North Carolina Newspapers

DANBURY REPORTER Volume LI. LIQUOR DEALERS FARED HARD Prohibition Officer P. L. Flin chum Captured Six Men and Car Besides Whiskey and Stills Last Week. Prohibition Officer P. L. Flinchum broke the record of officers in this 1 section last week, capturing six : men, two stills, one car and 30 gal- 1 lons of whiskey. Officer Flinchum is being congra tulated by his friends on the fact that he has been retained by the prohibition authorities while the cut ting down of th* forces has been going on recently. Under the new ruling it is stated that there is now less than one officer for each thr .* counties of the state. 408 MILES PAVED ROAD BEING LAID i Enough Roads Will Be Finish ed In North Carolina This Year To Bring the Total To 5,000 Miles. According to press reports, com- 1 plstion of roads now under construc tion or contracts will bring the total mileage in North Carolina to 5,24 ; J.-' SS. The cost will be $0(1,860,485. Projects which will probably be com pleted this year will however, push... the total sum expended in North Carolina for state owned roads to more than one hundred million dol lars. A small percentage of th's money roprc.eiils federal aid. Pour hundred and eight miles of • :11>I til-faced roads were under cor s:ru.-tion of contracts at the opening of I'.'Jti and will probably swell tii • total -tate owned hard surfaced Mileage to 2,211 liy the close the preset.t yvar. During the l'.st year, 1,."14>7 miles of roads ware accepted from (ontraitors by the state highway coiumN'sion, bringing the total (f tate constructed roads in North Carolina to -1.1-is.oi miles. On the first day of the present year there were S1 »».."• 1 miles of roads under contract, or construction for the state. These will probably be com pleted during the present year and will bring the mileage of state con- ; structed roads in North Carolina to more than 5,000. SOLICITOR GRAVES I MAY RETIRE J. M. Sharp May Be In the ( Race For Solicitor In Case Mr. Graves Does Not Run, It Is Said. The Rcidsville paper says Judge Raymond Parker, of Winson- Salem, 1 judge of Forsyth county court, is understood is to be a candidate f o succeed Judge Lane, this report be ing coupled with a rumor that Solici tor S. Porter Graves, of Winston- Salem, like Judge Lane, will not be a candidate to succeed hinfself. Other lawyers of the 11th judicial district are also said to be consider ing entering the race for the judge ship. It is also said that J. M. Sharp, of Rcidsville, Judge Lane'.* home town, may he in the campaign for solicitor in the event that Mr. Graves does not run. The district includes five counties: Forsyth, Rockingham, Surry Ashe, Alleghany and Caswell, and is the first of the ten districts in western North Carolina in which the judges rotate in periods of six months each. A child of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Duggins is ill with pneumonia .t their home near Piedmont Springs. Jesse A. Lawson, a former well known citizen of Stokes, who now resides in High Point, was a visitor in the county this week. Franklin james, a prominent mer chant and farmer of Meadows 1, was a business visitor here Tues day. Glenn Forest and Ray Martin visited Mr. Forest's parents, Mr. and J. R.Forest, at Franciscj last night. James Dodson, of Danbury Route 1, was a visitor here yesterday. PILOT MOUNTAIN PROBABLY SOLD Reported That Capitalists Now- Own this Famous Mountain —Death of Miss Pansy Boy les—Other News. King, Feb. 15.—Charles Wilson, of Winston-Salem, has purchased from The Virginia-Carolina Land Corporation a resident lot in Pilot ( View. Born unto Mr. and Mrs. Rohah ' Hooker, another son. The young fellow arrived yesterday. Mr. Cleet Kiser, of this place, happened to a very painful accident last week. While sawing with a' wood saw propelled by a gasoline engine he got his hand a little too near the saw, cutting off the ends of , three of his fingers. A. B. Hendix, postmaster at To haccoville, three miles south of here fell and broke his arm about three 'weeks ago. week he fell again, this time breaking his leg. It will be some time before Mr. Hendrix will be able to resume his duties us i postmaster. I Mrs. Jackson Wall, aged 88-years, | died last Wednesday at her home three miles south of town