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' TRfIIWING CONFERENCE
\ t Lenoir College Embracing
September 18, 19 and
20, 1915.
At the time and place desig
nated above, Dr. E.C. Cronk,
general secretary of Lutheran
Laymen's movement of the
South will conduct a Missionary
Tuning Conference for all in
terested Lutherans of Catawba
county. Dr. Cronk is to be
| assisted bv Dr. Holland of the
foreign Mission Board. Dr. Pat
terson of the Home Mission
Board. Dr. G. B. Cromer of the
I hymen's movement in the
' ftuth and Mrs, Cronk.
The program is to be as fol
lows:
Saturday September 18, 10 a.
m.— Conference of all church of
ficers.
Saturday, 7:30 p. ra lllustr
ated Lecture, "The Child Life of
the World."
Sunday, 10 a. m.—Addresses
on life work to the various Sun
day Schools.
Sunday, 11 a. m.—Missionary
sermons in the various
churches.
Sunday; 3:30 p. m.—Home
Mission exercise by the young
people,
Sunday, 7;30 p, m, —Mass meet
in? with several addresses in
Holy Trinity church.
Monday, 10 a. m.—Construc
tive Conference on Missionary
methods.
Monday, 2;30 p: m. —Con-
structive Conference on Steward
ship and church finance.
Monday, 7:30 p. m.—Mass
meeting with several ad
dresses.
All except where
specially designated,.to be held in
college auditorium.
Remember the special meeting
for the officers, missionary com
mittees as well as all interested
Christian Missions seould make
a special effort to attend. Let
everybody come.
A cordial invitation is extend
ed to all to worship at St An
drew's both Sunday morning at
11 and Sunday evening at 7:30.
Southern Railway Company An
nounces Changes.
Of much interest to the travel
ing public is the announcement
that new and improved service
between New York, Washington,
A3heville and Augusta will be
come effective the third of next
month. Running between New
York and Augusta, Southern
passenger trains Nos. 31 and 32
will connect with trains between
Abbeville and Salisbury and will
be of much convenience to visi
tors, desiring to come to the Land
of the Sky from eastern and
■ southern points.
Both Asheville sleeping cars
are to be handled on Nos. 31 and
32 between Washington and
Salisbury and Nos. 15 and 12 be
tween Salisbury and Asheville.
A cafe car is authorized for No.
15 and No. 12 between Salisbury
and Asheville. The Washing
tDn-Asheville sleeping car and
the New York-Augusta sleeping
car are to be taken off No. 29
ani No. 30 as they are to be
handled on No. 31 and No. 32.
No. 11 and No. 16 are to be coach
trains between Salisbury and
Asheville. The Norfolk-Ashe
ville sleeping car is to be
changed to the Norfolk-Charlotte
line,
Effective on the date named,
it is announced, breakfast stops
at Hickory by train No. 15 will
be discontinued in that the cafe
car is to be put on this train.
—Asheville Citizen.
The government of the United
States has asked Vienna to recall
Mr. Constantin Dumba, the
Austrian ambassador to this
country. lie is charged with
outlining Dlans to his goyernment
with the view of inciting labor
strikes in the big munition fac
tories.
THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
Own Daughter's Uncle and Aunt.
Mr. A has a son, B. Mrs. C
has a daughter D. Mr. A mar
ries Mrs. C. To them is born a
son, A. His son B marries her
daughter, D. To them is born a
daughter, F.
What akin are they to each
other?
A and C are husband and wife,
father and mother of B, D. and
E, and grandfather and mother
ofF.
B and D. are husband and
wife, and bv marriage, brother
and sister. As;such, they are
uncle and aunt to their own
daughter, F. And F is niece
of C.
There is a family like this, in
this, Hickory township.
i
Foremost Military
Figure in Russia is
Ousted by Czar
Grand Duke Nicholas has been
transferred to the Caucasus by
Emperor Nicholas*.
The emperor took this action
on assuming command of the
military and naval forces of Rus
sia.
In transferring the grand duke
he appointed him viceroy of the
Caucasus and commander-in
chief of the army on the southern
front.
The transfer was made in
connection with a general reor
ganization of such importance
that it has stirred Russia deeply.
