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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-06-24
M0CKSVILLE AND DAVlE COUNTY
A Gentle Snowman Turns Horse Thief and
Is Caught. Picking up Gold.
Mocksville Courier, June 18th.

Mocksville Courier, June 18th.
A man giving his name as Wal
ter Williams and claiming to be
stranded from Walter L. Woods
dog and poney show, and giving
his home as in Tennessee, stole a
horse from W. B. Horn at County
Line Sunday night about ten
O'Clock snd was caught a few
hours later at Oak Forest, about
eight miles from County Line by
Mr.. Horn and some boys. He
was taken back to that place and
before magistrate where he ad-
mitted his guilt. He was brought
here Monday and placed in Jail to
await trial. Williams said that
he was on his way to Statesville
and had stopped for a few mo-
ments in an old school house out
of the rain and to get some sleep.
He had turned the horse loose
when caught.
A gentlemsn arrived In our town
Tuesday from parts unknown who
had beard five feet long.
J. B. Bowles of near Oak Grove
called in to see us Friday and while
here showed us some gold which
he picked up on his place. Mr..
Bowles is sure that there is plenty
more of it on his land, and will
have party here in a few days
from up north who will inspect it
and see if mine cannot be To-
Gated.
Wiley Taylor of near Jerusalem
died Tuesday night and was buried
yesterday. Deceased had been in
declining health for some time.
His death being due to old age.
Miss May Miller who has been
spending few days here visiting
MIR. and Mrs. F. P. Rats return
ed to her home in Salisbury Mon
day evening.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-06-24
Hats or No Hats In Church.

Discussing hats or no hats in
church, minister writes that he
has suggested to his congregation
adhere to the time-honored
custom of requiring men to be un-
covered and women to be covered
in church; and he nails it with
the scripture, quoting what the
apostle told the Corinthians.
But we are sure the apostle never
dreamed that hats two feet across
would be worn by women, and if
he had stood before a congrega-
ton of Corinthian ladies wearing
NJ. W. Headgear. he would have
called for hat pins quickly. We
believe that women should wear
their hats in church, but they've
no business wearing Merry
Widows there, and if they do.
more harm will come of sticking
to the apostles words than in de-
parting therefrom, for every man
who has to sit through a sermon
behind screen of crazy millinery
gets farther away from paradise
by reason of the smothered cuss
words he thinks.-Ex.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-06-24
Hall and Wind Storm.

A very destructive hail storm
passed over the section from Pio-
neer Mills toward Flows store, in
No. l township, last Wednesday
afternoon about 5 o'clock. The
path of the storm was about one
mile wide by two miles long, and
all crops, fruits, etc., in this area
were destroyed or badly damaged.
Fortunately the hail stones we're
not large or the damage would
have been much greater than 1t
was. The cotton crop was ruined
and it is now too late to replant
cotton, the land will have to be
planted in corn or something else.
Many chickens and birds were
killed, and nearly all the fruit was
knacked from the trees. Many
fruit trees were also torn up by
the roots. Many fences we're de-
molished, and the gardens literal
ly destroyed. It seems that that
there was a cloud burst, q hail
storm and cyclone combined, and
it was the worst that has ever
visited the section. All the leaves
were stripped from the cotton,
and nothing but the bare stalk
left standing. In many places
even the soil was washed away.
The storm lasted for about an
hour, and many expected to see
their homes destroyed. The loss
is very great, and will fall heavily
on the people of that section.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-06-24
$lOO Reward, $IOO.

The readers of the paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at
least one dreaded disease that
science has been able to cure Ill
all it's stages, and that is Catarrh.
Halls Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure known to the medi-
cal fraternity. Catarrh being a
constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system,
thereby destroying the foundation
of the disease, and giving the
patient strength by building up
the constitution and assisting ma
ture in doing it's work. The pro-
prietcrs have so much faith in its
curative powers that they offer
One Hundred dollars for any case
that it fails to cure. Send fol
list of testimonials.
Address F. J. CHENEY & CO..
Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills con-
stlpation.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-06-24
Thinks It Saved His Life.

