THE DANBURY REPORTER.
Volume 66
DUKE POWER CO.
BRANCH OFFICE
OPENED AT KING WITH C. R.
CARROLL IN CHARGE—KING
FARMERS TRY WENDELL
MARKET—OTHER NIJWS OF
' KING.
King, Sept. 15. — It is estimated
# that about fifty per cent. of the
tobacco crop in this section has
been harvested. Grows r s are ex
periencing some difficulty in cur
ing the weed since the recent
continued rains set in.
Grove r F. Stone celebrated his
51st birthday at his home in Five
Forks Sunday. A number of rel
atives and friends were present
to enjoy the occasion.
Old Richmond defeated Lewis
ville in a game of baseball play
ed in the King park Saturday,
the score being 4 to 2.
Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis Wright have
* returned to their home in Pitts
boro, spending a few days with
relatives in Walnut Hills.
Mr. and Mrs. S. V. Kiser, of the
Sinai section, were among the
throng of shoppers here Satur
day evening.
O. L. Rains is having his tene
ment house moved across Broad
Street and remodeled. C. O.
Boylo, Jr., will occupy this home
when completed.
The Duke Power Company have
opened a branch office in tho
Chevrolet building on Main Street.
* Their increasing business in this
section has made the opening of
this branch office necessary. C.
R. Carroll will be in charge of the
office.
Worth Kirby left Monday for
Chapel Hill where he will enter
college.
C. F. Helsabeck, planter of the
Antloch section, was here Satur
day on business.
Prof. J. T. Smith, of Francisco,
has purchased from Cladie S.
* Newsum his home on west Main
Street and will move his family
here. It will be remembered that
Prof. Smith, former superintend
ent of Stokes county schools, re
sided here at one time and the
people of King welcome this ex
cellent family back.
Hobson Preston and family, of
Clio, S. C., are spending a few
days with relatives and friends
here.
The following births were re
corded here last week: To Mr.
and Mrs. Marvin Lewis, daughter,
to Mr. and Mrs. Austin Bennett,
a son. and to Mr. and Mrs. Reid
* • I
Bennett, a daughter.
C. D. Slate, Jr., returned Fri
day from Roanoke, Va.,!
v/fwhere he went on a business trip, j
Claud Kapp, Spencer Tuttle and'
Ellis Conrad carried a truck load
of tobacco to the Windell market
near Raleigh last week. They re-1
H port a $25.00 average on the
K Windell market. These gentla-
Bjf men are the first growers in this
■ section to market tobacco this
I. saason.
Hi The condition of Bryce Cromer,
is suffering from an attack,
I of typhoid fever, is improved.
is the first case of typhoid to
flr' 1 * & * ) * >ear&nce ' n this sec "|
Established 1872. Danbury, N. C., Thursday, Sept. 16, 1937.
Tax-Payer Protests
! At the Appalling
Slaughter of Game
I Mr. Editor:
As a citizen and tax-payer of I
j
' Stokes county, N. Carolina, and!
lone who believes in conserving!
the game interests of the State,!
I I wish to protest against the
; wholesale slaughter of the squir
-5 rels, one of our most valuable
- game animals. As an instance, I
- refer to the record of one of our
t local hunters, Mr. Tom Petrce,
who after preparations extending
i over 30 days prior to the open
; ing of the season on Sept. 15,
- bought up most of the shells in
t this section and was in the woods
at 2:10 A. M. on the 15th. By 2
- hours after sunrise he had shot
- or maimed 000,000,001 squirrels.
, | Some of our best mathematici
ans here calculated that if this
i
i Nimrod had killed two more, his
- record would have reached this
i appa'ilng total:
I Killed or rr.air.ied.. 000,000,001
s If he had killed cr
J maimed 2 more it would
have been this ... 000,000,002
-' Total 000,000,003
i Yours for the protection of
• the State's resources.
s TAX PAYER.
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No Storm. j
~ i
• | The people of Danbury and the
J community were much depressed
f today when the elements sudden
• ly turned dark, after a bright
: j sunshiny day.
It was well known the equinox
j disturbances were not due till
" | about the 21st.
