0. THE SEMI-WEEKLY LANDMARK, TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1899. LANDMARK PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS TUESDAY. JUNE 27, 1899. LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
MINOR MATTERS. -Mr. W. E. Anderson's fine milch cow died yesterday morning.
-The big white horse belonging to Mr. Geo. M. Foard died yesterday afternoon. -Mrs.
Fred Conger, of Chambersburg, has been seriously ill for some time and her condition is not improved. -The work of tearing down the old court house is proceeding rapidly. Nothing bat the bare walls is left Mr. J. B.
Connelly has moved his law office into the brick office on east Broad street so long occupied by the late E. B. Stimson. -Mr. W.
D. McLelland, of Concord township, is in town with samples of 160 bales of cotton, which he will put on the market. -The magistrates of the county can get their copies of the laws of 199, those enacted by the last Legislatore, by calling on Register of Deeds Turner. -The monument to Col. Reuben Campbell is to be unveiled to-day at Snow Creek.
A number of town folks have gone out to participate in the ceremonies. -Mr. R. F. Gaither, of Harmony, lost a fine horse last week.
It stepped in a hole while working to a reaper and fell, breaking its leg and necessitating its being killed. -Five colored men, sentenced from Caldwell Criminal Court to the Iredell chain gang, were brought from Lenoir last evening and lodged in jail here. They will be taken to the convict camp to day. -The Ladies' Missionary Society of Front Street church gave an ice cream supper last evening for benefit of the mission work in the mountains. The evening was a pleasant and profitable one.
-Messra. Ash Bros. are making preparations to rebuild their factory, which was destroyed by the recent storm. They will erect on the same same site a building of about the same size as the former one--four stories--but bave not decided whether the building will be of brick or wood. -The work of repairing the Baptist church, which was damaged by the storm, is progressing rapidly.
The building 18 now under cover again. The interior walls will have to be refinished. The overhead will be ceiled and a hard oil finish put on. When the work is completed the interior will be much improved. -Mr.
T. W. Frazier, the tinner, roofed the annex to the mill of Messrs. Stimpson Steele at Tarnersburg last week. Mr.
Frazier says he was impressed with the substantial progress made at Turnersburg within the past few years- -the improvement being very noticeable. The farmers in that section are thrifty and have good crop prospects. -In removing the roof from the old court house the workmen found that the timbers which supported the roof bad rotted where they rested on the wall plates. In some places the roof had sunk down and in others it was held by a very slender support and was in danger of falling in. This is evidence that a new court house is being built none too soon.
11 Crowder, known to the public as a vender of a remedy for all diseases, was in the mayor's court three times in the past four days. The third time- -last evening--was the charm and the doctor, who seemed to be languishing for country air, was sent to the chain gang for 30 days. The doctor's weakness is for spirits and his offence each time was drunk and down. Mrs. W.
M. Robbins and Mrs. D. Matt Thompson. who are the delegates from the Women's Missionary Society, and Mrs.
B. F. Long, manager, and Miss Annie Colvert, delegate, who will represent the Juvenile Missionary Society, expect to go to Concord Friday to attend the meeting of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Western North Carolina Conference. -Statesville's delegates to the K. of P.
meeting in Fayetteville have all returned, and all report a fine trip. The next session of the Grand Lodge will be held at Durham in April, 1900. Mr. I R. H.
Rickert was elected as the representative of this grand domain at the unveiling of the monument to Justin H. Rathbone, the founder of the order, at Utica, New York, on 27th of next July. -Mr. and Mrs. J.
P. Stroud, who live near the Messrs. Overcash's shops, in the west end of town, are both sick with fever. Mr. Stroud took sick first and his wife nursed him until she, too, was taken ill.
These people, who are deserving, are dependent upon their neighbors to care for them, and THE LANDMARK, of its own motion, directs attention to them in order that it may be seen that they are properly cared for. Mr. L. T. Stimpson's Barn Burned.
Mr. L. T. Stimpson, of Turnersburg, lost his barn by fire Sunday afternoon. The fire was discovered about 5 o'clock and in a short while the barn and its entire contents were destroyed.
