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EIGHT PACES THE MONROE JOURNAL. FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1921 PACE THREE COAL The cold snap caught us prepared to meet your fuel demands with hundreds of tons of the very best coal, all of the clean, easy-burning quality no clinkers. COAL STOCK YOUR BINS NOW to guard against the cold winds of February and March... A ton delivered at your door for $10.00 Monroe Ice Fuel Co. Jimmie Hinde, Manager Tire Prices Smashed FARTHER REDUCTIONS ALL NON-SKID CASINGS. DUNBAR FABRICS 30x3V- 30x3 32x3L 31x4 32x4 33x4 34x4 30x3 $1.65 30x3i 1.75 32x3i 1.95 34x3i 2.15 31x4 2.25 32x4 2.31 ADJUSTMENTS MADE IN CHARLOTTE AND PROMPT ADJUST MENTS, TOO. We only ask that you try one of our tires beside your favorite Brand and be convinced of the QUALITY of our tires. AH of our goods are absolutely First Quality... No seconds or factory surplus. WHY WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY ON TIRES We ofTer you these sensational tires values because of our great buying power. Instead of buying for one store we buy for our whole chain of tire stores all over the United States. Thus, we secure the cream of the best tires made buy in tremendous large quantities and consequently get the benefit of rock bottom prices. These we pass along to you and save you 25 'c to 40',t on your tires. In some cases you can secure tires from us at less than wholesale This store is a unit in the biggest chain of retail tire stores in the world and brings to you the best tires possible at the very lowest prices ever quoted for like quality. You cannot get higher quality tires at any price. Require $5.00 deposit on Mail Orders. Money back it not satisfied. A CHAIN OF STORES from COAST TO COAST World Tire Stores R. SAMS, Inc. 40S South Tryon St, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Phone 4257 GUARANTEED 7,009 MILEj MICHIGAN 30x3V' 32x3io 32x4 " 33x4 3 9.S3 ... 7.93 .. 12.21 ... 14.02 ... 15.81 .. 16.36 .. 17.23 TUBES, 34x4 32x414 33x4i 34xiy" S5x4V 36x4 33x5 35x5 37x5 GUARANTEED FOR ONE YEAR 33x4 34x4 35x4 2.41 2.51 .2.65 32x412 2.75 i 33x41. 2.76 34x41. 2.80 Only Wanted it One Way The report in the middle West of the t nited Mate of a "dnverlesa au tomobile" station along the lines of the old 1'very stable, where one might hire a "ri and drive it himself, affords occasion for recalling a story about the earlier institution which may serve as a warning to any who i would resort to sharp practice. Ac cording to the tale referred to, a trav i eling man once said to the proprietor of a livery stable: "What is the price of a rig to go over to Blankville!" "Ten dollars,' replied the smart stablekeeper. After the journey had been taken the owner of the horse and carriage said' "Twenty dollars." j Asked to explain, he added: "Ten dollars over ana ?iu DacK. The next time the traveling man came he again inquired: "What is the price of a rig to go over to BlankvilleT" "Ten dollars," again answered the liveryman. Several days later the traveling man reappeared without the rig and handed the stableman $10. "But where is my rig?" demand ed its owner. "Oh, it is over at Blankville," said his patron. "All I wanted to do was to go over." "The Farmer'a Worst Enemy Rata. The Farmer's Best Friend Rat-Snap." These are the words of James Bax ter. N. J.: "Ever since I tried RAT SNAP I have always kept in the house. Never fails. Used about $3 worth of RAT-SNAP a year and fig ure it saves me $300 in chicks, eggs and feed. RAT-SNAP is convenient, just break up cake, fto mixing with other food." Three sizes, 35c, 65c, $1.25. Sold and guaranteed by Eng lish Drug Co., Union Drug Co., Mon roe Hardware Co., and Smith-Lee Co. Cut Flowers ' Floral designs, wedding boquaU. , and flowers of all kinds. ' Prlcea reasonable. We make shipments to Waxhaw, ', MarshTlllo, Wlngate and other! ' nearby tawns. CODE MORGAN At Culoa Drug Co. Phone 221 MASONIC MEETINGS I f T 1 Oil 1 C f. A Hff First and Third Thursday Monroe Chapter No. 64 R. A. M. Second and Fourth Tuesday Malta Commandery No. 19 K. T. First and Third Tuesday Visiting members welcome. CORDS GUARANTEED 9,000 MILES $14.76 20.32 24.83 2".57 26.37 29.52 30.44 30.70 31.77 33.01 36.99 37.85 38.66 35x41. 