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Volume L. MRS. MOREFIELD IS f CONGRATULATED | IMr. F. E. Petree Wants Good, ' Clean Officers and Enforce ment of Law—Can't He Good Citizen and Violate Law. Editor Danlniry Reporter : After reading Mrs. It. 11. More- 1 field's letter on the .liquor question, 1 ,1 wish a little space in your paper to n congratulate her on the Rood letter ji she wrote. I am triad she had the 11 courage to come out boldly for law i and order, which are so much needed. | Not only in Stokes county but in j every county in the State and nation. ; I am sorry to say that it is get ting to be a common thing for men ( who c laim to be good citizens to wink ! at crime and violation of law. No : man can be a good citizen who vio-. lates law. We may have some bad laws, but we are commanded to obey "th" powers that be," and if we have some bad laws there is a remedy. The good people can vote to have them re- j pealed. Hut so long as they are on ( the statute books it is the duty of every voter to help uphold them. We : should try to get good, clean men in office, and then it is the duty of | every man and woman to help hold up their hands. We are commanded j not to put the bowl to our neighbor's j lips, and no drunkard can enter the . kingdom of Heaven. It is enough to | make one tremble for the future of our country when we reflect upon, conditions that exist today. When we look into the press and read of the terrible wave of crime that is sweep- j ing all over the country—murder, Mealing, drunkenness and all man ner of crime—and the worst of all is that such a large per cent of crime is committed by the young people, i It seems to me that there should be ! more training and discipline in the home. Parents should teach their children to be honest, truthful, sober and industrious, and above all things to be christians. 1 am away over on the shady side of life and have always felt a great interest in the young peo ple, realizing that they will soon have ' to take over the management of State and Church. Therefore, they should be well-trained in order that they may j be able to rule justly and righteously to the end that there may be a good citizenship and law-abiding people. To j violate law is a crime and it breeds j crime. A good officer will regard his . oath, and will faithfully execute the law. 1 understand that Mr. Turpin is faithfully executing the law. If he is, I feel that he should be supported in the next election, and as the great Lincoln said: "It is not best to swap horses in the middle of the stream." I hope more of the good women of the county will let it be known that they stand for law and order, for the protection of their sons and daugh ters, and for the betterment of all the people. All suffering of the human family comes from the violation of some law. I trust that the good peo ple of our county will select the best men for office, and regardless of poli tics elect them. Respectfully, F. E. PETREE. Germanton, N. C., May 1, 1922. Paying Citizens For Soil Used On Roads At the meeting of the county com missioners here Monday a good num ber of citizens of the county who have been furnishing soil for the con struction of highways in Stokes were paid for the soil. The uniform price of S2O per acre was allowed them for the soil used. A majority of the claims presented came from Yadkin township citizens, since that town ship has more roads than any other section of the county. Big Sale Near Cove Next Saturday All persons interested in good real «state will do well to attend the sale of Hairston's Quarter Belew's Creek farm next Saturday, May 6, at 10:30 A. M., by the Atlantic Coast Realty Company, Agents. This is very valu able property, and it will go to the highest bidder. Mr. J. E. Under wood, at Dodson's Hotel in Walnut Cove, will give you full information. See bi 0 ad i.i this paper. YADKIN OPPOSES | BONDS FOR ROADS! That Township Now Has Ex- I cellent Highways and Bids J For Tobacco Storage Plant— 1 High School Comes To Close. ; King, May I.