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Volume 57. N. S. JONES PASSES AT KING | Chester Lonu Meld For Super ior Court On Seduction; Charm- —Man Run Over iiy Automobile. King, Nov. 4. N. S. Jones,; aged 78 years, retired tarmor, died at his home here Saturday morning following an illness ot several weeks. in addition to, z i';• ■ widow the deceased is sur vived by live children, threei v.r,.-- and two daughters. They •5..'.' A. N. Jones, of Tobacco *ille, H. ( • Jones, of K'ng, W. T. Jones, of Germanton, and Mrs. J. A. New sum and Mrs. W. N. Burrow, of Walnut ( ove. .A number of grandchildren also, survive. Funeral sc rvi.ee was conducted at Bethel church Sunday afternoon and burial followed in the ehurch ceme tery. Mr. Joivs was among our 1 Ic.'st citizws. and will be great ly missed in the community. Chester LOOK was given a preliminary hearing !"."»••■ Wed-' Je-sday before Justice of the Peace 1,. J. Riser on a seduction charge. Miss Dai. v Boyles was the prosecuting witness. Prob able ca'.Ho was found and the case was si" t up to the next term of Stokes super or court.- The prosecution was rt present ed by Attorney Charles K. Hel.-abeck. of Rural Hall, and ihe defendant was represented oy Attorney Dallas C. Kirby, •f Winston-Salem. The following births wore registered here last week: To Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Barber, a r mghter, and to Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Caihoun. a son. David Calloway, of Renoir, who recently underwent an op eration for appendicitis, is ' - sending a few days with h s JKather near here. recuperating.: * Prof, and Mrs. Roger Riser, of Eaurinburg, spent the wet !- "lid with Prof. Riser's parents,' Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Riser, who reside near here. Miss Annie Pulliam of Plea.-'-, ant Garden, is spending a few days here the guest of relatives and friends. Mr. Sandy F. Slate is very •sick at his home just east of town at this writing. Kolatives here have been notified of the serious illness i f Charlie M. Fulp. of Trinity. Mr. Fulp is in a High Point hospital. Austin Roberts, who r sid s' i:i the Chestnut Grove section, was run over by an automobile n:i the Lak»s to Florida high vay n >ar Dalton three miles west of here Sunday n.ght. The car was being driven by a Win ston-Salem nvm whose name was not learned. Roberts was walking along tin highway and was said to have been drinking. Miss Mattie Ferguson de lightfully entertained a num ber of her friends at the home f her brother. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Ferguson, on Monday evening. October the twenty eighth, celebrating her birtii- *ty. Halloween suggestions wore used in decorations. Many con tests and games were enjoyed. Dur'ng the games and cont- s's each guest was served a gla---; of punch which refreshed them for the rest of games. Tiu> guests were then invito'.! into the dining room whore tin lovely birthday cake was the center of attraction. The car dies wore blown out by Matt ie with only one blow. The room was fiiltd with laughter. A u - licious course was served con sisting of cocoa, chicken salad sandwiches and pumpkin tarts. The following gue-tts were present: Miss Mattie Fergu son, hostess, Misses Leon. Eth el and Beulah Bowles, Myrtle and Oma Ferguson. Ire no Voss, Beulah Barr, Nina Baker, Mary Salley, Edith Jones, Nora West moreland and Vivian Laws*}'* Messrs. Fred Slate, Ilarvev a "Nick" Bowles, "Spick" Vos Homer and Lloyd Ferguson. Troy and Wiley Jones, Thur man and Cecil Holland, Moir and Oakley Baker. * Established 1872. TOBACCO SO I All AVICI?AGES $16.89 Winston-Salem Market Officials Give Figures—About 20.000, 000 Pounds Has Been Mark eted. Winston-Salem, Nov. 4.—To bacco sales on the Winston- Salem leaf market have totaled 10.28-1,7b i pounds up to the close of the week's business Friday afternoon and have brought the growers an aver age of 81(1.81) a hundred pounds according to figures released bv Superintendent of Sales R. W. McFarland Friday night. During the past week sales totaled 4.15.30,710 pounds. This money paid out totaled 8>".3.- 280.9:] and was an average of $18.37 a hundred pounds. That a\ erage wa.-, 41 cents on the hundred pounds higher than the average for the preceding week. Sales for tl.e day Friday ran to a high mark, in fact. th. second h ghest for the year, total Wiis 1.]"M,77u pounds an I the money paid out was 8204,- f'! !>. The average was 817.80 a hundred, or .S2 cents in the hundred pounds higher than the average paid Thursday. Only exceedingly foul weal It er kept the past week's busi ness from being the heaviest in all the history of the market, Mr. McFarland declared Friday n.ght. Monday, which was fair, started the market off to a big record with the second largest poundage in history. However, through the middle oi the week there was so much ra.ii that on some days hardly a half a day's business was done. Vet, the total for the week ran high. Nothing of more than ordin ary interest featured the week's bu.-ines-. 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 tlv* increase volume of line English pipe tobacco. Possibly the highest pru e of the season was jjjtid for one pij._. of wrappers Friday. This" of fering, placed «si sale by I). E. Idol, consisted of ;ju pounds and brought 75 cents a pound. il> had other grades which lu niuh' i(j an! J:; cents a pcu:ui. r .