DAN BURY REPORTER
VOLUME XLIII.
WAIITGOVE LETTER
Contract Is Let For Cement
Sidewalks it. Business
Section ot Town.
TH t CHAUTAUQUA
Prospects Excellent Tor Large
Crowds Various News Items
and Personals.
Walnut Cove, Sept. S. At a
special meeting of the town
commissioners yesterday a con
tract was awarded to (leo. R.
Martin, of Salisbury, for the
laying of cement sidewalks on
both sides of Main street from
from First street to the corner
Fifth. This includes practically
the entire business district and
is the greatest stride ever made
in the history of the town
toward public improvements.
The owners of property along
the streets mentioned will pay
for the improvement at the rate
of eighty-nine cents per square
yard, the price at which the
entire contract was taken by
Mr. Martin.
Arrangements are well under
way for the entertainment of
the large crowds that will attend
the Chautauqua to be held here
Sept. 17. IS, 1!> and 2D under
the auspices of the Booster Club.
The program which is immense
as well as appropriate will be
carried out in the New ware
house which is being renovated
and seated this week. The
seating capacity will be ample
for three thousand people, and
fully that number are expected
especially on Saturday which
is educational day. Teachers,
parents, pupils and school com
mittees are urged to be present
on that day. On Monday a
special dinner will be served
picnic style to the Old Confeder
ate Veterans of Stokes county.
The M. E. Sunday School of
Stokesburg had an exceedingly
pleasant outing and picnic to
Nissen Park at Winston-Salem
last Thursday. The crowd was;
carried over in cars, about 12
autos being in the procession. :
The cars were secured through
the effort of Mr. E. 0. Creak-1
man, one of the leading spirits |
of the Sunday School at this
place, and he desires to thank
the parties who proffered their
cars on this occasion for thtir
kindness.
Mrs. A. A. Allen and daughter.
Miss Essie, of,-Greensboro, were
visitors here Saturday.
Mr. John A. Burton left yes
terday for Baltimore where he
will spend several days on the
dry goods market purchasing
his fall stock.
In the absence of Rev. E. J.
Poe services at the Junior Hall
Sunday night were conducted
ably by Rev. C. R. Hutchison.
Miss Nellie Fulton, of Greens
boro, spent last week here the
guest of her cousin. Miss Annie
Fulton.
Mr. John Hutchison, the effi
cient assistant postmaster here,
spent Saturday in Winston-Salem
on business.
Miss Mabel McKenzie, of Ger
manton, spent Sunday here with
the Misses Rierson on Summit
Ave.
Mr. A. W. Davis went to Wins
ton-Salem Monday in the in
terest of the Chautauqua. He
reports that scores of Twin-City
people expect to visit our little
city during the Chautauqua
festivities.
Mr. Julius O. Young, of Wins
ton-Salem, visited his parents,
'DEATH IN DAN BURN
Little Dorothy Hall, Two-
Year-Old Child. Passes
Aw av.
i
Little Dorothy Hall, the two
year-old daughter of Mr. and,
Mrs. .1. W\ Hall, died Wednes-j
day at !:••>> I'. M., after an ill-'
ness of less than a week. Every
thing that loving personal atten-l
tion could give, coupled with the
very best medical attention. I
failed to save her. Her illness
was desperate from the start. |
The interment was made at {
the cemetery here yesterday!
iThursday), preceded by a ser-l
vice at the M. E. church. The,
service was simple and beauti
ful. and attended by a large
crowd.
The family requests the Re
porter to thank the neighbors
and friends for their tireless
devotion during the trying period.
Stokes County Couple
Visit The Sandhills
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Prim
i have just returned from a visit
to their son John and their old
neighbor. "Bud" Bowman and
his family in Moore county.
While there Mr. and Mrs. Prim
took time to look over the much
advertised cheap farm lands of
the sandhill section. Mr. Clyde
Davis, the secretary of the Board
of Trade at Aberdeen, who re
cently visited the Prims while on
his vacation trip in Stokes coun
ty. returned their hospaitality by
carrying them all over the sand
country in his auto. The Prims
saw thousands of acres of good
farm land that have never been
cultivated and that are capable
of producing great crops of to
bacco, wheat, and other crops.
The Prims have decided to fol
low John to the sandhills if they
can sell their farm here for a
satisfactory price.
Mr. J. T. King, of Henry Va.,
visited his sister, Mrs. J. ».
Morefield, here the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Young, here
Sunday.
Prof. Hendren, of Pilot Mtn.,
who will have charge cf the
school at this place during the
approaching session, is expected
to arrive with his family next
week.
Many of the younger set from
here attended a "Tobacco Barn
Barbecue" at Danbury Monday
night, arriving home early Tues
day.
Mr. W. G. Moore, the active
manager of Moore's famous
mineral springs, was a business
visitor here yesterday.
Messrs. E. I'. Pepper and John
Taylor spent Sunday night in
town.
Dr. J. W. Slate went to King
and Capella off business Monday.
