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THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY READS IT." JTZ THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY NEEDS IT Monroe journal PUBLISHED TWICE EACH WEEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Twenty-Ninth Year. No. 51. Monroe, N. C Tuesday, August 1, 1922 $2.00 Per Year Cash FINANCING CROP EASIEST THING ABOUT MARKETING Local Banks, Backed By War Finance Board, Will Fur nish Money. BEGINS TO RECEIVE COTTON NEXT MONTH Organization Hat Been Perfected and , Final Drive For Members Is On Greatest Problem Is To Get Mem. I bers Arrangement For Foreign Connection Established Will Sell Cotton As Fast As It Can Be Done Orderly. (Special to The Journal) Raleigh, Aug. 1. With its organi zation for handling this year's cotton crop of its members complete, the North Carolina Cotton Growers Co operative Association is conducting an intensive drive this month to bring its total sign-up to six hundred thou sand bales, which will be 75 per cent of the estimated yield in North Caro lina. IT. R Rl.lrwV rtf W.ffa.hnrn ffwnpr. Kal manager of the association, was .kept busy most of the week looking after his duties as president of the North Carolina farmers' convention, which was in session at West Raleigh. He is moving his family to Raleigh and will devote his entire time to look ing after the affairs at the headquar ters of the association. Arrangements. for establishing for eign connection to handle the four hundred thousand bales that have been signed up by the association, were Hmade last week at a conference of 6 directors of several Southern cotton growers' co-operative associations. which was attended by President W. j H. Austin, directors B. W. Kilgore and U D. Robinson and General Manager I Blalock, of the North Carolina Asso- "I lAttnn. Php.lpv R HnurarH m nrnmi. j p t" nent Atlanta cotton merchant, has Vieen employed by the North Carolina, (Georgia and Alabama associations as kales manager to handle their cotton. Banks Will Furnish Money Arrangements for financing the liandling of the cotton of the War finance Corporation has agreed to oan the JNorth Carolina association to the amount of ten million dollars, tut it is not expected that it will be liecessary to use much of this prom- sed loan as practically all the Isorth 'arolina banks have promised to make idvances on the same basis as the War Finance Corporation. While the War Finance Corporation has agreed to make advances on the otton of members of the North Car Una Cotton Growers' Co-Operative ssociation to the amount of ten mill- on dollars, it is expected that the arger part and perhaps the whole I the advances this season will be fiade by the local banks in the sec ions, where the cotton is delivered o the association. It will be the policy of the North Carolina association, as it has been f the other co-operative selling or ganizations, to use the local credit acuities, where they are available. first and if these are insufficient then he War Finance Corporation will be ailed on but not otherwise. Almost vithout exception banks in this state iave pledged their support to the as ociation in its sell hi g to the full limit f their resources. Advance of 50 to 60 Per Cent The policy of the War Finance Cor oration is to make advances of from ifty to sixty per cent of the market alue of the cotton at the time it is elivered to the association. When lie cotton is delivered it .will be plac- 1 in a bonded warehouse at the point f delivery if one is available, or hipped to a warehouse from places .here there is not a warehouse. If !ie cotton is delivered at a warehouse. he member is given a warehouse re- eipt which is attached to a sight draft or the amount of the advance that i to be made. This draft on the as- ociation is cashed at the bank at hich the member does business. In he case of delivery at a station for hipment to a warehouse, the same hing is done with the bill of lading, hich is attached in the same way to he sight draft. The North Carolina Cotton Growers' issociation is a selling organization nd as fast as the cotton is marketed. Ivhich will be done in an orderly and jsiness-like manner, the receipt from he sales will be used to make further d varices to the members of the as nciation who have delivered cotton ntil all the cotton is sold when a fl at settlement is made. In Texas, Oklahoma and Mississip last year, it was found necessary a use only a small part of the adv ances promised by the War Finance ssociation while the California Co- peratives last season did a sales bus ness of three hundred million dol- Lrs with an advance of only a mill- on and a half dollars from the gov- rnraent It Is expected that the Ume thing will be true in North Car- Una. Dr. Jabes H. Williams, brother of p. E. J. Williams of Monroe, baa tcepted the position of assistant to r. McBrayer at the state Tubercu sis Sanatorium, and will begin his ork about the middle of this