Volume LI.
BILL TO REDUCE
SHERIFF'S SALARY
Would Shave $500.00 From
Present Compensation Of
Office—Other Bills Of Inter
est To Stokes.
Representative E. Gann has in
troduced a bill in the House to re
duce the salary of the Sheriff of
Stokes county from $3,50(1 per year
to $3,000. The status of the bill at
present is not known.
Other bills pertaining to Stokes
county have been introduced as fol
lows :
A bill to he entitled an act to
amend Section 1 ISO, Article 42 of the
Consolidated Statutes, relating to
landlord and tenant to make it ap
ply to Stokes county.
A bill to be entitled an act to re
peal Chapter 157 Public l.aws of
1J123, relating to auditing the books
of the officials of Stokes county.
A bill to be entitled an act to pro
vide for the auditing of the hooks of
the various county officers anil boards
of Stokes county.
CHANGES IN
HIGHWAY BOARD
Dr. 11. M. Morelield Qualities As
Member of the Commission—
C. K. Davis Will Tender
Resignation Soon.
l>r. R. 11. Moret'ield has been ap
pointed a member of the Stoki s
County Highway Commission to suc
ceed R. W. Rarr, who recently re
signed. Dr. Moretield was sworn in
at the recent meeting of the board.
It is learned that C. K. Davis will
tender his resignation as member of
the highway commission at the next
meeting of the board.
M. I>. I.inville has resigned as
county supervisor of roads and K. R.
Nelson is lilling the position tempor
arily.
BUREAU WILL
DROP 15 CLERKS
This Ileing Light Season of
The Your The Girls Are No
Longer Needed.
Raleigh, Feb. 7.~ Another cut in
the overhead of the lieense bureau
of the state department will take
place within a few days, according
to information obtained here today.
Another 1"> girls will lose their jobs
and added to the 13 who were drop
ped recently will make a total of 28
jobs vacated during a short period.
An investigation into the whys and
wherefores of the cut in the number
of employees of this department of
the government brought out the fact
that this is the light season of the
year in that particular department.
Within another two months, how
over, the amount of work will great
ly enlarge and by June will be in
full swing with the new license year
approaching.
The 15 who are to be released in a
few days and the 13 already otf are
of that army which it is necessary
-v annually to hire at the close of the
\year in December. This year they
have been continued on for some time
extra due to business rush which up
to this year has not occurred at this
season.
Fourth Gasoline Price
Increase Is Announced
New York, Feb. 3.—The fourth
general advance in gasoline prices
this year' took place throughout the
east today, the Standard Oil com
pany, of New Jersey, Texas, Sinclair,
and Atlantic refining companies es
tablished new tank wagon prices of
19 and 20 cents a gallon in Penn
sylvania, New Jersey, Maryland,
Virginia, West Virginia, the Caro
linas and the District of Columbia.
Safe
Ella —"Something is preying on
Dick's mind."
Jack—"Don't worry; it will die of
starvation." —London Opinion.
Mild But Fatal
Many minor accidents were report
ed, though no serious fatalities were
recorded in the immediate vicinity.—
From a news item in the St. Louis
Leader.
NEW POSTOFFICE
AT LAWSONVILLE
Recently Established With Roy
A. Martin As Postmaster—
Through Mail To Walnut
Cove After July Ist.
The postoffice department has re
cently established a postoffice at
I.avvsonvillc, seven miles north of
Banbury, and Hoy A. Martin, merch
ant at that place, has been appoint
ed postmaster. It is stated that be
ginning July Ist a through mail
service, or star route, will be estab
lished between Walnut Cove and
Lawsoiivillc. Contract for carrying
the mail will be avvankd to the low
est bidder, it is learned.
Citizens of the l.awsonville section
say that they do not know the object
of the department in establishing
this mail line as it will not give any
better mail service than they now
have from the R. 1". I'. route which
carries mail to Lnwsonville. The
star route mail from Walnut Cove
arrives at Banbury about noon and
by requiring the R. !•'. I>. man to
wait for it litixens on route one
would have the same mail service
that Banbury has, d say. Whore
as at present the R. F. I'. man leaves
Uanhury early in tli morning and
carries out mail thai came in from
tile railway the day before.
