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fight paces THE MONROE JOURNAL. KRHUV. J NUARV 20, 1922. PAGE SEVEX JERRY ArPUES HEROIC REMEDY TO HIGH TRICES' The Old Man QuU ToWo After in k ir :ib "Uncle" Jerry Gunn, 110 -ears old,! that their eyes really needed, they who live on the Guilrd C.dege road! were luiky. riven now people go into with hs youngest just turning i tn opticii'Vs and ask merely for a 70, has. been '.r.rd hit by the high j pair of glasses. 1 he optician ran test prices of the last fi.e years, and soil!.? t..ght only hy holding lenses of far as chew.ng lobutvo is concerned, ! diilercnt itien;,'ih in front of his cus- he has circui.ivcned the almost pro-1 hibitive price by s.opping its use, says ' Asa llhiirs in the Greensboro Record, i Too, he was afraid Lady Nicotine, Finally the occulists, who used to might shorten his years, so he just concern themselves chiefly with treat divorced the good lady although he' ir.g eye diseases such as cataract and had been wedded to her lor well nigh glcucoma, began to realize that cye a centurv. srain caused many of the diseases "Uncle" Jerry, who is a negro, was found seated on the f1 int porch of his son's home yesterdV "ternoon. He is venerable, and hi li i;ky beard is snow-white. What little hair he has left umin his pate is white, too, "Un-1 rle" Jerry was not in a talkative ' mood. He did not deign to give the , newspaper man even so much as . irlance. wherefore, we discussed "In cle" Jerry with his son. "He knows al we's saying," said his son; "he jes county. In ls-10, or just before the tr.at u::ate or contract the pupil, the The old man is nearly blind. Al- fluids inside the eyeball, which pre beit ,he manages to find h:s way about vonl smhI: t. the delicate structures his son's farm. He eats three hearty I within, end the surface of the trans mer.ls a day, sleeps well at night and!p;.rent pa it of the eyeball in front, gets up fit daylight. He has never been attended by a doctor, and his son expects him to live 15 or 20 years longer. " Uncle" Jerry was born in Davie county. 1840, or just before the Mexican war, he was brought along with a drove of negroes to Kocking ham county and sold to a man named Gunn. He remained in Rockingham county until the close of the Civil war and a few years later he moved to the Guilford College sec. ion. had five children. He I His mind is still remarkably clear, his son said, but he develops a "mitd" or temperament every nj'.v and then end just will not talk. "Uncle" Jerry was apparenly in otne of his moods yesterday. At times, declared his son, he grows eloquent in reminiscences of ante bellum days. He particularly delights in reca'l ing his escapades in his slave d;'.vs of 70 or 80 years ago. Sometimes when his ".Master" would "get after him," his son said, he would hide away in the woods for days at a time, slipping in at night to get food. While l is son spoke to the newspaper man, "Uncle" Jerry now and then emitted a grunt one could net distin guish between yeaning assent or !':--sent. Until five e:irs ago "Uncle" Jerry worked steady in the fields. Then his eyesight failed him. 1-rom then un til the present he has bided his time, showing interest in nothing beyond "three squares" a day t.nd a shady SjHit on the lawn. Four or live years ago, when prices re .;an to boost, "Uncle" Jerry com l.I.iinc I at the si:-e of the plug of to bacco he was able to buy for ten cents. Finally, h's son said, "Uncle" J.Trv declared he would slop the use of the weed rather than pay sttch u price for such a little bit of tobacco. PUBLIC HAULING I operate three 'rucks, one cf ttpi. the largest In the county. Will haui anything anywhere. Can be fonm! at fmslit depot, Phone 34. M. T. KI.AKE.NKV. HrHeaee Phone 314-J. Monroe, N.C J. E KcOhELLAN At Secrest Motor Company LKT IS IXK)K AKTF.R VOVU INTKUKSTS PERSONALLY There's no home furnishing establishment In North Carolina where those of the firm are ln such close touch with the trado and exercise such care to see that customers receive the fullest measure of satis faction In every transaction. We give the closest personal attention to the matter of Store Serv tro vv'a Inaiot a nor customers shall be well taken care of that what they buy shall give the satisfaction they have a right to expect, j We extend favore and grant concessions in many ways to oeuer serve the Interests of the customer. We'd like the privilege of look ing nfter vour welfare. 