THE DANBURY REPORTER.
VOLUME XXXIII.
Stokes County
Farmers' Institute
_ TO BE HELD AT LOCUST HILL FARM, I. Q.
ROSS', ON JULY 27.
AN IMPORTANT MEETING
Speakers Of State Reputation Will Be Present, and
Discussions Of Great Importance Made.
Raleigh, N. C., June IS. —An-
nouncement was made today of a
long list of farmers' institutes to
he held duriag July and August
by department officials and work
ers under the auspices of the state
department of agriculture, special
institutes for women to be features
in connection with the institutes
in many of the appointments an
nounced.
Some of those who will take
part in programs for the various
institutes will be Col. R. J.
Redding, ex-director of the Geor
gia experiment station; Dr. W.
McLendon, of Anson county; T.
E. Brown, Hertford; N. A. Layton,
of Bladen county; T. B. Parker,
Raleigh; Dr. J. A. Campbell, of
Almance; Dr. Tait Butler, state
veteranarian ami director of the
farmers' institutes; Horticultural
ist VV. M. Hutt, Entomologist
Franklan Sherman; Cj. D. Will
iams, in charge of the crop and
fertilizer experiment work on the
state farms; Prof. C. M. Conner,
t of the chair of agriculture, A. and
M. College, Prof. P. Stevens
and J. 8. Jetfories, the latlw in
charge of the poaltry experiment
work of the state department of
agriculture.
The Stokes County Farmers
Institute will be held at I. G.
Ross' farm, on July 27th. Every
farmer in Stokes county, with his
wife and daughters, should attend,
as discussions will be made of
great importance and money value.
PINNACLE ROUTE 3.
Pinnacle Route 3, June 15.
Most of the farmers are about
done setting tobacco in this sec
tion.
Messrs. Green Edwards, Wool-
Bey Ring, Tyra Davis and Misses
Carria Wright, Minnie Westmore
land and others were the gueSts of
Misses Mary, Teunie and Jessie
EdwarJs Sunday. Guess Misses
Mary and Tunnie Edwards aud
Miss Carrie Wright are all smiles
as their best fellows went home
with them Sunday uight from
preaching.
There was a large crowd at the
ice-cream supper Saturday even
ing at Mr. Joe Brown's store. A
good time reported.
GUESS WHO.
FRANCISCO.
Francisco, June 15.—There was
a large crowd at State Line Sun
day. Gurss Mr. Fletcher C.
enjoyed himself allright Sunday,
as 'lie ' went home with Miss
Willie Wright from State Line.
Mis. Lizaie and Mary Bensley
are uot any better yet.
They have been confined to
their bed for some time.
Tliiuk Mr. Grover F. and Miss
Nannie F, will get ntarripd sooi(
I will side track as this is the
tii'st.
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DEATH OF MISS LYLIE VERNON.
Lived at Sandy Ridge. Buried Mon
day Of Last Week—Miss Susie
lames Sick With Cancer.
Sandy Ridge, June 11.—Miss
Lylie Vernon, an aged lady died
at her home last Sunday morning
and was buried Monday. The
funeral services were conducted by
Rev. Joe Joyce. She leaves one
son and two daughters aud a host
of friends to mourn their loss.
J Mr. Arthur Shelton and Miss
Maud Thornton were united in
the holy bonds of matrimony last
Sunday.
Mr. Geo. Kallani was seen going
towards Mr. Walter Hawkins' last
Sunday. What is attracting your
attention, Mr. George ? Miss
Luvie, we think,
Messrs. Jimmie Nunn, A. S.
Francis, Nat Ward and Misses
Millie, Sallie and Dora Ward and
Bettie Francis, ®f Francisco, visit
ed at Mr. W. R. East's, Mr. John
Ward'" aud Mrs. C. D. Duncan's
Saturday and Sunday, returning
to their homes Monday. Come
again, boys and girls, we are glad
to have you in our midst.
Miss Sissie James is right sick
with a cancer, wo are sorry to
note. %
SUBSCRIBER.
Road From Stuart to the N. C. Line
Completed.
Mr. J. R. Smith, of near the
State line, was in Stuart Monday.
