I 1 A lVf le property of W. P. Huffman, located on Highland Avenue,
1 A il ® ltX* will be sold at auction Saturday, September 4th, at 10:30 A. M.
| This property will be sold on very easy terms. Valuable prizes will be given away. Music
I by a live wire band.
I CONDUCTED BY P|| nny Bros., & Thomas Bros., of Grooosiioro, N. C.
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Cotton Market.
Charlotte, Ausr. 26. -Good mid
dling, 8 5-8 c; middling, 8 3-Bc.
The Weather.
For North Carolina: Friday
fair.
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Mr. Ann Mrs. Plato* Huffman
ofLexinjrtv, spent the week
end in Hickory with relatives,
Mr. William McComb has re
turned heme from Atlantic City.
He reports a delightful trip.
Mr. R. C. Glenn of Gis'onia, is
spending some time here with
his sister. Mrs. D. L. Rissell."
Mr. W. T. Sledge has returned
home afcer spending some time
in Atlantic City, New York and
other northern cities.
Mr. and Mrs. E. B, Menzies
left Wednesday for Edgemont
where they will spend some time
on a pleasure trip.
Hon. E.Y.Webb spent Wed
nesday night in the city on his
way to Mt. Holly where he deliv
ered an rfddress at £ ch&utauqua
yesterday.
Rev. M. M. Kinard, D. D., of
Salisbury, will preach at Holy
Trinity Lutheran Church Shnday
morning and night. Everybody
C3«Mially invited.
Mr. H. C. Lutz has returned
from Atlantic City and other
northern cities where he snent
some time on a pleasure and bus
iness trip.
Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Howard of
Charlotte, motored to Hickory
Saturday and spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Warner, re
turning home Monday.
Mr. R. C. Teague spent sever
al hours in Hickory Tuesday en
route from Lenoir where he had
been visiting relatives, to the
home of his parents at Hidden
ite.
Mr. P. C. Setzer, of the firm
of Setzer & Russell, has returned
from a trip to the northern mar
kets, where he purchased a nice
line of goods for their fall and
winter trade.
"Red Buck" Bryant,; writing
to the Charlotte Observer, says
creamery butter from Hickory is
the best coming into Washington,
which speaks well for our but
termakers.
The Hickory Garage received a
car load of Ford cars Thursday.
You had better cail and get yours
b jfore they are gone.
Mrs. S. H. Miller and son, Mas
ter Harvey Lee, of Carthage, are
the guest 3 of Dr. and Mrs. Trout
man.
Mr. and Mrs. A. 0. Whitener
of Greenville, S. C., are spending
some time in the city with rela
tives.
Mr. and Mrs. Make Bost of
Morganton, visited the family of
Mr. C. C. Bost in this city this
v.eek.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Harris and
children spent Mr. Harris' vaca
tion with his parents at Forest
City.
Mr. Dallas E. Eckard has ac
cepted a position at Raleigh.
Miss Mabel Potts of Charlotte,
is the guest of Mrs. H. M. Doll.
Mr. J. B. Dayis, an old Con
federate Veteran, of Brunswick,
Ga., is spending several days in
Hickory,
WAR SUPPLIES
HAVE ONLY STARTED,
. MOVING LATELY.
Greater Part of Exports for
Year Ending in June Left
In June.
Washington, Aug. 24,—Tjiat 8 .
great part of Europe's enormous
war munitions orders did not be
gin to m ve from the United
States until comparatively re
cently was indie ited by export
fuurei iß3ued today by the com
merce deDartment. Tne statis
tics show that while export 3 of
war supplies increased tremen
dously during the vear ending
with June, the greater part of
the increase left the United
States in the latter month.
The twelve-rnonth period show
ed exports of explosives valued
at $41,476,188 as against $6,272,-
107 in the preceeding year. More
than one-fourth of that total.
--$11,689,744—was shipped dur
ftig'Jafie. Gunpowder showed
exports of $3,284,549 in June,
compared with $S 091,-542-for the
year.
