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-THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY NEEDS IT ."THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY READS IT" PUBLISHED TWICE EACH WEEK -TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Y Monroe, N. C Friday, March 31, 1922. $2.00 Per Year Cash' .- , . i ; THE M0NRE TT t " - t ' - . I Twpntv-Ninth Year.v No, 16. j, v " 11 ' ' " -r : : i THE MAN REPENTED WHEN ; HE LEARNEB THE FACTS Ckild Telled So Nobody toM Sleep ' and the Traveling Stranger v Didn't Like It at All ' BL'T LATER HE TRIED TO , . ATONE FOR HIS RUDE ACT People Should Kno the Farts Before Bringing Accusations Against Pub- lie OflciaHu I I moxroe has interesting? BQTH dol AND WATER J0EH feWIHG, YOUNG WHITE j ' RAINED HERE YESTERDAY 1 ' MAN, IS KILLED BY TRAIN VISITOR OF BROOKLYN CITYi Th. Rt Rr A. Golam. Head Greek Oxthodox Chtirch in America, ia the Guest of Mr. Saleeby R. I- R. Hut-i-ina f IA Moriroe cttnen made the remark a few days ago that it ia not alwaya best for people to have. the. things they most want nor to do and say tk. thinm their natural inclina tions would lead them to do and say. The statement ia worthy of considera tion. For instance, children cry for green apples, which are sure to give thom th stomachache, and then they don't want the castor oil that will re lieve their suffering. Adults are very much like children. A great many people are always colicky over things thou hovrf taken into their system through ' narrow- minded views J of things or from conclusions they have reached without getting the facts in the case. We fail to see matters from th other fellow's viewpoint and then turn loose a sethpool of vile utter ances that only add fury to the flame, when the whole trouble could be averted and a lot of "innard" pains turned into feelings of bliss u we tt-.i.M nlv make a little investiga tion and put into practice the Golden Khle. . ; 5 The Other Fellow's Viewpoint J a iinrv ta told of a irentleman who occupied an upper berth in a sleep ing car one night anil was very anxt oas to get a good night's sleep, but the man in the lower berth had a fcur-months-old baby with him that kept up such a yell that nobody could ot anv rest. Finally the fellow in the upper berth stormed out at the father of the child to know why he didn't keep that bloomin' little old "youngun" quiet so a man could sleep. The heart-broken father wiped the tear from his eves and in a low Vinvltv voice replied: "1 have done ev erything I know , to quiet the poor little thing, Dili yonuer in me uob gage car lies its mother a corpse and it missel its mother." The other fel low then benan to see things from that grief-stricken father's viewpoint and in humility of spirit he said: "Oh. me I didn't know!" And he arose and took the little child in his arms and spent many hours walk ing up and down the aisle talking and singing to the baby, in n effort tn ntnne for the harsh manner in which he had addressed its father. Know the Facts There is any amount of criticism fcnnrtpH out because we don't know the facts in the cas?. Good men who thinlr thev are rendering a real ser vice to the race sometimes harshly criticise public officials who are do irir the verv best they know to do under the circumstances, when their .ttinrl.. would he uuite different they would only take tne time ami effort to know the facts in the case. True, there are sometimes public of ficials who deserve constructive criti cism, but often men are criticised who are doing a much better job of it than the fellow who does the criticis ing would do. There is nothing quite so easy as to find fault., Anybody can do it, and they can find weak places in every life, but the christian way is to magnify the good and try, in a brotherly manner, to strengthen the weak points in the lives of our fellowman. Ministers, of the gospel are often criticised severely for mis takes they make, but few people go n 1 hem find talk the matter over. Thxy prefer, to spread it(airoad with out Hiving' them a chant to correct the .mistakes before they have re vived nersdual initiry. Teachers and newspaper men are talked about .in stead of being talked to.l 'Neighbor talks about neighbor and