He tells us whaat in that section
is the best that has been in years,
most of which will be ready for
harvest next week. Mr. Smith is
also road overseer for Dan River
District and has just completed
and put in fine condition the pub
lic road leading from Stuart to
North Carolina. This road has
up until a short while ago been in
a fearful condition and is one of
the most traveled roads in the
county. Last winter there was
much complaint about the cond
ition of this road, and travel was
almost an impossibility. Mr.
Smith in one mud hole had to
put fifty four two horse wagon
loads of rock. The people who
liave to travel this road are very
much pleased with its present
condition,—Stuart Enterprise.
The farmers of this section are
now in the midst of wheat harvest
and the crop is the best raised
since IHU3.
REMARKABLE RESCUE.
That truth is stranger than fic
tion, has once more been demon
strated in the little town of Fed
ora, Tpnn., the residence of C. V.
Lepper. He writes i "I was in
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morrhagosof the lungs and throat.
Doctors failed to help me, and all
hope had tied when I began tak
ing Dr. King's New Discovery.
Then instant relief came. Then
coughing soon ceased ; the bleed
ing diminished rapidly, and in
three weeks I was able to go to
work." Guaranteed cure for
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DANBURY, N. C., JUNE 27,^1907.
OPPOSED TO A BOND ISSUE
Mr. C. R. Helsabeck Thinks fhe
Better Method To Pay As We Go.
Rural Hall, June 17.
Mr. Editor :
Isee in the Reporter of .June
13th that you would like to vote a
bonded indebtedness of S2OO,(XX)
on the people of Stokes county
for the purpose of building good
roads,
Now, I agree that some of our
people are too afraid of taxation,
and sincerely regret the fact, but
to make such a statement only
scares them the more.
We all know that good roads
j are indispensable to the growth of
! a county, aud I am not trying to
refute the idea whatever of build
ing them, but in my judgment the
people of Stokes county will never
agree to be taxed with a S2OO,(XX)
bond issue for that purpose.
Now, let us consider what it
would mean to our county if we
should put a debt upon it like
that. You issue $200,000 in bonds
and if you could get 100 cents on
the dollar, which is impossible, it
would, at () per cent, interest, start
a debt of $12,000 to be paid every
year. Now, how much would that
interest alone raise our tax per
one hundred dollars valuation ?
Do you not see that in less than
soventeen years it would amount
to more than the principal ? Or
if we pay $24,000 each year it
would take over ten years to pay
the indebtedness, which would re
sult from a $200,000 bond issue.
No, Mr. Editor, it does not
make our hair stand on ends to
to discuss this question, but we do
not want a bond issue—every
muscle, fibre and nerve of the pa
triot cries out no ! against a bond
issue of $200,000. Interest money
is the hardest money in the world
to pay, and the people of Stokes
county do not want a big dose of
it every year for the next twenty
years.
Well, you might ask what are
are we going to do—let the good
roads proposition stop without
any demonstration whatever, and
cousider eur people inert to the
subject only to kili every hypo
thesis that is advanced ? No, we
do not mean that at all, but we do
want the best method of working
our roads with the least cost pos
sible.
There nevor was a period in our
history that so much money was
in circulation as what is
the use of issuing bonds to he
paid twenty-five or thirty years
j from now, knowing what the
status of the country will be at
that time t Why not while the
times are good and everything so
prosperous, pay for our roads be
ing macadamized, streams bridged,
etc., and not put it off until some
future dayV If we vote the $24,-
000 on our people to be spent each
year on the roads, in ten years it
would amount to $240,000, and I
dare say the result would be great
er than to issue $2(X),000 worth of
bonds to be spent extravagantly
in trying to fix our roads so quick
ly. Of "course if the S2OO,(XX)
would macadamize the roads and
bridge the streams of Stokes coun
ty, so that one horse could pull
2,500 pounds over them, then I
would say vote your bonds and
vote them quickly. But I do not
believe it possible for that sum of
money to fix our roads and grade
them as level as those of Mecklen
burg, Guilford and others of tho
leading counties of North Caro
lina.
Some people in this part of the
county seem to think it a good
idea to let each township have its
own work done thereby getting the
work more evenly distributed over
the county, but I will not give my
views on that method yet. I will
say however that probably there is
a good hypothesis advanced in
' that proposition
OH AS. R. HELSABECK.
ABOUT CORN CULTURE.
The Farmer Need Not Expect
Fine Yields Unless He Knows
Something About the Habits '
Of the Corn Root.
