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PUBLISHED TWICE EACH WEEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
VOL 23. No. 66.
MONROE, N. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER, 23, 1919.
$1.50 PER YEAR CASH.
D. F. JOXF.S COMMITS SI K'IDK
Hi Lifeless Body Found in a Suing
Under a Tree Early Saturday.
The lifeless body of D. F. Jones,
former rural carrier for years, was
found seated in a swing iu the
back :aid of his home at Wingate
early Saturday morning with the cord
of one side of the swing tight
about his neck. No reason is as
signed for the rash deed of tak
ing his own life, though it is said he
had beeu in ill health for a number
of ears.
Funeral services were conducted at
i 4 o'clock by Rev. E. C. Snyder. The
remains were interred in the Wingate
cemtery with the impressive and fit
ting ceremony of the Woodmen of the
World by the Wingate lodge, ot
which the deceased had been a mem
ber for a number of years, an unusu
ally large crowd attending at both
services.
Mr. Jones was last seen by his wife
about 10 o'clock Friday night on the
porch of their home. After convers
ing for some time on various topics
in an animated manner, he announc
ed his intention of going to' town to
keep an engagement with some part
ies. As no one saw him in the busi
ness part of the town after 10 o'clock,
it is prtsumed that he immediately
went to the rear of the house, and
ended his life.
When found, Mr. Jones' feet were
touching the ground, his body stretch
ed in a backward position with the
rope of t'ie swine wrapped around his
throat. Two lingers, so witnesses
state, weie lying between his throat
and ihe rope, while the other hand
clasped tne other side of the rope
swing, which had been put up fo
the children some time ago.
A fo:i ot the decased man entered
the honif through the back door late
Saturday night but did not notice the
body hanging iu the swing, though
the path he traversed carried him
within a few feet of the tree from
which the body swung.
The supposition is current that the
body it ! mined in the position it was
found all through the night. Neigh
bors were notified early Saturday
morning, and assisted in taking the
body down.
The deceased had been In ill health
lor a number of years. Lately, how
over, friends had noticed a decide:
1inpt( vement in his condition. Anx
lety caused from the strain of his
boys being in service in France dur
ing the war is also thought to have
brought on a slight mental derange
ment.
Mr. Jones was a popular man, kind
and generous, and the news of Ills
rash act caused quite a Rhork to the
comnninhy in which he lived. He is
survived by his wife and five daugh
ters and three sons. The sons are
H. B. Joiirs, teacher in the Cullowheo
Normal and Industrial School, Culln-
whee. N. C; J. C. Jones, teacher In
the Wingate school, and Zeb Jons
of Wingate, The darghiers are Mrs
F. W. Diggers of Oakboro, Miss Mary
Jones, teacher lu the Sylva school
Sjlva. N. C, and Misses Annie, Hallie
and O'.iie Jones nf W ingute.
Cotton 1.4'tter.
Mr. Amos Stack, a member of the
firm tf J. E. Stack & Co., has given
The Journal for publication the fol
lowing cotton letter:
"Owing to the steel strike, unfav
orable weather conditions and bull
Lsh spot news the market advanced
sharply ymterday. Crop conditions
all over the belt are generally poor
and heavy rains were reported in the
western belt. The mills, however, are
buvinc very conservatively and the
buvers In some sections of North
Carolina are shipping their cotton to
New York on contracts on account of
their inability to sell it. The far
mere in this county report a half crop
or lees and many of them are having"
their cotton ginned and taking it
back home. A deterioration of 15 to
20 per cent has been reported from
this state on account of the dry
weather for the past two weeks and
a similar condition prevails all over
the eastern belt. It does not seem
probable that there will be very much
higher prices for some time because
so much of the old crop is being car
ried over and the mills are very slow
to follow advance. Besides these
bearish influences, the yarn market
has been on the decline."
For Community lluilduig
To the Editor of The Journal :-
iVe, the undersigned, favor a com
munity building as a memorial to our
soldiers rather than a monument:
Signed: R. A. Morrow, J. M. Mor
row. Jr.. E. C. Laney, J. W. Laney.
C, W. Bancom. Cora Lee Montgom
ery. S. E. Halgler. L. E. Sutton, J.
E. Stack, A. M. Stack. Jr., R. H. Gar
ren. R. 0. Laney. George C. Prulft.
