OUR GREAT NEED
BETTER SCHOOLS AND ROADS
Stoke* Will Never Prosper As She
Should Until She Improves Along
these Linen.
Editors Reporter:
I have before me last week's
issue of the Reporter, and have
just noticed the overwhelming
defeat that the proposition to
improve the school facilities of
two districts in Stokes met with.
What does this mean? Does
it mean that the voters in those
districts think more of a few
dollars than they do of the wel
fare of their boys and girls?
Does it mean that they are
willing to continue in the same
rut. and remain fifty years be
hind? Surely not! Surely the
people do not see the situation as
it really is. nor realize the im
portance of better school facili
ties. Perhaps they voted as
they thought best, but if they
did they were honestly mistaken.
Because no section will ever im
prove much until it first im
proves its school facilities.
Any section, whose school facili
ties arc 1 like some communities
in Stokes. Surry and other coun
ties, and does not try to better
these conditions by special tax
or sortie other means, will always
be a drudge to the Chariot wheel
of ignorance. Every district in
Stokes county, that has not
already voted a special tax,
would do well to vote it, because
it would l>e the best investment
they could possibly make. The
most prosperous and formost
counties in this State are those
that have the most special taxes.
The great needs of the people
wA few years ago flying
machines were hardly
thought of, nor was
Scott's Emulsion
in summer. Now Scott'*
Emuhion is as much a sum*
mer as a winter remedy.
* OUR BIG REDUCTION SALE |
HAS MOVED A LOT A
* OP GOODS BUTSTILL X
We Can Supply Your Wants j
jiMlffj JZ.T~* I A Few of the Many Bargains : •
Wmud Figured Silk, 38 inches wide at 65c. Z
J"® ® hC ' l ™c\\ c * Ra i ah at cents.
Wffl warn dreßß ° d " and Susine Silk at 371=2 cents. ®
m "1::%? Mm fATTERNS Silk Mulls and Figured Lawns, worth 25c., now 18c. 0
|ij /| fnl 5f co J nbine - t ! 10c. Lawns at Bc. and 8c lawns at sc. A
* V V/f| simplicity. White Goods, worth 10c. and 25c., now Bc. and 18c.
IO Ci an( j is c> Suitings, now 8c and 12 I=2 cents.
Let us supply your wants when you need pat- We have more than 5,000 yards of this class of goods that we have to
r terns of the very latest styles. move, and now is the time to make your purchases.
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X Big reduction on prices in Slippers, and we ask that you look at our line of Hammocks, Stoves, Hardware, and most £
2 anything that you may want. Let us show you before you buy. 5
LWALNUT COVE MERCANTILE COMPANY T
w INCORPORATED
COVE, - - NORTH CAROLINA S
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i of Stokes county is to realize
f the importance of better schools,
better roads, and raisin# their
, own supplies at homo. Never
» will Stokes prosper as she ought
to, till she improves along these
> lines.
« A great many people talk
about monopolies and combines,
and say the trusts are sucking the
very life blood from the farmer.
, You may argue "trust busting"
, as much as you want to, but
, never will the farmers accom
plish their desired results till
1 1 they wake up to the situation
and go to raising their own sup
i! plies at home. Listen to what
the Heporter has been preaching
j for "lo these many years" and
. act accordingly.
> These few words have not
been written in a way of criti
, cisrn, but as I have lived in
. Stokes 1 feel deeply interested
ij in her welfare, and hope the
|l time is not far distant when
every citizen within her borders
will realize the situation as it is
and be doing all in his power to
make her a better county.
HILL HARPER.
' .lune 17. 1010.
| "it cured me." or "It saved I
the life of my child," are theex
pressions you hear every day
I about Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
This is true the world over
where this valuable remedy has
l>eon introduced. No other
medicine in use for diarrhoea or
bowel complaints has received
such general approval. The
secret of tin' success of Cham
lierlain's Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy is that it
cures. Sold by all dealers.
Tiiitbcr I oi Suit
1 have r>l7 acres of finely tim
bered land which 1 will sell the'
j timber from at a bargain. Tim- 1
' her easy to reach.
1 Se. 1 or write me at once.
L. W. McKINNEY,
Gap, Stokes Co., N. C.
I ■ :
More goods for same money,
j W. 10. Butner.
THE DANBURY REPORTER.
HOW ABOUT THE WATER
SUPPLY ?
Protect the Springs and Wells From
Contamination.
The principal diseases sup
posed to be communicable
through the drinking water are
typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery
and other diarrheal affections,
cholera infantum, animal parasi
tic diseases, enteric fevers and
j scarlet fever. In order that the
water may carry these diseases,
it is first necessary for it to be
come infected with the specific
infection which communicates
the disease. This infection is
derived from the eject a of a
patient suffering from the dis
ease.
