North Carolina Newspapers

[ Kss LOCALS | joc-n OOOOOODOOO ■: r : Chair Co. will buy S } , r 1 cent a W 7 18 tf of ability tu ■onbusiness incur sam ■" only 2 weeks reqmr me course. Good B? p Charlotte Coiton Khark' veal calves to Karris & Little or phone 815 3t wanted. Phone Korcallon Harns^ ■ository for the sale 01 ■0 adopted scnool bookb ■established at Grimes ■ All books uses in ■ schools also in public ■nn sale at contract prices. ■° n sa 8-29-2t of school books, pencils, inkb ftrimes Drug Co. (The B~~foT~hire. Anywhere t0 * C. T. Morrison, ■ 'Phone No. 146. ■xchange period on school flgpjres on Dec. Ist, 1912 Man be exchanged before Be at Grimes Drug Co's ■ 8 29 2t ■pen-Lady at once, for gover ■jassistant bookkeeper. Ad- Kckory Glove Mfg. Co., Hick- Byour sight have your eyet ■ satisfaction assured as ■Hospital for same. 1316 ■ve.-Hickory, N. C. ■e Singer Sewing Machine ■ ' 8-22-4t. ■ICE farm of 21 3-4 acres Ms from Hickory on public ■oute. Tract containing 5 ■of good bottom land, 4 acres ■red up land and balance in ■r. Price reasonable to any ■ho will reply soon. f. L. ■ Hickory, N. C., R. 1. mTEL) AT ONCE—Several ■esses, to work in Glove Fac ■asv and pleasant work, good pay Bess, Hickory Glove Mfg. ■oute 3, Hickory, N C. ■ONE wanting a fine Banker ■phone G. W. Hall. 9-5-3t ■tch W. T. Sledge's ad rfext ■ for specials in coat suits ■ar Excursion to Richmond, Va., ft Southern Raiiway, Tuesday, 1 September 10, 1912. ■them Railway will operate annual ■ember excursion from North Caro ■erritoty tn Richmond, Virginia, ■uesday, September 10th, 1912. Beciai train consisting of first-class ■hes and standard Pullman sleeping ■will leave Charlotte, N. C., at ■ p. in.. Tuesday, September 10th, ■ng Richmond, Va., 6:00, a. m, ■ing morning. ■taming, ticket-, will be good on ■eguiar train leaving Richmond up ■d including trains of Friday, Sep ■er 13th. Passengers from branch ■can use regular trains connecting Bpecial trains at junction points, ■will be the last excursion of the ■1 to Richmond, and will be afirst ■ trip in every respect. Three ■ days and two nights in Richmond, ■e time to visit the many attrac ■in and around this magnificent flowing low round trip rates will r from points named: sv ille, N. C. $5.00 'eaite, " " 5.25 eland. " " 5.00 or y. " " 5.00 % " " 5.00 "on, 44 ' • 500 ,er - " 5.00 over, " " 500 'emee Jet. N. C. 5.00 brsville, " " 5.25 foponionately low round trip rates ] other points. For turther infor -10 n» Pullman reservations, etc., an y Agent Southern Railway or R - H. DeBUTTS, I Division Passenger Agent, I Charlotte, N. C. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S °a?toria MRS. H. D. ABERNETH Y, Principal '" \ .'. -:.; c _ ! Opens September 16th > )++*♦❖*** + * * 4» + * ♦ ♦ ! * LOCAL AND PERSONAL. * ) + + I +4. •$. 4.« J. + + 4*-5 , + ++ + *i , + 4 , + Mrs. Chenuult, cf Cleveland, is visit ing her friend, Mrs. H. D. Abernethy. Misses Helen and Rose Davis are visit ing Miss Margaret Bost this week. ' ~ Miss Catherine Bost, daughter of Mr. N. M. Bost, of Morganton, is here to enter Claremont College. Mr. Luke Hawn has accepted a posi tion as clerk with the Statesville Drug Company. —^ Mr. Parker, of Virginia, has been vis iting his sister, Mrs. J. D. Harte, this week. Mr. Roddy Ingold is back from Texas and has been indisposed since his ar rival. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Martin stopped over in the city this week on their way irom Atlantic City to Canton. Mr. Eck Abernethy lias a fine Hup mobile, and is giving it plenty of exer cise. Mrs. Waverly Strachn and daughter, Mildred, from Salisbury, arj visiting Mrs K. C. Menzies. Misses Louise J(»nes and Gladys Reid leave for Fassifern next week. / Mrs. Randolph, nee Miss Ora Huffman, is expected home from L)r. Long's sanatorium this week. Miss Ramey, who has been the guest of Mrs. Carroll Shuford, has returned to her home in Milton, N. C. . The Hickory Graded School opened Monday with 565 in attendance, which is 50 more tlian the first day last year The High School, which is at the St. Paul's Seminary, has four teachers. There are 12 teachers at the old build ing. The Junior Order will serve icecream in the