The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1919-10-28
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Lancaster is reputed TO ee the high
esl cotton market in this section. On
last Friday cotton was quoted there
At 80 cents; on the same day. Monroe
was paying 50 cents, and. on tap Of
this. local buyers claim they Will pay
more for that grade OF cotton sold IN
Lancaster. But. leaving grade out OF
the question, Monroe is paying the
same for cotton as Lancaster. and We
ask the News. OF that place. TO kindly
take note OF this fact.
| Once and a while the editor OF the
Statesyille LANDMARK will write a
. scaihing denunciation OF the dog, ou;
IN the news columns OF the last issue
of his paper We read a little story tina,
tells in few words why some people
will keep three hound dogs 10 one pig.
II follows: A lonesome old eolorec
woman lives u miles from Statesville
in = little house with dog for COM
pany. The dos IS a common old
hound. but his mistress loves him &c
Notedly and clinss TO his companion
ship. She heard folks talking about
the tax ON dogs and saw her dog
snatched from her unless she could
buy a tag for him. The price OF the
Tag was sacrifice. But she secured
the price. and one day recently she
walked TO Statesville and bought the
tas. walking the distance home. The
sole errand that brought her on the
2i-mile walk was the paying OF the
tax on her dog"
William Beckett, son of the Govern
or. has set an example, by starting at
the bottom in cotton mill, that hun
dreds of other promising young Tar
Heels ought to follow. The textile
industry. next TO agricultural pur-
suits, is the most important of all
our vacations. and is still in its infan-
cy. Northern capital is coming South,
which means that hundreds OF skilled
mill men will be needed in the next
few Years 10 assume control of thcus-
ands and thousands of spindles; and
Young fellows like Beckett. who learn
the business from bottom 10 top are
The enes who are going TO he selected
for these jobs. Leaving Northern
capital out OF the question, there is
still a great demand for trained mill
linen. Every now and then one reads
advertisements in the paper stating
that such and such town will build
a mill fer any competent textile man
OF ability. Take Monroe, Tor in
stance. There is no doubt in our
lmmd but that several hundred thous-
ands of dollars could be subscribed
here in one day for a mill. All that
is lacking is the man; and ii some
more of our youths would so into the
mills. like Bill Beckett, they are as
surod of a brieht future.
Bishop Darlington. who is presid
\ ing al the Western North Carolina
I Methodist conference. in an address
4 Friday said he once heard of man
who announced that he was going 10
lpreaeh on garlic and onions. His OBJ
ject, no doubt. was TO gel an audi
ence; but there was once an evangel-
isl who went him one better. This
evangelist, who was conducting
nightly services, announced that on
the following evening he would speak
on the subject of Liars" He advised
his hearers TO read in advance the
seventeenth chapter of Mark. The
next night he arose and said: Il am
going TO preach on Liars tonight and
would like to know how many read
the chapter suggested - a hundred
hands were appraised. Now" he said,
you are the persons want to talk
to--there isn't any seventeenth chap
ter OF Mark
Wade Harris. editor of the Char
lotte Observer, is on tour of the Eu-
ropean battlefelds, and from Elan
ders field in Belgium, he sends his pa
! per the following story about one OF
the German long range guns: 1T is In
this same neighborhood that the Bis
Bertha. the German gun used IL
Smelling Dunkirk, is located. Gun
and emplacement with its rounding
/ concrete protection, are in position
/ exactly as the Germans left IT, II Il
! an enormous gun, and was brough
! to the spot in five sections. The To-
1 cation is in the only bit of woods left
! intact on Flanders Field and shell
/ holes all around the locality show how
/ close the allied airmen came TO get
] ting it, Dunkirk is IS miles distan
! and many shells from this gun made
I hits on the town. This is the gul
] that was holding the excited attention
] of the world at the time the create
: German performance in shellin
] Paris from st. Gobain Forest. rs mile
distance, distracted public attention
from il. The gun was mounted on
] platform within a circular enclosur
and of course was fired at great ele
J walton. Al rest. the muZzle of tn
gun pointed directly at a concret
I wall nine feet thick. and within /
! miles of II. When news of the arm
: istice was received, the German
I wanted to destroy this gun TO keep
I from falling into the hands of tn
/ Allies. but being pressed for time the
I resorted to a unique eXpedient. The
I fired a charge pointblank into tn
i concrete wall close TO its muzzle. e>
I pecting that the rebound would G,
= plode the gun. But the wall wa
i blown away and the gun and II
II mountings were uninjured. So
= happened that this expensive bon
! bardment outfit which cost the Gel
: man Government several million do