DANBURY REPORTER
Volume 57.
GEORGIA TOBACCO
MARKETS OPEN.
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Tobacco Sells On 22 Markets
25 to 50 Per Cent Higher
Than Opening Day Last
Year—Prices $l2 to $;>().
Waycross. Ga... July
Georgia's crop of bright leaf
tobacco wont on the market in
22 towns and cities in the Sou-,
thorn part of the State today.
early reports from the
markets indicated that prices
were substantially higher than
last year, strengthening pre- :
dictions that the total money
received this season would es-_
tablish ii new record. Scattered j
reports from throughout tlvi
belt gave sales prices of from
$l2 to s:;o per hundred pounds
with the average from 25 to 50
per cent higher than the open
ing day of last year. Sales
ranged from $l2 to s.'so per
hundred pounds at Douglas,
with warehousemen estimat
ing the average at $lB. which
they considered a good price for
the quality of weed offered,
mostly sand lugs. Douglas sales
were estimated at approximate
ly 500.000 pounds for the day
against first day sales of near
ly 1,000.000 pounds last year.
At Blackshear, prices aver
aged in the neighborhood of
per hundred against $ll
"last season, with approximate
ly 750,000 pounds on the floors.
This little town last year led
the State in total pounds sold
with more than 9,000,000
pounds of the weed changing
hands.
Averages at Valdosta were
estimated at $l7 per hundred
with more than 900,000 pounds
estimated on the floors, estab
lishing a record for the mar
ket.
Opening jn-ices were estimat
ed to average $2O per hundred
pounds, nearly twice the open
ing day bidding of a year ago
and the quality of tobacco was
said to be low, growers holding
their better grades of leaf un
til later in the season.
Claxton, with an estimated
average of $23, had the highest
reported price, with 200,000
pounds sold at nown.
Quitman, (la., July 23.
South Georgia's tobacco mar
kets opened up today with
reasonably heavy sales. The
estimated average for the State
was between $10.50 and $17.50.
vvhjch is five and one-half or
six cents higher than last sea
son's opening. Ninety-five per
cent of the offerings were prim
ings and twenty or twenty-five
|H'r cent better in quality than
last season. This means that
grade for grade Georgia prices
were front twenty to twenty
five per cent higher than th ; »
opening last season.
Farmers are well pleased.
Georgia's crop is now estimat
ed at seventy million as against
eighty-five and one-half million
last year. Georgia's average
for fcfc'ir entire crop last year
LAYING BRICK
AT WESTFIELD;
Work Started On New School!
Building Electric Power .
Available In August—Keviv- j
al Begins Saturday Night.
Westfield. July 2:s.—Lading
brick for the new school build
ing here was started a few
days since and the building,
l
which will be a handsome one.
will be completed in time for
the opening of the school in the
! fall. j
The poles for the electric,
power being brought hei»e by
ithe Southern Power Co. are
| almost up, and it is expected
| that power and lights will be
available here early in August.
A series of revival meetings
will begin at the Baptist church
here on Saturday night of this
week. The pastor, Kev. O. H.
Ilausei . will be assisted by Rev.
Mr. Davis.
Crops in this section have
improved wonderfully since tfto
recent rains.
S. M. Walker was a visitor
to Danburv Tuesday.
URGES NEGROES TO
FORM OWN PARTY
De Priest Boasts Before Audi
ence of His Own Color.
Chicago, July 22.—Congress
man Oscar de Priest, negro, of
. the First Illinois District, yes
terday exhorted an audience of
his race to form their own po-
I litical party.
I Declaring that there were
: 100 or more Congressional dis
tricts in the United States with
, sufficient strength to .send neg-
I roes to the lower House of Con
i gross, de Priest charged his
. district with being "backward
.and unaccomplished political
ly."
"I'm in Washington to serve
| my race," he asserted, "and I
. haven't even begun to light.
, I'm the only one of 435 Con
i gressmen who will appoint a
. negro to Annapolis or West
. Point.
; "I may go to Congress, for
[ only one term, but in that term
: I'll be a Congressman. The oth-
I er Congressmen go to the Con
. gresdjonal Barber Shop and I
go there, too. They go to the
Congressional Wash Room and
■ so do I."
• Four Tobacco
•' Barns Burn
•j
Goldsboro, July 20.—Four to
bacco barns in Wayne county
have been destroyed by fir.j
within the past week. The last
one reported here was that of
Gurney Hollowell near Falling
1 Creek. The barn was insured
but its contents of fine grade of
tobacco were destroyed. Thurs
day evening Mr. Nichols, of
Grantham township, lost a barn
of tobacco.
Kohah Smith returned home
i from Ohio yesterday
, was |12.78 and Die year prior
. 15.92.
i
Danbury, N. C., July 24, 1929.
I PEACH CROP 11
IS FAILURE
!
Stokes Man Finds Fruit Poor I
j and Scarce In Sand Hills and
Prices High.
