DANBURY REPORTER
Volume L.
FOUR WEN AND
STILL ARE TAKEN
Prohibition Officers Make Raid
Near Walnut Cove—Ten (la!-
lons Whiskey Was Seized—
One Man Armed.
L, A. Kiser, Forsyth county
deputy sheriff, and several prohi
bition agents, among them being
A. A. Hege and H.H. Cheatham,
raided a house in Stokes county,
near Walnut Cove Monday night
about 11 o'clock and arrested
four men, seized ten gallons of
whiskey and a sixty-gallon copper
■still. Three of the men, Grant
Priddy, Lester Priddy and Troy
Priddy, are white, while James
Maosey is colored. Massey is
charged under a Stoke 9 warrant
-with carrying a concealed weap
on. as he was armed with a 38-
calibre pistol when arrested as he
started to run away from the
house. His clothing was also
covered with still slop, it is stated.
All four of the men are charged
with manufacturing whiskey.
The finding of a still site a
short distance from the house
led the officers to search the
place. The still was discovered
hidden near the chimney on the i
outside, while the whiskey was
on the inside.
The prisoners were carried to
Winston-Salem and placed in jail
to a await a hearing be
fore United States Commissioner
W. H. Beckerdite. which will
probably be held Thursday.
Bonds have been fixed at SSOO
each.
There were evidences of a still
ihaving been operated at the site
for some time-
Talley Is Given
Fifteen Years'
Greensboro, Jan. 19.—Carl
Talley, of Spray, was found;
guilty of murder in the second |
degree in Guilford Superior court
this afternoon, and sentenced by
Judge A. M. Stack to serve 15
years in the state prison. He
•was tried for the murder of |
Police Officer Thomas McCuiston
here on May 4, 1921.
His attorneys filed notice of an
appeal to the state supreme
■court.
"O, my God, have mercy on j
him." sobbed his wife, breaking
down under the terrible strain as
the sentence, was pronounced.
The courtroom, crowded with
men. women and children, gazed
from her to her husband, a small
voung man, whose nerve never
left him. Unflinching, he stood
up and took the blow without a
sign of emotion, then turned to
comfort his wife.
The jury was out only 50
minutes, not considering the
added charge of accessory after
the fact- The case was Quickly
concluded, beginniog late yester
day afternoon. The defense
offered no evidence, replying
upon cross examination and the
argument of P. W. Glidewell. of
Reidsville, and E.D. Broadhurst,
of this city. Solicitor Spruill was
the only spsaker for the prosecu
tion.
TWO ACCIDENTS
OCCUR AT KING
Carl Spainhour and Grady
Southern Injured By Machin
ery In King Manufacturing
Co's Plant—Other News.
King. Jan. '22.—Carl. the
i seventeen year old son of Mr.
, Clint Spainhower, who holds a
! position with The King Manu
facturing Co. of this place, had a
'narrow escape with his life one
day last week. He was trying
I to replace a belt on some moving
machinery when the set screw on
a shafting caught his clothing.
He was literally stripped of all
! his wearing apparel, but fortun
ately received no injury.
Mr. William Newsum and wife
lof Des Moins, lowa, are spend
ing a few weeks with relatives
1 here, Mr. Newsum was raised
|in this section l>ut has been in
j the west for many years.
! Horn unto Mr. and Mrs.Numie
I Hooker, a daughter.
Mr. Claud Culler, of Hitrh
! Point, spent Sunday with his
i parents here.
Miss Mabel Allen, of Mt. Airy.
! is soer.ding a few days with her
I father. Mr. G. M. Allen here.
! Mr. James R. Bowen, Register
iofjDeeds of Danbury, spent Sun
day with lriends here.
Born unto Mr. and Mrs. Luther
i Smith, a daughter.
Miss Crysel Kirby, of Winston-
Salem, spent Sunday with her
1 parents in Walnut Hills.
Mr. Grady Southern had his
I arm bruised up considerably by
| a machine in the King Manu-
I facturing Company's plant here
■ today.
