Established 1899
BREEZES BLOWING
ATBLOWINC ROCK
A Delightful and Happy Crowd
at the Green Park Hotel.
CHARLOTTE, SALISBURY THERE
Beauties from Seven States Make up
a Glorious Bouquet of Human
Loveliness—The First Dance
Held Friday Night.
By Old Hurrygraph.
Green Park Hotel, Green Park,
N. C.,— l wonder if Hickory, and
the "down the country
are looking up this way with a
jealous eye, and a yearninir hea t
longing to enjoy the delights oi
this beautiful country—this sani
tarium of nature; the workshop
of the clouds. The JBiuting
Rock breezes are chasing each
o her over mountain crest and
through valley and dale in the
most frolicksome manner. Tne
themometer is frisking around
in the fifties, and July is as
pleasant as September. A man
wrapped up in his thoughts and
business up here gets pretty cool;
he must have heavier clothing.
The atmosphere is at its height
—4,300 feet—affording a delight
ful rest for the weary. This is
indeed the home of health, the
resort of rest, and the place of
pleasing pleasure.
THE GREEN PARK HOTEL.
This beautifully located hotel,
modern in all of its appointments,
is a gem in the mountains. Many
new improvements have been
made this season; a complete
system of water works added,
with private baths. The table
and the service is splendid. None j
finer, The grounds have been [
beautified; the spring encased j
in a new cement flooring and j
adorned with a new pavillion.i
The guests are charmed and are
full of lively pleasure. It is a 0
animated scene when bowling
begins, tennis is played, and
croquet diaws the sojourners out'
on the lawns. The scenery is 1
the most picturesque in grandeur j
to be found in any land, and !
travelers here now acknowledge
this Blowing Rock country to be
the Switzerland of America.
PERTAINING TO PEOPLE AND
PLEASURES.
The beauty of seven States are
gathered here and a more lovely j
bouquet of feminine loveliness |
cannot Le found at any resort, i
They are only rivaled by the
beautiful flora of this wonderful
and beautifui section—the natur
al art gallery of the nood "Old
North State." The younger set
of Green Park, the other hotels
and the cottages, had their first
big dance here Friday night, and
matron and maid, and benedict
and beau, vied with each other
in the terpsichorean art of having
pleasure. The music was furn
ished by the Italian orchestra, of
Washington, which furnishes the
inspiration for the evening
pleasure of the dancers every
evening at the Green Park; aids
digestion at meal time, and wakes
the guests at ear.y morn with a
"concord of sweet sounds."
Hickory ought to be in the
round of social pleasures that
give such a delightful zest to the
Green Park atmosphere. It will
give them a new life for business.
Charlotte is well represented
here. Capt. A. G. Brenizer says
he is twenty years younger, and
he is not old, either. He heads
the Charlotte colony. The others
are Dr. Addison G. Brenizer,
Mrs. V. T. Burroughs, Miss Alida
Oliver, W. H. McCade, Jr., and
Mrs. Chas. W. Clark.
From Salisbury is Mr. G, A.
Fisher, wife and two children,
Miss Katherine and Master G.
A. Jr. Mr. Fisher has opened
a splendid livery stabie with fine
stock and vehicles for Jthe use oi
the Green Park guests. W. H.
Wallace, of Salisbury, is also so
journing here.
The Craig cottage, near the
libwing Rock hotel, is -now oc
cupied bv Mrs E. W. Mellon, oi
C larlotte. She is entertaining a
merry party of young people,
a.nontf whom are Misses Ma>>
Neil, Sallie, Janet, Margaret ana
June Mellon, and Mr. L. J.
Brady, of El Reno, Olila , anu
W. H. McCabe, of Charlotte.
Come up, Coi. Banks, and
enjoy the real thing in the waj
ot rest and recuperation that wih
give a new inspiration to youi
journalistic duties.
A prominent yoang hardware*
dealer last week, went to Phila
delphia on a business trip. On
his return he lost his suit case at
Washington, D. C. Owing to the
generosity of his personal friend*
he is able to appear on the streets
without liability to arrest.
fflE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
Catawba County Canning Club.
