North Carolina Newspapers

- v-?-,, ... THE FIWOS C0UJECT1Q3 v - r oun cincuLATion c 1 1 be Easily Proven t ; be about double t iat of any other pa per publishd here. - tlck a Spike Here. to tie aite - our Low rates and got tho Best Paper in the county- You get all the nesars In It A Home Newspaper Published in e Interest of the People and for Honesty in Governmental Affairs. VOL. III. NO. 25. Salisbury, N. C", Wednesday, June 5th, 1907. Wm, H . Stewart, Editor. - Carolina, liniaiDi take advantage of w V.V " ALBEMARLE AllV STANLY COUNTY. S Cold May a Good Thing for Farmers. Con tractor Will Bunld 100 Houses. ' Stanly Enterprise. May 80th." Ed. C. Kirk has been very sick foTSeveral days and is yet con fined to his bed. It will be remem bered that Mr. Kirk suffered a Bevwe sun stroke last summer, Patt. B. Coggins, one of our Stanly boys at Wake Forest Col lege, won the orator's medal for the sophomore class. Mr. Cog gins has received .man congratu lations from friends at home who rejoice over this evidence of his merit. If you want to ruin your boy just take his side on every ques tion and dispute he has with his teacher or your neighbor's chil dren. Just let him know vou are HVi him. riffht or wronz, in all his disputes. This will give a good start path. SI ATESVILLE ftND IREDELL COUNTY. R. H. Gray Meets With Strange Accident. Postoffice Clerk Loses an Eye. 8tteaTlle Landmark, May 28th. Henry Smith and Miss Isabella Crews, of the Bloomfield section, were married Sunday night at 9 o'clock at the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church parsonage, Rev. J. H, Pressly officiating. " M, K. Steele and sons, of Tur nersburg, who have been looking about for a site on which to build a cotton mill, have about decided, it is understood, to locate their mill at or near Stony Point. THE BLAIR CASE. Woman who Killed her Husband to be Tried This Week. ; The trial of Mrs. Ethel. Blair has been booked for trial at the coming teriri of the Richland criminal courfc, which' convenes next Monday. Mrs. Blair 4$ the handsome young Greensboro wo man who killed her husband, Conductor Blair, of the C, N. & L. road at their home here. Mrs. Blair is out on bail, which she secured after a few days in jail. It, will be remembered that the husband in his dying decla A number of the churches in town suspended services founday ration said that his wife Bhot him evening and attended a union ju a quarrel oyer her relations meeting at the First Methodist wjtn Conductor Arms, "of the church, to hear an address by southern . She, however, denied Rev, J. A. Snell, a, representative tni8j asserting that the shooting of the Young People's Missionary was acCidental. She admit ted Movement. - Uh or a. had boon a nnarrel. bnt de- Mrs. Elizabeth Eller, wife of nied that Arms' name was even Davidson Eller, died Sunday af- mentioned, and said the trouble ternoon at 5 o'clock at her home which occurred was the outcome in snuon townsnip, near jsraa- ui ur pruieatH agaiueu u wiug lord's. Funeral services were ing whiskey home. According to J. R. Godfrey has closed a con- J conducted at St. Martin's "cEurch her story when she got hold of in the him downward tract with President J. W. Can non to erect 100 houses for the latter at Kannapolis, where two large new cotton mills are being erected. Mr. Godfrey handles his work with great dispatch, and Mr. Cannon has made no mistake in securing him. The board of town commission ers on Monday night elected H. B. Howie town policeman and tax collector, Mr. Forrest declin ing to accept the position. The office carries with it a salary of SS a month, with fees to be added. Bond required" is $10,000. Mr Howie recentlv moved here from Whitnev. and is from Union county. He has had consider able experience in this line, and those who know him predict that he will make a good officer. The office is one that calls for much ftotivitv and bold dealing. While practically a stranger in midst, it is to be hoped that Howie will prove himself to be a worthy official. A cold May has proved a bless ing to farmers as regards wheat and oats. A