North Carolina Newspapers

X4 - v ; "v.., 1?' A WM li1- 4. s 1 s lit - "A I - ' -t Vol. I. No. 35, Salisbury, Ni pEtwMsbAY, Aug 23, 1906. 'V- Wm, H. Stewart, Editor OFEICE OF PUBLICATION: OUll OLD STAND, 120 WEST INNISS' STREET, NEXT , TO HARPER'S LIVERY STABLE ALBEMARLE ANO STANLY COUNTY. LEXINGTON AND DAVIDSON COUNTY. BOARD OF .ALDERMEN'S WORK. MORE ABOUT NEW DEPOT. BILL SNIPES' SNIFFLES. ' y i lie va. - y i i i t i . v ii II ii i i t i r- i ... - . . , j- v. . v :--tv - :j '-:-- ' 1--. 5. The Efird Manafactu ing Company Shipping Twlna to Australia. itanly Enterprise, Aug. 17. The Whitney Company-has paid off at the Barringer Mine and closed up. Exeessive rains the past two i weeks have kept the streams stofol- . i leii and the Yadkiu and Roky rivers have betu too hign for eypn wire rope ferriage. Freshets have caused considerable damage and no doubt ctt.on will shed a good many squares. On Monday Efird Manafactur ing Company made a shipment of twine to Australia. The product of the mills at this place find a wide market. On last Friday evening near Finge, Miss Annie Peck was kick ed by a horse aud the entire right side of her f ac9 was terribly cut and mangled, aud so close was the blow to a vital spot that the ac cident come near proving fatal. The young iady was trying to drive a horse back into the stable when the animal turned and kick ed her. Tho1 the fleBt about, the cheek, brows, temple and forehead is badly bruised and toru Dr. D. P-.Whitley pronounced the wounds not necessarily serious and the bones were not crushd. Young Mr. Shoe who was dispatched for a doctor came near losing his life on account of swollen waters of the creek he had to cross. It was a narrow escape both for him and his horse. Miss Peck is a daughtrr of County Commissioner J. A. Peck. The latter only a few days ago lost a barn and a lot of grain by fire, and we are informed that lightening struck one of his build ings last week, doing considerable damage. It is a verification of the old adage, "It nev-r rains but that it pours." Holy Jumpers Do a Good Business in MockSYiiie, The Holiness Tent meeting closed Monday night. This meet ing was conducted by th6 Revs. Sam Nelson and Thos. Hendrik. There were two services a day for over two weeks. Liarge crowds at tended, especially at night and on Sundays. Twenty-five professed sanctification. They moved their tent to Salisbury Monday, where they will hold a meeting of some days. John Kelly, of Salisbury, was in town" Sunday to attend tha fu neral of his grand-mother, Mrs. Kelly. Mocksville Courier. Machinists Adopt Resolutions. It has pleased Almighty God to remove from our midst our broth er C. C. Burton j therefore we, the members of Piedmont Lodge, No. 186, International Association of Machinists, do resolve, 1st. That in the death of our brother this lodge has lost a true and faithful member ; and 2nd. That our charter shall be draped for thirty days ; and 3rd. That we extend to the be reaved family our sincere sympa thy, assuring them that we, also, feel the loss keenly ; and 4th, That a copy of these reso lutions be sent to the family, and copies be sent to the Machinists1 Journal and the local press; and 5th. That these resolutions be embodied in our minutes as a lasting memorial to our deceased brothtr. A. E. Taylor, I. J. McAdams, R. E. Lufsey, Committee. Subcribe for the Watchman. Monument Arrives. Married Man Goes off With Grass Widow. Lexington Dispatch, Aug. 15. 5" ! Zeb Deaton, manager of4the Car olina Marble Co's. plant at Lex ington, tells the Dispatch that all the parts for the Confederate mon ument have arrived and that the work of erecting the monument will be commenced this week. The monument will be unveiled on Thursday, Sept. 14tb, the date of the annual re-union of the A. A. Hill Camp of the Confederate vet erans of Davidson county and it is planned to make the day no table for Lexington and this sec tion of the State. Some of the best speakers in the State are ex pected to be present and deliver addresses. An effort will be made to have the railr3ads give greatly reduced rates.Visitors are expect ed Irom all over the State. There is a mild sensation in the southern part of Lexington over the departure a few days ago of a well-known married man with a grass widow. The parties board ed a north-bound train here Sat urday, the man stating that. he was going to Greensboro in quest; of work. The woman purchased a ticket tc High Point, but it is reported that she did not get off there. The names "of the man md woman have been coupled to gether for Home time. The