DANBURY REPORTED
Volume L.
TOWN ELECTION
AT WALNUT COVE
Warm Contest Likely—
Meeting of Parent-
Teacher Association.
Walnut Cove, April 24. —As the
time approaches for the election of
town officials interest grows stronger
in the contest which bids fair to
warm up on election day, May Ist.
The ticket to be put up by the "pro
gressives" will probably contain the
following nanus: Mayor, G. L. Jur
vis; Commissioners, W. G. Dodson,
11. 51. Davis, M. T. Chilton and J. F.
Dunlap. So far the "stand pats" have
not announced a ticket.
The Parent-Teacher Association
held a very interesting meeting at the
high school building last week. The
principal business at the meeting was
the electon of officers for next year.
Mrs. A. T. Ilochrock succeeds Mrs.
W. P. Wheeler as president; Mrs. J.
W. Slate was elected vice-president,
Mrs. It. A. Hedgecock secretary and
Mrs. J. W. Neal treasurer. The final
meeting for the year will be held next
week. This organization is quite a
live one and accomplishes much good
for the school and community. They
have recently planted shade trees on
the school grounds and at this time
have a very substantial bank ac
count which will be used for further
improvement of the school.
The Womans' Missionary Society
held its regular monthly meeting at
the home of Mrs. O. J. Gates Tues
day afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Linville re
turned home Monday from Mount
Airy where Mr. Linville recently had
a slight operation.
Rev. J. 11. Mallet returned Mon
day evening from Wilmington, at
which place he preached on Sunday.
Miss Mary Dickerson, of Elkin,
visited friends a few days here this
week on her way to Guilford College.
Mr. A. W. Davis, of Winston*
Salem, was in town Tuesday, accom
panied by his daughters, Misses
Verna, Dore and Sybil.
Mesdames J. Fulton and P. \\.
Davis spent the day in the Twin City
yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Matthews atten
ded the ball game in Winston-Salem
yesterday afternoon.
News Of Vade Mecum.
Vade Mecum, April 24.—We are
having some very cool weather for
the time of the year.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hall, of
Leaksville, spent the past week with
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hall.
Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Nelson, of
Piedmont Springs, spent Saturday j
night with Mrd. Nelson's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Will Martin.
Among the visitors at Mr. John
Vaden's Sunday were Mr. Jim Ben
nett and family, Mr. Will Vaden and
children, Mr. and Mrs. Sandy Vaden
and Mr. John Vaden's mother.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Martin and Mr.
Reid, of Moore's Springs, are right
sick at this writing, we are sorry to
note.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Bennett visi
ted his father Monday.
Rev. J. E. Simmons preached a very
interesting sermon at Uncle David
Tilley's Monday evening.
Mr. Sam Murphy spent Saturday
night at Mr. R. L. Wilkes' at Capella.
Sunday School was organized at
the Stony Ridge church last Sunday
with a large attendance.
Mr. and Mrs. Sid Love spent Sun
day with Mr. and Mrs. J. Emmett
Simmons.
Don't Over the
Affairs Of Others
Don't pry into other people's busi
ness. It isn't any picnic of yours
where the preacher's wife got her
new dress or how much Mrs. Sparks
paid for her davenette or why Mr.
Green calls at the bank so often.
Don't be a pack-horse for gossip.
If that bit of scandal is true why
stir it abqut and keep the stench in
public nostrils? And if it isn't true
—well, you ought to be shot for re
peating it.
Don't be too "sot" in your religi
ous belief. If you ever get to Heaven
youll be plum surprised to see a lot
of people there who never even saw
the inside of your little church.—
Farm Life.
FORD CAR SPILLS
SCHOOL CHILDREN!
One Little Girl Badly In
jured—Other News of
King Section.
King, April 24.—A Ford car with
several school children in it turned
over while being driven along Depot
street late this afternoon. Miss "Emma j
Rumlcy was thrown against a tele
phone pole, cutting an ugly gash in
her head, while Miss Lucilc Kiger
received a sprained ankle. The other
occupants escaped uninjured. Dr. E.
