For Weak
Kidneys
Inflammation of the blad
der, urinary troubles and
backache use
DeWitt's Kidney
Bladder Pills
A Week's
Treatment 25c
FEE. IMWXTT * CO.. Chlcmao. IXI.
Sold by C. M. Skuford and W. S. Marti)
Carolina & North-Western Ry. C(
Schedule effective Sept. 13th. 1908.
North .Passenger Mixed Mixe(
No. 10 No. 60 No 6:
Clie?ter Lv 815 am 1 15 pm
Yorkville" 900 am 240 pm
Gastonia " 947 am 430 pm 600 am
„ , 8 o5 an:
Lincoln. 1042 am 950 am
Newton " 1128 am 1100 an;
Hickory " 1205 pm 105 pm
Lenoir " 122 pm 435 P 1 "
South Passenger Mixed Mixed
No. 9 No. 61 No. 63
Lenoir Lv 200 pm 840 air
Hickory " 255 pm 1050 am
Newton " 325 pm 1240 pm
Lincoln. " 402 pui 145 pm
Gastonia " 55 P™ Sooam4 30 pm
Yorkville" 549 pm 930 am
Chester " 635 pm 11 00 am
CONNECTIONS
CAKSTER— Southern Ry., S. A. L and
L. &C.
YORKVILLE —Southern Railway.
GASTONlA— Southern Railway.
LINCOLNTON*— S. A. L.
NEWTON AND HICKORY —Southern Ry
LENOlR— Blowing Rock Stage Line and
C. & N.
E. F. REID, G. P. A., Chester, S. C
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
Dr. J. C. BIDDIX,
DENTIST
Office over Singer Sewing Machine
Parlor.
HICKORY, - - N. C.
R. W. WOLFE
VETERINARY SURGEON
Offers his professional services to any
one in need of a Veterinary.
Phone 199 Hickory, Is. C.
D. L. RtJSSELL
- - ATTYORNFIV.AT.LAW
Prompt attention given to all matters
of Legal Nature
Office:
Main St., Russell Bldg., Hickory
Dr. T. F. Stevenson
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office at Home
Calls answered at all hours
Phone 295 - Hickory, N. C.
Dr. Walter A. White
DENTIST
Office over Menzies Drug Store
Hickory, N. C.
DR. W. B. RAMSAY
DENT IS!
|
Office: Second-story Post Office
Hickorv. N. C.
The Smoothest Proposition
In Hickory
Is a Shave and Hair Cut at
DIETZ'S BARBER SHOP. '
K. A. PRIDE, M. D
PHYSICIAN SURGEON i
Calls answered night and day.
Office: First Floor McCombs Buildirg, i
1342 Union Square. Phone 94
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If we could talk to you peasonally
about the great merit of Foley's Honey
and Tar, for coughs, colds and lunj
troubie, yoa never could be inducec.
to experiment with nnknown prepera
tlonsthat may contain some harmfui
drugs. Foley's Honey and Tar costs
you no more and has a record of forty
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1 Society News.
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Mrs. H. F. Elliott was hostess
to the Round Eozen Book Club
on Wednesday afternoon, Dec
2nd when twelve, members were
present. The usual interesting
exchange of epinions of book?
r?ad since the last meeting was
held, after which the hostess
jave a splendid criticism of hei
especial book, "The Testing of
Diana Mallorv," by Mrs, Hum
phrey Ward, and a delightfu
sketch of this famous
ife, with pictures 01 her and her
lome. This book is proving to
02 one of the favorite? of the
oresent series. Mrs. Elliott also
| read a charming little story of
"The Farmer and the vVheel,"
which was thoroughly enjoyed.
After items of current news and
adjournment, Mi=s Lois Kerley,
Mrs. R. J. Foster and little Miss
i Louise Elliott assisted the host,
ess in serving dainty refresh
rients in three courses, oysters,
olives, pickles, fruit salad cake,
coffee and fudge. The next
■neeting will be with Mrs. R. A.
Grimes Dec. 15th.
! Mrs. c.. C. Bost entertained
| the Thursday Study Club for the
i second time this years on the af
! ternoon of Dee. 3rd. A large
j number were present at this
meeting. The quotations were on
Thanksgiving. Mrs. Alfred
Vloretz gave the paper for the
afternoon on Bergen and its
Fisheries and the North Cape.
If space permited we would give
3ome of the clever and interest
ing facts brought out in this pa
per. Mrs. Moretz is an excep
tionally fine reader which added
much to the pleasure of her
hearers. Current news was dis
cussed at length. Refreshments
were lingered over for a social
half hour. The next meeting
will be with Mrs. W. H. Little on
Dec. 17th.