onth. Dr. Williams has been prac- cinr at Cleremont Mrs. Williams, ho was Miss Alice Blakeney or onroe. will bare a position In the Uiness department ot the lnstltu- READY TO HAXDLK COTTON The directum or the North Car olina Cotton growers' Association are rapidly shaping up organiza tion for handling this year's crop of the nieiiibeis. Already the headquarters of th association in Kaleigh has become a scene of hurtling Activities with a large clerical force at work getting the records In shape for handling the details of the mass of accounting work that will be necessary. Head of departments and ex ecutive officers have been secured by the directors to MipervlNe this vork. The bet men In their re spective lines have been employed, and they are busy arranging plans for liandling this year' crop. The directors will be ready to receive the cotton of Its members on and after September first. None will be received until then. SNAKE.GAVE BIRTH TO THIRTY-ONE CHILDREN This Happened When She Was Struck One Time too Msny Twenty-five Feet of Snake Monroe, route 5, Aug. 1. Mr. and Mrs. K. N. Price and family motored to Peachland Sunday morning to spend some time with friends and rel atives. Mr. A. J. Irby of Haynesville, La., a grandson of the late Hogan Irby, is on a vacation of thirty days visit ing friends and relatives of Union and Anson counties. Mr. Irby is work ing in the oil fields of Louisiana. This is his first visit to this secton. Messrs. Blair and Fairley Price, while plowing their father's field one day last week came upon a large female Copperhead snake. Fairley secured a hoe and chopped the snake's head nearly off. Thinking she deserv ed another lick to relieve her of her suffering he hit again, and behold, when he struck her the second time she gave birth to thirty-one little snakes that measured seven inches. Connecting the mammy snake to the little ones, she being 36 inches longk would make a total length or 25.1 inches, or in other words it would make 25 feet and one inch. Some snake! Mrs. Sarah L. Helms, widow of the late Robert W. Helms, will celebrate her Ttith birthday next Saturday, Aug ust 5th. All friends and relatives are cordially invited to come with well filled baskets and have a good old jolly time. Messrs. Carl and Braxton Helms have gone to Charlotte to work at the carpenter's trade. Miss Bright Helms of Monroe re turned home Sunday after spending some time w.th her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Helms of Helmsville. Your correspondent, with his Cor inth singing choir, had the pleasure of being present at the singing con vention which was held at Sandy R dge Baptist church last Sunday. The writer wishes to say that there was 8'me fine music rendered by both sir.ging choirs, which was great ly enjoyed by everybody. WINGATE THROWS HER HAT INTO SPORT RING BuKehiill and Horse Shoe Pitching are the Things Party Goes to Ble w it Falls on Picnic Wingate, July 5.'. A large num ber of boys and girls of the town, chaperoned hy Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Helms, Mesdumes Flora Bivens and S. W. Hinson, motored to Blewitt Fall Tuesday and spent the day picnicing, sightseeing, and having a jolly good time. Mr E. L. May reports to your cor respondent that he is getting sweet potatoes from his natch. Miss Kate Humphrey has returned from Charlotte, where she visited her sister, Mis$ Thelma Humphrey. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Bailey, July 27th, a son. Wingate has again thrown her hat into the sport ring. Base ball and horse shoe pitching is starting up. Two games of base ball have been played recently. On Saturday Win gate and Monroe met on Wingate's diamond and played an interesting game, Monroe being defeated. On Wednesday afternoon Wingate and Matthews met on the Wingate dia mond and Matthews went down in de feat before the Wingate nine. Mr. C. J. Thompson has moved into the house formerly used as the Bap tist parsonage. Why not turn your land, and prop erty loose and make Wingate a real town. Only last week eighteen dif ferent parties were in Wingate try ing to buy or rent houses. All of the houses have been filled and it haa be come impossible for anyone to move to Wingate till more residences are built. It would be a good money making proposition . for anyone to build several nice houses to rent, and would also be a great help to our lit tle town. ''Pull for Wingate and watch It grow. Z. Bright Tucker Miss Mary Austin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Austin, has been awarded a music scholarship at Cok r college. She was prepared in mus ic by Mrs. John Beasfey and is a grad uate ol toe Monroe nigh school. MR. NISBET HASN'T MISSED A MEETING IN FIFTY YEARS Faithful Attendant Has Been Presi dent of Tirxah Bible Society for Thirty-One Years ARKANSAS CITIZEN SAYS UNION'S FIGHT SUCCESSFUL Worm Doctor Hits Waxhaw in Grand Style and Exhibits Worms Sixty Five Feet in Length Seven Doses Medicine all that is Required to do