It is a fact proven by statis
i tics that the water-borne dis
eases begin to increase in July
and are at their maximum dur
ing August and September, de
' creasing in October.
B' la for
Bliaa stands for
■ best—best family
■ medicine.
Bliss Native Herbs
H strikes at the root of ■
■ disease by purifying 1
■ the blood.
■ It restores wasted
■ tissues; strengthens
m every organ.
A tablet at nlght;^W
■ next morning feeling
H bright.
I Faithfully usod will
■ banish Rheumatism,
■ Constipation, Dyspep
■ sla, Kidney and Liver
■ Disorders.
B Be sure you aeoure
the genuine Bliss Native
Herbs—in a yellow box
H bearing the portrait of
■ Alonzo O. Bliss.
200 tablets SI.OO.
Money back if not
V satisfied.
W Ask the Bllaa •
JAS. F. MALL, Agent,
KINO, N. C., Route No. I.
The ideal conditions for (ho
i spring are that its watershed is
I uninhabited and does not eon
tain stables, barnyards, pigpens,
privies, cesspools or cemeteries;
and it should not be traversed
by railroads nor highways, for j
all of these make infection possi
ble. The freedom from all!
these objections is not always
obtainable. The spring should
be ditched around in such a way
as to carry oil' all of the surface
water, and never allow it to be]
overflowed and tilled with filth
or trash of anv kind. The sur
roundings must be scrupulously
clean. The spring itself should
be walled with rock and covered
to prevent trash from falling in
to it.
Too many of our wells are
located in the barnyard. The
well should be located on a well
drained area, remote from barns,
pig pens, privies, cesspools,
cemeteries or drains and should
be cemented from the edge out
ward to the distance of several
I feet. Above the surface of this 1
cement, a tight box should be
built and a tight-fitting cover
provided, if buckets are used.'
I Tlu* pump is much to be pre-
Iferred to the bucket Iwcausc it
j lessens the danger of trash fall
ing into the well. All waste
water should be drained oil' and
no water allowed to stand near
by in which hogs might wallow.
The hog is a great gatherer of
filth, and by wallowing in a pud
dle which drains into a well,
there is great danger of infec
tion.
Peep wells, properly protected
to prevent an inflow of surface
wafer at the top, are to be pre
ferred to either shallow wells or
springs. T. E. Keitt. in Clem
son College Press bulletin.
Hargains in slippers. W. E.
Butner.
Hargains in slipper.-'. W. E. j
Hut nor.
An Old Confederate Soldier Writes Of
Major Charles M. Stedman.
The first time I ever saw Major Stedman was the Gth day of
May, 18(54. It was about 2 o'clock in the afternoon upon the
battlefield of the Wilderness on the left of the plank road. The
27th regiment was on the left of the road and I was a member of
the Guilford Grays commanded by Capt. John A. Sloan, .Jr., of
(Jreonshoro. Major Stedman came up with some sharp shooters
and passing through our line, I saw him stop and shake hands with
Capt. Sloan. Major Stedman was dressed in a new uniform, and
1 recollect distinctly how he looked. They were both conspicious
for their coolness and indifference to danger. His hair and beard
were both black. They have changed color a good deal since that
day. I learned afterwards that Major Stedman and Capt. Sloan
had been at college together and that they were great friends.
The conversation between them was very short.
Major Stedman had been with the sharp shooters and was lie
tween two fires, the fire of the 27th regiment and the Yankee
line of battle. He was wounded almut dusk of that day and
curried off to a field hospital. I was struck both by the conduct
of Major Stedman and ("apt. Sloan, and recollect with great
distinctness how they acted in that fight, and 1 have always been
a friend to both of them from that day to this.
The 27th regiment did at the wilderness what it did at Sharps
burg. It stood in front of the Yankee line of battle with all of
itsammunition exhausted and sent word to the rear for ammunition,
and a courier came up saying, "Hold the line." The line was
held under heavy fire with great loss to the regiment until ammuni
tion was brought from the rear.
I do not always vote the straight Democratic ticket, but I am not
willing to vote aganst as gallant a soldier as Charles M. Stedman.
There is not a Confederate soldier in Congress.
Maj. Stedman is the only Confederate soldier in this Suite who is
a candidate for Congress, and probably the last one who ever will
be.
Capt. Sloan has been dead for many years. I wish he was
living now. He would stand with me for Maj. Stedman.
J. THOS. RHODES.
June 15th. ISHi).
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