DAN BURY REPORTER
Volume LI.
850,000 DONATION |MEETING STOKES
FOR HOSPITAL COUNTY TEACHERS
A H. Eller, Trustee For Cicero
Tise Estate, Proposes To As
sist Stokes In Establishing j
Institution At Vade Mecum!
Springs.
It is learned here that Hon. A. 11.
Kll«'r, as trustee for the estate of
the late Cicero Tise, former owner
of Vade Mecum springs property in
Stokes county, has made a proposi
tion to the county commissioners to
donate the sum of $f>l),000 from the
funds of the Tise estate for the erec
tion of a hospital in Stokes, provid
ed the institution is located at Vade
Mecum Springs.
Full particulars and facts in re -,
gard to the otTer could not be learn
ed. but it is known that in his will
Mr. Tise made provision for the ex
penditure of considerable money
for charitable and church purposes j
at the Vade Mecum resort.
MT. AIRY PLANS
FOR FAIR IN 1926
Surry's Fall Festival Lines Up
With Big Fairs in Races.
Mount Airy, Jan. 28.— K. M. Lin
villc, secretary of the Carolina-Vir
ginia Fair Association, has an
nounced the dates for the li'2ti fail,
which will hi- held September -1 -21,
inclusive. The local fair association
his joined the North and South
nice circuit which is composed of
tie following fairs: Carolina Vir
g.nia fair. Mount Airy; Cleveland
. >unty fair, Shelby; Rutherford
i■ mnty fair, Rutherfordtun; Cabar
rus county fair, Concord; South Car
 .inti Mate fair, Columbia, S. C :
Spartanburg fair. Spartanburg, S.
The fairs will be held weekly
in the order named and will present
i uniform racing program of ten
purses of s.'loo each with added
money for the following classes;
Trots 2:10, 2:11, 2.17, 2.20, 2.2".;
paces 2.10, 2.11, 2.17, 2.20, 2.25. All
members give the same purses and
classes.
This will give six successive
weeks of racing for the horsemen
and will insure a large entry and
high-class racing. Victor's famous
band and the Nat Reiss shows on
the midway assure the fair patrons
a fair that will be high class in every
respect.
REVENUE COLLEC
TIONS FOR JAN'Y
SHOWING UP WELL
Collections for First 7 Months
of Fiscal Year Exceed Those
of Previous Period.
Raleigh, Feb. I.—January, gener
ally regarded as the leanest month
of the year in so far as revenue col
lections are concerned, netted the
state of North Carolina $21!),181.20.
The figures made public today by
the department of revenue show
that collections last month exceeded
those of January 11)25, by approxi
mately $ Collections for the
first seven months of the fiscal year
1!)25-1D26 exceed those of the first
seven months of the previous fiscal
year, the figures being &{,!)72,;i01.:M
and $2,072,656.70, respectively.
Insurance taxes brought in the
greatest amount, $»» 1,21)11.2!), last
month; income taxes $38,800.93; in
heritance taxes $2!>,058.1)2; schedule
B taxes, $54,1)77,228; schedule C
taxes $22,1)67.87 and bust taxes $17,-
376.1)1.
Personal litems
From Meadows R. 1
Meadows Route 1, Feb. 2.—Mr.
Homer Ferguson, of Germanton
Route 1, is seriously ill at this writ
ing with French measles.
M iss Maude Meadows and Miss
Martha Mounce visited relatives and
friends at Greensboro last week.
Misses Maude Carroll and Maude
Meadows called on Miss Lilla Men
denhall Sunday.
Miss Martha Mounce spent Friday,
Saturday and Sunday with her sister,
Mrs. John Joyce.
GUESS.
Instructors of One and Two
Teacher Schools Mold Group
Sess ion At Germanton
School.
ficrtnanton, Feb. 2. —A group
meeting of the teachers of the small,
or one and tow-teacher schools in
the county, near Germanton, was
held at the high school building Fri
day. Demnost ration lessons were
taught in the various grades by the
(Sermanton teachers. The lessons ob
served were silent reading in the
seventh grade; oral composition in
the third and sixth grades; a lesson
on health in the fourth grade, and
a reading lesson in the first grade.
After lunch the teachers met in
the various groups for discussion of
the reading circle work. Subjects of
interest in regard to school work and
child welfare was discussed.
