THE DANBURY REPORTER. ■OLUME XXXIX. LD SOLDIERS' DAY ARGE- CROWD ATTENDED itimated That More Than Three Thousand Were Here —Major Stedman's Splendid Address— Winston Band On Hand—Stokes Camp Organized, With W. W. King Ccmmander. At least 3,000 persons attend -4 the ex-Confederate Reunion t Danbury last Saturday. The hief feature of the day was the ddress of Major Chas. M. Sted lan, of Greensboro, which was stened to by a packed audience i the grove, the crowd being too arge to get in the court house, 'he Winston-Salem band fur lished music, which was greatly enjoyed by the crowd. After an excellent dinner had been eaten on the table under the shady trees, the soldiers assembled in the court house and organized the Stokes County Camp of Con federate Veterans, with the following officers: Walter W. King, Commander. J. J. Martin, First Lieutenant. M. V. Mabe, Second Lieuten ant. 1 A. J. Tilley, Adjutant. Dr. L. H. Hill, Surgeon. I W. F. Campbell, Quarter Mas ker. I J. H. Stewart, Color Bearer. ■ N. E. Pepper, Treasurer. ■ The enlistment in the camp is 5s follows: Name. I [{auk. M '»| I When and where enllflted. t|~ '" ~| ~j~ , " ennett. John Private ' H 53 N. C. P.eg't Stokes Co., 1862 ennett. Tandy j " H tennett, Jas. E. " F 21 " We. Jas. M. H 22 " " 44 1861 iullin, William 44 F " " " " 1864 Campbell, W. F. Sergeant G 53 " 44 44 1862 Dalton, Jas. P. ! Private D 45 44 Rich'd, Va., 1863 f Daniel, G. F. j 2Lieu't H Rock'm Co., 1861 Davidson, F. M. , Sergeant C 38 Virginia Virginia, 1861 Forest, Jas. M. Private A 2N. C. Bat'l'n Stokes Co., 1861 Garner, Yancy " D 53 Reg't 44 1862 Gentry, W. H. " j F 3 " 44 " 1864 Hutcherson. VV.P. " ]H22 " " 44 1865 Hicks. Abel | " F 21 " " " 1862 James. J. R. " H 22 " " | " 1862 King. Walter W. 1 Lieu't A 72 " 44 Guilford Co. 1864 iLawson, W.J. Private C 72 " " j Stokes Co. 1864 Lawson, John A. " D 27 " " " 1864 Mabe, M. V. " H53 " " | " 1862 Mabe, John R. ! C 54 " 44 ! 44 1862 Mabe, W. T. C 13 44 1863 [Martin, J. J. 4 4 F i 1 Reg. Engs. 44 1863 ■Page, G. L. 44 B 18 Texas Dallas, Tex. 1862 Ray, W. S. i 44 1 A 2N. C. Bat. Stokes Co. 1861 Stewart, J. H. 44 1 H 53 N. C. Reg. 44 1862 .Smith, W. H. " j 44 G 21N. C. 44 44 1861 Smith, Jackson 44 G 21 44 44 1862 Smith, Garland Lieut. A 45 44 44 Rockingham '62 Shelton, W. H. Private C 4 44 44 Stokes Co. 1864 Tilley, A. J. 44 H 22 44 44 44 1861 Thornboro. J. T.| " IL |22 44 44 i Randolph, 1861 Terry, A. W. 44 j G 22 44 44 Stokes Co. 1862 Willis, W. E. 1 Lieu't i G 21 44 44 , 44 1861 Welch, E. P. Private I D ! j 44 1863 White, A. J. 44 ■ I H 6N. C. Reg. 44 1861 Ward, W. T. 44 , E 16 44 44 | " 1863 Wood, T. J. 44 1 H 6 44 44 ; 44 1861 Ziglar, Len 44 H 58 Va. Reg. Patrick Co. 1861 The following statement is handed the Reporter by Com mander W. W. King: "The camp was organized with 38 members. More are expect ed to join. Any veteran can join at any time by giving or sending his name, rank, com pany, regiment, and when and where enlisted, with 15 cents to N. E. Pepper, Treasurer at Dan bury. It is hoped the camp will ; grow so as to include all the veterans of the countv. '"fen cents of the fees paid goes to the Adjutant General's office at New Orleans. The other 5 cents to the State organi zation to pay necessary expen ses." AT CONCORD SATURDAY Farmers' Union To Give Ice Cream Supper—Mr. John Davis Serious ly lll—Other News of Walnut Cove Route 5 Walnut Cove Route 5, Aug. 8. —The Farmers' Union will give an ice cream supper at Concord next Saturday, the 13th. Every body invited. Rev. W. A. Ward will begin a protracted meeting at Concord the 2nd Sunday in this month. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Mitchell visited relatives here Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Willis visited relatives in Walnut Cove Monday. Mr. George Brown went to Dillard Sunday. Mr. Roy Willis called on Miss Agnes Tuttle Sunday. Messrs. Tom Wood and Gray Rutledge were visitors here Sun day evening. Mr. John Davis is seriously ill. we are sorry to note. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Davis arj visiting relatives here this week. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Redman visited at Mr. Caleb Tuttle's Saturday and Sunday. A large crowd from here at tended the Reunion at Danbury Saturday. Mr. Jim Fagg visited at Mr. W. D. Glenn's Sunday. M. Will Hold Annual Meeting August 30 to Sept. 2. i The annual meeting of the Association of County Superin tendents will be held at Chapel Hill. N. C., beginning Tuesday evening, August 30th, at 8 o'clock and ending Friday. Sep tember 2nd, at 1 o'clock m. The daily sessions will be from 9:30 a. m. to m., and 8 p. m. to 10 p. m. ; There will be no business sessions during the afternoon. A splendid program has been arranged. The meetings held heretofore have proven very beneficial and this one will doubtless be of the same charac ter. DANBURY, N. C., AUGUST 10, 1910. AFFRAY NEAR SMITH FRACTURE OF SKULL FEARED R. L. Ray and Wm. Bryant Fight at Threshing—Ray Uses Stick on Bryant, With Serious Results. At a threshing on the Widow Flippin's place near Smith last week, R. L. Ray and Wm. Bry ant had a dispute, which ended in a fight. Ray Struck Bryant j over the head twice with a stick I of wood. News reached Dan- : bury this week that Bryant was in a very serious condition from the effects of the blow on the : head, a fracture of the skull be ing feared. No arrests have been made as far as can be learned. WORK ON BANK TO BEGIN. Material Has Nearly All Arrived " For the Addifi* ns to Be Made to The r?t bury Bank Building —Mr. W. A. Douglas, of Mt. Airy, lias the Contract. Mr. W. A. Douglas, of Mount Airy, is expected here the first of next week to begin work on the improvements and additions to be made to the building of the Bank of Stokes county here. Nearly all the material has arrived, and only the workmen are needed. Mr. R. H. R. Blair, of Danbury, will do the wood work. FIFTEEN NEW DENTISTS. Less Than Half the Applicants Get by the State Board. Asheville, Aug. B.—Following is a list of applicants who suc cessfully passed the examination held by the North Carolina state board of dental examiners at Wrightsville Beach, July 11-14: .P. B. Cone, Spring Hope; G. J. Evans, Durham; F. G. Gower, Gamer; W. D. Young, Clayton; D. D. King, St. Paul; G. C. Vickers, Durham; C. H. McAn ally, Asheville; Paul E. Jones, Bethel ; N H. McK. McDairmid, Raeford; Alberta S. Burton, Newbern; E. W. Smith, Win ston: Levi C. Lawrence, Salis bury; P. L. Pearson, Apex; T. D. Webb, Statesville; R. A. Fry, Booneville. Out of a class of 33 but 15 were successful. Protracted Meeting at Vade Necum Accident to J. R Covington— Baptising at Rock House. Vade Mecum, Aug. 7.—Rev. J. E. Simmons is holding a protracted meeting here this week with much success. Mr. J. R. Covington had the misfortune to get one of his eyes seriously hurt last week. Mr. J. Henry Keaton and mother srj visiting relatives near Stuart. Va. Mrs. S. P. Venable called at Mrs. Ida Forest's store Thurs day. There will be a baptising at Rock House the 2nd Sunday. JEANETTE. Corn Meal. Boyles Mercantile Co. Closin? out slippers. Boyles Mercantile Co. WALNUT COVE WINS DRY PRIZERY NOW ASSURED Farmers' Union Selects Cove As the Place For the Big Pact House — Committee Meets There and Buys Lot Death of Harvey Hedgecock. Walnut Cove, N. C., Aug. 10, 12 