It is not known how the fire originated. Mr. Stimpson's entire crop of wheat, estimated at 175 to 200 bushels, with some roughness and barness were burned. His stock were not in the barn at the time. Mr.
Stimpson estimates his loss at $500. Miss Lillian Stimpson is visiting relatives in Asheville. Miss Alma Newland, of Lenoir, is the guest of Misses Mattie May and Gassie Connelly. Mr. and Mrs.
0. C. Barkley and little son, who had been spending some time with Mr. Barkley's mother, Mrs. J.
M. Barkley, returned to their home in Washington Saturday. Miss Gertrude Robbins' many friends will be glad to welcome her home from New York. She is expected to-day. Mrs.
J. H. Hoffmann and children arrived from Baltimore Sunday night. Mr. Hoffmann joined his family in Greensboro on his return from Fayetteville and came on home with them.
Mrs. Hoffmann, who has been under treatment, is very much improved. Mrs. Louise Penick and Miss Hattie Easley, of South Boston, are visiting Mrs. T.
M. Mills. Mrs. Berta Williford, of Concord, is at her uncle's, Mr. L.
C. Caldwell. Mr. Eugene C. Ivey, who has been in a machine shop at Pittsburg, for some time, is spending a few days here with his sisters, Mrs.
G. M. Foard and Mrs. J. H.
White. Mr. James Mott came in from Raleigh Saturday to visit his family. He expects to return this week. Rev.
W. A. Wood, D. expects to leave for Asheville this week on his regular summer vacation. Mrs.
P. R. Patterson and children returned yesterday from 8 visit to relatives at Davidson and Charlotte. Mr. W.
R. Maxwell is at home for a few days. Mrs. J. P.
Burke is visiting in Asheville. Profs. D. Matt Thompson and W. R.
Thompson have returned from Morehead, where they attended the Teachers' Assembly. The former stopped in Chapel Hill for 8 few days. Miss Fannie Long, of Elmwood, is visiting Miss Tossie Phifer. Misses Minnie McKoy, of Alexandria, and Katie McKoy, of Huntersville, are visiting their sister, Mrs. Jno.
E. Cochrane. Mr. H. M.
Tanner, representing the Southeastern Tariff Association, is here looking into the question of revising the insurance rates. Miss Susie Perkins, of Morganton, is expected here to-morrow to visit Mrs. Judge Furches. Mrs. F.
E. Bradley and children are visiting in Charlotte. Mrs. W. D.
Shoemaker has returned from a visit to Concord. Mr. Shoemaker went down Sunday and accompanied her home. Mr. C.
R. Austin went to Concord Friday evening and returned Sunday evening. Mrs. Austin, who had been visiting relatives there for some weeks, came home with him. Mr.
Isidore Wallace returned from Baltimore Sunday evening. Miss Lucy Arbogast, who has had charge of the millinery department at Wilhelm Mills', left Friday morning for Buena Vista, Rev. Julius Rogers, of Florida, is visiting relatives in Fallstown and Davidson townships. This 1S Mr. Rogers' first visit since 1866.
Mrs. S. Moses and children are at Davis Sulphur Spring. Mr. Moses and Mr.
F. J. Axley spent Sunday there with their families. Mr. J.
A. Matheson, of Taylorsville, recently elected superintendent of the Durham Graded Schools, registered at Hotel Iredell last eve- ning. Notices of New Advertisem*nts. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS, Mr. John W.
Thompson, commissioner of immigration, Raleigh, will assist landowners to dispose of any lands they may have for sale. Collector Harkins gives notice seizure of property for violation of internal revenue laws. The State Normal and Industrial College is one of the foremost institutions in the South for the education of women. Young ladies who desire to enter the school should with President McIver, atGreensboro. Dr.
W. H. Wakefield, oculist and aurist, of Charlotte, will be in Statesville for the practice of his profession July 27th, for one day only. A pair gold-bowed spectacles to this office. has been lost." Reward if returned The Savannah Market wholesale produce and commission merchants, solicits consignments.
