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DANBURY REPORTER Volume LI. MORE ROADS ORDERED BUILT Contract Let For Six New Bridges In Stokes—County Highway Board Was In Ses sion Here Monday. Contract was awarded at the meeting the Stokes County Highway Commission here on Monday for the construction of » six steel bridges in the county. These bridges are located as follows : One across Dan river at Joyce's mill, near Asbury, one over Little Yadkin river in Yadkin township, two on the Priddy road in Snow creek township, and two on the Col linstown road in Big Creei township. A dozen bridge com - panies had representatives here bidding on the work. 11. R. King was awarded contract for the construction of all the bridges, his bid being lowest. The figures w-jre §12,562.00. In the matter of the selection of a route for the road Iron. Hartman to intersect with the Sandy Ridge road, the Shop-! pard mill route was cho.-'n. However, the Board ordered the Phillips road be kept tip by the maintenance forces. Dr. A. G. Jones and F. G. Gilmer, of Stokesburg, appear ed before the Board with peti tions asking that the survey for the hard-surface road from the Forsyth county line to Dan bury be changed to come through the town of Stokes burg. 'he petition was direct ed to the State highway com mission and they asked the Stokes board to endorse it. The Board refused to do this but asked the State to send en gineers and investigate the route fully before deciding on the location. An order was made that a road be constructed from A. M Shelton's store in Snow Creek township, to connect with the Priddy road. This road is known as the Watkins road. The county's mule outfit, which has been grading the Dry Springs road, was ordered re moved to the J. M. Venable road in Quaker Gap township, just as soon as the Dry Springs road is completed. It was ordered that the road leading from the Spanish Oak road, near Mr. Jackson's, to the Robt. Lawson place, on the old Lynchburg road, be opened up and improved as early as possi ble. A resolution was passed by the Board in which it was agreed to build a road from a point near Hardin Flinchum's to Moore's Springs, on condi tion that the State would accept the bid submitted last week for the construction of the Clem mons ford-Danbury road. Mrs. Edwin Carter and in fant, of Walnut Cove, spent to dnv \-.\th r. • ■ ' \ SPECIAL TERM COURT ADJOURNS Hairston Heirs Awarded $3500 Damage For Power Site On Dan River Only Three Cases Went To Jury. The special civil term of Stokes Superior court adjourned today at noon after hearing only three jury trials and Judge Lyon left immediately for his home. The most important case heard was that of the Town of Walnut Cove against Mrs. Agnes McGill and others. In this case suit was brought to recoyer damages to land and for water power site on Dan river. The jury awarded the defendants $2,575,00. Judge Lyon considered the amount inadequate j and with the consent of both; plaintiff ar.d defendant made the' amount $3, ">00,0". The case is now settled permanently. It will be recalled that in this case a commission was appoint ed to assess damages, and they awarded the defendants threy thousand dollars for the power site and the damage to land, the defendants appealing to Superior court A rather long drawn out case was that of W. \V. Rhodes vs. Wade Shelton, in which plaintiff sought to have a cartway laid out over the lands of the defendant. •Judgment of non suit was signed, and the plaintiff appealed to Su preme Court. In the case of W. W. Line back, admr., vs. the Atlantic & Yadkin railway, a compro mise judgment for $700.00 in favor of the plaintiff was sign ed. Samuel M. Langston vs. the American Collapsible Box Co., ionipromi.se judgment signed. Byrd C. Smith vs. Velna V. Smith, divorce was granted. MARKET HAS SOLD 22,306,000 POUNDS So Far this Season the Aver age Price For Tobacco On Winston Market Has Been $19.87 Per Hundred. Winston-Salem, Nov. 30 According to official figures for the season, which are taken from the books of Z, T. Bynum. super visor of sales on the local auction tobacco market, a total of 22,• 306,063 pounds were sold from the opening of„tne market until the closing down for the Thanks giving holidays. The grower.? received for this tobacco the sum of $1 435.131.20. which was an average of nearly twenty cents a pound, or to be exact $19.87 a hundred. Sales for the month of October totaled 9.759.585, for which. wa« paid the sum of $1,784,050.97. November sales amounted to 12 546,'1T5, i>' which the growe . rec i\ >-d " ' 'SO 23. Harry !'• Aivis, promine-i: merch"-' " r Walnut Cove, was '* . rfvr ! ny. Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, Dec. 5, 1923 HUGE STILL TAKEN THURSDAY Deputy Sheriff Luz James and Others Bring In 150 Gallon Copper—Beer and Sugar Is Poured Out. Deputy Sheriff Luz James and Jim Nelson captured the largest copper still yet found in Stokes on Thursday. The vessel, which was made of copper and holds probably 150 gallons, had two worms. The fire under still had not gone out when it was found and over a thousand gallons of beer and some corn meal was poured out. Many empty sugar sacks were lying around. The still wa9 found in Beaver Island township on the Hairston | land between the K Fork road and Bethesda church, about two mile 9 from Dillard. Sheriff Jame9 and L. A. Dun can brought the big still here | and put it in the county jail i Friday. | NEW INDUSTRY FOR WALNUT COYL Site For Furniture Factory is Purchased and Machinery Is Ordered. Says Authentic lie port. A citizen here from Walnut Cove today stated that he had it on good authority that his town was soon to have a new industry in the form of a fur niture factory. It was stated that the company had already purchased a site and tha4 —the order for the necessary machin ery had been placed. A year will he required in which to erect the building and install j the machines. i CASES AGATNST CO-OP MEMBERS Thirteen Stokes County Tobac co Growers Are Defendants In Temporary Restraining Orders. Winston-Salem. Nov. 1— Thirteen Ftokes county tobacco growers are defendants in tempo rary restraining orders signed a few days ago by Judge T. J. Shaw at Lexington. The Tobacco Growers, Co-operative Marketing l Association is the plaintiff. The farmers are restrained from sell ing their tobacco in any other than a co-operative warehouse. The orders are returnable be i fore Tud«:e Henry P. Lane in this j city, December 15, at which time jit wi!l be determined whether tlieordeia shall be made per manent or not. Th» defendants are as follows: N. P Page, Will Bowden, J. I. Wari.tr, Robert Mabe, R. S. Crv*i«r. Gaston Cofer, Walter :Ooil" ■», Gaston Shelton, Tom • A«hby, Reid Shelton, Mrs. 1 Rufm B nnett, Will V, Brown . iiml A. A Edwards. . dp, P. H. Linville i liodson, of Walnut • Co • ; • among the visitors " .injury today. NEGRO ATTACKS GIRL AT KING Miss Virgie White, the Young Daughter of Mr. Ed White, Is Badly Frightened When Negro Draws Pistol. King, Dec. 3.—John Goolsby, aged thirty-eight-jrears, who was depot ogeat for the Southern Railway comprny at Doonaha six miles South west of here, shot the whole top of his head off with a shot gun early Friday morning ii his office, his brains were scattered all over the rooaa. Mr. Goolsby's wife died about six weeks ago and he had grieved over her death until his mind had become effected, he leaves five small children to mourn his loss. The interment was conducted from Mount Pleasant church Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Mr. Goolsby was a good man and the whole neighborhood Lameats his untimely death, In the King items in last j week's Reporter appeared an item stating that Mr. J. S. Boyles would move his gtock of goods to his new location near; The Bank of Stokes County, this was an error Mr. Bo\les, sue-1 j cessor will take over his present stock and he will fill his new j place with new goods Richard Newsum, of Winston- J : Salem. Sunday with his I parents near here. Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Shore, i of the Shore Mercantile company, 1 wave all their employes a turkev 1 dinner Thanksgiving, | W. Everett llartman is spend ing several da>s with relatives i near Danbury. Roy Campbell, of Dobson, was among the visitors here Sunday. I Sam Tesh and family, of Win-1 ston-Sa!em, spent Sunday with relatives here. Dr. G. F. Petree, optometrist, has moved his family here and opened up offices in the King Drutr Company's building. There is a big break on the co operative market here today. | William Tuttle, of the Mizpah section, turned his automobile over on Main street here yester ' dav, one his arms were broken | and he was bruised up about the Ihead and face considerable. Miss Mallie Rniman, who is teaching in the high school here, spent Sunday with her parents in Pilot Mountain. An unknown negro attempted to assaualt Miss Virgie, the 16- i year old daughter of Mr. Edwin I White, who resides on West avenue late Thursday afternoon. 'The girl had gone to a nearby cornfield to get some corn for the chickens when the negro sudden ly appeared out of the woods. He drew a revolver and ordered the girl to stop. She began to scream and her cries were heard by Jamos Williams who ran to the scene. The negro saw Mr. Williams coating and fled. He was tracked for some tittle dis tance but it was getting dark and they lost hia trail. A posse of citizens are itill scouring the neighborhood in pursuit of the black fiend. Wants the Road; Location Is Secondary W. H. Sanders, a prominent citizen of Stokesburg or South Walnut Cove, spent a few hours here today. Mr. Sanders is doing a great deal to build up his town, and is full of energy. Notwithstanding the fact that he owns fifteen residences in Stokesburg, and has only re cently completed a $13,000.00 home there, he stated that he was not fighting the hard