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Danbury Reporter I'Kl'I'EK lUU)S., loi>B, ASH I'rwn. May :U>. V.HI 7. A LESSON TO HOME-BUILD ERS. The case of William Mounce, of Danbury, is an example of thrift, economy, and improvement of op portunity aud of untutored suc ceptibility to the beautiful that could be a valuable lesson to every farmer of Stokes county. Bill, as he is called, purchased for R song a little one-room log hut on the side of a hill near the jail. No shade, hillsides and gul leys in front aud behind the house—not a very inviting pros pect. But Bill, during his spare hours from hiring at 50 cents a day, improved his premises, until today thero is not a more home like and cosy little place in this country. Bill has built at the foot of the hill, a good stable and barn, which affords shelter for his cow and calf as well as a storing place for the stacks of stuff he produces on his lot, for he has not neglected the useful for the beautiful, but lias made his acre highly product ive. Last year he saved a stack or two of hay where most peopl would not have taken the trouble to mow. The prettiest garden in town is Bill's, as, by constant im provements, he has made his land rich, and besides has planted a nice orchard which is nourishing A corn crib, and other useful accessories have recently been added. The house, which is an humble log structure, is almost hidden by clambering vines, shrubberies, etc., while pretty walks bordered with white rows of rocks wind here and there, and an attractive row of shade trees are fast growing in front of the tiouse along the street which Bill has constructed out of the place where fortnorly red gulleys ran. A neatly painted marten box raised high on a pole, invites the feathered songsters as well as gives a touch of domestic comfort If everyone could see Bill s place as it was, and then look at it as it is, then follow his example, no country in the world would be more attractive than this. Bill is unlettered and unlearned, but there is a natural gift of the es thetic in his make-up which many of us would do well to imitate. His knowledge is not of books, his view-point not high, his op portunities the smallest. But he has used his talent. There are hundreds of farms in Stokes county run at a loss by their wwners, that would be profit able investments if they were given the same attention, the same assiduous looking after all the de tails and all the sources of reven ue, that this ignorant man gives to his little home, while the places would be regular paradises if their owners would use their knowledge and gifts in the beautifying of their premises, as our friend Bill | Don't Pushj3 l\ The horse can draw the JM|S| VI load without help, if you jWj Jp \\ reduce friction to almost \\ nothing by applying IJmw fit _M ica Axl eJfiM : Jj AFU to the wheels. J Wvrjl [ml No other lubri- VL aLlll/l iflU# cant cver ma^e T wears so long f JsMU and savesso much j horsepower. Next time / /'» try MICA AXLE GREASE, R* Standard Oil Co. of/ jJmB INCORPORATED has done. As many pretty flowers, plants, shrubberies, vines, foilage and trees as there are adapted to this climate ;as easy as it is to arrange attractive yards with com fortable seats and pleasant retreats, and things, to give satisfaction to the eye and comfort and happiness to the surroundings, it'is a shame to us that we give so little thought to the improvement of our homes and grounds. The Reporter would like to see a rivalry break out among our far mers, the citizens of the towns as well as the country, for the prettiest and most attractive and inviting homes. It would not be expensive. It would require more work than money .The result would be a country famed far and near j for its scenic beauty, and a pleas ure forever to those who spend their lives in our beautiful moun tain country. DIED IN DOCTOR'S OFFICE. Walter Kiger. Well-Known Character Of Rural Hall. Found Dead. Rural Hall, May 25.