Established 1899
DOUBLE WEDDING.
Romatic Marriages of Two
Catawba People on Top of
Mountain.
A ro-nantic double wedding in
which two Catawba county peo
ple participated occurred near
Asheville Tuesday, Nov. 23rd.
Dr Frederick R. Lang of Cataw
ba and Miss Carrie Belle Davis
of Statesviile were marked and
on the same spot Mr. G. H. Low
rance of Memphis. Tenn., and
Miss Zeida Cline of Catawba
were united by Dr. R. F. Camp
bell of the First Presbyterian
Church,
The ceremonies were perform
e 1 on the summit of Beaucatcaer
Mountain and were witnessed by
Mr. R. R. Cline and Mr. and Mrs
John W. Cline, all of Asheville.
After the ceremony the bridal
party drove to the Battery Park
hotel to a beautifully appointed
marriage feast. Dr. Long is a
well known physician of Cataw
ba and Mr. Lowrance is one of
the engineers engaged in the
construction of the Mississippi
river levees. The young ladies
were visiting relatives here, and
the double wedding was the hap
py consumation of long-stanc'ing
engagements between the con
tracting parties.
Miss Davis is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J M. Davis and is
a popular and attractive young
woman. Her parents knew of
the arrangement for the mar
riage and ga /e their consent, but
when Miss Davis left for Ashe
ville Tuesday morning many of
her friends were of the impres
sion that she was simply going
to attend the marriatre of her
friend, Miss Cline. Dr. Long, is
a son of Mr. J. U. Long, treas
urer of Catawba county and is a
popular physician at Catawba.
Miss Cline is one of the most
popular young ladies in the coun
ty and the good wishes of her
many friends go witn her.
Howard Little to Die.
Trie jury, after being out all
of last Friday night, returned a
v 3rdiit of guilty of murder in
the first degree, against Howard
Little, who was charged with
the sextuple murder of Mrs. Bet
ty Justis, Geo. Meadows, his
wife and three children at Hur
ley, Va. The crime was a very
atrocious one. After murdering
the parties he was not satisfied
so he then burned the victims,
.he motive for the crime, it is
thought, was to obtain $1,300
which Little thought was in the
house, but none of the money
was ever found.
Little is under sentence to die
in the electric chair January 7,
at Richmond.
Prominent Woman Suicides.
Mrs. Susan E. Lipscombe a
prominent woman of Durham
committed suicide Thanksgiving
day by cutting her throat with
her son-in-law's razor. She was
visiting her daughter Mrs T. G.
Sexton, and ate dinner with the
rest of the family and went for
afternoon nap as usual, but was
found a short time after in her
room with her head cut half off.
Melancholia is thought to be
the cau«p of the rash act.
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United Staies making their money grow by de- M/
® positing in the BANKS.
jfe SI.OO a year for fifty years is only $50.00, but
compounded it is $290.00. SSO 00 a year for fifty
>«s years, is only $2500.00 but at interest it is sll,- W
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£ one can save money, and when you plant saviugs JK
111 OUR. bank you will harvest dollars in future tf/F
fjk life. Plant the seed now to have the big tree later. W
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Value of Cotton Crop.
Ic presont prices prevail
through the crop season, it is
possible that the cotton crop this
year will be worth to the South
$900,000,000 to $1,000,000,000.
Last year's cotton crop was val
ued at $683,000;000, not includ
ing the seed, and if to this be
added the value of the seed, it
was about $780,000,000. With
cotton selling at about present
prices and the fine giades of
tong staple selling in many cases
1 as high as 18 or 20 cents or over,
it is possible that this year's
crop, counting the seed, which
are selling relatively as high as
cotton, may yield $150,000,000 to
$203,000,000 in excess of last
year's value.
Wonderful, indeed, are these
figures. If realized, as it now
seems altogether probable they
v* ill be, this year's cotton crop
wiil be worth largelv more than
double the world's production of
gold, gr~at as that is, or, stated
in another way, it will exceed in
value the aggregate capital of
all the national banks in the
United States. —Manufacturer's
Record.
Some Farming
Mr. J. F. Batts of Garner, N
C„ has just gathered and shelled
from one acre 226f bushels
of corn, wnich so far as we have
any record leads the world in
corn-raising.
The cost of producing this
yield of corn was $139.02; as fol
lows: Cotton seed meal, sl4;
kanit, $10; acid, sl2; nitrate scda,
$15.75; guano, $7.05; cow manure,
forty-five loads, $56-25; labor and
team, $23.97; total cost, $139.02.
