Volume LI.
AUTO WRECK
NEAR KING
Little Girl Is Badly Cut By;
Windshield —Love Feast At j
Moravian Church Other
News Items.
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• King, Dec. 21.—The Co-operative
■warehouse here cloned Friday for
'■the Christmas ho* day. It will be
reopened again January 4th.
' Mr. Mack Kirby, of Salem, is
spending a few days with relatives
here. .
* Dr. M. D. Philips, 75 years
©f age, died early Saturday morning
at his home at Dalton three miles
vest of here with pneumonia. He
was out attending to professional
jfcejdls Friday, though feeling bat', he
lwent home in the afternoon and took
Uftis bed dying before day the next
"morning. Dr. Phillips had been a
practicing physician for about fifty
l. years. He was one among our old
est and most highly respected citi
zens and had been a devoted mem
. her of the Missionary Baptist
. church for many years. The inter
ment will be conducted at the Phil
lips cemetery this afternoon at one
o'clock.
Mr. Keller Anderson, of Greens
boro, and formerly of King R. F. D.
was among the business visitors hero
Saturday.
The high school closed for the
Christmas holidays Friday and will
reopen Tuesday, December 21' th.
Mr. Ray Kiscr, of Winston-Salem,
spent Sunday with relatives here.
- Ambrose Loggias, aged about fit
years, died at the home of Mr. Will
Stilley, near here Saturday, after a
short illness with pneumonia. The
interment was at Woodland ceme
tery Winston-Salem. Sunday after
noon.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jacobs, of
Winston-Salem, spent Sunday with
the family of Mr. John Heasley in
"Walnut Hills.
Mr. Peyton Hutehins, of Winston-
Salem. spent Sunday with his par
ents on East Main St.
Mr. and Mrs. \V. G. Tuttle, of
Rura Halll spent the day Sunday
Mvith Mrs. Tuttle's parents. Mr. and
*!rs. T. F. Newsum, in Walnut Hills.
The Christmas tree and entertain
ment will be held at the Christian
church on West Main St. Tuesday
night.
Mr. Joe Culler ran his Ford tour
ing car off a high embankment at
the Muddy creek bridge just East of
town on the Great Lakes to Florida
highway last night. One of his little
girls sustained a bad cut on her
throat by the wind shield. The oth
er occupants escaped with bruises.
.The car was almost demolished. This
accident happened at the poir.t
vrhere two men have been killed in
, automobile wrecks.
Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Caudle, of
Winston-Salem, spent Sunday with
' relatives and friends here.
Mr. C. E. Jones, of Pilot Moun
tain, is among the business visitors
here today.
There will be a candle love feast
' held at the King Moravian church
on Saturday evening, December 2G,
liit 6 o'clock. Rev. E. A .Holton, t f
Winston-Salem, and Rev. F. -W.
Grabs, of Bethania. will be present. :
.Sunday school at 10 a. m., prayer|
f service at 6:30 p. m.
Frank King: Failed
To Show Up |
Frank King, who was sentenced
to jail by Judge Brock for 0 months i
on the charge of abusing his wife |
and who gave bond until he could j
complete his crop, failed to show up;
on the date he was to begin serving j
hfs sentence, and is reported to be
, in Indiana.
The Fall of Man
"Duty calls a man to church on
Sundays, and pleasure urges him to
go Ashing," says a Vermont paper.
And Monday morning he shows un
all sunburned. —Boston Transcript.
Red propaganda in America re
minds us of a cripple rying to tell
Nurmi how to run.—Jackson Clar
ion-Ledgeer.
It is easy to get rich quick if you
can find enough people willing to
take a chance on getting poor quick.
—Elizabeth Journal.
YADKIN COUNTY
IS FORTUNATE
ighway Commissioner A. S.
Hancs Says That County Has
Already Had $425,000 More
Than Its Share of State Road
Money.
Recently the Winston-Salem Jour-1
nal carried an editorial advocating
a hard-surface highway from Yad
kinville to Brooks' Cross Roads in
Yadkin county. In response to the
article State Highway Commissioner
A. S. Hanes wrote the Journal as
follows:
Winston-Salem, N. C.
December IG, 11)25.
