THE DANBURY REPORTER.
VOLUME XXXIII.
Listen, Men of Stokes !
Sleeping beneath the sod of North Carolina
graveyards and cemeteries today are the bodies
of ten thousand men and women who DILI)
DRUNK, because the people of this "Christian
State" voted to legalize the manufacture and
sale of liquor, thus placing before these unfortu
nate men and women a temptation which they
could not resist.
Think on this, men of Stokes county, and teli
me where is your manhood, your enlightened cit
izenship and your Christian Religion. And
where are your Churches, that they have permit
ted this stupendous crime !
Listen, men of Stokes ! What if, with a sword
of fire, some terrible agency within a year's time
laid into complete destruction the eight town
ships of your county, so that from Asbury to
Pine Hall, and from Pijinacle to Sandy Ridge,
houses, woods, mines, timber, horses and cattle,
money, solvent credits and all were annihilated,
and even the land itself torn asunder and blast
ed and burned until not a single vestige of life or
property remained--only the blackened ashes of
despair, with the Angel of Destruction brooding
over chaos.
But listen again. Men of Stokes! I will destroy
THIRTY THOUSAND COUNTIES LIKE STOKES
and still not equal in loss of property the
amount of money WASTED in our country for
liquor every year.
But this is not all. While this property is be
ing destroyed, ONE HUNDRED AND TEN
THOUSAND PERSONS DIE from drinking.
These are the figures, gentlemen.
But is this all ? Ah, no, far be this from the
extent of the gigantic, the colossal ruin of the
liquor evil which you have LEGALIZED. Tens
and hundreds of thousands of orphans, widows,
paupers, maniacs, suicides, and criminals.
Looking on this picture, can you conscientious
ly vote next Tuesday For the Manufacture and
Sale of HELL in North Carolina ?
At the Day of Final Reckoning when the graves
shall disgorge, and the pale and sheeted dead
who were victims of drink, shall stand in gloomy
array, lifting their baleful eyes and pointing the
withering finger at YOU, how shall you escape
the responsibility they will fasten upon you ?
WOMANS' FOREIGN UNION MIS
SIONARY SOCIETY.
To Meet First Sunday In June At
M. E. Church—Programme For the
Meeting.
The following programme will
be carried out at the regular
monthly mooting of the Womans'
[ T nion Foreign Missionary Society
to be held in the Sunday School
room at the M. K. church tho first
Sunday in June :
I-KOISKAMMK
Hymn—"Blest He the Tie that
Binds."
Devotional exercise by the Pres
ident, Mrs. W. \V. King.
Roll call and Treasurer's report.
Dialogue—"Aunt Polly Joins
the Missionary Society."
Reading "Young Ladies Here,
Young Ladies There," by Miss
Annie Blair.
Reading—"Did It Pay," by Miss
Mary Taylor.
Duet —"Mite Box Song," by
Raynor Joyce and Grace Taylor.
Dupt—"Ho! Reapers," by Misses
Blanche Pepper and Mary Joyce.
Reading—"Will'am Carey, the
Shoe-maker Missionary," by Miss
Nellie Jcyoe.
Song "The Heathen's Re
iptpiest," (representing five coun
tries), by Mrs. A. \V. Davis, Misses
.Josie Pepper, Nellie Joyce,
Blanche Pepper and Mary Joyce,
i MRS. A. \VV DAVIS.
vC 'in. • MTSS SADIE PETRKE.
I MISS JESSIE PEPPER
Boy Hurt.
A young son of Mr, VVeller V.
Hcnii'tt fell from a swing and
was seriously hurt yest rlay.
A phone message says he was
struck by a snag, and is in «jisit«* a
painful condition.
REV. A. R. BELL AT DILLARD.
To Speak Tomorrow Night Mr.
R. H. Mitchell to Build Other
News.
Dillard, May P.l. —Mrs. J. R.
Martin is on the sick list.
Mr. T. J. Hutchins and family
were here Monday.
J. Hani Mitchell returned from
a visit to his father-in-law in Vir
ginia Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Mitchell
visited relatives, Mr. J. E. Willis,
near Walnut Cove, Sunday.
Misses Mary Sue and Hellen
Willis were visitors here Sunday.
