Established 1899
Aqproves of
the Road Plan
j, D. Elliott Heartily in Favor
oi $90,000 Issue
Mr. J. D. Elliott is on the jump
these days, looking after the big
Laymen's Convention, getting
things in shape for installing the
machinery for the new chair
factory, of which he is president,
and. incidentally, looking after
his campaign as a candidate for
State Senator from this district.
However, he stopped long
enough for us to sound him on
the all-absorbing question of the
bond issue for road improvement
in Hickory township.
"Am I for good roads? Well,
I should say so. Everybody is
for pood roads. Did you ever
see or hear tell ot a man who
would travel on a bad road if
there was a good road leading in
the direction he wanted to go?
There may be a difference of
opinion as to how to get good
roads, but we all want them.
Right here let me put my seal of
approval on the plan that will be
voted on April 15. It is not
only perfectly satisfactory to me,
but I feel confident that the
variest doubting Thomas, if he
gives the subject an unbiased in
vestigation, will be as well satis
fied with the plan as I am. We
must carry this good road bond
election. If we fail it will be a
backset to our township that will
take years to overcome. It will
place us among the back num
bers. and give color to the citi
zens that have already been made
on Catawba county's backward
ness in road improvements.
k, The tremendous activity in
road improvement throughout
the entire South is shown by the
fact that during the year 1911
something like $30,000,000 were
available for road improvement in
nine Southern states. We are a
progressive community right
here, and we must demonstrate
this by falling in with the good
road progressive procession, the
same as our sister township
(Newton) has done. I propose to
work for good reads, and, by
by heck, we're going to have
good roads."
Objections to Road Bond Is-
sue Answered.
The following letter is being
broad casted over the township:
Dear sir: We enclose a circu
lar that gives the exact stand
ing of the bond issue for road
improvement in Fickoiy town
ship. It seem that there is a
misunderstanding on the part of
S'me people as to how the
money shall be spent and raised.
Some have been told that
there will be an extra assess
ment on property through which
the improved roads go, the same
as applies in paying for improv
ed streets in Hickory. This is
not so. It will n t cost any
property owner one cent more
than the 20 cent tax he is now
paying.
Others contend that an im
proved road through their
properity will increase the value
100 per cent. In other -words,
if they could sell their farms
at the rate of SSO per acre with
out a good road, tney could
readily sell the same farms with
a Rood rood for SIOO an acre.
This is the best argument that
could be made in favor of road
improvement.
. Others are under the impres
sion that most of the money will
be spent in Hickory. This is ab
solutely wrong. Hickory's in
terests are centered in its back
country. Ask any merchant
v.'hat the best business days are
and he will tell you, "The days
when the farmers come in." For
tnis reason the voters of the city
of Hickory will demonstrate at
the polls their willingness to pay
83 per cent of the road tax of
Hickory township.
frill others contend that the
sand clay road is a failure. This
is absolutely false, as investiga
tion will prove to anyone's satis
faction
There are some who want to
support the bond issue, but are
a *>*aui the 20 cent tax can be in
creased at the will of the County
Uunmissioners. To all such we
will state that the 20 cent tax
was made possible by a special
?. cr > a "d the 20 cent tax was the
limit allowed.
e hope you will vote in fa-
of this bond issue and use
your infi jence with your neigh
bors. If you are an earnest
doubter as to the wisdom of
ponds for road improvements, we
invito vou £ 0 ea |j on anv
geritjymen whose names appear
r » the enclosed circular, or at the
Chamber|of Commerce rooms.
THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
Investigate and you will be for
the bond issue, if you are not
a ready so.
Hickory Chamber of Commerce,
A. K. JOY, Sec,
REASONS FOR BONDS.
They Appear in Arguments
by Hon. W. D. Turner and
Mr. Summey.
Ex-Lieut. Gov. W. D. Turner,
of Statesville spoke in the town
nail on good roads Monday
night. The hall was filled to
hear him. Mr. Self introduced
him and Council! was one
of his auditors. Gov. Turner
did p«»werfui work in carrying
the $400,001) bonds for roads in
made a grand plea
for roads.
He said he felt sure that Ca
tawba, whose people were just as
noble, biave and intelligent as
those of Mecklenburg, Iredell,
Lincoln, and other counties that
had passed bond issues, would
fall in line.
What carried the bond issue in
Iredell was the statement that
the $400,000 bond issue would
yield 200 mile of good roads. As
a matter of fact, it looks now as
if there will be 400 miles, for the
most difficult grades, including
expensive bridges, cost only SIOOO
a mile for sand clav roads. Even
if the sand clay roads in Hickory
township should cost SIOOO a
mile, it would yield roads which
would reach to every part cf the
township.