the reports oo nasseri from mouth to mouth and are maenified as they go, but often when the truth is known there is ab aolutely nothing to warrant the re ports. , Newspapers Great Agencies ui:iituri are nprhans the great rt disseminators of information and moulders ef public opinion of any in the world. Whether a per son wills or. not, his mind is greatly hv what he reads, where . .....u tlk to his hundreds k to their thousands, Editors and newspaper correspondents ulrlnm realise the solemnity of. their task and tfm importance of their writ ings being of the, highest standards. m. .hnaiM never make an-attack until a thorough investigation of the facta has convinced them beyond a reasonable doubt that the criUcumj i, ..rranted. and they then should be very careful to make their poaUipn unmistakably plain. Nqthin but fair and Justice to . all concerned should ever enter into a newspaper article, although some seders may . MnnTnv aomabodv lse up hi hack" occasionally. -Not only v-m thi. rule anoly to persona, refertnees but all public qaeations k k itiamaaed in an impartial 5 nrfl-lookinff manner. . The . . ...M.m anil develonment ' of lulu' tt v ; . , county or Ut or natiort may depend largely npon the attitude ef the pub lic press. ' Ware' hv en fought and governments changed through the ?.,fl.r,- of the nress. - Revolutions have been inspired and insurrections Hollar Day In Motire Big Stiww peit th Heavy Downpour FrotH Elenieats Above. Monroe has a rather remarkable . 4L:. H.AAlr m tka riAvsnn f that Rt. Rev. A. Golara. head oi the Greek MANY STOItEM NRrJ)ED or Syrian Orthodox Church in Ameri-1 - mKRAL MOHE "I. ca. . Dr. Golam's headquarters is in BrookIj-n,'N. and be is visiting nis frinH Mr. K. D. Saleebv. Next Sun day ha will go to Columbia, S. C, to conauci erivca m itt church in that city. On Easter Sun day he- will conduct services in Flor ence, S. C, and the week following; Easter he will conauct tne noiy ee services for the Greeks and Syrians in Charlotte. The Rt. Rev. Golam i;said to be ono of the greatest singers In Amer ica. It is claimed by some mac nis voir ia almost eaual to that of the. late Caruso, the Italian Singer. Dr.J Golam was educated in Syria and later took post graduate ;courses in Constantinople and Athens. He is a naturalized citizen oi America, nav ing come to thi country jn October, 1912. He speaks fairijf good Eng lish and -'delivers his discourses in English. When asked if Syrian and Greek children that are born and reared in America learn to speait tne language of their parents, he replied that nearlv all such children speak only the English language and that, he therefore always preaches! in Eng lish. , He stated that living standards in Syria have been very greatly raised for the oast few years and that mod ern conveniences are now in evidence on every hand. Electricity has come into use lor lighting purposes ana ior power and Syria is taking on new life in keeDinsr with other progressive countries and living is much easier4 than in former aays. . Dr. Golam says the prevailing pro testant religions in Syria are Presby terian and Orthodox .Greek. The Cath olics have a strong following, but Mo hammodanism is the prevailing reti gion and the Mohammodans practice palygamy as largely as the Mormone in Ameriin. Public schools and colleges are rap idly on the increase and educational advantages are extended a majority of the rhildnn. . . . The Rt. Rev. Golam w.ll remain the guest of Mr. Saleeby Until Easter, af ter which he will return to Brooklyn. Struck Near Bakers Where He and Companion Had Stopped to Rest and Fell Aleep ERKS t l4HTje Crowds Came to Town Be- tween Showers and Streets Were Lined Witn Automobiles. " Didn't It Rain?" was the song on every lip yesterday, but . notwith standing the heavy downpour, the people came, they saw, they bought. The merchants of the city had ex tended unusually attractive prices on all classes of merchandise and the buying public took advantage of it The journal nas : interviewed number or th03e wno onerea speviai inducements and finds that the re sults were most satisfactory from the standpoint ot volume of business done. Of course, the occasion was not designed to be a money-making