VOLUME XL.
Willi COVE LETTER!
Mr. John G. Fulton, Hurt In
Runaway, Is Improving.
MRS. EAST NO BETTER
More Real Estate Denis Are
Macfe Mrs. Fulton 111 —
Personal Items.
Walnut' Cove, January 27.—1
We learn that Mr. Jno. G. Ful-|
ton has sold his nice residence at,
"Fulton Heights" to Dr. J. W.,
Slate, while Mr. Fulton has!
bought the new residence of Mr.
Jacob Fulton on Summit avenue,
now occupied by Mr. Paul Davis.
Judge G. E. Cassell, of East
Radford, Virginia, Publicity
Agent of the Norfolk and West
ern Railway Company, was in
town Thursday morning.
Mrs. R. B. Semple has return
ed to Martinsville, Va., after
spending a few days her« with
her husband.
Mr. John G. Fulton, who was
painfully bruised when the horse
he was driving took fright at a j
street car in Winston last;
Wednesday and ran away with i
him, is improving, we are glad
to n»te.
Rev. Poe filled his regular an-!
pointment at Stokesburg M. E.
church Sunday.
Mr. 11. H. Davis went to
R ndsville Monday on a bu?in*ss
triii.
Elder .1. A. Fagg preached a';
the Junior Hall Sunday night.
Mrs. J. W. East continues
seriously ill at her homo on
Summit avenue, we are sorry
to note.
Mr. T. J. Smith, tobacco buy
er of Reidsvil'e. is in town this
week attending the Walnut
Cove market.
Mr. M. V. Martin returned
Monday from a tri,> to friends
in Greensboro.
Mr. L. C. Cooper, of Lake
City. S. C., was in town Friday, j
Born unto Mr. and Mrs. Luther
Mitchell, a fine boy.
Mrs. Nannie Fulton is sick
with tonsilitis, we are sorry to
note.
Miss Lizzie Ripple spent the
week end with friends in \\ ins
ton-Salem.
Mr. J. G. Plott, of Statesville,
is in town this week.
To Be Four Eclipses
Durioi Present Year.
Four eclipses, two of the run,
and two of ths moon, are to take
place during the prefent year.
The first is scheduled for Feb. 24.
It will be an annular eclipse of
the sun, invisible in North
America. The only p rsons who
will have an opportunity to view
it a L all will be the reside its in
the mcst Southern parts of
Pa f .a;oiia and New Zealand,
and they will see it only as a
small partial ec.ipse.
During the second week in
March ih;re will be a partial
eclipse of the moon, which will
be visible in i radically every
part of the United States and
Canada. In August will come a
total esl'pse of the sun, which
will be visible as a small partial
eclipse in Eastern Cana a and
the New England States. On
September 3 and 4 these will be
a partis 1 tclipse of tin moon,
which will be visible ;n the far
Western part of the United
States and Canada.
BigOffer—ProgressiveFarmer,
Rural Weekly and Household
Magazine, all one year for SI.OO.
F. P. NEWSOM, King.
14jan4w
Two Miles Of Kew Road !
Has Seen Graded.
Two miles or more of the
new road between Dan
bury and Meadows postoflice
has now been graded, with
probably one and a half more;
miles to grade. The most broken j
section has been fnished and it 1
is thought that the grading will j
be completed in twenty or thirty j
days, after which the road will;
be rounded up and the top soil
placed upon it. i
In order to secure a four ardj
a half per cent, grade the new j
road for the first two miles out,
of Danbury has numerous curves |
in it as it winds through the |
hills, but these add to its beauty
considerably.
Mr. R. R. King, who has the
contract for building the bridges
across the creeks on the route,
expects to begin putting in the
concrete work at once, so that
when the steel arrives it can i
soon be put in place.
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Aspen, Va.
|
Aspen, Ya., Jan 26.—Miss I-.il
lie Pillow is visiting her brother
at B-'Cok Neal thii week.
Messrs. Lee Pollard and
Waller Tilley call >d on Misses
Mary and Fannie Jackson Satur
day night.
Mr. li. S. Tuggle call?u to see
Miss llallie Smith Sunday.
lilr. J. A. Do '.son went fox
hunting tliia morning.
Mrs. Albert Owens is very sick,
we are sorry to note.
Mr. Charlie Stuart called on
Miss Grade Payne Sunday.
Mr. Jesse Pillow called on
Miss Vera Williams Sunday as
usual.
