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, S I \BLISHED 1899
[,, MOCK AT AND PRESS CONSOLIDATED 1905
Editor of News Visits
Catawba Creamery
It was a pleasure to the editor
oiThe News to have the privi
lege of spending a short while in
looking through the Creamery at
Jiickory last Friday afternoon.
We entered and went up the
stairway that leads to the offices.
Here we found well-equipped of
fices, a splendid reception room
for visitors and ample office room
and departments for the various
phases of the business of the
Creamery Company.
The superintendent and gen
eral manager, Mr. A. 0. Mitch
ell, was awav and we did not
have the pleasure of meeting
him, but we met in the office a
clever gentleman, Mr. H.A. Ful
rner, who took pleasure in giv
ing us information concerning
the management of the business,
its growth, etc.
The business started five years
ego with a capital of fifteen hun
dred dollars. The men who start
ed this business builded wiser
than they knew. The plant at
present is easily worth twenty
five thousand dollars.
Tne first year of the business
amounted to $19,811.00; the sec
ond, $52,163 00; the third, $57,-
915; fourth, $123,Q67. The fifth
year to June Ist, 1915 $245,505.-
00.
During the month of June $13,-
000 00 was paid out for cream to
one thousand farmers.
During the year ending June
30th, 1915. 228,700 dozen eggs
were handled by the creamery.
During the year 1914, 238,900
pounds of butter were made.
During the year 1915, ending j
Jane Ist, 572,000 pounds of but
ter were made.
Djring the month of June just
past 66,000 pounds of butter
were made.
We were shown over the plant
by Mr. O. D. Hahn. We saw
the cream pasteurized and then
into a great cistern where it was
cooled off. We were shown a
great tank of cream that was set
for the night to "ripen" for the
morning churning—my, what a
b g churn—can make thousands
of paunds of butter at one churn
ing. We visited the room where
the butter ife placed in boxes to
cool and hardened to be cut into
cakes. We next saw where the
butter was placed in the boxes
of pounds, half pounds and oth
er weights. From this place we
were shown into the "cold room"
where the butter is kept until
shipped out. I
The Creamery has a complete
eo'.d storage plant and also an ice
plant for making ice.
Tne entire establishment is an
interesting place from the office
• down to the great tank where
youctn get buttermilk for the
hogs at one cent per gallon.
This business i 3 a striking il
lustration of what can be done
when people are willing to work
together. These one thousand
farmers that are receiving
j checks monthly can each one tes
tify as to what this plant means
to them. It means that they
have cash twelve months in the
y.-ar instead of once or twice a
year as they used to do before
they put their efforts together.
The News is proud of the
Creamery and of what it is do
ing for those interested in it. It
has meant and will mean more
to us as a county than we can
now realize. We have set the
example that is being followed in
other counties of the State. We;
advise our readers who have not
seen the Creamery to visit it
when they have an opportunity.
It is worth while to do so.
LAMI) FOR SALE.
100 acre tract, 6 miles from
Morganton, on Lenoir and Mcr
ganton road. 16 acres of bottom
land, balance upland with 75.000
feet saw timber. Anyone wish
ing to buy. Address E. B. Hood,
Morganton. N. C., Route 2.
A house hold remedy in America tor
25 year's —Dr. Thomas' Electric Oil.
For cats, sprains, burns, scalds, bruis
es 25 and suc. At all drug stores.
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Among
bweet Potato Growers
The Catawba County, North
Carolina, Cooperative Sweet Po
tato Growers' Association, an as-
farmers who market
their potato crop without the aid
of the middleman, has closed the
season with a record of 25 cars
shipped, a net price of $2.67 the
crate tfaid to members, and total
net sales of SIO,BOO. The mem
bership jumped from a handful
of growers last year to 150 this
year; and the cooperative idea is
spreading like contagion and,
another year will see in all prob
ability most of the growers en
rolled.
