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MRS. F. E. NELSON BEAD News Items and Personals From Danbury Route 1. Danbary Routs 1, May2.—The many friends and relatives will regret very much to learn of the sad death of Mrs. Catherine Nelson, wife of Mr. F. E. Nelson, who passed away at her home Friday evening at 5 o'clock. Mrs. Nelson had been in bad health for quite a while, and since last winter has been gradually grow ing worse, suffering most from paralysis which was the cause of her death. Mrs. Nelson is sur vived by three sons, three daugh ters and a number of other rela tives to mourn her death. Mrs. Nelson was a very attentive member of the Pir.ey Grove Baptist church and had served it well for many years. Iler funeral services were conducted Sunday evening at this church by Eldor Fagir, of Walnut Cove. The burial took place immediately after service and attended by a large crowd who paid their last re spects. Miss Daisy Biby, daughter of > Mr. Jasper Biby, who resides near Piney (J rove, became the wife Mr. Robert Lawson Sunday morning when the two were united in marriage by Mr. John D. Smith, J. P. The read ing of the ceremony took place in the public road, which was heard by a number of their friends. After the marriaga all returned to Mr. Lawson's home where a good dinner was prepared for them. The dwelling of Mr. Robert Stephens caught fire Monday evening but was scon extinguish ed by members of the family. The fire caught on the roof from the t stovepipe but no serious damage was done. Mr. 0. M. Bennett spent a few days in the northern part of the county in the interest of his campaign work, and reports things favorable. Mr. Monroe Fagg went to Dan bury Monday on business. Mr. W. A. Nelson went to Winston last week on business. Mr. H. H. Taylor, who has baen confined to his bed for some! time, is no better. Messrs. Ulyses and Daniel Kager, of Virginia, are spending! the wetk end with relatives here. | Messrs. Chas. Priddy, Ulyses j and David Kager, Jetter Oakley j and Starkey Priddy were visitors j at Mr. D. S. Priddy's Saturday, night. Mr. J. W. Morefield, who has' been living at Walnut Cove fori tne past two or three years, i moved his family to his country homo at North View thi3 week. Mr. Frank Taylor went to Madison Saturday on business. The preaching at Mr. Jackson Maba's Saturday night met with muc'.i success and was attended by a large crowd. There will be preaching at Piney Grove Baptist church Sun day. Miss Eihel Sharp in Hospital as Result of Auto Accident. Winston-Salem, N. C., May I.—ln attempting to pass another car on the clemmons road seve ral miles west of here Sunday an automobile driven by W. T. Southern, of Guilford county, dashed into a tree, the driver be ing blinded by dust. Misses Ethel and Katherine Sharp, sisters-in-law of Mr. Southern, were in the car. The first named was pinnoned under the car and Sustained a broken limb. She is at the hospital with little hope of recoyery. Mr, Southern and Miss Katherine escaped with bruises. The painting of Mr. J. D. Humphreys handsome new resi dence has been about completed. Smilh. Smith, May I.—Mrs. T. W„ Tilley has been vory sick for the past week. Mr. Eugene Ray left last week for Indiana. Miss Mary Tilley, who has bean attending school at Walnut Ccve the past winter, returned heme Sunday. Mrs. \V. P. Ray is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Smith, near Dan bury. Miss Lennis Ilall, of Stuart, Va. t Route 2, i 3 visiting her brother, Mr. R. L. Hall. Miss Lucv Lackey spent last week with Miss Delia Martin. The singing school taught at the Smds school house by Mr. Matt Simmons closed last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Tilley spent last Saturday and Sunday at Mr. J. H. Alley's. Mr. Claud Smith, o£ Peter's Creek, Ya., visited at Mr. (J. A. Martin's last Saturday and Sun day. Personal and News Items Of Walnut Cove Route 3. Walnut Cove Route 2, May 2. —The health of this community is right good at this writing. Don't guess there will be a very large crop of