DAN BURY REPORfER
Volume LI.
VALUE OF AUTOMOBILES IN STOKES J
NEARLY 4 TIMES THAT OF SCHOOLS
Public School Property In North Carolina Is '
Worth Only About One-Fourth As Much As
the Automobiles In the State.
The following table, prepared by
Edgar F. Thompson of the State
University, showing investments in
public and high schools and in auto
mobiles in North Carolina, makes
interesting reading.
The average motor car is reckoned
as representing an investment of
SBOO.
On this basis, the total invested in
P public elementary and high-school
properties was $60,514,000; in auto
mobiles $240,71)7,000 or nearly four
times as much.
County Autos School Prop.
Alamance $3,740,800 $ 746.840
Alexander 920,800 182,850
Alleghany 302,000 110,500
Anson 2,135,200 370,260
Ashe 626,100 248,000
Avery 267,200 178,200
Beaufort 2,369,600 630,850
Bertie 2,202,000 340,500
Bladen ' 990,200 322.080
Brunswick 607,200 103,745
Buncombe 7,462,400 2,591,400
Burke 1,684,800 382,000
Cabarrus 3,388,800 986,215
Caldwell 1,567,200 527,650
Camden 431.200 81,000 j
Carteret . 568,000 4.>1,000
Caswell 1,332,000 119,330
Catawba 3,623,200 827,700
Chatham 2,096.000 330,000
( herokoe . . 490,400 209,750
Chowan 979,200 160,000
Clay 141,600 61,000
( leveland 3,936,800 640,000
Columbus 1,449,600 346,875
 raven 2,232,800 721,200
Cumberland r 3,740,800 931,000
Currituck 626,400 250,000
Dare 107,200 54,200
Davidson 4,759,200 940,560
Davie 1,195,200 282,010
Duplin 2.193,600 697,850
Durham 1,642,400 1,710,46.')
F.dge.ombe 1,250,400 581,000
4 Forsyth 9,989,600 2,330,870
Franklin 1,997,600 410,700
Gaston 6,228,800 2.663,700
Gates 812,400 129.650
(iraham 60,000 69,490
Granville 2.396,000 623,000
Greene 1,351,200 269,905
Guilford 1 1,220,000 3,960,200
Halifax 3,760,000 1,180,390
Harnett 2,703,200 600,000
Haywood 1,468,800 456,700
Henderson 1,762,400 404,175
Hertford 1,449,600 258,650
Hoke 1,077,600 143,875
Hyde 263,200 110,170
Iredell 4,230,400 1,253,800
Jackson 568,00 264,500
Johnston 5,190,400 1,242,440
Jones . 450,400 250,000
Lee 1,449,600 206,000
Lenoir 2,800,800 301,335
Lincoln . 2,193,600 125,800
McDowell 920,800 187,680
Macon 392,000 221,000
Madison . 783,200 311,965
Martin 1,429,600 744,305
Mecklenburg 11,772,000 2,167,840
Mitchell 282,400 82,000
Montgomery 1,528,000 591,900
Moore 2,742,400 560,195
| \ Nash 4,328,800 1,123,650
* New Hanover ....8,721,600 1,144,785
Northampton ... 1,900,000 367,450
Onslow 744,000 184,895
Grange 1,724,000 396,000
Pamlico 450,400 341,875
Pasquotank .... 1,704,000 583,000
Pender 763,200 82,000
Perquimans .... 881,600 105,000
Person 1,371,200 230,700
Pitt 4,524,800 900,305
Polk 626,400 196,400
Randolph 3,388,800 509,385
Richmond 2,840,000 787,500
Robeson 3,936,800 1,134,455
Rockingham .. 4,524,800 1,010,200
Rowan 6,091,200 1,091,175
Rutherford .... 2,742,400 464,900
Sampson 3,016,000 369,000
Scotland 1,508,000 490,625
Stanly 2,£«6,400 490,000
.Stokes 1,997,600 276,010
S UTT y 2,683.200 350,240
'swain 328,000 *98,000
Transylvania .. 588,000 247,435
Tyrell 277,600 85,600
Union 3,329,600 702,52 C
Vapce 1,724,000 435,900
•Wake 8,912,000 1,805,700
Warren 1,390,400 491,81,.
Washington .... 862,400 439,55 C
Watauga 549,600 200,70 C
Wayne 4,191,200 864,00 C
j > Wilkes 1,567,200 360,28 c
> Wilson 4,700,800 1.375,380
Yadkin 1,410,400 163,00 C
Yancey 208,800 131,00
NEAR 33 MILLION !
