-THE DANBURY REPORTER
VOLUME XXXIII.
The Trust
TOBACCO FARMERS ORGANIZING TO FIGHT
fHE GREAT ENEMY-STOKES COUNTY
TO TAKE A HAND.
"We recommend that our To
bacco  Growers' Association en
dorse the general plan of the Dar!c
Tobacco Growers' Association of
Kentucky, Tennessee and Vir
ginia, and reject the manufactur
ing plan heretofore adopted by
oak Inter-State Executive Com
mittee on the ground that it is
more of a speculative plan than one
for controlling prices of the raw
material; but we extend our moral
•upport to all manufacturing
plants that have started under the
auspices of our Association.
"We also reoommend that we
co-operate generally with all To-;
bacco Associations and the Ameri
can Society of Equity in obtain
ing the best prices for leaf tobac
{ ;.USO. «
This was the substance of the
great convention at tobacco farmers
V \ Danville a few days ago. It was
Vneeting of the Virginia Tobacco
{rowers' Protective Association,
fat many North Carolina farmers
rte Eeoorter gets its ioforma
tion from the Progressive Farmer,
whose editor was present at the
meeting. Tbe aboye-qnotad resolu
i tiou means that tbe bright tobsoco
of Virginia bare decided
*-|the plans of tbe Dark
/. Growers Association of
tie anil" Kentucky, which
's time has choked off the
/and duubled the price of
J tobacco.
m order that those of our read
do not know of tbe plans
■he owk Tobacoo Growers, we
fblieb fa as told by Mr.
Mian, oosof tenders of the
Irsoodaiioa, to tfce Progressive
farmer. Let every former r#»d U
Carefully orer sod oyer tiii he
■ thoroughly understands its ineim
*ing, and then act aooordinglyj
The dark tobacco distriot proper
the "Clarksville Black Patob"—
oovers only about five counties
each in Middle Kentucky and
Tennessee, but nearly twenty oth
er counties grow the dark crop to
fome extept. In all there are
4OiWOor 50,000 tobacco farmers
v (a tfaepe states, fn*|tfdiug tenants.
About 40,000 of >bew #/* repres
ented in the Association.
The Dark Tobaoco Growers' 1
Association was organized,' in
September, 1904, the crop being
pledged a year alidad—about 75
per cent of tbe tobacoo in,- the
Park Belt. Prices were then
averaging only four oents a pound;
toy February, 150®, prices had
more tfean doubled; by April, the
Tobaeeo Truet offered 20 cents a
a pound in order to break up tbe
organization, but failed. Last
year the prices averaged oyer
elght'oents a pound for tbe entire
. crop, 80 per cent of the total yield
F (or 25,000 hogsheads) being sold
through representatives of the
Association, and this year $2 more
• hundred is expected than last
year. Tbe ao/omittee has already
Axed tbie.
This year tbe farmers are not
only pledging thl§,year's crop to
be sold through the Association,
but tbe crop of tbe next two years
also, tbe official pledge being as
follows: >- ;
"We, the undersigned persons,
whose signatures appear here be.-
low, hereby appoint, engage and
employ, irrevocably, the Dark To
bartrtQ District Planters' Protective
Association,>«s our sole agent, to
sell for us, our respective crops of
tobacco, to be raised by us, or that
are may own or control* during
the years IMtlMff-MOI. We
Eltaw onrwlvp t° to
prepare for market all tobacco we
may raise, own or control, during
the years 190f>-1907-1908, in the
way and manner it may desire and
designate, and deliver the same at
places and to the persons it may
name, and to allow it have full
and complete control of the same,
and agree to abide by and conform
to all its decisions and acts, and
to fulfill all its contracts and
agreements, connected with the
preparation, delivery and sale of
said tobacco."
This pledge is sigued by the
farmer, the blank also leaving
space to insert the number of
acres in farm, and the number of .
acres in tobacco.