The Girl's Tomato Clubs are an in
teresting work of this section. I have
been holding canning demonstrations
as often as I saw fit. Demonstrations
held were as follows:
July 29th 20 members present at
my home, Mis? Lillian Hefner assisted
me in giving the demonstration.
July 12th met at the home of Miss
Ceretta Miller with 7 members and 7
visitors present. Mr. E. L. Flowers
assisted.
July 17th met with a small group
meeting at the home of Miss Ula Bolch.
10 present. Mr. Miller of Hickory,
wha is doing canning work with Mr.
E L Flowers, assisted.
July 19. met at the home of Misses
Lela and Etta Huffman 19 present,
assisted by Mr Pink Huffman.
July 23rd, met at the home of
blisses Anna Lee and Grace Lutz - 9
members present
July 25th, met wifh Misses Katy
and Fannie Poovey. Haa very suc
cessful meetings each time.
I believe that these cannings are very
instructive. The girls have all learned
to can and seem to enjoy the work.
We want to thank these good people
who have been kind enough to assist
us with the work.
The Club girls are all doing ticely
with their work. They become a little
discouraged sometimes with their
plants dying with the wilt. The rain
has also caused manv to rot.
There will be a Farmers Institute
held in Newton, N. C , and part of the
Clubs will give a canning demonstra
tion at that place at that time. We
hope our farmers and others will feel
interested enough to come out and see
what oir girls have been doing. We
especially want the County Superin
tendent to be with us on that day.
If any girl should have trouble with
canning, if she will phone or write me
I will come to her at once.
Hoping that the are all very
successful with their canning. I am.
Very truly yours,
- MAUDE E. ECKARD, .
Collaborator.
Granite, the Proposed New County.
Granite Falls, July 22. Granite
County, Granite Falls, the county
seat, seems to be gaining some
headway. Very little or no
kicking has been heard. Whether
it is a good sign or not, I don't
know, but there will be an effort
made to form such a' county in
the near future. •
There are a lot of advantages
to a great many people in such
a county and our town should
not let such an opportunity pass
without an effort to establish the
same. The majority of the
people would be within 8 miles of
town instead of 8 to 20. . The
people in the lower end of this
courty and Burke are close to
20 miles from the court house, so
it would be a great saving in the
mileage. It is proposed to leave
the same rate of taxation and
would not hurt anybody except
what it took from the two old
counties. We will write more
about this as things develop,
Dr. and Mrs. Geo. Flowers of
Hickory visited his brother. Mr.
C. T. Flowers, near town over
Sunday.
Mrs. A. C. Bradly, of Powells,
lenn., is visiting her father, Mr.
C. T. Flowers.
The town commissioners have
installed a Unit Road Machine
which seems to do the work.
Starnes and Bowman are going
to finish up their store building
which burned out over a year
ago, right away, and this on one
of the best locations in town, of
course it will be rented right
away.
Mrs. J. M. Allred, who is in
the Richard Baker Hospital at
Hickory, is reported much better.
Mr. J. V. Stirewalt, who has
been sick for a long time with a
complication of diseases, will go
to Statesville this week for treat
ment and possibly an operation.
Baby Show Coming Soon.
The Baby Show opens at the Air
dome Monday night, August sth.
The Dixie Amusement Co's. special
photographers aie photographing all of
the children of the city free of charge
to be shown on the big curtain at the
Airdome.
This entertainment has been at
tracting wide attention wherever it has
been and we look for a large gathering
or the towns inhabitants to see the
pictures every night next week.
Besides the children's pictures the
kodak man has been snapping pictures
of many of the grown ups at times
when they least expect it and many a
hearty laugh will result when some of
these pictures are shown. The com
pany give a presentto those whose
pictures are caught this way provided
they are in the Airdome when their
pictures are shown.
There will be many laughable con- ,
tests for the boys and girls and lots of
fun for everybody.
