DANBURY REPORTER
Volume 55.
DR. J. H ELLINGTON
DIED FRIDAY
Prominent Sandy Ridge Physi
cian Succumbs To Sudden
— W y 11 Known
Throughout This Part Of
State.
Dr- J H. Ellington, one of ;
Stokes county oldest practi-j
cing physicians, died almost:
suddenly Friday morning about
2:30 o'clock at his honr(2 at
Ridge- He had apparent-j
iy been in his usual health un-:
til Thursday night about 10:30
when he wa« taken ill, living
only a few hours.
The deceased had been prac
ticing medicine in this county
for the past fifty years or j
more, being in his 78th year, l
and was well known through
out the State, being well loved
by a host of people, as was
attested by the throng in
attendance at the funeral.
The funeral was held at th e
home Saturday afternoon at
1 o'clock, the services being
conducted by Rev. J. A- Joyce
•and Rev. G- W- Williarrts. At
torney J. D- Humphreys, of
Danbury, a life-long friend of
the family, also made some re
marks at the service.
Burial wax in the Scale s
graveyard, near the home of'
th e deceased-
Dr. Ellington is survived by
▼ '»s wife and one son, Edgar
Ellington, of Sandy' Ridge, and
one daughter, Miss Laura El
lington, who lived with her
parents.
He will be greatly missed by
the people of his community,
being a great friend and coun
cilor to all those with whom
h 0 came in contact-
MADISON MAY GET
NEW WAREHOUSE
Walnut Cove .Motor Co. Has
Leased Webster's Warehouse
For Ford Place-
The Walnut Cove Motor Co
has leased Webster's ware
house in Madison and will con
vert it into a n\ >dern sales
room and garage for handling
Ford automobiles.
The new Madison firm will
be known as the Chilton Motor
Co. and Ralph Chilton of Wal-
nut Cove, will be manager.
In reporting this change the
Madison Messenger says there
is already a move on foot there
to erect a new tobacco ware
house to replace Webster's, as
only one house is left now and
it would be impossible to get
tobacco buyers to go to Madi
son unless there is more than
one warehouse. A mass meet
ing of Jtizens was held hist
week and committees were ap
pointed to "confer with th'e big
companies in regard to secur
ing buyers, etc., while many
citizens signified their willing
ness to take stock in a new
house.
Misses Ethel and Anne Bou
chelle, of Deland, Fla- are visi
ting Miss Luna Taylor-
SOMETHING RICH
COMING SOON,
Negro Minstrel With Stokes
Officials Playing Lealfng
Roles—To Be Given Here In
Two Weeks.
Rehearsels were istarted here j
this week for a negro mfnstrel!
to be given in the school audi- j
torium in about two weeks, the
exact date to be announced'
next week
[
Playing leading roles in the |
minstrel vfill be Sheriff John j
Taylor, Register of Deeds Ro
bah Browder, Justic e Jamos B-
Joyce, Lon Sisk and others-
Quite a number of young lad
ies will have parts and ther e '
will be serveral choruses.
Miss Mary Taylor will have
charge of the music and assist
in directing the minstrel and
those who attend are assured
an evening of pleasure-
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PIEDMONT HOTEL
OPENS JUNE 15
Swimming Pool And Other At
tractions To Be Added—
Season Promises To Be Good
One.
The hotel afc Piedmont
Springs will open for guests
on Saturday, June 15th, and
the season this year promises
to be another good one, accord
ing to inquires already being
received from persons who
contemplate spending some
time there during the sumpner
months-
J. John Taylor, of Danbury,
will have the management of
the hotel, while Harry Datton,
of Winston-Salem, will b e as
sistant manajrer-
Among the added attractions
at th e hotel this season will be
a swimming pool right near the
hotel, constructed of concrete.
The water for the pool will
come from one of the cool
civeks coming down from the
mountain-
An orchestra with six or
more pieces has been employed
and dancing will again be one
of the principal amusements
at the popular resort.
Posey Mabe Is
Seriously Injured
Posey Mabe, cafe operator
and popular young man at Wal
nut Cove, was seriously injur
ed Tuesday night of this week
when his car turned over and
pinned him underneath it- The
accident occurred on Main St.
in Walnut Cove when Mr-
Mabe's car struck another
which was parked on the street
there- He was rendered un
conscious by the impact and
was carried to a Winston-Sa
lem hospital for examination,
jit was learned today that he
j was resting very well and that
Ihe will recover unless his in
juries are serious than
appearances at present indi
cate- Just how the accident oc
curred or why has - not been
given out. Both cars were da-
mageu considerably.
Danbury, N C., May 29, 1929
HARD SURFACE TO
STUART SOON
Patrick Citizens Have Assur
ance From Virginia Auth
orities That Road To Stokes
Line Will Be Paved At Early
Date. |
Information cominfr from
(Stuart, Va-, is to the effect
| that the Virginia authorities
hav e definitely decided to sur-
Iface the newly-graded road
between Stuart and the Stokes
jline. touching this state near
Campbell.