The grand duke replaces the
famous viceroy of the Caucasus,
Count Von Vorontzoff-Dashkoff,
Emperor Nicholas addressed to
the count a communication ac
knowledging the values of his
labors and stating that he ''yields
to his request to be permitted to
devote his energies to work for
which his state of health is more
equal."
The emperor attaches him to
his personal staff.
The text of the order issued
bv Grand Duke Nicholas trans
ferred command of the Russian
armies to the emperor is for
warded by the Petrograd corres
pondent of the Havas News
agency as follows:
"Valiant Army and Fleet:
"Today your august supreme
chief, his majesty, the emperor,
places himself at your head, I
bow before your heroism of more
than a year and express to you
my cordial, warm and sincere
appreciation.
I believe steadfastly that be
cause the emperor himself, to
whom you have taken your oath,
conducts you, >ou will display
achievement hitherto unknown.
I believe that God from this day
will accord to His elect His all
powerful aid and will bring to
Him victory.
Paint or Not.
Is a horse worth more or less
after feedl
Hay and oats are high today;
shall I wait today and feed him
tomorrow?
That's how men do about
painting their houses and barns
and fences. Paint has been
high for several years and so
they have waited. Some are
still waiting.
Their property drops a trifle
a year and the next job of paint
creeps-up creeps-up creeps-up;
it'll take more paint by a gallon
a year; they don't save a cent,
and the property goes on suffer
ing.
DEVOE
F. B. Ingold seils it.
"No wife," said Judge CHne,
"ought ever to leave her husband
and home fcr more than a day or
two at a time. This very thing is
oftentimes the cause of dissatis
faction and disrupted homes.
The wife goes to visit her people
and prolongs her stay and in one
way or another the ground is
fallowed for trouble." Personally
we thak the judge for this learn
ed decision. —Yanceyville Senti
nel,
TO ORGANIZE FOR AN
ELLEN WILSON WEMOBIAL
Mrs. R. J. Reynolds Heads Wo
men's Movement in North
Carolina.
Mrs. R. J. Reynold?, State
President for North Carolina of
the Ellen Wilson Memorial, is
making plans for the organiza
tion of committees of leading
women of the State for the pur
pose of raising funds for the
permanent memorial to the wife
of President Wilson. It is hoped
to have the movement indorsed
by the State Federation of Wo
men's Clubs, the Daughters of
the American Revolution, the
United Daughters of the Confed
eracy, the Colonial Dames,
Church Societies, and otner
social and patriotic orders cf
women, as well as by individuals,
and not only their indorsement,
but their active co-operation in
the movement,
The movement of the memorial,
although it originated in the
South, is national in its scope,
and it is expected that before
long women all over the country
will be working for it, and will
make it one of the greatest en
terprises of the sort ever under
taken by the women of this
country.
When the matter of a memo
rial to Mrs. Wilson was laid be
fore the President last summer
Mrs. B. I. Hughes, of Rome,
Ga„ suggesting that Mr. Wilson
advise the form the memorial
should take, he wrote expressing
his appreciation and stating;
"My own judgement would be
that it would be best to raise a
fund which should be an endow
ment, the interest of which
should be used to pay the way
through-school of mountain boys
and girls, because I know this is
what Mrs. Wilson would have
done if she had had the means
and opportunity. She,was pay
ing for the education of several
herself from year to year. It
might be called the Ellen Wilson
Fund for the Christian Educa
tion of Mountain Youth."
The idea has become very pop
ular throughout the South, and
there have been a number of
large contribotions to the memo
rial.
The memorial has joined the
National Federation of Women's
Clubs, which formally indorses
the project, and it will also prob
ably be indorsed by the national
organizations of the leading
bodies of women in the country.
After the assembling of Con
gress in the fall a conference
will be held in Washington. At
this conference it is exDected
plans will be made for an active
national campaign in the interest
of the memorial
No definite amount has been
set for the memorial fund, but it
is expected that it will amount
to a very large sum.
Each State is expected to
finance its own campaign, and
each will provide a contingent
fund, by dues of otherwise, to
defray the expenses of sending
out literature, notices of meet
ings and other thines that have
to be done in connection with its
campaign.
In appealing for gifts to the
fund itself it will be made very
plain that the entire amount will
be invested intact, in fact,
the charter provides that it shall
be.
Items of News.
September 8 and 9 witnessfd
an attack on London by hostile
aircraft, the first since the war
began, thus bringing the war clo?
ser to the English people than
ever before. Several people were
killed.
