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ESTABLISHED 1899
DEMOCRAT AND PRESS CONSOLIDATED 1905
NEWS OF W. WEEK
FROM WEST HICKORY
Local and Personal Happenings
of That Hustling Town and
Community.
West Hickory, Aug. 25.
Everything is very quiet in our
town and the work at the Ivey
Mill is moving on fine with
plenty of help in all depart
ments.
Mr. J. M. Freeman, overseer
of weaving, and M, C. Wilson
went to Rutherfordton on busi
ness Saturday. •
Miss Myrtle Arney is spending
several days at Blowing Rock
with relatives.
Prof. N. M. Cordell has gone
to Cliffside to conduct a singing
school.
Miss Cillie Sparks of Cliff iide,
was the guest of Miss Ola Law
ter Saturday ana Sunday.
Miss Lula Winkler is quite
tfick with typhoid fever.
Misses Lovie and Minnie Lew
h of High Shoals, are here
working in the mill.
Miss Marree Lail gave her
brother, Z nney, a surprise
birthday party last Friday even
ing. There was a large crowd
of young people present and
they all repcrt a good time.
Little Rileigh Hahn is quite
sisk with typhoid fever.
Mr. Willie La:key of Grand
Rapids, Mich,, is here visiting!
his mother, Mrs. M..J. Lackey, j
Mr. Zjb Keever is here visit-,
ing his mother and brothers. He !
went to Texas five years ago and
mis is his first Visit home since
going away.
Mr. and Mr 3. Charlie Jones
visited at Ball's Creek and at
tended the campmeeting.
Mr. Ted Berry and family and
Miss Puteat, all of Draxel, were
her* severai days last week
Visiting the family of Mr. P.
Berry.
Mr. Boyce Martin of Charlotte,
was here last week visiting Miss
Minnie Berry,
Mrs. C. E. Pipes has been
quite sick for several days,
Mrs. Minnie McKenzie was
taken to the Long Sanitorium at
Statesviile Sunday for treatment.
Her many friends wish her a
speedy recovery.
Mrs. Josephine Starnes gave
her Sunday School class an ice
cream party Saturday evening
at her home. They all had a
nice time.
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Mr. C. T, Sloope has returned
to Memphis, Tenn,, after a visit
to his mother, Mrs. Mary Sloope,
in this city.
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Mrs. Deßriggs, Miss Bertha
Deßriggs and Mr. Calvin De
liriggs have returned to their
home in Memphis, Tenn., after
spending several weeks here with
their grandmother, Mrs. Mary
Sloope.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Harden left
Tuesday for a ten day visit to
Mr. Harden's father at Lime
stone, Tenn.
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Mr. and Mrs. A. Graves Thomp
son of Mclver, are spending some
time with Mrs. Thompson's un
cle, Mr. E, V. Morton.
Lutheran Coherence.
The district conference of the
Lutheran congregations and pas
tors connected with the Synod of
Missouri. Ohio and other States,
will be held at St. Peter's church,
near Catawba Springs, beginning
today. Sessions will be held
mornings and afternoons for
three days. A program has been
prepared on which appear well
known ministers of this division
of the Lutheran denomination.
.he Quinine That Does Not Affect The Head
Merause of its tonic and laxative effect. LAXA
TIVE BROMO QuINXNE is better than ordinary
Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor
ringing in head. Remember the full name and
Jook lor the sis-nature of E. W. GROVE. 25c.
Don't call a man a fool—h e
ira> be foolish enough to fight
Registration Improving.
( The registration of births and
deaths in North Carolina is im
proving rapidly, The returns
for June and July are the bsst
thus far recorded. For the month
of June 2922 deaths were report
ed to the Bureau of V.til Statis
tics and for July 2971. Tin Vital
Statistics law was amendad by
the last legislature requiring that
certificates of death be filed be
fore a body could be buried, As
a result the death registration
has been improved about 25 per
cent since the operation of the
new law.
This does not mean that there
are more deaths occurring than
ever before, but simply that they
are beintr better reported. There
are still a large number ot unre
ported deaths that cccur in var
ious parts of the state, but a
more thorough enforcement of
the law promises still further im
provement along this line.
Birth registration in North
Carolina is much better than
death registration. During the
first six months there were an
average of 6113 births reported
each month against 2560 deaths.
The authorities point out that
there is little indication of race
suicide in these figures.
Refused Recognition.
