Guard Your Childrtft
Against Bowel Trouble
\lanv children at an early age
. constipated, and frequently
f-iou-s consequences result. Not
? el ' r a i,ie to realize h» own con
ruMi a child's bowels should be
JJLtantly watched, and a gentle
laxative given when necessary.
l) r Miles Laxative 1 ablets are
J-nVciallv well adapted to women
!7i el'ildren. The Sisters of
Christian Charity, 53i Charles St.,
i izcrl ie, Pa., who attend many
c : ic of sickness say of them:
-gome time »g o we began using Dr.
Miles' Laxative Tablets and And that
like them very much. Their action
iT* excellent and we are grateful for
. viiii,' been ma tie acquainted with
t ,. n ' We have had good results in
v ,-:ise and the Sisters are very
much pleased."
The form and flavor of any medi
.;m is very important, no matter
; vho IS to take it. TIK- taste and
appearance are especially important
when children are concerned. All
parents know how hard it is to give
the average child "medicine," even
though the taste is partially dis
guised. In using Dr. Miles' Lax
ative Tablets, however, this diffi
culty '•> overcome. The shape of
the tablets, their appearance and
candy-like taste at once appeal to
a nv child, with the result that they
3 rc taken without objection.
The rich chocolate flavor and
absence of other taste, make Dr.
Miles' Laxative Tablets the ideal
remedy for children.
If the first box fails to benefit,
the price is returned. Ask your
druggist. A box of 25 doses costs
only -5 cents. Never sold in bulk.
MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind.
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GO-OPERATION OF PEOPLE
DESIRED 8Y SOUHI
i
Will Freely Give Assistance In WorV j
for Advancement of Its Terri
tory — Information Gladly
Received.
The Southern Railway System in
vites the cooperation of all the peo>
pie along its line in work for the
advancement of its territory. It will
freely give every assistance possible,
and will be glad to have individuals
and business organizations call upon ,
it for aid in solving the development
problems which come up, and contrib
ute information which will help build
up the communities of the Southeast.
Communications relating to loca-;
tions or development work along the I
Southern Railway, .Mobile and Ohio
Railroad. Georgia, Southern and Flor
ida Railway and Virginia and South
western Railway should be addressed
to M. V. Richards, Land and Industrial
Agent, Washington, D. C.
For locations or for information on
matters regarding the country along
the Queen and Crescent Route, ad-1
dross T. 0. Plunkett, Agricultural and
Industrial Agent, Chattanooga, Tenn :
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RESOURCES OF SOUTHEAST
GIVEN WIDE PUBLICITY
Exhibits at Fairs, Advertisements In
Newspapers, and Circulation of
Attractive Literature All
Boost the Southern
Territory.
The Southern Railway has long de
voted much attention to fair and ex
position exhibits, showing the re
sources and products of the South
eastern States. This year's exhibit
work is almost entirely within its own
territory. At state and other large
fairs and exposition its is makinK
comprehensive exhibits, largely agri
cultural, which are mostly of an edu
cational character, and which show
what the people of the Southeast and
of special communities may do. A
large exhibit will be made in Novem
ber at New York City.
In the line of publicity for calling
attention to the opportunities of the
Southeast, liberal amounts are appro- !
priated. The Southern Field, giving 1
information about all the System's
territory, is widely and regularly cir
culated. Booklets descriptive of the
different states, publications relating j
to the various lines of farming, pam
phlets giving general or special in- '
formation or lists of lands or business
opportunities are published for the
benefit of homeseekers and manufac
turers.
In advertising opportunities In the
Southeast agricultural, trade and gen
eral publications in the North are
used and special advertising Is don#
in Europe.
Stomach Troubles
Cured by Vinol
HERE IS PROOF
" I suffered so long from stomach
trouble and indigestion, that I lost j
flesh rapidly — VINOL cured me
after everything else had failed. It
strengthened my digestive organs—
gave me a hearty appetite, and I
it anything without the slight
est. distress. Ido not believe any
laing equals VINOL for stomach
trouble and indigestion."
