THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT.
Published Tuesdays and Fridays
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W M. REESE, - City Editor
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Friday. May 28, 1915
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LENOIR COLLEGE
COMMENCEMENT CLOSES
(Continue j From Page One.)
Tuesday the address before the
four literary societies of the col
lege was delivered by Hon. Clyde
R. Hoev of Shelby. He was in
troduced in a most happy style
by Mr. L. Berge Beam of the
Junior Class.
The subject of Mr. Hoey's ad
dress was "Peace", it is im
possible to reproduce the fine
earnestness with which it was
delivered or the beautiful lan
guage which embellished the
thought. He insisted that war
was murder, and unjustifiable in
every case except where an in
dividual was justified in taking
the life of anotner. He declared
that a false conception of hero
ism wa3 the foundation of the
readiness of the world to go to
war, and that this, rather than
the love of money and lust of
possession was tfee real cause.
This spirit is fostered in the
"whole early life of the child and
should be removed by the right
kind of education—education
which proves that it is often
more heroic to live than to die
He said Jesus Christ took 33
years to show men how to live,
and three hours to show them
how to die. He said it is often
harder and better to live the
heroic life than to die the heroic
death. He closed with a fine
tribute to Woodrow Wilson, the
friend of man, thus ending an
impressive and soul-stirring ap
peal.
The annual business meeting
of the Alumni Association result
ed in the re-slection of all form
er officers with the exception of
the secretary, who has removed
too far to keep up the duties.Mr.
K. C. Glenn, brother of Mrs. D.
L. Russell of this city, a member
of the class of 1907, who is now
in Columbia University, New
York, was elected orator for
next year and Miss Laura Plonk
of King's Mountain, was elected
essayist. The alumni appropria
ted SIOO.OO to be expended for
the benefit of the college library
next year and appointed a com
mittee to secure, by the next
meeting, options on grounds
suitable for an Alumni Athletic
field.
The annual ~ Alumni banquet
was held in Highland Hall Tues
day evening from 5 to 8 o'clock.
It was a joyous occasion with
covers laid for 80 guests, and
seats were very much in demand.
Here the annual alumni address
was delivered by Rev. A. L. Bol
ick of this city, a member of the
class of 1890, and the essay was
read by Miss Pearl Setzer, of the
class of 1910. The orator point
ed out the fact that here in our
own Southland were unparalled
opportunities for the alumni of
every profession and calling. The
essay on "College Women" was
of a new type, with trenchant
questions and discussions of real
worth and work of the girls who
who hold A. B. Degrees. Sev
eral speakers responded to vari
ous toasts.
The annual play, this year, un
like former years, was highly
comic and a capacity house greet
ed the production of "The Hoo
doo" by the Expression Depart
ment, The entire cast played
their parts with a perfection
rarely found in an amateur pro
duction.
The graduating exercises were
jteld Wednesday morning in the
college auditorium. Twenty-one
received the A. B. Degree, with
two others to be awarded upon
the completion of certain work.
One M. A. Degree for non-resi
dence work was given. The ex
ercises opened with a piano trio
by Misses Johnsie Rhyne. Nellie
Haliman and Ruth Mosteller, fol
lowed with prayer by Rev. J. H.
Young. The salutatory was given
by Mr. Caol Orestes Lippard and
the valedictory by Mr. James
Abel Frye. Other essays were
read by Messrs Victor Vard Ad
derholdt and John Lerov Deaton
and Misses Gertrude Elizabeth
Kohn and Barbara Kathryn Ad
derholt. Miss Elizabeth Lin6-
bsrger played a piano solo after
the essays were read.
The address to the graduates
was delivered by Rev. A. C.
Voight, D. D., of Columbia, S.C.
President R. L. Fritz then pre
sented diplomas and announced
awards and degrees as follows:
Master of Arts.—Henry Lae
Seay. 'OB.
Bachelor of Arts.—Bettv Chios
Aderholt, Barbara Kathryn Ad
erholt, Victor Vard Aderholt,
Tohn Will Aiken, Leo Ernest Bo
[ li«k, John Leroy Deaton, Lila
Christine Duke, James Abel Fry,
Benjamiu Thomas Hale, Samuel
Waightstill Hawn, Grover Hen-
Jerson Huffman, Casper Allen
Kipps, Georsre Lippard Sawyer,
Mary Elvira Sheely. Roy Tays
Troutman, Gertrude, Elizabeth
Kohn Carl Orestes Lippard,
Annie Pauline Powlas, Luey
Emma Yoder, Noah David
Yount, Carroll Noah Yount.
Certificate, Literary Course.—
Augusta Nannette Rudisill.
Expression.—Augusta Nan
nette Rudisill, Elizabeth Pearl
Miller, Iva Pearl Setzer.
Art.—Maud Estelle Crowell.
Business Department.—Sadie
Esther Seaboch, James Homer
Bowles, Wert Baxter Rhyne,
Lester Lafayette Deal, John
Wesley Bolick, Coit Ray Trout
man, Everett Preston Huffman.
