Ttt DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM!
Some Of the Things the
Party Declared For At Its
Meeting In Raleigh Re
cently.
Following are some of the
t lings the Democratic p3rcy de
clared itself through its plat
form in favor of at the recent
convention held in Raleigh :
We commend him (Woodrow
Wilson) to all men and send to
him the assurance of our un
faltering support.
We commend to our repres
entatives in Congress and to our
paople his program of prepared
ness.
We endorse the record of our
senators and representatives in
Congress.
We endorse the administration
of Governor Locke Craig and
other state officers for its fidelity
to the highest ideals of public
service and notable achievements
in the public interest.
We advocate a continuance
and strengthening of the humane
policy now in force in this state
for the protection of the public
health, and the eradication of
preventable diseases.
We pledge our party to a policy
of sympathetic aid and encourage
ment to road building in this
state.
We favor legislation providing
for the incorporation, supervision
and control of warehouses for
the storing of farm products,
in order to facilitate the proper
marketing of such products.
We pledge, not only to citizens
of this state, but to citizens of
other states, that all capital
invested in legitimate enter
prises in North Carolina, whether
foreign or domestic, shall have
the equal and friendly protection
of our laws in their observance,
and will be held equally amend
able to our laws in their viola
tion.
Petroleum Lands Owned
by Government.
Secretary Lane has just written
the members of the Senate Com
mittte on Public Lands submit
ting for their information esti
mates of the area of petroleum
lands in public ownership, to
gether with an estimate of the
possible production from these
lands. The government has under
withdrawal some 5,500,000 acres
of land. These tracts are made
up of public and private lands.
It is believed that the public land
amounts to approximately 3,-
000,000 acres. The largest
amounts of publicly-owned lands
believed to be oil-bearing are in
the States of Utah, Wyoming
California and Montana, there
being smaller acreage in Arizona,
Colorado, North Dakota and
Louisiana, although it is believed
that only gas may be expected
from the withdrawn land in
North Dakota.
Conservative estimates for the
petroleum content of the public
lands in the various States sub
mits d showing an aggregate of
750,000,000 barrels.
Land Sold For laxes.
Sheriff W. C. Slate last Mon
day sold at public auction quite
a number of tracts of land and
town lots for taxes. Most of
hese, howeyer, will no doubt be
ntfeemed by the owners. The
number acres of land and town
lota sold this year were not as
ituge as usual.
A Town's Best Advertising.
By State Board of Health.
"A town without flies is the
best advertising a town can
have." said a business man the
other day. And when he thought
so, he replied: "There are several
reasons. First, everybody knows
that a town without flies is a
clean town, a healthful town,
where health matters receive due
attention. You would expect to
find in it clean streets and alleys,
clean food shops and markets,
and clean grocery stores and
restaurants. It is where you
would feel easy to sit down and
eat without feeling suspicious
about the food that is served you.
"In the second place, it is a
town that has no filthy, fly-breed
ing stables and open surface
closets. It takes care of its sew
age and garbage and deems the
health of its citizens worth pro
tecting. For this reason you feel
like such a town is a good place
in which to live.
"In the third place, it would
be a town practically free from
typhoid fever, infantile disease,
cholera and other fly-borne dis
eases, to say nothing of other im
proyed health conditions and the
comforts brought about by clean
liness and the absence of flies."
But how are you going to haye
a fly less town"? the speaker was
asked. "By going after the
stables first," said he, "and then
by cleaning up the rest of the
town and keeping it clean. To
afford flies no place to breed,''
said the speaker, "is the
only way not to have flies. Towns
that have succeeded in controll
ing the fly menance went straight
for the stables first and then for
the open closets and dirty places
where flies find breeding places.
Dr. L. M. McCormicK, the fly
figMer of Asheville, says "There
is no royal road to freedom from
flies tut Clean Up! and Keep
Clean! is the winning slogan."
Strawberry Crop oi The Carolinas
Will Be About 1,200 Cars.
Washington, April 2\ The
strawberry crop of the Carolinas
this season will be about 1,200
cars, the Department of Agricul
ture today announced, basing its
estimate on reports from it rep
resentatives and from railway
officials.
Reports indicate that the crop
is in good condition and with con
tinued good weather there is a
potential movement from this
territory of well over a thousand
cars if prices justify shipment.
To date 30 cars have been shipped
from North Carolina and one'
from South Carolina, the dipart
ment says.
Prather-Floyd.
Invitations!reading as follows
have been received here:
Mrs. Jesse H. Prather
announcas the marriage of her
daughter
Lilla Briggs
and
Mr. Brian Floyd
on Wednesday the twenty-sixth
of April nineteen hundred
and sixteen
Washington, D. C.
The bride is well known here,
having visited here and at Pied
mont Springs on a number of
occasions. The groom is a
piominent young business man
of Spartanburg, S. C.
