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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1917
Page
2
TRIB urges patrons to shop at a strictly cash store praised for prompt refunds and satisfaction. Emphasizes cash advantage, tested goods, and full stock including country products, seeds, and animal feeds. Notes ready-to-ship orders by phone and focus on praiseworthy customer service.
Dialogue fragments show a disturbed scene where a husband confronts a partner about a failed crime and a disputed burl wood art claim. The tone mixes irony and accusation as characters debate the outcome and a pie gesture.
Mr Grady Nash reports a colossal locomotive built in Squee dunkville New Mexico for the Great Northern and Southern lines. It covers acres of grate bars and smoke box netting. It requires enormous fuel and maintenance including a moon a day and a ball to power cylinders. The shipyard boasts a steam shovel and a huge coal tender.
A court appointed sale by Commissioner W J Pratt will auction two adjoining lots in Wingate and Marshville property tied to the Moore and Cox line, including Lot No 10 in Academy Heights Marshville and three other described parcels. Bids start at values for each lot with sale set for March 11, 1917 at Monroe North Carolina.
Grade by grade list of students on the honor roll from first through tenth grade includes Ruby Mae Austin Andrew Polk Elizabeth Miller Cald well Kate Privett John B. Ashcraft Wilber Shams Mary D. Fulenwider Anna Redfern Ada Fairley Chartie Stack Maurice Redfern Rena Brown Lois Byreni Ruby Lemmond Viola Helms Lilian Motley Oulda Anderson Helen Cason Luther Williams Max Liles Griffin Woodsen Benton Jessamine Austin Tielya Wikigus Nellie Austin Carita McGinnis John Efird Hilda Morgan Walter Scott Smithy Mary Frances Lemmond Fourth through Sixth grades feature numerous names such as Laura McCorkle Homer Corneil James Morgan Viola Adame Virginia Blakeney Annie Louise Caldwell Katie Gravely Heat Hroom Byrum Long Mary Elizabeth Weast Louise Watts Helena Eva Shate Mary Lee Presson Edna Carroll Arni elo Baker Alda Broom Mary Brown sing ee Laney George Romanus Ed Ree Houston Billy Stewart Max Gardner Elizabeth Lemmond Ce le Lockhart Lois Sanford Lorena Helms Grady Tucker Ereell Terrell Pauline Johnson Sam Lemmond Sixth through Tenth grades list many students and a note of the upcoming presentation on Saturday March 14, 1917 at the colored graded school in Monroe where exercises begin at 9:30 am with exhibitions, oration by Prof. W. C. Killingsworth at 1 pm, and prize announcements. The program includes a spelling contest and foot race. band music expected.
A Monroe citizen endorses a local newspaper endorsement claiming trusted information comes from local sources. The note promotes Doan's Kidney Pills, citing relief from backache and kidney trouble, with a price of 50 cents and the Foster Milburn Co. as sponsor.
A fragment from a 1917 Union County North Carolina court notice shows a domestic felicity joke about truth and lies, then shifts to a legal ad in the Superior Court of Union County. It announces an absolute divorce action for fornication and adultery, with the defendant urged to appear by May 7, 1917, in Monroe North Carolina, through attorney Stack & Parker.
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