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'THE DANBURY REPORTER. VOLUME XXXIII. f , tEttER FROM AN OLD REB. i —— Capt. Kerr Martin Visits His Old j Comrades. Smith, March 30. 1 Mr. Editor : Will you allow me space in your valuable paper to correct an error that I find in an old No. (Aug. 13, 190 B.) I have not been in the 4 county for a number of years. Am now on a visit to my old comrades in Co: H, 22nd Reg., N. C. troops. My attention being called to an ar ticle (Stokes County Boys in the War.) In that article there is an error in regard to Co. H. The writer says Capt. Scales went to the camp of instruction and joined Col. lender's Regiment. The facts are Cp. H. went from Robt. Wall's on fdbt and in wagons the first day and camped at Kemersville. Next day we went to Greensboro. There we took the train and went to Raleigh. We went into camp Mangum iu the Burburbs of the I . city where we were thrown into Reg. and stood as Co. H., 22nd Reg., N. C. troops under Col. ( Pettigrew. Lieut. Col. Long, Major Cob aud Adjutant Galloway were our Regimental officers, the Reg. being thrown into Pender's Brigade. Here is very naturally the error comes in. Col. Galloway is now living in Madison. He being our Col. at the surrender can testify what I have writteu as well as numbers of the old Co. whom I have talked with in the last day , or two. The writer went out as a private in Co. H, made Orderly Sergeant, then Lieutenant and Capt. and was in the command of the Co. in one oapecity or other nearly all the war. |.l have seen in the last day £ two comrades that I httfe not iSfti for 30 years. Truly a happy reunion, c "JOHN KER MARTIN. ti J* " • % , 4 t; t ''•"£**"" »„ Payment of Poll Tax. WlUilew than four days re f jiykining'Ja whtob poll taxes may paid by*those wishing to vote in the coming election it is Hot only necessary that' the matter] i- ahoold be aarefully attended to, twit also that it should be properly understood. The tax whoee payment on or IMom jtij£ day of May is a prereqoitfte'for voting is the state and ootinty.ppH'tax for the year * 190f>. It is required that city ; poll taxes be j»id, pot is it neces- Mf to pay property tax, either state or fity. I'he man who stands charged property and poll tax can pay #iwply the amount of hi»rpoH tax, hav« tfeajt I by the and take «j far that jax) leaving hii ta* io be at such sub time a fa way be able to >rment. ' ■ what is fto eottAe ihpjflw stfb all tax to rotaJanji every. i has at heart th| good of ty and hi» state should effort to HeVill red (« pay thiejax-atsome its payW»thin the time will piaWy.no addi tlay.. •> »* •* ■ 'to en)! hare T , Tkrhbors to do likewise. — rj N 6 »-.. I ~ ' | A LIVELY". TUsS&fe> •£ |th that old enemy of, tft* often «ods M Ap.- •m. To avoid* all serious. \th Stomach, And \e Dr. New Life \ *«g\Aate \ witboat'pafo 6r dia |at ell dxapjk/ \oan to Fan***. >; j hi Stoke* County has \ ,the farmerage make j •nj oo £ ft ' I Any #rom ied, on reaßdMß^i /;! DALTON. Dalton, April 22.—We notice in last week's Reporter a little error from King we would like to change. The four boys who went fishing Easter. Monday bought for dinner of L. R. Coe 2 cans of corn, 2 cans of tomatoes, 1 can of peaches, 6 cans of podded ham and 28 bottles of pop. Not muoh of an error, but still it is worth, changing. Come again boys, Mr. L. R. says he likes to see you. Mrs. Bob McKinney, of High ' Point, is visiting Mrs. Jay Cook at present. Among the crowd who visited Pinnacle entertainment last week were Messrs. Frank James, Solly Shultz, Lonnie Coe, Matthew Phillips andtMisses Lula Shu.tz and -Maud Coe. All report a j pleasant time. Mr. and Mrs. Mart Culler are j visiting Mrs. Fowler and other relatives at this writing. Several around spent Easter Monday on the mountain. Re port a nice trip "all the time". Mies Mayola Coe spent feaster {in Pilot Mountain, returning Tues day A M' Miss Pat Crews, who has been 1 visiting Miss Lucinda Edwards, returned home yeeterday. KO-KOQN. Letter From a Onion Man At High Point. High Point, April 20.