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THE MONROE J4UBXAL. TUESDAY, JAXTARY SI. 1922.
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We are Proud of
Our Farmer Friends
UTS ARE SPECIALLY PROUD THAT WE HAVE SO
MAAY FARMER CUSTOMERS. AGRICULTURE IS
PARTICULARLY INTERESTING TO US, AS INDEED IT
R1IOC1J) BE TO EVERYONE, AXD WE LIKE TO n.lVE
THE FARMERS DROP IX AXD TALK THEIR PROB
LEMS OVER FITH VS.
WUEM WE CAS CIVE ADVICE OR REXUER SERV.
ICE OF AXY KIXD, WE ARE ALWAYS CLAD TO DO
SO.
WE KNOW THAT THE fatOAVTII AXD DKVEI-OP.
MEXT OK Tins COMm'XITY DEPEND TO A I.ARGE
EXTENT UPON ITS FARMING INTERESTS, AXD WE
AIM TO DO OUR PART TOWARD HELPIXa THE
FARMERS SUCCEED.
WE IXHTE FARMERS TO BANK' WITH IS.
THE BANK, OF UNION
v
Monroe, N. C.
Capital $100,000.00
Surplus $100,000.00
W. 8. BLAKEKEY, President.
J, B. &HITE, Vloe-Prelileht W. B. COiJC, AmC CmMw
R. O. LA BEY. Cashier HARGROVE BOWLES. Ast CuUw
The Greensboro i
Daily News
is recognized as the state's best newspaper.
It gives a news service unexcelled and its edi
torial page is always dean, broad and inter
esting. Independent in politics, it presents
news and views from every angle.
On its rapidly growing subscription lists
are the names of the state's best and most
forward-looking citizens. Can you afford to
be without this newspaper? Forward your
trial subscription.
, Six months, Daily and Sunday $4.50
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GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS,
GREENSBORO, N. C.
SAFETY
i is the first consideration at this bank. It is
I the consideration which appeals strongest to
every depositor, it is tne consideration
which has made our vaults the receptacle of
much of the wealth of this community. It is
the consideration which has MADE this
bank what it is. And it is the consideration
which should prompt YOU to bank with US.
MONROE BANK & TRUST CO.
TL B. REDWINE, President II. I). CLARK, Cashier
Trains
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SEABOARD
Air Line Railway
SCHEDULE EFFETIVE DECEMBER 11, 1921.
Arrlre
from Charlotte .... 5.20 a. ni.
from Atlanta 5 65 a. ra
from Rutherfordton 10:45 a.m.
Leave
5.30 a. m. for Wilmington
6.00 a. m for Richmond.'
10:55 a. m. for Raleigh
and Wilmington -
a. m. for Atlanta.
45 a m. for Charlotte.
8.10 a. m. for Rutherfordton.
11.00 a. m. for Atlanta
8.00
10:
from Richmond .... 7.55 a. m.
from Wilmington ..10.35 a. m.
from Monroe .'.
from Monroe
from Raletgh
and Wilmington 2:40 p.m. 2.45 p. m.
from Charlotte .... 5.50 p. m. 1.00 p. m,
from Atlanta 6.60 p. m Monroe.
from Ruther.ordten 9.10 l. m Monroe.
from Atlanta 9.15 p. m. 9.40 for Richmond
from Wilmington . . 10.40 p. m. 10:60 p. m. for Charlotte,
from Portsmouth . . 11.00 p. m. 11.05 p. m. for Atlanta
for Rutherfordten
for Wilmington.
C. T. HARRILL
Ticket Agent
E. W. LONG,
DivWioa Passenger Agent
Charlotte, N. C.
A Memory for Faces
(From the Youth's Companion.)
To hare a good memory is to
have sooethin that is valuable as
a definite talent for music or model
ing or law or medecine. Perhaps
without a good niemcry, a memory
well developed in certain rep"ctd.
It is in-.iortible for a person to luie
any special talent, for talent really
rons'.sts in a faculty for turning to
recount laipre3sions anl Information
that you have acquired. But there
are numerous persons who are not
talented but who have a pood mem
ory. And there Is no ivore service,
able friend than a good memory
for faces.