W. E. WATERHOUSE,
Portland, Me.
Mr. Thos. G .Wallace, of Detroit,
I)., writes, "I suffered for years
hoin a chronic stomach trouble,
v I\'( jL entirely cured me after
tv trything el-e had failed."
Tt is the curative medicinal ele
ments of the cod's liver, combined
with the strengthening properties
°t tonic iron contained in VINOL,
v,l -i'.h makes it so successful in re
Monng perfect digestion, and at
same time building up the weak
ened run-down system.
| r ya bottle of VINOL with the
understanding that your money will
turned if it does not help you.
For sale by Moaer and Lutz
Ur ug stun.
WAR ON THE BOLL WEEVIL;
CAMPAIGN FOR GOOD ROADS
Interesting Meti^T,„ r H .lpln a th#
Fermere Fight Cotton F# .
Arousing Interest In
Road Improvement.
The advent of the boll weevil Into
tbe territory of the Southern Rail
way by stem caused it to tak« up
work to combat its ravages. To this
•end a cotton culture department was
.organized, with a chief and a force
of field agents, each one of whom has
had practical experience in growing
cotton under boll weevil conditions,
to cover the districts of Alabama and
Mississippi where the weevil has al
ready appeared or threatens. More re
cently the work of this department
was extended to Southern Georgia
along the lines of the Southern Rail
way and the Georgia, Southern and
Florida. The agents of this depart
ment work in harmony with those of
the United States farm demonstra
tion bureau and with the state au
thorities, doing special work with the
individual farmer in instructing him
in the best ways to raise cotton un
der weevil conditions and in showing
him how he can diversify his crops
to the best purpose.
The management of the Southern
Railway System has long held that
the improvement of the country road
meant prosperity and advancement
alike to the railroad and the resident
.">f its territory, and especial benefit to
the farmer. Ten years ago, in 1901,
it started out its first Good Roads
(rain, which spent six months build
ing demonstration roads,'holding road
conventions and agitating for better
highways. There is just ending the
tour of another good roads train, also
out six months, operated by the South
ern Railway System in Co-operation
with the United States Office of Pub
lic Roads. In the years between, con
stant attention has been paid to wort
along this line.
EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATION
FOR DEVELOPMENT WORK
How the Land and Industrial Depart
ment of the Southern Railway
. Is Conducted.
As an agency (or the solicitation
of men and capital for factories and
for other industries aud for immigra
tion into the Southeast and for gen
eral promotion and development work,
agricultural and industrial, within the
territory of the various lines of the
Southern Railway System the indus
trial department is organized.
The Land and Industrial Depart
ment, with jurisdiction extending over
the lines of the Southern Railway,
the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, the
Georgia, Southern and Florida Rail
way, and the Virginia and Southwest
ern Railway, has direct charge of mat
ters pertaining to general develop
ment. At the head of it is the
and Industrial Agent; with headquar
ters at Washington and with a sub
stantial corps of assistants and large
offices located there. Along the lines
of the roads are district offices at
St Louis, Mobile, Macon, Bristol, Co
lumbus, Miss.; Asheville and Colum
bia. The agents in charge of these
offices give their assistance to all ef
forts to promote, in any direction,
the growth of the territory adjacent
to the railroad lines, find locations
for industries or help in their organi
zation, aid homeseekers or colonizers
in securing the lands they wish, work
with the farmers and others in solv
ing the problems of markets or crops
which come up, gather information
about the opportunities or facts which
will advertise their districts and in
every possible way extend their co
operation and thsft of the railroad to
the people of their territory in devel
opment efforts. The work of these
agents, as that of the Washington of
fice, has to do with both the educa
tional and other efforts with the peo
ple of the territory and In the bring
ing in of new people and new cap
ital.
From the Washington and St Louis
offices industrial and immigration
agents travel throughout the North
in advertising the Southern's territory
and in solictiing farm settlers and
manufacturers to locate along Its
lines. An office is also maintained
for this work at Harrlsburg, Pf., and
for several years a European agency
has been established with headquar
ters in London. The agents of the
company include specialists in timber,
minerals and clays, in industrial lo
cations and in other lines.
