$25 00 IN COLD TO BE GIVE* TIE BABY
TURNING IN THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF MONTIS
These Two Weeks Promise to
be the Liveliest of the Ba-[
by Contest.
SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE TO
BE THE BATTLE CRY
Do Not Be the Only One at the Bot
tom of the List—The People Liv
ing in District No. 2 Have a Grand
Opportunity to Win—Last of the
Special Prizes.
Have you started work for the
twenty-five dollars in gold? Which
District will be lucky enough to win
this mone?? —are questions we hear
on both sides. These two weeks
ought to be the best of all for our con
testants, as you all have a chance to
get the twenty five dollars in gold.
"Subscriptions" are to be the battle
cry this week; get them for a year or
two years or three years or five years,
and if you cannot get the long ones
take one for six months, they all count,
and avail yourself of this grand appor
tunity to win twenty-five dollars in
gold. Make an active campaign
among your friends, relatives and ac
quaintances during the intervening
days. Don't wait until the last min
ute to do your work. Take that sub
scription book of yours and get busy
If you don't some one else will and
later on when you do bestir yourself, it
will be to hear your friends say, "Oh,
why didn't you come before. I have
just given my subscription to one of
your neighbors'"
Get to work and show everyone
that you love your baby just as much
?s anyone can love their baby. Do
not be the only one at the bottom of
the list. Get in your subscriptions
and vote your baby up toward the
top. Work hard and faithfully and
by °rturday night, June Ist, you will
be surprised at the amount you have
done. Make up your mind that your
baby is going to win, that it just must
be one of the lucky ones, and then
proceed to put your determination into
effect.
And just a word in passing tp those
who do not care whether they win or
not. The contest manager is going to
take the most charitable view possible
and will concede that you love your
baby with the same wealth and warmth
of affection that others love their child
ren. Then why don't you get busy,
why don,t you pitch in asd Give sub
stantial evidence of your love for your
little darling? Why will you sit back
comfortably in your easy chair at
home, and see that coveted gold and
glory go to the baby of your next door
neighbor, perhaps. Why don t you
see to it that your little darling is
crowned king or queen of Cacawba and
adjoining counties.
You can do it if you only turn to
and get down to work, for vou have as
SPECIAL SALE
Beginning May 24th and
Closing June Bth, 1912.
As we desire to close our business we will offer
any and all our stock at greatly reduced prices
from now until June Bth.
Auction Sale on Each Saturday, Be-
ginning at 12 o'clock.
You can make money by buying any winter
goods we may have as the price is far under
the regular.
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We will do all we can to make it profitable for
you to deal with us during the sale.
We have no monkies to show you, but we have
some good merchandise at prices that will Jn=
terest you more.
SI.OO Goods at 79 cts
$2.50 Goods at gg
50c Goods at _• 11111111111111111111111111111138 cts.
2sc Goods at 19 ctß>
10c Goods at , 7 cts
Hosery during the Sale at per pair
Don't Fail To Attend This Sale.
YOURS TRULY,
LANIER MERCANTILE CO.
many friends as that neighbor of yours,
friends who would do just as much for
you and who are just as ardent admir
ers of your little chsrub.
Every body has an equal chance in
this race, the field is open to all, If
is a fair field and no favors. It will
depend entirely upon how much inter
est you show in vour baby's campaign
whether you win or not. If you are
already hustling for subscriptions, if
you continue to hustle right up to the
last moment, you are very likely to be
pleasently surprised at the result of
your labors.
There is room for plenty of good
work in both districts. Carry your
campaign with you wherever you go.
Talk contest to every one you meet,
and don't be discouraged by any of the
stories afloat. Ninety-nine of these
are not true, nor could they be true,
if one just stopped to think it over in
a dispassionate manner. Do not let
anyone who is prompted by jealousy
or envy turn you aside from your
coirse.
Do something on every day of the
week, cot merely one day, but every
day. Stick to the task with a tenacity
of purpose and a gnm determination
that will brook no defeat. Don't te
beaten and above all don't be discour
aged. .Would you admit, even to
yourself, that some other baby stands
higher in public estimation than
yours? Certainly not.
This ougr.t to be a banne." time for
you all, with the $25.00 in gold for a
prize, your friends will surely give you
their subscriptions if they ever intend
to. These are the last of the special
prizes.
'Tis said that opDortunity knocks
but once at a man's door, and this may
be your opportunity to get a good start
towards winning the gold and glory.
Grasp vour opportunity and be a win
ner.
