Local and Personal
Messrs. B.G. Ferguson and A.C. Kimey of the agricultural
extension service spent last week in the county engaged in extension work.
Accompanied by County Agent T.J.W. Broom, and Home Demonstration Agent Miss
Blanche Carter, they visited several communities of the county. At Union in
Lanes Creek township a sheep club was organized. Forty sheep will be owned by
the members of club. Miss Carter organized home demonstration and canning clubs
at Rehoboth and Union, and a poultry club at Rock Rest.
Mr. T.J.W. Broom, county agent, has arrived to send someone
to Ohio some time this month to purchase a car load of registered Jersey cattle
for distribution among Union county farmers.
Miss Blanche Carter, Home Demonstration agent, plans the
opening of a model kitchen where cooking demonstrations will be given as soon
as funds can be secured. The kitchen will be placed at the disposal of the
women of the county and they will be invited to make it headquarters when in
Monroe. The women will be expected to bring to the kitchen their own supplies
and ingredients for cooking and will be permitted to use the kitchen as their
own, says Miss Carter. The women of the county will no doubt find such a
kitchen a great convenience and will no doubt avail themselves of its
facilities.
Miss Martha Christenbury has accepted a position with the Union
Drug Company as book keeper.
Messrs. Frank Houston and Irvin Simpson arrived home Sunday
with honorable discharges from the service after having served with the
Expeditionary in France.
Monroe cotton buyers continue to maintain the city’s
reputation as the best cotton market in the State. Monroe buyers are today quoting
around 27 cents for good white cotton and 23 cents for Rowden.
Hon. R.B. Redwine was re-elected a member of the board of
trustees of the State University of Chapel Hill for the term ending Nov. 30,
1927, at a joint session of the senate and house a few days ago.
Mr. Howard McLarty has accepted a position with the Union
Drug Company and will have charge of the prescription department. Mr. McLarty
is an experienced pharmacist and his friends are glad that he has returned to
his home town.
Canvassers are being secured as rapidly as possible to
canvass the different townships to secure pledges from the farmer to reduce
their acreage in cotton, following the plan adopted at the state meet in
Raleigh. The proposition of reducing acreage is meeting with approval
throughout the county. (By producing less
cotton, they hope that the price growers receive will increase. The bottom fell out of the market when the war ended and Uncle Sam no longer needed all the textiles that keep an army going.)
A horse and buggy stolen from the Sikes Company was
recovered in Charlotte. A Miss Johnston of Charlotte had been informed by her
brother that the horse, which had formerly been owned by the family, had been
stolen in Monroe. By chance she saw the horse being driven in front of her home
and notified her brother, who in turn notified the Sikes Company.
An effort is being made by the Mecklenburg authorities to
have the Seaboard build an underpass on the Charlotte road about eight miles
from that city. The many Union county people who use this road would appreciate
the safety afforded by an underpass at this point.
In an account of a reception tendered the young women in the
employ of the Western Union Telegraph Co. in Charlotte in Saturday’s issue of
the Observer, the name of Miss
Elizabeth Bundy is given as one who rendered a piano solo. Miss Bundy is a
daughter of Mrs. S.B. Bundy and is a talented musician.
In the Recorder’s court yesterday Mr. Jake Aycock appeared
to hear the judgment of the court in a case heard last November in which he was
found guilty of transporting liquor. He was sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and
to give bond in the sum of $200 for his reappearance on the first Monday in
November to show good behavior.
Messrs J.P. Saunders and W.E. Hockett of Charlotte were in
Monroe yesterday to arrange for the opening of their hotel “Joffre” on April 1st.
The gentlemen plan to stage the opening of the hotel by throwing it open to the
public for inspection the first day with a reception at night. An orchestra
will be secured for the occasion, and speeches will be delivered by prominent
men of the town.
The U.S. Civil Service commission announces that an open
competitive examination for the position of unskilled laborer will be held in
the Monroe post office beginning March 25 and continue until April the 1st.
A vacancy now exists in the position of laborer at a salary of $720 per annum
in the Custodial Service. Application blanks may be procured from Mr. John
Fulenwider, Local Secretary, at the post office. No applications will be accepted
after April 1st.
