THE MONKOF. JOI KXAI-. FKIDAV. WTOKI.R 21. 1910.
.JACK TIUFD TO BUIKK THE
J IKY WITH MEAL AT HOTEL
Well-lv: own IakvA diameter W;tntel
Hie Damsige, '! Made Atfal in
On ii lU-lialf IPfore Sujierior Court.
AltIough Professor Jack Williams.
ell-known local character, and the
man who ran the hogs out of Mon
roe, made a hard light to win his own
case In Superior court Tuesday, he
failed to receive a favorable verdict
from the Jury. From the start to
finish the Professor handled his own
case, and eren-mada an appeal to
the Jury.
The court stenographer look down
Jack's speech in shorthand, and at
the request of a number of court at
tendants, The Journal is printing it.
The speech was of a rambling nature,
and it was hard for Jack, with Ifis
meaner attainments, to confine his re
marks entirely to the issue at stake.
The speech follows:
"Gentlemen of the jury, and Your
Honor, I have never made a speech
before the Jury before but I am call
ed on today as a United States man
and the United States says don't fool
with no lawyer and I believe it. Jury
mens I am asking for damage against
the Jackson Cotton Mill for the in
Jury to my leg and my time and what
my time would have come to up to
Saturday at eleven thirty. Jurymens
you see that they have formed a con
clusion amongst themselves up here
and you see where somebody ha
drawed $15.25 of my wages without
any leave or license that is they way
they do us. If you Jurymens is go
ing to allow John Sikes or any other
man to go down and issue papers
without any cause or any grounds or
anv notice and then come up here
and claim they give them ten day's
notice that is the way they do the
poor cotton mill people the cotton
mill men and the ladies don't you
see thev have rotten floors and bad
places to kill them and they break
their legs and Jurymens can't you
decide to make them do better and I
ask you to give me Justice and tight
to the best of your ability. I am not
able to explain It to you for I am no
lawver but I know this the United
States would allow It and you have
pot to decide this but I can hand that
claim up to the United State and
thev will pay It at once but I am here
for the court to give them a hearing
over it and I ask you for damage to
my ler for It Is hurt amf will hurt
i:e the loncest day I live and I don't
expect I will ever be able to hold an
other section down In the mill and
thev have agreed to pay me $10.00
n week and they have not. Here is
what their arbitration was men.
Here, von Jurymens take and take it
in the room w'ith you you have got
better eves than I have. That is the
pav roll. The pay roll comes every
week and these tickets show how
much thev have taken out. They took
out 1 118 or $120 of my time. -I have
a'ot it lu-ie but I can't find it.
"I sctu that many and I will Just
leave this matter to you as good,
huutsl citizens and upright men to
decide this in the favor of the old
muii, crippled Jack Williams, who ii
. lighiiug tue court tor his rights mid
asks you twelve men to give uie
! damage and to give me $65,(Ht
j damage and if you find you can't tr
im d to give uie that why make tin
damage heavy enough so it will pay
the expanses of this court and you
jurymens' fees, aud also when you
;aie done with the case why you jury
I mens go down to the hotel and get
j on a meal of victuals on Jack vv n
liaius. I mean to give you a meal
of victuals I would rather give it to
you than to some lawyer and I want
you jurymens to understand I am an
honest man and I want to give you a
meal of victuals for the lawyers tee.
so bring back a verdict aud have them
pay me houxe rent for Mr. Merritt
didn't allow me to pay auy rent and
he told me not to ever say anythijj
about rent until he did and Mr. Wal
ton you see he didn't know an
thing and when he got up here on
the stand he didn't seem to know
anything.. Men you see it he had
John Sikes to mislead you and John
Sikes advised Mr. Knight to dispos
sess me and he had no right to the
property at ail. The mill company
sent me up to be a super and i.
was'nt concerned with this contract
it was made before he come and 1
contend that he didn't have any right
to turn the house into the office.
Like we agreed gentlemen eight
men there In the mill who know how
to run all them spindles and all them
cards, and when they seed the floor
was rotten and I got hurt they seed
that and as good free masons and fel
low men and they sympathized wh
me enough to give me a life time job
so I could make a living without beg
ging for it and now you men decide
in favor to give me the house rent
free and I ought to have damage for
the mill company makes plenty of
money and is able to pay it. It has
paid enough to pay all you Jurymens.
