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If You Read v Tiie Democrat, you don't need any other newspaper. It's all here. One Dollar a year. : Established 1899 Graded Schools Open Sept. 5 No Unvacciniited Children Will be Admitted. THE COURSE OF STUDY Nearly all the Last Year Teachers Will Return This Fall- Text Books on Hand. The Hickory schools will open on Monday September 5. Ar rangements have been made to have a supply of text books on hand so that there may be no de- Jay in getting the work started off. Some additions have been made to the course of study, and another year's work has been added. This will come between the fifth and sixth grades, and will help to give the puDils a thorough mastery of the essen tial subjects. It is very neces sary that pupils be well drilled in such important subjects as reading, writing, spelling, arith metic, and English language. The health board of the city has adopted a regulation that r.o child shall be admitted to the schools until that child has been successfully vaccinated. This regulation was made last winter, and it will be continued for the protection of the school in the future. A record has been kept of all those pupils who brought their certificate of vaccination after Christmas. Other pupils will be required to present a vac cination card from a reputable physician. The teachers of last year, with or.e or two exceptions, will be in the schools this year, A list of the teachers and their grades is given below. First grade, section A, Miss Ada Schenck; First grade, sec tion B, Miss Eula Yount; Second grade, Miss Mabel Hight; Third grade, section A, Miss Marguer ite Link; Third grade, section B, Miss Anne Duke; Fourth grade, Miss Ava Harris; Fifth grade, section A, Miss Mamie Sue John son; Fifth grade, section B, Miss Eugenia Roberts; Sixth grade, Miss Sadie Jarman; Seventh grade, Miss Lela Miller; Latin and History in the high school, Miss Beatrice Cobb; Mathemat ics, A. P. Whisenhunt; English and Physics, Chas. M. Staley. 00cx300000000^000000000000 Business Builders | 000030000000^000000000000 Strayed—A male pig. Suitable reward for his return. J. L. Murphy. . aug 11 tf J. O. Rhodes always give satis faction. Watch and jewelry repair done in the most up-to date style. 8-11-2t Anyone—anywhere, can start a mail order business at home. No canvassing. Be your own boss. Send for free booklet. Tells how. Heacock, a 5239, Lockport, N. Y. Aprl4tf We have a few light weight patterns to close out cheap. See us before you buy. Martin & CJark Clothing Co. For Sale Cheap—My house and lot in West Hickory. Call on or write Edgar Whitener for terms and prices. 7-14-tf ■ - j New lot rain coats just received. Get one for the rainy season. Martin & Clark Clothing Co. Wanted— 2,000 bushels natural peach seed. Highest market prices paid— cash if necessary. Harris & Little. All straw hats at half price. Martin & Clark Clothing Co. Wanted—Lady and gentlemen agents to sell handy household articles of necessity. Fast sell §3 to $5 per day guaranteed. See the new neckwear in west show window. Martin & Clothing co. Wanted— Dried fruits —apples. Peaches, berries, etc. Take are °f your fruit now for there i l be a demand for it at reason- Prices. Harris & Little. All classes ol travelling bags. you need one? Get it from _ tin & Ciark Clothing Co. Electric Lights. Motors, Fans, p installed. See E. B. Bland, Electrical Contractor. 7-21-tf FHE HICKORY DEMOCRAT The Democrat's Campaign Offer The Democrat makes this special campaign offer: The Democrat from now until Nov. 15 for 15 cents. The Democrat from now until Christmas for 25 cents. The Democrat and the Pro gressive Farmer for one year for $1.25. Warren Convicted Charles Warren, of this city, was convicted of criminal assault upon Miss Bessie Church at Mor- Kanton court this week. J. S. Spainhour and A. A. Whitener prosecuted and R. L. Hoffman, W. A. Self, and C. L. Whitener defended. The case was hard fought. Sentence of five years was imposed Wednesday. Hickory's Two Papers i To the Editor of the Democrat: • We think the people of Hick ory and Catawba county are es pecially fortunate in having two such clean, high-toned, moral papers as we have—The Demo crat and The Mercury. It has been very gratifying to the readers of the papers to see the kindly, gentlemanly feeling existing between the editors of these papers and to note the "'Bouquets" they throw at each other. We know the farmers of Ca tawba county have never had sucn an appreciative friend as Mr. Howard A. Banks. When he tells of his visits here and there among them, it makes us want to go and see these won derful farmers and farms. Any one would know Mr. Banks had lived in Charlotte, for he lives up to Charlotte's motto, "boost" For Rent —September 1. One of the nicest dwellings. The Rainey cottage at $8.50 per month. John E. Haithcock. If you want health insurance that pays for one days sickness, see Hodges, next door to Clinard & Lyerly. For Sale —A choice lot for dwell ing. Situated en corner of 9th ave. and 17th st Elevation e*r tra good, has fine oak shade trees. Size of lot. 100x189. Ad joins W. B. Southerlands new residence. A very fine lot lam offering at a low price to quick buyer. John E. Haithcock. New fall shoes for ladies just received at J. A. Bowles. —— ( For Sale —One hundred pounds of the finest goose feathers. Harris & Little. 