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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1915
Page
2
A compact note from the Journal column urges public action, claiming the piece will address desires of readers. It hints at a broad civic aim, with calls for engagement and communal improvement through collective effort and opinion.
The state prison commission by a four to one vote recommends to Governor Slaton that Frank's death sentence be not commuted to life imprisonment. A further hearing will be held with the governor. counsel for Frank will seek an immediate date for the hearing. Former congressman Howard conducts Frank's case before the governor.
A young investigator visits a pencil factory to study lead poisoning risks. The article explains graphite’s natural occurrence, forms, and uses from Blacklead to artificial graphite, noting its high heat tolerance, noncombustibility, and industrial production via electric furnaces.
In the eastern district court last week Judge Connor heard a blockading case involving James and George Johnson of Johnston county. The boys, both under 21, were drawn into family conflict as their father described neighborhood blockaders who had drawn his sons away and into shooting at him and threatening to burn him out. The father asked for leniency. the youngest son was released on good behavior while the eldest was sentenced to Atlanta for a year.
In a South American country a man is expected to kiss every woman he is introduced to. If that practice prevailed here we men would have to train our minds to forget previous introductions.
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