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Volume 55 CONCRETE ROAD OPENED TODAY Hardsurface Highway From Danbury To Walnut Cove Completed and Soil Removed From Last Section Today. The pouring of concrete on the road from Danbury to Walnut Cove was finished two weeks since and according to Engineer \V. C. Kanoy the soil will be removed from the last section of road today, opening up the hardsurface all the way, and giving traffic the right of way. This will be pleasant news to the thousands who travel this thoroughfare. j The grading forces are busy i now constructing the "should | srs" on each side of the con-1 crete, but this work will not. interfere with traffic on the i concrete. $ News and Personals Of King and Section | King, Aug. 20.—Mrs, P. W. j Gunler is spending a few days' with her daughter in Norfolk, Va Wheeler Kiser, who resides in the Mount Olive section, had the misfortune to lose a good barn of tobacco by fire last week. E. P. Newsum is having his store building treated to a coat of new paint. Miss Ola Slate assistant cashier of The Bank of Stokes County, has just returned from Winston-Salem where she spent several days with relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Holde-. of North Wilkcsboro, spent the week end with his uncle, W. S. Holder, here. Mr. Hold er's weight is ;>:»(> pounds, while his wife only weighs 118. Mr. Holder states that he is the lightest he has been for several years, his usual weight beiiu? around .'>7s pounds. The King Tiger: - , took one cnvay from Hanes on the King diamond Saturday, the score being 11 and 1. Clyde Mickey, of Winston- Salem, spent Sunday with his parents here. Jas. R. Hutehins has return ed from an extended trip to Western North Carolina. Taylor White and Howard Hali have returned from Tennessee where they spent about ten days with relatives and friends. They made the trip through the country by auto mobile. T. J. Rierson has returned from New Bern where he spent a few days on the coast. Dr. H. G. Harding spent Sunday with his parents at Farmington. About one hundred and fifty paople attended the Newsum reunion held at the home of Peter Brown three miles south (;f town Sunday. Among the atter.d.-ints were Mr. and Mrs. Bowen, of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. Rev. E. A. Holton, of Win ston-Salem, will preach at the King Moravain church at three o'clock and at 7:30 P. M., Sun day, Sept. 4th. This will be the beginning of the revival meeting which will be conduct ed through the week. Every body cordially invited at at tend. W. T. Newsum went to Win ston-Salem today to look after some business matters. TO CELEBRATE I LABOR DAY Fiddlers Convention and Dance At Piedmont Springs Mon- j day— Resort Will Close For f Season Soon. • * ! Labor Day will be celebrated at Piedmont Springs next Mon day when an old time fiddlers convention will be held in the ball room from 10 until 12 o'clock in the forenoon. At 1 o'clock there will be a square dance with music furnished by the winners in the convention. Musicians are expected to be in attendance from all the ad joining counties, as well as ( those of this county. Prizes will be awarded the i best musicians, the gate re ceipts determining the amounts ' to be awarded. j On Monday night the last I regular dance of the season will be given in the ball room !at the Piedmont hotel, from •9:00 P. M. to 1:00 A. M. Tho j hotel will probably close for j the season about Sept. 10th. I i Tom George Is Again ! A Candidate In Patrick I Tom George, of Stuart, Va., i who represented Patrick coun -Ity in the last Legislature in Virginia, has again announced | his candidacy for the same of ' fice. Mr. George is a son of , Rev. R. W. George, of Stokes j county. It' he is elected to | this office again he will no i doubt be able to secure a con crete road from Stuart to th-: |Stokes county line, through the Virginia State Highway Com mission, and it is a pretty sure 'thing that Tom v. : '! '.in in the November election. Clerk A. J. Faerg Has The Blanks Clerk of the Court A. J. Fagg stated today, that he had just received blanks for issu ing hunting licenses and is now ready to issue them to all ap plicants. Main Street Is Being Repaired { The State Highway forces from both the Walnut Cove and Lawsonville sections of route S9 have been here this week repairing Danbury's main street, which forms a part of route 89. i Assistant district engineer Mackie came up and gave the 'u i k his personal supe is k;ii 1 and great improvement is be ' ing accomplisPtd. A close friend is all right— 'until he declines to lend you monev. I One of the planes of the Raleigh Airways. Inc., which will be used during the "Stokes County Home coming Week," at Walnut Cove on Sept. