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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1917
Page
7
In a Christmas exercise near Lexington Kentucky a fight broke out between two men leading to a fatal shooting and several injuries as panic spread with bystanders fleeing. The incident occurred at a mountain school house and left one dead and others seriously hurt.
Weather-friendly season boosts expected sugar output to 3,466,000 tons for 1916 17, about 460,000 tons above last year’s production.
Prof. Hugo Muensterberg of Harvard University dies of heart failure during a lecture at Radcliffe College. Born in Germany in 1860s, he became a longtime Harvard psychology professor and lab director, author of many works, and faced wartime scrutiny over pro German sympathies. Pathfinder puzzle follows about Persepolis statues and an ancient column with geometry details.
Indian Trail notes report W A Boyte of Oakdale a paralysis sufferer and a Dixon connection. Goose Creek baby Myrtle burned badly but survived thanks to quick action by J E Funderburk. W L Dixon and son Lewis Jr visited in Charlotte. Local folks features include goose laying nine eggs, Union Grove Sunday school at 2 20, navy man Bruce Farr visiting, Cramp mine gold payments, Wake Forest student Arthur Helms home for holidays, Charlotte visitors Robert and Bud Simpson, Curtis Pressley visiting uncle Will Pressley, Bruce Hartsell in town, Eva Benton visiting, Tom Kirk visiting Concord, Sikes Mill duties Jan 1, Nick Lemmond in Monroe, B Foard baby girl born, Bethany news Vaneria and Ruby Mangum visit Ellie Belk, Plyler’s Mill box supper, Nellie Eubanks and Allie Flynn visits, Mae and Leola Belk back to Salisbury for school, Norah Montgomery sprain, Bud Melton improving, Beulah Thompson and Allie Flynn visits, Sunday school progress.
A timid Frenchman once wrote a devotion letter to a young woman who never replied. Decades later, post office workers unearthed the missive and traced him, then found the woman. She confessed lifelong love, they wed, and the government placed them on a pension row as amends.
Farmers urged to buy fertilizer early due to high farm product prices and looming food demand. About 300000 railroad cars are needed for spring shipments, but car shortages threaten delivery, so early purchases benefit both farmers and railroads. A libel suit against Bobbs Merrill Publishing Co. awarded $35000 by a New York magistrate.
Miss Ethel Wood, a teacher, repaid 200 spent on her instruction to the board of Education. Her honesty drew wide notice and a Los Angeles newspaper story led to a surprising shock: she inherited 75,000 dollars from a cousin, unknown to the administrator until the news covered her actions.
A four year old girl found by Private Philip Imsbey among Flanders trenches becomes a trench loyal ward. She thrives between hostile lines after friendly German troops share chocolate and pity. Named Impey Phyllis, she is cared for by the officer who saved her and later adopted as his daughter.
A German engineer, Roewer, escaped capture in China and traveled with his wife to New York. To avoid detention, he hid in his wife's trunk aboard a ship bound for Copenhagen, surfacing at night to stretch and eat while meals mysteriously flowed to their cabin. He was discovered in Kirkwall, arrested. she continued home. Rear Admiral Peary urged establishing Antarctic claims, arguing vast potential wealth lies in unclaimed polar lands.
The department of labor reports U.S. businesses spent about 300 million dollars on employee Christmas gifts this year. U.S. Steel distributed around 13 thousand dollars in bonuses while the Telephone company handed out roughly one million dollars in presents.
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