8-18-tf Children's school shoes —good ones—have been received. J. A. Bowles. If you are in . need of anything in our line call and see us when in the city. Martin & Ciark Clothing Co. Men's Burrojap fall shoes have just arrived. J. A. Bowles. "Live and let Live" is my pol icy. Stock "complete and prices always right. J. O. Rhodes. Let us emphasize the fact that we carry good trunks and good suit cases. J. A. Bowles. A few early Fall hats received. Come in and see them. Miss Mary Roseborough. 8 11-2t New fall skirt goods, also goods for suits just in. J. A. Bowles. An intelligent person may earn SIOO monthly corresponding for newspapers. No canvassing. Send for particulars. Press Syn dicate, b5240, Lockport, N. Y. aprl4tf Wanted—To contract for fall delivery, 300. bushels Big Stem Jersey, 200 bushels Hayti, 200 bushels Spanish, 300 bushels of Pumpkin Yam sweet potatoes. If interested call at out office. Hickory Seed Co.. tf Rutherford College opened Wednesday, August 17, 1910. For a catalog simply write your name and address on a postal card and mail to Anderson Weav er, Sec'y., Rutherford College, N. C. . tf. Cull Oak Lumber For Sale— We have plenty of it, here in town, to offer at the right price. The kind of lumber to use for building bams, sheds, laying sub floors, storm sheathing &c. It will give better service than pine and will cost less. Call and see us. Reid Lumber Company. 7-28-tf HICKORY, N. C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 18. 1910. Hickory Hot on Trail of the C.&N.W. Shops Besieging Capt. L. T. Nichols, general manager of the Carolina and Nortnwestern Railway, a? he passed through the city Tues day in his private car, was a large crowd of Hickory men who had torn themselves away from their business in order to beg him to move the shops here. As the car stopped Mayor J. D. Elliott and President W. H. Nich olson, of the Chamber of Com merce, mounted the steps and handed him an envelope which contained the amount of Hick-' ory's cash offer for these shops recently burned at Chester. Capt. Nichols put the envelope in his desk without opening and at once dismounted to shake hands with the besieging mob around the car. It represented in a small way the intense en thusiasm of Hickory for the shops. The enthusiasm has constantly grown since it was known that there was a possibility of getting the shops here. It is known that the general offices of the com pany will inevitably follow them. The pay-roll for both will be something like $90,000 a year, and as the road grows and pierc es the mountains it will mean immense things to the future of the city. Gastonia and Lincolnton are Hickory's two fiercest competi tors for the shops. Gastonia's liberality is well known from what she did to get the court house there from Dallas. Lin colnton is no longer the sleepy little town it used to be and as she gives a preat deal of freight and as the shops were temporar ily located there, the Lincolnton ians believe they have a good showing. One man there has offered the employes free lots to build their homes on. He is a large land owner and if his offer is accepted it .will enhance the value of what land he has left COMMENT At the recent Catawba County Teachers' Institute from July 25 to August 6, 96 teachers were enrolled to teach during the com ing term. It will require 110 teachers to do the work in the county and some must therefore come from outside. There are 10,000 pupils of school age in the county, about 7,000 of whom at tend school. These are interest ing figures and show that Cataw ba is awake educationally as well as agriculturally and industrially. The number of teachers in our public schools has almost dou bled in ten years. The Republican party did a wise thing for itself in naming Morehead state chairman the other day. Of course Marion Butler who led the fight for Morehead has a selfish ax to grind but there was an immense majority against Duncan, and this shows the party will stand by the work of the convention. It is no use for us Democrats to sneer at Morehead as being But ler's man Friday. He is a clean, able man and his leadership will go a long way towards making Republicanism more respectable than it has ever been. It means harder fighting for Democracy. At the Caldwell Republican convention last Saturday there were eight candidates for treas urer, eight for register of deeds and nine for sheriff. The Re publicans around here have been accusing Democrats ( of running for office some times but