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"THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY READS IT." "THE UNION COUNTY PAPER E VERY BO D Y NEEDS IT." Monroe journ. PUBLISHED TWICE EACH WEEK - TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Twenty-Ninth Year. No. 78. Monroe, N. C, Friday, November 3, 1922. $2.00 Per Year Cash INTERESTING COLUMN OF NEWS AND INTERVIEWS Conflict in Hunting Season, Rut Mr, Lemmond Makes a Killing That Removes. All Doubt DECEMBER AND JANUARY ARE THE -OPEN MONTHS" Mr. J. D. Hemby Believes Picking LB the Squares Help He Made a Good Yield Off Land on Which He Used No Fertiliier Except $15 Worth of Acid. Believes In Picking I'd Squares Mr. J. D. Hemby made live bales of cotton off ten acres of land on which he used no fertilizer excopt about fifteen dollars worth of ac.d "I figured that a small, hardy plant. he said in explaining his exploit "would withstand the boil weevil lt ter than cotton of a ranfi-h growth So I used no fertilizer except in acid, and by thinning my rows I rr duccd a small plant that pernut:e the sun's rays, the weevil's worst ene:v.y, to reach its bottom stalks and leaves. Some of my tenants farmed the same old way, using plenty of fert.liser. They won t get mors than two or three hundreds pound j tJ the horse. Burning squares is the beat roe- hod of combatting the weevil in Mr Hem by's opinion. "They say inat tho ruY of a weevil is about htty -Java our ing the cotton season," he said, ''and if this is true, it strikes me that we cculd completely eradicate tho weeVil in the course of time by burning ev ery square the day it fa'ls. I put more faith in this method than poisoning." Score the Superstitious Ones in At tho risk of taxing the patience of the readers of this column, the writer is forced to tell another ball weevil story. Some misguideu folks, you know, are refusing to fight the weevil, contending that the Lord sent the weevil here an dihat it is useless to combat the work of the Lord. Esq H. L. McManus heard ono of those fellows talking. "Didn't the Lord nut I ce on your hogs?" he asked. ''Yes," said the man. "You fight the lice, don't you?" "Yes," said the man, "but I am t going to tight the 'boll weevil. The Lord sent him." "Didn't the Lord send the bed bugs ? Mr. McManus persisted. "Yes," was the response, "but it don't make any difference. I ain't going to fight the boil weevil. Its the work of the Lord." , . , . "When a man. feels like that,' commented Mr. McManus, "I don't think he deserves to make any cot ton." The Union County Game Law "I wish you would publish the Un ion county pa me law, requested Mr, J. K. Stewart, deputy clerk of court, yesterday. "So many people are in quiring about its provision that think your readers will appreciate seeing it in your paper." The law reads; "The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ' "Syction 1. That is shall be a mis demeanor to hunt with guns, or to kill with firearms, any game what soever between the first day of Feb ruary and the first day of December in each year in Union county, and the months of December and February shall be the 'open season for hunting, "Section 2. That the Sheriff of Ln ion county is hereby made, ex offl cio, county game warden, and it shall be his duty to diligently enforce the game laws of the county as fully as all other laws, and for the purpose thereto he shall have the rights, ob ligations and powers set forth in sec tions two thousand eight-two, two thousand eighty-three, two thousand eighty-four, two thousand eighty-five and two thousand eighty-six of the consolidated statutes. Section 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. "Section 4. This act shall be in force from and after its ratification. Ratified this the 7th day of March, a. v.. ihzi. In section one, it will be noted, there is a conflict in the dates. It first says that the closed season shall be between the first day of February and the hist day of December, then the contradictory language, "and the months of December and" February shall be the 'open season for hunt in?. Un being appealeu to lor a ruling on the statute, Atomey-Gen eral Lemmond held