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Salisbury, N. C.,v Wednesday, May 16, 1906.
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LEXINGTON ANO DAVIDSON COUNTY.
He City Election. Another Indastry for
Gor Enterprising Neighbor.
Lexington Dispatch, May 9th.
Rowau Wooley, who disappear
ed a few days ago from his home
near Friedburg, has been heard
from. He writes a sister that he
is in th far West "and purposes to
locate somewhere in that partof
the country. There are Beveral
rumors as to why he so myste
riously left, but none have been
confirmed and we do not know
why he so unceremojiioaly de
parted. Wednesday W, L. Audrews, su-,
perintendent for the Southern on
this division, and EL H. Thomp
son; a f rieght official, were in town,
conferring with "leading business
men regarding the proposed belt
mull irgaiuiii tuo iuudlu uumj
liue'around Lexington. They arej
clever gentlemen and their road is
interested in this scheme that wil
undoubtedly contribute much to
Lexington's industries if put
through. The proposed track
would cost $30,000 or $40,00CL
And some time it will be built.
It may n it be very near, but is
bound to come.
Lexiugtou is to have another
manufacuring industry in the
shape of a glass factory. A com
pany of Lexington business men
has been organized with a paid in
capital of $15,000 to manufacture
mirrors for furniture. All the
stock has been subscribed and a
charter has been applied for.
Leading business men are interest
ed, especially those engaged in the
manufacture of furniture, which
industry this new concern will
greatly benefit. Among the stock
holders are Messrs -T. R. McCrary,
D. F. Conrad, W, H, Walker and
J. T. Hedrick. The promoter of
the enterprise is Mr. Thomas
Galagher, of Pennsylvania.
The election heW here Mpuday
was the most interesting in many
years and was by far the closet
ever held. It resulted in the elec
tion of three new commissioners,
two of the old board being retain
ed. These two were Messrs. Geo.
W. Moncastle and Joe H. Thomp
son, and the three new members
of the board are Messrs. Z. I.
Walser," E. A. Rothrck and L. F.
Weaver. A very full vote was
polled, 420 citizens out of the total
of 525 voters taking part in the
balloting.
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Yesterday morning two young
boys, aged about 12 and 14,named
Milikin, were walking frbm their
home near thenKoomis mill, to
the Onedia chair factory, where
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thev are emDloved, when some-
thing exploded at their feet.
They do not seem to know what it
was,-but the jar they got was ter
rific. Their hands are badly lac
erated and tne tace or one was
woiinded. They found a piece of
fuse and an old bottle near by,
but do not know -wnat they had
to do with it. They, are not dan
gerously hurt,.unless blood poison-
- ing would set in. The double
tracking force has been blasting
above town for some time, andit
might have been that they trod on
a dynamite cap.
;.u A gentleman from the country
dropped inta,the store of the Lex
ington Hardware Company the
other day and 'asked for scissors.
He seemed to be rather particular
r about the quality and finally con
fessd that he wanted them to cut
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hair with. The salesman asked
him who wascutting hairp in his
community and the gentlman re
plied that he cut his own hair.
Then he explained that he placed
a mirror before him and one be
hind and trimmed up his head as
well as any barber could do itr
Work on the Southbound is still
ALBEUARLE AND STANLY COUNTY.
That Tax ,Book Scheae. Editor Biiios
' Hands cut Soe Plain Statements.
Stanly Enterprise. Jkiay loth. -
Lest they, forget, and- lest they
cause many i good people of the
county to accept mere denials and
assertions for the truth, we want
to keep facts before Republicans
and disgruntled -Democrats who
seek to explain that tax-book
dodge, whereby it became easy
for one crowd to pay poll taxes
and get receipts and exceedingly
hard for another. If they want
to prove tha charges made through
our columns as untrue, then let
them show: f
1. That the men. into whose
hands the tax; books were placed f
were duly sworn as officers and
that their oaths were registered
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required fey law.
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That in each township
the
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tax
book for said township
nkained .first and always in
hands of the officer ' who was
gaily deputized for the collection
of taxes in thai township, and at
no time was it transferred to an
other party.
8. That the list handed by the
Sheriff to County Clerk R. A.
Crowell was a correct list of the
men who were chosen and legally
deputized for said collection of
taxes in the respective townships,
and that the books remained in
the hands of these men until they
were duly Returned to him.
When these facts have been
clearly established we will apolo
gize to every Republican in Stan
ly county. .