M. Griffin, who attended Miss Rumlcy,
states that while her injuries are
quite painful they are n.it regarded
as serious. The Ford was right much
used up»
Farmers in this section are pre
paring for about an average crop of
tobacco this year.
Quite a number of citizens from our
section attended the meeting of the
Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Mar
keting Association at Danhury Sat
urday.
Mr. S. H. Brown is placing ma
terial on the site preparatory to erec
ting a nice home on Main street.
Mr. Waldo Flynn and Miss Isabelle
New so ill were happily united in the
holy bonds of matrimony Saturday.
Mr. Flynn is the son of Mr. T. H.
Flynn, of Donnaha and Miss Newsorn
is the daughter of Mr. B. U. New
som, of King. They will make their
home with the bride's father.
Mr. Thomas E. Smith is preparing
to build a nice home on his lot on
West Main Street.
Born unto Mr. and Mrs. Joe Fulk,
a daughter.
Mr. (i. S. Newsom was carried to
the hospital at Winston-Salem today
to undergo an operation for hernia.
Farmers in this section are very
busy preparing corn and tobacco land.
The Haag circus will exhibit here
Tuesday, May 2.
A large automobile driven by a Mr.
Jones, of Mt. Airy, turned over an
embankment just south of town Sat
urday night. Fortunately no one was
hurt.
Personals From Gap.
Gap, April 24.—The farmers of
this section are very busy planting
corn and preparing tobacco land.
Misses Hattic and Daisy Mickey
spent Saturday night with Miss Mabel
Cofer at Vade Mecum.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hall, of Vade
Mecum, were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
C. A. Mickey Sunday.
Rev. J. J. Eads filled his regular
appointment at Vade Mecum Sunday
, at 11 o'clock A. M.
Mr. J. W. Burwell and family spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Will Mur
phy, of Moore's Springs.
Mrs. lowa Boles, who has been on
the sick list for quite a while, is im
proving some, we are glad to note.
Misses Gladys Page and Ollie Law
son, of Lawsonville, were the week
end guests of Miss Ada Boyles, of
Capella.
Miss Ollie Lawson, who has been
spending some time with her sister,
Mrs. Eugene Lawrence, returned to
her home at Lawsonville Monday.
Misses Mildred and Inez Burweil
and Messrs. George Wilkins and
Paul Johnson spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Claud Simmons, of Wins
ton-Salem.
Mr. Will Murphy has accepted a
position with the Moore's Springs
Company and has gone there to be
gin his duties.
Mrs. W. L Hall spent Sunday with
Mrs. George Ore.
Mr. Edgar Marshall and Mr. Shel
ton, of Moore's Springs, had a very
bad wreck Sunday afternoon. For
tunately no one was hurt seriously.
Miss Fannie Tucker spent Sunday
with Miss Verda Ore.
State Lets Contracts
For More Road
Raleigh, April 25.—The State High
way Commission today opened bids
for the construction of fifty-five miles
of additional road in the State, and
one more bridge. There were only
seven different roads let to contract,
but there were many bidders present
to take the contracts. Awards of the
contracts will be made in a day or
two or as soon as the different bids
can be gone over.
None of the roads let td contract
were in this, the seventh district.
Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, April 26,1922
FARMERS HEAR
GOOD SPEECH
Organizer Swaim of To
bacco Growers' Asso
ciation Here Saturday
Mr. Sivai'ii, district organizer f 'i"
Tobaccr Growers" Co-opeiative
Marketing Association, addressed a i
large gathering of fann. MM at Dan- ;
luuy oatui'ia\ in tue nterest of the -
association. Mr. Swuhii spoke in tha
lourt house and the room was packed ;
full of farmers, every available seat i
being occupied. Many of those who ,
heard him came lure to attend the
mass meeting in the interest ol' ,
r >ads, but a good per cent, of the
t rowd present were members of the
ussociaton.