POUNDS THUS FAR
Tobacco Growers This Season
Paid Seven and One-Half
Million Dollars.
Winston-Salem, Jan. 31.—I.ast weak
on the local tobacco market, a total
of 4,918,754 pounds of tobacco were
sold, for $921,645.10, showing an
average sale of $18.73 p ,>r hundred.
This was considered a good price
considering the class of tobacco that
has been seen on the market. The
total sales have now reached 32,839,-
970 pounds*, for which has been paid
$7,434,408.72, or an averagi of $22.'!8
per hundred for the 1924 ivop. This |
!.-• considered a mighty good figure, j
ami while it is? evi c ted that this |
year the crop will f.-tW—f.»r short of |
that of l.if t year in the mutter of |
pot'tub. 'IK- amount of money pan!
fur it will IK* about the .-fame .is that ;
paid out last year.
Se\eral more good sales ar.* ex- !
peeted ami those wat-hing th" ; ivg- '
rcss of tin market are coiiiid- !'*.!/
expecting to sell I'rom three to i >nr
million mure pounds before tli • sea- i
son closes, bringing the total up to 1
j thirty-six or thirty-seven million
| pounds.
King" News Items
King, Feb. 2. The Parent-Teach
' crs' association will hold a social at
I the high school building at 7:30
I j o'clock. They will also have a speak-
I I er to address them on consolidation.
I 1 The school at this place is getting
' j along tine and the folks are begin-
I I niiijj to want consolidation.
' i Mr. Shackelford, one of the high
1 1 school teachers, is confined tu his
' | room with grippe. Roger Riser is
1 ! teaching until he is able to take •he
' i work.
' Rev. K. A. Molten tilled his regular
1 appointment on the tirst Sunday of
' February. The services are held in
' th.' Junior Hall and the people are
' greatly encouraged with the Mora
| vian work at King. The Union Sun
' day School organized the first Sun
' day in January is getting along nice
' ly and have 102 on roll. Everybody
' is cordially invited to attend.
> The Indies Aid of the Moravian
' circle is planning to have a miscell
' aneous sale on Saturday before
J Easter. Mrs. H. H. Leak will enter
' tain thi' society February sth at half
' past 2 o'clock.
)
» SPENCER YOUTH
S PREPARES BILL
\ Measure Would Abolish Capital
i Punishment in North Caro
' j Una.
! i
>|
) Raleigh, Jan. 28.—A 17-year-old
a boy of Spencer, named Ralph G.
} Sinrerson, was the author of the bill
> introduced in the house of represen
i) tatives today to abolish capital
J punishment and substitute life im-
J prisonment therefor.
1) Young Simerson is a page in the
5 lower body of the legislature and he
1) claims to be the youngest politician
5 in this state, if not the country. Al
-0 though the time when he can vote is
5 four years off, this youth has already
I) taken active part in political cam
-5 paigning. He made stump speeches
0 last fall for Robert M. LaFollette.
0 He recently was elected president of
5 the Employed Boys' association.
0 When Senator Wade, of New
0 Hanover, introduced the capital
0 .punishment bill he announced that
0, he did so "on request," which left
5 him the privilege of voting on it as
0 he pleased. However, he said later
0 he would not oppose it.
0 A statement shortly after intro
-0 duction of the bill that a page had
5 drafted it was discredited; but later
0 Senator Wade confirmed this, and
0 said that Simerson was that page.
0 Simerson is as proud of his bill a?
- any boy is of his best pet, and thost
who know hini agree that the prison
-0 ers in death row at state's prison
'0 haven't a better friend in North
•0 Carolina.
Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, Feb. 4, 1925
STOKES COURT 1
JURORS DRAWN
Spring Session Begins Monday, I
March 30 Judge McElroy
Will Preside.
The jurors for the coming spring
term of Stckes Superior court were i
drawn Monday by the Board of 11
County Commissioners. The crimin- ;
al term of court begins Monday, t
March 30th, the civil term starting 
the folbwing Monday. Judge Mc- i
Elroy will preside over the court. i
The names of the jurors follow:
, First Week. i
Danbury Township.
J. B. Priddy.
Meadows Township.
P. G. Hall.
Bud Heath.
T. S. Terry.
\V> C. Heath.
Yadkin Twnship.
J. I). Culler.
C. E. Newsum.
Fd. White,
Jasper A. Slate.
' C. E. Moore.
| C. A. White.
