|| Bantag Houses, Furniture and Fixtures „.....8[307.59 Profits, clear of salaries, taxes, and all other expenses 4,917.06
I CASH ON'HAND .........................'50.462196 • foepoeits 248.165.40
I I, N. E. Pepper, Cashier of the Bank of Stokes County, do \l
solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my ATTEST- C E Davis Assistant CaahW M T fhikm Pr^;
knowledge and belief. N. E. PEPPER, Cashier. . /! „ ' , ASBIS _ , *• -hiltcn, Prea-
I Sworn to before me this March 19,1917. t dent, J. H. Fulton, Cashier at Walnut Cove, j. W, Neal, Vice-
M N. A, MARTIN, Justice of the Peace. President.
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Nut Sunday is Easter.
• The infest -of Dr. aad Mrs.
W. V. MeCenieaa is right sick
today.
T)m pries of wheat hss passed
the 12.00 mark In this section.
How jnany farmers have any to
settf
Mr. Willia Moon, at Moon's
BJkrings, was a visitor here today.
IK* was seoompsoied home by
Judge B. F. Long, who will re
main at. the Springs until
Monday.
Stokes court will not observe
who has
taken the contract for keeping
ap several roads in this township,
was here today i*#king prelemi
nary arrangements to go to
werfc.
A movement is on foot in
Stokes to seeare better roads by
issuing bonds and getting the
benefit of Federal aid. Attend
the goed roads meeting at Dan
bury Monday and bear the plans
diseusisd.
-The largest leather consuming
industry is the shos business.
•The aeoond largest is .the auto
mobile business, Tha leather
required to upholster the average
touring ear is enough to make
the uppers of three desen pairs
of shoes. The grain leather used
en expensive ears makes the best
Am leather, Its increasing
scarcity has necessitated large
u* of eplit leather in ibte mak
ing. The latter Is the grade used
mbst iifthe automobile industry.
f Special Notice
iMey Cathartic Tablets
thpsnghly oieanse the bowels.
*■l*l undigested waste matter,
Sjlaeten the stomach and tone op
ttt nver. Do not gripe per nau-
habit."
Robert L. Murphy
Artistic
Pisso iMtroctiofl
mm i tnnn
DEATH or mi UN.
Miss Stella Pulliam Passes
Awgy Near Capdla-Jit
ney Line From King To
Winston -• Parch School
Closes,
King, March 29.-Miss Stella
Pulliam, aged about thirty years.
I died at the home of her father.
Mr. John W. Pulliam, near Ca
i pella early Wednesday morning
after a brief illness with measles.
, The funeral services were con
ducted at Mt. Olive church, of
which she was a member, yester
day at two o'clock p. m.
I It is learned that a jitney line
between King and Winston-Sal
era will be put in operation at an
early date. It is beßftved that it
will be a paying proposition.
The Fereh school etosed Tues
attendance. There were forty
four spellers. Everyone in at
tendance seemed to enjov the oc
casion. The Perch school is lo
cated near the Stckes and Surry
county line, and there is a move
ment on foot to lay off a district,
taking ip some of both counties
'and to erect a modern school
, building.
leal Crosses 12.02
Mark for Next Month
Chicago, April 4.—Wheat cross
ed the $2.08 mark today for the
May future and the more defer
red months.were up sharply in
price in sympathy. Resting ipots
for the day showed advances of
2to 2} oentf,'while all prevloua
'records on the crop were passed
several days ago. The advances
of today ware at the highest
pricas wheat ever sold in Chica-1
go in a biff way since the Civil
War, even daring the September |
corner of 189k which waa con
ducted by B. P. Hutcherson, |
At that jftpe then were a few,
sales at 98 per bushel. During
the Civil War wheat sold aa high
M $3.10 in May. 1807. but this
waa considered a fancy price and
it was only far one ear and it
was in bags. X3oid at that time
waa about 81.85 to 11.88 which
made the prioe about 88.80 per
bushel - gold basis. Spring
wheat flour said at Chicago at
wholesale at 818.80 to 815 per
barrel and white winter flour at
816 te per karrsl.
lift jflnpai awlfawß
GERMAN SPIES.
Said To Have Headquarteri
In Guilford County--Try
To Incite Negroes.
Birmingham, Ala., April 4.