sur face road because the urvey missed the main street of town. Mr. Sanders says he wants the road, the location being a sec ondary matter. W. h. SANDERS APPROVES SURVEY Wants Hard-Surface Road Bo ween Forsyth Line and Dan bury Regardless Of Route It Follows. Editor Danbury Reporter: I have just been informed that a business man from my section j of Walnut Cove was in Danbury this week getting signatures to a : petition asking the State High way Commission to establish the hard-surface road from Fulp to Danbury over the road now used through Stokesburg, and that this business man was telling my friends that I was against the route as laid out by the State. i I desire to say that I am not' opposed to the route as it is laid j out and 1 am not fighting this road or any other improvement in this good old State, and anyone' making statements to the con- ' trar> is getting mighty careless. I did sign a paper given tne by the State giving them power to go through any land that I was interested in and I did take that paper to other land-owners and! I thev all signed it with the t-x-i ception of one. Some time ago the same man I referred to above made arrange ment to have C)mmissioner Hanes, of Winston-Salem, meet a party of Walnut Cove's most, prominent citizens and Mr. Hanes stated in my presence that the highway commission was not going to jeopardize the lives nf | all the people in the State by j running this road over three rail ! way crossings. Mr. Hanes said I | enough at this meeting to have | satisfied any fair-minded man i that the State was capable of ; building its roads without any small-town help. Commissioner Haries recently. ' i made the statement to a gentle man residing near me, so I am informed, that there would not be a thing started on this road until the squabbling was stopped. Walnut Cove should not be blamed for thi». I know of only three or four persons who care which route the road goes. They want the road by all means—the route is immaterial. lam writing this to let my friends (and others) know just where I stand. Anyone saying otherwise is getting careless with the truth. W. H. SANDERS. Two Bovs? Capture Four Big' Coons Gid and Raymond Mabe, of the Meadows section, who were here Monday, reported that they had recently captured no less than four coons, the last one weighing just twenty-four pounds. This was probably the largest coon ever captured in this section. A. J. Fair, Paul Fulton and Attorney G. L. .Tar Vis were hero from Wnbvt C.»» '» " •*' •- • •-**> »•» -—i ■ »■ ■' »•' •' • . CONTRACT IS PROBABLY LET Commissioner Hanes Offers To Award Contract On West field Road If County Will Build Moore's Springs Road. The Stokes County Highway Commission, in session here Monday, received a proposal from State Highway Commis sioner Hanes that if they would agree to build a road to Moore's Springs from some point on the State highway near Piedmont Springs, he would award eon tract at once for the construc tion of the Danburv-Clemmons ford road. The Board accepted ] the proposition, and it may be ; that contract has now been let ] by the State for the construc j tion of this nuich-discussed I road, but so far no official an j noiincement to that effect has ! been made here. Last week's wipers c:;rried I liu; information that liiils had ben received on the C'lemmoiH ■ ford road, and it was presumed | that contract was awarded up | until M"ti lay, when Mr. lia'les [stat 'd ti'at ihe bid had not beer. | |confirmed, but would i>e if the (county highway conimi?-don jvouhl agree to build to Moure's Springs. I THIRD PAYMENT NOT THE LAST Manager of the Co-Op Associa ' i tion Says there Will Still Be More -Money Coming To t Members After This. The third payment to members • of the Tobacco U rowers' Co , j operation Association on the eroo 'of 11)22 will not be the last, but 1 there will be still another after 'that, according to information from T. C. Watkins, warehouse t manager for the association. I "This will not be all the grower member will get for his 11)22 crop," the letter says, "for we will wind up this crop with a 1 fourth payment. We are going to make this payment just as ' soon as we can get the necessary 3 clerical work done in this office. and we are going to do every f thing in our power to get it done t quickly, for we realize that the j members need their money, and JJ 1 would ask that you inform them that we are doing all we can do to rush it to completion." Representative Hauser ; In Danburv Monday f Chas, M. Hauser, who repre , sented Stokes county in the last ( legislature, and who left a clear, honorable record be - t hind him. was here this ,• week attending court as a wit ,• ness, and incidentally shaking 1 hands with his many M.ida in Danbury. While uiul\ i kase all of hit constituents, Mr. H- iiser'* 1 course in the body of lav, makers rang true on all >■ and i'tessivc No. 2,695
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