A desire to be remembered is
common to every human being. A
man wants to be remembered throug
life and he would like to be remem
bered after death. Kveryoue whom
he meets and who later gives evi
dence of remembelng him gratifies
a fundamental human craving. Every
one whom he meets and who later
gives evidence of having forgotten
him disappoints that craving and
unconsciously alienates to some de
gree his friendly regard.
Recently an Important city elec
tion was decided by the fact that of
the two contestanting candidates who
were making a whirlwind campaign
one could remember the new people
that he met. and the other couldn't.
The candidate who had this gift of
pleasant memory was elected, al
though Immeasurably Inferior in all
other qualifications for office.
It Isn't only politicians or pros
pective politicians that should try to
improve their faculty for remember
ing people. Everyone should try to
do It, for everyone who does readily
remember people, contributes to the
frlendlinss, nighborliness and kindli
ness of life. If you are one of those
who say,"I can remember names,
but not faces," the probability U
that you are a careless observer, so
far as people are concerned. Portrait
painters do not forget faces. Try to
fix In the mind the characteristics
features and expression of the peo
ple you meet and do not Identify them
too much with the clothes or hat
thr.t they happen to be wearing at
the moment.
MR. BRK GIVES US
OLD TIME STORIES
Ladies Went to Sunday Schoo'
Ruefrot to Save Embanass
m?:'!t of One Member
iGCT 1Z WRONG JIHJ3AG2
.Man Tried in a Guana House Wanted
a Better Building Nest Time
He Fell by the Wayside
The Fatal Words
"Ma wants two pounds of butter
exactly like what you sent us last
week. If it ain't exactly like that
she won't take it."
The grocer turned to his customers
and remarked blandly: "Some people
dun't like particular customers, but I
do. It's my delight to get them
just what they want. I will attend
to you in a moment, my boy."
"All right," said the boy, "but be
sure and get the same kind. A lot of
dad's relations are visiting our house
and ma doesn't want 'em to come
again."
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Office Phone 466
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DENTIST
Of o over Waller' Old Store.
DR. S. A. ALEXANDER
VETERINARIAN
Office Phone 113. Res. 5&-J
DR. P. M. ABERNETUY
VETERINARIAN
Offlcc FOWLER k LEE STABLE
MONROE. N. C.
Phone SOS.
Residence Phone 15 9-J.
MASONIC MEETINGS
Monroe Lodge 244 A. F. & A. M.
First and Third Thursday
Monroe Chapter No. 64 R. A. M.
Second and Fourth Tuesday
Malta Commandery No. 19 K. T.
First and Third Tuesday
Visiting members welcome.
By L. E. Huggins
For the past eighteen months prac
tically everybody one comes in con.
tact with has something -to say
about hard ttmes. There is no doubt
that conditions are much worse now
than they were two years ago when
the whole eountry was running in
high gear without slowing down for
10-mile speed limit signs or anything
else. But when we get In conversa.
tion with the older citizens and learn
of conditions fifty or seventy-live
years ago we can't help feeling that
the country hasn't yet gone to the
bow-wows. When Mr. W. S. Belk
of Sandy Ridge township was in The
Journal office a few days ago he fell
into a reminiscent mood and I saw
at once that he could furnish some
interesting information about con
ditions that existed before the aver
age Union county citizen was born.
Upon request he sent us the follow
ing story of the way things were
done in his boyhood days:
"In 18R6 I attended Sunday school
at Mt. Prospect. The sessions were
held from about 1 to 6 o'clock on
Sunday afternoons, adjournment be.
ing just in time for us to get home
by sundown. The only literature we
had to st idy consisted of the Bible
for those who could read and for
the ones who could no read the old
Blue Back speller was brought into
use.
Went Barefoot as a Gracious Act
"As it was Just after the Civil War,
shoes and fine clothes were exceed,
ingly scarce. I remember there was
a good young lady in the community
who had no shoes and she was
ashamed to come to Sunday school.
So all of the women for two or three
miles around came barefooted in or
der that this poor girl might not be
embarrassed. The only shoes anybody
had were home-made ones, made
from home . tanned leather on a
straight last. One pair a year were
all a boy or girl got and on Satur.
days they would grease them and use
soot from pots or the chimney backs
to black them with for Sunday.. Their
clothes were made from cloth that
had been carded, spun and wooven
at home, dresses, shirts, pants and
coats all made from this cloth. The
boys all went barefooted.
"At that time Lewis Scarborough
was pastor of the Monroe circuit M.
