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DANBURY REPORTER Volume L. • "ON TO iSTUART" AS THE CROW FLIES Great Project Developing Be tween Winston-Salem and Patrick County, Va.. Via Dan bury. Today 50 automohiles filled with business aivi professional iner. of Winston-Salem, mixed with a large number of cars from Walnut Cove and other points of Stokes, likewise tilled with prominent and public spirited men of the county, passed through Danbury, bearing banners inscribed "Winston-Salem Stokes County Stuart Highway." At Danbury, Law sonville, Campbell and other points the fleets of north-bound cars wen* joined by more Stokes boosters. The occasion was the promotion of the proposed ' Winston-Salem-Stuart highway, a direct road leading from the capital of Patrick county via Campbell, through Jewel place, Buck Island bridge, tapping the Westfield-Danbury turnpike near Piedmont Springs, forming a through line almost as the crow flies from the capitol of Patrick to North Carolina's leading city, Winston-Salem. The dis tance from Winston-Salem is ex actly 50 miles, you might say only two hours drive. The North Carolina delegation ar rived at Stuart from 10 a. m. to 12, finding Stuart's doors wide open and the keys thrown into the Mayo rive. In his address of welcome. Mayor Burton happily said all laws were suspended while North Carolina wis in town. The freedom of the town was extended in tha,t felicitous way which only Virginians know how to uo, and the proverbial hospitality of the Old Dominion was everywhere i". evidence. Stretched over the leading entrance streets were huge banners saying "Welcome." Scattered about in cool spots on the shady streets were barrels of the finest Patrick county apples, without price to the visitors, and here and there lemonade booths were serving cool ng free drinks to the crowd. There were dozens of cais from Mount Airy, too, and large crowds of leading Mt. Airy citizens had come in them, Mount Airy also being in terested in a road from Stuart. The size of the North C.-.roliw crowd, which numbered hundreds, was largely supplemented by many Virginia visitors from the adjacent county. So that when we arrived about 11 o'clock a. v the streets were packed with cart and humanity. At 12 o'clock and upwards an ex cellent lunch was served in the base ment of the Baptist church, and at other places in town. The ladies of Stuart served the visitors without stint to cold ham, fried chicken, veg etables, stuffed eggs, pickled peaches, and lemon pie—prepared in that pal atable style which is the envy of all Patrick visitors. Free meal tickets had been handed everybody imme diately on arrival. After the dinner the crowd ;.d --journed fo the auditorium of the Ba >- ist church where tiie road boosters met for the transaction of the busi ness of the occasion. Never was more successful or en joyable event pulled off in this sec lion of the two States. Every, cit izen of Stuart, men and women, vied with each other in making the visitor feel welcome and happy, and the bond of friendship, which has always been unbroken between the people of Patrick and Stokes, was enlarged and strengthened by many more new strands. Among the citizens of Stuart who helped to cordially welcome and en tertain the visitors, were several former Stokes people, now successful business men of Stuart, to-wit: Tom George, (son of Rev. R. W. George, of Francisco), E C. Sheppard and family, formerly of LawSonville; Robert and Ed Neal, formerly of Meadows; James Rierson, formerly of Campbell, and others. Likewise we were much indebted for courtesies shown by Mayor Burton, Editor of thr Enterprise Hylton and Mrs. Hylton, Attorney W. L. Joyce, Brockley .Smith and others. Among the Danbury people whu attended the Leake-Sprinkle wedding at Bethania Thurday evening las) were Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Leake, Miss Josie Pepper,' Mr. Ausby Smith anc Mr and Mn. N. E. Pepper. STOKES PAID $519 FOR RELIEF WORK Our County Took 3tith Place In the List of Counties— j Another Campaign To Be Put On this Year. Stokes county raised $519.25 for jhe Near East Relief Work this year, I or 72 per cent of its quota, according to announcement from Raleigh by : Col. Geo. H. Bellamy, the State chair- j man of the work. Stokes stood I thirty-sixth in the list of the hun dred counties in North Carolina. Our county sent in $372.2)5 in casn ; up to the close of the fiscal year on June 30. Clothing to the value of $117.00 was sent in by the county. Mrs. A. G. Jones, of 'Walnut Cove, | was chairman for the county and her : work was highly