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"THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY READS IT" r THE UNION COUNT ! PAPER EVERYBODY NEEDS FT ie Monroe Journal PUBLISHED TWICE EACH WEEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY V VOLUME 26. No. 51. Monroe, N. C. Friday, Aug. 13, 1920 $100 PER YLIr I CASH JOHN AND CAMERON ALMOST STAGED JOINT DLSCUHSIOX HOW THE LATE WILLIAM DAVIE PREVENTED FAMINE in At the Tim of the Met Iran War, This Seetioo was Dependent "Cuon Htm for Corn. A son of William R. Davie, found er of the state university, revolution ary war patriot, ambassador to France, and statenian, who 1 burled in the old Woxhaw cemetery, once lent succor to a famine-stricken peo ple in North and South Carolina, ac cording to the Yorkville Enquirer. "Off the road between Harmony and the town of Fort Lawn." says ther Enquirer, "lies the home of the late General William Richardson Davie, noted figure of Revolutionary war times, who served his country and state along with Thomas Sumter and Frances .Marion. The general died in 1804 and lies buried near the home. An Interesting story is told of his son, the late William Davie, In his day one or the wealthiest and most influential citizens in South Carolina. In 1845 or at the time the Texas war was In full swing, and shortly before the outbreak of the Mexican war. North and South Caro lina faced a famine. The crops were a failure, in the barns there was room to spare and many a hard working father was filled with anxious rare lest his children want for bread. Wil liam Davie, however, had plenty. Possessed of broad lands which were always tilled with care, he had for years been laying up thousands and thousands of bushels of corn. In fact, he was the only farmer in all the countryside who did have enough and to spare. People flocked to him from scores of milej around to buy corn. Sonix who came had no money but wanted corn anyway. It made no dif ference to William Davie. To all who tame to him for bread that bread was freely given. If they had money nrir.c. the same. The story Is that there was an attempt on the pari of some to speculate, in Davie's corn. That If, cerain Shylrcks undertook to buy Davie 3 orn at D.ivle's price and then sell it i; their starving feUownicn at a great profit. Upon belli? advised of their ptcc dure Davie promptly cut off their supply. Thus that man kept hundreds of his fellows rrom starving to death. No high and mighty granite i-haft marks the last resting place of this noble man wno unm the day of his death was held In the highprt respect end esteem by hun dreds of people. In the history books of South Carolina there is no photo graph and mention of William Davie. one of the Saviours or aoum wreiui in 1X45. His descendants nve Texas. "Traveling along the same road the venerable guide pointed to the spot where some eighty years ago a North Carolina mountaineer broke his neck In a most unusual manner. Eighty years ago it was quite ordi nary for North Cnrollna distillers to loada of llouor. mostly brandy, for sale to the citizens of South Carolina. 1'eaanng oi ny was as common then as is the ped Minv nf miles now. This North rn..iit,i:. ' whoM name has Ions since been forgotten, was bringing liquor into York county. He was driving a team of mules and he had a little boy with him. Great chestnut trees grew in all of York and Chester .,ntua hns da vs. They were as common as are the elm tres in Yorkville. This mountaineer stopped beside the road In order to climb chestnut tree after nuts. Perhaps he had been tmblbling to freely of the goods which he had for sa'o. At any rnte he fell from the top or th chest nut ree. His neck was broken by the fall. The body was carried hack to North Carolina for burial. There Is no record of what became or the liquor. It Is hardly probably, how ever, that it was carried bark to North Carolina.tand there Is no In formation to lU-J efTect that It was used as a preservative ror the body r the owner on Its long Journey back to North Carolina, there to rest in his native sod." SOLDIER TO HAVK 88 KW FACE. 11ow to Cliew Food Asr!n After Twenty-Two Operations. Sergeant Unwell S. Ranklin, of Cynthlana, Ky., one of the first sol diers to enlist nrter America entered the war. Is to have a new face. Itanklln e.ilWted with th marines and