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Booft the Fair NOV. 3-4-5, 1915 ESTABLISHED 1899 wy^' Democrat and Press ConaolM-' ,» PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICANS AGAINST STANDPATTERS Charge Borne Outfit Has Pipe Line to the Coffers of Wall Street. Washington, o>:t, 3.—Progres sive Republicans are trying to thwart the plans of the standpat element of the party to put up one of its favorite partisans.. Two organizations here are busy as bees lining up Republi cans. The Republican Publicity Committee, of which ex-Senator Bourne is chairman, with a large dough bag, well filled from nigh protected advocates, is stealthi ly telling the people in some States that the Democrats have crippled, the industries of the country. Progressive ReDublicans charge that the Bourne outfit has a pipe line to the coffers of Wall Street. The National Progressive Re piblican Union is trying to keep the Bull Moose party from slip ping boldly into the Republican camp. It is taking polls to show that Bull Moose sentiment is still living, Minnesota, which holds the first primary to choose delegates to the next national Republican convention, the union says, will instruct for a "progressive Re publican." A statement given out by the Union today says: "One thousandinquiries direct ed to a carefully selected list of Republicans in all sections of the State, indicates that Minnesota is still overwhelmingly progres sive, and that the bulk of those who voted the Third Party tick et three years ago are back fighting for progressive princi ples within the Republican party. "Of nearly 700 replies received 538 declare themselves progres sive Republicans standing for a liberal candidate and a liberal platform, Three hundred and fif teen of the 538 say they support ed Roosevelt in 1912, but that they have returned to the Repub lican party on the theory that by their aid the progressive forces will be strong enough to prevent another attempt to nominate a reactionary candidate on a boss built platform." The progressive Republicans of the West will vote for Presi dent Wilson when the time comes to defeat a man like Sen ator Weeks, who received but 11 of the straw ballots in Minne sota, ~H. E. C. Bryant in News & Observer. *.|. + + + + *** + + + + + + + + + + + + * + LOC4.L AND PERSONAL. + £ + .|..}. +4.+ +. r ++++++ +++ + * Mr. Macy Hight has accepted a position with Menzies Drug Company, succeeding Mr. Joe Aiken, resigned. Mr. K. C, Menzies, vice presi dent and cashier of the First Na tional Bank, spent several days in New York and Baltimore last week on business. Mr. H. H. Miller, ticket agent at the passenger depot, has re turned from a trip to the expo sitions in California. He reports a splendid tr'p, which was very enjoyable in every way. Mrs. F. H. Adden returned to Hickory Friday from Statesville here where she visited her moth er, Mrs. E. J. Sallie. She was accompanied home by Mrs. T. Fay White. Deeds Filed for Record. The following deeds were filed for record last week: H. L. Arndt to Great Falls Power Company, consideration $3,250,000. James E. Litten to Great Falls Power Company, consideration $1,428.60. S. D. and J. C. Campbell to W, S. Stroup, consideration, $300.00. wrss oia sores, utner Beomm Wan't Co* The worst cases, no matter of how long standing, are cured by the wonderful, old reliable im porter's Antiseptic Healing OiL It reHt*gi Ifts gad HeaJj at th« hoc tin?. THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT STUCK ON R AILROAD TRACK. Frank Bumgarner Had Hair-Raising Experience in Car. Newton, Oct. I.—Frank Bum garner, a Newton citizen who holds a position in Hickory as electrician, had a hair-raising experience last night while motoring home. His car hit the railroad crossing at Conover in such fashion as to skid it down the rails instead of across them, and it stuck fast 25 feet below the crossing; in the path of the freight moguls, and just then a freight train made known its departure clearly from the New ton station, no great distance from Conover. Unable to crauk his engine, Mr. Bumgarner sent out very effectively a series of "S. O. S." calls that brought Sheriff Isen hour and Dr. J. J. Stewart on the run, one thinking of bloody murder and the other of a surgi cal operation. Others foregath ered also. Meanwhile the freight was gathering speed. The crowd bent their shoulders to the machine and rolled it to safety, after which there was - a pleasant time had by all present—except the driver.of the car. The fees of the clerk's office for September slumped badly, reaching the lowest mark