after a lingering illness with a complication of diseases. Her husband proceed ed her to the grave several years. She is survived by two sons, A. C. Wall, member of the police force of -Winston-Salem, and J. Wright Wall, a planter of Tobaccoville, also one (laughter, Mrs. Jonas Spease, of Doiinaha, and several grand child ren. The interment was conducted fKim Mout Pleasant church Thurs day afternoon at 2:00 o'clock. Pilot Mtn. defeated King in a basket ball game played at Pilot Mountain Friday night. The final score stood 17 and U. It is iumured here that the Pilot Mtn. has been purchased by north ern capaiists for a consideration of seventy-live thousand dollars and will he developed at an early date. While the statements could not be verified, it is believed to he true. Your correspondent has visited many places of interest, including Luray Cavern in the Shanadoah valley, Na tural Bridge and Look Out Mountain, but for a real paying proposition, Pilot Mountain if developed has got anything I have seen beat a block. Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Preston, who reside in West View, are the glad ! recipients of another daughter. ! Miss Crysel Caudle, of Winston- Salem, spent Sunday with her par jents, Judge and Mrs. Jas. R. Caudle, in Walnut Hills. j An unknown thief entered the home of Mr. Fred Shore on West Main street Saturday night while | Mr. and Mrs. Shore were at the store l a short distance away. Mrs. Shore ! went to the house and when she en | tered the building she heard some one in the house and she turned on the electic lights, this frightened the intruder away who made a hasty retreat hrough the back door. So far as they could tell, nothing had been molested. It is believed that Mrs. Shore arrived at the house alxiut the same time the burglar entered and that he did not have tfme to carry out his plans. The King highs lost to Klkin in a hard fought game of basket ball played at Klkin Saturday night. The final score stood 14 to 10. S. A. Stone, of Winston-Salem, was among the visitors here Sunday. David Fowler and family, of High Point, were among the visitors here Sunday. Dr. and Mrs. R. D. Tuttle, of Winston-Salem, were here Sunday. King was visited by a severe hail storm yesterday. The ground was covered with hail, many of the pieces being a slarge as partridge eggs. The stork paid a visit to Mr. and Mrs. William Holder, Jr., who reside on Pulliam street, yesterday, leav ing a fine boy. Miss Pansy Boyles, aged l(5-years, died this morning at the Lawrence hospital in Winston-Salem, following an operation. The remains will be brought to the home here today and the interment will be conducted from Mount Olive church tomorrow. Miss Boyles, who bore her suffering with patience, was one of the best girls of this community. She will be greatly missed, but the neighbor hood's loss will be heaven's gain. Danbury, N. C, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 1926 CRIPPLES ARE 1 GIVEN HELP Winston-Salem Clinic Is Re- 1 ceiving Patients and Opera tions Being Done Through Gastonia Children's Hospital. Raleigh. Feb. 15.—Through the! Kiwanis Orthopaedic Clinic at Win- ! I ston-Salcm, which meets for the > second time on Saturday, February j 20, in the offices of the county health j 1 department, mfiny cripples of thisji section of the state who have de- j ( spaircd of having their deformities 11 corrected are being provided with! \ an opportunity to secure treatment j 1 by an orthopaedic specialist that i will remove a part if not all of : their physical handicaps. , A number of cases are receiving | treatment in the clinic through the application of plaster casts, ortho paedic shoes, and corrective -exer | , ciscs. These patients are able to remain at home and come into the i clinic each month for observation and further treatment. Those - ro quiring operations are being treat ed at the Children's Hospital at Gastonia or a free bed furnished by the Rotary Club of Winston- Sclent. The Winston-Salem Clinic is a link in the chain of clinics estab lished over the entire State of North Carolina by the State Department of Vocational Rehabilitation for the purpose of providing such treat ment to all of the indigent cripples of the state. No one can estimate the value of this progress, not