THE DANBURY REPORTER
VOLUME XXXIX.
THE FIRST
• ADVANCE OF
PROSPERITY
TOLL ROAD TO BE BUILT
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Fine Macadam or Sand Clay Turn
pike From Walnut Cove into
the Heart of Stokes County==Mass
Meeting to Be Held At Walnut
Cove.
There is a movement on foot,
£nd now assuming practical
shape, to tap the heart of Stokes
county with a fine macadam or
sand-clay road, to be in opera
tion within six or eight months.
The promoters and backers of
the road include some of the
leading public spirited men of
Stokes county, as well as a
I pumber of wealthy citizens of
adjoining counties and cities.
The proposed road will be a
toll line leading from Walnut
Cove to the lower edge of
Peter's Creek township, pierc
ing the county more than half
way. It will be built by a
Stock company chartered under
the laws of the State, and will
do a legitimate business, erect
toll gates at every convenient
point on the line, charging
reasonable fees for transporta
tion of all kinds.
The exact route of the toll
road has not yet been definitely
determined, and will depend on
availability ot right of way,
etc. The company which under
takes the building of this road,
which will mean so much for
Stokes county, will ask that the
right of way wherever most
practicable may be tendered
without charge from the people,
as wherever the road runs it
will mean the increasing of the
['ldjacont property values from a
hundred to a thousand per cent.,
and it is expected that all
citizens, realizing the great
need of the avenue of com
merce, will appreciate the bene
fits to be derived, and will en
courage and co-operate with
the company. The Reporter
recalls a few years ago when
.the right of way for a proposed
railway in a certain section of
the county was given so grudg
> ingly by the citizens, and some
of them showed such a disposi
tion to exact excessive charges,
that the road was abandoned by
the promoters. Let no man in
JStokes county ever throw a
, stumbling block in the way of
the advance of progress. A
sthousand times better pay the
road to come your way. There
are men in btokes county who
wiU give one-half of their farms
for a good road by it.
The toll road is a great suc
cess wherever tried. There are
Mveral of them in Virginia,
nmny in the north, one now
buildirg from Blowing Rock to
LinVille, N. C., one now building
from Danville, Va., to Caswell,
N. C., county-seat. They are
Eing investments for the
kholders, while they are of
tlculable advantage to the
community traversed. They are
of really more advantage than
a d|lroad in these days of
automobiles and traction engines.
Immediately after the building
of this road you will see a mark
ed impetus given to business of
tall kinds in the county. Hun
dreds and thousands of visitors
will spend many months in the
RZjbar with us, and the farmers
fver a wide area of the county
trill find a first-class market at
;heir very door for produce of
iM kinds at the very highest
prices. It will mean of vastly
nore importance to the farmers
;han the tobacco erop.
Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, the
State Geologist of Chapel Hill,
wtil himself go over the pro
jifeed line and offer the expert
uiowjedge and experience in
she' laying out of the route,
Kr)|ile it wul be surveyed by a
fcoppetent civil engineer, who
will so design the way thit not
more than a two or three per
cent, grade may occur anywhere
The cost of the road will be
from $40,000 to $50,000, and it
will be a modern turnpike in
every respect on which an au
tomobile may reach Danbury
from Winston, Charlotte,
Greensboro, Danville, Durham,
High Point or anywhere at a
speed of 40 mites an hour.
Two horses can easily pull 5,000
pounds, while the road will
never get muddy. It will be
an outlet for our tobacco and
lumber, our rock and produce,
of all kinds, and an inlet to the!
investment, the capital and the
wealth of the outside world.
Let every citizen, every man,
woman and child of Stokes
county welcome the coming of
the advance guard of prosperity.
Let no person discourage it,
speak ill of it; or hinder it in
any way, for the good Lord
knows we need it, when our
citizens are every day giving
up in discouragement over the
adverse conditions, and moving
out to other counties where
conditions exist which we could
so easily have here. How many
of our best citizens have left us
in the last five yearo and in
vested the savings oi' a lii'e
time in Guilford county ? How
many of our boys have sought
a living in Forsyth county dur
ing the last twenty years, and
there built up fortunes and edu
cated their children where there
are schools and churches and
encouragement to business of
all kinds ? Every neighbor
hood in the county feels the
keen loss of farmers who have
moved west or to other places,
taking with them their ac
cumulations of a life time.
Every good citizen who leaves
us does us an injury which may
be reckoned in dollars anil
cents. Every life-saving that
moves away from us makes us
in that degree poorer. What
we need is the inward trend of
men and money that brings
life and business and happiness,
not the outward drain which
paralyzes our most vital re
sources.
