North Carolina Newspapers

Volume 57. N. S. JONES PASSES AT KING Chester Long Held I'm' Super ior Court On Seduction Charge—Mail Run Over By Automobile. King. Nov. •). —X. S. Jones died at his home here Saturday morning following an illness ot m-vi ial weeks. In addition to the widow the deceased is sur vived hy live children, three •v r.> and two daughters. They » .'• A. N. Jolles, of Tobaeco -11. C. Jones, of King, W. I'. Jones. >i' Ciermantoii. and M.-s. J. A. New sum and Mrs. W. N. Burrow, ;f Walnut Cove. V number of grandchildren also survive. Funeral service was conducted at Bi.'thel church Sunday afternoon and buriai followed i;i the church ceme tery. Mr. Jon's was among our best c*it izcv.s, ami will lie great ly missed in tile community. Chester Long was given a preliminary Inarm;; her-- Wed nesday before Justice of the I'oace L. J. Ki.-er on a seduction charge. Miss Dai. y Boyles was the prosecuting witness, Prob able cause was found and the case was sc't up to the next term of Stokes super or court. The pm-ccution was rt present ed by Attorney Charles R. Hei.-abeck. of Rural Hall, and Ihe defendant was represented oy Attorney Dallas ('. Kirby, of V, inston-Salem. The following births were registered here last week: j'o Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Barber, a i lughter, and to Mr. and A! r- : . Dewey Calhoun, a son. David Calloway, of Lenoir, who recently underwent an op eration for appendicitis, is spending a few days with h s father near here, recuperating. > Prof, and Mrs. Roger Kiser, of Laurinburg, spent the week end with JTof. Riser's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Kiser, who reside near here. Miss Annie Pulliam of Pleas ant (larden. is spending a few days here the guest of relatives ami friends. Mr. Sandy F. Slato is very •sick at his home just east of town iit this writing. lti latives here have been notified of the serious illness of Charlie M. Fulp, of Trinity. Mr. Fulp is in a High Point hospital. Austin Roberts, who r-sitl-s in the Chestnut drove section, was run over by an automobile on the Lak"s to Florida high way u >ar Daltoi) three miles west of here Sunday n ght. The car was being driven by a Win ston-Salem man whose name was not learned. Roberts was walking along tin highway and was said to have been drinking. Miss Mat tie Ferguson de lightfully entertained a num ber of her friends at the home f her brother. Mr. and Mrs. (riibert Fergus,on. on Monday evening, October the tweiity eig'.uh, celebrating her birth- Jtny. Hallowe'en suggestions were used in decorations. Many con tests and games were enjoyed. Dur'ng the games and contests each guest was sorved a glass of ])unch which refr shed them for the rest of games. The guosis were then invited in to tho dining room where tile lovely Mirth day cake was the center of attraction. The can dles wore blown out ijy Mat lie with only one blow. '1 he room was filled with laughter. A ! - licious course was served con sist ing of cocoa, chicken salad sandwiches and pumpkin tarts. The following guostts were present: Miss Mattie Fergu son, hostess, Misses Leon. Eth el and Bculah Bowles, Myrtle and Oma Ferguson. Irene Voss, Beulah Barr, Nina Baker, Mary Galley, Edith Jones, Nora West moreland and Vivian Law**)" Messrs. Fred Slate, lian'ev a "Nick" Bowles, "Spick" Vos Homer and Lloyd Ferguson, Troy and Wiley Jones, Thur man and Cecil Holland, Moir and Oakley Baker. '> Established 1872. TOBACC O SO FAR AVERAGES $16.89! Winston-Salem Market Officials , (iive I'igures—About 20,000. ■ 000 Pounds Has Been Mark- j cted. i Winston-Salem, Nov. 4.—To-j bacco sales on the Winston- J Salem leaf market have totaled , lfi.2Kl.7bi pounds tip to the j close of the w.ek's business j' Fridav afternoon and have 1 , i ' brought the growers an aver-j: age of 810.8'.) a hundred pounds) according to figures released bv i , Superintendent of Sales It. W. j McFarland Friday night. During: the past wei'k sales totaled -1.65(1,710 pounds. This j money paid out totaled $855, •; 28(>.fi:> and was an average of j ■ $18.37 a hundred pounds. That j a\erage wa.