fought first at Verdun.Then cam the battle cf B-lleati Wood, and his encashments were at Snissonn. In the great Marne drive. While advancing at Solssons 90 per cent of his com pany was mowed down by the Ger mans. His companion's head was blown off. and then a stream of ma chine gun bullets swept him. A hole was torn In his right shoulder, nearly severing his arm: several bullets cut his neck, narrowly missing the Jug ular vein; seventeen of his teeth were ripped out and his lower Jaw and hair tils tongue torn off. One bullet pass ed through his left hand. ' He walked three and a half miles for first aid. He was unable to swaW low food or drink for five days, nearly dying from thirst and hunger. Then he was fed through the nose. What was left of the Jaw was sewed Into nlare For two yes he was In hos pital. In France" York and Bt. "I'have not cVewed food' for more than two f years." h. .old. "but th. doctor Is to transplant more bone In mVjaw. adjust artiflcia teeth, and then I will be all right" Slandering competitors bring no body b'. Jiness. It's the snarling dog that Is kicked. GROCER YMAX BROOM TAKES PESSIMISTIC VIEW OF LIFE To Him R Seems That Most Folks Are Either Fixing Automobiles, Riding to Them, or Working on Roads. Waxhaw. R. F. D. 1, August IS. Mr. W. C. Broom, who was once one of Jacksn tow nship best and most up-to-date farmers is now, and has been, for several jears one of Waxhaw's leading grocer) men. In speaking ot the general trend of present day ac tivities Mr. Broom is some what pessi mistic. He says It appears to him thai only a revr people are at work and that the most ot those working are buildiug roads, and that the rest are fixing automobiles, while the ma jority of the whole population are riding. That seems to the writer a pretty accurate survey of the matter, and if any one has the situation sit ed up more definitely we would lik to hear from blm. The army worm Is being heard from In various localities but the ex tent of the damage done, so far, seems to be much less than was fear ed. Let us hope that the South Caro lina man who thiuks the fly that is following them and laying eggs on their backs that la hatching out an enemy to "eat e'm up" is correct, if he Is, that scores one for one kind of fly. The propaganda to get the price ot the tanners cotton down has been going on some sixty days, or about all or the time since the planting seaiton passed. When rarmers were negotiating ror their fertilizers, and were complain ing because of the heavy Increase In tho price over last year, they were assured that the Increase was due to high priced cotton, and that one bale of forty cents cotton would pay for more fertilizer, and tho higher price of fertilizers, than ever before. This he sold them corn at a fair,wa.- probably true, but where Is the H they had none It was all prospect for forty cents cotton, wnen the time to meet these fertilizer diiis is nearlng? It's passing strange, anyhow, why the farmer should be expected to give the same number of pounds of cotton for a given article, when cotton Is high, as when cotton is low. Why Is It that It never occurs to our ad visers that forty cent cotton cost more to make, than does ten cent cotton. Lands are worth more now than when cotton sold for ten cents, con sequently rents ore higher, mules are worth more; farm Implements are worth more, labor is worth more. In fact everything that enters Into cotton production is very much high er than formally. And yet. the men who shoulder all this added burden on production are expected to be satisfied If they can swap the price of a bale of cotton for the same amount or the other fellows stuff that hey could swap it for when cotton was worth ten cents the pouoid. Looking at the matter from ft busi ness standpoint If it cost nine cents to produce ten cent cotton, then thfe waa a Profit of eleven per r-nt in l. and on that same hypothesis if it cost thirty r,lx cents to pro.luie cot ton now, tvn we ought to hav, the same utrgln of profit, forty cenu for It now. The idea seems to be, how ever, thit If farmers made ten cnt cotton fir rie cent profit per pourl. thv f ::g'it make forty cent cotton ror or e cent proft per pound. No other busliu'ss vould survive such c:lcul lions as that. Do you reckon the fir ming Industry will? Mr. Walter Cunningham of the