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JOURNAL WANT ADS.
ONE CENT A WORD FOR EACH INSERTION
WE SELL the famous Swift fertili
zers. Colloins & Hargett
FOR SALE. Improved Porto Rico
potato plants; $2.50 per 10:10; 10,
000 and over. $2. 00. Hooking or
ders April deliveries. Cash wit a or-,
der. Dixie Plant Co., Ty Ty, Ga.
REGISTERED Berkshire Hogs for;
sale Boars, sows ami gilts. Best
breeding. Nutwood Hampshire
Farm, Thomasville, Ga. ,
FOR SALE Lewis 63 and Council FOR SALE Hundred bushels Big
Toole, wilt resistant, early matur-j Boll cotton seed (Redding Improv
ing cotton seed. Dr. Win. Rawl- ed), $2. bushel. M. L. Chandler,
Ings, Sandersville, Ga. Scranton, S. C.
CHOICE Holsteln calves 12 heifers
from heavy milkers, 15-16ths pure,
5 to 6 weeks old, beautifully mark
ed, $20 each; safe delivery and sat
isfaction guaranteed. Fevnwood
Farm, Wauwetosa, Wis.
FOR SALE Buff Orpington eggs, 15
for $1. B0 Mrs. Chas. Stanback,
Mt. Gilead, N. C.
SINGLE COMB Buff Orphington eggs '
for hatching, Cook strain, $1.25 per
15. Albeit Lee, Monroe, N. C.
FERRY'S SEEDS
The old reliable and tested kind, can
be had at our store this year. A big
shipment of all kinds just received.
When in need of
drugs, remember
The Union Drug Co.
A. M. SECREST, Ph.G., Manager.
Phone 221. Monroe, N. C.
Interesting' News.
Growing, but not grown; improving, but never get
ting fully satisfied; never still, but always on the move;
we work hard day and night to save you money, but we
are willing to do that. Come and see how we wo it.
LOOK! LISTEN!
Latest patterns in silks from $1.00 to $1.50; best ging
hams made 20 cents the yard; nice line percales at prices
lower; full line spring dress goods bought great deal lower
than prices now, and will add one small profit and stop
right there. Big line laces, buttons and all kinds of trim
mings on the way.
We buy everything you have to sell and can sell you
everything you want to buy. Come to see us whether you
buy or not. Welcome. .
Co-operative Mercantile Co,
' THE FAMILY STORE.
RED CROSS AMBULANCES
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FOR SALE Ten shares Bank of
Union stock. D. B. Snyder. Admx.
J. V. Railings.
ENQUIRE of us for Velvet bean seed,
all varieties. Mexican June seed
corn, peanuts. Also velvet bean
meal by the ton or car load. Chip
ley Giu Company, Chlpley, Fla.
MR. FARMER McCall guarantee;
all of his watch repairing for 12
months McCall Jewelry Co.
WANTED Two young sinrle men to
travel and solicit orders for Chica
go Portrait Company in North Car
olina. Salary $40 per month and
expenses to begin, or good commis
sion. Must furnish good referen
ces. Address Manager, Box No.
365, Mooresville, N. C
JUST RECEIVED 500 clocks of all j
kinds. A. W. McCall. !
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ROYSTER FERTILIZERS For sale
by Colins & Hargett.
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FOR SALE Cockes Prolific seed
corn grown and selected for 1
vears on same farm. Swathmoor
Farms, Mebane, N. C.
BUY THE old reliable Royster fer
tilizers, from Coliins & Hargett.
HATCHING EGGS 2-year White
Leghorns, W'ycoff strain; large
fowls, heavy winter layers, $2 set
ting, postpaid. P. M. Hunter,
King George, Va.
WE USE only genuine factory mate
rial in cur watch repairing Mc
Call Jewelry Co.
FOR SALE White Wyandotte and
S. C. White Leghorn cockerels,
open range raised from selected
breeding stock. Eggs after March
the first. Swathmoor Farms, Meb
ane, N. C.
FOR SALE Three head of horses
and mules. If you need stock, do
, not buy until you tee these. Good
stock, and the price Is right to a
quick buyer. T. J. Price.
; FOR SERVICE Gurnsey - Jersey
boar at my farm 13 miles south
j west of Monroe. Fej $1.00. J. M.
; Starnes.
LARGE BERKSHIRES Stone Gate
Farm, Petersburg. Virginia.
PLANTS FOR SALE Cabbage plants
ready 15th of March. $1.50 par
1.000; 10,000 and oyer, $1.25.
Nancy Hall and Porto Rico sweet
potato plants. $2.00 per 1,000.
