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DANBURY REPORTER Volume 55. TOBACCO BUKJNS; BARN ESCAPES Remarkable Occurence In King Community—Death Of Mr. Garner and Mrs. Tuttle. King, Sept. 17—The annual Hauser reunion will be held at Mount Pleasant Church Sun day September 23rd. Sunday school at the usual hour, prea ching at eleven o'clock dinner on the ground and good singing ni the afternoon. All relatives and friends invited to attend with well filled baskets. Little Miss Oveline Caudle has returned to her home in Walnut Hills after spending a week wth relatives in Wnston- Salem. Yancey Garner, aged eighty four years, died at his home in Walnut Hills Wednesday. The deceased had hern a member of the Methodist chu rch for more than forty year 1 .. Funeral services were conduct ed at Antioch church Thurs day af'term on. Pid Bradley, who lives ju.-t west of town, lusi :>. barn of to bacco by lire We inesday. The barn was new and covered witii metal, and the building did not >urn neither did the sticks on which the tobacco was hung This unusual occurence is ac counted for by the fact that it was a tight barn and the logs were green and as there was no air to create a draft the tobac-| co burned off the sticks with out burning the house. Fred Hauser left Saturday 1 for St. Louis, where he will en ter a medical college. Walter Sprinkle of this place has returned from Chadbourne where he handled leaf tobacco this season. Mr. Sprinkle re ports that prices advanced f> t the close of the season. J. John Taylor, of Danbury. was among the business visi tors here Saturday. The King Tigers played a double header Saturday. The L fii'nt game was with Ca pel lit, and the Tigers devoured them to the tune of six and one. Peivh was the contestant in the second game. They held the feet of the Tigers just i little nearer the tire. Both oi the games were very interest ing and exciting. J. Frank Martin, secretary of the chamber of commerce of Stokes county, was here Satur day looking after seme busi ness matters. O. L. pulliam, of Winston, spent Sunday here as tbe week end guest of his parents. Mrs. Coy Tuttle, agc-d 6G, died at her home 2 miles south of King, Saturday. The de ceased is survived by her hus baid and sever.d children. Spencer Tuttle and Allen Pfaff and Misses Trilby l.uve | and Vivian Law son spent Sunday at Roaring Gap. Tney rep >rt a line trip a.;:l ni.e n a chinery. The services at the King Moravian church wei'e calUd last Sunday « n account of the funeral of Mrs. Coy Tuttle. Mrs. J. E. Stone entertained the Moravian Ladjji A:d lor the mom!. of Sept -mber. The four first chapters of lsaah were ai'ed. A* ihe next meeting '•lie next four chap ters will be studied. MIM. C. M. Terry put 88 pennies in the . birthday box, as she was 88 years old on Sept. 3. Austin Wall has leased the Standard Oil service station here and entered on his duties I Monday. FLORIDA HAS ANOTHER STORM 1,000 Dead and the Property Loss Runs Into Millions— Worse Than the 1926 Catas trophe. Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 20. —Declaring that "words can not describe the catastrophe," David Sholtz, Daytona Beach, president of the Florida State Chamber of Commerce, said the people of the country can not come to the aid of the hur jricane sufferers too quickly. Estimates Too Low j "I believe the largest esti mates of the death list are too low," Mr. Sholtz said. "The |disaster occurred just as the truck farmers in districts about Lake Okeechobee were prepar ing to plant the fall vegetable crop. Hundreds of workers who go to that section each season to obtain employment in the trucking industry had been arriving for several weeks and there is little doubt that scores fo these perished. Few of these survived. Few of them will be reported as even miss ing for many were strangers in the various communities. Bodies Lost "Many bodies, perhaps, hun dreds, carried into the great area of saw grass in the Ever glades by the rushing flood from Lake Okeechobee, prob-, ably never will be recovered." Mr. Sholtz arrived here late today from the stricken terri-i tory to which he went at the, request of Murray Hulbert, or New York, grand exalted ruler |of Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, with an emerg ency fund, teiegraphd from Elk headquarters in Chicago. He recommended to the nation al order that they make an ap propriation of at least' $25,000 toward the relief fund. FOUR - SCHOOLS OPEN King School Held Up By Build invr—County-Wide Teachers Meeting In. Danhury Sept. 20th. Four Stokes county High Schools opened Monday—Wal nut Cove, Germanton, Pine Hall and Pinnacle. Each school had increased attend ance and opened with a full corps of teachers, some of the schools adding one more teach f The King high school opening had to lie postponed for two weeks