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DANBURY REPORTER Volume LI CRIMINAL COURT IN SESSION Largo Number Of Cases Being Disposed Of—Road Sentences and Fines Being Imposed— Judgments Pending In Sev eral Cases. Superior court for the trial of criminal cases has been in session here since Monday morning at nine o'clock, Judge T. I). Bryson presiding. A good mnnher of cases have already lu'en disposed of by the court with a ■ u >-> i many others yet to be tried. I While a ft w sentences and ti""S have j been imposed there are a number of i judgment* pt nding. a majority of the defendants being held in the county jail. The grand jury, which has been in session sin e Monday, is expected to adiourn today. Ralph Chilton. of Cove, is foreman and a large lTumber of bills have been passed upon. Among the out of town attorneys j in attendan -e at court are Solicitor J. F. Spraill and John (\ Bower, of 1 lA-xington; C. O. McMichael, W. R. Johnson. 1.. M. Swink, of Winston- i Salem; W. R. liadgctt and C). K. Snow, of I'ilot Mt.; (5. L. Jarvis, of Walnut Cove; W. 1.. Joyce, of Stuart; I'. W. Glid well, of Reidsville, and others. I.arge crowds have been in attend ance on court throughout the week, the court room being packed at every ■session. Cases have been trii«d up to this Time as follows: R. J. Bennett, giving worthless vht'ck, ordered !•> pay check and the ost ill the case. Andy Martin, Jr.. operating car while intoxicated, judgment pending. Essley Williams, c. c. w., lined .$•"1!) and cost. Daniel Farrinnrton. giving liquor in possession, fined s2"> and cost. John Kington, having liquor in possession, tined £-■> and cost and requiri'd to give s2t)o bond fur 2 years for good behavior. Leander Bennett, slander, prayer f>r judgment continued upon pay ment of cost. Y. S. Smith, allowing female dog *-> run at large, not guilty. Hicks, manslaughter, judg ment pending:. Gilmer Hawkins, assault and oper ating car without lights, lined $101) and cost. Hardie Duncan, having liquor in P'• sscssh n. judgment p> nding. liobart Joyce, a. ii. w., six months or. county roads. I'ercy Morris, having liquor in pos- fined s2."> and cost. John Mabe, d. m. p., prayer for Igr.tcnt continued. Ci. V. Parker, operating car while ,i:r .xicated, judgmert pending. JetT Sheppard, prostitc 1 and Laving liquor in pos. ession, fined s">o in each case and co-1. Will Lawson, 1 tailing liquor, ju Ignient pending. Irving Shelton, a. d. w.,*judgment p.'';ding. Charles Smith, retailing, not guil ty- Fran'; Alcorn, operating car while intoxicated, not guilty. Will Spencer, a. d. v., «ix months or. county loads. J. P.. Woodruff, having liquor in possession, tined s2."> and cost. E. 1,. Richardson, larceny, jury out? case. W. F. Fagg, having liquor in pos- prayer for judgment con tinued upon payment of cost. R. W. Joyce, giving worthless cl;eck, prayer for judgment continu ed upon payment of cost. Richard Owens, transporting liquor, judgment pending. Wade Covington, a. d. w., fined $1 5 and cost. N'uah Mabe, having liquor in I\ ss' ssion, tined .S2O and cost. t . H. Brody, burning store build irg. mistrial. Bob Mitchell, manufacturing liquor, trial in process. Newell Spoke Here Monday Night lion Jake F. New til, of Charlottee, addressed a fair sized audience of Miters on the political issues in the court house at Danbury Monday night. Mr. Newell has recently been ili and his appointment here was 1 incelled L»*t week, but it was latci found that he would be able to till it MTs. Edwin Carter, ~f Mt. Airy visited in Danbury v short whiß yostirduy. 82 STILLS WERE TAKEN IN SEPT. Federal Prohibition Agents Also Got Several Thousand Gallons of Booze Seven Autos Were Seized. Salisbury, N. \, Oct. 14. Federal prohibition officers operating under Director Coltrane whose headquar ters in this city during the month of j September captured and destroyed ; eighty-two stills in North Carolina I according to a report just submitted to the Washington headquarters by the directors. Gallons of spirits taken totaled I l.Oot) anil t>7,12." gallons of malt liquors, 27? gallons of wine, 1,2">7 j gallons of cider. Seven autonio-! biles and four boats were also cap-1 tured. The total value of property j seized and destroyed was 37,2t31 and > that not destroyed amounted to 2,-; i! 1. Eighty-four arrests were made' and 1">1 prosecutions were returned., I Walnut Cove Citizen Is Critically 111 Walnut Cove, Oct. 14. M. C. George, who iias been desperately ill at his home for several days, re-! mains in a very serious condition, j ! Little hope is entertained for his re- ' covery. Mr. and Mrs. Walter I!ovles vis ited relatives at Dalton Sunday. Mrs. T. J. Davis spent the bast week in Winston-Salem with rela ; fives. Mrs. Hadley and little daughter, from Klkin, spent the past few days here, the guests of Mrs. Geo. 11., Fulton. Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Slate, of High ( Point, spent Sunday afternoon in 1 town with relatives and friends. Miss Bertha Neal, who is a mem | Iter of the high school faculty at ; Iving, spent the week-end in town 1 1 with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. ! W. Neal. | Miss Nell# Hutchinson, who is a member of the school faculty here, • has been confined to her room the j past few days suflering from an at tack of the "flu." Her condition is ( • reported much improved. Mr. and Airs. James W. Hutchison I visited relatives near Madison Sun clay afternoon. Misses Minnie and Willie Cafes, !of Greensboro, spent the week-end 11 town with relatives. Walter Woodruff, of Green-Uiro, and John Woodrull", of Salisbury, arc , spending several days in town the 'vuests of their parents, J. I!, and Mrs. Woodruff. .Miss Evelyn Neal, who is a student at Guilford College, spent the Wcck :i I here with relatives. King News Items i King, Oct. 1 t.—The Ladies Aid 'Society of Trinity M. E. church will 1 give a chicken stew on the Red Goose baseball (/rounds Saturday, I October IS, beginning at p. 111. | The pu'lie is cordially invited. ! r.iiss Louise Norman, one of the 'teachers here who ha- been si.*c, is in the school room again. I Mr. and Mrs. West see:u the woek |end with relatives in Martinsville. ! Vu. Mis- l.illi Guff has returned fiv.m , \.'inston-Salem, where shi visited her sister, Mrs. I). 11. Wilcox. Mrs. Charles Hunter spent Sunday with her sister, Miss Gertie Grabbs. | who is a patient in Martin Memorial hospital at Mt. Airy. | Rev. E. Pi. Snow preached a good 'sermon at Trinity church Sunday A. ' y. 1 Mr. and Mrs. S. 11. Brown, Louise 1 Brown and the Misses GotV spent j Sunday afternoon in Pilot Mountain I with Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Gordon. ! 63 Per Cent of Phones In United States The United States has i;i sor.i e jier cent of all th • telephones in tie world. In proportion to popula tion this country has ten times as ;! many telephones as has the world tat 1 a rg e. T he a v era g e 1 American uses the telephone nine ; times as much as the average Eng ' lishr.ivt , and ten time* ns nuu'h a> tie- avevig ■ Fren.-hman. Tie re are 1 i more tele; holies in New i'n;k t ity ! j thm in th • whole of Givat Britain 'j and North ni Ir. land; move :r. the • jC'ty i f Chicago than in all of France. > In rural telephone development, \,ii n-'.a stands herd and shoulders j above the rest of the woild. Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, Oct. 15 1924 STOKES LINE TO.ROANOKE Assurance From Virginia Road Authorities That This High way Will Be Built Next Year. Now On Highway, Map. Thomas J. George, of Stuart, Va., was anions the visitors ho re at court Monday. Mr. George, who is : very much interested in the subject ; of good roads, stated that the pros i poet was fine for h modern State highway from the Stokes line to Roanoke, via Stuart and Floyd Court House. This road was placed on the Vir ginia State map this year and funds j for its construction are absolutely I assured the first of the coming year j out of the first allocation .of State ! road funds. ! That part of the road between 1 Stuart and the Stokes line i* jalrt'ady under State maintenance and j is now being put in good condition for i the winter i.| >nths. The highway from Stuart to Roanoke is also be ! ing State maintained and part of it has already been built. | Mr. (ieorge stated that the dis tance from Winston-Salem to Roan- I oke via Stuart, Floyd Court House land Danbury is considerably shorter • than the Martinsvillo-Rocky Mount ' route and the territory through I which the former route passes is not as rough as the latter, lie is anxious to sec the North Caro lina highway commission build to the Patrick county line road so that this road may made a national highway through Stokes, Patrick and Floyd i ountios. Germanton Route 1. | Germanton It. 1, Oct. i:t.