Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-09
LEXINGTON AND DAVIDSON COUNTY.
Much Damage in Our Nelghboring County
by the Recent Heavy Floods.
Lexington Dispatch, Sept.

Lexington Dispatch, Sept. Q
So far as known, four bridge
we're swept away by the freshet
two over Lick creek and two owe
Flat Swamp creek. Two were new
ones, one costing $500. The ole
one over Flat Swamp creek, at thu
place whore they will build stee
bridge, collapsed, and it is said
fell so that the ford cannot be
used. All that end of the coun
ty is cut off from town. The long
approach at the Finch mill bridge
W washed away.
W. F. Curry is one farme,
whom the floods didn t hurt much
He had no bottom corn. He has
25 acres of upland corn which he
expects to make him one thousand
bushels. His entire crop is ex-
pected to total two thousand bush
els. When asked for an estimate
of the damage done in Davidson
county, he said he had no idea,
but it was great, far over one hun
dred thousand dollars. On the M
K. Gray glace on Abbots creek he
said that 5000 bushels of corn had
been ruined. The corn this year
was the finest for many years, but
the freshet on the river. and on
Abbots, Lick, Flat Swamp and
other big creeks, has ruined thous-
ands of bushels.
An interesting coincidence dur
ing the Charlotte republican con-
vention was discovered when Dave
Conrad, of Lexington; Marsh
Hoover, of Thomasville, and An
son Beaver, of High Point, had a
Cox banner made. When they
handed out $40 bill to pay the
workman for same, the bill proved
to be one issued by the CONNER
oial National Bank, of High Point,
and was signed by J. Elwood Cox,
president. In sense Mr.. Cox
money was paying for a banner
for him.
It is now common property that
the grandjury made presentment
against T. S. Eanes. member of
the board of aldermen, for violat-
lug the law which forbids an al
derman to work for or contract or
do business with the town. The
charge against Mr.. Eanes is that
he hauled material that went into
some sidewalks. His friends as.
sert that it is all spite work, that
there is no graft, that what was
done was done with the knowledge
aud consent of the mayor and
the board, and that the wagons
hired to the town we're making 50
cents more per day than Mr.. Eanes
charged the town for them 1t
is stated that the work was done
because there was pressing need,
sidewalks in West Lexington being
very bad, and gave the school
children trouble IS they passed to
and from the graded school. The
grandjury is also said to have pre-
sented II. Cam Heitman for the
alleged larceny of a pistol in the
room of Dermot Shemwell, in the
Development building some
months ago.
Although a great amount of
damage has been done to crops by
SO much rain and high water in
the streams, it is likely that farm
ers in most cases will find that
they are not as badly hurt as they
thought at first. J. W. Fitzgerald,
of Linwood, was here Monday, and
speaking of the Yadkin, he said
the river was not as high as he
had seen it in times past, and that
more damage was done along the
creeks than in the river bottoms.
The high bottoms were not injured
so very much. Corn in the shucI
will sour and rot, but the cool days
we have had will prevent some
damage. Where an ear bends over
so the water can run out of it, it il
said that the corn is safe. Mr.
Fitzgerald said he would be sur
prised if 1t didn't turn out tha'
cotton was hurt worse than corn
1t is already turning yellow il
some places and the shapes hav'
dropped off.
Pink Pain Tablets-Dr. shoop'