What Shall It
Be?
That's the question- that is asked ,
over and over again when there is
a present to be chosen for a grad
uate.
Most people agree that it should
come from a jewelry store —be-
cause somehow jewelry and pres
ents are always associated.
If those interested only knew it,
we could relieve thcm ol their un
certainty in a minute.
Our stock furnishes the hint. It
reveals in a miiiutc more
ate presents than anyone could sit
aj home and recall in a whole day.
So we invite buyers of presents,
and we promise to make their
choosing easy and their choice
satisfactory.
J. 0. Rhodes
• •»
+ LOCAL AND PERSONAL. »:
♦
IH. + + + + + + 4- + + + + + + + + + + *'
Mr. H. M. Sledge is all smiles.
It's a girl.
Miss Cora Carr is visiting
friends in the city.
Mr. Charlie Cline went to
Washington Sunday.
Col. Thornton wants to buy
some corn on the ears.
Mr. Bryan Jones went to
Happy Valley Monday.
Rev. T. W, Lingle of Davidson
was in the city Monday,
Mr. Ellis McComb is remodel
ing his home on sixth st.
Mrs. Welker, of Wooster, Ohio
is visiting Mrs. Bourbonnais.
Mr. Frank Henderson is build
ing a handsome residence on 13th
ave.
Miss Lillie Ury, of Durham is
here visiting the family of F. P,
Johnson.
Mrs. G. P. Brown of Concord
is visiting her uncle Dr.- T. F.
Stevenson.
Miss Cora Carr who has been
visiting in the city left yester
day for Salisbury.
Miss Carrie Steele, of Happy
Valley is visiting Mrs. D. rV
Messick of this city.
Mrs. Ralph Little and son ol
Newton are visiting her sister
James Shuford.
Miss Litaker entertained the
graduating class from 4 to 6
Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. J. W. Britton, of Cherry
ville, is visiting her parents, Mis
and Mrs. R. N. Whitener.
R. D. Barker will start to
work here Monday for the Met
ropotilan Life Insurance Co.
Mr. Bert Hutton went to New
ark, N. J; and other northern
cities on business this week. „
Can any one tell us who our
post master will be? If so we
would be glad to hear from you.
Rev. Jno. G. Garth was chosen
moderator at the meeting of
Presbytery held in Lenoir this
week,
Mr, C. H, Mebane editor of
Catawba County News, was a
pleasant visitor this office
Tuesday.
Mr. Lee Bryson, of Gastonia,
who was hurt in a motorcycle
accident last week is able to be
out again. *
Mrs. Sam Harrison is here
from Mooresvjlle, visited her
sister, Mrs. E. Tatum, on
eleventh
Mr, Glenn Alien left Sunday
for Catawba, where he will paint
the Southern Railway bridge,
over Catawba river. ,
Mr. H. H. Hamilton and family
expect to move from their present
residence on 12th avenue to the
Huffman house on tenth avenue.
Mrs. S. F. Watson and Mrs
Louis Gwin were in Morganton
Tuesday, the guests of Dr. Houck
assistant physician at the State
Hospital.
Rev. L. L. Moss of Taylors
ville and Rev. Garth -will ex
change pulpits Sunday, Rev.
Moss preaching here and Rev.
Garth at Taylorsville.
Professor Hawn came in yester
day and presented the editor
with a nice bunch of radishes
from his garden. The Professor
sayß he will soon have c&bbage,
Mrs. Carrie Leazer of Moores
ville, who is Historian for the
United Daughters of the Con
federacy is here making an ad
dress to the local chapter U.D. C.
Misses -Stanley ' Hall, Clara
Bowles and Mr. J. W. Clay are
the delegates from the Methodist
church to the Sunday School
Convention at Greensboro this
week.
Rev. J. G. Garth, Rev. C. A.
Monjoe, Dr. and Mrs. W. B,
Ramsay and Mrs. H. C. Dixon
left Tuesday for Lenoir to at
tend the presbytery there this
week.
* The moving picture show
Monday is considered by many
to have been the best ever seen
in our city. "The Star of Bethle
nem' f was the play and it was
grand.
