Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-08-28
s1ATEsvILLE AND IREDELL COUNTY.
A Monument Unveiled TO Gen. Sumpter.
A Marriage Followed by Arrest.
statesville Landmark. August goth, 23rd.

The local office of the Western
Union Telegraph Co. was opened
yesterday morning after having
been closed nearly a week. H. R.
Morgan, an operator from Dan.
willie, Va, and Miss Wilson, Of
Richmond. are in charge of the
office. Mr.. Wells, the former op-
orator, is still in Mooresville.
| The Sunday school convention
of Yadkin Presbytery, which met
in the colored Presbyterian church
of Statesville last week, adjourned
Sunday night to meet at Cleveland
next year. Jennie E. Lawrence,
of Salisbury, was elected to repre-
sent the convention in the Synodl-
cal convention at Durham on the
I29th.
J. P. Sumpter attended the un-
Yelling exercises of the Sumpter
monument at Statesburg, S. c.,
last week. The monument was
erected to Gen. Thos. Sumpter,
who served through the Revo-
| lutionary war and died at his
home at Statesburg in June, 1882.
at the age of 81 years. Mr.. Sum
ter is grand nephew of Gen
Sumpter and he met a number of
relatives at Statesburg, which wa
destroyed by the Tories during
the war.
A runaway marriage which caus-
ed quite stir occurred Sunday
morning about 9 o'clock when
Robert NJ. Ball and Miss Violet
May Minish were married at the
home of the officiating minister,
Rev. H. II. Robbins. Sunday
afternoon Minish, the father of
the bride, heard of what had hap
pened and sought revenge by going
to Justice of the Peace W. W.
Turner and swearing out warrants
for his son-in-law and his older
brother who obtained the license.
AS the warrant charged that the
girl was under ID years old and as
it was proven by the testimony
of witnesses and the bible that she
was over IA years old, the case was
dropped and Minish was taxed with
the costs. Nearly every person in
the court room seemed to be in
sympathy with the defendant and
as the crowd left the room many of
them jeered at the old man, who
bad lost his daughter and also his
case against the son-in-law.
Bloomfield, Statesville's thriv
ing manufacturing suburb on the
west. has grown rapidly since it
it was first started, nearly five
years ago. Five years ago the
territory now occupied by Bloom.
field was fields and WOO Is with here
and there a farmhouse. Now it
is a large, thriving manufacturing
settlement and additions are con
stantly being made to it.
| G. G. Tharpe, of Net neigh
borhood, IN north Iredell. takes
much interest in progressive agri.
culture. He was telling THE
LANDMARK this week al out two
acres of corn on his place, which
he says is about the finest he eyer
saw grow and he thinks he ought
to get about 12O bushels off the
two acres. Mr.. Tharpe tried new
experiment in the cultivation of
his two-acre patch. After the
corn had good start, was nearly
knee high, say, he stopped pillow
ing it. The surface of the soil was
scratched to keep the grass and
} weeds down, but the ground was moi
broken to a depth suficeLt te
break the roots of the corn. Mr.
Tharpe thinks this is the proper
way to cultivate corn-that the
roots of the corn should not be
broken after tho corn has a gooc
start. In this connection Mr.
Tharpe says a new plow or cul
tivator of some sort is needed
for the successfull cultivation O
corn. Speaking generally, tn
corn crop of Iredell, land especiall.
in the northern portion of tn
county, this year promises t.
be immense. It was never better
: Piles get quick and certain re
lief from DR.. Shoop's Magic Oint
t ment. Please note it is mad
r alone for Piles, and it's action i
1 positive and certain. Itching