The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1921-08-05
Farmers Across the Palmetto Line
Already Abandoning Their Farms
Party of Prospect Folks Saw Land That Won't Produce
Seed Some May Get Bale off Ten Acres Auto Ac-
cident May Prove Fatal; A Real Country Dinner

served with a capias H. and his
white witnesses put Ia their appear
ance AZ thai memorable term OF court.
but did not nave pull enough to get
the case tried then When the next
term was called the negro aud his
white witnesses were there again
when the bell was rung but the court
was too busy 10 Try case OF that
kind. This week. when eourt was
called. the. were once more III APP
pearance, as the nesro's white neigh
bors were determined that he should
not suffer for the earelessness of 9TH
ers. and the case was settled The
total loss of time was actually twen-
ty-one DAYS for the defndant and
three witnesses, and then il cost In
actual cash enough to pay the ne
gro's taxes for two years. This is not
written 10 raise any contempt OF
court, but 20 give those in office an
idea OF the trouble that a small mis-
take will make provided the party
cares to keep good name and does
not care to be robbed OF enough
cash TO squash the whole business.
Yet we are called a lawless crew and
don't care a whit for justice 90 and
order.
A Real Country Dinner
Some time ago a friend who pro-
fesses TO like the scribblings | get out
for The Journal. which call only
waste OF good ink. invited me to
come over and take meal with him:
and since chicken was rarity, | ac-
eepted. When | arrived my friend
and his fine wife met me at the door
and we sat on the porch and talked
war and politics. and had about de-
cided that congress ought to be turn
ed into a bull pen and my friend had
declared that ii Senators Henry Ca
bot Lodge and Borah could not get
the place as chief fighters ttoredores)
il was all off, when the madam dis
appeared toward the kitchen and in
a short space someone called dinner.
dinner | went down TO the kitchen
and such a meal you editors never
saw. And. by the way, Ly host de-
clared that everything on the table
except a few minor things TO be OF
his own raising. and here is partial
list of them: Ham, eggs, soup.
chicken. clear honey, cakes. pies,
desert peaches. jams. jellies, rice.
sausage and pickles Of all kinds, be-
sides other toothsome morsels | will
not try TO tell of. | will have the
readers to guess what did to these
good things. After | had eaten as
much as Capt. Heath did at Uncle
Reese Starnes' reunion the other day
| quit and began looking about the
kitchen. The floors were as clean as
water. soap and elbow grease could
make them. The furniture in the
kitchen was not of the fine sort, but
were as clean as the floor, and when
we arose to go back to the porch |
GOT a biz surprise As we went
through the parlor | saw through the
open door into the bedroom a number
of new quilts stacked from the floor
to the ceiling. could not count
them. How many were there? Not
less than fifty, | should say. And the
lady of the house has besides all this
a large family TO care for and all the
work to do herself. These fine peo-
pie are "hoboes," or renters-their
name? am not going to tell, for all
the newspaper men in the state would
gather in-and they would treat
them as royalty as they did me.