Mr. J. M. Whitener who lives
four miles out from Hickory
brought in the first strawberries
>f the season today. Messrs.
Whitpner and Martin bought the
berries.
We regret very much to know
hat Mrs. Bridges is very ill.
3er sons Dick and Tuck of Au
gusts, Ga., were called to the
bedside. Mrs Bridges is the
uother of Mrs. Lee Latta.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Riddle have
returned home after an extend
ed tour of northern cities. Mr.
Middle was recently married to
Mrs. GagelieStuart of Savannah,
Ga. We welcome Mrs. Riddle
to our city.
With Our Advertisers. '
The Abernethy Hardware Co.
advertises a splendid line of re
frigerators this week, their
ad up.
The Hub Theatre announces
the Coburn Minstrels for to.
uight.
Dr.H. P. Flowe, Veterinary
Surgeon is a new addition to our
professional column?
»Read the ads in the Democrat
this week, they are interesting.
Knox 5 and 10c store, offers
his week a special line of buck
ets at a low price. Manager
Knox states that the broom sale
last week was such a success
that he will repeat it soon.
Moretz-Whitener Clothing Co.,
says it's not a matter of cost to
be well dressed. See their ad
elsewhere.
The Van Dyke Shop mentions
that itis now "kodak time" and
tell about their line.
The D. M. Boyd & Co., the
vehicle and harness dealers, tell
|an interesting story this week in
their ad about Babcock vehicles.
J. 0. Rhodes, Jewler, says
i hat Jewelry make a nice gradu
ating present See his ad.
M, V. Dunavant Co. tells why
the Ford is the "universal car' 5
look their ad up.
Live business men advertise
their wares, and-the sleepy ones
are awakening.
The Bowles Furniture Co., tells
about their stock of pooch furni
ture.
Geo. E. Bisanar advises people
not to neglect their eyes. Look
his ad up.
Miss Mary Rosebrough; an
nounces her mid-summer milli
nery opening on next Monday.
Beckley & Brown, announce
the arrival this week of more
new tnings in fashionable millin
ery,"look their ad up.
J. K. Morrison Co., Statesviile,
advertise a sale of sun-dried ap
ples. See the ad elsewhere.
/ Aliens announce special re
duced prices this week.
Population of North Carolina and
- Catawba County.
The Bureau of the census has just
issued a Bulletin, "population of
North Carolina: Composition and
Characteristics of the population."
KYom this Bulletin we get the follow
in}; facts about Catawba county,
which will be of Interest, and which
-bould furnish us with information
to help better the county education
ally:
■ The population of Catawba count}
in 1910 was 27918; in i9OO, 22133; -in
1890, I 8689; in 1880, U94«; 1D.1770, 10,-
984; there are 408 square miles in Ca
tawba county, -and the population
per square mile including towns, 68.4;
the rural population per square mile,
59.3; gain in turban .population since
1900, 46.6; gain ln rural population in
the same length of time, 23.5.
Thus it will be seen that the city
population has increased in the last
10 years practically twice as fast as
ihe county population.
There are 244447 white people, and
3471 colored people in the county.
Of this 99.4 are of native parentage,
leaving only 1-4 of one per cent of
foreign parentage.
j The total male population in Ca
tawba county.la 13688; female, 14230.
(More females than males), 5976 males
are of voting age. The total number
of illiterate males are of voting age
in the county; 851, per cent or illiter
acy, 14.3. Native whites, illiterate,
659; 12.5 percent Illiterate. Negro
natives illiterate, 196; 29.6 illiterate.
Persons 10 years old and over, total
number of IHiterates, 2303; per cent,
illiterate, 11.7. Native white, 17203;
□umber of illiterate, 1819; per cent
illiterate, 10.6. in other words, 10 1-2
white persons out of every hundred
from ten years old and up in Catawba
county can not write. Total number
of negroes illiterate, 482; illiterate,
20.4.
in other words, 20 negroes out of
every hundred can not read and write.
The greatest problem now before
the people of Catawba 'couyty is the
education of the children.
