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Volume LI STOKES HAS FARED WORSE THAN HERTFORD Has No Prospect of Getting Any Hard-Surface Road From $65.000,000 Bond Issue—Adjoining I Counties Have Many Miles—Much Discrimina tion. Tr.e item appearing below from Hertford county appeared in the daily papers Sundav: Ahoskie, July 1"'. —Hertford county receives with joy the news that comes from Raleich, to the effect that the general assembl) can be reasonably expected to issue more bonds for building its system of state highways. This county has had the same experi ence of many other northeastern counties, in receiving but little permanent road construction from the s>s.M)o,o)U in bonds a I read > issued. Specifications for the first hard road in the ojnty were turned over to contractors by the highway commission last Monday, bids to be opened August 5. Ii is for S.9S miles, between Ahoskie and Winton. the county seat. Stoke 9 county has fared even worse than Hertfcrd at the hands of the State Highway Commission. It is learned that the s•>■*», 000.-' (iiid has about been exhausted and Stokes has n)t had a foat: of hard-surface, and the prospect is that we wilt will not get a foot ! The highway from the county seat to the railroad—Danbury to j Walnut Cove—the most important road in the county, built several! years since by the county, will not even be hard-surfaced, and this is the only outlet the county seat has. The three counties joining Stokes—Forsyth, Rockingham and Surry - have many miles of hard-surface, biilt by the State out of { the S •\ l -'"'Hi'M bond issue. A prominent Rockingham citizen here last week stated that his county had even forty miles of hardsur-j face built by the State, while we have been refused one 10-mile! stretch from the county seat the railway, and the only cutlet from i the county seat. Why this discrimination'.' Our people are at a! loss to understand. News and Personals Of King Community) King. -lulv -1. —There will he! a biff picnic and Co-Go ral'y here Saturday t August -nd. A large crowd is expected It will la«t ull day. Everybody is requested j -tb hring lunch Refreshments will be sprved free on the ground. Mr. .las. H. Craig, treasurer ot' the Co-operative association, will deliver an address at 1«» A. M. ; B'i.\ lunch and refreshment will be served at l-:On noun. Mr. 'I. A. Norwood, pre i ient, of the association will spe-ik at 2:00 P. M. and at 4:tn» P. M The relatives and friends of Mrs. Clade Jones gave her a surprise birthday dinner vester day. (.jjite a lar.je crowd was present. This w: s Mrs. Jones' thirtieth mile sto: e. Harvey Pulliarr ha 1 the rr.;s fortune to iveak his m wnile! cranking a Ford 1 ere yesterday. Rev. Robe rt FT* '.sabeck, assist ed by Rev. John VV. Wood, of Rome. Oa., are holding a two weeks meeting in the auditorium of the high schorl building here. Mr. Clyde R. C rnibs. of Campj Dragg, and Miss Georgia Sams.; of Pinnacle, were quietly united 1 in the holy bonds of matrimony l here last week by Rev. Paul H.! Newsum. Thev will rnnke their j home at Camp Bragg. X. C » Work on Elsie Moser's nice ▼ new home on West Main street! . is well underway. N. S. Jones has purchased from E. P. Newsum a nice residence lot in Pilot View. Mr. Jones states that he will probably buiid a new home on this lot and move: his family to King. A rabid dog passed through here Saturday. \ > s o far as known no one was bitten. Master Claud Smoot, of Elkin.: is spending several days with Master Garvey Pardue here. Dr. Lee Kiser. of Statesville. spent Sunday with his parents near here. Mr. and Mrs. P. J Caudle, of Winston-Salem, spent Sunday with relatives here. I Mrs. Dr. R. S. Helsabeck. who, underwent an iteration in a Richmond. Va. hospital last week, is getting on nicely we. are glad to not?. Dr. and Mrs. Oscar Keiger. of Winston-Salem, spent Sunday with relatives near here. Engineer Austin. f the State highway fyrces, visited Elkin a and Greensboro yesterday. * v I COUNTY TAX RATE IS FIXED j | F>r School*. M Cents: Roads. 1 71 (Vnts; General C uini; j Tax 1"> (Vi>N—Total Lew i 1 -Sl.tiT On .•>11m». At the iv■ ■-.■i>t spi'i i:\l lM.e'- illg "! I I'll' St- 'kes t 'oilnt V Cof,!- 1 I ui.'i*- tile t;tx rate on »>> • «j>-. « in t!ie i otiii'y wj.s i. 1 and t'oi* thi year will In. as, follow> : i F >l' .- hinis, SI veil's op the j Hi hi v;:U::'!l'in of property. j !* -r it'.tilll cunts. For general eour.ty purposes. 1 !~> cel'.t s | | The above levy does not i:i-[ cliuie special taxes for schools In the several townships and : sclinol districts of the county. Must Stop Riding In Bathing Suits Raleigh, June 17. 'Bathing; suits for riding has got to stop." j | I [Mayor E E. Culbreth declared; list night. "Folks are j | ing about it." According to information reach ing the office of the mayor ot j Raleigh. young men and joungj ! women are putting on their bj.:li- ( ing suits at their homes ar.d rid-' ing brazenly through the streets to the swimming pool with arms ibire and tr.i • their middles 'covered with jersey eJ swimming gear. j Word has come to the oliue of the mayor tnat the peac.