Newspapers / The Monroe Journal (Monroe, … / July 27, 1917, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of The Monroe Journal (Monroe, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
it,v uimiiimiumiiiimTiiiiiiinMnnninm 'fuswr nc ta the emio APPIF trfp UflliU UJ IV 1IIL, JUUU ni 1 IL, 1HL,L IF EVERY ONE OF THSESE STATEMENTS IS NOT TRUE. M M M N M M M H M Every one knows that there has been a great advance in price in everything and retailers have been marking up goods in stock as the prices rose. But, as usual, The Five and Ten Cents Store is Johnny on the Spot and is selling at prices that obtained before the war scare rushed everything up. No special sale, but everyday business. Every article offered is at the old price. You can't afford to miss running round to the hustling little Five and Ten Cents Store and getting your share. Don't let anybody keep you from coming and seeing for yourself. These are some prices that we guarantee. Look over the list and see what you need and take a little bit of money and come running. UNDERWEAR. Children's underwaists at 15c., that are now selling for 25c. Boys' unionsuits that are bargains for 20c, they used to sell for 25c and are even more now. Men's knee length drawers, only 25c quality and price surprises you. BELTS AND SUSPENDERS. Men's and boys' suspenders only 15 and 25c. Anybody can wear them. Ladies and children's belts, all colors, 10 and 25c. HOSE AND SHOES. Ladies' silk boot hose 25c. Infants' soft sole shoes 10 and 25c. Infants' socks 10, 15 and 25c pair. MISCELLANEOUS GOODS. Look for What You Need the Price is 0. K. Pearl buttons, 5 and 10c a card. Huck Towels at 5, 10 and 25c. Fancy towels at 25 and 50c. Laces, : 4, 5, 8 and 10c a yard mighty pretty, too. Oil Cloth, 20 and 25c yard. Canvass gloves, 10, 15 and 25c. Whisk brooms, 15 and 25c. Cloth brushes, 10 and 25c. Tooth brushes, 5, 10 and 25c. Colgate's tooth paste, 10 and 25c. Purses and bill books, 10 and 25c. Scissors, 10, 15 and 25c. Mirrors, 5, 10, 15 and 25c. Soap 5c, 3 cakes for 10c and 10c cake. Wax lunch paper 5c a roll. Toilet paper, 6 rolls for 25c. Coast matches, 10c for 12 boxes. Floor brooms. 25c. Metal wash boards, 25c. Rolling pins, 10c and 25c. Clothes pins, 2 dozen for 25c. Chair seats, 10c. Coat hangers, 5 and 10c. A few more of those plain White Plates at only ?,0 and 40c a set. This is a great bargain. Five hundred copies of McKinley Mu sic at 3 cents. Worldwide price is ten cents. Look it over and make selection. It will not last at this price. When coming to Monroe think of the Five and Ten Cents Store before you get here for at all times it will pay you to try us. interested in the immense construc tion work at Badin. It is believed ihat another great dam is being plan ned lor the river tu order to install a st-und power plant in this section. This Section is nlnady beginning erl t?e commercial advantages of c! ai power and to increase the jn.iunt will surely mean the hasten .r.g of the day when we shall be able sny that our people are not de ptudent on the farm alone as a source of wealth. There were two automobile collis ions in Wadesboro during the past week. No or.e was seriously injured but it is evidence sufficient to indi cate that a Jitile more care must be exercised by the drivers of cars. May or Blalock is very much opposed to any effort to enrich the town by Ones for violations of the law and has been very liberal in dealing with the cases before him. The town authorities do not wish to require every driver to come to a stand still at every street crossing as is done in a number of nearby towns. But the time has come when the congested condition of the business streets of the town makes it necessary that more care be exercised by the drivers or some oth er course will have to be resorted to to protect the lives of the people. Fast and careless driving through crowded streets will have to cease. The Ansonian does not know the cir cumstances in the cases referred to above and does not know who of the four drivers were responsible for the accidents and is calling attention to this matter in order that all drivers may consider the safety of others when driving cars through the town or on the public highways. While this may be a fast age, human life and limbs are more important than speed. mobilization of the twelve units ot the national guard at their home sta- tions today, upwards of 8.500 men. without a hitch and that the federal ufiicers are already detailed and at work inspecting at the various sta tion with a view to the speediest j vice and the awarding of the equip-: ment. all of which w ill be at the I home stations. The expectation is( i:iai 11 win require Bumiiaiug inc ;two weeks to complete this work in ! readiness for the movement of the men to the concentration camps. The jwar strength of the guard as now constituted, when fully enlisted will be about 10.000 men. The divisions include brigade headquarters, except I the brigadier general and his per sonal staff; field artillery; three 'regiments of Infantry; coast artil jlery; ambulance company No. 1; field hospital corps No. 1; hadie company No. 1, and engineer train. CUT OCT THE GRUMBLE NATIONAL (il'Alin IS NOW MOBILIZING AUSTIN & CLONZ The 5 and lO Cents Busy Store. iTminiiiTtiTtiiiiniiminntii.iiiniiimiMmt THIS KOAI) IS AN OIU'HAN Strip Which Neither Xorth Nor South Carolina Will Claim In in Fearful Condition Dr. Burgess Ha Three 8its in the Service of the