THE'DANBURY REPORTER.
"■■> THE WINSTON SPECIAL.
VOLUME XXXIII.
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
ISSUES ORDER OF CONFISCATION
AGAINST SMITHTOWN LANDS
About 4,000 Acres of the Best Land In Stokes
County To Be Seized By the Revenue Authorities.
The Order Sent to District ,Attorney Holton, Who
Says He Will Carry It Out to the Letter—Govern
ment May Hold the Contraband Real Estate, Or
May Sell. „
Winston-Salem, Jan. B.—ln accordance with plans of the United
States government to Btamp ont blockading in the notorious Smith
town settlement and restore peace and order in that section of the
State, the United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue to-day
authorized District Attorney A. E. Holton to institute libel proceed
ings against the lands of every inhabitant of the section, convicted of
illicit distilling. The ruling also applies to residents of Smithtown,
who are now serving terms in the Federal prison for illicit distilling
in the last few years.
District Attorney Holton stated tonight that he would proceed at
once to institute libel proceedings against several land owners of
Smithtown. He believes this to be the only effective method of rid
ding that section of the makers of "firewater." Smithtown is located
in Stokes county, and is about two miles Equare containing about
3,000 or 4,000 acres of good farming lands, and some of the best land
in the county is in the blookading section. Those who persist in
making blockade whiskey will have their lands forfeited to the gov
ernment, as District Attorney Holton statos that he will carry out the
instructions of the commissioner to the letter. After gaining posses
sion of the land the government may sell it or hold it, as it sees fit to
do.
A distillery plant found upon the premises of a resident of that sec
tion is sufficient cause for libel proceedings against the owner of the
land and unless he can show the courts he has no connection with the
plant his lands will be forfeited. The directions of the commissioner
oontain another clause, which makes the order more sweeping. It says
that a man who allows another to pass over his lands, going to and
from an illicit distillery for the purpose of operating the same, is
guilty and his land is subjeot to forfeiture to the government.
There can be no doubt of the faot that this will put an end to block
ading in Smithtown, and that hereafter revenue officers and others
oan invade that section with safety.
FORTY-FIVE STUDENTS AT
DALTON.
ProL Flynt's School FlourishinJ--
News Of Interest From Dalton.
DHHOD, Jan. 13. —Prof. W. A.
Flynt enrolled 45 students last
week, and expecting more. We
are glad to know the school is
building up. It is a good school,
with two good teaohers, and more
ought to be in school here that are
not.
Miss Lula Schultz went to
Winston last Wednesday, return
ing Thursday, shopping.
Mr. C. J. Schultz was right sick
last week with rheumatism, but is
better now. Hope he may soon
recover.
Carlile, the little son of Mr.
Staley, has been right siok the
past week but is improving.
Mr. Will Rutledge is teaching
out the publio school at Legisla
tive.
Miss Ruby Hamm had a spell
ing last Thursday night. A good
attendanoe and a nioe time. Miss
Ruby is having fine success with
her sohool. All the students like
her. She is a good teacher.
Miss Alice Salley returned
home Saturday after spending a
week with her sister in Rural
Hall. She was accompanied home
by her sisfer, Mrs. Carroll.
Mr. Marshal Hedgecook is visit
ing Miss Laoy Roberson again
Saturday night and Sunday; but
\ guess he will leave this morning.
Mr. Edgar Spainhower oalled
on Miss Lula Sohultz Saturday
night'and Sunday. Guess Misses
Lola and Luoy thought the rain
Saturday night was luoky for
them as their beaus bad to spend
the night.
Mr. Frank Hamm visited Mr.
Will Schultz Sunday.
"ME."
Some Notes From Madison Route 3.
Madison, Jan. 13.—We are hav
ing some bad weather down in this
part of the oountry.
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Mitohell
gave a Tacky Party at their home
near Saxon Saturday night but it
rained and didn't many of g£he
young people go.
