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Volume LI. RICE EAST KILLS FRANK JOYCE I Stokes Farmers of the Vatic | Meeum Section Quarrel and One Is Dead—East Is Son -111-Law of Joyce. Rice Fust, ii young white man of 1 hi> Vade .Mccum section of Stokes, Monday night shot and killed his father-in-law, Frank .loyce, a mid »lle aged farmer of the same com munity. The killing occurred at the home of Fast, and is saiil to have tieen the result of a family brawl of some months standing. Fast used ■ a shot nun and the entire load took I tFect in Joyce's head. *.■>, It was reported that a son of Vj'.'oycc was present at the time and |£ that after some word* Joyce told ijT.ast that he had a gun and to use 'Hit. where upon Fast fired the fatal ' phot. I Immediately after the (-hooting '■•'nif) disappeared and nothing of Flii- whereabouts has lieen learned ■By the otlleers. i Hoth men have families and mu. I; Tegri't is expressed l>y the neighbors over tlie trigedy. ,STOKES TEACHERS HOLD MEETING tire of Morning Session Was ( An Address l»y l>r. .J. H. Hijjh amith—Play Will Be Repeat s ed. Germanton, Dec. I>.—The county wide meeting of teachers, held at the OtmiMiiton high school building last Sstunl av, was largely attended and it a most interesting and prof itable •Psion. Chapel exercises were Opndm ted liy (t. \V. Stafford. of the Oemi. inton high school faculty. Talk* liy various teachers present OB "Interesting Indifferent Pupils," "The Pr, •|.nation of Students for High School" and "The High School Liter a y Society," were of much in twest. The a lilri'ss of tIn■ morning session VfftS Ity Hr. J. 11. Ilighsmith. liirectur k>f st ate edu'atioii. of Raleigh, and ono ot' vital iiiterist to 11• fain h was served liy the I'aivn pe« jfeer Asso.'iatioii of (iermanton. ■'IP) • r ' I'llool, n was- 11!II-11' li IKBB iig.'iig ('htistmus songs. Id! iy IW^lligh-initli. i tkp. itiiicmal meetings !.y varii as PW*]> ..f t achers made tin the n- j Mißil' r• • the se>:.ion. The meeting l Kijoilinc.l t nv ft the siM'und Satur-! >l7 ii February, the place to lie de- j ld«d u HI later. The play, "A Fortunate Calamity,"! ■ecently given hy the (iermanton j iigh school faculty and which was I i uch a decided su.' -ss, will he ro •Ated mxt Friday evening, at the: Mt§Mon high school building. An 1 dded 'e it lire will be the singing of I liM Agness Hudson, of Winston-' ■M an a *coni| lished musician. MV Dodson will have her sister, ■ffjNannio I)odson. as accompanist. "J. Small will spend several iis of this week with relatives at unfotri. hristmas program by the I M wan ton high school pupils will ■pn Friday morning instead of as has been previously j wA J. T. Long, of Winston-Salem, r, M been the guest of Rev. and Mrs. Lonjr for several days. Abs, R. J. Pet ree, who has been } to her bed for several days pevere attack of grippe, is llpwhat improved. I K>. and Mrs. S. M. James and Qdraa spent Sunday with Mr. and MjK F. Alspaugh, west of Win pfSPeni. I4**;j£flie Curtis, son I.ouis Ray, d J. C. Riddle, spent Sunday with •tivaa in High Point. Mr.. W 11. Byt um. Misses Fannie) liouise Powers spent Fri itoij-Salem doing Christ- Snow, pastor "f ihe ,\I. ?re, preached a most in ■mon to a large congre unday night. Mr. Know lere would also be serv hurch on the third Sun >r the remainder of the Savage, Misses Pearl Virginia Hauser spent the Twin City shopping, ddle recently butchered rkers," each tipping the ' ir five hundred. JOHN D. WADDILL VISITS DANBURY Former County Commissioner Of Forsyth Is Good Friend Of Stokes County—Wants Us To Have Concrete lioad. John I'. Waddill, well-known am! wealthy citizen of Dennis, was a pleasant visitor here Monday, and dropped in to see the Reporter. Mr. Waddill prior to the tirst day of this month was county commissioner in Forsyth for many years, hut lie has now retired from politics to some extent, as well as from business cares, and is offering to sell a thou sand acres of his tine land to young farmers and others upon ihe most liberal terms. Mr. Waddill is and has always been a strong friend to Stokes county, an 1 while here Monday ho .