North Carolina Newspapers

ll jj I Volume LI. W. S. HART IS NEW CHAIRMAN Democratic Convention Here Saturday Appointted Dele gates To State Convention— Senator Overman's Record Endorsed. At the county Democratic conven tion held here Saturday W. S. Hart, of Peter's Creek township, was elected chairman of the county exe cutive committee to succeed K. W. Carroll, who tendered his resigna tion to the convention. The convention Saturday was at tended by a fair sized crowd of citi zens representing every section of the county. The session was called to ord"r at 2:00 o'clock by Chairman Carroll and Attorney J. D. Humphreys was asked to preside wver the meeting. After a short address by Mr. Hum phreys the convention proceeded u business. Delegates to the State con vention, which meets in Raleigh tomorrow, April 20, were elected is follows: J. C. Frans, P. H. Linville, J. S. Taylor, J. C. Carson, N. S. Mullican, T. H. Gerry, Junius Burton, S. W. Ftierson, Dr. J. L. Hanes, N. E. Pepper. The convention voted to authorize the above named delegates to rep resent the county at the Congres sional, Judicial and Senatorial con ventions. By a unanimous vote, on motion of Dr. J. L. Hanes, the convention endorsed the record of Senator Lee S. Overman in Congress during the past eight years. A Note of 'thanks was tendered the r tiiieg county chairman. E. W. • .iiToli. for iiis faithfu' services. in t .■ pi:marii : In Id \; ril 17t!i in the : evt rill lilVnll'-'s of the coun ty the fo||ow : |>» Mill". "!'i lib Wei", ill ted lileiubcr.; of I lie coun ty lle.i'.o: ra: i" Executive CaniiniU'M : V . P. May, Tilley's precin -t. R. Sheppard, Lawsonville. ■!►lln-rt Alley, iliirtman. T. J. Gann, East Sandy Ridge. .1. W. A. I> dsoil. West Sandy Ridge. C. A. Wagoner, Mitchell. !lr J. L. Hanes, Pine Hall '' E Davis, East Walnut Cove. T. J. Gerry, West Walnut Cove. .'. C. ('arson. Ger.nanton. F. S. Ross, Wilson's Store. W. O. (biker, Mt. View. R. C. White, King. P. P. Johnson, Hoyles. N. E. Pepper, Danbury. 11. 1.. Sullivan, Pinnacle. P. O. Frye, Flinty Knoll. Jesse George, Ilrown Mountain. A. J. Tilley, Frans. R. E. L. Francis, Moir. SURRY DEPUTIES FOUND GUILTY Bud Simmons and E. S. Smith Given 15 Months Each For Killing James Sutphin Last November. Mount Airy, April 27.—"Guilty of manslaughter" was the verdict of the jury in Superior court at Dobson this morning in the case of It. F. Simmons and Ewell Smith, the two deputy sheriffs charged with the killing of young Jimmy Sutphin last November near Mt. Airy, when the deputies shot at hi: car, thinking he had whiskey on it. Tne two deputies were sentenced to serve nit less than fifteen months nor more than eighteen months each in the State penitential*}'. Notice of appeal was given and appearance bond was fixed a' five thousand dollars each. Former Stokes Man Weds At Oak Ridg-e Charlie E. Pyrtle, a former citi zen of Quaker Gap township, this county, who now resides at Oak Ridge, was married March 11th to Miss Emma Tilley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will Tilley, of Oak Ridge, who are also former residents of Stokes. The many friends of the young couple in Stokes will be inter ested to learn of their marriage. Mr. Pyrtle was a visitor here yesterday. i IKING TO HAVE ELECTRIC LIGHTS , High School Commencement May 7th and Bth—Boy Has | Arm Broken—Still Is Cap tured—J. R. Caudle Hurt. | King, April 20.—The Rod Goose baseball team of King put one on Ararat Saturday to the tune 'if seven to throe. The (raiii" was play ed on the King diamond. White starred for the Geese with the big bat with 3 hits out of four ups. The six-yea* "Id son "f Mr. an) Mrs. Kd Kdwards, who resid , four miles west of town, fell from* i horse Saturday, breaking both bones of his forearm. The bones were re-set -rid the arm dressed by I)r. E. M. Griffin An old gentleman about sixty years of age, suddenly appeared here about three days ago and has been preaching on the streets here since his arrival. He gives his name as Kelly, claims Kentucky as his native home and sav.