NEWS ITEMS AiSiD PERSONALS
Miss Frances Jones, of Walnut
Cove, visited the Misses Pepper
here Sunday.
Mr. John Young, of the Re
porter force, is yet unable to re
sume his duties.
Messrs. Julius 0. Young and
Carlis Davis have returned from
a pleasure trip to Winston.
Misses Frances Hamlin and
Jessie Pepper visited the Misses
Jones in Walnut Cove Sunday.
Misses Mary and Nellie Joyce
returned Friday from a week's
stay in Winston.
Mr. Carlis Davis has accepted
a position in the Bank of Stokes
County here as "bookkeeper.
Prayermeeting at the M. E.
church Sunday night was con
ducted by Mrs. J. Spot Taylor.
Mr. J. N. Young has been con
fined to his room for several days
with asthma. He is much im
proved now.
Miss Sarah Smith, of Meadows,
is here attending the teachers
Normal School conducted by
Prof. J. T. Smith.
Miss Helen Edmonds, after
spending several days with Miss
Ravnor Joyce, left for her home
in Winston Thursday.
Mr. J. Will East, proprietor of
the Golden Rule Store at Walnut
Cove, was a Dan bury visitor
yesterday.
Mr. J. Wesley Morefield, a
prominent merchant and farmer,
of Sandy Ridge Route 1, wak a
Danbury visitor yesterdav.
The family of Dr. A. G. Jones,
of Walnut Cove, who have been
spending some time in their cot
tage at Piedmont Springs, re
turned home Monday.
The public roads of this sec
tion are said to be unusually
good now, owing to the dry
weather—not on account of hav
ing had any work done on them.
The Danbury Local of the
Farmers' Union held a meeting
in the court house here Monday
night, several matters of impor
tance to the union being dis
cussed.
Mr. Sam P. Heath, of Walnut
Cove, has accepted a position as
traveling salesman for the
Yaughn-Crutchfield Company, of
Winston, and was in Danburv
yesterday calling on our merch
ants.
Mr. E. W. Carroll, of Winston,
was in town Monday. He has
been spending several days with
hisjwife's father, Mr. Kelly
Sheppard. He was on his way
to his farm on Germanton Route
1.
Prof. J. T. Smith Opened school
here Monday. The school will
be especially for the benefit of
the public school teachers of
the county and will probably
be well attended. It will cor
tinue for four or five weeks.
Mrs. Galloway, Mrs. Noell,
Miss Laura Noell, and Mr. Fred
Ross, who have been spending
some time at the cottage of Mrs.
Galloway at Piedmont Springs,
returned to their respective
homes in Elkin this week.
Miss Jettie Morefield, of Sandy
Ridge Route 1, has accepted a
position as saleslady with the
firm of A. Daye & Co., at Wins
ton-Salem. She left yesterday,
accompanied by her brother,
Mr. Lester Morefield, for Wins
ton ti» euv^..
J Mr. Odell Jones spent Sunday
j in Walnut Cove.
Mr. J. Spot Taylor went to
• Walnut Cove today.
Mr. J. Frank Dunlap, of
Gideon, was here Tuesday.
I Dr. W. C. Slate and family
spent Sunday at North View.
I Mr. Dave Hodgin, of Greens
-1 boro, was in town Saturday.
Miss Willie Dodson, of Walnut
i Cove, is visiting Miss Luna Tay
lor.
Mr. W. W. King fs spending a
day or two in Greensboro this
: week.
Miss Nellie Joyce opened a
private school at her home here
Monday.
The hotel at Piedmont was
; closed for thi3 season last Satur
-1 day.
A new stable is being erected
'at the Methodist parsonage this
week.
Attorney N. 0. Petree is off
: today on professional business in
Smithtown.
i Mr. N. E. Pepper left Monday
for Washington City to spend
,i several days.
Miss Delia Stewart left Sunday
• for Moore's Springs, where she
will be several days.