A full attendance of teachers was
1 present. Miss Stamper, supervisor
lof Forsyth county schools, visited
the Germanton school Wednesday.
Then? has been a great deal of
sickness throughout this section the
past week.
Mrs. Kosina I'arris was stricken
with paralysis and died Friday
morning. Mrs. Roy Westmoreland
also died Friday, pneumonia causing
her death.
RECEIVE BIDS FOR
S2,f)(HUM)O ROADS
IVbruary S DaU* Set Fur Nt»\l
Uuail l.fttiiiK l»y Stat** Com
nii.ssioii— List ul' ilif I'ro
ji't s,
Ilalcinii, .lan. 2i>. lii.i, fur th
I'Kll 'init 1 imi of I'W!.To miles mi th*'
.-•.ate highway system involving an
expenditure of around two anil .1
half million dollars to he let in hi
projects will lie received liy the State
Highway Commission, and will he
opened anil read February S at 10
o'clock. This will involve the con
struction of r>S.:»O miles of hard-sur
face scattered through seven coun
ties, and the remaining TH-I miles
will lie dirt roads or grading.
Wake county is the only county to
have two projects. Bids will be re
ceived for 6.57 miles of hard-surface
out of Raleigh toward Wendell on
route i»0, and bids will also be re
ceived for 7.D5 miles of grading on
route 21 preparatory to hard-surfac
ing. The latter project was made
possible by the $1,300,000 loan by
Wake county to the Highway Com
mission.
The largest project is 1.1-46 miles
of hard-surface out of Lumberton
toward St. Paul on route 22. The
project on route 22 from Smithfiel.l
to the llarnet county line involves
the construction of more road, 15-!) 5
miles, but it will be of the top-soil
type.
Other projects including hard
surfaced roads are as follows: In
Beaufort county, 8.15 miles on the
route 20 from Choeow*inity to the
Craven county line; in Wilson
county, 7.15 miles on route 12 from
the Kdgecombe county line to th"
intersection of route 10; in lVrson
county, 5.16 miles on route Hi, from
Koxboro toward state line; in Ran
dolph county, 10.27 miles on route
70 between Asheboro and Seagrove;
in Swain county, 6.8!$ miles on route
10, from Almond to the intersection
of route 286.
Other projects for dirt roads or
grading arc as follows: In Bladen
county, 12 miles on route 231, from
Elizabethtown towards Zora in (las
ton county, 8.78 miles, on route "JO,
from Mecklenburg lounty fi. 17 mles
on route 20, from Chailolte to the
Catawba live'. in Itichmonil co'itry,
St.S7 miles on route t»0, f->•>» Rock
ingham to the Sout'i Carolina line;
in Ashe county, 6.89 miles on r«.ute
!!», from Watauga county line to
wards West Jefferson; in Watauga
county, 5.81 miles on route 6!>, from
the Ashe county line towards Boon",
and in Henderson county, 4.70 miles
on route 20 from Tuxedo to the
South Carolina line.
i "Swedish l'rineess Has England's j
Confidence.'—Headline. At last the!
Princess Astrid is more reassuring
spectacle than the Prince Astride.— ,
Virginian-Pilot.
Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, Feb. 3, 1926
KING MAY HAVE
SOUTHERN POWER
UVU i lllJlVil l v/ TV IJAV
Line From Winston-Salem To 1
Mount Airv Will Pass Near
Town—Trouble Over A Dog
—Two Marriages.
King, Feb. 1. John Stewart, who 1
resides in Pilot View, the new do- '
velopmcnt just east of town, was
arraigned in Judge Caudle's court 1
hero Thursday charged with keeping 1
and allowing to run at large a
vicious dog. The warrant was sworn 1
out by Manly Helton Grabs. It de
veloped that Mr. Grubs was bitten
by the dog and became uneasy, feel- |
ing the canine might have rabie;i, 1
went to the home of Mr. Stewart and
requested that the dog be killed and
its head sent to Raleigh for examin- •
ation. This request was refused by '
Mr. Stewart, hence the litigation.'
The case was compromised, Mr.'
Stewart paying the cost in the case.
The dog was killed by Sheriff Hall
and the head shipped to Raleigh for
analysis.
R. A. Nowsum paid a fine of five
dollars and the cost for being drunk.
King Sutphin, of the Capclla
neighborhood was charged with the
larceny of two bushels of wheat.