l!o'v!.i Grove commr.nity went- owr to Tiirah. In Yr k county, S. 9. laEl welt to hear Per'dent J. S. Wanna t:;s.krr of the sot hern cotton associ ation make a peeh. He says there wr.s then ten thousand people prevent to hear him. and that they had barbe cued beer over there' waist .deep, nnd that the crowd was good natured. maintaining the best of order, while at the same time manifesting the groatctt enthusiasm. He thinks Mr. Wamiamaker is the most sincere man he ever listened to, and wishes every body could hear him. In the course of his remarks Wan nttniRker paid his respects to the movement to invent a process for making clothes from wodo fibre, said he had no Idea God would let 'em do It. beoause he was going to have ue for all the wood not needed ror legitimate purposes, to "heat up hell" to burn tho cotton speculators, who wre robbing the poor people-of the cotton rilslas section of otir country of the fruiTs or their arduous toil in the cotton fields. Some or the boys want us to "hit back" at J. W. B. on his position on the tax problem. Our answer to them Is this, ir fortv Philadonhla liwyers can tell what J. W. B.s "position" Is. thev can certainly beat this "skutter.' Novus Homo. IXIOX COUNTY NEGRO IS TAKEN TO DEATH HOUSE CLINTON MAX SUCCEEDS GRIFFIN AS POLICE CHIEF i. Wriglit Spoon, Officer with Seven 4rYeor Experience, Will Assume Duties In Few D;iy. Mr. C. H. Griffin has resigned as chief of the Monroe police force, and Mr. J. Wright Spoon, a experienced officer or Clinton, S. C, has been elected to succeed him. . Mr. Spoon will arrive In a few days to assume his dutes. The new chief was born and reared near Laurens, S. C. where he was a magistrate for a number of years. From there he moved to Clinton, toake charge of an oil mill. About seven years ago he Joined the Clinton police force, and has since proved himself to be a capable officer, according to Monroe - railroad men, who know him well. His salary will be $150 per mon.h, which is an in crease of f IS a month. Aruthnr Cuanlnglwm Dors Not Coo feea But Kays He will Prepare to Die Wants to See Parent. Arthur Cunningham, the Jackson township negro who was convicted of an assault on a white woman at the last term of Davidson county court, is now In the death house at the state prison at Raleigh awaiting the elec tric chair on the morning of Friday, October 8. says the Lexington Dis patch. . Although he denied to the deputy who carried him to prison that he committed the rape tor which he was sentenced to die. the negro expressed no hope that he would escape the penalty ot his crime. "All that I have left to do is to get ready to meet God," the negro is quoted as having said as he was taken to the prison. Before leaving the Jail here, where he was kept until Sunday morning, after his sentencing to death on Wednesday morning, Cunningham is reported to have written I pitiful let ter to his parents, expressing the wish that he be permitted to see them before he Is to die. His last words upon leaving Jail here were a request that the colored prisoners there pray for him. and they sent back the rare well admonition that he forget not to nray for himself. Cunningham still said that he kill ed a man In Winston-Salem, said the deputy. He went along quietly but made the request before leaving Jail that he he handcuffed only bv one hand, which was refused. As the train approached Raleigh the negro's concern seemed to grow and as It pulled down the tracks past the state prison, which loomed up gloomily bends or perspiration burst out over the prisoner's rorehead. So rar as has been made known here there will be no attempt to se cure clemency for the rapist, who was positively Identified and, who admit ted to tv.o deputies of Rowan county that he was the man who attprked Mrs. Joseph McCarn, or Llnwond on June 30. MAYOR SIKES IS BOOMED FOR W. V. HAMMER'S JOB Friends of Monroe Attorney Have ' Reriniiiiieiided Him lor District Attorney's lliice. ' Mayor John C. Slkes, without his consent, is being boomed for United Slates district attorney, to succeed W. C. Slammer, democratic nominee for congress rrom this district. This morning, following the publication of a story in the Raleigh News ft Obser r to the effect that he had been recommended to Senator Overman for the Job, Mayor Slkes received a num ber of letters from party leaders. In cluding O. Max Gardner, offering their services in getting the appoint ment for him. Tha New A Observer Story reads: "John C. Sikes of Monroe has been recommended to United States Sena tor Lee Slater Overman tor appoint ment ns United States attorney for tho western district of North Carolina to fucceed William Cicero Hammer, Democratic nominee for Congress In .vveii'h district. 