The number of children of school
age (between the ages of 6 and 20 in
clusive) in Catawba county, 10069;
number attending school, 6566. Only
65.2 per cent of the children of the
county attending school (any part' of
the session) in 1910.
W. J. SHUrOBD.
IICIORI ffIHSUIIOII.
MS. IEDIUL SOCIETY.
Meeting Was Held in Hub Theatre—
Interesting Lectures on Intensely
Important Subjects—More Detail
ed Report Next Week.
At one p. m. on Wednesday,
the Ninth District Medical Soc
iety met at the Hub Theater,
was called to order by the presi
dent, Dr, Isaac M. Taylor, of
Moruanton, and opened with
prayer By Rev, Dr.-Murphy. The
address of welcome was by Dr.
W. H. Nicholson, on behalf of
the citizens of the town. It was
a gem and will be published in
ou p next issue. Dr. J. H. Shu
ford spoke a few well-chosen
words for the physicians of the
town. The re-ponse was to have
been given by Dr. D. J. Hill, of
Lexington. In his absence Dr.
C. B. McNairy. of Lenoir replied
to the addresses of welcome.
He spoke of the struggle he had
made for an education and of
how he had felt certain lacks,
but said that his knowledge was
the more to be valued because it
had been obtained througlr sheer
contactrwith suffering and thor
ough familiarity with the condi
tions in any form of sickness
which he treated, v He advised
the doctors, in their meetings, to
dwell more on their failures, as
it was from them they learned
most The impromptu ta'k was
an excellent one. The speaker
spok'e of the failure in attend
ance and urged that it be better,
as the society considers its meet
ings good post graduate classes.
Very full minutes of the last
meeting were then read by Dr.
McNairy, the secretary, and or
dered adopted by the Society.
Dr. Taylor's address was next
in order, and his subject, in lan
guage that'the laity can under
stand was "The School as a fac
ulty in diseases of childhood and
youth." So important is this
subject and so well was it treat
ed that the Democrat will make
an effort to obtain this address
and print it in our next issufe. A
most interesting discussion fol
lowed. The gist of the argument
seemed to be that there should
be investigation? education, leg
islation. Every child of school
age should be carefully examined
before entering school and atfre
quent intervals afterwards. No
child can keep up *ith classes
while it has adenoids, enlarge
tonsils, defective eyesight or
hearing. The psid medical ex
aminer should be a feature of
every town large ensugh to have
schools and the counties should
have an officer for rural schools.
The next item on the program
was an address on "Anaesthesia
and Anaesthetics, by Dr. A. B.
Goodman, of Lenoir, an expert.
His paper was clear to any un
derstanding, his directions plain
and simple, his advice against
drugs In connection with anaes
thetics excellent: In the discus
sion following, decided ground
was taken against chloroform in
operatingand for ether. It seem
ed plain that, where there was a
s&fe anaesthetic, like ether, it
was both foolish and dangerous
to use any other.
The afternoon session closed
with an intenselv interesting dis
cussion of cases coming under
treatment of the doctors present
The evening meeting will be
reported in full next week. Our
columns are crowded.
Mr. Ogden Crowson, editor of
of the Burlington News has
been appointed to a clerkship on
the senate rules committee by
Senator Overman. Mr. Crowson
is a brother of Mr. F. B. Gwin,
of this city.
Mr. Bogle of the Overland Car
C0.,0r. 1. A. Wood and family,
Mr. James Shuford and family,
Misses Alice Witherspoon and
Mildred Stallings, Messrs. Dallas
Whitener and Charles Hahn
spent Sunday in Newton.
Mr, and Mrs. Sidney J, Bird,
of Newark, New Jersey were
here Monday and are so highly
pleased with our southern coun
try,- and Hickory especially,
that thev may move here.
Mr. Bird is a traveling man and
has been working this territory
some time.
Fifteen or twenty persons
.went from here to Greensboro
to the State Sunday School Con
vention. Several hundred people
are expected this convention
and it will doubtless be an in
teresting instructive affair. The
Gate City is busy now looking
after her guests.
