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Making More Money Out of
Cotton Crops
is merely a question of using enough of the right
kind of fertilizers.
Virginia-Carolina
Fertilizers
are the right kind.
The cotton plant cannot feed on barren land. Study
your soiL Find out what it lacks. Then apply the
necessary fertilization and the results will surprise you.
See what Mr. W. C. Hays of Smith Station, Ala., did. He says:
"I planted about 30 acres of some 'gray randy land' that bad been iu
cultivation for over 20 years,-and used 300 pounds of Virginia-Caro
lina Fertilizers per acre, and / expect to gather SO bale» from
the SO aere%." This is why we say it is the right kind. We have
hundreds of letters like this, and even stronger, i.i praise of Virginia-
Carolina Fertilizer for cotton.
Get a copy of the new 1909 Virginia-Carolina Farmers' Year Book
from your fertilizer dealer, or write our nearest sales office and a copy
will be sent you free. It contains picture.: of the capitols of all the
Southern States.
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co.
Sales Office* Sale* Offices
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THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
HICKORY, N. C., THURSDA
"DAMN TAFT."
Is What Judge Robinson
Would Like to Say.
Ex-Judge W. S. O'B. Robin
son of Goldsbioro. does not con
ceal his condemnation of the ac
tion of President Taft in giving
the high office of Judge of the
Federal Court in the Eastern
District of North Carolina to a
Democrat, says the Raleigh News
and Observer. Some of the ab
lest Democrats in the State had
endorsed Judge Robinson as they
had endorsed other Republican
.•spirants under the belie;' that
the vacancy would be filled by
the appointment of a member of
the narty that elected Mr. Taft
to the presidency.
"Wnat do you think of Mr.
Taft's refusal to appoint a Re-
Republican as Judge, after he
said he would name a Republican
if he could find a suitable one in
the Eastern District," was the
question put to Judge Robinson.
"I think," said the ex-Judge,
with emphasis, "that it was a
direct insult to every Republican
lawyer in the district. I now see
no reason why any self-respect
ing gentleman should join the
Republican party in North Caro
lina.
Ido not hesitate to say that I
shall relieve my sons from any
filial obligation either to join or
remain in the party. If .it were
not for the fact that I am so dis
honored and disgraced, so far as
a Republican President can dis
grace and dishonor iae, I wculd
guit the Republican party and
join the Democrats or the next
best party if there be any such
thing.
"My respect for the office of
President of my Nation prevents
me from speaking of Mr. Taft as
my inclination now would prompt
me to do.
4 'l resented with due respect
the slurs that were cast up n
Mr. Taft when he was spoken ol
so disparagingly by Democrats
of high standing last year, but I
rather think they were right in
the estimate they then placed
upon him.
"I say this without one word
of criticism of Judge Connor.
He is an honorable gentleman, a
lawyer of ability and has no su
perior upon the bench of any
State in the Union. He has more
than once espoused my cause
with warmth. He has rejoiced
with me in my good fortune and
was with mi in my great sor
row. I would be more than a
churl if I did not follow scriptual
injunction as to Judge Connor
and rejoice with those who re
joice,
"But I can still say that I still
have a burning contempt for
President Taft. If I could use
the vernacular of the blackr
guard, I'd say 'Damn Him/ and
thus in some degree corroborate
Mr. Taft's estimate of my char-
actar."
Judge Robinson in the above
expresses vigorously in public
what all other self-respecting \
Republicans in North Carolina i
are saying "between me and
you." 1
Pe Witt's Little Early Risers, the
famous little liver pills, small, gentle !
and sure. Sold by C. M. Shuford and ;
W. S. Martin. ]
A Rhyme for Elks.
"There is no rhyme for Elks," •
says the Los Angeles Express,
which is easily Exhibite Z on
their list of worries.—Washing
ton Herald.
To find a rhyme for 4 'Elks"
Is just the easiest ever.
Go out and catch some wlielks,
And you'll forget it never;
The bonds recently voted for
highway improvement will be put
on the market as soon as the fi
nance committee can make the
necessary arrangements. The
work on the roads will be in
charge of a special committee,
which may include some men out
side the city council. It is likely
that an effort will be made to
have abutters pay part of the ex
pense of improvements, which
would, of course, make possible
considerable more work.
