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The Monroe journal., 1919-11-07
COTTON YIELD THIS YEAR
WILL BE SMALLEST EVER.
Predicted That Before Winter l.
Over There Will BE Il Mad Scram.
BILE For Even Inferior Grades.

The uppermost question in the
minds of the spinners the world over
is whether there will be enough good
white cotton TO satisfy the enormous
requirements of domestic and foreign
mills. This question is answered by
shrewd crop travellers and expert sta
tisticlans with fiat mo.
Those who are familiar with the
conditions surrounding the cotton in
dustry assert with positive knowledge.
while the cotton yield this season
will be the smallest in the past de-
cade, the supply of good white spin
nable cotton will be the smallest in
history, aud that before winter is
over mills will be scrambling for in
ferior grades as well as the best
grades. II is extremely hard to Sc
cure the best grades even now, even
at premiums over quotations.
One large producer in Texas stood
on the floor of the convention of the
world cotton conference recently and
Informed the delegates that he had
his white cotton. and that he refused
it. Similar declarations were made
by other large growers in different
parts of the cotton belt.
Many of the foreign delegates to
the conference in New Orleans were
horrified at the living conditions OF
the majority of the smaller planters.
asserting that the cotton farmers cer-
tainly deserve a better price. which
would give the producer more com
Portable living conditions. These peo-
pie used as they were TO the living
conditions of the country classes in
their own countries. were shocked TO
find that the American farmer, and
especially those OF the southern
states where the climate is ideal and
the soil fertile, were barely getting
enough to eat out of his work-to say
nothing of any of the comforts OF
| life.
The world generally, as result OF
| the cotton conference. has learned
that the southern people are more
thoroughly aroused about the condl-
tions existing on the cotton farms
than they have ever before been and
are backing the efforts of the cotton
association to make it possible to
better these conditions through a
stabalization of the price paid for
cotton, For the first time in the his
tory of the cotton crop Wall street
this year has been unable to manipu-
late the market, and the farmers
have been able to hold the cotton
back until they secured a price that
was suggested by the cotton associa-
ton as fair on a non-competitive ba-
sis.
The tempoary advantage now held
by the cotton farmers OF the south
can be turned to permanent advant-
age if the American Cotton Assoela-
ton gets the support il should get
November 1915, when the opportun-
ity will be given to every man inter
ested in maintaing fair price fol
cotton to join, at a fee that is very
reasonable.
The Monroe journal., 1919-11-07
LATEST HAPPENINGS
News Events of the Day in
the State and Nation.

Labor uEion leaders predict that
all union coal mines will remain
closed for at least four weeks.
Mrs. J. c. Daniel. a widow living
near Wilson. is exhibiting two pota.
toes grown on her farm, each weigh
ing S-i pounds.
The first meeting of the council Of
The League of Nations will be held
IN Paris. but the Supreme Council
was unable 10 set the date.
Last week at Southern Pines "a
pounds OF tobacco grown by ]. W.
Phillips sold for four dollars a pound.
This seems to be the highest price
recorded in the State so far.
The sugar sitpation in Ashevills
has become critical as several large
sanitOriums are reported to be COM
pletely out. The patients may suffer
as result
John l.. Moore. aged SIS. was In
stantly killed Tuesday afternoon in
Asheville when he slipped as he step
ped from a machine. In the fall his
neck was broken.
The plane of Lt B. W. Maynard
was broken as he landed at Clinton,
\. c., his home town The Flying
Parson" was displeased that no bet.
ter landing place had been prepared
for him.
An eight months baby of Mr.. and
Mrs. K. z. Greed of Mount Airy died
Yesterday c burns received while the
a N. Il sr-,,sl- ia, IN, ,~h,
fields. The eAild was left in the care
Of a very small sister.
Wake County Commissioners will
call an election al the earliest legal
date for the erection of county tu-
bercular hospital. The purpose Of
the promoters is to build 100000
hospital and TO treat ali patients free.
Dr. Garfield. fuel administrator. has
announced that there will be NJ
change at present in the maximum
coal prices fixed By the Government.
However ii the strike continues a
readjustmeat OF prices may become
necessary
As a result of riding along the pub
lie road near Philadelphus in Robe.
son county. VIII white woman,
Stewart McNair, negro. is dead. and
Frank Davis. another negro, has dis
appeared from the Red Springs jail.
The woman alleged that the negroes
were kidnapping and mistreating her,
The Senate confirmed late Wednes-
day afternoon the appointment Of
Representative +. Y. Webb as federal
judge for the Western North Carolin>
district Mr. Webb was expected to
tender'his resignation as representa-
tive for the Ninth district to Governor
Beckett to-day
\ we'll known farmer near Lexing-
ton made So 400 from 1-2 acres Oh
tobacco He used only 200 pounds
OF fertilizer 10 the acre, produced his
own bread and meat and has sent sev.
eral bales of cotton to market In
cluding all this Mr Michael made
more money than the governor, or
any senator or congressman.
The Half-as-M Much club is recon-
mended by a New Yorker, half as
much sugar on the breakfast cereals,
half as much in the coffee. In this
way. he says. the average family can
save at least seven teaspoonful each
day pound a week, or for the whole
country more than million pounds
| a year.
The Monroe journal., 1919-11-07
Grammer school Honor Roll.

