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DANBURY REPORTER Volume 54. THREE DIE IN ONE FAMILY! "Wade Shelton and Two Daugh- j •■•rs Succumb l'o Pneumonia J Within A Period of Four j [►ays At Home Near Dan- j Miry. I Wade Shelton, aged 78, a good i citizen of Danbury Route I, died j Thursday morn in jr. al'tor an illness j ■ >:' several days with influenza and ' I monia. Eoth of Mr. Shelton** daughters, | "contracted the malady sain ait t he li: and on FrrJay night one of them died, her death niing followed mi Sunday night by that of the second daughter, the entire family passing away within lour days. The •laughters were aged Vj'.j: .15 and •10 years, respective'>\ Tneir deaths coming so cit>e to jretner wa. a great shock t.i tile coiimunitv. L until was in the family grave yard ne;" the hnie. NEW LAWS TO BE READY APRIL 1 State Printers Have Promised! Secretary Kverett To Begin delivery By That Time. Raleigh, Mareh 21. —April fool's day is slated to end North CarolinaV ign: ranee of its new laws. Printers; have promised Secretary of State j Everett to start delivery of printed [ copies of the laws enacted by the la.-: legislature then. "!f they do it'll be about two mr.r.ths earlier than they were ever gotten out before" Mr. Everett said. Two years ago it was several m« r.ths after the legislature ad-' .iourned that lawyers and laymen were able to obtain printed volumes of *.he new law of the land. Illness of the man charged with compiling thmi was partly responsible. Then j there were other delays. .1 udgvs | heid court and lawyers argued I thnselves red in the face without' j'ui. knowledge of the new law. This time Mr .Everett took mj chances. He had a legal expert at I work on the laws as they were pars ed. 'arbon copies of the laws were' made as the official copies WIT 1 made, l.'sual marginal notes were put in and the copy sent to the printi r. The last of the new laws wer>* expected t > be ready for the lit.-types early this week. LAWSONVILLE HAS NEW INDUSTRY| Handle Factory Established I There Is Doing Good Busi ress—Frank Miller, of For syth County, Is Owner. Liuvsonv'ille has a new industry in the form of a handle factory. The business was established some time. since by Frank Miller, of Forsy;h | county, and has been running full time every day since. While the capacity of the: plar.t is small at present—only ; ah ;:t .'1((0 handles being put out; daily—it is very likely that the out | put will be increased in the near | future as Mr. Miller is finding ready | sale for his handles in nearby cities, j The plant has the latest type ma chinery and is situated in a section wh re the best material for making handles is easily obtained. To Beg'in Pouring Concrete Monday Contractor Martin will begin pouring concrete on the Danbury 1 Walnut Cove road at Meadows on Monday next, it is stated. He will use forty trucks or more in bring-1 ing material from the railway, and | ejects to complete two miles of road per month. ! JUNIOR ORDER ORGANIZED HERE j M. (). Jones, of Danbury, Wm Assisted B yState Councilor , C. W. Snider, of Winston- I Salem, At Services Saturday i Night—Officers Named. I j Danbuiy now has a full fledged | Junior Order of United American J Mechanics with a membership of ' some forty and the prospect of | greatly increasing the enrollment j within the next few weeks. The organization of the order was perfected in the auditorium of the school building here on Saturday night, M. O. Jones, promoter of the order, being assisted in the organiz ation by State Councilor C. W. Snider, of Winston-Salem. Taking part in the services were mouthers of other councils as fol lows: Winston-Salem, 11); Walnut Cove, l'J; Rural Hall, 1; Belews Creek. 4; Yadkinville, 1; Dillard, 1. The Danbury Council takes No. | 11"), and officers were elected as ; follows: Councilor. J. John Taylor, j Vice-Councilor. D'\ 11. H. More : field. Recording Secretary, R. A. Smith. Financial Secretary, it. ). Alley. Treasurer, T. I. I >oth Assistant Recording Secretary, J. • B. Joyce. | Junior I'ast Coi.n.