DAN BURY REPORTER i.
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VOLUME XL.
TOBACCO MARKET
Opens At Walnut Cove
With An Average Of
About Nine Cents.
OFFERINGS POOR
Large Crow J of Ladies and
(ientlemen Attend the First
Sales of the Ureal Stokes
Staple.
A representative of the Re
porter attended the opening of
the Walnut Cove tobacco market
Tuesday. A large crowd of
farmers, merchants, and business
men were present, from over a
large scope of the county. Many
ladies graced the occasion with
their presence. The Stokes
County Warehouse, Semple &
Davis, proprietors, had the first
sale, their floor being well cover
ed with about 1(H) loads. The
new warehouse, Messrs. Taylor
& Hutcheron, proprietors, had
about one-third or one-fourth as
much. The American Tobacco
Company, The Export Company
and Liggett-Meyers had buyers
present. The offerings were the
farmers' first curings of prim
ings. Some of it was quite good,
much was sorry and half green,
a majority was common. The
prices ranged from 2 cents to
IS or 20 cents. We were told
the average for the day was
about !) cents at both houses.
The farmers in most cases
exprc3i-ed themselves satisfied
with the prices received under
the circumstances owing to the
European war having largely
disarranged the exportation of
tobacco. The Imperial, the com
pany that bulls the market, has
not yet come on. The price may
be conservatively said to be
about 20 per cent. otV from last
year's prices, and about as high
as the year before last.
Walnut Cove Route 3.
Walnut Cove Route 3, Sept. 21.
—The people are busy cutting
tobacco and pulling fodder in
this section.
There was preaching at Mt.
Carmel Sunday by the pastor.
There will be preaching there
again the 3rd Sunday in Octo
ber by Rev. C. H. Hutcherson.
Hope to see a large crowd out.
Mr. Bruce Gatewood was bap
tized at the river Sunday. Quite
a crowd attended.
Among those who visited at
Mr. W. L, Mitchell's Sunday
were Mr. and Mrs. John Dun
can and Miss Eva Eatman:
Messrs. Willie and Mallard
Mitchell, of Madison Route 3;
Oakley Crews, of Dennis: Chas.
Crews, of Winston-Salem; Rev.
T. J. Folger, of Danbury, and
Mrs. Chas. Wagoner and child
ren.
There was a large crowd at
tended services at Wilson church J
Sunday.
Mr*. J. D. Smith and children ;
visited Mrs. S. F. Abbott Sun- J
day.
Miss Chattie Lasley is at home
again after spending the sum
mer at Piedmont and Moore's
Awings.
ZELMA.
Miss Lizcie Adkins and Mrs. j
SalKe Wall, of Red Shoals, visited |
Mrs. M. T. Chilton yesterday, j
Mrs. Chilton aoeaaipained them
hone, ■returning ywterday. j
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PEPPER BROS.,
Danbury, N. C.
BARN OF TOBACCO BOOHS
Young l.ady I ill .Much Diphth
eria Other Items Front King:
Route Two.
King Route 2, S>jpt. 21.—The
farmers of this section are very
busy taking care their tobacco.
This section has a good crop of
tobacco much better than was
expected.
We notice the public schools
open October 12. We hope to
have better teachers and better
order so that we won't have to
stop our children as soon as the
compulsory law expires.
There are lots of foxes in the
neighborhood.
Drs. Tillotson and Helsabeck
report lots of diphtheria in this
section.
Mr. D. F. Tillotson went to
Virginia to purchase a riding
horse, but failed to find one to
suit him.
Miss Eftie Gordon, daughter of
Mr. Bud Gordon, who has been
seriously ill for some time, is
slowly improving.
Mr. Wade H. Boyles claims to
be on the sick. We think he will
be all right by the time the crop
is gath >red.
Mr. Nat Pratt burned a barn
of tobacco in Mr. J. H. Djrsett's
barn last week.
Messrs. R. K. Long and C. F.
| Donald are going to Oklahoma
| this fall to look for real estate,
j Born unto Mr. and Mrs. S. F.
j Edwards, a boy.