Messrs. Jacob Fulton, Watson
Joyce and C. E. Davis made
a business Hp to Greensboro
Monday.
Dr. C. It. Hutchison spent Sun
day at Martinsville.
Mr. L. J. Young, one of Dan
bury's venerable citizens, was
here on business Tuesday.
Dr. W. H. Critz returned
Tuesday from a visit to relatives
at Thomasville.
DANBURY, N. C„ SEPTEMBER 10. 1915
Death Of Little Dorothv,
Little Dorothy is dead. We cannot realize it, nor would
we realize it. The full consciousness of the fact would be
overwhelming. A week ago she was the picture ot health, a
laughing, prattling, pattering thing, the sunshine of the
home, her mother's darling, and the idol of her father's
heart. She is dead now. I tut we cannot believe this. We
want to think of her as she was. the brightest, fairest (lower
that ever came our way. a creature altogether lovely. She
was always g'ad to see us. you could see the pleased
expression in her beautiful eyes. She had that rare faculty
of smiling with her eyes, in her little welcome there was
no airectation. When slie lifted her little arms, she wanted
to rest in our strength where she knew that she was happy,
and that we were happy. She would talk to us in her own
little way, and do little things in her own little ways that we
understood, and that she knew that we understood.
Lying in her little white casket, she looked like a flower,
like one of those cape-jessamines near the hush of which she
had loved to play. There is naturally a repulsiveness about
death which makes the most insensate person shrink from u
hodv out of which the light of life has (led.
There was none of this about Dorothy. One person
expressed it when she said that instead of being repelled,
she had a yearning to take the little thing in her arms.
Little children loved to stand and gaze at her through their
tears. As we looked at her we wondered what strange
decree of stern destiny could have been aimed at this
little being who never had harmed a living thing,
and whose presence was like the ray of sunshine that breaks
through the clouds. But our view-point is too small to
understand. Maybe her little mission, so sweet and so
short, was to bind ties that can never be unbound, and to
enchain hearts that can never he separated. In that day
when we are promised that our tears shall be wiped away,
maybe we shall know why little Dorothy left us.
"Abis for I:!tu. wliit never Kct's
Ti.>' stars shine through his Cypres* trees
Win>. hopeless, lays his dead away
Nor looks to see the breaking duy
Across tile mournful marbles play!
Who has not learned In hours of faith.
Th" truth to 'h'sli ami sense iitiUu wu.
That l ife is Lord of deuth,
Ami I.overall never lose Its own
BUMPER GRAIN CROPS
Prospects of Big Yields
Improved During
the Month of August.
More Wheat Than Last
Year.
Washington. Sept. B.—Bumper
grain crops this year now seem
assured. Basing predictions on
a canvass made September 1 the
Agricultural Department today
issued forecasts showing the
j prospects of big yields generally
had improved during August.
The wheat crop is placed at
981,000,000 more than last year's
; record crop. No change is made
in the August 1 prediction of
659,000,000 bushels of Winter
wheat. Conditions for the
Spring wheat crop have been
ideal and the production forecast
for that crop was increased 15.-
000,000 bushels to -a total of
322.000,000 bushels. When the
final canvass is made the entire
wheat production probably will
reach 1,000,000,000 bushels.
Corn production prospects in
creased 67,000,000 during Aug
ust, the forecast now being 2,-
985,000.000 bushels. Although
that exceeds last year's crop by
more than 110,000,000 bushels,
it falls 130,000,000 short of the
record crop of 1912.
King High School Opening.
King, Sept. !>.-The High
School at King will open Sept.
2!', 1915. From the present
indications the opening will show
a large enrollment, including a
number of boarding pupils. Prof.
A. K. Phillips will be ably assist
ed in the work of the year by
Mioses Nicholson, Smith, Fulton
and Simmons. The course fol
lowed will be that mapped out
by the State Board of Education,
besides the training in piano
and vocal music. Miss Lillian
Simmons, who was educated at
Elizabeth College, will be in
Mr. Hardy Carroll Reports
A Delightfdl Trip lo West
King, Sept. 7.—Mr. Hardy
Carroll has just returned from a
several weeks' visit to the Pan-
American Exposition and other
places of interest in the far
West.
Mr. John Highfield, of the
• Stony Ridge section, spent Sun
with relatives here. He reports
the tobacco crop in his section
good.
Rev. Oscar Helsabeck, of
Virginia, will preach at Galatia
church next Sunday evening,
proceeded by a song service.
Mr. Lester 0. Pulliam made a
business trip to Winston-Salem
yesterday.
Mr. T. S. Petree, cashier of
the Bank of King, spent Sunday
with his parents at Danbury.
Mr. S. P. Wright has acccept
ed a position with the Southern
Railway at Rural Hall.
Dr. and Mrs. E. M. Tillotson,
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Linville and
Miss Ellie Tillotson left yesterday
for an extended trip to Richmond,
Norfolk and Washington,
Mr. S. W. Pulliam went to
Danbury on business yester
day.
charge of the music department.
