DAN BURY FEPOR^R
Volume 55
GILMER BURGE
HELD FOR COURT!
Preliminary Hearing On Charge 1
•if Seduction Hold At Court |
House Here Friday Bond
Fixed At $2500.00.
!
Gilmer Burge was held for
Superior court under hond of .
32500.00 in Justice Martin's I
court Friday when he was giv- !
en a preliminary hearing on :
a charge of seducing Miss Irene i
Rothrock under promise of i
marriage. i ]
The trial'was hold it l , the
court house here and both the
defendant and the State were
represented by attorneys. Sev
eral witnesses were examined
for the State, while some 20 or
30 letters written by the de
fendant to the prosecuting wit
ness were introduced and read
as evidence. The defendant did
not offer any witnesses. Bond
was originally fixed at $2,000
and later raised to $2500.00.
The defendant, who is 26
years of age, is a son of Gus
Burge, of Randolph county,
who removed from Stokes a
few years since, Young Burge
has been residing in High
Point.
The prosecuting witness is
the 19-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. E. A. Rothrock, weil
known and highly respected
residents of the Walnut Cove
community.
All Day Service At
Pine Hall Sunday
Pine Hall, July 5.—A1l day
services will be held at Pine
Hall Presbyterian church next
Sunday. July 10th. There will
be preaching at eleven o'clock
and dinner on the grounds.
Everyone invited and requested
to bring well filled baskets of
good things to eat.
Miss Kate M. Dußose, of
Greensboro, daily vacation
Bible school teacher and young
peoples leader, will have charge
>t' the afternoon services. A
cordial welcome awaits you.
Wainut Cove Boy
Weds Salisbury Girl
At the Presbyterian manse
in Danbury Saturday night.
Rev. H. W. Hudspeth united in
marriage Miss Eva Mae Tucker,
of Salisbury, and Mr. T. C.
Hartman, of Walnut Cove. The
marriage of the young couple
came as a surprise to their host
of friends. The bride is a
. harming young woman and is
unusually popular in society
•ircles in her home city, while
the groom is a popular young
ivil engineer, at present aet
ig as assistant to engineer W.
t\ Kanoy, who has charge of
the construction of the Dan
bury-Walnut Cove highway.
Spencer Hill Is
Injured By Truck
Spencer Hill, of Meadows,
who was engaged in hauling
sand and cement for Contract
or Martin, on the Danbury-
Walnut Cove road, was serious
ly injured yesterday when his
truck turned over near Tuttle's
school house. The young man's
shoulder was broken and h'i
was bruised and hurt other- (
wise, but is reported to be
resting well today at a Wins
ton-Salem hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Taylor,
of Winston-Salem, are visiting
the family of Mr. J. S .Taylor
at Piedmont Springs.
HUNDREDS VISIT
PIEDMONT HOTEL
Popular Resort Taxed To Its
I'tmost Capacity Past Week
End—Moore's Springs Also
, I
Had Many Visitors.
The past week end, including |
Monday, probably brought the
largest number of guests to
Piedmont Springs that this re
sort has ever known. All dav
and far into the night Satur
day, Sunday and Monday al
most a constant stream of
automobiles were passing thru
Danbury enroute to and from
the springs. At the hotel there
were more than three hundred
registered guests and hotel at- i
tendants were never busier in
feeding the throngs. On Mon
day night the hotel gave a
special dance in celebration of
the fourth of July and the
large ball room was unable to
accomodate all of the couples
at one time.
Moore's Springs, too, had a
host of visitors, and although
it has no hotel now, Mr. Brad
shaw took care of scores of
people during the week end,
using his home and the cot
tages located there.
The owners of these resorts
had as well begin now to make
preparation for accomodating
more people, for as soon as the
paving of the highway leading
here is completed business is
going to "pick up."
4th Of July List
Of Deaths Rising
The great American institu
tion, July fourth, claimed its
usual heavy toll of casualties
among holiday seekers in the
south.
Over the week end, from
Sunday to Monday night, at
least 21 persons mot violent
deaths in auto collisions, grade
crossing accidents and drown
ings and equally that many
were injured. Ten of this num
ber were killed and six hurt on
Independence day.