Can anybody in Catawba coun
ty do this next year? Try and
see how near you can come any
way.
Football Victims.
Football has claimed a toll of
30 lives and 216 injuries during
the present season according to
figures compiled by the Chicago
Record-Herald up to last Sunday.
This is the largest number of
death© recorded in nine years ac
cording to the Record-Herald fig
ures. which have been kept since
1901.
The 30 deaths include eight
college players, 20 high school
boys and two members of atn
letic clubs. The injuries were
divided among 171 college men,
140 high school players and five
from athletic clubs. Twenty
five suffered internal injuries;
19 dislocated ankles, 19 concus
sions of the brain and 19 frac
tured ribs. Fifteen legs and
nine arms were broken, while
twelve collar bones were cracked.
There were 15 cases of torn, liga
ments and 13 fractured shoul
ders.
Mr. Doughton Improved.
The many friends of State
Bank Examinei J. Kemp Dough
ton, will learn with pleasure that
he has so improved from the
very serious attack of typhoid
fever he has been confined with
at Lenoir that he was able to go
to the home of his parents, Ex-
Lieutenant Gov. and Mrs. R. A.
Doughton, at Sparta, Alleghaney
county, last Saturday.
HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1909.
General News.
The girls' dormitory of the
South Carolina State Agricultu
ral and Mechanical College for
Negroes, located at Orangeburg,
S. C., was burned last Thursday.
The loss is about $50,000, exclu
sive of student's effects, and the
insurance about $20,000. The
building furnished rooms for 180,
but temporary arrangements
have been made and the work
will proceed.
Charles R. May was sentenced
to three years in the county jail
last week for breach of trust
with fraudulent intent. Mav
was former treasurer of the Citv
of Rock Hill, and was indicted
by the York county grand jury
and tried before Judge Moore at
Yorkville. He plead guilty to
the charge. He was short in his
accounts and though friends
raised the money and made good
the shortage, the solicitor de
clined to nol pros the charge.
"Stonewall" mills, one of the
most historic landmarks of the
Valley of Virginia, and one of
the few mills to escape the de
struction which Sheridan handed
out to everything else in the val
ley from the Potomac southward,
w?s burned Saturday, loss $6,-
000. This mill did business all
during the war and made flour
for the men who wore the gray.
The plant of the Guilford Plas
ter and Cement Company was
totally destroyed by fiire Tues
day night at Greensboro. The
loss is $40,000 with $20,000 in
surance. A high wind fanned
the flames from one building to
another, while firemen were
helpless to check the fire on ac
count of insufficient water sup
ply.
Wake Forest won in the de
bate with Randolph-Macon at
Ashland, Va., Thanksgiving day
and Davidson College triumphed
over the V. M. I. cadets at
Lynchburg. The North Carolina
Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege played the Virginia Poly
technic Institute at Norfolk and
lost by the score of 18 to 6. Two
of the three contests between
North Carolina and Virginia col
leges were won by the Tar Heels.
Morgan Chambers, a negro,
was taken from Town Marshall
Broadway and Deputy Joe Camp
12 miles from Meridian, Miss ,
last Thursday and lynched by a
mob of 200 masked men, and his
body riddled with bullets. The
negro had beatten and robbed
Martin Dressier, an aged citizen
of Point.
Bishop Wilson, senior bishop
of the M. E. Church South, de
clared in his Thanksgiving ser
mon in Raleigh, that too many
dailv newspapers are featuring
evil; that the world is searched
from day to day for all that is
bad for perusal at the breakfast
table. He insisted that in spite
of the appalling volume of wrong
heralded in the newspapers, the
world is growing better.
The little 10-months old child
of Mr. and Mrs. M- M. Gardner
in Charlotte, was burned to
death Saturdav by its clothing
catching on fire from the kitchen
stove while its mother was in the
yard at the well.
In defense of his mother and
other members of the family,
John Fuller, acred 18. shot and
k'lled his father, Jessie V. Ful
ler, near Laurens, S. C., Friday.
The husband was brutally as 3
saultinsr his wife when the son
emptied a load of bird-shot into
his abdomen, killing him instant
ly.
The Tennessee & North Caro
lina Railroad, at present running:
from Newport. Tenn., to Water
vrll#\ Haywood county, a distance
of 21 miles, will, according to an
announcement made by A. J.
