Newspapers / The Danbury Reporter (Danbury, … / Dec. 16, 1914, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Danbury Reporter (Danbury, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
DAN BURY REPORTER VOLUME XL. Hll lilt BOTTLE I Bill Stewart, Col., Inflicts. Severe Wound On Head i of M. C. \ oss. MUCH TOBACCO SOLDI L. Coleman To Engage In i | Mercantile Business—Other News Items ot Walnut Cove. Walnut Cove, Dec. 15.—1n an affray at the store of Mr. P. D. Fulk Saturday night Bill Stewart, colored, struck Mr. M. C. Voss with a coca-cola bottle just above the eye and inflicted a dangerous and painful wound. It seems that Stewart, who was under the influence of whiskey, entered Mr. Fulk's store and began swearing whereupon he was ordered out by Mr. Fulk. At this the negro attacked Mr. Fulk with a bottle but on ac count of his unbalanced state of intoxication he missed his man and struck Mr. Voss. who was taking no part in the pro ceedings. After this it is said that a sound thrashing was ad ministered to the colored man by Mr. Fulk. No arrests in the case have yet been made. The new store house aajoining the Walnut Cove Motor Co.. be ing erected by Mr. J. A. Lewis, is nearing completion. It has not been learned who will oc cupy the new building. Work on the building to be occupied by the Joyce-Jones Co. is also being rapidly finished and will be ready for occupancy by the first of the year. Trade with the local business houses is picking up consider ably and the merchants antici pate a busy holiday trade. The advent of the now Federal Re serve money is rapidly restoring confidence and people are too busy with business affairs to talk war and panic. People who dwell upon these subjects are greeted with a cool reception in the progressive little town of Walnut Cove. Mr William E. Joyce, of Dan- bury, has accepted a position with the Gem Theatre as opera tor and entered upon his duties here this week. Mr. Joyce is experienced in the movie busi ness, having successfully man aged the Star Theatre at Dan bury for some time and later being engaged in a like enter prise at Madison. The warehouses continue to have good breaks of tobacco and since the cold clear weather has taken the place of rain the prices on all grades are considerably better. On Monday of this week about twenty thousand pounds was sold at an average of more r,than eleven dollars per hundred. Among those who made satis factory sales on that day were Johnson & Neal, Meadows & Smith, M. H. Liggons, Morris & Solomon, T. F Tuttle, Fannie Tuttle, Reece Mabe, Frank Til ley, Walter Tilley, T. H. Gerry, Chas. McGee, Stephen Smith, v J. M. Brown, J. B. Brown, L. D. Brown, Willie Fowler, Natt Davis, Hairston & Bailey, and J. P. Smith. The new leaf house for the storage of tobacco is about completed and with the use of this the buyers will be in position to handle every pound of tobacco systematically regard less of big breaks or rainy weather. The warehouses will close on Friday Dec. 18 and re main closed until the first week in January. Colonel J. S. Ball, the clever and efficient auctioneer of the A NEW SUPPLY Register of Deeds More field Receives Diphtheria Anti toxin From State Board of- Health Something About i the Medicine. Register of Deeds John G. Morefield has just received from the State Board of Health at Raleigh a new supply of diph theria antitoxin for the use of Stokes county physicians. This antitoxin is almost a sure preventative as well as cure for diphtheria but on account of its costliness and being hard to ob tain the State buys it in large quantities and furnishes it to all of the counties of the State at actual cost. The medicine is put up in one dose boxes of different quantities as follows: 1,000 unit dose, 3,000 unit dose, and 5,000 unit dose. The 1,000 unit dose is given for prevention of diphtheria, while the 3,000 or 5,000 unit dose is given to cure the disease. As before stated the medicine may be obtained at Register of Deeds Morefield's office at cost, the price being fixed and printed on the box by the State Board of Health, which is 50 cents for the 1,000 unit dose, $1.35 for the 3,000 unit dose and $1.95 for the 5,000 unit dose. The Register of Deeds handles it only for the convenience of the physicians and people and receives no profit from its sale. old warehouse, spent Sunday at Danville, Va.. looking after some business affairs. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Coleman, of Meadows, moved here this week and expect to make this their home. Mr. Coleman ex pects to engage in the mercan tile business. Misses Laura Waddell and Ozelle Lewis spent Saturday shopping in Winston-Salem. Misses Ersell and Minnie Lee Whittemore, of Wentworth, left Saturday after spending several days here the guests of friends. Mr. J. C. Wall, one of the newly elected road commission ers of Meadows township, spent Sunday here. Messrs. J. R. Voss. J. W. Slate and Jno. A. Burton were visitors to the Twin-City last week. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Rothrock spent Monday night here en route from Winston-Salem where they had been visiting and shop ping. Messrs. H. W., J. T. and Cicero Carroll, good citizens of the Mizpah section, were on the market with tobacco last week. Ex-county commissioner J. M. Fagg, a prosperous merchant of Dillard, spent Monday night in town enroute from Winston where he had been on business. Mr. S. U. Atwood, of Alle ghany county, is spending several days here with a drove of about three hundred pigs. Mr. Joseph A. Whitten, of Mayodan, was here Monday looking after some business. Mr. Whitten expects to handle some mules and horses at this place after the first of the year. Possibly all the churches will hold Christmas services during the holidays but the dates of the different entertainments have not yet been givan out. DANBURY, N. C., DECEMBER 16. tt!4 VETERANS PENSIONS DFFICERS ELECTED Checks For Old Soldiers Being Sent Out Today By Clerk of the Court Chilton. NUMBER DECREASED » Soldiers and Widows of Soldiers Will Receive Same Amount As Last Y ear. ! The pension checks for the old Confederate veterans and the widows of veterans in Stokes j county were received from the State Treasurer yesterday and were mailed out this morning by Clerk of the Court RI. T. Chilton. A number of the old veterans and widows have passed away since last December, decreasing the number considerably. There are no pensioners in the county of the first class, while there is only one in the second class. Three are listed as third class and one hundred and eight in the fourth class, while there are eighty-two widows of soldiers who receive pensions. Those of the second class receive $60.00, i the third class $48.00, the fourth j class $32.00, and the widows $32.00. Soldiers or widows who know j their names are on the pension rolls will please notify Clerk of the Court M. T. Chilton, at Dan bury, if they fail to receive their checks in five days from this time. TO LEAVE COUNTY. Mr. J. Walter Tuttle and Family Will Remove To Wallburg—Other News Of King Route 2. King Route 2, Dec. 14. A great many of our citizens marketed tobacco the past week, and they report prices very good. Mr. J. Walter Tuttle and family, of King Route 1, will leave for Wallburg, Forsyth county, this week, where they will reside permanently. There will be a great many porkers killed in this section during the next few days. It is learned that Mr. Charlie Lunsford has one that is estimated to weigh about f>oo. Mr. Lunsford has sold more than a thousand dollars worth of pigs this fall and winter. We are having good order in the Oak Grove school this year under the management of Miss Clemmie Smith. Mr. R. G. Gentry went to Greensboro last Friday on busi ness. The farmers of this section are very much behind with their work, especially getting up their winter's wood. "Scribbler" will give "Bob Fox" a chase in the near future that he will long remember. SCRIBBLER. Box Supper At Dillard Saturday Night 19th The Women's Betterment As sociation at Dillard will give a box supper at the Dillard school house on Saturday night, Dec. 19th. The public is cordially in vited to atttend. Farmers Held Interesting Meeting At Court House In Danburx. LAST SATURDAY, i i Lxecutive Committee Appointed and Other Business Trans- 1 acted At Annual Aleetinjf. The annual meeting of the Farmers' Union of Stokes coun ty was held at the court house in Dan bury Saturday with a fair attendance of the members of the Union. The most important business before this meeting of the Union was the election of officers to serve during the coming year and they were named as follows: President, Jesse A. LaWson; Vice President. Robert L. Nunn; Secretary-Treasurer, Geo. A. Hutcherson. An executive committee, com posed of the best and most in fluential members of the Union, was appointed, while various other matters were discussed bv the members. Prosperity Begins. We are recovering from the shock of the war, legislation is such that capital has more con fidence, and business is being stimulated. I look for ten years of unequaled prosperity. -Chas. M. Schwab, President Bethlehem Steel Co. DROWNED IN CREEK. Tom Scales, Colored, Falls From Foot Log and Loses His Life. Tom Scales, a respectable colored man, who resided near the Stokes county line between Danbury and Madison, was drowned in South Beaver Island creek a few days since. The particulars as related to the Re porter were that Scales was coming home from Madison and attempted to walk a foot-log across the swollen stream when he lost his balance and fell into the water. His body was later found on an island in the creek some distance down the stream from where he fell in. Marriage License Martlet Expected To Be Good. The marriage license market is unusually dull up to this time, but it is probable that the sale of license will grow much better within the next few days. Re cently Register of Deeds More field has issues licenses to the following couples: F. J. Alley to Carrie Nelson. J. A. Cain to Georgia Hill. Hubert Gordon to Flaud Kal lam. Charlie Hartgrove to.Lennis Moran. T. H. Ham to Myrtle Spain hour. W. S. Isom to Lillie