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A Home Newspaper Published in the' Interest of the People and for Honesty in Governmental Affairs.
VOL. IV. NO I.
Salisbury,. O., Wednesday, December 25th, 1907.
Wm, h. Stewart, Editor.
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CONCORD AND CABARRUS COUNTY.
'C. F. Ayers Gets $3,000 From the South
ern. An Ezample in Arithmetic.
Concord Times, Dec. 17-20.
At the meeting of the graded
school board held last Saturday
tbereBignation of Prof. Walter
Thompson as superintendent of
the schools was reluctantly accept
ed. As is well known, Mr. Thomp
son tendered his resignation jBome
time ago to accept- the superin
tendency of the Jackson Training
School. The resignation takes
effect December 31.
A warrant was sworn out yester
day before Esq. Lore for Lester
Howie, who is charged with rape
on the wife of Walter Johnson,
who lives on the Morehead place.
All parties are colored. Johnson
claims that while he was sickin
bed Sunday evening Howie came
to his home and at the point of a
pistol made the assault on his
wife, who was milking when he
attacked her.
John Mays, colored, of Higb
town, was up before the Police
Justice yesterday morning charged
with an assault on his wife. He
beat her up badly with his fists,
and also hit her on the head with
a pistol. He was given 60 days
on the chain gang for this offense,
and was fined $20 for being drunk
and cursing.
Mrs. T. A. Holden, who has
been in tne Salisbury hospital for
several weeks, returned to Con
.cord Sunday. We are glad to
note that her condition is greatly
improved, the operation being en
tirely successful.
C. F. Ayers, who was injured in
in a side-swipe on the Southern
at Concord a few weeks ago, sus
taining a broken leg, has effected
a compromise with the authorities
and will receive about: $3,000.
W. H. Allen, who was also injur
ed at the same time, has received
damages. Mr. Ayers was the
fireman of one of the trains that
suffered in the collision. Char
lotte Chronicle
The whiskey peddlers who travel
between this city and Salisbury
have discovered another way to
elude the officers on their return
with their load of jugs. The new
station in North Charlotte is now
the place of embarkation for many
of these shrewd ones, They get
off here, walk to Highland Park
car line and then come into the
city on the street car, Charlotte
News.- '
Here's an example for the
schoolchildren: "If a lion can
eat a cow in four hourB and a
beat can eat the same cow in six
hours and a wolf can eat the cow
m eight hours and a coyote can
eat the cow in eleven hours, how
long will it take the coyote to eat
what is left of the cow after the
lion has been eating two hours,
the bear an hour and twenty min
utes and the wolf three quarters
of an hour?"
Mrs. W. J. Montgomery re
ceived a telegram Tuesday con
veying the sad intelligence that
her sister, Mrs. E. H. Harding,
had been stricken with paralysi
at her home in Milton on that
day. One whole side was para
lyzed, and the condition of Mrs.
Harding is serious. She is 77
years of age, and her death at any
time would not be a surprise
. Mrs. Harding lormeriy lived in
Concord, Dr. Harding having been
pastor of the Presbyterian church
here many years ago, and she has
often visited here since.
Kev. M.-P. Hix has been ap
pjiuted pastor cf Mt. Pleasant
circuit instead of Rev. B. F. Har
gett. Mr. Hargett has been ap
pointed to Wilkeaboro. Mr. Hix
was first appointed to Waxbaw,
aud Rev. C. M. Pickens is sent to
that oircuit.
Mrs. Senie Stirewalt died at the
home of her soir, Mr. John Stire
walt, in South Rowan, last Wed
nesday, after an illness of several
days of pneumonia, aged 78 years.
Shewasthd widow of Alexander
Stirewalt. She leaves three sons
and one daughter. The body was
interred Thursday at Ebenezer
church, tbe burial service being
conducted by Rev. C. M. Brown,
LEXINGTON AND DAVIDSON COUUNTY.
A Lynching Fright. Dr. Giodfelter Quite
iii. Mr. Vamers Eyes Seriously Affected.
