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THE TOLL PIKE
A Good Investment For Stokes
County Money—Let Everybody
Take Stock, That Stokes May
Control It.
One of the important features with reference
to the proposed toll road to be built from the
Buck Island bridge to Walnut Cove, is the large
amount of money which the launching of the
enterprise will turn loose among our people.
Fifty thousand dollars expended over ten or
twelve miles of rural district, not on costly ma
terial and high salaries, as so many public works
expend their funds, but largely on labor, among
poor people who need it most, means something
good to every citizen of the territory to be tra
versed for miles around. A period of twelve
months or two years will possibly be required
to build the road, employing 50 to 100 hands,
and 10 to 20 teams, all at good wages. Every
merchant, farmer, business man, and all citi
zens, will feel the great stimulus to trade and
traffic of all kinds which the disbursement of so
large a sum of money will effect. Buildinga sand
clay road is not like building buildings, where
lumber, brick, iron, tin, paint, lime and cement
eat up the appropriation. Building sand-clay
roads means the moving of thousands of tons
of dirt by hand, and men and mules get the job.
Every merchant, every farmer, every business
man, every citizen, man, woman or child, of
Stokes county, who loves home and desires to
see the county prosper, and go forward in edu
cation, morals, and right living, should join in
the battle for good roads which means all that
we can ever hope to be. Any person who sits
off and with slight remark, or weak attempt at
joke, with disreputable calculations and slurs
or otherwise attempts to discourage
or delay the movement for the better
ment of our county, in the secret hope that he
may be left undisturbed in his sordid stingi
ness by any public move which might result in
his parting with a few dollars, deserves the
contempt of the bettef class of people
who are constrained to associate with him. The
theory that we are free to live and die like fat
tened vultures, is an illusion. We are all burd
ened with duties and obligations to our God,
our country and our people.
The wagon traffic on the road from the north
ern part of Stokes to Walnut Cove and Wins
ton all the year round is large. Every teamster
will use the toll road, because he cannot afford
not to use it. Then when we count the tolls
received from summer visitors, we are ready to
conclude with Mr. Chap Bodenheimer and other
level-headed and conservative business men
who have figured on it, that the Toll Pike will
pay for itself in five years.
Mr. A. J. Fagg recently had occasion to visit
Guilford connt\, where there are some excell
ent sand-clav roads in operation. Mr. Fagg is
enthusiastic over their splendid qualities. He
says they never get muddy, and are as good as
macadam in every respect, while they cost five
or ten times less to biiild than the rock roads.
Mr. Fagg is a liberal stockholder in the Sand
lay Toll road irom Buck Island to Wal
nut Cove.
.:•» »e A. Lawson, E. C. Sheppard, and F. E.
merchants cf the country north of Dan
ri«.-r>, fre stockholders in the Toll Road. These
men know what it is to try to do business where
jrfti'i paying freights of the railway companies,
they must pay from 40 to 75 cents per 100 to
get their goods hauled over 15 or 20 miles of
.Mokes county roads--the worst in the world.
One of the broadest-guaged, biggest hearted,
and most far-sighted farmers in Stokes county
is Geo. Lewis, who said he would give half of
his farm for a modern road by i,t. The I oil tfoad
will not go near Mr. Lewis' farm, but he took
stock in it just the same, because he knows what
a good road in the county means. And then he
will not have to drive but a few few miles to
get on it.
The editor of the Progressive Farmer, Mr.
Clarence Poe, who is one of the most broad
minded young men in the South ; who is liberal
ly educated by wide reading and extensive trav
el, is an enthusiastic advocate of good roads.
Show us a man who is intelligent,-and we will
show you a man who is for good roads.
There are so many good things about the Toll
Road proposition that it were hard to enumer
ate them all at once. One of the most valuable
features is that it will be an object lesson in
good roads in Stokes county, and the contagion
will spread like fire in the mountain.
Mr. A. J. Fair, one of the most progressive
citizens of tour county, takes stock liberally in
the Toll Road, and says it means great things
for Stokes.
MOUNT AIRY NEWS
AS TOLD BY THE LEADER
Death Of Miss Bertha Creed—
Mttch Produce On the Market —
Other Items.
On last Saturday night, at 11
o'clock, Miss Bertha Creed, a
popular young lady of this city,
died at the residence of her mo
ther in this city after a week's ill
ness which resulted in peritonitis.
Just a week after she was tak
en to her bed and with all the
efforts of medical skill; she suc
cumbed to a disease that in most;
cases proves fatal. She was
twenty-three years old and was j
the daughter of the late J. M.
Creed, who died about two years
ago, and is survived by a mother,
and one sister, Miss Mollie and
two brthers, Cebron and George
Creed. She was a consistent
christian, a loving sister and a
dutiful daughter and no more
can be said of any one. Her re
mains were buried at White
Plains cemetery on Monday,
and Rev W. H. Beamer conduct
ed the services that paid the last
sad tribute to one whose life
seemed so full of promise but
whom God claimed for His own.
