DANBURY REPORTER
VOLUME XL.
«I SUES
Walnut Cove Mercantile
Company Building
Only Slightly
i Damaged.
OTHER COVE ITEMS
Mr. D. S. Bayles to Erect Garage
.'a:ib Fulton's Car Turns
Over.
Walnut Cove, .Tune 3.—During
a severe electric and wind storm
late Saturday evening, the build
ing of The Walnut Cove Mercan
tile Company was struck by
lightning but no serious damage
was done to the building. Dur
ing the same storm the wind
tore a part of the roof from the
residence of Mr. J. Wes'ey
Mcrefield.
Mr. D. S. ttoyles is j.lacinpr i
brick and material on his lot ad
joining The Hank of Stokes
County preparatory to erecting a:
modern garage for the storage j
and repair of automobiles. The
building will be of brick with a
gk?s front, and will extend from
the bank buiiding along Main St.
to his furniture and undertaking
establishment. It is understood
thai Mr. Boyles will also carry a
line of Studebakcr machines.
Oi.ly two real estate transfers
are reported for the past week,
L. G. Lewis to J. A. Lewis, one
lot on Summit Avenue and Jno.
R. Lackey to J. R. Vess, one lot
neer the high school building,
considerations not known.
Sunday afternoon, while out
driving near Walkertown, Mr.
Jacob Fulton had the misfortune
to overturn his car while run
ning at a rapid rate. The oc
cupants of the car, Misses Stella
Rierson, Sallie Fulton and Myrtle
Samuels were thrown from the
car but fortunately all escaped
practically unhurt.
Quite a large number of the
rural carriers from Stokes and
adjoining counties spent Satur
day here at their annual picnic.
Mr. G. G. Tucker, represent
ing the Studebaker automobile,
jper.t several days here last
week demonstrating and selling
cars. While here he sold a large
six cyl.nder to Mr. W. F. Bowles
who will use it in connection
with Ids livery business.
Mr. Jno. W. Kurfees, of Ger
mantin, was in town a short
whfle Friday on business.
Mr. Jno. G. Fulton made a
business trip to Greensboro Fri
day.
Messrs. A. W. Davis, W. G.
Dock on and R. L. Murphy at
tended the Forsyth court last
week, as witnesses in the
Chilton-Groome case.
Mr. R. N f Taylor is building a
splendid residence on North
Main Street.
Dr. W. C. Slate and family, of
Danbury, spent a short while
here Saturday with relatives.
Misses Jettie and Bessie More
field spent Sunday with friends
at High Point.
Mr. J. M. Hill, of Germanton,
was here Saturday attending the
rural carriers picnic. While
here he purchased a new Ford
automobile from Mr. T. J. Cov
ingt n, in which h » expects to j
carry his mail.
Messrs. J. E. James r.nd J. N.
Young spent Sunday in Greens-!
boro.
Mr. L. M. McKer./;ie, one of;
Germanton's prosperous merch- J
ants, was in town on business
Monday.
Mr. Watson Joyce spent Satur
day and Sunday at Moore's j
Mill, Va.
Mr. R. G. Petree, of Winston-,
Salem, spent Sunday here with i
friends.
Messrs. Jacob Fulton, Odell
Jones, S. 11. Stewart and C. E.
Davis went to Danbury and
Piedmont Springs Sunday.
Several of the young lady
teachers of this place will j
probably attend the Institute at |
Piedmont Springs next week. i
Mr. lL A. Hedgecock went to
Greensboro on business Friday, i
Messrs. T. S. Petree, E. P.
Pepper, M. T. Chilton and N. O.
Petree were among the Danbury
visitors in Walnut Cove last
week.
Mr. I'en. Cakill, of Winston-
Sa'em, was in town Monday
night.
Mr. W. Maston Mabe, one of
the most prosperous farmers of
Meadows, purchased an auto
mobile last week.
Mr. Newton Young left Satur-!
day for Piedmont Springs where '
he will conduct a store for his'
father during the summer. Mr. '
Young has been with Dodson & '
Co. since last fall.
Messrs. Samuel and Peter
Hairston were here last week
looking after their farms near
town.
