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HICKORY. N. C., MAY 9, 1912.
ABEL A. SHUFORD.
In a speech in the court house
at Newton some years ago, the
late Romulus Z. Linney said:
"Eliminate the influence of A. A.
Shuford, and you darken even
door in Hickory and Catiwba
county." |What Mr. Linn«y
meant was the personal, direct
ing force of the man, for ir.fi i
ence, of course, cannot be elin i
r.ated, and lives on after dea h.
Bat the shadow he referred to
has fallen, and is lengthening
every day across the thresholds,
into the homes of the people of
the Piedmont.
In one of the crookeaest ages
of the world's history, Abel
Shuford was as straight as an
arrow. Tr esacretsof his succas?
were in his economy, his indus
try, his thrift and his keen busi
ness acumen. Every wobbling
cotton mill or other enterprise
that took refuge under the shel
ter of his business judgment
began to make money right
away. It was amazing how he
could hold the reins of so many
industries, and he could not have
done so had he not possessed the
rare genius of discovering busi
ness ability in yiung men, who
could take their cue from him.
In a day of multi-millionaires he
built up an honest fortune of
several hundred thousand dollars,
a striking example of what a
man can cleanly do in business
in t! | Sjuth, apart from the ar
tificial, hot house stimulus of
protection, rebates, etc.
The sincere modesty of the
man covered up his thousands of
benevolences and kindnesses. He
put S5O every month in the
hands of a certain business man
here to be used where most need
ed among the poor.
His power to inspire confidence
was remarkable, and it lay not in
profession but in the life he
lived and the scrupulous keeping
of his word.
It was as an earnest Christii n,
nowever, that his life counted
most, for "a man's life con
sisteth not in the things that he
possesseth." He was not too busy
to teach a Sunday school class
nor to serve his church as a dea
cm during his whole life, There
is little do ibt that the morality
of this little city was ballasted
bv A. A. Shuford's unflinching
attitude for the right more than
by any other agency. The Demo
crat has always rejoiced in the
assurance of his approval in
every effort it hi s made for mor
ality and right in the communi
ty.
His influence will live on, es
personal in the lives •of others
whom he touched.
We may be pardonel for a
personal reference, Mr. C, E. Gra
ham, now of St uth Carolina, was
one of the young rnen in whom
Mr. Shuford invested, and but
for the help of Mr. Graham, at a
time of need, the editor of this
paper would not have been able
to secure a college education,
in similar ways will his life
flow on through various human
channels, till it empties 'widely
and grandly into Eternity's
ocean.
This learned I from the shadow of a
Iree
Thattoandfro swayed on a gar
den wall,
Our shadow selves, our influence,
may fall
Where we can never be.
KINDERGARTEN.
The value of Kindergarten is
not generally realized. Mrs.
Abernethy's Kindergarten enter
tainment tomorrow evening will
afford an opportunity which all
parents in Hickory ought to wit
ness. Our little boy, not yet 5,
goes to that school, and is going
to be a green grass-hopper in
the play. He came home one I
day and said: "D*ddy, how
many fiat sides has a cube got?"
Why, we didn't ki.ow wftat a
cube was till we were« twelve
years old. Did you? At the
Kindergaiten he learned to sin?,
and it is alone worth all the tui
tion to see him look out of the
window at bed time in his night
ie and hear him recite: "Twinkle
twinke, little star." And that the
school developed the genuine
poetry in his soul (which he in
herits from his father) was
shown when he picked out the
beautifullest lassie there for his
sweetheart.
Two Tickets in West Hickory.
West Hickory, May 6.—A
second primary was held in West
Hickory last Monday night and
Q A. Hedrick was nominated
for mayor and L. R. Fry, Ed
Hahn and John Pierce for town
alderman, we now have too
full tickets out for town officers
and I suppose we will have rath
er a hot time at our election
next Tuesday.
J. E. Lovelace and family
from Stomy Poiut moved to the
Ivey one day last week and are,
working in the mill.
J. P. Burch bought a vacant
lot from L. R. Fry in Long
View a few days ago. He in
tends on building a dwelling
house on the lot in the near fu
ture.
J, W, Marshall recently bought
Calvin Abee's storehouse and
stock of goods in Long View.
