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Established 1899 SATURDAY IS THE LAST DAY TO REGISTER-DO IT NOW!! OS. FOB'S« 111 BANDY S He Plows Deep and Holds the Water by Terraces A LIFE OF ACHIEVEMENT Catawba County's Splendid Farmer- Doctor, and What He Has Ac complished m Twice Ten Years -Move to Town? Not Much! The day the candidates spoke over in Bandy's township, Dr. Fred T. Foard took some of them for a brief stroll over his fertile ■ fields The best of these have been terraced to keep the water from running from the places where it will do the most good. The doctor plows deep and keeps the water on. And then, &s Douglas Jerrold put it, he tickles bis fields with a hoe and they laugh with a harvest." Dr. Foard is as good a farmer as there is in the State. His plantation would show oil like Jule Carr's orthe Dukes if it was alongside the railroad. He made 60 bushels of corn to the acre in 1910 on a 4-acre patch. He could not find in the hardware stores of North Carolina a plow with a snout long enough to root down as deep as he wished, and so he had one made in his blacksmith shop to suit him. He is that sort of a man. He never allows -a good idea to break and run. The doctor came to Catawba from Rowan without a cent some thing over two decades ago. He got a good ways out from town — twelve miles from Hickory— where he would have a practice in two counties which reached out eveiy way for fifteen or twen ty miles. He had a splendid educ ation. He proved to be a great diognostician, and this built up confidence. Out of his collections, he bought lands and then jpore lands. Now he is as influential in his bailiwick as a Scotch laird, or as a baron in the days of feudalism. Tnis home is the centre of a thriving country community. He and Mrs. Whisnant are partners in a store which does doubtless the biggest country business in Catawba county. The » doctor knows men. as weil as medicine and agriculture, and in Austin Wood as manager of the store he has knit to him one of the choicest men and finest citizens in the— anywhere. The doctor has his practice, his farm, his store, his cotton-gin. He built his house with his own Catawba County Fair, Hickory, N. C., Oct 30-31, Nov. 1,1912. Three or More Dazzling and Thrilling Aeroplane Flights ! By Mr. J. C Fowler in hi» Curtiss Flying Machine. THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT hands. Tools and sawing ma chinery were scarce then. He thinks his house is too small. The rooms are cosy, and the mat tresses downv with goose fea thers. He pumps water into a tank from a well, and it runs through his house. An acetylene gas plant furnishes.lights. It's like a city home. "Do you raise everthing you eat, doctor." "Oh, yes. I never even sell a chicken. It was at the supper table that he spoke. And the table was loaded with good things that would have made even Old Man Wootten of La Grange, the great North Carolina epicure, open his eyes. And such lightbread! Judge Councill raided the coun try hjam and Joe Elliott hit the peach pie for a couple of slices, but v welaid by the lightbread, made of home-grown wheat. And when the automobile tooted for the night run to Pleasant Grove School-house, like the queen, in Mother Goose, we were still in the dining room, "eating bread and honey," both home made. And yet, would you believe it, Mrs. Foard actually heaved 2 sigh for town life? In this idea' spot, in this ideal life, with city comforts without city rush and city badness, Mrs. Foard said she thought the city would afford social advantages for the child ren. Yes, Mrs. Foard, may be so—book clubs that discuss trashy new novels that'll never be heard of two years from now winning a box of perfumea stationery or a pair of silk hose at a bridge whist function; going to moving picture shows at night, and all the like of that. Yes'm, we enjoy unusual social advan tages, it's true, but — 4 'None of your town life for me," said the doctor, as he went out to order his horse brought for a night ride. And the doctor exercises the veto power whenever it comes to the qaeetion of moving to town. A Log on the Track of the fast express means serious trouble ahead if-not removed, so loss of appetite. It means lack of vitality, loss of strength and nerve weakness. If appetite fails, take Electria Bitters quickly to overcome vhe cause by toning np the stomach and curing the indgestion. Michael Hessheimer of Lincoln, Neb., had been sick over three years, but six bottles of Electric Bitters put him right on his feet again. They have helped thousands. They give pure blood, strong nerves, good digestion. Only 50 cents at C. M. Shuford, Moser & Lutz and Grimes. HICKORY, N.C., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 24, 1912 COMMENT REGISTER Don't take it for granted your name is on the registration books. Make sure. If you have moved from one precinet to another, you will have to register again. Saturday is the last day to regir ter but young men coming of age after Saturday may register be tween that date and the election. A GOOD SCHOOL RECORD We have spoken of the splendid record of the-'Democratic board of county commissioners in ad ministering the affairs of Cat awba. The school record is re markably fine, too. In 1900 Cat awha spent $9,234 on her schools In 1910 $66,150, an