Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-09-04
ThE CAROLINA WATERMAN,
Local News Items.

Our good friend H. II. Swice
good, of Davie county, who ha
just recently returned from James
town Exposition, was in the cit,
Monday taking in the sights.
The main dam at Whitney i
said to be completed and measure,
917 feet in length 46 feet high
The company is endeavorlng t,
be able to furnish power by Janu
airy 1st. We doubt their ability
to do so.
Several new automobiles have
arrived here lately. DR.. Herman
Heilig, DR.. West and H. G. Trot1
are the purchasers.
B. F. Lively, superintendent Of
the car department in the shops
at Spencer, has resigned and &C
copied a similar position with the
Southern at Lenoir, Tenn.
Monday was what is called
Labor Day. 1t is a legal holiday
and it was observed here by the
closing of the banks, observance
of Sunday hours at the po%stofice,
and a programme rendered by the
various trade unions in the com.
munity.
R. L. Earnhardt left today fol
Atlanta where he will spend the
next nine months in the Atlanta
Business College. Mr.. Earnhardt's
injured hand has about healed up.
J. A. Swink, of Dongola, ILL.,.
who left here just 81 years ago, is
now visiting friends and relatives
in Salisbury and the country.
Mr.. Swink was very much i'm
pressed with the growth Of our
city since his last visit.
Rev. J. F. Preston and wife
and Mrs. S. H. Wiley have left
Vancouver, B. c., from where
they will take a steamer for
Korea. Rev. Preston is engaged
in missionary work there and
returns to take up where he left
off in the spring.
The statements of the Chins
Grove and Spencer banks appear
in today's WATcHMAN to which
attention is called. These banks
are the pioneers in their towns
and make a splendid showing.
A 15-year-old white boy by the
name of Mack Springs slipped into
the residence of J. G. Wilhelm,
1926 E. Kerr street, one day last
week and stole a watch and $11.50
III money. $40 of the money and
the watch was found on his per-
son when arrested. He was sent
up to the Superior court for trial.
Rev. G. B. Currie, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Spencer,
has been elected principal of the
East Spencer, or rather Southern
City, public schools.
J. F. Barnes and James Will
Jams, convicted of highway robbery
by the Rowan Superior court 1906
and sentenced to five years Oh the
gang, have been pardoned by the
governor who believed the men
were innocent.
The grand jury found a true
bill against Hugh A. Leonard, the
ticket agent at this place who
made away with a considerable
sum of the Southern railways
money. Nothing more has been
heard from the reported capture
of Leonard at Hot Springs, Ark.
Prof. 1. G. Griffin and party
who have been touring Europe
have returned to the city. The
professor says he greatly enjoyed
the trip, but was glad to get back
t. the grand old North State.
Oscar G.. Hackett is the new
manager of the Portner Brewing
Co.'s branch warehouse here.
Hon. W. W. Kitchen, candidate
for governor, spent a short time
here Saturday and Sunday.
J. Rowan Davis, ole of the
cleverest commercial travellers
who hits this place. had the mis-
fortune to be in a railroad wreck
near Asheville last Thursday and
got his arm pretty badly mashed,
Ed Daniels many friends will
regret that he a very painfully
injured at the Spencer shops Sat
urday. His arm was caught be
tween some cogs and the flesh wal
almost torn off the bone. He had
a narrow escape with his life.
A party consisting of R. L
Lingle and wife. J. D. Brown ant
wife, Thomas Lyerly and wife
M. G. M. Fisher and wife and two
children, and Alex and Welke7
Kluttz, some of our best rura
citizens, went to jamestown ant
Washington Tuesday a week ag(
and returned yesterday morning
greatly delighted with their trip
They saw enough to furnish tall
for years to come.
Rev. Jno. H. Grey has ac5eptet
a call to a church in Bedford
Va. He and his family lef
Davidson Thursday night for hi
new field of labor.
J. N. Maxwell, of Salisbury