TOBACCO CO-OPS
PAY FOR 2 CROPS
Final Settlements Start Febru
ary 7th In Fast Celt; Will
Close Two More Pools Soon.
(By S. 1). Frisseli.)
Ci.mplete settlement «-tl two crips
of tobaeio will be made with mem
bers of tile T'ibi.eco (iri.vers Co-op
erativ • Associ'i'io'i in l.iMi n N\usn
Caroliivi next S.ii i' lay. Febru.irv 7.
The checks will issued to associa
tion members from thco o;■era". ;»e
warehouse of the Kastern Belt will
cover the last indebtedness of the
iissociatit n '.o its members there, !i
deliveries both of 1022 and of 1 02f>
tobacco.
The tobacco co-ops of South Caro
lina and the Nlrth Carolina bor
der counties will be the next in line
tn receive tli-ir linal payment on the
crop of 1 K23 after next Saturday's
settlement, having already received
full payment on their 1!>22 deliver
ies some months ago. The linal set
tlement by the association with its
members in the South Carolina Belt
is scheduled to take place on or be
fore -March lii, according to the an
nouncement of the tobacco associa
tion's board of directors.
The tobacco farmers of the Old
Blight Belt of Virginia and North
Carolina who are members of the
association, will receive their final
settlement on deliveries of the 1922
crop on or before March ltt, and ac
cording to their directors, this set
tlement will be followed within for
ty days by payments on all grades
of their 1t»23 tobacco which have
been sold and paid for.
The Tobacco Growers Co-operative
Association will be the first of the
big American co-operative to make
full settlement with its members on
the 1923 crop of tobacco, as in the
case of its members in Eastern Car
olina this week and in South Caro
lina next month. The tri-state or
ganization of tobacco farmers also
shows the most successful sales rec
ord among the large tobacco mar
keting associations, having now
sold all but 14,000,000 pounds of
the 343,000,000 pounds of tobacco
received during its first two seasons
of operation.
The largest deliveries of the en
tire season reached the co-operative
warehouses during the week ending
January 24, when the associated far
mers delivered seven and a half mil
lion pounds of the weed in Virginia
and North Carolina.
Adjustable
Caller—"So this is the old settle
you told me you had picked up at
such a bargain. My dear, it's a per
fect treasure! It looks as if there
might be some real old legend con
nected with it."
Hostess —"Well, there was, but
at the price I offered, the dealer said
he would have to keep the legend and
connect it with an antique bedstead
that he had." —Western Christian
Advocate (Cincinnati.)
Danbury, N. C M Wednesday, Feb. 11, 1925
DANBURY HAD BIG
FIRE SUN. MORNING
Six Buildings Including Three
Stores, Postoffice, Two Law
Offices, Dwelling and Garage
Totally Destroyed No In
surance Carried By Owners
—Loss SIO,OOO To $15,000.
By far the most disastrous fire
in Banbury's history occurred here
Sunday morning at 11 o'clock when
the store buildings of N. A. Martin.
W. G. Petree and J. J. Booth, the
postoffice, the law offices of Attor
neys N". O. Petree and J. W. Hall,
and tin- dwelling and garage of J. J.
Booth were completely destroyed
within an hour and a half from the
time th-3 tire was discovered.
Messrs. Martin and Petree saved
a largo part of the merchandise from
their stores, though it was badly
damaged; Mr. Booth saved nearly all
his household ■effects and the cars in
the garage, except one, were saved.
The contents of the two law offices
with their libraries were lost as well
as the contents of the postoffice and
the store of Mr. Booth.
The loss is estimated at from $lO,-
000 to $15,000, none of the owners
Having any insurance.
Th;- origin of the tire is thought to
have been from an oil stove which
was used in connection with a cafe
;u the iear of the store of Mr. Booth.
This report is denied, however, and it
is not known dvlinitcly just how the
tire was started.
During the lire a favorable wind
kept the flames and intense heat
away from nearby buildings, these
being the coint house, the home of
Clerk of the Court A. J. Fagg and
Th. l Reporter office.
Since the tire a room in the Citi
z.ns Bank is being used as a post
otli/c temporarily. No arrangement
for a permanent location has yet
been made by Postmaster W. (!.
