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© ru gs and carpets, make this a store of commenda- V
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X how reasonable we sell goods*-, how careful we are X
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New Ice Cream Parlor.
Pure Ice Cream aIP Flavors,
Wholesale and Retail.
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Fresh Home-Made Candies and Fancy Fruits
always on hand.
We consider every article sold by us worth its
price, or more.
If you arc pleased tell your friends, if not,
kindly tell us.
Meet your friends in the prettiest refreshment
parlor in Hickory.
Thank you for calling, please call again.
California Fruit Company.
For nearly forty years "Schloss
I Clothes" have been known to
Clothiers as the very best of
Men's-ready-to-wear garments.
They have been little advertised —for their high quality has
always limited their output—but experts have ranked them
at the top for years. It is time you knew about them.
SCHLOSS CLOTHES
MADE IN BALTIMORE
I su P eriorit y —especially in point of workmanship, style and per.
ect fit—is very apparent to the keen observer. Tliey are all wool; handsome
throughout; designed, tailored and fitted by high-priced experts. Why not
try a Schloss Baltimore suit this Spring? Modern prices—sls to S4O Ask
I to see them.
I Martin & Clark Clothing Co.
| HICKORY, N. C.
1 He Hickory Democrat, SKCO a year
Like Lazarus
at Dives 5 Gate
So Lies the Heathen Would at
ihe Rich Church's Feet
Unconsciously, unintentionally,
providentially, no doubt, the
dominant note at the laymen's
convention last Thursday seem
ed to be that of stewardship*
When business men talk to busi
ness men (and men are the
natural money-makers,) it is to
be expected that the line of t#lk
would drift that way.
A great diamond in the rough
was Dr. C. F. Reid, of the South
ern Methodist church. He was
an actor, expressing as much in
gesture and expression as in mas
sive sentences. Fearless, his
satire of the "complacent"
church, which gave more for the
church steeple and the soloist
who could reach the highest "G,"
than for its benevolent and mis
sion work, was merciless.
The very incarnation of intense
earnestness was Dr. Livius Lank
ford, president of the Norfolk
Mecical Society. He starvied his
four boys by telling them that
"he didn't want them to make
him a pauper in Heaven" by leav
ing his money to them. He had 1
given them a good education
each. Now, as he had only one
missionairy in the foreign field,
he wanted to support four more,
and therefore would have to cut
them out of his will.
Dr. Lankfoid defended the
tithe as the least a Christian
man could give to God. "Don't
wait,men" he said, "till two doc
tors are holding a whispered con
sultation next to your sick room
and the trained nurse is tip-toe
ing through the house, to settle
this tithe business."
President Jos. H. Apple of the
Reformed church presided with
dignity and ability.
Other able speeches were made
by Dr. Apple, ex-solicitor Spain
hour of Burke, State Secretary
Padgett; Dr. H. K. Boyer, Dr.
Byron Clark, and Field Secre
tary J. G. Rupp of Philadelphia,
of the Reformed church.
There were many helpful con
ferences on Missionary methods.
+ LOCAL AND PERSONAL. *
Mr. E. Bryan Jones has just return
ed from a very successful trip through
Illinois and Ohio.
Rev. C. H. King is a delegate
to the General Conference next
week at Kansas City.
Gov. Kitchin has appointed
President R. L. Fritz, of Lenoir
College, a delegate to the South
ern Sociological Congress atNash
yille. Tenn.,May 7-10.
Miss Natalie Ballou, who is
teaching in Morganton.spent Sat
urday with her niece, Mrs. Ear
nest Herman.
President R. L. Fritz will de
liver the address at the Startown
High School commencement,
Friday May 3. His subject will
be Building the Country.
Mr. John Lowe, Hickory's fine
young seaman, recently come
home after long service on the
Colorado, entertained his kins
man, Rev. J. H. Shuford, at the
Huffry Tuesday.
The whole city will be grieved
to hear of the increasing illness
of Mr. J. H. Shuford at the
Richard Baker Hospital under
the dreaded Bright's disease.
Mr. Shuford has been ill for some
month? and does not mend.
Mrs. June Abernethy was
pleasantly surprised at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. J. R.
Weaver near Hickory on her 71
birthday, Apr. 20. Three gen
erations of descendants were
represented. A gret dinner
was served. A fuller account
will appear next week.
Mr. Wade H. Harris, the able
editor of the Charlotte News,
spent several days here this
week. Wade always likes to
come to a place that does things
like Hickory. He greatly en
joyed a visit to the Creamery.
Miss Myrtle and Lucile Little
learned Monday of the death of
their grandfather, Squire W. C.
McCoy, of Mecklenburg county.
He was a pleasant old gentlemen
and made many friends during
visits to this city.
