THE DANBURY REPORTER
VOLUME XXXIX.
HALF CENTURY AGO
ALEXANDER MOORE WRITES
Of Life In Stokes County Back In
the Fifties —An Interesting Lit
ter.
Farmington, Mo.. March 1.
Messrs. Editors Reporter :
I want to tell the young peo
ple in Stokes county how we
lived in my boyhood days.
Poor people were no more than
slaves before the war. We, had
to work very hard to make a
living. We raised flax, wool
and cotton. Our mothers and
sisters spun and wove this into
cloth from which they made our
clothes in early spring. Father,
brothers and I, peeled bark and
let it dry until fall. We then
hauled it to Germanton and sold
it for $2.00 per cord, and bought
leather to make our shoes.
Mr. Reuben Golden owned the
tan yard. Mr. Weisner was
our shoe maker. He made my
first pair. I remember this
well. Mother gave me a bran
new pair of socks. I don't
think the President of U. S.
was more delighted over his
office than I was over my first
foot wear.
In those days we only had
three months school each year.
I went to three terms taught
at the James school house. My
teachers' names were Augusta
Helsabeck, Thos. Green and
Samuel N. Allen. I went a few
days to the Fulk school house,
taught by Mr. Harb Westmore
land, of near King's Cabin.
I suppose this cabin is where
Stokes gets the name of their
towns and high schools. Sixty
three years ago a log cabin
stood near where the Dan river
road crosses the hollow road.
This cabin was built by a man
by the name of King.
I worked 18 months for Jesse
and Abe Stires for SI.OO per
month, that was the highest
prices paid in those days for
common labor.
The last work I did in N. C.
John Null, Sol Miller and Davy
Leak bougt a Cox & Robison
threshing machine and hired
me, Will Brown and Alex Hens
dale to run it. We threshed the
home crop, then rolled out to
Germanton. The first men we
threshed for were Tate Benton,
Reuben Golden, Bill Bolejack,
Peter Tuttle, Davy Leak, Gib
son Rayney and many others.
Then we moved to about where
Walnut Cove now is and thresh
ed there. These crops were
mostly on Town fork. This has
been 52 years ago.
ALEXANDER MOORE.
A FIERCE NIGHT ALARM
is the hoarse, startling cough of
a child, suddenly attacked by
croup. Often it aroused Lewis
Chamblin, of Manchester, 0.,
[R. R. No. 2] for their four
childred were greatly subject to
croup. "Sometimes in severe
attacks," he wrote "we were
afraid they would die, but since
we proved what a certain remedy
Dr. King's New Discovery is,
we have no fear. We rely on it
for croup and for coughs, c »lds
or any throat or lung trouble."
So do thousands of others. St
may you. Asthama, Hay Fever,
La Grippe, Whooping Cough,
Hemorrhages fly before it. 50c
and SI.OO. Trial bottle free.
Sold by all Druggists.
Old time molasses 50c. Boyles
Mercantile Co.
Rubber goods. Boyles Mer
cantile Co.
Seed oats. Boyles Mercantile
Co.
PRES. ALEXANDER 10 SPEAK.
Will Address the People At West
field On the Night Of March 13th.
Mr. J. C. Flippin, of Francisco,
attended the meeting of the Far
mers' Union here Saturday. Mr.
Flippin asks the Reporter to an
nounce that Pres. Alexander, of
the Farmers' Union, will address
the farmers at Westfield on the
night of March 13th. Mr. Alex
ander is an interesting talker |
and is very zealous in the cause
of the Union. Everyone is in
vited to come out and hear him.
Annie Laura Dodson.
Annie Laura Dodson, the
daughter of J. W. A. and Nan
nie E. Dodson, was born Jan.
13, 1901, and died January 27,
1911, aged 10 years and 14 days.
She was unusually bright and
her mind seemed to be matured
as if she was a woman. She
was obedient to her parents and
a friend to everybody. She was
sick 18 days and suffered untold
agony. She kept her right
mind to the last. One week be
fore she died she began begging
her parents, relatives and
friends to pray for her. She
called her father to the bedside
several times and said "papa
I want vou to pray for me to
get well, for praying does me
more good than any thing else."
She said "papa, when I was about
4 years old, I went over to
grandma's and told her a lie, and
grandma come home with me
and told mama about it, and I
knowed I had told a lie and all
that day and that knight I felt
just like I was born for hell, and
the next dav I felt like God had
forgiven me, and I have been
praying every since. I pray
for everybody every night for
I believe in secret prayer. Papa
I believe you and mama have
gone to the right church, for
I believe the Primitive Baptists
are right. I never will forget
how I felt last summer down
at Wilson, when old Uncle
Alfred Stewart was preaching.