Nobody could understand the
! gloom until it was found that Lon
" Sisk was coming in with a l° ad
lof cured tobacco.
. Tobacco Is Selling
/Good Down South
E. J. Davis, proprietor of Ban
ner warehouse of Martinsville,
Va., and who als 0 conducts a!
warehouse at Fairmont, N. C.,,
| sends the Reporter a statement
.' of how the new crop is selling at
Fairmont, as follows:
First Week
Pounds Sold for week, 2, 054,364
Amount paid out $525,852.71!
Average $25.59'
Second Week
Pounds Sold for week 3,115,196
Amount paid out $814,834.27
J Average $26.15
Total
Pounds sold for season 5,169,560
j Amount Raid out $1,340,68693
; Average for Season $25.93
tion for a long while.
Three graduates of the 1936 j
class of King school are attending
Appalachian State Teachers' Col
lege this year. They are: Misses j
Evelyn Turner and Geraldine i
j Redding and Grady E. Stone, Jr., •
all of King. This is Miss Turner's i
, and Miss Redding's second year!
at Appalachain, and Mr. Stone's i
first year. He attended Chapel i
j Hill last year. 1
QUESENBERRY GETS
LIFE SENTENCE!
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I
SLAYER OF CHAS. H. JESSUP
! SENTENCED AT STUART, j
VA,. COURT LAST WEEK—
I TO BE TRIED ALSO FOR
ROBBERY—HIRST RAY SENT
| UP FOR FOUR YEARS—
I DEATH OF E. L. CLARK.
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A number of Stoks citizens
attended the trial of A. D. Ques
enbeny at Stuart, Va., last week
and heard the slayer of Chas. H.
1 Jessup sentenced to life impiis
onment in the Virginia penjtent
' iary.
' i Quesenberry, who is also to be
/tried for robbery of Chas. 11.
Jessup, was quickly hurried away
to Roanoke after the trial had
ended. This precaution was con
sidered necessary owing to high
!
feeling usaaist h!rn in both Pat
rick and Stokes by fri:nds of C.
H. Jessup, who v >3 nwd red by
Quesenberry.
Commonwealth's Attorney F. P
Burton said a check for .">300.00
, and $300.00 in ea3h which Je.s
sup was said to have ha.i in his
5 possession were missing fi jm bin
[ body. Officers found S1OO.0) on
I
Qucsenberry's person when !;e
was arrested.
At this term of Patrick coun
ty court, Hirst Ray, a Peter's
' CJ-t-k township, Stokes county,
: N. C., boy pleaded guilty of fel
' oniusly wounding Leonard Hud
son, and was sentenced to four
years in the penitentiary,
i Paul Laper was tried on a
charge of grand larceny and also
sentenced to 4 four years.
,' E. L. Clark, 66, prominent citi
' I
i zen of Stuart, died suddenly Wed
[ nesday, Sept. 8.
Germanton News
Germatjton, Sept. 15.—8i1l
Flynt is spending some time with
Mr. and Mrs. John Flynt in
Liberty.
Those that visited Mr. and
Mrs. G. Ross Meadows and family
Sunday were: Mr and Mrs. C. S. j
Carroll, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
j Freem«n of Greensboro, Mrs. J. I
M. Southern, Mrs. Ola Meadows
'and children, Medley and Moir, of
High Point, Rev. Younts and
Buck of Rural Hall, Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Lewis and daughter
Ann Brown, Mr and Mrs. Joe
Carroll, Mrs. Blil Redman, Mr.
and Mrs. OHie Flynt and family,
Misses Lela Mendenhall and
Trudie Mae Shackleford, all of
Germanton,
Mrs. Hobin Johnson and son
Keith, of King, spent the week
end with her sister, Mrs. Myrtle
Flynt.
i Mr. and Mrs. Austin Eaton and
family spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Ross Southern. ||
Miss Edna Perrell and Mr.',
Glenn Frye, of Winston-Salem, 1 ,
visited Mr. and M>'s. Frank Men- ,
I
denhal] Sunday evening. jl
Mr. and Mrs. Grey Slate and ]
children of Basstett, Va., spent 1
the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. ,
Bob Slate.
