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"TIIS UNION CCUNTY PAFHI! EVEHYECDY IT." III 1 J- I C -J C V PUELIZIIZD TWICE EACH WEEK! TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Thirtieth Year. No. S3. Monroe, N. C, Tuccday, May 22, 1923. $2.00 Perl Cash YOU MAY STEAL A STILL W0HLI AND COIiEHT NO CREiE . , . : . . Law Does Not Protect Any Property Used in Violation v of Prohibition Law THIS ROOSTER NEVER GOT ENOUGH FIGHTING A game rooster out on Lonnie Fow ler's, farm, arose early Sunday morn ing and "put on his fighting clothes. He had already licked everything in sight that wore feathers and was spoiling for more fight But there was nothing in sight that he could '1urnn nn and fnr hnurs h strutted about the place with his head up, ms 'spurs sharpened, and his voice loud ly proclaiming that he was master of ail. ;: - :.:.. . A " Somewhat later in the morning than the rooster got up, Mr. . Fowler arose and took out . his brand new Buick and drove about town awhile. Then he went out to the farm. "Now the paint on a new Buick is highly polished and the side of the can makes a first-class mirror before the dust accumulates. When the car was stop ped at the farm the belligerent roos ter was still looking around for an object uoon which to express his fighting inclinations.. He circled ' around the Buick a time or two as if he expected a rooster to be hidden somewhere about it.' And sure enough there was. He saw that new rooster plain enough, right on the side of the car. And no sooner did he spy him than he went for him. He clicked his spurs, dropped ' his head, rumpled his feathers and made a terrific leap for the Intruder It was the most peculiar bird he had ever tackled, but he was not daunted. Bounding ..back from his first assault, time he planted his spur on the spot that seemed .to .be the head of the other rooster it jarred his heels fear - fully because it was so hard and un yielding. . But He scratched and peck ed and clawed, tut there before hint stood his opponent as undaunted as he himself and .just as ready for fight. Directly he Noticed that the other rooster showed blood signs and he went after him all the more viciously. BuyMr. Fowjer could not longer stand t see the scratching and smearing that his new Buick was. getting, and so he forced; the game cock to cease That individual, compelled to with draw . from the fight before he had completed it to his entire satisfac tion, gave first a cry of defiance, and then one of victory alter the manner of his kind, and called it a day. ' Thefeaful fire near Camden Thurs dav night in which- seventy-five men, women and children lost their lives on account of a faulty arrangement of a school room, will set the people who have responsibility for buildings to thinking. "Could such a fthing hap pen at our school?" many people ask themselves." "Could a thing of this kind happen in a school building in Union county?" Superintendeent Ray Funderburk .was asked. V "Yes," he aid. "it might have happened at Un ionville Friday night when five hun dred people were in the house, but it ; cannot happen in any of , the new buildings because the first principle of construction of these buildings is to allow -sufficient exits. , .. -'. Mr. John Goodall of Camden, who was in Monroe for a .short time Sun dav with his aunt, Mrs. W. M. Gor don, told many interesting incidents of the fire not covered by the news Saper reports". At least one.famiiv ving in' the school district did not . hear of the disaster at once. The day after the fire had been set lor the ehool picnic. One of the families from which children were lost in the fire is named Hinson. Some time on ' Friday a couple of small boys in over- alls, driving the old family mule, pull ed up slowly at the Hinson home and the boys called for boy members of the family, saying that the- had ar ranged to go to the picnic with them and had come for them. They were told that the Hinson boys had lost their lives in the fire last night, and that was the first time the little vis itors had heard that there had been ; When Mrs JV D. Warren heard about the' game rooster fighting his oicture on the side of Mr. Fowler's Buick car. it reminded him. "Only time my Dad ever got on me good and hard," he said, "was when I thought to have , some fun by takirnr a billie goat in the house and standing him up before mirror. ' my scneme worxea ana I had lots of fun for the old gillie went t himself in the mirror like ail tos epfised and left it in splinters. But the fun didn't last' , , Rev. J. A. Hudson, a young man who preached at (the First Baptist rhurch Sunday morning, is a consci entious man. ; Jbelore - beginning hi cprmnn he read his text and said: An-not claim any originality for the thoughts that I. am going to give yo t mm this text. ' I wish to say that am indebed to Dr. Paut-.Bagby for them for I heard him preach a sermon f rom this text. ' It is ratner unusua r,-ir n man to. give credit ior - tr. thoughts he uses. It is not uncommon to hear a Spurgeon sermon, a Lillie unday . corylomeration, a Talma ge (Copf.nucd on r?re four.) IORROR OF SCHOOL FIRE IS TOLD BY PRINCIPAL Mian . Tim Mae Rtenhens. nrincinal of the Cleveland school, gav$ the In ternational News Service, her account of the fire on Saturday, telling the fearful story as follows: It js all so very, very terrible that almost lose nrf mind when I recall the tragedy of Thursday night. It seems as though months have passed since then. :,. : V .' . If it had not been for that human dam, holding a turbulent' and surging tide of humanity from the only ave- nue of escape, not a life would haveon been lost and that dam was all so un necessary. ' ' The other two teachers and 1, with several of Our pupils, were on the stage giving the last act of "Miss Topsy Turvey" ,when the lamp fell. it was in one corner ui wo siage near the curtains, '.'- Screams Start Panic T J. -..4. V,li.. tk lnnl ...lnJ.it but f the oil spread quickly and blazed rapidly. Some one attempted to smother it out but to no vail.. But I did not think there was any danger of any one being injured, let alone the seventy-seven dead. At the moment the lamp fell one of the most piercing screams I have ever heard arose from the entire audience. I fought the jure for a minute or so, hoping to conquer it. After that 1 turned and found my self alone one the stage with the 300 persons gettin more desperate in their attempt to reach the stairs. I then decided I had better follow, not thinking even then that there was any danger. .V-.v "What's the jatter.7 Why don't they move on 7" , I asked Thomas Humphries, who happened- to be standing near me. Then he saved my Me. v Bodies In Mass He picked me- up bodily from the human wedge,, took my feet and gave me one hard shove right over the sea of heads toward tha door. Hum phries himself, died, of his burns in the Camden hospital today) ', , The awful sight at the door, men ana women were lying there piled , so hic-h that I hardlv had room to pass over their heads under the door. Thev were wedged in there like dogs in jam, some ctanmng erect, others on their heads, while many were lying under the entire mass, twisted in all sorts of positions. I ran around begging men to get a hold on them and break that deadly iock. iney triea out tney couian t, Three men pulled with all their might at a man's ,leg :bui. could npt .Jftri- cate him. -' ?-v ..; ' ., , ' . . ,.- Bv this time., fire was falling on the heads of the mass. Even when I wa shot over their heads, the clothing was burned from my shoulders and I was severely burned. v Then fiery tongues of flame began licking out between the writhing mass like some fiend was blowing fire through a hu man basket. i t Sees Dozena Bunt How horrible to stand there help less and see dozens of friends die be fore our eves. And when the build' ing caved in and the Are died down, in front of the building at the door way .there was that same mass, only it moved ho longer. They were heap ed almost ten feet hisrh and extended the length of the narrow hall' back of the door. That was the ending of our school, tho termination of our commencement exercises. I pray ' God I -shall never be compelled to go through such n experience again,- jf ; News From Brief Brief, May 21,--Mr., A. W. McMa- nus has been visiting in Badin recent ly. Ullene, attractive little daugnter oi Mr .and Mrs. B. H. Clontz, spent last week as the guest of her grand-pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Koss oi Charlotte. Mr. Dewer Morsran. who recently returned home from Albemarle, has been confined to his bed with measles Most of his father's family are to have the measles yet. Mr. ana Mrs. Mollie Oorton or Kiv erton .visited the former's parents, Mr", and Mrs. C. N. Dorton, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Morgan of Stanfleld spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. B. Clontz. Mr: W. A. Tarlton of Concord spent the week-end with his family here. Rev. Mr. Ledbetter preached at his resrular appointment at the school house Sunday afternoon. Kev. Mr, Hill of Concord will assist Mr. Led better next Sunday afternoon. Mr. Roy Long of Concord visited relatives here during the week-end. Owing to the cold rains, farmers through this section have-had to re plant right much cottonT' most of which was done during the past week, School children from Uriel attend ed the commencement exercised at Unionville high , school, filling , the school truck to capacity. Missionary Conference 5n Marshville The Ladies' Missionary Conference of the -Charlotte district, Methodist church, will hold a two days' meetin: in Marshville, beginning Thursday mornirf, T.Iay 24th, and continuing throvrh -f nu.'-y." ' One of the principal features of the "-'orence will be the address" on 1 .--Jay -night ef Rev. 