THE DANBURY REPORTER.
I VOLUME XXXIII.
FOR STOKES SUPERIOR COURT.
The Fall Term Opens September 24th With His
Honor Geo. W. Ward Judge Presiding—Civil
Cases On the Docket and Names of At
torneys In Each Case.
Monday, September 24, and Tuesday 25, 1906, for the trial ol criminal
actions, and as many days thereafter as may be necessary.
Wednesday, September 26, 1906.
Patterson, J. D Humphrey#, E. L. Martin,
Watson, Buxton & Watson,
4 vs.
| W?"W. King, 0. O. MoMiohael, T. B. Knight, admr. d. b. n.
Soott & Raid, N. O. Petree. of W. L. Fallen.
Soott & Eeid, Darian Smith,
\ vs.
Manly & flendren. D. W. Dodd, etal.
a orMoMiohaelTSoott & Reid, W. H. Amos,
7 vs.
Manly & Hendren. Carrie Gann and her husband, T. J. Gann.
Manly & Hendren, T. J. Gann,
8 vs.
W. W. King. J. M. Vernon.
J. D. Humphreys, Mariah E. Hurt,
31 vs.
r • * Wiley Hurt.
J. D. Humphreys, J. R. Culler,
20 TB.
Elizabeth Culler.
Thursday, September 27.
N. O. Petree, Hobert T. Joyce,
L 9 vB,
r Alpha J. Joyoe.
f N. O. Petree, Robert Richardson,
30 vs.
Martha Riohardson.
Benbow & Hall. B. C. Shore & Co.,
|f • 11 vs.
«KW. W. King. T. Hornady, Agt. So. Ex. Co.
J*son, Buxton & Watson, W. T. Johnson and wife,
). Humphreys.
17 vs.
~ W. King, N. O. Petree. J. C. Wall, admr. of Wm. Wall.
Watson, Buxton & Watson, Patterson, Ada J. Gregory et al,
Joyoe, N. O. Pstree.
3 vs.
J. D. Humphreys, Scott & Reid,
Manly & Hendren. Masten Mabe and Frank Mabe
Friday, September 28.
jy-., Virginia Carolina Chemioal Co.,
14 VS.
S. J. Harris.
W. W. King, J. M. Taylor,
15 vs.
C. O. MoMichael. S. J. Harris.
W. wTKingi J. M. Taylor,
18 vs.
C. O. McMiohael. 8. J. Harris.
6. O. MoMiohael, The Madison Qrooery Co.,
26 vs.
J. D. Humphreys. F. L. Tuttle.
Saturday, September 29.
For motions and cases that may be tried by consent.
Monday, October 1.
V. E. Holoomb, * Chas. E. Snyder,
25 vs.
W. W. King. Manly & Hendren. The Southern Railway Co.
WTW. King, ; Robert Gibson,
16 vs.
N. O. Petree. Jas. Pell and M. O. Lynch.
N. O. Petree, R. W. George,
10 vs.
W. W. King, Watson, Buxton & Watson. J. H. Covington.
fmpbreys, S. U. At wood,
ree. Wm. Brown.
M. D. Phillips,
ing, Manly & Hendren. Southern Railway Co.
MOTION DOCKET.
W. W. Kintf, Squire Venable,
Vatson, Buxton & Watson and Patterson. S. H. Venable J.
oU> V. T. Grabbs, et al,
re head, Special Appearance. The Farmers' Mutual Fire
Insuranoe Association,of N. C.
♦Smi & Watson, N. O, Petree, Jas. Rierson and W. W. King
Z. V. Robertson, et al.
DANBURY, N. C., SEPT. 13, 1906.
Patterson, J. M. Reynolds and wife Lottie Reynolds,:
12 vs.
N. O. Petree, for R. W. G. and W. M. C. A. J. Wall, et al.
J. D. Humphreys, James M. Neal,
13 vs.
P. W. Glidewell, N. O. Petree. Joe W. Coffer.
J. D. Flynt,
21 vs.
N. O. Petree. Dr. John W. Neal.
J. D. Humphreys, Mrs. Eliza Flynt, et al.
22 vs.
N. O. Petree. Julius Hauser.
N. O. Petree, William Duncan,
27 vs.
J. D. Humphreys. George Q. Venable.
W. P. Bynum, J. T. Morehead, Mrs. Irene Stewart,
23 vs.
W. F. Harding, N. O. Petree. W. W. Haywood, admr. of Frank P. j
0 Stewart, j
W. P. Bynum, J. T. Morehead, Mrs. Irene Stewart,
24 vs.
W. F. Harding, N. O. Petree. W. W. Haywood.
I J. D. Humphreys, Manly & Hendren, Jas. R. Rierson, et al.
29 * vs.
j W. W. King, N. O. Petree. J. 0. Wall, et al.
i J. D. Humphreys, F. L. Fowler,
j N. O. Petree, „ W. M. Watts,
32 vs.
