Deeds For The Lands Of
Old Lutheran Cemetery
(In 1825 the following deed was
registered with the Register of
Deeds of Rowan County.)
THIS INDENTURE made the
eleventh day of October in the
year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and twenty four
between John Baird Sr. and John
Baird, Jr., of the County of Rowan
in the State of North Carolina, \
of the one part and John Giles,!
Junius Sneed, Moses A. Locke,!
George Vogler and William H. j
Slaughter, Commissioners of the'
town of Salisbury in the St a ; a
foresaid, of the other part, wit
nessth, that the said John Baird S',
and John Baird, Jr., for ano m
consideration of the sum of one
hundred dollars, to them in hand
paid by the said Commissioners,
the receipt whereof the said John
Baird Sr. and John Baird Jr. d 'th
hereby acknowledge, hath given,
granted, bargained and sold, elien
ed and confirmed, and by these
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Can Save Much
Food On Farm
By Simple Drying
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"Drying is a simple and econo
mical method of preserving vege
tables and fruits for winter use,”
declares Cornelia C. Morris, dis
trict agent for the State College
Extension Service.
"Dried products keep well, re
fresh and cook easily and are usu
ally of good texture and flavor,”
she adds. "They are easily siored
since they are about one-fifth of
the fresh products in size and
weight. There is no question of
non-acid vegetables being 'safe’
when they are dried,
i "Provided vegetables and fruits
are quickly and thoroughly dried
and stored away from insects,
there is no question as to their
keeping qualities.” !
Equipment for drying may vary
from the simplest screen jet in the
sun, upon boxes or chairs, to cup
board-like arrangments with sever- !
al trays, using artificial heat. Chief
considerations are protection from
dust and flies, high temperatures
and free circulation of dry air. i
A sloping roof with a heat-re--!
fleeting surface makes for higher
temperatures than a horizontal
surface.
Fairly mature vegetables, and
fruits, with a high sugar content
are easier to dry than the quick
growing, immature kind. Green
vegetables such as green beans and
spinach deteriorate somewhat 1 >r
ing storage after drying, although
greens especially retain their fresh
color when dried quickly. M’ -y
consider dried greens superior toj
canned ere<-nc. Vegetables to be
dried should be fresh and in prime
condition for the table.
Police Dig Out
Big Arson Ring
presents doth give, grant, bar ‘ain
and sell, alein, confirm, unto the
said Commissioners or successors
. in office forever, all that ti >-:t and
’ parcel of land, situate, lying and
being in the County of Rowan and
.town of Salisbury, known and dis
tiguished in the plan of said town
by the lots Nos. 68, 75, 76, lying
I in the great East square of said
I town, adjoining lot No. 67 on
'Iwhich the church stands. The
' I said lots viz. 68, 75, 76 to be ap
propriated by the said Commis
sioners and their perpetual succes
sors in office for the purpose of a
grave yard for the citizens of Sal
isbury, subject to such regulations
| as said commissioners may deem
proper to adopt.
John Baird, Sr. (Seal)
John Baird, Jr. (Seal)
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; Toronto.—Police have uncover- j
ed a gigantic arson ring which has
operated in .all- the large cities of
the Dominion, charges being laid
that insurance companies have
been defrauded of hundreds of'
thousands, of dollars during the
past year;
For more than a year the police
in several of the large cities have;
had alleged members of this "fire
ring” under observation. They
have been followed from Quebec
and Montreal ' into the cities in
Ontario, and a trio arrested in
Toronto are charged with being
leaders. Max Kadeshivitz, Samuel
Bornstein and Russell Dingle, an
insurance adjuster, fell into the
.police net.
Pligh explosives and time fuses
are said to have been used in the
operations of this gang. The police
ihave captured 60 pounds of nitro
■ cellulose, an explosive which is
| difficult to detect. The system
I of this gang was to obtain a key
to the premises to be fired and ad
vise the owner or. tenant to be ab
j sent at a certain time. Then a
quantity of the explosive, with
'other highly inflammatory mate
rial, would be placed on the prem
ises. A cash payment in advance
and a percentage of the insurance
was the payment demanded by the
gang.