' | Mr. Robert Joyce, who has
been in Mt. Airy for several
weeks, returned today.
Mrs. Robert Young and
children, of Newark, Ohio, are
' visiting the family of Mr. C. M.
Jones.
i
) The mill pond near town was
' drawn off Monday and quite a
j number of nice fish were cap
! tured.
. | Mrs. B. J. Savage and
children, of Germanton, are the
j guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. M.
' Jones.
j The extreme dry weather is
said to have injured the corn
. crop considerably throughout
: this section.
Miss Janie Martin returned
Tuesday after spending some
time with her cousin. Miss Annie
Martin, at Gideon.
Mr. J. D. Humphreys, who
has been to Stoneville and Went-,
i worth to look after some legal
matters, returned today.
Miss Lelia Idol, of Winston-
Salem, returned home Sunday
after spending some time at
Piedmont Springs and Danbury.
Miss Harriette Ross, of Locust,
Hill Farm, accompanied by her
I friend, Miss Katherine Deitz, of
Macon, Ga., arrived here today
to visit friends. Miss Deitz is
■ well know here, having visited
Danbury two summers ago.
Mr. Gordon Wehster, of Mad
: ison, spent last night at the Tay
lor House. Mr. Webster is out in
the interest of Webster's Ware
' house, which he in running this
year. He was accompanied by
Mr. Gibson, of Stoneville.
Miss Laura Noell, of Elkin,
who spent the summer at Pied
mont Springs, arrived here this
afternoon. She will go to Rock,'
Hill, S. C., tomorrow to attend
a house party given by Miss Eva
Fewell. Miss Noell will be ac
companied by Miss Margaret
Vaughn. Miss Elizabeth Hill
will go to Rock Hill Wednesday
to attend this deiightful social
ga*h»* , «r.'- TT " -• rPentinr!
THE DANBL'RY REPORTER
INUm'L Ui' SALE UP K&AL
ESTATE.
By virtue of a decree of the
Superior Court of Stokes County,
N. C., rendered on the 10th day
of Sept., 1912, in the special
proceeding entitled "J. Spot
Tavlor against J. Wiil East." I
will sell upon the premises in
Walnut Cove, N. C., to the
highest bidder for cash, on
Tuesday, Oct. 15th, 1912, at the
hour of one o'clock p. m., a town
lot in the town of Walnut Cove,
N. C., on which is situated a
hotel, and known as 'Hotel Lot,"
and bounded as follows :
"Beginning at a stake on
north east corner of Hotel lot on
Main and second streets in the
town of Walnut Cove, N. C.,
running South 525 feet to a
stake in machine shop road at
intersection of old tan yard
road, thence along side of
the old tan yard road
in a north westerly direction
494 feet to the branch, thence
up the menders of the branch
193 feet to second street, thence
East along second street* 170
feet to the beginning."
Saving and excepting therefrom
a certain portion of same sold
off of said boundary by S. C.
Rierson and wife, and J. R.
Voss to the Walnut Cove Mer
cantile Company, the deed for
which exception is recorded in
the office of the Register of
Deods for Stokes county, N. C.
in Book No. 52, page 391, and to
which reference is hereunto
made for boundaries. This the
10th dav of Sept. 1912.
N. 0. PETREE. Com'r.
.NOTICE OF SALE OF VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE.
By virtue of a decree of the
Superior Court of Stokes county,
N. C., rendered on the 6th day
of Sept.. 1912, in the special pro
ceeding entitled "John -M. Taylor
vs. Virgil Joyce. Jr., I will ex
pose to public sale to trie highest
bidder for cash, upon the prem
ises in Stokes county, on
Saturday, Oct. 19th, 1910,
at the hour o£" two o'clock p. m..
a tract of land on the waters of
Dan river, adjoining the lands of
John M. Tavlor and others, and
bounded as follows:
"Beginning at a large poplar 3
poles North of the river, and
runs North, 4 1-2 chains to a
dogwood, thence West on Heck's
line 46 chains to pointers, form
erly a black oak, South on his
line 22 chains to a pine, ther.ce
West 4 chains to a stake on the
river bank, thence down the
river as it meanders to the be
ginning, containing 220 1-2 acr s
more or less," and being the
same tract of land conveyed by
deed from James Rierson, Jr.,
administrator of James Riers »i.
