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Volume LI. CONTRACTS FOR BRIDGES LET Meeting Of County Road Board Held Here Monday—B. P. Bailey Succeeds John J. Tay lor As Secretary. At a special meeting of the Stokes County Highway Commission held here Monday contracts were award ed for the construction of 5 bridges in the county, as follows: One at Phillips' mill in Yadkin township, price $3,536.00. One at Peter Johnson's, in Yadkin township, price $3,010.00. One at Wiley Tuttle's in Mead ows township, price $2,560.00. One across Little Yadkin river, in Yadkin township, price $3,186.00. One across Big creek, in Big Creek tfwnship, price $3,082.00. ifhe total cost of the five bridges is $16,374.00. J. L. Brinkley, of Thomasville, was lowest bidder on the first four mentioned bridges, while R. R. King, of Danbury, was lowest on the last mentioned bridge in Big Creek town whip. John J. Taylor, who has been secretary of the highway commis sion since its formation, and who was recently elected Register of Deeds .if Stokes, tendered his resignation as «ecret:;ry and 15. P. llailey, of Wal nut Cove, was appointed to the posi tion. C. A. Wall was awarded contract to nun e til! at Siiclton branch bridge. Th" hoard ordered that E. IJ. Nel son, . D. Smith and I. !. Ross in - -•■ ret tbe Sh.|.p;n'd mill road and male i pin t on same at next me. t intr. Th" following resolution wa t I by the board: Be i; resolved, that wle mis it n"- peais unnecessary ,o ci nstruct a certain road in Big Creek township, loading from a point near Sam Dear min- to a point in the Surry county line near Reuben Neuter's, that tlii> board does net consent for the 1 !;vr ( reek township highway commission to build the same, and hereby enters its protest against the construction of same. It is further ordered that a ttt'pv of this resolution be forward ed J. C. Frans, chairman. Will Let Contract For Automobile Tags Raleigh, Nov. 13. —Contract for more than four hundred thousand license tags for motor vehicles was awarded by the State Department automobile license yesterday to the Western Display Company, of Saint Paul, Minn. This company has fur nished the license for North Caro lina cars for the past several years. The color of the 1025 license has not yet been decided. Licenses were ordered in ilie fol lowing quantities: automobiles, 360,- 1)00. trucks 30,000; dealers, 12,000; motorcycles, 2,000. It was pointed out that extra truck licenses will probably have to be bought. The number of licenses for pleasure cars indicates an increase of twenty thousand over the figures of last year. Annual Losses By Automobile Wrecks Greensboro, Nov. 11.—Six hundred milUon dollars is estimated as the ansial economic loss by automobile wre'-ks and accidents on highways and streets of the United States in 1023, according to a statement issued by C. W. Roberts, vice-president of the Carolina Motor Club as having come from the statistical bureau of the Department of Commerce. Over 22,600 were killed and 678,000 severe ly injured in automobile accidents alone. i "These figures were compiled by a bureau which found that there are more than 40,000,000 folks who drive L'ars. The recommendations of this bureau include; "Education, uniform traffic laws, more rigid licensing and .•ontrol of drivers, better highway engineering, reduction of congestion through city planning, etc.' It is our belief that a state system of lices ing drivers should come with a state constabulary and we are urging this \t district meetings." In 24 Southern communities struck )>• disasters this year, the Red Cross las cared for the injured and re labilitated 5,200 people left home ess. In this work, the organization ulministcred a «relief fund of 5157,717.00. V BOWIE STRONG FOR MORE ROAD BONDS He May Be Speaker Of the House When the Coming ( Session Of the Legislature j Convenes. Winston-Salem, Nov. 15.—There is a possiblity of a three-cornered race for the speakership of the house when the next legislature convenes in Raleigh in January. This was learned here Thursday from Tam C. Bowie, who has just been re-elected to the house by an unprecedented democratic majority in the county of Ashe. Mr. Bowie says that since his elec tion a number of his friends over the state have been urging him to enter the race for speaker. He had not made up his mind yesterday, but said he was considering the matter and that the situation might develop which would impel him to announce his candidacy. The other candidates for the | speakership have been in the race for some time They are Rcpresen-' tative R. M. Cox of Fosryth and! Representative Pharr of Charlotte.! Mr. Bowie has served several terms i in the legislature with both these ' gentlemen ami counts them among his personal friends. It is under stood that both Messrs. Cox and' Pharr have strong support for th.' , speakership. Mr. I'owie says he is committed to the proposed additional bond issue of thirty-live million dollars for the completion of the highway sy ■•ei.i and i vpects to light for it with ail I his might, if lighting is n •ec.