THE DANBURY REPORT Eft
VOLUME XXXIII.
LOCUST HILL FARM.
The Farmors Institute at Danbury
Next Friday-The Ladies and
the "Moon Farmers Especial
ly Invited."
Locust Hill Farm, July 'J. j
Mr. Editor :
I wish to use your valuablo
paper for the purpose of extending
A general invitation to my brother
' farmers (if Stokos county to be at
the Farmers Institute that is to be
I held on the '2oth day of July. We
faru|erft, as a class, are a very nar-'
row minded class. We need our
minds broadened before we can
• make any great progress in farm
ing or improving our homes. Give
us Voader minds and we will hare
better roads, better schools and
churches, our wiveß will be more
cheorful, we can see knowledge
sinking into our children as they
leave, their pleasHiit homes for
school. All our unsightly briar
patches will be converted into nice
grape vines or plums, peaches or
apples, our worthless grasses will
bo transformed into beef, mutton
and wool. Our obnoxious weed
seed will b® converted into poul
try aud eggs; our brush-covered
rnad-sides will be ehangod into
things of beauty.
1 ask each comimtteo in the
county to work up his township
until everyone will know of it.
The ladies have a special invita
tion, and extra earn will ho given
thom. Also the moon farmers have
spuuinl invitation to be present
audgive their experience.
I. G. BOSS,
Chairman.
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RURAL HALL ROUTE 2.
Rural Hall Rotite 2, July 10.
The farmers through this sec
tiou are very busy killing grass
and getting ready for threshing
wheat. We can already hear the
toot of the whistle in the distauco.
Wheat is damaged a good doal in
spots this year by the freeze. One
farm being damaged to the oxtont
of one-third or one half and the,
adjoining farm not affected very
much.
There aro several Htokes boys
pomtomplating leaving home this
fall. Some are going to school,
while others are going to Winston
and other places to work.
• 1 think Stokes will do her part
toward* furnishing orators in the
near future. Anyone who was at
Mountain View last Saturday
• night can testify to this assertion.!
C. B.H.
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WALNUT COVE ROUTE 3.
Walnut Cove Route 3 —People
are aliout dono getting up wheat j
hi this section.
A largo crowd attended services
At Clear Springs.
Mrs. Bili Redman and family,
of Spray, are visiting at Mrs. Joe
Flynfw this week.
Mr. Daniel Bichardsou and Miss
Hattio Mickey, of Walnut Cove,
attended service at Clear Springs j
Sunday. Miss Hattie was not j
smiling for life time but from ear
to ear.
Miss Minnie Dugginsgot struck
on Mr. Niimie Redman Sunday.
Miss.Minnie is wearing a ten- 1
conl smile as Mr. Jimmie Lee j
Marshall hus returned from Roan
oke, Va.
TWO COUSINS. |
Children's Day at Mount Hermon
July 22.
Madison, July 8,
lid i tor Danbury Reporter :
' I'lease announce in the Re
porter that Childrens' Day will bo
observed at Mt. Hermon church j
on the 4tl» Sunday in July. Ex-j
ercirtf.B to liegiti at 10 o'clock j
promptly; Preaobing in the after
noon.
Very respectfully,
SALLIE DALTON.
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A Rattlesnake Killed By Mr. Robe i
Davis- Other News From Pinnacles
Pinnacle, July 14.
Rov. liarrett filled his regular
appointment Sunday A. M.
Miss Grace King has recently
( gone to Winston to spend some
time.
Among those who visited Misses
Grace and Gertrude King Sunday
were Misses Hattio Davis, Dora
Wall and Mrs. C. M. George and
I children.
Miss Hattie Davis has been
I right bine for the past few days.
; We guess it is because her Claud
: got married the fourth, we don't j
know what elso. Cheer up, Miss
! Hattie, Mr. Lonnie is not married j
I y«t.
Quite a large number attended
the lawn party on the M. E. lawn
' Saturday evening and was enjoy
i ed by all.
Mr. Robe Davis killed quite a ■
large rattlesnake the past week.
It had oix rattles.
Mr. Ernest Ayore, wl)o has been
right sick with typhoid fever, is j
some better, wo sre glad to note. |
Miss Daisy Spainhour is visit -j
ing her sister at High Point, Mrs..
Moser,
Mr. Dault Davis went to Wal
nut Cove on the fourth to see the
match game and reports a nioe
time,
Mossrs. Robe Davis and Ernest
Watson are looking for some one
to love, some one please give thom
a pointer.
MEDDLESOME POLLY.
Items From King,
King Route 2, July 9—Here's
of a few days around Mt. Olive :
The Sunday School is still
growing. The class has begun its
practice work for the township
convention, which is to be held at
Mt. Olive on the second Saturday
in August.