D. C. Motgan. A. W. McCall, A. M.
Secrevst, R. L. Payne. Roscoe Phifer,
J. A. Stewart, D. F. Eubanks, H. H.
Milton. W. B. Brown. Frank Red
fearn. R. H. Cunningham, S. A. Stev
ens. N. M. Redfearn. E. O. Faust. H.
M. M. Neal. A. M. Stack. H. A. Shery
hard. 9. R. Helms. Lee Griffin. J. W
Hamilton, J. E. Liles. Earl Surratt.
C. B. Bruner, C. L. Blvens. Vann
Funderburk. J. M. Relk. Crier Robin
son. John Beasley. W. M. Gordon. T.
L. Riddle.
Mayor J. C. Sikes signed with the
following proviso: "I am In favor of
a community building, costing not
less than $50,000 with reading room,
rest room and swimming pool free to
soldiers and a small fee for non-soldiers,
and when completed turned
over to county to keep up as court
house Is nowkept."
LET US ll you an all - steel corn
crib. C"r.p:r than wood. Tharp
Hardware. 1
Fiiitl No Tr.u-e of 488 Crew uiul Pa.
scngers ot III Fnteil Steamer,
Search for the 400 passengers and
crew of 88 of the Spanish steamer
Dalhaiiera. lost off Rebecca shoals
house. 40 miles from Key West, Fla.,
is continued without result.
Cuban Consul Milord, who directed
the work ot the divers who identified
the sunken hulk as that of the Bal
banera, has wired a complete report
of his investigations to officials of
the Penelle line, which owned the
steamer. Consul Milord also as'ked
for additional instructions as to the
employment of divers to search the
wreck thoroughly for bodls. Pend
ing receipt of a reply it is not expect
ed that any further steps to investi
gate the wreck will be made. All
vessels in these waters are keeping a
lookout for survivors.
Recent Happenings.
Shortage ot freight cars is delaying
the work of southern road builders.
They have complained to the U. S.
railroad administrator and declare
the situation Is serious.
More than 1,300 German sailors,
interened since the U. S. entered the
war at Ft. McPherson, have Btarted
for Hoboken, from whence they will
sail for Germany.
Monday was the opening day of tt9
great steel strike affecting half a mil
lion workers and extending into 20
states. There were no violences, ex
cept in New Castle, Pa., where seven
lrsons were shot.
1!. L. Kerr, formerly a prominent
banker of Rock Hill and member of
exemption board, convicted of fraud
lu connection with soldiers' allot
ments, began a 5-year sentence in the
Federal prison in Atlanta Saturday.'
A typhoid epidemic is raging
among the negroes of Lincoln county,
due to use of contaminated spring
water at negro camp meeting. Also
verj few negroes availed themselves
of the opportunity of taking the ty
phoid treatment.
A number of the most orderly and
prosperous negroes In Oglethorpe co..
Ga.. met and adopted resolutions ap
proving the action of white men who
lynched Obe Cook, a negro accused
of assaulting and murdering a white
woman. The negro confessed to the
crime.
IRL'S DREAMS BECOME REAL
NIGHTMARE WHEN ARTIST'S
WIFE DISCOVERS ROMANCE
How a patient man's love may 1?
killed by a woman who is too cold,
and how later he may find his Ideal
in a child of warm, impulsive Italy,
is told In "Human Desire," 'in which
Anita Stewart Is starred. The scenes
of the picture are laid In Italy, and
in and around New York City.
Miss Stewart has the part of a little
Italian girl who has been brought r.p
In a convent. She never has seen a
real baby, yet she loves babies nior
than anything else in'the wrrld, ai. 1
daily brings lilies which she lays In
the units of the Fraruplnil M;. lonna,
which stands ln the convent where
she lives.
HEARS CF AMERICA AND
BABIES
Two American women come thei
and she asks them If there are r '
babies I'l the world. They tell her
that there are lots of them In Amer
ica, and that some of them are cold
and luii gry. This touches the heart
of Prei.ice, t''.e Italian girl, and she
decides hat she will go to America.
and comfort the cold, hungry babies.
So. nf'er a great storm which breaks
open the front dorr of the convent,
she escapes and st.Tts.
