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PUBLISHED TWICE EACH WEEK - TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
VOL 23. No. 53
MONROE, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1919.
$1.50 PER YEAR CASH.
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I Kev. V. I. Pcikio. Colored, Attempt
I I to I Jet Away With Five Pound
of Sueur nml ('aught in tlie
i Act I') .Mr. Freil Manev.
Probably the first instance where a
preacher was lined for petty' larceny
happened in Recorder's court yester
day morning. Rev. V. P. Perkins
was fined $10 and the costs by Judge
Lenituond for stealing fire pounds of
sugar from Mr. F. B. Ashcraffs store,
Late Tuesday afternoon the color
ed parson walked into Mr. Ashcraffs
store and told Mr. Fred Maness. the
only clerk in at the time, that he
wanted 25 cents worth of oats for his
mule. There are two rooms connect'
ed by a doorway to the store and Mr
Maness entered the room where the
oats were kept, leaving the preacher
alone in the other. It seemed to Mr.
Maness that the Reverend acted some'
what suspicious and this led him to
peer out of the door of the room he
had entered and as he did so he saw
the spiritual adviser step from the
other room and proceed to his bu go-
where he shored something under the
seat. ;
"What was that you placed in your
buggy ?" Mr. Maness enquired of the
black minister as he handed him the
oats. "Oh, I just went out to look
for a sack," was the reply. "Let me
see if 1 can find one," remarked Mr.
Maness ;is lu proceeded toward the
negro's buggy. 1'nder the tap robe
lie found a five pound sack of sugar
1 lie officers were informed, the
preacher was arrested and yesterday
it ioi-ii i : i u arraigned in Judge Lem-
mond's mutt to answer for bis sins.
w here h was fined $ln and the cost
Kev. I'm kins gave notice that he
would appeal the case to Superior
court b it later paid the fine and cost.
It is pointed out that Perkins may
belong to the class of preachers who
told his congregation "Now. don't do
as I do but do as I tell you to do.'
Whet!..'!- Perkins' dock will forgive
and foigtt, or whether they will cx
ronitii'vilcaie him and employ a par
son who doesn't require so much su
gar for bis coffee remains to o seen.
Sine the above wns written the
police have learned that Perk i us a!
one time mad an attempt to sell the
Southern Cotton Oil Co. 200 pounds
of rock for cotton seed and almost
got away with the stout. He drove
up to the office of the oil company,
the police are inhumed, with a load
of cotton seed. The seed was weigh
ed and the negro was told to drive to
the shd and empty them. I'nseeti
by Peikins an employee of the com
pany watched the parson throw sev
eral heavy rocks from his wagon. He
had been careful to se that the seed
conceal d Ihe rock. When confront
ed with his deception Perkins ex
plained that the rook had been lying
In his yard and that his wife had
placed them in the wagon telling him
to throw thein beside the road some
where. "And I fogot all about it,"
lie concluded.
r.F.rF.vr st atf i:vs.
The l.n!et Politiciil. Sx lal, and (Mb
er Happening in North t'arnlinu
Under a plan now being worked
out, tree meals for every soldier who
attends the 30th division reunion is
assured. The reunion will be held in
Greenville, S. C, September 29 and
30. According to official estimates
from lO.O'iO to 15,000 ex-soldiers will
attend and it will be necessary to en
tertain many of the visitors in pri
vate homes.
On Friday night, Ed Hunslnger
returned soldier of Forest City, shot
his father-in-law. Dock Crawler, five
times in the legs and hips. Family
troubles seemed to be the cause.
Hickory grammar school teachers
will hereafter receive a salary of $80
and high school teachers $85 per
month. This step was found necessa
ry iu order to retain competent teach-
ers.
Construction of eight great cotton
warehouses In the Carollnas with a
total capacity of 300.000 bales is
proposed by the Union Warehouse
Co., recently organized in New York
In this state houses will be built at
Charlotte, Raleigh and Greensboro
A mysterious shooting affair occur
red in Kings Mountain Monday morn
ing. Arthur Taunt and Ed Cilbert
were walking down the road when a
.22 calibre bullet struck Taunt in the
back and went almost through him.
Neither of the boys heard the report
of a gun and no clue has been found
as to who did the shooting.
Robert Long, a negro youth of
Charlotte, had his heart pierced by a
.knife In the hands of a negro boy,
'and was immediately rushed to the
Good Samaritan hospital where Dr.
W.E.Wishart sewed tip the heart be
tween throbs. Dr.Wishart had experi
ence of this kind w hile with the army
in France.
