Volume L
REPORT OF
N. S- MULLICAN
OR Road Work Reing Done In
Stokes—Thinks All Town
~h;!)s Will He Well Served
With Funds In Hand.
Co'-aty Highway Engineer N. S.
Mulli an ha> recently made the fol
l iv. inri report to the Stokes Board of
County Commissioners in regard to
the road work now being done in the
county :
Contractor Bennett has completed
the road around Grassy Knoll in Yad
kin township and has moved to the
Pine Hall-Dillard road. The road that
contractor Bennett has just com
pleted was one and six-tenth miles in
length. Only about half mile was
graded in order to relieve the heavy
grade around the steep part of the
knoll, but the entire road was sur
faced with top-soil.
Another road now under construc
tion in Yadkin township is the road
near Pinnacle known as the Forsyth-
Surry road. This road is two and one
tenth miles long and is to be soiled
throughout. This work is being done
by contractor Mikels. The work has
r.ot gone to sufficient extent on this
last contract to give a very intelligent
figure as to the cost of it. However,
the cost of the entire Grassy Knoll
job was a little less than $2200.1)1).
The work of contractor Bennett on
th? Pine Hall-Dillard road is pro
gressing very nicely. The soiling
was started near Pine Hall and there
has been four miles of the road com
pleted. The cost of these four miles
surface with soil is about $2,000. or
per mile. Only good grades of
.soil are being used and it is being
placed on of sufficient depth to insure
a good surface.
Tiie two outfits that are doing th"
work on the basis of actual cost are
making satisfactory progress and at
a very gratifying cost. The Dan
hury-Hartman road being on(» on
which the work is being done at cost,
has been under construction now for
about six weeks and they have com
pleted about one and one-fourth
miles of the road, and have nearly
.another fourth graded. The amount
of excavation on this section of road
was about 5120 cubic yards with a
good percentage of hard pan rock.
The grubbing has not been a large
item, but there has been some. The
teams and the tractor have worked
right along together and therefore it
i impossible to give the cost of the
work of each separately, and we will
give only the total cost of the ( road
completed. The cost of the completed
road is about 23 cents per cubic yard
either soil or excavation, or about
SISK'.UiO per completed mile of road.
We consider this very satisfactory,
considering the amount of rock in
the excavation and also the trouble
tint was encountered for the first 4
weeks with the tractor. However,
since the tractor is now running so
much better and we are better organ
ized we may be able to reduce the
tost somewhat below what it has been
up to the present time.
Work on the Flat Shoal-CapoHa
road is also progressing satisfactor
ily. This is another one of the
roads that are being built at actual
vost. The tractor having been bro
ken ilown for some time it has been
en the job for only one week, but in
that time the tractor and road ma
chine have graded three-fourths of a
mile of road. The amount of excava
tion is about 1700 cubic yards at a
cost of about S9O, or a little more
■ than 5 cents per cubic yard. The
teams have been on this road for
übout three weeks and have -jnoved
xbout 6700 cubic yards on very rough
ground. The distance graded was one
■and one-fourth miles between the top
of the hill at Mr. Carrolls and the top
of the hill at Mr. Gordon's, which con
sists of the roughest part of the en
tire road. The cost of the grubbing
has been about $l5O and the cost of
grading has been about $1026, or
about 15 cents per cubic yard. At this
rate this road will not cost in excess
of SI2OO per mile for grubbing, gra
ding, draining and soiling, which will
be an extremely good figure consider
ing certain parts of the territory
over which the road had to pass in
order to secure a satisfactory loca
tion with reference to grade and
alignment.
The survey work on the Lawson
ville road, the Vade Mecum road and
the Hairiton Ford road ia being
GETTING READY
FOR STOKES FAIR;
I
i'rof. H. A. I'arroll Is Principal
Of Ivihg Hiyh School—l'rol.
Highsrnith Puts School On
i Accredited I.ist—Other News.;
King. Sept. 11.—Work on Stone
I lloisitheck's nt'\v drug store ami utl:-c j
i building is well under way.
Miss Nell times, of Stoney Point,
is spending a few days hue with rel-,
atives.
Miss Alta Kirby, of Walnut Hills,
returned home today after a stay at
the sea side in Norfolk.
Mr. James Mitchell Boles, of Stras- 1
burg, Va., is spending a few days '
with relatives here.
Mr. Silas Barr, of Winston-Salem, I
was here on business today.
