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THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
HICKORY, N. C , THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1909.
GRADED SCHOOL GRADU
ATION.
Interesting Exercises Largely
Attended by Parents and
. Friends.
The first class to graduate from
the graded school held its con
cluding exercises on Friday last
in the presence of a large audi
ence of parents and triends, all
of whom were much gratified by
the showing made and by the re
sults achieved.
The members of the graduating
class were Joseph Henry Aiken,
jones Weston Clinard, Gertrude
Mills Finger, Pinkey Forney.
Arthur Milton Huffman, Annie
Laurie Lowe, Fleta Emma Moore,
Joseph Esley Reinhardt, Edwin
Harold Shuford, Richard Harvey
Shuford, Ira Vernon White, Earl
Nelson Carr, Nira Mattie Deal,
Albert Gaither Hawn, James Er
nest Kirk, Bessie Taylor Rainey,
Essie Lee Robinson, Mary Lvnda
White, Minnie Moore Stevensoi
and Clara Nannie Williams.
The Programme was as follows:
Essay—Henry Weiduer, the Pioneer
Pinkie Forney.
Oration—Stock Raising in Catawba
County - - Joseph E. Reinhard'
The Old Field School
Gertrude M. Finger
Oration— The Industrial Development"*
of the South - Arthur M. Huffmat
Oration —The Development of Our
Water Power - Richard H. Shufori'
Essay—Negro Superstitions
Essie L. Robinson
Awarding of Diplomas, Prizes ami
Scholarships.
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Dr. Murphy, of Claremont col
lege, awarded the diplomas witl
a brief address, in which he spoke
highly of the progress made by
the scholars.
The following pupils were
neither absent nor tardy during
the entire year, and are therefor
placed in the honor roll for the
year: Second grade, Ernest Bum
garner, Pamela Starnes, George
Johnston, Paul Stevenson, Cle
ment Geitner, Lovie Miller. Irene
Dysart; third grade, Pearl Sub
lett.Gussie White, Sanford Wink
ler, Willie Woodlieff; fourth
grade, Florence Sharp, Josephine
Dysart, Ethel Starnes, Annie
Miller; fifth grade, Clifford Aber
nethy ,Roscoe Sublett;sixth grade,
Catherine Stevenson, Gladys
Reid; seventh grade, Glenn Aber
nethy, Frances Geitner, Antha
Lytle, Summie Miller, Jennie
Reinhardt, Sadie Salvo, Annie
Reinhardt, Adelyn McComb;
eighth grade, Leroy Deaton, Sam
Hawn, Elizabeth McComb, Es
telle Payne,Ernest Starnes; ninth
grade, Frank Elliott, William Mc-
Comb, Addie May Michael; tenth
grade, Fleta Moore, Joseph Rein
hardt, Essie Robinson.
The scholarships offered by
Claremont college were awarded
to Annie Laurie Lowe and Essie
Lee Robinson.
The medal offered by Mr. Geo.
F. Ivey for the best all-round
student was won by Oliver M.
Jones.
The best attendance for the
year was won by the tenth grade
with a percentage of 95.5; and the
ninth grade was second with 94 9
per cent.
The exercises concluded with
an entertainment in the evening
which was attended by a large
and well pleased audience.
First on the program was the
Teddy Bear's picnic, in which
appeared some thirty or forty
little ones, each with a Teddy
Bear, who amused themselves
and the audience with songs and
recitations. The leading parts
were well taken by Pearl Miller
and Donald Hutton as Rustic
Anna and Bad Boy.
Then came as an interlude the
Butterfly Drill, charmingly given
by nine little girls appropriately
costumed. Judging from the com
ments heard, this was the hit of
the evening.
The evening concluded with an
operetta by the sixth grade, 1 The
Isle of Jewels," which waa very
nicely done and was receiygd with
much favors
Altogether both teachers and
pupils are to be congratulated on
the 8 access which attended their
efforts. _■
Calendar for May Term. 1999,
Catawba Superior Court.
Monday, May 3rd.
Henkel Livestock Co., v. Mrs.
Royster; G. T. Barger v. Barrin
ger; Weston rT. Setzer; Bowman
v. Poovey; Simpson v. Edison.
Tuesday, May 4th.
Sides y. Latta; Flannagan v.
Lasta & Sherrill; Reid & Black
welder v Whitener; Simpson v.
Sehronce; Michael v. Mclntyre,
et aL
Wednesday, May sth.
Moser & Botch v. Lenoir Con
struction Cof; Thompson Admr.
v. Cook; Davis, et al, v.Johnson,
etal; Simpson v. Rudasill, et al,
Thompson Admr. v. A. S. Aber
nethy.
Thursday, May 6th.
Dowd v. Hoi brook; Sachs v.
Zerden; Bourbonnais v. Bourbon
nais; Brady v. Shuford; Mace v.
Southern Railwav Co.; Mae#* v.
Southern Railway Co.
Friday, May 7th.
Burch v. Southern Railway Co.;
Clark v. Clark; Rector v. Rector;
Whitener v. Hickory Milling Co.;
J. E. Jones v. J. E. Abee.
Saturday, May Bth.
Campbell Bottling & Supply
Co. v. E. Hammond; K. D. Aber.
nethy v. P. W. Michael; M. L.
