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