The High School opened here this '
morning with Prof. H. A. Carroll, of 1
Mizpah, as principal, and six assist- j
ant teachers. There were 181 pupils'
I in attendance at the opening session.'
I Dr. J. Henry Highsmith, State Su- 1
I pervisor of High Schools, was here •
i last week and pronouced this an ac- j
| credited high school. Students here
:can be prepared for college now.
| Mr. and Mrs. C. 0. Slate and
! Messrs. J. R. Hutchens and C. 0.
i Boyles attended a Sunday School |
j meeting at Lambsburg, Va., yester-|
day.
Prof. J. T. Smith and family will
leave next week for California, where j
[they expect to make their home. |
Mr. S. S. Boyles, of Hamlet, spent
j Sunday with his parents near here. i
| Big preparation is being made her'.'
for the Stokes County Fair, which j
, takes place this year Oct. 17 to 21.,
[Arrangement has been made with a'
big fire works concern for a display •
,t ach night. The J. 1.. Kronin Shov.N '
have been engaged, which will till the I
midway with high class sb ws and
'amusements. They also have several .
of the latest riding devices. Every- )
thing points to the biggest and best
fair ever held here. All white pupi's !
attending public schools in Forsyth, !
Yadkin, Surry, and Stokes counties '
will be admitted to the grounds free
on Oct. 17th.
Mr. Paul Johnson made a business ,
trip to Winston-Salem today,
i Farmers in this section are about j
through saving tobacco.
I Mrs. Anne Grabs went to Wins
ton-Salem today on a shopping tour.
Prof. Smith To Leave
For California
The many friends of Prof. J. T.
Smith and family of King will learn
|with regret of them leaving for Cal
ifornia. to make that distant country
their future home. Prof. Smith has '
long been a prominent figure in
[Stokes county life. For many years
,he was head of the county's public
j school system, which he handled with
ability and skill. The best wishes of
ic.ur people go with the family to Cal
ifornia.
Attorneys N. O. Petree and J. P.
Humphreys visited Greensboro today
on professional business.
pushed as rapidly as time from the
supervision permits. The location
being the one permanent feature of
a road we make a very thorough in
vestigation on the preleminary sur
vey in order that a good location
may be secured.
The ten-ton tractor has just comple
ted its work of preparation of sul ••
grade for the«soiling of the Pine Hall-
Dillard road and is now doing a lit
tle maintenance work on a road up
though Snow Creek and Peter's Creek
townships, before starting the gra
ding on the Hairston's Ford road.
Up to date there has been more
work done in Yadkin and Beaver Is
land townships than in any of the
other townships.
If the road work is not rushed too
rapidly and is watched very carefully
and the tractors are permitted to do
all the work that a tractor is capable
of doing and then see that the team
outfits work on the most economical
and efficient basis, there is no reason
why every township shouldn't be well
served with good roads from the pres
ent funds, and I believe it can and will
be done./
N. S. MULLICAN,
Highway Engineer for Stokes Co.
Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, Sept. IS, 1922
| J. H. SPEAS RAPS
THE ANTI-CO-OPS
Asks Many Questions Of Tho-e
Who Would Fight Co-Opera
tive Marketing—Success Of
Association Assured.
Editors U-'porti r :
We are at the i'ov!.s of the road.
One sign says: To ( o-opeiative Mar
keting; the other says: To th > Same
.Old Auction System. No farmer tan
[hesitate here but a few days. This is
'a very busy place for those who are
1 lighting co-operative marketing, and
, we believe it should be for those who
i favor it. This being true we rise to
(submit a few questions to those pin
r hookers, speculators, warehousemen,
J warehouse pets and au 'tioneers, who
i are fighting so desperately from am
| bush, and for the consideration of
( the honest farmer who is yet hesita
| ting.
| 1. Why should you fight? Why do
!you worry about what we do with
| what we have made by the sweat of
,our own brow under the scorching
; rays of the sun while you were rest
j ing serenely at some cool summer re
sort? Why should it be any of your
business if we choose to place our
tobacco (as onv* has said) in cold
storage at the north pole and sell
,it to the Esquimoes, or why should
j you care if we should redry it under
the blazing sun of the tropics and
sell it to the Hottentots of the South
! sea islands?
j 2. In case you are going to fight,
why is it that you do it all from am-
I bush? Why is it that time after time
in scores of places you sat as silent as
; dummies when challenge after chal
lenge and invitation after invitation
jhad been issued from the public plat
form for you to come out in the open
'and publicly defend your position as
men ?
| 3. If the auction system is the
only way to dispose of tobacco, as
j.vou try to pursuade farmers to be
jlieve. why is it that the It. J. R. and
other big companies ilo not sell their
( finished product by this method?
