Established 1899
>- v- ,
"Richard Little fe^ 18 ;'-co4ip Runner
As Ever Pulled On A Spiked Shoe,"
Says Porter of Harvard University
All the New York papers
carried pic ur?s of the new
champion but the New York
Press was most elaborate in its
details. It printed a full page
relative to the meet and hid
eleven of the fourteen official
photographs that were made of
the meet. In discussing the)
meet in one article P v >rter of
Harvard said: "Richard L ; ttle is
as smooth a runner as ever pulled
on a spiked shoe. His form is
as near perfection as p>ssibie.
There is absolutely no "wast*"
in any of his movements. His
action is superb. The Smthern
boy reminds one strongly of b^t»
Bonhag and Conneff. Little's
arm action is similar to that of
Bonhag only he does not carry
his arms quite so high as does
B»nhag. Tne body action of
Little and Bonhag are almost
identical.
"As to leg action Little has a
style all his own. He d >es not
lift his knees so high as Bonhag
or Cjnneff nor is his leg action
as low as S:irubbs. He is not so
high on his toes nor does he get
HANDSOME LIBRARY TABLE
Donated to the Hickory Chamber of
Commerce.
Hickory, N. C., June 21, 1913.
To the Directors of Chamoer of
Commerce,
Hickory, N. C.,
Dear Sirs:
The stockholders whose names
appear below take pleasure in
presenting to the Chamber ot
Commerce the library tab eof the
old Hickory Club, for the use of
the Chamber of Comrm rce so long
as the organization is perpetuat
ed. Should said organization cease
to perform the functions for
which it was organized, arid be
come dissolved, the ownership to
revert to the several men whose
names appear below.
T. A. Mott. T L
• » RMaier. leo. -VSruutleiTi ft £i. Mar
tin, Hugh Wi liams, C.C. Gamble,
W. X. Reid, J. A. Moretz, C. £
Abernethy, James E^py.
T. A. Mott, J.-A Moretz,
Chairman. Secretary.
To Mr. T A. Mott, Chairman, J.
A. Moretz, Secretary, et al.,
Dear Sirs:
We beg to acknowledge, with
t'.janks, your kind donation of a
handsome library table for the use
of the Hickory Chamber of Com
merce. It will certainly add to
the beaUly, as well as the utility,
of our new rooms
Permit us to take advantage ot
this occasion to state that one of
the uses we have in view for out
new rooms is thst our members
can at any time have private quar
ters for a business conference.
Our business men frequently have
occasion to meet some one be
tween trains, and our new quar-:
ters are not only conveniently lo
cated, hut are supplied with rooms
that can be used for *"hat purpose
Again thanking you for this
handsome table, with the hope
that the occasion will never arise
when, through the dissolution oi
the Hickory Chamber of Com
merce, this beautiful piece of fur
niture may revert to its original
owners, we remain,
Very respectfully yours,
Directors Hickory Chamber of
Commerce. A K* Joy,
Secretary.
Lawyers to Meet in Annual Session.
Asheville, June 22 —The fif
teenth annual meeting of the
North Carolina Bar Association
will be held at the Battery Park
Hotel, July 2, 3, 4. It will
called to order on the evening o;
the second by the president,
former Judge J. S. Manning o
Raleigh. The address of wel
come wiil be delivered by Mr.
Thomas S. Rollis of Asheville.
and the response will b* by John
L). Bellamy of Wilmington.
On the morning of July 2, an
address will be delivered by
former Judge R. W. Winston ot
Raleigh and at the evening ses
sion North Carolina's ''Grand
Old Man." former Governor
Jarvis will deliver the annuaj an
nual address on the subject "The
Lawyer; His Opportunities and
Failure."
On the morning of July 4 an
address wiil be deliveree by
Judge Stephen C Bragaw ot
Washington, N. C ; r-P>rt ot
special Committe on Legislature
and Law Reform; report ot
special Committee on Torrent
Land System; election of officers
Mr. L. B. Gwin and sons, Ray
and Charles, spent Sunday in
Gastonia,
THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
theboundin his stride that Bonhag
gets, He is looser gaited than
Jones, Jackson, or Kiviat.
