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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1913
Page
5
Local and personal items note the county fair set for November 21 and 22. Several social visits, church events, and community notices follow including school meetings, marriages, and a box supper at Oak Grove, with updates on residents traveling to Raleigh and Charlotte fairs.
Fresh raisins currants and citron available. A W McCall thanks patrons for support while selling watch repairs at Krauss site. Lee R Trutt advertises egg buying. Clover seed rye and paint deals from Co-Operative Mercantile Co. Woolsey’s paint added. W R Outen Co promotes poultry prices. Mrs J A Bivens lists a nine room Church Street house for sale. Silver Ort sewing machine free trial at Rudge’s. Co-operative Mercantile Co invites selling chickens and eggs.
A note mentions two Japanese persimmons mailed to Esq. A. J. Brooks in Chattanooga weighing 14 ounces each and 11% inches in circumference. It also reports Clifton Ward of Samp son County who died recently leaving a unique will probated at Clinton with executors L. L. Dam tron Jr and BE. S. Williams. Ward’s estate is estimated at 13 500 dollars, with many bequests and rules for retribution, a steel casket, vault, and a public funeral at the Clinton courthouse. The piece notes a tariff change abolishing the 25 percent Bible duty under the Underwood Simmons tariff law.
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