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The Monroe Journal

Location

Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

Jan 09, 1917

Page

5

Local and Personal in Monroe area press notes

Local notes report Laura Rogers leaving for Lenoir to enter Davenport College. A novelty supper at Siler church is announced. Monroe Hardware buys half-interest in buildings for 14,000. Fox, bank, farm loan meetings, and various local incidents including a dog tax view, shop changes, and a large 55 inch hawk description. Funeral and business updates complete a day’s community briefing.

Monroe Hardware Co W. 8. Lee Monroe

Prison Walk Blown Up to Save Trapped Men

In Frankfort Kentucky a fire at the state reformatory cut off up to eighty prisoners in cell house A. Dynamite from the city workhouse was used to blow holes and walls as guards worked to unlock cells. By midnight all but two inmates were rescued and many were unconscious from smoke.

Frankfort State Reformatory

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