DANBURY ual'MK
Volume LI.
STOKES HAS
2497 AUTOMOBILES
License Bureau Report Shows
MO;',.'{B2 Autos in State;
Graham Trails Guilford
v County Has 17,775.
Approximate figures mailt l public \
yesterday l>y the automobile license i
bureau «>f the department of State
(five a tual of 1)0",.'!52 ears licensed
in the State of North Carolina, litiil
ford, with 17,77~> automobiles, leads
I a'l other counties while Graham i
vvith only 7"», trails the list. The |
ligurcs are to December 1, l!>2l s
Other counUes showing a large
number of cars are; Mecklenburg,
1 1,71 Forsyth, 12.157; Wake 11,-1
1 I", and Buncombe, 0,1128.
Number
l.'jnniuncc 4is7'
I Alexander 1 I
' Alleghany 11 Ml
| Anson >
Ashe 7s:t
Avery I
Keaufi.rt 2H02
Untie 2515.V
, lilad.'ii y 12U' i
Brunswick 75H
Buncombe 9328 |
Burke 21011
Carbarrus 12.H 1 -
Caldwell H'j'J
Camden Kill
Carteret 710
( aswcll 1»65
Catawba li r >2o
Chatham 2020
Cherokee C. j
Chowan 1884
Clay 1771
Cleveland 1021 '
Columbus IKI2
Craven 2701
Cumberland 407(5
Currituck 782
Hare 134
Davidson 51M0
Davie 2712
Duplin 2712
Durham
Kdgceom'u • .>3l'!
Forsyth 121*7
Franklin 2IOi
tiis-ton 77sc»
aV - lo.w
:i.. till > •'
liranvi'le 200.)
llr.cne I ,;v -'
liuilford ' • 7.7
lllifax 1700
il.irilett OUT!'
llaywood
lit talcrsen 220: i
Hertford Is 12
11t.1.e 1»> «7
Hule :521»
liedtll
Jackson ' 1"
Johnston tils.s
Jones
Lee is 12
l.enoir .'s.">ol
Lincoln 2742
McDowell 1151
Macon 400
Martin .... 1787
Mitchell 253
Montgomery 11*10
Moore 3428
Nash 6411
!New Hanover 4652
Northampton 2255
Orange 2155
Pamlico 563
Pasquotank 2130
I'ender 1>54
, Perquimans 1102
• Person 1714
I'itt 5856
l'olk 783
Randolph 4236
Richmond 3550
Kobeson 4021
.Rockingham 5656
Kowan 7614
Rutherford 3425
Sampson 3770
Scotland 1885
Stanley 3158
Stokes 2497
Surry 3354
Swain 410
Transylvania 785
Tyrell 347
Yan.c 2L>5
Vance 215.)
Wake 11 1 10
Warren ' l 3B
Washington 1 (, 78
Watauga 687
Wayne 5230
Wilkes 1050
Wilson 5870
Yadkin 1763
Yancey 261
Resident 131>6
STATE WILL ISSUE
HIGHWAY BONDS
If It Hurts, Then Short-Term
Notes Will Be Used Miss
Harriot Berry Finds Major
ity Fur Bonds.
! Rnleigh, Dec. 17.- Rend sellers
land bond buyers who had tried to
j keep North Carolina still for a few
; weeks so that there will be no un
due agitation admit that the plan of
silence has failed and it might as
I well lie said now as any time that
| !h" next general assembly will issue
I the necessary road bonds and if the
i thing hurts the short term notes will
; lie used.
11l deference to tile wishes of the
New Vorkers th" state higbwiy
coinnt'ssion, which favors continua
tion of the constru'.'tiun work, had
taken no a Lion as to issuing more
J serial bonds. When the commission
i adjourned last week it decided not
10 ask for 1 h«' $35,000,000 now. This
was purely a concession In the New
Yorkers who have been buying the
state's bonds and paying good prices
for them. However, the commission
)is aid • to show that the state can
j finance more bonds by a small in
| crease in the tax on gasoline and it
is regarded a virtual certainty that
j the (iotham financiers will not dis
courage the selling of more bonds if
the financing appears to he simple.
