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Established 1599 x Piedmont Shops Reincorporated. Output o! Huge Wagon Factory Is to be Increased. The Piedmont Wagon Co. has been reincorporated with a large local directorate, and the people of the city will be glad to know that it will continue to be Hick ory's leading industry. The output of the shops will be largely increased and the oiTiv rs -will remain unchanged. The name of the Company •will be The Piedmont Wagon & Manufacturing Company. The •directors will be Messrs. G. ri. ♦Geitner, K. C. Menzies, John M. :Scott, A. A. Shuforc, J. P. Elliott, J. A. Martin, Ellwood Hendrick, J. F. Allen and C. F. Shibley. Mr. Scott is of Char lotte and Messrs. Hendrick, Alien i and Shibley are of New York! City. The name of the bankers in terested in the project is Ponuoy Brothers, 25 Pine Street, New York City. Mr. A. H. Lo:kett, of that firm was in town Thurs day and Friday of last week. Mr. Arthur L. Marvin, of New York, acting in conjunction with Judge W. B. Council 1, is the attorney for the new company. The certificate of corporation was filled by Mr. M. H. Yount at Raleigh on Saturday, the 29th. Mr. Marvin was seen in J. A. Martin's office by a Demorrat representative and said that it was the purpose of his clients to leave the business completely in the hands of the business men of Hickory, as will be seen from the board of directors. "Our people are not in the wagon business, "he said," and if the corporation can continue as successfully as it has in the past, with a reason able amount of growth and ex pansion, they will not engage in it. It is our hope that the local interests will continue the busi ness, and with such assistance as we can give in the way of a little wider experience, and, perhaps, additional financial aid, they will develop the business to a point as yet undreamed of. "There is no reason that the Company should not do fully twice the business that it does at present. The plant is ideally ; located, right close to your hust ling little town, with material and markets both easy of access. We look for big things for the business, which will, we hope, be a good thing for the town in many ways. "The continuation of the form er efficers and directors insures the same careful and conserva tive management for the future as in the past. In addition to that Judge Councill and I have prepared a certificate of incorpor-1 ation which makes the preferred j stock practically the same as a ! debenture bond. Absolutely no; mortgage or lien of any kind can ; be put ahead of the preferred ; stock, and the incorporation pa pers provide for the accumulation ! of a reserve fund and a surplus which will guarantee beyrnd question the payment of a seven per cent dividend on the stock." Mr. Marvin who is an exceed ingly pleasant gentleman made no concealment whatever of the pur poses and expectations of the new company. He said that he had enjoyed his visit at Hickory exceedingly and thought that the town was just the "biggest town of its size" in the South. He says he is coming back to Hick-: orv in a couple of weeks and; hopes then to meet some more of; the business men of the town. j We understand that Judge J Councill will be the resident at torney for the corporation. Holy Trinity Lutheran Church REV. T. H. WANNEMACHEK, Pastor. Sunday School—9:4s a. m. Chief Service—ll A. M. Junior League —2:30 p. m. Evening Service-8:00 p. m. Morning Theme— "Congrega tional C>r c;ience." Evening Theme —The Pearl of Great P"V"\ Ail are welcome. Sen ices and Teachers meeting every Wednesday evening. The traniirg of Sunday School teach ers an i workers is very import ant. f-o-y teacher is asked and urijfd to he present. Chir.i'i onncil meets Monday ■evenin r . Please note it. A noa -'rale country girl camn into oi-r? our largest stores and for salts. The sen'or m>:.. > r \ eing somewhat deaf -d4- s von want table salt r«»ck sni ?" The little maidpn j'.ii' i ojt. "No sir, its the you drink." Ivey Dots. Correspondence or the Deuiocrat. West Hickory, July 31,—The Ivey mill was shut down all last week on account of electric pow er being cut off. The water has got so low on account of the continued drouth that the elec tric plant was unable to furr.ish power and consequently the mill had to stop. The employes have been enjoying themselves in vari ous ways during the rest