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LOCALS Sheriff J. J. Taylor attended Vie tobacco association in Rai eigh Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. ••• • • Mrs. Frank Burton, Jr., an j ■daughter, Mary Penn, leave this -week-end for Stuart, Va., where they will be guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Burton, Sr. •»• • • Angela Taylor, summer school student at Woman's College, Creensboro, was home last week end. Attorneys O. Woltz, Fred Fol ger of Mt. Airy, and W. Reade Johnson of Winston-Salem were at the courthouse today. »«• • • Joe Hart was in town awhile Wednesday enroute to his home near Lawsonville to spend a fur lough with his parents. Joe has laeen stationed at Fort Bragg, but •will soon leave for Camp Shelby, "Miss. ••• « • Z. D. Covington and daughter, Miss Rachel, of Rural Hall, were in Danbury today. They had vis ited the home of J. H. Neal at Meadows. Miss Rachel and Miss Mary Neal were in school togeth er at Appalachian Teachers Col lege. Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Nickelson and family of Lawsonville, Mr. and Mrs. Coy Rhodes and Miss Novella Sheppard of High Point spent the week at Myrtle Beach Carolina Beach. *•»### Chas. R. Helsabeck, attorney of Rural Hall, was here on busincs at the court house Saturday. *** * * Misses Marjorie Pepper and Lois Wall returned Friday from a visit to Ellen Kate Pepper, Mar gie Petree and Kathryn Sisk at Washington, D. C. * * * * •* Col. K. Boyles, S. I. Boyles, R. E. Gordon and James Smith, all of Yadkin township, were business visitors here Tuesday. ** * » Wallace Flyrn was here Satur day from Dillnrd. STIIAFT THEATRE Stuart, Virginia Sunday and Monday, July '' - "LADY OF BIRLESQIE" Barbara Staimyc Tui's., Wed. and Thur., Ju'y t-.Y(. "A LADY TAKES A CHANCE" Jean Arthur John Waym* Friday and Saturday, July 7 - J "FALSE COLORS" Wrn. Boyd AKo— THE NAVY COMES TIIRO! (ill Pat O'Brien George Murphy j Among the citizens in town Saturday was Walter Nelson of Walnut Cove, who is a fine tobac . co grower of the river section. I ***** Preacher Walter Mabe, one oi the Primitive Baptist elders form erly of this section, now of Stone- I ville, was here this week. ' * * :f * * . Deputy Sheriffs Cieve Lawson ' of Lawsonville and Bud Tilley of Pinnacle were Danbury visitors i i i uesday. I *** * » Received a pleasant visit Tues day from W. E. Scott of Raleigh, Trainmaster of the Virginia Di i vision of the Seaboard Railroad, ( who with Mrs. Scott was visiting ( the mountains. Mr. Scott has been connected for 38 years with the Seaboard, and during the , greater part of this service was , associated with Claude Pepper, of Hamlet, also connected with the ? Seaboard. Mr. Scott has been for t years a regular visitor to the mountain section of Stokes on his vacations. I I J. L. Mitchell Back From Hospital t It much pleases his many 3 friends that 1. Luther Mitchell is * back from the hospital after a • siege of eight months, and is im proving at His Walnut Cove home. ; Thqy had Luther dead, but like , some other S-week hospital evac- I uants that we know, he is still s alive aria very much alive. He j t belongs fo the crowd that is hard jto kill. He is like the fellow pic tured in Kipling's "If" who forced his heart and nerve and sinew to serve his turn long fiftcr they ' had gone, and when there was no thing FoTt in him but the w ; !l which said to them, "Hold On." And we are all glad that Lutl ,) er"won his fight, and is now bar it non tae road to recovery. Good . luck. Dixie Wood In Town Dixie wood of North View wis ' in town Tuesday, and told tiv s Reporter the particulars about the dtath of his brother, Sam, I who vis killed in a ear accident •. last veek, and which vas regnt t'i' much by his in: ny frioiidr. Dixie lias tluve boys in the H armed services, and hardly V knows what he is going to Jo on the farm now with all his help I gone. He has just receive i nowa of the promotion >f hir. son, | ; Clyde to first sergeant at Tihii-I tiad. South Aaier ca. I Pixie says hi-s father, I'-icK* | Pol, now way up >P SO, a.nl I'IHIO Dock Young, now way up in 90, I i are both c'oing w I'. at tl eir