Mr. Marshall is going to move
the store building off of Mr.
Abee's land and put it up on a
vacant lot that he bought a few
weeks ago from G. L. Bolick.
\t a meeting held last Thurs
day night by the citizens of the
town J. P. Downum was nomi
nated for one of the school trus
tees for the Graded school here.
Mr. Downum is overseer of spin
ning at the Ivey and will make a
good trustee.
Quite a number of young peo
ple from the Ivey attended the
carnival in Hickory last week.
Capt. Cole says he was kept busy
every evening duiing the week
running his car carrying pas
sengers to and from the show.
While he had to lose consider
able sleep by running his car at
night, he says he made a nice
sum of money.
J. W. Church has been down a
week or two with rheumatism
but we are glad to see he is able
to walk around again,
There is a number of cases of
whooping cough in West Hickory
at present but SD far as I have
heard the children who have it
are getting along all right.
L. E. Simms from King's
Mountain was here last Saturday
nd Sunday visiting the family
of Miss Mary Arney.
Mr. H. Coffey from Morgan
ton was here last week visited
the family of P. Berry. lOTA.
IMPORTANT
We want it distinctly un
derstood that there will be
no change in the voting on
subscriptions. You can get
just as much for your mon
ey today as you can through
out the life of the contest.
Turn in your subscriptions,
ge!" the paper started, and
take out a SPECIAL receipt
—The Hickory Democrat.
Send a Picture of Your
Baby to the Democrat,
Would you like to see your
little baby sweetheart peering
at you from the columns of
this paper? If you have a
good picture of your baby,
one that is satisfactory to you
just send it in to the contest
office and we will reproduce it
in the paper. We will return
the photo to you in as good
condition as we receive it. It
will be best to get in as soon
as possible as it is to be a case
of "first come, first served" in
this matter.
If you haven't a picture of
your baby that is satisfactory,
come to the office and get an
order to have one made—
without cost to you.
Mr. C.M. Hardin, Hickory's
able photographer, has been
appointed official photograper
of The Democrat Baby con
test and will take pictures of
all the contestants free of
charge. Come to the contest
office and get an order.
REMEiN BER
That the Pink Slips must be
returned to the contest office
the last week of the contest.
Please do not lose th;m. This
is important!
A SPRING POEM
IN LIVING VERSE
An Hour's Exemplification of
a Year of Delsarte and
Froebel.
The idea of making the
Delsarte system, commonly
known as physical culture,
the vehicle of presenting and
explaining the great problems
of existence to children is a
beautiful one; and if in the
presentation, a deeper mean
ing is not discovered, for the
adult as well as for the child,
either the poet has failed in
his work, or the adult mind
has become dtllled to the
beauties of life.
To illustrate how well such
lessons have been learned by
the Kindergarten class of
Mrs. H. D. Abernethy, they
will present a little play in the
Academy of Music on the
evening of May 10, to which
admittance is free. The child
ren, dressed as fairies, butter
flies, etc., will impersonate
the budding life, joy and
beauty of the spring.
How the Vote Stands.
DISTRICT NO. 1.
(Including all territory within
the corporate limits of Hickory.)
Mary Helen Flowers 40,000
Ruth Lanier 31,650
John F. Price 1,050
George Killian Bost 1 000
Henry R. bJlliott 1,000
Ruby Elizabeth Smith 1,000
Harry Gwin 1,050
Robert Lee Harris 33,750
Mary Belle Gwin 1,950
Bernice Morton 11,300
Andrew Rudesill 29,700
Thomas Strieker Shuford 1,000
James Stanley Crouch 34,000
James Oliver Mosteller 33,200
Amelia Stirewalt 10,100
Elia Marguerite Self 29,350
Prentiss L. Ketchie 1,100
Barrie Blackwelder 1,000!
Irene Eckart 1,000
Katherine B. Whitener 1,000
Donald A. Cilley 1,000 j
Thomas L. Cilley 1,000 1
Jack Hatcher I.ooo'
Katherine Harper 1,0001
Bobby Grimes 1,000
Leonard Moretz 1,000
Gwendoline Buchanan 1,500
Adrian Shuford 1,700
DISTRICT NO. 2,
(Including all territory outside
of Hickory in Catawoa and ad- i
joining counties.)
