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Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Local News, Reports of Our Soldiers, Obituaries, Jan. 7, 1919

From The Monroe Journal, January 7, 1919

Local and Personal

All interested persons are requested to meet at Bethlehem church on Saturday, Jan. 25, to clean off the grounds of the cemetery.

Mr. Sam Crump and Miss Elwin Painter were married Saturday in Henrietta. Mr. Crump is a Monroe boy and has been working in Henrietta for some time. Mrs. Crump is a native of that place. The service was performed by Rev. W.R. Shelton.

Dock Watkins of Vance township sustained several broken ribs in a fall Friday. Mr. Watkins was engaged in shoveling some rock from his wagon into a hole in the road when the mules suddenly started, throwing him across the hind gate of the wagon.

Messrs. J.N. Price, B.H. Griffin and R.B. Redwine left this morning for Raleigh to be present at the opening session of the General Assembly tomorrow. Messrs. Redwine and Griffin will occupy seats 13 and 14 in the House of Representatives, and Mr. Price number 3 in the Senate.

Miss Marietta Cain of Salisbury has purchased the interest in the Strand Theater that formerly belonged to Messrs. Ware and Cunningham of Gastonia and will make Monroe her home. Mr. E.S. Spencer has retained his interest and will continue to manage the theater. Miss Cain has been interested in picture shows for some time, holding an interest in theaters in Salisbury and Durham.

During the serious influenza epidemic the Red Cross loaned sheets to several families who were unable to get any laundry done, and there are 22 of these that have not been returned. Persons who have neglected this will please leave them at Lee & Lee’s or at the Red Cross work room as they are badly needed to complete an allotment. The sheets are plainly marked with a small red cross.

Rev. Bruce Benton, who enlisted in the Y.M.C.A. and has been over seas for some months, has arrived in the states and is expected in Rockingham at an early date. Mr. Benton is pastor of the First Baptist church in Rockingham and is one of the most popular preachers in the State. He is a brother of Mr. W.F. Benton of Monroe.

Horace Henry, colored, was arraigned before Recorder Lemmond Saturday to answer to a charge of maliciously injuring personal property. Horace took it upon himself to cut to pieces the coat of a lady friend of his. He was found guilty and taxed with the costs. Following the disposition of this case Postell Alsobrooks appeared to answer to a charge of “carrying knucks.” He was found guilty and fined $10 and the costs.

Mrs. V.C. Austin is very ill in the Presbyterian Hospital at Charlotte. Miss Mabel Shannon is also being treated there.

Military News

The first news from Mr. Robert Howie, son of Capt. W.L. Howie, since the signing of the armistice was received Friday. Mr. Howie is well and thinks he will be soon on his way back to the states.
In the casualty list issued Saturday there appears the name of Roland S. Martin of Indian Trail, reported as slightly wounded.

This morning’s papers said that the U.S.S. Georgia was expected to land soon, and among the units listed as being on the Georgia was the 6th Mortar Battalion. Mr. H.H. Wilson is a member of this battalion and his many friends are hoping this information is true.

Mr. Roy Rogers in a letter to his brother, Mr. C.B. Rogers, describes in an interesting way his voyage across the Atlantic and through France. Mr. Rogers was carried to Verdun at once where he witnessed many air battles and where the fighting was extremely heavy. He says, “One had to learn not to fear shrapnel or to turn back when the road was being shelled as supplied had to go.”

Mr. Flow C. Coan, in writing to his father, Mr. D.C. Coan of the Mineral Springs community, describes as follows what he terms one of his worst experiences while in France: “One night I had to sleep within a few steps of a dead German. About the time I got almost asleep a big shell would come down and wake me up.” Mr. Coan is with Battery D of the 113th Field Artillery and says, with the other members of the Bickett Battery, that they did not lose a man.

Mr. Foster Starnes has returned from Camp Johnston, Fla., having received an honorable discharge from the service.

