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DANBURY REPORTER Volume L. MEETING OF DEMOCRATS HERE Delegates Elected To Conventions Able Address By Hon. J. F. Spruill. Pursuant to the call of the Chair man of the Executive Committee E. O. Creakman, a convention of Stokes county Democrats was held at the court house Monday. Mr. J.. C". Car son presided, and N. E. Pepper acted as secretary. The only busi ness before the convention was the election of delegates to the various conventions—State, Senatorial, etc. Delegates were elected as follows: Danhury towns-hip—.J. 1). Humph reys, R. 11. Kinp, Paul Taylor, N. E. Pepper. Meadows township—L M. Mc- Kenzie, J. C. Carson, F. S. Ross, J. M. Hill. Sauratown township—E O. Creak jnan, C. E. Davis, P. H. Linville, N. R. Martin. Beaver Island township—E. L. Mitchell, C. A. Wagoner, Dr. J. L. Hanes, L. W. Blackwell. Snow Creek township—Dr. J. H. Ellington, Otis Shelton, Wheeler James, S. L. Venable. Yadkin township—J. L. Christian, J. T. Smith, V/. A. Sullivan, D. F. Tiliotson. Quaker Gap township—Luther Mc- Kinney, George F. Ore, Dixie Smith, W. G. Moore. Big Creek township—J C Frans, S. P. Christian, E. V. Hill, C. W. Ray. Peters Creek township—J. A. Law son, R. L. Lawson, W. S. Hart, W. P. Ray. After the routine business was over the convention listened to a very able and entertaining address by Hon. J. F. Spruill, of Lexington, candidate for solicitor to succeed Hon. J. C. Bower. Mr. Spruill made a strong speech on national and Slate issue.--, which was heartily applauded. GUILFORD COLLEGE NEWS ITEMS Dr. Perisho To Visit Stokes this Summer— Juniors Entertain. Guilford College, April . —The Junior Class of Guilford College en tertained the Senior class at a delight ful banquet given at Hotel Robert E. Lee, in Winston-Salem, on last Wednesday evening, April 5. J. Spottswoods Taylor, Jr., of the class of 1i»23, acted as toastmastcr and host for the entire evening. The theme, "The Parcels Post Sys tem," which was first inaugurated in the month of April, was quite suc cessfully and enjoyably carried out by all of the speakers. Members of the faculty invited were President and Mrs. Raymond Binford, Dr. and Mrs. Elwood C. Perisho, Mr. and Mrs. Lee White, Miss H. Louisa Osborne and Miss Bessie V. Noles. Miss Nell Jones, of Walnut Cove, will spend the Easter holidays with Miss Hay Vuncannon, of Asheboro. Both young ladies are students of Guilford College. Dr. Elwood C. Perisho gave the commencement address before the graduating class of the Pilot Moun tain High School. At the request of the county superintendents, Dr. Perisho has visited a number of the schools in the neighboring counties in the interest of higher education. He plans to visit Stokes county some time this spring. Bake Sale At Walnut Cove On 15th Walnut Cove, April 12.—A "Bake Sale" will be held here Saturday, April 15th, under the auspices of the Womans' Auxiliary of the Episcopal church. The sale will continue throu ghout the day Saturday, starting at 11 o'clock, a. m., and will be held in the Jones drug store building. Re freshments will be served consisting -of sandwiches, salads, cakes, pies, coffee, chocolate, candy, ice cream, etc. The public is cordially invited to attend. Mesdameß J D. Humphreys, N. A. Martin and Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Joyce are spendißg today in Wina ton-Salem shopping. I. G. ROSS PASSED AWAY THURSDAY Prominent Farmer and Good Citizen Dies In Meadows Township. Mr. I. G. Ross died Thursday at his heme in Meadows township after an illness of only a few days, having suffered a stroke of paralysis only a short time since. Little hope was en tertained for his recovery from the i first of his illness. | Mr. Ross, who was aged about CO years, was one of the most widely known and best citizens of the county. He was a scientific farmer and did much to benefit agriculture in the county, having been one of the first I farm demonstrators ever employed by the county. He will be greatly missed in his community and in the county. He had for a good many years been a con sistent member of the Epscopal church. I The deceased is survived by two I sons and two daughters: Messrs. F. S. and I. G. Ross, Jr., and Mrs. Sex Smith, of Meadows township, and Mrs. Harriett Mullican, of Mocks ville. BACK ON VISIT AFTER 28 YEARS Nathaniel Spainhour Is Injured By a Ball- Other King News. King, April 10.