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DANBURY REPORTER Volume LI. INTER-COUNTY ROAD SOUGHT Sentiment Strong For High way To Connect Up Five County Seats Stokes To Burke County. (By L. J. Hampton.) Mt. Airy, April 15.—From Dan bury, through Mt. Airy, via Dob son, Klkin, North Wilkeshoro, Le noir and on to Morganton there has arisen such an overwhelming volume of sentiment for a state supervised highway of a dependable character to connect these commercial towns that the echoes are soon destined to reach Commissioner Hanes and other members of the state highway com mission who, from present indica tions, are going to be urged to con struct the few missing spans in this link of a foothill and mountain scenic route that will connect five county seat towns. Looking at the map it is found that there are only two short stretches of highway to be built to make of this proposed route an artery of travel that might well be calculated to rival in usefulness from a local, state and inter-state view point, anything that has so far been projected in these great northwest ern mountain counties. Hook Up Highways A glance discloses the fact that such a highway will more adequate ly link up the interstate roads lead ing by Stuart, Va., Ilillsville, \a., Abingdon, Va., Boone, N. t., and lohnstoii City and liristol, Tenn.. giving i router economy and facility of ire vol «o a wonderful scope of country ;.t the same time it opens to tli, it toni : .-t t Willi.' of till- middle ■n l far northwest states an incom parable route throni.h tin* mountain- HIS |> ''tioiis of North I arolina. The longest stretch to lie built is a mat r of only l*i miles on the n >nh side of the Yadkin river be tween Klkin and North Wilkeshoro. The whole distance between the two important river towns is about 20 miles, but both municipalities seeing the importance of a direct connect ing highway, have added as far as their limits extend a hardsurface road. Ronds Intersect Between Danbury and Mt. Airy the Stuart and Hillsville roads in tersect. These two interstate high ways go through two of the feasible and practicable gaps in the Blue Ridge which nature has provided to connect up these prosperous sections of the two states. From Mt. Airy there is a splendid highway through Low Gap to Spar ta. At the latter place, with the com pletion of the "top of the mountain scenic route" tourists may travel for scores of miles amid the grand est scenery of eastern America. From Alt. Airy to Dobson runs highway No. 80. It is already in line shape. At Dobson the proposed route switches to No. 20 extending on to Klkin. And at Klkin the un finished stretch is encountered. But that portion lietween Klkin and Honda is already projected by the state highway authorities, so a mat ter of only a few miles is left to be built to reach North Wilkeshoro, following the line right up the Yad kin by Roaring river, a prosperous manufacturing community which at present is entirely without highway improvement of any kind. The highway, as proposed, is to extend right on through \\ ilkesboro by Moravian Falls and on over route No. 18 to Lenoir. People of Cald well county and of Lenoir, seeing the great possibilities of such a highway, are enthusiastically in favor of the project. From Lenoir the proposed route goes on over highway No. 18 to Morganton. There it intersects highway No. 10 which comes down fioni Knoxville, Tenn., through Ashe ■ville and goes on by Hickory, States villc, Salisbury, Lexington and Greensboro to the far eastern sec tions of the state, finally emerging upon the Atlantic seaboard at the .seaport of Beaufort. In Surry, Stokes, Wilkes and Caldwell counties, as well as t in Burke, a great movement is being started to take the matter of a highway, that is designed to con nect five county seat towns, before the state highway commission for its consideration. The importance of the proposed route is so obvious it is urged, and will be of so much benefit not only to North ( arolina citizens alone, but to the thousands FORSYTH GETS TWO MORE STATE ROADS Winston To Stokes Line At Rural Hall and Winston To Guilford Line Near Kerners ville. According l to a statement issued by State Highway Commissioner A. S. Hanes contract will be let early in May for the building of a hard surface road from Winston-Salem j to the Stokes line near Rural Hall, on the Mt. Airy road, and also for hard-surface from Winston-Salem to the Guilford line near Kernersville,! on the Greensboro road. It was j