event, but only as an .advertising caniDalan for " extending the trade tinea of the. citv ana onering oia friends and customers excellent val lies. ' I A representative of W. H. Belli Bro.. when asked as to the success o( the day. replied: "It a a blessing It rained, for we could n t nave taxen care of the trade at all it it had been fair day." He explained that they started In with several extra cleras and later In the day had to call all they could think of to come to their assistance, Mr. C. L. Efird, manager of Enrd s Depart men t Store, says they had house full of customers by 10 o'clock and although fourteen or fifteen ex tra clerks had been provided, they needed more. It was one of the best davs that stove has ever had. Mr Efird thluk the only mistake that TWO WINGATE BOYS HAVE BAD HEAD ON COLLISION Both Are Knocked Almost Senseless, One Sustains Bruises While Oth' cr's Skull Is Fractured ENGINE STRUCK HIS HEAD AND CRUSHED BRAINS OUT Sheriff Fowler Notified and Body Brought to Monroe and Turned Over to the Undertakers E"A'N"lH0W DID HE GET FROM Ike Wet Year 19U1 Broke Him Up Financially, But It Didn't Break . Hia Noble Spirit Wingate, March 30. Tuesday af ternoon while playing in a game of ball between the high school and the graded school, Hurley Lowder and Grant Britt ran together while try ing to catch a ball. .Both were knock ed down. Lowder sustained several biuues about the face, and Britt's skull was fractured just over the left eye, DUl not seriously, uoin are autv lo he out again. Mr. E. 1. Wright has bought a :ors nou.c at uamn ana pians to move his family there at an eariy date, wh.Te he will engage in' the inercantilj bus ness. Several more cases of " nu are re- porlel in Wingate among these are Mrs. Flonnie Helms and family, who are confined to their beef. Mrs. L. C. Troutnian and children spent Tuesday night and -Wednesday wun reiauves at .luarsuvuie. , Mr. C yde Bivms is visiting-rela tives here. .' On account of the Methodist meet- ' t-1 in wnicn is now in progress uiere were no prayer meeting services at he Baptist church Wednesday even- m- ' . . . . ... Jerre Barrtno, who lor about rorty years Has been a resident oi in- irato. has sold his house and lot near the depot, and plans to move to Ohio about the fifteenth of April. For a Bood many years he has been haul ing wood for the people of VVJngate, and during those years be nas gained good many customers who regret to see htm leave. The Baptist parsonage is neartng completion and it is hoped that it will be ready lor occupancy in aoout ten days. The parsonage is a two story bungalow, .which contains five bedrooms, a laree living room, break fast room, kitchen and bath, and when completed will be one of the most handsome residences in, town. John Ewing a young man of Chester, S. C. was killed yesterday morning a little after five o"clock by a northbound Seaboard freight train about a mile this side of Bakers crossing. He and hia companion, John Black, were on their way to their home In Chester and naa set down on an embankment by the side of the railroad to rest and dropped off to sleep. Their, heads fell back on the rail and they lay there until the freight train blew, when Black heard it and lumped uu. Ewing did not wake and the driving wheel ot the engine struck the right side ot his bead lust above the eye ana crushed it. He was knocked about five feet from the track and when picked up by Sheriff Clifford Fowler he was resting on his knee; with his face ourled In the dirt. After the train struck Ewing, Black started back to Monroe on foot but was picked up by a truck and hurried to the sheriff's office to tell the sad news. Sheriff Fowler reached the scene of the tragedy about o'clock and the body was still warm when he tot there. .The body was brought to Monroe on the section master's car and turned over to T. P. Dillon & Sons, undertakers, and the young man a father was tele :homd at his home In Chester Ewing ajid Black came to Monroe from Chester, S. C, about three weeks ago and secured work in the wa imiIa in the arrancements was Rtandard Cotton Mill. Wednesday nigut they deemed to return to ineir honiea In Chester on foot, going by way of Charlotte, and cot as far as Bakers when