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vs""* 1 DANBURY REPORTER Volume LI. HANGING ROCK PURCHASED BY FLORIDA CO-OPERATION Fillt'on Million Dollar ('oncem Intends To Mal;r I!ijr Playground, Will Erect Three llundml-Uoom Motel: Other Improvements. • - w Winston-Salem, l>ee. I. A fifteen- t million-dollar corporation from Flor-1 id* has purchased Hanging Rod:, 1 twenty-five miles north of Winston Salem, anil expects to make of it a gigantic playground for the man of moderate means who hasn't the time to visit Blowing Rock, Roaring (iap ; | o>• some of the other mountain resorts ! I not so near the city, it was learned - .yesterday. Fnginccrs and architects are working feverishly on the plans fur a 300-room hotel, summer cottages sind dams for the three vigorous mountain streams which cut through the property at an altitude of 2.0110 feet. They are to he converted into large lakes. Three thousand and ninety-six | acres are involved in the develop- merit, and the consideration entered t on tne deed was $45,000. The do- j velonment is to he begun within the next mx months. Florida .Men Interested. M. J. llusley, of Tampa, Fla., and associates are purchasers of th" property, and mean business, it is declared. The property was sold i by D. I>. Smith. Purchasers have made a fortune in Florida real estate and are get ting out of Florida while they hav • i a giid opportunity because they seem in feel that the safest invest- | in.nt is in North Carolina. H . ing Rock is described by th • t omp ny which lirst placed it on , (he market as the only point in th >ou;h as high and as near the At lat-.tie ocean. It has an altitude f it. or .">22 feet higher than Ashex tile. '1 in tentative site fur the hotel i . a vput that overlooks the Blue ■0 Ridge for thirty miles west. An * • eighteen hole gulf course is to he laid out in front of the hotel. A polo lield, riflf range and athle tic lield are on the program. DUKE MANSION PUT ON MARKET Prominent Cotton Mill Men May Buy Estate in Myers Park, Fashionable Section in Charlotte. Charlotte, Dec. 2. The Duke Man sion and estate in Myers Park, one of the residental show p\aces of the South has been placed on the market for sale. Connected with the news that the mansion and enviorous . are for sale, was the report that ■ Col. I/.'Roy Springs, of Lancaster,! S. C., and Martin L. Cannon, and J.l 11. Cutter, of Charlotte are prospec tive purchases. One report was that , Col. Springs already has agreed to !btiy the property. The Duke estate embraces seven-. teen acres of land in Myers Park,: the residence and other buildings on . the premises are estimated to he H worth a million dollats or more. I The site originally was the home | of the late /.. V. Taylor, form.-r; ].resident of the Southern Public j I'tilities Company. who had erected, there a hand-nine rcsalen-.-e. When j Mr. I'.'ke bought tin .-ale from Mr. j n Taylor, lit pieserved only a part of p the sine, an ■ of the Taylor home! and constructed on the site the -t lin s. lit mansion. Col. Springs one of the mult liiillionaii'e textile magnates of tii" South, is known to have been con sidering for several years the pur ( chase or construction of a residence j in Myers park. The Duke Mansion has been noted as a showplaie about Charlotte, not only for the elegance of the residence, but for the beauty of the grounds which constitute one of the beauty spots of this state. One of the features of the Duke estate is the fountain which shoots a stream of water ninety feet into the air. Cures for Insomnia? i FOR RENT —Three Rooms; one • double bed and two single beds; cold and hot water in each. Impure 1160 Palm Street. Phone 1000-W. — Classified ad in a California paper. GEO. S. NORFLEKT SERIOUSLY ILL Snfi'ered Stroke Paralysis Sun day Morning and Is Inablo To Speak—lias Many Friends In Stokes. The host of friends of Ceo. S. Norfleet in Stokes county will learn with sincere regret that he is ser iously ill at his home in Winston- Salem. Mr. Norfleet suffered a stroke of paralysis Sunday morning, his right side being affected and he is unable to speak. | Mr. Norfleet ret timed early Sim- I day morning from New York city, land upon arrival at his home told members of th faiu'ly 'hat he felt tired and wished to rest, lie '.vent 'to -leip and vi; n :• ti attempt was made to awat i.ea at noon he was found to be ll' an 1 nhysiciat's we.