Established 1899
SHOPS FIRST. THEN
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Lite Carolina & Northwestern's
5 Splendid Facilities Here.
NEW MODERN DEVICES - USED.
Two New Engines are Beauties —
How a Locomotive Travels Side
ways—The Drop Pit-
Room to Enlarge.
Written for the Democrat
Bv Dr. R. Wood Brown.
How many of our citizens know
about the industries of Hickory except
by hearsay?
"Oh, yes, there is a cotton mill
here right up the track about one half
m ile west of the Piedmont wagon
factory bat I never have seen it. Cer
tainly I can direct you: Go east, fol
low the Southern tracks, near the ice
plant you can find a hosiery mill and
I think th*re is another further east
near a furniture factory. No I haye
cever seen them, Yo« are welcome;
a pleasant day."
And so it goes in this thriving,
bustling city. Industries all around
which bring in bread and butter to the
merchant but very few see them, ex
cept the owners and operatives.
How many have seen the main car
and locomotive repair shops and store
house of the C and N. W. Railway
Co? Well I have had the pleasure of
meeting the general manager, Mr. L
T. Nichols, through whose courtesy I
was enabled to learn much, listened to
many derails and spent a vary enjoyable
afternoon.
Could Multiply bv Five.
The Carolina and North-Western
Railway Co. owns J3 acres, and has
enough ground for five times its pres
ent repair uecessitie?. The buildings,
sheds, tracks, machine shops, moving
cranes, everything, is so arranged,
that at comparatively small expense it
can be enlarged as required by the
exigencies of the future.
Did you ever see a locomotive
travel sideways 180 feet? If not, go to
the car shops of the C. and N W rail
way Co., and see that transfer table
or eiectic tractor. There is a hole in
the ground 3 feet deep, 50 feet wide
and 3 feet deep. 50 feet wide and 180
Ion;;. At the bottom of this depres
sion are four rails on which rest the
car wheels which carries the platfotm
on which rests the locomotive and
tender, A power house attached to
the platform or table contains a three
phase eletric motor (not much larger
than one of the locomotive's cylin
ders), with its gearing for decreased
apeed, which moves these 310,00(V
pound locomotives sideways at the
rate of 15 feet a minuie from track to
track, doing what it used to take 12
men to accomplish. This transfer
table saves switching, tracks, y's and
a large amount of track space, to say
nothing about the time gained.
Trolley wires and trolley poles convey
the electric current to the little power
house which is about 8 leet sauare. ,
Two New Engines.
When I met Capt. Nichols, he was
examining his two new beautiful loco
motives, each weighing 240*000
pounds and each costing $13",000.
They were being ' 'tried out" and it
was one of these new engines that I
saw caried sideways on the transfer
table. These locomotives with eight
drivers have a new improved valve
gear or link motion for controlling
steam into the cylinders. This gear
is situated outside of the drivers, a
poetry of motion, and add much to the
beauty of the engines. Most of the
parts of these locomotives can be
duplicated like a machine made watch
for these engines are as dslicate as a
watch and no chromometer balance
tuns more accurately; they have to be
cleaned and repaired and taken care of
just hke a watch, and like machine
made watches can be easily repaired
by inserting new duplicate parts. This
makes it easy for the machinist as well
as the jeweler. Only the watch
maker who examined a watch without
Wantiug to clean it died long ago.
The Drop Pit.
An innovation in the C. and N-W.
C'ir shops, is the drop pit. Here-to
ore w hen a set of wheels or bearings
deeded repairing, the locomotive or
car had to be hoisted, so the wheels
could be removed or bearings examin
ed, but this drop pit obviates this
Procedure. This drop pit is 10 feet
e ep and a little wider than the
lameter of the driving wheels, and
a - a massive iron frame over it 20
s eet fr° m ihe ground. The engine is
op'aced under the frame that the
offending wheel or axle is directly
the pit. Heavy chains hung
r&m frame, hold the wheels while
® section of the track is removed, then |
•e wheels are lowered imo the pit
, e Q taken to the repair shop or the
*®age repaired at the pit. Thus the
kneels are dropped instead of the
r gine being hoisted thereby en
atlgeiing other parts of the machann
|sm, This drop pit is a very ingen-
? Us contrivance besides being a great
lra e and money saver,
i saw a very nwt mpply cir, which
THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
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transports once a month supplies to
agents, section hands and other em
ployees, similar to a pay car but this
car carries stationery, buckets, maps,
pails, tools, etc., which represents
money very decidedly."
