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THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY READS IT THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYlA ' Y NEEDS IT HE MONROE-JO PUBLISHED TWICE EACH WEEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY VOL 25. No. 62. MONROE, X. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1919. $1.50 PER YEAR CASH. LATEST HAPPENINGS News Events of the Day in the State and Nation. The Italian Chamber of Deputies Ing the women of Italy the right of suffrage. Dr. Halinel von Taimbarsen lias been selected for appointment as Ger man Ambassador to the U. S. Daniel Rhine of Ltncolnton has en- (lowed Lenoir College in Hickory with $100,000 provided a total of $220,000 is raised. A meeting of the executive com mittee of the Democratic National committee has been called for Sept. 27 at Atlantic City. All A. E. F. property in France, ex cept that withheld for return to the U. S., has been sold to France. It Is valued at $400.000.0000. The Federal Reserve Board says that the reaction from the high price level reached during the war has set in and business over the country con tinues at an extremely large volume. Joseph Buckner Bishop, for thirty years a personal friend of Col. The odore Roosevelt, Is now engaged In writing a biography of the deceased president. A chemical analysis Is to be made of blood found on the overalls of a man servant about the house of Rob In J. Cooper, to determine whether It is human blood. Geota Gaston Qnienn. on trial be fore a court marshal In Paris, charg ed with having had treasonable deal ing's with the Germans, and having betrayed Edith Cavell. was condemn ed to death last Friday. P. C. Nicholson, 34. died Sunday at his home near Decatur. Ga.. from wounds received Saturday night when he was called from the supper table at his home near Stone Mountain and i-diot by unknown men. Ole Hansen, mayor of Seattle. Wash, who distinguished himself by Mippressinc the I. V. W. and similar disturbers in hjs city, has resigned. The only explanation of his resigna tion is his statement, "I'm tired nit and ai.i going fishing." Three thousand and five hundred armed miners in West Virginia and may t'e joined by many others are demanding the right to organize. Governor Cornwell addressed them Saturday and urged them to desist, but his plea was of no avail. Cornelius Vanderbilt. Jr.. son of Brigadier-General Cornelius andei bilt. has forsaken the life of the Idle rich and secured a Job as reporter on the New York Herald. The job was given him at his own solicitation and he may or may not stick. Wm. C. Redfleld, Secretary of Commerce, has resigned from Presi dent Wilson's cabinet ami has asked 1o be n lived immediatelv on Wilson's return. He cav r.s his put son for resigning that it was necessary for him to d-'vote more time to private affairs. Jai'.ts W. Osborr.e. former district nttor:'' . of New York, r.nd a brother of .hnlge 1. Osborii" of Charlotte, diil d! the hotel where he was living in i he metropolis Sunday. He Is sur vived bv his wife and one child. Mr. Osborne was known to many in Mon roe. H. T. Bramlett, contractor of Greenville, who shot and killed his mother-in-law and seriously wounded his sister-in-law. testified at the third dav of his trial that he was Justified In his action, as he wished to "re lease his wife from bondage." Coun sel sought to show that Bramlett was Insane. Ed Beherry, a Greensboro negro, is being held by the police as a deserter from the army. This is the second time that Ed has been captured ftnee he Joined Uncle Sam's forces, but in the ca.se of the first offense he w;s re corded as absent without leave and drew a brief sentnce. This time it may go harder with him. Property valued at approximately 10.000,000 marks sold recently by the Americans to the Germans was des troyed Saturday by a series of explo sions in ammunition dumps near Nieuwied. Among the matrlal des troyed was ammunition worth 3,000. 