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jooocooooo job Printing § casonable Prices R x:ooooooooooooooooo Established 1899 ASHEVILLE DIVISION TELEGRAPHERS BANQUET Enjoyable Affair at Hotel Huffry Saturday Night—Fifty-one Present. Fifty-one were present, includ ing the operators, wive 3 and daughters of the operators, and a few friends, at the second an nual banquet of the Order of Rai'road Telegraphers, Southern Kail way System, Division 59.. of the Asheville division, at the Hotel Huffry, this city, Saturday night. In elegance of appoint ment, witticism of speech, to say ■ nothing of the more serious trend of talk, the general good nature of those attending, and the spirit of brotherhood mani fested, this banquet was hardly surpassed by any ever held here. Beginning at 7:30 andlastjng un- , til 9:30, there was not a dull i minute. A colored string band from Morganton furnished music i of a high order and were repeat- , edly called upon for encored. Before the banquet the opera tors assembled in the Chamber of Commerce rooms in the Black wdder-Riddle building and were recorded a hearty welcome by S. C. Cornwell. city manager. Trainmaster C. G. King, address ed the operators. Following this business meeting they repaired to the hctel where the following menu was served: Grape Fruit Sweet Pickles Chili Sauce India Relish Sliced Tomatoes Florida Celery Roast Domestic Fowl Escalloped Oysters , Roast Loin of Pork Deviled Eggs Creamed White Potatoes Nut Sandwiches Assorted Cake Peach Cream White Bread Snowflake Crackers American Cream Cheese ' Coffee Tea After the zuests had eaten of this delicious spread to their ut termost satisfaction, Horace F. Payne, of Morganton* toast-mas j£.-% address! tha gathering in his own inimitable manner. Be ginning by joking referring to the guests as "men and fellow prisoners," and expressing his pleasure in seeing so many pres ent he stated that fate had been kind to the operators. Since the last meeting a year ago not one of their number has been called to the great beyond and in the language of Mr. Payne. "We are still drawing our little $65:00 check without any reduction and with regularity and precision." Mr. Payne said it was a little egotistical in him to say much about the operators, being one of their number himself,- but he added that the sun never shined upon a finer or more loyal set of men, the men who are daily en trusted with the lives of the traveling public and the com pany's property, the men who deal directly with the company's patrons, and who are the reai personal representatives of the Southern Railway in their re spective towns. He realized in a spirit of interest in the road which he served that as to how many friends the company "had at each respective station de pended altogether on the courtesy shown them by the employees and the promptness in which they dispatched the business. He stated that the Southern Railway was a cc-citizen of the South. Wherever it has planted its rails, in forests or in wilder ness, churches and schools have sprung up and all along its lines it las enriched and enobled hu manity. With a few remarks on the evolution of railroading he closed with the following bit of poetry, which brought down the house: „ , "If father Noah were alive today He would not be down in the mouth; He would route his goods via the Southern Railway, The Premier Carrier of the South." , , Other speeches were made by W. A. Self, A. A. Whitener and Rev. J. D. Harte of this city and W. C. Feimster of Newton. Their addresses were of an ex ceptionally high order. Largely in terspersed with humor they were filled with glowing eulogies of the telegrapher, "The pulse-beats of the Nation," as Mr. Feimster styled them. . ~ TX J). L. Miller, chairman, O, H. Bumgarner and C. E. Abernethy were the committee on arrange ments and much of the success of the evening was due to their untiring efforts towards this end. All in all the banquet was a de cided success. Electric Bitten a Spring Tonic. THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT HICKORY AND HIGHLAND CARRYJT BIG SHARE Win AH Prizes in Contests at County Commencement Friday. Newton, April 9.—Catawba's grim old court house was the scene of doings today not con templated by its builders 70 years ago when they prepared a place for the trial of evil-doers and violators of the law, for in stead of the stern procedures of the justice tribunal it housed the features of the county's first commencement of public schools and held the hea*t of the most inspirational day's work a Ca tawba County crowd of 7,000 people ever carried through on a public occasion. Half the throng which crowd ed the town today was made up of children of school age, and more than 2,000 of them of all ages participated in the parade down Main street which made citizens prouder of Catawba County than they had ever dreamed they were. Ideal weath er, excellent order and the al most flawless rendition of an ex traordinarily fine program com bined to make the first com mencement a pleasant success in each of several particulars, and Supt. George E. Long tonight is being congratulated on this his first effort.