Country m Trying to Itevive Camp Meeting. (Waxhaw Enterprise.) There Is a little strip of road on the Charlotte-Savannah highway just below Mrs. Sarah Estridge's farm, and in North Carolina, which is a disgrace to any civilized community. At that point the highway, which parallels the State line from North Corner almost to Pineville, rung over In-North Carolina for about a half uile, At the extreme lower end of this half mile stretch the road is well night impassable. It is cut up in derp ruts and washed out in gullies; jagged rocks stick up through the iud to the hazard of tires or horses' feL There is probably a hundred yards of this almost impenetrable . stretch and its effect Is to practically annull the whole highway, as a road is only as good as its weakes place. Union county, or rather Jackson township, has never worked that place as it should because it runs out of South Carolina and Is in no sense a Jackson township road. Lancaster connty has never worked it for the excellent reason that it is in another state and the law prohibits working the roads of another state with Lan caster's road money. The people of the neighborhood have never worked it because there is nothing In It for ibem. We suggest that If Jackson township will not work the road now, that a sum be raised by subscription and hire the road worked into pass able shape. Mr. Ferry Plyler left this morning to take his positoin In the aviation rorpa of the United States army. He went to Charlotte Monday and enlisted In this branch of the service and this morning he went to Char lotte to take the oath and get his orders. He things he will go either to Panama or to some point in Ken tucky. Perry Is of good build for the aviation service, his automobile and mechanical experience and a natural turn for fine mechanics will make him a valuable man to the government, and we predict for him many thrilling and heroic exploits. The good wishes of everybody In Waxhaw go with him. When Dr. G. H. Burgess was over la Tennessee viHiting his brother last week he went on down to Fort Oglethorpe to visit two of his boys. James and Tom, who are In training there. James being a pharmacist is In the hospital corps and Tom is In the field artillery. The boys are doing well, enjoying the life around the big camp, but ready and anxious to go to the battle field. Another son of Dr. Burgess, Carl. Is with the regular army at Gettysburg, Pa. He . lias recently been "raised to private of the 'first class. The camp meeting at Pleasant drove Is to be revived this year. There was some talk of doing this last year, but plans failed to mature. It has been agreed now that the meeting will commence on August 17th, which la Frtday before the third Sunday in August, and will continue for a week or more. The presiding elder has assured the Pleasant Grove folk that he will hare Bonie good preachers on hand. One or two tents were built last year and there will probably be several others built be fore camp meeting time this year. There was perhaps more interest on the part of the young men in this community over the drawing of numbers for war service last Friday than over anything else which ever happened in the experience. A great many of them had apparently taken no Interest in the matter be fore and had not looked up their red ink serial number, and they seemed to think that someone else ought to have done it for them. As the num bers came in and a fellow found out that he was "called" he would talk in a manner according to his nature. Some turned pale, some laughed and others Just went on as if nothing had happened. There was a general expression of the hope to get ex empted. Something like 85 per cent of those drafted from Waxhaw will claim exemption on some ground or another. Waxhaw Is a great place for fruit less argument. A number of our citizens combine the traits of a wo man and of Goldsmith's village schoolmoster. The one. you know. If persuaded against her will Is of the same opinion still, while the other "though vanquished, he argues still." Last week some guy started an ar gument on the average corn produc tion in Union county. The guess? ranged all along from one hundred thousand to six hundred thousand bushels, and in absence of any facts to prove any claim each man argued valiantly for his estimate. The con troversy remains unsettled, and If there be any In the territory of this paper who can settle the vital dis pute, we shall deem it a favor if they will advise us. If we make the crop too small there are horses, mules, pigs and humans In the county who may go hungry; If we make It too large there will probably be an un wieldly surplus which cannot be dis posed of profitably, so it is very Im portant to get the matter adjusted. Corn has been damaged to some extent during the past ten days' heavy rains. Many acres of corn on bottom lands and in flat upland spots from knee high upward, and some not even so big. has been hurt by too much water. It is impossible now to estimate the damage as the farmer cannot tell how long he will be kept out of his fields. A singing school will commence at the Presbyterian church on Friday of next week, August 3, taught by Mr. Reece.Long of Mint Hill. Mr. Long has wide Experience in teach ing singing schools and Is a com petent teacher. Every family In Waxhaw, Irrespective of .denomina tion, is invited to attend tke singing school. The money has been made up by subscription and there will be no