THE DANBURY REPORTER.
VOLUME XXXIX.
GREAT TEACHERS' CONTEST
DRAWS TOWARD ITS CLOSE
MISS ANNIE BLAIR, OF DANBURY, HOLDS
HER LEAD, WHILE MISS ANNIE McAN
ALLY, RISES TO SECOND POSITION.
TEN MORE DAYS OF THE AGONY
THEN ALL WILL BE OVER—THOSE WHO
WORK HARDEST WIN-HOW TO REAP A
HARVEST OF VOTES—EVERY HOUR COUNTS
—OREAT CROWD WILL ACCOMPANY THE
• ON THE DELIGHTFUL TRIP
CONTEST TO CLOSE JANUARY 20, 12 NOON.
I T j
Annie Blair, 23,982
Annie McAnally, 21,294
Jettie Morefield, 20,375
Daisy Dearmin, 13,245
Mary Mathews, 8,040
Lucy Joyce, 7,415
Effie Gentry, 6,932
America King, 5,225
i ■....... i
Miss Roxie Taylor, of Campbell, 4,695
Miss Mae Wall, of Madison, 3,600
Miss Louella Fulp, of Walnut Cove, 3,095
Miss Jennie Reid, of King, 3,050
Minnie Roberts, of Dillard, 2,725
Miss Maud Neal, of Pine Hall, 2,300
Miss Lucy Lackey, of Campbell, 1,450
Miss Mally Redman, of King, 1,255
Miss Mabel Petree, of Walnut Cove, 925
Miss Mary Sue Willis, of Walnut Cove Route 5, 440
Miss Duo Smith, of Iredell county, 335
Miss Effie Blackwell, of Pine Hall. 325
The last week but One of the
Popular Teachers' Contest is
turning toward its close. Only
ten more days, and the last bal
lot will be counted, ana the read
ers of the Reporter will know
who are the lucky eight girls
chosen by the thousands of read
ers of the Reporter to go on the
delightful eastern North Caro
lina week's outing, with all ex
penses paid by this paper.
(As the forms are closed today
the last count shows Miss Annie
Blair, of Danbury, to have 1 "Id
her lead, while Miss Annie Mc-
Anally of Saxon rises to the
second place.
Every girl who has a hope of
winning, is now seriously at
1 work. Every resource is being
exhausted to secure votes, every
friend is being called upon to
help. Every hour now lost
means a lost chance for those who
! are at work to come in ahead.
There are many votas being
held in reserve. The last day
of the contest will be exciting,
as then all the reserved strength
of all the candidates will be ex
erted to the utmost. It is qui .3
within the realm of conjecture j
that one of the eight leaders today
will win "the silver cup to be
given the girl receiving the
ighest vote.
Some of the girls are putting
in some effective work, judging
from the number of new sub
scribers and renewals they are
sending in. Remember every
dollar counts for 100 votes,
whether paid on back dues or in
advance.
Remember, to put in some
good hard conscientious work, if
you would win. Your friends
will help you if they see you
really are anxious to win.
There are not many people of
the county who would resist
helping any of these girls, if
only asked.
The contest will close prompt
ly at 12 o'clock noon on Satur
day, January 20. Immediately
afterwards the votes will be
counted, and the names of the
lucky girls will be announced.
Every girl who can be reached
by telephone will be notified,
and will also be furnished with
a list of her seven lucky com
panions, in order that the party
may communicate with each
other, and elect the chape rone
to accompany them.
As previously announced,
many young people of the coun
h
ty are anxlousHSTfccompany Our
party of girls to the seashore for
a few days. Young men and
women from various sections of
the county, as well as from
points outside, have signified
their intention of going on the
trip, and it is believed a large
crowd will go. The publishers
of the Reporter are pleased to
note the interest taken in the
event by the many friends of
the girls, and it is now assured
that the occasion will be a most
happy and joyous one.
There is a chance for some of
the girls who are fartherest be
hind to secure the trip by put
ting in some hard, enthusiastic
work before the close of the con
test. During the last contest
conducted by the Reporter, one
of the young ladies who won
nut got in a buggy with a friend
and went to see every citizen
almost of the township. Nearly
everyone of them paid up for at
least one year's subscription,
whi'D many paid up for 2, and
5 years, and some even longer.