Mr. T. S. Petree. of Winston-
Salem, spent Sunday here.
Stokes Boys At
Guilford College
Guilford College, Jan. 22. —
James Jovce of Danbury was
elected by the Henry Clay Liter
ary Society to represent it on
the reportorial staff of the "Guil
fordian." The "Guilfordian"
is a weekly publication sponsor
fed and gotten out by the four
I Literary societies of Guilford
College. Mr. Joyce's election to
j represent his society speaks well
for his ability and his pollege
work. He will take office on
February -, and retain same for
one year.
Spot Taylor, Jr., also of Dan
bury, has acted as editor-in-chief
for this paper for the past year.
Previous to this time he acted in
capacity of reporter and Manag
ing-editor. During his adminis
tration the paper has grown to
be one of the best college publi
cations in the state. Mr. Tay
lor has alsc been chosen from
the whole student body to be
one of the six representatives of I
the college in the inter-collegiate
debate between Ouilford College
and Hampden-Sidney of Virginia
to take place the latter part of
February. The Henry Clay
Literary Society is glad of the '
honor to count him as one of
her members.
State Buys Back Old
Caledonia Prison Farm
Raleigh, Jan. 18 —The state of
North Carolina has re-acquired
the Caledonia prison farm of
5,100 acres under foreclosure,
when purchasers were unable to
meet payments due and past due, |
aggregating $242,000. The land
has been bought in by Superin
tendent George Ross Pou, of the
state prison, for $167,000, and
will be farmed by the state, it »s
announced-
Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, Jan. 24, 1923
TOBACCO BROUGHT
THIRTY CENTS
Winston-Salem Market Last
Week Sold Over (>OO,OOO
Pounds Of the Weed—Qual
ity Was Better Than Usual, j
Winston-Salem, Jan. 22. Less |
than one million pounds of tobac
co were sold on the local market
during the past week, according
to the figures given out yester
day by Major Bynum, who has
charge of keeping the official
records,
i
The total pounds sold during
the week was 000,262 pounds,
which so!d for $201,753.24, an
average of almost thirty cents
per pound. This is a much bet
ter average than was made dur
ing the proceeding week but the
quality of the tobacco sold was
also much better.
The farmers are marketing
their crop slowly at the present
time and it is believed that little
|
,of the H'2- crop remains to be
! sold.
| FORD'S PLAN
TO END WAR
■
! Says A Busy, Prosperous Peo- j
pie Do Not Stop To Make :
War Except When Necessary i
To Protect their Homes.
I
Detroit, Jan.lß.—Henry Ford's :
industrial expansion program is i
world-wide, not national, in scope
I
and has been undertaken with
the underlying motive of educa- j
tinß the.people of the world to 1
such a degree and of making'
them so prosperous "that wars
will be ended forever."
This was disclosed today a9the
motive back of the Detriot manu
facturer's desire to extend opera
tions intoevery part of the world.
Mr. Ford believes that "a busy. |
prosperous people do not stop I
work to make war; they go to'
war only when it is necessary to
protect their homes or their ideal 9
when these are menaced by some
more idle nation."
"When the time comes that
i
every one. everywhere, has a
job, and lasting prosperity has
been created as a result, the
people of any nation will be too
busy and too happy to even think
of war,'' the manufacturer says, j
Therefore, it is pointed out by j
those in close touch with him, he:
is convinced that world industrial!
I
expansion bringing with it pros- j
perity for all peoples in all lands, :
automatically will make war im- ;
possible.
The manufacturer is known to
believe that the automobile is the
agent that will usher in the
millenium of world peace.
"When the people of the country j
get to understand automobiles i
and use them daily, they will
know considerably more about
machinery." hedeclares. "Then, j
in the course of a few years agri-!
cultural machinery w : ll appear in '
that country. Hundreds of j
bushels of grain will be produced ,
where only a few were grown ,
before. In many foreign coun
tries. the farmers know nothing
of machinery. Probably they
vntl not know it until they have
le trued to use automobiles."
