Established 18SQ
Estimated Amount of School
Fund and the Apportion
ment of Same.
Fines, etc., $1200.00
White Polte, 4936.50
Colored Polls, 642.00
Railroads, Telephones, & Tele
graphs, 1462.65
Bank Stock, 40(>47
Building & Loan stock, 94'91
Corporation Excess, 178.92
General property tax, whites,^
9510.05
General Property tax, colored,
137.50
From First One hundred thous
and. 1317.98
Private examinations, 78.00
Balances unused by Districts,
Jan. Ist, 1908 176.44
Total, $20135.42
LESS
One-half amount shartage
($21.00) $1050.00
Cost of admin., 700.00
Building fund, 1200.00
Probable exemptions on Polls,
300.42 $3250.42
§l7§B§.oo
DISTRIBUTION BY TOWNSHIP'S,
Hickory |4653.00
Cline's 2272.00
Jacob's Fork " 1200.00
Bandy's 990.00
Catawba _ 1685.00
Newton 3405.00
Mt. Creek 1585.00
Caldwell 1095.00
Total, $16885.00
NEWTON TOWNSHIP.
Apportionment to Districts
Dist. No. I & 2-Graded School,
\ $1325.00
" 44 3 150.00
" 44 4 165.00
•" 44 5 160.00
44 " 6 165.00
" 44 1 " 235.00
" 44 8 165.00
44 44 9 220,00
44 44 10 165.00
44 44 11 155,00
44 44 12 320.00
44 44 2 (Colored) 85.00
44 ' 4 8 " 95,00
Total, $3405.00
BANDY'S TOWNSHIPS.
Dist. No. 1 155.00
44 44 2 250.00
44 44 3 155.00
44 44 4 155.00
44 4 * 5 105.00
" 4 1 6 105.00
44 44 1 (Colored) 65.00
Total $990.00
HICKORY TOWNSHIP.
Dist. No. 1 $145.00
44 4 4 2 165.00
44 3 140.00
44 44 4 - 200,00
44 44 5 145.00
44 44 6 - 205.00
44 44 7 145.00
4 4 44 "8 195.00
44 44 9 165.00
44 44 10 145.00
44 44 11 150.00
44 44 12 105.00
44 44 13 225.00
44 44 14 Graded School
1715.00
44 44 15 165.00
* 4 - 44 16 265.00
44 44 17 Highland 200.00
44 44 1 (Colored) 93.00
4 * 44 2 4 4 85.00
Total $4653.00
JACOB'S FORK.
Dist. No. 1 245.00
44 4 4 2 165.00
44 3 160.00
, 44 * 4 4 110.00
44 4 4 5 160.00
44 44 6 105.00
44 4 4 1 (Colored) 85.00
44 4 4 2 4 4 85.00
44 4 4 3 85.00
i i
Total $1200.00
CLINE'S TOWNSHIP.
Dist. No. 1 $105.00
" 44 2 205.00
" " 3 155.00
44 44 4 - 165.00
THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT.
" " 5 160.00
" " 6 ' , * 155.00
" 4 ' 7 145.00
" 44 8 207.00
" 44 9 155.00
10 (Disanulled)
44 " 11 320.00
" 12 - 105.00
44 ° 13 145.00-
" " 14 165.00
1 (Colored) 85.00
Total, $2272.00
CALDWELL TOWNSHIP.
Dist. No. 1 155.00
" 44 2 " 105.00
" " 3 105.00
" " 4 v 155.00
44 44 5 155 00
44 ~ 44 6 125.00
44 44 7 105.00
44 44 8 105.00
- 4 * 1 (Colored) 85.00
Total $1095.00
CATAWBA TOWNSHIP.
Dist. No. 1 $150.00
44 44 , 2 245.00;
- 4 ' 44 ' 3 145.U0
4&5 Monogram 320.00
" "6 145.00
" f4 7 155.00
M " 8 : 145. Q0
" " 1 (Colored) J05.00
" 44 2 44 ' 95.00
44 44 3 44 95:00
"■ 44 4 " 85.00
Total $1685.00
MT. CREEK TOWNSHIP.
Dist. No. 1 155.00
~ 44 44 2 245.00
44 44 3 125.00
44 44 4 145.00
44 44 5 105.00
44 44 6 . - 155.00
" 7 & 8 226.00
44 4 4 9 145.00
44 4 4 1 (Colored) 95.00
. 44 44 2 44 95.00
44 44 3 44 95.00
Total $1585.00
A Sad Death.
