VOLUME] XXXI.
OUR OPPORTUNITIES.
Practical Suggestions for the Farm
ers. By Col. J. M. Galloway.
For many years these two (cot- j
ton ntul tobacco) have been the
staple.moniig crops of the South.
Thej> hftvo greatly impoverished
the land. The man never yet lived
who could continue to grow good
crops of cotton or tobacco and iro- i
prove the land. For the past
severai years they ha to been the
veriest football for the specula
ting fraternity. Ono year ago cot- j
ton was slated for 20 cents per
pound. Today it is slated for 6,
cents, with a hope of getting it to;
|j cents. Ono year ngo we were
told that the Southern States
could no longer supply the world's
demand for cotton. Today we are ,
greeted with the cry of overpro
duction. What is the remedy ?
What lesion is taught ? All agree ,
in advising tho farmer to diversify j
bis crops. Good. A large cotton 1
grower of the Mississippi Valley |
tells me that cattle pay better than
cotton at 10 cents. A large sheep
farmer of Arizona (a native North :
Carolinian) tells me that sheep J
pay better than cattle. A small
farmer near Spray, N. C., tells me
that any truck patch j»ys better
than tobacco. He made S3OO in
1004 on his watermelon patch—
about one acre. There is plenty of
room for the farmer to do better.
Why limit our advice to the farm
er ? How about the average busi
ness man of the South? Hereto
fore he has confined himself to
but buying and selling things
made elsewhere. Why not make
some of these articles ourselves ?
W. L. Douglas began life as a
shoemaker with no capital, but
labor and braius. Diligent making
of shoes has made liiin rich and
Governor of Massachusettes.
North Carolinians wear many
shoes. Who will bo our Douglas?
Peter Cooper made a large fortune
manufacturing buttons from the
liorns of cattle and the feet of cat
tle and horses. North Carolina
slaughters many cattle. Who will
be our Peter Cooper ? Evsry suc
cessful manufacturer is a public
benefactor. He not only employs
and supports many who cau not
do farm work, he furnishes a ready
market for all farm produce. By
the census of 1890 Greensboro had
it.ooo people. Big mills have been
erected and today say 25,000, to
morrow a few hundred more.
Everything to eat finds ready mar
ket there. A few years ago Spray
was a straggling village with a
postoffice nt Leaksville. Today it
is a thriving manufacturing town
with a limitless future before it.
Farmers near there are no longer
dependent on tobacco. A small
poultry yard will pay better than
a tobacco farm. North Carolina
is an ideal manufacturing State,
climate, health, labor, waterpower,
all good. Young men of the State
improve your opportunities. Help
the poor farmer J. M. GALLO
WAY, in News and Observer.
Looking tor (tolt Mine,-
G. F. Warren, a native of Stokes
county, but who has been living
in Texas and California for 27
years, was here today. Mr. Warren
stated that he was a miner and
was out prospecting for a gold
mine in North Carolina. "If I fail
to locate one I will return to Cal
ifornia where I have an interest
in one which gives me a very good
living," said Mr. Warren, who re
marked that he had considerable
experience in the mining bijsi
ness. —Winston Sentinel-
One More Epistle From Bachelor
Campbell. Jan. 20,
Mr. Editor
Just allow me a little space for
a short chat with "William."
He is so long-headed, he won't
relent, he won't give up and I
don't know what to do with him,
but to say he is like the colored
mau that started out to see his
girl in slave times. It was a moon
shiney night and he met a cow
and thought it was a Buffalo and
took to his scrapers and rau at a
broke-neck speed, and the next
thing he ran agaiust was a gang
of birds and when they flew from
under his feet he hollowed Lord
have mercy( and sped faster than
ever, and the nest thing was a
ditch to cross and ho was so badly
frightened he aimed to jump be
fore he got to it and jumped right
; into the middle of it and anchored.
!So William is going to anchor
1 right in the middle of the ditch.
Well William, I have Hopped
and am going to crow now, You
Rre about like the old lady that
| lived in the backwoods. She was
' at church and the preacher was in
a great way for talking and looked
1 over at the old lady and bald out
"sister did you know that Jesus
died for you," and she jumped up
and »hogted, "Lord liave mercy!
is he dead." Well she said, we
live in the backwoods and don't
hear much that is going on. So
William come out from that,
I mountain and you will soon learn
i the war is over. i '
Now, William, don't be so much
like the cider man that was so
deaf to everything bijt spiling
cider. He followed the business,
and a gentleman passed and call
ed to him and said, "how far is It
to the Smith Fork roads," and the
cider man said twenty-five cents
per gallon sir. So if I was to call
to you and say, William, Justis
died for you, no doubt you would
say, lam going to the dance to
night.