BLIND FOR WEEK EVERY
TIME HE’S HIT ON ANKLE
Bridgeport, Conn.—Thimas A.
Hogodon, now of Skowhegan,
Maine, has given local compensa
Ition officials one of their most pe
culiar problems.
I The man, father of 11 children,
^ told Compensation Commissioner
Buckingham he ■ becomes blind
every time he is hit on the ankle,
remaining sightless for a week dr
(more.
Makes Gold Strike
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Robert Hoard, til year old negro
of Colorado, is in 1 ‘ pay dirt ’ ’ at
last, after 47 years of futile pros
pecting. He made a gold strike near
Westcliff, Col., the find assaying $80
to the ton. Now the town, Copper
Gulch, has sprung up.
Birth Rate Drops
In United States
—
The birth rate for the United
States in 1932 was the lowest of all
the years since the establishment
of the Federal birth registration
area in 1915. The rate for last
year was 17.3 births per thousand
population. The infant mortality
rate of 5 7i9 pier thousand live
births was also the lowest on re
cord.
The national trend towards low
er birth rates and lower infant
death rates has been paral'.ed by
North Carolina.
For several years North Carolina
led the states in the registration
area in birth rate. Recently she
has given way to New Mexico
which now leads. North and
south Carolina are now tied for
.econd place, both states 'having'
t birth rate of 23.7 per thousand
sopulation for the year 1932.
rhere has been a considerable de
fine in the birth rate of North;
Carolina during the last few years,I
vhich may or may not be a des'r-'
ible trend. The North Carolina
sirth rate in 1921 was 33.4 per
:housand population, against 23.7:
n 1932. The decline in birth rate!
nas been accompanied by a decline
n the infant death rate. As a;
-ule high birth rates are accom-:
panied by high infant death rates.
Dur lower birth rate probably has!
iomething to do with our lower
nfant death rate. The infant death
■ate for North Carolina has de
fined from 8 5 per thousand live
airths in 1920 to 67.2 in 1932.
The infant death rate for North
Carolina for 1932 was 67.2 deaths
af children under one year of age
per thousand live births. The rate
for the states in the registration
area was 57.9 deaths per thousand
ftrths. North Carolina used to
rank at or very near the top (or
bottom) in infant death rate. She
now ranks ninth. That is, eight
states, have higher rates. Consider
able progress has . been made in re
ducing the infant death rate in
North Carolina but the rate is still
much too high, and would be con
sidered criminally high' in many
countries of the world that do
much better than the United States
in this respect.
The net gain in population in
North Carolina due to excess of
births over deaths is not as large
as it has been in recent years.
T T 111* • 1 • r '
nuwtvwj nic uecmic m me imam
death rate helps to offset the de
cline in the birth rate. The in
crease of population in North Car
olina due to excess of births over
deaths is still considerably above
the national average. It is not
unlikely that rates will ever again
be as high as they have been in
the past. However, there is still
much room for improvement in
lowering the infant death rate, and
chief hope for maintaining a lar ,
net gain in population lies in saving
the lives of babies and children. j
The desirability of a high birth
rate is a debatable issue. The in
fant death rate is, a splendid index
of civilization. There is a close
relationship between ignorance arid
infant mortality.
START WAR ON LOTTERIES
Atlanta.—Authorities led by
Solicitor General John A. Boykin
are waging a fight on lottery rack
ets in Atlanta, and thus far 140
indictments have been returned
by the Fujton county grand jury.
PAYS $15,000 FINES IN
TWENTY YEARS
Hobart, Tasmania, A farmer
has paid $15,000 in fines in the
past 20 years for allowing his
sheep and horses to stray. He has
been convicted 159 times.
Early Days In Salisbury;
When Uncle John Bruner
Was Just A Little Boy
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(Compiled by Clyde Ennis)
The following recollections
'written by J. J. Bruner former
editor and publisher of the Caro
lina Watchman some time in the
80’s, will prove of considerable in
terest to our readers now. The
change in the city’s industrial,
commercial and social life having
been much gneater in the few
' short years since this heretofore
unpublished item was written,
than it had been during the long
years when uncle John was a boy
'up to the time of it’s preparation,
fifty years ago.
