Established 1899
We Have Bargains j
In the following property
FOR SALE. I
1 lot on 12th St., 100x500, $650.
1 house and lot in Highland. 11-4 miles from depot, $550
1 house and lot west of Ivev Mill, 11-4 miles from depot, 5
$B5O. |
1 house and lot on Bth st., lot 100x175, 6 room house, 2
barns, apple and pear trees, city water, a bargain at
$l7OO. . > ' |
1 iour room cottage, lot 100x293, 30 apple trees, $7OO.
1 house and lot on Bth st., lot 100x200, five room cottage, 9
city and well water, price $1650. 'f
1 house and lot on corner 14th st. and 14th ave., lot 15 lx
320, 10 rooms and two story building, good orchard, city #
water, $3500. ~ jf
1 house and lot, seven room cottage, corner 20th. and %
9th ave., will rent or sell, a bargain at $l5OO. .
2 farms adjoining each other, 5 miles south of Hildebran, g
Farm No. 1, 20 acres in cultivation, 3 acres of bottom
land, 19 acres in fine timber, 2 cottages on farm, good S
orchard, etc, price $5OO. &
1 farm, 12 acres in cultivatiod, 23 acres timber, 50,000 *
feet of merchantable timber and some second growth
of pine timber, one cottage and a barn. $5OO.
1 fine suburban residence-and truck farm, 11-8 miles of
center of Hickory. This property can be bought at a
bargain.
1 farm 4 miles of Hickory, on Deal and Lenoir road, 57 jj
acres in cultivation, 18 acres in bottom land, 88 acres
in timber. 100,000 feet in merchantable timber, bal
ance cord wood, 1 eigiit room and 1 four room cottage, §
2 barns, large orchard, land well watered. Price
$3OOO. |
1 farm 1-2 mile from Hickory, 12 acres in cultivation, §
13 acres in fire wood. 5 room house, cottage, splendid
orchard and barn-yard, $2OOO. .- . 2
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Hickory Insurance & Realty Go., |
J. A. LENTZ, W. A. HALL, M. H. GROVES,
President. Vice-President. Sec. Treas.
jVaiyaftlc Farms tor Sale 1
§j 47 ACRE FARM §
gw Five miles south, very near to churches, on *3
24 main public road, good orchard, assorted fruits, it
5 room dwelling, good double barn, double crib,
Hi buggy house, gi&inery. Price $1150.00. - |F
S 160 ACRE FARM jg
Seventy acres of which is in woods, 12 acres of |f
JM good creek bottom, 6 room dwelling house,
Cyj plenty out-buildings, another good 3 room dwel- l>
C ling house, all situated about four and a half
g miles east. • Price $4000.00
84 ACRE FARM S
|J| Good dwelling and out-buildings, plenty of 5
2! wood land, 12 miles north-east, on main public JF
gjj road, R. F. D. route Price $1300.00. »C>
|H 42 Acre Farm near town, north side. H*
C 21 Acre Farm on west side. J5
C 100 Acres, 12 miles north-west. Price $550.00 R
§ 50 Acres. Elegant home and farm, little way jr
i 2 outside. Price $4800.00.
I John L liaithcock, J
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gj) Is what you get when you trade at
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® er than you can get it elsewhere. @
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see us for bargains.
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HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 19,1908.
The Importance of the Prohi
bition Election.
One of the most important
elections held for years is the
election to be held May 26 o;»
Prohibition. It is important be
cause It he suppression of the li
quor' is important. It L-
; mportant because the present
statue of the Temperance is -at
stake. Lose this election ano
the cause is retarded ten years
It is true that the present con
ditionof temperance territory is
not to be effected by this election
and it may be true that the suc
cess of the cause is assured, but
is that a reason why we should
sit down with folded hands ana
do nothing? I have seen the
Democratic party in this countj
hold the most enthusiastic meet
ings when there was positively
no danger of the party losing
the election and on the othei
hand I have seen the Republican
party hold meetings equally en
thusiastic when there was nc
shadow of a chance for success.
Shall we not learn from thesi
parties. The following from tht
Presbyterian Standard is worth}
of consideration.