36x4i 33x5 2.93 2.98 3.40 35x5 3.65 37x5 3.75 MUST WORK IF YOU WOULD EAT Garden of Eden Decree Was In tended for Our Only Per sonal Benefit HARD AND SOFT TIMES Smith Went Into the Mercantile Bus iness at the Wrong Time, But He Is No Quitter By L. E. Muggins I: is human nature for every man to entertain the idea that the other fellow has an easier job than his. That is because we don't understand the details of the other fellow's work. Since that decree at the Garden of Eden that man should earn his living in the sweat of the face no job has been an easy one when properly pur sued. And according to that decree no able-bodied person who refuses to do some kind of honorable work is en titled to eat. We are accustomed to think of the sentence passed upon man when he was driven out of the Garden as a punishment for sin, but wouldn't it be a more charitable and reasonable view to suppose that the edict was intended for our own ben efit. In the first place, the human mind and body are so constituted that they must have employment and ex ercise in order that they may devel op. And again, the idle person is al ways the one that gets into trouble. No man ever stole a horse or became engaged in a fight nor got caught in the whirlpool of immoraltity and vice while he was busily engaged in an effort to earn an honest living. The wealth of the country is un evenly distributed, and we some times feel that our lots are hard and are wont to blame somebody with it, but as long as we have able bodies and strong minds it may be that cir cumstances have done more to add real happiness and usefulness to our lives than to the lives of those who are seemingly living in luxury and ease. It is a very noticeable fact that the most successful and useful men and women the country has produced have been sons and daughters of pa rents who sometimes felt embar rassed because they were not in po sition to give their children the ad vantages that they felt they should have. The success of these men and women is not due simply to the fact that they were reared in humble homes, but because their early en vironments made it necessary for them to learn the a"-important les son of work. On the other hand, children of wealthy parents do not fail in life because their daddies had money, but so few of them succeed as the natural result of their failure to form the habit of honest toil early in lift. A Red Letter Year The full of l'Jl'J will long be re membered by merchants and farmers as a time when profits that had been accumulated within previous years were swept away like chaff before n mighty wind. That is why .10 many people have the idea now that times are "hard." The writer came across a good slogp.n a few days ago and it reads like this: "Hard times are not coming just soft times going." Com pared with the nineties, we are today living in a land that flows with milk and honey. In those memorable days how many business men and farmers in Union county could have even paid for gasoline to run an automobile, to s:iy nothing of buying and paying for the car itself! Farmers then de pended upon the cotton crop to buy a targe portion of their corn and meat, but today it is not so. The lumber business in Union county now furnishes nn opportunity for a num ber of men who are not afraid of work to earn a livelihood during the winter months. Smith on the Job Mr. E. E. Smith, of Lanes Creek township, furnishes a good example of what a man can do under adverse circumstances. Mr. Smith opened up a country store just at the wrong time and when the slump came it .struck him in the capacity of both a fanner and a merchant, and although he lins six families of tenants ami eleven head of mules on his land, he hasn't given up. He early in life learned the lesson of work. H's ten ants have not been in shape to "nay out," but they still have a job at Mr. Smith's saw mill and are earning a living. This man had entrenched himself against such a catastrophe through modern methods of farming .ind hard work and he is still en trenched, for he bas twenty-five acres sowed to oats and a few days ago he killed a hog that weighed 753 pounds, from which he obtained 19 gallons of lard. There is plenty of corn and pork in the country and people still ride in automobiles and yet we talk about "hard times." Remember, "Hard times are not coming just soft times going." Caught 'Em Going