Enterprise Truck Farm, George
town. S. C.
WE WILL BUY and pay hi?h-?t Mar
ket price for dry, poplar, nsh or oak
lumber. If you have any to offer,
communicate with us at onc The
Henderson Garage and Machine Co.
THE HENDERSON ROLLER MILLS
expet to make Monroe the best
market for local corn In the state.
It will pay you to see them If you
hare corn to sell.
ATTENTION, farmer- Prm Cleve
land cotton seed for snle,$2 per
bush-d f. o. b. Washington, Ga.
K. A. Wllheit. Reference. Nation
al Bank of Wilkes.
GORDON'S S. C. Buff 0:-phIngton's
They weigh, they win, they lay,
they pay; they arc Ir.o lrter lr.y
ers; they are hardy and healthy;
they are the heaviest of all clean
legged birds; their meat Is white,
sweet and Juicy; they are growing
fast in popularity, and I keep my
breed up to the very best standard.
Putting new blood on the yard ev
erv year. Eggs, per setting of 15,
$1.50. Mrs. J. C. Gordon, Wax
haw, N. C.
FOR SAE Thursday, Feb. 28, 1918.
household and kitchen furniture,
one mule, 1 wagon, 1 buggy, corn,
fodder, hay, shucks, farming Imple
ments, blacksmith tool;, and vari
ous other articles. Terms cash.
W. II. Yandle, Monroe, N. C.. R. F.
D. No. 5.
FOR SALE Some pigs and shoats.
M. H. Richardson.
WANTED Sewing girls to make ov
eralls. Expert operators make $8
to $15 per week. Board $3.50
to $4.00 per week in nice family
homes. Write Southern Manu
facturing Co., Chester, S. C
WANTED To buy 1000 bushels corn
at once. Co-Opers'lve Mercantile
Company,
NOTICE: A few delinquents are still
on the list to be published about
March 1. Among these we notice
your name. You still have about
three weeks to pay up by money
order through your mall carrier
or by leaving at the drug stores.
Many have already paid up in this
way, showing that they don't want
to be on the "blacklist." Delin
quent Committee.
TAKE your corn to the Henderson
Roller Mills Co. and get the highest
market price. They can use white
or yellow in any quantities, shelled
or on the ear.
WANTED Several thousand feet
of dry poplar lumber. Can also use
dry oak and ash. The Henderson
Garage ft Machine Co.
SEE US for Virginia Carolina Chemi
cal Company's fertilizers. Collins
ft Hargett
FOOD ADMINISTRATION IS
PROTECTING roOREK CLASSES
Mr. Hoover, By Regulating Price.
Has Niped Food Speculation in
the Bud to Benefit of the Masses.
To the Editor of The Journal:
Seems liie we are afflicted with "in
comprehensibility." Some time ago the administration
saw fit to appoint red empower a
food regulator Mr. Hoover. The ap
pointee at once got busy cn bis job
and began tc tell us how to conserve
food and how to select and utilize the
most nourishing and least expensive
food, end how to eliminate waste so
as to insure an adequate food supply
that ea.h and all of us mlg.it have as
much nourishment as Is necessary to
support our bodies in physical fitness
throughout the crisis through which
we are passing.
The rulers have not and cannot do
i more important thing, no difference
how hard they try. or how much they
niav do; yet a great many "fans"
have set out to tell the people not to
eat enough, that the food amminis
tratinn does not allow us to eat all
we need, and that If we do so. there
will soon be nothing to eat.
If there is anything in the world
that could be termed giving "comfort
and encouragement to the enemy.
t seems to me that this kind of cam
naipn should be awarded first place
in the list.
The food administration does not
intend to perish people. It Is making
sure as sure can be. under the cir
cumstances to feed the people, and
there Is nothing yet credited to the
Wilson administration for which the
people of this nation should be more
elated than this effort to protect the
weak from the merciless grafters
and swindlers of the country who
would profiteer at the expense of hu
man life, if not made to tote fair ana
bear their share In a nation or world
crisis like the one through which we
are passing.
The facts learned by the Investl-
PRESTON'S PLANTS Send for de
scriptive price list of vegetable
plants. Fred M. Preston, Orlando,
Florida.
I SELL CABBAGE BY MAIL While
it lasts, 5,000 pounds fine winter
cabbage, any amount, by mail, pre
paid, 4 cents per pound. By ex
press or freight, f. o. b. Elk Park,
N. C, 3 cents a pound. Quality
fine, and a small order by mail will
make a larger one next time. Cash,
check or stamps with order. Or
ders nlcelv packed for shipment.