The Sunday School Board of the
Southern (Methodist church, at Its an
nual session at Lake Junaluaka.
unanimously voted to build a $75,000
Sunday school building In which to
hold its annual training institute for
Sunday school teachers.
An infant child of Mr. and Mrs. A.
B. Breece who live near Fayetteville,
wan drowned Tuesday morning in a
peculiar manner. The carriage In
which the child had beep left sleep
ing was blown by the wind down a
hill at the rear of the house and into
a creek at the foot of the declivity.
At the annual convention of the
N. C. Bar Association which met in
Greensboro Wednesday and Thurs
day. Judge w. P. Bynum was elected
president for the ensuing year.
F.MHAKI.O IS PLACED ON ALL j
FKKIt.HT i:(T:PT FOOIISTI FF
OKUANIZATION OF A SUMMI
t OKI1IKATION I NIfF.K WAY
Srahonrd Agent J. A. Dongla lie- Mk lo the Amount of MMi Has
reive tinier to This Effect'
Freight Kngine Pulling Puxsenger !
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lleeii Subscribed Willi Headquar
ter Here Wizard Lighting Com
uii)' Would Cover Eastern Tarts
of Carolina.
Stock to the amount of $6000 in'
Train Cur Cleaner Keliirn to
Work.
The acutenes of Ihe strike situa-l
lion was shown here upon receipt onjthe Wizard Lighting Company, Inc.,
Wednesday afternoon by Mr. J. A. i a $20,000 corporation, has already
Douglas, freight agent, of orders plac- j been subscribed and the work of com
ing an embargo on all freight except Ipleting the organization of the coin
food stuff for human consumption, 'pany goes on apace. Application for a
this to be accepted subject to delay, charter is expected in a short time.
The orders received by Mr. Doug-i With headquarters here the corn
las read as follows: 'pany will act as agents and distribu-
"On account of labor conditions tors of the Wizard kerosene lighting
the Seaboard embargoes all freight system over the eastern nart nf the
car load and less car load, from all two Carolinas. Mr. R. Sams will
points to all destinations, exoept head the business,
foodstuff for human consumption. I Mr. Sams came to Monroe a num
which latter will be accepted only . ber of months ago and formed a part
when B. L. and wbs. are endorsed nership with local interests to engage
(subject to delay)" . I in the distribution of the Wizard sys-
The effect of the strike of the tern. The efforts met with anih m..
snopmen. wno walked out last Friday icess that in order to keep pace with
And man was made. And God
'quickened him with the life of his
";ATF.SMII T AMI UATKS OI'F.N. ,own light, and man became a living
s 'jsoul. But there was the shadow of
A Set u by Rev. S. L. Rotter. darkness on man as well as the snark
'of light in him. He sinned. And he
1,, ou 8jnjM? from unfi-aij,,,, io
ILintors Note: The Journal con- generation. All the w hile God was
siuers itself fortunate in being able revealing lo him gradually more and
to secure Rev. Mr. Rotter, Rector of ; more of the light that he wanted man
WORE LADIES STOCKINGS A XI)
DIDN'T mi.IF.YF. IN HELL
the Monroe Episcopal church, to con
tribute a weekly sermon to its col
umns. The sermon will appear in
each Friday edition.)
"And the gates of it shall not be
shut at all by day; Tor there shall be
no night there." Revelation 21:25.
It is the New Jerusalem St. John is
writing about. The gates shall never
be shut, he says. No night in the
great city of the future. So no dark
ness. No fear of enemies. The light
shall have overcome the darkness.
And the gates may remain open all
the time. All shall be free to go in
and out as they please. There is to
be light and freedom in the New Je
rusalem. That is one of the marks of the
heavenly city as described by the au-
night upon receipt of orders from 'the demands It was fnnnJ 'T or gelation writing out the
union officials Is apparent In the, to Increase the capital Invested and uTlsleTpaUT u. hJ fLVU"
naascneer sen- iai nrih.iir.ukf .. . ne lsie of t'atmos. He has been tell-
snriui instances I reign i engines and u a himhn.au man .f oMiit.- rf ----"--- Di.v..
have been employed to pull through ! integrity.
passenger trains. A troop train spent ' To secure amide snnce for nfficpa
several hours standing on the yards and storage room Tor the new com
and was then pulled out by a switch (pany it Is planned to have local men
engine ordinarily employed upon the erect a building for that purpose. It
..us. ii is sain, mis was made is thought that this building will be
necessary by the fact that engines erected on the lot Oil Hnvneft ulrput
usually pulling passenger and troop just south of the store of H. G. Nash
trains were out of commission for : Ar Coimumv
t I ....... a iiiiik irnrrti 111(41
want of repairs. Information oh- negotiations with thii d. vi..-
tallied is to the effect that there are now under war with Mr. J. R Shute
several engines tied mi at the round-' . '. .
i apt. d. H. Men res and famllv left
House here in need of repairs. It is
presumed that this is the condition
ft other terminal points. Railroad
men slate that it is only a matter of
lime u n i i I the strike will cripple the
pi'ssenger set vice.
