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ua llllHlHHHHiS J w ai nmlUlllaalKUaal MHHR a I EH 2 .a OB 5 aa "2 sw Arrival- Ladies Neckwear Nothing is of more value in a woman's wardrobe than a good collection of neckwear. With this many dresses no longer new may be freshened and dis tinction given, which could be obtained in no other way. Newest things in collar and cuff sets, p. k. organdies, georgette crepe, plain and embroidered linens. New roll collars, scarf effect, in bright colored satins and crepe de chine, just the thing to brighten the sombre street costume or give just the touch of color needed to an all white dress. Come in and see how very at tractive they are and you will be sur prised to find how reasonable they are priced. May Standard Patterns arrived. Always welcome at The Family Store. M sa a as era u naa axa HJ2 za aaa Co operative Mercantile Co. ' that we want them to In their pres ent conditions? How many of oar fathers and nioth-e-i have visited and inspected our school buildings? If you haven't been cut. j'?ase. please. i&tt a aay off and go, then pet in line and left raise t!e money and construct a high chool building that will be in keep ing with the other improvements la our city. . . . . A community is juagea oy ua rhurches and school houses. Our, churches are all right, but our school buildings are a disgrace. We cannot be short-sighted and niggardly enough to refuse to give his our prayerful consideration. We need to take stock of ourselves. L. C. L. Crop Census. To the Editor of The Journal: In compliance with an urgent request from the Agricultural Extension Ser vice the county commissioners have rrranged to take a crop acreage cen srs of the county. Thi3 is being done all over the state, and is for the sole purpose of getting a line upon the production of food and feed crops. Farmers will be asked to give Infor mation as follows: Acreage planted to cotton, corn, and sorghum cane. Acreage to grain to be threshed, oats, "wheat and rye. Legume crops for seed, peanuts, cowpeas, soybeans, and velvet beans. All crops cut for hay, this to include oats. rye. cowpeas. soybeans, sorghum, clovers, grasses, etc that are to be used for forage purposes. Irish and sweet potatoes. ri. n-n irnn to be expressed In tenths of an acre. Fruits, nymber of .npiiie, peach, and pecan trees over four vears old. and all other fruit trees over four years old to be ln M,i.i under one head. Number of chickens over one month of age. Number colonies of beo3. Number or f rioan land that will lay Idle. inirs vi ..x... - Total acreace to all crops. .umoer of acres in farm. This information Is aked fov the years 1S1" and 1918. Faeh farm of over three acres only o be iisted. including wooded lands. Thee are to be given by the owner or his representative, and not by tenants. Each farm owner Is requested to make a note of the acreage of the above named crops grown on his land last vear. and the acreage to bo grown this'vear and thus be prepared to give the information, without loss or time, to the list taker or his assistant. mi fnrmprs should appreciate that this Information has no relation to! taxes Certainly the acreage of any- thing could not be taxed without a, valuation. These figures are quite; essential, not only as an aid to pre-) paredneis through intelligence but, 1 that a firm basis be established of our I 'production. Also that the nation,! 1 state and countv may definitely be, enabled to meeMheir Psens. : One of the Many Big Attractions . of Chautauqua Week CROATIAN TAMBURICA ORCHESTRA. s The Taraburlca, native musical In strument of Croatia, will be a feature of the grand concert given by the Croatian Orchestra on the opening aft ernoon of the Bedpeth Seven-Day Chautauqua here. On Tamburlcas the six members of the orchestra In their bright and novel native costumes will play Balkan melodies, selections from the operas and American sonjs. Similar to the mandolin, banjo and tmUnr the Tamburlca la different from all. Its tones are full of life and sweet ness and its range and" volume, as com pared to the usual stringed Instru ments. Is little short of phenomenal. Before coming to America Thv Croatians appeared In Tarls and other Important cities of the old world. During the program of the orches tra Teter Savlch, the manager, tells something of the people of Croatia and also their odd musical lnstrumer The VaValSSaSaiiSiiaaa WILLIAM H TAFT tas? "If. m !