The Monroe journal., 1919-11-14
LOCAL. INTELLIGENCE
Latest Happenings In and Around
Monroe

his family from North Monroe to the
Jonn Benton house in Benton
Heights.
Eighteen thousand nine hunderd
ana slNty-fiNe bales of cotton We're
sinned in Union county prior to Nov.
, l. according TO Mr.. j. G. Rogers. cot
Ton satislician. Up TO this date last
year only 1905 bales had been GIN
ned.
MIR. W. B. Love. director of the
Graham memorial fund in Union
county. has been invited To attend a
banquet TO be given at the university
al Chapel Hill on the night of Nov
20. also on the eve of the Virginia
Carolina football game.
The railroad union store will moi
be opened for business until Wednes-
DAY. Nov. 10. instead of Nov. Is. as
hFst announced. Mr.. Frank Carter.
the manager says delay in shipment
OF fixtures caused the change of the
opening day.
Major Z. L. Harrington. having
completed the sanitary survey of the
town. left yesterday for Washington
L
10 attend joint session of the city
aldermen aud the county commits
sioners; at which meeting his recon-.
u7ndations will be acted upon.
Local wholesale houses received
ABOUT fifty barrels of sugar this morn
IN. and after the shipment had been
attributed among the merchants.
there was a rush on the part OF their
patrons TO get their small allotment
AFTER the news was circulated around
iaat il was for sale,
Marvin Byron Tucker. the IL
aonth-old son Of Mr. and Mrs. Byron
Tucker of Benton Heights died Nov.
lntermeut was al Grace Chapel
NaN. aud the funeral serl ice was
conducted by Rev, J. Il. Warren. BY
roa was bright little fellow and his
parents have the sympathy of many
friends.
The New Orleans cotton future
market dropped $40 a bale Wednes-
aay. and spot cotton here tumbled
along with it from 40 ii to 80 cents
Tor short staple. Thursday, however
roe buyers were paying 40 cents for
that day. No noticeable change oc-
Cured in the market today. the pre-
valing price still being 40 cents.
Several hundred dollars will be
oaered in premiums at the Union
comfy poultry show, which will be
he'd Jan. Z, and .. The show will
plobably be held in the store-room
next to Mr.. 7. p. Redwnes store.
NJ 7. l.. Riddle, secretary OF the as
ISOLATION. urges breeders to begin
repairing their chickens for the eX-
hioitions.
The twenty-third series of the
Peoples Building a Loan association
VIII close December l. and Mr. Har-
-.ove Bowles. secretary of the asso
cation, urges all who expect to eli
Their buy or build a home IN the near
future TO put in their application for
shares at once. The shares pay six
dsd one-half per cent, and are non
taxable.
MIR. w, r. Brinkley. with the dis
tset census department, was in Mon
zoe "Wednesday looking for enumera-
tors for Union county. There are a
few places vacant in the various town
sl.ps and those desiring TO undertake
tie work should write to Mr.. l., \.
Martin. district supervisor. at Lex
ia-ton. for application blanks. or see
Postmaster Winchester. This will be
TIE last opportunity.
In nd tbaV ttsa small ctaa M
Is acks instead of motor vehicles. says
Mr.. Morehead Stack, who made sew
e-al trips to the old country on trans
ports during the war. Coal is plen-
tiful in England, and the business
houses find il much more economical
to use steam instead of gasoline. The
steam trucks, says Mr.. Stack, will
pull any load that four ton truck
can carry.
Mr. J. Z. Stack received batch
OF long staple cotton samples We'd
nesday from the son of a Union coun-
ty man. Mr.. Thomas X. Ashcraft. of
Aliheimer, Ark. The cotton, Mr..
Stack said was worth 95 cents a
pound. Mr.. Ashcraft's father, Mr.. W.
Frank Ashcraft, who left this county
years ago. started on the long jour
ney back to Union county for a visit,
but his health being feeble, he was
forced to give up the trip after reach
ina Memphis. Tenn.
There will be mass meeting at
the Baptist church Sunday afternoon
al $3.50 o'clock. Dr. Waltern y. john
son. State director of the Baptist 10
Million Dollar Campaign. will speak
II is urged that every Baptist in Mon
roe attend also all of the campaign
workers and members. so far as pos
sible. of all the churches in the Tn
ion Baptist Association be present
DR. johnson is a magnetic speaker
and has for his theme the most inter-
esting subject among Southern Bap-
lists today.
1t. Bryant Montague. after spend
ing five days with Capt. and Mrs. W.
c. Heath, returned to his home yes
terday in San Antonio. Texas. Be
fore leaving he presented Capt. Heath
with a German Burgomaster pipe
which is several feet long, and the
stem is in about ten sections. The
pine was bought by Mr.. Montague
while i'm service in Germany Capt.
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