WEDNESDAY. DEC. 9. 1925.
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS
W. B. l>oss, whose little sen has
recently been ill with pneumonia,
was here from I.awsonville ye .-tor
day and reports the c-hiltl much im
proved.
.Mrs. J. Frank Dunlap was taken
to a Winston-Salem hospital Sun
day where she will undergo treat
niont. Mrs. Dunlap has been ill for
some time, her ntan.v friends will
regret to know.
i. W. Smith, of King Route 2.
was anions the crowd here Monday.
He reported that some tine porkeis
have recently lieen killed in his sec
tion. Among those who have killed
largo ones was Marshall Smith,
their weights being st>r> and ">•'!.
Miss Minnie Flora, a teacher in
k the school here, has been right si.-k
with a severe cold the past few days.
. The new* school building here is
completed except a small part of the
painting. The building will not bo
occupied until after the Christmas
holidays. The people of the entire
•community are very proud of the
new building.
Sam and Frank Hill, of the Sandy
Ridge section, were here this week,
bringing along a truck load of wheat
V\ior sale. These boys are line farni
ers and grow everything they use on
the farm in the way of food and
feed stuff. They also run a saw mill
and a threshing machine.
M. 0. Jenes and X. E. Popper
spent yestertl'iy in Greensboro.
* Auto-Gas Tax Last
Month $762,881
Raleigh, Dec. 2.—Gasoline and
automobile taxes collected by the
state during November totalled more
than throe quarters of a million dol
lars, the figures made public by the
motor vehicle bureau of the State
revenue department here today show,
The exact figures were gasolin>
tax collections 111-1.12 as com
pared with $M0,'.t0!i.27 during No
vember, 1'.'21. and license tax •-
$1 as compared with SUM,-
8*2.40, during November. P.»21.
The total of both gasoline aiei
license taxes for the first five m.mtli
of the present fiscal year is s",•> 12,-
.21, more than a million ahe i
of tho colloctons at the end of No
* vember 11 •21 when the figure ft -1
total collections of these two tax
items was !?•>, 152,H.Vi.2 1.
Services For The
King Moravian Church
Services will be hold as follows :il
the King Moravian church Sunday
December Kith:
Sunday School, 10 a. m.
Preaching by Kdward Brewer, ol
Winston-Salem, 11 a. m. (short so
mon.)
Prayer service, 0:30 p. m.
! I Winston-Salem, N. C. $
BUY NOW!
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We urge you to buy now! Stocks are complete--every nook and corner 0
is brim full with thousands of Rifts. Take a day off and walk thru this jj.
big store—see the pretty Christmas booths loaded with sensible Rifts, see >,
0 Toytown, see everything and note the low prices on each article. We 0.
check your packages free. 0
| 2,000 BEDROOM SUPPERS! |
Never before have we displayed WOMEN'S Felt House SllOeS 0
0 such a vast number of Bedroom . x
$ Slippers. At 69c we feature wo- A nice rememberance gift \\itli
S men's high grade satin and felt solid leather soles and rubber 0
0 Bedroom Slippers with silk pom- heels All colors and sizes. 0
poms and soft soles. All sizes. ler pair sl.4s
0 All colors. Pair 69c L__ I
8 MEN'S SLIPPKRS Children's Pelt (iift Bootees |
8 Give him a pair of these comfort- Hi K h tops in all wanted colors. 0
a able, soft padded bedroom slippers Very sott padded soles--all >izes.
0 for Christmas; all sizes. A big A nice gilt ,or on ' 5 59c 8:
£ value--pair only " 79c *:
o PULLMAN SHOES SHO^S ! ;
X An ideal gift for men—soft comfortable VOl
X Pullman Slippers, well lined and each pair 0 
X cornea in individual leather case. > 
a All size 9 0 
X pg INFANTS' Felt Slippers $ I
'THREE KILLED AND EIGHTEEN |(
INJURED ON 7TH DISI RUT ROADS ,
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Reports For November Show That Drunks Cause Deaths and 1
Injure Many Persons: Pedestrians A! o Careless.
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| Winston-Salem. Den. f»,—Three
' persons were killed and eighteen iti
r j itired in twenty-three accidents on
! [highways of the seventh district dur
| ing November, according to final iv
, j ports checki d over yesterday at the
■Joffices of the seventh district depart
 | ment.
