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TO MEET TOMORROW County Commissioners To Hold Special Session Here At Court House. BRIDGE ASKED FOR Contract Will Likely Be Awarded For Bridge Across Town Fork Yadkin Township Note Will Be Canvassed. A special meeting of the coun ty commissioners will be held at the court house here tomorrow for the purpose of canvassing the vote from Yadkin township bond issue election held yesterday. It is learned that the commis sioners will consider blue prints and plans tor a bridge which will likely be built across Town Fork creek, on the line between Yadkin and Meadows townships. The building of this bridge will probably be let to contract at an early date. Quite a number of Meadows township citizens will appear before the board of commission ers and present claims for dam age caused by the good roads recently built in Meadows town ship. The action of the board in regard toalbwing the claims will be printed in next week's paper. With fearer Resources Hew England Has Yet Beaten Us Because Massachusetts has been a leader in education, a pre-eminent leader in thrift, and has set the world an example in local self-sovernment: because of these tl.rje things she has be come r.r. l lias lor.g been rich and powerful, as 1 have sai 1, even without natural advantages. There was a boastfulness about i- that 1 diin't like, but I ha\ t > acknowledge in my heart that he was telling the Lord's truth in the man—when a prominent Xew Englander said to me: "In natural resources the South has us beaten utterly beyond com parison-infinitely richer in soils, climate, mines, and general re sources—but our section has beaten yours simply by the thrift and enterprise of our people." Of course, the protective tariff has helped commercial Xew England at the expense of the agricultural South, and New England was fortunately free from the ravages of war that so long handicapped our Southern country, but in spite of these things our greater natural re sources ought to have enabled us to beat New England anyhow. But we haven't. In fact, instead of beating her, we have hardly more than half caught up with her. The new United States Government census volumes on "Wealth, Debt and Taxation" re mind me that the per capita wealth in Masachusetts is $1,805, whereas in North Carolina it is $794; in South Carolina, $869: in Georgia, $883; Alabama. $9(54: Mississippi, SI22G; and Tennes see, sßf>4. Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas make a bet ter showing than the states just mentioned, though Oklahoma alone among the Southern states reaches the Massachusetts figure for per capita wealth.—The Pro jgressive Farmer. Messrs. A. W. Davis and 0. N. Petree, of Walnut Cove, visited Danbury today. Are We a Clean People? By State Board of Health. We are not yet a clean people. As a matter of fact we are hard ly decent. Many of the habits and customs we tolerate and practice daily are far from clean, especially when viewed in the light of modern day cleanliness and sanitation. We go ferociously after the trash pile in the alley as a menace to health, but quitely allow our selves to be daily besieged by greater enemies to health in the unclean habits and practices of people about us. Not until we change a considerable number of our insanitary habits and customs will we become a clean people, both in name and in reality. The following list of disgust ingly filthy habits were pointed out by a traveling man as being those almost daily observed in a day's travel: "A waiter while taking orders will twist his mustache or scratch his head and then handle the food or the dishes before wash-' ing his hands. "A waitress in midsummer will carry a napkin under her arm and then wipe your plate with it. "Any day men can be seen to leave a toilet, pass the washbowl ( without using it. and go straight to the dining table. "The tongue is the 'greasing post' for salesmen in everv kind, of food store. A baker will put his finger to his tongue and then 1 pick up a sheet of paper and wrap a l:af of bread. "The street car conductor adds a certain amount of filth to each transfer by licking his finger be fore peeling a slip from the pile. "The grocer and the drug clerk will pick up a paper bag, open it up by blowing into it, and then fill it with candy. The breath in the bag does not add to the cleanliness of the candy, though it may change its flavor. "The cigar dealer will blow open a cigar holder before filling it. A purchaser handles many cigars before he purchases. Having purchased, he sticks the cigar in his mouth be fore sticking it in the common clipper on the counter. A man purchasing a pipe sucks a score l or more before settling on one. Pipes in stock have been sucked by many mouths. "Every diner in a restaurant will handle the toothpicks. "The average man will put his fingers in his mouth a dozen times a day and in or on his nose even more frequently. "The average man will do his sneezing and coughing first and then use his handkerchief. Some use their hands in place of a handkerchief. "Men will pass a washbowl several times a day but it will never occur to them to wash their hands unless they are so filthy as to show the dirt." Get Rid of Those Poisons In Your System. You will find Dr. King's New Life Pills a most satisfactory laxative in releasing the poisons from your system. Accumulat ed waste and poisons cause mani fold ailments unless released. Dizziness, spots before the eyes, blackness and miserable feeling generally are indication that you need Dr. Kings New Life Pills. Take a dose tonight and you will experience grateful relief by morning. 