Volume LI.
TAX-LISTING
STARTS SOON
Supervisor Carroll Issues In
structions To List-Takers ami
Tax-Payers—Those Who Are
Tardy To Ho Charged 25c.
County tax supervisor E. \V. Car-1
roll has been at the court house!
here the past few days sending
out notices in regard to the listing
of taxi* next month and instructing
the list-takers in the duties they
will soon have to perform.
The notices being sent out for
appointments of list-takers eon
tain. besides the dates, etc., the fol
lowing :
Article 15. Section 11, of the Ma
chinery Act, requires that your list
he made and delivered to the list
taker during the month of May.
"under the pain and penalty im
posed hy law," which penalties are
2o per eent added to your tax and
indictment for misdemeanor. So if
i you get soaked it will he your fault.
w If you own any solvent credits
and do not list them, you cannot
collect them hy law. and if they are
not listed and are discovered later
they will be listed against you for
five years back and per cent ad
ded, and you will be subject to in
dictment.
Money you have in banks, whet
her the bank is in this county or
some other county, must be listed
under the penalties prescribed here
in.
I'nder an act "to tax dogs to en
courage the husbandry of sheep in
North Carolina" if you or any mem
ber of your family, own a dog, or
one is allowed to stay at or around
your home, you must list it.
If your dog is valuable, and you
expeit the county to pay for it V
it sh aid be bitten by a mad-dog,
you had better list it with a value,
as the county will not pay you any
more than you swear it is worth
when you make your list.
If you are indebted for your home
nr if you hold a note, deed in trust
or other evidences of illdehtlless
for it oney to buy, build or repair
a home, there are provisions under
ccrta.n conditions by which you may
be received of part of your tax. If
you ;.re interested, ask the list-tuk
er to explain it to you. And if you
rxpe •. any benefits under this pro
vision. you must file your applica
tion with your list, or it will not
be considered.
For your convenience, the county
will pay a man to come into your
neighborhood to receive your list.
If you fail to go and list while he
is there, then you will have to pay
the list-taker for taking your list,
as the county will not pay for the
job twice. The price will be 2-">
cents.
MOONSHINE STILL
ON WHEELS FOUND
Consisted of Big Copper Still,
Two Large Beer Boxes,
Eight Bushels Meal, Etc.—
Truck Bore N. C. License.
Mount Airy, April B.—A Moon
shine still on wheels was captured
Tuesday night about 11 o'clock near
Ladonia by Deputy Sheriff J. C.
Jones and his brother. The outfit,
consisting of a big copper still, com
plete, two large beer boxes, eight
bushels of meal, one and one-half
bushels of malt and even the clothes
the operators wore when stilling
were loaded on a L)odge truck, the
outfit evidently being moved from
one location to another.
Officer Jones had parked his car'
across the road and the driver of j
the truck made as if to run over
him but veered to one side and ran
against the bank, almost overturn
ing the truck. At this point the oc
cupants jumped to the ground and
struck for the country, officer Jones
giving chase to one of the men
whom he followed several miles,
giving up the chase when his man
leaped into the river.
When deßerted the truck was left
Tunning, and after striking the bank
its course was diverted to a wheat
.field near the road, where it sank
into the earth and gave up the
flight.
The officer said the truck bore a
2 North Carolina license plate.
STOKES ELECTION
BOARD TO MEET
Will Appoint Registrars And
Judges Next Tuesday To
Serve In the Coming Pri
mary and Elect ion.
I The Stoke;! county board of elec
tions, composed of S. I'. Christian.
M. O. Jones ami I). H. Carter, will
; meet at the court house here next
Tuesday for the purpose of appoint
! jii.o registrars and judges to serve
'in the primary and election to be
j held this .u miner and f-.U.
! It is likely tint a «-rer.t many of
those who served two years ago
w ill be re-appointed, but in some
lenses these have resigned, moved
away, etc., and will have to be re
| placed.
Announcement has not been
' made yet as IO just \vhen the hnoUs
'will be openiii for registering those
woo uesire to vote in the primhrv,
| but this information will be giw.i
j out soon.
Tobacco Co- Ops'
Outlook Hopeful
(Raleigh Times, April 15, 192t>.)