- of ; mind and mural aloofness of those, who sic at home in the afternoon on their iront potcnes and rock and chat, has be : n ruined by the jeung demons rid j ing by. j "Something has got to be done about it." are the advices from the mayor's sources of informa-1 tion. We've been having a lot of| complaint about it. Ic's all right ' for them to dress at home bit I thev ought to wear a bathrobe: or something th-ough the streets. | Got to be stopped Oirls going in 1 drug stores for drinks in little I one-piece bathing suits." I Danbury. N. C., Wednesday, July 23. 1924 THREE STILLS ARE CAPTURED I Also Some Whiskey ami Beer Are Destroyed l.y Sl'i-rii!'| Diinlaiv a;ul Deputies—One, j Plant Doing Big Iln.-iiuv- Three blockade distilleries were captured Friday afternoon by Sheriff I 'unlap and Deputies Posey Flinchum and Henry Djnlap. One of the stills was found near Walnut Cove, the other two being I icated near the ! power plant on Dan river. Five gallons of whiskey, ten barrels of beer, one barrel of peach pummace and the equipment at the stills were destroyed. One: 'of the stiils had apparently been operated for probably aj 1 \ear and was making moonshine! ! on a large scale. ! The stills were st red in the ' ■ -, *• . county .iai 1. N ) arrests were ! made as r.o one was s-een around j ; the distilleries, I I | WANT MONEY FOR SCHOOLS ' Stale Supt. Allen Will A• k Legislature To Authorize A 1 Loan of in.' MMI To tin ] Counties of the State. Raleigh, ulv IS.—When the extra session of the general j a-ser.iblv convenes herein August ,it will be asked by Superinttn 1- jent of Public Instruction A. T ■ Alien f.)r authority to make a j loan of £301.1.mu0 to the various I counties of the for erection jof new schools, according to an nouncement made from the clfice of the superintendent. i ! Under the plan as now carried on the state borr >W-J the money iin a larire sum at a Inv rate of interest and lends i' to the coun ties at the same rate interest thereby allowing them a much ower rate than they could get on small loans. The counties re pay the state on 20 annual pay ments at an average interest rate of 4•" per cent. The loan is usu ! ally for fifty per cent of the cost of the proposed building Prefer ence is given the smaller eoun j ties and emyhat is is laid on the • erection of elarrsertary hiurh ' schools rather than on hivrh sch v,l» i '.vhe.e toe elementary schools are i oof up to standard. [ lent Allen expre sc-d the opinion that this loan svstm was the nv»st beneficial legisla'ion along educational lines insofar as the small counties are concerned, that was ever enacted in the state. ! Mr. Allen also stated that a 'oan would be asked for next •January if this one is granted and the demand from the counties continues New Postmaster At Kinr Office i Washington, -July 22. —The I postoffice department announces I that Charles M. Moore has been ■ 'appointed postmaster at King, ; Stokes county. That position | was resigned by Calvin O. Boyles, j and Charles M. Moore has been j the acting postmaster. ' WANT MOKE FOR ROADS ! Advocates of the Measure Sav l Sentiment Is For It—i»u:* I Roa 1- While Organization I> Intact. Raleigh, Juiy -2.—Thirty-five million dollars for the completion of the highway system, wi'h a floating fund of ten million dollars to be used in the discretion of the state highway commission 1 in equalizing construction among the districts will be asked of the special session of the General ; Assembly, according to members jof the road committee of the| j House who discussed the matter of continued road appropriation I nere yesterday. Proponents of the measure who | have made a partial canvas? of the membership of the two houses declared that sentiment , is almost wholly in favor of some | definite action at the special session, ard that [enough to round t ut tne hundred I million dollars wortn of roads, is generally accepted as tr.e amount ; that will be required for com pleting the work undertaken in j 1 **2 l when the first fifty-million ! was apppropriated Provision for ihe tl iating fund ! will satisfy both the First and | Ninth districts, which nave bten [organizing for a year to demand ' some special relief for unusual conditions that obtain in those districts. The first district corn plains of the unusuai amount ut water ana absorption of much of its road money in building ( necessary bridges. In the ninth the) have too much mountain to be moved before a road can be built. General legislation will remove the demand for special legislation it is pointed out. More than twenty members of the General Assembly have local measures I for introduction that would re . quire the addition of certain roads to the state map and their immediate construction. These measures have been recognized as sources of difficulty in the forthcoming session, and the opening of bars to a Hood ot , 1 special demands by legislation. Governor Morrison has ex | pressed himself as of the opinion that the regular session ought to | add ; io million dollars to the •!-"> already spent but indicated that he thought it should be done by, I the regular session in January. Road enthusiasts in the present I body are doubtful of the attitude of the 19-") Assembly and are ; desirous of availing themselves i of the sentiment for roads in the | special session that has already been tried out. Another possible angle that has been in the background for , some months, but which many i advocated earlier in the vear, is the addition of 2,"'00 miles of road to the state map thru a provivision to connect every county seat by the most direct 1 route. Every county town is now connected, directly or indirectly bur the new measure would pro- DEATH OF i'ETER A GORRELL One Of Winston-Salem'* Foiv mo.