week. J. P. Eller, C. Teague and a number of the older hands have put in full time fishing in the Catawba river and others have gone to differe.it pla.2fc;S to visi 1 relatives and frit*n4*. while a number of the younger boys Ijave am themselves bv putting in full time playing baseball. So it does that the week (if rest has been enjoyed by every one of the hands. Peter Buff and family went to Rutherford last Tnursday to visit friends and relatives. Miss Jihoda Carswell spent several in Burke county last week, visiting frisnds. G- C, Wilson and D. (G. ard spent several days in Ashe ville this week; Will Slmms and family who have been working at the Ivey mill fur several months moved *o Gastonia a few days ago to work in the mill there. There was an ice cream supper at thfs home of A. J. Drumm Satruday evening, There was a large crowd of young people p-esent and they seemed to en joy themselves fine. Mr.W. E. Austin and wife from Alexander countv were here last week visiting their son, W. P. Austin. H. H. Burch and his two daughters. Misses Annie Lee and Edna Burch, spent several days last week at Morganton and Glenn Alpine visiting relatives and friends. C. C. Bradley, who has been eick for several months, went to Clover, N. C. last week to spend several months with bis sisters, Mrs. W. P. Denton, thinking the change might improve his health. Miss Di'lie Stafford and Mr. Edgar Rowe were married here Sunday evening, July 30, at the residence of the bride's fath er, who lives near the Ivey mill, T. J. Leonard, J. P., officiating. Both those young people are well known in West Hickory and there were quite a number of friends present to congratulate them. IOTA. Taft Commends the Demo crats. President Taft shows fine broad mindedness in his tribute to the Democrats, who helped him to pass his Canadian reciprocity bill which has passed both House and Senate. Says he: "I should be wanting in straightforward speaking, how ever, if I did not freely acknowl edge the credit that belongs to the Democratic majority in the House and the Democratic mi nority in the Senate for their consistent support of the meas ure, in an earnest and sincere desire to secure its passage. Without this reciprocity would have been impossible. It would not have been difficult for them to fasten upon the bill amend ments affecting the tariff gener ally in such a way as to embarrass tne Executive and to make it doubtful whether he could sign the bill, and yet to claim popular approval for their support of ie ciprocity in its defeat. In other words, the Democrats did rot play politics' in the colloquial sense in which those words are used, but they followed the dictates of a higher policy." Mr % James Fry has returned from Atlanta where he spent a month with his brother, Mr. H. W. Fry, who brought him back as far as Hendersonville in his Mitchell. 40 h. p. touring car. Mr, Fry is doing well in the wholesale lumber business. The Democrat is glad to see Hickory boys climbing the ladder. Hick ory has also given Atlanta Dr- W. A. White, Derwood Aber nethy, Emmett Moore and Jacob Doll. Mr. Wm B. Witherspoon, who has been with the Pee Dee Prin ting Co ,of Florence, S. C., is home for two week vacation. He is going to Morehead City with Co. A. of the First Regi m3nt, he always having been a loyal member of the Hickory co npany. He says Mr. Auburn Sitzer, who is with the same co npany, is I'kety to return with in a month and may go to Trini ty Coliege this fall. Miss E. Springs Won the Piano. i Democrat's Popularity Contest Ended Saturday Night. The Democrat's great popular i ity contest closed Saturday night, when the judges, Rev. J, G. Garth, Secretary A. K. Joy, of the Chamber of Commerce and Secretary Geo. R. Wootten, of the First Building and Loan As sociation, completed the count of the votes and four| thg*: Mrs- J. 8 Springs had the piauo, Maud Miller the S2OO dia mond ring, firs. P, A. ttowe the SIOO diamond ripg, IfijM Ifawn the $75 diamond ring, and JH'gs [yong the gold watch in the Jilpfc&ry ifoMitf, The others of thegojd watch es are given below. The judges teed the follow ing statement We the undersigned judge of The Hickory Democrat rriae Con test hereby certify that we have m&de a canvass of the votes cast and fin# thp result ?? follows: Miss Elizabeth Springs 6,149,2t)0 Miss Maud Millejr T,470;25p ?