Saturday morning the citizens
of Hickory at the
sudden death of that kind and
generous man. Mr. H. D. Abern
ethy. For some time his health
had been failing and at times his
heart would give him trouble,
yet no one realized that the end
was so near. When the call
came to leave the strife of this
world and to enjoy the perfect
peace of Heaven, he was setting
before the fire talking to his aged
parent and his beloved wife.
Atrten o'clock suddenly and with
out warning his heart faiied-and
his soul entered into eternity.
Mr. Abernethy was the highest
type of a christian, a generous
man, and obedient son, a kind
parent and a loving husband. He
also was a successful business
man, having for a number of
years been secretary and treas
urer 01 the Piedmont Wagon Co.
until he was forced to resign on
account of his health failing.
He was a consistent member
of the Episcopal Methodist
Church and the funeral was con
ducted Sunday afternoon at three
o'clock in the church by his
pastor, Dr. Weayer. Every seat
was filled by a friend who wished
to pay hisjw her respect to the
remains of that man who had
nursed the sick, clothed and feed
the poor and from whose door
no one had turned away hungry.
His remains were laid to rest
in Oakwood Cernetary. Many
were the floral offerings placed
upon the new made grave.
An aged parent, loving wife
and five fatherless children and a
brolner besides the unnumbered
friends mourn this good man. -
When you meet a man who
gets nothing but kicks give him
a kind word and see how much
he will appreciate it.
It takes a dry-goods-box phi
losopher to make a set speech.
HICKORY, N.-C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, L9OB.
Report of The Work in The
Graded School. \
The total enrollment in the
Graded School for the first halt
year is 517. Last year for same
time- it was 453 The average
daily attendance for the first
four months this year has been
426. For the same time Jast
year it was 355. The percentage
of pupils enrolled in average
daily attendance this year is 93
per cent; last year it was 90 per
cent. This record made by the
school is very gratifying to those
in chaage, and it shows too, that
the people are becoming more
interested in their school.
Following is the honor roll for
the month of December.
First Grade, Section A.—Ern
est Bumgarner, Harlee Chester,
Harvey Huggins, Dewey Setzer,
Loretz Somerole, Paul Stephen
son, Elbert Ivey, Orin Abern
ethy, Earl Berry, Claude Setzer,
Imo Edwards, Carrie Hahn,
Doris Huttwn, an t
Grace Poyne, Treva Smitherman,
Norma Stephenson, Aileen
Aiken, Beatrice Brrry, Irene
Dysard; Gertrude Fox. Neslie
Harrington, Lovev Miller, Jessie
Patrick, Pamela Starnes. Anna"
Wacastgr.
First Grade, Section B.—lnez
Abernethy, Willie Bryan, Josie
Bradford, Louis Elliott, Earl
Edwards, Clement D.
C. Huffman, Evvie Harrington,
Florence kgopard, Harry Mc-
Comb, John Shuford, Eiva
Shrum, Pearl Sublett, Katie
Wacaster, Flossie WoodiiefF,
Robert White, Miriam Whitener,
Ralph Shell.
Second Grade.*--Beatrice Sig
mon, Lqp Halm, Nellie Harring
ton, Fostina Jones, Hattie Fox,
Green Long, Thomas Henderson,
Ewart Huffman, Robert Mc-
Comb, Robert Stephenson, Rryan
Wilfong, Clyde Dietz, Obed
Dietz, John Cilley, Leon Milton,
Charles Menzies, Shuford Whit
ener, Haivey McComb, Loy
Deal.
Third Grade.—Aliie Graig,
Lura Johnson, Blair Keever,
Mable Long, Anna Miller Bailey
Patrick, Roscoe Sublett, Henry
Manzies, Marvin Bumgarner,
Grace Chester, Julius Chester,
Jo Moore, Myra McFall, Ernest
Woodlieff."
Fourth Grade.—Olga Henkel,
Fred Campbell Herman Payne,
Loula Lee Wolf, Repecca Boone,
Ralph Whisenhunt, Lilac Blalock,
Herman Kiser, Clifford Abern
ethv, Caddie St'arnes, Grace
Henderson, Effie Johnson, Maud
Abernethy, Victor Seabock,
Marjorie Whitener,
Fifth Grade.—Frank Allen,
Clyde Herman, Claud Abernethy,
Kerly Elliott, Elon Abernethy,
Jennie Reinhardt, Ora Sublett,
Frances Geitder, Hilda Field,
Kate Elliott, Frank Martin,
Annie Reinhardt, Millie Kate
MeConb, Adelyn McCoifcb, Hen
rietta Hale.