The association handles the
crop of its members on a margin
of 10 cents the crate plus 10
cents the 100 Dounds and $1
membership fee. This pays all
expenses, nobody gets any rake
off and the full price obtained,
leas expenses, goes back to the
man who raised the potatoes.
The management watches the
market close, sends out bulletins
andv quotations and ships and
collects. Six cars were sent out
a year ago when the idea was
young, and the 25 cars this sea
son indicates how cooperation is
growing in Catawba County.
Members received from 25 to 50
cents more per crate than grow
ers selling to the middlemen.—
Progressive Farmer.
Newton Enterprise: Mr. Lon
S. Sherrill. who is to take the
place of Mr. E. T. Harwell at the
store of Mr. P. O. Carpenter, will
arrive probably this week. At
any rate he will begin work Mon
day. His family will follow as
soon as arrangements can be
made. Mr. Sherrill is a merchant
of much experience, having
served with Fields and for the
past several years with Sledge at
Hickory. He is welcomed to New
ton. -It-is a matter of pleasure
to many friends that Mr. and
Mrs. Harwell will continue to
live'here, Mr. Harwell having
accented a position in the cloth
ing and furnishing store of Yount
& Schrum. He will not begin
work until the first of September.
Meanwhile he will enjoy the first
vacation in six years, loafing
around Cornelius and Charlotte
and elsewhere.
Attractive Mountain Excursion
Tuesday, August 10, 1915.
Soulhcrn Railway will operate special
train consisting of both day coaches and
Pullman cars from Charlotte to Ashe
ville, via Salisbury Tuesday, August 10,
making exceptionally low round trip
fares as shown below:
Charlotte .$3.50
Lexington- 3.50
China Grove 3.00
Winston-Salem. 3.50
Concord 3.25
Morganton 1.50 j
Mocksvillc 3.00 !
Salisbury 3.00
Thomasville 3.50
Mooresville 2.75
Greensboro 4.25
Reidsvillc 4.75
Hickory 1.75
Taylors vi lie 2.75
Statesville 2.50
Albemarle 3.50
Kannapolis 3.25
Newton 2.00 j
Asheboro 3.50
Conover 2.00
Fares from all other points on same
basis. « /
Fares from all points to Black Moun
tain 50 cents less than fares as shown to
Asheville.
Exceptional opportunity to spend a
pleasant vacation in Asheville and sur
rounding mountains. Now is the time
to enjoy a stay at Black Mountain and at
tend the meetings at Montreat.
Special train will leave Charlotte 8:30
a. m., Salisbury 10:20 a. m., nrrivc Black
Mountain about 2:45 p. m.,.and Ashe
ville 3:50 p. m.
Returning tickets will be good on all
regular trains leaving Asheville and
Black Mountain up to and including Fri
day, August 13th, except will not be
good on main line trains 37 and 38.
Passengers from points not covered by
special train will use regular trains to
Salisbury, Barber, Statesville and other
junction points connecting with the
special train.
For further information apply nearest
ticket agent or write,
R. H. QeBUTTS, D. P. A.,
Charlotte, N. C.
Doan's Regulets are recommended
by numy who say they operate easily,
without griping and bad after effects.
25c at all.drug stores.
News of The South
Fork Neighborhood
Nothing new in this neck of
the world. All seems to be very
quiet and calm. The farmers
have about jogged through farm
work. They have their crops all
looking well and growing nicely.
Corn looks well, so does cotton,
though it is about two weeks late
but is blooming well. The sweet
potatoe crop is doing fine. The
farmers have about all their
wheat threshed. It turned out
fairly well. The general health
in this vicinity seems to be fair
ly good.
Eli Leonard, an old confeder
ate soldier of nearly 88 years old,
who was paralyzed several weeks
ago, has so improved that he can
begin to walk a little by two per
sons holding him up on eithei
side.
Mrs. Charles Shuford of Vir
ginia, is now on a visit to her
mother, Mrs. F. A. Yoder, and
Lem Shuford.
