THE DANBURY REPORTER.
VOLUME XL.
FROM WALNUT COVE!
NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST I
Mr. Cabel Hairston To Make Florida ,
His Home -Town Election First,
Monday In May- Death of Air.
Martin Hinsdale —Other News
Walnut Cove. April 22.—Mr. 1
E. E. Harris, of Elkin, passed
through town last week on his'
way over to the Moore burying i
ground, carrying with him a!
monument to have erected over j
the grave of his father andj
mother, Mr. Enoc and Mrs. j
Louisa Harris, they having been
dead 45 years.
Mr. Cabel Hairston will make
his home in Florida in the fu
ture.
Mr. Alec, the eye glass man,
who spent the winter in Florida,
has returned and gives some
glowing descriptions of the cli-1
mate and beautiful flowers in
that country.
News has been received here
that Mr. Cabel Hairston, who
has been so seriously ill, is much
better.
It is reported that Mrs. Lettie
Hairston Dunkley and family
will move to Winston-Salem
from Christians burg.
Mr. Martin Hensdale, after a
long and tedious illness, fell
asleep and was laid to rest at
Stokesburg cemetery near the
church which he so faithfully
attended during life.
Mr. Jud Lewis and family
have moved to Ferrum, Va.
Good many attractions in
town last week. A very good
tent show on ednesday even
ing and was very well patron
ized. Large crowds attended
the commencement here last
week.
We will have a town election
here first Monday in May.
Mr. Joseph Cofer's little
daughter has recovered from
her recent hurt from the base
ball.
Mr. Charlie Marshall, one of
the mail route men, has moved
to the country.
Married, at the home of her
father, Mr. Duff Linville, Miss
Ethel Linville to Mr. Flynn, son
of Mr. Pink Flynn.
Mr. Robt. Hedgecock bought
two fine horses this week.
There was quite a runaway
scrape last week about three
miles north of here. Jim Welch
went to John Welch's and tied
the baby to the table leg and
took his wife and left for parts
unknown; also on the same day
Will Tilley, who is married and
has two children, went over to
Walker Welch's and took his
girl and left.
There was a large crowd went
from here to Greensboro to hear
Col. Roosevelt speak Monday.
Mr. Hanes Linville has rented
Mr. Charlie Marshal's residence
on Summit avenue.
CARD FROM J. SPOT TAYLOR.
Will Not Sell Fertilizer This
Season.
On account of other business
I will* not handle fertilizer at
Walnut Cove this season, but
will transfer my contracts to
the Union agents, who will be
W. E. Hartman, at Walnut
Cove, and the King Supply Co.,
at King They have the best
prices, and all Union men are
requested to see them before
buying elsewhere.
J. SPOT TAYLOR.
Mr. William Martin, of Mead
ows, was here yesterday.
You can save a little on most
everything at Butner's store.
REV. SHEETS RESIGNS |
PASTOR OF MT. OLIVE CHURCH
Sunday School Is Organized At Oak
Grove School House —A Remedy
For Bug? Ealing Tobacco Plants.
Oak Grove, April 23. —The
people are very buiy farming arid
preparing for another tobacco
crop. Some farmers are com-:
plaining of bugs bothering their
young tobacco plants. While
we find the bugs eating up the
plants we have discovered a new
remedy for exterminating the;
insects, and the remedy is this: j
Sprinkle flour and black pepper
over the beds and when the flour
gets damp it holds them so they
can't get loose and then the
pepper burns them to death.
Since spring time has opened
up people are putting on new
I life. At the early dawn of morn
'we can hear the boys as they go
about their work, whistling and
! singing with the hope that the
' week will soon pass away, and
| Ihey can meet their best girl at
church and Sunday School. V'c
■ notice that people are too l> isy
with the ways of this busy world
to attend their church meetings
as they should. attended
church not long since where the
membership was something over
210 and there was only one-sixth
of the membership present,
which goes to prove that the
people arc not interested in their
church duties as much so as they
should be. We can see why the
preachers of different churches
are resigning as pastors of re
spective churches and seeking
j pastures more fertile. We use
to go to church when the
church was filled to its capacity,
and today it is different. The
minister of today has to speak
to empty benches and also the
singing choir is small. Will
some one please suggest a reme
dy that will put things back in
j the same old ways of old when
all were in harmony with
! one another.
I The people of Oak Grove
1 neighborhood met at Oak Grove
! school house last Sunday
and organized a Sunday School
with 30 on roll.
