Pageland street work and town notes from the Ledger
Pageland residents push road sanding on Jefferson road as convicts and locals haul sand with 11 wagons. Local groups report fundraising, a new police officer appointment, and business changes while a war and temperance debate fill the page. Plus marriages, court cases, a cat longevity query, and community notices from Union County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Clark
Marshville
Pageland
Jefferson Road
Black Creek
Aroun
William Sellars
Laura Privett
Zear
Chesterfield
J. L. Tyler
C. J. Funderburk
Grover C. Mangum
W. T. Edgworth
G. C. Mangum & Co
Farmer's Union
J. N. Lowell
War Investigation Board
R. A. Carpenter
B.C. Moore
Atlantic
Chain Gang
Jefferson
Community box supper boosts Plylers Mill spirit
Mr G W Montgomery from Plyl ers Mill reported a Friday night box supper at the new school house to fund its furnishing and celebrate its opening. Receipts totaled 18 dollars from a two dollar fifty cent box, with attendees calling it a dandy time despite national worries. He also described skinning and stuffing a nine foot coachwhip snake he killed near the creek, exhibited in his store to quiet skeptics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gatewood
Rerfo
Adams
Son
Vann
Jule Griffith
Laney
Smoky
Mr. Vann
Raleigh
Chain Gang
Rich Perkins
Seaboard Station
Fowler
Walter
Plyler’s Mill
G. W. Montgomery
Montgomery
Auctio
Waxhaw Enterprise
Mr. Montgomery
Creamery Boosts Local Butter Output and Farmer Cash
Fred W. Blanton promotes a county creamery citing 19 743 pounds of butter and $5 922 90 paid to about 26 farmers since 1914. He urges more farmers to join, promising 27 cents per pound delivered and 30 cents at the door, with monthly checks on the 10th. A dairy school at Rock Keat Feb 16 is announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Futhermore
Fred W. Blanton
Mgr
Five Die After Gasoline Yacht Explodes Off Shoal Point
News from New Bern and Albemarle recounts the explosion of the gasoline launch Julia en route from Norfolk to Beaufort. Five lost, including J. W. Murray and Gustavus Dodson, with one woman, Mrs Murray, surviving after swimming ashore. Murray rescued by fisherman and hospitalised in Enfield, expected to transfer to Bethaven. Survivor recalls a match igniting vaporized gasoline. search efforts ongoing for other bodies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Bern Dispatch
Fasoline
Julia
Norfolk
Beaufort
Shoal Point
Shoal River
J. W. Murray
Piedmont Trust
Murray
Enelehard
Bethaven
C. Brown Cox
Mr. Dodson
W. E. Porch
Wingate Weather Notes and Local Health Advice
Wingate January notes recount persistent rain with 16 days of foul weather for one of sun. Correspondent bemoans dull news, mentions Mrs. J Collie Meigs visiting and Mrs. A B Rushing's death from heart failure. Praises Mrs. Baxter Griffin's educational views and endorses progressive women in public life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wingate
J. Collie Meigs
Polktons
Wilson
Bob Belk
A. B. Rushing
Meadow Branch Sabbath School
Lim
Baxter Griffin
Marshville
Mrs. Griffin
Mos. Griffin
Timist
Weather and War Reports Across Fronts and Finland
Distracted by foggy weather and heavy rain the fighting along northern France continues with bayonet attacks and small gains for the Russians in Poland. French operations near Soissons show short gains followed by a retreat of about a mile as floods wash the Aisne riverbanks. In Galicia Austrian forces push Russians from trenches east of Zakliczyn, while Carpathian patrol skirmishes occur. Prussian losses total 877,107 per Vienna lists. Austrian losses near 284,000. Great Britain enacts capital regulations to conserve British resources for the war effort. An onlooker reports on French Army actions from January 5 to 13 under poor weather. The Charlotte Observer notes a major fire on Tryon Street destroying St Creme Co store interior and threatening surrounding buildings. The Senate allows women to act as notaries public. A local anecdote remark about two young men drinking near Monroe. The sermon described as masterful and generating much comment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
la Boiselie
Apren
Mane
Soissons
Ailes
Aisne
Poland
Galicia
Zakliczyn
Kirbaba
Pace
Hungary
Vienna
Carpathians
Great Heltaln
Charlotte
Hariotte Observer
St. Creme & Co
North
Tryon Street
Krone @ Co
D. Parks Hatchineon
West Trade Street
Lite Long Co Tho
Monroe preacher predicts national prohibition and suffrage
The Monroe preacher Rev Lee M White at First Baptist reported support for national prohibition after attending a Leigh mass meeting. He predicted President Wilson would be reelected in 1916 and declare for prohibition and suffrage by 1920, urging rapid victory over whiskey and citing social ills and crime linked to intemperance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Evi Lee M. White
White
Maleleigh
Mr. White
Woodrow Wilson
Griak
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pageland Organization
Pageland Journal
Hobson
Richmond
North Carolina
United States
First Baptist Church
Crvey
League
Barton
Virginia
George W. McDaniel
Supreme Court
W. H. Weatherspoon
4. A. Brown
R. T. Vann
C. A. Ireland
J. C. Pritchard
R. L. Davis
W. T. Shaw
J.C. M. Vann
Punderburk
Charlotte Observer
Lydia Elizabeth Reid Funderburk
Matthews
Funderburk
Providence Township
J. Solomon Reid
Ehe
J. Setton Funderburk
Cochrane
First Presbyterian Church
Bint Going
Weevil
Union County
W. A. Graham
South Carolna
Georgia
South Carolina
Alabama
Parent-Teacher Association
T. D. Stewart
Crug
Henry Laney
Mise Kibler
Journal Cepey
Roedeta
Rock Keat
T. L. Crowell
Vital
Monroe Township
C. Brown
Ray Lomack
Oscar Cook
Everett Sturgis
D. R. Bullock
Columbus Love
Wiley ‘Tadlock
Mra
John A. High
Yo My
Robi. L. Threatt
Kern Price
leRome
Reece Helms
J. Thomas Helms
Ed Owens
John Johnston Parker
Henry A. Copeland
BE. Prestir
Zeb M. Trull
Ool
Albemarle
J. J. Kirk
Stanly County
Senate
J. C. Sikes
House
Deat
Lffe
ME. White
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