Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-03-04
STATESVILLE AND IREDELL COUNTY.
Confederate Veteran Has Leg Amputated
Attempt at Burglary.


home near Jennings. Mr.. Bolen
is an old Confederate soldier and
received would while serving
his country which now makes this
operation necessary.
A revival meeting will begin at
the First Baptist church the first
Sunday in April. The pastor,
G. A. Jenkins, will be assisted by
Rev. Fred N. Day, of Winston, a
minister who has won reputation
as an evangelist.
A force of Southern railway
carpenters arrived at the States
vile station yesterday to spend
awhile here re-arranging and re-
modelling the freight platforms
and otherwise improving the facil-
titles for handling freight at the
depot.
y. R. Barnhardt returned from
a visit to Salisbury, Lands and
China Grove. He arrived home
in good health, accompanied by
Bud Winecoff, which is evidence
that at the two latter places they
know how to care for Salisbury
visitors.
Burglars made another unsuc-
cessful attempt to enter the home
of W. F. Bailey on East Broad
street, Sunday night. Mr.. Bailey
heard the men walking on the
back porch and talking just out
side the window. They tried to
gain entrance at the rear of the
house but failed.
J. M. Malcolm,- who is teaching
a school of telegraphy at Moores-
Vile, was in Statesville Saturday
to submit a proposition in regard
to the establishment of business
college here. Mr.. Malcolm's plan
is for an institution which will
not only teach telegraphy but
give regular business course,
the institution to be located
on farm where the industrial
feature can be employed fer the
benefit of those who want to work
their way through the college.
Pomp Dobson and wife, Mary
Dobson. colored residents Of Rab-
bittown, a suburb south of town,
were tried before Justice W. R.
Sloan yesterday at noon on
charges of assaulting and manning
Jesse Jolly, 10.year-old orphan
boy, who has been living in
their home. The charges we're
sustained by the evidence and the
defendants we're required to give
$500 bond each for their appear
ance at Superior Court, They
gave bond.
There is young couple in New
Hope township, who have a just
cause to complaint against the OBJ
servance of Washington's birth
day as a holiday by the rural mail
carriers. Lee Brown and Miss
Mamie Money, of New Hope, had
arranged to get married Saturday
night and sent in the application
for the marriage license Friday,
expecting Register of Deeds Will
Jams to send out the license by
mail Saturday morning. But the
rural carriers did not make their
round Saturday and consequntly
the marriage had to be postponed
two or three days. The contract
papers went out in yesterday
mornings mail and it is assumed
that the delayed marriage took
place last night.
With reference to the passage
by the board of aldermen of
Statesville of an ordinance pro-
hibiting the storage of gasoline,
benzine, etc., in the city limits
except under certain restrl ctions,
which ordinance, if effective, will
result in the removal of the tanks
of the Standard Oil Company from
their present location, the Caste.
MIA Gazette is informed by J,
Flem. johnson, of Gastonia, dis.
trict manager for the STANDARD
Oil Company, "that the company
will fight the case in the courts
That was expected. The Stand
ard Oil Company not only de-
frauds the public by selling an in
ferior grade of oil at a high price
and drives out competion by any
and all sorts of methods, but il