J. 11. Mauser.
Sauratown Township.
!
T. J. Greene.
■ (). F. Young.
J. L. Coleman.
Quaker (Jap Township,
i A. Jack Brown. _ I
; Harden Hall.
| W. W. George.
D. J. Mabe. f I
G. P. Durham.
J. W. Durham. j
R. E. Hunter.
I
Big Creek Township. I
Reid E. Smith. j
William F. Collins. v
Sam Lawson. *
1 J. Lee (Join. v
J. Shelton.
E. E. Shelton.
Snow Creek Township.
.1. \V. A. Dodson.
, J. V. Hill. i
11. T. Dodson. !
D. 11. Joyce.
Beaver Island Township,
j l. T. Eggleston.
R. ('. (Sunn.
Peter's Creek Township.
' | Gilmer Nelson.
Robert Flinchum.
Second Week.
Danbury Township.
F. E. Lankford.
f Meadows Township.
J. E. Mitchell.
1 W. M. Smith.
E. P. Fowler.
L * 1). Alex White.
' O. M. Flynt.
Yadkin Township.
R. W. Barr.
R. S. Redding.
Charlie Cole.
T. F. Calloway.
J J. B. Eaton.
E. W. Boles.
Sauratown Township.
Zaek Isom.
Roy L. Vaughn.
O. J. Stone,
j Quaker (Jap Township.
I J. L. Thore.
j J. T. George.
Sandy Forrest.
I J. A. Nunn.
Big Creek Township.
J. R. Holt.
e Snow Creek Township.
e H. L Dillon.
II Coy Mabe.
Beaver Island Township.
y J. M. Fagg.
Jesse F. Joyce.
I Gas Tank Explodes In
f Martinsville; 2 Dead
" Martinsville, Va., Jan. 2$. —Wil-
'l liam R. Stultz, colored, proprietor of
t a city pressing club and Daniel
t Hairston, an employee, were instant
-8 ly killed at 10 o'clock this morning
r when a gas tank exploded. They
were in the act of removing the
'• tank to a new location when the ex
d plosion occurred. Both of the vic
•r tims leave families. ,
d
Don't let the chicks have the
is handicap of hot weather, parasites
ie and other troubles. Hatch them
»- early so that they can grow when
n conditions are most favorable, sug
h gest poultry extension workers of
State College.
iOME BURNED
NEAR KING
)eath of John Kreeger Boy
Breaks Collar Bone News
and Personals.
Kirg, Feb. 2.—Mr. John Kreeger,
aged eighty-one years, died at his
home three miles south of here early
Saturday morning from a complica
tion of diseases. The interment was
conducted from Antioch church, of
which he had long been a faithful
member, Sunday at 2:00 o'clock P.
IM. Mr. Kreeger was one of our old
est and best citizens. He was a brick
mason by trade and had a wide ac
quaintenancO.
"Thunderbolt Tom," the evangelist!
of this place, has rented out his nice'
home on South Depot Street and will
move his family to Winston-Salem
where he expects to make his future
home.
Mr. Dan Stewart, who resides 3
miles north ot town, had th • misi'or- ,
tune to lose his home by lire the past (
week. The origin of the lire is uu- .
known.
Little Johnny, the eleven year old '
son of Mrs. Anne Grubs, who resides)
on Pulliam Street, got his collar bone •
i broken by falling on the ice here
! last week. He is getting on nicely
at this writing.
Mr. C. (). Boyles, Manager of The
] Boyles Co., whose piv-inwntory sale
I closed Saturday night. Mates that
'it was decidedly the best sale the
company has ever had.
Messrs. E. I'. Newsum and S. \\*.
, Pulliam are attending federal court
| again this week, being witnesses in
j the Bailey Bros. suit.
Work on the new addition to Mr.
I Wyatt Southern's home on Pulliam
j Street is being pushed along at a
rapid rate.
Captain C. J. Kir by, who holds a
portion with The Southern Railway
■ Co., spent Sunday with his family
iin Walnut Hills.
j Little Thelmu Newsum spent the
wee' end with her grand parents,
Mr. and Mrs. T. F. N'ewsum, in Wal
| nut Hills.
I Mr. A. X. Jones and family, of
| Winston-Salem, spent Sunday with
1 relatives here.
| Confederate Pension
Bill With Committee
A bill to increase the pensions of
Confederate veterans and widows of
| veterans has been introduced int.i
the upper house of the state legisla
ture by Senator Burleson, and it has
been referred to the committee on
pensions.
