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Next Sunday, April 30, Is Go-to-Oiurch Day in Monroe IE MONROE JOURNAL PUBLISHED TWICE EACH WEEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Twenty-Ninth Year. No. 24. Monroe, N. C, .Friday, April 28, 1922. $2.00 Per Year Cash YONROE MAY GET SOME BIG TEXTILE MANUFACTURERS Mr. Jones Gives Encouragement and Pledges Ilia Support in the fcBort to Induce Cotton Mity Men WOULD MEAN THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO UNION r AK.iltKS Detailed Information i Being I re- pared to be I sed in the Wig I n dertaking at Early Date. Mr. Jesse M. Jones, chief of the development department of the Sea board Air Line railway, wun neau- luarters in Norfolk, met with tne Chamber of Commerce yesterday ev ening at six o'clock to discuss plans for sending a delegation to see New England textile manuiacturers wun a view to inducing mem 10 iovaie mills in Monroe. Mr. Jones has all the information anybody is looking for along these lines right on the tip of his tongue. He is a busy man, receiving one hun dred letters a day and employing two secretaries whom he carries with him. Hi idea, are therefore valuable and he gave Monroe some mighty encour aging talk in regard to the proposed project. He promised that, provided the delegation is sent, as it in all nrohabilitica will be. either he or Mr. Capps, vice-president of the road, will go with the delegation and lend a helping hand. Mr. Jones believes that with the advantages Monroe has to offer the city stands a good chance to bring large manufatcunng interests nere. It was pointed out that in Lnion county the costs of construction are much lower than in New r.ngiana, living expenses are cheaper, raw ma terial is grown right here, sanitary conditions are excellent, unbounded development power, cheap labor, free dom from labor troubles, that this section of the state is capable of pro ducing sufficient food to feed any size population, and that large text lie manufacturing interests wouiu mean thousands of dollars to Union county fanners, who would then be in position to grow all the truck and dairv products they could and find a ready market at profitable figures. Mr. Jones states that the Seaboard is readv to send representatives fa miliar with freight rates and indus trial conditions and suggests that Monroe's representatives thoroughly inform themselves with the necessary figures relative to tax rates, which are much less than in New England, cost of employees' homes, coal situa tion, cost of power, lights, labor, free dom from pneumonia, road improve ment, schools, churches, . industrial laws, etc. It has been known for some time that New England capitalists have become interested in manufacturing in the south, which is the logical place for cotton mills, and that large sums of money are yearly being invested in the textile business in the cotton belt. There is no reason why the farmers of the south should be com pelled to ship their staple to New England to be worked up into the finished product and pay freight both ways, when all the natural advant ages imaginable are right here where the cotton is grown, and this step on the part of Monroe business men to bring the mills right to the door of the cotton farmers will doubtless meet with the hearty approval of ev ery citizen of the county. Details are being worked out and the necessary information will be ob tained by the energetic and efficient secretary of the Chamber of Com merce. Mr. C. VV. Orton, and the del egation will probably be sent at an early date. rershinff Will Visit Charlotte Washington, April 2. General John J. Pershing today accepted an invitation to attpnd the 20th of Mav celebration in Charlotte next month. He told Representative Bulwinkle that he would go and take his aide, Major Marshall. Representative Bulwinkle will accompany General Pershing and Major Marshall. FORMER RUSSIAN PRINCESS ARRIVES First picture I the wife and so of Robert Goelet, American multi millionaire, who has just arrived in New York. Mrs. Goelet was formerly Princess Riabouchinsky, widow of a wealthy Russian Prince, t resident of Paris. The Goelet family has been living in Paris for he past year, where the ton, Robert, Jr.. was born. p5S (S J ' .2. i T3 i S MTMMI v yis MICK ARNOLD, COLORED. SUDDENLY GOES INSANE; Lost His Mind While at Work With Road Force Wednesday and Was Brought to Monroe and Jailed Mick Arnold, colored, who worked with the road building force of Mr. J. C. Zobrist, near town, suddenly went ah&nliitplv rrazv Wednesday afternoon Kut five nVlitck and was hrouirht to ! Monroe and lodged in jail, where he. will be k pt for a few days until it is ascertained whether he will have to be carried to Goldsboro and