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KISER RUNS AMUCK.
The Hon. Edwin Kiser. who. once upon a time, registered at
Raleigh as the representative from Stokes, created some amuse
ment here Saturday when he appeared before the hoard of county
commissioners in the matter of the proposition to build certain
road connections in Stokes. Mr. Kiser had the air ol a man con
siderably "het up." and wanted to be put down as opposed to any
issue of bonds. The commissioners, as well as the audience,
were skeptical about his credentials —believing him to be a self
appointed representative from Yadkin, and knowing him to be
self-anointed—nevertheless they listened to him good-naturedly
;.nd smiled. while he outlined a horrific conspiracy against the
suverrin' rights of the citizenship, the constitution and the com
mon people which he declared had been cut and dried in this
bond issue matter. While he addressed the commissioners at the
beginning, his harrangue was directed to the audience, and
>eemed to cover everything under the sun except the matter in
hand. He excoriated the revaluation act which he had tit. bled
and died to save the people from, pointed to himself as the guv
who was to be thanked for the Federal and State road funds now
being spent in the county. (|iiotcd Scripture, drew historical
parallels, and surnanied the northern townships of Stokes, who
are asking for road assistance. 'Macedonia." He reached the
climax of his asinine pyrotechnics b> declaring the whole thinu
was nothing more than a scheme to force the people to take the
Danbury Reporter.
By what process of strange reasoning Kiser arrived at this
conviction, with no evidence except that the Reporter had printe.i
two or three news notices in regard to the mass meetings and
township meetings, we are unabie to imagine, but suppose it was
Through one of those freaks of the Kiser mind similar to that
which obsessed it in the legislature and caused Kiser to advocate
always what his constituents didn't want, and to oppose what
they wanted.
The Reporter confesses only a passing interest in the Kiser
views on bonds and taxation, except where they involve this
new -paper's subscription list. Hi* crazy but abortive effort to
arouse prejudice against this p;,pt-r only reacts on his stupidity
in :: i keeping up with the times by taking his county newspaper,
iind his venting of his prejudice against the medium which would
gladly have apprised him for a dollar and a half should afford
him about .is much satisfaction as kicking a chair that bumped
bis shins in the dark.
Neither are the people of blokes county interested in the Kiser
sentiment on bond- and taxation, otherwise he might sti'l have
been allowed to go back to the legislature to repeal the revalu
ation act ;.nd get its some more State and l ederai road funds.
Ne''her. we conjecture, are the people of Yadkin township
running over themselves to know what Ki-er thinks. We have
been told that the public spirited leaders for progress at King.
I innacie and other section:, of Yadkin spent S:!.(Mi> in railroad
tares ar.d bo'i! hi'is at Kaleigh try in; l ' to keep Kiser from defeat
ing their road MM which h is nade old Y :».tikin one of the finest
sections of -.he coi:nty. . ,
In all s t piousness. Kiser is a good citizen and a clever fellow
personally, but as a leader of modern thought and progress, he
would b.-st belong to that era when the mule and the slide
answered ihe transit purposes of the country. As far as we know
he is the only citizen of the county who would like to see the good
roads dug up and have hi* money back. If his theories were
sound, the Southern railway that threads its steel way close to his
farm would be only a mirage, and a trackless wilderness would
be still at his front door. If the Kiser mind had full sway the
splendid school facilities of Yadkin township, the product ol
Mate aid coupled with the liberal and patriotic contributions of
its own public-spirited citizens, would be only a dream, and the
reality would be the little log school house and the blue-back
spelling book—good enough in their day. but belonging to an
age that is past.
Today with excellent railway facilities, fine schools, fine citizen
ship and (no thanks to their representative in the legislature)
fine roads, old adkin blossoms like a rose garden, and in ap
prising him of this fact we trust Kiser will n.it be offended. It is
presented free-gratis-for-nothing. and postage prepaid.
Judge Long- Makes
Spitter Scrub Floor
Sam P. Walker, Greensboro
resident, will be very careful
where he spits in the future. It
is almost certain that he will be
careful when he is in the court
room, during a session of super
ior court presided over by Judge
B. F. Long, of Statesville. At
least he said so last week and |
everybody. including Judge
Long, appeared to believe he was ,
sincere.