The bill provides "That from and
after the ratification of this act all
Confederate soldiers and sailors and
and sailors who were married prior
to January 1, 1884, shall receive
from the public treasury of North
Carolina the sum of sllOs a year,
payable quarterly on the lirst day
of January, April June and October
of each year.
Charlie M. Brown, division com
mander of the North Carolina Sons
of Confederate Veterans, is active in
the support of this proposed meas
ure. He urges those interested to
write to the members of the stato
legislature asking them to support
the bill.
Stokes Registrars Of
Vital Statistics
The Stokes Board of" County
Commissioners have appointed thi
following registrars of vitsl statistics
for the county:
Beaver Island Township—L. A
Duncan, Madison R. '3.
Big Creek—Joe Francis, Francisco
Danbury—H. M. Joyce, Danbury.
Meadows—J. Walter Fowler, Wal-
J nut Cove R. 1.
Peters Creek—Roy M. Nelson, Dan
- bury R. 1.
f Quaker Gap—Mrs. Ri!U Marsh
>l all, Westfield It. 1.
Sauratown—R. W. Sands, Walnul
j Cove.
y Snow Creek—A. B. Carter, Sandy
e Ridge.
Yadkin—E. C. Barr, King.
Representative Gann
e Introduces Bill
8
n A bill has been introduced in tht
n Legislature by Representative E. C
[- Gann, of Stokes, to amend the Stoke;
f county road law. The contents o
the bill have not been learned here
EVERETT SAYS STATE CAN
TAKE CARE OF $35,000,000
Will Take $10,000,000 Annually to Finance the $100,000,000
Total, Provide Sinking Fund and Retire $1,000,000 a Year,
But He Believes That With the 4c Rate On Gas This Can
Be Handled: Letter Created Quite a Sensation In Capital.
Raleigh, Jan. 30.—Representative \
r.am Bowie, who leads the $35,000.- s
)00 road tight, deferred to Governor
McLean yesterday in the executive's r
request that no committee action on t
his bond issue precede his message 1
0 the joint session, but the Ashe \
nurgent released for publication a t
etter from Secretary W. N. Everett
the state department showing 1
low North Carolina can handle her.,
road bonds In the sum of SIOO,OOO,- |
too. j
Mr. Everett's Charlotte speech,:
taking Governor Morrison's side of j
the deficit squabble, and his evident |
sympathy with the $35,000,000 roau .
bond bill moved many a tongue to
administration gossip today; but the
secretary could hardly have withheld i
the information. It i- an impressive
j-orspect which the secretary hwlds
up for North (arolir.a. The total
revenue which Mr. Everett's depart
ment gathered from al! .-our >•- >.f
automobile collect!' v. for 1924 wa>
$7.0»!2.»27.Ki).
It will take slo.oor, uno to tinan
the $100,000,000, provide sinking
fun-i arid re tiro annually sl,uoo.imm
in the series. Mr. Everett dues n>•
doubt that the Bowie amendment
now before the general assembly wil;
do that work. Mr. Bowie believes a
4-cent gasoline tax will do the whole i
job. This would leave $2,500,000 fori
maintenance. The Everett letter ir- j
an illuminating state paper:
.Mr. Everett's Letter
"Raleigh, \\ \. '
"Jan. 29, 1925.1
"Hon. T. ('. Bowie,
"House of Representatives,
"Raleigh, N.
"My dear Tain:
"Replying to your inquiry of .his I
morning, 1 wish to say that the indi-!
cated collections from automobile j
license and gasoline tax for the fiscal j
year ending June 3oth will approxi- i
mate ten million dollars. We have j
already received and turned over to
the state treasurer $7,002,837.81!
which is made up as follows:
Auto license §4,407,0, I
Title certificates . 85,473.38
Gasoline tax 2,504,626.39
Interest 5,662.25
Total $7,062,837.86
"I have been estimating for the
last three or four months that we
would have an average collection of
$500,000 per month for the balance ;
of the fiscal year. The collections'
this month, representing the sale of
1 gasoline and license tags for Noveni
; her, usually considered a bad month,
'is $505,000, which is to say thai we
are running ahead of our estimate.