The value of farm lands in
Iredell in some places have in
creased from S2O to $75 an acre,
and Catawba people are going
over there to buv them as an in
vestment.
Mr. Summey, one of Cleve
land county's good road builders,
was present to answer questions.
The machinery to build the roads
would not cost over SISOO, he
said, as a road machine and 6
scrapers would be enough.
The top soil needed for roads
was plentiful in the township.
It had never yet hurt a farm in
Cleveland to take the soil When
ever it was taken, the road force
went in with six mules and
plowed the man's land deep for
him, so it raised better crops
than was ever before known.
The farmers everv where were
glad to give it. Every one who
had been against it was now for
it.
Mr. Summey did not think the
cost of the Hickory township
roads would average over S7OO a
mile.
It took No. 6 township, Cleve
land county, about two years to
build 25 miles of sand clay roads.
They had 8 convicts at the start
and now they work 43. He ad
vised a convict camp system for
this county.
What Good Roads Did for
Some Mecklenburg Farms.
Mr. J. C. Martin is one of the
finest arguers for good roads in
Catawba county. He was talk
ing to Mr. G. M. Barger last
Saturday.
"There are two men in this
city." he said "who own several
farms in Mecklenburg county.
Six years ago they showed me
checks aggregating $470, which
they said was all the morny
which the renters on their
Mecklenburg farms had turned
in. They were blue over it.
This year I thought I would a k
them what they had made on
their farms as rentals, and they
told me about $2600."
"Well, what caused the in
crease over six years ago?"
"Good roads," they replied to
Mr. Martin. "Mecklenburg has
built good roads to our farms,
and as so much more .can be
haued into Charlotte over these
trood roads, we have been able
to get better renters, men who
know how to farm scientifically,
and make mon^y.
"Good roads did the work."
An Interesting Service.
There will be an Easter ser
vice at the Methodist church
Tuesday evening April the 9th
at 8 o'clock, by the charity and
help of the Ep
worth League. A collection will
be taken for the benefit of this
department. .Special musical by
Miss Stecher of Lenoir college
and other musicians of the
town. Everybody invited.
Puts End Toßad Habit.
Things never look bright to one
with the "blues." Ten to one the
trouble is a sluggish liver, filling the
system with bilious poison, that Dr.
King's New Life Pills~would expel.
Try them. Let the the joy of better
feelings end the blues. Best for
stomach, liver and kidneys, 25 c. C.
M. Shuford, Moser and Lutz, Grimes
Drug Co, . „
HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1912.
Wall Street
Fights Wilson
Its Money Back o! Battle On Nev
Man
The Progressive Farmer.
In the Democratic Party, the
aggressive, National-wide fight
Wibon goes on,—
evidently with all Wall Street's
money back of it, while Wm.
R. Hearst leads his influence to
the same end. The foremost
charge against Wilson is incon
sistency it that the things he
says now, after some practical
experience in politics, are not
wholly the same thing he said
twenty years ago. From our
standpoint, this is very much to
his credit, Abraham Lincoln
once said: '*l have changed my
mind; I know more than I did
yesterday." The masses of the
people have progressed as
much in their ideas as Woodrow
Wilson has.
The real test, too, is not what
Woodrow Wilson has said, but
what he has done; and as Gov
ernor of New Jersey, he has
certainly accomplished greater
things and brought about a finer
program of constructive legisla
tion for the public good than
perhaps any other Governor has
ever accomplished under like
circumstances. It is not our
custom to take such interest in
the candidacy of a roan, and]
we do so now only because we I
GOOD ROADS SPEAKING
At Every School House
in Hickory Township
All the Speakings will begin at 7-30 P.. M.
April 2, Long View
\V. S. Stroup, Prof. G. W. Hahn, W. A. Self, S D. Campbell.
April 2, Highland
A. A. Shuford, jr., N. W. Clark, Rev. Deaton, Chas. Sykes, Henry Killian,
Prof. Fritz.
April 4. West Hickory
Dr. Nicholson, 11. H. Abee, Judge Councill, Dr. Jake Shuford, C. E. Cole.
T. J. Leonard, Walter Burns.
April 4, Fair View
Dr. 11, C. Menzies, W. J. Shuford, Bascom Blackwelder.
