Local and
Personal
Mr. and Mrs. T.C. Lee have received a telegram stating that their
son, Mr. Sam Lee, has arrived from overseas.
The many friends of Capt. and Mrs. S.H. Green will be glad to
learn that they expect to return to Monroe shortly and will make their home
here in the future.
Mrs. T.B. Willis, who will be remembered by the older citizens of
the town, died at her home in Sumter on June 30, and was buried in Macon, Ga.
This information came in a letter to Mrs. Julian Griffin, who not long ago visited
Mrs. Willis’ home.
Mr. S.B. Hart has received a telegram stating that his son, Mr.
Roy Hart, had landed in New York from overseas. This is Mr. Hart’s fourth son
to arrive unscathed from overseas after being in action in France. Mr. Louie
Hart, who was a member of the 56th Pioneers and with the Army of
Occupation, arrived home Sunday.
First Lieutenant Robert H. Houston and Mrs. Houston arrived in
Monroe last night and for the present will make their home with Lt. Houston’s
mother, Mrs. R.V. Houston. Lt. Houston entered the first officers training camp
at Fort Oglethorpe in the spring of 1917. After training there he was sent to a
flying school in Canada and Texas and in a short time was commissioned a first
lieutenant in the aviation. He continued in this branch of service overseas
until he contracted influenza in a very severe form and remained in the
hospital for a number of months. Mrs. Houston, who met her husband in New York,
has made her home with her parents in Sandersville, Ga., during Lt. Houston’s
absence.
A clipping from an English paper received here mentions Lt. Leslie
Futch, son of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Futch, who is taking a course at Oxford
University, England, as the star player in a recent game of baseball between
Oxford and Trinity College, Dublin. The Trinity team arrived at Oxford with
only seven players. Not to disappoint the spectators who had assembled for the
game the Oxford captain loaned two of his players to the visitors. One of the
two was Lt. Futch. It was his playing which enabled the aggregation from
Trinity to carry home the bacon by a score of 8 to 6. The English paper says
that with the assistance of the Monroe boy the Trinity crowd started out with a
whirl and continues “Futch of Oxford, playing with the visitors, was the star
of the day, driving in two runs and scoring one against his team mates.”
The Union county boys who landed in Newport News, Va., on
Wednesday, June 23, after 10 months of service overseas as members of Companies
B and C of the 56th Pioneer Infantry, received their discharge at
Camp Lee, Va., last Saturday and arrived home Saturday night and Sunday. They
are: Joseph C. Hill, Oscar B. Shelly, Arthur Helms, William B. Hanna, Brinkley
L. Simpson, J.L. Brooks, Thomas B. Price, Maurice W. Biggers, John F. Wilson,
S. Bland Keziah, Milas P. Medlin, Wm. S. McWhorter, Fred L. McRorie, Reece
Phifer, Daniel Murphy, E. Carl Helms, Joseph O. Ross, Samuel E. Starnes, John
D. Futch, Ira L. Presson, Rufus E. Duncan, Jas. A. Little, Amos A. Medlin,
George W. Wentz, Capers S. Mackey, John T. Carpenter, John A. Beasley, Louie
Hart, John R. Winchester and Claud Duncan. Mr. Olin McManus, who was a member
of the regiment, was taken ill with mumps after reaching the embarkation port
in France and transferred to the hospital, and therefore did not arrive with
the others. His illness was not serious and it is expected that he will arrive
in the States in a short time.
The Wesley Chapel High School opened July 14th with the
following teachers: L.A. Price, principal; Miss Lillian Britt, Maxton,
assistant principal; Miss Carrie Freeman, Bladenboro, music teacher; Miss
Rainelle Purser, Unionville, primary teacher. Mrs. Sam Redwine, Waxhaw Route 4,
will keep the dormitory.
Master Wesley Worley, so of Mr. and Mrs. E.D. Worley, sustained a
badly sprained wrist and minor bruises late Thursday afternoon when one wheel
of an automobile driven by Mr. Roland Williams passed over his arm. The young
man had been riding in the car and attempted to jump from it while it was in
motion and fell with the above stated results.
At the Joffre Thursday night the Chamber of Commerce was host at a
banquet to Lt. E. Wine and Lt. H.B. Cox, in charge of the airplane which
arrived Thursday afternoon for the Fourth of July celebration. Those present
were Messrs. F.G. Henderson, J.C. Sikes, T.L. Crowell, C.B. Adams, James M.
Morrow, W.B. Love, G.B. Caldwell and T.L. Riddle. Uncle Sam’s airmen made a
favorable impression on the citizens of Monroe.
