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Volume L. MRS. PATTERSON SPEAKS MAY 27 Will Address People of Dan bury and Community On Non- I'olitical Subjects—Candidate For Congress in this District. Mrs. J. Lindsay Patterson, of Wins ton-Salem, candidate for Congress in this district on the Republican ticket, will speak in the court house in Dan bury on Saturday, May 27th, at one o'clock, P. M., according to a letter received here from Mrs. Patterson this week. Recently in speaking of the cam paign Mrs. Patterson stated that she was planning a series of non-politi cal talks on national and international subjects in the counties of her dis trict; that there was so much now affecting us as Americans—not as politicians—that she thought for the present it would do us all good to get together and forget politics for the present and discuss other and more important things. Hence it is expected that Mrs. Patterson will not discuss political matters here, but will have something to say that is more interesting. The Responsibility Of The Lady Voters Mr. Editor : I have read with much interest the articles on prohibition that have ap pealed in your paper, and wish more of our citizens who have a proper re gard for the betterment of mankind would express themselves on this sub ject. Alas ! too many are prone to over look or condone the lawless acts of those who through thoughtlessness or from lack of Godly training destroy peace and spread sorrow and crime broadcast. The subject should be carefully and prayerfully considered by ail people, both men and women, who have the interest of their fellow men at heart, us to the best means to eliminate this evil that is proving a menace to the well being of our population by de basing and retarding progress and civilization. 1 wish to address my remarks es pecially to the women of Stokes coun ty. The chains that have so long bound us have been sundered, and whether we wish it or not, it has be come our duty to take our place amid the qualified voters of our land, and waiving the question of our moral ob ligation, to protect our children and weaker fellow mortals from injustice and opression. We must realize that the prosperity and moral uplift of our county rests to a great extent with us, and we must see that we rightly discharge the obligation which these new circumstances have placed upon us. Some say the prohibition law is not what it should be. We do not claim that the laws are perfect, or the of ficers chosen to enforce these laws perfect men, but we can cast our votes for those who strive after per fection. The men whom we believe to be honorable and who will not disre gard their oath of office—the men who have seen a vision of higher and holier things, who regard the broth erhood of man and who look upon human life as too sacred to be drag ged through the muck for the sake of personal aggrandizement or to gain a few paltry dollars. Then, sister voters, let us study this question for ourselves and when the time comes to cast our ballot at the polls, let us, in the fear of God, cast them for just and upright men—men who, consider ing the moral uplift of our people, will make our county a better place to live and in which to raise our chil dren, instead of being a by-word and a laughing stock. ADELAIDE PETREE. Germanton, N. C., May 16, 1922. Martin Hospital To Be Enlarged The Martin Memorial Hospital in Mount Airy has just awarded a con tract for twelve additional rooms to the hospital and a 20-room building for a nurses home, the improvement to cost SIB,OOO. This hospital is owned and operated by Dr. Moir S. Martin, formerly of Stuart, Va. fat SIMPLE REMEDIES TO BE KEPT IN HOME! Kcd Cress Gives Some Valuable Information and Offers Prac tical Suggestions, Especially To Rural Families. The following article is contributed by the Southern Division of the Il«-d Cross and contains valuable infor mation and suggestions : In every household, especially in Ihe rural districts, a small cubbard is needed for medical and surgical supplies. Glass shelves are desirable because they show when dirty and are easily cleaned, but a wooden cub bard can easily be lined with clean paper or white enameled cloth held in place by thumb tacks. The cult bard should be kept locked at all times and the key kept out of reach of the children. In the cubbard should be kept medicines in daily use, they should not be paraded on family dinner tables. Poisonous drugs should have rough glass bottles and conspicuous labels. All medicine bottles should be kept well corked since evaporation may take place and the remaining solu tion, by becoming stronger, may b.: dangerous to use in the ordinary amount. Pills and tablets sometimes deteriorate by standing and may be come so hard that they pass through the stomach and intestines without dissolving. It is best to buy drugs and surgical supplies in small quan tities. When it is cheaper to buy more at a time the druggist should be asked whether they will deterio rate or not. Almost every family needs to keep on hand some cathartics, some dis infectants, some material for first aid and a few simple appliances. Most families have certain other needs peculiar to themselves and for those who live at a distance from the drug store a greater quantity and variety may be required, but elabo rate equipment and extensive sup plies of medicine are neither eco nomical nor necessary for household .