Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-04-08
STATESVILLE AND IREDELL COUNTY.
Anti-Prohibition Won't Talk Back. A Bad
Man Gets Killed.

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statesville Landmark. March 3l-April g.
!, Jas. Osborne Erwin and T. J
Conger spoke on prohibition a
: Kennedy school house last night
After the speakers we're through
, an opportunity was given for an.
+ anti-prohib1tionist remarks but NJ
, one spoke.
! During a festival at Logan, E
church (of the colored people) al
, Scott's, Saturday night, a colored
girl, daughter of Ike Long, wal
!, shot in the knee by the discharge
of a pistol in the hands of a col.
ored man named Houpe. Claims
| to be accidental,
Charles G.. Veile reports that
something will be doing in the AL.
exander county monazite field be-
fore long. A representative of the
Carolina Monazite. Co. and one
from the National Light and Tho
rum Co. are expected here next
week with the intentiong to en-.
courage our people to get out mon
azite.
F. B. Cohen. the young Iredell
man who was arrested in this coun-
ty on the 18th of February and a
few days later taken to Benefits
vile, S. c., to answer a charge of
embezzlement preferred by the
Chicago Crayon Portrait Co., for
which he had been working. was
tried last week and acquitted.
A dog supposed to be infected
with rabies appeared at the home
of R. L. Setter, on the Catawba
river, in Fallstown township,
Wednesday, and bit four COWS und
a dog and a stranger in the neigh
borhood, was killed after it had
been fired on a half dozen times.
W. H. George, Jr., a railroad
contractor of Richmond. and T. D.
Clairborn, of Baltimore, repre-
senting the Johnson & Berlin Con-
tracing Co., of Baltimore, were
here Friday negotiating with the
officers of the Statesville Air Line
Railroad Co. with view to build
Ing and equlpping the proposed
road from Statesville to Mt. Airy.
About 18 months ago, in Olin
township, Alb Lambert stabbed
and seriously injured Dock Daniels
and then ran away. Lambert
went to the mining regions of West
Virginia. He had bad reputa-
tlon for rowdyism and few weeks
ago he was shot and killed, his
slayer going free on the ground of
self defense. The facts we're re-
Gently written to Lambert's faith
er, who lives in Sharpesburg town.
ship.
G. G.. Rominger was painfully
burned one day last week at his
4home about four miles north of
town, by falling into an open fire.
place. His condition is not Sc
rious and he is reported as getting
along all right. Mr.. Rominger
was placing heavy stick Of wood
on. the fire when he lost his bal
ance and fell with his knees in the
fire. His clothes caught fire but
the flames were extinguished BE-
fere serious injury resulted.
Some time ago Miss Mollie Stim:
son, who lives with her brother,
W. J. Stimson, suffered broken
wrist. The injury did not heal al
it should and a painful disease o1
the bone set in. Miss Stimpsor
was taken to Salisbury this weel
to consult Dr.. Stokes. The ply
! sician advised that the patient bt
taken to some Baltimore special
ist, and this will most probably
. be done at an early date.
Statesville's first fire Of conse
quence for some months occurred
J just before noon Tuesday, whe1
) a 5 room cottage on Seventh stree
was totally destroyed with prac
8 tically all its contents, The hous'
was the property of J. M. Adams
: who lives next door, and was oc
cup1ed by J. Lee Steele and fami
. ly. Mr.. Adams built the hous