North Carolina Newspapers

DANBURY REPORTER Volume 58. BIG CREEK CANDIDATE IS LEADING THIS WEEK Miss Gwendolin Dearmin Develops Sud -4 den and Wonderful Strength As Third | Week of Big Drive Swings Into Action --Mrs. D. M. Pyrtle Second In Race — Standing Of Other Candidates. As the Reporter's Big Subscrip tion Drive and Voting Contest swings into the third week, the star runner appears to be Miss Gwen dolyn Deavmin, of Westiield, who has turned in 479,000 vote/, which places her in the lead of all candidates where votes have been computed. Miss Dearmin has suddenly develop ed wonderful strength, and it may be taken now as a certainty that he.* bid for the Chrysler—the leading .)i!/,e—will b.' exceptionally strong. Close to Miss Dearmin in bulk n* votes turned into the Contest Mana ger I hi.- week is Mrs. I>. M. I'yrtle of Danbury. Mrs. l'yrtle's figures stand at ITtJ.OOO. Mrs. Pyrtle is very popular and a tireless worker, and her possibilities are to be very seriously reckoned with. Quite a number of the contestants won the extra vote bonus offer of last week and week before last. • 4vmong the candidates who show ntial winning qualities are Mrs. Grona Wall Fowler. Misses Burwell, Pyrtle. Ferguson, Newsuim, Huds peth find others, while Rev. D. W. Allen of Walnut Cove, is a runner of unquestioned strength and great possibilities. It is known that many candidates have votes which for one reason or another they are withholding, and which we are unable to announce this week. Must Report Saturday Evening Candidates. are notified that all subscriptions must be turned in t'» the Contest Manager once a week, Saturday evening preferably. Thir is very necessary in order that each t subscriber receive his paper prompt-, ly, and furthes that the books may be j * kept systematically and orderly. ) Excitement Coming From now on the excitement will increase. There are yet four weeks of intensive activity for all, and those candidates who work hardest will win. It is like a baseball game or a horse race—as the end ap. pronches- the nerves of everybody ■ begin' to tingle when it becomes in ■' creasingly apparent that somebody is going to win. When you take ■% into consideration that these prizes offered are such as to command the admiration of any person, you ean help be moved to greater effort t* win at least one of them. j Wide Fields Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Madi son, Stuart, Mount Airy, and ail nearby towns offer unlimited fields .of operation for ithe contestants. * Friends, relatives, acquaintenances, » everywhere, will be waited upon by J. '-iger and sntiling solicitors before the thing is over, and the harvest '* of votes will be overwhelming. Times may be hard, but a dollar or j • STANDING OF THE CANDIDATES 5 3 Miss Gwendolyn Dearmin -17!),000 | Mrs. D. M. Pyrtle 476,000 | Mist- Connie Bui-well . 3U),ooi I Miss Lunary Pyrtle 310,000 | Miss Myrtle Ferguson 307,500 i Miss Mozelle Newsum . , 305,000 ' Miss Grona Wall Fowler 300,000 ' D. W. Allen . . 350,000 f Miss Annie Hill Tuttle —«. Miss Sarah Williamson „ . i Miss Anna Hudspeth ....• •_ j Miss Loi.s Smith | Mrs. Theodore Lasley , J Miss Lola Rhodes RMiss Laura Ellington > i Mrs. T. (\ .loncs .• j MtHc: Petri Hill Z ! Ii Irene Carter ; J*. Manly Dunlaj) , „• , • | (\ otes of candidates ill bUfnk, not turned in.X i Established 1872. two to an attractive friend is some times forthcoming where before it was thought an impossibility. The | paper is worth the money—come across, everybody. Not' Too Late. Wonderful things can often be , accomplished where the obstacles seemed insurmountable. A thous- i and-dollar beauty of polished steel and plate glass, shining niAle, j downy upholstering, Rubber, and all that, —a thing that moves with th.- swiftness of l'ght and noiseless as a ballbearing sewing machine—such a thing to be won in four weeks of work is something to Ik- thought about. And then there is the.classy Ford, the second prize, and all the other handsome premiums, and last ly. if you fail on any prize, you get 20 per cent, commission. Get ! busy today. Do you know of any • job that would pay you better? j Surprises in Store Everybody may be prepared for , surprises. It is well known that in- j eluded in the list of contestants are I candidates who have not yet turned | • in a vote, but at whose back are! • resources of amazing strength and • ! galvanic possibilities. Great re-1 suits can be accomplished in a short time where the conditions are j ideal. Watch out foi datk horses to enter at any time. | Candidates who study the combi nations easily possible under the | 250,000 vote bonus ru'ing, may be , expected to put over something be- ' fore Saturday, week of electrifying , proportions. Second and Last Big Subscription J lion us Offer. Beginning Saturday. May 3, 1930, , 1 and ending Saturday at ty>on. May , i 10. 