North Carolina Newspapers

1 ae A Home Newspaper Published in the Interest of the People and for Honesty in Governmental Affairs. Vol. III. No 47. Salisbury, N. C, Wednesday, November 6th, 1907. Wm, H .Stewart, Editor. waiccj CONCORD AND CABARRUS COUNTY. Two One-Legged Soldiers Fight. The Southern Railway Sends Firemen a Check. Concord Times. October 29th, Nov. 1st. Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Melton, who formerly lived on Spring street, have moved to Salisbury, TheJSouthern Railway has sent the Concord firemen a check for $50 for their valuable services at the fire canted from the wreok of V No. 85 about the first of Septem ber. We regret to note that Dr. . Gurley Moose of Mt. Pleasant, who has been confined to his bed 1 f or eight weeks, is no better. He had a spell "of typhoid fever, which is now complicated with other troubles. Dr. Moose's fath- er, A. W. Moose, is also confined to his bed. The contract for the erection of . the cotton warehouse in Concord was. let this week to R. A. Brown & Sens. The material is already being hauled on the ground, and .Work on the warehouse will begin at once. It will be pushed rapidly to completion, andit is expected thatit will be ready for the stor age of cotton in about two weeks. Another petition for the pardon of George Hall, who was convicted of assisting in the lynching of the three negroes at Salisbury during August of last year and sentenced to a term of 15 years in the pen itentiary, is being circulated in Kowan. We hope the Governor will pardon him, and we think 99 out of every 100 people entertain the same hope. There will be an adjourned meeting of Concord Presbytery in the First Presbyterian church of this "city next Tuesday at 2 :80 p m. The special business to be at tended to is to act on the resign ation of Rev. 0. H. Mathews, pas tor of Bethpage church. On last Saturday two old vet erans, Messers. Jackson Linker, of To. 1 township, and S. L. Lanev. of Union county, both one-legged, got into a little scrim mage in the back lot in rear of The" Times office. Both were drinking a little. Laney was v singing an old song rather hilar iously, when Linker asked him to desist. One word led on to an other, when Mr. Laney raised jus crutch and hit Mr. Linker on the head. The latter then went for him right, as his fighting blood was up, and as a result Laney soon had a bad right eye. They were up before Police Jus tice McUonnell Monday out were dismissed, without a fine. While working at his gin in No, 6 township last Monday after noon, W. J. P. Goodman had sev eral of his fingers cut off by the gin saw. It may be necessary to have his hand amputated. .Rev. J. P. Miller will be in -stalled as pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran church at Mt. Pleasant on Sunday, November 10, The services will be conducted by Rev, H. A. McCullough, now of Albe marle, and Rev. V. Y. Boozer. A Proposition for the Hair Splitter. Put this question to a man who is splitting hairs over this subject. Could you conscientously run saloon yourself? and you begin to undermine his objections at once. Why, on moral grounds, should a man refuse? Can any reason for his refusal be given that would not be equally good reason for his refusal, as a citizen, to participate in sustaining the saloon by his vote and. sharing in its guilty gains? It does-not seem to us there can be. Every man who would have conscientious scruples against going behind a bar and serving out liquor ought to have conscientious scrap 1 - A 1 . - les against voting to license ana authorize any one else to do it, The New Voice. DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve penetrates the pores thoroughly cleause and is healing and soothing. Good for piles. Sold by James Plummer and all druggists. STATES VI LLE AND IREDELL COUNTY. Mrs. Lula Canop's Suit for Damages Re sults in a Mistrial. Ernest Hardwick Injured Statesville Landmark, Oct 29 -Not. 1. Brooks," one of Dr. J. J. Mott's fine horses, died Wednes day in Uhariotte. The horse was a very valuable one and Dr. Mott had refused nice offers' for him. He has been sick since the Meck lenburg fair. He had won several purses. Flake Grose, son of S. Grose, of Concord township, picked 816 pounds of cotton on Friday and 382 pounds Saturday, This is good work for a cotton picker in this locality and especially good in view of the fact that it was the second picking of cotton. Richard Pence, a young man of Rowan county, was thrown from a wagon at Elmwood yesterday morning about 9 :30 o'clock and suffered a broken arm. ? Pece had come to Elmwood after a load of freight and his mules took fright at a freight trainQn the siding and ran away. The wagon was turned over and the young man was caught under the .wagon bed. His left arm was broken just above the wrist. By-stand-ers caught the team and carried Mr. Pence to Long's store, where his injury was dressed by Dr, Plummer. Ernest Hardwick, son of Dr. Hardwick, of Marshall, was found in a dying condition at the foot of the railroad fill at the Catawba river bridge, ten miles west of Statesville, Wednesday night about 9:30 o'clock, byja party jof 'possum