Volume 55.
OFFICE BUILDING I
FOR KING DRUG CO.'
Church Dedication and Home-
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( oming—School Commence
ment Held—Several Births
Recorded.
King, May !>.—A force til'
men hi 1 ' :«• v; >r'.\ h>nx> oxen vat -;
ing for the foundation of a
new addition to l»»* erected to
the Piedmnt Hardware Store I
buiklinK on east Main street, j
The King Drug Company
has placed an order for a
large electric sign to go on
their new building which is
under construction at the corn
er of Depot and Main streets.
Th»- brick work on this new
struct ift'e is nearing com
pletion. It is being construct
.'d nf faced brick and will be
modern throughout fitted with
stu.m heat and sewage.
When completed this will be
lh' nicest building between
Winston-Salem and Mt. Airy.
It " ill cost approximately SH,-
00(».')(t. The King Drug Co.
will have its home on the
ground floor, the second floor
being cut into offices. Dr. R.
S. Helsabeck, Dr. Grady E.
Stone, Dr. (1. F. Petree, Dr. H. i
G. Harding and others will
have offices in this new build-'
inp.
Mrs. Sam Brown is seriously
sick in the Lawrence hospital
at Winston-Salem with an
abbess on the brain. She is
not expected to recover.
The following births were
registered here last week: Mr.
and Mrs. Julius Helsabeck, a
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Coy
Stout, a daughter and Mr. and,
Mrs. James Bowen, a daughter.'
A church dedication and!
home-coming will be held at
the Baptist church here the sth
Sunday in this month.
A very interesting and ex
citing game of ball was played
here Saturday when The Red
Goose team crossed bats with
South Side Cotton Mill, of VVin
.ston-Salem, resulting in a score
of 3 to 2 in favor of the Win
ston-Salem team. This was de
cidedly the best game played
here this season.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Hutch
ins, of Winston-Salem, were
the guests of Mr. Hutchins*
parents here Sunday.
Tom Crissom, of Pilot Mtn.,
has. opened up a new hardware
store in the Kiser building on
east main street.
Mr. W. G. Tuttle and family,
of Rural Hall, visitdd relatives
and friends here Sunday.
Capt. Charles E. Kirby, who
holds a position with the
Southern Railway Co., spent
Sunday with his family in Wal
nut Hills.
Rev. P. H. Newsum, of this
place, delivered a semon at
Indian Grove, near Mt. Airy
Sunday.
The King Tigers played
East Bend on the East Bend
diamond Saturday. The fhial
score stood nine to eight in
favor of East Bend.
a number of farmers
this section have begun plant
ing tobacco. About an aver
age crop will be planted in this
set t ion.
The commencement exercises
of rhe King school closed Fri
day night. The entertainment
was well attended.
v A. S. Boles, of Washington,
D. C., is spending a few days
with relatives here.
W. T. Boles went to Danbury
toc.ay to look after some busi
ness matters.
This section was visited by a
JOHN TAYLOR 1
MADE PRESIDENT
At Meeting of Lions Club Mon
,
day Night—Memorial Service
For Mr. Jarvis—Prospect
Good For New Railway Sta- J
tion.
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At Monday night's meeting
of the Stokes County Lions
Club held at Walnut Cove, J.
John Taylor, of Danbury, was
I elected president of the club to
succeed the late Geo. L. Jarvis.
Immediately after the selec
tion of Mr. Taylor as president 1
a memorial service was held
for the lamented president,
short talks being made by a
number of members of the club
and by Judge G. H. Hastings,
of the Winston-Salem club. A
committee, composed of Rev.
E. N. Crowder, M. T. Chilton
and ('. E. Davis, was appointed
to draft resolutions of respect
for the deceased president.
Business discussions were
th.ii taken up and John Hutch
erson and L. E. Brown were
oka ted delegates to the Inter
national meeting of Lions Clubs
to be held in Miama, Florida,
at an early date.
I The matter of securing a
more modern railway station
for Walnut Cove was discussed
'at length. The committee re
cently appointed to confer with
the railway officials reported
that they had the assurance
that the matter would be given
i consideration at an early date
and that representatives would
be sent to Walnut Cove soon.