ERNEST ROGERS
DIES SUDDENLY
WAS IN THE FIELD PULLING
| FODDER WHEN THE
! SUMMONS CAME—HE WAS A
! PROMINENT AND V." LL-TO
DO FARMER OF LAWsON
! VILLE.
j Ernest Rogers, aged 58, a
prominent and well-to-do farmer
of Lawsonviile, died suddenly
Wednesday about 11:S0 A. M.
He was in the field puliing fod
der when the summons came,
and when pick* d up by nearby
relatives he had bunches of fod
der in each hand.
The interment will be today at
Aaron's Corner cemetery, at 2
P. M. Elders J. Watt Tuttle and
W. J Brown will conduct the fun
eral.
The deceased is survived by his
wife, and six children by his last
wife; and by nine children by his
first wife.
Gone After Zeb Smith
. 1 Sheriff Taylor has gone 'o
. Rocky Mount, Va , today to bring
. Zeb Smith to Stokes jail. lie L
now held by the Virginia author
' i
ities. He was to be tried at the
last term of Stokes court in sev
'eral cases, but failed to app-ar
His father, W. H. Smith, who was
his bondsman, accompanied the
' Sheriff to Rocky Mount.
Martinsville Booster
i Club Coming
i .
1 The Martinsville Booster Cluij
' will tour Stokes Thursday, Sept.
23. There will be more than 100
• in the party, accompanied by a
band and distributing souvenirs.
Danbury is dated for 12:25 P.
M.
New Citizens.
Reid George and family have
moved here and are occupying
the Smith home in east Danbury.
i The Georges are cordially wel
comed to Danbury. They have
two of the cutest kids.
King Items.
I The following patients underwent
tonsil operations in the Stom;
Helsabeck Clinic last week: Miss
Mona Lee Bolejack, of Rural Hall,
William Blaylock, of Germanton,
Owen Cline of Wtnson-Salem, Bet
ty Lou and Boby, children of Mr.
and Mrs. D. C. Taylor, of Gap,
and Olene and Elwin children of
Mr and Mrs. Frank Bennett, of
King.
i
James F. Smith ,
i Honored On His *
82nd Birthday
I A surp'se birthday dinner was,
tendered Mr. James F. Smith last
Sunday at his home at Meadows,
on his 82nd birthday. A large
crowd of friends was present
with full baskets of good things
to eat, which were spread on a
long tabl? in the yard. Many
happy felletitions were expressed,
with good wishes for many other!
like occasions for bim.
Rural"Rehab" Program
Will Continue Under I
Farm Security Set-Up
2 The rural rehabilitation sup
i ervsscd lwan program will con-'
. tinue as heretofore, undir the
. newly established Farm Secuii'.y
Administration, of the U. S. De
partment of Agiicuiture, 11. 0. 1
i Palmer, county supervisor, jn
1 charge of all rehabilitation 1
f work in Surry and Stokes coun
• tiy3 announced today, early this
- week, from his office in Dobson,
', N. C., following assurances re-
Y ceived lrom George S. Mitchell,
- Regional Director of the Farm
Security Administration in Ral
t eigh, N. C
i Mr. Palmer stated that the
i Br.nkhead-Jones Farm Tenant
- Act, which the Farm Security
Administration will administer
s provides for continuation of t;-_
t rural rehabilitation and farm
I
s debt adjustment work which he
'repress nts in this section and
'that he has been instructed to
l - carry on substantially as befoie,
'under the new agency.
o,
i Rehabilitation loans accom
nr
panied by farm and home man
agenicnt advice from county sup
ervisors are made by the gov
ernment to financially distressed
far n , families who hold out hope
of making a comeback—whether
iS
on their own land or on rented
e
land—but who are unable to se
cure proper credit from other
i
sources to make a crop or to pur
chase needed livestock and equip
ment.
i In addition to the rural rehab
ij ilitation program which will be
f. continued as a" Jnjvr'mt phase
0 of the new agency, the Farm
a Security Administration will con
duct the tenant loan program, as
'. provided in the Farm Tenant Act,
for the purchase and improve
ment of farms or selected tenant
farmers, and will complete un
p finished farmstead projects, in
r eluding those started by the Ue
settlement Administration and
those turned over to that organ
e ization from their agencies.