charge for tnitton. Dr. L. E, Gulon returned home from the Pryor hospital at Chester last Saturday looking and apparent ly feeling exceptionally well after a .very severe operation. Dr. Gulon has not been out much since his re- jturn, but has been sitting up about the house. He will have to go back to the hospital for a few days this week for further treatment, after which it Is hoped that he will be well and strong. Tucker Has Discovered a Mule Muf fler. Pageland Journal. They have found a way to put the muffler on the mule In France, says the Kansas City Star. By performing a nasal operation they can silence his bray so that he cannot give the ene my information as to his location. There is this other advantage In It to the mule in France. After the war no braying mule will be able to set up the boast that he saw service in the trenches or helped to over throw the Prussian dynasty on the western front. The attention of the Star is called to the fact that in muf fling the mule the Confederate Bol dler has prlorty by some fifty odd years. The Confederate soldier did not call for the service of a veterl- narian with knife or lancet, but he, got a stone about as large as you two . fists, or he got a brick, and taking a string about as long as your arm he lashed that stone or that brick to the end of the mule's tall and muffler' was on so far as the bray was con cerned. The one who introduced "bray muffler" was teamster under Stonewall Jackson and he thought It out one night when a flank movement was being made over in Virginia by the great Jackson and the mules in a wagon train were answering bray with bray and could be heard for miles. The muffler worked and a Confederate veteran told of it many a ttme at annual reunions. North Carolina Has Nearly Ten Thou Km This Force Will Go Flint to France. The entire national guard of the country with the exception of troops from California and southwest states is in the federal service under Presi dent Wilson's call. The remainding units will be brought in August 5, on which day the whole force of probably 300.000 men will be drafted into the army of the United States and will lose Its status as militia. From that day on the state troops can be used for any duty the Presi dent may direct and. will be subject to no limitations that do not apply to the regular army. The first Increment of the guard was called out ten days ago. Those called Wednesday In the second In crement embrace New England, mid dle western and northwestern states and several southern states. Prob ably more than 150,000 men went on the federal pay roll. With federali zation of the entire force complete j after August 5th, the ranks of all! regiments will then be filled up to full war strength with men from the selective draft lists. There have been many! things to Indicate that guard regiments which are now fairly well equipped and which have the benefit of the border mobilization will not be held long at the divisional training camps. If transportation is available, the best of the state troops may be hurried to France at once, stopping only for final outfitting before they sail. The intensive instruction to fit them for trench warfare will be given at the American training camps in France where General Pershing's regulars already tire at work. The Xorth Carolina Guard. Raleigh, July 25. The adjutant general's department reports the Dr. Hatcher Couldn't Knork Out Fel low's Brains Because He Didn't Know Whore to Hit. Correspondence of The Journal. Wingate, July 25. One of the most disagreeable, and we might say, ruinous persons a community can have is the common couiplainer, the saddened pessimist, he who see nothing but the bad, and sees it with an enlarged eye. We think he is a very dangerous fellow because he so magnifies things that often he inis leprescnts them to the extent that tuious hariu is done. Ann betides ihis, It in so l.aimful for one to be aiways talking r.bout things going to the bad. It does not do any good. It makes many a fellow fail. A fel low of this kind is nothing more than a common critic, and tho community Hint, lias one of these to contend with ceitainly has a pitiable menace to progress. How, we do dread them. The cliurch is not right, the tchool Is not right, the morais of the com munity are wrong, everything Is wrong. The weather is too hot, or it is too cold, it is too rainy, or it is too dry. Something wijjj all tho time. Always clouds, never any sun shine. Is this not a teriible state for one to be in, and yet you can find manv of this kind in every communi ty. They need a trip to the seaside, or a good dose of calomel. Some thing is surely needed, 'and 83 we heard a good preacher say once that a torpid liver was the cause of much of our backsliding today, possibly that is the cause of so much grumb ling and crltizing. The world needs models more than critics. If ou live a creditable life some one is go ing to pattern after It. Stand your self out and take a good look at the old fellow, eye him from every an gle, see if there is anything about him that you dislike. This is the way to do good. If you want to criticise anybody, criticize yourself. You will find plenty to talk about if you un dertake it. The surprise to you will be that you are out of Jail, a free man. A good wholesome criticism Is good for one, if the proper person makes it. but for one to be grumbling all the time about the faults of oth ers is ruinous to both parties. What