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DANBURY REPORTER Volume 57. CHARGED WITH SLAYING INFANT Peter Stone in Stokes Jail Faces! Charge of Murdering Hi* Own 15-.Months-Old Child— Stone Held Without Bail. Peter Stone, young married ! man who moved to Stokes j county from Virginia two years since, and who resided j near the North Carolina-Vir-1 ginia line, just north of Sandy Ridge, is being held in Stokes jail without bond on the charge of murdering his own 15- s %jmonths-old child. According to witnesses at i Coroner's inquest held Friday last, the child died suddenly early Saturday morning, Aug. 17th, and was buried the fol lowing day. Before being buried it was rumored that bruises had been seen on the infant's head, with the result that foul play was suspected. The facts wtyre reported to Coroner C. J. Helsabeck and Sheriff John Taylor, and on Friday the body was exhumed and an autopsy was performed at an inquest, the result being that fractures of the skull and bruises on tlu? body were found, the Coroner's jury re turning a verdict that the in fant came to its death fro'., "blows on the head which caus ed fracture >f tne skull in two places." Stone was promptly arrest-' ed ami is being held in jail without bond pending a hear ing next Monday at Danbury. Very little is known of Stone 4 and his past by Sandy Ridge 1 citizens, but it is reported that j he is a man of bad reputation, i Stone denies beating the child! and states that he does not > ;now the eau.-e of tbe nfaut'sl death. Madison Man Is Drowned In Rivet* f Madi.-,on Aug. 21.—8. F. Me-; Geh.-e. 27. of this place, was drov.ied in Smith riv -r. near Martinsville, \*a., about 12 o'cloc!; Friday u i._ ht. Mr. Mi- Gehee was r 'turning from Ma> ii'• viile in an i.ulonita.'i'.e witli Whitt Wall, a young ne gro. of Madison, and, in rotir. i ing a sharp curve. the driver lost control of the car. and it went through tUe railing uti ■ the side of the road and rolled over into the stream, with the ( two occupants. The colored man managed to swim out and ( used his bust efforts to sav« ( Mr. McGehfe, but was unsuc cessful. The body, however, was recovered later. Mr. McGehee was a young man highly esteemed in the' community. He was connect id with the City Motor Com pany, of Madison. He is sur vived by hi* wife, who, before her marriage, was Miss Mar.v ( Webster, of this place, and a, two-year-old d.-.i.g'Uer; also by' his mother. Mrs. Fannin Me-: Gehee, of Baltimore. , Thomas Thore Has Stroke of Paralysis Thomas Thore, aged and prominent citusen of Quaker, Cap township, recently suffe*- ed a stroke of pardysi.. and i."> in a serious condition at pres ent. Anyway, the radio orator has to ;uit when his tima is •Up. COMMITTEE NAMED FOR STOKES CO. | All North Carolina Counties j Asked To Prepare For Home j Coming Week Oct. 13 to 19. ; _________ i Stokes county is invited toj ! join the other ninety-nine coun- j j ties of North Carolina in hav ing a Home-Coming Week Oct.' j 13 to 19, and the committee ap- I pointed by the Governor re cently met in Raleigh and ap pointed committees in each county, who are expected to make preparation for the event in their respective counties, j The personnel of the commit- j tee appointed for Stokes is as j follows: J. C. Carson, H. H. Leake. Jacob Fulton, A. J. Fagg, R. N. Browder, J. J. Taylor, H. M. Joyce, C. C. McGee, N. E. Pep per, Fi .P. Pepper. It is likely that a meeting, >f the above named committee will be held at an early date and arrangements perfected for Home-Coming Week in Stokes. The following letter received here recently gives an outline of the program suggested for the event, etc.: Raleigh, N. C , Aug. 15. l!»2y. There was a time when sev eral thousand good citizens of North Carolina chose their places of residence in other ' states of our nation. Those I 'were days when North Caro lina hovered near the lower end of all lists giving the rat ings of states in their order of. I accomplishments and progress. I Those days, when we thanked ! God for the one or two states ; which were below us on all I lists, are gone. Now we are j setting our pace to keep abreast with the best states