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"THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY READS IT "Vrr-n- II II - "THE UNION COUNTY PAPER-EVERYBODY I EEDS IT Monroe Journai PUBLISHED TWICE EACH WEEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY IT- Vol.29. No. 85. Monroe, N. C, Friday, December 2, 1921. $2.00 Per Year Cash iffilfiffli P m mm f fly ill 7 GOVERNOR CAMERON MORRISON, fflS STAFF, HIGH LEGION OFFICIALS AND CAMP BRAGG SOLDIERS MAY COME Highly Elated Over the Coming of the Great Allied War Leader, Citizens of Monroe and Local Legionaires Are Planning the Greatest Reception on Record; Monroe Will be the Only Stop in North Carolina of the Party on Tour The city of Monroe will be signally honored on the evening of Friday, December 9th, by a visit from Marshal Foch, com mander of all of the allied armies in the W orld War, who is mak ing a whirlwind tour of the American continent, greeting millions of his former comrades in the great conflict. Everywhere people are doing homage to this great soldier, the military chieftain who led the French, the British and the Americans to the world s greatest victory, and local legionaires and prominent citizens, including Mayor J. C. M. V'ann and F. G. Henderson, president of the Chamber of Commerce, determined not to be outdone in this respect, are meeting to arrange a re ception on such a scale that has never been or doubtless ever will be equaled in local annals. Already telegraph wires are humming with invitations to Governor Morrison and his staff, high state Legion officials, soldiers and citizens of North Carolina to be the guests of the city of Monroe on this great occasion.- Two regiments of artillery, now sta- tioned at Camp Bragg, will also be '. asked to come here to have their colors decorated for conspicuous gal lantry in the late war. The Shrine band, the best in the state, will be secured, if possible, to play the Mar seilles, the national air of France, as the Marshal's train pulls into the station and to later entertain him and his party with "Dixie" and Southern melodies. The special train wilj arrive about eight o'clock and will remain here for forty-five minutes. At first Charlotte was selected as the point for the Marshal's official visit to the state, but because the Southern railroad refused to haul his special train free of charge, like the other railroads of the country, it was decided to switch it over to the Sea board from Atlanta to Richmond by way of Greenwood and Monroe, the only two stops to be made in the statts of North and South Carolina. The Sharlutte folks, however, are moving heaven and earth to get the Marshal to stop there, as the follow ing account in this morning's Char lotte Observer shows: "That Mar.hal Foch is not coming to Charlotte was the information con tained in a telegram received yester da f re ni American Legion officials by A. J. Beall, commander of Hor nets Nest post, through Thomas V. Bird, state department commander. "That Marshal Foch is coming to Charlotte or thnt he will know that he didn't, is the determination ex pressed by local people interested in bringing him here and who have taken hold of wires that they ex pect to result in reverting to the original plan of stopping in this city. "After a telegram was received Local Legionaires Wire the Foch Party Telegram States That Preparations Are t'nder Way For a (ireat Reception For Their Stop The following telpgram was sent tills morning to the Foch par. ty which Is now in the far west by officials of the Melvin Deese post of the American Legion: "Preparations for the reception of Marshal Foch at .Monroe on Friday evening, Dec. 9, are uuder way. We are Inviting the Gover nor of the Mate and his staff, high I gion officials of the state and Camp Bragg artillery regiments I to be present. A cordial Invitation t!o the people, of the state Is also j being Issued to honor America's I distinguished guest by their pres- nee Judging by comment In j newspapers the state Is elated! I over the routing of the train over I thp Seaboard. Please wire us confirming your Itinerary as an. j ooi'nced in the news dispatches."