—Dr. E. M. Grif fin had a professional call to the Farmington section of Davie county last week. Mr. Sam Brown is placing material on the site preparatory to erecting !a nice new home on West Main street in King. Mr. Ronda Gregory, of Winston- Salem, spent the week end with his jsister, Mrs. Dr. E. M. Griffin, in West ' end. Work on Mr. Addison Hooker's new home is well under way. Mr. N'at Slate, who recently spent ! two weeks with relatives here, left on •last week for his home in San Fran cisco, California. ! Mr. John I>)ve, Jr., of Salisbury, j spent Sunday with his parents here. ] Mr. Cicero Newsom, who fell into a ; basement twk weeks ago and was se jverely hurt, is slowly recovering. | Rev. Kdgar Boyles, of Blooming | ton, Ind., preached at the Baptist church here Sunday night. Mr. Boy les left here 28 years ago when a lad jof a boy and this is his first trip back , to his old home. Nathaniel Spainhour had the mis fortune to get his jaw bone broken during a game of baseball here Sat urday. He was hit by a fowl ball. He was rushed to the Lawrence hos pital in Winston-Salem but an op eration was not deemed necessary. News and Personals Of Vade Mecum Vade Mecum, April 11.—The sick people of this section are improving, we are glad to know. Mr. W. H. Murphy and family vis ited Mr. Roy Murphy on Sunday. Mr. R. L. Wilkes moved to his farm near Capella Monday. Mrs. Leander Bennett is right sick, we are sorry to note. Mr. W. L. Hall visited Danbury to day. Mr. and Mrs. Dillard Lawson visi ted Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Marshall on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hall were among the visitors at Mr. Andy Voss' Sun day. Mr. Will Bennett lost another cow recently, we are sorry to learn. We are having some nice weather now and the farmers are making fine use of it. Hon. A. D. Ivie Spoke Here Monday Night Hon. A. D. Ivie, of Leaksville, lay leader of the M. E. church of his dis trict, delivered an interesting lecture at the Methodist church here Mon day night, speaking to a large con gregation. Mr. Ivie is a very force ful speaker. Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, April 12,1922 MASS MEETING HERE ON SATURDAY, APRIL 22 To Consider Appropriation of Money By County For Road Build ing—Plan To Furnish Each Township Quota For Connecting Hp Important Roads—Township Road Commissioners and All Good Roads People Invited To Meet With the County Com missioners At Danbury. A number of citizens of the county met here last Monday and sent for Chairman of the County Commissioners Dr. J. \V. Slate to confer with reference to the county's assisting certain town ships to build links connecting up important roads in the county. It was decided to call a mass meeting of citizens of every town ship of the county at Danbury on Saturday, April 22. to consider the advisability of the county commissioners appropriating money to assist each township in building certain links that are of vital importance to the county in connecting up the main roads and highways. Every highway official of the county, all the township commis sioners, and all citizens who are interested in good roads are in \ ited to meet with Dr. Slate and Messrs. Boles and Venable to discuss this important matter. The county commissioners are ready and willing to appropriate money out of the general county funds to carry out this work, but they want the moral support of the representative citizens in so doing. It is learned that the people of Peters Creek will ask that they be given connection with tffe Danbury-Westfield State road, that Snow Creek will ask for a connection with Danbury, and that Beaver Island, Meadows, Yadkin, Quaker Gap and other town ships will request a quota to enable them to supplement their present road funds in order that important and vital links may be built. i TOP-SOILING ROAD TO WALNUT COVE State Sends Additional Machinery and This Important Highway | Is Being- Overhauled. ; The road between Danbury and I Walnut Cove, which is now a part of the State's highway system, is being materially improved. Additional | road machinery was sent here last week by the State and the road is j being s-raped preparatory to beii\g | tv-soilcd all the way from here to Walnut Cove. The road is also being ' I widened to some extent and when it ;is finished will nodoubt be better than ! when it was first built. I | Interesting News Of ! Madison Route 3 j Madison Route 3, April 10.—Rev. ' : A. 1.. MeClendon, of Winston-Salem, filled his regular appointments at the Oak Grove church last Saturday and Sunday, preaching very timely ser mons. On Sunday night a Sunday , school was organized, which will meet ' each Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Prayermeeting are also held on Sun- j day night. The public is cordially invited to attend all the church ser vices. On Saturday night before the sec ond Sunday in May a home-coming | service will be held at the above men- I tioned church. A program suitable to the occason will be rendered. At the close of the program refreshments will be served. All former members and friends of the church are urged to be present. ( The Sunday school at Mount Her- I man has been reorganized and will meet every Sunday mornipg