—Our lit tle city is in a bad condition now. The furniture qpd glass factories have locked out all their Union . uieu. Thpy tell them they must eifher give up the Union or their job, and like a man they stand for the Union. It is a known fact that this will soon be a Union town or a ruined town. We long to see the day when both the laborer and manufacturer will make friends and let peace rule in oijr little city. We notice in most every paper published—hands wanted in High Point and people from all over the oountry are coming in, but when they find the condition the town is in, nine-tenths of them go back j home or they come from. A man that is a man will not come and take a Union man's job, but a scab will take anything he can get. It is a shame to see one of the most enterprising towns in the South filled, and it is all layed to the Manufacture, AH the north; ern oitiflS have Unions. They prosper. Why pot the South? it j is better for both the laborer and manufacturer, for they are both protected. It makes better goods and of course it has a greater de mand. Any Union town will buy .' Union made goods. Any town |that is not Ilniou had rather have 1 Union made goods bccayge they know they are good. CHUNK. Another Candidate For Treasurer. Mr. J. Will East. to present indica tions, when the popnty j Republican convention meets this : summer, there will be more candi dates for County Treasurers than [ you can shake a stick at. The i latest aspirant to the honor is Mr. j Will East, of Walnut Cove. HUMAN BLOOD MARKS. A tale of horror was told by jgarks of Human blood in the home otlW. Williams, a well known ''ajerchant of sac, Ky., He writes: ; "Twenty years a go J htyj WY§F® , hemorrhages of tne lqnga, end was near death when J began taking Dr. King's New Discovery. It completely cured me and I have | remained well ever sinoe." It auras Hemorrhages, Chronic. C«tohs. Settle Colds and Bron ohitl.fjnd ia the only known cure 'tbr Wftek Lungs. Every bottle gwuraoteed by all Drwggi#t, 50c ajuKfllX). Trial frep. j* . )j Vf . , , I dozen by j mail to any address 10 jents Re -1 porter ofljloq. '• v.' DANBURY, N. C., APRIL 26, 1906. EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO IN RUINS-HUNEREDS OF LIVES LOST AND PROPERTY DESTROYED TO THE AMOUNT OF $300,000,000--ONE OF THE MOST APPALLING DISASTERS THAT HAS EVER VISITED THE WORLD. San Francisco, April 18.—Earth quakes and fire to-day have put i nearly half of San Francisco in ruins. At least 200 persons have been killed, a thousand injured, aud the property loss will exceed one hundred dollars. Thousands are homeless and destitute, and all, j day long streams of people have j been fleeing from the stricken dis triots to places of safety. It was i at 5:13 this morning when a tei rific earthquake shock shook the whole city and surrounding coun try. One shock apparently lasted two minutes, aud there was almost j immediate collapse of flimsy struc tures all over the city. The water supply was cut off and when fires } broke out In various sections there was nothing to do but let the buildings burn. Telegraph and telephone communication was shut off for a time. The Western ! Union was put completely out of and the Postal Company was the only company that man aged to get a wire out of the city. ' About 10 o'clock even the Postal 1 was forced to suspend. Electric ' power was stopped and street cars, " railroads and ferry boats ceased operations. Fires have been rag ing all day and the fire department " was powerless to do anything ex ' cept dynamite buildings threaten ' ( ed. All day long explosives have ' shaken the city and'added to the 1 terror of the inhabitants. 'j NOT CONFINED TO CITY. , Following the first shock there j was another within five minutes, j but not nearly so severe. Three , hours later there was another . slight quake. Reports from dis tricts outside of San Francisco , indicate widespread damage. San L j Jose, 50 miles south, lost many I buildings and from 15 to 26 per , sons were killed. The annex of , the Vendome Hotel, collapsed and , fire broke out. Stanford Univer sity and Palo Alto suffered greatjy. ,! At -Stanford many handsome buildings were demolished and I two persons were killed. One of , them was Julius Robert Hanna.of , Bradford, Pa., and the other was Atto Curts, a fireman, r Six other students are lying in i the Palo Alto hospital with bruis- I es, cuts and internal injuries, they are aU California students. The oourt hquse at Redwood City, and other buildings col lapsed. Menton Park, Burlingame ,and other fashionable places suf fered greatly. ; WORST IN FILLED-IN PART, i The greatest deatrqctiqn ooci»red in that part of the oity whioh was ! reclaimed from San Francisco bay. , Muoh of the devastated district was at one tidfe low, marshy ground covered by water and high tide. As the city grew it became neces . to tjll iq WftHy q{ low ground in order to reach deep | water. The Merchants' Exchange j building, a 14-story steel structure, : was situated on the edge of this > rpcjajmed ground, It. juat 1 ' been completed and the e*eoutive [ j offioes of the Boutheru Pacific , Qompany oocupled the greater i.' part of the building. ' MILLIONAIRE HILLS ES II CAPE. i 1 > The damage by the earthquake |q the r e s(d§npe portjoi> of tho pity, the fines* qf 00 N ob ' Hill and PHeights, seems to - have bpsn slight- Qn Nob Hill are theresidences of many of the mill -0-% ionaires who in the oarly seventies became wealthy through mining investments of the construction of the Central Pacific* Railroad. ( They include the Stan fords, Hunt-: ingtons, Hopkins, Crockers, j Floods and others. The magnificent Fairmont Ho-j J tel, not yet completed, stands on I the brink of Nob Hill overlooking ! the bay. The hotel was not serious- j ly damaged. The construction of the hotel was started by Mrs. Her-! man Oelrichs, of New York, as a monument to her father, United States Senator James Fair, but recently sold it for §3,000,000. To j the westward of Nob Hill, on Pa- j cific Heights, are many line res- t idences, but little injury was done | to any of them. THOUSANDS FLEEING. San Francisco, April 18.