1930, the Contest. Management ( Will make its second and last big ( subscription bonus offer. Every . candidate who turns in a 30-dollar bunch of subscriptions (whether in big subscriptions or little subscrip tions) will be credited with 250,000 extra votes, besides the votes which the club wins as shown on the back of the receipt book. Now this offer should stimulate a great effort to every candidate to secure as many of these 30-dollar clubs as possible before Saturday noon, May 10. This will be the last big vote bonus offer. Get busy and get two 10-year sub script ions and you will win thu prize, or get one 10-year subserip. fjion and two 5-year subscriptions, and you win. Or get S3O worth of , big or little subscriptions, and the ' 250,000 vote prize belongs to you. Get up as many of these clubs as possible. Here is an opportunity ' early in the game that may win you the first or second prize in the end, 1 as 250,000 votes are not to be laugh 1 ed at. Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, April 30, 1930. GOING TO ELKIN TO CATTLE SALE Stokes Club Hoys and Girls Have Opportunily Of Buy ing Guernsey Heifers At Chatham Farm. ' County Agent, .J. E- Treva than is arranging for a delega tion of Stokes county club boys and girls and their parents to attend the sale of Guernsey heifers at the farm of Thur mond Chatham, Klkin, .X. C.. at one o'clock I'. M.. Monday, May sth. Those wishing to at tend this sale are requested to join Mr. Trevathan at some point on Highway No. 89 be tween Walnut Cove and West field. The party will leave Wal nut Cove at 9:00 o'clock A. M . and make short stops at Dan bury. Francisco and Westfield. It is believed that several cars will be available for carrying the Stokes delegation. The following letter explains itself: Raleigh, April 25. Mr. J. E. Trevathan, Walnut Cove, N. C. Dear Sir: The thirty Guernsey heifers, which Mr. Farnham selected in Wisconsin, will be sold at Klon dike Farm. Elkin, N. C., at one P. M-, on Monday, May sth. This is the first auction sale of its kind ever held in North Carolina. Through it our boys and girls will have a rare opportunity to secure good Guernsey calves for calf club work at actual cost. As stated in my last letter any amount that they may bring over cost will prorated back to the pur chasers. Since this is the first sale of its kind in this State—one held primarily for young folks who are interested in Guernsey cat tle—let's make it an outstand ing event. It can be done if all interested will begin work ing now. • Yours very truly, J. A. AREY, ' Extension Dairyman. Stokes Club Meeting Postponed Account of Sale The four club meetings inat were announced for Monday. May sth, will be held on Wed nesday, May 7th. With this new arrangement the meetings will be as follows: Tuesday, May 6th. Germanton, 9:30 A. M. King, 11:00 A. M. Reynolds, 2:00 P- M. Wednesday, May 7th. Walnut Cove, 9:30 A. M. Meadows, 11:00 A. M. Pine Hail, 1:00 P. M- Sandy Ridge. 2:45 P. M. Miss Elizabeth Cornelius. Slate Girls Club leader, will as sist with these meetings. J. E- TREVATHAN. County Agent. I Miss Mabel Hudspeth, who was so severely burned at Glade Valley school recently, and who has been in a Winstoh-Salem hospital for some days, was brought to the home of her parents, Rev. and Mrs.-H. W.' Hudspeth, here yesterday. She is greatly improved. WALNUT COVE SCHOOL FINALS President Harper, of Elon Col lege. To Deliver Sermon— An Operatta and u Play— L Other Events. Walnut Cove, April 20.—An operetta. "Mid-Summer Eve,' i will be the first number on th« fftials for the Walnut Govt schools. The operetta will b given under the direction ol Miss Jimie Campbell, Mis.- Dixie Reaves, Miss Julia Hairs [ ten and Miss Nell Hutcherson The characters are drawn from the first, second, third grades i The entertainment promises t« be a good one and merits a large* attendance. It will bt presented in the auditorium Friday evening, May 2. at !; . o'clock. No further programs will In given until a week later, Fri I' day, May s)t!i at the same hour "'Then "Sunny ot' Sunny Side," s ' an operetta will be given In j grades four, live, six and seven " Mrs. Joe Zimmerman, Mrs ! Roy Holland. Mrs. W. P. Wheel er and Miss Mary Kane Hrcwe, have planned jointly this pro gram. The folk wing night. May 10 . the high school play wilj In s given. The characters in this i play have been carefully select ,•. Ed and are undergoing inten . jsive drill by Mrs. Anne Cartel •in order to make it. our bes« , I number. Tin- play is a repro . duction of 1» «»th Tai kington'.