Charles Burage. Box 156, E,v.
Talk. N. C.
FOR SALE White Orphington eggs,
15 for $1.00. J. Press Griffin, Rt.
1, Wingate, N. C.
OR PIANO TUNING, phone 229.
Hollaway Brothers.
I OFFER my registered Jersey bull
from the famous Vanderbllt strain
for service. S. S. Richardson.
FOR SALE Four registered Short
Horn bull calves and two high
grade bull calves. Five to ten
months old. A. A. Woodruff,
Cherry Lane, N. C.
SEE US for Swrt fertllizers.-
-Col-
lins & Hargett.
SEED IRISH potatoes for sale 700
bushels. Varieties: Burbank, ureen
Mountain, Cobblers, Rose. 150 lb.
bags $5; second crop, 150 lb bags,
$5. A. A. Woodruff, Cherry Lane,
North Carolina.
THE HENDERSON ROLLER MILLS
are in a position to handle all the
corn that you have to sell, shelled
or on cob, white or yellow.
A SPLENDID BARGAIN One and
one-half miles from Newton. A
Catawba county farm. 94 acres.
Right at school and church. Bale
coton to the acre. 10 bushels of
wheat, alfafa, soy beans, nnd red
clover. D. A. Rutledge, Newton,
North Cnrolfna.
V. C. CO.'S fertilizers, the standard
for years. Collins ft Hargett.
EGn.S FOR SETTING Pure - bred
Buff Flyrimth Rork e,7gs $2. $3,
yi for fifteen. Pens headed by
first cockerel, Raleigh fair, first
cockerel Charlotte fair, first cock
Wilson show. I won first and sec
ond Raleigh, Charlotte, Wades
boro, Pinehurst, and Wilson on
male and female. Few extra good
cockerels, $5 each. W. Henry
Llles, Wadesboro, N. C.
PURE - BRED MAMMOTH Bronte
turkeys Single comb Brown Leg
horn hens and eggs. All from best
strains. Prices reasonable. Mrs.
J. T. Gooding, Orlential, N. C.
FOR THE old reliable brands of V.
C. Co.'s, Swift's, and Royster's fer
tilizers, see Collins ft Hargett.
SELL ME YOUR peas, soy beans, and
cattle. Write me what you nave
and your price. W. P. Draughon,
Dunn, N. C.
IF YOU have any dry poplar, ash or
oak lumber for sale, see The Hen
derson Garage and Machine Co. at
once.
EGGS FOR HATCHING Bred-to-lay
S. C. W. Leghorns; 15, $1.25; 30
for $2. Falrvlew Farm, Route 6,
Salisbury, N. C.
WANTED Ten dozen home-made
chairs at once. T. P. Dillon.
WANTED Young goats from 2 to 6
months old, any quantity, state
lowest cash price, f. o. b. crated
your express office, shipment to be
made about March 20. Address
M.
Centrella Bros.. 1848 S. lltn
Philadelphia, Pa.
St.,
FOR RENT Two nice rooms for
gentlemen or ror man ana who.
Apply to Mrs. J. E. Bland, In the
A. F. Stevens house.
LOST On Charlotte road Feb. 8.
h.trhet. souare ana nammer. r m-
der please notify John Perry, Mon-
roe. R. F. D. no. d.
I gators and the rottennness exposed
tnrougn tne investigations win prove
to De me guiaing post id esiaoiisaing
that higher order of things that will
be the crowning glory of the future.
Then there Is another bunch of in
comprehensibles who have assumed
the duty of preaching the doctrine of
"The War Savings Stamps." These
fellows are going over the country
trying to make the Impression that
Uncle Sam is busted, and that unless
the "kids" pick "cracked cotton" and
get money to buy war stamps, also
rob the hen's nest and sell eggs and
buy war stamps, that the "Huns" are
going to wallup us and make us
slaves to them.
Now what do you suppose Mr. Wil
son would think If he should acci
dentally be thrown into an audience
where one of his supposed "rooters'
were rooting up such stuff as that?
I tell you what I think Mr. Wilson
would do. It's my opinion he would
put a ring in that rooter's nose and
stop his injurious Industry. If for
no other reason, then certainly for
the one forbidding the furnishing of
comfort and encouragmcnt to the
enemy.
We are not saying these things
disparagingly to the buying of War
Savings Stamps. We realize that
monev Is necessary as well as men
but we also realize that this Is a rich
country and that there is no occasion
for such slanderous Insinuations as
the above referred to petty appeals
would indicate. The problem is be
fore us. We should meet it like men
and not like crying individuals.'