Messrs. R. F. and E. L. Mitch
ell have purchased a new thresh
ing machine, latest improved No.
4 Geiser.
Mr. R. H. Mitchell, a prosper
ous farmer of Saxon, was here
Monday looking after finished
lumber to build himself a hand
some residence.
Rev. A. R. Rell will address the
people at Dillard school house
next Thursday night. Let every
body, ladies and gentlemen, come
out and hear him.
To Our Correspondents
The correspondents of the Re
porter will please mail their letters
to the paper so that they will
reach Danbury not later than
Tuesday We wort- unable to print
several letters this week on ac
count of the fact that they did not
reach us m.til Wednesday, after
the paper had gone to press.
Walnut Cove Will Give Prohibition
Majority.
A phone message from Walnut
Cove statis that that precinct will
go for prohibition by a majority
of at least '2O vot -s.
DANBURY, N. C., MAY 20, 1908
PROHIBITION KALLY AT ASBURY
Mr. Joseph Gilley "Does Up" An
Anti-Prohibition Preacher---Lots
Of Trouble With Laborers.
IJrini Route 1, May I s .—We
iri'l a grand prohibition rally at
Asbury on the loth. We I.ail
good speaking by ail the speakers.
I Jul we want to state that we feel
proud of I Job Xunn. lie made a
speech that held the large au
dience spellbound for more than
an hour. It was plain and to
point, and I Job deserves much
credit for the stand he lias taken,
and being raised in a stillhouse
and anions drinking men as he
was.
We had on Saturday night a
speaking near here at Francisco!
school house before Joe Gilley. of
Surry, got there t> speak. A
preacher got up to speak
for whiskey. Finally the
prohibition speaker. Joe Gilley,
came in and after a period got
possession of the floor, and it is
said by good men that they had a
hot debate until a I :te hour, and
that Joe Gilley "did up the:
preacher" in line shape and made ;
many votes f. r prohibition.
Asbury district is for prohibi-i
tioii by a good majority.
After the speaking and Sunday :
School we took up collection for
Mr. Abe Joyce, who is almost eat'
up with a cancer. We collected
about eleven dollars. That was a
very charitable act. as Mr. Joyce
cannot live much longer and is
not able to work.
Died, near here. Saturday night
the U»th. Mr. Joe Epperson. a
son-in-law of Mr. Snider Joyce, a
near neighbor.
Mr. Thompson Rodgers, a new
neighbor, has hired a Mr. Jack
son. from Florida, lb' is used to
hot sun. and we think ho has n
good hand.
(i. L. Simmons has just pur
chased from the White Plains
Buggy Co. a double-seated surrey.
We have a lot of trouble with
hired help in this country this
year. A hand will hire to Mr. j
Jones for SIO.OO a month. He
finds out Mr. Smith a few days
later will give a hand eleven dol- 1
lars a month, and he will on Mon
day miss his hand and tinds him
at Smith's. I have a poor opin-1
ion of any man that will hire a
\ hand that is already hired to his
neighbor. It is a violation of law,
land I hope will he tested out be
fore long.
Stuart (Va.) Items From the En
terprise.
Elizabeth Martin and daughter
Ginsie, two white women, who
live this side of the iron bridge
Jon the Pike, one mile north of
town, were brought before Com
missioner S. A. Thompson Satur
day, charged with retailing liquor
without license. Elizabeth Mar
tin was discharged, and Giusie
sent on to the United States
Court which convenes in Roanoke
June lC>th. It was proven that
Ginsie ran an open house and
sold liquor by the drink, pint,
and half pint. She furnished a
bond of $2")0.0(). .
Little Miss Mattie Clark had the
misfortune to fall from a swing
in the yard of Rev. W. B. Hais
| lip, and dislocated her arm. last
i Saturday.
The death chair for the peni
\ tentiary will be installed about
•July Ist. All executions will
1 then take place in Richmond.
!
Covington's Sch«ol House Will Give
.
Prohibition Majority.
A telephone message to the Re
porter states that Covington's 1
School House, the biggest pre
cinct of Stokes county, will give
,a majority of 7;"> for prohibition.
GOV. GLENN AT RURAL HALL.
Will Address the People there Sat
urday, May 23--A Surprise* Birth
day Dinner.