Air Compressor.
In the machine sljop is a steam
automgtic air compressor for cleaning
locomotives and coaches, it also keeps
a tank under 90 pounds preasure all
the time. This compressed air from
the tack is used to run the hand drills,
conveyed through iron reinforced
rubber tubing. I saw an employee
using one of these Hand drills inside of
a locomotive boiler. In this case the
mountain could not go to Mahomet so
Mahomet went to the mountain. The
hand drills are about the size ol a cigar
box which holds 100 smokes
There are 14 different machines in
the machine shop proper, ranging in i
hgjght from 18 inches to 10 feet and
a few inches to-5 feet in diameter,
in fact all that is necessary to repair,
engines, coaches and freight cars with
the help of 50 expert machinists.
It takes one month to repair a loco
motive, making it as good as new. The
largest locomotive I saw weighed 31Q».-
000 pounds. It was as wide' as a
church door and as deep as a well. >
* A large scrap iron yard gets the
refuse as all car axles are welded from
scrap iron. Nothing is wasted except
the smoke and that helps to fertilize
the surrounding farms. There are
sewer pipes which take care of the
surface water, and into these pipes the
exhaust steam is forced. This is
strictiy a sanitary method, as the
steam destroys any germ which may
be lurking for humanity.
The store house is interesting for
in it are all the necessities for repair
ing, also those articles to run the road I
srnd for the comfort of its patrons. |
This storehouse contains over SB,OOO
of stock and SI2OO of brasses. The
oil house with its eight kinds o! oil is
fire proof, also the building for cotton
waste.
Railroad Statistics
The United States is a great
nation of travelers and railroads.
This country is only about 75
years old and now has more miles
of track than the whole world
had in 1860. The mileage of the
United States in 1904, counting
double tracks and switching
tracks, is greater than the dis
tance of the moon from the
earth,-that distance being 240,-
000 miles. To take from the
only railroad stastistics now
available to me,in 1904 the length
of railroad track in the United
States w*s 297,073 miles, there
were 46,743 locomotives required
for freight and passenger traffic.
Tnere were 39,752 passenger
cars which carried 715,419,692
passengers, and 1,692,194
freighc cars which transported
1,300,899,165 tons of freight.
Tnis would show that the United
States has 6 locomotives and a
fraction to the mile, while the
Carolina and North-Western has
9 and a fraction engines to a
mile, having 14 locomotives for
its 130 miles of lineal track.
Hickory Should Have Headquarters
The C. and N. W. runs south
from Hickory to Ciiester, S. C.
and north from Hickory to Edge
raont, Hickory being a junction
point and its main car shops tmd
store house located here, it is a
logical conclusion that the head
quarters of this road should be
in Hickory. The citizens of
Hickory should make some move
to have the general offices of
this growing railroad located in
its natural geographical centre.
Hickory could furnish a building,
five rebate of taxes or give
onus if it would wake up to its
own interests, for it is only a
question of a short time before
the Carolina and North-Western
Railway Co. will cross the Blue
Ridge mountains then watch its
, stock soar.
Many Driven From Home.
Every year, in many parts of the
country, thousands are driven from
their homes by 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
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Wise Warning.
Art cannot be taught; craftsmanship
can be taught. It is the danger of all
academies to confuse art with craft#'
manshlp.—London Academy.
Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTOR IA
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HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY. SEPTJEML ER 26, 1912
ENORMOUS CROWDS
FRIENDLY TO WILSON.
Candidate Campaigning in the
Near Northwest.
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DRAWS PICTURE OF THE BOSS.
He is the Business Agent in Politics
of the Spec al Interests—Says
Trusts Flourished. Under
Roosevelt.
Gov. Wilson has been campaigning in
in the near northwest In /St. Paul 50,-
000 lined the to see him, in
Minneapolis 60,000, and in Chicago 50-
000. From Lake Michigan to the
Detroit river he shook hauds with or
was cheered by 15,000 people, who
! braved a nasty rain to see him. Every
where the crowds seemed friendly and
favorable. At Detroit he discussed the
worst product ot our system of govern
ment, saying:
" A boss is not so much a politician
as he is the business agents in politics
of special interests. At least that is the
kind of boss I have known, and the
kind of bors I have known is not a
partisau, he has got above politics, and
and has an arrangement with the boss
of the other party so that whether it is
heads or tails he wins. They receive
contributions from the same sources*
the two bosses; they spend these con
tributions for the same purpose.
