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The Daribury Reporter IMM'PKU lUtos.. K!HTI;I. ANH I*l I:US:II:US. Subscription : 3 mo., 25c.; 6 mo., 50c; one year, SI.OO | WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 2,:. 1913. BUILD THE ROADS TO LAST. i "Mr. Editor: "As I suppose the work on the new sand-clay roads will start soon, I wish to suggest that as we will have to pay interest on this money a long time, that the work be made to last, and not to be washed away. The road should be graded well, and many! of the hills cut down, while most of the streams; should be bridged. Let the road be made wide enough so that wagons can pass each other. I for one want to see a road that will do the people last ing good. I was against the bond issue, but now that it is voted, I expect to pay my part of the taxes, and want to share in the benefits. "SUBSCRIBER." Our correspondent is wise in suggesting that the road work should be lasting. The interest on that bond money is indeed to be with us for a long time, and it would be nothing short of a crime to spend it foolishly, or in a manner in which the rains could wash it away. Every foot of road should be survey ed by a competent engineer, and a grade not over four per cent, should be secured. To have a greater slope, would mean the gradual destruction of the road bed by the storms. The road should nowhere be less than 20 feet wide. Every stream should be bridged, and every drain have culverts placed in it. It will cost money to build a road like these specifications, but the people voted the bonds for no less purpose. Far better to have a mile of scientific road, than 10 of make-shift,; which would be the laughingstock of the anti-good roads people, and an expensive failure in the end. The best is always the cheapest. There is no question but that the township road commissioners, who are practical, sensible road men, MONEY IS PLENT J F U L Begin to bank now while you have a start. Save part of your earnings, and in a few years, with the help of in terest, which works day and night, you will be abe to buy a home, a farm, or go in business for yourself. we put 4 m ccm. mm (oupouhded m three tiomns THE BANK OF STOKES COUNTY N.E. PEPPER, M. T.CHILTON, 0. N. PETREE, Cashier at Danbury. President. Cashier at Walnut Cove. DR. J. W. NEAL, Vice-President. THE [) AN BURY RREPORTIi ,' see it this way. The Reporter feels very sure that they will give us modern roads as far as our money , lasts. | At one or two places between Danbury and the j Meadows township line, some expensive bridges v/til of necessity have to be built in order to raise ,the road bee! to the necessary grade These bridges, {which of course must be constructed out of county funds, as the law directs, and not out of the road funds, will probably be used by more of the countv's pfeople than any bridges anywhere. They should be steel bridges and built to last for' the ages, and doubtless wilt. Mr. T. V. Sizemore, of Ger manton Route 1, was a visitor here yasterdav. He returned from the tobacco market Tues day and made a fine average. Tilden raised about 14 barns of the weed this time. Mrs. Dr. J. W. Neal has re turned to her heme at Meadows from Richmond where she un derwent a serious but success ful operation at the hands ef : the eminent surgeon. Dr. Stuart McGuire. Mrs. Neal is now completely restored to health. Mr. Geo. Q. Venable, of Hartman, was a Danbury j visitor today. FOR SALE. oGO acres of good tobacco land located eight miles North of Greensboro, N. C. on macadam ized road. About eighty or ninety acres cleared, 1 room house, one tobacco barn, and; other buildings, such as are usually found on farm. Fine well of water. Good school and church within a mile. I live in town and don't need the farm. Will sell cheap and on reasonable terms. T. B. OUBURN, I Greensboro, N. C. S oct 4t | Mr. J. A. Slawter of Pinnacle Iha 3 lately made several trips to ! Florida, and lias decided to | make that country his home. Mr. Slawter will be missed by his many friends in this county. He expects to leave Stokes for j weal or woe about Christmas : coming. The compulsory school law is making a clean sweep. We miss many a smirchy-nosed little savage with his sling-shot, his i ribald shouts and his ever-ready | service. We miss him, but wish | he'd come back, fo.' after all, | what a lonesome place it would j be without the little nuisances. Mr. C. W. Furguson, of Sandy Ridge Route 1, was among Danbury's visitors today. Do You Fear Consumption? No matter how chronic you cough or how severe your throat or lung ailment is, Dr. King's i New Discovery will surely help! you: it may save your life. Still- i man (ireen, of Alalichite, Col,, writes : "Two doctors said I had consumption and could not | live two years. I used Dr. . King's New Discovery and am \ alive and well." Your money refunded if it fails to benefit you. The best home remedy for coughs, colds, throat and lung troubles. Price 50c. and SI.OO. Guaranteed. TE AMWfflffi TO STATE ; Hacb To Be Adopted Or Defeated , I Separately From All The | Others In The General Election Of 1914. When the voters of North Carolina go to the polls in the j next general election, November, 1014, thev will find ballots not only for congressmen, legislators and county officers, but also for ten separate amendments to the Constitution of the State. Every voter will have the right and I the privilege of casting his : ballot for or against each of the jten amendments proposed; he | may vote for as many of the amendments as he likes and | against the others. Those proposed amendments receiving [ a majority of the ballots cast in i the entire State will become a j part of the fundamental law of j j North Carolina. In other ; respects the Constitution will ' remain unchanged. One of the two purposes for ! which the General Assembly was convened in extraordinary ' session was to consider, frame land submit to the vote of the [people amendments to the Constitution of the State. The other purpose was the adjust ment of the freight rate controversy. Out of a score or more of amendments proposed in the! . regular session of the General Assembly of 1913 and since following months of considera tion by a special legislative com-,' mission and much discussion by the members of the General Assembly in special session ten of the amendments proposed were incorporated in a bill passed j and ratified just before the adjournment of the fall session, ! submitting them to the vote of ; J the people. The amendments to .'be adopted or rejected by the i people arc the following. | List of Proposed AmenJtmnts. i To Revise and Reform the i System of Revenue and Taxation. > r i To Restrict Local, Private and V; 1 1 Specia' Legislation by the : General Assembly. , I To Prevent Specia! Charters to Corporations by the General Assembly. To Prevent Special Charters to ■ Towns, Cities and Incorporated 1 Villages by the General Assem bly. To Prevent Delays in Trials by Providing Emergency Judges. To Increase Compensation of Members of the General Assem bly and to Decrease Their Mileage. To Require Six Months Public t School Term. I To Substitute th? Phrase j "War Between the States" for ,the Word "Rebellion" (in Two Instances.) j To Fix the Day of Inauguration ' of the G jvernor. To Remove Obsolete Sections from the Constitution. MINISTER PRAISES THIS LAXATIVE Rev. H. Stubenvoll of Allisorß la., in praising Dr. King's New Life Pills for constipation, writes: "Dr. King's New Life Pills are such perfect pills no home should be without them." No better regulator for the liver and bowels. Every pill guaranteed. Try them, j Price 25c at all druggists. NOTICE. Having duly qualified as admlnis t rat or iif the estate of J. T. Uansoni, deceased, late of Stokes eouilty, N. C., this is tu notify all persons hold ing claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned, duly proven as the law directs, on or before the It th day of October il'l4, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make prompt settlement. This 10th day of October 19l:i. CHAN. It. HELNABECK. Admr. of J. T. ltansom. dec.
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