Crews. J. N. Jones to Mary A Alley. Harry Kallam to Nannie Mar tin. Curtis Smith to Zola Martin. BAGGING THE GAME I Pittsburg Gentlemen Get I Fine Lot of Quail and Rab i bits In Tw o-Weeks Hunt Here. Messrs. J. Frank Martin and A. 15. Dampman, of Pittsburg, Pa., who have been spending two weeks here on a hunting vacation, expect to leave tumor row for their home. During their stay these gen-: tlemen have bagged quite a line lot of game, their unofficial re cord up to yesterday standing as j follows: Five hundred and sixty-1 seven quail and two hundred and twenty-one rabbits. On account of the extremely unfavorable weather recently; they have not done as well as they had hoped to and no doubt would have done had the conditions i been different. They relate some quite inter esting experiences during the' two weeks. On a number of oc-i casions they were forced to take drenching rains, while at another! time their supply of ammunition became exhausted while theyi were some miles from a store' and the brush full of birds. The [climax was reached, however, when day before yesterday while crossing the Dan, cold as it was, they fell into the stream, having to go quite a distance be fore being able to secure dry clothing. Kidd Alexander, Cot., Not Wanted hi Oklahoma Kidd Alexander, colored, who was arrested in Walnut Cove some weeks since on the charge of breaking into the Southern Express Co's. office there and brought here to jail, was releas ed on bond the past week, but was given up by his bondsman today and returned to jail here, where he will await the next term of Stokes court. It was thought that Alexan der was wanted in Oklahoma j but the officer who came here to identify him and carry him back said that he was not the one wanted. High School Pupils lo Present "A Family Affair." The Reporter is requested to announce that a drama, entitled j "A Family Affair." will be given I by the Walnut Cove High School pupils at the school building on the evening of December 22nd. A small admission fee will be charged, the proceeds of which will be used for the benefit of the school. Arm Is Broken From Fall On Ice. Thurman. the 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. N*. A. Martin, had his left arm broken this afternoon when he slipped and fell on the ice near his home. He was attended by Dr. Mc- Canless and is getting along as well as could be exoected. See me before you order that winter suit. E. P. Newsom, King. No. 2,056 TEACHERS' MEETING Held At king High School Building Saturday Wit:: Good Attendance. TO MELT AGAIN SOON Permanent Organi/atim of kin County leathers Is Per fected—Prof. J. T. Smith Named As President. King, Dec. I:J. A well attend ed meeting of the teachers of Yadkin township was held at the King high school building Satu: day. the 12th inst. Matters pertaining to scho-.l work were discussed in an in formal manner and short tai.vi were made by Professors Johr.j ton, Graves, Sullivan and Suttori on subjects of common interest County Superintendent Smith .discussed with each of the teach , ers the conditions and needs of their respective schools, white i county farm demonstrator Holt was present and made a talk ori i agriculture and outlined addi ■ tional work on the subject. Be fore the conclusion of this meet ing, which had been called by Supt, Smith, it was decided to perfect a permanent organization of the teachers of the township, and the following officers were chosen: J. T. Smith, President; Sullivan. Vice-President; William Graves, Secretary and Treasurer. President Smith appointed a committee to arrange a suitable programme and to fix the date* and name the places of future meetings. It was decided to hold the next meeting at King some 1 I! time in January. Notice of the . j exact date of this meeting will I appear later in the Keporter. ' IN SURRY COUNTY Two More Townships Will Soon Vote On Bond Is i sues For Good Roads. * The Surry county commission - • ers have ordered elections on ! bond issues for good roads in , Westfield and Long Hill town - ships in that county. The elee- I tion in Westfield township will be held Feb. 10th and in Long Hill township on Feb. IGth. It ia said that both townships will i likely vote in favor of the prop- I osition. News of King. King, Dec. 14. —Mr. J. H. Warren, of Rockingham county, has rented Mr. J. Walter Tuttle's farm and store building three miles north of town. Mr. War ren will open up a first class store at Mr. Tuttle's old stand, j Mr. Tuttle has moved his fami ly to Wallburg, where he will i engage in business. Several nice porkers were : killed here the past week. About half of the tobacco crop in this section has been market i ed. Prof. J. T. Smith. County Superintendent of Schools, held | a teachers meeting here Satur day. About all the schools in ■ the county were represented. Dr. 0. R. Keiger went to Winston-Salem on business to day. % Jewerly for Christmas presents, E. P. Newsom. King.
The Danbury Reporter (Danbury, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Dec. 16, 1914, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75