Rev. Henry Sheets, of Lexing
ton, filled his regular appoint
j ment at Mt. Olive Baptist church
; last and Sunday. Mr. Sheets
; tendered his resignation as
; pastor. He preached an able
: sermon. We hope they will
1 succeed in getting another pastor
!in the near future, as there is
danger of sheep going astray
! without a shepherd.
I Mr. J. H. Dorsett, who has a
• 'phone on the Quickstep line,
I claimed that his batteries were
j getting weak and could not hear
very well, and he was advised
by some one to soak his batteries
in good, strong apple vinegar,
which he did over night. After
doing this he said that it might
restore some but it did not do
his any good, as they continued
to loose.
Mr. Wade Boyles, who has
been sick with an attack of
lagrippe, is slowly improving,
j Mr. A. M. Boyles, of Spray,
|is visiting his children in Stokes
county. Mr. Boyles was forme r-
Ily a resident of this community
|and his many friends are glad to
I see him.
SCRIBBLER.
Mr. J seph Neal, of Germanton
Route 1, was here yesterday.
! I have shoes and slippers at
[ a bargain. W. E. Butner.
Parched coffee 18i cents. W.
| E. Butner.
DANBURY, N. C., APRIL 24, 1912.
PLAY AT PINNACLE
TO BE PRESFNTED MAY 4-
"The Matrimonial Exchange" To
Be Played Under Auspices of i
Woman's Betterment Assicia- 1
lion.
The Woman's Association for
the Betterment of Public 1
Schools at Pinnacle will have an
entertainment on May 4, 1912,
an important feature of
which will be a play styled, "The
Matrimonial Exchange."
CAST OF CHARACTERS.
Lawrence Gotrox, banker— E.
A. Sullivan; Larry Gotrox —Ed
win Carroll; Lord Montmorency?,
a noble fortune hunter—George
E. Hamm; Billy Lightfoot, actor,
singer and dancer—N. Earl Wall;
Prof. Trainer of world-wide fame
—Clarence E. Stone; Miehatl
McGinnis. of public force—Grady'
Cook; Mrs. Clyde, widow—
| Maude Hunter; K te Clyde and
j Nell Clyde, Mrp do's daugh
ters lris und Annie
Clark; Mrs. ,'Flannigan, with
furnished a,>u iinents Geneva
i unt; Pareppa DeClaimcr, act
, less and poetess-Vevie King;
| Mrs. Gabble, with talented chil
|dren Nannie Watson; Fannie
| Gusher, matrimonial applicant—
Florence Cook; Alvira Slimmins,
matrimonial applicant Eiir.a
Sullivan; Nannie, colored par'.ur
maid—Josephine Phillips; Sairy
Elizabeth Gabble Mildred Phil
lips; Meiinda Jane Gabble—Cleo
Spainhower; Thomas Jefferson
Gabble—Arlie Brown; George
Washington Gabble Newton
Fowler.
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Refreshments will be served on
the lawn beginning at 5 o'clock.
Everybody cordially invited. Ad
mission fees for play 10 and 25c.
Proceeds used by the Association
for payment on school piano.
GENEVA HUNT, Cor. Sec.
72 KILLED IN STORM IN WEST
Illinois and Indiana Suffered* Ter
ribly Sunday Night— Hundreds
of Homes Destroyed.
Chicago, April 23.—The latest
i figures on the storm which
| swept over Illinois and Indiana,
j Sunday evening show 72 dead,
! nearly 200 injured and nearly a
; 1,000 destitute.
Hundreds of homes were de-
I molished and the property loss
| will amount to several hundred
! thousand dollars.
Sauratcwn Republican Seconds
i Nomination of Mr. A. C Fair For
I
! Register of Deeds.
Walnut Cove Route 1.
Editor Danbury Reporter;
Will you please allow me
through your paper to second
the nomination of A. C. Fair for
Register of Deeds of Stokes
county subject to the action of
our Republican county conven
| tion, which meets soon. There
,is not a more worthy and de
serving boy in the county of
I Stokes than Clarence Fair, and
!he can fill the office of Register
j with credit to the county and
| the Republican party. I have
j nothing to say against any of
the other candidates, but I
I think that Sauratown township,
S which is at present not repre
i sented among the offices of the
; county, is entitled to this recog
i nition.
Hoping that every Republican
,in the county will look at the
j matter in a reasonable way and
' help nominate A. C. Fair for
Register, who will carry by a
large majority.
