DANBURY REPORTER
Volume LI.
WALNUT COVE
SCHOOL OPENS
Capable Corps of Teachers Give
Promise of Most Successful
Season—Other Personals and
News Items.
Walnut Cov*. ?ept. 20.—The
Walnut Cove high school opened
here Monday morning with a re
cord-breaking number of stud
ents present. Quite a number of
.the patrons were present and
fanade shcrt talks. This year is
expected to be one of the best in
the history of the school. A
splendid corps of teachers has
been secured, and are as follows:
Prof. M. T. Chilton, of Walnut
Cove; R. W. Sla»e. of High
Point: Misses Alma Chilton, of
"Walnut Cove; Mary E.Booker, of
•Clayton, high school; Mrs. W. P.
Wheeler, of Walnut Coye; Miss
Eula Tuttle, of Walnut Cove;
Miss Eula Mae Farmer, of Clay
ton, Miss Kathleen Welch, of
High Point, Miss Nell Hutcher
«on, of Walnut Cove. Miss Julia
Hairston, of Walnut Cove, and
.Miss Redman, of Pilot Mountain,
grammar and primary grades;
Mrs. J. B, Fowler, music.
Bill Hairstcn has gone to Okla
homa to spend some time.
Mrs. Sadie Martin, of Charles
ton, S. C., was the guest of Mrs.
A. T. Rothrock the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Harring
ton and Miss Rebecca Harring
ton have returned from a visit to
relatives at Lenoir.
Mrs. C. J. Lambe and little
•daughter, of Greensboro were
the guests of her parents. Dr.
and Mrs. A. tt. Jones last week.
Miss Minnie Cates hss returned
from a delightful trip to New
York, Niagara Falls and other
northern cities.
The following young people
have left to enter or resume
their studies at college: Misses
Nellie Chilton and Evelyn Neal
to Guilford College; Myrtle Tut
tle to Lynchburg Christian Col
lege; Messrs. Walter and Joe
Bill Neal to the University,
John Fulton, Jr., Howard
and Leonard Nunn to Christ's
Episcopal School, Arden; Ralph
Tuttle and Glenn Fair to the
f University of North Carolina.
( Miss Carrie Moore Neal has
left to teach at Wjnterville and
Miss Elizabeth Fulton is super
visor of public school music in
the schools of Burlington.
Mias Thelma Neal left Mon
day for Columbia University,
New York City.
Mias Estelle Rierson, of Win
ston-Salem, is spending her va
cation wjth her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. S. C. Rierson.
Mr. and Mrs. Everett
Matthews have returned from
Kingstree, S. C., where Mr.
Mathews has been running a
warehouse.
Mrs. M. A. Sanders, of Med
ford, Mass., is visiting Mrs. W.
H. Sanders.
C. E. Davis, cashier of the
Hank of Stokes County, is on a
*4 business trip to Florida.
Miss Velma Burgc, who has
l>een in Asheville for some time,
is in a Winston-Salem hospital
W. G. DODSON
DIES SUDDENLY
Leading Citizen of Walnut Cove
Stricken Suddenly—Member
Of Board Town Commission
ers, Merchant and Hotel Man.
Walnut Cove, Sept. 24. W.
G. Dodson, a prominent merch
ant and leading citizen of Wal
nut Cove, died suddenly about
10 o'clock last night. The de
ceased. after attending the
regular meeting of the town
commissioners, returned to his
room, seemingly in good health,
when he was stricken suddenly
and died within ten minutes.
Medical aid was summoned but
before the physician could
reach the room the cold hand
of death had claimed its victim.
Mr. Dodson has been a resi
dent of Walnut Cove for many
years, and during this time has
done a great many things for
the building up of the town. He
had been a member of the board
of town commissioners several
years and always used his in
fluence for permanent improve
ment. He was very enthusi
astic about the water and light
systems that are being install
ed. He saw a better day for the
town and the entire citizenship
deeply regret that he was not
spared to see the work complet
ed.