Judgment was suspended on condi
tion that the defendant leave the
State of North Carolina.
P. O. Southern, of Gcrmanton, has
purchased from the Virginia- Cam
illa l.and Corporation a residence lot
in Pilot View.
Paul Meadows, of King, and Miss
Raciiai I Joyce, of Fast Bend, were
united in the holy bonds of matri
mony last wee,':. The marriage
ceremony t ml; place at Fast Bend.
Mi Pansy Boyle-, who underwent
. major operation in a Richmond,
\hospital, returned to her home
here several day. ago apparently
much improved, was taken suddenly
worse Friday and was rushed to a
Winston-Salem hospital where she
underwent another operation. She
is reported to be in it "serious condi
tion.
Attorney I'alias M. Kirhy, of Win
ston-Salem, was here Saturday look
ing after some legal matters.
Mr. Austin Kiser, of R. F. I). No.
2, and Miss Martha Fulk, who rc
| sides in North Side, were quietly
; married here Saturday. Justice of
the peace James R. Caudle officiated.
The permanent survey for the
. power line which is being built by
I the Southern Power Co. from Win
-1 ston-Salem to Mount Airy, was made
I through here last week. The town
!of King hopes to get power from
this line when completed, which will
be about July first.
A. S. Boles, of Washington, I). ('.,
is spending a few days with rela
j tives here.
Miss Ethel Kirby, of Winston-
Salem, spent the week end with rela
tives here.
I J. S. Hoyles, of Winston-Salem,
is among the business visitors hen
today.
Vernon Johnson, of Walnut Cove,
is a business visitor hen' today.
McLean Congratulates
New Virginia Executive
Raleigh, Feb. 2. Governor Mc-
Lean has sent the following telegram
of congratulations to Governor Har
ry Flood Byrd, of Virginia, who was
inaugurated today:
"Upon the occasion of your in
auguration as governor of Virginia
please permit me to express on be
half of the people of North Caro
lina and myself personally every
good wish for a constructive and
successful administration."
Guilford to Vot On
8 Months' School Term
Greensboro, Feb. 2. Guilford
county commissioners today ordered
an election held March 30 to decide
the question of a 30-ecnt school tax,
to cover all the property of the coun
ty, in order to support an eight
month term throughout the county.
Farms are not left when econom
ic conditions are right.— Wall Street
i Journal.
How thrilling it would be at this
distance if Mussolini had something
like a Senator from Idaho.—Vancou
ver Sun.
OFFICERS GET
TWO STILLS
Found In Pine Hull Section and
Both Wore Hot When Taken
—No Liquor Or I)ocr Found.
|
Two law stills were taken Mon
day in the Pine Hall section by Pro
hibition Agents Flinchum and Ash
bum. When found the stills were hot
and had just previously twen turning
out spirits. No whiskey or heer was
found, and no one was seen a round
the still place.
PUT SOFT PEDAL
ON GAS; IT'S UP
Price Pendulum Begins to Take
i the Upward Swing Big
! Companies Add to Wholesale
, j Price as Crude Production
Shows Decrease.
1 New York, Feb. I. The pendulum
of gasoline prices, which swung
downward from August to November
' last year and then started upward
■ again, began to climb higher today
1 when the Sinclair Refining company
! announced an increase of one-half a
• cent a gallon in railroad tank car
lots at New York, Philadelphia, and
all Atlantic coast terminals. The
now tank car price is twelve cents
' a gallon.
The announcement >umo within a
1 few hours of an advance of 25
cents a barrel in mid-continent
4 crude by the Sinclair Crude Oil
Purchasing company, in which sev
" era! other companies joined later in
' the day. Higher crude prices were
regarded as inevitable because of
1 the premiums being paid in the
• mid-continent field by purchases in
need of oil. and the steady decrease
>' in crude production during the last
few months.
1 decrease Shown.
l ' The American Petroleum institute
reported a decrease of 1t1.200 barrels
" in the daily average of gross crude
oil production in the week ending
• January Hi, bringing the total t >
1 ,tM7/iOO barrels, the lowest since
last April. With one exception, pro
'• duct ion has shown a decrease for !;•
■ weeks.
