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JJ underselling business right along, We sell strictly
JJ first class goods for a little money, To convince Jk
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BSBBBB 50c. Undershirts for 38c. 35 or 25c Undershirts for
18c. Men's 50c. shirts for 35 c, Men's 35c shirts for O
18c. 50 and 25c. suspenders for 18c. Large lot of O
boys wash suits sold elsewhere from $1.50 to $2.00, A
our underselling price 50 to 75c. Ladies panama A
skirts sold elsewhere $3.00 to $3.50 our selling price A
_ $1.75. " Ladies skirts sold elsewhere for $2.00 eur un- (Q
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S§ 8 Men's 10c hose for 4c, Ladie3 10c handkerchiefs for ©
3c, Large line of Men's Straw Hats to be sold re- ©
gardless of cost. Best Line Sweet & Orr Overalls fJ
on Earth. White vests worth 3.00 to $3.50, our sell- fS
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Messrs. Lucas & Jackson of Kelsey County, Tenn., used Vir
ginia-Carolina Fertilizer on about 55 acres planted with cotton, and
say: "We have the finest crop of cotton we ever saw, and all the
people around here think the same. We actually counted 447 bolls
on one stalk. Another stalk had by actual count 409 bolls, forms, ,
squares and blossoms. On about 8 acres we expect to make about
2 bales to the'acre, and an estimate of adjoining farms not so fer
tilized and under other cultural methods, will yield only 1 bale to
five acres."
An interesting picture of the cotton plants referred to will be
found in the new 1909 Virginia-Carolina Farmers' Year Book, copy
of which may be had from your fertilizer dealer, or will be sent
free, if you write our nearest sales office.
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THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
HICKORY, N.C.,THURSDAY. JUNE 3, 1909.
SOUTH NEEDS LABOR
Why Immigrants From Europe
Avoid This Section.
Raymond, the Washington corres
pondent of the Chicago Tribune,
ir|iiscUBing the distribution of
European immigrants, says:
Under the new law the immi
grant bureau has been enabled to
keep better track of the points of
destination of the foreigners who
come to this country. During
the period from July 1, 1908, to
March 1, 1909, there were 328,-
685 immigrant aliens admitted.
As they furnish a constant source
for the building up of the labor
supply in this country, it is in
tensely interesting to notice how
closely they follow the regular
lines of travel Half a dozen
states get almost all the benefit
of this increased labor supply as
follows:
New York 94,709
Pennsylvania 52,222
Illinois 25,241
Massachusetts. f 22,069
New Jersey 17,686
Ohio 13,478
Total 225,405
In other words, six states of
the union received two-thirds of
all the immigrants for a period
of eight months, and this, too,
in spite of the fact that during
that period 57,068 of the immi
grants were classed as farm
laborers, and 32,584 as common
laborers, and 58,064 as servants.
Manifestly the great mass of
foreigners coming to the country
-continue to be of a class which
would be better off and have bet
ter prospects for the future if
they went into villages and on
farms instead of flocking to the
cities, to railroad camps, to the
mines, and to similar places of
hard and comparatively unpro
fitable employment.
The southern people want labor
more than anything else in the
world. They need a large addi
tion to the labor supply furnish
ed by negroes, and unless they
secure it from alien immigrants
they cannot possibly hope to
develop their great natural re
sources as they are cable of be
ing developed.
It is a most significant thing
that the foreigners are once
more abanding the south almost
entirely, and they are doing
that# of course, because of re
ports of officials of Italy, Austria-
Hungary, Russia, and other
European countries, who found
it neeesary to advise their home
governments that any of their
citizens who went into the south
under any conditions were liable
to imprisonment for a mere
money debt or owing to a broken
contract with a planter.
It is worth while showing how
shortsighted the southern policy
has been by calling attention to
the fact that for the eight months
under consideration, when there
was a total immigration into the
United States of 328,685, those
billeted for Dixie are reported as
follows:
Alabama 530
Arkansas , 190
Florida 3,019
Georgia ." 294
Louisiana 1,331
Mississippi 213
North Carolina 174
South Carolina ;. ti .144
Tennessee. 311
Texas 9,928
Virginia 761
There were peculiar conditions
in Florida, Louisiana, and Texas,
but it is easy to see that in the
rest of the south the immigrants
h*d been warned off by their
authorities at home, and the
chances are they will stay warned
off until the southern states are
wise enough t© repeal their con
tract labor and peonage provis
ions.
There could not be a better
| object lesson, and if the planters,
and miners, and lumbermen, and
jronmen, and mill owners of the
south want to see the bars let
down the first thing they will
have to do will be to persuade
Trouble Makers Ousted.
When a sufferer from stomach trouble
takes Dr. King's New Life Pills he's
mighty glad to see his dyspepsia and
indigestion fly, but more hes tickled
over his new, fine appetite, strong ner
ves healthy vigor, alh because stomach
liver and kidneys now work. 25 c at
C. M. Shufords, W S. Martin, and
Moser and Lutx.
The South is Going: Dry. -
Lay the jest about the julep
In the camphor baits at last,
For the miracle lias happened,
And the older days art past,
'That which made Milwaukee famous.
Does not foam in Tennessee,
And the lid in Alabama
Is as tight locked as can be,
And the comic paper colonel
And his cronies well may sigh,
For the mint is waving gaily,
And the South is going dry.
In the stillside on the hillside
In Kentucky, all is still,
And the only d*mp refreshment
Must be dipped up from the rill.
North Carolines statky Governor
Gives his soda glass a shove,
Ami discusses local ogrtion
With the South Catotina Gov.
It is useless at the fountain
To be winkful of the eye,
Forth* cocktail glass is dusty,
And the South is going dry.