000 marks, which was sold Friday to a Herman company tor commercial purposes. A riot broke out In the Illinois state reformatory Sunday and result ed In the killing of one officer and on Inmate, the wormiing oi iwoouierrr 1 fleers and three Inmates. The Inmates I had ootained revolvers but were ov- ercome within three hours by pollce , t men and armed citizens, who assisted , the reformatory guards and that s, night all were back in their cells. Sixty-two French women who had married Americans, army officers or soldiers, and subsequently had been divorced iirthe United States, return , ed to France on the same steamer last , week. Most of them returned not a' because of personal differences with their husbands, but because of the in i ability of the brides to ndant them. i selves to the American mods of liv- ing. Protected by a gas mask borrowed from a returned soldier, Joseph Johnson, a Hopkinsville, Kentucky farmer, went down the other day into 1 well, known to be filled with poi on gas. He soon screamed for aid -; nd fell back into the well. The body was not recovered for three hours. When the body was brought out the mask was not in position. Mr. Johnson went down into the same well three nonths ago and barely es- taped alle. Enrollment of North Carolina State College has reached the eight hun dred mark. The American Cotton Association is holding a two-day session in New Orleans. The actors strike which closed all legitimate theaters in New York city over a month ago, was settled yes terday. Both Senators Simmons and Over man are standing for the peace treaty and league pact, contrary to report printed la The Washington Post. Gov. Robert Cooper of South Caro lina has expressed the belief that the Baptist $75,000,000 campaign will aid in a large measure in blotting out illiteracy. Dr. Karl Renner head of Austrian peace delegation, has informed news paper correspondents that his coun try will sign the peace treaty as plan ned by the allies. A crowd of forty men early Satur day morning took a negro charged with assault on a white woman from the sheriff of Monroe, La., and shot the prisoner to death. The N. C. Roosevelt Memorial As sociation convened yesterday in Greensboro with many notables pres ent. The State quota is $50,000. and Gen. Zeb Walser is State director. Charlotte will be host to about 300 cotton manufacturers of Europe on Oct. 8. The party will stop over en route to the World Cotton Confer ence at New Orleans Oct. 13. Miss Ethel Brown of Wilmington died yesterday as a result of Injuries received when she was caught be Iween the elevator and elevator shaTl in the Masonic building. The negro pastors of Chattanooii have designated this week as a season of prayer for the suppression of ra cial unrest causing recent riots in northern cities. For the first time a woman farmer has produced the first bale of cotton in South Carolina. The bale was sold in Greenville at 35 cents and came from the farm of Mrs. Lillian Harris. Many Americans were refused per mits to enter the Tanipico section, of Mexico, when they declined to waive responsibility of the Mexican govern ment for any bodily harm that might befall them. There were in United States Serv ice during the war fifty-three thou sand Johnsons, fifty-one thousand Smiths, eighteen and one-half thou sand Walkers and forty-seven thou sand Wllllanises. Louise Freeman, negro, born In 179fl, the year of George Wash In e ton's death, died yesterday of old age on a 150-ncre farm near Memphis which she had owned for 70 years. Several Norih Carolinians vere members of tbe European trade com mission, which sailed for Europe lint Saturday. The party will prohaMv visit Germany in addition to ma;o other European countries. A negro and a white man wi re res cued from an angry mob In- police men vest relay in Memphis. Th" unlr attempted to run down four child-en and now e in the county Jill. Nr'te of the rl il.lie i were seriously bur' The first tii" sage to General Persu ing. urrMr.g ! i New York this luo'-n-in:' en "le Lr'iathlan. will b. drnp I on ' nard sh!t by an airplane. The missagec will be from Mayor Ih h'.n a ;d th chairman of welcome commit i e. Local iiiul Personal. W. E. Willla- s will preach at Rvrtnin'n Grove next Sunday at 11 o'clock. Miss Auul- Bell Austin, a tralend nurse of At. acta, is spending her va cation with hr parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Austin. Mr. William Shelly, who has been working in Kentenla. Ky.. the past year, is spending his vacation with his mother here. Mrs. Tom Howie arrived last night from Richmond. Va., and will spend several d;is with Mrs. Sudie Howie. Little Virginia Howie who