DANBURY REPORTER
Volume L.
WANT DAMAGE
FROM COUNTY
Number of People In
Quaker. Gap Town
ship Being Treated
For Hydrophobia.
Mr. Charlie E. Pyrtle, of Quaker
Gap township, was a visitor here
yesterday. Mr. Pyrtle stated that
the dog which recently bit his little
son, an account of which appeared in
our last issue, also bit about six
other people in hi* township. Mr.
Pyrtle killed the dog and sent its head
to Raleigh and was immediately noti
fied that the dog was mad. Only two
of the persons bitten went to Raleigh
for treatment, the necessary medicine
having been sent to Dr. Flippin at
Pilot Mountain, who is administering
the medicine. Mr. Pyrtle's little boy
was able to take only one treatment,
this making him deathly sick.
Mr. Pyrtle stated that he heard
some of the parties who were bitten
sate that they would file claims for
damage against the county. One
case of this kind is now pending be
fore the commissioners of this coun
ty. a committee having been appoin
ted at last meeting to assess the dam
age in the case.
Reception Given
At Germanton
Germanton, N. C., January 28.
—One of the most delightful events
of the season was the brilliant recep
tion given by Mrs. John W. J£urfees
in honor of her son, John, Jr., who
celebrated his sixteenth birthday the
past week.
The guests were received at the
door by Mrs. Kurfees, Miss Irma Kur
fees and Mr. John Kurfees. Miss
Mary Taylor and Mr. Lauriston
Powers furnished music throughout
the evening for dancing. Rook was
also an enjoyable leature of the oc
casion. During the evening a very
instructive and enjoyable contest was
given in which Miss Grace Taylor
won the prize, a lovely box of station
ery, which she in turn presented to
the honor guest.
The guests were then invited into
the dining room which was beauti
fully decorated. In the center of
the table was the large birthday cake
with sixteen candles burning. At
either end of the table was a large
candle. The refreshments consisted
of delicious fruit salad, coffee and
cake.
Before the guests departed a tray
of minature envelopes was passed
around by Miss Irma Kurfees, each
envelope containing a fortune. The
fortunes were read aloud by the
guests and much merriment was af
forded by each of them, the fortunes
having ranged from the ridiculous to
the sublime.
The invited guests were as follows:
Misses Mary and Grace Taylor, Ruth
Westmoreland, Louise Fowers, Doris
liauser, Pearl Savage, Mary Belle
and Viola Browder, and Gertrude
Phoenix, Messrs. Ralph, Walter and
Robert Beck, Lauriston Powers, G.
L. Jarvis, Mutt Westmoreland, Jesse
George, Robah Browder and Jen
nings liauser.
News Of Danbury R. 1.
Banbury, Route 1 Jan. 28.—Mr.
James Stephens has recently been
very sick with rheumatism but is im
proving some, we are glad to say.
Mrs. J. R. Bennett and little chil
dren and Mayana Mabe have return
ed from spending several days with
Mrs. Bennett's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
R. P. Mabe, in Montgomery county.
Mrs. Ann Bennett has been right
sick with something like lagrippe for
several days, we are sorry to note.
Miss Alma Mabe is spending some
time with her sister, Mrs. G. C.
Mabe.
Mrs. J. R. Bennett and children
Maryanna and Alma, spent Wednes
day night with Mrs. W. L. Nelson at
Walnut Cove.
$10,000,000 Loan For
Farmers' Association
A special from Washington says :
Application of the • Burley Tobacco
Growers' Co-operative Association of
Kentucky for a loan of 10 milli»n dol
lars to finance the holding of crops,
has been approved by the War Fi
nance Corporation.
DR. TILLOTON FALLS
INTO SNOW DRIFT
Has To Have Help To
Get Out—Mrs. Nancy
Fulk Dead Much
Sickness At King.
