17 ELECTROCUTED !
i
I
Largest Number ot Electro-;
cutions at Raleigh it.
19U-- Five This ear
The first electrocution in the
State penitentiary here occured
March IS, 1910. atid the total
number who have met their fate
in the electric chair to date is!
seventeen in 1910 there was
only one electrocution, but the
following sear there were nine. 1
The number in 191J was but two.
The chair got none ir. 191*. but
so far this year it has claimed J
five.
The total number of convict#
who have been in the penitentiary
from IS7U to date is li'.o.'">7.
In the criminal insane depart
ment are now sixty-six inmates,
of whom ten are women. This
department is kept very clean,
tike the prison, from which it is
separted entirely, though it forms i
part of the great main building, i
The recreation ground is divid
ed from the penitentiary grounds
by a high and close fence, on the
west side, there being the prison
wall of granite, which is said to
be one of the finest walls in this
country.
An attractive part of the pen
itentiary grounds within the
stockade and outside of the east
wall is that devoted to poultry
an J pigeons. This poultry rais
ing was begun by Warden Sale
last autumn and since then an
average of SOU eggs a month has
been the yield. The chicks are
nearly all hatched in incubators
of the best type, and these "tine
hens" are busy all the time, turn
in.: out the dear little fellows.
• Young Farmers Should |
• Save Their Money •
A READ THE ADVICE OF JAMES J. HILL, THE GREAT RAILROAD KING: A
m Capital, Surpius anil If you want to know whether you are destined to be a success or a failure in life, you frH7r flnn fin til
can easily find out. The test is simple and it is infallible: ARE YOU ABLE TO SAVE uUII Ulj
jjgposits; MONEY? If not, drop out. You will lose. You may think not, but you lose as sure as ' '
you live. The seed of success is not in you.--James J. Kill.
A Deposit your savings regularly in this bank, let the interest get to help- £
% ing you work. You will be astonished to see how fast you can accumulate. £
• You will find it a pleasure, as you are becoming stronger every day, and you 0
5 have something to live for. Before you know it you will be able to buy a 5
£ plantation. Z
ißank of Stokes County:
N. E. PEPPER, Cashier at Danbury. J. H. FULTON, Cashier at Walnut Cove. 5
! Adjoining the poultry yard is |
| the pigeon house and its yard is i
i a!! covered with a wire screen
thirty feet above the ground,
which keeps out the hawks and
keeps in the pigeons. The pig
eons are in quite a contrast to the j
hens as mothers, for precious'
few of them look after their j
children, and as a result they|
i are astonishingly equals. Young
! pigeons were observed by a
Times man which ha\e to be fed
by the keeper who looks after his
, department of the prison.
The most motherly of hens, a,
(Rhode Island Red. was walking
i about with nineteen handsome j
chicks around her. The warden
says she holds the record here, j
;A setting of twenty-five eggs|
was arranged for her. of which
twenty-two hatched and she rais
ed nineteen chicks. One pullet
was pointed out which was born
March lHand began laying June
19 of this year.
} The superintendent of the
chicken and pigeon section de-'
clares that the latter are vain
birds and that nothing pleases
them so much as seeing them
selves in a looking glass. They
are so fond of this self-admira
tion that they will go into a room
where there is a looking glass in
order to look at themselves.
Some one remarked that pigeons
are a good deal like folks, since
many of them give little care of
their offsprings and are vain to
the last degree. Raleigh Times.
Mules for Sale.
i 1 have for sale at Winston
, Salem, N. C.. ten fine young
mules, two and a half years old,
1 which will be sold at reasonable
. prices. If vou are in the market,
write me.
LINDSAY PATTERSON.
,tf Winston-Salem. N. C.
THE DANBURY REPORTER
MARRIED IN BUGGY.
Young Couple Drive To
Danbury To Secure
License And Justice of
the Peace.
Mr. Charlie Hartgrove. of
King Route 1, and Miss May E.
Moran, of Germanton Route I,
two popular young people, drove
over to Danbury Monday and
after securing the necessary
license and a Justice of the
Peace were married while sit
ting in their buggv just in front
of the court house here. Esq. R.
W. Shelton. of Moore's Springs,
who happened to be here attend
ing a meeting of the county com
missioners. otFiciated and quite a
large crowd witnessed the cere
mony.
From the best information
obtainable there was no objec
tion on the part of the parents
of the young couple, and it is
presumed that they decided to
come here and marry as they
did merelv for the novelty of it.
