The Monroe Journal from Monroe, North Carolina • Page 5

I ri i-i One Price Grocer. i -0 4hA isv I SIOXUOE CELEBRATES THE RADIO STATION. Purchasers War Savings Stamps will find On another page of this paper an article from Chairman Elder W. E. Williams -will preach at Broom 8 Grove next Sunday morn Ins at 11 o'clock.

Elder Henry will preach at North Monroe Primitive. Baptist church next Sunday afternoon at o'clock. Rev. W. Quick will preach at New Hope next Sunday at 3:30 p.

in. This is the last Sunday before confer- cnce. v. Mr. Fred Beaver and 'Miss Martha Plyler of South Monroe township were married by Esq.

M. L. Flow at his new office on West Jefferson St Sunday evening. All members of the Union County Chapter of the American Red Cross are urged to he present at a business meeting at 7:30 tonight in the Qham-" ber of Commerce rooms. Very- im- jortant business will be transacted.

Mrs. Coyt Trull of North Monroe died Sunday of Influenza-pneumonia She is survived by her husband and three small children. She was a good woman and will be missed. Funeral -services were conducted yesterday af- ternoon by Rev. J.

R. Warren. Inter- ment was In the Monroe cemetery. -Benjamin S. Griffin, son of Mr.

Coais Dame Fashion's newest ideas of coat making for women who know. Just arrived. It will be our pleasure to show you these new coats. In valours. Kerseys and Broadcloths, in assorted colors.

Misses and Children's Coats Velvets. Corduroy, Plush and mixed Wool materials $2.00 to 20.00. in military, sport and conservative models. Ladies Coat Suits Dependable materials. Newest styles.

Moderately priced. The choice fabrics are shown early. No new goods coming from the mills. Those who wait will take what the early buyers have left Ladies Dresses Queen dresses in chic models for young la-; dies. In Satin, Taffeta and Serge.

Also Serge material combined with Satin and Georgette Crepes. Wirthmor Waist New shipment just arrived. This is your last opportunity to buy these beautiful waists at a before the war price fl.00. The Leading Dry Goods, Millinery, Notion, Clothing, Hat and Shoe Store in Monroe, North Carolina. Thomas F.

Griffin of Buford township. led of pneumonia in France on Oc- tober 16, according to a message re- -weired here Saturday. Mr. Griffin had been in France some tfm. -About a year ago be clerked In the grocery Store of Mr.

T. P. Redwine. He was an excellent young man. r-The Chamber of Commerce is en deavortng to secure Mr.

Carl Baer, the famous economist lecturer, who for the past few days has been deliver. Ing a series of lectures in Mecklen burg county, to come to Union and deliver his course of lectures. Mr. Baer will come to Monroe in the near fu- ture to talk the matter over' with the officers of the organization. i Mr.

W. K. Rape of Wesley Chap- el community received a letter from bis son, Mr. Roy C. Rape, with the Blckett Battery in France, a few days ago stating that he had just come out of a 27-day fight and during that time ne had been one of the Americans who had aided in carrying back to the Party Decide t'pon Buildings to be Located on Site Sir.

Sikes Goes to Washington Confer With Navy Department OfflclaK The party of men connected with the Navy Department in Washington in Monroe last Friday viaited the radio site at Baker's and decided upon the location of buildings to be erected. Among the locations decided upon for buildings were quarters for the Marines who will guard the property, quarters for the officers and the power plant. The party also Instructed Mr. E. Booth in charge of the engln-' eering party at present surveying the site, to proceed to locate and stake out the points on which the 500 foot towers will be located.

The party was composed of Lieut. E. C. Sherman, Lieut A. H.

Vander-hoof, Lieut. Ablee, nd Chief Engineer H. Pratt In company with a number of Monroe men they enjoyed an old fashioned turkey dinner at the' home of Mr. George Home at Bakers. It is reported that after they had par-1 taken of the good things to eat that their already high opinion of the radio site rose considerably.

In the after noon they were accompanied to Char lotte by Messrs. F. G. Henderson and T. L.

Riddle. From Charlotte they returned to Washington. The government is already adver tising in a number of papers for seal ed bids for the construction of the towers and other work. These bids will be opened on November 25 and the succestusl contractor announced. Actual work on the construction of the plant, which will cost several million dollars, will probably begin before the first of the year.

