E 51 ci t) i ish&ci 1399
Hickory Soys
at Foot Oall
Graded School Not Defeated A
Single Time;
WON MANY VICTORIES
Score One Time was 0 to 0
During Last Year -The
Line-up a Strong
One *
BY LUcCE P. HAHN
This season the Hickory Graded
School nas made a great success
in the way of a good strong foot
ball team.
B> our own efforts we haw
under our coach, Mr. Gus Lowe,
put out a team equal to any suo
college team in Catawba county.
We have been uu against larger
men; but still we have not let any
of our opponents cross the goal
this sea»oi.
After a little coaching we were
well organized and in very good
training.
Messrs. Lowe, quarter-back;
Carr, full back; McFalls, ri#ht
half-back; and Price, left half
back in the back-fiel I. Sigmon
and Aiken on the ends, Johnson
at center, formed a strong nu
cleus around which to collect a
very fast team. Bradford, and
Sea'gle as guards, and Geitner
and Shuford as tackles make up
a line which has proved as solid
as a stone wall.
We have had but one accident
the past season to put any player
out of the game. This one was
when Mr. Charlie D.llinger got
his collar-bone broken in the first
game with Morganton.
The Subs, were as follows:
Lawrence Cline, Luke Hahn,
Charlie and Cedric Dellinger, and
Jake Reinhardt.
Hickory 16, Newton 0: Our
first experience was with our old
rival Newton Graded School, on
the former's ground, Sept. 20
The teams were equally averaged
in size. Hickory was out of their
class. Newton was too much
like a baby.. The ball was Hick
ory's way all the game. At last
we walked victorious away from
the field to the tune of 16 to 0.
This was all the Newton boys
wanted for the rest of the season.
Hickory 0. Catawba College
Scrubbs 0: Our next game was
played with Catawba College's
second team on October 9. The
College bo.vs were larger in size
than the Hickory boys,. but still
Hickory took the score of 0 to 0
with much delight. The game
was a hard and rough one for all
the players.
Hickory G. S. 0, Catawba Col
lege Scrubbs 0: Probably the
best game of the session was
p'ayed on October 22, when we
met Catawba College Scrubbs on
the formei's ground. Every
player was in the best of condi
tion and seemed anxious at his
opponents. It was a fierce strug
gle from beginning to end.
Neither side could keep the ball
long enough to do any serious
damage. Thus, the first half
passed with the ball near the mid
dle of the field. The players of
both teams entered the last half
"with olood in their eyes", and
the spectators at once concluded
that there would soon be "some
thing doing".' Play after play
was pulled off, and still neither
side could gain ground. When
tie time-keeper shouted "Time'
up", when this much stronger
team took a goose-egg back with
them.
Hickory G. S. 10, Morgantori
G. S. 0: Hickory defeated the
Morganton boys in the first game
of the series, November 12. at
Hickory. In the first half the
Hickory boys played for two
touchdowns. During the second
half the Hickory players succeed
ed in sizing up their opponents
to perfection. Hickory's line
was impregnable in the second
half and held like a stone wall.
It was in this game that our
only accident occurred, when at
the beginning of the game Mr.
Charlie Dellinger got his collar
bone broken in two places. Nev
ertheless we sent the boys back
home in defeat.
Hickory G. S. 16, Morganton
G. S. 0: Our last game was
played Thanksgiving day with
Morganton Graded School at Mor -
ganton. In the rirst halt we had
the ball nearly all the time, and
at the end of the firs 1 , half we had
twelve points our opponents
none.
When in the second half our
opponents put on several raut.es,
varsity players, making it strong
er for them, we were only able to
get but one touch-down in the
second half bringing back home
a fine score of 16 to 0
We were just out of their class
and could not get any more games
this season.
This season we had five games,
the results are as follows: Cp
oonents 0, Hickory G. S. 42, or
two tied and three won.
Hurrah for Hickory!
Good outlook for a future base
ball next spring.