On the beach 'he finds boy a
clothes. Putting these on she Is later
found by an America, the lover of one
of the women who came to the con
vent, and taken to his hotel. He de
cides to help such a pretty boy who
seems without friends or money. He
finds "he" Is a girl, learns of her de
sire to go to America, and furnishes
her with funds to do so. She mt---a
nun whom he had cabled to meet
her upon her arrival In the Lnlted
States.
This picture will be seen at the
Strand Theatre next Thursday.
Hubby's Wemrlng Apparel.
A woman crossing from Detroit to
Windsor. Canada, was asked bv the
customs officer if she had anything
dutiable. She assured him that she
had nothing but wearing apparel in
her trunks, but at the bottom of the
largest one, which to him seemed the
most suspicious, were found twelve
bottles of whiskey.
"Madam," said the officer, saroas-
flenllv. "do you call these wearing ap
parel?"
'Certainly, she reniien. arcniv.
Those are my husband's night
caps:" '
Timely Advice.
No man Is entitled to success except
through work.
Inefficiency and laziness have no
claim upon mankind for maintenance.
The world owes no man a living
nless he Is wlll'nn: to rc.-!: for it.
Manufacturers Record.
Sudden ft lie In Oil.
RIt So your friend hriw weal-
hv through s mMn upward move
ment )n oil. What stock did h biiv?
Dix He didn't buy anv. A rich
o'd sn trld to sMrt a Pre with a
can of It. Roster. Trnnscrirt.
Tocel Market.
Oood while cotton . . .
1 1
Powden
32 la
50 i
Butter 35 to 4
Country hams .. . 40 I
Co-n 1.7R
"img chickens ? ,
pi" ?d the prosecution with th? costs In
Wool 20; the case. ( 1
Local and Personal.
Rev. W. B. Holmes will preach
at New Salem Baptist church Sunday
at eleven o'clock.
Belk Brothers' milllneiv den. - irt
ment will give a display of pattern
hats Thursday and Friday of this
week.
Mr. N. D. Saleeby Is now a full
fledged citizen of the United Slates
His final naturalization papers were
completed at the last term of court
He is a native of Syria
Mr. Zimmer Biggers. after nine
years service with the Southern ex
press company as messenger, has re
signed and moved to Goose Creek
township, where he will engage in
farming.
There will be a meeting of the
farmers at Spruce Pine in Goose
Creek township Saturday night for
the purpose of discussing the cotton
association. Good speakers will be on
hand. Everybody urged to attend
Local cotton merchants are pay
ing 32 cents for good cotton today
following a recent sharp advance ln
the market. A good many bales are
being sold at this price, though num
bers of farmers are holding their first
bales for higher prices
Mr. Lee Trull is earning a repu
tation as one who can move houses
with care and dispatch. He has just
returned from Rock Hill. S. C. where
he moved nine houses for the Ander
son Motor Co. Five weeks were re-
nulrd to do the job. Very often Mr
Trull has calls from points 100 miles
distant for his services
Seaboard Officer L. C. Robinson
says hoboes are becoming a rarity
Heretofore seldom a day passed but
what he did not pull some vagrant
off of a train, but now It is just the
opposite. He assigns high wages and
the demand for labor for the lack of
them. At one time he had fourteen
hoboes serving short sentences on the
county road force at one time,
Ellis Griffin of Monroe, route 3
wns acquitted of the charge of block
tuling before Mr. M. L. Flow, United
States commissioner, Saturday. Sev
eral weeks a','0 officers found a Mil
on the place Mr. Griffin Is working
Tracks from the spot where the still
had been operated led in the direc
tion of his house, so the officers testl
fled. However, the prosecution was
unable to prove that the tracks led
oil the way to Mr. Griffin's door, and
he came clear of the charge.
Rev. J. J. Wicker of Richmond
Va., preached his first sermon here
las! night to a congregation that fill
ed both the Sunday school rooms and
the main auditorium of the First
Baptist church. He Is a great preach
er with a message, and all who heard
him last night are generous In their
praise of his ability, Mrs. Wicker
played the piano, and also, with Mr
Wicker, sang a duet. Both have ex
cellent voices, and their singing will
be one of the big features of the meet
ing, which will continue for ten days
or two weeks. Services are held twice
li Mly, In the afternoon at 4 o clock
aiu! evening at 8 o'clock.
