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DANBURY REPORTER Volume L. TO ORGANIZE CONFEDERATE MONUMENT ASSOCIATION Meeting Called Fgr Saturday, August 18, at Dan bury~All Sons, Daughters, Relatives and Friends Of Ex-Confederates Interested in Memorial to the Boys of '6l, Invited To Be Present. The Reporter at the request of • Mr. Amer Tilley, of Smith, and 4> of others who are interested in the cause of the Confederacy, hereby calls a meeting of sons, daughters, relatives and friends of the Stokes county soldiers who fought in the civil war. to meet at the court house in Danbury on Saturday, August 18. at 10 o'clock. A. M . for the purpose of organizing the Stokes County Confederate Monument Associa tion. The tfUrpose of the meeting is to take steps to build an endur ing monument on the court house square of the countv seat to the memory of the gallant boys of 1861-'6*». nearly all of whom have now passed away. Only a few more remain with us. Soon the last Confederate will have cross yed over the River, and we will have with us only the memory of their deathless deeds. The | present generation, the sons, daughters, relatives and friends of the dead and living soldiers ifpfe it to their memory to build a 4haft of marble or bronze to stand for generations to come potating their children and their children's children to honor- able and glorious record made by J/ the Stokes county boys. Other counties of North Caro lina and Virginia and the other Southern States have erected memorials to their glorious dead, an{f-it is a reflection upon our prids and respect and honor in which we regard ours, that we havf not sooner taken this action. It is hoped that every old soldier living in the county who is able to get here will lend the ocOWion his presence, and help to pal on foot the movement to builf one of the fit.est monuments in North Carolina on our court IhoUM square, and whieh will stattsfor ages as a tribute of our Ignored loved and lost. 4 Lfiies are especially invited. it, secretary-treasurer, committee and precinct for every section of are to be named, and h? privilege of every in and woman, old and > contribute to the jse. An effort will be ive a speaker present. 3 who will are invited id bring a well-filled linner. particulars will be »xt week's issue of the and Geo. Flinchum and Willie Booth are e farmers of this sec have cut and iprimed Geo. Flinchum has barn and reports that NEGRO KILLED NEAR STOKES LINE Found Dead At Distillery— Warrant Issued For Willie Dick Sisk—Virginia Author ities Hold Inquest Over Body. Crite Joyce, a negro, was found dead Saturday at a block ade distillery near the Stokes and Patrick county line, 15 miles north of Danbury. When dis covered by two other negroes Joyce was lying with his head in the branch and a bullet hole through his chest and the distill ery was in operation. No other person was found at the distillery and there is no eye witness to the killing. A warrant is in the hands of Stokes officers charging Willie Dick Sisk, a white man of that community, with the shootir . It is learned that Sisk made the statement to several people that he shot the negro. So far Sisk has not been arrested. While the killing occurred on the North Carolina side of the State line, it is said, the Patrick county, Va., authorities conduct ed an inquest over the body, the jury finding that Joyce was killed by some unknown pereon. The owner of the still is un known and the cause of the shooting, could not be learned. Mrs. Laura Davis 111; Walnut Cove Personals Walnut Cove, Aug. 6. MrsJ Laura Davis, mother of Messrs. H. H. and C. E. Davis, has been seriously ill at her home here for several davs, but is improving now, we are glad to know. Misses Mary Lackey and Lena Hylton, of High Point, are visit ing friends in Walnut Cove this week. They will return to their home the latter part of the week, accompanied by Miss Elizabeth Mitchell- Miss Janie Lasley and Mr. Wesley Glenn Lasley visited Walnut Cove Saturday. Mrs. Penn Overby, of Walnut Cove, returned home last week from a visit to Roanoke, Va. Miss Hattie Hicks and Mi9s Gladys Morefield, of Walnut Cove, visited friends and relatives in High Point last week. , Mr. and Mrs. Edd Hicks visited Mrs. J. A. Hicks, of Walnut Cove. Miss Mae Ola Boles, of Pinnacle, spent the weak-end with Miss Nannie Greene. Misses Bertha Mikles and Ruth Martin spent th» "'eek-end tvith Misses Eula and Francis Reid. Miss Bertha Mae Neal Has just returned to her home from a long viait among her many friends in Brim Grove section where she taught school last year. Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, Aug. 8,1923 KING FAIR DATES HAVE BEEN FIXED Birthday Dinner For Mrs. Wm. Rumley—Girl Is Bitten 13th Time By Spiders—News Of King Section. King. Aug. 6.