—At 10 o'clock tonight the fire was un abated and thousands of of people are Heeing to the hills and clamor ing for places on the ferry boats to cross the bay. The damage is now believed to have reached $200,000,000 and 50,- 000 people are thought to be home less. It looks now as the if entire 1 city would be burned. The As sociated Preset men are trying to get matter to Oakland by boat, hut they are -very uncertain. The gov ernment is fqnuahjng tugs, but i th# oonfusiou is so gfreat that they oannot be relied upon. It will be 1 impossible to send full dotails for several days I • LOSS $300,000,000 TO $500,- 000,000. . Sftn Frauoi*oo, April 21 .—Again oame the appearance this morning j that the fire had burned itself out. Last night the Haines came from Nob Hill Ridge, making their way tqthe big sea wajj sheds, docks and warflliquaoa, but reports of ; damage done are conflicting. One statement is that most of the val ! uable property on the extreme shore line escaped. A Bulletin reporter who had skirted the water front in a tug this morning says that everything except four docks had been swept clean from Fisher.; man's Wharf at the foot of Powell street, to a poiqt ftro«nd westerly almust to the ferry building. This ! means that nearly a mile of grain sheds, docks and wharves have been added to the general destruc tion. The reporter also declared that he saw fire blazing in South San Fianuiscq last night and that: apota in the aupurbs were sinoul -1 dering this afternoon, According ! tcf his aecbunt, the fire was still burning at the foot of Powell street early to-day. but there was : no possibility of its going into Presidio disj,rip{ The tare broke out in the South Side ferry building last night, but fire tugs did effective work and, saved the building from danger in | that direction. I BOUNDARIES OF THE RUINS. i In the seotion north of Market street, the ruined district is prac tically bounded on the west by Van Ness avenue, although in many blocks the flames destroyed squares to the west of that thor ovigl}f»re, Th o Van Ness avenUe ; burned line runs northerly to Qreenwicb street, whioh is a few blocks from the bay. Then the boundry goes up over Telegraph j Hill and down in that portion of | ' tho shore that faces Oakland.! Practically overythiiig in the dis- \ trict bounded by Market street, I Ness avenue,'' Greenwich street and the bay is iirtTSlies. On the east side of Hyde Street Hill, the fire burned down to Bay street 1 and Montgomery avenue and | j stopped at that intersection. All I I south of Market street, with per- j I haps some exceptions in the vi- j j cinity of tho Pacific Mail dock, is | gone. This section is bounded on the north by Market street and runs out to Guererror street, goes ; out that street two blocks, turns j west to Dollores, runs west six | J blocks to about Twenty-second, j | taking in four blocks on the other j l side of Dolores. The fire then j 1 took an irregular course southward j spreading out as far as Twenty- j | fifth street, and going down that { I way to the southerly bay shore. MAKES INSURANCE MEN DIZZY. Rolla V. Watt, manager of the Royal and Queen Insurence Com ; panies and one of the most prom inent insurence men on the coast, i was asked to-day if he would liaz- j ard an estimate on the financial ! loss. He said: "My idea is some thing like $200,000,000. I have 1 heard other insurence men place 1 the figure at $500,000,000. We' don't know. It is simply too big Pbr any human head to figure out i at this time," J Dissatisfaction is being express ed at the conduct of some of the soldiers. Many of those doing guard duty and patrol duty are i little more than more boys who 1 i are wrought up to a high pitch of excitement by their position and ' have been shooting .at pedestrains - in circurnstanoes where milder j orders would have answered just j ■ as well. Chief of Police Dinan! ' has asked the military authorities ; > to withdraw many of those com-1 * panies from the city, SUFFERINGS CONTINUE. Despite the exodus of thousands