4 The North Carolinian flits
alone the ground, eating up dis
tance in an amazing way with
apparently no exertion. He gets
more out of his stride than either
Jones or Bonhag. In fact Jones'
stride and style seems more
adaptable to running from two
to five miles than for the mile.
"L'ttle's arm, body, and leg
action might well be copied by
all the young-ters who desire t>i
achieve success in distance run I
mng. His style may not seem '
so beautiful tj the ordinary spec !
tator, but to the expert it is a
dream. Little was seen in action
in New York at the Polo ground
in 1910 tvhen the largest crowd
ever in attendance at the grounds
up to the baseball series of 1911
watched him run with his trainer
Dixson. George Tincler, the
British runner, * was thought to
have the best form of any man
that ever ran on a cinder track, i
Lttle, however, goes Tincler'
one better." —New York Press, i
North Carolina at Gettysburg.
From every state in the Union sol
dier comrades wearing the blue and
those true to the grey will gather on
the momemtous battleground of Get
tysburg, July 1 3 to commemorate
the fiftieth anniversary of one of the
world's truly renouned battlefields
Many states contributed to the dead
that fell in that fierce struggle, and
alike will they contribute as gloriously
and generously of its surviving ranks to
come back and commemorate the
field of battle that knows no dividing
line of the North and the South.
Veterans and "Yanks" alike will vie
in making the celebration a glorious 1
occasion and it will be a reunion feast.
States in the North and South have for
the most part made provisions for send
ing their war heroes to the celebration
Legislatures have contributed genet- ,
ously toward the cause in many States
id£ "'»»-
J its indigent old soldiers Unfortun
ately the North Carolina Legislature a
did not provide for the sending of its ?
veterans as did many of the wealthier *
states. >
But to raise the funds concerted ef- i
forts have been launched at this la;e
hour whereby all the indigent soldiers *
may go to Gettysburg. The Daugh j
ters of the Confederacy have been ap- I
Dealed to and the president signifies the !
willingness of the corporatton to aid ,
Mrs. Williams, the president, endorses ,
the plan and the appeal for funds is
state wide, (
Secretary of State J. Bryan Grimes i
is in the forefront of the campaign to ,
raise funds to send indigent soldiers :
from this state. His letter follows:
' 4 At Gettysburg, Pa , July I—3, will j
be celebroed the fiftieth anniversary ,
of the battle of Gettysburg. Measur s
ed by results this was the most mo
mentous battle ever fought on the
American continent. There will -be
assembled hundreds of thousands of (
veterans and visitors from all parts of |
the United States to glory in one of
the most notable exhibitions of the val
or and heroism displayed by American
s .ldiery
"Working in the fields or feebly do
ing the chores around the home, are
hundreds of North Carolinions whose
deeds of valor made deathless the fame
of Gettysburg. Many of these old
men, now almost in penury and drudg
ing for daily bread, did a man's part
when men were needed. Just fifty
years ago, in the prtrae of young man
hood, they were offering themselves,
(it may have been just a private's life
but it was thiir ali) to their state and
country _ # ,
"On the battle fields around Rich
mond, Seven Piues, Sharosburg, Fred
ericksburg and Chancellorsville, North
Carolina blood flowed in wastful reck
less profusion, as if the stream were in
exhaustible Then with hig 1 ! hopes
North Carolina's shattered troops went
to Gettysburg, With invincible confi
dence in themselves and their leaders
they were hurled again and again
against impregnable positions and
overwhelming numbers while all the
world wondered. Theirs was not to
I reason why; theirs was but to do and
die, though they well knew that some
one had blundered.
"In that great war, iife was cheap,
and the death wave rolled high,
j North Carolina lost thirty five per cent
of her military population, xhe death
Jist of the war shows the remarkable.
! fact that of all the losses of the whole
[ Southern Confederacy, more than one
| fourth of the dead were from North
Carolina. . ,
f 4 'Tottering towards the sundown ot
[ life, almost foigotten in their little
I homes, are many of the survivors of
that immortal band which left the
9 world a heritage of valor before un
n known. They yearn to go a«ain to
I this field of their prowe»« and glorv.