Messrs. F. A. Sherrill Co. discuss shoes.
J. P. Flanigan's Sons point out the merits of "quick meal steel ranges." The First Cotton Blooms. Mr. J.
W. Gudger, who lives in south Iredell, on the Mecklenburg line, has for many years sent THE LANDMARK the first cotton bloom of the season. This year he is ahead as usual. Saturday's mail brought two blooms from him which were plucked on that day-24th. One of the blooms was red, and as cotton blooms turn red the second day after opening it is evident that this particular bloom opened on Friday, the 23d.
Mr. Gudger says: "These blooms were cultivated by one of my tenants, John Johnston, colored. John is one of the old reliable kind of colored farmers. He has been farming with me for a number of years." Another cotton bloom was also brought in Saturday by Mr. C.
W. Hoover, who found it on his farm that day. This bloom was red and is supposed to have opened Friday. Mr. Hoover lives six miles from town, in Barringer township, and his is the first bloom reported in this section, where the cotton is not so far advanced as in south Iredell.
A. rent FOX, privately guardian for of the Jemima crop year of Hatchett, 1900, will all the lands belonging to the estate of his ward about 100 acro8, Rent to be paid with part of the crop raised, A Dwelling Burned. Mr. Austin Davidson's home, a substantial ro-story dwelling about three miles southwest of town, was burned with the greater portion of its contents Friday night. A colored tenant on Mr.
Davidson's farm first gave the alarm, but when Mr. Davidson was aroused it was too late to save anything except some clothing, bedding and other articles on the first floor. The fire was discovered about 1 o'clock and its origin is unknown but it is supposed to have originated from the stove flue. Mr. Davidson is said to have had $800 of insurance in the Farmers' Mutual Insurance Co.
on the house and contents, but this will not, it 1s supposed, cover the entire loss. A Native of Iredell Dies in Illinois. A paper published at Hillsboro, contains a notice of the death of Mr. James Lee Mills, which occurred at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J.
B. White, near Morrisonville, on the 10th of this The deceased was 85 years, eight months and one day old. Mr. Mills was a native of Iredell and was related to the Mills family of this county. He was a third cousin of 'Squire Billy Mills, of Statesville.
He married Lucinda Summers, of this county, and nine children were born to them, four of whom survive. In 1851 Mr. Mills moved with his family to Illinois and settled in Montgomery county. In 1854 his wife died and he afterward married a Mrs. Field, who died some years ago.
Two children of this union survive. Mr. Mills was well known in his adopted home and was a highly respected citizen. He was member of the Lutheran Church. Three years ago he suffered a stroke of apoplexy from which he never recovered and which finally resulted in his death.
Four New Made Graves. Mrs. Julia Robeson, daughter of the late John Moore, died at the home of her husband, Mr. A. C.
Robeson, near Amity, Saturday, and was buried Sunday at Bethesda, Rev. W. R. McLeliand conducting the funeral services. The deceased was about 30 years old.
She leaves two little girls and her husband to mourn their loss. She was a good woman, consistent Christian and kind neighbor. Mrs. S. M.
Sprinkle died in New Hope township Friday at 6 a. m. and was buried Sunday at New Prospect church. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Mr.
Gwaltney. The deceased had passed her fourscore years, being 83 years old. Mrs. Sarah Lambert and her infant child both died yesterday morning at the old Kestler place, south of town, about 1 o'clock and were buried yesterday afternoon at New Perth, Rev. J.
H. Pressly conducting the funeral services. The deceased was quite young and was the daughter of the late Jas. P. Kestler.
Mr. Wesley Benfield, who lived on Mr. Austin Davidson's place, three miles from town, died morning at 10 o'clock, aged 70 years. The remains will be interred at Bethlehem church at 3 o'clock this after- noon. The "Big Store" Broken Into.
About 4 o'clock yesterday morning Night Watchman J. N. Morgan heard the crashing of glass. He was then not far from the square, and knowing that the noise was on west Broad street, he passed rapidly down that street on the north side to Hall's drug store and crossed toward the store of the Wallace Bros. Co.