I Mr. William Martin
West Virginia last week.
ONE YOU DON' T KNOW. 1
I
lea! totea Sales.
The sale of leaf tobacco
on the city market was light;
today, and the quality of the 1
: product was a little oil, though j
there was RO falling off in j
prices. The aggregate number]
!of pounds sold was 20,990
and the pries wa* $2,6 >7.80,
an average t f £l2 85.
Winston-Sentinel. 20th.
Wonderful Cough Remedy.
j
Dr. King's New Discovery is
; known everywhere as the remedy
! which will surely stop a cough or
cold. D. P. Lawson, of Edison,
Tenn. writes: "Dr. King's
: New Discovery is the most
wonderful cough, cold and throat
jiind lung medicine 1- ever sold in
imy store. I can't be beat. It
sells without any trouble at all.
It needs no guarantee. " This is
' true, because Dr. King's New
: Discovery will relieve the most
I obstinate of coughs and colds,
j Lung troubles quickly helped by
, its use. You should keep a
| bottle in the house at all times
: for all the members of the
I family. 50c. and SI.OO. All
: Druggists or by mail,
i 11. E. BUCKLEN&CO.
Phils, or St. Louis.
A traction engine belonging
I to Mr. Joseph Martin, which
! was brought through Danbury
the past week, went through
j a small bridge across a branch
two miles north of Danbury, and
|it was with considerable trouble
that it was finally extricated.
Constipation Poisons You.
If you are constipated, your
entire system is poisned by the
waste matter kept in the body—
serious result often follow. Use
Dr. King's New Life Pills and
you will soon get rid of consti
pation, headache and other
troubles. 25c. at Druggists or
by mail H. E. Bucklen & Co.,
Phila., & St. Louis.
DANBURY, N. C., JANUARY 28. 1914.
IKS EM H
Made Excellent Showing In
Stokes County the Past
Year.
58 BUSHELS TO ACRE
Forsyth Is the On'y County!
Ir. Fifth District That Ex
ceeded Stokes.
I have just received Mr. T. E. |
Brown's report of the Boy's Corn j
Clubs of the State, and my boys':
have done so well that I want 1
to tell them what they did lastj
year. Their average was fifty
eight bushels per acre at a cost
of thirty-six cents. This puts
them ahead of every eounty in the
fifth district except one, which is
Forsyth county, whose average
was 61 bushels per acre at a cost
•f 29 cents per bushel.
The entire State has 2,276
boys in the Corn Club work and |
thev 84,212 bushels of
corn at a cost of of 37 cents per (
bushel. The 13 boys of Stokes j
produced 752 bushels at a cost of |
30 cents.
The State last year averaged I
20 bushels per acre. Six years j
ago her average was only 12'
bushels. This great increase
comes from the work of her
boys, and 1 want to congratulate
tnv boys on their g-»od work last
year, and I want t'3 to try to do'
' bettor this vonr and try not to
lot any county in the district
beat us.
Tn.\v are ahead ; ' the men of
our county, their average being,
only bushels. While the men
feel good the boys feel better.;
and I feel best of ;tny of them. !
1 wish to say to the teachers
| and pupils of our county that I
■ received a nice letter from the
| department thanking me for the
! nice report I sent in from the
; schools. The letter compliment-'
ed both the teachers and pupils;
on the kindness shown me while
in the schools.
I. G. ROSS,
County Farm Demonstrator, j
! I
j The weather has been ex- (
ceptionally good tor farming J
i operations through this section i
the past two weeks. An
abundance of tobacco plant beds i
, have been burned and sown and j
a great deal of ploughing done. ;
Preparations are going forward j
for planting a large crop.
j Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Slate
; spent a day or two at Winston
[ Salem this week.
SIOO REWARD. SIOO
| The readers of this paper [will
be pleased to learn that there
|is at least one dreaded disease
I that science has been able to
i cure in all its stages, and that
!is Catarrh. Hall's Cattarh
Cure is the only positive cure
now known to the medical
fraternity. Cattarrh being a
constitutional disease, requires
a constitutional treatment. Hall's
Cattarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfacss of th e
system, thereby destroying the
| foundation of the disease, and
i giving the patient strength by
i building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so
much faith in its curative
powers that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case
that it fails to cure. Send for
list of testimonials.
Address: F. J. CHENEY &CO.