! a t;me limit at the end, which makes it impossible to arrange the desired otcos MONROE FAVORED POINT Foch's Coming a I'nique Distinc tion for the Capital of I'nion (From the News and Observer.) Marshal Foch having changed his route through North Carolina from the Southern to the Sea board will pass through Raleigh on his way North. According to his present schedule he will pass through here at about half past two o'clock on the morn of De cember 10, one week from to morrow. We presume it would be quite in vain to hope at this late hour that he may re-arrange his schedule so that he could pass through Raleigh in the day time. Raleigh will have to get what satisfaction it can in having h m go through at night. There W'll v profound regrets that the huirvil! be such that there will be no hope of even getting a glimpse of the great French mili tary leader. Monroe will be the favored point as he will stop there for about forty-five minutes early in the evening on Friday, December 7. It will be a unique distinction for the Union capital. jiix:k i.kmmoi to sta;k a r'uhu.eks' convention Snie of liest Artists wiul Dancers in the State Hate Already Iteen Secutvd W. T. McQUIRT DIED LAST NIGHT AT THE HOSPITAL Appendicitis Cause of Death of This Popular Employee of the Mon roe Hardware Company The community was shocked this morning to learn that Mr. V. T. Mc- Uuirt. a popular employee of the .Monroe Hardware Company, had died last night at the Ellen Fitzger ald hospital. Last Monday morning he was apparently a well and vigor ous man. That afternoon he become stricken with an ailment that was later pronounced to be an attack of appendicitis After his removal to vP,i.;n1 P(1ii1,B ; nrBl.ti, .iiv me r.urn riuKrritiu uurmui, ii nuo decided that an operation was noces- GREAT WELCOME 5 AWAITING FOCH Greenwood and State of South Carolina to Make Holiday of the Occasion BIG CROWD WILL BE THERE The Generalissimo Will Be Treated to Turkey Dinner and Party Will Have Quail for Breakfast Greenwood. Dec. 1. Reduced rates and sufficient equipment to take care of the immense crowds cominir from all parts of this state coming to Green wood on Uecember 'J to welcome Mar shal Ferdinand Foch to South Caro lina wort promised today by officials of the Seabord Air Line, Southern, C. and W. C. and Piedmont and Nor thern railroads, meeting at Green wood today. The exact rate has not yet been announced but the railway officials assured a local transporta tion committee that the rate would be sufficiently low to be satisfac tory to the public. The railway of ficials declared that they expected thousands to come to Greenwood to see Marshal Foch, whose only stop in South Carolina will be Greenwood. Marshal Foch's train will reach Greenwood promptly at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon, December 9, from Atlanta, Fred Geissl'r, traveling passenger agent for the Seabord Air line, announced today. According to Mr. Geissler, the special train will have the right of way over every other train on the system, and even through trains are required to take a siding 25 minutes ahead of Mar shal Foch's train. Every switch and frog is inspected ahead of the spe cial, M. Geissler declared. The hour of arrival in Greenwood has been changed from 4:25 to 4 o'clock and the train will reach here on a sche dule time, according to railroad of ficials. 1 Plans are on foot to make Decern- Wingate, Dec. 1. John A. Murrel, ber I) a carnival day for Greenwood, the noted murderer, once preached a A football game between Newberry sermon in Zion church according to One of the greatest happenings that will iver take place in Monroe, with the xception of the coming of Marshal Foch on the 9th. will be the old time fiddlers' convention to be given at ihe court house on Friday night. Dec. 16th. says Olin McManus. adjutant of the .Melvin Deese post of the American Legion. Mr. W O. Lemmond Is the promo-1 if i oi i "is convention, ana iroin an i indications he will put over a pro. gram that has never been equaled in either of the Carolinas. Mr. Lem. mond, with the assistance of Melvin Deese Post No. 27, is putting forth fome extra efforts to make this one of the greatest that has ever been held in this section of the country. Some of the best fiddlers and dan cers of the Carolinas have already been second and the application of quite a number of others is pending. Announcements with regard to the fiddlers and dancers will be