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The Danbury Reporter PEl'l'EK BROS., KIUTOKS A\l> IYHI.ISUKKS. Subscription : 3 mo., 25c.; 6 mo., 50c; one year, SI.OO WEDNESDAY. MAY 10, 1915. Adversity is a hard master, but sometimes a much needed one. There's more work being done by hun dreds of farmers on less rations and other expenses, than in any year previously. (t would be interesting to know just how many thousands of hard dollars have gone out of Stokes county during the last two years to pay for automo biles. This money went to make Ford and other millionaires richer, while it has left us tremendously poorer. Elbert Hubbard Passes. Kibert Hubbard went down with the Lusitanin. He \\a* called In mam the brightest writer in America. Me was the greatest foe the churches had--an atheist, an infidel, a bitter scoffer, a tire- Vss enemx of religion. He was more origin.'*l and more brilliant, but less profound than Ingersoll. Fungi. An able bodied young man with nothing to do cught to be taken off somew here and quietl\ chloro formed. economically speaking. A loafer is a wart on society, a carbuncle on creation. Of such things criminals are developed. In a sense, all persons of leisure are not honest, for they are living off some body else's labor. Just taking something which does not belong to them, without giving \alue re ceived. In the last analysis—stealing. On the Farm. The reign of the honeysuckle and the roses, the bumble-bee and the mocking-bird, the bull-frog and the whippoorwill is here. Sweet scents, sweet sights and sweet sounds--the good old summer time. Mr. Farmer is rising early to fix fertilizer in the land, or to cultivate the growing corn. There ain't no time to lose on a well-regulated plantation now, and won't be for many moons. The indications point to an extra good wheat crop. Tobacco plants are as a rule plentiful. Corn is coming up and doing well. For all of which let us all be thankful. Wilson Wires Out Of War. The way that President Wilson has handled the delicate war situation to this time has met with the overwhelming approbation of a great majority of the people of the United States irrespective of political party. In the crisis developing from the Lusitania incident he has had the undivided support of the nation, with the exception of ex-President Roosevelt, who wanted us to go to scrapping. But there is no danger of war as long as Wilson is in the White House, and while he is preserving peace he w ill do it with honor to the nation. This is the belief of the best informed. This Marvelous Age. Since the advent of the automobile it is interest ing to note the large and grow ing crop of embryo machinists in the country, and with what learning they can converse on magneeters, speedmeeters, musquitoes, etc. How nonchalantly they beat on the delicate mechanism of cars with monkey wrenches and crow-bars, and how quickly they can diagnose diseases of the running gear, and with what distressing malpractice they sometimes effect cures. One evening not long ago a bunch came clipping along in a machine, and striking a five per cent, grade, the car wheezed a few times, bucked, and refused to go further. Out jumped the crowd, and while the shoffer began to take the engine to pieces, the others prized at different places with whatever tools came most handy. They sweated an hour or two, but there was nothing—absolutely nothing—stirring. Finally a fellow riding by on a mule suggested that they look in the gasolene tank. This bright idea all hands put into practice at once, and there was found the trouble. The poor Ford, THE DANBURY REPORTER abused, beaten, cussed and worsted had just stop ped for the plain want of something to go upon. The fuel had burnt out. Then it is delightful to view them speeding it-- with what incredible swiftness they hike along the public highways, with cigarette between teeth, but I with absolutely no regard for their own necks or for the rights of the public. We say it is delightful-- we were only anticipating the potential dangers to the driver without hurting the simple but innocent companions, but guess this would be impossible, impracticable. There is a special, discriminating providence which watches over the birds of the air, and tempers the winds to the shorn lamb. It is said that a driver should not drink over a gallon a day in order to do his best work. More than this is calculated to disturb his mental atti tude, and cause the car to go up banks, jump on people's mules, and sometimes lie heavily on the aut'/'irubeelists. A recent fad has come about to go lo Patrick .".iter supper and get hack home under co\ er of the friendly darkness before your neighbor who wants to help you drink it up finds out you have got any. M. \ : . Overby. Mr. M. I : . Overby of (iap was here .Monday and paid us a pleasant visit. I'ncle Mat is on the shady side of seventy, and his ripe years of experience have not failed to bring him the fruitage of wisdom and understanding. He is illiterate in book lore, but learned in the sound and practical ways of making an honest living, and his old-fashioned ideas of integrity and thrift are without any frills or flounces. He calls a spade a spade, and not an agricultural implement. Uncle Mat belongs to the aristocracy of bread and meat--long-headed fellows who took the sane view >f the thing and decided that it is not so much what •ou handle, but what you hold, that makes you >rosperous. His idea of the hard times that many! >eople are