DANBURY REPORTER
' Volume LI.
MOORE'S SPRINGS
HOTEL BURNS
Sew nil Houses Also Destroy-:
id I'.y Flames I .alt* Wt'ducs-i
day Nielli —Loss Of '
Fire In lit-wtl to have started from .
an 1 11 ic v.ir , di -ir ye I tin 1
Moor -'s iri'ft - lit i j 1, lln pi -1" ■1"
el !>> the hutt-l nuiHi.'ii.v !: irght. l
(Wednesday night.> The total loss
was riniatt il at siill.OOO, including j
fu. olshings and stock of tin- store.
Tile entire group of I uildillgs were
destroyed anil were only partly niv
tsred l>y •iisuraii'e.
blaze started in the hotel
out I! lock and spread to the
other buildings in a short time.
There wi re only three peiple at the
hot-1 at this lime and they formed
a bucket brigade I'lit did not ac
complish in'.nil towards exlii git'sh
lug the ol.iZf.
Mr. iir.ulshaw, manager of the
hotel anil owner f the grocery store
situated next dour to the hotel was
the only one at the seene when th •
flames staled.
The hotel is owned hy a stoek
company composed i f business me.i
tif Winston-Salem and Grecnsbor >.
LOCAL TOBACCO
MARKET PASSES
42 MILLION MARK
] iglit Salt's IHirir.jjf the Week
and OfVerinus Wore of I'oor
Quality—Market To Close
i rid; y, .Alarch l'_\
Winston-Salem, March li. To
ro sail - this Week of only IJt'S,-
i Jgpi pounds is indicative of the fact
y |B»at almost the entire crop has been
jnarkctcd. Ninety per eent of the
' 'Stteriivrs wore of the very low lion
des.riiit type whirl) )iulled the gell
-eral awrage of the season from
sl(i.7."> of last week down to Slli.ii!'.
A few faney baskets of tobai
•was sold each day during the week
and these sold at the usual high
prices, that is from $lO to S7O. As
indicated in last week's market
report the warehousemen are hearti
ly urging the farmers of this belt to
bend all their etTorts towards the
raising of bright tobaccos and if
they do this next season Winston-
Salem's average will he high. Year
after year the demand seems to be
less and less for the dark grades as
the whole world is turning to
smoking.
This week's sales brings the sea
son'ssales to date up to •12,0!li),7!13
pounds. The first part of the sea
son—in fact clear up to Thanksgiv
ing almost anybody could have se
cured a bet at ten to one that the
market would not sell during the
season forty million pounds Hut
the Winston market is a great mar
ket for everything that it takes to
do business in the Ciluicco line, this
market has—and then some.
During the coming week only
"double sales" will be run and as
.stated, the market will close down
for the season, positively, on Friday,
Jlarch 12.
I N. C. Road Markings
Yellow and Black
P? It is announced that road mark
k iiißs or the stati's highways will
eventually be changed in accordant'.'
with recommendations of the joint
interstate board of the American
state highway officials and approve 1
by the United States bureau of pub
lic roads. These markings are black
f on a deep yellow base, and are made
f of metal. Various shapes have been
adopted for the varied meaning of
the signs, round for railroad signs,
square for school and hospitals,
' curves and narrow bridge diamond
! shape; stop, octagonal, and the like
c "It will b ea matter of time before
we will eventually have all new
I erected on our state system,"
IW. E. Hawkins, maintenance engin
eer, stated "as we have quite a
number of years use remaining in
some of the signs now erected,
Uniform signs, the conlmitte felt,
would be of a great advantage to
interstate travel, find especially
since this is growing so rapidly in
volume.
IHIGHWAY BOARD
MAKE NEW RULES
j Will Meet Ajxain on Second
Monday in April, and There
alYr On Second Mondays of
'> Each Month—To Elect Sun
i erintendent and Assistant;
.Secretary and Treasurer—
Doors Open for linsiness A.
