DANBURY REPORTER
Volume 58.
STOKES FARMERS
\ URGED TO ATTEND
Convention For Farmers and
Farm Women At State Col
lege In Raleigh July 28 to
Aug. I—An Elaborate Pro
gram-
f
It is hoped thiit a large dele
gation of farm men and women
of Stokes county will attend
the State Farmer's and Farm
Convention at Raleigh
July 28th to August 1. The
most comprehensive program
in the history of the convention
has been arranged for next
week. The actual program be
gins at 8:00 A. M., Tuesday
I
July 20. however for the bene
fit of' these who go early there
will b* free movies on the carn
, pus :».t State College at 8:00 P.
* M-. July 28th. The dormitories
at Sttite College will be opened
t i tl • visitors free of charge.
:i:'! t'l.- t "si -f mea's will not
exco "»i( cent' • a"!i Those
planning to stay in the college
dormi; iries should carry I 1
linen and all necessary toilet
article-, including towels.
County Agent J. E Trcxa'h
an plan- to attend 11; * conven
tion and will leave Walnut
Cove about 2:00 I'. M. Monday.
July 23, and will return Thurs
day afternoon, July 31. Those
wish to go along with the
cminty agent should communi
cate with J. E. Trevathan, Wal-!
nut Cove, X. C-, as soon as pos
sible.
Some Important Features of j
Program.
Agricultural Engineering :
Important problems under this'
heading will be discussed each i
morning of the convention 1
from 8:00 to 9:25 A. M.
Agronomy: An extensive
program has been arranged
covering the study of tobacco/
hay, pasture, and grain crops
on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday both morning and af-i
ternoon-
Swine, Sheep and Beef Cattle: l
With Swine receiving major
emphasis these topics will be
discussed each morning, be
ginning at eigh o'clock.
Dairy: Feeding problems
tue.ulay, record keeping Wed
nesday and raising the dairy
alf Thursday will be the
chief topics of discussion
beginning at 8:00 A. M. each
day. |
Agricultural Economics: Such
problems as marketing, taxa
tion, and cost records for
iarniers will be discussed each
morning.
Entomology and Bee Keep
ing: These discussions will
cover general crop and house-!
hold insects on Tuesday, cotton
insects on Wednesday, Mexican!
bean beetle and other truck l
and fruit insects on Thursday,
tobacco insects on Friday morn
ing 8:00 A. M.
Bees: Fall management and
marketing the money crop will
, (Continued on page 2.)
Established 1872.
WALNUT COVE MAN
| SEVERELY BURNED
11 Came In Contact With Live
i Wjre While Repairing Tele
11 phone Line—Boys In Camp.
I
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Walnut Cove, July 23.—A
lineman of the Lee Teiephon .*
j Co. in making some repairs on
i
tthe telephone line in Walnut
Cove came in contact with a live
; wire and had a narrow escape
S from electrocution. He was
, 1 burned severely but recovered
1 in a short time.
A party of fourteen boys
' j
: from the Episcopal Sunday
' I
, j School are snending the week
i
at Saura Lodge. Rev. 1). W.
Allen and Carl Ray are Council
ors and a regular camp routine
is carried out each day.
Mrs. Anne Carter and little
daughter. Anne Holiingsworth,
Jean Fulton, small daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. 11. Fulton,
and .Miss Alice Fulton are
spending av. i'.ile at Wrightsvillo
Ikach.
I Mrs. Frank Petree is recup
erating nicely front her recent
i operation at a Winston-Salem
hospital.
Misses Johnsie Graham and
Xonie Dell Lovin have returned
to their homes at Red Springs
after a visit with Mrs. Leake
Loving. They were accompan
ied by Miss Frances Fulton who
will be their guest several days.
Miss Thelma Rothrock is
visiting Miss Margaret Davis
I at Martinsville, Va.