at ten o'clock. I The Gann public school will close 'Friday, April 14th. - Miss Ada Ward spent Saturday and Sunday visiting at Francisco and other places. Mrs. Billie Hennis has returned from a week's visit to relatives in j Guilford county. She was accom-1 panied by Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Hen nis, who are spending a few days with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Clement Gann, Mr. Russel Gann and little son, Tom Jeff, visited friends and relatives n Pat rick county Sunday. Mr. J. M. Vernon has recently had his new residence painted. . Mrs. John T. Vernon, who is in a Winston-Salem hospital, is reported to be improving. Sevral relatives from here visited | Mrs. Vernon Sunday. SCHOOL CLOSED i HERE THIS WEEK Entertainment By the Pupils—Effort To Se cure Better School Build? r rg. » The public school here came to a close tliis week with an entertainment by the pupils in the school buildina I'll 1 uesday night, the occasion be'iu; a very enjoyable one for the larg. number of patrons :ind friends of the Isiiiool who were in attendance. The | teachers, Mestiames It. A. ami W. 1!. (Joyce, deserve much credit for the careful training given the pupils. Recently considerable interest is | being shown here iu securing a hei jtcr and larger school building, and the need of it was very noticable to j those who attended the closing exer .cises of the school Tuesday night, | many not being able to get in the small school room. It is the inten tion of the patrons of the school to secure a building with a roomy audi torium, as well as several class rooms. 1 Steps are now being taken looking to • the securing of such a building, the need of which has been long felt in the community. j Revival Services At Rural Hall Begin May 4 | Beginning May Ith there will be a | eries of revival services held at the Rural Hall church of Christ, led by Rev. Percy George Cross and wife, evangelists of Winston-Salem. The services will continue for a period of about three weeks, with preaching ea h evening at 7:30 o'clock. Mr. .Cross is an evangelist of wonderful power, and the people of Rural Hall and community are fortunate in hav ing this opportunity to hear him. Mrs. Cross is a singer of ability and ,will be heard at each service. The church extends a cordial invitation to the public to attend this meeting. Mr. Spottswood Taylor and sister, Miss Luna Taylor, students at Guil ford College are home to spend Eas iter with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Spot Taylor. Mr. W. D. Glenn, of the Walnut Cove section, was a business visitor in Danbury today. Mr. Glenn is mana ger on one of the fine farms of Mr. Samuel Hairston. Several Danbury young people who are away attending school, teaching, etc., are expected home this week to I spend Easter. TO LECTURE HERE ON APRIL 27TH J. H. Highsmith, Super visor of High Schools For State, Coming. Prof. J. Henry Hijrhsmith, State Supervisor of Hiph Schools, will ad dress the people of Danbury and com jmunity in the court house on Thurs day night, April 27th, on the subject of schools and education. Prof. Highsmith, needless to say, 1 s thoroughly familiar with all ques- ■ tions pertaining to schools, having i had wide experience, and he will have an interesting message for those in crested in schools. It is learned that Mr. Highsmith's visit here will be made in connection with the movement now on foot to ! [secure better school facilities for our | community and this should prove of i sufficient interest to every citizen to come out and hear what he has to 1 say. FREAK BILLS ARE PROPOSED A Kentucky Legislator Wants Blockade Stills Equipped With Whis tles—Other Bills. New York, April B.—The Kentucky legislator who proposed that moon • shiners be compelled by law to equip their "stills" with whistles that could be heard for two miles, has no monopoly of the unusual in proposed legislation for the solons who sit in i legislative halls of state capitals are j prone to sarcasm, irony and jokes. Some odd bills have cropped up in J the Slate legislative sessions that are drawing to a close. For example, there is the bill in troduced in the New York State as sembly making hypocrisy a misde meanor and defining it as "the act of a person v.