Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-12-04
ALBEMARLE AND STkNL.Y COUNTY.
An Electric Line TO be Bui|tFrOm AIbsmarIe
10 Whitney. County's Books in a Muddle,
Stanly Enterprise, Nov, 2oth.

10 whitney. County's Books in a AGjdlG
Stanly Enterprise, Nov, 23th
Mrs. W. P. Broom goes to Sails
bury this week for treatmen
under an osteopath.
| Attorney M. F. Hatcher wa
here this week packing his house
hold effects for shipment to Sails
bury.
| Contract has been awarded tx
L. A. Moody for building new
annex to the Jail. It will be the
same dimensions as the present
building, and will be equipped
with eight steel cages, all of mod
ern construction.
The electric line from Whitney
to Albemarle will be survey ed
next week. The Whitney Com
pany is in readiness to contract
for the delivery of power for lights
and machinery by July of next
year, and guarantee not to be later
than Septem ber as a limit. Tt be-
gins to look as if our town is in
reach of the many advantages SO
long promised.
On Yesterday afternoon at $3.50
at the pretty residence of the
brides parents, Mr., and Mrs. I.
B, Miller, Miss Sudie Miller was
married to Ray T. Hendley, of
Spencer. Rev. Fl. A. Mccullough
performed the ceremony, Miss
Matte Miller played the wedding
march,?
A representative of tho Whitney
Company was here last waek to
locate a site for the distributing
plant of the company at this place.
We are told that contracts have
been drawn for furnishing power
30 the mills at this place, but
have not as yet been signed. The
Efrd Manufacturing Company
will soon secure q steam shovel
and begin excavation for the large
mill they will erect early next
year.
Rev. R. d. Sheriff. moves with
his family this week to Sp7ncer,
where he goes to assume bis pasto-
raj work in the new field he
is assigned. MIR. Sheriff. is one
of the best and most lovable of
men, and his leaving occasions
genuine grief in Albemarle. May
success attend him in his new
work. Rev. Mr.. Sprinkle is ex-
pected to arrive tomorrow, and
will hold Thanksgiving services
in the Methodist church next Sun
day morning.
Sheriff Green and his attorneys
appeared before the board of coun-
ty com missioners at called ses-
siou Tuesday. It was expected
that his settlement of the 1905
and 1906 taxes would take place,
but owing to a display Of gross
unfami iarity Of the last admins
tration with such work as is re-
quired IN making out tax lists and
auditing returns the accounts in
ex- heriff Green's hands call for
expert auditing. The May settle
ment with the presnt board,
made from abstracts furnished by
ex- x-Register Of Deeds J. NJ, Van
hoy, are shown to have been cor
rect according to the abstracts, So
admitted by Mr. Green and his
attorneys. But the latter sr8 not
content with Mr. Vanhoy 8 fgurea,
and they have gone back TO the
beginning of 1905 and 1906, be-
hind the abstracts, searchings the
original blanks and records, and
they have uncovered multitudes
of gross errors. So vast and great
are these errors that it is imposai-
hle to settle from the books as
they now stand, and Mr.. Green
and his attorneys asked that the
board appoint some person to re-
cast, audit and balance SAID books,
starting at the very beginning 4
x 4 The affair has already added
up quite bill of cost to the ccun~
! ty; and by the time it is finished
it will be shown that the two
years of republican rule will be
the costllest investment the coun-
tv has ever made. x X The COM
missioners ordered that J. M.