If Vou Read The Democrat, you don't need other newspaper. It's all here. One Dollar a year. : : Established 1899 A Whole Family In Dairying The Dutch Dairy Farm Making Good in Catavba MR. JNO. LUTZ AND SONS Father, 2 Sons, and 2 Sons-in- Law Bringing up 1,(100 Acres of Land by Raising Cows —Selling Butter at 30c. A chain of dairy farms linked together by family ties! That is exactly what the noted Dutch Dairy Farm of Catawba county is. You have heard of many, kinds of chains —a chain of mountains, a chain of daisies when you were a little child; a chain of mountains when you studied geography; a chain of gold links to hold a watch in your vest button hole; a chain of circum stances, when you studied history - but you never be|«re heard of a chain of dairy farlls. Right in the . forefront of agriculture, not only for Cataw ba county but for North Car olina is the Dutch Dairy Farm. And what it is doing to the land -to 1,000 acres of Catawba coun ty soil—would make glad the heart of Clarence Foe, Prof: Massey, Dr. Tait Butler and the rest of that fine bunch of farm* professors dowtf at Raleigh who are working on the knottiest of agricultural problems on the Pro gressive Farmer blackboard. A PATRIARCH AT THE PLOW. Mr. John B. Lutz is one of Ca tawba's patriarchs at the plow. He has long been one of the best farmers in the Valley—one of the thriftiest, one of the hardest working, one of the most suc cessful, one of the most far sighted, one of the most God fearing. They say that Mr. Lutz has made some money in his day but he always put it into dirt. It was land for Lutz every time —land for Lutz. "Old Man Lutz will be land poor all his life", was sometimes said. Mr. Lutz was one of the farm ers who first realized the abso lute necessity of stock raising to bring: up land. As he kept ad ding to his land holdings he was mean time raising a fine, old time family, giving them the best education possible. But of even greater value to them was the training under his eye. HENRY LUTZ RE ADS PAPERS. His first step was to give his oldest son, Henry P. Lutz, charge of the farm. Henry Lutz has been one of the first men in the state to catch step with the new agriculture. He is an omnivo rous reader. When * you try to get people to take your paper >ou are often met with the state ment: "We are taking more papers than we can read." Hen- j ry Lutz never says this. Hej takes tho biggest batch of pa-, pers in the county outside of a newspaper office exchange list, and he has the reputation of reading everything of import ance in them. Henry Lutz made a success of his father's farm, especially the dairy part of it, and then the elder Lutz decided to back UD his children in a unique scheme of making a series of dairy farms out of his 1000 acres. There was quite a study over a name, but finally the Dutch Dai ry farm was decided upon. T his farm is run by the father, his sons and two sons-in-law, Messrs. H. P. Lutz, W. Raymond Lutz, Avery L. Baker and Lewis H. Seitz. THE LAND COMING UP. The Democrat paid a visit to Mr. Lutz's farm recently, and though it is only three years that he has been managing his part of the system —115 acres— the land is already coming up. A splendid little orchard is be ginning to bear. A peep into a brick sweet potato house revealed scores of bushels of sweet yam-' waiting for the demands of the market. Yonder was the acre patch of corn being raised by HICKORY PRODUCE MARKET. Corrected weekly by Whitener & Martin. Hens, per lb 12c Spring Chickens, per lb 17c Turkeys, per lb 12 l-2c Eggs, per doz 17c Butter per lb 15 to 25 Creamery Butter 30c Apples, rooking 25 to 50c bu Sweet Potatoes 2.25 acr Irish Potatoes (new) 60c a bu Cabbage, per lb 3-4 c Cherries 25c per gal THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT Mr. Lutz's boy, who is a con testant in the corn prize contest. It was at the supper table that one found out what it means to live on an up-to-date dairy farm, Mrs. Lutz's table was simply crowded with good things to eat, and in the middle was a plate of the richest, yellowest butter that would do honor to a slice of bread on the king of England's table. Mr. Lutz has a herd of 110 cows with about 60 milkers. His "butter bred" bull which he bought