The Danbury Reporter.
PEl'PKlt ISKOK., EMTOKW AMI PUUIJMHKIM.
THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1907.
SUCCEEDING WHERE OTHERS FAIL.
Just a few years ago Mr. David Hicks wanted a home, and had only
SIOO.OO. Lying on the road between Danbury and Germanton, near
Meadows, wero a hundred acres of land. This tract, exceptionally
poor, scraggy, undesirable, unproductive, was desired by Mr. Hicks,
who felt like be could do something with it. He bought it for $.>00.00,
receiving a title bond after paying his SIOO.OO.
Drive by Mr. Hicks' place today, and you will see one of the clean
est and best kept farms in the county. In every sense of the saying,
Mr. Hicks "lives at home and boards at the same place." You prob
ably couldn't buy his place for SI,SOO. He raises tobacco, wheat, corn,
oats, clover, grass, peas, and sugar cane. He has something to sell
every day in the year—either peaches or watermelons, potatoes or ap
ples or something. Of course he has loug since paid for his farm, and |
he owns a nice bank account. We doubt if he owes any man a dollar.
Ho is making money farming. He has raised a nice family, and is a
good citizen, an ornament to his county and an example to those who
under more favorable conditions have made failures.
It is the old story. While one fellow sits down and bewails his lot,
and sheds briny tears because he wasn't bom rich, another goes to
work and makes a success in life. If Mr. Hicks had followed the lead
of many of our citizens, he would not have had the heart to tight the
battle of life on poor old Stokes county soil, but would have carried
his family to the hot factories of High Point, and there under the
lash of a supercilious "boss man" eked out some sort of an existence.
Instead, he stuck tu his acres, pai 1 for them, made them richer year
by year, raised things that sell for money, worked when he wanted to
and rested when lie pleased. He is his own man, "monarch of all he
surveys,' - a type of that most pleasing of all American citizenship—
the tree, happy, contented, prosperous farmer,
The world owes a debt to such men as David Hicks—they show us
that we must make the best of opportunity, we must overcome ob
stacles, surmount difficulties, and get on top of the wave of adversity
when it comes. If we lie down and let it engulf us, we are weak
lings who deserve not to be called men.
Energy, economy, and good judgment have never failed yet to suc
ceed, and never will.
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WILL ADVERTISING PAY THE STOKES COUNTY
MERCHANT?
The average Stokes county merchant does not believe in advertis
ing. Consequently he sells just so many goods, supplying those who
are nearest to him, and who out of necessity buy at the nearest point.
The way to build up a mercantile business is, first, keep the things
the people want: second, buy shrewdly and in big quantities, so you
can get the advantage of cuts in prices, for the big buyer always can
get advantages; third, let the people know that you are doing bus
iness and want their trade. Don't merely state in the ad that you are
running a store, and keep general merchandise for sale. This is not
interesting. But quote the price on certain articles. This will at
tract them. Change your ad often, keeping it always new, and fresh.
Study your business. Arrange attractions, and surprises.
One of the best examples that advertising pays is the firm of H. E.
Bucklen & Co,, of Chicago, which has been running its advertise
ments of King's New Discovery, Electric Bitters, etc, in the Reporter
for 20 years. This firm advertises in 1.1,000 newspapers in the United
States and has been at it for many years. If it didn't pay, how long
do you suppose it would continue it ¥
Everybody reads the Reporter every week.
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OLD SOLDIERS' DAY.
Capt. James A. Leak says he wants all the Old Confederates with
their relatives and friends to come to Danbury ou Saturday, August
3, and make the day a memorable one in the history of Stokes county.
There will be a brass band, a speaker, and a good dinner, and that
happy communion of the old fellows with each other and their friends,
which is suro to make the occasion one never to be forgotten.
Capt. Leak says with much truth and pathos, that the' old soldiers
won't be here much longer. Their steps are growing more feeble and
their backs more bent with each passing day, and soon the eternal re
veille will call them to another strand. None of us will ever regret
what we did to make their last days happier.
Let everybody come and bring baskets well filled.