E. church, which is now divided
into about four circuits, and his sal
ary was $300 dollars a year. In 1867
I attended Sunday school at Bethle.
hem. It was then on the Pleasant
Grove circuit and Loudy Wood was
the pastor. His salary was $300 a
year and he had eight appointments.
Thii circuit remained at $300 for
six years. The first paster to receive
$600 a year was Thomas H. Ed
wards. I remember that Uncle Alli
son Winchester at the fourth quar.
teiiy meeting asked the presiding
elder to send us a better preacher.
The elder said we would have to
pay more If we expected a better man
end so Edwards was sent and the
assessment doubled. But It proved
a good investment for tho first year
he was In the circuit the member
ship almost doubled.
He Won n Bible
"But getting back to the Sunday
schools of those days when Loudy
Wood was pastor. We had good
schools at all the churches and a fine
picnic at Pleasant Grove on October
12, 1SC7. Brother Wood offered a
prize nt each church a family Bi
ble to the one that would memo
rize and recite the most verses of
Scripture. I won the Bible nt Both-1
ehem. He also offered a Bible to
the one memorizing the most verses
on the circuit. Miss Dulcemer Win
chester and the late Mr. S. S. Wolfe,
the great bass singer, made a tie and
Mr. Wolfe agreed for Miss Win
chester to have the Bible and he
then bought him one Just like it.
"The only singing we had were old
time hymns, such as "When I can
read my titlea clear to mansion in
the skies," A charge to keep I h;ivc"
and "How sweet the name of Jesus
sounds," etc. So, young people, you
see there is a great contrast between
the way things are done now and
fifty and sixty years' ago."
A Startling Message from Paul
Present standards of living re
quire a great deal more money than
was necessary to keep a family to
gether fifty and sixty years ago, but
preachers have never been paid
enough to make anybody rich. In
fact ministers of the gocpcl are some,
times embarrassed on account of
their meagre salaries. Especially is
this so In small towns and rural com
munities. A Marshville citizen tells
a story of an embarrassing position
that a good old preacher wa3 once
placed in that illustrates what I am
trying to say. The pastor's salary
was behind and he had been buying
meat and groceries on a credit. One
day before leaving home to fill au
appointment at one of bis chinches
he told his eon to go over to Paul
Jones, he country merchant, and set
a piece of meat. 'I he preacher then
went on to his church, took his text
from some of Saint Paul's writings
and was wading into his discourse
like this: "And, what did Paul say?"
About that time his son arrived from
Paul Jones' store and heard his
father's interrogation; whereupon, he
immediately stepped upon the top
door step and shouted: "He said you
couldn't get any more meat until
you paid for what you've already
got."
Wanted Courthouse nt Beaver Dam
Marshville citizens pride them
selves In calling Marshville the big
gest town to Its size on the Sea
board. It Is an established fact that
Marshville does far more business
than the average ton of Its size.
The place has also made marked 1m
rroVu bts fur the past :ew yais In
its e.t:si.j.;s r.nd resideiit-'il ;ir.
d. iZ: j:: j M-r;:n of L-.-t Crr !,.
tow r-lifi df lights to tell of prt "r.:
thi U-.;"-; :-lace v.nen the .vir- was
kn.-xvii :i: Beaver Dai." nl I !. '
Ed-. Davis usd to :; yo'i to'l'-c1
pint 11 hr:l for a mi'a all aroui.d liu-
pine-. Vr. ..'art in s-'.vs a r.an got on
STICK A PIN HERE AND
MARK FORD'S PREDICITION
Siii:iun f:oi km rat Say That the
Man I About to Ojirn l'p Hull,
derful Results
Tlark V- Oscar Peterson, edi-.-
of the i-a;., jnn D.i.:oerat, Henry
cr-.'s vieWi f r.are and business
"5 Ur"nli one aH:r.i. y and trie v U prove the grtr.te t obstacle In
o'ficials csrril him to a R judo house his sect ring the Musde Steals plant.
for trial. After court adjourned and
the h-.an who had been on the out.
iiie of too much "joy juice' had been
turned loose upon payment of costs
and a small fine. He went all over
town "taking up" a collection to
build "Beaver Dam" a courthouse.