month ago, it looked yesterday afternoon and the re- the pistol he was advancing upon mains were interred in the grave yard there. W; R. Holland, general deliv- ery cJerx at tne postomce, wno was struck in. the left eye by a flying chip while cutting wood about two months ago. has lost tht Bight of the eye. It was at firnfc t.Vinnaht. fTmt. thft pv n.nld , , r . e a 4.u pondance Charlotte Observer, be saved but it is now feared that r the loss of sight is permanent. Fridav night fire broke out in .i. i a t k At I A local newspaper artist got a Hrpprfmo. npar T.nndv's bridge, letter one day from a man over in u, v, or, Kr.i.r, Indiana who said he in jkj tuauj nuouf cuv& a-' v uuu her and the weapon discharged with fatal effect when he tried toH wrench it from her hands. Con ductor Arms, in an affidavit, gal lantlydefended Mrs. Blair, de claring there was not the slight est truth in any assertion that he was ever crimially intimate with her. Columbia, S. C, corres- Both Were Collectors. CHARGED WITH MURDER. Otticers Think a Mistake Has Been Made and Thit Accuseed is Innocent. - Just before leaving Mooresville yesterday morning Deputy Sheriff JYM. Deaton, who was here at tending, cbuit, made an arrest that will surprise the many friends qf a young cotton mill man of Mooresville. Late Wednesday evening Mr. Deaton received a telegram from Sheriff Thomas Peden, of Chebter, S. C reading as follows : 'Xrrest Patterson, cloth in spector at new mill, alias Up church. Wanted for murder in South Carolina." V Mr. Deaton held the message until yesterday morning and then 'phoned G. M. Patterson to meet, him at the depot'. Patterson had no idea what Deaton wanted, but was, at the station at the time named. Deaton placed him un der arrest and brought him to Statesville on the morning train, but on their arrival here" did not place him in jail but took him to the hotel. They spent the day here, returning to Mooresville 9 last night. Mr. Patterson came to Mooresville about three years ago. from Greensboro and has been with the cotton mill since his arrivals He has always couh ducted himself properly and has won many friends in the mill ajid the town. He is an orphan, his parents having died in Rocking ham when he was quite youiig, and he was in the Masonic or phanage at Oxford from 1891 to 1897. He is now 26 years old. The murder with which Patter- LOVE'S YOUOG DREAM. Giddy Young Thing of Seienty Years' Be comes a Blushing Bride. One of the most interesting wed dings that ever occurred in the county took place Monday night at Silver Hill. David Pahl, of Nebraska, was married to Miss Hannah Pruitt, aged 70. Esq. Charlie Hedrick officiated ivf the presence of a large number of in terested friends. The wedding was" the result of advertising. Mr. Pahl made it known in a paper that he desired to wed some good lady, as he was weary of living by his lonesome. The advertisement came under the eye of F. Wachter, of Silver Hill, to whom the wild joys of living appeal with peculiar force. Wit and humor exude from his every pore. So he shows the pa per to Miss Pruitt, and she desir ed him to take the matter upeith Mr. Pahl. So successful were his negotiations that after only four letters had passed, Mr. Pahl an nounced that so far as he was con cerned. it was Eureka, miss Pruitt returned a true bill the deal was closed. Mr. Pahl arrived Saturday, got his papers Monday and that night CONCORD AND CABARRUS XOUNTY LEXINGTON AND DAVIDSON COUNTY Young Man Meets With Serious Accident. Yarner Will Not be a Candidal Again for, Mr. Jones Gets in Trouble. Office of Labor Commisslontr. Concord Timet. May 81st. Lexington Dispatch, May th. s Theodore Blackwelder, who was Many homing pigeons are be- fireman at power house of the iag shipped to parties here now,; Young-Hartsell mill, was serious- from Baltimore and other north-. ly hurt last Saturday afternoon lfJSS u c ,1 i.., n , flight home. Capt. Trice released about 5 o clock while at his work. a . . fch other fronti, about ?He was shoveling coal under one oaa and reCeived notice that they end of the railroad trestle