Altogether this promises to be the
most interesting entertainment of the
season and nothing short of a cyclone
or earthquake can keep the people
away from the Airdome next week. I
HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY. AUGUST 1, 1912
| GENERAL NEWS |
The cotton mill employees of
Hickory should congratulate
themselves that they do not live
in Japan, whsre the average daily
wages are 22 26 cents tor male,
and 14.19 cents for female.
Harry Thaw, the slayer of
Stanford White, for the third
time has been declared insane
and remanded back to the Mat
teawan Asylum for the criminal
J insane. -
House Committee on A.gricul
iture has recommended an ap
j propriation of $500,000 to stop
; the ravages of the army worm in
I the southern states. Sec. Wilson
requested it.
If you are lucky enough to get
a $20.00 national bank note be
sure it is not counterfeit, for
there are some in circulation.
Don't live in a room in which
there is no fresh air. Don't work
in a room in which there is no
fresh air. Don't sleep in a room
in which therejs no fresh air.
The Forsyth grand jury has
returned a true bill against M. L
and J. C. Stewart charged with
attempting to burn their printing
plant in the city of Winston
several weeks ago.
Mrs. Hettie Green, the world's
richest woman, who is now in
her 78th .year, has been baptized
into the Episcopal church and
will be confirmed as a member.
Consumption causes more
deaths than flood, famine, fire,
earthquake, war and tornado all
combined.
More than peven-eights of the
excavation work on the Panama
canal has been completed and it
seems that it can be completed
on scheduled time, Jan. 1, 1915.
Boys corn clubs seem to be
very satisfactory, at least in
North Carolina. The average
corn yield of farmers of this
state is about 20 bushels to the
acre. The average per acre for
a number of boys clubs is 50
bushels per acre. If the whole
state, could do as well as the boys
it would mean 80 to 100 million
dollars more to our state.
Judge Peter C. Little and wife,
of Globe, Ariz., and son, Mr.
Kirby D. Little, of Los Angeles,
California, spent last week in the
city visiting his niece, Mrs. W.
A. Hahn
Mr. J. L. Latta has returned
from a Northern trip. He says
that while in Philadelphia he
heard Woodrow Wilson spoken of
in highest terms by Republican
manufacturers and business men,
who even declared their belief
that he would carry Pennsyl
vania. The Bull Moose pa/ty is
absorbing the most undesirable
element of the Democracy, while
Flynn's support of T. R. is hurt
ing the Republicans.
Recorder Yount spent Sunday
at the Blowing Rock Hotel, where
there are 75 guests, while the
hot weather is driving people to
the Rock.
Don't Forget
The Democrat's Special '"Trade
Week" Edition will be "pulled off"
August 8, and we will tell you how to
save money and get Railroad Fare
Free by shopping with Hickory merchants
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, TO SATURDAY, AUGUST 17
Aside from refunding five per cent
of your purchase, Hickory merchants
will offer special bargains "Trade Week."
You lose money if you trade with
merchants during "Trade Week" who do
not agree to refund your fare.
. ♦
Ivey Dots.
West Hickory, July 29. All is
quiet here at present. There
has not been much changing of,
hands at the mill recently.
J. P. Abee moved . here from
Brookford last week and is work
ing in the mili.
Prank Williams has been here j
several days visiting his brother,
| R. W. Williams.
Grover Clark went from here
to Altayista, Va, a few days ago
He is going to work in the new
mill that is starting up there.
Mrs. Fanaie Johnson died here
iast Th«rsd|y, July 25, and was
Chapel. She
leaves a husband and one infant
2hild, a father and mother and
several brothers and sisters to
nourn her departure. They
have the sympathy of their
many friends in their sad berea
vement.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Walker
went to Catawba Saturday to
visit Mrs. Walker's sister. They
returned Sunday.
Miss Myrtle Hayes, from
Granite, has been here for several
days visiting Miss Minnie and
Carrie Rerry.
Miss Merlie Finger, of Salis
bury, has been here several days
visiting the family of Mr, Q. A.