From 10 o’clock Sunday morning until 3 in the afternoon a
17-year-old boy, who said his name was Parker, sat beside a warehouse in the railway
yards here while the red line in the thermometer was threatening to burst
through the top of the glass tube in search for a higher altitude. Officers
found him preparing to beat his way out of a train and stopped his plans. He
had a pocket book but no money, and was crippled, caused by a cut on the foot.
He said that he was making his way from Philadelphia, where he had been running
a folder for the Curtis Publishing Co., to his home in Waco, Tex.
An artillery battle took place at the home of Hugh Caudle,
colored, on Bryan street, late Friday afternoon. The contending antagonists
were Hugh Caudle and Horace Redfern, another gentleman of color, and the latter
came out the victor in the encounter. He managed to hit Caudle twice out of
five shots. Caudle was not seriously injured, doctors state, and there might
have been a different story to relate had his ammunition not given out. He had
a shot gun and one shell. His aim proving untrue there was nothing left for him
to do but dodge the bullets from Redfern’s gun as best he might. As soon as
Redfern’s ammunition gave out he departed and the officers have not been able
to locate him. Jealousy is assigned as the cause of the affair.
The next annual convention of the Rural Mail Carriers’ Association
of North Carolina will be held in Monroe it was decided at the annual meeting
held in Henderson. Mr. J.H. Mills attended this convention and on behalf of the
local association invited it to hold its next session in Monroe. At the meeting
in Henderson the carriers went on record as requesting an initial salary of
$100 per year with a maintenance fund of $600 and a 10 per cent increase on initial
salary. Monroe has to thank Mr. Mills and the carriers here for landing the
next convention for the city.
Miss Blanch Carter, home demonstration agent, will have charge of
the classes in home economics at the summer school for teachers which opens
next Monday.
The Monroe Electric Service Co. is the name of a new business
located first door east of the Union Drug Co. this firm has the agency for the
Delco farm lighting system and carries a general line of electrical supplies,
and does electrical work. Mr. A.L. Helderman, who comes from Hamlet, is
proprietor of the business. He has had years of experience in this business.
The community meeting at Stallings school house Saturday night was
well attended. Messrs. T.J Broom and J.Z. Green delivered talks on the benefits
of lime as a fertilizer. Those attending the meeting will probably purchase a
car load of lime for use in the farms in the community. Miss Blanch Carter,
home demonstration agent, explained her work and will probably organize a
community club.
Mr. Calvin R. Smith, one of the oldest and best known citizens of the county, died at his home in Lanes Creek township yesterday afternoon. Last Friday Mr. Smith suffered a stroke of paralysis which resulted in his death yesterday afternoon. The deceased was 86 years old, a good man and a valued citizen. Messrs. Preston Smith and Luther Smith of Monroe are sons of the deceased. The funeral service was conducted at Philadelphia church this afternoon.
Farm Institutes will be conducted at Marshville on August 14 and
at Union school house on August 15. Eighty-seven of these institutes will be
conducted in the State during the month of August and an effort will be made to
promote agriculture throughout the State. They are held under the supervision
of the county farm and home demonstration agents. The aims of the institutes
this year are: more fertile and better cultivated farms, a diversification of
crops, more pure-bred livestock, and, finally, an enlarged community spirit
which means better schools, better home surroundings, and a more highly
profitable system of agriculture.
Miss Aline Morgan entered the Brown Business College, Charlotte,
yesterday. Miss Morgan is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S.T. Morgan and was a
member of the graduating class at the Monroe High School the past session.
The Union county board of pensions, composed of Messrs. B.H.
Benton, P.C. Stinson and S.E. Belk, met in session in the office of the clerk
of court in the court house yesterday. There were a number of new applicants
for pensions. The board is again in session this morning.
At a meeting of the Road Electorate in the courthouse yesterday
the County Engineer and Road Superintendent Ira Mullis and his assistant
outlined the program of the road work which they will undertake.
Last summer Officers C. Fowler and L.C. Robinson found a crude
still connected with a cook stove in the home of Moses Massey, colored. The
still was warm from a recent attempt at making some of the snake bite remedy
and contained the beer. Moses managed to elude the officers and did not return
to his old haunts until last Sunday. Immediately he was nabbed by the officers.
This morning he was arraigned before the Recorder on a charge of distilling. The
evidence was not sufficient, however, and he was declared not guilty.
About 15 young ladies and three or four young men are standing the
teacher’s examination before Prof. Ray Funderburk in the court house today.
