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EOUCATIONAL MEET NC
IN WEST HICKORY
Citizens Intent on Voting for In
crease in Tax Rate First
Tuesday in May.
Last Thursday night there was
held at the schoolhbuse in West
Hickory an enthusiastic mass
meet ne of the citizens in the in
terest of better education. Speech
es were made by H. H. Abee, G.
F. Ivey, Frank Miller and others?.
An election is to be held the
first Tuesday in May authorizing
an increase of the school tax
from 20c to 30c on the one hun
dred dollars valuation. It deve
loped by examination of the tax
books that the largest increase
of any one citizen would be $2.23,
while the increase of the major
ity would be less than SI.OO. It
was also shown that of the total
increase asked for, four corpora
tions—The Ivey Mill Co.. The
Ivey Mfg. Co., The Southern R.
11. Co., and The Carolina &
North-Western R. R. Co.,—
would pay more than 60 per cent,
so that for each dollar the citi
zens paid for this purpose they
would receive more than $2.00 in
return. ,
A very strong argument in
favor of the proposition was the
fact that while The Ivey Mill Co..
and The Ivey Mfg. Co., would
pay almost ralf the increase the
stockholders of both of these
corporations were heartily in fa
vor of the increase. None of the
stockholders have any children
wno would attend school nor
would they be directly benefited
in any way and it would appear
that people who have children
could certainly stand the increase
if these gentlemen could.
A condensed report of the
school was read showing that one
teacher had an average of 63 pu
pils and at times as many as 75,
tais, too, in a room that should
accomodate at the most 50 pupils.
It was shown also that the
funds now available, even with
the most rigid economy, are bare
ly able to support the five teach
ers now being employed, while
at least one more room and one
more teacher was an absolute
necessity.
From the information at hand
it appeared that a number of
special tax districts are now pay
ing a tax of 30s while the tax id
West Hickory is only 20c.
The citizens of West Hickory
have always been in favor of
education. The present school
house was originally built almost
entirely by popular subscription
and when the fir«t special tax
was levied it was authorized by a
very large majority of the voters.
The best element of the citizens
are enthusiastically supporting
the proposition for an increase
and it is'believed that when the
question is thoroughly under
stood there will be but little op
position.
This is not an election for vot
ing bonds, as has been erroneous
ly stated, but simply to put the
school on a more efficient basis
and West Hickory does not pro
pose to behind other communities
m educational facilities.
It Isn't Your Vown—lt's You!
If you want to live in the kind of
a town
Like the kind of a town you like,
You needn't slip your clothes in
a grip
And start on a long, long hike.
You'll oniy find what you left be
hind,
For there's nothing that's really
new,
It's a knock at yourself when you
knock your town,
It isn't your town—it's you!
Real towns are not made by men
afraid
Lest somebody else gets ahead.
When everyone works and no
body shirks.
You can raise a town from the
dead.
And if, while you make your per
sonal stake
Your town will be what you
want to see,
It isn't your town —it's you!
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Mrs. Dunburg, Eldridge, N. Y. "It
has been used by myself and other
membeis of my family time and again
during the past six years and has al
ways given the best of satisfaction.'
The quick relief from ' Dain which
Chamberlain's Liniment affords is alone
worth many times the cost. For sale
by Menzies Drug Co.. and Lutz's
Drug Store. —adv.
Russia's population increases
at a rate of .about 3,000,000 a
year
THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
== =3-
To Boom Your Town.
Talk about it.
I Write about it
Elect good men to ofrbe.
1 Re friendly to everybody.
KeeD your sidewalks in good
condition.
Keep your houses we'll painted.
If a poor man start a project,
help him.
If a rich man start a project,
encourage him.
Buying in other towns that
which you can buy as well in
your own, make 3 your town that
much poorer.
Don't talk your town down to
strap gers.
If you are rich, invest in some
thing; employ somebody.
If a project to improve the
town comes up, don't hoot—in
vestigate.
Don't let your personal antip
athies get away with your busi
ness judgment.
Follow the men who have the
vim and enercry to to ahead —
and "saw wood."
Be courteous to strangers who
come among you so they will go
away with a good impression of
your town.
If you don't like your home
town well enough to speak well
of it, get out of it and make
room for better men.
Always cheer on the man who
goes for improvements. Your
portion of the cost will be noth
ing but that which is right.
Do not kick at any proposed
improvements because they are
not at your door, or for fear that
your tax will be raised fifty
cents.
Don't be afraid to stick your
hand down in your pocket for
money to help a public enter
prise. You owe something to
the community for being so kind
as to patronize you.
