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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1917
Page
8
Rexall Store News highlights summer skin care and latest bathing caps from a drugstore line. The piece notes price ranges from twenty five to seventy two cents, adds a clothes cleaning pad for ten cents and sponges at fifteen and twenty five cents, and urges patrons to consider new perfumery and small novelties for bath time.
In Union County Superior Court Connie Meggs sues Brady Meggs seeking to annul their marriage on grounds of fornication and adultery. Defendant must appear by May 7, 1917, at Monroe courthouse to answer or demur. attorney R. W. Lemmond signs the notice. The notice ends with a prompt to "put up things" as soon as possible.
Secretary and M K Lee attended the North Carolina Live Stock Exposition in Wilmington with Southern Settlement and Develop ment Co. and others. The meeting praised livestock exhibits, highlighted Gov Breckett’s wit, urged crop diversification, and promoted a Safe Farming Program advocating home gardens, corn and grain, hay, meat, eggs, and cotton as surplus money crop.
Rose Bud reports social visits in Indian Trail and Ebenezer and church notices. Guests include Mr. and Mrs. Wentz and Mr. Birmingham and families. Sunday school organized with G W Kiser and A B Haywood as superintendents. Rev A B Haywood preached at Hemby school house. The Sardis and Sardis services announced. Groups travel from Monroe to Unionville for church and social events.
Sunday reports from Belmont note a pleasant close to Friday night at the Belmont school taught by Mr. Jonah Simpson with callers from Union Grove visiting Maude Williams. Mentions illness of Jessie Smith and a heated debate on introducing athletic sports in high and secondary schools, arguing sports waste time and harm student focus.
Arthur Hunter, president of the Actuarial Society of American, cites vital statistics from six large U S life insurers to urge that cancer is not hereditary or contagious. Analysis of 20 000 insurance applications shows only 488 cases where a parent died of cancer and just four where both parents did.
A collection of political endorsements and candidate notices from Ward One and Ward Three. Citizens and neighbors endorse John Sikes for mayor and Roscoe Phifer for Alderman while others announce candidacies and supportive statements for Walter F. Lemmond John W Richardson and W M Gordon in the Democratic primary.
The letter urges John Sikes to announce his mayoral candidacy embracing the town's street improvements. It argues he is best suited to oversee contracts, citing his familiarity with past arrangements and the need for a business administration at this critical time.
Among 20,000 applicants, only a fraction had both parents die of cancer, highlighting the impact of hereditary illness on eligibility and risk assessment.
A country switch tale: a city boy mocks electric discipline after seeing electricians at work and declares he will return to town. A separate quip about Miss Mabel Keen's marriage plans adds a wry note from the Boston Transcript.
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