The following medals and
prizes were awarded:
Scholarship medal, Chas. H,
Reitzel, Newton; Junior Orator's
nedal, M. Joseph Kluttz, Salis
bury; Expression Meda\ Miss
Lillian Plonk. King's Mountain;
Art Medal, Miss Myrtle Pence,
Charlotte; Chrestonian Debater's
Medal, L. Berge Beam. Crouse;
Euronian Debater's Medal, F. L.
Conrad, Lexington; Chrestonian
Improvement Prize, Arnold B.
Cochrane, Lincolnton; Euronian
improvement Prize, Curtis K
Wise, Barber; Eumenean Im
provement Prize, Miss Mary Yo
der, Hickory, Philathean Im
provement Prize, Miss Vera Tor
rence, Greenville; Lenoirian
Poem Prize, Carl 0. Lippard,
Statesville; Lenorian Prose Prize;
L. Berge Beam, Crouse; Sub-
Freshman Debater's Medal. Ken
neth Hewitt. Hickory; Dr. R. A.
Yoder Mathematics Medal, M.
Craig Yoder, Hickory.
The honary degree a£ Doctor
of Divinity was granted Rev.
Messrs. L, L. Lohr of Lincolnton
and C. K. Bell of Kings Moun
tain. The degree of Doctor of
Laws was conferred upon Rev.
G. H. Gerberdinur, D. D., of the
Chicago Lutheran Theological
Seminary.
Rev. F. C. Longacker, Ph. D.,
of Springfield, 111., was called to
the chair of History and Greek,
vacated this commencement by
the resignation of Rev. Prof. M.
L. Stirewalt
It is of interest to mention
that the class this year is the
largest in the history of the in
stitution.
The annual concert Wednesday
night was made up of a varied
program of musical selections in
cluding voice, and was ene of the
pleasant features of the com
mencement exercises.
ANNUAL STATEMENT
Town of West Hickory.
RECEIPTS.
Balance May 22, i 914 $ 37.04
Received General Tax 693.91
" Street Tax 248.7s
License and Dog Tax 85.00
' Total $964.70
DISBURSEMENTS.
Paid General Expense $46.77
" Labor and material on Sts 489.01
" Miscellaneous expense 204.41
Commission on Taxes 40.55
For Police Service 156.00
Bank Balance May 22, 1915 27.90
Total $964.70
_ H. H. ABEE, Mayor.
W. P. AUSTIN, Sec Treas.
PIANO FOR SALE—Mahogany usright,
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"Thou Shalt Not Worry".
We read of the women won
dering on the first Easter morn
ing, "Who shall roll away the
stone?" and then, when they
came to the tomb, behold the
stone was gone and the tomb was
empty. They had worried about
a difficulty which did not exist.
"We have all done that," says
the Anderson Mai!. "Some man
said that the greatest troubles in
his life were those which never
happened. How often it has
been that, when we have gone
ahead bravely to face our anxiety
we have found that it was chain
ed, like the lions in Pilgrims
Progress, and could not hurt us.
"Worry does us harm, not only
mentally and spiritually, but
physically as well. It is believed
by many scientists who have fol
lowed carefully the growth of
brain diseases, that scores of the
deaths set down to their causes
have been due to worry and to
that alone.
"The theory is a simple one.
It is that worry injures beyond
repair certain cells of the brpin;
and the brain being the nutritive
center of the body, tha other
organs become gradually injured,
and are an easv prey to disease.
"Just as the dropping of water
will wear away a stcie, so the
constant recurrence of a worry
wears away the mental and
physical strength."
The position of the scientists
seems plausible to the non-scier.-
tific; And the theory is indeed,
as our contemporary says, a sim-
pie one.
What may be called a "bad
state of mind" may well result
in actual structure or chemical
metabolisms. Is it a fact of
scientific establishment that .the
emotion of anger results in the
exudation of powerful poisons?
Grant—and surely we all will
and do—the premises and con
clusions; worry causes this and
that; sets up lesions and twists
in the brain; causes malnutrition
throughout the body; makes the
face ugly. Then all we have to
do is to find out what causes
worry. We do not mean to find
out what a body is worrying
about; there is seldom, ■as has
been pointed out, any logical
connection between the act or
attitude of worry and its subject.
What is the real agent antece
dent to worry? We know a doc
tor, who is an athlete and in per
fect health, who is always worry
ing about his temperature, and
taking it. His temperature is
never wrong, but the worrying
always is; but what causes him
to do it?
"Thou shalt not worry'' is not
by any means as simple as it
sounds.—Greensboro News.
Discuss Baseball.
Statesville, May 25.-Baseball
representatives from Hickory,
Lenoir. Morganton and States
ville held a meeting in Statesville
this morning and discussed the
prospects for baseball between
the represented towns. An am
ateur league was formed between
the towns; the first games will
be staged June 14 with games
between Hickory and Statesville
at Statesville, and between Le
noir and Morgan ton at Morgan
ton.