of Mr. R. L. Shuford is of the great Sultan family. The dam of this bull has a record of 679 pounds of butter a year; his granddam of 635 and his great granddam of over 600. BREEDING FOR THE BUTTER COW. "I am breeding for the butter cow," said Mr. Lutz. From his milkers Mr. Lutz is averaging about a pound of butter each a day. Before the creamery started he was shipping to Ral eigh, Greensboro and Rocky Mount, getting 30 cents net. The Creamery retains the customers of its contributors. The skim milk and buttermilk is fed to Poland China hogs, and these contribute to the annual supply of meat, while many are sold. The breeding of fine stock by the Catawba farmers is doing marvels in bringing up the general breed of stock all over the county. The only thing Mr. Lutz buys on his farm is some grain and some concentrates like cotton seed in order to secure the prop er amount of protein needed for his cows. He is beginning to plant alfalfa, pea hay, soy beans, clover, vetches, in short legumes, which will enable him eventually to do away with buying so much grain. He sold $1,400 worth of butter last year and spent half of the amount for feed. He will gradually work away from this expenditure. WILL HAVE A SALE SOON. Mr. Lutz is figuring on having a sale of cows before many months to follow the purchase of three or four thoroughbreds which he wants to add to his herdf Only this week Mr. Lutz bought a fine heifer and sold 3 bull ealves. for $2OO. Mr. Lutz is a graduate of Le cojr College and married Miss | SSrah KiHian, daughter of Squire S. E. Killian, of Hickory. They have five children. Mr. Raymond Lutz married Miss Bessie Bost and they have three children. Mr. Ottis Lutz who remains on the farm with his father married Miss Essie Propst and has two children. Mr. Seitz married Miss Alice Lutz and they have six children. Mr. Baker married Miss Ida Lutz and they have three chil dren. Nineteen children in the fami ly connection to drive the cows home from the pastures at milk ing time! And all of them will grow up experts in the science of dairy farming! There is no prettier picture in Catawba county than Miss Annie Lee Lutz turning the crank of the separator. The Democrat would like to have one to frame. Six cows have given over 60 pounds of butter per month, and as high as 79 1-2 pounds; 7 cows from 400 to 496 pounds per year. All mature cows not making 300 pounds have gone to the butcher; 5 cows have records of 40 to 45 pounds of milk per day; 26 cows have records of over 30 pounds of milk per day. One 2-year old heifer has given 350 pounds of butter in 10 months. Another over 800 pounds of milk in a month. Most Popular Colored Pastor. A voting contest was given bv the Busy Workers' Club No. 4. of Mt. Pisgah A. M. E. church, at the Masonic hall Monday night June 20th, to the end that the pastor receiving the largest num ber of votes would be awareed a nice hat for a prize. The ballot ing was as follows: Rev. C. M. Rice, pastor Baptist church, 5 votes; Rev. A. G. Jenkins, pas tor M. E. church, 32 votes; Rev. C. A. Stroud, pastor A. M. E. church, 48 votes; Rev. C. W. Simmons, pastor A. M. E. Zion church, 110 votes. Quite a large crowd was in attendance, and gave enthusias tic applause when the result was j announced. Otis Moodv who has been in Wake Forest, was at home visit ing relatives and friends Sunday and Monday. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S C AS TORIA HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY. JUNE 23. 1910. $60,000 for a Public Building Bill Carrying Tbis Amount for Hickory Reported A WIRE FROM MR. WEBB This Sum is More than is al lowed any City of the Same Size in the Union—The Site Purchased Dr. Nicholson, pres r dent of the Chamber of Commerce, received a wire from Representative E.Y. Webb Monday which read as fol lows: "Public building bill reported. The amount Hickory gets, $60,- 000, is more than allowed any other town of its size in the Union. The district gets nearly half of the amount allowed the entire state." This news is extremely grati fying. The fact that the bill has been favor? bly reported with $60,000 recommended for Hick ory means that the battle is over half fought. The site is already purchased, and this