Quality Job Printing t Reasonable Prices Established 1899 m. H. WANNEffIACHER " PASSED AWAY THURSDAY Ikath Due to Stroke of Appo plexy— Was 48 Years | Old. i:: v. J.H. Wannemacher pass f nvay at his home in this city Thursday evening, March 18, years, 11 months and 8 His death occurred just J week after he was stricken ivirh poplexy while making a t;l j] oie of his members. He never after the stroke un-1 tii iii died. 'ii v. Wannemacher came to Ku ry June 7. 1911, accepting ■ ,'i to the pastorate of Holy 'V ; ,iv Lutheran church, he at the time of accepting the call i eins serving a church at Erie, P.'. i he deceased was born at Car rolton, Ohio, April 10, 1866, and wiu the second son of Mr. and ;!r?. U. Wannemacher, deceased, lie survived by his wife, form erly Miss Lu!a Yoder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Yoder of this city, and three children, :sas Margaret and Catherine H Master Ernest Three hers and three sisters also fu: rive. They are Geo. R. Wan :.-::her. of Columbus. Ohio; Wi iium U. Wannemacher, of ('eveiand, Ohic: Edward N. Wannemacher, of Ontario, Cal.; Mrs. Mary A. Anderson, of Glen- I Cal.: Mrs. Emma M. Hig of San Francisco, and Mrs. C.-.: .\in2 Hoffman, of Randsburg, I Cal. He graduated from Capitol i . varsity at Columbus, Ohio, in tie year iB9O. A few years later he decided to study far the min i-j v and studied theology at Cap it ■: University and at the old St. Paui's Seminary in this city. He entered the ministry in June, 1394 accepting a call to a mis t- r. ne!d at Newburg, W. Va., l'.orr. which place he was called in 1595 to a charge in Gaston county, N. C. % During the period of time between January, 1899, and November, 1900, he was pro fessor in St. Paul's Seminary, this cifly. He then accepted a - ar.>*Le3Cott, Kan. In**>ecetK >ee:\ 1005, he was called to Hicks ville, Ohio, and from 190S to the spring of 1910 he served a charge at Defiance, Ohio. He then fol lowed a call to the mission field at Erie, Pa., from which place he left in June, 1911, to accept the pastorate of Holy Trinity in this city. During the three years and nine months of his ministry here there have been added to the communicant membership of the church, 139; bv confirmation, 78; by transfer, 61. The number of baptisms during this time have have been 136. Three Luther Leagues have been organized in the congregation, the Sunday ocnool has been built up very much, the Ladies' Guild greatly strengthened and just a few -weeks ago as a crowning result of his work, he organized the Martin Luther Brotherhood with nearly 50 charter members. During his pastorate many ma terial improvements have also been made in the church and a ;-piendid new parsonage has been built. Rev. Wannemacher held posi • r>ns of trust and honor in the f ifierent bodies of the Lutheran Cnurch. For several years he i;as been chairman of the Execu- 1 live Committee of Missions of i-e Worth Carolina Conference : the Tennessee Synod. He was a member for the Tennessee cynod of the joint commission j'or the unification of the Luther an synods in North Carolina, and ■ as also a member of the United Synod Committee on Education and Arbitration. He was one of the most active : ri tireless workers in the Luth an Church, and his death aves a sad vacancy, but his past life will be a lasting monu ruent to his memory. The funeral services were held S inday afternoon from the 'lurch he served so well, con tacted by Rev. J. D, Mauney, • astor of St. Andrew's congre gation in East Hickory, assisted Rev. W. A. Deaton, D,. D. The large c lurch was filled to overflowing, and many had to tarn away Deing unable to get in the church. The body had been carried to the church in the morning and lay in state until the hour of the tuneral. The pallbearers were Messrs. P. C. Setzer, D. P. Bowman. W. A. Miller, B.F. Campbell, Walter Carpenter and G. W. Payne. The floral offering were beau tiful and attested the love and high regard of his congregation and friends. The bereaved family have the deepest sympathy «of the>ntire THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT city in the lop~ c \>??ovin# father I and husbai they can find comfort in the assurance that he has gone to rest from his labors and to receive the great reward coming to all true disciples of Christ. Local and Personal Items of Interest Mr. Earl Nabors, of Spencer, spent Sunday in this city. Mr. Leslie Cansler went to Charlotte Monday to resume his work on the Charlotte Observer. i Miss Rebecca Boone, of New ! ton, spent Sunday in this city with friends. Miss Rowena Graves of Flint, Mich,, is