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Established !:•":! V has "i t Darbv v y, >:. C.. Thrs sti . ; 1 '
D£Al II CLAI iJ
OA j' : i.'.•»> i'l.J'.'.'i.'j
Dr. Paul Neal 01 ,:..i
Tuesday Xsfckt .1. I.:/.i,u—...
Si. Lru.tij Oi Ll*..* Sn Vwn
i ston ilovpitiii —W. K. Fug:;
Answers Summons At Home
Near Danbury—William Mci
ritt Succumbs Near Asheboro—
Dock L. Gordon At High Point
—Mrs. Paulina Rhodes At Law
son ville—Tuttle Infant At Wal
mt Cove.
Death has struck hard at Stokes
county people, living either in
the county or outside, since the
last issue of the Reporter.
Dr. Paul Neal, of Raleigh, and
son of Dr. John W. Ncal and the
late Mrs. Chattie Pepper Noal of
Monroe, died in a Boston hospital
Tuesday night. The decors? 1 v/r :
operated cn a few days n„'o for r
serious ailment, developed d
pneumonia. His death was rathe
sudden as he had apparently much
improved, his brother Dr. Kemp
P. Neal, who was with him, hav
ing returned to Raleigh. Full par
ticulars of Dr. Neal's death have
not yet been received. Funeral
will be at Raleigh today or to
morrow. Dr. Neal was born at
Meadows, near Danbury.
H. H. BROWN
Henry H. Brown of King died
in a Winston-Salem hospital Mon
day night after several days se
rious illness. Funeral at Pinnacle.
Mr. Brown was born in Stokes
county March 24, 1873, a son 01
L. B. and Meiinda Shamel Brown.
He served on the board oi
county commissioners for a num
ber of years in Stokes county and
was connected with the tax de
partment until the time of hib
death.
He also owned and operated a
large farm in Stokes county.
Most of his life was spent in
Pinnacle but for the last 12 years
he had lived at King.
Mr. Brown was married three
times, the first wife being Miss
Lula Stone, the second, Miss Daisy
Spainhour, and the third, who
survives, Miss Lela Butner.
Other survivors include three
sons, Otis N. Brown of Greens
boro, Corporal Kenneth E. Brown,
Camp Sibert, Ala., and Wilson
Brown, Winston-Salem; four
daughters, Mrs. O. V. Wall, Pin
nacle; Mrs. H. F. Westmoreland,
Madison; Mrs". E. A. Mickey of
Winston-Salem, and Miss Rc tie ecu
Brown, a student at Salem Col
lege; six grandchildren, one bro
ther, O. T. Brown, Pinnacle; two
sisters, Mrs. R. V. Moser, Wins
ton-Salem, and Mrs. M. M. Collins
of Pinnacle.
W. R. FAGG
W. R. Fagg, aged 69, Danbury.
Route 1, died at his home late
Tuesday following an illness of
several weeks. He was seriously
ill for a week.
Survivors include the widow,
t
cut cpv: : f ur sou i, Jtse Fa; .
«
• : .■ : Wall L
kerlawa, . r:d Early Fagg of the
homo; six C >\,h ;
Jones, Thomanville; Mrs. Rege:
• Ash'-y, Winslon-Sa!em; Mr*. Wil
'
, lie Eullin, Walnut Cove, and >!•>•.
I j
; Lester Mabe, Mrs. Coy Rierson,
i
iMrs. Creed Mabe, all of Danbury;
( two brothers, M. J. Fagg, Walnut
I Cove and Elder J. A. Fagg, Wir.-
ston-Salem; and four sisters, Mrs.
1 Wesley Hall, Danbury; Mrs. Ed
3ullin, Madison; Mrs. Maggie
Jackson, Kernersville, and Mrs.
j Elizabeth Sawyer, Reidsville.
I
iIHS. PAULINA HHOD. s
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i-a'MiOii.'ii.c, i..,- _ j t t..v
. J. Ii .( .11.6, 1.1. : i .1 ..
