LOCAL AND TEUSOXAL.
. Mr. G. Shnford Abcruetby, of
iMdgewater, was here, on a -visit
to friends this week,
x Born to Mr and Mrs. L. C.
Link last Sunday, a son. Later
the babe died a few hours after
birth.
we nave had a little touch of
winter, the temperature ran down
to 29 degrees Saturday night with
killing frosta and a little ice.
The dedication services at Lower
Creek church were largely attended
last Sunday. Many persons were
unable to get into the church and
had to turn away.
Bernhardt-Seagle Hardware &
Furniture Co. have employed Mr.
W. M."Weir to travel for them.
He will work in several adjoining
counties at present.
Miss Annie Sudderth, of Sewa
nee, Ga., has been visiting relatives
in the vicinity of Gamewell for
several weeks and will return
home next Thursday. .
We call especial attention to the
new advertisements of Bank of
Lendir, BernhardtSeagle Hdw.
. Co., Price-Cline Harness Co., and
Booth Lowrey in this issue.
Mr. W. J. Hartley passed
through Lenoir yesterday with
his family on his way to Bed
Springs, where he will work for
Rev. C. G. Yardell in the dairy
business.
Mr. T. F. Shuford and wife and
daughter, of Catawba, visited Mr.
J. M. Howe last week. Mr. Shn
ford is preparing to move to Mis
sissippi to live and came up to
visit his son-in-law before going.
Dr. McNairy tells us that the
bulk of the funds he started out
to raise for the Hospital, is in
sight, but the subscription list is
still open and he hopes others will
subscribe to this worthy under
taking. Booth Lowrey, the impersonator
is billed for the Graded School
Auditorium on Wednesday night,
October 23rd. Mr. Lowrey conies
well recommended and highly en
endorsed and is no doubt a tine
entertainer.
Mr. J. P. Rose arrived from
Durham Monday to visit home
folks here. He will go to Lenoir
Monday to take charge of a skat
iug rink there. Mr. Rose had
charge of the opera house rink
last season. Landmark.
Miss Fannie Martin, daughter
of Mr. J. E. Martin, of this place,
who has been suffering with an
attack of typhoid fever, is reported
in a serious condition. The family
and friends are very apprehensive
as to the outcome of her illness.
We understand that the buck
wheat crop in the mountain coun
, ties is unusually good tis season,
which indicates that buckwheat
cakes will be in reach of even a
poor editor this winter, if 27 cents
butter don't make the lubrication
too rich for his blood.
The season for hunting birds is
now nearly at hand and we un
derstand that the birds are quite
plentiful in some localities. In
this connection we will say to our
farmer friends and others who
wish to post their land that we
have a supply of land posters on
hand cheap at this office.
Some young men in Lenoir are
making arragements to open a
gents furnishing and clothing es
tablishment. The composition of
the firm is not yet ready for pub
lication, but the room recently va
cated by the Lenoir Topi in the
Shell building, has been rented
and the firm will probably begin
business about January 1st.
There was an cnthuastic meet
ing held in Boone on 7th in the
interest of a railroad through Wa
tauga. A resolution was passed
asking the county commissioners
to order an election on a bond is
sue to aid in the construction of
both the roads now contemplated,
the narrow guage from Mountain
City and the proposed line from
Lenoir. This begins to look like
Watauga may get two roads in the
near future.
Old Time Singing.
There. will be an old time sing
ing at Piney Grovo church on
Sunday November 3rd. ft will
be an all day exercise and every
body is Invited to attend and take
part. Bring a well filled dinner
basket and have a good time.
The pain in Ma't head has gone,
Sbe'i ai happy atf c&ube,
Her health is right, her temper bright
Since taking Holllatert Rooky
Mountain Tea at night. Dr.
Kent and Granite Falls D. Co.
Boys School.
Mr. O. M. Moore, of Blacks
burg, S. C, was here last week in
the interest of establishing a boys
school. He met with much en
couragement and will be back here
again this week, probably tomor
row, to begin teaching. Any one
interested can call on Rev. D. P.
MfGeachyor write Prof. O. M.
Moore, Lenoir, X. C.