- he came from Florida here and is working his way north. He is clad in an overall suit and claims to be known from New York to Frisco as the blue overall preacher. He appeared here as mis teriously as though he had dropped from the sky. This mysteriois preacher has been the cause of quite a little speculation among the citi zens here as to just who he is and what his business is, Some be lieving he is a detective, others b>- living differently. Deputy Sheriff A. 1,. Hall cap tured a blockade still about three miles east of here last week. The re was n> one at the still at the time the officer arrived. About two gal lons ef whiskey was also found near the still. A. 1.. White has returned to hi boim In ."ftc r -oi tiding three m.mths in t iora'a. lie states tint business is still good in F1 irida. while the real estate lioom seems t be about over. Two carloads of ste-1 1 wis have arrived here for the Southern Pow er Company's new line which is to be built through King and work oe. the line will be started at once •Judge .lam's 11. Caudle, who got his foot crushed in a steam roller here last week, is slowly improv ing. I Civil engineers representing The Southern Public Utilities Co. were here Thursday making a blue print of the town with a view of lighting King with electricity. While there has been no contract signed it is a pretty safe bet that King will get lights. j Jarvis Wright, of Colon, is spend- ( ing a few days with his sister, Mrs C. J. Kirby, in Walnut Hills. Miss Mallie Redman, who is , teaching in the high school her*', spent Sunday with her parents in Pilot Mtn. i Albert Hutchins, of Winston-Sa- : lem, spent the day Sunday here. 1 A large crowd attended the blir> back spelling match put on by the King camp of Sons and Daughters of Liberty here last night. Tl ■ prize was won by a Winston-Salem boy, the son of Attorney Sapp. The Modern Woodman ball tea-;; ' of King defeated The Red Goose ( boys here Saturday. The store st, iod 1 5 to :? - 1 Miss Faye Tillotson, of Winston- ' spent Sunday with relatives here, 1 I>. K. Waill, of Winston-Sefloni, ' has removed his family here. H" will continue to work in Winstar- - Salem. Miss Greta Tillotson, *>f Elkin, visited Mrs. Thos. E. Smith here Sunday. f Miss Lucy Clifford, of Winston- 1 Salem, spent. Sunday with her f mother here. x Rev. Paul H. Newsum filled his ' regular appointment at Brown Mt* - 1 Sunday. 1 Mr. :vnd Mrs. Fred Jacob. of ' Winston-Salem, spent Sunday "it'i the family of Mr. John Beasley in Walnut Hills. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Pulliam, ••? ' Greensboro, were visitors at the home of Mr. Pulliain's parents here i Sunday. 1 Mr. and Mrs. U. S. N'ewsum and 1 George Leavitt, of High Point, were t among the visitors here Sunday. I The K : ng High School entertain- J meat will take place Friday and t 1 Danbury, N. C M Wednesday, April 28, 1926 BIG STILL FOUND NEAR SMITHTOWN Stokes Officers Get 65-Gallon Outfit With 1,000 Gallons of Beer and Some Whiskey— Operators Run and Escape. This morning about !l o'clock over in the Smithtown section of Stokes, officers I'. I. Flinehum and \ tt. Lawson came upon a still being operated at full capacity with three men in attendance, but as the officers approached the attend ants at the still dashed into the bushes anlf though they were chased for some distance the officers Were unable to take any of them. The still was of copper and prob ably had a capacity of sixty-fivj gallons. Only about four gallons of whiskey was taken as the owners apparently had not been at work very long, though they would have soon had plenty of the ardent, as about a thousand gallons of beer o r slop was found. TAX LISTERS WANT FORM STATISTICS Blanks Should Show Acres of Land Owned, Number Ten ants, Acres In Cultivation, Number Fruit Trees, Etc. K. W. Carroll, supervisor of tax listing for l!'2t! in Stokes county, together with his corps of tax-lift ers, will co-operate this year with the State Agricultural Bureau in the securing "f data übc.u' North Carolina farms a:>d f. timers, which data is being secured by I'rank I'arker. State Statist! ian. Th' iiiforni I'.'on w!:i ! Mr