o'clock A. M. (By Telephone.) j The Farmers' Union people! met at Danbury Saturday, and after deciding to build the dry prizery at Walnut Cove, a com- 1 mittee met here yesterday and bought four acres of land from : Lawrence Mcßae, on which to I build the pack house. The site is near the N. & W. depot.! j Work is expected to begin at an i early day. The contest in the meeting at i Danbury Saturday over the loca | tion of the dry prizery was quite jsharp between Walnut Cove, | King and Germanton. News reaches here of the death :of-Mr. Harvey Hedgecock, one of Walnut Cove's young brick J manufacturers, at Winston. Mr. i Hedgecock had only been sick a ! few days with typhoid fever. ' Stokes Connty Democratic Conven tion To Meet Saturday, August 27th. A convention of the Demo cratic party of Stokes County is | hereby called to meet in Dan j bury on Saturday, the 27th day 'of August. 1910, at 12 o'clock ! M., fc-r the purpose of nominat ing a candidate for the House of Representatives, Sheriff, Clerk of the Superior Court, Register of Deeds, Treasurer, three coun ty commissioners, coroner, and to elect delegates to the Sena- j torial convention for this dis-! trict, and to transact such other; business as may properly come j | before it. The Dem. Ex. Com., j ■of Stokes county, is hereby call ed to meet at said time and; ! place. This July 16th, 1910. J. H. ELLINGTON, [ Chmn. Dem. Ex. Com. Stokes Co. | | { Will Return Battle-Flag of the Fourth Regiment. Raleigh, Aug. 8.--The Second i New Hampshire Regiment, i Federal troops, in the civil war. ! announces its purpose to present to the State of North Carolina through Mrs. R. H. Chesley, of Boston, the battle-flag of the Fourth Carolina Regiment, Con federate army, captured during the war. Fire On Danbury Route 1. Three stacks of straw belong- j ing to Mr. Walter Bennett were burned today. The straw was! accidentally set on fire by Mr. 1 Bennett's little son. Spencer Blackburn Back. The Greensboro Record says that the Hon. E. Spencer black-, burn, who located in Oklahoma; two years ago, has returned to North Carolina and will resume | his residence in Watauga county. Fruit jars—one quart 6Cc. half galkn BCc. dozen. Jar rubbers and caps, jelly glasses 25c. dozen. L. R. Coe Dal ton A REMARKABLE HEN. Owned By Mr. W. P. Bennett—Only Three Months Old, Yet Lays Two Eggs One Day and One the Next. Mr. W. R. Bennett, the well known dry goods retailer on Danbury Route 1, owns the boss pullet of the State without a doubt. This pullet is only three I months old, yet it is laying eggs | at the rate of 10 or 11 per week. Mr. Bennett called the Re porter over the telephone Mon iday night, and told of his curiosity. The pullet is confined in a small coop, and Mr. Ben nett says it lays two eggs in I one day, one egg the day follow ing, then two again and so on, : producing two every alternate day. Mr. Bennett would not take anything for this remarkable chicken. i ! Guests At Piedmont. 1 Piedmont Springs, Aug. 8. — The new guests registered at Piedmont this week are as fol | lows : Mrs. N. V. Blackburn, Charlotte; Mr. L. A. Blackburn. . Charlotte; C. W. Barbee. Wins ;ton; Chas. H. Reid, Mavodan; E. R. Reid, Mayodan; T. Sands, Mayodan; J. W. Beckham, i Virginia: Gilbert Walden. Texas; R. C. Harrell, Reidsville; H. H. ! Vance, Winston: J. V. Dean, Oak Ridge: Miss Kate Huke, Winston; J. D. Hall, Reidsville; Miss Willie Edmunds, Winston; J. A. Pratt, Winston; W. J. Penn, Reidsville: W. H. Highfill and wife, Mavodan: W. E. Shelton, Mayodan; Miss Kate Gilbert, Mayodan: S. C. Penn, Reidsville; R. P. Richardson. Reidsville, Wade H. Gentry, I Madison; Chas. H. Martin. , Madison. Gap. Gap, Aug. B.