THE DANBURY REPORTER
ADVERTISEMENT
For Sheriff, Stokes County.
Mr. Editor :
Through the medium of your
most excellent paper, read, ap
preciated and contided in by
hundreds of homes in our good
county of Stokes, I desire to
urge upon the Republicans the?
importance of making a wise
selection in the matter of nom
inating ourcandidati.s for Sheriff.
To the office of Sheriff attaches
more public and more party
interest and welfare than to that
of any other position within the
gift of the county.
We cannot afford to take
chances. Our party majorities
in the last election were not
large, in fact, they were rather
simall to be entirely comfortable.
We need a man who can and
will pull the full strength of the
party. We have that man, that
candidate, in the person of
Walter R. Mitchell, of Quaker
Gap township, and I sincerely
believe it the part of wisdom to
nominate him. Fortunately,
Mr. Mitchell has no connections
with party factions. He is
splendidly qualified for the
office, is in the very prime of
mature young manhood, full of
energy and hustle, makes things
go, succeeds at all he undertakes;
and besides, he comes of a lead
ing family both branches of
which have all along helped loy
ally to make our party all the
good it is. Walter R. Mitchell is
ideal "timber" for Sheriff.
T. M. LAWSON,
Pinnacle, N. C., Apr. 21, 1916.
The Ford—a simple car of proved quality.
A car anyone can operate, anyone can
care for and a car that brings pleasure,
service and satisfaction to everybody.
The car of more than a million owners.
Reliable service for owners from Ford
agents everywhere. Touring Car $440;
Runabout $390; Coupelet $590; Town Car
$640; Sedan $740 f. o. b. Detroit. On dis
play and sale by ,
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FULTON & JOYCE
Walnut Cove, N. C.
Wilis James.
Willis James was born October
18, 1840, and died March 17,
1916, making: his stay on earth
75 years, 4 months and 29 days.
He is survived by one sister,
Janie James, and his wife, Mary
•Tames. There were nine chil
dren born unto this happy' union
of which three are dead and
six living, namely, F. T., J. T.
and W. E. James, of Stokes;
Mrs. R. W. Floyd, of Winston-
Salem; Mrs. J. W. Fulp, and Mrs.
Robert Tilley, High Point. He
leaves 22 grand children and one
great grand child.
He was a faithful soldier in the
Confederate army, served and
fought for his country, and was
a faithful husband and a good
father. He was taken sick on
Saturday and died on Friday,
pneumonia being the cause. He
didn't belong to any church, but
was a Baptist by faith.
He was buried at the old fam
ily burying ground in the presence
of a large crowd of friends and
relatives.
We hope that our father's loss
is his heavenly gain.
We also thank the neighbors
for their kindness during our
father's sickness and death.
F. T. and W. E. JAMES.
Marriage Licenses.
Marriage licenses have been
issued recently by Register of
Deeds J. G. Morefield for the
marriage of the following couples:
Robert Lawson to Daisy Biby.
Ed Rogers to Fannie Lankford,
Henry Simmons to Lizzie
Belcher.
Demonstration of the Majestic Range!
May Bth to 13th, 1916
To Be Given At the Store of the •
STOKES H'D'W. & FURNITURE CO.
i P. T. HARRINGTON, Prop.
Walnut Cove, ■ ■ ■ * North Caro.
A set of real nice ware will be given
away with each stove sold during the de
-1 monstration. Don't fail to come in during
' the demonstration and see how this well
' known stove performs. It is undoubtedly
the greatest stove on earth.
Sewing machine sup
plies and repairs for
all makes. Old ma
chines made good as
new. Prompt at
tention to all
phone and mail
orders.
A. L. GROVES,
Phone 1173, Office 520, N. Liberty St.
ANGLO BLDG., WINSTON, N. C.
BSongfl
■«-m rISHES to thank Its many friends for their liberal
\\ an, l ever Increasing support during Its first busl- CtCs2>f
mi . ness year. u 'hlle marketing the present Rood
iZgjai crops, we are confident that a great many more of our
IjOQfi friends will start a checking account and boost their
vs£)J community by paying their bills with checks on their {{2sy
local Bank. [ggg
Paying with check Is the safest and most convenient ttO£l
way of paying bills. It reduces mistakes to a minimum,
VZ&S and always gives a receipt for the amount paid. feissl
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We Pay Four Per Cent. Interest On
j&gj Time Deposits, Compounded Quarterly.
SAFE, HONEST, COURTEOUS
|gj BANKING SERVICE. |||
DIRECTORS:
Dr. J. Walter Neal, T. 8. Petree,
S. W. Pulllaijj, N. E. Pepper,
R?£>!s M. T. Chilton, V. T. Grabs, J. W. Rutledge.
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