1 AT THE OLD STAND tflh FK CHAM3FK COMMBHCC MON ROC, A. C V Fitting Spectacles (From the Youth's Companion.) I Not long ago persons who were be- tinning to have difiiculty in reading j wouiu K" lino siiop. ik k out a pair I of spectacles through vh rh j ap;eared to them more distinct and ; buy them. If they got the spectacles 1 wji s ryes a iroeess not much betier than his chousing his specta c!e himself. '.hey treated. So the occulists made a study of optics and of the defects in the human eve and worked but the rnblem of rectifying them with glasses. In tittin-r gl.ssses there is often much more to do than merely to find out what lens enables the person to Sie most cicarly. The occulist must examine every part of the eye the retina, tt.o crystalline lens, the mus cles th.it move the eyeball and those iic.iuulities in which cause astigma tism. He nu-kos the examinations with the aid of various ingenious in struments, the use of which requires experience and skill so much indeed that there has now arisen a new pro fess:o?i concerned entirely with de tecting defects in the eye and cor recting them with glasses. The prac tioners, who are called optometrists, are licensed after examination by the state, and in many of the state none except optometrists and physicians a'e permiTteu to presenne glasses. Mclical Pi?n contend that there are co-tMn dof'vts of the eye that can no', he surclv corrected unless the eye is examine! through a punil dilated with atropine, but they admit that ihe new instruments ere so ingenious thr-t the cr.ses in which the use of atropine is necessary are much less numerous than thev used to be. O.n Second Thought "On my last voyage," a young sailor remarked, "I saw waves forty feet high." "Get out!" cried an old sailor. "I was at s.'a for fifiy years, and 1 never saw them that high." "Will," the young sailor retorted, "things are higher now than thev used to be." Ladies' Homo Journal. H-jw to Make Hair Grow StronT, Thick end Lustrums If your hair is thinning out, d"n't wait another day, but go to Fnglish Pr.'g C.impnny .".:! get a bntle of I'anOtn s:i;e, the truly efficient hair growc;1. Don'i fay: "It's the r.ame old story; Use bean! it before," but try a bottle at the r ri. k. They guarantee Paris ian sage to sioji tailing hair and stim ulate new gr ;h, banisli ;:!! dand rt'tr avd alnio.it in.stanlly stop scalp itch, or m.itii'y ha- k. I'at i. ian : ;:gc e;:ra'ns just the e!e-nu-ntK tie;" led to properly in.'igorate the hair touts. It's a prime favorite with (ll.icrlmiratlng women leciiu.e it ir.rkes the hair s.'f i-.d 1;. triiius, anJ .1. pe:.r twice us ah'Jti.lanl. l'i"'!si!i sr.;'.- is in;pensive and p'.sMy ol)t:'iiti.bie at all clrug storts. requirei exactness and accuracy. The least little inaccuracy in measure merits means very likely a badly damaged car. We have every facil ity for accurate work and a reputa tion for doing it. If it were n watch v.e wire repairing we couldn't be more careful to be exact than we are in repairing :tn a'ato, 580-R' Phones "5S0-J 1 1 MaaBWmaWBWr.PMMuuaaM AUTO REPAIR WORK HEARTTHROBS Sonffs and Stories Dear 13 the Hearts of Old People If I Had the Tin.e If I had the time to find a plneo And sit me down full face to faco With n.y better self, thai s:a:uis no show In my daily life that rushes so. It might be then 1 would see n:y soul Was stumbling still toward the shin ing goal I might be nerved by the thought sublime. If I had the time! If I bad the time to let my heart Speak out and take in my life a part. To look about and stretch a hand To a comrade quartered on no-luck land. Ah. God! If I might but just sit still And hear the note of the whip-poor-will, I think that my wish with G jd would rhyme, If I had the time! If I had the time to learn from you How much f jr comfort my word would do; And I told you then of my sudden will To ki?s your feet when I did you ill If the tears aback of the bravado Could force their way and let you know Brothers, the souls of us all would chime If we had the time! Horace Greeley's Sorrow vJIy Friend: The loss of my boy makes a great change in my feelings, plans and prospects. The joy of my life was comprehended in his, and I do not now feel that any personal ob ject can s.rongly move me henceforth. I had thought of buying a country place, but it was for him. I had begun to love flowers and beautiful objects, because he liked them. Now, fall that deeply concerns me is the evidence that we shall live hereafter, and es pecially that we shall live wkh and know those we loved here. 1 mean to act my part while life is spared me. but I no longer covet length of