--Mr. U. T. Be!k of Goose Creek
township is erecting a modern barn
which, when completed, will be one
of the best In the state. In addition
to many other labor saving improve-
i "nts, t'-e barn will have a hay fork
with a crpaeltv of 60 tons of loose
hay. Mr. Belk is rapidly forging to
the front ar- one of the best fanners
in this section. He made his first
Top after his marriage with a little
one-horse plow, so dull, one of his
friends declared, that it wouldn't
hardly cut the ground. He now plows
with a tractor: has a corn shredding
machine. In addition to other modern
tools and machinery. He has a herd
of cattle which returns him $100 ev
ery month In butter fat. and he plans
to Increase It. This year he has one
of the best cotton crops in this sec
tion, directly attributable to the use
of manure from his cattle. "The salt
of the earth" is the way one man
speaks of Mr. Belk. He Is a great as
set to his countv, is a great believer
In education, and Is progressive along
nil lines. When Union countv pro
duces a few more of his kind It will
rank as one of the best farming sec
rions In the south.
Archie Freeman, the Buford
township negro preacher arrested two
weeks ago for the alleged larceny of a
saddle, came clear of the charge be
fore Judge W. 0. Lemmond the other
day. The case was a very humorous
one. According to the evidence a cer
tain darkey borrowed a Raddle from
Mr. Oscar Cureton to ride to church
on. While the services were In prog
ress the darkey discovered that his
spouse was there with another man.
Getting her consent, he slipped out of
the church, unhitched the horse from
the buggy In which she rode to the
church with another man. threw the
saddle off his horse, and hitched his
steed to the buggy, and drove off with
the woman. When the owner of the
buggy came out he found both his
conveyance and girl gone, and Mr.
Cureton's saddle on his horse's back.
Rev. Archie came out about this time,
sized np the trouble, and decided to
take the saddle so. as he stated on
the stand, "to make that nigger come
hack to me for a heart to heart talk."
He said he had been wanting to give
the darkey who borrowed the saddle
a lecture, but could never get him to
listen to him. He said he saw an od-
portunlty to get him nlnned down for
few mlnnt.es by taking the saddle
home snd making him come after It.
Instead, though, the officers came for
that "heart to heart" talk with c'alm
and delivery papers. Judge Lemmor")
ssw the old preacher's .rol" and .?t-
Local and Personal.
Elder Samuel McMillan will
preach at Watson Saturday and Sun -
day at 11 o'clock and at Union Grove
- 'at 2:30 Sunday afternoon.
Two car loads of lime were un -
(loaded here yesterday and this morn -
in? by Mr. T. J U rtrnmn P,.i,.nr
agent. Most of it wenrto farmers iti
small lots,
The Turner Canu. nf Wniwlnien1
of thlwoddl unvel. a IS
the first Sunday in October at Beth-
iuhem AM,k . t ...
lehem church to James I. Helms. All
other camps are invited to be present
and help iu the ceremony.
One account of the compulsory
attendance law being rigidly enforc
ed, some of the Monroe stores are
having difficulty in securing a suffi
cient number, of delivery boys. One
store has met the situation by confin
ing itself to one delivery a day.
Several cases ot malarial fever
have appeared in Monroe, and Ray
Shute, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Shute, is ill with the same disease at
College Park, Ga.. where he Is at
tending Georgia Military Academy.
His father went down Sunday night
to see him.
Mr. Leonard Whltaker, son ot
Mr. W. A. Whitaker, and Miss Pearl
lrby, daughter of Mrs. J. C. Irby,
were married Thursday at the home
of Esq. J. W. Houston, the officiating
magistrate. Both are natives of Mon
roe township and poular young peo
ple. The- groom returned from
France a short while before the cere
mony wn performed.
On Saturday and Sunday the
streets of Monroe v- 111 probably have
a war-like appearance. Those are the
days the Union county members of
the 30th division will be coining to
town to take the train for Greenville
where their fir.u reunion will be held.
From reports received all over the
county, nearly every member of the
"Old hickory" division will attend
Judxe W. O. Lemmond, Messrs
D. W. Flow, Roscoe Phifer and N. C
English took iiuile an extended auto
trip ln;o South Carolina Sunday
which led them through Pageland
Lancaster. Jefferson, Cheraw and
Heath Springs. They state some ex
cellent cotton was seen on the tri
but as a general rule crops in that
section are pretty poor.