To those who are in arrears on their
subscriptions we world like to say that
it should be a pleasure to pay the
charming solicitors that we have in the
field at present. There is nothing
that one can do for a mother that will
please her or compliment her so high
ly as to do something for her baby,
and when you take a subscription to
The Democrat you are doing that
very thing.
Good Advice.
Learn »x>hide your troubles. Your
friends has troubles of his own to hide,
help him by example. This is good
advice, but wheu a man walke? in the
morning with a raging, splitting head
ache, not enough energy to get up,
constipated, bad taste in the mouth,
tired legs, ft's not advice that a man
needs It's a good dose of Dr. King's
Blood and Liver Pills. Purity the
blood and send it bounding, coursing
through the veins, and make the liver
live. No purging, griping or nauseat
ing. 25c box at all medicine deal
ers.
Miss Mary Teague.
Here we have Miss Mary
Teague, the charming lifct^ e
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Teague, of Rhodhiss. Miss Mary
has a fine start in the baby con
test and just at present looks
like a winner of some of the
gold. She is a very sweet little
lady and anything her friends
can do to help her, she will ap
preciate we are sure.
How the Vote Stands.
DISTRICT NO. 1.
(Including all territory within
the corporate limits of Hickory.)
Mary Helen Flowers 60,000
Ruth Lanier 31,650
John F. Price
George Killian Bost 1 000
Henry R. Elliott 1,000
Ruby Elizabeth Smith 1,000
Harry Gwin 1.050
Robert Lee Harris 50,000
Mary Belle Gwin 3,900
Bernice Morton 13,300
Andrew Rudasill 38,700
Thomas Strieker Shuford 1,000
James Stanley Crouch 46,600
James Oliver Mosteller 33,200
Amelia Stiiewalt 10,250
Ella Marguerite Self 30,700
Prentiss L. Ketchie 1,100
Barrie Blackwelder 1,000
Irene Eckart
Katherine B. Whitener 1,000
Donald A. Cilley L,OT>O
Thomas L. Cilley 1,000
Jack Hatcher 1.000
Katherine Harper 1,000
Bobby Grimes 1,000
Leonard Moretz 1.000
Gwendoline Buchanan 1,500
Adrian Shuford 2,350
DISTRICT NO. 2,
(Including all territory outside
of Hickory in Catawba and ad
joining counties.)
Newton.
Fred L. Sites R. 1. fZ'orn
Lallie Summerow 40.850
Vivian Drum.
Nell Wilkinson
Christine Sherrill . n
Martha Elizabeth Hewitt 1.000
Frances Lutz I.OOU
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Master Adrian L. Shuford.
Here we have a young man
who needs no introduction in the
city of liickoiy, but for f e j* r
some of our out-of-town friends
haven't met this young mm, we
want to say he is Master Adrian
L. Shuford, son of Mr. and Mrs.
A. L. Shuford, of Hickory. If
Master Adrian don't lead some
of our contestants a merry chase
before the contest is over, the
contest manager will be mighty
mistaken,
Conover.
Celia Margaret Isenhower 1,4 >0
Claude Hubert Cline 1,000
Helen Smith, R. 1.000
McDewey Hunsucker, R, l.oou
Myrtle Smith 1,000
Claremont.
Mary Rose Moser 10,550
Crage Miller Setzer 1,000
Catawba.
Frances Sherrill }'555
Edwina Carpenter 1.000
Evelyn Little '???
Helen Davis Long 1,000
Granite Falls.
Sherrill twins 1,000
George Wiley Sherrill 55,150
Margaret Rebecca Coon 20,950
Sue Warlick 1,000
Edward Ray Sherrill 10,000
Ralph Kiziah 1,000
Hickory R. R.
Luther Huffman R. 2 54,450
Clyde Yount R. 1. 1.050
Margaret Campbell R, 1 54,800
Frankie Houston R 2. 1,000
Conrad Lee Brittain R5. 1,000
Virginia Lee Hefner R 2 40,700
Thelma Bowman, 24,100
Nathan Harrison 1,000
West Hickory.
Marsell Talbert 1,000
Beulah Eckart 2>,450
Ruth Griffin 46,830
Highland.
Virginia Wilson Clark 30,900
Valdry Adeline Fox 1,000
Connelly Springs.
Coit Wilson, R. 2 22,900
Hudson.
Jessie May Herman 60 000
Claude Greer 1,000
Brookford.
Elizabeth Pitts 1,000
Carl Shuford 1,000
Reepsvilie
Yates Warlick Havnaer 1,000
Rhodhiss
Mary Teague 46,000
Paul Duray Poovey 1,000
Morganton.
