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DANBURY REPORTER Volume 54. BANK OF STOKES ANNUAL MEETING Spirit of Optimism Prevailed Among Stockholders— Divi* dend of 8 Per Cent. Declar ed. Walnut Cove, Jan. 20.—The reg ular annual meeting of the stock holders of the Bunk of Stokes Coun ty, operating offices at Danbury, King, Germanton and Walnut Cove, was held at the bank's office here Wednesday. A report of the insti tution's condition rendered by the president and the easier* of the var- 1 ious branches, showed an increase | in deposits during the year of $461,* ( 0(10.00, the total resources being at present $1,1)14,000.00, with capital, surplus, and contingent reserves of 125,000.00. The bank's statement shows no bills payable or redis count at present and is carrying substantial cash reserves in excess of $200,000. Profits for the past year were satisfactory and u feel ing of optimism prevails among the stockholders of the bank for its continued gradual progress and success. A dividend of 8 per cent was de clared the same to be payable on March 15, 1927, to holders of stock as of December 31, 1020. I The newly elected board of direct ors is composed of the following: Dr. J. W. Neal, N. E. l'epper, C, C. McGee, J. H. Marshall, H. H. Leake. J. C. Carson, C. E. Davis, V. T. Crabs, while local officer managers for the various branches are I). S. l'riddy, R. M. Smith, E. R. Nelson, 1 for Danbury; S. W. Pulliani, J. W. Mitchell, C. O. Boyles, for King; E. W. Carroll, H. H. Riddle, W. H. Bynum, for Germanton; O. M. Mauser, Samuel Hairston and J. B. Woodruff, for Walnut Cove. The officers of the bank are: President, J. W. Neal, cashiers are N. E. Pepper, Danbury, H. H. Leake, King, C. C. McGee, Germanton, and C. E. Davis, Walnut Cove. All of the officers have been identified with the bank for many years and are well known to the people of Stokes I and surrounding counties. Another meeting of the directors will be held within a few days for the purpose of organizing its finance committees and formulating the plans and the policies of the Imnk during the coming year. A report on the assets of the Farmcrr. Union Bank and Trust Company, which was taken over in March, 192t>, by the Bank of Stokes County, at Wal nut Cove, under an agreement enter ed into with its stockholders and approved by the I orporation ( om mission, shows that substantial pro gress is being made in the liquida tion of these assets. The final act of the stockholders meeting was the passing of resolu tions lamenting the death of T. D. Meador, of Madison, who had for several years been closely identified with the business interests of Wal nut Cove and whose passing is keen ly felt by those citizens here who have known him in a social and business way. TO GO AFTER ' STOKES TAXFS Sheriff Dunlap To Make Lai't Tax Round, Beginning Feb. ; 7—Property Will Then Bo Advertised. Sheriff J. F. Dunlap announce# in this paper that ha will begin a round for the collection of the 1926 taxes on Feb. 7th, making twenty nine appointment* Jn the county, and that after this round he will advertise for aale property on which taxes have not been paid. It is stated that it will be useless to ask for extension of time, as the taxes must be paid. Subscribe for the Reporter NOT TO ACCEPT COUNTY LOANS State Highway Commission So \ Decides; Reason For Action Taken. Raleigh, Jan. 25.—N0 more loans will he accepted from counties by the State Highway Commission for , construction of highways within the | counties, according to Charles Ross, ( assistant attorney general, who stated that the Commission felt that , the purpose of the loans in facili-' ( tating road construction had been ', 1 accomplished. i This means that the road con- j struction program will be cut ap- j proximately in half during the next 1 two years even with a 30 million ( dollar bond issue. With a 20 million , dollar bond issue authorized by the | 1925 Legislature, and approximate- j ly 15 million dollars received in loans from the counties, the High- 1 , way Commission had 35 million dol- _ lars to expend on roads during the past biennium. Around twelve mil- | lion dollars of the next bond issue , will be used to repay the counties, j | which will fleave eighteen Hellions to be spent on highways. 1 Both of these figures exclude tee surplus which is year'.- turned over to the building fun-l by the High-, way Commission from gasoline and license taxes after the overheat' expense of the commission have been paid, the maintenance program paid for, and money set aside to f retire the bonds. This amounts to about three million dollars. 