Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-07-24
s1ATEsVILLE AND IREDELL COUNTY.
$500 Raised for the kcIyer Memorial
Fund. Something About Growing Onions.
statesvilIe Landmark, July 1913,

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statesvilIe Landmark. July 1913,
7 Statesville District Conference
NJ. E. Church, South, meets a
) Mt. Zion church, Cornelius, Jul,
25th to 28th, Rev. J. H. Weaver
+ of Lenoir, presiding.
Nat Smith, an aged negro mer
chant and land owner of Belmont
the negro suburb east of town
was married this week to Maggi.
Waddell, a negro widow of the
same community. The groom il
about 60 years old and the bride
about 40.
"Did you know that the com.
pletion of what new building is
now underway in Statesville
means about $500,O0O expendi-
ture by the builders?" This did
seem startling and enormous at
first blush but come to think of it
the citizen who asked the ques-
tion is about right.
The meeting at the court house
Saturday morning in the interest
of the McIver Memorial Fund for
the State Normal and Industrial
College at Greensboro, was at
tended by 16 or 18 former stu
dents of the Normal, a large num-
Der of other ladies and number
of public-spirited professional
and business men of the town.
After remarks by number of
members and others the associa-
tion pledged itself to raise $500.
Alex. Waddell, colored. of
Chambersburg township, was tried
by Squire W. W. Turner Tues
day afternoon and bound over to
court in $1O0 bond charged with
incest, the victim being Julia his
daughter, aged 16 to 18 years.
Charges were preferred by the
daughter and substantiated by her
mother. In addition to the
charge of incest, they swore that
Alex. had mistreated them and
had even threatened to shoot the
daughter.
The Landmark mentioned the
other day that the Virgin Mary
started Oh her journey on the End
without umbrella or cloak, the
day being fair, which meant that
no rain was to fall untjl her re-
turn, six weeks later. But rain
has since fallen and M. N. Hall,
who banks on this ai gn, was asked
to explain, and he answt red
promptly. 1t didn't rain in
Statesville or this immediate vi
cinity, but it rained elsewhere.
The Virgin takes cognizance of
conditions all about, not for one
locality, and so she took her cloak
and umbrella. That's why it
rained since she started; she was
equipped for falling weather.
A Statesville man who grows
onions to perfection brought The
Landmark yesterday some fine
specimens of his crop. Some of
the onioDs measured Ia inches
across the bottom. They are not
the multiplying variety or any
new kind, but just the plain, ordi-
nary onion. This grower attri-
butes his success to planting in
the fall instead of in the spring.
He says he has tried spring grow
ing only to find it failure. eff
you want to grow onions success
fully" says this grower, "plant
them in October. First put your
ground in good condition and one
working will be sufficient after the
onions get out of the ground They
will stand all sorts of weather and
be ready for the table or market
by April"
John NJ. Lippard, a prominent
citizen of Fallstown township and
well-known to many people in
Statesvi]le and the county, died
Sunday morning at 10 o'clock at
his home three miles west of
Troutman. Mr.. Lippard was in
his 81st year and had been in
f. eble health long time. He was
one of the Oldest and most highly
esteemed citizens of the commu.
nifty and will be greatly missed in
the community and his church,
He is survived by one brother,
Henry Lippard of the same reigh.