from the NEW ERA, Shelby, NC, Friday, 4/12/1889 [microfilmed]: Part II [NOTE: This will be a long one! I am posting these as they tell where a number of folks were living in the time near the 1890 census.--- L.E.W.] CASAR NOTES Casar, April 6---Mr. George Cook and Miss Lydia Tillmon were married the other day at the residence of the bride's father. Mr. B.F. [Note: could be B.P.] Newton has moved into his new house out on the Whiteside road. Mr. A.D. Warlick has moved into his new house on the Shelby road. It is said that it is the finest house in this neighborhood. He is as good a farmer as you can find anywhere on Knob Creek. Mr. Ben Elmore has finished planting corn and has his fertilizer all out and ready to plant cotten. He has taken the lead this year. Mrs. J.A. Lackey, of Morganton, is visiting her husband at the commissary about a mile below Casar. It is rumored that there will be a depot built there when the railroad gets completed as it is a beautiful place, also being an outlet for Nos. 10, 11, and 8 as they all join right there. Mr. A.A. Peeler says he will furnish them the land free of cost. Mr. J. Brice, of Old Fort, has moved his family to Mr. Alexander Richard's to work at the house carpenter trade. Mr. J.T. Ramsey has returned from King's Mountain after two months sojourn. Mr. George Newton has gone to Reepsville on a flying visit. Mr. W.A. Crowder is visiting friends at Lattimore's. Mrs. Monroe Sain, of Reepsville, is visiting friends at Casar. RUTHERFORD RIPPLES (from the Rutherford Banner) We are informed that a small sized cyclone passed over the neighborhood of old Golden Grove Academy, three miles east of town, on Friday last, blew down the fences of Lawson Burge, colored, and took the roof off his house. No other damage was done. The following tax listers were appointed to list taxables for 1889: Rutherfordton, C. Barnett; Green Hill, T.F. Edwards; Union, W.L. Jones; Sulphur Springs, P.H. Gross; High Shoals, J.J. Camp; Colfax, W.T. Hill; Cool Spring, B. McMahan; Duncan Creek, T.J. Stroud; Golden Valley, J.L. Gamble; Logan's Store, W.J. Alexander; Camp Creek, J.F. Flack; Morgan, J.A. Nichols; Chimney Rock, J.M. Whiteside. Capt. W.L. Twitty informs us that in an old grave yard on Mrs. Camp's lands in Polk county is a grave, with a common granite headstone, with the inscription: "M. D. F., died Dec. 17th, 1789, .E71". He supposes the M.D.F. to be M.D. French, as he finds that name as the grantee of old patents recorded. The grave is within the inclosure of an old fort erected by the early settlers as a protection against Indians. The old ditch under the stockade can still be seen, and there are citizens living in the neighborhood who have seen the old timbers forming the stockade. The following is a list of magistrates appointed for Rutherford county by the last legislature: Rutherfordton, W.B. Wilson, D.R.Forbes, D.E. Huntley; Green Hill, A.P. Hill, Jonas Elliott; Union, Adolphus Brooks, William McKinney; Sulphur Springs, C.P. Tanner, I.N. Miller; High Shoals, John Goode, G.C. Harper; Colfax, T.L. Harrill, J.A. Cooper; Cool Springs, S.F. Harrill, F. Moore, B. McMahan, A.J. Green; Duncan Creek, Smith Gettys, W.B. Palmer; Golden Valley, J.L. Early, J.L. Gamble; Logan's Store, John Pope, Lindsay Purgerson; Camp Creek, J.W. Hampton, R.P. Geer; Morgan, T.C. Nanney, A. Higgins; Chimney Rock, P.F. Searey, F. Reynolds. (from the Forest City News) S.R. Hall, of Morgan township, killed a pig 14 months and 11 days old, which weighed 500 pounds net. Mr. I.N. Biggerstaff bought one ham that weighed 30 pounds and one side tipped the beam at 90 pounds. BELWOOD BRIEFS Belwood, April 10---Rev. and Mrs. A.G. Gantt retuned to their home at Mount Pleasant on Friday. Mr. Gantt is having his fine house at this place painted. A.M. Elliott, of Mount Pleasant, has the contract. The Sunday School at Kadish church reopened last Sunday with about fifty scholars present. Mr. J.B. Ivey is the superintendent and Mr. A.T. Gantt secretary. Mr. Ivey is a young man and a good live Sunday School worker. KING'S MOUNTAIN NOTES (from the King's Mountin Weekly) Mr. and Mrs. N.F. Waterson's youngest child died last week of pneumonia. A few more children are sick but improving. John Jake Harmon, of No. 5, killed his first snake about the 15th of March, and since that date has killed eleven and not one of them bit him. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Transcribed and posted by Lynn E. Wesson, Chapel Hill, NC, 10/10/2003