The following is the October honor
roll OF the Grammar School
Higher First Grade ~ Henrietta
Redferu, Lorraine Stack. Herman
Stewart. Elizabeth Griffin. Helen
Cunningham, Ruth Davis.
Lower Second Grade-Sadie Par
ker, Adeine Fowler, James Griffith,
Maxine Stoyall.
Higher Second Grade-Hannah
Lou Benton, Mary Copeland, Marga-
ret English. Rachael Hudson. Kath-
ryn Lee. Margaret McCorkle, Marion
Simpson. Billy Parks Smith, John r.
Counts.
Lower Third-Ruby Mae Austin,
Leon Brooks Louis Brewer, Archie
McNeely, Cart Dulin. Mary Lou Por-
ter, Helen Schachner. Ardrey Wolfe.
Kathryn Williams.
Higher Third Mary Terrell. Eliz.
abeth NJ. Caldwell Frances Greene,
Louise Tedder. Margaret Henderson.
Laura Stewart. Christine Peake. Lyd-
ia Stewart Frank Browning. Maggie
Stegall Margaret Wager, Gladys
Pruitt. Martha r Kendall Frances
Shute.
Lower Fourth--Margare Redwine.
Mar Steele Norwood
High AZ Fourth-Alda Farley. Mar
tina Heath, Anna Nc Redferu Chattie
Stack. Lois Stegall Juanita Langley,
Ella Mae Helms Edwin Lashley, Rob-
ert Neal. Mauri-e Eedfern, John
Stewart
Lower Fifth lena Broom Queen.
lie Carlile. Lois Fowler.
Higher Fith-Max Griffin, May l..
Lemmond Charles Wray
Lower Eleanor Stevens. Vir-
ginia Blakeney. Annie l.. Caldwell.
Katherine English. Mary Foust. Hen
ry Broom. Walter Lockhart.
Higher Sixth-Edna Carroll. Eta
/ Winchester. Cecil knight. Erskine
McIwaine.
Higher Seventh-William Bland,
Billie Stewart. Katherine Kyle Red
| fearn
North Monroe-First. Grover BY
rum, Ethel Mae Helms. Roy Helms.
Mary Lee Privett. Nellie Coan; sec
ond Winfred Helms. Bernice Coan,
Ruth Helms: third. Lula Griffin. Lyd-
ia Helms; fourth, Lola Crump.
The Monroe journal., 1919-11-07
Memorial Exercises Nov. fIth.

Memorial exercises will be held al
eleven O'Clock next Tuesday morning
IN the court house. and all families
OF the Union county boys who gave
their lives in the world war are espe-
eially urged TO be present Hon. r.
b. Redwine. who is chairman of the
memorial association. is sending inyi-
tatlons TO those families and seats
viii be reserved Tor them. II was
impossible to obtain all the names.
but it is hoped that those who hap
pen not TO receive invitations will not
consider il an oversight and will be
present anyway.
The Monroe journal., 1919-11-07
PRESBYTERIAN Church Notes.

Services on Sunday next as fol
fows:
400 a. m.. Worship and sermon
$3.50 p. m. Sunday school.
4:30 p. m.. Evening worship.
A cordial invitation is given TO al
TO attend the above services.
A delightful solo was rendered b!
Miss Mcqueen of the school facult!
on Sunday morning last.
Our congregation is asked to at
tend the Sunday evening service a
Central Methodist church next Sun
day and take part in extending {
cordial welcome to the new pastor o
that church.
The Monroe journal., 1919-11-07
1T. Paul's EpiscopaI Church.