we need today is more men and wo men with old time horse sense. Tou don't find people with the genuine stuff saying much about the other fellow. Too many are like the young preacher Dr. Hatcher had to contend with once. He was taking a collec tion for a new church in one of our conventions and a young upstart who thought he had a monopoly on the brain question got up and demanded a part of the money the good Doctor had raised, but he paid no attention to the fellow. He got up again, and, again, finally some of the brethren got tired of this annoyance and told Dr. Hatcher to knock his brains out. He replied by saying he would if he knew where to hit him. Too many are like him. They have more tongue than brain. We can make our lives. and the lives of those around u. hap py, or we can make them miserable. It is ri&ht to douounee the thins in our communities that tend to pull down, but be careful about this. Of ten you are mistaken about the thing that has a tendency to pull down. You can tell whether a thing has an immoral tendency or not. Do unto others as you would have them to do unto you, and you will come out all right. Bring all the sunshine in to the world you possibly can. ..take your daily walk and conversation a blessing. If you do this your memory will be a benediction. Glenalpine. An Explanation. The custom has grown up in country newspaper offices for any one to walk in and take one or more papers as he choses. This was all right in the old days when paper cost little and there were few such calls. But the custom has grown till it has come a drain upon most small offices, especially as It lets in all the dead beats who wish to take advantage of it. Just so many papers are print- ed each time to supply the regular list. One paper is print- ed for each subscriber, and when subscribers call at the office to get an extra paper they are eith- er taking some one else's paper or subjecting the office to that much extra expense. Of course, no publisher wants to deny a pnper to one of its subscribers when he happens to be in town and calls at the office, and this paper has never done so. But it has become fashionable for any one to walk in and demand so one to walk In and demand so and bo's paper, often getting papers in the name of people who are not even subscribers. The paper will be sent to any address, but if you have It sent to one address you should not expect to get It at two places. Most per- sons will think right off, well, if I get it at the office, youjieed not send one out to my address. That Is because they do not un- derstand how papers have to be sent out. It is more trouble and expense to not send It than to send it, and to stand over the list and pick out the papers that are already addressed requires the time of an extra band, hence the paper has just lost one copy when It Is called for. But we really do not object to giving any regular subscriber an extra paper when he happens to be In town, and shall not refuse to do so. But we are objecting to the public feeling like newspapers are printed for free distribution and that any one who chooses- may come along and swipe a pa- per. Papers, cost money and hard labor, and so we hope that those who hereafter call at this office for them will not forget to bring the nlckle along. In the meantime, when any of our bona fide subscribers happens to be in town on press day and wishes a paper they are welcome to It. Since the women suffragists sent to the work houBe for picketing the White House were pardoned by President Wilson, picketing has been resumed but no attention la paid to the women. WHAT CLYDE THINKS ABOUT IT Young Man Had Dependents Don't Talk Tm Much New power Plant KuinomI RerkleMi Driving. I (Wadesboro Ansonian.) ! It will not do any good to criticise the government and its method of pursuing this war and It may result In a ffrpat ftpnl nf harm tA vnn M i When asked If he had any depend ents a young man in a nearby county Is said to have replied, "Yes, I have jfour on whom I am depending for I support." In a case like that Uncle Sam would po doubt be doing some body a favorlo draft him at once. , Commenting upon what this paper said last week about the absence of the mosquito this year, Mr. B. E. Bennett brings the sad information that they may be in unlimited num bers In the Brown Creek Bwanips. He says It is almost impossible to cut the timber out In some places because they come In such pestiferous swarms. He favors some kind of quarantine law to deal with the situa tion, believing that they will soon take up their habitation In the towns, at the tin cans ought to be filled this time. It Is reported here that options have been taken on several large tracts t laad on the Anson and Staa ly side ol Rocky River by parties When You Need Money where do you go for it? Do you draw your check on the bank, or do you borrow from a "friend? PEOPLE WITH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS seldom have td borrow. They have money of their own. It is always growing, accumulating, earning interest, pil ing up,' and PUSHING YOU ALONG THE ROAD TO AFFLUENCE. Now Is the Time to Save We invite you to become a depositor at this bank. One dollar or upward will open an account The Savings, Loan and Trust Co. R.B.REDWINE, President II. B. CLARK, Cashier.
The Monroe Journal (Monroe, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
July 27, 1917, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75