-.tated that he was using iiis host efforts to help Stokis get a hard surfaced road to the county seat. As an in-ian,'e of his unselfishness and his friendship to Stokes. Mr. Waddill is advocating a hard-sur faced road to Roanoke via Danbury instead of the route through Madi son, notwithstanding the fact tiiat iie owius hundreds of acres of line land oil the Madison route and has no property on the Danbury route. DOUG H TON FO UN D TO FAVOR BONDS Revenue Commissioner Comes Out For $35,000,009 Issue By Legislature He 1.-j Far Sighted. Raleigh, Dec. I".—"I b.'lieve we ought to go forward with our road program." Revenue Commissioner R. A. Doitghton said tonight in re cording himself in favor of an extra issue of bonds to complete the state highway system. "I tliinl. tiie amount of the new bond issue should be determined after a curcfi.il investigation of our highway reeds and the state's abil ity to ti.iM!■ v it. The | ingrain might iii" .1 thi.'iy-tivc million* or : mi:'.!': u -t along with !>•- An • • ! i i . i'' ;a\ on in- •! «vouM lovably b ni".essary a- we nrust . -lire all :. !ei|'.ia' .■ sii.i.ing fund, ii.ierest nil tin' mtuls and a .f --r.t -uai for mainten:'.:i e i f the h'jrlt ivay i!-«ti mutes j la. e the yield for the | pr. sent year fiom auto liieiues and J tii" gasidine tax at ten million dol lars. An extra cent on gasoline would 'rive a million and a half or two millions additional. As head of the revenue depart ment and one of the most level headed and experienced in public affa : rs, Governor Houghton's sup port will play an important part in insuring favorable legislative consideration of the proposed new issue. He was one of the authors of the state highway act of the 11121 session authorizing the fifty million dollar bond issu •. BALTIMORE TO NORTH CAROLINA I Ship Line To Re Established To Our State Ports At An Early Date. Baltimore, Dec. 10.—Establish ment of a new ship line between Baltimore and North Carolina points: have been promised by Mason Weenis Williams, president of the Baltimore and Carolina Steamship Company,! as a result of a conference yester day between a party of North Caro lina business men and the Haiti more 1 Chamber of Commerce. The establishment of such a line, was urged by the North Carolina delegation who urged that th • Vir ginia ship lines and certain railroads are discriminating against Certain shippers of their state. Plans were laid by the Carolina delegation to have the legislature of. that state to authorize a §3,000,1)00 bond issue of five members of the Baltimore Association of Commerce is to he named to co-operate in the ' nlan with a like committee of North ' Carolinians. The bodies will confer i within a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Sanders Smith and children were here today from Route 1. Mr. Smith has recently treated himself and family to a large car. Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, Dec. 17, 1924 THREE MEN ARE TAKEN AT STILL •Jnl.ii Ed Malrj, Walter lSi-nnett and Anderson Dennett Give Bonds Fur their Appearance At Federal Court. Federal prohibition agents ron tintii' to harrass those citizens in Stokes who would have a littli' spirits ready for the Christmas holidays. On Monday night Agents White and Flinchum arrested John Kd Main', Walter ilemiett and An derson llennett, hardworking far mers, at a still near their homes on I'niibury Koine I. while they were in the art of making a little whiskey for their personal use. The still and a small i|iiantity of whiskey wa.- also captured. The mi n were tried here today he fore Justice X. A. Martin who fixed the bond of t'aeh at All of them furnished bund promptly and were released. HIGHWAY BOARD TALKS FINANCES Stale Commission Studies Au dit As llasis For Proposed liond Issue. IJaleigli, Pee. Meetitlflf ill ex ecutive session here yesterday the State Highway Commission spent the greater part of the session, which lasted from early morning until late at night, in a discussion of a new audit of the organization upon which recoinnieiidations to the general assembly for a third liond issue will l>e liased. No division as to the exact size of the bond issue to In- recommended, which will he •via,ooo,ooo or less, was reachei' yesterday. The lettinir of contracts for the sixteen projects for which bids were received on November 20 was post poiieil until today in order to (rive all thi' titlle possible to the discus sion of financial matters which will iro into the making of legislative recM,iimeuiaiiotis. The new audit which was present ii ; i'si. r.iaj shows tli ii'ia i -ial h'.