made just as soon as the program has been ar. ranged. There will also be several stringed Instrument bands which will be well worth the time of going to hear Special testing arrangements are being made In the court house for this night, so don't feel you will be unable to get a seat. Reserved seats will also be on sale at t he I'nion Drug Co. next week. Proceeds of this convention will go to help wipe out the deficit of the Legion on Armistice Day and also a hospital bill ewed bv the Legion. BIG TATER YIELDS REPORTED BY SIMS 1 His Neighbor Raised so Many on Small Patch That He Fears to Plant Many Acres (THEY WILL BE A SIDELINE Kehoboth I'nion Local is Addressed by Messrs. Broom and McGill, an Expert on Potatoes PREACHER GOT "LIT UP" ON FINE FRENCH BRANDY Mr. Boggan of Wingate Tells of In teresting Incident at Church; Mr. Bivens Lost Control of Car nary, ana at 2 a. m. tne net morn, in-; a telegram was sent to Dr. Kemp Neat of Raleigh asking him to come here for that purpose. He caught tlu first train out of Raleigh, which left shortly after 3 a. in., and was here in a few hours. The patient, it was found, had been suffering with appendicitis for surid. Hundreds of college students are expected from all over the state. A dance will be given that night in honor of them. When Marshal Foch visits Green wood and is officially welcomed to S,uth Carolina by hiifh state officials, there will be one old friend of the marshal of France in the throng the generalissimo's chauffeur at the peace conference, whom he has accustom- .-.onie time and so grave had his con. t.j l0 address familiarly as "Casey," ilitlon become that it was realized that there was little hope for him It seems that he had been under the Im pression that his ailment was colic that told of the train coine by Mon- wm i st,,P there, chan-res in rail roe and stopping there 45 minutes, several local people got behind the thing and kept the wires hot yester day, both to Washington and to the special train. "The telegrams sent to the speciul train were addressed to Portland, Ore., and will be received when the train arries there today. "Congressman A. L. Bulwinkle, of Gastonia, who made the original ar rangement with Colonel Parker, of ficial aide to Marshal Foche while he is in America, in Charlotte yesterday, wired a protest to the change to Colonel Parker. Col. T. L. Kirk patrick, who started the movement and secured the promise of Marshal Foch to come to Charlotte, wired the Marshal direct, telling him that Char lotte expects him to keep his en gagement here. "John M. Morehead, national com mitteeman of the Republican party in this state and J. D. Albright, coun ty chairman, wired Secretary Weeks in regard to the change. A. J. Benll wired National Commander Hanford McNider. C. A. Williams and M. J. O'Neill, local members of the Knights of Columbus, yesterday wired nation al officials of the organization, of "Tl-c onlv thinir that can be Hn: v or stomach trouble, which account in Nor.h Carolina is a 45-minute stop d for the fact that he had never se. t .Monroe nt 8 n. m. December 9. cured trtatment for appendicitis. U p k nw t'lis will not satisfv vmi. However. Dr. Neal proceeded to op but it !s abttilutel the hest v. nn crate. An Incision showed that the We :ir RUir.'estimr ta Rth unit appendix had bnrsted 17th i.rtillerv roiriment t FnvBtts.i Mr. McGuirt became deleriou. His Wile that they come to Monroe to'ail"ienl passed beyond the cura. have their colors decorated by Mar- D,e 8,ae a,,1 """dicai skill was tin. shnl l och. I able to save his life. The end came '"Since Charliite received wordia,l,"t 8 p m.. He was 41 years of from Ccpt. Lhooital that the Marshal j Se- .......I.I - ,i i . ' C!v f.till1ton tli.,1,. di'du rnnirlncr from two to sixteen years, survive along with their mother, who Is pros trated by the death of her husband. Eight brothers and three sisters, whoso names follow, also survive the rond arrangements have had to be irnde which makes it impossible to visit that town at all. They got no official word from the American Legion committee that the stnn win to be made, so, fortunately, we are ! deceased: Messrs. S. J. McGuirt, R. not breaking our word with them. L- McGuirt, Charles D McGuirt and "We hope you will appreciate the Lester McGuirt of Waxhaw; Theron