Germany has officially express
ed her regret to the United
States for the sinking of the
steamer Arabic. Tne German
submarine commander was made
to believe that the ship intended
to ram his vessel and on this
supposition fired a torpedo.
HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1915
PERSONAL MENTION
AND LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Social Matters and Other Items
of Special Interest to Our
Many Readers.
Mr. H, H. Lowry of Newton,
was a Hickory visitor Fri
day.
Rev. C. L. Crane is conduct
ing%services at Red House, near
Milton, N.C.
•
Mr. R. P. Wagner left Sunday
for Athens, Tenn., on a business
trip.
Rev. W. G. Moore of Reading,
Pa., was in the city last Wednes
day.
Miss Jean Rich has returned
to her home in Mooresville; after
a visit to friends in this city,
Mr. J. M. Campbell left Mon
day for Port Deposit, Md,, on
business, where be will be until
December 25.
Misses Sadie Menzies, Millie
Kate McComb and Greta Wezen
left Monday for Red Springs In
stitute.
Mrs, W. H. Rankin and small
daughter, of Winston-Salem, are
the guests of Mrs. Rankin's par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Riddle.
Mrs, J. L. Smith has returned
to her home in Gastonia, after
spending some time with her
daughter ,£Mrs, Lewis Gwin.
Mrs. A. Graves Thompson of
Reidsville, has returned to her
home after spending some time
here with her uncle, Mr. E. V.
Morton,
Misses Amelia and Lizzie Mc-
Comb have returned home after
spending the summer at Mon
treal Their many friends are
glad to see them home again.
Messrs C. A. Mo3er and West
on Clinard haye returned home
from City Point, Va., where they
have been with, the DuPont Pow
der Co. Mr. Moser informs us it
was impossible to get a house
there and therefore he gave up
his job.
A motor party en route to
Blowing Rock, consisting of
Misses Myrtle and Lyda Titman
and Mrs. Dr, Reid of Lowell,
and Dr. Hoffman of Mt. Holly,
stopped over with friends in
this city Saturday and Sun
day.
Mr. G. S. Watson proprietor of
the Hickory Garage, went to
Charlotte last Friday and closed
a deal for the Burke county
agency for the Ford automobile.
This gives the Hickory Garage
a good territory to do business.
Those who live in Burke can buy
a car now from the Hickory
Garage at Hickory.
Mis 3 Fioster Mary Brooks and
Mr. R. L. Pinson were. united
in marriage September 7, at the
residence of the brides father,
Mr. L. C. Brooks. Rev. J. O.
Cook performed the ceremony.
They will make their home in
Greenville, S, C. The bride has
many warm friends here, and
the groom is a prosperous young
business man of Greenville,
S. C. The Democrat extends
best wishes for a happy proper
ous life.
Esq. S. E. Killian celebrated
his seventy-second birthday last
Thursday. There were thirty
eight children, grenchildren
and invited friends present.
Dinner was spread upon an im
provised table on the lawn and a
sumptuous feast was partaken
of by all present. The day was
a happy one for everybody there,
but none were in better spirits
than Mr, Killian who is a man
that loves his children and is
never more happy th an when
they are all gathered together
with him. All his children and
all his grandchildren with but one
or two exceptions were present.
For 12 years with the exception
of one year, these b»rthday cele
brations of family reunions have
been held at Mr. Killian's.
Invigorating to the Pale and* Sickly
The Old Standard general •trensrthenin* tonic,
GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drive* out
Malaria.enrichet the blood.»udbulW» up the Mr*
tern, A true i«oiv. tw adults aad cbttorca. w
FIGHTS 60 POLICEMEN
FOR OVER SIX HOURS
Young Foreigner Battles Officers
Until Dawn, Then Com
mits Suicide.
Saa Frai cisco, Sept 12—A six
hour battle between 60 policemen
and George Nelson, a foreigner
25 years old, wanted for com
plicity in the robbery of a Los
Angeles bank, ended at dawn
day when Nelson's bullet riddled
body was found stretched on a
cot in a rooming house. He had
ended his life by sending a bul
let through his head.
The police conducted the bat
tle from an upper window of the
residence of Bishop Edwin H.
Hughes, of the Methodist Epis
copal church, across the street,
from adjacent windows and
house tops. A powerful
searchlight was placed in the
window of another nearby dwell
ing.
