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Volume 54. TOBACCO PRICES OFF SLIGHTLY, Last Week's Sales In Winston- Salem Averaged $21.64 —J That Market lias Sold Thirty-Two Million Pounds So Far. i Winston-Salem. Dec. -I.—The of ficial report of loaf tobacco sales on thi market, issued by the secretary of the Winston Tobacco Association, sometimes referred to as "The To bacco Hoard of Trade," reads as follows: Sales for week, 1,890,582 pounds; sold for $841,617.62; average, $21.64 Total sales to date, 32,322,581 pounds; sold for $8,115,385.50; aver age for the entire season, $25.20. Sales last season to date, 23,- 947,787 pounds, which sold for $4,- 504.443.10; average for the whole, 918.81 Gain thus far this season over last season to same period, 8,374,797 pounds. Gain in dollars paid out to growers, $3,640,942.40. Gain in av arage this season over last, $6.39, or in other words, prices paid to date are 31 per cent higher than for the same period last season. Dark Grades Lower. While not reflected in the general average for each day, nor for the entire week, yet there has been little, if any decline, in any of the bright grades of tobacco, They have been just a little harder to sell—the grades commoner—and a little more time consumed in showing them up on the sales, but that is all. On the dark and red grades—the kind used fur chewing purposes— there has been a decline, except on the wrappery kind, but the decline on these dark grades on this mar ket have not been near as much as was the decline on the Kentucky market. Some years ago in Ken tucky the Italian government were heavy purchasers of these dark grades, but they are now very small purchasers, as they are using tobae eo grown abroad upon which there is no heavy duty. Many of the ware housemen locally, as well as the small speculators, before Thanks giving bought rather heavily. As ••re-handled" tobacco never shows up as well as "fresh" farmers's tobac co, unless on an advancing market, it is very hard to sell, and this has made the sales appear to be "drag gy" at certain periods of the day, but on "fresh" farmers' tobacco it is quite different. Market Appeared Brighter Friday. The market appeared to be better Friday than any day during the week, as the bidding seemed to be more spirited. On account of the harsh weather, heavy sales are not looked for during the coming week, but one can never toll as many farmers have "ordering pits,' like they have in the east. Rural Hall School Boy, Killed By Bus Walter McGee seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles McGee, of near Rural Hall, was almost instant ly killed about 3:30 o'clock Monday afternoon, when he was run over by a bus operated by Thomas A. Moore, 18 years o'd. The accident occurred in front of the Rui.il Hail school, just after the bus had got ten into motion in leaving the school with a load of pup''s going to their homes. No blame is attached to the driver of the bus, it js said. The little boy, accovditg to wit nesses was playing near the rond and ran directly in front of the bus before the driver could bring it to a stop. He was hit by the fender and knocked to the ground, the wheels passing over his body. He was picked up in a serious condition ! and carried to a physician's office j in Rural Hall where he died a few minutes later. According to witneses the driver; of the bus was just starting off and; was in the act of changing gears when the young fellow ran in front of the machine. D. M. Tuttle 111 In Winston Hospital; Mr. D. Matt Tuttle, of Yadkin township, father of Dr. R. G. Tut- j tie, is undergoing treatment at the j Lawrence hospital in \Vinston-Sa- j lem. I Subscribe for The Reporter and get the Southern Planter 1 year free. ! NEW OFFICERS j TAKE CHARGE, County Commissioners Held First Session Monday—Noj Business of Importance j Transacted At First Meeting. I I The newly elected county otlicevs I were sworn in at the court house, here Monday and entered on their new terms. Clerk of the Court A j •I. Fagg administered the oath to. Sheriff J. F. Dunlap, Register of j Deeds J. J. Taylor and the County I i Commissioners, while Esquire L. J. j 1 Young officiated in swearing in the Clerk of the Court. The new board of county com missioners, composed of Jacob Ful ton, Dr. R. S. Helsaboek and Rufiu Wood, organized by electing Mr. Fulton chairman, and the board held its first session. The matter of em ploying attorneys for the board was deferred, and only routine business was transacted, quite