The papers yesterday carried an
account of a typhoid fever epidemic
at Denver, in the western part of the
state, where nineteen cases are re
ported. It seems that all contracted
the disease from drinking water at
an infected spring. Mr. E. G. Faust
recalls that this is the same place
where Dr. Chreitsburg, pastor of the
Monroe Methodist church a number
of years ago. contracted the disease
from the effects of which he died
A shooting affair took place near
Cheraw Saturday In which two men
well known in Monroe. Emalev and
Tom Ingram, were involved. The lat
ter killed a man who attacked his
brother, it Is said. The Journal could
not learn the name of the man who
was killed, but according to reports
he and Entsley Ingram had a clash
over a real estate transaction, in
which Ingram was petting the worst
of the encounter', f hen his brother,
Ton: Ingram, look part and shot the
man.
"Hold your cotton," Is the word
se'it out to every Union county farm
er by Mr. T. J. W. Broom, who said
further: "The man who sells cotton
now is losing money. The market Is
gradually going up on account of the
dispositon among the farmers to hold
their crop, and the more who keep
their staple off the market means that
it is s' ill going higher. Some possi
bly cannot hold their cotton, but ev
ery one who can should realize that it
is his duty, if he wants the fanners
as a class to get adequate returns for
their labor and Investment, to do so.
The railroads have put on a spe
cial rate of one cent a mile for the
Confederate veterans to attend the
annual reunion ln Atlanta October 7
to 10. which makes the round trip
fare from Monroe to the Georgia city
only $5.34. Mr. S. E. Belk, comman
der of Camp Walkup, has called a
meeting of Union county veterans to
take place Saturday at 1 o clock in
for the purp R,cah:c.emdasuheeetr
the court house for the purpose of
making arrangements to attend the
reunion, and a full attendance is re
quested. A good many veterans from
his section will no doubt attend the
reunion.
Mr. Steve Welsh, who, since his
eturn from service with the Ameri
can Expeditionary Forces, has been
working on the B. & O. railroad In
Pennsylvania, is spending a few days
with relatives In Monroe. Mr. WeUdi
was among the first bunch of men
ndncted into the service from Union
county. He failed to go over with
he 30th division, but followed a few
months later ln a replacement unit.
On landing he was assigned to the
2 Sth division, composed larvely of
he old Pennsylvania state guard.
This division was In the hardest
fighting of the war around Mount-
faucon In the Argonne wood, and
the company the Monroe man was in
uffered severe losses In one of their
ffensives ln this sector. Mr. Welsh
says his outfit came out of the strug
gle with only twelve men. the rest be-
ng either killed or wounded. He also
tells an interesting account of the
capture of fifty Germans by a patrol
of which he was a member. He had
wandered slightly off the road, and is
came across a large dugout., w'-ich he
started to err. He saw the Cer-
i to run out and give the
rt-r''. With his companions, and the
aid of a few hand grenade, he cap
lured the whole lot.
J Mr. C. W. Diggers of Charlotte,
la native of Union countv, has been
I,r'1,ain a few liays with relatives iu
'Goos Cwk township. Mr. Bisters
'' 18 iusx recovering from severe inju-
received on one of his hands
' , , ? , in 1BM,I,, ,work- He
1 " ln 1 harlot'e for four -vear8-
-wr. nana Armneiu, ot concord.
! fo-tnr member of the Monroe bar,
laud who now. together with Maness
! t- :.. 1 .
" " """""' "'"ees uere. Is ap-
TVL
heir HmL tt m 'In
er- I" thr l"tl trouble at Albe-
marie .which is now being aired be
fore the Stanly county judge.
The various committees of the
fair for Union school, Sandy Ridge,
will hold a business meeting Satur
day nUht. Sept. 27. Mr. Broom and
Miss Carter will have definite plans
about the premium lists, etc. After
the business meeting the time will be
spent in a social way. All people of
the neighboring communities are in
vited to come and share in the pleas
ures of the evening,
Four hundred and fifty-two Ger
man sailors passed through Monroe
yesterday morning en route to Ho
boken from Ft. McPherson where
they have been interned since 1914
From Hoboken they will sail for the
Fatherland Sept. 25. Col. Pickering
with several other American officers
were in charge of the train. The ma
jority of the Germans were either of
ficers or wardens, clean, fine looking
fellows. Practically all spoke splen
did English. A number of them have
applied for citizenship papers and ex
peer io remain in tne l. s. Jnev
were given cigarettes and post cards
by the Red Cross canteen here.
