North Carolina Newspapers

3. THE ROWERS COLLECTtOR A Home Newspaper Published in the Interest of the People and for Honesty in Governmental Affairs. Vol. IV, NO. 36. Salisbury, N. C, Wednesday, September 2nd, 1908. Wm. H. Stewart, Editor. Caro Watclimaa0 I lie Ik- LEXINGTON AND DAVIDSON COUNTY. Three Fires Destroy Property. A Negro Weeps Id Court, About Drying Fruit. Lexington Dispatch, Augv24th. One afternoon last week during one of the electric storms the barn of the widow of the late Ishman RagaD, of Thomasville, was strick en by lightning and was burned. In the barn were a lot of feed, farming implements, buggies and a large quantity of grain. Senator Overman has been in vited to address the people here at the court house on Saturday night, September 12, and will doubtless accept unless prevanted by una voidable circumstances. It will be announced later if he accepts. Friday morning at 2. o'clock the roller mill of Byerly & Jordon at Shiloh was burred, the whole be ing consumed, the lost estimated at $8,000 with partial insurance. The building was an old one, but the machinery was brand new, having been placed this summer. The origin of the fire is not known. Friday night about midnight Ed. Everhart:B residence on the southern part of Thomasville caught on fire from a defective flue and was burned to the ground. The house was occupied by Cleve land Grimes and family, who bare-., ly escaped with their lives. Noth ing of consequence was saved. A correspondent of The Dispatch urges the farmers who have more frait than they can sell in a green state to dry it, better still, evapo rate it and pack it in neat boxes for shipment in the winter. It is good advice. The Dispatch has heard many people say that they had more fruit than they could use or sell, and that it rotted on the ground. There is no sense in such waste. Dr. J. A. Dimmette, of Abbotts 'Creek township, announces his candidacy for the house in this issue. He is the first to come out for the house. There has been much interest about this matter, and the people have been waiting expectantly for some one to make an announcement. Another item of political interest is the state ment that the friends of John W. Lambeth, of Thomasville, are de termined that he shall rnn for sheriff. The biggest criminal docket ev er in the Davidson county court house occupied the court until Thursday afternoon last week, when adjournment was taken un til Monday, when the trial of civil cases began. Pfehaps one-half of the criminal cases were disposed of. Many very old cases were cleared away. Hub Holt, the ne cro who smashed all the laws of C3 God and man in one fell swoop, was presented with 15 years in the state's prison. He was charged with burglarly, rape, attempted murder, robbery, stealing and so forth. When the judge pronounced sentence, he began to moan and groan and take on in a style that would have suited a cemetery far better than a courtroom. One would have thought that a man was about to be drawn and quar tered from the way he carried on. It got on Clerk Goodwin's nerves and he couldn't handle the docket. "You take that blame negro out of here," he said in an undertone to the sheriff. A thousand little hearts cracked yesterday and many a grownup heart was sore when John Robin son's circus, after unloading-itB enormous outfit from 65 cars, 70 feet long, pulled up and left town ' without showing The rains de cended and the floods came and drowned the big show out. Some few people came to town, but the ten thousand who would, have been here, never showed up. The streams are all out of banks and the roads are bottomless. The circus peo pie tried to make some kind of a deal with the officials whereby thei tax' would be reduced, so that the expenses of the show would not be so great, in view of the small crowd, and the county commision erg did agree to take off $200, making the tax $200 instead of $400, which, with the $50 town CONCORD AND CABARRUS COUNTY. Rifers and Creeks Doing Unusual Stunts Mostly of a Damaging Nature. Concord Times, August 26-28. The next session of Mont Amoena Seminary will begin Thursday, September 10. Mrs. W. O. Atwell returned Saturday to her home in Salis bury after a short visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Mel ton. Mrs. Jane Coleman, an aged lady, died Monday at the home of her son-iD-law, Chal Corriher, of Rowan county. She was the mother-in-law of H. J, Eddleman, of China Grove. Martin Canup, of R "wan coun ty, and Mrs. Eliza Julie Dry, of Concord, were married last eve ning at 7 :80 o'clock. The bride is, a daughter of W. M. Page. Cabarrus Superior Court will convene next Monday, Judge M. H. Justice, 6f ftutherfordton, pre siding. This is a one week term only, and only two civil cases are on the calendar. Mrs. Roxana Ridenhour died last Sunday night at her home on Church street, aged 60 years. She was the widow of L. A. S. Ridenhour, who died about 15 years ago. - She leaves three sons and one daughter. Miss Mamie Gibson and