commended by Col. I Bellamy in his annual report, which has just been issued. In thanking his chairman and work ers and the people who contributed j this money, Col. Bellamy cal>d at-; tention to the fact that it will he necessary to put on a similar cam paign this fiscal year, because the great powers of the world are al lowing the Turks to continue their massacres in Armenia as well as the destruction of all crops, homes and industries. "There have been twenty-two sepa rate massacres since the Armistice," declares Col. Bellamy, "which makes it impossible for these people to be self-supporting until France, En gland and Italy relinquish their pro tectorate over Turkey in their scram ble for the Mohammedan calico trade. "The recent British refusal to al low the Greek army to stop massa cres of its own people was one of the most astounding and sordid chapters in history, and until such conditions as this disappear and England be comes a Christian nation, the Ameri can people are the only thing that can stand between Armenia and the entire starvation of its out-standing population." Nice Program By Teachers Tuesday (Written for the Reporter.) Last Monday the Danbury people received unique invitations to come to the court house on Tuesday af j tcrnoon at 2 o'clock fuc a short pry igram and an exhibition of the worn 'done by the departments of the I • Summer School. These attractive programs were designed and made by the Primary Department, under the direction of Miss Nannie Pigg. Prof. C. L. Weathers made a splen did talk on Appreciation, which de lighted the audience from beginning to end. He spoke of the community spirit which existed among the Dan i bury people. | Supt. J. T\ Carson also made an interesting talk, stating that he was J delighted with the way in which the I teachers had been so warmly received in Danbury. | The rest of the program was as follows : Song : Keep a Smile On In Dan bury, by thy Summer School. Recitation by Miss Katherine Mar tin. Duet, "I.ittle Maid," by Miriam Hall and Mary McCanless. Two Dramatizations, "A Quarrel In Grammar Land" and "Essentials In Composition," by Miss Grace Tay lor's Department. Primary Songs by the Summer School. Song, "Row Your Boat," by thr.- audience. Vocal solo, "Smiles and Frowns," by Mr. J. Irving Bolt. Vocal solo, "In the Time of Roses," by Miss Agnes Dodson. Folk Game, "Hey, Little Lassie," by the Physical Culture Dept. Presentation of Prizes to Mrs. Wm. Joyce, Mrs. H. L Wilson and Miss Nannie Greene, by Mr. C. G. Griffin. Two Songs, "In the Evening by the Moonlight," and "If You Want To Be a Tar Heel," liy the audience. At the conclusion of the program Prof. Weathers invited everyone into the hall where delicious punch was served by Mrs. W. E. Joyce and Miss Edith Fagg. They were then shown into the rooms where the work of the Summer School was on display. One room contained the books done by the Primary Dept., such as artificial flowers, animals, silhouettes, and Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, Aug. 30, 1922 BRIGHT PROSPECT I ! COUNTY'S SCHOOLS' I I I Summer School Has Best At j tendance In Its History— Principal For the Germantor" i Hinh School Elected. Ger.nanton, Aug. 2'J.—Supt. of I Schools J. C. Carson reports a bright outlook for the schools of Stokes the 1 coming session. The teachers' sum : mer school at Danbury has the best attendance in the history of the coun i ty. The people of the county are get | ting thoroughly interested in better J schools. Germanton only recently vo ted an additiona special tax for the school here and by next year expect ito have a high school second to none. Prof. A. A. Keener has been named ; principal of the Germanton high j school. The lawn party given by the ladies of the Baptist church Saturday was a great success, despite the inclement j weather. A neat sum was placed in ; the bank which will be used later for the improvement of the church. Miss Vick Johnson, of Quaker Gap, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. C. J. Helsabeck, for several days, re turned home this week. The little Misses Carson, of Greens boro, returned to their home Sunday, after a pleasant visit here. J. W. Kurfees spent the week end with his family here. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Merritt, of Wins ton-Salem, visited friends in German ton Sunday. Claud Dearmin, of Jacksonville, 1 Fla., is spending some time with his I aunt, Mrs. P. J. Carson. * Misses Flora Alspaugh, Lillian Turner and James Alspaugh visited friends here recently. Dr. C. J. Helsabeck and Mr. Curtis McGee, of Germanton, were visitors in Danbury Friday afternoon. Mrs. John T. Simpson and children, ■ of Winston-Salem, visited Mr. and Mrs. .John Taylor the past week. various other pictures. Among the 'different articles were bird books and Mother Goose books, which deserve 'special mention. The Judges, Mrs. , John Taylor, Miss Mary Taylor and , Mr. C. G. Smith, found it a very diffi cult task in awarding the prizes, as the books were all so splendidly . ' made. After f .ireful consideration i Mrs. Wm. JoJ>ie was given first pri;:c, a picture for the school room for hash ing the best Bird Book. Miss Nannie Greene was given first prize for hav ing the best Mother Goose book. In another room Prof. Weathers' class in writing displayed specimens of their best writing at the beginning ) of the Summer School and also spec imens of their best writing at the close, in order to show the most in provement in the new method. Mr . H. L. Wilsdn was given first pm •. five hundred sheets of Palmer paper. I ! The people of Danbury 'feel very | much indebted to the Summer School faculty and members of the Summer .School, for making the afterne.in I such a pleasant one in every respect. News and Personals Of Stokesburg (,Received too late for last issue.) Stokesburg, Aug. 25.—The Ladies' 'land Young Peoples' Missionary So * 'riety of the Methodist church of -1 Stokesburg held a very successful I lawn party in the beautiful grove of r the Hairston estate on Wednesday evening last. | Mrs. W. T. Stringer, of Baltimore, |is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. ' [Sanders. | Mr. Reeves Jones, of Richmond, is spending some time at the home of his parents, Dr. and Mrs. A. G. Jones. Dr. Z. V. Conyers, of Greensboro, gave a very delightful camping party ■ at his camp at Kernersville recently ' in honor of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. San • ders and Mrs. W. T. Ritter. Mr. Samuel Hairston, of Danville, ' was a guest at Stokesburg this week, t ( Mr. Jos. E. Bryant, of Mississippi, -1 who has been conducting a singing i schooj at the Baptist church, has ac > cepted a position at Mebane. i Mr. Oliver Hildebrand, who has i been spending a few days here as the i guest of Misses Gladys and Eugenia i Wheeler, has returned to his home in i Dayton, Ohio. r Mr. Matt Marshall, of Waahington, 1 D. C., ia spending his vacation with i his parents near Stokesdals. SOCIAL AFFAIRS AT WALNUT COVE I Many Young People Leave For : School Soon—Sunday School i Picnic—Personals. Walnut Cove. A us. "'>•— With many j of the young people • f the town pr '-' paring :•> leave fur school an-l evtr il; visitors here, the summer season in \ Walnut Cove is being brought to a . close by a number of social affairs. On Tuesday evening of last week the younger set enjoyed a "weiner" roast on the creek bank back of the old knitting mill. Several hours of enjoyment were spent around the camp fires, toasting weincrs anil marshnmllows. After the fire had gone down all those present enjoyed a delightful little dance. Another delighful affair of the week was the porch dance given at the beautiful home of Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Neal on Saturday evening. The | dance was given in honor of Miss Lillian Stack, of Monroe, the attrac tive guest of Miss Thelma Neal. Dancing was enjoyed until a late hour. During the evening delicious re freshments were served to those pres ent. Decidedly the most enjoyable af fair of the past week was the dance given by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hedgecock in honor of their guest, Miss Elizabeth Sparger, of Greens boro. The rooms of the lower rtoor of the spacious Hedgecock home were thrown ensuite agd the house was decorated in the colorful flowers of I fall and late summer. Out-of-town visitors present were: Mr. and Mrs. I Henry Scott and Lnwry Scott, of I Durham; Miss Elizabeth Sparger, of | Greensboro; Miss Kathryn Martin, jof Burlington; Mr. Robt. Hackles', |of Sparta. Those from Walnut Cove I were Misses Nell, Kathryn and Mar-! I garet Hutcherson, Mr. and Mrs. P. j W. Davis, Walter, Louise. John and ; | Ruth Woodruff, Ralph Slate, and ' i Sadie. Annie and Elizabeth Fulton, j Members of the Sunday School of J Christ's Episcopal church of Walnut Cove enjoyed a picnic supper at Pied-' •nont Springs on Thursday evening of last week. The party left Walnut Cove about .'