The farmers of Kentucky and
Tennessee are not only putting
their products into the hands of
the Association for selling, but
they have reduced their acreage
even more successfully than the
cotton grower# have done. The
1904 crop was only fcO per oent, of
a full crop, but last year (1005)
the crop was reduced 20 per cent,
while for 1906 a further reduction
of 10 per cent is expected.
"Prizing men are employed to
see that the tobacco delivered by
(be Tobacco Assocjatjou members,
is assorted and packed honestly,
the primaries being under bond
(in a guarantee company) of
$5,000 o! more to do tbe work fair
ly and accurately. If the farmer
chooses to prize his own product,
he must give a bond of SI,OOO in a
guarantoo company for honest
packing. Each prizer takes out
of the hogshead when prized
twenty-four bundles. The twenty
four bundles represent three types
of eight bundles each. Each type
bear a sealed tag, with the
farmer's tyam ß aid the number
of the hogshead ?hp prijter re
serves and holds one type for his ;
own protection', the other two are
sent to tbe salesroom and put in
charge of a salesman. The throe
graders employed by the Associa.
tion there at saleroom classify and
write on the tag the grade of the
tobacco—A, B, C„ etc. The types
are put in grading by
the three graders, each grade in a
separate bin. Next the Executive
GowmfttP# makes a schedule of
prioes; the salesman hltt nothing
to do with selling e*oept to dis-1
play tbe types, The agent of the
government or syndioate desiring
to buy applies at the salesroom;
the salesman informs him the
prices fixed on the desired grade.
The purchaser must pay the price
or do without the tobacco. If they
#gree on price he buys by the
type, the salegnjan sends to ware- 1
house wher# t|»e hogshead ape
stored and has the warehouseman
and inspector take a sample from
each hogshead, If tbe sample
compares with the type, the sale
is confirmed. Tbe purchaser takes
a sample of each hogshead and
carries it along; if there is any
packing he has recourse against
the association, in which case the
Association falls back on the bond
of the farmPF. T!fP re l?9Y e been
only tvo reclamation* fljjt of I
hogsheads aold. By taking the
types from the bulk a* priced and
having thaw in sales room, it
saves the farmer the expense of
going into the hogshead to display
tbe typw,
• "But to whom do yo» ae|lp : was
asked Mr, AHen, "and how much
money can farmers borrow on
stored tobacco?"
"We sell to Austria, Italy,
Franoe, Spain, England, aud other
foreign poetries, these having
DANBURY, N. C., APRIL 12, 1906.
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 IMM..I. ■ 111 I» * ' *. ! ll win IBIIWI MWHWW
GOV. GLENN SENDS EASTER GREET
ING TO THE PEOPLE OF STOKES
COUNTY.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
RALEKIH
Messrs. Pepper Brothers,
Panbury, N. 0.
Gentlemen :
Your kind letter received. I have so many engagements
that I cannot now write you such a letter as you desire, but take
this opportunity of expressing my interest in your county
and your people. For eight years I lived in Stokes county,
and a more generous, kind hearted, faithful people never
lived, They gave me my start in life and never can I lose
an opportunity tp ssy or do anything for their advanoemeut.
You have splendid water power, the finest climate in the
country, magnificent timber, and strong land, yielding the
finest tobacco, and there are only two things lacking to make
Stokes oounty take a stand in the forefront of the oounties
of the State. These two things are good roads, and a better
way of getting to the outside world by means of rapid tran
sportation. I understand there is a prospect of an Electric
railroad running from Reidsville through county. These
Electric lines do not cost very much, and are very useful in
getting produce, lumber and minerals to market, and I urge
you, through your valuable paper to do all you can to get
your people to take advantage of any and every opportunity
to bring themselves in contact with the outside world.
I cannot close this letter without saying a few words to
you personally. «
Your grandfather, your father and your uncles were my I
very best friends and have aided me greatly in my struggle I
through life. They did a great deal for the upbuilding of I
Stokes county, and if they had done nothing else but koep I
the Panbury Reporter always alive and aotive, they would I
still have rendered a great servioe to the State. Let me H
therefore, in memory of those who are dead, and to you who I
are living, express my appreciation for the past, and wish I
you prosperity and happiness for the future.
