DANBURY REPORTER
Volume 55.
FARM AGENT
FOR COUNTY
Stokes Commissioners Autho
rize Employment Of Man To
Begin Work July I—Fishing
License Order Is Rescinded
By Board-
Beginning July Ist- next,
Stoke 9 is to haev a whole
time farm demonstrator- This
was definitely decided upon at
the regular meeting of the
county commissioners here
Monday when the board autho
rized the payment of half the
salary of a competent man. As
surance had been previously
given by the State authorities
that half the salary of the
demonstrator would be paid by
the State department of agri
culture- •
Prof. M. S- Millsapps, head
of the farm extension depart
ment of the State for this dis
trict, appeared before the com
missioners Monday and gave
the board information in con
nection with the beginning of
the work-
Mr. Millsapps will assist the
board in securing a man and
in directing the work whenever
his services are needed- He has
several good njen for the place
in view but no one has yet
been decided upon- It is hoped
to secure a njan within the
next few days to begin work
July Ist.
An order made by the coun
ty commissioners at their reg
ular meeting here in May,
which required persons who
fish with pole to buy license,
was rescinded, and henceforth
license to fish with pole will
not be required. Petitions were
circulated Ji th% county ask
ing that the commissioners
tak' this action-
Did You Know?
Danbury is 142 years old,
and was first called Crawford-
That the first volunteer
troops of this section to enlist
in lh> Civil War Confederate
Army assembled where the
county home now stands.
That two Governors and a
Superior Court Judge started
law practice here-
That Danbury once was the
largest tobapcco manufacturing
town in the South-
That the town was origi
nally an Indian Trading Post-
Meadows Men
Arrested Tuesday
Stokes officers arrested Luth
er Hicks and Ephriam Dodson
Tuesday afternoon and placed
them in jail here on a charge
of engaging in an affray. Th. ;
officers found the men near the
place where a lot of still beer
had just been poured out- The
men will be given a hearing
probably today.
New currency Easy to Han
dle—Head line- The hard part
is to get your hands on it—
Marshall County Banner.
I PAUL SIMMONS
INJURED BY CAR
Posey Mabe Returns From Hos
pital—Marriage Of Popular .
Couple—Walnut (Jove Persor
nal Items-
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Walnut Cove, June 4th.—
Paul Simmons, young son of
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AD's- Ellen Simmons, was in an
automobile w'feck Saturday
night receiving very seven- in
juries about the head- He was
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carried to a Winston-Salem
hospital where twenty-light j
stitches were taken in his head-
Reports are that he is resting (
comfortably. Young Simmons
was driving a Ford roadster
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accompanied by Joe Sands
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when the car left the road and
turned completely over. Sands
was uninjured- The accident oc
curred near Rosebud.
Posey Mabe, who was in an
automobile wreck a week or
more ago and wa s carried to a
Winston-Salem hospital has re
covered sufficiently to return to
his hom|.» here.
| Coming as a complete sur
prise to friends here was the
marriage on Saturday night of
Mr Archie McNeil of this
place and Miss Alexandra
Mack, of Atlanta, Ga. The
young couple were marired at
the home of Mr- and Mrs-
Howard Woodruff when* Miss
Mack was a guest. The cere
many was performed by Rev.
H- W. Hudspeth, Presbyterian
minister of Danburv, before an
improvised altar of Dorothy
Perkins rose s and ferns. Only
the close friends of the con
tracting parties were present-
Mrs. McN«'il received her ed
ucation at Queen's College
Charlotte and wa« a men of
the faculty of th«- Walnut Cove
High School the past year-
Mr. McNeil was educated at
the University of North Caro
lina. specializing in pharmacy.
The young couple will be at
home to their friends at th>'
Stokes Hotel-
Mrs- Paul Fulton has return
ed home from a Winston-Salem
hospital where she underwent
'a minor operation.
Mrs- John Lewellyn, Mrs.