Three woman and two men
were drowned at Elmo Inlet,
near Wilmington, N. C., in the
greatest disaster of the day.
The lives of two men were
snuffed out near Elizabeth
City, N. C., when a train hit
their automobile at a grade
crossing.
One man was drowned at
Blythe Shoals, near Greens
ville, S. C., while in swimming.
Another succumbed while
bathing at New Orleans.
One man was killed and three
others hurt in a series of ac
cidents in Nashville, Tenn.
At Jacksonville, Fla., a five
year-old girl was injured when
she lighted a firecracker held
between her teeth and it ex
ploded. A 12-year-old boy was
seriously hurt at Washington,
Ga., when a racing motorcycle
crashed through the ropes hold
ing the crowd of spectators
back. Aan automobile racing
driver was shaken up an
scratched when his mount
crashed through a fence during
a 15 mile dirt track race in
Atlanta.
Progress On Road
Work Not So Good Now
Contractor Martin's road
forces are not making as good
progress pouring concrete now
! as they did a few weeks since.
Work was started last Tuesday
a week ago and in the ten days
probably only about 2,000 feet
of concrete was poured.
Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, July 6, 1927
STOKES ROAI)
OUTFIT TO BE SOLI)
Prisoners Sent To Forsyth
County—Operation of Con
vict Camp Has Not Been'
Found Economical Sale ,
Auk. 1.
Stokes will no longer work
ner convicts on the roads of
this county. This dec'sion was
reached by the county highway
board at its regular meeting
held here Monday. An order
was made made Monday thai
three prisoners in thei" charge
be sent to Forsyth county roads j
at once and the others brought
nere and confined in the county
I jail. The order further pro
vides that the thirteen mules,
wheelers, scoops, tools, wheeled
houses, etc., be sold at public
auction at Danbury on the first
Monday in August next.
After a thorough trial it
has been found by the board
I that the working of the pris- j
oners is not an economical way
I
of building roads.
I The road force ha-' been
working in Quaker Gap town
ship for several months past,
budding a road from Gei'ge's
j Mil! west toward Piiot Mt.
1 i
J. A. FAGG FINDS
TOBACCO GOOD
Some Sections Have Had Dry
Weather Hut Taken As A
Whole Prospects Are Good.
' Elder J. A. Fagg, who at
tended the services at Piney
Grove church Saturday, and
Sunday, has recently been over
a considerable portion of
Stokes and adjoining counties,
and he finds the prospect good
for a fine tobacco crop in most
sections.
In Surry county and in the
western part of Stokes the
young plants have suffered
some 011 account of lack of
moisture, but these have now
had good rains.
Mr. Fagg. who is one of the
proprietors of Brown's ware
house at Winston-Salem, and
has had lots of experience in
the tobacco business, gives it
as his opinion that the weed
will bring a good price in the
fall.
New Detour Is Found
Via Sandy Ridge
A new detour from Winston-
Salem to Martinsville, Va., has
been suggested by the Winston-
Salem Automobile Club, thru
its secretary, William T. Rit
ter, who traveled over the
; road on Sunday and declares it
! offers an excellent route for
use while the man road is un
, der construction.
The new route suggested
would provide for traffic being
detoured at Church and Starl
ing streets, Martinsville, over
Virginia Route 12, to Spencer,
then to Sandy Ridge and Wal
nut Cove, only 63 miles long,
eleven miles of which are oil
pavement and 24 concrete. The
remainder is good county road
passable at all times.
License For Marriage
Of Popular Couple
i License was issued this week
at Danbury for the marriage of
Miss Mildred Morefield to Mr.
Charles A. Adams. Miss More
field is the popular daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. Wesley More
field, of Walnut Cove, while Mr.
Adams is a prominent young
t business jnan of Greensboro.
COUNTIES MUST
PRINT FIGURES
Law Provides That Summary
of lludget Estimates and
Other Facts He Published In
Newspaper.
Raleigh, July 2.—Now that
the Hoard of County Commis
sioners has adopted the budget
estimates giving the amount of
money expected to be spent in
the counties during the year
ending next June .30, the board
must take steps to make these
figures public.
i The new law provides that
a summary of the budget esti
mates, that is, the money the
departments and subdivisions
' of the county propose to spend,
be published in at least one
newspaper published in the
county. This statement must'
| show at least the total appro
priation recommended for each
separate fund or function.