Every merchant, farmer and
citizen should take stock in the
road, showing his welcome and
encouragement to the enterprise.
It means great things for our
county, and its coming will bene
fit every person in the county.
The mere expenditure of $50,000
in the county will be a big thing.
Hundreds of hands and teams
will be emploped. After the road
is built, regular employment will
be given to a number of officials,
—toll gate keepers, etc., while
the up-keep of the road will also
mean the expenditure of a con
siderable sum yearly. The road
will be kept at all times in first
class condition, and traffic over
it will grow daily. The charges
will be so regulated that no per
son can afford not to use it. For
instance, say an interior merch
ant has 2,000 pounds of goods in
the depot. He can have them
brought up in less than half the
time, and at five times less cost,
and not hurt his team, rather
than drag them in over the rocks,
holes and through the mud.
Would it not pay him to spend
50 cents toll in this case: A
regular automobile car will make
two or three daily round trips,
carrying passengers, mail, ex
press, etc., qaickly and cheaply.
Transportation creates trade,
and the traffic on the line is
DANBURY, N. C., AUGUST 16, 191!.
V. G. LAWSON KURT.
A Foul Ball Smashes His Nose -He
Wa3 Watching the Game Between
King and Pink Grove
Mr. V. G. Lnwson, of Asbury,
while watching the ball game
between King and Pink Grove
here Saturday, was hit and se
verely hurt by a foul- ball, which
entirely smashed the bridge of
his nose. The hurt was extreme
ly painful, and Mr. Lawson had
the sympathy of the big crowd
who saw him hit. Dr. R. H.
Morefield, who was present,
dressed the wound, which will
probably disfigure Mr.' Lawson
for life.
Hov.' to Cure Peavine Hay.
Some time since one of our
correspondents said in The Pro
gressive Farmer that he had
used my plan for curing cowpea
hay with success, and right
away I was flooded with a host
of inquiries. Now, I have in
times past published my method
many times, but it seems that
there are many who have not
read it. Begin mowing when
the pods are maturing, but not
dry. 1 cut in the morning till
noon only. Put a tedder right
after the mowers to keep the
hay tossed up so as to facilitate
the wilting. That afternoon
take it into windrows. Next
morning turn the windrows,
and that afternoon put the hay
ini > cocks as tall and narrow
an will stand well. How long
it shall remain in cocks depends
on the weather and the state
of the growth. But as soon as
you c.*n take a bunch in hand
and give it a hard twist, and
can see no sap run to the twist,
pi t it in the barn while the
leaves are still limp. Do not
pack nor tramp it in the mow,
out let it settle naturally, and
then let it alone, and it will cure
all right. If it heats slightly in
the barn, do not go to turning
it to cool it, for if you do you will
have moldy hay. as the air will
bring in the germs of mold.
Peavines are easily cured if you
will simply let them cure and
do not go to monkeying with
stakes or scaffolds to spoil the
hay by drying up the leaves
and losing them. I have cured
the hay in the above way for
many years, and have always
had good hay instead of the
sticks usually seen without any
leaves. —Progressive Farmer.
If you should undertake to
pick tobacco worms off one by
one, in some sections your neigh
bors would laugh at you and
wonder if you knew that Lee had
surrendered. Get an Acme ma
chine and you will wonder why
you never thought of it before.
You can not afford to hire a man
to pick tobacco worms when you
can do it for less than his board.
Price $1.90. For further infor
mation address ACME DISTRI
BUTING CO., Reidsville, N. C.
Mr. Knight, of Leaksville,
spent Monday night in town.
bound to make it a handsomely
paying investment for the stock
holders, to say nothing of the
immediate and direct benefits to
the county which will be tapped.
A mass meeting will be held at
Walnut Cove very soon at which
tentative plans will be adopted,
organization effected and the
start made.
The Reporter will give full
particulars in due time.
The automobile feature of the
road makes it a big thing. There
are thousands of machine owners
In Greensboro, Winston, Char
lotte, High Point, Salisbury, and
other places who invariably fol
low the good roads. The auto
mobile has come to stay, and it
is the greatest developer of the
rural districts since the advent
of the steam railways. The
quickness, the pleasure, the
general facility of travel by the
automobile brings our summer
resorts close to the homes of a
hundred thousand citizens of
North Carolina, South Carolina
and Virginia who will with pleas
ure to themselves, and profit to
us, visit us yearly if we bid for
them. And eur Winning stroke for
the patronage of the people who
have money and don't mind
spending it, is the building of
the gateway to our cool moun
tains and our fine mineral waters.