931 Feet Of Cement
| In One Day
! Contractor Martin, who is
paving the Danbury-Walnut
Cove highway, continues to
j break records on pouring con
crete. Last Friday hig forces
paved 931 feet during - the day,
and if any contractor who ever
poured cement in North Caro
lina has beat this it doesn't ap
pear of record. This is paving
at the rate of five and two
thirds days to the mile.
! Ford Car Turns
Two Sumersaults
A Ford touring car occupied
by Will Mabe and his two sons
, and Wattie' Stephens, all of
. Danbury R. 1, went over the
i high fdl at the hairpin curve
just beyond the county home
, Tuesday afternoon. The car
i turned completely over twice
but strange to say none of the
> occupants were seriously hurt,
> suffering only a few minor cuts
i' and bruises. '
I
i A 1 Smith Married 27
«| Years Ago; Salary $75
New York, May 7.—Govern
jor and Mrs. Alfred E. Smith
I i celebrated their |went\fseven
|ith wedding anniversary yester
j'day by attending the circus in
j! Madison Square Garden.
To friends who called to offer
.'congratulations, the governor
. 1 recalled that twenty-seven
years ago ho was a process
. server in the district attorney'*
office at a salary of $75 per
, month.
t fine rain Sunday which has re
jvived crops wonderfully.
, i Rev. Allen Nance delivered a
*' very interesting sermon at the
King Christian church Sunday
,» night to a crowded house.
- 1 C. W. Patterson, of Pilot Mt.,
! was a business visitor here L>-
i day.
Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, May 11, 1927
JOHN HALL
GETS PAROLE 1
I
Sent li> From Stokes More
I
Than Two Years Since—
!
Crippled For Life Since (Jo
inn To Prison.
i John W. Hall. of St 'kes'
county, serving thre to , five
veal's in the State prison for
manslaughter, was paroled by
Gov. McLean Saturday j
The following account of 'ho
ease was sent out from Raleigh'
Monday:
i A parole comes to John W. I
Hall, of Stokes county, serving
three to five years for man
slaughter, and now at Caled
onia farm, as a surprise since
no application had been made
for a parole. Hut on a visit to
the farm, during the recent
mutiny there, Commission r |
Bridges heard of Hall's case
l
and became so interested in it !
thai he immediately asked the!
liovernor for a parole—and i
immediately received it.
In the first place. Hall has [
bee it an honor prisoner almost j
from the day he entered pris
on, and was recommended
strongly by Superintendent G.
X. Moore of the Caledonia
farm, and by the various
guards. About a year ago,
: breaking one leg in two places,
and for five months he was in
the hospital, suffering intense
[ pain. As a result he will be
'crippled for life. But he never
! complained, the prison officials
: say, and has since been help
ing as best he could in the
hospital ward, acting as a
nurse, though it is all he can
do to hobble about.
FARMERS PLANTING
TOBACCO NOW
>1
. i No Complaint la Heard About
' Scarcity of Plants—Prospect
I j For Good Crop Fine So Far.
I
■ | Farmers are beginning to
■ transplant tobacco. Those who
f put out some last week say it
• looks well and is beginning to
[grow. In a few days planting
| will be on in earnest and the
I crop will practically all be put
5 out before May is gone.
| The usual complaint of a
4 j scarcity of plan's has not beer.
I I heard so far, while the season
j for preparing land and gciting
s ,the plants set has been all that
s icould ne asked.
• j Taking the situati in as a
l 'i whole it looks now like the
} , crop is going lo be a good one,
i u.th about f he usual a.rci;ge
• planted.
Elder J. A. Fagg
Marries Couple
) John Ervin Clark, of Win
(ston-Salem, and Miss Mildred
•; B. Marshall, daughter of Mr.
1 ! and Mrs. V. O. Marshall, of
" I Germanton, were married Sun
• | day moning at the home of
1 j Elder J. A. Fagg. in Winston-
Salem. Elder Fagg officiated.
r Mr. Clarjj is the son of Mr. and
.Mrs. C. E. Clark, of Walnut
1 j Cove. He and Mrs. Clark will
• make their home in Winston
-4 Salem.
Former Judge Bock
Arrested Again
Former Judge Walter E.
»; Brock, said to now be living in
i»! Raleigh, was arrested Tuesday
:■ charged with the passing of a
! worthless check on a Winston
,'Salem filling station on March
h- 28. The check is said to have
[been drawn on a Raleigh bank.