MR. HENRY TO WRITE
* FOR THE DEMOCRAT
Th£ Democrat printed last
week an article especially pre
pare.l for it by Rev. P. C. Henry,
of Con over, on the important
snbject of the Parcels Post. We
pleasure in saying that we
have arranged with Mr. Henry
to contribute a series of six ar
ticles to the paper. Some of
the others will be:
"Should our Farmers Keep
Thoroughbred Poultry".
"Valuable By-Products of
Large Packing Houses".
"The Rapid Rise of Italy's
Sons in our Large Cities".
Mr. Henry needs no introduc
tion locally as a writer and think
er. His articles have appeared
in a score or more of American
Magazines, "Country Life in Am
erica" being one of them. The
Democrat considers itself fortu
nate to be able to secure Mr. I
Henry as a special contributor,
and does not believe the people
of Catawba and the section can
afford to miss reading after him.
We call attention to the write
up elsewhere in the Democrat of
the meeting of farmers at Mr.
Propst s to consider the question
of establishing a creamery. The
meeting was characterized by a
spirit of determination, and r
plan was suggested which makes
the enterprise entirely feasible.
Catawba County already ships
out over 1000 lbs of dairy butter
per week, made by twerty differ
ent parties. There is alsa quit®
a large amount that is sold to
local buyers, perhaps another
1000 lbs. This shows the need
of a creamery.
That is a splendid record the
Hickory Graded School Foot Ball
team made last year. The story
of the long string of victories is
well told in this issue of The
Democrat by. young Mr. Luke P.
Hahn.
As the Democrat goes to press
this week there is still left one
more day of the important course
in dairying and live stock at Mr.
H. P. Lutz's. Every farmer in
the county ought to attend.
Fodtf To Continue High
"The present high prices for
far Ai products have come to stay;
the rural population is playing
out; the present census, if it
classes the unincorporated vil
lages as towns will show between
60 and 65 per cent, of population
living in towns," declared Rep
resentative Champ Clark, of
Missouri, the minority leader of
the House, according to a Wash
ington Dispatch in ihe Baltimore
Sun. "At the present rate in
20 years the Un.ted States will
cease to be an exporting nation
for agricultural products, except
as to cotton.
"One of the principal causes
of the high prices of farm prod
ucts is the world movement of
people toward the towns and
cities, while a few persons in
towns and cities have gardens
and raise chickens and occasion
ally* pigs, practically the entire
town and city population are hon
producers of anything to eat, but
are consumers only. Last year
for the first time Argentina beat
us in exporting corn, and Argen-
Brazil are now fixing
to take the frozen meat trade
from us. Until we adopt the in
tensive system of agriculture we
have nearly reached our limit, of
agricultural output."
Ice Forming
From the Baltimore Sun
The wind is again in the north,
And the goosebone shakes and
shivers.
WhitSlT indicates there's a-goin 1 to be
Skatin' upon the rivers !
The Marion Progress savs too
much money in married life is al
most as bad" as too little.
HICKORY, N.C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1910.
Hickory Gets
Imported Juice
Southern Power Co.'s Current
Here This Week ■
2500 H. P. PER DAY
A Number of Projected Fac
tories Looking for Sites Al
ready in Correspondence
with Col. Thornton
Hickory has more diversifica
tion of its indus'ries than any
other place of its size in North
Carolina, and it, is apt io continue
its record in this respect, for the
Thornton Light & Power Co. has
closed a contract with the Sou
thern Power Co. by which it is
to get a possible maximum of
100,000 killowat hours of current
per month.
To make this technical state
ment more intelligible it may be
said that one killowat hour i*
equal to one horse power and
one-third.
Th s means that Col. Thornton
will have available about 2500
horse power a day for manufac
turing purposes and for lighting.
And 2500 horse power a day is
upwards of a good deal of power.
The present power plart of the
Thornton Light & Power Co. will
be discontinued and sold to some
other manufacturing: enterprise,
it being conveniently situated
alongside the railroad. It has
been maki.ig about 250 horse
power a day, with which the city
has been lighted and seme fac
tories run.