days. If I felt sure on the point of identifying and being with otir loved ones in the world to come. I wuul ! prefer not to live long. As it is I am resigned to whatever trny bo di vinely ordered. . . . We had but fev; hours to prepare for our loss. He went to bed as hearty i'.n.l happy as ever. At 5 a. m. ho died. . . . His mother had bought him a f: lil'e the day before, which delighted him be yond measure: und he vvas only in tltued to hy it up r.t nvht by his de light at the idea of coming up in the morning and surprising me by play ing on it before 1 got up. In the morning at daylight I was called to his bedside. The next day, I followed him to h:s grave! You cannot guess how golden and lovely his long hair (never cut) looked in the coffin. . . . Pickie was five years old 'mst March. So much grace, and w t end poetry were rarely or never b'eiided in so young a child, and to us his form and features were the perfection of beauty. We can never have another child, and life cannot b long enough to etTace. though it will temper this sorrow. It diflfers in kind as well as d.' ;re? from all that we have hitherto experienced. Horace (J reedy From Tiim itonsis So live that when thy summons comes to join T!:e innumerable caravan, that move To the pale rea.ms of shade, whore each shall ial:e His chamber in the silent ha'lr, ofdeath Thoj go not, like the quarry-slave at night Scourged to his dungeon; bu:, sus tained und soothed I!y nn unfaltering trust, a -eroaeii thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. Bryant. Where the Itainltow Never Fades George D. Prentice, in "Man's High er Destiny. 1 It cannot be that the earLh is man's o::!y abiding place. It cannot be that our life is a mere bubble cast up hy eternity to float a moment on its waves and then sink into nothingness. Else why is it that the glorious aspi rations which leap like angels from the temple of our hearts are forever wandering unsatisfied? Why is it that all the stars that hold their fes tival around the midnight throne are set above the grasp of our limited faculties, forever mocking us with their unapproachable glory? And, fi nally, why is it that bright forms of human beauty presented to our view are taken from us, leaving the thou sand streams of our affections to flow back in Alpine torrents unon our hearts? There is a realm where the rainbow never fades; where the stars will be spread out before us like isl ands that slumber in the ocean; and where the beautiful beings which now pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever. A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces; let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day. brin-r us to our resting beds weary and con tent and undishonored, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep. Robert Louis Stevenson. What It Looked Like In one of our foreign districts the teacher hist out of normal school was teaching her little class of Ger man children the word "hat." She drew on the board the crude shape and figure of a hat. She was quite zealou. All riust be clear. To make the lesson more sure and the hat more natural she added a feather. "What would you say is on the board now?" she expectantly aske-J. "Well, Karl," she indicated, "you may answer." "Please, teacher, I vould say it vas a shicken," Karl beamingly responded. S pecial N qt ic cs One eeat a word each Insertion. i T GUT you Valentine pos: cards an! ! Wtfshinifiin ttirthilm n.it nL t'lis season at the Un.on Variety Store LA; 'IKS My f!or-surfhr;ng ma- : .i.e v,.ll make old like new, ; i i i.ev. ri'Mtrs are rot r imple.e un t 1 : j:i.uid by a floor resurfaeer. J. S. Stearns. PI KK HOG LARD -pound. Gulledge 4 15 cents per Snyder. SKS US for awnimrs, rovers and tints. Residential and store awn h:gs furnished in any eolor or shape J. S. Stearns and R.S.Hous ti;n, agents Anchor Supply Co. I S for top huilding and u phots, lering. Our prices are rlalit. our work Ihe best. Serifst Motor Co. MILLION'S of Early Jersey Wake field cabbage plants must be sold at once; H0 by parcel post, 300, 5c; 500, 70c; l.t.OO, M.10; by ex press, 1,00, SI. 00; 3,00 to 5.000, '.Hie; 5.000 to 10,0(10, hOc. W. P. Plyler, Jlonroe, N. C, Route 4. FOn SALE OR RENT Good farm containing about 140 acres with ap proximately 75 acres under cultiva t en, the remainder has considera ble timber. This is known as the W. F. Robinson home place in Goose Creek township. For prices and terms, apply to B. H. Robinson, Post Office, Charhitte, N. C. PAINT SHOP See us for unto paint