DANBURY REPORTER
Volume L.
CRIMINAL COURT
IN SESSION HERE
Only Two Road Sentences Im
posed So Far and Very Few
Fines— Term Will Likely
Adjourn Tomorrow.
Only two road sentences
have so far been imposed by
Judge 0. H. Allen who is pre
siding over the fall term of
Stokes criminal court here this
week. The court has been in
session three days and a good
number of cases have been dis
posed of, a majority of which
were for violations of the pro
hibition law. A few small fines
have been imposed by the
court.
Solicitor Spruill is here ably
representing the State and he is
not failing to secure convictions
in nearly every case that goes
to the jury.
The grand jury is still in ses
sion and has acted on a good
I'.umiii'r of bills. Mr. J. B. Allev
i- foreman of the body.
Among the attorneys in at
tendance on the court from out
of town are: McMichael. John
son and Brown, of Winston-
Salem; Brown and Roberts, ot'
Madison: Folger, of Mt. Airy.
J. C. Bowers, of Lexington ;
Wm. Graves, Winston-Salem ;
•farvis, of Walnut Cove; Badg
itt and Bernard, of Pilot Mt.,
and probably others. Largo
numbers of farmers and others
have also been in attendance.
Cases heard and disposed of
by the court up to this time
(Wednesday afternoon) are as
follows :
Bill Ridley, a. d. w., fined $lO
and cost and ordered hired out
for three months.
Jeff Sheppard, operating car
while intoxicated, prayer for
judgment continued for 2 years
upon payment of cost.
R. A. Hedgecock, operating
car while intoxicated, prayor
for judgment continued for one
year upon payment of cost.
B.F. King, assault on female,
prayer for judgment continued
upon payment of cost.
John William Hairston, c. c.
w„ 12 months on road.
Burwell Overby, operating
car while intoxicated, prayer
for judgment continued for one
year upor. payment of cost.
Walter White, a. d. w., order
ed to pay to J. D. Watts SSO and
to pay cost in case.
Bud Fry, retailing, prayer
for judgment continued upon
payment of cost.
Sandy Hicks, assault on fe
male, ordered to appear at each
term of criminal court for pe
riod of two years to show good
behavior and pay cost in case.
W. P. Stone, manufacturing
liquor, ordered to appear at
each term of criminal court for
one year to show good behavior
and to pay cost in case.
Eld Simmons,Sr., and Ed Sim
mons, Jr., assault, former to
pay cost and latter to be hired
out for term of four months.
TOBACCO AVERAGE
LITTLE HIGHER
Over Million and Half Pounds
At Winston-Salem Last Week
Averaged $15.85 Per Hun
dred Pounds.
Winston-Salem, Oct. 15.—The
Winston-Salem auction tobacco
market handled a total of 1,634,-
802 pounds of tobacco last week
for which the farmers received
the sum of $268,245,04, the
average price per hundred being
$15,85.
The offerings are running rather
light for this early in the season
and the quality is poorer than
was expected. The average is
considerably under what it was
last year at this time. However,
it is expected that the price will
begin to rise as the better grades
come cn the market. Sales so
far have been largely low grade
primings.
Heavier offerings are expected
each week from now until Christ
mas. Should there be rain soon
the "breaks" will be unusually
large, as farmers are waiting for
a "season" to get the weed "in
order.''
John Kington, having liquor
in his possession, judgment sus
pended upon payment of cost.
W. L. Fisher, having liquor
in possession, judgment sus
pended.
John Martin and Roosevelt
Foddrill, forcible trespass, jud
gment suspended upon payment
jof cost.
Percy Morris, retailing, two
months on road.
B. L. Love, having whiskey
for sale, judgment suspended
upon payment of cost.
James Ed Mabe, manufac
turing whiskey, judgment sus
pended upon payment of cost.
Hard James, Jim Nelson,
Drew Mabe, Guy Ellington,
Luther Manuel, having liquor
in possession, prayer for judg
ment continued upon payment
of cost.
Rex Sheppard, forgery, nol
pros with leave.
Lester Penn, seduction, or
dered to pay to Mecie Franklin
S2OO and to pay cost of case.
Tom Manuel, retailing, two
cases, judgment suspended.
Bud Mabe and Bertha Collins,
f. and a., nol pros with leave.
Coy Martin, larceny, prayer
for judgment continued upon
payment of cost.
J. A. Nea!. retailing, nol pros
with leave.
S. W. Scroggs, trespass, noi
pros with leave.
James Jessup and Belle Tuck
er, f. and a., prayer for judg
ment continued for 2 years as
to Jessup. Nol pros as to Belle
Tucker.
Will Brown and Wm. Booth,
manufacturing liquor, not a
true bill.
Charlie and A. J. Wilkins,
manufacturing liquor, case in
process of trial.
Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, Oct. 17, 1923
STOKES FAIR
IN PROGRESS
The Attendance Is Large and
the Exhibits Finest Ever
Shown—News and Personals
Of King.