Toledo, O.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Ta'te Hall's Family Pills for
cons .ipation.
SOLICITINC STOCK 1
For Proposed Railway From
King To Some Point
In Virginia.
M
MUCH INTEREST IN IT! 1
l
i,
Several Stokes Citizens Take '
Stock Liberally Part of the
Material Purchased.
Reports from King and otherl 1
parts of western Stokes are toj.
the effect that the people ofj
that section are very much;
interested in the proposed rail-,
way from King to some point in '
Virginia, byway of Capella, 1
Vade Mecum Springs and Brim. !
A gentleman here from the j
Westfield section this week,
stated that the citizens were j
taking stoe'e liberally in the) 1
enterprise, Mr. R. W. George,
of Francisco, taking $10,000.00,
stock, Dr. J. J. Leak and Mr.
G. L. Simmons, of the same;
[section, $1,000.00 each, and
I others. I
A newspaper correspondent at i
j King recently stated in one of
;his letters that the rails and,
I other material for the railway
had already been purchased and
that the survey for the road had
been completed some time since. 1
It is hoped that these reports
are true and that the project;
will go through all right. A
railway through th.it section:
would open up a territory rich
in natural resources.
j
AIECGIMM! HOUSE j
| IS OF GIEAT iMPORIAHCE.
I
Washington. D. C. The im- j
portance to the farmer of having |
an economical farm house has
'oeen emphasized by the faim
architect of the Department of
, Agriculture, who slates that the
mental and physicial fitness of
; the laborers both within the
| house and in the fields are vitally i
i affected by the building that af-J
I fords the family shelter. The!
average American farm has failed I
'to share in the improvements j
| that are every day being made j
l in agricultural conditions and, ;
; according to the architect, is a
j rebuke to our boasted civilization, j
Relatively, he says the house- i
wife of a century ago with her,
| fireplace cooking and the log
1 cabin was better provided for
j than is the housewife today.
The most important building on
a farm is the home. The health,
| com fort and happiness of the
family are dependent upon its
construction and equipment, and
, unless these matters are looked
after the sanitary dairy barn or
the economically constructed
buildings f>v stock are of little
value. Happiness and content
ment in the family are as essen
tial to efficient service as im
proved tools and outbuildings.
Although the housewife spends,
in many cases, a life time in her
: "workshop," the kitchen and
| the family rooms, she is not, as a
i rule, capable of planning a house
j in the highest degree serviceable
land comfortable without assis
j tance. Her help, however, is
'essential to the farm architect,
las the result of his plans most
! vitally concerns her.
In 1910 a western farm paper,
'at the suggestion of the Depart-
I ment of Agriculture, conducted
|a competition for farm house
plans. About (W0 plans of farm
houses were submitted, not one
of which was fully satifactory.
The larger number insisted on
some particular pet notion and
emphasized a single feature to
the neglect of o f her important
, ones. The men and women who
1 (Continued on page 4.)
PfIEPMIOH TOSACCO!
Mr. C. F. Darnell Hurt At Saw
Mill Much Sickness In the
Kinjf Section.
King Route 2, Jan. 2C>.-The
farmers of this section are very \
busy chopping wood and burning
plant beds preparing for
another big tobacco crop.
Under the present preparation, >
we are afraid the farmers aim
is to plant toe much. The best
motto is to plant less and make
it better. 1
Some farmers are complaining
very much about not getting
hands to work. They say that
this is the busiest administration
for some time. They havede-| (
cided not to work much.
Mr. G. W. Smith, a phone
line contractor, says he cannot j
get hands to work. Mr. Smith
says he believes that there ought
|to be a financial change with
' some people, it makes it so hard!
•n the rabbits and birds, and
labor is so precious. Ther« are
a lot (f men who will go rabbit
or bird hunting before they will
: work for a man for a dollar a
day.
! There is a lot of sickness in
this section at this writing.
Mr. 011i3 Dennett is suffering
i very much with rheumatism.
Mr. I. M. Gordon informed
: the writer that they would open
'up a new bank at Pilot Mtn. in
srt few days. Mr. Gordon will be
1 cash ift. Its uipiti 1 stock is
I Wii.dOli. !
I There was preaching at Chest
nut (irove Sunday by the Pastor,
'Mr. Doggctt.
Mr. C. I'. Darnell was visiting
:
I Mr. N. S. Comb's sawmill and the ;
, belt ran d'r*. Mr. Darnell caught
the shaft of the band wheel:
; which lacerated the palm of his
hand badly.
