Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1912-08-07
THE CAROLINA WATcAMAN
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cided to locate in Fayetteville fol
the practice of these s~pecialties.
The thirty-fourth Annual Ma.
sonic picnic of Mocksvi'le takes
place tomorrow. This is always
quite an event and numbers of
people from Salisbury and Rowan
County attend. Rev. Plato Dur
ham will deliver the address of
the occasion.
The:Rowan Cou ty Mutual Fire
Insurance Go , is holding its an
nual session in the court house
here today. DR.. G. M. Van
Pc >le is the president cf this com.
pauy and A W. Winecoff is the
secretary-brsasursr.
The managers of the Labor Day
celebration, which is to take place
at Speucsr. September End, have
arranged to have the great parade
form on South Main Street, in
Sal sbury, and then proceed to
Spencer. This will give every.
body abundant room aud cppos.
tunity 70 see the whole thing.
Work on the bridge connecting
Rowan and Davie counties is now
in progress The Roanoke Iron
and Bridge Go of Virginia, he's
the contract.
w L. Kluttz has gotten in his
goods, l09 West hines Str and
is now ready for business. He
will appreciate q portion of your
patronage.
A voting contest which has
been in progress here for a month
or so. conducted by a number of
she merchants, closed Thursday
night. The principal contestants
we're the Elks aud Eagles. The
count showed the Eagles had re-
ceived 600. 600 votes and the
Elks 5000. 600, Each vote repre-
sented that l cent had been spent
with some of the merchants in
he contest.
The new turntable at Spencer
is 80 feet in length This is the
largest on the system.
The Southern has begun some
extensive improvements at Spen-
Der. A new large concrete coal
chute, a modern sand plant aud
new culder pits are being built.
The coal chute is to be modern in
every way and will be able to
handle 100, 900 tons of coal Gin
der per day.
G. ". Harrington. of Litaker
Township, has decided to open a
clock and sewing machine repair
shop in Salisbury. He will be To-
Gated on North. Main Street, OPP
posite the'court house. near Ooun-
Gil, with Mr.. Lsntz, the jsweler.
Mr., Harrington has been dong
repair work for q number of years
and is quite proficient. The edi-
tor is indebted to Mr.. Harrington
for 3 lot of nice grapes.
A number of Salisbury Juniors
attended the district meeting of
the order in Charlotte last Thur.
day and report q very pleasant
and profitable meeting The
next district meeting will be held
in Salisbury Thursday and Friday,
November 18th and 10Th.
Quite a number of folks passed
through Salisbury last Thursday
Cd route to Charlotte to attend
the good roads meeting there.
Many of them travelled in auto
m obiles.
Tomorrow is the anniversary Of
the Nazarath Orphans home at
Crescent. A splendid program
has been arranged for the occas-
sion and a SPECIAL train will be
u from Burlington via Salisbury
that day, leaving Salisbury early
in the morning
The Grimes Milling Company
is building a 10000 to 2 600 bush.
ell grain elevator at their mill in
tho North Ward here. This will
be q valuable aid in the unloading
of wagons and care.
A number of reel teams will
contest for honors on Fourth
Street. in Spencer, on Labor Day.
These teams are practicing now tc
got IN trim. The crack shop
team will be among the contest
ants.
Hon. n. s. Ward will speak in
the graded school auditorium at
Spencer tonight i'll hahslf Of the
candidacy of Judge Walter CLARK
for the United States Senate.
Z,b Johnston. oolored, was tax
ed $76 aud costs. making q total Of
so2, by Judge Miller. last week
for making a secret assault on
w Ii Alexander, col.
The State Board of Elections
met in Ral,igh Monday aud de-
cided on the size of the ballots
far the coming election and named
the election boards for the vari.
ous COUNTIES. The Rowan cleo.
ton board is composed of two
Democrats, Edwin Gregory, Esq ,
and c. F. Montgomery, and oul
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