Kiag, Oct. 16.—Mr. J. R.
Wall, of Mount Airy, spent Sun
day with relatives here.
The Stokes County Fair-Associ
ation had contracted with Prof.
Hall to make a balloon
ascension each day of the
fair this week. He was to
make an ascension Sunday after
noon also, as an advertisement
for the fair association but when
the balloon was inflated and
ready to go up it caught on fire
and burned up. The several hund
red people who were waiting to
see the ascension were all dis
appointed. Prof. Hall wired im
mediately for a new balloon to be
shipped by express to King, and
it is expected to arrive tomorrow
in time for an ascension each day
of the fair.
The Kin? Motor Co., which is
a branch of The Motor Co., of
Winston-Salem, have opened up
their new establishment and are
ready to deliver any kind of a
car or truck, they also carry parts
and tires. Mr. C. T. McGee is
manager and Messrs. A. E.
Gordon and H. D. Moore are
salesmen. They seem to be doing
a nice business.
Mr. A. M. Caudle, of the I*. S.
Navy, who is stationed at Hamp
ton Roads, Va., is spending a
thirty-day furlough with his
parents who reside in Walnut
Hills.
If nothing happens to delay the
construction force and thev are
not delayed on account of ma
terial. the management of the
cooperative receiving station
contemplate opening the first
Monday in November.
Mr. Claude Culler, of Winding
Gulf, W. Va., is spending a few
days with his parents here.
The Stokes*county Fair opened
here this morning with a large
attendance and the most and
finest exhibits ever seen on the
fair grounds here. The attractions
are also extra good this year. If
the weather holds out good this
fair is going to be a record
breaker.
HARD SURFACING
TO START IN SPRING
Road To Be Graded Between
Pilot Mountain and Mt. Airy
Will Have Concrete Poured
On It Next Spring.
Winston-Salem, Oct. 12.
State Highway Commissioner
A. S. Hanes this morning an
nounced the letting of contracts
for grading on the Clemmons-
Mocksville highway, and the
grading and bridges on the Pilot
Mountain-Mt. Airy highway,
this work to be done this winter,
preliminary to hard surfacing to
begin in the spring. Some of the
press reports announce that the
contracts awarded by the state
highway commission yesterday
included soiling the stretches.
This, says Mr. Hanes. is an
error. The distance to be graded
on the Davie county project is
8.07 miles: and on the Surry
county project is 10.54 miles.
Surry County Co-Ops
Open Warehouse
Mount Airy. Oct. 11.—The co
operative warehouse tn this city
orened Tuesday for the grading
of tobacco and about 75,000
p unds were delivered the first
• d*-y. Joe Dobson is manager and
R. F. Joyce is grader. Much
satisfaction is expressed by the
growers over the grading and the
first advances.
POPULAR COUPLE
GET MARRIED
Miss Doris Hauser Weds Mr. T.
W. Barnes—Feed Barn Burn
ed On Farm Of H. McGee
News Of Germanton.
Gcrmanton. Oct. 13—The an
nouncement of the marriage of
Miss Doris Hauser in Winston-
Salem Wednesday night to
Theodpre W. Barnes came as a
great surprise to her many friends
here. Miss Hauser entered high
school last Monday and no one
suspicioned the contemplated
marriage so early. Mrs. Barnes
is the winsome and attractive
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C, M,
Hauser who resides at Aventine
Farm, near here, and she by her
charming personality has endear
ed herself to a large circle of
friends who join in wishing her
much happiness. Mr. Barnes is
a successful young business man
of Winston-Salem. Mr. and Mrs.
Barnes will be at home to their
friends at 1(509 North Liberty
street in Winston Salem.
Twin boys were recently born
to Mr. and Mrs. Riley George on
route two.
"Bud" Heath, a prominent
farmer, of the Palmyra neighbor
hood, felt that luck was with him
on last Tuesday afternoon, when
a fine young Jersey cow gave
birth to twin calves, andatsevei.
o'c'ock the same evening a fine
son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Heath.
Thursday afternoon about 4:.'JO
fire completely consumed the feed
barn on the farm of H. McGee, near
German ton.The building was near
the residence of a tenant named
Anderson. All members of the
family were away from the
house except Mrs. Anderson and
a small child and it is unknown
how the barn caught. A grain
drill, some other machinery, a
number of bales of straw outside
the building were burned. Fortun
ately the wind carried the blaze
away from the house or a number
of other buildings would have
been lost.
More Seized Cars
To Be Sold Here
A Ford touring car recently
seized by prohibition agents in
this county will be sold at auc
tion here Saturday of this week
at the court house. A Ford
roadster will be sold under thj
same conditions on Saturday,
Oct. 27th. Notice of the sale of
the latter car appears in this
paper.
Association Meeting-
Of Primitive Baptists
Madison, Oct. 11.—The Mayo
Primitive Baptist Association will
be held at the Pleasantville
Primitive Baptist church, eight
miles from town, on Saturday.