King, Jan. 30.—We had 13 inches of
snow here last week. This was the
deepest snow we have had for several
years. Dr. S. F. Tillotson started to
answer a call on horseback and got
into a snow-drift which covered him
and his horse. He had to have help
to get out.
Mr. S. O. Kennedy cut an ugly gash
in his leg while chopping wood one
day last week.
Mrs. Nancy Fulk. aged 91 years
and 4 months, died at the home of her
grandson, Mr. Wiley F:ilk, Wednes
day night. The interment was held
from Trinity church, of which she had
long been a member, Thursday at one
o'clock p. m.
Mr. Addison Hooker is placing ma
terial on the site, two miles west of
town, preparatory to erecting a new
home.
There is right much sickness in this
community at present.
Messrs. C. S. Newsom and Reid
Jones went to Winston-Salem on
business today.
Mr. Ross Fowler, of Winston-
Salem, was among the business visi
tors here today.
Marriage at Pinnacle;
News of King Route 2
King, Route 2, Jan. 28.—Mr Ed
Jones and Miss Ada Stone were mar
ried last Saturday at Pinnacle. No
further particulars of the marriage
can be learned at this time. Dinner
was prepared at Mr. Jones' father's
and also supper on Sunday night, but
the happy could did not arrive. It
is likely they will come back when the
snow gets off.
We had a heavy snow fall in this
section last Friday, the snow contin
uing to fall for a period of 28 hours.
The mail was blocked and people
.could not go to mill. They had to lie
| in bed to keep from getting hungry.
Mr. R. K. Long und his partner,
! Hill King, went 'possum hunting one
' night last week and caught a large
black mink. They were very much
excited over their fine catch and skin
ned the animal and put its hide on a
board that night. Next morning
Mrs. King missed her black pet cat
and after an examination it was dis
| covered that it was the cat's hide on
'the board instead of a mink's. Of
| course R. K. and his partner heard
something then.
SCRIBBLER.
Anyone Can Be
Newspaper Editor
Most any man can he an editor,
says an exchange. All the editor
, has to do is to sit at his desk six
days in the week, four weeks in the
month and twelve ri.onths in the year
and edit such stuff as this :
| "Mrs. Jones of Hogans Creek let a
can-opener slip last week and cut
( herself in the pantry. A mischievous
j lad of Spray threw a stone and cut
j Mr. Pike in the alley last Tuesday.
Joe Paschal climbed on the roof of his
house last week and fell striking him
! self on the back poTch. While Harold
| Green was escorting Mis:i Violet Wise
jfrom the church social last Saturday
night a severe dog attacked them and
bit Mr Green on the public square.
Ike Rankin of Iron Works was play
ing with a cat Fridwy when it scratch
ed him on the veranda. Mr. French
while harnessing a young colt last
Friday had the misfortune to be kick
ed near the corn crib."
Reid and Paul Tilley
Arrested Last Week
Messrs. Reid and Paul Tilley, two
young tfhite men of the Walnut Cove
'section, were arrested the past week
by revenue officers from Winston-
Salem on the charge of manufactur
ing whiskey. They were carried to
Winston and given a preleminary
hearing, after which they were allow
ed to give bond in the sum of $500.00
each for their appearance at Federal
court
One per cent, will be added to all
taxes paid in Stokes this month, be
ginning today. On the first of next
month another 1 per cent, will be ad
ded and so on until they are paid.
Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, Feb. 1, 1922
NOW IN OPERATION
IN KENTUCKY
Farmers Are Delivering
Tobacco To Co-opera
tive Marketing Asso
ciation Warehouses.
Lexington, Ky., «ian. 30.—Four mil
lion pounds of tobacco were delivered
to the warehouses of the Hurley To
bacco Growers' Co-operative Market
ing Association when those outside of
Lexington were opened today for the
first time this season, it was announ
ced at headfluarters tonight. As was
the case when the houses here opened
last week, it was said that growers
received more money in advance for
their crops this year than they soli
them for last year. No reports of
dissatisfied growers were received.
