Established 1899
NEST FARMERS
CONVENTION EVER HEED
Elizabeth City Newspaper Send
Excursion of 279 Farmers
DEMOCRAT HAD MAN THERE
Retiring President W. J. Shuford
lells What We May Learn frcm
the Danes—Uncle Sams' Man
Gives Fine Practical Talk—
Women's Department Hears
Valuable Advice A
Great Meeting.
Written for the Democrat by
Dr. R.Wood Brown.
The Hickory Democrat sent ]
the writer to Raieigh in order to j
£ive its readers originally the I
the proceedings of the largest
Srate Farmers Convention ever
held in the State of North Caro
lina. It was an inspiration to
see GOO farmers and their wives
seated in the Agricultural and
Mechanicai college auditorium.
The spacious room without posts
or pillars was over two thirds
full. There was riuch detail and
statistics in the convention, but
we write for a i eoeral public and
will not give a chronological re
port.
The convention would not have
been complete without the pres
ence of its president, W. J. Shu
ford, of Hickory. He under
stands parlimentary law and
handled the big meetings to the
satisfaction of every one.
Mr. Shuford opened the third
session of the State Farmers
Convention, in his breezy, happy
manner. He thinks the farmers
have done extremely well but is
sure he could do much better.
He urged the present methods of
institute work, dwelling upon the
vast benefits derivded socially and
financially. He looks upon the
institute as a place where far
mer can bemoan their errors,
elate over their success, and ex
change their experiences. He
thinks the rural churches do not
recognize their power and in
fluence and miss many opportu
nities to further the interest of
the farmer.
LESSONS FROM THE DANES.
Mr. Shuford dwelt upon the
co-operation of the Danish far
mer. The Danes are educated
larmers owing to the govern
n ent employing experts to teach
them scientific, modern farming. •
'ihe Danish creameries are|
amongst the best and furnish j
London her supply of dairy pro- i
ducts. He told how the Danes j
never shipped a product until it
was perfect, not wishing to in
vite criticism.
Mr. Shuford spoke of the mat
ter of rural credits, one which
both parties have taken up.
The Southern Commercial Con
gress recommends that two del
egates be sent to Germany to
make a study of this first-hand.
He hoped that North Carolina
will send two of her best
larmers to do the same thing. I
He declared that permanent
improvement of farming methods
must be brought about by two
things. Farmers must not know
the value of scientific methods
and they must be given funds for
their purpose. He discussed at
some length the German and
French system of credit.
UNCLE SAM SENDS A MAN.
Mr. Bradford Knapp of the U.
S. Department of Agriculture
followed Mr. Shuford. Mr.
Knapp thinks the farmer de
pends too much on providence.
Ho told the story of a pastor be
ing asked to prav for ram. The
minister said: " 0 Lord- send
my people rain. Their crops
need rain, the ground is dry, but
0 Lord they do not know what.
we do. they need 0 Lord more'
knowledge, deeper plowing and
more manure." Mr. Knapp
thinks the farmer had better
raise the grade than the quantity.
Do not try to exceed tne record
per acre of corn, cotton or farm
animals at the expense of the
grade of the same. Mr. Knapp
also said that a man who wants
t-j be a farmer and knows how
to be a farmer gets the best re
sults from the soil. He also
spoke very highly of the result of
agricultural colleges, saying that
the U. S. D( partment of Agricul-
wished to assist them in
every way possible.
TEACH GIRLS HOW TO COOK.
Mrs. W. R. Hollowell of the
womans work in North Carolina:
An article that has real merit should
in f irae become popular. That such
is the case with Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy has been attested by many
d:alers. Here is one of them. H,
w - Hendrickson, Ohio Falls, Ind.,
writes, "Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy is the best for coughs, colds and
croup, and is my best seller," For
saie by oil dealers.
THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
It was not what they have done
but what they ought to do. thit
is to make homes in N. C. Wom
en should know what to do an
how to do it. Particularly tlv
preparation of food. Bread mak
ing should be taught in public
schools, as bread is eaten 3 times
a day for 365 days in a year.
Scholars should also be taught to
to make muffins, soda and baking
powder biscuits, waffles, etc.
Mrs. Hollowell firmly believes
that every girl should be a cock
before she graduates.
POINTS ON BABIES.