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It is water, water everywhere,
And not a drop to drink;
We no longer hear the music
Of the mellow, crystal clink.
And the Colonel and the General
And the Major and the Jedge,
Meet to have a little "nip"
To give the appetite an edge,
For the eggnog now is nogless,
And the "rye" has gone awry,
And the punchbowl holds carnations,
And the South is going dry,
their legislatures to wipe from
the statute books all the medieval
laws intended to keep the negro
in a condition of industrial bond
age. but which have resulted in
putting an absolute stop to the
alien immigration indispensable
to futher progress in the south
ern states.
About as many foreigners
went to North Dakota in the
eight months mentioned as were
destined for Alabama, Arkansas,
Georgia, Mississippi, North
Carolina* South Carolina, Tenn
essee, and Virginia put together,
and it is A notable fact that in all
these latter states there were
serious charges of peonage fol
lowed by acquittals in almost
every case, so that the represen
tatives of foreign nations two
>ears ago began to display the
red flag against those states with
the result shown.
New Road from Lenoir.
There is a movement on foot
to raise, by private subscription,
a sum varying from $l,OOO to
$2,000 to be used to help the
county make a first class
road from Lenoir to the Cataw
ba river on the Hickory and Le
noir road, says the Lenoir Topic.
The plan is to work out and
make any necessary amend
ments to the old road as far as
the Catawba river, a distance of
seventeen miles. It is estimat
ed by those who are competent
to judge that ten miles of this
road can be made a splendid
sand clay road at an expense of
$lO per mile, if the money is
spent in the proper manner and
at the proper time.
It is assumed that the county
or the people living on this route
will gladly co-operate in this
matter. One of the present
county commissioners, Mr.
J. M. Allred, is a good roads
advocate and a man of excep
tional judgment in such matters,
and he will be urged to take an
active interest in this question
from the standpoint of a private
citizen as well as county com
missioner.
ihe value of this road to the
people along the line cannot be
estimated, and it would be a
feeder to the town of Lenoir.
And;if properly constructed the
road would be a demonstration
of what could be done and would
unquestionably lead to a great
awakening on this vital matter
of better public highways.
There should certainly be no
difficulty in raising the money
necessary for carrying out this
scheme, and something should
be done at onee. In the town
and on the proposed line there
should be ten men who are abun
dantly able to give 150.00 each;
twenty who should give $25.00
each; forty who should give $lO.-
00; and a large number who
could give $5.00 each, j.-
It is known that a very good
grade can be gotten over the en
tire line by building only a very
little new road.
Could Not be Better.
No one has ever made a salve,
ointment, lotion or balm to compare
with Bucjclea's Arnica Salve. Its the
one perfect healer of cuts, corns,
burns, eczema, salt rheum. For score
eyes, cold sores, dapped hands its
supreme. Infallible for piles. Only
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COLD FEET FOR
THE FOURTH!
Citizens Decide Not to Have
an Old Time Celebration
Only about 25 citizens as
sembled at the Hickory club on
Monday evening to discuss the
matter of a Fourth of July cele
bration. The committe appointed
I to raise money reported that a
bout $375 of the $4OO which it
had been considered necessary to
raise had been pledged, and that
several who were considered
safe for contributions had not
been seen, so that it was sure
that the requisite amount could
be secured. They said, however,
that some of the merchants ex
pressed themselves as opposed to
any celebration, but if one was
decided on that they would un
doubtedly come in and do their
part. After some discussion it
was decided to go on and have a
celebration, and the chairman
was directed to appoint an ex
cutive committee, to consist of
12 members, besides himself and
the secretary, who should have
general charge of the celebra
tion.
The committee, as appointed by
the chairman next day, is made
up as follows: M. H. Groves, C.
H. Geitner, T. L. Hinkle, Z. B.
Buchanan. R. D. Latta, A. A.
Whitener, R. E. Martin, G. N.
Huttcn, C. A. Moser, J.D.Elliott
B. B. Blackwelder, W. S. Martin
W. E. Hoi brook. The work will
be devided between members of
this committee, as may be here
after arranged, and each may be 1
chairman of a sub-committee, t®
whom special duties will be as
signed.
A meeting of this committee
was called on Tuesday afternoon
but only five or six turned out
and, the reports showing little
disposition on the part of anyone
to take hold and go to work, it
was decided to give up the affair
entirely and to have no cele
bration at all.
On hearing the news our pet
rooster, who had come out from
his retirement especially to crow
for thip affair, turned up his toes
to the daisies, and is row dead to
the world.
Improvement Opposed
Morganton is not to have the
much desired removal of its
freight depot to the other side of
the track if the Southern road
can prevent it. At a hearing in
Raleigh recently the road con
tended that there is not room
on the north side of the track
for the station, and showed its
determination to fight against
the much needed improvement in
every way possible. As a last
resort thev will contend that the
Corporation Commission has nc
power in the matter.
Mr. Julius H. Pearson appear
ed in behalf of the Retail Mer
chants' Association of Morgan
ton and after stating that he had
been connected several years ago
with railroads in various capaci
ties, summed up the matter very
neatly when, in reply to questions
by Col. Rodman, counsel for the
road, who then asked if condi
tions had not changed very
much in railroad affairs since the
time he had been connected with
the railroads, he replied:
"Yes, conditions have changed
changed very much in railroads,
except as to the freight station
at Morganton, and that stood as
it had forty years ago, a reply
that indicated that after forty
years Morganton is certainly en
titled to an adequate freight de
pot, as that wh>h did service
forty years ago is iardly fit for
the Morganton of today. _
After the evidence was in the
Commission invited both sides to
submit briefs in the and % it
will later render its decision.
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