The "soil" is that portion of tho
field actually occupied by the
roots of plants, ft may be five
feet deep or it may be six inches
or even less, depending mainly on
the skill and intelligence of the j
I farmer or the man who cultivates
the field. Tho corn roots, if they j
| have a cliauce, will occupy every :
I inch to the depth of from three to
j five feet, and the yield of corn will
j depend on the completeness of ;
.this occupation. The feeding
, ground, or, in other words, the j
jCorn-root pasture, depends mainly!
on the preparation aud cultivation
of the soil.
THE PASTURE OF THE CORN ROOTS.
It may be limited in many ways
so that the farmer, instead of us
ing from three to five feet of his
field as soil, will use only a small
portion of it. If the land is not
properly drained, either naturally
or artificially, the corn roots pen
j etrate into the regions saturated
with water, for the water shuts out
the air. If hard-pan comes near
the surface the corn roots cannot
reach into that, and he may be
cultivating but six, eight or ten
I inches of the field as soil. If the
land bo heavy and plowed wet, full
of lumps on the surface or resting
on the plow pan or bottom of the
furrow, the corn roots cannot
utilize these, and hence his soil is
j limited. If he lias plowed under
| in a dry time coarse manure, so as
Jto shut off the supply of water
I from below, the corn roots are
again limited. It is, therefore,
! about as necessary for tho farmer
j to understand corn roots and their
habits and ways as it is for the
surgeon to understand the anat
| omy of the system, where the
, bones lie, and where the arteries,
veins, nerves and muscles are
j hidden under the skin.
The depth at which corn should
be planted varies with the season
and the soil. In a clay soil and a
oold spring, and with plenty of
! moisture, it may be planted near
the surface, but in a light N soil it
must be planted deeper, in order
j that it may have moisture and
I heat; and again, it may be planted
| too deep in any soil. Other things
being equal, the deeper the plant
lean be established in the ground
tho better its chance for with
standing drought.
[THE APPLICATION OF THESE FACTS.
What has all this to do with
'cultivating corn say in June?
Much every way. The corn plant
has no tap-root. The first roots
| start out from the seed grain and
go down. After this the roots are
sent out in whorls of from two to
ten. As the plant advances to
ward maturity, these whorls rise
closer to tho surface. The first
| roots thrown out immediately
1 above the primary roots run side
: ways and occupy ten or fifteen
iuches below the surface. These
lateral roots throw out fibrous or
feeding roots, which run in every
| direction through the soil and oc
| cupy every inch within a radius of
i from two to five feet.
In fact, if the ground is well
| prepared, plowod deep when there
is no danger of cutting oft' the
j roots, the only thing the farmer
(need have in view during the lat
i ter period is the maintaining of
| that mulch of dry dirt of which
Iwe have so often spoken. The
| farmer who cultivates corn with
out aay general knowledge of the
; habits of the corn roots is very
j much like the surgeon who would
operate without knowing the lo
cation of the veins, arteries,
nerves and muscles. —Dr. Henry
Wallace, Editor Wallace's Farmer,
Dos Moines, lowa.
Great Raid Made
On Smithtown
TWENTY-SEVEN REVENUE OFFICERS DESTROY
THIRTEEN STILLS AND CAPTURE TEN BLOCK
ADERS.
CHARGE MADE AT BREAK OF DAY
Officers held Their Ground All Day, Though More
Than 200 Shots Were Exchanged With The Moon
shiners--Nobody Killed, But Several Hit--The
Biggest Raid Ever Made In the State, Engaging
Nearly the Whole Revenue Force of the State.
( At four o'clock lust Wednesday
morning a determined raid was
made on Smithtown by twenty
seven United States Internal Rev
enue officers, The moonshiners
were caught napping, and before
they could rally thirteen blockade
stills were destroyed an:' ten men
(The prisoners, who are now in
Dobson jail, under bonds of SI,OOO
each} are us follows : Frank Cird
well, John Young, J. T. Griffin. J.
D. Willisms, John W. Williams,
Oscar Williams, Zeb Frazier, Os
car Smith, Logan Chambers and
J, Gr. Shelton.
The officers who took part in
the raid were as follows : Rev
enue Agent J. H. Surber, in charge
of the district; Revenuo Agent H.