Lester M. Nelson, of Naples,
Maine, says in a recent letter: 81
have used DR.. Kings New Discov-
cry many years, for coughs and
colds, and I think it saved my life.
[ have found it reliable remedy
for throat and lung complaints,
and would no more be without a
bottle than I would be without
food" For nearly forty years
New Discovery has stood at the
head of throat and lung remedies.
AS a preventative of pneumonia,
and healer of weak lungs it has no
equal. Sold under guarantee at
all drug stores. SOC and 81.
Trial bottle free.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-06-24
An Interesting Bit of History.

The rather curious and striking
incident in the family of Mr.. and
Mrs. Rufus Moose, of China
Grove, N. G., is the fact that they
have seven children who have pre-
ceded them to the heavenly world
and seven living with the parents
in their humble home in China
Grove. Five of these fourteen
children, born to this happy
union, were born in the month of
January, as follows: Walter F.,
born January 25, 1888; Gladis A.,
born January 9th, 1890; Oscar
R, born January IS, 1892; Evan
L., born January Is, 1906; and
Banks D., born January II, 1908.
It Is doubtful whether the like
can be found in any family in the
State.
A FRIEND OF THE FAMlLY.-N.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-06-24
A Few Rabbit Facts,

In 1852 two rabbits we're i'm.
ported into Australia from Eng
land. These arrivals in that con-
tinent now number billions, and
are a great pest. Five rabbits eat
as much grass as one sheep. From
1878 to 1888 the Australian Gov.
ernment paid out $5, ,888.O15 as
bounty for the noxious animals at
the rate of 25 cents each, and
from 1883 to 1886 50, 100000 for
the same purpose. For some
years the rabbits died by mi lions,
owing to the drought, but since
1904, with the rainy seasons in.
creasing, they have again come
into notice. and bid fair to be-
come as great pests as in the past.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-06-24
They will Like 1t on Trial.

Rumblings and dissatisfaction
with the present plan of our pr'-
maries are growing apace, and will,
we think, in the early future shape
themselves into definite protest
against the system. The make
shift "scattering" primary now
in vogue has little to Recommend
it, though it has served to show
the need of a legalized primary,
in which candidates of all parties
NAV be voted fer on the same day
Under the present system it is
practically impossible for man
of limited means to contest for
State office, however we'll fitted or
capable he may be, and this fact
alone is sufficient to mako the
plan objectable. Of course, a
legalized primary with every coun-
ty voting on the same day, the
expense to be borne by the State
would not entirely eliminate the
expense to the candidate. but 1t
would simplify matters wonder
fully and relieve him of great
deal of the cost. It would also
give the States protection to the
ballot at tie primaries the same
as it now does in the elections,
and there would be no possibility
of "packing."
We have passed beyond the old
style convention, because it will
no longer satisfy the voters, with
its opportunities for subver,ing
the will of the people, and the new
system to be what is wanted and
needed must be perfected by legis'
lative act. This, and this alone
will meet the case, so the RECORD
for one favors taking the question
up at once, and we cast our vot'
for the legalized primary.-Rock.
Rount Record.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-06-24
Poverty in Human Heights.

Stature of the poor is less than
that of people in easy circum-
stances, whatever may be the age
of the individual considered.
For example, in poor children the
height is one meter forty-six CEN
timeters at the age of IA; in we'll
to-do children of the same age it
is one meter fifty centimeters
poor men stand one meter sixty
four centimeters high, whereas
men in easy circumstances of the
same age are one meter sixty-eight
centimeters in height, both being
of the same physical type.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-06-24
The Best Pills Ever Sold.