-J"c.iv.:!y. It i- aj ready plain to be so mi t.:at a tremendous break wiil fl"-d tis' market next week, unless weather or other agency pi ('Tits the farmers l'rom coming to market. It was esti mated that several hundred thousand pounds of tobacco • s t;!l littered the floors of tlv houses at the close of sides and came in after the • sales Friday, This is si.n t unusual, even for 'on-Salem market. Uava 1 rowers greatly dislike » , I eto wait over the /°C'k-er ' to catch sale. Uanbury, N. C., Nov. 6, 1929. NEGRO CHOOSES DANBURY JAIL Judge Hayes Allows Sam Wat son To Choose Between Ai | lanta and Danburv Prisons j —Charing His Pig and Found A Still. Danburv is a good place to ' live and no one realizes this ' more than Sam Watson, a Stokes county negro. On Mon i day when Sam was tried at W.iiston-Salem on a whiskey .charge Judge Johnson J. Hayes I gave him a term in prison at 'Atlanta or Danburv and Sam I choose the capital of Stokes. He gets four ni'.nths in the j county jail here and the gov i ernment pays his board. in telling his story to the court as to how he happened to ' be caught at a still, Sam said I that he "had a pig at large and he ran it right into a liquor dis , 'tilling plant before he knew it, and just in time to meet a bunch of federal raiding oll'ic ! ers." : The com t 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 j was change'! i » four months. Dolphus Jones, negro, found iat the still at ;'i • same tinv ! prohibition oilieers located Sam . j ihert about*, failed to answer ;i Federal Court when Sam I pr seated himself. An instan ■lter capias wa iss;ud for own l'er of the 50-gallot: copper siiij and eight barrels of beer. Two Surry and Stokes Convicts Make Escape Raleigh, Nov. o.—States' Prison oliicials today announc ed the escape of two prisoners from Cary Farm Prison yester day. Claud" West, Stokes county m-ui sent to orison in April of this year to serve from twenty-i two and one-half months to two: and otie-half years for larceny, and Donald Mays. Surry coun-1 ty convict serving three to live years for breaking and enter ing. having been sentenced in February this year, made their, getaways. "Brother" Smith Has j Narrow Escape j A Ford toni'inji' car driven by Brother Smith. of Danbury. went (iff an embankment on th* Danbury-Uartman road, half mile east of Danbury, Tuesday ai 'hi and turned over, pinning Smith under it. 'lis cries ;;t --tracted persons passing the road and they came to Danbury and got help to extr.cate him after he had been held there S.MUIfIM :IJ f OIUOS JOJ were j;oi serious, however. and he was able to return home. Pie Supper At Young- School Misses Elizabeth Moore and 1 Ituth Hill, teachers in Youngj school, just east of Danbury,, were visitors here Tuesdav. i ' The young ladies stated that) a pie supper would be given at i the school .Saturday nigh*. Nov. 16ih. and they extend a cordi d invitation tu the public to attend. The proceeds from the supper will be used for the' school. Radio Price Reduction. We would-be radio owners read with interest the an nouncement in the papers this week of the reduction in price f 1 he New Screen Grid Atwat t I'adio set. The reduc- H"H 527 (Y> p,>r .set. These s may b? seen at Bur- I'ru-r Co., Walnut Cove, N. ?T-. and Mrs. J. H. Woodruff Walnut Cove, were her* 1 to- SCHOOL ELECTION NOVEMBER 1!> J Three Town ships Of County Ha\e Opportunity Of Bene fitting Tho:r School Prob lems At That Time. It is the poi-cy of the present Board f Education to give its thoughts and attention to any plan that mielit build up a bel ter school system in any iis rict ilia| in the county as .1 whole. The State Educational au thorities are continually en couraging consolidation ami eight months school term, and are favorable to counties that show a spir.t of progress iri this line. In view of these facts, and acting upon a petition of ih« citizens and tax payers of Ya !■ kin, Meadows and Sauratowti townships, the Board of Edu cation of Stokes county lo quested the County Conmiis. sioner- to call an eletion t ■ be held in the.-e r.-spectra townsh.ijis to ascertain tin j wishes of the voters .11 n uni form maximum tax levy of 2-3 on the 8100.Oh valuation o property to suppii meiit i'le .-L month.* constitutional term a;i provide equal school ad van tages for all the children in th i three respective said town ships. Tlie attention oj' the Uoard Q iCdui-atioii lias let n directed t numerous objections to til plan held by some of the citl /.ens in this proposed ton sol dated territory. The ohji* tions have arisen because I erroneous reports circulated Ij uninformed ]>ersons, and i some instances by those wlj j are against special school la: Some seem to Jiold that it ; a scheme on the part of tl Hoard of Education to beii'J a particular school: this v are quick to deny. Tile lk>al is frank and open about tli and all other matters in whi the publ.c is interested, and is the highest ambition of e ery member to increase tl I ellieiency of and raise the sta dard of the educational i'ucfl ities in the countv at the lofl > ' jest cost possible to the tfl We are aware of the ffl that in every good underufl ' ing, til ere is some, rppiisitifl Kvo? y person has a right I lii.- own opi.vm, but at tfl open mind ar.d bo subject conviction. An t'LH'ticn of this kind fcets the citizens in mere \vi than one. II affects their pc et hook, it is true, hut sho they give that jrivattr com cration than the future wolf of their children? Most of the special tax i tricts included in this propa consolidated area carry a m imum special tax rate of on the SIOO.OO property vi ation, whereas if this t^lec
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