HICKORY, N. C.. THURSDAY. JUNE 26, 1913
( but the hard hand of poverty bids them
stay.
I "In time of war, the soldiers look
ed to our women for comfort and help.
These women ministered to their suf
ferings and were . their solace in the
hour of severest trial. Since that war
the women have kept the soldiers'
memory dear and are building memor
ials everywhere to their heroism.
"Once again we ask their help.
The North Carolina legislature did not
prov.de for sending our soldiers to Get
tysbug as the richer states have done.
Our people are poor, but not too poor
to do our soldiers reverence If the
Daughters of the Confederacy in each
county would undertake to solicit pri
vate subscriptions for the traveling ex
penses of the indigent survivors of the
battle, who live in their resDective
counties, we would find the "last thin
i grey line of North Carolina veterans at
I Gettysburg on July 1-3 much larger
than it would be without the help of
these patriotic women,
Mrs. Marshal Williams, the presi
dent of the North Carolina division of
the United Daughters of the Confed
eracy, approves and endorses this plan.
Will our women act and act quick -
,
| 111 Ml CIHCLK~f:
T'\e following invitation has been re-
ceived in the city:
Mrs Margaret Mead Graves 1
announces the marnage of her daughter (
Anne Elizabeth
to *
Mr. Stewart Jackson Turner
Thursday, June the nineteenth .
nineteen hundred and thirteen !
Philadelphia '
The following invitation has been re
ceived in this city:
Mr. and Mrs. Julius A. Beard
request the honor of -
your presence at the marriage of
their daughter
Bessie Ora
to t;
Mr. George E. Magee
Sunday afternoon, June twenty-ninth c
nineteen hundred thirteen
9t 3 o'clock e
at their residence n
Conover, North Carolina.
. R
COMMENT |si
We desire to call attention to tlie
idvertisement of the State Normal
ind Indust rial college which appears
nthis issue. Every year shows a
ready growth in this Institution de- jf
roted to the higher education of the
women of North Carolina.
Including the Training School and
the Summer Session, the college last
year had a total enrollment of 1317
students. Eighty-seven of the one h
iiundred counties of the State had si
representatives in the student body, y.
Nine-tenths of all the graduates or t
this institution have taught or are p
now teaching in the schools of Noith t
Carolina.
The dormitories are furnished by a
the state and board is provided at s
ac'ualcost. Two hundred appoint h
ments with free tution, apportione d r
among the several counties accord- s
Ing to school population, will be lj
awarded to applicants about the b
middle of July. Students who wish i
to attend this Institution nixt year u
should make application as early as s
possible, as the capacity of the dor
mitories is limited. e
The organization of the branch- d
es of the Just Freight Rate As- t
sociation in the various towns of J
the state is proceeding at a rapict ,
rate, and will do more than any- d
thing else to arouse public senti- t
raent for securing just rates In J
practically every community of r
the state there are men who
know of specific cases of freight t
rate discrimination, and many
instances of this kind are publish
ed in the papers of the state. i
Mrs. J C. Hill Almost Severs Her 1
Head From Her Body With Razor, i
High Point. June 21. -Mrs. J. i
C. Hill, wife of a workman at a J
factory here, took her own life
early this morning by almost {
severing her head from her body '
before assistance reached her.
She had made several at- ;
tempts and was being watched
an account of her extremely ill j
health, which hardly made her j
responsible for her acts, and it s
was thought by members of the s
family that she had quit think- i
ing of anything of the kind. !
This time, however, she made
her plans deliberately, going
an outhouse near her home in
the suburbs, and when her
daughter reached her a few
minutes later, she was dead. She
was 52 years of age and leaves
five children.
Astor Buys London Post.