-.elor, Rev. W I J. Hackney. Chaplain, f'.ev*. H. W. Hudspe'.H. Conductor, Sanders 1... Warden, Alex Flinchum. Sentinels, Wilbert Mine hum and • W. McKinley Nelson. Trustees, J. John Taylor, W. J. | Hackney, T. L. Booth. The next meeting of the order will be held on Friday night of this week. FORMER STOKES MAN SELLS 36 COWS Work On Y. M. C. A. Camp Is j Being Rushed—To Enclose Mt. Olive Cemetery Full Crop of Tobacco Plants. King Route 'J, March '2'?.. — F. M. Venable, a native Stokes citizen re siding near High Point, last we "it sold thirty-six milch cows at prices ranging from SOO to The Y. M. C. A. permanent suni ! mer camp, which is being built in {this community, will soon be coni ( pleted if work continues as at pres -1 ent. The big dam for the lake is j well underway. Preparation is being made by the 'citizens of this community to en close the cemetery at Mt. Olive Baptist church. Granite with iron fencing will be used. There appears to be a full crop of tobacco plants so far, and the wheat fields look very promising. ®THE REPORTER'S | OFFER TOOK WITH THE FOLKS Near Twelve Hundred Readers Of This Paper Are Getting | "The Southern Planter" i Free. I I , Six months since The Reporter offered to send "The Southern Planter" a year free to every sub ! scriber of this paper who renewed j his subscription one year and to all i new ye; rly subscribers. ' As a i suit of this offer near | twelve hundred, subscribers of The Reporter are now getting the The j Southern Planter. When you subscribe or rcn.'v.* I your subscription don't forget to | ask us to send you "The Southern I Planter" free. It is an excellent farm paper printed in Richmond, jVa. Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, March 23, 1927 I ACTS OF LEGISLATURE APPLYING TO STOKES 'County Commissioners Authorized To Borrow Money For i School Buildings—May Pay Confederate Veterans s(>! IVr Year—Dog Law Is Repealed—Salaries of Clerk and Register J Deeds Increased—Other Acts. i j Representative ('. (). Boyles ha • | i kindly furnished this paper at ou' - . f request with copies of the acts ul'-i f feet ing Stokes county as passed by j ■ the recent Legislature, and some of ! the principal features of each are given here: .! Monev For School Buildings. i • | The county commissioners are > authorized to borrow money, for the. .! construction of school buildings in | , 1 certain districts of the county. The | Legislature created a State loan i . i fund of $2,500,000 from which the . I counties may borrow money for I school buildings at a low rate of in- i ,; terest with 20 years to pay. ; j County May Pay Confederate Soldiers S6O Per Year. . i Another act provides that the' county commissioners may pay Con-J | federate soldiers and widows of ! soldiers in Stokes pensions not e-c- i - . feeding SOO per year each, funds to | come out of general county taxes, . and an advalorum tax may me levied for the purpose. Salaries of Clerk and Register of •j Deeds Increased. The salaries of the Clerk of the, Court and the Register of Deeds of Stokes were increased from SIBOO per year each to $2400 per year each. No change was made in the Sheriff's salary. ' Damage Done By Dogs No linger { Paid For By County. Stokes county was exempted from • the State law which requires eoun r i ties of the State to pay damage , ' | done by dogs. County's Books To Be Audited By Resident Auditor, i ! The county commissioners were ', authorized to employ a resident of ; the county to audit the books of the , ' county officers. I County Surveyor (liven A Raise. I The county surveyor may fr.tm ; now on receive s."> per day for hi. 1 services, the former fee being fix ed at ?2 per day. Schedule of Fees Fixed For Clerk's i Office. A new act allows the Clerk of lie I COLONEL STOKES' LETTER. March 'J'J, I!W7. , The Danbury Reporter, i Danbury, N. C. > The past week I hud an interview with Mr. F. F. Steele, o" the Pine Hall Briek Company, and find him to be a man who is intensely interested in the progress and development of Stokes county. He has the largest I rick plant in the State at I'iiv Hall, in this county, and they are constantly increasing its ca pacity and it will soon be twice as large as at present. J What interested me most in this interview was his complaint about the county road passing his plant, which the county Road Board has promised for two years to improve and make pass able. S:) far as I can learn there are no indications of action. • Now, what I want to know is this: how are we to expect out side people with money to come into the county and make large investments, hire our citizens at good wages, pay big taxes th.'i. „ to tote their products out through the mud? We must meet suc'i , people as Mr. Steele and effort.