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DANBURY REPORTER Volume L. NEXT MONDAY BIG DAY AT DANBURY Officers and Committees of the Confederate Monu ment Association to Meet—Board of County Commissioners, Highway Commission, Board of Education to Assemble—Large Crowd Ex pected. Next Monday will be a big day in Danbury. The Stokes County Confederate Monument Associa tion, with its officers and commit tees, is called to meet at 10 o'clock in the auditorium of the court house to discuss the plans of raising money to build a $3,000 monument to the old soldiers. Mrs. R. R. King is county chair man of the association. Miss Mary Taylor, Secretary-Treasur er, and township managers or chairman are as follows: Sauratown Miss Nannie Jones. Meadows-Mrs. N.S Mullican. Yadkin—Miss Georgia Dalton. Quaker Gap Mrs. Dr. U. H. More field. Big Creek— M rs. S. 1\ Chris tian. Peter's Creek P. Rav. Snow Creek Miss Laura Ellington. . Beaver Island —Miss Lizzie Adkins. Danbury —Miss Nell Joyce. Besides the above officers, a committee of three from each township, appointed by the town ship chairmen, is to be here, as well as all others interested in the work. On the same day comes the regular meetings of the County; Commissioners, the Highway | Commission and the Board of: Education. So that with all these functions, the crowd in town Monday will doubtless be large. Tobaccovi He Route 2. Tobaccoville Route 2, Aug. 27. Mrs. Vertie Meadows gave her Sunday School class a party last! Saturday evening, and served ice j cream and watermelon. The children enjoyed themselves fine. Mr. and Mrs. Gray Goff.! Norvell and Carter Goff, Mrs. Meadows and Miss Lonie Hooker ( all spent Monday in Mt. Airyj visiting Mrs. A R. Hooker at Martin's hospital. The Epworth League, of Trinity 1 church, had a good program last; Sunday night. They are doing j some very fine work among the young folks. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. «off spent Saturday night with Mrs. (toff's mother, Mrs. J. M. Venable. Farmers are real busy in this section taking care of their tobacco. /On August l'-Hh there was some boy lost a nice blue serge coat near Trinity church 1$ miles of King. The owner can find the coat at Mr. Gray Goff's near the church. i I SAURATOWN MTS. OF STOKES ! Attorney W. P. Bynum, Of Greensboro, Writes News Of the Origin Of the Name Of the Mountains. Attorney W. P. Bynum, of | Greensboro.sends the Greensboro ' News this communication ex ' plaining the origin of the nameof ; Saura Town Mountains in Stokes j county: Referring to your editorial in : quiry this morning as to the origin of the name of the Saura j Town Mountains in Stokes, com monly called up there "Sorry Town Mountains," I find in ' "Smith's Tour in the United States of America," a word written by an Englishman about the time of the Revolutionary war and published in 17 sl l. a reference to these Indian towns. t I In volume one, pages -50 and 1253, he speaks of two towns of this name, the Upper Sawra Towns and the Lower Sawra I ; Towns. He remained ten days in these towns. As to their origin, on page 253 I find this paragraph: "The Sawras, altho once a con i siderable nation of Indians, have 1 been long extinct: there is not leven a single family or trace of I them remaining excepting these : vestiges of their towns, which still continue to support their j name, this being fortunately pre-1 served as the appellation of these two settlements." He then says that the Upper Sawra Towns were trifling and insignificant in comparison with the Lower Sawra Towns, which was an extremely valuable settle ment. The Lower Sawra Towns,! he .••ays. were not more than »•"> miles I'roin Hill&boro and 051 from Salisbury and "within only a very few miles of the northern boun iary line of the Province ol Nortn Carolina." That language was evidently j writttfi before the Revolutionary i war and whiie North Carolina ( was still a province. From Mr. Smith's decriptien' the Sawra Towns were both on ' Dan River, and the Upper onts in or near what is now Stokes county. If I am not mistaken, i there is now a township in thatj county called Sauratown town- • ship. Evidently the name ofj these upper Indian towns was j given to the mountains in Stokes . referred to in your editorial. The Reporter learns with gret of the critical illness of Mr. | John W. Mitchell at his home in Beaver Island township. He is not expected to live. Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, Aug. 29, 1923 STOKES CITIZENS HAVING DREAMS Mountains Higher Than Ashe ville and Climate That Re quires A Blanket the Hottest Night In August Right Here. The article appearing below was taken from yesterday's is sue of the Winston-Salem Journal : Winston-Salem and other cities of the Piedmont have never ap preciated the Saura Town moun tains. Stokes county, the home of the wonderful Dotential play ground and summer resort, has not appreciated them either. But of late Stokes has begun to wake up and at least partially to realize the possibilities of her own beautiful mountain range. Some of the citizens of Stokes j are, indeed, very much awake. jThey are having dreams, but not i the sort of dream.? that sleepers j experience. They are dreamine with their eyes wide open, and see ,iust ahead of then a fully de- I veloped resort and pla\ ground for thousands of people throughout all this section of North Curo -1 lina. Piedmont North Carolina is al so sitting up rubbing its eyes ias the possilities of the Saura ITown mountain range thrust themselves more impressively on the vision. It means something! to have mountains higher than Asheville and a climate that re quires a blanket the hottest night |in August and thousands of | acres of virgin mountain forests and clear, cold mountain streams-- and all within an hour's drive. Some are saying that the discovery of Saura Town is destined to bring the mountain resort to the people. That depend?, of course, upon how well Saura Town is develop ed. H tels, lakes, cottages and roads will have to be built. It will take hundreds of thousands,, perhaps millions, of dollars to open up and make Stokes county's natural playground attractive to summer visitors seeking rest and recreation and amusement. Those wlm developed Biowing Rock saw early what was necessary to at tract the crowds. And because they had that vision the crowds that flock to that resort are in creasing every summer. The gen tlemen who are planning to de velop P.oarii.g Gap to the limit of its possibilities also have a vision that is destined to lead to the building of cr.e of the Nation's attractive summer resorts on that lofty Blue Ridge plateau. There is room for al'. Every possible mountain resort in North Carolina could be develop ed and still there would not be room enough for all who might be attracted to them. The pos sibilities are unlimited now. And all because of the building of modern highways and remark able development of the automo bile industry. RUFUS NUNN , . IS DROWNED Was In Swimming At White Lake Deceased Was the Brother of Robt. Nunn, of Walnut Cove. Rufus Nunn, brother of Robert Nunn, of Walnut Cove, was drowned last Sunday afternoon at White Like. near Wilmington, N. C. The deceased, who had been in the employment of the Seaboard Air Line Railway for some years, was an excellent young man. He was aged H7 years and was unmarried. Mr- Nunn saw service in the late World War and made a good record. The remains were brought to his old home near Pilot Mt. for interment. Walnut Cove Personals alnut i 'ove, Aug 25.—Miss Thelma Neal left Sunday for jV\ rightsviile Leach, v.here she is 1 a guest at a h Jiise party. Quite a number from this place | attended the ci un'y Sunday j school convention at Danbury | Tuesday and Wednesday. | Miss Irene Rothrock has been j visiting relatives near Pine Hall. Wesley Linville spent several jdays o? last week in Charlotte. Miss Elizabeth Sparger, of !(ireensboro, has been spending j several days with Misses Nell, 1 Katherine and Margaret Hutch erson. Miss Oeorgia Dalton, who has been spending several days at Piedmont Springs with Dr. A. r. Jones and family, is here Miss Lilly Wheeler is visiting in l'ine Hall this week. Miss Lilah Johnson, of Reids ' ville, is visiting Miss Carrie j Moore Neal. Mrs. D. T. Ramsey spent Tues day in Winston-Salem shopping. Mrs. R. L. Murphy is visiting | her daughter, Mrs. (Gilbert Hill, j near Meadows. The members of the Methodist i Sunday school went on a picnic jto Piedmont Springs Tuesday [afternoon. A delightful time was enjoyed by all. Mrs. S. W. Rierson has been quite sick at her home on Main street this week. Mrs. McAdoo, who has been visiting the family of John Bailey, left Monday for Hender sonville, where she is spending the summer. Mrs. Edwin Carter is visiting Mrs E. P. Pepper in Danbury this week. Mrs. John V. Lewellyn, who has been quite ill at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Cates. is improving rapidly. Miss Mary Wyatt Rierson, who has been visiting relatives hete, left Monday for Uibsonville, where she will visit her brother. The case against Will Lawson, charged with retailing, which was to have been heard her# Saturday before Justice N. A. Martin, was dismissed on account of the fact that the witnesses in the case failed to appear. CO-OPS TO HAVE PLANT AT KING Work Will Begin At Once On Receiving Warehouse For Farmers' Co-Operative Mar keting Association. W. E. Hartman, who was here from King Monday, 9tated that that the money had been raised and a lot purchased there on which to erect a warehouse for handling and storing: the tobacco of the members of the Farmers' Co operative Association. The building will cost $15,000 or more and work will be started at once. It is expected that the building will be completed b> November Ist. The citizens of King are very enthusiastic over the prospect of handling a large per cent of the the tobacco grown in that section. POLICE OFFICER TRIES SUICIDE W. I. V. iiliams, of Wiuston- Saleni, Swallows Poison In Martinsville Jail—Held Op Liquor Charge. , Martinsville, Aug. 20.