Novus Homo.
Drafting nn Industrial Army.
To the Editor The Journal:
With the co-operation of all mu
nicipal and state governments every
ahle-bodied man. woman, boy. girl or
c'.iild over eight years of age should
be subjected to a strict draft for ed
ucational training and for Indus. lies.
There are hundreds of boys, girls,
young men, young negroes, nere in
Monroe and thousands elsewhere who
are doing absolutely nothing. They
are bound to steal or to consume
what others have produced. The va
grancy law should be strictly enforc
ed and no v Is the accepted time.
The old law of the Jamestown set
tiers that. "He who will not work
shall not eat." should be applied. in
each community right now.
No individual should be allowed to
reap where he hath not sowed.
There Is no danger of overproduc
tlon. The markets of the world are
asking for bread, meat, vegetables,
fruits, cotton and wool.
Are you doing your parti Am I do
ing my part?
Our boys, our brothers ana our
friends have gone to endure the hard
ships and the dangers of war. They
are going to have to suffer. We at
home shall not know this war and
feel this war until we suffer with the
boys at the front.
We must give up luxuries; give up
pastimes: subject ourselves to dls
clpllne and authority.
We cannot do our part In this war
without suffering as much at home
as our boys do at the front.
The man who simply uses this war
for self-gain; who gives his mind,
soul and body to getting rich by ad
vantages arising from the war, while
others bear the burdens, Is Just as
sure to be overtaken with disaster as
the selfish war lords who Initiated the
war.
There is enough vacant land within
the city limits of Monroe to feed the
entire population.
The three Austin sisters produced
132 bushels of corn to an acre in
Monroe. They did the work with a
hoe. You don't need a plug horse
for this work. A willing, determined
mind Is all It takes.
We are living a confused, unor
ganized, unsystematized life, without
purpose and without planning.
Production should always be plan
ned two years ahead.
Let the police department make a
survey of the vagrants and the non
producers. This Is no time for rabbit-hunting,
automobile rides, pleasure trips, hoa-ey-moons
and dissipation. The Idle
rich nnd the idle poor should all be
marte to go to work and stick to It.
There are too many bosses and too
few workers; too many non-produc-
n Jobs: too many salaried fellows
who could be entirely dispensed with,
wl'h g-ea-t profit to the community.
The man who farms twelve months
in the year: the man who follows the
nlow and the hoe day by day In an
honest effort to save the world is en
titled to have a clean conscience.
If the enemy were to try fifty mill
ion strong to Invade our country, he
ould only be committing sniclde
every man, woman and child In Amer
ica would fight him. The Canadian
border or the Mexican border would
be "No Man's Land" to him. All our
coasts and seaports would be mined.
The Atlantic and the Pacific would
b strewn with dead enemy soldiers
for hundreds of miles. Let us face
thU war now as we would then.
Many good things will come from
tM war. We are going to live in a
dlfn'-ent world after the war.
Let every boy work a garden, a
corn patch, raise a pig, a calf, chick
ens and eggs. Commence in time and
keep at it. Think and plan two years
ahead. , You will reap one reward
for pleasure, another reward for pain.
You will have one reward for idleness
and self-indulgence and quite another
reward for labor and self-denial. La
bor alwsvs has Its reward. Let all be
uo and doing. It is now or never.
H. D. Stewart.
Soldiers Warned Absence Without
Iyeave Punishable bjr Peath.
General Lloyd M. Brett, in com
mand of Camp Lee, says the govern
ment has heretofore been very toler
ant In Its treatment of the men who
have violated their duty to their coun
try In the present crisis by absenting
themselves from their commands. He
has been Informed that relatives and
friends have urged some soldiers to
remain away from camp.
"Desertion In time of war is pun
ishable by death," General Brett as
serts, "and although capital punish
ment has not yet been Inflicted noon
any soldier. It most assuredly will be
In the course of time when the dis
cipline of our armies becomes more
gtr)ct.
HIGH PRAISE FOR GENERAL
CONDITION OF THE TOWN.
lire Insurance CommLvdoner Young
Writes Commendatory Letter to
Mayor i. C. Sikrs.
James R. Young. North Carolina
Insurance Commisloner, in a letter
to Mayor John C. Sikes. congratulates
Monroe upon its White Way, which
Mr. Cannady, the electrical Inspector.
says would be a credit to any city or
town in the State.
The letter from Mr. Young. whlc!i
was received Friday, follows:
"I have before me the report of
State Electrical Inspector Cannady,
and I want to congratulate you upon
the general condition of your town.
