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AT liwn COVE Mr. Murphy Forwards Peti tions To Legislature In Regard to Schools. A FINE MEETING Agricultural and Uood Roads Association Addressed By Several Citizens Wednes day Night. Walnut Cove, Jan. 18. — Mr. Joe Hill of Davidson county was here last Saturday and Sunday visiting his sister, Mrs. R. L. Murphv. Mr. Robert Murphy, Jr., and Miss Stella Rierson go to Wins ton every Saturday to take music lessons under Prof Maurice Longhurst. Mr. Robert Alcorn, of Dillard, a student in the Walnut Cove school, spent Saturday and Sun day at home with parents. The Walnut Cove High School has entered the State Debating Union and will probably be grouped with Pilot Mountain and Pinnacle to form a triangle. The speakers chosen to rep resent this school are : Messrs. John Hutcherson, Watson Joyce, Odell Jones and Stephen Smith. Miss Maggie Robertson, who has for several davs been at Dalton at the bedside of her mother, returned home Monday and is again in school. Her mother had the pneumonia and grip, but is now recovering. Mr. Eugene Burton, formerly a merchant at King, has bought the Moore farm about two miles from here and moved his family [ to it. Mr. James Voss has rented some rooms in the Lash house 1 and will move in a few days. On Friday evening, January 17th, a very delightful entertain- The Right Man in the Right Place YOU ALL KNOW ARCH CAUDLE, AND MOST OF YOU KNOW THE FRANK A. STITH CO. CLOTHING STORE. FOR THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS IT HAS BEEN The Best Place to Buy Cloth ing IN THIS PART OF THE STATE. THIS WEEK we will begin our Double=Dollar Suit Sale (ONE DOLLAR DOES THE WORK OF TWO.) WE GO THROUGH OUR STOCK EVERY FEW MONTHS AND PICK OUT THE ODD SUITS, WHERE THERE ARE TWO OF A PATTERN LEFT AND CUT THE PRICE RIGHT HALF IN TWO. FOR INSTANCE- FOR INSTANCE- FOR INSTANCE-- 15 Men's Suits that were SIO.OO, now $5.00 12 Boy's Suits, worth $3;50, now $1.75 11 Overcoats that were SIO.OO, now $5 00 f A !! " " S-jg 14 4.00, " 2.00 14 15.00, " 7.50 21 " • ll.50: " 9!25 19 5 -°°- " 2 - 50 5 18.50, '• 12.50 4 20.00, " 10.00 8 6.50. " 3.25 6 20.00, " 13.50 6 22.50, " 11.25 20 7.50, " 3.75 3 22.50, " 15.00 YOU BUY"YOUR*N EXT E surr IT PAYS TO FOLLOW THE ARROW. s^ s Tn a o te ?IC. W0 Next door to Thompson's Drug Store. WINSTON-SALEM, N. CAROLINA. ment was given by Miss Bessie Morefield to a number of her friends at the home of Mrs. Will RiArson, on Main street. Among those present were Misses Thelma Neal, Sallie Mott, Mary Marshall, Edith Petree, Irene Allen, Ethel Stephens, Gladys Lackey, Dewey Jones, Lillie 'Joyce, Maggie Robertson; Messrs. Watson Joyce, Jessie Stephens, Eugene Dodson, Sanders Rierson, Port ney Bailey, Jacob and Paul Ful ton. Several games were played and all present greatly enjoyed the occasion. Miss Frances Jones, of this place, went to Winston last Thursday. Mr. R. L. Murphy is now ready to forward to the General Assem bly a petition requesting that body to (1) provide a six months public school term, (2) State-wide school attendance laws, and (3) j effective child labor laws. He began to circulate this petition January 7, and it probably bears the earliest date of all like peti tions in the State. It is signed by most of the citizens of the town, including the school board, the town officers, and the faculty of the school. A well-attended and enthus iastic meeting of the Good Roads and Agricultural Association of Sauratown township was held in the Junior Hall last Wednesday night. Interesting speeches were made by Mr. Lawrence Macßae. of Winston-Salem, Prof. Joe Hill, of Davidson county, and several citizens of Walnut Cove. It was the sense of this meeting that bonds for building roads should be voted by townships, and judg ing from the enthusiasm shown in this meeting the $50,000 issue will be carried in this township' by an overwhelming majority, j Another meeting of the associa tion will be h>ld next Wednes-' day night. THE DANBURY REPORTER Mrs. Mariaona fagg. Palouse, Wash., Jan. 8, 1913. Mrs. Marianna Fagg was born «'uly 6, 187G, at Francisco, N. C., and died Nov. 14, 1912, at Harrison Bros.' Hospital in Palouse, Wash., making her stay on earth 36 years, 4 months and 8 days. She was a daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. John Tilley. She was married to Robert M. Fagg on Jan. 25, 1891. She became a