over made the trip to Baltimore, 812 which coal is hauled to the power milesj in 6 hours and 80 minutes, house, when the timbers of the averaging about 50 miles an hour, trestle gave way and fell on him. Another carnival is due Monday. His hip was crushed and also one The aldermen agreed- Thursday foot badly injured. But for the night to let the show come. It was at first voted down, but five aldermen were not paying sstrict attention and the vote was cast without their being aware of it. So after the meeting, five of them C J. 11 J 1 .1 lauii wiat; a wneeiDarrow was un der there, which broke the force of the fall of the timbers, he un doubtedly would have been killed. He was taken on the first train to thevSalisbury hospital, and the agreed to let the show come along, last report from him was that he It will be for the benefit of the is getting along better than was firemen. expected, iiTthe gradual development of Rev. Byron Clark, of Mt. Wash- the town and the acquisition of iDgton, Md., who was recently this and that necessity, the peo- called to the pastorate of the First pie of Lexington ought not to foi- and J Presby terian church here, will ar- get that one of the greatest needs rive in ooncord the latter part of of he people is a free librtry, next week on a short visit. He There should: have been one years will preach in the Presbyterian ago, because it is a primary need. ohn it K QlinUn2 i. 1 a in . i' , 1 1 r .1 1 . the two were made one two souls I , ouu- weneneve mat u noBe who b aay toiiowing, the 9th of June. I leaders among us would start a A committfe from the Salisbury I movement, it would not be a great church went to Mt. Washington while before wa would have at to hear Mr. Clark preach, just a week before the committee from Concord went. They made them selves known to him and invited him ;to come there and preach, which he consented to do at the with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one, Lexing ton Dispatch. , -m : - The Best Side. Most of us show our best side to children. We do so because we know that they do not believe us to have any other side, and we fir8t opportunity. They haye not to him, how- was making son is charged was committed in a collection of sketches. "I have South Carolina March 28, at as if the crop would be T. I the grain is maturing nicely, de- nit;Ch the mule to a tree prepar spite the discolored straw. It is J at0ry to repairing the shaft, an- belseved that the yield in this 0ther team frightened the animal ' county will be up to the average, . and it jerked Mr Gray down, the and tar aoove wnat u pronubtuiu fau breaking loose the knee cap be a month ago. Grass in cotton jeft knee, which had been and a poor stand of corn are cans- broken several years ago. The ing our farmers to work hard and injury is very painful but it is thought that after the operation shrink from disappointing them and from losing their good opini on. A child has not learned to look for deceit and unkindness or Theref ore.x grown paper artists in nearly every ne was in tnis otate. ne Bays ue people whoJihinK at an are more State in the Union," the Indiana was never in bouth Carolina, ex- careful to be scrupulously truth man wrote, "but I have none cept to pass through that $tate ful to children, and to keep to from Ohio. I have seen some of several years ago, while en route the letter their promises to chil vour work and I think it is good, to and from Alabama. He says dren. than the v are to older ones If you will send me some little he can prove these facts and Mr. who, as they know, will "make sketch for my collection I shall Deaton is ot the same opinion. allowances." An unspoiled child have it framed." While here yesterday Mr. Pat- does not " make allowances" for The artist noticed from the let- terson and Mr. Deaton explained evil. He knows no standard but the case to Judge Fred Moore, the best. Occasionally a grown who is holding Iredell Superior man or woman seems to have re court, and the judge told Mr. tained that unspoiled confidence Deaton that he believed ho was in the best side of every one. And man or woman we will yet extended a call ever. least a good foundation for a library for all the people, - Following the announcement of H, B. Varner at- Raleigh last week that he would not be a" can didate for the, office of commis sioner of labor and printing, M . L. Shipman, who is now assistant aknnf. 