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DANBURY REPORTER Volume L \ W. E.GRAHAM LOWEST BIDDER May Be Awarded Contract For Danbury - Clemmons' ForJ Road At Price Of $160,220.75 »»- —Pass On Bids Tomorrow. Raleigh, June 27—Low bid tiers on highway and bridge construction work costing $4,- 007,190.74 were announced to-* night b- the State Highway Commission, and tomorrow the bids will be examined and the contracts awarded in cases in which the bids are not consid ered too Ugh W. E. Graham was the lowest bidder on project 750-B, in Stokes county, at the price of $160,220.75. The above mentioned road is the unfinished section of the Danbury-Westfield road, and it is hoped here that this bid will be accepted by the high way C( remission. , The- information sent out from Raleigh does not mention the bridges on this road but it !- possible that they are in* hided i:i the bid of the con tractor. WINSTON-SALEM > ROANOKE ROAD Roanoke Chamber of Commerce Will Attempt To Raise Over Half Million Dollars To Sun- j plement State Funds. It was unanimously voted at a largely attended meeting of the Roanoke, Va., chamber of com merce Thursday night that s>oo,- 000 be raised to supplement $75,- 000 now available from the state highway commission of Virginia for building the thirty miles of road across the Blue Ridge from Roanoke to Rocky Mount, which will open up the National Highway from Pennsylvania into North Carolina. Stock in a highway building corporation will be sold to the amount of $200,000 and the cor poration will borrow an additional $400,000 to advance the state, ' this to be repaid by the state { from year to year. The $200,000 will be advanced the state with-1 out interest, while the state will; pay interest on $400,000. Roanoke city and county. Franklin county * and Henry county will all co operate in raising the money. $17,000 was subscribed by three Roanoke men before soliciting was begun. The state highway commission | will agree to build an eighteen foot road of penetration macadam which it expects to complete by September, 1924. The surveys have already been completed, and the road permanently located. As soon as the money is raised work is to begin, J W. C. Martin, of Moore's Springs, and E. R. Nelson, of Piedmont Springs, were visitors here today. NEW VENEER PLANT OPENS Walnut Cove Has Strict Law.* Now In Regard To Sunday Selling, Etc.—C. N. Broily Leases Mitchell Hotel. Walnut Cove. June 2G.—C. N. Brody, who recently purchased the mercantile business of >l. B. Woodruff, has leased the Mitchell hotel. The Gilmer-Smith Veneer Co. bagun operation yesterday morn ing. They have a splendidly equipped plant with all machinery and equipment new and modern, and with the large amount of timber available irt this section should be able to build a splendid business. Children's Day was observed at the Methodist church Sunday morning with a well arranged program. Abe D. Jones, of Greensboro, spent Sunday here with his parent?, Dr. and Mrs. A. G. Jones. The town commissioners have put the lid on Sunday selling and say it will be enforced to the letter. The movie show recently started here seems to be well patronized and is now open th-ee nights in each week—Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Brown, of Florida, arrived here recently and have lented the home of Mrs. Lizzie Adams. Mrs. Brown j was formerly Miss Lula Hairston. STOKES WENT OVER THE TOP County Paid $910.98 To the Relief of the Armenians— Congratulations From Stato Director Bealle. Raleigh, June 21. Misa Josie Pepper, Piedmont Springs. I want to thank yoa very much for your check for $53,79 which Mr. Brown has just received. I find from our record that Stokes county is quite a ways over the top. There are s4o,>o in unpaid pledges on our books, I $32>").00 has been.paid on pledges and $">45.98 has been received in ' cash, making a total of .$910,98. J This is indeed asplendid showing j and you are to be congratulated ! on this work. • About August Ist we will getj out our annual report of county | chairman and send you as many j copies as you designate. This will j show what each countyhas done in : the cash and clothing campaigns, j not only for this year, but for; the three preceding years. Cordially yours, MORRiSA. BEALLE, State Director. Invitation To Visit Hospital Here The Board of Health in vites the people of Stokes county to visit its hospital in the court house in Danbury Monday. July 2nd, between the hours of 2 and 6 p. m. Danburv, N. C., Wednesday, June 27, 1923 FIFTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY To Be Celebrated By Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Wall On July 8— Death Of T. B Smith—Child Drinks Ammonia. King. June 25.—William Hold er and Miss tialatis Ingram wree quietly married here Saturday afternoon. Only a few of the near relatives and friends being present. The groom is the son of W. S. Holder of King and the bride is the daughter of Mrs. C. G. Ingram, of Tobaccoville. R. F. D. 2. Both young people are popular and their many friends wish them a long and happy married life. Thomas B. Smith aged seventy six years died at his home here early Thursday morning after a ingering illness of several months with paralysis. The interment was conducted from Mount Olive church, of which he had been a member for many years. Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock. H. H. Leake, cashier of the King branch of The Bank of Stokes County, underwent an | operation in a Winston-Salem 1 hospital last week having his | tonsils removed. He has returned to his home here and is getting on nicely. •lames R. Bowen register of deeds at Danb iry spent Sunday i with friends here. ! Mr. and Mrs. James T. Wall, lof Pinnacle, one of the oldest ; families in the county will cele | brate their fiftieth anniversary I July Thoy are expecting a reunion of the Wall's, Styers'and Boles relations also their other many friends of the family. | Since they are planning for a big time and a large crowd to feed, those expecting to go wilL be wise to carry well filled | baskets. These good people are i known in many counties for their hospitality, and since their mar-, riage in 187-J their home has been in a place of "welcome"' to all passersby, relatives, friends and j strangers alike, and those that chanced to stop for the first time always wanted to go again. Miss Crysel Caudle, of Wins ton-Salem, spent Sunday with her parents in Walnut Hills. Chas. R. Carroll, of King, and Miss Nell Lawson. of the Rock House section, were married here today. Mr. Carroll holds a position with the King Drug Co.. of this place. Thev will make their home here. Mr. and Mrs. Ulvss Caudle. I Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Caudle, of Winston-Salem, were among the visitors here Sunday. E. W. Fowler, of High Point, spent Sunday with relatives here. James CulW who holds a position in Greensboro spent Sunday with his family here. Farmers in this section are about through harvesting their wheat arop. The crop is good this year. The Skvland Entertainers, of Winston-Salem, featuring the] Skyland double quartette assisted by Carolina's formost black faced I comedians will give an entertain ment under the auspice" of the King High School here Saturday night .Tune HOth. The two voar old child of Mr. and Mr« Kohert Pardue who were visitine here Sunday came near dying from the effects of a bottle nf household fimonia which it d»-ank. The child was treated by Dr. Hehabeck. The parties reside in Winston-Salem. Annual Foot-Washing- Next Sunday The annual foot-washing of the Piney Grove Primitive Bap tist church will be held next Sunday. This occasion is al ways looked forward to by the friends of that church and the attendance will nodoubt be large, as usual. NO ACTION TAKEN HERE SATURDAY County 'nmmissioners Are Ad vised By Counsel That the Owning Of County Telephone System Would Be Illegal. The meeting of the citizens of the county with the county com missioners which was to have been held here last Saturday for the purpose of discussing the establishment of a county-owned telephone system, came to naught when the Board was advised by ! its counsel that it had no authority to establish and own a telephone system and that it would be illegal for them to undertake . . * 1 the project witnout a special act of the legislature allowing them to do so. Thi9 turn of affairs was quite a disappointment to a large per ; cent of the citizens who are : anxious for a county telephone system, ar.d it is likely that the ,next Legislature will be asked to grati r the commissioners authority to establish the sys tem. TO MEET HERE AUGUST 21 - 2:! j Arrangements Are Being Com pleted For Annual County Sunday School Convention In Danbury M. E. Church. From officers of ftokes County Sunday School Association comes the information that arrange ments are being completed for the county Sunday school con vention to be held in the Meth odist church at Danbury. N. C., Tuesday and Wednesday, August 21 and 22, 1923. The county president, Mr. H. R. McPherson, and the county secretary. Mr. F. S. Ross, are sending communications to . Sun day school leaders of all denomi* nations in the county, urging each Sunday school to have a large delegation at the conven tion. It is expected that prac tically every Sunday school in the county will be represented. Announcements concerning speakers and program for the convention will be sent out latei. ! Several of the best Sunday I school workers in the county will take part at different sessions of the convention. In addition to the local talent D. VV. Sims, of Raleigh, General Superintendent of the North Carolina Sunday School Associa tion. and Miss Flora Davis, assistant superintendent of the same organization, have been secured to speak at each session of the convention. The Stokes County Sunday School Association under whose auspices the convention is being held, is an interdenominational organization. The county asso ciation is one of the integral units of the North Carolina Sun day School Association, which is a cooperative effort of workers for the different denominations to extend and improve Sunday school work in North Carolina. The association stands for those interests that are common to Sunday school workers of all ' defiominatioos. CAMPING AT VADE MECITM