THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT.
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Thursday, September 16, 1909.
The citizens of Hickory cer
tainly ought to feel proud of all
their schools. Their recent open
ings were tue most flattering,
ever experienced in their history.
Everywhere, in town and
country, in the public and pri
vate schools as well as in the
colleges, the people are showing
mere interest in education than
ever before.
The death of E. H. Harriman,
which occurred last week re
moves from the scene the great
est railroad man whom this coun
try has ever had. He was pri
marily a constructor and not a
speculator. He developed the
Western railroads so that they
became money makers instead of
losers, and did much for the
country through which they ran.
Like all men of his kind he cared
nothing for the prosperity or
welfare of others, and would
crush by every means in his
power anyone who was opposed
to him. This is a fault resulting
from our system of civilization,
and one for which he is hardly
to be held responsible. When
the time comes that our public
works will be used for the bene
fit of those who create them such
a career as his will be impossible.
Every newspaper Wants to
publish the news. The better
the paper the more prosperous
it will be. Local news items are
especially hard to run down.
How many times have you, dear
reader, been approached by the
newspaper man for an items of
news and told him that you knew
nothing of interest? Probably
at the time jour family were
away on a visit or some one from
out of town was visiting at your
home. Of course you did not
mean to deceive the scribe, yet
when you received your paper
you wondered why your family
or friends were not mentioned.
Please avoid this b y telling us or
send a note to the office. The
one item may not amount to
much, but several columns of
such news is the life of a local
paper.
In another column will be
found an address by Clarence A.
Poe on the subject of prohibition.
It is undoubtedly true, as he
says, that it will need constant
vigilance to keep the law en
forced. Views as to whether
such a law is wise or not are
conflicting, and it is up to those
who believe in it to see that it
has a fair trial. It is a matter
of record that no state which has
a general prohibition law has
ever succeeded in enforcing it,
and most of those who have tried
it have in time adopted some
other course. North Carolina
may be able to enforce such a
law, but it remains to be proved
that it can. It is beyond ques
tion that the law which can be
best enforced is that of local op
tion, for this represents the gen-
eral sentiment of a community,
and there is a general interest
in seeing that it is not broken.
There is no question that the
prohibition law in this state owes
its existance to a mild form of
intimidation. So good an au
thority as the Charlotte Obser
• ver said some time ago that had
the Australian ballot been in
force the prohibition law could
lever have been passed. This
,nay or may not be so, but in any
event it becomes the duty of
those who supported it to show
that it is such a law as the peo
ple want, and to see that it is
enforced.
The Carnival.
The Carnival was here all last
week. It was a howling success,
sspecially at night. But that is
\ part of it. Wouldn't be a Car
lival without noise. More came
and went to see the balloon as
censions than to see and take in
the various shows. Not as many
people went in the shows as they
expected. Saturday night was
the most profitable to them.
They did not pay a county or
2ity tax. They were to give the
Fire Company 15 per cent of the
gross proceeds. They guaran
teed the Fire Company, anyway,
SIOO. The 15 per cent didn't
bring that much by S4O or SSO,
but they forked her over all the
same.
It seems that the Carnival Co.
kinder fell out with each other.
A.t least, the Merry-go-round and
Ferris-wheel men pulled out from
the company. They went to
wards Newton, while the Compa
ny. proper, went to Morgan ton.
The Company ordered another
merry-go-round and ferris-wheel,
and will go on as though nothing
had happened.
Both parts, first and second,
employed lawyers, one each. The
dispute was only over about SSO.
That wouldn't pay one good law
yer, much less two and the cost
of a suit. Guess they have found
that out, ere this.
During the week, the people
seemed civil. There were no
trouble, or accidents as heard of.
Saturday night, it is said, there
was a good deal of drinking,
more than during all the week
put together. The Recorder got
a little out of the boys. Don't
reckon they felt that they were
contributing to foreign missions
in it.
Our Schools.
Much interest is taken in our
schools. The enrollment at the
Graded school the first week was
520—40 more than the first week
last year.
Lenoir College was almost full
up the first day. ihere are a
bout 130 boarding students there.
The other schools are doing very
veil. We are proud of our
schools.
Do You Get Up
With a Lame Back?
Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.
Almost everyone knows of Dr. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and
n ii jj-v bladder remedy, be
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I . _; jirT. _ urinary passage. It
" ' corrects inability to
hold water and scalding pain in passing it,
or bad effects following use of liquor, wine
or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant
necessity of being compelled to go often
through the day, and to get up many
times during the night.
