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War drives local buying and furloughs in Monroe
The Monroe area reports wartime measures and community updates: Vann Funderburk promotes cash savings for families, a mule buyer for the army visits Sikes Stables, and many locals visit relatives. Court sessions, church events, a Love's Mill picnic, and a large War effort with drafted local men are noted along with business ads and local transportation updates.
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Raney
Vann Funderburk
Lik Huey
Charlotte
T. B. Huey
Sikes
Ruth Freeman
Heoretta
W. A. Lane
Clarence P. Lane
Tex
Jennings Rice
Indian Trail
Will Rice
Frank Armfield
High Point
Willie Mae Williams
J. H. Thomas
Unionville
Superior Court
B. F. Long
Statesville
Young Peoples’ Missionary Society
Weddington Academy
Cap Helms
F. M. Sutton
M. L. Austin
Mineral Springs
J. B. Nash
Austin
P. H. Deason
Messrs
Walter and
Oscar Deason
Mattie Deason
Claxton
Rela
Georgia
A. Richardson
Richardson
Lenoir
Scott Long
West Monroe
John E. Haywood
Leavenworth
Kan
Bunyan Helms
Hopewell
Ethel Long
R.N
Salemburg
N. C
Joseph EB. Williams
East Alton
Ill
W. E. L. Willams
East Monroe Township
Williams
Forman
Western Arms Cartridge Company
Claude Wimberly
Meridian
Miss
Wimberly
National Guard of
Mississippi
Chapel Hill
North Carolina Bar Association
A. W. McLean
Lumberton
J. J. Parker
Judiciary
J. C. Sikes
Association
County Board of Pensions
Lemmond
W. A. Love
P. C. Stingon
B. H. Beaton
Monroe Fire Company
Morehead City
H. M. Baucom
First Baptist Church
A. W. McCall
McCall Jewelry Co
Love's Mill
Rocky River
Journal
Monroe
Belk Brothers
Hamilton[Liles Company
Cap Clontz
Monroe Vulcanizing Company
Savings, Loan and Trust Company
Lee & Lee
Secrest Motor Company
T. B. Laney
National Service
Army of the Republic
Bickett Battery