The Monroe journal., 1922-02-17
SOME LOCAL HAPPENINGS

keN. CaleO hOsle Will pTedCn at
South Monroe Sunday afternoon at
three o'clock.
Mrs. Virginia Davis and Mr.. ID. p.
McLarty have returned from a trip
10 New York where they went to buy
goods for Lee 4 Lee Company.
The weather bureau instrument at
Rock Rest showed that As inches OF
rain fell during the first few days OF
this week.
Beginning with next Sunday all
evening church services in Monroe
will be changed from 1900 TO 1880
o'clock.
Rev. r. j. McIlwaine will preach
at Unionville next Sunday at eleven
O'Clock and at Bethlehem Presbyte-
rian church at three in the afternoon.
Mr.. VI. c. Baker. who has been at
school in johnson City. Tenn, has
returned home and will be here a
while before going to school again.
There will be preaching at Pleas
ant View next Sunday morning at IL
o'clock. preceded by song service at
10 o'clock.
Mr.. S. F. Long of Marshville has
accepted a position with an automo-
bile concern in Charlotte and Will
move his family to that city at an
early date.
A singing class is being taught at
Icemorlee Baptist church by Mr.. II.
E. Walden. The class meets for in
struction and practice every other
evening.
Mr.. |. F. Piyler was acquitted a
few days ago before Recorder Lem
mond on a charge Of seduction
brought by Mrs. Florence McGinnis
Of North Monroe.
A Valentine party will be given at
the Legion club rooms this. evening
at 1880 o'clock. Games. contests,
music and refreshments will consti-
tute the program. Admission. 25c.,
which will be used for the purchase
of a reference library at the graded
school.
Arrangements are being made tt
present the minstrel given at the
Strand last Friday by the American
| Legion at Wadesboro and Waxhaw
| at an early date. The Melvin Deese
Post No. 27 is behind the movement
nd they made a great success OF the
minstrel in Monroe.
Mr.. Julian c. Brooks, prosecuting
attorney for the Recorders Court, is
at his home two miles west of the
city, at the bedside of his daughter
Mildred, IA years Of age, who is al
the point OF death from pneumonia
Mildred has been sick for only two
or three days, but has been In IL
health for sometime and the wors
Is feared by her parents and physi
clans.
The Union Drug Co. is installing
an up-to-date Liquid Carbonic foun
tain. The new fountain has double
service arrangement, with sterilizint
shower bath for the glasses. II Il
made of Italian marble with opa
ONYX trimming. The fountain is ice
less, the carbonized water receiving
its temperature from the ice cream
box, which Is packed with ice. 1t Il
one of the most complete fountains
on the market and adds greatly t
the appearance as well as the service
of this store.
The talk about the several circuits
of which the Monroe church and thi
section generally has belonged to a
| the districts were cut up and made
smaller and smaller each year, a
shown by Major Heath's history, re
calls a remark once made by Mr.
Jesse Parker, an old citizen of thi'
county well-known years ago. "Thi
circuit making has gone far enough,
he said. "Why, my home has beef
in four circuits already and | expec
them to keep on making the circuit
smaller till my farm will be a who'll
circuit by itself"