I mußt not turn you to a woman,
if Ido I will court you from a
way-back, and you shall not be
left, but you are about like the
lady that lived in the foot of the
mountain, and $ pjeacljor came
along and called and she cams out
and he said, "good morning sister,
where is your husband and she
said "John is in the mountains
hunting," and he said, "have you
many « Presbyterians around
here ?," and sne said "I think
not, mister, for John has been
hunting several times and he has
never caught one yet." Tho
preacher said "sister you seemed
to be in the dark?," JOS Site said,
"but John alms to cut a window
soon." So William I want you to
cut you a window and have some
light.
BACHELOR NO. TWO.
To the Public!
We don't wish to insult your
intelligence by claiming to sell
goods lower than any one else in
the county, but we wish to call
your attention to our large stock
pf general merchandise dress
goods of all classes and colors, a
special line of broad cloth, flan
nels, morehairs, worsteds, mercer
ized silks, bought especially for
winter season, hoes in great varie
ty, ready made clothing for men,
youths and boys that are made to
wear, hats, caps, big line shoes of
best makes for ladies, gentlemen
and chilcren.
The buyer who goes by us is
sure to pay more for his goods
than if lie give us a look and gets
prices.
Thanking you for past favors,
we assure you appreciation and
right treatment in future.
JACOB FULTON & SONS.
STOIC ICS AXI> CAROL rx A.
DANBURY, N. C. THURSDAY JANUARY 2>, 1905
NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS
All Letters Mutt Be Signed to Insure
Publication
This week the Reporter has re
ceived a large number of letters of
correspondence from Tobaccoville.
N. C., Critz, Va., Peters Creek,
Va., and many other places, all
unsigned by the true names of the
writers.
The Reporter never publishes
communications of any kind un
less they are accompanied by the
real names of the writers. It is
all right to put a fictitious
name to your letter, but we must
know your true name. This rule
is invariable, and stamps and
stationery will be saved by rem
embering it.
HIGH POINT.
High Point, Jan. 17
The infant of Mr. and Mrs C.
B. Hayworth which has been sick
for some time with pneumonia, is
j-ecoyering.
Mr, C, ft.. Meadows, who has
been traveling for the Chicago
Portrait Co, for tho past three
years, is spending a few days with
his sister, Mrs. G. M. Southern,
of this place.
Mr. Z. N. Moran, of Stokes
county, was in High Point this
week visiting.
As the roads of Stokes county
are so muddy, J undpfstand that
Mr. J, L. Merdows, of Cherry
Grove Farm, has him a phone.
Now I don't guess he has to waljt
through the mud to see Miss Ola
like before Christmas.
I think it is nice the way all
the people are naming their farms
ji) Stokes.
it is getting so that you may
meet a man on the streets of High
Point or Spray and ask him where
he is from and he will tell you he
is from one or the other of the
places.
Say what is the matter with
Stokes county, that everybody is
leaving it ?
Wo would like to hear from Mr.
W. B. Harris from the far West.
We do enjoy reading his pieces.
WALNUT COVE,
Walnut Cove, Jan. 14,
Mossrs. F. V. and M. F. visited
Miss Maggie at the school house
today.
Mr. F. R. called on Miss N. M.
Wednesday night.
Miss H. P. M. is looking sad
as Mr. D. R. has gone back to his
work.
Messrs. R. W. M. i\nd Albert H.
calleil on M. D, and C. D.
last Sunday evening, Guess they
had a nice time,
Mr. Jim Voss called to see his
girl Sunday evening,
Mrs. Mickey and daughter visit
ed Mrs. Mitchell last Tuesday.
Misses L. E. M. and F. A. D.
called to see Miss M. S. Sunday.
Mr. Y. D. R. called Suuday
night. He is trying to buy him
a tract of land for three dollars.
MOLLIE.
Notice Of Dissolution,
Notice is hereby given to all
parties ooncerned that tho firm
heretofore doing business as J, W.