Col. Thornton has been in cor
respondence with a number of
roen interested in finding the
best possible site for locating
manufacturing enterprises, and
his deal with the Southern Power
Co. will enable him to offer un
usual inducements these people.
The current over the Southern
Power lines into Hickory will be
here about the last of this week
The Thornton Light & Power
Company will sell the power it
takes to consumers here at the
same rates as now obtain in
Charlotte. These rates, it needs
to be said, are competitive rates,
since the Southern Power Co.
must meet in Charlotte the com
petition of the Four C's company.
These rates will be maintained,
and no one need fear, Col. Thorn
ton says, to come here to manu
facture and take this power ift
any apprehension of a future
raise in rates, because of the
favorable probability of the dev
elopment, whenever required, of
the water power which he con
trols on the river.
The power comes, to Hickory a
distance of 137 miles, and the
local company gets a primary
current. The transformer station
is belween here and Brookford.
Both the Brookford and Ivey
Cotton mills and the projected
new cotton mill will use the
Southern Power Company's juice.
The equipment of the Thornton
Light and Power Company for
furnishing light and power has
been and will continne to be the
best in the state, bar none.
The Southern Power Company
is transmitting its current for a
longer distance than any other
water power development in the
world, and the engineers of both
America and Europe have been
astonished at what Dr. Wylicand
Mr. Lee have accomplished.
In Memoriam: James A. Col
li n s.
While his friends realized that
he was gradually growing weak
er, yet it was a shock, when, on
Sunday morning the news flashed
over the place; "James is dead."
Mr. Collins came here about
two years ago in search of
health, and for some time
seemed to improve, but for some
months past there has been a
decided change in for the worse;
and before the break of the Sab
bath moi ning of Dec. 26, death
came and claimed the spirit of
as pure and unselfish a young
man as it has ever been our lot
to have known.
Although his suffering was in
tense, not once did he ever mur
mur or complain; but his thoughts
were always for the comfort and
happiness of others, and even up
to the very last moments of his
life; did he turn to the faithful
young sister, who had nursed
him through his long illness so
tenderly, and caution her to take
care of her health.
Intelligent, broadminded, un- 1
selfish, sympathetic, trustful and
he nest. We pause and wonder
why God should take out of this
world one jnst budding into man
hood, with so much to live for;
and yet we should know that
God would not make a mistake.
We leave him now, quietly
resting in the beautiful little
cemetary at Oak Park, Va., be
side Lis parents, with the hope
that when the dawn of the eter
nal Sabbath morning breaks for
us all that, we too, like James,
sha 1 feci that it is "all right,"
and as we ws'lk through the
Golden Gate, may have among
the first to greet us his happy;
smiling face.
' 'Sometimes with purpose born of
changless love,
But hid unscrutably from human mind,
God takes his choicest ones to dwcil
above . N
And strikes with numbing loss those
left behind;
We cannot, with our feeble, finite gaze.
The meaning of His purpose explore,
Or read the secret of His ways*
In love that parins to love Him more."
A FRIEND.
Taxes on Cards $61,381
The people of the United States
paid $51,331 taxes on playing
Cards during November last, aa
increase of $11,481 over the cor
responding p°rio 1 of 1908, savs a
Washington Dispatch to the Bal
timore Sun.
This fact is shown in the de
tailed statement of receipts of in
ternal revenue for the last month
made public today. With few
exceptions, most of which are
unimportant in amount, the items
of taxation in the November
statement show material in
creases JVer those of a year ago,
the net increase aggregating
$2,695,717.
Among the notable advances
are those of $1,232,309 on disti I led
644 on cigarettes, $307,853. on
manufactured tabacco and $606,-
947 barrel tax an fermented li
quors.
Total receints for November
were $24,310,717; for the first
five months of the fiscal vear
$113,358,162 and for the corre
sponding neriod o, 1908 $106,684,-
562.
Roasted Apple
From the Baltimore Sim
Old-time fireplace, six feet wide.
With a pine log lit inside;
Old-time settle, drawn up close
So your back won't feel half froze
While yofcr face is ruddy sweet
With the wide ana leaping heat.