He is a radical and has little res
pect for some of the traditional max
iinj of finance and business, though
not a socialist. His paper is outspok
en against private agencies In the Is.
sue of currency, dead-set against the
gold standard, against the Issue of
bonds, etc. Such views will not set
well with the powers that be. But
mark, aain. that Henrv Ford's views
will largely direct the next progres
sive nsevi ment. His views while vis.
ionary are bcrn of the vision of a
seer, and are backed by one of the
world's most startling practical
achievements. Moreover, In the editor
of his Independent he has one of the
most forceful writers to give expres
sion to what are presumably his views
that coi:!d be found in the whole
country.
Henry Ford on his own page in the
THIUTY.FIVK THOUSAND
YOUXU I'lUt'H TUCKS
That's the NiuiiIht Now Planted in
l-ee anil Hanoott (.'"unties for
Commercial lurjHes
IFrom the Sanford Express)
Much matter has been published irf
the newspapers in this section dur
ing the past two or three years about
the growth and developemeut of fruit
industry In the sandhill country
which embraces territory in Moore ' Dearborn Independent last week says
and some of the adjoining counties. ; that the lime is close at hand when
The growing of dewberries in the present necessity of saying many
Moore and Lee was the first thing thing will be oast and a new era
to a' tract attention in the fruit line.
This industry has long since passed
the experimental Btage and is now
one of the money crops of this sec
tion. Where the dewberry ha3 been
intelligently grown and carefully
matketed it has brought a profit to
the producer that makes it worth
while to grow it.
Years ago people around Southern
Piner the heart of the sandhill
coun'ry began experimenting with
peaches. They soon discovered that
the sandy soil would grow as tine
a peach as can be produced in any
part of the country. The sandhill
her? when 't will be a point to use as
much as possible to keep it from be
ing lost. He divides the history of the
country or world Into three periods.
In the first everything was plentiful
and no thought of saving for future
generations was taken. Then came
the time when it was seen that the
natural supply os some materials is
limited and conservation began to be
prartieed, vhile attempts to discover
substitutes began in earnest. We are
nearing the end of the period of con
servation and the beginning of the
period when there shall be an abun.
dr.nce again for everybody. In water
peaches soon began to attract atten-fhe finds the miracle working power,
tion on account of their superior
quality and presently there was a
demand for them on the northern
markets at prices that made it pro
fitable to grow them. Soon orchads
sprang up all ovet that section and
the industry continued to spread un
til it lapped over into the adjoin.
ing counties.
While the peach industry is hardly
In its infancy in Lee county, yet It
is destined to become a profitable
business with people in this section.
A few years ago Mr. E. B. Hodgin,
who engaged in peach culture near
Southern Pines, came over to this
The stream will be harnessed and
power, heat and light will become
bo abundant that It v ill appear sin.
ful not to use all possible of them.
Abundant rnd practically free power
will make the production of fertili
zer from nir. the cultivation of crops,
the manufacture of goods, the trans
portation o: all goods ,so cheap that
men may lave enough by working
only an hour or two a day. His Mug.
cle SlioaU proposition Is, presumably,
the first step In bringing about this
golden age of plenty and rest. It will
be a glorious time and Is not an
altogether impracticable dream, for
section and bought land and put out if everybody worked now and there
a peach orchard near Spouts Springs. I were a Just distribution, want would
He finally sold that land and bought j flee ns the clouds of the morning,
land and put out an orchard on : nut the trouble is, too many folks
the Capitol Highway between the have already eHered upon their
courthouse and Jonesboro. He was; period of rest and plenty before there
not long in proving that the soil is enough to go round,
would produce a peach that would .
find great demand alter it was once
Introduced. For the past two or three
years he has made peach culture
very profitable nnd his experience In
the business has been an Inducement
to others to try raising peaches for
commercial purposes. Young or
chards can now be found In much
of the sandhill territory of this coun
ty and upper Harnett and other or
chards are In the making and will
be put out soon.
How to Help Your County Paper
(From the Brockvllle Amerienn.)
First of all. give the editor the
news he wants it. Give it to mm.
eveu though sometimes it does not
get Into the paper. He hasn't time
always to tell you why some pieces
of news are not used are not used:
but ten to one he has a perfectly
good ai.d Impersonal renson. Give
put. j pi u o- f,,'h!m the news, even though you may
In adding up the figures v. e ind p iciay lntereflted in It.
at tho trees It out in terruorj , Sople fo,kg WWf mnk tQ lhe
that
in Lee nnd Harnett totals up 35,700
Many renders of the Express right
here in the community will bo sur
prised when they see these figures.
