THE DANBURY REPORTER
OLUME XXXIX.
FROM J. W. KURFEES
ON LATE SCHOOL ELECTION
It Discouraged, He Believes the
rim Will Sooa Come When the
'wpk Will Vote For Schools.
, Editor :
'be battle 1M uvr, but we are
ry to Hay the victory wa* uot
u tor our |cradel neliool. We
aomewhat like tbe old woiuau
■ when «be prayed for tht moun
ato be removed, "It waa about
■re expected." Intact we proctl
ly saw tbe end from the bo
ning. We have tieeu «» many
b caw* where It took two or
ee elections to carry It. We are
;at all dlecoura***!, and feel sure
,t victory will l*e our* ere loug
doee not prevail Ju«t when
desire It, but doe« always pre-
I soouer or later. This euui
gu will do gout. It will serve
eaveu, and alter while it will lieglu
work. Tbe men who have chlld
tbey love, aud really at heart
uttoseetbem grow in Intellect as
II as In stature, and voted
linat this school proposition, will
ite course of time, in their cool
I sober moments, regret their
of yeeterday.
fedo not criticise the honest far
r who voted aKalnst the tax
iply ltecause he felt It a burden,
i We tblnk lie wps wrong: we think it
would soou have been a pleasurelu
stead of a burden to him,
i but be has a perfect right to his op-
I tniou and we do not criticise him,
or aoy one else whose honest con
victions were different from ours.
- "The rneu whom we criticise are '.hose
who saw fit to deal in gross liiisrep
reaeatatton, and we will udd wilful
lolerepreeeutatiousat that. We say
| wilful because we know some who
L dealt ID them have had some advan
tage of education and ure credited
with being too well posted not to
know better than to make state
ments which, when put t" the
teat, were each time proven to l»e
false. It comes with poor grace for
a man who has had educational ad
vantage to say toa cltlxeu who lias
been lees fortunate, that the school
facilities are good euough for hfs
children and It will never do to vote
a tax to better thein. But you clt
laens watch right close and see If tlie
facilities you have are good euough
for that man's children. Not 011
your life. A man like we have pic
tured knows the advantage of a
better education than can lie ob
tained around (ieriuanton with
ureeeut facilities, anil if you'll watch
close some who fought to keep down
better opportunities at home, will
soon be, If Indeed they have not al
ready been, sending their children
elsewhere. They will lie sending
th*"» off where some one else has
I spent hard-earned money ami pre
h pared better school advantages.
u Some of you cannot do this. You
I will not lie able, and your children
I therefore will have to grow uppoor
f ly prepared to face a nrogresslve
age. On the other hand the sous
and daughters of certain ones who
opposed the school tax will be com
ing home from College well equipped
rf for life. . . , ,
What I fought for, and what a
number of other good clt:*eusfouglit
for, was a system of co-operation to
MtablUh at home, right In our own
community, a permanent High
Nchool that every child, rich and
poor alike, could have equal advan
tage of at least a High School edu
cation.
lam proud of the stand I took
and 1 feel sure each aud every man
who stood with me feels proud, aud
era long we will have many recruits
/ from the opposition. One or two
men cannot run a good school, but
"In union ther* Is strength."
A system of co-operatlou like we
had before us would have equally
distributed tbe burdens upon every
mfcn In this district In proportion to
his wealth. If he owned but little
be would have but little to pay. If
be owned more he would have more
to pay. Ko after all It would have
- been equal.
We nave men In our community
who have 5 or 6 children who pay
f only a poll tax, but most any of us
whs pay more can pay It easier
than they.
I would be the last man to grum
ble at paying more tax than some
leas fortunate fellow Just liecause his
children had equal school advant
age with mine.
On* child, be It rich or pt»or. Is as
good bv nature us another and
should "have equal opportunity to
devek>p those God given faculties
whldl should be highly prised bv
every father and mother In the land.
I hhve not au unkind word or
thought for a single man because lie
votea against thrschool proposition.
• In my seal and enthusiasm I may
have said things I should not have
Mid. Many uT us lu tbe heat of
argument over points of dtffereuce,
oamany subjects, get more or less
6idlid, ttud if wot careful sftj' thlijif*
Weahould have left uusald. If thin
hasten the cane on my par frit was
aa «(tor of the head aud uot of lU*
Wat, and I am sorry. May the
Lonl over role It all In some way for
good, and may the day soou cqrne
when, not only Qermanton ami com
munity, but the eutire eouuty of
Stokes will wake up to Ita duty lu
behfif of roa'« and schools, and
oeaaa to be poll* 'ed at us a "back
number" In the iaruh of progress
BOW going on from the mountains
I to the sea. JNa w KIJRFBKB .