—Mr. Harper Wall, of Mount Airy, spent the week-end with friends and relat ives here. The Muddy Creek section just east of here was visited by a hail storm yesterday which did much damage to crops. We are having fine season? here and all crops are looking well. Attorney Dallas Kirby. of Winston-Salem, was here yester day. looking over some legal matters. Mr. P. S. Boles, of Danville. Va., spent Sunday with friends and relatives near here. "Thunderbolt Tom," the evangelist, has leased ground here for his big tent and will hold a meeting here in the near future. Mr. Claud Culler, of High Point, spent Sunday with his parents here. James Leake, of Winston-Salem, was among the visitors here Sunday. Captain C. J. Kirby. who holds position with the Southern Kail way Company, spent Sunday with his family in Walnut Hills. The friends and relatives of Mrs. William Rumley gave her a surprise birthday supper Sunday. About two hundred people were in attendance. The Moravian Brass hand, of Winston-Salem, was there and made music for the occasion. This was Mrs. Rumley's fifty-sixth mile stone. All who were there seemed to enjcy themselves to the limit Miss Vergie White was bitten by another spider early this morn n?. This is the thirteenth time she has been bitten in the past six weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Spain hower spent Sunday at Mount Airy and White Sulphur Springs. Miss Anne Grabs has returned to her home here after spending several davs with relatives in Alamance county. Mr. andAfrs. Ira Schaub and their litfle daughter Maude Kennedy, of Washington D. C.. are spending feveral days with relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Caudle, of Winston-Salem, spent Sunday with Mrs. Caudle's parents near here. Mr. Kennis Pulliam made a business trip to Winston-Salem today. Mr. W. W. Southern, of the Flat Shoal section, has purchased from Thos. G. Smith a nice resi dence lot on west Main street- Consideration $4-~>o.oo Mr. South ern will erect a nice new home on this property in the near future. Mr. Fred E. Shore went to Winston-Salem on business to day. Mr. James Culler, who holds a position in Greensboro, is spend ing a few davs with his family here. Dates for the Stokes county fair this vear have been fixed for Oct., 16-17-18-19. The prem ium list has been increased several hundred dollars this year. The Henry Clay literary society and The Ancient Websters will hold a delate here next Monday night August 14th. Mr. Fred E. Shore won the Hudson automobile in the contest at Winston-Salem todav. Mr. John Newal Vest, of, Charlotte, is spending a few days with relatives here. More than two million dol lars worth of ppeaches, it is ex pected, will be shipped from the sand hill section of North Caro lina before the season closes. The quality of the peaches this year is said to be finer than for some years. REBATE FIXED ON COUNTY TAXES Penalty Will Be Collected After December— School Election Held Up Temporarily—Board Meets Again Friday. At the regular monthly meet ing of the county commissioners here Monday the rebate and penalty on taxes was fixed in accordance with Section 81 of the Machinery Act of the last Legis lature. On taxes paid during the months of October and No vember a rebate of one half of one per cent will be made. Dur ing the month of December the net amount of the tax ticket will be required, while a penalty of one-half of one per cent will be added during January. February and March. The county board of education, at the request of citizens of Dan bury and Bennett school districts, requested the county commission ers to call an election in these districts to allow the people to vote on the consolidation of the two school districts and the levy ing of a special tax for schools, but on account of irregularity in the petitions presented to the board of education the county commissioners deemed it expedi ent to postpone the calling of the election temporarily so that the irregularities in the petitions could be corrected. The election j will likely be ordered at the next meeting of the commissioners. On Friday of this week the county commissioners will meet here and witness the cutting of the stills now stored in the coun ty jail. News and Personals From Pine Hall Pine Hall, Aug. 7- J. L. Hanes, H. L. Gibson, J. H. Cart er, W. H. Ashburn and N. H. Williamson spent Monday in Danburv on business. The Pine Hall Garage opened here last week. Messrs. L. O. Williams and W. T. Roberts will be in charge of this new building. Mrs. J. B. Paris and baby spent the week end with her parents, at Stokesdale. Mrs. L. T. Blackwell spent Monday in Winston-Salem. J. H. Carter and family and Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Roberts spent Sunday at Moore's Springs. Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Gibson and children spent the week end in Winston with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Lester spent Saturday in Greensboro. Miss Lee Hunter Blackwell is visiting relatives in Winston- Salem this week. Mr. and Mrs. J. 0. Gibson spent Sunday in Walnut Cove. The M. E. church here is pre paring a program for Children's Day here the 3rd Sunday Rev Marcus Tuttle, who has recently been engaged in hold ing a series of revival meetings at Vade Mecum Methodist church, rturned to Danbury yesterday. LAYING OUT NEW SUMMER RESORT Engineering Party Busy In Hanging Rock Section This Week—Work On Road Pro gressing Rapidly. For several days past civil engineers and a landscape archi tect have been busy laying off the grounds in the mountain near Hanging Rock and Moore's Knob for the new summer resort being developed there by D. D. Smith. The engineering party are mak ing headquarters at Piedmont Springs hotel. Work on the highway to the site of the new resort is being pushed as rapidly as possible, and on Monday the county highway commission loan ed the construction forces a tractir and road machine to help carry on the work. E. S. Draper, of Charlotte, engineer and landscape architect in charge of the laying out of the grounds for the resort, and who has had wide and varied experi ence in this kind of work, stated j >esterday that he never visited a finer or more ideal spot for a, summer resort than the one! around Hanging Rock. TRYING TO GET CHEAPER ROUTE State Engineers Making Effort To Change Survey Of Dan bury-Clemmons' Ford Road In Order To Reduce Cost. State highway engineers have during the past week been en deavoring to make some changes or find a cheaper route for road project 750-B. lying between Danbury and Clemmons' Ford bridge and forming a part of the State highway between Danbury and Mt. Airy. It will be recalled that at the last letting of road contracts by the State the lowest bid on this section of road was $257,000, in cluding bridges, and the commis sion felt that the price was un reasonable for this short streteh of highway, so the bid was re jected. The building of this road was authorized more than two years since, while J. K.jNorfleet was highway commissioner for the seventh district, and our people have waited long and patiently for its construction. It is a verv important highway and when built will not only give connection between the central and western sections of Stokes county,but will form an uninterruped State highway from Winston-Salem to Dobson, via Walnut Cove, Dan bury, Westfield and Mt. Airy, this entire road being known as Route No. 89. Work To Start On Jail. R- R. King, who has the con tract for the building of Stokes county's new jail, stated yes terday that he would begin the work next week. The steel for the building has already ar rived. The building will be up to-date in every respect. No. 2,678 STOKES MAY GET FISH HATCHERY Members Of State Fish Com mission Inspect Sites In the Mountain Near Peidmont Springs. J. K. Dixon, chairman of the State fisheries commission board, John A. Nelson and Santford Martin, State fish commissioners, and W. N. Brown, expert on hatcheries representing the United States bureau of fisheries, visited the section around Pied mont Springs and Hanging Rock yesterday with a view to locating a fish hatchery in that section, and it is learned that they were favorably impressed with the j sites visited, some of them being 1 ideal for that purpose. The members of the commis | sion will visit sites near Elkin, Boone, and other points before making their report to the full commission at its meeting next month, when a site will be select ed from those inspected. A site for a fish hatchery must be located in the forest and the water must come directly from springs, in order that the water may never become muddy. The minimum amount of water re quired is fifteen hundred gallons per minute. The section visited by the fish commissioners yester day. near Hanging Rock, meets all the requirements and the State will make no mistake in locating a hatchery there. MEMORIAL SERVICE HERE FRIDAY To Be Held By Citizens and Members of Summer School For Late President—Exerci ses In Court House. Conforming to proclamation* issued by our President and Gov ernor the proposed social program this week for the summer school and community was cancelled and instead is being prepared a memorial service for President Harding. The program will be given in the Court House at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon. The public is cordially invited to enter into the service in paying respect to our late President- News Of Madison R. .3. Madison Route 3, Aug, 6.—The tobacco crop is looking fine. Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Fagg and family, of Greensboro, spent Sunday with W, C. Fagg and family. Miss Eva Fagg returned home Sunday after spending several days with friends and relatives at Walnut Cove. W. C. Fagg had the misfortune to lose one of his horses Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. 'ireene and Misses Mattie and Gertrude Greene spent Sunday with W. C. Fagg A large number of people of this section attended the foot washing at Russel Creek Primi tive Baptist church, in Patrick : county, last Sunday.
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