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South's Farm Advance. Comparison by tha National Agricultural Department of the values of corn, wheat, oat , bar ley, rye, buckwheat, flax-seed, rice, potatoes, hav, tobacco and cotton in 1899 and 1908 makes a most gratifying exhibit of farm development in the South. The values in the whole country in creased from $2,511,155,000 to $4,897,939,477. or by 75.1 per cent. California shows a de crease of 6 per cent, v and 18 oth er States-Illinois, lowa, Ohio, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Pennsylvania, New York, Min nesota, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland, Vermont, Connecticut, Massa chusetts, Delaware and Rhode Island —showed an increase per-, centage less than the average percentage of the whole country. In actual value Texas led the country in 1908, moving from the third place that it held in 1899. In percentage of increase Oklahoma led in 1908, with 257 per cent. In this particular Georgia led in the South, with 135 per cent. The rates of in crease in other Southern States not already mentioned were: South Carolina, 116 per cent; West Virginia, 104; Texas, 101; Florida, 99; North Carolina, 99; Alabama, 83; Arkansas, 81; Lou isiana, 77, and Mississippi, 76. School Tax Pays for Itself ia Increased Land Values. Probably in every community which votes local tax for schools, land values in a very few years advance to double the amount of school-tax money voted. And this is but one of a hundred ways in which better schools pay for themselves many times over. The whole life of the community is richer'and finer wherever there is a good school at its center; the citizens feel a pride in it such as they never felt before, and ev erything in the neighborhood begins to catch step with the new standard of progress thus set up. It is. not the fertility of the land that makes it yaluable; it is the intelligence of the-com munity in which it is situated. Land in Africa to-day is more fertile than the . average South ern farmer of the uplands ever saw, but it is practically worth less because of an ignorant pop ulation, while land in Belgium, originally little more than a sand waste, has become intensely val uable by reason of the presence of an intelligent population, and intensely fertile by reason of the wise methods of cultivation prac ticed by these intelligent farmers. Even if a man has no boy or girl to send, the school tax invest ment is a good one for any prop erty-holder because of the in crease in values that always re sults from the presence of an in telligent citizenship. Much is being said just now about the vast undeveloped re sources of the South; and the re sources are unquestionably here. They will be developed too. The only question is by whom it is to be done. If the children of the South are given practical train ing in the arts and sciences, they will do the work ar.d reap the profits from it; if they are per mitted to grow up ignorant and untrained, men from other sec tions will be made mere hewers of wood and drawers of water for alien capital and alien knowl edge.—Progressive Farmer. SIGMON & MOSS GABINET SHOP. All kinds of repairing done on furniture and other articles on short notice. All Jobs Sent For And Re turned Home. Shop on Trade Street un der Miss Roseborough's Millinery Shop. Hickory, N. C. B make* baby nervous and fretful, i land »top» gain In weight. I is the best food-medicine for teeth- I in* babies. It strengthens the fl nerves, supplies lime for the teeth, gj keeps the baby growing. Gets email bottle now. All Druggists fj County Fair. The date for the Catawba County Fair to be held in Hick ory, has been changed from Oct. Bto Oct. 15. A mass meeting will be held in the rooms of the Hickory club Monday night, Sept. 20. Let ail those who are interested be present. The premium list will be out about Friday, Sept. 17. W. J. Shu ford, the secretary, will fur nish copies to all who apply. Mr. Shuford states that while they .have quite a large amount of cash and merchandise already promised, any contributions will be gratefully accepted. The Shuford National Banky of New ton, offers a prize of $lO in gold to the farmer writing the best paper of less than 1000 words on "why Catawba county should have good roads." The paDer winning this prize will be issued in pamphlet form and distribut ed throughout the county. All articles to compete for this prize must be in the hands of the sec retary not later than Oct. 10. The prize will be awarded the day of the fair. Mrs. Tate's Address. Saturday afternoon Mrs. L. B. Tate, M. D., a missionary of the Southern Presbyterian church to Korea, spoke to an audience of ladies in the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Tate did not take a text, but she had something interest ing to say. Her theme was the life of the Korean people. Be fore her was a table covered with curios, not nameless articles bought at the shops, but a per sonal collection gathered during her twelve years of service among these people of the Ori ent. Each curios carried with it a story of the life of the people —of their social and domestic habits, their moral conceptions and intellectual statues, their re ligious beliefs and peculiarities of worship. The address was delightfully informal, but instructive in its subject matter, and irresistable in its appeal. All who failed to hear Mrs. Tate may feel that they missed something worth while. Business Looking Up. Busines seems to be looking up. Everybody appears to be in good spirits. Our merchants are opening up a large stock of fall and winter goods. Stock and all kinds of produce bring a fair and ready price. Think of eggs bringing 25 cents a dozen at this season! The shops and all the manufac turing plants are running on full time. They report orders good. The people are buying lots and building residences. Real estate business has been a little dull, and the price of property has de clined some, but it is climbing up again. In the last ten days a good deal of real estate has changed hands. "Watch Hick ory grow," will ever be our motto. Care »n preparing Food. In recent years scientists have proved that the value of food is meas ured largely by its purity; the re sult is the most stringent pure food laws that have ever been known. | one food that has stood out promi nently as a perfectly clean and pure j food and which was as pure before i the enactment of these laws as it 1 could possibly be .is Quaker Oats; j conceded by the experts to be the ideal food for making strength of musole and brain. The best and cheapest of ' all foods. The Quaker Oats Company j is the only manufacturer of oatmeal 1 that has satisfactorily solved the prob ' lem of removing the husks and black ! specks which are so annoying when other brands are eaten. I For hot climates Quaker Oats is packed in hermetically sealed tins, keeps fresh and sweet anywhere. 