* This forenoon the eight de claimers held forth, and aston ished veteran educators with their splendid work. Percy Hunt was awarded the gold medal, but decision was quite difficult. The other speakers were Fred Hahn, Edwin Yoder, Roy Setzer, Crom er Seitz, Roy Lowrance, Coyte Barringer and Roy Cornelius. They came from the grades of the common schools and as de claimed have set a high place for future commencements. Following the declaimers ex ultant addresses ringing with in spiration were delivered by pres idents of county colleges. Dr. J. L. Murphy of Claremont College spoke of past educational condi tions In the county and contrast ed them with those of today. President J. D. Andrew of Ca tawba College told of the oppor tunities of the present and pic tured the open door of hope. President R. L. Fritz, of Lenoir College, with a vast deal of hu mor which kept the thousand hearers rocking with Mughter, described Utopian Catawba in the operation of the trinity of community life—the home, the school and the Church. This afternoon, following a big public dinner in the court square, the recitations by eight young ladies were delivered, and Miss Ruth Hyder was awarded this medal. The other young ladies were Misses Mary Hoover, Ella Yount, Vista Prop3t, Annie Lowrance, Annie Witherspoon, Mary Carpenter and Vera Erwin. The scnool winning the prize for the largest percentage of en rollment in the parade was Cald well Township No. 1, which had 71 enrolled and 7o in the parade, over 100 per cent. The best ex hibit of school work was ad judged to be that of the Newton Graded Schools, the priza, being a set of books from the Ranscm- Sherrill Chapter, U. D. C., and a second prize, a medal, given by the chapter, was awarded to lit tle Lois Bowman of Highland School, for the best story writ ten by a child of the first, second or third grades. A second prizs for school exhibits went to the Startown Graded School. These school exhibits, displayed in the court room, were an all-Jay mar vel to the thousands who viewed them, and are pronounced by school experts to be the creators of new records in this work. Certificates were conferred on 60 boys and girls who have com pleted the primary grades and are now entitled to enter the high schools. Robert Garth of Hickory was -awarded the declaimers medal and: Miss Isabella Morton of Hickory the medal for best reci tation tonight. . In the athletic events, Clonin ger of Claremont won the 100- yard race; Burdett Trott of New ton won the 300-yard dash, the standing high jump, the running high jump and the running broad jump; Craig Killian won the standing broad jump and Star town High School came off vic tors In the tug of war. For these events local merchants gave prizes. The five gold dollars of fered bv a merchant for the larg ' est wagonbad of people brought ■ to town went to L. L. Hunsucker who hauled 67 young people in this morning. Tonight the high schools of the county held their commencement HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1915 Schools of Hickory Township^ — Growth in Recent Years. The educational progress made in Catawba county within the last fifteen years has been noth ing leas than marvelous. The following tables of the schools in Hickory township show some thing of what is now being done- While these tables show only the schools of one township, the growth in other parts of the county has been just as great The amount raised by local tax levy, the number of schools hav ing more than one teacher, the enrollment and attendance of pu pils make a record of which one may well feel proud. There are more than a dozen counties in North Carolina each of which has fewer pupils enrolled than Hickory township has in its schools. Money Raised for Schools. For the year ending June 30, 1900, the entire amount raised for school purposes in Catawba county was $12,078.16. At that time there was not a single local tax district in the county; neither Hickory nor Newton then levied a special tax for school purposes. •For the year ending June 30, 1915, the entire amount raised foi school purposes in Catawba county is not less than $50,000, or four times as much as it was 15 years ago. Hickory township now has 12 local tax districts, and raises from local school taxes almost as much as the whole county raised then fmm all sources. This one School Statistics of Hickory Township. SCHOOL I Teachers Census Enrollment Attendance | Spe^ te Tax specia^Ta:* 1. Mt. Olive 2 105 90 73 2. Cloninger.. 1 7J ** 4' St Timothy II! ! % ' H S 30c $581.33 I: switwaVeV:;::::.::::;::: ; 2 : 52 I* r i 28.« 6. Killian ! 2 -*lO3 91 /5 lac 135.98 7 Bareer * 2 1/3 v 6 60 S. Minerva : 2 93 65 55 15c 78.50 9: i 2 12s 95 70 is c i 05.96 10. Baker's Mountain 1 42 30 25 15c 45.00 11...Mnk- . , i , * y» 12. Houck's Chapel * 71 K 44 ' ~ 13. Windy City ........ 