Lexington Dispatch , Dec. 18th.
Dr. Chas. Clodfelter is very
dangerously ill at his home on
Main street and has' been so since
Friday night. The trouble is not
stated but he has been suffering
for months from the effects of
the injuries he received in falling
on Main street one night into an
excavation on the tidewalk, and
it maybe blood poison. He has
been delirious most of the time
and suffers intensely with his
head. He has had. a number of
severe attacks since his hurt, and
has never ben well since then,
and this ib his worst illness. His
family and friends fear he will
not recover.
The fire alarm affects many
people in many ways. Some peo
ple it leaves ungeared, but others
it scares half to death. Man
amusing things could be told of
every fire in the history of the
town, but an especially funny
one is tnld of a Lexington young J
man, who, on hearing the alarm
on night the Taylor Mendenhall
Company's store burned, grabbed
his hat and coat, shoes and socks,
and arraying himself in these,
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dasned out of tne House minus
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his trousers. The cold air re
minding him. he went back for
his pants, but was so thoroughly
frightened and wrought up, that
he thought he was after his over
coat, and threw his pants across
arms, as one carries a coat.
Mrs. Frank H. Shuler died very
suddenly Thursday night of heart
ailure. She was in perfect when
she retired. The day before she
was about her worfc as usoal.
During the night her grandchild, made by any association, commit
who was sleeping with her, began or other organization for po-
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o crv. 1 t,R mother went to it and I
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upon investigation tound her
mother 'cold in death. She was
about 65 years old and a good
woman. She was buried at Em
manuel Saturday.
Many a man has been hdlding
off for months td get drunk Christ
mas. There was once a "rich
stayed drunk I
charaoter" who
most of the year but on Christ
mas and other holidays and -pub
lic occasions was strictly sober.
This surprised every man he met
on such days and each invariably
ask why. "Because every d
fool is drunk to-day," he would
reply.
The boys have a right good joke
on one of our citizens whose name I
shall not be printed. Friday
night Mrs. Daisy Shoaf, who,
with ber husband is charged with
beating the little Fields girl, was
here with her sister to see about
getting up a bond for her hus-
band. The man with whom they
were stopping the hero of this
tale that night received a 'phone
message from Thomasville to
meet JNo. do. it was the young
Stout who 'phoned, the same they
arrested on a charge of murder,
mentioned in the Thomas vil cor
respondence, andhe it was who
wished our Lexington jfi to
meet No. 35. The Lexington man,
iumninc at conclusions, inter
preted the matter to meanM,hat
a mob was coming after Mrs.
Shoaf. and he hustled her down
to the jail, with her sister, for
sale-keeping, until alter the train
ran. when he found that there
ins doinff in thfi caW
brated Shoaf -Fields case.
Editor H. B. Varner has praci
cally lost the sight of his right
eye. He is much better than he
was otherwise and is able to trans
act business at the office a few
minutes each- day. The eye,
which had an ulcer on it, is heal-
ing but no improvement is hoped
for in the matter of the sight
His many friends will hear of this
with deep regret. It will make
every newspaper man shudder.
Gov. Glenn will
Methodist Sunday
address the
school Dec.
29th, and that night will address
o.nnirrAnif.ion fUiriafcmM
night there -will be an old-fash-
ioned Christmas tree service.
Democratic National Contention.
At the meeting of the Demo
cratic National committee in
Washington last week when Den
ver was selected as the place and
July 7th as the datefor Eblding
the Democratic national conven
tion, there was quite a debate
over the proposition whether the
committee would accept the $100,
000 offered by Denver to secure
the convention, or only so much
thereof as was necessary to pay
theexpenses. Hon. John Sharp
Williams, Senator Tillman' and
other prominent leaders opposed
accepting any of the money out
side of what was needed for the ac
tual expenses of the convention,
while Chairman Taggert and
others insisted on taking all the
money and covering into the
Democratic treasury for campaign
purposes what is not needed for
the expenses of the convention.