has been visiting her grandmother will return to Richmond with Mrs. Howie and will enter school. The Journal has been requested to make the following announce ment: "Rev. C. H. Martin, ex-member of congiv.ss, and Rev. J. W. Lit tle, the Gaining Ot'.n evangelist will conduct a revival at Sardis Baptist church beginning next Sunday at ele ven o'clock a. t.i. The ex-member and the evangelist will preach some times one and sometimes the other, the one educated and the other un educated, this will give variety and variety Is the spice of life. Let the people come from Jenkin's old field." Mr. H. B. Heath, of Charlotte, wns elected president of the Jackson Cotton M ils, succeeding his father, the late Mr. B. D. lKith. who died sometime ago, nt a meeting of the directors of the company this morn ing. The election of Mr. Heath as president followed a stockholder's meeting nt which he wr.s elected to a member of the board of directors. also succeeding his father. At the .director's meeting, Mr. R. A. Morrow :was elected vice-president and Mr. C. IW. Walton was re-elected secretary. The election of these men assures the continued operation of the mill as one of the most successful in Its rlass. I.m,iI .Market. Good white cotton 28 H Rowden 2! I Eggs, per dozen 50 Butter 35 to 40 !Hens. K0 to SO Young Chickens 40 to fiO Sweet Potatoes $1.50 I Irish Potatoes $1.50 RHKAK IX I'Klt'K OK FOTTON RAISES IKK OF LOCAL FARMERS Twenty-Nine fint Cotton Doesn't An. Nitl to Them, aiuI County Agent Broom Sends Out I be Fall to Or ganize. The recent big drop in the price ot cotton to 29 cents has put the farmer to thinking, and county agent T. J. W. Broom has sent out a call for a gathering to take place In the court house Friday, Sept. 12, for the pur pose of organizing a county cotton as sociation to devise means whereby the crop can be held until the market gets more favorable. Mr. Broom s call reads: "The price that this year's crop of cotton will bring is of vital concern to every cotton farmer, business man. professional man and banker. A tre mendous effort is being made on the part of leading men. representing ev ery legitimate business interest in the South, to get alt men to unite and help keep the South prosperous. Meet ings are being held all over the South this month for the purpose of effect ing an organization in each county for this purpose. Union county should have such an organization, and as a starter towards a county or ganization a get together meeting will be held In the court house, Fri day, Sept. 12th. at 11 o'clock. Every man in Union county who is Interest ed in keeping the county prosperous is urgently requested to be present." LOCAL AM) PERSONAL Mr. Frank Irby, newly elerled to the police force, is moving his family to Monroe. Mr. Irby is a valuable addition to Monroe's police force and will make a conscientious officer. Mr. S. R. Bivens. counly demon stration agent for Guilford county, attended the funeral of his father, Mr. J. T. Bivens. last week, returned yesterday io his home in Greensbcuo. The ginner's report, issued Mon day, shows that 13S.0J3 bales of cot ton had been ginned to date, com pared with 1,038,000 on the same date last year. Among the congregation at the Sunday evening services at the First Baptist church was Rev. C. H. Martin of Anson county, who represented i his district in Congres in the late "JO's. There will be a family reunion at Mr. A. Osborne's on Saturday, the 20th of September. Everybody is cor- diallv invited to come and bring wen filled baskets. Messrs. A. M. Slack and W. B. Love will be the speakers for the occasion. Efforts are being made to Itidnci the cltv aldermen to employ some competent weights and measure in speclor to examine the scales mid measures of the various dealers in Monroe. If this should be done all luitter, bread, and like articles would I' weighed to see if they come up to tin Ir advertised weights. Violations would be reported to the Federal au thorities. An unusual case, involving the n.'plI'Miion of the fourteenth Federal Miiei;di.