2 137 >8 68 30c 281./3 14. Long View]."::. 2 120 65 53 30c 245.50 15. Brookford 2 203 140 75 16. West Hickory 5 344 240 190 20c 5/3.00 17. Highland 3 310 180 130 30c 725.00 18. Hickory Graded" - 20 1258 850 710 40c 87^-^ 19. Sandy Ridge.. 1 63 48 44 lac 39.00 20. Union Grove 1 56 30 2- 21. Grand View 1 87 5a 37 x. Hickory City 4 464 242 JSB x. Baker's Mountain 1 39 30 26 TOTALS. 60 4164 2720 2146 $11686.48 x.—Negro School. exercises. Declamations and recitations were delivered by Walter Feimster. Jr.. and lone Mebane of Newton; Robert Garth and Isabella Morton of Hickory; Mary Lee Haren and Lois Coul ter of Startown, and Andrew Sigmon and Ora Arndt of St. James. Although the crowd today numbered fully 7,000 people, there would have been many more adults and school children present but for the fact that measles has been epidemic in parts of the county. Claremont together with the populous low er part of the county, was cut out by this cause. . Paint Wise is to paint when your property needs it Paint-foolish to wait for the price to co-down. But so many are foolish, they'll wait a good while. The whole rise in the cost of a i job is 10 percent. The first year's drop won't be more than half, that, more likely a quarter. Waiting for 5 percent, more likely 2 1-2. The average job (with Devoe) is SSO; 5 percent, $2.50 Put is off for $2.50? Guess not. You think of that job as SIOO. So it is with inferior paint. Paint Devoe; do it now, if your property need it. DEVOE (adv't.) F. B. Ingold sells it. HOW'S THIS? We offar One Hundred Dollars Re ward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last fifteen years and belitve him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and unan cially able to carry out all obligations made by liis firm. J ' NATN'L BANK OF COMMERCE, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's catarrh Cure is taken inter nally and acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 7sc per bottle. Sold by all druggists. , Take Hall's Family rills for con stipation. . t advt. township now spends for schools nearly twice as much as the whole county spent 15 years ago. Enrollment and Attendance. Duiing the present year 2,720 pupils have been enrolled in the schools of Hickory township. This is 65 per cent of the school census which shows 4,164 child ren between *the ages of 6 and 21 years. Of the 2,720 pupils enrol led 2,146, or 79 per cent, %ere in average daily attendance. Most of the pupils, both in the rural elementary schools and in the town graded schools, com plete the course by the time they are 17 years old. Taking this in to consideration, almost one fourth of the children included in the school census really do not belong to be in the schools. But the remaining three fourths, or 75 percent, those who are under 17 years of age, should all be in school. And the aver age daily attendance should be at least 85 per cent of the enroll ment. The schools of Hickory township have only 65 per cent of the school subjects enrolled, and only 79 per cent of these in daily attendance. Some of the schools report an enrollment of more than 75 per cent of the school census, while others report less than 60 per cent. There are in the township more than 500 children who be long to be in school, but who are not enrolled at all. Is there any way by which these children can be brought into the schools and kept until they have finished the BATTLE INCREASES IN INTENSITY ON IHBUSE Berlin Says French Attacks North of Combers Complete ly Fail. Berlin, via London, April 11. — Today's German armv headquart ers statement read: "In the western theatre: "On the Yser canal, near Poe sele, south of Drei Grabhten we took three villages from the Bel gians and made one officer and 40 men prisoners. "In small engagements near the Avere stream at Albert we made 50 French prisoners. "French attacks in the western Argonnes failed. "Fighting between the Meuse and the Moselle increased in in ! tensity in the afternoon. . "In the forest region north of the Combers Heights the French collected strong forces for a fresh attempt to take our positon on the heights. "The attack, which commenced early in the day, completely fail ed, and the positions everywhere on the heights remained in our possession. "Southwest of Ailly stubborn fighting continued throughout the night and resulted in our favor. In an unsuccessful attack in force to the north .of Flirey the French sustained heavy loss es. "In battles yesterday in the Bois-le-Pretre we took four ma chine guns. Severe night bat tles which followed were favor able to us. • "The heavy French losses in engagements between the Meuse and the Moselle cannot yet be ap proximately estimated. Between Selouse and Lamartville woods our troups counted 700 dead and at a small place north of Regnie ville more than 500 todies were found. We took 11 French offi cers and 804 men and seven ma chine guns. • "An anchored balloon which course' Increase the School Efficiency. Much