April 5, Cloninger
W. A. Self, S. M. Hamrick, Postell Cloninger, E. L. Shuford.
April 5, Spencer (Peace)
Rev. Long, M. 11. Yount, A. C. Shuford.
April 6, St. Timothy
A. J. Barwick (Newton), Rev. F. K. Roof, P. L. Miller, Dr, Price, A. A. Whifce
ner.
April 6, Sweetwater
B. B. Blackwelder, Dr. Blackburn, J. L. Ingold, Laban Cline.
April 6, Brookford
E. L. Shuford, C, H. Bagby, H. J. Ilolbrook, John Ballew.
April 8, Killian
S. E. Killian, J. D. Elliott, Jute Leonard, H. P. Lutz.
April 8, Barger
C. E. Bumgarner, M. H. Yount, C. L. Whitener, John Barger, J. W.
Blackwelder.
April 8, Windy City
G. H. Geitner, 11. C. Menzies, A. J. Barwick, Prof J. H. Keller,
April 9, Minerva
Z. B. Buchanan, W. J. Shuford, J. W. Robinson, Enloe Yoder, R. L. Shuford.
April 9, Abernethy
J. D. Elliott, H. A. Banks, H. P. Lutz, Geo. Wootten.
April 10, Mt. Grove
Jessie Click, R. L. Shuford, Dr. Foard, Dr. Stevenson.
April 10, Link
S. L. Whitener, A. K. Joy, A. A. Whitener;
April 11, Houck Chapel
S. M. Hamrick, Clias. Bagby, Dr. Henry Abernethy.
April 12, Sandy Ridge
N. S- Das ier, J. W. Shuford, Judge Russell.
Saturday, April 13, Rally in Hickory
believe Wall Street and the big
interests are sparing neither the
time nor money in an effort to
defeat the one man whose nomi
nation and election would insure
a wise, well-planned, and suc
cessful campaign against the
great abuses that have crept in
to our national government
abuse by means of which these
big interests have fattened and
grown powerful. It deserves to
rs m a I
LIEUT. A. E. BROWN.
(Now a candidate for county treasurer. At Petersburg a Bible in
his pocket saved his life. It stopped at the words: *'Stand
ye fast and prepare.")
be noted, ty the way, that the
big interests have a distinct grip
on many of our party organiza
tions in the South, and the peo
ple must be alert to prevent
them from delivering the South
ern delegates at the National
Convention. We should have
primaries in ever State, enabl
the people themselves to say
whom they favor for President.
Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905
The 50 Reunion
of Company I
Old Soldiers Enjoj Fine Time
Saturday
The 50th reunion of Co. I,
47th Regiment, N. C. troops,
was held at Catawba Saturday,
and assembled in the old Baptist
brick Church. The veterans
listened to a brilliant address by
Vlr. Bascom B. Blackwelder. of
the Hickory bar.
The program was in charge of
Capt. W, A. Day. The address
of welcome was delivered by
Rev. B, Wilson, also prayer by
Rev. Mr. Wilson. Song 3 and
recitations appropriate to the
occasion were rendered by the
School in charge of the splendid
teacher, Miss Edith Arey. Capt.
Day read the roster of the com
pany. Only nine members an
swered, though there are 105
members of the company dead
and 36 living.
Mr. B. B. Blackwelder said
that when a boy he thought that
Co. I represented the entire Con
federate Army, and made a
speech which captivated the
veterans.
Prof. G. W. Hawn in his usual
happy style presented the merits
of his byok, Capt. J. H. Sherrill
gave some reminiscences of war
times. An excellent string band
furnished music for the occassion
When the band struck up Dixie
every old soldiers heart in the
house was thrilled, and some of
them broke out into the rebel
yell.
The dinner was spread on a
green behind the church. And
such a dinner! The crowd was
big and hungry but the dinner
stood the test There was no
thing better, either, than the
corn pone made by old aunt
Barbara Smyre, who came over
from slavery days. Miss Esther
Ransom praised it highly, and
she knows when any North
olina products is good. She ate
pone and listensed to the boys
talif about her father, for the
49tkf«ght under Gen. Matt. W.
Ransom, and they all knew him
and loved him.
Capt. Bill Day didn't quite
catch Miss Ransom's name, and
went on to tell about the fight at
Boone's mills, which occurred on
Gen. Ransom's plantation in
Eastern North Carolina, and
where one of the finest men in
the company was killed and lies
buried—young Drum.
It was about this time that
Gen. Ransom worked a great
game of bluff. He mounted a
stump and ordered imaginary
captains and colonels and gener
als to take their regiments to
the front, though there were on
ly two regiments at hand, and
the Yankees greatly out-number
ed them.