The little daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. H. L. Wall, cf Hickory, N.
C., is very low with pneumonia,
we are sorry to note.
Mr. Jack Martin, of Madison,
visited Mr. S. G. Wall last Sun
day.
The Wall sohool is progressing
nicely. Mr. Tbos, Covington, of
Pinnacle, is the teacher.
Mr. and Mrs. Wright Glenn
visited Mrs. Glenn's mother, Mrs.
Young, near Dillard, Sunday.
Mr. Jess and Miss Jettie are ex
pecting to get married soon.
Miss Florence went to 6ee Mr.
C. Sunday. It is leap year and
she has started at once.
Miss Hester Wall visited Miss
Effie Blackwell last Saturday and
Sunday.
There will be a singing at Miss
Mary Joyce's next Saturday night.
THREE SCHOOL GIRLS.
A Birthday Dinner Tendered Mr.
Drury Boyle* By Ninety Of His
Friends.
A phone message to the Repor
ter from Mr. W. L. Hall to the
Reporter Monday told of the
pleasant birthday dinner and par
ty given Mr. Drury Boyles at
his home Monday by 90 of his
friends. The oocasion was the
57th birthday of Mr. Boyles, who
it very low with canoer and not
expeoted to live long. After the
dinner was over Mr. J. E. Sim
mons preaohed* there was some
singing and the affair was muoh
appreciated by the afflicted man.
He came to the table once, but
did m t stay from his bed long.
DANBURY, N. C., JAN. 16, 1908.
DR. J. J. LEAK, OF ASBURY.
VERY LOW.
H« Is Sufferinf With Indigestion—
M;. W. A. Tilley and Family Re
covered From Smallpox—Other
News Of Interest.
Westfield Route 1, Jan. 11.—
Rev. J. T. Smith filled his regu
lar appointment at the Westfield
Baptist church' Sunday. A very
good crowd in attendance.
- Mr. W. A. Tilley's family is
out again after having to spend
Christmas housed in with the
smallpox.
Mrs. R. S. Collins, of Francisco,
spent a few days last week with
her parents, Mr, and Mrs. C. W.
Simmons.
Mr. J. W. Tilley, of Mt. Airy,
is visiting his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Tilley.
Mr. Reid Martin returned to
Mt. Airy Monday, after spending
a while with relatives and friends
of this place.
Dr. J. J. Leik, of Asbury, is
very low with indigestion, we are
sorry to note.
A number of revenues passed
yesterday, having? captured sev
eral more of the Smithtown block
aders and destroyed several dis
tilleries. Hurrah for the revenues.
I wish them God speed until
they can destroy the last one.
Mr. George Simmons went to
Pilot Mt. yesterday to purchase
him a horse. Guess he is fixing
to sport Miss Willie W.. as he
has already bought him a new top
buggy. Hurrah for you, "Geor
gie.'
Mr. Numa Christian is sporting
Miss Rosilla Lawson these days.
Miss Mattie Clifton returned
to her home in Mt. Airy after
spending a week or two with her
friends of this place. Guess
Tommy D. is lonesome since her
return. I think every thing will
be alright in the future though
as he said he was going to Dob
son before long to get his license.
"TIPSY."
Some Campbell News.
Campbell, Jan. 13. —We are
having some pretty oold weather.
Tuesday was the roughest day we
have experienced in a long time.
Mr. D M Martin went to Stuart,
Va., Wednesday on business.
Miss Lillie Brown has returned
home from a visit at Stuart.
Mr. W. R. Hylton had a cutting
Friday.
Mr. J. R.Leake, who is teaching
sohool at Smithtown, visited his
parents Sunday.
I guess Joe Henry Corn mar
ried Sunday, as he was seen going
up the roadi towards Creasy's.
Mr. J. M. Lovins didn't get mar
ried Christmas, but I think he will
pet off about the fourteenth of
February.