While a case was being tried !
Mr. Walker failed to get a seat
! near a cuspidor. Buthe did not let
that worry him. At leas the didn't
I until Judge Long discovered that
Mr. Walker was not worrying,
but was spitting on the floor very
unconcernably. Judge Long at
once called him to the bar. Mr. i
| Walker apologized stating that
he was sorry, indeed, and he
really seemed to be. So he was
allowed to depart after an officer
j had been seat for a mop which
was handed to Mr. Walker who
proceeded to clean the floor near
' where he had been sitting and
j after a $5 bill, the amount of fine
! imposed, had been handed to the
sheriff.
THE L> ANBURY kEPOKTER
GREAT HIN DRANCE
TO THE SCHOOLS
They Suffer From A Moving.
Sh if ting Population More
Than From Any Other One
Cause.
When the average person is
| asked what the chief hindrances
to educational progress are and
what renders the school less
effective, the answer is likelv to
be short school terms, unsuitable
school buildings, poor teaching,
and the like. Where these con
ditions exist the answer is ap
propriate. but a careful study of
conditions and causes as they
exist will reveal the fact that
irregular attendance at school is
one if not the chief cause of re
tardation and discouragement.
From what source comes the
bulk of this irregularity? A
recent issue of the State Normal
Bulletin states the following:
"The greatest defect of the
rural school is not in the barren
ness of the subject taught, nor
that the subject matter does not
rit the surrounding conditions or
that ihe methods employed are
so antiquated. These are defects
and should be remedied. But
the rural schools sutler on ac
count of the moving, shifting
population more than from any
other cause. Tenants move on
an average every two years. In
t'ort\-five counties in Georgia,
seven out of ten farms are culti
vated by tenants. These people
usually move about the middle of
the school term, so that in some
communities the teachers teach
almost a new school after the
Christmas holidays.
These people carry their child
ren from one community to
another so often that they fail
to become permanently allied
with the social forces of the
vicinity and do not feel that they
owe a loyalty to law and order as
they would were they perman-;
entlv ! :ated. The educational
ideals of this ciass of people un
fortunately do not take very
strong form. The church, the'
school community organization
do not find very strong support
in them. Their feeling toward the
support of the community school
;is not as strong as if they were
permanently located. Hence the
irregularity in the attendance of
their children at school is notice
able. This irregularity on their
part, in many instances the
larger part of the school enroll
ment, not only injures them
selves but injures the advance
ment of the whole school.
Until we shall have a more
stable population and a stronger
arm of the law to compel con
formity to the compulsory at
tendance law, the schools will
continue to be hampered with
non-attendance and irregular at
tendance. The schools will con
tinue to be more or less ineffec
tive, and our schools will continue
to fail in the attainment of the
highest results. —G. D. Godard,
State School Supervisor, (ia., in
School and Home.
An Announcement.
I desire to announce myself a can
didate for the office of Sheriff of
j Stokes county, subject to the action of i
j the county Republican convention. '
I Any support piven me by the peo- :
I pie of the county will be appreciated, >
and if nominated and elected I will
j endeavor to discharge the duties of
i the office in t fair and impartial man
ner, giving everyone and all classes
I a square deal.
C. E. PYRTLE.
j Pinnacle, N. C., April 24, 1922.
HOME IS FIRST . j
AND FOREMOST
It Is the Bulwark Of Ameri
can Happiness—Home Is Not
Far Separated From Heaven
After All.
Home and heaven are not so
i far separated as we sometimes
think. They are not separated
; at all. for they are both in the !
i same great building. Home is:
■ the lower story, and is located
down here on the ground lloor;
heaven is up stairs, in the second j
and third stories. As one after
another of the family is called to
"come up higher," that which :
seems to be such a strange place
begins to wear a familiar aspect; 1
and when the last one is left
below, the home is transferred to
heaven, and heaven is home.
