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THE DANBURY REPORTER. Volume 60. I EMORY PRATHER PEPPER I As it is appointed once unto all men to die, 1 1 Em Pepper, while like the writer of this sketch, ~f M have often thought that it would be appropriate a graduate of the University of Hard Knocks, Jt ft '° that dreamless and forgetting sleep great school of life, vet he was a man of fine § >" autumn of the year when the leaves are native d |)b ; l d • , H A U railing—when the beautiful sad leaves, their _ * i I-J • • i * life's work clones slowly flutter to the ground. , moreover, a man of splendid principle, and At that time all Nature appears to be turning, i e were no white feathers in his plumage. He A to rest. In the air and over the landscape there j was whole-souled, cordial, sympathetic, and ever : m is a quiet suggestion of repose for tired hearts, i true and loyal to his fi iends. He was devoted to when the suffering and disappointments of life his little family. -« may sink softly into that kind oblivion which | In the lattei . building and development of II Nature prov ides. . | Stokes county, he was an outstanding figure, and If i Today it becomes my duty to record in the: no n ever more hard work and time to Jp annals of this newspaper the untimely death of, „ , . , . . ~ m f one of its builders, who was a citizen of Stokes collecting data and giving it publicity for many jj : county, and who was my life-long brother, part- i years through the columns of the Danbury Re- r H ner and friend. Emory Prather Pepper passed porter, to the things which told for the uplift and 18 away late Monday evening, November 14, after: l>etterment of the people of the county. He was t only a few days' illness at a Raldigh hospital, always a good roads enthusiast, and was a lead during which he suffered much, passed away: tT i n that movement which a few vears ago plac -1 (If® the was Jyin« m the west, and twi- td thjs count in the £orefl . ont of the pl . osl . essive S light was settling over the city. His death was as n ,• • v a? : - , : peaceful as it was unexpected. It was a great °, f North Carolina in its efforts for roads shock to his friends and loved ones. We brought ' . schools. He was a great friend of the educa his home, and on Wednesday ejvening laid him, tional work of the county, and of its churches. It away beside his fathers in the little cemetery of; was largely through his efforts that a broader I Danbury, where so many friends of other days; concept of the moral and educational interests are sleeping now. of the county was created. There was no more For more than thirty-two years he had been progressive citizen, with me through the ups and downs of life, shar- A , _ , ' _ , , ing 50-50 with me in its joys or its disillusion- And «> ™w, when we come to say through our ments, its hopes, its aspirations, its practical tears, Good-bye, we do not know how to express realizations. If there was success, he helped m language the heart-breaking grief we feel. It make it, and helped share it. Maybe sometimes is so hard to give up our friends when the smile of things went wrong, and adversity began to shoot life seems so radiant, but it is just then that the ■ • its stinging arrows. Then he was a good consol- strands of the silver cord are snapped, and the er. He was a fine sport. While his spirits never golden bowl is broken forever. And when from rose so high as mine with anticipations, yet they out this bourne of time and place we see their never sank so low as mine when the visibility was little bark drift into the mists and the darkness low, and the shooting not good. He could see a of the eternal sea, it is then from our breaking castle of dreams crash with composure, which I hearts comes the elemental cry, May we some- could, and he was one of those who could time, somwhere, meet again. It is then that our always see the silver lining of the cloud. He had grief can be assuaged only by the simple faith H poise which I didn't have, infinitely more patience, learned at our mother's knee—the faith simple, I sterner stamina, and less optimism or dejection, but which has become the unsubdued philosophy He had a superb philosophy of taking things as of £he centuries—the faith that Life is Lord of they come, and always making the best of every- Death, and Love can never lose its own. M thing, good or bad. .... * w .... N. E. P. J. ENEY JAMES I .. SERIOUSLY iHURT FALU HtOM IX>AU OF HAY, j j NBC* ALMOST BBOKKNtt-WIM/ J RECOVER. J. En« Jamea, a prominent farm.! «r of W«lolt Cove, was almgpt, killed by a fall from a load of hay which hp wa« hauling Wednesday. It wan ..'at flr* report ad that Mr. James 1 sack waa broken, but later the at. tending physician cafe it out that tie if the leaden of the neclt had been either severed or aeriooaly dis arranged, and that the patient, while badly hurt, would reoover,' Rheumatism. •y PREB—TV> any one aendlng me a . gtamped envelope with their ad. '. omm an« the name of the paper In wMch they) aaw ttua ad, I will aend •a herb nccipt «tat oomptetly cured «»'>' » «Hd «a« of rheumatism— Jtyutely ?RBE.