"To float $100,000,000 uf highway
bonds will be somewhat as follows:
I Interest charges at 4 1-2
per cent $4,500,000
Sinking fund 3,000,000
For the retirement of
bonds already issued and
$1,000,000 per year for
retiring serial bonds,
leaving for maintenance 2,500,000
"This does not take into consider
ation the normal expected growth of
income from this deprtment. In
1923, for instance, the total collec
tions were four and one-half mil
lions; in 1924, eight millions; in 1925,
approximately ten millions. If we
can assume that we shall have a re
turn of normal times, we have not,
in my judgment, yet near reached
the saturation point. When we con
sider that we have in North Carolina
only one automobile for every eight
or nine persons while the proportion
in the whole country is one automo
bile to six persons, and when we
consider further that while the peo
ple in the United States are spending
three billion dollars per year for au
tomobiles they are alsq spending one
and one-half billions for candy. I
look forward with confidence to a
steadily increasing income from the
sale of automobile license tags and
the gasoline tax.
"One cent added to the price of
gai«oline will produce one-third of
about five million dollars, or in
round numbers, about one and one
half millions per year. If you add
to this the income expected to be
produced from the regulation of mo
tor busses, you may safely add, I
think, three-fourths of a million per
year for the first two years, after
No. 2,755
which it will rapidly grow to pos
sibly a million and oni'-half per year.
"It seems to me that whatever we
need above the two and one-half
millions for maintenance '-an easily
be made up from these two sources
without taking into consideration
the normal growth of the business.
"I have a distinct feeling that so
far as our ability to financially
our bonds i concerned, that we are
playing a safe game.
Very truly yours,
WXE-d. i.Signed) "\V. N'. Everett."
J "P. S.— Here is some information
j which is not only interesting but
i very valuable, in support of the con
i tention expressed in the foregoing
, J-tt-r.
1 '".'i 1,7*1" i'"W ears sold in North
O.rolina lasr six months 1921. Total
value ,v 1,2*2.200; monthly sales
value 213.71i0; daily sales value
].v Approximately 21.000 used
lis sold in North Carolina last six
months 1024.
"Very truly y> .rs,
WXK-d. (SignedI "W. X. Kverett."
Ixft for
Mninter'ir..-e $2.">00,000
! cent gas tax I.'tHI.OOO
M itor busses oi'O.OOO
Natural expected increase
in volume of business 1,000,000
$5,500,000
CO-OP GROWERS
I TO GET BACK PAY
I
• Settlements On 15)22 and 1923
Crops Will Be Made This
Spring; Close February 7th.
J Raleigh, Jan. 20.—Tobacco farm
ers in three states who have organ
j ized for the co-operative market
i ing of their crops, will benefit from
i the final settlements to be complet
ied within the next sixty days, ac
cording to an announcement made
to tile meeting of the Tobacco Grow
ers' ( o-operative association, held
in Raleigh today.
Eastern Carolina farmers who
are members of the marketing as
sociation will receive settlements on
the crops of 1922 and 15)23 on Feb
; ruary 7, when the big co-operative
| closes out its eastern belt pools for
deliveries of the past two seasons,
j Members of the old bright l>elt of
; Virginia and Xorth Carolina who
delivered tobacco during the asso
ciation's first season will receive
final settlement not later than
March 111, according to today's an
nouncement, while the South Caro
linians who have already received
complete payment on their 1922 de
liveries, will obtain complete set
tlement for the crop of 1923 not
' later than March lt'>, according to
I thi' statements of their directors
today.
It was stated at Raleigh head
| .|uarlers of the tobacco CO-opera
| tivc today, that members in the old
I I bright belt of Virginia and Xorth
• 1 Carolina have already received
r 100 per cent of the bankers valua
-1 tion on their deliveries of the 1923
■ crop and that following the complete
• settlement by the association with its
• members on their first year's deliv
' eries, they will be paid on all grades
■ of 1923 tobacco which has been sold
• and settled for by the purchaser,
' not later than forty days after the
■ final settlement on the 1922 pool,
1 I The associated tobacco farmers
t, of South Carolina and in eastern
1 North Carolina have already n -
■ I ceived 87 1-2 per cent of the bank
? ers valuation on their 1 923 crop of
■ | tobacco and tnose who are mem
' bers of the marketing association
" in the old bright belt of Virginia
- are credited with receiving 75 per
• cent of the banker's valuation on
1 their last season's deliveries to the
L> co-operative warehouses. Out of
I 3-13 million pounds delivered to
their association by the Carolina
f Virginia co-ops during the past two
f seasons, only a little less than 15
II million now remain unsold, according
" to the directors.
A
e It's a remarkable commentary on
i- civilization when we point with pride
I to the fact that "only" sixteen per
r sons were lynched in the United
r j States last year.—Boston Transcript,