McMahan, general superintend
ent, be extended within a short
time to Canton. This announce
ment was made after rights-of
way had been secured and paid
for in cash from Waterville up
the Pigeon river to Canton.
Not since the downfall of the
administration of President Pal
ma has t e political situation in
Cuba been more laden with sug
gestions of trouble. The re-es
tablished republic is scarcely
nine months old ar.d already ru
mors are afloat that some way is
being sought to secure the re
tirement of President Gomez,
either by persuasion or bv com
pulsion and place Vice-President
Sayas at the head of the nation.
The new mill which is being
built at Lincolnton *sy Messrs.
Edgar Love and J. L. Love, is
now receiving the machinery
and when completed will have
6,000 spindles and will produce
fine yarns, 60s to 80s.
The national government is
ready to collect the income tax
recently levied by congress, and
it is estimated that a net revenue
of approximately $25,000,000 an
nually will brought into the
treasury. 122.000 corporations
are likely to have to pay corpor
ation taxes. *
Lee Fisher, a professional
baseball player was arrested in
Nashville, Tenn., Sunday, and
confessed to having burglarized
the home of F. T. Lewis, a prom
inent business man. He ran
sacked the room in which tv o
young ladies were in bed feign
ing to be asleep.
Why More Men Do Not Enter
the Ministry.
A discussion took place on Sat
urday in the Southern Methodist
Episcopal Conference of Virgin
ia in session at Newport News,
of the reasons why the number
of young men who enter the
ministry is so small. One min
ister attributed it to the fact that
as soon as a minister's hair be
gins to whiten with years it is
hard for him to get employment.
Another said that it was because
of the lack of inducement in the
wa> of liberal salaries.
Perhaps the shortage of minis
ters to do the work of the church
is really not so great as is gener
ally supposed. If there were
not enough ministers to do the
work of the church, then those
with gray hairs could not be dis
posed with. The average pay of
the minister of the Gospel is very
small. Whether it is any less
than the average earnings of
men in other professions is not
certain. A r a meeting of a com
mittee having charge ot' the mat
ter of salaries in one of the re
ligious denominations of this
State recently a year and
a house to live in was fixed as
the minimum salary for clergy
men of that church. This being
the minimum, the average would
be much higher. It is a question
whether the average earnings of
either the lawyers or the physi
cian« in Maryland are as high as
the pa/ of the ministers in that
church. More than this, the
minister is relieved from many
expenses which the laymen has
to bear. He has to spend no
money to maintain his social po
sition. That is fixed. Some
ministers get liberal salaries, just
as some lawyers make a great
deal of money. But the great
number of them know that when
they enlist in the service of the
Master they have to take up
their crosses to follow Him.
They know that when they be
come ministers they resign all
opportunities of wealth. The
woman who marries the penni
less young minister just from
the theological school knows
that she resigns all promise of
wealth and fashion. But while
the average minister and his
wife, who is usually his assistant
in the work of the congregation,
have to live a life of self-denial,
the ministry has its attractions,
its pleasures and its joys. And
chief among them is the oppor
tunity it offers of doing good.
Still this does not relieve the
laymen of the various churches
from the reproach of giving their
ministers less than they ought to
give and of subjecting them to
hardships to which they should
not be subjected.—Baltimore Sun.
Alexander County.
Mr. Robert Partee Matheson
died at his home in Taylorsville
on the 22d, after several months
of feeble health. He was a resi
dent of that place all his life, ex
cept a year or two spent in Le
noir, and at one time represent
ed the county in the state legis
lature. No man e /er had more
friends or befriended more of
his countrymen than did he, and
he was every inch a gentlemean.
Alexander has lost one of its best
citizens.
Mr. J. P. Thompson celebrated
his 80th birthday one day last
week and between 45 and 50
guests were present at his home.
He is one of the oldest and most
useful men in .the county and
has a wide connection.
Zelaya once wore side-whis
kers. This explains much.
jThe Man Who Wrote "Dixie"
Memphis has inaugurated a
movement to erect a monument
to Daniel Decatur Emmett, and
that city will be conferring as
great honor upon itself by the
act as on the minstrel who wrote
"Dixie." Everybody knows and
loves "Dixie." Its inspiring mu
sic shares with other patriotic
tunes the soul-stirring sentiment
that carries all before it. Be we
from the South or from the
North, we like the lively tune,
and are ready to "jell" when
the others cheer the tune.