Word has just been received
by the Bureau of Vital Statistics
that North Carolina has been re
fused admission to the registra
tion area nf the "United States.
This comes as the result of a two
months' investigation made of
the registration work in this
state by Inspector Ciifton C. Jer
mane of the Federal Census.
The reason the Census author
ities declined to accept North
Carolina records was because of
the poor work done by a numbtr
of the counties and the conse
quent large number of unregis
tered births and deaths found by
the Inspector.
It was pointed out that undue
lax ty in the matter of enforcing
the law and making prosecutions
where necessary was responsible
for much of the apparent indif
ference in the matter of enfor
cing this important law.
With this suggestion from the
Federal Census, the Bureau o?
Vital Statistics is making prepa
rations to enforce the law in this
matter fully, letting the strong
arm of the law fall where it will.
Death of Mr. D. R. Moore in Ca
tawba.
Catawba Correspondence Newton
News.
Mr. Daniel Rhyne Moore, one
of the oldest and best known
men in the county, died at his
home on the Statesville road,
near Buffalo Shoal 3, Saturday
afternoor, 14th. Hs was 94
years old. The deceased is sur
vived by one brcther, Mr. J. R.
Moore, and one sister, Mrs. Sallie
Clark of Iredell county. The
funeral service was conducted by
Rev. A. G. Loftin Sunday morn
ing at the residence, at 11 o'clock,
and the interment was in tl e
family burying ground.
Miss Lula W.nkler Dead.
Miss Lula Winkler, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. A, B. Winkler,
died at the home of her parents
in West Hickory Tuesday after
noon following an illness of two
weeks with typhoid fever. The
deceased was 16 years of age.
The interment took place at
Winkler's Church Wednesday
afternoon at 3 o'clock conducted
by her pastor. Rev. E. 0. Smith
deal, of the West Hickory Meth
odist Church.
John M. Reece Dies
John Martin Reece, editor and
publisher of the Greensboro
Evening Patriot, died at his home
in that city Tuesday following an
illness of ten weeks. The funer
al was held Wednesday. Editor
Reece was one of the State's
foremost newspaper men and had
been in the harness for many
years. He was 67 years>f age.
NEWSY NOTES FROM
CONOVER, ROUTE ONE.
Lutherans to Hold Conference
in September—Personal
Paragraphs.
Conover, R-l, Aug. 25—Mt,
j Zion Congregation of the Ohio
j Lutheran church will entertain
the Eastern Conference of the
church about September 15. The
j Conference comprises several
j states. The church has installed
| a bell and made other prepara
j tions for the meeting of the
conference. Rev. L, P. Pronst
a former castor of Mt. Zion
church, now stationed in Mary
land, wi!'. attend.
A series of singing and preach
ing services were held at St.
Timothy Lutheran church last
week. A singing institute wa3
held every day and a preaching
service at night. Among the
prominent ministers in attend
ance was Dr. R. L. Patterson, of
Charlotte. ,
Mr. and Mrs, A, W. Cline and
little daughter, Alma Augusta,
spent a few days last week with
Mr. Cline's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. L. Ciine. Mr. Cline
is now editor of The Thomasville
Davidsonian. He says that
during the six months he has
had charge of the paper he has
added over six hundred subscri
bers.
Rjbt. A. Rowe, superinten
dent of the trucking department
of the Masonic Orphanage at
Oxford, is visitihg his mother,
Mrs. J. D. Rowe.
Miss Ciaudie Youn t has re
turned to Hickory after spending
her vacation with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Davis E. Yount.
One of the hardiest rains of
the sum ner fell in this section
Friday night. Much damage
was done to corn on the lowlands
by the overflowing of the
streams.
Miss Sarah Yount has return
ed from an extended visit t) her
sister, Mrs, D. P. Miller, of the
Fairgrove section.
Rev. B. A. York, pastor of the
Hickory circuit of the Methodist
church, announced last Sunday
that he would begin a series of
revival services services at Mar
vin the second Sunday in Sep
tember.
Rev. J. A. Yount is visiting
his daughter, Mrs. Moretz, at
Sands, Watauga county.
Mrs. J. A. Yount and two
daughters are visiting relatives
in Baltimore Md,
-The condition of Dr. T; y or, (f
Hickory, who has been at the
County Home for several months,
is reported to be much im
proved.
Cuts Throat in Attempt to Pass
Pedestrian.