He did look so pitiful. I be
lieve he is going to heaven."
She said "if I could live to
get grown and get converted, I
would join the Primitive Baptists.
But I don't believe in children
joining the church." "Papa I
have wanted to tell you this
before now, but I was ashamed."
"When little Ernest was sick
and we was afraid he was tak
ing pneumonia, I went behind
the crib and knelt down and
prayed that he might not have
the pneumonia, and he got well.
Papa, I want you to pray for
brother Willie, for he is unruly
and wont mind mama; the Bible
says obey your parents, and I
expect to do that as long as I
live. Papa, I never have told
you or mama that I would not
do any thing you told me to do.
She exclaimed, "Oh, I don't
not know what makes me suffer
so, but our Saviour had to
suffer."
She leaves a father, mother,
four brothers, one sister and
a host of friends and relatives
to mourn her loss.
We feel confident that our
loss is her gain
J. W. A. DODSON.
HAS MILLIONS OF FRIENDS.
How would you like to number
your friends by the millions as
Bucklen's Arnica Salve does? Its
astounding cures in the past
forty years made them. It's the
best Salve in the world for sores,
ulcers, exzema, burns, boils,
scalds, cuts, corns, sore eyes,
sprains, swellings, bruises, old
•ores. Has no equal for piles.
25c at all Druggists.
DANBLRY, N. C M MARCH 8, 1911.
PALMYRA SATURDAY
SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT
Interesting Entertainment At Close
Of Session, To Which the Public
Is Invited.
The Palmyra school taught by
Mr. J. N. Young and Miss Har
riett Ross, will give an entertain
ment at the close of the school,
Saturday March 11th. The fol
lowing program will be present
ed—beginning at 10:-i0 o'clock
A. M. :
Song—"The Old North State."
Recitation "Speaking a!
Piece," by Carlie Hampton.
Recitation "A Strange
Throat," by Gladys Smith.
Recitation —"A Little Lady,"
by three little girls.
Music.
Dialogue—"Sitting up For
Husbands to Come Home."
Recitation —"Mother's Fool,"
by Forrell Hampton.
Dialogue—"Making a Cake."
Recitation —"A Balky Horse,"
by Troy Smith.
Monologue—"Jennie Enter
tains Sister's Beau," Effie Rut
ledge.
Mu«ic.
Dialogue —' "i *.e Spelling Les
son."
Recitation ' The Country is
Good Enough For Me," Frank
vVhite.
Song—By School.
Dialogue—"A Proposal."
Recitation—"Trouble With 1
Time," Homer Lewis.
Recitation—By Ralph Rut- j
ledge.
Music.
Monologue—"Sad Effect Of :
Good Intention," Dewey Greene, j
Pantomime—"Rock Of Ages." j
Dialogue—"The Assessor."
Music.
Recitation—"A Young Stu-1
dent," Cliffton Jones.
Dinner.
March—By School.
Song—"Ho! For Carolina."
Music.
Dialogue—"Played And Lost." |
Dialogue "Pulling Sam's;
Tooth.''
Recitation—"Kerman Smith.";
Music.
Bonnet Drill.
Monologue ' 'Busy House
Wife," Fannie Meadows.
Dialogue—"The Upper Ten."!
Music.
Recitation—"How Shall I Love
Thee," Willie Boles.
Recitation—By Three Little j
Boys.
Dialogue—"Why Aunt Sally
Didn't Marry."
Song "Trans-mag-ni-fi-can-.
bam-dam-reality."
Recitation-' 'it Must Be True,'' j
Valmar Meadows.
Recitation—"lla Young."
Recitation "Luther Rut-,
i ledge."
i Dialogue—"Handy Andy." j
Music. 1
Recitation—"A Small Boy's
|Troubles," by Charlie White.
Dialogue—"Coon Creek Court
ship."
Music.
Dialogue -"A Sudden Discov
ery."
Song—' 'School is Out."
The public is cordially invited.
ATTACKS SCHOOL PRINCI
PAL. . 1
A severe attack on school
principal Chas. B. Allen, of
Sylvania, Ga., is thus told by
him. "For more than three
year?," he writes, "I suffered
: indescribable torture from rheu
matism, " liver and stomach
trouble and diseased kidneys.
All remedies failed till I used
Electric Bitters, but four bottles
of this wonderful remedy cured
me completely." Such results
are common. Thousands bless
them for curing stomach trouble,
female complaints, kidney disor
-1 ders, billiousness, and for new
health and vigor. Try them.
Only 50c at all Druggists.
I Representative J. M. Fagg re
turned from Raleigh Monday.
