DANBURY REPORT®
Volume L.
THE NEW STATE
LIQUOR LAW
Judge Hartman, # of Winston-
Salem, Gives Interpretation
Of New Law—Judge Stack
Concurs In the Opinion.
Winston-Salem, March 13.—The
prohibition law enacted by the >*eii
eral assembly of North Carolina is
the source of a great ileal of com
ment in all parts of the State, ac
cording to the press. Particularly is
this true of Winston-Salem, where
the first week-end after the act went
into effect caught fifteen or twenty
men vn two charges, those of being
drunk and having whiskey otF their
premises. There has been consider
able speculation concerning the in
terpretation that will be given the
new law by the various judges of the
State, and because of this Judge W.
V. Hartman, of the Winston-Salem
municipal court, was asked to give
his interpretation of the law. After
careful study of the law Judge Hart
man has given out the interpreta
tion that he expects to place upon the
net in the trial of cases that come
before him.
Judge Hartman holds that it is
unlawful for a person to receive or
have any amount of liquor except in
his home, or the place used and occu
pied an home, and that the possess
ion of any quantity of liquor is prima
facie evidence that it is being kept
for the purpose of sale. But, it is not
unlawful to possess liquor in one's
private dwelling when same is used
and occupied by him as a dwelling
only—provided such liquor is for use
only for the personal consumption
of the owner of the home and his
family residing in such dwelling, or
for his bonafide guests when enter
tained therein.
But in construing the law, Judge
Hartman calles attention to Section
2, which provides that the whole act
may be construed liberally, and that
the first part of Section 10, making
possession prima faci# evidence that
liquor is being kept for the purposo
of sale, puts the burden on persons
Keeping such liquor in their homes
to show or satisfy the court that
the liquor is not being kept in viola
tion of the law.
Judge Hartman further calls at
tcntion to the fact that it will he Im
possible for home consumers to po
ssess liquors without violating the
law, unless the liquors were stored
prior to the ratification of the net on
March 1 of this year, as it was mnde
unlawful to purchase or trasport
liquors after the law went into ef
fect, except for non-beverage purpo
ses, as provided for in title two of
the nutional prohibition law.
It will be of interest to a great
many people to know that Judge A.
M. Stack, of Monroe, who is now
holding Superior court in Greens
boro, has given the law the same in
terpretation that Judge Hartman has
and that he is inflicting heavy pun
ishment on persons convicted.
STOKES OFFICERS
GET 20 PER CENT
From Sale Of Cars Captured
With Whiskey On Them—
Constable Mack Wall Is First
To Get A Bonus.
In order to encourage the capture
of automobiles carrying whiskey, the
Stokes Board of Education, at its re
cent meeting here, mnde an order
that twenty per cent of all money
turned into the school fund from the
sale of automobiles captured with
whiskey on them be paid to the of
ficer making the capture of such
automobile.
Constable Mack Wall, of Beavei
ls land towiship, who captured thi
Buick car that was sold here a f"W
days since, is the first office, to profh
oy this new order of the Board. The
car brought $432.00 and Mr. Wail
wa« awarded 20 per cent of the
amount in addition to his regular
fees in the case.
This offer of the county school
board is calculated to cause some yf
the officers to keep a closer watch
for whiskey cars that might be pas
sing through Stokes.
A REMINDER
TO PARENTS
They Should Not Blame Teach
ers For Failing To Make Good
Pupils From Children Who
Haven't Had Home Training.
In the discharge of my duties as
a member of the Stokes County
Board of Education I hear u lot of
criticism of all the school officer*
and teachers. are showing
less respect for their teachers by dis
obeying the rules, and it is an admit
ted fact that the discipline of our
schools is not on the high plane that
it should be.