Dr. Dixon Carroll, of Raleigh,
spoke at length upon the ca»*e
and treatment of babies. She
dwells upon those points which
give ease and life to young in
fants. Her remarks were al
most a medical lecture on infant
feeding. Dr. Carroll was askeo
numerous questions and her most
interesting talk was listened to
by ladies from out of town and
many from Raleigh.
DEMONSTRATIONS.
Mrs. Charles McKimmon, as
president of the womans section,
presided with her usual grace.
Many ladies gave practical de
monstrations of pan and flame
broiling of meats, quick bread
and roll making, etc. The aroma
irom this section would make an
epicurean's mouth water. The
hot rolls were like the caterpillar;
because they make the butter
fly. Quick biscuits demonstrated
by Miss Nellie Price, cake mak
ing by Miss Louise Mahler,
cooking vegetables by Mrs.
Dillard, fireless cooker by Miss
Jane Ward and Mrs. Coon,
paper bag cooking by Miss Park
er. The Wake County Tomato
Club demonstrated canning.
CONTROL OF FERTILITY.
Prof. C. L. Goodrich, of the
of Agriculture at
Washington, spoke on "The
Control or Fertility in the Soil."
"The farmers of your State
are not getting out of their soil
what is in it," he said. ,4 They
raise, on an ayerage, 18 bushels
of corn to the acre. But you do
have farmers who raise 40, 60,
100 bushels of corn. Why is
this? They have merely mas
tered the science of controlling
the soil."
The difficulty of this control,
he said, lies chiefly in the soil.
Sand soil is pooi for that pur
pose because it doesn't hold
water well. Neither does clay,
for it allows water to run off
easily. He declared that "hu
mus" is the most highly develop
ed element. He produced a chart
here which proved an interesting
test. In one hundred pounds of
perfectly dry soil, each was
given all the water it would
hold, The results were these:
Sand 25 pounds.
Sand clay 40 pounds.
Strong clay 50 pounds.
Cultivated 50i1..52 pounds.
Cultivated 50i1..52 pounds.
Garden soil 81 pounds.
Humus 190 pounds.
He considered the influence of
systems of farming upon the
soils. He did this by compara
tive charts, based upon farms
situated side by side. On a
Minnesota prairie farm, 35 years
of lotaiion and manure showed
25 bushels yield, At the close of
35 years of gram, the yield had
dropped to 8 bushels. On anoth
er he showed in 1893 a growth of
50 bushels, but after four steady
years it was only 44. Rotation
showed 65, an increase in one
year of 44.
On a prairie soil in the corn
belt of Illinois, he showed 70
bushels for a beginning. After
12 years it dropped to 35. Six
years of corn and seven of rota
tion of corn, oats and clover, it
went to 69. Under the same
treatment of 6 years of corn and
7 rotation with $6 worth of
fertilizer, it went up to 94 bush
els, but 6 years of corn and 7 oi
corn and $42.50 of fertilizer, the
low figure ot 66 was the result.
In speaking of his own farm
in Maryland, he declared the
crimson clover had proven the
best conservator of the soil. He
sows this in his corn crop about
the last of July and turns it
under in the spring.
to shop talk, but
the conversstion heard on corn,
cotton, hogs, fertilizer, tobacco
and crop rotation did not seem
monotonous, no conversation is,
when earnest and sincere. Here
was a great bunch of farmers
who knew their business. Every
one knew the difference between
a millet seed and a boll of cotton,
between a clover leaf and a lea.
Few, if any, have met with the tmi
form success that has attended the use
of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy. The remarkable
cures of colic and diarrhoea which _it
has effected in almost every neigh
borhood have giyen it a wide reputa
tion. -For sale by all dealer.
HICKORY, N. C.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 5, 1912
of tobacco. All scientific, pro
gressive farmers. If they had
not been, they would not have
spent their time and money to
attend North Carolina's biggest
State Farmer's Convention. The
conversation of the farmers in
the meetings and out indicated
that they were men of education.
Dr. Hopkins during his re
marks said "our grandfathers
were experienced farmers" and
Prof. C. L. Goodwich of the
Department of Agriculture at
Washington says that *'the far
mers of our State are not gettin.
out of their soil what is in it,"
yet our farmers are getting two
kernels of corn where our grand
fathers got only one. Charles J.