stated that construction work on 1 both roads would start as soon as contract could be let. When the two roads mentioned above are completed there will be six State-built hard-surface roads le-ad ing from Winston-Salem to adjoin ing county lines, as follows: To High Point, to Mocksville, to Yadkinville. to Fulp, to Rural Hall and to Greens boro. While Forsyth loaned the State the money on one or two of these roads the county will be reim bursed. Tax Listing Begins Early In May The listing of property for taxes will begin in Stokes early in May. W. M. Nelson, list-taker for Dan bury township, announces that he I has made the following appoint ments: Danbury. May • ">: llartman, ! May 7: County Home, May | Priddy's (larav.c, May j . iof tourists who yearly visit the j mountains of the .-tale, that its I proponents f-eol they will he given a hearing in keeping with the merits of the proposal. l-'or instance, all of these north western counties are in the federal district court which convenes at Wilkeshoro. The tratlic to that lioint, it follows, is at times enor mous. Then the question of com mercial uses of the proposed high way enters into the question. Upon this point lies the greatest virtue and strength of the new road when it comes on to be argued before the state highway commission, and this body of men, as they instantly pic ture in their minds' eye the great possibilities, will readily see, no doubt, that it is not only of prime interest but of prime importance to a contagious section of the moun tains having an approximate popu lation of 250,000 people. Circulate Petition Plans are afoot now to circulate a petition in the counties mentioned for the construction of this highway anil from the apparent sentiment, expressed by leaders and others, it will likely get practically unanimous | support. The petition reads as fol lows: State of North Carolina, Wilkes County. To the State Highway Commis sion, Raleigh, N. Whereas, the purpose and intent of the law and of your honorable board is to connect the county seats I of the various counties of our state Iby a good, serviceable and depend able road from the bond issue first i issued and the anticipation of suh | sequent issues of bonds; and expend the moneys arising therefrom to the best interests of the state and to 1 make such connections with trunk lines as is practicable and that will serve the best interest; i Now, therefore, we, the under i signed citizens of the counties of j Caldwell, Wilkes, Surry and Stokes, ! do respectfully petition and ask that ' your honorable board take over and ! construct a good, serviceable and de j pendable road from Danbury, coun ity seat of Stokes, via Mt. Airy, to J Dobson, county seat of Surry, via | Klkin on the north siik- of the Yad- I kin river, to Wilkeshoro, via county seat of Wilkes county, via route 18, to Lenoir, county seat of Caldwell, via route 18 to Morganton, inter secting highway No. 10. There is at this time a large por tion of this route a good serviceable and dependable road and by the ex penditure of a small sum of money ! the whole of said route can be con [ structed so as to serve a large por ! tion of the state, both middle and western sections, and at the same 'time connect the county seats ol these various counties. This the 11th day of April, 1025. Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, April 22, 1925 MT. AIRY BIDS FOR STOKES TRADE Merchants and Others Find That City Most Accessible Trading Point Since Comple tion Of Highway Into Stokes. Since the completion of the State highway between Mt. Airy and Dan bury the merchants of this section, and especially those of the commun ity north and north-west of Dan bury, find that the new road makes Mt. Airy their most accessible trad ing point. These merchants and citizens formerly bought goods and sold their produce in Winston-Sa lem. Now, however, the road to Mt. Airy i s far better than to Winston- Salem, the 10-mile section between Danbury and Walnut Cove being narrow, crooked, rough and even dangerous at some points. The distance from Danbury to Mt. Airy is about thirty miles, while to Winston-Salem is only twenty-eight, but with present road conditions Mt. ' Airy i s most accessible, especially to citizens residing north and north west of Danbury. Hence practically all the merchants in that section are now making Mt. Airy their trading point instead of the Twin-City. SANDY SLATE (KILLED BY OFFICER Shot Four Times By Will Math is Following Liquor Raid On His