I 4. Why is it that the merchant
employs this wonderful method of
dumping his goods only
■ when he finds himself overstocked
,vvith oll goods that must be moved
regardless of price ?
5. In case the auction system
j spells prosperity, comfort, and happi
ness for the tobacco producer wny i->
| that there has been a constant in
; crease in farm mortgages and ten
ancy throughout the tobacco belt
i during the last fifty years?
ti. If co-operative marketing is
, the rotten, abominable thing you tell
farmers it is (when you get them out
one at a time), why is it that farm
mortgages and tenancy has constant
ly decreased in l alifornia and Don
mark, the real homes of co-operative
marketing, during the last twenty
five years?
7. Why is it that the State hank
ers' association of California and of
Kentucky endorse co-operative mar
keting after seeing it tried out in
their own States?
S. if co-operative marketing of
farm crops means lower prices, why i
did the prune growers of California '
sign a 7-year contract almost unani- 1
mously last year, upon the expiration
of their first year's contract?
0. If it won't work with tobacco,
why is it that thousands of farmers
have signed in Kentucky this year
who last year waited to see?
10. Why is it th:>t in our sister
State Virginia a larger per centago
of farmers have joined our associa- 1
tion than either North Carolina or !
South Carolina, if that little asso
ciation of farmers up there, control-!
ing only about 12 per cent of a 10,- '
000,000 pound crop of sun cured to
bacco made such a mess of things last
year as the Tobacco Board of;,
Trade of Winston-Salem would have ■
us believe it did?
11. May I ask of the Board of
Trade mentioned above (since you;
have been such a successful, kind, j
loving and affectionate guardian of
I the tobacco growers and never de-'
sire to be unfair in giving them ad- '
vice, especially in regard to co-oper- j
ative marketing), why did you go in |
among the members of the Sun Cured
Growers' Association of Virginia last
winter and drag out the sorriest in
dividual bill that you could find and
spend much money in having it pub
lished instead of getting the average
price that thia association had netted
TWO MEN TAKEN
AT 131 OCKADE STILL
\rre*t- Made 15y Deputv Cubci
.Joyce In Heaver Island Town
ship—Still ANo Captured aid
IJeer Destroyed.
I-en > !:. white, nn.i En:".-* l>d
• IT-., co! r • ; . wer • arreted T:;ed»,v
j r.ignt a ! l,!o, kadc distiller;, near
j X-Fork. it. eastern Stokes, by Depu'y
Sheriff 1 V»hel Joyce, assisted by Lux
James and Robert. Joyce. The white
man gave bond in the sum of .$.'100.00
and will be tried here Saturday. The
negro was given a hearing here yes
terday and put under a $300.00 bond,
which he was unable to give and was
put in the county jail to await the
October term of Stokes court.
The officers came upon the men
at the still while they had the copper
off the fire mending a leak that had
appeared in the still. When arrested
both men had Colt automatic pistols
on their persons.
j The still was taken and brought
jhere to the jail, while six barrels of
j beer were poured out. No whiskey
j was found as the operators were just
i starting to make a "run" when the
officers captured them.
!
|its mmhers and compare it with the
price that non-members had receive,!
the same crop on auction floor ?
' But since you preferred to use in
dividual bills instead of dealing in av
erages, u h;> was it that you did not
lake one of the many bills made out at
( Winston during the last two years,
which failed to pay the warehouse
charges, and publish it along with
the bill from Virginia?
j 12. Will some one tell us just why
tobacco doubled in price in Kentucky
last year over the previous year?
| 13. Hby is is that tobacco should
.bring tiiree times as much in South
Carolina this year as it did last year
when the crop this season is much
larger than the one last season ?
11. If our association is p "pea
nut game," as rotten as dirt, and sure
to go "coflunk" in less than six
months, why should the 'War Finance
Corporation trust us with thirty 'mil
lions of dollars? Or why would such
men as Mr. Patterson leave the Amer
ican Tobacco Co. and come with us?