Waldorf Astor, who already
owns the Pall Mall Gazette, one
of the leading London afternoon
newspapero, and the Observer,
which holds front rank position
among Sunday newspapers, has
purchased the London Morning
' Post. The Post for many years j
I has been regarded as the daily so
i 1 ciety organ. The price is sajd to
be $1,250,000.
m I AMUSING MISTAKE IN
REGARD 10 TRACK MEET
r-l
® Richmond Papers and The Baltimore
Sun Called Each Other Liars Over
the Names and Now Have a
u Libel Suit Started.
1 The correspondents of several
state papers got the name of the
• man wrong, who ran with Little
r when he broke the record. Some
people inferred that it was Nor
-1 man S. Taber, which would have
been absurd. Tne correct name
is Tabour and in most cases con
• tracted to TaLor. There were on
: !y two state papers which made
1 the mistake, The Greensboro New*
• and Observer and the Charlotte
' Observer. The mistake is pardon
able but it has caused muel:
amusement. One paper said it
was John Paul Jones. All the
New York and out of the state pa
pers had the name correct.
Where the amusement came in
the man's name, with which the
correct name was mixed, was that
he was to get married on that day
or at least the New York Press
credited him with this stunt.
The close resemblance of the
two names made it easy to con- i
fuse them. It behooves every i
newspaner man and editor to be i
careful in their work and not let i
the desire to be first cause them 5
to make mistakes. .
The Richmond papers and the j
Baltimore Sun called each other f
liars over the names and now
have a libel suit started. I
LOST-!
£
Somewhere between the Lu- ®
theran Church and The Demo- J
crat office, a small bundle roll
ed up in wrapping paper. This t
package contained "Col. John j;
R. Winston's Escape From John* J
ston's Island During the Civil jj
REWARD :
if returned to this office.
t
Automobile and Motorcycle Law. j
n
No person shall operate a motor ve- ,
hide upon the public highways of this 9
stale who is under the age of sixteen i]
years. Sec. 16. ("Highways" construed f
to mean any road, street, alley or other _
public place in city or town, or any *■
township, county or state road.) c
Durinir the period from one-half hour £
after sunset 'o one-half hour before
sunrise, automobiles must display at
least two lights in front and one in the
rear, with clear rays from rear light v
shining upon number plate, and red £
light visible from rear. Lights must be t
burning at all times while automobile *
is upon street unless same is standing .
under a light. One light on motorcycle 1
sufficient. Sec. 14. i
All motor vehicles meetingwith oth
er motor vehicles or horses ridden or .
driven, and all persons so riding or
driving horses or other vehicles shall ]
turn to right of center of highway 30 J
as to pass without interference. In j
overtaking and passing the motor ve- .
hide sliaP pass on the left side and the
driver or rider shall turn to right so as
to allow free passacre on left. In male- I
lng turns at intersecting highways, no ,
matter in which direction whether to ;
right or left, person operating motor
vehicle shall keep same to the right of '
the intersection of the center of such )
highway. Sec. 16. j
SPEED LIMIT. j
Fifteen (15) miles per hour in the res- |
idence portion of any city, town or vll
lage. - ,
Ten miles per hour in the business
portion of any city, town or village.
Twenty-iive miles per hour on any ;
high ivay outside of the corporate limits
of any incorpoaated city or town.
Above from Sec. i 7.
Seven (7) miles per hour upon aj>
praoching an intersecting highway, a ;
bridge, dam, sharp curve or steep des- (
cent, and also in traversing such inter
secting highway, bridge, dam, curve or
descent. Sec. 15.
If the width, traffic and use of any
highway are such that the above des
ignated rates of speed would endanger
the property or lite or limb of any per
son, then the speed must be reasonable
and proper, the person operating the
motor vehicle having proper regard for
such traffic conditions. Sec. 17.
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church.
Rev. J. H Wannemacher, pastor.
Sunday School. 9:45 a. m.
Chief service, 11 a. m.
Evening service, 8 p. m.
Ours is a rapidlv growing Sun
day School. Each Sunday new
scholars are being added. Last
Sunday we a recoid break
' ing attendadce and a record
- breaking collection. Enter the
' Lutheran Sunday School. We
. will do you good.