Sixth Grade.—John Aiken,
Mintie Abernethy, Emma Bon
ner, Sam Hawn, Louise Jones,
Lelia Huntley, Frances Lentz,
Weston Taylor, Bertie Reinhardt,
Ellen White, Stella White,
Fannie Wilfong.
Seventh Grade,
Estelle payne, Pearl Moretz,
Mary Knox Henderson, Bertha
Harris, Mary Field, Mable Flana
gan, Grace Patrick, Lottie Cline,
Ora Sigmon, Marie Whitener,
Mary Allen, Gertrude Deal Mabel
Cooper, Elizabeth McComb,
Beulab Huffmrn, Roby Chester,
Frank Elliott, Frank Johnsen,
Qrover Huffman.
Eighth Grade. —Richard Shuf
ord, Arthur Huffman, Gertrude
Finger, Lynda White, Gaither
Hawn, Minnie Stevenson, Fleta
Moore, John Murphy, Essie
Robinson, Viola Sigmon, Ernest
Kirk, Bessie Rainey, Ira White,
Addie May Michael.
Advertising in the Democrat
i brings direct results.
Kissing as a Science.
People will kiss, yei >t one
in a hundred knows how tc ex
tract bliss from lovely lips, any
more than they know how to
make diamonds from charcoal.
This litt'e item is not alone for
new beginners, but for many
who go to it li, e hunting coons
or shelling corn. First know
whom you are kissing. Don't
make a mistake although a mis
take may be good. Don't jump
up like a trout for a fly, and
smack a woman on the neck, on
the ear, or the corner of her
forehead, or the end of her nose
or knock off her wat rfall in
haste to get through. The man
should be a little the taller. He
should have a clean face, a kind
eye, a mouth ftfil of expression
instead of tobacco. Don't sit
down to it, stand up. Don't be
anxious about getting in a crowd
Two persons are enough to cor
ner and catch a kiss. More per
sons spoil the sport. Stand firm
it wont hurt any after you are
used to it. Take the left hand
of the young lady in your right,
let your hat go to any place
out of the way. Draw the left
arm gently over the shoulder of
the lady ai}d Jet tlje hand fall
down upon the right side to
ward the belt. Don't be in a
hurry; draw her gently, lovingly
to your heart, her head will fall
lightly upon your shoulder —and
a handsome shoulder strap it
makes |
Dent be in a hurry- send a
little life down your left arm, let
there be an expression to that,
not like the grip of a vise, the
gentle clasp full of electricity,
thought and respect. Don't be
in a hurry! Her head lies care
lessly on you? ehoaJder; l°o k
down into her half-closed eyes.
Gently, vet manfully press her
to your bosom! Stand firm, and
providence will give you thought
for thQ ordeal! Be brave, but
don't be in a hurry, ' Her lips
are almost open. Lean lightly
forward with your head, not the
body. Take good aim, the lips
meet—the eyes close —the heart
opens, the soyl rides tlfe storms,
troubles and sorrows of life (don't
be in a hurry)heaven opens be
fore you—the world shoots from
under your feet as a meteor
flashes across the evening sky,
(don't be afraid) the nerver
dance before the just erected
altar of love as Zephyrs dance
with dew trimmed flowers, the
heart forgets its bitterness, and
the art of kissing is learned. No
noise, no fuss, no fluttering and
squerming liice hook-impaled
worms. Kissing don't hurt, it
don't require a brass band to
make it legal. Don't job down
an a beautiful mouth as if spear
ing for frogs! Don't grab and
yank the lady as if she was a
struggling colt! Don't muss her
hair, scratch down her collar,
squizzle her rich ribbons and
leave her mussed and rumpled.
Don't flavor your kisses with
oni»ns, tobacco, gin cocktails,
loger beer, brandy &c., for a
maudlin kiss is worse than the
itch to a delicate, loving senseble
woman. —Erom the Washington
Star June 1866.
At Jamestown.
[From "Success Magazine."]
A newly married couple was
taking in the Jamestown Expo
sition.
"There's our biggest man-of
war, dear," said the husband,
pointing to one of the vessels in
the harbor.
Just then a little tug was seen
puffing around the big ship.
"And is the little one a tug of
war, Tom?" asked the wife.
A well known scientist says"
the time will come when water in
this would of ours will be more
precious than gold." About
I that time it may be possible to
I buy unwatered milk.
Girls to Educate.
Woman's loveliest when most
retired
Least obtrusive most admired.
