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Established 1899 imtml laws passed II Ml lECISLATUHE fluinber of Measures Enacted of Special Interest to the Far mers of the State. I | n addition to the general .laws acted by the recent North Car olina Legislature, a number of measures were passed of special interest to the farmers of the State Among these measures are the following: . 1 Authorizing county icom •Jsioners and county boards of jointly to employ a 1 county health superintendent,] one .te\i of his pay coming from j f the school fund and one-half from j the county funds. This applies; only after a six-months' school term has been provided for in each district in the county. 2 Authorizing any county wit h less than $15.0u0 school fund to join another county in employing a county superintend ent for the counties. 3. Authorizing women to serve OD school committees. 4. Providing that anv hog, immediately upon taking hog cholera, shall be confined so as to prevent it from getting access to any running stream and so spread the contagion. 5. Authorizing a special com mittee to ascertain the advisabil ity of having the State publish school books for the children of the State and furnish them to the people at cost. 6. Requires hunters, wagon er?, campers, etc., to extinguish all fires. 7. Authorizing a judge tosum mon a jury from another county instead of moving the case to an other county. 8. Authorizing the board of trustees of the A. & M. College to give free tuition to one boy m each county, provided he agrees to farm or to teach agriculture two years. 9. Prohibiting anv one from letting a child under 12 years old use a pistol, gun or other fire arms, loaded or unloaded. 10. Prohibiting the promise or acceptance of any money, of fice, or political support or influ er.ce or reward of any kind in exchange for votes. 11. Making stricter the law prohibiting the sale or gift of cigarettes to persons under 17. 12. Authorizing county com misioners to prohibit circuses from showing at the same time a county fair is being held. 13. Authorizing any township to vote not more than $50,000 in bonds without waiting for a special act of the Legislature. 14 Providing that schoolcom roitteemen shall be elected in July, one for one year, one for too years, and one for three years, instead of all for the same term as heretofore. Catawba Items. Mr. and Mrs. John Setzer of New ton were guests at the home of Mr. and C. B Rufty Sunday. Mr - and Mrs. Arthur Yount of Zcr rellspent the week-end with Mr. and J- T. Harwell. Claude, Jones of Asheville was a in town Sunday. J l ', and Mrs. W. B. Walker left for Ftankfort. Ky., where they visit relatives. Mr. E 0. Thom- is relieving Mr. Walker at lhe bank. Mrs. Pinkie Lowrance from near e *ton is spending a few days with her Mrs. George Trollinger. Mr. Chilton and Miss May Miller of llsbur v and Mr C. A. Reid of Ashe -I,e were the guests of Miss Emma fttts Sunday. Mr. Lee Linebarger of Alexis spent undav with Mrs. Linebarger at Mrs. "bell's. Mr.,. West Sherrill and little son, of sville, spent a few days here this ee k with relatives and having dental »ork done. Mr. W. L. Sherrill received a tnes ge Mondav sayi B g that his daughter s. Robey Cline had undergone an Peration for appendicitis Sunday night wis doing nicely. THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT Baraca Class Notes First Baptist Church :: .By Class Reporter j "One crowded hour of glorious j bliss" is the way some one has I described the first hour of the | Christian expeiience. This must j have been the experience of Jos i eph when told by Pharaoh that i he should have the highest place in the kingdom. "Down and out" would be the modern description of Joseph's experience just prev ious to this event. Falsely accused by a woman whose vice had been •severely reouked by his virtue, I he was cast into prison on an ac cusation for the very sin that he ! had refused to commit. Bat Jos eph was made of stern stuff and never stopped to waste his time in repining. His mission in the world was one of helpfulness and the prison bars were no obstacle in the way of his achievements. He made himself useful to others in the dungeon. His body might be held in bondage by others, but he was still master of his soul. | His day dreams were with him even in prison. His tact, wisdom and fidelity stood him in good stead and won for him the kind regards of all. Last Sunday's lesson dealt with the elevation of this favorite son of Jacob from the prison to the throne. Next Sunday 's lesson will tell of -the culmination of Joseph's dreams in the reality. The Baraca Class of the First Baptist Church fs making these lessons both inter esting and instructive, and the young men who attend the class are learning many valuable les sons. All young men of the town as well as visitors will find a cordial welcome there and every thing possible will be don»» to the hour spent there a profitable one. NEWS BREVITIES. Items of Interest Gathered Here and There. Raleigh.