and Coming The Journal's' editorial in regard to the unity of purpose existing be tween the different denominations of Monroe portrays a spirit that is very dilTercnt from what existed in this county years ago anJ it is a spirit that we should be very proud of. Spe.nking of the advancement along the line of christian brotherhood, Mr. V. K. Parker tolls a story of two gin ners that were rivals in this section years ago. One of the ginners join ed the Methodist ehurc'i and his son affiliated with the Baptists. His competitor in the ginning business circulated the report that the man and his son had joined dilferent churches in order to win patronage from both denominations, but that wa3 perhaps the beginning of the day when father and son could be big enough to realize that pure think ing and right living were of infiinitely more Importance than narrow denom inationalism. Complete Extermination Little Jack Smith's Sunday school teacher, after a lesson on Ananias and Sapphira. asked: "Why is not over-body who tells a lie struck dead?" Little Jack answered gravely: " 'Cause there wouldn't be anybody left." Legal Advertisements NOTICE OF HE-SALE North Carolina. Union County, ia the Superior Court, before the clerk. M. E. Brooks, Admrx., et all, vs. J. C. Brooks, et all. Notice of sale. Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue of an order of R. W. Lommond, Clerk of Superior Court of Union county the undersigned com missioner will at 12:00 M. on the 21st Day of January, 1922 expose to sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cafh, at the court house door in Monroe, North Caro lina, the following parcels or tracts of land: First Tract: In Union county. North Carolina, adjoining the lands of M. B. Simpson, Farginton Griffin, and others, and bounded as follows: Beginning at a B. J. by 3 small P. O. ?nd runs N. 26 W. 8 chs. and 76 Iks. to a stake by 2 P. O. and R. O. pear a drain; thence with M. B. Simpson's line N. 464 E. 35 chs. and 50 Iks. crossing the Lawyers Road at a school-house to a P. O.; thence S. 784 E. 7 chs. and 50 Iks. to a stake on said line by 2 small pines and B. Gum; thence S. 28 W. 14 chs. to a stake in the Lawyer's Road near a drain; thence S. 55 W. 26 chs. and 50 Iks. to the beginning, containing 214 A. more or less, and being the same tract of land conveyed to A. J. Brooks by W. A. Caddy and wife by deed dated 5th July 1883, recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Union county in Book 13, page 721. Second Tract In Union county, N. C, adjoining B. D. Austin, C. S. Broks and others and bounded as follows: Beginning at a stone on the South edge of the Lawyers' Road, a corner of the C. S. Brooks purchase of W. H. Braswell, and runs with said road as follows: 1st, N. 37 W. 9.20 chs.; 2nd, N. 474 W. 3.20 chs. to a stone on the S. side or edge of said road, 1 p. o. pointer; thence S. 434 W. 12 chs. to a stone and stake in the forks of the branch by 3 sweet gums and maple; thence down the various courses of said sandy bottom branch (the bearing and distance in a direct line is S. 434 W. 5 chs.) to a stone in the E. bank of said branch by a white-oak; thence S. 394 E. 11.06 chs. to a stone in line of C. S. Brooks purchase; thence with the di vision line between this and C. S. Brooks purchase N. 40 E. 17.44 chs. to the beginning, containing 20 acres, more or less, and being the same tract of land conveyed to A. J. Brooks by V. B. Braswell and wife by deed dated 10th January, 1903, recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Union county in Book 35 at page 3. Third Tract In Union county, North Carolina, adjoining M. B. Simpson estate lands of A. W. Little and others and bounded as follows: Beginning at a stake in the Lawyers Road, A. J. Brooks corner of his home tract, and runs with said road S. 43 E. 16.50 chs. to a stake, G. M. Little's corner at a pond; thence N. 2 E. 14 chs. to a stake by 2 R. O. and P. O., M. B. Simpson's corner; thence S. .49 E. 2.82 chs. to a Lunch of sweet gums at the edge of a meadow, said Simpson's corner; thence N. 454 E. 45 chs. crossing the Goodman Branch to a stake by 3 R. 0. and 4 P. O.; then N. 76 4 W. to a white oak on the E. bank of said branch Wni. Little, deceased's corner; thence down the various courses of 3uid branch to the mouth of J. K. P. Austin's