Mr. Sanford Martin,
Winston-Salem Journal Company,
Winston-Salem, N. C.
Dear Sir:—
I notice this morning in The Jour
nal your editorial in regard to No. |
60 and would like to say that the j
article expresses very good senti- j
ment. I would also like for you, in ■
another article, to explain how you j
get money for a county that already
has $125,000 overdraft. If the State i
should issue $30,000,000 more bonds, |
Yadkin county would not have a cent. |
You see we have been more liberal |
with Yadkin county than we have
with any other county in the District,
and while we would like to talk
about building the additional eight
miles of road, still somebody has
got to talk about $2 1,000.
Please bear in mind in future ar
ticles, as people might be misled into
thinking that all they had to do is
to write an article and get the road.
Yours very truly,
\ v lIANES,
Commissioner Sew nth District.
DANGERS FACING
HOLIDAY SEASON
Rev. Mr. Yost Declares World
Is Forgetting More and More
True Significance of Event.
Gastonia, Dec. 16.—"There is dan
ger that the season shall become
paganized—it is already commer
cialized," declared the Rev. John L.
Yost, pastor of Holy Trinity Luther
an church here, in speaking of th"
Christmas holidays. "So many shop
lling days until Christmas, is the
cry, profaning anew the Temple of
the Spirit. Why not make it rather
so many days of holy preparation
through repentance and prayer and
faith ?
"A preparation to see the reel
meaning of Christmas and listen
again to the song of the angels
which heralded the Savior's birth,"
pleaded the speaker, one of the
youngest of the local clergy who has
gained city-wide popularity luring
his comparably short residence here.
"When, year after year, we see
the world forgetting more and more
the true significance of the seas> n,
making it a great commercial e/eit,
rather than a spiritual feast in the
Ivord, is it not time for the followers
of Christ to do something more fjr
their children and themselves, to
properly observe the season, and
help an unbelieving world to see the
I Christ in Christmas?
J "There is more to be done to be
I truly ready for Christmas than to
jdecorate our homes, provide small
'gifts for our friends, or even dec
orate and visit the sanctuary o fthe
Lord, but the whole matter calls for
a preparation of heart and mind an.l
I soul, and without this preparation
jail others will be mere mockery."
■Auto Plates Sent
| Out From Raleigh Only
The .State announces plans to
abolish locf.il bureaus for the dis
tribution of automobile tags and will
po back to the old plan of mailing
| them all out from Raleigh. Com
j ntissioner Doughton has recently
'purchased mailing machines for send
ing out the plates so that the work
can be done rapidly.
Several towns in the State are
making strong tights to retain the
distributing places.
1 Mussolinf says that there is no
1 such thing as liberty, and he's doing
his best to demonstrate it in Ita'y
—Arkansas Gazette.
Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, Dec. 23, 192f>
HOLLY BERRIES
ON WAY NORTH
And Yankee Kisses Will Be
Exchanged Under the Mistle
toe—Demand Is Heavy.
Raleigh, Deo. 21. Cherry-red
holly berries from North Carolina
will reflect the genial firelight front
many a Yule lop in the bleak North
this Christmas season, and "Yan
kee" kisses may be exchanged under
neath Tar Heel mistletoe.
It has been announced by the
state departmsnt of agriculture
that its marketing experts have,
for several weeks, been busily en
gaged in keeping up with Northern
and Eastern markets on which
holly, mistletoe, and other Christ
mas decorations are sold, and that
many carloads of attijactive North
Carolina evergreens have been
shipped.
It has developed, says the depart
ment, that North Carolina holly and
mistletoe has enjoyed the distinction
of a "status" on the markets of New
York, Pittsburgh, and other large
(centers, and that they brought good
j prices. One woman in Eastern
I North Carolina advised that onfr sea
son she cleared about SI,OOO selling
j Christmas greens. She asked tl»«!
department'of agriculture if it could
not help her market this commodity
as it helped raisers of truck, fruit
and poultry. That gave the market
ing experts a suggestion, and they
foun 1 that tlier • was quite a large
domand foi North Carolina holly
and mistletoe.