Messrs. Robt. and Lem More
field called at Mr. D. M. Martin's
Saturday to see Miss Lillie, I
guess.
Mr. Robt. Dalton was married
to Miss Mintoria Sands Inßt week.
Cheer up, Miss Ella, Mr. is
alright yet.
Mr. Henry Hawkins called on
Miss Maud Sands Saturday night.
The men in the Smithtown sec
tion are getting thin.
BLUE JAY.
/
Returned From New York
Master Paul Taylor, the 12 year
old aon of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Tay
lor, was carried by his mother to
New York City last week where
he was examined by eminent spe
cialists for an injury to his knee
whioh was received accidently a
few months since, and which it
has been feared would prove per
manent. Taylor and her son
returned from iv'ew York Monday.
The Report jr is glad to learn
that the patient was given encoura
ging advice by the examining
physicians.
The stockholders of the Bank of
Stokes County will meet at the
Walnut Cove bank on Tuesday,
January 23. The new stockhol
ders of the bank will have a right
and will be expeoted and cordial
ly invited to attend this meet
ing.
MRS A J GANN MUCH IMPROVED.
Intereatiag Item* aad Personal*
From Sandy Ridge Route 2—Now
Is the Time For Stokes to Stamp
Out the Whiskey Traffic.
Sandy Ridge, Route 2, Jan. 13.
—Mrs. A. J. Gann has been very
sick the past week, but is able to
be about again, we are glad to
note.
Mr. Jerry and Hugh Dodson
visited at Mr. A. J. Gann's last
Saturday.
Miss Susie Grogan spent last
Thursday night at the home of
Mr. George Rakestraw. She re
ports having a very nice time.
Master Fred Amos, Joe Bill
Joyce, Jesse Shaffer, and Edgar
Mabe were the guests of Master
Peter Gann yesterday.
Mr. Chase Price moved last
week from this neighborhood on
Col. Galloway's land near Oak
Grove Church.
Messrs. Monnie Shaffer, Charles
Amos, A. J. Gann, and W. S. Shaf
fer were the guests of Mr. Joe
Purgeson yesterday. Mr. Pur
gerson entertained thom by play
ing some fine pieces on his graph
opnone.
Mr. Will Hutcherson has lately
moved in this neighborhood, on
Mr. Tom Kalinin's land, from near
Cardwell's mill.
A. B. C's letter on whiskey in
the last issue of the Reporter, was
certainly good. Now is the time
for all the good people in Stokes
to rise up against whiskey, more
so than they ever have in their
lives. Isn't it sad when we come
to think of that revenue officer
being killed at Smithtown, here
in our own county? While
whiskey has never hurt me, nor
any of my people, still I know it
is hurting some people. If Bome
people don't believe whiskey is a
curse, just let them go into a
neighborhood where everybody is
engaged in making and selling
whiskey, they will find all the good
fertile land grown over in forests
and broomstraw. Farming seems
to be a thing of the past.
The people have all grown very
indolent and oare for nothing at
all, not even to send their chil
dren to sohool, but whiskey is all
they care for. And when we go
into homes where the fathers are
drunkards, we find the ohildren
half clothed and sometimes hun
gry, their houses are barely fur
nished, and they always need
something else in the way of cloth
ing, food and so on, so very much
worse than they need strong drink.
Our dear old Stokes County
will never be what it ought to be
unless liquor is entirely whipped
out of it.
"LEO."
"CAMPBELL.
Campbell Route 1, Jan. 13.
Mies Lillie Brown entertained
quite a number of her friends
Thursday evening.
Mr. Bob Morefield went over to
Critz Saturday in a two-horse
buggy after his letter. Wonder
what is up?
Mrs. D. M. Martin visited her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Brown,
Thursday.
Mr. Lemmie Morefield, who has
been in the west for some time, is
back in Stokes again.
Mr. Jack Ayers, who lives near
Nettle Ridge, gave the young
people a party last Monday night.