a number of claims against the county having to be approved. A large number of citizens of the county were here Monday attending the installation of the new officers. Wesley Hall Suffers Painful Accident Wesley Hall, of Danbury Route 1, had the misivirtline to get his arm broken yerterday whih or: kii f' his truck. M-. flail was >itt:M*'o. by Dr. E. W. Oven and is resting as wl« as couM In exp'cted. And The Lord Said It Is Not Good That Man Be Alone. Genesis, 2:18. So God gave man an "help meet" and from the helpmate that God gave unto man sprung the family. Ask any statemen, ask any educator, any lawyer, or preacher and he will tell you the strength of any nation is no greater than its family ties. From families comes villages, com munities, countries states and na tions. The only difference between counties, states and nations are their sizes. The counties, states and nations are simply larger families As cacti child in a given family is different from every other child. So in the states or nation we have more different opinions. There may be family quarrels, but let an outside.' interfere and the family forgets at once their quarrels and all together settle with the outside. This brings us to cooperation. The old saying | competition is the life of trade is a big fallaney. Competition has ruined business, forced people into bank ruptcy and even put good men be hind prison bars and in alms i houses. Cooperation is simply social in stinct. Social instincts are of the | greatest value and form the dearest i examples that education must foster and confirm the desire for compan•, iotiship is common to all normal human beings and even manifests it-1 | self often in a very remarkable do-1 gree in the heeding instincts of low- I ; or animals. Business is carried ; and external today through by co- j . operations. Churches and schools I ! must follow, the one room one teach- ! or school is doomed instead, well i trained teachers in commodious and j well equipped buildings will replace | the former, churches instead of tak- • ing the lead as they should will j come last, in a few years the church | (not churches) will form a com munity center with well trained I leaders. I j The instinct of cooperation has been a powerful factor in building i the community life. The history of : civilization has been that of gradual j expansion of sympathy and under ' standing among ever widening groups, from the family it has ex- j tended to the tribe the state and nation. The present century promises to , carry it beyond the confines of ma- I ! tianal barriers and to see a real I ; federation based upon mutual un- j | derstanding and common feeling. It ; is neither good for man to be alone or to think alone for in the multi- j tude of counselsors there is safety, j REV. 11. W. HUDSPETH, Danbury, N. C. j L. L. Spencer, who has been re- j I siding in Montgomery county since , last December, has returned to his j former home in northern Stokes. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Bradshaw, of I Moore's Springs, were in Danbury j yesterday enroute to Washington, D. ! C., on a pleasure trip. I Subscribe for the Reporter Danbury, N. C, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 1926 I MAY ESTABLISH SCHOOL IN STOKES A. H. Eller, Acting For Cicero j Tise Estate, Wants County Authorities to Make Proposi tion In Regard To School. I Approximately two hundred thou , sand dollars in cash was set asid.> by the will of the late Cicero Tise jto he spent for some purpose al ; Yade Mecum Springs in Stokes county, the wMI providing that tho I money might he used for schools, I hospitals, churches, roads, etc., as the executors of the will saw tit. Hon. A. H. Eller, of Winston-' Salem, who has charge of the funds, has asked the Stokes county school authorities to submit him a proposi- • tion in regard to the establishment of a farm life school or even a hign school at Vade-Mecum Springs 011 the Tise estate. It s learned that Mr. | Eller has previously offered to pay. half the cost of a suitable building for such a school, providing the county would maintain the school. ! The matter was discussed at the meeting of the County Hoard of Education here Monday, representa tives of Mr. Eller appearing before the board. However, no definite action has yet been taken. Citizens who were heard to discuss the pro-! position here Monday were of the opinion that the Tise estate should donate the building and let the county maintain the school. It was . hoped