I Land use planning and sub
marginal land purchase acti'i-
I
| ties, further provided for in the
I Bankhead-Jones Act, have been
. i
1 entrusted by the Secretary of Ag
riculture to the Bureau of Agri
-3 cultural Economics. This means
i
- 1 that former land utilization work
> and that to be carried out under
the new act will be continued
■ through a land utilization divi3-
> ion under the Bureau of Agricul- 1
tural Economics, while the Farm
Security Administration will con-'
duct the tenant purchase ana
'rural rehabilitation programs and)'
, complete farmstead projects now
under development. Thus, the i
fu; ns of the former Resettle
i :
ment and those
addci. * the Fa \ T-nant Act
have been divide .•'tween the
Farm Security ainistration J
and the Land Us T ogram of
the Bureau of Agricultn *al I'con- 1
omics, accc 'in,? to th'
received by Mr. Palmer uom the
Regional office.
| There aro > than 10.000'
j Negro Jews in the United States, j
Number 3,314
COUNTY AGENT
CONDUCTS TOUR
FARMKKS VISIT FARMS LV
I STOKKS AND KO(KIN(,H\>I
—INTEREST INC! I) E M O N-
I STRATIOVS—LUNCH AT CCC
i CAM!*.
by county a ■ ;k::t bkown.
On Thursd'.y. August 20. it
group i). Stokcu coi'-'ty fanners
•spoilt the !ay »i.i:«« « j, a rt of
Stok yiic! Hi couuti;s
observing a'tu :! demons!rations
of impi ovvd fai ruing ]. :«ctis_-e.-'.
The group assembled i-i front of
the Bank in Walnut Cjvp at 8:30
A. M„ ar.'J from this point the
i touj* was started. Eleven farms
wore visited on which a variety
of practices wore obse:ved ,in
•" crops, permanent pas
>■' . -icing, meat'ow strips,
. •' >g. contou- tillage of
(oh co i;"i«i cii'p ;;nl f " :;i cit'li
mcnt. T!ie group was in charge
'of the county and assistant
;..cconipaned 1;y Mr. A. C.
of the soil conservation
service.
Th: /Lsi st,p v.*;.s made at 'lie
farm of B. 13. Walker near W. I
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I nut Cove, whe' e the farmers ob-
served an excellent fi-Jj ol certi
fied Southern Beauty corn. Here
it was pointed out that bettor
corn can be produced by the use
of good seed and proper lertilizn
tion. The group observi d a new
type of machine used foi seeding
winter legumes. * 5^
From Mr. Walker's farm the
tour proceeded to the Soil Conser
vation Demonstration Area in
Rockingham county where four
-.0r.icß".. I'.oi, (....is „uo , .it
od, which farms are enrying out
ideal soil conservation pracctices.
Some of the piacticos observed
were terracing, strip cropping,
meadow strips for cor.trolli;!,;
surplus water and contour tobac
co tillage on terraces. Th. i.u n
'rs the opportunity to see
an excellent permanent p.i turn
together wit), a field of -.e;ice.i
lespedeza on the farm of M>, p.
H. Webster nw the Ro king
ham. Stokes county lino.
Through the courtesy of the
Madison CCc Camp, lunch was
seived to the group in the m >.s
hall. From the CCC Camp Mie
tour proceeded to the fa«m of
Mr. C. S. Martin neai Dillard and
observed a meadow strip in th?
process of construction. They
: also observed good terraces and
.contour tillage of corn on ter
races.
A brief stop was made at the
farm of W. J. Flynn to see a field
jof srricea lespedeza that he is
using for hay.
At the farm of J. A. Joyce ari
inspection was made of a good
permanent pasture. Mr. Joyce
also showed the group an excell
ent field of tobacco on his farm
growing on terraced land. He told
the farmers that he was convinc
ed that good tobacco could he
i
grown on tH-races with no detri
mental effect providing the tobac
co rows are run with the terraces.
JHe had a very • convincing
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