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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1914
Page
5
Reports from Monroe include Cot ton Expansion Week efforts and poster campaigns led by Jack Kidd, while county officials handle road petitions and appoints. Marriage notices, a cotton ginning tally, and a bank mail theft hoax are recorded alongside remarks from Uncle Rob Gaddy, a Royal Arch meeting, and plans for a Monroe Auction House opening soon.
A series of burglaries across Monroe are attributed to silent thieves who followed a traveling show. Chief Laney tracked the robbers from Marshville to multiple towns, arresting divers tramps with no evidence. A long list of stolen jewelry coins and watches from residents like Capt. Ed Neal Mrs. Lydia Myers Virginia Davis and J. R. Shute is documented alongside community notes on church events and local clubs.
Regular services are listed for Sunday and Wednesday with worship, sermon, Sunday school, praise and prayer services. New members confessed faith are Allie Matthews Mary Lee Crowell Viola Lee Hart Ruth Scales and Mary Douglass, plus Prof. Moore by letter. Women’s Missionary Union planned a Monday meeting at the Manse and Rally Day activities at the Sunday school. The notice advertises ten day cotton purchase at 10 cents per pound on Emerson mowers rakes and grain drills from Henderson Roller Mills Co.
Tonight at Rex Theatre Monroe Orchestra performs under Prof Schaffenberg. Three pictures headline: Plain Mary a drama with Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber Willie Walrus and the Awful Confession a crackerjack comedy Sophie of the Films a splendid one reel comedy. King Baggot stars in Absinthe with Leah Baird in a four reel feature teaching a moral about dope. Matinee 4:00 p.m. Thursday and Friday show Renunciation and Panama Pacific Exposition panorama. Extra Saturday reels and ongoing motion pictures.
Here Is Where You Come In. We are in a position to give you lowest prices on vegetables country roe and FIRST CLASS GROCER. Good Roasted Coffee only 15 cents the pound. Three pounds of Fancy Whole Grain Rice for 25 cents. Twenty pounds broken Rice for $1.00. Fourteen pounds Granulated Sugar for $1.00. Old Homestead Sanitary Wrapped Bread 5 cents. Nine ounces first-class Sanitary Wrapped Cake 10 cents. Many other articles of like value.
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