The rooming house is in a
populous section and thousands of
speculators watched the battle.
Policeman Peter Hammond was
shot through the arms and legs
by Nelson, and Hugh Mcßeth,
a lodger in the same building as
Nelson, was possibly fatally
wounded. Hardly a square inch
of Nelson's room escaped the
raking fire.
With the coming of daylight,
the officers entered the building
and burst Melson's door. He
had been dead more than two
hours. Three automatic revol
vers and some ammunition lay
on the table near the body.
There was a bad wound near
Nelsons right elbow and the
police believe his intense suffer
ings, combined with the know
ledge that daylight would result
in his capture caused him to kill
himself.
Horse-Meat Butcher Shops in Eng
land.
The colonization of groups of
Belgian refugees in various parts
of England has brought with it
the butcher shops for the sale of
horse meat. The horse-butcher
has hitherto been almost un
known in England, except in a
few of the poorer quarters of
London.
Three horse-meat shops have
just been opened in Glasgow.
Steaks are sold at 10 to 12 cents
a pound, and sausages at 10
cents a pound, pickled and smoke d
cuts are 14 cents. A Belgian
butcher shop at Stirling will give
away several cart loads of horse
meat to the English people of the
town in the hope of popular
izing their goods among a wider
class.
There are probably 20 horse
butcher shops in London. Under
the law, it is legal for any butch
er to sell horse meat provided
that a permament notice is ex
hibited at the front of the shop
to that effect, and provided also
that the customers ask for or are
informed that they are receiving
such meat.
Proving the Pudding in Catawba.
A thousand co-operating farm
ers in Catawba did a $245,505
business in cream, butter, poul
try and eRgB during the year
ending the first of last June.
The year's sale of eggs was
228,700 dozen, and the butter
business amounting to nearly
600,000 pounds.
They started this business five
years ago with a capital of only
$1,500,
Last season 150 farmers in
Catawba sold 23 ear loads of
sweet potatoes and received $2.67
per crate clear of all expenses.
The association charged its
members SI.OO membership fee
and 10 cents Der crate, plus 10
cents more per 100 pounds for
handling.
The unorganized are always at
the mercy of organized big
business.—University News Let
ter.
Items of Interest.
Fearing the pest which de
stroys the mulberry tree, thereby
menacing the silk industry,
France has prohibited the impor
tation of cut flowers from Italy
between May 1 and November 1
each year.
Although the lot of Kopts. or
Christian Egyptians, kas hither
to been harder than that of the
Mohammedans, 170,867 Bibles
were sold in that country last
year. Bulgaria bought 18,000
and Asiatic Turkey 52,000.
Goggles for the eyes and a pro
tective arrangement for the spine
are used by the white troops
fighting near the Persian gulf to
shield them from the intense sun
light. His backbone is, of course,
the soldier's greatest asset.
Battleship Cali
fornia's Keel to
Start Oct. 14.
Secretary Daniels has announ
ced that the keel of the battle
ship California would be laid
at the Philadelphia Navy Yard
October 14.
The new battleship California
will be the world's first electric
dreadnaught and from point of
size will be greater than ary
foreign battleship built of builc
ing, The California and her
two sister ships, the Mississippi
and the Idaho, already authori
zed, will each displace 32,000
tons, almost one thousand tons
more than the new dreadnaught
Pennsylvania now on the way to
completion.
The California will be a ship
of innovations. She will cost
$7,800,000 without her armor or
armament, which is expected to
cost as much more. She will
have a speed of twenty-one
knots an hour, will be 524 feet
long, 97 feet across her beams
and will draw 30 feet of water.
She will carry twelve fourteen
inch guns, mounted three abreast
in a turret, twenty-two five-inch
rapid fire guns and will
have four submurged torpedo
tubes.
The principal feature of the
new'dreadnaught, however islthe
machinery for propelling her bv
electricity. She will be driven
by motors which will deliver
electricity made by steam. The
navy experts the electric
installation is cheaper than
steam propulsion and reduces
the weight of the machinery.
The collier Jupitor has been so
successful with electric ma
chinery that the navy feels jus
tified in adapting it to a dread
naught.