—'The many friends of Mr. 11. L. Hart grove : will regret to learn that he is suf fering very ntu'h with rheumatism at this writing. Rev. E. L. Snioak tilled his regu lar appointment at Friendship Dap ! list church Sunday morning. The school at Friendship opened last Monday with a good attendance, the teachers are Misses Marie and Grace Bullard, of Luntberton, X. C. ; Among those who visited Miss ' Uniie Kiscr Sunday afternoon were Misses Pearl. Clarice and Sarah | Holland, Maie and Cleone Hole.-. Irene linker, Maud ' and Muriel Poles I I anil Marie Slate, and Messrs. James Kiscr, Posie Slate. Joe Holes, I'radus Rutledge and Hi.land Tuttle. Several of the paople of this neighborhood attendcl tfie Horsyth county Fair last week. Mr. and Mrs. H. 11. Tuttle and children visited at Mr. W. 11. White's Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Johnson and little daughter. Louis-.-, spent Satur day with their grandirMhoß, Mrs. Eliza Rutledge. M'iss Sallie Fowler visited Misses Ethel and Iris Boles Sunday. [ Among those who flisitud Mrs. Eliza Rutledge Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Richard Johnson, of near Mayodan, and Mrs. Claude Hall and , Mis. Aiifnie Tuttle, Mrs. J. Tuttle and Mrs. Walter Holes. Urges the Use Of Moi'e Silver Half Dollars , ''"here is a disproportion in the I : .ij'ply of silver coin-', a.id banks if the Federal Reserve District of New . York have neui urged to go lightly on the quarters. Owing to the ovcr- I : upply of half dollars, the banks were advised to "use more halves j and fewer quarters," in a circular sent out by Benjamin Strong, Gov ernor of the Federal Resi rve Hank. "As you are aware, tin* demand t for sulisitlary silver and minor coins , for holiday purposes is particularly heavy each year from about the Ist of October until Christmas." said , the circular, "in this connectio:. the , I'rea.-ury of tlv United States caits attention to the fact there is an nmpi • supply of silver halves on hi.:id aiii. a fair but smalier of quart - ers. "T:..' Tiva-uivr of the L'nited l ' States has expressed the hope that 0 in orders for coins batik* will be able 0 ; to increase the amount of halves " 1 iti'.ii decrease the amount of quarters * by approximately 2.1 per cent. t' y I'l. s Walter W. Carter, of n M*. Aiiy, vunn.ng for the Senate .■ t'r St 'kc and Surry, wis a visitor .>. jin Liaiibury yesterday. H-- was en t,! route to Walnut Cove, -.veiling here s directiy r'rom Mt. Airy over '.he tiiw | State Highway. DEPUTY SHERIFF SHOOTS HIMSELF Building New Store On Dan bury-YVestfield Road Per sonal and Other Items Of Westfield. West fid. 1. Oct. !>. —A number ol Westfield people attended the fair ut Winston-Salem last week. Mrs. A. J. Nutt and son, John, ol Greensboro, spent the week-end with Mr. anil Mrs. R. T. Joyce. Mr. K. W. Gibson is confined to his bed with a severe cold. Mrs. R. T. Joyce is spending the week in Greensboro with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. E. I'. Pepper and children frisited relatives here Sun day afternoon. Mr. Roy I'ell. traveling salesman, spent the week-end here. Miss Nonnie Hunter, one of the teachers in the Westfield High School, left yesterday for Winston- Salem to consult a specialist in re gard to her ear which she has been sutl'ering with for several days. Mr. G. L. Hill has just finished painting his nice bungalow. Mr. Walter Jackson, while crank ing the road truck one morning this week, had the misfortune to break his arm. Mr. 1.. L. Lowe is giving his house a coat of paint. Westfield is having an epidemic of colds. Mr. and Mrs. John Christian, o1 I'innacle, spent Sunday here with the family of R. Christian. Mr. R. V. Marshall made a busi ness trip to Winston-Salem Wednes day. Mr. Dixie Smith is erecting a store and filling station a short distance below Westfield oil the Danbury- Westfield highway. Mr. Robert Jessup, Deputy SherilF, while making an arrest neai here Sunday afternoon, accidentally shot himself through the hand. Mr. Roy King, of Danbury, was a business visitor here today. Mrs. John Marshall and small daughter. Doris Kvelyn, are visitinp in Winston-Salem. Wilson's Body Is To Be Removed Wa-hinrton. Oct. lit.