of the union. North Carolina has made un j equalled progress during tin past twonty-tive years and has reach id such a position 'amongst the states of the un : ion thru our 192 D Legislature decit! '! by resolution (Resolu t'u>i 17. Public Laws of North ( cCoiina. Session 1929) to in- ( \ ite all former citizens of this State who now live in other! states to come back for a visit. Therefore, the Legislature of IJL9 set aside the week of Oct. 13 to 19 as HOME-COMING V.'iiLK and State Fair Week. ' The central committee oil HOME-COMING WEEK met in. the Governor's otiice on Tues j . # c.ay, Ju*j / 30, and decided that it would be titting for eacn 1 county in North Carolina to have a home-coming on Sattir-1 • day and Sundav of October 121 and 13. In order that your' ■county may begin plans at once, for yoyr COUNTY HOME-; COMING the committee named, in Resolution No. 17 selected for your county the committee' ; named on this letter. The coun-j ' t.v committee should have a | meeting at once, elect a perm- j lanent chairman, expand the Jcommitte, and appoint addi-: tional committees, if it so wishes, and begin work with out delay. It is suggested that tlv hor .-ißiing program for th-- : ( ties consist of a public nvv:i:.g at the e.,ur.:v seat, pubic speaking Ly s >me dis tingue -!uri son i.f the countv r.ow living in another state or' county, dinner. picnic or bar-J te-:ue, and a sightseeing- trdvi i ' I Danbury, N. C., August 28, 1929. TONSIL CLINIC i HERE THIS WEEK Twenty-Five Children Iking i Treated Each Day—Corps j Of Doctors and Nurses With j Temporary Hospital Doing j Fine Work. i A corps of doctors, register led nurses and helpers, working! under the direction of the State! Board of Health, arrived here; Saturday and on Tuesday morn ing of this week a tonsil and adenoid clinic was opened in the temporary hospital which ! they had fitted up in the school ' building. The clinic is for school child | ren between the ages of 6 and 12 years, and the little patients were selected last fall by Miss Lucile Pegram, when she visit ed all the schools of the eounty land examined several thousand children, notifying the parents of those who were found to, have diseased and enlarged tonsils. This week these children are being brought here to the clinic, twenty-five each day, and the clinic will continue for four! days, treating one hundred in all. Appliiations for treat ment have been received for more than 290 children, but only 100 can be treated. Up to this time fifty of the lut)' children have be n treated and all are getting along fine. The personnel of the tin; corps of physicians, nurses an i; helpers are as follows: Dr. B. N. Jones, of Winston- Salem, surgeon; .Dr. Lois Boyd Gaw, of Greensboro, attending physician; Miss Lucile Pegram, of Greensboro, Manager; Mis* Flora Ray, of Sanford, head nurse: Miss Ruth Wells, of Greensboro, Miss Cora Beam, of Fa 1 listen; Miss Myrtle Thomas, of Sanford; Miss Bess Marshall, of Pamplin, Va.; Miss Mamie Shirley, of Winston- Salem; Miss Lois Hobbs. or Greensboro, registered nurse.-.: Mr. Dewey Sappeiitield, of Con cord, general assistant; James Davis, janitor. The members of this organ ization have conducted eigh teen clinics in as many o:un ities since May of this year, treating about eighteen hiui-'l-: i'-d school children. They go! from here to Ashoboro for tile! next clinic. Stokes Farmers Make j Changes in locations _____ 1 Pleas H. Morefield, of the Hart man community, has sold i his farm and will remove in the fall to the Lem Morefield j ! place near Belews Creek. Abe | 1 Mabe will go with Mr. More-1 'field and make a crop on the' farm purchased by Mr. More field. James Dodson, of Dan-' t bury Route I, will remove in the fall to a farm on the Rock Hill road, in Southern Stokes.' Haury Mabe. it is learned, v.iil ! also likely ivniove to the li"-| lews Creek community, leaving; 'his present location on Dan- I bury Route 1. '•■n Saturday, October 12. ():i : Sundry, October 13, the church-, es might like to have r.ati* sons, r.ow preaching ei.-'awhero. ."