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Volume 5o CAMP OPENED IN STOKES Girls of Young Women's Chris lian Association At Winston- Salem Arrive For Stay of Two Weeks. Near Mt. Olive church, in Yadkin township, this county, i 1 Young Men's Christian Asso ciation camp has recently been established for the members of that organization at Winston- Salem, by Robert M. Hanes, of that city, in memory of his father, the late John W. Hanes. This week the camp was thrown, open and a score or more of young ladies of the Young Women's Christian As sociation at Winston-Salem are christening the camp. They will be there until Aug. Bth, after which the boys of the Y. M. C. A. will take charge and remain until September. This camp has the natural foundation for the making of one of the greatest Y. M. C. A. camps in the country. There are 100 acres of fine rolling ground, the grounds running back to the mountains and across one end is a beautiful stream. On the side of the mountain is a spring that gushes out cool water and the camp officials have walled in the spring and run a pipe line down to the mess hall, passing on its way the baseball dia mond and tennis courts. At each of these places there will be a bubble where the boys may get cool water at all times. The lake, near the entrance into the grounds, will be 25 feet deep and horseshoe in shape and huts will be con structed around the inner edges of the lake. There are already completed two good sized huts and from year to y >ar huts will be added until finally there will be about 15 or 1(>. To the right of the en trance of grounds stands the mess hall and administration building. The athletic grounds are at the rear of the hall, be tween there and the mountain. The grounds as a whole make a beautiful setting for such a camp and Harry Long, direct or of physicial education, has been out there for some time seeing that the grounds are put in the best of condition and that the buildings are proper ly constructed, and in general looking after making the camp fit for the coming of the boys and the girls as well. The purpose of the camp is to provide opportunity for clean, wholesome vacation un der Christian leadership; to de velop Christian character and train for leadership. This pur pose is accomplished by health attainment, nature acquaint ances, wholesome recreation, social adjustment, self-reliance, joy of achievement, and religi ous worship. All Y camps in the country are checked up and scored to make sure they reach these attainments. A total of 184 reported last year. The camp of the local association is aiming at all times to measure up to this standard. The general program for camp activities at Hanes Camp will be as follows: Reveilee at 6:30 o'clock, fol lowed by setting up exercises and then the flag raising cere monies with the saluting of the flag. Then will come a dip in the lake and at 7:15 o'clock breakfast will be served. Fol lowing the morning meal the MRS. P. O. SOUTHERN DIED FRIDAY; Had Been 111 At Her Home In Meadows Township For Sev eral Years. Mrs. Carrie Lou Southern,! aged 38, wife of I'. O. South- > ern, of Meadows township, passed away Thursday at noon; at the home after an illness of several years. For the past 1 ten months she had been con lined to her bed and her condi ; tion had been critical for the !past month. .. She was born in Stokes coun ty, April 24, 1889, the daughter ( :of the late Jack and Minerva Shelton Golden. She passed away in the house in which she was born and had spent her entire life in that section. She 1 was a member of Bethany Lutheran church. Surviving are her husband ; two daughters, Anna Kathleen, and Geneva Adeline Southern; three sorjs, Aubrey Lee, Paul i H., and Benjamin Horace; two brothers, S. L. Golden, of Mead ows Route 1, and H. W. Golden, Virginia. Interment was made Friday afternoon at Bethany church, Rev. Mr. Conrad conducting the services. i 93 NEW DOCTORS GIVEN LICENSE i i Dr. John Kerr Pepper Elected ! President State Board of I Medical Examiners. • _>«. „ I i Raleigh. July 18.—Ninety applications by examination and three by endorsement of credentials tonight were grant ed licenses to practice medicine in North Carolina by the new State Board of Medical Ex aminers, in session here. I l)r. John k'. Pepper, of Win-' ston-Salem. today was elected president of the new Stat.' Board of Medical Examiners at the organization meeting here. Dr. John W. MacConnell, of Davidson, is the secretary. Dr. Pepper is a native of Danbury and son of the late Dr. John Pepper. Three other farmers in Dur jham county have joined the al falfa planting brigade and will i plant the ci+op this fall. Al | falfa growing is increasing in popularity over North Caro lina. | boys will get busy cleaning up' their beds and tents, putting blankets out for airing. The boys will then be permitted to play for a short period, any type of play they care to in- J dulge in. Then will follow rifle practice, this being done un der trained leaders, and short hikes, boating, baseball and other games will take the boys up to 10:30 o'clock when there will be staged the special swim j for life saving lessons by the older boys and at 11 o'clock the entire camp will go for a swim. At some period in the morning beginners will be taken for a swim with leaders guarding them closely. The boys will then come back to their tents and make up the beds and clean up for daily inspection. Visitors may come to the camp at any time on Saturdays and on Sunday afternoons. There will be held Sunday morning religious services and the vesper services in the late afternoon. Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, July 20, 1927 STOKES BOYS TO TRAINING SCHOOL Lester and Egbert Wall, of Pin nacle. Aged 9 and 13 Years.; I Entered School Friday—A j Well Managed Institution. Lester and Egbert Wall, aged | 9 and 13 years respectively, I [sons of Will Wall, of Pinnacle,! were carried to the Stonewall Jackson Training School, near Concord, by Sheriff J. Frank Dunlap on Friday of the past . week. These young boys re- ! Jcently got into some minor trouble and were arrested. Af ! ter being retained here some time application was made for entrance at the training school, and permits were received last week. j Sheriff Dunlap had the pleas ure of an insight of the wotk | being done by the training school while he was there Fri day and he thinks it is one of finest institutions in the State. The school is located just south of Concord in Cabarrus county. There are now nearly five hun dred boys in training there. Several hunderd acres of land is being cultivated by the boys under the superintendency of expert farmers and the institu tion is made self-sustaining from the proceeds of the farm. Each boy works half of the day and goes to school the other half. A strict discipline is maintained at all times and everything is done in an orderly manner under the instruction I of competent supervisors. At the training school a good many of the counties of tha State have their own building and boys sent up from these counties are placed in their own county building. COUNTY ROAD " j BOARD WINS SUIT i Mulligan Construction Co. Was Suini* Highway Commission For s>9o.oo Alleged To Be Due Them For Drain Pipe. In Superior court here yes terday the Stokes County Highway Commission won a suit in which the Mulligan Construction Co. was suing the board for $690.00. This amount, it was alleged by the Mulligan Co., was due them for drain pipe which they had left over after building the Danbury-Clemmons ford road ;and which they claim was sold i to the county. ' The special term of civil court convened here Monday morning and is presided over by Judge ~N. A. Sinclair. Other cases heard up to this time I were of minor importance. A 1 number of out-of-town at torneys are in attendance. Award Contract Soon For Keeping County Home I Contract will likely be award ed by the County Commission ers on the first Monday of the coming month for keeping the county home next year. It is learned that there are more than one applicants for the position, two of these being the present keeper, R. C. Mounce, and James Martin, of the Meadows section. A local farm association in Pamlico county shipped 92 cars of Irish potatoes for which they received from $9 a barrel for firsts down to $2.05 a barrel for No. 2's. UNIQUE CASE IN STOKES COURT ! _ Pupil of School In Peters Creek Township Sought To Gain I Possession of .Map Donated I To School By Congressman ! Stedman. i | I At the special term of Sup erior court being held in Dan bury this week and presided over by Judge N. A. Sinclair, probably the most notable case (which has been tried so far 1 was that in which Miss Anna' • Bryant, sixth grade pupil in the Academy school of Peters Creek township, was suing the principal of the school, Mrs. : W. B. Moore, for the possession 1 jof a map of Europe, which the : plaintiff contended was won by 1 her in a contest conducted by, the principal at the last term of school. The map in question was donated to the school by Congressman Chas. M. Sted man, but whether it was for use in a contest or not Major Stedman was unable to say when he appeared as a witness in the case here Monday. The defendant contended that the map was not intended as a prize in the contest but was for the general use of the school, and the jury refused to give the pupil possession of the much coveted map, which was said to be worth probably 25 I cents. A number of attorneys . appeared in the case and every inch of ground was contested. It was stated that one or more , trips to Washington city had been made to interview Con gressman Stedman in regard to his donation. LIONS HOAR AT WALNUT COVK ' Session Held At Pocahontas Road Hou>e— \e»v Members i Enrolled Resolutions Are 1 Passed. An enthusiastic and largely attended meeting of tl-e S'okes . County Lions Club was held at the Pocahontas road house in Walnut Cove last night, i A number of important reso , lutions were passed by the club. Among these was one appoint- I ing a committee to confer with . State Highway Commissioners Hanes and Cox in regard to , placing on the State highway [ map the road from Rural Hall I via Germanton, Walnut Cove, | Belews Creek and Stokesdale to I Greensboro. The club went on record as • protesting the taking off of the • two pasenger trains now op . erating between Mt. Airy and Sanford, and the secretary was . instructed to wire the State Corporation Commission to that \ effect. ! After the business session and several short speeches by > members, the Lions enjoyed a delightful lunch in the dining room of the Pocahontas barbe cued pig, sandwiches, ice tea, lemonade, etc.. being served. A number of new members were enlisted at last night's meeting of the club. Fiddlers' Convention j At Pinnacle School I Pinnacle, July 19.