Not hy way of bringing up rein
forcements for the decision of a
I Federal Judge who knows ineompnr
-1 ably more of what he is about than
do we, but by reason of our belief
j that the Tobacco Co-Ops have really
I helped the economic and social situ
• ation of their members and other
j tobacco growers as well, we hope
iit is permitted to register our sin
cere satisfaction that ludgt Meek
ins did not deem is necessary to
'name a receiver for the Tri-State
Tobacco Growers Cooperative Mar
keting Association. ,
A rccoivcrsh'p at this time v. uild
not merely take the management of
the associatoin from these who have
brought it this far and who, in spite
of probable mistakes of judgment
entailing some waste and extravag
ance, have made it a factor in de
termining the price paid tobacco
growers for their product; but it
would suspend for a generation at
least all movement in the direction
of that self-helpfulness which must
be applied to the farmers' problems
if he is not to sink back into serf
dom.
Judge Meekins has by permitting
a thorough airing of the matter con
firmed the faith of those who want
to continue as co-operatives. At
the same time he has given the
doubting ones and the public gener
ally assurance the manage
ment of the big enterprise will have
profited from its mistakes,
It was hardly to have been ex
pected that the Co-ops could attain
|to perfection in four or five years.
I They made the mistake of wanting
the world with a fence around it.
That part which they fenced in
' proved too large for expert manage
ment at all points. It was inevit
able that a thing so new and large
I should prove unmanageable at times
: The leadership had to learn along
with its followers.
This is not meant to imply that
the rights of individual signers of
co-operative contracts should be
ignored. If there has been one thing
that has hurt the association in the
eyes of tobacco-using but non-to
bacco-growing folks it has been the
readiness of the Co-ops to insist
that all opposition to and much of
the nvre analysis of co-operative
marketing was immoral. There has
been e v >dent a willingness to spend
too much time having the law on
' members that the association would
have been better off without.
Hut the association now finds it
self in a position to secure a suffi
cient number of willing contract
signers to control about as much of
the tobacco crop as it can capably
handle. Its energies can be devot
ed to expansion rather than preven
ting leaks.
Having come up through great
trial and tribulation those who now
stay but will require no watching.
Eyes can be kept front and fixed on
the goal. If the growers of just
one belt can stick together through
another five-year peroid, co-opera
tive marketing of tobacco is here to
stay for as long as the reformers
permit us to use the filthy but so
lacing weed.
Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, April 14, 1926
CANDIDATES,
TAKE NOTICE
Time For Filing Notice of Can
didacy For State Senate Ex
pires April 21th—No Exten
sion of Time.
Any Democrat in Stokes county
or any Republican in Surry who
may contemplate entering the eom-
I ing primary as a candidate for the
I State Senate will do well to file
notice of his candidacy with the
State Hoard of FF.loctions on or be
fore Saturday, April 21th.
' Judge Walter 11. Neal, chairman
of the Hoard of Flections, announces
that all candidates must conform
strictly to the law and that no ex
tension of time will be allowed.
According to agreement of long
standing it is Stokes" lime ti> furn
ish the Democratic candidate this
election and Surry's time to furnish
the Republican candidate for the
district composed of these two coun
ties.
I W. W. Carter, of Surry, repre
sented the two counties as Senator
at the last term, while H. McGcp,
of Stokes, was the Republican can
didate.
| A I'nited States Senator, n cor
poration commissioner and four
members of the supreme court are
the only officers to be voted on in
the primary by the State as a whole
however, candidates for Superior
j Court Judge, solicitor and the State
Senate, where there is no special ar
rangement. must tile with the State
Hoard of Flections.
HIGHWAY WORK
WILL CONTINUE
At Least -10,000 Miles Annual
ly Is the Minimum Set; Pre
paring 1!I27 lioatl Show
Plans.
Washington, April 10.- The an
nual improvement of more than
40.000 utiles of highways in the
I'nited States as a result of com
bined efforts of Federal, S'a'.e and
Local agencies will continue during
the next few ye.'ir, in the opinion of
Thomas 11. Mac Donald, Chief of tie
I'nited States Hureall of l'ubl it-
Roads. During the past several
years the mileage of improvements
on highways has exceeded that fig
ure, he .-aid.
Altho M", Ma.-Donald would not
venture a prediction of the probable
number of miles to he improved in
the United St it"s during the next
few years, he exp-o ;-e.I the In lief
that the prov -n econumj of good
roads will lo m'.un to .nfhunce an
increase over the pre ,> - a:i.s of pre
ceding years.