All report a nice time.
Misses Lula ani' Lilla Martin,
Messrs. Wesley Pringle, Frank
Tilley and Matt Moore visited
Miss Stella Watkins Sunday.
Mrs. Covie Smith visited Mrs.
D. Martin Sunday afternoon.
Messrs. Gilmer Watkins, Wes
ley Priddy, Bob and Lemmie
Morefield called to see Miss Lillie
Brown Sunday evening.
A. B. C.
To Attend Business College.
Mr. Everett Hartmam, of the
firm of Mrs. R. L. Hartman and
son, of Hartman postoffice, was in
town Tuesday. Mr. Hartman,
who is yet quite a young man,
will leave in a few days for some
business oollege—he haa not yet
decided whioh—and will take a
thorough business oourse. During
his abeenoe the mercantile busi
ness at home will be managed by
his mother and some of the young
er boys.
RECOVERING FROM SCARLATINA
FRIGHT.
The Dillard School Moving Along
Nicely Again—Mrs. Ed Lasley
Unimproved—Telephone Line Re
paired.
Dillard Jan. 14.—We think
our good people are recovering
from the severe fright over scar
latina, which seemed destined to
play havoc with the school at this
place about two week ago.
Mr. L. W. Blackwell of Pine
Hall, was here a few days ago.
Mr. Moore, salesman for the
Brand Shoe Co., Roanoke, Ms
here Wednesday.
Mr. R. A. Deshazo, of Sandy
Ridge, was here today on busi
ness.
Mr. Joe H. Carter, of Pine
Hall, was in our hamlet on busi
ness Friday.
Messrs. James Herd and An
derson Duncan went to see Misses
Mary Sue and Helen Willis Sun
day afternoon.
The clever salesman for Lip
fert-Scales & Co., Mr. Watson,
was in town Saturday.
Mrs. Ed Lasley, who has been
quite feeble for a long time, does
not seem to improve, we are sor
ry to say, but is rather worse
than usual.
The telephone line between
this place and Madison has been
repaired,
As news seemß to be a little
scarce at Dillard this week I will
wring off, with best wishes to
the Reporter and it readers.
"A."
Interesting Letter From Smith.
Smith, Jan. 13. —Some of the
boys of this section have stopped
going to school to hunt and kill
birds. Boys when yon kill the in
nocent birds you are committing a
crime, for when God made the
birds He made them not for worth
less boys to slaughter, but to be
useful to the farmers. If it wasn't
for the birds to keep the insects
killed out, the farmers would soon
have to quit farming. It is of late
years that the farmers can't raise
anything but what the insects de
stroy a part of it. Most of the land
in this section is posted under the
game law and you cannot hunt on
it without violating the law and it
is a good thing. If the boys would
only stop hunting and go to school
it would be better for them and
the country too.
The sohool here is progressing
uicely, as we have one among the
best teachers in Stokes county, it
is Mr. Jno. Leak. He has a good
attendance and a good quiet
school. He has no rock throwing,
no ball playing, and don't let any
of the scholars play any kind of
games that there are any danger
in, just, as any teacher ought to do.
HOMIE MOORfc.
THE CONFISCATION OF SMITH
TOWN.
Some Of those On Whom the Losses
Will Fall—Many Innocent Par
ties to Suffer—Excitement.
The order of the United States
government for the confiscation of
the Smithtown lands, is creating
a great deal of excitement in all
sections ofthe country,
About -Plhousand acres of land,
it is learned, will fall under the de
cree of condemnation, and in this
scope is comprised many acres of
splendid farming lands, belonging
in some cases to parties who not
only have never engaged in the
illicit distilling of liquor them
selves, but who had no knowledge
of any such violations of the law
on their premises by other par
ties.
The Reporter is informed that
losses will fall heavily on James
P. Smith, Louis Sheppard, the
Rierson heirs, Joseph Bateman,
Oscar Sisk, W. W. King, Shelton,
[ Spencer, and others.