Petree.
W. C. MOORE
HIT BY CAR
Knocked Unconscious For Some
Hours Near His Home At
Campbell l.ast Sunday—John
Lawson Also Hit.
Willie C. Moore, prominent farm
er of Campbell, was hit l>y an auto
mobile Sunday and badly hurt, being
unconscious for several hours, it is
slated. The ear was driven by a
young son of Hub Hall, of the same
community. Reports from Campbell
state that Mr. .Moore is in bed and
in serious condition.
At the time of the accident Mr.
Moore and John l.awson were walk
ing along the highway when the car
hit them from behind. Mr. Moore
was knocked some ten or fifteen feet,
while Mr. 1-auson was also knocked
from the road, though he was not
hurt badly.
Tobacco Season At
Wilson is Finished
Wilson, Feb. 7.—After repeated
postponments of the closing of the
Wilson tobacco markets, that the
planters might gather up the odds
and ends scattered here and there,
the doors of the seven local auction
houses were closed after Friday's
sales and buyers and auctioneers be
gan to scatter to the four ends of the
earth.
According to the report of J. H.
Petty, supervisor of sales, the num
ber of pounds of the 1924 crop sold
on the local market totaled 52,931,-
466 which sold for $14,125,168.21,
an average of $26.68 per hundred for
the season, which is $4.51 above the
average for the 1923 crop.
Might H've Been Worse
It was toward the end of a thea
trical performance when one man
turned to another and said in a
harsh, grating Voice: "Hook here,
you have sat on my silk hat. It is
ruined.
The other looked at the silk hat.
It was indeed a wreck. "I am sor
ry," he said. "This is too bad, but,"
he added, "it might have been worse."
"How might it have been worse?"
exclaimed the first man angrily.
"I might have sat on my own hat,"
came the unfeeling reply.—York
shire Post.
TWENTY MILLION
HIGHWAY BONDS
Gets Unanimous Favorable Re
port of House Committee—
Mr. Bowie Backs McLean.
Raleigh, Feb. 3.—The house com
mittee on roads tonight vj*cd un
animously to report favorably the
bill introduced l>y Representatives
Turlington and Moore providing for
the issuance of $20,000,000 highway
bonds, to be financed by an enabling
act now in the course of preparation,
which will provide a tax of four cents
a gallon on gasoline, in the place of
three as at present, and, further, for
a sinking fund of $50,000 a year to
retire the bonds. Also, the enabling
or financing act will provide that all
over $500,000 available to b- used m
road construction.
The principal address befoie the
committee tonight was that of Mr.
Bowie, introducer of the §35,000,000
bill. He said he yielded to the
change, having been assured by the
governor that, if the credit of the
state is not strained, the executive
will recommend an addition s.'!'i,ooo,-
000 two years from now. Further,
he said, the governor had assured
liiiii that, in addition to the $20,000,-
000 proposed in the Turbngton-
Moore, bill, the sum of anproximate
ly $11,000,000 would lie available for
the next biennium, derived from fed
eral aid and the unused portion of
bonds already authorized.
Mr. Bowie said he iii I not want
|to be understood as having been
working in opposition t> i. • govern
or at any time; that all ilotig there
had been only an honest difference of
opinion, and that, after conferring
with the governor, he was willing to
yield to the situation.
A bill similar to that introduced
in the house today by Turlington and
Moore was introduced in the senate.
A compromise also is expected in
the upper branch, where, it is said,
the $20,000,000 bill will be favorably
reported.
WHEAT DROPS
ELEVEN CENTS
Government Reports Will Prob
ably Forecast l)it r Crops On
Way—Price Expected To Go
Much Lower.
Chicago, Feb. 10.—General selling
out of wheat holdings today resulted
in tumbling prices down 11 cents a
bushel as compared with yesterday's
top figures.
The government reports on the
condition of the wheat crop are ex
pected to be issued soon and will
likely show a fine crop on the way, in
which case prices of wheat are ex
pected to take a still greater drop.
Hard-Surface From
Winston To Greensboro
Greensboro. Feb. *>.— The next
state road building project will be
a hard surface highway between
Greensboro and Winston - Salem,
Frank Page, chairman of the state
highway commission, declared in a
talk here today before the good
roads' bureau of the chamber of
commerce. Mr. Page declared that
the present road bond indebtedness
of the state will have beerj paid up
in 21 years.
