Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1906-03-07
LEXINGTON AND DAVIDSON COUNTY.
They Want the orphanage, Barn and Stock
Burned, Contracts for Sewerage.
Lexington Dispatch, Feb. 2sth.


Lexington Dispatch, Feb. 2sth.
J. C. Buxton, of Winston
Salem, is here to attend court as
the attorney of the widow of
Engineer R. o. Puryear, who was
killed sometime ago while pulling
33. He was looking cut of his
cab for signal when his head
struck a bridge post, killing him
instantly. Mrs. Puryear is suing
for thirty thousand dollars. This
occurred near the river bridge
on the Rowan side. His head
struck the mail crane at Ragle.-
Ed
J. A. Walton has red fox skin
at his house, one that is three feet
from tip to tip, gotten without
much trouble on his part. The
fox had got tangled up with some
body's steel trap and had broken
the chain. Mr.. Walton's dog dis
covered it in a pasture on the
Hargrave farm four miles from
town and kept watch over it till
his master came with his gun.
The road authorities cor Lexing-
tod township have decided on ma
cademizing the Salem road first.
Friday the town authorities re-
ceived bids for the construction
of the sewerage system and award
ed the contract. The lowest bid
was $14,4 Alto, and was made by
Guild & Company, Chattanooga,
Tenn, who got the contract. The
contract calls for work to begin
within 20 days after the right of
way has been secured and must
be completed within four months.
The Pomona Terra Gotta Com
pany will furnish the piping at
cost of $4,771.75, making the total
cost of the sewerage system ap-
proximately $4,000. There will
be five and one-half miles of pipe
and the sewerage will empty into
Abbotts Creek, two miles from
town, The right of way has not
yet been secured but steps to Sc
cure it will be taken at once.
The Junior Order Council at
this place, together with the board
of trade, will make strong effort
to capture the proposed Junior
Order orphanage for Lexington.
Quite number of applications
for the institution have beer made
by various towns. Lexington has
as good chance as any is in dead
earnest about it. The local Coun-
Gil of Juniors offers $1,000 in cash.
Mr.. Lewis F. Weaver offers to
give fifteen acres of valuable real
estate. The board of trade is con-
f1dent that five thousand dollars
will shortly be subscribed, and
forty acres of land, making Lex
ington's offer as handsome as any
made by any other town.
Saturday night aftor D. A.
Long, of Thomasville, had closed
his grocery store just opposite the
postoffice and gone home a terri
BILE noise was heard inside the
store. Upon examination is was
found that all the shelving on the
left side of the store had fallen
over on the counter. Tobacco and
canned goods had been packed on
the shelves thus causing the acci-
dent. All of his show cases on
that side of the store were badly
broken. He told us that the acci-
dent had caused the loss of about
forty dollars.
M. L. Ritchie, the contractor,
has secured the contract for the
erection of the large and hand.
some residence of DR.. G. A. Julian
We learn that the contract price
is $12, 1000 and that when complet-
ed, it will be decidedly the pretti.
est home in Thomasvll]e and one
of the best in the county.
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