5 Mrs. E. A. Herman left Monday for
I Kinston, where she will spend some
3 j time with her parents. Mr. and Mrs.
-' J. A. Hendron. She was accompanied
3' by her brother, J. A. Hendron Jr.,
who has been visiting her at this place.
Happenings in Washington.
Ky Thad. S. Page.
T The new Currency Reform
Bill was made public on Friday
and was presented to the House
eon Monday. The outstanding
features of the new bill are;- (1)
It seeks to provide a market for
liquid commercial paper and to
give an elastic but safe note
issue. (2) It provides for twelve
I banking associations as banks of
i rediscount for member banks
3 (3) A Federal board of control
? is also provided for, composed of
- -seven membe'rs, four to be ap
? pointed by the president, the j
j other three being the Secretary
- of Agriculture, the Secretary of
the Treasury, and the Comptrol-1
lerof the Currency. This board is
* to have a great deal of power in
■ the supervision of the reserve
associations. The Federal board
may, in it's discretion, issue
government notes to the amount
1 of $5000,000,000. to reserve as
sociations, these notes to be se
cured by prime commercial paper
rediscounted by the associations
and gold equal to 33 1-3 per cent
of such issues, to be held in
vaults of reserve associations.
National banks may continue
note issues as at present. The j
twelve new banks that are creat- i
ed are to be owned by the stock-1
holding banks of the twelve dis-1
tricts in which the reserve banks [
are situated. The National banks! -
are compelled to be members
and State banks and trust com- 1
panies are permitted to members. I
The capitalization is to.be 20 per
cent of the capital of the stock- '
holding banks, one-half paid in 1
and one-half subiect to call. The 1
principal functions of these new
banks will be to (a) rediscount (
paper presented by the stocK- i
holding banks; (b) buy and sell 1
government securities, gold and £
silver bullion and foreign coin, t
foreign exchange, and open
market bills of given maturity; i
(c) Government fiscal operations, i
The finance Committe has at i
last turned the Tariff Bill over g
to the Democratic caucus of the s
Senate. The bill has undergone (
a considerable change, the prin- c
cipal ones being:- Oats-House, (
10c a bushel; Senate, 62. Oat- t
meal and rolled oats-House, free P
list: Senate, 33c per 100 pounds. 0
seed* P« Pound; a
House 20c a h
a bushel. Bananas-House, free t
list; Senate, 5c a bunch. Added t
to the free list;- Alazarin, single v
jute yarns, school books, cement, >
creosote oil, engravers diamond j
dust, abrasives, flax, hemp, pig J
iron, wrought and scrap iron, "
ferro-manganese, leather, as- t
phaltum, needles for shoe ma-
chines, photographic and mouing 1
picture films, cyanide ol potash, c
cattle, sheep and all other domes- .
tic Hue animals suitable for food, 1
wool of the angora goat and I
alpaca, paintings, sculptures, *
etc., of a "professional charac-
ter." A few minor changes j
have also been made in the wool 1
and silk schedule. '
The Senate Committe, com- J
posed of Senators Swanson, 1
Kenyon, Martine, Shields and *
Borah, which has been in W Va. 1
investigating the situation in the 1
coal fields, has returned to Wash-1 j
ington and the investigation will 1
be continued here. About the 1
only fact that has come to light
is that the miners, and not the
operators, are in a large measure 1
respousibie for the conditions ex
isting there. A feature of the
investigation has been the ani- 1
mated controversy between
Senator Martine and Mi*. Quinn
Morton, counsel for the- opera
tors, which came near resulting
in a physical encounter between
the two men.
Mr. B. F. Keith, collector of
the port at Wilmington, has been
in the city and has offered an
explanation of his action in ex
ercising the appointing powei
too hastily to the two North
Carolina Senators and to Repre
sentatives Goewin and Small.
He said that he felt confident
that no action would be taken to
remove him from office.
Mr. Clyde Hoey, of Shelby,
who is an applicant for the As
sistant Dis-Attorneyship of the
Western North Carolina District,
spent several days in the city in
interest of his candidacy.
The Senate confirmed during
the week Major E. J. Hale and
eighteen North Carolina post
masters.