Parker, Jr., a 16 year old farmer,
raised 233.5 bushels of com on
an acre, and he said he "believed
he could raise 250 bushels to an
acre," and he looks like the lad
who could do it.
Dr. C. G. Hopkins made a
true statement, "that exper
ience was not experiment,'' and
with more experiment coupled
with experience, the farmer
could get a larger yield. He said
many had been farming by the
changes of the moon. He re
lated how Terry, the great pota
to raiser, was asked, if he be
lieved in planting potatoes by the
light of the moon, and replied
that he did, because he could
work later then. Dr. Hopkins
laid much stress upon the neces
sity of using decayed vegetable
matter to give back to the soil
the six elements consumed by
growing crops.
NEW OFFICERS.
The business session was quite
animated and very interesting
and decidedly profitable. The
farmers of eastern North Caroli
na stood loyally by those of Ca
tawba county, in endorsing the
present Federal tax on colored
oleomargerine.
The following officers were
elected for the ensuing year:
President—C. W. Spruill, of
Bertie.
First vice-president—E. B.
Moore, of Charlotte.
Second vice-president—J. H.
Currie of Fayetteville.
Secretary treasurer—L O.
Schaub, of Raleigh.
The resolution for compulsory
education after a lengthy and
animated discussion was voted
down.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
The convention passed the fol
lowing:
The North Carolina State Far
mers' Convention, in annual ses
sion assembled, August 27-29,
1912, througn its committee, of
fers the following resolutions:
FOR DOG TAX.
1. We recommend that, the
next session of the legislature
pass an act authorizing a State
wide dog tax, the proceeds of
which to be appropiated to the
school fund.
2. Resolved, that we favor a
State wide stock law for North
Carolina.
3. Resolved, that the conven
tion appoint a committee to con
fer with the department of agri
culture to see if the institute
work may more thoroughly meet
the needs of the communities.
4. That we favor the discus
sion of scientific marketing along
with scientific production at the
institutes.
5. Resolved, that we desire to
express our appreciation to the
co-operation between the State
departments of agriculture, the
A. &M. College and the Far
mers' Co-operative Demonstra
tion Work and we further rec
commend a thorough unanimity
of action on the part of these in
stitutions in all things that per
tain to the agricultural develop
ment of our great State. And it
is the further sense of this body
that there should be a competent
demonstration agent in every
county =of the State, who shall
act as county commissioner of
agriculture.
We desire to memorialize the
next session of the legislature to
make an adequate appropriation
to aid the state department in
the manufacture of hog cholera
serum, in order that it may be
sold to the farmers at a nominal
cost.
6. Resolved, that we "desire
to go on record as being in thor
ough sympathy and hearty co-op
eration with the Girls' Tomato
clubs and boys' corn clubs that
are doing such great work in our
State.
We recommended that the
secretary of this convention for-
Running up and down stairs, sweep
ing and bending over making beds
will not make a won.an healthy or
beautiful. She must get out of doors,
walk a mile or two every day and take
Chamberlain's Tablets to improve her
diges.ion and regulate her bowels.
For sale by all dealers.
_j" .
j ward a copy of thaser
Ito all local county papers in the
State,
7. We desire to express our ap
preciation ot thecourtesies sho*\ t..
us by the A. &M. College, anu
the state department of agricul
tural authorities during the cot*
vention.
8. Tnat the action of the South
ern Commercial Congress re
, quested each state to send two
representatives to Europe to
study the subject of agricultural
credit was wise and timely.
Resolved further, that we re
quest the General Assembly to
authorize the department oi
agriculture to s#nd two represen
tatives to Europe to study the
question of.agricultural credit.
1 9. Resolved that we endorse
the Torrens Land System, and
that it is the sense of chis con
vention that it should pass.
10. Tnat convicts should be put
to work on the road instead of
competition with free labor.
It was made the sense of the
meeting that fertilizer and feed
taxes should not be divided
from the department of agricul
ture.
NOTES OF THE CONVENTION.
Two years ago a resolution was
passed declaring that local news
papers did not give publicity to
the State Farmer's Convention,
This year Mr. Cahoon, a news
paper man of Elizabeth City,
brought an excursion of 279 far
mers from Eastern N. C. and
the Hickory Democrat sent a
special representative. Wes
tern North Carolina was not rep
resented the way it deserved.
BANKERS AT THE FARMERS
MEETING.
