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Prof. R. A. tisenott, with his estimable lady, has returned from eastern Massachusets, where he spent the summer. He seems to be in comfortable health. Mrs. S. A. Mauney, of King’s Mountain, is expected by her mother to pay a visit to her par ents’ home here, this week. Ten years ago she was one of our Ca tawba teachers. Miss Gora Yount who was chosen to teach in the Hickory Graded school this year, is not strong enough for the work at present. Her sister, Miss Eula, is teaching in her place for the time being. Miss Mary Ellen Smyre has returned to King’s Mountain to teach in a graded school there, where she taught last year. “Her mother and younger sister are on a visit to Ohio. Rudolph, son of Wm. Wagner, has gone to Richmond, Va., to seek employment. I think every one at Conover has something to do. Some of our boys are away at school. A dollar, or a five dollar bill, now set in motion might relieve the tension in the affairs of many a person, besides the man who sends us our newspaper and his family. Our little Concordia College has opened with eight or ten more pupils than usual. Here, as all over the land we have felt the effects of the powerful high er criticism of the Holy Script ures, of evolutionism and all that. Obedience to parents, to teachers and to the civil govern ment, have for some years been regarded as repressive and ty rannical. That is, the exercise of discipline and authority have been so regarded. 48 it not time for a reaction, and for a return to the needed, wholesome discipline at home, at school, and at church? Prof. Romoser has been absent in Virginia for the last few days, on business of his Synod. It is written that in the last days omevous times will come, for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, etc. These things are already in’ e dence in our churches as well as in the family, the school and in government. A very common mistake is to confuse hookworm disease with ‘nalaria. So writes Dr. Stiles: ‘At Conover, at least one case of hookworm disease has been dis overed and cured. How many perhaps in the county should be found and cured?
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Hickory Democrat
Hickory, North Carolina, US
Thu, Sep 23, 1909
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