by those who spoke of the matter that some agreement could he reached soon and the school established. Vade Mecum is an ex cellent point for a school. City Paving For Country Roadsi Fll 11)11), there were approximately 277,000 miles of surfaced roads ir | the entire country, only a small per centage of which were of types now regarded as adequate for motor ve hicle traffic. Today the mileage ofi surfaced roads is almost twice as great, and more than 100,000 miles are improved with higher types of surfacing than waterbound maca dam. Ten years ago there were only five states which had even a single improved trans-state highway, said Secretary Jardine in a recent ad dress. Many thousands of miles c.f bit uminous pavement throughout the rural districts, show that engineers are awakening to the possibility of using city type pavement on country roads, where minimum construction and maintainance cos's are essential and where old road base must b • j salvage !. A rural, or sparsely settled sec-■ ; lion of the country is dependent tin- j 'on its highways, and these highways j j must function the entire year. The; | country understands th'.-t need, at,!! ! the question of the type, cost of j construction and modem road r.us-1 J chincry to save labor, calls for in- 1 | tensive thought. Park Your Feet On The Table! Good For Health j Cleveland, 1)., Dec. o.—lt may bj | unladylike for a girl to tilt back her chair and park her feet o na table ; ! if she is tired, but it is a healthy ! means of rest. So the delegates to the National I Consumers' League convention I learned from Miss Frances Perkins, • industrial board chairman of the New York department of labor, who J said she delighted in doing this her-, ! self. I Federal court is in session at Greensboro this week and a number 1 of Stokes citizens are in attendance as defendants, witnesses, etc. Stokes Towns Are Soon To Have Juice Winston-Suslem, Nov. 30.—Work will begin on the service line for ; King, Pinnacle, and Rural Hall with j in the next few days, according to j ! annonceitient by the Southern Pub-1 j lie Utilities Company yesterday, j 1 Materials for the work are arriv ing daily and the three to four months work will be started in the ( immediate future. C. D. Smith, of the Sandy Ridge section, is offering his farm at auc- I tion on Jan. 1. 1027. Mr. Smith has j a very yaluable place and it will | nidoubt bring a nice price. ' TOBACCO MARKET I CLOSES DEC. 17 j Will Open Again Jan. 4th— Light Sales Past Few Days, j Announcement is made by the \ Winston-Salem Tobacco Hoard of Trade that the warehouses there will close for the Christmas holi days on December 17th, and will open again 011 January lth. During the cold weather of the past few days sales 011 the market dropped iff considerably. Dangers From I Christmas Trees 1 Many tires are caused by candle.; I ,011 Christmas trees. The tree should! be fastened firmly, so that it can' not be upset, and should not be, decorated with paper, cotton of other' ( inflammable material. Cotton, which) is used to represent frost or snow, ' catches fire very easily. The same effect can be secured by the use of | asbestos or mineral wool, which is safe. The candles should he placed on the tree so that they can not set fire to branches above them, and should not be lighted by children. Before the gifts are distributed the candles should be extinguished. ! Electricity is much safer than can dles for lighting Christmas trees. Doors should remain closed whil'j the candles are burning, because of the danger from drafts swaying the branches or blowing curtains against the tree. The floor under the tree should be protected by a piece of . zinc or iron. Mrs. P. A. Sheppard Passes Away | Mrs. Onnie V. Sheppard, aged 30, wife of P. A. Sheppard, of Snow Creek township, passed away Satur day afternoon at 12::>0 o'clock at a' Winston-Salem hospital, after a ser ious illness of one week. 1 i She was born in Stokes county, May :i, 189G, the daughter of M. H. Robertson and the late Mrs. Eliza beth Robertson. She spent her en- 1 tire life in this county and had been married for the past six years. | She is survived by her husband;, two daughters, Evelyn Vashti anil j Kuth Elizabeth Sheppard; her fath-j or, two brothers, Alfred and Powell | Robertson, four sisters, Mrs. R. W. j Stephens, Mrs. J. F. Lawson and | Mrs. J. S. I,awson, of King, and Mrs. Hasel Til ley. | The funeral was held on Sunday at Snow Hill Primitive Baptist j church at 2 o'clock. Elder Collins, i onducted the services. 