-- i ly ot* the orgutii; -• tifrom tic en iinvr i't' tlio first dollar of the 1 ! utid is.-tie up to date. I'iv • i -i! - audit.- of tin load C 'litliii ■I. have been made annually but 'Lis :• tli. first to show the whole financial history since the beginning i f the State Highway Commission. Members of the commission stated that the audit was hitrhly satisfac tory. I.iiiscy Warren, conjrressman-eleet from the first district, and !•'. C. Kugler. ehairniati of the Beaufort county board of commissioners, ap pealed before thi' commission and asl-.ed that a road which the county is building from State Highway Route No. !'l to Bath, the oldest town in the state and the first capital, be placed on the State High way system. The request will be considered later. The commission convened shortly after !' o'clock yesterday morning and was in session until 10 o'clock last night. Mr. Page entertained the members at a dinner at the Sir Walter Hotel last night. The body will be in session again today when contracts will be awarded and cit iv.ot.s from all sections of the state will be heard on road matters. WAREHOUSES TO CLOSE ON FRIDAY Will Re-Open Again Jan. (>— Four Sets Of Buyers Will Not Continue On the Market. The Winston-Salem Tobacco As sociation announces that the tobacco warehouses of the Twin City will dose for the Christmas holidays on Friday, I'ec. 10th, and will re-open on January oth. It is also announced that the sales will continue as usual, with four sets of buyers and upon the schedule of lirst and second sales as announced at the opening of the present sea son. For a few days last week, during a glut on the market, an extra aet of buyers operated. The report was current at that time that the extra set of buyers would remain on the market until the close for the holi days, but this was an error. CHANGING N. C. COURT DISTRICTS Stokes and Guilford May Com pose One District—Senator Sharp Working Out Plan For .'SO New Judges. Senator-elect J. M. Sharp, of Reidsville, has been busy for some tinii- past securing data from tin various superior court i-lvi ks con cerning the condition of the courts throughout the state Hi- says that he is going to present his t'sm!- ing to the legislature next month and will make an appeal to that I 'oily to revise the several judicial districts and create JSO judges. This he thinks, will he necessary !fi unit r to relieve the congested i oiitlltloil of the courts. This plan has hceii suggested :!iany times in the past, hut always nut with ; tuhhorn opposition by solicitors who reaped a rich harve: t from the system, and hy some others for causes host known to th"iuselves. Now that the solicitors are on a alary basis Mr .Sharp thinks his mom--Dilation to the legislature will meet with almost unanimous ap proval. In the new alignment which will he proposed, tiuilford and Stokes will probably he linked into the same district; Forsyth and one small county will he combined, while Rockingham, Caswell and Person will he merged into one district. At the present time Rockingham is in a district which reaches from Tennessee to the Person county line. As a result that county gets only lit weeks of court when it should have lit! weeks. The calendar has become so congested in the county until now there are close to •J.nuii cases on the docket. This condition is now general in many distiicts of the state, and Mr. Sharp i of the opinion that some relief should be forth-coming. (iuilford county repie} ntatives are reported also to have a plan t.> make a separate district out of tiuil ford. If this should be done then Pavidson would have to be placed wilh some other county, it now being with (iu'".>n! and Stoke-. Sin •• i'.i !--••»> iioe.. ;,ot ti .id) StoU-'s, any I: II lo separate it and tiuilford • i liirrii'.te Stoki - I'ivai the J", iicial district. J. K. COOK. OF KING. HAS DISAPPEARED Stokes Farmer Left Home On Thursday, Saying He Would Bet urn Sunday. King, Pec. 17. .1. 