Salesmanship Plus
The new saleman, although very
enthusiastic, could not be described
as altogether convincing.
"This," he said, "is one of the
finest blankets produced today. In
material and in construction it is
far above anything at present on the
market. For the price there is noth
ing to touch it."
"What is the price?" his custom
er inquired.
"Just a minute and I will inquire."
was the reply.—Pittsburgh Chronicle
Telegraph.
Mystery
"How do you sell this Limburger?"
"I often wonder myself, ma'am."
—Medley.
Attorney J. D. Humphreys, Sheriff
J. F. Dunlap, J. Spot Taylor, M. 0.
Jones, R. R. Kinp and N. S. Mullican
visited Raleigh the past week and
looked in on the Legislature.
STOKES COUNTY
FARES BADLY
Pays More State Road Tax
Than Any County In Seventh
District Except Forsyth and
Surry and Yet All Counties
Except Stokes Have Some
Hard-Surface Road.
According p. the statistics on road
work in this district, just given out
by District Engineer C. S. Currier,
of Klkin, Stokes is the only county
in this district which has riot been
given some hard-surface road by the
State Highway Commission, although
Stokes has more automobiles and
pays more State road tax than any
of the nine counties in the district
with the exception >f Forsyth and
Surry.
F.ngineer Currier's report shows
that, including work now tin ler con
struction, the coiitlties of tile seven
th district have hard-surface as fol
lows:
Forsyth, ;'■» in; 1
Yadkin. 21 iv.il-
Surry. 1*
Watauga, I i- i
Alleghany, 1 1 mile-
Ashe, 7 mi!;-
aldui 11, 5 j
Wilke.-, R1 mile.-.
Ihe ii. 1 I miles.
Stokes, 0 miles.
All taxes for paying the bonds
issue i for road buihrMg and for
main!; nan C of the loa.is comes from
automobiles, and below i- the oil'. *•»'
report on the number ef cats in the
counties listed above:
Forsyth, 12,-lsT cars.
Surry, .'!.:!54 ears.
Stokes, 2,107 cars.
Wilke.-, l.'.t.Y.i cars.
Yadkin, 1,7»i.'5 cars.
Davie, 1,712 cars.
Ashe, 7>.°! cars.
Watauga, »>s7 cars
Alleghany, ll'O e- rs.
YOUNG MEN
GIVE DANCE
Several Walnut Cove People
Arc 111—Commissioner Uanes
Inspects the Roads.
Walnut Cove, Feb. 11. Miss
Kli/.abeth Sparger, a popular member
of our school faculty, is ill at her
home in Greensboro. Her many
friends wish for her a speedy recov-1
cry.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fulton have re
turned from their bridal tour ti.i nigh
northern cities. They are making
their home temporarily with Mtv.
Nannie Fulton.
Miss Lorene Snow, of G. C. W.
spent the week vivi with Mrs. C!c .
Fulton.
The young men of the town gave a
most enjoyable dance in the show
room of The W. C. Motor Co. Friday
night. The music was furnished by
Bill Ford's orchestra. "Carolina Red
Devils." Many guests from o'.:t of
town were present.
Mr. Alec Hanes, of Winston-Sa
lem, was in town Monday inspecting
the roads.
Misses Willie and Lois Dodson
spent the week end with relatives in
l'ilot Mountain.
Mr. Have Tuttle returned Mon
day from a visit to Florida.
Miss Dorothy Thome, of Salisbury,
attended the dance here Friday night.
Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Matthews
spent the week-end with their pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Vaughn.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Bevin, of Thom
agrille, were guests of Miss NeVl
Hutcherson this week end.
Mrs. Paul Fulton spent Tuesday
in Greensboro.
Mr. Minnish Wheler is confined to
his home with pleurisy His friends
hope he will soon be out again.
Mr. John Durham visited friends
in Hillsboro this week.
Mr. Dutf Linville is very ill at his
home.
Miss Annie Redman spent the
week end at her home in Pilot Mtn.
Mr. Tom Preston, of Belews Creek,
was in town Sunday.
