THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
Published Every Thursday bv 9
W. E. HOLBROOK, EDITOR AND PROI
Entered at the Post Office at Hickory
as second class matter.
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THURSDAY, NOV. 12, 1908,
The election is past, let u
turn our faces to the future
This country and especially th
south has a bright future befor
it. As brave men let us face th
situation and taking fresh cour
age battle for the right and ii.
the end right will triumph.
Few towns are more favorabl\
located than Hickory. Midwaj
between Salisbury and the Blu-
Ridge mountains, situated G
the east of the mountains where
the first rays of the morning sur
kisses the hills and lights up tfr
valleys, this town is highly fav
ored and destined to become a
great health resort to which th>
afflicted will flock as doves to
their windows.
The defeat of sheriff Boyd can
not be construed as meaning
he was not an efficient officer.
The county has never had an}
more faithful conscientious offi
cer. He enforced the law with
out regard to fear, or favor. Mr
Mr, Leonard, sheriff-elect is a
most excellent gentleman and
will make a good and faithful
officer, yet we cannot help but
feel that it is a pity that the
county should be deprived of
the services of an officer who
has been so faithful and who
had just served one term. But
such is the game of politices.
Why are Prohibition votes not
counted in Hickory? This ques
tion has been asked us and we
are not in a position to answer.
It is a known fact that several
prohibition votes were cast in
Hickory and these by some of
our most intelligent citizens.
These persons vote their consci
entious convictions and are en
titled to have their votes counted
We submit this question to the
election board.
Chairman Eller Praises Editors
The Democrat is in receipt of
the following letter from State
Chairman Eller, which explains
itself:
Mr. W. E. Holbrook, Editor,
The Democrat Hickory N. C.
My dear Sir:
The editors of the Democratic
newspapers have, as always,
again contributed more to the
success of the Party than any or
all other factors concerned.
I am impressed with the fact
that you have displayed during
the campaign just ended even
greater interest and weilded a
wider and more potent influence
than ever before.
As Chairman of the Executive
Committee, I would be remiss in
my duty to close this campaign
without a grateful acknowledg
ment.
Knowing, as I do, the many!
dangers that beset us, I am able j
to say that the Party may well;
feel proud of the general result
in the State. We have polled
our vote, and have said emphati
cally that North Carolina is and
shall remain Democratic.
Again thanking you pers mally
and assuring you of my high es
teem, I am,
Sincerely yours, .
A. H.-ELLER,
Chm.
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Three Districts Lost.
The loss of three Democratic
members of Congress in North
Carolina is a matter of deep re
This is true as a party
natter but also true as to the
3plendid men who suffered de
feat. The retirement of Hon,
V. T. Crawford from Congress
; in the Tenth district by the nar
row margin of 245 is a matter
cor general regret, both because
it retires an able and expari
3nced Congressman who at
Vashington reflects credit upon
lis State, and because it dis
places him to make room for a
nan wholly unfit for the posi
tion. It is well known that this
is one of the districts into which
the Republicans sent a bag of
noney. In Buncombe county
ilone over seven thousand dollars
vas spent in the campaign and
its quiet use was the chief cause
of the Republican victory in the
! Tenth district. The Eighth dis-
J trict ha 3 generally been Republi
can in presidential years and
, this year it was one of the dis
tricts into which Republican
; noney was poured by the Na
-1 tiunal Committee, Mr. Hackett
nade a gallant fight but the odds
were too great for him to win
| against the big Republican voce
' reinforced by boodle. The de
j feat of Mr. Brooks in the Fifth
I district by the meagre majority
jof 364 votes is a calamity. He is
| an able man and would have won
■ honor in Congress. His oppon
! ant inherited plenty of money
aid made no public campaign in j
the district. The Republicans j
with their usual Pecksniffian
hypocrisy, while posing as fa
voring temperance, made some
thing out of the piohibition elec
tion and Democratic dissensions
in several important counties.
1 Those and lavish and quiet use of
i money were responsible for the
result in the Fifth. Mr. Brooks;
and his friends were confident of
victory and had no thought of
the unexpected big Republican
vote polled. ' ~ J
The majorities in the Tenth
and Fifth are so small as to make
it certain that the
men will be "one termers" and
these districts will be certainly,
redeemed two years he ice. The
Republican vote in the Eighth is
large and it is a close district,
but without the help that a presi-.
dential election in that district
gives to a Republican candidate
is will probably be carried again
by a Democrat. This is the dis
trict in which Mr. Lin ney and
Mr. Blackburn have both been
elected and re-elected by the Re
publicans.