—-W. I. Williams, Winston-Salem, N. C. pilice officer. who is being held here for trial on the charge jof unlawfully a:.d feloniously j transporting ardent spirits, at j tempted to commit suicide yes terday in the county jail by swallowing bichloride tablets. One of the prisoners in jail yelled to two police officers, who were in the courthouse vard, that Williams was a sick man. The po lice hurried in and learned the cause of his illness and immed iately called l)r. Simmons, Dr. Brown, Dr. Dudley and Dr. M. E. Hundley. First aid treatment was given in the jail. Williams was moved to Lucy Letter hospital where he is resting well and it is hoped to carry him back to his cell in a few days. A note was found in the jail in which Williams reiterated his in nocence in transporting illicit liquor. A few days ago Williams gave to one of the trustees in the jail a quarter to buy the bichloride tablets to be used in the bath, and jit was not until Sunday morning I that he decided to eat them j ratlier than to appear beforp the j circuit court in October and plead j his innocence in transporting 55 gallons of illicit liquor on Sunday, Aug. 12, in company with E. T, Warner, also of Winston-Salem, but who gave bond in the sum of $•">00 for his appearance for trial in October. Zeb Tucker Lost Home By Fire Yesterday Zeb Tucker, a tenant on the farm of John M. Taylor. •'* miles east of Danbury, had the mis fortune to loose his dwelling and its contents by fire yesterday. He also lost considerable whett and some leaf tobacco in the fire. It is learned that no in-i surance was carried and his loss is considerable. The house caught from the cook stove flue while the family was away in the field at work. No. 2,681 SEVEN BAPTISED AT MT. VIEW As Result Of Baptist Church Revival At King—Preparing For Stokes Fair In October —News Of King. t King. Aug. 28.—Mr. Jarvia Aright left Saturday for his home in Norfolk. Va., after spending several days with hia sister. Mr«. (J.J. Kirby. in Walnut Hills. "Thunderbolt Tom,'' the evan gelist. will commence a two , weeks meeting in his big tent ! here about Oct l*>th. A recoid breaking attendance is expected. Mr. Thomas E. Smith, who re sides here, was bitten last week by a rabid dog. He is taking the pasteur treatment which is being administered by local physicians. The high school will open here Monday. Sept. 3rd. A good attend ance is promised for the open ing. Mr. William H. Voigt. the movie man, from New Yi>rk, who is giving two shows a week in | the Need more theatre, is r.aving iartre crowds. The iiovles Co. for an up-to date | undertaking business. They have 1 recently purchased a larger and i rijLvr hiuise wi.ich is in keeping I their on-the-minute service. I \ J. ira ! 's lias purchased from IL. J. Kiser a nice residence and : acres of land, ct nsieration !*7-»U0 00. Mr. Kis-r will move into the S R. Slateresider.ee which he recently purchased. .1. R. llanes, of Halifax, Va., and A. S. Speer, of Bonneville, •a t-re here last week and contract ed tor a site on which will be orected The Farmers Co-operative Marketing Association receiving warehouse which is to be built here. The new county highway which is being built from Dry Springs school to connect with the Siloam road near Perch is nearing completion. Mr. and Mrs. James Love Sr. and their daughter. Miss Trilbv. are spending several days with rejatives in Raleigh. The Stokes County Fair, which will take place here October l'»th.. 17th., ISth. ard lf»th, promises to be the best ever The amount set apart this >ear for premiums is . much larger than last year. The I attractions this year will be good. The Association has already con tracted with the J. L. Cronan railroad shows to furnish at tractions for the fair. The little son of Mr. A. T. Myers, whose broken arm was set by Dr E. M. Griffin here last week, is getting along nicely. Work oil Dr. H. G. Harding's new home in west end will be commenced within a few days. The farmers co-operative|ware house which is to be built ;here. will be a 100 by -'MI foot structure and will beerected on thi Atlantic and Yadkin sidetrack just west of the depot- The cost will be ap proximately SI">,IMR This will be a great convenience to the farm ers living in this whole surround ing section most of whom belong to the association. Surrounding Kine is a network of good roads and farmers will have no trouble in reaching their receiving station over good it matters not where they live. Mr. James R Bowen register of deeds of Danbury spent Sun day with friends here. Farmers of this section are working late into the nitfht to take care of their large tobacco crops. Most of them are making good cures. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hartman spent Sunday with relatives near Danbury. The following candidates who were received in the Baptist church at a recent protracted meeting held here were baptised at Mountain View yesterday afternoon: Mr. Guy Garner, Mrs. Martha Spainhower, Mi&s Lola Jessup, Miss Elsie Culler, Miss Virgie White, Miss Inez Kiser, and Miss Caaaie Preston. Joe Goodman and Gary L. Car roll, of Winston-Salem, were in town Monday on their way to Pitdmont Springs.