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Volume 55. GEO. L. JARVIS SHOOTS HIMSELF | Lifeless Body Of Prominent, Young Attorney Of Walnut Cove Found In His Office. Early Tuesday Morning Former Mayor and President Uf Lion's Club. | George L. Jarvis, prominent l young attorney of Walnut j Cor e, committed suicide about ( 7:30 o'clock Tuesday morning of this week by shooting him self as he sat at his desk In his | law office over the Burton Drug Store in Walnut Cove. A 38-■ caliber pistol was used, the ball entering the right temple and corriing out just above the left ear. The body was dis-' covered by Deputy Sheriff Henry Dunlap, who had Kone to the office to see the attorney on some business relative to a trial which was to have been held Tuesday in which Mr. Jan*is was counsel for one oi th parties. While the shot w.i.- iinl heard by anyone it is ptv.fiable that it had not been fired many minutes when the otli. er found the body. A news boy who delivered the morning paper had been in the office a few minutes before and earned the paper. Mr. Jarvis asked for his account and paid the boy in full, telling him that he would not take the paper any longer as he was going away. | In the waste basket in Mr. Jarvis' office was found an un- 1 finished letter torn in several pieces which had been directed to his father. It stated that the deceased had some life in surance and told where the policies might be found in case anything happened to him, etc. The letter was evidently writ ten j ust before the shot was tired, as near the end the writ ing was bad and could barely be deciphered, the deceased having nodoubt beconle so nenous he could not write, and then deciding not to try to finish it, tore the letter up. Early Tuesday morning he borrowed a pistol from a friend saying that he was going up the country to collect some claims and that he might need the weapon. Lacking cart ridges he walked up the street with the pistol in his hand and failing to find the cartridges at a store to fit the gun, he borrowed another from a friend, this, one being loaded, and went to his office. A coroner's inquest was held Tuesday, the jury finding that the deceased took his own -life. The only cause that has been assigned for the rash act was that the deceased has appeared to be slightly mentally unbal anced for some weeks. Mr. Jarvis was in Danbury the day before his death and appeared to those who talked to him here to be perfectly normal mentally. The deceased, who was 33 years of ,age, was well known throughout the county and was held in highest esteem by everyone. He enjoyed a lucra tive law .practice and had been engaged in this profession since coming to Stokes from Wilkesboro about 12 years since. He served as mayor of Walnut Cove for one or more terms and was president of the Stokes County Lions Club at the time of his death. Mr. Jarvis was unmarried and his father and other rel atives reside at Shelby. He was educated and studied CONFEDERATES TO ' GET MORE MONEY | Totally Disabled Men Will Re ceive $120.00 A Year—Oth ers Get $l.OO Per Day. I Clerk of the Court A. J. Fagg ■is just in receipt of a letter i from State Auditor Baxter I Durham, at Raleigrh, explaining the new pension laws as they j affect the old Confederate vet t erans. The letter from Mr. Durham follows: I The General Assembly of J1927 made certain changes in i the pension laws of the State. I A soldier who is totally blind | or who has been paralyzed anil is totally disabled by reason' ' thereof, will hereafter draw $420.00 a year, payable month ly through the Clerk of the Court, instead of $300.00 as heretofore. All other Confederate soldiers now on the pension roll, or who are eligible for pension under the general pension law, will draw one dollar a -day, payable semi-annually. The first payment will be in Decem ber, 1D27, and the second in June, 15)28. The marriage date was also changed. A widow in order to to be eligible for pension musi 1 have been married' prior to January Ist, 1880, but widows j now on the pension roll by rea | sqn of some previous statutes will not be taken off. 1 Class "A" widows who are blind in both eyes or totally helpless and confined to the house will receive $300.00; all | other widows $lOO.OO. Except as mentioned above, the general pension law has not; been changed. The property qualification is still in the law. i The legislature appropriated for the year beginning July 1, 1927, $500,000.00 for the wid ows and $900,000.00 for the soldiers, and for the year be ginning July Ist, 1928, they ap propriated $500,000.00 for the widows and $600,000.00 for the soldiers. I Want Road To ! Y. M. C. A. Camp . 1 A large delegation of Yadkir.' township citizens appeared be [ fore the Stokes road board j i Monday and asked that the , county build a road from the j k State highway near Capella to the camp established by the Winston-Salem Y. M.. C. A. I near Lunsford's mill. 11 : is learned that the board agreed to assist in the con j struction of the road. | Boyles-Tillotson Family Reunion ,' The Reporter is requested to I announce that the Boyles-Til ■ lotson family reunion will be r held at the home of W. R. Boy i les at Trinity, N. C* Route 2, , better known as the Branson j Coltrane place, on May 15, . 