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HICKORY. N. C., THURSDAY. APRIL 2, 1914
IHE HICKORY DEMOCRAT rHIS is a live town.Advertise here and
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PRESIDENT IS VICTORIOUSAGAINST THE SPEAKER AND
THE HOUSE FLO
Washington, March-31. -Thenational house of representatives
tmiizh r after one of the most
Rneclacular legislative struggles
in the history of the nation, vSt-
ed to repeal the provision of _tn?canal act, exempting
American vessels from the piy-.
pent of tolls. Tne vote on therepeal bill was 247 to 161, a ma-jorityof 85 votes, in support of
the personal plea of Wo.idrowWilson. President of the UnitedStates.
Tnis verdict on the issue whichhas absorbed Congress for manyweeks, came at the close of astirring day, made memorable in
iiSSTfuraWAKES IffIPMMS
Rev. Stroup to be Advanced to
Priesthood on April 26: ? Bishop
Will be Present.
There have been many evi-dences of new lite and vigor inthe Episopal Ciurnh since thebeginning of the present rector-ship. Marked improvementshave been made about the premises and a substantial new roofhas been put on the church.
The services on Passion Sunday were notable for the intro-duction of a vested choir, addinggreatly to the beauty of thestately ritual, It i 3 now but aquestion of time when the forcesof the parish will enable thegreat historic L.targy to be setforth outwardly in a manner be-fitting the strong and definiteteaching for which the Cntirchof the Ascension is already con -
splcious in the Diocese.An event of unusual interest is
looked forward to on April 25,when the Rev. Samuel B. Stroupwill be advanced to the Priest-hood and formally instituted asrector. Tne B.s'nop of Ashevillewill be present to confer the his-toric Apostolic gift of HolyOrders.
the annals of the house by a partydivision, which found SpeakerChamp Clark, Majority LeaderUnderwood and other Democra-tic eheiftains lined up in open op-position t> Ihe President on anissue whic'i the latter had declar-ed vitai to his conduct of the na-tion's foreign policy.
Today's result was the firststruggle within the party sinceDemocracy took control of thegovernment a year ago. Tomor-row the bi!! goe3 to the senate,where the fight will be renewedwith all.tho vigor and determina-tion that attended it in the lowerhouse.
Honor Roll of the Graded Schoolsfor March.
NORTH SCHOOL.First Grade .Charles Poovey,
Jamts Setzer, Mary Dellinger,Margaret White, Clara Baliew.
Second Grade Inez Little,Louise Cline, Kathryn Setzer,Ralph Hutton, Paul Sherril!,Claud Deal, Joseph Shuford.
Third Grade Josephine Lver-ley, Nellie McSwain, Alice Cilley,Nina Fry, Juanita Perkins, EllenStuart Menzies, Louise Burns,Katherine Cline, Isla Morton,Eliz ibsth Harris, Hazel Thomp-son, Mabel Miller, Mildred Wil-fong, Robert Boatright, JamesWhite.
Fourth Grade Frankie Burns,Eva Knox, Marie Little, SudieSherrill, Ermonie Snerrill, IlaStarnes, Tyree Na£>ors, RobertSouford, Lester Ford. ErnestWannemacher. ?
Fifth Grade Grace v Seaboch,Lois Fry, Janie Menzies, MaryBlount Martin, Louise Cilley,Glenn Russeil, Ciifton Deal,James Whitener, Kenn?th Men-zies.
Sixth Grade Edward Clem-ent. Virginia Whit*, AnnieWhite, George Wnite, EzraAbv-rnethy, Donald Button,Pameia Starne*, Mary MftGal-liarcK wWceLyerl.v, Eieanore Deal.
Seventh Grade Alex MefcziesWoriand Eaton, Clinton Cilley,Stirling Menzies, Aiteen Aiken,Jessie Patrick, Ina Huffman.
Eighth Grade Catherine Wan-nemacher.
Tenth Grade?Ethel Starnes.SOUTH SCHOOL.
First Grade Andrew Ruda-sill,Hazel Bolch, James Kerr,Ernest Thompson, Wright Wil-liams, Willie Ecta Click, MaryMiller,
Second Grade Grace Sigmon,Howard Fletcher, MargueritePollard, Arlie Bowman, MabelSeagle, Elsie Poovey, HildaLocke, Hazel Biven?, OthoTeague, John Bryan, EdwinBoyd, Donald Bumgarner.
Third Grade Dennie Wil-liams, Paul Yount, Eubert Bost,Carl Sigmon, Estelle Bivens.
Fourth Grade De Witt Mes-sick, Mary Louise Hill,LouiseFritz.