11. took, who resides ill Walnut Hills, left his home last Thursday morning, stat ing to IMS wife that lie was going to Mount Airy and would return Sunday. Sunday came and Mr. Cook did not put in his appearance. His wife waited until Monday and still Mr. Cook tlid not return. Then his wife became alarmed and got in connection with relatives at Mount Airy but they had not seen him. Later in the day she made a trip to Mount Airy but no trace of her husband could be found. O. L. Rains, the railway agent here, states that Mr. Cook pur chased a ticket to Mount Airy and hoarded the train. This was the last seen of him. He disappeared as if the earth had swallowed him up. It is feared that Mr. Cook met with foul play. FIRST SALES AT ALL WAREHOUSES From Now Until the Holidays All Warehouses Will Sell Simultaneously. To relieve the congestion on the local auction market from now until the time for closing for the holiday season, an enlarged stalf of buyers has been provided by the firms bid ding on the current crop ef tobacco. A complete complement of buyers has been provided for each ware house, and from now until the holi days there will he no second sales. The addition of this one set of buyers greatly facilitates the hand ling of the offerings by the growers each day, and will prove a great convenience to the growers and until the holidays there will be no "second sale" on the local auction leaf market. SAFE CRACKERS VISIT KING Big Safe Of the Boyles Co. Is Rolled Into the Back Yard and Blown Open, J?o00 Being Taken From It. King. Dec. Pi.—On Wednesday night thieves broke into the lioylcs I'O. store on east Main street. En trance was gained through the front door, and the thieves opened the back door rolled out the li.uOO pound safe into the yard, blew it open and took the cash, whith was about thre hundred dollars. Tile i hecks in the >afe wen- not bothered except some which v r - mix-d in with ti:.- cut n-nej u i.i h they did not take time to separate. Some of til 'Se Were found wv.«; of town near tile tlid of the si-ie track. A live dollar bill was abo found near the sidt of the railroad train but this had been run over by the train and cut in t »>. Nothing in the .-tore was molested except the safe and as contents. Tile whole job had all the ear marks ef the pr ife-sional safe cracker. S>> far there is !iu clue to the guilty parties. I'r. and Mrs. (lilliert I'. IVtrec, of West Vain str , are triad recipi ents of a tine boy. Will Moore, of Winston •Salum, was a visitor here Saturday. Material is be.ng placed on the site preparatory to erecting a nice addition to the Baptist church on Mast Main street. The King Manufacturing Co. be gan the operation of their furniture plant this morning. They expect to work full time, employing about lifty men when they get in full swing. They will make a nice line parlor furniture. The farmers co-operative ware house here had a very busy week, approximately l.'io.nou pounds of to bacco being delivered during the past week. Pelivclies have been heavy for some time. Farmers all seem well (leased with their advan ces. Th" wan-hot;-' will i lose Fri day. Pe . I: 1 , for Christmas and will re-open Jan. The King M• l.' 1 S !:• ! j layi,! the i'reeson sclr 1 a gam. -f basket • >.\!l hen- tod'i.v. ic.-nlting i.i ■ score of t'» I it: . r of King. CONTRACT LET FOR STOKES ROAD State Highway Commissioner Hanes Inspects New Wr.-t --iicld-Danburv Highway and Is Delighted With It. State Highway Commissioner A. S. Ilanes, of Winston-Salem, came up to I (anbury Sunday afternoon and drove over the newly-linished State highway between here and West field. He was accompanied over the road hy .1. Spot Taylor, of l)an bury. Mr. Hanes expressed him self as being delighted with this new road. He thinks it is one of the prettiest drives in this section of tile State. Mr. Hanes stated that contract was awarded Saturday last for the grading of the two mile stretch of State highway between Walnut Cove and the Forsyth line, and that work would he started right soon. MR. MOREFIELD AND WIFE DEAD sX shnllu i'taoin rmfwyp shrdlu h j Ageil Couple Ol' Quaker Gapj Township Pass Away—Only One Day's Difference Itil Time Of their Deaths •lolln 11. Mootvii.'M, a prominent anil highly resp- a I i-tiz.ii of Quaker l!ap