that the open season" for hunting were the months of December and January, since it was the evident intention of the au thor that the season between the first of February and the first of Decern ber should be "closed." The Best Act at the Circus The hundreds of Union county people who saw Ringling Brothers big circus in Charlotte are telling of the many new acts and stunts that have been added to this big show for tho entertainment of both old and young, but Mr. Frank Austin is positive that the act where a clown was chased by a goose was the best of them all. "I haven't got through laughing yet at the spectacle of a grown man run ning from a goose," he said Wed nesday. "It was so ridiculous iteming that clown going around the rln at express train speed with the goose right at his heels, his face having that expression common ro folk when they are fleeing from a ferocio is bull ,dpg or bull." How to Keep Well Although he Is fifty-si t years old, Mr. J. G. Stroud has not been ill I Ait once in his life and that was when he contrac t! typhoid fever. Asked Continued on Page Four." ' MRS. ABAGAIL DURANT HAS LIYED THROUGH FIVE WARS Monroe Man Brines An Interesting Storv of Remarkable Woman Who Is 101 Years Old HAS VIVID REMEMBRANCE OF SHERMAN'S FAMOUS MARCH Probably No One la South Carolina Has Lived Throu-h Se Much His tory, She Having Been Born Short ly After the Death of Napoleon; As a Girl She Heard the Issues Be tween the North and South Dis cussed. An interesting story of a remark able South Carolina centenarian, Mrs. Abagail DuRant of Bishopv He, was brought to The Journal by Mr. D. W. Waters of Monroe. "The 101st year ot her life," the Bishopville dispatch, appearing in the Camden Chronicle, sas, "found hw in good health, self reliant, vigorous for her years and with the fine intellect and keen in'er est in affairs that has always marked her. "Mrs. DuRant is the daughter of James Rembert. who was of French Huguer.ot stock. She was born on her father's plantation near this place. A large part of this beauti ful plantation, which contained more than 5,000 acres, was inherited by her and has been in her possession for over 67 years. Mrs. DuRant was mar ried 84 years ago. Her husband was John O. DuRant, grandson of Henry DuRant of the American Revolution. Has Lived Through Five War "Mrs. DuRant has lived through the anxieties and sorrows of five wars. She had relatives constantly in peril during the Indian war in Florida in 1832. When the Palmet to regiment marched to the Mexican war, Caleb Rembert, her only broth er, was one of its brave volunteers. She never saw him again, as he died from disease and was buried in the City of Mexico during the siege of that stronghold. . To the Confed erate war went her husband and two sons, David and James. This great war took its deadly toll, too, as James died from disease in the Con federate hospital at Charlottesville Va. Then camo the Spanish-American war and the anxieties connected w'th the peril to her grandsons en gaged in it. And finally the World war, in which were engaged many grandsons and great-grandsons, one great-gandson, Hugh Merritt, hav ing" made the supreme sacrifice. . .'Naturally the Confederate war made the greatest impression upon her, and she talks most interesting ly of her experiences. Like so many other brave Southern women, during that period she worked unceasingly to keep the plantation going, to care for the young children at home and to cheer and aid loved ones in the field. The End of tThe Confederacy "She must have realized that the end of the Confederacy whs nea . when ov.e Saturday night in March, 18C3, while she end her five daugh ters were seated at the supper table, there rushe l into the room, cn.ire'.y unexpected!;.', more than a dozen Un ion solders. They ransacked 'he house and viade merry with bran 'y which .hey found. They formed pa.t A S! '.'mar's army, camped a few m les away. "On the Sunda? following hun dreds of Federal soldiers pillaged her placo. lr?y took horses, cured iiicats. chici.ens and everything to eit that they could find. Thev burner' ,h3 bf.rns and o itbuildintrs and the gin with hundreds of bales of cotton, but