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DANBURY REPORTER Volume LI. • REPORT IS BEING PREPARED Commission Investigating the Damage Done By Dog In Yadkin Township—Owner of Dog Is Located. P. P. Johnson, Henry Sizemore and V. T. Hartgrove, composing the commission appointed by the county commissioners to investigate the claims of a number of Yadkin coun- j ty citizens on account of damage wrought by a maddog, are preparing their report to be made to the coun ty commissioners on the first Mon day in February. AH of the claims against the coun ty are for the loss of dogs except one. C. H. Lunsford filed claim for the loss of seven sheep. The commission has been securing formation this week from the tax books in regard to the losses. It is stated that the owner of the dog which did so much damage is Nathan Blackburn, who resides near Dry Springs school house in Yadkin township. Mr. E. R. Nelson In Reply to Mr. Davis Danbury, N. C., January 23, 1'.»26. Editors Danbury Reporter: I notice in the last issue of the Reporter that T. E. Davis of Walnut Cove Route 4, wanted to know why the roads in Stokes county got so muddy in the winter, and the roads in Forsyth kept in splendid condition. Forsyth county built standard roads f -t and 28 feet and soil ll> feet which can b • nv.i'nt lined with mt getting red mud on the soil. Stokes county built her roads li> and IS feet wide and it is impossible to drag them without getting some red mud because the drags are Id feet wide. Wide as the road from to bank and the soil only from 7 i to 12 feet wide. If the roads were built 2»I and 2S feet like For syth built her roads and soiled 1(5 feet wide you could drag the roads without getting any red mud. Suppose we take the road from Meadows to Gernianton. That road can be maintained and is maintained without getting any red mud. Why? Because it is wide enough to be dragged without getting red mud on the soil. This road is about 26 feet wide and the soil is 16 feet. If all our roads in Stokes county were built like the road from Meadows to Germanton they could be maintained without getting red mud on the soil. Mr. Davis, you say that a sand day road ought not to get any mud dier in the winter than in the sum mer. Why is it that the State High way from Danbury to demon's ford is so bad now? The State has built a good road from Danbury to dem on's ford, but this big snow and ice and rain has put this road in a bad shape. Now, Mr. Davis if you can scrape some of these roads in Stokes county without getting a little red mud upon the road the people would , like to know how, when lots of the roads have got poor red soil to start with. So I want to say that the top soil roads have been in bad shape in places but the State roads have been bad in my section. There are uules of roads built so narrow that i' 9 ;s bad to pass each other's car in dry weather without going into the side ditches let alone in bad weather. So Mr. Davis in the first place our roads were not built wide enough. A top-soil road ought to be built not less than 26 feet wide so you can have a bed of top-soil 16 feet in the center of the road bed- So Mr. Davis, I would like for you to show me a top-soil road in your section that has been pulled up with a road scrape red mud from 2 to 6 inches of red mud from the side ditches up on the top-soil. So Mr. Davis you think that a top-soil road oueht to stand up in the winter time with all the rain and snow as it does in the summer time. If you had ' Iteen on some of the roads that the State is keeping up a few days ago .you would have thought different. With kind regards, i g Yours truly, ERNEST R. NELSON. Perhaps the padlock is, so to speak the key to the booze situation. I —lndianapolis News. SAPIRO'S LETTER INTERESTS CO-OPS Founder Changes His Views After Commission Board Reports—His Letter To li., A. Wade. Unusual interest is being taken in the changed attitude of Aaron Sapiro, by the Co-Op men of Dan ville and vicinity, says the Register. R. A. Wade, who had brought suit against Co-Operative Tobacco Mar keting Association officials last sum mer, to compel them to turn back $500,000 to the "pool," wrote Mr. Sapiro, founder of the Co-Operative Marketing Association, telling him of the situation and asking for his co-operation in pressing the suit, to which Mr. Sapiro replied, in very considerate