-> -J 1 cents on tiiei hundred pounds higher than | the average for the preceding j v.eek. Sales fir ti.e dav Fridav rani i to a high mark, in fact, th [ U'.oiid h for the year, j total was 1.15m,770 pound ' and | th" money paid out was 8204,- C 1 i). The average was 817.80 a hundred, or M 2 cents in the hundred pounds higher than the average paid Thursday. j O.dy exceedingly foul weath-! •el* kept the past week's busi ness froni being the heaviest in all the history of the market, Mr. McFarland declared Friday i ' night. Moinla,y, which was ; fair, started the market off to ' a big record with the second largest poundage in history. However, through the middle oi tht' week there was so much ran that on some days hardly a half a day's business was done. et, the total for the week ran high. ..... , i coining ot more than ordin ary interest featured the week's business. It was noted that the buying force of the Export and Imperial Tobacco compan ies were more active during the past week than they had been heretofore, by reason of the increase volume of line Fnglisli pipe tobacco. } Possibly the highest pi*j\ of the season was paid for one piie of wrappers Friday. This'of-, fering. placed on sale by D. E. Idol, consisted of 30 pounds and brought 75 cents a pound.' had ( tiler grades which 'Un!i> 51, 43, ai and 1:5 cents a pcuad, r j.« c;iv.:!y. B is already plain to be so. mi t.:;:t a tremendous break wiil j/lo.d the market next week, unless weather or other agenej prevents the farmers from corning to market. It was esti mated that several hundred 1 thousand pounds of tobacco ( still littered the floors of the houses at the close of sales and came in after the e 'sales Friday. This is .son *""■ t unusual, even for 1 'on-Salem market. Usua' rowers greatly dislike > 1 ..vg to wait over the v n ok-er? to catch sale. Danbury, N. C., Nov. 6,1929. NEGRO CHOOSES DANBURY JAIL ————. Judge Hayes Allows Sam Wat son To Choose Between At lanta and Danbury Prisons! —Chatting His Pig and Found, A Still. Danbury is a good place to live and no one realizes this more than Sam Watson, a Stokes county negro. On Mon day when Sam was tried at W.nston-Salem on a whiskey charge Judge Johnson J. Hayes gave him a term in prison at Atlanta or Danbury and Sam choose the capital of Stokes. He gets four months in the countv jail here and the gov ernment pays his board. In telling his story to the court as to how he happened to be caught at a still. Sam said that he "had a pig at large and lie ran it right into a liquor dis tilling plant before he knew it. and just in time to meet a bunch of federal raiding offic ers." The court took Sam's story "with a grain of salt," but as he is getting old the original j sentence of a year and a day I was changed ty four months. Dolphus Jones, negro, found ijit. the still iit th • same time ! prohibition otlicers located Sam • ilici'i about", failed to answer ;i Federal Court when Sam I !>r seated himself. An instan | tor capias was issued for own 'cr of the 50-gallor. copper slilj and eight barrels of beer. Two Surry and Stokes Convicts Make Escape Raleigh, Nov. (i.—States' Prison officials today announc ed the escape of two prisoners from Cary Farm Prison yester day. , Claude West, Stokes county man sent to prison in April of this year to serve from twenty two and one-half months to two and one-half years for larceny, and Donald Mays, Surry coun ty convict serving three to five years for breaking and enter ing. having been sentenced in February this year, made their getaways. "Brother" Smith Has Narrow Escape A Ford touring car driven by Brother Smith, of Danbury, went off an embankment on the Danbury-Hart man road, half mile east of Danbury, Tuesday .ii"hi and turned over, pinning Smith under it. His cries at tracted persons passing the road and they came to Danbury and got help to extricate him after he had been held there s.u.infill s;n '.uujj oiuos .loj were i;o serious, however, and lie was able to return home. I _ Pie Supper At Young School 1 Misses Elizabeth Moore and Kuth Hill, teachers in Young school, just cast of Danbury, were visitors here Tuesday. The young ladies stated that i pie supper would be given at the school Saturday nigh'., Nov. HUh, alid they extend a cordi il invitation tu the public to attend. The proceeds from the supper will be used for til; school. Radio Price Reduction. We would-be radio owners r.