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Volume L. MUCH SICKNESS AT CAMPBELL —_— Death of Jimmy Corns —Mrs. Sands Returns From Baltimore. Campbell, March 20.—Much flu has prevailed in this neighborhood for the past month, very few families having escaped. Mumps is reported in some sections. Mrs Columbus Sands, who under went a very serious operation on the brain in a Baltimore hospital, is re covering, her many friends will be glad to know. Mrs. Mary Ann Martin, widow of the late Bill Bob Martin, is very sick, suffering with influenza and rheuma tism. Mr. Green Ilall is very sick at his home near here with heart trouble. The sad and seeming untimely death of Mr. Jimmie Corns came as a shock to the neighborhood Saturday evening, when he died of a severe case of pneumonia, having been sick only a few days. He will be greatly missed, as he was very much liked by by his neighbors and friends. He leaves a wife and two small children. The public school at Peters Creek will re-open Monday after having been closed several weeks on account of flue and the illness of the teacher, Mr. E. G. Ray. The families of Messrs. Tom Corns and Jesse Rogers are suffering with severe colds. Lots of plant land has been sown in this vicinity during the last few weeks but very little or no plowing has been done. Most farmers are planning large tobacco crops. Mrs. R. E. Rogers, who has been sick several months, suffered a re lapse with flue and is still right sick. The families of Messrs. Eugene and Jesse Ray, W. P. Ray, Harry Martin, Robert Simmons and Ed Lackey visi ted the home of Mr. R. L. Martin on Sunday and while there enjoyed a good and bountiful birthday dinner given Mr. Martin. Mrs. Emmet Hall returned to her home near Pinnacle Saturday, after having spent several weeks with her mother, Mrs. Nancy Pike, who con tinues very sick. Very few cars pass through this section now as the roads are kept in such bad condition by the frequent rains. Personal Items From Moore's Springs Moore's Springs, March 19.—Rev. Smoak filled his regular appointment at Stony Ridge church Saturday and Sunday. Misses Lelia and Ethel Martin vis ited Mrs. W. 11. Murphy Sunday. Mr. Will Smith and family spent Saturday night with Mrs. Smith's brother. Mrs. Dillard I.awson visited Mrs. Emmet Simmons Sunday night. Mr. Emmet Simmons visited Mr. J. R. Hall Sunday night. We are having a nice Sunday school in this community now. Mr. Bob Simmons had a hard job pulling out cars with his truck Sun day. Mrs. Nannie Cardwell and Miss Eva Hall spent Saturday with Mrs. Emmet Simmons. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart spent Satur day night with their daughter, Mrs. Melvin Vaden. Mr. Otis Simmons was anions the guests at Mr. J. R. Hall's Sunday night. Revival Meetings Start At Meadows Mr. James C Wall and young son were here from Meadows yesterday. Mr. Wall stated that a series of re vival meetings started in the Bethel Baptist church at Meadows Monday. Revs. Phillips and Hanes, of Mount Airy, are in charge of the meeting which will continue for two weeks. 157 Newspapers Suspend In Germany A cable from Berlin, Germany, of recent date says: One hundred and fifty-seven newspapers in Germany have suspended publication within the past two months due to the increase in the cost of printing paper, it was uHiciaiiy unr.ouiuiu today. MOVEMENT TO IMPROVE SCHOOL To Solicit Contributions For School Building At Danbury. Contributed. A movement to improve the school here has been started. A majority of the citizens have expressed a desire for a better school and have signified their intention of co-operating with those who are working for that pur pose. Interest seems to be steadily growing as parents, teachers, and others who are interested in the prog ress of the community realize more and more the need for a larger, more comfortable school building and a better lot. Other counties and even other dis tricts in our own county are making rapid progress in education, and it behooves us to see to it that our chil dren have school faclities equal to those children who attend school elsewhere. Efforts have been made to secure a speaker to deliver an address on this most important subject and it is learned that in the near future an ex cellent speaker, who is a leader in ed ucation, will deliver a lecture here, the date to be announced later. In the meantime, the town will be canvassed for subscribers to a fund to be used for the erection of a three room school building with an audi torium. It is hoped that every one will con tribute liberally to this worthy cause. News and Personals Of Pine Hall Pine Hall, March 20.—Mrs. J. H. Carter has been confined to her room with illness for several days but we ecovering. Mrs. W. H. Gibson spent the week end with her mother, Mrs. Woodhouse are glad to hear that she is rapidly in Boonville. Miss Blanche Brown attended the teachers' meeting at Walnut Cove Monday. Mrs. E. R. Furbush, who has been working in Price for some time, has returned to her home here. Mrs. C. H. Powell, of Stokesdale, spent the week-end with her sister, jMrs. L. T. Blackwell. i We are very sorry to hear that Mr. [Jim Nance and Miss Florence Nance are very ill at their home in Winston- Salem. Miss Naomi Carter spent Tuesday night with Miss Elma Taylor. Miss Gertrude Gibson spent the week end with Miss Bertha Young, on Route 1. Messrp. Melvin Paris and Bill Blackwell called on them Satur day night. ! Rev. J. T. Ratledge filled his regu lar appointment at Pine Hall M. E. church Sunday morning A large con gregation was in attendance. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Jones have re moved to their home in this place. County Seat To Have Hard Surface Road ' Reidsville, March 20. —The State Highway Commission has just award ed a contract for the construction of eight miles of hard surface road from Reidsville to Wentworth, the county seat of Rockingham. Cheat wood & Driscoll, of Richmond, were given the contract at the price of $220,077.00. The same concern will build the concrete bridges on this road at the price of $5,358. Kernersville Postoffice Robbed Tuesday Night Winston-Salem, March 21. The town of Kernersville was visited by robbers early this morning about 2 o'clock and they carried away a good sum of money, bonds, stamps, etc., all of which was secured from the safe in the postoffice which they blew open. It was estimated that the robbers carried off in bonds, money and post age stamps between eight and nine housand dollars. Mrs. Lula Martin, of Campbell, was in Danbury recently soliciting contri butions for the new M. E. church now being built known as Smith's i Chapel. Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, March 22, 1922 PARDON REFUSED FLETCHER SMITH Fifteen Petitions To Governor For Par dons Turned Down. Raleigh, March 21. Governor Morrison's pardon mill refused to grind this week when fifteen convicts appealed to him through their attor neys and others for pardons. Not a single one of the fifteen who appealed to the governor were given their free • do m. These prisoners during the week had all classes of men to present their appeals to the governor and it seems that all failed alike. The poor |devils must serve out their sentences. Among those who presented pleas for pardons was one case from Stokes county, that of Fletcher Smith, who is serving a five year sentence for sec ond degree murder. The governor declined to take any action in the case and the prisoner will be compel :ed to complete his sentence. MRS. ELIZA COMBS PASSES AWAY Sunday School To Open At Mt. Olive—To Put Cover On Church. . King Route 2, March 18.—Mrs. Eliza Combs, mother of N. S. Combs, of this section, passed away yester day at the age of 74 years, 5 months. The remains were laid la rest at the M. E. Church burying ground near Pinnacle. The deceased leaves six children to mourn their loss. Mrs. Combs was ill for some time but bore her suffering with great patience. Rev. Burrs filled his regular ap pointment at Mt. Olive church last Sunday. Arrangements were made to re-cover the church and it was also decided to start up the Sunday School next Sunday at 10 o'clock. Mr. G. W. Smith killed a fine pig last week. It was 240 days old and weighed 310 pounds, averaging more than a pound and a quarter per day. Mr. Jim Mabe purchased a new Ford car last Friday. SCRIBBLER. Stokes Superior Court Jurors At the request of several citizens who failed to see the list of jurors for the next term of Stokes court, as printed in this paper some weeks ago, we are publishing the list again: FOR FIRST WEEK OR CRIMINAL TERM : From Danbury township: Jas. E. Tilley, Gilmer Mabe, N. D. Priddy, W. N. Jackson; Meadows township: C. C. Voss, W. W. 1 uttle. A. C. Boles, C. C. Carroll; Yadkin township: H. W. Gunter, Seaton A. Westmoreland, I. H. Sizemore, J. B. Ferguson, C. S. Ashburn, T. F. Calloway, E.W. Boles; Quaker Gap township: M. C. Bennett, S. E. Simmons; Big Creek township: R. F. Joyce; Peters Creek township: Tommie Smith, J. E. Smith, Robert Flinehum; Snow Creek township: J. C. Handy, Luke Amos, J. W. Dodson, A. C. Vernon, P. M. Morefield, T. J. Gann, G. W. Wilson; Beaver Island township: G. W. Duggins, D. H. Car ter, H. O. Heath, Will Duggins, L. W. Blackwell; Sauratown township: H. L. Gibson, John C. Bailey, Sr.; Snow Creek township: Lincoln Brown. FOR SECOND WEEK OR CIVIL TERM : Danbury township: W. R. Priddy, Roy F. Hartman; Meadows township: Bruce Kiser, T. O. Page; Yadkin township: R. K. Long, S.'H. Brown, John D. Smith; Quaker Gap township: J. W. Jessup, George Ore; Big Creek township: G. C. Jessup, S. P. Dear man, Dixie Smith; Peters Creek town ship: W. A. Nelson, C. F. Reid, J. W. Hundley; Snow Creek township: R. S. Watkins, S. L. Ziglar, W. J. Haw kins, J. H. Nance: Beaver Island township: J. M. Fagg, D. M. Morton* Sauratown township: tin, O. J. Stone, T. W. Abbott. Mr. Disher and his force of plumb ers this week installed running water in the county jail here. Mrs. Walter G. Petree is confined to her bed with illness this week. GROWERS TO HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE Tobacco Association To Reopen Campaign To Secure More Signers. North Carolina farmers are to have one more chance to sign