The Monroe journal., 1922-10-27
INTERESTING COLUMN OF
NEWS And INTERVIEWS
Mr.. Harris Was Once a Passenger on
the City Of Honolulu, the Ship
That Was Burned at Sea
SURE RENT is RAPIDLY
BECOMING THING OF PAST

Demanding Half and Half With
the Landlord Furnishing the Land
and All of the Fertilizer-Abbe-
willie Has Magic Healer. Railroad
Men Report
Mr.. B. Frank Harris was once
passenger, or al least tired TO be, on
the City of Honolulu, the steamship
that was burned at sea off the Pacific
coast. 1t was in the latter part of
1917 when he was in the army, ready
to embark for France. The ill-fated
ship was then named Huron" The
ship sailed one night with Mr.. Har-
ris and his "buddies," but after get
ting about rs miles out, her engines
broke down. Back to New York they
went and lived aboard her for thir-
teen days while the engines were be-
ing repaired. She again tried to
make the trip, but her eng nes again
broke down. Mr.. Harris, along with
the other soldiers, was transferred
to the Mount Vernon, a former Ger
man vessel. Some time ago Mr.. Har-
ris learned that he had a narrow es-
cape on the Mt. Vernon, even after
all of the accidents on the Huron.
While being repaired for the tourist
trade, it was found that its former
German crew before leaving the YES
sci had sawed the large bolts that
hold the engine to the floor of the
ship almost in two. The Mount Ner-
non had made that trip, as well as
scores of others, with her eng ne al
most torn from its moorings.
Sure Rent" Thing of the Past
The boil weevil is making the "sure
rent" method of renting farms a
thing of the past, saws Mr.. W. c. San
ders. mo longer" he remarked yes
terday, "will tenant rent place
for stated number of bales of cot
ton. Their terms are half and half
of everything produced, the landlord
furnishing the land and fertilizer and
the tenant furnishing the stock and
doing the work. These are the only
terms they are considering
The Boil Weevil Blessing
II YOU want to find out the financial
condition Of the county, ask Mr.. Alb
Joseph. If things are going badly,
he gets the news first. His custom
ers come from all classes, high and
low, and in selling them goods he
quickly learns the general financial
shape of the community. This year.
he finds, people are in pretty good
circumstances. There is little com
plant of the boil weevil One man
did complain little the other day
about the pesky insects, and this col
loquy took place between him and
Mr.. Joseph:
Customer: Cant pay that price.
The boil weeviPs eating me up"
Mr.. Joseph: "You are wrong. The
bon weevils a blessing"
Customer: "How's that"
Mr.. Joseph: If i hadn't been for
the boil weevil the South would have
made so much cotton that the price
would have been about ten cents the
pound. Hadn't you rather pick half
a crop of cotton for twenty-four
cents than to pick whole crop for
10 cents ?"
Customer: you're right. had
MT thought abou. it that way"
Gets His Moneys Worth
DR.. Smith of Pokton is one man
who has no complaint to register
about high taxes. "Thirt~ years ago."
he said while in Monroe the other
day, my father owned ten times
more property than do, yet | prob
ably pay ten times more tax than he |
did. But thirty years ago, although |
we lived but eight miles from Wades- |
boro, it took an entire day for US to
make trip to the county seat. Now
/ can go to Wadesboro and back in |
an hour. Good roads and schools come
high, but wouldn't 20 back to con-
ditions that prevailed during my
fathers time if the state not only
remitted me the amount of taxes but
gave me a hundred dollars the year
to boot"
Can Expect No Reductions in Taxes
II see no hope of reducing taxes
next year, said DR.. w. R. Mccain
of Waxhaw, one of the two new coun-
ty commissioners who take office in
December. eve can't repudiate the
road bonds" he continued, land the
law says We must give sixLmonths
school term and pay the teachers ac-
cording to the salary schedule, and
no matter how much we want to cut
the cost of government see no way
of doing it."
Abbeville Has Touch Healer"
Monroe railroad men on the Geor-
gia division tell of an Abbeville, S.
c., man who claims to be possessed
of a strange healing power. His
name is Joe Munday and he lives near
Buzzard Roost church on the Able
Vile Hodges road. He is a middle
aged square-set fellow with face as
full of freckles as a turkey egg full
of spots. He is of ordinary education
and attainment but believes absolute
ly in himself and in his power to heal.
He says his power has been in his
family for generations and is hand
ed down from mother to son and
father to daughter. That a man can
teach a woman to heal but not anoth-
er man, and a woman can teach a
man but not woman. The power
is passed down through the sexes in
this cross-wise manner.
The Mundays live at the old home
nna hr1kkow D.,.l- |