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SEEDS 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 1he Union A. M. SECREST, Phone 221. THE WONDER OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Gjjvenilese 1 lonwmfereves ! ) " I NOW ON EXHIBITION CASH OR INSTALLMENTS. THE W. J. RUDGE COMPANY. 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. Dependable Furniture I CHAIRS OF ALL KIXDS. We are showing a fine variety of attrac tive styles from the popular priced to the better grades, correct in design, of durable construction. Imitation, Spanish and best Leather, Golden Fumed Oak Finish, genuine and Imitation Mahogany. IX BEDROOM SUITS we have Mahogany. Old Ivory, Red Gum and Walnut, and also the old standby, Golden Oak. DIXING ROOMS! We can plsise you here sure. MATTRESSES AXD SPRINGS. Here is where we look after you comfort. The Healy MattreM, the very best that Is made, you will find here. Its standard of quality never varies. In fact we can sat lsfy you If It is a mattress you want THIS STORE sets the satisfaction of the customer above the sale. We want our customers to be our friends; we want them to have Implicit consdence In us to eel they can trust us In every dealing. To this end we sell only goods we can guarantee. . T. P DILLON. At the same old stand. Drug Co. Ph.C, Manager. Monroe, N. C. WITHOUT DOtJS MIGHT RAISE pi TV HtMiS OUTSIDE MONROE The Marsliville H-m l Worry. ing Over the Outitn "Mule Power" Covington Will Install Burr Wheat Mill. (From the Marshville Home.) "ecording to the North Carolina t.Y records." says the Progressive Farmer, "the number of dogs in the nllnfiP4 where they are taxed a i.rA 55 ner cent last year. We ma.i for the year a decrease of 4.S00 in the number of doss and an Increase f sk.oaa in the number oi nogs. The Progressive Farmer ..hen sug ..wt hat -Mure Hogs and Fewer n.." I a nrettv good slogan for any nnihm count. It will no doubt hrin feeling of sadness to John Reaslev and the Waxnaw r.nierpnse if onpml State law for taxing dogs u nassed. But John should remember that if the movement causes fewer dogs and more hog3 we'll probably tw .hi ta nroduce enough meat to supply demands in I nion county wu out raising hogs in Monroe. Ebbs at 13 cents a dozen Is the cheapest food product on the market now." says Joseph WatKins. He nas snll eircs as low as 6 cents a dozen. but Mr. Watkins thinks the present price or .a cents is rnainnj lunn ihn th nrlce of six cents was when meat and cotton were seimiK i . . 1 1 : A. cents a pound. A pounu ui epgs ai 9$ cents a dozen cost3 about la cents which Is half the price of a pound oi ni:it Ami the food value oi a pound of eggs is much greater than a pound of meat. The theories that a man who likes kiddies and dogs and tobacco will do to rely upon is a new one to me," aid a Marshville man wun a smite. And it is a still bigger Joke to con-; tend that a man that a dog loves is usually a pretty good fellow." said h. Why a dog always lanes up wuu mc laziest and most worthless man in me community and ne never una uj u for a real industrious man, is me wav this gentleman continued his drastic remarks. Since I know just about as little about dogology as I knnw admit moonolocy I was unable to Join in the discussion with enthu siasm, yet I was very much inclined to think that nearly one hundred per cent of what he was saying aoout dogology was the truth. ' Mule Power" is Road Commission er Covington's hobby, and he has struck oil." Enough mule power woes to waste in Union county every ear to build good roads in every sec tion of the county. -Mr. towngton and the other road commissioners re alize this and the manner in which nle now er is doing the Jot) soutn oi town demonstrates clearly their vis ion. A new day In road building nas dawned upon Marshville township. We have virtually seceded irom me ounty by voting a road law of our own. In which free laDor nas oeeu done away with. It is a mighty bad time to float bonds and cood road en IJ I thusiasts are rallying nobly to tne call for free mule power, and befoi the year is gone w e expect to see number of graded roads In Marsh-j,. vllle township while the "bond mon- ev" remains in the pockets of the citizens and the townr.hip makes good its ambitions In road ouiiaing. Work Is progresses nicely on the new graded road leading out of , Marshville in a southerly direction to the Five Forks a distance of 6 miles. The citizens along this road are doing the work themselves wnicn means that they are going to have a road and at the same time keep their mon ey. This will be the first graded road to be built In the county and those who are launching out into the new and