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SiOOO. Stock - JEWERY SALE - $5,000 Stock Beginning Wednesday morning', December 18th, and lasting' 8 days. Consisting of Diamond Rings, Diamond Lavaliers, Cameo Brooches, Lavaliers in Cameo Goods, Simmons Watch Chains, Elgin Bracelet Watches, Scarf Pins, Rings of every description, Emblem goods, Vanity Cases, Men's Watches, Gold Knives, Cut Glass, Silverware, etc. ! SZSStSaSnffS. McCALL, Tine .Jeweler 1 X ! V tatmas Cakes NOW READY. All kinds, colors and sizes. Baked bet ter than the best and with a taste that stands the test. You can buy cheaper than you can bake one. Get yours now. MONROE BAKERY. ji.m wilcox imkdoxed. Xovus Homo .Vlvwiites Woman Suffrage Written for the Journal. liurdtMied with the duty of honie keeping, and bread winning that it cannot spare them fifteen or twenty Of all the ridiculous arguments minutes out of each two years to against woim-n suffrage we have 'step out to the voting booth and de heeit yet. the most comic is the plea posit a little scrap of paper. Surely that "Ve want the women to remain scraps of paper of this nature are in the home." not highly valued by them, or at In name of Sam Hill, and all the j least the handling of such scraps are little Hills, why could not women j not to be allowed to any greater vote If they wish to without forsak- number of people than nn excuse to ing the hoiae? 'disfranchise will limit. Xovus It takes only a few minutes out 1 Homo. -! of each two years, or seven hundred and thirty days to cast a ballot, and if men can find time to do their lit tle voting stunt, and still keep their business colim on full time why Heboid tlie Uuv IWe! (Minneapolis Journal.) could women not. also do as much? hjH idHl of ,ife 8UCCt,s3 W0Ua be for- To listen at the anu-sunnige one would think that if women were then the right of franchise, and ty acres of red clover waist high, in full June bloom and fragrance all the year through and forever. What should proceed to exercise that light , 0)C lllmUe bee couli do wlih foi.,y men sne wouui gei iimuiiig ei.-e .U...T-, atrll8 0(- ,.0VeI. 110 uee llor lll0,.al and that the whole of her time would j cvel. kiew. but le bt,ef jf hulian ue lauen up in puimcui bui hj i wi.se, would want all that and more. the utter neslwt of her i.iore Impor tant ditties. I suppose thai If we had not until Ihis pood day grunted the right of the franchise lo any except the Invade his flowery honey l:.mi at the height of this season, and ho puts out no restraining hand. The.'e is no padlock on his gate. The w.iolc field Is r.-hum with polyglot plunder wer.lthy. and this on the grounds, ! pn) col)u;ig from everywhere to car.. v that no ot tiers nau ine leisuie i away very g00(ls thaf nre g()ld spend In politicul activity, and thei() ,,, b,,m)le bt,e But ue ,,uts up voting process, aim ui me ' 0 defi iK.e. He makes no vicious time there was some members of lho i-0i.nter o-fensive. as the yellow jack woiklng class who were trying to llliKht. if y search for hi ni here break into the voting booth; there i you find him (:ills(,ntlv ,,ros,,eC!,,R would be those opposliiK the move on ; w,;h ,,, h(jnev )Um!) hl;mmiht, ,, the grounds that these working peo-.IIO,,p so() ag h W01.kg lo.dtU of ,.,. Pie were needed on their Jobs, and " u, s,rai,i)Wi t0 i,s rUnninK board, that It would cosUhe nation several ; h,a ,om,.u, )UjKillK v iIh joy f,.ddor. millions of dollars to stop business ; He ,g h,.v,ng (he iilie of hjs for a day in order to let them vote. whpn (ho fn.tv ams of ,.ed ti.m. This latter contention would no , i8 a wllderlm cf dry 8tubble under doubt be very true, but f only the ft K(.0.chilll, j, h a!id hhj Mlil. money kings were allowed to vote at jons ,n t,,over ar0 KW())t away by )he the present lime, it would cost the i f the llt.0,ip ,h,H ,muh HK, vu.rkt-is ne.eral millions of Hollars, , w, no( he f()Uld han!;inK ,,v a Blid,,,. not to vote, and lo be explicitly plain , V(lj, , a ,V),r(1 ,.ow fi.ewwHli a ,)nnk. about it, the vorkt-r can ole a darn jrl.)f Sllrlde- Not llP j,, (hu f..iu,p Sight cheaper turn he can ivfniin .,,.;,,. it,ft by ,;,e mowPV cin,i his fvow voting, and I suspect thai, when vclm RllU of ht:lrk ,, yellow, even vut.!o;i get i!;.' ballot that tae ,,on. ,)0 if, V-.0..kili; 0VPr ,h( dl,m)) of uajo:i:y will be ho largely I'icrcn.s.'u ,.nj(i(. rod lllint,( nll(1 Kold ,s shinning ga"i.t political InlriKue, and Juinc- f..0 