Newton,
Fred L. Sites R. 1. 40,000,
Lallie Summerow 26.850;
Vivian Drum. 1,050
Nell Wilkinson 12,00
Christine Sherrill 1,000
Martha Elizabeth Huitt 1,000
Frances Lutz 1,000
Conover.
Celia Margaret Isenhower 1,000
Claude Hubert Cline 1,000
Helen Smith, R. 1,000
McDewey Hunsucker, R, 1,000
Myrtle Smith 1,000
Claremont.
Mary Rose Moser 10,250
Crage Miller Setzer 1,000
Catawba.
Frances Sherrill 1,000
Edwina Carpenter 1,000
Evelyn Little 10,000
Helen Davis Long - 1,000
Granite Falls.
Sherrill twins 1.000
George Wiley Sherrill 3,300
Margaret Rebecca Coon 10,100
Sue Warlick 1,000
Edward Roy Sherrill 10,000
Hickory R. R.
Luther Huffman R. 2 40,000
Clyde Yount R. 1. 1,050
Margaret Campbell R, 1 37,050
Frankie Houston R 2, 1,000
Conrad Lee Brittain R5. 1,000
Virginia Lee Hefner R 2 40,000
Thelma Bowman, 14,300
Nathan Harrison 1,000
West Hickory.
Marsell Talbert 1,000
Beulah Eckart 1,700
Ruth Griffin 1,000
Highland.
Virginia Wilson Clark 1,000
Valdry Adeline Fox 1,000
Connelly Springs.
Coit Wilson, R. 2 21,550
Hudson.
Jessie May Herman 28,550
Claude Greer 1,000
Brookford.
Elizabeth Pitts 1,000
Carl Shuford 1,000
Reepsvilie
Yates Warlick Havnaer 1,000
Rhodhiss
Mary Teague 1,000
Paul Duray Poovey 1,000
Children cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
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§ BUSINESS LOCALS
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Ladies cambric and gauze un
dervvare at J, A. Bowles.
All kinds of poultry feeds at
City Feed Co. Aiso blood meal
and digester tankage for stock.
4-25-4t Phone 271.
FOR RENT—S room house and
one acre land, near Hickory Tan
nery, Apply at the Democrat
office.
Autos for hire. Anywhere
you want to go.
C. T. Morrison,
'Phone No. 145.
The "Korrect Shape" Oxfords
for men in tan or black, button
or lace at J. A. Bowles.
FOR SALE-10 acres 21-3
miles from depot, on Catawba
Springs road.
4-18-tf. Box 232.
FOR SALE —950-pound horse,
7 years old, perfect. See
4-17-tf. I. L. Lanier.
For fresh fish call on E. C.
Johnson.
See our new parasols and um
brellas at J. A. Bowles.
FOR SALE—A six room house
and 4 acres in East Hickory,
(Highland), fine water, good
orchard and outhouses. For
teims apply to
Edw. N. Hahn,
4-18-4t. Tjastonia, N. C
Summer silks for waists and
dresses at J. A. Bowles
TOMATO plants for sale in
any quantity by Mrs. E. L.
Springs.
Furnished room for rent, close
in. Apply to Box 334, 5-2-tf.
Buy your cambrick underwear
ready made and save the ex
pense of making. To be had
from J. A. Bowles.
FOR SALE—Two large desir
able building lots, plot 166 2-3 x
200; or would exchange for out
of-town land. Phone 37 or ad
dress Drawer G, Hickory, N. C.
Piano Tuner: Mr. W. F, Senn
of Charlotte, N. C„ one or the
best piano tuners in the State
will be in Hickory in about 10
days. If your piano needs tun
ing leave your order by phone
or otherwise at Hotel-Huffry.
W. P. Huffman.
WANTED- Some young white
girls for service in dining room.
Hotel Huffry.
Trunks and suitcases at «J. A.
Bowles.
FOR SALE — Thoroughbred Berk
shire and grade pigs. A. L. Baker,
Duteh Dairy Farm, Newton, Route
4. 5, 9, 2t. |
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Presbyterian Church Notes.