Heddrick.
Misses" Sallie and Annie Down
um and several other ladies from
Charlotte are here at present vis
iting Misses Gertrude, Ida and
Joncey Downum, the daughters
of Mr. J. P. Downum.
Mr. G. T-. Barger is wearing a
broad smile just now. The stork
visited his home a few days ago
and left a fine gill.
Mrs. A. P. Ward was here
Saturday and Sunday visiting
her daughter Mrs. Sanford Park
er.
Mr. and Mrs. Wake McKenzie
and Mrs. Barbra Hahn spent
Saturday and Sunday with Mrs.
Hahn's mother who lives several
mileseastof Hickory.
Miss Minnie Abee went to
Drexel Saturday to spend a week
with her uncle, J. M. Abee.
J. W. Bradley sold his house
and lot in West Hickory to J. C.
Hartsoe a few days ago.
Miss Julia Richards went over
near Lenoir last week to visit
her uncle and other relatives
who live there. ICTA
Mr. Robinson's Corn Day.
Mr. John W. Rolinso I has de
termined on Aug. 7th as the Is e
for his corn da), when people
from everywhere are invited to
call and see his splendid yield.
Visitors from Hickory and New
ton have been coming out every
day and are astonished at the
fine fields. Don't miss it.
Parson-Hawkins
Married at the home of H. A.
Adams in Icard township, Burke
Co., on last Sunday evening Mr.
Crawford Parson to Miss Ada
Hawkins, both of Catawba
county. The marriage was well
attended by friends of the bride
and groom. They will reside in
Mooresville. The ceremony was
performed by H. A. Adams.
t COMMENT !
PROTECT.ON AND LABOR.
A writer in Mr. Bryan's Commoner
says that American labor is not fooled
*flth the argument that protection
helps labor, but has realized that
wherever protection has raised wages
lit has also raised the prices of those
tnings that wages purchase, and that
wherever the tariff wall has kept out
the products of European labor it has
resulted in drawing to this country the
European workmen thus deprived of
employment. When American labcr
sees that the only result is to make it
less profitable to it to have the Euro
pean laborer live and work here instead
of at home, the end won't be far away
PANAMA TOLLS.
The Charlotte Observer of July 29th
thinks, as "The United States is al
ready bearing all interest charges oy
payment of interest on canal bonds,
every nation should be required to pay
part of this interest accounts in tolls."
We do not think as our esteemed
Observer does. Let Uncle Sam pay
all interest charges as he is doing now.
Also cost of maintenance and fortifica
tion, then let the United States charge
what she pleases as tolls, allowing her
own coastwise vessels to use canal free.
United States n.oney pays for the
canal and all profit should go into the
U. S. Treasuiy.
Democracy will float back to its own
again this year to the tune of Dixie.
Hickory's Contributions.
The following contributions to
the News & Observer's Wilson
and Marshall campaign fund
have been sent from Hickory:
W. A Self, $ 5.00
Z.B.Buchanan 1.00
J. H. Aiken, 1.00
A. P. Whitener, 1.00
A. D. Elliott, 25.00
Bagby and Blackwelder 2.00
Cash, 1.00
M. H. Yount, 1.05
R, A. Grimes, * 1.00
W. X Reid, 1.00
Cash, 1.00
C. H. Cline, 1 00
H. C. Lentz, • 1.00
N. W. Clark, 1.00
W. B. Councill, 5.00
E. B. Jones, 1.00
D. J. Jones, 1.00
D. L. Russell, 1.00
W. J. Shuford, 2.50
H. C. Menzies, 1.00
G. E. Bisanar, 1.00
Total $55.50
Mesdames L. R. Whitener, C.
C. Bost and J. L. Murphy left
Tuesday for Burlington, to at
tend the annual meeting of the
Woman's Missionary Society of
North Carolina Classis. Misses
Frances Geitner, Mary Allen
and Constance Bost accompanied
them as representatives of the
Hickory Mission Band.
