Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-07-20
STATESVILLE AND IREOELL COUNTY.
Many Polls Reported InsoIvent, Near Beer
Dealers will Await Developments.
Statesville Landmarck, July 1916.

reported, r. l.. Freeze, whe
lives two miles from Statesvilie,
sent IN one Saturday which was
pulled Thursday.
Eight loaded coal cars of a
heavy dou'leheader freight train
were derailed at point some
miles north of Mooresville and
Winston line, Sunday night and
the track was blocked practically y
all day yesterday. Trains were
routed via. Statesvills. No one
was hurt in the wreck.
The "near beer' dealers who
announced last week their purpose
to continue business and test the
validity of the city ordnance i'm
posing a tax $500 later reconsid-
cred and have, it is understood,
discontinued the business. It is
supposed that dealers generally
will await the courts decision in
the cases begun in ,W,uston and
Charlotte
Joseph Welborn, the 17-months-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. E. T.
Ayers, of Rowan country. died
Sunday at 10: 80 o'clock at the
home of his grand parents Mr..
aud Mrs. John W. Ayers, corner
Center and Bell streets The
little fellow had been i'll for some
weeks and his parents brought
him to Statesville some days ago
and placed him under the. care Of
a local physician with the hope of
saving his life, but it was SON
realized that he could not live.
There was an error in Supt.
Whites report as to the humber
of polls and lnsolvents and he has
furnished Th.: Landmark the
corrected figures. There are in
the county 4 209 white polls and
l,943 Of these are returned inso!.
Vent wonder how many of these
lnsolyents vote at electioua?)
The number Of colored polls is
933 and 533 of these are returned
lnsolvent. The total number of
polls in the county is 5, 142 and
2, 476 of these, more than so per
cent, are returned as ins lvent.
The work of building the con-
crete walks at tle First Presbyter-
IAN chuch has about been com.
pleted. Rev Dr.. Wharey asked
the privilege of contributing the
amount necessary to build the
| walk from the entrance on the
north side of the church to West
E I'd avenue. The c>st was $50
In acknowledgements of d.. Wha-
rvs generosi y. John S. McRorie,
who had the work in charge, will
place this inscription On the walk {:
"Donated by Rev. j. M. Whary,
D. D , 1907 AS result of DR..
Whary's contribution, Mr.. Nc
Rorie had funds suffi ,ient to en-
tend the walks in front of the
church and on the north side
across the side awalk.
Mrs. A. J Dsveraux, who has
been conducting boarding house
on East Broad street, has broken
up housekeeping Temporarily and
left yesterday for Salisbury to
spend the summer with her daugh.
ter, Mrs E. w. McNeill.
The county com nissi ,ners have
instructed their clerk, Register Of
D oeds Boyd, to make a list of al
names on the tax scrolls marke &c
delinquent and place the list il
the hands of the solicitor for in
vestigation.
The Wilkesb-ro Chronicle re-
lates that a ''sonker suppnr anC
cakewalk" was pull d of at Mo
ravian Falls one night recently
aud after the cakes had been a
warde to the pr'ze walkers ant
the prettiest girl, the 'soukel
pie" was bid IN by R. Dol
Laws. "Sonker' is a new one or
The Landmark. Will some o
the wise enlighten?
Deputy Revenue Collector Davi
has returned from all fficial sril
through Rowan and Davidson
counties. He WAS away a weel
and III addition to collecting a lo
of special taxes he found and de-
stroyed an illict distillery plan