the job, But Offered Nine One-Dollar Packages for Two Dollars and a Half. Waxhaw, Aug. 1. The annual pro tracted meeting of the Heath Memor ial congregation of the Methodist church began yesterday, July 30th, and will continue throughout this week. The pastor, Rev. D. C. Ballard, will have assistance. The Rehobeth congregation, Pres byterian, will begin their meeting next Sunday, Aug. 6th. The pastor, Rev. O. N. Hunnycutt, will be assisted by a minister from Charlotte. In announcing the regular session of the Tircah Bible society, Prof. R. N. Nisbet stated in the announcement that he had been a regular attendant on these occasions for the past fifty years, not having to his knowledge, missed a single meeting, and that tie had been the society's president for the past 31 years. This, we think, is an excellent record for any man to be able to claim. Mr. J. F. Schooly, a native of this county who has spent the past twenty-six years in Arkansas, is here on a visit to relatives. He says we peo ple in Union county are evidently making good headway in our fight against the boll weevil. He doesn't think the weevil is doing any great damage to the cotton fields he has seen, notwithstanding the fact that this is his third year here, and he has been with us this year ever since cot ton was "chopped out." John says the weevil doesn't get all the cotton every year. He has had a fairly good crop of cotton and somtimes he makes almost none. For instance, in 1921 he gathered seven bales from the same land on which he made 22 bales in 1920, and this year he expects to get 20 or 25 bales from this same land. However, before' weevil infestation he had gathered 41 bales from an equal number of acres. He is in the sandy section of the state and says all the fight he has ever 'made against the pesky things is to wrap 'em up about two inches deep in the hot sands, and cook 'em. They are poisoning in his section for the first time. Since it is becoming evident that the general fight against the weevil :s going to somewhat increase the cot ton yield we notice the price is be ginning to slide down. The quotations in the local papers show a slump of one and a half cents or $7.50 per bale during the last few days. Farmers Union Meeting The regular monthly session of the county farmers' union will meet with Rehobeth local on Saturday, Sept. 5th at 10:30 a. m. There will be refresh ments and regular dinner in picnic style on the grounds, all of which will be free to everybody who brings well filled baskets and take 'part in the occasion. There will be a public meeting in the afternoon and some entertaining speaker will talk to us on the live topics of the day. If the editor of The Journal can make it convenient to be present, he is here by invited to be present. Come over, Air. Editor, and sec what you think of Rehobeth. The cotton fields,of this part of the county are, we think, the finest we have seen, if the present prospect holds up, and size is not counting at the expense of fruit, and the boll weevil doesn't make a new drive with in (he next 30 days, surely this sec tion will have no complaint against production. The corn crop, however, is noi up 10 me average xor mis community. Messrs. W. J. Sims, R. S. Gamble and Jas. H. Carter have the prize corn fields. They certainly have some that is good to look at, and the best part of it is it's pretty safely advanced and will mature to good yields, with very little more moisture than the lands now hold. The Worm Doctor We thought the business of faking by worm doctors was confined to the court house square and to "Court week," but dog my buttons if two white men, two negroes, a guitar, and an automobile "free show" at tachment didn't hit Waxhaw Saturday evening about five o'clock and get up a crowd on the R. J. Belk Co.'s block so quick it almost made one's head swim. Some of the worms were said to be sixty-five feet long and looked very much like they might have been since they pretty well fill ed up tne glass containers xney were in. Seven doses of the medicine was as much as any one had taken it seem ed. Yet the doctors, t ? ) wanted to sell everybody in the crowd, nine one-dollar packages, each of which would make a quart fruit jar full, and all for $2.50 with a blank bank draft to be filled out when you got through taking the stuff and get your money back in case you were not benefitted. We did not keep tab on the sales, in fact there had not been any to "tab" when we left. Mrs. J. T. Timple and children of Great falls, S. C, spent the past week with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Carter of this community. Novus Homo. y Mrs. Morris Duncan Fowler of Charlotte has beea rlstting hr pi rents. Mr. tod Mrs. H. G. Sro-je. KIWANIANS AND ROTARIANS MAGE EXCIT1SC BALL GAME Half Dezen or More Pitchers Used By Both Sides Pitched Good (tnt of "Slow Ball." NO FAST BALL ALLOWED DLKING THE E.VUKt UAjIe. The Cane Was Featured With Errors, an Average of One on Every Hit