This is quoted from some old
wnter, but it is still true, and
those of us that have reached
the sixtieth mile post in lifes
journey, look with alarm at some
phases of twentieth centur>
progress or up-to-date methods
and customs The lady that gave
us our first lessons in shool had
but two copys the one she had us
write the most was, modesty
highly adorrs a lady. Qurs was
a mixed school from infants to
grown up girls and boys.
According to modern theology
the ransomed souls are sent back
to earth as guardian angels for
those they loved most in life
now imagine this modest old soul
on duty on the campus of a mod
ern Seminary when the daughter
or grand daughter of one of her
former pupils comes forth in
paded bjoonjerg eninese
shoes and her dress sleeves
sawed off up to the arm pits to
plays a game of ball or tennes.
Why our old teacher would blush
crimson and hide her face in her
angelic rofye. vye are not
prefe?ing any charges again ts
the school girl of today. She is
just as pretty innocent and con
fiding as was her mother or
grand mother. Our schools and
colleges for girls are all unJer
the care of preachers Qf the gos
pel. These sarrie men are re
sponsible for all of these im
modest novelties that we so
much deplore. The mothers and
fathers are powerless because
we all want our girls in the be3t
society and under church influ
ence and these long coated D.
D's with the in their hands
know that all this is oontrary to
its teaching. c
And now these pious old D. D's.
Just let me at them if you please
Tis time to call a halt,
They all love monev and their
ease
And foolish patrons try to please
We know its all their fault.
To see the sweet girl graduate
Just home from plant that's up
to-date;
Or first-class boarding school
Her bold demeanor, man like
walk
With much horse laugher and
loud talk, /
She simply plays the fool,
Just watch .her on the social
round,
She always sits flat on the
ground
Ignoring bench or seat.
Her drop stiteh stockings she
displays
With many more immodest ways.
And then tucks up hor feet,
The crowning touch is when they
ride
Like men they boldly sit astride
It shocks grandma and me
Our modest maiden sweet girl
child
Is lost to us gone to the wild
A female Camanchee. _
We would not write rough words
and unkind
But in our inmost soul and mind
Imodest ways we hate
We do protest in prose and
rhyme
Both first and last and all the
time
We have girls to educate.
A Higher Health Level.
"I have reached a higher health
level since I began using Dr. King's
New Life Pills," writes Jacob Springer,
of West Franklin, Maine. "They
keep my stomach, liver and bowles
working just right." If these pills
disappoint you on trial, money will be
refunded at C, M. Shuford; W. S.
Martin and Menzies drug stores, 25c
B» kind," admonishes the St.
Louis Globe Democrat. Yes, by
all means, be kind! but not the
easy kind.
Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905.
General News.
The jury for the second trial of
Harry Thaw for killing Stanford
White has been selected. Mr.
Garvan presents the State's case
by characterizing the killing as »"
premeditated, deliberate and wil
ful murder. Mr. Littleton h
Thaw's chief council and it is sa>
will attempt to prove that Thaw
tried to commit suicide in Paris,
which will help the insanity pita
of the defense.
Seventy to seventy-five people
were burned to death Jan. 13th
in a horrible fire that destroyed
the opera house at Boyertown,
Pa. The play was given for the
benefit of St. John, a Lutheran
church, and the house was crowd
ed bv numbers of the
Sunday School. Some entire
families were burned to death,
Others escaped the ft imes, only
to be trampled to death in the
wild stampede for the doors.
The Southern Railway will vol
untarily give South Caroling the
2h cent passenger rate, The At
lantic Coast Line haa also con
sented to do the same. Thus
South Carolina Is getting for
nothing what this State had to
pay dearly for. But if North
Carolina had not started the
fight South Carolina would never
have gotten the rate without a
hard fought law suit.
A Kansas editor wants to know
how long girls should he courted.
Try 'em the same as short girls,
only reaeh higher,—Ex.
AH married men are not neces
sarily spiritualists because they
are controlled by the unseen pow
er at the other end of the tele
phone,
Father of Thirty-Three Child
ren.
McDade, Tex., Oct. 12. —I see
in The News of Monday, Oct. 7,
that T. N. Blackstock of Inez is
the father of twenty-three child
ren and the stepfather of seven
teen, making forty in all. We
have got a man that beats that.
He is J, B, Desmuke of McDade
He is father of thirty-three child
ren, twenty-six boys and seven
girls. He has been married
three times. Mr. Desmuke, is
still alive and in good health and
is seventy years old and his last
wife is still alive.
Mr. Blackstock, will have to
come again. If there is any one
who can beat this in Texas I
would like to hear from him.