Mr. Zeb Davis was in town Satur
day.
There was a large attendance at
church Sunday, services being con
ducted by the pastor, Mr. Ward.
Messrs. Hicks and Jarvis attended
the Geraldine Farrar concert in
Greensboro Monday night.
No. 2,757
STOKES ONLY HAS
NO CONCRETE
All Other Counties Of This
Road District Are Blessed
With Hard-Surface Road .
Elkin, N. C„ Feb. •>. —$.'>0,000,000
J and $15,000,000 and $20,000,000 ami
then some other millions expended by
counties for North Carolina high
ways. Some money and, what there
|is of them, some roads! There is
'much interest in North Carolina's
! highway system, but a great deal
! more in the "highway district,
j roads."
I For this reason the following
: facts taken from the records of the
' seventh highway district, of high
! way construction and maintenance
j constitute an interesting story for
I the people of this territory.
' According to a statemert premnvd
by Engineer . S. CuiYicv tcn-. i'tig
the work of the district to January
1, l!»25, there are in the ten counties
of the district 71l.3miles of road be
ing maintained by the state high
way commission, as follows:
Alleghany, !>.2; Ashe, ; Cald
well, 7.'!.7; I'avie. ">3.7; Forsyth
Watauga, 7';.'>; Surry, 7S•.>: Wilkes.
12:;. I: Stukes, 71.2; Yadkin, 7.
Tile r coiil of completed hard
> iriac" and surface-treated roads
ly counties to date, with the mil
i.tc . tuns from zero in Stokes
county to ;>s.::7 miles in Forsyth,
of this amount having been
.i n.v.ructed by the state, kit j aiJ
for by the county. The figures fol
low: Alleghany, li).(i 2; Ashe i>.7S;
Caldwell, 5.00; I>avie, 13.53; Forsyth,
|35.37; Stokes, 0; Surry, 7.2">; Wa
tauga, 1.00; Wilkes IS.-17; Yadkin,
j 1U.1.">. In addition to this record of
j completed projects there are two
other projects under contract —10.54
: miles in Surry and 1 3.30 in Yadkin,
| making a total of 1ix.37 miles of
roads actually completed and 23.0 i
! under contract, a grand total of
112.30 miles in the seventh district,
i There, are two other roads in the
I district that are known as "Oil
Treated" roads, one in Caldwell
I county 8 5 miles in length, and one
! ten miles in length. 3.5 in Surry and
i '1.5 in Wilkes. These oil roads, con
structed by the layer method, have
been closely studied during the past
. few months when the top soil roads
generally have given away. These
oil roads have held up to such an
I extent, it is understood, that at the
j recent meeting of the state engi
; ueers it was decided to proceed to
I the construction of several hundreds
of miles of this type of road during
the next few months. One of the
experts of the highway department
declared the road to be "highly satis
factory." The ordinary top soil road
van be treated with this oil-asphalt
composition at a cost of about $2,000
per mile. Three layer* of -aim oil
are usually required to complete the
road. The road is now passing out
of the experiment class, and prom
ises to the people of the state un
usual possibilities, especially in the
matter of construction of the "year
i round secondary highways."
Merchant Kills
Negro Burglar
Win.-ton-Salem, Feb. s.—"Justi
fiable homicide" was the verdict of
the coroner's jury in the investiga
tion into the killing last night of a
negro man by A. Cory, an Assyrian
merchant, who runs a grocery store
in partnership with Thomas Hailey,
en the corner of Eighth street and
Highland avenue.
The negro had entered the store
about 8:30 o'clock, just before it was
closed for the day, and had held Mr.
Cory, who was alone at the time,
at the point of a pistol while he took
the cash receipts of the day, amount
ing to about $32.70.
Then with cold calculation, a neat
trick and pure nerve, Mr. Cory man
aged to turn the tide of affairs and
securing his own pistol shot the ne
gro four times, killing him instantly.
Further investigations into the
identity of the negro today by the
local police revealed the fact that
he was known as John Jackson. For
some time he was a resident of this
city, but for the past two years he
has been out of the city, and infor
mation received was to the effect
that he had only been back here for
about a week.
J. A. Weisner, of Walnut Cove,
was here Thursday of last week on
business.