DANBURY REPORTER
VOLUME XLUI.
WALKUT COVE LETTER
Work On Sidewalks Pro
gressing Rapidly and Many
Changes Being Made.
BALL GAME SATURDAY
The Cove Team Is Defeated By
Stoneville— Saw Mill Moved
Moonlight School Has Small
Attendance—Personals.
Walnut Cove, Nov. 10.—Some
splendid sales were made on the
warehouse floors here yesterday
and the entire sales of both
houses averaged more than
twelve dollars a hundred. To
bacco, according to those who
keep in touch with the market,
is considerably higher in price
than it was a few weeks ago,
and with the coming of cooler
weather it would not be surpris
ing to see greater advances in
the prices of all grades The
warehousemen are busy prepar
ing for good breaks which
they will doubtless experience as
soon as another season occurs
when the weed can be handled
by the farmers. Among
those who made satisfactory
averages on the floors here yes
terday were Messrs. Alex Nelson,
Waiter F. Watkins, W. L. Nel
son, Capt. Lee Nelson, Lum
Booth, Arthur Nelson and
others, all of whom were highly
pleased with the sales.
The sidewalk work is progress
ing rapidly and many changes in
the appearance of property on
Main street are being wrought.
When this commendable im
provement is finished it will be
hard to realize that it is the same
town as before. Quite a little
dissatisfaction has arisen regard
ing the low grades being made
in some sections, many believing
that the business property will
be left too high from the side
walk but these trivial matters
will be adjusted to the very best
advantage and the property
owners feel safe in risking the
wisdom and justice of the town
commissioners.
In a hotly contested baseball
game Saturday afternoon at
Stoneville the Stoneville Nation
als defeated the Walnut Cove
Americans, the score being 15 to
2. as near as could be determined
after the Nationals had ceas
ed making runs. Apparently
the game was a one-sided pitch
er's battle with the odds all
against the home team. The
only trouble with the local boys
vas that when they went to bat
they could not locate the ball
and in the field the same thing
occurred. The outcome of the
game was surprising on account
of the fact that the locals vere
seasoned players, having pitched
the ball across the street three
times before leaving for Stone
ville.
Mr. M. D. Linville is this
week moving his sawmill and
traction engine from his farm a
few miles southeast of here to
the timber lands of Mr. J. E.
Reid a mile west of town, where
he will engage in the lumber
.business for the winter.
Dr. W. H. Critz .returned yea-
terday from Richmond where he
purchased a line of dental
supplies for his new office in;
Albemarle where he expects to
locate in the near future. Dr. j
C. R. Hutchinson will remain at j
this place in the offices formerly;
occupied by Dr. Critz.
Mr. F, P. Davis, one of the!
congenial managers of the Old
warehouse, moved his family |
here last week. They are occupy
ing the new cottage recently com
pleted by Mr. John A. Burton
on north Main street.
Mr. A. E. Strode, night oper
ator of the N. & W. t left this
week to spend his vacation in
his home town, Charlestown. W.
Va. From there he expects to
visit Chicago, returning here
early next week to resume his
work.
Mr. Claude Creakman, of
Wheeling W. Va., spent a day
here last week with his brother,
Mr. E. 0. Creakman.
Mr. D. R. Joyce, of Madison,
is here today on business.
Mr. T. P. Fulton, of Winston-
Salem, a member of the progress*
ive firm of the J. G. Flynt Tobacco
Co., spent Sunday here with rel
atives.
Mrs. W. P. Landreth has re
cently purchased several build
ing lots from Dr. A.G.Jones on the
road beyond Stokesburg and will
erect a home there within a few
i days.
Mr. Melvin Manuel has accept
ed a position with J. W. More
field & Co., as salesman for the
; winter months.
j Mr. A. T. Rothrock, one of
j the leading merchants here, is
! starting a great clearance sale
'
of his entire stock of merchan
dise next Monday. Many people
! will no doubt attend the sale and
| take advantage of the bargains
offered.
Mr. W. G. Dodson spent Mon
day in the northern part of the
county looking after some busi
ness ii.terests.
Mr. J. N. Young went to Mt.
Airy last week where he purch
ased a line of mountain produce.
Miss Jessie Vaughn is spend-
I ing several days with relatives in
! Greensboro.
, Miss Bessie Morefield visited
relatives and friends in Winston-
Salem Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Linville
and Mr. and-Mrs. H. H. Davis
: spent Sunday at Goodwill.
Mr. T. S. Petree, of King,
spent Sunday here. He was ac
companied home by Dr. C. R.
, Hutchison, S. H. Stewart and C.
|E. Davis who visited friends
there.
| The moonlight school at this
i place is evidently going to be a
failure from lack of attendance.