An effort will be made in a short
while to organize a post of the Amer
ican Legion of Honor at Monroe. All
world war veterans are eligible. The
Legion Is non-partisan, knows no pol
itics. hut will have policies, having
already gone on record auuinst the
naturalization of alien slackers. It is
now fighting for the principle that
wounded and disabled men of the na
tionai guard nnu national army
should have the same' allowance and
pay now provided for the regular
army. It stands for pure American
ism. It proposes to help service men
in getting allotments, war insurance
and other matters straightened out.
The Insignia of the Legion is an at
tractive victory botton with the words
"American Legion" In gold. Further
announcements relative to the estab
li.shnient of the Monroe post will be
made at a later date
Officers of the Union county cot
ton association have found it impos
sible to secure a warehouse for this
season, and are making plans to erect
a 540,000 one next year. A meeting
of the association will be held soon,
when the matter will be taken up.
Mr. J. E. Stack offered the associa
tiou the use of one of his warehouses
this season if the county commission
ei-s would erect a platform. The com
missioners found It Impracticable to
do so at this time, so his warehouse
had to be given up. Mr. Crow, It was
first thought, would lease his ware
house to the association, but an in
vestigation, however, disclosed the
fact that he had already leased it to
a local firm for two years. No other
warehouses are available. It is the
plan of the cotton association to or
ganize a warehouse association with
sufficient capital to erect a brick
warehouse at Monroe, and smaller
ones at Waxhaw and Marshvllle. The
warehouses would be under the con
trol of the state superintendent.
One of the happiest men in Mon
roe today is Mr. S. H. Rogers, who
came up from his new home in Blad
en county this morning to spend a
few days with old friends and rela
tives. Expressing himself as highly
pleased with the eastern part of the
sae, the ex-mail carrier went on to
ssv: "This year, however, has prov
ed disastrous to many in my section
on account of fifteen days of heavy
ralnfuall right at the time the tobac
co crop was ripe and rady for cur
ing. Good tobacco, tho igh, is bring
ing fancy prices, from hi) to 30 cents
pound. The poor grides are not
much In demand this year." The
price of land in that section. Mr.
Rogers said, has Increased nearly 1.
000 per cent since he located there.
A year ago the finest kind of land
could he had for 120 and $30 an acre.
Now such tracts are never offered at
these prices. Mr. Rogers. besld- en
gaging in farming, conducts a small
real estate business. He says thr
are a number of Union countv men
in Bladen and Columbus counties.
No man can keep a child of
school age at home to pick cotton
while his district school is in session
no matter if the school term is six
or nine months, according to a ruling
made this morning by Mr. Ray Fun
derburk. county superintendent of
schools. Reports came In yesterday
from schools In Marshvllle, Jackson
and Monroe townships showing a
large number of absences on account
of the parents keeping their children
at home to work In the fields, and
these reports caused Mr. Funderburk
o give out the above statement. It
seems that In these districts tho
school term is nine months, and the
parents evidently thought the state
complsory school attendance law on
ly required an attendance of six
months. This supposition Is errone
ous: If the district provides for a nine
months term, all children must st
ead for thr Wgth of time. Proba
tion officer F. H. Wolfe has been in-
- '" - 'od to enforce the law In those
sections, and If parents rontlr.u to
keep their children out of scfccol
they may expect to ba Indicted.
Mrs. J. M. Blair ia the s;!?at cf rel
atives at Hagood, S. C.
IU Y MAkl.Vt; OI.lt TIME 'LAPSES
(ioose 4-reek Mill K getting I'lentJ of
Order other Matter
Correspondence of The Journal.
Indian Trail. R. F. D. No. 1. Sept.
23. Mr. and Mrs. Fulton Furr will
celebrate their wedding anniversary
in a few days. Mrs. Edward Hill of
Charlotie is spending the week with
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hill. There will
be services at Ebonezer Bautlst
church Wedensday night. Rev. Leroy
Baucom. a chaplain in the army, U
spending a while wi'h friends and
relatives in this section. Esq. and
Mrs. H. M. Furr have returned from
an extended visit to Concord.