Premises. Mt. Airy News, April 17. In the Kiblcr section of Patrick loimtj Sandy Slate wa shot to death Tuesday morning by Federal Prohibition Agent Will Mathis, of WestlieM. Officer Mathis in com pany with his .assistant, Federal Of lieer Davis, was making a search for stills in that section and had just destroyed one near the homo of 1 Slate when they were ordered to leave the premises by Slate. The officers state that Slate followed up his threat with an attack upon them. They say he attempted to fire his : pistol at them but the cartridge was faulty and did not go off. Then it I was that officer Mathis fired, strik ing Slate in the arm. Slate was ' then ordered to drop his pistol and . when he refused to do so Mathis ! shot him three more times, the fourth bullet striking him in the chest causing almost instant death. The pistol of Slate was taken in charge by Mathis and was presented to the court of inquest which was held at Stuart Wednesday afternoon, i The officers state that the cartridge I in he pistol shows that the cap had ! been hit by the plunger, and that it did not fire. The shooting took place in Slate's yard while both par ties were standing within about eight feet of each other. ! Sandy Slate was an old resident of Patrick county, and had a wide a.- I quaiutance. lie never denied tile [charge that he made liquor when it suited his notion, yet he was a man that inside friends with those who came in contact with him. He wa il brother to Alex Shite, who lives in Monkey Bottom, noted suburb of this city. An Explanation Earnestly Requested A reader wants some one to ex plain why it is that Forsyth county, adjoining Stokes and in the same road district, has now or will soon have SIX Stiite-built hard-surface highways from her county sesit to the county lines adjoining counties and Stokes can't even have ONF. road to her county scut. The reader is respectfully referred to our dis trict highway commissioner who re : sides in Forsyth county-—not Stokes. The roads referred to by the reader are as follows: Winston to High . Point, Winston to Mocksville, Win ston to Yadkinville, Winston to Fulp, Winston to Greensboro, Winston to Rural Hall, the two latter not yet , built but to be let to contract next I month. ! A Political Reprisal '•How did you first break into politics ?" I -It's a sail story." answered Sen ! ator Sorghum. "The people out home got kind o' riled sit the Gov ernment in Washington and decide.! | to send me to Congress out of sj»it '--Washington Star. MUCH WHISKEY IS CAPTURED Ed Lovins and Ford Car With 95 Gallons On It Captured Ten Miles East Of Danbury. F.d I-ovins and a Ford touring car with 95 gallons of liquor on it were captured Monday night in the Sandy Ridge section by Prohibition Agent P. L. F1 indium sind Berkley Smith, of Danbury. levins is said to be a resident of the Madison section. An other man in the liquor car made his escape. Lovins was brought here and placed in the county jail. He will be given a hearing right soon and bond fixed. The liquor, which was in !!• 5-gallon tin cans, was poured out at the jail here yesterday. BILLY SUNDAY OPENS CAMPAIGN Noted Evangelist Preaches To Three Large Crowds—Hun dreds Turned Away. Winston-Salem, April 19.—Hun dreds were turned away from the Billy Sunday tabernacle tonight, be ing unable to secure even standing room for the third of the initial sermons inaugurating si six weeks' ! campaign which the noted evange list will conduct in this city. In his sermon Mr. Sunday paid his respects to men smd their varied | and sundry gods. IF showed the . triiiingness of much in this life that man puts greatest st r -> upon, and, 'li referring to hero wo,ship, he de clared thai "Men great in the pub lic'" are "ititils" in the sigiit of God. lie inlaid keeping of tile Sabbath, and in the home and in business living in the spirit of things holy. The sermon was in every way ' characteristic of the famous evan gelist. It was featured with strik ing illustrations, presented only sis Billy Sunday can present them. The | Ten Commandments formed the ba ; sis if a stirring appeal, in which . the speaker paid his compliments to the worshipper of the dollar. "Ever since 1 first came south to I conduct religious campaigns I have been wanting to come and see Win j ston-Salem, about which I have I heard so many nice things," shouted I Mr. Sunday after the preliminary j ceremonies in connection with the | opening service. "When I was in Charlotte they told me to just wait till I got