As the station, was not planned as a war measure' alone it is supposed that the signing of the armistice will not have any effect on the work. Mayor I. C. Sikes leaves for Wash ington tonight to confer with officials of the Navy Department concerning the land valuation. He goes in reply to a telegram asking that he do so.

As soon as he returns it is presumed that the work of preparing abstracts. andgettlng the titles in shape In order that thfi land mit he deeded to the government will begin immediately. Horace Funderburk. stationed at Camn Sevier, is soendine a five dav furloueh with his father. Mr" Wil liam Funderburk of Icemorlee.

We are always noting the tending our operations to xi V. YV SV'ktJ ll it American lines 15,000 German prison erg, L'Just at this time," the. letter sta ted, we are having a good time going -through the pockets of dead Ger- Cock Jool S. Hargett of tilth Battery of Field Artillery has written his father, Mr. Emsley Hargett, quite an.

interesting letter telling a few of his experiences in France. He says the French people are very kind to the American, boys and are just as snuous to learn English as the boy are to leara French. In the section of France M17- Hargett happened to be the chief crop la grain with almost no cotton or corn. "The thing that seem-vd Strangest to" him was that the Everybody, From Baby to Grandpa, Begins a Giddy Joy Dance to the Accompaniment of Whistles, Bells, Tin Horns or Any Other Noise Pro ducer Handy, Everybody In Monroe, from baby. who has Just learned to crawl, grandpa, who hasn't walked without the aid of a cane for a score of years, began a giddy joy dance at a quarter before four o'clock yesterday morn ing, wnen the tidings were received by wire that the provisional German gov ernment had signed the armistice, and continued it through the day far Into tne night Mr.

Charles Iceman, phouiug to Charlotte for news concerning the las est developments in Europe, at 3:30 was informed that the armistice had been, signed. He at once notified his friends over the city. The keeper of the power house was informed and at once the fire whistle was set going; A few minutes later the church bells of the city began to ring and were quick ly joined in the work of spreading the good word by the iron voices of every locomotive at the round house. People fell out of bed. threw their clothes on and rushed uptown to begin a day's celebration.

The cooks arriv ed a llttlo late to start breakfast to nnd tnat tne men of the house had condemned the bread pan and rolling pin as needed in a more essential oc cupation than preparing food and had at once drafted them, while- every tin bucket in the house had been ap propriated by. some The old house cannon which hadn't been seen or heard of since the burglar at tempted to break in In '96 was fished out -and-fired hilarously into the air. Father and mother sought each oth er's arms tor. the first time since the honeymoon. The whlstlos and the, bells, and the bells and the whistles continued to Tie with each other throughout the morning.

A colored preacher would undoubt edly have been awarded the prize, had there been one, for the rapid dressing stunt He rushed un Church street about four minutes after the bells and whistles had begun their wbrk, shout ing in a voice plainly heard above. and putting to naught, the deafening din, "Hurrah for President Wilson; he is the best man in the world!" Before dawn had chased away the darkness of night, automobiles filled with shouting people and with cow bells and every other imaginable noise factory tied behind, began to rush through the streets. People collected in crowds in the main part of town, shouted themselves hoarse 'and then tried It again. Farmers from the sur. rounding country, awakened by "the blowing of the whistles, rushed -to town to take part in the demonstra tion.

With the coming of dawn the stows opened for a-few minutes and then the clerks went out to make a day of U. The mills closed and the Icemorlee band canle up. town and rendered a concert on the courthouse square. Th" round house force marched through the main streets putting out a choice brand of din that was the envy of ey-ery other combination taking part in the performance, and doing it in true railroad man style. 4 Amid the rejoicing and celebration the members of the colored race did their" full share.

Mag Davis, about 65 years old, whose son, VfiUf is fightinp at the front pranced up town like "6 two year old before daylight Meeting a man with a horse pistol, (tne man said he raised it. from a Colt), she executed a few choice ballet steps and then announced that she had never shot one of "them thini," but she believed she could do it now. The man delivered, the weapon into her hanrif and sure enough she did, and then continued on her wayrtT In the future it will not be hard tr remember the date on which the armistice as prepare! by the representatives of the nations was ac cepted by Germany. All a fellow will have to do is to think of the date ne had to stuff cotton in his ears to pro tect them from his own noise. United War Work Campaign.

