The Monroe journal., 1919-12-02
LATEST HAPPENINGS
News Events of the Day in
the State and Nation.

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OF the Norwood Manufacturing Com
pany one of the largest mills in Norta
Carolina, are on strike.
Lester J, Miller was killed Friday
in Jacksonville, Fla. where he fell
from his airplane. Miller was mar.
ried Thanksgiving day.
Welfare workers in Henderson.
n. c., yesterday and to-day solicited
money from business men of the city
in an effort to secure three thou.
sand dollar fund for the poor.
President Wilson sent his message
TO Congress to-day. il being the first
he has not read in person. He has
been working on the message for two
weeks.
The annual convention of the
Southern Appalachian Good Roads
Association VIII be held in Asheville
January 18th To 18th. over five hun
dred delegates from all the Southern
States will attend.
Elizabeth Hopkins, ten-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. N. w. Hop
klns OF Charlotte. died Friday as the
result OF burns received when her
clothing caught fire from burning
trash pile.
Bishop Frederick j. Kinsman. for
ner head %, the Protestant Episcopal
church OF Delaware was received into
the Catholic church last Sunday. The
announcer tht was made by Cardinal
Gibes.
The sum Il 100000 has been
raised thus iar by the Graham
memorial fund committee of the Uni
versity of North Carolina toward the
contemplated students activities
building in memory of the late Pres.
ident. Edward X. Graham.
A Kinston Jewelry concern turned
one thousand and five hundred dol
lar robbery to advertising account by
placms this sign DO your Christ.
mas shopping early; tie person who
threw this brick did" in The smashed
window and is exhibiting a pavement
brick with it,
The supreme council mas adopted
the British plan for partition Of the
German feet. Under the arrange
ment Great Britain will receive scv-
enty per cent OF the total tonnage.
France ten per cent, Italy ten cent,
Japan eigth per cent aud the United
States two per cent.
Frank Snipes, Sr, of Winston-Sal.
EN-, was shot last week with his own
pistol, while two officers were at
tempting to wrench the weapon frorl
him and prevent him from shooting
them 1t is said that Snipes who
was drinking at the time, will prob.
ably recover.
Ben Mcbride. colored farmer
near Kernersville shot and killed his
twenty-three-year old son Friday
night when the son entered the home
after playing boyish prank by
knocking on all the doors and win
dows on the outside and frightening
the occupants.
Efforts to return the bodies of the
American soldiers soon are being con-
tinued regardless OF the French att.
tude. The American embassy IN
Paris has presented to the fnreigG
office note from Washington setting
forth the desire OF the American peo-
pie to have their dead in their own
country as soon as possible.
Red Cross seals were placed Oh
sale yesterday in virtually every CON-
munity in North Carolina. and the
sale will continue for ten days. A
total of nine million seals are to be-
sold in this State. of value of ninety
thousand dollars. The funds derived
from the sale of the seals will be used
In the State for the cure and proven.
tion of tuberculosis.
Grover Gordon, youth of Wash
ington, shot Mrs. Florence Robin
son through the body and twelve
hours later kept her alive by giving
his blood for TRANSMISSION through her
veins. Mrs. Robinson was separated
from her husband and Gordon went
to her home to bid her goodbye after
a jealous quarrel aal fired tho sho:
at that time
Truman H Newberry U. S. Sena-
tor from Michigan and one hundred
and thirty-three other persons were
indicted Saturday by United States
grand jury for corruption. fraud and
conspiracy in connection with the
election by which Newberry obtained
hos seat in the Senate. defeating
Ford All those implicated are said
10 be prominent with the exception
of twelve Evidence before the grand
jury disclosed the fraudulent ex-
pendi.urc of about one million dol
lars and the affair is declared to be
a political scandal without parallel.
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