North Carolina Newspapers

: THE FIOWERS A Home Newspaper Published in the Interest of the. People and for Honesty in Governmental Affairs. Vol. IV. No 24. Salisbury, N. O., Wednesday, June 3rd, 1908. Wm. h. Stewart, Editor. 1 Jae (UDIL VUJLJLJLJLCUU; V V QJU VXJJLJLJLRJLUd)JLJLo UOCICSYILLE AND DAYIE COUNTY. Norman Clement Meets Wltb Painful Ac- eldest. Doctor Loses Parse. MookayUle Courier. May 2Sth. Dr. M. D. Kimbrongh, who re turned from a professional trip in Northern cfties last week, had the misfortune to Jose . his pocket book between Winston and this place. The amount of money in the purse was about $1002 So far the doctor has not been able to recover the lost money. Who ever saw a prettier little town than Mocksville, in the sum mer time. Its pretty homes, the beautiful shade trees, the lawns, and last but not least, the beauti ful girls. While returning from Smith Grove Tuesday, the horse driven by Dr. Kimbrongh became fright ened at something alone the road- - " I ' A 1 siae ana ran away tearing up me buggy and harness, but fortunate ly the doctor escaped without in jury. Louis Clement, Jr., son of L. H. Clement, of Salisbury, spent a few day? here this week with relatives and friends. Mrs. Mary Jane Hanes left last week for Salisbury, where she goes to the Whitehead Sanitarium to have an operation : performed on her face. We hope for her a speedy recovery. Norman Clement met with a painful accident Tuesday while riding his wheel. He was going very fast down the street and as he was passing the court house square his foot got caught be tween the pedal and the rod which runs to the back axle. The wheel was blocked and stopped at once. The pain was intense and the little fellow's screams were heard by several people who ran to his assistance but it was some time before they were able to get his foot from the wheel. He being barefooted and his foot so tightly v wedged between the pedal and the rod it was found to be badly mashed. A doctor was summoned and his wounds dressed after which the little fellow was sent home. He is getting along very nicely now and by the use of crutches is able to be out again. -Cooleemee; Journal, May 29. We are living in hopes of the mill, that we will all be able to work again and the dear boys can come home, as some have already come. As it is leap year, and some of the girls have invited the Sunday school boys home with them to take dinner with them, boys, you may consider yourslyes welcome to come : if some of the girls are too timid to invite you. Mrs. Wm, Click and family spent last week in Kahapolis, N. C. visiting Boone Gaines and family. Claude Tiller, who happened to an accident of getting his foot mashed, is able, to work again we are glad to note. Samuel Creason, the oldest man in this neighborhood, died at the home of his son. Thomas, last Thursday night. The old gentle man was nearing his 94th year. He had lived in Davie county most all his life and was one ' of the most peaceable citizens of the county. He had been a consist ent member of the Methodist church and died triumphant in the faith. One very remarkable thing about the old . gentleman's career is that he had six children ana an are yet living. He never had &iy sickness to anything. He leaves a wife, who is 88 years old The Best Pills Ever Sold. 'After doctoring 15 years for chronic indigestion and spending over two hundred dollars, nothing has done me as mach good aB Dr King's New Life.Pills. I consid er them the best pills ever sold:' writes B. F. Ayscue, of Ingleside, JM. U. bold under guarantee all drug stores. 25c. a Walking Stick SOUTeBirs. made from the origins' hewn sills of the old Mansion House, burned Septem ber 6th, '07, can be purchased at i n. item's or Puroell's drugstore LEXINGTON AND OAYIDSON COUNTY. Sad Accident at the lola Mines. Mr. Ad derton Recovers From Long Illness. Lexington Dlspateh, Hay 87th. Thursday night while returning from hunting and fishing, Mr, Fred Reid, who lives near Arnold met a man named Leonard who told him that somebody had shot at him near a big tree where the mail box was. Going on, he slipped a shell in his gun, think ing that there might be some trouble, and when he reached the tree, he fired upwards just to be shooting. As he went on some one rose up and shot at him, and he returned the fire. It then de veloped that Arthur Swicegood, son of Mr. Frank Swicegood. and Earle Everhart, son of Mr. Frank Everhart, were the two boys, and that Swicegood had been hit in the face with about six bird Bhot, one of which so injured, an eye that its sight will be destroyed. Under the circumstances, it seems to have been a pure accident, with out ill feelings. Reid regrets the affair exceedingly. The boys were here yesterday and a physician said that the eye could not be saved, Sunday night Mr. Irwin Lopp called on the police for help. People who heard the cops whistle and later saw them hurrying down Main street, and still later heard a shot, thought there was murder in the air ; and there was. Two weasles were