House cat purring near the blaze
And a kettle singin' lays
Of old childhoods to vou there
While you're rocking in the chair;
Then some cider, and a tune
Fiddlin' through a dream of June. *
Then, on top of that, ah me!
An apple where the hot coals be
That the charred leg scatters off
As the gases through it congh,
Roaitin', sizzlin', till the juice -
Bubbles in a steamin' sluice:
Cream and sugar when it's done —
What was that you said, my son,
Must be fine? Upon my land,
Not fine, ray lad, but simply grand,
And tastin' stil! to me and you
Like old-time pippins used to do!
Sure Cute For Smallpox and
Scarlet Fever
Published by request of one who has
tried it.
The following small-pox reme-1
dy was given to the public by a
correspondent of the Stockton
(Cal.) Herald, who says: "I here
by append a recipe which has
been used, to my knowledge, in
hundreds of cases. It will pre
vent or cure smallpox, though
the pittings are filling. It will
also cure scarlet fever. Here is
the recipe as I have used it t">
cure small-pox. When learned
physicians said the patient must
die, it cured; Sulphate of zinc,
one grain; foxglove (digitalis,)
one grain; half a teaspoonful of
sugar Mix with two tablespoon
fuls of water. When thoroughly
mixed, add four ounces of water.
Take a teaspoonful every hour.
Either disease will disappear in
twelve hours, For a child, small
er dose according to its age. If
jountries would compel physi
cians to use this, .there would be
no need of nest houses. If you
value advice, use this for that
terrible disease." The correct
dose is:
6 month 5 ? old 5 drops; 3 years;
old 15 drops; 6 years old 20 drops;
12 years old 30 drops; 13 years
old 40 drops. 60 drops is a tea
spo'onful.
Old Blind George
Praises the Paper
Democrat's Sightless Human
Motor Kindly Criticizes
A SNOWSTORM AT NIGHT
A Sturdy Colored Giant Who
"Pumps" the Piess Sings at
His Work in His Darken
ed but But Happy Life
"You sho' are gittin' out a
good paper now, suh."
The speaker was blind George.
He stood before the newspaper
man and grinned good-naturedly.
When Blind George laughs his
face looks* like a polished mahog
any piano with ivory keys. Or
maybe it might be said that his
face looks like a snow storm in
the heart of midnight. Such a
row ot giant pearls as old George
can show.
And when old George bites a
jewsharp, what music as he can
get out of her. Auburn Selzer
arid Johnny Young leave the cases
andnstart to dance and Foreman
VVil on has to get after them be
cause he fears they will not get
type enough up to get the paper
out.
Old Blind George is the Demo
crat's electric motor He is the
Democrat's steam engine, shaft
ing pnd all. He pumps the Demo
ocrat pipe organ, which makes
type-set music for the town of
Hickory and the county of Ca
awba.
Blind George hasn't any eyes
but he has arms. What arms!
Great swelling ebony muscles
that Peter Jackson never saw
the like of. Old George lost his
eyes in the making of his arms.
He was blasting one day in the
years gone by. He had drilled
a deep hole in the solid granite
of the quarry, hitting the drill
with a huge sledge hammer. He
stayed too close when they set
the powder off. He has never
had any eyes since then.
His arms have made his living
for him since his eyes went out.
He turns the press for the jfimes-
Mercurv as well as for the Dem
ocrat, and he saws wood for
pretty much everybody in town.
"You sho are gittin out a good
paper now, suh."
George had come forward to
the editor's desk after finishing
"pumping" the last side of last
week's Democrat. He was after
his pay.
"Have you been reading the
the paper closely? Didn't know
you could read, George",.
"Not exactly readin', suh, but
I heah'm talk. I like de paper
better'n I ever did befo'. I kin
tell teli, suh. 1 kinder feeh how
hit is. Hit's a printin' better
off'n de press den hit has ever
done befo', too. I can tell des ez
well when vou air a gittin' a
print on de paper. Old
keeps posted on al) dese things."
