North Carolina Newspapers

1 t - M FlOWERTCOlUCW A Home Newspaper Published i& jthe Interest of tl ,Ble,And for .Honesty in Governmental Affairs. Salisbury, N. O.. Tuesday March 9th, 1909. l VOLTV. Na 12. WM.Hj Stewart; Editor. V 4 4 1ST. 4 CONCORD ANO CABARRUS COUNTY. Tie Domain of the Public Cotton Weigher Extended. Charter not Amended. Concord Times. Mar. 4. ' Yesterday morning about .10 o'clock one of the darkest andl most threatening clouds ever seen here overspread the city. It be ' come as dark as late twilight, and lights had to be turned on all over "the city. The stcrm poured over this section withont damage. A bill has been introduced in the House to amend the law in this county relative to the cotton weigher, to extend the limits of weighing cotton to all the territo ry within one mile of the corpor ate limits of Concord. Under the present law all the cotton sold iu the city is weighed by the county weigher, who receives 10 cents a bale therefor. The new bill pro poses to extend this territory to one mile of the city limits which will take in the Young Harse and Brown mills. It is learned from Raleigh thajb no changes will be made by the LejgUlfiture in the present city charter. A number of changes were proposed and opposed, and as a re sult the representatives decided to make no changes whatever. Rep resentative Williams was in favor of repealing the section which provides a penalty for failure to pay taxes by December 1st and had an amendment to this effect passed by the Housed It failed in the Senate, however, as it should have done, as this . is one of the best features in the charter, both for the city and the taxpayer. ; We think it would be best for all con cerned if it were applied to Jthe county also. . Mrs. Mary EWinecoff died last Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the home, of her son,:Ari Strifek. 1 er, .onojcjirei lUneaaot anf aetoma sne nad a severe case or pneumonia several years ago' and never futly recovered from the results of that illness, She waB 74 years of age, ancMiad been twice married, Mr. Strieker being the only child by her first marriage. Her second husband was Pinckney W . Wine coff, of No. 4 township, who died 24 years ago. We learn that there has been just completed at Kannapolis a mem bership campaining for the Y.M G. . A., which resulted in in creasing the number of members of that splen did organization there to over 300. There are jB40 operatives at Kan napolis, over half of Whom are women, and it will thus be seen , that nearly alii the men belong to the Y. M. 0. A. The daily attend ance at the building, the David Franklin Memorial Hall, is over 200. On last Thursday and Sat urday. 120 baths were given. Fifty men per day use the pool tables, while over 100 games are frequent ly played on the bowling alleys in a. dav. Baths, including towels . rf and soap, are free to members. Every Friday night is ladies' ni ht, and this evening, is becom inff more and 'more popular. On Saturday nights an entertainment is given at a small ccst, and od Sunday services are held. Will Take Away Franchise. At a meeting of the city council to-night a resolution was passed declaring the franchises of the Greenville Gas and Electric Light and Power Company and the Paris Mountain Water Company to be invalid and authorizing the clerk to notify the companies. The resolution was passed on account of a dicis8ion by the city attorney to the effect that the franchises were invalid. There has been considerable complaint against' the companies for some time and it is expected that the matters will now reach a crisis. The chairman of the light committee was requested to com municate with the officials of the Southern Power Company and see what terms that company would makefo lighting the city. Liti tratinn will orobablv result from the action of the council. to-night. Greenville, S C, special Char lotte Observer. ALBEMARLE AND STANLY COUNTY. Comolaints Regarding i Violation if Tie Liquor Law, Trying to Locatotne Paupers Stanly Enterprise, March. 4tn. A force of machinists are, at work overhauling the WiscasBett mill. J. HJ. Moose, oi oansouxy, and Ben Skidmbre, of Concord, who is a brother of oar townsman P. O. Skidmore. are among the workmen. There is no doubt that liquor and other intoxicants are sold right in our very midst. One can see evidence of this fact without being placed to much trouble, and Borne of the dealers are parties who usually "stand in" with the powers that be. Such business is in criminal violation of our statues, and if our officers do not take the matter in hand, a league of our citizens should be formed whose effort will be to secure evi dence against and prcfeecute every violator to the full limit of the law . There is no soft of excuse for allowing a high-handed traffic in liquor to be cairied on in Albe marle or any part of the county. This is a matter for Berious con sideration. Esq. W. A.