The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1916-12-08
Local and Personal.

Local and Personal.
DR.. Quincy will preach at the
Cedar Grove school house on Sunday
afternoon next at three O'Clock.
Editor Tucker of the Pageland
Journal has been a visitor in Monroe
today.
There will be an old time singing in
the Benton Heights school house next
Sunday at 1880, Mr.. James Rogers
leading.
The Wesleyan Philathea class will
have their social meeting next Tues
day afternoon from to o'clock,
with Mrs. N. X. Lee.
Ten thousand. four hundred and
seventeen bales of cotton were weigh
I'D on the Monroe platform this year
up to December first.
The district stewards OF the Char
lotte district will meet in Tryon
street church Charlotte. Tuesday
Dec. II, at one o'colck.
Miss Roberta Penegar won dia-
mond ring and Miss Fannie Nash a
watch in the Marshyille Home sub
seription contest, which closed last
Tuesday.
Miss Grace Benton is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Hill White, in Columbia
and will also visit another sister.
Mrs. T. p. Wells, at Hamlet before
returning.
Kin Morrison, colored, was given
so days on the roads by the Record
er on the charge of stealing cotton
from Tod Houston on Mr.. H. l..
Prices place in Sandy Ridge town
ship. Morrison was arrested by Mr..
Charlie Winchester.
Sales OF Red Cross Seals go to
a.. fight tuberculosis. Every one should
buy some seals. Mrs. G. B. Cald-
well and Mrs. w. A. Henderson are
in charge of the sales in Monroe and
the seals are on sale at convenient
places. Be sure and use some OF
them.
Mrs. Il. " Houston has returned
from attending the U. d. c. Con-
vention in Dallas and visiting rela-
tives in other Texas cities. She re-
ports that the convention was a great
occasion and it required four hun
bred automobiles to drive the dele
gates over the city.
The two months old baby daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mullis,
two miles north of Monroe, was
found dead in bed Tuesday morning.
The child was alive just before Mrs.
Mullis arose in the morning and left
il in bed. The cause OF its death is
not known.
The city has decided to put q
cement sidewalk on the east side OF
Church street from the Presbyterian
church to a point beyond the resi-
dence of Mr.. w. S. Lee. CURLING
and guttering have been placed on
both sides of this street already.
There is talk of putting asphalt on
this street also.
Mr.. Grady Byrum of Vance town
ship, who was hurt severely on the
railroad at Winston six weeks ago,
has become able to come home and is
at the home of his father, Mr.. f. j.
Byrum. He had been in the hospital
at Winston for five weeks. II will
be another month before the plaster
Paris case can be taken from around
his body.
Cant. w. L. HOWE has just COM
pleted cement floor in the Hemby
building at Indian Trail, which is to
be used as q bank Some of the
business men there expect to organize
a bank and have ii going soon. They
expect to have a community bank as
near as possible One man offered
to take fifty-one per cent of the
stock, but they want 1t distributed
over the community
Mrs. d. b. Snyder, Superintendent,
reports the following contributions
by the w. U. societies OF the Union
Association for the quarter ending
Nov. go Hopewell for State Mis-
sions, s5.25; Meadow Branch for
State Missions, SASS; Meadow
Branch Sunbeams for State Missions,
1854; Marshville Sunbeams for
State Missions, $24.60; Monroe,
$500: Monroe Sunbeams for State
Missions, $500; Shiloh for State
Missions, $500. Total, $145.14.
Mr.. V. d. Skies returned last night
from trip to Toledo, Detroit and
Canada, as a guest of the Overland
WHY'S Automobile Company. The
company began an entertainment OF
their agents from all the States last
Monday and it will continue till the
23rd of the month. The guests were
grouped in States. the following
States being the first group repre-
sented: North and South Carolina,
Eanruia Inwa and Me- 1