spending several weeks with Mrs. Chad wick. Mrs. J. T. Johnson has return ed from Richmond, Va. Her friends are glad to see her look ing so well. There will be Communion ser vices at Bethlenem Lutheran Church on Easter Sunday. Pre paratory services on Saturday before at 3 p. m. Mercer Blaine, a missionary from Kashing, China, made an interesting address to the Ladies Missionary society of the Pres byterian Church on Monday afternoon. Dr. J. C. Seegers, of Colum bia, S. C., preached two sermons at St. Andrews Lutheran Church in East Hickory Sunday. Dr. Seegers is a powerful speaker and held the undivided attention of two large congregations. The demonstration work of a Greensboro Patent Plow and Bruce Frv's Patent Plow was pulled off last Saturday and there was some good plowing done. There will be some more of it done next Saturday, we un derstand. infront of A. S. Aber nethy's Stable. Mr. Fry wants the tarmers to see the kind of work his plow does. The young Ladies Literary Societies of Lenoir College will give their annual anniversary Monday nighc, March 29, at 8 o'ciocK in !.le college auditorium. One of the interesting features of the progrm is a dramatized reproduction of ' 'The Princess", by Alfred Tennyson. Besides this there will be several other interesting numbers. The public is cordially invited. No admis sion charge. Mr. George W. Ready, contrac tor erecting the First National Bank building is now completing his work on same and will have it ready for occupancy as soon as the furniture arrives. He also has the contract for the work on the Creamery and has com menced work on that building. Mr. Ready has decided to make Hickory his home and his family will come some time in the near future. He expects to do con tract work for fine residence and up-to-date buildings of every kind. For miles up and down the Ca tawba River between the point of drowning and the Southern Power Company's dam, farmers living all along the Catawba turned out Sunday and made search for the body of Dewey Hefner, drowned on the morn ing of the 14th, but found no trace of it. Dynamite and other means were used to bring the body to the surface. Sympathy for the family is widespread and it moved many to hunt for the remains of the unlucky young man. Hefner lost his life while running from officers who had no papers for him but who did want certain young men he was with. They waded the shallows to within 40 feet of the Iredell side of the river, where Hefner went down in deep wate' and was drowned. Supt. George E. Long of the county schools has received ac ceptances from President J. D. Andrew of Catawba College; President R. L. Fritz of Lenoir College, and President J.L> Mur phy of Claremont College, to de liver addresses on county com mencement day, April 9. Presi dent H. B. Hemmeter of Con cordia College, Conover, and Principal S. J. Honeycutt of South Fork Institute of Maiden, have also been invited and will probably accept. Plans are form ing to make the event t'ie great est educational fete day ever known in Catawba. Preliminary contests will be held here April 3 to select commencement speak ers, the committee to make se lections being Supt. A. P. W!M"S nant of the Newton graded school; Supt. C. M. Staley of the Hickory schools, and Prof. R. L. Walker of_St.»James|hi.?h school. HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1915 MEETING OF THE HICKORY MERCHANTS' ASSOCIATION Number of Business Matters Discussed Together With "Clean-Up Week." The Hickory Merchants' As sociation met last Thursday night in the Chamber of Commerce rooms. Dr. W. H. Nicholson, president of the Chamber of Commerce, being present, re quested that the Merchants' As sociation co-operate with the Chamber of Commerce and the City Council in a clean-up week for Hickory. Mr. J. A. Moretz, member of the City Council, stated that the city would fur nish teams necessary to remove all garbage, from the premises, if notified during the week. Messrs. Rob Martin, J. /A. Bowles and Roy Abernethy were appointed a committee represent-, ing the association to assist in this work. The association then proceed ed to transact the business of that body. The committee on advertising made their report which dis closed the fact that some S6OO or SBOO had been saved by the busi ness men of Hickory by cutting out fake advertising schemes. A motion was carried to have a committee call on the City Council to see if there was not some way by which the dust could be kept down on Union square. Some suggestions were made, among them being one stating that it would be well tu