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Danbury Reporter I'EI'PEU ItUOS.. KIM. A.\l> I'l HK. Jam UNir. Don't forget Old Soldiers Day, August 3. With pens selling at $3 00 per bushel, which is the wiser—to plant or not to plant ? The Reporter's new folder is a beauty. Come in any Wednesday evening and see it do business. Mr. It. P. McAnally has uot >el signified his intention of umpiring the baseball gamo here nexl Thursday. The mills will do a land office business this summer and fall. And the threshing machine men are already grinning from ear to oar, Our readers tell us that the Re porter grows better. We want you to help us make it the best local paper in the world. Tell or phone u? or write the news. The wonderful and constant growth of newspaper advertising, is the sure testimonial that it pays. The business men of Stokes coun ty are fast learning th.\t pintorr ink brings trade, and that tl r Reporter is read by every b^tly. Stokes is certainly ahead of hei sister counties in one thing. We nover before heard of any com munity that was so full of moon shine stills that the whole revenue force of the State was required to thin them out. We all ought to f !«1 proud of Smithtown. Summer is come. We invite you to spend the hot months in our mountain country, if you are a denizen of the sweltering city We have good hotels and plenty to eat, anil our people are hospita ble and generous. Try the sum mer resorts of old Stokes, and you will come again next summer. Mr. J. W. Fagg, a young man who lives near the Buck Island bridge, is said to be making moiey out of his poultry yard He has about (>OO young chix fat tjning for the market. Chicken meat is now going at 15 cents per pound, and eggs at 12-or 15. Mr. Fiigg is doubtless "in the boat." It is said that onions are the greatest profit-makers on the farm. ()ne writer says that S3OO worth can be made on an acre. But oui people believe this so little that they don't even plant enough for S9ed. Last spring some of our citizens failed to plant their usual onion patches because they ouldn't get any sets, Though they suit as far as Richmond for them Mr R. E. Smith, of Francisco, thinks that macadam ruads through Stokes county would be of more benefit to our people thnn railroads. And Mr. Smith is right. We need railroads bad, but we need macadam roads worse—hard level highways on which our farm ers can transport tiieir products and commune with each other in their own conveyances, cheaply and pleasurab.'y. The Reporter trusts that the Farmers Institute at Locust Hill farm will bo attended by H much larger crowd than is usual at these gatherings in our county. Our people don't appreciate the farm ers' institute by any means as they should. We are most altogether an agricultural peoplo, and should never lose an opportunity to see and know everything pertaining to iur chief business in life. It means money in our pockets. THE FIRST NOTE OF DISCORD. Mr. Charles R. Helsabeck, of Rural Hall, replies to our editorial of week before last regarding a supposed bond issue of 1200,000 by Stokes county for the purposo of macadamizing our roads and bridg ing our streams. His communication will be found on the first page of this paper. We do uot feel certain that Mr. Helsabeck is not a non-resident, in which case we would question his right to throw cold water on our enthusiasms, as the money for onr roads would not come out of his jeans. We are lead to our suspicion (1) by the fact that Mr. Helsa beck's name does not appear on the tax-lists of our county ; and (2), by an expression which he felicitously uses : "While times are good j 'ilid everything so prosperous." The divine bird of prosperity has not been accused of having its home where Mud is King. We are glad to print Mr. Helsabeck's article which, though it does ' / not advance any new or startling ideas, shows that the people are capable of being agitated on this most important question. Agitation generally means thinking, and thinking sometimes results in action. The first proposition laid down by our Rural Hall contributor is one on which we can almost but not quite agree with him : "The people of Stokes county will never consent to be taxed with a $200,- 000 bond issue for that purpose." The citizens of Stokes are certain ly not in favor of anything of the kind, and if Mr. Helsabeck infers that we thought otherwise he will become disillusioned by re-reading our editorial of the 13th. Next Mr. Helsabeck dissects the meaning of a $200,000 bond issue in nil of its horrors before an unsuspecting public. He says it would increase our taxes $12,000 a year, and he fiually reaches the inevitable couclusion that interest catches up with the principal in about 17 years. With a considerable degree of feeling he expostulates : "Every muscle, fibro and nerve of the patriot cries out against a bond issue, of $200,000." Like all of those who are against bond issues for building roads or anything else, Mr. Helsabeck only considers one side of the question. That side of course is the tax side. If he would reflect for a mo ment possibly lie would discern that when you expend such a sum of' money as S2OO,(XX) on a county with the natural advantages Stokes lias, that