City Pnrk Friday night, Sept.6th. Every member is requester to be pres ent and bring his family. The public is cordially invited to come and enjoy the evening with us. Mr. Jacob Doll, has returned to Atlan ta but he first visited the Rookwood #orks, so as to be better posted in talk ing pottery to the customers in the china department of the large jewelry firm with which he is connected. Capt. G. W. Payne's little 5 year old girl, Charlotte, is critically ill with scar let fever at her grand-parents' home near Newton. It is believed she con tracted it at Ball's Creek campmeeting. The City Bakery broke all records in August. It fed out to the bread-buying public 27,500 rolls and 10,480 loaves of bread. Hickory leans hard on the Staff of Life, T>ut Ellington makes a crust hard enough to hold up the town. Mrs. H. D. "Abernethy's kindergarten opens September 16th. The prospects for this school are excellent. There is nothing which counts for so much as a good start in life, and nothing gives a better boost to a 5-year old than the Kindergarten. It is worth twice what it costs. Bud Shuford, colored, was sent to the roads by Recorder Yount for being drunk and disorderly. The Recorder has sent 10 able bodied negroes to build G.iston county roads in three mohths, when Hickory township is having to pay a road force to build her new sand clay roads. Where is that chain gang proposition at? Miss Louise Jones and Miss Gladys Reid are Hickory's contributions to Fassifern School this year. Claud Aber nethy goes back with John Geitner, Frank McComb and Sherrod Menzies to the A. and M. Billy McComb goes back to Davidson, and Miss Milly Kate Mc- Comb to Red Springs Seminary and Conservatory of Music. Miss Adelyn McComb goes to Greenville, S. C., Female College. Miss Adelaide John ston goes to St. Mary's, Raleigh. Mr. 0- E. Herman Hickory's rising young architect, designer of the Black welder-Riddle Block, is making the blue prints for the handsome Lenoir Drug Co.'s new building at Lenoir. It is a three story structure besides having a basement, and is somewhat after the style of the above mentioned block. The front and one side will be of red pressed brick. Mr. Hermon's design was accepted from numerous others submitted. "A duck is the filthiest bird there is next to the buzzard," remarked Uncle Polycarp Shepherd to the Democrat as they stood on the banks of the River Lethe, which flows down Trade Ave nue. Just then one of Mr. Keever's In»- dian Runner ducks took a swim in this loblolly of filth and mud, and ladled up black mouthfulle, containing 20,000,000, 000 germs to the atom. The ducks are trying to get this river inside of them but it is too much for them, and if it can't be dredged, the town ought to fill it with catfish and import Charleston's scavenger buzzards to help out the ducks. Mn George Dietz returned home Sunday from Great Falls, S. C. where he has been working on a depot for the Elliott Building Co. Miss Annie Seveen, of Baltimore, an experienced milliner arrived this vteelc to take charge of the millinery depart ment for W. T. Sledge. The Travellers' Club met with the vice-president, Mrs. W. B Menzies, on last Thursday, the 29th, and decided upon the program, "The Lake Coun try," for the year. A large number, including the two new members, Mrs. Geo. Bailey and Mrs. Litaker, were present. The program, arranged by Mr£ K. C. Menzies and Mrs. J. A. Mar tin, was read and approved. 'Squire Clampitt, of Baudy's town ship, who has heretofore been voting the Republican ticket, has declared his intention, the Democrat hears, of voting for Woodrow Wilson this year. Anoth er strong Republican has declared his intention of not voting at all, as he can not see liis way clear to vote for "either Taft or Roosevelt in the present melee in the national Republican camp. It was a genuine pleasure to meet Mr. C. M. Howell, foreman of Charity and Children, as he was passing through from a mountain vacation. He had so much to say, enthusiastically, about "our plant," "our shop." He consider ed himself a part of the printing outfit up there. He took a genuine interest in t'ie work. He said he never did like a clock