to Winston-Salem to see i things well done—but I want to tell 1 you folks thsit you'll have to go some i to beat those Charlotte people." The campaign sigsiinst "sin and 1 the devil," as Mr. Sunday expressed it, opened auspiciously from every ' viewpoint. The weather was ideal and the congregations that attended ! the three services were inspiring. The Piedmont warehouse, where the I meetings are being held, sesits over 'O,OOO Sind standing room \\:is at si : premium at sill the services today. The most touching scene, in con nection with the opening program, \vsi s presented when the sent ruble .and beloved Bishop Kdward Itond thaler, of the Southern Moravian church, now si years old, stepped to the front, smd sifter happy introduc tions of Bill and "Msi" Sunday turned to the evangelist, grasped hi- Itfinil sind invoked divine guidance and blessings upon the man who came here to expound Bible truths. Kxpcnscs of Meeting. Announcement was made tint something over $lO,OOO would be needed to meet the actual expenses of the meeting, this being about half the cost of the average campaign conducted by Mr. Sunday. It was , also explained that the owners had ; donated the use of the warehouse I free. Germanton Route 1. Germanton Route I, April 20. Mrs. Walter Tuttle, who has been seriously ill in a Winston-Salem hospital, is rapidly improving, her many friends will be interested to learn. Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Johnson, of Walnut Cove, were visitors at Mr. M. F. Tut tie's Sunday. Miss Unie Kiser spent the week end in Winston-Salem visiting rela tives. Mr. and Mrs. It. S. Redding spent j Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. | H. L. Ilartgi •ove. | Mr. and Mrs. Curley Kiser spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. .J. C Kiser. STOKES BONDS SOLD WELL $120,000 Issue Brought Prem ium Of $1,644.00 —Interest Rate Only Four and Three Fourths Per Cent. The bidding on $120,000 Stokes county highway bonds Saturday was unusually lively. A. T. Bell & Co., of Cincinnati, were the successful | bidders, paying si premium on the j •i«l2u,n( Hl in the amount of $1,011.00. j I lie interest rate on the bonds is only four and three-fourths per cent, an- 1 nually, the lowest in the history of the county. AUTO DEALERS PROTESTING FEE I Dealers Now Pay State Fifty! Cents On Each New Sale— Aggregates $40,000 a Year. | North Carolina automobile dealers j arc kicking strenuously on the I state's new 50-eent registration tax I on each ear sold and are preparing to take up arms against what they j consider to an imposition on the 1 trade. The sales for 1923, it is estimated, will go considerably beyond the sr.les of 1021 sind on this basis the dealers figure thsit collectively they will l»e oat approximately $10,0111) during the present year, with this amount increasing ;is tin >tstte d Vl'lov . News Items From Kiivr K in-''. \|• iil 2". Tin S'. lie M' ■ emit lie Co. iias purchstscd from Mr. The . ! Smilli the at I hiiil.iii.c adjoining them on D. pot St. The huihlim:' will lie rei.loilled. This will .give them F'.OII feet additional floor i space sind this added to the sIOU feet | which they already have gives them i I a total of 1' bio square feet floor! I space. This addition is made neces sary by the fast increasing business | • of this thriving concern. j Mr. C. ('. Meadows, of Hoanoke, [ i Va., is spending several days with j I relatives here. j A force of men are at work ex ! cavating for the foundation of the • new Moravian church on West Main I St. This will he a brick structure | and will be modern in every way. , Mr. Ijoster O. Pulliam, of Atlanta, Gii., is spending a few days with his I parents here. Mr. Gordon Pratt, who resides in West View, was kicked by a Ford j last week resulting in a broken arm. Work on the new Christian church on West Main St. is well under way and will he pushed through to com pletion at sm ejitiy date. This I aid ing is being constructed of brick. The King high school team d fat ed the Old Richmond school in a game of base hall on the King iiia niond Friday. The score si • >■! twenty-two to one. Ke\. Paul llcrmsin Newsum t his regular appointment sit Minn! I Airy yesterday. ! The house was packed at the m I trial which was pulled oil' li i 'Saturday night. li.eryhudy pn ■ t 'seemed to enjoy themselves t> ti. limit. Messrs. Paul Meadows sind Keiini- Pulliam. who are in school sit »'lmpel Hill, are spending a few da\- with relatives here. Mr. .1. S. Boyles. if Walnut