bs ,,0Pket8i Moreover, eiism, that ve will find that the few . ,)( h,g n fn,r gw.,K lef( , h,s h()noy lulnutes she spends each two years , , a))d he ,8 rU hlimmlllg hi9 8011g 111 lVlfliermg lier nivn iis.uimi of , j, jllnei ruption will pay large dividends to that class of producing laboreis, who really hardly do have time at the present to drop their work long enough to vote for Cod knows what Since they have been too busy to properly post themselves. Better economic conditions thru out; which the women would cer tainly bring about, it iney nao. a As the season goes down the steep slope toward chilly weather the bum ble bee does not dig his .reluctant heels Into the sod. lag sullenly back mid turn a regretful eye over his shoulder, with his heart In the lost red clover forty. He takes the small sweets of poverty as he did the rich se? of June honey. From a June millionaire s estate voice In the matter, would give all of .a haa t.s more leisure In which to better. .a,Pi taking a handout Qualify ourselves for citizenship. from R wePd Bn(j beeglng a It has been stated frequently dur-1 lodging in the lest bloom of lug the years past that only about : a W8,de h0nvhoPk. But he still re-one-thlrd. (or 33 i per cent.) of the ju(ng well-brushed suit, his good people are usefully employed. iniaiHwp barltone and his memories of one-third, one In thre of the popula- June tlon has ben doing very well at the ' business of production, and has en abled the other two-thirds two In j "Mima," said the little boy. "now Ihree to manage to exist made j that the people know that the Kaiser millionaires out of a number of them and has done all this on an eight and ten hour day. Now If the women get a whack at the "corrupt practices act" and de mand that everybody work "Includ tn dad" enough to put their up keep on their own shoulders then we , can reduce the number of hours of j labor to not more than nve oui oi each twenty-four, then everybody will have time to vote, and rock the cradle too. It seems to me to be a very seri ous reflection on a democracy that Is one hundred and forty-two years old to contend that Its women are so is going to hell when he dies, won't everybody try, extra hard, not to go there?" Ex. Piles Cored la 6 to 14 Days twdrts rrhrod mooo? 1 PAZO OWTMCNT WW to air Itch"". Bul. Bldin orProtraduM Pita. haunt1? rdMt Itchlot Pt:n, and rvm cu fet leiiul mc Ui t-frt ?pULu. ftum. 100 HORSES and MULES For SALE or EXCHANGE. 3o FOWLER & LEE. vvvvvvvWvmmvvvm 'AJotist With Six Other Pardons in the Ciirisiinas I5:ttcli Wilcox Had Ser ril 15 Ve:ii-s in I'rlson us Alleged Slayer of Xell Cropsey. , Jim Wilcox's personal appeal di rect to governor Uickett was appa rently back of the Chief Magistrate' attion in granting the Kliabeth City jinau a pardon on Saturday. Wilcox ; had served one half of a thirty-year j term In the State IVniteuliary for the ; alleged murder of his former sweet ' heart, Nell Cropsey. This is ihe lirsl time that Wilcox jhas ever denied his fjtiilt. Nor has I lie ever confessed it. That fact has heretofore been a factor in the action j of former governors in refusing to grant a pardon repeatedly asked for. jThe records show that Wilcox has I be ii an exemplary prisoner, not a single black mark having been enter- tI against him during his fifteen years' Imprisonment. Governor Craig had gathered the opinion that he was cruelly indiffer ent, the testimony had shown that after the Cropsey-Wilcox quarrel and the girl failed to return home, Wil cox when asked by the distraught father of Miss Cropsey if he knew where she was and where he last saw her, declared he left her at a cer tain place, then "turned over .and went to sleep." On the first trial in Pasquotank, Wilcox was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to he hi'iiged. The mob spirit was so all pervaslve that it broke out In cheers and Wilsox got a new trial. Tried In an adjoining county he was found viillly of murder in the second de gree and given the limit. Judge G. W. Ward prosecuted hint and Judge W. M. Bond and E. V. Aydlett de fended. Wilcox In writing Governor Bick ett, sas: "Although you may think I am guilty and viewing it from a direc tion other than my own, I, too, can see that the circumstances are against me, for it Is a very mixed up affair, but. I do not know any more about it than an unborn babe, and were it my last words on earth, I would still protest my