THE
Danbury Reporter.
N. E. & E. P. PEPPER, Publishers.
TERMS TO ANY ADDRESS :
One year, sl, 6 mo. 50c., 3 mo. 25
JANUARY 25, HKXi
EFFORT TO BE MADE TO CUR
TAIL R. F. D. ROUTES.
STOKES MAY LOSE SEV
ERAL.
The Postmaster General in his
annual report issued recently, rec
ommends in the interest of econ
omy the curtailment of the rural
free delivery service in localities
where less than 2,000 pieces of
mail matter are handled per
month. It is said that Uncle
Sam's pocketbook has been con
siderably depleted by by the ex
tension of the r. f. d. lines.
If the suggestion of the Post
master General is carried into' ef
fect, Stokes county will lose near
ly all of her r. f. d. routes, for
but few of them Come up to
the requirements of the Depart
ment. Of the~ routes established
in North Carolina, the carriers do
not carry on an average more than
• l.'.KXf pieces of, mail each month.
In this county the average is
probably great deal less.
t The Reporter is emphatically
. opposed to the curtailment of the
rural free delivery system whether
it pays the government or not.
Nothing within the past 25 years
has "done more towards getting
the kinks out of our county than
the r. f. d. It is making life on
the farms pleasanter in a hun
dred different ways. The people
*nre taking more papers, maga
zines, etc., by far than ever be
fore. Xhey feel themselves in touch
with the outside world, aud are
better satisfied with their lot than
formerly. Instead of trying to
sell out and move to the towns,
they are turning their attention to
improving their lands and beauti
fying their homes. Land, too, is
more valuable and commands a
higher price since the invasion of
the r. f. d.
Anything that improves the
condition of the rural districts is
a good investment for Uncle Sam,
whether he finds immediate profit
in it or not, for already a danger
ous movement town-ward has
thinned many country communi
ties in every part of the United
States. The r. f. d. has been a
powerful agent in checking this
tide of immigration away from
the farms.
The Reporter trusts that every
North Carolina congressman will
tight the movement to take from
us any of our r. f. d. routes. If
the system does not bring imme
diate profits in dollars and cents,
•we can answer, neither are the
Philippines paying on the inYwtw
inent, but we have already sunk
little short of a billion there which
can nover be recovered. A small
proportion of the amount the
government pays as tribute to the
trusts would long maintain the r.
f. d. system. A hundred ways
could retrenchment be begun
without striking at the few bene
fits enjoyed by the farmers.
How about that County Fair
next fall y
Tomorrow a week is Ground
Hog Day, the beginning of winter.
The election is a long distance
off, but the time in which you
must prepare yourself to vote next
fall is growing short. Have yon
jjaid your poll tax t
A HARMLESS LIE NAILED.
A friend writes tho Reporter
that certain parties have circula
ted the report that "illegal" votes
were cast for some of the candi
dates in the voting contest conduc
ted by this paper during tho last
three months of 1905; that unfair
ness and partiality were used, and
that Ray Martin and Alvan Blair
turned up with about a thousand
mysterious votes on the last day
which were sold to tho friends of
the leading candidates.
The Reporter would say in reply
that it is not troubled over such
idle vaporings. Anyone who makes
the above charges either does not
know what he is talking about, or
else the statement 4k inspired by
malice. In the one case, his state
ments were unimportant, in the
other, harmless spite. And any
one who circulates such a report
without knowing whether 'it is
true or not, is no less base than
the one why lie.
The.Reporter's voting contest
was conducted with absolute fair
ness to all parties concerned. No
partiality was shown to any of the
candidates. When a subscriber
came into the office and ■ paid his
subscription, and did not care to
vote for anyone, he was given a
coupon entitling him to as many
votes as he had paid for. These
coupons were often sold to parties
outside. Ray Martin and Alvan
Blair bought a large number of
them, which entitled theftn of
course to the votes the coupons
called for. On the last day of the
contest Martin and Blair sold
their coupons to some friends
of the leading candidates, which
they had a perfect right to do, as
the votes were entirely "legal."
Probably this is what the above
reports grew out of. Tho publish
ers of this paper challenge any
person living to say that he receiv
ed a single vote without paying
full "value received" for it
There is a good deal of discus
sion among some of the State
papers of the question "Shall
Capital Punishment .Bo Aban
doned V" A theme a good deal
more apropos would be: ' How
Shall We Enforce Capital Pun
ishment ?"