Don't! Don'!! Don't!!! For
heaven's sake, don't think your
ideas are the only correct ones as
to what improvements are need
ed, and how they should be ob
tained.
A town whose citiz?ns have no
public spirit or civic pride is on
the way to the cemetery. The
citizen who will do nothing to
boost his town is helping tj dig
its grave.
The citizen who growls about
his town being "the worst ever"
is assisting in its burial.
The business man who will not
advertise is driving the hearse.
The citizen who is a chronic
grumbler and always pulling
back in every public enterprise
is throwing boquets on the grave.
The citizen who "knocks" and
howls "hard timos" preaches the
funeral sermon.
The small town business or
professional man who gives his
printing to the "high fl:er" rep
resentative of the'city printing
house does not deserve the
patronage of his town people.
Point to a town whose citizens
count every dollar gotten from
their neighbor as gain; and every
dollar given to a school or college
or church or library or Chautau
qua or lecture course as loss, and
you point to a town on which
there rests a business and social
blight, which will be known
throughout your state as "a good
town to move from,"'
Do your part, then, as citizens!
Count for something in the af
fairs cf your town or city. Pledge
your word and honor that so
long as you reside in a communi
ty it shall be your constant aim
to "boost" it in every way you
can. That you will not "knock",
but will do all you can for every
public enterprise that has for its
object the best interests of the
community. That you will sub
mit to the rule of the majority,
and not growl if things are not
always as you think they should
be. That you will keep in mind
that if a town is good enough
for you to make your money in,
it is the legitimate place for you
to spend it, and will buy every
thing you can of your home-town
merchants. That you will al
ways say something good of
your town and people, or keep
silent, except in case of a public
nuisance. That you will not en
courage nor contribute to injuri
ous reports about your neighbors
or business competitors, but will
use the scales of charity in
weighing the shortcoming of
vour fellows.
Practice this teaching and
your town will be one into which
the best families will come as
the children gather round the
fire on a winter's night. Be
cheerfully optimistic and feel j
that the best is yet to come.
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ai y drug store.
Only one Englishman has ever
i een elected pope of Rome. i
HICKORY, N. C„ THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1915
NORTH CAROLINA
WRITTEN FOR THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
1*
I love, I love the old North State—
My own, my native land,
Whose prowess and whose actions great,
Have made her truly grand.
Not less in peace, than erst in wars,
Unrivalled is her fame;
The brightest of heraldic stars,
The one that bears her name!
f
In statehood she is queen of queens,
With glory-haloed brow,
Whose head upon the "Smokies" leans,
Beneath the balsam boughs.
Oh! How majestic is her throne,
Down reaching to the sea!
And mounting to the dizzy loam,
The bounds of Tennessee.
Ye Heavens blue! And seasons, too!
And all things, small and great!
Pour out your bounties ever new
Upon the old North State.
Loved land! Love's homage I will give
To thee with every breath;
The sweetest spot in which to li /e,
And to repose in death.
SINKING OF KATWYK
AROUSES INDIGNATION
Papers Say That German Gov
ernment is Responsible For
This Violation.
London, April 15.—Although it
is not yet certain that a German
submarine sank the Dutch steam
er Katwyk off the North Hinder
lightship last night, the destruc
tion of the vessel has aroused
the indignation of the Dutch
people, as evidenced by the edi
torials of newspapers in Holland.
• The Katwyk, looaded with
grain from Baltimore consigned
to the Dutch government is re
ported to have been lying at
anchor at the time of the ex
plosion and to have been flying
the Dutch flag. The Dutch news
papers insist tnat no mistake
could have been made and that
if a German submarine actually
torpedoed the steamer "we must
expect that the German govern
ment will without loss of time be
made responsible for this severe
violation of the rights of neutral
powers."
The fact that the Dutch gov
ernment was directly involved in
the Katwyk's cargo and that the
news of the sinking of the
steamer came immediately after
the announcement that four
Dutch trawlers had been seized
by the Germans and taken to
Zeebrugge apparently has
heightened the feelings of the
Hollanders.
The Katwyk incident and
many rumors of diplomatic
movements in Italy and the near
east seemingly have made the
people of England almost fcrget
last night's Z?ppelin raid and
fighting on the continent.
Next in interest to the sinking
of the Katwyk was the publica
tion of a "white paper" showing
Great Britain acknowledged that
British cruisers had sunk the
German cruiser Dresden in Chil
ean territorial waters and had
apologized for the action of her
squadron.
