The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1915-07-16
HERE ARE SOME SUBJECTS.
Home Offers Some Real
Important Topics for the spit and
Argy COwd-What a Mar>hville
Man Will DO When He has No In
SuraufR.

Argy Crowd-What a Marshyillt
Man Will DO When He has No In.
surance.
Nashville Home. 18th.
That Immortality seems to us
mighty deep subject for the Win
gate spit and Argy Club" TO be
handling. Perhaps their philosophy
could be better understood if they
would engage in discussions of some
of the questions find a very dear
place in the hearts of number OF
Marshville's goods box philosophers
such as these: IF monkey sits on
post and you walk around said post
while the monkey turns as you travel
and keeps his head TO you all the
time have you been around the mon
key" and Does the top of a wagon
wheel travel faster than the bottom
when in notion" and "Will a tub
of water weigh more with fish
swimming in il than with him out?'
Try these O. p. and see how you
make il.
Mr. W Hamp Brooks dropped dead
at his home in New Salem township
this morning while on his way from
the house To the barn where he had
started TO get a horse to 80 TO plow-
ing. He had rot been in i'll health al
all. ApopleXy is supposed OF have
caused his death Mr.. Brooks was
good christian gentleman. and was
a loyal Mason. He is survived by his
wife, who was Miss Minnie Baucom
one brother, Dir. H. NJ. Brooks OF
New Salem township, three sisters,
Mesdames Emaline Kiker. Bette
Medlin. Nola Stewart, and fourteen
children. Mr.. Brooks has been mar
ried twice. his first wife being Miss
Temple Dry. TO which nine children
were born. His last union was bless
ed with five children.
The post office receipts at Marsh
vile since January LIST. 1915. are con
siderably in excess of the receipts
for the same months last year
which shows that the European wal
hasn't turned the wheels of progress
backwards in this town and commu-
nifty The increase in postal receipts
is partly due TO the increased parcel
post business through the aecommo-
dations Afforded customers who live
on rural routes to have flour, plows
drugs. dry goods, etc, sent out on
the routes TO them when they are
too busy to go TO town for supplies
The farmers are learning the bene-
fits Afforded them to ship butter
eggs. etc, to their consumers by par
eel post. These new avenues that
are being opened up are sure TO prove
an inestimable benefit TO the country
in more ways than We can imagine.
Messrs j. T. and j. e. Green will
not be dependent upon France OF
Germany for crimson clover seed this
year. They had clover seed strip
per made by Mr.. C. T. Bailey OF
Marshvlle, and it does the work sue
cessfully.
The fact that ninety four thousand
dollars are on deposit in the banks
at Marshville shows conclusiyely tina,
this section of the country is not in
such a bad condition. 1t ought to
stimulate confidence in our banking
institutions and to increase the al.
ready strong faith that Union Is
about the best county in the State.
Occasionally we read in the bis
dailies of families who have twelve
or fourteen children and they are sci
up as models OF the Roosevelt type
of families. A couple OF colored folks
live in Marshville that are sure nuff'
advocates of the Roosevelt idea in re-
gard TO large families. The man and
wife to which We refer are Calvin
and Lean Carelock and they have %
children, the youngest grown. and
Calvin and Lean look like they might
live quarter of century yet
Mrs, b. H. Griffin is doing some
good work as collaboration for the
tomato club in this county. There
is big field for the canning indus.
try, to say nothing of the big APP.
petites of the future husbands of the
girls who are spending little time
at so valuable work as learning the
canning business.
Just as we had expected Mr.
Brownlow Traywick won a prize in
the fddler's convention at Monroe
last week-not for fiddling but fol
being the ugliest fiddler in the bunch
Now this dosent mean that Brown.
low is an ugly man, but simply
shows that fiddlers are all good look.
ing and the just had to give the
prize to some body and happened tc
think OF Brownlow's name first.
1t is worth trip to a circus tc
hear Mr.. Rufus Little tell about put.
ting out the flames when his barn
on which there wasn't a cent OF in.
surance. caught fire Saturday. The
fire originated among some straw
at the rear of the building. and was
caused by negro workman's throw
ing cigarette stub In the wronl
place. Mr.. Little says that he would
have given ten dollars for a pine
brush with which he might have ex
tinguished the fire., but as he didnt
have time just then to hunt a brush
he did the scratching stunt up a.
nicely as dog scratching after q
mink and thereby saved the barn.