One O'clock i\ M.
j
Th" Stoles County Highway Com
! mission will meet on Monday, April
1:\ which is the second Monday n.
i April. Thereafter, also the boar I
will be in session on the second
Mondays of the months. At thi
meeting a Superintendent of road
will be elected, an assistant superin
tendent or mechanic; a secretary
:mil a treasurer. Other business of
importance, including the payment
of claims, will be transacted at the
meeting.
Hereafter the board will be ope i
to the public for the dispatch of
business at one o'clock I*. M., and
not in the forenoon. The session
from 10 o'clock a. m. til dinner wi'l
be behind closed doors in order that
the board may have time to get its
air.'iirs in shape for the business
like transaction of matters before
the crowd conies in. Those who
live business with the coaruissinn
ers will be an.Miinied a definite time
for their hearing, and a half dozen
griov.'ini >s will not be tonsiilercd a
• mi" time.
The bi trd is to be cotigratulat i
on their new rules and !i , .' , tr.01-.
V.ll' h will be appieciated by tht
pi;b!••• and will tend to a bett -r
fa dilation of business.
The !» ird was in h-s iu:i here
• Monday, all the members being
! present.
,j _ _
Personal Items
1 From Francisco 1
.i . !
t Francisco, March in. Farmers
; in this section are very busy having
i wood choppings and preparing for
, another large crop of tobacco.
The tin is reported to be in sever
i al families in this section at present
i Mrs. V. Flippin is seriously ill
• with pneumonia.
r Mrs. I.ula Wright, of Richmond
■ county, spent Saturday and Sun
: day with her parents, Mr .and Mrs.
■ J. W. Shclton.
! Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bondurant are
> the proud receipients of a line baby
girl.
Mrs. Bettio Owen is spending
! few days with her sister, Mrs. Robt.
- N'unn.
Marshall Nelson, who resides near
- here, lost his home by tire recently.
> Rev. John I> .Smith will fill his
■ regular appointment at Dan River
i church next Sunday.
Miss Alice Christian, who is at
. ;he I .awrence hospital for treat
> rncnt, is improving.
Reid and Jesse Owen killed two
• line porkers last week. ,
• W. F. Carter Named
Emergency Judge
Mjount Airy, March 0. -Gover
nor McLean has commissioned W.F.
■ Carter of this place, an emergency
judge to hold a two weeks civil
• term of court for Johnson beginning
! March 2!>.
Judge Carter is one of the lead
t itig lawyers of this section of the
i state and his friends are much gra-
I tided to learn that the Governor has
- honored him by tbis appointment.
; It is now assured that a glass
1 factory will be erected in Mount
i Airy. local business men have
l formed a company and the contract
, for the building will be let within
, the next few days. It is understood
I that the new concern will manufac
■ turc mirrors and all kinds of glass
> used in the manufacture of furni
■ ture and for other purposes.
Work will begin within the next
few days upon an addition to the
i plant of the National FumitureCo.,
i of this place. This is already one
of the largest furniture manufactur
, ing concerns of the ( country and
i the steadily increasing volume of
business tsoming>to them make it
necessary that they greatly enlarge
their factory space.
Danbury, N. C, Wednesday, March 10, 1926
AUTO JOY RIDERS
GET INTO TROUBLE
(leoi'Ke Card\e"ll, of Madison,
Chai'tf"l With Oiiee.'itu./ C;u
While Intoxicated—('wish
ed Into a l'tiggy.
Madison. March Ye: t.-rdiiy
M.iy r Mcador sent George Caul
well, a young white man, on t.i
court under a $250 bond for opera:-
ing a car while under the ialluetice
>f whi lay. I'ardwell ;::il two
friends h:id be, n driving art.on 1
town Sunday afternoon and even
in."'. In the meatime, Oscar Itullin,
who lives a few miles from town,
had larked hi> buggy, to which i
mule was attached, vvllile he wc"
to Kali.h V, .•!). t; r's to secure veii\e
ice for his family, ten of whom are
ri k. Cabell Gibson was in the
buggy when Canlwell and his com
panions came up behind. The car
Canlwell was driving hit the buggy
in the reiir, throwing Gibson out
and cut;ing him up to some evten'.
