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DANBURY REPORTER Volume LI. ROAD SENTENCE FOR STOKES MAN: H. H. Stovall Had Fruit Jar retaining Whiskey When Arrested In Greensboro anil Judge Gives Him the Limit. (i/eensboro, March 6. H. H. St( -.all. a Stokes county farmer, wav today sentenced in Guilford «.-• ty Superior court to serve four months on the county roads on the charge of tia im porting whiskey. St ivall said that he had a fruit jar of whiskey, brought on a trip he made from his homo in Stokes along with him in his w.v n trip to Guilford county. He vas peddling apples and hj had the liquor along with him for his own use, he said. When he /lit to Guilford College seme of the boys asked him for liquor and he would not sell it to them IK;*, .rave them some to drink. Hi arrest came when the col ic.-" authorities heard of it. .Stovall. who resides in 11 • • Smith section. 12 mdes ii' .: ;i of Danbury. is considered ;i '■ i citizen df that section, a: I is a hard-working, honest l;;;\wi\ !lis neighbors s'iv that la .".as never been known to de;.l m whiskey in any way, It i named that he will not ap pi;.l trom the sentence of the court but will serve the time on the roads \ T oah Mabe Bound Over To Superior Court 1 Noah Ma he was giwn a hear ing here on Saturday heforo Fun.ce X. A. Martin on thy charge of recklessly operating an automobile and running into the car of Willie Booth. He wa.- placed under a hundred dollar bond for his appearance at the next term of Superior court. Bond was furnished. Flat Shoal School Building* Burns The Flat Shoal school build-' ing, situated four miles south j west of Danburv, was destroyed ' by fire Friday night. Th"' building was said to have taken fire from the stove. School had been in session in the' building the day of the fire. The Record Of ) The Ground Hog* The forty days reign of the ground expired today, accord ing to those who keep tab on things pertaining to the weath er. A Danbury citizen who kept a record of the weather during the forty days reports 16 days of rain and snow and 2-1 fair days. A. W. Dillon, of the Sandy Ridge section, who was a visitor here today, reports that he lost a good mule last Saturday night when the animal strayed away j from home. Nothing of its j whereabouts can be learned. . SAD DEATH OF MRS. EMMA LAWSON Lawsonville Lady Passed Awav Friday At Winston - Salem Hospital—lnfant Died Same Day Its Mother Was Buried. Mrs. Emma Lawson, wife cf Frank La vson. of the Lawson cil!" section, died in a Winston- Salem hospital Friday, after a.i illness of only a few da\ . Mrs. Lawson left an infant only a few days old, the child also > dying on Sunday, i Mrs. Lawson. who was aged ■ 'sl years, was an excellent i christian woman. She is sur . vived by her husband and seven ' children, the oldest being onh* i eleven years of age. She was i a daughter of Mr. John Spencer, » of Peter's Creek township. The funeral and burial wa? i held on Sunday afternoon at . Snow Hill church, conducted by - Ilev Mr. Lineberger. A larg> concourse of friends and rela tives wen in attendance at the i funeral. 1 Wilson Tobacco Market Breaks World Record | Wilson. March 2.—The en I tire world's record in the sale of tobacco on a single marker j was broken this season by the i Wilson tobacco market, it was | announced here yesterday at j the closing of the market, by !H. B. Johnson, supervisor of j sales of this market and of the I Wilson tobacco board of trade, j The total sales of the season ■ | were given out as 71.517.,'150 '| pounds, which sold for $15,856.- ' 511.1:1, making an average of j 3*22.17 per hundred pounds. 1 j Sales of thin season showed 'j an increase of 29,174,990 lbs. j over last season and an increase .of 9.275,284 pounds over the banner season of 1920, it was stated. Since 1920 the Wilson market: has sold 622,044,572 pounds i and one-third of this amount | was sold within the last four i seasons. | | I 'N. & 4 W. Railway's Casualty List; 1 Roanoke, Va., March 11.— 1 ;Twenty employes of the Nor*' folk & Western railway com • pany were killed in 192:* and 1,868 were injured, according to a statement by 11. 11. Blake more, chairman of the roads safety commission. These fig ures show a decrease of five ;n the number killed as compared with tho record of 1922 and an increase of 305 »n the num ber injured. I). E Nelson, of Mount Airy, a former citizen of Stokes, was a visitor here yesterday. Mr. j Nelson is proprietor of the Nel son Machinery Co. at Mount I Airy, and has been very suc cessful in his business. i Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, March 12, 1924 LADY BURNED ON KING ROUTE 2 Mrs. Dolphus Gordon Was Pre paring To Make Fire When Her Clothing Ignited—Tree Falls On Lum Boyles. King Route 2, March 10.