Lutheran Sunday-School Picnic.
Holy Trinity Sunday School
; will hold their annual picnic,
! Thursday, at Baker's Mountain.
This is always looked forward to
r with great expectation. As the
! school now numbers over 300 a
i great crowd is expected. The
, conveyances will leave the
, church at 7:30 a. m,
Democrat and Press, Consolidated i 905
George of England has foeld His Record
For Twenty Years But Now He Must
Enter The List of "Has Beens."
0 "The Yankees haveagainshown
e us what careful training will do.
B Richard Little, the great Ameri
f can runner, put the amateur re
cord below the professional. At
] j the Piccardly Square Athlete
f j Club where .the associated press
. dispatch was posted last night
a Mr. B. E. George was interview
er ed and he said that he was not
[ surprised. In fact, ever since last
.'summer when Murphy tried so
? hard to get Little to enter the
, Olympic games George seemed
1 to display a great deal of anxiety
t about him. Mr. George had at
» no time taken Jones or Jackson
I seriously but the North Carolina
. lad worried him, George met
. Little in New York in 1910 and
. saw him practicing in the Polo
. Grounds. He said last night that
he then impressed hiin as being
the smoothest runner that ever
The Central Highway.
The Central Highway of North
| Carolina is a good roads proposi
i tion which is destined to prove of
| value, not alone to the nineteen
! counties through which it passes
on its course from the Atlantic to
the Tennessee line, but to all the
State as well. This is because it
can be made a model highway
with an influence for good road>~ j
which will spread, and because '
when it is placed in a thorough
condition it will draw to it links
of good roads from all parts of the
State. That it be made a great
highway, should be the work of
all the people through whose coun
ties its course is laid. 1
There is to be renewed activity
in promoting this highway, it be
ing the purpose to have a tour of j
it by its officials and citizens be-
ginning on July 25 at the Tennes
see line and reaching Morehead
City on July 30, for the annual
convention of the North Carolina l
Good Roads Association, which is
to continue through the first of ,
August. It is the desire of the
officials to make this the biggest
and best good roads convention f
held in North Carolina, delegates „
to make the tour over ua= «
Highway to the convention there
will be Governor Craig, H. B.
Varner, chairman of the Central
Highway Commission, Dr. Joseph
! Hyde Pratt, State Geologist, and a
Mr, Dell M. Potter, president of 1
the Southern National Highway
♦Association. Short stops will be t
made at the various towns and
cities along the route. S
The Central Highway's increas
ing importance is shown in the i
fact that it has been designated
as a part of the Southern Nation- 1
al Highway. President Potter, of ]
that association, is to personally
inspect the Central Highway and -
map it out as a unit of the Great
National Highway, which, it is !
anticipated, will be built eventu
ally by the United States Govern
ment. For this one reason, if for
no other, the Central Highway
should be in prime condition for
the tour, for if it is in bad condi
tion it is liable to cause the South
ern National Highway, which has
been designated from San Diego,
California, to skip middle and
western North Carolina and go
further south, thus missing that
section altogether. Tne tour is
not to be one made as a pleasure
trip, but it is for the purpose of
making it of service to the good
roads movement throughout the
sections in which it passed, and to
all North Carolina,
Reports sent out from Lexing
ton say that Chairman Varner has
encouraging reports from # all
along the line of the Central High
way, and that he looks forward to
a pleasant trip. Since the last
tour a great deal of work has been
done. Mr. Varner finds that the
people of the mountains
are very much interested in
the highway and many townships
have voted bonds for building
their links _pf the road, and con
siderable sums have been appro
priated by commissioners and rais
ed by private subscription to fur
ther the work. Information is that
from Asheville another branch of
i the highway is projected, passing
. byway of Waynesville to Mount
Stirling, at the Tennessee line,
and there connecting with the
good roads of Cocke county,Tenn.
The plan is that the old route,
1 through Madison county, will be
. put in condition, Madison having
. recently provided a bond issue of
} $300,000, the Central Highway to
s be taken care of from its proceeds.