hunters. He as carried to Catawba station immediately aud was given medical attention as soon as a physician could reach him. When found the young man was unconscious and he remained in that condition until yesterday morning, when -he regained con sciousness for a short time and called for friends. His shoulders are badly crashed and he is so badly injureotherwise that his recovery is not expected. He was taken to Asheville yesterday morning and placed in a hospital. Mr. Hardwick was a passenger on special passenger train which passed through Statesville going west Wednesday night about 8 o'clock and it is supposed that he ell from the platform of the rain. At the point where he fell there is a high fill and it is sur prising that he escaped instant death. He alio escaped a watery grave by a narrow margin, as his body was found within a few feet of the river bank. Mr. Hardwick hac been working in Salisbury and it is supposed that he was on his way to his home at Marshall. The Federal Court did not finish its Dusiness last wees, as was ex- . la peced, but was held over on ac count of the suit of Mrs. , Lula Canup vs. Southern Railway Com pany, which waB . put on trial Thursday afternoon. Judge Boyd and other officials of the court spent Sunday at their homes in Greensboro. . Last year Chas. B. Canup, the husband of Mrs. Canup, was kill ed by a Southern Railway train at what is known as the Wilkes- boro and Statesville crossing, two miles west of Salisbury, The wid ow qualified as administratrix of the estate and brought suit against the railway company for $22,000 damages. Her attorneys are Messrs. R. Lee Wright and R. B Miller, of Salisbury, and Armfield & Turner, of States'ville. I.--C Caldwell appears for the rail road There was a mass of conflicting testimony, the witnesses for the plaintiff testifying that the view was obstructed so that Canup could not see the approaching train and that the proper signals were not givea for the crossing The defendant's witnesses testifi ed that the view was unobstructed for quite a dietance, that the sig nals were given and that the de ceased was guilty of negligence in driving on the. track when could bave seen the approaching train if lie had exercised due dili gence. Photographs of the place were shown. The plaintiff olaim BI6 FIRE AT ALBEMARLE. Newspaper and Horses Born. Brown Bros. Loss a Fine Team. Albemarle, Nov. 3. This morning at 2 o'clock fire broke put in the building owned by Miss Sally Blalock andoccupied by Mr. J. L. Efird as a livery stable, on Second street, totaly consuming it together with evrytEing therin. Eighteen head pf horttf was burn ed alive, with all of the vehicles, feed , etc. , in the building. When the fire was discovered it was so far advanced that saving it was impossible. -From this the nice two-story brick building of The Stanly Enterprise, just completed caught and, despite the faithful aid to save it, it was in a mass of flames within 20 minutes. All of the presses and outfit were burned with the exception of two or three small iob presses. J. D Bivins editor of The Enterprise, had just moved into the second floor of the building and a . lot of his house hold furniture was burned before it could be removed. It was only by the most heroic work the resi dence occupied by Rev. H. A. McCullough was saved. The wind from the west was blowing briskly when the fire was first discovered, but soon thereafter it calmed, just in time to'save thousands of dol lars worth of property f Hgthe angry flames. Mr. Efird had eleven horses in the stable of his own that were burned to death ; Mr. Brown, of Concord, had a team, said to be worth at least $500 to be burned ; Dr, W. C. Fitzgerald had a fine horse burned ; Dr. J. N. Anderson a horse and buggy and all of his instruments; Dr. J. Clegg Hall, one horse and buggy and ail in strumentsjL. A. Moody,, one horse, &nd Sheriff S. R.- Green also had a horse and : buggy burn ad. The total loss caused: '' the burning of the stables is estimated at least $4,500, without mention ing the loss of Editor Bivins is near si.uuu. Me carried xz.3UU insurance on his printing press and outfit and household furniture but as he just finished the build- ding he had not one cent of in surance on it, and it was one of the prettiest bnidings in Albe marle. The total damages will aggregate at least $10,000 over and above insurance. There was not a cent of insurance on any of the property burned in the stables; neither was the building insured. Charlotte Observer. " ed that the surroundings were changed after the accident. The testimony was concluded Saturday morning and argument for the plaintiff begun. A ruling of the court in regard to the line of argument was argued at length and the court finally decided to snd the jury t the scene of the accident to examine the premises. A speciaLtrain could not be secur ed Saturday afternoon and court adjourned uutil yesterday. Yes- erday morning the jury went to the Bcene and examined the prem ises. The damage suit case of Mrs. Lula Canup vs. the Southern Rail way. Company, which was the con cluding case in the Federal court, resulted in a mistrial. The