Local and Personal Notes from Union County
Local society items list visits and guests across Union County. Mrs J H Blair and family, Miss Mary Susan, G W Moser, J A Stewart, Miss Lessie Wicker, Rev Leonard Gill, Rev R J Mellwaine, Mrs Cicero Fowler, Stacy Fowler, Dr J M Blair, H H Winchester, Rev and Mrs George Stevens prep for China mission. Mentions of promotions in rail service, a funeral, church meetings, camping trips, highway repairs, and local business notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Blair
Little Son
Saluda
Mary Susan
Atlanta
Minnie Lee Helms
G. W. Moser
Mt. Springs
J. A. Stewart
T. B. Brown
Greensboro
Lessie Wicker
R. J. Mellwaine
Leonard Gill
Spruce Pine
Cicero Fowler
Harrisburg
Stacy Fowler
Chicago
A. B. Helms
J. M. Blair
Rocky River Springs
H. H. Winchester
Louisville
J. H. Winchester
Wesley Chapel
George Stevens
Rees
China
Mr. Stevens
Prof. Moore
Monroe
Monn
E. B. Pusser
Richmond County
Pusser
Union County
E. F. Spears
Jackson
Richmond
J. H. Merrit
W. A. Benton
Benton
Seaboard
Tampa
Jacksonville
M. John Fulenwider
G. O. Fulenwider
Benton Heights
Shiloh Baptist Church
John A. Wray
Mr. Wray
Messrs
Wallace
Horace ‘Abernethy
William Sellers
Blue Ridge Mountains
Waynesville
Wadesboro
Monarchial claim in law notes excerpt from 1856 suit
An August Law Notes paragraph recalls Frederick William IV once sued in Missouri to recover from a deceased postmaster’s estate for funds he allegedly absconded with to America. The prince described himself as absolute monarch and sole law of Prussia, noting his will as the country’s only law, a claim noted for its consciences in preventing monarchical dominance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kaiser
W. J. Pratt
Frederick William IV
Missouri
America
Prussia
Kuepper
Kingdom of
Goose Creek men arraigned on military service charges
Mack Rushing and Lem Sosna, Goose Creek residents, faced U S Commissioner M J Flew for failure to register for military service. Rushing registered as 21, waiving examination, and must appear before Judge Boyd in Federal court on the first Monday in October. Sosna was indicted similarly, aged 31, with warrants outstanding for others labeled slackers. arrests were by Deputy Marshal B C Wil Nama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B.C. Wil- Nama
The Unconsiderate Courtin Couple Fad Hits Post Office
The Marshville Home reports a fad where young couples place stamps in the center of envelopes. Homer Leonard, a local post office clerk, stamped a center mail and injured his left finger while postmarking. He jokes that those stampers should borrow his sore finger to learn a lesson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshville
Homer Leonard
Homer
Charlotte Knitting Co hires for new mill and city boom
Wanted help for Kaniting mill now operating its millcool sanitary building. Street car every five minutes and close at 1 o'clock Saturdays. Good wages to toppers knitters loopers. Also need bright young women learn. City touted as most attractive in the South with forty thousand troops and many flying machines stationed here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte Knitting Co
Charlotte
N. C
Tribute to Mr. Robinson in a Funeral Verse
A short elegy laments the death of Mr. Robinson, praising his goodness and faith. It invites mourners to find comfort in the afterlife where he awaits the faithful and his family trusts in reunion in God’s home. The poem notes lonesome days, a bereaved wife and children, and friends who will miss his deeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wadesboro
Ansonian
Frank Potter
Atlanta Ga
Russellville
S. S. Shepherd
Athens
Potter
Michael Bros
Hamlet
N. C
Walter E. Johnson
Monroe
Johnson
Arthur Chapman
Great 8. C
John Jones
Chapman
Ernest
Estelle Hopland
Moultrie
C. J. Shelby
Charlotte
Shelby
Abov
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Chamber of Commerce
Vance Township
Wilmington-Charlotte
Monroe Township
Highway & Sun
Norfolk
Vern Rape
Buford
Mr. Rape
Dunk Therrell
Rape
Virginia
Hopewell
Darkey
Christenbury
Tate
Red Cross
Dominique Jea Larrey
Solferino
Geneva
Switzerland
Géneva
International Red Cross Society
The
Good Samaritan
Jby Marie Widmer
American Review of Reviews
Willie Jenkins
Gastonia
Olive Abernethy
Abernethy
Ruth Russell
Janie Hinson
Hoover
Elizabeth Stevens
Indian Trail
Jack Kidd
Memphis
Tony
Chattanooga
Charles Iceman
Black Mountain
Elizabeth Covington
Jackson Springs
G. H. Mears
Juanita
Elizabeth
Mears
Mary Stewart
Ella Lindsay
Mesdames
G. M. Beasley
J. M. Douglas
Wrightsville Beach
Lillian Stevens
Matthews
W. H. Phifer
J. R. Simpson
George McClellan
Montreal
W. Kochitaky
MASON
English Drug Co
L. O. McNich
Ware Shoals
Duke Salve Company
Muscatine, Iowa
Price's Mill
Price’s
Mil Telephone Co
H. A. Outlaw
Lessie Outlaw
Buford Township
D. C
Mr. Robinson
Moore
Pat
Lee & Lee Co
Notion
North Carolina
BaNk of Union
the Welcome Bank
W.S. Blakeney
R. G. Laney
Griffin
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