n DOOOOCOO OOOOOOOOOOUO 3 I Quality Job Printing g o a t Reasonable Prices § §^ccooooooooooocoooos Established 1899 2 GERMAN TORPEDO BOATS ARE SUNK Sent To Bottom After Chase and Running Fight of at Hour With English Destroyers London, May 2.—The British admiralty announced tonight that two German torpedo boats had been sunk in the North Sea. The British torpedo boat destroyer Recruit also was sunk. The text of the statement fol lows: "A series of small affairs took place in the neighborhood of the Galloper and North Hinder Light ships Saturday. "During the forenoon H. M. destroyer Recruit was sunk by a submarine, four officers and twenty-one men being saved by the trawler Daisy. "At 3 p.m. the trawler Colom bo was attacked by two German t 'rpedo boats, who approached her from the westward and com menced an action without hoist nz their colors. The Colombia was sunk by a torpedo, only one L J eck hand being saved by the ether trawlers, A division of British destroy ers, comprising Laforey, Leoni das, Ltwford and Lark chased the two German vessels and after a brief running fight of about one hour, sank them both. "The British destroyers sus tained no casualties. "Two German officers and forty-four men were rescued from the sea and mad 2 prisoners of war." May 20 in Charlotte. Appearing on another page of this issue is an advertisement telling of the great Twentieth of May Celebration and Trade Car nival which is to be staged in Charlotte on May 18, 19, 20 and 21. The iarge majority of oar readers are quite familiar with the style in which Charlotte is accustomed to pull off its historic anniversary and all reports coming from the Mecklenburg metropolis indicate that the fes tivity now in process of incuba tion will be worthy of the best that have gone before. There will be much speaking of a high class, free shows and some that will charge a nominal i'ee for admission, parades, dec orated floats, bands of music baseball, balloon ascensions, fire works, and last mentioned, but not least—crowds. On each.suc ceeding May 20th, people in all these parts are accustomed to turn their steps tow ard historic "Independence Square", and this year the attractions offered insure the attendance of a record-breaking crowd. In sddition to the patriotic features incident to every Twen tieth Celebration, the merchants of Charlotte are preparing to hold a trade carnival in which very special bargains will be put on. We feel no hesitation in recom mending to cur readers consider ation or the plan of visiting Cnarlotte at the'time set with all preparations made for the reap ing of fun and profit. Injustice to Railroads. Unfair! The glaring injustice ct the government's treatment cf the railroads in the matter of currying the mails is brought out in a comparison of what Uncle Sam pays his own road and what he pays others. The govern ment-owned Panama Railroad received last year, according to a statement by the committee on railway mail pay, $2.77 for each ton of mail carried a mile, while the private roads in the United States, according to estimates of trie Post Office Department, re ceived about 10c per ton for each inile. If this is the kind of ex travagance the government ownership of railroads stands i'or, it will be a long while before the voters of this country will give it serious consideration, dad the privately owned rail roads of the United States been paid on the same basis as the Panama Railroad, instead or re ceiving $56,000,000 or about one tilth or the Post Office Depart ment's revenue?, they would iiave received $1,557,000,000 or more than five times the total revenues of the Department. The railroads have not asked Con gress to advance mail pay rates. All they have asked for is to be paid for all the mail they carry and for all the special facilities and services they furnish the Post Cffke Department, Why jiot, Uncie Sarr.? —Leslie's. For any itchiness of the skin, for skin rashes, chap, pimples, etc., try Doa'n's Ointment, 50c at all drug ptores. TEE HICKORY DEMOCRAT District No. 2, U. D. C., Holds Interesting Meeting at Newton On Friday last the district meeting of District No. 2., United Daughters of the Confederacy, was held in Newton, the dele gates being entertained in the handsome home of Mrs. J. P. Yount, probably the most beau tiful residence in Catawba coun ty. It was charmingly decorated for the occasion, the flags of the Cause .so dear- to cur