Hut at that, the state otlicials de
sired a minimum of They
thought that under any condition it
would be better not to discuss big
finance so long as the buyers of
state paper felt it wise not to agi
tate. Hut the failure of the commis
sion to pass any resolution regarding
furthi r road construction frighten
ed lot? of fellows and they have done
:i great deal of talking. Statesmen
abon: Raleigh just assume that the
legislature will go ahead and author
ize the bonds, leaving to the ..•oun
cil of slate the discretion that it al
ways has had. If it is foolish to
throw bonds on a glutted market
.here v.ill br no effort to do ?n and
short term notes wdl be used.
Pciiiil;' Favor The Bonds
"I hi\e l-een e.oi.i;' all over North
' i>..|in:i." Mi s Harriet Kerry si..l
"ley. "and the foil-:- are for lb
'> .ti.Js f r road Tlr \ ju.-t wished
11 ith nr -aid about it. *i "ii can .-ay
i'ml tii" general ,i -i oibly v.di pas
>l;. iv-a and that it ii'ver though!
doing JUiythiii;r els.'." Miss iJerry
pr' l aldj rank- all road booster: and
.ireliminary builders, manufacturers
>f sentiment. She was for the lifty
I iiiilli issue of originial bonds and
was a member of the commission
w'aich studied the details of such all
issue. There was not the shadow of
a possibility for the big issue with
the intelligent details furnished by
the good roads organization. It set
itself against the governor's county
maintenance plans and sent his
scheme to the scrap heap. It set the
champions by the ears, but county
maintenance forever went out of
slate mind. Likewise the revenue
raisers defeated the flat income tax
scheme of the governor, thereby giv
ing to the revenue department anoth
er annual million which hail been
lost. Put the governor led finely for
all that. To make the state mach
inery go it required jazz and juice.
His excellency supplying the jazz did
an everlastingly fine job for the
state. There is now a conflict of
jazz and juice. The state is having
difficulty propelling itself on its
i present power and that is the
trouble.
! Isut Miss Berry does not think
of moving on the roads. She goes
about quite a good deal and when
(she leaves North Carolina and its 17
cent gas and hard roads l'or \ ir
g.nia's 20-eent stuff and the mud,
1 she sees that North Carolina van
easily stand another issue. Sh • has
i hid a deal to do w in inflatory
legislators but she hn; n>> I'celi.g
that there is tit ugh sent it ic'il m
the assembly to bloc; :iy road ; »"■•-
1 gram. The whole purio.- •. f iccei.t
I inaction has been '. • kivi dc.vii pub
lic clamor that there will b - n i jam
on th • bond market. An I as that
his caused mor» i M'citv than t ny
other course T il.'.'l h'l'c I.ITV, 'HE
I I just ups and snys ss she, tU.i'
i I North Carolina is going to issue
I those IHJIHIS and there will lie no em
i barrassment about selljng them. The
state knows how to handle its road
I finances.
Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, Dec. 21, 1921
TOBACCO GROWERS
PLAN 4 PAY DAYS
Settlements On Old Stocks of
Tobacco To Be Followed By
Payments On Grades
Quarterly Statements To Be
Made.
Pay day fir lobar:o coops in the
Carolina* and Virginia v.ill tome
four times a year in addition to the
substantial cash advances which
members of the' marketing associa
tion for tobacco are now receiving
for their deliveries. This announce
ment was made at the monthly nieet
■ng of the directors of the Tohacm
; rowers Co-operative Association
it Raleigh on December 1 •«.