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The Reporter acknowledges with thanks the receipt of a copy of the
Stokes County News, the publication of which was begun at Walnut
Cove last week. Abe Jones is the editor, and R. R. Rogers business
manager, while J. G. Fulton is assistant business manager. These
are bright and hustling young men, and under their guidance the
News should succeed. Best wishes.
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Would 10,000 apple trees produce a not profit of SIO,OOO ?
GIRL COMPOSITORS WANTED.
A Chance For Two Bright And Ener
getic Young Ladies Who Desire
Employment.
The Reporter wants two lady
compositors for about six mouths
and probably longer, beginning
Sept. 1, 1907. It is our purpose
to greatly enlarge the paper with
the first fall months, and it will be
necossary to add to our type
sotting equipment. Following the
example of many of the city pa
pers, we wish to employ female
help.
Typesetting is pleasant and
profitable work for girls, and is
better than a common school ed
ucation. We guarantee the girls
regular employment, and if work
should give out here we can quick
ly secure them positions elsewhere
at good salaries. It will bo neces
sary for the applicants to be able
ito read and write well. We would
prefer that they had experience
teaching in the public schools.
Our purpose is to receive the girls
in the office during two or three
weeks in August and learn them
the art, for which we will make 110
charge. Then by Sept. 1 they
will be able to do the work for
compensation. Good wages will
I>e paid, of course governed by the
skill of the compositors.
Write at once. We are prepar
ing a nice office, and the surround
ings will be equal in every re
spect to a school room.
Address
PEPPEK BROS.,
Danbury, N. C.
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by local applications, as they can
not reach the diseased portion
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of the mucous lining of the Eusta
chian Tube. When this tube is
inflamed you have a rumbling
sound or imperfeot hearing, and
when it is entirely closed, Deaf
ness is the result, and unless the
inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to its normal
condition, hearing will be destroy
ed forever; nine cases out of ten
are caused by Catarrh, which is
nothing but an inflamed condition
of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred
Dollars for any case of Deafness
(caused by catarrh) thut cannot
be cured by Hall's Catarrh Curo.
Send for circulars free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for
constipation.
Jamestown Ter-Centennial, Norfolk.
Va.. April 26th. Nov. 30th. 1907.
Southern Railway announces
extremely low rates to Norfolk,
Va., and return on account of the
above occasion. The following
round trip rates will apply from
Walnut Cove, N. C. :
Season Tickets, $13.30.
Sixty Day Tickets, sll.lO.
Fifteen Day Tickets, $10.40.
Coach Excursion Tickets, s"> 20.
Coach Excursion Tickets will
be sold on Tuesday, with limit
1 seven days from date of sale, will
be stamped "Not Good in Pull
man or Parlor cars." Other tickets
. will be Bold daily April l'.lth, to
November 30th inclusive.
The Southern Railway will af
ford excellent passenger service to
and from Norfolk on account of
this occasion.
For further information, and Pull
man reservations address any
I Agent Southern Railway or write
W. H. TAYLOE, G. P. A.,
Washington, D. C.
R. L. VERNON, T. P. A,
Charlotte, N. C.
Notice.
Having duly (|tiulifiel as ejsecntor
of the last will and testament of
Yancey I!. Davit*, deceased, all
IMTHOIIN holding claims against said
estate are hereby notified to present
them to me, duly authenticated, for
payment on or before the first day
of July, 190K, or this notice will lie
pleaded in bar of their recovery. All
ix'rsons Indebted to Bald estate are
requested to make prompt set
tlement of the same.
This Juno 25th, lito".
JOHN W. DAVIS. Kit ecu tor of
Yancey Is. Davis, deed.