There is' every prospect for
lively baseball between the teams
of this league, as much trood ma
terial forms the teams.
Last eyening about 11 o'clock a
party of young people in an auto
mobile driven by W. B. Thomas
coming from Salisbury were
alarmed to see a great blszs of
fire streaming from the top of a
house and discovered that the
occupants, J. A. Davis and fam
ily, were soundly sleeping. The
family was aroused and an at
tempt made to extinguish the
fire, The roof of the kitchen
was blazing and it seemed for a
time that the house would be
completely destroyed, but des
perate fighting finally conquered
the flames, but not before several
hundred dollars' worth of dam
age was done.
Mr. Davis asserts that there
had been no fire in the house
since the morning, end therefore
the origin of the fire is a mys
tery. Everyone agrees that the
discovery by the automobile par
ty was mosc opportune, as anoth
er half hour would have given
the flames such headway that the
he use would have been consumed
and possibly the [occupants with
it.
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NOTICE OF SALE OF PROPER
TY FOR CITY TAXES.
By virtue of ihc authority vcUed in
me by the City Charter and by the or
der of the Mayor and City Council, I
will sell at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash in front of the City Hall
in Hickory, N. C., on the 28th day of
May 1915 at 12 o'clock M., the following
real estate for delinquent taxes due
thereon for the year 1914.
Persons desiring to pay their taxes be
fore day of sale can cail at my office sad
by paying amount due and 20c for adver
tising can procure their receipts.
WHITE
C. F. Blalock, i vacant lot .S3
G. H. Cilley, 1 house 8.32
Mis. J. E, Cline, 1 house 9.98
William Cook, 1 house 5.41
K. W. Eckard, 1 store 7.90
J. K. Fisher, 1 house 10.48
J. E. Hilt, 1 vacant lot 6.12
D. D. Iscnhour, 1 house 11.98
T. F. Isenhour, 1 house 5.82
D. P. Killian, 1 house 10.82
D. B. Martin, 1 house 16.14
J. T. Perkins, home, bal 5.23
[ L. W. Poovey, 1 store, bal 9.25
Rev. J. M. Price, 1 house 10.82
Ed N. Shell, 1 house 14.59
R. B. Shell, 1 house & lot, bal.. 13.08
Otis Vanderburg, 1 house, vacant
lot 20.00
[ F. M. Warlick, 1 house 6.49
Mrs. Laura White, 1 house, bal_. 7.81
jW. D. Reinliardt, 1 house • 8.32
Henry Reinhardf, 1 house 3.33
C. Lee, 1 lot ._ 1.66
H. L. Beam, 1 lot 2.50
G. P. Campbell, 1 lot 4.9?
Doc Elrod, 2 lots 1.66
W. G. Holler, I lot 8.32
R. E. Lineberger, 1 lot 3.33
R. A. Mackey, 1 lot 4.16
E. A. Spargo, 1 lot 3.33
COLORED
Lizzie Abernethy, 2 houses, lot,
store 9.15
James Adams, 3 houses, vacant
lot 16.07
Wm. Barber, 1 house, vacant lot
bal 6.6*
Carline Eennett, 1 house 2.' 9
Charlie Bost. 1 house 8.5 a
Lou Bost, 1 house 2.16
Mary Caldwell, 1 vacant lot .£0
~Hall Chambers, 1 lot .22
Geo. Clark, 1 house 4.62
W. C. Cleland, 2 houses ! .17
Ticttie Conlter, 1 lot_„ 1.66
J. B. Curlee, 2 houses... ... 12.83
Will Finger, 1 vacant lot 6.40
Win. Forney, 1 house, 2 vacant
lots 5.25
P. R. D. Gore, home, vacant lot 12.15
Will Grier, 1 house . 8.82
Frank Hamrick (Isaac Leach), 1
vacant lot .83
Monroe Harris, 1 house 6.66
Adam Hull, 1 house 1 63
Thos. Jackson, 1 house bal 3.65
James Jones, house, store 5.41
Jonas Knox, 1 house, 2 vacant
lots *10.40
Victor Knox, 1 house 9.15
Isaac Leach, 2 houses 5.10
J. Rufus Morrison, 1 vacant lot.. 5.66
John Morrison, llot, bal 1.82
Omer Morrison, 1 house 7.96
Ed Reinhardt, 1 house 2.13
Geo. Robinson, 1 house 2.00
Franklin Ross, 1 house, bal 1.80
Ivey Scott, 1 house & lot _ 5.68
A. W. Shuford, 1 house & lot,
bal 2.80
James Shuford, 1 vacant lot 6.12
Frank Smith, 1 vacant lot .42
J. F. Smyre, 1 store 9.98
R6sa Stewart, 1 house .82
Charlie Suddreth, 1 house 1.33
Thomas Williams, 1 house 1.77
Arthur N. Willis, 1 house 3.06
Rachael Winkler, 1 house 3.33
S. C. CORNWELL,
City Manager.
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