Chairman Taggert pointed out
that but for the surplus received
at St. Louis the Democratic com
mittee would not have had the
means to open campaign head
quarters for Judge Parker in 1904,
Those
who favored taking the
money won out by a vote of 81 to
14. .
On the first ballot Denver re
ceived 22 votes as the place for
uu: u t
uuiuiuu uiio uuuyeuiiiuu, iiuuia-
ville 17, Chicago 5 and St. Paul 1.
North Carolina voted for Chicago
and also voted against accepting
any surplus money from Denver.
The following resolution was
adopted:
"Resolved, That the Democrat
ic national committee cordially
approves a movement now under
way to assist in bringing about
the publicity in theState as well
as in the nation of money con
tributed and all expenditures
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Anson Citizen A Suicide, .
Wadesbore, Dec. 19. To-day
at 12 o'clock one of Anson coun
ty's best-known and most-loved
men, Mr. J. H. Hendley, killed
himself at his store at Ansonville,
about ten miles from this place.
ne awu ee WftB committed by
piauiug a j urge pmtui uirw; iu
his mouth, after which the shot
was fired. He had just waited on
a customer in the store about five
minutes before the deed was com
mitted. Mr. Henley was about 45 years
of age and the father of seven
children, and is survived by his
second wife. He was in business
at Ansonville for about 25 years
previous to his death. For manv
years of his business life he was
unusually successful, but more
recently ill health has kept him
from giving olose astention to his
business and his-' despondency was
probably due to this act. Anson
county had few citizens who more
readily championed - all monal
causes an,j was more concerned
about the county's best welfare.
Charlotte Observer.
. Salisbury Will he Tackled Soon.
A well known gentleman who
is conversant with the prohibi
tion movement in-North Carolina
Baid thia week in BPeaking of
the
temperance wave sweeping over the
State, that he firmly
believed
that any town in North
Carolina
could be made dry if an election
was called to vote on the matter
within the next six months. In
speaking of this to a gentleman
who likes a good brand of whiskey
he was heard to remark that he
truly hoped that Salisbury would
be the next town taokled as the
meanest stuff in the world was
handed over the counter there
News and Observer.
To check a cold quickly, get
from your druggist some little
Candy Cold Tablets called Pre
ventics. Druggists everywhere are
now dispensing Prevention; 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,
Bronchitis, La Grippe, etc. Hence
the name, PreventicB. . Good for
feverish children, 48 Prevontics
25 cents. Trial Boxes 5 cts. Sold
f Dy Grimes Drug Store.
A Scrap In the House. -
Washington. December 19
The word "liar" twice was us$d
in anger on the floor of the House
of Representatives today, th9 first
occasion being when Represents
tive Gaines, of Tennessee, de
nomiced a local newspaper for
printing a statement regarding
his alleged interest in the defi
ciency appropriation, for sees for
free, distribution, and the second
and more serious occasion when
Representative DeArmond, of
Missouri, applied the epithet to
Representative Williams, of Miss
issippi, the minority leader, re
sulting in the two men engaging
in a fistic enoounter which only
ended when tkrr ww. forcibly
separated. Ths Iromble gross
over a misunderstanding regard
ing a conversation of a week ago;
about some committee appoint
ments. Mr. DeArmond insisting
he had not made any specific rec
ommendation but only had asked
that Representative Booher. of
Missouri, and one or two other
Democrats from that State be
considered according to their spe
cial fitness. Mr. Williams main
tained otherwise, and the anger of
the two men increased until they
oame to blows.
During its 2 hour and 80 min
ute session the House got down to
actual work and transacted con
siderable business. " All that had:
remained tomake this possible
was the announcement of the
committee appointments, which
was made today by ' the Speaker.
The several chairmen immediately
became alert with regard to their
rights and forced the reference to
committee of several propositions
upon which immediate action was
desired. This was not accom
plished, however, which at times
grew warm.