Democrat and Press,Consolic a ted i 905
An Impractical Progress - ve.
' New York World.
[ Sagamore Hill must regan
♦Voodrow Wilson as a hopelt t;
impractical politician.
Here is a candidate so innocen
ind unsophisticated, so much oi
i closet philosopher, that he cai
ries his political principles intc
the management of his cam
paign.
In selecting his campaign man
agers he turns to the progressive
democrats who identified them
selves with his candidacy and
lelped carry it on to victory.
There are no machine politician;-
among them, no corporation law
/ers who capitilize their political
influence, no statesmen with
j powerful Wall street connections
—simply Democrats like Mc-
Combsand McAdoo and O'Gor
nan and Gore and Burleson and
denry and their kind. There! art
no friends of "the great Morgan
mtei ests," no Steel Trust finan
ciers or Harvester Trust promo
ters or bosses who have suddenly
oeen consecrated by their support
of his candidacy.
Such a man is too impossibly
theoretical to be trusted with the
powers of government. He
would never think of secretly in
viting a Harriman to the White
tiouse a week before election and
getting a $260,000 campaign fund
out of the visit. He would not
even know how to conceal the
contribution under roses of
righteousness in case it found its
wav into his campaign coffers.
That kind of a candidate is not
a Man of My Type, If that is
the sort of campaign Wilson in
tends to make, the necessity of
My nomination grows more im
perative than ever. We must
not only save the country from
the crooks and thieves and
brigands and bandits and rob
bers and rural tories, but we
must save it from the doctri
naries and the text-book . theo
orist.
Vote in Senatorial Primary.
Statesville Landmark.
✓
That is an interesting story Mr.
Walter Clark, Jr., tells of the
meeting of the Democratic State
committee in Raleigh on the 9th.
It throws much light on certain
matters and contradicts certain
statements that have been pub
lished. The supporters of Sena
tor Simmons have been disposed
to laugh at Gov. Kichin's de
mand that the State committee
give a clear definition to the
words 4 'Democratic ticket" in the
senatorial primary regulations,
but it is apparent, regardless of
any differences on the senatorial
matter, that unless a definite
rule is laid down tne words may
be interpreted differently in
every precinct in the State,
which would lead to confusion
and endless disuute.
It is well known that there are
a large number of people in the
State who vote the national Re
publican ticket and the State snd
county Democratic ticket. This
class is composed of business
man—manufacturers, bankers
and others, who believe in pro
tection. The Kitchin and Clark
people charge that from the
action of the Simmons men on
the executive committee it is
their purpose to let these nation
al Republicans vote in the
senatorial primary, as they would
vote for Senator Simmons, While
The Landmark is not laying
down rules for anybody, it seems
to it that this would be an ano
malous proceeding—permitting
men who will not support the
Democratic candidate for Presi
dent to help name the Democratic
United States Senator (no matter
which candidate they vote for),
when this Senator would be ex
pected to help carry out the
policies of the presidential can
didate for whom they refu. Ed to
vote. This paper is of the
opinion that it would be unwise
to exclude voters from the
senatorial primary who might
scratch a name or two on the
ticket, but it inclines to the
opinion that it would be better
to do that than to admit voters
who vote for Republican candi
dates. It is to be hoped that the
Democratic committee will be
able to lay down a rule that will
be reasonable and generally
satisfactory.
The Treasury Department has
turned over to the Department
of Agriculture 32,000 acres of
government land in Clay and
Graham county, N. C. for the
Appalachian Park, nearly 40
years ago this land was forfeited
to the government, anu by a re
cent act of cong( ess the Treas
ury department was authorized
to transfer it to the Department
of Agriculture. Added to what
the Park commission has con
tracted for this makes a total of
78,500 acres in North Carolina
for reservation.
mors COMV
010 BEST FIRING
-apt. Lverly's Men Highly Com
plimented by Officers.
INE WORK IN SHAM BATTLE
iickory is Disputing With Charlotte,
Who is Trying to Claim Our
Honors —Capt Lyerly Re
plies to Claim—Mrs.
