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DANBURY REPORTER VOLUME XL. IKE COVE MNKEI Warehouses to Open About September 14. /RUMOR OF BIG DEALj Virginia-Carolina Chemical Com pany May Remove Plant From Winston to Wal nut Cove—Death of Jesse Flinn Perse nals. Walnut Cove, Aug. 28. -It is learned that the tobacco ware house here will open for the sale of the leaf about September 14 T ith a full corps of buyers from tne largest manufacturing con cerns in this country as well as the buyers of the Imperial and Export companies. The opening will be in ample time for the handling of the primings and the sales will doubless be heavy from the beginning. With Sem ple & Davis at the old warehouse and Hutcherson Bros. & Taylor With the new this promises to be the best market for the weed in this section of the state. ' An automobile accident which came near proving fatal occurred between this place and Greens boro Sunday afternoon when a car driven bo James Holbrook of Greensboro collided with another car occupied by Mr. Geo. King and fsrfnily, of Stojjpville. It seems that Mr. King had pur chased the car Saturday from Mr. A. W. Davis and came here with his family Sunday for the car. 'they left here with a colored chaffeur. who was teaching Mr. King to run the automobile and were on their way to Greensboro to visit relatives when they met "Holbrook, driving it is said at a high rate of speed. The front wheels of the two machines col lided and King's car being much lighter than Holbrook's was thrown to one side and turned jfcompletely over. Practically all the occupants of both cars were more or less injured but Mrs. King was caught under the car and sustained the worst injuries. However she is reported as get ting along nicely. Both cars were badly battered in the wreck. • A large tract of land in and around Stokesburg was surveyed last week and it is rumored that the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company is endeavoring to pur chase the property for the pur pose of removing their fertilizer plant from Winston-Salem here. Nothing definite is known as to t v eir intentions but if is pro bable that if the deal can be negotiated the plant will be lo cated at this point at no distant date. The railroad facilities at this place are unsurpassed for an industry of this kind and this will have a great deal of bearing on the new location. Mr. Jesse Flinn, a prosperous, jhardworking farmer residing four miles north of here died Sunday after a brief illness of typhoid fever. The deceased leaves a wife and three small Children. He was a good citizen (Continued cn page 5.) DEATH OF J AS. WHITE. Was a Prominent Farmer, and a Man of Considerable Means. In Eastern Stokes County. Elder J. A. Fagg, o£ Walnut Cove, accompanied by Mr. J. W. Morefield. of thp same place, was here today enroute to Sandy RiJge Route 1 where Mr. Fagg will today preach the funeral of Mr. James White, a good citizen of that section, who died Mon day, following an attack of typhoid fever. The deceased was aged about 55 years and was a prominent citizen and well known farmer of his section. The services today will be held at I Young's School House and inter [ ment will be made in the bury i ing ground near bv. I KING ROUTE TWO. A Midnight Watermelon Escapade. King Route 2, Aug. 24.—The protracted meetings and wheat threshings are all over, but there are a lot of chickens left yet. Miss Ola Ham, of King Route 1, left Wednesday for New York where she will spend the fall and winter with her sister, Mrs. Jakrey. We understand that there has been som» xcitement over the boys stealing watermelons near Capella. Last Sunday night some I oys were found stealing melons and someone began shoot ing at them, an! they started through an old pine field, it being very dark, they ran against trees and they decided that there was danger in front as well as behind them, so they lay down in a thicket and the shooting ceased. One of them felt something crawling beneath him and on examination he found it was a large snake. A few nights later Mr. Lum Boles found out that someone was bothering his watermelon patch. After dark Mr. Boles and Gaston Meadows went to the water melon patch that they might get the burglars that had been stealing the melons, and when they arrived they got up in a large apple tree so that they could watch. Some one else had decided to scare the boys, too, so they saw someone slip up and lay dewn under an apple tree near the one that they were in. Soon the boys came and began thumping and pulling the melons, and the fellow under the tree began shooting in the air, but instead of shooting in the air he began to shoot in the tree where Messrs. Boles and Meadows were and they decided that there was no time for cross firing so they broke their holt and sell to the ground. The man that done the shooting thought that he had killed some one when Mr. Meadows hollowed murder, so he became excited and disappeared. There was no damage done. Messrs. Boles and Meadows said that they would not climb another apple tree to.watch boys steal melons. SCRIBBLER. DANBURY. N. C.. AUGUST 26. 