[ L. M. Swink. J. D. Watts.
| N. O. Petree, Harriet Fry,
88 vs.
J. J. Fry.
J. D. Humphreys, H. Hall,
34 *vfl.
W. W. King. George Hall and Henderson Hall.
Patterson, James E. Tilley, admr.,
35 vs.
W. W. King, Manly & Hendren. Southern Railway Co.
W. W. King, J. M. Vernon,
36 vs.
Manly & Hendren. T. J. Gann.
N. O. Petree, Peter E. Slate,
37 vs.
J. D. Humphreys. John A. Lawson and M. C. Lawson.
Cases not reaohed on the day set for trial, will be taken up on the
next, or succeeding days, in their order.
Motions will be heard at any time, at the convenience of the court.
This September 7, 1906.
M. T. CHILTON, Clerk Superior Court.
Letter From a Stokes Man Who is
Now in West Virginia.
Kimball, W. Va., Sept. 3.
i Mr. Editor:
I will write you a few lines from
this section. This is a wonderful
country in a good many respects.
I arrived here on the 16th day of
August and stayed three days and
started to Zainsville. I went over
the Norfolk & Western to Kenova
right down the river through the
wildest looking country you ever
> saw, by the place where the Hat
fields and McCoys met to fight.
Most everybody has read of the
Hatfields and McCoys of West
. Virginia and Kentucky. I arrived
at Kenova at 4 P. M., and went on
an electric line to Huntington, 10
miles through a beautiful country,
took the C. &. O. to St. Albans.
Next day there 1 formed the ac
quaintance of Dell Bryan, who is
looking after the interest of the
Tide Water Railroad. He had
been a school teaoher up there.
* He related some of his experiences
!to me and I will give it to you as
1 near as I recollect. He said he
j went up Tar River to see the
! country and engaged to commence
the school the next Monday. Bun
day evening he went to Mr. Sel
ler's, one of the oommittee near
the Bohool house to stay over
night; when ho got there several of
the young people of the neighbor
hood were out at the back of the
house having a good time. -So af
ter supper he went'out to enjoy
with thorn, Everyone left him at
onr*e by himwclf, but in the mean
time ho had purchased a good pis
tol and also boi rowed a Winches
ter at the suggestion* of a friend
that was acquainted in tha*. sec
tion. So next morning he went to
the school house and found sixtf-
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scholars, girls that would weigh
180 pounds barefooted. At noon
he looked into his dinner bucket
and found roasted potatoes and
two biscuits stuck so that he could
not tell whether they were made of
soda or what. He went down to
Mrs. Smith's to get board. So that
evening Mr. Sellers came to the
school house and he give him one
dollar and told him he had en
gaged board with Mrs. Smith. Mr.
Seller got mad and askod him what
time he took in and what time he
turned out school; he told him
that ho took in at 9 and turned
out at 4 o'clock. Mr. Sellers said:
"You will have to take in at 8 and
turn out at 5." He told him he
would teach according to the laws
of the state, and if he did not like
it to get off and if he ever come
back he would kill him. So the
next few days some of the scholars
said to him that some larger boys
was going to kill him. That eve
ning as he was going to his board
ing place, he walked up to one of
the large boys with his gun and
pistol and said to him, "I under
stand you have it in for me, and
if any of you boys bother me
there will have to be a ooffin ship
ped up here," So after that the
boys got friendly, and he had no
more trouble.
D. 8. W.
Mr. R. P. Joyce, of Walnut
Cove, visited Dan bury Monday.
ATTACKED BY A MOB
and beaten, in a labor riot, until
oovered with sores, a Chicagc
street car oonductor applied Buck
len's Arnica Salv aad was soot
sound and well. I use it in m\
family," writes (.. J. Welch,
Tekonsha. Miob 'and find it per
feot." Siinplj>r roal 'flf cuts aut
v -OH* Aso^ fl iL i'Oggists
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"X. Y. Z. 1 ' AFTER MC FOR OPPOSING BASEBALL.
Thinks Mc Is Fairly Sensible So Long As He Dis
cusses Farming But Is Not Competent To
Criticise Baseball--The Best People En
courage the Game.
Mr. Editor :
In behalf of the many lovers of
baseball in Stokes county, I desire
to say a few words in reply to your
chronic, "continuous-perform
ance" knocker, who styles himself
"Mc," and, arrogating to himself
the wisdom of all ages, presumes
to sit in judgment over the lives,
fortunes and morals of the good
people of Stokes county.
For some months I have been a
close reader of your paper, and I
like it. It is the best oountry
newspaper I have seen in North
Carolina. I like your sensible ed
itorials, and your correspondents
are, with few exceptions', "all to
the good." A few of them allow
little local pleasantries and jokes at
the expense of the love struck
country beaux and belles, to mar
the good sense of their letters: but
on the whole, your correspondents
are all right and your paper is far
above the average of its class.