Don't shut up your house. lest
the sun should fade your carpets
and your hearts, lest a merry!
laugh should shakedown some of
the must] old cobwebs there. If
>ou want to ruin your sons, let
them think that all mirth and
■ social enjoyment must be loft on
the threshhold without when
they come home ar night. When
once a home is regarded as only
a place to eat, drink and sleep in,
th« work has begun that ends in
endless degradation. Young
people must have fun and relaxa
tion somewhere; if they don't
have it at their own hearth
stones, it will be sought at other
and perhaps less profitable places.
Therefore, let the fire burn
1 brightly at night, and make the
homestead delightful with all
those little arts so perfectly
understood.
Don't repress the buoyant
• spirit of your children. Half an
1 hour of merriment around the
; lamp and firelight of a home
' blots out many a care and annoy
ance during the day: and the.
; best safeguard they can take
with them into the world is the
unseen influence of a bright
little domestic circle.
Home is the bulwark of Ameri
can happiness. Put home first
and foremost, ar.d you will give
your children a good heritage in
their minds ar.d characters: f->r
there will come a time when the
home circle will be broken: when
you will "long for the touch of
a vanished hand, and the sound
of a voice that is still.Durham i
Herald.
1
Why the Boys Leave
The Dear Old Farm
"Why did you leave the farm,
my lad? Why did you bolt and
quit your dad? Why did you
beat it on to town, and your poor
' old father down? Thinkers of
1 platform, pulpit, press are wal
lowing in deep distress; they
seek to know the hidden cause
' why farmer boys desert their
s pas. Some say they long to get
s a taste of faster life and social
waste; some say the silly little
chumps mistake the suit-cards
for the trumps, in wagaring
fresh and germess air against
the smoky thoroughfare. We're
all agreed the farm's the place;
so free your mind and state your
case."
j "Well, stranger, since you've
been so frank, I'll roll aside the
hazy bank, the misty cloud of
theories, and show you where
the trouble lies. I left my dad,
his farm, his plow, because my
calf became his cow. I left my
dad—'twas wrong, of course—
because my colt became his horse.
( I left my dad to sow and reap
because my lamb became his
i sheep. I dropped my hoe and
stuck my fork, because my pig
became his pork. The garden
truck that I made grow—'twas
his to sell, but mine to hoe. It's
not the smoke in the atmosphere,
nor the taste for 'life' that
brought me here. Please tell the
! platform, pulpit, press, no fear
!of toil or love of dress is driving
off the farmer lads, but just the
methods of their dads."
'
j
NOTICE OF RE-SALE OF
REAL ESTATE.
North Carolina.
Stokes county.
In the Superior Court
Before the Cerk.
Mrs. Harriet E. Lewis. Ex. of
George Lewis,
" VS.
I'ed Lewis et al.
Notice Of Re-Sale,
i Under and by virtue of an
j filer of the Superior court made
'in the special proceedings en
titled. Mrs. Harriet E. Lewis.
! Exr. of George Lewis, vs. Bed
Lewis, et als. wherein it appear
ing that an advance bid of •">
per cent, has been placed on this
property and an order of re-sak
having been made, the commis«-
sioner appointed will, on the—
27th day of May, H>22.
!at 12 o'clock, noon, oil the premi
ses of the late George Lewis, in
Stokes county. North Can lina.
offer for sale to the highest bid
der for cash that certain tract of
land lying and being in Meadow*
township. Stokes county. N.
adjoining the lands «■ i' llcrsie
Meadows and others a:.( more
particularly described as fol
!i nvs:
Beginning at a stake in oK
road near the fork. Boss Mead
,o\v> corner, runs N. deg. E.
1.11 chains to pointers in Wall's
line. S. 87 deg. E. with I:is line.
• 5.11 chains to a slake. Wall's
corner. N. .'5 1-2 degrees E. with
I Wall's line 12.00 chains to a
! black gum. Mrs. Mitchell's cor
ner. near Lutheran church. S.
s7 degrees E. I> chains to poin
ters. N. decrees E. •'! chains
to pointers. S. .*> degrees E. S ehs
to a Spanish oak. S. . v » degree*
E. -1.56 chains to poplar. S. de
j gives W. 85.01 chain* to a black
gum. W. >..'52 chains i > a bin -k
gum. S. t 1-2 degiv* W. 17>'.">
chains to pointers. S. 7t> 1-2 dog.