Mr. John Tillotson has nearly
completed his new dwelling.
Mr. L. W. Ferguson attended
attended the Convention at
Greensboro Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Gordon were
among the visitors at Sunday
School here last Sunday.
We learn that Aunt Sarah Ann
Wall Is still right sick.
Mr. J. W. Johnson carried Mr.
Emmett Gibson to the cream
freeze at Piuuacle Saturday night
and complains that he had a good
| time.
Dr. R. G. Tuttle's name has
j boon on the sick list but is about
to be erased, we aeo.
Mr. Wesley Petree passed on
his way to the West field country
j Saturday.
Tho watermelon crop is reported
fair to middling. Berries have!
| about all been harvested in good!
i condition.
"POVERTY."
Buck Island Literary Debaters Chal
lenge the Muff Society.
Tho Buck Island Literary De
! bating Society mot in regular
j session Saturday, July 7th, and
I after debate a motion was put be
} fore the house and carried, that we
i meet the Muff Debating Society
j in joint debate on Saturday night,
! July 28th, 190(5. The query for
I discussion is ''Which Is More
: Useful to the Civilized World, the
! Lawyer or Doctor."
We should like to have an ans
' wer to the challenge through the
: Beporter.
O. M. BENNETT, Pres.
ANGANON NELSON, Sec.
FORCED TO STARVE.
j B. F. Leek, of Concord, Ky.,
I says: "For 20 years I suffered
I agonios, with a sore on my upper
: lip, so painful, sometimos, that I
I could not eat. After vainlp try
| ing .everything else, I cured it
| with Bnoklen's Arnica Salve.'
i It's great for burns, cuts and
wounds. At all drug stores; only
25 cents.
i
DANBURY, N. C., JULY 19, 1906.
THE PHOINE A/ND
THE FARMER.
THEY ARE COMPATIBLE, SAYS PROF. HARRIS,
OF* GARFIELD, WASHINGTON, IN WHOSE
COUNTY FARMERS OWN MORE
THAN 3,00$ fyiONES--V'PLEASURE, A [
PROFIT, A NECESSITY. '
I '
A few years ago none but the
rich people of our cities thought
of owning a telephone. It was at
| first a luxury possessed by thefow.
But today tho phono is uot only a
j convenience but a necessity. It is a
good thing in cities where tho peo
ple are crowded close together, and
as a rule, have more leisure time
than a country man/ How much
j more necessary is it to the farmer
living in sparsely settled commu
nities. Yes, farmer, you need the
phone. With a good system of tele
phones, rural free delivery and a
I good parcels post measure, life in
the country would be far more
; pleasant.
Seven years ago two farmers in
this (Whelman county) connected
their ranches by wire fence tele
phones. From this beginning the
system has grown until to-day the
wire fence phones are in the main
abandoned and a net work of lines
along nearly pvery road binds this
whole section together into one
common whole like the nervous
system of the human body. When
any part of the body is affected
' the nerve lpading to that partic
ular part of the body conveys the
news to the nerve oenter from
whence it is disseruinted through?
out the whole body.
So with our phone system, if any
part of our county suffer the news,
is instantly flashed over the wires
and the whole body politic sympa-
I thi^es.
The Bell Phone Company is
just now trying their utmost to
get possession of the farmers, lines.
They are making us tempting
offers and I fear that they will
finally get us, but they will not get
us now. This agitation reveals the
fact that the farmers, lines have in
this county ovei' three thousand
phonos. "We have centrals in all
the towns. So you see that I con
call up nearly any farmer or bus
iness man in any town within 25
or 30 miles of mo. It is a business
proposition, a great time saver and
a necessity to the farmer
Now for a few instances of the j
convenience the phone is to me:j
I had a sick liorse qnd did not
know what-,ailod hw- I'had
gone to tho neighbor; supposed to
| know, 1 would hare found that it
was something new to him. The
next three were away from home,
the fifth gave me the desired in
formation and probably saved the
life of my horse, k ' D "
formation in five rmtiflies. With
out tho phone, 1 would have been
a day and probably given up" in
despair, because the man who told
me lives five miles away, Last
Sunday I heard Garfield sentral
ring; knowing that central is not
called on Sunday, except in oaso
of sickness, I rubbered and learn
en that a ohilddown on the river
had broken its arm and was suffer
ing intensely. The first doctor
was away but the second was on
his way post haste in five minutes
after the aooident. A tramp at
tempts assault on one of my neigh
bor's wives, but there were two
women there and they beat him
off and although all the men of
that neighborhood were away at
tending a sale, yet by nteaus of the
phone, he waß captured within an
hour. Right here I'll remark that:
the tramp got a life sentenoe and
nothing was ever said except in ap
proval. If it had been a negro in the
South all New England would have
oried out "Another outrage by
Southern Courts on the oojored
'wm
I . .1
man." I could give a thousand
' instances not to say anything
about the social side.
