Friendliest Town South of the Mason-Dixon Line
Maryland soldier praises Monroe North Carolina as the friendliest town south of the Mason-Dixon line. He describes camp life near Anniston Alabama with sixteen thousand acre grounds and forty thousand men. The letter notes regimental reorganization under Col. Washington Bowie and mentions local families Freeman and McWhirter in Mint Hill with age testimony in a court hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
Monroe
Summerfield B. Medany
Medany
Anniston
Ala
N. C
Mason and Dixon Line
Gaither
Mecklenburg Youth Bound to Court on Perjury Charge
Judge W C Lemmond bound H L McWhirter to superior court on perjury charges after a complex Elopement case. The witness Bob Freeman claimed the age of his daughter Rosa was falsified as twenty though she was seventeen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ever
Anow
McWhirter
Freeman
Mint Hill
MeWhirters
Register of Deeds Long
Miss Freeman
MeWhirter
Mecklenburg
Cnaroue
Queen City
Charlotte
Mr. Freeman
Monroe
W. O. Lemmond
Daugster
Young McWhirter
D. ¥. Smith
K. L. Stevens
Smith
Rosa Freeman
Mrs party notes civic work and a wedding in Wingate
Wingate dispatch reports W M S Union Association women active in Monroe visit. A wedding at Monroe Baptist parsonage unites T B Kelly and Enola Lowery of Peachland with afterward trip to Charlotte. Local progress includes electric lights, interest in a dynamo for Perry Mill Co to supply power, and community efforts to improve services and cotton markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wingate
Monroe
W. M. 5S
Union Association
Kingdom of Christ
Baptist Parsonage
T. B. Kelly
Enola Lowery
Peachland
Glenalpine
Charlotte
BE. H. Williams
Messrs
Craven
Rufus
Ellerbe Springs
Judson Perry
Badin
Marshal Stewart
Perry Mill Co
Polkton
Rufus Griffin
Allie Meigs
James Bennett
Faulks
Master Parks Nash
Calvineh
Oscar Colling
Tillman
Camp Greene
Ellis Bennette
Lee Jordan
A. Williams
Vernon Griffin
Lester Thomas
Boggan Mills
Cool Spring
Frank Greene
Mob of NY guardsmen clash with Monroe town folk
About two thousand New York State Guard troops lay over in Monroe causing stores to lose goods. A mob attacked a man at Union Drug Store but was checked by bystander Mrs. Bright Griffin. Some soldiers looted peanuts melons and bottles while others begged for stamps and cigarettes. One letter from a remorseful soldier expressed regret and noted many were hungry and new to duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bright Griffin
New York State Guard
Union Drug Store
Lew
Vann Funderburk
8. R. Doster
Tom Redwine
Sikes-Sanders Co
Spartanburg
Monroe
Hungary
Richmond
Hamlet
Albert J. Dodge
U. S. Infantry
Camp Wadsworth
8. C
Guard
Federal
National Army
Air Service
Rt ‘Y Baker
National Guard
Woman's Missionary Society of Union Association
First Baptist Church
F. B. Ashcraft
D. B. Snyder
Union Association
Snyder
John A. Wray
E. M. Griffin
J. G. Carroll
Corinth
Segal
Baxter Williams
Wingate
Annie Sanders
P. F. Wilson
Fred
Mary Presson
Corinth Church
Wilton Williams
D. A. Covington
Mary Simmons
Clemmie Mills
Enoch Griffin
Shiloh Sunbeam Band
Zeb Secrest
Renton
Hailton
Union
Marshsh
Roosevelt Attacks La Follette Amid Pacifist Critique
Theodore Roosevelt denounces Robert M. La Follette as sinister to democracy in a Dexter Pavilion speech. He praises preparedness and condemns pacifists, pro-German propagandists, and leading scholars like David Starr Jordan, amid a National Security League event at the Chicago Stock Yards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Robert M. LaFollette
Wisconsin
Theodore Roosevelt
National Security League
Samuel Fellows
Jacob M. Dickinson
America
Dexter
Stock Yards
David Starr Johnson
Leland Stanford University
Thi
British Drive Advances on Front in Flanders
British Haig launches a new thrust across a six mile front in Flanders with heavy artillery and multiple national corps assaulting German positions. German resistance remains fierce as Britons reach near Zonnebeke and threaten a railway hub at Lille, while Ostend is repeatedly shelled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Field Marshal Haig
Flanders
Crown Prince
Rupprecht
Haig
Zonnebeke
Ostend
Roulers
Roubaix
Lille
Zeeburgee
Britiay
Belgium
Champagne
Verdun
France
Germany
Floods Threaten Tianjin and Peking Areas
Floods have left about one million Chinese homeless as water rises rapidly around Peking. Tien-Tsin faces destruction with portions of foreign concessions underwater. The rail embankment between Tien-Tain and Nanking is cut to ease flood flow, while Hoang-Ho overflows push northward. Mud walls at Tien-Ssin are reinforced under foreign supervision as streams in Chi Li province feed the flood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peking
Tien-Tsin
Great Plain
Tien-Tain
Nanking
Hoang-Ho
Grand Canal
Tien-Ssin
Chi- Li
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L. L. Parker
Pageland
Eenres
Gloucester Wednes
B. V. Snipes
This
Winder
Washington
Baker
Nationalrmy
Tas
LaFollette
Minneapolis
High Seas
Reichstag
United States
Lincoln
Wilson
Congress
TEDDY
Lafoll
Kai and der Pacifists
Middle West
Columbia
South Carolina
Newport News
Camp Hill
Grote Hutchinson
Camp Hin
James River
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