1 I Why Not Tag Stokes County Dogs? In view of the fact that the coun-i ! ty has to pay so much damage don i j by luaddog:-' whose owners can rare-! I ly ever be located, it might help t.l! 'require dog owners to put tags oV 1 the canines. Citizens discussing tile matter at the court house Monday . stated that the State law requires 1 that all dogs be tagged, and that Forsyth and other counties were 1 carrying out the law. It is learned . that another claim was filed against I the county Monday for damage by a dog. These claims are being file.l ! regularly and are costing the tax payers considerable money. Farmers Won't Sell Tobacco For $2 To $7 ! Glasgow, Ky., Dec. 2.—Discour ' aged by the low price of tobacco al the local market, twelve farmers their wagons still loaded with the weed, turned their teams towards home last night and others left for home today. Opening day on local markets was marked by bids, but no sales were made. Bids of from $2 to $7 per hundred were made, but refused. j The Planters Loose Leaf Ware-1 house tonight announced that sales' would be discontinued until prices were higher, as farmers refused to | sell at prevailing quotations. I While not as good quality as last! | year's crop, warehouse officials said i the dark tobacco being offered here; should bring higher prices than have i , been offered. Farmers starting home with their | I "cash crop" still in the wagon said i they had no idea what they would | do with the weed. Subscribe for The Reporter and j get The Southern Planter 1 year. I i 1 NEW BUILDINGS FOR KING J. W. 1 uttle and O. 1.. Rains Erecting Uusiness Houses— News and Personals. King. Dec. ti.—Work is well under; way on the new brick building of J. W. Tuttle on east .Main street and! j will be pushed through to complet ! ion at an early date. The home of Mr. ami Mrs. S. i Webster, who reside here, was made I I happy Saturday morning by the ar- I rival of a new baby boy. ! George Tucker, of Winston-Salem, was here Saturday attending to i some business matters. O. G. Goff. of High Point, is spend i ) ing a few days with relatives an J friends here. I'.. H. Caudle, of Greensboro, was j a business visitor here Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. 1). Cook and child ren, of High Point, are spending a few days with Mr. Cook's parent.! in Walnut Hills. Mr. and Mrs. Tommie Goff, of Winston-Salem, spent Sunday with Mrs. Golf's parents here. Work has been commenced on a new home for Misses Rena and Ercie Kreeger on South Depot street. Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Newsum, of High Point, spent Sunday with rel atives here. George Brown, of Lincolnton, was here Saturday and Sunday. James Fowler, of High Point, is spending a few days here with relatives. Dr. L. E. Kiser, of Statesvillv, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Kiser, who reside near here. Dewey Love, of Moravian Falls, visited his mother on Pulliam street Sunday. I Prof. J. C. Colley, of Rural Hall, was among the visitors here Sun day 1 Rev. Paul H. Newsum filled hi* regular appointment at Mt. Airy Sunday. I I The new store building of O. L. Rains on Railroad street, is nearing I completion. Mr. Rains is n produce i dealer and his increasing business i has made it necessary for him to [ I have larger quarters. Rev. Walter Grabs, of Bethania,' i delivered a very interesting sermon at the Moravian church here Sun day. I l'aul Meadows, of Winston-Salem, . spent Sunday with relaties ami j friends here. James R. Caudle wont to Danhury i today, to attend to some business matters. N. E. Preston went to Winston- Salem on u business trip today. ; | Page Hits Back j At Gardner; Is Ready For Plan i Winston-Salem Journal. 7. "If Mr. Gardner will tell us how to distribute the State Highway funds more fairly and equitably than they are at present being dis tributed, he will not have to wait to he elected Governor to see the State Highway Commission adopt his plan," saiil Chairman Frank Page of the North Carolina Highway Commission last night. Mr. Page had just been shown for the first time what purported to ba a quotation from an address made by Hon. O. Max Gardner, in Foresc City, N. C., a few days ago. Mr. Gardner was quoted as hav ing said that the State Highway j funds are not being distributed fair ly among the various counties and sections of the State and that if he is elected Governor he will see to it that a fairer and more equitable dis tribution is made. Power of Press ) Is Growing The late general election in our country shows that political leader-1 ship in national and state affairs is I i rapidly being assumed by the press. I j The country weekly and small | ; town daily exercise dominant and | i direct leadership in building the 1 | political fortunes of individuals, and | molding public sentiment on prin- I ciples and ideals in public affairs. | Their power is increasing, and they I are rightly called the home new?