For the Queen and Crescent Routs
a similar line of work is carried on
by the Agricultural and Industrial
Agent, located at Chattanooga, Tenn.
In the early days of the Southern
Railway System it was believed prop
er that, while the needs of the ter
ritory in the way of immigration and
of the development of the farm re
sources were not to be neglected, spe
cial effort should be made to oall at*
tention to the immense natural re
sources and advantages for industries
of various kinds. The reports from
the communities along the lines rep
resented in the Land and Industrial
Department show that in the decade
from 1900 to 1910, $400,000,000 were
Invested in industries. A good pro
portion of this sum represents the
work of the Industrial Department.
At Dresden there is in the course
of construction what is said to be
the largest radiator in the world.
This radiator is intended for the mo
tor of an airship of 300-horse-power,
and is made entirely of aluminum.
To Mothers and Others
You can use Bucklen's Arnica Salve
to cure children of eczema, rashes,
e ter, chafing, scaly and crasted hu
•mri, as well as their, accidental in
jures* —cuts, burns, bruisei, etc.,
with fercect safety. Nothing el«e
heals so'qu'cWy. For boils, ulc rs,
oM running or fever sores or pile* 't
as no equal. 25 cents at C« M.
jnuford, Moser & Lutz, Walter S.
Martin.
Success 0
fcjSß cal Newspaper
QSpow Means Success
By ARTHUR BRISBANE,
Editor of the New York Evening
Copyright, 1912, by the New Terk Evening
Journal Publishing company.
From the New York Evening Journal, Jon. 10. 1012
newspaper has tried occasionally to emphasize the value
4 of the thousands of local newspapers that ATTEND TO
KATIONAL POLICE WORK in thi9 country.
It is surprising and rather discouraging to note how little
is'done by the big advertisers to support the publications upon which
IHIB COUNTRY RELIES FOR ITS POLITICAL MORALITY
AND ITS MATERIAL PROGRESS.
The Bayside Review says in its issue of Jan. 17, 1912:
"The New York Evening Journal without question is the
best friend the local weekly and the country journal has among
metropolitan newspapers of circulation and influence. It has al
[± ways when opportunity offered said a good, kind, encouraging
word for the local paper and the local editor, and it has stinted
£ neither space nor praise in its remarks. It has always strongly
recommended the public to SUPPORT the local paper and the
merchant to ADVERTISE IN IT as a good business propo
| aition.
"Last Wednesday the Journal contained another of those
| illuminating editorials which appear on its last page, full of preg
nant wisdom and sound advice, boosting the local paper."
This newspaper does as much for itself as it does for the local
newspaper when it tries to emphasize the local newspaper's value.
Every individual, every newspaper, every concern of every sort
in the United States, DEPENDS ON THE GENERAL PROS
PERITY AND AVERAGE INTELLIGENCE OF THE COUN
TRY.
AND THE PROSPERITY AND THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE COUN
TRY DEPEND UPON THE WORK DONE BY SOMETHING LIKK
TWENTY THOUBAND NEWSPAPERS, MOST OF THEM SMALL AND
POORLY PAID FOR THEIR WORK, THROUGHOUT THE UNITED
STATES.
These newspapers, and especially those in the smaller towns and
villages, DESERVE THE STRONG SUPPORT OF EVERY
INDIVIDUAL AND POWER INTERESTED IN THE PROS
PERITY OF THE UNITED STATES. That fact cannot be em
phasized too often.
It shall be emphasized and repeated in this newspaper and in the
other Hearst newspapers until the great manufacturers and adver
tisers come to realize that THEY NEGLECT THK MOST TM
PORT ANT AGENCY OF DISTRIBUTION' AT TIfKIR COM
MAND when they neglect the local newspaper* of tlio country.
If other metropolitan newspapers fail to give credit to local news
papers, so much the worse for them. They are neglecting an oppor
tunitv to BUILD UP THE COUNTRY. Every locality needs it-
STRONG, WELL SUPPORTED LOCAL NEWSPAPER, pro
tecting the local interests in its neighborhood.