Morefield & Sons at Lime Rock,
N. C., conducted by J. Wesley
Morefield, L. E. Morefield and L.
B. Morefield is from this date
dissolved and that the business
will in the future be conducted
under the name and style of J.
Wesley Morefield, Lime Rock, N.
C.
This January 10, 1906.
J. WESLEY MOREFIELD.
ONE DAY IN THE LEGISLATURE
Some Measures of General Interest.
SENATE.
WEDNESDAY.
Bills were introduced as follows:
Scales, to prevent the manufac
ture and sale of liquor at Advance,
Davie county.
Long, of Iredell, to forbid towns
having less than 200 voters to
grant liquor licenses.
Amending law regarding judg
ments, so no execution shall issue
from any Superior court until
judgement is docketed.
The following bills passed final
reading :
To regulate challenges in civil
cases by providing that when
there are two or more antagonistic
interests the judge in his descre
tion may allow each an increased
number of challenges, or trtay de
crease the number.
The bill to permit married
women to make contracts in the
same manner as unmarried women,
exoept in such contracts as are
made between husband and wife,
was taken up and upon the re
quest of Mr. Gilliam was made a
special order for noon for Wednes
day.
Scales introduced a bill to
amend chapter 69, section 247, re
pealing the tax on fireworks.
The Senate adjourned until 11
o'clock Thursday.
HOUSE.
Vr* Corner, from the joint com
mittee ou public buildings and
grounds, reported that it had
agreed unanimously to favorably
report the resolution appropriat
ing $5,000 for the monument to
Matt W, Ransom, with request
that report and resolution be re
ferred to the committe ou appro
priations. This was done.
The following bills were intro
duced :
Sloop, to allow Rockingham
county to issue bonds,
Graham, of Granville, to require
trial of capital cases by giviug to
the State and defendant each ten
peremptory challenges, and provid
ing that the State shall stand no
jurors at the foot of a panel: also
to amend chapter 85, laws 1893, so
as to better define the crime of
murder in the first degree; also bill
to facilitate trial of capital cases
by enabling the judge,in his dis
cretion, to have a special venire
summoned from any county in an
adjoining judicial district.
The resolution of Mr, Cowles
coming up, calling on the Govern
or to send a copy of the evidence
taken before the investigating
oommittee of the Atlantic & North
Carolina Railway, he explained it,
saying every one was familiar with
the fact that the State owned two
million dollars' worth of stock in
the road and that it had been
leased, the private stockholders
had been supplanted and nobody
knew the facts established in that
investigation. The Charlotte Ob
server, ifl a recent editorial on the
repqrt of thp investigation by the
special oommittee, had said that
there was a discrepenoy of $2(5,000
in the figures and any one reading
between the lines could easily see
there was which had not
been divulged. Mr. Cowles said
the testimony ought to be pub
lished so the peoplt could form a
conclusion for themselves. Mr.
Graham said the committee had
worked for two months, investigat
ing the affairs of the road and had
reported that there had been no
fraud. The printing of the great
mass of evidence would not only
be a «reat expense, hut no one
j would read it and print it. The
j matter had been settled and it was
useless to stir up a fuss again over
I it. There was no demand from
I the private stockholders for any
publication of the evidence, nor
complaint, as the value of their
! stock had been more than doubled
l under a Democratic administra
| tion. He moved to table the reso
j lution, on this Mr. Cowles demand
; ing a roll-call. Upon a vote on
' this, Speaker Guion declared that
the call was not sustained and that
j not a sufficient number had voted
' for it. An appeal was made by
Mr. Cowles from tho Speaker's
ruling, and it was sustained by an
| almost unanimous vote. Tho nio-
I tion to table was carried by a large
majority, only two or three noes
: being heard, and tho result was
I greeted with applause. Mr. Mur-
I phy, of Buncombe, said the evi
j deuce was in the Governor's office
! and that Mr. Cowles or any one
1 else was perfectly free at any time
i to go and road and examine it.
The House then adjourned un
til Thursday at 11 o'clock.
HIGH POINT
High Point, Jan. 20
Quite a number of Stokes boys
have arrived here since last fall.
Nearly all of tliein have succeeded
in getting a good job.
Mr Matt Covington has secured
a position running the jig sander
for the Globe Home Furniture
Co. We hope he will make a
success.