"After doctoring Is years for
chronic indigestion and spending
over two hundred dollars, nothing
has done me as much good as DR..
Kings New Life Pills. I consid-
er them the best pills ever sold:'
writes B. F. Ayscue, of Ingleside,
N. G. Sold under guarantee at
all drug stores. 25c,
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-06-24
ALBEMARLE AND STANLY COUNTY.
Rev, R. E. Neighbour, Of Salisbury, to Hold
Meeting at AIbemarle Shortly.
stanly Enterprise, June 18th.

stanly Enterprise, June 18th.
There is comfort in the knowl
edge that home-raised fruit il
now being marketed. But for tht
fact that we are in the throes o.
a Republican panic, general gooe
feelings over the situation would
prevail.
DR.. J. 1. Campbell purchased
one of the auctioneered lots on
Hearne Heights last week. He
informs us that he has also in.
vested in q lot at Norwood, and
will probably move to the latter
place and locate III the near fu-
ture.
Rev. Mr.. Neighbour, of Sails
bury, who has been invited to
hold tent meeting III Albemarle,
writes to Mr.. Simms: my church
agrees that I come to Albemarle.
Let us now begin to plan and
pray. Will write ill a few days" :"
Mr.. Simms, of the First Baptist
church, says that some difficulty
is being encountered in securing a
suita BILE lot for the tent-to suit
everybody and Mr.. Neighbour; !;
but he hopes by next week to be
able to announce the location of
the tent in some suitable and
central place, and make definite
announcement to the meetings..
The "wet" Democrat is the fell
low our. Republican friends are
elbowing these days. Strange
how little these vote bidders think
it takes to make Democrat who
knows where he stands and who
has way of thinking for him.
self.
The auctioneering of lots last
week in our little city showed
that Albemarle dirt is greatly in
demand. DR.. V. A. Whitley sold
several lots nicely located, con-
venient to the graded school and
to the business part of town.
While these brought a reasonable
price, the figures were not in the
fancy column. The lots of SO
feet frontage averaged something
over $3.50. Those on Hearne
Heights sold around the sum of
500 apiece. The Cotton stables
brought something over $4,000.
But we understand that title has
not been transferred on the latter.
There was no dearth of buyers,
and the sale of last Friday may
give impetus to the building busl-
ness in our town, which up to the
present has shown no signs of let
ting up despite the panic.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-06-24
AN INTERESTING CASE.
Sensational Trial Whieh Involves the
Character Of a WeII-KnoWn Minister.

The case of G. M. Billings
against The Charlotte Observer
was called in Rockingham Supe.
rior Court this morning. The
trial promises to be the most sem
sational and fiercely contested
ever tried IN the county. DAM
ages for $4,000 are being asked.
Learned and brilliant counsel ap-
pear on both sides. Messrs. Bur-
we'll and Cansler and Judge F. L.
Osborne, of Charlotte, and Scott
and Reid, of the local bar, appear
for The Observer Company, while
Messrs. Glidewell and Lane and
A. D. Ivie, of this county, and
Col. J. T. Morehead and E. T.
Justice, of Greensboro, represent
Billings.
About fifty witnesses appear in
the case. The majority of them
are from South Carolina and
among them are some of the most
prominent Baptist ministers IN
that State. Judge George W.
Ward, of Elizabeth City, is pre-
siding at the trial.
The plaintiff opened the case
with the introduction of Billings
as first witness. He denied the
charges preferred by the church
at Blackville, South Carolina,
from which he was dismissed
while pastor. The letters which
Billings was said to have written
the negro house-girl vera produced
in court and placed IN evidence.
He denied the authorship and
called them forgeries.
Witnesses who are familiar with
his handwriting swore that the
letters are in Billings own proper
handwriting. However, several
handwriting experts will be intro
duced by both sides. The case is
being warmly contested and will
no doubt consume the remainder
of the week.
D. A. Tedder, of Charlotte,
former lawyer, is employed as
court reporter and is taking the
testimony. The feature of the
trial today was the reading to the
jury by Judge Osborne of letters
alleged to have been written by
Billings to Katherine Moore, the
negro servant girl, which were Sc
cured by some of the members of
Billings church and which, when
read IN church conference, caused
the sensation, on account of which
this case has been brought
Reidsville special 10Th, to Char.
lotte Observer.
The above trial came to close
Sunday. The jury held that the
charges made by the Observer
were true and assessed the Obser-
yer $4,000 damages. Being a
little out of the ordinary to find
one not guilty and then fine him
too the judge set aside the verdict
and a new trial was granted.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-06-24
STATESYlLLE AND IREDELL COUNTY.
Case Against Hampton Dismissed. Sheriff
Summers Receives Anonymous Letters.
statesvilIe Landmark. June 1918.

