DANBURY REPORTER VOLUME XLIII. WALNUT COVE LETTER Rev. Jesse B. Johnson Passes Away At Advanced Age of Seventy-Six Years MUCH BUILDING Two New Store Buildings and New Residences Going Up— Sidewalks Will Be Completed Soon—Jitney Line To Winston- Salem—Other News. Walnut Coye, Nov. 3. - After a ten days' illness from a severe attack of pneumonia which would not yield to the very best medical treatment Rev. Jesse B. John son, one of our most highly re spected citizens, passed away Friday afternoon. Mr. Johnson had attained the age of almost seventy-six years and was in splendid health until a few days prior to his death. For more than thirty years he had been a minister of the gospel in the Missionary Baptist church and was a consecrated christian, well loved by those who knew him. Besides his aged wife he is survived by six sons and one daughter, among tham being Messrs. K. A., Frank and S. M. Johnson, of this place, and John Johnson, of Elizabeth City. The funeral services were conducted from Salem Chapel church Sun day afternoon by Rev. A. L. Mc- Lendon in the presence of hun- j dreds of relatives and friends. The tobacco market here con - 1 tinues to be well patronized and! during the past week an average of about 20,000 pounds each day has been sold at prices satisfac tory to the growers. No notice able change for the rising or falling off of the price has been noted for several days, how ever it is well known that the average is considerably higher, than on the first month of the j season, Beth warehouses are selling for new customers every day and few farmers leave the market without being impressed with one fact: "That it brings as much here as elsewhere." A tobacco dealer from one of the biggest markets in the State spent a day here this week going over the floors and when asked why he did not buy some grades for speculation, replied that it was selling too high for him and added that if he should purchase a pound on the Walnut Cove market he would do so at a loss. Such facts from a man who is in position to know are worth the consideration of farmers who have tobacco to sell. The sidewalks from first to third street are practically com pleted and the business people of this section of the town are well pleased with the splendid work done by Mr. Martin, the con traitor. From third to fifth is being graded this week and this part of the work will be finished this week. Instead of stepping stones for the cross-streets a heavy walk is being built at every corner of unfinished con crete, beveled down so that it can be easily crossed by wagons an i other vehicles. A special meeting of the Board of Trade is called to meet Fri- day night to consider further improvements and create more interest in the tobacco market. Every member as well as others who feel an interest in the or ganization are requested to be present. The ladies of the M. E. church expect to have an oyster supper at the Junior hail tonight which will doubtless prove a big suc cess. Much building, evidencing the fact that the town continues to grow, is being done during the fall months. The brick store room being erected by Mr. D. S. Watkins is nearing comple tion. A new store is in course of construction on North Main street which will be occupied by Mr. G. P. Overby when finished. Messrs. K. A. Johnson and J. H. Matthews are each erecting new dwellings on their lots near Dr. W. C. Slate's new dwelling. The Primitive Baptist church will be completed this week and the first services will probably be held there next Sunday. Mr. Oscar Higgins, of Galax, Va., has been spending several days here looking around with a view to locating and entering some kind of commercial enter prise. He has not decided de finitely but will probably remove his family here the latter part of the week. Professor E. S. Handren left yesterday for Raleigh to attend the State Teachers' Association. He will return the latter part of the week. Mr. T. R. Pepper, of Winston- Salem, was a business visi.or here yesterday. Mrs. S. C. Rierson and daugh ters, Misses Claudia and Estelle, spent Tuesday in Winston-Salem. Mr. L. M. McKenzie was in town yesterday on business. Dr. W. L. McCanless, Messrs. N. O. Petree and N. E. Pepper, of Danbury, were here this week. Mr. F. L. Tilley has sold his interest in the new cafe to his partner, Mr. J. C. Redman, who will continue to conduct the business. A jitney line from here to Winston-Salem has this week been established by Slate Bros., of Mt. View. Two round trips daily in a closed car add a great deal to the convenience of the traveling public and the line is being well patronized. Dr. W. H. Critz, who has re sided and practiced his profession here for