J. D. Humphreys. Atty. for Kx.
Chew What You Know About and
Know What You Are Chewing 
There is real pleasure in chewing chewers and pounds of tobacco
the best tobacco grown—where the chewed, to the population, in those , -
best tobacco grows—in the famous States where SCHNAPPS tobacco
Piedmont Country. was first sold than there are in the
Only choice selections of this States where SCHNAPPS has not
well-matured and thoroughly cured yet been offered to the trade,
tobacco is used in making SCHNAPPS is like a cup of fine
SCHNAPPS. That's why SCHNAPPS Java coffee, sweetened just enough
and others of the Reynold's brands, to bring out its natural, stimulating
as shown by the Internal Revenue qualities. SCHNAPPS pleases all
statistics for a fiscal year, made the classes of chewers: the rich, be
wonderfiil growth of six and one- cause they do not find a chew that
quarter million pounds, or a net really pleases them better at any
gain of one-third of the entire price; the poor, because it is more
increased consumption of chewing economical than the large 10c. or
and smoking tobaccos in the United 15c. plugs and they get their mon-
States. ey's worth of the real snappy, stim-
Evidently, chewers cannot resist ulating flavor so appreciated-by to
the flavor and they cheer SCHNAPPS bacco lovers. All imitations con
be cause SCHNAPPS cheers them tain much more sweetening than
more than any other chewing to- SCHNAPPS. They are made that
bacco, and every man that chews way to hide poor tobacco improp •
SCHNAPPS passes the good thing erly cured.
along —one chewer makes other For the man who chews tobacco
chewers- until the fact is now es- for tobacco's sake, there is no chew j
tablished that there are many more like SCHNAPPS.
Sold at 50c. per pound in sc. Cuts. Strictly 10c. and 15c. Plugs
R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, Wli*ston-Sal*m, N. C. j
LAND SALE.
By virtue of a decree of the Supe
rior ( Ourt of Stokes county, rendered
by SI. T. Chilton, 8. in the
Special Proceedings entitled "Hessie
N. Smith et al vs. Carrie CSentry et
al," appointing the undersigned a
commissioner to make Hale of the
hereinafter described lands. 1 will on
Saturday, the(ith day of July, liNiT,
at the houie place of the late P. >.
itennett, deed,, sell at public auction
to the highest bidder the following
described real estate, to-wit:
Ist tract —Contains 2&"> acres, ad
joining the lands of 11. Lunsford,
Jasper Bennett and others.
Second tract—Contains 4."> acres
more or less and adjoins the lands of
}. Slate, I*. O. Bennett and
others.
Third tract —Contains 21.0 acres'
more or less and adjoins the lands of
J. C. Tillotson and others.
Fourth tract —Contains 117 1-1(1
acres more or less and adjoins the
lands of B. l. (Sentry, K. K. Smith
and others.
Fifth tract —Contains 14.* acres
more or less and adjoins the lands
|of It. B. Itennett, I'. O. Bennett and
others.
Sixth tract —Contains 21.(i acres
and adjoins the lands of U. K. Smith,
W. (S. Slate and others. Tile22,">acre
tract will be sold separately by its
self, and likewise the 4."> acre tract
will be sold by Itself separately.
Tracts numbered 3,and ti will lie
sold together. After the lands are
bid off as set out above, they will
then be offered all together to ascer
tain by which method the greatest
sum can l>e obtained therefor, and
the method or way of selling which
brings the most money will be adop
ted and tiie bid reported to the
Court for continuation 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
1 paid on or before the first day of
| January, liNIN, with bond and ap
proved security for deferred pay
i inents. The metes and bounds of the
, various tracts will be made known
: upon application for the same,
i This Slay 17th. 1907.
JENNIE BENNETT,
Commissioner.
Land Sale.
By virtue of a decree of the Su
perior Court of Stokes county, ren
dered on the tirst day of June, I!K>7,
jin the cast' of Henry J. .Mickey and
'others, ex parte, appointing the
undersigned a commissioner to sell
the lands hereinafter deserilied. for
tlie purpose of partition. I will ex
pose to public sale to tiie highest
' bidder for cash, on tiie premises in
Stokes county, at the hour of one
I o'clock, p. tn., on Thursday the Istli
I day of J illy, 11107, a tract of land in
Stokes county, containing s2 acres,
I more or less, on the waters oftSrassy
Creek, known as what was formerly
lauds lielonging to John Itarr, deed.,
adjoining the lands if itoiiert Stone
and John Wesley \\ all on the South,
I the Jackson land on the West, the
Zlgiar lands and Boliert Stone on the
North, and the lands of Matthew
: Lane on the East.
Kight'-nintliH iff this tract of land
I will lie sold subieet to tlie dower
j right of Mrs. Camilla .Mickey, widow
if Win. A. Mickey, deceased, which
lias never lieeu assigned to her, and
I the other one-ninth will !»■ sold not
subject to any dower right. This the
j first day of June. 1!*I7.