Mr, Frank Allen has opened a dry
goods store in the store room where
Mr. T. E. Field ran his store for 40
years. It is not improbable ihat he
may yet add a line of groceries. He
is already buying eggs, butter and
chickens. Mr. Allen welcomes the
farmers to hitch as of yore, in his back
lot. See his ad in this issue.
Capt. Chalmers Hall, brother
of Mr. George W. Hall, and now
stationed at Ft Leavenworth,
has had patented an invention
which is likely to make him a
fortune. It is a device for auto
matic regulation of the speed of
automobiles, throwing them from
low to high gear or vice versa
without the use of a lever by
hand. They automatically slow
up according to the grade of the
hill they come to. Automobile
experts pin their faith to it and
believe it will stand the te t. If
it does, Capt. Hall, Hickory
wants you to come here and
build your factory to manufac
ture your invention.
The Catawba Co. Live Stock
association meets May 11 at the
Dutch Dairy Farms.
Officer Newton won the first
Regiment silver cup at the Gas
tonia target practce, scoring
135 out of a possible 150.
Webb will hardly have any
opposition at ths 9th district con
vention atGastonia June 9.
Mrs. Senora Gray and little
Margaret are visiting friends and
relatives in Greenville and other
places in South Carolina.
A call is signed by Messrs. G.
E. Bisaner, S. M. Hamrick and
and J. F. Abernethy, committee,
for nominating city officers, at
the City Hall tonight.
The commencement at Clare
mont will be as follows: May 12,
sermon, Rev. J. G. Garth, Ma/
13, 3 to 5 p. m., art exhibit,
May 13, Bp. m. commencement
concert. May 14, Bp. m. gmdu
ating exercises. Address by J.
L. Avery, esq., Morgan ton, N. C.
The Quarterly Conference for
the Connelly Springs and Ruth
erford college circuit Methodist
church, will embrace next Sat
urday and Sunday at Bollinger's
chapel, near Vildese. Commun
ion after the 11 o'clock service
Sunday.
v At the Thornton Acadamy of Music
tomorrow night apjear the Troubadours,
entertainers and rjusicians, who are
brought here the auspices of
Messrs. Hugh D'Anna and Horace
Lutz, who favor Hickory every year
with some fine musical attraction. The
programme includes the amphitheatre
scene from the las' days of Pompeii.
Prof. H. A. Hayes, Miss Bray,
a teacher, and i class of sixteen
orphans from tte Methodist Chil
dren's Home at Winston, gave an
entertainment at the Methodist
church Tuesday night which was
greatly enjoyed oy a large con
gregation. This institution is
doing a great wcrk and richly de
serves the support which the
Methodist people are giving it.
John Byrd, aged about 70.
died of a stroke of paralysis
Thursday, April 18, at 11 o'clock
p. m. He was' striken about 6
o'clock. The tody was shipped
to Durham, Friday for inter
ment, accompained by his wife,
Mrs. Alona. Three sons and one
daughter also survive, namely:
Charlie. William, Dippie, Hettie
and his wife.
Messrs. Geo. W. Crabtree and
Alfred Palmer, two hustling
young restaurant men, have
bought out Wilhs cafe, and, com
bining a syllable of each part
ner's name, will cal' their place,
"The Palmtree Cafe." Mr
Crabtree is from Atlanta and
Mr. Palmer from Vineland, N. J.
"Willis'" has been a popular eat
ing house for years, and these
young men will keep up its old
time reputation and prestige.
The Democrat calls attention to
their ad in this issue.
Hickory is to have the good
fortune to secure as residents
Mr. and Mrs. E. A.. Smith, of
Charlotte, who have bought the
old Dr. W. H. Nicholson subur
baivplace near the city, and will
move in at once. He bought it
from Mr. S. L. Shell. Mr. Smith
will build and manage the new
$300,000 cotton mill at Rhodhiss,
to which place he will have easy
access from here by motor or
other vehicle, especially when
we get our new sand clay roads.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith have ten
children, and the whole city
welcomes this interesting and
charming family.
Miss Margaret Ingold Bost's
brilliant graduating recital at the
school of expression at Clare
mont Monday night was was
attended. The versaitlity of Miss
Bost and her ability to adapt
herself to any phase of human
nature were remarkable. She
acquitted herself with great
credit in "Her First Recital;"
"The Whistling Regiment;"
"What Happened." "Potion
Scene, Romeo and Juliet," "The
Baby's Soliloquy," "Taking an
Elevator," and "The Angel's
Serenade.'' Miss Bost was as
sisted by Miss Bardin, Rutledge,
Essie Rowe, Frances Geitner,
Mrs. J. H. Shuford and Mr. K
B. Patterson during her recital.
The ushers were: "Misses
Mary Allen, Constance Bost
Glady's Reid. Mrs. E, B.
Menzies was her teacher.
Deserved promotion will come
to Agent Harry H. Little when
he leaves for Washington next
week to become travelling bag
gage inspector for the Southern
Railway. Mr. Little has for two
years been the agent here.