Stomach troubles, Heart and Kid
nev ailments, can be nnfoklv nr.
rected with a prescription known to
druggists everywhere as Dr. Snoop's
Restorative. The prompt and sur
prising relief which this remedy ini-
niediatelv hrincn in anflrslv Hna tn
its Restorative action upon the con
trolling nerves of the Stomach, etc.
J. E. Shell's Dmtf Store
Safe Blowing.
We learn that robbers entered
the office of M. B. Starnes and the
postoffice at Granite Fall's last
Saturday night and blew open
safes in both places. They secured
about 1600 from Mr. Starnes' and
about $160 from' the postoffice.
There was no disturbance of any
kind and the robberies were not
known until the people of the vil
lage got up on Sunday morning.
There is no clue whatever to who
committed the robberies, as far as
we have been able to ascertain.
Afflicted with Sore Eyes for ill! Yearn.
I have been afflicted with sore even
for thirty-three years. Thirteen
years aj?o I became totally blind and
was blind for six years. My eyes
were badly Inflamed. One of my
neighbors insisted upon my trying
Chamberlain's Halve and 'gave me
half a box of it. To my surprise it
healed my eyes and mv sight came
back to me. 1. C. Karls, Cythiaim,
Ky. Chamberlain's Salve is for sale
by J. K. Shell, Dr. Kent and Gran
ite Falls Drug Cor
Henkel Opera Building.
The Henkel Live Stock Co. is
just finishing one of the handsom
est and most convenient buildings
to be found in the part of the
country. The first iloor or base
ment is conveniently arranged to
stables and accommodate the large
number of horses the firm is at
times called upon to handle and
stable. Theground floor is arranged
with plate glass front for the ac
commodation and display of the
largo line of vehicles the linn car
lies. In the rear of this splendid
room is u broad stairway leading
up to the offices which occupy a
largo gallery extending clear
across the rear of the building.
This office is particularly well ven
tilated and lighted by large plate
glass windows, with northern ex
posure. The open space between
the office and main vehicle room
will be filled with eliding glass
windows, so that the whole lower
iloor or vehicle room may be seen
from the office. The third or toD
floor is arranged for an opera
house. A large stage, with 26
foot opening is built accross the
rear of the building and this will
be supplied with an attractive and
modern equipment of curtains and
sliding screens and ample dressing
rooms. The floor is double and
laid in hard-wood and the room
will be fitted with folding chairs
and will accommodate 1000 to 1200
people. The building is finished
throughout with ornamental steel
ceiling and native pise oiled. The
building is amply supplied with
electric lights and all in all would
do credit to a city of 50,000 iuhab
ltants. A skating rink will pro
bably be opened there in a few
days and later some first class
plays may bo expected.
Riches may be the root of all
evil, but you can grow other things
on that wealth tree.
Lawyer Griffin Shot.
Catawba County News.
Mr, F. F. Griffin, attoniey-at-
law, was shot In the right leg by
Mr. Charlie Johnson, late Tucs
day afternoon, the shooting, it is
reported, being accidental. As
near as can bo learned. Messrs.
Griffin and Johnson' were lust
about to start on a drive to the
country. Johnson had a pistol in
his had. Griffin demonstrated
with him for having it and a scuf
fle to gain possession of the wea
pon ensued, during the course of
which it was accidentally dis
charged, the bullet entering Grif
fin's leg. The shooting occurred
injthe Adams Drug Company's
Do ray gtore. Griffin was brought
down town and physicians probed
for the bullet but were unable to
extract it. He was removed to hid
home where ke is confined to tiis
bed. The wound is not thought
to be serious and, unless complica
tions arise, will probably heal up
in a short time. There have been
no arrests in connection with the
affair.
To check a cold nnlp.klv
your druggist some little Cand
xaoieiscanearreventlcs. v
everywhere are now disrn
ventics, for they are not on
but decidedly certain nr1 i
Preventics contain no (Juinine nn
laiative, nothing harsh nor sicken
ing. Taken at the "sneeze stage"
Preventics will prevent Pneumonia,
Bronchitis. La (iri one. etc.. Hun
the Same, Preventics. Good for fe
verish childreu. 48 Preventics 25
cents. Trial Boies 5 cts. Sold at
J. E. Shell's Drug Store.
Dropped Dead at the Siht of a
Telefram.
