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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1914
Page
4
The issue blends commentary on women voting, wartime battles in Europe, and local items from Bethlehem and nearby towns. It recounts an army football score, a governor's cotton remarks, and a wedding notice. A humorous ad contrasts advertising caution with a Sheriff’s Sale heading.
Correspondence from Wesley Chapel notes a record small grain sowing with wheat up to seventy five acres per farmer and home supplies rising. School thriving with enrollment near 140. teachers KE P Menderhall and Miss Moore attended a Teachers Assembly in Charlotte. Local principals Yeargin at Wise and Moore at Steadman visit, while several local teacher girls visit Thanksgiving with families. Hog killing times begin, with large hogs butchered for Christmas. editor urged to come for a square meal.
Coroner Stanley investigated the Seven Springs incident. Roy Price, 18 or younger, shot Robert A. Price, a wealthy farmer, to save his mother from presumed grave injury during a drunken beating. A jury found acquittal on justifiable grounds, noting the father’s protracted spree and threat.
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