Sr., to John Henry Hart, record
ed the Register's office of Stokes
county, N. C., in Bunk 00, ]
28H and 287.
This the 6th day Sept., 1912.
N. O. PETREE.
Commissioner.
PERUNA
SAVED MY
LIFE
U I Recommend It Wherever
I Am."
Mrs. John M. Stabler, bottio of Pe
runa and commenced taking it. I found
I was getting some better, bnt thought
I was not doing a« well as I might. So
I wrote The Pertma Medical Depart
ment, to aee what they thought about
me. They gave me special directions
and medical advice. To oar astonish
ment I improved and am a well
woman and weigh as much as I ever
did in my life.
a "I tell my friends that Ferana saved
my Ufe. I recommend M wherever I
am?and when any of ony Tolks are sick,
I give tbera Peruua with success." •
THE SEVERE DROUTH
INJURES THE CORN CROPS
Farmers of Piedmont Section Must
Find Remedy Deep Plowing
Said to Be Only Hope. (
The summers of 1911 and 1912
have been extremely hard on
the North Carolina farmers,
especially, those who live in the
Piedmont section. This part of
the state has its corn crop cut
short by the drouth nearly
every year but the last two years
have been especially severe. In
this section of the State there
positively must be some method
found by which corn may be
grown in spite of this inevita
ble mid-summer drouth.
We feel that this method of
corn growing in spite of the
drouth has been discovered and
that it only awaits careful,
diligent application in order to
bring success. The method con
tains but four fundamental
factors. These are deep plowing,
which enables the soil to make*
up large amounts of moisture
in the winter and early spring.
Second, the incorporation of
'organic matter in large amounts.
This organic matter may be stable
manure or green manure, cut
fine with a disc harrow before be
ing plowed under and thoroughly
incorporated with the soil with
the disc afterwards. This ad
dition of organic matter is power
ful aid in retaining the moisture
absorbed by the deeply plowed
soil, holding it i.n:,l the season
is well advjncei even though
the drouth may set in early.
Third, deei Hunting. It is
I BUY IHC^Wagons
T7"OU cannot farm without a wagon ::ny
V more than you can keep house without
a stove. You work your wagon oftener
and harder than anything else on the farm.
ijl Buy a wagon that lasts longer than the aver
age. It is an easy thing to do, even though all
wagons which are painted alike may look alike.
The difference in wagons is underneath the
paint. It is the material and workmanship,
entering unto the construction of 111 C wagons,
Weber New Bettendorf
Columbus Steel King .
which make them the best wagon investment.
We want every purchaser to convince himself
before buying, that when I H C wagons ,aro
advertised as having oak or birch hubs, hickory
axles, and long leaf yellow pine box bottoms,
these are the materials actually used.
When an I H C wagon reaches a farmer's
barn, that farmer has one of the best-wearing,
easiest-running farm wagons that skilled labor
can make or that money can buy. There is no
need to speculate in buying a wagon. IH C
wagons are made for nation-wide uses, with
special features adapted to local conditions.
Weber and Columbus have wood gears. New
Bettendorf and Steel King have steel gears.
The I H C wagon dealer in your town sells
the wagon best suited to your neighborhood.
