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Volume EDWIN TEDDER IS KILLKDj Team Ran Away and He Was Thrown From Waron—*\,t . J To Have Been Ut-on Marrio' In Two Weeks. 1\(..2\ .July lib Kdwin Tedder, .'1 years, was killed last V'. E.i i >ilay near his home on Toba.vo vll • K to 1, when a team of mules vnn away with him. Mr. Tedder was hauling up rye and was going d nvn a hill when the mules began t> tn .. he reached for the brake! v vpe I'.it failed to get hold of it. The rrales got faster and faster until ti.ey were going at a terriftk' rate cf speed and the young man ► "a- tn.' V l down on the double- ' . i tree, this caused the mules to go to I ; ki! _■ ..i;d this kept up until life v. a,- . . :;u t. Finally the hotly was k; ket! from its I odging place an I the ch -iiing taught in the tra.es and i'. • V.MS dragged for some distance i. f ire the team was stopped. Mr. Teddt r was a model young man end wns held in high esteem hy all who knew him. The young man was to have been married just two weeks from the time he met his un timely end. The interment was : Mlilu ' i hy l!ev. K. A. Helsabec';, I'aul Newsum and John Spain h-v.ver :>t Ml. Olive church Thursday at three o'eloek. The lied (loose hall team defeat i i Fri.r.' iseo in a hard fought (ram • I laved a the King diamond Sat urday. Tlse ■re Mood i'J to 7 Ti • home of l»r. and Mi's, (Irae. r. S'.l e was made happy la-t Week hy !a i ri val of a line I y. C. S New-am left Saturday for .' hi .- " 1 'ity. Tetin.. where he will i ater I'je Idiers home at that 1 lave. t . A. White iias ptirehased from •J. V.. i'uttle a lot in Pilot View. ,e new tlevelopment just east «>f t iwn. A interesting' same of baso l-all was played here Saturday bv the Kirg Tigers and the Mengel l.ox in., of Winston-Salem, reoilt >r.f? a score >f 11 to .") in favor of the home team Albert 11 utchin-, of Wiiistan-Sa lent, spent the week .aid with I:is ! arents on east Mai i street. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey I'ulliam, if High Point, spent the day Sunday with relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. J. I>. White, of Roanoke, Va., are spending a few days with relatives here. Crops in this suction are looking fine si va- the recent rains. Mr. pud Mrs. Amos Fulk, of High Point, were amon); the visitors here Saturday and Sunday. The Southern Power Co.'s new line between Winston-Salem an 1 Mt. Airy has been completed an 1 the juice turned oil last Thursday. Practically all the property owners in King have signed right-of-way and it is expected that company will soon start building their lines pre paratory to lighting the town. O. J. Johnson, of Pilot Mtn., is Jiefiv Jookintf after some bigness matt ei s today. ♦ Little Boy Hurt By Fall From Fence The -1-year-old son of Mr. an.l j Mr#> Homie Moore, of Lawsonville,, was badly hurt Sunday afternoon when he fell from a fence at his; home and cut a deep gash in the back of his head. Mr. and Mrs. Moore brought the little fellow here to a physician and several stitches were required to close the woun 1. He is getting along nicely now. A golf hall is that small indented object which remains on the tee while a perspiring citizen fans it vigorously with a large club.— News. STOKES S. S. CONVENTION | To 15e Meld At Hose Mud Chris tian Church Aug. 10 and !! —lnteresting Program lin ing Prepared. ( Plans have been made for hold ! ing the annual Stokes countv Sun- I , day School Convention at the Hose Bud Christian church, three miles i west nf Walnut Cove, on Tuesday and Wednesday. August 10 and 11, l'.fjr,. 