•use. Castor oil, some laxative salts and two grain cascara tablets ordinarily constitute a sufficient supply of ca thartics for family use. A small bot tle of tincture of iodine and one of 70 per cent alcohol should be kept for disinfecting. Neither is for internal use. The iodine is used to disinfect small wounds and abrasions of the skin. It should be applied with cot ton swabs and several swaps should be made and kept on hand in an en velope or box. Alcohol is used to dis infect thermometers and other ins truments that cannot be boiled, for rubbing and for disinfecting the skin. A 90 per cent solution is sometimes used for rubbing but need not be pur chased until it is needed. Denatured and wood alcohol are poisonous and should not be used in households only in spirit lamps; these alcohols are not safe for any other purpose. First aid materials may include two gauze bandages two and a half inches wide and two bandages one inch wide, one Red Cross first aid outfit, a small package of absorbent cotton, a roll of old muslin, a pack age of adhesive plaster one inch wide, boracie ointment, picric scid gauze or other application for burns, safety pins and a pair of scissors. For use in case of fainting or ex haustion it is well to keep aromatic spirits of ammonia on hand. Its bot tle should have a rubber stopper. The dose is one-half to one teaspoonful in a quarter to half glass of water. Hot coffee and tea are also found good stimulants, but they take some time to prepare for use. Household ammonia must not be used as a subs titute for aromatic. Olive oil, mustard and baking soda may be brought from the kitchin if needed, and almost every house hold has on hand vaseline, cold cream, hand lotion, talcum powder, and other toilet preparations. Only a fw ap pliances are necessary. Among them are a medicine glass, a teaspoon, a clinical thermometer, a hot water bot tle or bag, a fountain syringe, and an alcohol lamp in housM or electric stoves. It is better not to buy other appliances until they are needed, particularly rubber goods, since they deteriorate rapidly. Mr. Sidney Flinchum, of Piedmont Springs, was here today. Danbury, N. C, Wednesday, May 17, 1922 SAMPLE OF LETTERS TO SHERIFF TURPIN Letter Printed Below Was Writ ten By Wife Of Prominent Citizen Of Big Creek Town ' ship. ! j Sheriff 11. D. Turpin hands the Re porter a letter from the wife of a | ■ good citizen of the county with the j request that it be printed. Mr. Tur : pill states that this is only one of the : many letters he is receiving almost j daily containing practically the sama thing and coming from almost every section of the county. The letter, ! with the name of the writer omitted, ! follows : Francisco, May 7. Sheriff 11. D. Turpin, Danbury, N. C. Dear Sir:—You have helped so much in the trouble over on the other side of the creek from us, I want you to go up in the Brown mountain in the negro settlement and the path up that branch will lead you to the still or the whiskey house—one or the other—l can't tell which, but please stop it. Every week it is brought here by the gallon from up there. It was the same way over here until you got them scared eff over across the creek in that settlement, but it is not quite so plentiful over there now jar.d they have turned to the Brown j Mountain dealer. Now, for God's sake and for the sake of my little children help me and them out for they have to suffer as well as I do on account of it, and God will help you to do your duty and will give you a reward at last. Now please stop it, is the prayer of a poor, forsaken wife and mother, and thanks to you who we are all proud to own as our Sheriff, thinking how things were for the last year back we all ought to be proud of what you are doing. DON'T YOU NEED THIS LITTLE BOY ? There Are Many Childless Fami lies In the County That He Might Make Happier By His Presence. The two short letters below were received at the Reporter office this week and we gladly give them pub licity in the hope that some homes in Stokes may be interested in the lit tle boys of whom Mr. Phoenix writes : Greensboro, N. C., May 10, 1922. Dear Mr Editor : I am a little boy six months old and I want a mother. A kind Providence sent me to the Children's Home So ciety and I am growing fat and will soon be a big boy. There are so many babies here I want some good woman to write to the Superintendent of the Children's Home Society of North Carolina, at Greensboro, N. C., and ask him to give me to her. I am sure he will do so as he has so many motherless babies and more want to come to th 9 Home. Write him today and I will come to some childless home. With love, A HOMELESS BABY BOY. My Dear Mr. Editor : We are so badly overcrowded with children that we are making a special effort to secure homes for several baby boys. If you could give some prominence to the above little letter we believe you might be the means of finding several good homes in your county that would be interested in receiving one of these charming in fants. You have always shown a willing disposition to assist in this work for homeless children and we want you to know that the same is fully appre ciated. Thanking you in advance for this courtesy, we remain, Yours very truly, JOHN J. PHOENIX, State Superintendent. A demonstration with the Fordson tractor will be given on Tuesday, June 13th, on the farm of Mr. B. J. Savage at Germanton, by the Cox- Covington Motor Co., of Rural Hall, as will be seen from annourcement elsewhere in this paper. ROCKINGHAM BEATS STOKES That County Gets Million and A Half Dollars For Hard Sur face Roads—Stokes Can't Get One Road To County Seat. Within the next eighteen months the State Highway Commission will spend nearly or quite a million and a half dollars for hard surface road.