Bolch v. James Miller.
Monday, May 10th.
Yount & Schrum v. Robert Bum
earner; Odell hardware Co. v.
Thornton Light & Power Co.; In
Re J. T. Mahaffy; Yount v. Boilj;
Bolch v. Bolch.
Tuesday, May 11th.
E. S. Blackwell v. Southern
Railway Co.; Cedar Rapids Na
tional Bank v. W. A. Turner;
Simmons v. Simmons; Henkel
Live Stock Co. v. George Sigmon;
Cline v. Lutz; S. D. Campbell v.
Campbell Bottling & Supply Co.
WORDS TO FREEZE THE SOUL.
"Your son has Consumption. His
case is hopeless/' These appalling
words were spoken to Geo. E. Blevens
a leading meachant of Springfield, N
C. by two expert doctors—ome a lung
specialist. Then was shown the
wonderful power of Dr. King's New
Discovery. "After three weeks use."
writes Mr. Blevens, ' 'he was as well as
ever, I would not take all the mony
in the world fJr what it did for my boy.
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safest, surest cure of desperate Lung
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Moser & Lutz.
Play Fair—lt Pays.
No matter how much money a
man may have he does not like to
be defrauded. If he buys a coat
he wants the cloth to be just
what the merchant says it is; if
he buys a barrel of anples he is
indignant if he discovers that the
big apples have been put in the
ends of the barrell and small or
unsound one* between, and he
decides not to deal again with the
man from whom he bought them.
No man wins permanent success
who does not deal fairly with his
customers. But let us not be hon
est simply because it pays finan
cially, for there is a better reason
—it pays for peace of mind af
forded and the true welfare of
the soul.—Farm Journal.
RHEUMATISM.
More than nine out of every ten
cases of rheumatism are simply rheu
matism of the muscles, due to cold or
damp or chronic rheumatism. In
such cases no internal treatment is re
quired. The free application of Cham
berlain's Liniment is all that is needed
and it is certain to give quick relief.
Give it a trial and see for yourself how
quickly it relieves the pain and sore
ness. The medicines usually given in
ternally tor rheumatism are poisonous
or very strong medicines. They are
worse than useless in cases of chronic
1 muscular rheumatism. Fo. sale
by W. S. Martin & Co.
For Good Roads.
Some three hundred residents
of the county met at the
house in Newton on Saturday to
hear Dr. Pratt's talk on good
roads. Much interest was shown
and the effect of the meeting will
doubtless be for good. Mr. A.
P. Gilbert, of Durham, agent for
the Frick Company, road machin
ery, and Hon. W. A. Self also
spoke and were listened to with
much interest
It is expected that the county
commissioners at their next meet
ing will grant the request of the
Farmers' Union for aid in grad
ing and draining the roads. This
will be a step in the right direc
tion and will give a material as
sistance to a much needed im
provement.
A Woman's Essay on Man.
A boy can sit still on a sled six
inches square, tied to a sleigh
moving eight miles an hour, but
could not sit still on a sofa five
minutes for a dollar. A man
will sit on an inch edge of a
board and talk politics for three
hours; put him in a church pew
for 40 minutes he gets nervous,
twists and turns, and goes to
sleep. A man will pouch his
cheeks with filthy tobacco, juice
runs down to his chin, feels good
but a hair in the butter kills him.
He stays out until midnight,
wife don't know where he is,
comes home when he pleases, but
if a meal is not ready just on
time, pouts, frowns and says un
prettv things. Evidently man is
a strange animal. Gets fully,
beastly drunk, imagines he's
rich, a great man. bets on the '
losing horse, goes broke, quar
rels, fights, lands in jail, eyes
dressed, face frescoad and mor
als depraved, yet he is "Lord of
all creation and monarch of all he
surveys."—State News.
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The New York World of re
cent date contains this well mer
ited compliment to Southern
newspapers:
"An imposing exhibit in the
development of the South is the
strength and character of the
newspapers. The cities are all
small, but few Northern com
munities of equal size can pro
duce publications that will com
pare with them with news, pre
sentation or editorial ability,
while all show singular indepen
dence, though published in sensi
tive communities."
Alamance county closed a con
tract recently for forty-six miles
of macadam road to cost $191,000.
It also contracted for the erection
of concrete bridges to the anount
of $19,000. The county has 25
cotton mills, only 13 of which are
on the railroads, and the maead
am roads will be of great advan
tage to the mills, to say nothing
of the benefit to the farmers.
This is an example which might
well {be followed by Catawba
county. The cost of bad roads
to a communi' y can hardly be over
estimated, while to improve them
costs little in comparison with
the benefits conferred.
Hon. E. W. Pou, of the Fifth
district, spoke in the House of
Representatives at Washington
recently on the Payne tariff bill.
He showed that instead of mak
ing a reduction, as was promised
by the Republican leaders before
the last presidential election, it
really increased duties, and was
made up in the interests of the
trusts and other big manufac
turers, entirely ignoring the in
terests of the consumer. The
speech was an able effort and was
received with applause by the
Democratic members.
Many ills come from impure blood.
Can't have pure blood with faulty di
gestion, lazy liver and sluggish bowels.
Burdock Blood Bitters strengthens
stomach, bowels and liver, and puri
fies the bloqd.
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