Dec. 3rd the meeting of the
Traveller's Club at Mrs. J. A.
Martin's was of special interest.
I Quotationg pertaining to Athena
; or Minerva opened the program.
| A brief dialogue of Lucian's be
| tween Venus and Cupid as to the
reason that Minerva and the
| Muses were exempt from Cupid's
' arrows was quite amusing. Mrs,
Martin gave an article on Herod
otus the father of history, stand
ing midway between poetical
anualists like Homer and critical
historians like Thucydides. Her
treatment of this great prose
epic was fine—No author, before
or since, has had grander sub
ject matter than Herodotus; 1 the
liberation of Greece through the
destruction of the great Persian
armada is its one great subject.
Vlesdame Murphy, Chadwick, W.
L. Abernethy and Mrs. J. L. Cil
ley then sang a quartette, "A
jongofPan" by Pinsuti. Thi*
>eautiful song seemed to bt
■leartiiy enjoyed. Mrs, W. L
ibernethy added to its interest
>y recalling to mind who Pan
aas and his connection witl.
>anics. Mrs. F. A. Abernethx
hen presented a paper of literary
md historic value on Pericles,
the statesman who has given hit
name to the most brilliant period
jf Athenian history. During
the age of Pericles, Grecian
tenuis put forth its richest blos
soms of literature and art. Mor
:han any man Pericles gave t
..he Athenians that love of know
edge, of poetry and of artwwhich. h
ms made Athens of service to
nankind. After current events,
.he hospitality of the hostess
was in evidence, with delightful
refreshments, Bamong which
jreek nongat was enjoyed, The
neeting adjourned to meet nexl
with Miss Geitner Dec. 10th for
:he last meeting of 1908.
GUILTY OF COUNTERFEITING
Pssing counterfeit money is nc
vorse than substituting some unknown
remedy for Foley's Hone\
.ad Tar, the great cough and cold
emedy that cures the most obstitate
-•ough and heals the lungs. For sale by
V. S. Martin & Co.
Subscribe for the Democrat;
I only $l.OO a year.
j Conover Letter.
Corre-i>ondfnt to the Democrat,
Mrs. Sarah Hunsucker, who
was a Oloninger, died on Sunday,
Nov. 6, in her seventieth year.
Jonas Hunsucker. her hu'band,
served in the Confederate army,
and died in prison at Point Look
out. Left in early life a widow,
she brought up in virtue and in
dustry her two young ohildren.
Her whole life of usefulness and
integrity is one of those which
nave written the glory of the Old
South in the pages of history.
Rev. 0. Katthaire and wife
have come to dwell their latter
vesrs at Conover. He is brother
in-law to Mr. G. Mochlmaun. He
preached in the German language
ijr thirty five years at Hoyleton,
111. Some hve years ago he was
obliged to cease work in the minis
try by failure of health. In our
genial climate, Mr. Katthaire is
regaining health, and the fifth
Sunday last month he preached a
most sweet and oomforting Gos-
to our German friends
"afConover.
Rev. J. S. Loiner has sold his
house and lot here to Mr. Preston
C. Yount.
• Our are all going on
; and seem to be doing useful work.
Nothing is more necessary for
our boys and girls and for the
! welfare of our country. Mr.
! Alvin Barger and Mr. Carl Smith
j teach the school by the railroad
north of Newton.
If elections shall make right
prevail, more must be done by
»cd! parlies and peoDle to promote
j sound education. Ignorance and
! moral impatence naturally lie im
j hedded in the same soul. Every
j man, and every woman needs
I not only school training in the j
useful arts and studies, but espe- j
cially in history. History has 1
been long despised and neglected. |
The story of our own people,
their trial; and triumphs, politi
cal struggles, industries and in-
I ventions, must all become more
familiar in our homes. Other
wise, our boys and girls will more
and more become mercenariel
employed by strangers who man
age public vrork's history, not
ficton, must become pleasant
reading.
The independent voter is
dangerous, unless he has a train- j
ed mind and an adequate under
i standing of human affairs.
Republican majorities, on the j
other hand, depend chiefly upon I
the operation of machinery, upon
controlling votes by motives of
narrowest selnshness. The fund
amental idea of a repubiic is the
welfare of the whoie body of the
people. Government to favor
classei of persons caters to »el
fishneoo, and is against the inter
est oi the maraes. Votes secured
by money and by favored inter
ests (the great corporations and
the Roman leatholic hierarcly),
make the Republican majorities.