I
Only six adult illiterates are re
ported for the entire district,
! which speaks well for the intel
i lectual status of the community,
i Messrs. P. T. Harrington, 11.
i H. Vaughn, W. M. Wheeler and
Rev. E. J. Poe attended the
! Masonic meeting at Stokesdale
Saturday. A Masonic lodge will
probably be organized here in
the near future.
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Mr. R. H. R. Blair is giving
his residence a fresh coat of paint
this week.
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DANBURY, N. C
SUCCESSFUL YEAR
j Annual Meeting of Bank
j of King Shows Institution
To Be Prosperous
AT KING. NOV. 10
; Old Officers Re-Elected, With
An Addition of Two New
Names to the Board of Directors.
The annual meeting of the
stockholders and directors of the
Bank of King was held at King
Wednesday, November 10. A
large majority of the stock was
represented either in person or by
proxy. The affairs of the Bank
were shown to be in excellent
shape, and the deposits and re
sources of the institution to be
steadily growing. Notwithstand
ing the bank was established in
1914, right in the dullest time for
many years, growing out of the
depressed conditions resulting
from the world war, the bank
has held its own well and has
won the confidence and the busi
ness of the people.
The stockholders decided to
declare no dividend for a year or
two, but to leave the banks earn
ings in the surplus fund, which
will add greatly to the strength
of the institution.
All the old officers were re-elec
ted as follows: V. T. Grabs,
President; T. S. Petree, Cashier.
The following board of directors
was elected: V. T. Grabs, S. W.
Pulliam, T. S. Petree, Will Rut
ledge. J. Walter Neal, M.T. Chil
ton, N. E. Pepper.
The Hydro-Aluminum
Plant Has Been Sold
Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. B.—The
Aluminum Company of America
has taken over the entire French
holdings in a hydro-aluminum
plant near Whitnev, N. C.,which
whetl completed was to have cost
$10,000,000. Transfer of the
property took place last
week, but no announcement has
been made regarding the amount
| involved. It is understood that
1 the aluminum company will rush
I work on the plant and some
I millions of dollars will be expend
;ed. Construction of the plant
was begun by the foreign
interests early in 1914, but ceas
ed on the outbreak of the war.
I
We Buy Few Books.
(Atlantic Monthly.)
In the United States only one
person in 7,:>00 buys a book in
the course of a year, while in
Great Britain, it is one in 3,800;
in France, it is about the same;
| in Germany and Japan, it is
rather better, and in Switzer
j land, it is one in 872. Cheaper
books in paper covers, account
for some of this difference; but,
whatever the cause, it remains
true that the Europeans buy
. twice as many books per capita
as we do.
The opening of O'Hanlon's
handsome new drug store will be
held Nov. lGth. See ad in this
| paper.
. NOVEMBER 10, I^ls
FOR THE 1916 FORD
Miss Lottie Priddy Leads In!
the Contest For the Car.
INTEREST STRONG;
Many Contestants Will Work'
For the Handsome Prize to Be
Given Absolutely Free to the
Most Popular Reader of the
Reporter. ,
Miss Lottie Priddy, daughter
of Mr. Dan S. Priddy, of North
View, is announced by her
friends as a candidate for the
handsome new 1916 model car
to be given away by the Danbury
Reporter to its most popular
reader. Miss Priddy is said to
be a very agreeable and attractive
young lady with many admiring
friends who will work for her
election.
While the end of the contest
is next spring, yet a great deal
of interest is developing in many
sections over the contest, and it
is quite sure to develop lively
proportions before a great while.
Many votes are being given out,
ito be held till later. The figures
as allowed to be published are as
follows :
Miss Lottie Priddy 0,000
W. L. Hall 3,000
JoeA'ley 1,000
TEACHERS 7 MEETING
Appointments Made For
Several Places In the
County.
LETTER TO TEACHERS
Law Requires That /Meetings Be
HelJ and That Teachers At
tend.
The following letter is being
sent to the Stokes teachers by
Supt. of Public Schools J. T.
Smith this week:
King, N. C., Nov. 8,
Dear teachers:—The law re
quires me to hold at least one
teachers' meeting in each town
ship, during the school term, and
the same law requires all teach
ers to attend these meetings.
Mr. W. P. Holt will be with
me at all these meetings, and
have something to say to farmers
and Corn Club boys.
1 shall be disappointed if any
teacher fails to attend these
meetings.
The times and places of meet
ings are as follows:
Flinty Knoll school, Monday
Nov. 15, at 12 o'c!ojk.
Francisco school, Tuesday Nov.
1(5, at 10 o'clock, a. m.
Lawsonville school, Wednes
day, Noy. 17, at 2 o'clock, p. m.
Sandy Ridge, Thursday, Nov.
IS, at 1 o'clock, p. ni.
Dillard school, Friday, Nov. 1!»,
at 10 o'clock a. m.
Danbury school, Saturday, Nov.
20, at 10 o'clock, a, m.