After finishing his address, in
which the speaker told of the accom
plishments of the association to this
time, an opportunity was given those
who were not already members t.f
the association to sign up, and quite a
few farmers, it was stated, took ad
vantage of the opportunity to get
their names enrolled
Mr. Swaim stated that a storage
plant or pooling station to take care
of the tobacco in this section of the
country would likely be established
at some point in Stokes, probably at
Walnut Cove.
AWFUL SLAUGHTER
OF HUMAN BEINGS
12,0000 Automobiles Hit
At Railroad Crossings
In Last Five Years.
During the last five years more
than 12,000 automobiles have been
struck on railroad crossings and
more than 5500 persons were killed
in these accidents; besides more than
11>,000 persons were injured, many of
them being hopelessly crippled. A
large per cent of the dead and injured
were merely riding in the vehicles
struck—not driving them. Nearly
every one of these deaths and injuries
could have been avoided by the ex-'
ercise of ordinary care by the dri
vers of the vehicles.
The above startling facts are con
tained in a little folder issued by the
Safety Commission of the Norfolk
& Western Railway.
The leaflet goes on to say that un
less you stop, look and listen when
approaching a grade crossing and
help to influence other automobilists
to do likewise, the coming five years
will produce a yet more bloddy re
cord, and that you may be the next
victim.
"Everybody knows," the leaflet
says, "that grade crossing accidents
can absolutely be prevented if drivers
would stop, look and listen before
crossing railroad tracks, and that it
is the driver himself, his family and
his friends who suffer, but nobody
knows why he persists in recklessness.
It is hard to believe that last year
on the Norfolk & Western railroad
alone sixty drove through
and broke down crossing gates that
were lowered for their protection;
that 167 vehicles were involved in
crossing accidents, and that 22 per
sons were killed and 40 injured on
grade crossings—yet these are facts.
"If you have any regard for your
own life or those of your friends
who ride with you and trust you,
always stop, look and listen before
crossing a railroad track. And when
there are two or more tracks, never
start across immediately behind the
end of a train which has just passed;
there may be another train approach
ing on another track."
Rockingham Sheriff
Charged With Murder
Reidsville, April 22.—Sheriff A. P.
Sands is having all kinds of trouble
these days. The latest agony piled
on him is an indictment for murder
in connection with the killing of I.
T. Cook some time ago, it is alleged,
by deputies. Cook was transporting
whiskey when shot. Sheriff Sands'
preleminary trial will be held before
'Squires Shelton and Fagg at Leaks
ville next Thursday. A suit was in-
for 1100,000.00 damages
against Sheriff Sands by relatives of
Cook some months since.
Don't argue over trifles. What's
the odds whether Rover died on Fri
day or Saturday.
STOKES OFFICERS
MAKE BIG HAUL
Three Men and Two Big
Stills Captured —75
Barrells Beer Cut Up.
Jack Wilkins and his son, Charlie
Wilkins, white men, and Jim
colored, were arrested at a still near
Sandy Ridge Friday, and charged
with making whiskey, the arrests
being made by Sheriff 11. 1). Turpin
and deputies Cabel Joyce, Marshall
Gordon, John A. Young, Will Fagg
and Roy Gordon. The men were
taken before J. W. A. Dodson, Justice
of the Peace at Sandy Ridge and
given a hearing, bonds for the two
white men being fixed at SSOO each
and the negro §250. All of them gave
bond and were released.
On the same day the officers cap
tured 2 stills and about 75 barrells of
liter near Sandy Ridge. They also
destroyed about forty gallons of
"singlings" and captured about UOO
pounds of meal.
It was stated by the Sheriff that
the men captured were preparing to
make whiskey of corn and by the old
fashioned procees of "doubling."
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PRIMARY LAW
WAS REPEALED
So Far As Stokes Is Con
cerned —County Can
didates Don't Run.
There appears to be some misun
derstanding in some sections of the
county as to whether Stokes is under
the primary law or not. By refer
ing to public local laws of special
session of General Assembly in 1020
it will be fount! that the primary law,
so far as it concerned Stokes, was re
pealed. See chapter 67, page Kit.
Mr. Edwin L. Kiser was the repre
sentative from Stokes at the time the
law was repealed.