The order of the government is
very sweeping, and when it invol
ves the lands of all parties who
have even allowed ingress and
egress over their lands for the
operation of the blockade distill
eries, it is certain to be wide in its
application.
Mr. Hardin Covington, of
Meadows, paid the Reporter
offioe a welcome visit Tuesday.
FARMERS MARKETING MUCH
TOBACCO.
Since the Warehousemen Are P«y
inf Cash, the Weed Movea Rap
idly From Western Stokes —
Miss Mary Williams Very Sick —
Mr. A. M. Marsh To Move.
Pilot Mountain Ronte 2, Jan.
13.—The farmers are marketing
more tobacco for the last several
days than they have been doing,
owing to the faot that they are
now paying cash for the weed.
Several returned from market
last week and report prices good.
Miss Mary Williams is very
sick, we are sorry to note.
Miss Addie and Mr. Eugene
Lemons returned to their home
in Winston last week, after visit
ing in this section for some time.
We are sorry to learn that Mr.
A. M. Marsh, our hustling mer
chant, is going to sell out and move
from our midst. He is going to
Ararat, N. C.
The Cook school pupils and the
Hollow Springs debators had their
joint debate Friday night. Their
auestion was "Resolved, That
eorge Washington Deserves
More Honor for Defending Amer
ica Than Columbus Does for
Discovering it." The judges
rendered a decision of 2 to 1
in favor of Hollow Springs,
who represented the affirmative,
but it was wrong beyond a shadow
of doubt and most all that heard the
discussion said that the negative
made the best argument. The
Cook's school house boyß said they
had rather have the honor of get
ting the question and not get it
than to get it and not have the
honor of it.
Debating Society Organized—Other
Notes From King Route 2.
We have prayermeeting at Mt.
Olive church once every week. It
will be next Saturday night, Jan
uary 18. The leader is Rev. J.
Thomas Smith, of Westfield, and
assistant Bro. Scales Cromer, of
King. The 12th chapter of Ro
mans was selected by Bro. Cromer
as the chapter to open with. In
this ohapter we will find sundry
practical duties reoommended. I
think it is a good ohapter to read
and study. There will also be
prayermeeting at Oak Grove
sohool house Monday night, Jan
uary 13th at 7 o'clock. We hope
to see a good crowd out. There is
nothing better than a good prayer
meeting in a neighborhood. It
looks like to me that some one
would organize a good prayer
meeting in Smithtown nieghbor
hood.
Elder J. Thos. Smith, of West
field, will fill his regular appoint
ment at Mt. Olive Saturday and
Sunday next.
We have a good debating so
ciety organized at Oak Grove. We
have a debate every Thursday
night. The last querry was, "Re
solved, That War Has Been More
Injurious To the Human Family
Than Intemperance." Three jud
ges gave the query to intemper
ance, after a long discussion of
both side. The query for next
Thursday is, "Resolved, that There
Is More Pleasure In City Life
Than Country Life." A goodly
number of speakers were chosen
on both sides.
; Farmer's Quick Step 'Phone to Be
Extended to Grabb's —Little Mat
tie Gunter Sick—Mr. Will Kei
ger Depot Agent at King.
King, Jan. 15.—There was quite
an exoitement in King to-day.
The Grabbs M'f'g. Co., team ran
away, but no serious damage was
done.
Little Mattie Gunter is real
sick. Hope she will soon be able
to enter school again.
-The Farmers' Quick Step 'Phone
Line will be extended as far as the
widow Grabb's. The material is al
ready ordered.
Mr. Edgar Spainhour, from
Roanoke \ a., is visiting his par
ents this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie White
visited at Mr. Charlie Fulp's Sun
day.
Mr. Willie Keiger is depot agent
here now.
ELVA.
It has become evident that at
the ooming session of Congress
the administration will ask (or a
i large addition to the oavy.
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