Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-09-18
loLh HILL.

The holiness meeting has closed
and the colored people are o
having their meeting at st. Johns
which is being we'll attended BY
white as well as colored people.
Miss Mabel Moose has been
taken to Charlotte where she IN
derwent an operation for appendi-
cltis. She was accompanied by
DR.. Bowers OF this place. We IN
derstand the operation was sue
cersful and that she is doing well.
Miss Bertha Loftin, submitted
to an operation at the sa.itorium
III Salisbury for t8e removal of a
large tumor, which it is said was
a vecy large one, weighing about
25 It's.
We have several walking skele-
tens OIL Our streets now. Most of
those who have teen confined to
their beds with typhoid fever for
fem five to eight weeks are now
alpe to be cut, but are in a very
emaciated condition.
Irwin Shaver and Mrs. Hugh
Correll are still confined to tbs il
beds, but Il slowly recovering
from tat dread disease, typhoid
fever.
DR.. Fitzgerald aud wife have
gone TO the HealiI g Strings. The
Doctors health has been failing
for some mouths and he has been
advised to cease his strenuous
practice and 60 So som. qrset
place to rest and recuperate.
C. R Morgan has started his
wood working plant here near the
depot, but he has found his we'll
insufficient to supply water fer
his boiler. He is hauling water
now to keep his plant going.
Guess he will have to sink his we'll
deeper.
Times are a little dull here now,
the Gold Hill Copper Co. is not
doing anything more than to pump
water, and the Union Copper Co.
has shut down their No Z shaft,
preparatory, it is said, to put up a
stamp mill with which to work
The ores. This throws a good
many miners out Of employment.
Some Of the boys are talking of
going down in Alabama to the
coal and iron miues to work.
The Southern mine is waiting
on a large boiler fro.,t al d smoke
stack before starting their stamp
mill and shaft trk.. Ar Newmun
is having St me- cord wood cut Oh
the Troutnan mine property. !!
don't know when he Will COM
mence work IN the mine.
W. II. Martin has bought a
pony and pony-buggy for his
children to drive.
Lee Shaw has ordered a pony
buggy to work lis colt in, which
he recently purchased.
J. R. Rufty is at his store again
after a five weeks spell of fever
He says he is q little disfigured
but still in the ring.
THE WATCHMAN failed to come
to Gold Hill week before last, and
its 200 Subscribers here were sadly
disappointed. Can the editor ex-
plain why it didn't come?
I'VE very much regret that such
a thiug should happen. We give
personal attel.tion to mailing of
The NATCHMAN and spare no ef-
f. TT IN havlag It properly wrapped,
directed and placed in the post
Office here, We feel Confident
that the large package for Gold
Bill was prepared as usual and
put i'll the postoffice. but further
than this We are uiabie TO GO. We
have made i! qniryattb- postofiee,
and while the clerks there believe
the package was properly dis
patched, nothing definite could be
learned. We are not the kind
that always place the blame of
misplaced mail on the postal ser
vice. We have entire confidence
In those who handle The mail here,
we fell sure that they are as care
full and pains-tahjng asoouditions
will permit, and TIL. wonder is
that there are not many more
errors than there il, but they. as
We, are but human aud are as
liable to err as il il for the sparks
to fly upwards. We have put up
mail for many years and cannot
bring ourselves to the belief that
we failed to mail such an impor-
tant package, If it had been cur
fault 1T would have been discov-
cred, for the reason that the 200
papers would have remained here
In Jul office to show the error, vet
1t is strange that such a package
could be lost between Salisbury
and Gold Hill. 1t is the cus:om
of the postal service, should q
package 60 wrong, generally, not
always, to notify publishers of the
fact ard make a request for better
directions al d postage. This has
Lot yet occurred in this case. We
hcle, However. II al such will not
cccul aga.n.-ED. WATcHMAN.