-• iry. in the in \t session ot the general assembly. Mr. Bowie believes that ihe state should finish the Ve els while i*. is building them and st - i tli;|t sit least thirty-five millions wiil j U- r.'|i.ir I to eumpl.'te the job. He declares die people of the mountain are a unit in th"ir support of the road building program and are solid ly ha k of the movement to finish the job without delay, and that they are excelling the legislature to pro-I [vide for another bond issue of thirty live million dollars for highways. I WILL SHOW STATE BY MOVIES SOON Fox Film ( orporatioon Begins Preliminary Survey of Scenic Resources—Pictures Agreed Upon. Raleigh, Nov. 1.". Preliminary' survey of the scenic anil industrial resources of the state looking to-I ward the filming of several moving! pictures has been begun by the Fox j Film Corporation. Harvey Smith, i rcoresei'ting the educational division | of the corporation, arrived in the i state Thursday and will spend sev eral days developing the lines upon which the pictures will be made. Two pictures have already been tentatively eete»'*.uned upon, the first to deal with the indus try of the Sound co.ntiy i.nd the second with the scei'.ic wonders >1 western North Carolina. Filming of these pictures will likely begin v-'i-h --in the next few days, or as ;oon rs the technical staff can be brought , from New York. Several other subjects are under consideration, but no definite decis-1 ion will be reached until Mr. Smith ! has had opportunity to observe their j adaptability for picturizing at closer , range. They will probably include ' three or four industries of the state, ' if it be found that they lend them- i selves readily to pictorial story tell-! ing. The Fox corporation was attract ed to the state's possibilities for educational moving pictures by the recent story in the World's Work, by French Strother. The educa tional pictures produced by this company have a circulation of up wards of twenty million and the inclusion of North Carolina among' the pictures will bring the state very i emphatically to the attention of a j large number of people. 54,047 ex-service men have been | assisted in settling government ; claims for disabilities resulting from I their war service. Many of them needing hospital treatment have been | helped in procuring the necessary data, and placing it in correct form i before the proper officials. While | their claims are pending, Red Cross j workers see that their families do not suffer. Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, Nov. 19, 1924 WILL GASOLINE GIVE OUT? | Scientist Predicts Famine In Five Years Ending Automo i bile and Airplane Activities. London, Nov. 14.—The opinion that there will be a gasoline famine five years from now is expressed by Professor W. F. Burstall, dean of the faculty of science at Birming ham University. Only the discovery in the near future of a cheap, effective substi tute can save the automobile and aviation industries from a fuel fam ine, which will put a complete check upon building throughout the world, Professor Burstall avers. "Existing oil fields are becoming exhausted, and although new wells are being drilled here and there, they only put a little farther off the day when the world will be faced with a famine. The production of automobiles in the United States and elsewhere is increasing far more 1 rapidly than the production of gaso | line," he said, in an interview in : Birmingham. j Professor Burstall does not hope fully regard the efforts being made ito find substitutes for gasoline, al though a trio of scientists at Bir mingham University alone have . been engaged for a long time in re .-ear.'h work in this direction. "There are two main linos of ex periment," the professor continued. "Th • iirst, and the one on which w. are engaged at Birmingham, is the •nu.-foi.iuCoti of roal into oil by ; 1 'i • pioee>s known as hyilrogeiiation. I'lie coal i.