Mr. J.D. Futch has received a short history of the 56th
Pioneer Infantry from his son, Mr. John Futch, a member of Co. C of that
organization. The regiment reached its full war strength in August, 1918, about
100 Monroe and Union county men being placed in Companies B and C. They sailed
from Hoboken and arrived in St. Nazaire, France, on Sept. 13 and were sent
directly to the Argonne front where they were under constant shell fire until
the signing of the armistice. The regiment was then mobilized and ordered to
Germany as a part of the Army of Occupation, marching by way of Luxemburg and
reported to army headquarters Dec. 15 at Coblenz on the Rhine, being one of the
first regiments to enter Coblenz.
Sergeant Stitt Hunter is visiting relatives in the county.
Sergt. Hunter was with Pershing as a member of the calvary in the merry chase
for Villa across the sands of Mexico in 1916.
Sergeant Blake B. Belk arrived in New York from overseas on
the transport Mongolian Friday, according to a telegram received by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. S.E. Belk. Sergt. Belk spent 14 months with the
Expeditionary forces in France.
Mr. T.C. Griffin and Miss Zula Aldridge were married in
Charlotte on Monday, March 3. Mr. Griffin has a position with Winchester &
Futch and Mrs. Griffin for a number of years has been the efficient
stenographer of the law firm of Stack & Parker. They are fine young people
and their many friends congratulate them.
The third quarter payments on the subscriptions to the
hospital fund are now due and Mrs. D.B. Snyder asks The Journal to announce that
she will begin collecting at once. The process of renovating the Ellen
Fitzgerald Hospital is under way once more and money is badly needed. All
contributors are urged to have these payments ready in order not to
inconvenience Mrs. Snyder.
Mr. Thomas Long, a former resident of this county and a
brother of Mr. William Long, died at his home in Collin county, Texas, Feb. 7.
He moved from Union county to Texas in 1892 and has made his home there since
that time. He is survived by several children, one of whom is with the American
expeditionary forces. The deceased was a faithful member of the Baptist church.
Mr. W.S. Blakeney, district chairman of the Liberty Loan
organization, has secured Mr. T.L. Riddle to act as county chairman in the
Fifth Liberty or “Victory Loan,” which begins the coming month. The date of the
beginning of the loan has not yet been definitely settled upon. A county organization
will be perfected in the near future. County Chairman Riddle took an active
part in the previous drives in the county as publicity director. His previous
connection with the Liberty Loan organization will stand him in good stead in
making the Victory loan a success in Union County.
Mr. James C. Austin of Marshville township left last night
for points in Ohio where he will purchase a number of fine Guernsey cattle. Mr.
Austin is one of the foremost registered cattle boosters in the count.
Mr. J.T. Holloway has purchased the house on West Franklin
street, at present occupied by Mrs. Atha Stevens, from Mr. Randolph Redfearn.
Mr. Holloway intends to have the house remodeled throughout.
Mr. C.D. Meacham, who for some time has been with the
Icemorlee Cotton Mills as book-keeper, has resumed his former place as cashier
at the freight depot. Mr. C.T. Harrell, who has been acting as cashier, has
been transferred to the position of agent at the passenger station.
In looking over some old papers a few days ago Mr. John
Stroud came across land grants given by King George III of England to John
Helms in 1794. One tract of land of 275 acres is described as being in the
county of Mecklenburg on the water of Twelve Mile Creek and as in our province of
North Carolina. Another tract of 150 acres is described as lying on Richardson
Creek in Mecklenburg. The old style of
making the letters is used in the papers. Mr. Stroud gave The Journal one of the grants and any one desiring to see it can do
so by calling the office.
The Washington correspondent of the Charlotte Observer states in Sunday’s paper that he has information
from authoritative sources that the 113th Field Artillery sailed
form a French port on March 5th. If this is true the regiment will
probably arrive in a home port in the course of a week. The Bickett Battery is
a unit of this regiment.
A preliminary will be held at the auditorium of the Graham
School this afternoon to select four debaters who will represent the high
school in the triangular debate. Those who will take part in the preliminary
are Miss Sarah Presson and Messrs. John Redwine, Charles Jordan, Audrey
McIlwaine, Henry Browning, Karl Schachner, and John Hobelka. The four best
speakers will be selected.
Dr. E.W. Sikes, president of Coker College, delivered a most
eloquent and timely lecture at the Baptist church Sunday night on “The
Friendship Between Great Britain and America.” He traced the relations between
these two countries from the Revolution, which was really a victory for the
English speaking people, to the present time in a way which held his audience from
beginning to end. He showed us how England and her navy had always stood behind
the young Republic during perilous times; how she had underwritten the Monroe
Doctrine; how “the Mistress of the Sea” was instrumental in obtaining for us
the vast territories east and west of the Mississippi. And now that Wilson, Lloyd
George and Clemenceau, the three principal figures of the peace conference, are
seeking to obtain a peace that cannot be broken—one foretold by the prophets of
old—Dr. Sikes stated forcefully in conclusion that it was time for the church
to stand true to its teachings and back these men up.
