Needs for Hickory Public School and Town Improvements
The piece argues for expanded school facilities with a larger teaching staff, new buildings, and modern classrooms including libraries, laboratories, and domestic science. It calls for expanded curricula, gym, music, foreign languages, and literary societies plus a YMCA presence to engage youth. It advocates street improvements, a riverside park on the Catawba, a relocated freight depot, a central post office siting, an electric car system, expanded street lighting, and a gas lighting and heating plant to boost town growth and safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luit
Futre
YM. C
Peore
Kent Worth
Eighth Avenue
Catawba
Local and Personal Items of Interest in Conover and Nearby
Local notes report S. S. Rowe re elected mayor of Conover. Miss Josie visits her brother Rufus Person in Charlotte, with Mr. Person joining. J Will Mills of Statesville and Anna Sherrill wed near Scott's, Rev E D Brown officiating. Davenport College Davenport Lenoir holds May 17 to 19 events with Bishop Watterhouse sermon and Dr. Gilbert Rowe address. Editor praises Prof C M Staley and staff for a strong school term amid crowded buildings. Yount beats brother Dr J B Yount in dispute over river site worth over ten thousand dollars, with bridge plans discussed and toll option debated. Community wades through municipal needs including a new city hall, jail, fairground lands, and better streets and utilities. The town seeks stronger press coverage and broader incorporation for suburbs, with focus on sanitation and development.
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Josie
Charlotte
Rufus Person
Person
Hickory
Statesville
J. Will Mills
Anna Sherrill
Wash Sherrill
Scott's
E. D. Brown
Loray
Mir. Brown
Davenport College
Lenoir
R. G. Watterhouse
Gilbert T. Rowe
C.M. Staley
Staley
Horace A. Yount
Canawba Superior Court
J.B. Yount
Newton
Yount
Southern Power Company
Lookout Shoals
Catawba River
Messrs
L. C. Caldwell
Hl. P. Grier
Councill & Count
City
W. C. Feimster
A.A. Itner
Self & Bag
Holler
Catawba
Iredell
Enterprise
Town Citizens Urged to Seek Real Needs
An elder speaker calls for citizens to assess the town’s true needs and take action to improve the community. He criticizes current leaders and suggests that with dedicated volunteers the town could rise from being a mere village to compete with the state’s leading towns.
Lusitania Torpedoed Off Irish Coast in 1915 Disaster
London May 7 Cunard Line steamer Lusitania with 1,253 passengers was torpedoed ten miles off Old Head Kinsale Ireland and sank by Queenstown. Survivors tallied about 150, many women and crew. Widespread loss of life feared, with reports of officials and passengers recounting the brief, catastrophic sinking and chaotic lifeboat evacuations.
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London
Cunard Line
Old Head
Kinsdale
Ireland
Queenstown
Turner
Rman
F. J. Gamlett
Washington
A. L. Hopks
Sadelphia
Lusitania
Gaulett
Dodd
Lunard Line
Official List of the Survivors 764 Lusitania Sinking Update
New York May 9 Cunard line reports 764 survivors from the Lusitania disaster 462 passengers and 302 crew. 144 bodies recovered 87 identified 57 unidentified 63 passengers 22 crew. London estimates death toll well over 1500. debate over survivors continues.
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New York
Cunard Steamship Company
Liverip
Queenstown
London
West Hickory Items Bankrupt stock sale opens auction
West Hickory May 10 The bankrupt stock of Norris and Marlow is being sold at public auction. D R Leonard moved into a new home last week. P A Carpenter of tonia visits Mrs Lackey. G Barger testified at Newton court. Rutherford College commencement Sunday. Ivey Mill visit Sunday. Spring described as fine season.
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West Hickory
Norris & Marlow
D. R. Leonard
Alta Vista
P. A. Carpenter
Tonia
Lackey
G. Barger
Newton
Rutherford
College
Ivey Mill
Three More Craft Sunk By Germans
London May 6. The Cathay a Danish steamer from Copenhagen to Chinese ports was sunk in the North Sea by mine or torpedo. Forty three aboard and crew reached Ramsgate safely. The Strattor was sunk by a German submarine off Grimsby. crew rescued. The Earl of Lathnam sank off Kinsale after nine shell salvos. crew saved by a trawler.
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London
Vathay
Copenhagen
North Sea
Ramsgate
Cathay
Strattor
Grimsby
Kinsale
Ireland
Lenoir College schedule for commencement May 21 26
Rural Mail Service for One Million More People and Lenoir College finals outline May 21 to 26 with speakers such as A R Gaul P C Wike A R Beck Clyde Hoey Julius T Horney and Ira Pearl Setzer. Events include oratorio The Holy City literature banquets and graduating exercises. Proceeds fund the college pipe organ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lenoir College
Holy City
A. R. Gaul
P. C. Wike
Chicago
Ill
College Luthor League
A. R. Beck
Dallas
Board of Trustees
Art Hibs
Clyde R. Hoey
Shelby
Highland Hall
Julius T. Horney
Canton
Ira Pearl Setzer
Hickor
Senoir
A. G. Voigt
Lutheran ‘Theological Seminary of Columbia
P.C. Wike
Conover
College Luther League
Hickory
Gaul’s
Ortorio
Esther V. Schultz
College Pipe Organ Fund
Highland Wall
Kiser
Morrell
Pine Tar Honey Promoted by Dr Bell’s Remedy
A fragment advertises Dr Bell’s Pine Tar Honey as a ready household remedy for colds and throat irritation. It claims immediate relief and that Pine Tar Honey penetrates throat and lung linings to destroy germs, with a testimonial about family use in Hamilton Ohio.
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E. Willams
Hamilton
Ohio
Perhays
Dr Bell
Lusitania the Great Trans Atlantic liner of 1906
The Lusitania, built in Glasgow in 1906 and owned by Cunard, was among the fastest trans Atlantic liners. It featured turbine engines with 70,000 indicated horsepower and four propeller shafts, capacity for 550 first class, 500 second class, and 1,200 third class passengers, and a near unsinkable hull design. It set speed records, aided naval wartime service, and carried many notable passengers before continuing in regular service despite war threats.
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Glasgow
Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd
Liverpool
W. T. Turner
England
Germany
Lusitania
Ner
Clyde Bank
Flower
Atlantic
New York
Queenstown
Gert
British Foreign Office
Athough
Imperator
Olympic
Waterlana
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Burgan L. Witherspoon
Hickory High School
Electric
S. S. Rowe
Alfred Gwyn Vanderbilt
Elbert Hubbard
Charles Froman
Geo. Klein
Burleson
Bureson
Rage For Speed
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