improved way of constructing roads that do not run straight up and down hills, as old, out-ot'-dnie farmers; somer,;;;;' run theTrVoVn"ondcoVtoit rows, will have Just reason to leel proud cf the new highway. Mr. II. Lee Ashcraft Is preparing to enlarge his corn mill outfit and to in stall a burr wheat mill. Mr. Ashcraft is an experienced miller and the peo ple or this section will ler.rn with In terest that they will l-o iiVp at an ly date to get both corn and wheat ground in Marshville. Mr. V. G. Hearon went to Bislioo ville, S. C, last Tuesday to attend the marriage of his sister, Miss Elizabeth Hearon. to Lieut. Puett Sprott, who is doing Fervice on the Mexican border. Miss Hearon spent a few weeks In Marshville last summer and has a number of friends here who will be Interested to learn of her marriage. Mr. W. F. Napier of Lanesboro township, Anson county, returned a few days ago from Francehaving re ceived an honorable d'..vhar"r from the army on account of physical dls- ability. Mr. Napier belonged to n engineering regiment and at one time , was within hearing distance of the big battle. He says France Is a beau tiful country and that the French are good people. Mrs. J. M. Braswell received a tel egram Thursday morning stating that her brother. Mr. John W. Williams, of Paul's Valley, Oklahoma, died at 8 o'clock the same day. Mr. Williams was born and reared in Mecklenburg county. He moved to Oklu'.oma about 28 years ago. He was 54 years old. Mr. J. C. Austin made another trip to South Carolina last week on a Ford motor truck to deliver a milk cow to a citizen at Dillon. Mr. Austin Is about the most enthusiastic Guernsey cow man we know in the country. He buys,' milks and sells Guernseys and does it all ln a modern, scientific man ner. Wanted. We are always In the market lot ron, metal of all kinds, bones, paper, tc Open every day. MOXROE IROJI ft METAL CO. Near Freight Depot MISS HARRELL WILL GO TO I FRANCE AS RLI CROSS .NURSE I Recently Volunteered Her Service In Atlanta Ifeath Mix Muter ' Merflin-Kuhank Marriage Red Cross Note. Correspondence of The Journal. Marshville. March 12. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Garland spent last Tuesday In Charlotte. .1 Mrs. G. S. Honeycutt and son. Sam, of Qakboro visited the former's broth er. Mr. W. J. Kennedy, last week. Messrs. Chester B. Braswell of Charlotte. L. Crier Marsh of Chapel Hill and Prof Beemer Harrell of Shel by were home several days last week, expecting to leave for camp. As their marching orders were postponed In definitely. Messrs. Braswell and Har rell hare returned to the above nam ed places and resumed their work. Mr. and Mrs. J. r . Hantaan, ac companied their son, George, to the Presbyterian Hospital Friday, wnere the latter underwent an operation removing of :he adenoids and ton sils returning home Sunday after noon. Mrs. W. M. Cundiff of Elkln spent a couple of day last week visiting her niece. Mrs. C B. Covington. Mr. Loyd Edwards came in Thurs day from Hopewell. a., to spena some time with relatives. A marriage of Interest was solem nized at high noon Wednesday. Mch. at the home of the officiating min ister. Rev. L. R. Pruett. in Charlotte, when Miss Mamie Medlin became the bride of Mr. R. A. Eubanks. i Mrs. Eubanks Is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. Medlin of this place ana is a vounsc laav of many accomplish ments. Mr. Eubanks is tne son oi Esq. and Mrs. W. A. Eubanks of Bu ford township, and is express agent at Rutherfordton. Mr. and Mrs. hu- hnnks left today for Rutherfordton. where they will reside, after visiting relatives here for several days. Our readers will be Interested to earn that Miss Jean Harrell. a grad uate nurse of Atlanta, has volunteer ed as a Red Cross nurse ror immedi ate service. Miss Harrell responded to a call for one hundred nurses of whom seventy have been secured. and at present she is devoting her en tire time to enlisting volunteers in the city of Atlanta. Miss Harrell ex- nects to co to France immediately upon the completion of the unit. We wish we could write this up the way we feel about it, for Marshville claims Miss Harrell as a citizen by it being her home town, and her brothers, Messrs. Frank L. W. O.. and Horace Harrell, being some of our roremost citizens. Mrs. James Phifer of east Marsh ville died at her home. Tuesday, March 5. of lV.ighls disease from which she had suffered for years, hav ing been confined to a chair for the past 15 months until about a week before she died, when she was in bed. Mrs. Phifer was the daughter of the late Uev. Allen Caudle and was born in Anson county Aug. 17, 1837, be- ing therefore In her 81st j'gage on his