they stopped to rest and sat down on an embankment in a railroad cut with the above stated result. Ewing was about 21 years of age and has a wife and baby. His cocit anion is just a boy, 18 or 20. The only information that can be obtained in regard to the unfortun ate nffair la that furnished by young Blaec, companion of Ewing. Railroad men don't seem to be certain which train struck the young man, the freight that ran Just ahead of the uassenger train or the passenger train itself. It being dark, and only Kwina's head being on the track, It is reasonable to suppose that the en gineer did not see hi:u at all. This is strengthened by the fact that the train did .not stop to pick the dead body up and bring It to Monroe. Mr. James Ewing, father of the dad man. came to Monroe yesterday afternoon and carried the body to Chester for burial. Mr. H. W. Williams of Goose Creek township Is one man who doesn't think times arc getting worse, es pecially in a financial way. He has had some trying experiences In life and has fought against adversities and come out the winner. In the nineties Mr. Williams had a lot of sickness in his family and lost his wife. In addition to having a heavy doctor' bill to pay On top of that the vear 1901 came aloug with Its eontinued wet weather and finished breaking him up. But he dldnt quit. He moved nis lamuy to nar- lotte and went to worn m a cotton mill. He saved his money and in six years time he had 13,000 to tne L'ood plihoimh when he went there h h.id-orlv 175 after selling nia ln.nri and na vine his debts. In 1907 Mr. Williams movea back to Goose Creek township near hia old home and bought farming im plements and 200 acres of land. The last hale of cotton ae soia Deiore su ing: to the mill brought him $20. He lc nna' u HIT It at BDOUl 89 t90 a bale and he doesn't owe any body a emit. While other things aie u ' : 1 1 1 hieher in proportion, air. nuaui has by growing everything he needs to eat and feed his animals nut himr.elf in eood financial shape. Mr Charlie Nash of the Faulks paiii m tin itv ia another man who aved nionev from his work in pottnn mill and boueht and epulp ned a eood farm on which he is makinr a sDlendid living and some haaidea These examples refute the argument that cotton mill employees cannot save any money. It all de- nonda nnon "the man behind the gun." WAXHAW TO MONROE? The Engineer Rode Eleven Miles But the Brakeman Rode Twelve and Walked One Mile having It on a rainy day and sug- sicsu that we select a faid day lor the next one. , ' Mr. W. M. Davis of Smith-Lee Co. states that they were rushed almost to dtiath practically all day. iney had a number of extra clerks and could have used several more. There were times wheji they needed twen- ty.flve sales people. It was one of the very best days in the history or their business. Mr. J H. Lee Is a man who con ifders things well before speaking, and he says that Lee t Lee Co. had a most satisfactory day and that their store was crowded with pur chasers. Everybody seemed to be pleased with the values with the ex ception of one customer who com plained and then bought the article offerrlng 25 cents more than she was asked for It. Mr. John English of English Bros, bdieves the day was a great success, notwithstanding the rain. Their store had crowds of buyers and the special values offered by this growing firm were received Joyously. . When Mr. W. J. Rudge was asked in regard to the success of the day with him he replied: "We o!d the stuff, and when you "want another Dollar Day, let It corue " Mr. Vaun Funderburk, grocer, said the dav was a good one alter all the disadvantages under which tua event was pulled oft. . Mr. J. W. Hamilton of Ilainllton- Liles Co., says he was surprised at the number of people here and the trading thatsWas done. . Worth Plyler of the Monroe Harn- wnre Co. doesn't want any more Dol lar Days. He says It works a fellow too hard. The Monroe -Hardware Company certainly did some business c.n Dollar Day. Mr. GUnier Joyce says It was the biggest uouarvuay they ever had. Ab Josepn Company had a big nay Mr. Joseph says they certainly gave them the bargains and the people certainly took 'em. . Nasslff Sl Company report a nne day, lots of satisfied customers that will come pack. Mr. T. P. Hedwlne says he had a big day, everybody kept busy wait ing on tne traoe. Lathan k Halgler, T. C. Lee fc Son, Austin & Clouts, W. C. Dees, Army Surplus Sales Store. Lee Griffin, F n. Aslicraft. Parker A Moore, Union Variety Store.