They have, underneath the surface
the same programme, and the amazing
thing to me is that I have recently met
some bosses who did not realize that
time liLd been called on the game.
What lam amazed at in the political
boss is not his subtlety,but his stupid
ity. He is a perfect Beurbon; never
changes his mind, he never forgets any
thing, aud some of them don't know
that the people are on to them and the
way that is certain to spoil every pur
pose tliat they have is to dare to show
their hand in it
Roosevelt and the Trusts.
I "Trusts flourished more under former
President Roosevelt's Administration
than under any other in the history of
the country,"was the way the Governor
replied to assertions of Col. Roosevelt
at Trinidad, CoL, taking exception to
the Democratic candidate's declaration
that during thi recent investigation
by the Messrs. Gary and
Perkins suggested the plank
in the Progressive. Republican
platform proposing a Federal com
mission regtrtate the trusts.
4, 1 understand that the leader of the
third party," said Governor, "has re
cently said that he didn't suggest this
change just the other day, that he had
suggested it while he was President in
one of his messages to Congress, dur
ing that same term of the Presidency in
which trusts grew faster and more nu
merously than in any other administra
«. ion we have had and that his conclu
sion was—he doesn't say this, but .this
must be the inference that the trusts
had come to stay, that it wasn't p >ssible
I to put them out of business, it wasn't
! possible to check their supremacy; that
| ill you could do was to accept them as
| necessary evils, and appoint an indus
! trial commission which would tell them
how they were to do their business, not
!an industrial commission which should
tell you how other men should be ad
nutted into the field of competition."
Presbyterian Church Notes
Next Sunday is "Rally Day" at the
Presbyterian Sunday School. The ex
ercises will be conducted in the main
auditorium, a special program will be
carried out by the children and others.
The collection is for Sunday school ex
tension.
The pastor will preach both morning
and evening on Sabbath.
Owing to a conflict with the Baptist
meeting in West Hickory, the Presby
terians will post pone their meeting for
four weeks till Oct. 27. Rey. J. G.
Garth will preach at West Hickory next
Sabbath at 3 p. m. but will not continue
the meeting
The "Holy City" motion pic
sure exhibit proposed to be at
the Opera House next Sunday
has been cancelled.
"V
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,
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Dear Mr. Banks:—l thank you very much for the request and its accompanying compliment,
to write something in the interest of Judge Clark's candidacy for the U. Sr Senate. I shall be
glad to comply with request in a very short time.
In this age of graft and insincerity, the office of U. S. Senator has become all important.
In my judgment no man has lived in North Carolina since the days of Gov. Wm. A. Graham,
better equipped for this office than Judge Clark. In that great body of great man, he would be
a matchless leader. . Yours hurriedly,
Conover, N. C., 8-21-'l2. S. H. JORDAN.
ROOSEVELT TO SPEAK SERE
, TUESDAY MGHSINC.
IrThis tour of North Carolina
next week Ex-President Uuose
velt will give Hickory a short
speech. Mr. P. A. Setzer lias
received the following telegram:
"Roosevelt through from
Asheville on regular train No. 36
due at Hickory at 9:54
morning Oct. 1. We wiM- ask
Railroad to hold train there for a
few minutes.
- The circus will be in town that
day and the combination of the
two events will bring to Hickory
the biggest crowd in its history.
COMMENT
STORMING THE CENTRE
Knowing that they have lost
their right and left wings, the
Predatory Interests are making
a furious light for the centre.
They concede Wilson and the
House to the Democrats but they
want to keep the Senate away
from the Democrats and their
alii es, the Progressives. To this
end they are trying to get Smith
returned from New Jersey.
Smith is the traitor who joined
Gorman in defeating the old
Wilson tariff bill in Cleveland's
day. Gov. Wilson is campaign
ing New Jersey against Smith,
and in order to take no chances
in this desperate situation, Judge
Wescott, the intellectual giant
who has been making the race,
has willingly come down to
make way for Congressman
Hughes, the best runner.
