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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1915
Page
5
Local notices advertise fresh vegetables home made kraut and pound cake from Vann Funderburk with five minute delivery. Community updates include visits from relatives in Monroe Decatur and Atlanta and a fire at O Fullenwider’s saw mill.
The community buzzes over the Chautauqua as Monroe hosts a seven city circuit with nine equipment sets. Advance sales surge at Raleigh and Payetteville, while measurements show ticket value and a two dollar entry minimum. Local notables like Mrs. Matilda Rogers, aged 82, are remembered and the town celebrates speakers and entertainments amid busy social clubs.
The county list takers and assessors met yesterday to fix farm product values. First class horses and mules 200, second class 150, first class cows 50, second class 25. Corn and wheat per bushel 1, white cotton per pound 9 cents, first class lumber 1, cordwood on rail 1.50, meat and lard per pound 10 cents. Also advertising entertainment at local theatres with varied prices and matinees through Friday May 14th.
A Broadway star feature presents The Sage Brush Gal at the Pastime Tonight. An Amador Junction love story follows a girl who thwarts bandits plotting a mine safe robbery. the villains die in a massive explosion while she escapes unharmed. The lively tale unfolds scene by scene as told by an old western settler.
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