- heated an ! broken down ..nil forms tliiil-: (rude oil; from : which finei and ligh'er r'l are ex tra .-t i. The pro..-s.>, li wever, is j 'iily partially sue-essf ,l. i "This is very expensive. :■ nd. ovi \ lif it w re not expulsive, v.i no faced by the eventual exhaustion of our ioal supplies, which, it is commonly agreed, will occur in abn.i. 2 lit yon is .it the piesellt rate of eon sumption. "The second line of experiment is i the production of alcohol from vege table matter by processes of for j mentation. This is being particularly j explored in Australia. South Africa, | India and the Fast generally. In ! India leaves of many kinds are be ■ ing subjected to fermentation and | thus made to produce alcohol. Aus tralia, in particular, is paying unre ! mining attention to this, due to the j complete absence of oil in the coun try "Here, again, cost is against the j use of alcohol, for it costs twice a.* nu h to produce as gasoline. A | much more serious objection to alco , lud, however, is that, to make it com mercially successful as a fuel, it j would have to be produced from j vegetable matter containing a high Ipropoition of starch and celulose— ill other words, that vegetable mat ter which is needed for human food. There is not an adequate supply of this over and above that needed for human consumption." There remains the oil-bearing shale, large deposits of which ap pear in many countries, but Pro fessor Burstall says that it would be only a minute contribution to the needs of the world, and he cannot j see any immediate solution of the | problem. Snow Was Quite General In State Raleigh, Nov. 18.—Cold, cloudy ; weather with a light snow reported generally throughout the eastern see j tion of the state marked the coldest \ day thus far this year throughout i North Carolina. Freezing tempera tures were reported from a number of places. j Snow that made the roofs white began falling in Raleigh during the night and continued most of the morning, melting on the streets al most as fast as it fell. I Greenville, Greensboro, Hender j son, Wilson and a number of other I places ri ported snow, i Salisbury reported a temperature of 30 degrees and Winston-Salem 28. Today's snowfall in Raleigh was ! the earliest by two days during the 130 years' records which have been kept by the local weather bureau I and the first to fall in November since 1014. The fall measured two i tenth of an inch. j The lowest temperature recorded at the local weather bureau was 28 I degrees at 6:30 a. m., a drop of 20 j degrees since yesterday. ! STATE WILL GET TEN MILLIONS From Automobiles and Gas Tax For Year Ending June 30— This Is Big Increase. Raleigh, Nov. 15. Collections from the automobile fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1025, will run to $10,096,872.20, it was es timated yesterday by Secretary of State W. N. Everett, in a letter ad dressed to the governor. Collections during the four months of the present fiscal year have reached $6,015,963.70, the letter said. Taxes on automobiles have about reached its limit for this year due to the fact that most licenses have been issued, it was said, but the gasoline tax is said to average about $500,000 per month during the remaining year. According to the letter taxes from the automobile department up to November 1, were divided as fol lows: Gasoline tax $1,627,357; title cer tification $75,357; automobile licenses $4,309,926; interest on deposits $4,042. X 1,290 MILES HARD SURFACE ROADS Th a t Number Constructed Since tin' Sts.le Commission Took Charge Assets To Lessen Cost. Ral 'igh, Nov. 15. One thousand, two hundred nnd ninety rede- of hard surfaced highways liav • hern constructed in Ni-rtii Carolina sir.ee ih' present highway commission took chargi' of the administration, according to information made pub lic ye-ierd.iy by officials of the coni i lission. In addition to the hard surfaced highways 1,152 miles of new top-soil sand-clay, gravel and graded roads have been constructed in the same period. l.'.'ider construction at present are IS.'! miles of hard surface roads and miles of the other types of roads. Another letting of contracts on November 26 will just about wind up the construction work under th • sixty-five million dollar bond issues authorized by the legislatures of l!' 21 and 1023. This letting will take care of the construction of ap proximately 113 miles of roads, of which 15 miles will be hard sur face. I. Taking into account the roads al ready constructed, the roads under construction and th ■ roads for which contracts will be let North Carolina will receive for the sixty-live million dollars spent I,'SS miles of hard sur faced loads and 1,843 miles of otli'-r types of roads, or a total of .'