Bankers came to the conven
tion and put up with the same
accomodations as the farmers
had and staid until adjournment.
The worthy president, W. J.
Shuford was quartered in the
hospital, but those who saw him
in the dining room, could see
he was not ill, but simply slept
in the hospital building.
Mrs. W. J. Shuford, charming,
well dressed and popular was a
center figure at all meetings and
business sessions.
The writer forgot to take a
pillow and the first evening
Mr. Shuford promised him a
pillow. The promise was not
kept and a suit case with the
soft part outside did the duty of
a pillow. An ukept promise
produces a soft head.
The description in the Raleigh
News and Observer would indi
cate that its reporter was dream
ing of a dinner at the Waldorf
Astoria. However the meals
were very nicely cooked and in
abundance. It was well worth
the price per meal, 25.
J. Hampton Rich, editor of the
Winston-Salem Piedmont Indus
tries, was absorbing the good
things material and intellectual.
Over 600 were in attendance,
taxing the capacity of the colos
sal dining hall and kitchin.
There was not one in harmon
ious note or discord. Not a thing
to mar a good time and an intel
lectual treat.
We were all ladies and gen
tlemen and were all treated like
ladies and gentlemen by the A.
& M. college of Raleigh, of which
Dr. D, D. Hill, president of the
college, was the attractive host.
We!are grateful to the Hickory
Democrat for sending us to the
biggest State Farmers Conven
tion North Carolina has ever
had.
Some pure bred Berkshire
hogs sold as high as $25.00, at
the second annual sale of the
North Carolina Berkshire Breed
ers Association.
The farmers and their wives
were well groomed and well
fed.
W. J. Shuford said he would
rather be State Commissioner of
Agriculture than to be Governor.
He would make an ideal com
missioner but the gubernatorial
togo would suit us best.
The implicit confidence that many
people have in Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is
founded on their experience in the use
of that remedy and their knowledge of
the many remarkable cures of colic,
diarrhoea and dysentery that it has ef
fected. For sale by all dealers.
Married in Burke.
Married in Icard township on
August 27, at the residence of
H. A, Adams, Miss Ida Munday
to Mr. Lee Medlin, both of Rhod
hiss.
Also at the same residence on
the 31st of August, Miss Emma
Stilwell to Mr. Dock Propst, both
of Burke county. 11. A. Adams
officiating Magistrate in both
marriages.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
COMMENT
CHARLOTTE'S PUBLIC BUILDING.
The Observer resents our dec
laration'of unbelief that th>
handsome Charlotte postofficr
building i 6 out of date and that
the $250,000 new building is
necessary, the appropriation foi
which has been voted. The
Observer says:
Doesn't he [the editor of the
Democrat] know that Charlotte
has long since outgrown the
capacity of the old postoffice and
that its incapacity was generally
admitted ten years ago? Hick
ory did not need a new depot
more sorely than Charlotte needs
a new postoffice. We are simply
consterned that so intelligent and
so well-posted a man as Dr.
Banks should be led into so
peevish an utterance. Get right,
Banks, get right.
No, we didn't know it, and we
are not peeyish. There is noth
ing that Charlotte deserves that
we do not wish to see her get.
She is the finest city in the
and she is growing fast. But
we have lived there less than
10 years ago, and had never
discovered any crying need for a
new public building. We never
noticed any skimp anywhere in
the building, "up stairs or down
stairs, or in my lady's chamber."
Probably seyeral hundred thou
sand dollars of the people's
money could be saved by a few
little interior changes. Miss
Charlotte is entirely too fancy.
She cannot have a new dress
every month.
No, we are from Missouri.
You've got to show us.
RAILROAD CROSSINGS.
We have an important com
munication in this issue from
Rev. C. L. Miiler, a former
Hickoryite and one of our best
friends, in which he gives a
tragic instance which fell under
his own eye, of death at a rail
road crossing. We take it he re
fers to the killing of Mr. Jamie
son near Charlotte recently, and
this reminds us of the constant
danger at the crossing on the
square in Hickory to the passen
ger depot We have no preju
dice against the Southern rail
road as a corporation. We think
the Southern is the pair of mag
ic seven league boots in which
the South has strode into bound
less prosperity. But we do
think that it is sinfully negligent
in not protecting its crossing
here in the heart of town. We
saw out of the Democrat's win
dow a farmer, his wife and baby
struck by a backing car as they
were driving across the track
there, and narrowly escaped
death. We saw a little boy have
a close shave there once. We
expect to see somebody killed
there yet, unless gates are put
in, as the Supreme court once
directed should be done.