Hum! Hull. Mt\ Tin* Ru
ral liall school (•:.>.• i | ln> I !tii
ami loth. Hun ). I*,. Eaton.
May >r • f \\ iiistnii. delivered tin*
address. Tin* Rural Ihil • .met
and string band r:i.- vti-sic
ft >r the commencement.
Mr. and Mrs. McPherson, of
Virginia, are visiting their datigh
t'-r. Mrs I-!. A. Hclsubeck
The neighbors gave Mr J H
Helsabeck a surprise birthday
dinner Sunday There were >i-l
present, and everyone enjoyed the
•dinner very inuch.
Rev Miles H. Long tilled his
appointment at licthel Sunday.
Messrs. Robert Helsabeck, Lau
rel James and Oliver Moser were
seen up the road Sunday. Wonder
who attracted their attention?
Mr. S. If. Westmoreland called
on Miss Julia Moser Sunday.
Misses Stella Moser, Minnie
Hutcliins, Nellie Moser. Annie
and Ida Moore attended the exer
cises at Rural Hall school.
Miss Mary Moser was looking
right sail yesterday as Mr W. S
was not at preaching
Gov. Glenn will speak on prohi
bition at Rural Hall May 23rd at
1 o'clock, p. in.
Miss Mary Hello Smith was
awarded tiio medal in the contest
in Rural Hall school.
Surely a Man Who Would Vote
Against Prohibition Has Not Had
Any Experience With Liquor.
Walnut Cove. May 1">
Mr. Editor
As the election is drawing nigh,
please allow me a little space in
your valuable paper. I hope every
; man will be thinking over this
matter and go up to the polls and
vote for prohibition. When the
battle is on in North Carolina be
tween the forces of righteousness
and the fearful liquor business,
the argument that some people
put up won't do, that God put
liquor here for men to use in any
way. It is simply God's blessings
turned into a curse. When he bles
sed us with fruit and grain I think
it is wrong to turn them into pois
on. When I hear people talk in
favor of liquor I think they have
not seen it in the true light or
they are led off by Satan. Surely
a man that would vote against
prohibition has not had any ex
perience with liquor. Make May
2lith one of the best days of your
life, for your country, the church
. and school by voting for prohibi
i tion. I hope every man opposed
;to liquor will go the polls and
I vote and will you all see that you
get every man opposed to liquor
'to the polls. Every father ought
to look at his wife and children
and his grandchildren when he
starts to the election and ask him
self the question, am 1 going to
vote for a thing that will maybe
bring them hunger, poverty and t>i
a drunkard's grave and finally to a
drunkard's hell, or is he going tu
vote it out of their reach and put
them out of danger.
1 am not going to vote for my
self, for 1 have not drank any for
| a number of years I am voting for
Imy children and grandchildren
and your children and grandchild
ren and the generations to come.
J K FI'LK.
Old Soldiers Day July 4.
A letter from Capt. James A.
Leak, commander of the Stokes
ICamp of Confederate \ elerans,
states that he will call the old
soldiers together at Danhury on
Saturday, July L Everybody is
invited to attend A large crowd
is expected. The Reporter will
give the program and full particu
lars in a later issue.
AT DANBI'RY SATURDAY. MAY 23.
Programme of the Prohibition Rally To Be
Held in the Court House===Rev. J. E.
Abernathy To Deliver Address.
'I i.e prohibit..in rally to be heiil here in tin-court hou.se Saturday
. promises to be intertsiinir. and the prospect i* that there will be a
large at tendance. Rev .1, E Abernathy. pastor of CVnti nary church
at \\ instoii, will be present and deliver an address in the afternoon.
Mr Abernathy is an able and eloquent speaker and all who possibly
can should come out and hear iiim.
The programme for the occasion foil iw>
Hymn "Our Native Land"
Devotional Exercises, conducted by Rev A R Bell
j Song ' I'll He There To Vote."
Song by the Children "Temperance Hoys and Girls Are We "
Recitation, by Nellie Jones
>( Recitation, by Dewey .Jone*
Recitation, by Alma Chilton.
Recitation "The Two Ships," by Miss Mirtie Wall.
I Solo "The Inebriate's Lament," by Miss Mary Joyce.