!,;!.'!1 miles of all types of roads. Dividing ihe number of miles of roads of all kinds constructed into the amount of the bond issue it is seen that the cost of an average North Carolina mile of road con structed under the present highway commission is $10,213. This figure is not as high as might seem at first glance as the highway commission has acquired consider able road building machinery, office buildings, garages, office furnishings and other things incidental to laun ching and carrying out a gigantic enterprise, as well as having devoted large sums to highway maintenance. . These assets will probably lessen the cost of highway construction in North Carolina in the future if the next legislature votes to continue the road building program, or if the legislature does not vote they re main assets to be applied against the liquidation of the bond issue. Negro Gets Away With j Old Confidence Game Reidsville, Nov. 16.—1n the Reids ville recorder's court, Sam Johnson, negro, was sentenced to two years on the county roads for victimizing Robert Lowell, also colored, in an old confidence game, by changing a one dollar bill into a thousand dollar greenback. Lowell handed over $72 and agreed to go to a local bank and have the bill changed and make an equal division. Jiohnson caught a Southern freight. He was followed in automobile by officers, and at Benaja they found the negro in a | swamp almost submerged by water. OYSTER SUPPER BY EASTERN STAR Fiddler's Convention Music Recital—Walnut Cove Motor Co. To Occupy New Building Soon. Walnut Cove, Nov. 10.—An oyster supper was given here tonight under the auspices of the Eastern Star. The affair was held in the new cafe recently opened by John Lewellyn. The attendance was large and a nice sum was realized from the affair. A fiddler's convention will be held in the school building here tomor row night. Jim Jones has accepted a posi | tion as clerk in the postoffice, sue | feeding John Woodruff. Mesdames P. W. Davis, R. 1,. Vaughn, G. H. Fulton and Miss Booker spent today in Winston- Salem shopping. i The handsome new building of . the Walnut Cove Motor Co. is near j ing completion and will be occupied probably by Saturday. Dr. and Mrs. Blackburn gave a 1 dance at their home in South Wal j nut Cove Friday, a Winston-Salem • orchestra furnishing the music. Mrs. Laura McGhee, of Winston | Salem, spent Saturday with Misses ' Mildred Moore field and Essie Moore ' Meld. i Mr. an! >;i. E. D. Matthews, of Winst' ii-Salem. spent the week- n I u :i: Mr. a:; I M's. \\. 1.. Vaughn. Mv. and Mrs. IL N. Scott, nnd Mr. •in I Mrs . ( i :.!.tii e, if Durham, | ;■( nt Sunday te i\ with Mrs. Scott's i parents, Mr. and Mr>. W. L. ' \ a a. ill. j The music class of Mrs. Frank liiv.• rat :h- high .-.-'not. wiil '_;vc I a IY. it'll in 'i audit-'!': .n of the I s-'i on! b.i.ldiiu tonight, j Ralph Chilton, of th. Walnut j Motor i ia I • a busin s- trip to | i lohisboi o t * -day. 20 COUNTIES FAIL TO MAKE RETURNS Stokes Is Among the Number That Have Not Sent In Re turns To State Board of Elections. W. L. Beasley, cleik of the State I Board of Elections announced Mon | day, 20 counties which have not ! yet sent in election returns from the general election of November. | All counties failing to make roturnr. j before November 20th will h*i\ to | pay the expenses of a special mes ' seiiger. Tile State Hoard of Elec tions vill meet on November 2."> th. to canvass the returns. The 20 counties that are still ■ short are: Alamance, Caldwell, Car teret, Chatham, Chowan, Duplin, I Durham. Greenville, Green, Johnston, j Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Nash, 1 New Hanover, Pasquotank, Pitt. Rowan, Stanley, Stokes, Swain and Wayne, Republicans Gain 11 Members Legislature | Raleigh, Nov. 15.- The republicans gained eleven members of the legis lature, all house members, in the general election, according to re turns received on the state vote. In election two years ago republicans membership fell off to nine repres entatives and three senators. In the next general assembly there will be 20 republican house members anil three senators. Thirty-one members of the house and fifteen senators serving in the last legislature will be members of the next session. Robert W. Samuel Dies At High Point High Point, Nov. 18.