Reports that agents of the Ger
man government are using Elm
i lirove, a negro settlement neat
Greensboro, N. 0., as hfeadquart
ers for a campnign to inciU
scothern negroes aginst the govei
: ment of the United States today
were confirmed by local federal
' agents. The activities, extend
' to the tobacco and cotton belts oi
' Georgia, Alabama, the Carolines,
and parts of Florida,
t These efforts, however, have
> met with little sympathy among
i the negroes, who have pledged
; themselves in large numbers
to support the President and
fender whatever service they
could to. the Ration in case of war.
Jja jpwj| iIAA nofir.
roes to rise against the whftas la
the Birmingham district have
met with no success, the officials
declared, but in some parts oi
the belts of Georgia and Alabama
the Teutonic agents have suc
ceeded in appealing to the negroes
to an extent requiring some
precautions.
The alleged work of the Ger
mans in the south is believed by
the federal agents to be closely
allied to the recent exodus from
the cotton belts to northern in
dustrial centers of large bodies
of negro laborers.
Rumors.have reached here that
farmers in some agricultural dis
tricts have formed the Ku Klux
Klana to meet possible uprising
or disaffection.
Goverment agents declared to
day that information reaching
them led to the belief that in the
event war with Germany is
declared, efforts will be made by
I German agents to induce negroes
. to migrate to Mexico with a view
Ito crippling industries in the
so :th which depend on negro
I labor.
i
RUB OUT PAIN
wi h good oil liniment. That's
thr sure* way to stop them.
[Tha best rubbing bannent is
MUSTANG
LINIMENT
f aß GserfArikAAmmkif |
| Horses, Whales, Cattle* He. jj
1 cShTik^l
-■U ' ' =
111 farm (raw
* ' lothMß But (stucco
Y Think of it! Turnip greens
selling at 26c a peek and very
- Xjfreeat that At these prices
>. w%fannot afford to indulge in
i that delightful dish of hog's 'owl
r and turnip greens. Such prices
t-" as Ihese ought to eause. every
0 family to plant turnip seed about ,
r thrffirst of next August—Ex- i
y ehtnge.
il '* :
t' ,
if ItftoAK DEVELOPING FREE, i
Prints up to 31 x 4i.
'» Poit cards 5c each, Quick Work. i
Quality guaranteed. No orders i
e unlets accompanied by cask .
%nl2c per roll extra for return I
1 pogage. "BARBER'S", Dent i
j6, Winston-Salem, N. C. 7njfOt '
. flubecribe for the Reporter. I
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YVini &n rFett *
•Walnut Cove, North Car
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I t
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is an authorized subscription represei?
The Ladies' Home Journal.
1 The Saturday Evening Pos
i and
9S« COUNT
GENTLE?
I
Put the price of a few for it
1 hours of farm labor into ents
[ a subscription for the na- How to get back out
t tional farm weekly, and of your ,andt * ie money
i tt u ~ y°w P ut in ** big
; save yourself many hours idea f ehind The Country
labor and money and Gentleman.
worry for a year to come. j t d ea i s with selling
Everv crnn cvcrv kind ,a,m cro P® Well as
fcvery crop, every kino KrowjnK them . n
farm question is cov- 300.000 farmer, bought 1
ered by The Country , t when it WM $L5 § ,
Gentleman. Practical year.
farmers, stockmen, dairy- Now it is $1 * year-;
men, orchardists, writ* 52 issues—every wctk*
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THE CURTIS PUiLUHING COMPANY
• 1 ladeyeadeace taaare, Philadelphia
Inri If ftabtn
y.i | n y l#^
PWI Run? IsfuMf
The Stokes Beard of Mure Mow
held a short meeting at the cow*
house here Monday, Vary little
business was transacted, the
principal thing attended tobeine
the paying off of claims against
the school fond. Supt of Schools
J. T, Smith, of King, was pas*
snt at the meeting.
Glad Te Lesrs Of It
Coughs thst follow La Grippe
or any deep-seated hacking ooagfe
will wear down the strongest
man or woman If allowed to eqpr;
tinue. C, Smith. 1431 12th A,
Augusta Ga,, writes: I got am
bottle of Foley's Hotify and
and aboutjgM.^
IMPORTANT MEETING.
Farmers Union To Appoint
Agents To Handle Fertili
ser, Elect Officers, Etc,
Sditor Reporter:
PlttM allow KM cpMt in the
fepprter to announce a meeting
Of the Farmers Union to be held
In the court house In Den bury
on the first Saturday in April, it
being the 7th day of tbo month.
The meeting will be called to
order at 10 o'clock A. If.
The object of the meeting ia
to elect new officers, make con
tractu for fertiliser, elect agenta
to handle fertilizer and attend to
other matters of imix>rtance.
Respectfully,
J, A LAWSON. Pre*
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