We have voiced the grievance
of good men from almost every
sectiou of the ccunty. Many of
them were mad and are mad yet,
because they felt that they had
not been treated justly. They
are men who would not lie. Their
word is as good, as a nond. They
are ready at any time to give affi
davits. On the Southern's yards at Dan
ville, Va., Friday morning, Frank
W. Shankle, formerlv of this
place, was struck by passenger
train No. 8 and instantly killed,
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Marshall Shankle, brother of the
young man, ot VYasninguon, v.
Q.', and J. E. Agle. a brother-in-
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law, of this place, went to Dan
ville to 'accompany tne remains to
this place. The burial took place
Sunday, in the cemetery at . Be-
thesda church, Rev. R. D. Sher-
rill conducting the services. :lt
is rather a coincidence that the
voune man should have lost his
life in a similar way to his broth
er Crowell, who was killed a few
years "ago by a train on the yards
at Charlotte. -X.
There has been an epidemic of
mumps in Albemarle and other
sections of , the county, and the
disease ra8sume8 a peculiar form.
It resembles a mild case of me
ningitis, in thatjkseems to- go to
the bram and causes violent head-
aches:- F. E Starnes is suffering
from a very severe'case now, and
qui a number iu Albemarle have
been troubled likewise.
nroffressms. - we hear, mere is
nothing new to give out, however.
A large force of mules and men
are oyer there near Winstan exca
vating' the first two miles and the
work? will cost $30,000, all of
remaps tne only news tnere is is
that the Pennsylvania railroad
will probably control the South-
bond. The enthusiasm worked
up by .. the announcement that
work had beeun is in need of a
stimulant and we would "like to
hear 'that another force was at
wor at some other point. We
hunger and thirst for something
"great big" to be doing.
STATESYiLLE AND IREDELL COUNTY.
Officers of Glass Go. Elected. Death of
W. Henry Llppard.
StateavUle Landmark, May 8th.
W, Henry Lippard, who had
been critically ill for some time,
died yesterday morning atTout 8
o'clock at his home at Barium
Springs. The remains will be buri
ed tOjay at St. Martin's Lutheran
churB; The funeral will beacon
ducted by Rev. R. R. Sowerspas
tor of St. Michael's church, Trout
man, of which Mr. Lippard was a
member. Mr. Lipparrd was in
his 77th year. Hi89ife and six
children, four daughters and two
ions, survive. All the children
live at home except one daugh-
ter the wife of Rev, H. A. Trex-
ler. of Rowan county.
The directors of the O. W.
Slaine Glass Co. elected sometime
&go, met yesterday and organized
by electing the following officers:
Pesident,-T. D. Miller; vice
president, W. F. Hall; secre
tary and manager, 0. W. Sline;
treasurer, Geo. H. Brown. A site
has been bought from Isidore
Wallace. It lies just across the
Western railroad from Steele's
foundry, on the west of Fourth
street. The price paid was $500.
Messrs. W. A. Thomas, E. M.
Purdy and J. G. Shelton were ap
pointed a building committee and
instructed to buy material and
proceed with the building. A brick
building will be erected and it is
hoped to get the factory in opera
tion early in the summer.
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Miss Gilie Lee Hendrix, daugh
ter of Giles Hendrix, and J. Will
Propst were married Thursday
evening at 8 o'clock at the home
of the bride's father, near Oak
Forest, in Cool Spring township,
Rev. V. M, Swaim officiating.
Mel Clark dropped in yesterday
to talk about the big cat fish our
Troutman correspondent reported
being caught in the Catawba river
at SHerrill's ford. Mr. Clark Bays
numerous cat fish are now coming
down the river and that the move
ment is due to dynamite; that
persons up the river are throwing
it . a ,'11
aynamite in tne
stream to kill
the "fish. This
is wrong and a
violation of the law, but it is be
ing done just the same.
The ice plant of the Stateville
Oil & Fertilizer Co. has been com
pleted and is now being tested.
The miufacture of ice will com
mence in a few days. The capa
city is 15 tons daily, most of
which will be handled by The Ire
dell Ice & Fuel Co. and R. 0.
Harbin. The rest will be shinned.
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A couple of squads of Italians,
who were making their way. to
New York , were in- StatesviUe
last week. It is understood that
they had been employed on the
construction work of the South
and Western Railroad now
through Mltcheu and McDowell
nnn.- Th of , fW
counties. Their story was that
they were induced to come South
by a labor agent who 'promised
them $1.50 per day, but after
they went to work they received
only 60 cents a day. While The
Landmark knows nothing of the
facts except their, statement, this
story should be taken with several
grains of allowance. There is an
active demand for laborer?; and
good workers readily command at
1 least$1.25 a day on railroad; con-
structionjwork. Many Italian who
were brought South to work on
the railroad mentioned have de
serted and gone back because the
contractors deducted from their
wages at the, beginning the cost of
transporting them, and this is
probably the trouble with this
bunch.