Yours truly,
SAURATOWN REPUBLICAN.
COL. ROOSEVELT
AT GREENSBORO MONDAY
Speaks To Crowd Numbering Abi.uJ
4,000 Several Stokes Citizens
Hear Him.
Col. T. Roosevelt visited
Greensboro Monday and spoke
to a crv.vd numbering about
4,000 people.
In his speech he told the Re
publicans that if they desired to
see their party prosper they j
would have to follow him. In j
the-same speech, and with his j
next breath, h? declared he was
entitled to the support of all
southern Democrats who wished
to see a triumph of those princi
ples for which Jackson stood.
He took it for granted that the
Republicans of the state were j
j for him, and served notice on
the Democrats that if he were!
nominated he would make a
I light for the North Carolina elec
toral vote. "And when I make
a fight it is a fight," he remark
ed, in the characteristic Roose
velt fashion.
His whole speech made up an
1 appeal to what he termed the
I "groat common people" and a
'denunciation of the bosses and
his opponents, generally, whom
he refer rod once as the multi
millionaires. He did not hesi
tate to call the name of Tuft and
scathingly ridiculed the presi
dent for his now famous declara
tion, in which ho said that he
distrusted the "impulsive judg
ment of the people." On the t
other hand, the Colonel declared
; that he would much rather risk
: the "impulsive judgment of the
I people" than the deliberate
! judgment of the bosses,—the
men against whom he was mak-'
ing his fight-
Colonel Roosevelt again ridi
culed the president for the lat
ter's "attempt to improve upon
the assertion of Lincoln, 'gov
ernment of the people, by the
people and for the people,' by
substituting a new formula j
'government of the people by a j
representative part of the peo
ple'."
A number of Stokes citizens
were present, among the num
ber being Sheriff C. M. Jones, of
Danbury; A. J. Fair, R. P.
Joyce, O. N. Petree and John R.
Smith, of Walnut Cove; Jno. W.
Kurfees, F. E. Petree and W.
D. Browder. of Germanton; Jas.
Wall and M. L. Wall, of Pinna
cle.
-
j J;>el Robertson and His Children.
Messrs. Joel Robertson and
son Frank were in town one
day last week. These are among
Peters Creek's best citizens. Mr.
Joel Robertson has spent his life
at hard, honest work. He has
raised a crowd of boys and girls,
who are all good straight-forward
people like himself. He makes
a practice of raising all his home
supplies at home, such as bread,
meat, and forage for his stock
and cattle. The consequence is
that he owns his home with wide
rich acres around him. We
doubt if Joel Robertson or any
of his children owes anybody in
the world a dollar. He doesn't
believe in going in debt for any
j thing.
| Mr. Zeb M irtin, of Sandy
i Ridge, was a Danbury visitor
I today.
J PUTS END TO BAD HABIT.
j Tilings never look bright to
[one with "the blues " Ten to one
| the trouble is a sluggish live,
filling system with bilious poison,
that Dr. King's New Life Pills
would expel. Try them. Let the
joy of bitter feelings end "the
blues," Best for stomach, liver
and kidneys. 25c. at all druggists
HIGH SCHOOL CLOSES!
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES 1
Walnut Cove High School Finishes!
One of Most Successful Terms In |
Its History—Program.
Walnut Cove, April 22.—The
commencement exercises of the
high school at Walnut Cove
were held Friday and the pro
grain rendered was creditable to
both faculty and students.
There was a large attendance of
patrons and friends and the ex
ercises were greatly enjoyed.
Mr. E. C. Byerly, the princi
pal, has been in charge of the
school for two years and his
work has in every way been
acceptable. The other members
of the faculty this year were
Misses Lolia Byerly, Ollie Ripple
and Elizabeth Crist. They, too,
did splendid work.
The commencement program
is given below:
Trio, Gypsy Rondo.
Declamation, The New South
—Steven Smith.
Declamation, Pompeii Wyatt
Vaughn.
Piano Solo, Black Hawk Waltz.
Recitation, The Sioux Chief's
Daughter—Eva Vaughn.
Recitation, Over the Hills to
the I'oorhouse—Elizabeth Wood
ruff.
Solo, Go Way From Me, I
Hate You--Verna Davis.
Declamation, They Hanged
Their Harps LTpon the Willows
—Clarence Hutchinson.
Declamation, Mother and
Home—Odell Jones.
Piano Solo, Amitic Waltz.
Recitation, The Night or}
Shiloh —Liliie Wheeler.