Swamp-Root is not recommended for
everything but if you have kidney, liver
or bladder trouble, it will be found just
the remedy you need. It has been thor
oughly tested in private practice, and has
proved so successful that a special ar
rangement has been made by which all
readers of this paper, who have not al
ready tried it, may have a sample bottle
sent free by mail, also a book telling
j?°J e about Swamp-Root, and how to
When writing mention
offer in this paper and
send your address to sB
Dr. Kilmer & Co., hJ
Bmghamton, N. Y. The regular fifty-cent
and one-dollar size bottles are sold by
all druggists. Don't make any mistake
but remember the name, Swamp-Root, '
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the ad
dress, Binghamton, N, Y. ( on every bottle. k
R. F. D. No. L
Miss Marie Hutchings left last'
week for Oxford, N. C. where
she will teach in the Oxford
graded school.
Miss Bertie Foard is at home
after spending several weeks in
Wrightesville, N. C.
Mrs. B. C. Wood and little
daughter Jessie Lee, of Lincoln
ton, are visiting relatives in this
vicinity.
Clayton Ramseur left last week
for Catawba College.
Mrs. Jennie Hutchings will
leave for Mississippi where she
will spend the winter.
Mrs. Hilton has returned to
her home in Hickory after spend
ing some time with her parents,
S. L. Rudisell's.
Miss Bertie Hutchings left last
week for Leesville, S. C. where
she will have charge of the mu
sic department in Leesville Col
lege.
E. M. Bledsoe is at home after
spending the summer in Cataw
ba Spings.
Miss Kate Foard will leave
this week for Greensboro where
she will enter the State Normal
College.
Jasper Johnson and familv, of
Union, S. C., are visiting in this
vicinity.
Chas. Fulbright has his new
residence almost completed and
will move in it the first of Oct.
W. Latta Massey, of Lincoln
ton, spent Sunday here.
T. C. Alexander, of Statesville,
is expected here this week and
will be the guest of Dr. Foard.
J. M. Mason who has been vis
iting in this city has returned
to his home in Gainesville, Fla.
Oxford Ford.
The general health of our com
munity is very good at present.
Cotton is opening quite fast
and our children will shortly be
seen in the fields. .
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Sigmon have
the sympathy of the entire com
munity in their bereavement.
Oren, their little 14 year old son,
died of typhoid fever, and two
smaller children are also sick of
the fever. The family left oui
section in early spring and are
now living in Newton. The buri
al took place at St. Peter's
church, Rev. P. C. Henry offici
ating.
Mr. and Mrs. Kirby Little have
left on a visit to Mrs. Little's
parents in West Virginia. It is
probable that they may locate
there permanently.
It is said that Mr. Q. M. Smith
is thinking seriously of selling
out and of locating near Chase
City, Va. We hope it is merely
a rumor. Catawba county is
marching steadily onward in the
line of progress, so that in the
course of another decade Cataw
ba county will surely surpass
many counties in the South.
Therefore, let us remain where
we are—in "Old Catawba."
The interests of our people in
this section are centering more
in Hickory every day. We go to
Hickory four times, where we
go to Newton once. Hence, our
people should take the Hickory
papers also.
For Better Roads.
A good roads organization for
the county was effected at New
ton on Monday, with R. L. Shu
ford president and R. P. Cald
well secretary. Two men from
each precinct were elected to
obtain signatures to a petition
for a special tax on property not
exceeding 20 cents on a hundred
dollars, which the county com
missioners have agreed to levy
at their meeting next June, if
asked to do so by a majority of
voters of the county. For North
Hickory W. J. Shuford and Z. B.
Buchanan will act and for South
Hickory J. W. Robinson and
Perry Hefner.
MUST BE VIGILANT.
Next Eighteen Months Will
Mark the Most Critical Pe
riod in the History of
Prohibition in North
Carolina.
To the people of North Carolina:
Approved by the hearts and
minds of an even larger majority
of the people of the State than
the forty-four thousand majority
by which it was ratified last May,
State Prohibition is a part of the
established policy ®f North Car
olina, and has justified the confi
dence of our Common wealth in
adopting it. One of her foremost
citizens, conservative and lincon
nected with our organization, de
clared this week that prohibition
would decrease the number of
drunkards in the coming genera
tion of North Carolinians at least
two-thirds. More than this the
most ardent advocate of prohibi
tion could not have expected,
and the half of this would make
the prohibition policy the wisest
and most profitable step ever
adopted by the people of North
Carolina.
Prohibition is a success—there
is no question as to this; and yet
we must not let our gratification
over its achievements or over
the public opinion of the State
keep us from recognizing the
dangers of indifference on the
part of temperance advocates.