—There will be an old time fiddlers' con i vention held at the school audi i torium here Saturday night, i July 30th. Cash prizes will be I given to the best musicians I and all musicians aa well as the public are invited to come. THE DETOUR SOON ELIMINATED Danbury-Walnut .Cove .High way Will He Open To Traffic At No Distant Date. It Is Stated. Thi; detour between Danburv and Walnut Cove will be elimi nated in two weeks from yes terday, it is stated, and this i-> exceedingly good news to everyone who has occasion to travel this road. While there is yet about two miles of concrete to be poured between Danbury and Mead ows, this two miles is entirely new road and does not touch the present soil road except where it crosses the new road near the county home. At this point it is stated that the State authorities or the road con tractor will place a temporary bridge over the concrete so that travel will not be inter rupted. The two weeks referred to will be required for the cement to harden where it has just been poured between Danbury and the point where the new road leaves the old road about one mile south of Danbury. After that traffic will l>e able to travel from Danbury to Walnut Cove on hard surface for approximately seven rrtiles and about two miles on an all year s.til road. Within a month or six weeks the entire distant-' will be paved. "Shoulders" of dirt, as they are called, some 6 or 7 feet wide, to be placed on each side of the cement, so that cars may get ofY the ce me:\t when necessary, will be constructed as rapidly a> pos sible, but while this work being done traffic will not be Jnterferreu with to av.y great wxt »nt. f V* *"*» •. Congressman Stedman In Danbury Monday Congressman Chas. M. Sted man. who has been spending some time in Mt. Airy in the interest of his health, was in Danbury Monday, appearing as a witness in a case in Superior court which is in session here this week. Major Stedman stated that he had not U'en well recently and has been drinking water from the White Sulphur Springs near Mt. Airy. He expected to return to his , home in Greensboro this week. 2,000 Candles Used For Washington's Dinner Back in the days of George Washington they spent mone\ lavishly for light at state din ners. It is reiM rted that a dinner for the President 2,000 candles were used. The effect was impressive upon the peo ple of the time. They marvel ed at the Hood of illumination —and also at the fact that all of $lO was spent. Today the same amount of light provid ed by 50 electric lamps of 50 watts each would cost about 18 cents an hour each or probably 75 cents for the whole dinner. But the glow of 2,000 candles in a big dinner hall would be faint light judged by present j day standards. Alamance county claims to have the largest calf club ever organized in one year, com posed of one breed of cattle. The club has 128 members and each boy and girl has a pure bred registered Jersey calf. No. 2.581 BOND ISSUE IS AUTHORIZED To I'uj OIT Bonds Falling Due A iii*. Ist On Account of Loan To State and For Re tiring .Matured School Bonds. j A short special session of the hoard of count> commis ; sinners was held hei e Monday afternoon for the purpose of authorizing the is-janee of ; $242,000 county bonds, to be dated July 30, 1927. and matur ing Jan. 30, 1928 Of this authorized issue $212,000 is to pay off bonds issued last year when the county loaned the State money to build the Danbury- Walnut Cove road. The State having failed to pay the money back and the bonds issued last year having matured, makes it necessary to issue more bonds to pay off those which have matured. However, it is 'expected that the State will pay back SIOO,OOO of the amount due us within the next few days, and in that ease only $112,000 bonds will be issued July 30th on account of the loan to the State. The $30,000 issue is to take up bonds formerly issued for school purposes. _ STOKES CASES ARE TRIED \V. A. Smith. C. A. Bole* and Thurmond Boles Not (luilty —Sam Corns Fined s.'loo— Other Stokes Cases To Be Tried. s, ;* * Federal >urt opened in Win ston-Salem Monday morning with Judge Johnson J. Hayes presiding and up to this time several cases from Stokes have been tried. In the case of Will A. Smith, charged with having whiskey in possession, a verdict of not guilty was turned in. Sam Corns pleaded guilty to violating the prohibition laws and was fined $.'500 and the cost. C. A. Holes and Thurmond Moles, Stokes county, charged with violation bf the prohibi tion act, were found not guilty, and the case was left open. The following men, several iof whom are Stokes citizens, j were sworn in as grand jurors for the term: I Wesley Scott. W. B. Hart, ; Preston Ferguson, O. A. j Wright, Walter Kiger, W. R. j Bowman, T. A. Heilig. Charles I Amos. E. F. Stone, William I Cook. M. J. Fagg. C. W. May : nard, C. A. Crawford, F. | Merritt, J. H. Lawson, P. A. ,Booker. Houston Avery. W. L. tMackie. W. O. Baker. T. A. • Heilig was named foreman. The following men were I sworn in as jurors in addition to the grand jury: S. T. But j tier. R. L. Yarbrough, I. W. jGrogan, T. A. Martin, Henry j Reece, R. L. Hastings, J. A. Simmons, E. K. Bodenhammer, iT. T. Hedgecock. Baxter i Whicker, I). A. Rol>ertson, J. iM. Pratt. E. E. Smith. J. (). Bennett, Will Christian, Walter Brown, J. S. Pulliam, Walter Hill, S. E. Boyles, A. L. Leon ard. L. B. Walker, C. E. Frank lin, Grady W. Miller, C. F. ,Nimmo, Will Bobson, M. D. Stafford. Ah, well; those who now j fear for the young once hid in the barn to smoke and to read t Deadwood Dick.
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