Making Our Schools Safe
For Our Children
By 8. JOSEPHINE BAKER, M. D.
Director, Bureau Child Hygiene, Department of Health, New Ycrk City.
Usually a mother feels that she
has done her duty, so far as the
school is concerned, when she
has seen that her child is properly
clothed, goes to school on time
and does whatever home work is
necessary to keep ufc with his
classes. The father feels that he
has done his duty if his taxes are
paid and his child brings home
a report of work accomplished.
But what do the fathers and
mothers of this country know
about the schools their children
attend*!' Do they know whether
they are well ventilated, or
whether the children are com
pelled to breathe superheated
and vitiated air over and over
attain? Do they know whether
the drinking water is clean,
whether the sanitary arrange
ments are proper, whether the
classroom is overcrowded? Have
they any idea about the proper
arrangement of school desks and
chairs, or do they know that
their children are rapidly getting
curvature of the spine because
the school seats are never ad
just?d to the child's needs?
Have they any idea whether or
not the lighting of the school
room is bringing on defective
vision that mav lead to blindness?
In short, do they know whether
the conditions that obtain in the
school are factors of great im
portance in causing the children
to have physical defects, or
whether the schools are so main
tained that the child is as safe or
safer in the classroom than it
could be anywhere else? One
thing is certain, and that is that
so long as education is compul
sory and the child must go to
school, whether he wishes to or
not, from the time he is six years
old. it is the business of the State
to furnish a safe, decent and
wholesome place in which the
child can obtain the education
that is required. Certain it is
that there never was and prob
ably never will be such a change
of normal habits as that which
occurs when we take an active,
growing child of six years r
more and compel it to sper. i
several consecutive hours ot th«»
day under conditions which are
found to exist in many class
rooms.
The Country Schoolhoute.
When we ftnd, as we do in a
large number of schoolhouses of
this country, that the conditions
under wiucii the child must live
HENRY W. SHELTON
DIED SUNDAY
Passing of Prominent
Citizen of Snow Creek
Township, In Sandy
Ridge Section.
Mr. Henry W. Shelton died at his
home near Sandy Ridge, in Sn*v
Creek township, Sunday, after an ill
ness of only a few days with an in
testinal obstruction.
Mr. Shelton was aged about seven
ty years. He was a prominent and
highly respected citizen of his sec
tion of the county.
The deceased is survived by his
wife and three children, as follows:
Arthur, Grover and William Jeff
Shelton. The interment was held on
Monday afternoon at the home grave-
I yard.
five or more hours of the day are
wholly abnormal and unhealth
ful, then it is time for every
mother and father in this country
to see that not only are the
schools made safe for their child
ren but safe for all children.
Not long ago a committee rep
resenting our two largest educa
tional and health associations
reported that over half of the
children of this country are at
tending rural schools, and said
that "the country schoolhouse is
the worst, the most insanitary
and inadequate type of building
in the whole country, including
not only buildings for human
beings but also those used for
domestic animals. Rural school
children are less healthy and are
handicapped by more physical
defects than are the children of
the cities, including even the
children of the slums."
These statements are not ex
aggerations. Strange as it may
seem, the city child has a better
chance for health in its school
life than if it lived in the coun
try. But the city child is not 1
wholly safe in this regard, for a
recent survey in one of our
largest cities showed that one
school out of every five was so
insanitary as to be a positive
menace to the children.
The draft figures showed that
thirty-nine out of every hundred
of the people of this country are
unhealthy, and our school figures
show that an even greater pro
portion of our children of school
age are suffering from some sort
of physical disability which, if
not removed at an early age, will
handicap them all through life.
We have had ample warning
about this condition. At least
I live years ago Doctor Wood, of
Columbia University, called at
tention to the fact that three
quarters of the twenty-two mil
lion school children of this coun
try are suffering from some con
dition which interferes with their
health or which may cause serious
ill health in the future.
