Miss Beulah Courtney, county nurse, Monday carried a boy from this county to Charlotte for examination and X-ray in a hospital there.
The Council of St. James Lutheran Church some months ago voted their pastor Rev. L.A. Thomas a two-month’s vacation which he has decided to spend in study in Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
Frank Mund, city building inspector, reports that during May he issued 10 building permits for work valued at $14,200. During the month he also issued five electrical permits, he reports.
The June meeting of the board of aldermen will be held at the city hall on Thursday night. The meeting is scheduled to being at 8 o’clock. It is not known how much business is to come before the meeting.
C.L. Taylor has purchased land in No. 10 Township from M.F. Teeter and J.S. Gray, according to two deeds filed Monday. He paid Mr. Teeter $100 and other valuable considerations and Mr. Gray $147.50, according to the deeds.
Rev. and Mrs. M.R. Gibson are spending the day in Charlotte attending a call meeting of the Presbytery which embraces Cabarrus county. Sessions of the Presbytery are being held in Sardis Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church.
Threats of rain Monday afternoon brought only a few drops. Heavy clouds hung over the city for several hours and while there were light precipitations several times, no beneficial rain fell. It is reported that light showers fell in various parts of the county.
The only echo here from the day of celebration for negroes in Salisbury Monday was a fistfight between two negro women. The fight started after the women alighted from a train here and later was renewed on Corbin street, the last encounter resulting in the arrest of the participants.
James Lilly, negro, charged with shooting Nathaniel White, another negro, was fined $150 when tried in recorder’s court Monday. For carrying a concealed weapon he was given a suspended sentence. White was not badly hurt, the bullet from Lilly’s “owl head” failing to penetrate the skin.
Miss Helen Eastabrook, state clothing specialist, is spending the day here with Miss Cooley, county home demonstration agent. This afternoon she is giving a demonstration in dress making to a number of women in the count, the demonstration being in the use of the foundation dress pattern.
From page 8 of the Concord Daily Tribune, June 1, 1926
Editor’s note: According to AI, James Lilly was likely carrying a cheap .22 or .25 pocket pistol. A poorly loaded. 22 short or a cheap black-powder cartridge could fail to penetrate the skin, especially if the power charge was weak, the gun was old, the barrel was short, the bullet hit at an angle or clothing absorbed the impact. Thanks for the information, Copilot.
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