The Monroe journal., 1919-11-18
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE
--latest Happenings In and Around
Monroe


THIS county beginning Dec. /. and
continuing for two months.
Rev. John \. Wray urges the
membership. so tar as is possible. to
be present al prayermeeting services
tomorrow night.
Prizes for the Egg shower"
are on display in the Monroe Hard
ware Store. First and second prizes
for schools making largest average
donations are large blackboard on
a pedestal and a picture of President
Wilson in handsome frame. \ small
easel blackboard and desk combined
Will be presented the child making the
largest individual donation.
The Union Mercantile Company
on Franklin street will open for bus
mess tomorrow morning. The store
is entirely modern. goods attractively
displayed and il compares favorably
with grocery stores of the larger cit
les. Officers of the company are W.
A. Lane president. V. H. Wood vice
president and W. b. McManus secre-
tary and treasurer. Mr., j. f. Carter,
clated with him Mr.. Frank ELISE, a
most accommodating and business
like Young man. Monroe and Union
county people are invited to inspect
the company's line OF goods which is
complete in every respect.
All boys and girls under Is
years in The First Baptist church are
urged to meet in the church audito-
rum tomorrow afternoon at four
O'Clock for the purpose of organizing
and planning work for the campaign
now on. Men and women OF the
church are already greatly inter-
ested but ii has been remarked that
the campaign will fail in its greatest
purpose il the children are not en-
listed Last year they were taught
loyalty to their country through
work and giving of their small means.
II is earnestly urged thai all parents
send their children tomorrow that
they may be laugh, these things in
regard to their church Each boy and
girl is expected to help in some way.
An airman temporarily so
Journeying in Charlotte. had planned
TO make exhibition Aights in Monroe
yesterday but failed to show up.
Judge w. o. Lemmond had already
agreed TO make the first flight with
the bird man, and was anxiously
scanning the sky during the day in
The hope that his ambition TO soar
above the clouds might be realized
1t was announced that passengers
would have been carried up for Il
price OF 81 per minute. and several
Monroe men had declared their IN
tention of purchasing five or ten
minute ride. Lack of suitable land
ing field is believed to have caused
the airman to give up his contemplate
ed Monroe trip.
"A high official of the Information
al Harvester Company recently wrote
the Charlotte branch of the company
the folowing relative TO recent adj
yertisement inserted in The Journal
by K. c. Griffin a Bro IT would
be impossible for us to offer any adj
verse criticism on the H. c. Griffin u
Bro advertisement which YOU mailed
to us recently, because from the
standpoint OF display, illustration,
white space. and copy il seems to us
almost a hundred per cent advertise
ment You may tell this firm for us
that We heartily congratulate them
upon the appearance and contents OF
this advertisement and that we wish
every one OF our dealers were so well
equipped aud so well represented
An effort was made las, week b.
a group of well-known farmers to
order car load of the famous Wan
namaker big boil cotton seed but
they were informed that the section
where these seeds are raised is under
quarantine against the boil wceNll.
and that it would be impossible 10
ship seed from there unless permit
was secured from the North Carolina
department of agriculture. A we'll
known authority in this county says
that good seed will be scarce this
year, and that he believes Union coun-
~ farmers by holding their seed. can
ship in carload lots To the far South
for prices ranging from So to SO per
bushel. in the spring Boil rot ruin
ed huge quantities of seed in Alaba-
ma. Texas and VI ississippi this sum
mer. and the farmers in those states
are going to be hard pat 70 get seed
for spring planting.
The county road commission has
bought ten acres OF land on the rail-
road west OF Lee PARK for perma-
nent location for the road forces !
sidetrack will BE- put IN by the rat.
road for the deliver, of sand and 9th
er material A modern prison camp
will be constructed tor The chain gang
after the sanitary plans furnished BIZ
the State board 81 health which The
law requires % b. adopied Modern
plans for the care aui work of pris-
oners will be adopted and mode
camp maintained This will draw
prisoners from other counties ana
thus enlarge and increase the effci-
ency of the force On the location IS
a splendid rock auarr5 aud crush
ing plant will be pm "a Mr.. ? \.
Raralson. representing the nationa'
committee OF prisons and prison Ia
Dor. from New York, and Mr.. I r
Beasley. state commissioner of pub
lie welfare, spent Saturday with
county engineer Mullis. visiting the
location and comforting about plans.
Mr.. Mullis and Captain Fletcher will
have one OF the most up-to-date and