since the salary system came in, the amount being sll3 30. The reg ister, however, collected $184.30, so that the combined amount lack only $2 40 of paying the two salaries for the month. As a rule both offiices turn up a profit each month. Road-building continues with considerable progress in the township, although the $50,000 of bonds has been exhausted. The force, together with farm ers living along the line; is building the Sandy Ford road which will teach to the South Fork River giving a large and prosperous section of the county a good road to Newton. Farm ers are donating the topsoil need ed and furnishing rights of way free. It is considered one of the most important roads into town. I SOCIAL j Mrs. O. M. Royster is spending a month at ChaDel Hill. Miss Estelle Payne has gone to Bitthania, near Winston-Salem, where she will be u member of the faculty of the Bathania school having charge of the mu sic department. Thursday afternoon Mrs. T. L. Henkei was hostess to the Em broidery Club when a good num ber was present despite the downpour of rain. . Mrs. W. B. Wheeler was present the first time as a new member, Misses Bessie Killian and Maude Tate of Lenoir, were special guests. While others were busy with nee dle-work, Mrs. J. A. Moretz gave the reading for the afternoon, A "Sis Mirandy" story. Little Miss Lydia Hatfield also gave two delightful readings. After ad journment refreshments in two courses were served. Mrs. Joe Abernethy will have the next meeting October 14. Thursday afternoon Mrs. J. W. Elliott entertained the Thursday Study Club. Despite the inclem ency of the weather every mem ber except one was present in this, the first meeting of the year. The opening number on the study of Egypt was, ' Jhe Mysteries of the Nile" given by 1 Mrs, C. L. Mosteller. Mrs. W. H. Little then read from "Egypt" by Loti. The hostess added much 1 to the interest of the meeting by showing a necklace of Egyptian pearls and several handsome * rugs, one of which was a hand made prayer rug. After adjourn ment delicious sandwiches and coffee were served. Mrs. C. L. Mostellerjwill have the Club this ! week. HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1915 PLANS FOR FAIR ABOUT COMPLETED Rules and Regulations Govern ing Fair Here November 3,4 and 5. With the dates for the holding of the seventh annual fair here November 3. 4 and 5, fast ap proaching, interest is rapidly increasing in the event and weather permitting the fait this year will surpass any yet held. There will be aeroplane flights each day of the fair which will be a big attraction itself. As to other amusements the manage ment will have nothing but the ; very highest class. Nothing immoral or of a fake nature will be permitted. It is expected to have several short talks by prom inent men of the South, but en-1 gagements have not yet been closed. The speakers will be announced later. There will be reduced rates on all rail roads. The first day of the fair will be Home-Coming Day; second dav, Educational Day; third day, Live Stock Day. In the introductory to the premium list the management has the following to say: "In presenting our seventh an nual Premium List the manage ment is determinad to surpass all former successes and estab lish this year a high record in all that goe3 to make this fair the greatest of all strickly agricul tural faira held in North Caro lina. Believing that an agri cultural fair can be held without bringing in a crowd of fakirs and j what follows in their wake, we ! have determined to present to ! the people of Catawba and the' adjoining counties an agricultu-! ral fair in the true ser.se of the word. "On each day we expect to have with us some of the leading ngncultural men of the United States to mingle with us and help make our fair a success. No fake shows of any kind will be permitted and nothing will be left undone to add to the com- j fort and convenience of visitors and friends. "The Premium List has been entirely revised and liberal premiums offered along all iines. Especial attention is called to the premiums offered by the North Carolina Department of Agricultural for farm and live stock judging. "A Bureau of Information will be provided and a comforta ble waiting room for ladies. Nurses provided to take care of children and plenty of accommo dations for everybody." The books for entry in all de partments will be open at the office of the Secretary in this City from October 25 to and in cluding Wednesday, November 3, at 12 o'clok, at which time all entries close. Nothing will be accepted for entry after 12 o'clock