The first money appropriated
by the present Congress was
awarded today. The amount was
$50,000 and it is to be used in
supplying a seed deficiency, caused
by the destruction by fire of the
government seed warehouse in
this city.
The House will meet again on
Saturday, on which day adjourn
ment for the Christmas holidays
will be taken.
Increased Fares on Scottish Railroads.
The Scottish railway oompanies
have as a result of recent oon-
f erencesesolved upon an increase
of fares affecting certain classes
of tickets. The week-end fare has
been especially affected, in cer
tain cases the week-end ticket
has been abolished ; in all others
an increase of one-sixth has been
exacted, and the minimum has
been raised to 3s first and Is. 6d
third, which is an increase of Is.
on the first-olass and M. os the
third-class ticket. On Saturday
day tickets at a single iair are
abolished. The cheap bookings
on public holidays are to be raised
one-fourth. It is understood that
negotiations are in progress with
the English comapanies which
m&y affect the price of the week
end tickets to London, but noth
ing has yet been settled on that
point. The increased price of
coal and other material is given
as the excuse for the changes.
Westminster Gazette.
Friday's Charlotte Chronicle:
4 'It is learned on reliable author
ity that trains 89 and 40 on the
- jouthern Railway will be disoon
tinued January 1st instead of
Sunday, the 22od inst., as was
stated in yesterday afternoon's
paper. There is a very genera
complaint at the action of the
Southern in this matter."
A Real Wonderland.
South Dakota, with its rich sil
ver mines, bonanza farms, wide
ranges and strange natural forma
tion, is a ventab'e wonderland
At Mound L'lfcy, in tne nome of
Mrs. E, D. Clapp, r wemrterfu
case of healing has lately occurred
Her son seemed near death with
lung and throat trouble. "Ex
I hausting coughing spells occurred
every fiveminutes," writes Mrs.
Clapp, 'when I began giving Dr
i King's New Discovery, the great
medicine, that saved his life and
completely cured him," Guaran
teed for coughs colds, throat and
lung troubles, by all druggists.
50o and $1. Trial bottes free.
AN ASSORTED LOT.
State News, General News and Newspaper
Comment. N
One of the things which may
reasonably be expected as a de
velopment of the near future is
the building of electrio railway
lines in all this section of the
State. Electrio power; transmit
ted by the water powers of our
streams, is gradually covering all
this portion of the State. An
electrio line which will -connect
High Point.Thomasville, Greens
boro and Winston . is now build
ing and the contract has been let
for an electric line from Ashe-
ville to Hendersonville.
Qaw, Glsnn has written to thei
Navy department urging that the
cruiser North Carolina be brought
to Cape Lookout for the ceremony
of presentation of the silver ser
vice on the part of the State. He
urges the appropriateness of this
ceremony beings in North Caro
lina waters and directs attention
to the fact that at Lookout there
is an ample landlocked harbor
with forty feet of water secure
from- storm and .wind. It has
been suggested that this ceremony
take plaoe either at Norfolk or
Charleston and it is more than
likely to be at the former place.
There is virtue in old-fashioned
methods, afte all, for the small
girl who had her first spelling
lessons in embroidering a "sam
pler" learned to hold her own in
the ordeal of "spelling down" the
district school. And our new
fangled, phonetic spelling meth
ods, wherein the youngster makes
a noise like a soda-water fountain
before venturing on ,4C-a-t," are
turning out a mighty poor race of
spellers. IndustriaProgress,
-Who read the President's recent
message all through? Who is in
the habit of reading such State
papers as these in their unabridged
form? Who goes through from
choice, or for his own edification,
any of the annual department re
ports or similar governmental
publications? Is is not true that
most people now depend for their
impressions of men and affairs
not upon what the principals say
in the matter, but what those who
oondense, analyze and edit their
too prolonged diffuse utterances
say that they have said? Pitts
burg Post.