At this point he saw a man run out of the recess in front of the east door of Wilhelm Mills' store, with his arms full of clothing. Mr. Morgan's pistol failed to fire at first, but pursuing the thief around the corner into Meeting street he shot at him twice. It is not known whether the shots took effect or not but the thief dropped the stolen goods and fled with the wings of the morning on down Meeting street and across by the roller mill. Realizing that the game was too swift for bim, Mr.
Morgan picked up the stolen property and returned to make a further examination of the store. The thief had taken a large rock and with one blow had shattered one of the plate glass of the large show window next to the east door. As the entrance to the door is vestibaled he could not be seen from the street. After breaking the glass be went into the show window and got a full suit of clothes, two extra pair of pants, a pair of patentleather shoes, shirts, a full suit of underwear, a silk handkerchief, collars, cuffs, cuff buttons, a tie--in fact he had evidently selected during the day a complete outfit of gents' fur. nishings, and only the approach of the policeman prevented his getting away with them.
Mr. Morgan is satisfied that the robber was negro but there is as yet no clue to him. Messrs. Wilhelm Mills think all the goods taken were recovered but the plate glass cost them over $50 and the stolen articles are somewhat damaged. It was a bold attempt, that came near being successfal.
A Card. To the People of Statesville: We take this method of again thanking you for the very kind and generous assistance given us in our recent misfortune, for which we feel deeply grateful. The numerous favors shown us will never be forgotten, and we desire each and every one who has assisted us to feel we personally thank him, and that we shall endeavor, in every way possible, to show our appreciation of their kindness. Sincerely yours, ASH BROS. Statesville, N.
June 26, 1899. The News of Taylorsyllle. Correspondence of The Landmark. The W. C.
T. U. held their monthly public meeting last Friday night in the Methodist church. Addresses were delivered by Rev. J.
H. Booth and Prof. J. A. White.
The young people of town had a "straw ride" to Salphur Springs last Friday evening. They reported a pleasant time. Several people of this place and surrounding country will attend the unveiling of the Campbell monument to- morrow. Rev. W.
R. Bradshaw, of Wilkesboro, passed through here Tuesday evening on his way to Saluda, in Polk county, to assist in holding protracted meeting. Prof. B. F.
Hendren, of Wilkesboro, was here this week. Deputy Collectors Halyburton, of Burke, and Mastin, of Wilkes, were here this week. Dr. E. W.
Moose went to Wilkes Wednesday on professional business. Mr. J. A. Boyden, of Salisbury, was in town yesterday to buy a bill of lumber from W.
P. Ingram Co. Mrs. Mamie Erwin, of Mooresville, is visiting her sister, Mrs. R.
B. Burke. J. H. Burke, was in Statesville last week.
Miss Minnie Jameson, of Greensboro Normal College, is visiting at the Stevenson House. Mr. Robt. West, of Catawba, is in town. A.
C. P. Taylorsville, N. June 27, 1899. A Moonlight Picnic Promises Resalta.
To the Editor of The Landmark: On last Friday evening your correspondent had the pleasure of attending a moonlight picnic at Cooper's-on-the-Catawba. The crowd was made up of young people from this place and vicinity, though Statesville was represented by several young men. Mr. W. M.
Cavin, of Florence, S. was master of ceremonies and exerted himself to make the occasion enjoyable to all. At 10:30 an excellent supper was served, after which many of the young people repaired to the pavilion while others strolled in the moonlight. The night was perfect- -so thought one man and maid, and while strolling beneath the magic influence of the moon, listening to the delicious ripple of the waves and the cadence of the far away music, a question was asked and answered by yes, then the curtain was drawn. Apropos of this event we hope some time in the sweet by and by to record an event wherein there will be Mendelssohn's masterpiece, a minister, presents, tears, cake and congratulations, some rise and a ring, old shoes orange blossoms, flimflam fuss and feathers, and "Brady, the Printer," will have had some extra cards to print.