Filth- Grade G?orge Waugh,Katherine Fritz, Troy Huggins,Blanche Burns, Bertha Harding,Rachel Pollard.
Sixth Grade Eugenia Mclver,Vergie Sigmon, Gladys Hefner.
Seventh Grade Mary Doll,Ethel Messick, Era Prop3t,Norma Stephenson, Artie Wag-ner, Moses Kennedy, Harry Mc-Comb, Gordon Messick.
Mrs. McLain is visiting hersister, Mrs. J. A. Martin.
Autpmobiles.
A carefully conducted canvassof automobile registrationthroughout the country made by"Automobile" and just madepublic in its latest issue, tends toindicate that the number of auto-mobiles and motor trucks regis-tered in the United States in-creased from 1,010,483 in "1912 to1,253 875 at present, a gain of243,392, and the output of thefactories grew from 378,261 carsand trucks in 1912 to over 450,000 in the past year.
Of course New York leadswith a registration of 122,411,while North Carolina is twenty-ninth with 10,000. Today thereare engaged in the manufactureof automobiles about 400 com-panies and the estimate for theoutput in 1913 is between 500,-000 and 600,000 cars and trucks.There is propably no industry inthe country growing faster thanthe manufacture of automobilesand as the price gets cheaper theannual output will be corres-ponding increased to meet thedemand.? Evening Chronicle.
A dispatch from Brive, France, saysa large section of a mountain near therehas become detached by seismic -dis-turbances and is sliding down into availey, sleeping everything in itspatn. Earthquake shocks were feltSunday evening in Alabama, Ohio,Missouri and in Washington.
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i NEW CHURCH IN HIGHLAND.
Baptist Congregation CommenceWork on New Building.
Highland, Mar. 30. ?Work hasbeen commenced on the HighlandBaptist church.
One of Mr. Wm, Lail's child-ren was severely burned aboutthe face several days ago whilecarrying coals of fire on a shovel
| from one part of the house toanother. It is improving at thiswriting.
Mr. Kobt. Eckard ha 3 beenquite sick for several weeks
Mr. J. H. Mingus is out againafter suffering with a severe caseof pneumonia. ?
' Mr. Dick Martin and family arei preparing to move to West Hick-lory.
Mr. Thos. Hoke, who is livingin the Wm. Ilyder house, is build-ing a nice cottage south of thechair factory, which he will oc-cupy as soon as it is completed.
Mr. Raymond Hunt has movedhis family back to his home herefrom Charlotte.
Mr. Eugene Lafon has boughtthe Julius Bolick property. Hewill move his family there in ashort time.
Mr. Perry Fry is on the policeforce at present.
Mr. and Mrs. John Deal, ofCatfish, spent Saturday night andSunday with Mr. and Mrs. LeonCline.
Mrs, John Fry and childrenspent Sunday with her sisters,the Misses Houck.
Mr. W. S. Robinson's family,including all but himself, tookthe mumps about the same time.They are all recovering.
News From West Hickory.
West Hickory, Mar. 30. ?Sincethe warm weather has set in, gar-den making seems to be greatlyin fashion in our town. It seem-ed as ifeverybody was busy dur-ing the past week - preparingtheir gardens and planting seeds.
E. W. Humphrey has beensick with rheumatism for severaldays but is a little better at pres-ent.
S. M. Propstand Claud Griffinresigned their positions as loom-fixers at the Ivey Mill and aregoing to Brookford to fix looms.C. E, Bolick anfr G. C. Wilsontake their places:
Miss Carrie Berry gave a birth-day party Saturday evening. Anumber of her friends and schoolmates were invited. There wereabout fourteen present.
The graded school here closedFriday, March 27. The reportsof the pupils in all the gradesshowed that they had done wellduring the term.
Miss Alma Berry visited Miss-es Minnie and Carrie Berry Sat-urday. .
R. W. William 3, who has beenhere several weeks ha? gone toAlta Vista, Va., to resume hiswork in the mill there.
T, D. Berry, of Drexel, washere Saturday visiting his father,P. Berry,
Sid Lewis and wife movedfrom Brookford last week andare working in the mill here.
Clyde Bostian and Miss CordiaSetzer were married here Sundayevening. Q. A. Hedrick perform-ed the ceremony. The parents
of both parties live in WestHickorv.
Dr, J. J. Hicks bought Ed.Sherrill's house and lot in WestHickory Saturday, The consid-eration was $B5O. This propertyis near the State Highway and itis reported that Dr. Hicks intendsto build a dental office on the lotin the near future.
FINE PERCHERON HORSE.