the past two years with excellent success, left last week for Albemarle where he has opened offices. Dr. Critz, dur ing his stay here, won scores of friends and established an en viable practice. He was a wide a-wake, progressive citizen, fore most in all civic improvements and his many friends while wish ing him great success in his new field regret to see him leave, Misses Pearl Seagraves and Jessie Vaughn spent Saturday in Winston-Salem shopping. Miss Mabel Petree, of Wins ton-Salem, and Miss Sadie Petree, of Danbury, visited rel atives here Sunday. Mr. Wyatt Vaughn, who holds DANBURY, N. C., NOVEMBER 24, 1915 CONTEST MUG; Miss Priddy Passes the 10,- 000 Mark and Leads Again. NEW CANDIDATES 1 Several Persons Have Made Known their Intention of En tering the Contest —Votes Be ing Given Out Dally. This week Miss Lottie Priddy passes the lO.OOOJmark and|leads again in the Reporter's auto mobile voting contest. The indications are that the contest will develop lively pro portions soon as several persons have recently announced their intention of entering the contest, one or more of whom have al ready collected a good number of votes. The Reporter has recently given out a good many thousands votes on subscription that are being held..back but these are scattered so'that"! no one! can didate will likely get even a large | per cent, of them. Now is the time for'the can didates to put in good work. After interest gets stronger in the contest vote-getting will net !be as easy as it is at present. | Somebody is going to get a 'mighty nice automobile. Why ' not you? The vote today stands as follows: Miss Lottie Priddy 11,000 Miss Elsie Sheppard 6,750 W. L. Hall 5,000 Miss Mary Tilley 4,000 Joe Alley 1,000 Bonis Defeated. Mt. Airy Leader. Yadkin township in Stokes county in the good roads elec tion held Tuesday of last week decided by the very decisive ma jority of 143 to remain in the mud. They are already in the mud and they preferredlto stay lin it. It is a matter of deep re jgret to the people of Surry, 1 Stokes and Forsyth counties I that the proposition to build good roads in Yadkin township failed. We believe the voters of Yad kin township in Stokes have made a mistake. They could not afford to repudiate a progressive measure like this. Telephone Assessment Is Due January 1,1916. Mr. R. W. George requests the Reporter to state that the $3.00 assessment to be paid by the stockholders of the Big Creek Telephone Co. is due January 1, 1910, instead of June 1, 1916, as recently announced in his letter to this paper. a position in Winston-Salem, spent Sunday here with his parents. Mr. W. G. Dodson went to Winston today on business. Born unto Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Davis, a girl. CONFERENCE OVER Rev. O. P. Routh Returned To Danbury Circuit For Coming Year. APPOINTMENTS MADE Rev. G. W. Williams Succeeds Rev. E. J. Poe At Walnut Cove —Next Conference Meets At Gastonia. The annual meeting of the Western North Carolina M. E. Conference, after being in ses sion at Reidsville since last Wed nesday, adjourned Monday. The appointments for the ministers were read just before the close of the session Monday. The conference voted to hold the next meeting at Gastonia. Pastor O. P. Routh was re turned to the Danbury circuit for another year. The Walnut Cove circuit gets Rev. G. W. Williams, who succeeds Rev. E. J. Poe. Tfie appointments of the Mt. Airy district are as follows: H. C. Sprinkle, presiding elder. Ararat, J. W. Combs, supply. Danbury, O. P. Routh. Dobson, T. V. Crouse. Draper, J. M. Folger. Elkin, J. F. Hips. Jqnesville, D.A.Oakley,supply. Ljjaksville, A. L. Aycock. Mauison-Stoneville, R.S. Howie. Mount Airy station, G. D. Her man. Mount Airy circuit, J. W. Ben nett. Pilot Mountain station, E. O. Smithdeal. Pinnacle circuit, T. H. Stimp son, supply. Rural Hall, C. R. Allison. Spray, J. F. Armstrong. Stokesdale, R. L. Doggett. Summerfield, T. B. Johnson. Walnut Cove, G. W. Williams. DIED SUDDENLY. Mr. James Allen, A Good Citizen of the County, Passed Away Yesterday. Mr. James Allen, a good citi zen of the county, died suddenly of heart failure at his home nine miles east of Danbury yester day. The deceased, who was sixty three years of age, is survived by his wife and several grown sons and daughters. The interment will be made tomorrow at the Rierson grave yard two miles south of Dan bury. Teachers Meeting Saturday. Supt. of Schools J. T. Smith, of King, was here Saturday and conducted a meeting of the teachers of this township. Many questions of interest to the schools were discussed and the meeting was very interesting. Dr. M. C. Martin, of Okla homa, arrived here this week and will locate in Danbury