N. O. PETBKE.
Commissioner.
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THE DANBURY REPORTER, j
DANBUW^N^C.^^
Report of the Condition of the
Bank of Stokes County At the
Close of Business May 18, 1907.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts
Overdraft* 07 ill
Banking house, #l47~>.l4:fur
liltlire and fixtures J1024.04 i!4!»!).7n
Due from banksand bankers 17:(0."i.:il
Cash Items I'.Vi.SO
(fold coin r>:!7 iV)
Silver coin. Including all
minor currency 0n0.41
National hank notes and
other U.S. notes 4041.00
Total $ .")N47m.44
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock $10,000.00
Undivided profits, lesn cur
rent ex |>enses and taxes
paid lO.Xt
Deposits subject, to cheek 2»i!t47..">4
Demand certificates of dep. 204:i1.:is
'ashler's checks outstand
ing 10N0.1U
Total #."»H.J75.4 1
State of North Carolina,
Stokes county. (
We, N. E. Pepper and R. R.
Rogers, Casliiers of the above
named bank, do solemnly swear
that the above statement is true
to the best of our knowledge and
belief,
N. E. PEPPER,
R. R. ROGERS
Cashiers.
Subscribed and sworn to before
me this 30th day of May, 1!K)7.
E. P. PEPPER,
Notary Public.
Correct—Attest s
J. H. PRATHER,
W J. BYERLY,
L. E. PRATHER.
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J. T. Bcnhow. S. E. H«ll. J. W. Hall.
Benbow, Hall & Hall,
Attorneys and Counselors-at Law,
DAN BURY, N. C.
Office at McCanless Hotel.
North Carollua—Rockingham ('oun- J"
t.v. In the Superior Court—Before *
Clerk. g-
U. E. Wall, administrator
of B. I*. Wall, deceased,
aud C. r. Wall, Dellali Notice J„
Lane aud her husband, of sale. |, f
Joseph Lane, heirs n't
law of K. I*. Wall, ex- I*
parte.
Pursuant to an order of the Ku-1)
IH'rlor Court, made In the above en
titled cause, appointing me commis
sioner and ordering me to sell the
following descrllied lands, I will on
the premises, on Monday July 15th,
11(07. at ten (10) o'clock, a. m., sell
for cash to the highest bidder the
following descrllied piece, or parcel!
of land situated In Stokes county,! l '
N. f'., adjoining the lands of Hairs-f
ton, \\. I'. llutcherson. 10. ,1. Wall t|
and others, and descrllied as beingf
t IK* land bought by It. IV Wall and*
A.,1. Wall from E. .1. Endally. A*
more particular and definite descrlp-t u
tlon will lie furnished on day of sale.!
N. B.—Only the undivided one-half|
(!4> Interest in this land belonging tol
tlie estate of H. 11.I 1 . Wall, deed.. Is tof
lie sold.
This loth day of June, l!H)7. f
B. E. WALL, t
Commissioner., *
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Re-Sale Of a Valuable Farm.
By a decree of t lieaKuperior Court!
of Stokes county, made the 3rd day U
of June. 1007, on account of lusutfic
lency of price and a ten percent, ad
vanced liid offered, a re-sale Is
ordered of the tract of land deseribed
IH'IOW. I will, therefore, sell at pulillc
auction on the pre nlses on Saturday
the l>tth day of .lul.v, lfl«7, at 2
o'clock, p. HI., a tract of 221 acres ol '
valuable land, with Improvements,
lying InSaiiratowntownship, Stoker
county. It I icing the home place oi
the late M. D. O. Brown, and 1 icttci M
known as the John Dalton tract. Ma
adjoining the lands of Jno. M. Lin- 3Q
vllle, B. S. Brown and others.
This tract is well improved am II
tine for grain, grasses, tobacco, etw|
Terms: One-third cash, one-t lilrX|
In twelve months and the otls-i-thinE
In two years, with Interest on
ferrc.l payments from day of salulH
Title reserved until. the ptireliamß
money and Interest Is paid. This
Urd day of June, 11107.
B. S. BROWN,
i Commissioner I
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