15 Oct 1915
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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1915
Page
1
A lively request from the Indian Trail correspondent invites neighbors to send in news by phone mail or in person. The writer details four contact methods and urges readers to help build a stronger community press while sharing local events, school updates, obituaries, and town notices from Oct. 13.
Mr Conder shares his Florida trip from Stout with notes on meeting friends in Leesburg Fruitland Park and Lake County. He describes fishing hunting and motoring on clay roads and brings back trophies including a rattlesnake skin. He jokes about North Carolina loyalty and a playful community sendoff.
Washington dispatch reports Secretary Daniels and President Wilson backing a five year naval program. The plan contemplates dreadnoughts and battle cruisers, nearly 100 submarines, 70 destroyers, scout cruisers, and support ships, with large personnel increases and about 248 million dollars for year one. Final ship counts to be fixed after a Friday conference.
Information from Ambassador Morgenthau to Washington says the majority of Armenians in Asiatic Turkey have been subjected to renewed massacres as Bulgaria enters the war on Turkey's side. Despite promises to allow refugees to depart unharmed, reports indicate adherence to these conditions has faltered. About 100000 dollars from private sources is available for Armenian refugees, but no plan exists to bring them to the United States. The spared Armenians are said to be concentrated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
The Waxhaw Enterprise reports a community reminder to attend the Baby Show in Monroe on October 23rd. Local readers are urged to mark the date and participate in the upcoming event.
Historical Wingate column records Oct 14 1915 items including cotton market prices, local arrivals, medical notes, travel, and a public debate on US intervention in Mexico. It reflects a mix of community notices, personal moves, illness, and moral exhortations urging economic prudence, faith, and independence for southern farmers.
A variety of entertainment is planned by the American Girls' Sextette at the Lyceum course. Rhea Dorthy Lynch leads with violin, piano, and direction. Ruby Norman, Ruth Schor netist and vocalist. Hyatt plays clarinet and sax. Virgie Hyatt handles piano and sax. The second part features portrayals of girlhood eras from nun to modern days.
An observer notes cotton seed as fertilizer is scarce and priced upward. Prices for beef cattle vary by location with Jersey City and Philadelphia quoted around nine to twelve cents and expectations that reed may reach seventy five cents in ten days.
Fifty five killed and 114 wounded in London from Zeppelin raids. Reports say Woolwich docks waterworks and arsenal were targeted with fires. British attacks near Hulluch win ground but suffer heavy artillery fire. Eastern and Balkan fronts show mixed progress as Greece stays neutral. Also, a Ford rollover near Chesterfield injures several occupants. one man drowns as car sinks in a pond.
The Waxhaw Enterprise relays the Howle mine tale from 1745 to the 1860s. It recalls early gold finds by four colored women, sale to Commodore Robert F. Stockton, Confederate confiscation, slave ownership issues, and later transfers through heirs and buyers. Dr. T. W. Redwine began his practice there in 1845.
Officials report Lieut Walter R Taliaferro, army aviator, who perished yesterday, has been located in San Diego Bay by navy divers. The tractor No 30, the aircraft he piloted when he fell, was found nearby with the machine’s wreckage. The remains were recovered and identified as Taliaferro’s.
The Monroe Journal observed a prior hush in the local papers and a lean output. In recent weeks editors have increased their writings though quality remains unsettled and uneven.
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