- j "Seventeen" and has a twiv.ity ? five dollar royalty. An adinis - sion fee of fifteen and thirty . five cents will be charged in or . der to pay for necessary cost , cf .commencement and inciden . tals. On Sunday, May 11, at 3:00 * o'clock P. M. President W. A. r Harper, of Elon College, will deliver the baccalaureate ser mon before the graduating . class- This program is sche duled in the afternoon so that it may not conflict with any Sunday School or church ser vice. All churches are invited to attend this service. On the following Monday i night the Class Day program . will be presented by the eleven , th grade. On Tuesday evening May 13th, will be the com > mencement exercises. At this t time Miss Nettie E. Brogdon, . Supervisor of Guilford county , schools, will deliver the literary I address. Awards, certificates , and diplomas will be delivered I during this final program. L- H. FLOYD, Prin. - HERE'S A LIST OF f ! THE CANDIDATES ' That Is. In the 12th Judicial ) District, Which Comprises - the Counties of Stokes. Guil ford and Davidson. Guilford county has three "| candidates for solicitor on the . | Republican ticket and Stokes | has one, and, it is stated that I two others in Guilford will file | before the time expires. The i Republican candidates in Guil j I fcrd are A. C. Davis, J. T. Allen, and 11. R. Stanley, while Jno. . W. Hall, of Danbury. is the , Stokes candidate. The other 1 Republican candidates for J Solicitor in Guilford expected i to file before the time expires .are A. S. GifTord and T. (J. i Henderson- Davidson county has no candidate, j On the Democratic side there are only two candidates for 1 Solicitor in this district, these ' being T. Bernard Wright and ,Geo. A. Younce, both of Greens boro- j For Judge in the 12th dis trict Stokes offers one candi ■ date, J. 1). Humphreys, while ! Guilford offers two, A. W. i Cooke and T. C. Hoyle. both 1 j of Greensboro. , Kenneth M- Brim, a Greens boro lawyer, has also filed for the Republican nomination for judge. 1 Dye has been produced from potato tops by a Danish chem- I ist. IOFFICERS NAMED *1 FOR COUNTY FAIR I | Stokes Lions Club Entertains County Board of Agriculture and Count Officials —Plans Laid For Fair —Enthusias tic Gathering At Dan River •• I Park Monday Evening e' o Members of the Stokes Conn s' ty Board of Agriculture and f all county officers of Stokes s county were entertained by the Stokes Lions Club at a Fish i. Fry at Dan River Park Mon ti day evening. Before the guests . were given an opportunity to 0 eat the fish, which were well I prepared and greatly enjoyed, e a joint business meeting was li held. The meeting was pre -8 sided over by Gilmer Sparger, President of the Lions Club, e who made a very interesting i- address, introducing the ques r. tion of a County Fair as the topic for the evening's discus y sions. Short talks were then i- made by Mr. J. I). Humphreys, . oT Danbury. who was introduc- I- ed as our next judge: Wm. '/ Marshall, of Walnut Cove, who )- made the report of the joint committee of the Lions Club ). and County Board f Agricul v ture on County Fair plans; J. E. Trevathan. County Agent, - who discussed plans for the 1 County Fair: Supt. J. C. Car i son. Mr. George Fulton, Mr. t Jacob Fulton, Mr. M- O. Jones, i- Mr. E. \V. Carroll and others s who discussed the needs of a . County Fair from their various i- viewpoints. Each speaker - pledged his support to a county ■- fair. S. G- Sparger read the r proposed articles of incorpor i- ation, and C. E. Davis then ex plained in detail the plan of I) financing. This plan calls for .. the subscription of 2,000 shares II ot stock at $5.00 per share with - no par value, but with the pro if vision that the fair may begin - functioning on w hate verl t amount may be raised. Prac- j v tically every person present i - subscribed to one share of' 1 stock with the understanding; ,that it amounted virtually to / a donation for the agricultural' i advancement in the county-1 - There is no intention that there r will ever be any dividends on j - any stock or the refund of any s part of the subscription. Temporary officers and di-j r rectors of the Stokes County; y Agricultural Fair were elected s as follows: 1 H. G. Johnson, King. Presi- 1 