Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-09-20
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CONCORD AND CA8kRRUS COUNTY.
Negro Arrested for Selling Liquour- Man
With a Trade Dollar and Peculiar
ConsCience-Ot Items.

Concord Times, Sept. Is,
About 700 bales of cotton were
sold on this market last week.
A. E. Lentz will move his family
to Salisbury about October 1st..
Rev. J. A, Harrington, pastor of
the street Methodist church
at, Salisbury, is assisting Rev. B !.
F. Carpenter in a series of meet
ings at Epworth this week. J.
Rev. W. A. Dutton, of Gold
Hill, who has served the St.
Stephens pastorate for nearly six
years, has received a call from the
Iredell pastorate. 1t is notknown
whether he will accept or not.
A horse belonging to J. W. Fnr
ran away with a new buggy We'd
nesday. Mr.. Furr's little girl was
thrown out, but, strange to say,
was not hurt. The buggy was torn
to pieces, and is almost a complete
loss.
Bob Barron, of Gastoaia was ar
rested here this week for an as.
sault with deadly weapon at Gas
tonia several days ago. He was
arrested here at Browns brick
yard. and Wednesday Policeman
Alexander, of Gastonia, came up
and took him to that town.
Fred Mcdaniel, the 14-year-oId
son of J. Mcdaniel. of No. s town
ship, ran away from home this
week, and it is thought he is now
in Salisbury. Mr., Mcdaniel says,
so far as he knows, the boy had
no reason for leaving. He forbids
any one to hire him,, and offers a
reward for his apprehension.
We regret to chronicle the'death
of this good woman, which occurr-
last Thursday morning about 5
o'clock at her home in Mt. Pleasant.
She was the wife of Ransom G.
Blackwelder, one Of the county's
best citizens. Mr.. and Mrs. Black
welder formerly lived near Cold
Spring, and had been residents of
Mt. Pleasant for about year. Mrs.
Blackwelder was in her 10Th year.
On last Saturday morning DR..
H. G. Herring received fr2m Eu-
gene Arthur, of MoreheN City,
one of the finest deer ever seen in
these parts. It was very large,
MAGNIFICENT doe. The animal
weighed considerably over 100
pounds. It was turned over to J.
F. Dayvault, who retailed the
meat for 25 cents pound. 1t
sswant like hot cakes' at that.
We have young man, Mr.. Cook,
stopping over with us for a few
davs He is to be married to-
morrow. We extend our congrat-
nlations to him, for he is an old
at,7dent of this place, and every
old student who has graduated
here needs wife to make life
pleasant for him. Mr.. Cooks for
mer home was Salisbury. He is
going to Live Oak, Fla, to make
bis future home.-Correspondent
Wake Forest.
John Guin, colored, was arrested
Wednesday night for selling liquor
and is now in the tolls. lie has been
suspected by the police for some
time. Wednesday two men re-
ported to the police that they had
bought some whiskey from him,
and the officers sought and found
him in a house in the negro quar-
ter. When arrested he had seve-
raj bottles of whiskey in the house.
He and the witnesses we're bound
over to court.
Yesterday Concord citizen had
a trade dollar (worth 45 cents) :,
made a nickle purchase at store,
and rendering his trade dollar re-
ceived 95 cents IN change. Later
his conscience smote him some
what and he went to the store
keeper, apparently much excited,
and told him he had given him a