Chadwick a t
Morehead
Editorial correspondence.
Morehead City, July 29—One of the
nost pleasant midsummer meetings of
he press association which Secretary
Sherrill ever arranged has just been con
cluded here. There is only time now
for brief mention. We were delight
fully entertained at the Atlantic Hotel.
Our meeting over-lapped with the en
campment the First Regiment and we
>aw lots of Hickory's sturdy soldier
boys. Capt. Lyerly gave us a special
invitation to the grand military ball. In
his white uniform, lithe, tall, graceful
and debonair, there was not a hand
somer officer on the floor than Capt.
Lyerly. •
Mrs. Edwina Chadwick was one of
the most delighted onlookers on this
occasion. She has been spending the
summer at Morehead.
Capt. Will.Robertson, an old friend,
approached the Democrat man one
evening, and said:
"You Hickory people ought to be
proud of your military company, and
stand by it. This afternoon I congratu
lated Capt. Lyerly on the fact that his
company did the best battle-firing of any
company in the regiment if not in the
state guard. I also overheard Col.
Gardner and Col. Dougherty, the lat
ter of the U, S. army, congratulating
him on the same achievement."
Since writing this we notice that
Charlotte lays claim to this honor,
which Capt. Lyerly disputes in a card in
the Observer of July 30 as follows:
"1 notice in your paper of July 27th
under the head of "Made Splendid Rec
ord," on page 6, that the Charlotte
Military Company D made the best
best record in shooting at Camp Glen
during encampment.
This is a mistake, and I would be glad
for you to correct it.
During encampment there were two
different kinds of shooting, target firing
and compahy firing. In both of these
firings the Hickory Rifles Co. A, led.
We qualified 17 marksmen agains 16 for
Asheville and 14 for Charlotte. Also
we have one expert rifleman who did
not get to shoot and who was awarded
the Royster gold metal for the best shot
in the State. This man was Quarter
master Newton. He was detailed at
camp as instructor. In company firing
we also led, scoring 12 per cent against
7 per cent for Charlotte company. If
you will glance over the official scores
you will see that our company scoring
was as great as the combined score of
the next two companies*. We also
qualified one expert pistol shot whereas
there was not any one else to qualify,
except Captain Baird, who had already
qualified before this encampment. Our
company led everything in shooting as
the official record will show, and it is
an injustice to us for the Charlotte
company to claim it, and not be correct
ed. We are sorry that you were misin
lormed in this matter and I hope you
will correct it in your next edition.
Yours truly,
GEORGE L. LYERLY,
Captain Company A.
Special Railroad Rates on Account of
North Carolina Good Roads As
sociation Convention.
Arrangements have been made with
the following railroads: Atlantic Coast
Line; Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio;
Durham and Southern; Norfolk South
ern and (Raleigh, Charlotte and South
ern) ; Seaboard Air Line, and Southern,
(Danville and Western), for excursion
rates to Charlotte, N. C., and return
on account of the North Carolina Good
Roads Association Convention which
is to be held there August 1 and 2,
from all points in North Carolina on
the above lines and from Portsmouth,
Suffolk, Boykins, and Danville, Va.,
These excursion tickets will be on
sale going, from July 31, and on
trains scheduled to arrive at Charlotte
before noon of August 2. Returning
passengers must plan to reach original
starting point not later than miduight
of August 5. The excursion rates are
on file at the depots, and, in each
case, is approximately equal to one
fare plus one third, except where the
original fare is under one dollar.
JOSEPH HYDE PRATT,
Sec. N. C. Good Roads Association,
Mrs. J. F. Peterson left Mon
day for Graham, to attend the
golden wedding of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. T. N. H. Clenden
nin. One remarkable feature in
the celebration of this event is:
the same minister who performed
the ceremony fifty years ago is
to be present at this time, July
31st. Miss Frances Peterson
left the same day and Miss Lois
Peterson Tuesday to attend the
, same joyous event.