— Mrs. Dolphus Webster was very badly burned last Friday. She got up about four o'clock and was preparing to start a fire in the stove when her clothing ignited in some wa> and was almost completely burned from her body. It is learned that . Mrs. Webster is suffering very much from the burns. Mr. Lum Boyles, while chop ping a few days since, had the misfortune to let a tree fall on him, rendering him uncons cious for some time. He was badly hurt but is improving at this writing. Mr. X. S. Combs, a successful | farmer of the Oak Grove sec-' tion, is seriously ill at his I homo and has been so for sev eral davs. | There has not lieen very • much traveling going on in this section tor a few weeks on j account of muddy roads. The farmers of this conimun | ity are about through burning plant land and have started , plowing. SCRIBBLER. ! Lawsonville School Pupils Entertained ! i i Written for the Reporter : MNs Luna Taylor entertained her school pupils from the Law- 1 sonville school at a delightful' St. Patrick's party at her home' here Friday night. The home 1 was decorated in St. Patrick emblems, shamrocks and lovely bowls of narcissus. Everyone had to tell an Irish joke on en tering the home and were then ! served refreshing punch by the; hostess.- A piece of Modeling wax was 1 given each guest with which co! make some animal or objec*. I Misses liilla Stephens and Ruth ' Moore and Mr. Charlie Moore' were all such good artists that they had to draw for the priz.;, I Mr. Moore being the fortunate! winner was given a nice box of | candy in St. Patrick attire. An | interesting contest came next, Miss Ruth Moore and Mr. Paul Crust, each winning a prize in this. Much fun was had in kissing the "Blarney Stone, after which the boys and girls followed winding strings in search for partners and were then required to write some- 1 thing tlattering about each other, till 1 timid ones making this rather short. In the cake cutting Miss Bertie Smith got: the ring, Mr. Wren Sheppard the shamrock, Mr. Paul Crist 1 the button, Miss Ruth Moore the dime, and Mr. Robt. Taylor the bull-dog. Ice cream and cake was ser ved by the hostess. BARBECUE AND PICNIC AT KING To Be Held March 29th Under Auspices of Tobacco Growers' Association —Death of Mrs. Charlie Wall, King, March 10.—The mem hers of the Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Association wili hold a big barbecue and picnic here Saturday, March 29. Din ner, which will l»e served in the warehouse, will be strictly at 12 o'clock. All who bring baskets will be given tickets to the din ner. There will be speaking, music and dancing in the after noon and evening. A large at tendance is expected. Mrs. Charlie Wall, aged near 70 years, died at her home •"> miles East of King yesterday, after a lingering illness. The interment will be conducted at the family cemetery this after noon. Two children survive the deceased, Mr. Wm. Wall, of Rural Hall Route 2, and Mrs Frank Edwards, who resides near the old home. Mrs. Wall was a good woman and will i« greatly missed in the commun ity. S. 0. Kennedy, who resiles near King, carried .*,S » nounds ■£ tobacco to Winston-Salem last week ami sold it on the open lloor for $17.21. He was not satisfied with the sale so he called it in, brought jt to Kiiw and signo.i up and tlehxVml it to the Co-operative house an! received $49.76 as first advance. Mr. Kennedy has already sold 14 barns on the open lloor this year. If he only receives two payments the fourteen barns already sold, figuring it at the same rates, means that he has lost several hundred dollars on I this Imp. i E. P. N'eil'siinf and .las. It. Caudle attended a 1 vet ing of the J. C. Bessent Camp United Spanish War Veterans at Wins ton-Salem last Tuesday night. Dr. E. M. Griffin made a pro fessional visit to MocksviSie yesterday. Mr. an.l Mrs. Thos. F. Bake.- spent Saturday with relatives here. "Thunderbolt Tom," the evangelist of this place, is hold ing a two-week's iwival in Mt. Airy. C. J. Kirbv, who holds a po sition with the Southern rail way. is at the U-dside ot his small son, who is very sick at his home here. With the big snow which we have here today we are really convinced that there is some thing in the ground hog. 0. J. Johnson, of Pilot Mt.. is a visitor here today. Miss Mallie Redman who is teaching in the high school here, spent Sunday with her parents in Pilot Mt. J. R. Bowen, of Danburv, spent a short while here Satur day night. The King high school basket ; ball team snatched one away J from Walkertown here Satin-j day night Gilmer Newsum, of Winston-' Salem, spent Sunday here with his parents. Tobacco Market Closes: Weed Is All Sold, The tobacco warehouses will dose in Winston-Salem for the season on Friday of this week.! Very few, if any, farmers m! this section have any tobacco| in hand now. They have al ready started preparation for another crop. Colonel Boy les, a Justice of the Peace of Yadkin township, was among the visitors here yesterday. HEAVY TRAFFIC ON STOKES ROAD . I Patrolman W. R. Sands Count« | 1140 Cars and Trucks Pass j Over Danbury-Walnut Cove I Road In One Dav Recently. 