Mr. T.M. Broom will preach at Brief school house at 2:30
next Sunday afternoon.
The legislature adjourned today at 1 o’clock. Senator J.N.
Price arrived home from attending the sessions yesterday.
Rev. A. Marsh will preach at Benton’s Cross Roads the fourth
Sunday in this month at 11 o’clock; Sunday school at 10 o’clock.
Richards, the Wizard, with his company of accomplished magicians,
begins a three nights engagement at the Strand theater Thursday night.
Mrs. Bessie S. McClellan gave $100 to the Armenian and
Syrian Relief Fund.
Mr. Wriston Scales, a former Monroe boy, has arrived in New
York City from overseas.
Mrs. J.F. Doster is visiting her son at Camp Jackson.
Mrs. Lottie Bowen is ill with pneumonia at her home on East
Jefferson street.
Mr. E.R. Biggers has returned from a Charlotte hospital
where he underwent an operation for cancer, and is much improved.
Mrs. W.B. Plyler of Newark, Ohio, Mrs. Dora Lower of
Ridgecrest and Mrs. W.P. Griffin of Wingate are visiting their sister, Mrs.
M.C. Long. Mrs. Long has been sick for seven weeks, but was able to be up for
dinner with her sisters today.
Dr. H.E. Gurney has recovered from an attack of influenza.
Indian Trail, Route 1, Items
Mr. Frank Stegall had the misfortune recently while cutting
cross ties of splitting his foot open to the instep. Dr. Whitley of Unionville
dressed the wounded member, it requiring 12 stitches to sew it up.
A message received yesterday says that Mr. Bruce Hartsell
has received an honorable discharge from the U.S. army.
Mr. Edward Kirk has returned from overseas and is now here
with his people.
Mr. John Dixon has enough home made tobacco to last two
years without getting any more store tobacco. A leaf three feet long and 20
inches wide was raised by him last year.
Misses Zula Rushing and Emma Pigg and Mr. and Mrs. Sanford
Morris of Mint Hill were visitors here last week.
A strange light of many colors was seen by your scribe one
night last week. It was of all colors, several ribbons in rows straight up and
down, as broad as a rainbow, circled through in several straight lines and they
gradually moving in the direction of East from North, very high in the
elements, and we could see it moving and hear a crackling noise like a
brush-heap burning, and lasted little more than an hour. All colors of light
attracted our attention. We have never seen anything like it.
Misses Lillie Hill, Pearl Hill, Rena Furr, and Hazel Furr
sustained some minor bruises by jumping from a buggy when a mule hitched to it
became frightened and tried to run.
Mr. Lawrence Lemmon is in the mercantile business now.
Union School News
Monroe, Route 1—Miss Lois Trull, who is attending school at
Wngate, spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.V. Trull.
Mrs. Edmund Miller of Jefferson spent a few days with her
father, Mr. B.F. Parker, last week.
Rev. E.C. Snyder filled his regular appointment at Union
Sunday afternoon, his text being “launch out in the deep and let down your net.”
The sermon was so appealing that it was enjoyed by all.
Miss Lalia Parker delightfully entertained a number of her
friends last Saturday evening. The young people enjoying Miss Parker’s
hospitality were Misses Ethel and Doyle Gulledge, Sallie and Lois Trull,
Lillian Horton, Ora Baucom, Nancy Helms, and Messrs. Roy and Broadus Horton,
Eustace, Vann and Bernard Baucom, Emmette Gulledge, Bryce Parker and Walker
Horton.
Mr. Vann Parker spent Saturday and Sunday with his father,
Mr. B.F. Parker.
Miss Eudora Baucom, our primary teacher, spent Saturday and
Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H.M. Baucom.
The larger boys of our school have organized a debating
society, which is a great help to our community, under the leadership of Mr.
John Parker.
The school at Union, taught by Misses Nancy Helms and Amy
Baucom, is progressing nicely, considering the influenza situation.
“Uncle Sandy” Parker is recuperating nicely from a paralytic
stroke. We all hope he will be out soon.
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