difficulties of the committee and do i McGuirt of Greenville. S. C.: Curtis the best you can at Monroe.' picuuin or Monroe, tiaipn .vicuuiri or "In the first Dlace. the arranec- Monroe township; Mrs. W. E. Pardue ments ior Marshal fochs stoD in Charlotte were not made through of Lancaster, Mrs. R D. Robinson of Waxhaw and Mrs. Vern Tomberlln Capta'n Lhopital, as the telegram of Monroe. suggests, but by Marshal Foch him- self, Colonel pirkpatrick contends, The deceased was a son of the lata W. J. McGuirt. He was a native of adding that the captain with the j Jackson township and was one of the funny name had already returned to M""8' IIKea yo"K "" '"at section. France when the arrangements were Shortly after his marriage to Miss made. (Minnie Halgler, he moved to Page. "Local people interested in theIalld 'hore ne KaKed in the mer. coming of Marshal -Foch can see noth- clin,n business Some four or five ing in the change except a contro- 5 cars ago he came to Monroe to en versy between railroads as to which ,cr th eniploy of the Monre Hard, will haul the distinguished guest. !'are Company. During his real. The American Legion officers do not!d,,nrp here he won the reputation of know the difference in the towns and I Doln& a" honorable, conscientious cities alomr the twn riutP. in th man; and also became one of tho r.ressed belief of IihjiI ritizen. I most "Telegrams sent vestcrday included .narnware concern, the information that the Southern Funeral services were conducted railway from Atlanta to Washington ' Waxhaw this afternoon. Interment which Marshal Foch is a member. inive minutes les time than it takesas masonic nonors. an effort to bring pressure to bear i 'he t.'nbonrd to make the same trip, from that angle. 'hat the Southern has double track "Dr. Baxter S. Moore, chairman of " of the way and that the towns the committee on arranomeiiM iorilng the Seaboard had made no special etrort t. ifct the Marshal to or the French equivalent for Casey. He is lorn Casey of Greenwood, a former Bergeant in the American ar my, attached to General Tasker H. Bliss as his chauffeur. General Bliss obligingly loaned Casey to Marshal Foch whenever the rrench commander needed him, and, according to Sergeant Casey, from the number of times he drove Marshal Foch, the French commander must have been short of chauffeurs. So pleased was Marshal Foch with the American driver thnt he learned his name and called him familiarly, "Casey." Sergeant Casey will again be at the wheel when Marshal Foch de trains in Greenwood, and will drive the commander's car from the tvain uoUiwn, where the welcoming pro gram will be carried out. A turkey dinner such as prepared only in the south and a large quan tity of South Carolina quail will be placed on board Marshal Foch's train when he arrives in Greenwood. The largest turkey in this entire sec tion will be obtained and prepared by the best cooks in Greenwood. Fifty quail will also be presented for the generalissimo's breakfast. One Greenwood man has secured a large 'possum which he will present to the distinguished soldier. FOUR ARMY AVIATORS KILLED HIGH IN AIR Two Machines Collided Two Thous and Feet Above the ha rth While Doing Combat Drills. the coming of Maml.al IVch, wi-exl yesterday morning to Alton P. IJoh ert. cl.airman of tho American Lo fton's committee on entertainr.it nt of distinguished guests, addrcs.itntr. his telegram to Seattle, Wash. Dr. Moore received a reply confirming the tele gram received through State Com mander Bird by Post Commander Beall. "This telegram, signed by Hanford McNider, national commander; Frank lin D'Olier, past commander, and Al ton P. Roberts, and dated at Butte, Mont, November 29, is as follows: "W have dons everything hu manly possible to arrange for stop of Marhal Foch's train in North Carolina. Ws are making a record breakinf trip across the country vita pass that way, while larger cit.es along the Southern have made ar rangements and have been promised that the train vill nop. "These are some of the arguments, along with all of the wires that are in sight, that are to be used in the effort to have the orginal schedule of Marshal Foch carried out and lo cal workers believe that when the matter is thus placed before those in charge, the original plans will be