case was given to the jury at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning with three is- J mm . sues as ioiiows: First, was t.hA railroad . guilty of neelierenna? Second, was the man guilty of negligence"? Third, what damage, it o mi , ii uuyi iuo jury disagreed on the first issue, the vote being 6 to 6, andftafter being out nearly .sev en hours-they. reported their dis agreement and a mistrial was or dered. Mr. Canup was killed by a train about a yer ago at a crosssing west of Salisbury. Mrs, Canup qualified as administratrix and brought suit for $22,000 dam ages. When the baby is cress and has you worried and worn out you will find that a little .Cascasweet, the well known remedy for babies and children, will quiet the little one in a short time. The ingredients are printed plainly on the bottle, Contains no opiates. Soid by James Plummer and all druggists. DRUNKARD'S AWFUL DEED. Rom-Soaked Man Kills Woman Who 6aie Him Birth and Remorse Suicide. One of the most awful tragedies that ever occurred in North Caro lina took place Friday night in Gulledge township, Anson oounty, when Ellis Hightower, a drunkard 9,ud a noted whiskey-dealer, shot and killed his' mother, and later cut his throat with a razor when he realized the enormity of his crime. The idea of a man, soaked with whiskey, shooting his mother down like a dog, will cause every one who reads of the tragedy to shudder, especially when it is learned that mother poured out her love for her boy, as in this case. Ellis Hightower, a well-known white man, went to the home of his mother Friday, about 12 miles from Wadesboro. He had been drinking hard and was in a semi delirious condition. About nine o'clock he and his mother and sister were sitting on the porch, Ud his mother was telling him how she loved him, doubtless pleading with him to drink no more. Presently he dropped off into sleep and his mother spoke to arouse him. Starting up, he de manded1 4Who are you?'and fired a ,88-cahbre ball through her heart. Gajping. "Ellis, vou hava killed niS!1 the woman who gave him birth fell dead. Hightower sat by her side until the physician came, having in the meantime thrown his Distol St away. Saturday morning he went to his own home, where he had a wife and four little children, cut his shroat with a razor, dying in a few hours. What niakes this sickening tragedy all the more horrible is thatiHightower loved his mother and in his mi 3 would have died L 1 j i , . , ueiure oe worua nave narmect as hair on her head. But drunk, he knew not what he did. He was 34 years old and had been a hard drinker and dealt in whiskey extensively. Ellis Hightower was a brother of iY Ar. Micntower, wno is now in the saloon business in Wades boro and who has made arrange ments to go o Wilmington when the prohibition law goes into ef fect in Anson. The Hightower family went from Davie county to Anson about 25 years ago. They are all natives of Fork Church section. Tne old man mgntower was a blacksmith. He went west many years ago and for a long time noth ing was heard of him. Meanwhile the boys began hauling whiskey to Anson and finally moved down there. Alter a number oi years the old man went back to Fork Church and his wife returned from Anson, and they lived in Davie until the old man died, then Mrs. Hightower returned to her sons in Anson. Many people in Davie know the family, as do some in this county and in Lex ington. Mrs. Tom Hartley, of Yadkin College, is a sister of Ellis and F M. Hightower, Ellis is said to have been well-off. owing considerable property. He had stock in a Sal isbury saloon. Whiskey Must 60. Whiskey must go out of North Carolina. The decree of the gods has gone forth and it must be ex ecuted. Day by day it is made plainer that the stuff has no place in. a civilized commuity. This paper has always lifted up its voice against the traffio, and al ways will, and while believing tnat 11 it must be sold it should be under the eye of the law rather than otherwise, it has realized also that it should not be at all. That awful happening in Anson county is sufficient to make every man vote dry. Stuff that drives a man to kill the mother he loves and who loves him, almost while X J J e .. tenaer wurus oi anection are trembling on her hps, cannot stay in tnis uuristian state. This Anson hanneninff is the most powerful prohibition sermon ': that has ever ' been preached in North Carolina. 'Lexington Dis ' patch. , LEXIN6T0N AND DAVIDSON COUNTY. Capt. Jones Marries Within the Prohibited Degrees. 50th Wedding Anniversary. Lexington Dlspatch.October 30th. The friends over the state of Capt. M. L. Jones, the successful gold miner, railroad builder and one of the wealthiest citizens of this section, ill join in words of congratulation. Sunday night he waa happily married to . Miss Gemima MoGehee, of Cid, a sis ter of his wife, who died more than a year ago. She is a most excellent and lovable woman. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Keen cele brated their 50th wedding anni- versary Monday, An elaborate celebaration had been planned, but on account of sickness the plans could not be carried out. Squire Keen is in his 72nd year and Mrs. Keen is now 69, To them have been born nine chil dren and fourteen grandchildren. It seems now that the corn crop in Davidson county is far better than -farmers thought it would be back in the summer when the drouth was severe. Men from different, seotions of the county state that they have a very, good crop and one man says his is the best in 20 years. Lester Davis, who was in town Saturday, says a man made 109 bushels on two acres of his land, Suit will be instituted this week by Dr. Charles M. Clodfelter for damages on account of injuries received by falling into an excava tion on the sidewalk some time ago. It is understood the town of Lexington and the West Con struction Company will both be made defendants in the case, and that amount to be asked for will be $10,000. It will be alleged that while walking along the sidewalk on Main street, at night, the phy sician fell into an unguarded hole, there being no warning lignt or a&y electric lights. Do you suppose it ever-occurred to Dan'l Boone, when he lived in that cave out on tne i ad Kin, m this county, that his exploits would be celebrated in a play, perhaps in the very neighborhood he traversed frequently and on the spot where he may have killed b'ar? And what do you sup pose he would tmns ox nreecn loading shot guns in the play? A full house witnessed the play Monday night, and it was not in tolerable. The wolves the com pany carries drew -curious people on the streets Monday. Monday Coroner J. P.Turner, of Greensboro, with a jury of six, held a hearing to investigate the wreck of No. 34 at Rudd on the night of October 17th. The re sult of the hearing was that Brake man H. C, Leonard, a son of ex-Sheriff Leonard, deceased of this county, was held responsi ble for the wreck. He was arrest ed and placed in the custody o an officer at a hotel, until his mother could arrive and sign the $1,000 bond that would give him liberty. The jury also found that Leonard and the freight crew had been on duty 23 hours and recom mendations were made to the solicitor to fix the responsibility on the Southern for that. The law forbids more than 16 hours continuous work. The next term of Guilford superior court will be held in Decmber at which time the case vull come up. Pilgrim church, near Lexing ton, will be the scene of interest ing services on December 1st and 2nd, when the sesqui-centennia , the centennial and quarter-centennial belebration is held. Pil grim is one of the oldest churches in North Carolina and a wealth of history centers about it. With its story is connected the names of many a leader of relilgious, so cial and political life in the pioneer days of this section, in colonial times, during the rev olution and since. It was estab lished 150 years ago by the Ger man settlers of the Reformed and Lutheran faiths. It has been an even hnndred years since the eec ond housa of worship was erected, I and -25 years since the establish ment of the present church. ALBEMARLE AND STANLY COUNTY. 9 - Some Marriages, a Death, and Some Timely Prohibition Ruling. Stanly Enterprise, October 31st. Deputy Sheriff C. C. Moore, d: Whitney, was here yesterday to attend the preliminary hearing of Elbert Williamson, who shot and killed another negro by the name of Foot 38. The latter is 'Said to have been a cocaine fiend and bad man, and evidence points to the fact that the killing was in self defense. At 8 p. m, Thursday. October 24, at the residence of the bride's parents in Richfield, N. C, Ed ward S. Walker and Miss Jennie Ritchie were united in marriage by jtheir pastor, Rev. W. A. Dut- ton. The bride is the accomplish ed daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ritchie, of Richfield, The groom is one oi the most prosperous merchants of the above named place. . J. D. Thompson, Bon of Mr. pnd Mrs. D. K. Thompson, of Nor wood, died Sunday night at ' 7 :30 o'clock in St. Peter's Hospital at Charlotte. He had been suffer ing but a few days from an acute form of kidney " trouble. His brotber Charles, of Norwood, went to Wadesboro Saturday to visit him, not knowing he was sick, and accompanied him that night to Charlotte. The death was sud den and cameras a great shock to the family and a host of frienss. At the home of the bride's sis ter, Mrs. Maggie Littleton, on yesterday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock Miss Lou Ross was mar ried to John L. Palmer, of New ondon. Rev. John F. Kirk, of Mocksville, performed the cere- mony. it was a quiet, home wed ding, only a few immediate rela tives and friends being present. Mrs. T. J. Jerome, ot Salisbury, and Mrs, J. F. Kirk, sister of the bride, were present. Mr. and Mrs. . Palmer are well known to a host of friends' who extend them best wishes. At the Baptist church last Sun day morning, after the 11 o'clock service, the church licensed H. C. Dunn to preach the Gospel. He is the commercial traveler who last summer was led to give up traveling on a fine -salary and to enter the ministry as a layman. But he is now in the Baptist The ological Seminary at Louisville, Kentucky, taking a course in the ology and finishing up his Greek and