DANBURY REPORTER
Volume 57.
BAILEY OWENS i
KILLED IN WRECKj
Was Former Stokes County
Boy and Brother of Dr- E-!
W. Owens Particulars Of ;
Accident Not Known Here, j
i
Relatives at Pilot Mountain :
this week received a telegram
from Los Angeles, Cal-, stating,
that Bailey Owens, of that city,
was killed in an automobile ac
cident on Sunday last, Jan- 26-
No particulars of the accident'
were given in the telegram- I
Mr. Owens, aged 25 years,
was a son of Mr. and Mrs. J- !• !
Owens who removed from Pilot j
Mountain to Los Angeles, Cal, j
about two years ago- He was a
brother of I)r- E- W- Owens, •
formerly of Danbury. and his I
father is an ex-county com
missioner of Stokes county.
Bailey is well remembered,
in Danbury, where he ofti'ii!
visited his brother, while he
I
way practicing medicine here,
and his many friends here ar »
shocked to learn of his un
timely death.
MRS EDDIE LAWSON
DIED SUNDAY
Three Children 111 In Same
Home With Pneumonia
Mrs. Lawson Had Infant
f»nly Three Days Old.
Mrs. Eddie Lawson died 'it
her home in Quaker Gap town
ship early Sunday morning, al
ter a short illness with pr.eu
mor-ia. The deceased, who was
an excellent Christian woman,
is survived bv several children,
anung whom is an inifant only
thr«*e days old, while three of
the other children are now .11
with pneumonia.
l.' terment was made at the
family burying ground near
on Monday, and
the funeral was preached by
Elu« r W. J. Brown of the Prim
itive Baptist church.. A large
number of sorrowing relatives
and friends were in attendance.
Wants To Abolish
$2.50 Gold Coin
The $250 gold piece, freque
erttiv used for a Christmas
present, will probably soon dis
appear from the list cf Ameri
can gold coins-
Secretary of the Treasury,
Me;'on, has requested Congress
to - iiact legislation to provide
for the discontinuance of the
s2*so gold piece- He said the
gold was needed for credit pur
poses and that the pieces disap
peared from circulation, espe
cial?}* after being given away as
Christmas presents.
•
"Senatorial courtesy" is an
other old idea that has been
debunked-
Too frequent appearances of
the wolf
. f i-aie at which new laws
ip'e b'frrg mndi' sorely tiuco*
Established 1872.
RICHARD MABE'S
TOUGH LUCK
looses $390 Somewhere Be
tween Winston-Salem and
I
His Peter's Creek Home—No
| Trace of the Money Found
Richard Mabe of Lawsonvillc,
is .short $390-00 in his pocket
[ change- Monday he went lo
Winston-Salem with $.'500-00 in
his pocket, as it is his custom
to carry quite a large roll of
i cash in his jeans. He also car-
I ried on his car a load of tobacco
which he sold for S9O-00. Re
! turning to his home Mr- Mabo
j was distressed to discover thai
: his money, about $390-00, was
!
missing- He has no idea where
! he lost it
I Our Stokes county banks are
well managed and safe institu
! tions, and are always delighted
,to receive deposits of the peo
| pie's surplus cash, paying in
terest on the same and having
i. "
it ready when you want it back.
Carrying cash in the jeans
withholds currency from circu
lation, and makes times hard,
to say nothing of the danger of
robbery or other loss which is
threatened when you niak;
! your pocket your bank.
TWO STILLS
TAKEN TODAY
One of the Vessels Was Too
j Large For the Officers To
| Move—Several Barrels Of
Beer Poured Out
j
•; Deputy Sheriffs E E. Shel
' ton, W. A- Leake and W. S
. George made a round today up
, near the Virginia line, in north
ern Stokes, and captured two
sti'ls, poured out a number of
I barrells of beer at each still
: site and gr;t in a snow storm
* before they reached heme.
The officers were here late
I yesterday afternoon, bringing
' the copper still with them, an
- it was only of about 35-gallori
- capacity, but the other, which
> was a large one of the submu
. rine type had to be cut up on
. the grounds, being too heavy
to attempt to move
-1 At one of the still sites tht
officers found a large number ol
- new five gallon cans ready U
■; receive the whiskey as fast u.-
- it was run out- The beer r
- barrels had been placet! in pit
in the ground and had a light
, ed lantern in the pit beside thi
? beer- This kept ths beer warn
> s-'o that it would ferment.
i
Parent-Teacher Meet
Monday, Feb. ;
Walnut Cove, Jan. 29—Th
* Parent - Teacher Associatioi
, wiU meet in the auditorium ol
i the school building on Monday
- evening Feb- 3rd, at 7 o'clock
1 A splendid program has bee;
arranged and some very abii
* speakers have been seeuracl
Every member and ail patrnr
.a aj\ capx-iaD)- invited to b
* present.
Danbury, N. C., Jan. 29, 1930
KING MERCHANTS
GIVE AWAY CAR
| Lucky Number Was Held By
James Bottoms—Mrs. S- W
-1: Pulliam 111—Homer Slate Un
dergoes Operation-
King, Jan. 27—It was esti-
I mated that 3,000 people were
1 ; here Saturday to witness the
; giving away of the Chevrolet
[automobile which was given by
'the King Drug Co-, Wilson Mo
tor Co., Bennett Mercantile Co
• and King Hardware Co- Jas.