Mrs. Shoemaker, who lives with
A UENACE TO THE SOUTH.
TIs Right of the Sooth to Insist Upon Har-
: IngNone Save the Best.
The Tradesman, July 15th, 1905." .
The Tradesman does not assume
to be any more loyal or devoted
to the interetss of- the south than
itsfbontemporaries of the south
ern press, but it is so fully con
vince6Uofrthe menauce now con
fronting; tne south from the recep
tion of indiscriminate classes of
immigrants among us that no
dther apology is offered our read
ers for again bringing the matter
to their attention,. , ,
We feel that the south deserves
the very best that this earth af
fords iu all Hues ; that .it has
borne its own piculiar burdens
Jmaided and alone for the past
forty years until it has couquered
a better understanding of those
burdens and a higherrespect for its
attitude towards them from the
rest of the civilized world, so that
it would be nothing less than
criminal now to jeopardtz? 7-the
standing the south has won at so
much of trial for its people.
That there is a menace before
us, imminent and active, requires
only the slightest examination to
uncover. In the fifi place, that
there greater numbers of the un
desirables of other lands coming
to our shores at the present than
ever known before is a matter of
notorious publicity; that these
arejcreatiog problems 'of crime and
poverty in northern centers is
openly avowed and relief demand
ed, and yet these are the classes
and some of the evils that it is
sought to fasten upon the south.
And this is not a movement in
augurated at the hands of ungen
erens competitors) iu the indus
trial world, Lor does it come from
those who are politically in oppo
sition to the policyof the south,
but it comes from our own midst
and at the hands of our own
friends, which renders the effort
to correct it the more difficult
and the fight against it the more
unpleasant; but here is the
scheme and here are its apologists
and backers:
An organized movement has been
started inBirmingham, that has for
its mouthpiece th Birmingham
Age-Herald, and over which the
business manager of that paper
was called to preside, and which is
advocating policies and plans that
will make the south the dumping
ground for these classes now com
ing among us, and an unloading
place for the scum of north ena
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Here is the evidence on which
these statements are based: In
recent editorial the Age-Herald
her son-in-law, Albert Hartmess,
on Mrs, Wv JV Morns' tarm in
Concord township was badly burn
ed early yesterday morning. She
fainted and fell on the cook stove,
receiving severe burns, about tne
face. Dr, A. Campbell was called
and dressed her injuries.
A meeting of the stockholders
of the First National Bank of
StatesviUe will be held on the
17th to pass on the matter of
doubling the capital stock of the
bank increasing it from $50,000
to $100,000. It is very probable
that the increase will be made.
Famous Strike Breakers.
The most famous strike break
ers in the land are Dr. King's
INew Liite rills, wnen liver and
bowels go on a strike, they quick
ly settle the trouble, and the puri
fying work goes right on. Best
cure for constipation, headache
and dizziness. 25c at all druggists.
LOSt. In or near Cooleemee a
long handled tack hammer with
magnet at one end. Reward will
be given by returning to Watch
man.
8ay8:'ii. as is reported, rresiaent
Roosevelt proposes to put before
Congress propositions intended to
restrict immigration, he should
be opposed by every representa
tive from the south," and further
along in the same editorial , this
paper says : J 'Instead of landing
these vast numbers where they are
wanted, and where owing to their
poverty they largely stay, let
them be landed at New Orleans,
within the reach of the cotton
states and from which they can
be carried bywater to the middle
west. We haVe the power to say
where they shall be landed and
the New York steamship lines
can becompelledto carry them to
New Orleans.' N6other change in
our immigration laws is needed,
southern members should see that
no other is made," ,
Congressmen of the south, what
say you to this plan for the degra
dation of the south? After fortv
years of struggle to maintain race
purity in the south and uphold!
an American standard of citizen
ship, are you going to quietly but
effectively undo the work of all
these years newspaper at the
beck and bidding of a railroad
coterie and this time-serving?: -
Then again, of al the cities of
the south which should have been
spared from this dire cala
mity, Birmingham is the one,
for already she has a population
that is giving her thoughtful citi
zens the gravest concern ; already
a large majority of her people go
armed as a matter .ot self-protection
for it has not been many
months since the attorney for the
state, in seeking to convict a red-
handed murderer before a jury in
Birmingham made this declara-
tioii : "I he cfreapeat thine in Jet-
erson couuty is human life," and
yet given five years of those whom
he Age-Herald is thus inviting
and hot only Birmingham but
every southern town aind city
would have problems and burdens
before which their pres nt tnes
would be as but a drop in the
ocean of crime and poverty that
would envelop them.