The session of the Legislature
adjourned yesterday.
Sugar House Molasses 40c.
Boyles Mercantile Co.
BOSS CORN GROWER
87 2 BUSHELS ON ONE ACRE;
Lee P. F. any, Of Westfield Route
1, A Member Of the Boys' Corn
Club. Rcctivcs Certificate Of
Merit In Recognition of His Suc
cess ID Agriculture.
I
Lee P. Frans, the young son
of Mr. J. C. Fraris. of Westfield
Route 1, who is a member of the i
Boys' Corn Club, has just re
ceived from the State a certificate
of merit in recognition of his'
success in agriculture, he having!
excelled any of his competitors
in Stokes in growing corn by
producing 87.2 bushels on one
acre. Mr. Frans will also receive
a prize of sls, given by the i
State.
The certificate of merit is
signed by the following State and
county officials: Gov. W. W.
Kitchen, Secretary of State J.
Bryan Grimes, State Supt. of
Public Instruction J. Y. Joyner,
Commissioner of Agriculture
W. A. Graham, Special Agent
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture I. 0.
Schaub and County Supt. of
Public Schools J. T. Smith.
Hartman News.
Hartman, N. C., March 6.
Measles and whooping cough is
all the go in this neighborhood.
£Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Joyce, Jr.,
visited their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Jno. Sisk, Saturday and
Sunday.
Quite a lively crowd gathered
on the grand rocks of the. old
Flint mill place Su..day after
noon.
Mistes Lillie Young, Minnie f
Glidewell, Ida Venable and i
Messrs. J. F. Hawkins and i
Barner and Branscome Young
were visitors at Mr. John Sisk's
Sunday.
Mr. J. E. Fulcher, of Critz, |
Va., spent a few days at Mr. j
J. D. Young's last week.
Mrs. J. Mitchell and sons spent
Sunday with friends and relatives |
at Hartman.
Misses Lilla Young and Car
rie Sisk are expecting to visit
relatives at Dillard this week.
Verbatim et Literatim.
Yesterday was a very disa
greeable day. A cold, drizzly
rain and hail was falling, ac
companied by a sneaking wind
from the north' which caused
pains to canvass the human cor
porosity from the feet to the
neck. In some acute ways it
was really dreadful, the danger
; being, you understand, that one
might have collapsed into a
comatose position and then and
there unprethoughtedly have
found himself bleaked. Speci
fying, these symptoms can be
immedi-ATE-ly located byaperu
sion of Dr. Pierce's memoranda,
which have been sometime but
1 not re-CENT-ly published. In
such a state, the human oigan
ism travels with a great speed
of rapidity, and does not wait
for procrastination or anything
else, but being wound up in
a nutshell, is snipped into a
doodle-bug issue.
John W. Sicklesmith, Greens
boro, P., has three children, and
like most children they frequent
ly take cold. "We have tried
several kinds of cough medicine,"
he says ' 'but have never found
any yet that did them as much
good as Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy.' - For sale by all deal
ers.
Notice of Auction Sale.
Saturday, March 18, 1911, !
at 1:30 P. M., I will sell to the;
highest bidder for cash my!
household and kitchen funiture,
consisting of stoves, dining j
table, beads teads, springs, mat-;
tresses, couch, carpets, aressers,
washstands, etc.
V. A. REYNOLDS,
King, N. C.
NEWS OF MEADOWS.
Much Pneumonia atid
j the Neighboihuod lnlerestii g
Debate.
Meadows. N. C.. March »>. —
Rorn to Mr. and Mrs. Rubt. Joyce
, a fine boy last w.'o.k.
Master Gilbert Hill is very
seriously ill with pneumonia this
j week. There has never been
. such ii seige of pneumonia and
j lagi ipij** at Meadows as has been
I here lor the last month. Among
i others that have pneumonia are
; little Walter Neal, Elsie Martin,
Gilmer Moran and an infant of
Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Hill,
i Elder Alex Moran and his wife
are down with lagrippe.
j Mrs. J. M. Neal, who has
i been visiting her daughter at
■ Matthews, returned home this
: week.
j The Meadows school-boys had
a very interesting debate Satur
day night, the subject being
, "Resolved, That Liquor is a
Greater Evil that Tobacco." On
the affirmative side were Messrs.
Julius Young, Carl Wall and
Hugh Mabe; on the negative
, Messrs. Newton Young, Percie
Wall and Bryan Wall. The
judges decided in favor of the
affirmative.
Peters' Creek.
Peters Creek, Va., Feb. 25.
The farmers of this section are
busy preparing for another crop.
The Collins Local Union is
progressing nicely. We have>
one hundred and fifty-five or!
sixty members in our local.