- and t others offered specials for Dollar Day and they doubtless might be interviewed with the same result as those above. ' Natural Proof! , i VERY LITTLE FERTILIZER BEING SOLD AT RIDGFWAY Estimated That Two-Thirds People of Columbia Are Idle Dangerptu on Back Streets Death of Mrs. Myers Medlin Mr. Mvers Medlin '.lied yesterday morning about 9:30 o'clock at her home near Cedar Grove in east M.mroe township, aced 72 years. For sonte time she had been In 111 health and a complication of diseas es caused her death. She was a meni- br of, the Baptist church ana was moRt excellent woman. Hers was an exemplary life full of kind deeds ami sympathetic inclinations. She waJ a devoted wife and mother and a uood neighbor. Surviving ner arc husband, four sons, Mr. Duran Med. li.ii of Monroe, Mussrs Allison ana Yates Medlin who inaKe tnetr nomc with their father, and Mr. , IJrycf Medlin. and three sisters, Mrs. Mary Smith of Monroe, Mrs. Ann Funder burk and Mrs. AUice wniuey ui south Monroe Township. Mesdames John Carelock of Georgia, nonnie Helms, of Wingate. Emma Smith ot fi-nreia and Will Walden of Lanes Creek township are sisters of the di seased. Funeral aurvices were con- Hnr-ted todnv hv Rev. Wade Holmus and the remains were Interred In the family burying ground in east moh roe township. St.. Luke Lutheran Bible school Sunday morning at 10 o clock. Mr. Jennings Boger, super intendent. -.' Services at 11 a. m.. text John 8 1G-49. The Jews try to atone Jesus In this posDel we behold our Lord in his: final disputation with his wicked adversaries. The . blessed Saviour had come. to those people as tne mes senger from God, but they would not believe him. . . .'.. , Luther League at 7 p..m. Vesnara at 7:30.' Text Matt 6:11. "Give ue this day , our daily bread." The pastor- requests tne presence of every, member of the congregation at .these Lenten services. The public is invited to all of the above services. ; '. " : 1 News Youll Never Bend .Jailed girl falls to Issue "warning to-others," -uu : " 1 Conductor . conches oat transfer tickets ion floor, instead of fn custoEm. Blind Tiger Negro Found Dead in Anson (From Wadesboro M. & I ) I nst Tuesdav afternoon some col ored women found the body of Bob Ellison, colored, lying on the bank of the Pee Dee a short distance aooe Blewett Falls dam. The body was ly ing wedged in between two logs, nnrtlv in and nartlv out of the water. Officers here were notified, and Cor oner W. R. A. Hanna went down late Tuesday to hold an Inquest. Dr. E. ?. Ashe, county pnysician, exammuu Ellison, and found thr.t his neck was broken and the side of hia skull and possibly his jaw bone were iraciurea, lv ho had been hit twice by i me heavv substance. Ellison had been dead some time. He had on but no shoes. Apparently the body had floated down the river, there is no telling how far, and there is no clue as to when, how or why he was killed. . Ellison was notorious as a blind ti- i'cr, and he was under two indictments mnl-intr liouor. One of his cases was called at the last term of court ahont the middle of February. He rlid nnt answer and his bond was de- ued forfeited. A capias was issued W him. and Officer Manly, of Liics ville, almost caught him, but he got icnv. That was about five weeks o. It is reported that Ellison hung around his home for a day or two and then disappeared. However, his father-in-law is reported as having said that he heard about three weeks ncrn that Ellison at that time was . .