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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1916
Page
3
A troubled man wanders streets with friends debating Congressional fights among Weer Finley Robinson Val Spence and Moore. After a day studying, he faces the Recorder, hears Robinson will win, flees to the border and declares politics a deadly snare, ending bitter and spent.
A 1918 item reports Mrs. D. L. Simpson and daughter Miss Mattie Simpson struck by lightning while hoeing cotton during a Saturday storm near Indian Trail R F D 1. Other items note local visits, a scaffold accident injuring Arthur Simpson, church happenings, a wedding, and a measles death of Brice Howie with interment.
A fragment from The Journal readers column mixes a philosophical诗 on mortality with a Center Grove neighborhood roundup. It notes visits among Pressley Moser Riteh Helms and others, a Pineville trip, a sermon announced by Rev Jonah Simpson, a cream supper, a lightning strike splitting a red oak, and town musings on weather and cotton growth. The piece preserves local names and places with brief events and reflections on life, death, and the afterlife.
Mrs. Margaret McCall of Taxahaw Union county died May 22 at 79. Widow of C N McCall and former wife of George Penegar, she left seven McCall children and four Penegar children. Survived by sisters Nancy Secrest Sarah Wenta Amanda Smith.
Misa Hannah Sikes of Albemarle is spending the week with her father, Mr. Vann Sikes, as rain fell across Route 8 Monroe in recent days.
8 H Murphy, a Wellsburg New York druggist, calls Chamberlain's Tablets the most satisfactory remedy for stomach troubles and constipation in his thirty five years of drug store service. The product is obtainable everywhere.
A fragmentary verse speaks of a hidden sphere and the resurrection of the dead. It stresses that words pass from human lips and may be judged by their deeds, with power divine returning the ship and the life that will appear at G’s call.
By trust deed on January 13 1913 S H Crowell and wife and Indian Trail Mines Inc defaulted. On June 6 1916 Frank Armfield as trustee sells two tracts in Union county near Indian Trail and Sandy Ridge to satisfy bonds, descriptions include Bonnie Doone Mine lands and Bates plantation property totaling about 312 acres.
In the Superior Court Lincoln County case County National Bank of Lincolnton versus M J Dawkins an execution secures sale of land to satisfy a judgment. The sheriff will sell at 12 o'clock on Monday July 10 1910 at the Monroe courthouse door the rights of M J Dawkins to about 49.70 acres in Union County lying in Lanes Creek township described by metes and bounds. Proceeds go to satisfy the court docket judgment in Judg ment Docket U page 237 No 1168 J V Griffith sheriff May 15 1916.
Notice that an action to dissolve bonds of matrimony has been commenced in Union County Superior Court between T McRae and McRae. The defendant must answer by July 1, 1916, at Monroe courthouse, or the plaintiff may obtain relief. Also deposition notice for D Smith and others in Chester SC before J C McClude, continuing until completion if not begun on June 14, 1916.
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