Standard Oil Dividends.
Wall Street Journal.
Standard Oil of New Jersey
and its former constituent com
panies for the first nine months
of 1912 have paid $5,782,523
more in cash dividends than was
paid by the old Standard Oil
Company of New Jersey for the
same period in 1911. In exact
figures, Standard Oil stockholders
have received this year to date
$35,284,037 in cash, compared
with $29,501,514 for the corres
ponding period in 1911. In addi
tion to these cash dividends paid,
stockholders have been given
valuable rights and stock divi
dends.
Many Driven From Home.
Every year, in many parts of the
country, thousands are driven from
their homes bV coughs and lung dis
eases. Friends and business are left
behind for other climates, but this is
costly and not always sure. A better
way —the way of multitudes —is to use
Dr. King's New Discovery and cure
yourself at home. Stay right there,
with your friends, and take this safe
medicine. Throat and lung troubles
find quick relief and health returns.
Its help in coughs, colds, grip, croup,
whooping-cough and sore lungs make
it a positive blessing. 50c. and
SI.OO. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed
by C. M. Shufcrd, Moser & Lutz and
Grimes Drug Co.
Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905
South Fork Items.
Written for the Democrat.
J There is nothing new in the
I vicinity of the South Fork at
present. All is quiet all along
the line—good seasons, crops
i looking fine. This is a fine sea
>son for sweet potatoes. There
|is a large crop of t.hem planted.
In traveling through the county
you will see acres after acres ot
sweet potato fields.
There will be a tremendous
crop of sweet potatoes raised
this summer. There is mere
money in raising them than in
cotton. You can raise more per
acre and make more money per
than in cotton.
The general health seems t"
be fairly good.
There was a box sale at the
Yoder school house on last Satur
day night and they realized S4O.
Miss Williams from Watauga
county has opened a summer
school at the Yoder school house
for the term of two months.
Ray Helton and Delia Yoder
were married last Sunday.
V. O. Leonard who was on a
visit to his parents in Charlotte
has returned again.
Hubert Yoder was married at
Wadesboro a few days ago to a
Miss Terrell. The way things
are looking there will be some
more of her class who will fol
low suit.
Ralph Yoder is putting up a
dwelling house near Wesley
Chapel, which will be finished at
an early date, ready for occupa
tion.
Enloe Yoder has put up a large
new barn.
There has been some big land
sales near Blackburn. Robert
Huffman sold his home farm to
Alex Houser for $2,200, and his
Beck farm to Chas. Weaver for
$1,300. Then he sold the Hoyle
land to Walter Blackburn for
S6OO, W. T. Cline has sold a
part of his farm to Wallace
Philips. The County Suveyor is
kept very busy in surveying
land for different parties.
The hands are now at work on
the new Finger and Yoder pub
lic road leading from the old
State road by the Finger farm
to Hickory.
A bridge is built across Jacob's
Fork river at the Finger Foard.
This road will be a great con
venience to the people in this
section of the county. It is
nearer to Hickory.
# The peas are the finest this
year I have ever saw.
We are decidedly of the opin
ion that it would have been more
advantageous and profitable for
Teddy to have remained in Af
rica hunting bears and fishing
for tadpoles, in which business
would no doubt been more suc
cessful than running for the
presidential chair. We do not
see any chance for him to warm
the presidential seat for the next
four years. He certainly will be
left in the cold this whet.
While he and Taft are clicking,
And at each other picking,
Wilson will give them a licking
That will make them sickning,
Though Johnson, Beveridge and
Dixon,
Put upen him the presidents fix
ing, -
Must now electioneering go like
the dickens,
For he will loose all his chickens.
The Republicans seem to be
down in the mouth and are badly
divided. It seems that they have
no shepherd to lead them on and
bring them into the political
fold. We think a great many of
them have jumped over the
fence into other pastures to
graze where they have found
better grass to feed on. This is
a free country where a man can
enjoy his opinion in any political
sense. So Mr. Editor we will
ring off at present.
P. S.: Gordon Wilfong is dig
ging sweet potatoes and hauling
them to Charlotte. They are
the early kind and set the slips
•out very early in the spring.