has been accomplished in the last 15 years. There are the whole township only 16 child ren who cannot read and write. Al! of these are found in the towns; no£ a single illiterate is reported in the rural districts of the township. There are 60 teach ers employed in the schools of the township, and two-thirds of the schools have more than one teacher. More than $20,000 a year is now being spent for school purposes in Hickory town ship. Are the results obtained all that can be expected? All the children who belong to be in school must be enrolled. The schools can not possibly benefit those children who are not there to receive the instruc tion and help which the schools give. This is the first problem to be solved: How to get all the children in the schools. The work done in the schools can be improved and enlarged by proper supervision. By this means teachers can be brought to adopt methods of work that will prevent waste of time and energy on the part of the pupils. The second problem to be solved is this: How to secure greater economy and efficiency in the work done in the school room. If these questions can be an swered correctly, the next fifteen years will see still greater growth made by the schools of Hickory township. the French state descended with in their lines is now anchored near Moerchingen where it land ed. J'ln the Vosges a snowstorm prevented active fighting on a larger scale. "In the eastern theatres "Near MariamDol and Kalwa rva and near Klimki, on the Skwa, Russian attacks were re pulsed. "At a place near Bromier west of Plonsk, the Russians kept up a lively infantry and artillery fire all night. What Our State Taxes Paid For. The per capita cost of our state government in North Carolina in 1912 was $1.46. According to aj recent bulletin of the Federal Census Bureau, it was spent as follows; Charities, hospitals, and corrections 49 cents Public education 44 cents Interest—on bonds and borrowed money 16 cents Apportionments—school equalizing fund, etc.. 13 cents Protection to person and property 9 cents General government ex penses 9 cents Miscellaneous and gen eral—printing, insur ance, etc 3c2nts Public health and sani tation 2 cents Outlays—new buildings; improvements, etc..., % 1 cent Highways—less than half cent Libraries—less than half cent Recreation —less than half cent. Total $1.46 Should Not Feel Discouraged. So many people troubled with indi • gestion and constipation have been benefitted by taking Chamberlaia's Tablets no one should- feel dis couraged who has not given them a trial. They contain no pepsin or other digestive ferments but strengthen the stomach and enable it to perform its lunctions naturally. For sale by Men kes Drug Co., and Lutz's Drug Store* Democrat and Press Consolidated 1905 NEWS OF THE WEEK FROM WEST HICKORY Local and Personal Items of That Hustling Town and Community. West Hickory, Apr. 12.—1t seems that spring has opened up in earnest at last and garden making has been greatly in fashion in our town the past week. Miss Minnie Abee spent Sat urday and Sunday at Brookford with her sister, Mrs. A. Wilson. Mrs. M. McKenzie has been quite sick for several days but we are glad to say she is some better. Mrs. Litton is doing fine busi ness with her new millinery store. She is kept busy trim ming and selling hats to her many customers. This is a new enterprise for West Hickory and we are glad to see it progressing so fine. Mr. Geo. Hendrick and family 'of Newton, moved to the Ivey mill a few days ago. Last Monday night the West Hickory band furnished music for a party given at the home of Mr. S. D. Campbell. Mrs. Sallie Brittain, who had been here several days visiting her parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. J. Hicks, returned to her home in Cherryville Saturday. Mr. G. M. Carswell and family moved from here to Newton one day last week. Mr. Brantley Burns and wife, of Spartanburg, S. C., are yisit the family of Dr. J. J. Hicks. Mr. Ed. Burns and family were here Sunday visiting the family of Mr. L. F. Mitchell. Claremont College Will Close May 7-9. The program and speakers for commencement at Claremont College, May 7 to 11 inclusive, have been announced. The an nual sermon before the gradu ating class will be preached this year by Rev. A. L. Stanford, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Hickory. The order of the commence ment exercises is as follows: May 7,—Play by the Dramatic Club under the direction of Miss Schmidt. May 9. —Annual sermon before the graduating class by Rev. A. L. Stanford, pastor of the First Methodist Church. May 10.—2 p. m., annual meet ing of the Board of Trustees: 8 p. m.. Commencement entertain ment by the Music and Expres sion departments. May 11.—8 p. m., Graduating Exercises with an address by Rev. Walter W. Rowe. Marshalls.—Misses Katherine Kilgore, Clara Kilgore, Mattie McComb. Lucy Killingsworth, Katherine Bost and Trtva Liven good. Welcome Springtime! Spring is with us! I can feel it! Something vital air, Warns of subtle change hapr p'nings All around me everywhere. To my nerves there comes a tingle. And a joy throb in my heart. 