—Traffic on the Sea board Air Line over this division of the main line was tied up six hours early Sunday on fee count of a freight wreck near 1 Wake Forest in which 11 cars were derailed and numbers of them badly smashed. No one was hurt Washington.—The Federal Gov ernment's "money laundrv" will j be in full swing this week when the Treasury Department will begin the operation of four cur rency washing machines, turn ing out daily 100,000 washed ar>d ironed notes which otherwise would be destroyed. Simultane ously with this experiment, the question of forbidding|the wash ing of money because of the al leged danger of counterfeiting is being-agitated in Congress. Sec retary McAdoo and Treasurer Burke, however, have announc ed their intention to give the machines a fair trial. Reid?ville.—Policeman Cabell Davis in an effort to save his own life was competed to kill Mark Payne, a negro man about 22 years old, Sunday afternoon. The officer had been informed by a Winston-Salem negro that Payne was wanted in the Twin City, having escaped from the city court there after a verdict of guilty had been rendered against him for highway, robbery J. C. Smith; was elected mayor of Shelby on last Monday. The Cabinet and the Churches. The President of the United States and all the members of his cabinet are church members and active Christians. Their denom inational affiliations are as follows: President Wilson, Vice-President Marshal l t Secretary Bryan and Secretary Wilson are Presbyteri ans. the first three being elders in thatchurch. Secretaries Redfield, Garrison and McAdoo, and Attor ney-General Mcßeynolds are Episcopalians. Secretary Daniels is a steward in the M. E. church south. Secretary Burleson is a Baptist. HICKORY, N.C., THURSDAY. MAY 15, 1913 / fIMHICEMIIT EXERCIS ES AT CATAWBA COLLECE Baccalaureate Sermon Sunday, June Ist, by Rev. S. A. Leinbach, of Reading, Pa. Dr. Ernest Derindinger re turned from the meeting of the Carolina Classis Saturday night; on Sunday afternoon he spoke to the Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. of the spiritual lessons learned at Classis. Misses Mary Lowrance and ! Ethel Peeler spent la st Saturday and Sunday in their respective homes at Catawba and Rockwell. Professor G. H. Smith deliver ed the commencement address at St. James High School last Sat urday, the subject being 4 The University of God." At the de clamation contest in the after noon Professor Smith and Miss Stahr, also of Catawba College, acted as judges. Besides a recital on May 29 by the pupils in the departments of music and expression, the com mencement program is as fol lows: S'inday, June 1, 8:00 p. m., Baccalaureate Sermon, Rev. S. A. Leinbach, D. D., Reading, Pa. Monday, June 2, 8:36 p. m.. Graduating Recital, Vena Little Goode. Tuesday, June 3, 3:00 p. m. t Art Exhibit. Tuesdav, June 3, 8:00 p. m., Alumni Orafion, Dr. C. Banks McNairy. Wendesday, June 4,10:30 a. m., Commencement Exercises. Wednesday, June 4, 2:30 p.'m., Commencement Address, Presi dent Wm. Louis Poteat, Wake Forest College. Wednesday, June 4, 8:30 p.,ra., Annual Commencement Conoiert, ; Choruses fiom 4 'The Pennant" I and Readings. There are eleven on the honor rolf for the last month'. Those in | the college department are as fol lows: Graceila Shank, 97; A. R. Tosh, 92; and Jno. F. Carpenter, 90. From the preparatory depart ment there are the following: Howard A. Buchheit, 97; Grace Gaither, 96; J, George Feairhel [ ler, 95; Arthur F. Zug, 94 Frank lin Buchheit, 93; Mabel L. Bacon, Edgar Feairheller, and R. B. Sig mon, 90. Fourth Glass Men Must Stand Exam ination Says Postmaster General. Washington Dispatch. After a conference with Presi dent Wilson today, Postmaster- General Burleson announced that an executive order would be issued requiring all fourth class postmasters now in office or can didates for prospective nomina tions should be subjected to a competitive examination to de termine their fitness for the office. The postmaster-general issued a statement explaining the purpose of the new execu tive order declaring that Presi dent Taft's action in putting the fourth class postmasters in the classified service was uot suffi cient and that the mere placing of a "great horde of person?" in the classified service was not in conformity witri the spirit of the civil service as there were no tests to determine the merits of the applicants. The new order which substan tially amends the> Taft executive order, retains in the classified service all fourth class post masters but specifically requires a competitive examination and a selection by postoffice inspectors from among the first three eligi ble applicants. The order places the age limit for appointees at 65 