1 Arrangements for the convention are m the hands of .J. 1.. Christian and F. S. Ross, president and seero- j tary of the County Sunday S • d Associat ion. ( The ortieers have announced that they have secured as olltsi le sycak ers for the convention, I>. W. Sims Raleigh. General Suporiiitcndcie of North Carolina Sunday School As sociation, and Pr if. ! ). Webb, Wavcrly.AJa., Super'iit a dent of Waverly Methodist Sunday School, and principal of 'nigh .school. lie sides these outside speakers, a num ber nf prominent pasters and Sun day Sch >ol work",; of the county will take part in the Ingram. The program for the eonveiu'i n will in lade addresses and discus sions if various phases nf modern I i Sunday school work, the object be ing to make it possible f.r workers in all departments of the Sunday school to get help from the conven tion. A rei|uesi is being made to tin' Sunday school v. irkei - of the count,\ to present to the conventi- n any .-.pe. ial Sunday school problem that should be discus: e.l. Announcement is al.-.i made bv the ollicei s in charge of the conven tion that, following it custom start ed three years ago. a pennant wi'l he nr.-soiiti d to the Sunday school having in the convention the largest number of representatives fourteen years of age and over, according to the number of miles traveled. LET STOKES" ROAD IN SEPTEMBER Contract For Hard-Surface Bt - tween Danbury and Walnut Cove Will Be Awarded Al ' That Time, II Is Stated. In giving out a list of road pro-j jects under construction, to be let,! etc., Capt. C. S. Currier, district i engineer, last week stated that j contract would be let in September | fir hard-surfacing the road between I Danbury and Walnut Cove. Hy that time the grading will have been finished on this road an I the big fills, which have already been completed, on this end of the | road will be settled sufficiently to 1 have cement poured on them, it is said. While the contractor will not be j able to finish the road this year he will nodoubt pour several miles of, I I concrete before cold weather stops] the work, if contract is awarded in! September. ' ANOTHER FARMER LOSES HIS WHEAT Lightning Strikes Stacks of I Grain Belonging To William Bennett and Wheat Is De stroyed. William Bennett, of the Vade Mecunt section, who was her.- Mon day, stated that he lost his entire wheat crop v. few days since when lightning struck the ste.cks of grain and it was total!.' destroyed by fire. Mr. Bennett had J'.st finished hauling up the grain when the holt came. He estimates that he wouli'. have nmde seventy-five bushels or more wheat.* I Danbury, N, C. ? Wednesday, July 21, 1926 NEWS IT KRIS OF WALNUT COVE I Luther Tut tie Shows Little Im provement—Orphanage Sing ing Class Coming—Sunday Schools Meet At Fr.lp Church Saturday. Walnut Cove, July "JO.- Tin' Sun day S ,bools of Sauratown township will hold their annual convention at Fulp .Moravian church Saturdav, at lu i\ lock. a. in,, with picnic din., ; tier sifti rv.aiiis. An interesting pro-, gram lias been arranged and a big crowd is expected. Mr. and Mrs. M. X. Scott, .f Diirhani, visited their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. !.. Vaughn, this week enroutc home from a trip to Abbe ville. The singing class of the Oxforl Masonic Orphanage will give ai cut •rtainins.'iit in the auditorium >'' the Ihigh school buihjing Friday evening, July :Soth. A class from this Orphanage visits this pla .