The Monroe journal., 1922-12-08
INTERESTING COLUMN OF
NEWS And INTERVIEWS
Green's Story of First Telephone In
County Recalls Confusion of Esq.
McCauley When Trying 10.

NcCauley When Trying IL.
wADEsBORO CELESTIAL.
KNEW WHERE To SHOOT
MIR. Hawfield Set Good Example
Which MIR. lee Expects To See
Followed-Mr. Thomas Points Out
Courtesies Due the Flag and the
National Anthem.
In recounting his observations of
the beginnings of many things in
Union county, Mr.. ], z. Green says
that the late ID. A. Covington erected
the first telephone line in the county,
one running from his office to his
residence. This is true. Mr.. Covington
at that time had his office in the
courthouse where Sheriff Clifford
Fowler now holds out. The telephone
was a novelty. Squire McCauley had
his office up stairs directly above.
He got interested in the telephone and
wanted to try it sometime. Now,
Squire McCauley was a gentleman of
the old school, the essence of polite
ness where women were concerned,
and his habit in that respect proved
his undoing when he tried the tele-
phone the first time. Mr.. Covington
told him to come in and he would call
up Mrs. Covington at home and have
her speak few words over the phone.
He did so and when the Squire had
adjusted the transmitter to his ear
and put his mouth to the receiver,
Mrs. Covington's voice came over the
wire clear and distinct:
Good morning, Squire McCauley!"
The familiar and charming voice
of Mrs. Covington, coming out of the
sky, and her person nowhere in view
so ratified Squire McCauley that he
dropped the transmitter. and true to
reached for his hat and bowed low,
saying, Good morning, Mrs. Coving-
ton" But the voice did not get into
the receiver, the connection was
broken, and the Squire was so over
come at his mistake that he tried no
more. Here, Davy, take this durn
thing, | can't talk on it," he said.
Monroe Boy Is Business Globe Trot-
ter
En- route from Seattle, Washing
ton state, to New York, Mr.. Walter
Gathings. formerly of Monroe, stop
ped here yesterday and spent the day.
Mr.. Gathings has been in the employ
of the International Trading Corpor-
alton of Seattle for some time, work
ing in the credit department. He has
already visited fourteen foreign coun-
tries, including Alaska, Canada and
Mexico. He is now on tour of the
world which will take about one year.
He goes at once to England, Scot
land and France. Then to other Eu-
ropean countries. Thence through the
Orient, finally sailing from Japan to
Seattle. His company has stations in
all these countries which he will Wis
it looking after business matters.
Mr.. Hawfield Sets Good Example
Mr.. W. d. Hawfield was in town
Tuesday and transacting some busi-
ness with Mr.. J. H. Lee. by the
way" said Mr.. Hawfield, here is ten
dollars want to give to the Ellen
Fitzgerald Hospital Mr.. Lee took
the money and thanked Mr.. Hawfield
for it and for his thoughtfulness, and
that was all there was to it. To The
journal Mr.. Lee has admitted that a
transaction like that in brevity and
purpose just suits him. Has any one
else done that way" he was asked
mot YETI, he said, "but | am ex-
pecting them to-
Some Big Hogs
The Lancaster News says that
"Jim Plyler, of Tabernacle, was in
the city Saturday, and in talking to
a reporter for The News the ques-
tion of big hogs came up. Mr.
Plyler said his father-i law, r. p.
Plyler, of the New Bethel section,
ha four enormous hogs and that
from the quartette he expected to
make one ton of meat. The people
throughout his section, Mr.. Plyler
said, all had good hogs and plenty
of them for slaughter, but occasion
ally you would find man who was
complaining about hard times. The
majority of the people in his section,
he said, was taking life easy and
looking to the future with bright
hope"
Big hogs used to be the style, but
they are not so any longer. Until re-
Gently the biggest hog The Journal
ever saw was one exhibited here as
kind Of dime museum freak about
twenty years ago. He was on exhibi-
tion in the room since occupied by
Willie Wah, the Chinese shirt ar
tist. People went in to see the animal
in the belief that it could not be just
a regular hog, since it was advertis-
ed to weigh thirteen hundred and
some pounds. But it was hog all
right, raised and owned by an Ohio
farmer. But in this as in about every
thing else, North Carolina can beat
il. A Sampson county farmer has a
hog which he exhibited at the county
fairs in that section this fall. 1t
weighs more than fourteen hundred
pounds.
Wong Knew Where to Shoot
All kinds of uncanny knowledge
Is attributed to the celestials and 1t
is said that an American never knows
what Chinaman is really thinking.
Neither do We know how much OF our
own ideas they are absorbing. Here
is Tommy Wong. the Chinese laun-
dryman of Wadesboro, for instance,
who has caught on to the fact that
a. anlnrad pAntlp-