9 OA Am foot nf InmhftT Thfi nlace had been a saw mill site but drawings' from well known news' which time Mr Patterson claims- double dealing. the mill had been moved away. Tha origin of the fire is unknown. The-ioss is partially if not enifjfe- ly covered by insurance. R. H. Gray, of Shiloh town- onr I ship was brought to the sanato- I .-a fr I num vesterdav aiternoon ior an mi operation and treatment. While returning to his home from New Stirling church Sunday, the mule driven by Mr. Gray broke the shaft of his hack by a sudden commissioner, announces that he On last Friday evening H. D. will be in the race for the- office. Jones, superintendent of the Mr. Shipman has been a-promi-Brown mill,went to the house of nent figure in politics in the west a Mrs. Dennis to see why. two ern part of the State for years, sons ofliers, who had been work- having served as chairman of the ing in. the mil, had not come to congressional committee in the 10th district for several terms. terhead that the Indiana man was connected with a bank in one of the small towns over in the State of literature, lhat gave him a work. One word brought anoth er, and Mr. Jones grabbed the younger son, and, it is said, tried to pull him off the porch. The older son grabbed a broom and struck Jones over the head with the handle. It was reported here at first that he was badly hurt, but this proved not to be true. He is owner of the Hendersonvi e Hustler, a strong Democratic paper. - wh-, .-.. t For about two months, now, the mayor and policemen, haye had next to nothing to do in the way of handling law-breakers. It has been exceedingly quiet, only We regret that we inadvertent-1 a stray drunk now and then vary- trv to show our best when we My nrade an error in our last issue ling the sameness of police life. i nr r : j : l I I . . . leiK. air, urav nuuiuiwv kuu i . , , , . i .. ri an nn r. nf nnf i. uivp rioutoi tne nac& aua uuuhuubu i far below the one-half mark, but the mule. While attempting to . ,. tvt t4- Pofforonn L. Q rt Ko nnr m statine that Prof. Georee was In extftainine it. one citizen says I M.II1 IMUK 1111 H IMIl It-"i: 1,11)11 Ul I IT l X . oavuu nm aviu uvuuu . a,0 nilU UilOUI TT J VM.J vu " . - I i - . ' . $10 bills. I haven't secured spec- in custody until further informa- best. Suppose we all lived with an additional member of the fac- that the consumption-of liquor imens from every State in the tion is received from South Caro- each other as with children 1 ulty of the Collegiate Institute at has fallen off on account of the Union but I have several tens lina. StateBville Landmark, 21st. Would the world be better or Mt. Pleasant. The faculty has approach of hot weather, and that and a few twenties, and I am par- r worse for it? The Kingdom of been composed of five members, the morally stunted, having cur- have a ten hmestDWn Ter-Centennial EXDOSitiOn. Nor- Heaven has been said to be ot orge taes tne piace tauea tueir wuuujr, u-o of Prof. Sidnev Ludwie. who re-1 commenced to drink beer, it mm look blue, but good weather and a late fall will keep them from ai vinff nn in desnair As vet, we D. . 0 A - fail to note distinct signs of dis couragement. Oar Stanly farm ers are in good shape. Employ ing themselves at home, investing their time and money carefully, enjoying good sleep and healthy efttine are elements that cause them even to surmount the soil. the knee will be in much better shape than before the last accident. ticuiariy anxious to have a ten Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition, Nor dollar bill from Indiana, 1 no- folk, Ya., AprlL3(flh N0f. 30th, 1907. such. Catawba County News tice that you are employed in a Southern Railway announces place where ten " dollar bills are extremely low rates to Norfolk, kept, aud