—There was a baptising at Moore's Springs Sunday. A large crowd was lout. The big meeting began at Ca ! pelia last Saturday night. Aug. ! 6th. There will be an ice cream sup-, per at Vade Mecum Saturday night, Aug. 13th, and good music. Everybody come. There will l>e i all kinds good things to eat and ! drink. It will begin at 9p. m., and last until 11 o'clock at night. There will also be a dance at night. Everybody come out and enjoy the evening. There will be a foot-washing at the Rock House next Sunday I the 14th. SUBSCRIBER. Bound Over to Court. The case of State v. Ollie ; Bullen and Noy Cardwell, charg ed with being the participants ■in a scrap at a threshing last ; week, was tried here before • Justice N. A. Martin Saturday. ' Deadly weapons in the form of pitchforks having been used, j the magistrate bound over both parties to the next term of court, i which convenes in September. Fruit jais and jelly glasses. Boyles Mercantile Cc. Wilbum's Stock Tonic. L. R. Coe. RALEIGH THRESHERS, NOTICE REPORT TO THE REPORTER Correspondent Asks All the Machine Men to Write the Reporter the Number of Bushels of Wheat Threshed, So the Crop In Stokes May Be Estimated—Good Time At C. H. Lunsford's. Oak Grove. Aug. B.—Mr. C. H. Lunsford. of the Oak Grove sec tion. finished his wheat threshing for the season at his home one day last week, when he invited his neighbors, friends and rel atives to come and help him thresh wheat. One hundred and thirty-seven bushels of the golden grain was threshed, after which Mr. Lunsford invited all to the dining room, where a sumptuous dinner, consisting of mutton, chicken, cakes, pies and jellies of many kinds, pickles and many other good things to eat awaited their arrival, and each and all ate to their heart's content. After I dinner the evening was spent in making and eating ice cream. About 11 or 12 gallons of milk was used. Those who attended ,the threshing from a distance I were Messrs. T. M. Lawson, A. j S. Marsh. Hubert Gordon, M. W. ;Overby. Henry Edwards. Dee Gordon. R. VV. Overby and many othei's. The number in all at tending was about seventy or eighty people, and all report a good time and a day long to be remembered. The citizens of this section ask that all who run a threshing machine in Stokes county will please report to the Reporter the number of bushels of wheat they threshed in Stokes county this season in order that the peo ple may know how much wheat was made in old Stokes. SCRIBBLER. Scarlet Fever At Dillard—Person als. Dillard, Aug. 9. —We have some sickness in our community at this writing. There is scar let fever in the family of Mr. Fred James. A little child of Mr. Jim Davis is right sick. Quite a jolly number of our people attended the Reunion at Danbury Saturday and report a pleasant time. | Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Mitchell visited at the home of Mr. J. E. Willis near Walnut Cove Satur day and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Duncan j visited relatives at Buffalo Sun -1 day, returning Monday. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Goolsby, of Rockingham, visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Mitchell Saturday and Sunday. A. Dysentery is a dangerous dis ease but can ba cured. . Cham berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy has been suc cessfully used in nine epidemics of dysentery. It has never been known to fail. It is equally val uable for children and adults, and when reduced with water and sweetened, it is pleasant to take. Sold by all dealers. 25 lbs. best granulated ~ sugar for $1.45. L. R. Coe. No. 2,001

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