The Monroe journal., 1910-08-30
Local and Personal.

MISS AaIguIllc I1OuslOl II Nl>ll-
ing in Chester.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. r. Simpson Of
Duke are visiting relatives in town.
Mrs. R. N. Green and Mrs. J. B.
Ayers are visiting in Charlotte.
The Icemorlee Mill has again re-
sumed work, and the Everett will
begin soon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Bell and Mr..
and Mrs. d. G. Fletcher of Camden,
S. c., are visiting at the home Of Mr.
John c. Fletcher.
Miss Mary Walkup Of Florida will
arrive tonight to visit Mrs. J. X.
Simpson. Miss Bessie Simpson is
visiting in Abbeville.
All who are interested in the Rich
graveyard, near Stewards mill, are
requested to meet there Saturday
and clean off the grounds.
Mr.. J. C. Fletcher, Jr., Of Char
lotte stopped over a few days with
his parents on his way back from
Wrightsyille Beach.
Rev. R. F. Kirkpatrick returned
last night from three weeks trip
to Richmond and Montreal. Prayer
meeting will be held in the Presby-
terrain church Wednesday night,
The county Farmers Union will
meet in the court house next Mon
day. Immediately after the meeting
there will be a meeting Of the Live
Stock Association.
Houston camp W. o. w. will I'M
veil the monument erected to the
memory Of the late J. T. Griffin, at
Oak Grove church, Sunday, Septem-
Der 18th, at 3 p. m.
The old soldiers met yesterday for
the purpose Of making preparations
to 60 to Norfolk. About twenty will
go, leaving here next Monday morn
ing.
While Mr.. Harrison Fincher of
Buford township was suffering with
a severe wound caused By sticking
a nail in his foot, he took typhoid
fever, and with the two had a terrible
time, though he is now getting we'll.
There will be services Of ordina-
ton of Rev. Troy Baucom at Ebe-
neezer Baptist church next Saturday
at 10 o'clock. Rev. Braxton Craig
and Rev. N. D. L. Preslar will assist
the pastor, Rev. H. G. Bryant.
Cards have been received here an
the marriage, on Septem-
Der the eth, of Prof. c. +. Phillips,
lately principal of the Monroe gra-
ded school, and Miss Frances Heigh
Hicks Of Durham.
Some days ago, while engaged in
hauling logs to the Plyler mill in
Buford, Mr.. Samuel Collins got his
foot caught between the break bar Of
the wagon and stump, and the leg
was broken in two places.
Last week The Journal mentioned
the fact that the infant of Mr.. and
Mrs. W. P. Plyler Of Prospect had
died on Saturday. On Wednesday
night following their daughter,
Ruby, five years old, died Of typhoid
fever.
Mr.. W. H. Tucker, who has been
living in Monroe several years, has
bought the Barrier old mill in Ca
barrus county and will move there
and run the plant, consisting Of grist
mills, saw mill and ginnery.
There will be picnic at Mr.. J. I.
Helms, in Goose Creek township, on
Thursday. Good speakers are being
invited and an all round good day is
Speeches are expected by
Messrs. J. J. Parker and R. n. Page,
for Congress.
At the primary last Saturday the
following township officers were
nominated in Goose Creek: Con-
stable, Robert Smith; magistrates,
E. z. Sell So. J. B. Little SO, 7. NJ.
Tucker 81, N. A. Helms 40. The
three highest were the nominees.
The longest peas that have been
seen hereabouts we're grown in the
garden of Mr.. J. B. Ayers Of this
place. The pods are very long, some
Of them over two feet. Mr.. Ayers
bought a few whippoorwill peas to
plant in the garden and some Of
them turned out to be runners sure
enough.
Mr.. Joseph Griffin of Marshville
township died Wednesday after a
ono illness He was ahont 20 wars