The Mother's Influence.
Money is not needed to any
?reat extent in order to provide
healthful surroundings for the
growing child, but intelligence
and understanding are absolutely
essential. If the school is re
sponsible for so large a propor
tion of physical defects and
resultant ill health among the
larger number of our children,
we must change the conditions
in the schools which allow this
ill health to be produced or to
continue. Practically speaking,
there is probably not a communi
ty in the United States where a
small group of active and inter
ested mothers, combined with
the school-teacher or teachers,
cannot themselves place the
school in a decent, sanitary con
dition or bring forward the facts
which will cause the school board
to take the necessary action.
STOKES SIGNERS
ELECT DELEGATES |
Farmers' Co-Operative j
Marketing Associa
tion of Stokes County
Meets At Danbury.
About three hundred members of
the Stokes County Co-Operative Mar
keting Association met in the court
house Monday and elected delegates
to the Raleigh meeting on February
2nd to name a director in the State
or tri-State association. Seven del
egates, representing seven million
pounds of Stokes county tobacco,
were elected to go to Raleigh and
vote for R. J. Petree to represent a
group of counties embracing Stokes
in this district as director in the
State or tri-State association. It is
certain that the crowd in attendance
would have been much larger but for
the frozen snowy roads, travel in
many sections of the county being im
possible except by horse or mule.
Many members came in on foot, leav
ing their automobiles or other convey
ances at home.
The meeting was called to order by
President C. M. Hauser, who invited
Mr. R. J. Petree to the chair. Mr.
Petree, in accepting, made a short ad
dress in which he expressed the honor
he felt at being named chairman of
the meeting. Mr. Petree stated that'
the farmers' co-operative marketing i
movement was the biggest thing and j
the most important that had ever j
been undertaken by the farmers, but
that it would be successful if the !
members stood true to the cause. No
people in the world were brainier,
more honorable or more deserving
than the farming class. The farmers'
organization was not here to antago
nize or injure any legitimate busi
ness, except the parasites, the graft
ers, the speculators who were living
off the toil of the farmers.
Mr. R. H. Sheppard was named
Secretary of the meeting, which soon
got down to business and elected
either in person or by proxy, the fol
lowing delegates:
J. T. Joyce, R. l*'. 1.. Francis, S. F.
Hawkins, E. \V. Carroll, Ceo. Hanes,
; M. T. Chilton and C. M. Hauser.
j The delegates wi re instructed to
'cast their vote fo,* Mr. R. J. Petree
j for director.
A resolution wa.s passed to continue
the sign-up of the Stokes crop until
! the county stands well over the top.
|lt is claimed that seventy-five per
j cent, of the crop i.'. now pledged, and
a strong effort will be made to reach
1100 per cent.
Little Child Burned
To Death Sunday
The Reidsville Review of this week
states that the one-year-old child of
Mr. and Mrs. J. I). Jacobs, of Reids
ville, received burns Sunday morning
from which it died Monday. Mrs.
Jacobs had gone into the kitchin of
'her home for a moment when the lit
tle fellow got up from his bed and
went to the fire to warm. In some
manner his night gown caught fire
j and hearing his screams she rushed
| into the room to find the child envel
loped in flames. The mother removed
her sweater and smothered the fire
but not until two thirds of the little
I body had been charred.
' Solicitor S. P. Graves
In Baltimore Hospital
The many friends of Solicitor S.
Porter Graves, of Mt. Airy, will re
gret to learn that he is in Baltimore
under the treatment of a throat spec
ialist. He underwent t;n operation
there this week. The latest reports
were that he was doing fairly well.
In Mr. Graves' absence, his son,
Attorney William Graves, of Mount
Airy, conducted the criminal docket
of Rockingham Superior court, which
is in session this week.
Auto Show At Winston.