. | Accidents were ten less than in
| October and fifteen fewer persons
„ i Were injured, but one person more
j was killed. Injuries did not aver
l ] age one to the accident as they did
; ' in  October.
I
Drunkenness (iiven as Cause.
 Drunkenness, going to sleep while
~ I driving, driving on wrong side of
. road, failing to see othi'r vehicles
s and general stupidity of drivers in
many instances were the principal
~ causes of the accidents.
One pedestrian was killed when,
y without looking behind, lie stepped 
in front of an automobile as he niov
t ed aside to let another car pass.
. An automobilist was killed when
i, an oncoming machine was driven
,1 within five feet of his sid oof the
I road and his front wheels struct the
other machine when he was at
r tempting to pass.
I Two machines collided Novomber
-3 between Pfafftown and Muddy
j Creek bridge at 5:30 p. in. One per
i son was killed and one injured. No
!vember it at t> p. in. near Saw Mill
L a pedestrian was killed when he at
tempted to cross the road.
( ' Speeding on ,tho icutside of a
'' curve on highway sixty, four miles
'' north of Mocksville in the afternoon
* about I o'clock of November 30, a
1 driver ran into the ditch and turned
1 his machine over, injuring throe por
sons. Ten miles north of Mocksville
' on highway sixty ' \e, two cars, one
traveling on the wrong side of the
'* toad, collided al at 10 o'cloi k the
morning of Novell. • r 21. Two were
injured.
I An accident was ea.iod in I'or
•yth county on highway -:xty. No
vember 20. because a  ar turned int >
I a filling station to the !>-ft of tli
road without j^-iviny: a -ige. l while
, second machine was trying to pass.
v Peculiar Accident.
A peculiar accident occurred a
mile north of Hudson. November Li.
when olio automobile tried to s|Uee"o
between two others. All three nta
•j chines we re smashed in collision and
two persons were injured.
,t Dri\ers being blinded by lights
caused a collision on highway sixty
, six about 7 o'clock November la.
j One person was injured when a
,f automobile driver failed to see a
•. buggy and ran into it on highway
j eighty, two miles south of Mocks
-1 ville, November 10 at 0:10 a. m.
THE DANBUItY REPORTER
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Running tun fast around a slight I
curve, an aiitoiiinl.ilist rail otF the |
f.ll and hit the end nf Spainhoiir t
bridge. injuring one person, in an }>
accident in Caldwell count I;. No- ,
veinber S, at 1 a. rti. On highway "
sixty, two were hurt when a I
speeder hit tile side of a  ill in 1
Waughtown. (
llriink at Wheel. (
I hunk, a driver fell to sleep :ttnl ' i
eidlid( d with .mother tar. injuring I
one, near (iranite Kails, November !•.;
Another driver, als.> believed to have '
heen drunk, ran through a detour
entrance and struck the l^trricad)
gate, although there was a sign of Hl!'
feet from the trate and the lijj-ht was '
burning. This driver had been
through the detour before, and J
should have known better, it is stat- I
ed. j
Numerous other accidents in
which no one was hurt were report- |
ed. The highway department is un- ]
able to obtain reports on all ac- (
cidents, but obtains information on j ■
about 1)5 per cent of their).
Several automobilists have been
noticed by highway employes trying 1
ito pass other vehicles on sharp >
curves where it was impossible to }
tell whether another vehicle was '
coming. Kngineer Currier declared *
that he narrowly averted a head-on j,
collision when some speed-crazed i
driver came around the inside K
of a sharp curve in a deep cu*. h'.ir- \
rying to pass another Vehicle. T.iis |
driver and Mr. Currier w.,ul' ha\oj
met disaster if Mr. Currier had not | •
jammed on his brakes.
Death of Martha
Irene Spainhoiir
King Rout'- Pee. 7. Martha."
Irene Spainhoiir, daughter of Mr. ,
and Mrs. 1.. O. Spainhoiir, of King
Koute 2, was born January Ir.iO'.'. j
and died l>  ember I. l'.rj.'i, makinu .
her stay on earth Hi years, I 1'!