Now, the question arises, is it the
teachers fault or the parents ? The
great trouble today is that we are
not taking enough interest in our
children. Selfish parents believe
that after birth their duty to their
children is ended. They believe
children should be allowed to grow
up like weeds in the field, to go any
where they like, when they like, stay
as long as they like anil do what they
want to do. And the over-indulgent
parent realizes his mistake when the
boy or girl violates the laws of the
State or soi iety and the name of the
family has been disgraced. The dam
age has been done, and it is too lat_>
to remedy the mistake. If good cit
izenship is to be encouraged an I
crime diminished, the adult popula
tion of our county must take greater
interest in the growing children and
see that they receive the necessar/
training in their homes, and inside
that one day out of every week they
attend some religious gathering and
get the benefit of the teachings of
God's law. Statistics have proye;i
that two thirds of the crimes commit
ted are hy persons between the nges
of 16 and 21 years, and their down
fall is due largely to the lack of re
ligious training.
It is surprising to know how few
boys and girls of today understand
the ten commandments. They -are
the rules of conduct that should and
must be known. If all the boys and
girls observed and followed them
they would undoubtedly be and re
main good citizens.
We must not expect ou.- teachers
to make good, obedient and law
abiding citizens of our children if
we fail in our duty as parents to
teach them the fundamentals of
respect and obedience.
J. L. CHRISTIAN.
TWO PATTENTS
GO TO HOSPITAL
Miss Ray Venable Will Go To
Sanatorium—Son Of Jap
Bennett Taken To Winston-
Salem Hospital—King New?.
King Route 2, March 12.—Miss
Ray Venable, of Pinnacle, will start
to State Sanatorium within a few
days, where she goes in the interest
of her health. Miss Venable has a
host of friends who wish for her a
speedy recovery.
Dr. S. F. Tillotson carried the son
of Mr. Jap Bennett to a Winstcn-Sa
lem hospital for treatment Sunday.
Mr. M. A. Smith, who has been
confined to his bed for seven wei:'a
with rheumatism, is improving and
wishes for a few warm days so he
can get out once more.
The road leading from C. 11. Boy
les' store via M. D. Ham's to Chest
nut Grove will he completed in the
near future. The completion of the
road will be a greut benefit to this
community.
Mr. Noah Fulk is teaching a sing
ing school at Olive Grove church.
The protracted wet weather is
causing the work on the farms in our
section to get behind.
SCRIBBLER.
To Appoint List-Takers
First Monday In April
It is announced elsewhere in this
paper that the countv ■ omniissionerj
will on the first Monday in April ap
point the tax listers in the various
townships of Stokes, and that appli
cations for this position should be
filed with the Board at once.
Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, March 14, 1923
ROAD CONTRACTS
TO BE LET APRIL 5
State Will Award Nearly 200
Miles More This District
Gets Only About 7 Miles—
Commission Meets this Week.
Raleigh, March 13.—Nearly 200
miles of new highway construction,
representing every district in the
State, will be placed under contract
April 3, when bids are to be opened
on 23 new projects, aggregating 111
miles of modern hard surfaced road,
1.X.87 miles of penetration macadam,
■I8.S»1 miles of gravel, and three pro
jects for the construction of bridges
and railroad crossings.
The approximate cost of the 23
projects will be in the neighborhood
of four million dollars, bringing thi
aggregate of expenditures, and con
tracts made by the highway commis
sion since Frank I'age became chair
man to very nearly fifty million dol
lars anil to the total mileage built
or contracted for to nearly three
thousand miles. This is the second
big letting for the present year.
More than 300,000 barrells of ce
ment will be required in the con
strucion of the 111 miles of hard
surface to be let, And just where
and how to get that much cement
immediately is the problem that
concerns the commission just now.
The entire country is in the midst
of a cement famine, and mills are
unwilling to make new contracts
until present obligations have been
met.
Chairman Page has already bough:
the entire output of two of the
largest mills in the country, and has
contracted for half the output of a
third to be applied to contracts al
ready outstanding. These mills, as
well as others not under contract
with the State, were forced to sus
pend operations for months during
the past year, for a time on account
of the conl strike, and later by the
railroad strike.