-. Uit, Is pending in I nion county i uiiis. Dr. T, E. Creig. cot oted. of Waxl.aw, Is the plaintiff, and he is petitioning the court to order Mr. J. T. meele, register at Waxhaw, to place his name on the registration books in order that he can vole In the municipal primaries. In his com plaint he alleges he is a graduate of Riddle university, licensed to prac tise medicine in this state, and be lieves he is In every way qualified to vote. On April 18. he further states, he tried to register for an election, but Mr. Steele refused him the right. Cotton'slumped again this morn ing, reaching the low level of 28 cents. Very few bales are being of fered locally at this price, and Mr. J. E. Stack says Union county peo ple are disposed to hold their cotton for higher prices. Mr. Stack, in speaking of market condition, said: "People around Wadesboro and Mor ven are selling their staple at the present prices, and also around Gib son In South Carolina. I bought sev eral hundred hales In Anson yester day at 28 and 29 cents, and a hun dred In Gibson at the same prices. It now looks like the price will dron still lower. Mills ore slow to buy. and there are little exports. I am afraid to advise our farmers to cith er hold or sell their cotton, ns one can never tell what the market will do. Each man should back his own Judgment." The Monroe public schools open ed Monday innrninz with a larger en rollment than ever before. All class rooms nt the high school and Lan caster avenue school are full to ov erflowing rnd more students are ex pected. Opening exercises were con ducted at the high school by Prof. S. G. Hawfield. and selendid talks were made by Mr. W. B. Love, chairman of the hoard of trustees and Mr. F. G. Henderson, Both of them encour aged the pupils and referred to the new high school building, work on which Is to be started soon, this be ing the last year In the "poor house." Mr. Allen was In charge of the gram mar school exercises. The only changes in the facultv since the per sonnel wns pr'nted In The Journal, occur in the second grades, which will be taught by Misses Isab"ll Se crst and Annl Redwine. the latter to be primary supervisor. North Mon roe stnden's are now Installed in a new brick bulbing, consisting of flv" class rooms, modern In rv re spect. It is situated on 7I'';r.".tt' avenue. PRESIDENT Wll.sON IS MAklMi ;r.i:.Tivr fk;iit of his life Fttiuou Newspaper Corif oii(leiit Sa.Vs lie H is Adopted Roosevelt Ian Tart it, and In Itringiiig; Down the Houses. Da id Lawrence. Washington cor respondent of the New York Evening Post, sas President Wilson, on a tour of the country in behalf of the adoption of the league of nations, is making the fight of his life. After mentioning the President's reception at Columbus and Indiannapolis, Lawrence says: The President has evidently been advised that the people want speeches with a punch in them. In both In dianapolis and St. Louis he adopted the Rooseveltian tactics for the first time in his career and brought his audience to Its feet again and again. That is a new thing with Woodrow Wilson. Usually he depends upon the quiet, deliberate processes of oratori cal persuasion. Today he is changed. He is belligerent. He is making the fight of his life, and if his speech at St. Louis, which seemed to make the best impression thus far, is an index of what he plans to do, the public can expect Mr. Wilson to arouse the nation on i he issue of the league to a degree of passion and fervor i.iiherio absent on either side of the controv ersy. The President is reducing his argu ment to simple statements. His ap peal to the St. Louis chamber of com merce was especially intended for business men. His plea to the far mers who gathered from all parts of Indiana was a vivid portrayal of fhe horrors of another war; his challenge to critics was a defiant call for a sub stitute program if they Intended to defeat the proposed league. His cen tral effort is to show that the oppon nenls of the league have picked flaws here and there, but have said nothing of the constructive pnssibilites of 21! out of the 26 articles of the covenant. "Briefly, the main thread of Mr. Wilson's argument as now revealed is this: "1 If the treaty is not ratified by the United States Europe will go ahead without us and the United States will be left out in the cold, dis credited and distrusted. ' "2 The reparation commission Is really a group of receivers sitting ov er the bankrupt assets of Germany. Thai commission will determine how Germany shall pay her reparation, where she will buy materials and how she