DANBURY REPORTER
Volume 55.
THREE MEN DIE
IN AUTO WRECK
Ford Roadster Turns Bottom
Upward And The Occupants
Are Unable To Help Them
- selves—Last Man To Die
Tells The Story After He Is
Taken Out.
Some forty or fifty persons
are being killed each month in
North Carolina by automobiles
but this story of three deaths
under one Ford roadster last
Friday morning is unusalty
horrible.
J. W. McGee, of the Rural
Hall community; and VV. T.
Lewis • and G. O. Poovey, of
High Point, went to High Rock
lake to fish last Thursday af
ternoon, all expecting to return
home safely that night with a
nice string of fish. High Rock
lake is about 20 miles south of
Lexington. As they drove along
on the homeward trip at about
15 o'clock in the morning the
car, for some reason, failed to
make a curve at a point cal
led Three-Mile-Branch, and the
three men were pinned fast un
der the roadster, each stand
ing on their heads with motor
in the car running, and neither
or all of them were able to
even shift their positions. In
this position they remaned un
til first, Lewis died, then Poov-
ey and McGee, who was In the
driver's seat, lived until some
one came along next morning
at 7 o'clock and got him out
and carried him to the hospital.
He lived only about an hour
after being taken out.
The story told by Mr. Mc-
Gee was, indeed, pathetic. He
said the three men took turns
at praying that some relief
might come to them. After an
hour it was found that Mr.
Lewis was dead, then a little
later Mr. Poovey breathed his
last, each dying in agony.
Fromi about (i o'clock until
4
about 7, Mr. McGee was there
with the two dead men, and
yet, when taken out, he was
able to tell the story, though
he died within an hour.
J. W. McGee resided just
south of Rural Hall, was aged
38 years, and was in the em-
ployment of the Gate City Life
Insurance agency at Winston-
Salem. The other two men were
residents of High Point.
Deputy Sheriff Loses
His Car By Fire
The Ford roadster of Deputy
Sheriff Corbett Priddy was
burned to a crisp last Friday
when the officer left it standing
on the highway near Lawson
ville while he went into the
woods to search for a whiskey
making outfit It was the opin-j
ion of Mr Priddy that the car
caught from a short circuit in
the ignition system. The dam
age is partly covered by insur
ance, it is learned.
Don't fail to attend the mins
trel show in the school audi
torium at Danbury Friday
night of this week.
PIEDMONT HOTEL
I OPENS SATURDAY
i
i Work Begins On Swimming
i Pool and Other Improve
■ | ments — Another Good Sea
» son lis Expected—Orchestra
i Coming Friday.
Mrs. J. Spot Taylor and fam
i ily removed to the hotel at
i Piedmont Springs this week
i and a force of servants are
i now making ready for the
: opening of the hotel to guests
' on Saturday of this week.
The orchestra which will
1 furnish music for the season
. is expected Friday and the
" opening dance will be held on
: Saturday night.
Work has been started on the
i swimming pool to be construct
i J ed near the hotel and it is ex
; pected to have it ready within
[ a shjrt time
j | Indication* are that the ho
stel will have another excellent
! Jseason, inquiries being receiv
ijed daily for reservations, while
. larger crowds than ever are ex
; i>ected for the week ends.
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. Five Are Wounded In
Rioting At Gastonia
i
> 1 The chief of Gastonia police,
two city policemen, a deputy
sheriff and civilian were wound
ed, two very seriously, when
guns reported by witnesses to
have been in the hands of
strikers and sympathizers
barked out at a mass nteeting
of the Loray mill strikers last
Friday.
| Threats of violence on the
part of strikers, which resulted
in a call for protection by mill
officials, was reported to have
been responsible for the pres
!ence of the officers, who were
(said to have been shot without
: warning inside the strikers'
headquarters and tents adjoin
ing.
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Sandy Ridge Citizens
Want A Physician
i! Sandy Iiidge citizens re
ijcently had a mass meeting
with a view to securing a phy
sician for that community
! Since the death of Dr. J. II.
I Ellington that section has no
doctor. Medical aid has to be
j secured from Madison and
yther distant towns.
| Stokes Road Board
Employs Machinist
i Recently the Stokes county
Highway Commission has em-
ployed 0. O- Grabs, former ga
rage mjan at King, to keep in
repair the county's fleet of
tractors, trucks, road machin
es, etc. The county shop will
I be located at King.
Mrs. J. W. Neal Is
Critically 111
Mrs. J. W. Nea>. of Walnut
Cove, is critically ill at a Wins
ton-Salem hospital, and her life!
has bopn almost de paved ot
for several days. H t > r children
have been called to her bedside.
