Student heir to 101000 bequest remains modest scholar
A Greensboro colored college student at A. and M. College for the Colored Race of North Carolina received a $101000 bequest from a former French servant. He continues his studies and plans to use wealth for his community. The benefactor’s fortune was confirmed after the servant’s admission and service at the A. and M. College. The student asked that his name remain undisclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. & M. College
J. B. Dudley
A. & M. College For
Greensboro
Agricultural and Mechanical College For
A. & M. College of
Dudley
France
United States
A. M
Taft Took the Treatment in Wadesboro
The Wadesboro Antonian reports that President Taft was examined and found to have hookworm disease. He took the treatment and benefited, believing he contracted the infection while in the Philippine Islands before his presidency. Dr. Platt Covington of the Hookworm Commission provided the information after attending a Little Rock meeting.
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Taft
Covington
The
Hookworm Commission
Little Rock
Arkansas
Fell Dead With Hand on Dear Knob
Mrs. Jackson Helme of Lanes Creek township collapsed Saturday morning as she touched a door knob at her brother Frank Keziah’s home to borrow an article. The death likely resulted from heart disease or apoplexy. She was about forty, survived by her husband, three children, and several brothers Messie John Frank Hugh and James Kesiab.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson Helme
Lanes Creek Township
Frank Keziah
Helma
Messie
John
Frank
Hugh
James Kesiab
Old Order Changeth As Lancaster Couple Wed
The Old Order Changeth reports the marriage of Mr. 5. D. Lathan and Miss Lois Sistare, both of Lancaster county, at the Monroe residence of Mr. H. F. McDonald. The ceremony was performed Sunday night by Esq. P. H. Johnson. The bride is a cousin of Mrs. McDonald, and the couple are noted as popular in the area. The piece notes a reversal of old cross‑state marriage patterns involving license rules between North and South Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
5. D. Lathan
Mies Lois Sistare
Lancaster County
H. F. McDonald
Monroe
Esq
P. H. Johnson
McDonald
South Carolina
North Carolina
Anson County News
Wadesboro
L. Lo Lite
Ansonville
Watt Ashcraft
Norman Smith
Henry D. Kendall
Albemarle
Kendall W
Anson
Morven Township
Kendall
J. W. Johnson
Morven Road
L. W. Medlin
Union County
Minnie Stegall
J. F. Mille
Lanesboro Township
M. L. Stegall
J. M. Helma
Effie Baucom
H. M. R Baucom
T. P. Little
W.T. Hart
Hart Bros
M. H. Melean
South Green Street
Hart
Wadenbero
T. J. Ingram
State Hospital
Morganton
Tarlton
H.W. Little & Co
Witteh
Little Building
Smith Building
Post Office
Green Street
Little Bay Shot Injures Bertice Price
Bertice Price eight year old grandson of T J Price was shot in the back by a misfired 22 short rifle while boys aimed at a target. The ball likely entered a lung but has not been located. the child is recovering and expected to do well.
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Little Bay
Bertice Price
T. J. Price
Bertice
Dying Woman Urges Mercy Law To Let Put to Sleep
Philadelphia dated report on Mia William L. Squirer of Atco New Jersey, dying from tumor and bedridden, calling for legal mercy to end suffering. She questions current codes and urges doctors to perform euthanasia noting fear of death during surgery at Cooper Hospital Camden and plea to Philadelphia chief surgeon for an operation.
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Philadelphia
William L. Squirer
Atco
Camden
N. J
Israel
Seilence
Stewart Kills Man In Camden Street Encounter
Mr Stewart a railroad conductor from Monroe now living in Hamlet shot a black man during a street confrontation in Camden week before last. He and his flagman, after a quarrel among three intoxicated men, were accosted by the armed assailant who threatened to cut Stewart’s heart out. Stewart fired, the man died three days later. Stewart surrendered and posted bail. The dying man later said he did not know Stewart and would not have harmed him. Cultivated by those who know Stewart as a man unlikely to seek trouble.
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Stewart
W. A. Stewart
Monroe
Hamlet
Camden
Atha Stevens
Mr. Stewart
Baby McLean Hosts Record Birthday Party for Baby Vincent
December 26 Washington Baby Vin cent Walsh McLean celebrated his tenth birthday with a grand party at the Walsh home. Gifts numbered in hundreds with a snow burro from Mrs McLean as a top favor and a white giant bull moose as a second honor. The fete featured a cake with many tiers a Punch and Judy circus show and vaudeville acts. Estimates place Baby McLean’s fortune near ninety to one hundred million dollars.
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Washington
Vincent Walsh McLean
Walsh
McLean
Vincent
Me Lean
Baby McLean
Campaign on health prevention eyed for Union county
The nockworts are presented as fact not joke and many people are said to be infected. The campaign aims to diagnose and eradicate disease, teach prevention, and promote prophylactic medicine. It calls for family physicians to educate on staying well and preventing marriage-based social ills, with wages for doctors. State Board of Health lectures are planned at Monroe Marshville Waxhaw Unionville and Alton courthouses. attendance encouraged. Indiana Live Stock Company to sell another car load of horses at Sikes stable Thursday.
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Union County
State Board of Health
Court House
Monroe
Marshville
Waxhaw
Unionville
Alton
H. D. Stewart
Indiana Live Stock Company
Sikes
Nine Killed In Hamlet Boiler Explosion At Seaboard Yard
A boiler blast at the Seaboard roundhouse in Hamlet at 7 am killed nine workers, three white and six colored. Foreman C B Utter and assistant foreman William Utter died mangled near the boiler. electrician H G Reynolds and Charlie Ledbetter among the injured. Extensive destruction to the roundhouse, adjacent shops, and dynamo machinery, with many bodies identified only by clothing.