| Statesville e Landmark. June 1919.
The case of the United States
government against Frank A
Hampton was tried in the FEEDER.
al Court at Charlotte Friday and
was dismissed. The indictment
was brought against Mr.. Hampton
as president of the Bad Debt Col.
lection Agency and charged him
with using the United States
mails to defraud. Messrs. Arm.
field & Turner, of Ssatesville, rep
resented the defendant.
J. A. Hartness' residence, near
ly mile from the corporate
limits, is now lighted by electri-
city, being the first of the surbur-
ban residences to connect with
the current of the Southern Power
Company, which is controlled by
the city. By and by electric
lights and electric power will be-
come almost as common in the
rural districts as the telephone.
DR.. A. B. Burns, formerly of
Maysville, Ca, recently of Allan.
ia, has been in Statesville for a
few days prospecting and it is
understood will locate here for
the practice of his profession,
DR.. Burns was recently connected
with hospital in Atlanta:
G. L. Turner, of Monbo, who
spent yesterday in town, says the
main part of the dam for the Tur-
ner Cotton Mills on East Monbo
(on the Iredell side) is completed
with the exception of filling in
the waterways, and the founda-
tion for the buildings is being
laid.
A portion of Otto Henry's
thumb, on his left hand, was
mashed off Friday morning by
being caught in the heav y door of
a safe in the store of his father,
R. F. Henry. The injury is a
very painful ope.
Sheriff Summers has received
an anonymous letter, postmarked
Eufola and signed ga Friend that
Knows" which is plainly intend
ed to intimidats the sheriff with
reference to case now pending.
1t might be just as we'll to say
that the sheriff is not the sort
that scares easily and the writer
of the letter is inviting trouble.
Mrs. Mary Tatum, an aged and
esteemed lady of Davie county
who was known to quite a number
of Statesville people, died Tues.
day at her home at Pennington.
She was about Is years old ard is
survived by three children, one of
these being Rev, Frank Tatum.
who is in China as missionary
of the Baptist church. The death
of the aged mother is deeply
mourned by a large number of
relatives and friends in DAVE and
Iredell.
Robert S. Holiday, colored,
paid the special privilege tax to
Sheriff Summers yesterday to
practice medicine in Iredell. He
is the only negro doctor in the
county.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-06-24
LEXINGTON AND DAVIDSON COUNTY.
Tax Paying a Hard Job. A Plea to Pay
Promptly.
Lexington Dispatch, June 18th.