• ; Bottoms, who resides 2 miles
i west of town, was the lucky i
. man- Several other nice pres
i ents were given away
; Mi's. S. W- Pulliam, who has
been very sick at her home for
> several weeks, shows decided
■ improvement, her many friends j
i will be glad to know.
The 1-year-old son of Mr- and i
- Mrs- Harvey Coe. who reside 2 1
r miles East of King, died Sun-!
. day from pneumonia.
 Homer Slate, who underwent •
- an operation in the Lawrence;
, hospital in Winston last week,,
f for appendicitis, is getting on;
 nicely, his friends will be glad
» to know.
I)r- E- M- Griffin and family
■ attended the 71st anniversary;
lof Mrs. John H. Sink at her
r home in Winston last Thursday |
! and the doctor states that it
J was a happy occasion
- 9i The King basket ball team
• lost to Guilford College in the
i game played at Guilford Friday
night
i
I The home of Mr- and Mrs. Sy- j
). •
lus Fulk was made happy Sat
; urday by the arrival of a line
! baby girl.
j
,! Austin Garner, student at
Guilford College, spent the
week end with his parents.
N- C- Hooker, of Charlotte,
spent Sunday with his mother,
e
Mrs D J. Hooker, near here
in
s N. C. Couples Get
n License In Virginia
!i
Four more North Carolina
n couples were granted license to
v marry at Martinsville, Va-, du
ring the past week- They were
L > as follows:
f Elmer H- White and Oracie
o M- Lankford, both of Walnut
s Cove; Jeff Sizemore and Edna
-i Roberts, both of Stokesdale;
-i Edward W. Hedgecock and Jus
tina -S. Wooten. l>cth of Wins-
t > ton-Salem; James L- Williams,
n and Tissue M- Nichols, both nf
1 Hanes
; Uncle Joe Ashby
Falls At His Home
i
i Uncle Joe Ashby recently
I fell at his home near Seven Is
" | lands and hurt himself- He is
'' j nearly ninety years old, and at
v this age a fall is serious. He
is confined to his home.
n
ie An optimist is a man who
r j expects to find a clean pair of
socks without holes.
j Folks most repeat: ther;
'" ■ i/:Vt enouorlgfnul eonversa
|tioo to go around.
P. O. ELLIS
COMMITS SUICIDE
Good Citizen and Industious
Farmer Sends Load of Shot
Into His Own Brain—No
Cause Known For the Act.
I
P- O. Ellis, 45 years old, a
good citizen and industrious
fanner of the northern section
of Stokes county, committed
suicide Monday afternoon by
shooting himself in the fore
head with his shoi gun-
Relatives of the dead man
are unable to assign any cause
for his act-
On Monday forenoon he told
his family that he was going
hunting, and when he did not
return, search was made and
his dead body was found in the
! woods not far from the home
|He was sitting in a reclining
• position with the shot gun and
i the stick with which he pushed
' the trigger lying by him. The
j cap which he had been wearing
i had been hung on a bush be
! side him- Almost the entire
4
! top of the head was blown off
j
; by the load from the gun.
i Soon after the discovery of
 the death of Mr. Ellis, messen
gers were sent for Sheriff Tay-
I lor and Coroner Helsabeck and
I
an inquest was held, the follow
ing named citizens acting as
jurors: A- G- Sisk, H- E- Black
| burn, H- T- Corn, J. V. Martin,
R- A- Smith and Everett Haw
kins. The jury found that the
deceased came to his death by
his own hands-
Mr. Ellis, who is survived by
his wife and six children, was
considered a good citizen and
was a very industrious farmer.
He was in good condition finan
, j ciallv, and this year lie grew
nineteen barns of tobacco and
150 barrells of corn, in addi
tion to other crops-
Mr- Ellis was a cousin of Mr
| A- (i Sisk, of Danbury, and had
a brother, Rul'us Ellis, who re
. sides in Patrick county, Va.
Mrs. Ellis is a daughter of Mr
-1 Howard Nelson
' Funeral services were held to
day and interment was in the
family plot near the home ot
the deceased-
Road Money Increased
Fifty Million Dollars
An injuease of iil'ty million
dollars annually in federal high
wav aid was voted unanimously
f
by Congress last week- 'lhi
means that 8300,000,000 will in
■ available for road building ir
»i all the States during the years
(of 1931, 1932 and 1933-
i Deep Snow Fell
Here Last Night
t: The heaviest snow, probabl;.
|(5 or 8 inches deep, which ha:
J been seen here for a long time
! fell here today. Roads off th
main highways have been im
! passible, but the mabi road
; haw been cleared and trave
- is iwrmal
FEDERAL AGENTS
GET BIG STILL
Outfit Is Taken Few Miles
North-East of Walnut Cove
—Capable of Producing 75
(iallons of Whiskey Daily. i
!