The buggy landed oil the mule, that
is, what was left of it, ami the ani
mal was so badly lacerated that i".
was necessary to secure a Winston-
Salem vcteinarian to render the
necessary surgical aid. The buggy
was demolished. Chief George T.
Martin took the three joy riders un
der his projecting wing and fhey
spent the remainder of the night in
the town jail.
Inlluen/.a is still raging in this
section, and piobabl; never hefor.
Iris there been so nuch sit kli
'i here are al- i several cast s of
pneumonia.
A seizes of meeting began at the
I'resbylerian church la. t nigh', with
Dr. Md.ees, of Chatham. Ya.. doing
the preaching. His initial sermon
made a profound inriressioii ontlm."
who heard hi in. There will IK* two
services ea il day.
Cotton.
1 Cotton is found in many parts of
the world, and is ranked among one
of the most useful products.
Since it is a vegetable production,
it's growth is dependent upon cli
mate. and is found only in warm
parts of the world. In our own
country it is raised only in the
southern states.
The cotton of the gulf states,
considered the finest in the world,
;tnd is one of our chief sources of
wealth and industry.
Much of our cotton is shipped
abroad, while a large portion of it
is manufactured in the extensive
niills of our own country.
As bread is said to be the "staff
of life," so cotton may be styled
the "staff of clothing," for nearly
every article of our apparel can be
made of it. It is also made into
many other things, which answer a
variety of purposes.
The world's annual production of
cotton is 22,000,000 bales, :uid tin
world annually imports about 11,
000.000 bales, of which Great Britain
takes about and France
luul Japan each about one-ninth.
I?efore the world war Germanv
imported alniut half as much as
Great Britain.
The average annual cotton pro
duction of the United States is
11,260,000 bales.
MILDRKI) HANKS,
Seventh Grade,
Bine Hall School.
Mrs. C. R. Wall, teacher.
Surveyors At Work
On Road to N. C. Line
Winston-Salem; March t>.
Fditor M. E. Thompson, of the
Stuart (Va.) Enterprise, who wa
in the city Friday, reported that sur
veyors began work this week map
ping out the best route for the pro
posed hard surface highway to be
built to the North Carolina line,
connecting Stuart with Mount Airy
and Winston-Salem. The survey i-s
beig made by authority of the Vir
ginia Highway Commission, which
also phuis to construct a hard pur
face toad from Stuart via Christian
burg, Va., to the West Viiginialine.
The Stuart editor stated that the
sand clay road from hi? town to
Mount Airy was in tine condition.
He motored to Winst »n-Salem with
a friend, the trip to l.his ci'y being
made in one hour and dfty minutes.
PREVENT THE (
FLY PLAGUE
Clean l'p and Keep Clean So 
That There Will Me No
iJrei't!ip«f Place For Flies—
Kill the Kiirly Spring Flies
As l' st As They Come. ,
i
Raleigh. Mar !i ii. These lie
warm io' : ng days which begin to t
stir all n."i 'irt awakening to m w lil
after the w'.ri t sleeii. bring inm" j
than tl: I'ii-t tiny llow.'- and th ;
hint of green in the trees. ,
There heard again the buz/, of
the hoiis" fly, a little lazy and sleepy
as yet, but still up and i(.- t
business i f annoying human being-. ,
Just a few scattered here and th' To, |
appear n >»v, along with the robins,
as harbingers uf saring. Presently
these few will have hivom.' milloii:-.
Just how many each home will
possess during the summer depends
upon tin reception given the first
In the beginning it is well to r - ,
member that tile I'.y is not a dispell- .
satioti of providence. It is the resur
re tioii.the reincarnation of our own
tilth and carelessness. The 11 y is j
merely one of our own insanitary (
curses coming to rest. !