North Carolina take no
chances. That is why we are
for Clark. Simmons lias lapsed
into several dangerously reac
tionary votes. Kitchin has fail
ed to keep a vehement pre
election promise. Clark, in jtie
face, of fierce criticism, has
for long years a consistent: re
cord of fearless championship of
the people's interests.
If Democracy is thwarted dur
ing the next four years, there
lies beyond Socialism, which,
drunk with bower, will slip un
consciously and unintentionally
into anarchy. In that case, we
can hear the popping of bombs as
they are hurled under the auto
mobiles of multimillionaires. It is
our genuine conviction that busi
ness, big and little, will be best
served by sending Judge Clark
to the Senate. We wish we
could megaphone to the plain
people in every nook and cranny
of the state, that they can best
serve their country this year by
compromising this fierce clash
between Simmons and Kitchin by
voting in the primary for Clark.
And we think honestly that
there is a good chance for a sec
ond primary, in which Clark
could win.
Dr. J, W. Calyard, of Jeffer
son, has been appointed a direct
or of the State Hospital at Mor
panton to succeed the late A. A.
Shuford. The appointment
would have come to Hickory, it is
said, if the city could have got
together on a man. The appli
cants were Messrs. E. L. Shu
ford, A. A. Shuford, Jr., and
koy Abernethy. The Governor
solved the problem by harking
back from old Hickory to Jeffer
son.
Running up and down stairs, sweep
ing and bending over making beds
will not make a healthy or
beautiful. She must get out of doors,
walk a mile or two every day and take
Chamberlain's Tablets to improve her
digestion and regulate her bowels.
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REAGIIONABY RECORD.
I-
His Vote on Lumber Contrary
to Platform he Helped
Write
INSIDE 10 1-2 MOS. HE LAPSED.
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A Curious Identity Between the
Lumber Tax Democrats and the
Lorimer Democrats in the
Senate-a Log Rolling
Offer.
From Collier's.
The man who drew the cartoon on
this page, Herbert Johnson of the
Philadelphia "North American," has a
unique gift for putting a complicated
political situation into a single vivid
picture. {The cartoon shows Miss
Democracy pictured as an old maid
with a candle in her hand looking
under the bed at mid-night, and crying
"Help!" as she finds a burglar unuer
-the bed labeled "special privilege."]
So long as the Republican party was in
power the representatives of special
interests infested that party; they were
driven out by the Insurgent movement,
which began in 1909 and has just cul
minated in the formation of a
party. Now, just as the Democrats
seem likely to come into, power, the
special interests are quietly placing
thtir representatives at carefully select
ed strategic points within that party.
If the Democrats are not extremely
vigilant, they will suffer again the same
experience they had the last time they
came into power, eighteen years ago.
What happened then was described
only a few days ago by Woodrovv Wil
son in these words:
"It is of particularly sinister import
that Mr. Smith should seek to return to
the Senate of the United States
at this time. He was sent to the
Senate once before when the tariff had
l>een the chief issue of the National
campaign, and when the Democrats
had, for once in a generation, an op
portunity. . . . Mr. Smith was one of
the small group of Senators, calling
themselves Democrats, who, at that
critical and hopeful juncture. Jn our
politics, utterly defeated the program
of the party. His election now might
bring the party face to face with a
similar disaster and disgrace."
Governor Wilson was speaking of
James Smith, Jr., now seeking re*?te(f
tion as a Senator; hts words apply with
iquil truth to Senator Furuifold M.
Simmons of North Carolina, likewise
peeking reelection.
"Lumber, Timber, and Logs"
The Democratic National Conven
tion at Denver on July 4, 1908, adopted
this plank:
"We demand the immediate repeal of
the tariff on wood pulp, print paper,
lumber and logs."
Senator Simmons of North Carolina
was a member of the Committee on
Resolutions which wrote this plank.
When the platform, including this
plank, was brought before the conven
tion it was adopted unanimously.
Senator Simmons, as a member of the
voted for it; thereby he be
came bound to a greater degree than
other Democrats by the promise to the
people contained in the words of the
plank.
The Record of Simmons
Fate took exactly ten months and
fourteen days to bring Senator Simmons
his opportunity to live up to the promise
made by himself and liis party. On
May 24, 1909, there was introduced into
the United States Senate (by a Demo
crat) this amendment:
"Nothing contained iu this act shall
prevent the admission free of duty of
the following articles: Lumber of all
kinds."