I have beep In charge of th. drive for the colored people of th-county. Our part of the county's allotment is $1000. We must go "over the Not a single colored person in Union county who has the care of his fellow, soldier at heart would flinch from this amount. Let every adult person contribute not less than one dollar.

The following solicitors have been appointed Mrs. Eva Cuth-berteon, Mrs. Dr. Massey, Mrs. Alma Laney, Rev.

Mrs. Hicks, Mrs. C. N. Tony, Mrs.

Susie Thomas, Mrs. Cora Tharp and Mrs. Odessa Levingston or Monroe. Others to follow. Richard Allen.

i Messrs. George Belk of Camp Green and John Medlln of Camp Sevier spent Sunday at home on passes. PAV YOTJIt TAXES. The undersigned having been appointed by the sureties on the tax bonds of the late Sheriff J. V.

Griffith to ollect the taxes for the years 1917 and 1918, this. is to notify lax payers of Union county, who have not already to pay their taxes at once. By order of the bondsmen, I am directed to collect the taxes with all diligence and, If necessary, to use all the powers vested in the sureties under section 28,68 of the Revisal. Pay your taxes Immediately and Bave me the unpleasant duty of having to levy on vour property. -This October 30, 1918.

JOHN, GRIFFITH, Tax Collector for the Sureties. Morrow which they Bhould not fail to read. Patrons of the Fowler school are requested to assemble on the grounds Tuesday morning, Nov 19 to clean off the ground and make preparation for the opening of school the following Monday. Federal court will convene -In Charlotte on Monday, November 18 Several men from this, county have been drawn as jurors, and a number of cases from Ujalon will be disposed oi at wis session of court Broadus Hamilton, colored, about ten years old, was badly bruised about one leg lat Saturday afternoon when he fell from a wagon On which was a bale of cotton, and one of the wheei passed over him. There be a praise and thanksgiving service for the Prospect charge at Prospect church Sunday morning at 10:30.

All members and friends of the charge are invited and urged to attend and bring lunch. Ser vice In the afternoon. Mr. G. C.

Cox' of; Marshville township has a hog of which he should be proud. In less than twelve months she has presented him with 34 pigs, andvdurfng the three years he has owned her she has been the mother of 65 VTo use a slang expression the Rogers Brothers, auctioneers, are 'round her when it comes to selling horses. In Monroe, several ago they sold a ear load tor Fowler ft Lee. At Marshville Saturday they repeated the stunt and now Mr. J.

G. Rogers goes to Raemon in Robeson county to make a sale Saturday. Marshville was well represented in the peace celebration 'here yester day afternoon. Fourteen automobiles made the trip to Monroe and paraded through the streets, contributing their full quota of noise to the The procession was headed by a truck on which was mounted bell. Needless to say the bell was not allowed to rest any.

There has been considerable trad ing in real estate In Monroe of late. Mr. Eugene Ashcraff, has purchased from Mr. A. M.

Stack the house now occupied by Mr. John Brewer. Mr. John Welsh has purchased from Mr. Emsley Fletcher the residence on Houston street- at present occupied by the latter; Df.

R. H. Garren has pur chased the residence now occupied by Mr. Eugene Ashcraft and will occupy it as soon as Mr. Ashcraft -Z Son' Sowell, of Lanes Creek township was arraigned -before United States Commissioner Flow late Friday evening on a charge of failing to register under the selective service act.

He plead guilty to-the charge and was bound over to Federal court In Charlotte linder a bond of'flOO: On Saturday morning Mack Thomas of Buford township was arraigned on the same charge. It was proven that the defendant was only 16 years old and he -was -dismissed. The: arrests were made by Deputy Marshal Williams The local board of exemptions ceived telegraphic instructions from the office of the Adjutant General at Raleigh this morning ordering that all voluntary and special calls for the Induction of men Into the service be cancelled. This means that the men who were to have gone to Fort Caswell on Friday will notie sents Nei ther will those go to Camp Humphrey, or the 40 negroes to Camp Green. This morning the local board completed the work of mailing questionnaires to ell reg'st These questionnaires should be filled out nnd returned as before.