' Buncombe roads are reported as
1 in good condition throughout, the
J Central Highway being no excep
-3 tion. Nebo, Marion and Old Fort
townships, in McDowell, have vot*
n donned a track suit.
'• ''George has held his record for
- twenty lon* years but now he
- must enter the list of 'has beens'.
t When George ran and made his
e great record at Oxford in 1893 it
s was still two years before the
, youngster who took his record
- from him yesterday viewed this
t mundane sphere for hisfirst time,
t It is always sad to see an old
> champion go out, but youth and
I r® d bl°°d must be reckoned with.
1 We iement with the Globe that
7 another great athlete trophy must
t go across the Atlantic.
i "The Times in expressing the
i sentiment of our people together
t with that of Mr. George without
I prejudice, malice, or jealousy.
> reaches out her hands with mani
; fold congratulation to our youth
: ful little cousin across the wa
' ter? —London Times.
aggregating $85,000,
and Old 1 ->rt has made application
for the ?! 0,000 offered by the
federal Government for road
building and has provided $20,000
to go with it. The road from
Ridgecrest to Old Fort will be
made a model highway, Mor
ganton township, in Burke, has
voted bonds for $50,000, and
Hickory and Newton townships
in Catawba voted the same
amount each. There is a fine
bridge across the Catawba, con
necting with the wonderful roads
of Iredell, and it is easy sailing
until Davidson county is reached.
Here very little has been done.
Guilford, Alamance, Orange,
Wake, Johnston, Wayne, Lenoir.
Craven and Carteret present no
serious obstacles, though some ot*
the roads of Craven, Lenoir and
Carteret are reported sandy and
hard to travel. All in all, the out
look for the Central Highway is
excellent, and with united work,
every part can be put in goo«l
shape for the tour. If it is deter
mined to spend $30,000 of the Na
tional appropriation for good roads
on it, tnen its future is bright in
deed, and its friends are making
server nest effort 11 have a P arL of
Catawba Items.
Dr. Semming of Whitesburg, Tena.,
arrived here Sunday night to visit his
mother-in-law Mrs. S. Rufty,
Miss Ermine Pitts is visiting rela
tives in Salisbury and Spencer.
Mr. W. J. Abernethy returned to
Spencer Sunday after a brief vrsit here
Mrs. F. Y. Song is visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. Griffin, in Marshville.
Mrs. John Cline of Asheville is a
guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J,
R. Cline,
Mrs. T. S. Lazenby of Statesville, i 3
visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.
W. Lowrance. Mr. Lazenby came up
Saturday to spend Sunday.
The little three year old child of
Mr. and Mrs. James Brown, who live
three miles from here, died Sunday
night and was buried in the cemetery
here Monday afternoon.
Resolutions on the death of brother
Ed V. Boyd:
Whereas, since the messenger of
death has knocked at our door and call
ed from our council on earth to that
Grand Council in Eternity, our loved
and lamented brother, Ed V. Boyd, be
it resolved:
Ist. That in the sudden and un
timely death of brother Boyd, our
council has lost a member whose gen
ial smile and gentle disposition will be
missed from among us as long as our
memories linger on the things of earth.
He died like a soldier at his post.
In the twinkling of an eye his spirit
was called away to join the innumera
ble host that have gone out into that
great spirit land beyond the confines of
earth, thereby teaching us the certain
ty of death, and our dependence upon
Him who gave us life.
2nd. That we join our hearts with
those who mourn our brother's death
and make God's kindliest blessing up
on all the loved ones he has left be
hind.
3rd. That a cepy ot these resolu
tions be spread upon our minutes, a
copy be sent to the immediate family
: of the deceased, and a copy be furnish
ed the county papers with the requert
that they publish the same.
Glenn Long,
W. B, Walker,
i Oscar Sherrill.
Birthday Surprise.
: Forty of her many friends
: gave Margaret Wannemacher a
> complete and happy surprise
. Monday evening at the Lutheran
s parsonage. The occasion was
i her fifteenth birthday. Many
presents were presented. De
licious cream - *nd cake were
served.
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