Sunday and Monday, Oct. 27, 28
and 29. Some of the denom
ination's strongest preachers are
expected to be present and
splendid meetings are anticipa
ted.
CONSOLIDATION
IS DISCUSSED
Dr. Cook and J. L. Christian
Addressed Audience At Ben
nett School Last Night On
School Consolidation.
Editor Reporter:
Since hearing the plan of con
solidation explained by Dr. Cook,
of North Carolina College,
Greensboro. and Mr. John Chris
tain, of our Board of Education,
at Bennett's school house last
night, I am thoroughly convinced
that the least we ought to do for
our children is to provide for
them a high school where they
may receive an education that
will enable them to compete with
any boy or girl from any part of
the country. Dr. Cook pointed
out that a high school diploma is
necessary to any one nowadays
who applies for a position any
where. He said that the man
who says that his boy can get
along without an education as
well as he did, is wholly wrong,
and that this argument is no
more reasonable than it is to say
that an army can fight as well
with the weapons our fathers
used as it can with the machine
gur.s which are now used —ma
chine guns shooting 600 times in
one minute while the flintlock
rifle would only 9hoot once in 3
minutes with good luck.
Mr. Christian said that the
most successful farmers no long
er work with their hands alone
but must use their brains: there"
fore the farmer needs to be
equipped with an education just
as much as any other professional
man does.
Both Dr. Cook and Mr. Chris
tian spoke so earnestly and
sincerely on the subject of better
schools that no one who listen
ed to them intelligently could
fail to see that it is not only ex
tremely necessary for us to
provide a better school for our
children but it is the only thing
to do if we are to discharge the
obligation that rests upon us at
parents.
ONE WHO WAS PRESENT.
Co-Ops Handle Three
Million Pounds Weed
Raleigh, Oct. 16.—Three and
three quarter million pounds of
tobacco have been handled by
the Tobacco Growers' association
in western North Carolina and
Virginia, according to a report
made here last night by J. E.
Bowling and Edward Walton,
managers of the two districts.
This amount represents tobacco
handled during the first week of
the present opening for this year's
crop.
The greatest amount has been
received at the Danville, Va«,
station which reports 300,000
pounds. Durham, Roxboro,
Henderson, and Fuquay Springs,
all in North Carolina, report
amounts in excess of 150,000
pounds. Average first payments,
it is stated, have been around 20
dollars a hundred.
No. 2,688
MRS. M. 0. JONES
IS CHAIRMAN
Will Have Charge of the Sale
Of Christmas Red Cross Seals
For Danbury—She Will Have
Assistants.
''No tuberculosis in North Caro
lina in 193'}" is to be the battle
slogan in the fight against tu
berculosis for the next ten years.
A program with such an ambi
tious objective sounds well nigh
impossible of attainment. As a
matter of fact, to the skeptical it
sounds absurd; but ten years ago
no one thought that by faithfully
working with the methods then
known for the cure and prevent
ion of tuberculosis that the numb
er of deaths in the State could be
cut in half, but this is what has
been done. Ten years ago,in 1913,
there were 4,800 deaths from tu
berculosis; in 1922 this number
had been reduced to 2.369.
So gratifying haye been the
results of earnest efforts in the
past in reducing the number of
, deaths from tuberculosis that
health workers, particularly in
the tuberculosis fields, are en
couraged to set out to finish the
job. Not that any one worker or
group of workers think that by
their own efforts such a job can
be accomplished in ten or any
number of years, but they do
feel that with the full cooperation
: and support on the part of the
I state, the counties, and every
city, town and individual, results
even more remarkable than those
alreadv accomplished can be
broughht about. Funds for thia
work throughout the State and
Nation are obtained by the sale of
Tuberculosis Christmas Seals.
Mrs. M. O. Jones is Chairman
of the Christmas Seal Sale for
Danbury and will shortly an
nounce her committee of co
workers.
Resolutions Of Respect.
Whereas: It has pleased the
Heavenly Father to call into his
presence Nettie Pegram, wife of
W. H. Pegram, a brother Knight,
and whereas:
(*ermanton Lodge No. 197
Knights of Pythians in regular
meeting assembled does resolve:
Ist. That this Lodge extend to
Brother W. H. Pegram and family
its deepest sympathy in the loss
of a good wife and kind mother.
2nd. While a good wife and
mother has been called to the
great Beyond nothing can fill her
vacancy on earth, and her
presence, influence, admonition
and sweet words of comfort will
be missed in the home and com
munity.
You are commended to Him
who givith and taketh. to the
end that there may again be a
happy reunion in the Celestial
City where parting is never
more-
Be it resolved that a copy of
these resolutions be spread upon
the minutes of our order, publish
ed in the Danbury Reporter and
be sent to our bereaved brother.
Signed. C. C. McUEE, C. C-
Per. FRANK McGEE, asst. Kft
of R. & S.