"We didn't do it to his face
but behind his back we called
him 'Old Matt,' " said Mr. Day.
Just then Miss Ransom said
something about "Father," and
Capt. Day, in astonishment,
said: "Are you Matt Ransom's
daughter?
"Yes," she replied, "have you
a picture of my father and would
yiu like to have one?"
Miss jttansom takes great delight
in hearing the veterans speak of
her father. She enjoyed a con
versation with Color Bearer
Stewart and Mr. A. E. Brown
and they, too, are likely to get
pictures of the general, "I saw a
veteran once," she said, "who
met father with ill-suppressed
tears, 'Why, General,' he said,
broken hearted over time's rav
ages, 'your hairs white!' "
The memory of the big con
flict is kept green bv the splen
did old soldiers who went out
from Catawba Station in 61'.
1 When the leaders of Co, I were
getting up their chapter for Prof.
Hahn's book, they met at Capt.
James Sherill's home -Bill Day,
A. E. Brown, and other—and sat
up over the writing until the
chickens announced the first
crack of day.
Among the Hickory people at
the reunion were Mr. and Mrs.
E. L. Shuford, Miss Macie Black
welder, Miss Margaret Bost,
Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Whitener.
Miss Lizzie K. Ford, Prof. G.- W.
Ilahn, Mr. Howard A. Banks
-and Mr. A. W. Cline, of the
Democrat.
Among the candidates we met
Messrs. J. U. Long for the State
Senate, Mr. Walter Sherrill and
Mr.Geo. Drum for the treasurer
ship.
Ran Away from Home
Corns, Bunions, Warts, leave home
when Dr. King's Corn Salve gets af
ter them, and though it only costs
10c, is guaranteed same as if sold for
a dollar. Thats King's way always,
old by all medicine dealers.
Elated on
I Creamery Growth
: Chief Hairpin Rawles Con
gratolates Catawba Co.
The advertisement of the Ca
tawba County Creamery, recently
published in 3the Democrat, has
attracted wide spread notice.
It has started the Charlotte
News to hammering on the need
of a creamery for Mecklenburg.
The following flattering letter
now comes from Chief of Ihe
Dairy Division Rawles, and we
know all of our farmers will read
it with great appreciation:
March 27, 1912.
Mr. John Robinson, •
President, Catawba Creamery,
Hickory, N. C.
Dear sir:—Conover has just
sent me a copy of your adver
tisement showing your January
and February statements for 1912
and I am greatly elated ov«r
your February statement. lam
therefore writing you just a
word of appreciation of the
progress that your creamery has
made and the outlook that evi
dently is before you. lam par
ticularly gratified to see that your
raw material is supplied by
such a long list of patrons. This
bill indicates that as these pat
rons realize the advantage of
your creamery they wil lincrease
their production. They can eiu
ily double or quadruple the
business of your creamery in but
a very short time. I cannot help
but think or the advantages that
will accrue from your creamery
when it reaches the point of dis
tributing $500,000 a year among
the farmers of your vicinity; how
much more prosperity it would
bring to your neighborhood; how
much more of the comforts and
conveniences of life, and further
more, the bulk of this money will
return to the merchants of your
■city for these comforts and these
luxuries.
This creamery reminds me %
good deal in its effect of what
takes place when a worn-out
farm is developed. The farm is
worn out by having crops grown
on it and sold off it, and more
crops grown and sold, and even
tually it becomes poor. If we
ean convert these crops into some
marketable form and turn back
all the fertilizer to the farm and
supplement this with good meth
ods and some extra crops to back
to the farm, perhaps as green
crops, our farm begins to get
rich. This same thing happens
to a community. When all the
money for butter, pork, lard,
flour, furniture and a hundred
and one other things goes
away from a community and
fails to come back will not this
community, like the farm, be
come poor?
You have established in your
creamery an institution to turn
back these funds into the sur
rounding community and we can
hardly appreciate what it will
mean to turn back half a million
dollars a year into the vicinity of
your creamery. lam delighted
with the prospects and we stand
ready to help you at any time we
can. lam writing this not be
cause of any information it may
contain but because it expresses
my interest and enthusiasm for
the bright prospects of your
creamery. With personal good
wishes to you and the other mem
bers of your company, I am,
Verly truly yours,
B. H. RAWLEP, Dairyman.
Chief of Division.
U. S. Dent, of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C.^
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my practice and find that they give
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patients. I heartily reccommend
them. W. R. Clyburd, M. D."
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