1 M. E. CONFERENCE.
Methodist Church at Danbury
to Be Dedicated at Services
Next Sunday at U O'clock.
The regular quarterly confer
ence of the M. E. church for
Danbury circuit will be held here
next Saturday and the pastor
will be assisted by the Presiding
Elder, Rev. R. M. Hoyle, of Mt.
Airy. Mr. Hoyle will preach in
the M. E. church here on Sunday
morning at 11 o'clock at which
time the M. E. church will be j
dedicated with appropriate 9er-|
vices. The public w cordially in
vited to attend the services.
Mr. W. H. Clark, of Winston-
Salem, came up today to visit
his daughter. Mr* Dr. W. V.
McCanless.
DANBURY. N. C.. SEPTEMBER 23. H>l4
MEADOWS BRIDGES
Two New Ones To Be
Erected and Another To
Be Repaired.
WILL COST §5,423.00
R. R. King Is (iiven Contract By
County Commissioners At
Their Meeting Here Friday.
At the special meeting of the
County Commissioners here Fri
day the contract was let to R. R.
King, of Danbury, for the erec
tion and repair of the following
bridges in Meadows township:
One bridge across Buffalo
creek, between Germanton and
Walnut Cove; one bridge across
Neatman creek, between Ger
manton and Ross' store: one
bridge across Town Fork at Ger
manton to be repaired or remodel
ed.
The price agreed upon for all
the work was $5,423.00 and they
are to be completed by January
1, 1015.
News Items and Personal
From Gideon.
Gideon, Sept. 22. Services
were conducted at Wilson Sun
! day by Elders Fagg, Stewart,
i Tucker and Mabe. Quite a
1 crowd was out.
The health of this community
is verv good at this writing.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Wesley More
; field, Mr. J. (i. 11. Mitchell and
idaughter. Miss Bessie: Misses
Annie Young, and Lillian Mitch
ell; Messrs. John Flinchum,
Walter Flynt, and Farm
er were visitors at Mr. W. M.
Flynt's Sunday.
Miss Avis Dunlap is all smiles
this week as Mr. Sam Alley
called to see her Sunday.
Messrs. John and Elmer
Flinchum went to Pine Hall
on business yesterday.
Mr. Carey Flynt. of Walnut
Cove, spent Sunday and Sunday
night with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. M. Flynt, here. He
was accompanied back Monday
by his father.
Mr. Bruce Gatewood was
baptised Sunday in Dan river.
Quite a crowd called at Mr.
Alex Flinchum's Sunday after
noon.
Mr. Nat Nelson and sister.
Miss Carrie, spent Saturday and
Sunday at their uncle's, Mr.
Alex Flinchum.
Miss Myrt'e Fagg spent a
short while with Miss Ethel
Flynt Sunday morning.
Mr. W. M. Flynt went to
Walnut Cove today with a load
of tobacco.
Mr. Wyatt Duggins and Miss
Bessie Martin passed through
I here Sunday enroute home from
I a visit to Mr. Alex Flinchum's.
Mrs. Martha Reid is visiting
friends at Dillard today.
There will be preaching at
Wilson church next first Sunday
at eleven o'clock.
While leaving Mr. J. W.
Young's Sunday night Mr. John
Flinchum's mule became fright-:
ened and ran away. The mule'
ran home and when they found !
it the mule enly had the shafts,
and harness to it. tearing the
bed and running gear of the
buggy completely up. Mr.
Flinchum escaped uninjured.
Miss Sadie Flinchum spent a
short while at Mr. W, M. Flynt's*
Monday,
IfRtMffiLETOG..
Sir. Cteve-Crews, conductor on*
» k>«»l freififht train' running j
between Greensboro and Mt. J
Airy, was in Danburv on busi-|
ness today.
in GOES DRY
State - Wide Prohibition
Carried At Election
Held Yesterday.
MAJORITY .35,000
Law Does Not Taki Effect Until
July 1, IVlf> Many lsar
Rooms, Distilleries and
Dispensaries Will
Have To Close.
Richmond, Va., Sept. 22.
The state-wide prohibition forces
won a sweeping victory at the
polls in Virginia todey, returns
at midnight showing that they
had won by a majority of 35,000.