• yearly, ami always renders a most excellent and entertaining program. Miss Mildred N'ccly, of Winston- Salem. visited friends here Sunday. | Mr. and Mrs. .1 ami's Cook, «»f Greensboro, spent the week en 1 with their parents, Mr and Mrs. I. !i. Wodiulf Mrs Win I!. Jones, of Suffolk. Va ~ is visiting Mrs. Jacob Fulton, Jr. ' i.ittlc Mi-- Thelma Kothrock. wh. has been ill for some time is ini- 1 proving. Mrs. George Fulton :iii• I childivn have returned home from a visit to Flkin They v. re accompanied home iij Mrs. W. M. Snow. Mrs. Jiio. Burton, Jr.. visited fiiend- in Flkin last week. Mrs. i". W. Davis and son, J'au', Jr., and daughter, Mary Francis, are in Texas visiting relatives. Dr. I.e.- Hill, of Advance, spent the week end here with his sister, Mis, I.ou Murphy, Luther Tattle, who was injure! on the head by a mule some time since, show.-, little improvement, lie is being treated in a Winston-Sale'", hospital. Miss Annie Uiorsoit spent tho week end at N. C. C. W. with Inn' sister. Miss Eugenia, 1 Miss Kathrine Hutcherson ii. visiting in Greensboro. Mis. I.aura Mavis and Mrs, I', F, Davis left Sunday for an extended j visit to Clint Davis in Portland, ()•••. j Miss hove Banner, of Mt. Airy, is coaching the play, "Sec You I.ati r," which w ill oe gi.en here on j Friday evening und« r the auspice.- of t!ie J'areiit-Te,:cher Ais.vi.Hion. Mrs. Fverett Matthews is spend ing some time here while Mr. Mat thews, is in Kings!ree, S. C. John i.cwcllyn, Geo. Fulton and Matt Tuttle made a pleasure trip to i Washington last week, I Oscar Southern has recently cot i plcted a handsome new bung.i'ow ' | on n irth Summit St. i i Danville Has Two I Deaths From Heat Danville, Va., July 21.—Danville experienced the hottest day of the year when the mercury climbed to 102.2 degrees, reaching the maxi mum at t! o'clock. Two deaths at | tributnble to heat have been re-, , ported, George Walker, negro, dy- j ing last night, and Grover Thurnian,! father of nine children, collapsing at' the Dan River Mills and dying in stantly. |, Clayton Bantley, power superin- j tendent, eported five negroes wei | "knocked out" today while working 1 on a coffer dam in the river, but j none of the prostrations proved fatal. No relief was in sight to- j lit. 1 1 HANGING ROCK CHANGES HANDS M. J. I!ulsey Deeds rj.Oili) Acre Trait In Stokes To Hanging 110.-k Properties, Inc., of Tamj>a. Florida. The Hanging Rock property in ' Stokes ■ o'inty. comprising a •■.''o) acre ti i lying fotn mil- 1 .- - >ulh west of I •anbury, and owned by M. J. Hu! of Tai l" !. Florida, h been so.- !■•• M r Hi! •• *o Hnnginr Rock P :-ei!: •*. Inc . also of Tain-' pa. fl". . D'ed ti the prop rtv, made Ja ae 11, V.MS re orded in the ie-gister's oliice in Dan'iurv yesterday. The consideration in the dei i is not known here, hut tli ■ amount said to he around SUM). 000. Nothii .' •u!d he h-U'-ned hi • :• to the plans of the new compait' . but rumor has it that the property will be (if. eloped ill the Ileal fl - 1 Stoke.- people Would be delight "d to see the Hanging Rock property developed. There is no more ideal spot in the State for a resort, and i it has the one great advantage over the resorts in Western North Caro lina—it i- in close proximity to th •' centers i f population, bein with' i an hour's d'ive of a majority of the State's largest cities. ROAI) PEOPLE MEET Arc. 1 ! Virginia Citizens Will Urge State Highway Commission To Build Missing I ink.-. In Stuart -'toanoke Boad. i A meeting of Patri l i e I and Montgomery county eiti .T . lia-- been ceiled to 1.-e held at Chiistiau hurg, '« a., on Aii'_- "itii, fi i the pur pose of pass; i.r les da* ion- ;ml ~p pointing en inutt -s m uru • ti.e Virginia State Highway Commis sion to build certain missing links or unimproved sections of the ! g!; way I'tum Stuart to Roanoke, vi;. Floyd Court House and Christ'an hui g. ' This road, which is known a route J:i on the Virginia State high way map, is one of the most im portant roads in the State and has had the least money spent on it. according to statements of Virginia citizen-. j Wheat Farmers Fear It Will Rain Top. .a, Kali.