Ask him for I H C wagon literature, or, wiite
I International Harvester Company of America
Charlotte N. C ifigl
Pi 1 H C S«rric« Butmu l '
I The Durpote of this Bureau is to furnish, free (wjMgni
of charge to all. the best information obtainable ■ vmff/n
on better farming. If you have any worthy Ques- IVWUMfT
tions concerning aoils. crops, land drainage, irri- jmlmTj
gatlon, fertlliiers.eta.niake your inquiries specific mWMSI/
and send thera to I H C Service Bureau, Harvester
Building, Chicago, USA WUk
i j verv essential tnat * the tarmers
1 1 in this section of the State plant
1 their corn deep below the sup
face, but, of course, cover it
shallow. Last spring a number
of farmers carried out every
essential detail for the produc
tion of a good corn.crop with the
exception of planting the corn
deeply. The ground was moist
until the middle of May. This
shallow planted corn developed
its roots system only on surface
where moisture where moisture
conditions were justice right.
These moisture conditions re
mained just right until the last
of May or first of June, when,
in many cases the corn plant
was booting for tassel. At this
stage of the growth of the plant,
the root system has nearly com
pleted its development and from
this time on little extension of
' the corn roots may be expected
as its energies are thenceforth
occupied in producing the ear.
Moisture conditions being opti
mum uo until this period of the
growth of the plant, the great
« bulk of the roots were formed
and remained in the first four
'inches of the soil. Now, the
1 annual drouth set in. In many
' cases shallow cultivation was
practiced faithfully and it seem
ed that everything was done to
offset the effects of the drouth
but in vain. The first six inches
of soil gradually dried up, thus
leaving the corn plants standing
j high and dry in a bed of dust or
: dry dirt.
j How, had the corn been plant
ed five or six or even seven
1 inches balow the surface of the
soil and covered shallow, the
e facts of the drouth would have
Page 5
been, to a great extent, eliminat
ed. The root system would have
started deep in the ground and
been in contact with more lasting
moisture conditions which would
have aided immensely in com
batting the drouth.
To sum up, deep plowing, the
incorporation of large amounts
of some cheap form of organic
matter, which must be frequent,
shallow and late, will so far as
moisture conditions are con
cerned, produce a crop of of corn
in the face of any drouth that
has ever come in North Caro
lina.
We do not pretend that the
above or any other method will
entirely offset the effects of an
unusually dry season, but we do
know that this is the method so
far discovered, for growing a
fair crop of corn during the
dryest season North Carolina has
ever known.
A complete discussion of this
subject may be had from bulletin
IC9 entitled "Corn Culture in
I North Carolina" which may be
had on application to the State
• Department of Agriculture,
Raleigh, N. C.
J. L. BURGESS.
Agronomist.
NOTICE !
Having duly qualified as ad
ministrator of the estate of Syl
vester Overby, deceased, notice
is hereby given to all persons
holding claims against his estate
to present them to the under
signed for payment, duly auth
enticated, on or by the 10th day
of September, 1913, or this notice
i will be pleaded in bar their re
! covery. All persons indepted to
said estate are respectfully re
quested to make immediate pay
ment to me. This the 2nd (lay
of Sept. 1912.
J. W. SLATE, Admr.
P. 0. Mizpah. N. C.
N. 0. PETREE. Atty. for Admr.
WANTED—The Cosmopolitan
Group requires the services of a
representative in Stokes county,
ar.d surrounding territory, to
look after subscription renewals,
ar.d to extend circulation by
special methods which have
proved unusually successful.
Salary and Commission. Pre
vious experience desirable but
r.ot essential. Whole time or
spare time. Address, with re
terer.ee, Charles 0. Sehwer,
The Cosmopolitan Group, 381
Fourth Ave.. New York City.
FOR SALE—As 1 am going
to move to my farm this fall, I
offer my stock of goods to any
rne wishing to go in business.
Fine lecatk n. Will give good
discount. 1 will sell or rent the
Jfroperty. A gocd two-story
dwelling over the stoie. For
further particulars, write or see
W. E. BUTNER,
llsfp2w King, N. C.
The undersigned will open
suhool at Danbury on Monday,
September 9. Board and tuition
reasonable.
J. T. SMITH. A. 8..
Principal.
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