Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-04-08
LEXINGTON AND DAVIDSON COUNTY.
Hard Times Has Cupid on the Run. No
More Shad or Red Horse.
Lexington Dispatch, April 1st.

More Shad or kea horse.
Lexington Dispatch, April lst.
Lexington lawyers are for Hay
den Clement. Esq, for attorne..
general, and The Dispatch mex
week will publish letter endors
ing him. He is very likely to &c
the nomination, and deserves it.
The article, "The Time Ha
Come" by R. Lee Wright. Esq
of Salisbury, in this issue, will b.
found very good reading, and Dis
patch readers are asked to ponde:
what he says. There is also al
article on the split log drag TO:
clay roads which we ask the far
mers to read.
A number of Odd Fellows left
Monday TO attend the district
meeting of their order in Sails
bury. Several counties, includ'
ing Davidson, form this district.
Rev. DIR. George H. Cox, OF
Granite Quarry. will preach in
the Lutheran church here next
Sunday. DR.. Cox is one OF the
leaders in the Lutheran church ID
shis state and is a very able
preacher.
Register Owen says that there
is nothing doing IN the marriage
license business. When the panic
arrived, Cupid took rest. In
fact the whole county, In every
nook and corner, is at a stand
still.
Saturday..morning a dog belong
ing to E. M. Ward acted some
what strangely and was pronounc'
ed mad, and the officers began
hunting for it. A few people
grew nervous. Finally it was as
certained that the animal only
had bone in it's throat, and that
was what made it do funny.
Used to be shad and red boss
galore in the Yadkin river, but
"d1vil avian" as Mr.. Dooley
would say, is to be found now
Dams and wire seines have etfec-
tually shut off all such fish; and
saw dust in our streams has aided
in killing up even our native
fish. We have little save MIN
nows, suckers and cats, cells and
mud tuckels. . We have a Law IN
this state that demands passway
for up coming fish, but down in
South Carolina it doesn't work.
And our own law is not enforced
as it ought to be.
Anti-Saloon officials in David
son. do not believe that this coun-
tv will ioin the vets. They are
firmly convinced that the people
will give a majority for prohlbl-
tion, and they base their claims
on the result of an active canvass
that is going on now, The cam
paign has opened and before long
will be in full blast. At the same
time a secret liquor campaign is
being carried on by the shrewd
leaders and it is not at all unlike
" that money is behind it
Many a sharp politician will
feather his nest during this cam
with liquor dealers money.
J. S. Daughn, alias R. M. Pool,
who was picked up in Winston fol
forging checks, was taken to the
pen last week. He raised a row
about having to 60, and asked
why he couldn't appeal. He was
told he could have done so, but
he failed to put up the required
, bond; and he then asked why he
couldn't have appealed as a pau
per, and he was told that he could
have done so, but the time had
expired. Whereupon he grew
wroth indeed, and swore ven
geance against Forsyth county
and lawyers, Benbow & Hall
who, he said, failed to look afte:
the appeal. He said he was goint
to sue them and the county
And away he went to Raleigh
"under protest, as he said
Many another soul has journeye'
thlther under protest.
A citizens tells The Dispatc]
man tale that runs like this. /
woman came in from the countr
with basket of eggs and trie
ALa oarkot In auoru atnra tho