The sympathy of this entire sec
tion is with the bereaved ones
in this sad hour.
R. L. Haymore left this i
morning for Roanoke, Va., I
where he goes in the interest
of the proposed railroad from
that place to this city.
The first chestnuts of the seas
on appeared upon the local mar
ket last we*»k, and there is said
to be an unusually large crop
this year.
A. E. Ti 1 ley has been appoint
ed Substitute Clerk in the local
postoffice as a result of the
Civil Service examination, he
having secured the highest aver
age over about twenty applicants.
He is now working in the office
for instruction.
As an indication of what can
be accomplished in the way of |
farming, in this section, Mr. T.
N. Brock has sold twenty acres
of standing corn to Mr. W. E.
Merritt for eight hundred dol-1
lars. The purchaser is a good i
judge of a cornfield and no doubt, j
feels that he has secured a!
bargain.
One hundred and fifty loads of
cabbage wete sold on the market
last Monday; this represented
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Shoes and Dry Goods
r Ever brought to
i King. Come
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buying. x
BOYLES
MERCANTILE CO., KING. N.C
THE DANBURY REPORTER
about 2500 crates. The cabbage
were of a superior quality and
brought from 'fifty to seventy
five cents per crate and yet the
warm weather was against haul
ing them.
Thos. F. Satterfield, the Main
street merchant and who some
times farms has in his window
five pumpkins that weigh four
hundred pounds and they were
all raised from one vine on the
Komer bottom near this city.
The seed were secured from Mr.
C. W. Bunker and the result is,
at least, "some pumpkins."
Dr. W. S. Taylor and W. J.
Byerly are attending a meeting
of the directors of the Mt. Airy
and Roanoke railroad which is
co be held tomorrow in Roanoke,
Va„
Everett Scott, a farmer living
near Brim, had the misfortune
to burn a fine barn of tobacco
last Thursday afternoon and the
Bpme day and about the same
hour, Clinton Dearman, a
colored farmer of the same
neighborhood also lost a barn.
Hon. Chas M. Steadman of
Greensboro, is spending a few
days at White Sulphur Springs
and spent yesterday in this city
shaking hands with his numer
ous friends. The Major is very
popular in this section of his dis
trict and no man ever represent
ed North Carolina in the Nation
al Congress, who is more
psrsonally popular with all class
es.
Chief of Police, E. M. Taylor
of this city, received a telegram
last Monday from T. L. Clarke,
at Stuart Va., asking him to
look out for his daughter, Lucy
Clarke, who ran away with W.
C. Staples. The girl is described
as red haired but the chanoes
are that the young couple by
now are happily married and
ready to ask for paternal forgiv
ness.
Edward Turlington, of this
city will leave next Friday for
New York from here he will
sail for England and take a full
course at Great Britian's famous
college, Oxford. Mr. Turlington
is a graduate of the North Caro
lina University where he won
the Phode's scholarship that
gives him this splendid op
portunity and course of instruc
tion. He deserves congratulations
and the fact that he has won
these laurels at home assures his
success abroad.
Mr. D. H. Tillotson, of Kin,g
was here this week.
BIG ASSORTMENT
OF
POST CARDS
sc. Per Dozen Assorted
Postage Paid.
BOYLES MERCANTILE CO.,
: KING, N. C.
AT ASHCRAFT DRUG STORE
WINSTON-SALEM. TRADE ST.
You will find everything
; fresh and clean in drugs,
medicine, etc. Drugs
I should be fresh to get the
best results, and as we
have just opened we know
and you know everything
is absolutely clean and
| fresh.
New crop turnip seed.
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ACHfDAET'C TRADE STREET
AjDlvKAr 1 3 NEXT DOORTO BOYLES BROS
I am better prepared to meet the
. trade for machinery than
ever before.
I can furnish the best engines ever introduced in this
county for threshing. A double cylinder Gasolene Engine
that is no trouble to operate and light to carry from place
to~place. I can also furnish you every style in Steam
Engines, also the best makes of Threshers, both Frick and
Huber. We have a small separator of either style of the
above named separators running in weight from 2500 to
3000 pounds. Terms to suit purchaser. Catalogue for the
asking.
Cltiie drop me a postal and let me know what you need.
I will rive yon the he«t deal yon ever bought In machinery.
T. J. THORE
WESTFIELD, N. CAROLINA.
ANNOUNCEMENT
I have purchased the entire stock of
dry goods and groceries of Mr. W. F.
Bowles, and I wish to extend to my many
friends a cordial welcome.
When in town call to see me. I handle
chickens, eggs, and all kinds of country
produce. GIVE ME A TRIAL.
Yours for business,
•
J. E. JAMES .
. WALNUT COVE, N. C.