The only woikmen among the liftv
who walked out last Friday night to
return to work are two car cleaners.
It developed that they were not In
cluded in t he strike orders receive!
mil therefore they derided to return
to work.
this morning by automobile for ii trip
to the mountains.
Dr. Kemp Funderburk will open
his dental offices in the Sikes-Blair
building on Main street Monday. Dr.
Funderburk recently graduated from
Ihe Southern Dental College at At
lanta. Mrs. L A. Horn. B. A. Horn, Jr..
Mrs. G. F. Horn and Mrs. C. M.
Hums of Wadfsboro, left this morn
ing for Lake Jiinaluska.
that marked off the holy Jerusalem
from earthly cities, and this mark of
the always-open gates was the final
one. It may be called the top rung of
the climax of the good times to come
the highest and best and greatest
of the steps that men and women are
to climb iu the ascent to the promis
ed land of the Bride of the Lamb.
That 's to be a land without night,
where till is light, where no gates are
to be shut, where there shall be per
fect freedom because there is to be
no darkness. A city where the na
tions of them which are saved shall
walk iu the light of the Lamb, freed
from the things that kept the gates
shut.
In the darkness of the night that
was before the dawn of creation God
said, "Lei there be light", and there
was light. Then there was life nnd
j growth, the living world, and ail that
! therein was, and all that It meant.
nut mere was darkness still. There
iwns the night as well as the day.
FIE PRO
VIJIVANJ
AGAINST
Typhoid Fever!
Every Citizen, white and colored, in Union
County should be immunized.
It causes no sores, no loss of time. It is safe, almost certain protection. Conveni
ent, practically painless, and FREE. Typhoid has been practically eradicated wherev
er vaccine has been used.
VACCINATION A TRIUMPH IN PREVENTIVE MEDICINE.
Since the use of vaccine the Army has reduced typhoid fever among the soldiers ),o00
per cent.
Take your family and get all your neighbors to go to the most convenient dispensa-
iy aim ue vaccina teu.
The county which gets the greatest percentage of its population vaccinated will be
6,,c" ie cAeiises oi iuc enure campaign.
EVERYBODY, from 3 years of age, to 100, should be vaccinated.
Three treatments, one week apart, are necessary to nrntoet. Thpref nre he sure tn
tMClf n !cnAnnmr am iLA aahi'mm Ji. - 1 a It ii
.ion, a uiffjjcusaij uii me upemug uaie, in oraer io secure an tnree treatments.
DATES AND PLACES FOR UNION COUNTY TYPHOID DISPENSARIES.
FERNANDO HELMS' STORE 9 to 11 a. m., Saturday, August 1G, 2:',, :50, Sept G,
MONROE 1 to 5 p. m., Saturday, August 16, 2:5, :)0, Sept. G.
WINGATE 9 to 12 a. m., Monday, August 18, 23, Sept. 1 and 8.
MARSHVILLE.... . .. 2 to 5 p. m., Monday, August 18, 25, Sept. 1 and 8.
WEDDINGTON 9 to 12 a. m.. Tuesdav. Autrust 19. 2G. Sent. 2 nnd 9.
, 7 - - J 7 -1-
..2 to 5 p. m., Tuesday, August 19, 26, Sept 2 and 9.
.9 to 12, a.m., Wednesday, Aug. 27, Sept. :i and 10.
.2 to 5 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 20, 27, Sept. 3 and 10.
..9 to 12 a. m., Thursday, Aug. 21, 28, Sept 4 and 11.
WAXHAW.
WILSON'S OLD STORE..
PROSPECT-
ALTAN
DR. J. B. EUBANKS,.
OLIVE BRANCH
UNIONVILLE
INDIAN TRAIL
.2 to 5 p. m., Thursday, Aug. 21, 28, Sept. 4 and 11.
.9 to 11 a. m., Friday, Aug. 22, 29, Sept. 5. and 12.
12- to 3 p. m., Friday, Aug. 22, 29, Sept. 5 and 12.
4 to 6 p. m., Friday, August 22, 29, Sept. 5 and 12.
Be sure to come on the appointed hour according to new time.
THE STATE AND COUNTY BOARDS OF HEALTH.
to have, the light to show him the
way thiouth the crooked paths of
sin-twisted life, the to make him
free. For still there was darkness.