In speaking of the | r-nvnt initial
objective of th« i >». d building in
dustry in the Unite 1 State;-., Mr.
Mac Donald stressed the need of the
immediate improvement of all roads
included in the Feder-i'-Aid and
State highway systems ov widening,
surfacing and elimination of dang
er points.
"In this msinner," he said, "we
can promote the best interest of * lu
nation at large, both in the matter
of economy and the welfare of its
industry. The increased traffic on
our public highways has not only
made their immediate improvement
a matter of good policy for public
convenience, but equally necessary
to obtain the lowest possible cost of
highway transportation.'
The progress of the road btiildinc
industry in this country during the
present year will be climaxed by the
1027 Road Show and Convention of
the American Road Builders Asso
ciation, plans for which will be
completed at the yearly nleeting of
the organization to be held in New
York City on May 11. At the latter
date new officials of the organiza
tion will be installed.
Representatives of the United
States Bureau of Public Roads will
attend the road builders meeting in
May, according to Mr. Mac Donald,
and it is very probable that the de
partment will continue its exhibit :»t
the road show next January.
More than 35,000 engineers, con
tractors and highway officials are
expected to attend the 15'27 conven
tion of the road orgnjiization, repre
senting all parts of North and South
SPELLERS CHOSEN
HERE SATURDAY
For Contest To lie Held In
Winston-Salem Next Month
Three Of Spellers From
Pinnacle School.
y I A considerable number »f pupils
.1 j anil teachers from the several'
i- | schools ..f the county mot at the new
el school I. .use in Danbury Saturday
0 and engaged in a spoiling contest
i' fur the purpose of selecting the four
•- best spellers to go to Winston
i Salem early next month to contest
n for priviin the spelling bee to be
s conducted there under the auspices
11 of the Winston-Salem Journal.
In the ii,ntest here Saturday the
Pinnat !• school secured three of
g the spellers* selected. Pint' Hall
i- school being awarded the fourth,
is The I.iini'S of those selected fol
h low: 11 mil school department,
ie Julius Tinker and liess Christian,
l- both of Pinnacle school. Klemt-n
--• tary department, Klbert Lane, of
-- l'innticle. and .Mildred I lanes, of
>r Pine Hall.
r>, /Ml the larger high schools were
i- represented, both with teachers
and pupils. The grade departments
r _ from most all of the high schools
„. as well as the elementary schools
were present.
j n Supt. J. t'. Carson, of the Stokes
1,, schools, pronounced the words for
the spelling contests. All wore
convinced that contests were fair
!•_ in every particular,
te Pinnacle high school proved its
'superiority in spelling in every
department, according to Prof. J.
('. C'olley, principal of that school.
I In the contest Julius Tucker had
\ a perfect score of fifty words out
of fifty. Miss Hess Chrisiun took
1- second prize for high school with a
score of is words out of "id. In the
elementary department Klbert Lane
took lirst prize with a score of I'.l
out of .">0 words. Mildred 1 lane
look second elementary prize with
l- IS words out of fifty.
:i I Prof. J. ('. Colloy, of the Pinnacle
ie school, delivered the prizes award
i- ed by the county to the high school
u! pupils. Prof. ('. M, Felts, of Ger
g manton school, delivered prizes to
.f the elementary pupils.
.0 It was the general opinion of ill
ic who attended the spelling contest
il here Saturday that the Stokes pu
is j>il - who won out will go far in the
f- final contest.
