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Sudden Death of W. M. Chisman,
Pine Hall Citizen
William McKcnzie Chisman a retired farmer and head of one of
}?tokes county's best-known families, died suddenly Wednesday night
at his home, "Pine Hall", at l-ine Hall. He was 86.
» Mr- Chisman v;as born at Hampton, Virginia, December 8, 1853, a
ron of Mr- and Mrs. Tom Chisman. Ho *rfa married to Miaa Margaret
Augusta Anderson in 1876- She died many years ago.
Surviving Mr. Chisman are three daughters, Mrs- Harry William
son, Mr. John L- Hanes and Mrs- George A. Hanea, Sr., all of Pine
hall; 16 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Funeral at home cemetery today-
WAR
Germans are daily and nightly
bombing cities and industrial
plants of England, while the
British are likewise bombarding j
German points, both doing much
damage, but the great BLJTZ
KRIEG has not yet begun.
The British fleet Wednesday
engaged the French fleet, sinking
several battleships, that otherwisa
would fallen into the hands
of the Germans- England still
rules the waves with her mighty,
fleet, and this latest coup insures
the continued mastery of the
ocean by England-
Russia invades Rumania, taking
a large portion. This is a serious
blow to Germany, who expected
to exploit Rumania's supplies of
oil and wheat. Military experts
are looking for a clash between
Russia and Germany-
United States is appropriating
14 billions to build a two-ocean
navy and 50,000 airplanes
Off to the Beach
Mr. and Mrs R L. Smith from
©anbury and Mr. aad Mrs. Jas
B Joyce of Winston-Salem will
laave Saturday for Myrtle Beach.
8. C, for a week or tea days
m be joined later aedrt
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Volume 66
Death Of
James Snead Vernon
Madison —James Snead Ver
non, aged 90, retired Stokes coun
ty farmer, died Tuesday morning
at his home on Sandy Ridge,
Route 1- He had been ill nine
months.
The funeral services were held
at 1 o'clock Wednesday after
noon at Buffalo Primitive Baptist
Church at Sandy Ridge with
Elder J. p. Via of Winston-Salem,
Elder Watt Tuttle of Danbury,
and Elder J. W. Braswell of San
dy Ridge, officiating. Burial was
in the church cemetery-
Mr. Vernon is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Hessie Hfennis Vernon;
nine daughters, Mrs- Bob Stone
of Spencer, Va.; Mrs. Morns
Amos and Mrs. Minnie Shelton of
Sandy Ridge; Mrs- Grover Lem
mons, Mrs. Beatrice Hendricks
and Miss Bettie Vernon of Bas
sett, Va.; Mrs- Joe Block and
Miss Bertha Vernon of Sandy
Ridge, Route 1; and Miss Ba
Vernon of Morganton; three
brothers, Bill Vernon of Critz,
Va; E. K. Vernon of Sandy
Ridge; and Buck Vernon of Texas;
and one sister, Mrs Msrcells
French of Cordell, Okla.
M, 0, Lynch Dead
| Matt Q. Lynch, farmer of west-
M* StataNt IH * mti tilt
Danbury, N. C., Thursday, July 4, 1940.
(An Editorial.)
THE ABSURD FICTION OF "A FREE PRESS"
—GIVE US THE TRUTH THAT
MAKES MEN FREE.
The greatest American fiction is the fiction of
a free press.
We excoriate and despise the "controlled
press" of the totalitarian states.
Is the American press less "controlled" than
the newspapers of Germany, Russia and Italy?
A divine privilege was accorded the American
press by our immortal Constitution and Bill of
Rights sealed by our forefathers with their
blood. It was a privilege to speak unafraid and
nnfettered by any influence, consideration or
impending threat.
Have we availed ourselves of this sacred birth
right?
~WE HAVE NOT.
How many newspapers of America today are
fearless to express their conscientious convic
tions on any issue or project which conflicts with
the policy of the counting room?
How many editorial writers will dare write an
uncensorcd or uninspired article —a free thought
that might clash the wishes of those who own 51
per cent, of the newspaper's capital stock? How
many newspaper proprietors will permit a criti
cism in their columns that nrght displease the
big advertiser?
Are we not a group of Charley McCarthys
who say what we are expected to say, only this
and nothing more, and keep quiet on subjects
that might adversely affect the pay-roll.
The Good Book says we "shall know the truth
and the truth will make us free." From its in
spired sentences we framed our immortal Bill of
Rights.
Is America unfree today because we have not
TOLD THE TRUTH?
How much error, incompetence and graft do
we unconsciously permit, or how much truth and
justice submerge because we do not tum on the
light—the TRUTH THAT MAKES US FREE.
Nb person, firm, corporation, dictator, political
system, dynasty or principality, tainted with
iniquity, can live in the light of truth.
Would the people of France be enslaved if
they had known the truth —that their army was
unprepared and honeycombed with incompe
tence and dishonor, so that on a rude awakening
which came too late, 15 generals were torn from
their places of trust?
Would the people of Belgium be vassals of
! Germany if they had known Leopold was re
ceiving overtures from Hitler that tempted him
!to surrender?
Why did Norway lay down its guns without a
'light? Was it because its leaders, when the foe
; invaded their country, had kept the people from
! knowing the truth?
| Would the English face so deadly a peril if their
people had been apprised that many of the rich
, Britons, including Chamberlain, were stockhold
ers in Hun warplane factories, and sharers of
Hun profits in munition plants?
Would the American people remain quiet if
they were informed that hundreds of thousands
of barrels of American gasoline are being ship
ped daily to Japan to form a vast reserve later
probably to be used against America when the
gigantic supplies of scrap iron, bought here, are
manufactured into tanks and guns?