Sixty-two aeroplane 3 were ex
ported in June as against 152 for
the entire year. In the preceed
ing year only thirty-four were
shipped. Nearly eight times as
many automobile trucks were ex
ported in' June as in the entire
year ending June 30, 1914. Of
both passenger automobiles and
trucks the exports for June
was valued at $13,364,800, and
for the year at $60,254,635. In
the preceding vear they were
$26,574,634.
Figures for barbed wire, har
ness and saddles showed similar
export conditions.
Annual Popular Excursion To
Richmond, Va., Via Southern'
Railway Tuesday, September
7, 1915,
• Southern Railway will operate fcnnHnl
September excursion to Richmond' on
Tuesday, September 7, 1915, from North
and South Caiolina territory.
Special train consisting of both day
coaches and standard Pullman sleeping
cars will leave Charlotte at 9:15 p. m.,
on Tuesday, September 7, arriving Rich
mond following morning at 7:20 a. m.
Returning, these tickets will be good
on all regular trains leaviag Richmond
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Sep
tember 8,9 and 10. Can spend three
whole days and two nights in Richmond
if desired, or can return on any regular
train Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
September 8, 9 and 10.
Passengers from all branch line points
can use regular trains into Charlotte,
Greensboro, Salisbury and other junc
tion points connecting with tb,fc,, spppjal
train. This will be the last; eicufsiori
to Richmond this season and will be a
first class trip in every respect. Ample
time to make side trip to Norfolk, Peters
burg and City Point.
Following low round trip fares will
apply from stations named: -V- 'j-v
Charlotte $4.50
Morganton 5.00
Statesville 5.00
Salisbury 4.50
HICKORY : 5.00.
Newton 5.00
Fares from all other intermediate
points on same basis.
Pullman reservations must be made in
advance.
For further information apply to any
agent Southern Railway, or ( t[i .
R. H. DeBUTtS, D. P. A., ' ' '
Charlotte, N. C.
LOST —Gamma Sigma Society
pin. Reward if returned to
The Democrat Office. " ' It. "'
SOCIAL.
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Norfleet,
of Havana. Cuba, who have been
visiting Mr. Norfleet's sister,
Mrs. J. D, Harte, left Tuesday
afternoon for Norfolk, Va., and
other points on the coast. Mr.
Norfleet was so pleased with the
beautiful scenery and splendid
climate of Western North riaro
lina. especially Blowing Rock
and Grandfather Mountain, that
he has determined to leave the
tropics and visit this section every
summer if possible.
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Mr, Richard Boyd entertained
a number of his friends at a
house /party Thursday evening,
August 19. The guests were re
ceived at the door by Mrs. D. M.
Boyd and Miss Maude Crowell.
Punch was served by Miss Mattie
Lore of Lincolnton, after which
the guests registered. Numer
ous games followed. A contest
of authors was engaged in by all,
Miss Mattie Lore and Mr. Nel
son Harte winning the prize, a
box of candy. Following these
ice cream and cake was served.
Little memorv cards were found
on each plate, with the date of
the evening on them. The color
scheme of green was carried out
in the light shades and candles.
The guest of the evening were
Messrs. John Cilley, William
Wootten, El wood Mitchell, Don
ald E. Shuford, Clement Geitner,
Nelson Harte, Robert McConnell,
Donald Menzies, Ernest Abeme
thy, Misses Helen Springs, Doris
Hutton, Miriam Whitener, Isa
bella Morton. Katherine Allen,
Jessie Patrick, Aileen Aiken.
Those from out of town were
Miss Mary Farmer of Virginia,
Mr. Harold Lattimore of Maiden,
Mr. Herbert Youngblood of Char
lotte; Misses Mattie Lore and
Maude Crowell of Lincolnton.
Despite the rain a pleasant even
ing was enjoyed.
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A delightful bridge party was
given Monday afternoon at tne
Hotel Huffry by Mrs. W. H, Far
rar of St. Louis, Mo. The game
was played at six tables and Mrs.