I Other figures must be made
public, so that the taxpayers
j may know what is b§ing pro
posed in the way of activities
and expenditures. For example
the rate of taxation for county
purposes and the rate for each
i subdivision which will be neces
! cessary to levy in the current
1 fiscal year must be worked out
by the county accountant and
published.
The publicity now required
of all county affairs involving
money will put a new responsi
! bility on the county commis
sioners and other officials. The
people will not only have an
opportunity of seeing how their
money is being spent, but they
will be able to make compari
sons between the efficiency of
their officials and those o.'
other counties.
JOINT MEETING
OF BOARDS SOON
County Commissioners and
Hoard of Education Will
' Again Take I'D School Build
ing Hudget—Date Not Fixed.
The county school board was
in session here Monday for
some hours, but transacted no
business of special importance,
though school problems wer •
discussed from many angles.
I Boards of school committee
men in the several districts of
the county were revised by ap
pointing successors to resigned
members, etc.
That part of the school bud
get pertaining to new buildings
in several districts will be tak
en up soon at a joint meeting
of the school board and the
board of education. The date
for the meeting was not an
nounced.
i
Bids On 24 Road
Projects To Be Opened
Raleigh, July s.—Bids on 24
state highway projects, involv
ing about $2,000,000, will be
opened here tomorrow for con
sideration for letting by the
commissioners at their meeting
Thursday, Commissioner Frank
Page announced tonight.
I The 24 projects call for con
struction of 172.95 miles of
roads and three bridges. They
include 84.57 miles of grading
and dirt roads and 88.38 miles
of hard surface in various
counties.
i Ralph Slate, of High Point,
who is spending a vacation at
Piedmont Springs, was in Dan-
I bury today.
TWO ACCIDENTS
OCCUR AT KING
.Man Falls From Pole and Bo>
Injured By Dynamite Ex
plosion—Five Men Held For
Court—New Church Started.
King. July 4.—William Hold
er, Jr., an electrician of this
place, was engaged in wiring
the home of Dr. G. F. Petree
Tuesday, and had climbed
pole to adjust some wires when
his head touched a live wire,
burning a hole in his cap and
knocking him from the pole. He
was belted to the pole which
held him in contact with the
pole during the fall. His face j
was lacerated and bruised con-:
siderably. He was rushed to i
The King Drug Co. where Dr. J
R. S. Helsabeck dressed his
wounds. It was some time be-!
fore he regained consciousness. |
He was not seriously hurt.
Dr. and Mrs. E. M. Griffin re
turned from China Grove Sat - i
urday where they attended the
golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs.
John H. Thomas.
1 The frame work on the new
Baptist Mission on west Main
street has been completed and
the contract has been let to B.
C. Boles, of High Point, for
the brick veneer work, which
will be commenced at once.
When completed this will be
one of the best church build
ings in King.
Mrs. J. R. Wall, of Winston-
I Salem, formerly of King, died
at the Lawrence hospital Wed
nesday. following a lingering
illness. She is survived by th-j
husband and three daughters
and two sons. The remains
I were brought here where fun
eral services were held at her
old home Friday, interment
following in Galatia cemetery.
Mrs. Wall had been a faithful
member of the Galatia Chris
tian church for many years.
She was a good woman and
liked by all who knew her. Her
age was 1!) years.
The following births were
registered here last week: Mr.
and Mrs. Luke Slate, a daugh
ter, and Mr. and Mrs. M. M.
Newsuni. a son.
Mrs. Martha J. Kennedy,
aged !>0 years, 2 months and
•"» days, died at the home of her
son, Hilary Kennedy, just east
of here Friday. The interment
was conducted from Mount
Olive church Friday at 2
o'clock.
Mrs. Walter Puli'ani left
Saturday for Virginia t-> be at
the bet! side of her mother,
Mrs. J. W. McMillon. wh > is
very sick.
Monroe Fulk, aged 11 years,
son of Mr. and Mrs. E. ">V.