—Mr. Seaton Tattle j has purchased from Mr. T. F. Xewsom j a lot containing about an acre and a j quarter, consideration $250. Mr. Tut- I tie will develop this property into a , I ball park. He expects some good i games this summer, i A large number of people from ail j ■over the township attended a good | j roads meeting here Saturday. The j majority opposed any further bond j ; issue. | It seems that King will get one of •the Co-operative Marketing Associa tion's receiving stations. This is a fine location, as it is high and dry here and the tobacco would keep indefin itely almost, and secondly it is the central point between Mount Airy and j Madison, at which places receiving stations are to be located, and last but not least, because King has | the best system of good roads lead ling into it of any town in the county, j The closing exercises of the King High School, which came to a close j Saturday night, were a fine success. The attendance was large all the way through in spite of inclement weather. The King Tigers defeated the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co's. nine in a game of baseball here Sat urday. The score stood sixteen to four. The visiting team did not score until the last inning. 1 The Devene Vaudeville shows play here all this week. Mr. Herman Newsom preached an interesting sermon at the Baptist ■church here last night, j Mr. S. S. Holes, of Hamlet, Su spending a few days with his parents here. Farmers in this sectiofi are begin ning to plant corn. Mr. and Mrs. Gabe Tuttle, of Rural Hall, spent Sunday night with rela tives here. Messrs. C. S. Newsom and Paul Johnson made a business trip to Winston-Salem today. | ELECTRIC RAILWAY FOR MT. AIRY Enthusiastic Meeting In Inter est Of Project Held At Hills ville This Week—Other Mt. Airy News. Mount Airy, April 29.—The meet ing at Hillsville, Carroll county, Va., last Tuesday in the interest of the • proposed electric railway from this place via Hillsville to Bettie Baker , or Blair, Va., was the most enthu siastic meeting held so far, and one , of those who attended speaks of the prospect as a certainty at no distant • day. The people of Hillsville and all along the line and from sections near by see the great advantages this road . will bring to the people of Carroll and they are all willing to take stock in the road. Those most prominent in the movement have the means and are able to buM4 the road, and it u now thought that definite steps will be taken at an early date to begin the work. The past week has been too cold 1 for early vegetation to grow in this climate, hence it is clear to any obser ver that early vegetables are not to be expected this season. The early plant ing has been of little value as seeds in this kind of weather are better off \ out of the ground. A building boom seems to have Jiit Mount Airy with considerable force and put every carpenter and brick layer in the community to work. New residences are going up in every di rection, as well as several good busi ness houses being erected. Judge E. B. Jones In Baltimore Hospital 1 The many friends at Judge E. B. 3 Jones in Stokes will learn with re i gret that his health recently has not ) been good and that he left a few days ir since for Baltimore where he will un - dergo treatment at Johns Hopkins e hospital. Dr. A. G. Jones, his brother, - accompanied the Judge to Baltimore. i. The Mighty Haag show is expected to exhibit here tomorrow. Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, May 3, 1922 PROF. HIGHSMITH VISITS DANBURY Delivered Interesting and In structive Lecture On Schools Thursday Night—Consolida tion Is Stressed By Speaker. Prof. J. Henry Highsmith, of Ral eigh, supervisor of high schools for the Stau*, addressed the citizens of Danbury and community in the court house Thursday night on the subject of schools. The lecture was very in teresting and instructive and was lis tened to by a large audience. Mr. Highsmith's visit to Danbury was upon the solicitation of the pa trons of the school, who have recent ly been putting forth an effort to im prove the school facilities of this community. The speaker, who was accompanied to Danbury from the r.riiwa.v station by Stipt. of Schools J. ('. Carson, was introduced to the audience by Mrs. J. Spot Taylor in a most pleasing manner, and for near two hours he discussed schools from the one teacher log house kind to the stand ard high school of the State. The consolidation of rural schools was the theme of Mr. Highsmith's remarks, and he was emphatic in the declara tion that the only way to give the chldren of the rural districts school facilities anything like equal to those of the children of the towns and cities is to consolidate