ihey left the home standing. For a week, she says, nothing was cooked in the 'big house,' for the soldiers would stand around the stove while he food was being prepared and would eat it as fast as it was cooked, so she had to stop trying to prepare anything. The only food which sho and her young children had during that time was brought to them se cretly by faithful negro slaves. She did not go to bed for a week, but fust slept for a few minutes nt a time, day or night, in chairs. Officers Threatened Her "During this week ofilceij inter viewed her constantly, trying to get information as to the whereaiiou'.s of the men of her family and threaten ing to burn her home if this informa tion was not given. Someciniea they would make preparations to carry out tneir threats by pulling rounds from the h rep luce and would boast of hav in burned Columbia. With brave calmness, which she still evidence, she tcld them that she did hoz konw where her men folk were and .hot if she did she would not tell. "Probably no one else in South Carclina has lived through as much historv as Mrs. DuRant. Shu win born the year after the dea'.h of ihe rr?at rsanoleon. when the worn hid been recently torn with wars, and she lived to see, nearly 100 years later, practically the entire world in arms again. "As a girl and young woman, she heard constantly of the jrreat politi cal questions that were beginn n; to divide the North and South, ahe re calls vividly when nullification was a vital issue and Sou h Carolina Dre rar;d to resist forc.bly the tariff laws of the nation, and she, with other South Carolinians took pride in tho debates of the jrreat Calhoun and Webster, She remembers, too, tho in tense interest of that day in the ques tion of free and slave states, and how this finally brought on the Confeder ate war, with the great changes that It wrought in the south." Mr. Fred Scot has closed his studio in the Belk-Bundy building and will dtvote his time to home portraiture. MONROE WOMAN HELPING THE STANLY DEMOCRATS She lit Doing Missionary Work For Par'y at w London; One of Hottest Fights on Record With the hardest political fight on record on their hands, democrats oi Stanly county, under the leadership of Oscat J. Sikes, have been sending S. O. S. calls to Union county breth ren of the faith to lend their influ ence in nearby sections, like Midland and Oakboro. One well-known woman of Monroe, who requested that her name be withheld, is doing missionary work for the democrats among friends and relatives in the New London com munity. According to reports from that section, she is making a number of converts. Stanly is electing a full set of county officers. The democrats are meeting opposition stiller than us ual and have been forced to the extremity of insisting upon leading citizens. I ke Claude Heath, to quit their business and make a personal canvass ot the district. The warmest political spot is New Loni'.on, where the registrar, Mr. W. T. Ivey, well-known in Monroe, was abducted by the republicans to keep hin from register ng democrats. Mr. Ivey, as the report goes, was asked by some republicans to get in an automobile for the purpose of going to tne home or a republican to regis ter some feeble person. While pre sumably on their way to the home of this leeble voter, the republican dnv er of the machine managed to get lost, keeping Mr. Ivey away from the precinct tor a whole day. The books of the New London pre cinct are said to have been placed in tne vaults ot a bank tor safe-keep ing. Republicans made an etfort to prevent the cashier of the bank from turning the books back into the hands of Mr. Ivey, but through the inter cession of Air. bikes, he regained pos session. Democrat? here are keenly awaiting tne results or the election. COTTON ESTIMATES BEARISH final Estimates Show Most People Have Ootton Away rrom the Half Crop Idea Final estimates of the Union county cotton yield in the contest staged by Lathan & Richardson show that most people have gotton away from the idea of a halt crop, most of the estimates being past twenty thousand mark. The contest close Tuesday.' Estimates handed "in since last publication follow: J. W. Helms, 24.000; H. M. James, 29,705: Robt E. Presson, 18,917; C. M. Roge-s, 2H.71H; Lucy R. Helms, 27,968; W. A. Broom, 21,390; Clyde Laney, z-.'