I
Alex Mabe. of the Meadows
community, has just leturned •
from a trip to tie* peach orch-J
ards in the sand hills around 1
I
Carthage. 1
! Mr. Mabe found the peach 1
crop almost a complete failure, 1
the fruit being scarce and l'aul- *
ty. Some orchards had no (
peaches on them, the fruit hav
ing all fallen off. All the fruit 1
Mr. Mabe saw was wormy, but '
the price asked for the best
peaches was $2.50 per bushel, '
while the culls, which he con- 1
sidered worthless, were offered •
at 75 cents per bushel.
Mr. Mabe has been buying
peaches in the sand hills and
hauling them here for some,
years, but he found the fruit
so poor and so high that he did
not purchase any.
The continued wet weather
,
in the peach growing section
is attributed by the growers asj
the cause for the failure of the
crop, which means a loss of
much money to that section of
the country. j
Eight Tobacco Barns
Burn In Sampson
During: One Week
Clinton, July 20. Eight
barns filled with tobacco were
destroyed by fire in Sampson
1 county during the past week.
Five of the eight were burned
1 in a single night. The total loss
is estima-ted at close to $lO,OOO
with very little insurance.
The eight people who have
1 lost barns during the past week
are Henry Vann, Milford
W'. M. Cannady, Ed Faircloth,
R. E. Bradshaw, Mrs. George
' Fowler. A. B. Gilbera and Guy
' Dawson.
It is estimated that Sampson
1 farmers will prtuluce at least
10,000,000 pounds oi tobacco
this year. Curing is now un
der way.
i
Lindsay Alley, here from the
- Hartman community Monday,
[ stated that crops were good in
; his section. Mr. Alley «aid he :
I hail the best crop he had had
! for years.
i A Domestic Revolution
i:
i Automatic heat is causing
a minor domestic revolution.
Oil and gas burners are replac
ing old-fashoned furnaces. The.
.' once-despised collar is being.
| converted into a den. or a smok
ing or reading room.
. I The tremendous progress
made in the past few years in
. automatic heating is indicative
of the American genius for fin.'-!
t , ;
t ing new and better means to
'perform o!d tasks.
) • -• ■
. Tw T.ty-two boys a,11,' gifi.s
in Chatham county row hay-"
• pure bred dairy calves being
j cared for under Lho 4-IT plan.
N. C. FARMERS
ASK FOR HELP
Rockingham Delegation Goes
to Reidsville as Result of
Storm.
Reidsville, July 22.—Fifty
farmers from the eastern end of
Rockingham county came to
the Chamber of Commerce of
fice here today and asked Sec
retary Calhoun to use his ef
forts to secure Government fin
ancial aid for them as a result I
of their terrific hail storms'
which have played havoc in
many sections of this county
during the past few days.
Secretary Calhoun appealed
to Senators Simmons and Over
man and Congressman Sted
man. Major Stedman wired
j immediately that after an in
vestigation lie finds that no re
lief may be obtained before the
next session of Congress.
BOYS AND GIRLS
CAMP AT MOORE'S
Thirtv-Two Members Of 4-H
Club Spent Four Days Of
! Recreation And Pleasure At
Stokes Resort.
A party of 32.boys and girls
.of Forsyth county camped four,
days last week at the 4-H en-j
campnaent at Moore's Springs;
returning to their homes on
Friday. The party consisted [
mostly of girls and they enjoy-,
ed swimming, various games,
educational recreation and in-;
structive methods in cultural
i
subjects.
The encampment has been;
under the general supervision !
of It. W. Pou. county agent, and '
Miss Alice McQueen. home
agent. They were assisted by
Miss Georgia Piland, of the;
State Landscape Division of
the Extension Service, and Mis-J
Flora Wakefield of the Forsyth
county Health Department. !
Tobacco Curing
In The East
The process of preparing
more than $50,000,000 worth of
leaf tobacco for the market is
in full swing in the eastern
section of North Carolina
known as the "Bright Belt."
Fires are blazing in thous
ands of barns as practically all
th* crop has been cut and hous
ed. Conditions #f the crop im
proved rapidly in recent weeks
and while the yield may be off
in some counties on the whole
a normal crop is expected. The
1927 and 1928 crops were both
ah«Kve normal.
I The prospects for better
prices is vury eift'ou raging to
'the growers. Authorities have
expressed the opinion that thv>
af will bring more than last
year. Dealers stocks are not
jiarg„» and the demand for the
better grades of tobacco should
(be good.
E. L. Bryan, of Durham
• ounty, has contracted to sell
&is ;\OOO-bunhel apple crop for
$1.50 per bushci.
BAPTISTS MEFV V
AT WALNU.^OVK
Pilot Mt. Association Holds In
teresting Session—Woman's
Auxiliary Meeting—Personal
Items.