if you send me one for Va., and return on account of the i I i mi r.n r auove occasion. mo luauwiug my collection I shall be glad to have it framed. "--Cleveland Plain Dealer. He Found a Quiet Location. A nervous-looking man went into a store the other day and sat down for a half hour xjt so, when a clerk asked him if there was'" - anything she could do for him. He said no, he didn't want any thing. She went away and he sat an hour longer, when the proprie tor went to him and asked if he wanted to be shown anything.; "No," said the nervouB man, "I just wanted to sit around. My physician has recommended quiet for me ,and says above all things I should avoid a crowd. Noticing that you do not adver tise in the newspaper, thought that this would be as quiet a place as I could find ; so juBt dropped in for few hours of isolation.' Ex. ' .: . No Move Against Foreigners. A proclamation issued by the Swatvan Revolutionary Society declares that the uprising is not directed against foreigners or or dinary Chinese subjects, but en tirely against the government, the intention of the revolution ists being to attack and burn Eyes of the Corpse Opened. On Tuesday t f laet week Mrs, J L. Rosser, of Cape F -nr township, was supposed to have died. day she was carried across Cape Fear river for burial and before round trip rates will apply from Salisbury, N. C. : Season tickets, $14 50 Sixtv-dav tickets. . 12.10 Fifteen-day tickets. ....... 11.15 Coach excursion tickets, . . . 6.60 Coach Excursion tickets will be North Carolinian Suicides. New York, May 29, Registered as "Albert .Crowell, N. C.,"a patron Grand Hotel, was found dead in his room today, having commit ted suicide by shooting. signed. Prof. Roy Webster holds would Beem that it is too hot for the chair of Latin and Greek. the one too chillyfoy the other.. Rev.. H.N. Watson, the new Kerney Surratt, of the4 DW pastor of the First Baptist church, patch force, is in New York City, He bad evidently stood before sold on Tuesday, with limit seven the mirror and fired a bullet into Nftxfc day8 f rom date of Bale wl11 be his brain. Employes of the ho- stampea "jxot gooa in ruiiman TTanrtarsnn of the New arrved this week with his family, j where he is studying the intrica trom ueatn springs, s. u., ana will hold services in the chmrch next Sunday. Concord people ex; tend to him a hearty welcome. will be sold dailyApril 19th to every yamen and exterminate the . find her ; omciaiH witu mw uuieut ux uoi-f , , .ua hrowing the government. The missions, with the excep ion of the German mission at aen Chow, have thus far been unmolested, but the missionaries i i burial the casket was opened for November 80tb, inclusive. ' - until he was tound deaa, Dut her relatives and friends to take The Southern Railway will af- Captain. McCluskey, of the Ten- fhor it inr.lc a her. Thev were ford excellent passenger service to derloia station, is of the opinion A Dangerous. Deadlock that sometimes terminates fatal ly, is the stoppage of liver und bowel functions. To quickly end this condition without disagreea ble sensations. Dr. King's New Life Pills should always be your remedy. Guaranteed absolutely satisfactory in every case or mon ley back, at all dinggists. 20c. and from Norfolk on account of this occasion. Fox further information Hanged Himself in Car of Train. While the passengers ot a crowded smoking car of a Louis ville and Nashville railroad train slept early yesterday morning, John Hippo, believed to be a resi- aent of Mendocino, Cal., com- that the name under"which the J v inside T?rT fr.rfhor infnrmAfmn nd man registered was assumea, of the elass on the casket and her Pullman reservation address any the marks on his clothing snowed gelf to the car rack. KnjtHmn Tir -J T, Shenherd agent Southern Railway or write the nama of a New York tailor. , was found after the train - r - t- t tt .