A Week's Record of County Events
BROTHERS MEET FIRST TIME.
The Sons and Daughter Of Mrs. Mar
garet Culler Celebrate Her
79th Birthday.
Pinnacle, May 15. —The children
of Mrs. Margaret Culler, who lives
at The Hollow, Patrick Co., Ya.,
gave her a surprise birthday dinner
on Sunday, 29th of April, litOti.
' The dinner was given in celebra
tion of her 79th birthday, and all
of her children were present on
the happy occasion—ten sons and
one daughter. Some of them are
among the leading men of thisaud
adjoining counties. Seventeen of
her grandchildren and one great
grandchild were present, also
many relatives and friends.
Mrs. Culler was married fifty
five years ago. Her eldest son,
Mr. Lee Culler, of Mayberry, Ya.,
is 53 years old. Her youngest son,
Mr. Millard Culler, is 28. Mr.
Lewis E. Culler, of Piunacle, is
one of her sons. He took great
pleasure in giving his mother the
surprise dinner, Mr. L. E. Culler
is one of Pinnacle's enterprising
saw mill men and lumber dealers
Mrs. Margaret Culler is the grand
and great grandmother of >s chil
dren. This birthday occasion was
a very extraordinary one. The
writer learned that for the first
time in life, and probably the last,
some of these brothers and sisters
had met. Some of the eldest
brothers had left home many years
before the young ones were born.
At dinner the dear old mother
was placed at the head of the table
in a high chair where she could
the better see, The male mem
bers were all on one side and all
83emed happy and full of life.
A FRIEND.
A Challenge to the Oak Grove De
baters.
Mr. Editor:
I notice in the last issue of the
Reporter that Oak Grove has had
a warm debate on the subject of
Woman Suffrage. Both sides
well represented. Pinnacle also
has a good debating society, which {
I enjoy very much and I will bet
a good cigar that our president,
Hon. John R. Jones, can beat two
of the best debaters that Oak
Grove may put forward; while Oak
Grove may have some good de
baters, but they can't wear Web
ster's trousers for Mr. Jones has
that honor himself.
Boys, -would you smoke a good
cigar? If so challenge the match
less orator.
I suggest that Oak Grove boys
meet the steam engine at King
and debate some political ques
tion.
S. B. O. McCALL, Sec.
Good Sunday Schools at Mt. Olive
and Oak Grove.
King Route 2, May 13.
Mr. Editor, if you will allow me
space in your valuable paper I
will write a very short letter to
the dear old Reporter.
We had some very cold weather
during the past week.
We are having a good Sunday ,
School at Mt. Olive and also at
Oak Grove. I think Sunday j
school is so nice. I dfarly love
Sunday school.
I saw Mr. Thurman Bennett
Hying towards Mr. Gibson's this
evening. Think his horse was
just hitting the high places in the
road.
SUNDAY SCHOOL GIRL.
* Have you weakness of any kind
—stomach, back, or any organs of
the body? Don't dope yourself
with ordinary medioine. Hollis- 1
ter's Rocky Mountain Tea is the
supreme curative power. 35 cents,
Tea or Tablets. R. L. Murphy,
Walnut Cove. H. M. Joyce, Dan
bury.
DEATH OF MISS SUE DILLON.
Tobacco Plants Scarce. Measles
Raging.
Madison, Route 4, May 12. —
; Tuesday night's frost came very
near doing up things in. this sec
tion. Nearly all the garden truck
got killed except cabbage." Tree
buds got topped slightly.
The stork visited the home of
i Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Yenable Wed
nesday, leaving a fine boy.
M iss Sue Dillion died of con
sumption at the home of Mr. and
1 Mrs. J. 11. Joyce Tuesday, A. M.
| She was about 40 years of age.
She belonged to the Missionary
Baptist church at Beaver and had
; been a member for some time. Her
funeral was preached at the home
iof Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Joyce by
Rev. C. W. Glidewell. She was
buried near Beaver Island church
Tuesday.
Most farmers are about done
plauting corn. Some are ready
to plant tobacco. Tobacco plants
are scarce in this section. Not
many farmers have enough.
Rev. Bud Joyce filled his regu
lar appointment at Beaver Island
Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. R. H. Mitchell has been
very sick, but is better now, we
are glad to note.