Party Of Walnut Cove People Spending Pleasant Vacation At Stokes Summer Resort— News and Personal Items. Walnut Covp.June-7. A num ber of young people from here are enjoying a camping trip at Vade Mecum Springs. They have three roomy tents and it is headquarters for Walnut Cove pleasure seekers. Among those in the party are Misses Katherine and Margaret Hutcherson, Sadie Fulton, Ruth Woodruff, Myrtle Burge. Willie Dodson, Elizabeth Bailey, Lucile Snow and Messrs. Julian Vaughn, Walter Woodruff, • George Jarvis, King Grogan, 'John Woodruff, Bill Fulton. Jnc. |G. Fulton. Mrs. P. W. Davis, and Mr. and Mrs. E.D. Matthews \ are chaperones. Among those from here at Moore's Springs last week were Mr. and Mrs, H. H. Davis, Mr. i and Mrs. J. C- Hutcherson, 1 Dr. C. R. Hutcherson. P. H. Linville and Walter Nelson. Miss Jewel Preston, of Greens boro, spent the week end with j Miss Sadie Fulton at Vade Mee | urn Springs. Mrs. A. T. Rothrock, who has i been ill several days, is improv ing. Little Miss Thelma Roth rock is sick this week. Mrs. Geo. H. Fulton is visiting her parents at Elkin this week. 'Mr. and Mrs. John Lewellyn are now occupying their attrac tive new bungalow on Summit St. Miss Minnie Cates, of Greens boro, spent the week end here with her parents. Mrs. W. L. Vaughn, who has been confined to her home with sickness, is improving. Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Harrington and daughter, Miss Rebecca, attended the State meeting of the Eastern Star at Charlotte list week. At the regular meeting of th; Masonic Order hero last week the following officers were elected for the ensuing year : W. P. Wheeler. W. M., R. A. Hedge cock, S. W., Paul Fulton, J. \V., I. S. Voit, Secretary; C. E. Davis, Treas urer; J. C. Bailey, S. I).; Wade Mar shall, J. D.; J. E. Cookus, Tyler. The officers and many of the members ex pect to attend a joint installation of j officers of all the lodges of this dis trict in Winston-Salem Friday night, which will be conducted by (Srand Master Herbeit Pottf »t, of Wake iVivst, N. C. Charlie Hutcherson, of Winston- Salem, is spending his vacation with tits parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Hut cherson. Harry S*iunders has about com pleted his handsome new home it' South Walnut Cove. Mrs. C. It. Hutcherson and little son, Harry, are spending the summer in New York with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. J. Wesley Morefield attended preaching at Old Orchard church, near Vade Mecum, Sunday. Miss Essie Morefield left Monday for Chapel Hill, where she will at tend summer school. Geo. 11. Fulton and Ralph Chilton, local Ford dealers, are attending a convention of Ford dealers at Wrightville Beach. E. O. Creakman is installing a new filling station at his garage. Mrs. J. D. Frar.ks and children are spending a few days at Mooro'j Sprtaga. No. 2,672 HAIL STORM INJURES TOBACCO Crops In Quaker (lap and Peters Creek Suffer—Wheat Is Also 111 j ured—lnsuranee Company ! Pays Owners 10 Per Cent. Ilail storms visited several sections of Quaker Gap and Peter's Creek townships last Thursday and Friday. Your.g tobacco was damaged consider ably in some sections of these townships, while wheat which had not been cjt was also in jured to some extent In Quaker Gap township, in the John Morefield section, five or more farmers, who carried hail insurance, have been awarded damages by the hail insurance companies to the amount of ten per cent of the value of their crops. ! SHORTEST WILL MADE IN STOKES Estate Valued At $22,000 Dis posed Of With Twentv-Two Words Was Written By Late J. W- Keiger. i Winston Daily Journal. » What is believed to be the shortest will ever written was recently unearthed by Attorney Dallas C. Kirby, of this city, while making a search of the recorJs in the clerk of the super ior court's office at Danbury, Stokes county. The body of the will contains exactly twenty-two words and disposes of an estate valued at approximately $22,000, or SI,COO for every word contained in the will. The will has been probated and filed in the clerk of the superior court's office in the proper form. It reads: "I declare this to be my last ' will—that my wife, Martha, have all my real estate and money and all personal property." The will is signed by J. W. 1 Kiger, and was witnessed by C. iL. Westmoreland and C. A. j Westmoreland It is dated No- I vember 22.1920. I Prior to this time it is said that 'the will written by Chief Justice I hite just before his death several years ago was the short est on record. It contained just twenty-nine words, but the will of Mr. Kijier clips off seven words from the one drafted by the jurist and establishes a new record. H50.180 Passenger Cars And 42,988 Trucks Washington, June 25—The automobile industry set a new production record in May by turning out 350,180 passenger cars and 42,839 trucks. The May record surpassed the April record of 344.474 passenger cars and 37,527 trucks—records according to statistics made public today by the Department of Commerce. The production of passenger cars in May, 1922, totaled 232 43L and of trucks only 23,788.
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