-t ('itii'.i-ns Mtccuir.lis To Sl.iiV? Ill'i --—Will Known over State. W in«tnn-Silsm, .July 2'.'. Pettr A. (iorre'!, member ">f the board of Airier men of Wjr.s ton-Salem and one of the citv's most highlv esteemed and enter prising citizens ned at Memorial Hospital this morning about 11:43. Mr. Gorrel! had been ill fur several days, recently having undergone an operation followed | by complications which ended in his death today. Petc-r Albert »orrell. who was in his forty-seventh year, was born on May lri. l«7- v the son of the late .A. B oorrell and P'annie Wilson G irrel!. He was a life-long resident of >n-Salem and had aiways manifested a L ten interest in matters of c incern t' the city He was - iucated in the local schools, and after complet ing the c >urse he entered Brvr-n and Stratton Business College, at Baltimore. Later in 3 was a student at the University of North Caro lina, and after several years I there he became associated with his brother. Robert W. Gorrell, in the tobacco business in this city. Mr. Gorrell was known as a warehouseman of ability, and his ■ long experience justified his reputation. His first experience was in the operation of the Farm ers Warehouse, on L.berts and ■ Frade streets. tie business later , being moved to the old Star i warehouse, or. Main street the ■ name beinir changed to Farmers' at the time tr.ey occupie i it . Several \ear- afterward the Messrs Gorrell took over the Leader warehouse at the corner II of Sixth and Trade streets, and i it has since been operated under the name of "Gorrell's.'' Mr. Gorrell had been a member • of the First Presbyterian church ■ since early boyhood and had long been a deacon of the church. He • is survived by his wife, who be fore marriage was Miss Bertha Shelton: one daughter. Miss i Dorothea Cobane Gorrell: two sons, Albert B. and John Shelton , t>orrell: two sisters. Mrs. H. L. , of this cirv and Mrs. J. , H. Fariss, of Greensboro, and one brorher. Rober W. Gorrell. I .of this city Three uncles, N S, i Wilson, T.J. Wilson. P. A Wilson, and one aunt, Mrs. B. M. Rose, j also survive. i ] ' } - -• j vide direct connection from coun ty to county. Advocates of immediate action also point out possibility of re j taining Frank Page at the head of the Highway Commission, provided he is given money enough to make the job of con i tinued interest to him. He has indicated that he would regard the job completed and would re | tire at the end of his term, which | expires May 1, 19-5. Friends of the measure and of Mr. Page say that he would remain if he had money to build roads with. :-Co. 2.728 Sl/XDAV Sf'H »0L CnxvvyTiON i'i 15c Held At Kir:v A'smist •*> {tin! •>—Plan* Are Being IlapK ly ( >m>>leted Large Attendance K\pected. Programs are out and plans are being rapidly cumcleted for hold ing the Stokes County Sunday School Convention on Tuesday and Wednesday. August 5 and (!. Trie convention will be held with Baptist church at King. N. C.. the poping session 'leinir held at niio o'clock, Tuesdav night, August-', It is expected that there will be a gooi attendance 'rom various par's of the county at tr.is first meeting. Other sessions will be held Wednesday morning and afternoon, the con vention closing Wednesday night. Orr.cers in charge of plans and program for the convention have ann'. ; ;r.ced that the program has neen propated with the idea of having "a c n->cr,ti ,n lor the discus-ion of practical problems " The pian is r > make it possible for worker from all departments of the Sunday school to receive practical suggestions concerning their specific work. During the convention there will fv question and discussion periods when those present will be given an opportunity to present their Sunday school problems for discussi >n. and ask any questions on Sunday school work The convention i* inter de nominational and workers from all Sundav schools of all evangel ical denominations are itnited to participate in the work. The Stoke? County Sundav School Association under whose direction the convention is I'eir g heid is iOne of the seventy-six county i Sunday school associations now | organized in the State in connec tion with the work of the North Carolina Sunday School Associa tion. ! Frank I). Grist's Majority Is 32,535 Raleigh, July -2. With re turns from every county in the hands of the state board of elec ! tions this morning, "approximate ly accurate" figures of the last I primary show that Frank l>. I'.trist world war veteran, defeat 'ed Commissioner of Labor and j Printing Shipman for the nomi nation t'\ a majority of J. '>3s. i Analysis of the figures show ! that Grist polled only 120" more j votes in the second primary than jhe did in the first, while Mr. ! Shipman's first strength, appar ently did not get to the polls. The vote was Grist i!>,3S2: Ship man 3G. 547. No estimate of the cost of either the first or the second pri mary has t'een made, secretary Beasley announced, and John Hall Manning, campaign man ager so far has noi yet filed anex pense statement for his candid ate. Mr. ShiDman's expense# amounted to about $l,lOO.
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