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Newspaper
Hickory Democrat
Location
Hickory, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1911
Page
4
The Hickory Democrat explains efforts by area farmers in Catawba County to diversify into grain, live stock, and fruits. It notes one year cash in advance subscriptions and advertising rates on application. General offices listed as New York and Chicago with branches in major cities. Editor Howard A. Banks.
Hickory, December 7 1911 Staunton Virginia faced a threatened subterranean stream. Engineer Cons Ashburner estimated dam costs at 737 dollars, with final cost 725. He later served Staunton as general manager at 2500 dollars yearly, won paving bids at 96 cents per yard against 225 dollars, cut coal use and street work, and managed water and lights. The piece lauds Ashburner and local leaders for honesty and public spirit.
The piece portrays the Italian siege of Tripoli as a brutal war atrocity. It claims an army of 25,000 has killed 4,000 Arabs, including 400 women, with the desert and sea encircling them. It condemns such acts as inhumane and says putrefying bodies threaten health.
A Salt Lake City choir performed in Richmond while Union Theological Seminary faculty warned Christians against attending. The speaker labeled Mormonism and similar movements as abominations, urging clearer opposition from churches and schools. He cited large scale distribution of Russellism literature and criticized other Christian schools for not speaking out.
A North Carolina debate weighs whether Harmon or Wilson should lead the state’s delegation to the national Democratic nominating convention. The paper endorses Wilson, arguing Harmon’s talk too much and praising Wilson as a steady Democratic governor in a Republican state.
A Charlotte Observer correspondent describes an English inventor, Grindell Matthews, testing a portable device claimed to transmit conversations through rock and cement from five miles away. The piece contrasts Matthews with Marconi and references earlier writers and satirical takes on his claims.
A reader cites Mr. R. G. Mace on state school funding, urging a six months term for public schools as current allocations favor higher institutions. The article argues for proportional school support, noting state schools get 225000 versus 500000 for colleges, producing a shortened term. A grain ventilator invention by W. P. Annas of Saw Mills, patent pending, promises low-cost pest control and grain drying with perforated pivings for bins.
The corn crop of the South rose from 501,000,000 bu in 1911 to 1,071,000,000 in 1911 a gain exceeding 113 percent. Across the nation gains were about 67 percent. South crops, including corn oats wheat and hay, could be worth over 900 million dollars based on November prices.
A reflection on how J. P. Caldwell influenced the Observer through trainees like Avery and John Charles McNeill. The piece notes Hemphill now leads the paper, but questions whether the office will remain a training ground for top journalists. It mentions Caldwell’s other trainees Gordon H. Cilley and the late J. C. Abernethy.
Col Thornton calls the big engine of the C N W Railroad a regular stem winder. It operates around the yards in Hickory and has cogs on one side. The phrase stem winder is noted as a fitting label for the locomotive.
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