The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1921-04-22
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE
Latest Happenings In and
Around Monroe.

Roughedgc Council. Jr. o. L. A. NJ.
meets Saturday evening at o'clock.
Mir. ". D. Rawls is attending the
plumbers association in Goldsboro
this week.
Mr.. W T. Medlin. who went from
this county 10 Dalark. Ark. a short
time ago. writes The Journal. that he
likes the country. I'm I'd is enjoying
GOOD health.
Rev. J. p. Tucker. pastor Of the
Rock Hin. ;. c. Baptist church. will
conduct the morning ana evening SER
vices here Sunday in the First Bap-
tlst church.
An old-fasGionod singing will be
held sunday afternoon at o'clock at
the home OF Mr.. Euey Pusser, in
New Salem township. Special music
Tor the occasion.
Don't forget the big carnival at
the grammar school auditorium on
Tuesday night. April Goth. Singing
and dancing, wrestling match, min
strel, etc. Proceeds 90 TO high school
annual.
Mr.. j. C. Helms. who lives on the
Lancaster road in Buford township,
has an old Spanish coin dated 1870.
which he found near an old house
place in one of his fields. He thinks
the coin has been there ever since
this part OF the country was first set
tied. He prizes his find very highly.
According TO a cotton buyer who
used to live in Monroe. a South Car
Dina farmer not SO far from Monroe.
has over a hundred bales OF cotton
that has been in a warehouse six or
seven years Storage and insurance
charges. he said, amount to more
than the cotton would bring at the
prevailing prices.
Rev. Il. C. SNYDER. county welfare
officer, requests The Journal to state
that the fund being collected by the
ministers for the relief OF the poor
and needy will be used to make loans
for those in destitute circumstances
with the understanding that 1t be paid
back at the earliest possible moment
He thus hopes TO keep a perpetual
fund
Sheriff Clifford Fowler, Deputy
Sheriff Paul Griffith, Chief OF Police
j. w. Spoon and Chief of Police
Barnes Griffin. of Marshville. cap
tured a still near the home of Wander
Brewer. colored. four miles north OF
Marshville, Wednesday evening. A
gallon of whskey and gallon OF
molasses were also conflscated. The
operator was at work wien tle Off
GERS arrived on the scene. but he es-
capped. Chief Spoon. in giving chase,
ran into a barb wire fence. tearing
his trousers and inficting several
small flesh wounds on his leg.
A banquet will be given in the Le-
gion club rooms Monday evening at
$50 to members of the Melvin Deese
post and the mothers, wives and sis
tiers of ex-seryice men who are eligi-'l
BILE to membership in the Women's
Auxiliary. A very interesting pro-
grom is being arranged for the occa-
sion, and large attendance is ex-
pected These eligible for member
ship are the wives, mothers and sis
ters of ex-serrice men who are paid-up
members of the local post, also the
mothers. wives and sisters of men
who died in service prior to Nov. IL,
1920.
Mr.. H. G. Clark says that his boy, \
Bernard, a four year old. has a set |
tied conviction that his parents can
answer any question, no matter what
department of the worlds knowledge
il is found in, says the Waxhaw En-
tcrprise. One of his most recent .
queries, says Mr.. Clark, was. What
makes lightning flash," While the
little fellows mother was thinking