SECOND PAYMENT
MADE TO GROWER
Members Of Tobacco Co-Opera- j
tive Association To Receive'
Aid From Hanks am! Merch-
I
ants This Year,
Raleigh, Jan. 20. Checks td
thf. amount of seven million dol
lars reached a hundred ware
houses of the Tobacco Growers
Co-operative Association in the
old belt of Virginia and North
Carolina today. The second cash
payment to more than -111,000
growers in fifty counties of two
states will be made by the ware
house managers of the associa
tion at all its bright tobacco
markets of the old belt, begin
ning early Monday morning.
As the association begins the
new year hundreds of merchants
and bankers are assuring its
members of their support and
co-operation in 1'.»2.'5, stating that
their dealings with the members
of the co-operative associations
were entirely satisfactory in
11922. From ;>0 to 40 merchants
of Eastern North Carolina have
advertised their desire to extend
aid to all worthy members of the
association during the coming
year. Influential merchants of
; Rocky Mount, Kinston, Fremont,
; LaGrange, Deep Run, Snow Hill,
;Smithfield and other points of
Eastern Carolina have advertised
their support of the big tobacco
and cotton associations during
; the past ten days.
Scarcely a town remains in the
tobacco and cotton area of the
i Carolinas and Virginia where the
members of the marketing asso
ciation will faii to find the sup
port of the friendly bankers and
merchants in marketing their
I next year's crop.
Kenneth James Has
Birthday Party
Cermantcn, Jan. 22 Kenneth
! James, little son of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank James, delightfully en
tertained a number of his friends
at his home in Germanton Wed
nesday evening Jan. 17th, cele
brating his tenth birthday. The
guests were invited into the
; music room where several musi- \
i cal selections were rendered. I
: Many very interesting games
\ were played during the evening,
all of which were greatly
! joyed. Mrs. James then invited
the guests into the dining room
I where elaborate refreshments
were served. The beautiful
birthday cake containing ten
candles made a lovely center
piece for the table. The guests
feel greatly indebted to Mr. and
j Mrs. James and Kenneth for the j
wonderful hospitality shown j
them on this occasion.
Those present were Anna
I Gertrude Foy, Eleanor Carson,
j Pauline Westmoreland, Nellie
j Browder, Jeff Savage, Jesse
1 Carbon, L- M. and James Me-
I Kenzie. Kenneth llauser, Clyde
Hartgrove. Coy Cox. Eula
Grubbs, Mary Taylor and Ralph
Beck. The out of town guests
were Miss Macy Westmoreland
and Robah Styers, of Winston-
Salem.
$150,000 PAID OUT
AT WALNUT COVE
i
| Co-Operative Patrons Ruci>i\«.\
Second Payment On Their!
Tobacco—Other Happenings !
At Walnut Cove.
Walnut Cove, Jan. 2 ; 1. -John!
Tuttle, who was painfully hurt j
a few days ago by being thrown ;
from his buggy when a horse 1
ran away with him, is improving. |
Webster, the little son of Mr. j
i and Mrs. R, L.fcVaughn, who has ■
! been seriously nick for several.
1 days, shows no improvement.
» The co operative warehouse p£-
irons at this place received the
■ second advance checks on their
» tobacco pooled before Chriatmas
yesterday. Around $150,000 was
paid out here. Considerable to
s bacco is still being received and
i one or two good seasons will
i doubtless about clean up the
I remainder that is in the country.
Elder J. A. Fagg, of Winston-
Salem, filled his regular appoint
ment at the Primitive Baptist
church Saturday and Sunday.
Bishop-Coadjutor Penick and j
Archdeacon Hardin preached at'
the Episcopal church Sunday;
evening.
Representative C. M. Hauser
was in town yesterday morning.
P. T. Harrington returned Fri-,
day evning from Raleigh, where!
he attended the meeting cf the J
Grand Lodge of Masons as a'
delegate from the local lodge.
Odell Coleman, of Meadows, I
has accepted a position with the
Stokes Hardware and Furniture
Company, and has moved his
family here.
Meeting 1 Of Club
At Walnut Cove
Walnut Cove, N. C., Jan. 22.