The people are going to take the
Reporter anyway—why not sub-
I scribe for a few years in
I advance, and give the votes to
one of these popular girls. It
will be a favor she will remem
ber and appreciate long as she
lives.
CATARRH CANNOT BE
CURED
with local applications, as they
cannot reach the seat of the |
disease. Catarrh is a blood or
constitutional disease, and in
order to cure it you must take
internal remedies. Hall's Catar
rh Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and
mucuous surfaces. Hall's Catar
rh Cure is not a quack medicine.
It was prescribed hy one of the
best physicians in this country
for years and is a regular pre
scription. It is composed of
the best tonics known, combined
with the best blood purifiers,
acting directly on the mucous
surfaces. The perfect combina
tion of the two ingredients is
what produces such wonderful
results in curing Catarrh.
Send for testimonials free.
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Props.,
Toledo, 0.
Cold by Druggists, price 76c.
Take Hall'* Family Pills for
onstipation.
DANBURY, N. C., JANUARY 10, 1912.
STOKES SUPPLY CO.
BUILDING NEARLY FINISHED
Expects To Open For Business Soon
—High School Reopens With
Fine Attendsnce—Death of Aged
Lady.
King, Jan. B.—Mr. Loyd
White of the Southern Railway
Company'B extra bridge force
came in home yesterday with
his left hand severely mashed,
two fingers being cut off while
unloading a lot of steel for a new
bridge on the Wilkesboro road.
The Stokes Supply Company
are nearing the completion of
their new brick building. They
are expected to open their stock
of goods at an early date.
King High School reopened
Tuesday with 192 student on
roll.
The Southern Tlailway Com
pany has ahori completed the
work of hi t£ the additional
side track in-rti.
Misses Rosa and Ruby Stevens
of Pilot Mountain were visitors
in town the first of the week.
R. F. D. carriers report the
condition of roads in. ugly shape.
Mrs. R. N. Reynolds of Galax,
Va., arrived in town this morn
ing, poming via Mt Airy. He
reports about two inches of
snow across the ridge yester
day.
Dr. J. V. Davis, of Concord,
is here this week doing a nice
lot of dental work.
Mrs. Southern, an aged lady
of seventy odd years, was buried
at Mt. Olive church yesterday.
Mrs. Southern was the mother
of Messrs. W. C. and Robt
Southern this.pla«e,
Meeting Of Ore Hill Union.
Danbury Route I, Jan. 9.
Danbury Reporter :
The Ore Hill Local Union
No. 676 will meet on Saturday,
Jan. I3th, at 1 o'clock, for the
Ear pose of ordering: some cab*
age plants, kerosene oil, soda
and other articles that the local
wants. All of the members will
please come out so / we can
make a good order and we have
some other business to attend to
so all of the members will please
come out and put in their orders.
J. WATT MABE.
Death of Mr*. Wallace Webster.
News has been received here
of the death of Mrs. Wallace
Webster, which occurred Monday
morning, at her home on Ger
man ton Route 1. No particulars
I have been received.
Application For Pardon.
Notice is hereby given that
! Hump Mitchell, who is now
serving a term on the roads of
! Rockingham county for obtain
: ing goods under false pretense,
will apply to the Governor of
North Carolina for a pardon.
Any person who opposes the
pardon is hereby notified to
forward his protest at once to
the Governor. This January 1,
1912.
HUMP MITCHELL.
By J. D. Humphreys and J. W.
Hall, Attorneys.
For Sale.
One good gentle farm horse,
5 years old. weight 1050 pounds.
C. M. JONES, Danbury, N. C.
A HERO IN A LIGHTHOUSE.
For years J. S. Donahue, So.
Heaven, Mich., a civil war cap
tain, as a lighthouse keeper,
averted awful wrecks, but a
queer fact is, he might have
been a wreck, if Electric Bit
ters had not prevented. "They
cured me of kidney trouble and
chills," he writes, "after I had
taken other so called cures for
years, without benefit and they
also improved my sight. Now,
at seventy, I am feeling fine."
For dyspepsia, indigestion, all
stomach, liver and kidney
troubles, they're without equal.
Try them. Only 50c. at all
Dtaggists.
STOKES FINANCES
RETROSPECT OF PAST YEAR
Money 'Market Good and Strong At
the Beginning Of the New Year —
Banner Crop Year For 1912 Is
Preraued —Big Tobacco and Corn
Acreage, With Better Prepara
tion Of Land the Slogan.
