Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1910-05-25

days no intelligent community
can afford to hang back when the
cause of education calls for help
We might add that no intelligent
community will.
J. H. Eller, who was arrested
some weeks ago in Spencer for
taking off a horse and buggy be-
longing to J. F. Hedrick. and who
was placed in Rowan jail, was
brought here Monday afternoon
by Deputy Sheriff F. S. Sink, and
placed in jail. The charge against
him has been changed to cruelty
to animals. He secured the team
to 20 few miles out in the coun-
try, and kept on till he got to
Spencer. But for him the jail
would be empty, as it has been for
some time.
That the subsoil of this section,
the reddest of red dirt, will pro-
| duce without fertilizer or other
addition to it, has been demon
started here in town where q yard
was leveled up with the dirt that
was left over when the sewer
bitches were filled. A workman
by misunderstandil g sowed blue
grass seed in the plain dirt as
taken from depth of from five
to Is feet under the surface, and
to the surprise of his employer, a
rank growth followed and to-day
there is as pretty stand of blue
grass as can be found. Indeed, it
is much better stand than on
another section of the same prop
erty where the grass was put in on
3 t6ftlllZ6d SOIL.
Eugine No. 100 with a string of
ten fat cars is the first South.
bound train. It arrived Thursday
via Greensboro from Roanoke and
went to work on the tracks laid
south of the Southern crossing,
where there are, counting side
tracks, now two miles of road.
This week everything will be in
readiness for laying track toward
Fairmont and force of 100 men
will put down o good dea! of rail
erch day. Supt. A. W. johnson
has been here IN charge of the op-
erations. Work on the under
ground crossing of the Southern
and Southbound is going on.
This is very costly piece of con-
struction, and the masonry alone
will cost 100000.
For 10 days the most absorbing
topic has been the post office ques-
tion and the citizens have been
busy speculating as to the name of
the aspirant who will wln the ap.
pointment. So far as known the 3
mon who stand nearest the plum
are Victor Humphreys, Postmas-
ter J. G. Walser and T. E. Nc
Crary, although the only applica'
tions that have been filed are
those of Messrs. Humphreys and
Walser. Mr.. Humphreys is
democrat but he has the backing
of the secretary of the navy. Mr..
Meyer, who likes our townsman
so we'll that he is willing to lay
aside political differences and
make Mr.. Humphreys postmaster.
At first few had any idea the de-
mocrat would come within a mile
of the appointment, regarded his
candidacy as joke and laughed
about it. All such have had rea-
son to change their opinion. Mr..
Humphreys "pull" is stout. He
and Mr.. Meyer hunted quail TO-
gether for several seasons pest,
and Mr.. Meyer is bringing his
great influence to bear on the
powers that be. So good are the
chances of the democrat that there
are grave misgivings among the
republicans and whether Mr..
Humphreys lands or NOS, he has
certainly made the G. O. P. in
this neck of the woods sit up and
take close notice. He has 8
powerful local backing, having
received endorsements from q
great many of the. people of the
town.