terms, that his attitude towards the head officials was wrong and from a legal standpoint was un tenable, for the men who were be ing accused could not be capable of either, "deceit or fraud." What the people are desirous of knowing is why Mr. Sapiro has seen fit to change his views since writing to Mr. Wade? That Mr. Sapiro de cided to reverse his own opinion rel ative to Messrs. Patterson. Watkins and Edmondson seems to have been altogether due to the report of the Federal Trade Commission concern ing the profits these gentl'-men had made in re-drying tobacco without having a cent of money invested. The letter that was written by Mr. Sapiro to Mr. Wade, v|is dated frniii Chicago, June 11, and reads as follows: "D ur .Mr. Wade: "1 have carefully gone over your I • in reference to Mr. Watkins at:! Mr. Patterson. 1 lielieve that y .it" eon lusions are wrong from a ! "T.il standpoint and unjust from a petsonal standpoint. Nothing was done by cither Mr. Pitterson or Mr. Watkins without the full knowledge and consent of the executive com mittee and not anything was done !>y them which could not have been done by anyone else for the associa tion under current conditions on better terms, as far as your partic ular statement shows. "It is true that they appear from your standpoint to have made profits but there is no showing that these profits were improper or un conscionable as to amount or as to method when you keep in mind that each specific transaction as a whole involved very great investment and a very great hazard. "I have had many dealings with Dick Patterson and Tucker Watkins and I am frank to say that I believe them both absoluely incapable of deceit or fraud and I believe that they are so constituted that a dis honorable act could neither be con ceived nor fostered in their hearts. I feel that your own attitude to gether with your zeal for the asso ciation has led you into a great in justice towards these men. "I therefore do not and cannot accept your conclusions or recom mendations. But I do respect your courtesy and your faith in writing me as frankly as you did and I here express my appreciation of your fine personal attitude. "Yours Tru!y, (Signed) "AARON SAPIRO." Pine Hall Defeats Dillarcl Highs Tine II ill, Jan. 22.—Thora was an inlcrvi-linT basket ball gmi3 played h-re I'r'dr y afternoon at 2:30 o'clock between i'in» Hall High School and DilHr-I High School. The players for Pine Hall were: J. Isaac Ayers, forward. Chester Paris, forward. Charles Lester, guard. Harry Willi tinson, guard. I'inkney Taylor, center. The players for Dillard were: Alonzo Martin, forward. Woodrow Janus, forward. Edward Alcorn, guard. Hudson Simpson, guard. Carl Mitchell, center. The game was swift and interest ing. No fouls were made, and the score stood 30 to 18 in favor of Pine Hall. A PLAYER. C. E. Pyrtle, of Kernersvile, wus a visitor here today. Danburv, N. C., Wednesday, Jan. 27, 1926 SALE OF MT. AIRY ELECTRIC PLANTS Confirmed By Citizens At Elec tion Held This Week; Awn , ings To Be Removed. | Mt. Airy, Jan. 22.—The action of the Mount Airy officials in negoti ating with the Southern Public Utli- | ties Company for the taking over of the local electric power plants and transmission lines and bringing ad- j ditional electric power to this city, ' was confirmed by public vote here | this week when all the registered j voters with the exception of 48 , turned out to vote in favor of the ' sale and not a single vote was cast against it. The new company will j take over the local plants and line j July 1 and it is understood their engineers are already at work plan ning for the route to be taken in bringing in additional power lines. The contract provides that the pow er company shall pay cash for the city's plants and lines when the company takes them over, the pric-* having already been agreed upon. NEW DATES FOR CROP REPORTS Grain Average Estimates to Be Given July 10. Washington, Jan. '2l.