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CONOVER NEWS. Postmaster John L. Isenhower suffered a severe fall from a stumbling horse on Saturday, the fifth. He is attending to busi ness again. Capt. P. W. Carpenter, one day lately, slipped on the sleep ing gangway in rear of Lester Hunsucker’s hardware store. The hurt seems not to be serious. Mr. Hunsucker is refitting his sel ing so as to enlarge his stock. ‘Our washed sidewalks and streets have to some extent been repaired. ‘The mighty Roosevelt does a food thing now and then, as when he dismissed from the army those negroes who would not tell who did the shooting. What is a commander-in-chief for, it may not act in an emer gency? A professor has been secured for the chair of English in Con cordia College. ‘The second call was made by the board of elec tors, before one accepted. He is said I be a good man, and is expected by February first. Prof. 5. S. Roiner is filling the vacan cy until he arrives. . ‘Two married young men, named Bracket, have removed to Conover. They make and repair jewelry, watches, etc. Gen. Robert Edward Lee de cided to stand with his native state, when the Civil war came on. He loved the United States; but when the issue came, he loved Virginia more. He knew the danger and trials and mis sies he must meet. But duty,, as he saw it, compelled him. He wrote his son, soon after decid ing: “Duty is the sublimest word in our language.” GRANiTE FALLS. Granite Falls, Jan. 17.—We have a few items that we hope will find the way in your columns or at least not to the waste bas ket, where we suppose our last one went or at least it was not put in the columns of The Dem erat so were loth to write again 80 soon but we will try and give you the best we have in town. Mr. J. W. Whisnant and Miss Mamie Dixon, of Wake Forest College, were married the 2nd lnst. They spent several days with Mr. D. . Whisnant, father of the groom, and left for Lenoir their future home. Mr. Raby Conway and Miss Amanda Ennis were married a few days since. Mr. J. A. Turnmire will move to Drexel in a few days. Work is being pushed right along on the new cotton mill at Dudley Shoals and it will not be many months until we will re three cotton mills ‘near our little town. J. Donnelly is visiting friends ‘and relatives in town after’ spending several years in Ore gon. The Virginia Bridge Co., 13) building another bridge across the Catawba a few miles up the river at a point about opposite Rutherford College. Mr. A. M. Martin, our clever depot agent, has moved into the new depot at last. Miss Bessie Payne, of Hickory, ' s is visiting Miss Maud Allred. We will soon have a band in in good working order under the master hand of Prof. Barb, of Hickory, who is here two or three nigh's weekly, giving them les sons. They will be ready for business by the time summer f pens with its picnics, etc. many coton factories that have sprung up in the different sec tions of the country are the lead ing cause of the great consump tion of cotton, and the great amount it takes to run all those fictories. After the war, Ca tawba county had only one cot ton factory—today it has ten. And the consumption of cotton is nine times more than it was then, and so it is at other points , of the county. Take, for instance, Gastonia, Tenys Mountain and many other places where cotton factories have sprung up, where they were none at the close of the Civil war, and this ought to con znce any sane mind that it 's the demand and consumption of it that makes the price of cotton. Of course, they say that the country is in a prosperous condi tion, and that prosperity is bringing a fair price. So it is bat if you will make a thorough examination of the fact you will find that the greater portion is done on paper. If you will make a close examination you will find their money is rather scarce i, the country among the common people. A great many who have property for sale hold the money between their thumbs and fingers and have no necessi y to pass it out. Real estate is so high and everything in proportion that re common class of farmer: I cannot reach it, Tien there i an that important pint that, ‘barrier to the common class o f people: The Homestead —h:s amaged their credit. It is im possible for them to buy in tow, unless they may en mortgage a same property to secure that debt and hence, if you examine the court record, you certainly will be astonished to find the country in a bad shape. We hope the legislature will repeal this 0 locus homestead.
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Hickory Democrat
Hickory, North Carolina, US
Thu, Jan 17, 1907
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