Leake Lovin and Margaret Ful
ton spent last Thursday at
Red Springs.
Mrs- Jacob Fulton Jr., Mis
ses Hlen Fulton and Mattie
Sue Taylor, of Danburv made a
pleasure trip to (Durham laist
Thursday and Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. J- E- White
returned Sunday from a trip
to Hagerstown, Md.
Mr. and Mrs- Howard Wood
ruff, Mr- and Mrs. C. E- Davis
Dr. C. J- Helsabeck, Dr. H. R-
Blackburn, Gilmer Sparger,
Williany Marshall and John
Woodruff attended the state
meeting of Lions Clubs at Dur
ham last week
i Dr- C. J. Helsabeck and Gil
mer Sparger went to Baltimore
the first of the week on a
pleasure trip.
Mis.- Nonie Doll l.ovin, of
Red Springs U visiting Mrs
Danbury, N. C., June 5, 1929.
COUNTY SUNDAY
SCHOOL MEETING
Annual Association Will Be
; Held July Oth At Mt . Zion
Church, Near Pinnacle-
Officers of the Stokes County
Sunday School Association an
nounce that the Annual County'
Sunday School Convention will
be held on Tuesday, July 9
with the Mt- Zion Methodist
Protestant Church, four miles
south west of Pinnacle, N- C
! Helping in the Convention
will be Miss Flora Davis, Ral-j
eigh. General Superintendent
of the North Carolina Sunday'
School Association.
Also helping on the program I
will be several of the best
known Sunday School workers
in th e county- The convention
is find
workers from all Sunday
Schools in the county are in
vited to participate in the
work.
In charge of the arrange-1
ment s for the convention are
11. R- McPherson and Frank D.
Young, President and Secre
tary of the County Sunday
School Association- These offi
cers are requesting the co-op"-
ration of all pastors, superin
tendents and other Sunday
School leaders in the effort to
make the convention a success-
The officers have announced
that again this year a pennant
will be awarded to the Sunday
School having in the sessions
of the nonvention the largest
average attendance of repre
sentatives, sixteen years of age
and over, according to the num
ber of miles traveled. It is ex
, petted that there will be much
• friendly competition for tlv
, pennant among the Sunday
Schools of county
!
Leake Lovin-
Mis s Mary Woodruff has re
turned from a visit to relative
at Danville, Va.
J- I- Bolt has arrived here
from his winter home in Bra
L
dentown, Fla. to spend the
summer-
I Mrs. J. W- Neal submitted
to an operation in a Winston
Salem hospital last Saturdav
,and is resting as well a s could
l be expected.
"j Mrs. W- D- Woodruff and
' children have returned to
1 their home at North Wilkes
boro after a two weeks visit
with Mrs. J- B- Wooruff.
Mrs- Anne Carter and little
>
daughter Anne Holingswortli
are on a six weeks visit to
, relatives in Mt. Airy.
Miss Mary Lane Brewer ha s
returned to her home at Red
, Springs after visiting friends
, here the past week-
Miss Margaret Davis, of
Martinsville, Va- is visiting her
. sister. Mrs. J- W- Jon eg
j Misses Minnie and Willie
t Mae Cates, of Greensboro
spent the uoek end here with
t their parents Mr. and Mrs- (). J.
Cates-
JURORS FOR ,1
JULY COURT
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Judge Walter E- Moore Will *
Preside At Two Weeks Term'
In Danbury, Beginning July •
Ist
Jurors for the July terms of j
criminal and civil courts were I
drawn by the county commis- J
sioner.s here Monday. The cri- i
nq|inal term of court begins t
Monday, July Ist, while the I
civil term opens Monday. July t
Bth- i
Judge Clayton Moore, of Wil- i
liamston, is assigned to preside.
