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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1915
Page
4
The Monroe Journal announces its Tuesday and Friday publication schedule and provides its office address at the Journal Building on Jefferson and Beasley streets.
A renewed call for public employment on road and construction projects to ease business distress argues for a blanket state law allowing municipalities to fund work during downturns. Proponents say hiring labor boosts production, wealth, and public improvements, reducing idle time and curtailing hardship.
A historical metaphor compares prohibition to medicine given in broken doses. From 1881 to 1908, incremental laws gradually reduced alcohol distribution. The author argues a final legislative stop is due, predicting a renewed period of strong enforcement and social improvement once the full dose is administered.
The piece urges North Carolina farmers to send orders to the North Carolina corn belt to secure top market prices. It notes the state does not meet its corn needs and calls for market arrangements. It also references President Wilson’s Indianapolis speech defending noninterference in Mexico’s internal affairs despite bloodshed.
The North Carolina Experiment Station bureau promotes using local white corn from eastern black lands, which produce top quality grain. It notes 150000 bushels yearly go to Germany, while the state grinds one million bushels of western corn and dealers import about 4.25 million more annually. The bureau urges readers in the state to source from its eastern belt.
A Union county Superior Court sale order sets aside a previous bid on the Harry Yarbrough tract in Waxhaw. On February 1, 1915, at Monroe courthouse door, John R. Sikes as commissioner will offer for sale the 4 acre lot bounded by Byrum and Dunham lines, Ry right of way, and parts of the J. W. Price deed from 1844, for cash to the highest bidder. Redwine and Sikes attorneys. Journal Penny Ads bring results.
The Journal announces two free ad classes for readers. Jobs wanted and workers needed ads To help match laborers with available work. Poultry and stock ads accept buyers and sellers of livestock and eggs two run dates free. Office mail or in person drop only, not by phone.
By power in a deed of trust dated January 7 1913 A C Funderburk and Ola M Funderburk will sell at public auction for cash at the Monroe court house door at noon on January Lith Day of February 1915 to settle the land described as 162 acres more or less adjoining W Funderburk H Griffin Mrs N J Cuthbertson etc and excluding 878-10 acres sold to T C Lee W S Blakeney trustee January 15 1915
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