Respectfully,
J. T. SMITH.
Mr. J. Frank Dunlap, of Gideon,
spent a short while here on busi
ness today.
SOME BAD CHILDREN.
Automobiles Peltrd With i
Rocks Bv Youngsters On
the Danbuiv-Walnut Cove
Highway.
Two or three people have called
the Reporter's attention to the
fact that automobiles and other
vehicles traveling along the high
way between Walnut Cove and
Danbury have had rocks thrown at
them and been hit by small boys
residing along the road. One citi
zen has had two narrow escapes
from rocks thrown by the joung
sters recently, and his machine
bears the marks of the stones.
He has the names of the two
boys who threw the rocks,
one of whom resides near
Pink Fulp's store and the other
near Barker's livery stable in
Walnut Cove.
MOORE'S SPRINGS
Property Is Taken Over By
New Company At
Greensboro.
PLANS NOT KNOWN
The Bottling And Shipping Of
the Water Will Probably Be
Given Special Attention—New
Company (Jets 1,08(1 Acres of
Land With the Property.
The sale of the Moore's Springs
property in Stokes, whereby j
John T. Moore and son, W. G. j
Moore, transfer the hotel prop
erty and 1, (ISO acres of land to;
the Moore's Springs Finance Co.. '
was consummated this week, j
The Moores, with the exception
of Dr. Chas. E. Moore, of Greens-1
boro, do not retain any interest
in the property.
The company which has taken '
oyer the resort and surrounding I
1,080 acres is capitalized at $250,- (
000, of which amount $53,000 has !
been paid in. The price involv-'
ed in the sale of the Springs and
other property is said to have
been $125,000. The personnel of
the new corporation is not known,
I but it is stated that a meeting
will be held within a short time,
'when full details will be made
public.
One of the immediate purposes
of the new company, it is said, is
| to provide adequate facilities for
bottling and shipping the water.
The present hotel is to be re
| modeled and near it, on a com
'manding knoll, will go up a
j modern resort hotel. Plans for
; this have been made and con
struction i.* expected to begin
shortly after the new year. The
| idea, it is said, is to make the
resort an all year around one.
Newspaper Ads Are
Valued By Railroads.
Chicago, Nov. S, —The railroads
of the United States demonstra
ted their faith in newspaper ad
vertisements by spending ten mil
lion for newspaper advertising
during the last fiscal year,accord
ing to an address before the
Chicago advertising agency
today by Garret Fort, general pas
senger agent of the Union Pacific.
No. 2,275
COMING 10 STOKES
Prominent Missionary Lay
men To Speak, at Hill's
Chape!. Hartman and
Danbury
NOVEMBER H AND 21
Winston-Salem Presbyterians In
terested in Church Extension
Work in this County, Will
Devote Personal Attention.
A number of prominent Wins
ton-Salem Presbyterian laymen
will speak at the Presbyterian
church at Hill's Chapel school
house) on Sunday. November
14. 11 A. M., and at the Presby
terian church in Danbury in
the morning, U o'clock, of Sun
day, November 21, and at Hart
man in th? afternoon, at 2:30,
of the same day. Among the
speakers will be Mr. G. VV.
Maslin, President of the Mer
chants National Bank, who is
chairman of the Church Exten
sion Committee, and Mr. C. M.
Norfieet of Piedmont Warehouse,
a prominent Twin-City layman.'
A number of other prominent
Winston-Salem church workers
will be in the party.'
Mr. H. M. Joyce, of Danbury,
is requested by Mr. Neil L.
Anderson, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church of Winston-
Salem, and by Rev. C. W. Ervin,
! pastor of the Stokes Presby
: terian churches, to give publicity
to the announcement, and to
extend a cordial invitation to the
' public to attend the services.
HIS MONEY IS GONE
Joe Grant, a Greene County
Farmer, Loses $2,250
In Cash.
AFRAID O F BANKS
Kept His Savings in a Trunk and
Somebody Swiped them—A
l.esson to Those Who Do Not
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Keep their Money in Banks.
Many thousands of dollars are
stolen every year from people
who do not believe in banks.
Read the following account of
the latest victim, a Greene
county, N. C., farmer:
Kinston, Nov. B. Although
this isn't an advertisement for
any certain bank, it might be
considered an argument for the
use of such institutions by those
who do not want to suddeny lose
thair savings. Joe (irant, a
county farmer, has never
had any particular confidence in
banks but had managed to ac
cumulate $2,250 in cold coin.
This he kept in a trunk in his
home.
! It had alwavs been there when
he went to look at ir. but on the
occasion of his last visit, although
the trunk was locked, the money
was missing. He has detectives
at work on the case, but they
have so far been unable to find
any trace of the legal tender.
Mr. James T. Flinchum, a
hard-working farmer of Danbury
Rout# 1, was here today. ,