THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT.
Published Every Thursday
HOWARD A. BANKS, Editor and Proprietor
Entered at the Post Office at Hickory
s secoad class matter.
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Thursday, May 11, 1911
HICKORY.
Population with suburbs 6,017.
Catawba County's largest city.
INDUCEMENTS.
Remarkably fine climate, being lo
cated on a high ridge 1164 feet above
sea-level in sight of the Blue Ridge
fbuthern Railway and Carolina and
North Western. 18 hours from New
York. Water from a pure mountain
Stream. Excellent schools and church
es, Two colleges.
INDUSTRIES.
Wagon factory, three cotton mills,
two furniture factories, three building
material factories, pump factory, twe
knitting mills, two tanneries, collai
factory, harness factory, canner factory,
foundry and machine shop, ice plant,
pickerstick factory, two roller mills.
Money value of factories 11,850,000.00.
Annual output $2,250,000.00.
GRADED SCHOOL'S GOT
THE CRAMP.
We again call attention to the
crowded condition of our school.
Not one of us but wants our
children to have a better educa
tion than we have. They will
need it. The struggle for exis
tence becomes harder for each
Individual as the "years go by,
and the artificial conditions of
modern life increase.
In Hickory school it takes 13
years to complete the grammar
school course which in other town?
takes only 12. This is due to our
handicap. Prof. Staley is point
ing out the trouble in an article
~ in this issue. Read it, and let us
hear what you think about it.
The Democrat would be glad to
hear from our people on this
subject.
Our school is sick—and bad off
too—with the cramp. How shall
we cure it?
HOWDYE, UNCLE JESSE.
Uncle Jesse Click, who has
had the worst case of homesick
ness we ever heard tell of. du
ring the past year at Lincolnton
where he edited the Times, is
back home, to help brighten up
our esteemed neighbor, the
Times-Mercury.
We are glad to have Uncle
Jesse back. He belongs in Hick
ory. "Where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also."
His old home and his best friends
(are of whom we ara one, albeit
one of his younger friends) are
here. We have all all a long dis
covered a sort of pathetic long
ing for home in Uncle Jesse's
writings in the Lincoln Times
and we are glad he's back.
Uncle Jesse is one of the most
vigorous writers on the State
press. He raises pepper in his
garden and uses a right smart of
it in his copy.
Our old Boss Man on the Char
lotte Observer, Joe Caldwell,
used to say to us that he reckoned
that man Click up in Hickory
must tote artillery all the time
he wrote such savagerous pieces.
Uncle Jesse sassed the Obser
ver one time, we recollect, and
the Old Man stopped the paper's
exchange with the Mercury, but
the latter's editor wrote him
such a nice letter, saying he
couldn't get along without the
Observer, that he started her
going again. He never-missed
reading the Mercury.
You know you f em a concep
tion of a man before you see him.
We, too, expected to see a man
with a Jack Chinn or Jesse James
cast of countenance when we
took acquaintance with Brother
Click. But lo and behold we
met one of the pleasantest, sof
test speaking, mildest mannered
gentlemen, and one safe on the
road to heaven by the river route
—ajdeacon in the Baptist church.
We are glad he's come home.
It will make the Mercury and
the Democrat both better papers
—for the latter will have to hus
tle to keep pace with Uncle
Jesse, for he's a good mixer.
Don't let the baby suffer from eczema,
sores or any itching of the skin.
Ointment gives instant relief, cures
nuicldy. Perfectly safe for children.
All druggists sell it.
WHOSE BROTHER IS FMR
/ OTHER?
Since Rev. A. C. Dixon, of the
Moody church, Chicago, has been
called to the Metropolitan Taber
nacle in London, which, we be
lieve, is Spurgeon's old churchi
all the papers are saying that he
is "Tom Dixon's brother." No,
Tom is A. C's brother, and the
preacher is just as famous and
much greater than Tom He nev
er rocked the boat like Tom.
MAYOR LENTZ.
The Democrat wishes to convey
its congratulations to Mayor
J. A. Lentz, and to assure him
that it will try to give him all the
iid in its power to make Hickory
;hebest governed city in the
3tate. We are publishing else
jvhere a sketch of his career,
[t is a story which should encour
ige every young man to believe
;hat well directed effort w.ll
bring success. Mr, Lent* start
id with little and has become one
jf the solid business men of the
city. Hickory may well be assur
ed that it will have the sama en
ergy devoted to it which has
nade the mayor successful in his
own business.