•••turn tsermons in the old . » heme county. Very truly yours, J. W. HARRELSGN, Secretary to the CoßWrdttae. BIG HAUL MADE IN STOKES Man, Car and Fifty Gallons of Whiskey Seized By Prohihi-J J tion Agents Early This Morn- j ing Near Virginia Line. I J. 11. Hodges, a former police! officer of Lexington, was taken j j early today with 40 gallons of j | whiskey and 10 gallons of I brandy on a Dodge automobile. near the Virginia line in north ! ern Stokes. Another man in j the car with Hodges escaped. I The officers making the ar-! rest were Prohibition Agents W. T. Kennedy and L. J. Trex ler, and they stated that the; car was not being "spotted." j As it passed the officers the ; driver of the whiskey laden car j made some suspicious moves and the car was held up. When this was done one of the men ran, and the other kept his seat. | The whiskey was poured out! on the spot and the car and' , man were brought here where! U. S. Commissioner N. A. Mar-j tin fixed Hodges bond at SSOO, j the bond being given promptly, j Studying The Highway Question Today street and highway building absorbs a larger per centage of the tax dollar than ;any other item except school*.' The United States Chamber ,of Commerce, through commit • tes, is studying the proper re lationship of four chief .sources of highway finance—general revenues, special property as sessments, taxes against the highway users and high way bond issues. They will endeavor to deter mine when bond issues are justifiable and the best means of redeeming them, how gaso line taxes should be applied, what the property owner's con tribution to the highway past his door should be. the proper relationship of the Federal government to the highway program and other important questions. The improvement of second ary roaus to open tip the back country and relic 1 ' congest; »•! on main highways is a question j of outstanding importance. Serving Fourteen Million Homes The gas utilities of the Unied , State* are now serving approx imately 14 million homes, of which 13 million have gas ranges. New developments of the gas industry promise much for the | future, such as automatic re ! frigeration, incineration and .house heating and cooling. In I both industrial and domestic 1 life gas plays v. steadily in creasing part, as its efficiency, economy and cleanliness be come better realr/ed. Rev. McKendree Long Preaching At Winston —— I Rev. McKendree Long, who ( is well known and greatly ;• !- mire:! by hundreds •{' Stok. - people, this week started i series of revival meetings at .Winston-Siller'. The sevvi.vs are being held in a tee.t : ti" corner o: Muiberr;- ar. 1 Aca demy streets, with s«v. .V --each. ! ight throughout this week and next. Mr. L r.g ia.-t year hul-i revivals here at R: ver Presbyterian church. S. WILL RIERSON DIED TUESDAY ■ Prominent Walnut Cove Citi zen Succumbs To Extended ' Illness—Other News items i and I'ersonals. Walnut Cove, Aug. 2H.—S. I Will llierson, one ol' Walnu. ; Cove's oldest and best citizens, I passed away at his home here , early Tuesday morning after ! an illness of more than a year, j For the past several months i Mr. llierson had been critically i ! ill and his death was not unex pected. The deceased was 71 years of age and was an excell ' ent christian gentleman. He j [was an official in the Junior or • der here and was active in all i I j religious and church work, hav ing long been a faithful mem ber of the M. E. church. Mr. Rierson is survived by I his wife, who is a sister of N.! I A. Martin, of Danbury, and by j | two sons, Charlie and Herbert,, j and three daughters, Mrs. Wil-j i ber Fowler and Misses Annie i j and Jean llierson, all of Walnu: j( ove. A sister, Mrs. Xealie j llierson. and two grandchildren 'also survive. Interment was made today in; Stokesbarg M. K. iluiich cein>- tery, the t'unerr' services being l conducted by llev. Mr. Camp- 1 bell, pastor of the M. E. church, "i he buried services were i'i charge of the Junior Order, >:' which he was a prominent member. Mesdames ,J. V,. Jones en;i Jacob Fulton, of Walnut Co\e. and E. P. Pepper, of Danbury, were dinner guests of Miss Mattie Sue Taylor at Piedmont Springs Tuesday of this week. Mesdames C. E. Davis and Howard Woodruff have return ed from an extended western trip, visiting relatives anil friends in lowa and other States. .1. C. Bailey, Sm.. who has l»«t»n quite ill is improving. Hh da ighters. Mi>s Elizabeth IJ;;:;- i-y. of A-!i.