J. M. Stewart were married at Cornelius last Tuesday morning. Miss Gib son went to Cornelius the Satur day before to visit friends. She is a daughter of W. W. Gibson, and Mr. Stewart has a position in the Yorke furniture factory. Both the young people have many friends here. Some Bost Mill people who were 1 1 A A 1 in town yesterday Drougni ids news that Gannon's mill was washed away, Thursday. This is an old mill on Rocky -River about two miles below Smith's Ford, and barely -escaped being washed down the stream during the heavy floods two or three years ago. Some idea of the great floods of waters in Rocky River can be ob tained from the lact that the water was five feet deep on the second story of Bost's mill. In the store of D. J. Little, which is situated away upon the hill the water was five feet deep on Wed nesday. At Heglar's ford bridge between Bost's Mill and George ville, the water was nearly up to the banisters. At Georgeville Buffalo creek ?vas up to wiithiu a few feet of George Shinn's store. Threeyoung men, John Kluttz, Kin Shinn and Henry Furr, went from Georgeville to Bost Mill in a boat, a distance of three miles The plant of the Southern Power Co.. which furnishes power to most of the manufacturing plants in Concord, kept right on spite of the fact the river was higher than it had been since the . memorable freshet in : 1865. The water at onetime late Tuesday night was running 15 feet and 5 inches over the crest of the dam at the Catawba station, which is more than 3 feet in excess of the flood of 1901 or 1891. . tax, would have made the total $250 for the big show ; but the i i i j i j circus people considered mis too much, and as the rain was falling steadily, they loaded up their train and departed for , Hickory. It was a sad time in Lexington. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. We. the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfect ly honorable in all business trans actions, and financially able to carry out anySobhgations made by his firm. Waldiko, Kinnan & Marvin, W holesale Druggists, To ledo, .0. TToll'a Hn.farrh f!nr itken in- ternally, acting directly upon the j the channels which become clog blood and mucus surfaces of the ged with sand and silt washed system. Testimonials sent free. ! down by tne 8pring floods, espe Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all . R f rom the unf nested areas Druggists , i.u Take Hall's Family Pills for around some of the rivers, constipation. J In the long run the storage res- A REMEDY FOR FLOODS. Storage Reservoirs to Prevent Floods and Aid Navigation. A plan has been proposed to stop forever the costly spring floods at Pittsburg and . other places along the rivers which drain the Appalachian Mountains. These annual devastations are bo certain in their recurrence tnat they have come to be considered almost inevitable. All the efforts of the Government with dams, re straining walls, and other engi neering works have proved inade quate to control the streams when they have been swollen with the melting winter snows. On the other hand, the Government pro jects have proved unavailing to maintain the same rivers at a depth great enough to permit un hampered navigation later on in the year, when the flood waters have spent themselves. This lat ter trouble possible causes a great er fin uncial loss to the South than the floods, but as it is not concentrated into a brief spec tacular outburst, less is heard of it through the newspapers. It was, indeed, the problem of navi gation that gave rise to the pres ent scheme. It is now proposed to go to the seat of the evil to the headwaters of the rivers and apply there two remedies: First, the mainten ance of a forest cover which will keep the ground porous so that it will not shed all the water from its surface at once but will soak it up and-release it gradually; second, to establish storage resor voirs at strategic points which will retain surplus when it is not useful but only does dam age by being allowed to run free, and will pay it out, little by little, later on, when it is sorely needed. The United States has spent $30,000,000 to improve uayig$ipl on the rivers wnicn nave tneir upland sources in the Southern Applachians and work has already undertaken will cost at least $58, 000,000 before it is fiuished. This does not include the Ohio proper, which is largely supplied with water from these sections, on which more than $6,000,000 has been spent. Despite this outlay navigation is so precarious on many of these rivers, especially in the upper stretches, during several months every year that steamboat lines have to suspend operations and many companies have abandoned the field be cause with the light-draft ves sels they are forced to use they can not compete with railroads, although steamboat transporta tion is normally much -cheaper than railroad rates. The Govern ment has striven for a 4-foot or even, in some places, for a 4-foot stage and been unable to maintain it throughout