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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1917
Page
4
The Monroe Journal honors 110 soldiers from Union County bound for military service as the nation joins France and England. The piece notes the hardship of departure, duty over self, and the community’s support for those going to train and serve abroad.
A fragmentary column describes Col. Ron Payne guarding Puteh's vineyard amid town suspicion and Pinkerton patrols. It also recounts Herndon Hasty tending a garden, hiring a worker, and hints at wartime shortages. Included is a crop report from Monroe North Carolina noting blight and rising prices. In Shelby a woman dies from burns after a hotel room fire linked to a match.
About six hundred people gathered at the station at 4 o clock Sunday morning to bid the Bickett Battery goodbye. The unit headed to Greenville South Carolina for training before moving to Anniston Alabama. Home folk provided roughly a hundred boxed lunches for the departing troops. The train paused briefly, three minutes, but the men could not alight. Also aboard were troops from Newberry and other points.
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