years> Mr. Burleson, in his discus sion of the situation, indicates that the Wilson administration wishes to take the fourth class postmasters out of politics but points out that democrats as well as the republicans will have anop portunity under competive exam j inations to show their fitness. Mr. R- H Arcdt, of Claremont, was a pleasant caller at the Democrat office Monday. Un Social Circles Thursday Study Club held the final meeting for the year with Mrs. Herbert Little, May Bth. Quotations on Spring were given at roll-call, lu the absence of Mrs. Grimes, her topic, "Women of the 19th Century", was .given by Mrs. C. G, Bost. Mrs. F. B. Ingo'd read an entertaining sketch of the Belgian Queen, and Mrs. L. R. Whitener gave the last chapter from the Women of Homer. These "Women in all Ages" have been much en joyed and. members part from them with regret. The business meeting to adopt next year's program will be with Mrs. Bost July 23rd. Mrs. Thompson, of Brevard, was guest of honor. At t.he conclusion of the meeting the hostess assisted by her sister, Miss Rudisill, serv ed dainty refreshments. The Mountain White. (After "The Native Irishman".) Before I came from way up North To this delightful place, 1 thought the Dative Mountaineers A funny sort of race. I thought the? lived In tiny huts, And none of them wore shoes. And npne of them could read or write And all said "you-uns" and "yous". I thought they never went to church, And schools were quite unknown, And children idled all the ttme, And men grown. I thought tliat sawdust tilled their heads Where we are blessed with brains, And that no mountain white had sense To come in when it rains. But yhen 1 came unto the land Of which 1 heard so much, I found that the inhabitants Wqre not entirely such. * 1 found their features were not all Exactly like baboons, 1 found that some wore hats and coats And some had pantaloons.. 1 found their teeth were quite as small As Northern peoples are, And that their ears, in point of size, We're not peculi-ar. I even saw a face or two . That might be handsome called, And by their very largest feet 1 was not much appalled. X found some educated men, Their names 1 could recall; And heard some sentences that did Not always start with "Waal". I saw, and this you'll not believe, A judge among the lot, And several whose houses Aere Much larger than a cot I saw some women dressed with taste, Saw children playing ball; Some houses with a porch and stove And pictures on the wall. In fact they're not all brutes or fools And I suspect that when You place them by the Yankees side They'll prove as valiant men. MRS. C. C. BOST. The above poem was published in the Democrat about a year ago, and so many have requested that it be pub lished again, that we are reprinting it this week. OUT OF THE FIRE. News & Observer Plant Being Re built—New Machinery Ordered. The News aud Observer was destroyed' by fire on April 24th. But it did not miss a single issue. It appeared the morning after the fire, fresh and resolved to give the news to North Carolina folks. ,Work begins at once to re build, new machinery »as been ordered, and the News and Ob server will be better than ever, and try more than ever to serve the people of North Carolina. The News and Observer needs one thousand new subscribers. The price is six dollars a year. Will you not help that paper to rise from its ashes superior to the flames by enrolling yourself as a subscriber? The Hickory printers are about all to turn foreign missionaries. Mr. J. W. Clay is soon to leave for Brazil to run a printing office for the Methodist missionary committee and Auburn H. Sctzer is to go to Africa' to take charge of a joint Presbyterian and Methodist missionary printing office. The print ing office, with its vexations ahd trials, is not generally considered & good school for the training of missionaries, but it is not strange that Catawba prin ters would accept opportunities to get 'as fir away from home as possible.— 1 Newto* Enterprise, POLK MILLER AND COL "TOM" BOOM COMING Will Appear at Hub Theatre, May 19th,. For Benefit Hickory Military Company. Through the great .effort and enterprise of our townsman, and [ soldier, Captain George Lyerly, the people of Hickory and ad joining towns will have an op portunity to witness one of the performances of the last tour of the South of the famous "Two Old Confederates." For many years since the Civil War Polk Miller and Col. "Tom" Booker, have went about over the coun try giving lectures and exhibi tions of the old davs in the South previous to the war. And, now these gentlemen are growing old and have decided that after this trip they will appear no more on the stage. Mr, Miller,- one of the most successful business men of Rich mond, Va., and a Confederate veteran, is the best delineator of the Old Southern Plantation negro that has ever appeared on the public stage. In his descrip tion of his "boyhood's happy days down on the farm," he intro duces the most side-splitting stories and reproduces ia a re alistic manner those old planta tion melodies, accompanied by the banjo, which carry the old time Southerners back to the days of their childhood and pre sents to the younger generation a faithful picture of "Auld Lang Syne." Col. "Tom" Booker, of Amelia County, Virginia, will a.