■ A- Kowe 6,999,7 M j Miss &tebej 3 ; oo8;ooo District Jfo. jMlss Mabel | District No, 2, Miss Lena M >ser 222,000 District No. 3. Miss Florence Setzer 319,000 District No. 4. Miss Stella Vodej' 754,500 District No. 5. Miss Qllie Glass 848,000 District No, 6, 1 Miss JSstelle Sherrjll 1,863,000 District No, 7. Miss Maud Deal 60,000. J. G. GARTH, A. K, Joy, G. R. WOOTTEN, July 29th 1911 The Democrat has added 800 new names to its subscription list. The paper is cutting off several hundred old subscribers, as the postal laws require that subscri bers to a weekly may not remain on the books over one year in arrears. With these n&mes oj? the sworn circulation is still over 1600, so that the paper is one of the best advertising mediums in this section. The Democrat wishes every one who worked in the Contest could have won a prize, and is grateful for every one who added a new name to its list. The United Contest Co., of Cleveland, 0., who managed the contest did splendid work and to it and its efficient and conrteous manager, Mr. W. B. Porcher, of Charleston, S. C., this paper is grateful. We are especially under ob ligations to the above named judges who gave us an hour of their time on Saturday night, and to Mr. Wootten for the use of his adding machine. We are also indebted to Mr. Geo. E. Bisanar for allowing us to display the elegant Starr piano, bought from Mr. ~C. T. Morrison, in his store along with the diamonds and watches. Mrs. Elliott Entertains in Hon or of Mrs. Brower. On Thursday morning Mrs. J. Worth Elliott gave a large and beautiful party in honor of her cousin, Mrs, H. L. Brower, of Newnan, Ga., who is her guest. There were eight tables of domi noes arranged on the >us veranda of this attractive home. Galax leaves tied with pink rib bon were the score cards, and Miss Annie Brower, daughter of the homes guest scored the games. About thirty five guests enioyed the hospitality of Mrs. Elliott. A delicious salad course followed by ices and cake course was served at the small tables at the conclusion of the games. Mrs. Wesley Martin made the top score and was given a beautiful gold thimble. Mrs. JR. Foster made lowest and was given a glove darner. The honor guest was presented a lovely gauze fan. The morning was spent most de lightfully and was a beautiful compliment to Mrs. Brown. The New York Herald gives chief credit to Maj. H. B. Fer guson, of the engineers, for the designing of the enormous cais sons, which made it possible to raise the Maine in Havana har bor. Maj. Ferguson is a Waynes ville man and a brother of Mrs. A. A. Shuford, Jr. "I suffered habitually from constipa tion. Doan's Regulets relieved and strengthened the bowels, so that they have been regular ever since." A. E. Davis, grocer, Sulphur Springs, Tex. HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY. AUGUST 3, 1911. The Statesville Landmark in sists that the tadpole is father to the bullfrog, and not vice versa, as he turns into a bullfrog. The Charlotte Observer says we are right in contending for bull frog and not toad frog paterni ty for the tadpole. The Sons of Rest are hopelessly divided on the subject, one wing led by Mr. Wm. Whitener standing for bull frog ancestry and another wing led by Prof, G, W. Hawp holding l he thpsry. We notice that when the sup ply Q( water was cqt qff from Charlotte homes last week, the ministers of the city issued a call for prayer, fney q«j*fht 19 let Mr. t Q. Alexander }ead that prayer, lie prophesied in the spring jn the gharjotte papers that it wasnt going to rain to amount to anything thte summer, and he has hit it pretty well up to date. Mr, Alexander attrib uteg £l*o drought divine pun ishment tor sinfulness. Thej certainly ought to call on Bro jn the prayer meet l»J¥- The Charlotte Observer Inter urban edition of July 26 is one of the biggest and best special edi tions ever gotten out in the South. It had over 100 pages in nine sections, and was filled with ads apd reading matter de» scriptive of the terri ory through which the Interurban trolley system will run. The editor of the .Democrat spent 11 years helping Joe Caldwell to make the Observer, When we were with it first in 1893 the paper was all hand-set, it had no linotypes, was run by an old Country Campeli press with a gasoiene engine and when that broke down, by hand power. Charlotte then had 3000 population. Now the Observer has 7 linotypes, occupies its own building 5 suries high