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DANBURY REPORTER Volume 55. FRANK REID SHOT BY SAM MANRING' i Wounded Man In Hospital and Mav Recover—Trouble Oc ' curred At Smithtown School House. 1 Frank Ileid, a former , of Stokes who has been residing in Patrick county for, some time, was shot through the body Saturday night by, ?am Manring, of the Sandy -Ridge section. The bullet en tered lieid's body just below the heart and lodged in his back. The wounded man was i rushed to a hospital in Leaks-1 ville and it is learned that he. has a good chance of recovery.; Manring tied immediately after' the shooting and has not been captured. The trouble between the, two men occurred at the Smithtown school house, near, Sandy Ridge, while an enter tainment of some kind was in progress. No cause has been ' assigned for the shqnting, so far as could be learned. I | OCTOBER GAS BILL WAS FEARFUL North Carolina Motorists Paid Nearly One Million For Tax On Gas In One Month. Raleigh, Nov. I.—A new re cord was established for collec tion of tax on gasoline during October when $873,365.42 was garnered by the state for the road fund, report for the mortth issued today showed. The previous record was established in September when appromixately $816,000 was collected. October collect ion was virtually $150,000 ahead of collections for Octob er, 1926. Total collections of taxes for road fund purposes during ■> October was $977,700.89 bring - ing the total since June 30 to $6,432,301.64. At the end of October last year total collect ions since June 30, 1926, was $8,229,063.33. The decrease this year was caused by the change from the fiscal to the calendar year in> the collection of automobile licenses. "Collections during October were classified as follows: Gasoline, $873,365. Licenses, $93,306. Titles, $11,034. Homicide Near Pine Hall Saturday John Martin, a fairly well to-do colored citizen of the Pine Hall section, was shot and killed at his home Satur day night by Garfield Gilliam, another negro of the same community. There was no eye witness to the shooting and Gilliam made his escape. It was said that the two men were disputing over a debt one of them owed the other. It is learned that Gilliam had a bad reputation and had served one or mora terms on the Stokes roads. Stokes Teachers Meet Here Saturday, Nov. 12 A countv-wide' meeting of the Stokes county teachers will be held in the auditorium of the Danbury school build ing on Saturday Nov. 12th, be ginning at 10 o'clock A. M. Every teacher in the county is urged and expected to be pres ent unless providentially hind ered. REFUSED TO SEND CHILDREN TO BUS Two Men Living In Walker town District Serving Road Sentence For Failure To Send Children To School Bus. Winston-Salem, Nov. 2.— J. K, .Mustin and T. I), Pry tie, living ijt the Walkertown school 'listrift. today began serving •'s(i days on the county roads all because the school bus would not stop at their homes to pick up their children and they refused to send the child ren to the regular stopping place, something liko 200 yards distant. They were haled into mag istrate's court here and found guilty of failing to comply with the compulsory school law. The court offered to suspend judg ment on payment of costs, but both refused to pay and they were sentenced to the roads. WILSON MARKET AVERAGES $30.78 That Market Has Already Sold Over Fifty .Million Pounds— World's Record May lie broken. Wilson, Nov. 2—Sales on the local tobacco markets are pressing forward at such a rapid gait that it seems almost, a certainty that the world's record of 76,000,000 pound*' during the 1925 season will be 1 fractured this year and a new record set up. With yester day's sale of 1,256,354 pounds the season's total sales were in creased to 50,637,604 pounds being offered for sale again to day. Sales records have been shattered time and again by the sales of the current season and at the persent time the 1926 sales of 69,000,000 pounds is just a stone's throw ahead of the present sales and the record mark just a few steps beyond. Indications are that this year's sales will reach, if not exceed 80,000,000 pounds. Monday's sale of 1,530,000 pounds for $440,346.15 for an average price of $30.78 per hundredweight is the high wa ! ter mark average paid on this i market this season, according Ito official reports. The average j was incidentally paid on the day that last year's high aver i age of $34.14 was paid. i Danville Has Sold 13,739,446 Pounds i Danville, Va., Nov. 2.—The first monthly report on the sales of tobacco here this sea son shows that $2,756,336.65 has been disbursed here since October 4 to tobacco growers of this section for 13,739,446 pounds of leaf for an average of $20.06, which is little more than the cost of production ac cording to experienced growers. Last year the October sales totalled 11,550,334 pounds, | which brought $2,892,880.10. Sales yesterday were the ! largest of the season with 925,- 000 pounds disposed of during ! the day. ' Wall Street's had a bad time, but June's when the matri : monial bonds increase in value. "As a lawyer hen ever lost a case, eh?" we questioned. "No. He defends only hand some women clients," was the , reply. Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, Nov. 2, 1927 CONFERENCE OPENS AT ASHEVILLE Western N. C. Conference M. K. Church. South. Convenes Today. Asheville, Nov. I.—Arrival today of Methodi.-t dignitaries from adjucent territories pav ed the way for the opening here tomorrow of the thirty eighth annual session of the Western North Carolina Con ference of the Methodist Kpis copal church. South, Bishop Edwin D. Mouzon, superintend ent of the four Carolina con ference districts, will act as the residing officer. After observance of the sa crament, administered by Bis hop Mouzon, the conference will open with the roll call by the Rev. W. L. Sherrill, of Charlotte, and the election of a new secretary for the cur rent sesion. Other business to be transacted on the opening day includes the fixing of the bar of the conference and the appointment of standing com mittee for this session as nominated by the presiding elders. Adjournment is scheduled for Monday. MUCH TOBACCO IN WINSTON On First Three Days of Week Warehouses Have Been Tax ed Heavily Average This Week Around 21 Cents. On Monday of this week the Winston-Salem market sold 1,253,276 pounds of tobacco; Tuesday the sales amounted to 1,194,266 pounds, and yester day 917,838 pounds were offer ed. The average price for the week has been around 24 cents per pound. CARRINGTON ON LOW TOBACCO Head of Tobacco Association in United States Says Overpro duction and Deferential Duty Levied By Great Britian Re- sponcible. A. B. Carrington, of Danville, Va., president of the Tobacco Association of the United States appearing before a civic club in that city the past week gave what he thinks is an ex planation of the causes of un rest among the tobacco grow ers and a reason for the pre vailing disappointing prices re corded almost everywhere in the Old Belt. The chief reason for low prices, Carrington explained, is that there is a 100,000,000 pound overproduction in the bright belt this season. Usual ly, he continued, the bulk of the crop has ranged from 500,- 000,000 to 6,000,000 but this year it is fully 700,000,000 pounds, the largest tobacco crop ever produced in the bright region. "This large overproduction." Carrington said, "is having its effect on the average being made in the belt markets, the general average being under 20 cents against an average in the corresponding period last year of 24 cents. Another factor in the price of common and medi um tobacco in our sertion is the imposition by the British government of a differential duty tobacco raised in all pails of the trnpire in order to bind it more closely together in a commercial v»>.\." STOKES LIONS TO ATTEND MEETING Banquet To Be Tendered Seven ( luhs of This District At Bobt. !•:. |,ei> Hotel In Win- lon-Salem No\. !»th. Fifty or more ':,i'Milm• of the f'ti'k ■- Conn's Lions Club have i: lien ted their intention of at', ending the district meet ing and banquet of Lions Clubs to hi- held al the llobt. K. Bee hotel in Winston-Salem, Nov. 9th, beginning at 2:30 o'elock !'. M. The banquet will begin at 6:30. At this meeting there will be representatives from the following clubs: Winston-Sa lem, Greensboro, Statesville, Albemarle, Mocksville, Kern ersville and Stokes County. Quite a number of promin ent Lions and others will ad dress the clubs and the meeting will nodoubt be the most inter esting and largely attended one yet held in this district. Every I .ion is urged to at tend the meeting and to bring his wife or sweetheart to the banquet. I)uke Funds Aid Rural C hurches Durham, Nov. 2.—The Rural Life Department of Duke Uni versity, under the supervision of Prof. J. M. Ormand, has greatly aided rural districts of North Carolina in building new I churches and improving old I since the Duke Endowment began to function January 1. 1926. From the date of its organization until March, 1927, the Duke Endowment has ap propriated the sum of $43,700 which went to a large number of needy churches and for tho purpose of building new ones in the Eastern and Western I North Carolina Conferences, i i Since $31,250 has been appro-j 1 priated and fifteen churches. | aided, which makes a grand i grand total of $74,950 approp- j i riated by the department since j it began functioning. The prob jable amount available yearly to supply the need is $60,000 to | $lOO,OOO. I The purpose of the Duke En dowment and the Rural Life 1 Department is to render aid to needy churches in rural dis tricts or towns of no more than ' 1,500 inhabitants, and to aid communities in building new churches. The department holds that one-room churches 1 are no longer satisfactory, due to the lack of room and equip ment to conduct social and edu cational, as well as religious activities. Therefore, steps I have been taken to avoid this fault in the future by requir i ing each new church built to have at least three depart ments in addition to the audi torium, thus making it possi ble to carry on social and edu cational activities without feeling cramped for lack of space. Day By Day I bought a barrel of cider and I'm drinking it for my health. Is it doing you any god? Is it ? I'm getting stronger every day. At first I couldn't lift the barrel—now 1 can lift it easily. 