Local Intelligence. .
. Latest Happenings in and Around Monroe
Mr. Roy Brewer is in St. Louis buying stock for the Sikes
Company.
Mr. J.G. Rogers goes to Shelby Saturday to conduct an
auction sale.
Mr. James Lancaster and Mrs. Jane Motley were married March
the fifth, Rev. J.R. Warren officiating.
Chapter Masons will confer the Royal Arch degree tonight,
beginning at 7 o’clock.
The John Foster chapter D.A.R. will meet with Mrs. A.L.
Monroe Thursday at 3:30.
Prayer meeting exercises will be held by Rev. J.R. Warren at
North Monroe Wednesday night and Icemorlee on Thursday night.
Mr. Arthur Byrum and Miss Maybelle Williams, both of North
Monroe, were married yesterday afternoon by Rev. E.C. Snyder.
Two aged colored people have died recently at the county
home of old age. There has not been a single case of influenza at the home,
although there has been plenty of it all around.
The North Monroe night school, which disbanded during the
influenza epidemic, will reorganize to-night at 7 o’clock in the North Monroe
church.
The Totten place below the old W.S. Lee home place has been
sold to the Methodist church by Mr. F.B. Ashecraft for $3,300. It will be used
temporarily as a parsonage.
Rachel Deese, who lives a few miles south of Monroe, while
testifying in a case in the Recorder’s court yesterday morning, admitted she
was the mother of 19 children, although she is only 55 years old.
Mr. W.L. Earnhardt handed in his resignation as assistant
chief of police to the board of aldermen at their meeting Friday night. His
successor has not been named. Mr. Earnhardt will devote his time to his farming
interests. He has made a clever officer.
LeRoy Austin, young Marshville township man, is in jail at
Reidsville, Pa., charged with passing worthless checks. He was arrested last
week in Charlotte. The alleged offenses were committed before the young man enlisted
in the army at the outbreak of the war.
The increase in salary from $2,400 to $3,000 granted to Rev.
John A. Wray last year by the First Baptist church has been continued
indefinitely. The church in conference Sunday also ordered Dr. G.B. Nance, chairman
of the board of deacons, to sign up for all contemplated paving around the
church and the parsonage.
The service flag in the Episcopal church was lowered on
Sunday evening with appropriate exercises. It is a noteworthy fact that each of
the stars upon it represented a volunteer for the service of his country. The
flag will be placed in the foundation stone of the church when it is remodeled.
The remodeling of the church will start at once.
Aunt Margaret Broom, who lives at the county home, is 72
years old. She was born and raised near Wingate. She has a Bible that was
printed in 1828 and a testament that was printed in 1846. She prizes both books
so highly that she would not take a fortune for them. Aunt Margaret is very
active for one her age and takes great pains in keeping herself and her room
clean, and is of great help at the home.
Mr. T.L. Crowell has handed in his resignation to Clerk of
Court R.W. Lemmond as Notary Public. He states in his resignation that his
business is growing so that he has not the time to devote to this work.
“I have been living a long time, but this is the first 8th
day of March that I have ever seen when no trees were budding,” remarked
Sheriff Griffith Monday. Usually, he says, trees begin budding about the middle
of February.
The General Concrete Construction Company is the name of a
new concern for Monroe, the charter of which having been recently granted by
J.W. Grimes, secretary of state. It is incorporated for $100,000 with $50,000
paid in, and the incorporators are the following: Messrs. J.B. Davis, P.E.
McCurdy, A.M. Whelspy, all of Charlotte with the exception of Mr. Davis.
Offices for the new concern have not been secured. The company will do a
general construction business, such as cement sidewalks, sewerage, and the
installation of septic tanks.
Jim Withers, colored, of New Salem township, is hopelessly
paralyzed on one side as the result of a knife wound inflicted on his head last
Christmas by his brother, Tom Withers. The latter was given a hearing in the
Recorder’s court on this charge yesterday morning, but was declared not guilty
after the court had become convinced that he acted in self-defense. The two
brothers had an argument over some money. Jim attacked Tom with the iron tooth
of a rake, and the latter drew his knife, which he used very effectively. The
delay in the trial of the case was not explained.
Fire late last night caused an almost total loss to the Five
Points Grocery Company and to the stock of goods belonging to Mr. Jim Meachem
in a building in the rear of the former stand. The loss of the Five Point store
is estimated to be between $5,000 and $6,000 with $3,500 insurance. Mr. Meachem’s
loss is said to be around $1,500 with $750 insurance. His stand was owned by Mr.
J.E. Stack, who carried no insurance. Both will rebuild at once. Mr. Boyce
Helms, owner of the Five Point store, plans to replace the burned structure
with brick.
