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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1917
Page
3
A rural boy born in poverty rises from a swamp edge home to become a minister. Jimmie endures hunger illness and discouragement, supports family, pays his own way through college and seminary, then is ordained and serves a large Southern church winning many to Christ.
At Camp Jackson South Carolina on October 5 military recruits from diverse labor backgrounds wore overalls and blue shirts for first drill lessons. The scene shows rapid transformation into orderly soldiers guided by white officers with mixed success and pride. Escambia county Florida negroes lead the way with early experience and uniforms, while duties include cleaning barracks streets and posting messages. A Youth's Companion item recalls Wells Fargo banker Hedges guarding a bank during a 1854 crisis and vigilantly arranging a quick special deposit plan to prevent liquidation.
An essay in the Marshville Home questions world pleasure mood. Mr W H Phifer laments Monroe church seats empty at protracted meetings for tent shows and cites many members taking Sunday trips to Charlotte Badin and beyond for leisure. Sanford dealers reportedly sold over a thousand gallons for Sunday pleasure rides. Some foresee WWI forcing a cure for this “pleasure mad” trend while others view it as an evolution in living standards.
Mr J C Austin erects a 40 by 100 foot modern dairy barn to accompany his Guernsey herd. He has just completed a top silo filled with 110 tons of silage and about 400 bushels of corn. His cattle will exhibit at the Marshville fair on October 26 and 27.
The notice advises eating slowly and thoroughly chewing food, abstaining from meat for several days, as sour stomach may disappear. If unresolved, take one Chamberlain's Tablet after supper. Red meats are likely culprits and may be best cut from the diet.
Mr. Brewer shows solid farming results with cotton yields near one and a half bales per acre and 50 bushels of corn per acre onhill land. He credits years of systematic soil building, including heavy clover cover and soil fertility, and suggests an exhibition at the Marshville fair to highlight his prolific corn.
A provocative line from the Christian Register imagines a couple stranded at night in a forest with threats from a constrictor, wildcat, and lion, culminating in a stark exchange about their fate as the woman laments and the man answers there will be no “we.”
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