THE EDITORIAL COLUMNB AND THE NEWS COLUMNS OF THE
LOCAL NEWBPAPER ARE TODAY WHAT THE TOWN MEETING USED
TO BE IN THE OLD DAYS. IN THE LOCAL NEWBPAPER THE CIT
IZENS MEET MENTALLY AND DIBCUBS AND THINK ALONG THE
SAME LINEB. THE EDITOR 18 THE PRESIDING OFFICER OF AN
IMPORTANT LOCAL GATHERING. HE 18 THE CUBTODIAN AND PRO
TECTOR OF LOCAL INTEREBTB, THE DAILY OR WEEKLY INTER
PRETER OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EVENTB. HE 18 THE
SCHOOLTEACHER FOR GROWNUPS, THE MAN WHO ÜBES HIS EYES.
HIS EARS, HIB KNOWLEDGE OF THE COUNTRY, HIS POWERS OF
OBSERVATION. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BUSY MEN AND WOMEN
AROUND HIM.
The day will come when this work will be RECOGNIZED AND
REWARDED as it should be. And this newspaper will be very
proud to have had a hand in hurrying along that day.
SOUTHERN RY.'S EXHIBITS
Interesting Display of Southern Farm
Products at Land and Irrigation
Congress.
New York. —At the American Land
and Irrigation exposition, which re
cently opened at Madison Square Gar
den, there are displays of farm and
orchard products from every portion
of the United States and from Can
ada, but none excels the exhibit from
the Southern states made by the
Southern Railway system, which has
expended several thousand dollars in
collecting material for exhibit purpos
es from all parts of the territory serv
ed by its lines.
The Southern railway's booth is six
ty feet long and the arrangements of
the exhibit is most tasteful and at
tractice. There are exhibits of cot
ton, tobacco, the grains, grasses and
forage, crops, sugar cane, and all
kinds of garden truck and an unusual
ly fine fruit display. The walls are
covered by a large map of the South,
sheaves of grain and grasses, a score
of large colored photographs of typi
cal Southern farm, field and orchard
views. There are a half dozen ta
bles of the Southern apples, which
will convince all who see them that
the Southern apple-growing districts
are surpassed by none. Special liter
ature has been prepared for circula
tion at the exposition telling of the
Southeastern states and especially of
their farmlands and products.
Each day an illustrated lecture on
the Southeast is delivered by M. A.
Hays of the Land and Industrial De
partment of the Southern Railway.
For this lecture 150 new colored slides
have been made. The lecture covers
the Industrie*, the agricultural re
sources and developments, the scenic
attractions, the resort centers of the
Southeastern states, gives character
istics of Southern life and tells about
the wide variety of opportunities
found in this Motion. ' ,
WORLD'S OLDEST RAIN GUAGE
Wil Constructed by Order of Chinese
King In the Year
1442.
Boston, Mass.—The first record of s
rain gauge Is of that one which was
constructed In the twenty-fourth year
of the reign of King Sejo (1442), In
China. The king ordered a hronse
Chinese Rain Quags.
instrument made to measure the
rainfall. It was a vase resting on a
stone base and was placed in the ob
servatory. Every time it rained he
had his servants measure the water
In the vase and report to felna.
CASTOR IA
Pbr Infanta aad Children.
Thi KM You Ran Always Bwglit
| LOCAL I
Charity school near Conover
closes today, no entertainment.
Accident will happen, bat the best
regulated families keep Dr. Thomas'
Electrict Oil for such emergencies.
Two sizes 25 and 50 c st all stores.
The Newton News says the
snow Sunday was the sixteenth
one this winter.
Harsh physics react, weaken the
bowels' will lead to chronic constipa
tion. Doan's Regulets operate easily.
25 cents a box at all stores.
The Bowman school near Ca
tawba Springs will close Satur
day March 9th.