reaching half across, a block, and finds it childs play to get out a 100-page edition. We are glad to have had a little part in helping to make such an institution for the glory of the state and its chief city. Mrs. £. B. Menzies Entertains. Mrs. E. B. Menzies gave a Bridge party of six tables in honor of Mrs. Chalmers Hall Friday, July 18th at loa. m. Mrs Marvin Sherill won the prize for the highest score, a box of deli cious candy. Mrs. Hatcher drew the consolation, a handsome pack of cards. The guest prize was a hand embroidered jabot. Re freshments in courses were served. Punch, salad and ice cream at the close of a delight ful morning. A Card of Thanks. We take this method of ex pressing our sincere thanks to our neighbors and friends for their faithful assistance and acts of kindness shown us during and since our recent fire. And most especially do we thank the faithful firemen for their most excellent services rendered in the saving of our home? Again we thank you all. Mr. and Mrs, W. L. Long. At Home. Miss Rosa Campbell Shuford, Tuesday morning August first Ten O'clock. Miss Mary Shuford Bridge Miss Annie L, Abernethy Mrs. Gordon Cilley R. S. V. P. These invitations were given for seven tables. Mrs, H. C. Menzies won the highest score prize, a set of waist pins and Mrs. R. A. G,imes drew the con solation a silver hat pin. A course luncheon closed a delight ful social event. Squire Killian and Prof. Hawn left for the Rock this morning riding in buggies. Both these gentlemen own farms up there. They have very fine orchards. They grow very fine crops of buckwheat. They cultivate bees also and harvest' the best of sour wood honey. Mrs. Killian ac compained the squire. Soothes itchfng skin. Heals cuts or burns without a scar. Cures piles, eczema, salt rheum, any itching. Doan's Ointment. Your druggist sells it i COMMENT. Pis is for the YOiitr Building. Plan for Lenoir College To Take o?er High School. A committee was appointed Mon day, to canvas for the propqsed Voder memorial building fop l.enqir College. The Lenoir College people rightly think that should Hickory realize by now what a valuable asset the college is to the town, and assist in the enterprise. Secretary %, qf the Chamber, of Cqnaraerce, has suggested a plan by which the citizens of Hickory raise say SIO,OOO, in exchange f;r Lfe noir College to relieve the City Graded Schools of the high school department. This will relieve the present conges tion in the graded schQCl tjuilqing, so tjll ihe squills' may be devoted to the grammer grades. As it is, many of the children lose in teeing. Ttje high school classes wquld fqrther the q| j the ability qf feoyhy, The I high sohoe) ouFficuluw i s t Q under 1 the supervision of the Hickory school ' board. The plan also contemplates the re? I payment to the cities the city j school fund of so much annually. If j Lenoir should ask say $2500 a year t j four years instruction If S2GGO H ysar t the college would keep the high school for fiv eyears. The city would pay back tq citizens at s«y $35(10 ar S2OOO per yea*. This would give Lenoir SIOOOO from the town and the alumni and friends of the college would be free to raise a similar or even larger amount. It is said the trustees look favorably upon the plan. The Chamber of Commerce execu tive committee is to consider the mat ter in a few days. The college has appointed the fol lowing committee to canvas during August, hoping to start the building in September; J. J, George, E. J, Sox and J. A- Cromer in South Carina; B. L. Stroup, Rev. Mr. Boger, Jno. Hall, C. K. Bell in Gaston county; J. M. Rhodes, Newton and St. James; M. L. Pence, Virginia; C. L. Miller and D. L. Russell, Hickory. Hickory's Guarantee Fund. Charlotte Chronicle. A town that has a set of busi ness men who will get together and chip in $200,000 in cash to ! aid in securing new manufactur- j ing industries, will be generally ! regarded as a good town to move to. The business men of Hick ory have done that very thing. The money they have put up is t J be used in aiding in the estab- j lishment of the smaller manu- j farturing enterprises. It was a ] splendid stroke of business on the! part of Hickory and that town i will be heard from. Meantime, Hickory is continuing the work of grading and paving its streets. It is probable that Hickory is doing more permanent street im- j provement work, just