Success to the most readable paper in the State. Ymo. Troutman's, N. Jane 26, 1899. Mr.
Cornellas Stricken With ParalyalsMrs. Freeze Hart. Correspondence of The Landmark. Mr. J.
F. Cornelius, who lives in the western part of town, suffered a slight stroke of paralysis Saturday. His whole body seemed to affected as well as his speech. Mrs. Jacob Freeze, while leading her cow to pasture early Sunday morning, was thrown down by the animal and right seriously hurt.
When found was unconscious but has since improved considerably. Rev. Dr. Wharey announced at the conclusion of Sunday morning's service that the mid-summer communion will be held the third Sunday in July, services to begin Wednesday night previous. Mr.
and Mrs. Geo. C. Goodman, who have been spending several days at Wrightsville, are expected home to-morrow. Mr.
and Mrs. E. L. Wilson and children, of Davidson, are visiting at Mr. R.
W. McKey's. Mr. C. P.
McNeely, of Salisbury, is visiting his father, J. R. McNeely. Mr. J.
F. Brawley returned from Fayetteville Friday. H. Mooresville, N. June 26, 1899, An Ex-Soldier Marries A Wife.
Correspondence of The Landmark. Mr. Adam Barnes Oxford, who so ably represented the manhood of Alexander county in the United States army in Cuba, has been faithfully walking in the paths of peace since his return. As evidence that his peaceful intentions are permanent, he was married on the 22d inst. to Mias Lottie McGee, daughter of Rev.
George McGee, of Wilkes. "None but the brave deserve the fair." Rev. D. W. Pool, pastor at Antioch, attended there last Sunday and commanion services were held.
Rev. O. W. Triplett has been called and has accepted the pastorate of Dover church. Gardens and crops are suffering some for want of rain.
Avilla, N. June 24, 1899. School Chart Litigation, Lincoln Journal. Mr. L.
L. Jenkins, cashier of the First National Bank of Gastonia, WaS here Tuesday. Mr. Jenkins' bank holds several thousand dollars of script issued in payment of school charts, several hundred dollars of which claims are against the former board of county commissioners of this county, and his visit here was to try to collect by suit, in a test case, claim for about $40. The case was heard by Esq.
J. 0. Allen, who held for the defendant commissioners. Mr. Jenkins appealed to the Superior Court.
(The Gastonia bank owns, or did own, some claims against this county on account of school chart orders. Payment was demanded at one time and -THE NEW ADVERTIsem*nTS. "Quick Meal" Steel Ranges. "QUICK MEAL" STEEL RANGES are first-class MEAL Ranges at POPULAR PRICES. The steel used is the very best-smooth and leveled heavy Centers and Linings.
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Mills Store. We have just received and placed on sale Two SPECIAL VALUES in Ladies' Oxford Ties. OUR FIRST OFFER is a DONGOLA LACED PATENT LEATHER TIP OXFORD, for $1.25. OUR SECOND OFFER is a "SOUTHERN" BUTTON OXFORD TIP of the same for $1.50. These are undoubtedly two of the best values ever offered in Ladies' Low-Cut Shoes.
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SELL YOUR HELP YOU Lands! The Department of Agriculture was authorIzed by the last General Assembly to advertise for owners such lands as may be offered it for sale. If you have FORENT, MINERAL. FARMING or TRUCKING LANDS, or WATER POWERS tor sale, correspond with JOHN W. THOMPSON. Assistant Commissioner, charge of Immigration, Raleigh, N.
0. June 4wks, FOR SALE. -Six-Room street. Good Cottage well on Kel- and outbuildings. Also vacant lot adjoining.
Apply to J. A. CONNER, Statesville, or W. H. YOUNG, 405 East Bixth Street, Charlotte, N.
June 20, 1899, DR. W. H. WAKEFIELD, OCULIST and AURINT, of Charlotte, Will be In Statenville at Hotel Iredell, on Thursday, July 27th, for the practice of his profession. Ho limita his work to the Eye, Nose and Throat.
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