Happenings In and Around Monroe, Dec. 16, 1919

From The Monroe Journal, Dec. 16, 1919

Latest Happenings In and Around Monroe

There will be a box supper at Trinity school house Thursday night, December 18.

The pension money for Confederate soldiers has arrived and can be had at the courthouse from R.W. Lemmond.

The Standard Oil Company is preparing to buy land outside the incorporated limits for the purpose of moving its oil takes to a safer location.

There will be a box supper at the White school house next Saturday night, Dec. 20. The proceeds will go to the school improvement fund.

Mr. J.L. McInnis of Buford township is moving his family to-day to Jackson Springs, N.C., where they will make their home.

Mr. A.W. McCall has clock, American made, on display in his show window that runs 450 days without one winding.

Mr. A.M. Price and Miss Janie Underwood, both of North Monroe township, were married Saturday afternoon by Esq. M.L. Flow at his office on Jefferson street.

Although Mr. W.W. Pusser lives 13 miles in the country he wants the Monroe kiddies to have a grand and glorious Christmas and has contributed $1 to the big tree fund.

Rev. J.W. Little will begin an evangelistic meeting at Indian Trail on Christmas day, holding services at 11 in the morning and 7 at night. The meeting will last for 10 days.

Mr. Horace Neal is recovering from an operation on his right foot. The operation was performed by Boston surgeons in the Massachusetts General Hospital. Mr. Neal will remain in Boston for treatment for several months yet.

The ford car belonging to Mr. B.C. Hinson which was stolen from the streets of Monroe on Sunday, Dec. 7, before day, was found on the Ansonville road. The gasoline had given out so the thief had abandoned the car.

The city schools will close Friday afternoon for the Christmas holidays and will not reopen until Jan. 5^th, giving the children and members of the faculty two full weeks. The teachers leave for their respective homes Saturday morning.

Christmas goodies and gifts for the boys of ward 6 at the Oteen hospital are accumulating rapidly and the box will be packed Saturday and immediately shipped to Ashville. All contributions should be sent to Mrs. Charles Iceman, who is directing this work. (The boys on ward 6 are soldiers still recovering from wounds.)

“King Winter,” a charming Christmas cantata, will be presented at the Strand theatre Friday night by the senior class of the high school. It is short, requiring only 40 minutes to see it, but is unusually beautiful. Admission 25 and 50 cents, and the proceeds will go to the high school annual, the Mohisco.

Although the Christmas Red Cross Roll Call fell down woefully this year in Monroe, there were a number who did their part to hold the organization to its war-time prosperity. Among these was Miss Lula Bell McGill, 12-year-old girl of North Monroe, who procured 11 members last week, collecting the money and sending it to the chairman.

Sixty-five county teachers were present at a meeting held in the grammar school auditorium Saturday morning. The sixth and eighth chapters of the Davis’ The Work of the Teacher were discussed, the teachers responding animatedly. Prof. R.W. Allen, who is leader of this group, pronounces Saturday’s meeting the most interesting and successful of the kind that he has ever held.

Under the direction of Farm Demonstrator T.J.W. Broom a meeting was held at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon in the Chamber of Commerce to lay plans for the Union County warehouse Association. Mr. J.B. Brown, a warehouse expert from Raleigh, was present and addressed the meeting. It was decided to launch a campaign immediately to raise subscriptions to build a warehouse for the county.

Hearing Monroe railroad men with runs on the Georgia division report on the flood in and around Atlanta brings recollections of a like disaster that struck North Carolina in 1916. Capt. W.E. Cason says the rains in Atlanta are the “worst ever,” and considerable damage has been done to the city water system. However, the swollen streams reached their height at Columbus and West Point, Ga., the Chattahoochee being higher than it has ever been in the history of the weather bureau. With railroad tracks submerged and bridges demolished, traffic between Atlanta and Birmingham is at a complete standstill.

At a meeting of the stockholders of the Iceman Knitting Mill last Friday afternoon in the office of Mr. J.C. Sikes the following directors were elected: Messrs. Charles Iceman, J.M. Belk, R.A. Morrow, N.C. English, F.G. Henderson, T.P. Dillon, J.H. Lee, H.E. Lee, and J.C. Sikes. The directors in turn elected Mr. Iceman president and treasurer and Mr. Sikes vice-president and general counsellor. The mill has $100,000 in common stock and $50,000 preferred, to be paid in at the rate of 10 per cent each month beginning January 1. One hundred acres of land adjoining the Icemorelee property on the Charlotte road has been purchased as the mill site and a contract has been let for a spur track. Work is expected to begin at once.

Mr. J.Z. Greene and a number of prominent men over the county will attend the organization meeting of the State Cotton Association in Raleigh to-morrow, December 17^th. The program will consist of a business session and two other sessions in which technical information about the association will be given. Among the speakers scheduled are Senator Overman, President Wannamaker, John B. Cannon, Col. Harvey Jordan and Col. Thomas J. Shakleford, all of the national organization.