the schools and transport the pupils in automobiles, having standard high schools at cen trally located points instead of the one and two teacher schools which are out of date. While this community is not con templating the establishment of a standard high school at this imme diate time, it is believed that within the n*xt yeat or two conditions will be much more favorable and that we can establish such a school, and in the meantime a movement is on foot to secure a desirable lot and erect a school building here that will answer the purposes of a high school when we do get i.. position to establish one. Episcopal Minister In Walnut Cove Resigns Walnut Cove, May 3. Rev. J. R. i Mallet announced today the resigna tion of his present work, to accept the I rectorship of St. Johns church, Wil mington, diocese of East Carolina, to which church he received a call sev eral weeks Ago. Mr. Mallet has spent his ministry of four years in this sta tion, having had charge of churches in Rockingham, Stokes and Surry counties, bis latest charges being Christ church, Walnut Cove, St. Philip's, Germanton, and Trinity church, Mt. Airy. The people of Wal nut Cove give Mr. Mallet up with a great deal of reluctance. He has accomplished much good here. Sheriff George W. Flynt, of For syth county, announced yesterday that he would retire from the office on December Ist next. Mr. Virgil P. Moir, who is well known here, is a candidate for the office of Sheriff in Forsyth. 'CAMPAIGN IN FIFTH DISTRICT • Mrs. Patterson Considers It An Honor To Run Against Major Stedman—Will Be No Joint Discussion Of Issues. | Greensboro, April 29.—The Ex ecutive Committee of the Fifth Dis trict for the Republican party met ¥h Greensboro on Friday with Mrs. Lind say Patterson, of Winston-Salem, the recently chosen candidate for Con gress in this district, and laid prelem inary plans for a thorough campaign by the first woman candidate for the job North Carolina has ever had. Mrs. Patterson is going into the fight with all her energy and enthu siasm. She will make a large number ctf speeches, and will endeavor to cover the entire district. She is ap proaching the campaign with delight, she said, and she welcomes the op portunity to work actively and in person for matters that she deems of vital importance. The committee confined its meet ing to a discussion of the coming campaign, and a call for a milium BANK OF STOKES' ANNUAL MEETING i Close Of Successful Year By County's Oldest Financial In stitution—Dividends Declared and Officers Re-Elected. The Bank of Stokes County, th" county's oldest financial institution, held Us annual meeting of stock holders and directors at the Walnut Cov office Tuesday, the occasion marking the closing of the fiscal year's business. All the old officers wei ■ re-elected, a dividend of S per eem. was declared payable to stock holders immediately, while a sub- j stancial sum was added to the bank's i surplus fund out of the year's un- ; divided profits. Among the bank's ' officials and stockholders, the follow in-,' were present : Dr. J. W. Neal,, J. I!. Woodruff, C. E. Davis, John H. i Marshall, S. 11. and W. S. Steele, S. C. Rierson, H. McGee, Curtis Me- Gee, Dr. W. 11. Bynum, J. C. Carson, W. I». Browder, Samuel Hairston, J. A. I.awson, C. M. Hauser, N. E. Pepper. The reports of the officers of the institution, covering operations at Danbury, Germanton and Walnut Cove, showed the bank to be in ex cellent condition, and in much stronger position than ever before with regard to the future. Interest ing talks were made by H. McGee, Dr. W. 11. Bynum, Dr. J. W. Neal, Sam') Hairston, C. E. Davis and other di rectors. , Officers were re-elected as follows : President, Dr. J. W. Neal; Vice-Pres idents, J. B. Woodruff, W. H. Bynum and 1). S. Priddy; Cashier at Dan bury, N. E. Pepper; Cashier at Wal nut Cove, C. E. Davis; Cashier at Germanton, Curtis .McGee. Directors: J. W. Neal, John H. Marshall, C. E. Davis, I'. H. Linville, J. B. Woodruff, J. Wesley Morefield, W. L. Nelson, Samuel Hairston, H. McGee, Curtis McGee, W. H. Bynum, J. C. Carson, W. D. Browder, E. W. Carroll, C. M. Hauser, J. A. Law-son, E. P. Pepper, N. E. Pepper. A dividend of eight per cent, was declared payable to stockholders at once, a substantial remainder of the year's profits being carried to the I surplus fund. : Tobacco Growers Urged To Cut Down Crop Kinston, May 2.