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D. P. TATE IN TOILS
MINISTER UNDER ARREST
Formerly Pastor At Madison —
Later Sold Tombstones and
Monuments.
Danville Va., Aug. s.—Chief
of Police J. R. Bell left last night
for Tennessee to bring back
to Danville the Rev. D. P Tate,
who, while masquerading in this
city as a Methodist minister and
while engaged in the real estate
and insurance business, swindled
people here out of thousands of
dollars. Tate was arrested last
Saturday at Knoxville, Tenn.,
and is being held by the police
authorities at that place spending
the arrival of an officer from this
city with requisition.
There has been a delay of
several days in getting the ap
plication for requistion l>efore
the chief executive of Virginia
owing to the absence of the
commonwealth'B attorney from
the city. The Knoxville police
have been notified several times
to hold Tate and no trouble is
anticipated as to result of the
delay in securing the requsition
papers.
The former preacher antici
pated prosecution before the ar
rest was made. Several weeks
before the fleeing clergyman
was located and placed under,
arrest, former Judge Shaw, of
Greensboro, came to Danville in
the interest of Tate. He ex
amined the warrants against his
clinet and secured other infor
mation about the case. It is
rumored that another prominent
lawyer of this city will be asso
ciated with Judge Shaw in the
case. The latter was in the city
again this week gathering infor- ■
f SEEN EROM THE OUTSIDE.
K A recent outing In Stokes county brought home to M
£ one of The Weekly staff the great need of that coun- %
# ty, good roads. Stokes is rich in natural resources, C
being a fine agricultural county, with minerals, wa- #
J ter-powers, mineral springs, charming mountain %
# scenery, etc., thrown in for good measure. If she C
V had macadam roads she would soon become one of M
J the wealthiest counties in the piedmont section. %
# Many of her citizens are awake to this fact. A large C
V land owner remarked in the writer's presence a few M
€ weeks ago that he would cheerfully consent to the j
# doubling of his taxes if the increased revenue were C
V applied to building good roads in Stokes county. M
r When representative citizens begin to talk this way %
# it means something.—Webster's Weekly, of kelds- C
V ville, N. C. #
mation that he hopes to be of
benefit to Tate.
No new warrants have yet
been issued against Tate,
though it is thought that addi
tional charges will bo preferred
when the case is called for trial.
The most pathetic phase of Tate's
skyrocket financiering is the
fact that many of his victims
are poor people from wham he se
cured all of their saving. In fact,
this class of people constitutes
the majority of citizens whom
he duped into advancing him
money under one pretext or
another. It was his method of
approaching these people of hum
ble circumstances that has ar
oused public sentiment so
strongly aginst Tate. Garbed
in the livery of heaven, he took
advantage of his position as a
Methodist minister to ingratiate
himself into confidences of poor
people. He induced many of
his victims to attend the several
churches with which he was
prominently connected while
here, and afterhe had impressed
his followers with the pety and
and godliness he assumed, called
on them for advance of money
or volunteered to invest their
saving in enterprises that paid
large dividends. Many of his
transactions, while conceived
and executed in bad faith, are
not criminal. The police have,
it is alleged, many cases against
Tate that are both morally and
criminally wrong.
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KILL % BY THE TRAIN.
Thomas S ; Sharp Loses His Life
3 Rural Hall.
Losing footing on the step
of a freigl £ ar, while beginning
to climb tLo tron ladder at the
car end Thomas Settle Sharp, a
popular and well known young
man of Greensboro Thursday
afternoon at about 8 o'clock at
Rural Hall in Forsyth county, fell
across the railway tracks under
the heavy wheels of the train on
which he was working and was
so terribly crushed and mangled
in a sickening grind of the wheels
that he died one hour later at
Winston in the Twin City hospi
tal. Both legs and one of his
arms were cut off, and injuries
to the rest of his body that were
in themselves of almost fatal
consequence, were received.
Although it were known by the
trainmen who picked him up that
he could hardly live but a few
minutes, he was rushed to the
hospital, where, perchance, his
suffering might be alleviated
and his wounds made easier to
bear.
Young Sharp was running be
tween Winston and Wilkesboro
on a local freight train, and was
on the return trip to Winston
when his death occurred. He
had just finished coupling cars
and was climbing onto the step
when a sudden movement of the
train overbalanced him and caus
ed him to fall under the wheels
where he was crushed before
tho train could be stopped.
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