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The Danbury Reporter
PEPPEB BROS.. EDITORS AND PVBI.IBHKM.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 26. 1916.
PREMIUM FOR THE FIRST PRIMINGS.
The Reporter would like to know who cures the
first barn of primings in the new 1916 crop in Stokes,
and if the curer will send us a cured leaf from the
barn we will mail him a receipt for a year's sub
scription to the Danbury Reporter
AN ESSAY ON CATS.
All important places are destined sooner or later
in life to tribulation. Rome was overrun with
hoboes from the northern woods; London had her
zepplins. New York her infantile paralysis, western
North Carolina her floods, and Danbury her fleas, j
There is a serious epidemic of fleas> :n town, from
ait reports, which is probably the natural result of
so many dogs and cats.
A suffering citizen had his hired man to fill a sack
with kittens one day this week, take it out and beati
it against the treis. After so long a time, the hired:
man looked in the sack and found he had only a J
bushel of fleas.
If all the dogs and cats of Danbury were tanned.'
their hides would shoe the German army, while the j
fleas released if properly diverted would conquer the
Russians in 30 days.
THE DISASTER IN THE WEST.
A great wave of sympathy is going out to the
people of western North Carolina in their colossal
disaster. From the Yadkin to the French Broad, the
flood's damage is estimated at $10,000,000 to $25,-
000,000--the biggest calamity that has ever be
fallen the people of the State. Not only homes,
cattle, crops, and chattels were swept away, but
many thousands oi acres of valuable land—bottoms
rich as the Nile*-are irreparably ruined. Many lives
were lost, and thousands of people are at the point
of starvation. Funds are being rushed to the suf
fering district from all sections of the State. A bill
has been introduced in Congress to appropriate
$300,000 for the relief of the destitute. The hillside
farmer of Stokes county may thank his stars that
he is living, and his crop looks fine. And if there's
a loose quarter in his jeans that he can get along
without till primings, send it along. As the old
woman said, every little bit helps.
ANOTHER TELEPHONE FIASCO.
Stokes county's local telephone lines gave another
striking demonstration Saturday night of their ut
ter failure as public utilities. The Republican pri- ,
maries had been held, and palpitating candidates
tore out their hair trying to find out the extent of ,
their fates, while their expectant friends went home i
disgusted to bed.
Some day when the public has suffered long
enough, and the finally disillusioned stockholders ,
of the farcical systems who wouldn't know a divi
dend if they met it in the road, realize that it takes
capital, experience, scientific organization and
capable officials to furnish telephone service, a deal
will be made and the Bell company or some other
expert concern will undertake to give us service, and
they will give it, at a price far lesi than we are pay
ing.
The highest price anybody ever paid for anything
is that which is paid for bad service. A cent a
month is too high, if you can't get there.
FARMING WITH BRAINS.
The corn fields of Stokes county are the glory and
the safety of the people. Green-black clouds on
hill and bottom, the plumed stalks wave with the
pride of helmeted legions. These soldiers are ca
pable of fighting off the invasion of want, and they
mean bread and hominy for man and beast, and in
the last analysis greasy sides, ham gravy and souse
meat. He who hath a full corn crib may well be
puffed up, for he is hedged about with saucy inde
pendence, sleek satisfaction and corpulent plenty.
Dr. Will McCanless has one of the finest fields of
i corn ever seen in this section—some four or five
acres over on the meadow branch. If we all didn't
know that Dr. Will was such a skillful physician,
we would say he Ijad missed his calling. Ought to
been a farmer. Of course Ike Bullen and Bill Haw
kins furnished the sweat and the bad words, and the
showers have done their part, but Dr. Will furnished
the brains. And it takes brains to farm successfully.
THE DANBURY REPORTER
V C.MOODY, 70.
Uncle Charles Moody, col., Danbury's oldest male
citizen, who has had a blacksmith shop here since
time whereof the memory of our longest-timers run
neth not to the contrary, was 76 years old last week.
He is in the best of health, and assures his friends
that he will stay on with us 30 more years—if the
pop lasts.
Uncle Charles came to Danbury when there were
only two buildings here. One of these was the
Shackelford grog-shop. Liking the location of
things, he decided to stay, and has been here ever
sine?.
In those days. Winston-Salem was the nearest
rival of Danbury with any town pretentions. Dan
bury having a grog-shop, was conceded to be the
more important place. The court house then was
at Germanton, and the grog-artists who depredated
up and down Dan river with squirrel rifles on their
I shoulders, and who met at Shackelford's symposium
Saturda> evenings to settle little disputes that had
'occurred during the week, had to go over on the
Fork at court to be tried in the brick building now
occupied by .Mr. M. McGee as a mercantile house.
Those were great and good old days. Uncle Charles
assures us. Good brandy flowed like water and was
almost as cheap. The people gathered around
] Shackelford's place on public days, and proceeded
to get drunk. Nobody thought of becoming beastly
; intoxicated, but everybody just got comfortably
{drunk. If anybody had any grudges, the fashion
'was to dispose of them—never carry them over Sun
day. Old man Shackelford's sow kept fat on fingers,
ears and eyes that accidently became dislocated.