I think the Union mill will be j
j ready for grinding soon.
| Misses Flora Hutchens. Dakota l
| and Ada Hill and Messrs. Walter
I Martin and George Collins visit
jed Miss Ethel Beasley Thursday
■ night.
Mr. John Pruitt, of Smith,
j gave the young folks a dance a
| few nights ago.
TWO COUSINS.
I _
i Miss Sallie Smith.
; Miss Sallie Smith of Lawson
ville, Stokes county, who has
been spending several weeks in
the city visiting friends and rela
tives, returned home yesterday
afternoon. She is an aged lady j
and has been spending more than \
20 years of her life as sort of sis- j
ter of charity in Stokes and is
known in the section as a friend
to the motherless children. She
is a devout Methodist with
something of the religious ardor
of the old time Baptist, and she
stated to the reporter that she
, had read her Bible through from
lid to lid 18 times and is well on
her way for the nineteenth time.
Winston Journal.
DEAFNESS CANNOT BE
CURED
by local application, as they can
not reach the diseased portion
of the ear. There is only one
way to cure deafness, and that
; is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an in-
L flamed condition of the mucous
lining of the Eustachian Tube.
When-this tube is inflamed you
■ have a rumbling sound or im
i perfect hearing, and when it is
. entirely closed, deafness is the
, result, and unless the inflamma
tion can be taken out and this
tube restored to its normal con
-1 dition, hearing will be destroyed
i forever; nine cases out of ten
, are caused by Catarrh, which is
nothing but an inflamed condi
tion of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred
.Dollars for any case of Deaf
ness (caused by catarrh) that
cannot be cured by Hall's Catar
. rh Cure. Send for circulars
! F. f. CHENEY &Co., Toledo, O.
i Sold by Druggists, 75.
Take Hall's Family Pills for
constipation.
Extra fine molasses 60c. Boy
les Mercantile Co,
2,029
WALNUT COVE NEWS
UNJUST LAND VALUATION
"flan Hiar.s On RvfuHnj! SSOO Per
Acre »or I.and Valued at Less
Th.in sß—The Sand-Clay Road.
Walnut Cove. March 9.—The
High School here ran an ex
! cursion to Walkertown Friday
to play the first ball game of the
i season and hold tha annual be
; Hate between the High School
i here and Walkertown High
; School. The debate was called
; off but the ball game was played
; and resulted in a score of two
Ito one in favor of Walnut Cove.
Rev. Joyce preached his fare
j well sermon here Sunday night,
i There was some excellent music
I and singing.
Rev. Ashburn preached here
! in the hall Sunday night.
The Juniors held their regular
meeting Saturday night and
conferred the second degree on
Wm. Southern and the third
degree on Brewer Whitten.
Other matters were considered.
It was decided to have the under
side of the hall painted and
repaired. This room is used as
a town hall and for preaching
in.
Mr. Walker has bought a
house and moved it on the lot
I which he bought at the lot sale.
;Mr Southern is also huilding on
his lot.
A gentleman near here was
recently bragging that he had
refused SSOO an acre for some
land that is listed for taxation at
les than $8 an acre. Is that
just ? There is land in this
county taxed at more than it is
worth, but the majority is not
taxed half its value. We under
stand that we are to have a new
way of valuing land this time.
I hope it will be more just than
the old way. It seems to me
that everything is worth what
it will bring, in cents and dol
lars. That would be justice to
the tax-payers.
We have several booze artists
here, and when they can't get
old booze from Virginia they
use a substitute. There are
four cider joints and two near
beer joints. So you see thep
are always supplied.
I heartily agree with Dr.
Watkins that we need some
good roads, but I think he is
wrong when he says that the
macadam road is the only kind
worth while. Possibly he has
never driven over a sand-clay
road. I don't think this road
! will cost more than half as much
as macadam and it will last just
as long, and I know that it
rides much better than maca
dam. However, I would not
object to either kind of road.
I think the best plan is to tax
each township separate. If we
can ever get one township to
build a good piece of road it
will not bs any trouble to get
others to do the same.
The dry-prizery here has the
machinery installed t.nd is a
very creditable building. Hur
rah for the union. I hope they
will accomplish lots of good.
NOTICE !
The Board of Road Supervisors
of Yadkin Township are hereby
notified to meet at King, N. C.,
on Saturday, April Ist, at 10
o'clock A. M. And the over
seers of the public roads of said
township are hereby notified to
work their section of road and
; report at said time and place.
This 6th day of March, 1911.
J. H. COVINGTON,
Chairman of the Board.
Mole traps, 50c. Boy lea Mer
can tile Co.