President T. Roosevelt, on Nov.
8, made public his letter in reply
co Mr. J. C. Martin ot' Ohio. In
.his letter the president asserted
correctly that "liberty of consci
ence is one of the foundations of
\merican life." He corrects Mr.
Martin's view that many voters
vould refuse to vote for a man
if ho is a Roman Catholic, and
yet more numerously refuse to
•/ote for an infidel. Mr, Roose
velt calls, this a "slanter which
ycu have uttered against your
bellow Americans." He calls it
narrow higotry" to refuse to vote
for a man otherwise good and fit
for an office because of nis reli
gion.
The New York Times of Nov.
16, published an open letter from
Lutheran preachers of that city
in reply to Mr. Roosevelt. The
letter was issued by the iocal con
ference of pastors of the Synodi
cal Conference of the Lutheran
Church. These preachers are
duly respectful to the chief magis
trate. They agree with him in
ihe fundamental principle of the
separation of Church and State.
But they proceed to say, that
"members and pastors of our
church and other churches as
well have been amazed to see the
indiscriminate and self-contradic
tory application you make of that
principle itself." They argue
that for the hightest office of
president, a voter may with good
reason and a good conscience re
fuse to rote for a Roman Catholic.
They show by quotations from
laler popes and from* Cardinal
Gibbons that the Roman Catholic
Cnurch still claims authority over
civil governments and is opposed
to liberty of conscience, and to
complete separation of church
and State.
FANCY DRESSMAKING
Mrs. Ella Whitener has es
tablished a dressmaking depart
ment at her home, and invites
ladies who wish hand
i some or fancy work done at rea
sonable prices, to call on her at
1344 17th street. Satisfaction
guaranteed.
Mrs. Ella Whitener
i Hickory, N. C.
NOTICE.
Sale of House and Lot.
J. A. Sherrill and wife having
on the 6th of July, 1908, exe
-1 cuted a deed of trust to C. M.
Sherrill on the lot hereinafter
described to secure a loan of
$300.00 from tha First Building
& Loan Association of Hickory,
jN. C., which deed is registered
in Book 77, page 356 of Catawba
; county records, and having de
faulted in the payment of the
J dues and interest required to be
paid under said deed, said Sher
rell. Trustee, will on Saturday
the 19th of December, 1908, at
12 o'clock m. at the steps of the
i First National Bank, Hickory,
N. C., sell at public auction to
I the highest bidder for cash Lot
i No. Bin Block F in the map of
| Oakland Heights lying at the
i South-east corner of said block
! and facing South on Maple Ave.
jOn this lot is a new residence
j built bv said J. A. Sherrill.
This is an excellent opportun
' ity to purchase a desiriable home
| in the suburbs of Hickory.
This November 17th, 1908.
C. M. SHERRILL,
Trustee.
E. B. CLINE. Attv. ♦
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
1 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 Postcffice
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
staka on 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, YOUN3H Atty.
• ARMS" fe j
are for sale by all progressive t
Hardware and Sporting
Goods Merchants
and
DAN BEAJID'S splendid ciTori jj
—" GUNS AKD GUNNING
will be mailed postpaid to nry p
applicant by J. STEVENS ARMS F
& TOOL COMPANY, Chicopco jjj
j Falls, Mass., upon jj
r(_J For paper cover cdi- i
t ion fonva n.l 20 ecu Is; Ij
cloth bound book ji
// Vl / J - STEVENS
/ f h ARMS & TOOL CO.
I I P. 0. Box 4CD9
! /SgUL CLicopce Fails,
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, Walte.
Rowe. J. R. Bumgarner and M.
A. Bumtrarner, tne undersigned
commissioner will sell at public
auction to the Highest bidder for
cash, in front of the Post-office in
the City of Hickory, Catawba
county,*N. C., on Saiurday De
cember 12ih; 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 lmj at the northern
terminous ot a street and run
ning S. 87 E. S $ poles to a stake
by a cherry tree near the corner
of James Rink's field, then with
his line N. 3 | E. 74 b poles to a
stone, Mrs. Holler' corner; then
N. 88 VV. 32 poles to a stone, B.
P, BassS. W. corner; then with
his line N. 20 W. 46 1-2 poles to
White oak stump; then N, 3o 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 poles
to a red oak stump,ethen N. 16
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, 0. and Persimmon
pointors, on east side of Horse
Ford creek road, then with said
road S. 10 1-2 E. 29 poles crossing
said road to a stone by a cherry,
dogwood and oak pointers; ,then
S 16 3-5 E 46 3-5 poles to a red
cak on the west side of the road,
R. Whitener's N. W. corner,
then with his line N. 67 12 IS. 39
1-3 poles to a stone pile on the
South side of the Shuford mill
road, then N. 87 E. 25 2-3 poles
to h post oak and stone where
nlumb bush stood; then S. 28 2-5
E. paralel with said Shuford mill
road 60 4-5 poles to a stone on
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 t stone;
then N. 63 E. 7 poles to a white
oak on west side of said road;
then 5..18 11 E. 47 7-10 poles to a
Post oak stump; then S. 42 1 2 E.