the year. Experts from the Geological Survey, with the storage reservoir scheme in mind, last year made a careful study of the rivers which from both sides of this watershed, located reservoir sites, computed the amount of water they would hold, the heights of the necessary dams, and the periods during which the rivers could be main tained at various depths above their low-water levels during the1 dry seasons. - The results of this study are published under the title "The Relation of the South ern Appalachain to Inland Water Navigation," as Circular 143 of the Forest Service, and can be ob tained free by writing to the For ester at Washington. The initial cost of these reservoirs would be greater than the works under the present system, but the authors of the circular say that the stor age reservoirs would give tne re lief, both, in regard to navigation and to floods, which present pro jects fail to supply and they point thatlhe relief so gained would be j permanert, whernas . under the system now in operation there is ". ' & COntinOUB expense iu ureugmg STATESYIUE-ANR IREDELL COUNTY. - sir- A Salisbury Negro Up For Retailing. Inventor lo Trouble. Statesvill j Landmark. Aug, 25-28. September 22d the electorate of Mooresville will passion a propo sition to issue $25,000. of bonds for street improvement and water for fire protection. It is purpos ed to spend $10,000 on street im- provement and $l?i,000 for water A. L. Barringer, the rural mail carrier, who ; suffered a broken arm last week, reports that .he is getting on as well as he coaid ex pect. He suffered considerable pain in the shake-up a&d the broken bones but is improving. A. L. Fox fell from a second story window of his home in Bethany township, last Thursday morning about 3 o'clock, and broke his right thigh. The fall was a distance of about Id feet. As Mr. Fox is 70 odd years' old he will probably be laid up for a long time and may be a cripple for life He is the father of N. W. Fox, of Statesville. j Fred Allison, a young negro whose home is at Belmont, is in a i critical condition as a result of injuries received some time after midnight Wednesday night at W. M. Westmoreland's stables, in an unknown manner, but supposedly! by falling from the loft of the stable. He was unconscious when found and has not as yet regained consciousness sufficiently to- tell how he was injured The firm of J. K. Morrison & Sons' Co., local wholesale dealers, caused ihe arrest of H. C. Heit man, of Lexington, Tuesday, on the charge of obtaining money under false pretense. Heitman a few years ago traveled for the Messick Grocery Co., of WinBton, and in this capacity had made buamess visits to J. K. Morrison &6a& 'Outran d - mimbers(o' the firm knew him. Monday he call ed on them and a9ked them to cash a draft for $30 on Commer- cil Savings Bank, of Lexington, which draft was this morning found to be no good. Fannie James, a negro woman probably 60 years old, was tried before Mayor Wednesday for ope rating a blind tiger at her home on Wedt bnarpe street, and was sent to jail in default of $100 bond. The officers say that-Fan ni'e is a bad woman and that her home has been 'one of the worst dives' they have had to deal with. She has been convict ed in the courts before for retail ing but always managed to get off easy on account of her age. Tom Harris, colored, of Salisbury, was also tried before Mayor Grier Wednesday for a similar offense but the State failed to make case against him. a Too Rank For a Mugwump.- Being asked the other day what he thought of the fight between Adams and Butler, ex-Congress man Blackburn, who hates them both, replied in the language of the late W. C. Miller, of States ville, when he heard of a fight be tween two men whom he disliked: he had '"no ruthers." Continu ing Mr. Blackburn said that he would not attend the Republican State convention, as "it is about all a self-respecting Republican in North Carolina can do is to vote the ticket without desiring any closer affiliation with the present leaders of the party in this Stat." Certainly the Re publican leaders in this State must be getting pretty rank if they're too strong for Mr. Black burn's political stomach. States ville Landmark. But Mr. Blackurn was "at the convention and was fishing for a place on the ticket, so are relia bly informed. voir metnoo would do cneaper as .11 Tit well as more effective, for, as one of the sponsors of the plans says, it is better business to add to the tops of the rivers and get what you want than to keep digging out the bottoms in an attempt to set a river deep enough to float a boat in. STATE NEWS. Items of Interest Clipped, Condensed and Prepared for the Watchman's Readers. The town commissioners have ordered an election to be held in the town of Mooresville on the 22d of September for . the purpose of issuing bonds to the amount of $25,000 for street improvement Uud water for fire protection. John Randall, the mountaineer who brutally killed his wife by beut'mg her to