over both terms. The docket 1
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| for the criminal term i s a full i
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1 one and will probably not be J
.finished in the one week- The''
civil docket is not unusallv
large. 11
The names of the jurors
drawn for the criminal term
follow: '
Criminal Term
James W Talley, L C May
lock, Paul Westmoreland, C C
Simmons, Z U Sheppard. B C
Rut ledge, R H Durham, R G
Smith. J R Vaden, Gilbert
Smith, li A Robertson J F,
Carroll, A A Jefferson. J E
Jessup, Jerry Mab", D J Rol>ert
son, S E Simmons, Drew Joyce,
K W Fulk. F D Young, John
C Simmons, Dan R Rhodes,
Gaston Tuttle, E P Martin, J
rj- Pyrtle, 0 M Southern, J W
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Johnson, J F Johnson, J E
Calloway, J R Lawson, C H
Follin, ('has- L Joyce Alex
Ma bp, Jerry E G
. Pringle. L L Nunn
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Civil Term
W- H. Ashburn, L P Sulli
van. E A Rothrock, S F Ed
wards. W J Martin, Nat .Wi
lson, W E Smith, J C Stephens.
C A Mabe, H C Patton, Robert
i Joyce. Coy Mabe. B A Neal.
. J II Hill, John Brim, J H Ful
ton, Jan. i s 15 Joyce, M I) Size
nun-e, M S Moore, Dixie Wood.
•I H Tucker, W L Stultz. J Will
Mounce. Jack Alley.
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Music Contest
At Walnut Cove
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Walnut Cove. June B—At the,
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high school building on Satur-i
day night. June Bth-. an old
time music contest with prizes
tor the best old time musicians
will be given- Musicians from
far and near are expected- One,
' string band from Carroll conn
ty, given up to b e the best in
i the whole country, will IK J
there. In the band are 2 boys,;
7 and 8 years old. that are j
the n?»)st wonderful musicians j
i in this part of the country.:
, Their father is the champion j
; fiddler of Virginia-
This cwntest is being sponso
i red by the ladies of the Wal
nut Cove Baptist church- Ad
• mission will be 15 and 25 cents.
A man who wa s given up by
. the doctors when he was fifty
> has just died at the age of
, ninety-six. Doctors are usually
. right in the end—London Pas
!sing Show-
W. SANDERS HART ]
HAS RESIGNED
Chairman Stokes Highway j
Commission Quits— Democra
tic Executive Committee Will
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Name Hi« Successor-
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W- Sanders Hart, who has
been acting chairman of the '
Stokes County Highway Com- ,
mission since the re-organiza- i
tion of the board in February, j
has tendered his resignation,
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effective now. Mr. Hart wa s i
not in attendance at Monday's
regular meeting of the board-
It is learned that Mr- Hart. I
who is a leading farmer and
merchant of Peters Creek town
ship. stated that he was unable
to devote the time necessary!
to the business of the highway
commission-
Mr. Hart's successor will be I
named by th e Democratic Ex
ecutive Committee of the coun
ty, according to the law regu
lating the highway commission.
No suggestion as to who the,
man will be has been heard
here
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REVISIN^TTHE
JURY LIST
County Commissioners In Spe
cial Session For That Pur
pose ToJay—Requires Much
Work.
The revising 0 f the jury list
requires considerable time and
mush tedious work The county
commissioners are in special
session today (Wednesday) at
tending to that duty, which
has to be done once every other
year
11l revising the jury the tax
books in each of the nine town
ships of the county have to be
gone over carefully and com
pared with the old jury list.
Some ai*e dead, others have re
moved from the county, while
still others have become of age
and ai'o eligible for jury duty-
Dewey Venable Taken
In Forsyth County
| Dewey Venable, of this com
munity, was arrested i>i For
'syth county, on the Rock Hill
! road, last Sunday, when For
I
svth county officers discovered
ia gallon of whisky on his car.
The car was also seized- Vena
ble gave bond for his appear
ance in court next month-
Simpson-Bachelor
Of interest to Stokes county
! people i s the recent mjarriage
jof William Simpson and Miss
Hazel Bachelor, which occurred
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in the Baptist church at Wal-
J nut Cove on May 25th- Rev.
|(). E- Ward performing the
ceremony, with onlv a few
friends being present.