the Democracy has got no such taste in its mouth like Caldwell Re publicanism. Think of 25 hands reaching out for only three plums! The 13th district judicial con vention will convene in this city August 25, to nominate Mr. E. B. Cline for the Superior Court bench. The editor of the Statesville Landmark is one of the keenest observers in the state and he hears that it will be either Jones or Cline, and this shows the fact that our man has a splendid chance. No town has yet made public its offer of a cash bonus. Gas tonia begged for an extension of the time till Thursday. Hick ory went to work and made up her subscription in the time set by the railroad, which was Mon day, without begging for time. Of course if she had known that anybody else was squealing, she could have got up twice as much as she did. There are about 400 names on the list of subscribers to the shops. Everybody, rich and poor, is interested, Men have walked all the way from the Piedmont shops in order to get their names on the list. We haven't got as much wealth as Gastonia but we have a gift from nearly every man in town. We want the fine men who stop boiler leaks and fix engines here, and the splendid lot of offi cials of the road, even more than we want the workshops them selves. It is to be said that Hudson and Maiden both made generous of fers to secure the shops, giving even above their means, but they were not the strategic points demanded and it is not be lieved they have much chance. The Democrat risks the guess that the shops will not b$ auc tioned off like a new orphanage, to the highest bidder, and that they will go to the city where the road will be most convenien ced. Hickory will be the centre when the road goes through to the coal fields. There have been enthusiastic Chamber of Commerce meetings and Monday night a mass-meet ing was held at which many sub scribers doubled their donations after enthusiastic talks by May or Elliott, W. A. Self, E. B. Cline, A. A. Whitener, J. A. Campbell, M. A. Carpenter and ma ny others. Hickory means to get the shops. Hickory, dickory^dock The fire burnt up the shop. The Shops came down, To another town— And Hickory was the stop! II Catawba's Next jj Door Neighbors J W. S. Foard, a substantial cit izen of the Blowing Rock vicin ity, is dead in his 64th year. Capt. James Tiddy, whose pa rents came to Mecklenburg from England in 1849, died at Shelby at the age of 72 years. Dr. Geo. H. Costner, of Lin colnton, suffered a broken jaw bone while unloading machinery last week. Silver wire got his grinders back into working shape, Watauga Democratic conven tive will meet in Boone Monday, Aug. 22, to nominate a legisla tive and county ticket. The pre cincts will elect delegates to the convention on August 20, Hon. E. Y. Webb made a bril liant speech at the Lincoln Dem ocratic convention last week. Capt C. E. Childs was elected chairman and Dr. J. B. Wright secretary of the executive com mittee. A. L. Quickel resigned as chairman as he is to be sent to the Legislature. Profs. Downum, of Lenoir, and I. G. Greer, principal of Walnut Grove Institute, were chosen by the trustees of the A. T. S. to succeed Prof. Masters and Miss Atkinson, resigned from the fac ulty of that institution. Save these two, the teaching force will be the same as last year.—Boone Democrat. Lucius Nichols, son of Capt. L. T. Nichols, who has been operating an auto from Edge mont to Linville was taken to Chester recently suffering from typhoid fever. Lucius is a bright youth and has made lots of warm friends who have travelled with him this summer, and they will regret to hear of his illness. A Card of Thanks Having withdrawn from the Thompson-McCartney.West Co., I wish to thank the good people of this city for their patronage and kindness extended so liber ally and generously during my connection ith the company. Very truly, 0. K. MCCARTNEY. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORI A Ecal and Personal! WWV-'€• *3l Miss Essie Hatch, of Burling ton, is visiting Mrs. Jas. Espie. Miss Doilie May Martin spent last week in Statesville. Albert E. Abernethy is spend ing a few days in Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Clinard are back from Yadkin Valley this week. Mrs. Mollie York and little son, of Charlotte, are visiting Mrs. F. P. MOSCT. An immense crowd which packed the train went to the Newton reunion today. Miss Hazel Elliott is visiting Miss Blanche Bailey in Winston- Salem. Born on Sunday morning to Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Moser, a fine daughter. Miss Blanche Statem, of Hen dersonville, is visiting Miss Ber tie Reinhardt. Master John Bohannon re turned Friday from a visit to his aunt at Mt. Gilead. D, W. Holder, of Greensboro, a former Hickoryite is in the city for his vacation. - Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hyder lost their baby Tuesday. They have the sympathy of the com munity. , Miss Sallie Martin