of homeless from San Francisco, a i j multitude of destitute people re main, and reports of suffering for! want of food and shelter come in ( I from all sides. I Mission Dolores church, the! oldest building in the city, erected ' 130 years ago by the Spanish! Missionaries, survived the earth- ! quake shocks and was saved from the fire. It is constructed of adobe j blocks. The newer church built of brick alongside of the old build ing, suffered from the earthquake. Expensive. TrouWoson»e and .Risky. When you send money through postal money order system, it is troublesome and expensive to you; when you send through registered • letter, it is troublesome,, expensive and dantje.rouo, as the money may he lost or stolen in the mails. | i When you send a check, it is j j tjuick and entirely safe, aud costs you only a 2-cent stamp for mail-' ing a letter. j The Bank of Stokes County , I handles your banking business ! i entirely free of any cost to you, and will give you a nice check book free. Mr. John W. Thoro, of Pinnacle | Route 2, was in town Monday. He | reports farmers of his neighbor hood making preparations for a , big crop of tobacco, and that flies are doing plants a good deal of damage. Mr. Thore says measles : is still raging in his community. - DEVIL'S ISLAND TORTURE 1 is no worse than the terrible case I of Piles that afflicted me 10 years. . i Then I was advised to apply Buck , leu's Arnica Salve, aud less than ) i a box permanently cured me, 1 writos L. S. Napier, of Rugles, Ky. Heals all wounds, Burns and, ' Sores like magic. 25c at aU drug-1 > gist. j REV. J. E. ABERNETHY'S SUCCESS. A Great Religious Awakening At Mt. Airy Other News From the Granite City. Mount Airy, April 25.—Owing to the success with which Rev. J. E. Abernethy is meeting in the revival now in progress at Central Methodist church, services will continue this week, at night only, : until further notice. The pastor preached three able sermons last Sunday to large crowds, and at the afternoon service twenty-three were received into the church, | while many more will join later. ! On Sunday night the crowd was i estimated at eleven hundred, by j far the largest congregation ever , assembled in a church in this city, | and the interest was intense. | Many people came forward for j prayer, and it is estimated that I several hundred have already pro fessed Christ and been reclaimed. This is the greatest revival ever held in Mount Airy and all de nominations are co-operating in the work. Services every evening iat 7:45 o'clock, and the public is j cordially invited. Miss Briggs Prather gave the children of her Sunday School class a picnic at the city water works last Saturday and about j fifteen little ones enjoyed a de lightful outing. The Presbyterian church in this city was beautifully decorated last Sunday morning and the song service was appropriate to the ac casion. Dr. B. W. Mebane, the pastor, preached an - eloquent ser j mon from the subject of the "ResurrectionVjpf the Believers,'' and four new mof&bers were added to the ohurch. v It is probable that Rev. J. E. ! Smith will begin a protracted l meeting at the Baptist church, in J thiscity, next Sunday. It is under stood that most of the churches J will hold revivals during the next two weeks, and it is already decided to hold a Union Revival, some time in June, in which all j # ' 1 denominations will participate. Capt. Sam Pace has returned • from Washington county, Va., where he purchased a bunch of | line horses. SMITH. Smith, April 9. —Messrs. B. A. I Overby, Milton and John Pruett, and William Hart have been hav ing a fine game of marbles up near Collinsown for the last 9' weeks. Mr. Charlie Wright crossed the line Sunday to see his girl. Miss Ella Overby is smiling this week. | Mr. Jim Martin was enjoying himself very much Sunday as his ibest girl took a drive with him. ; Well, lam glad to say that the j wheat crop of this section is look- I ing fine. Mrs. Hart, wife of Mr. Cool Hart, has been very ill for a few 'days, but is on the mend now. | Miss Alice Martin has returned ' home from her school. We are j glad to have you back. PAPA'S LITTLE GAL. I SMITH. Smith, N. C. April 16.—Mr. P. F. Overby I guess expects to have ; a heap of potatoes this time. He has planted three rows about 12 feet long. Messrs. John Overby and Char lie went over on the branch last Sunday. Guess they had a good ! time. Mr. J. D. Martin called to see his best girl Sunday. Miss Siller Overby is looking very sad this week, as Jasper went up the road Sunday. Miss Susie Pucket is all smiles' t his week, as her best fellow called , to see her Sunday. | 1 Mr. B. A. Overby is about done | planting corn. NO. 13
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