Ten-minute talk by Rev. P. Oliver
Song "Vote To Banish Whiskey "
Ten-minute talk by Mr W. A I'etree
j Solo "Little Orphan Girl." by Verna Davis
r Recitation "The Hell-Bound Train," by Miss Bessie Davidson.
Recitation—"A Carnival Of Crime," by Miss Minnie Roberts
Ten-minute talk bv Mr. E. E. I'etree
Song "Our Coining Army," by the children
"A Young Man's Speech." by Jesse l'owers.
s Duet "Lost After All," by Grace Tay lor ami Kay nor Joyce
t Recitation —"Only a Vote." by Miss Lula Carter.
Recitation "Little Blossom," by Miss Beulali I'ulliam
Recitation "Just  >ne Glass." by Miss Ruth Wall
j Song—"Prohibition Forever."
Recitation "Nothing To Me." by Miss Lillie Gordon
Recitation "The Baby or the i> ttle." by Miss (iirtie Gordon
Recitation "The Drunkard's Warning." by Miss Ella Wall
Recitation—"Tommies Prayer," by Miss Lclia Joyce.
' Song "Onward We Arc Marching, Alcohol To Fiirht," by the
k children
j DINNER
, Song—"Carolina's Going Dry"
Duet —"We Are Coming," by Luna Taylor and Verna Davis
s Recitation, by Miss Beulali Neal
Recitation "Paying Taxes With Boys," by Neal East.
Recitation "Influence Of A Mother's Prayer." by Miss Edna
1 Hawkins
j
Duet, by Misses Mary Joyce and Delia Davis
Ten-minute talk by Mr. Sam'l T. Oliver
i Ten-minute talk by Prof. J. T. Smith
Address by Rev. J. E. Abernathy
1 Temperance Doxology
MRS If M. JOYCE.
r MRS. M 1. CHILTON,
; MISS JESSIE PEPPER.
Committee.
A Bushel Of Corn
r
i, From a bushel of corn the dis
tiller gets four gallons of whiskey,
1 which retails at sl>.No. The farmer
I gets 45 cents, the I'nited States
,i government gets $4.40, the rail
r road company gets s 0 cents, the
I manufacturer gets SI.OO, the dray
i, man gets 1"> cents, the retailer gets
SI.OO, the consumer gets drunk,
i the wife gets hunger, the children
~ get rags, the politician getso Hice,
~ the man who votes for license gets
~ what? "Woe unto him that giv
(l eth his neighbor drink, that put
„ t«th thy bottle to him and makest
him drunken also." Hab 2:l.*>
Money to Loan
r The Bank of KiA m County lias
„ money to loan on approved se
curity. Farmers can save money
, by purchasing their supplies for
cash. Call on or write X. K. Pep
per, Cashier, at Danbury. N. C, or
). N Petree, Cashier, at Walnut
Cove, N C.
s
Speaking At Dillard Tomnorrow
j Night.
» Kev. A I! li.'il wilt I'tldress the
s people of l>ilUrd nt the school
1 house on prohibition tomorrow
1 night, the -Jlst. The publi - is
- cordially invited to come out and
hear him.
No. 1,888
Little Elsie Sheppard Writes.
Danbury Route 1. May l'.l.
Dear Mr. Editor.
As I saw my last let tor in print.
I thought 1 would write again.
The farmers in this section are
very busy fixing land, planting
tobacco and working corn this
week
I'll tell you what 1 have to do
sime grandma has gone home.
Mama has to attend to the store
and I have to milk, clean up the
house, wash dishes and cook.
i will tell the little girls how to
make a pudding. Take 2 eggs,
beat well with 1 cup of sugar, add
butter the size of a walnut;
cups of Hour, one-half cup full up
milk, 2 teaspoons of baking pow
der and bake 20 minutes and serve
with butter and sauce. (Jeoruia
can make this as well as I.
1 have no pets to tell you about
except three little kittens and one
little chicken.
Next Tuesday is election day. 1
hoj e every good man in the State
Will turn out and vote for prohi
bition. But my papa doesn't
drink any to hurt him, but I'm
afraid my little brother will drink
when ho gets grown.
\\ e had ;i mess of young Irish
potatoes for dinner yesterday.
\\ ho can beat that ?
Hoping the Reporter much
success.
From your friend,
KLSIE I. SHKIM'AIID.