1914 PIEDMONT SPRINGS Hotel Will Close For the Season September I. COTTAGERS REMAIN Many to Stay Through tne Month of September—Per sonal Mention. Piedmont Springs, Aug. 25 The hotel here will close next Tuesday, Sept. Ist, after having had the most successful season in its history. Quite a num of guests are still at the hotel while nearly all of the cottages are yet occupied. The family of Mr. William Blackburn, Columbia, S. C., ar-1 rived here today and will spend j a month in the Trotter cottage. Mr. Chas. R. King, of Roan-, oke, accompanied by his sister, i Miss Minnie, and Mr. J. B. Bass | arrived at the hotel today and: will spend a week. Ex-Judge R. M. Douglas left' i for his home at Greensboro to-! dav after spending two weeks here. Mr. Peter A. Gorrell and fam ily of Winston-Salem came up last week and will remain at the j hotel until Sept. Ist. Rev. C. W. Irvin, pastor of Asbury Presbyterian church, conducted services here Sunday night. Several of the fourteen young people who have been attending ( a house party at the cottage of j Mr. A. W. McAlistpr. have re turned to their homes Mrs. W. B. Wray and family and Mr. B. A. Ervin, of Reids ville, are among the guests who came in this week. They drove over in Mr. Ervin's car. Mr. and Mrs. P. Watt Richard son returned to their home at Greensboro Monday after spend ing a month here. Miss Margaret Vaughn spent the week end here, returning to Winston-Salem Monday. Mr. P. A. Gorrell, who is spending some time here, re ports that he finds tobacco crops in northern Stokes good. Mr. Gorrell is proprietor of Farmers and Gorrell's Warehouses at Winston-Salem. . Mr. J. 0. Ragodale, who is cashier of the Bank of Madison, is spending ten days here in the interest of his health. Several families who are oc cupying cottages here will spend the entire month of September. Presbyterian Meeting. Rev. Mr. Erwin, pastor of the Presbyterian church here, is con ducting a series of revival meet ings in the church to which the public is cordially invited. Mr. Erwin is a man of the deepest consecration, and he will sincere ly appreciate the co-operation of the Christian people of all denominations in making the . I meeting a success. . Mr. Fletcher A. Martin, one of the best citizens of upper Peter's Creek township, spent a short while in Danbury Tuesday. KILLED IN RUNAWAY Rockingham Young Lady Jumps From Vehicle and Breaks Her Neck. N. C. AND V. RAILWAY Report that Work i« to Be Re sumed From Ridgeway to Spray. Spray, Aug. 24.—Elder J. W. Flinchum was cailed last Sunday to preach the funeral of a young Miss Golding at Sands' church j near Madison. She met heri death Saturday morning. While j out driving the horse became; frightened at an automobile and ran away. She jump-d from the | buggy and broke her neck, i Mr. Ben Pruitt, formerly of j j Stokes county, but now a resident j ,of Draper, was baptized last' Sunday evening by Elder J. W. j ! Flinchum. • The report comes to us from j ; a reliable source that work is to ; be resumed on the North Caro lina and Virginia Railway from Ridft-eway to Spray. The Vir ginia Trading Company, a New York Corporation, have bought the rights of the old company and now have a clear title to the road. Senator A. D. I vie, o c this place is spending several weeks at Atica, Ind., i i the interest of 1 his health. From Aujr. 29 to Sept. ith is Chautauqua' week at Leaksville- Spray. Among the many at tractions of the week will be a lecture on "Industrial Peace" Saturday evening at 8 o'clock, Sept. 4th, by Hon. W. B. Wil son. member of the President's Cabinet. Or. Geo. L Dennis To Speak. Dr. Geo. E. Dennis, of Char lotte, will speak at the following ■ places and dates on the meaning [and object of the Baraca and Philathea Bible class movement: Methodist Protestant church, of Pinnacle, Sunday, Aug. 30th, at 11 o'clock. Shoals, Friday night, Aug. 28. Dr. Dennis is President of the North Carolina Baraca Associa tion and during his visit to his home county he wishes to get a number of churches and Sun day Schools inteiested in this great interdenominational move ment among th? young men and women cf our State and the public is cordially invited to these lectures. Old Soldiers' Day. Next Saturday is the annual rennion of the old soldiers, and if signs fail not the crowd is going to be large. Let everybody bring along a basket of som?