Recitation, Pledged With
Wine—Jessie Vaughn.
Solo, Dollie—Gertrude Mit
chell.
Declamation, Regulus to the
Carthagenians—o ti s Boden
heimer.
Piano Solo, Warblings at Eve.
Declamation, The Black Horse
and His Rider—Jacob Fuljton,
Jr.
Recitation, The Man at the
Switch—Nell Petree.
Duet, Military March.
Intermission for dinner.!
2:30 P. M.
Duet, Yourself an' Me.
Address by Mr. Fred M. Par
rish, of Winston-Salem.
1912 Class Song.
Valedictory—Josephus Lasley.
Presentation of Diplomas.
(Class of S.)
Entertainment at 7:30.
BIRTHDAY DINNER.
Given Mrs. Lora Meadows Sick
People Improving—Other News
of Walnut Cove Route One.
Walnut Cove Route 1, Apr. 22.
—A surprise birthday dinner
was given Mrs. Lora Meadows
Sunday. A large crowd was
present.
Mr. W. V. Meadows, who has
been right sick with appendicitis,
is improving, we are glad to
note.
Mr. Pink Smith has a right
sick child at present with la
grippe. We hope it will soon be
better.
Mr. M. T. Meadows, who has
been right ill with appendicits,
is so he can be out again.
Messrs. Oscar Greene, John
Huff and Luther Fowler visited
at Mr. M. T. Meadows' Sunday
evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Chap
man visited Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Smith Saturday night and Sun
day.
There will be Sunday School
and prayer meeting at Palmyra
Sunday, 28th. at 2 o'clock P. M.
People in this section are busy
preparing for another crojx
No. 2,085
THE RIGHTS-OF-WAY
TOR THF. SAND-CLAY ROAD
Are Being Signed This Week Bv
Many of the Property Holders
Along the Proposed Highway—
Survey Will Soon Ba Completed.
The survey of the Stokes For
syth turnpike has been inter
rupted during the last few days
on account of rain, and unfavor
able weather conditions. The
permanent route lias now been
fixed to a point south of Mead
ows. With good weather Engi
neer Brown will probably finish
his work the last of the week.
He is a most capable and con
scientious surveyor, and is do
ing careful and painstaking
work. The road as laid out will
be 20 feet wide, and of a maxi
mum grade of 4 1 . per cent. It
will be built of sand-clay, in the
most approved scientific type,
and will be one of the best con
structed highways in the State.
This road wil! place Stokes right
up to the forefront of good-roads
counties, as far as it reaches,
and will be a greater developer
than a railroad.
A large number of rights-of
way have been signed .since last
week. The Reporter promised
last week to print the list of
those who had given the rights
of-way, but is unable to do so
this week, as the bad weather
interfered, so that the work
could not be finished.
It is hoped to print the list
next week.
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
Called to Meet In Danburv On
Saturday, May 25, To Elect
Delegates To State and Congress
ional Convention.
A convention of the Demo
cratic party of Stokes county is
hereby called to assemble at the
court house in Danbury, on
Saturday, May 25th, 1912, at
the hour of 1 o'clock p. m., for
the purpose of electing delegates
to the State and Congressional
Democratic Conventions, and for
the transaction of such other
business as may properly come
before said convention. All
Democratic voters are urgently
requested to attend said conven
tion.
This April 23rd, 1912.
J. H. ELLINGTON,
| Chm. Dem. Ex. Com. Stokes Co.
1 County Chairman Ellington Urges
Voters To Pay Their Poll Taxes.
All voters are earnestly re
} quested to pay their poll taxes
|on or before Wednesday, May
; Ist, in order to be entitled to
i vote in the coming election,
j The poll tax must be paid any
j way, and it is a service we all
owe our country to pay them in
time to preserve the right to
vote in the ensuing election.
April 23. 1912.
J. H. ELLINGTON,
Chm. Dem. Ex. Com. Stokes Co.
Fine Crop of Strawberries.
i Wilmington, Apr. 22.—The
strawberry season predicted to
, be the best in seven years has
' practically arrived and shipment
of berrias in c\r lots will begin
iin dead earnest this week. The
first ripe Carolina berries were
on the Wilmington market yes
terday. They came from Long
Creek, Pender county, and
| readily brought 35 cents a quart.
I
Messrs. 0. J. Cates and W. I.
I Mitchell, of Walnut Cove, were
I here today.
| Mr. A. J. Brown, of Danbury
I Route 1, was here attending to
| some business today.