!:()() o'clock in the after noon and arrived at Piedmont about 1:00. A delightful supper was served at the spring. .Miss Margaret Hutcherson has re turned home after a visit to Haw River. While there Miss Htcherson was a member of a house party given by the Misses Hughes. Miss Elizabeth Fulton has returned | home after a visit to Miss Dorothy | Clement in Greensboro, i Mr. John Burton was a visitor in ; Walnut Cove Sunday. Mr. Burton is j now employed by the State Highway j Commission and is located at Sparta. | Miss Elizabeth Sparger, of Greens [boro, is an attracive visitor in Wal nut Cove this week. ; Mr. Robert Hackler, of Sparta, a former member of the high school faculty, was a visitor here this week. Miss Lillian Stack, of Monroe, is 'the attractive guest of Miss Thelma ; Neal. I WHO MAKES OUR MONEY ? The Government Produces Less Than 10 Per Cent of It—Bank - Checks Pay the Bills. Ask the man in the street "who manufactures the money used in the United States" and he will tell you that the Government does, in its sev eral mints and in the Bureau of En graving and Printing at Washington. He is mistaken, though. The Gov vernment makes less than ten p*r cent of our money. The other ninety odd per cent is made in the shops of the several thousand printers of the country. Checks constitute the money of the United States—not coins and bank notes. And they are the most effi cient money ever devised by any na tion. The National City Bank of New York in a recent issue of the bulletin published by it, says : principal medium of pay ments in the United £%tes is bank checks, and there is no essential dif ference in functions between a cur rency note and a bank check. A cur rency note, is chiefly used in the re tail trade and for payrolls." TWO MORE STILLS £ TAKEN LAST WEEK; i Sheriff Turpin Makes A New 1 Ruling In Regard To Dispo-; sition of Captured Whiskey—; —Brandy Poured Out. Sheriff Turpin and deputy Will, Heath t Friday afternoon captured j a blockade distillery and 13 gallons of ( brandy near the home of George Price, on tin- Pine Mall-Walnut Cove road. The still was brought here and t placed in jail, while the brandy was poured out and burned up on the spot where it was captured. Warrants have been sworn out and j are in the hands of the Sheriff for j the two men who have been operating j the distillery. Both men have es- t caped arrest so far. Sheriff Turpin has made a new ruling in regard to the disposition of whiskey captured by himself and his ' ( deputies. It will be poured out in the presence of witnesses as soon as v captured. | Deputy Sheriff John A. Young, of t Beaver Island township, brought a . still here Friday and placed it in the ( county jail. No whis-ki y was cap-i f tured by Mr. Young and no arrests ( have been made. A Night Spent On Moore's Knob (Written for the Reporter.) Twenty-one of Darbu»y's young ' people selected Friday and Saturday ' of last week for a visit to Moore'® Knob. The party left Danbury about, five in the afternoon, and by eight o'cloc.; ' all were fully ready for the camp sup- ' per which was cooked by the cleur : mountain stream at the foot of the ' Knob. Later, by the aid of lant»r:'S ' 'and tiash-lighfs, the crowd climbed ' |to the summit. It was u dark nir.ht,' ' | partially cloudy, but this fact mode . more beautiful the countless num ber of tobacco barn lights in the dis tance. The steep climb at the close of a warm day made all ready for sleep; so in a short time available beds were occupied. Just as weary heads were pillowed and blankets drawn up. shrieks of "Oh, bugs, bugs!" arouse 1 the whole top of the Knob. Lights were made, and liter ally thousands of lady bugs had to be picked from the curls and bobbed hair of the maidens thus attacked. It was some time before quiet reigne.i again. However, before sleep could | come the faint sou-id of an explosion was heard ami soon a brillant glow was seen in the direction of Winston- Salem. At the alarm of "Fire, fire!" blankets were pitched helter skelter |and it was some time before any one. j again thought of sleep. (Glaring I head-lines of the morning paper re | ported the destruction of two large j establishments in the heart of Wins | con-Salem.) | Three o'clock found the party once more settling for sleep, but, alas! the I cry of "Rain, rain!" sent each one | seeking fur himself some bit of shel i ter. The shower was soon over, j however. The brisk breeze that had sprunk up caused much uneasiness I on the part of the men and boys. The ! girls were iuiet again, but the rest -1 lessness of the boys made sleep im | possible. Finally, when patience had ; given out. one chaperone called out. :"Eoys, why are you prowling around so?" A weary answer from the dark ness came, "We are looking for rocks !to weight our hats down." One naughty maid could not resist making