Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-03-25
LEXINGTON AND DAVIDSON COUNTY.

Yadkln Hosiery Mil Is Destroyed by Fire
/ Big RevivaIs Closes. Some Personals.
Lexington Dispatch. March 18th.
| D. K. Cecil, the contractor, left
Monday morning for Coleemee
where he is building an addition
to the Methodist church and doine
other brick work in that place.
J Meyer Sink, manager of thu
Lexington Steam Laundry, went
to Columbia, S. G., Sunday night
to attend the Laundrymen's Asso.
citation, which convened in Col.
umbia Monday. Mr.. Sink was
called home Monday by a tele-
gram announcing the sudden
death of his wifs's brother, Lon.
ME Harrison, at Salisbury.
The Lexington Ice and Fuel
Company will start to making ice
for the summer season the latter
part of this week. W. B. Gil
nard, the manager, has been here
for several days overhauling and
improving the plant and he
promises much better ice this
seacon than last. A meeting of
the stockholders of the plant will
be held here tomorrow.
Monday morning about II
O'Clock fire was dicovered in the
basement of the Wennonah cotton
mills No 2. A lot of trash and
waste caught fire, just how is not
known. The blaze was quickly
extinguished by the employees.
No alarm was given, and uptown
people knew nothing of the fire
until after it was extinguished.
Had the fire occurred at night,
the mills would probably have
been burned;
A recent ordinance allows the
commissioners to pay fremen 81
each for services at any fire.
Nineteen fremen of Co. /, and 70
firemen of Co, 2, responded to the
alarm and rendered service at the
fire at the knitting mill last
Thursday morning and IA men,
bers of Company 2 were present
at the fire at the Wennonah cot
ton mills Monday morning.
Each fireman was allowed ST.,
making total of $45.
| The building committee of she
Methodist church met Monday
night and discussed the plans and
and specifications of the new
church soon to be built here. A
picture of the new church has
been received and it is in keeping
with the the prog-ess of the town.
Already building material Is on
the grounds and the church will
be completed before the year
closes. The Methodist congrega-
tion is deeply interested in the
building of their new church and
when it is completed it will be
one one of the handsomest
churches in the state. Work will
begin on the church in about two
week. .-Thomasville note.
Fifty-three new members were
received into the First Methodist
churchahere Sunday night, thus
: marking the close of series
of revival services which
have been conducted in that
church for the last fifteen days
No more remarkably successful
revival has been held in Lexing
ton for many years, if at all. II
all there were about one hundred
professions of faith and reclama
, tions. The interest in the meet
, ings has been unusal and the at
, tendance has been very large, the
church being we'll filled every
morning and crowded to it's ca
city at the evening service. Th'
: stores and places of business, in
cluding some of the factories
have been closed each day for th'
o morning service, this step being
+ taken at the suggestion of the pas
tor, Rev. A. L. Stanford. Rev
A, B. Hunter, of Merrryvllle
Tenn, lead the song service
: which was very good. Miss Salli
Sue Ellis and Mrs. J. M. Harke
9 organists during the meetings, an
l. performed their duties we'll, Al