now, than ; any town in the State. It is a, good character of work, too, and : with the proper binder will give l Hickory fine streets. The new shops of the Carolina J & North-Western road, located' just west of the Piedmont Wagon Works, are fast assuming shape. The shops will be all steel with concrete flooring, and nothing but window frames to burn. The shops were planned after modern railroad shops building ideas and will be equipped with the best machinery made. The work is ninety days behind time on ac count of the delay of the steel mills in filling orders- These shops will prove one of Hickory's finest assets. Not as Bad as 1881. Newton Enterprise. Some people are comparing the drought this year with the one of 1881. The general opin ion is that this one is not as se vere on the main crops as the 1881 drought. This is in accord with our recollection, but it is a harder vear as regards fruit and vegetables. There were fine peaches and apples ia abun dance in 1881, and vegetables could not have been more com pletely burned up than they have been the last teh days. This has been the leanest year in summer luxuries we can recall. But the main crops will be fairly good if the drought is broken within another week. - Mr. Robt. L. Johnson, of Salis bury, has bought a farm near this city and will move here in the eaoly fall, Hickory will be glad to have him as a citizen. A well known Des Moines woman after suffering miserably for two days from bowel complaint, was cured by one do?e of Chamberlain's Colic, Cho lera and Diarrhoea Remedy. For sale by all dealers. Democrat arid Press, Consolidated 1905 Local News. 1 nevoid sjiiiiers reunion tnkcs place in Newton August 17. Mr. Shuford L. Whitener is driving a beautiful Buick car. Miss Maude Ballard, of New ton, is visiting Miss Sadie Saivo. Mrs. John Cline and daughter spent a day with Mrs. Ingold iast week. M'.Sa Janet Hal!, of Charlotte, visited Mrs. H. D. Abernethy last week. Mr. Jones Shuford and boys pqvc returned from 'heir camp ing trip in the mountain?.. Mr. T, F» Coffey, of Manning, S, Q. v passed througn in an auto Tuesday enr>ute to Boone, Mr, W« 4- Horton has returned to South Sharon, Pa., after visit ing Mr. Z. B, Buchanan. Mr, J. F. Miller has moved into his new house, 1026 Eigch street, from Ninth avenue, Miss jVTeri'Q Fitygor, of Salis bury, spending the week with Miss Lottie Cline in East Hick ory. Mrs. JT, L. Leach and baby, Mary Eizabeth, are visiting Mrs. Leach's parents at Summer ville, Qa, Miss Margaret McComb left Tuesday to attend Miss Bessie Blakenev's house party in Meck lenburg county. There will be an ice cream supper at Bethel Reformed church August sth. The public is most cordially invited to at tend. Mr, and Mrs. A. K. Pierson and little daughter, Louise, of North Wilkesboro, are visiting at the home of Mr. W. L. Gil bert, Dr. and Mrs. W, H. Nicholson and Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Rudisill are spending the dog dogs at Edgewood, Dr. Nic'nolson'-s pret ty country home. Mrs. J. W. Reese has been with her sister, Mrs. Z- B. Buc hanan for some time and leaves in a few days to join her hus band in Savannah. The will be educational rallies in the interest of Lenoir College at Sardis, Thursday morning, August 9, and at Startown, Sat urday, August 11. Miss Susie Fry left Friday with Mrs. Raymond Jones, of Rutherford College, for Plum Tree, Montezuma and other PDints in the mountains. Rev. P. H. Brittain, who is visiting his father in law, Mr. W. L. Cline, was in the city Fri day to meet Mr. A. W. Cline who has been spending sometime in Asheville, Mr. N. S. Dasher has negoti ated a deal whereby the Lenoir telephone exchange has been reorganized, with Lenoir and Hickory people as stockholders and directors. The Democrat comes out in rather abbreviated form this week. One reason is the fact that power is very scarce on ac count of the Catawba river being so low. vVe had to get Blind George to help us out again this week. Mrs, Albert Abernethy and Joseph Murphy were driving down 9th. Avenue Sunday even ing when the horse shied and ran into a telephone post. The horse detached himself, carrying shafts and harness with him. Mr. Abernethy held the horse and Mr. Murphy held down the bug gy. No one was hurt. Stop that Dandruff before it kills your hair. You know dandruff is a germ disease and it leads slowly and surely to baldness