Latest Happenings in
and Around Monroe
Several cases of influenza have been reported from Wingate, and
one case from North Monroe. The disease this year, however, comes in a mild
form, and no fatalities are feared. Pneumonia has also set in, three cases
reported from North Monroe. Isolated cases have appeared over the county, too.
Doctors do not expect a return of an influenza epidemic of the size of the one
last year, so people should not be unnecessarily alarmed.
Dr. S.A. Stevens and Mr. Hayden Shepherd are confined to
their homes with slight illness.
Mr. R.W. Killough is preparing to erect a large brick plant
at Indian Trial, which will give employment, reports say, to 50 or more men.
Wood and machinery are already being assembled on the ground.
Another meeting of baseball enthusiasts will be held Thursday
night in the Chamber of Commerce rooms, beginning at 7:30 o’clock. An effort is
being made to put out a strong amateur team this coming summer, and all who are
interested are urged to be present at this meeting.
All members of Wingate Woodmen Circle are requested to meet in
the Woodman hall here Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Mrs. (Mr.?) John Griffin of Charlotte, district deputy, will be present
at this meeting.
Mr. W.P. Kendall announces that he plans to construct a
brick store building, 150 by 150 feet, at Indian Trail. Work will commence when
the material can be secured.
Stockholders in the proposed cotton warehouse for Monroe are
requested to meet in the Chamber of Commerce rooms here Saturday, Jan. 31. An
organization will be perfected and charter applied for. Mr. T.J.W. Broom,
chairman of the Union county association, urges every subscriber for stock to
be present.
The Chamber of Commerce has made its first move toward
securing an adequate water supply for Monroe by inviting Prof. Thorndyke
Saville, of the University of North Carolina, to come here Saturday to make a
tentative survey. He will investigate the water supply possibilities of several
creeks within a radius of a few miles from Monroe, and the result of his survey
is awaited with interest.
The contract for the construction of the Marshville township
link of the Charlotte to Wilmington highway has been let by the state highway
commission to S.L. Davis & Sons, who are now engaged in road work in Stanly
County. Chairman Page writes Mr. Henderson that Davis & Sons will have 40
miles at work on this road in a few weeks. Eventually they will have 100 mules
engaged in the completion of the highway.
Messrs. Porter & Boyd of Charlotte, who recently
received the contract for the construction of nearly $400,000 worth of roads in
this county, state they will shortly have enough contractors here to commence
work on four or five different roads. In anticipation of their coming, the road
commission has ordered surveys to be made on the following roads: Jackson
highway, Price’s Mill road, Morgan Mill road, Marshville-Euto road, Marshville
to Anson county road, Marshville to Pageland road, Stack road, Lancaster road,
and Providence road. The head of this concern is quoted as saying that the commission
will not be able to furnish enough engineers to keep up with their work.
Mr. G.W. Funderburk requests The Journal to say that he is grateful to his friends and neighbors
for their sympathy and help during the illness and death of his baby on January
22. The child was about nine months old, and its little body was laid to rest
at Shiloh Friday.
Carl Fisher, the ex-service man from Ohio, who was brought
here on an abandonment charge, is still in jail. His hearing, which was
scheduled for Saturday, was postponed a week on the request of Fisher’s attorney.
Mrs. Fisher, who before her marriage was Mrs. Cornelia Sykes Meacham, is said
to be reconciled to her husband, and now wants him released from custody.
Fisher’s attorney, it is understood, is waiting to hear from his parents before
the hearing is concluded. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher were married while the former was
stationed at Camp Greene. Mrs. Fisher was working in a Charlotte café at the
time. She is a daughter of Mrs. Mary Jane Sikes of New Salem township.
A suit of clothes, pair of shoes, raincoat, and $145 in cash
were stolen from the house of Mr. W.J. Hollaway on Windsor street, near the oil
mill, Wednesday night by a daring thief who made his entrance through the back
door. After getting in the house, he walked up stairs into the room where Mr.
and Mrs. Hollaway were sleeping, and quietly walked away with his haul. The
occupants of the room were not awakened, and the theft was not discovered until
the next morning. There is no clue to the robber.
Mr. Joe Deese of Sandy Ridge township and Miss Jennie Turner
of Vance township were married this afternoon by Esq. M.L. Flow at his office
on Jefferson Street.
Cloy Deese plead guilty to a charge of fornication and
adultery in Superior Court today. He was ordered to pay the prosecutrix $500,
her attorneys $125, and costs of the action. Deese is the young white man who
refused to accept a pardon from a road sentence provided he would enlist in the
army.
The Supreme court today began hearing evidence in the cases against
the two Deese boys charged abduction under promise of marriage.
A.R. Deese sold 31 9/10 acres on the Concord road two miles
from Monroe for a consideration of $5,000 to Lonnie S. Fowler.
Mrs. Mary Helms of North Monroe township will celebrate her
100th birthday next Wednesday at her home near Bakers. She was born
Jn. 28, 1820, on the Fitzgerald place, two miles northwest of Monroe. She is in
good health for one of her age.
Tony Rossi, the well-known Italian ice cream vendor, has
returned from a trip to Baltimore. While there he saw one of his brothers for
the first time in 10 years. Another of Tony’s brothers was in the Italian army
and saw service in the trenches for nearly three years.
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