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The Danbury Reporter n:rrr.u uuos.. rihtouk ami im umsukks. Subscription : 3 mo., 25c.; 6 mo., 50c; one year, sl.( 0 WEDNISUY. MAY 1911. FOOLISH i>RE|L'D!CE AGAINST RESORTS. Mr. Will Moore, the progressive young proprietor of Moore's Spiings, has secured a charter and is building a toll roaJ from his hotel to the top of the mountain, toward the railroad, a distance of some seven or eight miles. Mr. Mojre has secured a few subscriptions, but it ?s quite certain that he is as- Fuming practically ail the burdens of this project and putting up the most of the money him self. Summer resort hotels bring thousands of dollars into the country, which go directly into the pockets of the adjacent farmers. The hotel enjoys but a very small portion of the wealth which it attracts. The resort investment is large, and the profit very small : n the investment. The farmer is the gainer, who without any investment, finds a ready cash market at the highest prices for his poultry, vegetables, beef, butter and milk, and fruits. Yet when the 'lotel man asks he!p to build a road, in order that he nay increase the number of his guests, he is usually treated either with perfect indifference or with scorn and bitterness. There is a resort not a thousand niles from Danbury where for a half a century the people living around have sold their products at good prices even season. Yet when requested to donate one day to help put the public road in passable con dition--which they were required to do by law--re sp >nde.l with abuse to the overseer, saying "If So rid So wants a road to his hotel, let him build it." So dence has been the ignorance regarding the value of goo.l roads in Stokes county, and so strong has been the prejudice against those w ho have stood lor the economical necessity of good roads. There are no more important public industries in our county than its summer resorts, which bring thousan Js of people during two or three months of every summer, who buy and pay for our products at good prijes. Tne hotel-keepers' profit is least of all in the deal. Their investments are large, their risks great and their I ibcrs exacting. The farmer invests nothing, and makes tremendous profits. CO W INCED. In the campaign for good loads, which carried the bon .' issue for three to vnships of Stokes, last April a jear a;), a certain gentleman of Peter's Creek order ed the Reporter to be discontinued to his address, at the same time making the statement to some of his leighbor:- fri: this paper would lose 500 subscribers ~ecat:se i: 1 go::d roads. As far as the Re port hie to learn, the gentleman in iluesLion v.:is the only person on our subscription ist who \vr;s si!-J* an advanced type of fanatic as to refuse to support a newspaper that did not tall: ex actly his sentiments on public questions. He was ?ike the judge who refused to hear any more evidence because he "had done made up his mind," But now comes the funny part of the incident. Last week this man stated to some of his friends that he was a fool for voting against the ;>on;l issue for for good roads, and that if he ever had another op portunity, he would certainly vote for it. The secret is that he has recently been traveling the Danbury - Wafnut Cove turnpike, and,has been converted. In deed many Stokes county farmers have re cently experienced a change of heart on the question of good rtfads since hauling their fertilizer over that beautiful road. The Reporter is informed that another election will be asked for by Peter's Creek people, and that they are certain to vote the bond issue next time. THE DANBURY REPORTER LETTER fill MEXICO Soldier Bov Writes About His Experience There Re cently. Vera Cruz, Mexico, Mav 3, 1014. To the Editor : I am writing these few facts 4 so that the people at and around homo may know the truth of a 'few things that happened in Vera Cruz. 1 was in the ranks 'when the firing was going on and I am in position to give a few words of truth. To begin with the beginning we t battleships Vermont, Arkan sas anil New Jersey) were at target practice in the Southern Drill grounds just south of Cape Henry when we received orders by wireless from Washington to proceed to Hampton Roads, Va., | for stores, coal and ammunition, then to proceed to Tampico, Mexico, which we carried out with all possible haste. Tnis was April 1 Itli. but we did not go to Tampico, for as we were passing- Florida Keys, we received orders | to change our course and go to Vera Cruz, as we were needed there more than we were need d at Tampico. These orders wore I also carried out and we reached i Vera Cruz April 21 at about 0 p. in., and every man in the | landing force had his equipment ready. We dropped the "mud hook" (the anchor) and turned in for a little sleep and rest after making preparations to land next morning. At 1 o'clock a. m. April 22nd all hands were called, we had had breakfast at 1:30 a. m. All hands fell in with e iuipnient which included a ride, bayonet, belt, haversack, canteen, 100 rounds of ammunition, food for three meals and a few other articles to each man: then we embarked in small boats and ( started for the shore about 3 a. m. There was lots of firing ashore, but I don't think they were firing at us for no one got hit. We were ashore by day light. and marched up to the Terminal station which had already been taken by our men before wo landed. We ate break fast again at 7 a. ;n. , then started in for the fight: we marched down the water front for about a qu'.rter of a mile and as we were passing a Naval Cadet School in which there were a! out 500 Mexicans, they opened tn us: we did not know they were there so we hail not received any orders to load, every man had an empty ride so all hands retreate I until they could ioed. We tln-n advanced again and commenced to fir. through the windows. The skirmish lasted about an hour, then the armoured cruiser, Chester, which was laying in the harbor, commenced to fire on the building and the enemy dis aopeareJ, but where they wont we don't know. After the; Chester cease j firing her 5 inch guns, our me n w e,n t 1 inside and found ISO dead i Mexicans, with a loss of our own forces of 1 d;ad and 3 wounded: 1 they were in the building and we were in a vacant lot in the rear. After the first fight all hands were mustered and we Droceeded oh our interrupted j march for about 5 minutes when the firing began from three' more buildings on th J sair.e street. We came to a halt in a , i ! lumber yard, planted our field artillery and bombarded these three buildings until it was too hot for the people inside rnd they began N ,to run from the buildings and trying to reach other buildings in the immediate vicinity, but we got 'em with j rilles as we did not care to tear | .down any more buildings to get I them. I think it was IS of the enemy killed this time and not a man of our own fo. cos received a scratch. We again took up the march still going down the water front a little way farther and some one fired on us from an old beat-house: 32 men turned | I and fired a vi ll.>y into the house [ which was anjold wooden house, and two men dropped into the water under the building. There i was no more firing for about fifteen minutes when a regular cavalcade of bullets came pour -1 ing into our midst and wounded two men in the legs. It is a 1 miracle how any of us escaped being killed or wounded for there were IS machine guns firing at us, but we. were always !on the job. \\ e had some pretty good marksmen and we dropped several right away and the firing ceased. I The next thing of any account | was the taking of the Regimental barracks up in the center of the town where we took several prisoners and about ISOO rounds of ammunition, killed a few and i lost none. The next morning which was April 23 we had another i.'oal out on the outskirts of the city where we had a little fight the, night before. At 0:4!> on the same morning a German freight steamer came into port and some of our oMicers and men went aboard of her and captured! 5,000,00» rounds of ammunition I and 15,000 rifles, some of the' ritles dated back to Cortez; this was the biggest haul we have made since we landed. We only had about two and a half days fighting and since then it has been quiet, ?s the Adrs.iral issued an order f>> ;;1I persons having arms in their possession after noon April 25 would bev | severely 1 1 nished. All the inhabits.nts turned over to our naval officials all the r.rms and ammunition in their possession. Th 1 firing ceased for a few days, as we di 1 not fire on rn : nun or men unless they fired on us first, for we did not come here to fight, we came t > make peace for the people that did not care to fight and to protect the American refugees that are here and we have almrst succeeded in making peace for there his b * n no trouble in th 3 city for several days past. About the time we succeeded in getting eveiythlnr quieted down in the city, the battleship Mississippi, came down with throe hydroplanes an ! made an observation of the land and re ported that there were about ! StK) Mexican soldiers a'lout five miles out from the city in the sand hills, and that they were moving towar l the city so we sent out a bunch of marines, about 500 in all, to drive them back: but they retreated without a shot being fired after which we camped on the sand hills for ; a few ..days to keep back any j troops that might try to enter the city. ' On the 27th of April our army i transports reached Vera Cruz | with about 8000 troops, field and heavy artillery. On the 28th they landed, and on the 20th they relieved us of duty ashore and we returned to our ships; i but we are now ready to go ashore at a moments notice, for the army is having quite a lit'la trouble in the sand hills but no more trouble in the city. General .Huarta is in Mexico City, General Carranza is between Vera Cruz and Mexico City, and General Villa is north of Mexico City and it is rumored that Carranza is trying to get to Vera Cruz with 15,200 troops, but I don't think he will succeed iin entering the city for we have i it too well fortified and guarded. But we may have to go to Mexico City later to release soma Americans t .at are b°ing held as prisoners by Huerla. 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