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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1914
Page
5
Numerous visits and travels from Bennettsville and Gastonia to Monroe as residents and visitors attend events, school notes, and community gatherings. Olin McManus enters Oak Ridge Institute. Harvard and Guilford College students noted. several families visit relatives. farm notes include first cotton sale at Crooked Creek cemetery site.
The Booklovers Club reorganization adds Mesdames Bas and Brinkley, Prof Schaffenburg, and others including Miss Estelle Stewart. Members join the Monroe Orchestra while plan for a fall lyceum course with four entertainments is proposed. The piece also notes a wedding in North Monroe and local road work and cotton marketing plans in Vance and Monroe townships.
County Superintendent Nisbet issues last year’s public school report noting enrollment gains from the prior year and partial success of the compulsory attendance act. The average school term was about 100 days. local districts averaged 130 days across 62 districts with 135 rural white teachers and 39 colored teachers. Twenty four white teachers held college diplomas. Nisbet highlights Women’s Betterment Associations, Boys Corn Clubs, and the county commencement as additional aids, and expresses cautious optimism despite war mood.
The partnership of T C Lee B B Bivens and G M Tucker is dissolved by Tucker withdrawing and selling his interest to Lee and Bivens. The new firm T C Lee & Co will continue the business and pay all debts. dated September 12 1914.
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