DANBURY REPORTER
Volume 55.
OTIS CAMPBELL
IS CAPTURED
Wenl To Home Of Alvin Shep
pard To Get Something To
Eat And Was Arrested By
Sheppard And Brought Here
To Jail hast Night.
Otis Campbell, who is alley- 1
ed to have shot and mortally 1
wounded Nettice Burkheart, of
Mt. Airy, a few days since, was
arrested last night and brought
here to jail by Alvin Sheppard |
and his brother, Percy Shep
, pard.
According to Sheppard's
statement, Campbell came to
his home for something to eat
and was arrested by Sheppard
and his brother soon after ar
riving there. It is learned th;.t
Campbell and Sheppards haw
been good friends, but they de
cided to take him in custody
and claim the reward offered.
Glenn Rhodes and Louis
Sheppard, who were with
Campbell on the night of the
shooting, are still being held
in the Stokes jail here without
bond.
At the regular meeting of the '
Stokes board of county commis
sioners on Monday of this week
1 hat body formally offered a re
ward of $150.00 for the capture
of Campbell, and since that of
fer was made Gov. Gardner has
signified his willingness to off
er a similar reward but formal 1
announcement of a reward by
the state had not been made, i
A Birthday Party
Walnut Cove, R. 3, Feb. 5.
i A birthday party was given
Saturday night, Feb. 2, af the
home of Mrs. Carl Ray in hon-'
or of her niece, Miss Lois Gate-!
wood. The guests first played
games then there were several
contests conducted, Lois Gate-|
wood, Bernice Gatewood, Thorn
ton Tuttle, and Stanly Flynt, j
winning the prizes. Delicious
refreshments were then serv
ed. Those present at the party j
were- Misses Mabel Flynn. 1
Flora Jones, Hazel FUnchum,
Lois Gatewood, Lorene Dunlap
and Bernice Gatewood; Messrs.
Marvin James, Arthur Flin
t-hum, Charlie Morefield, Stan-'
ley Flynt, Ben Joyce, Bill Gann,
Thorton Tuttle, Horace Wall,
Thurman Joyce and Harvey
Mounce.
Misses Bernice and Lois
Gatewood spent Saturday night j
and Sunday with their aunt,
Mrs. Carl Ray.
Mr. Dewitt Brown is confin
ed :>.t home with mumps.
Miss Gertrude Mounce, who
has been sick, is improving.
I Miss Eva Brown visited Miss
Elsie Gatewood Saturday after
noon. 1
Misses Eva Brown and Elsie
Gatewood spent Sunday with
Mis." Gertrude Mounce.
Mr. Spencer Gatewood has
recently gone back to his job
at the Pine Hall Brick Co.
Mrs. Spencer Gatewood and
little daughter, Dorothy, are
visiting hedl parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Jim Kipid.
The foot of the modern girl
has outgrown the 4B size, that
was for generations the aver
age size of the foot of the
American woman.
In the Sandwich Islands the
people go in to mourning by
knocking out their front teeth
and painting the lower part ot
their faces black.
SUICIDE AT FORTY STILLS CUT
WALNUT COVE HERE MONDAY
Charlie Redman, Young Mar
ried Man, Takes His Own
Life— Left Notes To His
Wife—Was ExfSoldier and
Mind Was Probably L'nbal
| anted.
I Charlie L. Redman, young
married man of Walnut Cove,
committed suicide Saturday
afternoon by shooting himself
in the head with a shot gun.
The act was committed right
near the home of the deceased.
He had borrowed his brother'?-
shot gun and stated that he
wanted to go hunting. A hole
was dug out in the sand and
the gun placed in the hole wiih
the barrels pointed upward.
Both barrells were fired ami
death was instaneous.
Redman left two note.? to hi:
wife, giving as his reason
for killing himself that she had
"not been good to hm\" One
note also stated that ho had
§OOO in cash buried near his
home and $9,000 in Te\a j but
that his wife would g'.'i nono
of it. It is not believed that )
there is any money belonging I
to Redman buried anywhere. I
He had been married but a few,
weeks and it is said his health
was bad. He was shot in the
head while serving with the
American Army on the Mexi
can border in 1916 and this is
believed to have affected his 1
mind.