Quarterly statements will be made
'.•j the associated tobacco farmers
showing ihe stocks of th dr tobacco
in hand. Instead of waiting for the
sale of a large proportion of the
•ntiro pool, the members of the big
•i-operative will receive full pay
ment first for thos • delivi ries to
heir association which have sold
uost readily, according to the .state
ment of their directors, whose an
'louncement to the membership of
•6,000 tobacco farmers in the asso
ciation, follows:
"At the regular December meet
ing of hoard of directors of Tohao
■o (irowcrs Co-operative Association
held at Raleigh on December 16,
1021, the board directed
1. That settlement for the 11122
mil 1023 Kastern North Carolina
•rops be made as early as the cal il
lations now in progress can be com
pleted;
2. That final settlement for the
old belt North Carolina and Vir
ginia 1022 crops, except for the four
grades unsold, be made as early as
-alculations can be completed;
3. That after these settlements
have been made, tlv association
make quarterly settlements to its
a.'tubers showing stocks of tobacco
>ii hand and that it make quarterly
payments, which payments shall be
trictly by grade and shull be in ac
ordan.'c with the condition of each
nude peol oil the regular ijuaiteil.s
lay. This ad ion by the board m.aii
'lei in i:n alices where particular
•■•a It—-. .1 disposed i the member.-
id \cr llio.-e grade wII r ci ivi
i n - on tll->lli witlo'.it wai:.llg
.', i- :ii . ..Ii of tie i ;ii if" ir >p with n
il.nt I. ' I ool."
An i '.lra foice i' l ' v,i'-.ktr> will h •
mployiii at tie ol.i cs of the tobne
o association in Riihmond in order
:hiit pa>.aeiits to the member- may
'ie made at the earliest pos able date.
More than live million pounds of
loba-.vo reticheM the association
warehouses in North Carolina and
Virginia during the week , ending
December 13 and increasing receipts
are looked for this week by associa
tion otlicials.
Musical Comedy At
Walnut Cove
Walnut Cove, Dec. 2.l.—At Walnut
' Cove school auditorium on Wednes
day night, December HI, at 7:30,
I Pilot Mountain high school will
; render an operatic musical comedy
j in three acts, entitled, "Miss Cherry
| Blossom." This splendid programme
has recently been staged in Pilot
I Mountain with great success and
those who attended the play were
delighted and highly pleased with
the entertainment. The proceeds
will be divided between the Pilot
Teachers Association of the Pilot
Mountain and Walnut high schools
anil the publi:' is most cordially in
vited to attend and enjoy a pleasant
! evening ml to aid these worthy and
benefit ial organiztions.
Cost Something"
To Keep Dry
• western paper is predici
;e. ;• thai i! will cost .>20.000.000 to
r, tn t oiled Stales «11v in V.'2'i.'
•, i'i! -"i a''.eit th: city hall yes
t, i-.iay. "it i t the cost that both
, i-> I ii. I Sam, but th • jue-tion thai
j won't I'.o'.vn at his bidd ag, and that
(is, !i .a with that am umt can it
i ! tlo'le." K\
There i.- no ex u.-e for the poultry
|: ot hav ng green food during win
j ter in this climate, say poultry
specialists of State College. Sprout
ed oats will help if no green feed is
' growing on the farm.
McGIRT.THINKS
PROGRAM IS SAFE
' Wilmington Man Satisfied That j
Legislature Will Act Favor
ably On Appropriation.
Wilmington, Dec. 17. When ask"d j
for his opinion regarding the proh- !
ability of an additional bond issue
' by the state of North t'urolina in
• th" sum of 53.•»,000,in it i for continu ;
• | ing th" state highway program, W. I
i A. Metiirt, commissioner, of the
• third district, stated "that he could j
r not say what the next gem nil as- j
■. > mbly would do, but was i f the |
- opinion that there would le further)
1 I applopriatiolis for roads. The en-j
i I tire matter rests with the pr.vrni.r
--i l 'et and the 102"i general asseinblj
'I and I b lieve they will be favorably
! | in.'lined towards a coiitinualion of
| | the good I'oadH program, provided
lit can he financed," said the district
• j commissioner. "I have no idea how
(I much additional l oads will be author
' ized, if any, but 1 can see no possible
> j objection to the authorization of
I ! additional bonds as loiitt as gasoline
-1 and automobile tax are ndei|uaete to
I pay interests, provide a sinking fund,
r and fund sufficient to maintain the
■ state system.
LEOPARD STONE
i FOUND IN DAVIE CO.
One of Geological Wonders of
World Discovered Near Fork
i
Church.