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. 10. Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, Aug. 31, 1927 PATRICK MAN ] HURT IN WRECK | ' Car Went Off High Fill Just i South of Danbury—Cause j r of Accident Could Not I Ascertained. * -X A Patrick county citizen by,' name of Deatheridge, it was 1 said, drove his Ford roadster,' off of one of the high fills just J ahove the county home on the I 1 old dirt road yesterday after-j 1 noon and was seriously injured.! about the head, receiving bad' cuts and bruises. 1 The man was picket! up by | 1 County Auditor J. R. Voss and 1 brought here for medical at-,' tention. He was in a semi- [ conscious condition and was j unable to give any particulars j of the accident. His wounds ! were dressed by Dr. E. W. : Owen and he was carried to his i! home in Patrick county. II The car apparently turned i over a couple of times and was! :, considerably torn up. It was • | being driven in the direction ,of Danbury when the accident ! j oiTurreii. * •? t ; Loses Life To Save Grandson i Mount Airy, Aug. 30.—Mrs. 11 James Hemmings, of Route 2,' I gave her life Monday after- i . j noon in an effort to save her :', grandchild. The child was i playing in a car and in some > way got the car started. The . grandmother saw his danger . and rushed out and grabbed » the rear end of the car in an . effort to hold it back. It wa; . too much for her strength and . she fell bjuk apparently in ;. > faint, but physicians pronounc ed her dead. It is thought sh • ! reputured a blood vessel. The : car run ovt.r an embankment. • hut the boy was practically un hurt. I i Feast of Financiers. . i i Cashier C. E. Davis, of the - Plank of Stokes County, Wal nut Cove, was host Monday night to the officers and the board of directors of the bank II at Harry Sanders' popular road ' house in south Walnut Cove. 4 j The spread was very elaborate, j J land the feast was highly en-j !joyed by those present, to wit:: !Dr. J. W. Neal, J. C. Carson, | 4 John H. Marshall, V. T. Grabs,! 1 H. H. Leake, C. C. McGee N. E. j I Pepper, C. E. Davis and M. O. 1 Jones. ± l Never judge a woman's smile -by her teeth, both may l>e, artificial. Of making books there is no i end—otherwise there would be i fewer race tracks. HELD MEETING AT PIEDMONT State Board of Travelers Pro tective Association At Stokes j Resort Saturday Last. A meeting of the State Board Of Directors of the Travelers Protective Association wa* held at Piedmont Springs ho tel Saturday afternoon at which more than a hundred members of that body were present. Dinner was served in thy dining room of the hotel and the room had been beautifully decorated for the occasion. [ Short addresses were made by [President C. L. Mosteller, A. 'H. Holland, chairman of the board of directors; W. W. Burgess, of High Point; J. Lester Wolfe, of Charlotte: J. E. Kirkman, of High Point, I and R. P. Rawley, state secre tary. -»■* at*. I The association planned to hold its next meeting in North Wilkesboro the latter part of September. Rev. R. W. George 111. • We had the pleasure of a i visit to Rev. R. W. George one day last week, but regretted to i find him quite ailing. While Mr. George is getting along in years, his mind and faculties are as bright and alert as ever. Mr. George is an assi duous student of the Bible and few men in this section are better posted on the Scriptures. 71 • has promised t > preach for us at Danbury as soon as hi> health will permit, a'.id we }■...•> yur.nnte. • ! him a full house. Former Stokes Man On Board of Aldermen i Will T. Sheiton, who remov ed to Winston-Salt m from the Sandy Ridge section of Stokes a few years since, was sworn in as a member of the board of aldermen of Winston-Salem on Friday of the past we.'k. Mr. Sheiton succeeds Mj.