Attorney W- L. Joyce, one of
Patrick county's good road en
thusiasts and progressive citi
zens, recently returned from a
visit to the office of the
I
state highway commission in
Richmond, and Mr. Joyce is
confident the road will be hard
surfaced either this vear or
I *
i next-
J
j Thi s road is thirty feet wid.»
and is almost straight. When
surfaced it will be a very fine
highway.
Mrs. Delia Joyce
Commits Suicide
'Madison Messenger.
! Mrs. Delia Joyce, wife of
Hunter Joyce, who lived a few
miles northwest of town, sui
cided on Tuesday afternoon of
last week by shooting herself
through the body with a shot
gun- It seems that Mrs. Joyce
had been in bad health for
quite a long while and had
reached the point where she
could not sleep- This preyed on
her mind until it became un
bearable. Tuesday afternoon,
when the other members of
the family went to the field to
do some work, she told them
that she would follow later.
Sh e not go to the field and
about two hours later was
found at home cold in death.
She had plated the muzzle of
shot gun against her body and
apparenly, had fired it by push
ing the trigger with a shovel.
She was 39 years old the day
she ended her life- Besides the
husband and six children, she
is survived by three brothers,
Lee, James and Ben Martin,
and four sisters, Mrs. J. L-
Hawkins of Galax, t Va-, Mrs. J.
A. Wall, Mrs. H- C- Kallam,
and Mrs. J. J. Moore- The fune
ral services were conducted
from| Mt. Herman Church
Thursday by Rev. J. A. Joyce
and the remain s were laid to
rest in the church cemetery, a
large concourse of sorrowing
relatives and friends being pre
sent to pay tribute to her
memory.
Building Private
Lake For Fish
Paid Taylor is this week
starting the construction of a
private lake for fish on one of
the small streams on his 500-
acre farm just west of Dan
bury. Mr. Taylor expects t"
stock the lake with nfjuntain
, trout as soon as it can be corrv
ip'eted and filled with water-
STOKES GIRLS 1
GRADUATE NURSES
Exercises Held At Martin Me- j
morial Hospital In Mt. Airy j
—Nine Pupils In Graduating'
Class.
Several Stoke s county ladies
were the graduating ;
class of the Martin Memorial ]
Hospital at Mt- Airy recently ]
when a class of nine finished t
their work. 1 (
The graduating exercises in-' >
eluded a sermon by Rev. I. T.!
Jacobs, D. D-, of the Mt- Airy';
First Baptist church, on "The'c
Ministry of Healing " Special I
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music consisting of (juartetts, |
solos - *, etc., were also a part of
the exercises, a s well as talks
by several physicians of the!'
11 city, while Dr. Moir S- Martin, I
of the hospital, .presented the
■ diplomas.
j The graduating class was ;
, composed of the following nine
, young ladies:
! Annice Clark, of Lawsonville
!Viola Cromer, of King; Inez.
Forast, of Francisco; Opal In
gram, of Tobaccoville; Clara
1 Anderson, of Chula, Va-; Delia
;Shelton and Bertha Wright, of
. Stuart, Va-; Louise Poplin, of
p Ronda; Edna Wagner, of
Whitehead.
Three of the nine graduates
. have already taken the exami
nation before the State Board
; of Examiners for license to
, practice nursing. They are Mis-
I ses Annice Clark. Bertha
> Wright and Delia Shelton
1 WESTFIELD WILL
BE ON THE MAP
f Hardsurface Road About Com
( pleted and Electric Power
i • And New Modern School
Building In Prospect
' A hard-surfaced highway
liJis just about been completed
• between Mt. Airy and West
' lifhl and right on the heels of
' this good news comes the an
nouncement by the Duke Pow
'er company that they ex
' pect to have their electric pow
er lines bringing juice into
' \\ estfield within the next nine
• ty days- W ork has already
'• been started on a line from
Pilot Mt-, a distance of only 7
or 8 miles.
A new school building i s in
• prospect and Westfield is de
' stined to be one of this sec
-1 tion's foremost and most pro
gressive communities.
L> _
i Cutting Wheat Starts
In This County
,• It is rather unusual for far
mers this section to begin cut
ling wheat in May, but reports
from more than one section in
l dkate that the harvest is on
-1 Among those who cut some
: w heat in Stokes last week was
Billy Browder, prominent far
mer at Germanton, and others
The crop i s early this year and
( is apparently a good crop. The
wheat crop always proves of
great help to the farmers (•-
( nancially, as well as otherwise-
PHONE GROWS
IN POPULARITY
Increase In Number Four j
i
Times Increase In Th e Popu
lation-
Washington, May 26.