tobacco raised aiound here this year as the farmers are complaining right much about the scarcity of plants. Mr. and Mrs. James Lasley visited at Mr. J. N. Lasley's Sunday. Misses Bertha and IlaMa be s )ent Saturday and Sunday with Miss Hester Tilley. Mr. Jesse Gatewood called to see Miss Mallie Brown Sunday. Misses Kate Alley, Addie Ntl son, Messrs. Nat Nelson, Jack Alley and others visited at Mr. R. E. Alley's Saturday night. W:'sse3 Ruth and Nannie Mitch ell visited at Mr. S. F. Abbott's Sunday. Miss Mary Smith spent the afternoon Saturday with Miss | Sadie Alley. Mr. and Mrs. Nat D.ivis spt-nt i Sunday eyening at Mrs. Sarah j Allen's. Messrs. Nat Nelson and .Tames j Allen called to see Miss Sadie I Alley Sunday. ta Million Heathens In That City Oat of a total population of ever 5,500,000 in New York City, it is estimated by the New York Evangelistic Com-, mittee that 3,300,000 are with-' out church affiliation. It is the special effort of the committee j in its summers work to carry the! Gospel to these people. It is pro-! posed in the campaign during the 1 coming summer to use 22 tents, j 8 halls, 25 shops, and 210 open-i air Gospel stands. Most national- ! ities are represented in this great army of the unevanglized.; —The Christian Herald. Half Million Dollars Will Be Expended on Build ing in Charlotte. Charlotte, May 2.—A Golds boro firm was today awarded con tract for the erection of 10 new plants of th 9 J. and D, and Tire Company, Charlotte's new half million dollar industry for the manufacture of automobile tires. The main building of the plant will cost s',ooo. The initial out put will be 300 tir s per day. THE DANBURY REPORTER David Samuel Duncan. David Simuel Duncan was born February 12th, 1877, and died March 23, 1916, making his s ay here 39 years, 1 month and 11 day?. , He was married to Miss Hattie E. Lawscn January 0, 1912. To this union were born two children, a boy and a girl. He also leaves an aged and very much afflicted rmther, Mr?. Minerva Ann Dun c in, to mourn their los?, she having cancen in very bad form. He was first taken with pneu monia and was not thought be serious, but complications arose and it seemed that all that doct ors, relatives ar.d friends could do, could not stay the hand of death and ho didn't live quite two weeks after he was taken sick. He requested his father-in-law, Mr. Lawson, to take care of his wife and children. He being the only child, and his father having preceded him to the grave, he especially request ed that his mother be well cared for the rest of her da; s. David was an honorable, up right citizen and is greatly miss ed, both by the family and neigh boring friends. The remains were laid to rest in the family burying ground under the auspices of the Junior Order of Dillard in the presence of a large concourse of relatives and friends. A FRIEND. Mul Cove Route 6. Walnut Cove Route The farmers of this section are very busy planting corn. Mr. W. P. Nelson, of Dan bury Route 1, spent a short while here today. Misses Minnie Fagg and An 'nie Bayer spent Monday with : Miss Jennie Fulk. Mr. John Flynt went to Wal nut Cove thid week. Miss Minnie Fagg spent Sat urday with Mr. Jim Fagg at V/alnut Cove. Misses Ethel Southern, Jennie j and Sudie Fuller, Messrs. Will and Jtssi Fuller, Lemmie Fagg, Hardie Martin cn j others went Ito Walnut Cove Saturday night' and all seemed to enjoy them selves fine. Whooping ccugh an d measles seem to be raging in this section at present. There will bs preaching at Tuttle's school house next Sun | day by Rev. Willis. The Soy Bean Industry. | Farm Extension News. It is interesting to observe that notwithstanding the wide adap tion of conditions in thjs country to soy bean growing, twenty mil lion pounds of soy bean oil, wrorth nine million dollars, were im ported into the United States during the year 1915.