Danbury, N. C., June 12, 1929.
CURING TOBACCO
IN GEORGIA
Sam Stewart, Former Stokes
Man, Says Three-Fourths
Of Crop Will Be In Barns By
July 1.
A letter from Sam Stewart,
former Danbury citizen, who
is now making a tour of Geor
gia, says that the prospects for
line quality and good color in
tobacco in that State are bet
ter than he has ever known.
Mr. Stewart has been in the
tobacco warehouse business
in Valdosta, Ga., for several
seasons and he writes that he
has just finished a tour of the
territory near Valdosta. "There
has been quite a bit of tobacco
cured out and all that has been
cured has a very good color and
,is of a very good grade," he
!says, and adds: "Some of the
first primings are going to be
light in weight, but the last
J
jpullings are going to weigh
1 very good and with good qual
: ity."
He predicts that three
lourths of the tobacco crop
will be cured and in the house
by the first of July and all will
be saved by July 15. The crop
is about two weeks earlier than
usual.
Wheat Is Lowest
In Fourteen Years
Chicago, May 31.—The grain
markets went careeming down
again today with new
turn.
Holders of wheat, corn, oats,
and rye scrambled to unload
their cargo and the lowest
wheat prices in 14 years failed
to elicit a show of interest
from apathetic buyers. Wheat
was 2 3-8 to 2 3-4 lower at the
finish, contracts tor May deliv
eries sagging as low as 93 1-4
cents a bushel but dosing at
91 5-8, while July contracts
went to 97 1-2 cents.
There wjas ilittle trading in
grain contracts for May and
wide fluctuations were the rule.
May rye was particularly vul
nerable driven down nearly
eight below Wednesday's close
only to recover and finish G 1-4 i
cents lower for the day, at i
73*3-4 cents. Corn was 2 3-8 to I
2 3-4 down, May at 79 1-4 and
July deliveries at 80 1-2 to 3-4
Oats finished 1 to 3 1-8 cents
j lower, May contracts to 38 1-41
to 39 and July at 10 1-4 to 1-2. j
| The initiative in this latest!
, plunge came from Winnepig,
I where prices had made a nose
jdive yesterday while United
States markets were closed for
the holiday. One reason wa-
the prediction that Germany
would follow France and Italy
in boosting its grain import
duties. Continued fine weather
for the growing Canadian crop
added its weakening influence
and another influence was a
private estimate that placed
| the winter wheat crop 40,000,-
000 bushels larger than the
government had prophesied a i
moath ago. - *•
MRS. GRAVES DIES
AT MT. AIRY
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I Wife of Solicitor Porter Graves
Died Tuesday Night At Her
Home Following An Illness
Since Last Friday.
News is received here today
of the death of Mrs. Porter
Graves, which occurred at her
home in Mount Airy last night
following an illness since last
Friday when she was stricken
with a heart attack.
The sympathy of the people
of this entire section will go
out to the bereaved husband,
who is universally known and
: admired.
I j The deceased was the daugh
i ter of Wm. R. and Susan Hol
linsworth and was educated at
j Greensboro Fen (ale College.
She was a most excellent chris
tian character.
Mrs. Graves is survived by
her husband and four children,
one of whom is Wm. Graves,
well known Winston-Salem at
torney.
, Death Of Former
Stokes County Man
Arthur Boulding Nelson
passed away Monday night at
a High Point Hospital, after
an illness of only a few days
with appendicitis.
>lr. Nelson was a son of the
late Capt. Leander Nelson, of
this county, and a brother of
Jones and Walter Nelson, of
Danbury, and Walnut Cove.
He removed to the High
Point community from this
section several years since.
The deceased is survived by
a wife and several children of
his immed ; ate family, as well
as other relatives.
The funeral and burial is !>•-
ing held today at Bunker Hill,'
near Kexnersv i'.'.e
Pinnacle Woman
Called By Death
Mrs. R. F. Westmoreland, 70,
died at her honje in Pinnacle
yesterday afternoon after an
i
illness of several years, Her
condition had been serious for
I I he past three months.
| Surviving are the husband,
|R. F. Westmoreland; two
daughters, Mrs. Henry Waller
and Mrs. Roy Morefield, of Pin
. nacle; three sons, Hubert, Ben
'and Robert Westmoreland, all
J of Pinnacle; also three sisters,
Mrs. Tate Tuttle, Germanton,
Mrs. Jane Smith, Rural Hall
and Mrs. John Bowman. Germ
anton. Sam Warren, Mt. Airy;
John Warren, Rural Hall;
Harding Warren. Wallburg,
and Albert Warren, of German
ton. Eleven grandchildren also
survive.