watcher. Archibald Johnson has a treasure in young Howell. The secret is that he is an orphanage-raised lad himself. ' v The 33rd series of the First Building and Loan Association, 434 shares, rep resenting $43,400, matured recently. There was paid out in cash by Secre tary-Treasurer Geo. R. Wootten, ap proximately $25,000, while the canceled notes and mortgages amounted to ap proximately SIB,OOO. The clear profit to the stockholders in this series was $7,456.50, or $17.25 for each share they held. "Nothing equals the building and loan," said Mr. Wootten, "for han dling small savings, and making large ones of them as an investment, or for loaning money." Mr. Peterson, a Wisconsin gentle man, who has an invention of liis own for making excelsior pads for packing, was in the city this week consulting with Secretary Joy, of the Chamber of Commerce There is no such factory as this in the South and this is a good opportunity for it. The freight rate from the far North-west to the South is $4.50 a thousand as against $3.25 from Hickory. Mr. Peterson is a Dane. He has visited a number of Southern cities, and likes ours, both for the climate and character of the people, better than any he has visited. Hickory would be de lighted to have Mr.Peterson come here, and he is considering doing so. Hickory has been in the grip of a hot wave for the past ten days, which has been general over the Atlantic Seaboa r d. The local thermometers ranged from 92 to 99, down stairs and up, in the stores in the heart of the city-' "I see Charlotte was bragging on its being about 87 degrees there last Saturday," said Mr. Frank Allen, dean of the Hickory merchants, "and I am going to write the Observer and and ask if that leading wasn't taken in an ice-house." "I was in Charlotte last week," said Mr. Ellis McComb, *'and my boy Harvey kept saying, "Father, get me out of this hole, I can't get my breath." Hickory's nights were cool, and after midnight a sheet and even a blanket had to be drawn up. The crops, especially the later corn, is suffering, and if rain does not soon come it will be almost ruined. Out of 40 pounds of the T. I. King seed last year Mr. Polycarp Shepherd raised 4827 pounds of seed cotton which yielded 1883 pounds of lint, an average of 47 1-4 to the bale. It ran 39 pounds to the 100 of lint. This was raised on four acres. This year he put three of these acres back in cotton, and one acre into potatoes, and from it he got 207 bushels of salable Irish potatoes. For the first 20 got $2.00 a bushel, for the next 20, $1.75; for the nexj 20 # $1.50; for the next 20, $1.25; and for the rest SI.OO a bushel, so that they averaged him $1.60 a bushel. After the potatoes were gathered he put the acre in beans. Four rows of 28 rods each, now ripe, will make 8 bushels to the row. The&e he will can, and he was in town for the cans when the Democrat met him, and held him up for this tale of the farm. Bob Shuford, Henry Lutz and John Robinson are not the only farmers in Catawba. :•)-• -' *■ " ■. '■%&* !:;-•. ; _,»^>'"" | s.'s%'■ •■-' fJ^-"L '"' ,v N_ • '^^L^Mylr''-'J^^fifßSßli Scene from George M.~ Cohan's Musical Hit, "Forty-five Minules from Broadway" Thornton Opera House, Thursday, September 12th REPUBLICAN TICKET. W. L. Killian for House and J. S. Leonard for Treasurer Named at Newton. The Republican county conven tion at Newton Saturday selec ted a full county ticket, and set- Tied down harmoniously on coun ty and State issues, agreeing to «isagree on the presidential ques tion. Two electoral tickets will oe put out, one for Taft and one or Rooseveit, and Republicans •viII take their choice. The tick et selected is as follows: - ilquse of Representatives: W. L. Kii'ian, unanimously. Register of Deeds: J. A. Ga oriei; Treasurer: J. S. Leonard. Surveryor: J. L. Bandy. Coroner: W. Perce Sigman. County Commissioners: D. E. Sigman, William Whisnant, C L. Little, W. S. Stroup and M. R. Bost. Chairman County executive committee: P. A. Setzer. Lee Whitener of Maiden with drew from the race, leaving the rield to Smyre for sheriff. Gabriel was nominated by 48 votes against 31 for Drum, North Hickory voting 6 for Gabriel, 5 for Drum, and South