Messrs. W. L. Price and J. C. Foard
are operating their molasses mill on
full time and the orders are coming
in every day.
Rev. A. B. Haywood has bought a
tract of land in Goose Creek town
ship from Mr. G. W. Scott, and are
anticipating moving into their new
home in a short while. We welcome
these good r.' ichbors Into our com
munity. Messrs. W. R. Ormand and Z. V.
Rowell. while working the roads the
other day with a large crew, came
across a five-foot long black snake
curled up in the dust on the highway.
A few licks with a stick soon finished
this member of the snake tribe.
Mr. James T. Hill spent Sunday
with your prr'he. He is planning to
enter a Ci.-r'o't' cotton school, and
In a year r two v.e may find him
grading v-mi at Monroe or some
other point
Dry wen:
of water In
is now bus
" the county.
Is causing a scarcity
,,, section. Fvcrybodv
i'h their cotton. The
following hav- alreadv sold a bale
each: Messrs. Reece Simpson. Henry
Furr, Kinsley Funderburk, and James
Spears. Fairness.
Di:
McC.XIX SWS CHEESE
FACTORY WOULD PAY HERE
He Has Heen up in the Western Part
of the Stale mill Seen Them in Op
cintliiii Lunruster Road In Good
Shape Ginner Charges Are Vor
tying: the Fni-iuer.
Correspondence of The Journal.
Waxhaw, R. F. D. No. I. Sept. 22,
The finest piece of improved road
we have seen lately is that part of
the CharlotteColumbia and Augusta
Highway between the Jackson niouu-
ment and Cane Creek. This was once
a miserable murky mess, being whol
ly red, and thoroughly rotten, but
during the rainy season of the past
tall and winter the Lancaster county
chain-gang force, while the road bed
was in tip-top shape for brick mak
ing, proceeded to apply sand to it.
They put on a liberal application and
the continuous travel worked it into
the mud, and formed a crown surface
that very much resembles asphalt.
This we learn that the proper time
to sand a road is when its good and
muddy. J'lie sand and the clay get
thoroughly amalgamated, and when
it is treated !o a tirst class scraping
and smooihed down there is a road
surface worth riding over. Those
large cars of the tourist make It over
such roadways somewhat like they
do on the streets ol Monroe, and
there Is no doubt that travelers who
are acquainted with this route go
miles out of their way lu order to get
to ride over this road.
Dr. W. R. McCain, who has re
cently taken a trip through a portion
of the dairying and cattle raising sec
tion of the State, including Watauga
county, says that he is of the firm
opinion that a cheese factory In Un
ion county would be a paying propo
sition, not only to the promoters but
to the entire population as well. He
says a cheese making plant, sufficient
to supply local needs could be estab
lished at small cost, and that such a
plant would not only furnish a means
ot finishing up one of our valuable
products milk but that it would
wonderfully stimulate the dairy
branch of livestock raising.
In his recent travels the doctor
talked with some men engaged in this
branch of industry, and is convinced
hat the only thing necessary to get
Union County people interested to the
extent of putting through a project
of this kind would be a little aglta-
ion of the kind that would give the
proper information on the subject.
We received a copy of The News-
Reporter a few days ago. and on look
ing over Its pages were made to see
h appropriation of its name, News-
Reporter, is certainly correct, its ths
brim fullest of news of any local
publication we have come in contact
with, and the mystery to us is how
Willie' .'. it? Natural talent is the
only explanation.
Ginning charges are somewhat
mixed iu this yeir. some of our gin-
ners a.e rhargin : three dollars per
bale, regardless . i' size of bale, some
are ginning for seventy cents per
hundred and some for fifty-five cents
per hundred. There ought to be uni
formity of charges, but It seems that
ginnners art; not "rung" this time.
Maybe the scarcity of the material
for gin food has something to do with
this state of affairs.
The real estate business seems to
be booming these times. It's not at
all unusual for a man with money to
Invest to make ten dollars per acre
In a few days on land bought and
sold.
1.250 American soldiers have sail
ed from Russia, on board the trans
port Logan and should arrive In San
Francisco about Oct. 27th.
BETTER GET busy and have that
Caloric Furnace installed r w be
fore the winter sets in. Ttirp"
Hardware Co.