Purchased for Farmers of This Coun-ty in Ohio.
For some time the farmers in Cat-!awba county have been discussing theadvisability of purchasing a Percheronhorse. About two weeks ago, a meet-ing was held and it was decided tosend Mr. Dan T. Gray, of the Depart-ment of Agriculture at Raleigh, toOhio and get a horse.
Mr. Gray spent a week in Ohio andvisited a good many different farmers,and he purchased from Brown andAyers, Hillsboro, Ohio, the black Per-
cheron, "Jokai." This is a register-ed horse, and Mr. Gray says he is pro-bably the best Percheron horse everbrought South. The day he was load-ed on the car, he weighed 1850pounds.
ihere will be a meeting of all farm-ers interested in this horse at the Far-mers' Union Warehouse, Newton, Sat-urday, April 4th, at 1 o'clock, to or-ganize a Horse iireeders' Union. Ad-vertisements in regard to this horsewill appear in next week's issue of thispaper. -
Thirty-five horses belonging to theParham Supply Company of Hendersonwere roasted to death in a fire that de-stroyed the company's stable and allcontents Saturday night.
CATAWBA COUNTY'S RURALCREDIT ASMTIM
It Is in Effect a Rural Buildingand Loan Association?Why
Not Try it in YourNeighborhood?
(By W.J. SHUFORD.)For some time the question of
farm credits has been discussedand various plans have .been of-fered to help the farmer getmoney at a low rate of interestand for a long time. This ques-tion came up in Catawba County,and our farmers made study ofthe local building and loan Idea,and decided to form an aasocia-tion modeled along its lines. Sev-eral meetings were held in therooms of the Chamber cf Com-merce and committees appointedto solicit shares.
After several mouths, and agood many meetings, we organ-ized "The Catawba Rural CreditAssociation." We began business with 38 shareholders sub-scribing for 200 shares, and theplan in brief may be describedas follows:
1. Shares of Stock ?Eachmember pays an initiation fee of50 cents per share to join, and $1per month for each share carriedpar value of shares $lOO. A pay-ment of $1 per month on eachshare will mature $lOO in about81 or 82 months.
2. Time of Payments. -Pay-ments may be made tnonthJv,quarterly and semi-annually tosuit the convenience of the share-holder, but shareholders, espec-ially patrons of the creamery, areurged to pay monthly.
3. How Loans Are Made.The money is loaned to sharehol-ders at 6 per cent interest, and issecured by first mortgage onfarm lands not to exceed two-thirds of their cash value. Loansare made to shareholders only,and each shareholder onust carryone share of stock for every $lOOborrowed. He is charged 6 percent interest on what he borrows,and gets 6 per cent on what hepays in; the compound interestmore than takes care of any ex-pense and helps to mature hisshare. L.oans will be' mitSeTrTrv-tation as applied for, and asmoney comes in.
4. Paid-up Shares,?A limit-ed number of paid up shares willbe issued. These will be takenby farmers as an investment, andwillpay 4 per cent, interest paidsemi-annually, and will partici-pate in the profits and mature inabout five years. For example,a farmer takes a paid-up share,paying $9O down on this. He re-ceives interest at the rate of 4per cent paid semi-annually, andthis share will mature him $lOOin a fraction over five years.
5. Management.?-Theaffairsof the association are managedby a Board of eight directorselected for one year, and thisBoard elects a President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treas-urer; also elects a loan CDmmitteefrom each township in which theAssociation works. The Boardof Directors (with the exceptionof one or two) are all farmers.The directors meet monthly forthe making of loans and thetransaction of other business.
6. Local Direction,?Threeshareholders from each townshipconstitute a loan committee,and they examine all proper-ty offered to the Association assecurity for a loan; and make awritten report to the directors onforms furnished them.
7. Fines.?Anv shareholderneglecting to pay his dues whenthe time comes shall thesum of 10 cent per share for everymonth the dues remain unpaid.
8. New Shares.?A new ser-ies of shares will he opened upevery quarter.
This in brief is the plan we aredoing business under, and we be-lieve it is going to help our far-mers. As we grow, changes willprobably be made, and the workstrengthened. Will we get fundsenough to meet the demands thatwill be made upon us? That re-mains to be seen, but we believethat we will as soon as our far-mers get their attention called tothe fact that they can individual-ly help each other buy a farm,
improve what they have; or buymore livestock, etc., for the farm.