.lou; J. w. Moser, 23,913; J. T. Duncan, 18,333: S. C. Helms. 22D99: Geo. Medlin, 20,500; James Medlin, 19,900; Jack Godfrey, 22,183; W. S. Baucome, 27.02S; Judge Griffin, 23,- U'W; . H. Presson, 24,880; S. E. Haig'.er, 23,8(51; Wesly Worley, 21,- 811 ; ti. K. Helms, 27,103; J. B. Gor uwii, ,i,ivi, ii-nnc I dl hrt, &il,uii; H. L. Rushing, 27,215; H. F. Fincher, 2-5.533; Myrtle Fincher, 22,855; -Arlie F ncher, 25,555; J. Clayton Austin, 27,250; W. B. Rushing', 28,000; F. F. 91 Wit . T.. I 1 op n-i . Deal, 1H.8U7; V. W. Fowler, 24,9991; J. F. Dees, 2(5,5Q0; John Dees, 27,500; J. R. incyeut, 23,501 ; W. H. Moore, 27,2215; J. T. McCorkle, 21,999; W. 3. Tomberlin, 19,181; W. C. Griffin. -1.1 11 ; E. L. Melton, 23,113; Eli Peneger, 2S.000; Mrs. B. C. Hill, 21 350: Sam Medlin,-23,250: Howard Medlin, 22,350; Hoyle Medlin, 22,235; II. D. Thompson, 2(5,050; Murray Clark, 22,379; H. C. Presler, 22,050: Mrs. W. E. Helms, 25,260; Broadus Hill, 22.222;' T. B. Young, 23,44(5; Minor Short, 22,550; G. F. Forbis, 20,897; Raymon Austin, 18,050; Carl Munis, 22,075; Waldo Love, 25,075; J. F. Furr, 2,450; A. A. Secrest, z,jj.j; a. u Haigett, 21,031 ; J. A Mullis, 21,040. MR. LOVE'S CAMPAIGN EXPENSE Monroe Candidate for Con-tress Re ports That He Hasn't Spent a Cent Writing from Washington in the Charlotte Observer, Mr. H. 12. C. Bryant says: , "Information reaching here today indicates that North Carolina demo crats w 11 have a tremendous majority when the elections returns are count ed. It was predicted by Frank A. Hampton that the republicans will he snowed under by at least 10,000. That means that women are taking a keen interest in the contests. "It looks as if Doughton would win by 3,500 and Weaver by 3.300. Ham mer and Stedman will have 'arje majorities. "Mrs. Lindsay Patterson's expense account was filed today. It amounts to $125. "W . J. McDonald, republican candi date against Representative Lyon, has expended $2,179. He is running hard, but not strong. "W. B. Love, Mr. Hammer's oppon ent, has not spent a cent. "Democrats will make a whirlwind finish of the campaign. They ex pect to hold what they have, regard less of the fact that the republicans have about nine times as much money as they have been able to get" Among the purchasers of. lots at the auction sale of the Simpson land on Lancaster Avenue were Messrs. Zeb Secrest, G. M. Tucker, M. F. Blakeney, J. W. Fowler, Archie Levy. B. Frank Harris, Dr. R. L. Payne and Worth G. Nash. Many of these gen tlemen nlan to erect homes on their lots in the near future. The ncr- tv. twenty lots in all. bro.L. .510.. 100, , WEEVIL REDUCES COTTON YIELD TO BALE TO MOLE Many WslLersville Farmers'. Who Were Worst Hit, Wont Make Enough to Pay for Fertiliser EIGHT ACRES PRODUCED LESS THAN BALE COTTON Mr. Huey Says That Picking Up Scares Helps, But That He Has e Hope For Profitable Production f Cotton Except Through the Use or I'oison; He Goes to O. Will Flow Place. Low yields of a bale of cotton to the niule are reported from the Wal kersville section, near the South Carolina line, where the boll weevil damage was the worst in this county, Many Walkersville farmers failed to realize enough off their cotton to pay tne.r lertu.zer bill. Mr. V. A. Huey is one of those in that section who were hard hit In addition to his extensive holdings tnis wen-known citizen, lor many yeari the partner of the late Charlie Bruner, operated the Capt. Steelje place, now owned by Mr, Hall Wilson. On the two places he had thirty negroes. "Last year," Mr. Huey said yesterday, "I cleared fourteen hundred dollars above all expenses. This year I didn't make enough to pay for the fertilizer used in making my crop. Bud Howie's Yield Cut . Many others give equally disastrous reports. "Frank Carter, one of my neighbors, continued Mr. Huey "wort't make over a bale to the mule, Bud i Howie, who usually gets nine bales; of cotton every year off his placi won't get two bales this year on tne same acreage. Off an unusually good field of eight acres, Mr. Carter won't