There was inaugurated in Mon roe yesterday a plan to erect a monument to the Union county boys who entered the set vice during the world war. It Is proposed that the names of the Union-county men who have died for their country either in action or from disease shall be chiseled upon the monument. It was suggested that the monument be placed on the south side of the courthouse. It was pointed out that it is much better tqerect the monument now in order that the men in whose honor it is placed may see and know that the people of Union county remained at home love and honor them for the sacrifices anl risks they have made for us than to leave it for future generations. The plan met with the approval of a number of the business men.

Mr, R. A. Morrow expressed himself as being willing to give liberally toward the work. i-V The War Is Over, Bat Not the War Work. -The United War Work Campaign is on NOW.

It Is greatly hindered in our county by reason of the quarantine, but this hindrance should only serve to Increase the personal zeal of every citizen in Union county. Not being able to hold any public rally in the county, it will be necessary for would-be contributors to see to it that their contributions are made so that. their names will be sure to be record ed on the Honor Roll. This roll will be preserved as a war document and will be interesting reading for the boys when they return. No person in the county will want his name spelled b-l-a-n-k unless "there's a and that a genuine one.

city cam paign canvass will be made on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week "Be ye therefore ready." Committee. Messrs. Sikes Sanders. Covinpton Ashcraft, Julian Carpenter and Wal ter Ayers left Sunday for Fayetteville to resume their work at Donaldson Military French use oxen instead of horses. --Jim Thompson, a colored bceak- man, fell from a moving freight train below Mineral Springs about 6 'o'clock Friday afternoon, suffering, a leg and probably internal In Juries.

The other members of the train crew' did not miss the negro. 'The engineer of train number 30, which was about fifteen minutes be hind the freight, perceived a man ly- on the track and stopping his train, the negro, was picked up and to Monroe. When found he Keep your eye on tnls VL II Oy Bring your Buggy, Wagon, Cart or ft any other kind of old wheels to onr Blacksmith Shop and have them made MM ik Tlie Stegall Boys, Gordon and Panl, i know how to do the job. -was in a semi-conscious condition and i repeating train orders that had been delivered to him a few minutes before He was taken to Dr. Massey's v-.

Some families have not received iabelf frdua their sons in France for Jthelr Christmas The Red i Cross was authorized yesterday to is-" sue labels to all persons making an --affidavit that their boys will receive only the (me box. These may be had at the Red Cross rooms where the car-' tons may be obtained. Mrs. Lane requests us to say that 'boxes maytlso sent to nurses. Red Cross and Y.

M. C. A. workers overseas, provided tbe regulations are complied with. All 'boxes must be examined by Red Cross workers in order to be sure that no -jforbiiiden gifts are sent They must be mailed by Nov.

20th It they are to reach their destination by Christmas. -dir. S. A. Furr died In a CharlotU hospital Saturday afternoon at two "o'clock from injuries sustained in a fall late Friday afternoon.

Mr. Fun 'lid in the course of construction a residence on his farm about two miles touth of town. After the workmen Tiad left Friday afternoon he went up to sea how the work was progressing. At the top of a flight of stairs he step-. ped on a plank which broke off fall- ing to ground point up ten feet below.

Mr. Furr foil on top of the plank which tore a hole in his side 2 and puctured his lung. A passing au- tomoblllst brought him to Monroe and as soon as preparations could be made for the trip he was rushed to a Charlotte accompanied by -r G. Nance. An operation waf performed but the work of the sur geons to save hla life was unavailing and death came about twenty hour; 1 later.

The body was brought to Indi-. an Trail Saturday afternoon and fu- neral services interment was at the Ritch cemetery in Vance township Sunday afternoon. Rev. J. Rev.

Jv R. Warren and Rev. W. Bennett conducted the servicer People from all rarts of the county were in attendance. The deceased if survived by hi wlre'' five children and several brothers.

For a number years he made his home in Monroe and was well known and liked here His death came as a shock to many He was a good man nnd honest and upright In his dealings with all. requirements of our customers with a view to ex include a)) up-to-date methods of service. The busi- ness entrusted to us is worthy of our best aims to serve. We'll he glad to number you with those we are serving in our Harness Department. Mr.

George Hinson is with us again and has charge of this department. We Carry an Extensive Stock of all Flulnc Largest Dealers in This Section. of 44e3 CO, Grades 1 www www wwmwWWv FTTI TT TT T71' ia, liOu-l i.