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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1914
Page
5
Community items note Vann Funderburk Clara Ashcraft visiting Hamlet friends. Local residents return from Ridgecrest and Rocky River Springs. Typhoid recovery, bank holiday observance, Union church fishing for parsonage funds, Mason lodge degree, school moves, and various local notices. Obituaries and court news plus cotton market status and road notices wrap a dense local page.
Edna Niven and Neeley Massey, both of Waxhaw, were married Tuesday afternoon at the bride’s mother’s home. Rev. W. F. Sandford officiated. only close relatives attended. The couple traveled to Monroe by auto and then to Washington by train. Mrs. Massey works in milinery at Belk. Mr. Massey holds a position with A. W. Heath Company. The Waxhaw Enterprise notes a snake crop story and a moccasin with 52 young found inside there were dispatched.
The pastor returns from vacation and will conduct regular services on Sunday. Morning worship and sermon at 11, Sunday school at 10, and the evening service at 7 20. Members are urged to attend. evening sermon will mark the school year start. Church Reporter.
Rural letter carriers from Union Anson Richmond and Scotland counties will meet in Wadesboro on Monday September 7 with a 10 30 a m start led by T L Love of Monroe Devotional by Rev W Bruce Doyle welcome by Mayor Dunlap Rockingham speaker H B Coppage Address by B C Ashcraft and others on service improvement topics auto pony rural delivery and a state convention report and sidelights Full attendance urged.
In Anderson County a young woman named Bula Stith, 18, used her brother’s shotgun in a woods near the family home to end her life. She tied the trigger with rope, death was instantaneous, and a note explains her suffering and desire to spare others tears. Family says no prior depression, she had planned to move to Gaffney for college soon.
The Wheeler Bros elephants perform in a three ring arena with ornate howdahs and oriental styling. Trainers in regal dress guide them through drills and Tango routines while displaying strength in pulling wagons and lifting heavy poles. They are fed hay and dainties, trumpet in gratitude, daily on the Wheeler show grounds.
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