Fire between 4 and 5 o’clock Sunday morning destroyed a smokehouse
in the rear of the residence of Mr. P.P.W. Plyler in the southern part of town.
It was some time after the fire was discovered before the fire alarm was
sounded and the house was completely destroyed. How the fire originated is not
known.
Chal Barber and Henry Blount, colored, took turns at beating each
other over the head with a stick at the depot Saturday night, while Blount’s
wife aroused the entire northern part of the city by doing the screaming
accompaniment. Blount and his wife came to Monroe on the 10:35 train and Chal
was there waiting for a fracas. He lammed Blount over the head once or twice
and then Blount gained possession of the stick and battered him considerably.
One of the two was carrying a coop containing seven chickens and a sack full of
biscuits. The chickens escaped during the fight and the biscuits were scattered
promiscuously over an area of twenty feet around the station. And now the
fighters will have to explain the why and wherefore to Judge Lemmond.
In Recorder’s Court yesterday Judge Lemmond sentenced Ed Howard to
pay a fine of $150 and costs and to serve a four months’ term on the chain gang
on a charge of manufacturing whiskey. Roy Howard was fined $50 and costs and
required to give bond to the amount of $100 for his appearance every three months
for a year to show good behavior on the same charge. These young men, along
with Wiley Funderburk and Jim Richardson, were arrested by officers May 29 when
found operating a still in a house in goose Creek township. Funderburk and
Richardson were tried several days ago and sentenced to pay a fine of $300 each
or to go on the roads for a period of six months.
Charles Vernon, colored, was before the tribunal yesterday to answer
to a charge of exceeding the speed limit of 18 miles an hour in a buggy.
Evidence was introduced to show that he owned an ex-race horse and amused
himself by trying out the animal on the streets of North Monroe. The case
against him was continued.
Mr. W.T. Griffin of Wingate Rt. 1 suffered a broken arm recently
when is Ford kicked him.
During the first week of August there will be a reunion of the
descendants of the late Capt. S.G. and Mrs. Kate Howie at the old home place. On
August 7th there will be a picnic, to which all relatives are asked
to come.
Lin Summerlin, the 6-year-old son of Mr. John Summerlin of Rock
Rest, was almost drowned Saturday afternoon while swimming in a pond near his
grandfather’s home. Young Hoyle Sell happened
to pass by and saved the child just as he was sinking for the third time.
Peter Griffin, a well-to-do colored farmer of east Monroe
township, reports a cotton bloom on his farm Monday, June 30. He says that on
the 4th of July 25 years ago he had cotton bolls as large as the end
of one’s finger and on the third of July that year he finished “laying-by” his
crop.
Mr. F.H. Wolfe entered upon his duties as County Superintendent of
Public Welfare yesterday morning. Mr. Wolfe was appointed to this place by the
County Commissioners about a month ago. He is the probation officer of the
Juvenile court and chief attendance officer of the county. All child
delinquents should be reported to him. His office will probably be located in
the courthouse. Mr. Hampton Price, son of Mrs. H.L. Price of Sandy Ridge
township, succeeds Mr. Wolfe as Deputy Clerk of Superior Court. Mr. Price
arrived home recently after more than a year’s service overseas. He is an
excellent young man and well qualified to the position he assumes.
Mrs. T.C. Anderson and daughters, Clara and Louise, have arrived
from Atlanta where they have made their home the past year. They expect to move
into their cottage in the eastern part of the city some time next week.
Mr. and Mrs. G.B. Caldwell and little daughter, Jo Neal, spent
Sunday and Monday with relatives in Concord.
Mrs. S.A. Robertson left Saturday for Carthage to spend the summer
with her daughter.
Mrs. R.M. Benton and children, Hannah Lou and Woodson, are on an
extended visit to relatives in Russell, Ky.
Mr. W.O. Lemmond returned Friday morning from Charlotte where he
underwent a serious operation at the Presbyterian hospital. His friends will be
glad to learn he is much improved in health.
Mrs. F.N. Snyder and children are visiting relatives in West Virginia.
Mrs. W.N. Poynter of New York City, Mr. and Mrs. C.R. Poynter of
Birmingham, Ala., and little daughter, Kathryne Rowe, and Mrs. H. Grady Byrd of
Memphis, Tenn., are visiting Mrs. Ida Poynter.
Mr. Brack Winchester has a position with the Tharp Hardware Co.
Mr. Ira L. Wiggs, who was recently discharged after several months
service overseas, arrived yesterday to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.R.
Wiggs.
Miss Margaret Clark has returned to her home in Meriden, Conn.,
after an extended visit to Mrs. W.C. Sanders.
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