great, ages. ( RATION BOARD C LOSMS l inuvv THSOKiI! SVITKIKW —WILL OBSKKVI-: .11! A If II j The Stokes Ration Board will dose Ft. lay at 12 o'clock lor the ' v.i i k i ord r to make out r. - j I»,irts, find will open as usual Mon ' day morning. The office will also' be closed Tuesday, July 4th, in . observance of that holiday. THE DANBURY REPORTER, DANBURY, NORTH CAROLINA, ' SOLDIER TAKES f ! OWN LIFE WHEN FURLOUGH ENDS Monroe Hooker, son of W. E. : Hooker of Francisco, Route 1, was found dead in the woods near his home Tuesday, June 27. and oilic rs investigating the accident C. G. Ray, V\. S. George, Rufus Mabe, and Coroner S. P. Christian i 1 reported that it was a clear case of suicide. A .22 caliber 1 rifle wa3 lying by his side, the bullet from which entered his forehead just above his eyes. A note was found in his pocket addressed to his sister, but the note did not disclose the reason ifor his action. Young Hooker was stationed at . Fort Jackson, S. C., and had been , home on furlough, and had plan , ned'fo return to his camp on the 5 day he took his own life. [ Pvt. Howard Duggins Is Awarded Badge After Boungainvlle i ; With the American Forces At Bougainville—For his perform ance of duty ip action against the the enemy on Boungainville, Pvt. I Howard C. Duggins, of Mayodan, overseas 14 months, has been ' awarded the Combat Infantryman 3 Bad •. 1 The badge, worn above the " left breast pocket, is a silve; • rifle on field of infantry blue 2 vithin a silver border, an elliptic- . I f Ifem where I sit... by Joe Marsha i Fishing's a Morale f Builder, too! Willie Wells was always fond of much-the sweet feel of a trout fishing. Now he writes from rod... a pleasant glass of beer •omewhere overseas; with friends .. . the sme o - .u « n Mom' 3 fresh biking from the There's a song the fellers kitc h e n tine, goes: 'Praise the Lord, we " . „ . tin't a-goln' flshln'-and I guess From where I sit, we folks at i s so. But you know, dad. some- home have an Important obliga limes I sure wish I were back tlon-to keep Intact the llttlo ~shlng for trout In Seward's things that they look forwanl Creek again." t0... from the trout rod waiting In the corner to the beer that s And I guess that's the way all cooUng ttie ice box. Don't »„ur soldiers feeL They're fight- agree? * ing a war-and they mean to s fght it to a finish-till they can /") (}.. 7* t( me home to the little pleas- ?* «res that they've missed so C/ r- i © 1944, BREWING INDUSTRY TCI "JDATION, Norlh Carolina Commit!*# Edgar H. Bain, Itale Director, 60y-607 Insurance Bldg., Raleigh, N. C jJ^ By Hube Culdbcrg—/Vcw York Sun Bell Syndicate U.S. Treasury Detriment , Stokes County Hunting Story ' I i Several years ago a very large I stilling outfit down in the Ziffy! Island country was visited bv rev i ' enucs. It was in fuil blast with large barrels of beer, backings;, j j etc., around, and a big copper, that was turning out sugar-head by the kegful fast. i After the revenues had drunk all they could hold, they proceed ed to cut and slash and destroy ali uie equipment and the liquor, 1 beer, etc., ran down the hill into fhe creek nearby like, t • Now it so happened that same night that a mile or two down that creek, which was teeming with all kinds of fish, Will White, Will Conaway, Warner Alley, Nat Nelson, John Lewis, Powell Mabe, Rex Tilley, Jess Rhodes, and sev , eral others were fishing, all to | gether, and were not getting any bifes, when everybody knowed that creek was full of fish. All at once them fish commenc ed biting. A big red horse ac , tually reached up out of the water I! and bit Will White's pole off. Will r, Conaway hung an eel big as a large hickory root, and his line a snapped in two like thread. Oth x ers were pulling out catfish, red e horse, pikes, sturgeons and horny-j . heads as fast as they could bait. And some of the fish when took off Cue hook was vigorous and tried to bite the fisherman. "What the hell," said Rex Til- [ ley. "I ain't never seen nothing ' j like this before. These fish is ■ crazy." ! About that time uj, come one of the boys who had been doing night work at the still, and told ' about the cutting down. "I see," sai«i Will Conawav.! "These fish is drunk." I I 1 " f 1-A's In a Hot Spot .. | i b The National Poultry Selective Service Board has placed an extra . 