oil the street. At any rate the committee will take up the mat ter with the City Council in the near future. We think this is one of the best moves made in Hickory for some time as it is impossible for the drv goods merchants tc keep a decent stock of goods during the summer with their doors open and dust and smoke fiom trains coming into their place of business. The retail grocery stores have adopted a rule that under no cir cumstances would they continue to send out their goods to any parties or party who allowed their account to run oyer thirty Vays. This ihteriud to applv mare especially to meats, as the meat dealers have to pay cash for their beef cattle and cannot afford to let their ac counts run sixty or ninety days, when in all probability some of it can never be collected. State News. The defunct Merchants and Farmers' bank cf Cleveland, Rowan county, which was Closed about three weeks ago by the state bank examiner, was placed in the hands of a receiver. The application for the receiver was heard by Judge B. F. Long, of Statesville, who named W. D. Turner will immediately file his bond and take charge of the af fairs of the bank. It is not the pur Dose to reopen the institution which is in bad condition, it is alleged. President Wilson's attitude in not recognizing any government in the republic of Mexico was pointed to Friday by former President William H. Taft as il lustrating the power the Presi dent of the United States has in shaping the nation's foreign re lations. Mr. Taft delivered the last of three lectures to students of the University of North Caro lina on "The Presidency." Southern railway officials pre sented their second curtailment cause Friday before the corpora tion commission, the request for withdrawal of trains including five passenger schedules and af fecting as many lines. .....Clean=Up Week.... April sth to 10th. The City Council has set aside the week of April sth to 10th as "CLEAN-UP WEEK", and request that all persons having .trash or other refuse, place it at some con venient place on their premises, so that the city's teams can get it. The trash or refuse must be placed in barrels or boxes, or it will not be accepted. The wagons will be in Ward 1 Tuesday, April 6tli; Ward 2, Wednesday, April 7th; Ward 3, Thursday, April Bth; Ward 4, Friday, April 9th. Saturday will be inspec tion day, and we hope to see all premises in good condition. Please co-operate with us in making Hick ory a clean and healthful city. S. C. CORNWELL, City Manager. ! This March 23,1915. TEN BOYS DISCHARGED AT TRIAL SATURDAY Evidence Insufficient to Require Them To be Held for Court. The trial of Garfield McGalli ard, Glenn and Dewey Yount, Joe Bass, Vance Lawrence, Carl Brooks, Jodie Starnes, Ezra Rink and Dick and Frank Byers, the ten young white boys arrested charged with the killing of Pink Goodson, a negro, on the night of March 13, at his home near this city, were released at the preli minary here Saturday. Magistrates T. P. Mauser and J. F. Joy presided at the hearing Councill & Yount represented the state, and A. A. Whitener con ducted the defense. Before all the witnesses had been examined. Judge Councill arose and asked the court to dis charge the boys. However, the officers will not let up in their work on the case and other arrests will likely be made. Two Tickets in Municipal Election There will be two tickets out in the municipal election here this year. The first ticket is headed by Mr. J. W. Shuford for mayor; J. L. Abernethy, alder man from Ward 3, and A. P. Whitener. alderman from Ward 4. The second is headed by G. L. Lyerly for mayor; R. Bruce Fry, alderman from Ward 3, and and Geo. R. Wootten, alderman from Ward 4. Messrs. J. A. Moretz and W. A. Rudasill, al dermen from Wards 1 and 2 re spectively haye one more year to serve. The primaries will be held Monday, March 29, and the gen eral election come off Monday, April 5. To the Voters of the City ot Hickory. In order that there may be no misunderstanding as to my can didacy for the office of Mayor of the City of Hickory, X desire to say that a number of my friends requested me to become a candi date for Mayor prior to the time that any positions had been filed for any candidate for this office, so far as I was able to ascertain at the time. My candidacy was therefore the outgrowth of numerous re quests from my friends who sup ported the Old and New Charter. At the time I consented to be come a candidate I did not think that the question of Old or New Charter would be raised. There is only one charter at present and there is only one