On that roll call Simmons joined the
Republicans and voted with Aldrich,
nay. And this was but the beginning.
Simmons voted with Aldrich and the
Republicans against reducing the duty
on sawed lumber to $1 per thousand
feet.
Simmons voted with Aldrich and the
Republicans against reducing the duty
on plained lumber to twenty-five cents
per thousand feet.
Simmons voted with Aldrich and the
Republicans against reducing the duty
on coal from sixty to forty cents a ton.
Simmons voted with Aldrich and the
Republicans in favor of a duty of
twenty-five cents a ton on iron ore.
• And many others too numerous to
mention.
Lorimer and Lumber
Turn now to Simmons' record on
Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905
Lorimer. —It was observed that there
was a curious identity between tlie
iittle group of Democratic Senators who
v.»ted in favor of'a duty on lumber and
those who voted in favor of Lorimer.
Simmons was conspicuous in both lists.
There weie ten. Democratic Seuators
who voted for Lorimer; of these, two
were, at the time of the Lorimer vote,
new Senators who had not been in the
Senate al the time of the voting on fret
lumber. - The following eight (out of
ten pro-Lorimer Senators in all) also
repudiated the Democratic platform
pledge in order to vote against free
lumber: -
BAILEY JOHNSON, ALA.
BANKHEAD SIMMONS
, FLETCHER SMITH, MD.
FOSTER TILLMAN
It came out in the Lorimer exposure
that Edward Hines, president of the
National Lnmber Manufacturers' Associ
ation (who said he spent $100,"000 to put
Lorimer in the Senate), had spent the
tariff session at Washington and once
wrote that he was having a hard time
"keeping the Southern Democrats-in
line."
Simmons voted in favor of Lorimer
twice; the third and hwtvote came only
a few weeks ago, when Simmons was
in the midst of his fight for reelection,
and all North Carolina was stirred up
over it. On this occasion Simmois
deserted Lorimer and voted to deprive
him of his seat.
Soliciting Bids
Not only did,Simmons vote for a high
tariff on lumber; lie addressed the
Senate in favor of it:
"I am ready, with him and with any
other man on either side of this cham
beV ['any other man' was generally
Aldrich] to extend the same treatment
to every product embraced in this bill;
I do not care in what section of the
country it is located."
There you have it. That is exactly
how every high tariff bilt has been
passed—'"You vote for my lumber; I'll
vote for your steel." Senator Simmons
has put into a single sentence the whole
mechanism of logroll
ing.
The Injury to the Party
The action of Simmons and his little
group of Democrats who joined him in
repudiating the platform promise did
very great damage to the party's pres
tige. The New York "Wcrld," the
most powerful Democratic daily paper
in the country, said at the time;
"There are political ems for whieh
punishment Jp certain. i'hey- affront
decency and good faith. Iltey reveal a
degradation in oar political life which
almost passes belief. They put the
Democratic party on trial, not for its
principles, but for its honesty. Errors
of judgment may be defended and ex
cused, but perfidy finds no'•apologist
anywhere."
"The Invisible Government"
One of the most careful observers in
Washington wrote this for the Denver
"Express ":
"Senator Penrose is following the
footsteps of his predecessor, Mr.
Aldrich, in trading across the party
line when ft comes to protecting the
bigli tariff schedules. The other day,
when the Pennsylvania Senator report
ed his suggested revision of the wool
schedule .. Peurose held a little in
formal meeting in the Senate lobby with
Sonator Simmons of North Carolina.
The writer stood by and heard this
conversation:
"Simmons; 'What do you want us to
do? Do you nged any votes?'
"Penrose: 'No, I think lean put it
over; you fellows vote for your own
bill.'
"Sunmons: 'You don't need any of
our votes tlien?'
"Pearose: 'No, you fellows vote for
your own bill. I'll take a chance on
putting it over and then I'll fix
it up in conference.' "
There have been many denials and
near denials of this statement. Persons
who understand the invisible govern
ment do not heed them; they know that
this little situation pictures perfectly
the relation between the reactionary
Republicans and the reactionary Demo
crats.
The Whole Point
"If the Democratic party does not
keep it 3 promises now, it will never
have another opportunity to do so."—
Woodrow Wilson speaking at Sea Girt
on September 8.