Alex Hall won the score prize, a
lovely mayonnaise set. The con
solation, a set of glasses, was
won' by Mrs. Pearl Sherrill for
having the next highest score. A
course of sweets concluded the
afternoon's Dleasure.
Roland Winkler Shot.
Roland Winkler was shot from
ambush Tuesday afternoon by
June Wilson, according to a state
ment made by Winkler, who
came to Hickory to have the shot
picked, 32 of which had penetra
ted the flesh on his back and
neck. The affair occurred in the
lower edge of Burke county,
while Winkler was driving along
the road on a wagon. He said
he saw Wilson run after he had
been hit. The night before the
two had a difficulty near the
Cliffs in this township in which
Winkler got the best of Wilson.
Wilson thereupon next day got
his shctgun and wavlaid Winkler.
There is an old grudge said to
exist between the two men. Both
are middle-aged and citizens of
But-ke county.
Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days
Yi/ur d-uggtst will refund money if PAZC
OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching.
Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles ii) 6 to 14 days.
Jhc first application »vo» aad Jlest, We.
BALLS CREEK MEETING
GREATEST IN HISTORY
Over 200 Conversions at Great
Camp Meeting Before It
"Broke" Monday
Newton, Aug. 24.—8a11s Creek
campmeeting "broke'' last night and
the final reports of the big revival are
amazing. There were more that 200
conversions. Not in years, say old tim
ers, if ever, has there been such an
outburst of spiritual zeal for better liv
ing. Rev. Turner Smathers. of Con
cord, and Pev. Mr. Kirkpatrick, of
Mooresville, had the meeting in charge,
with others assisting, and last night
when Mr. Kirkpatrick asked all who
wished another campmeeting next year
to stand up, the closely packed hun
dreds in and around the old arbrr arose
to a man.
Bud Lippard, a man who won an un
enviable reputation as a dispenser of
blockade whiskey, and who was con
verted at Rev. Jim Green's famous
meeting in Mountain Creek township
some months ago, was at camp meet
ing and took a leading part, holding
prayermeetings, exhorting and praying 1
in public in a way that surprised them
who knew him of old.
Yesterday just before the regular
services began, Alley Gabriel, a man
of some prominence in the county, a
school teacher for many years and a
leader in his section, though never a
religious man, called about 200 of bis
old students around him and held pray
er meeting. He told them when he
used to teach them he could never
read the Bible and pray as a teacher
should, though he taught them to do
right as best he knew; but now he
could pray with them and for them. It
was a sight to behold these 200 young
people kneel while he prayed and then
march to the central arbor singing a
hymn like crusaders of old.
Taken all in all, the meeting was
one of the most remarkable religious
gatherings ever seen in Catawba coun
ty and it is estimated as a substantial
and significant awakening and not a
mere flash in the religious psn.
Under the direction of Rudd New
some, of Guilford college, the great
choir rendered splendid service and
helped make the meeting a success.
A representative of the chautaucfUa
people arrived here today and decided
to send his attractions to Newton any
way, in spite of the fact that the guar
antors had cancelled the contrast on
account of the booking of Hickory for
the same attractions. The opening
date is Saturday, Sunday, it is expect
ed that Mr. Daniels, of Clemson Col
lege, will deliver a sermon and Mon
day and Tuesday the regular program
will be carried out. Under this plan
the local people guarantee nothing ex
cept they promise supDOrt.
The Diybes stock of merchandise
was. sold today at auction by Trustee W,
3. Gaither under order from Referee
Pearscn of Morganton, and was bid 08
by Robert Knuckley, of Lincolnton,
whose father in law, Mr Hamaty, of
Lincolnton, held a mortgage of $785
on the stock, but which was set aside
by the bankruptcy proceedings because
it had not been made four months
the store will be opened in the morn
ing, after having been locked up for
weeks, with Mr. Abdelnour in charge.