hearts prominently displayed. The guests were met at the station, and received in the hall of the Yount home by Mesdames J. P. Yount, L. F. Long, Belle Wilfong, W. C. Feim9ter. Mrs. J. A. Gaither ushered them to the dressing rooms, aided by Mrs. Loy Sigmon. There were pres ent two delegates from Morgan ton, five from Mooresville, eight from Lenoir, twenty-one from Hickory, together with the New ton chapter, these towns com prising District No. 2. In addi tion there weie present as guests Mrs. T. B. Finley, of Wilkesboro, and Mrs. S. F. Watson, who holds her membership with the Statesville chapter. An elegant luncheon was ser ved the guests at noon, consist ing of a salad course, with coffee and iced tea, cake and ice cream, followed by mints. Dur ing the course of later pro ceedings, Mrs. R. H. Gwyn, of Lenoir remarked that it was evi dent the Newton chapter had been taking a special course in domestic science. At 1:30 the meeting was called to order bv Mrs. L; F. Long, act ing instead of Mrs. O.M .Royster, of Hickory. Mrs. Long made a most capable presiding officer, and the business of the meeting went forward in good order. The first motion made and carried was that letters of sym pathy should be written to Mes dames Royster of Hickory and Williams, of Newton, the latter of whom has been one of the leaders in U. D. C. work in the State. Following this came the read ing of reports from the different chapters, that from Morganton being read by Mrs. Scroggs, Le noir by Mrs. H. C. Martin, that from Mooresville by Mrs. Cornel ius, that of Hickory by Miss Mary Shuford, and that of New ton by Mrs. W.B. Gaither. These reports show increase of mem bers on the part of the societies, work done in the way of remem- Lenoir Blanked Catawba Monday Catawba College was shut out by Lenoir College here Monday afternoon by a score of 3 to 0. Lenoir's first run came in the second inning when Dunn made a nifty steal home. A home run by Parks in the third annexed ar other taliy and in the eighth tl e third run came across the h me plate on an error by Cs tawba. The mounders ~ were about evenly matched, Emery Miller for Lenoir having a little the advantage. The nearest Ca tawba came to scoring was in the sixth when Hunsucker connected with the pill for a long drive to the center fiield. Tnis was irood for three bases but the runner tried to stretch it into a home run and got caught at the plate. Four of Catawba's hits were of thp scratch variety, the Lenoir infield slowing up on PitcVe.- Rowe, who twirleu a masterful game. • „ Scorer R. H. E. Catawba 003 000 000-0 6 2 Lenoir 011 000 01x-3 7 2 Batteries: Rowe and Rein hart; Miller and Ciine. Struck out: By Miiler, 11; by Rowe, 9. Three base hit, Hunsucker v , h9me run, Parks. Passed balls, Cline. Reinhardt, Stolen bases, Con rad, Linn. Lyerly. Time 1:40; umbire, C. A. Moser. Mt. Olive Evangelical Lutheran Church. Rev. E. J. Sox, pastor. Next Sunday, May 9. Sunday School at, 10:00 a. m. Preaching Service at, 11:00 a.m. Sermon by the pastor on the theme: "Our Blessed Heritage of Peace/' Our Lord says: "Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." And with Luther then we sa ? : ~ „ , ~ "Though devils all the world should fill. All watching to deyour us, We tremble not, we fear no ill, They cannot overpower us. Come and go with u . Advertise in The Democrat. Bering the dead and aiding the living, help given to the Old Soldiers' Home, subscriptions made to the Veteran and the Carolina Southern Cross, the publications of the Order, and the Lenoir chapter urges that every chapter buy a copy of Thomas Dixon's latest work, "The Victim," they having bought one and presented it to the local grammar school, that our youth may properly remem ber that victim, Jefferson Davis. Also it should be mentioned 'that Lenoir has $75.00 and Moores ville $BO.OO in their treasury, and sume of the rest of the chapters want to try and "catch up. "This is the more to be desired since Mrs. Long read a letter from Mrs. Little, state president, in which she enumerated causes to which the daughters must con tribute outside their regular dues or disaster will follow. Particu larly is this the case with our normal scholarship, subscriptions to which have not been met. A subscription was taken up at the meeting, at which over $6.00 was raised to be divided among the, amounts for the monuments at Arlington and Shiloh and educa tional fund. The key-note of