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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1914
Page
8
Today merchants posted prices for staple cotton and assorted farm products. Signals show ranges for young chickens eggs butter hams beeswax white and colored peas country cane seed and pork and beef cattle with guidance to call merchants for tomorrow’s figures.
The Caudles Mr and Mrs T L Caudle organized a grand opening ceremony for Wassail Wood Park in Wadesboro. Mayor Dunlap and town officials received the park with praise for transforming neglected land into a place of rest with cemented springs rustic club house and an orchestra. Citizens from nearby towns attended and lauded the charitable act and its lasting benefit to the community.
Injured by a punch through a hall door, Mr. 0. W. Dixon misread a shadow cast by the hall lamp as an intruder. The rumor notes he broke his fist when striking the door facing, realizing the danger only after. The piece adds a comic aside about the mistaken shadow and a local theater showing Perils of Pauline at Pastime Theatre Thursday.
A Waxhaw Enterprise narrator recalls May 6 1864 as he and Union County youths join the Confederate cause. He traces marches to Camp Hermes near Raleigh, notes the first Confederate enlistment, officer elections, and grim fates, including killed comrades and graves at Kit Creek and Piney Grove Church. The writer urges funding to mark Confederate graves nationwide.
About 1000 veterans from the county are expected to assemble in Raleigh for the State Reunion. General J. Carr will be commander in chief and the opening address will be delivered in the city auditorium this afternoon. A basket picnic is planned for Capitol Square tomorrow as the North Carolina Women of the Confederacy monument is unveiled on Wednesday June 10th, a $10,000 gift from the late Ashley Horn.
Ashley Horn, a donor’s grandson, will unveil a Monument Commission portrait and be received by Governor Craig. Henry Jerome Stockard reads a poem. A second portrait of Ashley Horne, presented by the Daughters of the Confederacy, will be unveiled by his granddaughter Melba McCullers in the House with Mrs. Marshall Williams presiding and Governor Craig in attendance.
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