Handsome, genial, courteous,
the Southern Railway never had
a finer representative any where.
He will mske good on his new
job and keep a-climbing, though
everybody is sorry to say good
bye. His leaving causes a step
up all along the line of the fine
bunch of young men in the busy
railroad offices here: Mr. H. H.
Miller succeeds Mr. Little; Mr
Roy B. Stapp succeeds Mr, Miller
as ticket agent; Mr. E. N. Carr,
Mr. Stapp as bill clerk, Mr. Ain
sley Yoder, Mr. Carr at Mie
claim desk; and Mr. Herman
Kisergoes from yard clerk to the
freight house. The change is
effective tomorrow,
The Smith Greater Shoy s *
Mr. C. A. Moser, fire
has returned from St^ esvl^e
where he saw the Smitj/Greater
Shows, which will be " e L re
next week for tt>s benent
of the fire department, and
he declares tha/ that they
are "clean, and up-to
date," the ryost # attractive
feature being the big, trained
animal circu* with performing
lions, tigers leopards, jaguars,
pumas, hy/nas, bears, monkeys,
boar hoynds and many other
-animals All are in a big steel
arena at the same time with
Amejfcaand Europe's foremost
traj* ers * n charge. They give
a y'onderful and thrilling expo
sition of wild animal training.
There are ten other high class
•attractions, such as Colored Ar
istocracy, Mechanical Wonder,
Palace of Wonders, Daffodil.
Alma and many others.
At the winters quarters at
Augusta,Ga., the show spent sev
eral thousand dol ars reparing,
so that everthing is up-to-date.
It is knovn by the press and
public as one of the biggest,
best and cleanest carnival com
panies touring the South today.
This show was organized in
1894 by C. Smith and he has
spared no expense to make it the
biggest and best in the world. It
is not a lot of wild men shows
with ragged tents but every
thing is new and up-to-date, and
is worth the patronage of all, a
show that satiehes and pleases
everybody from bootblack to
banker.
After Cirippe
or any Sickness
Vinol Creates Strength
HERE IS PROOF
" After a long attack of Grippe,
Mrs. Vaught seemed unable to re
cover her strength. She was very
weak and had no appetite. VI
NOL rapidly improved her condi
tion and restored her to health. I
sincerely recommend its use during
convalescence or any run down
condition."
JUDGE C. N. VAUGHT,
Huntsville, Ala.
Miss Adelaide Garam, of Water
town, Wis., writes, "After a severe
attack of the Grippe, my system
was in a very weakened, nervous,
run-down condition. I took VI
NOL with the best of results,
and it made me feel better and
stronger than I have been for years."
We have never sold in our store
a more valuable health restorer for
weak and run down persons than
VINOL, and we ask such people in
this vicinity to try VINOL with
the understanding that their money
will be returned if it does not do
all we claim for it.
Men's
Silk Hose
25c per pair.
Think of it a pure
thread silk hose
for 25c, You'd
think they were
50c to look at
them.
Our "ultimatum"
50c silk hose are
the very best silk
hose ever seen
for the price. We
think you will
agree with us
when you see
them.
SUMMER
UNDERWEAR
in all styles and
fabrics, short and
1o n g lengths,
union suits or
seperate suit, 25c
to SIOO per gar=
ment.
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Moretz-Whitener
Gompany.
"THE QUALITY SHOP"
Where the Lions Roar.
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WILL HOLD I
A STREET FAIR!
In Hickory All Next Week, |
Beginning Monday, April 29. |
For the benefit of the |
Hickory Fire Department. J
Opposite Depot.
| THE TRUTH ABOUT 3
I GOOD CLOTHES. |
Cj First, you want style that will stay stylish, then fit, wear [p
24 and workmanship must be in your suit. Well, thats
what I offer. Each suit guaranteed to wear, to fit and
5j to stay stylish. Now I chirge no more for a suit r>|
|£ absolutely to your measure —all wool fabric —the best
fl£! of workmanship—than others ask for a ready-made. [Ji
Take just one look at my woolens—you can't go wrong 5*
g —when the prices range from $16.50 to $50,00.
| W. H. Clinkscales I
S Fields Building Phone 107
S I DO PRESSING. §
• What to Give—That's the Question i
We solved it long ago for people in just
such a position as you. Call and let us
talk it over. Between us we will be able
to pick a useful and agreeable gift, tint
will give the greatest delight to the re
cipient as well as yourself.
GEO. E. BISANAR j
Jeweler and Optometrist
I The Velvet Kind, j
I We have added an Innova- j
tion Iceless Soda Fountain,and
if you want good cream try
"The Velvet Kind." j
Ice cream cones, milk shakes j
and all soft drinks. Bread, j
cakes and pies. ...
Our Motto is quality. Our 'Phone is 235. I
CITY BAKERY, j
C. W. ELLINGTON, Proprietor.