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Fill l. PElt (Continued from page 2.) i difference of 24 ears on every load,of tobacco hauled or 2,400,-! 000 ears in all, 24,>00 bushels.i This at 90 cts. a bushel would bring $21,000. Add to this the SB,OOO for hay and we have $29,G00. Distribute this equally ' over the 30 year period and count the interest on it and we have $4(5,240 interest and all. Adding this to the $285,000 lost be cause of the reduction in the size of the loads hauled we have $331,210. The Loss In Stock, Vehicles and Harness Due To Had Roads. The above is not all the money | losses that must be charged to j our bad roads. We must con | sider the shortened life or service ? of buggies, wagons, harness and stock due to the increased strain and exposure put upon them by reason of such roads, I do not know just how many horses and mules there are in our county. Bat assuming that we have a population of 24,000,1 and that there are 7 persons to each family we would have 3,428 families in the county. And supposing that there is an average of one and one-quarter head of work stcck per family, we would have 4,285 horses and mules in the county. But as we could not count for these an average life or service of more than 15 years we would need twice that number, or 8,570 in the 30 years. Putting the average cost or price of these at one hundred and fifty dollars, we have $1,285,000. Now, by reason of the exposure and in creased strain put on each animal by bad foads, his life or service is cut short by at least $7.50 or one-twentieth of price we have figured him at. This would make a loss of $64,275. And equally distributed over the 30 years would bear $57,840 interest This added to the $04,275 would make $122,115. Now, taking both together, we have just about as many wagons and buggies in the coun ty as there are horses and mules. Putting these at an average price of fifty dollars each they would - cost us $428,500 in the 30 years. But we must count the loss on them by reason of the shortened service due to bad roads. It has been claimed by a prominent writer that one wagon doing service over good roads will last as long as three wagons hauling over bad roads. But I will esti mate much lower, or say that a wagon will last 20 years on good roads and onlv 15 years on bad roads. (What is true of wagons ; is true of buggies.) Figuring from this basis the loss on our wagons and buggies would be, with interest added, $270,750. But this is not all. We have about fis many sets of . wagon and buggy harness in the county as there are wagons and buggies. Putting these at an . average price of only twelve dollars per set and assuming that their average life or length of service is 15 years on good roads i and that they will give only 12 years service on bad roads, the loss on them with interest added for the 30 years would be $39,- 078. If all the losses I have mentioned were represented in tabular form the matter would stand something like this: Losses Loss on free labor $ 684,000 Loss on hauling to bacco 285,000 Loss becauseofextra feed consumed 48,240 Loss due to shorten ed life or service of stock 122,115 ■,} Loss due to shorten ed servicer of wag ons and buggies 270,750 Loss due to shorten ed service of har ness 39,078 Total loss $1,419,183 We Are Sending Enormous Amounts of Money Outside Of the County. It is claimed by some that if (the proposed bonds are issued the greater portion of the money we would have to pay would have to go as interest to people outside our county and not be spent in the county. But doubt less the greater portion of the bonds could be placed within the I hands of our own people. I ask those who hold that if the bonds were issued too much of the money would be sent out of the county, to glance at the above table and note the losses on our hortes, mules, wagons, buggies and harness, and then remember that nearly all the monev that) we pay for these things is sent out of our county. Perhaps nine tenths of our horses and mules j are brought in from other local- j ih'es. And as for the wagons, j buggies and harness I know of | none being manufatured in our ; county. Now I have named only a few j of the losses our people have to | bear on account of bad roads and | have said little or nothing about the gains or advantages good roads would bring to us. As I bulieve that there are few who have a proper conception of the enormous loss bad roads are causing our people, I submit the following from the pen of a prominent writer: An Enormous Waste. "Two hundred and fifty mil lion dollars are wasted annually on bad roads in this country which is noted for iis business sagacity and thrift, and which has been pronounced a great success as a business community. Add that waste to losses occas ioned bv bad roads, and the i sum leaps to a billion a year. It j is estimated that, in short, each j man, woman and child in the United States