wife f the man in the case was pros trated Monday afternoon and was In a critical condition for several hours. While ihe story is gener-I ally known in Lexington, it is pos sible that there is a mistake about it and as the Dispatch has no de sire to do anyone an injustice, it withholds the names of all con cerned for this week. SPENCER NEWS. Th3 Graded School. Superintendent Bivins sends out the following notice: ''The Spen cer graded school will open Tues day, September 5th. Patrons ar-. earnestly requested to send their childreu the first day in order that they may be classified. Due no tice will be given as to changes in books, which will be sold at the school building at cost price. Miscellany. H. D. Moyer, for some time em ployed as electrician in the South ern shops, left here with his family last week for Charlotte, which will probably their future home. . . The road machine is again at work on Long street in East Spen- cer, and the macadaizing is going ahead at a satisfactory gait. It is hoped that there will be no morebreaks in this work. If it is unfinished when our wet season sets in the street will not only be useless because impassable, but an eyesore, and possibly a breeder of sickness. St. Paul's The crops in this neighborhood are looking fine. John Yost has purchased a tract of land from L. A. Ketchie. Miss Allice Miller visited M. L. Yost and family Sunday. Miss Lula Koontz, one of our most attractive and popular young ladies who has been indisposed for some time, is recuperating, to the delight of her many friends. Geo. Shuping gave au ice cream supper to a number of his young friends Saturday night. Mr. aud Mrs. Alfred Kluttz vis ited at J. A. Yost's Sunday. Chas. Safrit has bought a fine horse. CONCORD AND CABARRUS COUNTY. - ,, .. .. A Cabarrus Cat-and-snake Story Other Items of Interest. Concord Times, Aug. 18. Court will convene Monday An-, gust 28th. Judge Charles M. Cook of Louisburg presiding. ' - Jack Regan, eon of Peter Regan, and Miss Fannie Fink, of Pine street, were married Wednesday: night. s 4 The children of the congregation) of the Second Baptist church were given a watermelon feast in the church-yard last Saturday v - Dan Lowder, Jr., of the Gibson mill neighborhood, was arrested Wednesday for retailing liquor and bound over to court in two cases. He could not give bond, and is nowl in jail. Miss Loretta MoManus, daagh ter of Nathaniel McManus, of No 10, died last Wednesday of fever, aged 15 years. Tha interment was at Bethel Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock. ( The twentieth annual conven tion of thfl Woman's Home and Fpraign Missionary Societies of the North Carolina Synod will meet at St. Enoch's Lutheran church, Enochville, N. C, on Sepr tember 1st, 2nd and 3rd. While working at a saw-mill near Enochville on the 15th Geo. A. Rodgers lost two fingers by his hand coming in contact with! a saw. His entire hand is badly Mrs. Cha3. Cress, of No. 6 town ship, died last Tuesday, after a lingering illness, of "consumption, aged 37 years. The body was in terred Wednesday at New Gilead graveyard, the burial services be ing conducted by Rev. J. H. Kel ler. R. F, Cline (of No 5 township) has the largest acreage of late Irish potatoes that we have everleen in Cabarrus. They are the Bliss va riety, and are growing fin?. Mr. Cline also has a field of corn that will shell more bushels fine corn per acre than any field in the county. Mrs. Margaret J. Query, whose home was with Mr. L. A. Quay, near Harrisburg, died at midnight Wednesday, aged 76 years. Mrs. Query leaves six children, namely: J. C. and Samuel Query, Mrs. A. C. Welch, of Mill Hill, and Mrs. L. A. Quay. The funeral services will be held today at 10 o'clock, and the interment will be made at Rocky River cemetery. Moses Bost, of No- 9 township, sends us the following: snake story : "This morning, while my wife was preparing breakfast the old cat came in dragging soinethihgwhich resembled a snake, and on inves tigation it proved to be a copper head snake nearly three feet long. The cat had eaten the snake's tail off, but it was still alive and ready to bite any one who came Dear it. It was also bitten by the cat in several places along the back." Strikes Falling Into Disrepute. Strikes are becoming less fre quent. Capital and labor recog nize that battles of endurance are disastrous and both sides are in clined to make concessions to avoid forced seasons of idleness. Arbitration is the key to the situation. There is every reason to hope and to believe that within a few years strikes will be prac