Measles is still raging in this
section.
LITTLE BANTAM.
PINNACLE ROUTE 2.
Pinnacle Route 2. May 13.
People in this section are about
done planting corn and are very
busy preparing land for their to
bacco.
Miss Maggie Joyce visited her
cousin Lulie Southern Sunday, i
i She reports a nice time.
Mr. Sidney Chandler accom
panied by his aunt, Miss Millie
| Chandler visited at Mr. S. W.
Sams' last Sunday.
Whooping cough is all the go
around here. Measles is about
stopped, we are glad to note
The frost did much damage
through this section. It killed
beans aud a good deal of • the to
bacco plants.
GUESS WHO.
Judge Boyd After the Blockaders.
Judge Boyd, in Asheville Mon
day, sentenced five blockaders to
thirteen months in prison. This
indicates that the judge meant
what he said when he stated some
time ago that he intended to break
up illicit distilling in western
North Carolina.
J Death Near King.
King. May 15.—Mrs. Martha A.
E. Pulliam, familiarly known as
"Aunt Betsy," died at her home
Saturday evening at the advanced
age of 81 years. The interment
was at Trinity church Sunday, the
funeral being conducted by Revs.
J. C. Keever and S. H. Helsabe&k,
of Rural Hall.
We Trust
Doctors
If you are suffering from
itr.pure blood, thin blood, de
bility, nervousness, exhaus
tion, you should begin at once
with Aycr's Sarsaparilla, the
Sarsaparilla you have known
all your life. Your doctor
knows it,too. Askhimaboutit.
Ton matt look well after the condition of
your liver ami bowels. Unlets there In dally
notion of the bowel*. poUoiiotit products are
absorbed,causllitT headache. hllinusncxn, uau
se»*. dvppepftiu. ami thus | inventing the Sur
•aparfllu from dolntf ll* bent work. Ayer's
PIMh :irf llvor plU*. Act gently, nil rentable.
The do*e 1* only one pill at bontiine.
M M&de by J. C. Ayrr Co., IjOwoll, Man*.
Also znauufaoturors of
9 HAIR VIGOR.
/ «1 i& PC AGUE CURE.
A -A. WV# O CHERRY PECTORAL.
The A. T. Co
THE OUTRAGEOUS METHODS OF THE MON
STER COMBINATION-GOVERNMENT WILL
PROBABLY PROSECUTE IT.
The Washington correspondent of The Louisville Courier-Journal
sends his paper a story to the effect that Commissioner of Corpor
ations Garfield is making an investigation of the tobacco trust and "in
some quarters it is claimed that its result will be little less sensation
than that of the Standard Oil Company." Mr. Garfield is not expect
ed to make his report before Congress adjourns, but will probably
transmit it to the Presideut during the summer. Representative
tStanley, of Kentucky, has devoted much of his time recently to a per
! sonal investigation of the alleged trust and he declarad that he has in
formation which will result in the government's beginning prosecu
tions against the monster combination headed by James B. Duke.
Speaking of the operations of the tobacco combination, Representa
tive Stanley is quothod as saying that in many iustauoes the repres
entatives of the trust have sent for independent manufacturers and
have demanded that they turn over to the American Tobacco Com
pany 51 per cent, of the stock of their colnpanies. When they refused
they have been threatened with destruction, and in more than one
instance the threats have been made good. Continuing, the Repres
entative said:
"The trust, it will be shown, controls the output of licorice paste,
an essential ingredient in the manufacture of tobacco. I have copies
of contracts independent dealers have been forced to sign in which
they agree to take but certain quantities of this material and at certain
time. In the past five years the trust has increased the price of this
paste ">OO per cent. Employes of independent firms have been tam
pered with, and the investigation will disclose a shocking state of
affairs. Duke has made good his boast that he would do for tobacco
what Rockefeller has for Standard Oil. The American Tobacco Com
pany is the sole buyer of leaf tobacco except the Regie contract sales.
It controls the cigarette, snuff, smoking and plug sales and 85 per
cent, of the entire business amounting to half a billion dollars a year.'