This "Mc." I understand, is a
farmer by occupation. Judging
from his letters I should say he
has ministerial inclinations. And
should Mc's preachatorial aspira
tions turn hiin from the plow, one
doubts-not that he would be as
hide-bound and Pharosaical a fan
atic as ever followed Dowie, or
worked himself into a frenzy under
a "holiness" tent, or made the
night hideous in the salvation
army.
I have watched Mc this sum
mer, and I note that as long as Mc
!is discussing farm work he is a I
fairly sensible man, I see nothing
! to distinguish Mc from his brother j
j farmers, except the "gift of gab,"
iuordinate vanity, and a conceit
I that knows no bounds. The av
i erago farmer of Stokes county
j knows just as much about farming
:as Mc does, and he is Mc's su
perior, in that he knows how to
| keep his mouth shut.
It is when Mc assumes the er-
I mine, and judges his fellow mortal
by standards set by his own nar
row soul, that he fails—fails utter
ly, miserably, and pitifully. Was
it not Mc's virulent pen that so
scathingly rebuked the young
womanhood of Stokes county of
sins our good women know not of,
and crimes they had never com
mitted ? Does the love of dress,
inherent in woman, unfit her for
the duties of wife and mother ?
| Are they, because of this natural
' I love of display, unworthy of such
' a union as Mc, or men of Mc's
' kind could offer them ? Away
with such narrow Puritanism ! Mc
1 makes me tired.
1 But when Mc "rose to the Hy,"
doped with the subtle essence of
| fiattery, and cast with skill by his
Pine Hall admirer—he reached
the acme of foolishness. I don'l
blame the Pine Hall man. What's
the use in keeping a dog if you
have to do your own barking ?
They have Mc down there for
that business; and all they have to
do is to punch him in the ribs of
his vanity—and he's off.
This-time he lit into baseball.
Now Mc got all his knowledge as
t to the game at Knollhurst by hear
say. The writer happens to know
that the convention was in no way
disturbed by that game of "hell
ball." The young men who played
5 will measure as near to the mark
of gentleman as Mo himself, —to
i put it mild. No disrespect was
f meant or felt toward the conven
" tion, or irreverence toward God.
j Mc calls it "hell ball." For just
, a moment let us take an unprej-
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udiced view of our national game.
Every city of the nation has its
ball team. The tired and jaded
man of business oloßes his desk
and hies away to the ball park.
The game is full of life and gin
ger. The home team wins out af
ter a pretty oontest. He goes back
to his office, with newborn vigor
i coursing through his veins, and
i the exultation of youth in his
! tired heart. Thousands gain this
1 happy relief from oares aud troub
: les, and Mc calls it hell ball.
Every college and university in
! America is an enthusiast on the
| subject of baseball. Mo has never
felt the glorious thrill that ootnes
i with the first match game of the
soason. He has never stood on
i the bleachers and shouted himself
; hoarse as the wiry little batter,
toeing the plate, with two men
! down and the bases full, "parks"
the ball for a home run! Mo has
never known how such stirring
battle® warm the tired student's
heart and lend him new strength
for the dreary grind of the class
room.
And now the country boy is
waking up, and I thank God for it.
No longer does he shut himself up
in selfish solitude after Saturday's
tasks are done. He hitches up
Jule and Bet, throws some straw
into the wagon bed and taking the
whole family along, he joins his
; merry comrades at the cross roads
or on the schoolhouse grounds.
Fodder pulling, tobacco worms,
and suckers are forgotten. Mon-
I day will bring them; but now for
| fun! The old men smoke in peace.
| The women gossip cheerfully. The
youngsters chase the elusive ball
across the diamond, and all are
happy. And Mc calls it hell ball!
Now, listen to a few facts. The
great and learned education of our
country have agreed on this as the
aim and end of education :
"A sound mind in a sound
body." With this end in view, be-
I hold every university, college and
high school encouraging baseball,
,; crowning it king of sports. No
, | other game so nobly fosters the
, cardinal virtues in the young man.
II Quickness of movement, of per
jce p t i on, of decision—all are
brought out in this glorious game.
Evory latent power of mind and
. body is brought to light and de
p I veloped. The chivalrous sense of
I fair play, the laudable firmnesb of
, the man in standing up for his
, ; own rights, and the healthy spirit
, of self confidence and self-reliance,
, the courage to meet his fellow
i man on terms of equality and
> I measure, strength and skill, face
f to face,—all these become an es
-3 j sential part of the ball players'
I make-up, and thoroughly per-
II meate his whole character.
I was at Danbury and I saw
Soldiers' Day disgraoed by "hell
ball." I saw the best citizens of
Stokes county crowded around the
diamond. I saw hundreds of fair ,
women in gala attire, cheering the
lusty athletics. I saw old soldiers,
thoit shoulders bent with the
of years, but their eyes
bright with appreciation of the
pretty oontest. And many an old
form straightened with pride, as
the spectacle he beheld brought
back memories of his skill and
prowess in other games and other
times. And as the shadows length
ened, the crowd of (2,000) two
thousand of Stokes county's
citizens betook themselves he
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