Reserve stocks usually held on
hand were entirely depleted, and al
tho conditions in the industry have
returned to something like normal,
during the past few months, the de
mand is greater than the supply.
Retail dealers for the past several
weeks have been unable to obtain
cement under any conditions. Work
on mads and buildings in many sec •
tions has been suspended on ac
count nf the cement shortage.
The State Ilighwuy Commission
will meet in Raleigh on Thursday
and Friday of this week, when the
chairman of the Board will lay new
road problems before the meeting.
Plans for the distribution of the new
fifteen million dollar bond issue w'll
be discussed, and district commission
ers will begin work on selecting the
roads to which they desire their part
of this money to be directed.
Two new members will sit with the
commission at this week's session.
A. S. Hanes, of Winston-Salem, will
conio in the place of Representative
R. A. Doughton, who resigned to take
his seat, in the General Assembly,
and A. M. Kistler, of Morpanton. will
succeed John C. Mcßee, of the eighth
district, who resigned Jan. 5.
The contracts to be let in this (the
7th) district are as follows.
Ashe county, project No. 713, 3..V1
miles, between Jefferson and Orion.
Hardsurfaee.
Caldwell county, project No. 723,
3.54 miles, Patterson to Wautaufp
county line. Penetration macadam.
S. W. Alley and family will re
move from Hartman to Winston-
Salem this week. Mr. Alley has ac
cepted a position with a mercantile
firm in the Twin City.
E. R. Nelson, one of the strongest
good roads advocates of the county,
was here from Piedmont Springs
yesterday. Mr. Nelson is a former
highway commissioner of this town
ship.
County Highway Superintendents
M. D. Linville and Frank Tilley were
among those who visited Danbury
Monday.
Dr. R. G. Tuttle, of Walnut Cove,
was here profoss'orwlly yesterday.
JOHN A BURTON
SERIOUSLY ILL
Walnut Cove Investigating the
Power Sites On Dan River—
Home Place of Dr. J. W. Slate
Purchased By 12.A. Rothrock.
Walnut Cove, March 13.-—Th
home place of Dr. J. W. Slate, which
was sold at auction here Saturday,
was purchased by K. A. Rothrock at
the price of $4200.00. Several lots
adjoining the home place were also
sold and brought good prices. It is
learned that l)r. Slate and famil>
will remove to High Point. The peo
ple of this community will regret
very much to see these good people
leave. Dr. Slate is interested in the
box-making plant which was some
time since removed from here to
High Point, and it is learned that
he had assumed entire management
of the plant.
The town commissioners here are
having several power sites on Da
river investigated hy engineers with
a view to developing one of them
and bringing electric current to Wal
nut Cove.
The many friends of sir. John A.
Burton will regret to know that he
is seriously ill at his home here.
The Indies' Auxiliary of the Epic,
copal church met with Mrs. J. H.
Fulton Tuesday evening. This biinp
a business meeting no program was
carried out at the meeting. It was
decided te have a supper and bazaar
at the close of the Lenten season
for the benefit of the church.
Mrs. C. J. and little daugh
ter, Nancy Katherine, of Greensboro,
and Mrs. Herbert Smith and daugh
ter, Frances, of Liberty, are visiting
Dr. and Mr:.. A. G. Jones.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Carter, of
Mount Airy, spent the week end with
Mrs. Carter's parents here, Mr. and
Mrs. J. G. Fulton.
Have We Been Tested ?
On the first Monday of this montn
my husband brought a friend of his
in to dinner. They caiue hurriedly,
ate in a hurry and left in a hurry,
but 1 was impressed with one thinjf
the man said. That was that he
was sending all his children to col
lege and was also sending an orphan
child who had finished high school.
Later 1 was told that the man was
a road-contractor ami worked Ave
hundred mules, and that he did not
curse, use tobacco in any fonn or
drink a drop of whiskey.
I said in my haste that I wish they
would let him have all the road build
ing in Stokes county. One mule is
enough to make some folks bring
forth the vilest oaths.