The following delegates from
the German Reformed church
attended the Sundav School
Convention at Greensboto this
week. Messrs. Frank F. Allen,
A. P. Whisnant, David Smith,
Lewis Warlick , Richard Boyd
and Misses Margaret Bost
aQd Mattie Abernethy.
The Lenoir College team play
ed the Morganton Deaf and
Dumb School, last Friday after
noon, defeating them 18 to 4.
The game was slow and an eas
ily won victory for Lenoir. An
other game was scheduled to be
Elayed at Morganton yesterday,
ut was canceled, by the v Deaf
and Dumb School.
TWo Letters Written By Pupils of the
Hickory Graded School.
We publish in this weeks issue
letters- written by two pupils of
the Graced school. The dicta
tion and spelling are just as they
wrote it. . We hope the readers
of this paper will read these let
ters so that they may see the
good work that is being done Wy
our graded school. The articles
follow:
A Visit to the Sea Shore.
One day mother and father said,
"children we are going to the sea
shore and stay two months and you
both can have a new bathing suit,
Mabel's can be blue and Jack's red,
and we'll all go pretty soon."
They went to the station and got
on the train and travelled for many
days until one day father said, "we
are near Atlantic City."
When they got there the children
went"to the shore and played on the
sand.
Father told us it was dangerous t°
go in unless he watched tlram. But if
you won't go out very far out in the
water you can go in. But be care
ful not to drown.
The next day a dreadful storm arose
and we all h&d to go back to the hotel
and stav. Whep we got there the
thunder pefcled add mother said it
was the worst storm she had ever
been in.
At night we could see the light
from the light-house shining bright
over the ocean. .
The next day the sun shone out
bright anifrWe all went-down to sit
under the palm trees. Father said
he would take us in a* row boat a
little while. It wa» not long until
two men came up and said there was
a sail boat and that we might get to
Saturday and Monday
April 26th and 28th
10 Dozen, 10-Quart
Heavy Galvanized
Tin Buckets
A Regular 25c Value, for
15c Each
Only one to customer. None sold only on these two days at
the above price. Regular price is 25c. See window display.
As we stated last week we shall offer every Saturday and
Mouday a special price on some useful article. Watch our ads
and windows for these specials, some of them will interest you.
Knox 5 and 10c Store
Thornton Building
Your Eyes
,' v
Don't Neglect Them
More nervous and headaches come
from eye strains than any other defect. Eye
troubles not corrected, not only ruins the eyes
but impairs the whole system.
Come at once, and have your eyes ex
amined.
GEO. E. BISANAR
- ' ' *- " ' v X
Jeweler 8c Optometrist
Watch inspector for So. and C. Ac N. W. Rys.
_is our aim in selecting stock. And if you wiil take a look at our stock
we believe you will agree with us that we have succeeded to a large
' measure. We will receive this week a number of beautiful shapes in
burnt straw, and other attractive effects in straw, etc., we will ais"
get in this lot of goods a number of beautiful Ratine shapes in white
and many beautiful colored effects—be sure to see them. We sti
■BBMnr* .-jmprhave a few more Gage and Fiske Hats in the Soft Crown effect, a
style that is being worn by many this season; a nice assortment o
' Bma " hats, picture hats, etc,, to select from—see our line before \° u
We desire to thank each and every lady for the most liberal patron
- age as been accorded us during this season, and we shall en
deavor to merit a continuance of same in the future, Respectfully.
•% BECKLEY & BROWN
Over Thompson-West Co. 's Store .
ride on it. Mother said to us that it
waf not time to go, and we could go
in and wade a little while.
We went in and got all wet. We,
saw a littie fish. We picked up sea
shell* and saw all the big ships sail
ing on the water.
One day father said lie would take
us to see the men who took the shells
off of the oysters and packed
up to be sold.
One day we were playing in the
sand *hen Jack said, "lets play like
we were-building a battle ship, and
make like we are hammering it out.
It was getting late and we thought
that we ought to go home.
When we got home it was moon
light and we were very sunburned
for being out-so long.
By that time the months were out
and we all went home very happy.