J D. Humphreys ha*
pnflned to his bed wfch
«•* two or three days,
tow much improved.
FROM D. S. WATKINS
TRAVELING IN VIRGINIA
Stokes Naa Sees Some Strange
Sights Oa the Other Side of the
Nouatains.
Earlhearst, Va., June 4.
Editor Reporter:
I will try to give a little de
scription of this country. It is
made up of long mountain ranges,
with narrow valleys between.
Leaving Fincastle I went around
by Buchanan byway of Salt
Peter Cave (a cave of salt peter)
to Eagle Rock. Here two large
lime kilns are doing business,
employing several hands. Back
byway of Fincastle across the
mountain to New Castle, thence
up the mountain where Meadow
creek goes rushing down the
mountain several hundred feet
to New Castle, the finest water
power that I ever saw. They
could pipe the water several hun
dred feet over the town. This
valley is called Sinking Creek.
It seems to be a valley high up
in the mountain. I stopped over
night with a Mr. Abbott. He
said that the creek was full of
fine trout, but the land was post
ed. Said a few days back he
went across the mountain to
Back Creek and caught sixty
fine trout—as many as he cared
to carry home. From there I
wended my way across the moun
tain to Fort John's creek. Here I
met a lawyer from Richmond,
stopping at a Mr. Huffman's.
Young Miss Huffman said that
just below the house there was
a hole in the creek and the finest
fish she ever saw. We went to
hunting bait and finally we got
three Daits and one hook. I
made a bargain with the lawyer
that he was to catch the fish and
I would carry them. I always
want the isasy job. At the creek
sure enough there was the nicest
fish floating around I nearly ever
saw. The water seemed to be
about waist deep, just as clear as
a crystal. You could see great
large spotted fish swimming
around. They soon got the three
baits and we had nothing to do
but go back to the house and
feast on ham and eggs, and go
to bed and dream of the fish we
never caught. Next morning I
very reluctantly hitched up my
horse and drove towards All
Healing Springs and from All
Healing I had to cross another
mountain to Point Bank, thence
down Pat's creek to Covington,
Dunlap's creek to Earlhearst.
I spent Sunday with a Mr. Carter.
He has a roller mill, store, farm
and pond full of fish. Here is
the greatest freak of nature I
ever saw. Just below the mill is
a falls fifty feet high. The wa
ter runs over and turns the rock
and fills up, and changes its
course. It has run around trees
and formed rock and the trees
have rotted out and left their
impressions. You can. see the
impressions of the limbs, also
the leaves. You can see the
leaves plain enough to tell what
kind. They are not petrified.
We went into a cave about forty
feet wide. Here is the beautiful
est sight I ever saw. The water
has run over here in time and
formed rock just like icicles, in
all shapes and forms and colors.
The rock is very hard. You can
break it and see the layers like
the growth in timber. Mr.
Carter says he has to take out
his mill wheel once in awhile and
cut the rock off where the water
strikes the wheel the hardest.
It has the most rock inside the
box that the wheel run in. In
ten years it got to be five inches
thick. He had to cut it out to
give the wheel room to run. He
showed me where poles lay across
the creek and rocks formed. You
can find where it has formed
around sticks and the sticks have
rotted out and left it hollow. He
said that in August he could put
a stick in swift water for twenty
four hours and it would be right
gritty. They have recently
found a crack in a rock and went'
in and found a cave under a five
acre field. Meadow says the cave
is as large as the field and is
over hanging with this rock like
icicles and the creek running
through. I did not go into it as
I did not care to eraw| into such
cracks. Now this may seem
fishy, but anyone doubting it
can coins and see several parties
DANBURY, N. C., JUNE 14, 1911.
BUILD GOOD ROADS
YADKIN CITIZEN WRITES
la No Uacertaia Toaea Oa the Sub
ject of Progress For Stokes Couaty
—The Inestimable Damage Of a
Do-Nothiag Policy.
Rural Hall Route 2, June 4.
Mr. Editor:
I am glad to see an awakening
of interest in our county on the
subject of good roads. I think
this question of paramount im
portance to all others, when we
consider the future of our county
and people, and the welfare of
our children.
