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DANBURY REPORTER Volume LI. SOO,OOO MORE FOR STOKES ROADS] ——— Sealed Bids Will He Received By Hoard of County Com rnissiomrs For Bonds Until July :»lst Next. At the recent meeting of the Stokes Board of County Commis sioners an order was made for the issuance of sixty thousand dollars bonds for highway work in the county and the commis sioners will receive bids on the bonds up to - o'clock .July Ist, The bonds will he issued in de nominations of one thousand dollars each and will bear six perl cent interest. Five thousand. dollars of the amount will fall 1 due July 1, 1 *'42. and a like' amount will be payable each year 1 until the sixty thousand dollars is paid. These bonds are issued at the request of the county highway commission and are authorized by an act of the last legislature, i the bill providing for the issuance of $00,(100 a year for a period of five years. This will be the second issue under the act. News Of Kinir And Community Kin r Route 2. May 1 -i. Mr. Barr, the road commissioner, a:.d the civil engineer laid off a road last week from the old Gentry mill place via •. W. Smith's, \\. 11. Boyles' and others, connecting to the Volunteer road near W. 1). Ilamm's. Mr. Barr says this road is most needed and will ac commodate more people than any road he has laid off. The farmers of this section will begin planting tobacco this week and if nothing happens we will plant the largest crop we have ever planted. We find that a lot of cooperative fellows are not going to plant anv and the others will plant enough to make up for them. N. G. Covington is erecting a nice residence near the White Wall. Bus Line Danbury To Winston-Salem Winston-Salem, May 11.— O. R. Young, who has been interest ed the interurban auto business for some time, has started a new line, " The Mountain View Line," which will operate between this city and Walnut Cove and Dan bury. The cars will leave from the union bus station, Zin/.endorf Hotel building, Main street, for! Walnut Cove at 8 a. m. and 11 :-!0 a. m. The Danbury car will leave at 3:45 p. m. All cars will go via Walkertown, Dennis. Fulp —over the new hard-surface road. The cars return from Wal nut Cove at 9:30 a. m. and 11 : ; i0 a. m. The car leaves Danbury at • r »;30 p. m. The line will fill a long-exist ing need in the territory covered, and will doubtless be liberally patronized by the public. It will prove a convenience especially to persons wishing to visit Pied mont Springs during the season. BOUND OVER TO STOKES COURT Early Rodenheimer Charged With Reckless Driving—Two Infants Die Near King— Personal anil News Items. King, May 1 —Flarlie Boden hamer was tried Wednesday be fore justice James R. Caudle on a charge of wrecklesa driving and operating an automobile while under the influence of liquor. Probable cause was found and he was bound over to the next term of Stokes superior court which convenes in October His bond was fixed at $500.00 which he promptly arranged. Tnese charges grew out of the wreck at the Muddy Creek bridge two miles east of here on Sunday April -7th. in which Numn War ren lost his life. Bodenhamer was driving the car at the time. A force of men have beefl at work the last few da>s widening the road at the approach to this bridge where the accident hap pened. This was the second man to lie killed at this identical spot. It will be remembered that a young man named Lawrence of Westfield was killed at this point about two \ears ago. Henry Newsum. of Winston- Salem, has purchased from R. A. Newsum a piece of real estate containing ten acres, lying two miles south of town, considera tion $2,000 00. Joe Goodman, of Winston i Salem, is among the business visitors here today. J. S. I). Puliiam left today for Wilmington where he goes to look after some business matters. Walter Sprinkle has purchased from L J. Kiser a nice residence lot on Fast Main street, on which he will erect a nice home at once A.N. Jones, of Winston-Salem, !is here today looking after some I business matters. Little Juliup, the seven-months 'old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. I W. Hall, died at their home one | mile south of here Saturday | afternoon after a short illness with measles and pneumonia. [The interment was conducted ! from the Baptist church here ! today. Prof, and Mrs. Murray Thomp son, of Stuart. \"a., are spending i a few days with relatives here. The two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Bennett died at the Baptist hospital in Winston- Salem yesterday from an attack of colitis. The interment was conducted from Mount Olive* church today. The work of remodeling Dr. E. M. Griffin's home in West End is nearing completion. Evangelist Thunderbolt Tom" and family are spending several days with relatives in Yadkin connty. S. S. Boles, who lives in Florida, has sent his brother, W. T. Boles, who resides here an alligator. The animal is fifteen years old and is about two and one-half feet long. Your cor respondent while in Florida some | years ago. saw them ten and twel\e feet long. These were about four hundred years old. Dr. GJ E. Stone carried Mrs. i DeWitt Cook to the Lawrence i hospital at Win t>n Salem today , where she will undergo a major operation. ! Storms Damajre the Strawberry Crop Raleigh. Ma> 12. With heavy rains reported tenerallv through out the eastern portion of the state Sunday, it is not improbable that material damage was done to the strawberry crop, according I to a statement issued here today I by the state division of markets. | If no great damage was caused, jaccording to the leport, it was ! expected that weather conditions i would a» any rate cause a lessen ing in pickings today and tomor row. Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, May 14, 1924 I A. S. HANES FOR MORE ROAD BONDS State Highway System Cannot Be Completed Without Ad ditional Funds—Cars an 1 ; Gas Will Pay Off All Bonds. State Highway Commissioner A. S. Hanes addressed the Retail Merchants Association at Wins ton-Salem Monday night on the subject of highways. In the ad dress Mr. Hanes spoke interes tingly of the progress of road building in the state, explaining also some of the detailed work i required of the state highway commission. The commission, he jsaid, is composed of nine district c jmmissioners and one state | commissioner. A four-story build ing in Raleitrh and more than two-hundred employees are re required to carry on the enormous amount of work required to keep the great road building program going. Mr. Hanes went back to the beginning of road building by the state, this being in 191*>, at which ; time $20,000 was available, one .half from the state and one-half 'from the Federal government. In 191!) the state voted $-3(1,"00 in bonds for road building and also applied the state automobile license tax to the road fund. Some good work in road building was done with this money, which was matched by government aid, but the demands were so great that it did not go very far. , The next act of the state in road building was the passing by the legislature of tin $30,000,000 road bill in which carried with it a map of .".300 miles of j roads to be taken over by the state for permanent improvement and maintenance. Under this bill the money for road building is allotted to each county on a basis of population, area and mileage in equal proportions. Mr. Hanes said that he believed the present road bill is the fairest road act ever passed, as automo biles and trucks are the only articles of property taxed to sup port the road building program. He said that the bond issue is financed bv gasoline and license taxes, and that last year the roads were maintained and one ana one I half million dollars placed in the sinking fund. It is believed that the bond issue can be repaid in i twentv*five years under the present arrangement, he said. Mr. Hanes dotjs not believe in a tax of more than three cents a gallon on gasoline, because an increase would not be fair to the automobile owner. This year the gnsoline and license tax will net more than eight million dollars, it was stated. In order to carry on the present road building program it will he necessary to issue at least thii'y five million dollars more bonds, said Mr. Hanes. which which will likelv be dor.e by the next legis lature. Mr. Hines spoke of the splen did system of maintaining the roads under state supervision, | stating that within twelve hours PIEDMONT HOTEL CHANGES HANDS! 1 J. Spot Taylor Has Purchased ; the Property From C. A.! Jenkins, Former Owner, and | Will Open Hotel For Guests, j The Piedmont Springs prop erty. located near Danburv, has ! been purchased from Chas. A. Jenkins, of Winston-Salem, !/ v J. Sput Taylor, of Danburv. While no definite announce ment as to Mr. Taylor's plans have been made, it is learned that he will open the hotel for guests within the next few days. While the State highway be tween Danburv the springs i> under construction and is not at present in good condition, it is stated that the road will be finished within a few days as lar as the hotel, so that guests will have a good road to the | resort after about Jim.* It). Baptist Will Hold Association Sunday The annual association of ihe Primitive Baptists of this district will be held at North View l>ap tist church, five miles east of Dan bury, on Saturday, Sunday and Monday next. The services on Sunday will nodoubt be at tended by immense crowds, JS usual. Children Bitten Bv By Rabid Dojr Two of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Rei:l, of Darbury Route I. were yesterday bitten bv a dog supposed to have had hydrophobia. The dog was killed and its head sent to the State laboratories in Raleigh for ex amination. after every rain all dirt roads are dragged and put in good shape. Coming down to roads in the seventh district, Mr. Hanes stat ed that the contract for hard surfacing the road from the Yadkin river to Yadkinville would be let on May 20. The Walkertown road will be completed some timej in June, he said, and it is the aim of the commission to let the two mile 9 from the Forsyth county line to Walnut Cove as soon as possible. Other roads scheduled for building soon including the one from Yadkin river to Mocks ville, Winston-Salem to Lexing ton, Winston-Salem to Rural Hall, and several others. Mr. Hanes spoke of the great value to Winston-Salem of perma nant roads connecting the coun ties of the northwest. Such roads, he said, will enable them to come