Sluggish livers and bowels are the
cauae of nearlv every disease. Cleanse
your system and regulate the bowels
apd liver to healthy, natural action bj
Hollistcrs Rocky Mountain Tea* The
surest remedy known. 35 cents, Tea
or Tablets. Moser and Lutz.
Deeds, mortgages and other
legal blanks for sale at the Dem
ocrat office.
_ CITY FINANC .
Annual statement ot le fi
-1 nancial conditions of the v of
Hickory, for the fiscal yt om
May 9th. 1908 to Ma>, 9t 19.
REPRIPTfi
Bal. on hand May 9,1908 $ 1 S9
Sale of Cemetery Lota .>0
i Fines from Mayor .45
i Fire Department ,*.65
; General Expenses,including
i $4,000 borrowed, , 4,022 90
Public Works 93 54,
Taxes for 1907 160.58
Taxes for 1908 19,400.00
Taxes Street 586.00
Taxes Special " ~ 455.70
Taxes Dog 38.00
Water Rents _ 3,041.39
Over draft in Bank. To make
Balance 389.22
$30,112.52
DISBURSEMENTS
Cemeteij Account $ 116.60
Fines to County 403.10
Fire Department 861.61
General Expenses, including
interest on notes andbonds
attorney fee*, printing,
books, charity, etc. 8,759.79
Graded Schools 2,712.29
Improvement to water works 1,326.27
Improvement to Streets 2,345.69
Lights ' 3,216.70
Public Works 758.79
Streets * 1,495.89
Salaries Town Officers 2,164.04
Taxes, Printing. Listing,
Commission, etc. 677.92
Taxes, Street, Receipt Book 2.25
Taxes, Dog Collars 2.70
Water Works 5,269.90
$ 30,112.52
W. L. CLINARD,
May, 14, 1909 Sec. & Treas.
Farmer's Union.
Organizer, T. J. Huggins will
lecture on the dates named at
the following places: Mountain
View, Monday, May 25, Moun
tain Grove, Tuesday May 25;
Link's, Wednesday, Mav 25.
Speaking will begin at 8:30 p.
m., and all who are interested
in the Farmer's Union movement
are 'earnestly requested to be
present
The Farmer's Union- means
much to the farming" class trf peo*
pie and every farmer should en
list as soon as possible.
There is no longer any ques
tion as to its success. It already
numbers more than three mil
lion members and is accomplish
ing verv much for the farmers
where it has been introduced.
.This is a splendid company
and should be thoroughly orga
nized. Every friend of the Un- i
ion is earnestly requested to give
itall the encouragement possible. i
Locals wereiorganized last week
at Sweet Water, Cloninger,
Mill's and Piney Grove. "If all
friends of the Union will lend a
helping hand it is hoped by the
last of June to have Catawba
county thoroughly organized, i
This is a busy season, but certain
ly the good farmers of this coun- i
ty can afford to lose a little
sleep for the promulgation of the
graat purposes for which the i
Farmer's Union stands," says
the organizer.
Many weak and nervous women
have been restored to health by Foley's t
Kidney Remedy as it stimulates the a
kidneys so they will eliminate the c
waste matter from the blood. Impuri- *
ties depress the nerves, causing nervous (
exhaustion and other ailments. Com- 1
mence today and you will soon be well. (
Pleasant to take. W. S. Martin & Co. s
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Honor the Fourth.
W. S. Martin was chairman (
and J. L. Cilley secretary of the i
meeting held at the rooms of the i
Hickory club on Monday evening i
to consider the advisability of
having a Fourth of July celebra
tion. Only about twenty were
present. After some discussion
it was decided that a committee, i
consisting of C. H. Geitner, A. L. ;
Shuford and R. E. Martin should
canvass the town to find how
much support can be secured for
a celebration. There is $l2O
left over from last year, and if
$4OO more can be secured, a cele
bration will be held, but if not
nothing will be done. Another
meeting will be held next Mon
day night, at which the com
mittee will will report progress.
Baby whimpered for a drink;
Willie filled her up with ink,
Mamma, laughing at the lad.