1 While engaged in his work on the Danbury-Walnut Cove road recently Patrolman R. W. Sands counted elvwn hundred an 1 forty automobiles and trucks pass over tin- road in one day of alMiut 10 hours. Wit Pout a doubt this highway has th«- heaviest traffic of any road in the county, and there are few if any roads in this part of the State that have as much. I When the roads now being constructed in the northern part of the county are finished and ! their traffic is turned into the Danbury-Walnut Cove road, i* I is the opinion of Mr. Sands that •1t will be impossible to main ( tain this Voad properly. 1 There being no railroad lead ' ing into the heart of Sioke.« makes it necessary for this road to cirrv much hea*. v I • . traffic on trucks. On most •other roads in this section the traffic is composed largely .it" light passeiurer car:, the heavy hauling being done by railroads which parallel the highwavs. TWO MEN AND I TORD ARE TAKEN Car Contained About 80 Gal lons Of Whiskey—Found On Highway Xear Germanton By Prohibition Agents. I Will Deatheridge. a while man, and Walter Flippin. eol j ored, were arrested near Ger manton Tuesday bv Federal | Prohibition Agents when tliec I were found on the highway in 1 charge of a Ford car containing i eighty gallons of whiskey. Th" car was broken down when the ; officers came upon it. Both men, who claim to be from Winston-Salem, were brought here and placed in the county jail, pending a preleminary i hearing. The whiskev was als-i i placed in the jail here. I . ! Billy Sunday Coming* To Winston-Saleml Billy Sunday is to hold a re-j I vival meeting in Staunton. Va.,! the latter part of February and the month of March. 1925. and i will then go to Winston-Salem 1 in April to conduct a month's I revival. Many people of this! section, who have never heard Mr. Sunday will be glad loj have him preach this near and scores of them will nodoubt at tend. Aycock Monument Unveiled Tomorrow The unveiling of the monu ment erected to the memory of the late Governor Charles 11. Aycock will be held in Raleigh tomorrow. Elaborate exercises will be held in the State capitol. No. 2,708 THIRTY-ONE TOWNS SELECTED From These Places Automobile License Plates Will He De livered After June —Ser vice To Owners Is Object. Raleigh. March 11.—Thirt;*- one cities and towns in every section ii the State have bee.', selected by Secretary of State W. N. Kverett as 1-K-ati« ris for sub-stations of the automobile license bureau. From the> _• branches motor license plates or tags will lit- distributed for the new list-ill year, beginning June .".nth. * Heretofore, the bureau has been handling the distribution from the otlices in Raleigh but the great increase ot' automo biles in the State has ove" taxed the capacity of the looa! quarters and necessitated the new system now being t -tab •ished, The location of the bra:v. ,; : olliccs will enable motorists all over the State to obtain their licenses by personal applica tions and will eliminate the n - •cessity of mailing out t l '" sands of plates. I The annual stamp hill ot' tl • , bureau under the old plan of •distribution has amounted to •« ■ $50,000, and the saving from j this source will practically de fray the expense of the branch , offices. v ! Hie first sub-station has al ready bi-en opened at Char lotte and is now handling the ( harlotte territory in supplying the tags for new machines that are being placed in operation. On Saturday the Charlotte of lice did greater volume of busi ness than the Raleigh oflkv, Mr. Everett said. The sub-stations will be loea ted in the near future in the fol lowing eities and towns : Asheville, Albemarle. Clinton. Durham, Elizabeth City, Fayet teville, (ireensboro, Greenville. Henderson, Jacksonville, Kins ton. Lexington. Lumberton. Marion, Morganton, New Kern. Raleigh. Roanoke Rapids, Rock ingham. Salisbury, Sanford. Shelby. Statesville, Tarboro, Washington, Waynesville, \\ it kesboro. Wilmington, Wib-on. Winston-Salem. Comes Rack To Stokes Farm Marvin McGee, who has been in the employment of the Unioi*- Republican in Winston-Salem for the past 11 years, with th > exception of the two years In served in the army during the world war. went to Sandy Ridge last week to engage in farming at the home of his father-in law. Born unto Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Brown, on Danbury Route 1. Saturday morning, a fine 13- pound girl.
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