followed." Four army aviators, two officers (most valued employees of the large a" i privates, were K.iiea ei- lir-ti.it im li uir inn nil l'iiiiit-n in which they were performing combat duty drills collided while at an alti tiule of 2,(MM feet, and rrached to earth near the post field, Foil Sill, 01; la. As the airplanes struck the earth, their gasoline tanks exploded, envel. oping the wreckage In flames. Trucks and ambulances were rushed to the r.cene but attendants were unable to reach the bodies of the men until they had been charred above recog. nltion. According to officers who were 'witnessing the drill, the two ma- Mr. Y. M. Boggan, a well-known citizen of this place, who has given your correspondent the following in teresting account of this famous house of worship: "Zion is the oldest Methodist church in Montgomery county, if not the oldest in this sec tion of the state. It was organized by Rev. Hope Hull in the year ITS') and the first structure was built of logs. Hope Hull at that time was only twenty-five years old, and is called to this day 'The Father ef Georgia Methodism.' When on a vis:i to the New England states in 17H2 he preached many able sermon, one of which fell upon the ears of the strange but brilliant Lorenza Dow, and caused his conversion. "About 1S10 a frame church was erected. Until this time the first Wednesday in every month was 'preaching day,' and old Unci.1 Tom mie Moore and old Jimmie Lightfoot could be seen wending their way to preaching, coatless and barefoot. "Many celebrated men have preach ed there. It is generally believed that the noted murderer, John A. Murrel, who was convicted of murder and fentenced to life imprisonment in Tennessee, preached in Zion rhurch In 1KI13 at a camp meeting. Any way, a very fluent and distinguished looking man at the beginning of the camp meeting of that year put. up at the home of Edmund DeBerry. He exhorted tho family and the negroes and was so zealously devout that old Aunt Tempy DeBerry, always kind and motherly to preachers, was nn usunlly kind to him nnd put him in a room where she had stored several quarts of French brandy, a present to her husband from relatives in France. The next day, inspired by Aunt Tern py's imported liquor, he preached a powerful sermon two hours in length. When the brandy was missed, and a part of it found in his saddle wallet, he was asked for credentials. I!e was unable ti produce them and im mediately L'ft i!'e community." Thursday morning, ts he was re turning to his home from the town. Mr. Baxter Bivens lost control of his) car, permitting it to crash into aj telephone pole. A small bone over M-. Bivens' left thigh was broken, !p Waxhaw. N. C.. Rt.l, Dec 1 At a meeting of the Kehoboth farmers union local, on Monday night. Nor. 28. Mr. T. J. W Brcom. county de monstrator, and Mr. McGill from Ra leigh were present and both made some very timely and well-chosen re marks on the present outlook for far. niers under prospective conditions to be brought about by the advent of Mr. Weevil, who has very loudly an nounced his intention to make us sit up and take notice of his presence next year. Mr. Iii coin is very enthusiastic for co-operative marketing of all farm products, and especially does he feel the need of farmers becoming vitally concerned with tho marketing of the small amount of cotton they may expect to raise during the next few years under the rapid fire attack of the B W. brigaie. M. McGill was present for the spe. cific purpose of giving the farmers information and Instruction on the building and maintaining scientifi cally arranged potato curing and storing houses that will Insure the satng of this very valuable crop. Several of the Kehoboth folks have been agitating sweet potatoes as a farm crop next year to be carried as a sideline to their regular farming operations, and were therefore In proper mood to listen attentively to Mr. MeGlU'g Instructive lecture on this subject. During the latter part of the lecture, when the speaker had gotten to the point where be was ready to answer questions that the audience might bo Interested in on any point that he had touched on and had not properly cleared up, It was suggested by some in the crowd that "maybe our lands were not well enough suited to the growing of po. tatoes