SCRIBBLER.
lIOCAL^
ms m
-
The Etude Music Club will meet
; Friday night with Mr?. \V. C.
Slate.
I Mr. H. M. Jovce visited the
i family Dr. A. J. Pringle, at
I Campbell, today.
Dr. ,T. Walter Xeal, of Mead
ows, was among Danbury's
visitors today.
Mr. R. R. King has gone to the
■ Winston-Salem tobacco market
s with a lot of tobacco.
' i The regular monthly meeting
' of the county commissioners
' will be held here next Monday.
, i Next Monday, February
is Ground Hog Day. Predicting
the kind of weather we will have
from that time on is easy.
The many friends of Mrs. M.
T. Chilton, who is spending the
• winter in El Paso, Texas, will be
1 glad to know that she is having
i excellent health.
|
'! If you need a farm or
! want to sell the one you have
' j see the Stokes Realty Exchange
! at Danbury. Their ad appears
; elsewhere in this paper.
Messrs. Smoak & McCreary
1 and J. Spot Taylor will have a
. | large lot of good stcck at Dan
[ibury and Walnut Cove next
, Monday, Feb. 2nd. If you need
, 1 stock don't fail to see them.
, | See ad elsewhere !n this paper.
Messrs. Tilley & Choate ex
' I pect to have a lot of nice stock
* i at the home of Mr. J. D. Young,
on Danbury Route 1, on Feb-
L ruary 26th. Don't fail to go
? | and see them. See ad elsewhere
l in this paper.
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No. 1142
GIRLS 10 BE SOLO
Novel Feature To Be Intro
duced At Box Party.
-AT MEADOWS, FEB. 7
Marriage Of Mr. Riley Lawson
and Atrs. Henry Joyce In
fant III —Other News.
Meadows, Jan. 2'!. A box
party v.ill be given at Meadows
school heusj on Saturday night.
Feb. 7th, if it is not raining.
If it is raining they will have it
on the next Satuiday after the
7th. Good music will be furnish
ed by ths Meadows string band.
For a change from the old way
the girls have decided to let
themselves be sold with the
boxes. Meadows school has had
two box parties, the proceeds
1 being used to buy a cooler,
build a porch and buy desks for
the new annex. The object
of this party is to finish raising
enough money to paint the house.
'Several pretty girls will be sold
and a large crowd of purchasers
are expected. Entertainments
at Meadows always bring large
crowds.
Much good is clone towards
making better schools by these
little entertainments and people
are beginning to take lots of
interest in them.
Mr. and Mrs. Riley Turner
;are the happy parents of a
baby Kill: born .lan. 21st.
; Loivi to Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Smith, »)an. 22nd, a fine jiirl.
i The infant of Mr. ar.d Mrs.
I Watt Wall is seriously ill with
pneumonia.
The little son of Mr. Matt
Smith is recovering from a
spell of lagrippe.
Mr. Riley Lawson was rnar
j ried Sunday to Mrs. Ilenry
I Joyce. They are spending the
j week at Winston.
Miss Minnie Glidewell, who
iis teaching the public school at
i Ore Bank, spent Saturday and
Sunday with her parents on
! Walnut Cove Route 3.
1 The little son of Mr. Will
: Brown is very sick with pneu
| monia.
i The infant of Mr. Will Abott
is recovering from a spell of
1 pneumonia.
t Will Stand Examination For
: Moure's Springs Postoffice.
5 Messrs. Willie G. Moore and
•I. T. Talley, of Moore's Springs,
were Danbury visitors yesterday,
r It is learned that both of these
»' gentlemen will make application
for the postoffice at Moore's
,Springs and will stand the
' I civil service examination at Dan
|; bury on Feb. 7th.
The Stokes County Medica'
' | Association will meet in Dan
ibury next Monday, Feb. 2nd.
M)r J. H. Ellington, of Sandy
! | Ridge, is President of the Asso
! I ciation.
5 j
J Oyster Supper Here
: Saturday Night.
*-1 Fresh oysters will be served
* by the Danbury ladies in the
Sunday School room at the M. E.
church in Danbury Saturday
" nisrht beginning at 7:00 o'clock.
4 Tickets will be sold and the
proceeds will be used for church
o purposes. The public is cor
e diallv requested to attend and
thus aid a goad cause.