Is Senator Simmons a man who N can
be depended on to keep Democratic
promises?
Three on the Fence.
Madison Herald.
Up to the hour of going to press
there remains three papers in North
Carolina which have not formed or ex
pressed a preference in the Senatorial
race, to wit, Marion Butler's Caucasion,
the Union Republican, and the News
and Observer, formerly known as the
"Old Reliable.'/*
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Know the true value -of time;
natch, seize and enjoy every moment
rf it. No idleness, no laziness, no
jrocrastination; never put off till to
norrow what you can do today.—Earl
>f Chesterfield.
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Fesperman President at Cataw
ba College.
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DR. BUCHHEIT VISITS LENOIR.
West Hickory People Attended
Wesley Cbapel Campmeeting —
South Fork Folks Coming
to the Circus. - ,
The following officers- were se
lected Friday morning for the
Atheletic association: President,
H. A. Fes per man, vice-president,
P. M. Shulehberger; secretary
.and treasurer, G. C. Peeler, ten
nis manager, J. F. Carpenter.
The other officers had al
ready been elected, the previous
year. At the close of the meet
ing Professor Koffman, who is to
act as coach in atheletics this
year, made a stirring talk on
Catawba's atheletic opportuni
ties and on the indiviaual need
of each student for physical de
velopment.
On fehe same morning the Civic
League elected officers for the
present yeai as follows: N. H.
Farvel, president; SI J. McNairy,
vice-president; H. F. Ingle, sec
retary; and Miss Mary Peeler,
treasurer. During the last two
years this organization has, be
sides doing many small but im
portant things for the improve
ment of the campus, built cement
walks in front of the college and
has purchased indoor and out
door scenery for the dramatic
work. It is intended this year
that among other matters it
shall help put the "Blue and the
White" on a sound financial ba
sis.
Last week President J. F.
Buchheit made a trip to the wes
tern also to the eastern part of
the state. While at Hickory he
visited Lenoir college, where on
the invitation of President Fritz,
he made a short address in chap
el to the students and afterwards
held a conference with"Professor
Fritz of that institution on the
athletic relations of the two col
leges. Every one feels that ath
letic relations between these two
uid nvuie can and ought tu Ue
resumed.
Ivey Dots
Correspondence The Democrat
A number of people from West
Hickoiy went to the Camp meet
ing at Wesley Chapel Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Make Mckenzie
and Master Albert went to Rhod
hiss Saturday to visit Mr.
Mckenzie's sister, Mrs. Geo.
Starnes. Miss Ida Houck from
Granite was here several days
last week visiting her uncle E.
C. Hahn, Ales Huffman was here
Saturday and Sunday visiting
the family of J. J. Hicks, J.
Weast and family moved from
here- to Rhodhiss last week.
Miss Julia Richards has been
oyer at Lenoir several days visit
ing her aunt who is sick with
fever. L. Church has resigned
a:rChief of Police for West Hick
ory and no one has been appoint
ed to take his place yet. Re
ports speak very favorably of
the big circus which is billed to
exhibit at Hickory next Tuesday
Oct. Ist" and our people will be
there in force as they generally
go in for this sort of entertain
ment and many of them have
seen Sparks World Famous
Shows and they all say that it is
fine.
Mr. J. P. Burns, D. S. was in
our town one day last week on
business.
Miss Jane Hildebrand from
Drexel is here working in the
mill. She is boarding with E.
A bee. We noticed that J. W.
Ballew was in our town one day
last week shaking hands with
his many friends. We are glad
to say that Z. H. Pierce's two
children who have been down
with fever for several weeks,
are now getting a little better.
I notice that a quite number of
our Democrats from West Hick
ory was present at the Township
Primary Saturday evening. Seems
they are starting in time and
mean to do some good work be
tween now and day of election:
Take Her to the Show.
South Fork, September 25.
Hello young gents, you who
have been in the habit of carry
ing your girls in your buggies on
pleasure rides, do not forget to
bet>n hand ready on the first
day of October to carry her to
Spark's great show in Hickory.
To you husbands we say, do
not forget your loving wives who
have to bear the daily burdens in
the managements ot the kitchen.
Farmers are busy in making
their pea hay and also with their
fodder. The general health is
► faiily good COLONEL,