Wesley Meachum and son are
i putting up a large commodious
barn for Henry Helton.
Enloe Yoder is out again on
the surveyors path. Last week
he had been all week up in Blow
ing Rock, laying off lots and sur
veying roads around the moun
tain for Hinkel.
C. E. Finger's father-in-law,
from Gaston county, was on a
visit to his house.
Everybody is looking forward
for the day to the approaching of
the annual reunion day of the old
soldiers on the 12th of August.
, when they can meet each other
and talk over those old war
scenes, and especially the young
spcrtern when they can have a
good time with their be3t girl.
And, too, the old widowers and
bachelors will leave the rear rank
and turn up in the front rank to
watch with a keen eye what lady
or widow they can kidnap as a
great boon for life.-
It is so hot these days that the
thermometer is dancing around
the notch of 90 degrees.
The ground is getting very dry
and hard to plow corn. It now
has the general appearance that
it would be a dry spell of weath
er.
Jacobs Fork township tias five
Confederate soldiers whose com
bined ages are 44, on an average
of 88 years. Is there any town
ship in Catawba County that can
beat it, if so, let us hear from
i them.
Miss Winnie Leonard, daugh
ter of Dawrence Leonard, who
was a stydent at the last session
of Lenoir College, has opened a
summer school at the Yoder
schoolhcuse.
George Mosteller took his old
est daughter to the hospital at
Statesville where she was opera
ted upcn for appendicitis. She
stood the operation well and is
getting alcng fine.
Portsmouth - Norfolk Excursion
via Seaboard Tuesday August
3, 1915
The Seaboard Air Line will
operate their next excursion
Portsmouth-Norfolk Tuesday
August 3,1915, from Rutherford
ton, Charlotte, Lumberton, Ches
ter and all intermediate stations
to Cary, fare for round trip from
Charlotte $4,50, train leaves
Rutherfordton 4:40 p. m., Char
lotte 7:50 p. m., arriving Porte-
Piouth next morning at 8:30
a. m. Returning leave Ports
mouth Thursday night 8.00 p.m.,
August 5. Pullman sleepers on
this train make reservations early
apply Jas. Iver. Jr., T. P. A.,
Charlotte, first class equipment.
Special coaches for colored peo
ple. For further information see
small flyers, call on your nearest
Agent or write undersigned.
John T. West, Jas. Ker, Jr.
D. P. A. T. P. A.
Raleigh, N• C. Charlotte, N. C.
For a Sprained Ankle.
If you will get a bottle of Chamber-!
lain's Liniment and obseive the direc- |
tions given therewith faithfully, you will |
recover in much less time than is usu- 1
ally required. For sale bv Grimes Drug |
Co. & Lutz Drug Co.
HICKORY, N. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 3 1915
jCo. A Makes Good
Record at Camp Glenn
The officers and men of Com
pany A are highly elated over
the record established by the
men at Camp Glenn this year. In
rifle practice they led the entire
first regiment, twenty-seven men
shooting over the record prac
tice course, their nearest com
petitor being Company B ofGas
tonia, which sent twenty-five
men out.
Out of the twenty-seven men
from Company A that shot over
j the record course, eight qualified
as expert riflemen, nine as sharp
shooters, three as marksmen and
seven as a second-class riflemen.
The entire company was first
tried out on the range in the in
struction course and were re
quired to make 150 points ou.t of
a possible 225 in order to be el
igible to take part in the record
course.
In the record course Corporal
W. A. Elrod led the company,
his score being 227, out of a pos
sible 25(1
Those shooting the record
course and their scores were as
follows:
EXPERTS.
Capt. Lverly 223.
Sergt. Benfield 212.
Sergt. Bolch 211.
Cook Short 224.
Cook Dougia* 214.
Corporal Dietz • 223.
Corporal Elrod 227.
Private Cordell 210.
SHARPSHOOTERS.
Sergt. Daves 200.
Sergt. Church 200.
Corporal Herman 193.