get over a bale of cotton. Boll weevils were in evidence in the woods around this field last winter, but Mr. Huey says that neither he or Mr. Carter dreamed that the damage would be so exten sive. "We had no superstitious dread of the boll weevil, either," Mr. Huey said, "We fought them from the very beginning, following improved meth )ds of planting and cultivation, and the any a square fell to the ground we Dcrnea rt over rea not coals. Must Use Poison Mr, Huey now thinks that it will be ittinossible for farmers in this county to grow cotton without the use of po'son. "Picking up squares," he laid, ?helps, but the weevils are todJhiick to ever hope to kill them out by this method. Poisoning is absolutely essential. The other day I met a fine old Georgia farmer, who was on his way to Rockingham to visit relatives. He says that cotton cannot be produced profitably except by poisoning. I operate a fifty acre farm,' he told me. 4I failed to use poison and got but three bales. My neighbor, who operates a five hundred acre farm, used poison and maue six hundred bales.' ' Mr. Huey will leave the Walkers ville section. He has leased the place of Mr. D. Will Flow, two miles from Monroe on the Wolfe Pond road, and will conduct a store along with farming. "But if I go in for cotton," he finished, "I am going to use enough poison to kill out the weevil as fast as they appi-ar in my fields." BETHEL CORNER STONE LAID Elder J. B. Craven Preached the Ser mon and Mr. Love Spoke Oct. 30, 1922. Many people of this community attended the lay ing of the cornerstone of Bethel church Sunday. Elder J. B. Craven preached a splendid sermon at elev en o'clock, and Hon. W. B. Lovi, of Monroe, made an interesting address in the afternoon. Other speakers were Kev. Messrs. K. r. rlunnicutt. Eiler, and Hunt. Bethel church was founded in 1880, Masons are now at work erecting a bcatiful brick building. A goodly number of Brief people attended the singing convention at Arlington church Sunday. Mrs. Louis Hartsell and daughter. Miss Dorothy, and Mr. Roy Long, all of Concord, spend Sunday with Mr. and Airs. v. il. Long. Mr. Charlie Lee. Polk, who is in school at Wingate, spent the week end here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Polk. Mrs. A. W. McManus is in a very critical condition. Her children are all at her bedside. The Bridge School bus started this morning. People are well pleased wiih the truck and the advantage of the good high school at Unionville. Prof, and Mrs. G. B. Hunneycutt, and children, Fulton and G. B., Jr., spent the week-end in Stinley county visiting relatives. Messrs. D. M. Long, G. A. Long and little daughter, "Snookie", spent several days in Concord last week with relatives. Mr. Fred Hartsell has entered school at Midland. Dr. McCain's decision to move to High Point, says the Waxhaw En terprise, will render it necessary for the vacancy in the board of county commissioners so caused to be filled. Dr. McCain will qualify for the office on the first Monday in December but will immediately resign, leaving to the clerk of court the appointment of a successor. Waxhaw voters are say ing that It would be very fitting for the clerk to select Mr. J. E. McCa;n to fill out the unexpired term of his brother. A peti'ion w.ll be present ed asking that this be done, and it is believed that Clerk of Court Lem mond will promptly yield to this re-quast J. W. Bailey to Deliver Chief Address Here Armistice Day DISCUSSES FOOTBALLTEAM It Seems That Monroe Is Getting Hard End of Elimination Series To the Editor of The Journal: It seems that Monroe has rather the hard end of the elimination series in football. And they are not mentioned as dangerous rivals. Will dissipation and a lack of coach ing finally justify the assumption? Cigarettes will make you give out before the whistle blows. Playing cards late at night will take your pep and vim. An unbalanced diet will weaken your chances. . j Loss of sleep and expenditure of nKn ....! 