DANBURY REPORTER
VOLUME XLIII.
AUTOMOBILE WRECK
,
V-'alnut Cove Citizens Had
Narrow Escape Friday
Night.
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BUILDING CHURCH
Primitive Baptists Start Work
On Their House of Worship— |
High School Forced To Fx- 
elude Pupils In Primary
Department Buying
Stock In Virginia.
Walnut Cove, October l!J.—!
Excavation was begun today ]
for the new Primitive Baptist
church on the lot adjoining the i
high school building. The build
ing will be a modern frame struc
ture 8(5x30, sufficiently large to
accommodate the congregations
attending the services. It is
expected that it will be com- j
pleted before Dec. 1. The com
mittee who have the task of,
soliciting donations for the church
are meeting with splendid suc
cess both at home and in other
places.
As a result of an automobile
collision near Walkertown late
Friday night Postmaster P. H. 1
I.inville is confined to his room
nursing a fractured rib while'
Big Stokes County Fair
——=KIING, IN. C.=
October 19th, 20th, 21st, 1915
The Best Rural County Fair
in the State.
Three Big Days. A Great Midway.
Country Horse Races Daily.
SPEC9AB ' LOW RA3LROAD RATtfS !
FOR CATALOG AND INFORMATION, ADDRESS J
i
L. K, PULLIAM, Secretary, = KING, NORTH CAROLINA. j
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I Messrs. Watson Jovce, Ful
j
ton, Carl Joyce and Jacob Fulton
'carry marks, bruises, cuts and
j scratches as souvenirs of the
, dangerous occurrence. The'
[parties were returning from the;
! fair at Winston-Salem traveling
,atathirtv mile gait when they 1
met and collided with a ear'
driven by a Mr. Montgomery,
i The automobile was turned com
!
; pletely over and reversed its
direction, burying the occupants
: beneath with the serious results!
jas stated. The car was badly
j torn up and the passengers were I
I compelled to secure the services
j of another car to resume the
i homeward journey.
Owing to the crowded con
dition in the school here the:
committee has ruled that no 1
tuition students are to be ad- i
mitted who are not sufficiently
: advanced to enter the high i
school grades. As a result a
! great many children who have
heretofore availed themselves of,
i the splendid advantages of this
school will be turned away to at
tend the public schools in their
I respective districts. Students
able to enter the high school will
necessarily continue to be en
rolled.
A certain gentleman with
traces of silver in his once brown i
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DANBURY, N. C., OCTOBER 13, H»l5
DAMAGE lIT FIST
Late Tobacco and Corn
Ruined to Extent of
Thousands ot Dollars
In Ihe County.
NIGHT OF OCTOBER 8
Many of the Farmers Caught
j Napping Biggest Loss In
I
Peter's Creek and Snow Creek
i Townships.
; An unexpected heavy frost
that was general on the night
of October 8 caught hundreds of
Stokes county farmers napping,
and the loss in damage to tobacco,
, late corn and other feedstuff
| will amount to thousands of dol
; lars. The biggest losers, as far
las our reports go, were Peter's
'Creek and Snow Creek town
ships. where much late tobacco
was bitten. Mr. R. T. Spencer,
; carrier of Campbell rural route
No. 1, says at least 25 barns of
, tobacco were caught on his mail
j line. The biggest loser the Re
porter has heard of in the county
is Mr. R. T. J. East, of Walnut
Cove Route 1, who had about
4,000 pounds ruined. Mr. J. C.
Wall, of Walnut Cove Route 3,
lost several barns. R. M.Camp
bell, W. P. Ray, Matt Moore, j
Kelly Sisk and many others had
more or less tobacco ruined or
seriously damaged. The dam
age in the county is from $5,000
to $10,0(H), conservatively es-
I timated.
DEATH OF W. G. SLATE
1 ; Prominent Stokes Citizen
Passed Aw av At Capella
/ 1
T uesdav.
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lAT A G E OF 71 N L ARS
j Had Suffered From Stroke Of
l ! Paralysis For Months- l)e-
I I
ceased \\ as Father of
Sheriff Slate of Stokes.
I Mr. William G. Slate, one of
: the county's best and oldest citi-1
f, r^ens,passed away Tuesday after
, noon about four o'clock at Ca
, pella, nin > miles south-west of
Danbury.
Mr. Slafe had been confined
, to his bed for a number of
. months, never having recovered
> from a stroke ot' paralysis receiv
ed more than two years ago. He
; was in his 72nd year. Since the
I death of his wife last June he had
; resided with his daughter, .Mrs.
; J. M. Gibson.
The decided was the owner of
a considerable estate. He operat
ed the Quaker Oap Roller Mills
and carried on extensive farming
. operations up to the time of his
sickness, and was an unusually (
active man in business. He was
public spirited and was a man of i
'[excellent judgment and fore
j sight.
Three sons and three daughters
of the immediate family survive,
as follows: Sheriff W. C. Slate,
!of Stokes: Dr. J. W. Slate, cash
1.
ler of the Farmers Union Bank
Trust Co., of Walnut Cove: Mr.
F. A. Slate, editor of the Lincoln
ton News, Lincolnton, N. ('., |
Mrs. J. M. Gibson, of Capella:
Mrs. W. J. Johnson, of German
ton: and Mrs. J. Walter Tuttle,
jof Wallburg, N. C. There are a
great many other relatives.
The funeral services and burial
; were held at Quaker Gap Baptist j
church yesterday afternoon, a
1 large number of the friends and
relatives of the deceased being in
attendance.
Seized Whiskey Jo Be Turned j
Over to U. S. Authorities
The hundred gallons of whis
key seized last week by Stoko
officers will be turned over to the
| Federal authorities of the Wins
; ton-Salem office this week, and'
Deputy Collector Cape Haynes:
:is expected here to take charge
of it right away. Just what dis
position will be made of the whis- :
key by the Federal authorities is (
not known. I
No. 2,271
BIG FIGHT COMING
Contest Among Republican
Candidates For Sheriff
\\ ill B«* "Some Scrap."
WHO WILL OUT?
I
A. W. Davis, Walter Mitchell,
■ I rank Dunlap and Others
Listed for the h'rav Interest
Arleady Strong in Many Sec
tions Over the Coming Cani-
paißn Will Dr. Slate Retire?—
What About "the Resolution."
It is said by those who are on
the inside that a scrap in the
county Republican ranks of
formidable proportions is rapidly
developing over the Sheriff's
: office.
It is some months until the
regular campaign opens, but in
many sections of the eountv
strong interest is already devel
oping. A. W. Davis, of Walnut
.Cove; Walter Mitchell, of Pilot
, Mountain Route 1, and J. Frank
Dunlap, of >ideon, are the lead
| ing candidates. There may be
others. It is by no means cer
tain, The Reporter has been told,
that Dr. W. C. Slate, the present
incumbent, will be willing to re
 Continued on page 5.)