"Well, the paper is too little,
George. We *re trying to figure
on how to get an extra page in
every week, when rhere is not
quite enough advertising to justi
fy it."
"Hit'll come along all right,
suh. Hit'll grow. Dis here's a
fine town, 'n good people here in
Hick'ry," 'n roundabout."
There is a little boy, two and a
half vears of age, who is the
mascot of the Democrat office.
One of his greatest delights is to
see the press run, even if it is
not as big as the press in the
News office down in Charlotte.
"That man is blind, Robbie,"
some one said to the Little Boy.
4 'He hasn't got any eyes. He
can't see a sunset fall off the
earth. He can't see the blue
mountains like we can from our
porch. He can't see anything."
Old George stopped the press.
Two long rows of ivory glistened
down into the upcast, sympa
thetic face of the Little Boy.
"Is dat yo' li'l boy? I got a li'l
gal 'bout de same age, she comes
runnin' to meet me ev'y evening
when I goes home. Good lookin'
li'l How kin I tell, boss?
Caint see her face but I feels hit
wid my han. I b'lieve she knows
I'm blin', too. She's alius gittin'
out'n de way. She runs to one
side ev'y time her ole blin' dad
dy's about to stomp on her."
Then old George returned to
his task of grinding out the
weekly newspaper grist from the
Democrat's inky old mill. It's a
slow old press. Maybe Noah
printed his daily bulletins of the
Democrat and Press, Consolidated i9CS
Big Storm on it. A big stove right
under its nose keeps it from oc
casionally freezing up tight, like
the press of our esteemed con
temporary. the Taylo rsv ill e
Scout It's cranky and freakish.
But George is always patient
with it. They are two big broth
ers in black, George and the
press, both a little the worse off
for life's wear and tear.
The Huffrv Worth 4 Cotton
Factories.
"The Hotel Huffry is worth
as much as much as four cotton
factories to this town," said one
of the largest cotton manufactur
ers of North Carolina, who was
passing through the city one day
last week. "It makes a fine im
pression upon all new comers to
this place. When they come to
your city to consider the ques
tion of investing here, they feel,
after one dav spent at the Huf
fry, that they have a base from
which they can work. It gives
them a feeling of security and
helps to convince them them that
this is the place where they want
to locate.
"Hickory ought to appreciate
her fii.e little hotel to the fullest
degree. She is indeed fortunate
to have it.'*
MRS. DALE DEAD
Epley and Hevener Schools
Celebrate on Christmas.
Rollins News
Correspondence of The Democrat.
Rollins, Jan. 10—Mrs. Rebecca
Dale, wife of David Dale, while
temporarily insane last week*
fell off cf the back porch of their
home breaking her skull and bad
ly bruising her face. When pick
ed up she was unconscious and
has remained so since. Dr. Hen
nesssee is treating her, but there
is small hopes of her recovery.
John Epley, 96 years of age,
is very badly off and his children
have been sent for.
Mrs. and Mrs. Bert Hamby
are entertaing a fine baby girl.
Mother and child are doing nicely.
Our thermometer registered 12
above zerfc this last cold spell.
Last year the same thermometer
registered 16 above, the year be
fore 14 above.
Rollins Lo2ke of the Farmers
Union was organized here last
week Saturday with the following
officers. President, J. B. Taylor;
Vice President, J, Arthur Wain
wright; Sec.-Treas., T. P. Buff;
Doorkeeper, Frank E. Bos worth;
Conductor, G. C. Epley.
The schoolmaster at Dry Ponds
is threatened with an indictment
for whipping a one-armed pupil
and one of the School Commit
tee of the Epley School says
ha will contest the legality of the
appointment of a teacher on the
ground that no meeting of the
committee was ever held as re
quired by law.
Christmas eve the teachers of
the Epley and Hevener schools
joined forces and had a Chri3tmas
tree and box sale supper. The
affair was a great success and
reflected credit "on Miss Carrie
Kincaid and Miss Nora Waters,
the two teachers. The sale of
the boxes was a great success,
one selling for $5.00 and others
for $4.00 and down The total
sum realized was between $23.00
and $24.00 and will be used to
wards painting the school house.