'S. A. Stew. art, a returned missionary to Japan, Marshville Methodist and friends of other denominations are making prep arations for the entertainment of the fifty or sixty delegates who are ex. pected to fcttend. - .'. I" whs is emptiness; the tree in whii h the pp 13 stagnant, remain Thoughtless People Rake in the Ashes For Ghostly Relics "Never in my life have I seen or dreamed of seeing so many automo biles at one tim as- I saw on the scene of the Cleveland school fire near Camden Sunday," said Mr. J. W. La than, who 'drove with his family down there. : There were automobiles from every town of any saze in South Car olina and apparently from everywhere else, continued Mr. Lathan, and at time I got in a jam a mile long and it was an hour before the jam moved so that we could get out. ' : Mr. Lathan saw several people of the neighborhood but' could not get much information from them about the fire. They all Seemed to be dazed till and had been so shocked that they seemed to be unable yet to re alize just what had happened. . It is the . second great tragedy which has taken place in that school district. Some years ago thirty or forty chil dren from the district were drowned while picnicking at a mill pond when a large boat in which they were rid ing capsized. ..This disaster, like the great fire, was the result of a panic. Some one on the boat cried that U was leaking on one side and all the children rushed to the other side and overturned it. .Children who were drowned that day were members of the same families who suffered so in the fire Thursday night. y It seems that ever time there M a tragedy there follows a gathering of morbid relic hunters, strangers who are obsessed with the idea of securing some ghostly token to exhibit. Mr. Lathan said that relic hunterr" had been so bad on the scene of the fire that It had to be roped off yesterdav. Men were scratching in the ashes for teeth and bones to be carried off as relics. Mr. Lathan himself saw; a man pick up and carry off a human shoulder blade.' 1 ;.: :,: ' At the foot of the stairs where the jam was so great the remains of some fifteen babies were- found tram- pied. ' ' M ' Calls on Country For Help For Camden School Fire Sufferers Columbia, S. C. May 21. -Help of the people of the United States lu caring for the newly-made widows and orphaned, children, v whose' hus bands and parents were 'amonar tiie vfcUraa-of the Cleveland school irausA fire last Thursday, was asked today. by Camden, the little resort town Jit the heart of South Carolina, which has assumed the burden of providing for the stricken. - .. Governor Thomas G. McLeod. im mediately, upon the. receipt of a tel egram rom the Red Cross advisory committee; at Camden that outside as sistance was needed, Issued an appeal to the country at large -for funds to provide permanently for at least-four widows and 42 cHlldrehy robbed of their means of support py the school house' tradegy., Contributions, he announced, should -be sent to the American Red; Cross, which has un dertaken to rnknage the entire relief program. ' , r Broad Program for Belief The telegram t the governor from the advisory committee declared that previous estimates of the needs - of tne community, ; wnere scarcely a home was spared the loss of at least one of its occupants, had been great ly under estimated. The program of relief contemplated, the sovernor was informed, would result to evry orphan securing an education, apd in arrangements being mad a to pro tect the widowed. Tracing down of rumors yesterday by Sheriff G. C, Welsh of Kershaw county, resulted in the announcement that Ellen Barnes, of Lucknow, and Francis Bowers, of Kershaw, un doubtedly perished In the fire that followed falling of an oil lamp on the stage during a commencement play at tne school. . . Reports were current here that a Miss Blackmon and a Miss Thome,, both of the Thorne Hill section - of Goose Creek Gossip ' (By C. W. Clontz.) r "I have seen the time when ghost stories and tales -of witchery formed a large part of the talk in. old Goose Creek," quoth 'Squire George Lonp. "But within the last few decades Dame improvement has simply es tablished a precedent in that famous section of Union county,. They are now enjoying increased prosperity," he continued. .'",.-.- Milk trucks, school trucks, bread trucks, oil trucks, road truck, and various conveyances bringing in and carrying out; farm tractors and oth er modern machinery; good schools, (with better ones in the making), good roads, modern churches; and a progressive-spirited people are iden tified. ' Although his name is not always in the papers, he nevertheless has been of inestimable worth in the building of his community. He is the father oi seven children, four boys and three g:rl3. All the children own automo biles, all except one own farm, trac tors, all own farms, all except one resides in Goose Creek, all except one reads The Monroe Journal. Two of the four red-headed children married red-headed people; hence every fnem ber , of the two families are father beams with enthusiasm