-It is also interesting to observe that during this same year 5387,867 bushels of soy beans, worth $7,103,000, were imported from the Orient into Great Britain. The latter were paid for at an average price of $1.21 per bushel. Do6s it not seem highly important for our people to produce enough of these demands, but also to be in position to compete for the European trade if alvisiable to do so? Gideon. Gideon, May 2.—The farmers of this section are about through planting corn. I Mr. W. M. Flynt and daughter, ! Miss Ethel, attended the com mencement at Walnut Cove Fri day and Saturday, Mr. Rex Tilley went to Wins ton Friday on business, return ing Saturday. Among those who visited Mr. Bob Reid Sunday were Misses Ethel Flynt. Lillian Mitchell, Bettie Johnson, Avis Dunlap and Minnie Mabe; Messrs. Rex Tilley, Charlie Mabe, Herman Duncan, Roy and Elmer Flinch um and Hardy Johnson, all re porting a nice time. Mr 3. R. W. Mitchell is right sick at this writing. Hope he wi'l be out again soon. Those who visited Miss Fairy Wilkins Sunday were Misses Beulah Sheppard, Kathleen An drews, Geneva and Nettie Hen nis, Lula Kington and Lottie Wall; Messrs. Carey Flynt ani Jodie and John Kington. All report a nice time. Miss Medley Wilkins, of Sandy Ridge, is spending a week with her sister, Mrs. Frank Johnson. Mrs. Bobert Wilkins and Mrs. Lynn Wilkins visited Mr. R. W. Mitchell Monday. Messrs. Ben, Charles and Gid Mitchell and Robert Stewart visited at Mr. C. A. Wagoner's Sunday. Miss Myrtle Fagg, who has been attending the Chuichland High School, i 3 expected home Saturday. Mrs. EJgar Mitchill is visitirg her sister, Mrs. Bob Martin. Miss Lillian Mitchell went to VN alnut Cove Monday shopping. Mr. W. J. Flynt went to Pir.e Hall yesterday on business. Ballots At the Primary. Raleigh News and Observer. A ruling of Attorney General T. W. Bickett that registrars in the approaching primary have no right to distribute the official ballots, is being printed for the use of the election officials in the various counties. Attorney General Bickett's opinion reads : "Replying to ycur inquiry of this date. I beg to advise that in my opinion the registrar has no right to distribute the official ballot, but mu3t keep them in his possession, subject to his control and the control of the judges of election; until the elector corn?.? up to vote. The elector then states with which he affiliates and is handed the ballots of that party. He can take the ballots and mark them secretly if he desires, and he can call on the judges to as sist him, and there is nothing in the law that forbids him calling on any friend of his to assist him in the preparation of the ballot if he so desires." A Good Family Cough Syrup. Can be made by mixing Pine-Tar, Aconite, Sugar Hyoscyamus Sas safras, Peppermint Ipecac, Rhu barb, Mandrake Capsicum, Mu riate, Ammonia, Honey and Glycerine. It is pleasant, healing and soothing, raises the phlegm, and gives almost instant relief. For convenience for those who prefer not to fuss, it is supplied ready made in 25c. bottles under name of Dr. Bell's Pine Tar Honey. Can be had at your drug gist. Insist on getting Dr. BeU'a Pine-Tar and see if the informa tion is on the package. Southern Railway Co. Buys] dew Rolling Stock i i Washington, D. C., April 27. i —Southern Railway has just purchased 45 locomotive?, GO all steel passenger train cars, 1500 all-steel coal cars 1507 steel center sill box cirs and 100 steel center sill caboose cars, as fol -1 lows : I From the Baldwin Locomotive Works, 30 Santa Fe type loco motives and 15 Mountain type passenger locomotives. From the Pullman, 25 coaches, 10 passenger and baggage cars, 10 mail and baggage cars, 10 baggage and express cars, and 5 club cars. From the Pressed Steel Car Co., 10C0 50-ton flat bottom gon dola coal cars. From the Mt. Vernon Car Mfg. Co.. 500 coal cars of the same type. From the Lsnoir Car Works, 1007 30-ton plain box cars and 500 30-ton plain automobile box ears, and ICO caboose cars. The Mobile and Ohio railroad has purchased 1,000 30-tc-n stee center sill ventilated box cars from the American Car and Foundary Co. All this new equipment is to be of the most modern and ap proved construction. Both the passenger and freight locomo tives are