—Walter Kiger, a character well known at Rural Hall, died in the office of Dr. S. S, Flynt some time during last night. He came in on the train from Walnnt Cove very sick with somejhing like colic, and during the early part of the night he called at the home of Dr. Flynt and secured some medicine, after which the doctor gave him per mission to sleep in his office. Next morning when Dr. Flynt opened the door of his office he found Kiger dead. The citizens made up money to bury him. Deceased was about 40 years of age and un married. CURES BLOOD, SKIN DIS EASKS CANCER, GREAT EST BLOOD PURIFIER FREE. If your blood is impure, thin, diseased, hot or full of humors, if you have blood poison, cancer, car buncles, eating sores, scrofula, ec zema, itching, risings and bumps, scabby, pimply skin, bone pains, catarrh, rheumatism, or any blood or skin disease, take Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.). Soon all sores heal, aches and pains stop and the blood is made pure and rich. Drugguts or by express SI per large bottle, 3 bottles for $2.50 or f> bottles for §5.00. Sample free by writing Blood Balm Co., At lanta, Ga. B. B. B. is especially advised for chronic, deep-seated cases, as it cures after all else fails. FOUND—Near the court house square in Danbury, a bunch of four keys. Owner can get same by applying at the Reporter office, FOR SALE—One log wagon, one two-horse wagon, one one-horse wagon, two buggies, and two good horses. Will sell at a bargain either for cash or on time. Apply to JAS. T. REYNOLDS. Madison, N. C., Route 3. Jamestown Ter-Centennial. Norfolk. Va . April 26th. Nov. 30th. 1907. Southern Railway announces extremely low rates to Norfolk, Y T a., and return on account of the above occasion. The following round trip rates will apply from Walnut Cove, N. C. Season Tickets, $13.30. Sixty Day Tickets, sll.lO. Fifteen Day Tickets, $10.40 Coach Excursion Tickets, s(> 20 Coach Excursion Tickets will be sold on Tuesday, with limit seveu days from date of sale, will be stamped "Not Good in Pull man or Parlor cars." Other tickets will be sold daily April 19th, to November 30th inclusive. The Southern Railway will af ford excellent passenger service to and from Norfolk on account of this occasion. For further information, and Pull man reservations address any Agent Southern Railway or write W. H. TAYLOE, G. P. A., Washington, D. C. R. L. VERNON, T. P. A, Charlotte, N. C. GOOD ADVICE FROM A FRIEND. A Most Interesting Letter From Prof, j W. B, Harris -How They Farm In the Great Wheat Country—The Beauty and the Necessity of Bank ing for Farmers The Farmers Should Pull f-or th« Parcels Post. Garfield, Wash., May 19. Mr. Editor : As I'm just through seeding I'll make a few dots for the Reporter Owing to a heavy snowfall last winter and late rains in the spring, we could not commence the work of spring seeding till about the j middle of April. Washington is called the Web j foot State, but in reality this ap plies only to that portion west of j the Cascade mountains, and even | there the annual rainfall is not near so great as in North Carolina. But thore the winters have more drizzly, damp foggy l days than in North Carolina. Onr annual rainfall here in the Palouse country for the last ten years has been a little over twenty two inches. Some years it has dropped as low as fifteen inches, but this year so far we have had twenty-six inches counting one year to end in August. So we are reasonably assured a good crop this time. This rain fall seems small to you with your fifty odd inches annually. Our section takes on a sudden change at this season—starting in spring with thousands of acres of golden stubble. As the plow pas ses over the stubble it turns black and a little later green, and soon the whole face of the country is one waving mass of grain. When I started out with my gang plow I thought I was tearing up the earth quite a bit, but when I saw my neighbor's farm plows, followed by a harrow and drill sweep majestically around the hill, seeding their twenty acres per day. I almost became dissatisfied with my one team rooting up four or five acres per day and seeding it later. From my field I could see at least two hundred and fifty horses at work farming. I like to see big farming even if I cant do it. The farmers contiguous to Garfield last year sold 250,000 bushels grain, and the county produced nearly 12,000,000 bushels. That would breai! Stokes quite a while. I was glad to see the article in your last issue advising farmers to use the bank more freely. It is the safest way to do business. It lessens the temptation to robberv and theft and prevents many dis putes over the payment of ac counts and debts. Besides the cheapness, safety and convenience t.o transactions and