!•">. If you are sure that it will not
last more than six months at the
most, why are you spending so much
time and cash fighting it? (Perhaps
1 should answer this one for you, be
cause modesty on your part might
make it slightly embarrassing for
you.) Of couise it is all because you
are such a true, warm, loving and af
fectionate friend of the farmer and
hate hate so much to see us gouged
(for this one year. You have cared
for us so tenderly during the past 25
years that you know that we are not
iat all accustomed to pinches and in
; ease we should get slightly pinched
for this one year it would be so
strange and so new that we would
not be able to stand the shock.
15. Why is it that our entire State
Department of Agriculture, our en
tire U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, every
| farm paper and journal throughout
j the entire country, nine-tenths of our
' Congressmen and Senators and our
President himself endorse co-opera
tive marketing with the strongest of
terms at their command, and along
with them such farmers as the late
[John Galloway and hundreds of thou
sands of other farmers who read and
think for themselves? While on the
other side we find warehousemen,
' warehouse pets, pin hookers, specu
lators, auctioneers and along with
! them the noted Dr. A. Q. Alexander,
ex-president of the Farmers' Union,
, who has always been noted for knock
ing: everything in sight that was pro
j gressive ?
j In conclusion let me suggest, fel
! low thinking farmer, that co-opera
i tive marketing has already made good
! here in our own State and many cases
!could be given where tobacco has been
; divided and the man on the inside
got almost as much for his first ad
vance as the man on the outside got
altogether. And more than this, we
have seen that the first advance
through the association in South
Carolina was more than the whole
crop brought last year. The biggest
question, however, with me is not so
much what I get this first year or
(Continued on page 5.)
PERSONAL ITEMS
OF WALNUT i OYE
Meeting Of Missionary Society I
—High School Opens Sun-j
dny School I'ienk'— Other
News Items.
Wall, it ' . Si :t. 12. -WIL.m 1..
Wi ',lru:V. • f spent th»
wi'i'k end here a.s tin- guest of tin
Woodruff family.
Ira Tuttle. of Elkin, was in town a
short while .Sunday.
.Mrs. K. I). Shockley is spending
so mo time in South Boston, Va., with
her parents.
Edwin Carter, of Mt. Airy, was a '
Walnut Cove visitor Sunday.
The Young People's Missionary So- j
ciety of the M. E. church held a very
interesting and enjoyable meeting at i
the home of Misses Gladys and Eu- i
genia Wheeler last Friday evening. |
A very interesting' prog-ram was !
rendered, and during the social hour i
a tempting ice course was served. |
Those present were Misses Claude
and Stella Rierson, Lucy Burton,
Alma and Nellie Chilton, Willie Cates
Sadie Hutcherson, Messrs. Reeves
Jones, and H. R. McPherson.
A. W. Davs, of Winston-Salem,
was in town Friday afternoon.
Mrs. S. W. Rierson has returned j
i home after »ev ral days stay with
! relatives at Mokesdale.
T. D. Meadt r, of Madison, span*.
Friday hi-rt on business.
Elder J. A. Fagg, of Winston-Sa
•em, was in town Friday.
I \\. L. Ne'son, who has been on the ■
j tobacco market at Fairmont, has re- '
i turned to his home.
[ Glenn Fair, who has been confined
| to his rooni for several days, is out
j again.
Misses Thelma and Carrie Moore
N'eal spent Monday afternoon in the
Twin City.
J. A. Weisner, of th.- T. 1). Meador '
Grocery Co. here, spent Saturday it:
Madison.
Ti\j' high school opened here Mon
day morning. While the new build
ing is not completed, comfortable
quarters have been provided for the
many students until it can be oc
cupied. The trustees have been for
tunate in securing a very competent
corps of teachers for the work this
session. Each teacher is well quali
fied and Will leave nothing undone to
make this year's work a great suc
cess.
The l'a rent-Teacher Association
will aid a great deal this year in
planning and helping to bring to pass
[great work for the school here this
session.
Miss Bessie Mit hell spent the week
end in Winston-SaleSi with Misses
Nannie and Mollie Lasley.
Ralph and Marvin Slate left last
week to enter school at Wake Forest.
Misses Nina and Essie Morefield
and Mary Dunlap spent Monday in
Winston-Salem shopping,
j Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Davis spent the
week end at Moore's Springs,
j John ( Fulton, of the Stokes Gro- |
eery Co., spent Thursday in Winston.;
| The members of the M. E. church j
Sunday school enjoyed a very nice j
picnic at Dunlap Springs last Wed- I
nesday. Several cars and one truck
carried the members over to the
springs. A bountiful supper was
spread and the occasion was enjoyed
by all the members and the visitors
in attendance.
j Eugene Dodson is spending a few
I days in Richmond, Va.