Musician Stevenson 198
Private McFalls 195.
Private Whisnant 202.
Private Hawn 199
' Private Henkel 204.
Private Yount > 191.
MARKSMEN.
Sergt. Gross 184.
Private Drum - * 161.
Private Reitzel 176.
SECOND-CLASS.
Lieut. Cline 136.
Sergt. Ramseur 149.
Corporal Huffman 127.
Private Hyder 139.
Private Day 122.
Private Wilson 123.
Private Benrield 120.
To qualify as expert they are
required to make a score of 210
out of a possible 250; as sharp
shooter, 190 to 210 out of 250,
and as marksman, 160 to 190 out
of 250. Those falling below that
are rated as first and second
class riflemen.
Musician Charles S. Stevenson
of Company A acted as Chief
Musician of the regiment and
will probably receive a perma
nent appointment as such before
camp next year. He is said to be
one of the best buglers in the
state and is certainly entitled to
the position.
The conduct of the boys is re
ported as being the best in years
and their drilling of the highest
standard of efficiency. They had
quite an exciting experience
when the boat on which the first
battalion on an outing to Cape
Lookout was stranded on the
beach when the tide went out,
leaving them on the cape for the
night. However, none were the
worse off qn account of this and
were safely landed back in camp
on Friday morning.
MEN WANTED—In the Men's
Bible class at the Presbyterian
Cnurch every Sunday morning in
the main auditorium of the
church at 9:45 a. m. Dr. W. B.
Ramsay, teacher. You will be
greeted with a warm welcome.
If you are not attending Sunday
School we will be glad to have
you come out and join the Men's
Bible Class at the Presbyterian
Church on the corner Thirteenth
Avenue and Thirteenth Street,
Shoe Repair Shop Moved.
I have moved my shoe repair
shop to firot door below First
Building & Loan Association of
fice. Work called for and de
livered. Phone 106. F,M. Thomp
son.
'Without Flinch Beck
- er Met Death Friday
Sing Sing Prison, Ossining. N.
Y., July 30.—Charles Becker paid
the death penalty by electrocu
tion here early today for having
instigated the murder of Her
man Rosenthal, gambler, three
years ago. With wonderful com
posure and maintaining his in
nocence to the last the former
New York police lieutenant ied
the way to the execution cham
ber. A photograph of his wife
was pinned on his shirt over his
heart. Three shocks were given
before the prison physician pro
nounced life extinct at 5:55
o'clock. With two nriests at his
side chanting a litany, Becker
joining in and repeating "have
mercy on -us" the condemned
man walked steadily to the death
I chair. He had sat up all night
on the edge of his cot. talking to
Deputy Waden Charles 11. John
son.
"I have got to face it and I am
going to meet it quietly and
without trouble to any one."
The deputy warden left Beck
er about an hour before the time
for the execution. When Fath
er Cashin, prison priest, and
Father Curry of New York came,
they found Becker with his' face
resting on his hand gazing at the
prison floor. They remained with
him to the end. To Father Cur
ry he gave hia last message,
which was:
"I am not guilty by deed, or
conspiracy, cr in any other way
!of the death of Rosenthal. lam
! sacrificed to my friends. Bear
! this message to the world and
|my friends. Amen."
j He hesitated a moment as he
J entered the execution room. Ha
i looked quickly at the double row
! of witnesses, glanced at the floor?
then suddenly walked over the
rubber mat and seated himself
in the electric chair.
Three shocks were eiven be
fore the condemned man was
pronounced dead. He was put
to death by the State execution
er whcse name is unknown to
the public. He said that in his
opinion Becker had died instant
l ly at the first contact.
POSITIVE PROOF
Should Convince the Greatest
Skeptic In Hickory.
Because it's the evidence of a Hick
ory citizen^
Testimony easily investigated,
The strongest endorsement of mer
it.
