Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-09-18
s1ATEsvILLE and lREDELL COUNTY.
Negro Boy Shoots a Girl. A Big Dam on
the CataWba,
lille Landmark. Sept lO-13th.

StatesvilIe Landmark. Sept 1O-13th.
Work was begun yesterday OF
the new addition to Hotel Iredel
which will fill in the gap between
the present building and the St
Charles hotel.
The total tax valuation of rea
and personal property in States
vile is $2,382,77S 4S as agains
81, 1856, $40 SO last year, a net in
crease of 1896, 967 so.
At meeting of the board ot
directors of the Iredell Telephone
Company, held Thursday after
noon, it was decided to increase
phone rates so cents month
business 'phones $3.50 instead o1
So and residence phones $1.5(
instead of 81, and to give free
service On all country lines except
Taylorsville and Mooresville, and
possibly Catawba.
Henry Garner, a well-known
negro farmer, of the Elmwood
Community, was stricken with
paralysis at the home of Lloyd
Neeley, on Elm street, Tuesday
morning about 10 o'clock. He
was removed to his home on J. A.
Fleming's farm about noon and
died about an hour later.
Deputy Sheriff J. K. Albea, of
Harmony, brought two barrels of
blockade liquor to Statewide yes
terday evening and turned them
over to Deputy Collector Davis.
The liquor was found in the woods
in the Lone Hickory neighbor-
hood, near the Iredell-Yadkin
line. It is supposed that it had
been 'hid out" by some of the
moonshiners of that section.
A heavy rain and severe elec-
trio storm visited Statesville and
vicinity Tuesday afternoon. Dur
ing the storm lightning struck
telephone and telegraph wires at
a number of places and alst
struck number of trees aboue
town. About 70 phones of the
Iredell Telephone Company were
crippled by the lightning and
the damage to the system is esti-
mated at about $500.
The Turner Mill Co., which
will build large cotton mill and
a small mill village at East Mon
bo, or Cooper's s-on-the- Catawba,
has let the contract to Ordway &
Company, of Winston, to build a
dam across the river. The dam
will be 1000 feet long and will be
built of solid rock and concrete.
The Ordway Company is now
shipping the fixtures and material
to Barium, which will be the ship
ping point of the mill. They will
begin work in a short time and
expect to finish the dam, wheel
pits and concrete foundations for
the mill buildings before the frst
of the year.
The Landmark Tuesday men
toned that John Brown, colored
boy was was held in Statesville
Jail for the fatal shooting of a
young daughter of John Gather,
colored, at Mooresvil1e last week,
and the boys statement of the
matter was given. The Moores-
vile Enterprise says that John
got the gun and "jestingly" said
to some of the children that he
would shoot them. Not much
attention was paid to the boys
remarks. A few minutes later,
however, he did fire the gun,
aimed at NADIA Gather, 12 years
old. The load of shot cut away
both her jaws and part of her
tongue" and she died that night.
!, At business meeting held Sun
day morning the congregation of
the First Baptist church raised
$4,000, which will practically pay
off the indebtedness of their new
church. which is nearing compile
tion. The total cost of the new
church, including the seats and
inside fixtures, will he in the
neighborhood of $4,000.