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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1917
Page
5
A local grocer invites customers to view market and lunch baskets in a shop window across from the display. The note boasts homemade kraut made when signs and moon aligned, promising enticing food to whet appetites. Wann Funderburk, One Price Cash Grocer, offers "5 Minutes Delivery."
Community notices list church lectures by Mr Henry Baucom at Benton Cross Roads and Dr Gurney at Snyder school house. The Weaver Philathea Class meets Mrs R W Allen at 7 30 this evening. Union County items mention deserters arrested, road sentence for Clay Deese and Jeff Williams, farming year remarks, and a wedding in a car near Goose Creek. A Red Cross branch forms in Waxhaw with 26 members.
A cordial invitation to Sunday services at 11 a m worship and address by Chaplain Wm Gilbert from Camp Greene 3 30 p m Sunday school 7 p m Young Peoples service 7 30 p m praise service and second sermon on Satan His Personal The Mission study class meets Monday at 3 30 o'clock The first four chapters form the lesson. Reporter. Kill Dr Cook an alleged plot to torment a revolution in India to embarrass Great Britain includes Dr Frederick A Cook among those marked for assassination according to Sukupar Chatterji Hindu priest at Judge Landis court today in the Gustav H Jacobsen case.
The narrator recalls land so poor that a quarrel could not be raised. An anecdote from Guilford county about a station named Friendship after a northern man’s remark that the land was so poor a man couldn’t raise a quarrel on it.
Russian fleet of about 20 warships bottled in Moon Sound faces German force outside the shell zone. German dreadnoughts sink the Slava and badly damage others, forcing the flotilla to seek refuge between Moon Island and the Esthonian coast. Bob Houston promoted to the 44th U S Wing Royal Flying Corps in northern Canada to finish education before France.
FOR SALE A first class second hand store. Apply to Mrs. F J Ashcraft. LOST A five dollar gold piece Return to D C Montgomery and be reward FOR RENT A six room cottage with all modern conveniences Mrs R T West 205 Crawford St.
Public auction to the highest bidder for cash of two described parcels in Monroe Union County North Carolina under a deed of trust dated February 5 1917 by Watt Redfearn and wife Martha Redfearn to 8 W Shaw trustee for A B Shaw. Sale at courthouse door November 19 1917 at noon with metes and bounds including a 70 by 134 feet lot and a 120 by 134 feet lot conveyed by W S Lee and others.
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