Car roll is co operating in securing is data concerning all . »s and itc t iviti. i f Ihe land owner and ten ants. lilanks have been sent out by tin- State Pepartment and these will be distributed among the tax li-ters who will ask the citizens of the county the quest ions thereon when taxes are being listed. Am mg the information which the tax listers will secure frm the citi zens of the county will lie: Jlow many acres of land do yo.i own? How many tenants are oper ating it? How many acres are culti vated? How many acres arc cleave I but not tilled? How many acres put in tobacco, cotton, corn for grain, wheat for grain, oats for grain, cow peas, soy beans, peanuts, summer and fall hays, potatoes, barly, cover crops, fruits, nuts? They will al-o be asked how the amount of cer tain products that they consumed compared with that which they pro duced. The citizens of the county are ask ed to co-operate with the tax listers in this matter and to give them the full information in order that the correct and as much data as pos sible may be secured for the statis tics that are being prepared. Highway Commission Buys 25 Cars What is probably one of the larg est single sales of passenger cars completed, in the Carolinas in recent months was the closing of contract last Wednesday when the highway commission bought twenty-five tour ing cars for the use of their division eng neers. Apples Not Hurt By Cold Snap j Quite a cold wave hit this section of Patrick county last Monday and Tuesday. On Monday morning thin j sheets of ice were seen in small j vessels of water, and Tuesday much frost was seen. However, we have j reasons to believe that the fruit is | not badly injured, if at all.—Stuart Enterprise. It is i good time to eat eggs while the price is low and the eggs are plentiful. Saturday, May 7 and 8. The enter tainment will be good this year and large crowds are expected to at tend. J Miss Crisel Caudle, of Winst)>n-i Salem, spent Sunday with her par ents, in Walnut Hills. PILOT MOUNTAIN'S GOSPEL TEAMS A Religious Organization That Is Doing Much Good—Will Conduct Services At Stokes Church Next Sunday. Citizens of Pilot Mountain have recently organized The Pilot M 'Uii tiiiii Evangelical Association, and the members have been assigned to teams similar to the Billy Sunday teams at Winston-Salem. A large per cent of the citizens of Pilot Mt. are members of the association, while a sufficient number of cit:/..-u.i of Pinnacle have joined the a.noci'i tion to form one team, giving the association five teams in s.ll. I. M. Gordon, former Register of Deeds •■f Stokes, is captain of one of the teams. The organization of the associa tion came as a result of a revival recently conducted in Pilot Mtn. by th>> Hilly Sunday clubs of Winston- Salem, when almost a hundred addi tions to the churches wer made. "Nothing like this revival has ever before been seen in our town," said one citizen. The association, through its five teams, is accomplishing much g»od. Each Sabbath the teams are assign ed to different communities to con duct services, and at these meeting the members all take part in the services. On next Sunday at three o'clock one of the teams will hold services at Brim's Grove church in Stokes. Last Sunday Rev. G. T. Lumpkin, of Winston, was with the team which held services hit Pilot Mtn. high school building, preaching a forceful sermon to a large audience. FUTURE OF CO-OPS BE DECIDED MAY 10 Growers of Virginia and Caro lina To Meet in Danville T> Discuss Organization— Will IV Mass Meeting. Raleigh. April 21. The i|ucstion of the continuation of the co-opera tive marketing of tobacco in North Carolina and Virginia will be decid ed iit a mass meeting of tobacco farmers in the two states to be held in Danvilk' May 10 The c: 11 for the meeting was issued here last night by a committee named hist fall to handle the sign-up at the conclusion of the present five-year contract with the Tri-State Tobacco Growers Co-operative Marketing Association. The committee is working with out the active assistijice of officials of the association, it was