Runners "High Balled" It Every Time a Hit Was Made, But Were Too Tired to Run Jug Labeled "Goose Creek" Presented First Ro tariaa Making a Hit. Stagiag a comeback that could not be stopped the Kiwanis base ball team snowed the Rotary team under 34 to 8 , Friday afternoon. The game was played before an "immense" and en thusiastic crowd. In the sixth inning with the score tied the Kiwanians jumped on Laney for 18 runs. Pitcher after pitcher was put in to turn the tide but the others had their batting eye and would not be stopped. All of the half dozen or more pitch ers used by both teams pitched a good game of "slow ball," no fast ones be ing allowed under the ground rules made to order to suit the convenience of the players. Several spectacular playa were made but they were of the fluke kind and consisted of the most pitiable errors. A howling mob crowded the side lines and jeered at the players. The game was featured with errors, there being an average of one on every ball that was hit. If a player touch ed a ball and it went in any direction he simply started running and did hot stop until he had reached home. Several times runners were called back on a foul ball but pleaded that they' were too tired to run and to let them stay. Mr. J. -W. Fowler seemed to get tired more than the others. When he got on base and was called back he would grin sheepishly and say, "Please let me stay. I'm so tired," and he would stay only long enough to wait on the chance to steal second base. Hardly a Ball Game The exhibition could hardly be call ed a ball game. No two players had on the same uniform. Several had none at all. In fact, it looked as if the players had Come from a rummage sale. Mr. Walter Laney was the only playerjn .full uniform. Dr. R. H. Garreneame out arrayed in full hunt ing togs and wore his glasses. He was a good imitation of a typical English hunter. Mr. J. C. Sikes, the enthusiastic Rotarian, was out in full force and offered a large jug with the label "Goose Creek" on it to the first Rotarian that made a run. Mr. Bruce Redmond received the jug, but he did not let anybody see what was in it and it is not known whether there was "the spice of life" in it or not. Mr. C. W. Orton was chairman of the reception and entertainment com mittee. About ten gallons of lemonade was served to the players. A five gallon jug was placed behind second base and one behind first. As soon as a player got on base somebody would run out with a cup of lemonade or an Orange-Crush. Mr. Sikes also was the most influential in preventing the Kiwaniam from scoring Although he did not piny he did more than the players. Taking his position at the first of the game by third base he would run out and stop any player on the opposite side that tried to come home at any time during the game. Had it not been for Mr. Sikes more runs would have been scored than the score book indicates. Where Everybody Starred Everybody starred in making er rors, the whole team of both sides playing well in that department. R G. Laney, Bruce Redmond and F. t'. Henderson were well in the lead. Curtisa Lee and N. C. English played good hull, making practically no er rors. There was no outstanding stick work on either side. Everybody on both sides hit hard but the Kiwanis pitcher had better support than the Rotary. It in impossible to give the line-up as the teams would put jn new play ers or change their position at the end of every inning. Several or the play ers desplayed their abilities at two or three different places. R. G. Lan ey pitched, caught, played second and third base. A Shot at the Lineup Kiwanis: Frank Redfern, c; W. J. Hudson, Jr., 1; J. R. English, 2; N. C. English, 3; W. F. Starnes, 3; G. S.' Lee, Jr., p; Roscoe Spencer, p, C. f.: David rutch, p; Hargrove Bowles, p; J. S. Lawson, r. f.; V. H. Wood, 1. f.; J. C. Zobrist, 1; J. W. Laney, I. f.; F. B. Ashcraft, c. f.; Carr Bowie, c. f.; S. A. Alexander, 1. f. Rotary: Bruce Redmond, c. f.; W. A. Henderson, 1, r. f.; F. G. Hender son, 1, J. W. Fowler, r. f.; G. M. Smith, p, 3; R. G. Laney, p, c,, 2, 3; F. H. Dillon, c. 2; Allen Lee, n, 3; Curtis Lee, ss; J. S. Stearnes, I. f.; P.M. Abernathy, p, 3: H. H. Wilson, 1; G. B. Caldwell, c. I, ss. Gate Receipts The gate receipts amounted to $43 less $3 expenses, leaving a total of $40 which will be given to the high school athletic council to be used In defraying expenses during the com ing football season. The Kiwanis club is trying to get the Charlotte Kiwan ians down here for game in the near future. They will also play the Rota ry club again. Mrs. W. R. Burrell left last night for an extended v'sit to her old home in Canada. She will spend about six weeks with friends and relatives at Toronto, Burke Falls and Muskoka. WEEVIL INFESTATION IS ABOUT TWELVE PERCENT State Entomologist Sherman and Mr. T. J. W. Broom Made Test Last Week with Above Results Franklin Sherman, state entomolo gist, was in Union county again Thursday and Friday and he and Farm