-C Taft Praised Bankers' Work President William Howard Taft Id his talks to American bankers praised the work they are doing. Did you ever stop lo consider what this country would be without banks? ' There never were as many bank de positors In the United States as then Irt today. Are you a depositor? II you are noU see us today about wen , tng an account i,Vk.-' THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK H. LEE, President. DR- E. ASHCIUFT. Vice Pre J. W. LAXEY. Cashier. . wTcall the attention of our friends to the fact that we have made contract for an Extremly Interesting Week ly Map Service Which will be on exhibition at our Drug : Store hereafter. These Maps will show an tne Lauuig dvchw Places of the War. THE BIG BATTLE FRONTS IN EUROPE WTiere "Our Bpys" are going fine half tone Il lustrations of the chief War Scenes. A NEW MAP WILL BE PUT UP EVERY WEEK. The Public is cordially invited to call weekly and ' examine this very interesting historical summary .1he Union Drug Co. . l. . . . A. M. SECREST, Ph.U Manager. Phone 221. - Monroe, N.C. Time For Vs To Take Stock of Our selves. To the Editor of The Journal: There la but one question before the minds or our people just now me winning of the war, Liberty Donds, tec. But let us stop long enough to get our bearings and take siocn oi ourselves. We know that the flower of our young manhood have gone to lay down their lives for the cause of liberty and the freedom of the world; we know that business is beginning to suffer because of this deficit, that women are being called to take the places of these men, that at no time in the past history of the world has efficiency been at sucn a premium at the present time. And what of the future? what binH nt hm-a and are coins to fill the places or tnose wnose uvea will be sacrificed in this great war? How are we preparing those left In our care for future citizenship? n.nf Allen irhn haa tin n 80 mUCn to build up our schools here, says he and his teachers are nanuicappeu be cause they haven't the equipment with which to worK. inis u should be sufficient argument for the improvements which must be made In our school buildings. Our city Is a laugning siock, whcu onmea to Tublic School facilities. Think of trying to teach boys and i,l. frntn nlco hnmp.l in me uiu poor house," which is still reeking with the odors of long ago. New school buildings are being constructed In other towns constant- y, while we are so poor ana snon tv.j that tea Mn't en down Into BIKIIICU Hi" " - r- -- our pockets for the most crying neeasi of the time, rne nign scnuui n Wlngate would put to shame our buildings here, and Instead of setting an examole to our sister towns we should turn to them for direction. Have we grown so big tnai we nave lost our way? Prof. Claxton, commissioner oi u ucatlon, says It will be twenty years after the war before we can think nr rav hiillriinex here unless we get them before reconstruction days. Scientists who have made cnua-cui-ture a life study, tell us that environ ment does play an all-Important part In the development oi xne T.vvninirista Vnnw that everr Item In a child's surroundings has a weak ening or strengtnening innuence vt. mlnJ aoxnrHlnir in th kind Of 1119 I1I1UU, ...llnna" It rarilatoa in him.' Also they know mat a cnua s "' t. .cikiw ffiutDit fnr vnnd nr for 111 ID OUUll ' v .v. Bw t... iv. Atrart sffBrt OTerrlsprt on nlS body by the physical conditions under which he wonts. Let him work in a school room that U dusty, badly ventilated, poorly . - - .! it H. lighted, ana or nerve-sirainmg u.a ordlliness, and his general mental power is sure to deteriorate. It will deteriorate If for no other reason than that by being obliged constantly to Inhale Impure, germ-laden air, the blood supply to his brain becomes Im poverished and poisoned. This means a lessening of the brain's functioning power, and consequently of the CU11U B iuiuimub ruwti. , Now, If these things are true, ana we know they are, how can our chil dren develop into the men wo men both physically and mentally Vusw-n llamls Stretched :it to Your Table ' The right to be idle, an economic parasite; the right to waste; the right to run