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Seaboard Round House
Hamlet
C B. Utter
General Round House
White
Wail Utter
Assant
H. G.olds
Charitg Ledbetter
Jim Powers
Will Jentine
John Thompson
Ed Glichfist
Round House
C. B. Utter
William Utter
Utters
Mr. Reynolds
Aml
Charlie Ledbetter
Hamiet
Irene McDonald
H. G. Reynolds
Seaboard
Portsmouth
Lady Falls by Roadside Leon Died in Apparent Sudden Death
Mrs. Mary Donahue of Lanes Creek township died last Wednesday evening after fainting by the roadside while returning from a neighbor’s for milk. Found unconscious, she was taken home and died shortly after, suspected apoplexy. She was the wife of Mr. 4.3. Donahue and a mother of five, daughter of Mr. Gilbert Threatt.
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Mary Donahue
Donahue
Lanes Creek Township
Irvin Thomas
Thomas
Gilbert Threatt
Estelle
Lee ‘Trull
Monroe
Little Estelle
Governor elect to appoint two Asheville aides as secretaries
Governor elect Craig announces he will appoint J. P. Kerros eville and Garland Thom as confidential clerks from Asheville. The move signals early staffing for the incoming administration.
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Craig
J. P. Kerroseville
Garland Thomason
Asheville
In Memory of Mr. D. F. King
In Memory of Mr. D F King, died at his mother’s home five miles west of Monroe on December 29 from pneumonia after six weeks of illness. He was fifty, lived in Charlotte, and leaves a wife Ida Harkey, six children, two brothers, and two sisters. Funeral at Oak Grove Baptist Church. ashes at the family cemetery. He joined the Baptist church at eleven and was a devoted church and Sunday school worker. He sang Nearer My God to Thee at heart’s end.
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Adams
Charlotte Chronicle
Lydia Josephine Dowd
Clement Dowd
Charlotte
Congress
Moore County
Scotland
America
Samuel Child Bruce
Charles Bruce
North Carolina
Bruce's Cross Roads
Guilford County
Friends of Liberty
Carthage
Ella
Mattie Dowd
Willis B. Dowd
Jerome Dowd
E. K. Bryan
Memphis
Tenn
W. F. Harding
Herman Dowd
D. F. King
J. H. King
Monroe
Dee
Rev. Snyder
Oak Grove Baptist Church
King
Mise Ida Harkey
Birmingham
Ala
B. F King
Georgia
J. M. King
W. RR. McCorkle
Spittie
Union County
Baptist Church
Local and Personal News From Monroe Area
Visitors frequent Monroe including H C Smith and Mrs Smith of North Carolina visiting Laney family. Preacher Samuel McMillan of Tennessee to speak at First Baptist Monroe with open invitation. Various local residents and ministers named, plus community notices on deaths, weddings, and a dynamite incident near H W Little & Co store.
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H. C. Smith
North
JH. R. Laney
Samuel McMillan
Tennessee
First Baptist Church
Monroe
Annabelle Dowd
Charlotte
Gladys Laney
Howard L. Gaffrney
Union
8. C
Laney
Chas. EB. Hamilton
Winston
O. C. Hamilton
A. A. Secrest
Court records from Resorver’s Court and local notices
Resorver's Court proceedings show R L Mills fined for violating ordinance 80 132 with costs. Lewis Ingram and John Nelson, both colored, charged with larceny and ordinance violations with sentences of months. A L Parker accused of unlawful optometry with costs. Oscar Helms related abandonment costs. A Austin charged with forgery, preliminary hearing discharged. Jon Williams colored charged with ordinance 80, costs. Henry Morrow colored selling whiskey with 50 and costs. Rev M T Steele to preach at Oak Grove 11 o’clock and Unionville 3 o’clock next Sunday. Horses and mules for sale at Sikes' stable Thursday.
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R. L. Mills
Lewis Ingram
Wes Hill
John Nelson
A. L. Parker
Oscar Helms
A. Austin
Jon Williams
Henry Morrow
M. T. Steele
Oak Grove
Unionville
Sikes
Thuredey
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Bringley
Messrs
R. W. Lemmond
H. &. Copple
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Baby Lean
Lady
Leon
Federal Court of
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Bor
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Ion Workers International Union
Times
Angeles
McNamara Brothers
Boston
California
S. H. Green
Masonic
Utter Brothers
Edward Fallenwider
Furs
Newberry
C. Fullenwider
Fallenwider
N. Watson
Concord
Wingate
B. Y. Tyner
J. W. Bivens
Robeson County
Tyner
Fredericksburg
State Normal
Fred Bivens
C. D. McNeeley
Waxhaw Enterprise
iMr
Gilead Southerner
Gilmer Lynn Nisbet
McNeeley
Gilead
Southerner
Fowler
Carl Broom
Dorrit Gay
R. W. Eliott
Sheriff Griffith
Raleigh
Sam Thompson
J. C. Sikes
Thompson
Gus Alsonbrooks
Adeline Williams
Leander Willams
Marshville Township
Primitive Baptist Church
Pleasant Grove Church
J. F. Mills
Central Methodies
Strauss
Germany
J. Frank Laney
D. B. Snider
Staunton
Woodrow Wilson
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