The pastor will preach next
Sunday morning to the children
on the subject "L2nt to the
Lord." There will be no service
at night as we give way to Clare
mont Commencement exercises
at the the Reformed church.
The officers of the church are
planning for an every member
canvas for one night next veek
with Tuesday or Wednesday from
6 to 8 o'clock. .
Rev, J. G. Garth will be ab
sent at the General Assembly on
May 19, and will probaly be in
Morganton on May 26. On May
26, Rev. E. M. Monroe of Mil
ford. Texas, will probably preach.
Mr. Monroe, is a brother of Rev.
C. A Monroe, and will attend
the General Assembly at Bristol
and come by to visit his brother
here.
How's This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known
F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years,
and believe him perfectly honorable in
all business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligation made
by bis firm,
NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE,
Toledo, 0.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Testimonials sent free. Price, 75c.
per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Take Hall's Family Pills for consti
pation.
Favors Killian for Treasurer.
To Uie Editor of the Democrat:
Dont fail to go to the Democratic
Primary May the 18th, 1912, and vote
for S. E. Killiam for Treasurer. He is
truly worthy of your support. He is an
old Confederate soldier and served his
country in many ways and any person
going to him for advice or favors he
never turns them away and always has
been a true Democrat and a friend to
the poor. Hickory township pays one
third ol the taxes of the county and is
certainly entitled to one full County
office.
A Democrat,
April, 29, 1912.
BON MARCHE | JSHS2&
A Word About The Bon Marche's Efficient Mail Order
Department
> ln the3e progressive days ordering Dry Goods by mail is simplified. All that is neces
sary is to sec jre one of our Handbooks, issued quarterly and therefore up-to-date in every
particular. From the Handbooks you get a specific idea of the msrchandise sold here.
The Summer Quarterly Handbook will be issued on June the tenth, and the items con
tained therein are guaranteed to be the latest on the market. If your name is not already on
our Mailing List, send it in at once. Even if you do not trade with us, it will keep you in
close touch with the price of merchandise of the better kind.
The Bon Marche is the largest and best known Departmant Store in North Carolina;
catering exclusively to Women who know and appreciate Better Goods.
We make cpecial prices to Hotel and Boarding House Keepsi-3, who buy Table Linens,
Redding, Rugs or Curtains in quanities,
Do the Hickory women read our Advertisements?
For three weeks past we have been running advertisements in this paper. Have
you read them? Hickory is one of the best towns in the State. There must be a con
siderable number of women who dress in Metropolitan fashion, yet we are getting iess
business from Hickory than from fourteen other towns much smaller. The only place to
secure the very best quality, in the State, is at the Bon Marche.
If you cannot come, write. Same day mail order service.
Men's
Shirts
Never has it been
our pleasure to show
such a varied assort
ment and such uni
form high quality in
skirts as we are
showing this season.
All styles soft at
tached and detached
collars, laundred de
tached collars, and
negligee shirts in
every pattern.
50c to $2.00
Men's and-boys'
underwear of every
description.
Moretz-Whitener
Clothing Co.
"THE QUALITY SHOP."
WE OFFER,
at a reduced price, two
number five, one number
ten and one number twelve
Be Laval Separators. These
have been slightly used but
are practically as good as
new. If interested, call
and see us. : a : :
We buy all kinds of
country produce and pay
the highest market prices.
Hickory Seed Co.
HICKORY, N. C.
Notice! Sale of Valuable Real
Estate.
Whereas, on the 17th. day of June,
1908, B. L. Marlow and Beatrice L,
Marlow, his wife, executed that certain
deed of trust to C. M. Slierrill registered
in Book 77 of Deeds, on page 351, in the
office of the Register of Deeds for Cataw
bi County, to secure the payment of the j
piiucipal and interest of a certain note
that day give., to the First Bnilding &
Loan Association of Hickory:
And whereas, on the 22d. day of No
vember, 1909, B. L. Marlow and Beatrice
L, Marl »w, his wife, executed that cer
tain deed of trust to G. R. Wootten reg
istered in Book 77 of deeds, on page
582, in the office of Register of deeds for
Catawba County, to secure the payment
of the principal and interest of a certain
note that day given to the First
Building and Loan Association of Hick
ory;
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Hickory, N. C.