Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-08-28
ANOTHER PEEP INTO THE PAST.
Some Interesting Reading Concerning
Things Hereabouts During the War.

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/ Things Hereabouts During the War.
| We have before us today a cop.
of the CAROLINA WAToHMAN, datet
December 21st, 1868, about A.
years ago, and of course it is full
of things, beside war news, that il
of interest to many of our people.
It is published weekly, has five
columns to the page and consists
of four pages, a five-column folio,
the price thereof, guaranteed for
only six months, is three dollars,
SO cents per month, more than is
now paid for real good daily.
The contents of this paper are
mostly discussions of conditions
in the South, North and Europe,
reports of battles and advertiser
ments. It contains, as did all the
papers in those days, very little
concerning local matter, either of
people or things. The disgusting
habit of whitewashing every one
upon the slightest pretense, did
not then exist, and we might add,
while the local news matter has
become a permanent feature of
most papers and will always be of
considerable interest, the ever
ready whltewasher exists only
where some Office hunter does the
writing, or controls it. To men
tion the name of some one con-
nected with local matters in the
COS was because of some most I'M
usual occurrence, and, was even
then considered a divergence from
the proper functions of a respect
able journal, but as the times have
changed the ideas of journalists
and publishers of newspapers have
grown farther aud farther apart,
until, today the journals are con-
siderably in the minority and the
newspaper, the dissemination of
live news, hot from the wire from
all parts of the world, including
full reports of local events per-
sonally, politically and indus
trlally, and a small amount of
editorial comment on current
events, has become the one thing,
outside of food and clothing, of
greatest popular demand. This
old paper states locally that,
"We learn that Mr.. John Whit
man. brought in a load of meal a
few days since, and sold it to
those unable to pay the enormous
price demanded by others at
Three Dollars, and that our Towns
man, Mr.. John Snider. very gen.
erously authorized Mr.. Whitman
to supply.those unable to pay at
his own individual expense" This
was IN a time of war, things were
hard to get even at high prices
and meal was then selling at 500,
hence The WArcHMAN adds that
their act of charity reflects hon.
or on the head and hearts of these
two gentlemen. Well do their
names adorn the Roll of Honor''
The John Snider spoken of was
the father of W. F. Snider, now
cashier of the Wachovia Loan &
Trust Co.'S branch here, who has
inherited liberal share of his
fathers benefcient liberality.
Another item, copied from the
Greensboro World, says, in refer.
ence to sch ol property, which
we suppose, was located at Olin
in lredell county; During the
recent meeting of the North Caro-
lima Conference, in this place
Messrs. o. G.. and J. F. Foard, do.
mated to the Conference the Olir
High School property, consisting
of ten acres of land, the school
building and two professors
houses, and an endowment of forty
thousand dollars. This donation
secures to the Conference, in ad
dition to the valuable property, 6
charter for college,"
1t announces two marriages
which took place in States
vile, one John J. Coleman
of Concord and Miss Josephine
W. Herring, of Florida by Rev
G. P. Jones, and the other. G. F
Herring, Of the Confederate Army
to Hattie A. Williamson, both O
Mecklenburg, by Rev. Carson
Parker.
The death of one of Rowan