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CONCORD N. 0 FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1900.
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SUPT. ROSE'S SON
WOUND UP. .ON
- . SHAFT. .
One Leg Erf tj rely Severed
From' Body A CLrfie
some Sight.
Superintendent A J Rose's
little 10-year-old son met with a
most horrible accident at Bala
mill this afternoon. There is an
old grist mill that is run by' an
iron shafting. It seems that the
little fellow was playing with or
too near it and when found was a
gruesome sight.
One leg was entirety -severed
from the body and the other was
horribly, mangled.. It is not
known at what time the accident
happened.
As the message was 'phdned to
us just as we were going to press
the poor little fellow was yet
suffering but doubtless death did
or will
relief.
soon bring, the only
The Executive Committee Meets To
monw.
The County Democratic Exe
cutive Committee will meet to
morrow at the court house ac
cording to the call of Chairman
A B Young .for the purpose of
deciding upon a date to call the
township primaries.
Secretary and Treasurer Elected.
At the meeting last Thursday
of the directors of the Windemere
Knitting Mills, . Mr. J C Leslie
was elected secretary and treas
urer, .relieving Mr. J W Cannon,
president, who had been serving
in p dual capacity. The company
will move into its new building
soon, and will begin work on a
more extensive scale. Stanly
Enterprise.1 '
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Mri. Honeycutt Dies Suddenly.
We notice in the Salisbury
Truth-Index that the mother of
Mr. Ephriam Honeycutt, of No.
7 township, was found . dead in
bed on AVednesday morning, the
28th. She was accustomed to
rising early and finding her yet
;n bed he failed hr but she was
deadr. Heart disease is supposed
to be the cause of herdeath.
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Amendment to Be Discussed.
...
The debating society at Forest
Hill wili discuss the constitu
tional amendment next Tuesday
night in Furies
at 8.o'cloc?k.
hall,
beginning
Messrs. J A Fui and Will
w w
Morgan will llefend the a ffrma-
tive and Messrs. H H Hjnson, M
O Bridge and Junius Shinn the
negative.
A fee of ten cents will be
"charged, the proceeds from
which will bo appropriated to
paying for a library for tho so
. ciety.
LADTS3?ITH RELIEVED:
Gn. Dundonald Eniys Unopposed Half
.
Pound.of JffSal and Some Jlorsc Eng.
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L' land Wild With Joy. .
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Ladysmfth is relieved. Gen!
Buller sent Gen. Dundonald with
a reconnaitering force on Wed
nesday nighfr to ascertain the
situation. -He reported that be
could enter Ladysmith and was
ordered to do so. Ho 'found
Gen. White ready to sally iovth
and meet4iim if he should meet
much opposition but there was
none. The city was on tiptoe of
expectancy as a message had
been received that relief 'could be
expected within 24 hours.
The soldiers had been living
on a half pound of meal per day
supplemented with horse or mule
meat. They are much reduced
and will have to be fed up be
fore they cart do much fighting
of following the Boers who are
withdrawing.
The effect of the news in Eng
land is said to be joy almost to
the 'degree of madness. Bells
rang, shouts filled the air, con
gratulations were exchanged,
conventionalities were thrown1 off.
making friends and acquaintance
out ef everybody and a day off
from business, schools etc., was
taken in the bursts of patriotic
demonstrations. Tho people
were literally wild.
A Bone Lodged in His Throat.
Dr. H F Long got a bird bono
in his throat Sunday and it pains
him very much at times. Ho
went to Charlotte Tuesday even
ing to have it taken out, but it
was decided best to let it take its
course for a time beforo attempt
ing an operation to remove it.
Dr. Long returned home Thurs
day. His friends ho'pe nothing
serious will result. Statesvillo
Mascot.
Dr. Long is the smallpox ex
pert who visited the Morris
family here when they had the
disease. . . ;
To Put In a New Switchboard.
At a meeting recently of the
Concord Telephone Co., it was
decided to purchase a mow
switchboard . for the central
office. Every place on the
switchboard is taken up now
with a 'phone and there are
several applicants waiting for
'phones but cannot get them.
The new switchboard will be in
two sections accommodating one
hundred drops to each one, while
tho present one only accommo
dates one hundred "and forty.
Mt. Tleasant Tarties -fed.
Register Johnson issued mar
riage licenses Thursday to Mr.
Jas
Johnson and Miss Ella
J&nes
Both of these parties
live at Mt. Pleasant. Tho to-be
bride is a sister of Superinten
dent.Tames, of the Kindley cot
ton mill there.
Tho carpenters have been
re
the modelling the interior of
store of H L Parks & Co.
Mumford
Ritchie
rot.nrnpfl i
home la'st night
from
Richfield. '
J The Mysterious Bounds of a Lady's
. watch., .
Almost two years ago a nice
silyer watch belonging to MiSs
Petijl Brpwn, wfiich was Jiibiy
prized pve! accoutft of 'it having
been a birthday 'present, mys
tertpusly disappeared. Strange,
though, theriady did not miss ler
watch.until she returned frbm a
visit of several we.e?s. Shqrtly
after She left a.watch was found
on the street uear'Mr. Jojl Reed's
.residence by Mr,. Hall, who was
then, carrying ho mail, for the
Odfcll Manufacturing Co. The
watch was advertised for some
time but no. one answered tho ad.
This svas very like.ly on account
of the facfc that the watch had
not yet been missed. 'But after
the mail carrier had kept tho
watch several months ho traded
it off. It was traded two more
times and landed at Correlf's
jewelry store Tnursday for re
pairs. - Mr. Correll recognized
the watch and the rounds of the
valuable time-piece Ravo been
retraced. Miss. Brown will get
Hat TTTfl
adjustment of the matter. There
is a letter "P" engraved on the
back of the watch.