—Changes in the dates on which crop reports willl be issued during the year were announced by the United States crop reporting board. Acreage estimates for spring wheat, barley, oats, and other crops except cotton, will he published July It) instead o| June as formerly. The first report of acreage con dition, and provable production of cotton will be issued July 2. The June 2 condition report will be • eliminated. Figures on revised • acreage and yield of cotton in 11(25 ■ will be issued May 1.1 instead of June 2. Other Reports. i A preleniinary n port of wool pro duction in 11*20 has been added to the 1 schedule and will be released July ' 2'J. No change in the issuance of semi -1 monthly cotton crop reports were ! indicated in the board's schedule although it was stated that "the ' dates for cotton are subject to any ' changes which may be made by ■ congress in the basic law which fixes : the date of these reports." ' Reason For Change. ' Deferement of the acreage esti -1 mates until July was explained as i being due to the desire to eliminate ; later revisions except in the case ' of abandonment. An extensive sur " vey of acreage will be made in June when one million questionairries will be distributed among Sarmers by " rural mail carriers. The survey is expected to cover 10 per cent of the area of the cotton belt instead of three per cent as formerly. The survey will make use of nie ' ehanical crop meters which were used widely for the first time in r 1925. \ Marriage Licenses Register of Deeds J. John Taylor has recently issued license for the th? marriage of the following cou il.'s: 11. T. Oakley to Gailter Priddy. , 11-nT Nance to Gertie Watts. ' Everett Fulton to Sadie Hide. , Jas. A. Eads to Lula M. Lawson. I Tom liOgan to Penia Morefield. ('has. M. Moore to Mattie Sue I Stephens. Wm. Fowler to Cleo Cromer. Moses P. Hullin to Mary E. Man uel. Reid Simmons to flattie Durham. Felix Carroll to Addle Doss. Eb Nicholson Under SISOO Bond Deputy Marshall Bryant, of Wins ton-Salem, arrested Eb Nicholson, of Sniithtown, this week on the charge of retailing and after a hear - ing here before 11. S. Commissioner » N. A. Martin the defendant furnish • ed cash bond in the sum of $1500.00 for his appearance at Federal court in June. >' W. V. Wood, of Sandy Ridge, was ,a visitor here today. "CO-OPS" HANG UP SEASON'S RECORD Last Week's Deliveries Best of This Tobacco Season— -4,500,100 Pounds. i Raleigh, Jan. 25.—Members of the Tobacco Growers Co-operative As sociation made the largest deliveries of the entire season to their ware houses in North Carolina and Vir ginia last week, amounting to a to tal of more than 4,500,000 pounds of tobacco, according to the statement of General Manager, Richard R. Patterson. This is considered a remarkable showing of loyalty on the part of the membership particularly in view of the recent report of the Federal Trade Commission and the suit of Wiley M. Person of Franklin county, North Carolina, against the associa- I tion. In view of the fact that the finan cial affairs of the association were reported by Oliver J. Sands, chair man of the executive committee, as j being in the best condition since its organization at last week's meeting of the board of directors, the suit of Person who has repeatedly busied himself in making speeches and call ing meetings against the associa tion, is regarded as an extravagant play for publicity. The attitude of tile directors to wards the report of the Federal Trade Commission whVh largely ig nored the charges of tobacco farm ers from various parts of the two Carolinas and Virginia made against the Imperial and American Tobacco Companies and severely attacked the methods by which the organize 1 growers have protected their own business and maintained higher prices for all tobacco farmers of this section in the past three years, was expressed in the following statement at lii-.it week's meeting of the asso ciation's governing board: "The board of directors of the To bacco Co-operative Association has spent a day hearing detailed state ments on the redrying situation with particular reference to the activities of General Manager Patterson and Warehouse Manager Watkins as co partners in the Edmonson Tobacco Company, said statements covering items brought out in the report of the Federal Trade Commission; and it has been made clear that the mem bers of this board have been in gen eral approval of the prior policies of this board in permitting and en couraging our directors or officers or managers to engage in redrying ac tivities in preference to placing such business with the enemies of co operative marketing; and it has been made evident that the members of the general board of direct ors with a few exceptions were not aware prior