stock and crop to be wai twice married, first 0 -I)eph n; hedrew ,43 wortn 0f Buppltea A n n ni(aterWshdee irS "L i" -8"C1C!91S: .kH18 ,born to this union. Later she married , jan,es Phifer, who with two sons, Adolphus and Gaston, survive. Other surviving relatives are two sisters, Mesdames A. Phifer of Marshville and E G, caddy of Olive Branch, and one, brother. J. Caudle of I nion, S. C. The deceased was the oldest member of Deep Springs church, having been a member practically all her life F u- um . "'J V Zeb Caudle at Deep Springs church at two o'clock Wednesday and inter- ment ln the cemetery at that place. Messrs. A. and Bascom Phifer and Mrs. M. E. Griffin attended the obse quies from this place. Miss Faye Traywick of Peachland arrived today and will assist Mis3 McWhirter in the millinery depart- ment at the United Cah Store Miss Jennie Vaushan of Morven spent the week-end with her mother, Mrs. It. M. Vaughan. Miss Lurlyne Bailey of Charlotte spent' Sunday nlsht and Monday with homo folks. Mr. Reid Russell of Albemarle was a vl.'itor in town Sunday. The work at the Red Cross work room is progressing. Nine bed shirty were cut and made last week, and the following articles were made in the hoins and sent In: Mrs. Mary Blv enr, oue pai.' knitted socks; Mi:i3 Sal lie Harrell, two pair knitted mittens; Mrs. Loyd Green, one hospital shirt. The following ladies worked at the room last week: Monday. Mesdames Luther llugglns, Boyee Hallman, H. C Ashcraft, James Marsh, Barnes Griffin; Tuesday, Mesdames James Harrell, Sallle Griffin. Joe Baker, J. F. Hallman. E. 0. Griffin; Thursday, Mesdames M. P. Blair. J. C. Dean, Rudolph Haywood, Brant Blvens, W. Q Harren; Friday, Mlr.ses Bessie May Hallman, Floy Myers. Jean Black and powelL Tne ladieg are asked to close or cover the machines when they leave the work room. There will bo some moving in Marshville this week. Mr. John Belk making the Initial move today, going to the W. C. Curran house Just east of the It. & B. manufacturing plant. Mr. M. F. Phifer will move Into the Pljier house vacated by Mr. Belk. having recently purchased same from Mr. P. P. W. Plyler. Mr. E. C. Grif fin and family will occupy the Davis house vacated by Mr. Phifer, and Mr. Horace Harrell will take possession of the Griffin place recently purchased by him. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Bailey, who lost ihelr home by fire, will oc cupy the house vacated by Mr. Har rell until they rebuild. Mr. Frank L. Harrell expects to occupy his hand some new home In a few days, and Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Griffin will begin housekeeping In the one Mr. Harrell is now in. A gloom was cast over our town Saturday when the message that Dr. J. B. Eubanks had died was made known, and quite a number of the citizens attended the funeral Sunday. Mrs. J. E. Bailey. Dr. B. C. Rcdf earn, Dentiit, ' Otflc on -door South of Brontr's Btore. Phon SSa. MONROE, H. C At Harakvlll on first and third Monday of each month and at Mat thews second and fourth Monday. Union County In tne OO's 3. Z. Green in Marshville Home. In the summer of 1905 I asked roads was considered the craziest pat Charley Ashcraft if he would accept of the Populist creed. Occasionally an appointment from me as assistant when I am ruminating and meditat lecturer of the Farmers' Alliance of Ing over the extremely conservative Union county. Charley (whose death attitude of my friends Red wine, Lem from typhoid fever occurred In '93) uiond. Stevens and Morrow of Mon was one of the best characters I ever roe toward this strange (?) Populist knew. It was vacation season with creed back in the nineties, I am led him and he readily accepted my ap- to wonder how in all the world they pointment. Under the plan of organ- have managed to adjust themselves ization I didn't know whether I was to these radical changes. For In exceeding my authority or not. but stance. Just think of a "sound-mon-since my official position carried no ey" (gold-6tandard) man living un remuneration I concluded that the ap-, der a cheap paper money basis! And pointment of an assistant who must' whoever dreamed that twenty-five also work without financial consider- years after the long-whiskered hay ation would be within constitutional seeders wrote It into their Ocala plat limitations so far as the Farmers Al- form that the ownership of railroads liance organization was concerned. If and other public utilities Is properly a there had been any threatened objec- government function we would have tion on the part of the membership it a president who believes in this prln would have disappeared after hearing riple and that we would