Gas Industry
\ Aids Farming
. J>lew and important values
as' an insecticide and fungicide
jare being discovered in the sul
fur that is recovered as a by
product in gas plants, accord
, ing to an article in the Scienti
ific American. The sulfur, as
.well, is extraordinarily effici
! ent in the neutralizing of alka
line soils.
i Sulfur recovered by gas
! plants has been tried on such
agricultural menaces as aspar
agus rust, fruit mildew and on
three species of red spider, with
notable success.
| " This unparalleled sulfur, of
Which less is required than of
other commercial grades, will
be a boon to farming districts
I with their constant fungus and
1 insect problem.
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New Money Next July
The bureau of Engraving and
i Printing at Washington is
turning out millions and mill
ions of dollars of new money in
the small sizes, and there will
l)e enough of it by July 1 to re
place all the old currency. The
government will discontinue
the distribution of the larger
bills of the present issues about
the last of March, and by late
June the country will have the
greatest supply of dirty money
that it has ever known. The
average life of a piece of paper
money is nine months, although
some bills that travel fast and
work hard do not last more
than one-third of that length
of time before they are '.-ailed
in. The new bills will not fit
easily into many of the billfolds
and pockebooks that are now
being used, and when they
come into general cir-ulation
the Christmas pocketbooks of
192S will go out of date and
out of style.—Monroe Enquir
er.
Danbury, N. C., Feb. 6, 1929.
Ordered Sold By County Com
missioners Junk Dealer
Got the Lot For Seventy
Dollars.
| Forty stills which had been
captured by Stokes officers dur
ing the past few weeks were
taken from the county jail here
Monday and cut so as to be un
fit for further use in making
whiskey. The stills were then
sold at auction and went to a
High Point junk dealer for
seventy dollars.
This action was in accord
ance with an order made by the
board of County Commission
ers.
The forty stills cut Monday
represented the captures made
by the "Spider Gang" to a
great extent, it was stated.
These stills cost the tax payers
$BOO.OO less the $70.00 receiv
ed from their sale Monday.
It was suggested by some
that these were about all the
stills in this community, and
that it was impossible since
their capture to buy any whis
• key in this section. Others
Iwere of the opinion that there
1 were plenty of stills left and
'the scarcity of whiskey was
i accounted for by the bad
I weather the past few days.
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News Items Reported
From Westfield
! Westfield, Feb. '4.—Born to
Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Allred, Jan.
19, a daughter, Rosa Kline.
| Mrs. Hettie White, sister of
Mr. A. F. Christian, died Feb.
4. Funeral services were held
at Hatcher's Chapel.
Mr. Gaston Hill has accepted
a position with the J. C. Penny
Store at Mt. Airy.
Mr. and Mrs. Gaston Chris
tian and little son, Billy, visit
ed Mr. Christian's parents; Mr.
and Mrs. A. F. Christian, Sun
: day.
: Mr. J. H. Lowe is very feeble
. at this writing,
i Mrs. Edgar Riddle and son-?,
i of Mt. Airy, visited at L. L.
Lowe's Sunday.
Quite a number of the young
set attended a dance at Mrs. L.
5. Cook's Friday night.
i Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Nunn, of
I Winston-Salem, Visited Mrs.
Nunn's paren's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. A. M. Jessup, Sunday.
Friends of Miss Amanda
Lowe, who has recently under
gone a very serious operation
at Lawrence Hospital, will be
glad to learn she is able to be
back at her home here very
much improved.
Mrs. John Marshall spent
Monday in Mt. Airy.
Mr. J. M. Hauser and son,
Fred, of Benkelemann, Neb.,
visited Mr. O. H. Hauser and
family last week.
Mrs. Colon G. Spoon, of Max
Meadows, Vu., is the guest of
her sister. Miss Vera Soyars.
The people in this commun
ity are busy preparing plant
beds for another year's crop.
Humane education is compul
sory in Kentucky schools and
many animal pets are used to
demonstrate the effects of kind
ness upon dumb brutes. Which
shows that Mary and her little
lamb were merely ahead of
their day and generation.
I Misses Mattie Sue Taylor
■ and Elizabeth Russel visited in
Greensboro Monday.
ROBBERS GET $6O
IN KING STORE
Can Of Paint Explodes and
Injures Man's Eyes—Other
News and Personals Of King.
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! kmc?! Fen. 1.- -I nknown ' thieves
broke into the Sh re Mercantile
' store here Saturday night and took
! from the safe and eash register
! about six'y dollars in cash? Noth
' ing else was missing from the store.