to June 1923, that man agers Patterson and Watkins had an interest in the Edmonson redrying activities for the 1!i22 crop; and that most of the directors did have gen eral knowledge of such activities for the 1K23 and l'J2l crops; and this board here expresses its approval of such activities and reiterates the resolution adopted August IS, 1025; and here states that it would have approved the said activities of 11122 had it known of them, as being in accord with its general policies at that time, ami that other employes and directors such as Mr. William.; and others were redrying tobacco for the association under standard con tracts with the knowledge and ap proval of the board generally, includ ing all of the actual facts about the policy of not selling green tobacco to dealers and expressly Including all the actual facts and evidence to show that the executive committee had good reasons to believe that there was, in the spring of lt'2;! a real attempt to raise the cost of re drying against this association, with full knowledge of all those facts the board approves of all such activities, states that there has never lieen any intentional concealment thereof; state- that the contract price anl profits have been in line with similar competing companies and were pro per in view of the hazard and the particular service; anil further states that it does not see any ground j whatsoever for any claim of any kind against the persons involved in 1 these transactions." COBB MAY HAVE MADE DISCOVERY Scientist Scales Dizzy Heights to Study Rock Formations I in Carolina Mountains. i Chimney Rock, Jan. 24.—Collier 1 Cobb, geologist of the University of North Carolina, left here Saturday for his home at Chapel Hill, after completing examination of the strange rock formations existing in this portion of western North Caro lina, to which his attention had been called. Today he ascended Chimney Rock mountain and scaled •the dizzy heights, accompanied by two guides familiar with that region gathering scientific data. Upon the return journey the party explored 1 an underground passage .r subway ' through which it was possible to , reach the opposite side of the moun- j tain overlooking Lake Lure. En-; route Professor Cobb scanned at a distance what appeared to IK- the , perfect outline rock formation of an ancient village of cliff dwellers. The i eminent geologist expects at an ; early date to return with scientific • instruments and cameras, outfitted ' for a week's journey among the [ sheer granite walls which today ex . cited the party, as they may have . made a discovery which must turn back the pages of established history of this region prior to the days of the Indians in western North Caro I Una. This is the same region scan ned last summer by members of the Chicago Geographic society, brought here for exploration by the Southern railway. ! Safety Rules i By S. P. V. Company i ~ | Public Service, published at Ra ; leigh by the North and South Car >- |lina Public Utility Information Bu t, reau, contains the following nine . rules for Safety on the Streets. The first four are directed to pedestrians: 1. NEVER cross streets at other than regular crossings. This is "jay walking." This reckless practice causes one-half of our street acci dents. 2. DON'T cross the street directly behind a street car. There may be another on the opposite track, or an f automobile you cannot see. j 3. BEFORE stepping from the curb see that vehicular traffic is a STANDSTILL. "Threading" traffic j is inviting injury or death. 4. AVOID cutting diagonally from corner to corner at street intersec tions. TWO lines of traffic to watch u DOUBLES your risk of injury. The last five for automobile driv ri erß: f 1. LOOKOUT for children! Thru playing on the sidewalk they may t suddenly run into the street. Many are injured yearly in this manner. ~ 2. GIVE THE PEDESTRIAN a chance. Even if he is careless, yo.i t will deeply regret any injury he may suffer. Most auto accidents occur when driving fast—better delay than . a death. f 3. ACCIDHNTS are always "un , expected," therefore drive carefully . at ALL times, using chains in slip (i pery weather. , 4. KEEP VOl'R BRAKES in good order. Your life and the lives of t many others depend on your ability s to stop INSTANTLY. You can't do it with neglected brakes. 