—Organized and independent tobacconists, who in this immediate part of the bright leaf belt are not wasting affection on one another, today were in thorough ac cord on one important matter. Both sides shook warning fingers at the grower regardless of his member- Ship in the marketing association or his outlawism, and urged him to "keep the crop cut close." Reports said some localities might produce an increased crop this summer. In dications favored a full, or normal, crop all through the belt, though the season was young and there remains many weeks in which possible blights could assail the crop. meeting in Greensboro, will be made for May At that meeting more definite plans for the campaign will be made. Besides Mrs. Patterson those atten ding the meeting were: Mrs. Alice Joyce Nutt, of Greensboro, C. M. Jones, of Stokes county; O. B. Webb, of Surry county; J. R. Joyce, of Reids ville; J. T. Salmon, of Durham; A. F. Young, of Forsyth county. "I do want to say that I consider it an tionor to run against so fine and honorable a gentleman as Major Stedman," Mrs. Patterson said after the meeting. "I have known him for a long time and there is not a more splendid man anywhere. The very fact that he is in the campaign will insure the high plane on which it will be conducted and I welcome such a fight." Mrs. Patterson said there was no possibility of a joint debate between her and Major Stedman. "I don't think it would do any good," she said. "In fact, I believe it might easily do harm to both sides. But of course I plan to speak all over I the district. I want to go every- I where and meet as many of the peo -1 plu ar. possible. That will come la ter. it is; too soon for t now." PROGRESSIVES Wir & IN COVE ELECTION Proposition Of Issuing Bonds For Public Improvements .May Be Submitted To Voters. Other News Of Interest. Walnut Cove, May 2.—ln the mu nicipal election held hi re yesterday the "progressive" ticket won out over the "stand pats" by a good margin, tne ticket elected beng headed by G. L. Jarvis for Mayor, and 11. It. Davis, W. (i. Dodson, M. T. Chilton and J. F. Dunlap for Commissioners. After j the counting of tile votes had been I finished and the result declared the 'supporters of the winning ticket held j quite a jubilee, speeches being made by Messrs. G. 1.. Jarvis, W. G. Dod ' son, J. C Joyce and others. The newly ' elected officers, it is understood, will I stand for certain public improvements that are badly needed here, and will in all probability ask the next Legis lature to authorize the issuance of ; bonds, or at least the calling of an I election for that purpose, in order : that a water system and an electric j light plant may be installed for the I town. They will also likely ask that the corporate limits of the town be ex- I tended, and other progressive moves : will likely be made. The commencement exercises of the high school here will begin on Friday night of this week with the senior class stunts. The commencement ser mon will be preached on Sunday morning at 11 o'clock in the Baptist church. There will be out-door ex ercises Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock on the campus by the seniors and on Monday night at 8 o'clock will be held the graduating exercises at the school building. The Parent-Teacher Association will have ice cream for sale at the school building Monday from 1 o'clock during the afternoon and evening. No exercises have been planned for the 1 primary and intermediate grades on account of inadequate room, there | being nearly 300 pupils in these classes. Mrs. John Hauser and children, of Winston-Salem, spent Tuesday with her aunt, Mrs. W. L. Vaughn. Mrs. Frank Petree, of Germanton, spent Tuesday here. Mrs. H. N. Scott, of Durham, is spending a few days here with rela tives. Mrs. A. T. Rothrock spent Wed nesday in Winston-Salem. The famous play, "The Womanless Wedding," will be given at the high school building Saturday night under the auspices of the Parent-Teacher Association. An admission fee of 10 and 25 cents will be charged. ROAD MEETING HERE SATURDAY County Commissioners and the Township Highway Boards To Consider Road-Building and Bonds. In accordance with a resolution passed at the recent mass meeting of citizens here in the interest of better roads, the Board of County Commis sioners and the several boards of township highway