"Mr. Cannady reports that practi
cally all of the inside lines have been
overhauled and that there has been a
great improvement In the general
condition of your fire district in re
gard to cleanliness and that the Inside
w iring generally is properly installed
with the exception of the garages and
some places named by him In his re
port.
"I trust that you will have your in
jector to follow up t!.ese deficiencies
and see that they hvj proper atten
tion promptly It Is important.
"I want to ccng-B'ulate you upon
your White Way, wh!ch Mr. Cannady
says would be a credit to any city or
town in tne state."
PAT O'BIUKX, AMERICAN,
(UYF.N AUDIENCE BY Klfii
The Lieutenant Telis His Majesty
About His Thrilling Kscajn? From
the (iermans.
London, Jan. 2. Flight-Lieut. P;;t
O'Brien, the former Santa Fe railway
man who effected a remarkable es
cape from Germany after being shot
down in aerial battle as a member of
the royal flying corps and who walked
across a part of Germany, all of Lux
emburg, and Belgium before digging
under the "wire of death" and reach
ing Amsterdam, has Just told his sto
ry to the king of Buckingham palace.
And O'Brien and the king have form
ed complimentary impressions of
each other.
"I have met some of the heads of
departments on the western division
of Santa Fe, some of the big business
men In Chicago, and a few of the men
doing the fighting in Important posi
tions In this war, and I want to say
that the king is one of the best," said
O'Brien, who Is a native of Motnence,
111., and a resident of San Francisco.
"I don't think he knows what side
means. We shook hands heartily
three times on my arrival, when I
thought I might be taking too much
of his time and started to go, and
finally when we snld good-bye.
"I received a telegram to call at
10:30 o'clock, and, arriving two min
utes before, found the king on rail
road time. I was not l ept waiting a
minute, but was taken directly to him
by one of his secretrles who withdrew
on presenting me. We chatted for
40 minutes, the king showing great
Interest In my experiences and ques
tlonlng me minutely as to my rou'e
from the time I Jumped out of the
train window until I concealed my
self nearby and studied the elect-l
cally charged barrier between Bel
glum and Holland for a week of
nights before succeeding in a plan of
escape.
"The king first offered me a chair,
but when I declined politely stood
with me throughout ourconversation
He certainly had more than an anni
teur's knowledge of electricity, as I
gathered by the lively interest he dis
played at the several ways I had In
mind as to how best to put the live
wires out of business. I thought first
of grounding the current in several
wires with a horizontal metal bar,
then mane a ladder of Baplings so
green that tho v,-ond proved a conduc
tor and decided on another plan su?
cessfully.
"He was keenly Interested In ny
Jump through the window of the
train and the guard's effort to hold
me In. I think he laughed most
heartily st ny pasnr;e with the guard
previously when I complained of oui
having to ride In fourth class com
partments. This guard responded
that we rightfully should be riding In
hog trucks. I answered that such
would be preferable to riding with
Germans, and then my English speak
Ing guard exploded, probably not
knowing profanity In a foreign
tongue.
"I couldn't realize the king was a
king. He seemed Just like other
men, but more Interested In my sto
ry. He expressed great sympathy Tor
my mother owing to her long belief
that I had been killed. It Indeed hav-l
Ing been so announced In the Brit-J
lah official report. I have been glv
en leave for three months to visit heti
at Momence, 111., but ray time may bH
extended. It Is very likely that a
shall be transferred to the American!
flying corps. In which I received my
first training and was serving at Sari
Diego before becoming restless am
enlisted with the Canadians In Vlcto
rla. I have now about recovered
from the effects of 72 days' diet ofl.
cabbage and turnips."
Wouldn't Let the Old Man Fight On
A dispatch from Kingston, Ont
says that Private J. W. Boucher, c
the 257th Canadian railway battalion
has been sent home from France bei
cause lie is "too old to fight." He I
73 and fought In the American Civ
War with a Michigan regiment. H
reached Kingston this week on nil
way to his home In Ganauoque, Oni
The story from Kingston eays th
Boucher faced the German lines
eight months and endured ail t!
hardships. Then his age was disco
ered and he was discharged. Kinl
George heard of the case, and an
lous to see "the oldest man Iq khaki
summoned him to Buckingham P;
ace, where In a special audience
King praised him for his courage arij
determination.
Cow Sold for $.11,000.
Thirty-one thousand was the pr
paid for Ardmore, a 3-year old Hei
ford bull, at the recent meeting of t
International Live Stock Exposltio
In Chicago. This is the highest pr
ever paid for a bull, It Is said.