will get credits. Mr. Wilson says that if only from a practical bus iness point of view America cannot afford to stay out. America's trade and Industrial life are Interwoven in the economics of Europe. "3 The President points to the invnsinn of Belgium as a violation of territorial Integrity and says that any one who is against article X would forget Belgium and weak nations. "4 To the Irish the President makes an open bid for support by hinting that America cannot intrude upon England's affairs now but that under a league of nations Ireland ran gel a hearing and the moral support of the United Slates. "a With respect to the tntvUn wars nnd sending troops across the seas. 'Mr. Wilson emphasizes that American boys cannot be compelled to fight unless the representative of the United States in the league coun cil so advises, anil our representative would be under instructions to take no such step without sanction of Con gress. "6 Faith In .Lilian's Intention to return Shantung to China is express ed without qualification by the Presi dent, and to those who don't trest Japan and want to give the terri'orv back to China Immediately, Mr. Wil son addresses these questions: "How will you take Shantung awav from Japan when Great Britain and France are pledged already and have been pledged for two years to give Japan all the rights which Germany enjoyed? Does America want to fight Great Britain and France and Japan and Is that the way to keep America out of war? "Mr. Wilson presents no apology for Japan, but says Great Britain and France had to promise her Shantung in order to get Japan to come in'o the war and help keep the Pacific rbvr of German raiders. Mr. Wilson admits the bargain and denounce s-ct-e' treaties, but says the ren.edv for thp whole deplorabie plight of Ch. tut li'" In the league or nations and its pro cesses for revision of all i.m:'' ot territory to other powers as weil s Japan. "7 Finally, and this is vli.'i''- t! President always makes h s l.i';get hit. he reminds his hearers that America went into the war to end war. that conscription wns put into operation and liberty loans were float ed and hard-earned dollars were t,k- n from American pocket hooks an 1 the flower of America's manhood f-n' to foreign graves, not merely to beat Germany, but to prevent any other nation from trying the epiltnen' Germany tried. Nine days of discus sion, he contends, would have beti ptiough to have prevented the last European war. as Germany wouldn't have gone In If she had known Eng land would fight, and certainlv would have held her horses if she dimmed America would have come in. Now. the President points out. nine r.onths would be provided for arbitration or discussion before there could be w And if there were war t e err -o. -:-boycott wo"'1 b "ri i libi'in jiflfrine ,; V; iiaivod iuo suh ''i':.". trev would have conir.erf isolated a:.d flai.rially bankrupt ed unless they accepted the verdict of mankind. If the league is rot set up and Europe i;oes on as it has before, he thinks there will be more war and America will be drawn into it and our dead will not be a couple of hundred thousand, but many millions of men. "So it will be seen from the fore going that the President is appealing to the peaceful instincts of the Amer ican people, and the deeply imbedded passion for peace which elected him in 1916 on a platform of "kept us out of war.' 'and then supported him whole-heartedly on a platform of freeing the world from militarism and of safeguarding democracy." OrUiiitl.H Verify Truth of ('barges of Turk Barbarism. "Auction of Souls," which is to be presented at the Strand Theatre Thursday has the usual distinction of having a leading woman who actual ly enacted the original scenes which the motion picture reproduces. Miss Aurora Mardiganian, the girl who has the leading role, is not a motion pic ture actress, but was induced to act for the til in s just what she personally passed through in Armenia in 1 it 1 5. Miss Mardigauian's experience be fore the camera is not apparent in the picture for she holds up her own end as well as any of the regular ac tors. Perhaps her art is that born of the vivid memory of the horrible scenes through which she passed be- tore escaping from her native land to come to America for further relief. She is the daughter of a former prosperous banker at Harpout, and was thirteen years old when the war broke out. Being; a beautiful girl she attracted a Turkish official who wish ed to make her his wife, imposing upon her his own religion and the lowly state of Turkish women. 