Allegheny, Pa.. h£s raised a
statue to Stephen Collins Foster,
whose "Old Folks at Home" has
not the swing and fire that
"Dixie" imparts. It is only fit
ting that a Southern city should
be the first to commemorate the
writing of a plantation melody
that later was accepted by the
Confederates as their national
song.
"Uncle Dan" Emmett, while
of Southern parentage, was born
in Ohio. He became a minstrel
and drifted to New York, where
in 1859, he joined Bryant's Min
trels. One of his tasks was to
compose comic negro melodies
and plantation songs. One Sat
urday night Mr. Bryant asked
him to prepare a new plantation
"walk-around," one with a live
ly, catchy choruus, that the boys
could learn quickly and sing
through the streets, so as to
make it popular. As it rained
all next day, Sunday, "Uncle
Dan" was forced to stay indoors,
and it was then that he com
posed "Dixie" as it is at pie;ent
sung.
It was first produced in Me
chanics' Hall by the Bryant's
Minstrels. September 19, 1859,
fully eighteen months before it
was sung in the South, On the
other hand, it first appeared in
print in New Orleans, and spread
like wildfire through the South
ern States.
All honor to the man who can
touch the hearts of millions. He
is richly deserving of recogni
tion. The world exalts its he
rocs, and great poets and artists
are not without enduring monu
ments and substantial recogni
tion in most cases. But the bene
fits conferred on the race by a
warrior or great artist does not
compare with the softening in
fluences that come with the mel
odies that touch the heart.
Great poems appeal to a select
few, to a smaller class, while the
popular and national airs, such
as "Wachtam Rhein," "Marceil
laise," "Star Spangled Banner,"
"Home, Sweet Home," "Amer
ica." "Hall, Britannia," and
"Yankee Doodle, " enter into the
lives of every citizen, no matter
how lowly. The writers of such
tunes deserve glory in keeping
with the good they have done.—
Washington Herald.
ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.
Jumps Into Well and Asks
Not to be Saved.
Mt. Airy, Nov. 28.—Yesterday
afternoon at 3 o'clock there was
an attempt at suicide near this
place, when Miss Irene Bunker,
a young lady about 19 years old,
attempted to take her own life
by jumping into a well. She be
came incensed at her brother,
because he refused to allow her
to drive into town, and jumped
into a well 40 feet deep. Owing
to the extreme dry weather there
was only about five feet of water
in the well and she owes her life
to this fact. Neighbors soon
rushed to the scene when she
was found standing in water up
to her neck and it was only the
work of a few momenta to rescue
her from her perilous position.
So intent was she upon self
destruction that she begged her
rescuers to leave her in the well.
She is said to be in a serious con
dition, having one arm broken,
and it is feared that she is in
ternally injured as she is report
ed to be bleeding freely from the
nose and mouth .
Miss Bunker is a very beauti
ful and popular young lady, a
granddaughter of one of the fa
mous Siamese twins, and it is
believed that she was suffering
with nervousness as her health
has been bad for several months.
What is "art" between colo
nels?
Senator Aldrich failed to Al
drichize the Central Wes\
The conspirators who are go
ing to overthrow Taft will have
to get a derrick.
Democrat and Press, Consolidated i 905
Wedding at Len°ir.
The Drettiest wedding yetrs
that has been witnessed
for many years in Lenoir took
place in the First Presbyterian
Church • there last Wednesday
night at 7 o'clock when Miss
Alice Henkel and Mr. Henry A.
Rnyneof Mt. Holly were mar
ried, Hev. D. P. McGeachy, per
forming the ceremony. The
church was beautifully decorated
and just before the bridal party
entered, Mrs. J. T Jones sang,
"True Till Death." Mrs. J. L.
Bernhardt presided at the organ
and was accompanied by the
Church Orchestra.
The bride entered on the arm
of her father, Mr. L. P. Henkel
and was met at the altar by Mr.
Rhyne, accompanied by Mr. John
Craig of Charlotte as best man.
Her gown was of white satin
trimmed in real lace and pearl
trimmings. A reception was
tendered the bridal party at the
home of the bride's parents and
9 o'clock the couple left on a
special train for Hickory. Here
they took the Southern in a spe
cial car and wiil tour the south
west for several weeks, visiting
Southern California, after which
thev will return to Mt. Holly to
make their home.