North Carolina's partnership with
Santa Claus "went big." the depart
ment said. Five-peck hampers of
lllisth toe on til'- New Yolk market
I brought from $1.50 to $1.75, and on
the Pittsburgh mark.-t from twenty
tivi- to thirty touts a pound. North
Carolina holly wreaths brought- front
$ 1.50 o $2.00 a dozen in large quan
tities.
Despite the shipments of Christ
mas decorations front thi.l state
North and Kast, many Christmas
trees from the North are said by
the department to have found the it
way to North Carolina markets
this season.
CHRISTMAS DOINGS
AT WALNUT COVE
Entertainments At 3 Churches
—Personals Items.
Walnut Cove, Doc. 19.—The Coun
ty-wide Teachers' association of
Stokes county, held its third meet
ing here Saturday, December 12.
Dinner was served by the faculty of
Walnut Cove school.
The Tobacco Growers Co-opera
tive association made a payment
Tuesday. About $50,000 was paid
out. After the holidays the sales
of Walnut Cove market and King
niarket will be (combined with
three-days a week at each place.
The Ladies Aid society of the
Baptist church met with Mrs. A.
J. Fair Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
1 The Christmas entertainments at
the churches here will be as follows:
Methodist church, December 23;
Baptist church, December 21 and
| Episcopal church, December 25.
! The Ladies Aid society of th •
i Methodist church held a bazaar last
week. A substantial sum was
' realized.
Among those coming home from
school for the holidays are Robert
Hedgeeoek, Trinity school, New
York; Glenn Fair, U. N. C.; Myr'lt
land Violet Ttttle, N. C. ('. W.;
jt'laudie Neal, Guilford College;
iMary and Odell Mitchell, Grcenvil'v
Teachers' Training school.
Miss Sallie Matt Marshall spoilt
Saturday in Greensboro shopping,
i Miss Julia Hairston spent the past
week-end in Leaksville.
j Those shopping in Winst:>n-Salem
Monday were Misses Nell and
Kathryn Hutcherson, Hurgi
and Mrs. P. W. Davis.
Mrs. W. K. Grogar. of tiie Walnut
I Cove school faculty who has beer
sick for the past week is able to in
out again.
I Mrs. C. R. Hutcherson ar.i son
| Harry, will leave Sunday for New
! York, where they will spend Christ
jmas with relatives.
' Mr. and Mrs. Minish Wheeler an.
Miss lilly Wheeler spent Wednes
day in Winston-Salem.
THE FARMER
WAS FORGOTTEN
In His 10,000 Word Article the
President Overlooked The
Tiller of the Soil, Says
"Voter."
Germanton, N. C'., Dec. 20, 192.).
Danbury Reporter,
Danbury, N. C.
A few weeks ago the newspapers
of the country published the full
text of President Coolidge's message
to Congress—a ten thousand word
article dealing with about 46 differ
ent subjects. His message flings
true to his policy of caring for the
interests of big business. He points
with pride to the great wave of
prosperity that we are now enjoying,
and warns against anything that
tends to disturb it.
His message is very conspicious by
reason of the fact that he did not
mention the agricultural interest of
our country. I am wondering ho»-
this message sounds to the farmer
who is selling his tobacco for less
than one-half of the cost of produ
tion. Prior to the opening of the
tobacco markets the department of
agriculture forecasted the tobacco
crop as being one among the largest
ever grown, consequently tobacco
I sells low.
The cotton farmer is just as bad
off as the department of agriculture
under Mi. Coolidge played the same
trick on lii;ii as the tobacco farniei
by raising the estimated cotton yielii
more than a million bales right t
the time he begun marketing an
cotton dropped s'>.(Ml per bale, calls
in«r the farmer to lcso millions of
(Inil'irs. Of I'omse this money is iv.i.
really lost that the tobacco and cot
ton farmer fails to get for his hard
earned labor, hut goe? into the pock
ets of the tohacco and cotton specu
lators and managers.
None of us will see any reduction
in the price of manufactured tobacco
and cigarettes, hickory shirting, cot
ton checks and overalls. It is a per
plexing problem for the farmer, ard
if any one can show me where the
Republican party has ever done any
thing to help the Southern farmer
and the great mass of toilers, I will
greatly appreciate it.