way to ad minister the government lawfuliy and that is according to the pres ent charter. As a matter of fact I supported the present charter and if I am elected it is my pur pose to deal fairly and squarely with all people and to use my continuous efforts to secure the best possible results for our city under the provisions of our char er. I realize in accepting the can didacy that if I am elected it means a lot of hard work and thought without compensation, but feeling that all citizens should be willing to give their fellowman and City a certain amount of their services, I have gone into this with these facts in view. In conclusion I wish to state that if the voters of Hickory see fit to confer upon me the honor of electing me to the office of Mayor, I will enter same with free hands and I will strive to give the citizens of Hickory an honest, fair, and impartial gov ernment. / Respectfully, G. L. LYERLY, adv't. Candidate for Mayor. SIOO Reward, SIOO The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a con stitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting direct ly upon and mucuossurfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Seqd for list of testimonials. Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO., To ledo, O. Sold bv all Druggist, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for consti pation. Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days Yutir druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days. Jhe first application give* EM* and £E»t« _6Q% INTEREST NC LETTER FROM SOUTH AMERICA • Former Hickory Resident Writes to Mr. John W. Robinson. Bogota, Colombia, Dec. 21,1914. Dear Mr, Robinson, You will no doubt be surprised to hear from me. I have been in Bogota for two months now and expect to have to stay here for some time yet. lam represent ing the American Gas Accumula tor Co., of Philadelphia. Pa. Builders of light houses and oth er aids to Navigation to the Uni ted States Government and all the rest of the world. Have placed a contract for two light houses and two deep sea buoys, and am trying to get some more business. They are very slow down here to do business with and half of the game consists in waiting. It is a long way down here to Bogota. Much longer than to Tipperary. And although it is only about 100 miles from the equator it is rather a chilly place as it is about 10,000 fee: up in the air and there aie no fire places. It is an old, Spanish town with about 140,000 inhabitants. Majority cf them Chibcha Indians and no niggers. I left New York on October 7th for Kingston, Jamaca. Staved there a week as I had some busi ness. While there I visited an old schoolmate who has a sugar and banana plantation 50 milesi from Kingston whom I had not | seen for 15 years. Jamaica is mountainous, the Blue Mountain Peak in the Eastern part of the island being oyer 7,000 feet high. Kingston is a fine old town with a very good, but expensive Amer ican hotel and fine public build ings. The climate is rather hot. j but every day about ten o'clock a strong sea breeze, called "the doctor" begins to blow and this helps a little. While there I ex perienced an earthquake one night, about 2:30 a. m., and I never was so scared in my life. Kingston I went to Co lon, where the boat stopped for 24 hoiiws. The Americans have made dirty old Colon into a nice, modern city. They have built there the finest docks and freight sheds in the world, all steel and concrete. I took the train to Panama— rcadbed and rolling stock as good as anything in the United States. While going across I saw most of the canal, Gatun Lake and the locks. At Panama where I only could 3top for a few hours I met our general manager who was there on business— every light house and luminous buoy in the Canal Zone and the new Panama republic is furnish ed by our firm—as well as some other friends. The following day I continued my journey to Cartagena, Colom bia. This is an old walled Span ish city, more like Old Spain than anything in the New World. It is hot, however, not very healthy and full of niggers. I only stayed there one day and visited the American consul. The next morning before day light I took the train to a place called Calamer on the Magdalena River and then my real journev began. The river is as big as the Mississippi and is very wind ing. The trip up to a place called La Dorada took about a week. Dense jungle on both banks, with here and there a village. Little Indian bamboo huts with small clearings of bananas and big piles of wood for the steamers we passed from time to time. The