The Monroe journal., 1907-01-29
Tuesday, January -. 1907.
Cotton today eleven cents

senator X. ID. htuNiuc Caihs
home Saturday night and viii
return to Raleigh tonight
Mrs. s. W. Parham of Columbis
is visiting her sister, Mrs. ]. X
Shute.
Mr.. Marvin ii. Richardson left
last night for two weeks trip IN
Florida.
Mr.. ]. S. Hasty has moved to the
j. Millen Stewart residence on Col
lege street.
Mr.. Nj. ID. Helms and family OF
Calhoun Falls, s. C., are visiting
relatives in Monroe township.
Mr.. ii. W. Belk and mother,
Mrs. John X. Simpson, left last
week to spend some time in Florida.
Mrs. l.. c. Beckett left this morn.
ing for Wake Forest, where she
will visit, then at Louisburg and
Sanford.
Mrs. A. +. II. Dukes was called
TO her home at Branchville last
week by the sudden death of her
mother in law.
Messrs. /. F. Plyler and W. L.
Preslar have opened a stock OF
groceries on east Franklin, under
the firm name of Plyler & Co.
The Icemorlee Cotton Mill has
found it necessary to have an up.
town office, and so has opened one
in the Loan and Trust building.
Mrs. H. F. Bivens, who is living
temporarily in Durham and send
ing her boys to Trinity, visited her
mother, Mrs. Laura Cuthbertson,
last week.
Mr.. w. A. Short, district deputy,
expects to organize a Woodmen
camp at Mineral Spring Saturday
night. All interested in Wood
craft are invited to be present
Mr.. ]. Y. Nash and Miss Lula
Brantley were married on January
9th, by Mr.. c. A. Plyler of Ian
caster county. They are making
their home in Monroe.
Mr.. j. T. Williams last week sold
his residence on west Franklin
street, and two tenant houses ad
joining, to Mr.. A. NJ. Crowell;
price 81, $50. Mr.. Williams has not
decided what he will do.
Our Home of Nashville wants a
law to regulate the tongues of tat.
tiers and gossips. We are opposed
to this ON the same ground that
many statesmen oppose dog tax
it would take away the chief pleas.
ure Of too many people.
Mr.. w. p. Fife, the well known
drummer evangelist" and later
mining stock operator, died sud
denly while talking with number
of friends in a st. Louis hotel Sun
day. Mr.. Fife assisted Evangelist
Lytch in his famous meeting in
1889.
There will be q meeting of the
ministers of the county for the pur-
pose of organizing county minis
terial association, on Tuesday, Feb
ruary 9TH, Mt IL o'clock, in the
Monroe Presbyterian church. All
white ministers of all denomina
tons in the county are invited to
be present.
The unusual scarcity of cowpeas
precludes the possibility of many
of them being sown this year. The
few seed that are on the market
are generally inferior and already
selling from $500 to $3.50 per
bushel. The scarcity is general.
The sections that usually furnish
seed failed last year on account OF
the wet weather.
Representative j. N. Price came
home Saturday and spent Sunday
and Monday. Mr.. Prices bill pro-
viding for the election of cotton
weighers by the people has not yet
passed the Senate, but probably
will. 1t provides that the people
of the whole county may vote for
cotton weighers at all the market
points.
Our neighbor, the Enquirer, is
sued special edition last week,
of which the Charlotte Observer
says: "The Monroe Enquirer ap-
peared last week as a special edi-
ton, setting forth in fine style the
progress and interests, commercial,
Industrial and other, of its prosper
GUS and substantial town. 1t is
fully illustrated with well printed
pictures of mills, stores, banks, res
licences, individuals, churches, etc.
The story of Monroe's growth
makes good reading to any good
North Carolinian."
Charles c. Collins, a negro who
owned a cabin and six acres of land
situated in the Vanderbilt grounds
at Biltmore near Asheville, has at
last sold his property to Mr.. Van
derbilt for $4,000. Mr.. Vanderbilt
has been trying for 10 years to buy
out the coon and at one time offered
him $500. Volumes of stories
have been written about the ''cabir
that Vanderbilt can't buy" and
the darby seemed to enjoy his fame
Wonder il it was worth the s6, SOC
differencei
AT a meeting of the Cotton Asso
citation Saturday, Mr.. p. p. w
Hyler was appointed county lee
turer His duties will be to or
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