-e called. Initio • i'i niedie tl a ten tion was gi v " 1. it no ei.aii-re wit - 1 if.ied until lat i'i the evening vlv ii !a >'li«rht inipve.--la nt was evident. STATE'S FIKE LOSS DURING OCTOBER jit Was Almost Sloii.otlO Les Than During the S.-m • Month in 102 i—October Figures .i>2B2,n) J. Raleigh. Dee. •!. North :i!'• • I:n:i' lire loss during Oetober of this year i was almost $lOO,OOO less than dm ing October, 1'.'21, and was more than $ 10,000 less than during Oc tober. 1023. the monthly report of the lire loss issued today by the State Insurance Department shows. The report was issued late, ii was explained at the Insurance De partment, due to the belated vaca tion of Andrews Joyner, publicity director and statistician of the dt partment, who has just returned from his vacation. The exact figures from the three Octobers are: October, 1023, $323,- 0f)U; October, 1021, S3BI,I'M; anil October, 11*25. $2>2.0(54. ' Of the total less during October, 'last. $1*0,050 was due to nine tires. The remaining Ml} tires caused a loss of only $1(M,I1I, or an average loss of $O2O per tire. The latter figure includes all tires where th • loss was less than $5,000. I The heaviest loss of the month wis |at Oxford, where a fire in a hosiery j mill caused damage of $55,000; the ' next largest loss was caused by a store lire at Winston-Salem, with a loss of $40,200; a veneer plant .it I Kdenton came third, with a loss of ■ $22,000. Quantity Whiskey Mash Found in the Atlanta Federal Pen Atlanta. Dee. 1. Warden John [W. Siilook. of the United States j penitentiary, today was condtiifiing an inquiry in an endeavor to learn I just who is responsible for a large ' amount of t : i'.uyonic whiskey found j secreted in a ventilator in the mess j hall of the prison late yesterday. The discovery was made by Wil liam A. Rogers, a guard from Keii 'tn. ky. who reported his litid to the j ward-a. The "mash" was in a large i butter tub antl was "all laid for a ' ! run." Warden Snooks immediately 'I ordered it destroyed. All Forgiven A married couple were knocked ' down by ;i motor. The car dashed ' | away. The police arrived and found the couple bursting with indignation, ' especially the wife. "Do you know the number of th car?" asked the policeman. "Yes," replied the husband, "by a strange coincidence the first two • numbers formed my age and the sec -1 ond two the age of my wife." 5 "John," said the wife, "we will let - the matter drop at once!"—Dorf barbier (Berlin.) Danburv, N. C.. Wednesd iv, Dee. \\ 1925 iTHIKVKS AT WORK NEAR KING ! Home i»i* .J. I). Culler Filtered j and Uobbed—News and l'er j sonais of King. Kinn, I>«••• 7. Mr. Jarvis Wright,! !of '••Ion. N. • is spending a low | |days with his sister, Mrs. C. I. Kirhy, in Walnut Hills. .Miss Mullio Rodman spoilt Sun- j day with relatives and friends in 1 Pilot .Mountain. | A force of carpenter* and brick 1 masons are at work on a now homo for Mr. K. !•'. i'ullium on West Main ; st. Mi ss Irene Spainhour, weed fif teen years, daughter of Mr. 1.. O. Spainhour. who resides near here, ] t died at the Martin Memorial hos- | pital Friday following an operation. | The interment was conduct ad from j Mount Olive church Saturday at 111 o'clock a. in. sides hero. I Unknown thieves entered the home j of Mr. J. I'. Culler, who resides :: j milts West of town Saturday night . while the family were ail away | from the house and carried off two j watches, a couple of hand hags, aI 1 ' hi co-operative certificates for do- j fe red payment oil his tohacco and i ( sevoial other articles including! forty-nine cents in coin. 1 Mr. Albert llutchins, of Winston- , 1 i ! Salem, spent Sunday with his pa | t rents hare. T! -dx-yoa'-.dd daughtci ..f Mr. ! y.x «. u'ai. '.I ;.11-- i ■ vi r> sick with pneumonia at their home 1 in Walf.H I till.