increase of ver 700 per cent! There were 8,012 children of school age in 1900 against 10,149 in 1910. The enrollment was 5,832 as against 6,694; the attendance 3,193 a "gainst 4.697. The Democrats are doing all right in administering county business. They are build ing and bettering bridges, good roads, school houses. They will do to tie to. There is no use to change a single official. JOY. Hickory was the first town to answer the request broadcasted to North Carolina cities to join in an organized movement to get the unfair freight rates to North Carolina cities removed. And at the Raleigh organization last week, the business men of the State discovered that A. K. Joy, of our Cbambef of Commerce, was in the same class as the Creighton bovs of Charlotte, Gil bert of Stateaville, Tate of High- Point and Olds of Raleigh. Hickory has nothing but the best. That is why- she does things. A PAINFUL CONTRAST. In a brilliant speech before the Wilson-Craig Democratic Club Saturday night, Mr. W. A. Self made the point that while he Democratic party had a splendid unbroken record for good government in North Carolina, the Republicans had miserably and lamentably failed on the two occasions when the\ had managed to get in power— Reconstruction and \ the days following Populism, When Butler rode the Alliance horse into the Senate, and then hitched it out side. It is a fact The Republi cans failed quick. The property of the late Dr. Yoder, founder of Lenoir College, which lay opposite the woman's dormitory between the Wither spoon place arid President Fritz's was sold at auction Saturday noon by Executor John WV Robinson. Mr. Z. R. Buchanan was auc tioneer. The lots sold separately for $375 to S. D. Campbell. SIBO to Rev. Jno. Hall, $l7O to Mr. R. G. Rhyne, of Mt. Holly, $175 to Prof. Fritz, SSO to Mrs. Yoder, with perhaps one other sale. These sales totaled $955. When put up for sale as a whole the bid was raised, with the result that R. G. Rhyne finally got the prop perty at SIO6O. It is understood he will sell some of it off to par ties who had previously put in separate bids. It is elegant build ing property. The name—Doan's inspires confi dence—Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney ills. Doan's Ointment for skin itch ing. Doan's Regulets for a mild laxa tive. Sold at all drug stores. THE PRIMARY FOR SENATOR AND HOW IT WORKS The right of the people of this State to nominate their Senator was demanded and driven through by Judge Walter Clark. He wished his candidacy for that office acted upon by the people in stead of leaving it to the machine process in the Legislature. The Primary gives to the majority of the people THEIR RIGHT to name THEIR representative. The Democratic State Convention ordered two Senatorial Pri maries, the f*ffct on November sth and the second on November 26. A majority {over one-half) of the votes cast is necessary for a nomination. The candidates in the first primary will b* Judge Walter Clark, Simmons and Kitchin. If no one of these men re ceivef a majority (over one-half) of the votes cast in the first pri mary, the second primary will be between the two highest* The lowest man is dropped. A VOTE FOR CLARK is a vote against Simmons and against his receiving a majority in the first primary. A VOTE FOR CLARK is a vote against Kitchin and against his receiving a majority in the first primary. A VOTE FOR CLARK is a vote with A MAJORITY FOR CLARK in the first primary. YOU CAN'T WASTE YOUR VOTE The Largest Crowds Ever Seen in Any Western N. C. City i J Art expected in Hick* | ory during the Fair. Amusements For The Visitors at Night i The management hat secured the St. Louis Amuse -1 ment Company and the Demorest Comedy Company. ! These Shows come with high recommendations. No Immoral, Gambling or Fake Shows will be permitted. Tfce following are new and up-to-date: FeirU Wheel, Ocean Wave, Merry'go-round, High Dive, High Wire ' Feats, Italian Military Band, Glass Blowers, Electric Thea_ I tre, Temple of Music, Old Plantation, Beautiful Orient, etc. | Athletic Contests. Ttie world's best productions in moving r * picture# at the Hub Theatre Opera House. ix i or ■ .v-- ■-- - 'C.. - ■ r - $k Death of Mr. Joshua Yount. Newton News, 18th. Monday night Mr. Joshua A. Yount of Conover died after a long period of illness, and inter ment was made in Eastview at this place, Mr. Yount is sur vived by his second wife, who was Miss Yoder daughter of Col George M. Yoder of Jacobs Fork, and two children Mrs. W. C. Feimsterof Newton and Attorney M. H. Yount of Hickory. He was one of the county's best citizens and it Was with feelings of deep regret that many people heard of his death. Harvest Festival Service at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. • Rev. J. H. Wannemacher, Pastor. Sunday School 9.45. a. m. Harvest Service 11. a. m. Evening Service...,7.3o.p. m. At the morning service the pastor will deliver the Annual Harvest Sermon. At the evening service the Junior Luther League will render a bountiful and appropriate Harvest Proeram consisting of Choruses, Duets, and recitations. The Church will be very appro pi rale ly decorated with the fruits, vegetables,and flowers of the field. Everything is "free to public, but an offering will be taken up for United Synod Home Missions. Everybody Welcome. ' S2,OM.M IN PUR | SES AND PREMIUMS Better displays than ever before in field and garden crops, horses, cattle, sheep • and swine, dairy products, | horticulture, pantry supplies, ; children's department, man- , ufacturors' displays, poultry | and attractive specials. Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905 STUDENTS SELL HARPS Lenoir College Boys Made -$35,000 to Help Pay Their Way A regiment of Lenoir College boys are paying their way through college this year with money made by selling auto-harps this stAhmer in the western part of Pennsylvania. The auto-harps sell for something like $4 or $4 50. Mr. R. A. Swaringen, who graduated last year as a candi date for the Methodist ministry, was road manager and Mr. Fred Spiegel Was his assistant. They furnished music-loving farm ers and other folk of the Key stone state with-5 7 000 auto-harps, and a lot of sheet music to go with them, realizing a gross in come of about $35,000. Mr. Spiegel was in the Demo crat office with Mr, Dallas Rus sell. Mr. Spiegel has been for a year now in the Seminary at Columbia. He cleared S9OO over his board, railroad fare and other expenses. While he was away his baby was born, his wife being at the home of her father, Mr. Cornelius Townsend. Thus while dispensing music in such a worthy cause, he had a gift a darling little music box of his own, and he heard it play for the first time when he called by this way en route back to Coljmbia Seminary. He said it was sweeter music than the whole $35,000 worth of auto-harps that the boys had sold. .Gaither Hahn sold 165 and cleared about S3OO. C. O. Lippard ; made between five and six hund red dollars. R. C. Lake cleared about S2OO. Other alumni and students of Lenoir who were in the campaign were J. L. Morgan, R. M. Yount, C. M. Yount, W. O. Rudisill, C. E. Fritz, H. F. Rhyne, L. L. Lohr, F. L Conrad, Paul and R. A. Yoder, W. H. Smith, R. H. Bodenheimer, D. L. 1 and E. H % . Seckinger, R. T. Trout man, V. V. Adderholdt, H. M. Lippard, H. M. Spencer, as well as 14 Trinity College boys, 4 ■ South Carolina University, »3 Newberry, 6 Eiskine and 10 i from Western Maryland College 1 and Seminary. Some heavy college debts have been liquidated as a result of this > Summer's work, and in other cases tuition fees are being pull ed down. Mr. Albert Watson, who lives 8 miles frotai Boone, was in the 1 city Monday with a wagon load of apples, cabbages and chest > nuts. He gave the Democrat a ' Gloria Mundi apple which weigh ed one pound and two ounces, and said he had some twice that size. tat.. »•«. :v,. fe [ ' :fl|H|t 1 * ..' '' '.- • ■' ' • '::••■• ' . " : ?¥.. , . J - '" WMk -1 Hsliß ii. rS$ - - , . ' -^ISfIPRHHK..''; . -J- s 111!? ' *3K> s'.- '*i,* ' i '-* 111 !■ i- ; " ' ,'- - S - it II * • r — —T % "'* "' * * * w**W* SO. StlF STEMS FDR JUDGE CLARK Clark Knows the Heart-break and Need of Humanity. MR, SIMMONS* INCONSISTENCY. In His Votes and Speeches for Pro tecting Lumber he Utterly Re pudiated his Great Snow Hill Sneedi of 1902 Against High Protection. At Caroleen on Oct. 18, Mr. W. A. Self, of the Hickory bar, spoke in be half of the candidacy of Chief Justice Clark for the U. S. Senate. The follow- ~ is an epitome of his speech: The most dramatic incident in the history of American politics was Wood row Wilson's prompt and positive re fusal to seek his nomination for the presidency by the grace of Thos. F. Ryan. It has become an open secret that the "interests" care very little what paity is nominally in power at Wash ington, provided the "interests" are,"in reality, in power there. The Baltimore Convention, bv a vote of almost five to one,declared the independence of the Democratic party and solemnly assured the world that its nominees should be rep resentatives of the people and not the conscious or the unconscious tools of the privilege-seeking and favor-hunt ing class. That great convention, true toj'the people and to the history and traditions of the party, declined to write in the platform a single linejor word that can be distorted into a turning to protection, near-protection, incidental protection, or any sort of robbery under the forms of law, but sal 3 "We declare it to be a fundemental principle of the Democratic party that the Federal government under the con stitution has no right or power to im pose or collect tariff duties, except for the purposes of revenue . . . . " The Republican party says, with in consistency, "We reaffirm our belief in a protective tariff," and the Pro gressive party says, with Rooseveltian consistency, "We believe in a protee ; live tariff." If I believed in a protec ( tive tariff, I should feel that duty to i my neighbors require that I advocate it, and that duty to myself required > that I advocate it under its real name. I It would be rather queer if a physi • cian who administered strychnine in . a capsule should insist that he had given his patient a dose of gelatin. If men obeyed the golden rule, if j they would do unto others as if they , were the others, we would have little j need of government. Law is designa ted, primarily, to encourage right- doing, and to restrain wrong-doing. In spite of the very best laws, men will take advantage of their fellows; > t ; (continued on third page.)
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