Wishing the people of Stokes every blessing, and assuring I
them of my willingness to aid them in every good endeavor, I
I am,
Sincerely your and their friend,
R. B. GLENN,
Governor of North Carolinq.
'■l
representatives ou our markets.
As to borrowing with the tobaooo
as oollateral, it is easy to get 65
per cent of the market value."
Illustrating the thoroughness of
the organization, Mr. Allen said
that in his county nearly 98 per
, cent of the tobacco farmers are
members "Only seven in my dis
trict are outside. The men \yho
(refusp |q cq-operqte with their
fellqwfarrners flTe virtually ostra
cised, have to thresh their wheat
; by themselves, for example, and
sit by thomselveg at church, and
the girls won't ride with their
young men, We have made it a
point, too, to take in the negroes
as well as the white farmers. In
my county, where there are a con
siderable number of blacks, the
negroes have a separate organisa
tion,"
Now what the dark tobacco
growers of I£entqcky and Tennesr
see have done, the dark growers
purpose doing qt aqoe- t»nd the
bright farmers will now begin
work in the same fashion,
By fall much the larger part of
the Virginia dark orop will be sold
through the Association; Mr.
Allen says that 50 per cent of the
orop is already pledged.
Substituting the words i
State Tobaooo V v
; tive Association," it is now the
j plan to have the bright tobacco
growers sign the identical pledge
signed by their dark tobacco
brethren, which we have given in
full in this article.
The Constitution of the Dark
Tobacco District Plants' Associa
tion providers thf*t it shall not be
come operative until 70 per oent
of the orop is pledged, and we
take it that the same polioy will be
followed by the bright growers.
Mr, T. W. Hylton, a prominent
merchant, of Campbell Route 1,
was here today enroute home from
Winston.
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Real Estate
SOME RECENT TRANSFERS OF LAND IN
STOKES COUNTY, COMPILED BY THE RE
PORTER FROM THE RECORDS.
Robert Darnel to Martha J.
Bradly, 38J acres in Yadkin town
ship, consideration love and re
spect.
Robert Darnel to D. R. Buin
gardner and wife, 38 J acres in
Yadkin township, consideration
love and respect.
E. T. Wilson and wife to L. A.
Lynch, 48J acres in Quaker Gap
township, consideration S4OO.
W. T. Tuttle and wife to J. R.
Tuttle, 13$ acres in Meadow town
ship, consideration $1,225.
I. G. Ross to Joel A. Hicks, 57
acres in Meadow township, con
sideration S4OO.
Board of Education to J. F.
Nelson, 1 acre in Peter's Creek
township, consideration $45.
J. E. Marshall, J. H. Marshall
and J. E. Marshall, Jr., to T. E.
Davis, aores, consideration
SI,BOO.
T. E. Tillotson, Trustee, to
Joseph VV. Neal, 46 acres, con
sideration S3OO.
H. C. Lackey and wife to J. A.
Leak, 324 acres in Snow Creek
township, consideration S3OO.
L. W. Martin and wife and
Martha Reid to Zeb V. Martin,
IQI acres in Beaver Island town
ship, consideration S4OO.
Z. B. V. Martin and wife to
Laura E. Martin, 191 acres in
Beaver Island township, considera
tion $l,lOO.
L. T. Isom and wife to S. F.
Abbott, 91 acreß in Sauratowfi and
Meadows townships, consideration
$675.
T. W. Hylton and wife to A. J.
Pringle, 12 6-10 acres in Peter's
Creek township, consideration
$53.
N. O. Petree and wife to J. W.
Kurfeea, lot at Germanton, con
sideration $l,lOO.
Edward V. Fowler and wife to
Win. D. Thomas, 1 7-8 acres, con
sideration $65.