and there is only one way to cure dandruff and that is to kill the germ that causes the trouble. Greasy salves will never do this. ZEMO and ZEMO SOAP kills the germ and are guaranteed to cure dand ruff, itching scalp and all other germ diseases or the skin and scalp. Zemo and Zemo Soap are the true scientific remedies for these afflictions. To show our faith in Zemo and Zemo Soap we have instructed the drugeist selling them to refund your money if you are not satisfied with the results from the very first bottle and the first cake of soap. We can afford to make this offer be cause one bottle of Zemo and one cake of soap are sufficient to show their healing qualities and if used according to directions, they will effect a per manent cure. Sold by druggists everywhere and in Hickory by Moser & Lutz. Wafer SiyppSy Is Good. Nswlon is Shan and Charlotte Has a Water Famine. The drought has affected Hick chieiiy througn the partial curtailment ot' the Southern Co : s power. The three cotton mills in Hickory have had > shut down part of the time lor a week. the uuiawba is lower than it las been for 50 years. It was forded by Sigmon's threshing machine at Island Ford a few lajs ago to the Iredell side, a tnihtf never before known. One can almost step across on the stones at the long Horseford bridge. Mayor Clapp of Newton issues an appeal to Newton people not to use any more water than is absolutely necessary, as the sup ply is low. Supt, Williams tel s tne Democrat that the flow of the South Fork and its tiibutury springs about baker's mountain is still good and strong and Hick ory 's supply is not slack as yet. Charlotte has a water famine and has been compelled to build a temporary pumping station on the Catawba to get water. Much water has been hauled in oil tank cars from the Catawba and emptied into the receiving basin. Charlotte homes were for several days cut off from a drcpof water for either drinking or seweraga. She has just sold $350,000 of her new bonds in order to go to the river for water. Dr. F. T. Foard thinks the drought has cut his splendid corn crop short $25 bushels to the acre, although he is a deep plower. Weather Prophet De Voe pre dicts that we will have good rains from now on but Hicks says we will have two more years yet of dry weather. VACATION WITH A CAMERA. Every vacation is or should be enjoyed three times,—in antici in realization,* and in retrospection,—and of these the last is perhaps the best of all. For the trails that memory trav els are pleasant indeed, leading us again and again to the same charmed spot. Like children, we find a peculiar fascination in an oft-repeated tale. And so part of the fun of a vacation is the joy of re-living it in the telling of its delights to friends. Suppose, however, the friends are inclined to be skeptical about the size of the trout caught with a brown Hackle or bent pin, the beauty of the woods near the hotel or the charm of the home you visited, what satisfaction can be greater than to be able to say, "Here is a photograph, see for yourself." Get out the Ko dak album and silence doubts forever. The camera should play a lead ing part in all vacations because it portrays faithfully the chief beauties of the brief jaunt into country life, enabling us to lengthen out the pleasure of that valued, refreshing oasis amid the year's merciless work. We can, with its help, surround our selves with a goodly company of friends whose silent ministra tions comfort us continually. We pin over our office desk a photo of a quiet pool near which we lounged for one delightful day, and the sight of it often decoys us from the slough of our despondency or relieves our ner vous tension by its healing quiet ness. We are refreshed at sight of it as with a plunge into its soothing water. The agency for the EASTMAN KODAKS and BROWNIE CAM ERAS at Hickory, N. C. is THE VAN DYKE SHOP. Mr. A. W. Cline has returned from Asheville. He says there have been fine seasons in the mountains and that corn is look ing very splendidly. The fruit crop, however, is a failure be cause of the early cold and frost. Buy it now. Now is the time to buy a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It is almost certain to be needed before the summer is over. This remedy has no superior. For sale by all dealers. Subscribe to The Democrat,
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