'Co.'.gressi.ian Clyde Hoey has de clined tho proffered appointment, as ias for, ier Lieutenant-Governor W. C. NewKind. Mr. Hoey's dclinallnu to accept the place. In the opinion of many politicians here attending the special session of the Legislature, lends color to a story carried In the Washington correspondence or the News and Observer some time ago to the effect that Congressman Hoey ap plies to succeed Senator Overman when the latler's terms expires. "Mr. Sikes is a prominent Union lawyer nnd favorably known all over the State. He has been many tim". suggested for Congress in the seven'li disiiict. having been strongly tinted to make the race In the primary JitRt past. He Is a man of middle sue ami his friends assert Is admirably equipped for the place. "Mr. Hammer Is said to be very anxious to resign In order that he nwiv give his full time to the cam paign. Mr. Sikes name was present ed to Senator Overman at Salisbury vexterdav, and it was thought there inst night that the Junior Senator would probably make recommenda tion to the attorney general during the week. "S. J. Durham, well known Gaslon lawver. who wanted the place, has been eliminated from the contest, it was said last night. Friends of Sena tn rivprnmn with whom he has been consulting about the matter, have recommended the appointment of alba- .nil It U cfnerallv believed ri" will be recommended to the attorney general." The action of his friends In boom ing him for the Federal appointment, which pays $5,000 a year, was a great suprprtse to Mr. Slkes. He has not even given the matter serious con sideration. Should the appointment seriously interfere with nis civil prsc lit not accent It: as It Is said that his practice returns him anywhere from $10,000 to $15,000 a year. However, ir Senator Overman Is Inclined to recommend him for the job, and it would not take him sway from Monroe too much, he would very likely take It. UREEX TAKES ISSI E WITH "S. W. a- OX ROAD FINANCING Marsliville Mao Says Some People Have PrnertMl Idea of Justice and Equity. To the Editor of The Journal: Your Correspondent. "J. W. B." con cludes that it U "everlastingly" wrong for sn abutting landholder to pay any part ot the cost of a perma nent highway across his lands, except the small added tax that results from the enhanced value ot the lands. Under his plan let's use an illustra tion: John Smith owns a hundred acres of land through which a hard-surfaced road is built at a cost of thirty thousand dollars per mile. The land was worth a hundred dollars per acre but the building ot the hard surrace highway across the farm add ed a hundred dollars more per acre to the value of the land, and Instead being worth ten thousand dollars. It Is now worth twenty thousand dollars. Society, in form of government, nat ional, state and county, has used its tsxing power to draw from the people thirty thousand dollars per mile to build the highway and litis invest ment has Incidentally added ten thou sand dollars value to the farm which would not have occured in any other way. John Smith becomes the owner of ten thousand dollars worth of value at the expense of all the tax payers, whose lands are not accesible to the hard-surface highway and. therefore, have not been enhanced in value by the tax money that was drawn from them. Now. according to the code of bus iness morals advocated by "J. W. B.", John Smith should not be required to,; do anything more than pay the taxes upon the ten thnosand dollars which society has turned over to him as a gift, wiihout effort on his part. If this added tax should amount to twenty dolltir a year "J. W. B." would seem to consider It an extrmely heavy added burden for John Smith a bur den under which John would sweat and vroan, with feelinus of resent ment (in t-T.ch gross "Injustice" to himself. I am wondering if somebody should offer to make "J. W. B." a donation of ten thousand dollars, he would consider that