The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1919-11-28
LATEST HAPPENINGS
News Events of the Day in
the State and Nation.

ID. ". Giles is in Jail at Rock Hill
charged with having shot and killed
his wife who was formerly Miss
Hooks Of Salisbury.
Carolinians are happy over the
Thanksgiving ball game, when the
University defeated Virginia s too.
About nine thousand people witnessed
The game in Chapel Hill.
County commissioners of Cumber-
land county have voted to issue bonds
to the extent OF 100000 for the
erection of memorial builing to the
Cumberland soldiers who died in the
great war.
General Pershing will visit Camp
Bragg December the fifth. The North
Carolina Military Post will be his
third stop on three months inspec-
ton OF military facilities of the
nation.
f. j. WriShi. army corporal in
charge of the grocery department at
Fort Monroe. admits that he has re-
ceived from $4,000 TO $4,000 in the
form of a per cent commission on
meats sold 10 the Fort by Thomas
keane of Washington. ID. C.
An Indian who could not speak
word OF English was tried in Ashe-
vile Wedn sday on the charge OF
distilling. he case was held over
until an interpreter from the Chero.
kee Indian reseryation could be To-
Gated. The lndian was found nor
guilty.
Miss Eli6ab '-h Johnston. a gradu-
ate OF the Richmond school of Social
Work, specialist in juvenile work,
has accepted The appointment as
county and city probation officer OF
Forsythe county and Winston-Salem.
She is sister OF Miss Mary Johnston,
the Virginia author of wide repute.
I. p. Cauble, jeweler of High
Point, was fined fifty dollars and the
costs tor tampering with an electric
meter, BY boring hole in the meter
and placing a piece of a hack-saw
blade against the small disk he re-
tarded the meter and reduced his
bill six dollars monthly.
The t. $. 5. Parrot was launched
Tuesday afternoon at Cramps, Phila-
delphia. The vessel is a destroyer of
the latest type and bears the name OF
George Parrott of Kinston, n. G. He
commanded the destroyer Shaw and
gave his life when his ship was sunk
off the English coast. His sister. Miss
Julia PARROT. acted as sponsor.
A white man who has almost been
Identified as Nathan Upchurch. who
killed Robert Belk near Lando, S. c.,
in 1898, has been arrested in Ches-
ter. He stoutly declares that he Is
W. II, upchurch, brother of the
murdered. One strong indication that
the man under arrest is the man
wanted is the fact that he is cross
eyed, as Nathan Upchurch was.
The regional coal committee re-
quested that all Industries that could
do SO without loss close down yester-
day evening and remain closed until
Monday. that all stores. business
houses and offices close at p. m,
and householders use as little coal as
possible. Coal shortage was declared
TO be "lar more critical than the gen.
eral public realized
One white boy James Foy, eleven
years old, and four negro comrades
were arrested in Raleigh yesterday
charged with wrecking Sea-
board train number two, which re-
suited in a smash-up with no lives
lost. According to stories told, the
boys were operating as band with
the white boy as lieutenant" and
are charged with other offenses. None
of them were attending school.