Words spelled by the high school
't students follow :
'* All right, judgment. separate,
1,1 recommend, accomodate, business,
forty, messenger, cruelty, injure,
finally, parallel, affidavit, hygiene,
legitimate, exhaust, innoeense, scru
-11 tinize, impromptu, erroneous, refer,
L " February, Wednesday, superiivten
deiit, grammar, professor, ecstasy,
l ' villian, bataliioii, banana, neighbor
hood, absence, paraphernalia, lieu
tenant, governor, souvenir, forfeit,
u ' counterfeit, proceed, precede, supcr
's sede, seize, already, negotiable, pro
ct'dure, cooperation, occurred, col
's* league, progressive, disappoint,
j Words spelled by elcmntary pu
' pils were as follows :
re
Kxperiencc, nonsense, bureau,
?! . government, plausible, classification,
adjacent, prejudice, excusable, noti
in coble, thermometer, emergency,
1 pneumonia, neuralgia, debtor, audi
lt ble, physicue, competitive, irrepar
able, cemetery, perceptible, Chris
,v tain, gingham, subpoena, juridiction,
j habeas corpus, Connecticut, Massa
chusetts Phillipines", prairie, ecelesi
asticial, Britain, pro.iaic, privilege,
K> sustenance, maintenance, financier,
sagacious, sanguine, illustrate, hete
rogeneous, connoisseur, anifiteur,
initiate, chauffeur, restaurant, ath
ip lete, predicate, participle, creden
,f tials.
Among the Stokes Republicans
who attended the State Republican
convention in Durham last week
were Mrs. J. S. Taylor, M. O. Jones,
P. L. Flinchum and M. J. Fagg of
Danbury; Paul, Jacob and George
Fulton and Ralph Chilton, of Wal
nut Cove; 11. McGee, ef German
ton; S. F. Shelton, of West field, an I
frobably others.
America. A large part of the asso
ciation will be in attendance at the
May meeting.
STUART TO
STOKES LINE
Patrick County Will Loan Yir
i ginia Stale 11 igliway Com
mission s.">o,ouo to lluilil this
Una:!— Will Form I'art of
N'.ttonal liigliwity.
i
| Attorney W L. Joyce, of .Stuart,
Va.. counsel for the Hoard of Super
visors of Patrick county, write.- the
Stuart paper as follow-
I am writing tlrs call yme
tention to an ,ird •! i no-red by the
Hoard of Supervise'- of the ein;nl\
on last TUCSIIMV which is by far
the most important order ovet en
tereil by a board in the history of
Patrick. This resolution is in tin?
following language, to wit :
"Whereas, ll'• -t i'• Ilighvay
i
Commission of Virginia lias hereto
fore taken over for the purpose of
maintenance and put in the State
Highway System as a part of Route
2o of said system that road leading
from Route 12 in the town of Stuart,
Va., to the Virginia-Carolina line at
'or near the W. !•'. Martin place, by
way of Five Forks; and,
| "Whereas, the best interests of
the state demand that said road be
constructed as quickly as possibl
and it is the desire of the Hoard of
' Supervisors of Patrick county that
this be done; and,
Whereas, is is the desire of Pat
rick county to loan the State under
! existing law, the sum of $50,(100.00
'for the purpose of constructing and
i permanently improving said road.
I Now, therefore be it resolved :
I That the State Highway Commis
sion of Va. be and it is herbby re
quested to accept a loan of s."i(},niill
from Patrick county for the purpose
aforesaid. It is hereby proposed to
the Highway Commission that the
county of Patrick will loan the
State on such terms and under such
conditions as are now prescribed by
law, the aforesaid sum of s.'o,onn.lio
all of which shall be used for the
purpose of building the aforesaid
road.
He it further resolve!: That a
copy of this resolution hall at once
be forward to the State Highway
 dinmissi. i:."
The result of the for going pr .n
--osition, if accepted by the Slate,
will be to secure the immediate
construction of the aforesaid road.
A survey of the road is being mailt'
at the present time and. if the State
accepts the proposition made ! v our
Hoard of Supervisors, actual con
struction will begin on the road
before the summer is over. Th -
road is one that is of vast import
ance to practically evcrj section of
the county as it will gi\e the entire
county an outlet into North Caro
lina. At the present time there
are only 2 counties bordering on N.
C. that haven't a permanent road
connecting them with the North
connecting them with the North
Carolina road system. These two
are Carroll and Patrick. The latter
is now building one. and our coun
ty has taken steps that will secure
one for us. When this road is com
pleted it will give our farmers ready
access to all of the Carolina mar
kets and will mean much to them
in the marketing of their produce,
apples and tobacco. In addition to
this it will bring back into the
county much outside trade that we
have lost. The writer can remem
ber a time when the people of
Stokes county came many utiles to
Stuart to do their trading and buy
their fertilizers and other supplies.
They continued to do this until N.
C. built permanent roads. When
this happened they began going else
where because their good roads
made other markets more accesible
to them. When we build the road
j that we now propose to build Stuart
will again be accessable to these
people and our county will get the
benefit of their business as it one
time did.