Thoninsville, Dec. 20. Hearing of
, a thing or place is ipiit" different |
. from seeing that thing or place with;
r one's own seeing appliances, whether)
 it be by one's own natural vision or i
by microscopic, or even telecopic
s view, as was clearly demonstrated i
jjnn evening recently in the experi-j
s I ien.*e of a number of Thomasville
,jcitizens, when a motor trip was made i
,i to Fork church and out about a!
. mile to the Peter llairston farm, i
. 'wh i ■ i- located what might be term
, d ■ i" of lite ideological w iii.i 'i's of |
. fid ' all' I ill geel'igieal terms. |
. ''orbicular gabhrodiorite." the only 1
~'known t'eposil if th" k ! nd in tin]
. I. Tin >e t. mi s arc .-.-'id to in an j
•. com'lei 1 "round, L.'l'ecn '
, ..niiii really there tire in order-:
i !\ (■ liii n roitn i. gr eu spots thru
iii • imb !de:l stone, as well as in ti'
. out stand in-: boulders lying I ik slee,i-j
. leotards over the hi! . The i.'.one ;
t ha? bun tiler,fori named the loop-,
L- aid stone.
i. A .-irong compar.y has been ,
f form'."! with headnuarters at Salis- ;
I ury to operate the quarry under
,1 th - name of the American Leopard
r Stoii" Corporation and it is said that
s the supply is sufficient to keep an
. army of hands employed for fifty
years and possibly for five times
that length of time, as the survey
of the grounds covers from 15 to 2f>
acres.
Killed Wife For
I Destroingr His Liquor
'• Ashcville, Dec. 21. K/.ar l.edford
' shot and killed his wife tin Shooting
y creek, in Clay county, Saturday af
y ternoon.
l " Saying that he believed he would
'- take his shotgun to work with him,
' i l.edford took it off the wall, it is said,
l ' i and took aim and shot his wife in the
II j back of the neck, breaking her neck.
s i She died almost instantly.
1 I The immediate cause of the
H trouble, it is understood, was Mrs.
s j Ledford's having destroyed some i
" I whiskey brought home by Ix-dford. I
1 They had formerly had difficulty, it
' is stated. Mrs. Lcdford is under
] stood to have been in a delicate state
I of health.
l.edford rushed out of the house
j after shooting his wife, pursued
..with the gun by his wife's brother,
| who was piesenl. Leiifon! got away,
j however, and was caught by Joiin
a ! Tiger about a mile front tlv- s "lie of
| the shoot it: Hi w.w turned over
- to tin sh r.sl' and taken to Hayes
• . lie. wh> n it" i: now iii jail.
t
' iiufus 1 hvens Tried
Here This \Ve;-k
liufus Ow, .is was gi\iii a hearing
: here this V.I .K before Justice N. A.
y i Martin oil the charge of i>saaltitlg
i- i Unfits Collins. Owens wtis lined .'Jltt
y and the co.-i in this case, and was
- | bund over to Superior Court in a
s i bond of S2OO oil the charge of assault
|mi Moses t'ldlcn.
F. L. FOWLER
PASSES AWAY
! Prominent Citizen Of Kinjjf
Community Dies After 111-
I ness Of One Day.
King, N. C„ December 22.
) Mr. I'. 1,. I'owler, a farmer of
King Untile 2. was taki n sick Satur- j
• lay miirniie; and died Sunday morn
• ng at i Io i,. 1' iiiieral M-rvie s i
| ondui tnl .M,niiilay :.i 2 o'clo-k at
lit. olive church by l„ W. Hurros.
lb leave- a W.f", •*) chiblreil, several;
brothers ai' I - i : r and a host "f
i' laiives and frieii l- i i mourn their
) I'---. Mr. l'*owl"r wis ..'! years of
|I G ■. Mr. I owl r v.. 1- A MI c. >.-fu|
I f-il ill •!• by which h ■ :.i • ■.ii.i'ated !i
lot of property. II • h i a!- ■ been
i vreai heiji t the wants of his
oli 111 ry.