| ilVMPuys
| Lexington Dispatch. June 18th.
Paying taxes is, next to dying.
the hardest thing to do in the
world. Nobody likes to pay tax,
and many do not pay at all, and q
great many pay only part OF
what they should pay. Very many
put off paying to the last hour,
and that is what we have in mind
here. The sheriff must settle
with the state. It is law. While
most Davidson county folks have
paid. there are still some who
have not paid, and this issue car
rles the last call for payment.
Paying taxes is duty of citizen.
ship, and real good citizen will
pay, if he can, and most can,
promptly. There is no use put.
ting off the fatal day. Might as
we'll pay it one time as another,
If all paid soon after it became
due, the business of the town,
county and state would be run
smoother.
The farmers made good time
last week near here in spite of
showers and are now practically
through with wheat harvest.
Threshing will begin almost i'm
mediatly, as many people desire
to put their grain on the market
before the price falls off. Some
new threshing machinery has
been purchased IN the county this
year.
The cnunty commissioners and
the superintendent of health, DR..
D, j. Hill, forming the board of
health, met last week to hear
complaint from parties near Lake,
who allege that health is menaced
by standing water and flood in
creek caused by work on the rail-
road. No definite decision was
reached III regard to it.
E. The heavy rains of the past two
weeks, especially the rainsSunday,
havs washed loads of the top
dressing from the macadamized
streets and the cutters and catch
catch basins have been filled with
it. The naked rocks III the streets
are beginning to show. In some
places serious washes have been
made. 1t would appear that the
task of keeping up the improved
streets is going to be one that re.
quires promptness and much
work.
For a week force of surveying
for tho Southern Power Company,
of Charlotte, has been working
through this section, surveying
for a line from Salisbury to
Greensboro. The party was in
charge of o. A. Meyer. This
great power concern, one of the
largest in the land, has a plant
on the Catawba river below Char
lotte, and is already supplying
electrity to a large number of
towns, both for street lighting
and for power. 1t is not improb-
able that the power may be taken
here by manufacturers. Mean
while Whitney, which rightfully
should furnish al. this section
with ''juice," is doing nothing.
The immense work is suspended
and there appears to be nothing
in sight, The plant, of course,
will be completed in time, as mil
lions have already been expended.
Although there is more or lsss
talk about county candidates., we
have heard no mans name men
toned for the house.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-06-24
STATE NEWS.
From All Parts Of the State. Items Con-
densed for Busy Readers.

| W. S~SJ
The prohibition law for Nc
Dowell went into effect June LIST
and as result of the new Law
there was nothing doing in tn
mayors court last week. Mayo
Wood reports that not a single ar
rest was made last week excep
for offenses committed previous
to June 1st.-Marion is now 6
dry town, the act passed by the
legislature over a year ago making
the town dry being put into opera
tion June 1st. A large crowd was
here Saturday to bid "Old Booze
farewell. They came from far and
near, some of course to look Oh,
others to clay by a little in case
of Sickness" etc.-and suit cases,
grips, oil cans, jugs and tele.
scopes were in evidence on every
hand and when the saloons closed
the supply was about exhausted
Marion News,
Turner Ostwalt, of Turnersburg
township, Iredell, received a ship
ment of % foxes-last week from
Missouri, and turned them loose
in the hopes of having hunts this
fall and winter.
Rosa George, a negro cocaine
fiend in Greensboro, held up a
little girl on the street who had a
dollar given her by her mother to
pay rent, and took the money,
spending it for cocaine. She was
arrested and jailed.
1t is stated in the Enterprise
that some people live in High
Point who make it a business to
go around after dark and spit to-
bacco juice on the show windows
of every merchant in town.
The Monroe Enquirer says: A
COW belonging to W. H. Helma,
who lives in the northern part If
the county, swallowed a peeled
hickory stick, sixteen inches long,
some time ago. That stick cane
out of the cows side one day last
week, and while the COW did not
"live to tell the story" she lived
all right, is getting we'll and is
seemingly suffering no bad effects
from her strange experience.
Wilson F. Perry, being carried
from Edgecomb county to Raleigh
to spend a year in prison for
forgery, leaped from the train as
it passed Auburn, in Wake county,
and made his escape. The officers
fred at him, but he never stopped
if be was hit. The train was
moving along whan he jumped.
w. F. Burns. of Jackson county,
N. c., tells the officers of Spartan
burg that while making trip
across Panther mountain with his
pretty young wife, she was seized
by six men, who beat him and
carried away his wife. This is
said to have happened in Green
vile county, S. G. The officers
are investigating the affair.
News from tie cotton crop of
the state Is that the crop is doing
finely and there is every prospect
for a good one. The state agri-
cultural department has sold
$92,OO worth of fertilizer tags
this year, against $4,000 year
ago, but this excess doesen't mean
more cotton. The fertilizer is
put into other crops.