commit ted to the insane asylum for colored people. Arnold had apparently been in his right mind up to the time he went all to pieces as if the balance wheel in his brain might have been removed, when quite a commotion was created in the camp as the crazy negro made raid after raid on the other workmen and frightened them out of their wits. It is reported that he ran every ne ro on the camp off and when Mr. Zobrist and his assistants reached the scene of operations he had full con trol and had taken every garment from his body and greeted his boss in his birthday suit. It took several men to bring him to jail, some holding on to his hands, arms and legs while others sat upon him to hold him down. One of the most interesting things in connection with the episode took place when Policeman King started to place Arnold in jail He grabbed the policeman in the collar and when pushed off he cast a wicked look at Mr. King and said: "Boss, kiss me just one time." Sheriff Fowler states that Arnold talks and carries on in jail practically all the time but that he appears to be a little more at ease than when first committed. He was one of Mr. Zo brist's most valuable workmen and he is anxious that he may recover his mind sufficiently to go back to the camp. Gardner Proves His Calibre The following is taken from The Cleveland Star, Mr. Gardner's home paper, and will prove of interest to me people oi inion county; The Democratic papers of the state are generously commending the lofty unselfish announcement of our fellow- townsman Max Gardner that he be lieves "political equity entitles East ern North Carolina to the next nom ination for eovernor. This state ment is bound to become of historic interest in the state. There is no thinking man or wo man in North Carolina who does not know that if Max Gardner had en tered the race as Governor Morri son's successor that he would have entered with brilliant prospects for success: In the first place, he has a tremendous following of intensely loyal, devoted and fighting friends, who enthusiastically follow him with a zeal and spirit rarely known even in politics. In the second place, Gard ner s attitude wnen aeieateu Dy a small majority in 1920 was superb; hi was heard to utter no complaint, but submitted without sulking to the mandates of his party and plunged with courage and confidence into the campaign of his successful opponent and made over fifty speeches in be- hnlf of Governor Morrison's election. This act alone established Gardner in the' minds and hearts of North Car nlina as a man of gubernatorial cal ibre, but his recent convention state ment reveals the reason why uard ner has more personal friends than any man in the state. To our minds however his an nouncement which puts him in the very front rank of North Carolina's democracy means more to the future of the Democratic party in North Carolina than it means to Max Card ner tor the reason, if Gardner ha marshalled his forces, backed by the soluiidid womanhood of the state, fur whom he stood and suffered in 1920. and launched the fight for the nomi nation in 1924, it might have broken and ruptured the Democratic party The party cannot stand many cam paigtis such as it encountered in 1920. Of course the people of Cleveland county where Max Gardner was born and reared and loved and served are and have been ambitious for his elec tion as governor of North Carolina, but his friends are just as happy in the knowledge that our son has the confidence, love and devotion of North Carolina in full measure, and that if he lives no power or influence on earth can keep him from becoming in h'2S, Governor by the biggest ma jority in the state's history. A Financial Campaign For Colored School The colored citizens of Monroe held a mass meeting at the colored M. E. church Monday night for the purpose of starting a financial campaign in the interest of better school facilities for colored children in this community. The meeting was largely attended by the patrons and leading colored folks. It was presided over by Prof. J. F. Massey. The object of the meeting was explained by Prof. J. N. Brown, principal of the colored schools, and after much discussion pledges were solicited which amounted to $385.00. The goal was fixed for a $500.00 drive or more. This amount will be raised and put into the hands of our dis tinguished board of education to help equip the proposed new building. Dr. J. S. Massey is the bonded treasurer of the campaign fund and reports will be made to him. Another meet ing will be called within the next thirty days. Contributed. The fe'Iow who says he has nothing to do until tomorrow usually does it .omorrow. IHOW THEY GOT WITCHES OUT OF MILK LONG AGO! 