Winston-Salem has started pre
paration for a big automobile show
there beginning April 11 and contin
uing for a week. The show will he
held in Pepper's Warehouse.
Mr. Sands, who has charge of the
maintenance of the Danbury-Walnut
Cove highway, began dragging the
snow from the road yesterday. Of
course most of it had melted at that
time but it helped some probably.
No. 8,564
WAREHOUSES IN
DANVILLE CLOSE
Roofs of Three of them
Cave In From Weight
Of Snow —One Man
Killed.
Danville, Va., Jan. 2X.—Three to
bacco warehouse roofs and that of a
motor company caved in here today
as a result of the heavy snows. All
warehouses have been ordered closed.
The snow began to fall Thursday
night and has fallen without inter
ruption since then up to this tim«?.
No street cars are running and many
automobiles have been abandoned in
the streets of the business section.
A tragedy took place Friday morn
ing when James T. Rice, aged 26, fell
through a sky-light at Banner ware
house and was almost instantly killed
on the concrete floor of the ware
house 30 feet below.
The snow had covered the large
roof and it was impossiole to see m
the inside of the warehouse, as tike
numerous sky-lights were covered
with the snow. In order that day
light might be admitted before tbe
hour of sale young Rice went to tbe
roof of the building for the purpose
of clearing the snow off the lights.
The root being covered with the
deep snow it was impossible for him
to tell just where the skv-Hghts were.
! Suddenly he stepped onto one of them
land with a crash he went through ia
| a cloud of snow. Associates in tbe
I warehouse at first thought that tbe
I snow had caved in the f-ky-light, but
at that time they discovered the body
of a man on the floor ar.d were hor
rified to find that it was young Rice.
He was laid on a tobacco basket and
a doctor was called, but died without
speaking before the physician arri
ved. The young man's skull was
crushed and his neck appeared also
to be broken.
A. J. HOLT, AGED
CITIZEN DIES
Westfield Turnpike Is
Pushing Ahead To
ward Francisco From
George's Mill.
Mr. K. D. Smith, of Francisco, was
here this week, and tells the Reporter
several interesting news items of up
per Stokes. Mr. A. J. Holt, an afed
citizen, who lived near W. W. Georgi?
in Quaker Gap township, died on the
'J.'ith of a complication of troubles.
Mr. Holt was aged in the and
was the father of W. Elijah and
Kd Holt, and Mesdames G. Cofel
and Floyd Nelson. He is also sur
vived by his aged wife. Thet deceased
was a good man, honest and kindly
hearted. He had been a member of
the Presbyterian church at Dan River
for about 28 years, since the great
Win. Black revival of IS'.U.
The Westfield-Danbury turnpike is
forging ahead despite the unfavor
able weather, the grubbing having
reached more than half way between
George's upper mill and Francisco,
while the grading is now in progress
a considerable distance, probably a
mile and a half east of the mill to
ward Francisco. A bridge is being
constructed across George's mill pond
just above the mill. The road forces
are moving their camp from Westfield
to Alex Flippin's near Francisco.
Soon the grading forces will strike
the heavy topography of the Dan
river hills, looking toward Clemmons'
ford, the terminus of the present
project.
List of Deputies In
Stokes County
Deputy Sheriffs in the various
townships of Stokes now serving
under Sheriff H. D. Turpin are as fol
lows: Yadkin township, Robert Barr;
Quaker Gap, M. O. Lynch; Saura
town and Meadows, Will Heath; Bea
rer Island, C. E. Joyce; Snow Creek
and Beaver Island, John A. Young,
special; Peter's Creek, David Hole;
Danbury, E. R. Nelson. One deputy,
Boss Brown, in Peters' Creek town
ship, recently resigned and Mr. Hole
was appointed to fill the vacancy.
Tandy Hicks, who came to Danbnry
Monday very much under the in
fluence of sugar head, was locked up
in the county jail here and given am
opportunity to get ftot>«r f