\ille. ma! Mr>. ii. M'.A . k), or He...ifi'.^.jnville, who ha - ..; been ;it i'.i-i bedside, ha'.e iv:..i':ieii t> th'-ir home . P.. L. \aughn and family ;v si!(-: mot." t:r.«» ai j».hat. ' r.) i'liiys i" :ii" \'v e. t ,it fler.-oi:. Mi>s Sallie Matt .Um>.;all v.as a mem! t .i i !.'>i:se party 'it. Lake Wiiicamar week. ' Mrs. I.iz/.ie Adams rpent :i ; i'»*w days the past week »n Wie sion-Salem with Mrs. iJz/.ie •' Kierson. Miss Kstelle Kiwrson, who holds a position v. wh tlie S. P. . I*. Co., was at home last week , on her vacation. Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Hot brock, i Misses 'I heltna Ilothrock ami . France* Fulton >pent Monday . in Roanoke. Va. Rev. 1). W. Allen prcusheil i in Winston-Salem Sum.a. .j morning at St. Paul's Episco pal church. Rev. Clarkswn, of I Mt. Airy, tilled Mr. Allen's at>- pcyi ntnient hen* on Sunday I mo.'mng. Stokes Banks Will Observe Labor Day 1 . Tht banks of Mtokrs vnmu I baabiwy. W'ainut C »\e. Ce:- * man ton i. ! Ki:._ '-i!. observe 1 Lai :• Day. M: r.dny. Sept. 2:.;. I:' the rank ami t;> of Rus > -... ti i t hit: : \*e arr.vi - e»v." l tit-i what they are tu'hiln.c t " r. if. will I > roa! r. t« . iht-m 1 No 989. KING .«V*^OL v SEPT. 16 .» ■ A x> .titer of Births Reported I; —Three Little Girls Under go Operations—Personals Items of Interest. King. Aug. 2(i.—The follow ing births were registered hero last week: To Mr. and Mrs. . | Harvey Spainhower, a son; to • Mi*, and Mrs. John McGee, a son; to Mr. and Mrs. James i| Vaughn, a daughter: to Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Mickey, a son; to James Jones, a son; to Mr. and ; I Mrs. Charlie Barker, a daugh ter, and to Mr. and Mrs. Escar i Long, a son. The King consolidated school [ will open September 16th. Prof. . C. C. Carroll has been employ ed as principal again this year. A large attendance is expected | for the opening. Little Miss Pearl Bliss Walk- Jer, of Winston-Salem, is spend ■ ing a few days with Misses j Geneva, Thelnia and Ov.ell Fulk. 1 Kermit and Homer TutUe have purchased the business of the Hill Service station on east Main street and have already took charge of tie* iaticn. Messrs. James Love and Wal ter J. White, of Winston-Sal em, were among the visitors .'here Sunday. Felix Harding, o!' Mocksville. is spending a few days her* guest of his uncle, Dr. H. G. Harding. Oscar Calloway, of Winston , Salem, was here Friday look , ing after some business mat ( ters. ; Little Francis Helsabeek, Rebecca llair.s and Francis Hansor, a'l of whom under i weiit tonsil operations at a .[ \\ inston-Sa'.em hospital last i week, have returned to trheir I homes here and are getting r on nicely. j Miss Jean Christy, of Em- ory. \ a., is spending a few days . with friends here. I'avid Calloway, of Boone, . -1 >• •!«t thf k-ci:.i h.-re the ■ t giw->f oi reiati vs. LL'i'a V». i'i:ilsa:H and f.-mily, > ! \v M:.d, were visit, rs hero !*a' iii i .ay. ilry»;n '.Vnite spent Saturday a.id Sunday with friends near i High Point. C. W. Patterson, of Pilot M» uiituin, was among the busi i ;us visiters here Monday. -i 'l*e U onuu:'s Missionary So .. ciety of Kir.g Cr.nrch met with :Mi>. I. 11. X ",v Friday. "Jesus i Is Calling" was used for the '. opting song, Mrs. \\\ H. liaus er led the first prayer, Mrs. New read the scripture lesson. , Th- Frontier was the topic for ; the day Several of the ladies ,• took pi.■ in discussing the les son. It was interesting to j learn of the progress made m New Mexico. M:ss I [attic - Slate, secretary being aJjsewt, f the roil was called by Mrs. W. - H Hauser. Seven members and three visitors were pres ent. Mrs. C. T. McGee had charge of the program. Dur ing the social hour Mrs. New . served delicious watermelon. , Thf r.ext meeting will be held . . with Mrs. C. L). Slate. Stokes Gels More _ SehooJ Money From, th » s»c>n . uii >tment - o, State «*. hoc! lunds to the •" 1 'unties made by the E ualiza tt( : Beard last v •.•>.. St >kes • '■" .-ets r r- ,-r for t' sc>- Ji'„ [