-., July 15. Croat mounds of harvested gold from tlv wheat f olds of Kansas lie expose I to the rain and sun along the rail road tracks in the Sunilower State today he cause the yield is so great and the haste to sell is so acute I that all storage facilities are full to the bursting point and the grow ers are crying for freight cars. j The harvest period is at its height. And the sickle continues its optimistic hum. | Will it rain? The thousands of | bushels of wheat stacked on the j grounds to be marketed with all j possible speed by those farmers j who have been watching for higher i prices and by those who are forced j to sell in order to liquidate their I debts. .Threshing: Mac 1 " mes Finish Their Work j Threshing machines have about j I completed their work in Stokes and the farmers have the best and larg |est crop of wheat for many years, ! probably more wheat than ever be | fore raised ill the county. The yield was surprising to everyone. How jover. there was nothing like enough wheat grown to supply the county'; j needs, and merchants will have i buy Hour made fiom western wheat. I HAD AH 'IDENT HERE FRIDAY J'ouvli Ruber son li.' ):i Fore head By Heavy Chain Whil • One Truck Was Pulling An other Out *)j* Diteh. I _ _ Powell H ij t ... ~pv,-. hum . the Danbur;. i.av.{ mviii ■ highway, was setioi-lv in,'ui'-d l-'riday i. ir here when a 'hahi with which .::e truck was pulli: g a:, o.her • and hit Mr. II■>! ai-.on . n'.er I tin forehead. H:- skull was Ma tured and he was rushed to a In - I'ital ai Win 1 oi-Salelll. where he i is reported to be resting as w--ll i.. possible. When the a i lent .. aire ! Mr. liobert -on was sto.-r • - tru •' which was being puile i '-. !-. -a - is-■ , road. lb .-aw •!-1 - - - wr.e:i it broke and da died I i , t I. i; it for the fa t that h.r- hat fartr-hed s one protection he wo.ihl lik• • 1 y have been killed iii.-tair.iy. TI chain cut through the hat av 1 ".- bai d and one link was aimos- bar ! a his for. head. 'PRODUCE CAR HAD WHISKEY Captured and Brought Tn Dan hury Frday I'.y (filiicr Ma'- i thews—Driver In Stokes Jail Produce Sold At Auction. I A 1 lodge delivery truck, driven by T. li. Idol, .if Cuilford .ant > and containing (hi-kens. eegs a;.a whiskey w.. .--i'ted by |• -di I•;•;o. Ulhecr \\ . ' . Matthev - .! * ..-'e Stok-.- Friday. Ti; dri\-r was al so "ikon and the • -iti'.t wa- • a-night to Dunbury, where Idol was given a heal ing in fore I' S. ( . inilii -she er \. A. Martin and held on a ?"iii bond. He was unable to fain ' bond and i- being held in th. e,,i L . ty jail here. The live gallons of whi-liey ran til red was poured out, tin- ar wis confiscated ain! the a a i eggs were sold at an ion . .>! t money tu lie i i . -r t • i|i • fed. • .. government. GOOD EXAMPLE FOR STOKES County Home Farm In Km ingham Pro. I need L'l7 Bush ! els Wheat. Fnotigh To Fee.' I Inmates All Year. Keidsville, July IT. The when' crop at th hi. kiueha:.' 