was the charming hostess to a few friends last Monday evening. Mrs. Gardner, wife of Col. Gardner,of Shelby was the guest of Mrs. J, D. Elliott, last week. Mr. Lyon, of Washington. D. C., is the guest of Mr. A. B. Lit tle. Rev. G. Kubota, of Japan, will preach at the Methodist church Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Woods and family, of New Orleans, La., is visiting Mr. Woods' sister, Mrs. W. R. KiUian. Dr. W. H. Nicholson went to Edgemont Wednesday to attend a meeting of the Edgemont club. Dr. J. H. Shuford successfully removed a cataract from the eye of Alf Dellinger, a colored in mate of the poor house. Mr. J. F. McGraw, of Salis bury, is here looking over the field contemplating setting up in business. J. E. Hodges, district agent for the' Jefferson Standard Life is in the city where he will make his headquarters for some time. Go to hear the Oxford Orphan age Singing Class concert at Huffman's Academy of Music next Thursday at 8 p. m. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Harris, who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Harris have returned to Dallas, Tex. Miss Josephine Warren, who has been the guest of Mrs. E. B. Menzies, left Tuesday for her home in Washington Springs, Va. Miss Mattie Abernethy left Saturday for Oriental where she will be a guest at a house party given by Miss Sadie Spruel. Mr. Philip Gwaltney, of Char lotte, is spending a few days here with his mother. Mrs. Dr. Gwalt ney. Mr. Olin Abernethy returned Monday from Union county where he spent the summer va cation at work. He left Wednes day to enter school at Ruther ford college. 7 Miss Nellie Cauble, of Salis bury, returned to her home last Saturday, after a week pleasant ly spent with her friend, Miss Fannie Wilfong. Mrs. Ebeltoft, of Shelby, and her daughter, Miss Ebeltoft and Mrs. T. M. Rose and little Billy Rose, of Hamlet are visiting Miss Lillian and Mr. Geo. W. Hall. Miss Mabel Hight is spending a few days this week at Ruther ford College with her friend Miss Lillian Moore. Miss Delia Bumgarner, of this place, left Monday for Ohio to visit friends in Hamilton and Franklin and also to attend the exposition at Cincinnati. She was accompanied on the way by Prof. W. S. Spielman and family who have also gone to visit rela tives and friends there. Doan's Regulets cure constipa tion without griping, nausea, nor any weakening effect. Ask your druggist for them. 25c per box. Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905 P. L. Deal, of Route 1, was in the city Tuesday. Mr. W. T. Sledge is back from a trip to New York, where he laid in a fine supply of fall goods, he will soon be ready to show to his customers. The show window of the Van- Dyke Shop is beautiful with a display of hand-painted motto cards and photo 3of scenery tinted with the air brush. Mr. J. E. Nicholson, brother of Dr. W. H. Nicholson, is vis iting him here. His home is in Franklinton. Frank Moose and Andrew V. Moody have returned from Statesville where they had been operated on for appendicitis. The Seitz family, one of the oldest, best and largest in Cataw ba county will have a reunion at Zion church on September 10. All are invitetHo come with well filled baskets. Carrie Vivian, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Austin died Wednesday. The interment was at Houck's chapel at four o'clock the same day. The 84th birthdap of Col. G. M. Yoder is to be celebrated Aug. 23 at the home of Colin Yoder. All invited to come and bring a basket dinner. The Democrat had a pleasant call from Mr. M. H. Groves of Lincolnton, the hustling young rear estate man who used to live here and who is a leading spirit in Lincolnton's effort to get the shops. Friends will greatly sympa thize with the family of Mr. Mc- Coy Moretz. Mrs. Moretz is very seriously ill with fever and Mr. Moretz is also ill, while their little girl Edwina is also suffer ing from the fever. Mr. Levi Heffner, the fine old veteran, who lives near Catawba Springs, is at death's door and it is feared he may not live till Sunday. He has been ailing for some years past and his malady has recently grown worse. Mrs. Gordon H. Cillev and chil dren, of Philadelphia, are visit ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Shuford. Mr. Cilley is now connected with the advertising department of Wannamakers and is "making good". Mr, Earl Wilfong has accepted a position as news agent on the Seaboard Air Line, with head quarters at Jamlet. He left last Monday, August Bto take his run, which, he thinks will be from Hamlet to Raleigh. Mrs. John W. Robinson leaves September 1 for a visit to Ca tawba, Newton. Asheville, Knoxville, and Memphis. She will be gone till October 1 and meantime the young men in her elegant boarding house will keep bachelor's hall. A. E. Pressly, who works for the Coca-cola Bottling Works, suffered a sudden and violent de rangement Wednesday. It is said he cut his arm and it re quired