The trust has driven into bankruptcy 3,000,000 people dependent upon
raising tobacco and an additional 1,(XX),000 of dealers.
"As long as the trust continues to oppose the Will taking the tax of
six cents off leaf tobacco," concluded Mr. Stanley, "I intend to de
vote my time and energy to exposing its methods, and I expect to
bring its officials to justice and some to the penitentiary."
Many people in North Carolina will be especially interested in this
movement against the American Tobacco Company, which has done
so much to make tobacco-growing of little profit—barely enough be
ing paid in many cases to induce farmers to continue to raise it.
There is no doubt that the tobacco interests of the country are in the
main controlled by one gigantic concern, and its operation w ill prob
ably be found as arbitrary as the Standard Oil or any other monopoly.
—Charlotte Observer.
PINNACLE.
Pinnacle, May 14.
Whooping cough is all the go
in this section.
All who were at Pinnacle com
mencement and have not had the
whooping cough had better lo k
out for a whoop.
Miss Hattie Davis was quite
sick Sunday morning, but as her
best fellow called in the afternoon,
she is alright today.
Among those who attended the j
Sunday school convention at
Shoals, N. C., of this place, were
Rev. A. L. Hunter and wife, Mr.
and Mrs. I. N. Hunt, Mr. J. C.
Davis and wife, Prof. Hall, Mr.
Floyd Culler and several others
too tedious to mention. All re
port a nice time.
Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Slate visited
Mrs. Slate's people Saturday
night.
Mr, Ed Spainhower, of Win
ston, visited his parents Saturday
and returned today.
1 expect that Miss Maude
Hunter is expecting to get off
right soon, as she has had Miss
Hattie Davis helping her sew.
Mr. Harden, of South Carolina,
has took his departne, but we
think Mr. McCall will remain a
while yet, as his gal hasn't gone
back on him.
Miss Dora Wall had a big time
buggy riding Sunday, but she
had hetter not. let Alvin know it.
MAMMA'S PET.
A MOUNTAIN OF GOLD
could not bring as much happiness
to Mrs. Lucia Wilke, of Caroline,
Wis., as did one 25c box of Buck
len's Arnica Salve, when it com
pletely cured a running sore on
her leg, which had tortured her
23 Jong years. Greatest antisep
tic healer of Piles, Wounds and
Sores. 25c at all drug stores.
DEATH OF MRS. POLLY VAUGHN
, Frost Kills Vegetables On King Route
2 -Fruit Crop Will Be Short.
Pinnacle Route 2, May 14. —
Well, we are having nice weather.
We have had a severe frost, killing
everything in (he way of vegeta
; bles.
We are sorry to note the death
of our friend, Mrs. Polly Vaughn,
who died May fith, and was laid
to rest at the Denny burying
ground near Grassy Knob. She
was 80 years, ,i months and seven
days old. 1 son survives her Mr
Gid Vaughn. .She was confined
to her bed about 15 days, and
knew everything till the end. She
had been living with her grand
son, Mr. Virgil Vaughn must i
11 years and often while on her
death bed made the remark how
kind the family had been to her,
and saiil that Mrs. Vaughn had
never given her a short word while
she had been with her.
The people all seemed to be kind
during her sickness, and never
stayed a single night by them
selves. The writer never saw the
; neighbors so kind i\t any place hs
at Mr. Vaughn's Her presence
will lie sadly missed, hoping our
loss is Heaven's eternal gain. The
bereaved family have the syrnpa
thy of the writer.
The fruit crop in this section is
rather short. 1 don't think there
will be any fruit in so-ue places.
ROSE BUD.
TOCTTRE A COLD IN ONE
DAY
Take LAXATIVE BROMOQuin
ine Tablets. Druggists refund
money if it fails to cure. R. W.
GROVE'S signature is mi each
tw)x. 2*»c.
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LETTER FROM MR. JOSEPH REID.
) hornier Citizen of Our County. Now
78 Years of Age. Remembers
His Old Friends.
Mechanicsburg, Ya., May 10.
Dear Reporter:
Allow me space in your columns
to say a few words about uiy native
county and State.
I spent my childhood days in
Stokes county. There I married
my first wife, Elezabeth Dunlap,
1845, also many of my dear
friends sleep in your dust.
