Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-01-29
LEXINGTON AND DAVIDSON COUNTY.
Deaths Removes an Entire Family. Still
Hope Of the Brass Factory Coming Here.

Lexington Dispatch, Jan. 22nd.
Thomas Michael, son of Joh1
Michael, who clerks in J. L. Mi
chael's grocery store, went to Sal
isbury Friday and on the next day
enlisted in the standing army o:
the United States. His folks
didn't know he was going to take
such a step, or 20 doubt they
would have roped him in, for the
standing army of your Uncle Sam
uel, with the Philippines ct cetera,
is no joke. The rash young man
is 10 years of age and pretty well
fixed in the way of health and
muscle. He passed and is now
part and parcel of the American
army. The Dispatch wishes him
good luck.
Engineer Levi K. Matthews, of
the Norfolk & Western road, says
that the other day he saw on the
reverse bar of his engine, these
wores: "Levi K. Matthews will be
killed January 26, 1908." The
engineer says that he saw the
words plainly, but cannot say
whether it was imagination or
not. His friends urged him not
to make a run on that date.
On Saturday F. R. Loftin was
tried before Squire Sidney Craver
in the courthouse on the charge
of obtaining money from William
Lee, colored, under false pretense.
He was bound over to court on a
justified bond of $3.50. The hear
ing this time had to do with $S1,
which the negro alleged that the
defendant secured from him at va
rious times in various amounts. A
second hearing will be held to-
morrow before Squire W. A..
Heitman, at which time the
charge of securing $100 will be in
vestigated. The negro claims
that the defendant got from him
the sum of $198, and paid back
$17 of it.
It was stated last week that the
Southern Metal Company which
operates the brass factory, would
stay in Lexington 1nstsad of going
to Salisbury, but it seems that
the assertion was little prema-
ture, an the factory may yet be
moved to Salisbury. At least the
matter is by no means fully de-
c1ded.
The sale of the defunct Metal
Bed Company's plant brought in
a total of about So, 500. The con-
GERMS liabilities are about $4,000.
The business has been in the
hands Of receivers.
AS stated in last weeks Dis
patch, the condition of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Byerly was such as to
cause their friends to give up
hope, and since then both have
died, Mr.. Byerly on Wednesday
and Mrs. Byerly yesterday. Both
are buried at Mt. Tabor, where
their son was buried few days
ago. Thus the entire family is
wiped out. Typhoid-pneumonia
was the cause.
Fire last Friday morning at l
o'clock burned a dwelling house
occupied by Jim Swing, located
near the school house at Nokomis
cotton mills. The fire Is supposed
to have originated from defec-
tive chimney. The dwelling was
owned by R. Lee McCrary; his
loss was about $500, with $500 i'll
surance.
Monday afternoon the Lexing-
ton Daughters of the Confederacy,
together with others, gathered at
the elegant home of Mrs. W. G..
Penry on First avenue and held
appropriate exercises in honor OF
General Lee and Jackson, the oc'
casion being the birthdays Of these
two gallant southern chieftalns.
Chief Hayworth, tax-collector.
tells The Dispatch that during
the month thus far he has collect.
ed about $1,000. People are slow
to spay. The large bulk of the
taxes are yet to be collected. The
time has long been out. The bill'
for street work are still in the air
Few people have paid anything OF
their account for macadam. They
don't like IL and dent want tf