Hebrew. He desires that the First Baptist church of Albemarle shall ordain him' also, when he shall have completed his course possibly in the spring. Mr. Simms will preach his first Annual sermon next 1 ord's Day as pastor of the church and will continue to nreach for the church as his ca'l is unlimited. Prohibitionists in Salisbury are intensely in eArnest over having an election next year, possibly in the early spring, while the Antis dread to see the fight come on.k. JUBil. """y It will naturally create strife and divisions; but once secured to the city local option win place bans- bury in a more healthful titmcs- phere from both a moral and bus iness sense. The fact that "prohibition does in 1 u jo "'5""" " favor ot saloons. more are statutps against crimeB of all sorts, and our .courts have sd much work to do in punishing offenders, that it may be said that no law is entirely prohibitory. Usually, .1 I' ll 1 J 1- tne xenow wno auvauuH buuu an argument is one who does not want a prohibition that will pro hibit. In the growth of the temper ance sentiment alTover the land, . . . . it is to be hoped that the cause will lose none of its force by virtue of rashness among the leaders. In this way a condition isjforced upon communities when public opinion does not fully re- spond,- and there is an inclination late such laws. True reform can , - - u v , vjliij uuuw wuu6u peupie, and until tne man with his vote can say an evil or condition shall Mr. Boyd's Reason for Resigning Superin tendency of Orphans' Home. The report on ministerial edu cation and relief, made to the Presbyterian Synod at Hender sonville last week, shows that the number of candidates for the ministry this year is 349, an in crease of 17 over that of last year. The amount contributed for min isterial education this year was $2,507.53, while the contribution to ministerial-relief amounts to $2,111.92. There are at present 16 beneficiaries of this latter fund' in the Synod. The report on Orphans' Home recommended that Synod approve the resignation of Superintendent R. W. Boyd, which has been ac cepted by the board of regents, . Mr, Boyd announced that his rea son for resigning was not on ac count of ill health or age but that he had resigned in order to be able to speak of the needs of the institution freely and impartially. He then spoke of some of the needs. Union Theological Seminary at Richuond, which is controlled by the synods of Virginia and North Carolina, will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 1912. A recom mendation that the twT synods raise an endowment fund of $300, 000 for the institution. North Carolina's part to be $135,000. was adopted. Rev, Dr. Richards, - of Statesville, was elected a trus- ee of the Seminary, The report of the superintend ent of Synodical home missions showed that $40,000 have been given to home missions this year about $1 a member. There have been 27 home mission pastors em ployed and under their ministry 1,347 persons have professed, con version and 610 of these have -joined the Presbyterian Church.. The Synod will meet at New Berne next year. Statesyille Landmark. be stamped out, very little is' ac--? oomplished for real good by a legislative body taking the matter in hand. State prohibition se cured in this way has proven al most utterly a failure. Local option, wherein J;he people of a community are allowed to regu late their own affairs, when once 'secured gives strength to the. cause, and the maiority of the people in their local victories se cure officials who are in hearty ac cord with the movement. Tho expiessioxu.that our legislature wiU 8ive us State prohibition if it is not secured otherwise, is -one that should not be encouraged. We want prohibition, but it is a matter wherein the people are sovereigns and they should be given tne iuiiest voice in the matter. It is Their Own Fault They Make the Col lection Agency Necessary. Talking of people who won't pay debts, the Elkin, Times has it rignt in tne Knowing: .1 1 ' . ... . 7 tney aione are responsible tor them. If every man would pay his nones ueots mere would be m neecl ot these agencies.Let the dead heat, when he gets right mad be cause these agencies advertise hin dishonesty to the world through the papers, go out and give him- oal-f o rrrff Lri Tr inrr Via a n em V r AZJl not riftv his debts. ThftH TW1 Debt Collection Agencies are gi v- . - r ' " -u ing the fellows who have been feeding and fattening on the fruits P1 8 nonesty labor a hom fle(jhj h tnem 80rely. But they'll just 1 i T 1 ' t -T nave to grin ana Dear it, and in their trouble they are not entitled to much sympathy, and they'll not get much. , To check a cold quickly, get from your druggist some little Candy Cold Tablets called Pre ventics. Druggists everywhere are now dispensing Preventics, for they are not onlys afe, but decided ly certain and, prompt. Preven tics contain no quinine, no laxa- tive, nothing harsh nor sickening, Taken at the "sneeze stage" Pre- ventics will prevent Pneumonia. fui18' ft QtiF et ce the name, Preventics. Good for feverish children, 48 Preventics 5Jo cents. Trial Boxes 5 cts. Sold I by Unmes Drug Store.