up for co operative marketing, according to an announcement from headquarters at Raleigh. The Tobacco Growers' Cu op'-rative Marketing Association an nounces that the campaign for sign ers was re-opened this week in North Carolina with the State divided into five sign-up districts in charge of experienced campaigners. The association now has a combined membership of more than (i 5,000 growers and many of these have vol unteered to assist in the final effort to add 75,000,000 pounds of tobacco to ithe total signed up in North Caro lina. Reports sliowng how the Ken!u k,v bur'.y growers have solved all their problems and made large sales at satisfactory prices have stimulated interest in co-operative marketing in North Carolina, and several ounties which were not active in >.he • a-.-t : re now anxious to sign up for prosper ity." | Ihe sign-up district in the First lis in charge of J. B. Swain, and in cludes the following counties: Stokes, Surry, Yadkin, Alexander, Iredell, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Guilford, Rockingham, Randolph, and Montgomery. SOLDIERS TO LEAVE GERMANY SOON By July Ist Next U. S. Army Of Occupation Will Have Left Rhine. Washington, March 20.—Orders directing the return to the United {slates by July Ist of all American soldiers now on the Rhine in Germany were issiled today by Secretary of War Weeks. The order includes the return by the end of the fiscal year of the entire force of approximately 2,000 men ex cepted from the previous order of several weeks ago under which the homeward movement of the majority of the American Rhine contingent is now in progress. Secretary Weeks said that the op eration of two army transports now being employed in the return of the troops had been ordered continued up to July Ist by which date all of the force would have been withdrawn from the Rhine. The action of the war department was merely a continuation of the pol icy previously announced for with | drawing the American forces from the j Rhine, Mr. Weeks said. It was indi cated that the status of army legisla tion in Congress in no way influenced I the department's decision and also that the controversy over payment by Germany for the maintenance of island troops was not involved. A Bumper Crop Of Tobacco This Year Mr Chas. T. Joyce, of Winston- Salem, who is associated with the Vaughn-Wright Tobacco Co., leaf to bacco dealers of the Twin City, was a visitor here yesterday. Mr. Joyce has recently had occasion to travel over several of the counties in this section, and he stated that he had never seen as many or as large plant beds as have been sown this season. He fut-ther stated that it was the gen eral opinion everywhere he had been that a bumper crop of tobacco was going to be put out. Death Of Mrs. Dodson Near Walnut Cove I Mrs. Sam Dodson, of the Walnut jCove section, died Friday after an .extended illness with blood-poison. She was an estimable woman and will be greatly missed in her community. The remains were laid to rest in the burying ground at Clear Spring Bap tist church at Meadows Saturday afternoon, a large number of sorrow ing relatives and friends being in at tendance. Mr. J. H. Watts, of Dalton, spent a short while here on business today. LADY HIT BY TRAIN AT KING S. R. Slate Improves— New Mercantile Busi ness—Other News. King, March 20.—The many friends of Mr. S. R. Slate, who has beer, seri ously sick for several weeks, will lie delighted to near that his condition is much improved. Misses Claudie and Kate Stone, cf lliph Point, spent Sunday with then mother, Mrs. B. J. Stone, who re sides one mile south of King. Mrs. Carl Nunn, of East Main St., is recovering from an attack of pneu monia. Mr. C. S. Xewsom went to Wins ton-Sal em on business today. Mr. C. J. Kirby, of Winston-Salem, spent Sunday with hi.-; family here. The continued rains keep the far- . |mers much behind with their work. | E. I'. Xewsom returned Saturday 1 from Winston-Salem where he went I to look after some real estate trans actions. A Miss Boyles, of Winston-Salem,, was knocked down by a train here i yesterday afternoon. The young lady was preparing to board the east bound train. She was standing be tween the side-track which was filled with freight cars and the main line. I She got too near the main line and! the step on the engine of the incoming \ train hit her. l)r. Bernard of Pin-! nacle who happened to be on the train attended her and it is not be lieved that her injuries are of a seri ous nature. Dr. and Mrs. H. G. Harding spent , Sunday with the doctor's parents at. Farmington. It is rumored that there is to be a wholesale grocery establishment lo cated here at an early date. Dr. S. F. Tillotson, of Capella, is here on business today. LATHE KNIGHT DIED YESTERDAY Was Good Citizen and Former Minister In Baptist Church. News was received here today of the death of Mr. Lathe Knight, which occurred at the home of his son, , near Walnut Cove, on Tuesday of j this week. Mr. Knight had been ill I only afew days suffering with a bad lease of flue and contracted pneumonia la few days since. He was aged about sixty-three