The proposed tariff on im
ported antique furniture doubt
less necessary for the purpose
of protecting our American
manufacturers of antiques.—
j Nashville Southern Lumber
man.
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AT MT. AIRY
SHOEING OCCURS
X NEGRO CHURCH
Nishel Ziglar Lodged In Stokes
Jail After Shooting Walter
Brim During Session Of "Big
June Meeting" At Sandy
Ridge.
At the colored Baptist church
at Sandy Ridge last Sunday
while the sessions of the "Big
June Meeting" were in prog
ress, the peace and dignity of
the meeting was suddenly brok
en when several colored men
are reported to have assaulted
Nishel Ziglar. and who in turn
shot Walter Brim) through the
body. Brim was removed to a
hospital and Ziglar is being
held in the county jail at Dan
ebury awaiting the result of the
| wound before being given a
j preliminary hearing. Last re
j ports were thiit Brim was in a
jvery critical condition and
I probably would not recover.
Winston-Salem Negro
Is Fast Runner
Deputy Sheriffs Cleve Law
son and Corbitt Priddy arres
ted a Winston-Salem negro
early Friday morning near the
Virginia line when he was
suspected of being one of the
persons who broke into the ga
rage of Anderson McHone
nearby. The negro was driving
an old model Buick car and he
was told to drive toward Dan
bury and the county jail, the
following qlose behind
in their car. As they neared
Danbury the negro jumped
from the moving car and ran
into the woods- Chase was
given but the man escaped
Later in the day he ,was ar
rested by Deputy Sheriff Geo.
Hartman three miles ( >ast of
Danbury when he came by the
officer's honte to inquire the
way to Madison. Mr- Hartman
started with him to the jail
here, and just as they canje in
sight of the jail the negro juni
ped front the car and anothei
race was on. However, alter
running a mile the negro was
again arrested and lodged in
the jail here.
He was given a hearing
Saturday and bound over to
Superior court.
Surry County Employs
Farm Demonstrator
The Surry county commis
sioners have employed a conn
tv farm a Rent or demonstra
tor who will begin work July
1. An Advisory comlnlttee
composed of farmer., from var
ious parts of the county, have
also been appointed and these
njen will meet monthly with
the farm agent to talk over
farming questions which
might benefit the eountv-
A happy marriage is one in
which the husband an
allowance for the wife, and the
wife makes allowances for the
husband. -Virginian-Pilot.
No. 2,973
WESTFIELD SCHOOL
NOW CERTAINTY'
Surry County Contmissioners
Will Put t'p Two-Thirds of
Money, According to Order
| Made At Last Meeting of
| the Board At Dobson.
j At a meeting of the Stokes
I county commissioners two
months since they agreed to
furnish Stokes county's part
of the cost of a $25,000 school
building at Westfield, our share
amounting to something like
$8,000 or $9,000.
On the first Monday in this
month the Surry county com
missioners made a formal ord
ler to furnish the remainder of
the nime.v necessary to give
Westfield a handsome school
building, and the intention of
the authorities now is that the
building will be ready for the
opening of the fall session of
school.
The amount of money to be
furnished by each of the re
spective counties was based on
the number of children sent to
the school front the respective
counties, and us, Stokes Was
furnishing only about one
third of the pupils we were re
quired to furnish only about
one-third of the money for
the building. j
This school building was
badly needed and the announce
ment that it will likely be
ready for the opening of school
in the fall will be learned with
pleasure by the hundreds of
j patons whose children attend
.the school.
Stokes Couple Wed
At Ball Game
The following account of the
marriage of a Stokes county
couple is taken from the last
issue of the Stuart (Va ) En
terprize:
For the first time in history
a couple sought the base ball
diamond of Stuart on which
to be united in matrimony,
when, Ernest Rogers and An
nie Hall of Lawsonville, N. C.
were married here on Saturday
June 1. 1929-
Th e manager of the park
very courteously suspended
the game during the wedding
i
■ ceremony and then tendered
i the happy pair seats in the
grandstand with his compli
ments.
Rev- J. Mason Richardson
was the officiating minister.
Remodeling- Building
For Walnut Cove Firm
The work of remodeling the
Webster warehouse and eon
verting it into a garage is
being pushed to completion and
the contract calls for the
building to be ready for ae
j cupaney by the first of July,
,but it is now believed that it
j will be ready by the 20th. As
was stated a few weeks ago,
the Chilton Motor company
will occupy this building when
compiltkd.—Mad isso n Me.- Hen*
ger
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