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1 Big Buggy and Harness Sale. .Ai,4i ; -i ; - We are offering for sale at once something over 150 buggies. The prettiest and best lot of buggies ever of fered for sale in the Carolinas. All kinds of top and open buggies, runabouts, basket seat buggies, all kinds of painted buggies. In this lot of buggies you will find such hih srade buggies as the Tyson-Jones. Corbitts. Southern Queens, High Points and other grades of bug gies. Money saved by buying a buggy at once. Come soon ar.d zAzct what ycu want. 1 aie&ikes TheLargest Buggy Dealers in the Two Carolinas. Attention, VI Why let weak tires mar the pleasure of your afternoon rides? If you are expect ing blowouts they generally come, and they alwavs come on shadeless roads. :: :: :: HAVE THOSE WEAK PLACES -VULCANIZED.-- We have a full stock Fisk Tires and Acessories. MONROE STEAM VULCANIZING COMPANY. Every Woman t't !H NOT JT.-T TO HAVE ONE, NOU MERELY FOR THE l',-;;iVj!: Oi-' SAVING SHE HAS ONE, BUT FOR THE SAME KEASON EXACTLY AS A MAN HAS A DANK AC COUNTAND THE ADDED REASON THAT IT'S THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY TO TEACH HER TO BE CAREFUL AND CONSERVATIVE. EVERY WOMAN TAKES PRIDE IN THE BELIEF THAT. SHE CAN TAKE A3 GOOD OR BETTER CARE OF 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 R. B. RED WINE, President. Corn AND Graham Flour Our mill is now turning out sonic RcmhI home-ground meal from the best corn the market afford. It N whole ground; made from bone-dry corn, which makes It Hrfeetljr safe to handle. We nre also supplying our customers with Graham flour. Doctors recommend this a a hearty, and Hesh-buUding food. It Is fine. We have on hand a supply of wheat-brnnd for food purposes. The Mersoii Roller ills 1I05B0K, U3 VLO ton of Good Year and and Trust Co. B. B. CLARK. Cashier. Meal H. 0. j n M ii i SIS! KAISER DREAMS OK NORTH SEA TO .MFIUTEKKANF-AX UMPIRE IH-ooveivd Plan show How Implicit- ly UillM-liu Ha Followed lli- niar-ik's lilotHl and Iron llicy. Washington. May CO. Germany's' next peace declaration, expected to! suusesi a I ngram of territorial re- uunciatioa vn the East and West. Is rejiarJed hire as largely answered be- fort-hand by information revealing for the fir.-t time the lull scope of the Imperial governments asplra-' tions for conquest in the South. . This intormatiou discloses as one of the primary aims of the war a plan for consolidation of an impregnable : military and economic unit stretching from the North Si-a to the Mediter- ranean. cutting Europe permanently in half, controlling the Dardanelles. thr Aegean and Baltic, and eventual- ly forming the backbone of a Prus- siaa world empire. In the light of Gt-rman history, the plan shows how implicitly the Kaiser. has f.-dlowed out the blood and irot. poliiieeec-nom:e mtth'-d-t of Bis- narck for dtveloj lit of Prussian power. Considered it: view of the present war n.ap. it shows that the major portion ! the Kaiser's war proitran. has br: accomplished, re-tardb-ss of what ii imposition is made i t' i-or.ijtiered territory iti France, Bel- i-i'.tsu ar.d Uus-ia. A full realization t. of this situation adds a new force w for the ivpi a ted d state.-:.:-, n 'la t f maneuvers are in l ii.t.itions of allie.t ;e (eii.'tan peace n a.Kty war moves. and that a prei;u:ur would i;.e (ieri.i.lllj .'. iu v. !.:e.i t. fu ::..-! 1't !. .-:; i ot-.tj'ieri d ur.d-. truce only Mine period i ianie which ;i the guise of ,-. : . :i :i. A!!';.' .l ei . :ii i.il i :ldii aie refrain-d . .i.'.'o p-;ti: xptesstons : i w h.t ::i- I'f.i'e-'. St .! might demand J a ;;; juar.mt. . the.ie possibili- , ::e- re.vl! witli t jir-it;g emphasis , P; -:.; at Wil.-i li.-danaion that , At: e.'iea l:.U.-t !;LT!.t ilti'il the "world i ; i -.ide s.ue I - - ' iocracy." They ? o--:;i into tvli. Fe: ign Minister Balfour's warning that hard lighting t .-till u:u-t win the war. the convic tion of th. ,m ricin Army l1ener..l Sf .IT that tiie c.'Ut.tiy must prepare for at lea.-t three yiars of war, and the fact that I'M diet; oii.