several men to hold him. Doctors do not know what is the matter with him. Squire S. E. Killian and Mrs. Killian have returnedjfrom their farm near Blowing Rock where they spent ten days. The Squire has 1000 apple trees—one of the finest little orchards in the moun tains but the fierce killed the fruit and his fruit is almost a failure. The Squire is a splendid farmer and no magistrate in the state can surpass him in his knowledge of the law. His de cisions are rarely ever reversed in the higher courts when they are appealed. Mr. 0. K. McCartney announ ces elsewhere his withdrawal from the firm of Thompson-Mc- Cartney-West. The people of the city will generally regret to learn of this. He and Mrs. Mc- Cartney came here from West Virginia and made one of the most delightful additions to the social life of the town which Hickory ever had. Mr. Mc- Cartney is an able business man. He has not yet decided upon his future movements. It is to be hoped that Hickory may yet de tain him. Death of Mrs. Stacy Newton Mrs. W. H. Stacy Newton died Saturday evening, July 30, after an illness of four weeks. Her husband and an infant of days survive. She was an estimable Christian woman, and her hus band has the sympathy of the i community in his spreat loss. The [ funeral was held Sunday after noon. This notice was omitted inadvertently from _ a previous issue. The Democrat Gives the news of Hickory and the Catawba Valley in full. The news of the world in brief. The Lineage of Lee Hewitt Men from Whom Candidate for Sheriff is Decendsd CAME FROM PIONEERS Has in His Veins the Blood of Clines, Barringers, Mulls, Grosses, and Others Written for The Democrat. Lee Hewitt is the son of Dolph Hewitt, who had married the daughter of Manuel Cline, the son of Marcus Hewitt, which was the son of Joe Hewitt and wife, Tena, which was the daugh ter of the original pioneer. John Gross. Manuel Cline had mar ried the daughter of Davis Bar ringer and wife, Catherine, which was the daughter of George Fry, which was the son of Nicholas Fry, the original pioneer Fry % who came to this southern coun ty before the Revolutionary War and settled on Clark's creek. David Barringer was the son of Matthias Barringer, which was the son of Matthias Barrin ger whom the Cherokee Indians killed near John's river in Cald well county prior to the Revo lutionary War, to whose memory stands a granite monument in the courthouse square in the town of Newton. Manuel Cline was a son of Da vid Cline and wife, who was a Miss Wake. He was the son of Jack Cline, who had married Maj. George Wilfong and wife's daughter, who was the late wid dow of Abram Mull whom the Cherokee Indians massacred and scalped near the old pioneer, Henrv Weidner's, home about 1752 or 1753. Her maiden name wasToph and she came with Henry Weidner to the Sunny South about the year 1751. Jack Cline was the the son of Sebas tian Cline and wife who was a Miss Beaver, who came with a wagon and team from the State of Pennsylvania about the year 1755 and settled on the waters of Clark's creek now. These descendants were all of the Pennsylvania German or Dutch, are all farmers and good citizens who had originally set tled in that portion of the county now Catawba county. This time had to follow the source of Clark's creek with all of its sceneries. G. M. Yoder. [Lee Hewitt has evidently got the blood of sturdy pioneers in his veins. The names of his an cestors are household names in this county. It is a good thing to have good blood. Yet above that is the worth of man himself. Lee Hewitt is making a strong contest to be the next sheriff of Catawba and the Dem ocrat hopes and believes he will succeed.—The Democrat.] Notes from Gunpowder Correspondence of the Democrat. Gunpowder, Aug. 10.—A pro tracted meeting: was held at Rocky Mount from the sth Sun day in July to the Thursday fol lowing. Most of the preaching was done by Rev. Frank Sand ford, of the Granite Falls station and was of a high order. Owing to the misunderstanding as to the date for holding the meeting, the attendance was not as good as expected. Seven were adpei^®., the church as a result Misses Erma and Sallie Aber nethy, of Granite Falls, asSftHW very materially in the singing. Mrs. and Mrs. J. R. Sherrill and son, of Catawba county, spent the first of last week visit ing relatives in the community. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Sherrill and children, of West Hickory, were here recently. Mrs. Tony Sherrill, and babe, of Lenoir, visit relatives in this community. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Lawrence, of Hickory, spent Sunday a week ago with relatives. Work on the new road from the Catawba bridge is progress ing nicely. It is going to be a great improvement on the old road as to the grade, NOW-AND-THEN. Mr. Freeman, of Georgia, is spending a few days with his sister, Mrs. J. Lee Latta. Oh lid r«r» Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA!