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LOCAL NEWS ITEMS Mr. and Mrs. R. I. Dalian, of YVins ton-Salem, visited Ore. W. V.d nn W. L. Mcl'anless Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Julia Hines, of Winston- Salem, was the guest of Mrs. E. I', Pepper several days this week. Mr. and Mrs J. J. Adams, of Wins ton-Salem, and Mrs. H. H. Davis, of Walnut Cove, visited in Dunbury Sunday afternoon. The public highway between Dan bury and Piedmont Springs is being given an overhauling this week by- Messrs. E. R. Nelson and Sidney Plinchum with a force of laborers. It is rumored here that Deputy Sheriff E. R. Nelson may be a dark horse candidate in the coming con test for the office of Sheriff in Stokes. Mr. Nelson was here this week but did not confirm the report. The RitmrUr regrets to learn (if the coiitiiiiH I M I'ii.us illness of Mr. Tip Johnson at his home in Yadkin township, lie is ureonst-ioiis a goo I p:irt of the time and l>ut little hope is entertained for his lveoverv. Mr. Johnson is more than se\ei:ty year: of a Re. , Governor Hard On Man Without A Garden Greensboro, N.C.,June G. —"lt should be a felony for any North Carolina home to be without a garden," declared Governor Cameron Morrison today in stressing his program "for a garden for every North Carolina home," in an address to the 95 members of the graduating class at the North Carolina College for Women, Fake Liberty Bonds. It has been charged that hund reds of millions of fake Liberty bonds are it circulation. The government itself admits that there are enormous numbers of them floating around. To The Tobacco Growers of Stokes County: Can you afford to buy high-priced fertilizer for your tobacco and go to the trouble of planting and cultivating it several times prob ably, and then let the hail storms tear it to pieces? Why not have your crop insured so if it gets torn up, you can get your money out of it just the same? Let us insure it for you in the strongest com pany in the world, the Hartford. Losses will be promptly and satisfactorily adjusted. We will also write lire insurance in Stokes county. You can't afford not to have your buildings insured against fire. See:— H. H. LEAKE, E. P. PEPPER, Agents, Danbury, - N. Car. AUTO LICENSES NOW HEADY First 1500 Green and White Tags Went Out Tuesday— The Rush Will Soon He On With Secretary State. Kaleigh, June 7.—Fifteen hundred green and white auto mobile license tags for 1922 -3 went out to early applicants yes terday, beginning the twelfth annual re-licensing of motor vehicles in the state, and a force of 50 clerks will be kept busy for the next two months registering and licensing the 200,000 motor vehicles in North Carolina. Freaks were included largely in the number that went out yes terday, unusual numbers that have been requested for years and years by motorists. No 1 went for the ninth consecutive year to Thos. Wilder, of Aber deen. a brother-in-law of High way Commissioner Frank Page. No. l.'J and 1313 went to Senator Mark Squires in Caldwell. Every automobile, motor truck and cycle in North Carolina will have a tag issued by the state this year, whether the vehicle is owned by the state, countv or municipality. The special session of the General Assembly did awav with the special license plates that came into vogue a year ago, and police departments, and the like will disappear, even to the resplendent brass plate on the rear of tha Governor's car. One dollar is the fee that will be charged for state, county and city cars, and with each applica tion must come certification that the car is actuallv owned by the state, county or citv. No pri THE DANBURY REPORTER vately owned automobiles operat ed by public officials will be li censed under public licenses. The fee charged will cover the cost of the license. Approximately 148,000 pass enger cars, 15.000 trucks, 1,400 motorcyles and 90 dealers have been licensed during the year that is drawing to an end, or a total of about 165,000 automo biles. Licenses for the ensuing year are expected to approach the 200,000 mark. Receipts from all sources during the year were $3,000,000. One thousand special licenses have been ordered for the State Highway Commission, numbered from Ito 1,000. They are dupli cates of the regular plate, except the letter H stenciled on one end. The first 100 will be used for service cars, and the remaining 900 distributed among the main tenance and engineering cars in the nine districts. Numbers from 100 to 199 will go to the First District, 200 to the second, and soon. LOCAL NEWS ITEMS j Mr. Walter D. (leorne, rep ' resenting the Universal Auto I Company of was ; here Tuesday. Mr. Harry 11. Leake visited ' Walnut Cove Tuesday. Mr. Jno.W. Brown, of Moore's Springs, was here Tuesday. Mr. J. R. Bowen, candidate 1 for Register of Deeds, from King, 5 was in town Tuesday. Mr. Gid Baker was here Tues day from Meadows. Mr. J. R. Flynt, of Walnut Cove, was in town today. Mr. ; Flynt reports his wife poorly. The Primary Vote In Stokes County. The table below shows the vote as cast in the primary last Saturday at the several election precincts in Stokes. (This table Rives the official vote and has been revised since other figures given in this paper were received.) li:e a very kit.ull o.\ AI'STLN albeutson* iiaymorr mhji ikk Danliury 26 1 28 11 6 Hartman 8 1 y 7 Lawsonville 21 21 j Tilley's 10 17 4 ] Frans 10 17 10 Moir 12 12 25 1 18 1 Brown Mt. 4 J 5 12 Flinty Knoll 8 4 14 1 13 Pinnacle 20 3 23 1 13 1 King 27 6 50 20 5 Boyles 13 27 5 2 Mizpah 4 14 11 2 Germanton 19 j0 38 35 Wilson's Store 47 4b 11 E. Walnut Cove 81 85 If) W. Walnut Cove 52 1 52 2 2 2 Freeman's 10 10 3 Pine Hall 2 17 19 1 1 Mithells' 17 20 2 2 E. Sandy W. Sandy Kidge 23 23 3 9 Total 130 84 582 2 4 3 210 25 Full Text of Resolution To Issue $150,000 Bonds As Adopted By Stokes Board of Commissioners Last Monday. On this the 3th day of June, 19--. a full board of commission ers being present in person, and in regular session at the court House in Danbury, N. C'. t and the matter of public highways and public bridges for the county, coming on for consideration by the board, and it appearing to the board that all of the town ships in the county of Stokes, have heretofore issued and sold Township l>onds, respectively, to obtain funds with which to construct and improve the public highwavs therein, respectively, and that with said funds they have constructed and improved, are constructing and improving, and will construct and improve certain public highways therein; ar.d it further appears to the board that there are certain cun- necting links of public highways of the county, in said townships, not now improved, and which are now in bad condition, and much needed by the townships and by the general public of the county, which the townships are unable to construct, build and improve from funds realized by the bond issues aforesaid, and that unless said connecting links are con structed and improved, a large amount of the public highways of the county, constructed and improved by said townships, and which are now being constructed and improved, and will be con structed and improved by the several townships, will not be near so useful, nor of anything like so much benefit to the citi zens of said townships, and the general public of the county, as they would be. if said connecting links of public road were con structed and improved, and that a large number of the citizens of the county have no suitable way to get to and from the county seat thereof, to and from the markets, or to obtain the neces sary services of physicians in case of illness, or to carry on necessary business relations, or social relations among themselves and others, and that the con struction and improvement of said connecting links of said highways, and the building of the necessary bridges across the streams thereon, is a public necessity and a necessary county expense; And it further appearing to the board that the county of ' Stores, does not have funds ! su'licient and necessary to grade, build, construct and improve the aforesaid necessary connecting | links of public highway, and to I build and construct the necessary ; public bridges thereon, as herein ] before set forth, and that it will be necessary for the county of Stokes to borrow the same, as a | necessary county expense, the board being of the opinion that it I will take at least $15(1,00(1.00 for said purpose, which it is author ized and empowered to do by virtue of Sections :i7«»7 to 3772, both inclusive, of the Consolidat ed Statutes of North Carolina: NOW THEREFORE, be it re so! -ed by the board of commis sioners of Stokes county, North Carolina, that the grading, con structing, opening up. building and improving the several con necting links of public highway in the county of Stokes, and ths necessary biidgps across streams thereon, as set forth in the pre amble hereto, is a public neces sity, and a necessary county expense; and, be it further resolved that it is necessary for the county of Stokes to borrow the necessary funds for said purpose, in the sum of ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS: and, be it further resolved that the county of Stokes, borrow said one hundred and fifty thousand dol lars, and issue one hundred and fifty coupon bonds therefor, in the denomination of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, each, numbering consecutively from one to one hundred and fifty, both inclusive, aggregating the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, denominated "STOKES COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA. PUBLIC ROAD AND BRIDCE BONDS;" and, be it further resolved that said bonds l>ear annual interest from date of issue, at the rate of per centum per annum, and fall due and payable as follows: $5,000.00, due and payable each year from June Ist, 1033 to June Ist, 1937 inclusive. $7,000.00 due and payable each year from June Ist, 1938 to June Ist, inclusive. $8,000.00 due and payable each year from June Ist, 1943 to June Ist, 1947 inclusive. $10,000.00 due and payable each year from June Ist, 194S to June Ist, 1952 inclusive. Be it further resolved that said bonds shall not be sold for less thanpar and accrued interest thereon, to date of deliverv. That said bonds bear date of June Ist. 1922, and that the interest coupons thereto attached bear even date with the bonds, and that the bonds be signed l'.v the Chairman of the bo ird of Commissioners of Stokes county, countersigned by the Clerk of said board, and the official sea' of said board af!;:;ed thereto by the Chairman, in the presence of the full board cf county commission- jers. or a majority thereof; that the interest coupons be attached t> said bonds, properly numbered to correspond with the respective j bonds to which they are attach ed, and bear tiie facsmiie signa tures cf the Chairman and Clerk of the Hoard, respectively. That the form of the bonds and interest coupons, and place of payment thereof, be hereafter determined by the board of com missioners of Stokes county, North Carolina. That the clerk of the board advertise for sealed proposals for the purchase of said bends, ard receive sealed proposals therefor, up to and including the hour of two o'clock P. M. Saturday, June the Kith. Tr.at said Clerk cause to be inserted a notice of said sale of bonds in one issue of the BOND BUYER. ; That a certified check for two per per cent of the aggregate amount of said bonds, accompany each sealed proposal, to bo re turned to the bidder, in case his bid is not accepted. That the right be, and is here by reserved by the board of com missioners of Stokes county, North Carolina, to reject any and all bids. That the sealed proposals for the purchase of said bonds be opened and passed upon by the board of commissioners of Stokes county, at the court house in Danbury, N. C., on Saturday, Tune the 10th, 102? at the hour of 2:00 o'clock P. M. The forotfointf resolutions is passed upon and adopted by the board of commissioners of Stokes county. North Carolina, at its office in Danbury, N. C,, on the the sth day of June, 1922, and upon the roll call of the members of said board, the following mem bers voted aye: J. W. Slate, J. A. Boles, and S. P. Venable. And it is thereupon ordered bv the board that the resolution be spread upon the minutes of the board by the Clerk of the board.
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