-ad with interest the an nouncement in the papers this veek of the reduction in price f Ihe New Screen Grid Atwat '.■ t Padin set. The reduc v h 527 W per set. These •«- ts may be seen at Bur- Prug Co., Walnut Cove, N. ?T-. and Mrs. J. H. Woodruff Walnut Cove, were here- to- SCHOOL ELECTION NOVEMBER li) i Three Townships Of County Have Opportunity Of Bene fitting Their School Prob lem.-. At That Time. It is the policy of the present Board of Education to give its thoughts and attention to any 1 1 plan that might build up a bel ter school system in any «Sis rict and in the county as .1 whole. The State Educational au thentic.- are continually c,n- > couraging consolidation ami I eight months school term, am! are favorable to counties thai show a ,spii\t of progress in this line. In view of these facts, ami I acting upon a petition of the i . . citizens and tax payers of Ya l-l kin, Meadows ami Suliratown | townships, the Board of Eiiu-! j cation of Stokes county re-j quested the County Commis sioners to call an election ! > be held in the. ■ respecthe townships to a.-certain the j wishes of tile voters .n n uni form maximum tax levy of 25.- on the 8100.00 valuation of property to suppa merit the six months constitutional term aa.l provide equal school advan tages for all the children in the three respective said town ships. The attention of the Board of Education has bet n directed to ! numerous objections to the plan held bv some of the eiti- I . /.ens in tills proposed consoli dated territory. The objec tions have arisen because of | erroneous reports circulated by | uninformed persons, and in I j some instances by those who jare against special school tax. Some seem to hold that it i; a scheme on the part of the Board of Education to ben"Jit ii particular school; this we are quick to deny. The Board is frank and open about this and all other matters in which the publ.c is interested, and it is the highest ambition of ev i cry member to increase the efficiency of and raise the stan dard of the educational facil ities in the countv at the low i _ " I est cost possible to the tax payers. j We are aware of the fact | that in every good undertak ' iiig, there is some, opposition. ! Every person has a right to his own opi.'i'.m, but at the -j.mj time, he should nave an open mind a;.d be subject to I conviction. An election of this kind af l l'ccts the citizens in mere ways than one. IL affects their pock et book, it is true, but should they give that greater consid eration than tiu' future welfare of their children? Most of the special tax d s tri 'ts included in this proposed consolidated area carry a max imum, special tax rate of 30c on the SIOO.OO property valu ation, whereas if this ejection METHODISTS TO IH ILI) HOSPITAL i Klkin Has Hcen Selected Ncarh 1 .">> Rural Churchus I Given Aid By Annual ('on- j forence Of Church. I I'laiis for the beginning '»i* actual construction of the new Methodist hospital to be built at Klkin by tin* North Carolina Conference are taking shap". Building operations arc expect ed to begin early in the spring. One hundred forty three North Carolina M 1 Churches have been jri \f»i fin ancial aid by the (icuoral Board jot' Church Kxtensioii. One : hundred parsonages wei'e also ! included in the matter of up keep and construction. Hallowe'en Party at Walnut Cove j Missis Dorothy Nel. on and Mary Russel entertained a I number of their friends Thurs | dav night at a Hallowe'en i a |t y : After a while spent a music, ■ I conversation and names, a j number of contests were held.; Attractive prizes were award ed to Miss Hern ice Caiewood ! and Mi - . Thornton Tuttle. Those enjoying this . j oil y oc casion were: .Misses Frances i Mien, l.oivne iHmlap. Bernice (latewood. Floi'a Jones, Thelnv.i Hamm. .Ma!>. 