Messrs. E. H. Petree and |
J. Reide, of Winston, were in'
town Friday representing the
Morning Journal and Evening j
Sentinel, respectively.
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Yow have
returned to Walnut Cove after j
a brief wedding tour to northern i
cities.
Gideon.
Gideon, June 2.- The health
of this community is very good
at present.
Mr. W. M. Flynt spent Mon
day night at Walnut Cove with
| Mr. J. G. H. Mitchell.
Mr. Carey Flynt called to see
Miss Fairy Wilkins Sunday.
Misses Ethel Flynt and Avis
Dunlap and Messrs. Wiley Car
penter and Farmer visit
ed the Misses Fhnchum Sunday.
Miss Berchie Dunlap is visit
ing her sister, Mrs. L. A. Isom.
Miss Lizzie Adkins, of Red
Shcals, went to Winston shop
ping.
Mr. J. Frank Dunlap made a
! business trip to Greensboro Mon
! day.
Mr. Carey Flynt made a busi
! ness trip to Madison today.
I Born unto Mr. and Mrs. John
J Young, a baby girl.
Misses Ella Flynt and Mary
Dunlap visited at Mr. S. A.
Gatewood's on Madison Route 3
Sunday.
DANCING KID.
DANBURY, N. C., MAY 27, 1914.
iINOM, JUNE 8
Teachers' Institute of Stokes
i
County to Meet At Pied- i
mont Springs In Two
Weeks' Session.
' I
BIG CROWD COMING
I
Many Young Ladies and Young
Cientl;men From Adjoinirg
Counties Expected Un
usual Social and Edu
cational Features. |
!
The Stoke 3 County Teachers' i
Injtitute will convene a' Pkd
mmt Srrings next Monday,;
June 8, in two-weeks session, j
From CO to 75 teachers of Stokes:
county are expected to attend,'
while from Rockingham, Cuil-j
ford, Forsyth, Yadkin and ■
other adjoining counties probably !
25 or 50 teachers will come to j
participate with their Stokes j
friends in the advantages of the
Institute at the well known and
popular resort. The Institute
will bi conducted by Prof. W.
R. Mills, of Louisburg, and Miss
Louisg Lunn, and Prof, and
Mrs. J. T. Smith.
Every effort will be made by
the hotel management to make
the stay of the teachers at Pied
mont both pleasurable and pro
fitable. A splendid orchestra from
Richmond, Va., which has been
engaged to furnish music for
the season at Piedmont, will
render music twice a day and
every night, with special sacred
concerts on Sundays.
A large number of guests are
expected this week and next,
and the teachers will have the
opportunity of making many
new and pleasant acquaintances.
Special programs of lectures,
debates and entertainments will
be prepared during the weeks.
ENJOYING NEW ROAD.
Mr. H. M. Joyce Counted
A Tew Of the Association
Visitors.
At the Primitive Baptist As
j sociation at Meadows recently
the attendance was estimated
as high as 7,000 people. Many
of the large crowd were from
the country north of Danbury,
and passed through Danbury on
; the new road. Mr. H. M. Joyce
I
his front porch counted
!on Sunday 750 persons and 248
| mules and horses enroute to the
! big meeting, as follows :
1 15 automobiles, 54 people
85 single buggies, 170
13 double " 52
20 carriages, 118
36 wagons, 252
69 horeback, 69
7 bicycles, 7
35 footmen, 35
757
New Telephone Connections'
To Easiern Stokes!
The Big Creek Telephone Co.
has completed connections with
Dillard, Gideon, Red Shoals,
Alley's and other points east of
Dan bury. This will be a great
! convenience to the public.
RECGRO BROKEN
The Average Paid For
Tobacco Last Year Was
the Highest in the his
tory of the Country
BE AT 1914 BY $2.0 0
t - —.
Statistics Furnished By the
Winston Tobacco Association ,
Make Interesting Reading
For the Farmers
The farmers got more for the
IQI3 crop of tobacco than for
any other crop produced in the
history of the country. This is
shown by the record of every!
tobacco market in North Carolina'
and Virginia. The Winston
Sentinel publishes the following'
figures showing the record of |
sales on the Winston market for.