-sist Mr. Miller in reproducing in story and song a civilization about which Thomas Nelson Page. Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus), and Ruth McHenry Stuart tell of in books. To the Southerner t is the revival of sweet mem ories of childhood's days on the farm." To the young people, North and South, it is a living picture of the scenes of plantation days before the War, instructive and amusing, and t'rom it they can learn more of the antebellum days in Dixie than from the reading of all the books that have been published on the subiect. Messrs. Miller and Booker were raised on acioinirig planta tions in Southside Virginia, and hunted 'possums, coons and rabbics with the "little niggers" who belonged to their parents. Although Mr. Booker appears to be much the older of the two, on account of his gray hairs, they are of the same age. He, like Mr. Miller, was a private soldier, but the younger generation in sist upon calling him ' Colonel Booker." Mr. Miller brings with him this time his famous "Oid South Quartette" of negroes, given up to be the best one on the stage today; they dress, act and sing like the real Southern darkey in his "workin' " clothes. As tQ their voices, they are the sweet, though uncultivated, result of nature, producing a harmony unequalled by the pro fessionals, and because it is natural, goes straight to the hearts of the people. To the old Southerner it will be ''Sounds from the Old ilome of Long Ago." To others who know of Southern Plantation Life from much reading, it will be a pleasant and Educational Pas time. Sandwiched in between these will come the Dialect Stories and Recitations of MR. POLK MILLER and Col. "TOM" BOOKER, which are bits of Folk Lore, giving the character istics of the Oid Southern Darkey which are as true to life as are the poems of Riley on the Hoosier of Indiana, and is a combination of the Pathetic and Humorous. To hear them is to live again your boyhood days Down on the Farm. This company comes here Mon day, May 19th. in the interest of the Hickory Military Company, the best one in the State; and Democrat and Press, Consolidated i 905 COMMENT , | NO PRIMARY WANTED. It seems to "be somewhat of a prob lem for our Congressman to decide on a man. for postmaster. It does seem to us that Mr. Webb, with each and every candidates' petition before him, could tell who has the. strongest sup port. We hear it rumored that there is to be a letter primary. We cannot see the necessity of a primary when there are but few men in the town who have not signed a petition for one of the candidates, and these petitions were sent to Mr. Webb a month ago. Mr. did not ask for a letter primary at Newton, bat went ahead and made the appointment. Now why should Hickory have to have this pri mary. Is it because Hickory is so much more important than Newton? The citizens of Hickory think that, with six candidates to select from, it would be an easy matter to take each candidates' petition and judge bom them who the people of Hickory want. If Mr. Webb would name the man who has the strongest endorsement before him. not one of the other can didates would in the least be offended, we are sure, as they are all men of in telligence and they all know that only one man can get the appointment. We cannot see any necessity for a primary. The fact is, that the- candi dates have spent their time and money expecting to get an appointment, and now at this late day have a letter prim ary, or any other kind of primary, would be absurd. , It is very gratifying indeed to the management of The Democrat to hear the many compliments Dassed on the mechanical improvement of the paper in the past month. We are endeavor ing to give the good people of our town and county a clean, newsy paper, and these words of encouragement are ap preciated. If you are a reader of the paper and know of any news of importance in your neighborhood, you will confer us a great favor by sending it in. It will be appreciated and you will thereby aid us in giving our readers the news from the different localities in the county. The Rode House Farm. The Rock House farm is found between the rivers of Jacob and Henry Fork where they unite and form the South Fork of the Catawba. Henry Whitener, the pioneer settler of the South Fork coun try, came in posession of this farm about 1750. He Rave the' farm to his son, Henry Whitener, who built a house on it The house was built