The primary to be held here will be
only foj: the purpose of votng for ean-
A-ii'lates for Congress, Judges, Solici
tors, members of Corporation Com
mission, etc. No county officers will
be voted for and county officers are
not required to file their names with
the county Board of Elections nor to
pay any fee. Nominations of county
officers will be made in a convention,
as has been the custom for many
years.
SCHOOL MONEY
FOR STOKES
Will Likely Get $60,000
From State For Build
ing School Houses.
Many people of the county who are
interested in schools, and especially
in better school buildings, will doubt
less be pleased to learn that the
State Supreme court last week up
held the validity of the five million
dollar loan fund established by the
last General Assembly for school
building purposes.
This fund is provided so that coun
ties may borrow from the State any
amounts needed to carry forward
building programs.
The Stokes county authorities, it
is understood, some time since filed
application with the State for a loan
of sixth thousand dollars of this fund.
The money will now be forthcoming
and the counties may prdceed with
plans they have for erecting new
school buildings.
News Items Of
Lawsonville Section
Lawsonville, April 25.—The people
of this community are yery busy now
prepamg for another crop.
Mrs. A. Wall is confined to her bed
with illness, we are sorry to note.
Mr. W. W. Smith and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Sam Hill and Mr. and Mrs.
P. H. Robertson spent Sunday at Mr.
J. R. Sheppard's.
There was not any service at Snow
Creek church Sunday, lots of people
getting disappointed.
The influenza epidemic is somewhat
improved at this writing.
Mr. Calvin Mabe made a business
trip to Winston-Salem Monday.
Mr. G. F. Lawson and children, of
King, spent Easter here visiting rel
atives.
TAX LISTERS FOR
STOKES NAMED
Books Will Open May 1,
Supervisor Voss Will
Assist List-Takers.
The time for listing property for
taxation will in Stokes on May
2nd, and county tax-supervisor James
R. Voss is this week preparing to
send out notices over the county to
that effect.
Mr. Voss has appointed an assist
ant list-taker in each township i;i
the county, as follows:
Big Creek township—J. W. Sim
mons.
Peters Creek township—H. 11.
Reid.
Snow Creek township—Roland C.
Priddy.
Beaver Island township—J. M.
Fagg.
Danbury township—M. O. Jones.
Quaker Gap township—Miss Effie
East.
Yadkin township—W. M. Reynolds.
Meadows township John W.
Petree.
Sauratown township—J. R. Voss.
Supervisor Voss will spend two
days or more with each assistant in
each township. The listing will be
gin in Beaver Island township on May
2nd, when Mr. Voss will be with the
assistant in that township. He will
then go from township to township
and assist the list-takers, spending a
couple of days with each one.
All real and personal property, in
cluding dogs must be listed during the
month of May. All male persons be
tween the ages of 21 and 50 years
must list a poll tax.
Persons failinjr or refusing to list
dogs are guilty of a misdemeanor and
may be fined SSO or imprisoned for :>(
days. Section 402 specifies that the
owner of the home (or lessee of such
owner) shall be responsible for listing
of any dog belonging to any member
of his family.
The law requires that listers meet
with the county commissioners on the
first Monday in May to receive final
instructions.
FOUR DISTRICTS
HELD ELECTIONS
School Tax Voted In
Two Districts—Other
Two Defeated Tax.
Elections for the purpose of voting
special taxes for schools were held
in four school districts of the county
Saturday, Asbury, Meadows, Wilson's
Store and Flat Shoal, and while the
official returns have not yet been
made to the cohnty authorities, the
information is received here that
Asbury and Meadows voted in favor
of the tax and Wilson's Store and
Flat Shoal defeated it.
It is learned that in Flat Shoal dis
trict a majority of the votes cast were
in favor of the tax but the voting
stopped before a majority of the reg
istered voters had cast their votes,
and the measure is therefore defeated
or rather not legal.
Valuable Stokes Land
For Sale At Auction
Mr. W. P. Holt, of the Piedmont
Realty Company, was here this week
advertising property soon to be sold
at auction by his company. Among
the properties soon to be sold are
the following :
Twenty lots just south of the
Southern Railway station in Walnut
Cove, on April 29th. Property of L
Mcßae.