Our association starts out un-der the most favorable circum-stances. Our President is afsuc-cessful farmer, our Vice Presi-dent is president of the FirstBuilding and Loan of Hickory,and has been for years. ThisAssociation has $350,000 loanedin Hickory, and never lost a dol-lar. Our Secretary is Secretaryof the above Association, and hasvolunteered his services for ayear at no cost to the Association.With no rents, etc., to pay, ourexpenses will be very snail.
MASS MEETING APRIL 8.
Progressive Democrats to Gather inRaleigh on Thti Date.
Wednesday. April Bth, .is theday tor the Progressive Demo-cratic mass meeting in ltileigh;William J. Bryan and Joseph usDaniels are coming in additionto State leaders, and a thoroughgoing State-wide primary is ex-pected to be the dominant issue.
So announced Chairman Clar-ence Poe, who yesterday re-ceived a telegram from Washing-ton giving the Bryan date andalso a letter from PresidentWilson expressing further in-terest in the North Carolina pri-mary light and especial satisfac-tion with the New Jer&ty pri-mary law, which was. putthrough while he was Governor.
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Holy Trinity Lutheran Church,jRev, J. H. WannemacheK pastor.
HOLY WEEK SERVICES* ??
Palm Sunday Services, April5. 11:00, Our Hosannas. By thePastor. 7:30 p. m;, Christ TrialBefore Pilate.
Monday Evening. PeterV De-nial. By the Pastor. / 'V'
Tuesday Evening. Christ orBarabbas. Rev L.L. Lohr.;
Wednesday Evening. Beholdthe Men. Rev. R. L. Fritz,
Thursday Evening., The - TwoMalefactors. Rev. Grover Mor-gan. V.-
Friday Morning 10:3Q. SpecialGood Friday Services. ?;
Friday Evening. It is Finish-ed, Rev. M. L. Stirewair. .
EASTER DAY,; \
11 a. m. Our Easter Message,Communion.
7:30 p. m. Easter Program,consisting of music and recita-tions. V V'
The public is cordially invitedto attend all these services.
Gastonia Guarciisman Dies on Duty.Gastonia, March 30.?Bert
Gilbert, a member of the localMilitarycompany, died suddenlylate this afternoon while thecompany was undergoing in-spection at the hands of- the Fed-eral and State authorities. TheCompany was drawn up in theArmory at the time and CaptainRussell Langdcn. detailed to thisState by the United States Armyann Colonel Stringfield of theState Guard were giving instruc-tion. It is supposed some affec-tion of the heart was the causeof the Guardsman's death.
Mr. Gilbert was about 35 yearsold and leaves a family. Hehad not been well for severaldays.
Dr. Brown and his Bungalow.Dr. R. Wood Brown and lady
are domociied at the MarshallHotel where they willremain un-til their bungalow is ready foroccupancy. While their new resi-dence will not be very large itwill be modern in every ..respect,being huilt for comfort insteadof display. The doctor says thehouse and out buidings will bespacious enough for his wife andself, the canary, "Toots", thepony, "Dolly" and his thorough-bred chickens.
St. Andrew's Evangelical LutheranChurch.
Regular services Sunday morn-ing with Confirmation. ThePassion History of our Lord willbe read during Holy Week begin-ning with Sunday evening andcontinuing up to Saturday. Allare cordially invited.
Car Load of Cream Separators.The Empire Cream Separator Com-
pany, of Bloomfield, N. J., will distri-bute separators in North Carolina fromHickory. The Hickory Seed Com-pany has just received a car load o(
these famous separators.Advertisements of these machines
and prices will appear in next week'sissue.
We will operate in Catawba,Alexander, Burke and Caldwellcounties, and serve the farmers.It is just a little over two monthssince we organized, and we arenow ready to make our first loansamolinting to about $1,500, April&
,Any system of rural creditsthat may be worked out must re-cognize the building and loan tosome extent. It affords a splen- jdid opportunity ftfrmonthly saving. Tf Is mutual,all members sharing alike. It isoperated economically. No newlaws are necessary to put it intooperation.
Why not try it in, your com-munity? Think of it?abdut 80months from January 1 we willdistribute $20,000 in cancelledmortgages and cash among thefarmers that carry their sharesto maturity.