Another important feature of
this road is the fact that itas a part
of what is known as Route 23 of the
State Highway system, which route
is a through one from the West Vir
gina line to the Carolina line. A
great part of this route has already
been constructed and when the
whole of it has been finished it will
bring many tourists through the
oounty. This will be very helpful
No. 2.X07
' X K\V SCHOOL
OFFICIALS NAMED
, Walt IT Jioyles Home From
t Hospital— Auto Wreck Hut
No One Hurt—Walnut Cow
I Items of Interest.
1 Walnut ' •ve, Api I Li. Thtf
new school eor.iJiLttve appointed for
this i! strict upon th- n ivrnaion of
c. K. Itavis, G. W. Neal :.n: L. A.
Rothrock, is composed f \V. p.
Wheeler. lir.  . J. Helsa'tfi k an I
A T. Haiv.
Walti r Hoyles ha- returned to h
home h'-re from the Twin-City ho-.
( pital where he spent s- veral weeks
•undergoing treatment.
•| Mrs. (Jen, Fulton, with a party -f
| friends enroute to Wii-ton-Sab in.
1 l narrowly escaped in'.r..- \. h• - n the
| car in which the.. \ • i • riding rati
into a di: h and wa impair • t •
1 I such all extol tile o. 'i' : lit N\ ift
i unable to drive it I ... i. ,
Mrs. W. L. Vaughn spent Satu:"
• day and Sunday in Winston
- Salem with relatives.
I Prof. Ralph Tuttle and .Miss
r Elizabeth Lei gilt attended the
Davidson-Duke ball game in Greens
boro SaurJay.
J. H. Woodruff recently disposed
t of his property on North Main and
Summit Streets to a Real Estate Co.
in Greensboro.
. Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Rurton, of
I I.eaksville, have hi en visiting Mrs.
I Annie Burton.
Carl Ray has returned to Hot
Springs to ,i->in the Indianapolis
baseball club after spending some
time at his home here on account
( of the illness of his small son.
T. S. Smith had the misfortune to
, break his arm last week while
, cranking his Ford.
Mr. and Mrs. S. ' . I! ■ r- -n, Jr.. of
l Ml. Airy, spent the we -k end her '
• with their parents.
1 Mrs. P. W l»avis -pent the past
week end at Hrown Summit with
I friends.
, • ~ '
1 Ihe little sun ef Mr. and Mr .
!•.dward Mabe was seriously injured
at their home near Danbury last
wei k when he fell from the st :l |,i..
loft. One arm was broken and
deep gash w.is cut ill the little fel>
lows head. Mr. and Mrs. Mab
were here today bringing the child
to a doctor to have his wounds
dressed.
becati.se practically every one will
spend some monc> with our mei
chants, garages, hotels, etc.
At the meeting at which the fore
going resolution was passed quite a
number of citizens of the county
were present and, so far a- the writ
er was able to ascertain, all who
[ were there were heartily in favor
, of the road and enthusiastically en
i dorsed the action that was taken by
( the board. Thus far I have heard no
r indication of a dissenting voice ix
. • cept from certain official sources, lt
. seems that the people of the county
have awakened to the need for roads
. and are now determined to get,
them.
, 1 wish to heartily commend the
Hoard of Supervisors for the action
, which they have taken in the matter
, 1 and, to express the opinion that th*
, j time is not far distant when their
. tenure of office will he looked upon
£ as the period m which real road
, 1 work in Patrick began. At the
. same time 1 would call the atten
; tion of the people of the county to
: the fact that the financing necessary
1 |to the building of the above men
! tinned road has been made possible
s through the work of their present
, i member of the Legislature, Hon. T.
1 J. George. Not only has he made
t , the financing of this road possible
} | but he has been busy with the lligh
, way Department and is very hope
. ful that we shall receive a large al
location from State funds for the
f building of the road that has been
graded from Stuart to Cruise's store
, toward Floyd, it is quite probabl >
work will be done on these two
. j roads during the present year.
L ! Let us all co-operate with oar
. i Hoard of Supervisors and give Pat
; 1 rick a road system that will be equal
1 of that possessed by the best eoun
, ties in Virginia.
1 1 W. L. JOYCE.
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