# of progress and development at least half way. Most progressive communities go out after such I opportunities as this and spend good money looking for them. I "The wheel that squeaks th« loudest gets the grease." / Yours for action, COL. JOHN' STOKES. of Stokes County. NOTE: —The Reporter will publish each week the best letter contributed in this form, as coming from Colonel John Stokes, ) for whom the county is named. The letter must be in the. form ot' > constructive criticism, which gives conditions as they are and suggests a plan for improvement of these conditions. It is an ,' open forum to all. | Court the following named fees: For |d '.i-iing transcript judgment 7."> I cents, f-ir tiling lien T.'i cents, for j i-uing execution $1.0(1. for issui >g tianscript judgment to another county SI.OO, for issuing execution t" another county SI.OO, for issuing letters of administration including I bond and justification of sureties . $2.(10, for appointment of guardian, including taking liond, etc., $2.00. I County Commissioners May Desig nate Depositary For County Funds. The county commissioners were authorized to designate any certain bank or banks as depository fur county funds. A (lame Law That Would Have Saved The (Jail. An act was passed for Stokes that ; would have stopped the killing of partridges entirely until after Dec. I. I!'2l>, but the State wide game law repeals all acts for the counties. The State law allows quails to h • killed from Dec. Ist to March Ist. | A Bill That Failed To Pass. Representative Boyles introduce I | a bill which would allow the coun'y ' commissioners of Stokes to exempt i certain manufacturing enterprises from taxes for given period of time, but the Attorney General ruled that ' the act was unconstitutional and it j was withdrawn. ! Influenza Wave Strikes Winston-Salem Heavily Winston-Salem, March 21.—Wins ton-Salem is experiencing a near epidemic of influenza. While fev cases have been proven fatal. the disease has been spreading for two weeks or more and in nearly every home one or more members of the family have suffered at least mil I attacks. Kvcry d >ctor has been ke| t quite busy responding to calls from parties ill with the tin. One dm:; clerk reports that every prescrin tion man in his store was called i*i to service last Sunday afternoon to till orders. I WALNUT COVE ;! NEWS LETTER Death of Little William Kanoy—Ail-Day Service A) lJaptist Church—Mrs. ('. K. , Davis Entertains Missionary Societ v. I ' I I Walnut ov«\ Alar.'h 21. William ' Kanoy. Jr., infant sun of M . | 1 ami Mrs. W. Kanoy, died at their ~ honu- here last Wednesday. Inter-1 1 nient was at Disco. Besides the ! 1 parents two sisters, Klizabeth and : ' Frances, survive. Mr. Kanoy is the - engineer in charge of the hard-sut- : " face road work between Walnut i • Cove and Danbury. There will be an all-day service 1 in the Baptist church here next | i • Monday, March 2*. All pastors and i - j superintendents of Sundays school* i l of the Pilot Mtn. association ari- I 1 requested to be present. The meet-'i ' ing will begin at 10 o'clock. ; Mrs. C. E. Davis entertained the Woman's Missionarv Societv of the 1 t t ' Methodist church at her home here; ' last Wednesday evening. A delight - j ■ ful course of refresments were serv- L ' ed at the close of the business ■ meeting. Out-of-town visitors pre-- ■ o.nt were Mr. and Mrs. John Red man. Mrs. R. A. Frye, Misses Mallie i Redman and I'aralee Reid and Mrs. l j Arthur Fulk. k I Rev. R. E. Gribbin, rector of St. | 1 Pauls Episcopal church in Winston' ' , the Episcopal church here next week ! beginning on Monday night. These 1 j services are to be held in connection i with Bishops crusade going on j throughout the United State:;. Dr. and Mrs. H. E. Blackburn are 5 making preparations to occupy their r new home on North Summit Street, j Mrs. John Ix'wellyn, postmistress j here has been quite ill with influ-1 en/a the past three weeks, but is , now improving rapidly. , Mrs. H. B. Williams left last week | t for Tennessee in resjxmse to a mes- 1 ! . sage of the illness of her father. , Mr. and Mrs, John Lewis spent I Sunday at Stuart. Va., with their i I son, Lindsay Lewis. 