■ months and L'_ days. Surviving her
are father, mother, two Mstcrs and j
i three brothers. She joined Mt. Oliv> i
l'aptist church ihree years ago and
lived a Christian life until death. I
She was a kind and oliiedient child
and loved by all who knew her. At
\ the death of Irene the chur h and
Sunday School loses one ' of its i
I bright members. The fun I
services were conducted by I' . i..
W. l.urrows at Mt. Olive  i nict'Ty.
The family wishes to thank theit j
many friends for the kindness show- i
( ed them during their bereavement.
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Much of the smart of a smart hat
- is when one woman sees it on anotV
!er woman.—Arkansas Gazette.
SJIIT ÜBS 5j
FARM FOR SALE—IOO acres. 
(> room house, large liarn. j
store-house in fair condition,
located 10 miles South of Ashe- ?
horo. Randolph county, on Nor- 
folk-Southern Railway. ( ountv 
highway through the property.
State highway, route 7'(. within i
sight. .">(• acres under wire. only
.-» acres cleared. Cross!ie tim- t
lier and abundance of wood. (
Excellent tobacco land, about 
three miles from Seagrove Dis- '•
trie! School. Price. $1,000.00.
SAMI'EK WALKER. Ashe- j.
Itoro. N. C. 25no\ lw }
I.OST—I lost a red sweater last )
Sunday night, 22nd of No
vember. between Luther Grav
it's store and Rural Hall. I will 
pay the tinder of my sweater to (
return it to me or to Mr. I.uth- :
er Gravitt's store. \V. E. MAR- >
TIN, West field. N. C. 2dec2t 
FOR SALE—Good sound white )
corn, shoot corn, shucks and (
haled straw. W. D. GLENN. 
Mgr.. t)ldtown Farm, Walnut 
Cove. N. C. 25nov4w!
FOR SALE—Undivided inter- 
est of Jennie Shelton Flynt in 
the old home place of George j
Shelton. in Peter's Creek town-jl
ship. See or write J. R. FLYNTL
AND WIFE. Walnut Cove, N. 
C. .'ldec2w 1 
IF~YOt T ~WANT~YOUR TIM- 
ber sawed see T. V. Si/.emore 
& Sons. Germanton R. 1, N. C. 
We do first-class sawing at the. 
right price. 9dec2w
Missionary Society
Met Wednesday !
Written for Reporter.
The Woman's Union Missionary '
Society net with Mrs. N. K. Pepper
Wednesday afternoon at o'clock.!.
The im ting was presided over by j 
Mrs. .1. S. Taylor in the absence of 
the pre-idcllt. Miss .losie Pepper. I 
The d"■ ot i Hal exercises W> le con- i *
i*«! »»v Mrs. 11. .M. . Thi !*
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topic f«»r stmly wa> .Japan. lh«*i 
following v«-ry int# r*--tin>r pt«jrra?n!
wn« ,
"Valu- of Tract> in Japan," Mr*. 
W. (!. I'etree. I*
"Rett'-r Rabies in Japan" I >y Mi . '
J. W. Hall. '
Vocal duet, "(ii'.e Me Thy H>art."j,
Mi- Minnie liangherty and .">! . N. !•
K. IVpper.
"A Remarkable Japanese U • :an,"
Mrs. R. H. M fire field,
"Rioi. ("lass in a Factory." M•-
1.1. K. Hipp and read in her ah.'ctne ,
by Mrs. A. J. I'agg.
After the conclusion of the t>r
gram a delightful social hour war
enjoyed during which the hostess'
served congealed fruits, salad, sand- I
wiches, cakes, hot chocolate with j
whipped cream and candy. The next!
meeting will be at the home of Mr-. 1
i N. A. Martin. Mesdanies W. G. |
i I'etroe, J. E. Hipp and E. P. Pepper!
■ were appointed the program com-j
mittee for the next meeting.
No Prize Beauty
COOK—Must be good and plain,
for small hotel. Joseph R. Brey, i
! Carbon House, Lehighton, Pa.—
' Allentown Morning Call.
There's nothing in a name when '
Doolittle can do 'J.'M,T72 miles :.II j
hour.—Winston-Salem Joui nul
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