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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1917
Page
4
The Monroe Journal declares it will switch to cash in advance starting January due to business needs. Editor John Beasley appeals for reader cooperation, notes wartime anxiety and urges support, while discussing road conditions and urging responsible authorities to fix bad roads between Monroe and Charlotte.
The Journal of Monroe notes warmer weather amid snow and telephones out. Sunday school at Shiloh was canceled due to weather. Mrs. Clarence Helms returns from Charlotte hospital, improving. Mrs. Emeline Helms dies at Stanfield home. heart disease cited. Burial planned at Salem. Snow plow aid from John Helms helps students and teachers. Tom Benton and Carl Helms return from Newport News for holidays. Braxton C family of Sevent arrives for a few days.
In a Union County community the 12 year old Page Starnes died after a nose sore turned to blood poisoning. The funeral was held at Wesley Chapel cemetery as relatives grapple with grief and a Christmas season amid hardship. The note recalls a hospital whiskey anecdote from Civil War days and local nostalgia.
R A Morrow, chairman of the Union county thrift stamp drive, urges that Christmas gifts include United States War Savings Certificates priced at 6 dollars with four percent compound interest. They are cashed at maturity in 1923 and cost 4.12 in December 1917. Thrift stamps at 25 cents each are also recommended to supplement gift values and aid soldiers abroad.
An old farmer asks his son about tanks returning from the front. The son describes them as wobbling ithingamabobs full of what-you-may call ems and states they blaze away like billyo in a humorous, rustic exchange.
A traveler asks if a civil servant in the Orient receives a pension. The Pasha replies that a public functionary needing a retirement allowance is a fool. The second sentence notes that women sometimes suffer in silence.
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