A SINKING FUND.
The city election is over. The
leat of the campaign has burned
out Good men have been de
feated. Good men have been e
lected. If we had any criticism
it all to offer it would be that
che fight was personal and not
over issues. That sort of a fight
is always fierce. You can hardly
jick out a successful Hickory
business man for mayor or al
lermen without getting a good
man. Why not let us make our
battles over issues?
One of the crying needs of out
nnnicipal government today is a
sinking fund. The city is $151,-
000 in debt and no sign of a sink
ing fund. Not a business man in
dickory is doing business on that
principle. No man incurs a debt
mless he provides a way to pay
it in a specified time. Yet Hick
>ry is piling up debt for a couple
•)f generations yet unborn to pay
—if they can. We have laid $35.-
000 worth of beautiful streets,
vhich may last 20 years, but
which ourown shoes and our own
horses' shoes will wear out be
fore our grandchildren are born
*ho will have to pay for them.
The bond issue act of 1907
provides that:
"The mayor and board of al
lermen are empowered whenever
t shall be necessary to do so, for
:he satisfaction and payment of
.he principal or interest of said
jonds, to levy a special tax each
/ear upon all subjects of taxation
jpon which said mayor and board
low have power to levy a tax
iccording to law. Said special
tax shall be used to create a sink
ing fund for the payment of the
principal and interest of said
bonds, and shall in no case ex
ceed 15 cents on the hundred
dollars worth of property real
and personal and 45 cents on
the poll" 1
We do not believe any city can
make progress without going into
debt but it certainly ought to
provide for paying off the debt.
Perhaps the city could take
building and loan stock for this
purpose. It seems to us that the
present administration could start
off no better than by taking a
positive stand along this line.
A beautiful Jersey bull calf,
oat of imported Oxford Raleigh
by Viola of Ingleside, arrived
here last week and was taken
out to the Dutch Dairy Farms
by Mr. W. R Lutz, who ordered
it. It was four months old.
ONLY ONE BEST
Hickory People Give Credit
Where Credit is Due
People of Hickory who suffer with
sick kidneys and bad b*cks want a
kidney remedy that can be depended
upon. The best is Doan's Kidney Pills,
a medicine for the kidneys only, made
from pure roots and herbs, and one that
is backed by cures in Hickory. Here's
Hickory's testimony:
H. W. Jones, 620 Eighth Ave.,
Hickory, N. C., says: "I was annoyed
by my kidneys for quite awhile and at
last I procured a box of Doan's Kid
ney Pills at Moser & Lutz*s Drug Store,
in order to see if they would help me
more than the other preparations I had
tried, I was surprised and delighted
with the results. My entire system was
toned up and my kidneys were restored
to a normal condition. One of my chil
dren has also used Doan's Kidney Pills
and thinks as highly of them as I do."
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New
York sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name —Doan's—and
take no other.
THE FARMERS CHANCE.
Tie Democrat noted list week
the offer of the Hickory Chamber
of Commerce of $3.00 toward
cons traction work for every tele
phone added to a new line into
Hickory from the country. The
Chamber will give $3O for in
stance if ten farmers will link up
with a new line.
A new line has been built into
the Catawba Springs section with
30 u«ers already. There should
be another line out toward Bar
ker's school house, one into the
Hop Creek neighborhood, one j
down the railroad to Oyama, and
others. This is a good chance
for farmers to get busy while
they can get this help from the
town. Secretary Joy in his letter
to farmers published below points
out the opportunity in a telling
way:
Dear Sir:—The Hickory Cham
i ber of Commerce, with a desire
to bring all of our rural citizens
in closer touch with Hickory's
business, social and professional
ife, sought the officers of tl|e
dickory Electric Co., to see what
:ould be done to incite the build
ng of more farmers' telephone
Jnes. About 75 or 100 farmers
are already connected up with
Hickory, and are realizing the so
cial as well as the business ad
vantages in having this service.
