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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1913
Page
5
The column lists grocery pricing and shopping tips from Vann Funderburk and confirms Houston's Shoe Store as a shopping destination. It also includes a call for a farm wage hand and a housing offer for a stall family with contact details for Harry T. Benton, Route 19, Matthews, NC.
Pay in advance now and gain from premium service. Watt Ashcraft, veterinarian with day and night calls, Hayne street hospital. The Union Drug Company promotes pocket knives and asks customers to call T. C. Lee & Co. for cotton seed hulls and meat. WJB Walters seeks pork, veal calves, and dry hides. Elba cotton seed meal available at Co-Operative Mercantile Co. For sale Indian runner duck eggs, white strain, $1.00 per set of thirteen. Orders welcome for cabbage plants, 1.26 per 1000, larger lots cheaper, F. L. Cannon Meggetts, with others in Monroe.
Miss Martha Blakeney visits in Newton while J. D. McRae and Lee Williamson tour Norfolk for several days. Spruce Pine school closes March 15 with 10 am exercises. Local notes include health, church, and business updates, a severe saw accident, rail delays, and community happenings across Mecklenburg and surrounding towns.
A note invites ladies to a live demonstration at Tharp Hardware showing the Range Aterial cooking instrument with a free lunch. In Congress two major federal appropriation bills failed to pass before adjournment, prompting a looming special session. Senator Fall blocked Indian appropriation funding, while Taft vetoed the sundry civil expenses bill. Democratic leaders in Washington convened to address Senate deadlock in Illinois and New Hampshire. A Texas anti trust suit targets Standard Oil, Magnolia Petroleum, and other firms seeking penalties. An 18 year old, William Denny, died in Edgecombe County from an accidental firearms incident while bird hunting.
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