the meeting was "Unity", the desire to work together for our dead and our living. As might be supposed, it was truiy good to be there. The recording secretary of the meeting, Mrs. R. H. Gwyn, of Lenoir was highly commended for her work, and a rising vote of thanks was offered to her, to Mrs.. Long, for the able manner in which she led the meeting, as well as for her charming speech of greeting, and to Mrs. E. B. Cline, of Hickory, for her bright and pleasing response and her excellent suggestions a3 to mat ters before the meeting. A delightful feature of the day was the singing, by special request, of two old Southern melodies, by Mesdames Chad wick and W. L. Abernethy. The meeting adjourned with the sing ing of "Dixie". The thanks, both of the guests and the local chapter are certain ly due to Mrs. J. P. Yount for giving up herjbeautiful home for their use, and the gracious hos pitality so freely extended, and also to all those who so gladly helped to make the occasion a de lightful one. S. F. W. Week's Happenings in Hickory Society The Mozart Music Club was delightfully entertained last Saturday afternoon by Miss Miriam Whitener. Bach was the subject of the afternoon's study, a splendid paper on the great composer being read by Miss Gibbs. Following this Miss Mary Murphy played "Prae- Indium I," from the "Klavier werke." Other contributions to the program were given by Miss es Jessie Patrick, Aileen Aiken and Miriam Whitener. Two duets added to the pleasure of the meeting and after delicious refreshments the club adjourned to meet next time with Miss Aileen Aiken. Paint? There are two good reasons for painting often-enough or even too-often. One, to look prosper ous; two, to be so. Nothing does one more credit than paint, supplemented of course by what goes with it; and paint costs nothing. True, the first cost is $5 or $6 a gallon put-on; but it saves more than that in the property; saves it from slow coing-down—not always slow--it drops with a jump when water gets in on wood and iron. Dry wood and iron cost noth ing. kept dry by paint. Better paint when it needs it. Paint never goes-down in the sense of being more profitable next year. DEVOE (ady't) F. B. Ingold sells it. jWhite Man With Black Liver. The liver is a blood purifier. It was thought at one time it was the seat of the Passions. The trouble with most people is that their Liver becomes black because of impurities in the blood due to bad physical states, caus ing Biliousnes, Headache, Dizziness, and constipation. Dr. King's New Life Pills will clean up the Liver, and give you new life. 25c. at your Drug gist, HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1915 Local and Personal Items of Interest Mr. R. H. Johnson of this city, has a guinea hen which will be 17 years old Angurt 23. This particular guinea has not hid in seven years. Miss Iva Pearl Setzer will give her expression graduating recital m the Lenoir College auditorium Monday evening. May 10, at 8 o'clock to which the public is cordially invited. Mr. W. S. Pollard brought the first ripe strawberries to be put on the market here by a local grower Friday. The dry weath er of the past month caused the berries to be small in size. In a fast and snappy game of baseball Saturday afternoon the Lenoir College second team de feated Sleepy Hollow 15 to 7. This was the first game Sleepy Hollow lost out of ten games played. Batteries: Fritz and Cochrane; Rudisill and Herman. l)r. J. L. Murohy will deliver the address at the close of the Catawba High school on May 15. On May 25, he speaks at the close of the City Schools of Canton, and on June 2, he delivers the commencement address at the close of the Caswell Training School at Kinston. William S. Stanley was elected mayor of Highland in the elec tion Monday by a majority of 26 votes over Junius Huffman, his opponent. 