raiding Mr. Lopp's chicken coop. Hearing a dis turbance in his hen house Mr. Lopp had gone out with a lamp, and there caught the thieves in the act. In fact, he held the light for one of them whilst he cut a chicken's throat. Three chicks were murdered and the weasels eBcapid the coppers. They are about the size of a big rat, with long bodies and duck legs, and they work like lightning, eat ing a throat and sucking the blood, leaving the body untouch ed, A chicken has no show at all. In some parts of the world they bet on the weather, whether it will rain or not, and in some countries it is as important an industry as our cotton exchange in New York. In other plaoes hey bet on horses, on bull fights, on ""Chicken fights and bull dog fights and all sort of other things, but Lexington may doubtless boast of the most unique bet ever placed The reporter ran across a bunch of citizens Sunday afternoon who were gathered around one of these hardshell, grey, snapbugs, which was on his back, wriggling. One man was betting $10 that it wouldn't eet off its 'back-win ten minutes, while another was bet ting $10 that it would. "1,11 bet on anything," said he. While working at the lola mines Wednesday evening, Bob Class was terribly mutilated from dynamite explosion, dying from his wounds. Mr. Class was set ting six fuses and for some reason did not make his fuse long enough in order to give him time to light them all and eet to a place of saf fey before the first one lighted went off He waB found literall v torn to pieces and covered with rocks and dirt and despite his injuries lived until Friday morn mg. Deputy Sheriff J. M, Deaton , of Iredell county, fetched George Kinard from Modresville to Lex ington one day last week, on a charge of embezzlement, brought by Clinton V. Shoaf, who was with Kinard in a printing estab lishment here sometime ago. Kin ard and Shoaf fixed the matter up and the former was released and the warrant, withdrawn. Sheriff Deaton has some friends in Lex ington who predict success- for him in his candidacy for the dem ocratic nomination for sheriff of Iredell, Mr. F. N. Patterson arrived Monday from China Grove and returned yesterday. He told The Dispatch mm that' he had no plans regarding the rebuilding of the knitting mill in which he was interested and which -was burned here some months ago. CONCORD AND CABARRUS COUNTY. Marriage otlTwo Popular Young People Meeting of Sunday School Convention. Concord limes, May 26-29. Mr. B A. Kluttz, who has been at his old home in No. 9 for seve ral days, left last night for Hick ory. He recently returned from Bl trip to Texas and otherwestern States. Little Pearl Bunn. the eight- year-old daughter of Dr. J. F, Bunn, of Forest Hill died last Sat urday morning after a long illness bllowifig,an attack of 'pleurisy. The little sufferer f bore her sick ness with remarkable fortitude un til death retired her. The Sunday school convention of the Mecklenburg and Cabarrus Association will meet May 29th o 3 1st with the Cornelius Baptist church. The sessions will be un usually interesting, - Among those who are on the programme are Revs. S. N. Watson, D. F. Helms and J W. Snyder, of Concord. Alonzo Black welder and Miss Jennie Skeen, two popular young people of Mt. Pleasant, were mar ried m Charlotte on; last Wednes day night, and passed through Concord Saturday morning on heir way home. Mr. Blackwel- der is a popular and efficient mem ber of the faculty of the Collegi ate Institute, and his bride, who is a daughter of Mr; Jesse Skeen, is a most popular young woman, an for Beveral years has been manager of the Mt. Pleasant tele phone office. A man who gave away a drink of whiskey at the polls in Ward No. 1 here last Tuesday was fined $100 and cobis by Police Justice Puryear yesterday, The violator said he did not ' know there was such a law, but that does not ex cuse him. The minimum fine for violation of this law is $100 and the maximum fine $1,000. This should be a lesson and a warning to others in the future. We learn that there were other violations of tbis statute at voting places in the county, ancTevery one of them should suffer the law's penalty. Our people rejoice over the great victory in Rowan as much as they do in our own. That county gave prohibition majoriy of 650 That is glory enough for one day. Charles Safrit, who lived on De pot street, died early yesterday morning, after a lingering illness of consumption, aged about 25 years. He leaves only his mother, he being the last of the family. All his brothers and sisters died of the same disease. A Grand Family Medicine. "It gives me pleasure , to speak a good word for Electric Bitters," writes Mr Frank Conlan, of No. 486 Houston St., New York, "It's a grand family medicine for dyspepsia and liver complications ; while for lame back and weak kidneys it cannot be too highly recommended.'1 Electric Bitters regulate the digestive functions purify the blood, and impart re new'ed visor and vitality to the weak and debilitated of botH sexes Sold under guarantee at all drug stores. 