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N. C. W.GIRLS
COME TO STOKES
Study Botany While Camping
In the Foothills Near Pied
mont Springs—Find Many
Interesting Plants.
Twenty or more girls of the
Norili Carolina College for
Women at Greensboro, who are
members of the botany class
of that school, spent a few days;
the past week camping just;
above Piedmont Springs while!
they studied botany unilei
Prof. Yocum, who. with his
wife, had charge of the young!
ladi'
Before returning to Greens-!
boro Sunday afternoon Piv.f.
Yocum stated that Ihev l ud
had a very profitable and enjoy
able stay up here, ani had dis
covered quite a few i."ii. resting
•and rare plants. Among the
.
others mentioned he spoke
'
• especially of the striped maple
i which his party found near
j Moore's Kilobaud which is sup
posed io grow only in Peniiys
jlvania and states farther north, j
The young ladies in care of I
Prof, and Mrs. Yocum. most of
whom were juniors, composed
only a small part of the botany
class at N. C. C. W. There are
now 147 enrolled. The entire!
school now has more than:
seventeen hundred studentSM?n-j
rolled.
NEW WAREHOUSE
FOR TWIN CITY
Will Be Ready For Sale of
Leaf Tobacco In Fall—Locat
ed On Liberty Street.
Winston-Salem, May IJ. —A
deal involving approximately
$165,000 has jlWt >•: n closed
whereby is to
get a new leal tobacco ware
house, to be or«.rit»d by the
Liberty Warehouse Corporation.
|a new firm, at the corner of
North Liberty and White
streets, the incorporators of
the new concern being W. A.
and N. F. Fulton, of
of Winston-Salem; M. K.
. Gravely, of Lake City, S. C..
and J. L. McCormick, of States
| ville. The warehouse is to be
located on the properties form
erly known as the J. A. White
and H. T. Foucht home places.
: | Work on the new warehouse
■ is to be started at once and it is
! the purpose of the owners to
have the house ready for the
sale of tobacco when the mar
■ ket opens in the fall.
'! The warehouse will have a
frontage of 288 feet on Liberty
Street and 200 feet on White
! Street.
■ Charter was granted yester
day to the Liberty Warehouse
' Corporatin. The concern was
J capitalized at $175,000. and
I with $52,000 subscribed by the
iincorporators.
!j The erection of the new
| warehouse will be started at
once by the Currin Company,
j acting for the corporation. The
house will have approximately
I 75.000 square feet of floor
, space and will be modern • in
j every respect. The site is an
ideal one for a warehouse, hav
ing a large frontage on two
streets and convenient to a
' large number of the farmers
marketing their tobacco on this
, market.
i The farmer with a college
education generally owns move
land and livestock and makes
1 more money out of his venture
4 than without such an
• education.
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SPECIAL TERM
STOKES COURT
Convenes July 1 Sth Following
Regular Summer Term
Which Begins July 11th—
Judge Hardinu To Hold Reg
ular Term and Judge Bowie
the Special Term.
At the request of Stoker
county authorities and thei
i local bar. Gov. McLean has
] ordered a special term of civil
court for Stokes, beginning
July ISth, and continuing for
jone week. Judge Tam C. Bowie
lot' Jefferson, one of the judges
| appointed under an act of the
; last legislature, has been o.s
signed by the Governor to hold
the special term of court,
which is made necessary on
account of accumlation of iv.-iv
on the Stokes ; 1 docket.
The regu' if sumiiv t t nil of
Stokes civil court will '» 1 he 1.1
the week pi'ei"Kng the s. c rial
form, convening on July 11' Iv
anil Judge W. liar ling will
| pi'i -side over t!i • reg.il;:r term.
'STOKES IN
ACCREDITED I.IST
Bureau of Animal Industry
Gives Cattle In This County
Clean Bill of Health.
j The Bureau of Animal In
] dusty of the U. S. Department
Jof Agriculture has notified the
'Stokes officials that our bounty
has been placed in the "Ac
credited Area," our cattle hav
ing been found to be free from
tuberculosis. The cattle of the
county have been examined
twice during the past three
years.
| Only one other county in
North Carolina has been given
1 this distinction, this being
Stanley county.