1927. All invited to come and , bring picnic baskets of Kood things to eat. ' j I Many good farmers of North l Carolina are mixing their fer s tilizers at home this year in £ spite of the prevailing low , prices. t law at Wake Forest College, land was a member of the Mis i sionary Baptist church. The body will be taken to Wilkesboro tomorrow for inter -1 ment. Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, May 4, 1927 TIME EXTENDED ! FOR PAYING TAXES Property of Citizens Failing to . Pay By Next Wednesday Will Be Advertised. The list of delinquent tax payers furnished the Board of County Commissioners by the Sheriff on Monday of this 4 week contained the names ofj, quite a large number of citi- i zens. Under the new law the property of these delinquents ' ! was supposed to be advertised this week, but inasmuch as the', first Monday in June falls on i the 6th the newspaper can give ( the required four weeks of ad-' | vertising by getting the list in next week's paper. This being the case the commissioners ex-1 ' tended the time for payment I until next Wednesday, May j 11th. After the list appears in the paper citizens will be allowed to withdraw their \ names at any time before the i first Monday in June by paying l their taxes and $1.50 cost. ; Jlll )G EH AYES TO DELIVER ADDRESS Will Speak To Graduating Class At Walnut Cove High . School On May IUK At 10 O'clock A. M. Hon. Johnson J. Hayes, fed eral judge of the middle dis trict of North Carolina, has ac- J l cepted an invitation to deliver | the literary address to the graduating class of the Walnut Cove high school on Saturday, May 14, 10 o'clock A. M., in the I auditorium of the school foulid ing. j The public is cordially invited to come out and hear Judge Hayes, who is an entertaining and forceful speaker. N. L. Cranford Made President of Planters j N. L. Cranford, who has been connected with several of the t larger businesses of Winston-1 i Salem for the past several j years, was yesterday elected i president and treasurer of the Planters Independent Tobacco j Warehouse Company at the an-. nual meeting of the stockhold-j ers. j Other officers elected to serve • with Mr. Cranford are given ias follows: D. S. Hayworth, vice-president; W. H. Sharp, i secretary; W. B. Willis, acting secretary and assistant treas urer. Directors elected at the meeting were W. H. Sharp, J. F. Smithdeal, D. S. Hayworth, H. C. Sheets and N. L. Cran ford. 1 Surry County Bar Is i To Stage A Banquet; Mount Airy, May 3.—The Surry County Bar Association ' 1 will stage a banquet at Hotel i Elkin, at Elkin, N. C., on the night of May 12, at which Hon. ' W. M. Hendren, of Winston-, Salem, will be the chief speak- • , or. Short addresses will be made by members of the local! bar. Each me-nb..* of the as -1 sociation will be permitted to take one guest with him to the 1 banquet. I Frank Davis Elected Alderman » i Frank Davis, former tobacco warehouseman at Walnut Cove, » and well known in Stokes, was - elected alderman at Winston- Salem Tuesday. SCHOOL BUDGET j TO BE MADE SOON i Joint .Meeting of County Com- J ( missioners and Hoard of Edu-1 cation To Be Held May 25th —Supt. J. C. Carson He- Elected. Decision was reached hero ( Monday by the Board of.' County Commissioners and the 1 4 Board of Education to hold a ' joint session at the court house 1 on Wednesday, May 25th, for * the purpose of preparing the school budget of the county. l ifor the coming school year. I* It is not known just what the county will undertake in the way of building houses, but ' iit is presumed that something 1 along that line will be done. 1 .Several districts in the county ! j have their plans prepared, it 1 is stated, for new school build- 1 , ings. The last Legislature author 1 ' i-'.ed the county commissioners ' ,to borrow money for school 1 i buililings, and the- State has { ] provided for plac ing a large |amount of money at the dis posal of the con it'es that caiv to use it at a low rate of inter est for twenty years, i At last Monday's nyeting of the Board of Education, Supt. of Schools J. C. Carson was re elected for a term of two years.! i Other business before the, ! board was only matters of a i routine nature. STOKESGOT LOAN | AT GOOD RATE Bray Brothers Buy $BO,OOO County Notes At Four and Three-Fourths Per Cent.— Money To Pay Outstanding Debts. | ————— I The county commissioners last .Monday sold $BO,OOO in county notes to Bray Bros., of Greensboro, to bear interest at the rate of four and three fourths per cent. ] Money arising from the sale of these notes will be used to pay off outstanding indebted ness of the county. Danbury People Picnic On Hanging Rock \ A good number of Danbury people enjoyed an outing and picnic on Hanging Rock last Saturday as the guests of Mr.! and Mrs. N. E. Pepper. About j twenty-five married couples were invited but it was regret-1 ted that a number of them were unable to attend. The party left Danbury by cars, driving to within a mile or more of the top, where lunch , was eaten, after which they ! jdurneyed to the rock and Ispent a short while in viewing • the surrounding country. Sev eral members of the party hail ; recently visited Blowing Rock and declared that our mountain 4, had it on" the one in the "Land of the Sky." I 1 Dr. Hutchins To i Deliver Sermon | Walnut Cove, May 2.—Dr Hutchins, pastor of West End Methodist church, Winston .Salem, will preach the sermon | before the graduating class of j the Walnut Cove high school j in the auditorium, at ?