—Robert W. Samuel, 58, highly esteemed High i Point man, died at a local hospital ; early this afternoon. His death fol lowed an illness of several weeks with cancer of the stomach. A native of Walnftt Cove, Mr. Samuel came to this city more than i fifteen years ago. He is survived by the widow, four daughters, Mrs. E. A. Patterson and Mrs. E. G. Leonard, of High Point, Mrs. Fred Kaney, of | Bedford, Ohio, and Mrs. E. G. Mur ! ph.v, of Thomasville, and by three i sons, Robert Boyd Samuel, of Win ston-Salem, and Willie and Claude Samuel, of High Point. Funeral arrangements had not been completed tonight. No. 2,745 TO EMPLOY FIFTY MEN • Kinjf Furniture Factory Will Open Soon—New Home For M E. P. Edwards—Other King News. King, Nov. 17.—The Dry Springs • Wild Cats and Perch Tigers met in , combat on the Perch diamond Thurs ! day afternoon, November 13th, 1924. . Much spectacular playing was done • by both sides. The Tiger rooters did their part, with songs and cheers, I i toward winning the game which re ■ suited in a score of nine to nothing. The Wild Cats got huffy at the • Tigers and would not play out the ■ game. This is the second contest the Tigers have won from the Cats • this fall. Mr. W. D. Hierson is ex ' ceedingly fond of his Perch Tigers. • i Batteries for Tigers, Brown and I Barber. For Cats, Mickey and Haus f' er. Perch, W. E. Fowler 2 b, C. Barb ■ ere, R. P. Barber st., 11. 11. Stor 1 I 3b, F. S. Fulk If., A. K. Brown p., H. T. Stone, lb.. H. Barber rf., W. R. i Fowk-r cf., •, Dry Springs.—A. Kirby 2lv, I. ' . Mickey i'., E. Mickey lb., C. Mickey Ist., Clyde Mickey 3!>„ O. Hauser p., p | W. Stun" cf., I). Rierson if., and I. '. Kirby If. "i Mr. Luther I,awson. of Winston- Salem, spent Sunday with his pa rent-, whu r'side near her. . ' "Thir '' •• • i.lt Tuiii" the • -list, ha- ivt'. ii.ti! i■ ■■ his hum • !•, ••• after • i holding a \«.y su .i>si . • • Western Port. Mi. A force . f . il'p ir.i i l .- ;.tv ii* v.'t t'k • • v i.ux ■■ i- e n v. 1 .• Mr. i\ A .. ,v -u t. ■ Mr. ' . S. i v. !i i. \\! i. . • th ».. tia i, ,-;a;is ,lat the \v..ii. .. i. 'imi-lum! through to compl ■.•. ... ;.n I call; date. The work of iiverhulinu' ii i..i --' -hiii vy and lepniring the !••.;:! iiii;; f The Kam Manufa. tui iu *is almost complet,'d and they ex;e.t to start up the factory next week. ( Mr. F. N. Jones, who has secured an interest in the factory and who is a | man of twenty years experience in the manufacturing of furniture, will . be general manager. They expect • to work about fifty men when they get things going in full swing. They I will make a line of parlor furniture. 1 Mr. li. 11. Kirby, of Winston ' Salem, ..spent Sunday with relatives " • in Walnut Hills. tiarvey, the twelve-year-old son of ' the evangelist Thos. F. Perdue, hap -1 pened to the misfortune of getting | his arm broken while at play at the I high school here last Friday. The j children were playing crack the [whip when (Jarvey was swung l.iose j from the line resulting in a broken ! arm. ' Mr. and Mrs. S. 11. ISrown and Misses l.illie and Fannie Uoff and • little Brown spent the week • end with relatives in Greensboro. Work on Mr. John H. Hauler's ' new home on West Main Street is ' well under way. The new dwelling of Mr. B. E. Wilson on Spruce Street has been completed. s Mr. and Mrs. Russell Love, of Winston-Salem, spent Sunday with s Mr. Love's parents on Pulliani St. The Christian denomination will > soon commence work on a new - church building on West Main St. i Some nice porkers are being kill - s ed in and around King. Mr. Charlie Hooper, of Winston .' Salem, is among the business visi -1 tors here today. I Quite a number of nice business > i and residential lots will be sold at « I auction here on Saturday, Novetn • ] bor 21>th. This is a part of the C. F. White property. It is predicted these lots will sell well, as they till front on the national highway. Walnut Cove's Water Supply J Walnut Cove, Nov. 18.—One of th» s wells being drilled to supply water | far Walnut Cove has reached a depth . ! (if something over 250 feet. One vein , ' was struck which supplies 30 gall in-i .. j of water per minute, it is stated. The work of erecting a standpipe, to I which the water will be pumped, was f | started the past week. e j 1,488 people have been taught - i scientific methods of rescuing drown e ; ing people and resusciating them. i 047 othi rs have been taught through t First Aid courses, "What to do be [fore the Doctor comes."
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