Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-08-28
ITEMS FROM FAITH and OTHER PLACES.
Venus Visits Whitney and Tells Of Some
Of the Things He Saw.
Faith, August 24th.

EAlbu, Afeu.
The foundation of Simpson
Corn's new residence was laid
August Goth, 1907, by P. A. Peeler
and his crowd of workmen.
A young lady arrived at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Browns August 24th, 1907.
Miss BERTHE Peeler and Miss
Eleanor Brown are visiting their
uncle, J. R. Brown, of China
Grove.
Rev. R. J.. Brown ia visiting
his daughters, Mrs. Luther Fisher
and Mrs. P. A. Peeler, this week.
MI. Solomon Yost is still very
sick. He is not able to be up
hardly any. He doesn't seem to
be getting any better.
Martin Kluttz is hauling lumber
to the Balfour quarry to build a
big granite shed in the place of
the one blown down by a storm.
A big crowd gathered at Esq.
John D.. A. Fishers office Thurs
day evening to hear a trial be-
tween John Arey and Rich Coley.
who lives in Gold Hill township.
They had rucus over their water
melon patch and had to settle it
before a magistrate.
Several young men and young
ladies will soon go off to the diff
ferent high schools. Some re-
turning and some will be new
ones.
Several people from Faith went
down to Whitney, Tuesday August
Goth, 1907, to see the works and
to see the big steam shovels rum
ming. Venus went along and
could fill several columns with
what he saw at the dam and up
and down the line of canal. The
first steam shovel we ever saw
running was about one mile down
from the dam. There we saw
thirty-elght wagons on the route.
Some coming and some going.
John Harris was in charge and he
said this number of wagons run
night and day. We saw seven
steam drills running at one place
and ten at another. One big
steam shovel kept two dinky en-.
gines running and each engine
had five cars and it took three
steam shovels full to fill one car
fifteen shovels full of one and a
half yards each to fill the train of
five cars, and as soon as one pulled
out another took it's place. The
engineer tried and came near dip
ping us in the piper. | was
standing close up to the bank and
the engineer swung his crane
arouna and commenced dipping
right up under us and liked to
have been caught in the big steam
shovel. When the dirt commenced
to crumble under our feet we saw
it was time to step back, which
we did just in the nick of time.
All who went down was we'll
pleased with their trip. We saw
a crowd Of men putting in holes
from 30 to 35 feet deep and other
men filling the holes with from
II to Is boxes of dynamite in
each hole. The holes were made
from three to five feet apart
and from ten to twelve of the
holes were shot at a time. This
tore up the rock and dirt ready
for the steam shovel to handle.
John CorI is guarding prisoners
at the county road force here at
night.
Everybody is praising the work
of making good roads by the SUI
perintendent who has charge of
the county force here. We will
have a good road from Faith to
Salisbury equal to the Mecklen-
burg roads.
Peeler, Bame & Co. received the
contract today for the big grainet
door stills for the Kanopolis fac
tory buildings going up there.
John Fisher is hauling a car
load of millstones to Granite
Quarry this week to ship to
W%ilkesboro, N. G.
J. 7. Wyatt shipped three car
of granite curling August
22nd, 23rd and 9th.
Lee, of Gold Knob, found a
raddish AZ inches long and 6
inches in circumference. Yes,
Mr.. Lee, we CAL beat that. l..
M PeeIar has one 10 inchns lon1