50 million chickens in 1-A and states that 100 million will be in- j ducted into the frying pan be tween now and August 1, accord ing to "Chick" Parrish. I Just how new classification reg ulations will be worked out is 3hown by a report from the Poul try Dra7t Board of the Harrelson i ville neighborhood in Columbus County. Graham Harrelson, Wil ton Harrelson, and Henry Davis, tenant, compose the board and County Agent Charles D. Raper is secretary. The chickens in 1-A are subject to immediate induction into the frying pan. Those in 1-AO are eligible for service but not as com i batants. The 2-A group was de ' ferred to June 15, 1944, and those in 2-B until October 1, in the hope ' that they would make the 2-C classification. Extension Farm News. IIIE DANBURY REPORTER, I»ANBURY, N. C. Enclosed you will find S. .. . for which please send the DANBI'Rk REPORTER to the following address: If renewing old subscription please check here: ( ). NAME: ADDRESS: STATE | Keep Fruits and Vegetables Fre^h~j A stira;;? rccsn for kcc"ir.~ fruits ami vegetables may to built of cc.crctc v.thcut using scarce materials needed lor tlic war effor;. C/ \V. G. ICAISS^ A - cu!. jl L.igi.icc '' v :t r « Uit:.s for Muring I mils and Vi -;e:»lilrs i- ..v . air. K|:IIIIUM > and waste iiti.il f> lis needed tn liolp win i'.'M.-'iii'forv low-cost storage can ! i> • •n idoii in most basements by ' i ii'c a unail mom in I lie corner, •r a iio. c li or in other suitable :• Tlio walls are built of iilil concrete masonry units liio felling is insulated with "w foaril. An outside liase • « itii!o,v can be used to provide IMIII by placing an air duet i ' b.wer half to conduct air to ■if :'".d pliic'nsr louvers in the oi' tfi.- window to serve as ■ " . :.ii.!it! t. Tin door lending '• ■ t'; • oraire room should til ' V ; liles may bo placed i or en :h.'lves. i 1 ender,around storages • 1 i.ear Iho hotrm or barn are • ! for storing fruits and • They are built about • • -ro'tnil level and half » I ; , i il on top to 1 » . ... . -i.-j. fi. An economical ' THE MARRY GO i 'ROUND ! 1 The following marriage license* were issued here during May and June: Robert V. James, Madison, to Mildred Hr.ll, Stoneville; G. H. Mori field. Walnut Cove, to Mrs. Mary James, Walnut Cove; Rob ert Oc.k-1! Tilley, Germanton, to ; Georgia C. Flinchum. Walnut Cove; Earnie Ira Noah, Walnut j Cove, to Dorothy Frances Jes- I sup, Walnut Cove; Cecil Smith, Westfirld. to Lillian Meadows, Beckley, W. Va.; Andrew Archie Hopper, Madison, to Betty Lois Throckmorton, Stokesdale; Ross Smith, Danbury, to Nora McHone, Francisco. - - PALMETTO THEATRE WALNUT COVE, N. C. I | Sunday and Monday, July 2-3 "FLESH & FANTASY Chas. Boyer —Barbara Stanwyck Tuesday, Only, July 4th "FOOTLIGHT GLAMOUR" Penny Singleton—Arthur Lake Wed. and Thurs., July 5 and 6 "CRY H|AVOC" Margaret Sullivan— Ann Sothern l CaDQHnBHBtHHBBi ijp.' ■»' coiD-tririiiin is ;i cut rt,te arched roof. \,i r> infoivinj; hf-cil is required. A wid'h 1.. MI ir and :l center hciirht .1' s ii. are i-nti:i!'no tory. Tlio o\iavat ion n.ay he nun', a":' inside forms tmill. i r (lu> IKI! in , centor may 1M- slu.r-cd and COV.T. ' With waterproof hni'ditii: papc.-. Concrete is tiu-n .i ■ i th:- oarlli form. !■:. >t'i i . .. veil aft-.- 14 days ati'l placed c ■. i »;> of ths structure. X. v. 'y j-' cojicve. slioulil lie pr. 'i .it .l • i drying ort for at least 7 davs. i; i:iay lie cov ered with a thin liy, . of r.iil . r straw and this* mat-rial keyt w.-t for tlu; rciiuircd time;. TV.- a co;i. Crete mix of 1 part po ! corr -1 to L't.i parts Hand to :* par s or crushed stone. V:-> ret i-> >rs than 5 pal. of water per tack >f conipnt for average damp d. It is common pr::cl>e to liui'id a concrete floor in the ce-'tcr r }' • underground storage nhont " ft. ti . wide, r.ins are luii't atirye th:> rc .'t on eft Iter side to si'' !••.• ve*i ii" t i -y underneath. \ v > i •*. • in the roof no- . concrete pipe stive ua iUo flue n
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