I will name some of your noble
eitizer.B I once knew: I worked'
for your grandpa Pepper 2 years,'
he was a high minded, honorable
gentleman. Your great uncle,
Nat Moody, was a noble man, I
also worked for him seven years.
As some of my friends and rel
atives read your paper I trust they
may remember me and know
where I am. There are the Rob
ertson boyß, the Dunlaps and
many of my old friends, not nee
essary to mention.
I was in old Stokes last winter,
but the weather was so bad I
failed to visit many of my friends, j
I am now going on 78 and I don't
expect to visit my native land
again, but all the dear ones will
ever have a warm place iu my j
heart. When the "Roll is cabled)
up yonder," I expect to meet many j
I once knew. lam well and am
enjoying myself and living every
day in readiness for the great!
change that awaits us all.
JOSEPH REID.
Mr. Mart Gordon Hurt in West Vir-f
ginia -News Of Dalton Route 1.
Dalton Route 1, May 13.—Mrs.
Elizabeth Wilson, who lias had a'
severe attack of rheumatism, is
improving fast, we are glad to say. >
Mr. Mart Gordon, formerly of
Stokes, who now resdes at Brajn
well, West Va., got a pick stuck in
his arm while working in a coal
min last Monday, and isexper-ted
home in a few days.
Rev. J. M. Bennett preached
at Flat Rock School House last
Sunday, but not many people out!
to hear hiin on account of measles
and whooping cough. He will
preach there again second Sunday
in June. Everybody is invited to
come,
GI'ESS WHO.
Have you pains iu the back, in-|
fiamation of any kind, rheumatism,
• fainting spells, indigestion or con
stipation, Hollister's Rooky Moun
tain Tea makes you well, keeps
you well. 35 cents. R. M. Mur
phy, Walnut Cove, H. M. Joyce,
Dan bury.
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them. They are free and von can save money by nsing
6 them. We welcome small accounts—would rather have
many small accounts than a few large accounts.
Sank of Stokes Gaunty. Jj
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' A CUTTING AT DILLARD.
Lee Powers Carves Tice Coon's Boy
J. P. Dunlap Unimproved —J. M.
Mitchell Very Sick.
Dillard, May 15.
Special To The Danhury Reporter :
Mr. A. 8. Mitchell and family,
of Walnut Cove visited relatives
! here last Saturday Sunday.
I Mr. J. M. Mitchell is very sick.
He has been in declining health
for some time.
Mr. J. P. Dunlap is yet unim
proved. He has a very severe -
i case of lung trouble. Little hopes
I being entertained for his recovery.
Lee Powers, son of B. F. Poweis
and one of Tice Coon's boys en
j gaged in an affray Saturday night,
and it resulted in Coon getting an
ugly wound in bis side with a
knife. He had to be carried to
physicians at Madison for treat
ment.
Nick Mitchell went to Winston
on business last Thursday, return
ing Friday.
The Sunday School is greatly
improved at this place.
There will be several to go to
! the association at Sardis frun
this place next Saturday and Sun
day.
N.
DALTON.
Whooping cough and measles
I is all the go now.
Mrs. Bird Smith has been on
the sick list for some time, but
is improving, we are glad to note.
The fortunes of th unmarried of
Dalton have been told as follows:
. Mr. Walter Tucker to Mitts
Birtie Snfith.
Mr. Herbert Gordon to Miss
! Lillie Lawson.
Mr. Squire Edward to Miss
, Ollie Boyles.
Mr. L. R. Coe to Miss Stacie
! Love.
Mr. Hary Sisk to Miss Margaret
Mickey.
Mr, Has Lawson to Miss Myra
Turpin.
Mr. Kos Hamm to Miss Maud
; Cow.
DALTON BOYS.
North Carolina Acreage Reduced.
John S. Cunningham, of Person
county, president of the North
Carolina Fanners' Protective As
sociation, stated recently that he
:thinks that the tobacco acreage
will not be increased this year,
and that, if anything, less tobacco
planted this year than for several
years past, and that the
acreage is being put in diverged
crops and truck for home UIUJ.
Forsyth Superior' court con.
venes Monday. The Kobre mur
der trial will lie heard at the firbt
of the term.