It* annihilates distance and,
brings your five mile neighbor (
| right to your door for many a
friendly chat, frequently thnj3!
;or four will be on the line at the
j same time and carry on a friendly '
| conversation as though we were
| all in the same room. Often we
I hear the call for music. Probably
j two lines will be connected. Some !
1 J one will give us a good piece at!
! the close of which another phono, i
II graph will take it up and render
i something else and so on.
I _
1 am aware that Stokes and
our surrounding counties have a
few lines. These are quite a con
venience but thfjgj'tt® owned by
companies or individuals and are
operated for profit with stations at
given Intervals you cannot call up;
yoqr nearest neighhor and ask
him for the loan of his plow or
wagon to take the placer ,of your
| broken one till you can get
another. We haye must dealings
with our nearest neighbors and
these oaunot be reached by your
| system of toll lihes. What ia the
. remedy? Why let some farmer
select a route for a farmers, line,
say from Germanton to Danbury,
count up the cost of suoh line,
canvass the farmers and see how
many will take phones. Suppose
you get ten subscribers; then di
vide the cost of the line between
these ten and let that amount con- j
stitute a share in the company.
The farmers ooqld furnish their
own poles and put up the line so
that the only cost would be the
price of the wire and the phones.
Let them all use the same kind of
phones and my advice would be
to put in nothing less than a
phone of 2500 ohms resistance.
Later on others will want to come
on your line; let them pay in the
price of a share to be divided out
among the members of the com
| pany or kept in the treasury to
j defray any expenses that may
: arise. Finally and soon other
lines will be built and you will
I have centrals in all the little
j towns and can call up anybody in
; the county or in adjoining coun-;
i ties with no cost except keeping'
\ up lines i
Farmer, would you not like;
I this? But the cost! Well, here
lis the way it costs us. For a
I single line, it takes one hundred
and sixty-five pounds of No. 12 j
j wire and 25 to 30 poles to the
j mile. Wire costs us to 5 «ents
and poles come at various prices 1
besides hauling them 10 to 151
miles.
Doubtless you can get telephone \
j wire at 2to 2i cents and could I
j furnish and set your own poles. S
• Your phones would cost you
i twelve to fifteen dollars each
Every man buys and owns his
own phone and keeps it in order.'
When a new man comes on the
line he pays in the price of a
share, buys his own phone and
furnishes the connecting line from
the main line to his house. If on,
the the supposed line from Ger
inanton to Danbury you get twelve
: subscribers then those twelve men
would purchase 2,000 pounds of,
wiro for fifty dollars and 433)1, put
in twenty-eight poles an*! buy a
good phone arid 1 (ftfofi mart is out
not exceeding" twbnty dollars and
hasJrpe telephone service with j
■
; his near neighbors. When a now
man wants to come on lot him pay
|in something like ton or fifteen
j dollars, buy his own phone and
! connect himself with your line.
This phone business is like
! whooping cough—it is catching
j The more that get on a line the
j more that want to get on.
j The line lam on charges twenty-
I five dollars per share, but auother ;
'line one half mile away charges!
'fifteen, and another ten.
A nominal fee charged outsidors
for the use of the line will keep
! up the expenses.
lom not *n expert, but if any
of your readers should like to
! build a lino I would bo glad to geti
! for them the advice and expenses
|of some of our best phone men
j that your people might be able
|to get the best phones in use
and to avoid costly blunders which
! are often made by experiments.
W. B. HARRIS.
Death Of Little Anna Ferguson, and
Other Items From Oerman
ton Route 1.
German ton Route 1, July 9.
Little Anna, tho daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Preston Ferguson,
died last Thursday. It • was 7
months old. We know it is better
off. We know it is safe in the
arms of our blessed Jesus where
pain nor Borrow never comes. It
was laid to rest at Hawpond. Mr.
D. V, Carroll -conducted burial
servioes.
Tobacco crops are looking fine
| in this section.
Misses Ola Eaton and Lillie
Covington, of KiDg Route 1, paid
Misses Cora and Lula Eoyles.a
pleasant visit last Sunday and
Monday. Come again, girls.
Mr. Cary Darnell called 6n his
girl Sunday. On account of rain
he stayed all night and lost his
hut and went home carrying his
shoes in his hand. Next time you
had better leave your hat at home*
SCAT.
PINNACLE ROUTE TWO.