-s of an early peace nave tieeti Uiselecliteil as vision ary ill vlrttta'.ly very allied capital. ' How minutely d tin.d is the Ger man plan attd how accurately it is leitts; carri' d ottt Lae b. come fully .ppareiii er.ly with the opi ning up. j during the la t f- w weeks, of several new avenues oi itilot iiiation. The re turn el American diplomatic agents, from the t.'ral E:i:-it-e brought re- t: eeiit trank xp'-essiotis in the Reich stag an i in the German press, ami th-- !t;e. ions ot ah i t American a-.-"iit- cbroad watcl-.ir.g the newest pe;u-e m iViS hive supplied the ex plat;;; 1 1 n't of more ihati one hitherto olwcuted feature of the German pol icy. In lu r southeast m comiuests, it now is apparent Germ.iny has follow ed 'almost in toto the long-established plan of the Pan-German League, which, a-? early as 1011 have circulated a deflnit Is a id to propagiin- da of compiest. with printed appeals containing maps of a greater Ger- many whose sway from Hamburg to Constantinople and then southeast- ward through Asiatic Turkey was marked out by boundaries virtually coincid"tit with the military line3 held today. Btilgaria's declaration of war on the side of Germany was actuated by a German diplomatic coup which In itself s regarded now as a further evidence that a clear road throtuli to the Dardanelles was considered In Berlin as a primary and indurative purpose of the war. In the ca.-o of Ttirltey, German domination is be- lieveil here to be even more complete than in Austro-Hungary and liulga- 'ia. Not only have Gorman officers b-d iii defending Turkish territory and i i eradicating inharmonious elo- uu nts, such as the Armenians and Syrian, but it has learned that Ger-f man industrial organize have taken a firm rrip on Turkish Industry and German professors have b -in y, nt to spread German ktiltur among the population. Fitting in squarely with an actuat ing desire for conquest t ) the south east is the general German military policy during the entire war. It Is noted that even at the expense of re- cessions on the Eastern and .-stern front.;. Germany has taken paina to:cal.A " Tn,g roduction accord. overrun quickly Serbia Montenegro , Doctor, is not due to "rib and Rouniania, and to keep in check !buned d 1)0(iutt.8cented resolutions all allied attempts to str.ke at the tf t h , f klndergarten southeastern pathway for the Dardan elles or Saloniki. Not until the pres ent British advance in Asiatic Tur key has there been any serious danger to any part of the greater stretch from the Baltic to the Pers'an Gulf. It Is pointed out that any German peace offer would be expected to de mand at least some expansion for ulgaria and retention of enough of , ta ,he , t d t cotton the conquered territory to Insure heTnat th dlInl,8hylng 8t0ck and con route o Constantinop e. That It Is the Lequent hign prlce 08f food 8tuffs be. Intention to bring Aus ro-Hungary.! "J lhlg uose ,8 without que8. Bulgaria and Turkey In o a customs A1, of society are al union. Germanizing their industries,! w more responsive t0 ieceMlty. and to surround the whole economic entity thus established with a form- dable tariff wall has been made clear, by the declarations of rr.edrich Nat-rcjae9 As concluslon deduced umann and other exponents of an eco-from tn comblnatlon 0f circum nomic "M.ttel Europa." stances. I feel that it would be safe PrcMdetit Outlines AdniiiiMration Food Control Program. Washington. May 19. President Wilson outlined the administration's food control program In a statement tonight. and declared the powers ask- ed for the government are no greater than those other governments at war have been compelled to take. There is no Intention, he said, to restrain or Interfere with normal processes of nroduetlon. The statement also makes formal announcement that Herbert C. Hoov- er has been asked to heeome food ad- ministrator, and that he has accept- ed on condition that neither he nor his assistants shall receive pay for their services. "Although it is absolutely neces- other crops. As to condition, any es aarjt that unquestionable powers be tiniate at to this would be an un-nl.