river was high and we could keep going night and day. It was hot, but not excessively so as we kept moving. When the steamer stopped it felt nearly as hot as in Hickory in July. At last we got to La Dorada ana got onto a train which took us to a place called Beltran on the upper Magdalena River. Then on a steamer again to the head of navigation for large steamer, the city of Girardot. This is a good sized place and we stayed there over night. Girardot is about 1,000 feet above sea level. On the trip up we had great fun shooting at alligators with small rifie3. I saw thousands of them. We also saw some hog tapirs. On the upper Magdalena which is comparatively narrow so that we sometimes got very close to the banks I saw several large iguanas and one small monkey. From Girardot the railroad climbs to the high plain of Bogo ta in a day about 10,000 feet. The mountain' are the eastern chain of the Colombian Andes. Of course I saw such grand scenery befora and shall not try to describe it, I stopped at a station, La Esperanza, about half Democrat and Press Consolidated 1905 way up. This is a very nice hotel, and a large coffee plantation! about 5.000 feet up. Where cof-1 fee grows the climate has to be perfect, neither hot nor cold. The hotel is situated right on a mountain slope with swift rivers and small waterfalls all round it. One stream ran right through the building. Up in a park above they had a large natural swim ming pool and a little below in the valley they had an electric light plant, ice factory on a small scale and a sugar mill. Coffee cannot even stand the sun in a temperate country like this but is grown shaded by the large trees in the forest which are left when the land is being cleared or else shaded by bananas. The next day I continued by rail winding up through the mountains and after a while I had to put on my winter over coat, as we were getting up into the rarified air. Away up in these mountains is a plateau, as level as a floor, about 25 miles by 30, surrounded by mountains 2,000 to 5,000 feet high. On the eastern edge of this plateau spreading over the plain for some distance and climbing the hills behind is the city of Bogota. The people here all wear win ter clothes and it is cool during the day and quite cold at night, although there never is any frost. But every night the temperature goes down to 50 and below. As I am dealing with the Gov ernment here, particularly the minister of Public Works, and the Christmas holidays are com ing on when everybody goes awav, I thought I would take a week or so off and lam at pres ent away down in the mountains 40 miles from Bogota, about 5,500 feet above 3ea level, at a little Inn called La Sensitiva, lo cated on the old mule trail be twepn Honda on the Magdalena River and Bogota. To get here I had to walk 15 miles from the station of Facatative across the plain from Bogota, at which place 1 got an indian to carry my bag gage. The mountain scenery here is grand, i have been here two days and have been very un lucky as to to the weather as it has been raining most of the time and the clouds come rolling oyer us so 1 can see nothing. On a clear day we can see the Cordil lera c'entrai with ti,L l snow cover ed summit of Tollma nearly 100 miles away, The natives here are very nice and quiet. They are nearly all Chibcha indians, a very fine peo ple and of course there are many people of Spanish decent. Ne groes do not exist except down on the coast and are a plague and a very corrupting element as the Spaniard often, unlike the Anglo- Saxon, has not a great enough sense of self preservation to draw the color line strictly. This beautiful temperate moun tain country is a country of flow ers. I never saw so many flow ers and flowering shrubs. The climate all the year round is like early summer in England. Out in the little garden outside my window anything grows from common butter cups and dande lions to bananas and oranges. And such roses I never saw, great big orange colored ones on bushes as Dig as trees. On an orange tree outside my window large purple orchids as big as your hand and a smaller varie y of yellow ones with brown spots grow as parasites. Here are also immense rubber trees in the woods as large as live oaks. Mule trains and Indians pass the house on the Honda trail to Bogota all day. The mule here is small, but wirv and carries 300 pounds. As railroads are few and far between, literally so be cause the lines are short and not connected, most of the merchan dise and passengers are carried on muleback, and I have heard it stated that one third