deafh while he was drunk, in Madison county, was convicted of murder in the second degree last week. He would have been lynched but was taken to Asheville for safe-keeping. The people were furious over the out rageous crime. George Lumpkin, a 25-year-old negro was struck squarely on the head by a bolt of hehtninsr Wednesday at Stokesland, Rock ingham county, and killed instant ly. He was working in a tobac field. His cap was knocked off and a light scar made on his head but there were no other marks on his clothes or body. While hunting squirrels in Nash county a few days ago Mr. Red dick Dixon met his death in a pe culiar manner. His death was caused directly from the kick of a shotgun in the firing of an ordi nary loaded shell. Mr. Dixon was making his way around the tree in a crouched position, with his gun ready to fire, the gun over his arm and the stock near his stomach. By some means theun fired, and the rebound caught Mr. Dixon in the Btomach, causing in ternal injuries, from which he died. Among the cases to come before Franklin county Superior Court this week is a "writ of recor'dari,". which orders he;ayor of Louis burg to allow R. B, (jarr to appeal from the mayor's court. Carrsets fourth in his affidavit that he has not been on speakiDg terms with the chief of police for several years and that he (Carr) was charged by the policeman before the may or with "grinning at him (the of ficer) and spitting at him." The defendant avers that he is a very old man and has no front theeth. and therefore he could not have grinned at the officer or spit at him. The big "Automobile Meet" will be held at Eillerbe Springs, Rich mond county, Wedneeday, Sep tember 2. The details and plans for the "meet" have about been completed. Over fifty cars will participate. Cheraw, Bennetts ville, Marion, Sumpter, Laurin burg, Concord, Monroe, Charlotte, Wadesboro, Gastonia, and other towns wi l be represented in force The tour will conclude with a time race from Rockingham to Eillerbe Springs. This road is eleven miles in length, is of sand-clay and is well graded, A big barbecue and dinner royal 4 will be served at Hiillerbe Springs to the partici pants and guests, wmch will in elude a number of distinguished people. A complimentary dance and reception will be given in the hotel pavillion on Wednesday evening. The Mercury says that John Beal, who lives in the vicinity of Hickory, was in town Monday and went behind the depot to count his cash. He had $101. , He start ed across the street to buy a suit of clothes and somebody followed him. Presently he felt his pock etbook removed from his pocket He looked around and "a man with a small black mustache" was running away. Man and money not found. To Keep Salt Dry. "To prevent salt in saltcellars from becoming damp and lumpy, when nlling them put in ten or twelve pieces of rice, says Wo man's Home Companion for Sep tember. "This win not come through the holes in the cover of the saltcellars, but will break the lumps of salt and gather the moisture ; thus the salt is always dry and fine." MOCKSVILLE AND DAYIE COUNTY. Graded School to Open September 14th. Little Miss Walsh Dead. Mocksville Courier, .August 27. The net receipts, so far report ed, from the Masonic picnic amounts to $1,041.17. The re freshment committee has not yet reported. Little Emaline Agatha, age six years and six months, died at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Walsh, on Salsbury street, Friday afternoon after an illness of several weeks, suffering wilh meningitis. The remains were laid to rest in the Rose cemetery Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock, Rev. John F. Kirk conducting the funeral services. Professor Jenkins, who is to be principal of the Mocksyille graded school, arrived here a few days ago and will open the school the 14th of September with three as sistants, two of which have been selected, Miss Mattie Eaton, of this place, and Miss Battle, who taught at the Farmington High School last year. Until the new graded school building is complet ed the Mocksville Academy and Sunny Side Seminary will be used. Cooleemce Journal, August 20. W. E. Daniel, of Salisbury, , ,r j j m i , I spent Monday and Tuesday here . . J with his sister, Mrs. F. G. Benson. Mrs. Lowe, who runs the hotel at Belmont, missed her pocket book Sunday in which there was $165. The purse was in the mat tress of her bed. A -colored boyt working about the hotel was ar rested and the next day her puSfe was found on the ba6k porch. The Republican convention met in Mocksville Monday, and the following ticket was named : For the House, A. T. Grant, Jr. : for Sheriff, J. L. Sheek : for Register of Deeds, J. F. Moore ; for Treas urer, J. W. Etchison ; for Survey or, M. C. Ijames; for Commis sioners, C. G. Bailey, Ben Stone street and Dr. Cam. The Nuptials of Jim and Bet. In Sumner county, Tennessee, lives an Irish magistrate, a man of liberal education and a full quota of that mother wit for which his people are noted. A