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U!1 ill.i -H Of I 0 V.V i.J.
fcihe is surviv*. 1 ly t.irue u.r .!•
tci s, }.hs. Chariie v .l •. ■
ville; Mrs. A. .1. Corn.), j;i
-t Salem, and Mrs. [i \V. f'Jaf.Ver,
Stokesdale; five sons, J. R. Rhcd"S,
Tacoma, Wash.; S. B. Rhodes,
Leaksville; B ,H. Rhodes, Mayo
dan; W. M. Rhodes, Lawsonville,
and Frank Rhodes, Canton, Ohio;
one brother, W. W. Martin,
Claudcsville, Va.; one sister, Mr?.
D. C. Smith, Stuart, Va.
I
| Funeral services at Smith Chap
iel Methodist Church Wednesday
afternoon.
1 Elder Noel Gilbert, of Winston
Salem, in charge and interment
( in the family cemetery near th>-
home.
DOCK L. GORDON
Dock L. Gordon died in a High
Point hospital late Monday after
-1 noon.
Gordon had been in declining
j health since August and a patient
]in the hospital for one week, dur
ing which time his condition was
1 0
serious.
He was born in Stokes county,
1 June 23, 1876, and went to Hign
Point 13 years ago. He married
1 the former Miss Carrie Sams, who
survives.
Surviving also are two sons,
Clarence D. Gordon and Claude H.
| Gordon; three daughters, Mrs.
Doyle Alexander, Mrs. James Eot-
I
,toms and Mrs E. E. Lane, all of
High Point; two half-brothers,
Sid Vaughn of Winston-Salem,
'and John Vaughn of Surry coun
■ ty; three half-sisters .Mrs. Stacy
1
j Branch, Mrs. Martha Gordon, bot'.i
of Winston-Salem, and Mrs. Lily
jMcGee of Kins; six grandchildren
'
and one great-grandchild.
Funeral and burial at High
Point.
1 .
l
WILL MERRITT
William E. Merritt, aged 74,
former Stokes citizen, near Law
sonville, died Friday, Jan. 8, at
I
five o'clock at his home near
Asheboro, Randolph county. He
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rr:»•v 7 * • ~ .
a. x- - a*« I s ». -. - vt'.. : k - ' \ JO .
i/uy wis, try ivis, rj # v t:ic !
' am j. 11-out to win the wa-'.
1 promise to pie-cive for .you and your child
ren a".d your ehii'. ren's chiidrcn that inerrable,
?upei-nai bles: ; ing—Democracy, Freedom, Christ
ianity.
I will hurl back and forever impede the ruthless
tide of destruction and death now foaming and
seething at the gates of humanity's justice and
I righteousness. I will destroy the instigators of
;this unexampled terror and iniquity.
1 Oceans, continents, the distances of foreign
'strands cannot stand in the way of my onrush
ing irresistible power evinced in huge armies
of men, great fleets of battleships, clouds of le
thal bombing nlane-*, nor faze the morale of our
> in'.vino; soldiers.
i
My voi-e rinr.s in the faraway places with ae
ms of o: > d cheer, my music is t ; se whii
■ 1 -fee! v ny cu'.-*crnd'> th.- liof m 1 :f aven;i •
in.-,' camion, the i oar of ta 1 and the >!,•'. *ea
a:-k-ack of rv.vr in° guns.
> Buy me, try me, cry me. I am the enemy of tin.-
enemies of freedom everywhere upon the earth.
1 control the vast steel output of America, the
coal, the oil and the food without which our own
troops as well as the armies of Russia, England
and China would perish. I send immense argo
sies to our faithful allies—convoys loaded to the
!water's brim with ammunition, medicines, hos
pital supplies and sustenance for the sick and
i wounded.
I am armed and inspired by the sacrifices of
patriotic Americans and the prayers of Ameri
can mothers.
1 And I protect the economical life of our great
country—shielding it from the sinister threat of
dangerous inflation, maintaining the integrity
jof the currency and holding the dollar up as the
jsoundest money of the world.