to be more powerful than any now in service of the Southean Railway while the passenger and freight train equipment will conform to the present standards, the passenger train cars being electric lighted a3 well as of all-steel construction All this equipment will be placed in service as soon as it can be delivered by the builders. The South, The South is a land that has known sorrows; it is a land that has broken the ashen crust and moistened it with tears; a land scarred and riven by the plow shares of war and billowed with the graves of her dead; but a land of legend, a land of song, a J land of hallowed and heroic | memories. To that land every drop of my blood, every fibre of my being, every pulsation of my heart, is consecrated for ever. I was | born of her womb; I was nutured at her breast, and when my last hour shall come, I pray God I that I may be pillowed upon her bosom and rocked to sleep with in her' tender and encircling arms.—The late Senator E. W. ! Carmack, of Tennessee. Card Of Thanks. Editor Reporter: I desire to extend bincere thanks through your paper to all those who assisted me in the voting contest conducted by the Reporter. Their help is sincerely appreciated and will not soon be forgotten. ELSIE SHEPPARD. Danbury Route 1, May 1, 1916. Keep Your Skin Clear and Healthy There is only one way to have a clear healthy complexion and that is to keep the bowels active and regular. Dr. King's New Life Pills will make your com plexion healthy and clear, move the bowels gently, stimulate the liver, cleanse the system and purify the blood. A splendid spring medicine 25c. it your Druggist. Car Load Terra" Cotta jj! PICKLING JARS AND FLOWER POTS Just Received. Mill End Roofing 98c. Square. Shore Mercantile Co., KING, N. C. Methodists Would Raise $9,000,000 For Education. Seeking to place all colleges and schools of the denomination on a solid basis financially, the tard of education of the South ern Methodist Church, in ses sion at Nashville, Tenn., last week, adopted a plan to raise $9,000, COO for education by popular subscription among church memberbership. A million each would go to the Southern University at Dallas and Emory University at Atlanta. Other institutions of the denom ination includa 13 A-grade col leges, 9 B-grade "colleges,, 8 junior colleges, 23 unclass&ed colleges and 15 academies. & Notice of Sale of Real Estate Under Deed In Trust. By virtue of the power of Bale contained in a certain deed in trust executed to me on the 9th day of April, 1914, by S. H. Boyd and wife, duly recorded in the office Register of Deeds for Stokes County, N. C., in Book No. 55, pige 725, to secure the payment of a certain bond therein;recitad, default having bsen made in th» payment of said bond, and the holder thereof having applied to me to make sale of the land conveyed in Raid deed in trust, I* will expose to DJblic sale to the highest bidder for cash, in front of the Bank of Stokes County at Walnut C)ve, N. C., on Monday, June 12th, 1916, at the hour eleven o'clock A. M., the lands conveyed in said trust deed, to wit: "Beginning at a stake on the North side of cross street, West 100 feet along cross street, then North 200 feet to C. L. Weir's lot now. formerly W. A. Minish lot, now owned by Joe Welch, then East 100 feet, then South 200 feet to the beginning, being lot No, 100 in the village Stokesburg, N. C.. and knowM? as the W. R. Shelton lot. This the 2nd. day of May. 1916 N. O. PETREE, Trustee. NOTICE. HavlngjMy qualified as adminis trator of th««fetate of Joslah Neal, deceased, notice In hereby given to all persons iioldlng claims against the estate of the said Joslali Neal, to present tliom to me for payment duly authenticated, on or b)*the 15th day of May, 1917, or this notice will be pleaded In bar of their re covery. AH persona Indebted to said estate are respectfully requested to make Immediate payment to me, This the 3rd d*y of May, 1910. J. H. CARTER, Adm'r. Pine Hall, N. O. N. O. Petree, Atty. for Adm'r.
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