1 am thoroughly convinced that
the Democratic party did more for
the South in eight years under
Woodrow Wilson than the Republi
can party has ever done.
The time has come for us to begin
to think for ourselves and not vote
the Republican ticket just because
grandpa did.
VOTER.
12 EXECUTED
DURING YEAR
Largest Number Pay Retribu
tion Than in Any One of 15
Preceding Years.
Raleigh, Dec. 17.—The state of
North Carolina this year has taken
a greater number of human lives in
retribution for crime than during
any one of the 15 years since tho
electric chair was adopted as the
method of exacting the supreme
penalty.
During the 12 months of the pres
ent year, 12 men, each convicted by
12 jurors, have walked down tin
short corridor of death row to the
grim chair which snuffed out their
lives.
Previously the largest number
ever to die by electrocution in this
state was nine. \N hen this number
was reached, in 1911, it was tho
high record. The record was reach
ed again in 1916, but it was never
reached again until the present year,
with its record breaking number of
electrocutions. 1913 was the only
year there was no electrocutions.
The record for the present year is
probably complete, for the date set
for the next electrocution is set for
January.
A total of 95 men have died ' •
North Carolina's electric chair since
it replaced the noose in 1910. The
number by years follows:
1910, one; 1911, nine; 1912, two;
1913, none; 1914, six; 1915, two;
1916, nine; 1917, four; 1918, seven;
1919, four; 1920, eight; 1921, eight;
11922, three; 192:?, eight; 1924, two
and 1923, twelve.
DR. M. D. PHILLIPS
DIED SATURDAY
Prominent Physician of Stokes
t Succumbs To Pneumonia
After Short Illness Was
Aged 75 Years.
Dr. Matthew Dalton Phillips, one
of Stokes county's most prominent
and aged physicians, died at his
home at Dalton early Saturday
morning after an illness of only ,t
few hours with pneumonia. On Fri-.
day Dr. Phillips was out attending j
to professional business, but was
feeling badly and soon after taking l
his bed pneumonia developed.
The deceased had been a practi •-
ing physician for about 50 years,
being 75 years of age at the time of
his death. He was for many years
a devoted member of the Missionary
Baptist church.
Dr. Phillips was born August 31,
1850, in Stokes county, North Caro
lina. He was the fourth sum of
Matthew Phillips, and Ann Radford
Scott. He graduated from Wake
Forest college, Jefferson Medical
college and the University of New
York city, after which he devoted
his life to the practice of his pro
fession in the territory surrounding
hi> boyhood home.
Ur. Phillips married Margaret
Melissa Dalton, March 27, ISM. I).
is survived by his wife and the fol
lowing children: Rev. A. R. I'hiUips
Nashville, N. ('.; Mrs. John C. Hy
mati, Richmond, Va.; Messr-. Mat
thew Dalton Phillips, Jr., ('!• ~ land.
Ohio; Ernest N. Phillips, King. N
Mrs. T. M. Hunter, of I \ettc-
ville, and Misses Ijouise, Mildred
Julia and Ruth Phillips, of iialti i
N. .
2 CARS WRECKED
IN ROCKINGHAM
Crash Near Madison Results in
Damage to Both Autos—
Drivers Not Hurt Small
Boy Escapes After Diving
i From Car.
Madison, Dec. 21. —Two small cars
of a popular make were badly
smashed on tho Madison-Greonsboro
road Saturday afternoon when thev
crashed into each other on a straight
stretch of highway. One car was
'being driven by Carl Coleman while
the other was being piloted by Nel
son Byerly. Neither was seriousl/
■ hurt.
A small boy riding with Byerl t
was thrown through the windshield,
it is said, but came out with only a
few scratches. The wreck occurred, it
it said, when Coleman slowed down
preparatory to leaving the highwiy
and either failed to signal the driver
behind him of his intention or else
signalledl and the other driver failed
to observe it.
Major K. 1.. Martin continues j
seriously ill at the home of m* ]
daughter here. Major Martin's con
dition took a turn for the worse
Sunday night, it is learned.
Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Martin
and Sanford Martin, Jr., and Jtidre
and Mrs. Raymond G. Parker, if
Winston-Salem, spent Sunday after
noon with Upton G. Wilson at hi
home near town.