When the Good Samaritan from
the very luiness of his soul ex
claimed with dramatic effect, as
he looked upon the wounded.
bleeding Jew by the wayside,
"After all is he not my brother?"
he gave expression to the very
best sentiment of the human
heart. The Jew was his enemy,
both in civil and religious rela
tions. The two nationalities had
no dealings with each other, and
cherished a very bitter hatred.
But the touohing scene penetrated
the heart of the man of Samaria,
and sympathy and love triumphed
grandly over prejudice and en
mity. The story, so full of sweet
and God-like sentiment, will live
on through the ages, doing more
and better missionary work than
some zealous brethren who spend
their lives in heathen lands.
Manchester Union.
The compromise which Gov.
Glenn has offered the railroads
2 cent, flat rate for State and in
ter-State business, mileage books
atTfend 2 and the railroads to
to pay all expenses of the liti
gation up to now, is a good one
and a liberal one for the State
If the Legislature, called in extra
session, would argree to this set
tlement and the matter could be
closed for good, it would be for
tunate if the other roads would
join the Southern and Seaboard
in agreeing td the settlement.
But Soeaker Justioe. counsel for
theJ3tate in the rate cases it gave
J. w
ootice that he would oppose the
settlement and it is possible that
he and those of his way of think
ing would defeat the compromise
if the Legislature waB called in
extra session, although it is The
Landmark's opinion that the com
promise would be accepted. But
while this settlement is desirable
SI ATES VILLE AND IREDELL' COUNTY.
Electric Power Turned On. A Big Still
Captured. New Bank Organized.
States ville Landmark. Dec. 17-20.
Sunday afternoon at 4 :45 May
or H. P. Grier turned on the cur
rent and statesviiie is now sup
plied with electric power by the
Southern Power Co., an event
which has been in prospect for
several months and one ardently
desired. The electrio power for
Statesville comes from Great
Falls, S. C, a distance of 104
miles.
P. A. Fletcher, a citizen of
north Iredell, was tried before
Mayor Grfer Saturday morning
on a charge of retailing aficKwas
bound to Superior Court in the
sum of $500. He gave bond and
was released. '
Rumors continue to circulate
that passenger trains Nob, 21 and
22, from Salisbury toAsheville,
will be discontinued about Jan
uary 1st, leaving only two pas
senger trains a day each way in
stead of three as now. It is also
rumored that the block system on
the Aeheville division may be dis
continued, which will result in
the discharge of a large number
of operators.
J. Frank McCubbins, the. pop
ular clerk of Rowan Superioi
Court, war a Statesville visitor
Wednesday. Mr. McCubbins'
Statesville friends, which includes
all of his" acquaintances, are al
ways glad to see" him. The only
complaint they make of him is
that his yisits are too brief and
too far apart.
Deputy Collector Davis march
ed in The Landmark office last
night with the large arm" of a 150
gallon still and announced that
he had captured and destroyed a
still that he had been searching
for the past 12 months. He had
found where the still and fixtures
had been many times, but the
signal shots )of the spies had al
ways notified the operators, in
time for them to hide the. still.
Yesterday Mr. Davies took an
other trip after the still and
found the plant near corners of
Iredell, Alexander and Wilkes
counties. The, still proper had
been removed to a dense thicket
300 yards away from the plant.
but the officer tracked it by the
soot on the busies. During the
time the officer was searching for
and cutting up the still, guns
were firing on all sides,
- Tho first meeting of the stock
holders of the Merchants and
Farmers' Bank of Statesville was
held at the court house Tuesday
afternoon.- Geo. B. Nicholson
presided. The authorized capital
of the bank is $125,0Q0, with $25,-
000 subcribed, and all of the stock
exoept one share was represented
at the meeting. Immediately af
ter their election the directors
held a meeting and -organized' by
electing the following named of
ficers : L. T. Stimpson presedent,
C. S. Tomlin vice president, F.
B. Bunch secretary andtreasurer,
and J. A. Nnox assistant secertary
and treasurer.
there are certain legal questions
involved in the matter which
would constantly come up in the
future to plague, and if there is
to be peace, which the genera
public as well as the railroads de
sire, it may be best in the end to
have the matter settled once for
all by the Supreme Court of the
United States. We say again
however, that the terms which
the Governor offers and the South
ern and Seaboard agree to accept
are liberal enough and the rate o
2 cents is low enough. States
ville Landmark.