- in our neighbor county—Rockingham. The roads to be built in that county arc all hard surface and are between the points mentioned below: Reidsville to Wentworth, eight miles, cost about $200,000, work now started on the road. Leaksville to Gunn's store, nine miles, cost about $310,000, survey completed, contract to be let this sum mer. ' Madison to Mayodan, two miles, survey finished, cost about SOO,OOO. Reidsville to Guilford line, eight miles; Reedy Fork to Rockingham line; Reidsville to Virginia line, these three projects of 18 miles are esti mated to cost about $545,000, and con tract for their construction will be let as soon as they are surveyed. The above program will give Rock ingham county a total of thirty-seven miles of hard surface highway at a cost of one and a half million dol lars, while Stokes is unable to in duce the highway commission so far to give us one hard surface road to the county seat. Several of these roads to be built in Rocikngham will not have one-half the traffic on them that goes over the road between Dan bury and Walnut Cove. Mrs. S. W. Pulliam Liquor Traffic King, May 10. Dear Mr. Editor : I was very glad to read the letters ■_>f Mrs. Morefield, Mr. Petree and 'Mrs. Taylor in the Danbury Reporter on the subject of the liquor traffic. I jam not only writing what I think, but what all the other women of this com munity think. We are glad to see the pendulum swing in the direction of better law-enforcement in Stokes jcounty. It seems that the manner in I which the prohibition law is being en forced is much more pleasing to the j"drys" than to the "wets." Mr. Tur ! pin bodes no good for dry violaters anywhere at any time. Law-enforce iment is the greatest problem before the Stokes people and it is the duty of every loyal, thoughtful citizen to de mand that the laws be enforced. I am like Mr. Petree, I have always had the nterest of the young people at heart and I wish so much we could get strong drink out of their way. They will soon fill the older folks' places, and we trust they will make bet'er citizens. We feel sure they would if this evil was out of their way. The Bible says "drinkers of strong drink err in vision, stumble in judgment." We feel sure that if the makers and dealers realized what a crime they are committing against human be ings they would stop forevermore. We see a big crowd of little boys just beginning to wear overalls. We are trusting their appetites will never crave strong drink and their breaths will never be made foul by this stuff. Now is the time to begin to work for them, and we realize the tight will be continuous for the little fellows. We are thankful for a large number that will never give up this temperance warfare, that we can tight with the ballot at the ballot box. On election day woman can be weighed in the bal ance and not found wanting. MRS. S. W. PULLIAM. B. Frank Mebane's Liberal Offer Reidsville, May 12.—C01. B. Frank Mebane will pay the round-trip fare to Richmond in June to the Confed erate reunion for all Rockingham county veterans who will attend. Mr. J. Lindsay Patterson, of Wins ton-Salem, was a Danbury (visitor Friday of the past week. Mr. M. D. Sizemore was here from Meadows township last week and re ported the first rattle-snake killed in his section by Mr. Will Hicks. KING BANK ELECTS OFFICERS W. E. Hartman Given Birthday Dinner—A Death and A Mar riage—Mrs. Adkins Taken To State Hospital. Kimr, May 1".-- \t a mot-ting of t\e Farmers" ami Merchants Bank he 1.1 hi le last w VA Mr. Fivd E. Short was elected pvesidout to IUI the vacuivj caused by the lesign-ition of Mr. J. T. Smith, and the following directors were elected: J. E. Turner, J. M. AU'.y, N. K. Preston, Fred E. Shore, and R. Whito. Mr. Jas R. Bowen was nvide \ice pr' idem and Mr. Jno. A. Leak* cashier. At this meeting it v. as decided to raise the capital stock ifrom ten to fifteen thousand dollars. I Mrs. Perry Adkins, who lost her | mind recently, was carried to the State Hospital at Morganton last week. Mrs. James Tuttlo, of Sherman, Texas, is spending a few days with i her sister, Mrs. J. M. Alley on West Main street. Mr. Tuttle says that the Mississippi river was eijrht miles wide at the point where he crossed it, due to the Hood in that section. The relatives and friends of Mr. W. [Everett Hartman give him a surprise birthday dinner Friday, a large num ber being in attendance. Temporary j tables were quickly arranged on the , shady lawn on which was served a fine I dinner. Everyone present seemed to enjoy the occasion immensely. This was Mr. Ilartman's thirty-second mile ' stone. Farmers in this section are about half through planting tobacco. Rev. Loyd M. 11 olio way, of the en listment board, will be with Rev. E. W. Turner at his regular appointment at King Baptist church on the -Ith .Saturday and Sunday in May. | Mr. C. O. Boyles made a business I trip to Winston-Salem today. I Mr. Sidney O. Schaub and wife and Miss Cladie Stone, of High Point, 'spent Sunday with Mrs. B. J. Stone. Mr. Geo. W. Priddy, aged 59, and