Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-05-25
GOLD HILL.
EDITOR CAROLINA WATcHMAN:

EDITOR CAROLINA Waterman:
Your readers have not been hear
ing much from Gold Hill by the
frequency of the writing of this
correspondent. Though others
have been making weekly jottings
from here, so that the public has
not been kept in the dark as to
the happenings and progress in
our community.
We are still right much alive
and astir nowadays. The opera
ton of the mines and the opening
of the Troutman mire near here
keep up the business interests and
hopes of our people.
The general appearance of our
town and community has been
very much improved of late by
the cleaning up of shrubbery, the
burning of rubbish, and the white
washing of the town almost from
end to end. This adds not only to
it's appearance, but It's healthful-
ness. The health of our people
was rarely. if ever, better than
now.
The death of Mrs. Crissie Nc
Carnes on the Both of April was a
sad offair, though not unexpected.
She suffered a stroke of paralysis
about four years ago and lost fen
tirely the power of locomotion.
From that time until her death
| she was confined to her bed and
rolling chair. During these years
her health perhaps was never bet
ter, and she was cheerful and hap.
| ply The final stroke came only a
few days before death. She was a
; good woman and her absence
: makes a wide vacancy in the home
and community.
Your esteemed fellow citizen
and townsman, M. G. Rufty,
sprang a surprise on our commu-
nifty on last Tuesday, the 18th,
when he drove through the coun-
try in company with Rev. J. G.
Rowe. and was married, at 4 O.
clock of that day, by the coon
panying Presiding Elder to Miss
Esther Shaver, at the residence Of
G. F. Montgomery. The Elder
lost his seat in the buggy and went
HON con the tram, while Mr.. Ruff
ty drove home on the same even
ing with better company, Mrs.
Esther Shaver Rufty, The mar
riage was a very quiet one, very
few knowing anything of it until
the very hour. Miss Shaver was
one of our best and most popular
young ladies and we give her up
with reluctance and envy Sails
bury in that she makes that town
her future home.
The seasons have been quite ia
vorable this spring, the rains have
been opportune, and right now we
are in the midst of capious rains
which will bring forth the sprout.
ing corn and cotton seed with a
rush, and make the potato crop
where the plants have not been
injured or destroyed by the bugs.
We are new beginning to live
from the garden and the orchard.
The mustard aud lettuce, the cab
bage and: Irish potato, with the
strawberry and cherry, have al
ready made their appearance on
the table. The variety is great
and the outlook for a s%uperabun-
dant yield of all these with other
vegetables and fruits, is quite
promising.
The harvest season and the IA
millar "Bob White" of the par
fridge are Simultaneous. Both
are close at hand. The maturing
and ripening period is now on,
aid the oats and wheat fields are
we'll headed and filled with plump
grains, almost ready for the scythe
or the machine and the ubiqul-
tous cartridges are already whis-
thing around in greater number
than some people suppose and the
fall crop of birds promises to be q