1 W. R. Stovall, of Lawson ville, was here today. He made a fine sale of tobacco on the market yesterday. I A MARRIAGE AT KING Barn and Wheal Is Burned— An Automobile Wreck— Mrs. Walker In dor noes Operation —To Organize Sunday School. King, M. :;i. A Sinula*' scho4 will be organized Sin.ii church Sunday afternoon iit 2 o'clock November fith. Everybody inv't'd. Mrs. (ius Kreeger, who re sides 5 miles south of town, had the misfortune to lose her feed barn by lire Monday night about II o'elock. A threshing machine, which was stored in j the barn, was burned, also' about To bushels of wheat. Til • ■•rigin of the lire is unknown. j Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Butner are the glad parents of a fine baby boy. Mr. Debs Holder and Miss Allbright Caudle were quietly married here Friday night. Only a few of the near rel atives and friends were pres ent at the ceremony which was performed by Rev. John Spain hower. of Kin;r. The contract ing parties are popular young people of King and their many friends join us in wishing them a long and hropy married life. A i'tt-i* a short honeymoon they will be at home to their friends in King. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Nat Pratt was made happy Friday by the arrival of a new baby girl. Mrs. E. F. Walker, who un derwent a major operation in the Burrus hospital at High Point several weeks ago, was removed to her home here Sun day. She is slowly recovering. A. F. Collins, of King, had an automobile wreck near Pilot Mt. Sunday Mr. Collins was driving along the highway, I when a car dashed out of a side road and crashed into his | car. Mr. Collins had his fami -1 ly with him but fortunately all ! escaped injury. The car was ' damaged considerably. 1 A baby girl was born to Mr., and Mrs. Charlie Priddy last Thursday 17,846,820 POUNDS SOLD AT WINSTON Farmers Are Paid $3,547,302.60 For Their Tobacco—Average For Month Is $19.88. I 1 Winston-Salem, Nov. 2. The Winston-Salem tobacco market sold during the month of October a total of 17,846,820 pounds for $3,547,302.60, an average price of $19.88 per hundred, K. W. McFarland, sales supervisor, said tonight. Sales during October, 1926, Mr. McFarland said, amounted to over 13,000,000 pounds for an average of $24.87. Getting Ready For Christmas Mail Rush Although Christmas is 52 days away Post Master Gener al New has begun preparations for handling the ever-increas ing volume of packages cards and letters. Christmas falls on Sunday this year but the Post Master General has al ready given notice that the us ual routine will be followed on i that day but that the following | day only morning deliveries will be made. R. I. Dalton, of Winston j Salem, was in town today. No. 2,89- MRS. HELSABECK IS IMPROVING Surprise Birthday I*;»rt > For Miss Voit—O, J. Cult's Ini |»ro\ inn—Personal Items. Walnut Cove, Nov. 1 -The Ji• !i. friends of M'.. ('. .1. I Jl'isiil) . \ K \\ ji I 11" • i t|: )|i> that .];»• is improving rapidly alter undergoing a serious op eration at tl'aptist hospital. Mr. and AY . .J. 1.. Mitchell spout tin l w.'clv i"iii in Winston will) r«'Uitiv«i. .Miss Ulan Ii«. v.ii" is in training ai (luill'ord hospi tal in High : '..int. is spending sevend day.- h«-r:» w'.th hi".* parents, .Mr. ;• :i I Mr.-.. Walter Hoy 1- rii"i is will ho j,lad to I .•urn that .Mr. ). J. Cates, who has ht'i'ii seriously :11. is imp'oving r»ipidl.\. Mr. and Mrs. .J. K. Cook lis spent Sunday in Price, Va., visiting relatives. Miss Mary Sue Williams spent the week end with Miss Sarah Tut tie on Walnut Cove iioiite 1. The teachers of the Walnut Cove school attended the teachers meeting in High Point Friday Oct. 28. Mrs. Kmory Hothrock is spending the week in Higli Point visiting relatives. Miss Freida V'oit spent the • week end with Miss Nancy Lee Dunlap at Danhury. K. M. Myers, of Winston- Salem, was a visitor here to dav. Dwight Hothrock has recent ly accepted a position in High Point. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Taylor and family spent Sunday in Mt. Airy visiting relatives. E. B. Venahle, of Durham, spent Sunday here visiting with Aubrey Taylor. A surprise party was given in the home of Miss Carri'j Williams today, honoring Miss Freida Voit on her 17th birth day. Quite a number of friends I were present and many games and contests were enjoyed. The ' hostess, assisted by Miss Lokeel Voit, served delicious j refreshments. The honoree re- I ceived many gifts. Husband Talks In Sleep, Wife Learns Things Chicago, Oct. 28.—Insomnia induced by her husband talking jin his sleep led Mrs. John i Wilters to learn things she I hadn't known before, she testi- I fied in the domestic relation) court today i "John was a model husband, until I heard him talk in his sleep," his wife told the judge. "In the daytime he told me he was going out to his lodge or visit a sick friend but at night 1 learned his trips were parties with Claras and Marys and such friends, as he talked of in his sleep. The Winston-Salem Automo bile club have arranged for a big trip to Washington em i racing November 17-IS-111. The trip will take in the Valley of Virginia, 'caving Winsiou- Salem on Tuesday and reach ing Washington on Saturday where it has been arranged for the party to be received by President Coolidge. j Danbury's basket ball team defeated Meadows high school team in a game played at Meadows last Friday 23 to 4.
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