Outwardly, the California will
bring a drastic change of line
and appearance to the battle
fleet. Instead of the blunt gray
nose of the present-day big
fighter, her bows will be tapered
into a graceful yach-like stem
much like those of the famous
clipper sailing ships that carried
the American flag at the head of
the world's swiftest c.'aft in the
40's and 50'j. It will be the
first time sinae the steel ships
replaced the old frigates and
ships of the line that clipper
stems have been in the fleet. Her (
overhanging bow will project
more than twenty feet beyond
her cutwater, and will give place
for three anchors instead of two
as on the present ships. The
third will hang piumb over the
stem. The new bow will make
fir keeping the California a dry
ship, as the sailors sav, keep
ing her foredock free of water
in all but the heaviest weather,
the fine underwater lines of the
other ships which make for
speed have been carried above
the water-line on the California,
and her bows will be flared near
the deck line, so when she does
not cut through a wave she will
lift her head over it.
The model of the . California's
hull was thoroughly tested in
the testing tank at the navy
yard before the radical changes
were decided upon. When the
new ship i 3 ready for her first
trial trip late in 1917 or 1918, she
promises a most interesting
study for the naval experts of
the world. **
The Democrat Leads
in News & Circulation
New Series Vol. I, No. 32
WANT PEACE WARRANT
AGAINST MM SPELLS
Lenoir County Man Thinks He
Has Been "Conjured" by
A Neighbor.
A peace warrant has been served on
Aretus Worley, of the southern part of
Lenoir county, for the most unusual
reason that one was ever drawn —to
prevent him from workin an alleged
"spell'' upon Anthony Davis, a
neighbor, Davis and a relative,
Dora Hill, were the complainant. Ac
i cording to the story told, gross igno
rance and superstitious caused the sum
moning of Worly, who is prominet man
in his neighborhood, to appear before
a magistrate the latter part of ne*t
week to see if bond shall be requir
ed of him to prevent him from carrying
out an alleged threat to take Davis' life.
•It is reputed that Worley, working aft
er the manner of "conjure doctors,"
employed a most fantastic scheme to
put the "spell" into operation. He
drew with a crayon, or brush, a pic
ture of Davis on a tree. He made a
fire of a dozen kinds of woods and
herbs before the tree. Then, it is
said, he shot at the picture, the
missle, supposedly of silver passing
hrough the smoke from the magic
fire and lodging in one of the arms
of the crude portrait, The picture
represented Davis, it is said. Now Da
vis has a sore on his arm. It is on
a spot that corresponds in location
identically with the wound that Wor
ley made on the picture. Davis is
confident that unless something hap
pens to break the spell he will die.
The sheriff himself served the warrant
on Worley, who declares there was
nothing to the accusation. Davis told
officers that the method used by
Worley is a sure one as employed by
negro practitioners of "conjuring."
For instance, people are known to
have become affected from the spell
and die from mysterious painlesa
wounds.
The Public Health Nurse.
"To my mind the public health
nurse is about the most import
ant factor in public health work
just at this time/' said a visitor
from another town recently. "Of
course the health officer is neces
sary," he continued, "but when
it comes to help—real health ser
vice—the visiting nurse is the
one in demand."
Said he: *'l don't see how we
could do without the nurse in our
town. She is doing more to in
struct not only the patients them
selves but*whole families how to
live careful and healthful lives
and Bh3's been a Godsend to mo
thers with young babies. Her
daily or weekly visits in the pla
ces where she is needed most are
much appreciated, because she
carries both sunshine and helpful
instructions. The little things
she says and does, that the doc
tor cannot do, they are the things
that count most with the sick and
helpless. She leaves them not
onlv more hopeful but selfhelp
ful.
''l believe every town with at
least 5,000 people should employ
a visiting nurse. What a nurse
would save in the keeping down
of tuberculosis alone to say noth
ing of the baby lives and others
that she would be instrumental
in saving, would justify her sal
ary. Then there's her work in
connection with the school.
Wherever the Echool nurse has
been employed, especially in the
schools having medical inspection
for school children, she has been
found indispensable. It will not
be long before all the towns of
any size will be employing these
needy missionaries."
A steel and concrete campan
ile, 302 feet high, being erected
at the University of California in
memory of one of the founders
of the institution, will be the
highest memorial tower in the
United States, except the Wash
ington monument.
?c* aay pain, burn, sc aid or bruise
apply Dr. Thomas' Eclectic Oil—the
household remedy. Two sizes 25c ao4
SOc at all drug stores*