-. Mr. W. T. Newsum, of High Poii.i. s'icHt Sunday v.i'h his parent- her . MAnnie Shore, (d* tireoiislior". spent the day Sunday with relatives, and friends here. The now service station heing eri ted liy Mr. Thomas K. Smith on Kast Main St. is Hearing completion. Mr. Kay Kiser, of Winston Salem, was among the visitors here Sunday. Dr. (irady K. Stone returned Sun day from a professional trip to Richmond, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Love, of . Winston-Salem, spent the day Sun day with relatives here. ! Miss Pansy Boyles, daughter of I Mr. ('. (). Boyles, prominent nierch ■ ant of this place, who underwent a - major operation in a Richmond hos- I pital Saturday morning is reported i to he getting on nicely. ,! Mrs. Annie I. Smith, who has heen . spending several days with relative i here left today for her homo in • Boston, Mass. r J. R. NUNN IS ;; FOREMAN JURY 1 i Federal Court Convened Mou -111 hi (lay—Judge Webb Says Pro :j hibition Has Proven Success. i'l i Greensboro. Hoe. 7, Judge '•! | Yates Wehh, opening the December j term of Federal court here th»- j morning, declared that the people, the ones who do the fighting an I I pay the taxes for war, should hiv 'some sa\ so in declaring war. Par II of his charg" was a strong nrgu * | nient against militarism. "(!i\.' i'i 'j military fellows a clian . and il '. 11 will put in uniform over> boy c, : ■' !.1 y us of age." he said. 'l Four dollar.- out of .wry five s to pay for |iasi or futtnv wars, Juii. Webb declared. lie pra|sed the proliibi: inn law: - said that nowhere is it better ell '• forced thin in the western district e of North Caiol.Mi "Iff course tllc>' a are some violations like in all law y. buy, they will decrease," he ail I "Look at the good schools, good ' l'oads, growth in savings bank do | posits, growth in building and loa.i since prohibition becanie effective." d j said the judge. d| "The bootlegger might as well d make up his mind that whatever is l, I best in the country has t nr«i•: : thumbs down on the liquor traffic" • j The court was organised for I business with .1. R. Nium as fore y 'man and oth.-r jurors being .1. B. In o gram. L. J. Ingram, W. T. Fletcher, -'j. R. Williams. Paul K. Coble, W. T. jCrissman, A. H. Ausley, W. K. Co i •t nolly, Jerry Marion, A. H. Macon, f-|j. V. Fox, Oscar Tucker and Roseoe j Branson. I)AX RIVER LRIIKJE I TO COST $81,362.50j i State Highway (Vmmissin:i' i I .el > ( (»nt I'id tr i ii' 1 o >:t i and Mridges In State. I li.i I'.ili, D> . v New tat-- high | way n tin tion nrujet•: ■ lei to eon I'.iacl :h afternoon will eost $1.050,- 071.s") miles uf paving and 11 | miles f grading. The banner job goes. :•) I'avid-on comply for ti. • haril-~urfacing of the l.exing! m Winsii n-Salcm highway, route from l.exington to the Forsyth line. | I'owell Const ruction company of: Winston-Salem was low bidder on the project at $321,754.N0. Other big jobs go to Jackson,: ■ Swam, Alexander and Richmond counties which get hard-surfaced I const i lift ion of important stretch, s. j | Rout- In in Jackson and Swam I couni ies will have i s miles of pav- i I ing a Itletl ill a cost of a half niilli.it, Idt'llai-; the nine-mile stretch bt j Uveen Taylorsvilh' iiiitl the Wilkes j county line will be paved fur s3oi,- 1 000 and Richmond county will get a j nine-mile hard-surfaced stretch from | liockingham to FIIi-i-Ih. Competition wtis kivtt among • the contractors at the opening of i bills, and the ten projects which i the highway comnMsion has esti- I mated to cost not exceeding $2,075,- ihiii were taken f..r a himiied thou j sand dollars I | The I-t of nr. J -i in'!, age, low bidders and co I fed .•. . N ) - Sw i : , •* luil of paving on lieiie In frail M- I in. >n. t»;-• In'. ■ ti •:> of i• it • [■>'>. '.ppalru li'vii ( oustr'.iction com- II ny if Know die. T> tut, $ I •*.!,> I I ' ' No. S's*i, l il, •> . mi,.-. 12 i .ili if paving on roil ! i from Syl\c t. i'ayw iotl county lin . Ov. r.-tr. ; x 'aiice nstn en .-oiui'c.ny »•:' llt il fell. \'l„ Si! I?. 1 '.I -O No 755, Sto; ; i t't.ty, li'lg.- " tr'the Da i r . ••. 1. At. (incory f Pit! shorn, Sl.:!i'2 50. No. (105, Aiexatideer county, !' miles of paving on route ''.7 between Tayiorsville and the Wilkes toun'y line, road work by W. K. (Iraliam of Mt. Uln, $.'101,1(17; structures. Muc ker and Younts, s;t 1,835. No. 0010, Richntond iv>unt;f, miles of paving on route 51 between liockingham and Kllerbc, road work by Coastal Construction company of Florence, S. ('., s27i>, 100; structures J. S. Bowers of Whitcville, $.'