Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1906-05-16
CONCORD AND CABARRuS COUNTY,
Case Of Smallpox. Newbery College to
Have a Celebration.

Concord Times, May sth.
There is a case of smallpox on
the farm of F. A. Archibald, in
No. 1 township, The case devel.
oped last Friday, and the victim
is colored man named Dockens.
Dockens says he caught the dis
ease in Charlotte. He was in
Concord the day before the disease
showed itself. He has family, &
and the house and all the inmates
have been quarantined. The case
has been pronounced smallpox by
the county physician, DR.. R. S.
Young. It is hoped that there
will not beany spread of the terri
bic malady.
Newberry College will celebrate
It's emi-Centennial June 1910 13.
Or Tuesday, June 12, Prof. H, A.
Mccullough, of Mt. Pleasant, will
deliver an address before the
alumni ASSOCIATION.
The game Of baseball here last
Saturday between Trinity and the
Forest Hill team resulted in a
score of 5 to 1 in favor of the
home boys. This is a great big
feather in our cap, as Trinity is one
of the crack teams of the South,
having defeated Harvard and
other good teams. The Forest
Hill boys did some fine playing,
and has reason to feel proud of
their victory,
The congregation of the First
Baptist. church on last Sunday
presented their pastor with
a purse sufficient to pay his ex-
penses to the Southern Baptist
Convention, which convenes May
10 at Knoxville.
The Forest Hill band will go to
Statesville on No. 8 Thursday
morningto rlayfor Memorial Day
exercises up there Oh 1nat day.
The band played at the dance last
night, and will also furnish music
at an entertainment at Sunder-
land tonight.
Concord Times, May 1ltil,
A special committee to draught
resolutions concerning funerals
and funeral services submitted
the following, which was unani-
mously adopted by the Concord
Ministerial Association Monday,
May Z, with request that the
same he published in local papers:
1. That the funeral services be
limited, so far as practicable and
in the judgment of the minister,
to sciptural reading, and singing
and prayer.
2. That we advise against the
appointment of funeral services
for Sunday, where it can possibly
be avoided.
8. That we advise against the
public exposure of the remains,
especially after the services at the
church or home are concluded
at the cemetery.
4. That before the arrange
ments are made as to the time
and place of the burial service,
the minister expected to conduct
the service be consulted.
5. That the services at the cem-
etery be brief and that the funeral
attendants be dismissed and retire
Immediately after the benedlc-
tion.
Some weeks ago a man and wo-
man came to Concord with little
baby only five weeks old. Thew
boarded at Horace Russell's, near
the Yorke furniture factory, but
Mr.. Russell soon found that they
were not the right sort of people
and asked them to leave. One morn
ing before the woman went to her
work in the Gibson mill she piled
bed clothing over the child and
tried to smother it. 1t was dis
covered, however, before any Sc
rious results obtained. Henry
Petrea took the child, and after the
supposed parents left the city and
have not since been heard from.
; Mr.. Petrea took care of the little
l.