Finally came the light that light
eth every man that cometh into the
world. The angel told it to the shep
herds dazzled with the outstreaming
glory of the Lord that seemed to en
wrap them as in a mantle of light and
barkening to the choir of heaven's
host took up the strain of jtlory that
was echoed on earth as peace and
among men as good will. The wise
men saw it in the star that blazed
their path across the deserts from the
east as they came to pay homage to
the infant that was to be the light
to lighten the nations, and to be the
glory of Israel.
And that light shone in the dark
ness, and the darkness comprehend
ed it not. Not all of it, that is. com
prehended it. Some of it did. And
upon the some that did there sat on
that day of Pentecost cloven tongues
like as of fire. The Are of the Holy
Spirit was upon them, and they burn
ed with his inspiration. They bare
the light with their might and started
relay upon relay of torchbearers that
nave iignteu countless dark corners
during nearly two thousand veais
as ihe blaze passed from failing hand
to fresher grasp, rising brighter with
each passing life.
And the last survivor of the apos
tles, in the last days of his life, sees
a new city where there shall be no
darkness and no shutting of gates,
where there shall be the greatest
light of all. the light of the Lamb.
Hut there is still darkness on the
earth. There are still tales that have
bine to be shut, for there Is still
night here as well as day. In propor
tion as the light that is of Christ has
opened the understanding of men.
gates are being opened. Liberty fol
lows the light. Freedom begins to
eotne in by the open gates. It is
hardly correct to speak of liberty en
lightening Ihe world. Rather it is
that light liberates the world. Look
at Russia, claimii.g liberty without
'.iulit, and -getting something akin to
anarchy. Light is the true source of
liberty. Knlklitennient is the sure
nay to freedom. Liberty without light
is lawlessness and not freedom in the
highest sense at all.
The stone obeys the law of gravi
tation and has only the liberty of
staying where It is until something!
moves it. The tree obeys the higher
law of vegetable growth and so over
comes the law of gravitation, rises
superior lo it. overcomes it. clearing
the earth with more liberty than the
stone. The animal obexs still higher
laws than the tree and so has still
"ill more liberty. So in man .the
laws of reason and sell '-consciousness
overcome the laws of animal instinct.
being higher laws, and so man obey-
iig the higher laws of bis human na
me has still more freedom than the
animal. The hither the laws one
obeys the greater liberty w ill he have.
And when the higher laws are obey
ed the lower ones are obeyed, too.
The tree, the animal, and the man
obey Ihe law of gravitation, too, hut
they obey something better besides.
and so the lower law, instead of hold
ing them down, helps them up. True
freedom tomes through learning the
higher laws and obeying them, but
the higher laws cannot be learned
without the foundation of the lower
ones. Liberty is the liberation from
he lower law that comes with the
learning and obedience of the higher
lav. The grades of liberty are deter
mined by the scale of laws which one
is obeying.
Every being has Its own law, Its
proper mode of living. The power to
follow the law of one's own being is
the only real freedom. The planter,
if he learns and obeys the laws of the
forces of nature, profits greatly there
by, himself and others. If he pay no
attention to those laws, he falls into
trouble. The sailor, disregarding the
laws governing water traveling, be
comes the victim of the very element
that he might have used as a profit
able means of transportation.
The light that Is Christ is the
highest law of all. the spiritual law.
It gives the most complete freedom
of all when obeyed. It liberates from
all the lower laws because obedience
to the higher law includes obedience
to the lower also, and because the
operation of the higher obedience to
the lower also, and because the op
eration of the higher makes unnec
essary the nondage of the lower. It
we obey the highest spiritual law. lo
love God and our neighbor, we do not
have to be jailed to make us obev the Mr. Lee A. Tomberlin left Wednes-
ordinary laws of our being. That must ."' or Pet rot t. Michigan.
have been what St. Paul meant when " .. ;
he wrote of Christ freeing men from ishut very fas' still. The light of the
the bondage of the law. spiritual law that brings true free
The real low of man's nature is dom Is still weathering a blighting
goodness. Does he know it? Yes. I blast and must needs.be sheltered
Kaiitlolph I uiMleiliurk. Arraigned for
Stealing I .in lie Hie Sent lo I'ouil.
Iiy f St. kings Hail lleen Out
r Sljle Then He Wouldn't HaTd
lieen in Trouble.
He wore ladies stockings and did
n't believe in Hell, although he was
a member of the Baptist church and
had "been under the water " were
declarations made by Randolph Fun
derburk. 17 year old colored youth
arraigned before Recorder Lemmond
Wednesday on a charge of stealing a
pair of silky, filmy adornments that
incase the ladies lower limbs..