tically unheard of ; at least, 'that there will be no great strikes. St. Louis Republic. - Mrs. J. M. Klapp has left for Fort Wayne, Ind., to be treated by a specialist for throat trouble. Chicken Coops Must be Taken off Side ! walks-Will Elect Building Inspector. The board of aldermen, at their meeting Thursday night, gave or ders for the enforcement of Sec tion No. 181 of the city Code, which reads as f oIIowb : Sec. 13L No fish or poultry shall be exposed in or upon the side walks in the city of SalisburyrjoJ shall any stand be placed thereon for that purpose. Any person vio lating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be fined $5 for lty A this meeting the board also determined to comply with the State law in regard to the election of a building inspector for Salis bury, and will select their man at some meeting in the near future. After such election all parties in tending to build within the city jlimits must eubmitall their plans to him and the Building Commit tee for approval. " It was. decided to pave Main street with brick as far south as Bank streat. They considered the petition for macadamizing the streets in the Northeast and South wards, which work they deoided to ie uoas soon as they finish in tKnBt ward . ! f Lyeriy. -Many of the farmers have been ploughing through out this com munity. V , . .'cotton is .opening ft meamOmcfc ache pretty sobnl The insects which Lewis Kesler sent to Washington a few weeks ago have proven to be the boll wee vil. Dr. C. M. Poole and A. L. Lyer iy had their long distant phone put in last week. P. A. Hartman had his phone discontinued last week. Our quarryman says he is sever al months behind with his orders yet. The educational rally at Union last Thursday was fine. Some say it was the best they ever heard, We are sorrv for those that could not be present. i Another public road is talked of. We have more public roads now than can be taken care of, or at least, it seems so when rock is to be hauled to macadamize the present road and no one except a few to do the work. The road that is in view will benefit a few only, and is believed by many to be unnecessary. We have plenty of public roads today that need more attention than we are able give them. It is needless to es tablish more roads than can be kept in travelling condition. Rev. H. A. Trexler is attending conference at St. Paul's. He Will return Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Edmond Sifford are visiting relatives for a few days in the St. Paul's neighbor hood. J. B. Lingle is painting his new dwelling, which adds greatly to its appearance. Contractor J. D. Brown and force of hands from Rockwell, are remodeling the residence of J. D. Schenck. The house will be cov ered with metal shingles and will be a handsome dwelling when com pleted. A number of our young people attended the picnic at Lipe's cot ton gin Wednesday. L. W. Lingle will build another house on Chestnut Hill this fall. J. E. Briggs is getting out lum ber for a house. Work to Begin on the New Structure at an Early Date. Mayor Boyden hafc received the following communication from Manager Ackert, of the Southern, which explains itself : Washington, D. C, Aug. 17, '05. Hon. A. H. Boyden, Mayor, Salisbury, N. C. Dear Sib : Referring to the matter of building a new passenger station at Salisbury, will say the South ern Railway is arranging to con struct a new passenger dopot at that point and our engineers are now developing the situation to ascertain the location that will best suit the needs. Unless something unforseen happens, we will commence its construction during our present fiscal year, and I would be glad to have this made known to the citizens of Salisbury so they will understand the matter. Yours truly. C. H. Ackert, Fourth Vice President. The following petition in regard to the site of the new depot has, we are informed, been signed by a great majority of our business men and citizens: "We, the undersigned merchants and citizens of Salisbury, desire to express our wishes relative to the ocation of the new depot for this city. , , JiMfe should boi' located at Htsmresent BiteaaiifeSsrill be much more convenient for the cit izens of the town as well as the travelling public." These petitions will be sent to Washington at an early date. Mayor Boyden, having returned rom another conference with Mr, Ackert in reference to the Inniss- street bridge and the new depot, says: 'Now is the time for our people to get together and not havs any division among themselves as to the site or anything else connect ed with