Walnut Cove, July 2-'!.—Th
Pilot Mountain Baptist Asso
ciation in session here yester
day and today in the new Bap
tist church has been well at
tended. Meetings were hell
i morning, afternoon and also ai
'night session. Picnic dinner
was spread each day with :i'i j
ahundanre of food in evidence, j
Delegates from each church I
in the association have been |
present and gave reports and j
an altogether pleasant and j
profitable meeting was enjov-
Quite a number lrom here j
are enjoying a trip to New j
City this week. Among |
these are George Fulton, Bill
Fulton, Paul Davis, Jr., Walter
Neal, Ed Ray and Wesley Lin-j
; ville, who left last Saturday. I
On Monday Dr. R. H. Hacklerj
and Junior Flinchum left for'
Philadelphia and New York to
spend several days.
The Woman's Auxiliary of
,the Episcopal church met Tues
day evening with Mrs. J. H.
; Fulton with a g&od attendance
! president. Mrs. R. A. Hedge
; cock presided over a business
j session during which different
plans for church work were
discussed. At the conclusion of
the business tempting refresh
ments were served by the hos
-1 tess.
!
I Miss Julia Hairston ha-s re
| turned from a visit to relatives
at Martinsville, Va.
Musdames Paul Davis, Jacob
; Fulton, Jr., Misses Helen Ful
ton and Mary Frances Davis
'returned Sunday from a ten
days stay at Virginia Beach, i
t Gilmer Sparger, Jacob Fulton.
Virginia Fulton. Mr. and Mrv
J. W. Jones went down on Fri
day and spent the week-end.
Miss Helen Rierson, of Char
lotte. is visiting the family of
S. C. Rierson.
Airs. Loula Hairston Brown
is quite ill at her home in South
Walnut Cove. Her sister, Mrs.
J. I*. IHinklee, of V i S.;-
lem, is with her.
Miss Minnie Cates, of Greens
boro. spent last week here with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. J.
Cak.s. Miss Willie Mae Cates
! was here t'»r the week-end.
Mrs. George Fulton and chil
dren are spending the week at
. Klkin with Mrs. W. J Snow.
Mrs. ('. J. Helsabeck has re
cuperated sufficiently from her
automobile wreck to leave tJie
hospital and vi.>it her mother
at Mountain View. Misses
Eunice and Gladys Morelield
and Mrs. 15. I). Gentry, who
were injured at the same time
ar« also very much improved.
Miss Laura Crews, of Salem,
visited her sister, Mrs. J. R.
Woodruff, this week. Mrs. Phi!
Woodward, of «Jew Port News,
i Va., is the guest of her mother,
No. 2,984
PELLAGRA DEATHS
SHOW INCREASE
State Department of Health
Mystified By Disease —Ap-
pears to Have Cycle Habit.
Raleigh. July 20.—Amazinj
increase in deaths by pellagra
mystifies the state department
of health and the first six
months of 1920 show a jump
of nearly 50 per cent over the
same period last year when
847 persons died of this disease.
The state department knows
J the cause of the disease buf;
j nobody seems to know why peo
jple do not learn something
eating as the years go
bv. The startling rise in this
| rate gives a lot of work for thii
idietiticians.
Pellagra appears to have a
jcycle habit. Just 20 years ago
I the state became greatly upset
t by the numerous deaths from
this cause. When Editor John
M. Julian, of the Salisbury
j Post, tell victim of the disease
he remarked how little atten
tion he had paid to the storiea
of the disease. Mr. Julian's
death a few weeks later agitat
ed the state. In time there was
a cessation. Pellagra has brok
en out again. There were 114
deaths in June, 1929.
Pellagra ranked fourth in
| June in North Carolina among
the listed causes of death. Tu
berculosis killed 270, intestinal
diseases of infants 214, and
pneumonia, 142. Deaths from
heart disease, apoplexy and
cancer are not included in tha
provisional figures.
There were 14 deaths from
typhoid fever in June, five from
malaria, 4 from whooping
cough: nine from diphtheria,
64 11'om influenza, seven from
spine and brain infections and
two from hydrophobia.
Mrs. J. li. Woodruff.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Fulton,
Mesdames Paul Pulton and P.
j\\. Davis. Miss Helen Fulton,
C.ilmer Sparger and Mr. and
Mrs. E. P. Pepper, of Danbury,
attended the funeral in Martins
ville. Va., Monday of Mrs.
! Davis, mother of Mrs. J. W.
! Jones.
Miss Evelyn \\ hite i's spend
ing some time in Washington,
ID. C., visiting relatives.
Miss Grace Woodruff and
brother, John Woodruff, enjoy
ed an automobile trip through
ithe Shenandoah valley to Wash -
ington last week.
I Mrs. Leake l.oviti and small
{son. Leake, Jr., are visiting
! relatives at Red Springs,
i Miss Ruth Ilairston is spend
ing some time at her home on
j Dan river. She is accompanied
by Miss Sal lie Taylor.
t Mrs. John Lewellvn and little
| daughter, Mary Vaughn, re-
J turned Monday from a visit in
1 High Point.
i
I
| England haa abolished the
j. tux on Lea, but it's too late
| now. Boston is.iel in her ways,
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