The opening of any southern
port means the taking, of the bad
with the good : it means another
race problem to which the south
is a stranger ; it means the lowering
of our standad of citizenship ; it
means conditions that would stop
the investment of capital and
bring development to a standstill,
and every othgr evil that attends
the reception of undesirable im
migrants.
Besides this, we don't have to
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take the undesirable under pres
ent conditions, and a firm 'stand
for only those ffho are desir
able will of itself bring the best
classes that are to be had. The
south has received and is now
receiving solid, subst a n t i a 1
settlers throughout its entire
domain ; they are coming with
reasonable rapidity but we
can safely provide for all who will
come as tillers of the soil for all
these the hands -of The Tradesman
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are oustretched to the outmost ; !
but these others will flood our
towns and cities, and, added to the
increased number of idle, negroes
that such classes would cause,
there is much of danger in it that
no friend of the south should
openly invent it, but exert hii
utmost effort to prevent it.
We had better consent to go a
little slower, better accept the
"ills we have than fly to others
we Know not on- ine j.raaeB
man wants a disavowal from the
railroads of this position of the
Age-Herald, The Trade s m a n
wints desirable immigrants, but
we want it clearly and t unmistak
ably understood that we don't
want and will not have the ''scum
of Europe" if in our fpower to pre
vent it.
CONCORD AND CABARRUS COUNTY.
Case of Snallpoi. Newberry College to
Hate 1 Celebration.
Concord Times, May 8th.
"There is a case of smallpox on
the farm of F. . A. Archibald, in
No. 1 township, The case devel
oped last Friday, and the victim
is a colored man named Dockens.
Dockens says he caught the dis
ease in. Charlotte. He was in
Concord the day before the disease
showed itself , He has a family
and the house and all the inmate
have been quarantined. The case
has been pronounced smallpox by
the county physician, Dr. R. S.
Young. It is hoped thaj there
will not beany spread of the terri
ble malady.
Newberry College will celebrate
its Semi-Ceutennial June 10 to 13.
On Tuesday, June 12, Prof. H, A.
McCullough, of Mt. Pleasant, will
deliver an address before the
alumni association.
The game of baseball here last
Saturday between Trinity and the
Forest Hill team resulted in a
score of 5 to 1 in favor of the
home boys. This is a great big
feather in our cap, as Trinity is one
of the crack teams of the South,
having defeated Harvard and
other good teams. The Forest
Hill boys did some fine playing,
and has reason to feel proud of
their victory,
The congregation of the First
Baptistchurch on last Sunday
presented their . pastor with
a purse sufficient to , pay his ex
penses to the Southern Baptist :
Convention, which. convenes May
10 at Knoxville.
The Forest Hill baud will go to
StatesviUe on No, 8 Thursday
mot ningto play for MemariaL3AX
exercises up. tnere on -nat day.
The band played at the dance last
night, and will also furnish mqsio
at an entertainment at Sunder
land tonight.
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Concord Times, May lltiks '
A special committee to draught
resolutions concerning funerals
and funeral services submitted
the following, which was unani
mously adopted by the Concord
Ministerial Association Monday,
May 7, with a request that the
same be published in local papers :
1. That the funeral services be
limited, so far as practicable and
in the judgment of the minister,
to sciptural reading, and singing
and prayer.
2. That we advise against the
appointment of funeral services
for Sunday, where it can possibly
be avoided.
3. That we advise against the
public exposure of the remains,
especiallyafter the services at the
church or home are concluded
at the cemetery. ;
4. That before the arrange
ments are made as to the time
and place of the burial service,
the minister expected to conduct
the service be consulted.
5. That the services at the cem
etery be brief and that the funeral
attendants be dismissed and retire
immediately after the benedic
tion. " Some weeks ago a man and wo
man came to Concord with a little
baby only five weeks old. Thev
boarded at Horace RusBell's, near
the Yorke furniture factory, . but
Mir. Russell soon found that they
were not the right sort of people
and asked them to leave. One morn
ing before the woman went to her
work in the Gibson mill she piled
bed clothing over the child and
tried to smother it. It was dis
covered, however, before any se
rious results obtained. Henry
Petrea took the child, and after the
supposed parents left the city and
have not since been heard from.
Mr. Petrea took a re of the little
waif in the best way possible, but
it did not thrive and died Tues
day night.
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