THE
Danbury Reporter.
_f- I*. II I J L LvW'
N. E. & E. P. PEPPER, Publishers.
TERMS TO ANY ADDRESS :
One year, sl, fi mo. 50c., 3 mo. 25
FEBRUARY 1, 1906
RETROSPECTIVE AND INTROSPEC
TIVE.
The first issue of the Danbury
Reporter appeared January 25,
1872. The paper is therefore to
day thirty-four years old.
The first issue was published
tinder the editorial supervision
and proprietorship of Dr. John
Pepper, who continued the paper
until his death in 1881. Then the
late Mr. N. M. Pepper assumed
the control of the paper until his
death in 1902, when he was suc
ceeded by the present proprietors.
Thus through three generations
. the Reporter has come down, and
often it may be truthfully said
that the path of the paper has
been rugged and the future has
looked full of doubt.
But today, thanks to a kindly
and appreciative clientele, the Re
porter is on a pretty comfortable
footing, and to use a familiar term
in newspaper parlance, has "come
to stay."
For about 31 years the average
. weekly list of papers printed was
probably not over 500. Today we
feel pardonable pride in saying
that five thousand persons read
the paper regularly every week.
The causes that have produced
these remarkable changes have
not been superior ability on the
part of the present proprietors.
But the former regimes were under
the control of circumstances ad
verse or unfavorable to the
fetter development of the business
end of the paper: The former
proprietors, instead of giving to
the paper their personal attention,
rather conducted it as a side-line
from other professions or business,
and entrusted it to hands who
could not be expected to devote to
it that care and attention which
one should give to his own affairs.
Another cause which for many
yoars handicapped the paper, was
its editorial po|icy. Reporter
was the nominal organ of a politi
cal party. A pnper must indeed
have a wide field to succeed as a
partisan vehicle. Show us a suc
cessful rapid political organ of
any party, and we will point you
to subsidies and official patronage.
The Reporter often bore the
brunt of battle, never asking or re
ceiving any remuneration. As a
result, its circulation was confined,
and its revenues small.
The glory of the paper today is
that it is the organ or mouthpiece
of no political party, clique o*
private interest save its own. It is
seeking no cffice, and has no axe
to grind. Incidentally it might
be mentioned that the editors of
the Reporter have not changed in
thoir political faith. They still
balieve in the principles and tradi
tions which their fathers before
them believed in. They vote as
they please, and accord to others
the same right. Nor do we want
to oonvert you to our way of think
ing.
Our m'fliion, we Hatter onrselves,
is broader than t> conduct a part
isan newspaper, and our ideals
higher than petty Stokes county
politics. What WP want is to
build up a great newspaper that
will stand for all that tends to the
uplift of humanity education,
Sunday Schools, good roads, social
and industrial development, saner
methods of farming, less of ignor-,
Anoe, prejudice and standstill? and
more of life and progress.
To do this we must have the
patronage of the whole people,
not a handful of weak-kneed
Democrats, or a corporal's guard
of shaky Republicans.
This is our platform, and we
want the hearty support of every
person into whose hands thp paper
falls. We are far from our ideal
now —but when we look back and
see how far we have come, wo
take heart and turn toward the
Alps yet to bo scaled.
STOCK FOOD SWINDLE.
Wheal Bran. Etc., Flavored and
Scented and Sold at From S2OO
to 2,000 a Ton.
The Raleigh Progressive Farm
er sounds a note of warning to the
farmers of the South about what
it calls the stock food swindle. It
says that one of the most outrag
eous frauds now being perpetrated
upon the American farmer is that •
of prepared stock foods—common
meal, bran, etc., with a little cheap
sulphur, salt, Epsom salts, pepper,
saltpeter, etc., added to change the
taste, and the mixture (hardly
more valuable than ordinary ship
stutf) put up in tiamiug packages,
advertised in big illustrated ads in
farm papers, and sold to gullible
farmers at from $250 to $2,500 a
ton." The Progressive Farmer
says further, that some time ago,
the chief Southern contributor of
one of the farm papers most large
ly circulated in North Carolina
adjoining States, wrote an expos
ure of the whole miserable fraud
and sent it to his paper. The
reply came back. "The Blank Stock
Food Company pays us $3,000 a
year for advertising, and we would
lose it if we were to print your
Jotter. Please don't insert." It is
quite proper that while the patent
medicine nostrums are getting a
drubbing, the stock food humbugs
should be exposed, and this The
Progressive Farmer proposes to
do. If the frauds are of the na
ture complained of, we hope the
exposure will be of a natnre as to
protect the farmers against them.