3 j| Better Buy Than Bake, jjj unless you wish to do it yourself, for among the hired help of to- JC pi day there are very few good bread bakers, so when you get as rC superior a quality of bread as is furnished by Rice's bakerv it ||J •il would seem foolish to go to the extra trouble and endure the "trials and tribulations" of baking day. You will find Rice's Jl9 ||* bread as good in quality as any made. It is always uniform, Qj gj white and of delicious flavor. ~ Jj|! g THE HICKORY BAKERY | S 1240 Ninth Avenue Sj jr We Don't Care To Shout (i about the wonderfully low 7) Jj prices of our jewelry and ff \A silverware. It is the quali- *1 M luPI u P° n which we lay stress. fX V Without quality jewelry is A! AI an( * at an y P" ce Qi except that of junk. At the same time, quality con \n sidered, our jewelry prices U ff ate the lowest in town and T\ w we can prove it. fm 6 MACE SZ RHODES (t D Jewelers and Opticians Of U Hickory, : : IS. Carolina u «XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX3O?^ 8 BURNS & MARTIN 8 Are dealers in everything in the line*ef first class rS cS Groceries. We respectfully invite all housekeepers vb © to call and inspect our stock of select groceries for O Sr your table. We keep the best that can be had, Sr Jk our prices are low and everybody is assured of * X courteous treatment. We can suit your table and A rS will appreciate your business. Give us one order ft Q and we will do the rest. All orders Delivered Q O BURNS & MARTIN 8 * Phone No. 52. 900 Park Place, x I HOME, SWEET HOME, | ™H is the song that reaches the heart of all whose home is made at- |C •JJ tractive by such handsome furnishings as will be found in the §Q superb stock of rich upholstered parlor sets, fine mahogany par- J| gj lor tables, beautiful effects in Roman chairs, Turkish couches and Jg 3* divans, chairs and ail the odd and pretty pieces that we .have g| !!n selected for both ornament and comfort. VC 1 Hatcher Furniture Co. | S Complete Home Furnishers Jg S HICKORY, N. C. jC | Summers Transfer Co. j i Draying and transferring done promptly i i and reasonably on short notice. Special at- J tention to baggage transferred. Experienced 4 and courteous white f Calls Answered at All Times. f j SUMMERS TRANSFER CO. 4 ' Phone 192. WORTH MOUNTAINS OF GOLD During Change of Life, says Mrs. Chas. Barclay Granitevllle, Vt. "I was passing through the Change of Life and suffered Hfrora nervousness symptoms, ami f can truly say that LydiaE. Pinkh am's Vegetable Com pound has proved worth mountains of gold to me, as it restored my health and strength. I my friends what LydiaE.Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for me during this trying period. Complete restoration to health means so much to me that for the sake of other suffer ing women I am willing to make my trouble public so you may publisn this letter."— MßS. CIIAS. BARCLAY, R.F.D.,Graniteville, Vt. No other medicine for woman's ills has received such wide-spread and un qualified endorsement. !N o other med icine we know of has such a record of cures of female ills as has Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. For more than 30 years it has been curing female complaints such as inflammation, ulceration, local weak nesses, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, indigestion and nervous prostration, and it is unequalled for carrying women safely through the period of change of life. It costs but little to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and, as Mrs. Barclay says, it is "worth moun tains of gold to suffering women. C all Phone 235 If you want The Best B, Y ou ever a Vtaked evrey day \lways Goo Keep this i Everything Right in Q You must remem PIANO TUNING Will G. Kirkman, Piano Tuner, of Greensboro, N. C. is in the city for a few days only. Parties de siring work in his line will please leave orders at the Van Dyke Book Store. First-class local references given and SATISFACTION ASSURED. lb ASTORIA For Infants and Children. 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MODEL HEATING GO., 142 North Tenth St., Philadelphia, Pa. TELEPHONES: Bell-Walnut 495. Keystone-Race 24-35. 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It has feature pages em- a f bracing the best that is going in art and literature. It also contains a ' f colored comic supplement for the children, and is a distinctively de- * 0 sirable paper for those who want a once-a-week paper. The regular f 1 subscription price is $1.50 per year, and it sells at Sc the single copy, i 4 THE FARM NEWS. 4 f This is a very popular farm journal published by The Simmons Pub- f f lishing Company of Springfield Ohio. f j THE WOMANS HOME JOURNAL. f Filled monthly with best serial stories, most helpful department— j f fashions,, jancy work, beauty and health, mother and child, flowers and \ F f ) HOUSEHOLD JOURNAL AND FLORAL LIFE. J A magazine devoted to the home and flowers. J Get"the Most Money Out of Your Lands by making them yield the biggest possible crops, Grain must get the nourishment that makes it * grow out of the soil—and the more plant food there is in the soil, the quicker and bigger and more plentifully the grain will grow. But you must first put the food into the soil by liberally using ... Vinjiflia-Carollna , Fertilizers 1 aJT » Then a big bumper crop is as sured, because these fertilizers a? conta ' n the necessary elements irr required by the soil to prop erly and fully mature the grain. Farmers invariably ,„.„ v v -v\. x i#v find that the more Virginia V>NN JiJ£\ use, the bigger is the crop, and hv» SvMiW Have you gotten the latest Vir- ISA . /* /j jfjn ginia-Carolina Year Book or Al- ttl J 1 / \FI vulw// manac, the most useful and valuable wilt a tVAv book any farmer or grower can read? *V\ jj x \v\\\ VMS// Get a copy from your fertilizer dealer, AUI // J i\Y]uwffA // or write to our nearest sales office and \vW (Ik.? , i i wWSjy/' / / one sent you free * ~ WSm i* fill Co.
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