th day of April. 1917. SAVINGS, LOAN & TRUST CO. Trustee. APPLICATION FOR PARDON OF HAMP MI IXIS Application will be made to the Governor of North Carolina for the pardon of Hainp Mullis, convicted In" the Recorder's Court of the City of Monroe in August. 1915. for the crime of keeping whiskey for sale, and sentenced to twelve months on the chain gang, capias not to issue lor 15 days. Under the terms of this judgment and according to orders of the court the prisoner left the State. According to his contention, on a re cent return to the State to visit mem bers of his family suffering from sick-, ness the prisoner was captured and taken to the chain gang. His appli cation Is not for absolute pardon, but v is a prayer that he be civen another!-. chance to leave the State and stay ) out of It. i All persons who oppose the grant- Ing. of said pardon are Invited to -;. forward their protests to the Cover-, j nor without delay. . ' This 28th 'day of April. 1917. J. C. M. VANX, Atty. for Hanip Mullis. ay Wanted. We are always In the market foi Iron, metal of all kinds, bones, paper etc. Open every day. MONROE IRON & METAL CO. Near Freight Depot You need iti We .sell it The Lever ' TT.H T J mis it i THE POCKET 5ELF FIT.T.TMfV Zr Waterman's (Ideal) Fountain Pen il THE V. J. RUDGE CO., Monroe, N. C. I 1 I 1 Only one-third or less of what ! ""'"' k"wi ( th truth 4 I i
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