the suggestion: "Put your feet into , into them." Just at dawn sleepy heads bobbed up here and there to see the sun rise, which promised to be glorious. In ■ deed around the breakfast camp fire all agreed that the discomforts of ' the previous night were already for i gotten. Mrs. J. W. Kurfees, Misses Irma Kurfees, Lillian Small, Louise Pow ers and Mary Preston Bynum, and . Messrs. Lauriston Powers and Walter Styers composed an automobile party r from Germanton who attended the [ mock trial at the court houso here Thursday evening. After the trial . the party and a number of Danbury ; people enjoyed a social hour at the . home of Mr. and Mr 3 J. Spot Taylor, . during which Mr. Styers, who is a . very gifted violinist, rendered sev . eral selections with piano accompani ment by Miss Mary Taylor. No. 2,631 STUART-WINSTON - SALEM HIGHWAY The Commissioners of Patrick County Will Build Road To North Carolina Line. .Meeting the Winston - Salem - Stokes Through Turnpike. The Board of County Commission ers or Supervisors of Patrick county, \'a., will issue bonds to the amount >f .$.">0,000, which, being supplement ed with $25,000 which the State of Virginia will contribute, creating a fund of $75,000 which the Supervi sors will use in huiding a road south from Stuart to the N'orth Carolina line at Bill Abe Martin's. At Five Forks, about 5 miles south of Stuart, this road will branch into two prongs, one of which will lead westward to ward Mt. Airy. This decision was practically reached at the great meeting today between road boosters from Winston- Salem, Stokes county and Mt. Airy, and the road supervisors of Patri -k county. The meeting was held at 1:30 in the auditorium of the Baptist church of Stuart. A number of able and in teresting addresses were made to the packed house, including a speech • by Mayor Burton, of Stuart, respon sas by Hon. W A. Blair, and ex-Mayor O. B. Eaton, of Winston-Salem," Chairman of the Forsyth Highway Commission Mickey, Chairman of the Stokes county Commissioners, Dr. J. W. Slate, Attorney W. L. Joyce, of Stuart, Hon. W F. Carter and Hon. John Folger, of Mt. Airy. The project of the great Winston- Salem-Stuart Highway will be of ab sorbing interest to the people of Stokes county. Forsyth county will build a hard-surface road to the Stokes county line connecting with the State road No. N'.», leading from Fulp to Danhury, and theri.e on to Westfield. The Danbury - Westfield road is to be tapped n.':>.r Piedmont Springs by the new State road load ing from Stokes line near Bill Abe Martin's south via Campbell, Law sonville and the Jewel place. Chicken Stew Given By Misses Pulliam King, Aug. 25.—0n last M inday evening Misses Agnes and F.reie Pul iiiiiv. gave a chicken stew in honor of Mrs. Nume Tuttle, of Suffolk, V-i. The occasion was held at their fath « r'.» tobacco barn, way down in th«* hollow, where you couldn't see any thing but the stars above you, tie; hills around you the lights from tho John Henrys over on the highway, and they looked like northern lights in winter. We all gathered around the camp (ires, telling tales and waiting for the chicken to stew and the cot T oe to boil. Such thrilling experiences some folks have had ! Tom Petree told tales of his lights with Indians until we felt like one might crawl out from among the pines and use h'.s toma hawk on us. And such queer tales were told about campaigning in Stokes county by Jim Bowen. I His campaign is not over yet.) The most sorrowful tales were told by I.es*?r Pulliam of widower days. He iiade the married men feel glad their wi\f 1 were living, even if they had a "Mag gie." But Lee Kiner told funny t:\ies that made us hold our sides. All pres ent did not get to take part in this tale-telling 'til the men had their say. The chicken was done and such good chicken it was, with the finest light rolls that were ever made from the King Milling Company's flour. Delightful coffee, tea cakes that melt ed in your mouth and grapes that jwent down without an effort. We al most thought we were living to eat. There were a good many relatives and friends who enjoyed the treat as well as a number of children, and the children seemed to be very happy. To see them made one wish that time could turn back in his flight and make us a child again just for the night. ONE PRESENT. Mr. John Hall, who resides right near King, had the misfortune to lose a good barn of tobacco by fire one day the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Mitchell and children, of Walnut Cove, visited Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Petree recently.