only to these handicapped people them selves, but to the communities in which they reside and the common wealth as a whole. Orthopaedic treatment is but the first step in the program of the Re habilitation Department. After the physical handicap has been i'"iiroved as far as possible, the Department provides a course of vocational training to lit the disabled party for a vocation suited to any remaining handicap, and then aids him in se curing suitable entpoynient. Thus he is fitted for an active life of usefulness, supporting himself an 1 dependents, and contributing to the production of his community. From a non-producer and a potential men dicant is evolved a happy, independ ent and useful citizen. j i :STATE IS SAVING I $15,000 A MONTI! Did It By Cutting Off Employ es In Various Departments —The Figures For Month Of December. I Raleigh, Feb. IC.—While the state • salary and wage commission report ed a saving to the state of only $lO,- 2.')2 a year, or $1,002.67 a month by the reduction of salaries and alt ho this amount was largely offset by later raises, figures compiled by the state auditor show that during the past year the adminstrative depart ments have cut off 1015 employes and have thereby cut sls,(>-12.32 a month, or $187,707.84 a year from the payroll. Figures taken are the month of December, 1024, the last month o f the Morrison administration, ami January 1020. The month of De cember is said to furnish a fair comparison -with January because the amount of work in the vaiious departments is virtually the same. The figures show that about hal !> the departments have increased their payrolls and the other have decreased them, but the latter are much greater than the former. In December, 1024, the state de partments had 1,503 employes draw ing $222,707.10 a month. In Jan uary, 102(5, there were 1,400 em ployes drawing $207,155.08 a month. The biggest decrease noted wore in the agriculture department where employes were reduced from 120 to 84 and in the automobile depart ment, where the reduction was from 217 to 131. W. Y. Gordon, of Germanton Route 1, who was a visitor nere yes terday, had just returned from a visit to his son, Lathe Godon, \t Badin. The bitter is engaged in the mercantile business and has been very successful. PASSING OF A GOOD CITIZEN I I Uncle Gideon A. Martin, At the Ripe Old Age Of HI Years, i Passes To His Reward At i His Home Near Lawsonville. j Gideon A. Martin was born DecJ 10, 1 v 15, and died Jan. 15, 102(5. His stay on earth was so years and 27 days. Was married twice. To Miss Lucy Joyce first and to this union was horn 8 children. 5 sons and 3 daughters. The sons are K. K. Mar tin, of Stuart R. 1., Va.; W. P. Mar tin, of Stuart, Va.; R. A. Martin, of Mount Airy; C. L. Martin, of Ly man, Col. A. C. Martin died very iyoung. The daughters were Mrs. Dr. |N. E. Rierson, of Hluefield, W. Va.; Mrs. G. C. Shclton, of lawsonville; Mrs. J. W. Lackey (deceased), of I Lawsonville. And by the second | marriage to Miss Fannie Hamby was born one daughter, Mrs. Matt Moore of Lawsonville. There are also two surviving sisters, Mrs. K. S. Lawson, of Lawsonville; Mrs. Jesse A. Law son, of High Point. 11c was a Con federate soldier and belonged to a Virginia company of cavalrymen. The deceased was a kind and loving husband and father and a good and obliging neighbor. He had nothing too good for his friends and we never heard any one speak ill of him or never knew him to commit a mean act. May his reward be a he.i venly one. A FRIKND. On Friday morning at ■"> o'cl >ck, January 15, I02(>, Gideon Martin, surrounded by sorrowing ri»*cd ones ami friends, passed peacefully to his reward. His death was not un expected. He was twice married. First t > Lucy Joyce, of l'-i!ric\ cot.n ty. Va. To this union «e,eri child ren were horn, as follows: K. K. Maitin, Stuart. Va.; Charlie Maitin, Lemon, Colo., Delia A. Martin, Mt. \iry; Percy Mortin, Stiuil, Va.; Mrs. N. K. Rierson, Hlueficl.l, W. Va.; Mrs. Vera Shclton, Lawsonville and Mrs. Lillian U. Lackey, who preced ed him to the grave by some y.