The fly is strictly a diucstic ani
mal. It lo s men and women, and i
little ehidro'i, especially babies. Il I
tries to -h w its affection by stay- I
ing clove urn eul the home, and.
keening • n terms of > nimacy with ;
those v.ho have m.nl- i s life pes
Nobody wants the !ly fir a p-', •
It is a nuisance nlwa> . A'ine i
every one has learned th.it it i
really dangerous associate. So no
one is proud of having flies around, j
Yet the fly is really much more a
domestic animal than the dog. or th"
' cat, or the sheep. The fly cann-i'
live outside of the spi ial and
peculiar surroundings, we humans '
and our dirtiness, and the dirtiness
of our barnyards and our domestic
f animals provide. The fly is almost
. unknown in the uninhabited forests
and wilderness, but where man is. 1
there is the fly. To paraphrase a
. Bible verse, "A man's flies are those
, of his own household,
i If every person would clean up
-■ and keep clean there would be no
necessity to preach any gospel or 1
, conduct any campaign against th"
, lly. Even these first arrivals of
f early spring would mean nothing,
for there would then be no place for
1 them to breed, and the life ef the
t individual fly is of but a few days.
j But we won't do that. On the con
trary a whole lot of folks will pro
f vide food and lodging for the fly,
1 and ideal nurseries where its prog
,• eny may be reared.
L ' It was once taught that dies per
' formed the useful and necessary of
-1 lice of scavengers. This argument
is no longer worthy of consideration,
f We know that while flies do con-
L ' sume tilth and germs of all sorts,
they almost invariably return t.i
i deposit these on our food as part of
■' thicr dejecta.
But, you ask, arc flies utterly use- 
r less'.' Isn't there something in the
s Good Book about tlies being useful.'
No. We are taught that tlies were
- used to remind King Pharaoh of his
■ wickedness and the uncleanliness of
his people. A plague of tlies was
sunt upon the Egyptians that they
and their king would recognize the
• superiority of their Creator and a 1
race of clean people such as that i
great sanitarian, Moses, was lead- 
ing. The cleanly living Hebrews, it '
i is recorded, were free from the
plague of flies.
Flies today serve the same pur
p pose as they did in those olden days
 of the time of Pharaoh. Flies can 1
r not breed without tilth iuid the mor- '
- tilth, the more flies. The great pie'- ■
- pose they serve, therefore, is an in
l' dex to the sanitary conditions of the
• t town of the community, of the home i
y in which they are fund. The real I
•s purpose of the fly, therefore, is to >
- serve as a tormenting, disgraceful
l reminder of our own uncleanliness i
which, after all, is the heart and i
- soul of sanitation. Clcaliness may
-. be placed even before Godliness, for
L> without cleanliness; of person and
> surroundings, cleanliness of body 1
i. and cleanliness of ntind and soul,
l how can we have a full appreciation 1
! of the spiritual virtues?
i. To repeat for a moment, flies arc 1
CAPTCKRD STILL
NKAR THK COVK-
I
('Hirer Finds :!L' Pints of VVhi -
li>y in A Trunk At Fillinjrj
Station At Madi.Mi:;.
Pr.ihih't'on '• V. i'l M: itl: -w
--• f Ml. ry, m. ■ nr.' 1 . n ill. !'•!'
ing -t.i ion !■;' I!. S!i'pnard. - t
M nil "tl. I'l-'l W"i k. 'i " nfli
found nhit of w! i ' hidden in
a trill 1 . Sin 1 v :;I .v, t,.|| mil
given a preliminary t■ •i• i:■ • r an I
hound i\'-r ' )• ~; i| ii.ui! i 1
Git• -I«.i'ii i:»nli r n ?•' ■ ml.
Oflieer Ma"h"'V' . :.. -i.-.'.ed by IM..
i'i in bun:, nl " c.'e . ured .. lurg .-'ill
near Walnut r s.• ■:■ i:.• and
lo'ired out a!" !. mi t:dloiis of
b i-r. No one w-i en • n ih"
: i'i plai e and no er■■ ■: - w • •
Walnut Cove
News Items
Walnut Cove. Man h Miss I
Claudia N'eal, of Guiifol'd College, j
s'lent the past week with her par
ent.-, Mr. and Mr.-. G. W. Neal.