adds tone to one's business. All farmers here make liberal use of the banks, in fact they are the backbone of the banks here. If one were to make a raid through this section, I doubt if he would find ten dollars at three houses in this section. Theft is so rare here that no one thinks of locking his doors at night or his horses, granary, or smoke houses at all. Speaking of adding dignity to one's business, reminds me of the boy from Germanton who got to gether fifteen dollars for a suit of clothes. He went to Winston to make the purchase, First he open ed an account at the bank—depos ited his fifteen dollars and straight way purchased the suit for that sum paying for the same by check. Farm labor has been scarce and high this spring. Thirty-five dol lars and board seems to bv! the prevailing price. I expect harvest hands will be $2 50 to s.'! 00 per day and board. A good hand here during harvest can make from seventy five to one hundred and fifty dollars. But a majority of them blow it in as fast they make it. Nine out of ten of the harvesters that come in are the poorest kind of help. Very few know how to work and still fewer care how they work. I am glad to see that the farm ers of Stokes are taking an in terest in the Protective Associa tion. ' I know nothing of liie I inerits of the association but the name indicates a good thing. We have the Grange instead. Our grange in Garfield numbers over one hundred and fifty members, and we are still taking in four to ten every meeting. It is highly necessary for the farmers to get together and work for their own interests. Let the Grange and the Association make a united effort to have a ont and out Parcels Post measure enacted by our next Con gress. If every farmer will write to his Congressman and Senator demanding it we'll get it. What would you think of a man who would employ a man or set of men to conduct a large business for him —a business involving thousands of dollars, yet who never told those employees what he wanted or how he wanted the bus iness conducted ? You would say at once, "why he's lazy." But that is exactly what we are doing. Our law makers are our servants, and we should instruct them as to ■ our wants and desires and see that we have them. But I'll venture the statement that not half a dozen | of those who read this ever wrote to his Congressman making known j his wants. So many people say, "it's no use, they would pay no at tention to it." If every farmer would write there would go in such a flood of letters that would wake up that official and he would ! say, "the people want this and are demanding it and I want to be re elected therefore I want it and am highly in favor of it." Then the Parcels Post will come. I There are fifty million farmers |in the United States, and I dare ! say every one of them would be glad to have a Parcels Poßt. Why then has the measure not been passed ? Simply because we are not united and have not demand ed it. The express companies and merchants are organized and are opposed to the measure. So in this measure the majority does not rule. Wannymaker said that there were five great hindrances to pas sing a Parcels Post and that they are the five express companies. Farmers, stick to your Associa tion, and when Congress convenes again let each and every one of us write to our Congressman and Senators demanding a Parcels Post. . I congratulate you on your new telephone line. The more you build the more you will build. Since writing you on that subject the single line on a road near me has been changed into four lines 'so great was the volume of bus iness. These linos are not com petitive lines but are owned by farmers and opera'ed for their own benefit and pleasure. It is quite a satisfaction to sit in your room and know what is ging on all over the country. With R. F. D. and phones for news and Par r-els Post to bring our packages from any market in the world, we : farmers would be quite snug. VV. B. HARRIS. Navassa Guano at W. J. Mar tin's, Walnut Cove. Have you bought your fertili zer ? Try Navassa Guano. W. J. Martin sells it. Land for Sale In Southeast Mis souri. HOOO acres timbered land at from 12.00 to SIO.OO per acre ; 2,O'X) acres of farm land at from $5.00 to $20.00 per Good climate, good railroad facilities ; from 8 to 10 months public school each year. | If you wjnt to buy, address