The financial outlook for the
New Year is good. The past
year was one of very unfavor
able conditions for farming,
resulting in a shortage in the
tobaeco crop of something like
30 per cent. However, this de
ficiency was more than overcome
by a policy of retrenchment on
the put of many people, a cur
tailment of unnecessary expen
ses, a more rigid economy in
living and a pronounced conser
vation of resources. This bene
ficial policy was augmented by a
full and fine crop of corn.
Prices for produce were strong,
while the tone «f the tobacco
market has - been medium to
strong.: The consequence in
reckoning the —'•— at ike
beginning of 1912 shows that
the people have saved more
money than usual. Our depos
its are higher than they have
heretofore reached at any time,
especially on time certificates,
which are a never-failing index
to the people's savings.
The demand for money in 1912
will be Very active. There will
be a bigger outlay in the tobacco
preparations, while the corn
acreage will be greatly increased.
Better preparation of the land
will $s the slogan. With favor
abl4fea»Sns 1912 should be a
baifWr on the Stokes
coiitity farms.
BANK OF STOKES COUNTY
Dan bury Walnut Cove.
News Items Of Walaut Cove Route 1
Walnut Cove Route 1, Jan 6.
We are having a good snow for
the rabbit hunters.
There was a box party last
Saturday night at Palmyra
school house. The highest box
being sold was Miss Emma
Meadows.
Mr. Chester Martin and Oscar
Green called to see Misses Ber
tha and Emma Meadows and re
port a nice time.
Mr. Albert Young called to
see Miss Martha Green Sunday.
Miss Martha and Oscar Green
are planning to take a pleasure
trip to Pilot Mt., sometime soon.
Mr. Cicero White is about to
go into the horse-trading busi
ness we think. That is all his
talk.
TWO BOYS.
Farm For Sale.
133 acres in half miles of Sum
merfield depot, 1£ mile from
good churcnes and graded
school with three teachers.
This farm is located on good
county roads, £ mile from ma
cadam road leading from Greens
boro to Oak Ridge Institute, and
has on it a good six room log
wall house weather-boarded,
new feed barn, tobacco barn and
other necessary out buildings,
also good well. Will take $25.00
I per acre if sold in the next
'thirty days. For further in-
S formation, write to
T. B. OGBURN,
Greensboro, N. C.
WANTED - TO HIRE A
good man to work on the farm.
Young married man with
small family, must be sober
and hot afraid of work. Good
pay to right party. For infor
mation address J. M. HARRI
SON, care Winston Clothing Co.,
Winston, N. C.
The blacksmi th shop and tools
of Mr. J. W. Ashby, of Danbury
Route 1, were destroyed by fire
recently. Mr. Ashby's loss ii
considerable.
TOBACCO FACTORY
MEETING TO CONSIDER IT
President Of the Union R. L. Nunn
Now Working Surry In Interest
• Of Stokes Dry Prirery.
Mr. Editor:
I am now in Surry county
working for the Stokes dry
prizery and am doing fine. We
are going to get a lot of tobacco
from Surry.
I was at a county meeting at
Dobson Saturday and made a
speech there. They passed a
resolution at the meeting to put
men in the field to collect notes
to complete their dry prizery and
install machinery at once. They
are sure going to build it now
and cut out the warehouse en
tirely this fall. So we can ex
pect co-operation from Surry
this year.
I want all of the committee
which was appointed to investi
gate and draw up plans for a to
bacco factory at Walnut Cove to
write me at once and let me
know when they think would be
a suitable time to call a county
meeting to put the plans on foot.
Write at once and let's get busy.
All the locals which get fert
iliser at Pilot Mtn. are hereby
notified to meet with the locals
of Surry county who get fertili
zer there on Friday, Jan. 26th,
1912, at I o'clock P. M. p for the
Eur pose of electing a man to
andle fertilizer at Pilot Mt.
Meeting will be held at Pilot Mt
Be sure to attend in full force as
we expect to establish a busi
ness there of our own this spring.
Yours fraternally,
R. L. NUNN.
Rev. J. H. Brendall to Remain At
Walnut Cove.
Rev. J. H. Brendall, pastor
of the churches on the Walnut
Cove circuit, writes the Chris
tian Advocate that his mother
died at the old family home in
Macon county, December 7th.