'The Old Time Mammies Looked Care- fully After the Children and the los. Few people of the present day prob ably realize the extent of the super stitious beliefs of the old time color ed "mammies who used to dominate the homes of the white folks, a least so far as the cooking, house-lending ! i i ...i-; . f t . r K. mi1Linr ami nr. irg for the cattle was concerned. Prof. McCall was relating some of his childhood experiences with these old "mammies" the other dnv and this was ore of the points he yet remem bers distinctly: He said the old mux maid would look very carefully to the condition of the milkers, and was very much interested in having tne lamuy supplied with wholesome milk, and if it occurred to ner tnai tne mim was not just right, she at once concluded that the cows had been "witched." His iob. then, as a very little fellow, was to run down to the branch near by; gather some nice straight little willow switches and bring them in to the old "mammy," who would proceed to take some of the milk that was in fected with the witch germs, hold it over the fire in a tin vessel, and while it heated she would whin It out 01 tne vessel into the fire, and thus burn the witch out of it. This treatment not only burned tne witch out of the milk already in the hnnsp. but it took the witch germs out of that the cow was going to supply at next milking time. Thus the cow's life and also tne good health of the family were pre served by this very simple method. We had a little chat wun a micni- gander the other evening. He was wending his way homeward from his winter resort in the land of flowers. You folks are ruining the railroads, and resort hotels, are you not, we asked him. Well, I don't know aoout that," he replied. "Myself and wife rmvvl in our little Ford sedan at a oust of some three cents per mile, baring car depreciation, and we would have that anyway, so n we nu i imv about three and a half cents per mile each, and sle?ping privileges to boot, also profiteering hotel rates, we would not have made tne trip. Knm twelve vears aeo when vt line K7iah was writimr the Kehoboth items for the Waxhaw Enterprise he related an experience with "mollypop jelly as follows: "Last summer a la dy from Hot Springs, Ark., spent a few davs in this section, and one nay she remarked that molly-pops made thj most delicious kind of jelly; that it was the staple kind out there. Alter hr departure we hied ourselves to the ditch banks and gathered a basket full' ef big-rip molly-pops, hulled them, cooked the aeed a few minutes, at mined off the tuice and the mater I weeded to make jelly. Well, sir, from about two gallons of molly-pops we not six classes of the prettiest vellow lellv. which for vileness of Mste could not be eouaiea oy any thing ever turned out of a chemistry. Disheartened, but not altogether dis couraged, and still believeing that molly-pops were made lor some good use, we were soon after relating the xneriment to Kditor Nisoet, wno was verv skeptical of .molly-pops, we sought to clinch matters by saying, "They do say the Good Lord made ev erything for a purpose; what do you suppose He made molly-pops for any way?" Same thing as rag weeds, Jimnson weeds, flies and 'skeeters." illie says that one glass of that jely saved over winter completely lost its obnoxious flavor and was as good as any he ever ate. He declares he will try it again and flavor the stuff with everything from wild onions to castor oil until he hits the proper so lution. I wonder if he has anything on final results of the later efforts? Here are some newspaper editori als clipped from an old issue: "An illiterate farmer, wishing to enter some animals at an agricultur al exhibit, wrote to the secretary as follows: "Also enter me for the best jack ass. I am sure of taking the premi um. Here is an answer to an advertise- . ment oi a music committee ior a can didate for organist, music teacher, etc.: "Gentlemen: I noticed your ad vertisement for organist and music teacher, either lady or gentleman. Having been both for several years, I offer vou my services. Another advertisement reads: "If the gentleman who keeps the shoe store with a red head will return the umbrella of a young lady with whale bone ribs and an ivory handle he will be suitably rewarded." Here's one attempting to catch a run-a-wav: "A hired man named John, his nose turned up five feet, 8 inches high, and had on a pair pf cor duroy trousers, much worn, has been gone ever since he left home. Please notify his people who live on the south side of the dug-out." Novus Homo, Meeting at Unity Nexi Sunday Rev. S J. Hood, pastor of Unity A R. Presbyterian church, has planned a community meeting at Unity next Sunday at 3 p. m. with the following program dealing witn tne country church