log. Excellent woi'k at low prices. Set-rest .Motor Co. WANTED, A JOB-Have had expe rience in general office work, also coilecting. Write M. s. X. Y. Z., care The Journal. GOODYEAR service station If it Is lires li pays to buy the best Se- rresi .Motor Co. NOTICE On account of the dissolu tion of the firm of Lathan and Rich atV.snti, it becomes necessary to wit: I u,) our accounts. If you oue us, we will expect a settlement at on: o See J. W. Richardson or J. W. I.athan. HATTEIHES 11-est.o.l.He, the Inst by test. Prices greatly reduced. See us. Secrest Motor Co. WA .'TK! TO REXT-Snnll cottage on i 'ivi'd street with modern con--it'incei. L. E. Htiggins, at the J.'ti:-nal o;'iice. ECC MASH, Oysver Shells, and S.- n'Ji Feed at Gul'edge & Sny K s. SEE IS for utilo top upholstering and paint v.ork. SiTl'est Motor Co. FO!! SALE Modern bunealow In llr.-t class shape on East Everette 1 slr..et. W. J. KuU:t'. AUTO TRANSFER -If you want good service, Phone 4 Frank Helms' Transfer. FOR SALE Cabbage plan's. Se lect Cha.-leston Wakefield and Ear ly Jersey Wakefield nit mixed. Hither or both varieties 15c per 100 at my residence or 17' j cents1 pe lo t de'ivored by mail. Orders tilled day received. F. Virgil Hin son. V. a:;hi.w, N. C Route 5. ! l:i:COMITI(lMII DUCK cars lor sale at bargain prlcev: 10U ) Hitlck .1 passenger, 1II!0 liiilrk ."i-passeiiyer, 10IK Duick .".jiassenncr, 10IH Duick 7-pnsseimer. Look these cars over and get our prices before you buy. Secrest .Motor C. FOR SERVICE "Iiuster Sampson" and "Car dim Clansman," big type Poland Chinas, in the 1000 pound clas. Fee S5.00 cash. Craig & Williams, Hakers. j PIANO TUNING and rebuilding by reliable tuner. Woil guaranteed. Hollawav Bros. FOR KENT Two or three unfiir tiished rooms for lltiht housekeep ing f.04 Curtis St. FOR SALE Good 8-year-old mule, cas.i or good paper, or would ex change for lumber. W. J. Trull. TABLET Two for a nickle one pen and one pencil paper. Union Va riety Store. USED CADS EOU SALE ' Duick Six Touring Duick I our Touring Essex Four Touring Chevrolet Emir Touring 1'ord Coupe Oiikliiml Dond.-ter Oakland Sedan Maxwell Touring Ford one ton Truck Scilpps Dooth Doadster. These cars are in excellent inrrh. niilral roiiilitlon, newly Miintcd, look good mid will give you good sendee. Our prices are right. It will pay you to look them over be fore you buy. SccreM Motor Co. 1 ' - V DU. HOWARD SMITH can be found in his office in Belk- Bundy building until further notice. Have, your eyes properly fitted with glasses. Examination free and all work guaranteed satisfactory. Phone either 198 or Joffre Hotel. Card of Thanks We desire to thank our good nigh- bors and friends for the many kind nesses done during the sickness and death of our father. Mr I. C. Mason. Your kindness, sympathy and help will never be forgotten. Mr. and Mrs. I II. B. Crump. ! , :vrvviji- i l nj;- r;jf :tm 5 1 1 3 Your Phone Order will get just as eo.-d a selection as though you rail in person. Many times it is inconvenient for you to rotne down ton. YOU MAY BE IN A IIUKKY. Whatever jou nrd in our line, a phone call to i s will fill it. i 1 nj fE?MY i j m k k at m m m k a m duality H2mmmA i GROCERS BIVA S?. y.fr M-iNKOfT. V.cU S JO be cITectivc one's money must be doing some sort of service. It can be deposited or invested for its income return. It can he used for the erection of a credit structure! afrr.lnsf. possible future need. In any event, we shall be p;!:td to co-operate with you fc the proper and profitable employment of your funds. WE WANT YOU Eat the things you crave. If nature didn't intend you to eat them you would not have been provided with an appetite that crave? them when in normal health. Our variety cf groceries and foodstuffs is so great that we can satisfy any appetite. Our prices .'ire so reasonable no pockctbook need feel the strain. This is a good place to come, ar.d a better place to keep coming. ! p T. C. Lee & Sons GENERAL MERCHANDISE PHONE 336. BBnBaBakBaaaBB!SCBRirnasBCDDRnBxaBr: AFETY is the first consideration at this bank. It is the consideration which appeals strongest to every depositor. It is the consideration which has made our vaults the receptacle of much of the wealth of this community. It is the consideration which has MADE this bank what it is. And it is the consideration which should prompt YOU to bank with US. MONROE BANK & TRUST CO. R. B. REDWINE, President SERVtCF I 3 u j . mm m m u a m r: u a FOR A CUSTOMER t II. B. CLARK, Cashier 5 NATIONAL' m
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