at tH mention . of rea-neaueu. me good roads snd good sch . C- n the trees vigorous and the fruit un enyone in Goose Creek: fut-cs who I blemished, say. horticultural workerr it is? ' of the Agricultural Extension Service. The fact that the news of the dis aster was so slow in getting out to the world must have been due to the fact that "'the location of the school was somewhat isolated. ' It was about a, mile from the highway and apparent ly had no roads leading up to it. ..It is supposed that the fire must have tak en place about nine or ten o'clock, yet it was not known in Camden at twelve that night. This . accounts for the fact that the mornin papers of Fri day did not have the news. The .fire 4s supposed to have lasted twenty minutes. The; school house was about eieht miles east of Camden. It was the third building that had been burned in time. The church where the re mains were buried lies about a mile from the school. AIT that country was Aattened out on Sunday by the auto mobiles. Mr. Lathan said that he saw cars driving through fields of oats waist high and mashing them flat. ' At last accounts the number of dead had been run up to eiirhty-two. Six ty -one unidentified bodies were first buried in the huge grave, twelve by forty' feet. Five were afterwards ad ded. The bodies were not placed in coffins, but wrapped in cloth and placed side by side. A huge mound was made when the grave had been filled and this mound was banked with flowers. : So huge a grave gave one a terrible impression of the overwhelm ing calamity. , , v There are many, many stories of Woism,; as well as stories of panic and despair. It is said that persons on the outside made such an effort to get in to try to rescue loved Vies that this added to the imoossibility oi getting out. une man made Iran 'tic efforts to get into the building and 'could not be restrained. He said that he had an only daughter in there and he was going to rescue her or die I with her. He succeeded in getting in I but never came out. , . v , t this county, had attended the play and had not been heard of since. This is a remote and inaccessible part of the county and a more thorough "Cavtittn their fate. ' Ellen ' Barnes .according to state ments made to the sheriff today, went to the play with her brother, Frank. He escaped and made his way home. Relatives saw the girl in the burning building but could not save her.? Fannie Bowers went to the play with members of the Dixon families, t wIiam vwSima 1 net DaIoHvAb saw her in the burning building,, but were unable to make their way to her. Her mother has been uncon scious ever since the fire. The list of 'dead given out after a check up on Friday and Saturday in cluded only the names of those known to have been in the building, according to' statements of persons who aided in the work of checking up. There was no possibility, of checking up the names of Strangers who may have been in the room, and it is probable, it was said, that some bodies were entirely consumed in the flames. 1 ; ' ?' ?--,-.v.-';-v;' "We mourn 77 dead today," said C. W. Evans, Camden undertaker. who took care of the. "bodies, "but the world will never know the exact number that perished in that awful blaze." ' - -;- '- ' Carter Taylor, director of disaster relief for the Southern division of the American Red Cross, to which all re lief work was turned over last night, today was searching out injured not heretofore listed. He had found number who were badly, although not seriously hurt, -Miss Pearl Woodham, who was anions: the (five brought to the hos pital herp.iWas discharged yesterday, leaving three still under the care oT .t i ...... 4, t me liisuiuuuu Mineral Springs Items May-21. Mrs. W. A. Howie has re turned home after spendin" several days with her son, William. Jr., who has been in the Ellen Fitzgerald hos pital since his narrow escape on last Thursday, Mrs. Howie states that her son is improving slowly; ... Mrs. Herbert Hunnicutt is visiting her mother, Mrs. Thomas Broome. Miss Beraice Winchester "Bas re- Lturned tySme after spending several days in wanoue. ... ' Among those who ; attended the commencement exercises of the Wax haw High School were: Mr. and Mrs. Crowell Doster, Mr and Mrs. E. H. Broome,' Mrs. J. L. Polk and daugh ters Viola and Helen, Misser Nellie and Sadie Helms, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Krauss, Mrs. Mary Howie and chil dren. 1 Mr. Everett Alexander spent the week-end with Mr. Henry Polk. MisS Sadie Helms is visiting her sister, Mrs. E. H. Broome. "The Social Workers' Club" will meet with Mrs.' W. L. Motes, Satur day May 26. : Miss Viola Polk is ' visiting in Wadesboro this week. - insects and diseases frequently dtv strov from 60 to 80 per c?nt cf -i;o fruit : crop m an nr.orayed orchard. Sometime? 