As far as fighting is concern
ed, the battles in the Carpath
ians and in the Woevre are the
only important ones. The Rus
sians are said to be continuing
their efforts to force the Austro-
German armies ccmpletely out ol
the Carpathians. Having suc
cessfully tiken the western pass
es they are bending their ener
gies in an attempt to capture the
Uzsok pass and the heights
northeast of that berak in the
mountains.
Petrograd claims that the Rus
sians are making steady,progress
despite the efforts of the Austro-
Germans to out-flank them; but
the Austrians insist that the re
cent fighting has been in their
favor and that they have cap
tured another important height
northwest of Uzsok pass.
In the Woevre, the French ap
parently have revived their of
fensive and at several points
claim to have added materially
to ground previously gained,
which would bring them a step
nearer their main objective—the
removal of the German wedge
bends their line back to St.
Mihiel.
In the Argonne, in Alsae and
in the region of the Somme, the
French declare they also have
made some progress, but this
contradicts the Berlin official re
port, which savs that all French
attacks were repulsed.
Mt. Olive Evangelical Lutheran
Church.
Rev. E. J. Sox, Pastor.
Next Sunday, April 25.
Sunday School at, 10:00 a. m.
Chief Service at, 11:00 a. m.
Sermon by the pastor on the
theme: From weakness to power.
Preparatory services to the Holy
Communion wil) be held on Sat
urday at 3:00 p. m. At this ser
vice a class of young people will
be admitted into full communion
with the church by the rite of
confirmation. On Sunday the
Lord's Supper will be celebrated.
Card of Thanks.
We, the undersigned, wish to
extend to our many faithful and
devoted friends our most sincere
thanks and appreciation for the
loving kindness and tender care
which has been so faithfully ad
ministered to us during my sick
ness and absence for the past
yea. Faithfully yours,
Mr. and Mrs. Reginald D, Barker,
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benefitted by taking Chamberlain's
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stomach and enable it to perform its
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Local and Personal
Items of Interest
Mr. W. C. Newland of Lenoir,
was in the city last Saturday.
Mr. R. Lee Hewitt of Newton,
was in the city Friday on busi
ness.
Mr. H. L. Seitz of R. F. D.
No. 1, was a caller at the Demo
crat office Saturday.
Mr. W. B. Gaither of Newton
was here last Thursday to at
tend the ball gams between the
married and single men.
The protracted meeting will
commence at the Methodist
Ghurcn April 25. Everybody
cordially invited to attend these
meetings.
Mr. H. S. Smith moved into
his new bungalow in Kenworth
last Friday. Mr. Smith has a
beautiful home and it is located
in a desirable neighborhood.
Messrs. Gus. Setzer and W. H.
Barkley went out to Catawba
river Saturday fishing and came
back with a Carp weighing 6 1-4
pounds. We did not hear which
of them caught the fish.
Rev. A. L. Stanford returned
home Friday from Washington,
N. C., where he had been- con
ducting a series of meetings. Mr.
Stanford reports a successful
meeting and many additions to
the church.
We notice in The Mercury an
article headed, "What has be
come of that -new ice plant?'' He
refers to what The Democrat had
to say about it some three
months ago. We would like for
The Mercury to explain why they
waited so long to say something
about it, and then not until the
ad. for the Hickory Ice & Coal
Co, came out in The Democrat
April 8.
The young men and boys of
Hickory are cordially invited to
join in forming an Audubon Club.
Colonel Thcrnton, who is an orni
thologist, will take pleasure in
joining with the boys in organ
izing such a club and will teach
them many things about the
birds and animals. He says the
boys may meet at his office if
they wish for this purpose. Let
some of the boys get busy abjut
it and have a meeting at once. '
Dr. H. C. Menzies, Mr. Ed.
Menzies, Charles, Jr., and Mr.
N. S. Dasher went to Linville
last Friday on a fishing trip and
returned Saturday. They say
they caught a few fi3h and had
an exciting time on their return
home, coming in contact with a
forest fire on the mountains,
which brought them to a halt
and caused them to go back
wards and forward several times
to avoid the fire.
Hickory Camp No. 80, Wood
men of the World, unveiled a
monument to the late Walter R.