'Robert S. Allred, C. L. Eekard. D. C. Hoke and Lan den Bowman were elected alder man and T. F. Bolick and J. S. Little, school trustees. The Mercury last week called us Aifonzo several times, which we consider a great compliment, Aifonzo was born in 693, was a wise and brave king. In 739 suc ceeded in expelling the Moors from Galicia, Leon and Castile. He also established towns, built churches, and generally improved the internal conditions of his country." Please call us some more good names, we deserve it. Most interesting services will be held at the Reformed church next Sunday. The morning ser vice will be a combination of Mother's Day and Memorial ser vices. All the mothers and all the veterans of our war between the states will be given a white flower. The music and the ser mon will be appropriate. At night the annual sermon to the graduating class of Claremont College will be preached by Rev. A. L. Stanford, pastor of the Methodist church. Commencement exercises of Claremont College begin on Fri day night of this week, Mty 7. This will be an entertainment given by the Dramatic Club and consists of two plays (1) "The Outsider," (2) "The Mere Man." This will be the only entertain ment given by the Dramatic Club during commencement and a small admission fee will be charged. Sunday night, May 9, the annual sermon will be preach ed in the Reformed Church by Rev. A. L. Stanford. Monday the Commencement Concert will be held in the College chapel. On Tuesday night the graduating exercises will be held with an address by Rev. W. W. Rowe, pastor of the Reformed Church of Newton. Adolphus McGuire. aged about 35 years drank about two table spoonsful of carbolic acid at his home in Highland Friday eve ning and died soon after from the effects of the deadly drug be fore medical assistance arrived. He talked freely after the deed expressing that he had stood it as long as he could, evidently re ferring to some domestic trouble, and that he was willing and pre pared to die. The deceased was employed at the Martin Furni ture Company and was a hard working man, well liked by all who knew him. He had been a resident of Hickory for a good many years, coming originally from Davie county with his par ents. He was a member of the Highland Baptist Church and the funeral was held from the home Sunday morning conducted by Rev. W. N. Cook. Afterwards the remains were carried to War lick's Chanel in Burke county for interment. A wife and four children survive his death. The bereaved family have the sym pathy of the entire community in the losing of a husband and fath er whose passing was extremely sad. A lazy liver leads to chronic dyspep sia and constipation, —weakens the whole system. Doan's Regulets (25c per box) act lively on Jhe liver and - bowels, At all drug stores. Lutherans Close Big Conference at Maiden Newton, April 30.—The North Carolina Conference of the Tenn essee Synod of the Lutheran Church closed this afternoon at Maiden, with a record of per haps the largest attendance in the history of the body. The meeting was presided over by President Enoch Hite of Lintoln ton, and Rev. C. I. Morgan of this place was secretary. Rev. J. D. Mauney of Hickory was elected treasurer to succeed Rev. James F. Deal. The conference represents about 8 000 people and more than 75 congregations numbering fully two-thirds of the total strength of the Tennessee Synod. Lenoir Defeats Loray By Sensational Rally Gastonia, April 39.—1n an ex ceptionally pretty game of bail here this afternoon, Lenoir Col lege defeated the Loray Tigers by a score of 4 to 3, The col legians came up from behind in the eighth, overcame the locals three run lead and annexed the victory. Of the seven runs scored by both teams, all were earned. E. Miller, pitching for Lenoir, featured the crame with his mound work. The port sider was stingy in the pinches and several times extricated himself from dangerous entanglements. Other features were the hitting of Yoder and Conrad for Lenoir, and Mason for Loray, and the fielding of Sox for the college boys. Score by innings: R.H.E. Lenoir 000 000 040—4 6 2 Loray 101 010 000-3 6 2 Batteries: Lenoir, E. Miller and Suggs; Loray, Gordon and Willis. btruck out by Gordon 3, by Miller 8. Three-base hit, Con rad; two-oase hit 3, Suggs, Nor ket, Williams. Time 1.20. Um pires—Messrs. Mason and Car penter. John Hice of Caldwell Murdered Lenoir, April 30. —John Hice, a • white man about 50 years old, \ was found dead in his home near the Catawba River in the south j western part of the county on j Wednesday afternoon 4 o'clock. | The evidence points to the fact i that he was unmistakably robbed and murdered some time Tues day night. Hice was last seen Monday afternoon, when he was at the home of a neighbor, a Mr. Whis nant, who lives about one mile from him, and made arrange ments with the latter to help him plant corn on Wednesday. As he did not show up on the day appointed Mr. Whisnant went to his home about 4 o'clock that afternoon. The door of the