this depot. I have stated to Mr. Ackert that 90 per cent, of our citizens desire the depot on Couucil street where the present structure stands. Let us not go to quibbling over details and pos sibly delay the construction of this depot which is promised." "I am assured that the steel bridge which is to be placed across the North Carolina railroad on Inniss street has already been shipped, and will be in course of construction within a few aays. A depot is absolutely certain, and engineers were here last week mak ing an examination with reference to the most suitable site." St. Luke's. Corn and cotton is looking well throughout this section. Rev. Lyeriy preached an ex cellent sermon at St. Luke's Sun day. A number of Sunday School workers at this place will attend the County Convention at Crescent Aug. 24-25 inst. Miss Roxie Trexler, the school teacher at Rowan Academy, is at tending the Teacher's Institute in Salisbury. Hurrah boys 1 Get your bells, another wedding before long, and we must have a good time. The health of the community is good at this writing. We are glad to note that John C. Kluttz and little son is recov ering from a severe case of ty phoid fever. . Junius Lyorly is clerking for his father at Granite Quarry. The Changes of tife are Great, and Hang Heavily so Hid. Times are not like they used to be; and even for the last month therplias been a changefrom dry weather then to wet weather now. We are not speaking practically, though, of thechangeof the weath er, but of the times. We don't know whether it's the times that has made all the change, or wheth er the people have just changed a little; but we do know.tfyere is a difference somewhere. Nowt some one may ask, How far back can you recollect? Why, bless' your soul, we Can't go back to the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, when all the good people were warned to flee prior to their destruction ; neither can we go back to when George Washington was elected President of the United States: but we are getting up right smart in years, as the old folks say, and we know a few things. Our folks were a little Dutchy and could not speak very plain, as some of the later generations can.; and, iu fact, we can't speak very distinctly our selves, especially some of the high est words that Webster used ; but we ufed to know how to talk when we went to see our girl. People used to get about 22 years old be fore the old man would let them go with the girls, now they go from seven years up; and if they don't run away and get married at 17, they are not manly at all. , You s 3e something has changed, either ihe' time? or the people: ' Gdlly.3 dont a little tod of a fellow look funny going with a girl? Why," you just ought to have seen us go several years ago. I remember one time I went to see my girl ; it was about the first time, and I didn't know hardly how to act. But I thought I would do the best I could, so I drove up one evening (I was driving the old grey horse) to the gatee and said " Hello 1" The old man came out to the gate and said, "Howdy, Bill." I thought he ought to have said. "Good evening, Mr. Bill;" but he didn't. - So I got off and went in the houafe while he unhitched the grey, and the girl met me at the door and said, "Good evening, Mr. Billy." I thought she ought to have said, -' Good evening, Mr. Snipes;" but she didn't. Well, I goes in and she gave me a seat in the parlor, like all f ashional le people, and she and I talked. Oh, you just ought to have heard us I It was late in the evening, and her daddy soon came to the door and said "Supper!" So we all went in and the old man said grace, and then he said to me, "Bill, please pull off your hat.-" I felt up at mv head, and, by gum 1 I had for gotten to pull off my hat since I got there. In about 40 minutes supper was over, and we all went in the room to play the organ and sing; so the girl and I played and sang " The Old Ship of Zion" for about four hours ; then the old man said it ras time to retire. Pretty soon I found myself alone, and I went to bed and slept right well. The first thing I heard next morning was the old man in my room kindling a fire. I rose up to . see who was there, and he looked around at me and said. "Good morning.' ; I said, " Why, you don't need to say that ; for I stayed here all night." He said he knew I did, but it was a fashion to show manners. People don't do now like they used to, so there is a change some where. Bill Snipes. The city water was cut off last Tuesday for several hours to per mit the cleaning out of the stand-pipe.