spring branch; thence up the various courses of said branch 1 1.72 chs. to a persimmon; thence S. 21 W. 31.70 chs. to the beginning, contain ing 129 ncre3, more or less, and known as the J. K. P. Austin's place, being the tract of land described in deed from Jacob K. Williams to A. J. Brooks, dated loth January 1881, recorded in Book 23 at page 210, to which reference is hereby made, ex cepting 20 or 2") acres conveyed to C. S. Brooks, to which deed reference is hereby made. , Fourth Tract In Union county, North Carolina, adjoining J. K. P. Austin, J. C. Alii ll.s, and others, and bounded as follows: Beginning at a stake in A. J. Brooks own line in a large drain by 2 post oaks and hic kory, and runs S. 76 E. with A. J. Brooks and J. K. P. Austin lines 11 chs. and 62 chs. and 02 Iks. to a stake in J. K. P. Austin spring branch; thence the various courses of said branch 11 chs. and 29 Iks to a forked white oak by 2 W. O.s on the bank of said branch, near the mouth t a big drain; thence up the various .ourses of the drain 16 chs. and 87 Iks. to the beginning, containing 9 acres, more or less, and being the same tract of land conveyed to A. J. Brooks by J. C. Mullis and wife by deed dated 16th February 1885, re corded in the office of the Register of Deeds in Book 14 at page 5i0, to which reference is hereby made. Fifth Tract In Union county, North Carolina, adjoining W. li. Braswell, Mark Brewer and others, and bounded as follows: Beginning at a stone near a small brunch, A. J. Brooks corner of Gaddy land, nnJ runs with his line N. 464 E. 2J4 chs. crossing the Lawyers' Road at 174 chs to a Ftone in the edge cf Goodman's Brunch, Jo.-nh Hamilton's old corner; thence down the current of said branch 9.71 chs. to the center of the Monroe and Olive Branch Road; thence up and with said road 12.06 chs. to a point in the center of said road by a stone on the North west side of the road, E. Mills corner; thence with Mills line N. U'4 'A. 24.57 chs. to a stake in A. J. Brooks lir.o S. 484 W:. 20 chs. to a dump of sweet gums in a nieii'low, A. J. Brooks corner; thence with his line N. 50 V. 2.82 chs. to a stake in a field; thence with another of his lines S. 8 W. 44 chs. to a rtake in the S. edge of lawyers Road, A. J. Brooks corner; thence with said road S. 47 E. 10.87 chs. to a post oak stump and stone, W. II. Braswell's corner on the S. edge of said road; thence with his line S. 454 W. 10.46 chs. to a pine knot rn the old line; 'thncce with the old line, crossing the Monroe and Olive Branch road S. H V. 1563 chs. to stake or stone 11 a field, W. II. Braswell's and Mark jrewer't coiner; thence with Mark brewer's line S. 77 E. chs to a rock on the E. bank of the spring branch; thence S. 36 E. 9.60 chs. to pine; thence N. 79 E. 6.90 chs. to rock in A. J. Brooks line; thence with his line N. 25 W. 5 chs to the I beginning, containing 120 acres, more j or Ies. a!so the water right in and to the Monroe and Olive Branch road; 1 thence being the same tract of land Jeonveyed to A. J. Brooks by C. S. Brooke and w.. by de!s dated 17th j Oct ber, 1j0". : corded in the office I of tv.e Reg:fler of L?cia of Union county. North t'arolini, in Book 41 I at paj,e 512, to which reference is hereby made. Said land includes the dower of T. S. Brooks, widow of A. J. Brooks, which dower is described as follows: Beginning at a stone on the S. edge of a branch, corner of Gaddy land and runs N. 50 E. 11 chs. to stake in a hollow; thence N. 25 EL 6.06 chs. to a stake on N. bank of the Lawyers' Road; thence N. 50 E. 124 chs. pass ing through a spring to a stone in Goodman's branch; thence N. 184 W. 7.0S chs. to the center of Monroe and Olive Branch Road; thence with said road 12.06 chs. to a point in the center of said road being a stone on the N. W. side of said road, E. Mills' corner; thence with the Mills line N. 184 W. 1707 chs. to the center of a hollow: thence up said hollow S. 63 W. 6.50 chs.; thence S. 40 W. 24 chs.; thence S. 564 W. 4.20 chs. to a large oak stump at a spring head; thence S. 164 W. 8.68 chs. to the center of the Lawyers' Road oppo site a stone on S. side of said road; thence S. 454 W. 10.96 chs. to a pine knot in the old line; thence with the old line crossing Monroe and Olive Branch Road S. 4 W'. 