I was also told that it hod been
tried in every way to make him
drink liquor, but that he was man
enough at all times to refuse it.
My Christian friends, Satan aivl
manv >f his followers were turned
loose here in Danbury on last first
Monday. They were here from the
"four corners" of the county and
many of them had brought (an they
called it) their "tea" with them and
they begged not only the old men
to have a "sip" for "their stomach'*
sake" but the younger men and evea
the boys were invited to partake.
My dear friends, are we going to
stand this ? Or are we going "to
come to the help of the Lord against
might."
Let us, as God's children, ust! the
Danbury Reporter more as n me
dium to warm our people against
the danger of drink and other evils.
"Satan meets us on the threshold
Of our secret place of prayer,
To delude us and deceive us,
Or he loads us down with care,
To divert us from our purpose
To insist some other way
Will be better far than simply
To kneel down and humbly pray."
The novelists and poets make
much of wine, but the "cup of ec'
water" has been hallowed by the
words and lips divine.
There is hardly a form more fre
quently used than that "he took too
much." WP hear it even from tem
perance mothers.
I have frequently been told that
we have motherß in Stokes «ounty
who like a little "tea" and sometimes
KING MAY HAVE
LIGHTS AND POWER
Ernest Phillips Considering
Proposition of Building A
Power Plant On Little Yad
kin River Near Dalton.
King, March 12.—Ernest Phillips,
of Dalton. was here Saturday inter
viewing the business nun of King
relative to putting in a power plum
on the Little Yadkin river, near Dal
ton, and furnishing the town of King
with electric lights and (tower for
manufacturing purposes.
Mr. Grady Southern, of Pinnael •,
and Miss Ola Fulk, of King, wer •
quietly married here yesterday,
Esquire Jas. R. Caudle officiating.
The King high school basket br.ll
team snatched a game from the Pilot
Mt. team here Friday, tin score be
ing 17 to 8.
Jesse E. Falkenbury has purchased
from Mr. Ruskin Holder a nice resi
dence lot on east Main street, on
which he will erect a nice residence
in the near future.
Ovid Boyles, of St. I»uis, is spend
ing a few weeks with relatives here.
J. E. Slate and W. J. Johnson have
purchased from G. E. Gravitt a lot
in east King on which they will erect
a modern new home. Work will be
commenced and once and rushed.
Mr. und Mrs. P. J. Caudle, of Wins
ton-Salem, spent Sunday here with
relatives.
11. W. Nowsoni is preparing to
erect a new home on his farm west
of town.
L. O. Pulliam, who holds a posi
tion with a Winston-Salem firm, and
who is traveling the western part of
the State, spent Sunday here with
his parents.
Theodore Newsom, who is teaching
at Oak Grove, spent Sunday with his
' parents in Walnut Hills.
Elsie Moser, who is building roads
in the Vade Mccum section, spent
Sunday with his family here.
Mrs. Lula Hutcherson, of Rich
mond, Va., is spending a few day*
with relatives here.
TEACHERS' SCHOOL
FOR STOKES
Time and Place Not Yet An
nounced—R. K. Long, Of
Yadkin Township, Charged
With Violating School Law.
The Stokes Hoard of Education a*,
its last meeting here made an order I
that a summer school for teachers ]
be conducted in the county this ye;u
for a term of six weeks. The tint-*
and place for holding the school has
not definitely been decided upon, but
it is learned that it will likely be held
at Danbury some time during July
and August.
Supt. of Schools J. ('. Carson
thinks that there will be more of
the teachers in attendance this year
than attended last season's school,
and there will probably be an addi
tional instructor for the school.
hopes to make the school this year
even better than last year's school.
It is learned that K. K. Long, n
citizen of Yadkin township, is being
charged with failure to keep hi.*
children in school and that a war
rant has been issued in the case. A
hearing in the matter will likely be
had this week.