—The body ol former President Wood row Wilson i sooj) to be removed from the crypt ir Hethlehcm chapel and placed in ti marble sarcophagus where it will re main in the chapel temporarily al least. The sarcophagus which was designed at tlie on! -r of Mrs. Wilsor iii bably will be completed within two months and v;i> said to be ol simple design with the only orna mentation a crusader's sword carved in relief on the marble cover. There will be besides a brief inscription It is understood that th>- body of tin former president vhi -h now lies in a crypt under the chapel floor will be moved into the .sarcophagus when the structure has been completed. The Automobile 1 Dealing Out Deatl t; may impress some folks to lean that statistics show 111 people killer in automobile accidents in Xortl Carolina during the past ti month with over 1,700 more injured, man; of tlicin mai.lied or crippled for life Each month now S'Jo.dOO dumagi is done to automoblics in collisions it is estimated, for the collisions ii which death or injuries result at'i but a small proportion of the smash up*. If one will but keep tab locall; for a short while they will not doub that this estimate is a eonser\ativt one. The only safe formula we havi heard is that given by a driver wht says he "always takes the other fel low for .i fool," and acts according ly when passing another car. I'o' ind.vd the automobile has become ; great engine of death and will s» i.-tuinue until people who act sensih !\ at other times lcim to e!o thi way when they get behind th« isu .rin;. c.ivvl. -l.e\:ngten Dispatch Speaking- Here Last Mondaj j lien A. E. Glenn and Attorney S R. I -".g'tton addressed a l ire-' ami iene'e of St ;es voters at Danlmr; Monday in the interest of the bil authorizing terminals and s-tt• s l'o N.'l'ili t Uli/liuU, wlluil is lo i-" pass N; HI on hy the voters in Xovv.nbe!' Try a Want Ad in The Rt>poric 'slo MORE F £.l OLD SOLDIERS One Thousand Of the Veterans I Have Died and More Funds Are Left For the Living. Raleigh, Oct. 11.—The 8,6(58 Con federate veterans and widows of | veterans on the state pension roll i will get a ten dollar increase this year in the reapportionment of the ' million dollar pension fund as the result nf nearly a thousand deaths during the past 12 months. , Kach of the four classes of pen sioners will got ten dollars more, I making the annual pensions as fol lows: Fourth class, $120; third. ! Sl.'J.'i; second, $150; first, $ 1 »>."». | The pension list is being reduced about eight per cent. I The pensioners are divided into | the following classes: j Veterans First class veterans ■ totally disabled as the result of I wounds .luring t!i- war !>ei.wien the siatts, 2 r >, se-.ond—vet rar.s who !lost •in arm above the e'bow or a leg above tile knee during the war, •i'.t; third—veterans who lost a foot or hand in the war. SO; fourth—vet erans dependent. H,'i3o. Widows—First class —■ Totally j blind, second dais—dependents, THE FOUR , AMENDMENTS To He Voted Upon At the Com ing Election Port Hill Is i Most Widely Discussed. A Ilaleigh news dispat.h .-ays: | Four amendments proposed to I the state constitution plus the ports and terminals measure are to be sub i mittcd to the people at the election next month and to date they are | conspicuously lacking fur friends. Copies of the proposed amendments are being distributed in a limited way from the olfice of the secretary of state, but there is no campaign for or against either or all of them. The tirst, urged by Governor Mor rison and members of the budget commission, would guarantee Me in violability of sinking funds. A new section would be inserted, under the bill, leading: "The general assembly shall not use or authorize to be used any part of the amount of any sink ing fund for ;.ny put-nose other than tile retirement of the bo nils for which said sinking fund has been created." The second, in regard to taxation of homes, homestead, notes and mortgages, would raise the present exemption of note- and mortgages of •$•"■,000 to SB,OOO «nd in addition pro vide that when the said notes and mortgages are held and taxed in the county where th home is situated, the owner of the home shall 1 e ex empt from taxation of every kind for o0 per cent of the value of the said notes and mortgages. A third amendment proposes to raise the pay of members of the leg islature from $1 per day, the pre sent compensation for 00 days, to SOOO for a regular and S2OO for a special term. This amendment has not a few friends who, if active, will be able to put it acros... Hut without an effort behind it the chances are that it will be doomed. In the fourth there would be pro vided a means of taking care of the present deficit of five to seven mil lions which, in the opinion of some lawyers, is now prohibited by the constitution, it is labelUd the debt limitation amendment and would pre scribe the contraction of a debt greater than seven and one-half per cent of the total assessed valuation of taxable property in thr state. A sixth proposal to be submitted at the same election, of which bal lots have been ordered printed, is the Grist soldier's aid bill which coii- U-nplates ,i revolving fund of $2,- OOO.Ol)to be supplied out of bonds, to lie loaned to former service men who desire to purchase homes or farms. This proposal has the cordial v.ippi-n • f the American legion and, without any apparent opposition now. stand- tie o. st chance of the lot to go act os.