Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-03-11
LEXINGTON AND DAVIDSON COUNTY,
Court Adjourns. Woman who Broke Into
Jail Found Guilty Of Retailing.

A case of local interest that may
be tried this court is that of Miss
Maggie Earnhart vs. the Wen.
nonah cotton mills. She was
hurt in an elevator wreck in the
mill, and sues for 500, 900. It is
reported that 81, 800 has been of
fered as compromise, and re-
fused. The DR.. Clodfelter case
may not be tried.
Two young men from Jackson
Hill passed through this town a
foot on their way to Salisbury
with one little possum hide, to
purchase some of that precious
corn juice. guess they expect to
60 into the retail business.-Lin-
wood note.
The season for shooting quail
and other birds in Dawson county
closed Saturday. This has been
a very enjoyable season for all the
sportsmen; lots of game has been
killed and plenty has been left.
Most of the northern sportsmen
have gone back north.
One man says that this year is
going to be a fine fruit year, be-
cause the 18th of February, St.
Valentine day, was warm and
rainy. Last year, he says, this
day was cold and clear, indicat-
ing fruit failure.
If some people are to be believ-
ed, there is much that is unlaw-
full and disgraceful just above Ar
mold, in the Center church COM
munity. There are good people
there, and there are some bad
ones, it seems. It ia said that
whiskey has long been sold, that
much gambling goes on and other
rottenness exists. The officers
and the good people there ought
to keep their eyes opened, and
break it all up.
Grover Proctor, who, it will be
remembered, while eloping with a
Miss Myers in Thomasville town.
ship, became engaged in a diff
Guilty with the girls father, and
cut him severely, was fined 800
aud costs.
The report of the grandjury con-
tained recommendation for an
addition to the Jail, the jury say
ing that it was too small for the
number of prisoners usually In
prison.
News comes that a few nights
ago Mrs. Dillie Hughes, very
old, feeble woman living alone
about a mile and and half from
Cid, was robbed Of $50 by two
masked men, who went to her
home, entered and forc1bly took
the money from her. She had it
in a wallet, strapped to her body,
beneath her skirt. The scoundrels
cut the wallet from it's fastenings,
and ran.
Capt. Milt Jones, Davidson
county's railroad builder and
miner, passed down the road to
Charlotte last week with another
$4,000 gold brick, taken from his
lola mine in Montgomery county
The brick was the result of one
weeks work. Capt. Jones thinks
he has a million in sight.
Saturday morning a noted col
ored woman died here-MandJ
Bradshaw, celebrated for her man
fold works in many hcme II
Lexington. Few women ever die
AZ much work or as hard work al
she did. If there was a wedding
it was Mandy they sent for. Sh'
did the good cooking for every bit
event. There are families her
who couldn't get along with
out her. Those who knew he
say she raised her family o
children nicely and we'll. sh
stood high with colored folks alt
white people. Pneumonia wa
the cause of her death and sh
was bnried Sunday by the "Tru
Reformers," colored organiza
to which she belonged.
The state docket engaged tn
attention of the court all of las
week until Saturday noon, whel
the grandjury was discharged
Eleven new men were sent to tn
county roads. The Shoaf case