Miss Essie Morefield spent the
week end with Miss Grace McCollum
fit the latter's home ne-»r Reids\ilL>.
serve it. God pity them and pity us
all who are not doing all in our pow
er to stamp out this srigantic evil
that is threatening, even under our
solendid temperance laws, to rob i;s
of being fit temples of the Holy
Ghost."
Frances Willard used to say :
The liquor traffic is protected by the
neonles ipnorance. * • • •
't '"nto the Snndav s"hools.
and public school. Thus sayeth na
ture, thus sayeth reason, thus sayeth
the Lord.
"To serve the present age,
My calling to fulftll,
0, may it all my powers engage,
To do my Master's will."
(MRS.) J. SPOT TAYLOIi.
No. 2,657
HIGHWAY BOARD
MET HERE MONDAY
Germanton-Meadows Road Will
Be Widened—Several Delega
tions Ask For Roads—Fund*
May Be Exhausted When
Projects Let Are Finished.
The Stokes Highway Commission
was in session hi re several hours on
Monday afternoon, members present
being S. I*. Christian, chairman; C.
li. Davis, T. (i. New, John I), Smitn
and C. I). Smith.
A number of delegations from dif
ferent sections of the county ap
peared before the Hoard and asked
for the improvement of the roads in
their respective communities.
Frank S. Boss and other citizens
of Meadows township asked that the
highway from Meadows to German
ton be widened. The Board agreed
to use the tractors on this raod and
widen it as soon as possible.
li. P. Glide well headed a delcga
gation from the Flat Shoal section
who asked that a road be built from
Danbury to Flat Shoal church to in
tersect with the Germanton road neat
the church. This matter was le't
open but the commissioners promi
sed to give it further consideration
at an early date.
I). V. Wood and others of tb«
Hnrtman section requested that a
road be built from llartman directly
east to soma point near Wheeler
James' to connect with the highwiv
running from Dillard to Pine Hall.
The distance is three or four miles,
and the Board stated that this road
would likely be built ar soon as tbey
get in position to take the matter up.
This road, it was stated by the roeft
asking for it, is a direct line from
Danbury to Madison. .
An order was made to let contract
on April 16th for the construction of
four small steel bridges with con
crete floors and plans were drawn
and notice of the letting advertised.
The bridges will be located at the
following points in the county : One
over the south prong of Little Yad
din river in Yadkin township, one on
the Chestnut Grove road in Yadkin
township, one over Matthew* creek
on Germanton-Walnut Cove road,
and one over little Belews creek on
the Craig road in Sauratown town
ship.
An order was made that contrac
tor Cornatzer transfer his road form
from the Boles road in Yadkin town
ship to the Chestnut Grove road in
the same township.
I An order was placed by thp Boari
j for the putvliusc of two Ford cars
I with slip on bodies for the use of
| the maintenance forces of the
j county.
The ro.id lending from Five Forks
to tiie Forsyth county lin«*
in Yadkin township was declared ;*
j public rond and subject to mainten
ance by the county.
The highway commission adjourn
: ed to meet again on the first Monday
in April.
; It was stated by members of the
Board Monday that there would like
ly not be any more road contracts
let at present as the contracts al
ready awarded will likely consume
all of the available funds of the
county for road work. The Board
is authorized to issue $60,000 honds
this year for road buildine, but it
is not known when this will be done.
Judjring from the number of roads
being asked for in all sections of the
county $(>0,000 will be far from sirf-
I ficient to build the roads asked for.
TKn Ror»ord Of
THO Ground HOR*
A Danbury citizen took the pains
! to keep a record of the weather for
i forty days after the ground hog saw
' his shadow this year on Feb. 2, by
making note on his calendar each
day as to the kind of weather. Th*
forty days expired yesterday and an
examination of the calendar kept by
the Danbury citizen shows that the
forty days consisted of 27 days of
fair weather, 7 days of rain, S days
cloudy and cool and 3 days brought
snow, hail and sleet. It is left to
the reader to say whether or not tk«
ground hog sustained his repotatWi*
as a weather prognouticator.