-ars. He was married the second time to Miss Fanny Handy, of Stuart, Va. To this union one child was born, Mrs. Delia Moore, of Lawsonville. The deceased was not a member |of any church but has lived a good | life. He was a good husband and father and a peaceful and ntuchliked neighbor. He is survived by thirty one grandchildren, seven great gandehildrcn and two sisters, Mrs Kpp Lawson and Mrs. J. A. Lawson The funeral services were conducted at the home by Revs. Joy .'0 and Hall and the remains laid to re-'.t in the family plat of the Martin cemetery. A large number of relatives and sor rowing friends were in attendance.!* was an unusually rough day when hi was buried but this did not hindci his neighbors and friends from at tending the service and thus show ing their esteem for him. Former Stokes Citizen Dies In Winston-Salem Winston-Salem, Feb. IS. Mr. William Clarington Smith, until recently a resident of S' I.es (.uni ty, died at 4:10 o'clock this i >'ii L at the home of his broth**, ■•;. i. Smith, in Winston-Salem. He he been living in W'tisto'i-Salem foi about two months. Air. Smith wa (io years of age, and was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Alexand-t Smith, of Stokes county. Me h. - u been ill failing health for about I years, and for the past foar niontns his condition had been serious. Hi was a member of Haw Pond Christ ian church, Stokes county. The deceased is survived by twr brothers, Geo. L. Smith, Winston Salem, and 11. S. Smith, of Pfalf town, and one sister, Mrs. K. L Bennett, Winston-Salem. The hoily was taken to thi Shields-Bodenheinter funeral parlor prepared for burial and returned ti the home. The funeral will be hell at 2 o'clock Saturday aft'rtio iti frill the Pfalftown church, burial follow ing in the church graveyard. How thrilling it would be at this distance if Mussolini had something i like a Senator front Idaho. Vancou vcr Sun. | BOX SUPPER FOR DANBURY SCHOOL! I . _ i To lie Given On Washington's ' | Birthday, Monday Night, j Feb. 22—Proceeds To liny i j Equipment For School. A Washington's birthday program, and box supper will be given at the • new school building in Danbury on . Monday night, Feb. 22nd, beginning 1 at 7 o'clock. | All parents of the school children | are especially urged to at tun d. The exercises will begin promptly at 7, and afterwards boxes will be sold at auction. The admission will be 15 cents for • adults and 10 cents for children, the ' proceeds to he used for necessary, equipment for the school. 1 WAREHOUSES TO !| CLOSE FEB. 26 ,1 . ! I This Is Date Fixed For All Co-j Operative Houses In This Tobacco Belt Walnut Cove 1 House Is Included. i j Rcidsville, Feb. 17.—The local , warehouse officials of the Tri-State . Tobacco Growers Co-operative Asso -1 eiation were notified today that the ( closing date this season for several small warehouses in the old bright , belt (Piedmont North Carolina and Virginia! has been set for Friday, February 2'i. In the list are war. - , houses at Greensboro, Kernersville, , Madis HI, Leaksville. Walnut Cove, s IL-ndeivoii. Mebane, and Burlington, i Linger warehouses, including th • -tone at Rcidsville, will remain open until some time in March, around i th.- middii of the month. William B. Tuttle. u William I!. Tuttle, of Stokes coun ty. was born May 30, I>l2, died ; February 2, 102'*, age S3 years. S ; months and 2 days, lie was married I to Sal lie I'. I laker December 24, . 1 .Mis, who proceeded him to Heaven ( March 2:!, 1022. This union was ~ blessed with eleven children; six i. sons and two daughters living and i, three dead. He is survived by six j Robert L„ J. Calvin, T. Fountain, !• Wiley G., and two daughters, Mrs ,1 Jantes Wall and Mrs. Gid Rutledge, (| Also twti brothers, Jasper C. and ,1 Jeff Tuttle. ■. 1 The deceased was baptised it in Christ about 50 years ago an.l . united with Friendship Baptist \, church and was a faithful and con (1 sistent member. All of the child- II ren who survive him are memoers eof Baptist churches. He was a faithful and devoted husband. a •- sincere friend and a nobl" citizen; [t therefore, he will be missed in t •:? Ie home, in his church and in the c >m ■ r munity. Brother Tuttle was a t- soldier in the 21st. N. C. Regiment •- of the Confederate army. lie fought in the battles around Rich mond and Gettysburg. He was wounded in the battle of Winches ter, Va., and before he was able for 1 service again the war closed. Front that wound he carries in his thigh \ a minnie ball which was never re i! moved. . Mrs. A. J. Fagg and Miss Fdith Fagg returned home Tuesday night j from a visit of several days to rcla r lives and friends in Winston-Salem. ■f The ground hog is los np out m r this section on the weather, as we d have had 10 fair days an.l only four 1 days of rough weather since he saw is his shadow. l " Some one has suggested that rais ing bees will help the farmer. He ° might try. The farmer is accustom ed to being stung by everything else he raises. Fergus Falls (Minn.) Journal. 