Durham, Aug. 24.—Wesley
R'gsbee, a negro from the north
ern part of the county, was rid
ing a bicycle along the road and
attempted to pass another negro
walking with a long old-fashion
scythe across his shoulder, the
blade struck Rigsbee just under
the chin and nearly cut his head
off.
He was immediately rushed to
the city and given medical at
tention, His coat had been stuffed
into the gaping wound to pre
vent his bleeding to death before
he reached Durham, but as soon
as the packing was taken out of
the wound, the blood began to
flow so freely that it was almost
impossible to dress the wound,
and he died in a short while.
Anson county having preened
herself on the possession of six
living ex-sheriffs, Catawba mod
estly presents zeven. The num
ber is too small in the opinion of
Catawba Democrats, who fondly
hope to put an "ex" before the
entitlements of Sheriff John A.
Isenhour after a bit. The seven
are M. J. Rowe. J. W, Killian
and R. Lee Hewitt, of Newton;
D. M. Boyd, J. T. Leonard and
J. W. Blackwelder, of Hickory,
and T. L. Bandy, of the coun
ty.
HICKORY, N. C., FRIDAY, \UGUST 27, 1915
Mrs. W. C. Riley of C>ncord
and Mrs. Joseph Call of Ashe
ville were slightly injured Satur
day night when the automobile
in which they were riding went
over a 40-feet embankment.
A buggy occupied by Luther
Stone, his wife and two children
was struck by a train at a cross
ing' near Kittrell Vance county.
The mother and baby were
killed; husband seriously injured
and 3-year-old son slightly
hurt. t
John Green was arrested in
Boone last week, charged with
trying to kill his stepchild. He
is said to have thrown the child
against the wall and broken its
thigh and to have attempted to
poison it with carbolic acid.
first 3ttetl)o&lst (Ttjurcl)
"pfyilatfyea biotas
Notwithstanding the fact that
a large number of our girls at
tended the Ball's Creek camp
meeting, we had thirty-six pres
ent and nine visitors. Mrs. W.
F. Fogle taught our class and
Miss Erroll Boich will teach next
Sunday. They are substitutes
while Mr, West is away.
We vrere glad to have Miss
Erroll Bolch with us Sunday.
She has been visiting her broth
er in Mirshsville an.i friends in
Charlotte.
Misses Jennie and Annie
Rhinehardt have returned from
Kings Mountain and Bessemer
city. They report a delightful
time.
The class leceived five post
cards last week. They were
irorn Mr. West Atlantic City;
Miss Majorie Whitener. Atlantic
City; Miss Ethel Balti
more, Md., Miss Jennie Rhine
hardt. Bessimer City and Miss
Jos Moore, Covington, Ky,
We were glad to welcome Mrs.
E. E. Hendley as a member of
our class. She used to teach
our class before we organiz
ed. '
Monday night we had our
business meeting which proved
a great success as we maped
out our plans from now till
Christmas and all reports were
good.
Report of Librarian
Total number of books in
library 63.
Total number of books added
during month 2.
Total number of books taken
out during month 12.
Report of Reporter
Number of articles contribut
ed during past month, 4. Papers
using same: Hickory Demo
crat.
Report of Charity Committee
Number of visits to sick 14,
Number of bouquets carried to
sick 3. •
Number of visits to stran
gers I.'
Number of visits to the
aged 2.
Relief given 1 basket fruit.
Relief given 1 basket of
grapes.
Report of Secretary
Number of members on roll
at beginning of month 61,
Number of members drooped
during month 3.
Number of members added
during month 4-
Net loss or gain, gain 4.
Average atfcniance for month
40.
Average collection for month
$4,94.
Report of Guest Registrar
Visitors during past month 23.
Report of Treasurer
Expenditures during past
month 35.50.
Balance on hand 311.64.
"What do you think my dear'
Mr. Smartleigh says he could
use my head in his business." "I
haven't a doubt of it. He man
ufactures concrete."—Buffalo
Express.
Matters of News.
In Lighter Vein.
ALLIES HEARTENED BY
GERMAN NAVAL LOSSES
Destru&ion of Fleet in Guif
of Riga of Very Much
Importance.
The German naval reverses in
the Gulf of Riga and Baltic Sea,
the German capture of Ossowetz
and a British naval bombard
ment of the German naval base
at Zeebrugee, furnished a series
of news features with temporar
ily diverted attention from the
gravity of the issues growing out
of the sinking of the Arabic,
according to a dispatch from
London.