one's body by dissipation; the oh .n.n:iiw "rleht" of a parent to let his child grow up In Ignorance all these things me present .t,nM nut a far behind us as the Civil War put the right of one man to own the body or anomer i ;. Every issue, as we have said, from a dog tax to human morals. Is freshly illumined bv this new conception or human relations. Before the war, for example, it a man wished to art an extravagant table, or If he wished to support two, three, five or six ..u,... - hta nlace. whose v..iQ. na it? Nobody s but his. own, he declared. If he cared to stand the expense of food-waste, no bodv else had a right to complain, no.. bpp thlnes differently. Across the seas there come the bitter cries of men and v.omen stirvic;; for. bread, and cries not oniy oi " u" i wnmptl hilt of little children and he.p- j Ipss Infanfs. "In some parts of Eu-, rope," It is vpportel. -neanv dree under four ..oa old have ol appeared" - because litt e children must have sufficient nourishing food or surrender to weakness and disease. They cannot survive ine nraii: and privations which sirong-bodwd i grown people may live throush- he Bufferings of even the adult3 being terrible enough, In all conscience. In this situation, hard-hearted in deed !s the man who can look on any with indifference. Blind of soul is he Indeed if he doese not see when he sits down at his own table the tretcn-ed-out hands of :nother with pinched faces asking wltn meir uivuo forgetfulness, only the crumbs for pale-faced little ones; he has In him no bowels of mercy If he does not hear the cries of half-st?rved men, fighting the battle of human freedom. ?j t,.if.f.niiahd while we In 1...1.. ret rnnsume too mucti ana then waste shamelessly in addition. The Progressive Farmer. We are Still Offering Some Good Shoe Bargains A number of Monroe ladies have been driving out to our store in the afternoons to take advantage of the exceptional bargains we offer. Bivens Bros. EVERTHING IN GROCERIES, PRODUCE AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE Phone No. 255. Opposite Oil MilL Manned by Iead Men, Airship Sailed un. n DnU.ann flori an extraordi- ..m.i nxfurrpd to one of our narj- muu..... -- - .i..innn. a innn Liiiits hku. " rS:"i::r eave battle to an en- v.tk nraa ahnt OOWn and" crushed. After the battle . which t . - . nvor i hi linen tOOK piatc ju31, . .Lnima wan seen going off southwards, apparently only par tially under control, ana """';-; thoroaftpr will never . . j . v... than two hours De Knowu, uui . . , .v, marh ne crashed to laitJr iuc .- - ' .. kki4 tuir In as. rrw. ..tmi tank was empty ana ...w hart hPPn dead some DOlil iHTujmuu. .. . try,a .. i.mj k th. aame bullet, lie UUie, ihicu " "r .v.. ik. ma opinion oi trxprno ' -- . chine had flown by at Itself for at least two hour, with two dead men : .u. ..mi ii ihau3ted. in it uniu me having swung off in a great c lrc e " . . V. vnhlnrl IT a over unknown tanus dbib. ---.. knata have been wnVnVuhtheetsmade , .- a ilpafl man nnu tiller. ' According to a dispatch from Ge- T.tnn.. Maria Antionett. mota- r nf Emnree Zlta of Austria, has ..iin.il in loor. Anatria within u Cru uuiuiu ai v...ro tt la atatpd that she was t, 1 UUUIV. p responsible for the letter of Emperor Charles in wnica peacw were made to France. Your Savings., What are you doing with them? Are you let ting them dribble out, a little here and a little there, for things that will be of little if any benefit to you 7 Or are you keeping them intact so they may grow into a respectable sum that will count when you see the chance for a good investment? A SAVINGS BANK ACCOUNT keeps your money all in a lump, ready at any time you need it. And if you get the savings habit it is worth almost as much as the savings themselves. This bank solicits savings accounts, large and small. Let us help you toward capitalism. The Savings, Loan and Trust Co. R. B. Redwine, President H. B. (?lark, Cashier. You Should Feed Your Horses, Com and Hogs well dur ing the Spring. We are well stocked with Timothy Hay, Alfalfa, Cori flats. Sweet reea. Kice meai, iuiu reeu, i eanui Cotton Seed Meal and Hulls. C Our prices are right Phone us your orders. T-n-iTmrvnTin n a ott cimn'n'n at Wi aw I Phone 178. The Store That Appreciates Your TraJ
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