in itself makes certain the placing here of a public building. CONFEDERATE RECORD Prof. G. W. Hahn will Collect Data for County History. Dear Comrades: If some one of our survivers does not take the matter in hand and publish in permanent book form and as correctly as it is pos sible to be done at this late day, the last one of us shall have passed beyond the River, and our posterity shall never know the privations and valor o2 their an cestors. We are fully aware of the difficulties of a correct rec ord; hence we appeal to every old soldier to give us data. Now, in order to get the his tory as correct as possible we must have the cooperation of the Old Soldiers. We want data, reminiscences or any fact of the war known only by the individual soldier. We want to give a record of man who en listed in Catawba, his then home. AH over tne county we find men who enlisted and of whose fate we have no record. And I venture to say there is not a living veteran today, who has not one or more reminiscences to send in. I have, and I know Gus. Little of Caldwell has; and it is so with every one. We mean to give an historical sketch of Catawba in *6l ver sus an historical sketch of 1910, to show the veteran has not only been true to his county in times of peril; but that he has been an active factor in the up lift of the grand old county, in every laudable enterprise since. The original roster of the 12 companies which were made up in the county. The fate of ev ery member of every company. Then we want the rosters of each company, who returned alive. A biographical sketch of every such soldier, his vocation, etc. And we propose to insert a cut of each living soldier who will pay for the engraving and send his photo, taken at wholesale prices, 50 cents. In short, we mean to make a cred itable memorial book worthy to contain the names of Catawba's heroes. In order to avoid financial loss, we most cor dially invite the business men of the county to come to our rescue with an ad., if only an inch of perpendicular space. We are conscious that our posterity would honor the man or firm who would honor the memorial edition of their ancestors with financial aid. Respectfully submitted, Geo. W. Hahn. Whitten, Are You Guilty of This? Marion Progress. All the people "Pack Square" in Asheville. We little wonder that T. R. is lionized—we gnu he'd bee. Bob Glen's latest remarks at Cleveland, 0., were .evidently colored. R. J. Lawrence went Monday to Gastonia where he will repre sent the Monitor Sad Iron Co., of Big Prairies, O. Would you have better health, more strength, clearer skin, stronger nerves, more elastic step? Use Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea, the great vege sable regulator and tcnic. Oae 35c package makes 105 cups tea. Moser & Latz, I COMMENT ANOTHER GOOD MAN GONE-WEST. Mr. H. E. C. Bryant, "Red Buck,'' resigns as Washington correspondent of the Charlotte Observer to accept a position on the Missoulian, a.t Missoula, Mont. The Missoulian is an influ ential paper and is the organ of United States Senator Joseph M. Dixon, himself a North Caro linian and a graduate of Guilford College. No one will be sorrier to sea Buck" go away fronil "down home" than the editer of the Demccrat, who used to help him nights with liis English es says at the UniverSfty of Carolina, and who gave him his first steer in journalism when he was sent to handle Shem well-Payne homicide at Lexing ton. Buck's handwriting was a cross between that of Horace Greeley and Gen. Rufus Barrin ger, with an Arabic face and a Hebraic punctuation, We were the only man in the print shop who could decipher it, having found the Rosetta stone key in the hell-box. Buck bought a typewriter after we left to hold his job. Write to us, Buck, about the wild, wooly west—provided, however, you have your type writer with you. No two men probably in the county did as much to get the special tax for good roads as Messrs. R. L. Shuford and John W. Robinson. They worked day in and day out, when others were discouraged or indifferent. The Democrat would like to see these two men on the Democrat ic ticket for county commission ers. They are two of t.ie lead ing business farmers of Cataw ba and would add much strength