25c. THE DANBURY REPORTER What To Do Before School Opens. First of all. the building should be thoroughly cleaned and put in t the best condition possible. The lloors should be oiled and disin fectants used in every room in j the building. Any missing or broken window panes should be replaced, all hinges and locks, should be well oiled to prevent any unnecessary noise. Desks! and other furniture should be carefully examined for any need-! Ed repairs, and should be well! dusted: transoms cleaned, etc., I etc. Any weeds which may \ have grown up around the build-'' ing should be cut, and if not al ready provided, sanitary privies should be built. I We cannot look too closely after the health of the children in our schools, for from these I must come the future citizens of our republic, and no little of their success in after life necessarily 1 depends upon the health of their bodies. I have often thought ( that some people really gave ( ' more thought and attention to the comfort and well-being of their livestock, to their horses, cows, pigs, etc., than to their own children. It is true beyond 11 question that a great many! 1 parents never visit the school ( room where their boys and girls spend five days in the week, to see whether it is com fortable, sanitary, well-equipped or properly lighted, leaving these things to be looked after by other people, if looked after at all, while they or at least many of them, persist in looking after V the is delicious Pepsi-Cola, after their hard and dusty ride. Tastes good when you're hot, tired or thirsty. Keeps you * healthy at all times. Just pure, fresh fruit juices, acid phos- |p| Jfp phate and pepsin. Guaranteed under the Pure Food Law At All Fountains and in Bottles. their livestock themselves. A water cooler should be provided for each room, and un less fountains are installed, each pupil should be provided with an individual drinking cup. How very often do we see a cold in school which rapidly spreads until practically every pupil in jschool and the teachers are af fected with the disease. This : comes largely from the practice so prevalent in many communities of all the children drinking from the same cup or dipper. A pan and at least a couple of towels should be provided for each room, together with a mirror, comb and duster. In buildings supplied with running water some of these things might be eliminated. Killing Porkers. Mr. Robert Kiser, of Meadows Route 1, who was here yesterday, stated that he killed two nice hogs this week. The two pork ers weighed in the same notch exactly—29o pounds each. Mr. G. W. Hawkins, of Sandy Ridge, was here attending the 1 meeting of the Farmers' Union Saturday and visited the Reporter office. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Ayers, of Meadows, visited Danbury today. Mr. John G. Flynt, a hard working young farmer of Walnut Cove Route 3, visited Danbury today. LADIES! Why worry about your Fall and Winter wear. Come and see my full line of Millinery, Ladies Coat Suits, Coats Ready-to-Wear. I car= ry a full line of Ladies Hats, etc. Miss Roberson, of Baltimore, Md., with 7 years experience in the milli= nery business, will be glad to see you. SEE OUR LINE BEFORE YOU BUY. R. C. BUTNER, PILOT MTN., N. C. Four Rules For Farm Renters. 1. Sticks to the farm. It's better even for the tenant than the town or the factory, and certainly better for his children whose future should be dearest of all things to him. 2. Aim sometime to be a landowner. If you are 21 or un der, time to be one by the time you are 35, If you are already too old to realize this, aim at ownership not over ten years from now. o. Resolve to become a land owner by one of the two roads: first, making; second, saving. Unless vou make yourself a pro gressive, thrifty, economical farmer now, you would not be likelv to keep a farm of your own if vou had it. Good farming and careful saving are therefore both the way to get a farm and the way to keep it after you get it. 4. Don't try to be a landown er too soon. That is to say, don't buy a farm until you can equip ;it reasonably well. Aim first to get good tools, good cattle, and mules while you are a renter,and ! then let the land come later, in i stead of trying for the land first | and equipment later.— I The Pro ' gressive Farmer. Tetter, Salt Rheum and Eczema Are i'lire I ' v c:»n• ! .inSalve. One npptic* lion relieve* the ,tn«l Surr«ujj ocitMi'.nti
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