commissioners of the county will meet at the court house in Danbury on Saturday, May 6th, for the purpose of discussing and taking action in the matter of issuing bonds to build several links of road to connect up some of the townships of the county, and to decide which of these roads should be built, the latter question to be left largely to the judgment of the township highway commssioners. Considerable interest attaches to this meeting as the building of these roads means much to the people of the county, and especially to that large number of citizens and tax-pay ers who have practically no roads in their communities, with no outlet to market, and who in the winter sea son are not even able to get a physi cian t.o their communities in case of sickness. Miss Katherine Fulp, of Walnut Cove, and Mr. Oscar J. Greer, of Winston-Salem, were married at the Burkhead parsonage in Winston- Salem, Sunday afternoon at four I o'clock, Rev. J. S. liiatt officiating. No. 2,614 »?AX LISTERS HERE FOR INSTRUCTION Values On Personal Property Are Fixed—Hooks Will He In Hands Of List-Takers I'ntil June Ist Only. Th'.> tax-listers for Stokes county met here at the court house Monday with tax supervisor J. I!. Voss for the purpose of familiarizing themselves with the work to lie done this month, the list-takers for every township of the county being present. The tax-listing started yesterday and will he continued through the month of May. Appointments for all of the townships may he seen in another place in this paper. After May 151 st the liooks will lie forwarded to the tax supervisor here and those failing to list will have to come to Danbury and give in th'.ir list to the Register of Deeds or the Coun ty Commissioners, hen. e tax-payers will save themselves trouble by list ing this month while thi-y can do so at home. The following maximum and mini mum rates of valuations of property were fixed Monday at the meeting of the tax-lsters here : First-class horses and mules, $l5O to §2(10. Second-class horses and mules, SIOO to $l5O. Third-class horses and mules, $25 to $75. Sheep and goats, $3 to 85. Milch cows, common stock, S2O to SSO. Milch cows, registered, $75 to S2OO. Hogs, 7 cents per pound, gross. Wheat, $1.25 per bushel. Pigs, $5 to $lO. Bacon and lard, 15c. per pound. Corn, SO cents per bushel. Oats, t!0 cents per bushel. Peas, $2 per bushel. Rye, $1 per bushel. Leaf tobacco, 10c. to 30c. per pound Hay and fodder, 30c. per cwt. Dry cattle, sls to S3O. Brick in kiln, 810 per thousand. Lumber S2O to S3O per thousand feet. Cordwood, $3.50 to $5 per cord. Bees, per stand, $2 to $4. Bicycles, $5 to $25. Motorcycles, SSO to S3OO. Automobiles, SIOO to $5,000. j DANBURY GETS SUMMER SCHOOL Stokes Board Of Education In Session Here Monday—Only Routine Business Was Trans acted. The six-weeks' summer school for the teachers of Stokes will be held in the court house at Danbury, begin ning on the first Monday after the mid-summer term of Stokes Superior court, the exact date for the opening of the school being on Monday, July 24th. This decision was reached by the Stokes Board of Education at its reg ular monthly meeting here Monday. All the arrangements for the ac -1 comodation of the teachers who will : attend the school have been made, and they will be taken care of here m ■ private homes at very reasonable prices for board and lodging. : The summer school, which is. grow t ing more popular each year with the ' State school authorities, will be made 1 better this year than ever before. > There will be a number of competent 1 instructors and the teachers attending £ will receive much benefit from the f instruction to be given. r At the meeting of the Board of i Education here Monday all members > were present—John L. Christian, J. R. Forest and W. S. Steele. Supt. of 5 Schools J. C. Carson was also in at ? tendance. Only routine business was f transacted by the Board, t ; Stokes Couple Married } At Martinsville, Va. Mr. Jesse Pyrtle and Miss Bessie j. Cofer, both of Quaker Gap township, were married in Martinsville, Va., Saturday. The young couple were ac companied to Martinsville by Ex- Sheriff E. O. Shelton, brother-in-law 1 of the bride, and Mr. Silas Marshall f and Miss Mozelle Dunnivant. Messrs. W. P. Holt, of Greensboro, r and Reggie Hartman, of King, were visitors here today.
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