disclosed, the association having been forbid den in recent court order to engage in any unusual business. Whether the fifty field agents have been re moved from the payroll as one of the "rigid economies" being effect ed, was not learned. The reason for calling the mass meeting embrace whole-hearted en dorsement of the co-operative mar keting campaign, :.nd nppe.il to the growers and citizens of the two States to help secure the sign-up. The new organization would em brace only the 01.l or Rrig'r.t Helt of North Carolina and Virginia. The committee is reported to represent forty-three counties with a tobacca production of 200,000,000 pounds. ELECT TOWN OFFICERS MONDAY Only One Ticket Suggested For Walnut Cove So Far—lnter est Not As Strong As Year Ago. Walnut Cove, April 27. Next Monday the citizens will elect a Mayor and four commissioners for Walnut Cove. ITp to the presell' ' time only one ticket has been sug gested and it looks now like it will have easy sailing. The ticket pro posed is composed of C. R. Huteh erson, Mayor; W. L. Vaughn. H. 11. Davis, J. A. Weisner and J. L. Welch, Commissioners. Farmers in North Carolina are learning rapidly that pastures add to livestock profits. NEW M. E. CHURCH FOR WALNUT COVE Mrs. Claud Movies Recovering Erom Operation—W. S. Beli Goes To Statesville— Little John Ray Is Improving. Walnut Cove, April 27. Miss Bertha Neal, who is teaching at King, spent the week end here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Neal. Miss Evelyn Neal, who taught the past session near Moore's Springs, has returned home for the summer. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Neal and fami ly spent Sunday in Greensboro where they attended the revived services of the great Evangelist Rev. George Stevens. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fulton spent Friday in Greensboro. Mrs. C. W. Floyd spent severa' days of last week in Roanoke, Va. Mrs. J. R. Voss spent Friday in Winston-Salem shopping. We are sorry to learn that Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Bell, who have re sided in Walnut Cove more than a year, are leaving for Statesville. Mr. Bell was manager of the veneering plant and will be greatly missed in the business. Mrs. Claude Royles, wh > h»* un dergone tl slight operation, im proving rapidly, we are glad t.» note. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Mv r and family motored to Mt. Airy Sunday and spent the day with friends. Mrs, J. Hclsaheck has r. •lim ed home after sj.ciidin'- - the past week with relatives at Kiny. Two splendid - mous w. re de livered :it th>' li-K .-t i imr h her • Sunday by the pastor. Rev. ». K Ward. Tile sirvi • : 7:i'l was ;• special nie.s-ag ' ' • th nvill-. • . The chili h was a':-; ■ • el:''rely till ed and much int»iv..t was ehown and lifter many war:'- '■'•md-hake-. rid blessings, I'm >!.."• tit - ctnig't'i ■: felt that it \va till, "i " I . f II !> : f.vt day." Tli" Sun lay S ' '..l had tho lar gest iittendii'ici of j>ny day in ! I. history of the !n » h Sunday in :,ie years, ''.o numb -r be'-nr l-"2. The Me'hod' :s o i o i as yi • decided on the location the-r new church which will be . i. e in k building of which the t > n w:li 1 e proud. Mr. and Mrs. J. Z. Williams aid daughter spent the week end with their parents at Pine Hall. M is.s Elizabeth Cookus has return ed home after spending several weeks in Roanoke, Va. Mrs. Wm. Gwyn, of Charlotte, spent last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Moretield. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Tuttle from Texas, are visiting their parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Tuttle, of this place. The Tuttle Brothers hive bought N. (). Knight's Cafe and are doing a good business. Mrs. Carl Ray will be home Friday with her little son, John, wh > hiis been in the Twin-City hos pital for several weeks. 