of the pop ulation of Colombia is engaged in transporation work. I have writ ten you a very long letter and must quit. Besides lam almost out of paper. Give my regards to your fam ily and to all friends in Hickory. J Hope the creamery is alright, and expect to see our own Wat. Shu ford governor of the Old North state. If you feel like it, send me a line €b my office address. Mrs. Elliott is well and is making her home with her parents in Detroit while I am away. Yours very truly RICHARD ELLIOT, Ah! The Invigorating Whiff of the P4ne Forest! How it clears the throat and head of Us mucous ailments. It is this spirit of Newness and Vigor from the health • giving Piney Forests brought back by Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey. Antiseptic and healing. Buy a bottle to-day. All Druggists, 25c. —adv. • Electric Bitter a Spring Tonic, —ad. The Democrat Leads in News & Circulation SNOW MADE GOAL WEIGHER WORK HARD Creates a Great Demand For the Heat Producer in West Hickory. West Hickory, Mar. 22.—The West Hickory graded school will close Friday, March 26. Th 6 school is enrolled in the High School Debating Union and con tests with Granite Falls and Oak Hill high schools. The contest at West Hickory will take place Friday night at 7:30. The sub ject will be ship subsidy and Miss Ruby Ciay and Raleigh Hawn will argue the affhmative for West Hickory and Messrs. Talmage Smith and Luther Story will defend the negative for Oak Hill. Miss r.apitola E. Beck and and Carl B. Pool will go to Gran ite Falls to represent West Hick ory on the negative at that place. The snow storm Eriday came rather unexpected and J. B. Clay, the machinist, who had about decided that his work of weigh ing coal and delivering it to the hands was about done with until next winter, has found that his reckoning was wrong and that he is having about the livliest time weighing coal now that he has had any time this winter. Glenn Jones of spent Sunday herb with his bro ther, Charlie Jones. Miss Ella Hedrick and Ella Jones spent Saturday and Sunday here with Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Jones. Arthur Smith of Rock Hill, S. C., spent a few days here last week with his mother, Mrs. M. J, Smith. Miss Fannie Smith and her brother, Arthur, spent Sunday and Monday with their sister, Mrs. J f W. Byers, and Mrs. Hamp Chester at Rhodhiss. Mr, and Mrs. Willie Starnea have returned from Alta Vist?, Va. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Long and children of High Shoals, a few days here with Mrs. Long's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ab?r nethy. Mrs. Roy Lowman is visiting ! her sister, Mrs. Hampton Ches | ter, of Rhodhiss. Mrs. Richard Piiikboii ui Dal las, is here visiting her brother, Forest Rhyne. The many friends of Rev. W. N. Cook will be glad to know he is able to be up again. He has been very sick for the past week, Mrs. Ed. Hammond is spend ing several weeks with her peo ple in Anderson, S. C. Prof. G. C. Cook stopped over a few days here on his way home from Florida where he has been for several weeks. Willie Milton and Willie Wilson of Caroleen, are visiting here. John Setzer of Wavnesville, has been here several days visit ing friends. Mr, and Mrs. Charlie Childers have returned to the Ivey Mill after spending several weeks with relatives in Wilkes county. Earl Senter is visiting his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. J, E. Senter. He has been in California for several months. Program of Holy Week Services at Holy Trinity. PALM SUNDAY, MARCH 28, 9:45 A. M. —Sunday School Rallv. , 11 A. M. —Rally Service of all the confirmed conducted by Rev. M. L. Stirewalt. 2:30 P. M.— Luther League Rally. 7:30 P. M.-Sermon: "The Ag ony of Gethsemane," Rev. M. L. Stirewalt. Monday, 7:30 P; M.—"A Dis ciple's Sad Fall," Rey. A. L. Bc lick. Tuesday, 7.30 P, M. —"Jesus' Kingdom," by Rev. E. J. SDX. Wednesday,7;3o P. M.—"Jesus or Barabbas?" Rev. M. L. Stire walt. Thursday. 7:30 P. M. —"Behold 'the Man," Rev. B. L. Stroup. Good Friday, 10:30 A. M.— "The Wonderful Love," Rev. Arthur M. Huffman; 7:30 P. M., "Victorious in Death," Rev. J, 'D. Mauney. EASTER SUNDAY SERVICES. 9:45 A. M.—Sunday School. Special Offering for Japan Mis sions. 11 A. M. —Special Service with Communion. 3 P. M.—Special Service, Mar ! tin Luther Brotherhood, 7:30 P. M.— Easter Program by the Sunday School. Offering for Foreign Missions. Rev. Arthur Huffman officiating. To feel strong, have a good appe tite and digestion, sleep soundly and enjoy life, use Burdock Blood Bitters, the family system tonic. Price $1,00;