Lets not forget th ? great impor
tance of the Prohibition Election
Nearly all of our subscriber
are going to vote for it. We
K.now their principle and theii
fixed resolves. What we warn
co do is to prevail upon ever}
me to entreat energetically upor
che work of getting somebody
else to do as they are going t
do. We want to see decidec
enthusiasm enkindled. It ii
very important that the majority
should be a very large one. Tht
effect of the election will therebj
be so much the more destructive
jf the vice we want to slay our
State.
This is not a partisan question
It is a moral question pure arid
simple. Let us keep the ques
tion clear in mind. It is this;
"Shall the manufacture and sale
of liquor be legalized in Nokh
Carolina?" That is the question
we are called upon to settle at
che polls on May 26. All who
are in favor of legalizing it, let
them say so. All opposed, let
them say so. That is the issue
chat is dividing us now. Tht
saloon is the enemy of tht
ehurcfi. There is nothing com
mon between them. The church
lifts men up, the saloon drags
them down; the church makes
.nen sober, the saloon makes
ohem drunk; the church advo
cates virtue, the saloon fosters
/ice; the church prepares men
iora home in God's pi re ano
sinless heaven; the saloon sends
inen to an eternal hell. Fellow
citizens, that is the question.
vVhicn side are you on? If you
are for legalizing the saloon, say
io, if you oppose it, say so.
Don't dodge the question. Your
responsiblity can't be shifted upon
another by saying "I don't care
now the thing goes." "He that
is not for me is against me."
The church on one hand, the
saloon on the other. Both claiming
your vote. Which shall have it?
Let every man, woman ana
jhiid who favor the suppression
A tho liquor traffic in the state
oe present at the Court House in
Newton, Marcfi 21, and snow
your colors.
J. L. MURPHY.
GOOD FOR EVERYBODY.
Mr. Norman R. Coulter, a brominent
architect, in the Delbert Building.
SanFran clsco says: "I fully endorse
all that has been said of Electric Bit
ters as a tonic medicine. It is good for
everybody. It corrects stomach, liver
and kidhey disorders in a prompt and
efficient manner and builds up the sys
tem." Electric Bitters is the best
spring medicine ever sold over a drug
gist'r counter; as a blood purifier it is
unequaled. 50c. at C .M. Shufortf E.
B. Menzie, W. S. Martin druggists.
Stick to the text, brethren, that
the election on May 26th is an ap
proval or disapproval of the still
house and the saloon.
The Kicker.
Mr. Editor: \
We want to ask a question,
we will first anounce our status
>ll the liquor question. We wih
certainlv vote for Prohibition in
the coming election because free
whiskey'as we had it fifty years
ago wont 4io in this age. We
will not try to mention all the
whys and the wherefores good
and bad liquor. Any observing
citizen is forced to acknowledge
that we can't do business with
free whiskey leaving out the long
list of evils that follow in its
train.
But the question, are we not
hazarding one or more &f our
governmental institutions if our
■State shoul d vote in prohibition \
Is it not a kind of class legisla
tion, is there not a large number
of our best citizens, churchmen,
ousiness men Educators, Doctors
and Lawyers who are being
coerced in this crusade. «■ They
use liquor as a luxury and enjoy
it like all enjoy drinking coffee
and tea. They and their fathers
lived long and successful lives,
prohibition statistics to the con
trary notwithstanding,
When Gov. Glenn goes up in
che pulpits on Sunday by invita
tion an£ makes a prohibition
don't it ssem like
murch and state are coming to
gether at a rapid pace? The
jilgrim fathers risked their lives
in the wilds of America to get
iway from oppressive laws of
;he old world vitiated by the
combination of church and state
law-makers. History, as far as
we know declares, that church
xnd state cannot trot in double
i&rness without oppressing the
people. Twenty-five years age
che southern Presbyterian chiirch
would not entertain the cause of
prohibition. Those good men
said it was not in the Bible, they
preached temperance in all things
and prohibition in Tjothjypg, one
church paper and one preacher
in the last month declared that if
anv church member should dare
to vote against prohibition, turn
him out of the church right now.
That sounds a little alarming. '■
Now we would like so much if
some great mind would take up
this line of thought and explain
away the difficulties that we fear
might follow in the path of this
great movement.
In 1883 we had our political
ideas shook up, we had been
taught that box populi box dei,
the voice of the people was the
voice of God. Oh that big ma
jority that rolled up for whiskey
Now let it be understood that
we are against whiskey and have
always been claiming no credit
on self denial. The taste is
nausualing and the effect is
worse. We despise it, but can
we afford to lay the precident.