B. Taylor, Deputy Collectors Mc-
Coy, Atkins, Dawning, Poole,
Shepherd, Miller, Sisk, Harkins,
Hendrix, Roberts, Albright, Nor
inan; Deputy Marshals Wright
and Carroll, and special officer
King; besides ton others whose
names could not be learned.
RAID BIGGEST EVER MA UK IX THE
STATE.
( The raid is considered one of
the biggest ever made in the State,
and in it were engaged almost the
whole revenue force of North Car
olina. y
It was reported here that there
were 51 of the officer?, but this
has not been confirmed.
It was reported that the raid
was led by two United States
secret sersice detectives, who had
been in the Smithtown neighbor
hood, working up the situation,
for two weeks, but this is denied
by Revenue Agont Surber, who in
an interview says that the at
tack was planned and executed by
the North Carolina officers alone.
The officers gathered at Mount
Airy Tuesday night. Deputy Col
lector Norman, of Dobson, being
familiar with tho situation, was
one of the leaders. The men had
a long ride through the night,
Smithtown being about 40 miles
from Mt. Airy. They reached
Smithtown about 4 o'clock
Wednesday morning. They were
armed with Winchester rifles, re
volvers and the heavy axes used
for destroying the coppers.
WOMEN ANI) CHILDREN ARRESTED,
AND THE BIG BELL CAPTURED.
The stillers were taken un
awares, and many of them ware
arrested before they had oppor
tunity to offer resistance.' A num
ber of women and children were
placed under guard, to prevent
them from spreading the alarm.
It is said that a big bell is located
in the center of Smithtown, which
is rung by the moonshiners on the
first approach of danger. This
was put out of commission by the
officers at tho start.
The still houses captured were
J burned. A lively exchange of
sh»ts soon began between the olfi
| cers and stillers, more than 200
| guns being fired, but as far as can
be learned no - one was killed,
though several were reported hit.
One stiller was reported shot
through the ear. None of the offi
cers were hurt.
OFFICERS HELD THEIR GROUND.
The officers stubbornly held
their ground, and it was late in the
afternoon when the thirteen stills
had been captured, and ten men
placed under arrest. Then the re
treat began. The prisoners and
the destroyed stills were carried to
Mt. Airy in wagons. The prison
er were given a hearing before a
U. S. Commissioner and in de
fault of SI,OOO bonds each, were
taken to Dobson jail where they
will await trial at the next term of
Fedora! Court at Greensboro.
John Young, one of the moon
shiners arrested, being a cripple,
was turned loose by the officers.
Young then procured a gun and
waylaid the officers, shooting into
them once or twice, but none was
hit. The officers returned Young's
lire, one ball penetratiug his ear.
Ho was re-taken and sent off with
| the other prisoners. Young is well
known to the Stokes authorities,
j having spent much time in jail at
j Danbury for retailing.
"SMITHTOWN."
"Smithtown" is a town in
i name. It comprises a big terri
j tory covering some sor > miles
square, and lies two or three miles
north and west of Sandy Ridge
and is about ten miles northeast
of Danbury.
There has long been a refuge
for much lawlessness, and it is
generally reported that from 25 to
|SO illicit stilis do business day ami
! night, and have been at it for a
long time. The revenue author
ities know of the existence of tl*ese
stills, and have known it for a
long time,but Ihey have feared to
make the attack, as the blockaders
of the Smithtown region are
! known to be desperate and dan
gerous characters. Recently their
traffic has become to be so large
J and bold that the Washington
| authorities probably took cogniz
' ance of the notorious violation of
law and ordered the State forces
i to make the raid which has so long
I been dreaded.
JUDGE BOYD'S RESOLVE.
Judge Boyd has said that he is
j going to break up the blockading
business of the State, and it may
be that this is but the beginning
of the crusade that will end in the
i complete cleaning out of the still
| infested region of Snow Creek
\ township which has for forty years
been known and dreaded by the
revenue officers as the toughest
spot in the State,
A FORTUNATE TEXAN.
Mr. E. W. Goodloe, of 107 St,
Louis St., Dallas, Texas, says: "In
the past year I have become ac
quainted with Dr. King's New
Life Pills, and no laxative I ever
before tried so effectually dis
poses of malaria and biliousness."
They don't grind nor gripe. 25c.
: at all druggists.
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