Little Miss Ethel Nelson has been
right sick but is some better now.
| Mr. and Mrs. R. P Sartin, of Wins
ton-Salem,spent a short while here on
j Sunday with relatives.
Misses Nina and Essie Morefield
| were the week end guests of Miss
Elizabeth Matthews at Leaksville.
The series of revival meetings,
which have been in progress here
at the Methodist church since Sun
day week, will likely continue through
the present week. Pastor J. J. Eads
has been assisted in the meetings a
part of the time by Rev. C. E. Crist,
of Winston-Salem. There have been
several professions and two additions
to the church so far, and much good
has nodoubt been accomplished.
Mfa. R. A. Joyce and Miss Nellie
Joyce, Both of whom will teach in
the graded school at Winston-Salem,
left this week to enter on their du
ties.
No. 2,633
CONTR ACTS LET FOR
SCHOOL HOUSES
At .Meadows and Pinnacle—R.
A. Hedyecoik l» Luwest Hid'
der—Work Started .Monday
—Total Cost About $30.000.....
 i ntra were awarded the past
■vi*i tu 11. A. Hedgeco.-k '>y tki' Board
••f Education for the erectiun of the
school buildings at Meadow* and Pin
nacle. The contracts specify that
the buildings are to be compLt'jd by
Jan. 1. 1!)22.
The Meadows building will be a
frame structure, with six rooms and
auditorium, contract price being ap
proximately $10,000.00.
The Pinnacle building will be of
brick with six rooms and auditorium.
The contract price on this building is
approximately $20,000.00.
At Meadows there will be 220 chil
dren enrolled, and five teachers will
be necessary. The Pinnacle school
| will have practically the same num
ber of pupils with five teachers also.
Contractor Iledgecock started work
Monday on the Meadows building.
Messrs. R. R. King and other local
hunters had an exciting fox ra-'e
jtiear town early Monday morning,
I one fox being caught in the race and
i another being torn to pieces by the
dogs before the hunters arrived.
Mr. Golden Riddle, of Germanton,
visited friends here Sunday.
BOX COMPANY
MOVES MACHINERY
Walnut Cove Industry Will Lo
i
eate In High I'oint—High
School Opened Monday—Per
sonal Items.
Walnut Cove, Sept. 12 —Th«
American Collapsible Pox Co. loaded
their ri i hir.ery Thursday for ship
ment to High Point, where the pla"t
will be located in the future. The
building has been sold to the Co-op
erative Tobacco Marketing Associa
tion. and some additions will be made
to it at once to have it in readiness
for the opening of the tobacco season.
The high school here opened yes
terday with excellent attendance,
however the attendance will be lar
ger a little later on. Prof. K F. Dun
can. who was here last year, is prin
cipal again this time.
E. O. Creak num. who has recently
been undergoing treatment at Wins
ton-Salem hospital for blood-poison,
returned home Saturday, much im
proved.
Rev. J. R. Mallet, former rector of
the Episcopal church here, anil who is
now serving a Wilmington church,
is spending a few days here visiting
friends. lie is accompanied by his
sister.
Rev. .1. T. Ratledge. pastor of the
M. E. church here, is engaged in a
series of revival meetings at Pine
Hall.
) _
Rev. C. G. Smith Leaves.
|
Rev. C. G. Smith, who has
i spending several months in Danbury
jas supply pastor of the Presbyterian
| church here, leaves next Monday for
| Richmond where he will finish his
I preparation for the Ministry at Union
| Theological Seminary. Mr. Smith
I has recently held a number of suc
cessful meetings in the county at
Sandy Ridge, Yaden's S hool House
and other places, at which there wens
a number of conversions and additions
to the church.
Mr. Smith's stay in Danbury has
been very pleasant to our people to
whom he has greatly endeared him
self.
The Tobacco Crop.
In another week the tobacco crop
will be practically all housed and
cured. Most farmers are finishing
up this week. Cures are reported in
a majority of cases as unusually
good. Weight is about the average.
The tobacco warehouses in Wins
ton-Salem will open for the sale of
leaf next Tuesday. Announcements
of the warehouses indicate that they
are expecting prices to be good. A
number of farmers in this section ex
pect to carry down truck loads on the
opening day and try out the market.
The crop in this section is said to b«
exceptionally fine.