—Charlotte Chronicle.
A Stokes Boy at Sharp's Institute.
Intelligence, N. C , Jan. 24.
Editors Reporter :
Dear Sirs:—As I am a Stokes
boy I will give-yon a few items i f
Sharp's Institute and this country.
I have been here abont two weeks
and find it more than it claims to
be in the catalogue. Prof. Sharp
is a man we do not meet every
day. However, he is only a young
riian of high character full of
energy and business and no parent
in North Carolina need not be
afraid to trust their children in
his care.
We have soveral Stokes boys
down here and they are doing
tine.
Messrs. Editors, we would be j
lost if we could not get the good
old Reporter to rend, once a week!
any way.
There has been some very pret
ty weather do-vn here for tha last j
few days, but expect wo will get
pay for it yet.
I enjoy reading letters from '
Stokes as they revert my thoughts
to the Reporter.
Well, I will close as not to take
up no more of your space for this
time.
Wishing the Reporter and its
readers much success.
A STUDENT.
FRIGHTFULLY BURNED.
Cbas. W. Moore, a machinist, of
Ford City, Pa., had his hand
frightfully burned in an electrical
furnace. He applied Bucklen's
Arnica Salve with the usual re
sult: "a quick and perfect cure."
Greatest healer on earth for Bums,
Woundes, Sores, Eczema and Piles.
250 at all Druggists.
MONEY TO LOAN—Bunk of
Stokes County.
*id PIT LIFE"
--That's wlrrit 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 they are worthy of
occasional note. From
infancy to old age Scott's
Emulsion offers 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.
We will tend you a
V sample free.
® 4 txtrc ***** this picture fn Iht
form of * Übcl U on the wrapper
tX V of erery bottle of Emulsion you
fljjEf I scon & BOWNE
"Sy I > I Chemists
pr 409 Pearl St., N. Y.
50c. st; all druggists.
KING ROUTE 1.
Messrs. J. W. and S. L. Pulliam
started to Winston Iftst-iThuta
day. law-' c.,j
Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Crews ' arte
moving this week. Sorry to see
them leave. A **
Mr. J. N. Bennett accompanied
by Miss Stella Pulliam visited the
Misses Johnsons Sunday even
ing. # i
Mr. Frank Haimii and sister
Grace visited Misses Claud and
Mollie Johnson Sunday.
Mr. J A. Smith called at Mr, J.
T. Johnson's Sunday.
Miss Bettie Gordon visited Miss
Deria Tuttle this week. Come
again, honey.
Misses M. G. J. and J. It. Ray
visited Miss S. C. Puiliam Wed
nesday.
There will be a singing at Mt.
Olive first Sunday in February at
2 o'clock, p. ni. ,
Services will be held at Capella
Sunday evening by Rev. Mr.
Glidewell.
Miss Hattie Gibson was looking
some what better Sunday, as Mr.
Latney called on her recently.
SCHOOL BOY.
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IgjflTheH
| "hcrtmUw The farmer'*
Yl«£d* Per A.cr«"
count grow
larcrer in proportion to the fertility
of hla form, i'o ,»upply to yrmt lam
the elements that have been taken
from It by planting and harvesting
season after season, use bountifully
Vtrflnta-CarollM Fertilizers
(with a apodal formal* for every
crop). They lay at the root of thous
ands and thousands of prosperous
farms. Pse theno fertilizers for all
your crops, no matter what they
may be. They will greßtly "Increase
your yields por ac re." and make your
money-Dag fuller. Ask your dealer
fur tiiem, and If ue can't supply you,
write us direct. Don't pay ycur
(rood money, nor give your uota. for
any inferior substitute.
VIRGINIA-CAROLINA CHEMICAL CO.,
Blchmond, Va. Atlanta. Oa.