!2,105,- 75. No. 5 , r>7. Rockingham county, -1.4 miles of paving on route 77 between Madison and Stokes county line, llagedorn Construction company of Greensboro, $112,150.(50. No. 52'iO, Davidson county, 11 .»* I miles of paving between Ix'xingto.t jiintl the Forsyth county line, Powell . j ( 'oustruction company of Winston- Salem. $32-1,75 I. SO. ( No. 177 Wake county, (>.(> miles ■ of jiaving on route 50 between Oary jiintl Apex, Foster Construction com of North Wilkesboro, Sl'.Mi.Olt'.'lo. No. i! 15. Cumberland, 7> utiles "f grading on route 22 l.tue i ■ Witde iitid Harnett county Ii• .r> i : ' way lij J. I. Mulligan Cm • tt •«-. eonipati of North Wilkesbot . • 077.30; stru tures, J, S. Bowel . 01i1.50. No. :: lii, i mil" ' letul, 1 mil gratlin.!:' "ti route ft.oil the K ••11 CI :'i! y I ; IH i■•« ai d l ay ettl'V ; roadway I y lit a! I'• i '. i> of lit •('reek. $15,527.i!0; structure, K. A '■Wood :.:.d onipany of Atulrews, $2"., I Oil I. . j -foe Katon Was Arrested Sunday j Joe I" i on. a young man of Mead- I j i>\\ tow i:- hi:-, was arrested Sunday and biougi.' litre to jail charged , i with signing the name of A. F. • Southern to note or check ivcintly when he p ii hased an automobile i at Winston S.dcni. Itond for his !• . leitse has !»i n tixetl ;it $5(111. His Reward "But," pre. -ti'd the new arrival, as St. Peter handed him a golde l , trumpet, "I can't play this instrtt . nient; 1 nevt r practised while on - earth." , "Of course on didn't," chuckled i' the old saint. "That's why you arc here."—Zion's Herald. i CO-OPS PL A V TO Sl(j PMH CVS i (irowers The!' • - Have Cha Comple' ilarnmiv Prevail.- STORKS MAY IIAYK I IK ALT II OFFICER Ladies Representing Fine Ar's Club App -ared Hefore Hoard Monday and Asked That Some Action He Taken For Relief Of Families. Stokes county may soon have a i whole-time health officer. At the regular monthly meeting of the board of county commissioners here Monday. Mesdames A. .1. Fagg and I R. 11. Morotield, re pro -> nting til" civic department of the Fine Art - Club, appeared In-fore the otVi-ial ' and asked that some action be tak( a to as-ist a number of families in t! • county that are in destitute iir-un;- tances. The commissioners w r • ial-o ask; d to employ a whole-tin • 1 hialth otlieer for the county. The matter was taken under (•■" | siil« ration by the commis-ii m r- and a definite answer will be g .. n the 1 I lei re-ientatives of the club at th ' next regular meeting of t . board. Pro', i ion was made f.r to i I porar\ i lief of the fan:: 1 cs that I need a-.-istanc -. |WORK RKSI'MKI) AT STONK MOUNTAIN ; , Sculptor Lukeman On The Scene and Announce.- 11. Plan For Memorial—lncludes Amphitheater. Atlanta. Dec. !. I'iilling on tiv I Confederate memorial at stone . Mountain was i, -u n d today after •j a cessation of work last spring. | Augustus Lukeman, sculptor in , | charge of the work, arrived in At lanta yesterday t i assume personal direction of the work. Mr. Lukeman announced that the first work would consist in removing the surplus stone from around the central group, which he hopes to complete within two years. The sculptor brought with him the mas • tor model made from memory that t will Ih 1 carved into the granite just . below the central group. The model depics in detail the sight of the hall I which when completed will be 100 i feet wide aO feet high ai. i ">0 feet , j deep. • Spanning the entrance w.il be 13 | columns representing the !'! Con ■ federate states, while within 1"> . granite panels, bearing th> names I of the "founders roll," members of each of the southern states, a' ! a ' granite figure of a woman i figure . lof memory. . I Leading down from tl l imi t will be l.'i steps which \ !! i" 1 a: the tomb of the "Unkli'c i •f. !• orate Soldier," which in ' , flanked i n either side I flagpoles, one for the St :> 11(1 th> other for til- a: : Circling the ]; . whi I: form..! from tl- •■' •. a' '1 • base of • ' a:: . a. 'liithea ■;g 10,0(1(1 liersoiis r ■ . : " .nd am j ;■ tl'lire (!."ll 1 low t' ' . i ■ i loiintain • j .. »r Hearse ! Vod I'r'HLjf 1 »bam> Oanvillc Market 11 1V 1 Fivi Iv dr. poun tobacco was brought i( the I. rket on a motor hear* Mondav W Dalton, > f Altavi.»ta explain.' .