— R.L. McMINN. / ii iJeiXral Ave.,'AatoevMle. N. C. [\ womaA wiUwjut ehua. IJM te tell how to run one. ' •Xlk Established 1872. I Card From B. P. Bailey.' |To the Voters of Stoken County: I take this -method and oppor tunity of thanking the ptople of | Stokee county for their loyal bup. j port of my candidacy for the office of Register of De«is in the recent election. My aim la to execute the dutle# of that office to the beet of my ablL ity. feeling: that failure to do eo would be a betrayal of the truet re. I poaed In me by 'the people, and a token of ingratitude, unjustifiable :n j view of the principle that public office la a place of trust, and bestow, el by the only eovereign power, the people. , B. P. BAILEY. Mrs. D. M. Pyrtle, of Wlneton- AaJem, la visiting Mrs. A, O. fliak. The weather man promieea some pleeaanter daya this weak. County Oamo Warden Oilbert 'Alley, was here Monday. Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, Nov. 16,1932. CHESLEY TAYLOR MIND DERANGED WAS ROBBED IN WINSTON OF We#—NOW CONFINED IN DAN. IHRY JAIL. Chealey Taylor, a farmer whe lived a few miles north of Ogiburf in Peter's Creek township, has been confined in jail thia week suffering from - mental derangement. wtth violent proclivities. Mr. Taylor ' was on the WlrastovuSalem market a : few daya alnce where. +t is reported, he w«s robbed of 9200, the proceed# of a load of tobgoco. Mrs. Rev. 8. S. Oliver, of Vinson, Roanoke. Va.. returned home Friday after vLstting relatives here for eev. enal daya. The condtion of Kelly 81mk. a prominent citizen of Lgwaorurille. remains aeriotu. He ia auffering with a heart' affect on, folliwng a stroke of paralysis. Mr. ttek'e age. 1e *bct|t 70. SEA GULL KILLED > NEAR KING TOWN ' ItOKCOE THOMAS AMD MM ALK'K BOIiEK OCT MARRIED—OTHKK ITEMS. , » Kins. Nov. I«.—Eddie Window . and Mrs. Annie I. Smith, of Boston, M***.. are spending a few days with relative and frienVs here and ' at High Point. Hut ledge. who reside* In Bast ahot and killed a sea tru' l J last week. So far u known thU» . was the first "ea gull ever seen In thin section. R. N. Hauaer. banker and btmi. new man of WliMtonj&alem. w«i here on buslnese Saturday. Borne very nice porker* are beln? killed In- and around Kins. If las Floaate B. Caudle, of Bon Air, Winrton.Sal*m, rpent the week end here the truest of relatives. • Austin, E. Oarner, who 1* teaching at Sandy Ridxe. spent the week end with his mother. Mm. M. E. Oarner. i wtio re»id*w her«. The following births were raffia, tered 'here last week;' To Mr. and i Mrs. Luther White, a son. and to t Mr. and Mr*. Ralph Bennett, a eon. ( Mr. and Mrs. Claud Stone, of Trinity, spent Sunday with relatives I Dr. I. A. Booe made a buklne** trip to Rural Hall Monday. R««v. John Spain hotter tilled his regular appointment at the Baptist Mission on Main Street Sunday night. Joel V- Southern sold a barn of tobacco on the WlivstojuSglem mar. ket Monday for tm.oo. Roscoe Thomas and Ml MM Alice Bola motored to Oala>, Va„ Sunday where they were united In marriage. After a short honeymoon they will be at home In West Kins. I W. C. Johnson, of Mount Airy, I was here Monday attending to busl. ne*> matters. Howand Joyce, 11. ha« been jailed j hare on the charge of holding up( and robbing the station agent at | Pine Hall of $2.00, recently. His bond was fixed at $1,500. whi«h ho watt unable tl arrange. Joyce Is believed to be on« of u gang who recently robbed Prof. (Sides at Pine Hall. Clothing and other property belonging to 811es •has been found at Joyce's head, 'quarters. The accused will have tl etanl trial at Spring Court. ! Number 3,750 REVIVAL BEGINS DECEMBER FIFTH SKRIK.S OP MKKTINCH AT MM. BI'RY PRKSBWHUIN CHIMH BY PASTOR. Beginning Monday night. Dee. 1932, at 7:SO P. M. PuMor O. W. Marshall will befrtn a wival in th» I Danbury Presbyterian ohjjrvh. Tt»a meeting will continue through tfefe week, with a momlnc *ired eveaJne | y«rvic« on Sunday.. De*. 11, wbM th«* meeting will rlcwe. The public In cordially inrited 1 attend oerviooH. Rex Oc»i MtlmateH tJiat M thlrxJ* of the tobacco crop to nM. Thursday is Thanksgiving. Dr. W. 11. Bynum. of GermnMam* wan In town Monday. Some anr+»nt seal* portray nine headed bulls and bull-headed ■«». We atlll have the latter with u» real life. i
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