-. . ., . i i making liquor in the neignDornoou ui Leak's ferry. Tho pnrnner's mrv found that hi lisnn rame to his death at the hands of parties unknown, the cause being blow on tne neaa wun some neu.y ibjcct. When the weather gets unseaBon ably Warm I deemJ.be time suitable for reviving a story which . I first heard at the Republican national convention in Chicago In 1920 As will be recalled by those who attend ed that eonventibn the entire coun try from coast to coast sweiierea through the; week under ia biauKei of terrific heat. ; ' ' A delegate from California, in a half fluid state, fell off ot a trans continental, train. . A Chicago . trlend nvet htm at tne ; station; ' fSay,f old dm." eaW .the friend when greetings had beea exchamedi "Is it at hot out West as it i herd, on -the Jakef" ,. "-v . V i ! It hot ou Westlt repeated thd neVly arrived one 3afH don't makf me laugh. You people, here fn-the rorn belt don't Know wnat neat is. Bay. listen. I'll Illustrate to you Just how hot Itils on. the other siderothe, es.i Cemlngacross WAriMM -.nA , Vu the Ufflli DOWenUl ; ar'a lan. . t-. V l .- -1 . force and nations have arisen, flour-j Barber never hints at "Nice' mas. khed and passed away under ! sage today, airr; . " ? mighty power. - , ?. t Va Will RoeVVS desert 1 lookd. oAtiOf. itvi Var dow and 1 taV k eoypte cTiasIng a Jack-rabbtt-wdJ i hey f VT" Poot, walkings a. Haonv Hill Farmer Raising Fine Chickens iVrnm the' I.exintrton Dispatch.) H. L. Leonard, of the Happy Hill action, has a county-wide reputation a a first class farmer. For years he has been making money out of strawberries ; and fruits, in addition the, ma ior farm crops. He has also been growing some good poul trynothing but thorougnorea go about his place. -This spring poultry raisinsr is beiwr greatly enlarged . .- . . t i (hnMicph tha areotion oi a larze proou in knnaa nart nt which is furnished and is now housing a great gang of fine Barred Rocke and White Leg horns. A larsre flock of hens are pro. ducing seven and, eight doxen eggs a Hav. which find ready sale at splendid prices for setting purposes. Poultry ,.inha throughout the country are us ing many of these eggs, wucn oi tne poultry work is being looked after by on of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard's sons, mhn took anecial training at State Colleze. , Another ton is In charge pf h nnultrv' farm at Revnolda. Mr, Leonard's strawberry field looks very at tlii time. A late freeze last year destroyed jmuch of. this crpp: . .'' , -. . ' '. thimbleful of! brains and" a bar rel of aoplieation ' will accomplish .more than a car load of weakly ap 1 plied brilliancy. ?, , 1 , , . ; . . Efird and Belk Cars Collided (From the Charlotte News) William Robinson, negrd chauffeur Hrivinir the: Frahkim automobile el W H. Relk. head of the Belk system of department stores of the Carplfnas and Viririnia. and Bill Gobnet, negro chauffeur for'Joe B. Etlrd, head of the Efird chain of department stores in thi Carolinas. had a collision o"n Queens Road, the main thoroughfare 01 ftiyers rarK, t uim utM uu. day afternoon and W. H. 'Belk, Jr., five and nail year oia son oi i.r. Relk. who was riding with the Belk chauffeur, was slightly hurt, while the chauffeur himself is in tne jooc Samaritan Hospital seriously injured, with perhaps a fractured skull. , The Efird chauiteur was locked up and is now in jail awaiting the out come of the Belk chauffeur's injuries. The Efird chauffeur was driving a Cadillac, a heavier ar than the Franklin and as a consequence oi tne impact of the two cars tie Belk au tomobile was badly broken up. The Belk boy was not badly hurt, dov sut icred several plainful abraisoni' and scratches. He was at first taKen to the Presbyterian Hospital and was a few minutes later removed o tne , By Novus Homo,. Come in." said Dr. Burgiss, as we approached the door of the Enter- - r .1 I . wr, - prise oince tne otner aay. i e w problem that I wish you would solve for me." We didn't promise him that the solution would be forthcoming. but waited for the statement of it. and then proceeded to meditate. Here it is as the doctor gave it: "John Barleycorn walked out on the Brooklyn Br.dga and jumped into tna river, where was he when he jumped?" Thinking there must be some catch, in so apparently simple a statement we suggested he was on the bridge, but the r Ctor said not. "So long as the man was on the bridge he had not yet jumped and while he was between the bridge Ml the waters of the river, or while traveling through the space between these points was after he had jump ed." So wh re was he when he jump ed? We didn't tell him; can you? After we had given this one up, the doctor came across with