Sunday, Nov. Sunday school at
10 O'Clock. Morning service at II
o'clock. Mems Bible class at $50.
There will be no service next
Wednesday night. but instead a meet.
ing of the congregation is called to
hear a special address on the Nation
Wide Campaign for the Church's
Mission by the Rev, r. B. Owens. rec.
tor of the Church of the IIely Com.
forter. Charlotte.
The Monroe journal., 1919-11-07

Genius is the father OF 4 heavenly
line; but the mortal mother. that Is
Industry Theodore Parker.
The Monroe journal., 1919-11-07
Cotton Associations 10 Meet.

Meetings OF the cotton associations
will be held next Tuesday evening at
Pleasant Hill school house in Goose
Creek township. and next Wednesday
evening at Belmont school house. All
those interested are urged 10 be
present.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-29
Another Upleaval
 in Stock Market
Ascribed to Deadlock In the Coal Strike and Latest Events In Mexico.

New York, Nov. 2S.-The stock market again was severely unsettled today, many speculative ssues fall ing five to almost 25 points on a turn over approximating 100000 shares.
 On the Stock Exchange and in the financial district generally the break which lacked the sensational features of the mid November upheaval, was chiefly ascribed to growing appre- hension arising from the deadlock in the coal strike and latest events south of the Rio Grande.
 Shares of the various coal roads were only moderately affected, but issues with Mexican connections were under constant pressure.
 European news was again discour- aging and contributed to the heaviness of exchanges of London. Paris and the former neutral countries of North ern Europe.
 Selling was at it's. highest in the hour, when call money which had rull- ed at per cent, rose to 10 per cent on the belated demands of borrow CTS.
 Today's setback owed much of its success to the renewed activity Of the tears or short interest, but no small part of the selling originated accord ing to commission houses, from dis couraged traders.
 Another noteworthy feature was tht Liberty and Victory bonds, severa,
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-29
FIRE LOSSES TO JOHNS
 HOPKINS MAY REACH $500. o.00e

Baltimore, Md, Nov. 2S.-Reyised es- inmates of the loss caused by the fire which early today wrecked three of the group of buildings in the center of the city, formerly occupied by Johns Hop kins university, and damaged about & s:ore of residences and stores in the vicinity. placed the amount at approx imately $7O0.000. The. loss to the uni versity alone may reach s500,ooo, buS it is covered by insurance.
 Investigation is under way to 1e- terInine the origin of the blaze, whicl L1oke out in Mccoy hall. one of the units of the Hopkins group. Several explosions were heard in the buildings d lew minutes after the fire started and as no explosives were stored there ifs officials are at a loss to explain Whs-
 caused them. s-
 Mccoy hall. which since the removal
 of the university to Homewood had
 been the homeI5of virtually all Of the charitable organizations of the city, was destroyed. together WITT rrec0fdE.
 manuscripts and data of vaIus sliat l silnot be fzed in dollars. Tie Nary lana Tuberculosis association It.,,t more than 12,000,000 Red Cross Gi11istrras seais which cannot be repiace for tie campaign just about to begin.
 \ high wind drove huge ernbers for
 many squares, starting several other | fires. One blaze broke out ten blocks away. Eutaw street Methodist Epis-
 copal church, two squares distant. was i set on fire and badly damaged. The church is one of the city's oldest edi- ] fees and has been prominently identi- 1 fled with the history of Methodisni. ; Francis Asbury, first Methodist Enis- copal bishop in America, Is buried be- meath it
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-29

cated tonight. What percentage of the miners might return to work Monday and how long the remainder would support the strike which federal court held illegal could not be fore told.
 Although the government through the fuel administration announced 1t proposed to see production resumed even though it were necessary to take over some of the mines, no specific action had been ordered a
 A conference of governors will be called to meet in Chicago probably on Monday by Governor F. D. Gardner Of Missouri, he announced tonight, unless Fuel Administrator Garfield informs him that the government will take de- finite action looking to production.
 On Monday. too. Governor Henry y. Allen has announced he will open the strip mines of Kansas with volunteers. The governor conferred with General Leonard Wood tonight in Kansas City in preparation for the undertaking for which about 1000 men have enlisted. The most encoura ging strike news of the day was the return of miners in Wyoming, where the strike appar-
 ently had collapsed. The release of 6a miners arrested last Wednesday at Carneyville, Wyoming, was expected The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com pany announced it would grant the l! per cent. wage advance.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-29
To Use Force on
 Radicals on Strike
Husky Deputy U. s. Marshals Are to Handle Reds at Ellis Island.