Fed the babe with blotting pad.
NIAY 20, 1909.
LENOIR COMMENCEMENT
r Interesting Exercises and a
1 Fine Array of Speeches.
The program for the com
i mencement exercises at Lenoii
> College which will continue from
; Saturday May 22 to Wednesday
May 26, both inclusive, and
which the public is cordially in
i vited to attend, is as follows:
SATURDAY.
8:30 p. m — Dramatic Entertainment,
' Department of Expression,
I SUNDAY.
I 11:00 a. m:—Baccalaureate Sermon,
I Dr. W. H. Greever, Editor Lutheran
Church Visitor, Columbia, S. C. 8.00
1 p. m,—.Address before Students' Mission
-1 ary Society. Dr. A. G. Voight, Dean Lu
theran Theological Seminary, Mt. Pleas
-1 ant, Charleston, S. C.
MONDAY.
10.00 a. m.—Senior Class Day Exer
! cises, 1:30 p. m.—Meeting Board of
Trustees. 8:30 p. m —Junior Orator's
Contest.
TUESDAY.
10:30 a. m.—Literary Address, Clar
ence H Poe, Editor Progressive Fanner,
Raleigh, N. C. 5:30 p. m.—Alumni
Banquet. 8:30 p. m.—Expression Re
cital.
WEDNESDAY. *
10:30 a. m, —Graduating Exercises.
8130 p m—Concert.
The above programme shows
plainly that we will have an ex
cellent commencement this year.
The array of speakers is above
the usual. Drs. Greever and
Voight are easily the strong men
in our Southern church, one be
ing at the head of our publica
tion cause and the other at the
head of our theological seminary
—the fountain heads of much of
what our church shall be in the
next quarter century.
Mr. Poe, the editor of the Pro
gressive Farmer, is evidently do
ing the cause of agriculture in
the South a service equaled by
no other one person in our tier of
states. Farm-born and farm
reared, he is a prophet of a new
order in agriculture, whose mes
sage heeded will revolutionize
the South and plant its basis so
solid and four square that ko
panic whatever can ever serious
ly injure the condition of our
Southern people.
—He is a young man whose mes
sage it will be worth white to ride
miles to hear. And we are glad
that our farmers friends we
coming.
The part which the students
will render in the commencement
exercises will not fall below any
mark former set, however high
it may have been.
We learn of an unusally large
number who expect to attend
this year.
To all these exercises you are
most cordially invited.
The Baccalaureate Sermon and
the address before the students'
Missionary and Bible Study
Societies will be delivered in
Holy Trinity Lutheran- Church.
The exercises will not be long
this year. Each exercise will
begin promply at the time stated
in the above program.
The horse-back reception to be
rendered Mr. Poe by the farmers
of the county and their friends
Tuesday morning will be a most
interesting feature.
Whooping Cough.
This is a more dangerous disease
than is generally presumed. It will be
a suprise to many to learn that more
deaths result from it than scarlet fever.
Pheumonia ofton results from it.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has been
used in many epidemics of whooping
cough, and aliways with the best re
sults. Delbert McKeig of Harlain,
lowa, says of it: "My boy took whoop
ing cough when nine months old. He
had it in the winter. I got a bottle of
Chamberlain's Cough' Remedy which
proved good. I can not recommend
it to highly." For sale by W. S. Mar
tin and Company.
D. L. Russel has been appoint
ed Recorder for the city of Hick
ory. Mr. Russel is a well known
attorney, who is eminently com-
Eetent to perform the duties of
is position, and his selection
will be generally approved.
Lived 152 Years.
Wm. Pan —England's oldests man
married the third time at 120, worked
in the fields till 132 and lived 20 years
longer. People should be young at
80. James Wright, of Spurlock, Ky.,
shows how to remain young. I feel
just like a 16 year-old boy," he wntes
4 'after taking six bottles of Electric Bit
ters. For thirty years Kidney trouble
made life a burden, but the first bottle
of this wonderful medicine convinced
me I had found the greatest cure on
earth." They're a godsend to weak,
sickly rundown or old people. Try
them. 50c at W. S. -Martin, C. M.
Shuford and Moser & Lutz.
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