This figure will be increased
largely in favor of the drys
when further returns are receiv
ed frotn counties which tonight
are inaccessible. With complete
returns from all the cities and
44 of the 100 counties, and with
scattering returns from other
counties, the total vote is 121, -
703. It is estimated that the
final total vote will reach 150,-
000. Of this vote the drys re
ceived 77,453 as against 14,618
for the local optionists. The
cities which were expected to
roll up a majority for the local
optionists sprung a surprise by
giving 1,315 for the drys. Only
four cities—Alexandria, Nor
fold, Williamsburg and Rich
mond returned majorities for
the wets.
KILLING RATTLERS.
Mr. j. D. Hall Slays Three
At One Shot -- W. R.
Stewart A Single Large
One.
Snakes are said to be on the
look-out for their hiding places
for winter at this season of the
year and there is evidently truth
in the saying. Recently a num
ber of rattlers have been killed
in this section. The past week
Mr. J. Dock Hall killed three
rattlers near his home just west
of Danbury at one shot with a
gun. One of the three was an
unusually large ons, being four
j feet or more in length and had
; a long string of rattles. Last
Sunday Mr. W. R. Stewart, of
Danbury. killed a large rattler
in the road near Danbury, Tl t
snake had ten rattles and was
about three and a half feet in
length.
j Buy War Supplies.
Richmond. Va.. Sept. 21.—The
British Government today placed
an order here for I.(HM) sets tf
artillery harness and 500 cavalry
; saddles to be ready for delivery
jin six weeks. It is understood
I cavalry and artillery mounts also
art- being bought in Virginia.
Baptising Sunday.
VVestflald Route 1, Sept. —■
At Stoney Ridge Baptist church
feist Monday Messrs. Bud Mabe
and Eugene Marshall weie
baptised by Rev. J. E. Simmon?, i
Service® were held at the chur h
immediately after the baptisii g. 1
Mr. Ale* Roger®, of Campbell,
was here today, coming down in
his new automobile.
NEWS OF KING
Smokestack Blown Down—
Maddog Killed--Addition
To Store Of Mercantile
Co.
King, Sept. 21.— The siroke
stack at the Grabs Manufactur
ing Co. \s plant was blown down
.ast week and the plant has
oeen closed since. The y will be
ready for work in a few ilays
again.
Mr. J. T. Love is preparing to
build an addition to his residence
on Pulliam stieet.
A maddog was killed one mile
south of town late Friday after
noon. No one was bitten so far
as known.
The new addition to the Shore
Mercantile Co. store is nearing
completion.
The fast growing business of
the Stokes Supply Co. has ne
cessitated the employment of
a stenographer and bookkeeper.
A move is being agitated to
to build a sand-clay road from
Pinnacle via King and connect
with Forsyth county's good road
near Tobaccoville
| ELECTION OFFICERS.
Appointed By the Stokes
! County Board of Elec
i tions At a Recent Meet
ing.
| The Stokes County Election
I Board at a recent meeting in
i Danbury appointed the following
| registrars and judges to hold the
general election in Stokes in
November :
Danbury precinct: J. M. Al
ley, Registrar; J. D. Smith and
0. F. Yourg, Judges.
Wilson's Stcreprecinct: Frank
Ross, Registrar: J, H. Matthews
jand L. B. BoLs, Judges,
Cermanton precinct: L. M.
! McKenzie, Registrar; ?. 0. Hill
iand G. W. N'ewsom, Judges.
King precinct: S. R. Fulp,
Registrar: L. K. Pulliam and
L. J. Kiser, Judges.
Bovles precinct: J. T. John
son, Registrar; John H. Hamm
and R. W. Covington, Judges.
Pinnacle precinct: J.R.Stone,
Registrar; W. A. Sullivan and
V. G. Watson, Judges.
Lawsonville precinct: J. S.
Whitten, Registrar: R. L. Law
|Son and L. D. Hole, Judges.
Sandy Ridge precinct: G. A.
Hutcherson, Registrar: T. M.
Martin and S. H. Steele, Judges.