Eight, or ten, or fifteen miles
from town no longer means iso
lation, when wife, or daughter,
or sister, can take up the receiver
and talk with friends and rela
tives many miles away. Or jt
may be that a physican's services
are urgently needed. The father
hurriedly hitches up his horse for
a long drive after a doctor, har
assed by the fear that his child
might die before he returns; the
mother works with alternate hope
and fear, looking at the Clock
every few moments while she
calculates the slowly diminishing
dme when the doctor could rea
sonably be expected. What a
relief to know that this agony of
suspense can be minimized
through a telephone call, day or
night.
From a Twientieth Century
business standpoint, a telephone
is necessity to the farmer, for a
farmer in this day and genera
tion is also a business man, and
Hickory is a business town. Jt
is the desire of our organization
to bring every one of these
two classes of business men in
closer touch. The farmer, and
nis home (if he has a telephone),
if he wishes to buy, can find out
che cost of anything he needs by
celephoaing to Hickory mer
chants. If he has anything to sell
he can ascerta n the prices and
market conditfons before leaving
home. If the market and prices
are favorable, he can then and
there deliver the goods. If not.
he can wait for a more favorable
market. The telephone is, in
"I HAD NERVOUS
DSYPEPSIA 8 YEARS'
Mr. B. M. Medlin, of Creed more, N. C.
thus relates bis experience: "1 was flow
with nervous dyspepsia for eight years
I weighed 185 pounds and it reduced me t
-118. I could not touch solid food. I tu
lle ve it would have killed me. 1 had t
live on sweets and the lightest diet. Ha
*erere nervous spells nearly evry day. Doe
ton could not even relieve ine. 1 was v>
weak that for three months I was not abli
to walk across the room. I was persuaded
to try Mrs. Joe Person's Remedy and it
cured me. Can eat anything, and aa much
aa 1 warn."
A feeling of heaviness In the stomach
after eating, lagging appetite, nausea or
sickness or stomach, frequent vomiting,
acute pains, irritable temper, nervousness,
twitching of muscles, sense of danger and
great restlessness are nature's danger
signals pointing to impaired ~ digestion. If
you have any of above symptoms, yoa need
MRS. JOE PERSON'S REMEDY:
It will restore natural digestion by stim
ulating an increased flow of gastric Juice,
induce sound sleep, refreshing rest, and
make you sonnd and well. No matter of
how long standing your trouble, Mrs. Joe
Person's Remedy will positively cure you.
It will give you back the snap and Vigor
and ginger of other days— mate yoa feel
fine—give yoa ambition—make yoa "fit" In
every way.
For twenty-three yeans this great remedy
has been curing thousands or people af
flicted with chronic Indigestion, Dyspep
sia, Sour Stomach, Nervousness, Rheuma
tism, Catarrh, Female Troubles, Blood
Poison, and all ailments resulting from
Impure, Impoverished or Poisoned Blood.
Aa a Tonic, Alterative, Blood Portlier
and Nervine It never fails to give Satis
faction, and it Is especially valuable In
cases of Nervous Prostration and In
somnia. It is without an equal for "run
down" conditions in both men and women.
Mrs. Joe Person's Remedy is scientifi
cally compounded from purely vegetable
Ingredients of great medicinal properties.
It positively contains no opiate or nar
cotic. no Todide of Potassium or other mln
ernl—nothing that is in the least harmful.
Let us send you grateful letters from liv
ing witnesses who nave been cared.
in cases of external trouble, Inflamma
tion, ulceration or Itching hamor, oar
Wash should be used with the Remedy.
For sale by druggists, or supplied direct
on receipt of price, 11.00 per bottle; 9 bot
tles for J6.00; l dozen by express prepaid
for by * m
vu. JOE moors REMEDY «. nttuß. I. t
Hickory
Company.
We offer 50 bushels small
Irish Potatoes suitable. for
seed at 50c a bushel. .
11 want One Million
Sweet Potato Plants by
May 10th to 15th.
See us for Particulars.
FOR SALE—IOO bushels
feed oats, 50c a bushel.
Hickory Seed Co.
short, a time saver and a money
saver, and in order to include
more of our farmers to put up
branch telephone, lines, we will
give $3.00 for every telephone
put in on new lines. For exam
pie: If 10 farmers, shall install a
new lire, the Chamber °f Com
merce will donate ij>3o.oo to help
in the construction of that line.