he would be making ample returns for the favor by merely paying tax on the ten thousand dol lar. There are so many people who have, what seem to me, a perverted Idea of equity and Justice and who svw willing to grab all the "unearned Increment' possible from society without giving anything In return. that this Incident opens up a field ror Interesting discussion, and ir "J. w. B." will spell out his real name and continue to enlarge upon that "other side" which he has discovered, I shall be glad to make rurther comment upon the equitable principle of re quiring abutting landholders to pay a part of the cost or permanent nign ways. T. J. Green. VANX IS ADMINISTRATOR OF F.sg. SIMPSO.VS ESTATE MARSHYILLK FOLKS HAVE PLENTY OF CANNED FRl'IT Ex-Soldiers American Legion runs excursion to Lakevlew, Wednesday, August 18. 8wlmmtng, boating, fish ing, speech by Jim Lockhart, Icemor lee band, and ball game between 30th and 89th division. Only $7.00 rournl trip, and that Includes Legion dues, dinner, and railroad fare. Property of Well-Known IHH-ensed Citizen is Estimated to Amount to H2."i(),()MI. Mr. J. C. M. Vann has been ap pointed administrator of the estate of the late Esq. C. N. Simpson, and yes terday filed a bond or $500,000 for the faithful performance or his du ties. This Is the largest bond ever filed with the counly clerk of court's office. The estate U said to total $250,000. Ei,q. Simpson left no will. He has iieen quoted as s.iying that the "law made the best will," so It is tt"; 'ii for granted that he practiced v!.;it l.- preached. Relatives of the ii reas" i made a diligent search for a will, inn their effort .4 proved fruitless. The estate Is to be divided inio five parts. Th.? widow of the deceas ed shares equally with two children, Dr. W. B. Simpson, and Mrs. William Fowler, along with the descendants of two deceased children. Mrs. Theo dore Teak and C. N. Simpson, Jr. Contrary to general belief, Esq. Simpson owned very little real estate. His property consists mostly of solven' credits. A few years ago. he disposed of large holdings In this state and Ar kansas, and the only land he owned at the time of his death was a few places in this county and In Mecklen burg county. It is an odd coincident that Esq. Simpson was administrator of the estate of the late JackVai;n, father of Mr. J. C. M. Vann. who I? the administrator of Esq. Simeon's estate. Tribute ti the Kikh ker. To the Ed i for of The Journal: After God finished the rattle-snake, the toad and the vampire, he had some awful substance left with which he made a knocker. A knocker is a two legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a water sage'd brain and a combination back bone made of Jelly and glue. Where other people have their hearts he carries a tumar of rotton principles. When the knocker comes down the street, honest men turn their backs, the angels weep tears in heaven and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out. No man has a right to knock so long as there Is a pool of water dcp snnnch tA rirnwn hi bodv in. or . rope to hang his carcass witu. T.J.O.J Man's b'isinet fs (o work to aur-J mo"ti ("irf'culties. to endure hard- ti, to solve problems, to overcome the Inertia or his own nature. Montana Life News. The Busy Housewives Are Well- Preiiared for Festive Occasion Plenty of Rain. Marshville. August 11 If anyone snouid ask you may tell them that ll is raining down our way. and has been doing so for a week or over. Because our ditches are not properly cleaned out our streets are now a se ries of small gullies, and the number of choice mud holes about would de light the heart of any pig or duck that ever lived. Messrs. E. E. Marsh and James P. Marsh went to Wilmington for a few days the first of the week. Mr. Boyce Hallman Joined Mr. J. P. Marsh in Hamlet later and they are now in Baltimore. Mr. Conrad Hamilton is spending a few days with relatives here. Mrs. R. L. Griffin and Miss Lillian Stevens are visiting their parents in Mi'thews. Mi-, and Mrs. L. E. Hugglns spent several days In Gastonia this week with relatives. Miss Daisy Edwards has as her guest her cousin Miss Ethel McGee of South Carolina. Mr. H. B. Marsh and daughter. Miss Mary Marsh, are spending the week In the mountains. Mrs. M. P. Blair has as her guest Mrs. Alexander of Statesvllle. Rev. J. J. Edwards Is conducting a successful meeting at Gil boa this week. Work on the new Presbyterian church Is progressing- rapidly. The walls are showing up, and the build ing will be unusually handsome and well arranged. Master Frank and Tom Caudle of Wadesboro are visiting relatives here. Mr. Karl Marsh has accepted a po sition with an oil company in Okmul gee, Okla. Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Wad del I of Sumter, S. C. were the week-end guests of the latter's brother, Mr. J. T. Garland. Mr. Brady Little of Oxford Is spending his vacation here. Mr. J. R. Hlldreth is working with the Seaboard station force now. There is not likely to be a famine In canned fruit and vegetables In Marshville this winter. Quantities or peacehs are brought to town every day and the housekeepers are peel ing and pickling and canning at all hours till the rush Is over. It will all be mighty good on bleak winter days, but its a rearful Job now. And when. the shelves are aU nicely filled with a tempting array and you are reeling so thrifty though deadly tired, and then go take a look some day and find some of your pet Jars of fruit spoiling, and your nicest vege tables turning up their toes ; then next winter along comes a hard freeze and If you don't sit up and keep a fire all night till Its over yon know every darned Jar full Is going to rreexe and by the time Its all over vou wish you had let It rreee and burst Just ror spite then you think about ill those long hot hours In the kitchen last summer and It oil looks like a rool piece or business anvhow. But then ir you can save It and company comes lit unexpect edly some day Its a wonderrut haven or refuge and you can't Imagine what vou would have done without all that canned stuff. Well such Is life Just one thing after another but it Just a little more so when It comes to the niw and downs of a housekeeper's life. Solve Storinit Problem nnd Sweet Pn Intoes Will Become Satisfactory Crop. There is no more important matter relating to food supplies In the South than the problem of storing and sav ing sweet potatoes. In recent years methods have been jet eloped by which "sweet potatoes can be keiit through the stoinge sea son will: a loss of lesis than three per cent due to decay," according to the Untied States Depattment of Agri culture. When the necessary facili ties for keepln? sweet potatoes with out serious loss from rotting are pro vided through the South, the sweet potato will become one of our best staple crops, for the use of sweet potatoes Is rapidly Increasing out side the South. In fact. If sweet potatoes can be safely and economi cal! v stored thir use will be greatly Increased In the South, for under present conditions they are generally more or Iff? hish priced and scarce for six month of the year. While a satisiactory curing and storage houso Is not expensive, s'ill the small farmer may find the cost too arat. Therefore, cooperative curing and storage houses should be bviilt in every neigtinornooa. t nerr Is no better opportunity for coopera tion than in providing neighbnrliosJ sweet roiato storage facilities. The essentials for Kepmg sweei potatoes are, well matured potatoes. one (!'siinct or well defined variety. careful harvesting and handling, and curing and storing In a properly con ducted and ventilated house where a fairly uniform temperature or around sixty degrees can be maintain ed during the storsge season. Mixed varieties requiring different handling. Immature potatoes or those In lured by frost, and rough handling which bruises the potatoes must all be avoided if the potatoes are to be cured and stored satisfactory. Pirns for houses that have been proved satisfactory may be obtained from the exenslon forces of each state or from the United Stsles Department of Agriculture. The Progressive Farmer. Justice, sir, Is the greatest inter est of men on earth. Webster. Union County OutMhlncd Them AH at the (ioori lUxtds .Meeting in lUlcigu Tuefekty. Thanks to the untiring efforts of Mr. G. L. Nisbet. secretary of th Monroe Chamber of Commerce, Union county outshined them all at the good roads meeting in Raleigh. Tues day. The Icemorlee band, carried at 1 an expense of approximately six hun dred dollars, along with the Gastonia drum corp. furnished music for the occasion, and Mr. J. J. Parker, an en