on Wed nesday and cannot by any means compete for premiums. Remem ber this and have your articles entered in time. Exhibitors must have their respective exhibits in place and ready for the committee when they call to make their examina tions. Exhibits not in place and fully installed by 12 o'clock Wednes day November 3, will receive no attention whatever from the awarding committee of ex peits. ' Exhibitors must make them selves acquainted with the premium list and regulations and be sure to know to what department their exhibits be long. > Entry blank 3 will be mailed I upon request and can be had at any time at the Secretary's office. All entry cards must in all cases be attached to the exhibit, except in the cases of animals, I when the card must be placed conspicuously upon the stall or pen. These rules apply to all exhi ' bitors. Persons er.tering live stock to be exhibited in the show ring will be expected to have their stock ready when ordered and if not brought in promptly, be ex cluded from examination. No animal or article will be allowed to leave the ground until 3;30 o'clock Friday, November 5. this being the condition of the entry. Except horses may be driven home, if returned by 9:00 o'clock next morning. Transgression against this rule will incur the forfeiture of any premium awarded. All premiums will be ready by Saturday, November 13, at Sec retary's office. Unpaid premiums must be claimed before Decem ber 1,1915. The Association makes no charge for space for exhibition of agricultural products grown in North Carolina. No entrance fee is required in any department. Every reasonable effort will be made by the officers of the Asso ciation and those in charge to protect the property on exhibi tion from loss or damage, but the Association will not hold it self responsible should less or damage occur. Each department is under the special charge .of its director. He will furnish the arrangement of all articles offered for exhibi tion and have control of the space assigned to that depart ment. There will be a Bureau of Information where all ques tions will be cheerfully answer ed. Unless there are two or more entries of each class, first prize will be awarded and second Dremium paid; .except where specimen is deemed worthy of first premium by the judges. Premiums designated by rib rons, blue ribbon, first prize; red, second, and white, third. These ribbons will be attached only by the directors of each de partment atter the judges have made their awards. The Association reserves the right to use single or three judge system, or both, during the Fair of 1915. Special care will be taken to secure the best and most compe tent judge or judges for the va rious departments that can be had. Judges will be specially in structed not to award premiums to any animals, articles or classi fication because of its presence. It must be individually worthy and no premium shall be award ed for any animal or article that is not worthy. Judging in all department will begin Wednesday, Noyember 3, at 2 o'clock. Silver City Boys Play With Father's Gun; One is Killed. Silver City, Oct. 3,—Hobson, the 10-year-old son of S. J. Smith, was shot by his six-year old brother here last night about 8 o'clock, and died at 11. The boys were playing with their father's gun and in some way the little fellow pulled the trigger, discharging the entire load into the breast of the older boy. The father had been out hunting and coming into the nouse, laid his gun on the bed, forgetting to remove the shells. Damage In Nevada. Iralay, Ney., Oct. 3.—Earth quake shocks last night did»much damage for 100 miles along the Southern Pacific railway, it was learned today. Several railroad water tanks toppled from their high supports and one at Love lock crushed the end of a dwell ing. Walls of three brick build ings at Lovelock tfere cracked and at many places people fled from their homes in night cloth ing. I For croup or sore throat, use Dr. Thomas Eclectic Oil. Two sizes, 25c ' and 50c. At all drug stores. adv't. FOR STATE SYSTEM OF HOUSING COTTON Farmers' Union Will Launch Movement For Legisla tive Enactment. A movement for a State systpm of warehousing the cotton crop will be launched at the approaching conven tion of the Farmers' Union in Dur ham, according to leaders in the work of the union. This movement will have in view such legislation as will establish all over North Carolina warehouses under State supervision and control. The plan is to give the strength of the State's name to ware house receipts that ready money may be obtained at rood rates