Innocence, rnd would not be going before my Maker with a lie on my lips. "The simple fact that the Lord has been with me all these many years and hns extended mercy ought to be n sufficient reason why you should show mercy, for your ami iitv Heavenly Father knows I am inno cent. "For fifteen years and seven months I have worked hard and faith ful, been submissive and obedient to those whom I have been under. That is what my prison record will show, and that is a record that very few ever r.ttain. Fifteen years with not h in;i against It! "And now, dear governor, it is with the sunie spirit that you ask the Heavenly Father for mercy that I "ome and ask yon for mercy, and should you see fit to grant me a par don, I can assure yon I will not cause j you one regret for having done so. Of course I know you viewed the other side of the case In every detail, but now I ask you to do this. Just stop and think, sixteen years' unjust punishment. Mother and father taken away during that time, was not al lowed to see them as others have done, broken in spirit and health, not much longer to live, I ask you, do vou not think that I have been pun ished enough'" OTHER PARDONS. Other men pardoned were: John Teachey of Raleigh, sentenced to ten years in State prison in 1915 for house-breaking and larceny: Will McNeill, of Richmond county, sen tenced in 1909 to twenty years in the State prison for second degree mur der; Carl Frits, of Davidson county, sentenced In May 1918 to eighteen months on the county roads for se duction; Will Vines, of Martin coun ty, senteced In March, 1917, to two years in the county jail for larceny; Caro Hall, sentenced in July, 1913, to fifteen years in the State prison for attempted criminal assault; Ellis Carricker, of Stanly County, sen tenced" In July, 1913, to one year in the State prison for making liquor. All of these pardons were conditional. r II S I t - i"-AHli,V -'flWt Tr(1i Mice of Auction Sale, m Up. No Worm In a Healthy Child v AH chOdrea troubled with wonni fcir so on BMtthr color, wklch Indicate poor blood, and ai r rale, then U more or let stomach dlatarbaaco GROVE 3 TASTELESS chUl TONIC (ivea reuirii lor two or three week will aorVh the blood, Im pro the dKeetloo, tad act a General Sueopa mingToaJe to the whole rtem. Natare will t her throw off or dispel the worn, and the Child will bt ia perfect health. Pleaaaat to tat, fcfc per bottle. Closing Out and Wind! Armfield - Porter Company Dissolution Sacrifice Sale. Beginning at ten o'clock A. M, on Saturday, Dec. 28th, Armfield-Porter Company will expose to sale at PUBLIC AUCTION FOR CASH All Real and Personal Property, Notes and Unpaid Accounts. Property consists in part of the following VALUABLE REAL ESTATE: Stable and lot and fixtures, Chesterfield, S. C 3 desirable residence lots in Cherterfield; I well-improved 69-acre farm I mile Chesterfield; I residence lot in Cheraw, S. C. Personal property which consists in part of the following DESIRABLE STUFF: 5 automobiles; 40 head of horses and mules; Numerous buggies, wagons, harness, gear, etc., and YOU FOLKS THAT OWE had better pay up, or your Notes and Accounts Will Be Sold. , Armfield-Porter Company, W. n. Porter, Manager. 1 SJRIBZa7SSSS3BSSrS7 Dr. B. C. Redfearn, Dentist. Office over Heath Morrow Co., Phone 232. MONROE, N. C. At Marshvllle on first and third Mondays of each month and at Mat-1 thews second and fourth Monday. j - W. B. HOUSTON, Surgeon Dentist. ! MONROE, N. C. j Office up-stalrs, Fitzgerald Building, j Northwest of Court House. ! GORDON INSURANCE & INVESTMENT CO. ! INSURANCE EXPERTS. Phone 209. Farmers & Merchants Bank Building. ' Dr. H. Smith, Eye SpeclalM ran be found regularly at h! office, Fitzgerald building, Monroe, N. C, from this dato and during the entire fall and winter. Your eyes examined and (lasses fitted. The tnau who is clean inside and outside, who neither looks up to the rich nor down on the poor, who can lose without squeal ing and win without bragging, w ho is considerate of women, children and old people, who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and too sensible to loaf, who takes his share of the world's goods and lets others have theirs, and who buys his Furniture from Dillon, Is indeed a true gentleman. Don't forget your War Savings stamp pledge. We keep them all the time. Come in, we are here to wait on you. T. P. DILLON
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