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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1913
Page
8
Various notices from Union Drug Co and local businesses advertise shoe stores cleaning products chattel mortgages and crop liens. Auction plans, theater listings at Rex, and a horse prospect Lone Star are noted along with building supplies and a fresh pound cake shipment from H. S. Hasbidge & Co. and house construction items from Monroe Manufacturing Co.
Chattanooga May 24. The twenty third annual United Confederate Veterans reunion opens tomorrow amid interest in a possible commander in chief election and the battle over riding rules for women. Gen Bennett H Young is expected to be reelected, while Gen Van Zandt declined to be a candidate. Cities vying for 1914 and 1915 reunions include Tulsa Nashville Richmond Baltimore San Antonio and Denver. A 2600 seat mess tent served meals as veterans recalled Civil War battles and women of the Confederate Memorial Association welcomed the visitors.
Governor Brown said no pardon for Thomas Edgar Stripling, ex police chief of Danville Va, who is serving a life sentence for a Heard county Georgia murder. He noted Stripling has served only two years, and the case will not be reopened.
Jerry Muskrat and Little Joe Otter notice shrinking water at Smiling Pool while Grandfather Frog dismisses alarm. They seek help from the wise elder who remains skeptical as the scene blends nature inquiry with a nearly comic tone. The excerpt also references the Caucasian newspaper’s sale and edits in North Carolina.
Cleve Daniels, a negro, was convicted of murder in Durham and sentenced to be electrocuted July 14. His attorney plans to appeal to the highest court seeking a summutation, noting few white men receive the death penalty. Meanwhile in New Bern, yard conductor T. S. Manning died after being crushed beneath a locomotive in the Norfolk Southern yard.
Dr. W. B. Morton, a Baptist minister, was assaulted on Louisburg streets Sunday night by 18 year old William Bailey. Bailey was arrested and bound over to court for the attack. In Newton the sale of a lot under execution was contested and postponed to July court after a late bidder offered double the sale price. The sheriff’s deed was held up pending court decision on the alleged premature sale.
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