The Betterment Association
will make improvements at an
early date in the already splendid
equipment of the school building
and grounds. With the co-opera
• tion and support of the people
itho school will continue in its
usefulness more and more.
I Primings Sell Well.
i
j On the Winston market yester
day prmings averaged a little
' more than eight cents a pound.
| The price keeps climbing a little
j every day.
COUNTY FATHERS, j
Made Settlements \V it hi
Sheriff and I ivasuivr At'
Monday's Meeritq,.
The county commissioners met
in regular monthly session at the
court house Monday.
The principal business before 1
the board was making settlements
with the Sheriff and Treasurer of
the general county and school
funds. The work required all
day Monday and a good part of
Tuesday. All of the members of i
the Board were in attendance. |
I
Mizpah Hews. j,
Mizpah, Sept. 5. Crops are
' looking very good in this section.'
1 Several have already cut tobacco
| and are curing it bright.
Mr. Ira Darnell, who has been
j managing the vulcanizing depart-
ment at a garage in Greenville.
N. ia at home at this writ
ing. He will go to Richmond some
time in the near future to take
charge of a ahop there.
Misses Lillian Augburn and
Alta and Ina Mickey, of Winston-
Salem, who have been visiting
at Mr. John Ferguson's on Ger
manton Route 1, have returned
to their homes on 14th street.
Haw Pond church is having a
very large attendance every Sun
day in the afternoon at 2:30
o'clock. Everybody will please
come and let's have a larger at
tendance than we have ever had
before.
Times seem to be very proper
ous in this section, as there is lots
of building; going on. Mr. J. A.
Tuttle, who is putting up one
among the largest residences in
this section of the country, will
have it finished in a short while
if the weather stays favorable.
Mrs. Ola Terry gave a
party last Wednesday night
which was enjoyed by a large
number of young people.
A SCRIBBLER.
Stuart Items.
j Stuart, Va., Sept. 7.—Farmers
jare very busy taking care of
their fodder and tobacco. The
corn crop is the best it has been
for several years.
The attendance at Russel
Creek church Saturday and Sun
day was rather small on account
of so much rain.
Mrs. J. T. Ayers, who has
been visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. A. Ashbum. of
i Winston-Salem, for several
: weeks, returned to her home on
Stuart Route 2 Thursday.
I Miss Ella Corn, who has been
selling goods at Old Colesville,
will leave in a few days for
Critz. Va., where she will accept
her fomer position as sales lady
for Mr. B. F. Martin.
Misses Kittie and Georgia
Martin, and Klva and Essie
Ayers will leave in a few days
for Critz, Va.. where they will
enter school.
Mrs. J. W. Martin is on the
sick list at this writing,
i Mrs. Mattie Chtffiner, of Nor
folk, Va., visited her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ayers, on
| Stuart Route 2 the past week.
GUESS WHO.
No. 2,266
A GREAT MEETING
Count;. Agents Ol the State
and Bo\ & O; the Corn
C lub At Raleij'h.
MR. HOLT PRESENT
two Week's" Institute Proves
Beneficial To those In Attend
ance Citizens Of Raleigh
Show them Much
Attention.
Mr. W. P. Holt. County Agent,
returned last week from Raleigh
where he had been attending the
Convention of County Agents of
the State and the Corn Club Boys,
and he reports the convention
well attended. There were in all
71 County Agents, together with
other departments over If 0 men
who compose North Carolina's
' force of extension workers.
The programme was well ar
ranged and able lectures were
delivered on all practical subjects
pertaining to the agent's field of
work. Special stress was placed
on the importance of pastures
:and preparation for greater in
terest in live stock throughout
the State.
The Club Boys' short course
was held in connection with the
agents' meeting and the attend
ance wa3 splendid, 227 boys being
enrolled for the week. Nearly
every county in the State in
which Corn Club work exists,
was represented. This, beside
the instructive value, was a great
opportunity socially for the
youngsters.
The citizens of Raleigh were
glad to have with them North
Carolina's farmers of tomorrow
and did everything thev could to
make the visit to the Capitol City
pleasant for the boys. Every'
public organization in some way
tried to do something for the
; club boys. As a result the boys
, were crowded the whole time in
I keeping up with the treats from
j the various sources. Ice cream
came in from all directions, com
plimentary trips to all places of
interest and many other good
things too numerous to mention.
It appears that every boy went
away feeling proud of the fact
that he was a club boy with
aspirations to do greater work
next year than before. Stokes
county was represented by J. R.
Blancett.
Mr. Holt, while in Raleigh,
spent two days at the State's Hog
Cholera Serum plant studying
the simultaneous treatment for
hog cholera.
Birthday Party.
A birthday party was given by
Mrs. A. J. Fagg last Thursday
night in honor of her nephew,
Mr. Burnie Culler. The guests
were received by Mrs. Fagg.
the hostess, after which punch
was served in the reception hall
by Miss Luna Taylor. Many
interesting games were played
and music and singing were
indulged in. after which delic
ious refreshments were served.
The occasion seemed to be en
joyed to the utmost by every one
j present.