10 The two groups that seldom know '' just what the people want are eon -0 gre/smen and the people.—Rirmin,- hara News. m r The average farm sheep produced only about two pounds of wool per is year a century ago. Now the an ig nunl average is about 7 1-2 pounds j- of wool. This is the result of better breeding. No. 2,807 ARSON CASE HERE JS DISMISSED Justice L. J. Young Does Not Find Evidence Suflicient To Hold El> Nicholson On War rant Charging Burning. Kb Nicholson, of thi Smiih'.own section n( Stokes, was arraigned here today before Justice L.J.Voung on a warrant charging him with the liurning of two tobacco barns >n the land.-, of It. M. Campbell at Law sonville. Another warrant charged Nicholson with a deadly assault on Campbell. Quiti' " number of wit- I nesses were examined and the war rants charging arson were dismiss ed for lack of evidence. In the as ' sault case, in which Campbell testi- I tied that Nicholson shot at him., the 'defendant was required to give u '. bond of three hundred dollars for hi.s appearance at the next term of Su perior court. The trial of Nicholson today drew I quite a crowd of interested specta tors in spite of the rain. N. C. WHISKEY BEING EXPORTED It Is Shipped To Bermuda and "Doctored" and Then Ship ped Rack Here As Scotch Whiskey. Raleigh, Feb. It!. Moon>hiners in eastern N«>rth Carolina arc doing 't !>i'j- export business to the Bermudas and Dahii'iias, utcording t" infur ma'ion Hamilton Jones, I'niti I States commissioner states lie ha-; received from reliable source*. Coin whiskey. Manufactured i:i huge stills hidden in the Carolina swamps, is being shipped to tlv l.riti..lt-owned island where it is "doctoivd" to resemble popular bran«l> of Scotch and Irish whiskey, say.- Mr. Jones. It is then poured into bottles bearing old familiar labels and shipped ba k into the I'nitcd States as the "real stutT". STOKES BOY FINE VIOLINIST Corbett Bennett, 13 Years Old, Delights Lions At Winston- Salem With His Music— II May Enter Training. lj Corbett Bennett, 13-year-old boy . lof the King section of Stokes coun . ( ty, has no peers as a tine violinist, it . is said by those who have heard him , play. Last week he gave an ex j hibition for the Lions at their wcek . ly luncheon at Winston-Salem. , | The Winston-Salem Journal ha.i the following in regard to young , Bennett: The old a 'age that "music l.ath , charms to soothe the savage breast'*" . was given ample and substantial , support Wednesday wbe Corbett Bennett del chted the I.ions at their , weekly luncheon. Corbett is on'y l;? , years old and "small for his size," j but he is up in years when it com •« to manipulating the fiddle. He hasn't taken any lessons, picking the art up by himself. He plays "by ear," i and one wonders what he could d.» t under the tutelage of a skillful - teacher for a year or two. Corbett would tickle Henry Ford, for he plays the old-time dance ( pieces that "Lizzie's" step-fath r _ likes. The Lions heard the "Flap Fared Mule" and applauded consider . ably. Then the youthful prodigy play ed "Mississippi Sawyer" and the applause was more energetic. Fin ally he played 'Turkey in the Straw' as the Lions all stood up on their hind feet. The young musician has a smoothness of bow movement and finger action that would make veteran player envious. Young Bennett's home is in Stokes county on a farm near King. He ' goes to Mount Olive school. Several of the Lions told him to hurry and get into the high school at Wins toil Salem so he could get the in struction that is afforded by experts il in the city's department of music, r He warmed up to the idea with mucti - interest. The boy has extraordin s ary talent which should be develop r ed and brought to the full incasur ■» of its possibilities.