5. STUDY tf'fftc rul s carefully. Obey them. Ignorance is no excuse. They are written for YOU, and may be had at any police station. Risk of death is !>s times as great on the roadway as the sidewalk. ' r HE ALERT WHEN YOU THINK SAFETY YOU ARE SAFE. , Austin Eaton Loses i Home By Fire I, /eb Hall, who was here from the Flat Shoal community yesterday, reported that Austjn Eaton of thai v - section, had the misfortune on Mon '. day to lose his home and its con j tents by lire. It is not though 11hat r Mr. Eaton carried any insurance and _ his loss is heavy. The oigin of the tire is unknown. I Palm Beach has gone in for synthetic jewelry. Plate glass dia- rnonds and paste pearls are certainly II in keeping with paper profits. i Wichita Eagle. No. 2,X06 BAD FIRE OCCURS NEAR KING I)r. Davis Lost His Feed Barn and Three Automobiles— Mr. Smith and Miss Preston Married—Other News Items. King, X. C., Jan. 2">.—On Thurs day night. January 21st. the ladies aid of Trinity M. E. church mot at the homo of Mrs. G. W. Thomas. After the business session a very interesting pmgramme was render ed, then during the social hour » contest was given by guessing how many beans were in a half pint bot.- beans were dG shrdlu etaoin shrdl h tie. The one guessing nearest th* correct number was Mrs. R. (5. Gough, who was given a nice laundry bag. The one guessing the farther est from it was Mrs. Squire Thomas, who was presented with the bottle of beans. As soon as the contest was over little 11a Fred Smith entered the room with a tray of napkins giv ing one to each guest, then refresh ments were served consisting of cof fee, pickls, sandwiches and refresh ments. The programme and cor test was gotten up by Mrs. Inez Smith. Members present were Mr*. G. E. Stone and Mrs. E. A. Moser. Misses Clara I'ulliam and Marie Gough, Mesdames Squire Thomas, A. K. Hooker. R. G. Gough and G. \Y. Thomas. Mr. J. E. Slate has purchased from the Virginia-Carolina I .and Corpora tion six resident lots in Pilot View, the new development just east of town. Work is well under way on a new •rvite station for Mr. I!, li. L)elpon Wes*. Main street and will be pushed through to completion at an early date. T. McGee his leased the new si rvi o . '.at "(i and garage of T. E. Smith on East Main St. He iII operate the service station and garage lining all kinds of repairing and will also handle new automobil -s. Several men will be eniployd in this new business which is located at th' intersection of Main and School Sts. A force of State Highway men are here repairing the oil road be tween this place and Pilot Mt. Mrs. \V. M. Moore, of Winston- Salem, was the week-end guest ef Dr. and Mrs. Ernest M. Griftin. Mr. William Conrad, of Winston- Salem, was among the visitors here Sunday. Mr. Fount (Happy) Smith and Miss Cassie Preston were united in the holy bonds of matrimony here yesterday. Rev. R. W. Burrows per formed the marriage ceremony. The groom is the son of Mr. Pete Smith, while the bride is the attractive young daughter of Mr. N. E. Pres ton, both of King. After the honey moon they will he at home in King. Mr. Theodore Newsum, of lEigh Point, spent Sunday with his parents in Walnut Hills. Mr. ard Mrs. P. J. Caudle of Winston Salem, spent the day Sun day with relatives here. Rev. Paul Herman Newsum filled his regular appointment at Hrown Mountain Sunday. David Wilcox, Jr., of Winston-Sa lem, spent Sunday with the family of Mr. S. 11. Hrown, on West Main St. Leopold Wiiodleaf, of High Poin', spent Sunday with friends here. Harhain Newsum, of Winston- Salem, was among the visitors hen- Sunday. A. P. II ndrix, Postmaster at To bac.ov ll '. fell on the snow thU r' n'.i'n l r-aking his arm above th wi\s'.. Ruth lv nes were broken. Dr. Gra.ly E. Stone reset the broken nit .nber. Mack Kirby, of Winston-Salem, is spending a few days \vith relatives lien . Dr. Davis, who resides at Seward, si\ miles south of here, had the mis ' foituno to lose his feed barn by file last night about ten o'clock. He had a good Intra. All his feed w:u burned, three automobiles, two calves and all his farming tools. The origin of the fire is not known. It was not learned whether or not he hail any insurance. I,ee Fowler, of High Point, is a. . business visitor here today. Mr. O. Johnson, of Pilot Mountain, - is here today looking after busi ness matters.
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