I look In the face of you good honest
men to give me damage no matter
what John Sikes claims for he is
liable to prove a alibi or anything
else. I think he has showed It In the
court and also English he was here
so you needn't believe anything he
says. I have tried them and when a
man will take his pen and forge t:
thing against a man and Klip down to
the office and draw $15.25 you know
he Is guilty of swearing, so that theiv
has been plenty of evidence to show
you what he will swear to. Ani
there Is no use In it that shows it
is a waste of court.
"Now when Mr. Knight was up
here he said they couldn't show any
date of the papers that has been filed
away in the office claimed they had
been sent away off yonder. They
ain't been sent anywhere I bet I can
shake around their old rat's nests and
find them and you can make It a mur
der for them to keep that rotten floor
and try them in the next court for
murder in the second degree. That
is what it ought to be and that fel
low John Sikes knows It. They have
given the officers trouble and th'
lawjers trouble. They don't th::.
nothing of playing crack-a-loo dowu
theie. There is a common game m iin
the little boys. There was some play
ing out by my house Sunday and they
play down there every Sunday that
is their Sunday iccupation aud :ae
don't none of them catch thcui and
if jou can catch them you can make
them pay fur it and the mill com
pany ought not to- allow them to do
that around there. 1 ask you jury
mens as fine citizens and fine gentle
men of Union county to help i.:e i
fight this hateful cause down fi.r .
is ruining young men and younv
ladies and I ask you today to he!,'
the said Jack Williams to do this am:
so the officers in this town won't
have any more trouble. So I ain't
got no more to say until I hear from
John Sikes."
Influenza Again
Appears Among Us
una i!:nueuza again, among us
wkilo.ii cial foresight dictate tha' v
'ery t;'.i! ily fcl.uuld prepare to j revent
'and combat this disease. In the iu-
terest of humanity, physicians and
layi.itu who were so success! ul las!
vur In treating Influenza. Colds.
Grippe. Croup aud other diseases of
the inspiratory organs are recou.nen-
ci US as tl.e most effective treatment,
the external remdy
RIXGUNG BROS. AND
HA It M M HA I LEY
Mammoth Showc Are Now Combined
And Announce Exhibition at Ear
ly Date.
The world's biggest amusemnt in
stitution, Ringling Bros, and Barnuni
& Bailey Shows Combined, is to ex
hibit afternoon and night at Char
lotte Monday, November 3rd.
The consolidation of the "World's
Greatest Shows" and the "Greatest
Show on Earth" In one circus of co
lossal size, constitutes the amusement
surprise of the country. Nothing to
approach this gigantic, new circus
has ever before toured America. It
has been formed by merging the pick
and the cream of all that was biggest
and best In the two famous shows. It
would be folly to attempt to enumer
ate its many wonders. Some idea of
the enormous scale upon which fea
tures are presented may be had when
it is stated that a quarter of a million
pounds of elephants take part in a
single act; in other words six times
as many of the big-eared giants than
have ever before been seen In one
main tent exhibition. All else to be
seen Is in proportion. The arenic
starts embrace all the world's fore
most circus performers. There are
three hours of novelties and big sen
sational acts. The menagerie is far
and away the most collossal ever
traveled. For instance a herd of
eight giraffes are exhibited in place
of the two or three shown in the past.
The great tournament which opens
the muin-teiit program, is the most
magnificent . thing in pagentry yet
produced In America. Hundreds up
on hundreds of gorgeously costumed
characters and beautiful horses take
part In It. The morning street pa
rade is the longest and most brilliant
ever given anywhere. It is a stu
pendous super-circus that baffles description.
SALVE
Brame's Yapo:uetha Salve, when
applied to the chest and throt pene
trates the pores of the skin and
breaks up the congestion, at the same
time healing vapors are carried direct
to the infected membranes of the
nasal passages, causing the phlegm
kto be loosed and inducing restful
sleep.