The bride is a charming
young lady of Nashville, N- C.,
\vhile the groom i s the genial
young son of the late John T-
Simpson, of Winston-Salem,
and a brother of Mrs- John
Taylor, of Danbury.
The y un;. con-'.,? will mux,
thtir home in Winston-Siileri.
No. 2,972
NEWSY LETTER
FROM KING
Birthday Dinner Fur Mrs-
Spainhowf r—Mad dog killed
—Aid Society Meets—Re
pairing Furniture Plant-
King. June 3.—The Indies Aid
Society of the King Christian church
met with Mrs. Key McGee Friday
with ten members present. One
new number was added- The pro
pram was opened by the hymn,
"How Firm a Foundation," the
seventh chapter of Matthew wan
then rend i*nd discussed by Rev J
T Saunders, after which followed
prayer.
The society thou discussed the
business* they were doing, thero
being no further business the so
ciety adjouraed to meet with Mrs,
Ernest M. Gritlin for the month of
June. During the social hour thd
| hostess assisted by Misses Nell N'evv
| sum and Oneida Caudle served di*-
( licious punch, vanilla and chocoLaU*
I wafers and iiuts. Everyone preisfnt
enjoyed the meeting immensely.
The Jethro, Almond vaudeville
shows are playing he»e all this
week.
| Helm I'ulliam of Winston-Salem
, spent Sunday hero the guest of rela
tives.
The New York concern which re
j cently purchased the Blue Ridge
Furniture factory here are having
the buildings repaired and while
definite information can not be had
it is rumored that they will start
| operating the plant at an early
date.
Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Riser of
Winston-Sqjem Ul/(nt SuncT-y iyve
with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. O. L Rains lrt't
Friday for a vacHt.kfn trip novih.
They will vistit Washington, Balti
more, New York and other north
■ ern cities., They will be gone seve
| ral days.
Lessor 0. Pulliam of Greensboro
spent the week end here the guest
of his mother, Mrs. J. S. I>. Pulliam.
A strange dog believed to have
rabies was killed Saturday morning
by Worth Kirby near the home vf
J. E. Turner in Walnut Hills, So
far as known the eanine did no
damage.
String bands wirhing to c >mpete
in the band contest to be held at
the school auditorium on the evening
of June I.lth. will or.ly l>e given un
til .Jun Bth. rc» ent.T. A large crowd
is expected to attend. Proceeds will
j>" toward the i roctioii of a new
gymnasium >n the school grounds
i The relatives ami friends of Mrs.
.1. W. Spainhower of Winston-Salem
gathered Sunday at the old home
place of Mrs. .Sp:iinlv>wer here, and
gave her a birthday dinner. It was
'not a st-rprise as Mis. Spninhower
had known of the arrangement foi*
some time a.id in fact she wanted
| the gntherinjr at her old home place
| where thi- family lesided for many
j vears. Over one hundred people
: were in attendance ;nd all present
enjoyed themselves immensely. This
was Mrs. S|winh(;wor's seventy
fifth milestone.
W. Hutchins of Winston-Salem
was among the visitors here Sunday.
Mr. W. (I. Tuttle and family of
Rural Hall s|x-nt Sunday hero th>
gtuists of relatives.
| Captain J. Kivby who holds a
position with thi? Southern Railway
spont Sunday with his family in
Walnut Hills.
Moir Nelson Held
For Superior Court
Deputies Oleve Lawson and
Corbett Priddy arrested Moir
Nelson in Rockingham county
last Sunday and brought him
here before Justice L- .J. Young
Jon a charge of manufacturing
whiskey. Nelson waived exami
nation and bond was lixed at
$BOO which he gave and wai
released- Warrant was issued
for Nelson last February when
he was found at a distillery.