another one like this. "There is, we'll say, a freight train, one mile long standing with its cab opposite the station in Waxhaw while the engine is one mile down the road on the way to Monroe. When the en gineer pulls out he is within eleven miles of Monroe while the cab is twelve miles from Monroe. The brakeman comes out of the cab, get on top of his train, walks to the engine and when the engine pulls inte .Monroe the engineer has rulcten eleven miles the cab has traveled eleven miles it is one mile out of town when the engine gets in while the brake man has walked one mile and rid den twelve miles on the same train. How is that?" We had a letter just the other day from a irentleman in the eastern part of the State who had been reading4 some of the "stuph" we have recently furnished the Union Republican on the present, taxation problem In North Carolina. The writer express ed hearty approval of the articles in quostion, and closed his communica tion by saying "keep it up; sometning must be done for the relief of the sit uation else we are ruined." The cor respondent states in his letter that he is a cotton buyer. He nas been in South Carolina for the past six weeks, and adds. :I want to tell you condi tions in South Carolina and Georgia are alarming." He encloses a couple of newspaper clippings, one of them accredited to Mr. J. W. Sanders which appeared in a South Carolina paper, and gives a very dark picture of con ditions in the boll weevil section of that state. To quote, "Mr. J. W. Sanders, who spent a few days in Co lumbia, Ridgeway and other points in South Carolina last week, says the cotton farmers and time mercnants are financially ruined by the boll wee vil. Many of the big lartU owner who in years past raised hundreds of bales of cotton on their farms are not able to pay the taxes on their lands. Farms a tew years ago that wouia have sold for a good s.zeu fortune have become a burden to the owners. Thousands of negro tenants have flocked into the towns and cities and. now the white people are deserting the farms. Those who remain are plnnting gardens and propose to raise vegetables and chickens and keep a cow and Jive somehow. Last year from 400 to 500 car loads of fertili zers were 61d at Ridgeway.l This year not a tack has been soldi It is estimated that two-thirds of te peo ple in Columbia are now idle, and Mr. Sanders says it is dangeTons to be found on the back Streets at) night lest one get held up and robbed. He says the farmers in this section -should not deludo .themselves by besieving that the boll weevil will do but little damage in this section of the country. The great pest gets in its destructive work wherever cotton js found.". News From Route 1, Indian Trail Indian Trail, Rt. 1, March SO. Mrs. H W. McCall of Charlotte le visiting friends and relatives in this section. -i JRev. A. B. Haywood will preach at Union Grovd Me'hodlst church next SnndaV at 111 o'clock a. in., and at Ebener Baptist church at 3 o'clock p.m. tb,e same day. Mr. jRalph Furr of Monroe l spending this (week with his grand pareiifs, Mr nd Mrs. J. C. Ford. I Mr and Mrk. Bunyan Richardson, and -'Messrs. Ball Keilah and Sam home of his parents, who live, on the hospital campus facing. Hawthorne Lane. . V . . T m T 11 V. . ft. 4U child and had come fromDBworth " - I into the Queens Road ponlevard near, the residence of Dr. A.j; woven; and had crossed over the street car track and headed toward the city. The Efird chauffeur , was going fom the city toward .the. Efird homeNin Myers Park and hit the Belk car t a point between the Iniddle of the car and rear wheels., The Efird car was also scratched and bruised up. Every man meets with, pbstacleevNiousehcrtd?" Several (eases of "flu" In light form are reported In this section. Miss Bettie Simpson, a sixth-grade student to. the Furr school, has been asked to go to inaian irau nex. Saturdayitospell In a contest. The Order of Authority "Is your .wife., the 'boss of -your and when bedofs tie (mast promptly conquer rtiem? ort 41 will quickly conquer,. Mm.-,. st JelUier dlsjp they She is." : answered Mr. Meelrtofti "now that the hired girl has left." Washington Star. ,
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