They say that they are nice and
large.
P. R. Yoder and his co-part
ner are in the cattle business.
Some few are making fodder.
Lee Ramseur is able to walk
around in the house. COLONEL.
Campbell and Daken Trade.
| Newton News.
The trade between Mr. S. D.
Campbell of Hickory and Mr. R.
P. Daken of Newton, whereby
they exchanged properties, has
been practically completed and
it was expected yesterday after
noon that the papers would be
signed up. Mr. Dakin will get
30 acres of land and Mr, Camp
bell will get the entire Dakin
property here, and Mr. Dakin
' will move to his new holdings.
At a Railroad Grossing.
To tlie Editor of The Democrat:
Our train came to a sudden,
jerkey stop, we thrust our heads
out of the car window to learn
the trouble—an accident! Soon
all we were on the ground—and
what a sight! A father dead and
his brains strewn on the ground,
a friend and her child both mor
tally mangled and the wife and
her two frantic boys prostrate
over the awful scene. What is
the trouble, -how did it happen?
No one exactly knows. It all oc
curred at a railroad crossing.
The family group had taken a
friend and her child out for a
pleasant automobile drive in the
country, The drive went over a
splendid macadam road paralled
to the railroad, keeping at $ safe
distance of some 75 or 100 yards
autil the crossing was reached,
The men who laid out the cross
ing thought they were acting
wisely, for they cut the crossing
at right angles with the railroad
and kept the public highway on
either side at a safe distance of
75 or 100 yards.
The road inclined slightly to
the railroad at the crossing. The
driver was careful. Thinking all
was well he let his car roll on to
wards the track, stopping some
fifteen or twenty feet away.
When he cut out his engine and
applied his brakes something re
fused to work, aud the car rolled
on the track to be caught and
crushed by a passing freight,
with the result as above told,
"Carlessness''! No more than
I have seen many a person show
whose team was accustomed to
passing trains, stopping within a
few feet of the railroad crossing.
I will never forget this grue
some scene to my dying day- the
horror, the agony, the butchery
of it all! I did what little I could
to console the stricken mother
and her bewildered boys, but the
terrible deed was done.
The life of a most useful and
influential man could have been
saved had the road-builders fore
seen the danger. They thought
the crossing was safe —and it is
much safer than any between
Hickory and Newton on the old
road-bed—but they see their er
ror now, and are going to rem
edy it, I understand by cutting
out all direct crossings.
I trust our good people in Ca
tawba will think wisely about
these railroad crossings and en
conrage the road-builders to
avoid them if possible; if not
possible to avoid them to put
them overhead or underground.
The sacrifice of one life would be
too great a toll to pay for a sin
gle mistake, even.
C. L. MILLER,
Hickory's School Question.
Charlotte Chronicle.
Hickory is also interested very
much just now in the school
question. The town of Hicko
ry proper is a circle, with a di
ameter of a mile. Within the
circle are 1,000 school children.
The present building is too small
and already it has been neces
sary to rent additional quarters
and also to use the school audi
torium. The superintendent of
the school is Prof. Staley, known
for his ability and aggressive
ness, The principal, Prof. A. P.
Whisenhunt, has been with the
Hickory school since 1893 and is
enthusiastic and progressive,
Outside of the circle, Hickory
has several communities and
«=ach of these has its own school.
The growing town demands lar
ger school facilities and Prof.
Whisenhunt has a splendid idea
which he is suggesting to the
citizenship. He proposes that
four ward schools be built, each
to serve a quarter of the town
and -to be equipped especially for
the primary grades. This plan
will enable the younger children
to attend school in their home
section and at the same time re
lieve the congestion at the main
building. Hickory is doing well
by the school and has four years
of high school work and 16
teachers.
The Democrat says the people
of Hickory always travel .first
class. This is as it should be
with the people of so live and
hustling a town. Hickory has
succeeded in reaching an en
viable place among the towns
of the state and when the new
postoffice building is erected they
will have more reason for feel
ing good. It will come within a
short while.
If you knew of the real value of
Chamberlain's Liniment for lame back,
soreness of the muscles, sprains and
rheumatic pains, you would never wish
to be without it. For sale by all deal
ers.
Mr. E. L. Shuford took his son,
Master Hilton to Johns Hopkins
hospital, Tuesday, -