The best proof read it:
Mrs. C. E. Huffman, 601 Chestnut
Ave., Hickory, says. "I suffered a lot
f;om my back and kidneys. I was in
such bad shape that I could'nt straight
en up after stooping. The pain in my
back could'nt have been more severe if
someone had run a knife into me. I
couldn't sleep and felt miserable. A
friend recommended Doan's Kidney
Pills and I got a supply at Lutz's Drug
Store. They removed the pains in my
back and made me feel like a new per
son."
Price>soc, at all dealers. Don't sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan's
Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Huff
man had. Fostet-Milbura Co., Props.,
Buffalo, N. Y. adv't
Refuses To Tell Way To Ward Off
Torpedoes.
New Bern, July 20.—Since the an
nouncement was made that Will Dixon
of Oriental, Pamlico county, had inven
ted an appliance that would prevent
torpedoes fired at a ship from striking
the vessel, considerable interest has
been manifested in the affair. Mr, Dix
on, who has gone to Washington, D.
C. t to confer with the naval board in
regard to his invention, has given out
no information to the public as to what
it consists of.
The Clerk Guaranteed It.
"A customer came into mv store the
other day and said to one of my clerks,
'have you anything to cure diarrhoea?'
and my clerk went and got him a bot
tle of Chamberlain s Colic, Cholera ana
Dirrhoea Remedy and said to him, if
this does not cure you. I will not
charge you a cent for i\ So he took;
it home and come back in a day or two
and said he was cured," writes J. H.
Berry & Co. , Salt Creek, Va. For sale
by Grimes Drug Co, & Lutz Drug Co.
New County Agent in
Fsrai Demonstration
The Democrat-
Through the columns of your
paper I wish to introduce to the
farmers of Catawba county Mr.
Homer H. B. Mask, the new
County Agent in Farm Demon
stration. Mr. Mask is a gradu
ate of the Agricultural College
at Auburn, Ala., and a native of
Alabama. His experience has
been with Southern conditions.
He has had experience in the
Alabama Experiment Station,
and he ought to be a very effi
cient man, Prof. Dan. T. Gray,
of our own Experiment Station,
speaks yery highly of the work
Mr. Mask did at Auburn when he
was there, that is, when Gray had
charge of the work there.
I want to say at the beginning
of the work in Catawba that no
matter how efficient Mr. Mask
may be he will not beable to ac
complish much without the co
operation of the farmers and oth
er citizens of the county. x Put
ting one man out to bring about
all the good things that all of us
want, is a very poor way of get
ting them, Mr. Mask has not
been placed on this work for the
purpose of giving "advice", or
"preaching" about how to get
better things, but he is exoected
to assist the farmers to accom
plish better things. He is there
to help in any movement that
may be for the betterment of the
county, but he is not expected to
do all that should be done.
We hope to encourage organi
zation for the accomplishment of
definite and particular objects.
It is not expected that Mr. Mask
shall do all the organizing, quite
the contrary. W hen the farmers
organize for the purpose of bet
tering their condition, no matter
in what way it may be, then Mr.
Mask is expected t:> assist them.
Farmers are busy people, or at
least they ought to be, and all
the good ones or busy, and can
not get around among their
neighbors, or over the county,
Mr. Mask can s|rve them in this
respect. There are now two or
ganizations in the county that
are very helpful, the creamery
and potat? growers' association.
There might be others. There
should be a swine breeders' asso
ciation, not so much for the
breeding of swine, but to encour
age and marketing
of hogs in car lots. For instance,
if fifty farmers shouid agree to
fatten and have ready for the
market a car load of hogs on a
certain date, arrangements could
be made to handle them. This
would create a market for finish
ed ho£3 that farmers could de- j
pend upon. Such a dependable
market would encourage the pro
duction of hogs. There might be
a poultry fattening plant, cr a
number of other business organ
izations.
