The Monroe journal., 1922-11-03

Waxhaw, X. F. d. /, Nov.l-Mr.
Jas. H. Carter of the Rehobo,h CON-
munity. who has recently undergone
an operation at the Ellen Fitzgerald
hospital for tonsilitis is now at home
recuperating. His many friends hope
for him speedy and complete recov-
cry.
A number Of the citizens of this
community are now erecting a mod
ern and up-to-date potato curing and
storage house at the residence of Mr..
". j. SINS. This is something alto
gether new TO this section of the
county and indicates the spirit of
progress to which the boil weevil has
forced US.
Mr.. NJ. A. Helms is stiil busily en-
gagged in cooking up home raised syr-
up for the people of this community,
and judging from the number of
weeks he has been thus employed, it
would seem that the Rehoboth people
are well suppl ed with long sweetning.
The ginning plants of this section
have already announced the cutting
down of operations to two days in
each week. The boil weevil ginned
the most of the November and Deem
Der cotton in August.
Mr.. w. j. Sims is having pipe
well drilled at his new residence. Mr..
Tillman Wilson, who has charge of
the work, says he has encountered
about the hardest rock that he ever
tackled, and is going down at the rate
of nvl.- ah bout foot an,h ln..
The next regular meeting of the
Union county branch of the Farmers
I'm on will be held at Waxhaw on
Saturday, Nov. 18th ar 1880 a. m. A
full delegation from each local unit
in the county is desired at this meet
ing, since it is the last one of the year
before the State meeting. and the one
at which delegates to the State meet
ing will be elected
Rehoboth school opened on October
23rd with Miss Walker of Georgia in
charge of the high school department.
Mrs. Craig of Waxhaw route 4 and
Miss Reef of Gastonia have charge
of the other two departments and the
prospects are that .Rehoboth is sche-
duled for the best school session in
its history.
Mrs. John K. jackson Of this COM
munity, who has been i'll, is now on
the road TO recovery.
If tourists are gong into Florida
over many routes at the same rate
they are over the Charlotte and the
Jackson highways, then we expect
Florida will either have to be enlarg-
ed or some of the natives will have
to move out.
1t seems to US that it would be an
excellent move on the part of our
legislators to repeal tbs automobile
tax and place the whole burden on
"gass." Then these tourists would
help keep up the roads that they are
tearing up with their heavy cars, and
would help in exact proportion to the
use they made of them. With New
York license tag they burst North
Carolina roads wide open and pay no
license for so doing. If each auto
mobilist was required to pay two,
three or five cents per gallon what
ever the amoun, should be) in gas
tax" then every time a foreign ear
St0ptcu at gas SldllOil, IL WOuiu /
pay for the wear he was inficting |
upon the roads, and every time a
home zen run his ear into the ga
rage his tax would cease until he
run it out again.
Why would that not be- better?
There is evidently going to be con-
siderable changing around among the
tenant population this coming win
ter. For a year or two we will no
doubt be more cautious and more
careful about taking risks that have
proved ruinous to US anyway, even
before the advent of Mr.. Boil Wee
vii. This hecking up and proceed
ing with re and making calcula-
ions on prospects should have been
IN our program all the while. If we
out it on now by compulsion we will
doubtless be glad of it in a short
while.