'he trees are so weakened i that'lhey die later. - Spraying keapii CYCLONE DIPS DOWN IN fiOOSE CREEK TOWNSHIP; A cyclone passed over sections of Goose Creek township Sunday after noon, dipping here and there, tearing down timber and small grain and damaging two tenant houses on the farm of the Griffin boys, sons of the late J. Uninn, and blowing Jonah Simpson's barn from its pillars. - lhe storm was a regular twister and several thousand feet of timber were blown down, trees piled across each other, on the lands" of the Grif- hn heirs, Jonah Simpson and Thos. Haigler. One of the damaeed ten ant houses on the Oriffin estate was occupied by eleven people at the time of the storm and thop who witnessed the thrilling event state that the funnel-shaped cloud rose above the house which probably saved the lives of those in it. The Griffin boys' crib was slightly damaged by the force of the storm which struck the roof. The storm passed within fifty vards of the Griffin home and was plainly observed by Boyd, . Carl and Charlie Griffin, who : state; that it rose and fell rapidly and that where it struck the ground a. clean sweep was made. Growing oats were snatched from the field and hurled into the air until the sky was darkened, it being about five o'clock in the afternoon when the storm broke. . , . , ; People in the neighborhood heard the roar of the. storm and came imme diately to learn the results. It is stated that within a few minutes af ter the storm had subsided something like a hundred people were there in automobiles. Fortunately the dips did not hit any residences and no injuries to persons resulted, The path of the storm followed closely the big cyclone in that section a few years ago when numbers of residences were blown down and sov, eral , people killed and injured. . FREE LABOR AND TAX AMOUNTED TO $91,000 Advocates of the proposed bond issue for the continuation of the road building program in the county have ngured it out that the present road tax does; not exceed very much the amount paid before the first bonds were issued, if we consider free labor worth $1.60 per day; The books on .file in the register of deeds;, office show that in 1919, before the bond levy was made, the road tax paid in money amounted to S43. 792.50. There were in tne coun ty at that time; 5268, poiu, all of free' labor on the public roads. Count injr six daysr each: for the 5266; men of road-working age, at $1.50 per day the amount ' reaches the appalling figures of $47,394.00 which added to the J43.792.5U paid m taxes, gives total of 191,186.50, an amount about equal to that paid since .bonds were voted and some real roads built. The conclusion, therefore, must be that there is no way around road tax, It must be paid in one way or another by taxation, by free labor or by driving and , hauling through mud. The public roads are the arteries of commerce and" we can no mow get alon& Without them than our bodies can Ket aiunir wiinoui, uiouu veaatua. We must; therefore, have roads of some kind, and the question is wRetii er we shall Pay. for tnem in cash. in free labor or through the loss yt time and the weir and tear of auto mobiles, buggies and wagons and live stock. Of course few peon'.o care to go back to' the old free, labor system, which is a disgrace to civilization us it 13 a form of involuntary servnude, In this day and time, we don't want to use mud beds and can tnem roaas and we cannot afford to "shell out" enough direct taxes to take care of the situation. . The bond route is the onlv alternative left. Some-areue that free labor on the roads is the thing, " because it was riven at a time of year when farmers couldn't be doing anything else, but with a good road system they can now put in the, leisure days getting produce to the markets and realize much more than $1.50 per day, .the figures at which the free labor pn roads is figured. And anyway, all will agree that the free labor was a failure and if inaugurated in this day of progress and intelligence the people would not stand for it And. furthermore, we are told by those in authority that if the propos ed bond fails to carry,; the main tenance tax rate will have td be fixed at 30 cents, whereas if it does carry 20 cents will furnish a sufficient maintenance fund for roads not under, construction and pay interest and provide a sinking fund to 'take care of the bonds and pay them up as they come due, making the tax levy, next year ten cents less than it will of necessity be in case the issue is de feated. GOOD ROADS MAN, : Recorder's Court Yesterday. " John and Tom" Rushing, assault with deadly weapons, $50 each and Eck THart'n, ' operating car while intoxicated, $50 and costs. " ' Newton Horn; drunk on public highway; cost . The Judge stated that he would never be let off again for same offense, but if again found guil ty he would be sentenoed to the road3. Hosea Pressley; drunk;, costs; pos session of liquor (bad about 2 ounces) ?15 r.:yJ costs. : T . . Don t penalize the last growing vigorous, healthy chick by using it for a fryer. Ihese make the eaIy layers and best breeding stock, s.iy poultry workers of