The personal exemption of SSOO will be
allotted Mr.Daybes but it will be at
tached immediately and claimed, un
der a ruling, as belonging to the mor
tagee. The stock inventoried $2,200,
was appraised at $l,lOO and sold for
$1,400.
Secretary Rankin, of the state board
of health, writes the county superin
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The Object for Which
Mo& of Us Strive
is a comfortable living; for ihc present, to accumulate a sufficient
sum to provide the comforts and little luxuries we need for our
selves and family when we have passed the age for hard work,
and to leave our children better pi epared to fight the battles of
life.
In accomplishing this object a check account at a conser
vative, well managed bank is of material assistance.
Why not open an account at THIS bank? It will help you in
many ways and your money will be here and ready for you when
wanted.
On Savines Accounts we pay FOUR PER CENT Interest
Compounded Quarterly:
FirSl National Bank,
Hickory, N. C.
Capital and Surplus $290,000.00
tendent of health, Dr. Geo. W. Shipp;
that he will be in Washington during
the week and will arrange to secure the
medical expert tentatively promised
this county, who will spend next year
here, assisting local physicians in the
work of eliminating infantile diseases
which, particularly in summer, carry o2
numbers of babies.
Too Ambitions.
Everything.
A dispatch from Statesville says "The
Statesville star, Statesville's morning
paper, which has been issued daily fcr
several weeks, suspended with yester
day morning's issue, and according to
the notice by the editor published in
the final issue, it will be seen and
heard no more. Insufficient support
was the principal reason given. All
payments in advance on subscriptions,
it was stated, would be refunded to
subscribers."
Statesville is very well supplied with
papers —and one trying to be a morn
ing paper could hardly be expected to
make it. The man who sees a million
in a newspaper venture like Colonel
Cellers, is always ready to try it out
but the "'Long Left Want" is generally
filled before the other arrives on
the scene. It has never been our pleas
ure to see this particular star of the
morning or Morning Star, and while we
regret it shines no longer, perhaps it is
well.
What Is Carnegie Worth.
When rumcrs were flashed over the
land again one day recently that Andrew
Carnegie was dead the query on every
body's lips was: "how much money
did he leave?"
Mr. Carnegie himself made the im-
CALOMEL WHEN BILIOUS? NO! STOP!
MAKES YOU SICK AND SALIVATES
"Godson's Liver Tone" Is Harmless To
Clean Your Sluggish Liver
a and Bowels,
Ugh! Calomel makes you sick. It's
horrible! Take a dose of the dangerous
drug tonight and tomorrow you may lose
a day's work.
Calomel is mercuiy or quicksilver
which causes necrosis of the bones.
Calomel, when it comes into contact
with sour bile crashes into it, breaking
it up. This is when you feel that awful
nausea and cramping. If you are slug
gish and "all knocked out," if your
liver is torpid and bowels constipated
or you have" headache, dizziness, coated
tongue, if'breath is bad or stomach sour,
just try a spoonful of harmless Dodson'a
Liver Tone tonight 09 my guarantee,
AT THE
HUB
FRIDAY
"Strength of the Weak" and
"Ham and the Jitney Bus"
SIX REELS
SATURDAY
"Prince of Peace"
A Great War Drama in Four
Reels.
mortal remark that it was a crime to die
rich —being one crime which most of
us will escape without yiolent effort.
But how much is Carnegie worth
Since he sold his steel works the in
come from the bends he received in
payment has amounted to 210 million
dollars. Hencs the Laird might have
spent S million dollars a year to main
tain his frugral household and have giv
en away 140 million dollars and still
have all his original fortune intact. —
Philadelphia Ledger.