If mud were legal tender, Stokes
would be the richest county in
the world.
TRUSTEE'S SALE.
By virtue of the power contain
ed in a certain deed in trust exe
cuted to me by J. (). Southern and
wife E. S. Southern on the ISth
day of Nov., 1891, to secure the
payment of a note therein recited,
which said deed in trust is duly
recorded iu the office of the Reg
ister of Deeds of Stokes county,
in Book No. 32, page 130, default
having been made in the payment
of said note, and the holder there
of having applied to me to sell the
lands conveyed in said trust deed,
I will expose to public sale to the
highest bidder for cash, at the
court house door in the town of
Danbury. N. C., on
Monday, the sth day of Feb. I'.KXI,
at 12 o'clock, M., the lands con
veyed in said deed in trust, lying
and being in the county of Stokes,
adjoining the lands of Z. L. Wall,
and others, and described in said
deed as follows, to-wit:
"Lying on the north side of
County Line branch, adjoining
W. B. Carter on the East side, Z.
L. Wall ou the North side, and J.
C. Flinn and M. T. Glenn on the
South and West sides, it being
that portion of the Jonathan Flinn
land conveyed by him to J. C.
Flinn, and by him conveyed to J.
O. Southern, containing 20 acres,
more or less."
Thißthe2nd day of Jan., 1 VK>».
J. (i. H. MITCHELL,
Trustee.
| THE NEWS AT PINNACLE.
1 Quite a Lot of Sickness A Batch
Of Personals.
Pinnacle, Jan. 20. —Mrs. .Julia
Needham, of Mount Airy, Route
No. 1, returned home Saturday,
after visiting relatives here for
several weeks. She was accom
panied Mrs. E. W. Culler as
far us Pilot Mt.
Miss Flaud Kallam is spending
a week or so with her mother near
Donnaha.
Mrs. Bessie Card well loft last
week for Greensboro, where she
will accept a position clerking.
We had quite an enthusiastic
spelling at the academy Friday
night. A large crowd present
and it was enjoyed by all.
Master Kay Boyd has been right
sick with pneumonia, but is im
proving. we are glad to note.
Miss Agnes Venable has pneu
monia. Hope she will soon re
cover. '
Miss Rosella Savage has gone to
Mt. Airy to spend two or three
weeks with her sister, Mrs. Rena
Watson.
Miss Ida Watson is visitimt her
sister, Mrs. Martha Slate, of King,
for a few days.
Mr. Ernest Moser visited King
Fiidhy afternoon.
Mrs. J. T. Hurrin and Misses
Kate Swanson and Irene Simpson,
of Pilot Mt., spent Sunday with
Mrs K. M. Loft is.
Mrs. Dr. J. S. Slate and Miss
Connie Haley visited Pilot Mt
Si inlay evening.
It is feared that Mr. Sid Jones
who has been sick since Christmas
is taking pneumonia.
Mr. Charles Jones, of Danbury
ni ide his parents a short visit re
cently.
The infant of Mr. anil Mrs. R
>. Moser is right sick.
ME.
DKAFNESS CANNOT BE
CTRED.
li local applications, as can
nit reach the diseased portion ot
the ear. There is only one way to
cure deafness, nnd that is by con
stitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an intlamed condition
of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this
tube is inflamed you have a rum
bling sound of imperfect hearing,
and when it is entirely closed,
Deafness is the result, and unless
the inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to its
normal condition, hearing will be
destroyed forever; nine cases out
of ten are caused by Cattarrh,
which is nothing but an inflamed
condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dol
lars for any case of Deafness
(caused by catarrh) that cannot
be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
Send for circulars free.
F .i. CH EN FY & CO., Toledo, ().
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for
constipation.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS,
Attorney at Law,
Danbury, - - - N. C
Prompt attention to all business
entrusted. Will practice in all
State courts.