- thing nice for the old soldiers to eat. ' Col. Morehead, of Greensboro, will probably make tha address. Mr. Edgar Pepper, of Thomas vine, spent seysra'. days this and last weeks visiur.g relatives at Piedmont. MR. GRABS CHANGED. "WHEREAS I WAS BLIND, NOW I SEE." Now In Favor of Good Roads For Yadkin Town ship—King Bank To Open Soon. Messrs. V. T. Grabs and E. P. Newsum, two of the prominent • citizens of King, spent a while in town Monday on business con-. nected with the new bank at' King, which is to open for busi ness soon. Messrs. Grabs and Newsom were much pleased with j the new sand-clay roads in this' township, which they used from' a point a mile south of DanWv 1 into town. Mr. Grabs opposed the late proposition for a bond issue j for roads in Yadkin township, but if to do over again he would in all probability favor it. He! I expressed himself, so Mr. New som said, to the effect that he j wanted roads, and if nothing else but a bond issue would do, let it come. He is about con ! verted to the idea that the bond issue way is the only way. A great many people of the i county who formerly opposed i good roads have been converted I j since seeing and using the jfood! I roads in Danbury and Sauratown | townships. The saving in time i alone, net to mention the con ; veniences of gcoi roads, is enough to pay the interest on the : bonds. I.' " " I j SAMUEL A. SMITH, j | Formerly of Ararat, Va., Dies At Mt. Airy—Other ! News. Ararat. Va., Aug. 21.- The health of the community is very gcod at present with the excep tion of Miss Ella Bowman, who has been quite ill, but is im proving. Misses May and Lena Martin, Annie and Katherine Waller, I Mrs. R. D. Clarke, and Mr. Geo. Gates are guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Terry. A party of young people went on the train from here to Kibler Tuesday on a picnic. Among the crowd were Misses May and Lena Martin, Annie and Kather ine Waller, Dora Valentine, Etta Young, Ethel Boyles, Li I lie Smith; Messrs. George Gates, Henry Valentine. Davis Smith, Robert Young, Athur xjates. The party was chaperoned by Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Terry. Misses May and Lena Martin and Mr. Henrv Valentine visited Miss Lillie Smith Tuesday -after noon. Mr. Samuel A. Smith, former ly of Ararat, died at his home at Mt. Airy Satijrday night and was buried Sunday at the family burying ground. Rev. J. W. Combs is holding his annual protracted meeting at Hunter's Chapel. Misses Lena Martin and Annie Waller, accompanied by Mr. Geo. Gates, went on a shopping tour to Mt. Airy Monday. ! Mr. Charlie Simmons called on i Miss Bessie Scales Sunday, i SPORT. No. 2,041 "PIOTIMO NED" Having a Hearing In Greensboro Court This Week. REFUSES TO TALK The Crook Arrested Near Walnut Cove With His Pal, Aint Sayin* Nothin' to the Officers. Greansboro, N. C., Aug. 24. —J. P. Lister alias ' Portland Ned" was sitting on his bunk in the strong cell of the Guilford county jail yesterday afternoon when a reporter called on him. He was reading the New York Herald and evidently was in terested in the lines on the front page which told of the European war. He looked up suspiciously when he heard someone coming and over his face came an ex pression which told as plainly as words'told a moment or so later that he had nothing to say. It is the same policy he has follow ed at all other times when efforts have been made to engage him in conversation.. He appeared to think, from the moment he was confronted by a stranger, that here was another person endeavoring to ferret him cut, or to "hound" him as he later said. He was asked again about his where abouts after leaving Governor Cole Blease's office in Columbia, S. C., the spring of 1913. "I have nothing to sav." was his blunt reply. i The conversation was then turned perforce, to such topics as the weather, the war, his iack of exercise, the smallness of , his cell, the painting that has i been done in the jail, etc. : He expressed little enough in | terest in these matters, but they served to break the ice some what, and then he was asked if he had secured a lawyer. After his silence his answer came a surprise, brief as the reply was. He said he had not secured one, that he had not seen any need of one thus far. They claim, he said, that they wanted him for the affair at Plymouth, which happened 16 years ago, and he didn't know ; what they wanted him in Dan* j bury for, if anything. ; He even made a comment about his nickname. "Portland Ned," and declared it was just a bad name the authorities had given him, and he expressed dis approval of the habit of applying such names. It was expected when that name was rr.en i tioned, he would proceed to ,anger. He refrained, however, j from any loud or profane expres • sions as he has been reported to have used when confronted with i the nickname. ! Two cells away T. Conaway, who was arrested with him, is being kept. He refused to make any comments. In passing back by L's.tr's cell the reporter was called to by ; (Continued on page 5.)
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