50c. Mr. George A. Adderton, who has been taking treatment in a sanitarium for several months for nervous breakdown, has returned home, aad his many friends and acquaintances are rejoiced to see him looking so well and feeling so much better. He has com pletely recovered. Sunday about 40Q. j homing pigeons were liberated her?, Capt Trice having 11 crates and Mr Irwin Lopp five. They were al irom rwitimore. ine day was fair and tlroy lost no time in pit ting the true direction. Later, slight wind frum the north came up, and doubtless iuterferred with their progress. Crates are coming in every day now. ; The Carolina Marble and Gran ite Company has' moved to Thorn asville. Mr. Deaton, the man ager, will take the road to solici orders, and Mr. Ballard will have charge of the shop. Mr. Deaton will not move his family for sever al monthB. CLEVELAND REJOICES, People Worked Hard tor iPrihibltion and are Defeated but Thcj Still Rejoice.. - Cleveland, N. C, May 28th, 1908. Editor Carolina Watchman, A few weeks ago at the school house in Cleveland, twenty wo- men, young laaies, ooys ana men all told met and formed an Anti Saloon League, with Prof . Good man as president, Mr, Frank Thompson as sec. and treas. All, unaccustomed to public speaking, were timid and truly waited one upon anotner. JLitwe taiKS were made and meeting adjourned to meet the following Thursday night -v- ' 1 1 a weex. . j? rom an over tne seate the eyes of the people have been turned on Rowan and Salisbury, and really this county has been the battle ground as its Connty seat has been the headquarters of the Liquor State Executive Com mittee and Chairman, and from the center poured forth the letter of Hon. C. B. Watsoa to Mayor Boyden. This wonderful produc tion, with a letter purporting to be a circular letter sent from the Lutheran churcfr- from New Orleans, and some good (?) ad vise to the farmers kept the mails hot and stirred the Scotch Irish blood in these people and brags from the local liquor talent pro olaimedlong and loudthat the wets would beat the drys three to one. The letters and this talk only ad ded to the flames, and now what was once a quite little handfull burst suddenly into a flame and every tongue was a song, an essay or a rip snorting speech. Speak ers who wou'd have graced any gathering in any large city came orthand in eloquent words paint ed the horrors of the liquor traffic and girls and boys in their recitals of poetry and prose caused many a tear to run down the cheek. On the twenty-sixthi e wo men assembled in tne nouse or God and prayed, men worked and voted. When the sun went down down the wets had the day by barely four, two of them being ex- convicts and therefore we were really legally defeated by only 2 votes. This close vote was far beyond what any prohibitionist had expected and certainly far short of the mark of what any one expected, but when you defeat the Lord and the women you have done something. But there was so much joy in the hearts of the prohibitionists that they could not stop until on the evening of the 27th, they sounded the call once more : this time a hundred or more men, wo men and children met on the pub Ho square of the now. happy vil lage of Cleveland and with the Taylorsville band heading the procession marched all over the village singing songs of jubLee, with chorus of Glory! Glory! Halleluah! while the band played many of the late airs and now a d then uixie. a great .tub oi lemonade was dispensed free, and a jollier, happier, crowd has not met in years in the splendid old Scotch Irish village. On the morning of the 28th, at nine o'clock the crowd met again and the band played until the 10:45 train came carrying away the men that composed the band, and thus closed an occasion that will long be remembered especial ly by the children. The writer understands that there were some wetB marched in the procession declaring in all the future their allegiance to the principles of prohibition. One man, who had said some very ugly things about the ladies during the campaign, publicly apologized at the depot and he was properly forgiven by one of the ladies for all of them rne scene was peroneic when a beautiful young lady, a kinswo man, put her arms around his neck and kissed him and the tears ran downiiisjheeks and there were few dry eyes. "If ye have not the spirit of Christ ye are none o his. Thus ended one of the greatest times ever known in grand little Cleveland. One who was there. A Subscribe for The Watchmam ALBEMARLE AND STANLY COUNTY- Work on tow Lutheran Church Begun. An Old Set of Table Plates. Stanly Bnterprlae, May 28th. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Lingle, jot Salisbury, were gueats several days of their sister, Mrs. Sallie Smith. Stanly will have a bumper wheat crop if indications count for anything. The farmers con tinue to be strictly "in it." Mr. and Mrs. Frank' Cooper have a nice set of table plates that have been in use 56years,and done occasions, at camp meetings and other events where feasting was in order, and every plate is yet in perfect condition, though having seen constant service. They were bought in Albemarle when the town was just starting. The excavation for the new Lu theran church haB been complet ed, and the brick and stone work is going on nicely. In ji few days he building used by the Metho dists will be moved, and work, is expected to begin on theirew build ing early in the month. The com mittee have decided to use press ed brick on this structure, and Albemarle will not long have it said against-her that she is allow ing her churches to lag behind. Stanly finds herself today in he list with the few counties that Gave voted for the sale and manu- acture of intoxicating liquors. A majority of 255 of the votes cast would seem to indicate that this is as our people want it to be. But the victory belongs to the majority. It is theirs theirs to enjoy, theirs to hand down in his tory to the oncoming generations. Whatever motive controlled the man who voted against the bill. we have naught to Bay. It was his privilege ; his right ; he exer cised it. But we hang our heads in humility when we think of Salisbury and Rowan county. The people of Salisbury and - Rowan hare spoken. They have suffered from the effects of the open saloon and distilleries. The iquor forces worked there and they worked hard, and so did the temperance forces. But, glad day, the good people of the town and county had strength within themselves to drive the monster from their midst. We rejoice, in our own sorrow, that this can be said of our neighbors. ROWAN'S OFFICIAL VOTE. Rowan's Majority for Prohibition Is 642. Total Number of Votes is 4,344. The County Board of Canvassers met last Thursday and declared the official vote of Rowan to be as follows : Pbecingt. Wet. Dry. Salisbury, N. Ward, 137 206 E. " 201 1C6 " W. " 180 255 S. " 130 147 Spencer 84 233 East Spencer 42 69 Atwell, Bradshaw.. 40 65 ' Euochville. 104 42 China Grove, China ' Grove Ill 121 China Grove, Landis 119 48 Cleveland 61 hi Franklin 58 126 Gold Hill, Gold Hill 21 85 " Bernhardt's Mill 80 87 Granite Quarry 83 77 lataker, Bostian's X t Roads 79 38 Litaker.Heilig'sMill 35 116 Locke, Grant Creek 85 24 " Bost's Mill 82 23 Morgan; 107 111 Mt. Ulla 63 59 Providenoe, Hatter's Shops 52 92 Providnuce, Rowan Academy S3 . 66 Scotch-Irish 88 74 Steele. 28 39 Unity..-. 48 67 TOTAL 1851 2393 Majority for prohibition 642. When the baby is cross and has you worried and worn out you will fiihd that a little Caicasweet, the well known remedy for babies and children, will quiet the little one in a short time. The ingre dients are printed plainly on the bottle. Contains no opiates. Sold by James Plummer and all drug gists. STATESVILLE AND IREDELL COUNTY. Addition to College is Completed. Reve nue Officers Hake a Raid. Statesvtlle Landmark. May 28-29. h portion oi Bethany township was visited by a severe rain and hail storm Friday afternoon. While gardens were damaged by the hail, damage to crops general- y was of little consequence. Ths hail fell heaviest at a point about four miles from town. Mrs. J; T. Raymer left Monday for Salisbury to visit her daugh ter, Mrs. M. L. Bean, who under went an operation there yester day. In about a week Mrs. Ray mer, and her son, Chas. Raymer, who is in school at Salisbury, will return home, accompanied by Mrs. Bean, . Deputy Collector Davis and B. C. Griffin were in north Iredell Fridayand Saturday looking after the blockaders. They found two distillery plants Friday one in New Hope township and the other in Union Grove. The operators of the plants had learned of the approach of the officers and had removed the stills from both places before their arrival, but at each place some beer and the usual paraphernalia of such out fits were found and destroyed. The protracted meeting which had been in progress at Western Avenue Baptist church two weeks, closed Saturday and Rev. J. L. Weston, who did the preaching, returned to his home at Coolee- mee. The meeting was largely attended and was one of the most successful ever held in the church. About 45 persons professed faith in Christ and24 have joined the church. Fourteen were baptized Sunday night and eight or ten moie will be baptied next Sunday night. Gordon S. Pope, who conducts restaurant on south Center street, was the victim of a painful and serious accidentMonday about noon. He was in the act of trans ferring a bottle of pepsi-cola from a crate to an ice box when the bottle burst with such force that pieces of the glass literally split open the ball of the left eye. Mr. Pope applied simple remedies to the injured eye and then board ed eastbound passenger train No. 22 at 12 :22-o'clock and went to Salisbury where he had the injury dressed by Dr. Brawley. He re turned to Statesyille on the 3:40 train and went to Charlotte Mon day night to have the eye treated by Dr. Wakefield. T. B. Ipock, of Goldsboro, who had held a position at the depot as operator for several months, was cut off this week and