New York, Nov 2S.-Testimony that Frederic E. Howe. former commission CT of immigration at Ellis Island, had ordered deportations of radicals held up, although final deportation orders. had been received from the depart ment of labor. was given to the house immigration committee today by Per cy. A. Baker. superintendent of the island.
 Baker put in evidence an order he had received from Howe last March.
 You will stay all deportations in these alien cases until the. attorneys can be advised and until after con sultation with me"
 E. Baker testified that an order of the department to deport was final and he therefore did not understand the. note from Howe and consulted him. Baker then made this memorandum on the copy of the order shown the commit tee: Commissioner states if deportation orders are received. before doing so he should be consulted" Representative Siegel of New York said there was no authority in law for such staying of deportations.
 Baker said that some of the radicals
 affected by the stay had been released l by the department and some had ob- tained their freedom by habeas corpus proceedings. The effect of Howe's or i der to him, he said, was probably te permit delay for the institution ol
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-29
Reaches the Trade and the Readers

publicity and this is the given invaluable dependable builder
 publicity the which business impossible The sold be right price essentials  the
 Norwich Connecticut thorough y
  no service.
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Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-29
APPROXIMATELY 10000 MEN
 DISCHARGED FROM NAVY

Washington, Nov. 2S. Approxt= mately ten thousand men have se- cured or requested, discharge from the. navy, it was learned today. since the issuance of an order of October 5 per3 mitting discharge of men who enlisted after August 29. 1916. under regtl- lation designed to place them on the same footing with duration f-wsr. enlistments. About 12,OoO four year term men were given opportunity, Of discharge under this order.
 The ten thousand discharges in this group indicated to date reduce the en- listed strength of the navy to about 95,000 or 50 per cent. of the strength authorized to January | Officials at the navy department today said de pletion. of. the enlisted personnel could not be remedied until congress granted an increase in pay.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-29
AGAINST BoMB-
 BEARING CHRISTMAS PACKAGES

New York, Nov. 2s-New York's prominent citizens today were official ly warned by the district attorneys office against bomb bearing Christ mas packages. Acting on advices re- .ceived recently from the Philadelphia police that radical plans had been dis covered for repetition on whole sale scale during the holidays of. the bomb mailing plot of last May Day, the district attorney advised caution in handling all parcels received be- tween now and New Years day. 5 Citizens were advised to carry ali suspicious looking bundles received by mail, express "or otherwise" to the fire departments bureau of conibusti- bles or the police departments bomb squad for examination. The May Day outrages were cited as examples of the extent to which desperate minded radicals will go in order to infiict punishment upon the represene tatives of law
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-29
MURDER IF ANOTHER AMERICAN ADDS
 n FRESHNESS IF MEXICAN SITUATION
 REVOLT IN PROGRESS IN MEXICO CITY
FOR RETURN OF
 BODIES FROM FRANCE

Paris, Nov. 2S.-Efforts to return the bodies of American soldiers soon are being continued. regardless of the of cially expressed attitude of the French government against permitting Ameri- can eXhumationS before the same priv ilege is accorded French families. The American embassy has presented to the foreign office note from Wash ington setting forth the desire of the American people to have their dead in their own country as soon as possible.
 Brigadier General w. D. Connor, commander of the American troops in France, recently held q meeting with the French authorities to discuss the procedure in exhumations when the time comes for removal of the bodies. Despite the French official attitude against allowing the Americans to re- move their dead while the French must wait. it is said to be the feeling in some French quarters that it would be diff ficult to refuse the Americans if pres sure were exerted. It is pointed out that the French have more than a mill lion bodies of their own, which would require much time to remove, that the Americans are far ahead of the French in grouping and identifying their bodies, and that the number of Amer ican dead is slight compared with etther the British or French.
 The Belgians are so near to France that it is believed they have less reason to urge their wishes The present sit continues the former military prohibit 1 tion against removal of the dead of any | nationality from the war zone" where nearly 50,000 Americans are buried, There is no law or decree preventing | the removal of nearly 20,000 American dead from the interior zone" but the
 red tape involved in getting the au-
 thorization of mayors and department
 tai prefects in each individual case
 makes it necessary to devise a plan tc get authorization from the government if the 10000 Americans are to be re- moved from the interior zone. The pro- posed law to postpone exhumations l probably until January, 1922. would however, prohibit the removal of tho bodies from either the war or interior
 zones. One article of this law. whicl the last chamber of deputies did no
 reach, provides exceptions in the cas,
 of any previous agreement witt
 Frances allies.
 Thus far the American negotiation have been limited to general represent
 ations covering all the American dead
 If later negotiations should result il the French releasing dead in the inte rior, it is admitted this would make i ] much easier to urge that the remain s der of the exhumations be permitted 1.-The present American bureau O
 graves registration will be taken ove ] soon by Colonel Harry F. Rethers, re } gently named mortuary officer for Flu r rope. who is now in London He vii lreplace Colonel Kremer. who is return ' ing to the United States early in De ember.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-29
ANNOUNCE MINES ARE :
 TO BE CLOSED INDEFINITELY