on account of the new building not being quite rtady. Short term schorls of the county will open on Ooti.bev Ist, and teachers for ail or these have been secure;!. A county-wide meeting of the teachers of the county will be held in the school building at Danbury on Saturday, Sept. 20th. Ail teachers f the c un ty 4re required to atltiv.l fhi. meeting. While the pn gram for the meeting has not been completed it is announced that teachers will be addressed by liev. H. W. Hudspeth on the i"duties of the teacher." There , will be other addresses and the teachers will be organized. Frances, the small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will Prat her, of Mt. Airy, is right sick in the Mt. Airy hosptal. I Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Petree, and children, went to Greens boro, last night to see the vita phone picture at the Carolina ,theatre. Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, Sept. 19, 1928. W. B. UMSTEAD VISITS DANBURY Solicitor Of Tenth District Or ganizing Democratic Clubs in M's LMsinct—Addressed Winston-Salem and Mt. Airy Clubs. W. B. Umstead, of Durham, solicitor in the tenth judicial; district, spent a short while in! Danbury Tuesday conferring ! with Democrats in regard toi organizing a Democratic club' in Stokes. Mr. Umstead, who spoke to' the Democratic clubs in Wins ton-Salem and Mt. Airy this j week, has for some days been j engaged in organizing Demo cratic clubs in his district. He was enroute to his home in Durham Tuesday and expected to be back at his duties as solicitor the following day. Meadows School Opens Monday The Meadows high school begins Monday. Sept. 21th. We trust that every student be ll resent at 9 o'clock Monday morning. We want to have a good speaker to talk to us ami want the parents to meet the teachers. Please come. STOKES OLD HOME WEEK AT WALNUT COVE NEXT WEEK i Brown and Dyer Exposition Coming—Miss Jessie Adderson, Southern Beauty, To Select Miss Stokes For 192S—Will Be Bigger and Better Fair Than Formerly. i The Stokes Old Home Week and Harvest Fair will be held at North Walnut Cove this year, after much difficulty in secur ing a carnival company and on short notice, because ci the G'j lay in securing an attraction. The Brown and Dyer Exposition which had an open date after playing the Galax, North W'ilkes boro and Mt. Airy Fairs, with a twenty train car load show will be on hand and so much difficulty was experienced in secur ing grounds in Walnut Cuve of .sufficient size that the aft air will be held in a large field at the forks of highways 89 and 7 just outside Walnut Cove. -J - : ;X. lifnwffrriFm ■ « I\liss Jessie Addison, who has won the title of The Southern Beauty.at pageants in Savannah and other Southern contests, will be present to conduct the contest of the selection of Miss Stokes of 1028. A number of Stokes girls will participate. This contest will bj conducted as a free attrac traction this year. Although arranged hurriedly the fair this year will be bigger and Better than advertised. Twice as many shows and rides will be present and the only thing missing for complete suc cess is the proper amount of advertising far enough ahaud. SPEAKING HERE SEPT. 29TH [ Hon. Junius Harding, Who Op poses Maj. Stedman. Coming To Danbury—E. S. W. Dam- j eron Will Also Spfak Here, j ___ I I Hon. Junius H. Harding, Re-1 publican candidate for Cong-; jress in this district, will ad jdress the voters at Danburv I ' i [on next Saturday, Sept. 29tn, !at one o'clock. I This is the signal for the opening of the Republican cam paign in Stokes, says chairman |M. O. Jones. j On the same date Hon. E. j S. W. Dameron, a prominent 'Republican, will also speak at !Danbury, and from this dato on the Republicans e::pect !•» keep the issues before,the vol • jers of the county. The religion that seems out of place in politics is the other I fellow's. In this campaign neither party cares how the other goes down in histury, just so it goes I down. Little did our grandparents think the day would ever come when the steering-wheel would Ibe the family circle. —Louis- Iville Times. MAY PURCHASE PILOT MUUJNTAIiN Monarch Club, Of Winston- Salem. Proposes To Make It A State Park Or A Sum j mer Resort. j Winston- Salem, Sept. 24. Pilot Mountain, 36 miles norlh west of Winston-Salem, will !>;• purchased and preserved fur the future, if a recommenda tion adopted by the board of •governors of the Winston-Sa lem Monarch Club is approved by the club membership when it meets in weekly session on next Monday. j Two proposals are being con sidered by the Monarchs. One of the plans is to purchase the mountain, now owned by W. L. Spoon of Burlington, at a price of $25,000 and then try t > interest the state >t' North Ca rolina into making a park of it. The second proposal is 1 purchase the mountain, erect a hotel on its top and either lease or rent it as a resort. .Much interest is being shown in the movement to develop ti> mountain and Claud I>. Wolt;. a member of the committee of the Monarch club, said today that two prominent citizens of the town of Pilot Mountin told him the town would build a road nearly to the foot of the muntain. Pine Hall News And Personals ( Pine Hall, Sept. 25.