bears a tax of $12.50 because of bad roads. If this doesn't show that good j roads is a national question that bulks as big as the tariff, the navy, foreign relations, com merce—anything: if it doesn't | prove that the federal govern ment ought to turn to the road question with as much energy as it expends on anything else, then there is nothing more to be said." In speaking about this road matter I have viewed only a few of its features that bear upon our economic relations. But per haps its most important features are those which bear upon our social, moral and intellectual fabric. For we know that bad roads usually cause a poor at tendance on church and school and are responsible for any losses that cannot be measured by money; such as deaths and the shortened lives due to ex posure on such roads. I have in mind a case where a wife and child were taken away from a home by typhoid fever. The trouble was traced to a filthy mud hole in the road by the side of the home. By percolation the water in the mud • hole had carried its deadly germs into the well from which the family had been getting its drinking water. Here is a loss that cannot be measured by money. How is it for a tribute or offering from bad roads to our people? All know that bad roads are notorious for their filthy mud holes. Who sit that has not scented their sickening odors as the wheels of his vehicle passed through them on the road? Is it too much to say that the wheels of our wagons and buggies pick up their deadly germs and scatter them about our homes? Now Edwin B. Robertson, of South Carolina, quoting Mr. Lyman Beecher Stowe, a prom inent writer, says: "Other things besides dollars are lost by bad roads. Other things besides dollars are gained by good roads. In every State there are native born whites who can neither j read nor write. In the four | States where the average per centage of improved roads is 30.55, the proportion of white illiterates is only thirty-four one hundredths of one per cent. In I the four States where the per centage of improved roads is only 1.51, the proportion of native born white illiterates to the total population is 4.76. In the first ! group of States, out of a popu lation of over 6,000,000 only a I little over 20,000 of the native j born whites are illiterate. In | the second group of States, out !of a population of considerably less than 8,000,000, almost 400,- 000 of the native-born whites are illiterate. "While neither the sole cause nor the sole effect, the 1 close relation between lack of j decent roads and decent educa [ tion is obvious." It seems from this that for our : people to assume the proposed debt would tend to make our county a better place for us and those coming after us to live in i rather than an undesirable place. I Fifty years* ago Charles Sipn , ner declared that "the two i greatest forces for the advance ; ment of civilization are the schoolmaster and good roads." How itad Roads Affect the Schools. Seeing these things in such a light, it seems that our people could scarcely make too great a sacrifice to get better roads. Just last night, I heard a lady THE DANoURY REPORTED say to another lady (and they were not talking about good roads either, but about sending the children to school) * hat she j sent her children to school till ! the roads got so bad she stopped j sending them. Is it any wonder [ that so many of our people are j moving away to get to better ! roads and schools? But it seems ! that some are willing to be taxed j withallthese losses andinconven- I iences simply for the privilege of keeping iti the old ruts rather than make an effort to throw the burdens from their shoulders. I know that it is claimed by some that we should pay as we go and that it would be unjust for us to vote a tax on those coming after us. But do you know, dear | reader, that if we and our fathers had been governed entirely by | this policy in the past and been afraid to assume the responsibil ity of going in debt for farms and homes, (the very things that have been our life and safety), many of us would have long since perished from the face of the earth, and our land would be a jungle or mere wilderness char acterized by the thorn, briar, bush i and bramble instead of the fields I of golden grain that goes to feed our people. Are there not many j farmers whose children helped pay the debts they contt acted : while as yet the children were | unborn? When children are born j unto such homes and share their j pleasures, comforts and benefits ' thereof is it too much or unjust i for them to help pay the debts ? ; Would it be any more unjust fori those coming after us to help pay for good roads or such work done now as would extend its benefits to them after serving the present generation than it would be for us to let bad roads continue to shut the children of the present day out of the schools so much of the time as they are now doing ? While I have mentioned only a few of the losses our people would bear during the next 30 years if the present system con tinues their sum amounts to nearly a million and a half dol lars. And yet the roads would be no better than they are now. If all the losses and costs bad roads will bring to us during that time could be seen, it seems to us that their sum would ap pear so great it would make the proposed bonded debt look very small in comparison. This is the comparison we draw between the cost of bad roads and the cost of building good ones. W. A. PETREE.' Ira Smith Writes. - King Route 2, March 10. Editors Reporter : Will you please allow me a small space in your valuable paper as it has been about twelve months since I h;ive writttn any. I am a little boy eleven years old. I have been going to school for the past four months. Mr. Tom Ham was my teacher. He was good and kind to us and we learned to love him. Now, I am going to a subscription school to Miss Fannie Ham. She is a kind hearted little girl, and of course I think a lot of her. I study several books and they all seem to be very hard. NORTH CAROLINA FLAG. I love the banners of my State, Flag of the free, and of the great, A fonder emblem none can claim Than that of Carolina's fame. Two dates upon the flag I find, With glory these refresh the 'mind A motto too for you and me, which is : "Esse Quam Videri," which j means: iTo be, rather than seem to be. j Then place the flag where you can see ! The emblem of the brave and free. IRA SMITH. I ' i Ik'st Known Cough Remedy. i For forty-three years Dr. King's New Discovery has been | j known throughout the world as j the most reliable cough remedy. .; Over three million bottles were II uswl last year. Isn't this proof? l lt will rid you of your cough, or I we will refund your money. J. J. Owens, of Allendale, S. C., ! writes the way hundreds of ; others have done : "After twenty years, I find that Dr. King's New Discovery is the best remedy i for coughs and colds that I have > ever used." For coughs or cold , and all throat and lung troubles, it has no equal. 50c and 11.00 ' at all Druggists. lOCALg^i Mr. W. A. Petree, of Mt. j View, was here a short while on j business yesterday. Mr. Jno. M. Taylor, of Wins ton, snent a few hours here! yesterday. Mr. Taylor is very much in favor of the bond issue, i He owns lots of land in this county. Mr. John Covington, who re cently removed to Winston, was here yesterday visiting relatives and friends. John's mother, , who has recently been seriously ill with meningitis, is much j better. The Reporter has been issued the last two weeks under great difficulties. Nearly the entire force has been sick, part of them in bed a portion of the time. The readers and patrons are re- j quested to be as patient as pos- j sible under the circumstances. I In a situation like this, news- i * i paper-making is at a serious dis-1 i advantage, owing the impossi- ] bility of securing trained help. Mr. Ernest Fulp, son of Dr. | E. Fulp of Fulp, N. C., who has | been attending the Roanoke j S National Business College, at I Roanoke, Va.. has just accepted I a desirable position with the I Norfolk & Western Railway at I Williamson, W. Va. The same train carried one of his class mates to a stenographic position with the same company at Blue field, W. Va. We learn that Mr. Fulp has made splendid progress while in this college, and no doubt he will make a! record for himself with the, Norfolk & Western Railway. Chamberlain's Tab'-ts (or Constipa tion, For constipation, Chamber lain's Tablets are excellent. Easy to take, mild and gentle in i effect. (>ive them a trial. For sale by all dealers. i ST Art Ot NOR 1 II CAROLINA, / Office of the Itourd of County Commis* Stokes Cmiiity. \ sioners. February 20, 1013. In the matter of road election in thei . , .... , several townships of Stokes county' 1 *° the qualified voters of Stokes under an act of the General Assembly,i coun t>' °f the calling and holding of session of 1913. ) said election. In pursuan :e of an act of the General A>-Jcmbly of the State of North Carolina, passed at the session of 1913, it is ordered by the hoard «>f county commissioners of the county of Stokes that an election be held under the provisions of I act. at all the election precincts in the several townships in Stokes county on the Ist day of April, i!)i:{, rVr 'he purpose of ascertaining the will of the quali fied voters of the respective townships upon iiu-* question as to whether or not the said townships, or any of them, shall shall issue; township b >nds in 'OP amount sta'ed below for each respective town ship, with which tj raise funds for the iniproyoau-n'. ui' the public highways thereof, as follows: Yadkin township, fifty thousand dollars. Meadows township, forty thousand dollars. Quaker Gap township, fifty thousand dollars. Peters Creek township, thirty-five thousand do'!