I In the end, when victory comes, I pledge yot:
| the assurance of prosperity and financial safety
as a result of your investing in the world's prime
' security.
Uncounted billions are in my hands. I need un
; counted billions more.
Citizens of every State, city, county, town and
village—come ye and partake of the offering
1 1 whose fruit shall be VICTORY AND PEACE.
Notice Of
| Suspected Delinquency
1 To Juddie Hodge.
Dear Sir:
According to information in pos-
I session of this Local Board, you
.1
ihave failed to perform the duty,
'or duties, imposed upon you un
der the selective service law as
( i
' specified below:
' j To present yourself for, aid
submit to, registration.
You are therefore directed to
1 report, by mril, telegraph, or in
person, at your own expense, 11
this Local Board, on or before 10
a. m., on the 13th day of January,
1943.
Failure to report on or before
the day and hour specified is an
offense punishable by fine or im
prisonment, or both.
TURN IN YOUR SALES CARDS
Farmers are asked to please
i turn in their sales cards to the
local Triple-A office "immediately.
COLLECTING WAR
DATA
Theodore Newsome of King, N
j C., well-known newspaper corres
I pondent, is now collector of wai
j data, representing the Stoke
1 j County Council of Civilian De
■ fense, by whom he has been aa
| signed to thin important tauk.
ij Hie following assistants ha..
' been dieted by chairman -N-v.
s>me: Messrs Carl M. Feits, Kin?
I i:. Id. Green, Walnut Cove; .M. J
| Fivuth, Walnut Cove, RFD; Trio
' Kaynes, Wcstficld; J. D. P.irk;\
; Francisco; R. C. Thomas, Lawson
( >ihc; R. J. Gibson, Sandv
R. J. Southern, Pine Hal!; L. S
McDonald, German ton; C. T. Nea
1 Pinnacle, and Minse s Grace Tay
lor, Danbury, and Argie Sisk
King.
The work of this research groui
is to gather and record all mat
ters of historical interest relatin;
to the present war era, as it hap
pened in Stokes county.
After the war the office of Ch
ilian Defense plans to edit anc
, put in bock form the data collect
j ed by Mr. Newsone and his as
' j sociates and all others who maj
! j contribute facts and figures of in
terest.
I'. . •
i ■ ».*».*
£ r it » . - ; 4 i
J • 1 ■>«"' ;
fvOKv'S (CuiHs •> « C". .
save v'li*j;;h sU'ui h.r I.V >')
chine guns simply by replacing
i
I ; OHO onn oi fruits or vegetables :
I week during the coming ycai
, with fresh or home-packed pro
duce, a leading food distributoi
estimated today.
' "This substitution, urged In
the War Productoin Board, wii
"> not only save steel but also con
serve load by usini* es'.ra sup
i lies of I'tesh pr.Hnto >■ ' avail
!able by i:: i,•. . d • 1 ;et i•
• cnnniu ; res!i:•
.
tor s i' A , • i"
, Coi ii'in; .
A dvr t\v i "p.. «.>n ,i
. i
ages .2";") pounds of Pel plus .
i
small amount of ti:; a:i! :i sia
| gle family can save J.'J pounds
' ,of steel in a year by the can-a
we ek reduction. Frenrh said. Thus
.11
" | Stokes county's 5,035 families cau
| save 61,427 pounds ol steel,
jenough to make 1.755 thirty-cali
bre machine guns, s
P'
L ,25 rounds of steel for manufae
" ture, he pointed out.
"Reduced buying of canned pro
t duce doesn't mean rcdiu iiiM foov.
f consumption. Housewives i n I; !
• me t'.ir family dirts by r.
ir.g more frcli produce. an I f.
records slimv thai
, are already 0-ing th;s. In '!•!
. American farmers moved 1!2.">7.
„ carlots of fresh fruits and Veg.-
1 tables to consumers through tin
Atlantic Commission Company, !•
per cent, more than in 1940 and
an all-time high record," French
i said.
v :
3 j The program would save 9,083,-
006 pounds of steel if carried oul
r ;by all of North Carolina's 793.