A Dangerous Deadlock,
that sometimes terminates fatal
ly, is the stoppage of liver and
bowel functions. To quickly end
this condition without disagree
able sensations. Dr. King's New
lvife rills should always he your
remedy. Guaranteed absolutely
satisfactory in every case or
money back, at all drug stores
25o.
ALBEMARLE AND STANLY COUNTY.
The Railroad Company Changes an Order.
Whitney ShotiDown During the Holidays.
8tanly Enterprise, Deo. 19th.
The works at Whitney have
shut down for two weeks during
the holidays. The new manage
ment promise that there will be
no surcease of labor on the work
until the great enterprise is com
plete. E. M. Hall suffered a stroke of
partial paralysis one day laBt
week, his left side being effected.
Mr. Hall is a tinner by trade, and
is a man of tireless energy. The
stroke is not regarded as serious,
and it is hoped 4he will soon re
cover. Col. W, H. H. Gregory, of
Statesville, was an interesting vis
itor here last week. It was forty
one years ago when he oame to
Albemarle to assist in organizing
the 42nd N. C. Regiment. He
was a member of Co. F Virginia
Volunteers, first regiment, and
was at Harper's Ferry at the
hanging of John Brown. His
friends were glad to see him here
again.
One of the freight trains on the
Yadkin was . cut off a few davs
y .
ago, and Agent 6 Whit worth was
authorized to cut off one of his
$40 assistants.. Messrs. Whit-
worth and Lipe did not rebel at
the order, but immediately sent
in their resignations to take effect
at once. It will be pleasing to
the many friends of these clever
depot men that the Southern re
considered the matter and prompt-
y reversed the order. In this
connection it may be mentioned
that Jamie Russell, the clever
operator, will enter Whitsett In
stitute after the holidays.
Report on Odd Fellows.
Grand Secretary B, H. Woodell,
of the Odd Fellows-of this State,
reports 22 new lodgos - during the
current year, 'bringing the num
ber up to 226, with a membership
of 15,310. The State is now di
vided into 20 districts, each of
which has its organization. The
greatest loss of the order during
the year was due to the death of
Nathaniel Jacobi of Wilmington,
who was the real founder of the
orphanage at Goldsboro. At this
a building was to be erected and
given his name as a memorial.
During the year nine Rebekah
odges have been instituted and
wo cantons of the patriarchs
militant. The Grand Lodge
meets next April at .Henderson
ville, and it is expected that
Granci Sire Conway, of the Sover
eign Grand Lodge will be present
and Bpeak.
A Pennsylvania Mine Horror.
An explosion of gas in the Darr
mine of the Pittsburg Coal Com
pany, looated here, Deo 19, en-tombed-between
200 and 250 min
ers and there is scarcely a ray of
hope that a single one of them
will be taken from the mines
alive. Partially wrecked build
ings in the vicinity of the mine
and the condition of the few
bodies found, early in the rescue
work indicates an explosion of
&uch terrific force that it seems
impossible that any one could
have survived it. All of the 18
bodies taken out up- to this time
are terribly mutilated and three
of them are headless.
This is the third mine disaster
since the first of the month in
the veins of bituminous coal un
derlying western Pennsylvania
and West Virginia, for the Naomi
mine, near Faett City and the
two mines at Monongah, W. Va.,
in which the earlier explosions
happened, are in the same belt as
the local workings. Today's cat
astrophe swells the number of
victims of deadly mine gas for
the 19 days to between 500 and
600.
Glory to Concord.
The graded school authorities
of Charlotte "will not allow tbe
pupils as a whole to give presents
to the teachers. Concord Times.