Joe Helsabeck, little son of
Dr. and Mrs. C. J. Helsabeck,
has returned from a two week's
i
stay at Camp Hanes.
i Dr. J. W. Neal and Mr. an:i
i Mrs. Walter Sanders were here
l
from Monroe this week visiting
. the family of Dr J. W. Neal.
j Misses Essie and Annie Lee
Allen, of Winston-Salem, visit-'
ed Mrs. H. H. Davis a few days
1
. the past week.
;
Dr. and Mrs. H. E. Black
| burn announce the arrival of a
i daughter last Friday. She has
been named Betty Jane,
i Miss Eula Tuttle has return- j
ed home from a session of sum
mer school at N. C. C. W.
Miss Ruth Hairston, of Coo- j
lamee, and Miss Essie Mears;
are spending some time at;
Sauratown Manor, Miss Hairs-1
ton's home on Dan River.
i
j Mrs. Maude Mocre and young •
son, Robert Fulton Hegue, of.
Greensboro, are visiting Mrs.
D. W. Allen. Robert joined the
party of boys at the Episcopal
! church camp at Saura Lodge.
Mr. and Mrs. George Fulton.
i
Miss Helen Fulton and Gilmer I
; Sparger are leaving Thursday j
by automobile for a few days
stay at Atlantic City and New
• York.
Mrs. George Sparger and
daughters, Misses Elizabeth
and Caroline Sparger, of Balti
more, Md., were here today en
route to Mt. Airy to visit rela
tives.
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Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, July 23, 1930
| CHURCH NEWS
> IN STORES'
1 Revival By Mrs. Steidly Was
Success—Services Begin At
Davis Chapel July 27—(Juar
' terly Conference August 2
J Revival Begins At Danbury
Aug. 10.—New Bell For Yade
i I
: ; Mecum Church.
' i The revival under Mrs. Steid- j
'jly at Bethesda
" J j church was a success, with ;
' i over twenty professions and
! reclamations. Fourteen of
5 j these joined Bethesda Me
jthesda Methodist church and
''two joined Shady Grove Bap- (
• I tist church. We believe that
" | the church's spiritual life has
been strengthened.
The revival of Davis Chapel
" Methodist church, with pmu ii
' ing by Rev. \\. E. I'ooviy,
Presiding Elder of the Mount
' Airy District, will comme.ice
Sui.day night at o'clock. July
27 Rev. Mr. Poove.v is a
preacher ■!' enormous spiritual
jmwtT i.ii:! speaking ability,
' po]iu!ar in both country and
1 city appointments, having serv
led a long time in country ap-
I pointincuts as well as in large
I citv churches. He was at one
1 time a teacher in Davenport
' College. On Friday and Satur
day nights of this week, the
1 pastor. Ellsworth Hartslieid,
• | will preach.
i The Fourth Quarterly Con-
I
i ference of Danbury Methodist
j Circuit will meet at Davis
■ Chapel, 11 a. m. and 2 p m.
! Saturday, August 2, with Rev.
; W. E. Poovey in the chair,
j Election of officers for next
■ Conference year.
, I
: The Danbury Methodist re-;
vival begins Sunday night,'
i Aug. 10, at 8 o'clock. The:
pastor will preach every night J
! the first week. On Sunday,
1 August 17, the Billy Sunday
; Club of Winston-Salem, will
| start the second week's series
of services, and will conduct j
the services for a week.
A bell has been placed on
Vade Mecum Methodist church. |
It is the gift of Mr. and Mrs.
C'. L. Talley of Vade Mecum. |
' R. F. King Pardoned j
R. F. King, who was sentenc- .
1 ed at May term, 1920, of Stokes '
: Superior Court, to serve four 1
I
i years in the State prison, has 1
. been pardoned by the Governor,,
and will return to his home in j
i
Stokes county this week. Kingj
had served about 14 months of j 1
his sentence. 1
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| Florida Doubles
In Population!