- I paper, in towns and on the farms.— J Industrial News Bureau. j Subscribe for The Reporter and I get The Southern Planter 1 year. No. 2,*47 FASTER SPEED LIMIT IS SOUGHT This And State Constabulary Will Be Discussed By N. C. Motor Club. ! . Charlotte, lii. A faster spoe.i limit ami a State constabulary will lie umoinr the legislative measures to lie 'lisv-us.-td by the ilii'Ktor.i of Ihe "urol>vi .Motor lul- at then I meeting to lie held in Greensboro on ! December lii, according to ('. \V. Huberts, manager of the club. For the first time in its history the club will work actively sponsor ing laws for the improvement of travel 011 State highways when the legislature meets in January. A committee is working on a pro gram. gathered from suggestions of members of the clubs. Directors will pass upon measures which are to he recommended to the club in their meeting. The members of the club will take a referendum vote on the proposed measures on December 21). Methods will then be decided upon of sub mitting the results of the referend um to the legislature the week after • it opens. Mr. Roberts was not prepared t.> say what the directors would de cide upon the proposed measures. "It seems to be the concensus of opinion that a faster speed on the public highways where traffic is not crowded can be permitted and at the same time fatalities decreased." he said. An efficient and well paid con- I stabulary would have to be provided for the State if such a measure was passed, according to Mr. Roberts. Reckless Driving Condemned. "The trouble is not in excessive speed but in reckless driving," he said. "What the State needs is a class of State constabulary which 1 can be relied upon to give a proper interpretation of reckless driving laws which the legislature should pass," Mr. Roberts said. A uniform system of issuing driver's licenses is another Lavr I which Mr. Roberts believes should be passed. The present system of issuing licenses is entirely unsatis factory, he believes. It is the gen ] eral belief of the member of the j club that nothing would tend more .to eliminate accidents than a law which required drivers to pass a rigid drivers test. The Carolina Motor Club is in terested in having laws passed which will protect drivers and at the same time give the greatest degree or i liberty in safe driving. In connection with the proposed legislation, officials >f the club are anxious to jrive the public informa tion whi.h will convince them that it is not necessarily fast driving on I highways when- traffic is not heavy, ! but driving by those who are not : efficient with the wheel which causes the great majority of the accidents. Quarter Million Autos Were Stolen A quarter of a million automobile* vlnucd at SI28.0(H),1)00, were stolen in 1H2.-I. Of these only 8(1 per cent were recovered, leaving an unrecov- ered loss of $.'{5,000,000, which does 1 not include the loss incurred in re pairing, recovering and establishing ownership of stolen cars. "Strong emphasis placed on the human equation indicates that locks which can be operated with greater convenience than the older types would tend to reduce thefts," the N. A. C. C. bulletin points out. i Studebaker engineers anticipated this need more than a year ago when the coincidental lock was adopted. This is located on the steering post. The owner of the car can make his vehicle thief-proof by pressing a small lever and removing the key. That operation locks the steering wheel in a fixed position and shuts off the ignition. There is a separate ignition switch to allow the ignition j to be turned off and on, if desired, I without affecting the steering wheel lock. The lock is easy to operate, , easy to find, and is practically im ' possible to break. ! ■ 1 Two Cars Sold Here At Auction Two Ford cars seized by officers with whiskey on them some weeks since were sold here at cublic auc tion Monday. The two ears brought about $lBO.OO. Funds derived from their sale will go to the county school fund.
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