'oujity home threshed out -17 '-n-h- i- Some of the wheat yieldeu as m . as L'O bushel- to the acre. Tnis will make sufficient bread ! r I'IC inmates for the year. I The county home farm ha- a .»v»d 'manager and, it is stated ihat the farm makes money for tlv county over and above the cost of kee . ' the inmates. I Rockingham county has a live wire set of county commissioners and a capable board of education. I both sets of officers doing all po- | silde to make the county one of the ' foremost in the state. That they 1 are succeeding is proven by the fact ' that sections outside of the state : are taking notice of what is being j done toward advancement in al 1 j lines. | Kobt. Mabe Will Likely Be First To Prime I Robert Mabe, who was here tod ..." from the Buck Island hills, just north of Danbury, stated thai be expected to prime his first barn to bacco Monday of ihe coming week. Mr, Mabe has a fine crop of tobacc > and it is farward. He stated that if he could have a little more rain soon he thought his crop woul 1 b.> best for year-' l T ' S i . _ _ t ■ THE DROI'GHT I> GETTING SERIOIV, .Streams (lettinir S » L>v. - 7i:at Mills Aiv I'liabU* T) While Sprimrs an.; \Vt;iU A: > Drying Up, »'at!s : !g ;>••>•(? Inconvenience. Hi"! !".s fi >ni JllUiiV - ■ 11;, :i . , is getting more serious each i> St•••:»«;!.- a: • so low that a g: i r mills - rat«- .'.v. ! • •i-Uilii"- t 1 gr.» i . ■ I . sprirg- ;t v. l l w./l's an- dry.:' 4 II. Shewpard. wh i li t- )era' . |•-I a Hour i! >• ~ , , , ... . t forty : 'stated while I r y, vrday ■ | had never seen the stream anything i■ n.» i i\v as it .- *. v.. .V r, psird's mill i- ;ii:S■!• t • --a' ceot a vciy .-hurt while ea h -lay 1 it:-'ii- hov thi- wfi-k from ?.-* t i-'K ■utility .-'.ate' that the mill 'l Stuart, i> a'. I on .Mayo ri'• •!', hi I ~• >i-i*• i-i opci I;ions. Stuart'* water -'i;■ |'l > > ome- fi >lll springs on the ni" tit' I.n ■ l l an i "h -s > are Irving up * hat ■■ t iv;, * making sir. eil'-r • . .•• ■r • •• ,• -r from i#thei -•■'ii'. : • • causing great inonvi-nii \ At Piedmont Springs 'i. b> I .-nnug from which 'he h-> •: - ni water for domestic pun ; o. ■ -.. I whi i. ha- never bef"ie faih-i > f • othi l ll'i • I - b illg . • . i week I' •• . t'l.r • i' ■ I I y V ati 1 p .'Aer. I- . i': iiutlt - I ' t :i f W h • t e.l I 1. a lit. whi! th tow I.- v. a'.ei -t; - pi;. 1 >in!ng fr.m spring.', 1:1 mountain, has I,ten giv.rly r-'iol sin i watei i> I- 'ing h 1 uli- i in li.i.-- Ills, l>an rivei probably .0 I ,w as i! !,.i- ever lie,-:. ami the p>w r ' la.'it \vh: h supplier W":«IlUlt 1 • v :'li curient i- unable !> opera" ' .if ." ii >.: i ■ Tin water w.% ilrawn from tlu- .lain th:- week in order to -1 ip -onie l.'aks so that ,i'l of the -n.-aiii ma\ u-ed whi'.j 1 the watt r 1- -o i"U Farmers report that toba > i.» ■ .in-burning ami dyiru v. th • t: I I from the intense heat ,t I* ■ ••• • f >■ pa-: f1 *w i!av -. IHEAT AT RALEIGH NEARSRECORD 'Was J. 2 Yrsterilav: Hijfli •M 'tk .>i* In:] lioui/heil ii; 1887 Mark H>.'> Ip. Reach\l ISS7. Kah'tgh, July JI Sizzling with , th" hottest July weather sin..-.' ' !s"v7, when the mercury tou.hed I>W, North Carolina's capital 'via. fought for breath beneath 1 tem perature of 102, ami in the after noon contributed one victim t 1 th > nation's mortality list of the ii . 1 Tohams B. Yates, t'«o years old, an I a retired business man. died frot.i tin- heat late today. With a temperature of 71 11 ' build on at > o'clock this morning, the mercury climbed steadily thru : out the forenoon until it reached 1-M degrees at noon. From that time until 1 oVloek this afternoon it a ! vaneed one half degree each hnu until it stood at 102. With the sc I ting of the sun it slowly decline 1 to ■ S'S at U o'clock tonight, j The l'nited States Weather Hi reau here announced tonight ;bat. not since July IS, ISB7, hail tho temperature been hig'-.er. At tint time it reached 103. There is less of a roar when milk 1 goes up a cent si quart than when • gas sidvan.es the same amount p"'' gall -n. I.owell Couricr ('iti;.on.
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