for the farmers of North Ca-ohna. According to the plans, it is the purpose that a Statewide law governing the style of warehouses and the me th ods of making them fire-proof and safe in every re *>ect will be adopted. For a warehouse to come under State sup ervision, for it to have the prestige of the State name and for its receipts to be backed by the State, it will be necessary for it to meet the provisions laid down by the law as it may be adopted. "South Carolina and Texas have adopted warehouse measures; Alabama has one in part, and the governor of Georgia in his call for a special session of the legislature, has mentioned this as one of the greatest needs of the South.'' said Dr. Clarence Poe, editor of the Progressive Farmer, discussing the general cotton situation. "I be lieve that the depression which the cot ton markets have experienced and the great loss which has come to the f?rm ers of the State by reason of the low price of cotton, will be more than re gained by the establishment of cotton wrrehouses over the South. It is a wise measure and one which the farm ers of the South are driven to, by busi ness depression." Dr. Poe, looking at the present sit uation in every light, believes that the cotton market will remain steady about 12 cents. "I am printing a letter in the Pro - gressive Farmer this week,'' said Dr. Poe. ''from the chief of the division of m?rkets of South Carolina, in which he takes me to task for advising farmers to hold their cotton for a 12-cent m?r ket. He says I ought to haye advised them to hold for 15 cents." —News & Observer. I LOCAL ITEMS SK:WCKKHKHKKKHKK>HKH>OHKH>a The Hickory Banking & Trust company has installed a Bur roughs electric bookkeeping ma chine which is calculated to sim plify banking and add to the effi ciency of the bookkeeping depart ment, The machine is a wonder and the bank is asking its pat rons to call and see the machine at work. The management of this bank are ever ready to give their customers the best of ser vice and spaTe no effort to bring this about. Rev, W. E. Murray, the new pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, and wife and daughter, arrived in the city last week from Rochester, N. Y,, where Mr. Mur ray was pastor of St. Paul's Church of that place for over five years, resigning to accept the H'.ickory, call. Mr. Murray preached two splendid sermons at Holy Trinity Sunday and de lighted his hearers. The Demo crat extends a cordial welcome to good people. Mrs. C. C. Bost returned last week from Hagerstown, Md., where sne attended the annual meeting of the Women's Mission ary Society of the Potomac Synod. She inyited that body to meet in Hickory next year and the invi tation was unanimously accepted, The society will meet here in September, Rally Day services were held at the First Methodist Church Sunday. There were 576 present at Sunday School and the regular preaching service was turned over to the children who render ed an especially good program consisting of readings, songs and recitations, with a short talk by Pastor Stanford, NINE ENTOMBED MEN ARE RESCUED ALIVE Rescue Accomplished After Six Days' Battle Against Dis couraging) Conditions. Lansford, Pa., Oct. 3.—Nine mine workers entombed in the Foster Creek tunnel at Coaldale Monday were taken out alive this afternoon. They were found on top of a chute in which they had crawled to escape a flood of wat er that had broken from an aban doned working and caused more than 300 feet of gangwayiroof to fall, shutting off means |of fes cape. The men arelin the hospi tal at Coaldale and reports to night hold promise that all will recover. None of them, however, was in condition to tell of the harrowing experience. The rescue was accomplished after 200 mine workers and com pany officials had battled for six days against discouraging condi tions in the choked up gangway, The Land We Love Best. Wish not for a home in the trop ical ceime3, Nor covet a ranch in the West; For there's to be found the best at all times, In the South, the land we love best. Wish not for a home with the white polar bear In the land of the bleak North coast; The happiest place is the South so fair, The Southland, the land we love most. And wherever you go in search of a home- To the North, South, East or the West— You'll always find wherever you roam, Of them all the Old North State is best. RICHARD BOYD, Hickory, N. C. Horse Fair at Circus. Your visit to the Robinson Fa mous Circus, Thursday afternoon and evening, October 14, will not be complete without a tour of the colossal canvas equerry, even though