be taking the Charley's lectures, which were logical first steps toward a practical reallza and convincing and possessed of high tion? It is hardly conceivable that a moral tone. And he also had a One quarter of a century could bring such sense of humor. At a recent com-'a wonderful transformation. menrement at Wingate 1 heard Gov- ernor Bickett tell one of the stories. SYMPATHETIC NOTE TO RUSSIA Charley used while on that canvass of i the county in the summer of '92. And he weaved In some humor when he explained to the audiences that he had agreed to Join the canvass as my. BSSistant only on condition mat would keep his shoe3 half soled, and i German peace accepted by the Bol toward the close or the round he in-1 shevikt at Brest -Litovsk. President timated that notwithstanding his Wilson has sent a message of svmpa soles were getting thin I had not yetjthy to the Russian people through the - - complied with the tentative contract, This can be better understood when It!ed States will avail ituelf of every o; is explained that we made the entire portunity to aid them in driving out canvass of the county on Toot. (autocracy and restoring Russia to her I place in the world with complete sov Hut It should not be understood ereignty and independence. that conditions at this time wereTa- The United States now recognizes vorahle to cheerfulness, and inciden-no government In Russia, but the tal humor served the purpose of dl-' president cabled his message to the verting minds temporarily from the American consul at Moscow, for d-v panicky conditions that were so wide iivery t0 tne congress, which Is made spread and general that no section of up of soldiers' and workmen's repre thls country had escaped the direful pentatives and speaks for a eonslde -effects. During this panic more homes abje part of the Russian people. The were sold under mortgage than in message, made public tonight by the any like period In all the previous his- gtate department, was as follows: tory or this country, and thus the ..May j not take advantage of the foundation was laid for the rapid de- meetng of the congress of the soviet velopment or a condition or absentee t0 expres,8 the sincere sympathy which landlordism and tenantry that has the people of the United States feel been more destructive to rural civil- for tne RUg!,an people at this mo ization than all the wars, famines and ; lnent wnen tne German power has pestilences combined. In this re- been thrust In to interrupt and turn spect Union county makes a better back lne whole strugcle for freedom showing than many other communl- and substitute the wishes of Germar.v ties, yet I am told that you can travel for tne purpo.,e of tiie people of Ru one public road leading out of Mon- Sa Although the government of th roe for eight miles without parsing a United States Is, unharpily, not now single home owner. hn a position to render the direct ani I effective aid it would wish to render, The mortgage system was every- j beg t0 as8Ure the people of Russi a. where prevalent and even the doctors through the congress, that It will in some sections or the Southern aVHlj tself of cvery opportunity to ser-' States rerused to practice in any fam- fure for nussia once more complete lly unless the head of the ramily sovereignty and Independence in her would give a mortgage. One writer ow afralrg and full restoration to her related this incident: "Samuel N. -rMt roiR tn th(, i f'p nf FnrnnA anil Beard executed an anaconda mort- stock and crop were worth more than that amount. His wife languished on a bed of sickness during the summer, and at last was too weak to digest any longer the strong and coarse food h", h h husband had and her Aoc tor ordered beef tea. The door of the cab,n ln whch she ,lved nad n0 Bhut. te the cnll, Noveniber w,nd9 were through lt imperiling his A of his cotton for wife's lite, in meir extremity ne of ;tean bee to make soup for his wife and for a shutter for the door. For this Beard was indicted and sent to the penitentiary for oner year. He of fered to show that the property cover- jered by the niortgage exceeded ln val- ue the mortgage debt, and that he could have had no Intention to de fraud; but the court said that the statute said nothing about the inten tion with which the act was done, and that It was also' Immaterial whether the remaining property was worth more or less than the mort gage debt, that the offense by the words of the act were complete by the simple act of telling or trading any part of the mortgaged property without regard to motive or any other facts and the Supreme court of the State (Arkansas) affirmed the Judg ment. It was conditions