1 :t I i-uri in u.iL'irss cnueavur whi stupe fy at cr tical moments. Keep your eye on the ball and on the s'ars keep right up witn the ball, if you have to run over somebody to do it. Watch those dangerous forward passes and intercept them quickly. Watch those fast end runners and get your man. When you get near the goal let your strongest plunger carry the ball over. You have a supreme encounter with Shelby at Davidson college. Fight as the Marines fought the Persian Guards. Sleep and rest. Eat prudently. Take physical culture ten minutes ev ery night and morning and you can run over any ordinary player Get plenty of rest on the night be fore and the day of the encounter. Fight, boys, fight! Put up an offensive that will ad vance and a defensive that will halt. Contribution. THE NEWS OF GOOSE CREEK Folks in Goose Creek Township Hav ing Big Time Attending Corn Shucking and Singing Meet Indian Trail, Route 1, Nov. 2. Mr. Henry Howard of Gastonia has moved his family to the Harley Cun ningham houss where they are board ing for the present. Miss Pearl Richardson, the attrac tive daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Richardson, and Mr. Tom Simpson, one of the most popular young men in this commounity, were married Sunday at the home of the officiating magistrate, Esq. H. M. Furr. Mr. Dave Furr has returned from a visit t) Gastonia. Mr, C. H. Simpson started school Monday at Furr's with twenty-eight pupils. Best wishes for a succesful pas torate go with Rev. T. J. Huggins to his new charge. May he receive a warm an I enthusiastic welcome. Everybody is invited to come out and henr the new pastor at Union Grove M. E. ohurch next Sunday at n. m Boy's prayer meeting will be held Nov. 8 at Union Grove church at 7 p. m. Te en Baptists and two Methodists choirs were present at the Arlington church sing Sunday. Jlessrs. rrank Price and Brady Helms las', valuable cows last week. Mesrs. Berry Williams and R. J. Simpson have already held their corn shucking, the former getting 25(5 bushels and the latter 275 bushels. Esq. J. C. and Mrs. Foard spent ' Sunday in Charlotte with friends and ' relatives, Esq. S. A. Helms of Monroe came down Sunday to see his sick daughter, Mr. U. L. rurr. Mesrs. Fulton Furr and Roy Helms re bu:lding new barns. Mr. Clayton Simpson is building a bungalow. farmers are sowing nirht much wheat Mr. Bob Lemmond is teaching at I Mill Grove this term. Mr. Lifwrence Lemmond's gin wasiser P.iil in November 1919. and "Lest destroyed by fire a few duys ago. - The loss was very heavy. It is be- lieved that the fire was of incendiary j origin. UNION DAVIDSON ALUMNI Many Prominent Monroe and Marsh- Ville Men Attended This College Charlotte, Nov. 2. Approximately 1.114 of North Carina's leading cit izens are alumni nf Dnvidann Pnl. lege, according to the announcement today of R. M. M.ller. Jr.. a promi-1 nent Charlotte business man who is heading Davidsons $(500,000 expan sion and endowment campaign. Among these prominent North Carolinian nrp mpn in nil tho hick-, er walks of life, including many min-1 isters oi the gospel, leaders in bus-1 - . Marr. n o: roiKion ana ner gom iness, industry, and statesmanship, 1 en harp of a thousand strings and and civic promoters in almost every in old-time b-i.-n dance. North Carclina community. David son s alumni are scattered all over the United States, including men of tnternat.onai prominence such as Woodrow Wilson, whose name heads the campaign committee of the in stitution, and about one third Of all Southern Presbyterian ministers. According to the announcement of Mr. Miller, Alumni of Davidson who now reside in Union county of the Mecklenburg Presbytery include: Dr. M. P. Blair and J. P. Marsh of Marsh ville; W. S. Blakeney, T. R. Hart, Jas. Richard ion and E. S. Wood of e and L. E. Brown of Waxhaw. Mrs. Margaret Helms of Monroe, Rt. 6, has returned to her home after a visit of thre weeks with her broth er, Mr. Joe M. Haywood in James town and Charleston, 2. C. :HE IS BUT ONE OF MAHY i ATTRACTIONS OF IHE DAY , Judge Lemmond and His Fiddlers Will Close What Many Believe Will Be Greatest Celebartion MRS. MARTIN TO PLAY HARP WITH A THOUSAND STRINGS Henry Cros Parade Certain to Out shine All Previous Attempts; Pag eant to Depict History of This Country From Its Foundation; Air pplane Flights During the Day Parade of Confederate and