-ho for pay, gift or other | valuable thing publicly advocates and supports any legislative measure re straining free exercise of personal liberty or the act of any person who solicits funds for such support." The measure is aimed at "reform" organization workers. The Massachusetts legislature had ibefore it in this year's session a bill ; making church-going compulsory for | every resident of the State who wa» !physically or mentally capable of at- I tending church. Another measure proposed in Mas sachusetts provided that every can didate for public office must be exam ined by a Justice of the Superior court to determine whether he is qualified to hold the office to which he aspires. A bill in the Massachusetts legis lature authorized the appointment of a special legislative committee to make an official Fourth of July visit to the Irish Free state at the expense of its members. Some of the unusual legislation proposed is obviously aimed at what the authors regard as injustice. Housewives who do not share in joint control of the family income found a champion in Mrs. Margaret Laird, of Newark, N. J., who intro duced a bill in the New Jersey legis lature enabling married women to control the wages they earn in their own homes. Another New Jersey measure would exempt nurses from jury duty. A third would enable innocent per sons to collect from the State $1 a day for each day of confinement in jail, provided they proved their in nocence. A. M. Stack Is Candidate For Judge Mr. A. M. Stack, for a good many years a citizen of Danbury, and now Monroe, has just entered his name I s a candidate for judge of the Super ior court in his district. His opponent is Judge Walter E. Brock, who was named by Gov. Morrison last Sept ember to succeed the late Judge W. J. Adams. Mr. Stack's name will be one of those to appear on the ballots to be voted in the June primary. Mr. Shelley Beard, of Winston- Salem, is spending a few days here .with friends. No. 2,611 CIVIL TERM COURT ADJOURNED TODAY Very Few Cases On the Docket Are Tried— Mistrial In Case Of Martin vs. E. O. Shel ton, Sheriff. The civil term of Stokes Superior icourt came to a close this (Wednes day) afternoon, after having been in session since Monday morning. It is | probable that fewer cases were, tried at this term of court than during any court held here for a good iuany years. I Probably the most important case on the docket was that in which Ex-Sheriff K. O. Shelton is being sued for for the death of Walter i Martin, who was killed near Walnut ! Cove in August, 1920, in a pistol i battle between the Sheriir and his | deputies and the parties in a car with 1 Martin, who were being chased by I the oftk-ers for (he purpose of arrest ing them. This case was taken up by the court and the trial started but a mistrial was ordered after the first witness was examined and the case continued until the next term of the court. In the case in which the adminis trator was suing the Southern Rail way for the death of Paul Middleton, who was found dead on the railway's tracks near Belews Creek a year or more since, the jury failed to award any damage to the plaintiff. S. P. Christian, acting as adminis trator for the estate of Mary Ann Jessup, was awarded judgment against S. M. Walker in the sum of i §3 (5.i)3. ! Jesse Mabe vs. Moore's Springs Co. Compromised. Ruth Tatum vs Lee Tatum, suit for divorce, which was granted. ! Jacob Block and others vs. S. H. Stewart et al, judgment signed for plaintiff for S3'J.4O. Henry Kads vs. Rogers Shumway Contracting Co., compromise judg ment signed. Banner Joyce et al vs. K. A. John son et al, judgment for plai.uiff of SI .">.OO. IJ 11a Sheppard vs. John J. Slier pa rd, compromise. Parties agree to separate and divide personal nrop erty equally and each party to hold real estate owned by them. John J. Sheppard vs. 1.. A. Martin, compromised. Kmma Chat man vs. E. O. Shelton, ex-sheriff, plaintiff allowed to hold 'car for which she had taken claim and delivery papers. Car was seized by officers while being used to transport whiskey. t All other cases on the docket were continued until next term of the court. DR. G. W7YOUNG COMING TO COVE i Will Lecture At Baptist Church There On Fri day, April 21. , Walnut April 11.—Friday ! night, 8:00 o'clock p. m., April 21st, iat the Walnut Cove Baptist church, I Dr. George W. Young will deliver an | address on an extremely important j subject : "The Duty of the Hour." l)r. Young is recognized over the country as a silver-tongued orator. For a number of years he has been a chautauqua lecturer and has become famous for his fearless stand on the great question of law enforcement. In this connectcn, there will be a flag contest by and between the chil dren of the high school. Before the lecture a large beautiful American flag will be delivered to the winners. Admission is free and everyone is invited to attend. Mrs. George W. Smith Taken To Hospital Mr. Geo. W. Smith and son, Fount, of the King section, were visitors here today. Mr. Smith stated that his wife was now in Martin Memorial hospital in Mt. Airy and would un dergo an operation there this week. Mr. Smith accompanied his wife to the hospital the first of the week and will return there in a day or two. Mr. Smith reports that Mrs. J. H. Ham continues quite ill at her home near King.
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