Without ours is the best
government the sun ever shined
on.
Oh that some jenus might arise
In this progressive age,
To take the cobwebs from our
eyes,
Some prophet son or sage.
Some man from God without a
taint
Of cussedness or guile
A mortal man and then a saint
To govern us awhile.
To keep our moral standard right
" Take care of rich and poor
And keep the golden rule in sight
And do a few things more.
To rid the land of fraud and fake
All liars to expel
Make all speak truth for dear
truths sake
And fair dealing-Compel.
To regulate all our reforms
To stop foot and base ball,
To break up murder and brain
storms
To make good crops this fall.
To take the panic right away
To start the mills again
To give the laborer his full pay
To lock up the insane.
From the good take out the bad,
v Divorce the rose and thorn
Make ail theives say they wish
they had
Never, never been born.
God rules in earth and Heaven
as well
Just how no one can tell
But in this-promise we may rest
He rules things for the best.
What of Heaist?
Mr. Hearst is regarded as the
puzzle in the presidential elec
tion. The statement has been
widely made that the Independ
ence League would run a candi
date of its own and naturally
the papers are discussing what
the effect would be. Some South
ern papers that are anti-Bryan,
jump to the conclusion that Mr.
dearst's candidacy would render
Democratic success impossible.
The Springfield Republican looks
to see the Hearst force support
Bryan and in discussing the mat
ter says:
"There is already much dis
cussion of the effects of Hearst's
jarty upon the presidential
struggle, but no consideration
las been given to the questior
whether, in case Hearst finally
joins forces with Bryan, Govern
or Hughes or Secretary Tafl
would be the Republican most
likely to qarry New York State.
If the State election of 1906 de
monstrated anything it was tha
:Wr. Hearst had a following
in the Republican party, for he
swept many Republican cities,
"up the State" and would have
oeen elected, but for the defec
tion of the Parker and McCiellan
Democrats in New York city.
A.gainst a Bryan-Hearst com
bination, which is not at all un
likely now that Hearst's, "na
tional party" convention ha«
been deferred until after the
Democrats transact their busi
ness at Denver Governor Hughes
would, in all probability, hold
New York to its Republican
fastenings mo?*e securely than
could the Secretary of War."
The reason politics is so absorb-
ing is that nobody can ever tell
what will happen. Mr. Bryan
is acceptable to the Democrats
who belong to labor unions. Mr.
laft would be most objectionable
to Republicans who demand the
just rights of labor. If Mr.
Hearst is a candidate would he
not draw more from Republicans
than from Democrats? In his
contest against Governor Hughes
who has no anti-labor record,
Hearst carried thousands of Re
publican votes "up the State,"
Would he not carry many more
against Taft, whose record is
everywhere condemned by labor
organizations?
Who can answer?
Greatest spring tonic, drives out all
impurities. Makes the blood rich.
Fills you with warm, tingling life.
Most reliable spring regulator. That's
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. 35 c,
Tea or Tablets.
E.B. Menzies.
"The. trouble with my ol'
man," said the old woman, "is
that he carries a jug with him
when he goes fiishins' as a rem
edy for snake bite; then, when
he comes home, he has to call
in the doctor to prescribe a rem
edy for the jug. Now, ef a dog
gits snakebit once, he don't go
whare snakes is any more,
That's different from a man.
But some dogs air gifted with
considerable sense!"
Accidents will happen, but the best
regulated families keep Dr. Thomas'
Eclectric Oil for such emergencies. It
subdues the pain and heals the hurts.
• A LIFE AT STAKE.
Your life may be at stake when you
notice any sing of kidney or bladder
trouble as Bright's disease and diabetes
start with a slight inregularity that could
be quickly cured by Foley's Kidney
Remedy. Commence 'aking it at the
first sing of danger
W. S. Martin & Co.
Policemen assist each other by
clubbing together.
Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905.
An Editor's Troubles.