to the ticket. Catawba this year asks of a district where she has - long help ed to honor her neighbor coun ties' sons a favor for one of her own sons, Mr. E. B. Cline, the able young member of the Hick ory bar. The central location of this city, the fitness of the aspi rant, the debt of the district in the past to the county, all de mand the judgship for us this time. When Mr. J. P. Caldwell first went from Spatesville to Char lotte Editor John B. Hussey of the Hici.ory Carolina Eagle wrote: "When the Dutch go to Charlotte, Joe, you must look af ter them." The Dutch are going to Charlotte on July 14, and this is merely to remind that Char lotte newspaper bunch to look after them. We would like to know if it were Joe Patten or Bruce Nabors who read the proof for the Charlotte News of President Roosevelt's letter to the Edin borough World's Missionary Conference in which is printed a reference to "the Epistle of Judea." Samuel W. Allerton, a Chicago millionaire ranchman snd bank er, has quit the Republican party in disgust over Taft. He would like to vote for Judson Harmon on a safe platform. The Weeks bill establishing an Forest Reserve will probably come to a vote this week or next- The Democrat hopes every tar heel Congress man will vote for it. Mr. Neal Clark brought the Democrat in the first fine roast ingears of the season. Who can beat it? Kept the King at Home "For the last year we have kept the King of all laxatives—Dr. King's New Life Tills —in our home and they have proved a blessing to all our fami - ly," writes Paul Mathulka, 01 Buffalo, jN. Y. Easy, but sure remedy for all , Stomach, Liver and Kidney troubles. Only 25c at C. M. Shuford, Moser & i Lutz, Grimes Drug Co. i The Ivey Mill's Biggest Shipment Sends oat 84 Bales, averaging. 1700 Yards Each ... LARGEST 1-DAY ORDER A 14-year old Girl Weaver Who Weighs 229 Pounds- Movements of People in West Hickory Correspondence of The Democrat. West Hickory, June 20. —The Ivey Mill has started up again after one weeks rest and the hands who were away visiting have about all returned to work. On last Tuesday the Ivey Mill sold and shipped 84 bales of cloth, the bales averaging about 1700 yds. each. The overseer says that is the largest order that has ever been shipped in one day since the mill has been runing. Rev. J. G. Garth preached at the graded school house in West Hickory last Sunday evening. There was a large crowd out to hear him. Mr. H. T. Canipe who had been living at the mill for some time moved to the city of Hick ory one day last week. Mr. Ross Triplet and wife of this place went to visit the fam ily of H. F. Keever Sunday. Mr. Mack Travis and wife of Brookford were here Sunday visiting Mrs. Travis' father, Mr. Jeff Holler. - The young people of west Hickory had a singing at Mrs. Lowmans Saturday evening. There was a large number of voung people present. Miss Lilly Null from Newton has been here several days visit ing the family of Mr. Lawson Simms. There is at present a girl in the Ivey Mill learning to weave who is only 14 years old and tips the scales at 229 pounds. The over seer think 3 she will be quite a large weaver when she gets learned up. Jim Burns and Garland Miller who have been working at Mortimer for sometime came home on a visit last week. They are going back in a few days. Vance Miller and Roy Bum garner, of this place, went to Asheville last week to work on the railroad. Mr. Guy Rowe and wife of Asheville have been here several days tnis week visiting Mr, Rowe's mother, Mrs. B. C. Clon inger. Rev. Peter Buff has completed his new dwelling near the mill and moved in one day last week, i Politics has been very quiet around the Ivey Mill so far. Everybody seems to be to buisy to talk politics. Starns-Wilson. Married in Icard township, Burke county, on the 19th inst., at the residence of H. A. Adams, the officiating magistrate, Mr. Ray Wilson to Miss Julia Ellis Starns, both of Catawba county. The Primaries The Democratic primaries will be held this week. It looks as if all the county officers except sheriff will be decided in the pri maries. The next sheriff will doubtless have to be named in the convention. The voting on county candi dates in all the precincts except Newton and