When uncle John was a little
| boy there was but one church
! building in Salisbury, and this said
!he, was a large frame building that
stood in what is now known as the
Salisbury Cemetery. It was a
Lutheran church in which services
were held every two weeks or per
haps not so often. A tall end po
pular preacher by the name of
' Stork officiated and was assisted
now and then by a Mr. Greaber.'
A great many people from the
country attended the services with
families large and small. They!
came in wagons and on horse back
and hitched their horses in a grove
that filled the space between the
present residence of Lorenzo W.
Walton and the church. In the
lowest part of the ground uncle
John said there was a wet weather
pond where wild ducks some times
collected to feed. The grounds
east and south of the church were
under cultivation as farm lands.
The people of the town were nearly
all members of the Lutheran
church and the services were some
times in German and sometimes in
English, there were a few members,
however, belonging to other de
nominations and about this time
they began to organize into separ
ate bodies. There was a little knot
of Presbyterians, headed by Thos.
L. Cowan, Dr. Alexander Long and
Michel Brown. There were a few
Episcopalians with Mr. Steele and
Dr. Ferrand and Col. Thos. Polk
and others, with a Mr. Wright as
their minister and these organiza
tions began to build churches. The
Presbyterians -built the one they
occupy in 1826 and the Episcopal
ians put up the one they occupy a
year or two later. There was some
few Methodists in the community
but they did not build a place of
worship until 1830 or 32. These
various denominations often held
preaching in the courthouse before
the erection of their churches, the
courthouse being very convenient,
being in the center of the public
square where now we have a foun
tain of water drawn from Crane
creek two miles southeast of town.
The population of the place being I
large as when uncle John was a
little boy.
There were two cake bakers here
in those days; Mrs. Hughes, who
lived nearly opposite the late John
Giles on Main Street and Mrs.
Brown, uncle John’s grandmother,
on the east corner of Innes and Lee
streets. They kept their cakes
wrapped in clean white cloths
packed awav in large chesfs. They
supplied the requirements of the |
town and everybody knew them
and when they wanted ginger!
cakes they would send for them.
There was a little candy shop on
the south corner of. Main and
Fisher streets kept by a Mr. Curtis |
but people mostly made their own
candy of sugar 01 molasses. Car.dvi
stews were much in vogue then'
especially during the Christmas
holidays, and young people mingled j
no small share of love making and
fun with their artificial sweets.
There were six popular holidays
observed in those times, Christmas
when all work was suspended, and
apprentice boys and negroes were
allowed to visit their friends and
have a good time generally. New
Year’s day was devoted mainly to
preparation for the new year. Neg
roes being put up on the block and
hired out to the highest bidder,
some for farm hands, some for
cooks and nurses, it was also a day
for selling negroes where estates
were to be closed. The 8 th of
January was usually celebrated by
a ball or dance as was also the 22nd
of February, in which almost every
body that could dress well tooki
part. Easter was a more joyous j
day, a season of joyous gatherings'
among the adults and a time to
picb eggs among the boys. The
fourth of July was National holi
day and was celebrated by Military
parades, dinners and the reading of
the declaration of independence,
etc. General Muster day always
brought a great throng to town,
the military companies of the
county were summoned to town
and had parades through the
streets.
(To be continued.)
WOMAN WEDGED FOUR
DAYS IN BATH TUB
Denver, Col.—Mrs. Mary Ben
son spent four days in a bath, but
not because she wanted to. In try
ing to get out she wedged herself
under the taps, and remained there
till neighbors, alarmed by her non
appearance, broke into the house
and released her.
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which you can get at the drug store.
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SENIOR CLASS HOSIERY
Genuine Senior Class chiffon hose in the season’s newest colors',
sale price, pair
65c, 2 pairs $1.25
Men’s Light Stripe Summer Pants
Every pair men’s summer pants cut in price. You have two
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prints, percales and other mis
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PLAY CLOTH 10c
Riverside Play Cloth at the
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patterns, per yard
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YARD WIDE BLEACH 10c
Good quality yard wide bleach
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CURTAIN MATERIAL
New shipment fish net curtain
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SILK DRESSES $2 BETTER DRESSES $3
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I SALISBURY, N. C. I