Have
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la natal breathing [??£££
impaired ? Doe* |
your throat get
husky or clogged ? |.
Modern science proves j - - - i
that these symptoms re- |
suit from run-down health. P—TIT. 1 ".?-
SnufTs and vapors are irri-
tating and useless.
The oil-food in Scott's Emulsion
will enrich and enliven the blood. - ■
aid nutrition and assist nature to 1
check the inflammation and §k v I
heal the sensitive membranes. JgQk I
Shun Alcoholic mixture! Trill
and iniMf upon SCO I 1 'S. /J jtf I
!4-«"
Our Strong Defense.
America does not need more
battleships and a large standing
army. Enough of both to do
ordinary international police duty
is needful and proper. As mili
tary studies and practice culti
vates manly qualities, a large
"standing" army of th> National
Guard is commendable. These
are trained soldiers who work at
their trades and professions for
fifty-one weeks in a year and
take a lay-off for a week sleeping
under canvas as a vacation. They
do not live off the people: they
are not leeches and consumers:
they are trained in rbedience,
soldierly bearing and duties, and
in an emergency they are first to
respond to the call for recruits.
We have in this country anoth
er force immeasurably greater
than the hugest battleships and
vastly stronger than the greatest
standing army in the world. It
is our waving fields of golden
grain and tossing tassels of corn.
America is the only country
which produces enough food
stuff to make her own people
comfortable and still have some
left to export. A great general
said: "An army travels on its
belly." Our defense is in our
farms, not our fortresses. The
protectors of our nation are edu
cated at Urbana and Ames and
Madison, not at West Point and
Annapolis. What the American
people want to turn their atten
tion to is not more military and
naval appropriations, but to learn
to establish upon American farms
a permanent system of agricul
ture which will insure increasing
fertility of soil instead of im
provement by following shiftless
methods and theoretical vision
aries who say "Rotation is
enough to keep a soil fertile." A
soil is like a bank: constant drafts
without deposits mean bank
ruptcy. More knowledge of soils
and less smokeless powder will
keep the peace of the world.
Exchange.
Big hunt On Walnut Cove
Route 3 -- Other News
Items.
Walnut Cove Route Dec. 7.
The school at Stewart's school
house is progressing nicely. They
are preparing for a box and
measure party Saturday night,
the 12th.
Mr. John Mitchell has returned
from Summerfield where he has
been some time.
Messrs. Lester and Robert
Stewart are visiting at Mr. Alfred
Stewart's this week.
Messrs. N. A. Martin, of Dan
bury. Frank Martin and Mr.
Dampman, of Pittsburg. Pa.,
and J. N. and C. T. Lasley and
W. I. Mitchell, R. E. Alley and
John Lett' went for an all day
hunt last week and killed 24
rabbits. !> squirrels and 9 birds.
Mr. John Flynt's car ran off a
bank last Sunday night and he
had to call on the neighbors to
help pull him out.
ZELEMA.
Saw Mill For Sale.
I have a 15 horse power engine
and boiler and a saw mill which
1 will sell cheap. It is Geiser
make and mounted. Mill is near
H. W. Shelton's store. For other
particulars address.
L. P. GROGAN,
, 2dec.it Campbell, N. C.
NEED OF CATTLE.
In 1910 Cattle Averaged 23
Per 1,000 Acres In North
Carolina.
North Carolina had 000.000 few
er cattle in the last census year
than in 1850, according to a state
ment in the University News
Letter. While the population
multiplied two and one-half timeu
the beef supply decreased nearly
one-third. Upon the basis of
total landed area the cattle in
North Carolina in 1010 averaged
only 2."» per 1,000 acres.
In North Carolina are 22,000,-
000 acres of land of the total of
200.000,000 in the south, "ft
looks like a capital chance for
southern farmers," says the Let
ter. "When they can turn beef
cattle into instant ready cash at
a profit they will go into the pro
duction of meat in some adequate
wholesale way and not sooner.
Whenever has it been otherwise?
"We need stockbreeders' as
sociations, and big beef bulls in
abundance. And we need to get
rid of the cattle tick. The rail -
roads need to tempt the farmers
with arrangements, convenien
ces, facilities and rates for hand
ling live stock shipments. More
live stock markets are needed
within possible reach of the
farmers. Local butchering, pack
ing and refrigerating are neces
sary. They need to be sani'ary
and modern in every particular.
Well managed city markets ate
indispensable."
Mrs. R. L. Hartman and vounjf
son. Roy. visited Danbury yen
terday.