'kvirns McGEE is l! : UP FOR MARSHAL ! ! i • Friends ol (lermanton Man To j Present His Name As A : Candidate. H j. ' Winston-Salem, N. t.. March I'.' j Friends of Curti - M. McGee, •f, j j (iermanton, will present bis n: jfn ! las a candidate for Cnited States,' 'Marshall, of the new Middle Fed- , era! Judical District, recently es- | tablished by Congress. Mr. McOee is at present cashie. of the Bank of Stokes County. He has been deputy sheriff of Stokes. ( is a prominent member of the Jr. O. I'. A., and the Knights of Pv thias. Physically, his friends point out, he is capable of performing , duties of marshal), standing siv feet in statue, is fearless and will enforce the law to the leter. lie has a large number of friends in Stokes,', who will present his qualifications ' t ' to the powers-that-lie. P. Boyd Nelson Entertains Friends' Pilot Mountain, March 1!'. —P. i!. ! I Nelson, of this place, one of the ; proprietors of Brown's Warehouse' lin Winston-Salem, entertained a 1 j number of his friends ami associates: i in business there at a 0 o'clock din- I tier last Friday at his delightful; new home here wi West Main Street, j Radio music was enjoyed during the J evening. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. J. B. Glenn, P. A. I I Wilson. J. A. Newsome, Robert j Newsome, D. L. Harris, L. M. Heflin, J. A. Stone, T. P. Tucker, Mr. and Mrs. G. 11. Parks, of Pinnacle, and Dr. H. Bernard, of this place. No. 2,858 TOM TERRY LOSES 8500 Moravain Church At King Damairetl Uv Lightning— New Homes Ueing Krecter—- Two Aut" Wmks Two IJirUi. King, March Sl,—Alva Turner is preparing to ere. t a new home in Walnut }lili.-. K. White, who had the contract for the excavating for the new Stone building which is to be erect ed on the corner of Depot and Main streets, completed his contract Sat urday and actual work on the new building will be commenced at once. The contract calls for completion in ninety days. O. T. Fowler, of Pil'.»t Mountain, has the contract for the erection of this new building. The work of remodeling the honk; of William Mauser on west Main street has been completed and Mr. Hauser will remove his family here from I'ilot Mountain within the next few days. P!. I'. Newsum has let the contract for a new addition to his dwelling on west Main street. F. Joyce, of I'ilot Mountain, has purchased from O. G. Goff bin home place just west of town and will move his family here. Grady Fulk has purchased from |O. 1.. Kiser two residence lots 0:1 west Main street. Mr. and Mrs. Charles McGee are the glad parents of a new baby girl. The young lady arrived last week. S. W. Thomas has leased from the Standard Oil Co. the service station at the corner of Depot and Main streets. Mr. Thomas entered on his new duties last Monday. S. H. Brown has had charge of thin i station for the last two years and I has been very successful with it. his lease has terminated and he has not as yet made known his future plans. Mr. Thomas, who is MI ef ficient man, will in our opinion be just as sucessful as his predecessor. Miss Lillie GotT, of this place, wh.i underwent a major operation at the Baptist hospital at \Vinston-Salea« last. week, is reported to be getting along as well as could be oxjieitod. Tom Terry, a well to-do planter living in the Mountain View «ectioi, lost tive hundred dollars last week. of the amount was in bank certiilkatos and the remaining $250.00 was in currency. I'p to thi.i writing no trace has been found of it. Mrs. and Mrs. P. J. Caudle, ot* Winston-Salem, spent Sunday with relatives and friends here. Messrs. N. F.. Preston, Thomas WollF, B. 1., l.ovc. Charles Mew sum, Kert Boyles and Hohson Prflstow returned Friday from Rockingham county where they went on a bi*; fishing trip. They brought back some line tisb and report a tine time. The Moravain church here was struck by lightning last Friday night during- the electrical storm [that passed over this section. Con siderable damage was done to the 'church, the steeple being damaged, a hole torn in the roof and some of I the floor torn up. D. T. Calloway, of Lenoir, spelt J Sunday with relatives ( and friends here. Rev. Kdward Brewer, of Winston- Salem, delivered a very interesting 'sermon to an attentive congregation at the King Moravain church Sun : day afternoon. Walter Mitchell of Pilot Moun ! tain, was among the visitors here j Sunday. j Two automobiles driven by Lewu j Griffin and Birthel Bennett, collided lon east Main street Saturday after noon, only slight damage done to the cars and no one hurt except Mr. Griffin was bruised up a little. Rev. Joseph Hall, of West field, (Continued on pagj 8.)