World War veterans, historical pageant depicting the history of America, speech by J. W. Bailey, free dinner for soldiers, spectacular airplane tliKht, football game between Monroe and Kings Mountain high schools and old-time fiddler's convention in the evening, brietiy stated, is the program of the Melvin Deese post of the Arner ican Legion's fourth Armistice Day program, to be staged here Saturday, November 11. The festh ities of the occasion start with the parada, plated to be the best ever seen in Monroe, and end with Judge W. O. Lemmond's old time fiddler's convention. The other event will be sand-v'ched between these two star attractions. This doesn't mean, however, that the attractions are not in the stellar class. The speech of Mr. Bailey, an avowed condidate for the gu bernatorial nomination two yean hence, promises to attract state-wide attenMon. and is real head-liner for any North Carolina celebration. Order of Parade Mr. Henry Crow, chairman of the parade committee, is getting up a fiarade that promises to excell Ring ing Brothers' circus parade in sur prises and number of attartcions. He das exerted himself to the utmost in making this a real feature. Sol diers of three wars, the Confederate, Spanish-American and World War will occupy places of honor in the parade, then will follow floats of the historical pageant, as arranged by Mr. Crow: Indian float, by Union Drug Com pany; canoe, depicting Indian method of travel, by Lake Tonawanda Amusement Company; the Mayflower," by Porter-Myers Lumber Company; "Spirit of '76," name of donor to be supplied later; Washington Crossing the Delaware, by Belk Bros.; the Bat tle of New Orleans, by Gordon In surance & Investment Company; float representing the Indian war period, in which General Custer was massa cred, by Sikes Company; the Civil War, by Henderson Roller Mills; the Merrimae, by Henderson Roller Mills (the Confederate soldiers will march behind the Merrimae, their famous i war vessel): Theodore Roosevelt and I his Rouirh Riders, by Monroe In- i surance & Investment Company; Kaiser Bill in his Glory Back in 1914, by J. H. Fowler & Company; French, English and Italian soldiers, by Mon roe Chero-Cola plant; Secretary of War Baker drawing the first draft ni-mlwr, by J. F. Milliken and the Ht-flth-Morrow Comcanv: the draft board examining American boys for service in France, by R. B. Redwine and Dr. S. A. Stevens: canteen work- ers. bv Mrs. A. L. Monroe and the Monroe Cot-a-Cola Bottling Company; American transport carrying soldiers to France, by Monroe Ice & Fuel Company; Negro stevadors unloading transports in France, under direction of Major W. C. Heath; "Forty Hommes and 8 Cheaux." French box car, by Federated Shop Craft; Y. M. C. A., by Lee & Lee Company and M ss Annie Lee and Lura Hsatn; Flan irs Field .bv Monroe Hardware Conuanv: Gold Star Mothers, KaU We Forget," by Efiird's Department Store. Big Fiddler's Convention Judge Lemmond s old-time nddier s convention will be the b ggest event of its kind on record. He has al ready gjc jred the promise of a num ber of famous fiddlers to attend, among them being: A. J. Smith of Bethune, fiddler; J. C. Mungo of Pageland, Carl Meyers of Wadesboro, Burt Hu:iter of Taxahaw, and A. J. Taylor of Jefferson, famous banjo pickers; J. V. Vinson of Charlotte, a great buck dancer and fiddler; Marks band frrin Steel Creek: W. J. Cren shaw, Vcn Wyck fiddler; Rudolph Havwood and his band from Marsh ville and H. H. Trull, Unionville fiddler. Tvo bi attractions will be Mrs. Mr. Howie II ars From Her Delegates Mrs. Si:c.e F.. Howie has already heard from one of the eight dele gates bhe entertained during con 'rence. Tiie letter is from Mr. an! Mrs. A. R. Amders of Gastonia, and reads: "Dear Friend: And a good one, too. We know full well that you will he surprised to get a letter from us, but you were so nice and kind to us while we were in Monros that we want to express our heart felt gratitude. Some day we will again be in Monroe and we will cer tainly call upon you. Hoping that this finds you enjoying good health, we remain, etc. Born Wednesday to Mr, and Mrs, M. P. Medlin of Benton Heights, daughter, Janie Lee. 11