W. 2i.7n chai.is to a rock in Ta
imink- line. N. I degrees E. o;:
Meadow's line 27.7"> chains to a
stake in read, thence N. 81 deg.
with roa.l 0.21'1 chains 'o ;;
stake o;i N' . th .-ide f road, the
v truer n' the beginning. ('• u
tai ling 1 1 7 1-2 aer. *. more or
less. Surveyed March 20. 1017.
by il. I'. (ilit'ewcll. Book (>2. page
•) t2. in the oliice of the Kegistt r
of Deeds for the county of
StoKos. State of North Caro
| lina.
This oth dav of Mav. 1022.
HARRIET E. LEWIS.
Com missioner.
Why you ask your painter
I I7 OR the same reason that you ask financial
j advice of your banker. Confidence, built on
years of service and experience, has made the .
painter an authority on paint and varnish needs.!
He alone is fitted to give you advice on color!
effects and surface His knowledge
is at your service. His business is to serve
We are painters. *We know every angle "of
the painting business. It would pay you to con- ;
# sult one of us—without # obligationon your part,
of course. *
W. E. JOYCE,
Painting In All Its Branches,
DANBURY, N. C.
>i MAJOR STEDMAN
! WILL NOT TALK
. j Rufuses To Commit Himself'On
Any Campaign Statement.
I Friends Say He Is Feeling No
Cneasiness About the Result.
Major Charles M. Stcdman,
representative of the fifth dis
trict in Congress, who is spend
ing a few days at his home in
Greensboro, refuses to discuss
' the campaign between himself
land Mrs. Lindsay Patterson, of
| Winston-Salem. Tne Greens
boro Record say 3: The major
says that he has met Mrs. Patter
son and considers her a very
; estimable woman. He savs that
I she is a woman of force and
I ability in her chosen lines, but
he does not commit himself to
any campaign statement.
In fact. Major Stedman poii ts
out, he has hardly thought of the
campaign and has done absolute
ly no electioneering. His friends,
he savs, will look out for him.
However, it is easy to discern
that the venerable congressman
entertains but few fears of the
Republican woman gaining his
seat in Congress.
In spite of his years the major
looks like a comparatively much
! younger man. He gets around
in a manner to send envy into
i the hearts ot munv men years
his junior. He will leave within
a short time for Washington.
i
I
Announcement.
At the r -t nf i.v ft i■ M ]
hereby ili'i la re n.y-' !f a '• I'm
the ii?!;.' of SlicritV S'okc- . > "v
.-tibjcct tn '.hi' action i f tli" U.-juti
lioan county convention. I kiniily ask
tlii- ;iii! ami siippni-t nf the jruod |)
if Sl-'Kis routity, that I nia\ MMVC
tlifiii in that en pa. :'y, and if 'i
natnl and elcrtcd I will iio my i; -I
in fiillili tin- (hi.ii 1 .- nf that ort:
[ 1.. liri!i:ilT UK XX!' :
Uii iiitanton, N. April li'.', l'.'_
:!miiy*'.\v
NOTICE.
! Havinir oiinlilud i v i if
, tin- la.-t will and ti •'..mil . f I. i'.
by given to ull persons huldinn i . .. -
au'aast till- rotate i f th«■ '
' »\in-.'-ton, in |• 11r :iu i i t.
uiauT.-itrr,, d fur paymi-nt, i 1 . . i.
tlienticatcd, on or I y iin* 'Jo:' . y
i i May, I.'JH, or thi.- n.iticc •, 1 ,•
pic; • lin liar nf I'lcli 1 i. -um i Ail
j|Ki-.-iins indebted tn -aid «-tat. .M
--, j IV-oivlfully request .1 to make
I mediate |«i> nu nt to inc.
i:. A. OVIXCTOX,
I'. ). I'ilot Jit., X. i ßoute 1.
_ j X. (). l'ctrcc, Att'y fur Kxecutor.