And now, Mr. Farmer, it is
up to you. After you get your
line complete, yon can be con
nected up with over 400 tele
phones at a flat rate of 50 cents
per month. As a social propo
sition and as a business proposi
tion we think this should appeal
to you and every member of your
family. If it does, get busy, or
ganize your line and the Chamber
of Commerce will see that you
get your $3.00 per phone.
Respectfully yours,
Hickory Chamber of Commerce,
A. K. JOY,
Secretary.
Do Ghosts Haunt Swamps?
No, Never. Its foolish to fear a fan
cied evil, When there are real and dead
ly perils to guard against in swamps and
marshes, bayous, and lowlands. These
are the malaria germs that cause ague,
chills an£ fever, weakness, aches in the
bones and muscles and may induce dead
ly typhoid. But Electric Bitters des
troys and casts out these vicious germs
from the blood. "Three bottles drove
all the malaria from my system," wrote
Wm. Fretwell, of L'icama, N. C.,
"and I've had fine health ever sin%c."
Use this safe, sure remedv only. 5Qc at
C. M. Shu ford, Moser & Lutz, and
Grimes Drug Store,
Re-Sale of Valuable Land.
Under and by virtue of an order of
the Superior Court of Catawba county,
N. C., made in the Special Proceeding
therein pending, wherein Mahala Her
man, and others are the Petitioners,
and G. W. Raby is the Defendant, the
undersigned as Commissioner, will re
sell at public auction to the highest
bidder, for cash, in front of the First
Nat'l. Bank in the City of Hickory, N.
C., on
Saturday, June ,H*th, 191!,
at 12 o'clock, noon, the following tract
of land, lying and being in Hickory
Township, Catawba county, N. C., ad
joining- the lands of Lafayette Stine,
William Propst, and others, and bound
ed as follows, vis:
Beginning at a large white-oak the
beginning corner of the old tract, and
runs S. 3 1-2 W. 1215-6 poles to a
stone, Mrs. Rebecca Newton's corner;
thence S. 3 1-2 W. 28 l-3poles to a stone
thence along her line S. 85 1-4 E. 28
1-3 poles to a stone, her corner; thence
S. 85 E. 50 1-2 poles to a stone,
Eliza Bolick's comer; thence N. 1-2
W. 40 poles to a stone; thence S* 88
E. 20 poles to a stone; thence Nv.. 1-2
E. is 2-5 poles to a large pine stump;
thetiipe N. 57 1-4 R 14 5 6 poles
crossing Snow-creek to a white flint
stool; thence N. 55 1-4 W. 123 1-2
poles to the beginning, and containing
63 acres more or less.
This is the "Daniel Bolick land,"
about 3 1-2 miles from Hickory, N. C.,
and is being sold for division among
the Owners thereof. This is a valuable
tract of land and anyone wishing to see
same before sale day will call on either
Mr. E. C. Herman, who lives on the
lanfe or on the Commissioner, Mr. I,
C. Huffman, and either will take pleas
ure in showing you over same.
Bidding to begin at $lBBl.OO.
This being a final sale.
This the 4th day of May 1911.
L. C. HUFFMAN.
Commissioner.
WAITER C. FEIMSTER,
Attorney.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
Dr. K. A. Price.
. PHYSICIAN.
Calls answered night and day.
Office at residence, 1430 11th Avenue.
'PHONE No. 94.
Dr. I. A. Wood,
DENTIST
Office over Moser & Lutz Drug Store.
Hickory, N. C.
ELLIOTT BUILDING CO
'lncorporated)
Successors to J D Ellioit, Hickory, N. C.
J D Elliott. Pres and Treas
J Worth Elliott, V-Pres
H F Elliott, Secretary
Write for estimates. Chnrhces and
' School buildings a specialty.
Dr. J. C. BIDDwT
DENTIST
Office: Over Singer Sewing
Machine Ofiice.
HICKORY, N. C
DR. w. B. RAMSAY,
Dentist.
Office: OVER POSTOFFICE.
W. L. WHITET
Architect
Office over Grimes Drug Store
Hickory, N. C.