-irort In niv handa " tin tha Trei- swaddled superfluity. As President Acni'm atatamont t am .mtdiiiint that the exercise' r.f those powers are necessary only In the few cases where nma mall anil aotflih mlnnrltv to put the nation's interests aboT personal advantage." BALFOl R PAID TRIBUTE I TO IX. FEDERATE DEAD ll.ud Wreaths on Statue of lje. Jatk"!! ami Siewart. ami lriMs I AtiN-rican .Manhood an lt-t Fight- " Material h World. Richmond. Va.. Mav 19. Rich nson.1. the capital of the Confederacy. and rich in traditions of the old Eng- lish cavalier days, today gave British Foreign Secretary. Arthur lialfour, and tiie British mission, in the name of the whole south, a reception which for warmth and spontaneity has net ,tn surpassed during the long stay of the British in America. The eminent visitors, who had come both to ray a call of courtesy on the south and to honor the Con- fed. nicy's famous leaders. Robert E. !..-. T. J. t Stonewall! Jackson, and 0n. J. E. B. Stuart, uncle of the pu-st-sit governor, were showered with every honor that the hospitable city imld give, The mission, was received by a salute of 19 guns, escorted by the Virginia Military institute cadets in full dress uniform through cheering crowd notions with flacs. lunched guests of Governor Stuart at the executive mansion, and were cheer d to the echo at a packed mass i i--iiitr at the city auditorium. A big southern audience, looking back h days of the revolution and the between the states in v hich iVr- 'ginia played such a large part, sane to i f.ive ttie M5C, ana the ".star pang!ed Bann-. r" with fervor. The first address which Mr. Hai ti : i vt r nude from the rear end of train took Place d -.ring a brbf st..: 1 a. i u-K.-oiifg. -vtr. i:,il!nur, .mother record during li; :!i:s country, tohl a sit-all i:::i:: ; V .1: f 'lis hea-ers that h teard :'a:i d uttarlv to exrre s th 1 ej-. eta ti- r.s he had fi It at h;. tv I'tio'i ia liichtiiond ;:t":.i that he hi.p-s.-i.,e of the irrr.tit'lde which he i tiiicht be conveyed back to hi ends there. The Bi'iiish army to k (lie o.-easinn lay to express (hrotigh I.ii uli tian:- tlitietal Bridgi's their tribute to the military heroesof the south by placing wreaths on the status of Lee, .'ack .on and Stuart. General Bridges spoke feelingly of the lesson of char acter, leadership and endurance taught by these men and of his hope that those engaged in the present stnii:;:!c, both here and abroad, would It worthy of their memories. Mr. 1'alfour, speaking at the audi- (orium, brought forth cheer after cheer when he said he rejoiced to think that the gallant Anorican .ivy is working hand-in-har.d in the close t co-operation with those on the othir side who arc defending our homes and yours. And now we lead of your government's decision to send troop; to France. The iiioim n! whtn that f irce, the first fruit of our m1'' I.. ry co-opera: ton, shall land in Ku t -pe, v:H he a moment momorabl ir. the history of mankind. "Out of the manhood of America," Mr. linll'our went on, "there will How the best fighting material In the world, and the only limit to that flow will be the limit Imposed by the ma- terial difficulties of transport and equipment. The United States has great r resources for modern warfare than any other nation In the world, I do not refer to numbers alone; I refer rather to that courage, resolu- (ion and inventiveness, which alone makes numbers efficient. Though un- pared, as we were unprepared, you are tilled with that spirit which will bring results encouraging to your friends as it will be dismaying to your enemies. "Germany cannot succeed in this war. Success does not lie along the paths of rightfulness and ruthless- ness. That nation which has known no law, either of charity or love, which has cast all scruples to the winds, which has allowed no consid- eration to stand in her way. that na- tion has raised up outraged civiliza- tion to make certain Its own defeat." . n.OW KSTI! MATHS COTTON AUiEAGK AT 7.-, OF NORMAL In Mis I'icot flop HeMiii lie Sluten That What Little Cotton is I p l In Had Condition, The Union county cotton acreage amounts to about 75 per cent of the i nnrinnl finxi.nfni n ..,.. yl . rr in lit Geo Kdward Flow ln hi8 nrst cot. .,. . ., n .1,1. n exercises," but was in response to "necessity's stern flat." The report in full follows: "Continuous rains during the win ter and early spring delayed and rendered more' difficult the prelimi nary preparation and planting of the crop. These conditions have supple mented the original purpose to cur stern flat than they are to ribboned and bouquet-scented resolutions pass- oA . , . , i,ij0,q 'to assert that the crop of 1917 for this county will be about 75 per cent 1 0f the normal acreage, and there may yet be further reduction due to fall ure to obtain stands, which, at this time, seems quite likely and to aban- donment later. As to volume ana grade of commercial fertilizers, this was meager, almost nominal, some- thing like 200 pounds per acre and ot Inferior grade. Very little cotton is up. and this is ln rery poor con dition. due to the recent cold weath er. A very large per cent of the crop has been replanted and many farm ers are still hesitating, awaiting de velopments, so that If hope of sands are not realized by given dates, the acres devoted to cotton in the first instance may be planted to corn or Lincoln said of the war at one June ture, "It is d bad," possibly 30 per cent. The acreage to corn and other food Stuffs Will b abnormal. nd If the conditions are favorable ,tht yield will eclipse all previous marks, and demonstrate the fact that any people when goaded by necessi ty and smiled upon by Providence will be self-sustaining." WANT ADS. )ne cent a word each insertion. "FIRST AID" corn plasters will make hard roads easy, 4 for 10c. Union Drug Co. FOR SALE A six-horse portable Meaiu engine. Tucker Bros., . I'numville, N. c., Rt. 1. RAISE CHEAP MEAT by planting soy beans for your hogs. F. B. Ashcraft. WANTED Old false teeth; don't matter if broken. I pay $1 to $10 per set. Send by parcel post and receive check by return mail. V. Tcrl. 403 North Wolfe St.. Balti more, Md. TRY A 10c. package of llexall Tal cum power. Union Drug Co. FOR SALE Red scarlet sage plants 10 cents per dozen. Call So 6. EIGHTEENTH SERIES of the Teo-pl-s IJuilding and Loan Association of Monroe is now open and shares may he had dated May 5th. Only twenty - live cents per week pays for a share and you save money in this way so easy that you don't know it. Every one should have lit least a few shares. E. C. Car penter, president; IJ. F. Beasiey, secretary and treasurer.. W. H. WAKEFIELD. M. D.. will ! ;:t The Gloucester hotel in Monroe on Saturday, May 26. The d.ietur limits his work to eye, ear, nose and thoat troubles and fitting glasses. 'FIRST AID" Fountain Syringes, a dollar value for 73c, at the Union Drug Co. REGISTERED Poland China pigs sir ed by R. Big Bone, a thousand pounder at maturity, out of stven hundred pound sows. These pigs have size, bone, quality. E. Row ell, Jr., Hanover, Va. FOR RENT 12 acres good corn land near Monroe. ( P. Roberts. WATT ASHCR AFT, Veterinarian. Day calls, 113; night calls. 11U-R. Olfiee on Franklin street, Monroe. N. C. FOR SALE 25 window blinds, 23 sash, linoleuuie oil cloth carpet, other articles too numerous to mention. Mrs. s. E. Howie-Matthew.--, FOR SALE -Five room house and lot on Evtrett street. L. D. Hus bands. MAKE OLD straw hats new by using Rexall and Nayals straw hat clean er. 5 and 10 cents. Union Drug Company. VICTOR vk-trolas and records The W. J. Rudge Co. LADIES CAN Fecure a car from J. C. Maynor with the assurance of courteous treatment and careful drivers. Just call either 316 or 171-lL WANTED You to see my Dixie Fly er and Empire automobiles before you buy. E. O. Fletcher. GLORE-WERNICKK book cases. The W. J. Itudge Co. PRESTON'S PLANTS Cabbage. l.fiO; sweet potatoes, 2.50; toma toes, $1.50 and 2.50; transplanted plants, $1.00 per 100; $7.50 per 1000. Price list. Fred M. Prest ton, Orlando, Fla. THOROUGHBRED Cuernsey bull for service. Fee $1.00 cash. E. L. May, Wlngate. CALL WALTERS and get his prices Deiore you ouy your iresn meats. He sells them right. PLEASE CALL at any time for hack work. Henry Lily, Phone 268. II. E. COPPLE'S furniture store has a full line of all kinds of furniture and 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. Rudge Co. EASY WAY to save money and get a start ln the world the building and loan way. It has started many a family on the road to Independ ence. Eighteenth series of the Peoples now open. E. C. Carpen ter. president; R. F. Beasley, sec retary and treasurer. WANTED Ten good 4-foot Russell. or fifteen cords of nine wood. N. G. PHONE 221 when you wan't any thing from an up-to-date Drug Co. If we haven't got what you want we will get it for you. The Union Drug Company. WATERMAN'S fountain pens. The W. J. Rudge Co. JUNK Wanted. We are always In the market for iron, metal of all kinds, bones, paper, etc Open every flay. MOXROE IRON METAL CO. Near Freiiht Depot Colonel KMevelt Won't Be Per mitted In (in. Washington. May IS. Col. Roosevelt will not be permitted to raise his Tolunteer expedition to carry the v American flag against the Germans in Frsnce. On signing the war army bill to night. President Wilson issued a statement saying that, acting un der expert advice from both sides of the water, he would be unable to avail himself at the present stage of the war of the authorization to organize volun teer divisions. There was talk in army circles tonight of the possibility that a way would be found to use the former President's service in an other way. but orflci.il comment on the subject was lacking. Four persons were killed and three others wounded a the roenir of robbing of the First National bank of Shannon Castle, a suburb of Pittsburg. Pa. The nolle rwnr. ered the money jlO.tHH). One of the bandits was killed and two wounded. The bandits entered the bank, shot to death the cashier and assistant cashier of the bank, hound and gagged a patron of the bank and in attempting to escape wounded two persons. Trinity College eomimncetmnt Jun 3-6. Commencement address K':C0 a. m. June 6 by Hamilton Holt. L.L. D.. New York. Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININE and I RON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Luilds up the Whole System. W cents TRUSTEE'S SALE OF HEAL ESTATE Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain deed ot trust executed by T. J. Payne and wife. S. K. Payne, to the Savings, Loan & Trust Company, trustee, on the 20th day of February, liioii, re corded ln the ol'llce of the Register of Deeds cf Union county in Book A. J., page 530, said deed of trust having b"cn executed to secure the payment of certain indebtedness to the Se curity Life k Annuity Company of Greensboro. N. C, default having lii-en made ln 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 Tlun-Mlay, 21th day of .May. 1017, at 12 o'clock noon, the following de scribed real estate situated, lyim: and being ln Monroe, county of Union, State of North Carolina, bounded a3 follows: First Tract: Adjoining tiie mads of colored M. E. church lot, C. N. Simp son's head lot, and others; beginning at a stake on the E. edge of Broad street (called McCauley street In the ed 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, passing the S. W. corner of line thereof 60 feet to a stake in said line; thence 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 aid J. F. Williams by M. S. and J. W. Stephenson bv deed dated 5th day of March, 1906, registered in tho office of Register of Deeds of said county. In record of Decd3 No. 2!), page 33 and so forth. Sesond Tract: In Monroe, N. C, adjclning 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 corner of the above lot in old line of Reedy 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. 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. 55 feet to the beginning, being lot No. 1 subdivided by English nnd Blnir 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. W11-' Hams, by deed dated March 26, 1907, to which deed reference Is hereby tion of same. This the 24th day of April. 1917. SAVINGS, LOAN & TRUST CO. Trustee. You need it- We 5ell it I The Lever j nils it i THE POCKET 5ELF FILLING" Waterman's m Ideal) fourilaiitPen THE W. J. RUTXiiE CO., Monroe, a. C
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