the state College and Department of Agriculture. illTAITf T D ArrflTTl M VUbU lUVlilLli PAY A ROAD TAX THAN ANY OTHER Price Says He is Tired of Seeing: Little Plank Bridges on Lateral Road LANES CREEK MAN NOW . WANTS HIS PART OF HELP . ; By L.' E. . Huggins "1 would rather' pay road tax than any tax I pay," remarked Mr. Lum . Price a day or, two ago. . He i then explained that when a man pays for gooa roaas ne is making an .invest ment Mr. Price is of the opinion that the county cannot afford to stop the road work whore it is. He has a food road from his house to Monroe, Ut he is a. Prosperous farmer nnH b business man who realizes what good roaas mean to tne county. . ine uritnn Boy a favor Issue : Hfaafa Pmi Pawl .4 -UHlj Griffin,' sons of the late Mr. E. J. Griffin of Goose Creek township,' are among the most enthusastic good roads boosters I have found, and if ' anybody thinks the farmers of Union county as a whole are against the proposed bond issue he has another thought coming. "Why," said Carl Griffin, "the farmers are the nennln who need roa1d3 most and we would oe cutting our own throats to vote against the proposed bond issue. He explained that many of them have - lumber to haul and that it is now pleasure to haul it, whereas a few years ago it could hardly be gotten to market. He also mentioned the fact that he now hauls twenty sacks ' of fertilizer at a load instead of eight, which made A full load when there were mud holes in the road between unionville and Monroe big enough to bury a horse in. He has traveled over the State extensively and he' is proud to tell folk he is from Union, the best county in the State, where as a few years ago he was afraid to say anything about Union, because me ieiiow to wnom ne was talking might pass through some time, if he ' could get over the roads atf that time." - Zack Will Vote For It 'YeS. I am croinir tn vnto fnr V . bond issue," said Zack Traywick of . ' airsnv.ua towmunp' Jew- days go.1--"I live on Rev.. A. Marsh's land" h continued, !'and he is going to vote for the tonds,. and he is unselfish enough to vote bonds and pay tax to ouuu roaas ior people who need them, I would, be a fool to vote against them." And there you are. It'ap-' pears that a large part of the nron. erty owners of the county' can read ily see wnat good roads mean- to their property and to tho whole and if they are willing to pay tax to build good roads for the good ' m au concemea, men those who own little property cannot afford to vote against the measure. , nants Something Substantial I am sick and tired plank bridge after - another placed over this little drain," said a farmer . a few days ago as he wave a sweep of uie nana across a lateral road that has not yet been reached in the road building program, "and I am going to vote for the bond issue and see some permanent culverts placed on this road and see the road drained so it may be maintained." He used some mighty , sensible argument when he explained that plank bridge won't last more than a few months with au tomobiles passing over it every day, and that a road must first be located : and drained before it can be main tained. He figures that it will be much cheaper in the long run to vote bonds and locate and drain the roads and place culverts "on them than to continuously , place plank bridges. -throw in a lot of mud to be replaced within a few months with more and pay enough direct tax each year to keep -up the boomerang stuff. In fact he agrees with those who have figured it outrthat it will require less tax to pay the interest on the bonds and create a sinking fund with which to pay them up than to make neces sary repairs , on the old worn-out roads that we have in certain sections of the county by direct taxation. Mr. Billy Hilton of Lanes CmpV township - is a big tax-paver who realizes that good roads are cheap, even though they cost a lot of money. Mr. H lton is 64 years of age and has been paying tax for 40 years.' He owns 650 acres of land and has paid tax to help build the roads of th county and now declares that he can hardly get to market. He hopes the people of Monvoe and Marshville, hio principal mwifet' towns, will join) in " the movement for bonds to build ltt. eral roads in order that he may en i iu.. i .. ,, . . , iujr iuc amue jmvueges mat otoers ave. ... o A,s evidence of the fact that tfgreat many people don't realize the number of miles of ton-soil roads that have been built in Union county, Mr. Carl Broom of Buford township has recent ly taken a job selling cigars and has been traveling over the county ex tensively, and.he expresses himself as being surprised at the number of miles--of' good roads in the county. He didn't realize what had been do"9 until he got out and saw for himself. There are times " when a window from a stray bn--r cheaper than the broken 1 the child. . Sunshine' ar, 1 ( 1 n f ' 1 exercises make youns foli;s 1
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