On last Saturday night two
young ladies visited the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Mounce, the
boarding place of Messrs. Matt
Covington, Willie Joyce, Andrew
Smith, Willie and Edward Man
uel. It was quite amusing for the
young lassies to see the terrible
excitement of the Stokes county
boys as they received their in
troduction with fear and tremb
ling voices, Covington fell on his
knees praying that he might be
banished from the sight of the
charming young Indies. The others
succeeded in finding hiding
places.
Mr, Robt. Joyce has shaved off
his mustache as he was afraid that
they would get tangled in the
machinery at the 6hop. He looks
like a baboon.
Willie Joyce says he cau't stand
it here, it takes all he can make to
pay his board. He says he is pay
ing $2.50 a week ami his boarding
mistress told him that she was
going to raise to $2.75, he replied
that $2.50 was about to kill liim.
Mr. Rufus Mounce is getting
stout since he has got to wearing
a derby, he broke his axe handle
this morning. The hornets have
nttacked him several times since
he put on his new derby. It seems
to be the center of attraction for
them. '
W. P. Moran made a Hying trip
to Greensboro last week.
ROUDDY BOY.
Merchants Want That Special Tax
Repealed.
Petitions are being circulated
by merchants all over the State
asking the Legislature to repeal
what is termed tho obnoxious
merchants' tax, and to pass the
false pretense bill introduced in
the House by Representative Has
ten, of Forsyth.
The two petitions have been
sent to every town and city in the
State and the merchants are quick
to sign them, because they believe
that lhe special tax imposed by
tho State is unfair, and that they
are entitled to the protection
which the false pretense bill would
give them.
NUMBER r>2
HAPPENINGS AT CARD,
Letter From a Stokes Boy in Buchan
an County. Va.
Card. Va., Jan. 15.
Mr. Editor :
If you will allow space iu your
paper I will jjive a few items from
this place.
The winter has been very rough
here for sometime.
Mr. Thomas Ratliff and others
have been having their fun chas
ing the fox during the rough
weather.
The garden school at the forks
of Garden Creek closed yesterday
under the management of Prof. J.
M. C. Sutherland, hut he will be
gin a subscription school at the
same place the 16th. which will
last three months.
Several boys have left for Clint
wood, in Dickinson county, where
they will attend College.
•J. P. McGlothl in, one of our
hustling merchants, made a busi
ness trip to Clintwood yosterdav
Mr. Barr, representing the King
Shoe Co., was shaking hands with
\\ . S. Ellis a few days ago.
I have learned today that J. P.
McGlothlin's store was burned
last night. It is not known how
it happened.
Well, there is not much differ
ence in the climate of Buchanan
county and Stokes, but there is a
great difference in the way the
lrjid lies and, here it is very steep
rough. The principal crops
aic Indian corn, oats, potatoes,
boans etc. There is scarcely any
wheat raised. Lumbering is the
money staple. The land is well
timbered. There is plenty of coal
here, but it is not being mined
yet. but it is generally thought
that it will be mined soon.
There are no negroes in this
county. The people will not
allow them to stay here.
The people that 1 have met are
all exceedingly kind. They have
very good free schools here and
a great many people seem to be
interested in education though ]
find lots of old Baptists in this
county.
I have not visited the county
seat but from what 1 have learned
about it it is a very interesting lit
lttle town. They have a graded
school there.
Buchanan is a dry county and
the people in this part of the coun
ty seem to be sober. I have not
seen any drunkenness nor
drinking since I arrived here.
L. A . Shelton, one of our Stokes
boys, who left Stokes county
about four years ago, is living in
this county. He married in this
county. He is going to school now
and Ims been for the past five
months.
W. S, Ellis, a Stokes man who
has been here for several years,
is doing a good business in his
store.
Walter J. Sisk, of Stokes, has
been going to school in this coun
ty for two years till this winter he
taught a school and is now going
to school again.
GARDEN BILL.
WANTED Lady or gentleman
of fair education to travel for a
firm of $250,000 capital. Salary
51,072 per year and expenses; paid
weekly. Address :
M. PERCIVAL,
Datibury. N. C.
Mrs. Lucy A Cook died at her
home near Vade Mectim last
Thursday at the advanced age of
55 years. Mrs. Cook was twice
married, her first husband being
Mr. William Coffer.