15.63 chs. to a stake or stone, Brewer and Brooks corner; thence with the Brewer line S. 77 E. 8 chs. to a stone on the E. bank of spring branch; thence S. 36 E. 9.60 chs. to pine; thence N. 79 E. 6.90 chs. to a stone in the A. J. Brooks line; thence N. 25 W. 5 chs. to a stone, the be ginning, tajrether with the privilege of getting water from the Mills spring on the N. side of Monroe and Olive Branch Road, including the dwelling house, offices, out houses, buildings, and improvements there on, containing 100 acres, more or less as will appear from the report of Zeb M. Little and others, commis sioners to allot dower, dated April 1, 1914, and cn file in the Special Pro ceeding "T. S. Brooks et all vs. Bee Brooks, et al." And at tr.e same time and place and on the same terms the com missioner w.ll expose to sale the re mainder of the dower in the dower tract. These tracts of lands will te sold separately and then as a whole, and the best price accepted. Bidding to begin at $4400.00. This sale is made for division of proceeds among tenants in common and to make assets with which to pav debts. This 4th day of Jan., 1922. J. C. M. VANN, Commissioner. NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP The partnership heretofore exist ing between the undersigned under the name of L. N. Presson & Co. has been dihsolved by mutual consent. Mr. Presson has purchased the bus iness and taken over all the assets and liabilities of the partnership. All persons holding claims against the partnership will present same to him for settlement and all persons in debted to the partnership will make settlement with him. This the 5th day of Jan., 1922. L. N. PRESSON C. N. CORDON. ESTA I K Under and by virtue of the provi sions of a certain deed of trust dated Uth day of November, 1913, by Ella Montgomery and husband H. T. Mont gomery, to the undersigned Trustee, to secure a certain note which is n::st due, and the holder of said mte having applied to the undersgined to foreclose said deed of tru-t, now therefore, I, W C .S.inders, Trustee, hereby give notice that I will on Monday, the 13th day of Feb., 1922, nt the court houo door, in the City of Monroe, Union county, N C, at twelve o'clock, oiTer for sale at pub lic auction for cash all the right, ti tle, interest and estate of Ella Mont gomery, in and to a certain tract of land containing 111 acres, known as the estnte lands of Henry Griffin, de ceased, lying and bein.; in Buford township, Union county, N C, and being the same lands willed by Hen ry Griffin to his children. See Rec ord of Wills No. 3 page 575, whore the said Henry Griffin willed to Con nie Griffin the house where Daniel Parker lived and 25 acres of land around it, and to Dessie O. Griffin the old home place and 25 acres around it, and to Ella Montgomery and Mis. Will Tluv.nas the balance of Paid lands to be equally divided be tween them. The interest to be sold bo'ng the interest of Ella Mont gomery in and to said land of what soever nature and kind and reference is hereby made to the will of Henry Griffin for a better de;cription, and reference is also made to Book A. R. page 275 of deeds for a description of said deed of trust. This Jan. 13th, 1922. W. C. SANDERS, Trustee. John C Sikes, Attv. LAND SALE Bv virtue of- a power contained in a cert., n deed of trust to me executed on the 21st Hay of Airil. 1!20, and recorded i:i VinAi A X of deeds on page 736, I will on Saturday. J.-nuar 23, 1922, at twelve o'clock at the court house door in Monroe. N. C, sell to the highest biddor for cash all of that lot of land lying and being in the wrs'ern rr '"' "f the City of Mon roe, and f diy described by rr.eted and bounir- in a certain deed maJe an 1 executed bv A. M. Crowell anl wife to C. C. Sikes on the 7th day cf Fe!, 1!H)'?, and duly registered in the office of r.e.fistsr of Deeds for Union County in Book 41 paice 491, to whici reference is hereby craved for a mor 1 particular description. Except frot.i the above description, however, on? lot of land heretofore conveyed b.' C. C. Sikes and wife to Chas. f. Toney from the above described lo Said lot having been conveyed to Wi I Gaither by C. C. Sikes and defau : having been made in the payment ! the note secured by said deed ! trust, and demand havini been mar ! en me to proceed to advertise and se I said lot. JOHN C. SIKES, Trustee This 28th day of December, 1921.