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Newspaper
Hickory Democrat
Location
Hickory, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1912
Page
3
Local and personal notices from Hickory detail visits among residents, school enrollments, moves to Fassifern School, and geographic ties. The Hickory Graded School reports 665 attendees on opening day, while the high school expands to St Pauls Seminary with multiple teachers. Community events include Senior Council meetings, the Travellers Gage program, road work, and a discussion of local industry and weather impacts on crops.
The Newton county Republican gathering settled county and state issue disputes while endorsing two electoral tickets for Taft and Roosevelt. Key nominations included L. Killian for speaker, J. A. Gauriet register of deeds, J. S. Leonard treasurer, J. L. Bandy surveyor, W. Perce Sigman coroner, and five county commissioners. County chairman P. A. Setzer led the gathering amid rival Taft Roosevelt support and contesting treasurership bids.
Mrs Minnie Pierce Kerr died Saturday night at 8:30 at her home leaving five children, the youngest an infant. Husband Mr Kerr is prostrated by grief. She was daughter of Columbus and [name redacted] Pierce of north Iredell. Funeral Sunday at home conducted by Rev J D Harte, Baptist pastor. Surviving: parents, sister Addie Pierce, three brothers and a sister.
County commissioners fixed tolls for the Buffalo Shoals bridge over the Catawba. Rates include four horse vehicles 25 cents each way, two horse 20 cents one way, 35 round trip, one horse 15 and 25, horseback 10 and 20, foot 5 and 10, automobiles 25 and 50 cents, engines $1 each way at tender discretion. The road report from 15th Street Hickory to Pitts Store was accepted.
The Democratic county executive committee met in Newton on Saturday with reports on political conditions and a dinner by chairman J D Elliott at the Piedmont Hotel. It announced 28 registrars for various precincts and listed three men for each precinct to be considered as judges. The meeting adjourned to the first Monday in October as party prospects look favorable. Rev W H Hudson will speak at the Presbyterian church Sunday. 26 mules from St Louis were received for Hickory township roads, with more planned after the hot spell.
An aged newspaper ad promotes Swamp Root as a universal remedy for kidney and bladder disorders. It claims benefits for back ache, nervous fatigue, and sleeplessness, urging readers to try the product and request a free health book from Dr. Kilmer & Co. in Binghamton New York.
The statement asserts that payment will be made, and that upon purchase the payer will be bound to compensate the speaker. It outlines a conditional sequence where money transfers precede final duties and obligations for the payer.
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