I of iibcrnlly tiainff our fcrtili-
I I I lets, id to pay tII a mortgage
' I ■on the old farm lleiultbefol-
I 1 I lowlu* from Messrs. Wherry
| I I A Son.ownera of the Magnolia
\ » ■ Fruit Farm, Durant. Miss.:
I LiE "Wemado S'JOO from one aero
1 jrß strawberries, on which your
« a fertilizers wore used. Eljfht
SwwJ I ycnrsujfo we bought tills place
■EgSM j] ut V.M per enio. It wu then
■MP H considered to hnve been worn
9 out twenty years before, but
by liberally using
Virginia-Carolina Fertilizer!
under peas and velvet beans,
we can now grow almost any
■ tbiug, and have been offered
$360 per acre for the place. Wo
experimented with a groat
£ many brands of fertilizers,
| but And the highest per-cent.
I cheaper." Now don't you think
Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers
I would enable you to pay oil a %x-\
wortirago if you had one? 1
Well, don't use any other. 4a -■
Vlrg Inla-Ca rolls* Chemical
Richmond. Va. »
Norfolk. Va. mgi)
llurhain. N. C.
Charleston, S. C.
Baltimore. Md.
Atlanta, Go.
Bavannah, Og.
MontKomery, AI« NH
Memphis, Tenn. till
BUroveport, La. 11]
fw
m HIT LIFE"
—That's what a prominent
druggist said of Scott's
Emulsion a short time
ago. As a rule we don't
use or refer to testimonials
in addressing the public,
but the above remark and
similar expressions are
made so often in connec
tion with Scott's Emulsion
that the}' are worthy of
occasional note. F rom
infancy to old age Scott's
Emulsion oilers a reliable
means of remedying im
proper and weak develop
ment, restoring lost flesh
and vitality, and repairing
waste. The action of
Scott's Emulsion is no
more of a secret than the
composition of the Emul
sion itself. What it does
it does through nourish
ment —the kind of nourish
ment that cannot be ob
tained in ordinary food.
No system is too weak or
delicate to retain Scott's
Emulsion and gather good
from it.
» Wt will und you a
jjv sample free.
vVWk B« sure that this picture in the
J form of a Utxl Uon the wrapper
.'nL Vah erer Y bottle of Emulsion you
Wp f scon & bowne
Chemists
409 Pearl St., N. Y.
50c. and SI; all druggists.
NOTICE!
Pay Your Taxes!
THIRD CALL!
I will meet the tax-payers of
Stokes county for the purpose of
collecting the taxes for the your
l!t05 at the following times and
places, to-wit:
John Lackey's
9tore, Thurs. Jan. 25, l'.K)t>.
F. K. Nelson's
store, Fri. " 2t'», •'
Germanton, Sat. " 27, '
Walnut Cove, Mon. " 29, "
Pine Hall, Tues. " iiO, "
Sandy Ridge, Wed. 31, "
Dillard, Thurs. Fob. 1, "
Tuttle Bros.
store, Fri. " 2, "
L. W. Fergu
son's store, Snt. " ii, "
Danbury, Mon. " 5, "
I hope the people will meet mo
at the above time and places and
pay their taxes promptly.
Next year is a general election
year, and all those who are liable
for a poll tax must pay the same
on or before the first day of May,
1906, or they will be disfranchised
under the law. Don't put the
payment of ytnir taxes off, but pay
them now, while you are selling
tobacco and have the money. It
will be best for you to do so, and
besides the money is needed to
pay the school teachers, and 'for
other matters that have to be paid.
It will save you and me trouble to
meet me at the above times and
places and pay up.
This the 19th day of Dec. l'.tO.j.
R. J. PETREE, Sheriff.
AT THE STORE OF
R. DAVIS,
Winston, INI. C.
Yon will now find
the newest and
nicest of all kinds
tilings for Chrisl
inas, such as ladies
ready made Suits
and Hats. (all
and examine her
STORE
WALNUT COVE, C.
1 don't claim lo have tlic
LAiUiSC&T vliwv on earth,
hut Ihe CIIKAI'KST.
J. WILL EAST, WALNiJT COVE.
| Savings Ban k j
W illi mon limit i .«if t-«; 10. ins tin deposit; 9
nn>re than two tiiiiii- uil |>. - iti i.. invites both com-C
M mercial and savings accom t.-i uiii i!i> s to depositors every
itsistrnt ; ill> m-ium: batikinc M
/WH WANT Yon? II'.'SIN'KSS. (iIYHIJsC
C A TRIAL. #
Si'. VV. OKl*T Cashier.X \
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