The Monroe journal., 1922-11-10

Rev. II. c. Carmichael of Charlotte
VII preach at the Bethlehem Pres.
byterian church next Sunday after.
noon at o'clock.
Members of the Woman's Auxilia-
~ have been requested to march in
the parade tomorrow. They will as
semble at the Legion club early in
the morning.
Mr.. Edgar Cox, who has been liv-
ing at the Blakeney place east Of the
city, has moved to his old home near
Mountain Springs. His old neighbors
learning of his intention to move
went in a body and moved all his
belongings, for which Mr.. Cox desires
to thank them.
DR.. W. R. Burrell will go to Char
lotte Monday where he has been in
vited to deliver lecture before the
Masonic bodies of that place Monday
evening. DR.. Burrell is we'll posted
in Masonic history, and having visited
lodges in various parts of the world,
is prepared to give the Charlotte Ma
sons rare treat.
The sweet potato market is glutted.
While quotations range around the
75-cent a bushel mark, it is seldom
that there is a demand for them at
this price. Mr.. John Baucom of Bu-
ford township has learned this to his
sorrow. Saturday he came to Monroe
with fifty bushel load of potatoes,
but he was unable to sell but five or
six bushels. Sixty cents bushel was
the best price they commanded.
The Carolina Motor Company of
Camden, S. c., is circulating a tour
list road guide that routes Florida
traffic by way of Monroe, which to an
extent accounts for the unusually
large number of Northern cars pass
ing through. From Monroe they are
routed to Lancaster by way of Wax
haw. This route" says the guide,
''is excellent road all of the way and
enables tourists to avoid the ex-
tremely bad road from Cheraw to
Bethune."
Mr.. d. w. Presley of Vance town
ship had mule severely crippled
last Monday night near DeArmond
bridge. Mr.. Presley was driving two
mules hitched to an empty wagon
when a car without light driven by
Mr.. Clyde Long ran into him, Grip
pling one of the animals, damaging
the wagon, and bruising Mr.. Press
ley. II seems that Mr.. Long didn't
see the wagon at all until the crash
came, there being no lights on his
car.
Mr.. w. F. Lemmond tells The Jour
nal that the French box car, Forty
Hommes and Eight Chevaux," being
made by the Federated Shop Crafts,
of which he is member, for the
American Legion parade Saturday,
will be sold to the highest bidder i'm
mediately after the parade is disband-
ed. Rev. j. X. Warren, pastor of the
North Monroe Methodist church, will
be the auctioneer, and the proceeds
will be turned over to the Union
County Children's Home. This is
very generous act on the part of the
shopmen, for which they deserve the
warmest commendation
Mr.. John 0uten and family, and
two grandchildren Of Wingate,, on re-
turning home Wednesday afternon,
were in an accident at Five Points in
the eastern part of town, their car
being run overturned and two of the
children receiving scratches and
bruises. None of the injuries were
serious and the accident seemed un-
avoidable. In order to avoid collid-
ing with each other, Mr.. George Coan,
driving a Buick coming into Wind
sor street out of Morris street, and
Mr.. Outen, driving Ford coming up
Windsor, both sharply swerved, Mr..
0uten's car hitting the curb. The car
Mr.. Coan was driving collided only
slightly with Mr.. Outen's car, the
compact of hitting the curb causing
it to overturn.
Mr.. G. X. Watkins has moved back
to this county from Ellerbe, where he
has been working on the Derby peach
farm. "There is no place like sweet
Union" he said Wednesday when he
came into the Journal office to have
his paper changed to Unionville, r.
F. D. 2, where he will live on Mr.. 7.
NJ. Wiley's place. Mr.. Watkins said
that the Derby farm, owned by Mr..
A. r. Derby, Northern man, ship
ped 81 car loads of peaches this sea-
son. Prices ranged from 81 to $3.25
a crate. Since FIVE hundred crates
are packed to the car, and assuming
that the average price was Sl.50
crate, Mr.. Derby got $68,250 for his
crop, and he had but ITO acres in
peaches. Mr.. Watkins says that Mr..
Derby experimental with cotton and
tobacco before going into peaches, but
has concluded that the latter is much
more profitable.
Mr.. S. A. Latham Of Buford town
ship, a member of the county board
of education. come forward with a
plea for the tenant. How can we
expect them to rent on the sure ba-
SIS" he said yesterday, "when there
is no way of telling how they will
come out on the proposition? Sure
rent is big enough gamble with
only the elements to contend against.
With the boil weevil taking fully a
third of the crop in the second year
of infestat:on, the prospects for a
yield Of any size is uncertain. We
landlords, believe, ought to share
the risk with them, by furnishing the
fertilizer for half the yield" Mr..
Latham estimates that the weevil got
fully q third Of his crop. "Year be-
fore last" he added, II got six bales
off of four acres. the extent of my