-. Too recent primary dem onstrated the capacity of the soldier boys to do business. Six thousand and two autn n.ohi i-s were sold in North Carolina during the month of Aug; t. according to the report of li.v Carolina Aieotno bi'.c Dculdy A^ociiiw.yn. No. 2,740 NO COURT HERE NEXT WEEK Judge T. D. Bryson Will Be Unable To Preside Over the Civil Term Of Superior Court. It is learned today that the civil term of Stokes Superior court, sche duled to open here next Monday, Oct. 20th. will not he held on ac count of the fact that Judge T. L). Bryson, who was expected to preside, will not be ahle to be present, and etForts put forth to secure a judge to preside in his place have failed. Jurors and witnesses and parties to suits are being notified by Sheriff Dunlap that there will be no court here next week. Negro Gets Six Years In Pen Wade Covington, colored, was ar rested at Walnut Cove today on the charge of robbing the wholesale store of the Stokes Grocery Co., at that place. Covington was given a hear ing in Superior Court here today and sentenced by Judge Bryson to six years in the State penitentiary. The store was robbed Monday night, about $250.0(1 being taken from the safe, which had been left unlocked. The negro had only $7.00 when arrested but a considerable part of the money was recovered from parties ti> whom he had paid it this week. Highway Fatalities in U. S. in 1923 Total 22,621 Washington, O-t. 11.—Highway fatalities in the United States an! estimated by the eVnsus bureau at 22,021 for 1!»2'!, or an increase of :i.4IX over the previous year. The 1 l»2:i death rate from highway accidents was 20.4 per one hundreil thousand population, as compared with 17.0 in l!»22. This increase was largely due the increase of 2,270 deaths in the estimated number of fatalities from automobile accidents. But even the 10,452 deaths charged against the automobiles do not tell the whole story, as deaths resulting from collisions between automobiles and railroad trains and automobiles and street cars are charged to the heavier vehicles. Two thousand of such collision.- in lt'23 is a conserva tive estimate, thf bureau said. If this figure and the futilities from motorcycle accidents be added to the figures for automobile accidents the final 1!'2.'l total from motor machines on highways becomes lS,7ss. or S'l per cent of all highway fatalities. The accidents are classified as fol lows: Train grade crossing acci dents 2.01M>; automobile accidents 10,152. motorcycle accidents .:»:>(! and injuries by other vehicles, 1,15' J. Tobacco Average Last Week $20.70 Winston-Salem, Oct. 11. -The to bacco marki t closed its week Friday with an a vera;'" of $20.70 per hund red. one i f the highest averages that has beer, upon the market during the week. Th majority of the to ha-. o brought in has been very fine bright ! af, containing good body and well cured. This has soared in price sometimes as high as seventy cents for wrappers, and during the week, thirty cent tobacco has lie ome most common upon the market. The average was lowered consid erably because (if th" fact that many of the fanners this >ear ar ■ anxious to get rid of their scrap and damaged leaf early and have been rushing a lot ef this low grade stuff upon tiu market, thereby lowering considerably the average. I Hiring the week, there were 2,- 2:15,11'.' pounds of leaf sold, bring ing in a total of $102,700.13 •! the fanners. Date For Road N Letting Postponed The State Highway Commission announces that the time for the next letting of road contracts, which was given out last week as Nov. 12, han been postponed until Nov. 2i. At tni.» letting contract will be awarded for the grading and bridges on tho l>:inbury-Walnat Cove highway, it is stated. Ik'sdanies C. T. Joyce and Bryan Harper, of Winston-Saler.', .-t» n; \cs let \iy in L\irbi:rv. the of Mrs. E. P. Pepper.
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