The German version of the
Riga battle has not yet been giy
en out but the definitne3s of the
official Russian report on the I
sinking or crippling of the Ger- j
man battle cruiser Moltke, two '
other cruisers and eight torpe-!
doboati has sent a wave of en
thusiasm throughout the coun
try and dispelled the depression
over the Russian retreat on lard.
Aside from the loss of the Ger-j
man ships, the naval engage-!
ment is regarded chiefly impor
tant fcr the stragetic effect on
the land onerations in the Ger
man sweep eastward toward
Petrograd, which military obser
vers now consider as having been
checked and possibly irreparably
defeated.
The German center has press-;
ed forward steadily until Prince |
Leopold is near the Russian new
line of defense, but the military
observers say the entire cam ,
paign hinged on the vast envel
oping movement of von Hinden
burg's forces in the north. They
had succeeded in pushing far
beyond Riga, to Jacobstandt on !
the Ovina, but the Russians hold
great naval base of Riga was a
continual menace in their rear.
This, the military observers
say, led to the shifting of a
number of German ships, in
cluding the Moltkr, from the
North Sea to the Baltic, the
purpose of controlling Riga and
thus protecting a German land
advance on Petrogracl, The re
sult of the naval battle, appears
definitely to have defeated the
German objective, according to
the observers, who say that
aside from the loss of the ships
the gulf and the naval base of
Riga still are in Russian hands
and menace von Hindenburg's
further advance toward Petrc
grad.
The capture of Ossewetz give 3
the Germans another stronghold,
only Grodno and Brest-Litovsk
remaining in the central sec
tion. It al3o gives them the
main point on the railway to
Bielsk and Brest-Litovsk.
Special reports from Petror
grad indicate that the Russian
position at-Brest-Litovsk gradu
ally is becoming untenable and
that the pablic is being prepar
ed for its abandonment.
Only meager details have been
received concerning the British
bombardment of the German
submarine base of Zjebrugge
and neighboring points on the
Belgian coast, Berlin reports
40 British Admirality as yet has
has made no statement. The fir
ing lasted several hours, the
Gsrman heavy artillery
ing the British fire.-
That there has been Frejich
naval activity in the same local
ity is shown in the Paris official
communication, which announces
the sinking of a German torpe
do-boat destroyer off Ostend by
two French torpedo-boats.
In the west there have been no
notable changes.
NOTICE.
Every man who has the inter
est of Hickory at heart is reques
ted to come out to the BOOST
ERS' MEETING tonight. You
need not think because you be
long to something else you are
not wanted. We want everybody
to come and help. The meeting
will be called promptly at eight
o'clock. COMMITTEE.
Thft Stranger in Our Midst.
It is a bad Omen thai the
German papers published is this
country continue to view the
whole controversy from the
standpoint of Berlin, They are
anxicus about Germany's inter
ests in conducting the war; they
are not anxious about the rights
of the United States. Their
editorials find satisfaction and
j conviction in whateyer emanates
I from the Wilhelmsstrasse mag
j nates, while they intimate very,
broadly that our Government is I
predjudiced, hypocritica unneu
tral, subservient to England,
indifferent to fact, and so on, ad
nauseam. Our freedom of the
press enables them to malisrn the
Administration at Washington,
but does not enable them even to
criticize fairly the rulers of Ber
lin. It is perfectly plain that in
case of a break with Germany
many of these so-called Ameri-
can Germans will be unable
either to curb their zeal for the
old country or to skake off their
habil of implicit and instinctive
' obedience to its orders. We
have had many examples of this
lately in the endless small "ac
cidents" to war property of the
United State?, in the bombs
found on vessels loading for
England and France, and in the
foolish-frantic activities of all
there alleged peace, truth, and
neutrality leagues. -These things
may be only coincidences, but
their are altogether too many
such coincidences. It is high
time that our citizens of Ger
manic origin and Germanic
sympathies pull themselves to
gether and show that they care
about the United States. The
next few months are going to be
a very critical season for those
wose hearts own a foreign and
an-antaganistic allegiance.—Col
liers Weekly.
To Save The Babies.