years. Mr. Knight was a good citizen and ! universally liked. He was formerly 'a minister in the Primitive Baptist I church. For the past few years he | had been engaged in the mercantile j business in Walnut Cove. Mr. Knight is survived by his wife, 'who is now seriously ill and not ex pected to recover, and by one son, whom he was visiting at the time he was taken ill. John Young Caught; Under $2,000 Bond John Younp, a former resident of Stokes, who has for some time been I making his home in Patrick county, ! was arrested this week in Quaker 'Gap township by Sheriff 11. I). Tur pin and deputies on the charge of hauling and dealing in whiskey gener ally. At the time Young was arres ted he had two gallons of whiskey in his buggy, and the horse and buggy j were seized by the officers. Young | was given a hearing before Justice [Jasper Slate and bound over to Su perior court in a bond of $2,000.00. He was unable to furnish the bond and was placed in the county jail here. Young was already under a bond of $500.00 on a similar charge. The officers state that he admits his guilt, and stated that he was unable to pro vide for his family in any other way. He is a cripple. Play Friday Night At School House A play will be given by local talent at the public school building here on Friday night under the auspices of the Parent-Teacher Association. The public is extended a cordial invita tion t) attcrd. No. 2,608 SUMMER SCHOOL FOR TEACHERS Likely Be Held In Dan bury and Begin Lat ter Part Of July. In accordance with a decision re cently reached by the Stokes Board of Education, a six-weeks summer school for teachers will be held in the county the coming summer, begin ning some time in July. While the Board has not definitely decided upon the place for holding the summer school it is learned that Danbury will likely be chosen, the members of the j Hoard having expressed themselves as being favorable to this place on account of the fact that it is near the center of the county and that the court house will be available for tho sessions of the school. An inquiry in I regard to scitinng accomodations for j the teachers here revealed the fact 'that they can easily be taken care of jat reasonable rates for board and : lodging. | The Hoard of Education has made : requisition upon the State for several instructors and the summer school will be made just as beneficial to the | teachers this year as possible. ! J. F. Spruill Leading For Solicitor | A personal letter received here 'this week from Attorney J. F. I Spruill, of Lexington, while not inten ded for publication, states that hi l expects to attend the sessions of the Superior court here beginning April 3rd; It is presumed that Mr. Spruill will make it at least a part of his business while here to look over the situation politically in Stokes as re gards his candidacy for Solicitor. As has been previously stated Mr. Spruill is a candidate for Solilitor to succeed Hon. J. C. Bower, who will not be a candidate in the coming pri mary. Mr. Spruill spent a few days in Stokes the past fall and was more than pleased with the prospect. He made a very favorable impression upon those who saw him, and while there are several other candidates for the office Mr. Spruill seems to have the lead so far as Stokes is concerned. This judicial district is composed of the counties of Guilford, Davidson and Stokes. The other candidates are Guilford citizens and as Guilford has the judgeship for the district it seems but fair that Davidson should [have the Solicitor, since Stokes has no candidate. Roller Mill At Westfield Soon To Be Completed Mr. Robt. T. Joyce, of Westfield, was here on business at the court house yesterday. He stated that the roller mill being erected by himself and associates at Westfield would j soon be completed, the carpenters now being engaged in putting the third story on the building. The machinery for the mill has been purchased and will be installed at an early date. It is the intention of Mr. Joyce to have 'the mill in operation by the middle of | July next. As announced some time since this 1 roller mill will be operated by elec- I tricity, the current being generated at the roller mill owned by Mr. Joyce on Dan river, near Asbury. The work of installing the generator tat the river mill and putting up the , wires to bring the current to West field will be started right away. The current will also be furnished to the Westfield people for lights, etc. | Willie Mabe Died Sunday Night Mr. Willie Mabe, who resided five , miles west of Danbury, between j Piedmont and Moore's Springs, died j Sunday night, following a long illness with Bright's disease and complica tions. He is survived by his wife and three small children. Mr. Mabe was a hard-working and deserving farmer. He was about 35 years of i age. The remains were carried to the family burying gro i.id near Buf falo church for interment yesterday. The Stokes banks are this week making their quarterly reports to the State Corporation Commission and the reports may be seen elsewhere i»- this j.uptr.
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