Hickory will begin at 2 p. m. and continue till 6:30 p. m. In Newton and Hickory, the voting will begin at 6 a. m. and close at 6 p. m. At four o'clock, meetings will be held to appoint delegates to the county convention. The candidates for sheriff are: J. H. C, Huitt, R, Lee Hewitt, J. P. Burns, P. P. Jones and L. H, Phillips. All have done hard pre liminary work and all will get a , good vote in the primaries. The Democratic executive com mitte asks each of the eight 1 townships to recommend a suita ble candidate for county commis sioner, and in this way five good men, it is believed, will be se cured. The composition of the 1 next board of county commission -5 r Lame shoulder is almost invariably - caused by rheumatism of the muscles , and yields quickly to the free applica -1 tion of Chamberlain's Liniment. This . liniment is not only prompt and effec : tual, but in no way disagreeable to use. I Sold by Grimes Drug Co. Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905 ers is vitally important in view of the fact that the fund from the road tax is to be expended by the next board. This will be something over $12,000, and should be spent according to a definite plan. Only the choicest men of broad minds should be selected for this place. Money for Hickory-Lenoir Road Mr, J. M. Allred, of Granite Falls, was in the city Saturday. In about an hours personal work he. got about $l5O from leading business men for the Caldwell Good Roads Association whose purpose it is to put in good shape the Hickory-Lenoir road. He says the Lenoir business men have come across handsomely, Geo. F. Harper got ten $lO subscribers in an hours work, and said he be lieved he could guarantee anoth er ten. The Democrat will take your name for this good enter prise. From $6OO to $lOOO is needed. M. Abee surveyed a 4 and 4 1-2 percent grade there once. This grade at the branch on the Cald well side runs off to the right of the old road for a thousand feet or so, coming back in at the top of the hill. Rhodehiss is making a strong effort to get the road which in that case would go out from here by Penelope. The association is said to be considering the liberal offer of the mill town. State News. Supt. C. L. Coon, of the Wil son Graded Schools, was elected president of the Teacher's as sembly at Asheville. Other offi cers are; Dr. E. C. Brooks of Trinity College, vice president, and R. D. W. Connor, of Raleigh, re-elected secretary and treasur er. The executive committee, Superintendent Coon, Dr. Brooks and Mr. Connor, ex-officio; Miss Mary O. Graham, of Charlotte, member of the practice school faculty at the State Normal Col lege; Superintendent F. P. Hall of Gaston county; Miss Edith Royster, assistant superintendent of the Wake county schools; R. L. Moore, president Mars Hill College; A. E. Woltz, bursar of University of North Carolina,and H, R. Smith superintendent of 'the Greenville public schools. '-The legislative slate in Meck lenburg is this: For the Senate —Mr. H. N. Pharr of Charlotte. For the House—Messrs. W. C. Dowd of Charlotte, W. G. Mc- Laughlin of Sharon, and W. A. Grier of Steele Creek. The life of Retf. Brantley York, D. D., long President of York Institute in Alexander county, is to be published by the Trinity College Historical Society at $1 per copy. The Statesvilie Landmark having stated that there was a rumor current that one of the Democratic candidates for con gress in the eighth district had once voted for Blackburn, all the candidates have come forth with denials. Neither Murphy,of Row an ;Cald well, of Iredell ;Gwaltney. of Alexander, nor Doughton, of Alleghany, are guilty, though Doughton, was the man refered to in the rumor. Miss Mary Lillington, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Hardin, of Boone, was married to Mr. Edgar Shull, of Elizabethton, Tenn., on June 15th by Dr. T. E. Weaver. Miss Estelle Wolfe Entertains Miss Estelle Wolfe entertained a number of her friends Tuesday evening, June 14, at her home on Thirteenth street in honor of Miss Mary Hoover of Monroe. A short while after the young peo ple arrived, Mrs. Dr. Dr. Wolfe passed around cards. A contest was written on these cards. The questions were to be an swered, and the articles forming the answers found somewhere in the room. Misses McComb, Fields and Kirkpatrick, and Mr. Charlie Dellinger answered all of the questions, and drew straws as to which would get the prize. Miss Kirkpatrick drew the , longest straw, and was awarded a letter-opener. After this re freshments were served. De ; lightful music was furnished by ■ Miss Essie Robinson. Mr. W. ■ L. Wolfe and Mrs. Dr. Wolfe [ furnished violin music, Dr. Wolfe • picked the guitar and Miss Es s telle Wolfe accompanied them on ■ the piano. After thoroughly en - joying themselves, the guests de r parted through one of the hard -5 est rains of the season. 