Cntrance to the building was gaine.l
through an up-stairs window, the
intruders coming down the stairway
and making their exit through a
back door. The safe was opened on
the combination and only the draw
-1 ers of the cash register thai are be
ing used were gone into. No ar
rests have been made so far.
Mrs. E. \V. Fulk, of this place,
1 who underwent a second major oper
ation in the Lawrence Hospital at
Win.'ton-Salem about two week;
ago, is reported' to !>c fast recover
ing, her many friends will be glad
to learn.
Bufoi'd Wall has just returned
from an extended trip to Washing
ton, I). where he was the guest
of relatives.
Miss Oneida Caudle, of Winston-
Salem. spent the week-end with her
parents, Mr. and Mis. James H.
Caudle, in Walnut Hills.
The King High School lost to
Greensboro in a game of basket! all
played on the Greensboro court
Saturday night. The final score
:-.tood ♦wenty-four to nineteen.
Farmers in this section are ery
busy preparing and s wing tobacco
plant lanij. From present indica
tions about an average crop will be
planted.
Rev. A. E. Hoition, of Winston-
An. fc'm, filled his regular appoint
• ment at the King Moravian church
I Sunday afternoon at three o'clock.
Miss Flossie B. Caudle, of Wins
ton-Salem, spent the week-end with
relatives here.
('•aplain C. J. Kirby,- who holds a
position with the Southern Railway
Company, spent .Sunday with his
family in Walnut Hills.
, The work of remodeling the home
of William I. Rumley in Pilot View,
the new development just e-'.st of
town, is nearing completion.
I Roy McGee, who is employed at
r the Wilson Motor Co., was opening
a can of paint at their garage this
morning when the can exploded,
f filling Mr. McGee's face and eyes
with paint. He was rushed to a
Winston-Salem hospital.
;i
Stokes Lady
! Dies In High Point
i
■
t High Point, Feb. 2.—Funeral
services for Mrs. Hattie Mc-
Anally Vaughn, sister of Dr. W.
J. McAnally, were conducted
Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Rev. John W. Moore, pastor o r "
' Wesley Memorial church, and
■ liev. E. J. Harbinson. assistant
' pastor of the same church, offi
ciated at the services which
; were held at the home of l)r.
McAnally on South Main street.
Mrs. Vaughn suffered a heart
attack Saturday afternoon and
■ was carried to a local hospital,
where she died early Sunday
morning. She was born in
I Stokes county, the daughter of
, the late Charles W. and Ruth
I'ayne McAnally, and was in
, her 72nd year when she died.
Surviving are two brothers,
[• I)r. W. J. McAnally, of this
city, and Dr. Samuel A. McAn
ally, of Richmond. Va.; and two
• sisters, Mrs. A. J. Pringle, of
i Stokes county, and Mrs. Gran
ville Wall, of Stokes county.
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GEORGE FULP HELD
WITHOUT BOND
It Is Alleged That He Sold Os
car Thomas Liquor Which
Coroner's Jury Says Killed
Him—William Hairston Held
On Prohibition Violation
Charge.
I George Fulp, negro of the
Pine Hall section, is being held
in the Stokes county jail on a
charge of selling liquor to Os
car Thomas, also colored, who
died in the Winston-Salem jad
- Saturday night from drinking
the whiskey purchased from
Fulp, according to the findings
at an inquest held over the body
of Thomas by Coroner W. N.
Dalion at Winston-Salem on
Sunday morning.
According to tin* evidence
brought out at the preliminary
hearing here Tuesday befoiv
Justice J. 13. Joyce, live negro
men were arrested by Forsyth
county officials near Walker
town Saturday night in a drun
ken condition and placed in jail
at Winston-Salem. On Sunday
morning Oscar Thomas, who
who was one of the five, was
found dead in his cell at thv
jail. Coroner W. N. Dalton, of
Forsyth, conducted an inquest
and the jury found that
Thomas came to his death from
drinking whiskey that contain
ed some poison. The four neg
roes with Thomas swore that
the whiskey was purchased
from George Fulp, of the Pine
Hall section, and a warrant
was immediately issued for
Fulp.
At the hearing here Tuesday
Fulp was placed under $5OO
bond for selling the whiskey
and is being held without bond
until the poison whiskey charge
is more fully investigated.