It is not generally known that so
editor news except when ttiey are
concerned in It one way or another.
Second, don't give him a piece of
news and tell him you want It print
ed just as it is written. There's a
many people in this part of the state ' ... . . . ', H,.
t II I . j: A I .rt.nV. .re Alt. J . 1 11 1 U H " U Ml' 11, "MJ .V J ....-
UrCIUtJU 1U tllKwfcU 111 yc-awi ,liriii
as a money crop.
such a simple thing ns writing an
article for n country paper. One
printer ftad to leave town because he
printed every piece of news just as
it was handed in spelling, punctua
tion and all nnd printed it with the
nnme of the neivon ho 1'a .o U to
formation from one writer that cour- ,jm.
tcsy should play n prominent part in Third, don't try to play a Joke thru
every business transaction because it : tne paper uniosg you explain It to
costs nothing, we ran across a bulle-l In, pjjtor. A thing in cold type looks
tin of the Standard Oil Company of a kl. ,Hnrent and sounds a lot dif.
The Cost of Courtesy
(From Philadelphia Record)
Just as we had abr orbed the ln-
California, which states that $1,000
000 was inve.'-trd In telegraph tolls
last year to transmit a single word,
"rleas.e."
So courtesy does cost something.
If we had several months to spend
in research we might find the basis
for an estimate that courtesy in
newspaper advertising alone costs
seveial million dollars. But what
ever the cost, it Is worth It.
Courtesy, cordiality and sincerity
rro three big factors in the success of
ra advertisement. People like to do
business with dealers whose mes
sages radiate goodwill, a friendly
spirit, a desire to please. During the
recent holiday rush some stores sug
gested that purchasers should carry
small packages home with them In
stead of having thorn delivered. The
proposal was put forwrrd in the same
way in which one asks a favor of a
friend, and it proved very effective.
Suppose the stores had said, Instead:
"Postlvely no Binall packages deliv
ered" can you Imagine the result?
The money that the business men
of the country spmd on "please," in
their advertising and elsewhere, is
an Investmtnt that yields handsome
cash dividend!',. Cue might as well
try to run a gasoline motor without
oil as to dispense with this courtesy
lubricant that does away with fric
tion in the contracts of human relationship.
Oh. Well, What of It?
A band In a small Minnesota town
had Just finished a vigorous but not
overly harmonio'is selection. As they
sank perspiring to their seats after
bowing for tho applau.-e, the trom
bonist asked hoarsely:
"What's the next one?"
" 'The Maiden's Trayer,' '5 answer
ed the leader, consulting his pro
gram. "Good Lord!' ejaculated the trom
bonlct. "I Just got through playing
that!"
fetent froi'i a thing repeated by word
or when the voice, a facial expres
sion and a gesture perhaps, help to
show its moaning.
Fourth, don't worry for fear the
editor is making too much money.
You should want him to be piosper
ous. He can and will give you a bet
tir paper. He will be less likely to
have compromises with his co-.ipcienee
over certain kinds of adverting.
And, anyhow, he enn't make a big
fortune out of the paper he will be
lucky If he keeps going.
Fifth, be ready to tell your editor
when something in the paper pleasas
you. Once in a while you tell your
preacher he has a good sermon, so
tell the editor something about his
paper.
Sixth, get your copy to him early.
Take It to him for the next week the
day after the previous publication, If
you can. It takes time to st type and
make a paper. Did von ever wonder
whrU the editor diifall the time be
tween publication days? You would
know if you were publishing a news
paper yourself.
Lastly, go In some day when the
paper h being printed. Co in several
times during the day, and you will
have more of a realization of what a
Job It is to make a weekly paper.
Auld 1-ang Syne
The Tramp: "Could ye help a
starvln man, mum?"
The Lady: "No, I never give to
strangers."
the Tramp: "Ho-ho, the Jok's on
you, old gal! Why, I ain't a stran
ger I been here time and again."
, t onvlnrlng Kvidence
"How do they figure Solomon as
the wisest man In the world when
he hnd a thousrnd wives?"
"Ever hear of a man nowadays
wise enough t: have a thousir.d
wives and get away with It?"
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