1 These figures also exclude Federal aid which will amount to $1,708,551 during the next year, according to the biennial report of the Highway Commission recently made to the governor. Duiing 192 ft this ap-, portionment amounted to $1,609,- 168. A clause prohibiting the Commis sion from receiving loans from counties will probably be included in the bill calling for a 30 million dollar bond issue, said Mr. Ross. D. Pearce Reid ! Died Jan. 11th D. Pearce Reid, of Beaver Island township, died at his home Tuesday, January 11, after an illness of tw.i days, age 03 years. Funeral services were conducted at Oak Grove Bap tist church by Rev. Bud Joyce, of Kumly Ridge. Interment took place in the family burying ground. Ho leaves a widow, two sons, six daugh ters, one brother and four sisters. He will be greatly missed in his community. The deceased was a member of the Christian church and was always ready to help in church! work. Appointed Justice By Governor McLean Col. C. K. Boyles, of the Pinnacle j I community, was here Thursday qualifying as Justile of the Peace under a commission sent him by. » Governor McLean. Mr. Boyles was | I accompanied by Messrs. D. F. Boy les and J. H. Sams, also fine citizens and good farmers of the Pinnacle j community. The trio paid the Re i porter a pleasant visit. ; 'Mrs. Mary Williams Died Thursday 5 Walnut Cove, Jan. 24—Mrs. Mary Williams died at 4:30 Thursday morning at her home in Stokesburg 1 at the advanced age of 82 years. 1 She had been in ill health since last J June. The funeral services were * J held at Salem Chapel at two o'clock • Friday afternoon. Interment was in ', the church graveyard. Mrs. Wil- iams is survived by one daughter a and one son. k a Follow directions and handle the incubator correctly if the best hatch of livable chicks is to be secured, | say poultry workers. Danbury, N. C. t Wednesday, Jan. 26, 1927 J. N. LASLEY DIED j SUNDAY NIGHT j Was Well Known Citizen of [ Stokes—Aged 76 Years—j Funeral Tuesday At Homei Of Deceased. Joseph N. Lasley, who resided six mili*s east of Danbury, died at his home Sunday night af'-er i'.n extend ed illneft*. Mr. Lasley who was 76 yearn of age, was a well known citizen of the county and a good man. He WHS always interested in public affairs and kept posted on the happening* in the nation at all times. The deceased had long been a member of the M. E. Church, being one of the first to enroll on the church register at Davis Chapel. He is survived by his wife, who is a sister of Mr. N. A. Martin, of Danbury, and by three sons and on.j daughter, as follows: Theodore and James I.asley, of the Meadows com munity, and J. P. I.asley, of Wood bury, N. J., Mrs. J. Walter Lackey, of Lnwsonville. The funeral and burial were held at the home Tuesday afternoon, Rev. C. K. Hutcherson, of Walnut , Cove, conducting the services. Mrs. Covington Dies Near Walnut Cove Funeral services for Mrs. Mary A. Covington, CO years old, wife of i Robert Covington, who died Satur day afternoon at the home on Wal | nut Cove Route 1, after illness of two weeks, was held Monday after ! noon with a short service at the , home at noon. Services proper were , held at 2 o'clock at Chestnut Grove I Baptist church. Rev. Mr. Phillips, j Rev. H. B. Johnson, and Rev. O. E. Ward conducted the services with interment in the church graveyeard. Mrs. Covington had lived for many years at Walnut Cove where she was a good friend and neighbor and will be greatly missed in the community. She is survived by her husband; 5 sons, J. M King, of Okanogan, Wash., H. L., of Winston-Salem, S. D.Covington, of Reidsville, W. H. and Robert Covington, of Walnut Cove, and J. E. Covington, of Siler City, six daughters, Mrs. J. D. Hall, Mis. Delia Robertson. Mrs. Bryant Sizemore, all of King Route 1, Mrs. Roy Fuller and Mrs. Malley TuttK 1 , anil Miss Flsie Covington, all «f Walnut Cove, Route 1; one sister, Mvs. Rufus Bennett, of King, and several grandchildren. News Items Of Smithtown Section I I.awsonville, 24.— Misse. j Bessie Corn and Collins spent Tuesday night with Misses Lola and Nealie Martin. W, R. Stovall and son Reid, visit ed at the home of H. T. Corn on Wednesday evening. Quite a large crowd gathered at Smithtown school Thursday evening to attend the musical concert given by Ernest Thompson. Miss Emily Woody spent Friday ' night with her friend Miss Margar. et Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Moir Heath, of Stuart, Va., were the guests of Miss Margaret Hill Sunday afternoon, j Misses Kate Knight, Jeßsie Fralin j and Hunter Knight visited at the I home of H. T. Corn Sunday, Misses Lola and Nealie Martin spent Thursday night with frienls at the home of H. T. Corn. 1 ' Carlos Priddy visited Miss Ruth • Lawrence Saturday afternoon. 