The four negroes swore that
they purchased a half gallon
of whiskey from Fulp at his
home and drank it before they
left there and that the dead
man drank almost a quart of it.
Fulp denies that the whiskey
was poison and when arrested
by Sheriff John Taylor offered
■ to drink a quantity of whiskey
taken from the same vessel
, which he said the others had
drank from to prove his state
ment. The Sheriff refused to
let him do it.
I ,
I At the time of the arrest ot
Fulp, another negro, William
Hairston, was found at Pulp's
home with a half gallon of
whiskey under his coat. He
was also arrested and is beiiur
held under a bond of $3OO. H-;
furnished bond and was releas
ed.
Flames Stalk Victim
Twice In Two Weeks
Winston-Salem. Jan. 28.
Thomas Ingram, who suffered
the loss of his home by lire
near Dennis, not far from Wal
nut Cove, two weeks ago, suf
fered from another conflagra
tion this afternoon. Following
the first fire, Mr. Ingram and
his family moved into a vacant
school building at Dennis,
which was totally destroyed
this afternoon. It was a frame
structure and very little, if any
household property was saved.
A group of soybean growers
iin Carteret County recently
sold an order of 1,000 bushels
■ of seed soybeans to farmers in
other sections of the State.
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JUROItS DRAWN
; FOR STOKES COURT
Spring Term Of Criminal Court
JJegins April I—Civil Term
One Week Later Heavy
i Criminal Docket.
I
Jurors for both criminal and
civil terms of Stokes Superior
court were drawn In- the board
i
of County Commissioners at
their regular session here Mon
day.
The criminal term of court
begins Monday, April Ist, while
the civil term starts on the fol
lowing Monday. April Bth.
Judge Clement, of Winston-
Salem. will preside over both
terms.
It is probable that the docket
for the criminal court is the
heaviest in the history of the
county. At the last fall term
court about one hundred cases
were left untried on account of
a lack of time to finish the busi
ness in one week, while since
that time cases have been pil
ing up rapidly. There are sev
eral capital cases to be heard at
the coming term and the court
will nodoubt be able to dispose
of only a part of the docket dur
ing the one week. There is
some discussion of a special
criminal term for spring.
The names of the jurors
drawn for the two terms of
court follow:
First Week.
Sam Joyce, S. S. Hill, E. O.
Simmons, G. E. Nelson, R. D.
Cox, J. T. Dunman, W. C. Holt.
James Gibson, W. P. Wright,
jchesley Taylor, John Wtfliafd.
J. Harry Corn, Lee Stewart, E.
;D. Slate, John Martin, L. L.
Lowe, J. H. Fowler, Rufus
Mabe, E. G. Watson, Jett Oak
ley, S. G. Wall, W. C. Boles W.
'C. Nelson, M. C. Collin*, M. C-.
Moser, H. S. Foy, Jr., E. P. Pep
per, J. V. Lewei'.yn, Henry-
Wright, Wyatt Hunter, T. O.
Watson, N. A. Stephens, M. B.
Joyce, Len Wilkin ?, J. 1,. Mu re,
J. I. Zimmerman.
, Second Week.
E. A. Long, J. W. Fagg, T.
R. Nelson, J. F. Rothrock, W.
O. Cromer, S. H. Brown, W. J.
Wall, H. D. George, T. W. Gen
try, E. F. Rhodes, J. Rufu-*
Smith, H. Corn, C. H. Goin.
Carlos Martin, Joel Y. South
ern, Richard Mabe, J. A. Tat
um, T. AI. Smith, G. B. Joyce,
[j. J. Moore, Sanders Jessup, D.
11. Jessup, 11. F. Hall. R. G.
Petree.
Will You Hold tne Sack?
A great percentage of yearly
losses to small investors are
due to essentially honest ven
tures that have been promoted
on enthusiasm and friendship,
but without expert analysis by
the men of financial or operat
ing experience who might have
determined in advance if the
project had a fair chance of ul
timate sucess.
The wise investor consults
those experienced in the ways
of finance before placing money
in his friend John Smith's new
ly discovered gold mine >r
Kichard Jones' company to pro
mote his newly invented gad
get.
There are plenty of good
securities and it is one of the
basic facts of the financial
world that investors who dis
regard them to experiment
with dubious projects are cus
tomarily left holding the sack.
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