Cline in Oakwood cemetery here
Sunday afternoon with impress
ive ceremony peculiar to that or
der, The exercises were in
charge of Mr. J, A. Reitzel, con
sul commander, and a short talk
wasmade.by Hon. A. A. White
ner. A recitation by little Miss
Lesta Mitchell was a pleasant
feature of the cerenony. The
Brookford band reniered the
music,
The Mercury has much to say
against the Democratic and Pro
gretsive party throughout the
United States and holds to the
Republican party and insists
that the regular R3publicans
and the Progressives will get to
gether. We would like for The
Mercury to tell the people how
many states his regular Republi
cans carried in the last Presi
dential election? For fear he
will not do so we will, Mr. Taft
carried Utah and Maine. Still he
insists that the Progressives will
come back to the regular Repub
lican party, as he calls it.
While in the act of leaving
Asheville last Friday with Henry
Miller, wanted here on the charge
of retailing, Chief of Police
Eugene W. Lentz of this city
was accosted by three men, Otis
Styles, Levi Matthews and Otis
Jones, just as he was about to
board a street car on Pack
Square. Here these men had a
few words with the officer and
later accosted him again at Bilt
more. Then Mr. Lentz had them
arrested for interfering with an
officer in the discharge of his
duties. They were taken into
court nnd their cases continued
until Friday of this week. Chief
Lentz will go to Asheville to at
tend the trial.
Most disfiguring skin eruptions,
scrofula, pimples, rashes, etc., are due
to impure blood. Burdock Blood Bit
ters as a cleansing blood tonic, is well
recommepded. fl.oo all stores,
Democrat and Press Consolidated 1905
War Department
Compliments Co. A
W. T. Bost, Raleigh corres
' pondent of the Greensboro Daily
New?, writing to that paper un
der date of April 19, says:
"Adjutant General Young has
received from Maj.-Gen. Leonard
Wood highly commendatory let
ters as a result of the recent in
spection of the North Carolina
military companies by the gov
ernment.
"Companies Aof Hickory, B
of Gastonia. H of Waynesville
and L of Concord are singled
out for their general efficiency.
The infirmary of the First regi
ment at Rutherfordton gets a
compliment."
Goes Brother Shutcrd 11 Better.
To The Democrat:
The great historian, Rev. J. H.
Shuford, claims that he has writ
ten the history of a dozen Ger
man families. Mr. Editor, I
can beat that out of sight. I
have a condensed history of 23
German familidjs, as follows:
Henry Wiedner/ Conrad Yoder,
Michael Wiedner, Phillip Wied
ner, Adolyhus Reib, George Wil
fong, Jacob Klein, Nicholas Fry,
John Shuford, James Harvey
Robinson. Jacob Lutz, Seitz, Kil-!
lian, John Setzer, Srayre family, i
William Bost family, Sabastian
Klein, the original pionneer,
John Mull, Paul Anthony, John
Hawn, Deitz family, Gross fam
ily, Whisenhunt family and the
Herman family. These are all
in a condensed form and if pub
lished would make quite a large
book which would be very inter
esting to the reader. I have
omitted one German bv the name
of Jond Dellinger, who married
old pioneer Henery Wiedner's
daughter. He was a hero of the
Revolutionary war and fought in
the notable battle of Ramsour's
Mill on the morning of June 3r
1780. Geo. Fisher, who was a
Pennsylvania Dutchman, came
South something over a hundred
years ago and bought a farm on
Henry's Fork river. He married
a daughter of Palser Siegmond,
(now written Sigman) who was
a sister to the late John Wi!-
fong's mother. They both spoke
the Pennsylvania Dutch. To the
best of my recollection they had
several sons and two daughters.,
Joe, the oldest son, married
Susan Whitener, a daughter of
Benjamin Whitener. To them
were born three children, Simp
son, Fannie and Mollie. His
wife died and he then married
Saloma Weaver, who was a
granddaughter of the old pioneer
John Hawn, who came South in
1766. To this second marriage
Lawson, Barnett, Noah and a
daughter, Fannie, were born.
The oldest dauehter married
Jacob Weaver, and to them were
born three sons and two daugh
ters.
Simpson married Rose Wilson
and had two sons.
Mollie died single.
Lawson married and had sev
eral children. He died in the
Civil war.
Barnet never married and died
in the war.
Noah married Eliza Eckard
and died in the war.
The daughter died single.
The oldest daughter of George
Fisher married Frederic Hahn
and had a large family. Pinkney
Fye is one of his grandchildren.
The second daughter married
a Dellinger and had four daugh
ters. Barbara married Samuel
Hahn and went to ' Missouri.
Susan married Daniel Whisnant
and had one son who died in the
Civil war. The third daughter
married William Sigmon, the
father of Cain Sigmon of Hick
ory. The fourth dauehter mar
ried John Whitener, a son of the
old pioneer, Henry Wiedner, and
went to Georgia.