1 Flynn, Mary Lee Allen, Klsie Crim, and Luci'e Neal. Messrs. Ciiarlie Moretield, Horace Wall. Watsm Tuttle, l Clarence Richardson, Thornton i Tuttle, !). (b Richardson, Km ory Hullin, Bill Burton, Joe , Allen, Jr.. Roy Russel, Odeil Simmons, Marvin James, Ches . ter Southern and others. is carried this maximum rate will be reduced to 25c. There l , is a guarantee of a 5c reduction i to those already paving the , tax, and wh le the citizens wh > , are not now included in any | special tax district but whoj , will be affected by this election; will be atfored all the aiiva.n --; tages of an eight months school j at the lowest cost that could possibly be gotten at any other . I time or under any other plan. . j Tlie reason tor assuring the . I voters a low operating expense . j in flu' proposed consolidated or J uniform tax district is due to : !the fact that transportation 1 will not have to lie extended in a great measure, because at th . | present tin\e children are be .; ing transported to t very star , I dard high school from outside. »j til* the special tax districts, rami traiiMn rtatibn. is in • ii'aet the most costly item »f school opi ration. The actual - expense of the operation for i the two additional nanth.- ei -j instruction in those schools 1' which will be brought in untie** - this election, if carried will 'not necessiate a great expen diture of money. Taking into - consideration all these facts, 1j we firmly belie,ve that in the - near future, if the election is a success, with the aid to bo - rccived from the State, a spe l (Continued on page 4.) No. 2,9'jy. BI'SINKSS CHANGES AT WALNUT COVE Orphan ( lass ( orninu—l'arer.t- Teacher Ass iciatien Mt.-ls I Personal Hems. Walnut ( i>vi. Nov. •}.—Frank I'i'tree, the past week, purchas ed from the Hank of Stokes Co. a resilience on South Sum mit St. and i.~ busy renx deling and making it over prepara tory to moving his family int) it. When completed the house will be one of the most attrac tive residences in town. The Singing Class of til * Oxford Orphanage will give :i roncert in the auditorium or the Walnut Cove High School Wednesday evening, Nov. 1".. These concerts are always good. Come and help a worthy cause. Evangelistic services will be held in Christ's Episcopal : church, Walnut Cove, next week from Nov. 11th to the 17th. Rev. Parker Moore, of Weluon, will preach. Everybody invited to come and hear this • able preacher. Mr. Ralph .Mills, proprietor of the Cove Cash Store, ha> ; bought ! rom K. ). Creakman the store building and resi dence next to ins Piling station. Mr. Mills has moved his stock of goods into tile store from 1 !K- Dod'on building which ho formerly occupied and his fam ily into lis - r*. sit ienco. Mrs. Roy Holland has accept ed the plate as tilth grade teacher in the school here. Miss Elizabeth Sparger, who has b-en supply leacher for the lifth grade, is on a visit to Mr--. Everett Matthews in Winston- Salem. Miss Sparger will leave the latter part of the week lor her home in Haiti more. Mrs. Ralph Hlum and smail , daughter, of Winston-Salem, j visited her parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Mitchell, the past week. Mrs. W. I). Woodruff and children, of Hayes, visited her mother, Mrs. J. H. Woodruff, j the first of the week. Mrs. ]) a u Heath, Misses Ruth and Rebecca Mitcheii spent Saturday in Winston- Salem shopping. ! Misses Frances Fulton and j Mary Frances Davis. N. c. c. jW. students, spent the week■ lend at home here with tinir parents. Rev. and Mrs. 1). W. Allen sp.'iit tod;iv in Winston-Salem. John Woodruff spent the week-end at St. Mary's school i at Raleigh with his s.ster, Miss i (J race Woodruff. Miss Ruth Hairston, of i Cooleemee, is spending a week at her home near here on the ! Dan river. i Mrs. A. T. Rot lire- '- mn tined to her home with illness. I Mrs. J. W. .Jones is visaing relatives in Martinsville. 1 Walnut Cove, Nov. •>.—The Parent-Tvacher Association of Walnut Cove held its first meet ing on Monday evening. No*.. •J, 1 ir. the h■ ,eit school j.uti:- trriunt. A short Imt interest ing program was given, i Mrs. Sands was elected presi dent of the association for the i year and Mrs. Helsabeck was ; made vice-president. ' The fourth grade received i the flower box. having more i parents present than any oth- I er gratle. ' j Different plans were diseuss ' ed for obtaining more interest . :in the P t-Teacher Associa tion an. unit tees wore ap pointed to put these plans int-> . effect. J Mrs. Sisk and Mrs. King, of j Danbury, were visitors.