Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-02
LEXINGTON AND DAVIDSON COUNTY.
Three Fires Destroy Property. A Negro
Weeps in Court. About Drying Fruit.
exington Dispatch. Aug. oath.

Lexington Dispatch, Aug. oath.
One afternoon last week during
one of the electric storms the barr
of the widow of the late Ishmar
RagaD, of Thomasville, was strlck
en- by lightning and was burned
In the barn we're lot of feed
farming implements, buggies ane
a large quantity of grain.
Senator Overman has been In
vited to address the people here al
the court house on Saturday night
September 12, and will doubtless
accept unless prevented by una
voidable circumstances. It will
be announced later if he accepts.
Friday m orning at 2'o'clock the
roller mill of Byerly & Jordon at
Shiloh was burr ed, the whole be-
ing consumed, the lost estimated
at $4,000 with partial insurance.
The building was an old one, but
the machinery was brand new,
having been placed this summer
The origin of the fire is not known.
Friday night about midnight
Ed. Everhart;s residence on the
southern part of Thomasville
caught on fire from a defective
hue and was burned to the ground
The house was occupied by Cleve.
land Grimes and family, who bare.
ly escaped with their lives. Moth
ing of consequence was saved.
correspondent of The Dispatch
urges the farmers who have more
fruit than they can sell IN green
state to dry it, better still, evapo'
rate it and pack it in neat boxes
for shipment IN the winter. 1t Is
good advice. The Dispatch has
heard many people say that they
had more fruit than they could
use or sell, and that it rottsd on
the ground. There is no sense in
such waste.
DR.. J. A. Dimmette, of Abbotts
Greek township, announces bis
candidacy for the house IN this
issue. He is the first to come out
for the house. There has been
much interest about this matter,
and the people have been waiting
expectantly for some one to make
an announcc ment. Another item
of political interest is the state
ment that the friends of John W.
Lambeth, of Thomasville, are de.
termined that he shall run fol
sheriff.
The biggest criminal docket ev'
er in the Davidson county court
house occupied the court until
Thursday afternoon last week
when adjournment was taken un'
til Monday, when the trial of civil
cases began. PAhaps one-half ol
the criminal cases were disposed
of. Many very old cases were
cleared away. Hub Holt, the ne
gro who smashed all the laws o.
God and man in one fell swoop
was presented with Is years IN th'
states prison. He was charged
with burglarly, rape, attempted
murder, robbery, stealing and 81
forth. When the judge pronounced
sentence, he began to moan ant
groan and take on in style tha
would have suited a cemetery ia
better than courtroom. On
would have thought that NAL
was about to be drawn and quar-
tered from the way he carried on
It got on Clerk Goodwin's nerve
and he couldn It handle the docket
"You take that blame negro ou
of here" he said in an underton
to the sheriff.
A thousand little hearts cracke'
yesterday and many a grownul
heart was sore when John Robin
sons circus, after unloading it
enormous outfit from 65 cars, q
feet long, pulled up and left tow
without showing The rains de
cended and the floods came an
drowned the big show out. Som
few people came to town, but tn
ten thousand who would have bee
here, never showed up. The stream
are all out of banks and the road
are bottomless. The circus pee
pie tried to make some kind of
deal with the officials whereby th
tax would be reduced, SO that th