The Catawba Medical Society
went on rocord as favoring ten
tative plans suggested some time
ago by the State Board of Health
to endeavor to inaugurate some
special, intensive work on child
hygiene in that county, dealing
especially with care and feeding
of infants and summer diarrhoeal
diseases. If the plan is finally
adopted, it will probably mean
the employment of a specialist
on children's diseases for several
months or even a year. It is
hoped that such a specialist may
be secured from the U. S. Public
Health Service of the Children's
Bureau. This specialist would
devote the major part of his ef
forts in assisting the practicing
physicians of tj?e county in ap
plying the best modern mothods
in the treatment and prevention
of children's diseases. He will
also hold reading, study and lec
ture courses for the mother's
clubs, and carry on such other
work as may appear necessary
looking toward lowering ou.
present high infant death rate,
fo far as is known, if this plan
is adopted it will be the first
work of this nature ever adopted
in this country.
The County Medical Society
also endorsed a plan of rural
quarintme Ifor Catawba County
to be undertaken jointly by the
county and state authorities.
—Bulletin State Board of
Health.
James Frye to Newton.
The executive committee of
Catawba College met on Friday
and elected Mr. James Frye, of
Hickory, to fill the vacancy in
the faculty caused by the resig
nation of Mr. J. J. Ingle. Mr.
Five is a graduate of Lenoir Col
lege and comes highly endnrssd
by that institution. The News
welcomes Mr. Frye to our town.
We nope he will put his heart
and his soul into the work of Ca
| tawba College. This is whift an
institution needs at this day and
time —men and women who are
concerned about what they are
putting into the schools more
than what they get out of them.
—Catawba County News.
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New Series Vol. I, No. 28
EUSIMAN COMPANY IS
ADJUDGED fl MONOPOLY
Decision Was Rendered in Fa
mous Kodak Anti-Trust
Case Yesterday.
Buffalo. AUK, 24.—The East
man Kodak company, of Roches
ter, was declared a monopoly in
violation of the Sherman law in
a decision today by Judge John
R. Hazel of the federal court.
The decision grants the company
an opportunity to present a plan
"for the abrogation of the illegal
monopoly" on the first day of the
November term.
Judge Hazel in his opinion
stated that, while it appeared
that no irremedial hardships
would result from a separation
of the present business into two
or more separate companies, it
was not at this time intended to
indicate either a dissolution, divi
sion or reorganization. •
It no doubt is possible, he said,
that an adequate measure of re
lief might result from injuring
the unfair practices of the terms
of sale agreements and of a sep
aration of the business, but the
defendants should have an op
portunity to present to the court
on the first day of the 1915 Nov
ember term, a plan for the abro
gation of the iilegal monopoly
unduly and unreasonably re
straining interstate trade and
commerce, or if an appeal from
this interlocutory decree is taken
to the Supreme court and this de
cision is affirmed, such plan i 3 to
be presented within 60 days from
the filing of the mandate.
Japan Will Aid
Russia to Prose
cute The War
The Associated Press learns
that Japan has decided to em
ploy all available governmental
and private resources for increas
ing the output of munitions for
the Allies, particularly Russia.
The Japanese Government be
lieves the time has arrived for
more concerted action against the
enemies of Japan and her Allies.
The Kokumin Shimbun pays:
*'Premier Okuma states that
Japan has decided to give great
er assistance to Russia to urose
cnte the war. He could not dis
cuss details, but allowed it to be
understood that this assistance
would take the form of the for
warding of greater supplies of
munitions."
No Change In The Mexican Situation.
While the Pan-American con
ferees await further replies to
their peace appeal to Mexican
leaders, the stage apparently is
being set for a dec sive battle be
tween Carranza and Villa in Cen
tral Mexico.
Meantime it was announced a
few days ago that Carranza who
has not yet made answer to the
peace proposals, would leave Vera
Cruz, re-establish his govern
ment at Mexico City and demand
recognition for it from the Uni
ted States. But it is emphat'-
cally asserted that he will not ac
cept the peace proposals.
The annual meeting of Ke
formed church people at Mat
thews of interest to Catawba
and Lincoln county citizens, will
begin on the evening" of Sep
tember 3 with a sermon by Dr.
Murphy, and will close on the
afternoon of September 5. Serm
ons will be preached by Revs.
W. H. McNairy, of Lincolntor},
J. D. Andrews and W. W. Rowe,
of New o \ M, tthews is an an
i cient meeting place and many
people attend each year;
The grand jury of Johnson
county Superior Court ha 3 re
turned indictments for embezzle
ment, false pretence and forge
ry aarainst L. H. Allred. the
lawyer legislator of Smithfield
who recently went, to the
bad. Allred disappeared som&
months ago*