Mr. Dodson was twice mar
ried—first to Miss Aila Rierson
and to this union was lx>rn two
children, Eugene and Miss
Willie, both of whom survive;
the second time to Miss Salome
Fair, daughter of A. J. Fair,
and two children blessed this
union, Lois, aged six years, and
Jack Wesley, aged four. Be
sides the children above men
tioned, the deceased is survived
by his wife, four brothers,
James Dodson, of Winston-
Salem; Dock Dodson, of Alta
maha; Charlie Dodson, of Wall
burg, and Frank Dodson, of
Richmond, Va.
Mr. Dodson was widely
known and numbered his
friends by the score. His death
has cast a gloom over the entire
town and the news of his pass
ing is a shock to his friends.
Death and Funeral
Of Sterling James
Walnut Cove, Sept. 22,—Ster
ling James • former Stokes coun
ty resident, who moved his fami
ly to Liberty, N. C., a few years
ago, fell dead on the streets of
Liberty last Wednesday morning-
Mr. James was a prosperous
farmer of Guilford county and
was well known in Stokes and
Guilford counties.
He is survived by his wife,
who prior to her marriage was
Miss Carrie Rothrock, five child
ren, three of whom are boys,
two brothers, two sisters and a
number of other relatives and
friends. The deceased was a
comparatively young man, being
in his forty-seventh year. Funer
al service was held at the home
of E. A. Rothrock and was con
ducted by Rev. J. T Ratledge,
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
church of this place at one
o'clock Friday. Interment fol
lowed in the cemetery here.
Columbia, who has been visit-
Danburv, N. C., Wednesday, Sept. 24, 1924
A. W. M'LEAN
IN STOKES
Addressed Large Audience In
Court House Yesterday
Walter W. Carter. Candidate
For Senate, Made Short Talk.
The following is re-printed
from the Charlotte Observer,
whose correspondent, L. J.
Hampton, reported A. W. Mc-
Lean's speech at Danburv:
Danburv, Sept. 23.—Angus
W. McLean, democratic nomi
nee for governor, brought his
state-wide campaign to Stokes
county people today, when, ut
2 o'clock this afternoon, he ad
dressed an audience of citizers
that nearly filled the courthouse
auditorium, although this is one
of the busiest seasons of the
year, and Stokes farmers are
at work gathering in the last of
the tobacco, for which the coun
ty is noted far and wide. They
flocked to hear the candidate
speak. A large number of wo
men were in the audience.
This was McLean's first visit
to Stokes, and he voiced his ad
miration and satisfaction upon
seeing on every hand the great
progress the county has made
since the advent of good roads.
Stokes is proud of its road sys
tem, and its citizens received
with enthusiasm the candid
ate's own declaration that he is
unqualifiedly for good roads a*
long as they can be built and
maintained by the tax on auto
mobile licenses and gasoline.
McLean himself is one of the
largest farmers in the eastern
part of the state. He is there
fore in complete accord with
thousands of the tillers of the
soil in North Carolina who are
against tax on land or personal
property for road building pur
poses.
Stokes county sent a demo
crat to the legislature last year,
C. M. Hauser, who defeated
Hardin McGee, the republican
nominee, by over 300 votes.
Mr. McGee was "blackballed"
by the republicans, as some ex
pressed it here today. He is
a candidate for the state senate
this time, but there are few to
be found who will concede that
he has a chance of election. The
senatorial district is composed
of Stokes and Surry. Stokes
also elected one democratic
county commissioner last year,
and the part of the republican
ticket that went into office re
ceived only about 300 majority
as compared to 1,000 to 1,500 a
few years ago.
Walter W. Carter, of Mt.
Airy, the democratic candidate
for the state senate, in a short
speech asked the support of
Stokes voters in this district.
He and Sheriff C. H. Haynes
accompanied candidate McLean.