—School opened here Monday with ag large attendance. Those from here who enjoy- ' ed the ball game at Winston on Saturday were Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Duncan, Harry Gibson, L. M. Shaffer. .Miss Irene Carter spent the day Sunday in Winston-Salem. ! Miss Marion Clark and Miss Martha Hubbard spent a short while in Madison Monday af ternoon. Miss Mildred Hanes entered school at Madison Monday. Rev. R. wTCeorge Preached Sunday: Kev. li. \\. George, of Fi an cisco, prt ached in the Presby terian church here Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. 1! sermon was very much tnjoy. t ed by the congregation. Mi- George is eighty years of a;:o and has been in the ministry for thirty years. Doctors Meet At Pilot Mountain Pili t Mountain, Sept. 17. The district meeting of tile Med l .' al Soi ietv was held i iiv on Wednesday night. Those attending were: Prs. Stone of IVlison: W'oltz, Bain'., Mitchell, Holljnsvvorth, ami !..> \"J.-* li, of Mi. Airy, and Dr. S. . *i illotson, oi l ili t Mi. Thurman i>. Martin, of Win ti r.-Sab-ni, spent the Wt ek «-:ni h.'iv witii his pi'.rets, Mr. ami Mi-. N. A. .Maiiin. Quite a number of Danbury people attended the Mt. Airy fair this week in spite of the inch ment weather. Attorney N. O. Petree and small grandson, Walter, re turned this week from a visit of a month to relatives in Ok lahoma and Kansas. They re jport a most enjoyable stay. The annual Bennett reunion will be held at the home of P. J. Bennett Sunday, Sept. 30th. Everybody invited to coma and 'bring well-filled baskets. No. 2,938 WALNUT COVE SCHOOL OPENS One Hundred Pupils Take High School Work—Sick Are im proving—Personal Hems. Walnut Cove, Sept. 19.—The school opened here Monday morning with a bright pros pect of the most successful year in the history of the school. There were a largo number of patrons present and members of the school board who made short talks. Prof. Kanoy made a talk and outlin ed his plans and aims for the year, one of which is to have an active Parent-Teacher as sociation and the parents were asked to meet with the teach ers next Monday evening at 7:15 o'clock. One hundred pupils in the high school de partment were registered on the opening day. Miss Liettie Pair, who has been confined to her home for some time with illness, i- now improving, her friend- will bo glad to know. Dr. and Mrs. IJ. N. Jones and children, Dr. and Mrs. Rives Jones, of Winston-Salem, Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lamb and little daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Abe June.-, of Greensboro, Miss Georgia Dalton and Mr. Tom Dalton, of Dalton, were I guests of Dr. and Mrs. A. G. Jones Sunday. Miss Jimmy Campbell, Mes dames Paul and George Fulton were in the Twin-City Mon day shopping. Rev. E. Reginald Mallet, of Sr. Andrews church in Greens boro, preached here Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Donnell Van Xopen, of Mebane, is visiting her mother, Mrs. John G. Fulton, this week. Miss Mollie Lasley, of Win ston-Salem, was a week end guest of Miss Kathleen Mar shall. Mrs. \V. L. Vaughn is con lined to lur home with illness. Mr. and Mrs. H. X. Scott, of Winston-Salem, spent Sunday here with Mr. and Mrs. W. L. I Vaughn. Mrs. Allan White and children, of Danville, Va., is visiting her mother, Mrs. J. L>. Woodruff, A. T. and E. A. Rothrock spent yesterday in Winston-Salem. Mr. and Mrs. Leake Lovin, Mesdames J. R. Vus>, Donnell Van Xoppen and Miss Helen Fulton, -Mrs. E. P. IVppor and Mrs. Jacob Fulton were visit ors in Winston-Salem Tuesday, The presiding Elder, E, W. Fox, and % Mvs. Fox, of Mount Airy, were hero Sunday. Rev, Fox preached at the M. E. church Sunday night. News Items Of Lawsonvilie Lawsonvi.le, Sept. '-V. —The farmers of this community aro very bu\v priming nr.d curing the weeil. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Ilr.tchev soii aiiii little daughter, and Mr. I.i'aiy Rhodes, 01 Winston, spent Saturday night at the home of Mr. ami Mrs. W. E. Rhodes. i Russel Wilson culled on Miss Myrtle Priddy Saturday night, i Mr. and Mrs. \V. J. Shelton and chlldli'n, of Winston-Sa lem, spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joel Rhodes, j Miss Fannie Steele spent the day Sunday with Miss viuiivy Rhodes. | Mr. and Mrs. Noel Martin spent Sunday afternoon at tha home of Mr. and Mrs. C tSe'lal i Moore.
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