I am not an advocate of maca
dam roads, unless we had a more
thickly settled and a wealthier
county. Paving the roads with
rock, and leveling down to a two
or three per cent, grade, is too
costly for us now. But what we
need is one of the less expensive
methods of building roads, and
yet a method which will 'insure
enduring roads, and roads that
will make traveling and traffic
both easy and quick.
I am a farmer, and what I have
I have by many years labor
I have made at hard labor, and I
believe that our county should be
charge of men who are careful
in the expenditure of the people's
money as taxes. But I do not
think that a do-nothing policy
with regard to reasonable county
improvements is wise or econom
ical. The people in the back
woods districts of Stokes county
have for many years been paying
a heavy and burdensome tax
which there should be some
means adopted to relieve them
of. For instance on fertilizers
we haul, we must pay at least 20
cents tax to bad roads, because
with good roads, we could haul
two bags where now we can
haul only one. On flour we pay
a road tax of 20 cents per 100
pounds, and oh Daisy Middlings
we pay at least 30 cents per. bag.
Every farmer knows this is true.
If we buy from our home merch
ant, we must pay the liauling
price which he has added. If
we haul from the depot ourselves,
with our own teams, we pay the
tax just the same by our inability
to haul a full load. Take all the
other commodities on which we
pay the road tax—salt, hardware,
corn meal, com, hay, etc., and
you can soon figure out the
enormous expense of bad roads
to the peple of Stokes county.
What do you suppose it costs the
farmers of Stokes county to
market their tobacco over the
bad roads? It is estimated that
we produce 7 or 8 millions of
pounds. Estimate one-half of
this to be hauled from interior
farms, and you must stagger at
the cost of hauling, to say noth
ing of the time consumed, the
wear and tear of vehicles, which
is at least 15 per cent., and the
wear and tear of stock, at least
25 per cent. Friends, readers,
farmers of Stokes county, the
injury to the property of the
people of the county by our dor
nothing policy with reference to
roads, cannot be estimated. We
can ten times easier pay a direct
tax for building good roads than
we can pay the indirect bad-road
tax.
It is said by a well informed
farmer of Guilford county, that
it is five times easier for a laborer
to make a dollar in a-county with
good roads, than in a county
where bad roads are a handicap
to every kind of business and
industry. The same writer in
forms us that all kinds of indus
tries flourish, and farm lands in
crease in value, where there are
good roads. This would seem to
include every avocation, then why
should any person oppose that
which is the life of our county?
These are my views on the
subject, and I would be glad to
hear the opinion of others on the
question which, in. my mind, is
more important than any other
consideration which confronts us,
PROGRESS.
The uniform success that has
attended the use of Chamberlain's
Colic, Cholera ahd Diarrhoea
Remedy has made it a favorite
everywhere. It can always be
depended upon. For sale by all
dealers.
are three-miles from here. Old
Sweet is one mile further in W.
* 0. 8. W.
IN OLD ROCKINGHAM
FINE OUTLOOK FOR POOLING
This la the News Brought Back By
Stokes President R. L Naaa, of
the Uaiaa —Tobscco Crop Will Be
Cat Oee-Half.
Mr. R. L. Nunn, President of
the Stokes County Farmers' Un
ion, spent Saturday night here
on the way to his home at West
field from Rockingham where he
has been lecturing and organiz
ing for a week or more in the
inter&t of the Union. Mr. Nunn
brings very encouraging reports
from the Rockingham farmers
who, he says, are alive and
awake for the Union, and adds
that they will pool several million
B >unds of tobacco this fall. Mr.
unn attended a large and en
thusiastic Union meeting at
Wentworth on Saturday. Speech
es were made by many promin
ent Union men, and a great
amount of tobacco was pledged
for a pool in the fall.
Mr. Nunn says Rockingham is
dry like Stokes, and he predicts
not over half a crop of tobacco
for the two counties.
Mr, Nunn says Rockingham is a
great old county, with a big
hearted people who are progress
ive, hospitable and kind.
A DREADFUL WOUND
from a knife, gun, tin can, rusty
nail, firework, or of any other
nature, demands promp treat
ment with Bucklen's Arnica
Salve to prevent blood poison or
gangrene. Its the quickest surest
healer for all such wounds as al
so for Burns, Boils Sores Skin,
Eruptions, Eczema, Chapped
Hands, Corns or Piles. 25c at all
Druggists.