We cannot too strongly empha
size the fact that the next eigh
teen months will mark the one
critical period with piohibition
in this State. During this time
the enemies of the cause will be
most active, lavishing money
supplied by the great liquor in
terests of the nation, and using
both fair means and foul to make
prohibition unpopular wherever
there is the slightest chance for
success.
It is of the greatest importance
therefore, that our local Anti-
Saloon Leagues keep themselves
intact and that new Leagues be
organized wherever there is dan
ger to our cause, and that our
League have adequate financial
support. Good citizens everj
where must hold up the hands
of officials who are vigorous in
behalf of law enforcement, and
must bring individual and organ
ised pressure to bear upon offici
' als who deal lightly with the
oaths they have taken.
It wa3 not to have been ex
pected that perfect machinery
for the enforcement of our en
forcement of our prohibition laws
would immediately acknowl
edge the hopelessness of their
cause and cease attacking the
law. The fact that North Car
olina is largely rural, and that
the rural sections have been dry
for years, and that our cities are
not only composed largely of na
tive-born, law-loving North Car
olina people, but had also adopt
ed local prohibition laws in near
ly every case —these things have
made the enforcement of prohi
bition in North Carolina much
easier than in some other States.
We should not be true to our
trust, however, if we did not re
mind our people—the churches,
the advocates of temperance, and
good citizens of all classes —of
the imperative importance of
strict law enforcement and of
undiminished activity in preach
ing temperance doctrine.
We again warn our people to
be on their guard unceasingly
during the next eighteen months.
If this is done we shall clinch the
prohibition law beyond all future
questioning in this State, devel
oping the machinery and the
public sentiment which will keep
it forever intact. Old officers in
the counties and cities should
hold their organization intact,
and every man who voted in the
campaign a year ago should
count himself as not paroled un
til the last active opposition to
the State law subsides.
By order of the Executive
Committee of the North Carolina
Anti-Saloon League.
CLARENCE H. POE,
Raleigh, N. C. Chairman.
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CHURCH DIRECTORY.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Corner 13th Street and 13th Avenue.
Rev. J. G. Garth, Pastor.
Sunday—Preaching service, 11 a.
m. and Bp. m. Sunday school, 9:45
a. m. Boys brigade, 3p. m. Wed
nesday—Prayer meeting, 8 p. m.
CORINTH REFORMED CHURCH.
Corner 13th and Trade Avenue.
Rev. J. L. Murphy, Pastor.
Sunday —Preaching service, 11 a.
m. and Bp. m. Sunday school, 9;45
a. in. Wednesday —Mid-week ser
vice, 8 p. m.
FIRST M. E. CHURCH.
1442 Tenth Avenue.
Rev. J. H. Weaver, Pastor.
Sunday—Preaching service, 11 a.
m. and Bp. m. Sunday school, 9;45
a. m. Junior league, 7:15 p. m.
Wednesday —Prayer meeting, 8 p. m.
HOLY TRINITY LUTHERAN
CHURCH.
Corner 13th Avenue and 15th Street.
Rev. J. C. Moser, Pastor.
Sunday—Preaching service, 11 a.
m. and Bp. m. Sunday school, 9;45
a. m. Wednesday —Prayer service, 8
p. m.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
Corner 11th Avenue and 15th Street.
Rev. J. D. Harte, Pastor.
Sunday —Preaching service, 11 a.
m. and Bp. m. Wednesday—Pray.er
service, 8 p. m. Sunbeam band,
every Ist and 3d Sunday at 4 p. m.
Deacon's meeting, Tuesday after 2nd
Sunday at Bp. m. Church meeting,
Wednesday after 2nd Sunday at 8;30
p. m. Women's missionary society,
Monday after 2hd Sunday at 4 p. m.
Ladies Aid society, Ist Tuesday in each
month at 4p. m. Celebration of the
Lord's Supper, Ist Sunday of each
quarter.
CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION
(Episcopal)
v 10th Avenue near 10th Street.
John S. Moody, Rector.
Sunday—Morning Prayer and Ser
mon, 11a. m. Evening Prayer and
Address, Bp. m. Sunday school 9;45
a. m. (Ist and 3d Sundays each
month.) Wednesday —Service andj
Bible Study Class, Bp. m. (July and
August, 5;30 p. m ) Parish Guild —
Ist Monday each month 3 p. m.
A. M. E, ZION CHURCH
(Colored) 521 13th St.
C. W. Simmons, Pastor.
Sunday—Preaching service, 11 a.
ra., 3 and 8 p. m, Sunday school,
1;30 p. m. Christian Endeavor, 7 p, •
m. Wednesday—c Prayer service, 8;30
p. m. Friday —Buds of Promise, 4
p. m.
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