-Hough accompained Mrs. Sam Poplin, of Norwood, to he hospital for the insane at Morganton on last ThuTBdayMrs. Poplin has had some form of men tal derangement for' sometime. but had failed to gain earlier ad mission into tha State institution owing to its - crowded condition. She is a daughser of Geo. W. Low der, of this place. Sometime in December. Robert! Rogers and-his wife Carmilla were admitted 4o the bounty home as paupers. evidence nas Deen hrought to light that those people shouldvbe under charge of Cabar- ras countyi'aiid they wee return- there.-; Our county board is now instituting an investigation to de termine the facts, and it is be lieved that there is sufficient testi mony to show that these paupers are not rignttui cnarges upon Stanly. Shoaf Sentenced for Four Months. H. B. Shoaf, who was charged with brutality to the little Fields child, has been convicted in Su perior court and sentenced to four months on the roads. He has been in jail since the sentence was passed. An effort will be made to have the judge change the sentence so a fine, the maximum sum to be $200 to $300. Mrs. Shoaf. who was arranged in another case on the same charge was acquitted. The circumstances of the case are, well known. The little girl had been left bv its mother with the Shoaf 's at Thomasville. While there it was miured one way or another. The people of the town became indignant and the Shoafs were arrested and jailed at Lex ington. Rumors of a mob form ing to lynch them caused the of ficials to carry the prinoners to Charlotte, where they remained awhile and were released on bonds of $500 each. The trial had been put off from one court to another, and finally came up this time.- Lexington dispatch. insurance Swindler Comes to Brief. Will Johnson the negro who op erated an insurance swindle among members of the race here a few weeks ago, securing several hundred dollars in money, was sent to the county chaingang to serve a term "of 270 days. He enters pleas of guilty on. eight warrants charging him with ob taining money by false pretense, and was convicted on the ninth warrant. A fine of $100 or 80 days was imposed by Magistrate W. J. Muldrow in each case. There are several .other cases against Johnson, among them one for grand larceny. Anderson, S. C, special to Charlotte Observer. If you'd be dubbed a handsome girl, " And win a hadsome Knight, The secret here I do impart, Take Hollister's Rocky Mountain Taa at night! Cornelison and Cook, osamiBSion ofTxne; counsy - no me i CR!NAi6R0YE. Short Items of News Telling if Eients of 6en8fal Merest. Robert Fleming will soon have his handsome cottage completed He thinks he will be able to occupy it in about a week. On last Sunday morning, at the Lutheran chanel naisonase. Alfred L . Kluttz, telegraph oper- aton at Sumner, was united in the holy bonds of matrimony to Miss Amanda Arey, of China Grove. Rev. C. A. Brown was the officiat ing clergyman. Just thirty-five of the forty days have, gone down in history since the' ground hog immerged from his winter quarters, saw his Bhad- 4pw and "scooted" back, and very little freezing weather has come to ub yet. Dr. G. J. Atkins, who a short time ago' intended moving his family to Thomasville, informed us that he has decided not to move away from China Grove, at least not.any time soon . He will con tinue to practice among his pa trons as heretofore . G. M. Linn, whb has been work ing in the weave-room of the cot ton mill of this place, moved his family to Salisbury, where he has accepted a position in the Vance mill. He left Tuesday atternoon. . 1 There will be services held at St. Mark's E. L. church every Wednesday night during montn ana until April sue when there will be services ?i night during the week, which be palled Holy Week Service Sore, Uike the Railror uub uaj xasb wwi jt jpf net and others from Hicko. ftere coming from-Lenoir court. After leaving Lenoir, J. B. Lingle, who lives at Hudson, wai on the train ness. xv seems ne aio nos nxe jar, WhUener and got into a difficulty with him. Because the conduc tor did not try to prevent the as sault on Whitener, after being asked to do so, Whitener, through his attorney, has sued Lingle and the Carolina & Northwestern Rail road Company jointly for $10,00?. Hickory Times-Mercury. Remembered Fairbanks. Behind closed doors the Senate to-day paid to Vice President Fair banks one of the most remarkable tributes ever given to a presiding officer. He was presented with a silver service, costing $1,185. as the gift of the entire body of Sen ators and with a loving-cup as the present of the Democratic mem bers. ' The presentation of the silver service was made by Senator Mc r l y Senator Daniel spoke for the minority, dilating upon Mr. Fair banks' uniform fairness. He sug gested that if at any time Mr. Fairbanks should tire of the mo notonous service in the Re publican party the Democrats would be glad to welcome him He facetiously suggesd that it would pot be well for Mr. Fair banks to take more than one draught from the flagon before breakfast if it should happen to get filled with other than butter- mux Washington aispatcn. Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications, as they can not reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that's by the constitutional remedies. Deaf ness is caused by an inflamed con dition of the mricous lining c f the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbliug sound of imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deal ness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken outand mis vuoe restored w its uurmu condition, hearing will be de stroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed con dition of the mucous surfaces .We will gil e One Hundred Dol lars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that, cannot be cured by Hairs uatarrn uure. Send for circulars free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. LSTON W OAYIDSOX toiwr. 71: Wheat too F&ward. , Uechaat iho Is not -AdlifiMtothi Lexington Dispatch, Maren TJrd, On the 15th of this month our well-known merchant,Jnle Smith, who sells chinafnest eggs, ban jc s, calico, silks-eeffee and turnip seed, tp say noting of all the other various products of farm and factory, 11 have been in the building he now occupies.' 88 years We doubt if in aU North Carolina there is another merchinlwho can match this record. There seems to be a wrong im pression., in some pats; of the c dd as to the burial of people by the country. In- SP" case that has come to out attention, some people think that the county bur ied a man at the publio expense as wouM have deen done inj the case of a pauper. The manin question was an old soldier, anCthe state provides that the country shall pay $20 toward the f antral expen ses of certain old soldiers.. A Btock company hasibeen form ed to build a good phone line from Lexington direct to Tyro. It p&y. be extended on to Spencer. Messrs. C. F. Kfthts;: G. M. Thompsom, BaxterJiepnard, W . B Hunt, N. W. Swioegootff Dtt J. E. Catheil aridotherB aceehind this progre? ffpsijimi. ' Ttmie Iryii til nit and work has r', c mceir This .is - at' terprise and peo er" t of. the county Jn 'pnone t lines. - In aeparts now they have fine service TT A Tronfli.m the Jersey, community day that wheat in tL section was mort ne was airaid. so already tha; and gow jtraa aim ifit. 1 1. frost when themqqn I Sll- ed between, the first & of the month. This yeJLje full moon comes on the 5th of May, and Mr. Trautbam won't feel safe until that' part of th9 mouth is past. Saturday about noon the home of Albert Parks, in the Holly Gro.ve section, caught fire and it was only by the hardest kind of work that it was saved from de struction. Mr.vParks daughter threw some holly boughs in the fireplace and the blaze started from that. Luckily Mr. Parks was at home. He had just arriv ed, after having spent Friday with The Dispatch party in Charlotte, and Friday night in town. He carries no insurance and we are glad that the damage was no greater Honors for Sallsburlan. Senator Whitehead Kluttz, pres ident pro tern of the senate, was here r a short time from Raleigh yesterday returning on the after, noon -train. Mr. Kluttz has been exceeding ly flattered yesterday by two invi tations to speak in June. When President Woodrow Winston, of Prineeton, spoke there recently Mr Kluttz was a member of the legislative committee and in an important address of a few min utes so charmed his hearers that there was almost universal agree ment that he would make thiB year's alumni speech. He beat the whole crowd. The second week in June, the eleventh, he is to address the New Jersey bar association at Atlantic City. This is a big occasion and one that would dra.w any speaking attraction to it. Senator Kluttz is perhaps the youngest man who ever spoke to either audience that he will add f 88. Both invitations are highwattr honors. They come seldom and to big men only. Don't wait until your blood is impoverished and yon are sick and ailing, but take Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea now, I will' posi tively drive out all winter impuri ties. 85 cents, "TeaVor Tablets.