short time ago a negro pair named Jim and Bet called upon the -'Squire to be united, "tor better or worse," probably the latter. Having had some notice of their coming, he prepared and and actually used this unique ceremony : Jim, will you take Bet, Without any regret To love and to cherish Till one of you perish And is laid under the sod, So help you God? Jim, having given the affirma tive answer, the 'Squire turned to Bet: Bet, will you take Jim And cling to him, Both out and in Through thick and thin Holding him to your heart Till death do part? $et modestly acquiesced, and the newly married couple were dismissed with this "topper over all:" Through life's alternate joy and strife, l now pronounce you man and wife. Go up life's hill till you get to the level, And salute your bride, you dusky devil, It's a pity when sick ones drug the stomach or stimulate the Heart and Kidneys. That is al wrong 1 A weak Stomach, meanB weak Stomach nerves, always And this is also true of the Heart and Kidneys. The weak nerves are instead crying out forhelp This explains why Dr. Shoop Restorative is promptly helping Stomach, Heart and Kidney ail ments. The Restorative reaches out for the actual cause of these ailmentB tbe failing "inside nerves' ' . Any way test the Restor ative 48 Jiours, It won't cure bo soon as that, but you will surely know that help is coming. Sold by Cornelison & Cook. ALBEMARLE AND STANLY COUNTY. Chairman Adams Will Have Difficulty in Obtaining Coin from Foxy Butler. Stanly Enterprise, Augr. 27th. There will be no preaching at the Lutheran church next Sunday, owing to the pastor's absence at China Grove, where he addresses the Synodiqal Woman's Mission ary conference. The Wiscassett Mills closed down yesterday for ten days. The other mills, at this writing, are uncertain as to whether they will take the same step or not. Every voter should be at the courthouse tomorrow night to hear the Hon.-John S. Henderson dis cuss the political issues. Rev. R. C. Kirk, of Route No. 1, returned Saturday from Rowan, whera-vjie had been assisting the pastor at Liberty church in a se ries of meetings, that were attend ed by large results for good. Mr. Kirk will probably accept active work next year, such as the con ference-may decide to give him. Up to this time his health would not permit him to do this. He loves the ministry, and is a young man of great promise. Chairman Adams, in bringine his libel case against Marion But- r ! 1- "n . UA MUButiun. i3uu ii Marion D i , Butler is anvthme. he is at least. W U w shrewd, and Mr. Adams may find it hard recovering the $50,000. The Suit 20es to emnhaRizfi trm chaotic state in which the Repub- ican party finds itself. Its lead ers have no respect for each other long as one Btands in the "oth er s way. It is a set of Federal pie-countef hunters, and the par- ty's ambition goes no higher. One crowd follows Adams, anoth swings to Butler, and yet another looks upon E. Spencer Blaokburn as its idol. Worst Panic Since the War. This year the party of prosper- ty has the worst financial panic since the war td explain. Spring field (Mass.) Republican. And the explanation is going to bother those who have been preaching the gospel of high pro tection, who have claimed stand patism to be a sure' receipe for prosperity. They are ' caught "with the goods" this time. The less said the better. Tore Up the Will. Capt, R. A. L. Hyatt, clerk of the court here, told your correr sondent the other day of an old will that he has in the office here It is dated in 1817 and is torn into many pieces, but the pieces are sewed towed together so that the paper can read easily, The will was not probated until within the last few months. There is a little story connected with this document that is a little romantic. The testator, Edward Hyatt, was one of the earliest set tlers of this county. While being a pious man himself he had one boy that was wild and reckless. When the old man made his will he cut the wild boy off from a great dpal of his patrimony and gave most of his property to others that suited him better. After the death of the old man the will was read in the presence of the children and friends. The wild ycung man asked to see the will. It was handed him, and, in a passion he tore it into pieces and threv them upon the floor. A negro slave afterwards collected, the pieces and they were sewed together; snd that is the way the will appears now. It is well -preserved with that exception. Waynesville, N. C, special to the Observer. Drive Rheumatism out of the blood with Dr. Shoop's Rheumat ic Remedy and see how quickly pain will depart. Rub-on's never did reach the real disease. Rheu matism isn't in the skin. It's deep down it's constitutional. Getting rid of the pain is after all, wliat counts. That is whv Dr. Shoop's Rhematio Remedy goes, by word of mouth from on& to another. And herein lies the popularity of this Remedy. It is winning defenders everywhere. Tablets or Liquid, Sold by Cor nelison & Cook.