Growth of telephone service I
and us e during the five year s
period ending December 31,'j
1927, wa s nearly four times the t
estimated increase of the coun- r
try's population during the \
same period. ',
The Department of Commerce c
announcing th e results of its
ijuintennial telephone census, •
figured that the 18,522.767 j
in use at the end ■
of 1927 represented an increase ,
of 29-1 per cent, over 1922, ,
while the population increase
for the period was placed at .
7-5 per cent. • j
In 1927, the department ,
said. 31.614,172,621 calls were 1
made—an increase of 28-3 per
cent, over 1922. The wir e mil
eage of 63,836,182 was 71.3 i
per cent- greater than the 1922 t
mileage, and the number of i
employes had increased from \
312,015 to 375,272-
Every State in the Union
showed an increase in number (
of telephones in use, led by
Florida with a 1037 per cent
gain. Three States, California, :
Indiana and New Jersey, had
increases exceeding 50 per cent
Only Indiana, lowa, South Da-j
kota, Nebraska and Montana
showed gains of less than 10 1
per cent.
' The survey covered all pub
lic telephone systems in the
territorial United States but
did not include railroad, indus
trial and governmental private
line.s.
Stokes Couples Get
License In Patrick
Recently the following nam-'
ed couples in Stokes have !>t'e>!
granted license to marry by I
Clerk of the Court John Tay-i
lor at Stuart, Va-:
F- A- Mitchell of Walnut j
Cove and Eunice Hawkins of!
Sandy Ridge. X. C.
i
S. F- Fulk and Mary Mc- !
Daniel of Pinnacle, N T . ('.
L- A. Steele and Reva Smith |
of Sandy Ridge, N. C
| Sam Coin and Lou Rey-I
Holds of Brim, N- C-
S- J. Manning and Nannie
Coins of Lawsonville, N. C- I
Wheat Is Under
Dollar a Bushel ;
C hicago, May 28.—Hurried ,
by a fast increasing flood of I
selling, the wheat market went
headlong below $l-00 a bushel
today, and never stopped tum
bling until trading ended. Ca
nadian rains that dispelled
doubts of another big crop of!
wheat in Canada, and that
pointed to a continuance of
record-breaking supplies the
world over, were largely rc
: sponsible- Not only wheat, but
icorn, o.its ami rye reached new
low-price levels. May wheat
. the boCL mnu*t s»!aee October |
1915- 'I
No. 2,971
BUILDING HOME
OF STOKES STONE
James G- Hanes. Winston-Sa
lem Ex-]\layor, Likes Quality
Of Rock Found Near Dan
bury.
Four hundred tons of loose
stone, taken from the south
side of the Sauratown moun
tain, just east of Danbury, is
now being hauled by trucks to
Winston-Salem to go into a
magnificient home for ex-may
or James G- Hanes at Winston-
Salemf.
After examining the stonci
in various parts of th e country
Mr- Hanes selected the variety
which i s to be found in abun
dance at the foothills of th e
Sauratown mountain in this
section. It is grey in color and
is hard as granite, and, of
course, will make a most beau
tiful as well as a time-defying
structure-
The residence to be construc
ted by Mr- Hanes will be loca
ted in the western section of
the Twin City, out on one of
the elevated spots near the
Reynolds high school building-
TRIP TO LOVERS'
LEAP IN PATRICK
Danbury People Find Pretty
Scenery Up On The Blue
Ridge 12 Miles Above Stuart
i
On Sunday afternoon a party
of Danbury people had the
pleasure of visiting Lovers'
Leap, 12 miles northwest of
Stuart, \ a., and they were de
lighted with the scenery of
this picturesque spot high up
on the Blue Ridge.
I Lovers' Leap, according to a
legend, got its name many
years since when a couple of
lair lovers, being forbidden by
their parents to wed. jun)>ed
.l'mm the precipice clasped in
'each others arms and were
idashed to death on the rugged
• mountain side hundreds of feet
i bo.'ow-
This historic place is located
jon the newly constructed road
j between Stuart and Hillsville.
'\ a. \\ hile the road has not
| been surfaced it is a wide
j smooth thoroughfare which ris
ji-s 1200 feet in going from
j Stuart to the top of the moun-
tain- From the top of Lovers'
Leap the scene is grand to say
j the least- One looks down on
j country to north as if looking
from an airplane and the terri
tory ot several Virginia coun
ties can be seen by the naked
eje. Hundreds of cars were
| seen going and coming and
i crowds are always found on
the summit each Sunday after-
I noon when .the weather is good,
lit was learned Indeed, it is
easily worth the price of the
j trip to see Lovers' Leap-
The latest 4-H club to be or
gan izetl in the State is the
Black Walnut Club- Each
member is required to piant
2;> hii! s or c, eeHine'!j.