like these that gave birth to the People's party arid later on produced political revolution within the Democratic party under leadership of Mr. Bryan. While ca lamity was visiting the country as a whole It was not quite universal. In fact the conditions afforded a rich harvest ror the conscienceless land hog who had saved up a little money. He could attend forced sales of land and buy it under the hammer at 60 or 75 cents an acre and then sell It at five or six dollars an acre taking another niortgage under which the land was sold again (after several good payments were made) and it would again come back Into posses sion of the same land hog to be sold to pome other victim. I spent a night 1 some time ago with a good uaptisi minister In Pender county vho bought his land from one of the end less chain land speculators who made it a business to foreclose mortgages on lands in default of one payment after the debt had nearly all been paid but In this instance the industri ous preacher had met all the pay ments as they came due and thereby became owner of the land. "It act ually made the fellow mad when I succeeded In meeting all the pay metns and he couldn't get the land back," said he. The Farmers' Alliance which was a semi-political organization, present ed a new political creed which was de signed to alleviate the widespread panic. This was formulated ln na tional meeting nt Ocala, Fla., and was referred to as the Ocala platform. It was considered so extreme and radi cal that conservative Republican or Democrat could hardly think of It without a frown of contempt and it came In for more ridicule than had ever been unloaded upon any other political document. Twenty-five years have passed and the pioneers of that movement, who are living, have seen two-thirds of that "visionary" plat form enacted Into lw namely, for a paper currency la sufficient volume to transact the business of the coun try In fairly creditable shape, and the government control of railroads, which must Inevitably lead to gov ernment ownership of the roads. The idea of government ownership of rail- 'Mr. Wilson Pledge American Aid in Driving Out Aiitorrary. On the eve of the gathering at Mos- cow of the Russian congress of sovi- Its. which la to nas tiiilrnipnt nn tha I VV IIIV jUOIUU V V7 J 1 V lillUUfill IIIU congress, with a nl?.. that thu Pnit- the modern world. The whole hea-t of tne people of the Unlted states wlth the people of Rus8la ,n tne nt. Pt to free themselves forever from autocratic government and become the nia8ters of their own life. "(Signed) WOODROW WILSON." Below is a list of agents, author lied by the Government, to sell War Navngs nml Thrift Stamps: The Bank of Union' First National Bank Farmers & Merchants Bank The Savngs, Loan & Trust Co. ' Austin & Clontz W. H. Belk & Bro. John Beasley Benton's Cash Store Collins & Hargett Co-operative Mercantile Co. T. L. Crowell K. C. Carpenter T. T. Dillon Flow & Phifer Franklin Street Pharmacy R. C. Griffin & Bro. Lee Griffin Lee & Lee Co. Nash & Harris Plyler", Funderburk & Co. T. P. Redwine The W. J. Rudge Co. Snyder-Huntley Co. C. N. Simpson, Jr. N. D. Saleeby Tharpe Hardware & Mfg. Co. Union Drug Company Heath-Morrow Company It. V. D. Carriers: No. 1 A. C. Penegar No. 2 T. L, Love No. 3 J. H. Mills No. 4 S. H. Rogers No. 5 R. F. Secrest No. 6 A. B. Helms No. 7 J. T. Cox No. 8 W. L. Belk City Curriers: J. A. Wlllams C. O. Shaw P. P. Cox P. O. Clerks: J. O. Fulenwlder L. E. Sutton S. E. Halgler C. H. Hasty. ' NOTICE OF SALE. Under and by virtue of the power of sale given ln a deed of trust exe cuted by Arthur M. Henderson and wife, dated January 4th, 1917, and recorded ln Book A. S., page 235, of the Register of Deeds office for Union County, the undersigned will at 12 M., on Saturday, March 23rd, 1918, at the court house door of Union County, offer for sale and sell for cash to the highest bidder the follow ing described lot of land, situate in the town of Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, adjoining J. E. Hen derson and described as follows: Beginning at an iron stake on Wadesboro ave. and runs North 36 degrees East 137 feet to an Iron stake; thence South 64 degrees East! 70 feet to an Iron stake; thence South 36 degrees West 137 feet to an iron stake In Wadesboro ave.; thence North 54 degrees West 70 feet along Wadesboro ave. to the beginning, and being Lot No. 7, as surveyed and plat ted by William McCauley, on the ... . day of March 1914, and being part of the lands as conveyed by M. E. Mc Cauley and wife to J. E. Henderson. This 16th day of February, 1911. . St BROWN BUJEPHERD, Trijtee, i
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