dent. E. W. Carroll, Germanton. Secretary. J- A. Newsum, Walnut Cove,! i J. IL Robertson, Pine Hall. * R. 0. Wood, Lawsonville. J. L. Tillev, Lawsonville, '■ I J. R- Forrest, Francisco. S | E. A. Covington. Pilot Mt.. M. 0. Jones, Danbury, " | lUnder the temporary organ | ization the county agricultural i agent. J. E- Trevathan, and the o iCo un t y Superintendent of e Schools J. C. Carson, will serve as ex-officio members of the j Board of Directors. e 1 It is planned that the fair be e rotated from one section of the ! county to another from year to year, but the 19:50 Fair will ' be held in Walnut Cove some i J time during the fall. r FARMERS WARNED! - Be Careful About Fertilizers. Raleigh, April 27. , Farmers of Virginia and r North Carolina are warned by 1 the State Agricultural Depart-; - ment that inferior and danger- j oils ingredients are being used j - in the adulteration of guanos. A price war is on among cer -2 tain manufacturers, and in or . der t» meet the cheap deniM'W i of farmers, the quality is being cut. Two or three well known - old line companies are refusing r to cut the quality, and are hold r ing to the stabliml price for A 1 materials. I The Department urges that a i poor and inferior crop will re -1 suit if certain adulterations are too freely used. No. 3,024 FATAL ACCIDENT NEAR PINNACLE 1 Hassel Lawson Killed Outright and Harry Duggins Severely Injured When Their Auto mobile Hits Telephone Pole —(Juggins Held I'nder SBOO Bond. Hassel Lawson was almost I instantly killed and Harry Dug -1 gins received severe cutsj and 'j bruises early Sunday morninir i' when the Ford roadster in j which they weiv riding hit a ! • telephone pole on the Winston |Salem-Mt. Airy highway, about 1, three-quarters of a mile east . of Pinnacle. The car was com ijpletel.v wrecked. Lawson \s - body was carried to an under staking establishment and I)ug . | gins was brought here to jail r soon after his wounds had been dressed. The two young men, who • J were about 22 years of age ) j each, were traveling toward , j Winston-Salem when the wreck -.occurred. Lawson resided in .i \\ inston-Saleni and Duggins • lived a short distance north east of that city, both men. 'however, were natives of Stokes county and neither mar ried. Lawson was a son of . Robert Lawson, now residing • in High Point, while Duggins ■ is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Hayes Duggins. of Forsyth county, . former residents of the Dan i bury community. i A Coroner's inquest was held ; with the following named citi • zens acting as jurors: S. P. Christian, K. R. King. J. B. • Joyce, J. H. Flinchum, Berkley Smith and J. R. Napier. The verdict of the jury, with Cor oner ('. .J. Helsabeck in charge of the investigation, was that Lawson came to his death as a result of an automobile acci dent with Harry Duggins driv ing the car at the time of the ! accident. j A hearing in the matter was held here Monday afternoon 1 before L. J. Young, J. P., and i Duggins was held under bond j of SBOO.OO on a charge of man slaughter and driving a car j while under the influence of whiskey. Bond was arranged i and the defendant, who was on j crutches, was carried to the ' home of his parents in Forsyth |county. | At the hearing here Monday the evidence was not positive ! as to which one of the men was ! driving the car at the time of I the wreck. There were no eye j witnesses to the wreck. Mr. Reynolds, filling station oper ! ator at Pinnacle, stated that j the men stopped at his place j only a few minutes before the i wreck occurred and purchased j gasoline, pop and cigart>ttes: that Duggins was driving when j they came up and when they i left his place, though Lawson I I made an effort to take charge ; of the steering wheel while they were at the filling station. • Reynolds said the men were • drinking. Witnesses who arrived at the ; scene immediately after the 1 wreck stated that whiskey was found in the car and that Dug ' gins was intoxicated. but i that Duggins stated that j Lawson was driving at tho [ time of the wreck, he having changed seats with Lawson at a point on the road between the filling station and the point of the wreck. The remains of the deceased were interred at Volunteer church burying ground, near I Pinnacle, Tuesday at 11 o'clock. Joseph Ashby Died Last Nigiit Joseph Ashby, well known and agpd citizen, died at his home a few miles north of Danbury, last night. The de ceased was more than 80 years of age. He is survived by sev eral sons and daughters. Miss Mattie Sue Taylor is : visiting Mrs. H- B. Sheltc:. in Winstnn.S;ih.m