21 years. Last year beat them j
all, the average paid for the 1013 j
crop being larger than the I
average prid for the next high-1
est, 1012, by $2.00 per hundred, j
The figures as published by;
the sentinel follows :
Your INHIIHIS I>■ >1 1.-l Aver, j
IV.M—W.sU.l'vl $1,227,415.10 $ 0.01
iv.il—ls,lo s, »:!■: !Mi.*i,i»i.::7
iv,i.-.—1:1,110, 050 !i:io, I-".li" 7.!> l
Km—i;,,a:u,s.Vi l.oii,:on o.»r,i
iss»7 — 14,0«|,712 nss.l77.vs «.::i i
l.sits—ls,:{S!»,l!lU 1.502.4 so.ol 7.41 1
|N!Kt—IS.4IS.OII 1,120,757 02 0.1 l 1
1'.W0—21,:550.012 1
1001— 1."»,2Hi,457 1,017,005X2 0.0"
100-—l2 0fJ.5.400 1,205,.">57.00 t».">4
1!H>:; 10.SI0.04:: 1,5151,040.00 !».S4
1!H>4—21,00::,775 1544,!147.!t4 7.:»\
1!t05—i7,4!>::,::50 i:i»2,420.20 7.» m
1'.MM!—17.002,5:;0 1,454.770.50 N. 51
i:H)7—15.477,245 1,200,100.05
1005—17.454.042 1,55:{,4N0.56 10.70
15HJ0—2::,770,.".7s 2,::0i),77::.5s 10.00
U.'10—22,1)12,5'J0 2,27:5,050.71 0.02
1011—20,:!N7,1:!0 2,Wi«,047.7s It). ON
1012—2:5,::54,255 :|,152,N01.02 1-.40
10i::—25.054.007 4,4::2,500.:[s 15.40
The following additional facts
with reference to the Winston-
Salem market are published by
the Sentinel :
S. B. Hutchins, of the Belews
Creek section, was the first
grower selling tobacco on the
market for the years 1913-1014.
On Thursday, November 13,
the market made the highest
day's average in its history,
when the average was $20.05.
jOn Tuesday, November 25,
I however, the average was only
| one cent under figures of the
■ 13th.
J Mint Nelson, of Stokes county,
! got the best price for a pile,
when he sold 10 pounds at 80
cents per pound.
Hamp Turpin, of the Pinnacle
sectio.i, made the highest
' average during the year on a
single bad, when he sold 618
pounds at an £.v,jr?ge price of
$47.30. |
G. F. Riddle, of Surry, sold
the largest pile of fancy tobac- j
co. 254 pounds which brought 70
cents per pound.
The most valuable pile sold
during the year was by J. B.
Apple, of Rockingham, who
sold a pile of 1,142 pounds for
27 cents per pour.d, or $308.24
for the pile.
The average price for the four
and half million pounds sold dur
ing the month of November
was $19.46, this being the high
est month's avcrag > on record.
C. T. DARNELL HURT.
Found About a Mile From
Home With Serious .
Wound On Head--
John Thornsberry Mule
Thrown.
King Route 2, June 1. Mr. 1
C. T. Darnell left home one day |
last week on his mule and in
about two hours he was found!
about a mile from home with!
a serious wound on the side of,
his head. He claims that it was!
unknown to him how he re
ceived the blow. His wife is in
the bed sick, and as it is now '
crop time, his future welfare; 5
depends on his neighbors.
We learn that Mr. John Thorns- j'
berry got mule thrown last Fri- i 1
day and his face badly torn up. '
We have had some beautiful j 1
showers and the people have j *
planted a lot of tobacco.
The peoplo of this section are *
planting their corn the second
time as they failed in getting a '
stand the first planting. 1
Mr. G. W. Smith and son, Ira, '
spent a few hours last Sunday '
with Mr. W. W. Hutchins at '
Dalton. '
SCRIBBLER. 1
i
Mr. Swinney and Family and
Farce leave Far Surry'
To the sincere regret of the
people of Meadows and Danbury,
the good roads people left this
week for their new home at
Mcunt Airy, where Contractor
Swinney has secured the con
tract for building new roads in
] Mt. Airy township. Mr. and
Mrs. Swinney, Miss Swinney,
Miss Smith, Messrs. Shook,
Lacy, Smith, and Gill and all
they will be missed. They are
excellent people, and won many
lasting friendships among our
peoplo. The best wishes of
Danbury township go with them.
