Local and Personal Happenings Highlight Monroe notes
Community notices from Monroe cover speeches by Hon R B Redwine and Rev J L White, family visits, school moves, theatre tickets, and public meetings. Local events include church sermons, a beulah school club meeting, a weathering of price concerns, a grand woodmen monument unveiling, a large still seized near New Salem, and Chamber of Commerce preparations to boost Monroe with a reading room and public discussions. The item also notes a pair of entertainers Fairchilds touring the area and local commentary from Squire Simpson on wheat farming positions.
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I. Y. Scott
Chamber of Conmerce
Bit
T. J. W. Broom
Monroe
Union County
Scott
Chamber of Commerce
North Carolina
The Journal raises price to $1.50 for subscribers
The Journal informs old subscribers the renewal rate increases to $1.50 annually, effective after October 7, with no premium or discounts. The note compares prices with other papers and cites rising paper costs. A memorial notice quotes Carrie Foard, who died September 27, 1916, detailing her birth, faith, character, and family, with funeral notes and condolences.
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Carrie Foard
J. C. Foard
Carrie
M. T. Steele
J. T. Stover
G. W. Kiser
Monroe Hardware contest offers prizes for big grain yields
Monroe Hardware Company invites entries for a three acre grain yield contest with first prize a $50 wood mowing machine and second prize a $21 Coly three furrow oat drill. Entry must be submitted by Dec 1 1916 with a completed affidavit and drill purchase from Monroe Hardware. Contest closes Sept 1 1917, results filed by that date. Auto owners warned to display State license tags by Nov 20 under city notice by Mayor Payne.
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Monroe Hardware Company
Unino
Hardware
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W.T. Stewart
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Odessa Richardson
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Julius Lemacks
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T. C. Horton
P. M. Murry of
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J. D.warren
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R. W. Lemmond
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Fred Presson
Kate Presson
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J. L. White
First Baptist Church
Miami
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Predi
James Dockery
Lizzie Dockery
Willie, Eleanor and
Elizabeth Williams
Rockingham
J. Frank Williams
Miss Nance
Jobn Stewart
Louise Polatty
Heath Lee
W. 5. Lee
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R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
M. E. Osborne
Prospect
Central Methodist Church
Rey
Abernthy
Woman's Betterment Club
Beulah School
Squire C. N. Simpson
Leo Griffin
Gladys Laney
Virginia Lee
Martha Lockhart
Maud Nixon
H. R. Laney
Lyceum
Fairchild
Opera House
Union Drug Co
English Drug Co
C. N. Simpson Jr
Monroe Drug Co
Board of Aldermen
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Elin Street
Court House
Charles Iceman
3. I. Furr
J. E. Collins
Pattie Terrell
New England
Union Drug Company
Nancy Isabelle Avant
Zoar
Buford Township
Dew Drop Grove
Frank Marshall
J. W. Griffin
E. L. Earnhardt
Clifford. Fowler
R. C. Long
Morgan Mill Road
Cyrus Mullies
Croft Griffin
T. B. Laney
Son” Kiser
Baxter Riggins
Shute Lot
al Reed
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Ileary Myers
Peice
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Fairchild Company
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Times
N. B. Ayers
Crimson Clover Seed
J. B. Nash & Son
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A. A. Edgeworth
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Mulberry Road
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J.B. Nash & Son
Central Hotel
Main and
Windsor Streets
Corinth Church
L. H. Doster
Mineral Springs
N. C
Jersey
Arthur Helms
Route 9
Ford
D. Hawn
Monroe, N. C
Monroe Creamery Association
N. N
J.h.mills
Sadie Howie
Matthews
Chas, C. Baucom
H. Smith
Waxhaw
Ron. Payne
Spee
Stetson
LEE & Lee Coo
Lee & Lee Co
Burroughs
Bank of Union
W. S. Blakeney
W. C. Stack
Lee Griffin
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