H, F. HUTCH ENS, Ellsinore, Mo. Mch 7—3 mo BUY your sugar from Rothrock & Voss at 5 cents per pound. YOU can get the latest thing in the post card linfr from Roth rock & V oss. Navassa Gnano is the best. W. 1 J. Martin sells it. STOKES VETERANS CALLED TO MEET. / Mr. Jas. A. Leak Thinks August 3rd Would Be a Good Time—He Hopes To Secure Some Speak ers and a Band For the Occasion. Peters' Creek, May 25, 1907. Editor Oanbury Reporter : It is getting about time that we should begin talking about another re-union of the old Confederate Veterans of Stokes. While I want to impose on the good people of Stokes when they have so nobly responded to my call on them in the past and made snch prep aration for the comfort and pleasure of the old soldiers, and while I feel somewhat reluctant to call on them again, still I am well assured of the fact that we will not be here much longer to call on you. Therefore I hope that the good people will again do as well in the future as they have in the past. So I think, if it is entirely satisfac tory to the people of Stokes, I will suggest that we meet in Danbury on Saturday, August 3rd. That will be a leisure time with the people. I hope to be able to procure some good speakers for the occasion, and also hope the people will aid me in getting a good band to fur nish music. I hope to be able to be with you and that we will have a good time. Yours very truly, JAMES A. LEAK. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE: DAY Take LAXATIVE BROMO Qnin | ine Tablets. Druggists refund j money if it fails to cure. E. VV, j GROVE'S signature is on each ; box. 25c. FOR SALE—One good cow, tlve eighths Jersey. Gives 3 gallons a day, 3 yoars old. Will swap. T. J. DAVIS, Dan bury, N. C. " Navassa Guano for sale by W. | J. Martin, Walnut Cove. Sea W. J. Martin for Navassa ; Guano. That hacking continues 5! Because your cyt'.Zni is exhausted and A your powers of rcsijiuiicc weakened. A Take ZZi tuition. It builds up and slrengllien. >ur entire system. J A It contains Cod Liver Oil and i iypophosphites so A A prepared that it is easy to take and easy to digest. rfj, /y ALL DRUGGISTS: £oc. A."3 11.00 & Lumber and Labor are High Buy the WORLD-RENOWNED, latest improved, 1907 Model Deloach Saw Mill, Planer Edger, Shingle Mill, etc., from W. H. Clark and thus save money on first and last cost. Terms most reasonable. He has also lowest prices on Steam and Gasoline Engines. The Case All-Steel Separator, full line of Farm Ma chinery and Buggies. Highest market prices paid for lumber. Address W. H. CLARK, Stuart, Va. Private Phone, "Glenwood." I lie kiln 127 South Main Street, Winston=Salem We have recently added several new appliance*! to thin already splendidly equipped Institution anil an* offering still l»etter advantage* to those who suffer with rheumatism, gout, kidney and blood diseases, lumbago, sciatica, neuralgia, ca tarrh, certain forms of paralysis, in digestion, varicocele, hydrocele, strictures, lieiitorfhphUi (piles), dis ease of the nervous system, skin diseases, such as eczema, penrltls, hlpus, cancer, and old son's ; remove moles, warts, sti|>erfluous hair, birth marks, etc. We cordially Invite you to visit the Sanitarium or write for descrip tive booklet. *r DR. T. M. COPPLE ( Successor to Rier»on & Copple) WINSTON-SALEM, N O. A NARROW ESCAPE. j i G. W. C'oyd, a merchant of | LMunk, Mo, bad a narrow escape four years ago, when he ramTjtTßf si n bur into his thumb. He says: i "The doctor wanted to amputate it but I would not consent. I bought a box of Bncklen's Arnica Salve and that cure ! the danger ous wound." 25c at all druggists. : When you want good goods at the right price, see Jacob Fulton at Waluut Cove. Never has and never will be undersold. Flour and chop are now lower. Ask Harry Davis or J. H. Fulton for prices before you buy, it may pay you. Our spriug line of dry goods and notions will be in this week R. DAVIS, * inston, X. (J. You will now find the newest and nicest of all Ainds lliings for every body such as ladies ready made Suits .ind Hats. Call and examine her stock. * NEW YORK CLIPPER I 18 THE aREATEST I THEATRICAL £ SHOW PAPER IN THE WORLD. $4.00 Per Year. Single Copy, 10 Cts. ISSUED WEEKLY. ' \ SAMPLE COPY FREE. FRANK QUEEN PUB. CO. (IM), \ ALBERT J BOHR, IHIHUSHKIIS, auuiiL 47 w. MTU ST., NEW
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