It will be seen by the above
that I did not give a full history
of these families, it only being in
a condensed form,
G. M. YODEK.
A $50.00 Check.
The other day we saw a $50.00
check for our townsman, Mr. E.
L. Flowers, who was ill with ap
pendicitis in March. He had a
health and accident policy with
our leading general insurance
firm, D. L. Martin & Son. All
having no policy with this firm
would do well to see them at
once and take one out. adv.-2t.
One way to relieve habitual consti
patipn is to take regularly a mild laxa
tive. Doan's Rrgulets aie recom
mended for this purpose. 25c a bcx
at all d:ug stores.
Members of the English par
liament cannot be arrested for
debt during the parliamentary
sessions, or for forty days before
and after each session.
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X in News & Circulation k
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BONES OF MEXICAN
CHIEF IN FLORIDA SHARK
Tennessee Anglers Make Souve
venirs of Parts of the
Clothing. '
Athens, April 15.—Gorgeous
still in the splendid uniform and
sombrero of a Mexican general,
the bones of Jesus Almarides
were taken from the stomach of
a mammoth shark caught recent
ly in Florida waters by a party
of veteran anglers from Knox
ville and East Tennessee, accord
ing to a well known Athenian
who has just returned from Flor
ida.
Chancellor Will D. Wright, of
£noxville, is said to have the
epaulets, gorgeous and gilt which
topped the bony shoulders of the
Mexican Jonah when he was ex
humed; Samuel Shields. Esq.,'
displays with a coviction that de
fies skepticism a curiously
wrought silver card case, bearing
the interwoven letters, J. A.
(Jesus Almarides), also taken
from the remains of the muchly
munched Mexican; Gen. Ben
Caswell, of pious propensity,
guards a little Testament, print
ed Spanish, and bearing the
tooth prints of the shark, which
was also found on the unhappy
victim and if further proof be
sought, Judge Tyler Campbell,
of Bristol, hastens to produce a
golden cuff button, one of a pair
that linked the braided sleeves of
Almarides.
At what time Almarides, flee
ing from the land of tomales and
overnight revolutions, fell a vic
tim 'to the deep-sea gormandizer,
eleven feet, ten inches in length,
is not known, and his bones, at
peace in alien soil, have no ton
gue, but his name will live as
long as tales of fishermen's prow
ess are told.
Fleeing to placid Havana,
where the pugilistic bones of
Jack Johnson find no rest, he
met the shark, and the shark
took him in.
Requiescat, Almarides; requies
cat, shark.
Items From South Fork.
Hickory, Route 1, April 19.
Thefre seems to be no important
news in the South Fork valley.
"All is quite along the line,", as
A. Y. Sigmon used to say. The
farmers are all busv with their
farm work, getting their lands
into the proper shape for cultiva
tion. The general health of this,
section seems to be fairly good.
The potato farmers seem to be
in one general hustle to get their
potatoes on the market The
potatoes seem to be in demand
in nearly every section of the
country.
The other day when a high
official Republican asked a pota
to farmer what potatoes were
selling at now, he was told' 'sl.oo
a bushel." And then the potato
farmer went on to say that he
did not understand President
Wilson; that he had put potatoes
up to SI.OO a bushel, wheat to
$1.50 a bushel and corn, to SI.OO
a bushel, and also added tnat
cotton must be nine cents a
pound. This declaration came
too hot for the high official and
he fled, unab'e to stand his
ground. Since the election is
over these republicans are sing
ing another song. No longer do
they say the democratic party is
the cause of cotton being so low,
but it is the war. It is a fact
that since the democratic party
is in power everything is looking
up, Now where is your repub
lican doctrine?
The potato farmers are bedding
out a great many seed potatoes
preparatory to anothep crop.
Miss Jane Reep of Lincoln
county, is here on a visit to her
Yoder relatives and many old
friends.
Mrs. Ralph Yoder is visitng
her father at Salisbury.
Mrs. Mowerrie of Salisbury,
has returned home after a visit
to her father, Mr. A. P. Yoder.
Mr. P. R. Yoder has again re
sumed work on his new dwelling.
The public schools have about
all'closed for this year.
Told That There Was No Cure
for Him.
' "After suffering for over twenty years
with indigestion and having some of
the best doctors here tellmethsrS 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 net only relieved ms but cured me
within twe months although I am a
man of 65 years." writes Jul. Grobien,
Houst n, exi s. f For sile b/ Men
zies Drug Co., and Lutz's Drug Co.
A giri with a dimple will laugh
at anything a man says.