Mr. Walter I'oyles, who has been 1
in the Twin-City hospital for sonn- :
time is sonic better, we are glad to .
note.
Mrs, J. W. Ilutcherson. who spent
two days in the 1 r -n. •• hospital,
having her tonsils reiiv ve l, has re
turned hoir ai.d i i'nt'f v ing.
Joe Ximmerir.'.n has been ii! with
tile llu for a few day... .
Mrs. .1. 11. I whr and daught r.
I. ill i: 111, •re sh'tppui; :!, Will
Saleill I'l'id.'iy.
»irs. MM,| Ml . I' ; ii.., 1 . .I,are
s| ending ;ii i:.;i•: in Jaci;. nvil 1■ •.
Ma.
Mrs. C. W. Floyd an 1 chil iri :i ar •
visiting rilaiiv. s in Jacksonville.
1 la.
Miss Sarah Mi: lull and Mr.
Ralph Bloom, wvr. married Mon
day, March 1 in South i'ar ! : na.
The Ladies' Aid Society \if the
M. E. church gave a birthday party
in the school aiitli'iii'iuin Friday
night. Feh.'Jii. Refr shments were
served tunl there was given a num
ber of contests with prizes for the
winners. Every one present spent
an enjoyable evening.
Danbury has quite a number of
cases of flu. Among those who
have been confined to their homes
this week are: Atty. J. W. Hall.
R. R. King, E. P. Pepper, Mesdanies
R. 11. Mort'ficld, N. E. Pepper. \V. G.
Petree and little Misses Estelle
Humphreys, Emoric and Julia Pep
per, Hazel Petree and Nellie King.
Mesdanies R. T. Joyce and S. P.
Christian, of Westfield, were here
yesterday a short while.
Mesdanies Paul and Jacob Fult»i
Fulton and Nannie Fulton, of Wal
nut Cove, wore in town a short
whiee yesterday.
first of all domestic creatures. St •
ondly, flies breed only in filth of
one kind or another. Flies will liy
their eggs on any kind ef decay in:*,
rotting, fermenting and disintegra'-
ing material. Flies, like the humans
with whom they live, of course have
preferences when it conies to choos
ing ii place to live and breed. At
laying time the first choice of the
feminine fly as a suitable place for
depositing her eggs would he upon
a pile of horse manure, licr second
choice would be that of human
excreta. The latter, of course, is the
more dangerous because of the pre
sence in human excreta of the death
dealing germs of typhoid fever,
dysentery, aiTrl the diarrheal disease
of infancy. In the absence of horse
or human excreta, the fly will cho ise
any kind of disintegrating filth thai
is most convenient. In most com
munities a third ihoice does not
have to be made, because people
have been kind enough to make one
of the first two readily accessible.
Flies begin to breed early The
first warm days of spring "t
them oir. They continue until late
in the autumn.
To prevent a swarm of flies this
summer there are two things to do:
Clean up the home and premises
right now. Keep them clean. Swat
the early flies. Screen the house to
keep out the flies which tht' neigh
bors may breed.
No. 2,808
jMAN STABMKI)
NiOAK KING
I
: V.ull«r .M.Tfilt I' Knife on
( Mivtue Kijff!" [lank IU 1 -
i i-i'iVi'S ( ei k—OlluT Ni'WS
(• I K ! IIJJT !*• 'l'l i'MI.
I
i'. i Maivh lip I lank of
Stokes County here ha- received
iii ilit- in u ranee company a cheek
for ton t■ .:i I ring
I III' I" s :a- ' .Mil' I I • tl ■ 1 nil; • br
ing robbed hi I.- mi thf n jrht of Feb.