25 11 25 poles to the beginning.
Containing 63 7-32 aCr£s.
Second tract: • Beginning at a
P. O. oak on S. side of Shuford
mill road and runs W, 341-4 p, to
rock on old line; then N, 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 acres, 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.
NOTICE '
\ • :
Mortgagee's Sale of Land.
Under power conferred by
mortgage deed executed and de
livered bv Laura A. Freeman
and C. C Freeman, on the 20th
day of April, ISOB, to secure pay
ment of the sum of $330.00 and
interest thereon, the undersign
ed, on Saturday, the 19th day of
; December, 1908 between one
o'clock and three o'clock in the
afternoon, in front of the Jbirst
National Bank building in the
j city of Hickory, N. C., will sell
at public outcry to the highest
bidder, for cash, that lot of land
in said city, bounded and further
described as follows:
Beginning at a stake on the
northern margin of Lincolnton
street (Ninth avenue), the south
east corner of Mrs. Mary C.
Self's lot (No. 4), runs N. 3 de
gree* E. 81 feet, to the right-of
way OL the Southern Railway
company; thence, with said right
of-way, S. 83 degrees E, 25 feet
to a stake, the north-west corner
of Mrs, Martha Aiken's lot (No.
6); thence, S3 degrees VV, 89. 3
feet to a stake on the northern
margin of Lincolnton S reet
(Ninth avenue); theace, N. 76
degrees W, 25 5 feet, to the be
ginning.—being lot No. 5 of the
Hickory Tavern property,—J. E,
Barb plat.
This lot is situate immediately
east of the lav/ offices of the un
dersigned, and mast prove a
valuable investment in a town
where people 4, d0 things," and
do them now.
This Nov. I9th 1908.
W. A. SELF
Mortgagee.
Subscribe for the Democrat.
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| Sledge c\ Pleasants. II
N We stiil have a few Ladies Tailor Made I
|J Suits, Cloaks, Furs, Underwears, Dress i) I
Goods, Blankets, Outing and many other Yj I
D articles that we have made L
J The Second Cut In Prices On S
IT We are determined to sell these goods (*■
by December 15th.
5 Special Low |
\\ Sale will continue till the 15th. Come
fj ' and see!
| Millinery Still Cut II Half, jj
WANTED
AT ONCE
Families to String Tobacco Bags.
All Work Done at Hame
Clean and Easy Employment for
Women and Girls.
Gor particulars, apply in person, promptly, to our representa
tive.
GOLEDN BELT MANUFACTURING CO.,
No.-1228 Xinth Avenue
-Stringing* Department HICKORY, N. C.
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Sold by W. S. Martin & Co. Druggists.
Low Rates to Texa
and tile Southwest £
On the first and third Tuesdays of each month |H
exceptionally low-rate round-tn'p tickets will JP
be sold via the Cotton Belt Route to points
,n Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma^^flnK^H^fegHM^^^
days and stop-overs allowed both
going and returning.
Tell me whore you want to go and I will The Cotton Belt is the
tell you vrhat a ticket will cost, and direct line from Memphis
will send you a complete schedule to the Southwest. The
for the trip, and will make aome Cotton Belt is the only line
sugKestions which will be help- operating two daily trains, carry
to you. j n g through cars without change—
the only line with a through sleeper
Memphis to Dallas. Equipment lri
eludes sleepers, chair cars and parlor cafe
cars._ Xrains from all parts of the Southeast.
|H make direct connection at Memphis with Cotton .
Belt trains for the Southwest.
ff 1 * * ickct agent to sell you a ticket'via Memphis
and the Cotton Belt.
KHMII tKl 1 .'.!.'? » TeX^ of A ; kln «« hook whichever section you are
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« U in . ,hU highly-faTored section. A fir*.
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2. H. Sutton, District Passenger Agent;
KlO9 W. Ninth Street, 9
- Chattanooga, Tenn.