Tile people of this section enjoyed
tin nice entertainment given l j the i
King high school at King Ii. 1 Friday)
Mr. •il. Iloyle.-, a merchant of
i'inuacle Uollte is ill fu el health ill j
this writing.
U. K. and his force are greasing I
iin :r guns for the rabbit raid which
A if! take place In At Week.
S( UlllliLKU.
IS PAID
TOBACCO GROWERS
I
Local Auction Market Has Soldi
20,81(5,502 Pounds So Far
This Season Season Aver-'
age 52:1.10.
Winston-Salem, Dec. 22. A total
jof 2li,K-1i;..-,i'2 pounds of tobacco has I
i been sold on the local market during!
j t lie present season, ae. ording lo a!
! report compiled this morning by
I Major T. Ilynuni, supervisor of
' sales. This iimoiini brought the i
jown-er- the >:11n of sil."uii,.si>2.."i 1, or
li'ii average ..f a linle more than
; ?'2H. I'i per hundred potiu 1.-.
i The ;;ii. ton hoiisi v eh - d Friday
I for the Christmas holiday . and
j Major !!ynuiii'> ri 0t.!,. -iiev. that
• ailing the r,n.nth of De ember the
j sal s a;a um I to il..'ls.s.a; pounds
, .vili. I. I rouei.' a I '.al of .l.l'M.-
1 L'. |S II Th N irl.T will I" I II I.n
j.lami.iiy ii.
Stoices Of
Its Sj>iriis i'ermenti
1 "Th ■ 1. :■ 11y i.nd other ■ 1 -It-ii 1
) ofibers ac" de.-troying all of the
good anil u ::;i lii|Uor in St s
• county and it now seems pietty
ii liaia I hiit those who wish to pro
vide tlielliseho « til it little for |
Christmas will have to seek other
sources of supply." So declared one j
of Danbury'.- leading citizens, who ;
was here today making some pur
chases for his tots for Santa Claus. :
: Marriage Licenses
Recently Issued j
Register of Deeds J. John Taylor I
has issued marriage license during j
the past few days to the following
named couples:
Artha 1). Shore to Minnie Ann
Payne.
Hasscl Hawkins to Ruth Priddy.
Peter Hillard to Sadie Marie;
Lawson.
Odcll Ferguson to Ruth Bowles. |
Verona (i. Tuttle to Nonnie Tuttlc.
Clarence (Jray to Sallie llairston,
(col.)
Win. Jones Carter to Vera Lou'
i Berry.
Royal J. Spainhower to Grace
! Voss.
| Robert Harris to Frank Fulk.
: (col. I
j Welch to Ollie May Cole.
) Claud C. Cox to Vcrda Fulk.
j John M. Holes to llallic Darnell.
Placed Under Bonds
For Hearing Jan.
I i hi'ilic \\ .".'.'oner ami I'lifus .an-!
jCrai.s Sheppard were pland under
: to oi'itry bund- of s' .lli ea-. ii b\
■1 \. A. Mi. ft iii th l .- w.-.-k ; . lid -
. . a lu a tig on January :»»! on the
ilc.rge of viidating the ,'rol.ib ia n
law -. They w i'iv art i * d bj
j i. i . ml edict r> iu IV'ter.- Creek
to\v llslliji.
• i It's time to prune and spray now.
i Prune the trees lightly with a view
i to thinning properly instead of eut
: ting back heavily, is the proper way
! to- handle the up; le trees.
No. 2,750
GALLOWAY FARMS
SOLD ON MONDAY
One In Rockingham County
Broujrht $58,000: Stokes
Lands Also Sold.
Madison. Doe. ix. Kagle Falls
farm, one of the largest and most
j historic homesteads in the county,
was Mil 1 at miction .Monday for the
i purpose nf winding up the J. M..Gal
loway estate, of whi-h il was a part.