Wins ton-Salem Dispatch, 9th.
Excited at the sight of a tele
gram being delivered to her by one
of the local messengers boys, a
negro woman named Banks drop
ped dead at her home on Linden
street yesterday afternoon at 1
o'clock. It was at first thought
that the woman had only fainted
and a physician was hurriedly
summoned. Dr. Hall, colored,
wa called in and made an exami
nation. The woman was dead
when he arrived. He pronounced
herdtath due to heart trouble,
which was doubtless produced by
the sight of the telegram. The
woman had been ill for several
days and it is thought that this
was the cause of the complete col
lapse at the sight of the telegram.
The messenger boy was terribly
frightened when the woman fell to
the iloor, and he rushed out after
a physician.
The only true constipation cure
must begin its soothing, healing ac
tion when it enters the mouth. Hoi
ister's Rocky Mountain Tea restores
the whole system to a healthy, nor
mal condition. y." cents. Tea or
Tablets. Dr. Kent and Granite Falls
Drug Co
Mrs. Carssic Chadwick poor,
misguided soul is slowly sinking
in the Ohio state prison. Dispatch
es state there is little hope for her
recovery. A wreck, physical and
mental, no doubt she welcomes
death, for what could be more
fearful than the memory of past
misdeeds! Through the art of
bank-wrecking she gained wide
notoriety, and her position in the
limelight fihv held for a long time.
No truersaying was recorded in
Holy Writ than that, "Whatso
ever a hi an soweth, that shall he
also reap." The harvest of re
morse and torture of spirit she now
reaps is a fearful warning to those
who seek to advance by means
that are wrong. Times Democrat.
Later Mrs. Chadwick is dead.
Bitten by a Spider.
Through blood poisoning caused
by a spider bite, John Washington
of Bosqueville, Tex., would have lost
his leg, which became a mass of run
ning sores, had he not been persuaded
to try Buckleu's Arnica Salve. He
writes: "The first application re
lieved, and four boxes healed all the
sores." Heals every sore. 25c. at J.
K. Shell's Drug Store.
Xo man ever understood why
women wore such thin wraps to
protect them from the cold.
A man has to be married a long
while before he leatns the correct
names for his wife's clothes.
lyaffc,
lrnin m
Only Sqber Men Wanted.
Roanoke Times.
There is an interesting temperance
lecture in. the classified advertise
ment page of the American Press,
the weekly bulletin issued by the
Association which furnishes ready
made f 'plate" matter to the small
er papers. " In the last number of
that paper thirty-six newspapers
and printine offices ad.
-
vertise for help wanted, and thirty-
three persons advertise for pos
itions wanted. Of these, twelve of
the advertisements for help especi
ally specify that the applicant
must be sober, or "no booze-fight-
" three are for woman, (who
would presumably be sober any
way,) and a large share of the re
mainder specify that the applicant
must be "reliable," must have re
ferences as to "character." or other
statements obviously intended to
mean that he must be sober. Two
of the advertisements also require
that applicant shall not be a
smoker.
Of the therty-three applicants
for jobs, fifteen specify that they
are sober, two are women, and
most of the remainder announoe
themselves as "strictlv reliable,"
or offer references which nobody
but a sober mau would be likely to
to get.
Among the advertisements, the
following are extracts from the
most extraordinary;
'Wanted. LadV and eentle
man compositors at once; no boozers
need apply."
"Machinist operator wants day
light place, Address, with best
wages, sober, etc.
This is the newspaper and print
ing business, in which periodical
drunkenness was once so common
as to be almost a qualification for
acceptance. Now half the people
who advertise for help or jobs ex
pressly demand sobriety, or re
commend themselves as having it,
and the other half imply the same
lualitication.
In some other lines of employ
ment the requirement is even more
rigid. Railroads are requiring
trainmen to be not merely soler,
but total abstainers. The same
demand is also made on operators
of all sorts of rapid or dangerous
machinery, or men required to be
prepared at any moment to meet
an emergency, as firemen, police
men and train dispatchers. And
the requirements of absolute ' sob
riety at all times, on and off duty,
has become the commonest stand
ard of business life and professional
responsibility. The only man who
is at liberty to get drunk when he
pleases is the roust about, whose
place in the world anybody can
take.