problems: Rev. H. K. Wood will speak on " t he Duty of tne Lay man to the Country Church;" Rev. Q N. Hunnycutt will speak on "The Country Church its Problems and Possibilities;" Rev. J. A. Bledsoe will speak on "The Country Church, a Recruiting Station for Workers in the Master's Vineyard." The co gregations of Tirzah, Zion, H naiKersvine ami i aoernai .. ;;i i.v pected to attend and th:; rablic is,.voi were going to buy an electric, cordially invited. ' Ohr That was an electric toaster. Walkersville and Tabernac!? ;:r x-i RAPID STRIDES ALONG j OUR EDUCATIONAL LINES I School Property of the State Worth Tenty-r'ive Time What It Was Twenty-Two lears Ago Raleitrh. April 27. A marked im petus in the building of school hous es in those counties wnicn are sun without adequate buildings is expect ed as a result of the validation by the decision of the State Supreme Court just handed down of the bond Issue of $5,000,000 provided for by the last Legislature to loaned to counties for the erection of schools. Superintend ent of Public Instruction E. C. Brooks declared that the decision is one of the most momentous insofar as the educational life of the State is concerned, ever made by the courts of North Carolina. The way is now open for the most rapid expansion of the school facili ties of the state that has ever been experienced. School houses of a value ot more than b,uow,vuu nave oeen built through the aid of the old loan fund and much of the progress of the State in school work has been made possible through that expan sion. And yet that fund, at the most. was only a small fraction of the fund that will now be available. The State of North Carolina is spending annually on its rural schools today more than $H.ooo,uou as com pared with less than one million a year two decades ago. The school property oi tne Mate is wonn toaay more than $25,000,000 as compared with little more than one million in 1900. If the value of school property in the State has been increased 2,500 oer cent in twenty years under the handicap that has existed, what will not the expansion be annually here after with a loan fund of $5,000,000 available? This is the pleasant dues tion in the minds of the educational leaders of the State Monroe Will Tell It to the World The Chamber of Commerce is mak ing arrangements to have a large electrically-lighted sign erected on the brick building occupied by the American Railway Express Company at the passenger station here. The sign will be sixty feet long and nve feet high, on which will be printed words setting forth the advantages of the city of Monroe. The painting will be done by Mr. ransler, who has been in Monroe for the past few weeks doing work of this Jcind. Mr. M. C. Howie will install the electrical fixtures, and it is believed that the sign can be completed within the next few days. It will be so arrang ed that it may be readily seen and read from all passing trains. The lettering will be from one to two feet high and the sign will be very attrac tive from every point of view. It will supply information that people passing through on trains have here tofore had to ask for. Children's Week Services Children's Week services in Cen tral Methodist church were well at tended last night, considering the inclement weather. Parent's meeting was held in the main auditorium and Dr. R. Burrell made a most in treating and instructive talk on dif ferent phases of the Sunday school work and child problems. Mrs. Ciar ence Houston, Prof. S. G. Hawfield and others also made splendid talks, Gut the big time took place down in the basement of the Sunday school building, where a large crowd of children assembled and were enter tained by story-telling, games, etc. Miss Annie Kedwine and other ladies had charge of the program and the children had a most enjoyable and helpful evening. News From Monroe Route Six Monroe Route C, April 27. We arc very sorry to report that Mrs. J. A. Pressley is sick. Miss Callie Morton is visiting her brother, Mr. Lewis Morton. The farmers of this section hav done very little plowing as the weather has been so unfavorable. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Yandle of Stouts spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mrs. J. h. Wentz. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Morton visited Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Starnes of Indian Trail Sunday. Mr. Houston Helms of Charlotte spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Helms. Miss Annie Polk is visiting her sis ter, Mrs. Loyd Caucum, near Mat thews. Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Helms of Mon roe visited Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hay wood Monday afternoon. Miss Atta Presley of Charlotte is spending a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jarvas Presley. Daisy. Only Tenting I am living in the present, For the friends who know me true; Only tenting like an Arab 'Neath the skies of heavenly blue. I desire no earthly prestige, Fear no Father Adam's woe; Only for my own misdoings I shall suffer when I go. Mrs. R. S. Pownall, 536 S. Main St., Keyser, W. Va. An Klectric In a small town in the western portion of Illinois there was a rumor that a certain family wgre planning on buying an "electric." An auto salesman, hearing the news, hasten ed to the home. "But we don't want to buy an im mobile." explained the nun of the house. Whv, I tho'inht you did. It has .ib-en tlie talk around here that vou WHEN CYCLONE STRUCK MR. BYRD'S RESIDENCE Hair-Raising Experiences of April 12, 1920. Are Related by Mr. R. . Byrd, Whose House was Hit Mr. R. W. Byrd tells some inter esting and hair-raising experiences he had during the cyclone that swept sctions of Goose Creek township on the night of April 12th, 1920. Mr. Byrds residence was in the wake of the storm and was completely demol ished. He was badly hurt and was unconscious and he therefore knows very few details about what took place while the house was being torn up. . Mr. Byrd states that he and Mrs. Brd were up at the time, but four of the children were asleep. The entire building was picked up and carried some distance. Not piece was left, not even the pillars, and the children were blown from their beds, one lit tle biy being found in the debres rafted up against the barn twenty five yards away. And yet none of them were seriously hurt. One of the boys stepped in the well from which the curb had been blown, but fortun ately timbers had fallen in it and the little fellow was enabled to climb up over these timbers. Mr. Byrd states that he hauled several wagon loads of timber from his fields. They had blown from Mr. Sam Presson'a house a mile away. The miraculous thing about it is that so few people are killed in storms of this kind. Mr. Byrd says that ten residences were destroyed in that cy clone and that but three persons were killed. However, the experience is nerve-racking, according to Mr. Byrd, and he always feels uneasy and even frightened when a cloud begins to form since his home, family and all, was blown away. He states that it is almost impossible to keep his fam ily in the house now when a storm comes up. Remembers Circus in 1840 Rock Hill. S. C. April 26. I am clipping from each issue of The Jour nal the old marriage records and am making a book of them to have bound and keep as a permanent record. It will be valuable for future genera tions. . . In mv reminiscent moments I often think of things that happened when I was a boy. One that comes to mind i3 a show that went through Lnion county in 1840 when I was six or eiirht vears old. A circus perform ance was given at my grandfather Thomas Griffin's home on the Law- yer's road just east of Ncgrohead creek, where Mr. Atlas Edwards now vn. The but tent was a little west nf the dwelling and the big elephant was chained to a tree now standing some thirty or forty feet from the house. There was a lion and other animals . i II.. in the snow and l was very uauiy frightened to see a man open the lion's mouth and put his head in it. I heard that the lion later killed him when he pulled off the same stunt. I believe it was P. T. Barnum's show and there was a large crowd in at tendance. They had band music and . . X m t some negro minstrels. I remember two lines of a song they sang: "Mu sic in mush not: music in the pan: music in dis nigger Jim, as much as any man. I wonder if there is any other per son living who was there. 1 hope John Q. Griffin was there and can tell more about it than I can. J. W. HUNTLEY Mrs. Lonnie Phifer Dies Almost Sud denly Mrs. Lvdia Phifer. wife of Mr. Lon nie D. Phifer, prominent Marshville merchant, died at her home in Marsn vil'f Tuesday night about 11:30 o'clock of apoplexy. She had been in her usual health until about seven o'clock in the evening when she was suddenly stricken while dressing to attend a play in the school autlito rium. She. never regained conscious ntss and died about four hours later, The last words spoken to her husband after she was stricken were, I be lieve it is a stroke of paralysis." Mrs, Phifer was 36 years of age and was a most excellent woman, a kinU and d voted wife and mother and a good neighbor. She was a number of the Baptist church and lived a consister christian life. Before her marriage to Mr. Phifer she was Miss Lydia Austin, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay Avstin. She is survived bv her husband anJ five children, the oldest 12 years and the youngest 1 