W. R. Bennett and wife to Wal
ter L. Smith, 50 acres in Peter's
Creek township, consideration
$350.
Walter L. CwlW and wife to
N. T. PvttiU, 38 4-10 acres in
Surry county, consideration $876.
A- J. Brown and wife to John
M. Taylor, 184 acres in Quaker
Gap township, consideration $425.
Robert Darnel to B. M. Bradly,
38)| acres in Yadkin township,
consideration, love and respect.
Snow Creek and Peter's Creek Want
the Electric Line.
Mr. J. J. Priddy, of Danbury
Route 1, was in town Monday
talking enthusiastically in favor of
the propused electric line. Mr.
Priddy says Snow Creek will vote
the $50,000 tax with a whoop. He
stated that the logical route is
from Stoneville, via Sandy Ridge,
Lawsonville, and Piedmont
Springs to Danbury, and that in
his opinion Peter's Creek would
vote the tax cheerfully. This
route would bo through a fine
agricultural country filled with
timber, mineral's and water powers,
and the gradu would be easy.
J
Mr. T. W. Tuttle, of Walnut
Cove Route 1, was here on busi
ness Monday.
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NO. 11
A HEART-RENDERING ACCIDENT.
4
A 14-Year Old Girl Burned to Death,
As Told In Letter From Arkansas
to Reporter.
Saginaw, Ark. —Lomer Roberts
was burned to death while at
school on the 22nd. It was a
very sad and heart rendering acci
dent, occuring at the noon hour.
Several little boys went out in a
field that is very near tbe play
ground andFredie (my little boy)
set fire to some dry grass to see it
burn and being told that it might
displease the owner of the land to
bum the grass he went to work to
put it out and some of the little
girls went to help him, Lomer
Roberts in the bunch; while they
were trying to whip it out her
skirts caught behind her and she
burned up alive. It burned the
last vestige of clothing off her
from the top of her shoes to her
hair, and part of that was burned.
From the effects of which she died
that night at 9 o'clock. The teaoh
er Mr. Cash tried with every effort
available to put her out. He burn-'
ed up his coat and hat and burned
his hands badly trying to
extinguish the flames, but every
effort failed until they got some
water, but too late..
Lomer was a beautiful little girl
just in her fourteenth year, well
educated to date and age. She
was just preparing to go away to
a music school to take lessons in
musio.
Thus you see is a person's
life in this world is strewn
with disappointments when we
least expect it. The pale horse
and his rider appears and oarries
away the most unexpected of us to
try the realities of an unknown
world to us that are left behind.
I want to say to her father and
mother and brothers and sisters
who live in about 200 yards of me
that they are not the only ones
that have sorrowed and shed tears
over this sad affair.
She was buried on the evening
of the 23rd in the Social Hill
Cemetery in the presence of a host
of friends.
L. H. HILL.
J. S. Needman Very Sick—Other*
Pilot Mountain News.
Pilot Mountain, Route 1, April
2. J. S. Needham is very sick
and has been in bed for some time.
Abrian is very sick. We hope
he will soon he out again.
The Pilot merchants say it is
the dullest on trading they ever
have been for some time.
Mr. J. G. Jones was on our
strees last Saturday on business.
Mr. L. Levy our Pilot Mountain
furniture dealer sold several
coffins last week, he reports.
The measles is not as bad as
they have been. We hope they
will soon die out. They have been
bad.
Mr. Boss Hall took his best
girl home Sunday.
Miss Cora Gordon, Mr. Gid
Gordon and son have gone to
Winston with tobaoco.
Mr. Gid Haynes has got two '
pumkins yet, the 2rd day of April,
Miss Carrie Gordon has been
visiting near Capella this week.
I guess Mr. Colonel Gordon jp
on the back ground because her
didn't see his best girl Sunday.
I am sorry to learn of the misfor
tune of Mr. Paul Coon getting his
hand out with an ax while making
boards.
BLUE BIDGtE KID,