you are not a lover and admirer of blooded stock, it is claimed you will-find an hour of genuine pleasure and much to interest you inspecting the droves of horses and ponies. For the last year agents have been in the different parts of the world making purchases for this department, with a result that today that Robinson Famous , Shows possess one of the larg est, most varied and costly col lectionsofrepresentativemembers of the equine family which wealth can procure, and it is j doubtful if anywhere near the like has ever been exhibited be fore. Certainly never by and traveling shows. Ladies and children are par particularly invited to visit this horse fair, which all may safely do without escort, as uniformed and courteous attendant are al ways present to look after the welfare of callers. An Apple-Gatherer. The wind is picking apples fast, and tossing them all round; He does not pile them up in heaps, but spreads them on the ground. He does not harvest them with care; his handling in quite rough, And often he will throw them down before they're ripe enough. But then—he he has no hands to use; all he does is to blow, And just the time when they are ripe how can he hope to know? The wind is picking apples now —your pails and baskets bring. They're only windfalls—but for us they're just the very thing! —A, W, McCullough. Dollar Day OCTOBER 7, 1915 New Series Vol. I. No. 35 BIDS RECEIVED FOR, 16 U.S. SUBMARINES New iJnderwater Craft For Navy Will Be of Mo£ Mod ern Ccnftrudtinn. Washington, Sept. 30,—Bids for building sixteen submarines authorized by the last Congress were opened today; the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, and the Electric Torpedo Boat Com pany, Quincy, Mass.; submitted the lowest offers for the Pa cific and Atlantic coasts, respec tively. The San Francisco concern bid for fiye or more at $510,000 each, the first to be completed in twelve months and two each month thereafter. The Massa chusetts company bid for eight or more at $523,000, the first to be completed within seventeen months. The Newport News Shipbuild ing Company, Newport News, Va., and the New York Ship building Company; Camden, N. J., which havo built many large ships for the navy, make their first appearance as bidders for submarines. The bid of the Newport News company was $550,000 each, for two yessells. Secretary Daniels delayed open ing the bids for several weeks to permit these companies, which had just obtained construction rights, to submit their figures. Other bidders were the Lake Torpedo Boat Company, Sloan- Danehower & Co., New York, and the California Ship building Company, Long Beach, Cal, The sixteen submarines are to be of a coast defense type, dis placing from 450 to 500 ton s each. They will measure less than 200 feet in length, will have a speed 14 knots on the sur face and 11 knots sub merged. Each will carry a 3-inch gun. Man, 67, Returns After 40 years; Weds Girl, 27. Newton, Sept. 30.—A bit of romance touched the marriage this morning in Asheville of Miss Junie Dellingerof this place and John Kistler of Whitehead, 111.: who met in the mountain city and immediately following the ceremony, left for White head, where they will live. Mr. Kistler paid a visit to the county last vear, and met Miss Dellin ger here. Their acquaintance ripened and since then through the medium of the mails they decided to marry. The groom is 67 years old. Forty years ago, them a youth of 27, he had a fight in Lincolntcn and hit his man on the head so hard that he feared he had killed him, and went west to grow up with the country. Fortunately the man recovered. But Mr. Kistler didn't come back. He married and settled down and is worth property., For many years he ha 3 been a wid ower. The bride is very popular among a wide circle of friends. She is a daughter of the late Pinkney Dellinger and has been making her home with her sis ter, Mrs. A, O, Yount, of this place. The affair was kept se cret until she left on the early train this morning and came as a surprise to the town. Another Man Inoculated. J. E. Holler spent several days last week in Hickory. During his stay in Hickory he visited the uatawba Creamery and says jhe found it a most interesting ! enterprise. He is anxious to | see a creameiy plant estab | lisbed here as he is confident it would be a great help to the farmers and would mean much to the county.—Marion Pro gress. The date Robinson's circus will show here is Thursday, October 14, instead of Friday, October 15, as announced in last week's issue.
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