Would America—the "land of the free and the
home of the brave"—occupy so tragic a position
of INBEFENSE now, if the newspapers had
been free—free of business entanglements or
political prejudice—
' Free to sound the tocsin of DANGER, and to
ir • *■ ' (Owdhn —
J. F. BROWN
TALKS ON LIME
THE CLARIFICATION OF CER
TAIN POINTS RELATIVE TO
THE PURCHASE OF THIS
VALUABLE COMMODITY.
To the Fnrmers:
The Agricultural Adjustment
Administration of the Unke
States Department of Agricul
ture in making ground agricultu
ral limestone available to farm-1
ers through the Grant of Aid |
provisions of the Agricultural!
Conservation Program, contracts
this lime from several large com
panies. All of the grant of aid
lime purchased in Stokes county!
has been contracted from the
Bertha Mineral Company of
Austinville, Va., %;ie to the rea
son that it is more accessible to
Stokes county from the stand
point of transportation cost. In
making these contracts for the
different counties throughout th?
state, the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration takes into
consideration the price per tor.
charged 1 y the .ny and tho
cost of transportation. Freight
and hauling charges are the moat,
important items to he considere 1
in the purchase of lime, if the
quality otherwise is satisfactory.
Several questions have arisen
among some farmers as to th>?
relative merits of lime produce j
by the different companies- At
present, the AAA is purchasing
lime from practically all the com
panies in, or near North Caro
lina, which produce high grade
lime- Among these are the Amer
ican Limestone Company (makers
of Mascot), Knoxville, Tennessee;
Bertha Mineral Company, Austin
ville, Virginia; Liberty Lime
stone Corporation, "Rocky Point,
Virginia. The value of lfane Is
determined by the percent of
calcium and magnesium carbo
nate contained in it as these are
the elements that neutralize soil
acidity and are desirable for
plant growth. Car and truck
shipments of lime from each of
the companies are sampled from
time to time and the analysis
made public. For the information
of farmers the most recent aver
age analysis made by several of
the leading companies are listeu
below:
CALCIUM CARBONATE
American Limestone Co..
51.73; Bertha Mineral Co-, 5015
Liberty Limestone Corporation.
53.86.
MAGNESIUM CARBONATE
American Limestone Co., 36.98;
Bertha Mineral Co-, 40-72; Liber
ty Limestone Corp., 43.89.
Average total calcium carbo
nate and magnesium carbonate:
Amer. Lime. Co-, 88-71.
Bertha Mineral Co., 90.87.
Liberty Lime- Corp., 97.75.
From this Information it can
be Men that lime produced by
the various companies vary little
and that the total calcium and
magnesium carbonate of the
Urns aecwrad from Austiavllk
compares favorably with that
Number 3,548
EDWARDS-HENDRIX
REUNION JULY 7
FOE GORDY IS RECOVERING—
STORK LEAVES TWO
BABIES OTHER KCNG
NEWS.
King, July 7. The Edwards
and Hendri:: reunion will be held
of S. T- Edwards on
King, Route 2 Sunday, July 7th
.All relatives and friends are in
' vited to attend with well filled
' baskets. There will be singing
'by several good quartettes.
Little Mary Anderson and Eliz
abeth Booe have returned from
; a week's stay with their grand
' lathers, J. F. M> ic an i K L.
, i
Booe, at Mocksville. They were
accompanied on the trip by Miss
Thelma Fulk.
1 Billv Edwards of Winston-Sal-
I
' 1 er.i is visiting his grandparents,
1 Mr. and Mrs E. P. Edwards on
School street-
Poe Cordy, who suffered i
stroke o; paralysis about two
' wcvlis siiuv, i.-: sKiw'y recovering.
1 j Mi.s Virginia llauser of
Bethania SU.tijn has returned tj
■ | her home after visiting relatives
■ i here.
' I Paul Owen of Point, for
merly of King, was here last
Week shaking hands with oil
1 ! friends and acquaintances.
| The stork was only molested
J (-twice from his rest last *c-v'k.
* These occasions were: to Mr- and
* Mrs. Curtis Shelton, a son, and
"I to Mr- and Mrs. Austin Bennett,
a son.
e | Bill Boles got his orders for
*> .. onroe, Va. Thursday and left
s on eld 97 to visit relatives and
' friends in the Virginia town*
" Misses Virginia, Lee and Mr.
Charles Gravitt of Miami, Fla.,
y
* are spending some time with rel
_'
atives here and at Raleigh
' j A. S. Francis and family have
'" returned from a vacation trip to
e Carolina Beach.
11 1 The following patients under
r went tonsil removal operations in
t
the Stone- Hclsabeck Clinic last
f
* j week: Mrs Thomas Scott of
n Rural Hall and Edward Cromer
u
of Germanton. «* •
t There is some irapr nent in
the condition of Se»un Tuttle,
f
who has been quite sick at his
home on Ohio street.
Robah Spainhower of Buies
Creek and Colly Wilson of Angier
" arc spending a few days' with
, Ir and Mrs. Norman Newsum of
| east Main street. . #
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produced by other companies.
; j The quality of ground limestone
■- is also determined by the de
gree of fineness of the material
e or screen analysis. V
Before grant of aid lime is
purchased from any company the
materia] must pass a speciflei
screen analysis. The lime being
n purchase# Tor Stokes county is
y floe enough fo r 96.2 percent, of
e the materUT "To put through a
i 4S--me*h screes. Thto fa weir
e above the requirement* for high
e qullity lime.
t J. r. BROWN, Cbuatjr AgL '