1 Willie Amos, of Sandy Ridge, was ' visitor at the home of Cutler Hill during the week end. Miss Enriley Woody and Jess Amos, visited Miss Winnie Agnue, ( of Buffalo, Sunday afternoon. • Subscribe for The Reporter and get The Southern Planter I year. WESTFIELD TO HAVE NEW CHURCH Dr. J. T. Smith Is Improving —Wells Nearly All Dry— —-Booze Is Very Scarce. Weatfteld, Jan. 17.—Westrteld be gin* the new year under more fav orable conditions than the year just passed, more coons and more of al most everything than last year. Tht) sale of th.' tobacco crop has been |n the main 'u.v satisfactory, and about 20 per cent yet unsold, considerable preparation has already been made for the new crop and if possible more will be planted than before. The First Baptist church sold the old church building yesterday for a good price to be removed in t v trty day* to make room for the new one which will be built at once. Mr. and Mrs. John Hunter have completed and moved in their new home, a very complete and desirable place with water and electric lights. The poultry business is still boom ing and results quite satisfactory. The Indies Aid Society met yes terday at Mrs. S. P. Christian's home on East Broadway. Nearly all our wells are dry and not very much booze, has never been so little. About three inches of snow, and Saturday night was our coldest, but we have plenty of wood and coal. Pilot Mountain coal dealers deliver here at 110.00 per ton. Good supplies of mountain pro duce passes here going South. West field rejoices that Dr. Smith is so improved that he can mak» some calls, but still his office has from twenty to thirty patients every day. Tin. birds of all kinds have been very scarce, in fact I have j:ecn nothing but an Knglish sparrow this winter. MATTHEWS AND RAY ARE MOVED Two Dry Agents Will Now Operate From Klkin In Mak ing Raids—Dettor To Help. Klkin. Jan. 20 l>ry Agents l'ark Kay and \V. ('. Matthews have been moved by Administrator K. Mer rick to Klkin, it was learned here today. Agent Matthews has been raiding from Mt. Airy and Mr. R.iy has also been in the work at a point nearer tin- mountains. Dry Agent D. (Dettor, who lives :• t Jonesville, is to continue his \vo'*U here, it being understood that the three officers will work out front Klkin into the adjoining counties of Yadkin, Wilkes and Alleghany in addition to the county of Surry. Former " okes Roy Here Trom California Alger Owen, of Los Angeles, Cali fornia, is visiting his brother, Dr. K. VV. Owen, here this week. Mr. (>wen, who is a son of former coun ty Commissioner, J. I. Owen, has I been residing in California seven ' years. He drove through in his ' car, arriving here Saturday. The trip required ten days. Mr. Owen holds a responsible position with the Santa Fe railway. Noting that the State license I number on Mr. Owen's tar was above a million, he was asked as to the number of cars registered in ' California. He stated that there 1 were more than a million and a half j passenger cars in his State in ad -1 dition to probably half as many trucks. The price of a Ford license ' there ia only fS.OO, while gasoline is 18 cents per gallon, with a tax of 2 cents per gallon on it. Andrew Carruthers of Waukegan was branded on the back with a I flatiron in the hands of his wife 1 when he failed to get up at her call, I and he had her arrested. PROHIBITION GAINING SAYS N. C. DIRECTOR Home-Brew Craze Dying Out, Declares Merrick, And Peo ple Disgusted With Liquor fieing Sold. Charlotte, Jan. 20.—Pointing to a ifeniTj I in pro' ement in prohibition cm. litions in vhe cnt'.v vo'Jitry, R. ij. Mi-irul., for the North Cuioiina and dis-, tricts, «i ciarcf that much progress is being made in the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment. "While I have been in my present place too short a period of time to say with any certainty what is hap pening in this district, I believe wc are making progress," he said. The administrator was in Char lotte conferring with agents from the western district of this State. "Prohibition is a slow process. Naturally it cannot be accomplish ed in a day. When the law came I said that in 25 years thecountry wouldbedry." That there is less drinking today than ever before, is the administrate nr's belief. As proof, he points to the im prove ment of conditions in the slums sections of the larger cities. The Bowery, in New York, was fit-j ed as one example. "In the old days, one wouldn't have dared to walk in that section.' i Today there is no danger. Social j workers told me that there was all the difference in the world." Among the more wealthy peop'o ! Mr. Merrick thinks there is an im- j provement, too. "There's more talk about drink- j ing than formerly, but not moro' drinking," he declared. The home brew craze of several years ago, he said is' gradually dv- ! ing out as people see that the stuff is of such an inferior grade. Mr. Merrick urged his