DANBUEY REPORTER
Volume LI.
TOBACCO MARKET
OPENED MONDAY
Apparently Little Change In
Prices, While Quantity Is
Cut Short By Cold Weather
—Three-Fourths Crop Sold.
The Winston-Salem tobacco
market opened Monday with
prices reported to be sliirhtly
higher than before the holidays
or at least not any lower. Only
. a small amount of the weed
was offered for sale Monday,
the cold weather probably keep
ing many farmers at home.
Since Monday the sales have
Meen heavier but not up to th>;
breaks before Christmas. The
average price is around twenty
unts a poniui.
The amount of tobacco in
the hands of the farmers now is
estimated at anywhere from a
fourth to one-third of the crop.
The warehousemen expert the j
bulk of the crop to be sold in j
ihe next sixty days.
MUST GO TO
CHURCH OJv JAIL
Judge A. M. Stark Sentences
i.a\v Breakers 'I'D Attend 80-j
MV.il Services Beh'.g Condikt
••(l By li -v Bilh Sunday.
Charlotte. Jan. 8. — "Attend
revival services once a week or
go to jail."
This was the edict of Judge A.
•M- Stack, of Monroe, who yester
day opened a six months terra as
presiding judge of the Mecklen
burg superior court here to per
sons convicted of gambling in his
court. Twelve men yesterday
afternoon were convicted of
gambling and fined various sums
and sentenced to tiO dajseach
in jail. The sentences weie su
spended bv the judge with the
pro\ision that the men must re
frain from gambling for three
years and must attend services
now being conducted hero by
Key. W. A. "Billy" Sunday once
a week.
AUTO-GAS TAX
OVER £7,000,000
End of First Six Mouths Shows
Total Collections To Ho
$5,623,815.01) Year Ends
uly Ist Next.
Raleigh, Jan. 7.—By the end
of the State's fiscal year thp auto
mobil aid „asolinc funds of the
state will reach wed pa?t -T7.oo'\-
* 000 ai:d olust to $ (HX>, ac
cording to of Secretary
of State W. N. Ev«rett and
G werner Riorrson.
Mr. Everett yesterdav furnish
ed th»« Governor w t! a statement
of the receipts and disburse
ments of the department to
December 81. Foi tS.fl first six
months of ihe lisca> » criod the |
total collections from the auto
mobi'e license and the gasoline
tax amounted to $5,6-3 845.
and New Year's
day have passed and the next
joyous occasion on the calen
dar is Easter, which comes rath-
W late this year—April 2Ct!».
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MORE MILLIONS
READY FOR CO-OPS
Third Payment By Association
Amounts In All To Over
Five Million Dollars—Checks
Will Be Sent Out Jan. 10.
Tobacco co-ops of the old belt
of Virginia and North Carolina
will receive millions of dollars
this week in the third pa\ment
to be made by their marketing
association Thursday, January
10, when checks will be pnid
to all members of the associa
tion who delivered bright to
bacco of the crop of 1922.
This week's payment, accord
ing to officials of the associa
tion, will bring the total cash
receipts of its members lip to
the full amount of the valua
tion placed by bankers on the
crop of 1022. The total amount
of the third payment by the as
sociation t> its members in tin*
old belt ami eastern North Car-j
olina will exceed S5.Hi >O,OOO. ac
cording to its directors, wlnj
»late that this is not the final i
settlement on the 1022 crop.
Iso checks will be paid o*i
riiiusdav lo association mem-'
b'rs and ' 11i>■ will bring their to
tal r ceipth 'in the best wrap
per grades to as lii/h as $70.00, 1
for cigarette cutters as high us
.55,00, and for the best leaf
$45.00. !