Announcing: Opening
I Of The Stokes
1 Chevrolet Agency
I L. R. Taylor and D. M. Pyr
tle, for sometime connected
• with Motor Sales Company of
• Winston-Salem, have secured
■ the contract to sell Chevrolet
! automobiles in Walnut Cove,
• operating under the name of
! Stokes Chevrolet Co. They ex
• tend a cordial invitation to
! their friends to visit them at
5 their new location.
I
> | Mr. Taylor was born at
? West field, Surry county, and
•is well known throughout
i Stokes county and has a repu
-1 tation of being an upright and
r | clean business man. He ha-
J ( been selling Chevrolets for the
I past eight years and has ha.
■ wide experience in the automo
} bile business. Mr. Taylor ha
' removed his family to Walnut
' Cove and is "ready to help in
% any way to make Stokes com
ity one of the leaders.
Mr. Prvtle, a native of Stokes
t county, in well known in this
• section. Mr. Taylor has bee?
' fortunate in securing the ser
vices of a young man witli
such high ideals and business
1 •bility.
1 Stokes county welcomes tlu
" new organization and wis he;
' them much sueess.
• To produce quality fruit
s peaches should be thinned U
stand four to six inches aparl
and apples to one fruit pel
cluster.
L?
s The present scarcity of reedb
ing sheep in North Carolina i:
\ the best reason for saving th>
ewe lambs this year.
No.
BANK OF STOKES
ABSORBS CITIZENS
I
Merger Took Place hast Sat
urday—Hank of Stoke.-. Re
move-. to Quarters Formeriy
Occupied B\ (it'/.ens A
Financial Institution For
Stokes With Resources \N ell
Above Two .Millions.
' Al'tcr negotiations covering
a period of more than a year,
the consolidation of the Citizen-
Bank of Danbury with the
Hank of Stokes County took
place last Saturday. Immedi
ately afterwards the Rank of
Stokes removed from the build
ing it had occupied for 22
years, to the quarters recently
occupied by the Citizens Hank,
where it is now open for busi
ness.
The Citizens Hank' was es
tablished in December. 1!U5).
The Hank of Stokes County,
which now operates four offices
in the county, viz. at Danbury.
Walnut Cove. Cermanton and
I
] King, began business in Sep
, tember, 1005. The acquisition
of the resources of the Citizens
Bank now gives tl • Baric of
Stokes County assets of con
siderable more than two mil
lions. and makes it as one
among the stronger and larg
i er of the banks of the State.
The officers of the Bank of
Stokes County at Danbury will
be the same as formerly for
'jthe present, except with th-i
' addition of Mr. M. O. Jones as
' Assistant Cashier. Mr. Jones
1 has been with ( the Citizens
i since its start, over
* years ago, and his successful
i management of that institution
' makes him as a valuable ac
-1 quisition to the personnel of
1 the Bank of Stokes.
The new quarters of the
Bank of Stokes being inade
. quate to serve the needs of
the new and lancer business
resulting from the ecnsolidat
f ion, an addition to the builair.sr
is being erected.
1
f Several Bruised
■J In Wreck Friday
A Fordson tractor pulling a
wagon on which several men
were riding went off a high
till near Vade Mecum church
Friday afternoon, bruising and
cutting several of the men
right painfully. The tractor
was being driven by Walter
1 King when one of tfie rods un
" j derneath it broke and it was
1 i impossible to steer it. Walter
,s had some ribs fractured and
' his arm badly mashed. Other a
1 {suffered minor injuries. The
' tractor and wagon belonged to
"; K. R. King and was enroute
I here after being used on some
11 1 bridge work near Vade Mecum.
»' Take Heed.
s I
u j The citizens of Danbury are
•- requested to co-operate with
hll he Civic Committee of the
is it he Fine Arts Club in observ
• ing a time of general "cleaning
e up" the next two weeks. It is
s , hopeu that all places of busi
ness. residences, vacant lots and
all public places will be. we
t, might say, "dressed up" in
o that time.
*t , MRS. W. E. JOYCE.
' r Chm. Civic Com.
MRS. J. S. TAYOR,
MRS. H. M. JOYCE,
jj MRS. N. E. PEPPER,
0 MRS. M. O. JONES.
MRS. E. P. PEPPER.
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