The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1921-04-19
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE
Latest Happenings In and
Around Monroe.


Monroe lodge No. ga. \. +. and A.
7 NJ. will hold free schools of instrue-
( ton every Thursday evening at 1.5V
o'clock. All Masons in the county in
good standing are invited.
i Mr.. Frank Courtney. of Lanes
Creek township. and Miss Odessa Gas
key. Of this township. were married
Sunday at the home Of the oftieiatine
magistrate. Esq. 5. y Helms.
I The school at Corinth will close
Friday night. April 20. Exercises by
the students will begin at eight
O'Clock. Music will be- furnished by
the Benton Cross Roads band. The
public is cordially invited.
There will be no services. * 2t
the sunday school. at the Ia,
terrain church on SUNDAY next 1ht
pastor viii bc away from home. gOlus
to Rich square. \. C., where he viii
preach the commencement sermon.
The meeting OF the Mincdte grange
which was 10 have been held Samr-
day al O'Clock has been postponed
until Saturday week a the same hour
on account Of Mr. DELANEY. the
speaker having been Unexpectedly
called 10 Washington.
Although he was defeated for re-
nomination, Alderman J Durham
Bundy won added laurels as a poll
tician in the municipal primary Sal
urday afternoon when he was dis
covered selling ice cream cones on
the street while the Italian proprietor
# the cart was in the court house
casting his vote for him.
Robert Vernon Niece. infant son
OF Mr. and Mrs Q. v. MeGee. died
Saturday evening in a Charlotte hos
pital, aud funeral services were con
Quoted here sunday afternoon. Rev.
+. {. snyder officiating. The little
fellow. who was ten months old. is
survived by his parents, and little sis
ter, Mary Cason Niece. The parents
have the sympathy of hosts OF friends
in their sad bereavement
Mr.. j. G. Rogers. one of the poll
holders. denies that scores and scores
of negroes participated in the muni-
cipal primary Saturday. Eleven,
not over fourteen" said Mr. Rogers
yesterday afternoon, votes were east
by the negroes. Many negroes en-
deavored 10 vote. II is true. but they
were denied the privilege when they
admitted they were republican in poll
ties The assertion is being made
that thirty negroes voted for two
candidates in ward four alone Mr.
Rogers statement show that this was
impossible.
Mr.. Peirce Rogers. of Allan. who
was in Monroe yesterday. admitted
that he was sponsoring movement
to secure an election on the proposed
issue OF two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars worth of road bonds He
said he had twelve or more petitions
urging the commissioners to give the
people an opportunity to vote on the
bonds in circulation and that they
were being largely signed. He per
sonally had several petitions in his
pocket containing nearly a hundred
signatures They have about twenty
five days in which to file their petit
tons, and before the commissioners
can allow the election, they must have
the signatures of twenty-five per cent
Of the qualified voters
The country is still hearing from
former Governor Beckett. Union coun-
tvs native son. In recent address
delivered at HAMPTON. Va, he said,
in addition TO many other choice bits
OF wisdom. that the negro who has
to get an order from a white man
before he can buy a sack of meal or
side of meat is almost as much
slave as the man who had to get a
permit before he could leave his mas
tcr's land. He was speaking be-
fore students Of the Hampton Nor
NAL. the negro institute. In the
north as well as in the South. Gov
ernor Beckett said further. white men
often failed TO deal justly with the
negroes. but he urged patience on
the part Of the black race. He also
denounced the Ku KluX Khan.
Mr. W. II Boyle. a native Of this
county, who moved TO Florida several
years ago, was dragged from his bug
~ last night says an Orlando. Fla.
dispatch of April Is, while returning
from a ride with his wife and chill
dren. taken to lonely spot six miles
from town. stripped. severely beaten
with a piece of rubber hose and tar
red and feathered Boyle told the
authorities that, after the handful of
men in the mob had beaten him, they
warned him to leave the state within
IS hours and threatened TO admins
ter 40 more blows unless he would
make statement that his prosecu-
ton of r. l.. Wilder. recently convict
ed of misconduct toward five young
girls and sentenced to Jail. had result
ed from malicious motives. This Boyte
said he refused to do. even after the
threat had been supplemented with a
declaration that he would be branded
with a hot iron If he did not comply.
The mob then applied a coat of tar
and feathers and left him TO walk
home Boyle was picked up by the
sheriff a few miles from town.
The Ross will case cost the tax.
payers of the county approximately
1878 in jury fees and incidental ex- /
penses, estimates Mr.. r. w. Lem /
mond. clerk Of the court. This is in |
addition TO the other court costs 1
which will be borne by the caveators.
losers in the case. Each OF the twelve 4