Demonstrator T. J. W. Broom visited various sections of the coun ty and made tests as to the infesta tion by the boll weevil. In the south eastern section of the county the highest percentage of infestation was 23 2-3, and this was on only one farm. An infestation of 41 1-2 per cent was found on one farm in the southwes tern section of the county. Mr. Broom states that 4,300 squares were opened and that the average in festation found was 12 per cent, some farms showing only two per cent. In some instances a field was found to be heavily infested, while another adjoining field was practi cally free from the pest. When asked about the infestation in the northern section of the county, Mr. Broom replied that all sections are infested to some extent but that the northern section is not so heavily infested as that of the southern part of the county. He further stated that the weevil is not due in north Union county to any great extent before next year. However, it is Mr. Broom's opinion that the northern section of the county will never be infested to as great extent as the southern. Mr. Broom says the infestation next year will depend largely upon how much cotton is gathered and the green stalks are plowed under early fall. He states that where the stalks are plowed under while they are green the weevils have nothing left upon which to feed and they therefore eith er die or hunt some field that has not heen plowed under and that hence the farmers who plow their stalks under early will have less boll weevils next spring than those who let it stand. STUDENTS FROM THREE OF CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS All Gave Different Names for Their Congressman and Yet All Quot ed the Correct One Brief, Vuly 31. Mrs. Bob Small and son, Arnold, of Charlotte spent Thursday and Friday with relatives and friends here. Prof, and Mrs. T: B. Huneycutt visited Prof. Huneycutt's brother, Rev. Q. N. Huneycutt, near Waxhaw, Sun day. Dr. Jackson of Wadesboro will as sist Rev. M. D. L. Preslar in the pro tracted meeting at Hopewell which will begin the first Sunday in August. Mr. John Hough of Pamerville is visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. McMahus. Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Keziah visited their son, Mr. Clark Keziah, of Char lotte, recently. Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Clontz and Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Clontz visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Austin of Monroe route two Saturday after noon. Odell, year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Mood Dorton, was seriously ill with croup last week. Miss Mae Little of Cabarrus was the delightful guest of Miss Mary Long Saturday. The protracted meeting which clos ed at Clear Creek Baptist church last Thursday was one in which much good and great success was ac complished, there having been four teen new additions made to the pres ent large membership. One of the most remarkable inci dents connected with the history of Brief is told by Mr. W. R. Campbell, who taught several sessions for us. Ir. Campbell states that while hear ng a lesson in Civics he asked the ii:estion, "who is our representative in Congress?" To this came three different answers, all of which were correct: R. N. Puge, R. L. Doughton and Yates Webb the three students answering residing in Union. Cabar rus and Mecklenburg, all of which be long to different congressional dis tricts. Mr. O. L. Biggers has charge of the sign-up campaign of the coopera tive cotton marketing association for this section. Mr. Biggers will have the aid of Mr. E. W. Gilliam when the drive is put on. Mr. W. A. Tarlton of Concord spent the week-end with his family here. One Hundred Thousand Bushels of Wheat Mr. L. A. Robinson, of the Henderson-Snyder Roller Mills, believes that these mills will grind at least one hundred thousand bushels of lo cal wheat between now and harvest time next summer. Not all of this wheat is expected to come from Un ion county, out from this and adjoin ing counties. Mr. Robinson points out the fact that the Henderson Roller Mills sold about six thousand bush els of seed wheat last fall, and this together with the amount sold by grocers and seed dealers in the coun ty and also with the seed wheat al ready on hand by farmers he believes must have produced not less than one hundred thousand bushels, even though it was not a good wheat year. Mr. Robinson states that the wheat Industry is growing in this section, as evidenced by the fact that many farmers failed to secure all the seed wheat they wanted last fall. With the advent of the cotton .boll weevil it ' safe to predict that farmers in .It s section of the state will sow more wheat this coming fall than ever be fore. In finding one profitable idea you nave to uj out icu. NEW WAY OF PICKING OP PUNCTURED COTTON BOLLS Citizen of Marshville Section Make Gig of Small Nails and Thereby Saves Time and His Back JOSHUA WAS