towvd.in, ,l;etl 'i ue-- day of last week f-■ • "...wit ir a shoit illness, anil his wife, M>s. liehel I* lizaheth Moorefield, died * i fol lowing day. Mrs. MooretieM had bi'en ill for years, hut her death was as unexpected as that of the hus band. The news of the deaths of these excellent old people was a great shock to the friends and neighbors : of the family as well as to the rela- j tives. They were the parents of Dr. R. H. Mooretirld, a prominent physician of the county, and John G. Moore field, former Register of Deeda of l Stokes. No. 2,749 I BROOM FACTORY I FOR WALNUT COVE Machiney Being installed For New Manufacturing Enter prise Building Rental llou.se.-. Walnut i'i'Vc. Pv.\ I".—Machinery ' is being placed this week in the Al ! lon liuil'iiiiir oil North Main street, ' preparatory to gettinir the new ■ broom factory in operation, which I will turn out about one hundred I dozen brooms per week. The owners, !'. K. I'avi-, I. S. Voight and Numa ■ Knight, ar» I,us-t 1 young business I men and the people i.f Walnut Cove feel pro .id of th.• if new Indus; ry. Mcs-»r.». .1 .lin 1., au.l Powell Gil me>\ of \Y:i-ton Sab m. are I. ivir.tr some ni • tiv • and -i\ room rental lieu vs b-ri: on their i ro; i rt.v in I'ast Walnt Cove. They hu-.e al i". :i• ly lli > ii'd three and they are b . v>i"d a-- !ii - * a> lo.iipleted. Ti.- Walnut ore Motor Company lie! i .• are moving into their n..\." 1 .;ielii:g just being coin plet■ •■!, ■•; Main >:reet. Their stock as: I sal- ■ •> oms a»v large roomy land li|>ht an.l they will have a re . oair i'e.'ailment that wil". I.e a i re lit I to, w. II as a great i 'nvenien.e to ithis section. Workmen are now ditching and laying th. • water and sewer lines uti der the two railroad crossings here on Main street. After mu.h d::li culty, they have been laid under Town Fork creek. The section of town known as I.ondon i« yet to he ditched and laid with pipe lines which will about complete the work of laying water and sewer pipes in town. Workmen are also busy pouring concrete for the foundation for the large water tank. The stock of merchandise of W. G. Dodson, deceased, is to be sold at auction beginning today. Mr. Do !- son carried a large and varied a- - sortment of merchandise and it wilt no doubt take several days to sell out the stock. i l'ewev Johnson is building a r.i.e I home Hour his father in the northeti part of tewr.. Mr. Johns married ;.lu..;t a ; ar ago ar.d hi- frieli are gin 1 to i.r; w that I'. intends to ma.-.eh'- I'.'in .■ her.-. He hoi.i- •. i. iik I i. i a pi • : t,g y. Mr. .. . ! !"n - . A. A. i" w! r. ..f K "it ; :nr v:-l.i:v.r : a :iv hi • i f tiir I'i'i .■ r's father, J. H. Fowler, , i fir. :ir Walnut love. I.ueien Whicker, uf Kei»ers.vil!e, was in town a few days ago. C. !•:. liivis ami .las. W. Manuel have formed a partnership fur the | handling uf a real estate anil rental | business. They will operate under tin- lirm name of Walnut 'uvi> Real ity Company. Their office i in the I building next to the .Junior OriLr building, on Main street. I>. A. Stanley, engineer for the Southern Railway out of Winstoti- Saiem. was in town fur a short while one evening recently. STILL CAPTURED AT VADE MECUM Cupper Was Found Near Home Of Joel East. Where Stokes Prisoners Are Boarding— Some Whiskey Found. A copper still anil a small ..uanti t.v of whiskey was captured near Vatle Mecmil Springs Sunday after noon hy officers Fletcher. Klincl'iira, Kunlap and others. The still was found where it had been hidden near the home of Joel East, ai whu la place several Stokes prisoners have recently been hoarding while they worked on roads, etc., near by. The officers stated that a still st ■ was found near the place where the copper was 1 icated, and that a path led from the home to the still site. Whiskey and empty bottles wre found hidden around the tractor which the prisoners had been opera ting. No arrest have yet been made. The Quarterly Conference far j Panhury circuit of the M. E. Church I was held at the Methodist church here Monday. In the absence of Presiding: Elder J. H. West, the conference was presided over by Rev. T. J. Ratledge, pastor of tha Stokesburg M. E. church.
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