thuliastic member of the Monro Chamber of Commerce, and a candi date for governor, was one of the top line speakers. The Monroe delegation went down to Raleigh in a special Pullman. Be sides the band, the following made the trip: J. C. Brooks. T. L. Crowell, J. H. Boyte. Mayor J. C. Sikes. Horace Neal. J. J. Parker, G. L. NUbet. Major W. C. Heath and John Beasley. Mr. Cameron Morrison, the demo cratic nominee for governor, followed John Parker at the speech-making Tuesday night, and in speaking of their efforts. Mr. T. W. Bost, Raleigh correspondent of the Greensboro News, says: "Cameron Morrison. Democrat, and John Parker, Republican, candidates tor governor, lacked about fifteen cents of staging a Joint debate to night at LeRoy Klrkpatrick's great road rally, when the gubernatorial aspirants spoke in succession and from the same platform. "Their slants took political turn de spite the g. in lest efforts lo restrain themselves. P;irker, speaking first and advan'a?d by license to discuss 'his vision' of good roads, naturally took the occasion for arraying so many state infirmities which stand in the way of a really honest-to-goodness apocalyptic dream. The state was dreadfully illiterate, it has no roads, its tax system is an abomination, though he did not discuss it, and its school system must be reconstructed so that ruralite and urbanite will start life with the same good heft by the stale. "Parker was Introduced by Col.mel Klrkpatrlck. The Republican candi date declared that If 'Kirk' will work as well as he speaks, 'when I am elected governor I will make you chairman or the state highway com mission.' Morrison Joined in the roar. Parker declared that the state must hulld a state system and that It cannot expect the counties, SO many of them without leaders ot vision, to do It. ' "Morrison tollowed. 'I want to take up for North Carolina,' he said, looking at Parker. 'We have been doing for twenty years Just the things that you are talking about. Every body could see what twenty yeari meant. The two decades stretch over the period of Democratic control gained through overthrow of Russell. 'Ayeoek, Alderman and Mclver had vision.' Morrison declared. They started with about the sorriest state, In point of progress though great In tradition, nnd in twenty years the commonwealth has lifted Itself from abysmal illiteracy and Ignorance, trom a low vitality to a high, rrom a low birthrata to the highest in the world,' nnd ha thought that was go ing some, and all this had been done In twenty years. "He declared It a Justice to North Carolinians who lived over this pe riod to say that they have boen doing not all In a day, of course, Just what the Republican candidate has de manded be done. "Touching what he purposes doing ai governor for good roads, he said not nil the roads needed can be built, and 1 can't say Just what will be my policy. If I told It. John Parker would disagree with me before niorn ins. But he pledged himself to stand by his campaign speeches and Colonel Klrkpatrlck thought that good enough." Piv.sbylerian t hnrrli Notes. "It Is a good thing to give thinks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto they name O Most High." You are invited to do this "good thing" on Sunday morning with us. 10. A. M. Sunday school. W. A. Henderson. Superintendent. 11 A. M. worship and s'nnon. No evening service. The summer attendance is good. Let's make It even better. Reporter. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on. Shakespecre. COLORED BRICKLAYERS EARN MOKE THAN BOSS They Get Twelve Dollar Per Day. Whil. He Receive Only l.iulit Phr k per Ten Hours. What's co .ting next! A negro brick mason can make more than bis boss, and a white carpenter earns le-a than hair what is paid his colored rellow-worker. On the construction Jobs on Hsyne street facing the court house, colored brick masons are being paid twelve dollars per day. The white contractor, who "bosses" the Job and keeps tho "time," earns eight dollars per day; while the white carpenieri get the sum of five dollars for ten hours work. Few nwn In Monroe earn more than twelve dollars per day. The highest paid professional men, with one or two exceptions, do tint earn over filn ami a half dollars per day, or threa thou- gund per year.
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