home was partly ajar and on the in side lav the body of Hice. with the face and head disfigured and clotted with blood. Several ugly wounds were found on the right side of the head above the eye, while the back of the head was crushed in by the blows from some blunt instrument. Nearby the body was an old-fashioned stove shov el and a heavy rough chair with hair and blood on them, leaving no doubt as to the instrumsnts used in delivering the death blows. When discovered the body was dressed in a rough shirt and over* alls, and the feet bare, indica ting that Hice had retired, or was fixing to tetire for the night when attacked. There were many bloodstains on the floor and wall of the room, which tended to show that he put up a valiant fight for his life before he was finally overcome, Hice lived alone, his wife hav ing died about one year ago, in a small two room house is.believed to nave had on his person some $4OO or 8500. It was known that he usually carried his money around with him and the fact that he lived alone and in a rath er secluded place made him an easy mark. His pocketbook, empty and blood-stained, was found near his bodv, testifying as to the cause of the deed. Sheriff Triplett, accompanied by Coroner Austin, wenc to the scene of the tragedy Wednesday and an inquest was held over the body. The verdict of the jury was murder, but sufficient evi dence was not secured to justify making any arrests. Hice was an inoffensive citi zen, never doing any one harm. Read The Hickory Democrat— «sl.oo a year, Democrat and Press Consolidated 1905 American Steamer is Torpedoed And Sunk; Three Lives Are Lost Vessel Was Torpedoed Off Scilly Islands—President is Notified Aboard His Special Car But 'Declines to Comment—Stir Is Created in Official Circles. London, May 2 The American oil tank steamer Gulf Light which sailed from Port Arthur, Texas, April 10, for Rouen, France, was torpedoed at noon Saturday off the Scilly islands, according to a Central News dis patch today. The captain of the Gulf Light, according to the same advices, died of heart failure as a result of shock. Two seaman jumped oyerboard and were drowned. The other members of the crew were taken off by a patrol boat. The vessel was towed into Crow sound and beached. President is Notified. New Haven. Conn,, May 2. — News of the torpedoing of the American steamer Gulf Light off Scilly islands on Saturday was communicated to President Wil son tonight on his special car, en route from Williamstown, Mass., to Washington. He de clined to comment. Created Stir in Official Circles. Washington, May 2 Press re ports of the torpedoing of the American steamer Gulf Light and the loss of her captain and some members of the crew creat ed a stir tonight in official circles here. If first reports are borne out the attack on the Gulf Light con stitutes the first case of an Amer ican ship struck by a torpedo with the consequent loss of lives. Two have been sunk by mines, the responsibility for which never has been fixed and an American, Lson C. Thresher, was drowned when the British ship Falaba was torpedoed. Memorial Day Exercises Monday Memorial Day will be observed Monday, May 10, at sp. m., in Oak wood Cemetery. The follow ing program has been arranged: Sang—"My Country 'Tis of Thee," by all present. Prayer by Dr. Murphy. Somr by Dixie Greys, Address by Rev. M. L. Stire walt. "Taps" by bugler of local mili tary company. Benediction by Rev. J. G. Garth. Then the graves of the old sol diers will be decorated. All who can do so will please brine or send flowers for this purpose. It |is hoped a large crowd will be present to do honor to the mem ory of these old men who fought so bravely. Automobiles will be furnished t free to convev all old soldiers of I Hickory to the cemetery. All ! who desire to go will please I 'phone Mrs. R. A. Grimes. Newton Items. Newton, April 29.