Winston-Salem and trade and re turn home within the space of a few hours. He said that he hoped that within two years all the counties in the district would be connected by good roads. The highway commission has adopted as a general policy the building first of roads that are mo9t used and in all contract let tings this one thing is considered first. • DICK SISK HELD WITHOUT BOXI) Captured Near Danville Re cently ami Is Charged With Killing Ezra Joyce In Thi - County Last July. Willie Hick Sisk, charge.! with kiihng Kzra Joyce, col ored. in this e'.uiUy last July, and who \va> captured near Danville. \ a., and brought to Stokes jail recently, was given a preletiiinary hearing hen be fore Justice •!' the Peace N. A. Martin Tlnirs iay and remanded to jail without bond t» await the next term of Stokes Su perior court. BILLY SUNDAY SERIOUSLY ILL Famous Kvangelist Removed To May > Bros. Hospital In Rochester. Minn., For Treat ment This Week. Memphis, Tenn., Ma> Rev. William A. (Hilly) Sunday, was halted by illness in the midst of a revival campaign for the first jtime in his 3'' years as an evange list, rested at his hotel apartment early tonight while preparations I were completed for his removal to Rochester, Minn., for treat ment at the clinic of Mayo brothers. I While no official announcement I was made priror to his departure ! from his hotel as to the nature of | his illness, it is understood that he is suffering from ari attack of uremic poisoning. Mr. Sunday was taken ill | Saturday and his condition be | came so serious as to bring about I a decision to take him at once to the Rochester hospital. Liberty Street Extend- To Walnut Cove Winston-Salem Journal. That Winston-Salem now has a population of 250,000 people was the rather startling state ment made by A. S. Hanes, the State Highway Comniissiorer for the Seventh District. But his elaboration of the state ment proved the obvious truth of the assertion. Fourth street, he said, ex tends to Mocksville. Fifth street extends to Yadkinville Main street extends to High Point and Liberty street extends to Walnut Cove. Hard-surface roads Ma\e been and are being built thus practical'y extending these streets so that the popu lation is practicallv increased to the figures mentioned. Major Stedman On the Committee Raleigh. May R>. —Congress- man Charles M. Stedman. who recently was promoted to briga dier general of the United Confed erate veteians. was today ap pointed bv Governor Morrison to succeed the late General Carr on the Stone Mountain Memorial | commission.. The Commission, 1 which is composed o f prominent Carolinians who served in the Confederate army, and sons of veterans, will select the four North Carolina' generals whose i likenesses will be carved on the ; Confederate memorial at Stone I Mountain, Georgia. No. 2,718 FORMER STOKES CITIZEN DEAD Walter Mitchell Succumbs To Disease At His Home At Powatan. Va-. After Illness Ji Some Months. Walter I. Mitchell, aged CI years. a former resident of Heaver Island township, Stokes county, died at his home at P>watan. \"a., near Richmond, last Thursday night. The de ceased had been ill t«>r about u y "!)•. suffering with a complica tion of diseast >. Mr. Mitchell removed to Vir ginia only a i't-v years since, first going to Amelia Court House and later to Powatan. lit had been successful in his farm injr 11ierations there up t tho time of his illness. The deceased is survived Iv his wit'e, who i- now ill, and by the following son* and daugh !*rs : John Mit -hell. Powatan; «.'i':.s. Mitchell, Amelia: Mrs. Until Terrell, Prestonville: Mrs. Nannie Wright. Amelia: Ben Mitchell. Newport News; Gid Mitchell. Walter Mitchell and 1» r -ti Mitchell. Pmvatar.. The funeral and inteiT.ier.t was held at Uock Oak chv.rcrt near Richmond. Messrs. Ed Mitchell, Lemmie Mitchell.Wal ler Mitchell. Charlie I'it/er and ('. A- Wagoner, of St.-k-.-s, at tended the funeral. No Smokincr At The Convention New York, May '-'.- Due to the presence of women and to fire regulations, smoking will be restricted at the Democratic national convention. Phillip P. Day, chairman of the New York committee, maue this known yesterday when he announced that the committee has accepted the office of a local department store to provide a | club room for the use of the [delegates and guests at Madiscn Square harden. \Y. C. Hammer Has A Scrap Washington, May S. —Repre sentative Hammer, Democrat, of North Carolina, objected to being called a garrulous "old grand mother" by Representative Plan ton. of Texas, at today's meeting of the House District of Columbia committee and it took a great deal of effort by other committee members to keep them apart. Mr. Hammer first let fly a fold ing chair at his antagonist and when that did not hit the mark jgrabbed the bulky District of Columbia bill. Thereafter, the two members made several lunges at each other across the table, but the meeting ended with mat ters apparently quieted. A disagreement over calling i the meeting caused the outbreak. j Mrs. Evelyn Gentry Fleming, i of Wentworth.announces that she l will be a candidate for Register ■of Deeds in Rockingham county. | Mrs. Fleming is at present actinic [as deputy in the office there.
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