SECOND ANNUALSCHOOL DEBA TING CON7ES7
A J LEAOIR COL24The second annual high school and a statement from the prinei*
debating class for a gold medal pal of his school that be is awill be held in the Lenoir College BONE FIDE student, shall be inauditorium Friday evening, the hands of the secretary of theApril 24. * faculty of Lenoir College not
These exercises are conducted later than April 20. Schools in*in order to encourage the prac- tending to send a representativetice of declamation in our high should inform the undersignedschools as an exercise 01 high once,cultural value and as necessary The places of declaimers onfoundation for success in the the program in the contest shallstudy and practice of public be determined by lot.speaking. In case there are more than
The following are the condi- eitfht contestants, a preliminarytions under which the contest contest shall be held at the Colwill be conducted: lege, Friday afternoon, April
State High Schools, City High 24,1914. -
Schools, or other schools of the No declamation shall containsame rank, in counties of North more than 1000 words (600 toCarolina west of the Yadkin 1000 words is a good range,)River, or in Davidson County, A gold medal shall be awardedshall be entitled to one repre- by a competent committee tosentative in the contest that declaimer whom they shall -
The name of each contestant, judge to have won in the con-the subject of his declamation, test.
Has No Objections to ProgressiveMeeting.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 30.?SenatorSimmons when questioned upon his re-turn here today regarding the progress-ive convention to be held at Raleigh,stated that if some gentleman in thestate wished to call a convention todiscuss progressive policies and plan jprogressive legislation tfley were en-tirelywithin their rights and that hewould make no objection and place noobstacles in their way.
The senator returned today after anabsence of about two weeks which hespent in recuperating at his home inNewbern. He explained that be returned earlier than he intended becauseof the statement made by SenatorO'Gorman, chairman of the committeeon interoceanic canals, that he wouldnot call the committee to consider thebill to repeal the canal tolls provisionbecause of the absence of SenatorsSimmons and Shields.
Student Gamblers Exposed.
A correspondent writing from Chapel Hill to the Raleigh News and Ob-server and the Greensboro News saysthe betrayal of confidence between pro-fessed gamblers, growing oat of the re-fusal of the one to redeem a check tor$2O passed in a "crap" game, led toan exposure between some students ofthe University and citizens of the vil-lage.
The names given are Jack Sparrow,W. J. Patterson, N J. Cartmell andFloyd Booker, citizens; J. D. Kernoo-die of Graham, G. B. Crowell of Liu-colnton, J. E. Ware of Charlotte, Jul-ius Johnson, Jr., of Yanceyville and F.C. Jones of Plymouth, students, thetwo latter members of the law class;Ralph Andrews, pharmacy student andM. B. Warren, automobile chauffeur.The persons implicated were placedunder bonds of $l5 and $25 each toappear in court.
When the papers publishing thes*ory reached Chapel Hill the personsimplicated in the gambling and theirfriends were very wroth and the cor-respondent of the papers was assaulted.
Thus the State University, throughsome of the folks allowed there, con-tinues to make a reputation for itself.A little more than a year ago a studentwas killed while being haz~d. Now itis a gambling crowd and those involvedresort to mob law when exposed. TheUniversity, it should be remembered,is supported by the money of the tax-
payers; and it is fast becoming a dis-grace to the State.?The Landmark.
"Mr. William Harris, of Le-noir, was in the city Monday.
ARMVEBSAIIt EIERCSESAT LEAOIR CILLER
Eumenesa snd Philsletheso LiterarySocieties to Reader s SplendidProgram.
The fourth Anniversary of the Fu*menean and Philalethean Literary So-cieties of Lenoir College willhold theirfourth Anniversary in the college audi-torium Monday evening, April 6, at8:15 o'clock.
The program is as follows:PART I.
Piano Duet, Spanish Dance No. 3....Meazkewski
Misses Christman and HookerEssay, The North American Indian...
Annie PowlasChorus, (a) De Coppah M00n......
Kowe Shelley(b) Don't You Mind The Sorrows...
.Eugene CdwlesTen Years Hence, by Members of the
SocietiesPiaso Solo, Shadow Dance Op. 35...
Edward McDowellMiss Bryte Beam .
, PART 11..
- .Drama, Hiawatha
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThis program is very interesting and
the people of the city are cordially in-vited to come and hear it.» " , - | j_
How Advertising Rolled in the Money.The Fourth Estate tells the fol-
lowing story: -
F. Irving Fletcher, advertisingmanager of Saks& Co., New York,at a Sphinx Club dinner in NewYork, told a thrilling advertisingstory. . ".
"Ionce made a bet with a dry-goods dealer," said Mr. Fletcher,that he couldn't spend in a year
on advertising all he made in thatyear. The man took me up andsailed in.
"But he lost his bet Thoughhis advertising bills grew biggerand bigger, he lost For the morehe advertised, the more he sold,and in the end, after startingeight branch stores, he gave inand paid me my money."
Notice to Confederate Veterans.All Confederate Veterans intending
to go to the Reunion at Jacksonville.Fla., will please give me their names,company and regiment.
S. E. KILLIAN,Sec. Camp 162.
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