for the practice of medicine. Dr. Martin has secured office rooms in the Taylor Hotel. SERVICE HERE SUNDAY Messrs. G. W. Maslin and j Charles M. Norfleet, ofj Winston-Salem, Deliver Addresses At Danbury j and Hartman, Interesting addresses were 1 delivered to a large congregation | at the Presbyterian church here Sunday morning by Messrs. G. W. Maslin and Charles M. Nor tieet, of Winston-Salem. These gentlemen are laymen of the First Presbyterian church of Winston-Salem, and the servi ces were held in connection with the church extension work be ing carried on by that church. In the afternoon Sunday, ad dresses were delivered to a large audience at Hartman, three miles east of Danbury. Mr. J. M. Lentz and Mr. Beuh man, of Winston-Salem, accomp anied Messrs. Maslin and Nor fleet and the party returned to their respective homes Sunday afternoon. News Notes Reported From The King Section King, Nov. 24.—Mr. R, G. | Smith is placing material on the ! site preparatory to erecting a i nice dwelling on his farm two j miles west of town. Prof. J. T. Smith and Prof. 'Albert Phillips are attending the State teachers meeting at Ral ; eigh this week. Mr. Edwin Butner, who lost ; his home by fire some time ago, jis preparing to build a new resi i dence on the old site. Some nice porkers are being killed in and around King. | Mr. V. T. Grabs killed one ! Monday weighing 466 pounds. | Mr. S. W. Pulliam went to ! Winston-Salem on business today. Messrs. L. S. Grabs, Will T. I Pulliam, M. T. Spainhower and James Love, Sr., went to Wins ton-Salem yesterday in Mr. Grabs' auto. They attended the socialist speaking there. Alley-Venable. Mr. Gilbert Alley, of Danbury Route 1, and Miss Ida Venable.of Winston-Salem, were married yesterday at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Venable, in Winston-Salem. | Elder J. A. Fagg, of Walnut i Cove, performed the ceremony. Roberts-Flynn. License has been issued for the marriage of Miss Mamie Flynn, of Pine Hall, to Mr. William Roberts, of Winston- Salem. Rheumatism and Allied Pains They Must Go! The congestion of the blood in its flow causes pains. Sloan's Liniment penetrates to the con gestion and starts the blood to flow freely. The body's warmth is renewed; the pain is gone. The "man or woman who has rheumatism, neuralgia or other pain and fails to keep Sloan's Liniment in their home is like a drowning man refusing a r*ope." Why suffer. Get a bottle of Sloan's. 25c. and 50c. SI.OO bottle hold six times as much as 25c. size. No. 2,277 APPEAL 10 COURT Meadows Citizens Not Satis fied With Amounts Paid Them For Top-Soil. SOME LARGE CLAIMS County Commissioners Met and Examined Claims Thursday— List of the Claims Allowed At the Meeting. At the special meeting of the county commissioners here Thursday a large number of the citizens of Meadows township filed claims against the county for top-soil, damage to crops, .etc., caused by the construction of roads in that township during the past year. After due con sideration the commissioners J made the following allowances : C. R. Allen, top-soil, $5.00 Mrs. Mary Crews, " fi.oo T. L. Baker, " 8.00 Mrs. Nancy Tuttle, " IG.S7 R. F. A. Baker, " 8.00 J. R. Tuttle, " 50.00 Robt. Grabbs. " 2.0^ John Boles. " 12.10 G. T. Baker, " 18.00 W. R. Baker, " 6.00 Alex Rutledge, " 42.50 G. W. Newsom, " 26.25 R. J. Petree, " 20.00 H. McGee, " 30.50 J. G. White, " 44.00 W. D. Browder, " 63.00 W. A. Willis, "etc. 93.C0 C. W. Bowmam, " 72 00 J. W. Bowman, " 24.00 B. F. Bowman, " 12,00 Mrs. P. A.Tuttle. top-soil etc. 36.00 W. W. Tuttle, top-soil 16.00 J. O. Smith, " 43.50 T.B.Boies, top-soil etc, 55.50 Ashel Lewis, top-soil 20.00 P. L. Smith, " 12.00 W. H. Smith. " 41.00 L. J. White. " 32.00 I. G. Ross, " 74.00 | Mrs. Cora Mitchell, " 16.00 j Rich Stewart, " 8.00 j Gabriel Boles, " 115.00 IW. W. Hicks " 10.50 jHessielsom, " 37.00 j W. A. Southern " IS. 00 Mary Hicks. " 8.00 Z. R. Moran, " 24.00 Dr. J. W. Neal, " 100.50 i M. E. Avers, " 28.00 jAbnerMabe, 24.00 iJas. Young, " 30.00 i W. M. Mabe, " 60.00 ! Frank Meyers, " 7.50 T. Martin, col., " 10.00 While a majority of the citizens will accept the amounts allowed them there are some who have given notice of appeal to Superior court and the suits will be tried probably at the spring term. Some of the claims presented were for large amounts and these were cut down considerably by the county commissioners. Tobacco Prices oo Winston Market. Winston-Salem, Nov. 23—The tobacco warehouses here sold 350,000 pounds of the weed today and although the quality was generally far from being good, the average price was $10.30 per i hundred. There will be no sales on Thanksgiving day.

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