J. W. Burkehead, of Old Fort, has been made his successor. Mr. Ipock has gone to Asheville to spend awhile before -going to his home at Goldsboro. He is a good oper ator, but the Southern is cutting off the men and when it came his urn he had to give up his job. shearer music nail, the new addition to Statesville Female College, is practically complete and at the final ooncert at the college last night the public had an opportunity to see the hand some auditorium and appreciate its advantages. For the first tim since the institution was estab lished the college has an audito rium. All through the years it has been handicapped by the lack of an assembly room sufficient to accommodate its friends and pa trous on public occasions. This great and long-felt need is now supplied. The auditorium, floor and gallery, will seat about 1,000 persons. At present tbee are about 800 chairs In addition to the auditorium the new additio i to the buildiug provides seven new dormitories, which were badly needed, and 10 music rooms. The music rooms are in the rear of the auditorium. Bucklen's Arnica Salve Wins. Tom Moore, of Rural Route 1, uoenran, ua., writes: i had a m sore come oiv the instep pi my foot and oould find nothing that would heal it until I applied Bucklen's Arnica Salve. Less than half 'of a 25 cent box won the day for me affecting a perfect cure." Sold under guarantee at all drug stores GENERAL NEWS. Items From All Sections of tbe Country In a Condensed Form. The Southern Railway is now putting ticket collectors on all the trains, the conductors having nothing to do but run the trains. This is done in order to make more secure the lives of 'passen gers. In the past, wrecks have occurred and in some instances the conductors have claimed they were too busy collecting ticketsand had .'temporarily forgotten their orders. Hereafter the conductor will have nothing to do save con duct the trains and it is thoueht the wrecks and mishaps will be rednced to a minimum, Two persons are dead and an other perhaps fatally injured as the result of a railroad accident at Olive Hill, Ky. The men were employees of a wreck train that had gone to replace a derailed lo comotive. A chain used as a hoist broke as the engine was sus pended and it fell upon the men. Two bills to regulate the liquor traffic were introduced in the Louisiana legislature last week. In the Senate a State-wide prohi bition bill was introduced by Sen ator Bargis. In the House a high license bill was introduced by Representative Shattuck, ' In broad daylight and in one of the densely populated portions of New York three thugs made a daring attempt the other day to hold up and rob a trio of bank messengers as they were carrying $43,000 in cash from one bank to another. Owing to the bravery of a Polish waitress they were de layed in their efforts until two policemen came up. The actual count of the votes in the mayoralty contest of 1905, in New York between Mayor George B. McClellan and William Randolph Hearst, commenced Wednesday before Justice Lambert in the Supreme court, after Mayor McClellan for 3 years has done all in his power to block the count. Five boxes were brought, carefully guarded on trucks to the court house. The first box opened at noon was from the Sixth Assembly District, of which "little Tim'' Sullivan is the Tammany boss. Harry Thaw, the slayer of Stan ford White, who was acquitted on the ground of insanity and com mitted to an insane asylum, re cently instituted an action in the courts to secure his release from the asylum on the ground that he is not now insane. The court has decided that he is still insane and has refused to discharge him. There is renewed concern over the condition of former President Grover Cleveland. While it can not be said that Mr. Cleveland has grown definitely worse, at the same time he has hot made the expected progress toward recov ery. It is understood that he has not beenxut of bed at all in the last two weeks and it is learned from those immediatly about him that he is very wakeful at night but frequently falls into a deep slumber in the day time. General Stephen D. Lee. the last General of the Confederate army, died at his Jiome in Vicks burg, Miss., Thursday after an ill ness of seven weeks. Gen. Lee was commander of the United Confederate Veteran's Association and was the most popular of all the old Confederate officers in the South, Since the war he ha i been giving all bis available time'to the upbuilding ofhis state and was president of the Mississippi Indus trial and Agricultural College. The worst flood in the history of Johnson City, Tenn., visited that city Friday afternoon, caus ing much damage, Several of the business streets centering at the Southern Railway station were flooded with water and the loss is heavy. The railroad bridge near the station was washed away and as a result traffic on the main line of the Southern was blocked. Several wholesale houses, the elec tric plant and other concerns suf- f ered heavy loss on account of the ' high water.