-"**. Snow Creek township, thirty-five thousand dolla *. Sauratown township, fifty thousand dollars. Heaver Island township, twentv-five thousand doll^is, Danbury township, fifteen thousand dollars. Said bonds to run thirty years, bearing semi-annual interest, with a provision for the levy of taxes to create a sinking fund with which to pay said bonds at maturity, to begin fifteen years from date of issue. That for the purpose of holding said election it is further ordered by the board that the following registrars and judges be, and they are hereby appointed, to hold said election unde>- the provisions of said act: Danbury precinct : L. J. Young registrar, and J. D. Smith and J. L. Coleman judges. Wilson's Store precinct : .1. Walter Fowler registrar, and J. C. Wall and J. B. Greene judges. Germanton precinct : L. M. McKenzie registrar, and S. O. Watts and Geo. W. Newsom judges. Boyies' precinct : K. M. Covington registrar, and L. R. Pallium and F. L. Fowler judges. King precinct : J. W. Spainhour registrar, and J. S. D. Pulliam and H. S. Greene judges. Pinnacle precinct : A. ,1. Boles registrar, and W. A. Sullivan and R. F. Fulk judges. Covington's School House precinct : D. A. Simmons registrar, and Jesse George, Jr. and Wm. Martin judges. Francisco precinct : I. E. Jessup registrar, and J. J. George ar.d J. C. Flippin judges. Lawsonville precinct : H. H. Reid registrar, and Jesse A. Lawson and Joseph Martin judges. Sandy Ridge precinct : W. A. Jessup registrar, and T. M. Martin and F. M. Amos judges. Mitchell's precinct : Alex Flinchum registrar, and L. J. Duncan, and Jno. W. Gann judges. Pine Hall precinct : J. C. Flinn registrar, and W. M. Chisman and T. G. Reynolds judges. Walnut Cove precinct : J. F. Hawkins registrar, and Joel I. Blackburn and P. H. Linville, judges. Freeman'si precinct : .!. C. Neal registrar, and M. D. Linville and A. D. Murray judges. That at said el"i»M(»n all qualified electors who favor the issuing of said bonds shall vote a ballot "For good roads bind issue," and those who oppose the issuing of said bonds shall vote a ballot "Against good roads bond issue." That said election shall be held as near as may be under the general law for the election of mem bers of the General Assembly. That the registration books shall open for the registration of voters on the 2Sth day of February, 11)13, and shall close on Saturday the 22nd day of March, 1913. That said registration books shall be kept open on each day (Sundays excepted) from nine o'clock a. m.. until sunset. That on each Saturday during the time aforesaid, the respective registrars shall attend at their respective pre cincts with their registration books for the purpose of registering voters. That Saturday the 29th day of March, 1913, shall be challenge day. That the respective registrars and judges of the respective precincts make return to the board of county commissioners of Stokes county of said election on the Thursday next following the election in accordance with said act. That the clerk of the board cause notice of this order to be published once a week for at least thirty days next preceding the election in the Danbury Reporter, a newspaper published in Danbury, N. C., and further cause notice hereof to be posted at five public places in each township, for thirty days next preceding the election, and also cause notice of the order to be served by the Sheriff of Stokes county on the registrars and judges hereinbefore named. By order of the board. This the 20th day of February, 1913. JOHN G. MOREFIELD, Clerk Board County Commissioners. When ?n Winston on Business or Pleasure, Call at O'IIAM.O.VS DRUG STORE. If you are in need of anything in the drug line. Always the largest stock of drugs in Winston to select from. Also the greatest ass6rt= ment of PERFUMES, TOlL= ET ARTICLES,HAIRBRUSH* ES and bristle goods. O'HANLON'S Is the place to buy. Gideon. Gideon, March 10.— Rev. Kingi filled his regular appointment! at Oak Grove Sunday with a yery small attendance Little Dorris Fagg, the daugh-1 ter of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Fagg,! of Red Shoals, is very ill at pres ent, but we trust she will soon be out again. Miss Berchie Dunlap visited Misses Mabel and Bryant Gann Saturday and Sunday. She re ports a nice time. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Flynn j visited at Mr. Sam Gatewood's THE FOLLIN COMP'Y 1 INSURANCE 1 WINSTON=SALEM, - = N. C. ! Sunday and also Mr. Bruce iate | wood of Walnut Cove. Measles and mumps are raging, j Some new cases in the neighbor- I hood. ; Among those that visited at | Mr. W\ M. Flynt, Sr.. Sunday j were ' Messrs. Ham Flinchum, ; Culler and Robah Flynt and Jesse (ratewood, and sister, Lottie. Thev all report a jolly time. The people have organized a Sunday school at Oak (irove. Will open the first Sunday in April at ten o'clock. I hope they will | have success. SCRIBBLER.
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