The association closed the
old year last week by the pay
ment of all debts due, including
mortgages and deeds in trust
assumed on the purchase of its
warehouse properties. It also
I
retired all of its class A stock
then due and amounting in all
to many thousands of dollars, 1
according to the announcement
(f Treasurer James H. Craitr. |
The prompt payment of all it-si
debts to date by the Tobacco'
Co-Operative Association com
pletes the first step by which
more than 03,000 farmers who'
compose its membership are be- i
coming the owners and obtain- j
ing tne stock of the 150 ware-1
houses v hich were purchased
by tlv» ociafion.
The saving in warehouse
charges gained by members «>;' j
jthe association will more than!
i':.y the oo .t of their ware
| houses d-jrbii,' their present
m uvting contract. according
to Aaron f'apiro. attorney foi
ihe ashoo" 4 ion.
All .varehoiifvs of the asso
ciation in the bright beUs of
Virginia and North Can ia.
and ;n the dark and sun-cured'
belts of Virginia have opened«'
aj-'.r'a to V.K ;•!,e tobacco, the! 1
association so for laving -v-|
ceivd more tl>>». 125,000,000 ' 1
pounds of the 1028 crop, a con-1
siderably larger amount than 1
its receipt up to a year ago. 1
S. D. FRISSEL. *
I
Johnson, of Winston- t
Salem has uualifipd as adminis
trator upon the estate of his »
hmthor, the late Witey G. John- 4
0-i, of '"'."i,, CUU., ..unty.
Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1924
GERMANTON HIGH
SCHOOL OPENS 15
W itor ami Lights Installed anil
Heating Plant Will Be Con
nected Up Soon—A Pretty
Building—Personals.
Germanton, Jan. 6.—The new
high school building is almost
completed but not quite ready
tor school yet, so the reopening
of school will not take place be
fore Jan. ]3th. The carpenters
have done their work and gone.
The water and lights have been
installed but the heating plan*,
has not bun connected Three
schools will be consolidated vr.li
the Germanton school the com
ing term,these being Bed Bank,
Challin's and Corinth. Trucks
will convey the children from a
distance. The new building
presents quite a striking ap
pearance tin on the hill from tiv
village.
I>r. Paul IVtree. of Peri,!
South America, lias arrived in
iermauton lo In- at the bed- i
He of his fat her, .Mr. U. J. 1
I'etree, whose condition does
•lot improve.
.Mrs. Frank Stoucstrcct ami j
' hildren. ot .Mocksville, have'
returned home after spending ;
few days with their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. 11. J. Petree.
P. M. Martin Dies
At Ayersville
Pinknoy Martin, ayred about
GO years, died Mondav nijjiit at
10 o'clock at his homo at Avers
\ille, Stokes count\. He was
stricken with paralysis at four
o'clock ir tne afternoon and
was unconscious until the end,
came. Mr. Martin had been in j
fail* health for a lonjr time and:
his death came unexpected, lie!
is survived by his wife and the!
following children: Mrs. (). _'.
Kast, of Winston-Salem; Misses
Nina and Lillian Martin, who
reside at the old home place and
John Martin, of Ayersville.
Mr. Martin was a prosperous
tVrmer and one of the leading
iiti:'.ens of his community. He
was one u the founders of the,
Vversville Paptist duirch and j
van a lUncor in the c.nurch at [
the time of his death.
The fuvral was lu'.d at the'
church at A vers wile Wednes- i
day nttornoon 'o. 4 e'.-hvk fol
lowed by in the'
.'liurch brvying jrround.
iVvii,.- on
Cor.j\xy Sand Here 1 ,
V ■) :'n*;:!:, V>cal v. I :aw? op
"ati.!", >»;;; the .uiU'aci to
haul two ; fr loads ot sand fron:
11
.he v'ove sta.'on to !
»ri U.e ites on «•.» IVnnbary-1.
Ai'sitie'! r >ad. The .•waid convw
4
rom Davi.i. cn county. > is 1 ,
earned, and appears to be of
excellent quality, but we fail (
o see how it could beat some of
he sand here for making con- j
•veto. There are millions of
mshels along the Dan here
would be much less expen-'
V«4U Vtl I iUOC'U OMUVti | 1
CHANGES IN
ROAD BOARD
Members John D. Smith and T.
