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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1917
Page
5
Vann Funderburk promotes his cash grocery store promising complete order fulfillment without town hopping. Customers receive courteous service, honest weights and measures, and a five minute delivery window.
Local notes report an Elders and Deacons convention at Walkersville Presbyterian Church next Thursday starting at 11 AM with an all day program and dinner intermission. Sunday school talks and Steel Crook choir singing are planned plus part of the Steel Creek band on Friday. public invited.
The Executive Committee of the Red Cross will honor 116 drafted men who depart on Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock on the court house lawn. Short addresses and patriotic songs will be followed by refreshments for the men.
A local report details a moonshine named Mokum made from skimmings near Bear Skin Creek. Hard Garmon faced a judge for making Mokum but was let off with payment. A Greenville dispatch notes a battery’s return to Monroe and a community appeal for meals, comfort bags, and gifts for Union County soldiers, with local women organizing a silk flag handoff.
Nine Americans, all medical corps personnel, were wounded by bombs from German air raiders in France last week. Lieutenant Fitzsimmons and three privates were killed. A list received by General Pershing tonight shows two severely injured and Eva Parmalee, an army nurse, escaped with minor injuries. All wounded are from the medical corps.
Mr Heath Lee of R J Reynolds Tobacco Co with Montgomery Alabama headquarters visits his parents Mr and Mrs W B Lee. Miss Fannie Hinson daughter of Mr and Mrs T L Hinson goes to Cheraw to enter school. Miss Thelma Little and Willie Blakeney enroll at Albemarle Normal and Industrial Institute. Earl Hinson Oscar Abernethy and Morehead Stack leave for Chapel Hill to study at the University. Mrs J R Kelly and Miss Lucile Merritt return to Wilmington after visiting Mrs J O Fulenwider. Dr E W Sikes spends Wednesday night with relatives. Call Austin returns to work in Charlotte after vacation with his parents.
J Wesley Helms former Monroe Steam Laundry proprietor appeared before U S Commissioner M L Flow for draft act registration evasion. He admitted reaching 21, tied to marriage records from Peachland 1914, and was bound over to federal court in Charlotte. Another youth, Wash Strong, faced a similar charge aided by a family bible.
Lt Sam Parker and Lt Andrew Monroe, recently commissioned at Ft Oglethorpe Officers Training Camp, have sailed for France. Their relatives were informed a few days earlier after they took part in New York's rally parade for drafted officers. It is unlikely they will see combat before next spring as they undergo intensive modern warfare training.
Corinth society notices list visits and greetings from Miss Pearl Irby to Mr. Whitaker and other local residents. Names include Mr. John Carnes and Bunyan Carnes, Mr. Leroy McCorkle returning from Allenton, D C, and a Charlotte trip by the Cook and Helms families. Broadus Usher is reported very ill.
280 acres of fine tobacco land with a dwelling, four tenant houses, seven tobacco barns, a large pack house with basement, feed barn and stalls. 150 acres cultivated, 100 acres stump free, well ditched, 50 acres pasture, near two railroad stations and Farm Life School. Tobacco crop of 28 barns sold at 30 cents per pound this season. Price 14000 dollars. A. Martin, Carthage NC. Odd note about retired captain and growing cabbage.
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