Here's my guarantee—Go to any drug
store and get a 50 cent bottle of Dod
son's Liver Tone. Take a spoonful and
if it doesn't straighten you right up
and make you feel fine and vigorous I
want you to go back to the store and
get your money. Dodson's Liver Tone
is destroying the sale of calomel because
it is real liver medicine; entirely vege
table, therefore it can not salivate or
make you sick. '
I guarantee that one spoonful of Dod
son's Liver Tone will put your sluggish
liver to work and clean your bowels of
that sour bile and constipated waste
which is clogging your system and mak
ing you feel miserable. I guarantee that
a bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone will
keep your entire family feeling fine for
months. C Give it to your children. *■ It is
harmless; doean't-gripg and they like it*
pleaeant'tMtfi,
Seaboard Air Line Rail
way
"The Progressive Railway of the South," !
TRAINS LEAVE CHARLOTTE, EF
FECTIVE MAY 30, 1915.
EAST AND NORTH BOUND.
No. 14—5:05 A. M.—Through train for
Wilmington, with parlor car at
tached. Connecting at Hamlet
with train for Portsmouth, Nor
folk, Raleigh and all points
north. Also for all points south
and C. A. & W. for Charleston.
Dining car service, \estibule
coaches and sleeping cars to
Washington and New York,
connecting at Maxton for A. C,
L. points north.
No. 24—10:10 A. M.— For Raleigh
Weldon and all local points.
No. 20—5:05 P. M.—For Wilmington,
sleeper car passengers can stay
in all night at Wilmington.
This train connects at Hamlet
lor Savannah, Jacksonville and
all points south and north. Ar
riving Washington 7:10 a. m.,
New York 12:57 p. m,
No. 16—7:50 P ** —handles local sleep
ei Portsmouth-Norfolk, connect
ing at Monroe for Atlanta and
all poii ts south and southwest;al
so com ects at Monroe with fast
train or Norfolk. Richmond,
Waslii. gton and New York,
througi steel vestibule coaches,
Pull men electric lighted sleeping
cars to New York, dining cars
Richmond to New York.
W EST BOUND.
No. 15- 9:05 A. M.— Local for Ruther
ford ton, connecting at Bos tic
with C. C. & O. for all po ; nts on
that lire to Johnson City Tenn.
Connects at LincolntDn with C.
& N. W. for all points.
No. 31—3:25 P. M.—Local for Ruther
fordton, from Raleigh, and Wel
dou connecting at Lincoln ton
with C. & N.-W- for points on
that line.
James Ker. Jr., T. P. A.,
Charlotte, N. C'
J. T. West, D. P. A..
Raleigh,N. C.
To Drive Out Malaria
And Build Up The Systsm.
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
Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form.
The Quinine drives out malaria, the
Iron builds up the system. 50 cent*
©
Piedmont & Northern Rail
way Company
'The Electric Way" Between Char
lotte. and Gastonia.
Leave Charlotte
Independence Terminal Lv. Gastonia
8:00 A.M. 7:00 A.M.
10:00 " 9:00 u
12:00 " 11:00 "
2:00 P.M. 1:00 P.M.
4:00 " 3:00 "
5:00 " 5:00 "
fi:00 " 6:00 "
1:00 " 7:00 "
8:00 " 8:00 "
9:00 " 9:00 "
11:00 "• 10:45 "
Through connection at Gastonia
with the C. & N.-W. Ry., to and from
Chester, Yorkville, Lincolnton, New
ton. Hickory and Lenoir.
C. S. ALLEN, Traffic Manager.
Greenville, S. £>
Effective Sunday, May 16th 1915.
Chimney Rock
NORTH CAROLINA
Special Low Round Trip Rales via
Seaboard Air Line Railway, the most
BEAUTIFUL Mountain section of North
Carolina.
Ideal for a Summer Outing and easily
reached from Ruthcrfordton by the
Thermal Belt Auto Livery & Garage
Co., (Automobile Service.) GOOD
ROADS. July and, August the most
delightful months to spend in the Scenic
Mountains, Region of Western North
Carolina.
Call on your agent and ask for pictur
esque booklet free or apply to
H. E. PLEASANTS, T. P. A.,
Wilmington, N. C-
J AS. KER, Jr., T. P. A.,
c Charlotte, N. C.
J. T. WEST, D. P. A.,
Raleigh, N. $