there's mighty apt to ho "somethin' doin' " about in spots, before all the money is gone. Mr. Helsabeck is right in his statement that $200,000 would not put our roads in as good a condition as those of Mecklenburg or some . others of the leading counties. But it would put us on a plane where I we would soon have just as good roads as those other counties. The Reporter is satisfied that if its proposition were acted on, in less than 3 years (to say nothing of 17) material improvements within our borders would occur which would be worth morel to our county than the auiouut of the principal of the bonds. New j people, new enterprises, new developments, new property would come among us from the very start, and if our taxable valuations did not double within five years, our case would be vastly different from that of other up-to-date and progressive counties that have tried the j scheme. No, Mr. Helsabeck, if our county stood still while we expended such a large sum, then your patriot soul wore wiso in crying out igainst a heavy bond issue and hard interest money. Such would certainly ruin us. Mr. Helsabeck figures that our "coupou" bill would be $12,000 a year, aud doubts whether the bonds would go at par. We have con fidence enough in ourpeople and resources to believe that the bonds oould be floated at four or five per cent easily. Then when we got the money on thein, there are lots of our Southern bankers who, in order to get a whack at such a c insiderable sum, would pay us 5 per cent, for all our funds not in use, and lots of it could be loaned on real estate at six. Or a still bettor way would be to issue say only 150,000 or SIOO,OOO of the bonds at a time, so that we would not have to be paying interest on the money before we were ready for it. We are glad that our friend —though lie feels a holy horror of bj«d issues —*s yet "in favor of the b»Bt method of working our roa Is with the least cost possible." And we feel abundnntly safe in pointing out to him the only known remedy for bad roads and mud, and that is to grind up rock and pave them—macadamize them. All other methods are a failure, and cost more in the end. And it is unjust to ns—we I people of the present generation—that we should pay for them down. Because the future generations will reap their portion of the advan tages, and (hay ought to pay the principal if we pay the interest And when the time conies to pay the principal, it is certainly reason able, conservative and safe to say'that our county will have so far advanced in taxable values that the burden will sit heavily on no one. - If the patriot souls of those whose every nerve, muscle and fibre cries out at the mere contemplation of paying five or six thousand dollars a year interest for the great benefit of macadam roads, what must be the state of their anatomy when they consider the taxes we have alrenily paid, and which we fear we will yet for aye continue to pay—the draining, exhausting, discouraging tribute to King Mud, 1 which has kept our oounty for 50 years in, a background of poverty and shame; that has untenanted our farms aud driven thousands of our boys from home, aud which makes of us a discontented poople, when we ought to be happy, progressive and free. • information given in this W space in next week's PL > I paper will Know why /yt\\ Tobacco gratifies chewers 1 at less cost than cheap to- 1 I baccos. Chew' what you Know about and Know what p I you are chewing. I R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY || / WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. M / LAND SALE. Ky virtue of a decree nf the Sii|>e riorCtrtirtof Stokescounty, rendered by M. T. Chilton, C. S. In the Special Proceedings entitled "Hessie I X. Smitli et nl vs. Carrie (Sentry et | nl," appointing tlie undersigned n | coiniulssioner to make wale of the hereinafter dewrilied laiuls, l will on J Saturday, the (ith day of July, 1907. at the home place of the late I*. (>. Bennett, deed,, well at public auction | to the highest bidder the following J deHcrilied real estate, to-wit : J Ist tract—Contains 22." acres, ad | joining the lands of ('. 11. Lunsford, Jasper Hennett and others, j Second tract —Contains 4T> acres I more or less and adjoins the lands of W. (». Slate, I'. O. Itennett and | others. j Third tract —Contains 21.(1 acres | more or less and adjoins the lauds of J. C. Tillotson and others. Fourth tract —Contains 117 1-1(1 I acres more or less and adjoins the lands of H. (i. (Sentry. It. It. Smith j and others. Fifth tract —Contains 14> acres ] more or less and adjoins the lands [of K. It. Itennett, I*-, O. Hennett and others. Sixth tract —Contains 21.