Federal Prohibition Agents,;
assisted by Forsyth county de
puty Sheriffs, on Saturday af
ternoon captured a distilling!
outfit a few miles north-east of!
Walnut Cove that was said to;
have been capable of producing 1
75 gallons of whiskey daily.
The plant was in full opera- j
tion when the officers arrived!
I
on the scene, but the operators
took to the woods and made a
complete getaway. Commands |
to halt and shots fired in the di- j
rection of the tleeing men had
no effect toward stopping them.
\V. T. Kennedy and W, C,
Smith were the Federal agents
and they were assisted by Dep
uties Kiser, Mickle and Myers,
lof Forsyth county. It was sta
! ted that a white man and four
I
| negroes were at the still at the
time the officers found it.
j The officers stated that the
j outfit was one of the most com
■; plete that has been seen in this
1 section of the country.
ii
Little Doris Mitchell
Has Birthday Party
1 Walnut Cove, Jan- 30.—Lit
tle Miss Doris Mitchell was the
honor guest on Monday after
noon when her mother, Mrs- J-
L- Mitchell, delightfully enter
tained a number of the young
friends of Doris in celebration
of her eighth birthday.
1 After a while spent playing
games and working contests,
the little guests were invited
into the dining room- The cen
tral decoration on the table was
; the beautiful birthday cake,
J with its eight pink candles- Tb>
, home was beautifully decora
: ted with the colors of pink and
j white- Delicious cream and
cake was served and a pink bas
; ket filled with hearts was pre
! sented each guest as a souve
} neir. The honor guest was til"
2 ' . .
recipient ot many attractiu
1 gifts
' The folic wing named llMle
. guests enjoyed this delightful
I occasion:
S Doris Mitchell, the hnuo,
guest ; Kathryn Mitchell,
II Georgia Ann Woodruff, and
" Sarah Sands, Mary Vaughn
v Lewellyn, Marion Floyd, Mary
s i Elizabeth Floyd, Edith Dun
lap, Mary Lou Brown, Peggy
n Jane Blum, Virginia Wall
s Mitch Fowler, Bobbie Heath
' Dan Heath, Jr.
I
! Jim Venable, of the Vadi
{ Mecum. section, had the mis
fortune to cut his right foo
| nitJier badly when his axe slip
ped a few days since- Mr Ven
able is in the Mount Airy bus
4 pital for treatment
l-
niliy Grey, u, of Levy, Ark
I rh-ngye'i his 2-jvar-okl siste
1 tYcm t.hei? home u-hv 1
I hv had accidctitly ou tir-e.
No. 3,011
HOME DESTROYED
BY FIRE MONDAY
F. R- George. of Francisco Sec
tion Loses $5,000 Residence,
OnJy Partially Covered By
i Insurance.
; Fire which probably origina
ted from a defective flue, de
stroyed the nice ten-roorn bun
galo of F- R- George, of the
: Francisco section late Monday
' afternoon. A part of the
1 household effects were saved.
• Mr- George and family were
' away from home a short while
| and when they returned some
thing was heard roaring in the
ceiling of the house, however,
! the fire was so advanced when
I discovered that it was impos
sible to stop it-
The value of the house was
near $3,000, and while some in
surance was carried on it, the
amount was not sufficient to
cover the loss.
""———
News and Personals
Of Lawsonville
; Lawsonville, Jan- 30— Miss
Rona Rhodes, who was in a car
| wreck New Year's day, is im
; proving as rapidly as possible
but is unable to walk vet
| Warford Spencer, senior at
King high school, spent the
week end with his parents.
Miss Alma Stovall spent Sat
urday night and Sunday with
Miss Ruby Ziglar-
Messrs Leone Dillon and Crau
ford Priddy called on Miss Cat
r herine Dodson Sundav.
I
1 Among those who visited
i Misses Blanche ' and Gladys
• i Wood Saturday night were :
•; Miss Lucie Spencer, Messrs.
'! Lindsay Hawkins, Roy and Re
alous Steele, Cranford Priddy,
• Clyde and Jessie Com and ot
• hers.
Miss Lena Corn spent Sun
day with Miss Euna Handy.
' Mr- Tom Poore recently pur
' chased a new Ford car.
Dr. Bernard Favors *
Special Session
i In reply to a questionaire
recently sent cut by the Bun
combe County Tax Association
. as to whether it was advisable
ii;
| to call a special session of the
North Carolina General As-
I sembly, with a view to reducing
'' taxes on land. Dr. Ilolman Ber
d
; nard, of Pilot Mountain. Surry
n I
: county representative, wired
; the committee that he felt thv
i-1
special session whs needed
l\
t I With all the wisdom being
syndicated daily by Dr. Cad-
Irnan, Dr. Copelund, Arthur
I | Brisbane and others, the rest
of us hardly have to do any
thinking at all.
>l"'
I
3 ", In several countries bachelor
i-; must pii.v a special tax. Alar
s ■ l-ied men pay heavily, also, J>ul
1 it is called something else.
i Senator Griuidy isn't sayiu>
; _ j much. but the mythical
I Grundy hits been even moi'«
V loquacious than us-ual since hi'