Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-12-07
LEXINGTON AND DAVIDSON COUNTY.
Baxter Shemwe|I Trying to Escape Jail.
PoWe at a Corn Shucking.

Lexington Dispatch, Dec, 1st.
The supreme court last week de
cided that the town Of Thomas
vile must pay Mrs. Tics 500
damage in her suit against th'
town.
O. L. Stoner, inspector of cross
ties for the Southbound railroad
accepted between five and sia
thousand ties during November,
The ties are bringing 40 cents
each, from which it Is seen thai
the Southbound is spending mon
ey around in the county.
The Crowell Furniture Com.
pany's plant and property has
been transferred to J. T. Hedrick
and Dermott Shemwell, they have
purchased the whole lot for rs
per cent. of the appraised value
thereof, which amounted to $7;-
600.
Oder Workman, of Silver Hill,
says that about a dozen mon are
at work in the Silver Hill mine,
taking out the water and making
repairs, and also taking out some
very fiue ore. The new owners { f
the mine are preparing to do bus
mess.
Sheriff Delap and Deputy Sher-
if Jones, the latter of Rowan
county, hunted around Llnwood
Sunday for the negro Poe, who
stabbed his wife in Spencer; but
they found no trace of him. It
is said that the negro came ovor
into Davidson and actually at
tended a corn shucking near LIN
wood, while the officers we're
securing the country for him.
The brick work on the first story
of the Jewel cotton mill, Thomas
Vile, is almost done and the bull
ding is taking shape very fast.
The entire plant will DO enclosed
by the first of the year. Work on
the Amazon cotton mill is now
under full sway and it is rapidly
heing ba,lt. The erection of two
cotton mills has brought a large
number of new citizens to Thom-
asville.
The annual birthday and
Thanksgiving barbecue at the
home of B. B. Young in Boone
township was held Thursday.
Each year this is quite an event
and many people attended. This
year abont Is friends and rel
atives we're present. 1t was the
10Th birthday of Mr.. Young and
folks from Davidson, Rowan, Ire
dell and Davie helped to make the
day pleasant. Barbecued pig and
other good things we're eaten. Mr..
Young has three brothers, one of
whom, Rev. ]. A. Young, was
present. He is 70. Mr.. Young
has large family, there being 18
great-grandchildren.
Sunday night between ten and
eleven o'clock fire of unknown Or
igin destroyed the home: ::ot Eli E.
Lopp on Salisbury street near the
Wennonah cotton mills. The
blaze was first discovered by one
of the boarders in the Lopp home,
who found the we'll house and
smokehouse in flames. This
small building was close to the
kitchen and within an incredibly
short time the fire had attacked
the dwelling and swept through it
with such speed that the inmates
barely had time to get out of dan.
ger, and two of the children had
very narrow escapes. The family
lost it's personal effects and cloth
ing and practically nothing of the
contente of well.provided home
was saved.
A Greensboro dispatch of Sun.
day says: "App'ication is to be
made to Governor K,tchin for a
communication of the sentence OF
Baxter Shemwell, formerly Of
Lexington, who was convicted at
| the February term Of Guilford
| superior court of al assault with
] a deadly weapon and sentenced te
iail for fivs months. Shemwel
y carried the case up to the upreme
| court and that body a short time
ago re-afirmed the finding of thu
lower court. The governor viii
be requested to commute the sen
! tence from term in prison to {
Ga H.