Brame's Vapomentha Salve may be
obtained at every drug store, or it
may be had from the manufacturers
direct, the Bra me Drug Company ot
North Wilkesboro, N. C. Sold in
three sizes, 30c, 60c and $1.20. Com
plete directions accompany every
package.
1'lVsll I'ilillt.
"Waiter," he called, sniffing the air
suspiciously, "what Is this smell of
fresh paint around here?"
"If you'll Just wait a few minutes,
sir," replied the waiter, "them two
young ladles at the next will be going
In a minute, sir."
salve '"free
NAVY WILL KELEASE THHEE
MILLION POUNDS OK SKJAIt
REAL CIRCUS DAY
Secretary Daniels Takes Step to lte
lieve Sugar Shortage in United
States.
Advised that the Navy Department
has in reserve 9, 000. 000 pounds of
sugar. Secretary Daniels Tuesday in
timated that he would release one
third of the stock or 3.000,000
pounds for public use to relieve the
situation resulting from a nation
wide shortage of the commodity.
The present supply of the navy.
Secretary Daniels said, was sufficient
for six months, as only a three
months surplus usually is kept on
hand, Mr. Daniels Indicated it would
be unjust to retain more than that
amount now when the entire country
is experiencing a shortage.
The War Department, however, un
like the navy found that its supply
was running low. the supply being
estimated ns barely sufficient to last
until December 15. Quartermaster
General Rogers accordingly w ired all
zone supply officers that sales of su
gar to any one person In the service
must be limited to not more than six
pounds per month and to not more
than 21 pounds per month for each
family.
Secretary Daniels also said he hn1
sent a message to all ships and sta
tions of the navy calling for strict
economy In the use of sugar, as
wastefulness by the navy, even of Its
abundant supply would "not only b
unpardonable but would reflect dis
credit upon the navy Itself."
Pride goeth before a fall.
Curiosity is frequently an excellent
quality.
Tuesday, November 4. Marks the Coining of The SjmiL World's Famous
Shows to Monroe (iivlng Two Complete Performances.
Circus day dawns with an indelinable stir in the air that seta the
small boy's heart to beating faster, and awakens pleasant memories iu the
minds of the gray beards who have not forgotten childhood's happy days.
The people of this city and community will undoubtedly be treated
to a tremendous surprise in the above show, as report has it that it is not
only triple in size this season, but t!:at it still retains those features that
made it such a welcome visitor in rast years, viz: Its freedom from all
semblance of gamblers and fakirs, the high-class moral entertainment af-.
forded and its honorable methods of doing business.
The management of the Sparks World Famous Shows have not only
ventured Into a field of greater endeavor, but in so doing, it is said, have
outdistanced tented rivals in a manner that leaves nothing to the imagina
tion, with the additional telling advantage of being triple in size. All
new In the matter of equipment and presentation, and still retaining the
wonderful trained w ild animal exhibition, which has done much to causa
this show to become famous, it Is the most remarkable amusement enter
prise of its kind in the world today.
The big street parade, while a feature of marvelous beauty and enor
mors? expense, but is a slight remainder of the great pomp, opulence and
bev IHering brilliancy to be witnessed under the mammoth tents during
the exhibitions. In other words the show is not a'! oi the streets.
Surprise
Coffee
IN SEALED TINS
1 .'i 1 5 Pound Tins.
Phone for a Canl
TO-DAY
WE SELL THE BEST OF EVERYTHING.
LEE GRIFFIN
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fordson
, ractosr
.Demonstration
Twenty experts from Henry Ford and Son's factory till give a FORDSON Tractor Demonstration at Vann
Sikes farm, one mile east of Monroe, on
Moim(dlaLy9 Octt.
beginning at 10 o'clock and lasting throughout the day. Actual demonstrations in plowing, harrowing, etc.,
will be made, and all farmers who contemplate buying a Tracor now or ever should be present.
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Refreshments Served
A light lunch will be served on the grounds. -.So come
preparedlo stay all day.
Other Demonstrations
Plow manufacturers and dealers in other implements
ers what their particular implements will accomplish,
sold as Fordson accessories will be there to show farm-
COME
IT WILL BE WELL
WORTH YOUR WHILE.
Henderson Garage and Machine Co. pt?
Ford Cars and Fordson Tractors
MONROE, N. C.
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