Two hundred acres land near Dil
lard, divided into four farms, on April
29th. Property of Gideon Mitchell.
Two brick stores, one in King and
the other in Pinnacle, also one stock
of general merchandise, on May 6th.
Property of Stokes Supply Co., W. E.
Hartman, agent.
Attention is called to advertise
ments of this property elsewhere in
this paper.
Ed Sisk and Sons
Will Apply For Bail
It is learned that Ed Sisk and his
his two sons, who are in Rockingham
county jail, charged with the killing
of Deputy Sheriff Ed Ziglar, will
make an effort to give bond.
No. 2,613
MASS MEETING
IS HELD HERE
Resolution Requesting*
County Commission
ers To Issue Bonds To
Build Roads Is Passed
—Meet Here May 6.
A mass meeting of the citizens of
Stokes county was held at the court
house here Saturday afternoon for
the purpose of trying to agree upon
ways an.i means fur connecting up
certain roads in several of the town
ships of the county. Probably five
hundred representative citizens were
! here, filling the court house to its
capacity.
The meeting was called to order at
one o'clock and after a general dis
cussion of the great need of certain
roads to connect up roads that are
already built hut have no connection
with roads in other townships, a reso
lution was passed, unanimously, re
questing the County Commissioners
to appoint a committee for each town
ship of the county who will ascertain
which roads are most needed and re
port to the County Commissioners,
the resolution further requesting that
the Commissioners then issue bonds
in an amount sufficient to build the
roads decided upon. Immedately
after passing this resolution the
meeting voted to let the highway com
missioners in the respective townships
act as the committee, and each town
ship board was asked to meet on
Saturday, April 29th, and decide upon
which roads should be built. The
meeting fixed the first Saturday in
May as the time for the general
meeting of the county commissioners
with the township highway commis
sioners at Danbury for the purpose
of definitely deciding upon which of
the roads will be built and the amount
of bonds necessary to cover the cost
of their construction.
The plan as outlined above appears
to meet with general approval, not
a man in attendance at the meeting
Saturday having been heard to ex
press himself as finding any fault
with it, and it looks now like several
missing links of road between the
different townships of the county are
in a fair way to be built.
News and Personal
Items From Route One
Danbury Route 1, April 24.—We
are having so much rainy weather
that farmers in this section are get
ting very much behind with their
work.
The health of this community is
the best it has been for some time
except whooping cough.
Miss Myrtle Priddy, of Campbell,
spent last week with her grandpa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Woods.
Mr. J. W. Priddy, of Campbell, has
recently erected a feed barn. Also
Mr. Wattie Stephens, of Route 1, is
preparing to build one room.
Miss Mary Coleman, of the Walnut
Cove section, is spending a couple of
weeks with her sister, Mrs. J. B.
Priddy.
Mr. Charlie Oakley, of Route 1,
had the misfortune to lose a fine hog'
one day last week.
Miss Delia Oakley, of the Walker
town section, spent last week with
friends and relatives on Danbury
Route 1. She was accompanied home
Monday, by her brother in law, Mr.
Calvin Mabe.
Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Priddy spent
last Sunday with Mrs. Priddy's pa
rents.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Oakley and lit
tle daughter, Lucy, spent Sunday at
Mr. Gilmer Mabe's.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Priddy and fam
ily spent Sunday with Mrs. Priddy's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mack Nelson.
Misses Maggie, Nannie and D«lla
Oakley spent Saturday night at Mr.
Calvin Mabe's.
Mr. Marion Stephens, accompanied
by his mother and little sister, visited
Mrs. Stephens' parents in Guilford
county Sunday. We are sorry to learn
that Mrs. Stephens' father is real low.
His many friends wish him a speedy
recovery.
Lady Registrars Named
In Forsyth county the past week
two ladies were named as registrars
for the coming election and primary.
One of the ladies is lira. Joe Rogers,
who is well known in Danbury.