MAN WHO MADE THE MOON SHINE Declares the People of Polar Regions are Taught that Hell is a Place Where Folks are Freezing to Death All the time Masonic Picnic at Co ble's Mill to Be the Biggest Event of the Season Three Counties In terested. A story is told of an old gentleman who once got to feeling bad and slug gish and decided that he had a serious case of religion. Upon investigation it was ascertained that his liver was out of order. If the jovial dispositions of people indicate that their livers are functioning properly there is a crowd around Marshville whose livers must be doing double duty. One story that crowds delight to tell and laugh over is to the effect that a noted Methodist preacher who went to a home for dinner and when the chicken was passed around he helped himself freely and continued to repeat the operation until finally another gentleman at the table re marked: "That chicken is certainly going to enter the ministry at an early date," to which tr.e quick-witted min ister replied: "Wed, I hope he will do better in the ministry than he did in the lay business." A Serious Turn The conversation then took a se rious turn and the. boll weevil came in for consideration, when one member of the party furnished a new way of picking up squares that have beea punctured and have fallen off. "I'm not going to break my back stooping to pick up squares," he said, "when I can use my head a J it tie and thereby save my back." "Why," he contin ued, "the only thing necessary to save your back is to just take a rod the proper length and about two inches in diameter at the big end and drive small nails thickly in it with the sharp end sticking out. Then walk along and stick the nails against the squares until you get a handful of them, after which they may be slipped off into a bucket or some other con tainer." He declared that this method is much faster and easier than picking them up by hand. The Ridiculous But rot all of the talk was to be of a serious nature and the tide again turned to the ridiculous and a fellow related a story of a colored moon shiner who was carried before a court of justice for violating the prohibition laws. His name was Joshua, and when he stood before the judge awaiting his honors decision as to what the penalty should be, the judge asked: "Well, then, Joshua, are you the fel low who commanded the sun to stand still?" "No, suh." replied Joshua. Joshua, "I'se de man what made de moon shine." Ey this time somebody broke in and tried to spoil the optomistic view of things by remarking about the hot weather. But another fellow headed h m off by t uggesting that he sit down find keep his mind on the polar regions tor awhile, which he believed would cause him to cool off and keep quiet about the weather. "Why," said the optoniist, "those people up there where it is so cold have an idea that the kind of hell we preach would be a mighty fine winter resort. They are so anxious to hear about hot weather to hear about that the preachers have to change the teaching of the scripture in regard to eternal punishment and tell those folks in the polar regions that hell is a place where people are freezing to death all the time in order to get them afraid to go to hell." Masonic Picnic And then the conversation drifted to the Masonic picnic that is to be held id Coble's Mill, on Rocky River August 8th. "Tell the folks through the paper," said Mr. J. C. Smith, "that this is going to be the biggest picnic in the history of this section, that three counties, Union, Anson ana Stan'.y, are to participate in it." He stated that everybody is invited to attend, Masons and their families and friends and everybody else who has plenty of rations to carry along. Mr. Smith believes this will be the big gest event of the season and he is sure that Coble's mill is an ideal place and a central location for the three kindly feeling between citizens of the counties, and that it will develop a kindly feeling between citizens of th counciea who attend. Jonas Marsh, a colored citizen of Lanes Creek township, also came in for a liberal portion of the discus sion. One citizen believes that he has been making 1: our since he was nab bed by officers a few weeks ago. And he is certa n Jonas stole some meal from Mr. Hw.ird Marsh last Satur day. Jonas Ives a mile from Mr. Marsh's and Sunday morning when the meal was missed a mule's track was found around the place from whence it was taken and the track was followed to Jonas's home. The tracks measured exactly with the foot of Jonas' mule. The negro denied stealing the meal, but offered to pay Marsh for it if he would stop the rack et. Mrs. John H. Williams of the Rock Rest community fell last Friday and either broke or badly sprained the lig aments in her wrist. She was getting out of an automobile when she fell. The injury is not considered serious and her friends believe she will soon be able to use her hand again.
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