Mr. Carter is an able young at
torney, is a son of W. F. Carter,
of Mt. Airy, and is one of the
most active young democrats in
the two counties. Experienced
campaigners here predict that
Carter will beat McGee in
Stokes county by from 200 to
300 votes in November, and
HANGING ROCK
SURVEY COMPLETE
Development of the Property
Will Likely Begin Within
Sho r t Time—Greensboro
Company New Owners.
The survey of the property
of the Hanging Rock Develop
ment Co., which has been in
progress for some weeks, has
now lieen completed and the
engineers who had charge of
the work are making plats and
blue prints of the property.
It will be recalled that the
Hanging Rock property, located
4 miles West of Danbury, was
recently sold by I). D. Smith
and his associates to the Pied
mont Finance Corporation, of
Greensboro, Smith Richardson,
of that city, being president of
the company. A survey of the
real estate was started im
mediately after the 'purchase
of the property, which was said
to contain nine thousand acres.
Since the completion of the sur
vey, however, it is found that
the acreage fell short consider
ably, but this does not affect
the sale as the real estate was
purchased at a stipulated price
per acre, the consideration to
be determined bv the survev.
It is stated that the new own
ers will begin the development
of the property as a resort at
an early date. One report is
that a modern hotel, a club
house, a lake and other attrac
tions will be built, as well as a
fine road to the proposed sum
mer resort.
the same number of votes.
Candidate McLean in his
speech made a powerful appeal
to the progressive republicans
of Stokes to join the ranks of
the democratic party and "do
something for the development
and progress of the great state
of North Carolina." He com
plimented Stokes citizens upon
their record of the past few
years, declaring that few coun
ties in the state had surpassed
her in material progress, and
he called upon them not to turn
backward.
The candidate for governor
was introduced by his school
mate of college days, Attorney
John D. Humphreys. Mr.
Humphreys lauded the Lumber
ton man and in presenting him
declared his belief that he would
give the people of North Car
olina such a business adminis
tration as it needs.
"McLean stands four square
for the interests of the masses
of the people," said Mr. Hum
phreys, and he recalled that at
the time of the nation's great
est stress Woodrow Wilson had
called McLean to his trying
exigencies of the years that fol
lowed.
Chairman E. W. Carroll, J.
Spot Taylor and other promin
ent Stokes citizens greeted Mc-
Lean upon his arrival here.
They told the candidate that
•femocratic prospects awe par-
ticularly bright this year, and
NEW TRUCKS FOR
STOKES SCHOOLS
Two More Were Purchased
Past Week lmproving
Crounds At Reynolds Me
morial School In Quaker Gap.
Last week two more hand
some trucks were purchased
for transfering Stokes school
children. These will be used by
Meadows and Mountain View
high schools. The county now
has a dozen or more of these
school trucks.
Supt. of Schools J. C. Car
son, who was a visitor here yes
terday, stated that the grounds
around the Reynolds Memorial
school in Quaker Gap town
ship were being graded and
beautified this week. W. N,
Reynolds, who presented this
school to the county, has con
tributed §I,OOO toward the
beautifying of the school house
grounds.
All of the high schools of the
county have opened except the
Meadows school, which opens
on the 29th. and the Reynolds
school, scheduled to open Oct.
6th.
Saturday morning at 10:30
o'clock, September 27th, all the
principals and high school
teachers in the county will meet
with Supt. Carson at the Ger
manton high school building, at
which time Dr. J. H. Highsmith,
State inspector of high schools
of Raleigh, will discuss the im
portance of records; etc.
WALTER W. CARTER
VISITS STOKES
Made Short Talk To Stokes
Democrats At Conclusion Of
Speech By Candidate For
Governor.
Walter W. Carter, of Mount
Airy, Democratic candidate
for the Senate for Stokes and
Surry, was among those in Dan
bury yesterday to hear Hon. A.