> o'clock P. M., Sunday, May Bth. I Many Irish potato growers jin Eastern Carolina complain that their seed are lotting in the ground. CALVIN BECK HELD UNDER BOND Charxed With Manslaughter In Connection With Deaths of Robert Taylor and Bas- ; com McCaskill. I Winston-Salem, April 30. Calvin Beck, driver of the car, in which Bascom McCaskill and Robert Taylor were fatally j injured when the machine crashed into ri telephone pole here Easter Morning, was to- J day bound fiver to Superior i court on two charges of man- j slaughter. Bond was fixed at i $1,50 in each case. Evidence at the preliminary, hearing before Judge Thomas Watson in municipal court was woven around the question of speed being made by the auto-' mobile and the presence ofl whiskey. R. ('. Ilensol, one of the part v. testified that he was riding' with Beck on the front seat of the car. lie said he and Mc- Caskill had taken whiskey, but neither Beck nor Taylor had been drinking. .Mrs. ('. L. Foster, who took Beck and Ilensol to the hospit al, said she detected the odo" of whiskey, but said there was no indication that Beck was un der the intluence of liquor. Dr. W. L. Grimes testified that he was called to the hos pital to render medical atten tion to the injured men. He said he smelled whiskey on Beck's breath. Dr. Cook, resi dent physician at the hospital, also testified that he smelled whiskey on Beck's breath. Beck emphatically denied having taken whiskey. He 1 testified that he was driving his automobile at a speed of about 18 miles an hour when it skidded on the wet pavement. He said he attempted to staifch ten the car, but it struck a telephone pole. Several defense witnesses testified they saw Beck before or after the accident and that ;hey did not »let« t the odor of whiskey on his breath and i neither did he nil.- ;ito be in- I toxicated. C. B. BRODY HAS . TERM SHORTENED Sent I'p From Stokes In April, 1925 For 5 to 7 Years—Re ! quired To Serve Only Two { and One-Half Years. C. B. Brody, Walnut Cove citizen, who was sentenced to the State prison for a term of 5 to 7 years at April term, 1925, of Stokes court, on the charge of setting fire to a store building in Walnut Cove, will be required to serve only two and one-half years, according to information given out from the Governor's office in Raleigh last Saturday. As more than two years has already elapsed and as Mr. Brody will be al i lowed some time for good be havior he is expected home i right away. i The conviction of Mr. Brody was purely upon circumstantial evidence and his friends have always contended that he was innocent. They have been un tiring in their efforts to secure his release, and the news that their efforts proved successful comes as a great relief to them, as well as to Mr. Brody and his family. The Cantonese apparently have their minds set on a look in at Pekin. —Wichita Eagle. No. 2,*64 I STOKES CASES ARE REMOVED Offenders Will Be Tried In Middle District Federal Court Instead of Western. Greensboro, April 30.—* Twelve more cases were re moved to the United States court for the middle j district of North Carolina from the western district by orders stoned by Judge E. Yates ; Webb, of Shelby, and received iat the office of R. L. Blaylock, I middle district clerk, here yes -1 terday. All charged violation jof the prohibition act, the violations all alleged to haw been committed in that part of ! the old western district that is now in the new middle dis -1 trict. An order by Judge Webb, | upon petition of defendants, i 3 i necessary to prevent such 'cases from being tried in west |ern district courts where the.v were originally docketed. removed yesterday were against Forrest Reavis, l.onnie .Moore, and Unfits Rey nolds, Wilkes county: John Bowman. Will Wall, Frank poor, Arthur Card well and Rus sell Woods, Stokes county; H. L. Frierson, Guilford county; Rex Sheppard, Billy Payne, James D. Williams and Arthur Card well, Rockingham county. I ' GOOD NEWS FOR STOKES PEOPLE Fertilizer Plant On Highway Leading From This Section | To Winston-Salem Will Be Removed. A bit of news coming from Winston-Salem that will be pleasing to thousands of Stokes people is that R. J. Reynolds has purchased the fertilizer plant of the Virginia-Carolina C liemical Co. and that the plant will be removed on or before April 1, 1928. It is hoped here that when the plant is re-locat ed it will not be placed so near the State highway leading from this section into the Twin City. It is stated that Mr. Rey nolds purchased 179 acres of land from the Virginia-Caro -1 lina Co. and that this will be ! subdivided into building lots under the direction of land scape architects. The consid ' eration was about $250,000. | With the removal of the fer tilizer plant the northern part of the Twin City will become ; much more desirable a resi dence or business section. » K > Widening the Road i On Sharp Curves ) ,' An item of interest to the | thousands who expect to drive j over the hard surface road be , tween Danbury and Walnut j Cove is the fact that the ce ment is being made wider on the sharp curves than on the , straight runs. This will great |ly lesson the danger of acci . dents and at the same time j make the road look more com- fortable. \ Listing and Assessing e Property To Begin I The listing and assessing of property for taxes will begin in some of the townships of Stokes on Saturday of this week. A complete list of ap i pointments for each township - of the county appears else (where in this paper.
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