Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1918-01-01

bile driver, is being held, charged
with the killing, pending a c~oroner's
inquest.
Washington.-A list of soldiers who
have been reported prisoners of war
in Germany, issued by the war depart
ment, include the following: Report
ed to be at a hospital, Lieut.. Alfred H..
Walker, Durham; at an unknown
camp, Corp. Klutz B. Lippard, Maiden;
Purley j.. Taylor, Stecoah; Robin
Walker, Weanes Ford; Samuel Win
stead, Spring Hope.
Wilmington.-R. H. Dorset, one of
the best known of the city's business
men and a Mason of statewide &C.
quaintance, died at his home here. He
was a past grand master of the grand
council of North Carolina, being a
Scottish Rite Mason.
Charlottesville health department
gave out Christmas greetings in the
announcement that only seven cases of
influenza were reported during the
day, this being the smallest number
reported in many days.
Greensboro.-A Curtis airplane was
wrecked here when it struck a tree
at the fair grounds. Lieut.. j. W, Cant
well and Sergeant B. Van Aker, in
fha machine acoaDa6 injury
MISUNDERSTANDING nerve was ex-
hibited by moonshiners who located a
still on the farm of DR.. j. M. Hodges,
a prominent physician of the La
Grange section, and within 400 yards
of his residence at that.
Raleigh.-Deputy Sheriff Ernest
Raines, Deputy Sheriff Stone and
Chief of Police Smith, of Apex, cap
tured an illicit distilling plant near
town. No one was found at the plant,
Wilmington.-Ensign Harry Shaw
was buried here with men and officers
of the naval reserve stationed here
acting as pallbearers. He died in New
York, during the week, of pneumonia.
Raleigh.-Mr. J. F. Stanback has
received a letter from his son, Lieut..
Jeffrey F. Stanback, stating that he
is at LIE Mons, France. Lieutenant
Stanback is a bacteriologist with the
American forces.
Kinston.-Mrs. Mary Moody and
John K. Moody were married recently
in Trent township, Lenoir county.
Each is 72 years of age. Magistrate
J.. G. Whitfield performed the cere-
mony. The bride was the widow of a
nephew of the bridegroom.
Bowden.-Ed Cooke, the 2S-year-old
white mar who eloped with 13-yearcld
Gladys. Baars, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Daniel Baars, has been arrested
and placed in Jail at Goldsboro to
await trial on the charge of seduction.
Wilson.-The town of S~tantonsburg,
nine miles east of Wilson on the Nor
folk Southern railroad, is forging to
the front. Besides several large enter
prises an oil mill to cost between $751;
900 and 500, 900 is contemplated.
Washington, N. CA letter receiv-
ed from Reg. Fulford by his parents
intimates that Battery B may soon be
on the way home.
Observation-Disclosures achieved
her goal of 5000 members for the Red
Cross and will be able to add more
when all reports are in. The message
sent to Atlanta headquarters announc-
ed 5000 memberships and the Win
ming of the goal fixed.
Hickory.-Mrs. Matt W. Ransom,
widow of the late Senator Ransom,
ry following an attack of bronchial
pneumonia at the age of 88 years.
Charlottesville committee of the
western North Carolina Conference Of
the African Methodist Episcopal
Church, in charge of preparations for
the celebration of the third centennial
of the arrival of the first of the negro
race in America has decided to erect
a memorial tablet at Kittrell COLES
at Kittrell, to commemorate this eveI,
Observation-Disclosures of the Ashe.
vile Bar Association are working hard
for the appointment of julius c. Mar
tin of this city as United States dis
trict judge for the western district, un-
der the new bill passed by Congress.
High Point.-A passenger train
struck an auto at Main street crossing.
driven by Druggist J.. A. Hart and hurl.
ed it so feet, greatly damaging the car
and strange to say, Mr.. Hart and o.
e. Harris tho athor nortv IN +ho ,-