Also that the sick ones of his
own family have about recover
ed. Referring to the change of
appointments, he says:
"Many thanks to Bishop Hoss
and Brother Taylor for letting
me stay, and many more to this
kind people for making the re
quest in our behalf, also for in
creasing the salary over last
year."
Annual Meetinf Stockholders of the
Bank of Stokes County.
The annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Bank of
Stokes County will be held in
the Walnut Cove bank at eleven
o'clock A. M. on Friday, January
26.
We learn that Mr. J. H. Moore,
of Madison, has purchased the
Trogdon farm on Dan river,
seven miles east of Madison.
This is one of the largest and
best farms in Rockingham coun
ty, containing 1,184 acres. The
price paid for the farm is in the
neighborhood of 130,000. The
farm lies just across Dan river
from that of the late Governor
David Peid, and up until about
1876 was the property of the late
Judge Settle.—Madison Herald.
If your children are subject to
attacks of croup, watch for the
first symptom, hoarseness. Give
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
as soon as the child becomes
hoarse and the attack may be
warded off. For sale by all
dealers.
Government engineers have
recommended expenditures on
the canals and waterways of
eastern North Carolina reaching
the respectable total of $6,000,-
000 The improvements will
"un bottle" 3,000 miles of naviga
ble streams.
When you want a reliable
medicine for a cough or cold
take Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy. It can always be depended
upon and to pleasant and safe to
take. For &ale by all dealers.
No. 2,070
BOARD EDUCATION
MET AT COURT HOUSE MONDAY
The Public School Fund Apportion
ed To the Various Schools- -Other
Business Transacted.
The Board of Education for
Stokes met here in the court
house Monday at 10 o'clock A.
M., members N. A. Martin and
i S. P. Christian being present,
i The principal business before
the board was the apportionment
of the school fund to the var
ious districts in each township so
as to gi ve the same length of
school in each district. About
$1.75 was allowed each scholar.
The board made some special
orders as to assistant teachers
in some of the districts.
A general order was made
that schools having two or more
teachers and having failed to
make the required enrollment
and daily average attendance
that the committe should drop
the assistant teacher. An order
was also made that schools hav
ing one teacher shall be closed
when the average attendance
falls below one-fifth of the
census number, unless such low
attendance is providentially
caused or from other unavoid
able causes.
The board ordered the County
Supt. to make report of the
apportionment to the teachers
and school committemen as soon
as the aid from the second
hundred thousand dollars comes
in from the State.
A few other minor matters
were transacted and several
bills were ordered paid.
(. P. Christian In Town,
Mr. S. P. Christian, of West
field, member of the Board of
Education, spent Sunday and
Monday here, returning home
Tuesday. The Reporter asked
Mr. Christian if it was true, as
reported, that he would be a
candidate for the Democratic
nomination for Sheriff. He
replied that he would not be a
candidate, and could not accept
the nomination. On account of
the roads being impassable, Mr.
Christian climbed to the top of
the mountain beyond Vade Me
cum and slid home on the ice.
Smith.
Smith, Jan. 4.—Xmas has
passed, and was much enjoyed
by all.
Mr. J. E. Hutchens and son,
Elijah, left for Roanoke and
Bristol last Monday to buy
their spring goods. We wish
i them a pleasant trip and success
in their business.
Mr. Walter Martin looks very
sad this week as his best girl
has gone back to Brown Mt,
Miss Lillie Leak is very sad as
her best fellow did not call
Xmas. Lillie, it is leap year,
now you can go to see him.
I think the wedding bells will
soon ring in Virginia as Mr.
John Martin calls right often.
Mr. Frank Tilley called to see
, Miss Annie Hutchens Monday.
BLUE EYES.
i And again the time of year has
arrived when we hear of deaths
from burning caused by starting
fires with kerosene oil. There
are three classes of persons in
this world who are dangerous,
one is the boy who points the
unloaded gun, another is the
man who rocks the boat, the last
is the woman who starts a fire
with coal oil. She is like the per
son who takes a drug to produce
sleep. The risk in each case is
great and often fatal to life and
sometimes to property. Ashe
boro Courier.
Persons troubled with partial
paralysis are often very much
benefited by massaging the
affected parts thoroughly when
applying" Chamberlain's lini
ment This liniment also re
lieves rheumatic pains. Per
sale by all dealers.