'Tis a feeling of new life that Onlv Springtime can impart. Poets rave about the birds, and How they sing in bush and tree, But there's a song that beats the birds A-swelling up inside of me! I'm a-waiting, in a hurry For the grass to come up green! And I feel there's something lovely Tliat I never Yet have seen! Just because She's late incom ing I am meeting her halfway, And the feeling of her Presence Makes me gladder evervday. CASSANDRA, Robber Swallows SIO,OOO Diamond. A dispatch from Dallas, Texas, says that somewhere inside of James Williams, 19, under two vears' sentence for a diamond robbery, is a SIO,OOO diamond. He admitted that he swallowed it when he was captured. Lloyds Insurance Company, which has offered a reward of SI,OOO for recovery of the gem, wants to operate. The bov's attorneys say "nothing doing." To Drive Out Malaria And Build Up The System Take the Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know what you are taking, as the formula is printed on every label, showing it is Suinine and Iron in a tasteless form. he Quinine drives out malaria, the Iron builds up the system. 50 cents 000000000 DOOOOOCXJOOOO 8 The Democrat Leads § in News & Circulation 000000000000000000000 CHEAPER, BETTER AND MORE EFFICIENT SERVICE A Comparison of Telephone Rates Here and at Other Places. A comparison of the rates charged by the Hickory Electric Company for telephone service and those charged by telephone companies in other towns brings out the fact that we are getting our service much cheaper than other towns and cities getting the same service. The Hickory Electric Company has about 700 telephones connected with their exchange, 400 of these being city phones and the remaining 300, country phones. Their rate is $2 50 for business phones and $1.50 for residence. Farmers who build their own lines and furnish their phones get a rate of 50 cents per month. The following is a list of tele phone rates paid by neighboring towns which have metalia special line service such as the local com pany gives: Town Business Residence Asheville $4.00 t $2.50 • Charlotte 4.00 2.50 Durham 4.00 2.50 Graham 4.00 3.00 Gastonia 3.00 2.00 Burlington 3.50 2.00 Goldsboro 3.00. 2.00 Greensboro 4.00 2.50 Hendersonville 3.00 2.00 Morganton 3.00 2.00 Raleigh 4.00 2.50 Keidsville 3.00 2.00 Salisbury 3.50 2.00 Spartanburg 4.00 2.50 Winston Salem 4.00 2.50 Wilmington 400 2.50 Hickory 2 50 1 50 Notwithstanding the lower rates there is not a town in North Carolina that gets better service from their telephone system than Hickory, It has been the inten tion of this paper for some time to compliment those in charge of out telephone system for the splendid service rendered and for the courteous treatment given bv the operators. Of course there are some kicks raised, but these are generally from people who do not have a telephone of their own and use one belonging to some one else. When these people don't get just what they think they ought to have, they raise a kick. In regard to the service rendered and the reason able rates charged we hold that the Hickory Electric Company is worthy of the compliments of every citizen of Hickory. List Takers and Assessors For Ca tawba County. The board of County Commis sioners has named the following tax listers and assessors for Ca tawba County, the first name being the assessor and the last lister: North Hickory—B. F. Camp bell and J. W. Mauser, South Hickory—Jonas Aberne thy and J. S. Leonard. Newton—P. E. Fry and C, O. Smith. Catawba—J. W. Lowrance and W. W. Ervin. Clines—D. A. Yount and C. C. Holler, Bandys-S. L. Lefevers and Eli Speagle. Mountain Creek—A. P. Hicks and J. A. Gabriei. Jacobs Fork—J. A. Whitener and Gordon Wilfong. Caldwell—Mac Caldwell and M. C. Laney. Secretary of Treasury Charged With Conspiracy. Secretary of the Treasury Mc- Adoo and Comptroller of the Cur rency Williams have been made defendants in proceedings begun in the District of Columbia Su preme Court by the Riggs Na tional Bank of Washington, D. C-, which alleges that these offi cials have combined and conspir ed to wreck the bank. Temporary and permanent in junctions to halt the alleged con spiracy, and to prevent the Comptroller from making what the bank charges are unlawful demands for special reports of various kinds, are sought from the court. Told That There Was No Cure for Him. : "After suffering for over twenty years j with indigestion and having some of J the best doctors here tellmethere wis no cure for me, I think it only right to tell you for the sake of other sufferers as well as your own s.tisfaction that a 25 cent bottle of Chamberlain's Tab lets not only relieved me but cured me within two months although I am a man of 65 years." writes Jul, Grobien, 'Houston, exas. For sale by Men zies Drug Co.-, and Lute's Dtug (Jo,
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