Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1906-05-16
STATESvILLE AND IREDELL COUNTY,
Officers Of Glass 60. Elected. Death Of
W. Henry Lippard.
Statesvi!le Landmark, May 9Th.

Statesvi!le Landmark, May 9Th.
W, Henry Lippard, who hac
been critically i'll for some time
! died yesterday morning about
O'Clock at his home at Barium
Springs. The remains will be buri.
ed today at St. Martins Lutheran
church. The funeral will be con.
Quoted by Rev. R. R. Sewers, pas
tor of St. Michael g church, Trout.
man, of which Mr.. Lippard was q
member. Mr.. Lipparrd was il
his 77th year. His wife and six
children, four daughters and two
sons, survive. All the children
live at home except one daugh.
ter-the wife of Rev. II. A. Trek.
ler. Of Rowan county.
The directors of the O. W,
Slaine Glass Co. elected some time
ago, met yesterday and organized
by electing the following officers
Pesident, T, D. Miller; vice
president, W. F. Hall; secre-
tary and manager, o. W. Slime
treasurer, Geo. II. Brown. A site
has been bought from Isidore
Wallace. It lies just across the
Western railroad from Steele's
foundry, on the west of Fourth
street. The price paid was $500.
Messrs. W. A. Thomas, E. M
Purdy and J. G.. Shelton were ap-
pointed building committee and
instructed to buy material and
proceed with the building. A brick
building will be erected and it is
hoped to get the factory in opera
tion early in the summer,
Miss Gilie Lee Hendrix, daugh-
ter of Giles Hendrix, and J. Will
Propst were married Thursday
evening at 8 O'Clock at the home
of the brides father, near Oak
Forest, in Cool Spring township,
Rev. V. M. Swain officiating.
Mel Clark dropped in yesterday
to talk about the big cat fish our
Troutman correspondent reported
being caught in the Catawba river
at Sherrill's ford. Mr.. Clark says
numerous cat fish are now coming
down the river and that the move
ment is due to dynamite; that
persons up the river are throwing
dynamite in the stream to kill
the fish. This is wrong and a
violation of the law, but it is be-
ing done just the same.
The Ice plant of the Statewide
Oil & Fertilizer Co. has been COM
pleted and is now being tested.
The manufacture of ice will COM
mence in few days. The capa.
city is Is tons daily, most of
which will be handled by The Ire
dell Ice & Fuel Co. and R. 0.
Harbin. The rest will be shipped
A couple of squads of Italians,
who were making their way to
New York were in Statesville
last week. It is understood that
they had been employed on the
construction work of the South
and Western Railroad, now build.
through Mitchell and Mcdowell
counties. Their story was that
they we're induced to come South
by labor agent who promised
them $3.50 per day, but after
they went to work they received
only 80 cents day. While The
Landmark knows nothing of the
facts except their statement, this
story should be taken with several
grains of allowance. There Is al
active demand for laborers anc
good workers readily command al
leastI$1.25 q day on railroad con
struction'work. Many Italians who
were brought South to work OF
the railroad mentioned have de
serted and gone back because tn,
contractors deducted from thei
wages at the beginning the cost o
transporting them, and this Il
probably the trouble with thi