Henry Bridges 1,700
Williams twins 1,000
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.
We wish to announce to the
fathers and mothers of the
babies in the Grand Baby
Contest, that we will give
tickets of admission to the
moving picture show Saturday
afternoon and evening, May
25, 1912. Also if there are
any babies in Hickory who
are not already in the contest,
and their parents wish to
enter their names on our list
a share of the gold and glory,
we will give their parents free
tickets of admission to the
theatre. We want every baby
in Hickory to be at the
theatre Saturday afternoon.
The only stipulation we have
to make is that the father or
mother of the babies will call
for the tickets at the Contest
Office. The tickets will be
ready at 8 oVlock Saturday
morning and we will continue
to give them out until Satur
day evening at 8 o'clock.
L. A. JOYCE,
Contest Mgr.
REMEMBER
That the Yellow Slips must be
returned to the contest office
the last week of the contest.
Please do not lose them. This
is important!
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
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Miss Ruth Griffin.
Here is a dear little miss that
we want you all to meet. She is
Miss Ruth Griffin, the charming
little daughter of Mrs. C. C.
Griffin, of West Hickory. She
has a very ambitious mother and
a number of friends who are
anxious tf see her a winner of
some of the gdld that is to, be
given awny by the Democrat,
June 15, 5012, and as a little
extra ambition and energy is all
that is needed to carry off the
prizes, without a doubt Miss Ruth
will be one of the winners.
VOTE FOR TREASURER
IS IN ft BAD TANGLE
Preferential Primary Ballots Are
Puzzling the Canvassers
TO BE TAKEN OVER AT NEWTON
Sherrill, Drum, Killian and Cline in
the Lead-Straw Ballots for Pres
ident and U. S. Senator—
Chairman Shuford Will
Not Certify Under
wood Ballots
In the county primaries Satur
day the greatest interest was in
the treasurer, for which a pre
ferential primary was provided,
the first ever held in the State.
In Hickory Squire Killian wat
seemingly the favorite with Mr.
Charlie Cline second choice.
The preferential ticket com
plicated the vote so that no defi
nite returns could be made, ano
county Chairman Elliott deter
mined to have all the ballot*
brought in from every
in the county and counted at t e
county convention. Sherrill,
Drum, Killian and Cline are the
leading candidates. Messrs.
Self and Brown are hardly in
the running, it is said.
There was a good deal ol
apathy on the rest of the ticket
and the State ticket and the vote,
at least in Hickory, was small.
The Underwood advocates here
were active and got out tickets
far their man though there was
no provision for such a vote in
the State executive committee's
instructions. Chairman Shuford
of the Hickory township precinct
convention declared that he
would not certify the Underwood
vote nor any other presidential
vote to the county convention;
nor the vote tor S. L. Whitener
for county commissioner, as no
notice of such a vote had been
filed. When it was known that
Underwood tickets were being
voted, some Wilson men got out
tickets in the Southside precinct
in order to try to offset the effect
if the other votes.
The South side elected its ex
ecutive committee as follows:
Junius Yoder, N. S. Dasher, G.
D. Barger, W. A. Self and T. J.
Leonard. The North side: R
M. Pitts, C. W. Bagby, W. J.
Shuford, D. L. Russell and Q. E.
Herman.
All Democrats who report to
their precinct chairman in New
ton at 11 o'clock the day of the
convention were made delegates
to the county convention.
The News gives the vote for
treasurer in Newton as follows:
Mr. Drum led with 123 first and
54 second choice votes; Mr. Sher
rill followed with 55 and 31; Mr.
Self received 23 ana 22; Mr. Kil
lian 12 and 15; Mr. Brown 6 and
16, Mr. Cline 1 and 3.
A presidential vote was taken
in Newton, too, resulting: Wil
son 171, Underwood 71 and Har
man 2. Also for Senator, Sim
mons getting 155, Kitchin 6, and
•Clark 1. These "primaries"
were sprung with more or less
suddenness and are not fully
representative.
In Iredell Mr. Turner and his
ticket, running on the platform
of abolishing the fee svstem,
was defeated by the A. D. Watt*
ticket.
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Master Edward R. Sherrill.
This is to introduce Master
Edward R. Sherrill, of Granite
Falls, R. F. D. No. 2. He is one
of our curly-haired darlings and
a very popular little chap. He
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Messrs! Don Znd~ Pn
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OHild ronT Cry
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