months of ai;e. Surviving Mrs. Phife are also three brothers, Messrs. Cole man. Lindsay and Jodie Austin Marshville township, and five sisters Mrs. D. H. Perry of Wingate, Mrs Duran Medlin of Monroe, Mrs. H inip Taylor of Monroe township, Mrs. J. D. Davis of Peachland, and Mrs. W. R. Broadaway of Albemarle. Fun eral services were conducted Wednes day afternoon at 4 o'clock by Rev. Wade Holmes and the remains were interred in the cemetery at Deep Springs, in Anson county. Effort to Have Work Resumed at Howie Mine An effort is being made to begin operations in the near future at the old Howie mine near Waxhaw. The property is now owned by the Wax haw Mining Company and operations have been at a standstill for the past thre or four years, the company be coming involved in litigation. Wed nesday Mr. J. A. Osborne, editor of the Washington I'aily .News, and Mr. V.. W. Stevens f New York City were in Monroe in the intereFt ofj the old Howie mine, with a view to beginning operations within a short time. I THE DEAD AND MISSING IN THE FLOODED DISTRICT 59 The Property Loss in Fort Worth Flood Is Now Estimated at a Million Dollars or More HECK OF LIST OF DEAD AND MISsING NOT YEl l"OSSIBLE Flooded Areas Being Searched By the Rescuers Levee Board to Investi gate Report of Dynamite. Fort Worth, Texas, April 2t. Con- ir.ued reports of dead and missing the flood that has gripped rort Worth for two days, tonight had brought the list to fifty-nine. A chuck is not yet possible and veri fications of the unofficial reports are held up while the flooded areas are searched by rescuers. Three bodies have been recovered. The list of injured remained at 29, according to reports from the hospitals. The property loss is esti mated at 1,000,000. The levee board will investigate the reported dynamiting of the em bankments in several places Monday nizht as soon as the flooded waters recede, according to M. L. McCain, board chairman. Board member, he said, did not believe that the water could have torn the holes in the le vees which were pronounced in ex cellent condition recently. Action looking to the prevention Of future flooding of the city's utilities plants probably will be taken after the floods recede, Mayor E. R. Cock rell stated tonight. Water service was made available today when the flood water which put the plant out of commission yesterday was pumped out by the fire department. The latest report of the river stage was 36 feet, but recession since this afternoon was expected to bring It town rapidly. AH railroads reported niproved conditions today and oper ation on schedules is expected by to morrow night. Fort north today was sorrounded on three sides by a sheet of water extending over an area estimated at o to 35 square miles. Food was taken by boat to isolated l.stricts. There has been littb looting and inly a few arrests. Road Contracts Run to Million Raleigh, April 25. Another mil ion dollars' worth of highway and bridge construction work was put under contract today by the state highway commission. The six high way projects aggregate in cost $769.- 855.04, and the bridges The total mileage is 55.80. The commission plans to award . contracts May 25 for the construc tion of approximately 198 miles of hard-surfaced macadam and top soil roads in every district of the state, the total cost running in to the millions. This will exceed all previous awards, and will be, therefore, the biggest jump towards the 1922 goal of 1,000 miles. Fifteen million dollars in highway construction bonds to be sold Thurs day to meet the cost of increased road work are expected to go at a good premium, according to the state 7 . a , t . i i : . treasurers oince. dius are Deing re ceived daily and state officials are confident the series will bring a good price. U. S. Boys Who Served With the Allies Get Preference Washington, D. C, April 2". Under a ruling of the United States civil service commission today, citi zens of the United States who served in the forces of the Allies during the World War will be given reference in appointments to civil service po sitions. Heretofore, the preference has e:ended only to those who served in the American forces, to their wid ows, and to their wives under certain conditions. In authorizing this extension of tho preference, the Civil Service commis sion states that consideration is giv en to the fact that service in the forces of the Allies was a common cause, and for a considerable time under a commander-in-chief; that Is.' after March 29, 1918, when Marshal Foci: was placed in command of all iha allied forces. & 'ww ptjHiJ THE RADIOPHONE H HAS ADDED 4 ENORMOUSLY TO THE i NUMBER Of iU DON T HAVE "0 LISTEN TO. I TP v ft
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