'Her father relused to give her up. When the. massacres of the Armen ians started, carried on by the Turks under a secret agreement with the Germans, the Mohammedans made further efforts to get possession of the girl. After seeing her father, mother, two brothers and three sis ters brutally slain, she entered upon a series of adventures which prove that life may lie more exciting than the wildest dream of the fictionisl. She goes through an untold suc cession of horrible scenes, escapes from the Turks, is raptured by the wild Kurds of the desert, sold as a slave, put In a harem, takes refuge with monks, and at last is saved by the British who sent her to America where she has talked and written of and finally acted out her experiences In "Auction of Souls." which is the story of her harrowing years In Ar menia, every detail of he story fol lows the actual experiences of Miss Mardiganian, and the report to the United States, of Viscount James Brvce. former English ambassador to the United Stales, who directed the investigation of the Armenian atroci ties. LITTLE ROY UADLY CUT. Wns Accidentally Struck Ry ('oiiiin ion Who Was Digging Rait Correspondence of The Journal. Indian Trail. 11. F. D. No. 1. Sept 8. Road work has kept me from writing for The Journal for some time, bin am now uble to keep up the correspondence with motile degree of regularity. Mr. Recce Long's singing school has been an enjoyable feature of the community life for the past two weeks. Mrs. J. E. Rowell Is very ill. A deplorable accident occurred the other day. Little D. L. Furr. Jr., while he and young Amos Medlin were digging bait preparatory to go ing fishing, received a terrific lick from the hoe iu the hands of his com panion, which was upraised, ready to strike Into the ground, when he in une way got in its path. A large ,-uh was cut in his head, through v hith his brains could be seen. Med ical attention was immediately secur ed, and he is now getting along fair lv well. No complications have set in. Mr. Will Ormnn shcr-ed your cor respondent an unusual gg not long ago. It was a twin hen egg, though not ad large as .the avei'a-e-siz0d eee. .-v K i ir rt tYinn n mi n il utrir Xfumara .Fames Hill. Earnest Hill, and Miss Pearl Hill saw the egg, and can cor roborate my statements. Mr. Ormon's mother has it on exhibition for those who might doubt my story. Mr. J. M. Dees.i recently sold a six- wefks old 1 i- that Weighed ,S i.i,i:ii(ls. On labor day a bin di o tishtrmen. including Messrs. Morr Wolfe, Gr.ftln. Dr. Deem. in. Dixon, caught (iiii'e a bunch o ilt. finr.y tribe in the north proiu i f Crooked creek. Mr. Jnmcx Long ( !' Newell 's wa a tdea.-aut visitor Ifre last week. Miss I. uise Flinr of Kalcign speri a lev.- uavs in c,o". Creek township with friends las week. Mr. George Viu;z. v -h :. a.-k 1 for an pceount of his eperiei res over in France, said nil he had M tell was i the YidiMsl: language. The neet i",c rinsed at Benton's Cross Roads last week with eleven additions to ;N- church, true by letter and two bv baptism. The pastor. Rev. E. C. Snyder, with the assistance of Rev. Edward and Rev. Samuel Long, con ducted the services. Rev. J. T. Hog gins baptized two converts at his church Sunday. fund $3.90; Marshville W. M. S., lo- The singing school nt Mill Grove cal expense $57, Joe Bivens memori closed Saturday. One hundred and'al $46.25. training school $15; fifty pupils were enrolled. A icn j Meadow Branch W. M. S., training dinner was served, and over 40 school $15. Sunbeams for christian vere !r'-ent. Mr. Oscar Clont ;as-education $1; Monroe W. M. S.. Hat el through here Thursday with aieBelk memorial fund $100, ex tractor and scraper headed for north Ipense fund $7.20. Sunbeams for state Goose Creek township. Fairness. I mission $8.65; Shilnh W. M. S. ,ex- Jpense fund $2. Sunbeams for home "Cyclone Mick" preached to 15.