Fulk, here, was cleaning out a
grainerv at their home Friday
when he came across a stick of
dynamite which had been left
in the building. The boy pro
cured a stick and began pound
ing on the dynamite when sud
denly it exploded, blowing off
two of the boy's fingers. He
was rushed to The King Drug
Co. where Dr. Stone dressed
his wounds. He is reported to
be getting along nicely.
A Ford car being driven by
Ollie Ray Smith collided with
a car, the occupants of which
were not known, at the corner
of Depot and Main streets
Saturday. The automobiles
were only slightly damaged
and none of the occupants were
hurt.
J. M. Jordan, of Leaksville,
was here Saturday attending t>
some business matters.
Colonel John Jackson, Roy
and Monroe Jackson. Charlie
Boles, Gurnie and Lester Boles,
were all given a preliminary
hearing here Saturday before
Jas. R. Caudle for participating
in the fight which took place at
Dalton week before last. All
were bound over to Superior
court except Colonel, there be
ing no evidence that he did
anything except tried to part
the men.
Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Pul
liam, of Winston-Salem, spent
Sunday with relatives here.
Fount Jessup, of High Point,
t is spending a few days with
No. 'J.S79
$60,000 BONDS
ISSUED MONDAY
Interest Kate Is I .5-1 Per Cent.
—Mone\ To He I sed To Pay
Short Term Notes of Road
Hoard.
Sixty thousand dollars in
bonds were issued and sold by
the Stokes board of commis
sioners Monday, the proceeds
of the sale to be used by the
Stokes Highway Commission to
pay off short term notes issued
by that board last year, and for
taking care of other indebted
ness of the highway commis
sion.
Attorney Edgar C. Willis, a
native of Stokes county, now
residing at Southmont, N. C. f
bought the bonds, and the in
terest rate is only 4 3-4 per
cent.
Other than issuing these
bonds the county commission
ers transacted only rountine
business.
The school building budget
will be given further considera
tion at a joint meeting of the
county commissioners and the
board of education, date for
which was not decided upon.
Nelson-Sisk Marriage.
Sam R. Nelson and Miss
Allie Sisk. of the northern sec
tion of Stokes, were married
Saturday, Elder J. A. Fagg, of
Winston-Salem, performing the
ceremony.
relatives here.
The Red Goose bali team
went to Winston-Salem Satur
day where they played The All
Stars, resulting in a score of
!> to •'» in favor of the Geese
Wheat threshing i> on in
this section. Farmers say the
crop is not turning out very
good.
John Grabs, Jr., is spending
several days with relative in
Winston-Salem.
Dr. Roy Fowler, of Winstoil-
Salem. was among the visitors
here Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Pulliam,
of Greensboro, were the guests
of Mrs. J. S. D. Pulliam Sun
da;..
Miss Crysel Caudle, of Win
ston-Salem, spent Sunday with
her parents in Walnut Hills.
Walter Pulliam has returned
from Pleasant Garden where
he spent a few days with his
parents.
Kdwin Caudle, of Winston-
Salem. was the guest of his
brother, Jas. R. Caudle, in Wal
nut Hills Sunday.
This section was visited by
one of the heaviest rains ot'
the season Saturday. It was
accompanied by a light hail.
Noah Cardwell, of Winston-
Salem. was among the visitors
here Sunday.
Dr. W. C. Ashburn, of Win
ston-Salem. is assisting Drs.
Stone and Helsabeck in their
work. Their practice has be
come so heavy that they were
forced to have assistance.
Tom Garner, of Winston-
Salem. is spending a few days
with his parents near here.
Kcnnis Pulliam, of Lexing
ton, Ky., is spending his vaca
tion in King.
Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Caudle
and daughter. Miss Flossie, of
Winston-Salem, spent Monday
with relatives here.
The Red Goose boys crossed
bats with Capella on the King
diamond today, resulting in a
score of 6 to 1 in favor of the
home team. This Red Goose
team is putting King on the
map in the base ball world.
A. W. Michael, of Capella,
is here today attending to
some business matters.
! Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Collins
spent Sunday with relatives
and friends in Mt. Airy.
I John Kiger and family, of
Burlington, are spending a few
days with relatives here.