Hickory 8 and 4. Mr> Calvin Hawn sharply con tested the treasurership nomina tion with Mr. Leonard. He was nominated in a strong speeclyby Editor Click, of the Times-mer cury, who emphasized his splen did record as a Confederate sol dier. Mr. Henry Killian placed ex-Sheriff Leonard's name be fore the convention, saying he sacrificed his interests to serve as sheriff and should be rewarded. Mr. Gabriel also spoke, for Leon ard. He was successful, getting 61 1-2 votes to 18 1-2 for Hawn. North Hickory: Leonard 7, Hawn 4; South Hickoryi Leonard 8, Hawn 4. H. H.' Abee, S. M. Hamrick, W. H. Young, J. A. Hefner, N. E. Sigmon, Oscar Sherrill, W. .W. Ervin, A. P. Hicks, G. W. Cald well, Gordon Wilfong, M. R. Bost, S. S. Rowe, J. A. White ner. J. A. Gabriel, R. P. Cald well, and N. M. Wyantt were made the executive committee. Mr, A. A. Whitener made a splendid speech in which he eu logized "Fighting Gus Setzer" for countv chairman. He de clared himself for Taft, while Mr. Setzer. equally as warmly championed Roosevelt. Nominee Killian also spoke at some length. Chairman J. G. Killian called J. A. Isenhour to the chair and W. W. Ervin was made secretary. Death of Mrs. C. E. Kerr. A very sad death was tha* of Mrs. Minnie Pierce Kerr, which occurred Saturday night at her home at 8:30 o'clock. She leaves five little child ren, the smallest an infant of days, which though a tiny and frail bit of humanity, still lives, and may grow to a maturity, which, however, can never recall its mother. Mr. Kerr is com pletely prostrated by the shock of the sudden and unexpected death of his devoted wife, and has the deepest sympathy of his friends. Deceased was before her marriage Miss Minnie Anna Pierce, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Columbus Pierce, of north Iredell county. Her parents and sister, Miss Addie Pierce of Iredell, were here to attend the funeral which was conducted at the home Sunday by Rev. J. D. Harte, of the Baptist church, of which the deceased was a faithful and consistent member. Be sides her parents, three brothers and a sister survive. Buffalo Shoals Tolls. The county commissioners at their meeting Monday fixed the following rates for toll at the new Buffalo Shoals bridge over the Catawba: Four horse vehicle, 25 cents each way; 2-horse, 20 cents one way, 35 round trip; 1 horse, 15 and 25; horseback, 10 and 20; foot, 5 and 10; automobiles 25 and 50 cents; engines, $1 each way, at discretion of tender. The report on the road from 15th street. Hickory, to Fitts store was accepted. Democratic Committee Selects Reg istrars. . The Democratic county execu tive committee was called to order in Newton Saturday, and the features were the excellent reports ot political conditions ir various parts of tne county and the dinner served by cnairmar i J. D. Elliott, at the Piedmont Hotel to the members and the newspaper men. The following have been select ed hy thecomrmt.tee as registrars: Catawba, R. R Boggs; Cook, R. L. Asiieroranne.i; Uijnover, Gerard Snail; Catawba Springs, A. £. Eckard; Ciaremont, W. A. | Hoke; Early Grove, F, E. Bost; jFoards, Pink Heavner;Mt. Pieas | ant, A. L. Hicks; Maiden, W. B. 'Murray; Newton, Lamar Cline; (Olivers, Sam T. Sherril.ls Ford, E. L. Beatty; Piney Grove, *J. F. Fulbright; North Hickory, L. S. Sherrill, South Hickory, 1-). E. Whitener; Shulortis, P. A. Yoder. The committee alse made a list of three men for each precinct, two of whom the board of elect ions will make judges. • The meeting adjourned until ibe first Monday in Octobeiv Things are going well for the party in the county. Paint-Wise is to paint when your property needs it. Paint foolish to wait for the price to go-down. But so many are foolish, they'll wait a good while. The whole rise in the cost of a job is 10 per cent. The first year's drop won't be more than half that, more likely a quarter. Waiting for 5 per cent, more likely 2 12. The average job (with Devoe) is SSO; 5 per cent, $2.50. Put it off for £2.50? Guess not. You think of that job as SIOO. So it is with inferior paint. Paint Devoe; do it now, if your prop erty needs it. F. B. INGOLD sells it. Rev. W. H, Hudson, a miss ionary to China, will