Mr. James C. Medlin, writing his sister, Miss Darcas Medlin, under the date of December 12, says: “I have been in the trenches twice (the front line trenches). I was in the last big drive on the Argonne front of sector. We went on the Argonne front on November 10th and remained there until the firing ceased. I was kept very busy dodging the shrapnel and what a racket there was you cannot imagine. We are now at a place called Coulmier. The sector we have is a very good place to stay. I hope that I will be home real soon.”

With the breaking up of the combat divisions of this country and the issuance of orders for the return of the first three fighting divisions from France, demobilization of the American army is gradually approaching its final phases. General March announced Sunday that General Pershing had designed for early return. Raleigh is planning for a great ovation in honor of the 30th, Old Hickory Division, composed on North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee troops, the entire division to be the guest of the city during the celebration. A large part of the fighting in which American forces participated was done by the 30th, 42nd, 81st and 27th Divisions, the 30th and 27th New Yorkers making the final break in the Hindenburg line. The artillery of Old Hickory will not return with the remainder of the 30th, and this means that the Bickett Battery has some time in France yet.

Just as the Journal goes to press a telephone message is received stating that Mr. Cephus Griffin of Bufort township received a cablegram stating that his son died in France October 10th of pneumonia. His family had had no news from Mr. Griffin since he sailed until the message today.

Deaths

Misses Mary and Maude Baker

A few issues back The Journal announced the death of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Baker of Marshville township due to pneumonia following an attack of influenza. Friday Misses Mary and Maude Baker died of influenza-pneumonia. These young ladies were very ill at the time of their parents’ deaths and almost no hope was held for their recovery. They were splendid young ladies and had many friends. They were buried near their parents in the Bass cemetery.

A.P. House

Mr. A.P. House of Charlotte died December 26th of paralysis from which he had been suffering for several months. He was born in Union county in 1840 and it was from this county he enlisted in the Confederate army and fought for the entire four years of the civil war. In 1899 Mr. House moved to Charlotte and had made that city his home since that time. He is survived by nine children. Funeral services were conducted by his pastor, Rev. A.L. Aycoth and interment took place in Bethel cemetery in Vance township.

Polk Pitts

Mr. Polk Pitts died in Clearwater, Arkansas, last Friday of double pneumonia following an attack of influenza. Mr. Pitts will be remembered by a number of people here as he made Monroe his home about two years ago while working in the rail road shops here. He is survived by his wife, who is a daughter of Mr. J.C. Steele, and two small children.

John Copple

Mr. H.E. Copple returned last night from Thomsville where he attended the funeral exercises of his brother, Mr. John Copple, who was seriously injured by a moving train last Tuesday and this caused his death Friday night. Mr. Copple was 68 years old and is survived by his wife and four children. He was well known in Monroe as he has visited here often.

8-Year-Old Son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Thomas

An eight-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Thomas of Indian Trail died last night and at noon today Mrs. Thomas was not expected to live as a result of burns received yesterday. The boy’s outing night gown caught fire and in attempting to save her child the mother was fatally burned. Mrs. Thomas is a daughter of Mr. W.P. Kendall and formerly lived in Monroe, where she has many friends and relatives.

Vaughn Davis, David Henry

Vaughn Davis, a negro woman, and David Henry, a negro man, were killed in an automobile accient about five miles from Charlotte Friday night. Accompanied by three other negroes they were out joy-riding and in an attempt to cross a bridge the automobile missed the structure and plunged over an embankment into several feet of water, killing the two named above. The woman killed was a native of Monroe and a daughter of Rush Davis. She had been working as a trained nurse in the Good Samaritan hospital. The body was brought here for burial.

John Gilbert

John Gilbert, the two year old son of Mr. Jarvis Starnes of Bethlehem community, died Friday night of pneumonia following influenza. Funeral service and interment took place at Bethlehem church Saturday. Rev. M.A. Osborne conducted the service.

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