> Consumption of crude oil is being
f maintained at a high rate, and it is
'• estimated that 150,000 barrels a day
*' are being withdrawn from storage
V in the mid-continent field. The
- heavy reduction in stocks at a time
'' when they ordinarily are being in
creased to meet the heavy spring de
n mand forecast the present increase
1 in prices which Wall Street believes
■will be carried further unless new
•. production is brought in.
Whiskey Automobiles
Sell for 50 Cents Each
Greensboro, Fob. I.—Sale of three
whiskey automobiles by the United
States government, at 50 eents each,
net for the government, was record
ed in the office here today of the
clerk of western North Carolina dis
trict. Three others were sold for
net amounts of $20.50, sl»> and
sl>.lo. The cars were sold because
they had been used in transporting
whiskey.
Storage charges helped to bring
the net total for automobiles down to
$54.10, but the total sale price of
all the cars was $l3-1.00. Whiskey
on automobiles as on rum running,
appears to have as damaging an
affect on automobiles as on rum
runners.
Democratic Convent ion
May Be Callo.l For Apr.
' Raleigh, Fob. 2. Democratic state
chairman, John G. Dawson, of Kins
ton, came to town today to confer
with party leaders preliminary to
calling the meeting of the state ex
ecutive committee. The call probab
ly will go out within the next few
days, he said.
The state committee must fix the
dates for the precinct and county
conventions 'and the state conven
tion. The early part of April is in
favor among democratic leaders here
for the state meeting.
And just a few years ago being
knock-kneed was a misfortune in
stead of a dance Birmingham
News.
FURNITURE PLANT j STOKES GIRLS
AT WALNUT COVE TOURING EUROP
$S. r ),00(> Has I! ceil Subscribed
For 1t s Establishment
Chamber Commerce Wants
Co-operation of Citizens.
Walnut Cove, Jan. 27.
Kditor Reporter,
Danbury, N. C.
Hear Friend:
We are writing you in the belief
that you have a mutual interest
with our efforts to build up our
town, community and county by the
establishment of successful manu
facturing enterprises.
We have an opportunity at pres- 1
ent to establish a furniture factory
for the manufacture of medium
priced bedroom furniture; something
that can be manufactured and soltl
at a good profit to the stockholders.
The company is now in process of
organization. It is to be capitalized
at $100,000.00, all paid in before
operation is begun. By doing this
there will l>e no wasted energy and
no tie-up for lack of capital to push
forward. This plant is to bo man
aged by a man who has had twenty
five years experience in the furniture
business; with the assistance of a
board of directors of the best busi
ness men of this place, and one of
the leading furniture men in the
country. We fully believe it will
l»e a success from the start.
Nearly every man in town and
community has subscribed for some
of the stock, and up to date we havi
signed subscriptions in the amount
of $*5,200.00; this lack- $1 I.MMl.iltl
of the amount required. Knowing
you have an interest here, and tha'
you .are interested with U-> in o.tr
development, kl,'• w Mimetking of our
great possibilities as a mantifa -tur
ing town on account of strategi • lo
cation, we cannot help hut feel that
you will want to a.-i-t in putting
this movement over.
Yours very truly.
CHAMHF.It OF COMMFRCF.
By W. 11. Sanders, Sec'y.
APPORTION MONEY
FOR N. C. SCHOOLS
I
Third Five Million Flint! Di
vided Among 107 Projects in
i
77 Counties Applications,
$6,000,000.
Raleigh, Feb. 2.—Applications for
loans from the third $.">,000,000
special building fund, which was set
aside by the last session of the gen
eral assembly for the erection of
schoolhouses throughout the state,
were made from 77 counties and the
different projects totaled IMS, accord
ing to the canvass made by the state
| hoard of education yesterday. The
' figures are for 11)25 and the total
amount of all the applications reach
ed the sum of s•>,-! 15,01 K.-l»>.
(If the 2IS projects, the state
board of education approved a total
of 111", affecting the building of 1,-
(527 school class rooms in these 77
counties. The estimated cost pr
class room is $.">,100.
The sum total of the amount ap
proved for new projects totaled s■!,-
(>52,000, while the applications ap
proved for old projects amounted t i
$3-18,000, or a total amount of s.">,-
000,000. This carries the total loans
ti> counties by the state to $15,000,-
000.
The estimated average cost of the
projects is $25,000. A total of 15 per
cent will be reserved in the state
treasury until each project is com
pleted.