to make the venture profitable for us. "Oh! yes it Is,," said Will Sims, "I had been thinking of plant ing as much as three to five acres in potatoes next year,, but my neighbor has made this year on his small fam. My patch a yield at the rate of 300 bushels per r.rie, so I have decided that its no use to figuie.on such a large patcii, for at that rate I would make so many I wouldn't know what to do with them." Of course every, body tittered and Mr. llroom came to the rescue with the statement that Ed Yarborough iuude,!6 bushels a few vears ago on one fourth acre." That settled the question of the ad aptability of the lands around K-h'-lioi h to potato growing, and made Jim Carter feel better. Work began this morning on the laying down of the material for the erection of the new school building at Kehoboth. The people of the com munity are very much interested In this work and will doubtless put It over at the earliest possible moment. It has been conceded Tor some dme that we needed a school 'juil'.tiug. but we carelessly neglected to make a move toward wie ere. 'Hoi of one until we suddenly realized that we thought more of our community cen. ter than we thought we did. Mr. M. A. Helms and family, also Mr. Houston Helms and family, have receutly moved Into the Kehoboth community These are excellent peo ple, and the community Is glad to have them as citizens and neighbors among u. We understand thai Mr. J. R. Crow of the Baptist Church section has rented out his hnvw plif, acd will move Ins family to Hamlet In a few days. We are informed that Mr. Crow will engage in the business of feeding the foil: In his new home; he is going into the hotel business. Honr Roll for Benton Heights For November: YWi Grade Pauline Crook, Ruth ok, 1 , ;Y!" ",,"" . ,u Helms. T-emster Helms, I'eirline Pre- . nil; iiwmj. iiunvtvii m. -iiv m'l w j (y Vvr The man who speaks softly seldom get a bard punch on the jaw. isr Lot's Stamp It Outl Ministeral Association The Ministerial Association of Union County will meet in the pastor's study at the Presbyterian church. Tuesday Dec. 6. All Ministers in the ccunty are members of this associa tion. C. C. Weaver, Pre3., and Paul L. Miller, Sec'y. Mr. Aberncthy Here n- n , , . - , IIC-flMII Ul III, IIIC I -J W 111 !' J.'. JA'fr n'hA of Ichlnes had been In the air for some Trinity Methodist church of Char lotte, will deliver his famous lecture, "The Bible," at the Central Methodist church tonight. Proving Its Worth Mother I (rave you a nickel yes- tarday to be good and today ) jj art just as bad as you can be. Willie Yes, ma, I'm trying to show fom that yon rot your money's worth ystroay. time when they attempted to execute a difficult maneuver. As they swoop ed toward each other their wings met and both airplanes foil to the earth to a helpless tangte. Hundreds of perwms who hurried to the scene were forcd to stand by heloleskly while the wreckage burned a serious nature, and the patient is geicing along fine. Rev V. V. I3urris will conduct pray er servires lit the Baptist church Wednesday evening. Mr. and Airs. Baxter Nash are boarding at the heme of Mrs. E. II. Hartsill. Mr. Vann Griffin of Erwin, Tern., is spending a while with his parents, Mr. ard Mrs. W. P. Griffin. tar Let's Stamp It Outl Landru Sentenced to Die by Guillotine Versailles, Nov. 30. Henri Lan dru, who has been on trial for more than three weeks ni the assizes court here, charged with the mur der of ten women and a boy, was found f uUty of murder in the first degree tonight. Landru was sea teaead to &i by tae fuillotuM. le Pri- , Verla Rowell, May Gi.rley j.nd Sp- ght Camp. Second Grad- Mildred Tucker, Lu rah Williams, Ralph Myers, Nebraska Williams, Paul Williams, Harvey Treailu'.viiV, and Richard Hunnicut. Third Grade Millicut Camp, Wilma Simpson, Ann Rose, Woodrow Rose, d.i Lee Htdms, Aphelia Plyler, J. V. Griffin, Thurman Benton. Fourth Grade. Julia Coggins, Eula Howie, Mary Lee Fowler, and Lillian Reid. Fifth Grade. Coy Bailes, Myrtle Belk, Lee Gulledge, Velma Haigler, Heath Helms, Alston Hunnicutt, Brown McRorie, Lottie Myers, ana Kathleen Starnes. Seventh Grade. Bonnie McRorie, Louise Myers, Autry Funderburk, James Helms, Rosa Hills. Eighth Grade -Day le Guiledgt), Far ktcRorW, Bernard Helms, and Thur man Helms. tar Let's Stamp It Out!