Norfolk, Va. Savannah, Oa.
Durham, N.O. Montgomery,AlA.
Charleston,B.C. Memphis.Tenn.
Baltimore, Md. BhraYei>ort.^^|p
NOTICE!
Pay Your^Taxes!
THIRD CALL!
X
I will meet the tax-payers of
Stokes county for the purpose of
collecting the taxes for the year
1905 at the following times and
places, to-wit:
Dillard, Tbnrs. Feb. 1, 1906
Tuttle Bros.
store, Fri. " 2, "
L. W. Fergu
son's store, Sat. " 8, "
Danbury, Mon. " 5, "
"I hope the people will meet me
at the above time and places and
pay thoir 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 your taxes off, but pay
them now, while you aro 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 ine at the above times and
places and pay up.
This the 19th day of Dec. 1905.
R. J. PETREE, Sheriff.
TRUSTEE'S SALE.
By virtue of the power contain
ed in a certain deed in trust exe
cuted to me by J. O. Southern and
wife E. S. Southern on the 18th
day of Nov., 1891, to secure the
payment of a note therein recited,
which said deed in trust is duly
recorded in 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 {here
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. 190», •
at 12 oMbck, M., the lands con
veyed >Q said deed in trust, lying
'abd"being in Ihe county of Stckes,
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 on the North side, and J.
C. Flinn and M. T. Glenn on the
Sputh and West sides, it being
that portion of the Jonathan Flinn
land conveyed by him to J. C.
Flinn, and by liitn conveyed to J:
O. Sontlmrn, containing 20 ncres,
more or lesn." *
This the 2nd day of Jan.. l!)0(i.
J. G. H. MITCHELL,
Trustee.
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6JHEDUI.E IN EFT EOT DEC' 3, 1905
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PM AM , PM PM
2:50 7.30 Lv Winston Ar 2.00 10.00
8.28 8.13 " Wal. Cove " 1.21 9.30
5.00 9.50 " Mnrtinsv. " 11.45 7.49
7.25 12.30 Ar Roanoke Lv 9.20 5.15
P.M. P. M. A. M. P.M.!
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4:loam—For KaaC Kadford, IllucHeM. Tr/f
well and Norton, ml!tuan slreper to
roluwbtip, Olihi, mfr mr
5.10 a in ( WaahinMtufi aud Ohattnimnipi l.lmit**!)
for Pulii*ki |»rfnrl|ifil nmthiiw. Ilri*«»t an* flu
.Smith. Pullman NiMpcru t»» New i»r
le na ami Memphli. I 'alV car
4:i'S p m—The St. I.onl- Yxpre-^, lor
liluerteM. Pn* irtinntA*, Kenova. ChirU
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Coluiolnn* «n«l rullman Itnitirt
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to OmrinMiH, *«fe e*r
4:35 pm— For BhieHeUlantl infurrawtlate -
tf«»na*
4:45 p m—Hally. F'*r Hrlntol ami lntermel :ite
atationa Knotvi110.
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folk. Pullman lliifftf »rl«»r r.ar to Norfolk
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dolphi t ami York via llnKerMtowu anil
IfarrUhurj. Pullman New Vnrk.
745 p m—For Ifager«t4iwli. Pullm.-tu Sleeper to
Philadelphia.
1:01 a m—For yi«»lnn *nd -md Morftilk. Fnllman
Sleej»er l.vnehlinrr t#» \orfolk ami fllrlmmml.
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New York.
7:10 a m—Kor IVU'ialuirif,
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BLUE FRONT
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WALNUT COVE, N. C.
I don't claim to have the
liAIKJIiST Mtore on earth)
but the CHBAPKBT.
J. WILL EAST, WALNUT COW.
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> Piedmont {
 Savings Ban k }
C it'i nice than a hundred thousand dollars on deposit ;
with more than two thoiituud depositors'; invites both
W mercial anl savings accounts, and otFors to depositors
consistent with sound banking. -M
#WE WANT YOITR BL'STNBSS. G I YE IJSV
\ ;A TRIAL. J
>P. W. CRUTCH FIELD, Cashier. V
\ WIJfSTOJi -SALEM, M. C.
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