GOOD ROADS AS AN ECONOM=
ICAL QUESTION.
Outside of the influence of bad roads against edu
cational and religious development and outside of
the adverse influence of bad roads through intensify
ing the loneliness of country life, the loss to farmers
and to all others using bad roads is in the aggregate
staggering. We complain bitterly against the rail
roads for freight charges and yet put up with the
cost of hauling over bad roads so many times great
er than the cost of railroad freights per mile that we
can but be amazed at our own failure to utilize our
opportunities. Every wheel that turns over a bad
road adds to the cost of living and doing business;
every farmer is daily paying a toll through the heavy
burden of bad roads which, in the aggregate cost is
far more than this taxation, both State and national.
In fact as an economic problem pure and simple, the
question of good roads is of more vital concern to
the American people than the question of protection
or free trade. There is no other economic problem
before the country of more importance for the people
of all classes and all sections than that of good roads.
While bad roads mean undeveloped educational and
religious activities, continued loneliness of country
life, lack of prosperity on the farms as compared with
what there might be, and many other disadvantages,
good roads on the other hand mean the highest edu
cational and religious advancement, a more general
prosperity of all classes, the elimination of the lone
liness of country life, and the keeping at home of
tens of thousands of people who without good roads
will continue to crowd to the cities, often to their
own disadvantage and to the disadvantage of the
cities. Well-rounded national development can only
come through the highest development of the agri
cultural districts, and this can only come through
the highest development of all religious and educa
tional activities and social possibilities. The coun
try must be made as attractive through good roads,
and the blessings which they bring, as the city, or
otherwise we shall have a continuation of the tre
menduous drain from the country to the city, which
has been one of the dominant features of our nation
al growth during the .last quarter of a century.—
Prom Address of R. H. Edmonds, Editor of the
Manufacturers' Record.
ZEB NUGENT CAUGHT
AND SENT BACK TO THE PEN
Seatenced to State Prison For a
Term of Seven Years in 1893
Escaped Soon After Began Term.
The State penitentiary author
ities have just gotten back Zeb
Nugent, who was sentenced to
seven years from Stokes county
18 years ago, in the year 1893.
Soon after being sent to the
State prison from the Danbury
jail, Nugent made his escape.
He tells the penitentiary author
ities that he has visited many
parts of the world, and served in
the Spanish-American war since
he left Raleigh. Nugent's pa
rents live near Mount Airy, and
he had gone back to visit the old
folks, when the Sheriff of Surry
arrested him.
Subscribed the REPORTER
HOW'S THIS?
We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by Hall's
Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, 0.
We, the undersigned, have
known F. J. Cheney for the last
15 years, and believe him perfect
ly honorable in all business tran
sactions and financially able to
carry out any obligations made
by his firm.
WALDING, KINNAN& MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken
internally, acting directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. Testimonials sent
free. Price 75 cents per bottle.
Sold by all Druggists.
Take Hall's Family Pills for
constipation.
BOOMING THE FAIR
TO MAKE IT THE BEST YET
Dates For Stoke kFiir October 17,
18, 19 —Othei atems of King.
King, JuneC>.— The farmers
are the worst _>hind with their
work they ha * been for years
due to the drjf/eather.
The wheat f>p in this section
is looking fin|J
Mrs. W. N. v est is visiting her
daughter in W, Va.
Efforts are being put forth to
make the coming fair, Oct. 17,
18, 19, the biggest and best ever
held in old Stokes.
Mr. J. M. Alley was here from
Danbury Route 1 Wednesday of
last week. Mr. Alley said that
he had set out more than half of
his crop of tobacco in spite of the
dry weather, and that it was do
ing splendidly, making as good a
stand as he ever had.
A CHARMING WOMAN
is one who is lovely in face, from,
mind and temper. But it's hard
for a woman to be charming
with health. A weak, sickly
woman will be nervous and ir
ritable. Constipation and kidney
poisons show in pimples, blotches,
skin eruptions and 4. wretched
complexion. But Electric Bit
ters always prove a godsend
to women who want health,
beauty and friends. They reg
ulate Stomach, Liver and Kid
neys, purify the blood; give
strong nerves, bright eyes, pure
breath, smooth, velvety skin,
lovely complexion and perfect
health. Try them. 50c at all Drug
gist.
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