talking about in the country is that they ire the result in a large measure of thriftlessness ind unwisdom in farming. Many in the past have levoted their whole energies and the cream of their ioils to tobacco, while neglecting the necessaries of | ife, and neglecting to build up the fertility of the! ands so that the production of the necessaries of ife would be possible. Consequently commercial ertilizers and a one-crop system have depleted the latural richness of the land, and the owner finds hat while he has handled the cash, he could not lold it. It slipped through his fingers like a greased ;el, and the daisy middling man is guilty of get :ing it. Many farmers in Stokes county believe that this s naturally a tobacco country, and that our soils ire fit for nothing else, especially the mountain slopes and uplands, and that if tobacco raising is not profitable, nothing can be, and we had as well sell out and move away to a more favorable region. Uncle Mat's philosophy pronounces such reasoning to be a great fake, lie has lived and prospered and grown sleek and fat with the passing years, right on top of the ridge of Sauratown mountain. During his long career he has watched tobacco rise and watched it fall. Some years high, some years low always uncertain. But he has never yet experienced a year that wheat bread and ham meat didn't taste mighty good, and that corn and fodder didn't fatten stock and cattle. He has always made it an unvary ing rule to first produce at home the supplies needed at home to eat, and then go in for tobacco, and make as much of it as he could. And this is the sane and sensible way. So a 9he sits and ruminates and philosophizes in the sunset of his life, Uncle Mat finds himself a pensioner on no man. On the con trary he owns a comfortable home, a full corn crib, and keeps at all times on his table a stack of apple pies twelve inches h!j£h, with the outside made out of wheat bread. His smoke house is never empty, and the sunshine does not shimmer through the cadaverous proportions of his mules. No biting March wind ever swept away one of his cows. Uncle Mat's name on a note is counted to be mighty good stuff in Stokes county, and he has money in the bank. He owns besides, broad acres of good land, lives at horrte quietly, and is able to help his neigh bors when he wants to. And so there you are. Commencement exercises of Stuart, Va., High School will be held May 22-24 inclusive. A large I crowd and big time expected. Notice of Meeting of Stockholders of the Big Creek Telephone Com pany. Notice is hereby given to all stockholders of the Big Creek Telephone Company that a meet ing of said stockholders is called to meet at Brown Mountain Missionary Baptist church on Saturday, June sth, 1915, at the hour of one o'clock p. m., for the purpose of transacting very important business of the com pany, and every stockholder is respectfully requested to be pre sent in person, if possible, and i! for any cause any one cannot hi» personally present, he will please send writty proxy. All opersons who have paid for stock, nnd have not had stock issued, will please present their receipts to the secretary and treasurer of the company, Mr. I! >!> Collins, Francisco, X. o!i or by the oth day of Juno, 1* 1 •». so that certificates of stock may be issued to thorn. All perotors of the company, are respectfully requested to call all the stockholders over their lines, and tell them of the meeting above named. Any persons who have paid for stock and have no receipts j and are entitled to same, which has not been issued, are request-' ed to apply for stock at said | meeting. This the l.'Jth day of May, 1i>15.! J. THOS. SMITH, President. J. K. NT.NX. Director. Bob Collins, Sec-Treas. Safety first! Avoid the fire risk by fireproof, and iB^EJ Last as long r.s the building riLUV and never need repairs. llllPligti * For Sale by R. H. R. BLAIR, Danbury, N. C. Seasonable Goods We have a nice lot of seasonable goods that we would like to show you, such as the famous Detroit Vapor gaso lene and oil cook stoves, together with aluminum and enameled ware to use with them. Refrigerators, freezers, screen doors, windows and wire, China and Japanese mat ting, velvet and crex rugs,» window shades and curtain rods, porch swings and rockers, hammocks and a great many other things. Infact we have everything for the home and farm, Try us for a square deal. STOKES HWD. & FURNITURE CO. P. T. HARRINGTON, Prop. Walnut Cove, • • North Caro. Come to See Us ! You Need hat We Have. BUY IT /NOW. Binders, Mowers, Rakes, Cultivators, both riding and walking. Pegtooth Harrows will help cultivate your crop. Disc Harrows readv to do any kind of work. Surries, Buggies and all kinds of Harness. The price is right. Don't forget your Binder twine. Just received car load Geiser Threshers, and have oil engines to operate them. We are here to serve you. j JOYCE-JONES & COMPANY, Walnut Cove, N. Carolina. Messrs 0. E. Snow, W. R. Cox and D. Owens, of Pilot Mt., were here yesterday. Mr. Snow qualified as executor of the will of the late J. D. Gordon, who re cently passed away near Pin nacle. Whole Family Benefited By Wonderful Remedy There are many little things to annoy u>, nn«lr jire-eut conditions of life. The liurrv. hard work, noise and strain all till on ti«. att'l tend in provoke nerv. 'tt-ue-s and irritability.. We are fri|tirtitly • worn out we can wither t it, «!eej> -r work with any •mi*-rt. 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