(5 acres I and adjoins the lands of K. I!. Smith, j \V. l. Slate and others. The 225 acre tract will be sold separately by its ( self, "and likewise the 45 acre tract j will be sold by itself separately. | Tracts numbered 11. and (i will be sold together. After the lands are [ bid off as set out above, they will then lie offered all together to ascer ! tain by which method the greatest sum can IK* obtained therefor, and the method or way of selling which brings the most money will lie adop ted and the bid reported to the ! Court for con li rum Moil or otherwise as the court may direct. The terms of sale are : —One-half cash on day of sale and the remaining half to' be paid on or lief ore the first day of January, ISMix, with bond and ap proved security for deferred pay ments. The metes and bounds of the ' various tracts will be made known upon application for the same. This May 17th, 11107. JENMK HICNNETT, Commissioner. Land Sale. lly virtue of a decree of the Su perior Court of Stokes county, ren dered on the first day of June, |!HI7, in the case of Henry J. Mickey and others, ex parte, appointing the undersigned a commissioner to sell the lands hereinafter dcscrllied. for the purpose of partition, I will ex pose to public sale to the highest bidder for cash, on the premises in j Stokes county, at tin- hour of one o'clock, p. in., on Thursday the 18tll day of July, I!KJ7, a tract of laud in Stokes county, containing S2 acres, more or less, on the waters of(srassy Creek, known as what was formerly lands belonging to John Burr, deed., adjoining I lie lands of Robert Stone and John Wesley Wail on the South, the Jackson laud on the West, the Ziglar lands and ltoliert Stone on the North, and the lands of Matthew Lane oil the Fast. Fight-ninths of tills tract of land will l>e sold subject to the dower 1 right of Mrs. Camilla Mickey, widow ■"if Will. A. Mickey, deceased, which has never been assigned to her, and the other one-ninth will be sold not' subject to any dower right. Tills tlie first dav of June. 1807. X. ). PFTRFF, Commissioner. •MtMmttM • •###•##### 1 To Business Men. f # You can get the very best writing # paper and envelops at this office # with your business card, etc., neatly 0 printed on them for about what they ' # will cost you elsewhere without the 2 X printing. SGive us a trial order. # THE DANBURY REPORTER, * # DAN BURY, N. C. # eOUHMMMt f fMOMtM Report of the Condition of the Hank of Stokes County At the Close of Business May 18, 1907. It KNOCK!'ICS. j Loans ami discounts j! iverilrafts (>7 ill i Hanking house, #147-"». 14: f nr | uitureand fixtures #1024.1>4 2409.7* Diicfroin hunksanil bankers l":!n.">.:;l 'anil items ; 2TM.NO I Hold coin i;:t7-r>o • | Silver coin, including all 1 minor currency (ts;.4l i National bank notes anil other C.S. notes 4(141.(K) | Total $.X475.411 LIABILITIES. Capital stock $10,000.00 Cndivided profits, less cur | rent ex|K*nses anil taxes j i will lo.:ui ! Deposits subject to check 20947.54 Demand certificates of dep. 204:!1.:fcs j ( ashler's checks oiitstunif j ing • 10.N9.19 I" ; 'J'otal $."1x178.44 ! Stnte of North Carolina, I 88 Stokes county. ( We, N. E. Pepper and R. R. Rogors, Cashiers of the übove ' named bank, do solemnly swe&r ' that the above statement is true Ito the best of our knowledge and belief. N. E. PEPPER, R. R» ROGERS, Cashiers. Subscribed and sworn to before me this .'soth day of May, 1907. E. P. PEPPER, Notary Public. Correct—Attest : J H. PRATIIER, W. RVERLY, L. E. PRATHER. J.T. Bcnbow. S. E. Hall. J. W. hall. Benbow, Hall & Hall, , Attorneys and Counselors at Law, DANBURY, N. C. Office at McCanless Hotel North Carolina—Kockinglinm Coun ty. In the Superior Court —Before Clerk. I!. K. Wall, administrator of I!. I'. Wall, deceased, ahil ('. P. Wall, Delia h Notice l.ane ami her husband, of sale. Joseph Lane, heirs at j law of K. I' Wall, cx parte. I'ursuant to an order of the Su perior Court, made in the above en titled cause, appointing; me commis sioner and onli-riii?-' me to sell the following described lands, I will on the premises, on Monday July I.lth. 1007. at ten (111) o'clock, a. 711., sell for cash to highest bidder the i following described piece, or parcel |of land situated in Stokes county, ! N. ('.. adjoining' the lands of Hairs ton, W. I'. llutcherson, 15. J, Wall and others, and described as being Ihe land bought by It. I'. Wall 11 ml A. J. Wall from 15. J. Kndaily. A more particular anil definite descrip tion will lie furnished on day of sale, j N. I!.—Only the undivided one-half ,1)41 interest in iliis land belonging; to »the estate of Ir. I". Wall, deed., is to , be si dil. This 10th dav of June, 1007. K. 15. WALL, ('ommlssloner. Re-Sale Of a Valuable Farm. By a decree tlf the Superior Court of Nt okes county, made the 3rd day of J line. 1907, on urcotiuL nt insutlic iency of price ami a ten percent, ad vanced bid offered, a re-sale is j ordered of the tract of land described lielow. I w ill, therefore, sell at public a net lon on I lie 1 irenises on Sa turd ay till' Lltli day of July, IJHI7, at 2 o'clock. p. 111.. a tract of 221 acres of j valuable land, with improvements, lying' in Sa ura t own township. Stokes .county. It being: the home place of the late.M. D. 11. Brown, and better j known as the John Dal ton tract, adiojuiiiju; the lands of Jno. M. Lln ] ville. B. s. Brown ami others. This tract is wMI Improved and line for grain. grasses, tobacco, etc. Terms: One-third cash, one-tliirii in twelve months afld the other third |ln two years, with Interest on ile-1 ferred payments from day of sale.® Title n'served until the purchase money and interest is paid. This the .'trd day of June, 1!KI7. B. S. BROWN, ('ommiKsioiicr. Itelew's I'rii'k. N. It. I'". D. No. I.
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