Recently The Ansonian printed
the best account obtainable of
the life of a deceased"person. In
about one month came and obit
uary written by a friend and at
tached to it was a piece of poetry
enough to fill one column ol
space. We did not print the
article, having made a rule that
such would not be printed unless
paid for. As result, we lost
eight subscribers in that imrne-;
diate family. "Some seemed to
imagine that such a loss would
make it impossible for another j
issue to come forth, but it j
cut a small figure among our two j
thousand subscibers • nd it hap- j
pened that eighteen new subscri-;
bers were added the same week.
Our reasons for not printing
these is the fact they are of in
terest to only a few persons and
news matter and good selections
are appreciated by more readers.
But a gentleman said, "D&ve
eut advertising matter and print
this." We don't feel duty bound
to do so. That person would
think us unreasonable if we ask
for an acre of his farm on which
to grow melons to treat -eur
friends and to enjoy ourselves. 1
We make the paper up each
week as we think it should be,
and if you find something you
don't like, as you do at your
table, why we are not surprised
Don't stop for that reason. If
things get so bad you just can't
stand it, change boarding
houses. - »
Such communications will be
charged for at advertising rates.
—Wadesboro Ansonian.
This is what Hon. Jake Moore, State
Warden of Georgia, says of Kodol for
Dyspepsia: '.'E, C. DeWitt & Co., Chic
ago, 111.-Dear Sirs-I have suffered more
than twenty years from indigestion.
About eighteen months ago I had
grown so much worse that I could not
digest a crust of corn bread and could
not retain anything on my stomach I
lost 25 lbs.; in fact I macle up my mind
chat I coufd not live but a short time,
When a friend of mine recommended
Kodol. I consented to try it to please
aim and I was better in one day. I
JOW weigh more than I ever did in my
life and am in better health than for
inany years, Kodol did it. I keep a
bottle constantly, and write this hoping
that humanity will be benefitted. Yours
yery truly, Jake C. Moor, Atlanta, Aug.
10, 1904." sold by C. M. Shuford,
and W. S. Martin & Co.
The liquor advocate is saying to
the prohibition Republican and
Democrat and Republican that
he "needn't go to the polls, and to
the man who would vote "wet"
he says, "Now is your time to
vote your sentiments," You
catch on to this, don't you?
I 1
Wef .the most healthful g
jar of fruits, comes the
fitf chief ingredient of n
IROYALPOWDERJ
The only bakingpowder R '
gal made from Royal JfiA
Grape F |
tluß>
ifnil IW-N r-w v iym °* d Km« powders, but with
llWfisll Roy«> y«»«« we °^P are 'healthful food
fgh ,
Nearly Through.
A stranger encered a church in
the middle of the sermon and
seated himself in the back pew.
After a while he began to fid
get. Leaning over to the white
haired man at his side„ evidently
an old member of the congrega
tion, he whisperee:
4 'How long has he been preach- -
ing?"
J'Thrity or forty years, I
think," the old man answered.
"I don.t know oxactly."
I*ll 'stay then," declared the
stranger. ' 'He must be nearly
done."
Harsh physics react, weaken the bow
els, cause chronic constipation. Doan's
Regulets operate easily, tone the stom
ach, cure constipation. 25c. Ask your
druggist for them.
Too Much For Him.
Friend—Didn't your husband
rave when you showed him the
dressmaker's bill?
Wife —Rather.
Friend —And how did you quiet
him?
Wife—l showed him the mil
liner's next, and then he became
absolutely speechless.
It coaxas back that well feeling,
nealthy look, puts the sap of life in
your system, protects you from disease.
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea has no
as a spring tonic for the whole
family, 35c, Tea or Tablets.
E. B. Menzies.
Stella —The Columbia boys
won't debate with acode. Rella—
Wait till they marry.—New York
Sun.
DeWitt's Little Early Risers, small,
safe, sure little liver pills. Sold by.
C. M. Shuford and W. S. Martin. •
Time Most Up.
We have been mailing state
ments to most of our subscribers
who are as much as a year be
hind. We take no pleasure in
this—it requires time and money
to do this, but we must obey the
law, and after April Ist, we will
have to arop every name from
our list that is more than one
year in arrears. If you get one
of these statements we trust
that you will not take any offence
but come and bring or send us
the amount of your bill and con
tinue to be one of our subscri
bers. If you cannot come to
Hickory please send us check on
some bank, or Express or Post
office monev order, or oy regis
tered letter.
Adam was not as he might
have been, but he never reeled
off lies by the yard about the
pranks of his school days.