Pinnacle Route 2, July 12. ;
People in this seotion are most
through laying by their crops.
Rev. P. Oliver tilled his regular
appointment at Olive Grove
church Sunday.
Mr. Ernest Wall and Miss
Virginia Edwards visited Miss
Lillie Lawson Sunday.
Mr. Hassie and Miss Maggie ;
Lawson attended preaching at j
Rock House church Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Wall visited
Mr. Dock Boyles Sunday.
Miss Eftie Boyles is all smiles |
as Mr. Marshall called Sunday.
Guess it is time that Mr. C. H, j
j Boyles was taking his lantern'
| back.
j Mr. 'Squire Edwards called on
I Miss Ollie Boyles Sunday.
BILL BALIEY. ,
KING ROUTE TWO.
King Route 2, July 9.—A sad
! loooking orowd passed by going
!to the Springs 4th of July. Ouly
| three couples, Misses Flora Spain
| hower, Eltnira Rumbly and Stacie
i Love, Mesers. Willie Keiger,
| Oscar Fowler and Lonnie Coe. I
j Guess they had a jolly time.
BLUE EYES.
i
jTO CURE A 4 'COLD IN ONE
DAY
! Take LAXATIVE BBOMO Quin-1
; ine Tablets. Druggists refund
! money if it fails to cure. E. W. j
j GROVE'S signature is on each [
1 box. 25c.
$5.00 REWARD—Wanted, Mili
tary Bounty. Land ~ \Varrants.
j Will-pay $5.00 for telling me who
i has one whether,! buy or not.
Dealers excepted. •*
B. K. KELLEY,
Kansas City, Mo .
' GOVERNOR GLENN COMING.
j Pretty Certain thnt the Governor of
North Crrolina Will Addrecs the
Cld Soldiers At Danbury
Aug. 11—Hon. C. B.
Watson Will Also
Probably Be
• Present.
I
Tho following lottcr has been
j received by Capt. .Ins. A. Leak,
! which explaiua itself .
.Raleigh, July 12, 1900.
Mr Jas. A. Leak,
Peter's Creek. Va.
Dear Mr. Leak :
Your letter asking me to be
with you in Dan bury on August
11th received. That is my birth
day, and 1 know of no place where
I would rather spond it than witb
the good people who have done so
much for me. 1 will not make
you any positive promise, bocaUse
I cannot yet toll whether the
State Guard encampment will
prevent my going, but I will say
this, I will go if I can, and if I do
not, I will send a good man in my
place.
Truating that I can be with you,
I am,
Yours very truly,
R. B. GLENN.
Capt. Leak liaa also received a
letter from Hon. C. B. Watson
who has promised to be with us at
the reunion, if possible, and make
a speech. Owing to the fact that
the County Republican Conven
tion meets at Danbury on August
4, whioh date had also been set for
the reunion, Capt. Leak has chang
ed the Old Soldiers' Day to Sat
urday, Augtist 11. '
Let everybody who feels an in
terest in the old soldiers, eomeout
on Saturday, August 11, and hoar
the address of Gov. Glenn and
Watson, and help ~give the
"boys in gray" a pleasant time.
Year by year their ranks are grow
ing thinner. Soon the last one
will have passed over the river,
They fought for a cause dear to
the heart of every Southerner,
j Hnd we, their children, own them
j this honor and reverence in their
| old ages. Come and bring a bas.
I ket and help give them a good
dinner.
Dr. L. H. Hill, of Germanton,
and Col. M. V. Mabe, of Danbury,
will make music on the old Con
federate fife and some one will
I boat the old rebel drum.
Every old soldier in the County
1 who can, will be here, and every
! person who had a relative or a
: friend in the great struggle of
11801-65 should honor the occasion
; with their presence. The ladies,
I the wives, daughters and grand
J children of the old soldiers should
i all corne out and make tho great
eat reunion that has ever been
held in Stokes County.
The best way to start, a bank ac
j count is to start it now Don't
' wait to start with a big pile Any
amount is taken. The Bank of
Stokes County will be glad to give
you a check book any time. Call
on or write cashier at Danbury or
Walnut Cove.
Pay your bills with check. It
gives people better impression of
' you as a business man. Besides
the check will oporate as a receipt
in law, showing that the bill has
| been paid. And, besides, you are
| saved a good deal in the run of a
year in the way of money order
fees, registered letter fees, etc.
A SURPRISE PARTY.
A pleasant supprise party may
be given to your stomach aud
liver, by taking a medicine which
will relieve their pain and discom
fort, viz: Dr. King's New Life
Pills. They are a most wonder
ful remedy, affording sure relief
and cure, for headache, dizziness
, and oonstipation. 25c at all drug
stores.
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