It is not expected that Mask
go around and "get up" all these
things. He is expected to help
with any proposition that the
farmers are interested in. The
Government expects him to teach
some of the fundamental princi
cipie3 of agriculture by the dem
onstration, and he will do this,
but even in this he will have to
have the cooperation of the far
mers. We would like to see in
every community a betterment
association, and this association*
should try to make the commun
ity better in everything that it
possibly can. The first thing
that such an organization should
undertake to:do would te to make
the school what it ought to be.
See that the teacher is what is
wanted, that the school building
is what it should be, that the
school grounds are decent, that
the building i 3 well lighted and
well ventilated, and that the sub-j
jects taught in the school are
what the children should learn in
order to make them what they
should be when thc-y become men
and women, Every rural school
should give a course in agricul
ture and home economics, and
every school should have a school
New Series Vol. I, No. 21
garden.
These community clubs should
have the good of the wholeneigh-
I borhood at heart, and work to
bring about improvemeut in
every line. The school, public
roads, the churches, the homes
of the people, home grounds, the
amusements, and the social life
should all be considered. From
time to time the County Agent
could meet with the club, tell
them how some other club is im
proving their neighborhood, and
carry the good work from club
to club in this way.
The main thing that we want
to impress on the farmers of the
county is to urge them to make
a larger use of the County Agent.
He will have some definite things
that he will want to do, but the
main thing is to be of service to
farmers who want assistance.
This Fail we want to see many
hundreds of acres sown in grass
and ciover, or clover along. Then
a few farmers will be asked to
sow some alfalfa. Catawba is
well adapted to the growing of
alfalfa, and it is too valuable a
crop to neglect. The main thing
that is needed is lime, and it is
not so expansive to use line now.
Last year we induced a number
of farmers to sow alfalfa, and the
crop is attracting a great deal of
attention. Three farmers near
Statesville were encouraged to
sow alfalfa last Fall, and now it
i 3 hard to keep too many from
going alfalfa growing. Ido
not mean too many if all would
do what we want done, or what
is necessary to do to bring suc
cess, but some farmerf are too
careless to grow alfalfa. We
want only farmers who will fol
low directions.
There needs to be many hun
dreds of acres of grasses and
cioyers sown in every county of
Piedmont Carolina. There are
too many acres of bare land for
the heavy rains to wash away.
Land in sod never washes and
leaches away, and- when it is
plowed up it always makes good
crops of grain. The forage pro
duced in this way makes the best
of feed for the liveetock on the
farm.
Mr. Mask will live at the Farm
Life school and will have charge
of the school farm. He will be
the representative of the school
over the county. He will be the
representative of the United
States Department of Agricul
ture, the State Department, the
Experiment Station, and the Ag
ricultural and Mechanical Col
lege. Mr. Mask does not know
everything, but he will be able to
put any farmer in the county in
touch with the man or the agen
cy that will be of the greatest
service to him. None of these
agencies is infallible, or claims
to know it ail, but they know
what is to be known at this tim«
about any matter that is of in
terest to the farmer.
E. S. MILLSAPS,
District AgeDt.
"Hit Him Again."
In the early days of Methodism in
Scotland a certain congregation where
there was but one rich man desired to
build a new chapel. A church meet
ing was held. The rich old Scotchman
rose and said:
"Bretheren we dinna need a new
chapel; I'll give five pounds for re
pairs."
Just then a bit of plastering falling from
the ceiling hit him on the head. Look
ing up and seeing how bad it was, he
Said •
*'Brelheren, it's worse than I thought,
I'll make it fifty pound.''
"O Lcrd," exclaimed a devout
brother on a back seat "Hit him a
gain!"— Exchange.
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use Burfiock Blood Bitters. Recommen
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fying the blood. At all drug stores.
SI.OO a bottle.
Any skin itches is a temper tester.
The more you scratch the worse it itch
es. Doan's Ointment is for piles, c
zemi any skin itching. 50c. at all
drug stores.
Piles Cured in 6 io *4 Days
iV.:r druggist will refund money if PAZO
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1 Blind, Blecdkig or Protruding Piles in 6to 14 days.
The lirst application gives Ease and Rest. 60c*