Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-07-27
STATESVILLE AND IREDELL COUNTY.
Bows Whereabouts Still UunkoWn. Fannie
Gillespie Married.
statesville Landmark, July 20 y

ply pastor of the First Presby ter:
an church, left last evening with
Mrs. Wharey for their form el
home at Dqvldson The last ol
the week they VIII join the T son,
Prof. Jas, b. Wharey, on tril
to Canada.
Geo. NJ. Steele, the aged colored
citizen Hhp has been IN the employ y
of the Wallace Bros. Co FIR many
years, and Fannie Gillespie, the
aged crlored woman who was
charged wit being implicated III
the murder of the Lyerly family
in r wan county some years ago,
and who has made h~r home here
since the case was thrown out of
court after the lynchlng Of the
murderers, we're married Satur-
day evening Steele's wife died
about year ago and he needed a
hor sekpepnr.
Baxter Scott, young man who
lives IL Bloomfield. las a bull t
hole almost entire Y through his
thigh as the result Of he accident
al discharge If pistol III his OWL
hands Sunday Afternoon about 3
o'clock. Two other yruMg Nell
of the community call d on Scott
Sunday afternoon and asked to SEE
his pistol aud while Sc Jtt was
handling the weapon IN the pres.
ence Cf his friends he accidently
pulled the trigger and bullet
entered the t1eshy part OF his leg
He was taken to the sanatQrlum
later aud the bullet, which had
barely missed the bone and had
passed almost entirely through the
hmi5, was removed.
The whereabouts Of Fey kurlee,
the 15-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs 7. J Kurlee. who disappear
ed rather mysterlUusly four weeks
ago this morning, are still un-
known to his parent. aud they are
becoming very anxious about him.
The boy was last seen by acquaint
ances at point near the plant Il
the Statesvile Safe & Table Co.,
where he had been employed for
some time, and where he went
from there is what is puzzl.ng his
parents and the cfficers. He had
lust been to the office Of the Safe
q Table company and collected
tie wages due him, and had re-
marked Oh leaving the factory
that he was gong back home. 1t
was known that the boy had saved
about $50 in cash and as the mon
ey cannot be found at home it is
supposed that he had it Oh his
peIsOu at the time. He was q
rather backward and bashful boy,
had never been away frunl home
very much AID his iather says he
knows of no reason why he should
have run away. At times the
father feurs that his son has met
with foul play; that he was pro-
badly killed for his money and his
body disposed of.
The fifteenth annual picnic for
the benefit of the Barlum Sprlngs
Orphans Home will be held i'll
Tempieton's Grove, Mooresville,
next Thursday, goth. L. G. Cald-
we'll, of StatesviIle, will deliver
the address.
J.. B. Bristol was this week COM
missioned by 3ov. Kitchen ordi-
nance officer of the State Guard
with the rank Of major. The APP
poiutment was given Mr.. Bristol
without solicitati IN. He was on
the staff of Gov. GIeun and was
in the small arms practice depart
ment of the State Gnard.
Miss Jane Summerell, daug ter
of Dr.. aud Mrs. Mitchell Summer
ell, of Rowan county, uudcrwel.
all operation for appendicitis at
the sauatorlum a few days age
and her condition is favorable.
Mrs merell, who was here
with her daughter and visited
friends in Statesville and vicinity,
returned home Wednesday.
Mrs. Wiley Horton, who lives
north of town, was painfully III.
jured few davs ago by being
knocked down and trampled by
two cows. She was leading the
COWS to pasture when they became
boisterous and in some name,
knocked her down and then walk