Leavitt vs. Leavitt.
Now that the election is over
i and there is no chance that the
airing of her domestic unhappi
ness might have a harmful effect
i upon the political future of. her
I father, Mrs. Ruth Rryan Leavitt
is preparing to bring suit for ab
solute divorce from her artist
husband, William Homer Leavitt.
Tnis information was giver
out last week by an intimate
friend of Mrs. Leavitt. This
friend says the suit will be filed
in Denver, where the Leavitts
had a home—purchased for them
by William Jennings Bryan—
and where they last lived to
gether.
Leavitt is now in Europe, con
tinuing his art studies. The two
children, Ruth Leavitt, 5 years
old, and William Bryan Leavitt,
3 years old, are with their mother
Officially, they still live in Den
ver, but they spend much of
their time in Lincoln, and the
children had the time of their
lives at Fairview during the cam
paign.
Little Bryan Leavitt is the
complete master of his grand
father, leading here and there,
like a pet lamb, the man who
was strong enough to compel the
Democratic party to nominate
him three times for the presiden
cy of the United States.
No opposition is expected from
the artist. His wife told friends
in Denver that he was "simply
impossible" and that she "could
not endure him, anothor day."
When the action is begun the
, charges will be non support,
mental cruelty and incompatibi
lity of temperament. Mrs.
, Leavitt will ask for the custody
of the children.—Charlotte Ob
server.
"My child was burned terribly about
. the face, neck and chest. I applied Dr
Thomas' Electric Oil. The pain
ceased and the child sank into a rest
ful sleep."—Mrs. Nancy M. Hanson,
Hamburg, N. Y.
Marion Butler Arrested.
Sampson county had a sensa
tion on Tuesday of last week, in
the arrest of its Republican demi
god ex-Senator Marion Butler.
As he was on his way from his
North Carolina home at Elliott
to the voting precinct at Turkey
the arrest was made by Constable
Hammond upon a State warrant
iworn out before a magistrate in
Greensboro by Republican State
Chairman Spencer B. Adams,
charging criminal libel. An ap
pearance bond of $2,000 was re
quired, which was promptly
given by Senator Butler, with
his brother, George E. Butler, as
security.
This proceeding is but another
| feature of the Adams-Butler libel
j suit out of Butler's charge that
Adams grafted extensively while
a Judge of land claims in Indian
territory. After giving bond
Butler proceeded to the polls
and voted.
A STEADY DRAIN.
Sick Kidneys Weakens the
Whole Body—Makes You 111
Languid and Depressed.
Sick kidneys weaken the body
through the continual drainage
of life-giving albumen from the
blood into the urine, and the sub
stitution of poisonous uric that
goes broadcast through the sys
tem, sowing the seeds of disease.
Loss of albumen causes weakness,
languor, depression. Uric pois
oning causes rheumatic pain,
nervousness, nausea, cricks in the
back, gravel and kidney stones.
The proper treatment is a kidney
treatment, and the best remedy
is Doan's Kidney Pills. Great
Hickory cures prove it.
Mrs. C. E. Doster, living at 906,
Ninth St., Hickory, N. C., says: "I
am glad to give my name as an en
dorser of Doan's Kidney Pills as I know
from personal experience that they are
a most reliable remedy, and one that
will relieve kidney trouble if taken ac
cording to directions. I suffered for
some time with pains across the lower
part of my back and at times so nerv
ous and dizzy that I felt unsteady for
on my feet. I procured Doan's Kid
ney Pills at Menzies Drug Co. and they
proved so satisfactory in every way that j
I willingly give them my endorsement,
and would not be without them in the
house."
For sale by all dealers. Price
50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, New York, sole agents
for the United States.
Remember the name—Doan's
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Notice of Sale of Land Under
Mortgage.
Py virtue of the powers con
tained in a certain mortgage
deed executed by O. W. Osborne
to M. A. Rowe on July 20th,
1907, and due January 20th. 1908
to secure the balance of the
purchase money due on the lands
hereinafter described and de
fault having been made in the
payment of the same, which
mortguge deed in recorded in
the office of the Ragister of Deeds
for Catawba county in book 79
at page 438, the undersigned
mortgagee will sell at public
auction for cash to the highest
bidder in front of the Postoffice
in Hickory* N. C., on December
12th, 1908 at 1 o'clock p. m. the
following lot or parcel of land
lying in Hickory Township, Ca
tawba county, N. C., and bound
ed as follows:
Beginning at a stake on the
South side of Main street in West
Hickory-Long View and runs S.