, Utl. X. it hi r tli' -ti 1.1,' !-.!i! i r de
positors will loose anything on ae
■ > tint of 11 b m ry.
( liiren i' l\ igt r, who 1 i•. almut
thre. mill-., i n ' I,!' bin . \va  stab
bed it: tile leg by Waiter Merritt
tcnia.v afterri en near the hnite
• i Meirit:. I-rum tin- In t i:f intui
tion olr.aiialil -. it .-cents that .Mi r
i\it li.nl f.u'lii Lii-ti Kijri-r (fin! point;
a hi-; | hi' i . K;• r .-ta'.e I that
I hi had started in m- hi- n• • • 'it r- and
that tile mail ■ ro.--. M .ill'.. | lace
■was tile i.niy way h- 'i.nl to much
the home of his ninth ami that
: this ruin! hail Iti ii.-v I i v :h • puh
-1 lie for yens. Kig«-r furtit"r stated
j that Merritt came up i. iv v■ a- go
• int.- al.ng this mail . Mil opened hi*
knife and made f \ 'lini i I that
he guarded his !i l.s 'J ' • .-.nv
tin!'-, hit tiaaily he succeeded in
T:«'- linvr ll'lil in th«■ log. ill- was
1' i 1 • *i * in tin' Kiv jr tympany's
place where Dr. 11. S. Helsabeeti
i ! his wound.
Mi-rri't was arm-ii-d l y officer
I! .1! and t>l:i i UHi•••!• I' lid fur his
. ; ih-i'l'mi. i- !■ fun Judge 'antes R.
i .• udle tn v t Tuesday.
M:\ and Mi's t laude Alll n ar.'
t*• • ph'd r- . it-tils ef a ti'i" baby
hoy.
I 'll' I'i-I! M ti iv 11 Hardware Co."*
Imildvg whi It is being erected en
last Main street. ! s something like
half I'otnpleted. Work en this new
huilding - heinp hurried along at ,t
rapid rate and will s.ion be com
pleted.
A new baby was born yes
terday to Mr. and Mrs. Dallas I»ine.
W. M. Knott, of Winston-Salem,
has purchased from the Virginia-
Carol inu Land Corporation, a resi
lient lot in Pilot View.
The Pell-Mitchell Hardware Co.
lias purchased from The IJlue Ridge
Furniture Company another lot ad
joining the lot on which they arc
having their new" building erected.
This gives them it frontage on both
Depot and Main streets.
Mack Caudle, who holds a posi
tion with the Southern Railway Co.,
spent Sunday with his parents ia
Walnut Hills.
H. H. Delp, has purchased from
W. (). Fowler a business lot on west
Main street.
liarvty Pulliani, of High Point,
spent Sunday with parents hero.
Atty. D. C. Kirby, of Winston-
Salem, was here Saturday looking
after some legal matters.
Work on Karlie Moser's new
home in Walnut Hills is well under
way and will in pushed through to
completion at an early date.
Rev. K. A. Molten, ef Winston-
Salem, delivered a very interesting
i setYiHin at the Moravian clrtreh
here Sunday
The epidemic if tin iti this v
tion is subsciding. There has been
ijuite a number of cases in this
section recently, but no deaths up
' to this time.
Rev. Paul 11. N'ewsuni tilled hi*
regular appointment at Mount Airy
' Sunday.
Misses Lula Wripht and Minnie
Flora, and Dr. E. W. Owen were
i the guests of Mr. and Mrs. ,1. 11.
liradshaw at Moore's Springs Thurs
• day evening at a dinner party and
• dance.
The Westlield high school gave a
. negro niinistrel here at the new
school building Friday night. Vh.«
, crowd it: attendance was large a»;d
the program was thoroughly en
joyed by all.
Wm. T. Newman
Died Monday
i Wm. T. Newman, aged about 67
years, jlicd at his home in northern
Stokes Monday morning, following
a few days illness with pneumaiu.
' Mr. Newman was a hard-working
■ farmer and will be greatly missed ia.
his community.