0. E. SNOW FOR STATE SENATE Files Notice of Candidacy Ti Represent Stokes and Surry —S. O. McGuire Republican Aspirant. Attorney 0. E. Snow, of Pilot i Mtn., has filed notice of his candid acy oil the Democratic ticket to rep resent Stokes and Surry in the Sta'o Senate. S. O. McGuire, of Elkin, has tiled for the same counties on the Re publican ticket. It is understood that Mr. Snow will have no opposition in the June primary and that he will be declar ed the nominee of the Democratic party foi this Senatorial dial vt. Mr. Snow is at the present lime chairman of the Board of Education of Surry county and has long be»» prominent in the councils of his party. S. 0. McGuire, of Elkin, will be his Republican opponer.' as no other candidate has filed notice in that party. Mr. McGuire represent ed Surry in the legislature one term several years since. No. 2,.517 MUST FILE IN PRIMARY Candidates For Membership on Board of Education—legis lature Appoints Those With Highest Vote. Under the present election law candidates for membership on the county hoards of education an' re. quired to file their names with the board of elections and be voted for in tne June primary just as other eountj officers. They are not re quired to run in the fall election, however. Those receiving the high est votes in the primary will, a* a rule, he appointed by the Legisla ture. While there are seme excep tions to this rule, the law-maker* almost invariably appoint the nun indorsed in the primary. STOKES COUNTY ASSESSED §SOO John L. Christian Is Named Chairman of Wilson Me morial Fund In This County. Raleigh, April 22.—With the cam paign for raising North Carolina'* quota of the 550,000 fund for the establishment of the Woodrow W> I - son Memorial in Staunton, Va., onlv three days old, two counties hnv* practically reached their quotas and another has announced an excellent start toward its' ultimate goal, A. T. Allen, state chairman, announced yesterday evening. Reports huve been received from only the three counties. North Carolina has be> n a.-ked to raise This amount has been appoitnned :uv.omr the 100 countis in the St-ite an I. so far as has proved possible, ii-mity chair men have bi-i-n named a). I organiza tions oTectid f "r putting a> r. s the campaign in e.i.h ,-«.» i .ty. I>if"- i ulty has been encounti red in n number of cases in 'hiding men able :iml willing to dir -et th • county cam paign-. Consequently, organization* have 1 i (Te.'ted in only approxi ir.:;t"l\ half tile count'', s ill the state. As rat ;dl\ a- possible, the remain ing counties are being organized. Tile ea'.ivaig!. started M«v.day ak I reports received yesterday stated that Watauga had nearly reached its quota of i 0; McDowell was within i easy reai h of its goal of SIOO and that Rowan ounty had been able to put sllO in the bank by the elosj of the first day. The campaign close* (April SO, altho contributions will b* received after that date. The purpose of the campaign, which is nation-wide, is to rai-? money sufficient to take over Wood row Wilson's birthplace in Staunton, Ya.. and constitute it a memorial, which will include furniture of th.* period, books and periodicals relat ing to Mr. Wilson and his times and many other relics of interest to thi« and future generations. The plan also is to restore the chapel on the grounds of Mary Baldwin College, adjoining the birthplace, where Mr. Wilson's father preached and where the war time President was baptize.! and to build on the new site of the college a Wilson Memorial llall. Th* whole w >uld form a birthplace me morial to the late President:a shrine which would form a permanent in spiration to the youth of Anirica Chairmen have been appointed for each county in the State. John I. Christian, of Pinnacle, is made •hairnian for Stokes and our coun ty's assessment is $500.00. New Store Building For Moore's Springs A large store building is being erected at Moore's Springs to re place the one that was destroyed when the hotel burned. Manager J. 0. Bradshaw states that he is mak ing preparation to take care a* many guests this season as possible. Influx Of Tourists Around Asheville Asheville, April 27.—A heavy in flux of tourists is being recorded in this section of the State now, an«l it will continue fo grow as the sum mer season approaches. I