Mrs. Mary Etta Bray, aged 37, were quietly married here yesterday, Esq. James R. Caudle officiating. Mrs. John Henry Kreeger, nged about 07 years, died her home near Tobaecoville early this morning after a lingering illness of several months. The Boyles Co., who have opened up an undertaking business in ad dition to their mercantile business, have just received an up-to-date I hearse. Several of the people here attended i the closing exercises of the Pinnacle high school Friday and Saturday and they report a nice entertainment. BONDS SOLD FOR ROAD TO STOKES Forsyth County Issues SBOO,OOO Bonds For Road Building. Stokes People Vitally Inter ested In this News. On Monday of this week the Board of Commissioners of Forsyth county received bids on eight hundred thou sand dollars bonds, the same being j sold to the Wachovia Bank & Trust : Co. for a premum of about $25,000.00 on the entire issue. These bonds were issued for the use of the county highway commission to take care of its plans for road con struction in the county. Among the roads to be built with this money, according to the Winston newspapers, is the hard surface high way from Winston-Salem to the Stokes county line at Fulp. Also the highway to be built from Winston- Salem to the Guilford line toward Stokesdale. The information given above will prove of interest to many Stokes people who are deeply interested in the construction of the road to our county line at Fulp. It looks now like this road, which is to be built by For syth county, will soon be a reality. The garage of Mr. Zeb Smith ■ ere has been made a Ford service station and only genune Ford parts will be used In repair work, according to an nouncement elsewhere in this paper. Mothers' Day was celebrated by the Union Sunday school here last Sunday with appropriate exercises. No. 2,616 ROBBERY AT WALNUT COVE Severe Storm Visits Commun ity, I)oin£ Considerable Dam age—Discussing New M. E. Church—.Mr. Mallet Leaves. Walnut Cove, May 15.—.Mr. M. N. White, tlii' night operator at the N. £ \\. Railway station here, was rob bed Thursday night while on duty at the station, the robbers securing sls from the change drawer in the office and a few dollars from the person of Mr. White. The two men who rob bed the operator a; pea red at the sta tion window about four o'clock in the morning and shot a pane of glass f.or.i one of the windows, after which they made the operator open tho door and let them in. Mr. White did not know either of the men and there was no clue left by which they could be traced. A terrific wind, hail and rain storm visited this community Saturday af ternoon, unroofing several tobacco barns, uprooting shade trees and fruit trees in town, blowing window lights from several residences, put ling the telephone lines completely out of commission and doing other minor damage. Mr. White, who has been holding a position here as traveling salesman for the Stokes Grocery Co. for some years, left last week for Mount Airy to accept a similar position in that city. The new residence of Mr. N. Ray Martin on North Main street here is about completed and is being painted this week. It is learned that Mr. J. B. Wood ruff has offered to give a lot on which to erect a Methodist church in Wat nut Cove. The Methodist church at present is located over at Stokes burg. It is likely thai a new church will bo erected on the lot offered Mr. Woodruff at an early date. In case it is done it has not been learned whether the Methodist church at Stokesburg would be discontinued or whether both churches would be kept tap. Miv. W. L. Vaughn returned Thurs day from a visit to friends at Ashe ville. Rev. J. R. Mallet, who has been rector of the Episcopal church here left Tuesday for Wilmington where he will have charge of St. John's church at that place. The people here see him leave with deep regret he having been such a help to the town and community. Mrs. E. C. Snow, of Elkin, is vis iting her daughter, Mrs. George Ful ton. Miss Estelle Rierson, of Winston- Salem, spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Rierson. Several people went from here to Winston-Salem Tuesday to see the famous moving picture, "The Sheek." Among these were Mesdames Shock ley, E. I). Matthews, Jacdb J ulton, Misses Lucy Burton and Louise Woodruff, Messrs. John Burton and Jacob Fulton. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Davis spent Sun day with Mr. Davis' parents, Dr. and Mrs. Davis, at Summerfield. Misses Nell and K.atherine Hutch erson and Mr. Henry Baker, of Wins ton-Salem, visited friends here Sat urday. Mr. Frank Petree, of Germanton, is spendng a few days in Walnut Cove. Liberal Offer Made Pepper's Warehouse Winston-Salem, May 16.—The Winston Sentinel today investigated a report that was current here to the effect that the Co-operative Market ing Association had secured a lease on the Pepper warehouse for the com ing tobacco season. It was learned from a reliable source that while the owners of the warehouse had been of fered a very liberal proposition, for which the directors expressed their appreciaton, at a meeting held a few days ago, the board voted to conduct auction sales at their house as usual the coming season. First Car Load Of Florida Watermelons The first car load of watermelon* to be shipped from Florida to the north passed through North Carolina the past week.
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