Mr. W.J. Rawlings, son of Mr. M.I. Rawlings of Vance township,
and Miss May Presson, daughter of Mr. Mark Presson of Buford township, were
married by Rev. E.C. Snyder Sunday afternoon at his home on Hayne street.
Vern Starnes, colored, was given the option Monday of
serving a three months term on the roads or paying a fine of $250 on the charge
of keeping liquor for sale, by Sub-Recorder I.H. Blair. He gave notice of an
appeal. The officers found a gallon and a half of liquor in Vern’s possession.
Mr. C.C. Sikes announced today that he would not under any
circumstances be a candidate for Sheriff in the coming primary. Friends all
over the county have been urging him to make the race, and he gave out this
statement in order to clarify the political situation.
Dr. R.H. Garren will leave in a few days for New York, where
he will take post-graduate work in the treatment of eye, ear, nose and throat
disease On the completion of his course, which will take several months, Dr. Garren
will come back to Monroe and specialize in the treatment of these diseases.
Messrs. J.E. Liles and B.H. Wolfe are erecting a gasoline
filling station and automobile repair shop at the intersection of Wadesboro
avenue and Windsor street. They will handle oil and accessories in addition to
their other lines. A shed will also be constructed to be used as a place for
washing machines. The building will be of brick and will be about 25 by 30 in
size.
Spectators in the Recorder’s court yesterday morning witnessed
the rare spectacle of a man swearing to the drunken condition of his wife. E.M.
Gurley, a cotton mill operative, who lives in North Monroe, was charged with an
assault on his wife. When he took the stand he declared that when he reached
home Saturday at noon to procure his dinner that he found Mrs. Gurley
staggering from the influence of liquor. He tried to quiet her, but she responded
to his appeal, he said, by throwing a chair at a mirror. It was then that he
concluded a few licks were necessary, so he said. Judgment in his case was
continued.
The Stafford Chautauqua will give five performances, known
as the Pardrama Travelogues of the Hero land, at the Chamber of Commerce
Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week. The program will include music,
motion pictures—clean dramas and features, comedies, lectures on France, Paris,
Serbia, Belgium and Italy all elaborately illustrated. The programs will begin
Thursday evening and continue through Saturday evening. Season tickets for
adults will be $1; children 75 cents, and school children 50 cents. The public
is urged to attend as these entertainments are instructive as well as
interesting.
How a woman of the Lanes Creek community broke up a little
booze party in which her husband was participating by shooting a hole through the
jug with a .38 calibre pistol, was related in Monroe by a citizen of that
township. Her name was not revealed. “Several men,” said the informant, “came
to this home with a jug of liquor. The woman’s husband joined them in their revel,
and they were having a boisterous time until she appeared upon the scene armed
with a pistol. “Hands up!” she cried, thrusting the gun into the faces of the
imbibers. Like a flash they went up. Then she calmly fired a shot into the jug,
and the liquor trickled slowly into the ground before the bewildered gaze of
her husband and his guests.”
Monroe’s new cotton mill will not materialize. Mr. J.E.
Stack received a letter from Mr. S.M. Robinson of Lowell, who was one of the
leading promoters, stating that he was unable to buy the necessary machinery. “I
have just returned from Philadelphia,” he wrote, “where I found no machinery
could be delivered in less than two and a half years.”
It is a remarkable coincidence that Mr. A.M. Stack, who had
as his law partner two men who have become Governors of North Carolina, Robert B.
Glenn and T.W. Bickett, and now another partner who has been nominated for that
high office.
A large hawk, flying low over Mr. L.C. Robinson’s yard on
Crowell street the other day, dropped a good-sized chicken from its talons. The
chicken lived for a couple of days. This hawk has been seen taking chickens from
many of the yards in that end of town, but Mr. J.T. Shute’s flock has been the
principal victim.
Mr. E.C. Carpenter has returned from a business trip to New
York.
Mrs. Sallie McLarty who has been critically ill for several
weeks is slightly better. Her sons, Rev. E.K. McLarty of Asheville and Mr.
Julian McLarty of Norfolk spent several days here last week.
Miss Irene Ford spent last week with Miss Clara Furr, near
Monroe, and both entered Wesley Chapel High School Monday.
Mr. D.H. Farr of Lando, S.C., the newly elected
superintendent of the Jackson mills, and family arrived in Monroe today. Mr.
Farr was highly recommended and has much experience in this work. He will
assume his duties at once.
Mrs. E.C. Snyder, who has been critically ill the past 10
days, is somewhat improved.
Houston
Mesdames Maggie, Franklin and Tom Presson of Matthews were
week-end guests of friends in the Cornith community.
Mrs. Marvin Landrum of Atlanta was a visitor at the home of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J,H. Husley, last week.
Corporal John H Hannah of Walter Reed hospital, Washington,
D.C., surprised his friends when he arrived home Friday to spend a 60-day
furlough. He is able to walk on crutches.