- mT I . . -. was at once sent for, but he de- , . Cnariotte N. C. cided on examination that she w H Tayl0E) G. P. A., ' moo rlonrl nnH fthft Wfld RCCOrdinfflv 11.Rf4 WooViincrt.nn. D. f5. . iv - , , 1 " CJ - 1 uill vr. ' 1 - - 1 are aoanaonmg tneir mtiuu. buried Chatham Record. cies of the type-setting machine at the Mergenthaler Linotype 'Company's plant in Brooklyn. The Dispatch has purchased a linotype machine and has selected Mr. Surratt as the operator'there of. The machine is being built and by the time it is ready for us, Mr. Sursatt will be ready for it, and both will be at work within a short time. The Dispatch has had Mr. Surratt in its employ for the last five years, and his close. LU1UICU S3 Ulv IUV Kf J UMUg&ug I . , - i " - J The body I wux, o VMVV seeking refuge at Swatow. The local officials take a seri ous view of the situation and are ursine the authorities at Canton to dispatch gun boats here. Incoming and outgoing Chi nese passengers on the Chao Chou iu Railroad are searched. Swa tow, China, dispatch. : x x A Real Wonderland. South Dakota, with its silver mines, bonanza farms, wide ran ees and stranse natural forma- o tions, is a veritable wonderland. At Mound City, in the home of Mrs. E. D. Clapp, a wonderful case of hearing has lately occur- t "rr a J l"U I'll stcn vour Dain free. To reu- show vou first before -you spend I with lung and throat trouble. a penny what my rihfc rain 1 an- "Exhausting coughing speiis oc lets can do, I will mail you free, curred every five minutes," writes a xnai racKage 01 wem-ir. MjB CapPf .phenyl began giv Shoop's Headache Tablets. Neu- . , AT n ralgia, Headache, Toothache, Pe- ."g king's New Diecovery riod Dains. ttc, are due alone to the great medicine, that saved blood congestion, Dr- Shoop's bis life and completely cured Headache Tablets simply kill pain nim!" Guaranteed for coughs by coaxjng y w' UdcoldB, throat and long trou Diooa presBuro, iudou. jo.a- - . A 1 r 7 - ! Vilea Vtt oil irnTcriBT.fl. Mlfi ann mt ww A Question That is Not Considered. In his pockets was found ten a small town 70 miles above Mo- . . . . cents and a package 01 cigarettes, bile. In Hippo's pocket was a Many halt smoked cigarettes were ticket from New York to San scattered about the room. The Francisco. The sight almost dead man was about 45 years old, caused a stampede among pas five feet seven and one-halt inches Bengers, who were suddenly awak When Governor Glenn told the in height, smooth shaven and eued by the person finding the negroes of Salisbury that slavery with mixed gray hair. Special body. Mobile, Ala., Dispatch. had been a blessing to them he to Charlotte Observer. told them a great truth, but the ; r There is no case of indigestion, average negro does not stop to uaoij MUBU up. no matter how irritable or how ask himself where he would be if Abraham Brown, of Winterton, obstinate that will not be speedi it had not been for slavery, ft. Y., had a veryj remarkable ex- h relieved by the use of Kodol. and cha r a c t e t caused him to be selected for this very important position . He will make good in his new woTk, diffi cult as it is, and his friends .will welcome him home a full fledged linotype man of the first clas. 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Cholera and Diar- One bottle did me more good than very same juices found m a heal rhoea Remedv followed by castor all thefive doctors prescribed." thy s.tomach. It conforms to the oil as-directed with each bottle of Guaranteed to cure blood poison, p e Food ana Drugs Law. Sold - 1 I . 1 . r - .un ynnoAx, KVr 00 la hv JfttnpB I wfiAkness and all stomacn, liver Plnmmer Salisburv. and Spencer land kidney complaints, by Yuby James Plummer and all drug Thi Articles Adopted, The General . Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian church, in session at Birmingham, adopted yesterday, by a vote of 96 to 94, what are known as the "Uharlott articles of agreement," calling for closer relations of all churches usiag the Presbyterian system. The articles were agreed von at a meeting in Charlotte some years ago of representatives of the churches intereited.- -Statesville Landmark, Pharmacy, Spencer, N. C. , druggists, 60c, gists. You can't tell p after sba mlos Ho: Mounts iii Tea. 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