Miss Henkel is one of the most
at.cractive young ladies in this
part of the state and has scores
of friends. Mr. Rhyne is the
son of Mr. A. P. Rhyne, and a
prominent business man. Many
out-of-town visitors were present
to witness the ceremony and ex
tend their good wishes to the
happy couple.
Catawba Won 7 to 0.
Catawba College defeated the
Lenoir eleven in a biisk and
snappy game of football Thanks
giving day on the Catawba field
by a score of 7to 0. The halves
were 30 and 25 minutes each.
Both teams were evenly
matched and in the first hair
neither side scored. Corpening
played star ball for Catawba and
also the names of Parks and
Howard should be mentioned fa
vorably. Mauney and Rudesill
played the best for Lenoir.
When the referee's whistle
sounded Lenoir had the ball
within 18 inches of another
touchdown.
The line up was as follows:
Catawba. Positions. Lenoir.
Triplett. C. Eller,
Warlick. R. G. Rex.
Boyd. L. G. Criven.
Finger. R. T. Turbifill.
Herman. L. T. Coon.
Howard. R. E. Mauney.
Wagner. L. E. Wren.
Ingram. Q. Rudisill.
Corpening. R. H. Harvey.
Rankin, Bost. L. H. Rhodes.
Parks. F. Curry.
Eight feet of snow in Dakota,
and here we're still pickin' tur
nips!
Is Mrs. Stetson an error of
"mortal mind?"
This is December and scarcely
a single frost has touched us.
(NEW GOODS |
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Q We have bought the largest and best O
fi selected stock of goods this season than fi
0 ever before. A full line of ?l
X Dress Goods, Notions, Shoes, X
S Hats, Caps, Mens and fi
o Boys CiO Aing,
in fact we can furn everything needed
§in your home. We have bought for cash Q
and can therefore give ?ru :!v very best ©
8 80 bargains that can be had. All we ask of O
you is to come and see a id be convinced Jk
that our goods are the very best and we Q
A are selling them close. A
V Thanking you for past favors and hoping to V
continue business with you in the future.
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© YOURS TO PLEASE, V
8 SETZER & RUSSELL §
L HICKORY, N. C. V
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SECOND DEGREE MURDER
Tweeds Sentenced for Homi
cide in Madison County.
Asheville, Nov. 28.—The jury
in th£ cases of State vs. Robert
and Major Tweed, the homicide
cases frcm Madison county, this
I morning at 11 o'clock returned a
| ve-dict finding both the defend
ants guilty of murder in the sec
ond degree with a recommenda
tion for mercy.
With the rendering of the ver
dict the solicitor was not in court
and there was a question as to
the legality of the solicitor pray
ing the judgment of the court on
Sunday. It was agreed, howev
er, that under the emergency of
the situation, Judge Adams, hav
ing to leave this afternoon for
i Brevard to convene court tomor
row, such action would be legal.
The solicitor was sent for and
Judge Adams, in passing sen
tence, made some remarks.
He said that he did not wish
to send the mountain boys to the
State prison, that he felt their
health would be better in this
section. He asked about the
maximum road sentence, was in
formed that so far as it applied
to Buncombe it was ten years or
a day less and the court then im
posed a sentence of 9 years and
II months road sentence on Ro
bert Tweed and 7 years on Major
Tweed.
Counsel for the defendants
gave notice of appeal and appear
ance bond was fixed at 5,000
each.
Robert and Major Tweed were
accused of killing Andy and Ar
thur Franklin at White Rock,
Madison county, May 24. It was
admitted that Robert Tweed fired
the shots that killed both the
Franklins, but the State insisted
that the Tweed boys went there
for a row and that both were
guilty. The defendants plead
self-defense.
Watauga County Items.
Dr. Oscar L. Moore of Globe,
N. C., has located in Boone for
the practice of dentistry.
John Hodges & Co., are ope
rating an extra large stock of
goods in the Cook Bros, store.
Rev. Rudisill after serving
the Methodist churches in this
circuit has decided to enter Van
derbilt University. He and his
wife are excellent people and
will be missed here. Rev. Weav
er of the Watauga circuit was
appointed on this work,
Thanksgiving day was ob
served at several places in this
county. Rev. Rudisill preached
in the Auditorium of the Appa
lachian Training School.
The Sugar Trust doesn't be
lieve that sweet are the uses of
adversity.
Is the proposed billion-dollar
Copper Trust the of
a billion-dollar Congress?