Tharp Hardware Cut Rate Tire Sale Ends Nov Ist
Local retailer Tharp Hardware and Manufacturing Co offers auto casings at 10 percent off regular cash prices through November 1 with 33x4 and odd sizes at 20 percent off. Industry-wide tire price rises push customers to buy now to save. Public notice and appeals accompany advertisement urging support for North Carolina orphanages and charitable drives ahead of Thanksgiving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tharp Hardware and Manufacturing Company
North Carolina
M. L. Shipman
James BR. Young
John D. Berry
A. Barnes
Livingston Johnson
Raleigh
N.C
Paint shooting at Yadkin county fair shocks East Bend
At the Yadkin county fair East Bend area officer Special W H Adams ordered Smitherman to stop cursing. Smitherman drew and fired at Adams. Adams returned fire wounding Smitherman in the left tongue. Smitherman transported to a physician. prognosis poor. Also mobile aviator Williams dies after airplane crash at Gulf Coast fair grounds. Williams fell from 2000 feet during descent toward the track. neck broken. wife in grandstand. Williams built plane here last April after Curtiss school graduate from Michigan.
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Winston-Salem
East Dead
Yodkin County
Yadkin County
W. H. Adams
The
Fair Association
Smitherman
East Bend
Smithersman
Joe Hunt
Adams
Cary
Pall
Pel Mobile
Ala
Wiliams
Williams
Willian
Curtiss Aviation School
Mobile
Michigan
Jerry Moore Drafted From Florence County to Army
Jerry Moore is drafted from Florence county and certified by the district board to the county board. He stood his physical at Dodson Louisiana where he has lived recently and has been accepted for service. Moore previously set a world corn yield record of 228 bushels and three quarters per acre in 1910.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry Moore
Willdom
Florence County
Jerry
Dodson
Warden Bushee Found Guilty in Prison Whipping Case
Wake Superior Court jurors convict Warden Bushee of the State’s prison for unnecessarily brutal whipping of former convict N. W. Smith. Trial took two days. Judge Lyon imposes a $100 fine. Bushee appeals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Wake Superior Court
Warden Bushee
N. W. Smith
Lyon
Buebee
They Only Would
German Foreign Minister Kuehlmann condemns speaking by poison plots and weapons of mass coercion as barbaric. The piece asserts Prussian militarism will not stop using every unlawful method, including slavery and murder plots, in its ongoing war conduct.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Herald
Kuehlmann
Alabama
Miss Clara Stinson and relatives visit Wingate Braxton
Monroe Oct 24 Misses Clara Stinson Margrette and Estelle Renton are visiting friends and relatives at Wingate Braxton. The little son of Mr and Mrs A P Freeman fell into a fire last week and is badly burned but improving. A meeting at Hemby school house starts next Sunday at 11 o clock after a misprint. Will Birmingham and Dowd Helms went corn ishucking Thursday night. Houston Helms visited home folks Sunday.
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Center Grove
Monroe
Rt. 6
Clara Stinson
Margrette
Estelle Renton
Wingate
Braxton
A. P. Freeman
Hemby
The
Journal
Will Birmingham
Dowd Helms
Houston Helms
Soy Bean Stalk With 552 Reds and War News
The column notes a soy bean stalk with 552 beans on a plant found by T. G. Keziah in a school contest. It reports Mrs Lou Hargett and Mrs Elgin Thompson's illnesses and family visits in Dudley. It also covers Lord Northcliffe stating war will be lengthy and American press bias claims. Washington reports Zeppelins Leaf and L 50 crews surprised by American troops in France.
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Washington
France
Journal Switching to Cash in Advance Subscriptions
Beginning January first The Journal will stop all subscriptions promptly on expiration and issue two weeks notice for renewals. The change, due to higher paper labor and supply costs, shifts to cash in advance and requires mailing clerks to halt subscriptions by label dates without tracking names. To continue service in 1918, ensure the label date is correct.
No Trace Pound of German Escapes Atlanta Prison Camp
No trace of 10 Germans who fled Fort McPherson in a Tuesday night tunnel escape has been found. Federal, city, and county police investigations yielded no hiding place, with authorities still pursuing the theory they remain in the area. One fugitive is Lieut Hans Berg of the German navy who commanded the Appam to Hamp ton Roads after its capture. Colonel Van Orsdale said outside aid was almost impossible due to tight guard.
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Atlanta
Fort McPherson
Department of Justice
Prinz Eitel Friedrich
Appam
Hans Berg
Hampton Roads
Col
T. J. van Orsdale
Rifle Range Secured at Camp Sevier Greenville
Major Doyle of the quartermaster corps at Camp Sevier says leases for a rifle range of about four thousand acres will likely be signed by tomorrow morning and that men may use the range tomorrow afternoon. The tract lies between Camp Sevier and the mountain area near Cad deal for the purpose of a range.
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Camp Sevier
Greenville
Doyle
Quartermaster's Corps
Mountain
Cad
Drafted Man Heir to Five Year Sentence
Camp Lewis Tacoma Washington October 24 Dishonorable discharge from the national army forfeiture of all pay and allowances and confinement at hard labor for five years was the sentence imposed by military court martial upon Eno R Lars drafted man from San Francisco for failure to submit to physical examination for contagious diseases The sentence approved by Major General H A Greene was announced today Rio Janeiro October 25 Bulletin Parliament will vote tomorrow on authorizing the government to declare that a state of war exists between Germany and Brazil and on all necessary legislation for the carrying on of war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Lewis
Tacoma
Wash
National Army
Eno R. Lars
San Francisco
H. A. Greene
Rio Janeiro
Germany
Brazil
Mortgage Sale in Monroe North Carolina by Trust Trustee
Mortgage sale notice for W M Roddey and wife Janie Roddey to G B Caldwell trustee. On November 24 1917 at Monroe Court House door the highest cash bidder may acquire a Union county lot described as part of Monroe Land Improvement addition. The property originated from J M Fairley to Annie Watts and later to Monroe Insurance Investment Company. This notice dated October 24 1917.
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W. M. Roddey
Janie Roddey
G. B. Caldwell
Court House
Monroe
N. C
Union County
Carr Avenue
Frank McMiling
Annie Watts
Monroe Insurance & Investment Company
Ben and Ann Watts
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Liberty Loan
Red Cross
Young Men's Christian Association
Eld
Commonwealth
North Carolina Orphan Association
Baptist
M. L. Jer
Thomasville
Barnes
W. T. Walker
Barnum Springs
Walter Winston-Salem
W. J
Charlotte
Howe
H. A. Carrett
High Point
Oxford
Brown
Werner
Crescent
Nazareth
Geo
A. Woods
Temple
Balfour
Falcon
Strickland
War Club
Perses
Margaret E. Sangster, Jr
Christian Herald
Monroe W. M
First Baptist Church
Monroe W. M. A
F. B. Ashcraft
John A. Wray
Hattie Belk
Smith Wood
Tor
Mite
Victrola Outfit
W. J. Rudge CO
Yadkin Fair
Den
State Prison
A. Rushda
M. Rushing
Dudley
Lou Hargett
Murphy Hargett
Elgin Thompson
T. G. Keziah
Kansas City
Lord Northcliffe
Reichstag
Congress
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