Cumberland, Md. Nov. 2S.-The Georges Greek Coal Company, the largest coal operators in the Allegheny County, tonight issued tffis order:
 "In view of the fact that tie en- ployes of this company quit work without notice. the mines will be closed indefinitely. Former employees will remove their tools by tomorrow or Monday and call at the office Mon day afternoon to be paid off"
 With thousands of the miners from District No. 16, which embraces the Georges Creek and upper Potomac re- gions, already out from Frostburg, Md. to Piedmont, W Va. and from Westernport, Md, to Thomas, W. Va, the miners union leaders tonight de clared that by tomorrow, 5000 men will be out.h This action followed a meeting held by the miners to pro- test against tn eoffer of 14 per cent. increase in wages
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-29
!abeas corpus proceedings.

habeas corpus proceedings.
 Representative Siegel read from inn migration department records names of two dozen men who had been held at the island with warrants for their deportation on file but had been re- leased, mostly on their own recogniz- ance. They are now missing.
 Howe interrupted Bakers testimony in an effort to give his version of the matter, but was shut off by the com mittee, which promised him an oppor- tuility to be heard later. Failing to obtain permission to testify earlier in the day, he had issued statement 70 the press saying that he had never released a radical without orders from VI ashington.
 This statement was issued after Howe had interrupted Byron H. Uhl, now acting commissioner at the island and deputy when Howe was commis- sioner. Uhl had testified that letter signed by Howe on April 24 ordering tde circulation of anarchistic literature at the island stopped had not been de- llvered to the proper officers to enforce it until June 4.
 l That isn't true" Howe, exclaimed before the committee stopped his state ment by informing him that it would i tolerate no police court methods. | Later in the day Howe tried to in- terrupt the proceedings again to say that he was in error in asserting that Uhl was not telling the truth, but the committee told him to write a letter about 1t.
 Dudley Field Malone then collector l of the port of New York, addressed interned German sailors at tlie island the night after war was declared Baker testified. and promised then that their treatment would be sucf
 that they would have no cause fol complaint and that canteens would bt provided. The canteeus never were provided, however, Baker added. r Nine husky deputy United State.
 marshals were provided for Commis sioner Uhl today so that he could
 break the silence" strike of eS radi
 calls at the island now awaiting de
 portation proceedings. The usua
 guards at the island are inadeduat
 and not strong enough. he has told tn
 house committee. The deputies vii
 use force to bring the radicals befor
 immigration inspectors for deportation
 proceedings which they have refuse,
 to attend because relatives are no
 permitted to see them except with al
 iron barrier intervening.
 The "silence strikers have been o' . hunger strike for removal of the bar
 rier for four days having last answer , ed the call to the dining room las , Monday night. One hunger strike collapsed today and was removed t F the island hospital
Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-29
FORMER EMPRESS AUGUSTA
 VICTORIA HAD SHORT WARNING

Munich, Nov. 2S.-(via Geneva )-- Former Empress Augusta Victoria of Germany was allowed only ten min utes in which to gather her belong ings" when expelled from her palace in Berlin, November g, 1919, according to the royalists newspaper Phrosper, recently founded her.
 The newspaper. states that a com- pany of sailors, headed by non-con- missioned officers. marched to the palace, shot down four soldiers who were acting as sentries and entered the empress private apartment. They ordered her to be prepared to leave in ten minutes, informing her that a car- riage waited outside.
 Without a word. the empress gath cred up photographs of her children anr, hatless and cloakless, proceeded to PotSdam