G. New Resign and E. li. Nel
son and Robt. Barr Succeed
Them—Board Met Monday.
Considerable change took
place in the personnel of the
Stokes County Highway Com
mission Monday when members
John D. Smith and T. G. New
each handed in their resigna
tions and E. 11. Nelson and Robt.
Barr were appointed to fill the
vacancies. Mr. Smith's resig
nation was expected, as he is
no longer a citizen of the coun
ty. havng removed to Pilot Mt„
but Mr. New's acton came as a
surprise. The out-going mum-
Iters have made efficient officers
'Hid the other members of the
board expressed sincere regret
:it their resignations.
Mr. Nelson and Mr. Barr, t!:o
j new members, are citizens of
J i 'anbury imc Vadkin townships
! respectively. Both arc good
'"en and will nodm'i.i ii!| tin
Uice with credit i.. t heniselv.
:l, "i the county. The new moni
tors will be sworn in ;u tiif
next meeting of the hoard.
Ihe highwav commission was
m sesson here Monday only a
short time and no business of
importance was transacted, the
principal work being the audit
ing and paying of claims
against the county.
! Fourth Grade Pupil
! Writes Of Xmas Tree
! The Danbiirv public school 1
| gave an interesting program
, {nd Christmas tree at the pub
j before Christmas. We had a
; be'.iutiful tree, whirh was lout' |
led with presents. Some of the j
I presents looked like red applet'
hanging on the tree. They were
well arranged. Nearly every
one there received a present
from the tree and they seemed
thankful for thorn. At the
close of the program Mr. Walte:*
Petree presented the writer an 1
Banner Tilley a prize, in behalf
, of the Parent-Teacher Associa- j
I tion for making the best aver-!
J age on deportment up until thai!
| t I
j time. The songs and recita-!
j t ions by the children were beau-'
I 'itu! and the teachers managed j
! them well. We felt thankful
to them.
Written by Francis Humph
reys of the «Ith grade.
Clerk A. j. Fajy.Gr
Will Not Resign;
A report has been currentj
over the com; y for several I
lays past that Her' of the Su-1
perior Court A. J. Fugg i«Un.l-j
ed resigning his oTu«. s.»on. I
Air. Fagg stated today hat the!
report was erroneous and that
he had no idea of resigning.
Attorneys C. O. McMichael
and A. E Holton, of Winston-
Sidam, and G. L. Jarvis. of Wal
' •'t Cove, were here on profes-
OivAuU UUOUlfcoo )VoVUM^,
WALNUT COVE
FIRM CHANGES
llobson Fowler Quits Mercan
tile Business For Baseball—
W. G. Dodaon Is Improving |
I 1 rom Recent Sickness.
Walnut Cove, Jan. 7.—Mr.
Hobson Fowler, of the mercan
tile firm of Fulton-Fowler Co..
has sold his interest in the firn;
to his partners, and expects to)
become a professional baseball;
player. He will enter training!
soon.
Mr. \\. (J. Dodson, prominent'
merchant here and proprietor'
of the Dodson hotel, who has
been quite sick recently, is con-'
sideraby improved.
Mr. Lawrence Mcßae, of lial
eigh. who is well known here,
and who owns some valuable
( real estate near town, was here
this week looking alter his in
t crests.
KntortaiiK (1 For
Mi's. iialph WVbstor
Miss I.una I'.'iylur ciitcrlain ■:!
at a delight fill j>arty mi Salu/.
• lay i'\citing, 11«» i hn•i 11 lt Mrs.
Ualph Webster, of Madison,
wild was formerly Miss
Martin, >i this place. The home
was most inviting with its dec
orations it ('hrist mas greens
and pot te(t plants and the cheer
ful tires. Two contests were
enioyed. Miss Josie Pepper
won the prize in the first, a box
of candy, while Mrs. W. K.
