Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-08-14
thE CAROLINA WATCHMAN,
Local News Items

with an authorized capital stock
of $4,000, 900. 90, 1900 of which
has been subscribed. The object
of the company is to do a general
public and private construction
business, Lonnie l.. Gaskill, of
Salisbury, is one Of the corpora
tors.
Geo. W. Montcastle and w. H.
Mendenhall, president and cash.
ier of the Bank of Lexington and
DR.. W. F. WeIborne, of Licking.
ton, attended the Salisbury-Lin-
colnton ball game last Thursday.
Mrs. G ,rdon Setter and little
daughter, Lucille, left Tuesday for
an extended visit to her parents
in Brevard, N. G.
The Spencer Mercantile Com
pany which has been so success
fully conducted by Messrs, Jas.
D. and Sam T. Dorsett is to I'M
dergo a change. It is to become
a stock company with an author
lied capital of $5O, 900, $780, 900 of
which will be paid in Immediately.
The officers will be Jas. D. Dor
sett, president, and W. A. Good
man, secretary and treasurer.
Sam T. Dorsett retires owing to
i'll health.
The plans for the fair build
ings have been received and &C.
copied.
R. M. Pendleton, all old typo
of this city, who accompanied the
fremen to Wilmington as assist
ant chief, took seriously i'll while
away and returned in a precarious
condition. His friends hope him
an early recovery.
The colored peoples Lutheran
church on West Inniss street,
which was destroyed by a wind
storm Oh the 9Th of April, 1905,
has been rebuilt and will be
dedicated on the third Sunday in
September.
Locke Craig, of Asheville, a
candidate for the Democratic
nomination for governor and the
gentleman who during the Pop
ulistic era almost out-did Marion
Butler, was in the city last We'd
nesday night.
Prof. 1. G. Griffin and party,
who have been touring Europe
during the summer, will return
soon and be ready for the opening
of the public schools, September
3rd.
There was quite a number of
Salisburians in attendance at the
Mocksville, picnic last Thursday.
They report the usual large crowd
and about $1,000 raised for the or
phans. Whitehead Kluttz. ESQ.,,
made a splendid Grafton on
fraternalism.
Mrs. Phillip N. Peacock, repre-
senting the Womans' Auxiliary of
the First Methodist church at a
meeting of the Womans' Foreign
Missionary Society held in Con-
card Thursday, read a paper enti-
tied :"God's Call to the Women of
Salisbury District"
E. R. Fonda, the new superinten
dent of the federal cemetery, has
arrived and entered upon his du-
n ties; Mr.. Fonda's family consists
of a wife and daughter. He is a
native of New York but has made
his home in Omaha, Neb., for q
number of years.
The Southside real team oil
Salisbury won four prizes at the
Firemen's tournament in Will
mington last week. In the grat
reel race the home team won two
first and two second prizes which
amounted to $275. The loving
cup, presented by the underwrit
ers Of Greensboro to the compan,
making the most Improvement
during the year, was voted to tn
Statesville Company.
P. S. Carlton, Esq, has beel
appointed by the Grand Chancel
lor Knights of Pythias, W. c
Crlst, district deputy for this tn
9th district.
The Grimes Milling Co., pur
chasers of the North Side Role
Mill, have put the mill in thor
ough condition and are now bus
making a high grade of role
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