RUTH CAMPBELL,
Age 9 years, 3rd. "B" grade. *
A lion and a bear chanced tp fall
upon a Fawn at the, same time, add
they began to fight for it They fought
so fiercely that at last they fell down,
entirely worn out and almost dead.
A fox, passing that way, saw them
stretched out, and the fawn dead be
tween them. He stole in slyly, seized
the fawn and ran away with it
dinner. When they saw this they
could not stir, but they cried out,
"What wretches we are to tale all
this trouble for the tox."
This all teaches us that when two
people fall to fighting for something
the third person is apt to get it
WrpfißOW JOY,
Second A Grade
For any pain, burn, scald or bruise,
apply Dr. Thomas' Eclectic Oil —the
,household remedy. Two size* 25c
and 50c at all drug stores. Adv
• Death of a Child.
The ontf'year-old child of Mr.
and Mis. W, H..Sherrill, of Hick
ory, R-2, died Tuesday morning
and was buried at Mt. Olivet
church Wednesday. The funeral
was conducted bv Rev. J; D.
Maunev. . .
Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Wootten
have returned home after spend
ing several days in Wilson, N.
C. Mr. Wootten attended the
meeting ot the Royal Arcanum
at WilmingtoirN. C.
Odd Fellow Sermon.
Rev, W. R/ Bradshaw, will
preach a sermon to the Hickory
Lodge No. 206 of I. 0. 0 F. on
next Sunday morning at the First
Baptist church. This will be the
94th anniversary of the 1.0.0. F.
The entire lodge will attend in a
body and the public is cordially
invited.
Notice of Sale of
% •' v
Sun Dried Apples
Notice Is hereby given that we will, on the
14th day of May 1913, at Eleven
O'Clock A. M.
sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for
cash, seven thousand (7000) pounds of sun-dried
apples, primes stock, in good condition. Place
of sale at our store room in SJatesville, N. C.
April.. 1913.
J. K. Morrison Grocery
& Produce Co.
STATESVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
T> .
*
Henry Ford has built more automo
biles than any man who ever lived.
He knows how. That's the reason he
can build "The Universal Car" at a
wonderfully low price. Better get
yours now—if you want a Ford this
season.
\ - .
Our great factory has produced nearly a quarter
of a million Model* T's. Prices: Runabout, $525;
"Touring Car, $600; Town Car, sßoo—f. o. b.
Detroit with all equipment. For full particulars
get "Ford Times"—an interesting automobile
magazine. It's free—from
M, V. Dunavant & Co.
Burke and Caldwell County and Hickory and Cline Township
Office
HICKORV, N. C. Phone 210
Special Reduced Prices This Week
at Allen's -
== ON ==
Dress Goods and Silks, ladies' and children's Shoes, Ox.'ordTies
and Sandals, and ail men's Shoes and Oxford 3, (except U. S. Ar
my Shoes and Oxfords which cam.ot be sold for less than $3.50.)
One lot ladies' and children's (last years) Oxfords and Sandals to
be close-* out at Big Cut prices. $3.00 ones at $1.75. $2.50 and
ones at $1.50. About 40 prs, men's "King Quality" and "Cygoff
black-and tan s4.oooxfords at $2.90. Many bargains await you I
. THIS WEEK AT ==^^=
ALLEN'S
- i
Robinson-Hamman Recital^
The public is cordia'lv
to attend the graduating ?
of Misses Essie Lea L[ Clt *
and Edna Maie Ham X?*
music and expression at- y '
college, next Tuesday - oi
at 8 o'clock. * en 'H|
Carrie-Isn't the bear'q i
to keep him warm in wimlr 11
Mamma-Yes, Carrie
Carrie—Then what do**
have to keep him cool in SmJ
Harper's Round Table. f -
For Burns, Bruises andSn
The quickest and surest cu re 1
for burns/ bruises, boils, sores
flamation and all skin disea*, J
Bucklen's Arnica Salve. InfomVl
it cured L. H Hafin, of Irdell T
of a sore on his ankle which'J-J
him so he could hardly walk, a i
be in every house. Only 2Sc. R-„
mended bv C. M. Shuford' Most"!
Lutz and Grimes drug store. Ij