—The un known white man arrested on suspicion at Maiden Monday and brought here and placed in jail, turns out to be David L. T.nsley, son of James C. Tinsley of Wilkes County; and he is insane. lie escaped from the Wilkes County officers after they had reached Morganton with him, and were ready for turning him over to hospital officials there, and since then nothing had been heard of him. This afternoon, after having refused all along to say a word about himst If, he confessed to Sheriff lsenhour that his name was Tinsley, that he had a wife and five children in Wilkes coun ty, and that he had "got wrong on religion,*' and left home as a consequence. That he is "wrong" was discovered by by Jailor Gil bert, and that he has religious troubles was demonstrated last night when he preached a mighty sermon in the jail. He will be sent from here to the hospital at Morganton, on orders of the sher iff of Wilkes County, whom Sheriff lsenhour called on the phone mediately after Tinsley had tola who he was. Prof. A. P. Whisnant, superin tendent of the Newton schools, was today appointed by Clerk J.- T. Setzer, county assessor of in heritance tax, for- a period of two years. The appointment is subject to the 1 approval, of the State Tax Commission^ Oo^ooobobbcc>oouooocg 8 The Democrat Leads g 8 in News & Circulation 8 8CXXX300000000000CCXXX)0 The United Sates government has just completed its investiga tion of the Thresher case, but in view of the direct attack on an American vessel now reported, it is probable that both incidents will be dealt with in whatever diplomatic action is taken. It was recalled tonight that in the note sent to Germany in an swer to Germany's proclamation of a sea war zone the Washing ton government stated that it would hold Germany "to a strict accountability" for the loss of any American lives or vessels. The course of the United States in the case of the Gulf Light is not likely to be determined for several days as sometime probab ly will be required to get the facts. The possiblity of any ac tion other than a demand for damages is considered remote because of the belief of officials that the attack on the Gulf Light probably will be found to have been accidental. The Captain Was Altred Gunther. Boston. May 2 —The captain of the tank steamer Gulf Light, who lost his life when his vessel was torpedoed off the Scilly islands, was Altred Gunther, of New York; the first mate is Ralph Smith, of Wakefield, and several members of the crew are from New England, according to in formation obtained tonight from relatives. Captain Gunther was com mander of the steamship Okla homa, which went down in a trale in January, 1914, off the New Jersey coast. With several members of the crew he escaped in a life boat and was picked up by another steamer. Would Expunge Court Records Raleigh, April 30. —"If it were within our power we would ex punge or modify these records, to the end that the injury done thereby might, in a measure, be repaired, or at least, that the in fluence of the same might be re moved," the Carter-Abernethy investigation committee sum 3 up the hearing that ended with its report today. "With reference to the con duct of Judge Carter at New Bern as hereinbefore set out, and the other incidents mention ed herein, he lost his temper and used intemperate language; but the committee further finds that in no instance did he act cori u )t -iy. The committee further finds from evidence that in various other counties in the state, where Judge Carter has held court, he was even-tempered, impartial and fair." This report, signed by every member of the investigating com mittee, came in late this after noon following sessions of the committee that covered in all about six weeks. Throughout the day the capital has been visited bv people resident and visiting, led here by a desire to hear what the committee recommends and to know whether there will be any such thing as impeachment proceedings. No prospect ot anything more exciting is held out. The committee recommends: First; That such parts of the records of Craven county, refer red to in this reDort, which re flect upon the official conduct of private character of Solicitor Charles L. Abernethy be exDung ed, if such can be done by the exercise of constitutional author ity. Second; that no further action be taken with reference to house resolutions Nos, 1155 and 1442, except as here indicated. Man Takes His own Medicine Is An Optimist. He has absolute faith in his medi cine —he knows when he takes it for certain ailments he gets relief. People who take Dr. King's New Discovery for an irritating Cold are optimists — they know this cough remedy will pen etrate the lining of the throat, kill the germs, and open the way lor nat»:e to act. You can't destroy a Cold by su perficial treatment —you must go to the cause, of the trouble. Be an opti mist. Get a bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery to-day. Democrat ads bring results.