Th total sale price was approxi
: mutely s">s"on, th" farm having
l> • n nit up into small tra.'ts. It
' oiitaitied alit i! 1 nit a r s. much of
j it lieinst vet > f« rtik',
,S mi ■ of the prin. ip'il layers were
I nil; a! .. Jo.'  artor, John Moore
: nd liurl I'araks, all nf near Went
>vorlli: W. A. M I'olluin, ,1. 1„ IK
ji'oiluni, 11. \. Minford, i'. I*', ilnynes,
I. ii. Wilson. II I). 1 lye, .Ji hn A.
i' 'r ■ i h, of thi.- county.
"I'll" lloway pi.ip, rtv in Madi
| sua wa sold Tuesday and brought
j approximat I; .-17.0011. This con
sisted if th Galloway hoim- place
lan l numerous lots and small houses.
'On Wtdii - lay about 2.000 acres of
! irood farm land belonging to the
; iimi" estate, in Stoic s county, was
1 sold leit the pri e was not ascer
|tauvd. All this property belonged
|to the late J. M. Galloway, of
I Greensboro, who was the biggest
land owner in ;his section of the
j state. All sales are subject to court
1 confirmation.
I
RAILKY BROS. TRIAL
! SET FOR JANUARY
j
i Forty-Four Defendants Are In
vnlved and Trial Will Probab
ly Take Several Weeks.
Greensboro, 1 > -c. IS.—After three
jioiitimiDU* v.i i k.- of federal court,
during whit h n ortls win- set for the
.trial "f both criminal and civil ac
tion-. .Indue 11. Yates Webb adjourn
ed the lUited States court for the
w st-rn district of North Carolina
hct" this morning.
Juror- won notified to return for
' -cl" .ii i at the .u i lal term begin
ni'i.- J irr.l,.l} _'il. v. hen [he Ha ley
lirethers .!-• , i'i whi ii th r.e arc
; 1 lefi "dan; , will n ted. Judjre
Wi bil Stat ! that .live v pi. b
-1 ably •\. 11 i i i' i| i'r> I to '.pleu
th tl'!M~.
t'fti ;a' atil slock .-ale.-'i r. of
l!a ! \ llioue i 1n... Ww.-ton-
Sai m to!i„i n niatiufa •;ur:i>:r >n
cern are under indictment charging
wrongful u.-e of til • muds. An at
tempt to delay trial made three
w ks ago was frustrated when a
■aw indictment was secured by Dis
trict Attorney Frank A. Linney.
LARGER ACREAGE
j IN WINTER WHEAT
42,317,000 Acres Sown, Which
; Is 6.5 Per Cent More Than
j In Fall of 1923.
Washington, Dec. 18 Winter
wheat was sown this fall on 42,317,-
000 acres, which is 6.5 per cent more
than the revised estimate of 39,749,-
000 acres sown in the fall of 1923
• the Department of Agriculture an-
I nounced today.
i The condition of winter wheat on
December 1 was 81.0 per cent of a
normal compared with 88.0 on De
cember 1 last year, 79.."> in 1922, and
I 85.6, the year averape on December
1. Winter damage during the last
ten years has caused an average
abandonment of 10.ii per cent of the
j acreage sown. the abandonment
j ranging from 1.1 to 28.9 per cent
| in the different years.
The area sown to rye this fall is
! 1.206,0ii0 acres, which at .s per cent
| more than the revised estimate of
I.l7'i.iMiu a. ves sown in the fall of
* 1:i23.* The condition of rye en D
comber ! v. as ST.'! per i "it of a
norma!, compared with 89.0n Di -
' ceiiib.r it' la.-t year, 8 1.3 n 12'..'.
and ! i'i ■ t. n ye irs a,, rag .
'I he a rave of w>u r w' at and
' the 'i n sit on o tb cm; on Decern
1 I"-:' I ill t!ie pf'JK ipi 1 n.thorn pro
ducing st.r were: Maryland
■ .-.73.000 a.'l'es all ' 83 per cent of
a normal: Virginia si 1,000 and ■>!>:
North Carolina 467,0(10 and
. South Carolina 123.000 and 81;
Georgia 129,0(10 and S5; Tennes
- see 131,000 and 79; Alabama 11,000
; and 70; Mississippi 4,000 and 70;
| Arkansas 63,000 and 81.