Latest Happenings In
and Around Monroe
Mr. R.E. Garrison has gone to Raleigh to drive back two quad
trucks loaned by the state highway commission to the Union county road force.
Mr. Alexander Moser, who lives a mile east of town on the
Morgan Mill road, suffered a stroke of paralysis Monday.
A Ford car belonging to Mr. B.C. Hinson was stolen from
one of the uptown streets Saturday night, and so far has not been recovered.
In advertently the honor roll for the higher fourth grade
was omitted form the list given last Friday. It is as follows: Mary D.
Fulenwider, Chattie Stack, Mae Sell, Lois Stegall, Anna Mc. Redfearn, Robert
Neal, Maurice Redfearn, John Stewart.
Dr. Lee Scarborough, general director of the Baptist $75 Million
Campaign, states that $80 million has been pledged and reports continue to pour
in. North Carolina’s quota was $6 million and the figures now are very near
$7 million, with hundreds of churches yet to hear from.
Rev. S.L. Rotter of St. Paul’s Episcopal church here has
just received word from the Church of the Messiah, Rockingham, which he also
serves, that the congregation there on Sunday signed contribution pledges
doubling the annual budget as a result of the Nation-Wide Campaign for the
Church’s Mission.
A Memorial service in honor of Private Jesse Griffin, who
lost his life in France, will be conducted at Altan next Sunday at 11 o’clock.
This service was postponed from a date several months ago on account of the illness
of a relative of the deceased. Private Griffin died of influenza at Brest,
having contracted the disease on board ship. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil
Griffin of Buford township.
The Thanksgiving offering for the Oxford orphanage amounted
to about $160, and has been sent in to the manager. However, since the above
amount was forwarded, several who were not given an opportunity to contribute
have handed in several dollars for the fatherless. There may be a few more
Masons and other charitably inclined who have been overlooked. If so, a
donation left with The Journal this week will be forwarded.
To exist in the bottom of a well for three weeks on nothing
but a few honeysuckle vines, yet found in apparent good health, was the
experience of a calf belonging to Mr. R.A. Hudson of Sandy Ridge township. The
calf was missed about three weeks ago by Mr. Hudson, and was not found until a
day or so ago. He is certain it had been in the well all this time. No food
reached it, but it was able to nibble some honeysuckle vines which were hanging
down in the well from the top. There was no water in the well.
The North Carolina division highway engineer has notified
Mr. Ira B. Mullis, county engineer, that bids would be received January 4 for
the contract to construct the Monroe township stretch of the Wilmington to
Charlotte highway. Mr. Gus Ginn, who was awarded the contract to build the
Vance township part of the highway, has commenced operations, a party of engineers
now being at work staking off the road.
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