W. McLean. Mr. Carter is a
young attorney and is associat
ed with his father, W. F. Carter,
of Mt. Airy, in the practice of
law. He was endorsed for the
Senate by the Surry Democrats
in session at Dobson on the
13th, and has also been en
dorsed by the Democrats in
Stokes.
At the conclusion of Mr. Mc-
Lean's address here yesterday
Mr. Carter was called upon and
made a short talk to the audi
ence which was well received,
and it was predicted by leading
Democrats here that he would
poll a strong vote in Stokes this
fall.
H. K. Moran Dies
After Long Illness
Hezekiah K. Moran died a few
days ago, and was buried at Clear
Spring church cemetery. He was
a son of the late Elder Moran,
one of the leaders of the Primi
tive Baptist church in this coun
ty.
The deceased was aged about
">0 years, and is survived by his
wife and several chMdren. He
had been in declining health for
No. 2,737
FAMILY REUNIONS
HELD AT KING
School Opens With Large At
tendance— Buildings Being
Erected—News and Person
als.
I King, Sept. 22.—Rev. Paul
Herman Newsom filled his
i regular appointment at Mount
Airy yesterdaj
j The new two-story concrete
store building of Mr. J. VV.
iKiser on east Main street is
Hearing completion.
The high school opened here
I this morning with a good at
j tendance. The school has 12
teachers this year,
i "Thunderbolt Tom," the
; evangelists of this place is hold
ing a meeting in his big tent
at Walkertown. This meeting
i will last two weeks longer after
which time he will go to West
lern Port, Md., to hold a meet
ling.
E. P. Newsom signed a lease
| today his lot on the
| corner of Main and Depot
; streets to The Standard Oil
! Co. for a period of five years.
The Standard Oil Co. will at
j once erect an up-to-date service
station on this property.
Rev. J. H. Hall, of VVestfield,
! filled his regular appointment
;at the Baptist church here Sun
day.
The Slate reunion was held
yesterday at the home of Mr.
John Slate on East Main street.
I About one hundred people were
'in attendance. This will be
i made an annua! affair in the
future anil will be held the third
Sunday in September of each
iyear. A committee from each
| of the Slate families was ap
pointed as followes: Miss Ola
Slate of the family of S. R.
Slate, Mrs. J. Walter Tuttle of
[the family of VV. G. Slate, Mrs.
C. F. Lewis of the family of
John E. Slate, Dr. J. S. Slate of
the family of J. F. Slate and C.
D. Slate of the family of S. F.
Slate. While this will be a Slate
reunion everybody is invited to
attend. Ahout one hundred
people were present yesterday
and it was an enjoyable occas
ion for all who were there.
Work on the new home of C.
Ross Newsum in North Side
is well under way and will be
pushed through to completion
at an early date.
Mr. C. 0. Boyles, president
of The Boyles Co. of this place,
has just returned from a trip
to Baltimore where he went to
purchase goo:ls for his com
pany.
The Watts reunion which is
an annual affair was held at the
home of Mrs. Billy Watts yes
terday. About three hundred
people were present.
E. P. Newsum has just re
turned from the 26th national
encampment of Spanish-Ameri
can war veterans held at Mich
igan City, Indiana. He reports
a fine trip and the largest and
best encampment in the history
of the association.
ONE OF STOKES'
CITIZENS DIES
Wesley Mitchell of Beaver Is
land Township Answers the
Summons at 86 Buried
Friday at Old Home Place.
Wesley Mitchell died at his
home near Dillard, Beaver Is
land township, Thursday, Sept.
18. He was aged 86 years, and
had been in declining health
for several years. He is sur
vived by his widow and one
child, Mrs. John Willis. Mr.
Mitchell was the father of the
late C. A. Mitchell.
Wesley Mitchell was one of
the most highly respected citi
zens of the county, and was an
ex-Confederate soldier.
Dr. and Mrs. W. B. Moore,