-1 missions $1.61; total, $263.01. Mrs. 000 people in Wadesboro Sunday. D. B. Snyder, Supt. GENERAL rUlHI; ARRIVED IN NEW YORK YESTERDAY Secretary Raker Hands America's Most Distinguished Soldier (in end's I'oiiiiiii.viion Sergeant War ren Pershing Acts As His Father's Orderly. General Pershing, after two yeart in command of the greatest army America has ever sent to battle, re turned to the United Slates yester day. As he stepped ashore in New iork from the huge liner Leviathan he was handed a commission as Gen eral, a rank previously held by only tnree Americans Grant. Sheridan. and Sherman. The stem-faced soldier was not proof against tribute of praise which was roared from hundreds of thous ands of the throats of his fellow-citi zens. Just after the general walked down the gangplank at Hoboken Sec retary Baker handed him his com mission as full general. Standing behind, and completely hidden by the imposing figure of the general, was a little boy tryingtolook very dignified and soldierly. He was ' sergeant" Warren Pershingf. the commander in chief's only surviving child. When the general received his commission he turned to his son and handed him the document with an in junction to keep jt safe. The "ser geant" kept it safely all right but later on. in 'he great crowd at the city hall, l.e : -t separated from his father, much to the dismay of the general. W!:i the boy was recover ed his father asked anxiously: "Warren, have you got the com mission?" "Yes. Sir," replied the "sergeant" promptly. "Well, see that you hold on to it." MONTGOMERY KILLING MYSTERY Efforts Are Still Being Made to Ap prehend the Murderer. (From the Charlotte Observer.) Will the Hairy Montgomery mur der mystery ever be solved? This is a question which is again beginning to obiaiti considerable cir culation in Charlotte, following the recent action of the county commis sioners In offering a reward of $200 for the arrest and conviction of the slayer of the unfortunate young man. Although Montgomery has been dead for over three months, and al though at the outset efforts at Inves tigation ended apparently against a blank wall in every direction, it Is known that the case has never been entirely abandoned, and it is under stood that there is yet hope that the person w ho killed the young man may be brought to justice. Various stories were told nt the time of the killing, and all were care fully followed to their source at that time. Although no Immediate re sults were obtained, it was under stood nt the time that valuable clues had been found and that they have never been thoroughly traced down and nt the same time have never been abandoned. Ernest Hunter, the negro whom Miss Lorraine Owen, Montgomery'! sweetheart, at first I tiled to identify, and later identified in open court. was turned loose after two grand juries had considered carefully all the evi dence in the case, including the sworn statement of the ci,- that Hunter was the negro. This ended all action against the only suspect who was actually placed under arrest. All sorts of stories were in circu lation at tbe time and they were quickly revived following the acquit tal of tbe negro, but, as at th time of the killing, none of them led to any definite trail. Time rocked along and interest in the case apparently died away, when It was again revived by the of fer, on the part of the Merklenbur county commissioners, of a reward of $200 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the slaver of Montgomery. Harrv Montaomerv was killed on he night of Friday. May 3. while on a Mvers park by-road with his sweatheart, Lorraine Owen. MIsS Owen mnintalr.ed from the first that he was shot by a negro. She was met on tb rol. running In her stocking feet, by W. H. Wood, presi- f jilent of the Aiirir:in Trust company, tend by Mr. Wood was brought to po- ,,.i.,, )..,,. i.e.. in . . i it k t i i i.tr si oi ? , i n e out e ;th.v is..r arrestee: i.rnest h inner, a , i-"...ri.v;, pn,i i.eM him un- i rec ti! he .V'tv. i made v as turned loose by the grand " 'her arrests have ever i:: tl.e case. rh:;,;u i ll I 1. ei t W. M. F ilist Assoc hit i:i Union itie to!!, pott tor i!. assoc'Mt io1; v it -g is the financial re W. M. U. Union Baptist ;er nuarter ending Au- gtis. SI : Corinth W M S state missions. $7, Sunbeams, state mission. $2.57; Faulks W. M. S., church building & Loan sT.nu, Siiutean-.s for state mis sions $.!: Hopewell W. M. S.. train ing school $4.30. Sunbeams Bible
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