from stones and is known as the Rock House. In 1804 Henry Whitener, Jr., sold the farm to Jacob Summey, who gave the farm to his son, George Summey, who married Elizabeth Corpening in 1808, Here George Summey lived and raised a family. HQ and his wife were the parents of two daughters and iight sons. They lived to be grown. George Summey sold the Rock House farm to his son-in-law, John Wilfong, who married B t E. L. Summey in 1826, Mr. Wil fong took the Rock House down and rebuilt it. It is now located upon an elevated piece of land farther from .the two rivers. The house is surrounded with an orchard, fields and a branch. There are a few bouses on the farm where negroes lived in the (fays of slavery. John Wilfong gave the farm to his son, James Wilfong, who is a successful farmer and a good worker in the Reformed church at Bethel. » J. H. SHUFORD. Two Marriages. Married on last Sunday evening at the 'residence of H. A. Adams, in Burke county, Mr. Jones Lowman to Miss Bunie Carswell, Mr. Matthew Deal to Miss Elenora May, all of Cat awba county. The marriages were well attended, H. A. Adams officiat ing. will be presented at the Hub Theatre, the price of admission has been made low in order that as many as possible might take advantage of seeing the last tour of these men. The price of admission is 25c, 50c, and 78c, iSEVEMf ADVEMIISTS 1 10 MEETIN CONFERENCE Meeting to be Held in Washington, D. t:., May 15th to June Bth. Seventh-day Adventista in various partsof North Carolina are looking forward with much in terest to the quadrennial meet ing of the general conference of that denomination, which will be held in Washington, D. C., May 15 to June 8, and which will Joring together believers in the faith from all parts of the world. A delegation of 12 members will represent the Southeastern Union Conference, which takes in the state con ferences in North and South Carolina, Florida, Georgia and the eastern portion of Tennessee. The North Carolina Conference will be represented by President Stewart Kime. The other dele gates will be as follows: (J. B. Stephenson, president of the Southeastern Union Conference* W. H. Williams, H. M. Hiatt, V. O.Cole, L.T. Crisler, W. H Heckman, W. H. Branson, C. V> Achenbach, Prpfessor C. L, Stone, M. C. Strachan, and J. W. Manns. These persons will be among delegates that will represent every one of the 5 union con ferences in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and Africa and the mission stations in Africa and Asia. While the delegates will number between 300 and 500, the number of persons to attend will swell to listen to about 4000. as believers from all parts of North America will flock to the scene to listen to the important questions con cerning the whole denomination that will come up for consider ation, and the explanation of Bible themes by leading minis ters of the faith. Purchases Parlor Cars. The Carolina & North-Western J Railway has purchased four par -1 lor cars to be used on its line this summer. They were brought here Monday and will be put out on reg- " ular runs as soon as the summer travel to the mountains begins. In addition to these 'a through coach from Edgemont to Raleigh will be put on about May 18. These cars will be transfered to the Sea board at Lincolnton and will be handled by that road on through to Raleigh, and will be the means . of people living between here and Edgemont getting to Raleigh and other points, several hours earlier than now and without changing cars. Write Today. 'Today, you should write that long deferred letter- to your mother; she will be glad to hear from you. In the fierce strug gle for existence, you have, per haps, unconsciously neglected her; you have put off writing home, waiting for your condition in life to change for the better, and you have, perhaps lain awake through the long nigh£, thinking of the happiness which a visit will bring to you both, but time in its remorseless flight, may have left you still struggling, still hop ing for the happy day which does not come. You may have be come discouraged, and in a meas ure, weaned away from home, but every moment of your ab sence, your mother thinks of you, and when she kneels at her lone ly bedside, her prayers are for you. Won't you answer her prayers through-a letter or by a virit?"—Ex, The Farmer's Quick Reply. A farmer carrying an express package from Chicago mail-order house was accosted by a local mer chant. "Why didn't you buy that bill of goods from me? I could have saved you the express, and besides you would have been pat ronizing a home store, which helps pay the taxes and build up this locality." The farmer looked _ at the merchant a moment and then said; "Why don't you pat ronize your home paper and ad vertise? I read it and didn't know that you had the stuff I have here."—Ex.
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