>4 Sufierd day and night the torment
of itching piles. Nothing helped me
until I used Doan's Ointment. The
result was lasting." Hen. John R.
Garrett, Mayor, Giarad, Ala,
There will be a meeting of the
good roads in Newton Friday
night March the Bth.
A healthy man is a king in his own
right; an unhealthy man an unhappy
slave. For impure blood and slug
gish liver, use Burdock Blood Bitters.
On the market 35 years. SI.OO a
bottle.
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REPORT OF THE CONDITION OH
Hickory Banking and Trust Co.
• AT
Hickory, N.C. in the State of North Caro
lina, at the close of butsiness Feb.
20, iqi2.
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts fm, 044.00
Overdrafts, secured and un
secured. 1,208.54
All other Stocks, Bonds and
Mortgages 1,030.00
Banking House 6,p00. 00
Furniture & fixtures 2,521.83 8,521*83
Due from Banks and Bankers 12,846.00
Ca9h items 3,523.49
Gold coin . 715. li
Silver coin, including all
minor coin currency 1,223.64
National bank notes and
other U. S. notes 1,821.00
Total $140,933-61
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in $35,000.00
Undivided profits, less cur
rent expenses and taxes
P«d 3.300.34
Deposits subject to check 58,232.78
Demandcertificates of deposit 41,453.46
Cashier's checks outstanding 3,947.13
Total $140,933.61
State of North Carolina, County of
Catawba, ss:
I, W. X. Reid, Cashier ot the above
named bank, do solemnly swear that the
above statement is true to ihe best of my
knowledge and belief.
W. X. REID, Cashier,
Subscribed and sworn to before me.
thi« 23th day of Feb. 1912.
C- A. MOSBR,
Notary Public.
My remi. expires June 21, 1913.
Co rrect—A ttes t:
J. F. ABKRNRTHY
H. E. McCOMBi
J. A. MARTIN.
Directors.
SPRING
SUITS
We fc have! on
display our ad
vance showing
of Mens and Boy s
high grade suits
\ -/
for spring, you
will be surprised
at the values we
are showing this
season.
Ask to see our
, * '-r -O
~ . ■ s v . '
immense assort
ment Of Shirts
50c to S4OO.
Mottiz
•T .r t ,7?-' • h.
Whitener
Clothing Co.
t "ti»« Qu«fey Shop."
mmmmml
GOOD
PRINTING
PAYS
Visiting Cards, Invita
tions Announcements
and Fine Linen
Stationery
Tastefully
THE DBMOGRAT JOB OfTICE
i
GOOD
PRINTING
PAYS
"H Mi " m
" That gives you the squarest
M jL ! I value for the money you spend
m i jm ~ —maximum quality and quan-
- ; tity.
Mantles, Doors, Trim, Sash,
Mouldings
Better let us quote you on your building needs —we
will save you money,
Hickory Novelty Company
Spring
Goods
£'
Are 'arriving every day. We need to
make room for them, so we will sell you,
high grade merchandise for & very low
price for the next 15 days.
We keep everything in the line of
Ladies and Gent's furnishings consist
ing of Clothing, Shoes, Hats, etc., also
Ladies wearing approal. _
We have a splendid line of Ladies
skirts to go from 98c up, and many
other things we have which we cannot
mention.
Gent's suits from $5.00 up all quali
ty and shades. .
Boys and Youths suits marked
down very low-
Come and look us over before buy
ing elsewhere as we can surlely save
you from 25 to 50 per cent on every
thing yoii purchase from us.
Come and be convinced, the store
to pin your faith to.
V
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L. E.ZERDEN
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Prop.
fIOeoeOQQOOOQOQOOOO^iOOOOK
gTNSPECT THESE jj
a Temporarialy Located in
8 Field Building.
b On March 11th I will have 9
0 on display my lines woolens., b
9 On March 20th I will have k
8 formal opening in room now o
q occupied by Kimball Piano K
v Co. where I will be permant- x
Q ty located. ©
X Suits SIB.OO and up. S
1 W. H. CLINKSCALES
* THE TAILOR X
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