Joyce and Miss Mary Martin 1
tied in the second one, Mrs.
Joyce being the lucky winner of
a dainty powder putr. Miss
Nancy Lee Dunlap then enter
ed. dressed as a fairy, ami invi
ted Mrs. Webster to go with
her to fairy land. She took her
into the parlor where Mrs.
Webster found a surprise await
ing her in the form of a shower
of interesting looking packages,
which were gifts from those
present. Delicious refresh
ments were served by Mrs. J. S.
la.vlor, and Misses Mary an.l
Luna Taylor, consisting of hot
L'hocolate, sandwiches, cheese
apples, olives, salted nuts and
mints.
,
j Caleb Tuttle Dies;
Fell From Bicycle
i Kin jr. Jan. 8.-Caleb Tuttle, |
"Red al'out 60 years, fell from
his bicycle near Dalton, three'
' mil's w st of here, la to Stiurday
j tternoon. He was »iic! Ed up l
j ;*nd carried to T. A Lnlton's
| home and Dr. Philips >vae in.
I mediate v rmm.">n°d but the!
I Man was ,j au before he arrived j
'onth _■ ycen>i. 7'ht> doctor stated'
that ho lied frori a strv ke >f i
ta 'y t>'--
Tne funeral was conuucted
from Chestnut Grove church*
Sunday.
Mrs. Ralph Webster, of Maui
son, spent the week end heiv
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
I U. A. Martin.
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GOOD ROAD NEWS
FROM PATRICK
Highway From Stuart To the
Stokes Line Is Apparently
Assured County Supervi
sors To Furnish State Money.
James Rierson, who resides
near Stuart, in Patrick county,
was here today on business.
Mr. Rierson stated that at the
' regular meeting of the Board of
j Supervisors of Patrick Mon
-1 day the board voted to put on
j the State highway map the road
leading from Stuart to th/>
! Stokes county line at Bill Abe
I Martin's. This is the direct
jroad from Stuart to Danbury.
Th j Virginia highway com
mission meets in Richmond on
Jan. 18th. and the Patrick coun
ty Supervise TS, accompanied by
several leading citizens, will ap
pear lie tore that body and make
f«>rmul ivpiest that the ma.l
mentioned be placed mi the
St.-.t;* map. and thai construc
tion at once.
i .»u. siau'd inai it
was t ht* intention of the Patrick
Supervisors to loan the State
'hi- nioiK'v necessary to build
this eight miles of road as soon
as it is placed on the State map.
and that Patrick citizens ex
pect to see work started on the
, road in the early spring.
This road from Stuart to the
Stokes line forms a part of the
most direct and most practica
ble route from Winston-Salem
! to Roanoke, via Walnut Cove,
Danbury, Stuart, Floyd Court
House and Christiansburg, and
the entire route, with the ex
ception of Stuart to Stokes sec
tion. is on the maps of the Vir
ginia and North Carolina high
way commissions, and ali of
the road is already built or M
in process of construction ex
cept the eight miles from Stuart
to our county line. With this
section built a large per cent at
least of the travel from Roan
oke to Winston-Salem wiH t>e
diverted from the Rocky Mt.-
Martinsville rou'.e to this one.
The road from Ilockv M'. -'o
Roanoke is said to be fearful
jand a better route is badly
needed.
Trial Here Yesterday;
Negro Round To Court
.lohn Oalton, col, o the Wal
ru't Cnv section, was given a
hearing here yesterday ..of
.'ustice N. A. Martin on the
charge of making whiskey I
he was bound over to Super">r
court under n f'-OO bo:i i.
Da'ton was arrested be'
Christmas at a distillery IK.V
A alnut Cove by policem ••.
C«.oley, of that place. When
tlie policeman arrested Palton
he attempted to take the offi
cers pistol away from hit.i and
Mr. Coolly .ihot the negro
twice. He hn« been in Wiiis
ton-Salem hospital up to the
time he was brought her# for
> 4 it\i.
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