Mrs. W. Y. Gordon And
Daughter Gertrude 111
■
i Mrs. W. Y. Gordon of German
; ton Route one, continues very
| low. Mrs. Gordon is paralyzed
jand also has erysipelas. Her
many friends regret to learn of
I her illness. Her daughter, Miss
j Gertrude Gordon, was suddenly
( taken sick Sunday evening. It
is learned that she is improving.
It is thought that Miss Gordon
|is suffering from nervousness
caused from losing sleep.
1 Cashier J. H. Fulton, of
Bank of Stokes, Walnut Cove,
spent a short while here yester
day.
Cures Stubborn, Itchy Skin Troubles.
"I could scratch myself to 1
pieces" is often heard from
sufferers of Eczema, Tetter, Itch |
land similar Skin Eruptions.!
Don't Scratch—Stop the Itching
at once with Dr. Hobson's,
, Eczema Ointment. Its first j
application starts healing; the (
1 Red. Rough, Scaly, Itching Skin |
is soothed bv the Healing and
Cooling Medicines. Mrs. C. A.
Einfeldt, Rock Island, 111., after
using Dr. Hobson's Eczema
Ointment, writes : "This is the
first time in nine years I have
i bfe«»n free from the dreadful
ailment." Guaranteed. 50c., at
! your Druggist.
FAME II STOKES IAD
The Rise of Carl Ray's
Star Has Been Steady
in the Baseball
Firmament.
B;G CAREER A ME; D
Predicted That He ' Will Win
Lai*K'.' Sal; ry Now the
Finest Pitcher in the
State League.
Fame in the baseball world
has come to Carl Kay, the young
son of Mr. and Mis. \V. P. Ray,
formerly of Danbury, now of
Smith postofiice, Peter's Creek
township, in S'.okes county.
Young Ray's fine possibilities •
were early recognized by Wins
ton-Salem baseball people, tnd
he has been kept in regular
training for several years in the
Twin-City, at Whitsett and other
places. Now he is said to be
the best pitcher in the State
league. During the present
season he has won about 12 out
of thirteen games played in the
league. It is said that Ray has
terrific speed, as well as other
necessary qualifications to make
him a successful player. A
well known baseball enthusiast
of Winston-Salem predicts that
if Ray continues at his present
rate of improvement, that he
will ;n a few yea:s be earning
SIO,OOO to $12,000 Si la -y. Base
ball pitchers are paid princely
salaries when they attain a high
degree of skill.
Young Ray comes of a famiiy
of great physical strength. His
grandfather, the late Major W.
S. Ray, was almost a giant in
strength even in his eightieth
year. Mr. W. P. Ray, the fath
er of Carl, is one of the strong
est men in Stokes county.
Carl's friends in Stokes wish
him all the success possible in
his chosen profession.
Meadows.
Meadows, June 2.—Mrs. Mary
Ann Hicks, who has had a very
serious spell of appendicitis, has
almost recovered.
Messrs. Robert and Jesse
Adams came up from Winston-
Salem in an automobile a few
days pgo to visit their sister,
Mrs. Sallie Matthews, who is
confined to her bed at the home
of her brother-in-law, Mr. J. M.
N -a'.
Miss Thelma Neal has return
ed home from Salem College.
Mr. Maston Mabe has purchas
ed a nice five-passenger auto
mobile.
! Miss America King, of Pilot
Mountain, is visiting friends in
1 this community.
Mrs. Rosa Coleman, who has
;been ill for a few days, is
| improving.
| Notice.
; Teachers will please bring
with them to the institute the
• books used in the public schools,
i All teachers or others having
! claims against the public school
J j fund will please present them
1' at once.
t; J. T. SMITH,
County Superintendent.
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