Palace Barber Shop
ALL FIRST-CLASS WORKMEN
Hot and Gold Baths
LADIES
Face Massages and Shampooing a
your homes. D. F. CLINK,
Phone 190, Proprietor.,'
Crouch-Blanton.
Miss Fannie Crouch, a charm
ing young woman of this city,
was married Thursday night to
M£ H. C. Blanton, manager of
the telephone exchange at New
ton. The ceremony took place at
the home of the bride's brother,
Mr. Stanlev Crouch. The wed
ding was a simple but pretty fit>®e
affair. The groom vas atteded
by his friends, Messrs. J. P. Botfd
and Bruce Puett, of Newton
They will visit Ashville and
Blacksburg, S. C. before return
ing home,
PROTECT
The Health of Yourself And
Family.
Pope's Herb is prepared to provide*a
dependable household remedy, based
upon the principle of purity of blood in
ruring freedom from diseases. It 4s a
medicine for maladies such as Rheu
matism, Liver Complaints, Constipation,
Fever and Ague, Female Disorders, In
digestion, Lumbago, Kidney Derange
ments, Catarrh, Sick and Nervous Head
aches, loss of Appetite and all ailments
arising from inactivity of the Liver and
Kidneys.
It is a purely Herbs, Barks and Roots
Compound. It is put up in chocolate
coated Tablets pleasing and easy to
take, (or can be dissolved in water.)
Mrs. J- C. Meads of Hyatts
ville, Md. says:
"For years Ihave suffered with Back
ache, Headaches, Neuralgia, and Nerv
ousness and extreme Fatigue. I tried
m»;iy remedies without relief. Four
months ago a grateful friend induced
me to write to Pope Medicine Co.
Washington, D. C., for a box of Pope's
Herb Compound Tablets, the very first
dose of two tablets gave me relief. I
used not quite a $l.OO box and I am en
tirely cured of the pain in my back and
haveno more headache."
Dr. J. V. Hennesey, a vromin
ent Physician gnd Surgeon of
Albany, A. 1. in oart says:
"As a Blood Purifier, Liver Kidney
and System regulator I prescribe Pope
Medicine Co's of Washington, D. C.
Herb Compound, as I have done for the
past 20 years, and 1 have found it to be
fa great remedy which seldom if ever
ails. There a,re thousands of letters
from users of Pope's Herbs, that have
been benefited and curec jy its proper
se. Pope's Ilerb Compound Tablets
are put up SM) in a box, "six month's
treatment," and will be sent post-paid
on receipt of 11.00. Each box contains
a printedguarantee binding us to re
und the purchase price if the remedy
fails to benefit, also full directions.
Guaranteed by the Pope Me lie ne Co.,
Inc., under the Pure Food and Dri gs
Juue, 30 i 906 No 34956.
for terms to agents In unoccup e.
trrritorry, address
POPE MIiUIULN E CU.,
Pope Ftuildine, Washington, D. C.
Wanted!
Stove Legs
from King
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Home Canner
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BUILDING
MATERIALS.
DOORS,
SASH,
BLINDS,
FRAMES,
MOULDINGS,
MANTELS,
FLOORING
CEILING,
SIDINGS,
FRAMING,
FINISHED LUMBER,
PINE SHINGLES,
CYPRESS SHINGLES,
PLASTERING LATHS,
SASH WEIGHTS,
GLASS.
Estimates made from &ans.
Good supply of Manufacturing
Material in stock.
Hickory
M anufaeturing"
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n Built in America in 1911 H
will be Ford Model T's
Vj TT has been estimated from the reports of Motor Car Manufacturers N
X that 150,000 automobiles will be built in America in 1911. Out of n
Sat this immense quantity, 30,000 will be Ford Model T's, built by the Ford j)
Motor Company. There is a reason for this exceptionally large num- Q
/▼ ber of Ford cars, for this Ford popularity. The aemand for a car of |\
\i Ford design and Ford quality has been so great that a yearly output jj
XI of 30,000 Model T's has been required to supply the demands of buy- (l
#7 ers. Ford design and construction, Ford quality in material, strength, "
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II are features that have caused Ford to manufacture this season one- n
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» Touring Car $825 Fully Equipped, F. M
O. B. Hickory.
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flour.
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