Florida more than doubled 1
I
her population in the last de-|i
cade, the increase being 51.6 1
per cent according to the cen- 1
sus figures released the past
week. The population today is j j
1,468,635 according to complete , 5
returns from the 67 counties. |i
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(THE SWEET
POTATO CROP
Lawrence Macßae Gives Some
Interesting Figures On This
Important Yegetable.
i During the year 1929 the
United States produced 8-1.661,-
1000 bushels of sweet potatoes,
j averaging 103 bushels per acre
and received an average of 94.5
1 cents per bushel.
I
Ot the above production
North Carolina in 1929 produc
ed close to one-ninth or 11.5
per cent of all the sweets pro
duced in this country and re
ceived an average of 90 cents
per bushel with an average pro
duction of one hundred and
seventeen bushels per acre,
topping the l\ S. average bv
14 bushels per acre, or by the
sum of $12.6u per acre. Not a
bad record.
During the .•anie year St"k"
county also raised some sweet
potatoes. Out of her 731 acres,
our planters took 7",907 bush
els. and realized an average
price of 95 cents a bushel.
Our yield per acre could be im-
I
proved upon, being only 97
bushels, while Chowan county
lead by producing 134 bushels
per acre, and Wilkes county
trailed the hundred counties
with 81 bushels per acre and
the whole State averaged 118
bushels per acre, with an aver
age price of 88 cents per bush
el, or an average return of
$lO4 00 per acre.
Stokes county sweet potato
growers in 1929 produced un
der government estimate a
crop which was equivalent to
$67,362.00 with no provisions
; for curing and storing this
j great edible crop, except the
| crude methods practiced by
I past generations, and on ac
' count of the inefficiency of
these methods a tremendous
loss was sustained amounting
to probably half of the entire
1 crop, or over thirty thousand
j dollars, or about a dollar and
' fifty cents per resident of
! Stokes county, lost to the
I
growers of the county.
I am inviting your attention
to these figures and facts at
this season to stir your interest
in preparing and fortifying
yourselves against continued
loss in one of our county's im
portant crops, which protects
the owner against hunger and
want, also his family and his
live stock and fowls. All forms
of animal life can live and
thrive tl of this nutritions and
palatable vegetable raw or
cooked.
LAWRENCE MacRAE,
The Confederate veterans of;
North Carolina will hold their
annual reunion in Winston-Sa
lem September 23-25. General j
W A. Smith, of Ansonville, is |
commander-in-chief of the or-|
ganization in the State. The
state reunion was held in that'
city five or six years ago.
NEWSY LETTER
FROM K1N(;
It. C. White Will Build Ball
■ Park—Young .Man Loses An
Arm—Curing Tobacco A
Death At Tobaccoviiie—Many
Births Recorded.
King, July 23. R. C. Whit
is preparing to build a ball pan; ;
i here. The grounds will be!
fenced and will contain about
i three acres in the inclosure.
Mrs. R. E. Savage and chil
dren have returned to their
home in Richmond, Va.. after
| spending a few days with Mr.
'and Mrs. E. P. Edwards here.'
| Mr. John H. Sprinkle and
family, of Winston-Salem, spent
Sunday here the guests of Mr.'
.land Mrs. H. 11. Leake-
The King Tigers defeated
, Pilot Mountain in a game play
ed on the Pilot diamond Wed
nesday. The final score stood
■ sixteen and eight. ,
• The following birhs were!
| registered here last week: To'
.Mr. and Mrs. Kermon Tuttle
a -'in: to Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Hall a son; t'i Mr. and Mrs. G.
Ross Meadows a daughter: t'
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Burrow
a son: to Mr. and Mrs. Rona
Dorsett i> >o*i; t-. Mr- and Mrs.
Edwin Mitchell a son: to Mr.
and Mrs. Rov \ enable a daugh
ter; to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Booth
I a son-
Charlie N. B les. who was
reared here and who reside-: in
Monroe. Va., had the misfor
tune to get an arm cut
oft just below the elbow by a
train last Thursday morning.
Mr. Boles who had been with
the Southern Railway for a
number ot years, held a posi
tion as car inspector at Mon
roe- He is a son of G. C. Boles
of this place.
Nat Roberts, a planter resid
ing in the Chestnut Grove sec
tion, paid a fine of SIO.OO and
costs in Justice J. Stedman
| Garner's court here Thursday
1 on a charge of being drunk and
I disorderly on the streets heiv.
I E. L- Jessup and Edwin
White, who reside near here
have the distinction of having
cured the first primings in this
section. Mr. Jessup brought
samples of his weed to town
and seems to have made a fair- i
ly good cure.
S. S- Boles, of Danville, Va.,'
spent the week-end here the
guest of his father.
Mrs. William Long, aged 62,
died at their home near Tobac- !
coville Saturday night follow-'
ing a short illness. The de I
, : deceased is survived by the i
, husband and several children. \
Funeral arrangements have j
■ not been completed at this;
i writing.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Helsa-j
i beck, of Richmond, Va.. are
spending a few da;, s with Mr.
1 Helsabeck's brother, Dr.. R. S.
Helsabeck.
One of the best games of the
j season was played here Satur
day when the King Tigers went
| up against the Oak Ridge crack
! nine. It was a very thrilling
! game and resulte l in a score
lof two and one in favor of the
Tigers.
j The state highway force
completed the work Saturday
of putting down another coat,
ot stone and oil on the highway
between here and Pilot Moiui- ;
; tain. The force i moving to 1
I Germanh n where they will
treat the road between Shrop-
I shire's store and Gornianton
• Mr. and Mrs. L. ). Pulliam,
II I Gastonia. spent Sunday with
I relatives here.
• Newel Vest, of Charlotte, is
.spending a few days here the
j guest of relatives.
A Chrysler roadster with i
; four men from Bannertown j
] near Mount Airy as occupants,
■ turned turtle on the Lakes to !
I Florida highway three miles
I west of here Sunday afternoon.
I One man was named Simmons.
' names of the others were not,
I (Continued on page 2.)
No. 3,634
NO INCREASE
IN COUNTY TAXES
i County Commissioners In Sess
ion Here Monday Fixed Rate
Same As Last Year, sl.6(>
On SI 00 Valuation of Prop
erty.
At a special meeting of the
! board of countv commissioner;
i
| held here today for the purpose
of fixing the tax rate for the
j current year, the board was
i able to hold the rate to the
j same figures as last year's
rate, this being $1.66 on the
SIOO valuation of property.
Misses Slate Visit
Relatives In Stokes
Misses Lenora. Frances and
i Verna Slatr. of Washington, D.
weiv pleasant visitors at the
Uep rt r oflice Tuesday after
noon. They are daughters of
F. A. Slate, a native St ikos
( ili/ 'h. who i- r.n'.v engaged in
the newspaper business in sev
eral towns of the State.
Misses Slate, though very
young, are experienced news
paper ladies. Just previous to
the big labor strike at Marion
they owned and operated the
newspaper there, selling out and
going to Washington just be
fore the labor trouble started.
Previously they were associat
ed with their father in news
paper work in several towns of
North Carolina. The ladies are
practical printers, two of them
being expert linotype operators
while the other is versed in all
the arts of the printingtrade.
At present the ladies are pub
lishing a number of college
newspapers for schools in and
; near Washington city.
Misses Slate were visitors
of their uncle and aunt. Mr.
J and Mrs. F. M. Smith, at
, Meadows, this week, and ex
-1 pect to return to Washington
! within a few days.
Fewer Autos in State
Than Last Year
__
There are 12,154 fewer auto
mobiles in North Carolina now
than there were to *date last
year, according to records at
the State Department of reve
nue which show 429.115 license
plates for motor vehicles sold
this year by the State. On the
same date last year the State
had licensed 441.2(59 motors.
The decrease in registration
is attributed to the decrease in
new cars sold in the State. The
registration, however, shows a
smaller decrease. indicating
that cars which would have
customarily been abandoned
are being continued in use with
new license plates this vear.
'
| James Venable, of the army
' medical center, Washington, D.
C., arrived this week to visit
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Venable, of Danbury on a fif
teen day furlough.