Mrs. Bill Helms of the Oak Grove community has returned from
a Chester hospital where she underwent an operation for appendicitis.
The young son of Mr. Tom Alexander was severely cut on one
of his arms last week when his brother accidently struck him with an ax.
The Woman’s Missionary Union of Corinth has chosen Mrs. W.V.
Tucker as its representative to the state meeting to be held in Shelby the
later part of the month.
Marshville
By Mrs. J.S. Harrell
The following from the University of North Carolina News Letter of March 3rd and explains itself: “The
North Carolina Club of the University turned its batteries on tenacy last
night, and at the end of the battle the defensive works of the system that protects
tenacy were smashed worse than the Hindenburg line. The meeting on the general
subject of home and farm ownership, was in the line with the year’s work of the
Club in the formulation of a reconstruction plan for the State. To the present
system of farm tenacy were laid most of the evils of farm line. And yet ‘to
those exceptional farmers who have a desire to own their own homes,’ said Myron
Green of Marshville, chairman of the committee submitting recommendations, ‘our
present system offers little encouragement, but rather discourages farm
ownership. To the industrial laborer who desires to own his own home we
likewise offer no encouragement except in a few rare instances.’”
Mrs. Fred Ashcraft has been quite ill with a severe attack
of bronchitis but is very much improved.
Miss Fannie Harris will arrive this week and resume her work
as trimmer for the J.T. Garland Company.
Mr. J.C. Austin has returned from the Presbyterian hospital,
Charlotte, where he recently underwent a serious operation. His many friends
are glad to know that he is very much improved in health, and is able to be
about.
Mr. James Morgan is at home after receiving treatment for
some time in the Presbyterian hospital, Charlotte.
Mrs. John Hallman and daughter, Miss Bessie Mae, spent
Friday in Charlotte.
The subject of politics is one which, being a woman, we
generally pass over and say nothing about for fear of displaying our ignorance.
However, H.E.C. Bryant’s article in Saturday’s Charlotte Observer, which points out forcibly that the Republican “lone
feast” in Greensboro, and the general “United We Stand” attitude of that party
must necessarily cause the Democrats to sit up still higher and take even more
notice to see that they leave no stone unturned in their own interest if they
expect to win, tempts us to wonder publicly if the Democrats will respond
readily wit this extra and united effort now necessary to hold their own. They
can blame themselves principally if things go against them, for there can
certainly be no doubt as to the course they should pursue.
We hastily disclaim all tendency to superstition but the
weather lately is making it rather hard for us not to establish a firm faith in
the ground hog.
It is to be hoped that Monroe’s street paving move will stir
up the town of Marshville to activity along that line. The dust here has always
been bad but the large number of automobiles now makes it almost unbearable in
summer. The merchants suffer from damage done to their goods, housekeepers
nearly go frantic from trying to keep their home livable, everybody suffers
from damage to throats and lungs, but nothing is ever done about it except
complain. Not even a street sprinkler has been purchased to help a little. Of
course if we wait long enough we may wake up some morning and find that some
unknown power has heeded our bitter complaints and over night has paved all
four streets beautifully for us, and the dreadful dust is a thing of the past.
It seems quite likely that some such miracle is the only hope of a dustless
Marshville unless the town authorities grow tired of waiting after so long and
do something.
It seems that the approach of Spring is turning the men’s
fancy to thoughts of automobiles in Marshville. A number of new and beautiful
cars have recently made their appearance here, quite a variety of first-class
makes being represented. This means more good roads enthusiastics of course.
Mr. John Long and daughter, Miss Nannie Lee, spent Sunday in
Charlotte with Mrs. Long who is at the Presbyterian hospital. Miss Mary Austin,
who has been their guest for several days, returned to Charlotte with them.
The News of Wingate
The Wingate School, after being closed for a number of weeks
on account of the influenza epidemic, opens tomorrow. Many more students than
were anticipated have returned to resume their studies.
Mr. B.C. Griffin, who has been confined to his home here
with influenza, has recovered sufficiently to return to his work on the Seaboard
at Wilmington.
Miss Mary Sherin left yesterday for Peachland to resume her
work as teacher in the high school there.
Rev. R.M. Haigler and family, who have been down with
influenza, are very much improved. Rev. Mr. Haigler was able to be down town
Saturday.
Misses Mattie and Bessie Gaddy left last week for their
respective schools at Mt. Crogan and Chesterfield, S.C.
Mr. and Mrs. Judson Perry and little daughter, who have been
on an extended visit to the former’s mother, Mrs. Lydia Perry, have returned to
their home in Chester, Pa.
Mr. Palmer Austin and family have moved into their bungalow
south of town.
Miss Fronie Perry left yesterday for her school at Concord.
Miss Della Evans, who has been teaching at Mangum school, is
at home recuperating from an attack of pneumonia.
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