—The Minerva Club, the ninth
grade Literary Society of the
Walnut Cove High School, met
Thursday evening at the home
of Miss Helen and Master John
Fulton. The members answered
the roll call with quotations from 1
the poetry of Tennyson, thej
1 subject for study.
The following program was
rendered:
Devotional Lead by Eva
Newman.
! Reading—By Walter Wood
j ruff.
1 Recitation —By May Mitchell.
Piano solo—By Claudia Nea!. j
Reading —By Leonard Nunn.
Vocal solo—By Eva Newman
with Mr. Duncan as accompanist.
New officers were elected as
.follows:
| President. Eva Newman; Vice-
President, Walter Woodruff;
Secretary, Hazel Isom; Treas
: urer, James Neal.
An interesting part of the
■ program were two novel contests
entitled "Names of Poets." and
j "The Romance of a !Shirt
Waist."
I At the conclusion of the reg
i i
! ular program, hot chocolate and
| wafers were served. The mem
! bers tarried a bit longer to en
-1 gage in some jolly indoor games,
1 then adjourned after an instruc
i tive and entertaining meeting.
1 The Minerva Club is under the
" direction of Mies Sarah New
berne of the high school.
No. 2,650
STOP ROAD WORK
IN PETER'S CREEK
Citizens of that Township So
rlire Order From Judge A. M.
Stack Temporarily Rest rain -
i nur County Commissioners
From Construction Of UoaJ
—Hearing Set For Feb. 12.
W. P. Ray, ■!. T. I. .. mi T '
F. Til ley, Q. K Moor.- > ■ '
[L. Martin, citizens r Peter/*
'Creek township, went • v ns-
I bore Monday, accompanied b£
attorney W. Reid .Johnsoli. hnd
sopeared before Superior court
Judge A. M, Stack, asking that
a temporary injunction be grant
ed them restraining the Hoard
of Commissioners of Stokes coun
ty from proceeding with the
work of constructing a road from
W. C. Moore's, in Peters Creek
township, to the Virginia line,
said road leading in the direction
of Critz, Va.
The temporary injunction was
granted by Judge Stack and
papers are now in the hands of
Deputy Sherilf J. J. Stephens
and will be served on the chair
man of the board of Commis
sioners at once.
A hearing in the matter is set
for Feb. 12th in «reensboro,prob
ably before Judge Stack.
In the complaint it is alleged
by the Peters Creek citizens,
named above, that a road is be
ing constructed by the Stokes
County Commissioners in Feteis
Creek township from W. C.
Moore's home to the Virginia
line via the home and store of
R. T. Spencer, who is a member
of the Board of Commissioners,
and that the road is being built
for the personal interest of Mr.
Spencer, and it is asked that the
Board be restrained from con
structing the road until a hear
ing can be had in regard to the
matter.
The Peters Creek citizens who
are opposing the building of this
road want the Board to build
! from W. C. Moore's north to the
I Virginia line at Bill Abe Martin's
j and thev say that this road is
muchmore important than the
one being built byway of Com
missioner Spencer's home.
It is learned, as was stated in
the last issue of this paper, that
j the Stokes Commissioners intend
building the road to the Virginia
j line at Bill Abe Martin's, but
; the fact that the road via Mr.
I Spencer's home was being built
first, caused the Peters Creek
citizens to have fears that the
road funds would become ex
hausted before it was built.
Former Stokes Man
Dies In Twin City
Mr. J. F. ■Martin, aged 65 years,
died yesterday at his home in Wins
ton-Saloin, after a lingering illness.
1 lie is survived by Mrs. Martin, who
was Miss Livengnod, and the follow
; intr children: l'aul P., Mason E.
Martin, of Winston-Salem; John,
James and Guy Martin, of Stokes,
and two step-children, Mrs. John Til-
Icy and Mrs. Callic Everhart. Also
a brother, Tom Martin.
The funeral will be conducted at
Bethel Baptist church near Meadow*
this afternoon at 3 o'clock by RV'Y.
H. W. Baucom.