Christmas night Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Fisher invited in their
neighbors to help them celebrate
and a very pleasant time was
had. The Christmas tree was a
fine one and held presents for
every one including Santa Claus
himself.
Miss Sarah C. Morris is suffer
ing from an attack of La Grippe.
For The New Year
From The Inland Printer
The old year hath come and
gone and left with us its gift of
another harvest. Each man hath
garnered Jiis share of golden
grain, of weeds, of wild oats, and
experience withal. But now the
planting time returneth. This
year is thine and mine. Choose
well thy field; work it with ener
gy; water it with faith, and sow
with a right good will. And
whether the grain be great or
small, if here and there thou
droppest a human kindness, thy
labor shall not have boen in vain.
Mr. Tom Warlick, of Newton
was in the city last week.
Promotions in the
Hickory Rifles.
Sergeant Huffman Made Quarter
master Sergeant.
PRIVATES TO CORPORALS
Local Military the Only One
in the County of Catawba
and Needs to Recive
Every Encouragement
A number of well deserved
nromotions were made at the last
meeting of the Hickory Rifles.
Co. A.. First Regiment, held in
the Armory over the Hickory
Banking* & Trust Co.
Sergeant G. L. Huffman was
promoted to quartermaster ser
geant.*
Corporal C. T. Bumgarner was
promoted to sergeant.
Corporal J. D. Thomason to
sergeant.
Private A. H. Setzer to cor
poral.
Private J. F. Link to corporal.
Private W. VV. White to cor
poral.
Private W. W. Bowman to cor
poral.
The were organized in 1904
and attended 'he manoeuvres at
Mannassas, Va., that year,
j They have attended the state en
'•amDments every year since then,
The company is 47 strong, its
three efficient and enthusiastic
officers being Capt. E. Lyerly,.
First Lieut. G. W, Payne, and
Second Lieut. W. C. Keever.
Lieut. Keever perhaps does
more toward drilling the men
than any other officer and is as
up-to-dafee and business-like as a
West Pointer in his work,
The Rifles is the only *jjiilitary
ompany in Catawba county, and
the Democrat understands the
only company in any adjacent
county save Iredell. This fact
makes it important that the or
ganization should be given the
most hearty encouragement by
the local people. Catawba is
perhaps tlie most law-abiding
scanty in the state and riots and
lynching bees are hardly to be
thought of. Nevertheless it is a
mighty comfy feeling to know
that there is such an institution
to fall back on in time of danger
and peril. The annual appropri
ation from the government a
mounts only to $250, and this
hardly does more than pay for
armory rent, water, coal and
light bills and other incidental
expenses. Some of the members
of the company hope the county
commissioners will be able to aid
the organization, as this is said
to be done in most counties in
j the state where there are military
I companies.
SKEPTICISM.
Creeping Southward, Says Dr.
Hulten.
From The Charlotte News, 4th.
Rev. Dr. Hulten, of the First
Baptist church, has given his aU
tention on two successive Sunday
mornings to two U's that are
causing unrest in the religious
life of the present day: Unitari
anism and Universalism. "The
former," Dr. Hulten said, denies
the Divinity of Jesus; the latter
teaches Universal salvation of
the human race.
"Universalism is first contrary
to scripture; it is contrary to
reason and is contrary to reason
and is the foe of all spiritual life
and the enemy of Christian ser
vice.
"In the next ten years," said
the speaker, the South, which is
the home of religion and orthod
oxy, must face New England s
subtle skepticism, which, even
now is coming as a dangerous
undertow with Universalism on
one hand and Unitarianism on
the other."
As evidence of the fact that
the doctor is right in his state
ment that "New England's skep
ticism" is creeping Southward
his mail has been flooded with
letters from this and other states,
taking issue with him in his
statements and making general
protests.
Mr. Gaither Hall of Lenoir was
in town to attend the uanc-5
Friday night.