Nobody thought of using guns or knives in those
good old days. The principal weapons were the hands
that God gave—and mainly teeth.
Uncle Charles helped dig the first grave in Dan
bury's cemetery—wa> before the war of the 60's.
He has kissed in their cradles the best people, men
and women, who have lived and died in these parts,
and has officiated at hundreds of funerals. His
forge and bellows, and his ringing anvil have fur
nished restful music for the Danbury people forages.
Frequently at the earliest hour of the morning, long
before the cruws shake themselves in their roost,
Uncle Charles' voice raised to the tune of some
familiar melody like "The Old Time Religion," or
"John, He Wrote the Resolutions," may be heard
lifted in old-time song, with spirit and understand
ing. Like the cry that comes from the sentinel
on the walls, the late sleeper hears it, is satisfied,
NOTICE.
All overseers of public roads
in Snov Creek township are'
hereby rotiried that the Board of I
Supervisors will meet at J. E. i
Shelton's old store place in;
Sandy Ridge on Saturday, Aug.
12th. 1916, at 2 o'clock p. m., to
discuss the conditions of the pub-,
lie roads. All overseers are here '
notifiied to report their respecive
sections of road in good condition |
at above time and place.
This July 22nd 1916.
C. D. SMITH. Chm.
G. A. Hutcherson, Clerk.
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LIBERTY-PIEDMONT INSTITUTE.
Write for catalogue. 19jy6t
JOHN MERITT CHEEK,
Principal, Wall burg, N. C.
HHHP
IWe Have What Yon Need!
■ Why Go To Other Towns To Buy ? Our Prices
Are As Low and Our Goods Are the Best, Then
Why Not Patronize A Home Business and
Build Up Your Own County ?
here arc Some of Our Seasonable Goods:
Screen Doors and Windows.
Screen Wire Cloth,
Screen Door Hinger,,
Miss Dixie Planters,
Double ShoveJ and Cultivator Plows,
Single Shovel Plows and Plow Steels,
Hoes, Mattocks and Garden Rakes.
Some of Our Staple Goods Are:
A complete line of furniture,
Iron beds and wood beds.
Springs and mattresses of all kinds,
Split bottom and rocking chairs,
Cooking and heating stoves of all kinds,
Anything you need to fit up your home.
We can fill all the needs of the home and the farm.
MS HUME HID MIME HMf,
P. T. HARRINGTON, PROP'R.
WALNUT COVE, - - - - • N. CAR.
turns side then,
"(plowing all
Late in life,^^^H^^Hr^ uffere d a temporary
set-back in hihe soon corrected by
discovering Now he very natural
! ly believes pop to for all ills, and makeq*
! it a habit to consume a crate or two every day.
' jOft in the stilly night when slumber's chains refuse
Jto bind, he reaches down by his humble bedstead,
>iand uncorking a bottle of the sizzling cure-all,-
P imbibes with the vivacity that he used to show at"
. old man Shackelford's bar.
i May Uncle Charles be spared to reach his
'3O more, and when at last his anvil chorus is stilled
in death, and Saint Peter beckons him across the
J river, may he hear kind and welcome words
' | like these : "Come in, Charles, though your skin be
| 'dark, it shall be made white like snow."
,DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES FOR STOKES COUNT\
1 OFFICES.
People are figuring on Democratic candidates
now. Politics are beginning to spruce up. 3nd
'notice things. The county was stirred by the
Republican primaries last veek, and next Saturday
''-•convention day-marks the beginning of the Re-
J publican campaign. The Republicans are confident,
as usual. Their nominee for Sheriff will be A. W.
Davis of Walnut Cove. It is not known whether
' Morefield, Heath, Dunlap, Bennett cr Gordon will
' win in the fight for Register of Deeds.
1 County Chairman S. P. Christian has not called
" : the Democratic convention yet, but is expected to
'! issue the notice within a few days. The Democrats
;!are talking T. W. Tilley, Dr. S. F. Tillotson, W. T.
";Sheiton and S. P. Christian for Sheriff-'all splendid
V and capable gentlemen, who would lead the Dem
ocratic hosts with ability and honor Two years
'!ago E. W. Carroll like to have stepped into the
•!Sheriffs office, missing by only a round hundred
1 j votes. The Sheriff's office in Stokes during iate
• years is a very desirable position, paying upwards ot
5 i 55,000 per year salary.
1 j The game will start off soon with more than
• usual interest. The players are taking .heir places.
» W ho will knock the home runs? |
i Wanted 1 desire to employ a FOR SALE 1r RENT 145
- v, ,1 acre farm, orchard 3 nouses, to
r good hand to work on my farm baccQ gQod dg> 1 mlle
j and will pay a good price. Come south of sta tion, i\art, Va.
and see me or write me. MRS. B. B. NOEI, Stuart, Va.
S. L. VEN ABLE, 2sjulv3t
Madison, N. C.. Route 3.
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