33-4 E. 180 feet to a stake; then
N. 86.1-4 E. 50 feet to a stake;
then N. 3 3-4 W. 180 feet to a
stakaon margin of Main street;
then S, 86 1-4 W. 50. feet to the
beginning, being lot No. 61 ac
cording to the plat made of said
lands by Barb, surveyor for
Campbell & Buchanan of the M.
A. Rowe lands.
This Nov. 9, 1908.
M. A. ROWE,
Mortgagee.
M. H. YOUNT, Atty.
Notice of Sale of Real Estate.
By virtue of an order of the
Superoir Court of Catawba coun
ty, made in a Special proceeding
therein pending, entitled G. P,
Campbell, Jennie E. Campbell
and S, D. Campbell against A.
L. Pope, Nora Pope, Walter
Rowe, J. R. Bumgarner and M.
A. Bumgarner, the undersigned
commissioner will sell at public
auction to the Highest bidder for
cash, in front of the Postoffice in
the City of Hickory, Catawba
county, N. C., on Saturday De
cember 12th, 1908; at 1 o'clock,
p. m., the following tracts or
parcels of land for partition
among the heirs at law of P. J
Rowe, deceased, to wit:
First tract: Beginning at a
stone in the mill road in Amon
Sigmon lina at the northern
terminous of a street and run
ning S. 87 E 9 £ poles to a stake
by a cherry tree near the corner
of James Rink's field, then with
his line N. 3iE. 74 £ poles to a
stone, Mrs. Holler' corner; then
N. 88 W. 32 poles to a stone, B.
P, Bass S. W. corner; then with
his line N. 20 W. 46 1-2 poles to
White oak stump; then N, 36 1-2
p. to a stone and red oak by a
pine and red oak pointers said
Bass' corner; then with another
of Bass' lines N. 48 W. 53 pole
to a red oak stump,ethen N. 13
W. 13 9-10 poles to a stone in
Turner's line by sourwood and
white oak pointers, then with
Turner's line S. 78 W. 17 1-5
poles crossing Horse ford creek
to a Post oak, then same course
with Turner's line 52 1-2 poles
to a pine by P, O. and Persimmon
pointers, on east side of Horse
Ford creek road, then with said
road S. 101-2 E29 poles crossing
said road to a stone by a chjrry,
dogwood and oak pointers; then
S 16 3-5 E 46 3-5 poles to a red
oak on the west side of the road,
R. Whitener's N. W. corner,
then with his line N. 67 1 2 E. 39
1-3 poles to a stone pile on the
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South side of the Shuford mill
road, then N. 87 E. 25 2-3 poles
to a post oak and stone where
plumb bush stood; then S- 28 2-5
E. paralel with said Shufox-d mill
road 60 4-5 poles to a stone orr
the West side of said road by
white oak pointers; then S. 65
W. 6 2-3 poles to a stone; the S
16 1-2 E. 14 1-2 poles to * stone;
then N. 63 E. 7 poles to a white
oak on west side of said road;
then S. 18 11 E. 47 7-10 poles to a
Post oak stump; then S. 42 1 2 E.
25 1125 Doles to the beginning.
Containing 63 7-32 acres.
Second tract: Beginning at a
a P. 0. oak on S. side of Shuford
mill road and runs W, 341-4 p, to
rock on old line; thenN, 12 vV,
56 P, to red oak; then S, 44 1-2
E. 12 P, to Maple on branch;
then S. 341-2 E, 39 poles to the
Post oak; then S. 52 1-2 E. 25
poles to the beginning. Coniain
-7 acre's, 1 Rod and 26 poles
The above lots will be sold in
separate pieces and as above des
cribed.
This November 9 1908.
M. H. YOUNT and
E. B. CLINE.
Commissioners
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Are a Source of Unfailing De
light.
They are cheaper than any other
lights, and are so restful and pleasant
to the eyes. They are ready to be
used at any time when the current
is on, and may be turned off at any
time when they are, not desired.
NO groping for the oilcan and spil
ling the oil on the floor or table and
lamp, and wiping the chimney and
blacking your hands. Everybody
uses electric lights who can, and
everybody can who will. The price
is in reach of every one. They have
now finished extending their elec
tric wires all over Hickory, along
every important street, and are rea
dy and desirous to wire every house
along its line and install electric
lights. See our Superintendent, Mr.
D. L. Wray and get him to wire
your residence and stable.
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