5 Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORI A The Democrat Gives the news of Hickory and the Catawba Valley in full. The news of the world in brief. The Wedding of A Doll Couple Hiss Ellen Stnart Menzies' Unique Birthday Party CUTTING OF THE CAKE __ Miss Dolly Dimble and Mr. W. Dalrvmple United in Matri mony-Witnessed by a jolly Lot of Dollies and Girlies ' 'Miss Ellen Stuart Menzies re quests your presence at the mar riage of her doli Miss Dollie Dimple to Mr. Wm. Dalrymple at 5 o'clock, June 18, 1910. 825, 13th. Street." In answer to this alluring invi tation a merry young party gath ered Saturday at the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. K. C. Men zies. Every little girlie brought her little dolly, and these all be came attendants at the pretty doll wedding. The bay window in the parlor was prettily decor ated in white and green and tiny candles shed a soft glow over the scene. The cermony was performed by the Rev. John Knox, who looked like the Little Minister in his clerical garb. The ring bearer was Miss May Dimple, who car ried the ring in the center of a white daisy. The bride's costume was of white silk en train and she car ried a shower bouquet of daisies and ferns. She never looked sweeter in her life. Her veil was caught up with a wreath of tiny daisies. The groom wore a tail or mad 6 dress suit of broadcloth made to order in his home town of Philadelphia, and looked hand some in it. Mrs. W. B. Menzies played Lohengrin as the bridal couple entered. The presents were most dainty and appropriate, consist ing of doll furniture for house and kitchen, doll dresses and the like. When the bride's cake was cut James Whitener got the ring, Alice Cilley the dime and Cath erine Hardin the button The marriage occurred on the birth day of Miss Ellen Stuart, and the following children enjoyed the unique and sprightly birth day party: Misses Mary Doll, Mary Murphy, James Whitener, Janie Menzies, Elizabeth Coun cil, Robert Menzies, Sadie Men zies, Katherine Menzies, Mar garet Bruns, Alice and Louise Cilley, Nancy Worth Sherrill, Aggie Shuford, Mary Blount Martin, Mary Rogers Shuford, Louise and Nancy Hall, Cather ine Hardin, Janie Patrick, Char lotte Garth and Clarissa Aber nethy. Ice cream that had the deli cious flavor of barber-pole stick candy was served by the super intending grown-ups. Photogra pher Hardin got some good pic tures of the little folks. Stops earache in two minutes; - toothache or pain or burn or scald in five minutes; hoarseness, one hour; muscleache, two hours; sore throat, twelve hours—Dr. Thomas' Electric Oil, monarch over pain. National Farmers' Union to Meet in Charlotte Ex-Congressman A. C. Shu ford, of Newton; National secre tary; Dr. H. Q. Alexander, pres ident of the state organization, and the Greater Charlotte Club have landed for Charlotte the next convention of the National Farmers' Union. President Bar rett writes that he will be pres ent. There are 300 delegates. The convention will be held the first week in September, beginning on Tuesday, the 6th, and continu ing through Friday. It is esti mated that at least 1,000 dele gates and visitors will be brought to the city for the convention. The Catawba Dutch will go down in full force. There are no more wide awake farmers in the country. ARRIVAL OF TRAINS SOUTHERN RAILWAY No. 21 going West 4:30 p. m. 11 " " 11:30 a.m. "35 " " 11:21 p.m. 12 44 East.;... .".5:30 p. m. " 22 " 44 10:57 a. m. 36 " " 9:54 a.m. C. & N. W. RAILWAY No. 10 going North 11:55 a. m.' 9 " South 2:55 p. m Mixed train going N0rth...8:35 p. m, 44 " 44 South 8:40 a. m^