Mitchell's precinct: E. L.
| Mitchell, Registrar: J. Wilson
j Mitchell and R. C, Gann, Judges.
Pins Hall i recinct: J. C.
Flinn, Registrar; J. E. Dalton
and T. G. Reynolds, Judges.
Walnut Cove irecinct: Wil
liam Rierson, Registrar: James
Hutcherson and H. G. Tuttle,
Judges.
Freeman precinct: M. D.
Linville, Registrar: W. W. Fulp
land J. L. Murray, Judges.
Moir precinct: Joe France.
Registrar: J. Moses Smith and
Jno. E. Jessup, Judges.
Frans precinct: J. P. George,
Registrar; J. W. Dearmin and
J. F. Nunn, Judges.
Brown Mtn. precinct: J. F.
George. Registrar; Dixie Smith
and William Martin, Judges.
Quaker Gao precinct: R. W.
Hill, Registrar: Presley Palms r
and L>. A. Simmons. Judges.
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Westtield Academy Opens.
The Westtield Academy will
open on MonJay, October sth.
The following teachers have been
elected for the ensuing year:
Charles E. Hiatt, principal; W.
D. George, intermediate grades
and Misa Irene Payne, primary
grades.
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WALNUT COVE LETTER
. Tobacco Market Opens With
j Good Sak of the Weed.
'.REAL ESTATE DEAL
'
.Mr. A. \V. Ha-, is Hxchanges his
Livery Business F r a Farm
Boy Has His Arm Saw •
ed Nearly Off—Other
Items.
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Walnut Cove, Sept. 22. T'ne
warehouses held their opening
sales here today with about
thirty thousand pounds of to-
I bacco, most of which was prim -
ings. Considering the quality
of the product it brought a very
good price and although the
• average was not so high as last
year the farmers who sold
here today were well pleased.
' Practically all the warehousemen
I I for both houses are on the
j floors and most of the buyers
' i for the large concerns are here.
I Prospects are bright for this
1 market and it is an assured fact
J that Walnut Cove will sell it 3
; : share of the crop. The man
j agers of the warehouses are
i advising the farmers not to rush
' their tobacco in too fast as the
j prices will probably be better
,; later in the season.
| A real estate deal was male
.I here last week whereby Mr. A
, i W. Davis transferred his livery
j business to Mr. J. A. Lewis for
| his farm which lies about four
J miles west of here. Mr. Lewis
1 has already taken charge of the
! livery stable and will remove
his family to this place as soon
as he can erect a residence, It
has not been learned what busi
ness Mr. Davis will engage in
but it is known that he will still
make this his home.
Star Belding, a small colored
boy, had his arm badly mangled
last week while feeding a resaw
in Covington's Tierce Factory.
The boy was injured to such an
extent that it became necessary
for Drs, Tuttle and Fulp to
amputate the arm.
Misses Jettie Morefield, Mary
Martin, Sallie Fulton, Eunice
Vaughn and Bessie Morefield
motored over to Winston-Salem
in Miss Morefield's car Wednes
day afternoon to witness the
! ball game. Motoring is a favor
j ite pastime with the young ladies
! and many of the fair sex here
! have learned to handle a car
with rcmrr'.itb.e skill.
! Miss Nan Linville, who has
. heen t'ie ;.iiest of Miss Lucy
] L'urton for several weeks, lefc
I ast week for her home in Waco,
I Texas. Miss Linvilio made
j many friends during her sojourn
] here who were sorry to see her
leave.
Colonel J. S. Ball, one of the
world's renowned auctioneers
arrived Saturday from Fair
mont where he has been en
: gaged in the sale of tobacco,
j The colonel will be associated
! with Semple & Davis at the old
| warehouse as auctioneer and the
j farmers may rest satisfied that
he will get them the highest
market price for every pile of
tobacco because when it comes
to auctioneering the colonel is
certainly on to his job.
Mr. J. W. Walker, of Wins
ton-Salem. was a business visi
tor here Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Fulton
spent Monday at Mount Airy
where Mr. Fulton went to at
tend to some business matters.
Mr. R. E. Clodfelter, who is
engaged in organizing the Order
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