Mr. Jno A McDonald Dead.
It will be remembered that
only a few month s ago Mr. Jno.
A McDonald came to Charlotte
and this place from his home in
Arkansas to visit his brothers in
Charlotte and here Ho returned
to Arkansas only a short while
ago and on Wednesday a tele
gram was received that he died
that day. Mr. McDonald loft
here, quite a long- while ago.
He leaves a wife and two children.
He is a brother of : Capt. Chas.
McDonald of this place.
Mr. McDonald was once the
clerk of the court of this county
during a 'republican administra
tion just after the war and Mr.
Jas. C Gibsou's predecessor. At
the time of his death he was the
county suveyor of Ashley county
in Arkansas. .
A Meeting of the Cong-rogation Called.
The officers of the First Pres
byterian church met at Mr. D F
Cannon's Thursday night to talk
over the matter of calling a pas
tor, Temodelling the church and
parsonage. . The delegation of
ladies as representatives of
their part of the church
flock, were present also. No
decisive action in any way
was taken but it was decid
ed that a congregational
meeting be held on Sunday,
March 18th. '
.
He Fooled the Surgeons,
All doctors told Renick Hamilton of
West Jefferiftiu, Ohio, after Miffcring
eighteen months from rectal fistula, ho
would die unless a costly operation was
performed; but he cured himself with
Bucklen'a Arnica Salve, the best in the
world. Barest pil$ cure on garjh. Only
25c. a box t Inzer's drug store.
I Annual Mcetiiyr to Be Held Monday
I Klght
I The regular annua mooting of
the Cabarrus County UuiHiflg
and Loan Association wilf. be
field in the court house Monday
! Vjthlans Take Xoticel
1 All members of Concord Lodge
: No. 51 . Knights . of Pythias aro
I requested to meet in Castle Hall
tonight at 8' o'clock promptly.
vVorkm secona rantf.
H. M. Weir, (I C.
ni-ht, March 5ih, at wOiOnh nnrriflirfis su at a time. ..:
'O'clock. - VV K UDELL, f jr ,
i L D C'OLTRANE, President. jt i()0kB hte we could uit you.tlon't it? O mi at d s.e. We d.'t rua a
oecreiary. department store, iui Deiorec-u " c." ' " V. ' 7" i
1. ,nn ant. A full line of Leader and Gate Oityn tcp. If&t on t1p.uoL
We Hare a Number of Them IIere2
oIn an articla in? the Charlotte
Observer we notice Concord Is
quotedas Saving one white.bar
ber shop. Concord has reached
the place that but few men here
patronize only .the. white bar
bers, and there are in this place
six barber shops, with white op
eratives. TheFe are nine or ten
persons in our town skilled in
the art of .smoothing one's face
and trimming the hair.
At the Mayor's Court.
A negro boy was arraigned
beforo Mayor Means Thursday
night on the charge of being
drunlr. There was not sufficient
proof and he was dismissed.
A young negro boy was tried
for delivering whiskey. He was
Prmvirl mini f r onrl -f? n rA rn r A rl
lar and also had- to tho
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PERSONAL POINTERS.
Mr. WC'Lindsey, of Salis
bury, is hero today. -
Mr. W Hope Whyte,' of Char:
lotte, spenttoday here.
Mr. H C Long, of Charlotte,
spent this morning here.
Gordon Finger, of Charlotte,
spont last night here.
Mr. Jno. C Wadsworth went
over to Charlotte this morning
to visit his brothers.
Mr. and Mrs. Sol Levy went
over to Charlotte this morning:
He has gone to Davidson.
Mrs. J M Odell went to Fort
Mills this morning tp visit her
sister, Mrs. S E White.
Just Received
A fresh line of
Kemker - Woolwine Co.'s
Celebrated Chocolates,
Ko-Kreams,
and the finest line of Penny Goods ever
brought to the oity.
California Oranges,
Alakuma,
and a nice assortment of Stick Candy
P at
S. J. Ervin's.
Phone .do.
FOR THE
AT 5 CENTS PER COPY.
Vocal and instrumental from best authors. .WoulJcofit you from mus
dealers from 30 to 5(V;eTits per copy. Remember our price is only 5 cents.
DID YOU S AY ? HOW YOU 'ARE TALKING. i
Carlioads and Spot Cash! That's our way to buy, aad everyb vly know
our wy to ;11 poods- as ;?prenenten or
Don't forget our Anti-RustiDg Tin Wart-
Yours for luck,
Bell,
OResidence Phon&. . . .ttO.
HOW. ,
ABOUT TT?
Those hot drfhks at the
Concord Drug Cfl?s
Hot Soda Fountain
will drive away that
chilly, shivering "feeling
thatrthis cold weather throws
upon you. The liberal pa
tronage weJlave received pr&ye3
the real merit of our drinke
Concord Drug Co.;
Phone ' . '37.
GARDEN
SEED! '
Our buyer lias
made a deal
through which
we are enabled
to offer 5,000
papers of Buist's
garden seeds
at 1 cent a
paper.
Everybody
knows Buist's
Seeds rank
among the, best
They are
guaranteed fresh
from Buists
great seed farms
and as good as
any seeds on
the market. All
kinds of the
Celebrated
Buist's seeds at
1 cent a paper;
H. L. Parks
& Co.
9
9
money pbjk.
Harris &aCo: .
Store 'Phono.. .. 12 j
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