Bessie Helms, colored testified that
Randolph stole the silky things ai
they hung on the wire in her vard.
and then proceeded a little ways and
taking off his shoes pulled them onto
his knarled calves. Officer Earn
hart was summoned and made tha
negro do th- peeling stunt with re
ference to the stockings.
Judge Lemmond decided that
Randolph should be sent awav out In
the country where there were few
clothes wires with ladies silk stock
ings hanging on them
Men who attend Recorder's court
regularly said that thev had seen
negroes up for stealing underclothes,
pig and cord wood but that was the
first instance that they had witnessed
a negro boy up for stealing ladies
hose tor his own use. Randolph said
that he had worn ladies hose from
baby hood. M declared at one time
that his uiKb- ! ght the stocking,
displayed before the court, for hira
at Kurd's last Saturday. At another
time while testifying he said h
bought them. It was suggested that
the reason he wore ladies hose and
preferred silk ones was that he might
lie proud of his less and thus wished"
to set off their charms.
It occurred to the minds of some of
those who heard Hie case that a num
ber of the Fashion Moguls of thf
larger Northern rities were 1'osterlng
a movement to get a decree issued
that stockinsis for ladies were "not
the style." These Moguls, it occur
red to some at the trial, contend that
the ladies stocking has reached sucn
a filmy stage that its entire removal
would not cause much of a stir in
other Words, there wouldn't be much
gone. In Philadelphia the hotel man
agers have been asked if they would
tie willing to receive ladv guests
who wore no stockings. The tiiiiia
gers replied that if it suited the ladies
that they didn't rare. If thought
some at Randolph's trial, the Fashion
Moguls had succeeded In putting over
their stnckingless stvle several weeks
ago, then there might not have been
any silk hose hanging on that wire
o caich the eyM mid cause the down
fall of the susceptible negro hoy.
Therefore, they thought, under such
conditions Randolph was only a vic
tim of circumstance.
Hut Judge Leixmomi turned his
intellect upon the situation and
di creed that Randolph should re
tire into the country and now it may
be referred In as a case "wherein one
was Downed by Ladies Hose."
Tin ills
That Stir the S ml AImhiihI In
"Secret Scrv ice."
Thrills that s;ir the soul are plen
tiful iu "Secret Service." William
Gillette's famous drama, a Paramount
Arti raft special picture which comes
to the Strand Theatre next Monday.
Major Robert Warwick, who has doff
ed the khaki and temporarily wears
the blue of the Federal and the but
ternut of the Confederate service in
this picture, plays the role made fa
mous by Mr. Gillette.
Caught iu a desperate situation, in
his efforts to betray Richmond into
the hands of the I'nion Army, th
hero is saved by a Southern girl who
has learned to love him. This it not,
however, a war play with shot and
shell flying thickly; but a tense hu
man story of a few people involved
in a network as the result of secret
service in its most dramatic sense.
In the support cast are found many
favorites. Wanda Hawley, beautiful
and talented, is Edith Varney, till
heroine, playing opposite Major Rob
ert Warwick. Others in the cast are
Theodore Roberts. Raymond Hatton,
Irving Ouiniuiugs, Casson Ferguson,
F.dythe Chapman and Guy Oliver.
St. Paul's I'piMopnl Cliurrli,
Sunday, August 10 Sunday school
at 1 o : n t ; morning service at 11:30;
Men's Bible class at 4:30. Every
Wednesday night Litany nnd address.
Romls to the amount of $30,
000 for the purpose of installing a
water and electric light system for
Marshville were sold Wednesday to
Sydney. Spitzer & o. of Toledo. 0. '
It is certified by the voice of his
conscience. Goodness Is the onlv true
freedom for man. the only thing that
will keep his gates open.
So in the New Jerusalem that St.
John sees, the gates shall not be shut
at all by day; for there shall be no
from the bitterest wind. Real liberty
will not come to the world until men
get to realize that the law of Christ
is supreme, that money and lands and
power are not the things of supreme
importance even in this world, an!
then not until that realization is put
night there. There will be no need i into practice. In proportion as that
tohut the gates. Complete freedom ,is done more and more the gates will
will relen; for the limiting fetters open wider and wider and stay open
of disobedience to the highest snirit-j longer and longer. And men and
uai taw win not cioua me inhani- women may pass in ana out with more
. i m. ; 1 1 tiLi . , ' .
ihiub. i nej vim ue enngnienea Bi-i
together by the light of the all-obe
dient, all-abundant life.
Many of the gates
on earth are higher levels.
and more freedom to fulfill the high
est function of their being, th God-
given task of raising the ' race to