-a> : .ng h. wanted make a trip and In borrow •• j the funei le t'rom J. T Fiia'h i Mild ast.: nt prevailed . n tin ! warehouse when the hears. | rolled up. A Colorado Antique u i 1 The ranch hon 'ho Ralph M i-1 Clockin place betwi State Bridg. n and WoKott was ' rely destroy(' by fire last week. For twenty-ftvi d days it has been one of the land v marks of the country. N.ws Iten in the Craig (Col.) Empire. No. 2,.50U N IT s'T OF L \X!> OWXKiJS ti'jjrc "i I»«! . .!!■• .Mfi'tinjr anil . —l:5 'iii !; j)p I'titrii. • I lianville. V . N .. '.i-u[)i»r» it»i.. marketing of tobai • will ••• .n -till',- '!. a tcr«>u.!:« a';. 11l th "111 l»iinlit of V !*yin:a North I arolina for tin- l:\i y ar- *"■ >ll wilier the expiration of tile | i." cor.- traft of th>' T'tliai i u (Iri>wi-r> I'u operative A--nciat inn. a ■ •>»•• iiisvc to ' the contra *t adopted by the meeting of nion than rtno farmer-, ropreven'- in>.' the cream of the tobacco grow- industry, who came Saturday 1 from •!•'! countic- of North Carolina and Virginia and packed the Mason ic temple here. I The in w contract, which wa.» rati fied by thi' representative* "f I! tohacco growing counties Saturday, call- for b o! II t«• control of all I - baci grown upon the lands of >ign >... I.y tin asso iation. It calls far I. per Cent -dim-tip of all thf fo ba. ■ glowers in the old belt of Vit trnia and North Carolina, and in ens iif failure t.> attain the •>•"> per cent quota, ii allows a withdrawal j i rivilcjre t" all signers and a com plete dis-'ilution of the association in -.ase thf withdrawal- bring l th» per. i n',aire of the ass-> ■ i:«thol.i iiru - ' 1 • - than .">0 pi r cut. '.• er. here Sa"n i.i;, evidenced I •••. g -terminal. • i •! to form ■ • titer as-ociatioi which split i ps and loop ho],., for contract brt ala-rs would ' w outsiders and , fau!ti»tjf m> •••r.> to gain tho higher prices w':ich have been maile ■ ti "it the opep. market- due, it : s claimed by i > >!n rative members, t > the orderly maiketing of a minority s of the lard owning t bacco farmer-: if North Carolina and Virginia. Although following the lead of the dan; toh.-c.vo growers of Virginia -land bright t >ba> o growers f South rj Carolina calling for a •!•"> per cent , (contract which absolutely binds il! II land-owning members to deliver - their entire crop to the association, I the old belt farmers, while forming la separate organization Saturda\ • ! made provision for federation with ! the other groups of growers at such • I time as shall be deemed wise. I I Saturday's meeting was entirely > in the hands of the grower members. t TAX COLLECTIONS 1 SHOW AN IXCREASE I | North Carolina Nearly Two . Million Dollars Ahead Of Last Year. Knleigll. Doe. 1 State tax col ' lections in North Carolina for the s present fiscal year are nearly two ' million dollar- ahead of collections :l this time last year, and are mor •' than double the tofil collections f.-r ''• !irt five month- of the fi-- 1 il vc.ar 1;'2I, figures for the month of N .ve'tiber, and comparative figures for -Tuly. August. Sept em - br. ()•' ' r and Novemb r 1:*2 I 1 and It I '.'", >|; .\v. P-.'- 'i- tbe first :';ve months of '• the present fiscal year taxes total !'■ ing $3, H7,rtl»ft.«s h;;v • been col - '• It . ted. V'h • the figure f, r the fir-*. • ginring !•;!,.■ 1. l:>2f. va -;. It' > •' r N -von:I •• on!;. 0 year. tions fer l.-tuber wef 51.t'17,- •121.77, v.! i the- t* » tb. month eniied yesterday w- n !>."»!•'.«i;: i.l". t Most of the* biff franchise taxes, whi h ari paxabl, • o ;l , ; « November, were paid during Oi - " tidier, i" was pointed out at th f oflic. of K A. I'otighton, commis '• siotier f revi-mii , as the explana " tion of tlu big showing during I Octobir. anil the decrease from :1 - that num;h by November. it- Jumpy Homes MON'I'ST, responsible gill or wo man to sit on houses afternoons from 1 to -1 :o0 daily including Sun day. Salary $lO pre week. I{i>7"> ! Wilshire I'dvil. cur Wilton PI. Los 'I Angeles Times. [1- j Unfortunately, posterity will also m, have the task of paying off the 1 grudges.—Lincoln Star.
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