Miss Carrie Wilson, of Nashville,
has arrived to spend the holiday's
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J
I'. Wilson.
Mrs. .1. 1.. Wilson atd two chil
dren spent the we.'k-end in Greens
bor ■ with Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Keigev,
Manner Hutchins and family
who have lived near Intelligence
for the past two years, have moved
to High Point.
Younjr Ross Cofer
Has 10 Grandparents
Ross Cofer the young son of Mr.
and Mrs. R>y Cofer, of Danburv
Route 1, probably has more living
grandparents than any child in this
section. The youngster has ten
grandparents as follows:
Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Lawson and C.
I R. Cofer, grandparents; Mr. and Mrs.
Sam Fagg, Mr. and Mrs. Powell
Tjawson; Mr. and Mis. R. R. I.awson
and John Henry Fagr. great grand
l parents.
No. :\KO2
STOKES HOAI) IS
THIRD AGAIN
Traffic On lioads of Seventh
District Was Counted Dec
-B—Route 89, Danbury To
Walnut C o v e, Had 816
Vehicles.
The traffic on all the State high
ways is counted by the road patrol
men for one day in each month. The
count for this month was made Dec.
Bth, and the result shows that the
Danbury-Walnut Cove road stands
third from the top again, having 81G
| cars and vehicles on it during the
day. Last month's count showed it
standing third.
The highways in this road district
with the heaviest travel on them
Dec. Bth were as follows:
Winston-Salem to Yadkinvtille,
12»>:i vehicles.
Winston-Salem to Rural Hall, 'J**?
vehicles.
Walnut Cove to Danbury, 816 ve
hicles.
The number of cars and vehicles
! traveling on some other roads were
as follows:
Winston-Salem to Madison,
j vehicles.
Winston-Salem to Greensboro, 740
I vehicles.
Winston-Salem to Wilkesboro. 487
j vehicles.
Win-ton-Sulem to High Point. 67$
vehicles.
OLD BELT CO-OPS
I PAID 1 1-2 MILLION
! Larjrest Deliveries Of Season
I Reach Co-operative Markets
I As S. C. Growers Mobilize.
Raleigh, Dec. 1 1. —The payment ot"
$1,51)0,002.86 to members of the To
bacco Growers Co-operative Associa
tion in the obi bright belt of Vir
ginia and North Carolina, which be
gan at the association warehouses
last Tuesday completes final settle
ment of the association with its old
belt members on IS grades of the to
bacco which they delivered during
1924.
In addition to this the orgnized
growers are taking advantage of the
highest cash advances which their
organization has ever paid at a time
I when other growers are suffering
[from the usual slump that taken
| place on the auction markets just
before the Christmas holidays. This
has resulted in deliveries of over
: 4,000,000 pounds of tobacco to the
' association during the past week—
the largest receipts which it has re
corded during any week of the pres
ent season.
Total receipts of the association
are now more than 51 million pounds
of tobacco for the present season and
there is every indication that thf*
tobacco co-ops of the old bright belt
will deliver more tobacco after
Christmas than has come to the co
operate markets of Virginia and
Western Carolina up to the present
time.
The new sign-up campaign for a
five year contract, calling for 6f> per
cent of all tobacco and delivery to the
new South Carolina Belt Tobacco
Growers Co-operative Association of
every pound grown upon the lands
of signers is off to a good start with
mass meetings of the growers and
the public being held in every im
portant tobacco growing county of
the South Carolina bolt.
No contracts are wanted or asked
for until the farmers and the public
are thoroughly familiar with the new
marketing agreement which is the
work of the growers themselves and
contains all the terms which tlvy
have askeil for in mass meetings of
representative growers. following
'four seasons of experience in the co
operative marketing of their tobacco.
The sign-up of contracts in South
i Carolina is scheduled to begin in the
j 158 local units of the association in
! that state and in the border counties
! of North Carolina on Wednesday, De
l cember .10, when there will be H
I general mobilization of those tobacco
farmers who are determined to pro
tect their tobacco crop for another
five years as they have done during
the present season.
If only they would abolish the
"nuisances taxes" and tax the nuis
lancc'.s,—Springfield Sun.