It is the temperance of practical
business. In the.se modern davs
we are all so dependent on each
other that none of us can afford to
have any others fail to keep up
their end. When the drinker
hurts nobody but himself, society
managed to afford to let him set
drunk. Now that society is so in
terlocked that the disarrangement
of part disarticulates the whole.
intemperance simply cannot be
afforded. And therefore, the
whiskey or drink problem is work-
ng out its own solution.
Which Would You Rather Be?
Indies Home Journal.
If au editor makes a mistake he
has to apologize for it, but if a
doctor makes a mistakes he buries
it. If an editor makes one there is
a law suit, swearing and the smell
of sulphur, but if a doctor makes
one there is a funeral, cut Mowers
and the smell of varnish.
A doctor can use a word a yard
long without hnowing what it
means, if an editor uses it he has
to spell it. Any old college man
can make a doctor. You can't
make an editor; he has to be born.
FALL MILLINERY.
At Hotel Archer, for tWO days
Oct. 15th and 16th. Fine display
of Fall Millnery. All are cordi
ally invited to see what we have.
Sledfe & Pleasants.
Hickory, N. C.
The First Attraction of the Season t
BOOTH LOWREY
Humorist, Satirest, Reader and
Impersonator
Graded School Auditorium
Wednesday j Night, Oct. 23rd.
8 o'clock.
Bob Taylor says. Those who hear him
go away with aching sides and tear-stained
on Sale at Shell's Drug Store.
PICTURE
We have enlarged our Picture
Frame department. Our stock
is very large and made up of the
best and latest patterns of mould
ing Mr. A. M. Powell is in charge
orders will have prompt attention.
BEfyJHABOT SEAGLE
Hardware &
The News Printery is the only print
shop in town turning out first-class
work. Try us. & dfi & & &
Warning Financial Signals.
Recent statistics of insolvencies
are attracting no little attention in
the financial world. Liabilities of
insolvents during the three sum
mer months were twice as great as
in eiUier of the last two summers,
and now Duu's figures for Septem
ber show an even worse situation.
For the first three quarters of this
fiscal year totals are the worst in
a decade. It is hamnlv true, how-
ever, that the number of insolvents
shows little change and that the
iucrease in liabilities arises chiefly
from the failure ofuore large man
ufactnring concerns than usual.
Owing to an over-strained money
market, these manufacturers were
unable to get accommodations upon
which they were accustomed to re
ly, and hence went under. What
further damage the already pro
tracted money stringency will
cause before departing is the ques-
J tion at present. Bountiful crops
afford reasonable assurance for the
time being, but the course of things
later on does not yet appear. If
the country will only hope for the
best but prepare for something
not quite so good, doubtless the
present financial strain w ill dis-
aPPear without working serious
harm.
It is the contrariness of her sex
that causes a woman to love a man
after she imagines she has broken
his heart by not loving him Chi
cago Xews.
FRAMES.
Furniture Co.
No Traffic Tie-Up This Year.
We note with pleasure a state
ment by President Finley that the
Southern Railroad is in much bet
ter position to handle traffic with
satisfaction to itself and the pub
lic than it was last year. "The
cotton crop along our lines is large,
said Mr. Finley in New York the
other day, "and the company will
le able to haudle it to better ad
vantage than last year's crop.
There was such a congestion of
traffic then that the operations of
the company were seriously ham
pered and at several important
points it was obliged to close its
gates against the tonnage which
was offered. We have now gotten
aflairs in such a condition, how-
ever, that the company will be
able toarry its fi eight with little
difficulty. There will undoubtf
edly be some congestion, but no
where near to the extent experi
enced last year." It is a great
pity that this more favorable pos
ition could not have been attained
without stopping all improvements
other than those which can become
immediate traffic handlers and re
venue earners, but no alternative
was left. The assurance from
President Finley will be received
by shippers with no little grati
fication and relief.
A man could keep reasonably
happy in this world if his neigh
bors wouldn't worry so about hfa
business.
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