agents hero to conduct a greater number of raids during each month. Me explained that many raids in creased the overhead of the still operators and made whiskey mak ing less popular. "There cannot be too many raids," hi' said. Germanton Visitors And Other Notes liernianti>n, Jan. Several cases of ,-ickncss have been reported in the community and surrounding country during the |>u>t week, but none of them of a serious nature. Mrs. J. 11. Cromer, who suffered a slight stroke of paralysis, is im proving rapidly. Dr. and Mrs. Coy Kieger and lit tie daughters, Louise and Jean, of Charlotte, spent the week end in town, the guests of Mrs. Kieger's parents, Mr, and Mrs. H. McGee. Sam Beck, of Jackson, Michigan, has been a recent visitor at the home of his brother, R. T. Beck, of this place. Mrs, l.aurie Hill and daughters. Misses Anna Bynum and Pamelia, were guests of relatives in town Sunday. , The "Crews" dwelling, which has been vacant for somr time, is un dergoing repairs, and will be occu pied in the near future. Germanton basketball team play ed Tuesday night against Old Tow.i, team. Germanton won as usual. Another game was played at the school building Saturday night. Guilord Freshmen being the visiting team. The Germanton boys defeat ed the visitors, the score being 36 to 8. This will be a good year to know more about how to grade to bacco. The State College of Agri culture is offering a free short course on tW subject on February 8, 9 and 10. No. 2,^3 WESLEY xC. v* T PASSES Ai Four Births Recorded Week—Lights To Be Turned. On In Three Weeks— Lot, Sale la Held. r King, N. C., Jan. 24.—Wesley NT Vest, aged 89 years, 11 months ma4r 11 days, died Monday night at Ikia | home two miles south of town after a short illness with pneumonia. Haf is survived by three sons, Edwin an 4 John H. Vest, of Charlotte, and.. Squire Vest, of Winston-Salem, alwX two daughters, Mrs. John S. D. 1 Pulliarr., of King, and Mrs. R. Am- Helsabeck, of Tobaccoville, and sev eral grand children arid great-grandt children. The deceased was one of-■ the oldest and most highly respect- »• ed citizens of this community. Tha« interment was conducted from tioch church of which he had beenO},' a member for many years. 1 The following births were record- • ed here last week: MT. and Mnu Elwood Smith, a daughter, Mr. and. Mrs. O. L. Spainhour, a daughter, Mr. and Mrs. S. O. Kirby, a son anl Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Jones, a. daughter 1 The Fulk Hardware Co. has pur chased the hardware store of Pell- Mitchell Co. at Pilot Mountain. : They have also purchased the in-- I terest of Pell-Mitchell in the Pied-» ' mont Hardware Company of thia 1 place. Mr. Elmer M. Hauser haw I retained his interest and will remain. 'in his present position as manager" I of the business. W. P. Holt, of Greensboro, put oiv a lot sale here Saturday, selling ' about fifty resident lots in West : King. ! Mr. and Mrs. J. D. White, o£ j Roanoke, Va., are spending a few days with relatives here. Tom Gamer, of Winston-Salem, was among the visitors here unday. Roy Southern, of Lemon City, Florida, is spending a few days witlMl relatives and friends here. Mr. Southern talks interestingly of tjie peninsular state. R. B. Delp has purchased from O. T. Fowler a business lot on east main street. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Webster and Mrs. Cora Webster, of Madison, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Webster, who resides here. l>nn White, of Roanoke. Va., spent Sunday with relatives and friends he re. ' i:nr!- !l. '. i ri-li :• |.ent SuniUv in llitfli Point. Charles W. Patterson, of Pilot- Mountain, is here today attending to some business matters. Work on the new lines prepara tory to lighting Kinß, Rural Hall, Dalton and Pinnacle is being pushed along at a rapid rate by the South i ern Public Utilities Co. and it is be i lieved that King will have lights ' within the next two or three weeks. George Neal, of Walnut Cove, is 1 here today attending to some busi ness matters. I . Stokes Man Makes Good Tobacco Sale i Drew Mabe, of Meadows, was a»- ,' visitor here today. Mr. Mabe aold . a load of tobacco on the Winston . Salem market Tueaday for the fol lowing prices: 34 pounds at 23; 64 . at 24; 254 at 36; 506 at 54; 40 aw , 1 53; 130 at 63; 164 at 53; 54 at 36; | 110 at 37; 220 at 45. ,1 . Sugar Tariff ; And The Farmer The sugar tariff means about j $41,000,000 a year to American far ! mers producing sugar cane, sugar J beets and maple sugar, which they / would not get without the present - ( tariff. Incidentally, without the -, tariff we would depend on foreign t ers for our supplies, because our y domestic sugar industry would b» I destroyed. - Ex.
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