W. A. Scott.
The above was referred to The
News correspondent at McDade.
He writes as follows:
I can vouch for the accuracy
of the statement that Mr. Des
muke is the father of thirty-three
children. He is a white man,
welt respected and lives on a
farm about seven or eight miles
north of McDade. I have been
informed that he has been mar
ried three times and has eleven
children by each wife. He is
about 70 years of age as stated
in the enclosed note, and weighs
200 pounds and does not look
over 50 years of age. —Texas
News.
Has Two wives and His Pen
sion Divided Between them.
There is a very curious case in
the insane hospital at Raleigh,
that of a patient who has two
wives. He moved to the eastern
part of the State during the civil
war, deserted and -Joined the
Federal army and married in
Philadelphia. Both wives are
now living and his pension is di
vided between them. Of course
he can not be tried for bigamy,
as he has no mind at all. Per
haps it is the only case of the
kind in the country. One quar
ter the pension bureau sends a
warrant for 136 to the North
Carolina wife, and the next quar
ter the money goes to the Penn
sylvania wife.
The Pennsylvania Dutch.
A correspondent writing from
Philadelphia for your paper
pioc?eds to slander the charact
er of the Pennsylvania Dutch as
•*;i undersirable class of citizens
md takes the venerable corres
pondent, Rusticus, to task for so
ften refering approvingly to the
)utch. Evidently your corres
pondent wonld not know a Dutch
nan, if he would meet him on
the streets, because he can hardly
walk the streets of Philadelphia
vithout seeing evidences of the
latchm in's properity on every
hand. If your correspondent
will take the time to wait down
me of the streets he will find a •
little store kept by a Penn
sylavnia Dutchman which is
rather a creditable affair for a
people with no standing. The
man's name is John Wanamaker.
Governor Pannepacker is a
Dutchman and lives at Swencks
ville in which place the babies
cry in Dutch. Hon N. C. Schaf
for, the head of the educational
systen of Pennsylvania and
President of the National Educa
tional Association is another
Pennsylvania Dutchman who
stands fairly well in the com
munity. Go to Lancaster, Leeigh,
Montgomery, Berks and Backs >
counties and see farming done i>/ ;
the Pennsylvania Dutch and 1 f
Lyles Creek correspondent will
know nothing. But why mul
tiply examples. In the town of
Hickory we have desireable citiz
ens and pretty women of the
Pennsylvania Dutch.- If your
correspoadent does not get a
more correct conception of a peo
ple and country by travelling
than he has of the Pennsylvania
Dutch he had better stay at home
and not leave Lyles Creek.—An
Irishman.
A Parable.
Bill Jones was a farmer. He
worked hard on his plantation,
sometimes working all night, and
frequently until 12 and 1 o'clock
at night in addition to his daily
toil. He hired expensive labor
and used a great deal of fertilizer
and finally succeeded in raising
2200 bushels of wheat which was
so good that his neighbors want
ed it for seed wheat. So Bill
Jones let each friend and neigh
bor have one sl.oo per
bushel, and each follow said
"That's alright, Bill; it ain't but
a dollar and I'll hand you that
some of these days." Each one
thought to himself, "It ain't but
$l.OO and Bill don't need it. I'll
pay him before long.'' The result
was that the months rolled a
round and Bill had to pay his
hired labor, and for his fertilizer,
and feed for his stock and buy
clothes and things for his family,
and the people he owed did not
seem to care a cuss about wheth
er his friends ever paid him or
not. All Bill's creditors wanted
was their mone>. So, with
$2200 coming to him from friends
who really meant to pay some
time, Bill Jones was sold out by
the Sheriff because he couldn't
pay his taxes. Bill was in'a h—
of a fix.
Now it isn't quite that bad
with The Democrat, but we would
be wonderfully grateful if our
subscribers would consider the
plight they would be in if they
were in Bill Jone's fix, and send
us in proptly their subscriptions
when they come due. It takes
about $50.00 a week to week to
keep us going and on top of that
we have to shell out from $65. to
$7O. every few weeks for paper
and unless our friends stand by
us better than Bill Jone's friends
stood by him we will sx>n be in
ah — of a fix also.
It Does the Business.
Mr. E, E. Chamberlain, of Clinton,
Maine, says Bucklen's Arnica Salve.
"It does the busineSs; I have used it
fot piles and it cured them. Used it
for chapped hands and it cured them
Applied it to an old sore and it healed
it without leaving a scare behind."
25c, at C. M. Shuford; W. S. Martin
and Menzies drug stores. -