G94 families, it was brought out
On a national basis, America'
31,000,000 families could sav
*f. enough steel to make 5,000 mod
s- ium tanks or 38 Liberty freigh
lr ships, and enough tin for 300,001
" S ,75mm. howitzers.
C "i
I
Ration Board Office
•° 1 To Be Closed On
j:| Frithiy, in", 1
Dr j T:i c Tor to p; iit i! v'.. .r,
)• ■ ''V.S of tllo I liitiO-i 1* i«j '
!
rtt'on:' an impor'. Nt i» i
S ! ,
u inston-Salcm, Fri lay, Jan. 1"
al
y. the oflice at the courtliouse wi!
k, be closed all da v.
-! . - — : —
j-. j Miss Cleo Ray visited Dnnbur;
ig Sunday evening accompanied b'
p- her cousin Game Warden Car
j Ray Flinchum. Miss Cleo is
i'-1 trained nurse at Randolph Hosp
1 ' tal at Asheboro. She was in th
t.
" county visiting her father an
s
[V mother Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Ra
n- of Lawsonville. She returned t
Asheboro Sunday night.
Kcko.s \. • ,
under tile hairmaiii hij ;.i i 8 &
.Grace T.-.yi >r ••nioii:.;,- i ;.> s:_v
5 , klvT.i. The county's .jUota w a
$5,200.
Mis s Tr.vlor and nil the assist
ants in the fine sales arc boi ni>
r congratulated by the patriotic ol
dens of the county for their splcn
| did work.
, I
j . .
KING MOWS
J
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v. : . \ :ii e i..., '• . . . ««;,:»• ;t
C— i> I .'•itller '. i'lllii
111.: ~S ii uc!( l.aii i'l ; .'.I 11.
( I!. 1 I 1 I JlllM'l' 1.. -, •~n a. - I .1.1
- iateicM in tae »• i.'.-., Cash i\
s on Main street. Mr. Musei will be
' actively ingag« d in iiie business.
*; The firm name will Iv changed to
s Gentry and Moser.
! O. P. Green. Jr., stationed at
Fort .Myers, Florid.i. is spending
' a ten-day with his par
i- ents here.
. I The fo'low'"" under
' went tonsil removal opes .itions in
! the Stone-Helsabcek C"1 i:. here
■ last week: M'Ss Wilaior ilu'i.i'i',
, of Tobaceovilk: Miss I-Ymcvs
Boylea, ol l\i r.aeie; Mrs. l_a\v
renei Male, •>t r. • ■}'. >. ! NTis:-.
Louise Tut;!", il Wii. ' !'i.
Ever.vtl'ir ; is ' hei\
siaee i..- l>an Weill i . . ..•>lllO
- :
c i..l !:. : i .!••.
ii ! 1 "» '■ ■ 'tit 1.:.'
" stork i:.- out busiti ss. HereY.
•- his lepclt !>'! !: ! V. vili . Mi', lltnl
Mis. Owin Ikndrix. a daughter,
an-i Mi. an I Mis. Samniie .lames,
'' a daughter.
d Corporal Windell Keiuer, sta
j, tioned at Charlotte, is \isiting his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher
Keiger near here.
Mrs. Scales Dalton has return
lt ed to her home at the old Dal Lou
: homestead after spending some
■" time with relatives at Athens, Ga.
t. Dennis Pruitt, our popular bar
's ber, has about fully recovered
from a recent illness.
L | Stay tuned to the Danbury Rc
porter by keeping your subscrip
j tion paid up and the King News
will zoom into your home every
week at this same time.
And that's the news >r now.
Con oct ion
it •
t M iv.. :i> t; r' : . . V!;
ill Reporter was misinfornn I, and
reLreis th» mistake was mad \
and e!v_-ifrlly makes this eorree
:-y tion.
n - EDITOR.
a, "
M- EJ. Mitchell. M. P. Watts, J. M.
he Montgomery. Paul H. Kiaer, W.
1(1 ,C. Jones. M. J. Young, all Meatf
ly I
to| ows township citizens, here Mon
day.