-r Cornelison and .Cook. SEVERE STORM. Goldsboro and Vicinity Suffer. Life Lost and Uuch Property Damaged. Last Wednesday will long be re membered in Salisbury, on account of the darkness produced by the unaualy dark angry clouds, which hovered about us for a short while and then sped on their way. Sev eral sections of the State were visited by violent storms and much damage was done, but it seems that Goldsboro and vicinity suf fered most, judging by the follow ing special from that place to the Charlotte Observer: "With the suddenegs of a cy clone and the speed of a hurricane storm came up out of the West about 1 o'clock to-day and swept the city with wind, dust, rain and hail for a half hour, with almost unprecedented fury, putting the eleotrib wires out of commission and leveling some garden fences with the ground in several sections of the town . Out in the open to the west and northeast it had full sway and did material damage to the roofs and smokestacks of the factories in that territory, blowing down the smokestacks of ahe Utility an 1 the A. T. Griffin Manufacturing Com panies, the Enterprise Lumber Company mill at the river, lifting a larger section of the roof off the freight, warehouse of the South ern Railway and -carrying it a 6quare away into John street, and demolishing several tenant houses in the vicinity of the Borcfen Got ten Mills. Out at East Goldsboro where the ntirelybpen country afforded no resistance, and which wasrin the direct track of the storm's greatest fury, two houses just framed in and' being , roofed 8nd Wbather-boarded, were demol ished, and two workmen, at work n one of them bad narrow e4; Sces as the house wetitover. Out at the river near the pump ing station on the Howell farm, Harry Richardson, a worthy color ed man living in this city and farming out there, sought shelt- r for himself and team of mules un der the shed of a barn which was blown down on him and he and both mules were killed. In the sweep of the storm Mr. Don Scott was caught while out driving and horse, buggy and oc cupant were swept from the road into a ditch. Mr. Scott, and' the horse were not injured but the buggy was badly broken up. Fur ther to the east and northeast, the blow was even more severe than here. Mr. Atlas Uzzell reports over the phone, that on his mill pond at New Hope, the waves roll ed like oceu billows and that in addition to hail and rain, it snow ed for some minntes. The smokestack at the light and pumping station were blown down and the plant was otherwise dam aged to such extent it is reported to-night the city will not be fur nished with electric lights in two or three days All business is sus pended to-night and the city in total darkness." Stricken With Paralysis. This news of a well known Pres byterian minister of Mooresville comes via the Concord Tribune : "His friends in. the eity and county will regret to learn that Rev. W. W. Pharr, of Mooresville, was recently stricken with paraly sis. While his condition is not alarming, yot he is in a right se rious way, being about 78 years of age." A year or more ago Dr. Pharr as fr a long time critically ill and was not expected to recover. He got well, however, but was nev er strong afterwards. The Mooresville Enterprise aays the stroke was slight and affected the right side of Dr. Pharr's face and his tongue. He has since im proved and is able to be up.- Statesyille Landmark. " A spring tonic that makes rich, red blood. Brings strength, health and happiness to the whole family. ' Nothing equals 'Hbrlis ter's Rocky Mountain Tea as a Spring regulator. 35 cents. Cor nelison and Cook. STATESYILLE AND IREOELL COUN rY. Boiler Explosion Attended by Fatal Results, ifedefiwui Have New JaH. StatesTllle Landmark. If arch l-4th. Messrs. M. A. Plyler and James Eudy, of Cleveland, who were An Billingsley hospital for treatment have about regained their usual strength and have returned to Hheir homes. Mr. Eudywas in a very critical condition for a time. Some of the young fellows who carry slingshots and try to kill all the birds in town seem to have for gotten that shooting slingshots in town is a violation of a city ordi nance. Some of the property owners ar-; kicking about the bbjs shooting song birds on their premi ses. The boiler at Andrew Beck's saw mill, five miles south-of Thorn asvill, exploded early yesterday morning. Bertie Beck, son of the owner of the mill, was instantly killed. Andrew Beck and his brother, Hilley, were badly injur ed. The former may not recover. Other persona about th. mill were knocked down and more or less injured, The connty commissioners were in session yesterday and held a session last night to consider plans for the new jail. A contract was made with Wheeler, Galliher & Sterne, architects, to prepare the plans and specifications for the jail. The building vll cost about $26,000 and the contract will be let as soon as the plans and speci fications are ready . ' Rey. J. B. Branch left yester day for Columbia, S. C, where he will fill temporarily the chair of one of the professors in the Colum bia Theological Seminary. The professor is a way with a sick son Mr.