Mrs. Braxton Lawson
Died Monday \>rod So
Mrs. Braxton l.awson, aged SO
yours, died at her home on Danbury
Route 1 Monday with pneumonia.
Mrs. Lawson was a irooi! woman and
will bo greatly miss in her com
munity. Surviving: arc her hu.'band
and two daughters and two sons, of
Route 1. Interment was made in
the family burying; ground near her
home.
Of course the farmers ought to
help themselves-but not at the pub
lic trough.—Virginian-Pilot.
Ah, well; blood is thicker than rub
ber.—Toronto Star.
No. 2,K07
Have Interesting Experiences
and See Many Wonderful
Things.
Friends of Misses Thelma, Currin
Moure and "Coodle" Nenl. who arc
spending several months in France
and have also been in Africa, will he
interested in the following letter re
ceived from "Coodle" by their moth
er. Mrs. ,1. W. Neal. at Walnut Cove.
News of their safe arrival back in
France since this was recently re
ceived by their parents.
Hotel de l'Oasis,
Kiskra,
December 20, 192".
Dear Mama;
When Thelma and 1 pot back to
Toulouse from Grenoble, Carrie
Moore and the girls had the itiner
ary. passports tickets and everything
ready. We were going to Africa,
and here we are. We have been tour
ing for nearly a week, struck some
eold weather on the mountain this
morning, but it is warm here. We
gathered dates, oranges and bana
nas ourselves. We have seen rub
ber, pepper trees and ooeoanut trees.
Yesterday we came from Algiers
to Bougie, which took from six in
the morning to three in the after
noon. Then we had to come by auto
to the next train which took four
hours through the must lieautiful
mountain scenery I ever saw We
rode along the Mediterranean for an
hour then through the most beauti
ful gi-rgi s. We pas-nl through a
• juaint little town with the '-burr,
ill lighted, anil Aral - i:i costumes
like .lostls Wel'e everywhere The]' ••
w -aw the fir.-t earuvan about tight
e'elo.'k at night, and sis camels.
Th: was Christmas day, the mo»t
worn!. jf::I i hrt-tnias I n,r spent.
IT.. i tost beautiful thing was thai,
all the way the brigh'.e-l star seem
ed to li,. guiding lis. It stiii ly did
seem like the Christ Christmas.
We have a sweet old lady with u>
who is here for her church. She i- -
visiting the schools in Kuropc and
Northern Africa. She sees beauty
in everything except what we saw
last night. We went to see Real
l ife, and the old fool dancing stuck
hat pins through his tongue, neck
.and jaws, and licked red hot irons. 1
never saw anything so horrible.
] They gave him something so lie 'ould
not stop dancing for over an hour.
We sold out before he really started
i the guide said. Then we walked by
an opium den, and saw people sitting
I all over the ground in the cave.
Tomorrow wo an going to rule the
| camels through a part of Sahara to
an oasis. Wo aro point? t > spend a
j fow days with so mo French friends
hofuro returning to Franco. Thoy
. invited us to vi.-i? thom during :ho
holidays, and said it would l>o a nice
I time for us to soo Africa. Thoy are
! charming people, and 1 know wo will
luive a good time We are going to
see Corstanti 1-»f -re foint: to
Tunis, ant) a day' trip to soo the
wheat fields th:11 CirNuge is cnder.
Wo have mr lots of F.ne'ish and
Americans her" vvn 'ol.* " fcn.- tmas.
! Many American students touring
' Africi.
You should have seen us trnn/ t>
have Santa Claus night before last
! We sat up until twelve o'clock so we
I could have Christinas, because wo
had to pack and leave by seven th •
next morning.
Well. we once thought we wer"
good sailors, but gee, the Mediter
ranean is rough, or was in this storm.
We stayed in bed flat of our backs
all the time, one and one-half days
and nights. Everything fed the tisn
but Thelma. She got sick first and
hit the bed. l'ofore we got her strap
ped and pan fixed we were as si 'k
as dogs. No one could stay on deck.
The waves would knock one down
every time one would venture out.
We thought we all should be dead.
We expect to be back at Toulouse
by January .'?rd. 1 don't know what
we shall find in the way of mail and
finances when we get back. So far
everything has always turned out
beautifully for us. 1 had no Christ
mas present except the one from you
and dad. 1 could not wish for more,
for this little trip has been wonder
ful.
Lots of love,
I "COODLE."