ovi . u.i-' among the visitors I; re yistor ilsij Tic Sunday School rally whi.ii u.i li id at the Baptist church here vest iilay was largely attended. The occa-ii a wsis much enjoyed b> sill who v re in attendance, j Mi. and Mrs. David Fowler, of j High I'oint, spent the day Sunday j with relatives in West View. Work iisis been commenced on a I now brick home for Mr. John Smith jin Pilot View, the new development I just F.sist of town. j Miss Annie Shore, of Thomasville, lis spending several days with the family of Judge James It. Caudle in Walnut Hills. Mr. Clyde Moore, of Mount Airy, spent Sunday with his parents on Pulliam St. j Dr. R. C. Fowler, of Winston- Salem, wsis anient!; the business vis itors here Satuviav. Mr. T. S. Pet ret. >f Winston-Sa lem, was among the visitors here | Sunday. Mis s Geneva Shore, if Thoma-- ville, is spending several days with i relatives in Walnut llills. No. 2 767 MASS MEETING HERE MAY 6 To Consider County-Wide Plan Of Organization For Schools Of County—Board of Educa tion Met Here Monday. Thi' Stokes Hoard of Kducation was in session at the court houso Monday of this week. Prof, J, M. Proctor, of the State school board, met with the county board, and the question of adopting a county-wide school organization wa> dis-ussed with hint by the tin mber- of the board. Supt. of School J. ( arson, in company with .Mr. Proctor, has re cently visited all of the schools of the county and secured data in re gard to the schools. A tentative plan for the county-wide school system has been laid out and this plan will be discussed at the meet ing to be held here Mjay Oth. Every one interested in the schools is urged to attend the meeting. The call for the mass meeting, issued by the Hoard of Kducation, is as follows: Notice is hereby given to all school conimiteemen and boards of trustees and citizens of Stokes county that a mass meeting is here by called to assemble in the court house in Danbury, N. ('., at 10:30 o'clock A. M. on Wednesday, May •*th. Il'2 i. to consider the county wide plan for tSi organization of all tli • s. hoo| s •if S:mi v i nutity, and t i give advice and i:i■ ik• ■ sugges • • 11to the board of ed'i-ution of S!nk(> county I'tni ihf -a mo, lid iich ot hi r i • ii;■ \ prop- I;.' i onie u'i 1 ••• meeting for thi i delil" :: Thi April h, I. TIII: HOARD OK KI)I:T ATION til >Ti »|; COI'N'TV. I>y -I. 1., i hli- : ii>. (ii iirniiin. .1. i -"ii, Secretary. ROAI) TO STOKES TO BE SURFACED Contract To lie Let For 10 Miles Of Concrete At Let ting To Be Made May 5. Raleigh, April 20. — Route 00 from Winston-Salem to the Stokes county line is among the group of hard surfaced construction projects to he let to contract by the state highway commission May « r >. The mileage of the stretch is 10:3:5 and will be paved with asphalt or concrete. Twenty projects to be let May 5 Will cost approximately three and a half million dollars and will con stitute the second award under the $20,01)0,00') highway authorization of the I!'2"> legislature, liesides the Forsyth stretch of mute M the pro jects will include construction jobs in the counties of .la.-ksou, Anson, Mecklenburg, (iuilfmd, Moore, Ran dolph, Wake, I.ee, I!.l'm n, l'runs v id;, Wayne. Johnston. Perquimans, IMgeconibe, Rertie and lieaufort. Kighty-two miles of hard--urfac ing, -ti of sand-clay and milc-i i'f gif.ding are involved in the sche .l -d letting. KING COMPLAINS OF HIGHWAY DUST lloidi'Mts of Stokes County Town Seek Belief From the l'irty Air. King, Ap>'il Is. At a meeting of citizens and school board today a resolution was passed to ask the maintenance department of the state highway commission to give relief to the town and school at King from the dust nuisance. I It seems the good roads of the l section below coming from several directions "funnel in" to the road leading north to Mt. Airy. The i heavy tratlic of busses and private | vehicles have Worn the top surface 1 into a dust coat which spreads over the homes and yards of the town. : The school children must travel i through it to and from school. The good roads below are proving a curse rather than a blessing in this way. The resolution asks State Highway Maintenance Engineer lla\vkin s to investigate and when the oil tank wagons get in this section to at once send them up and relieve the situation before the annual com mencement at King high school. I'red Shore was chairman of the meeting and the letter will be writ . ton a*, once.
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