member of the Primi tive Baptist church at Piney Grove. N. C., in May, 1894, and has always lived a true christian life. She was survived by a husband and four children. The children are Mrs. Harvey Lynd, Mrs. L. B. Page; Masters Tommy and Lester Fagg, all of Palouse, 1 Wash. She is also survived by a mother, 3 sisters and six brothers and a host of friends and relatives in North Carolina, i Mrs. Fagg was buried Nov.! lfi, 1912, at Glenwood cemetery j in Palouse, Washington. Thej funeral services were conducted I in the undertaker's parlor by I Rev. Tanner of the Baptist] church. MRS. HARVEY LYND. """ I Wood's Seeds For The Farm Garden. Our New Descriptive Catalog is fully up-to-date, giving descrip- j tiona and f;:ll information about the best and most profitable j seeds to grow. It tolls ail aboui Grasses and Clovers, Seed Potatoes, Seed Oats, | Cow Peas, Soja Beans, The Best Seed Corns and all other Farm and Garden Seeds, j Wood's Seed Catalog has long been recognized as a stan dard authority on Seeds. Mailed on request; write for it i T. W. WOOD & SONS, SLLDSMLN, RICHMOND, VA. J I The Farm Work and Other Affairs of the State Farm Reports made to the State I prison directors, in session in i Raleigh last week, show that 1,400 bales of cotton will be ' made off of the 1,500 acres | planted in cotton at the State | farm, it appearing now that i the prison authorities will re alize sHo,oo> from all crops this season, cotton, peanuts and corn. The farm works 425 convicts. There are 87 in the prison in Raleigh; 05 working on the Aberdeen & Rockfish railroad, 43 on the Statesville Air Line, 1 93 on double-tracking the Atlan tic Coast Line, CO on the Elkin & Alleghany and 21 on the South Atlantic Transcontinental, making 810 convicts in the ser vice of the State. Convicts hired for railroad work are rated at $1.50 a day. Only the Atlantic Coast Line and Aber ' deen & Rockfish roads pay cash for convict work, the others [ paying in stock in the roads. The State also has the grad ing of Mattamusket railroad in Hyde county and the Wilkesboro- I Jefferson turnpike for stock, neither giving any promisa of ; speedy dividends or anything I like par valuation. Running ex penses of the penitentiary amount to $14,000 a month. This season the prison authori-1 ties have sold 810 bales of cotton i for $48,210 and have 500 bales | yet to sell, with 175 bales still i in the field. j CHRONIC CONSTIPATION CURED. "Five years ago I had the worst case of chronic constipation I ever knew of, and Chamber lain's Tablets cured me," writes S. F. Fish, Brooklyn, Mich. For sale by all dealers. Death of Mrs. J. M, Surge. Mrs. Burge, the wife of Mr. J. M. Burge of Smith died early Thursday morning after an illness of only about one week. She was 73 vears of age. The deceased is survived by her husband and a number of children, all whom are grown. Three of the sons are in western States. She was an estimable woman and will be greatly miss ed in the community. The interment was made at Snow Creek church burying ground Friday. Pastor T. J. Folger preached at the' M. E. church Sunday morning on forgiving. Prayer meeting at night was conducted by Mrs. J. Spot Taylor. The talk was especially to the child ren. PAINTS! We can sell you a better paint for less money than any one, because we make this our specialty and our prices are cheaper. Our price on oils ■ changes with the market, but is always right. We also handle a complete line of Man= tels, Grates and Roofing, Barn Paint, etc. Clinard's Paint, Mantel and Tile Company Paint and Wall Paper Store. Opposite Masonic Temple. - Winston-Salem. N. C. Mantel and Grate Store Old Express Office. For One Cent Letter Postage. Senator Burton of Ohio is lead ing the campaign for one cent letter postage, and has introduc ed a bill in the Senate providing for the inauguration of this new rate on July 1, 1913. Senator Burton declares that the people are entitled to one cent letter postage because it actually costs less than one cent each for the government to handle letters. This results in the accumulation of a surplus of over 162,000,000 each year on first-class letter mail. Mr. G. Thomas Martin, of Meadows, was a visitor hero Saturday. Mr. Martin, who is a citizen of Meadows township, thinks that his township will carry a good roads bond issue by a good majority.
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