*. Haunter, resigned. Rockingham Man Sells Load of Primings Will Humphries, of the Gold ; Hill scetion of Rockingham ' county, carried a load of his i first primings of tobacco to the Lumberton market the past week. He averaged around twenty cents. Any man who works only for pay seldom does his best. Speaking of women, attract ive simpletons are more popu lar with men than intellectual ibores. HOME-COMING WEEK AT WALNUT COVE SEPT. STH TO 10TH Murphy Brothers Carnival, Air Plane Rides. Baseball Game#, Beauty Contest and Other Attractions To Amuse Visitors— Merchants Will Put On Special Sales of Merchandise—Gala Week Is Planned and Everyone Invited To Attend. Beginning Monday morning,' Sept. sth, and continuing throughout next week Walnut J Cove plans to put on a Horr.e- Coming Week and Harvest | Carnival for Stokes county, and all former citizens of the coun ty as well as everyone else is cordially invited to attend. A number of special attract ions have been engaged for the week, among these being Murphy Bros, shows and car-, nival, aeroplanes from the ■ Raleigh Airways, Inc., to do stunt flying and carrying pas sengers, baseball games by a ' number of the teams o( Eh" ; county, a beauty contest to be conducted by Miss Noma Small wood, of Tuha, Okla., and other features. , During the week Walnut Cove's progressive merchants will put on special price-reduc ing sales and other business houses will have special offers for the public. One of the special features of the week will be aeroplane ride.- covering all of Stokes county which will be a treat to those who care to go up. The week of September sth has been selected for the rea -on that the carnival company c nil I only be secured for that iiu!e :i ;i 11 tit is will give a date ; >re the Mt. Airy and For syth county fairs. In this paper will be found full page announcement of the eviiu beginning next Monday, as w-ill as announcements from the business houses of ! Walnut Cove. Everyone is extended a cord ial i.ivitation to attend and i enjoy themselves each day and j night. i Winston-Salem Tobacco I Market To Open Oct. 1 Some confusion has arisen over the opening date of the Winston-Salem tobacco marke: as two different dates have been published during the past week. The statement that the , Winston-Salem market would open September 20, coming in a story sent out from Raleigh , is an error. j The date for the opening of the Winston-Salem market as ■ well as the other warehouses i in the "Old Belt" is Tuesday, J October 4. No. 2,887 Killing: Squirrels And Rabbits Under New Game Law i Under the new State-wide game law, it is unlawful to shoot squirrels before Septem ber 15, the open season being September 15 to January 15, and the bag limit is ten squir rels in one day. i The open season for rabbits is from November Ist to March Ist. It is required that lit.MMiftv b» secured before hunt. . , j t -v -ing squirrels, rabbits or any oihnr trume: that a button, which is furnished with the li cense. must be worn while ( hunting, and license be shown to onkers on demand. Licenses will be issued by Superior Court Clerks and Game Warden, and doubtless other arrangements will l»e made for the convenience of hunters in securing license. Walnut Cove News. Walnut Cove, Aug. 31.—Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Moore and lit tle son. of this place, have re turned home after spending several days in Irwin, visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Neal and family have returned home af ter spending several days in Western North Carolina. Misses Elizabeth and Mildred , Fulton, of Roanoke, Va., are • spending several weeks visit ing Miss Mary Zimmerman of this place. "diss Annie Kate Neul spent the past week in Richmond I visiting relatives. Hubert Myers, of Winston- Salem. spent the week end • here with his brother, E. M. . Myers Mrs. W. M. Parrish and 1 daughters. Pearl and Kathe rine. of Greensboro, spent sev eral days with Mrs. Paul Ful , ton here. i Miss Katherine Crowder has returned home after spending ' the past week in Mooresville 1 visiting relatives. 1 j Miss Sarah Tuttle, of Route !1. spent the week end here with Misses Mary and Carrie ; Williams. " j Mr. and Mrs. Sanders Rier • son, Jr.. and Miss Helen Rier ! son, all of Charlotte, spent the ■ jweek end here with relatives. Miss Mary Woodruff and 1 John Woodruff returned home ; this week after spending sever al months in lowa with rel atives. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Johnson and Frank Johnson spent Sat urday night in Mt. Airy with Mr. and Mrs. Vick Hampton. The Ladies Aid Society of the Baptist church gave A brunswiek stew Saturday night i r the benefit of the building fund. They received a nice sum of money, $43.95. i ; Despair is the blighted fruit |of hope. i An ambition to own a sky scraper i.; a lofty ideal.
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