Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1907-10-09
LEXINGTON AND DAVIDSON COUNTY.
APair Of Obstreperous Mules. An Improve
ment in Cotton Mill Machinery.
Lexington Dispatch. October End.

Lexington Dispatch. october End.
The hoard of trade will begi1
efforts to get the Southern railway
to make Lexington the termina
for train crews under the new ar
rangement that will be made
- within the next few months.
W. Lacy Leonard, carrier OF
Route No. l, from Lexington, OF
dered buggy automobile some
three months ago, thinking to gel
it in short time and use it dur
ing the summer, while the road'
were good; but it has been delayed
and only arrived last week.
The North State Fire Bricl
Company is doing business out il
the poor house community, max
ing fire brick out of the only suit
able clay that is to be found il
this section. About $4,000 have
been manufactured 80 far. These
brick are of very fine quality AND
bring $24 per 1000, The com
pany will be Incorporated soon.
Will Garret, the albino who has
been frequently arrested for being
drunk and down, was picked up or
Main street Monday night in a
helpless condition and lodged IL
jail. The police say he is quite a
curious specimen, in that he CAL
get drunk in ten minutes. Short
ly before he was found on the
street drunk and down, he was
seen by the policemen, walking
along the street without a sign
that he was drunk or drinking.
The Glen Anna Milling Com
pany, of Thomasville, which has
been busy for the past four months
building it's plant and installing
machinery has about gotten its
plant completed and everything
in readiness to begin work. The
latter part of this week they will
start the plant to work and will
in a short time be making good
-four, meal and feed.
Zeb Griffth's horse which got
it's log broken going to the fire at
the Thomasville Chair Co. last
week had to be killed as 1t was de.
cided that even if it got well IT
would be practically worthless.
His'l loss was fully $3.50.
Frank Crotts walked into town
yesterday morning and said that
his team had run away twice Oh
his way here and got tired of 1t
and concluded to walk. His mules,
hitched to buggy, got frightened
at some wood OH the road two
miles from town, whirIed around
i and broke the tongue of his buggy,
and Mr.. Crotts had to jump fol
his life. The team ran good
ways and was stopped by some
people, the Breaks repaired, and
the journey resumed. Once more
they got scared and once more Mr.
Crotts had to get out of the buggy
i'll a hurry. They were stopped
some more, but by that time hao
smashed things up pretty badly
and Mr.. Crotts hitched them out
and walked to town.
J. L. Peacock has purchased
from Messrs. B. G.. Robbins, in.
ventor and patentee, and S, j
Coley, who held one-third interest
the full rights in the doffer OF
quilting frame register, which was
invented by Mr. Robbins some
years ago. This register is made
to be fitted to doffing frames in
cotton mills and it keeps tab OIL
the number of doffs. It is sale
that it takes the place of hand
and that it works a saving of ter
per cent. to the mills. The Dis
patch understands there is moth
ing like it on the market today
and that the Wennonah cotton
mills, of this place, have used i,
to good effect and endorse il
strongly.