-3ranch will.Treturn the latter part'.of the week aSdfiilhis an church Sunday. R. 0. Miller has given up his position as bookeeper in the First National Bank and will leave to day for Oaklahoma City and other points in Oaklahoma with a view to going into business at some point in that State. His friends wish him success in whatever busi ness he takes up. Mr. Miller's successor at the bank has not been named . While; cutting timber in the woods near his home in the Snow Creek community, Friday, Hous ton Webber, son of Mose Webber, was seriously injured. In some manner Mr. Webber's leg was caught under a heavy saw log and the bone was broken. Other lum bermen who were with him took him to his h me and his injury, which is very painful, was dressed by a physician. . Ho is getting a- long as well as could be expected Deputy Sheriff Ward was noti fied Tuesday that Early Sbarpe, a young white man of the Jennings mill community, had been arrest ed and given a hearing Tuesday morning before a north Iredell magistrate on a charge of shoot ing into a dwelling in that section Monday night, but had escaped from the constable who took charge of him after the trial. It was thought that Sharpe might flee to Statesville but asyet he has not been apprehended. Frauk P. Lewis, who has for somn years held a position in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, has been promoted. His Statesville friendB will be interested iu the following item from the New York Sun of recent date : "By direction of the command ant, Master Electrician Frank P. Lewis, formerly of the construe- tion.cepartm nt has been put in charge of all power plans and electrical apparatus in the navy yard. This is a decided promo tion for'Mr. Lewis andis in recog nition of his able services for many years to the government." A family consisting, of a man and his wife and several children arrived in Statesville Wednesday morning on the train .from Tay lorsville and left on No. 86 for a point in Viginia. While sitting in the waiting rcom of the States- UQCKSYILLE AND OAYIE. COUNTY. Mad Dog KjJJed. The Will Eaifs. Case. Badly Cot flth an Aie. Mocksville Courier, March March 4th. Mrs - R. S . Grant, of Salisbury, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Allen near town, returned home Monday evening. Yesterday morning while Messrs. Marion Richardson and Jesse Hen- drix were trimming brush at Richardson's home he was right badly cut in the head. It seems ; that Mr. Hendrix was using the axe while Mr. Richardson was pil ing the brush. In making a lick the axe glanced and flew out of Hendrix's hand, striking Richard son on the headjas above stated. The wound is not considered seri ous. A supposed mad dog that was first heard from just above Clarks- ville last Friday played havoc with the dogs along the route be tween here and there. He bit one or more dogs at Mrs . Davis', Billy Ferebde's, Hal Langston's, B. W. Rollins', and came on to town and bit several dogs here in town. Most of the bitten dogs have been killed and the mad dog was killed at the overhead railroad bridge a- bout a mile and a half south of town. George. Denny, of Baltimore, Md., and sister, were the guests of their sister, Mrs. W. A. Griffin, near town, the first of the week, returning to their respective' homes Tuesday evening. Mrs. Griffin accompanied Mrs. Ander son and will remain with her a few dayB. The case ot Will Eanes vs. the Southern Railway Co., for alleged injures reseived while loadipgH m- months ago, caused by a calr beingf shoved against the one in which he was working and knocking himr- down, was tried in Superior Court at Lexington yisterday, consum ing the whole day and going to the jury late in the afternoon. Dr. Rodwell and the other witnesses from this county, of whom there were about twenty, returned home this morning. A verdict will be given to-day. Kills Would-Be-Slayer. A merciless murderer is Ap pendicitis with many victims. But Dr. King's New Life Pills kill it by prevention. Th6y gently stimulate stomach, liver and bowels, preventing that clogging that invites appendicitis, curing Constipation, Bilhousness, Chills, Malaria, Headache and Indiges tion. 25c at all Druggists. villa station the -woman, who is apparantly about 35 or 40 years old, remarked to another passen ger that she lived some distance from Taylorsville and that the train on which she rode tp States ville from Taylorsville was the first she had ever seen. It is as sumed that it was also the first the children had ever seen. Wednesday morning about 8 o'clock flames were discovered un derneath a corner of a house on the W. N. Gibson place, in Con cord township, occupied by Mr. Vauce Baker. The flames were discovered by Mrs. Baker, who was. at home alone with a small chfld, before they had made any headway and neighbors who were attracted by Mrs Braker's screams extinguished the flames. 1 It was found that the fire bad started in a kjile of chips and rich pine which had. been placed under the house and saturated with oil, and Dep uty Sheriff Ward 'was notified of the affair. Mr. Ward is informed that a negro who passedthe house a short time before the fire was discovered saw a man placing the kindling wood under the house. The officer is very anxious to see or learn the name of the' person who saw the man arranging the fire. He will greatly appreciate any information regarding the occuranc6.