speak morning and evening at the Presbyterian church Sunday. Mr. Hudson's addresses are j-poken of as most informing and entertaining. He dwells parti cularly on the relation of Chris tianity to the present civil and national changes which china is undergoing. Twenty-six of the finest 1100 pound mules ever seen in this county of good slock came in last week from it. Louis, where they had been selected from pens cf 3500 by Mr. N. S. Dasher, of the Hickory township road com mission. The majority of them are big black fellows, solid and sinewy. iTney are quartered* m Abernethy's stables, having come in with a car load for the stables. They will be put to wo-k at once, as soon as the hot spell Is over. The number will probably Ibe increased to 30. Mr, Dasher found the crops to be in splendid con i dition in the West. Xtoe Cause of Many Sudden Deaths. is a disease prevailing in this s(S2titry most dangerous because so dccep •*—; 831 I pLXu tive. Many sudden ktfi & ? cath + s V e cau " ed .4^: y s " \})iui \ v V)v' ease, pneumonia, h* JH heart failure or r>nV c v r a F c pl e xy are ofter. ! /N\ e resui t of kid ' AIEM;}-( 4AT ne > r disease. If iS fe"!-' kidney trouble is M*n'W'! allowed to advance thekidney-poison ed blood will at ifick the vital organs, causing catarrh of vhe bladder, brick-dust or sediment in urine, bead aclie, back ache, lame •luck, dizziness, sleeplessness, nervous ness, or the kidneys themselves breals 3own and waste away cell by cell. Bladder troubles almost always :esult from a derangement of the kidneys and health in that organ is obtained Quickest by a proper treatment of the kid- Zsya. corrects inability tc tiold urine and scalding pain ir passing it, ftttd overcomes that unpleasant necessity being compelled to go often through '4ifi day, and to get up many times during -Se night. The mild and immediate effec 7i Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy 3 seen realized. It stands the highest be of its remarkable health restoring .properties. A trial will convince ajiyonc Swamp-Root is pleasant to take and i:- >jld by all druggists in fifty-cent and rvjsc-doilar size bottles. You may ißive v bottle and a book that tells all ■».bcat it, both sent free by mail. Address DR Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. n writing mention reading this gen- ITCU3 offer in this paper. Don't make ttEy mistake, but remember the name. amp-Root, and don't let a dealer sel- in place of Swamp-Root— s do 7m he disappointed. i The Two Ways that PAY You will save money to investigate my prices, which you will find lower than anywhere else, and at the same time you will see that the quality of my goods is as good as the best. '* That will pay you, and when you purchase, which you will be bound to ? do, that will pay me. 3 j Everything You Could Desire ~r /A TTT T~X. 5 W^erw.r C e IOek :!; 'V •O. RHODES T Mi— j School WW Suits '" 1 * ||flllßK|lp- We are showing a 3jjjjs' strong line of boys' Jf S Good Clothing; For fall, in all the new shades and cuts (PVKIQHT tOOQ.Tnc SNtLkCNOWnC CkOTHlMfi Ck —■——■— •mmmmmmmmm Bring your boy in and let us fit him with an "EXTRAGOOD" | Suit this fall. A fine knife free with each | Suit. i ■. *•» "* * - I , |, I 1 I Moretz-Whitener Clothing Co. || "THE QUALITY SHOP" kMwaggtßww I Planning the Children's Educa -1 tion is Easy When You've | A Bank Account. I The whole of their future is made clear when you have the necessary money. Open a special account while they are yet young. Yor owe it to them, as well as to yourself, to save. You are responsible—they are help less—depending on you. Open this account today. You Are Invited to consult this bank on all points relating to investments, the purchase of bonds, stocks $ or other financial matters. It is the business of the banker to know about these things. Our services are entirely at your disposal. •§■ Nothing is too small for our attention. You may save yourself loss. Come in today and i J* let us talk it over. j I FIRST NATIONAL BANK I Hickory, N. C. CAPITAL $200,000. SURPLUS $50,000. OFFICERS: J. D. Elliott, Pres., K. C. Menzies, Cashier, J. L. Cilley, Asst. Cashier. The Democrat is only SI.OO year