Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-12-25
LEXINGTON ANO DAVIDSON COUNTY.
IA Lynch|ng Fright. Or. GIodteIter Quite
Ill. Mr.. Vamers Eyes Seriously Affected.
Lexington Dispatch Dec. 18th.

Ill. Mr.. VaIners Eyes Seriously Affected.
Lexington Dispatch Dec. 18th.
| DR.. Chas. Clodfelter is very
dangerously i'll at his home on
Main street and has been 80 since
Friday night. The trouble is not
stated but he has been suffering
for months from the effects of
the injuries he received in falling
on Mair street one night into an
excavation on the sidewalk. and
it maybe blood poison. He has
been delirious most of the time
and suffers intensely with his
head. He has had a number of
severe attacks since his hurt, and
has never been we'll since then,
and this is his worst illness. His
family and friends fear he will
not recover.
The fire alarm affects many
people in many ways. Some peo-
pie it leaves unscsred, but others
it scares half to death. Many
amusing things could be told of
every fire in the history of the
town, but an especially funny
one is told of a Lexington young
man, who, on hearing the alarm
on night the Taylor Mendenhall
Company's store burned, grabhed
his hat and coat, shoes and socks,
and arraying himself in these,
dashed out of the house minus
his trousers. The cold air re-
minding him. he went back for
his pants, but was so thoroughly
frightened and wrought up, that
he thought he was after his over
coat, and threw his pants across
arms, as one carries q coat.
| Mrs. Frank II. Shuler died very
suddenly Thursday night of heart
failure. She was in perfect when
she retired. The day before she
vas abont her work as usual,
During the night her grandchild,
who was sleeping with her, began
to cry. Its mother went to it and
upon Investigation found her
mother cold in death. She was
about 65 years old and good
woman. She was buried at En-
| manuel Saturday.
Many man has been holding
off for months to get drunk Christ
mas. There was once a erich
character" who stayed drunk
most of the year but on Christ
mas and other holidays and pub
lie occasions was strictly sober.
This surprised every man he met
on such days and each invariably
ask why. Became every d.
fool is drunk to-day" he would
reply.
The boya have right good joke
on one of our citizens whose name
shall not be printed. Friday
night Mrs. Daisy Shoaf, who,
with ber husband is charged with
beating the little Fields girl, was
here with her sister to see about
getting up a bond for her hus-
band. The man with whom they
we're stopping-the hero of this
tale-that night received a phone
message from Thomasville to
meet No. 35. It was the young
Stout who 'phoned, the same they
arrested on a charge of murder,
mentioned in the Thomasvill cor
respondence, and he it was who
wished our Lexington nan to
meet No. 35. The Lexington man,
jumping at conclusions, inter-
preted the matter to mean that
81 mob was coming after Mrs.
Shoaf. and he hustled her down
to the jail, with her sister, for
safe-keeping, until after the train
ran, when he found that there
was nothing doing in the cele.
b1ated Shoaf-Fields case.
| Editor H. B. Warner has praci.
cally lost the sight of his right
eye. He ls much better than he
was otherwise and is able to trans.
act business at the office q few
minutes each day. The eye.
which had an ulcer on it, is heal
ing but no improvement is hoped
for in the matter of the sight
His many friends will hear of thit
with deep regret. It will make
every newspaper man shudder.