THE DANBURY REPORTER.
Established 1872. Volume 66
Near Tragedy At
Walnut Cove
H. H. WILLIAMSON FIRES TWICE AT CAR
WHEEL JAMES, ONE BULLET GRAZING
JAMES' HEAD JAMES DREW WEA
PON ON WILLIAMSON, AFTER ORDER
ING HIM OUT OF VIRGE HAM'S BARBER
SHOP BOTH PARTIES ARRESTED,
ARRANGE BOND HEARING WAIVED
BY WILLIAMSON
Harry H. Williamson, prom
inent Pine Haii citizen, ex
county commissioner, drew a re
volver and fired twice at Car
wheel James, the first bullet
grazing James' scalp, the second
going wild.
The affair occurred at 3 P. M.
today (Thursday) in Virge Ham's j
barber shop at Walnut Cove.'
James is a barber employed 1...
the shop. Williamson had ente: '
ed the shop and was sitting,
down awaiting his turn for a :
haircut, when he was accosted by
James.
The particulars as related to
the Reporter are that James or
dered Williamson out of the
shop, and that Williamson in
quired if be (James) owned the
shop. James seized ® bqttle- of
bay rum or some other hair
tonic and advanced upon
Williamson, with weapon drawn,
when Williamson, who was in
the act of going out, drew a
pistol and fired twice.
Seven or eight persons were in
the barber shop, these escaping
hastily into an ante-room ad
joining the barber shop when;
the gunplay started.
Mack Wall, a deputy Sheriff
of Beaver Island township, was
present. He took Williamson be- i
fore magistrate Elkin Smith, who
arranged bond for $500.00. Wil-1
liamson waived hearing.
James was then arrested,
charged with assault.
The Reporter learned that
there has been bad feeling be
tween the two men for some
time, growing out of a public
school situation at Dillard or
Pine Hall. It appears that Mrs.
James had applied for a teaching
position in the Pine Hall school,
of which Williamson is one of
the trustees or committee. Mrs.
James' application was for some
reason turned down. This inci
dent, it is alleged, started the ill
feeling which culminated in the
affair as above stated.
Mr. Williamson was chairman
of the bord of county com
missioners in Stokes for several
years.
Charged With
Seduction, Ed
Moran Skips
Ed Moran, of Weatfield, is'
missing from his home. Warrants
bav« been issued for him charged
with seduction of a young girl.
Scott Gets A Bill
Editor Reporter:
I understand Represer.'-Mv?
Scott has received a bill entitled • |
"An Act Requiring Barbe"
Shops to Provide More Exits
and to Promote Easier an '
Safer Ingress and Egress, Es
pecially Egress".
I think this bill should pass.
CONSTANT READER.
Walnut Cove, Jan. 29.
Mrs. R. L. Hall
In Mount Airy
Hospital
R. L. Hall, of Lawsonville, was
here Tuesday. Mr. Hall informs
the Reporter that his wife has
been in the Mount Airy hoppitai
for two weeks, where she sustain
ed a serious operation, and that
she must submit to a second
operation probably this week.
Mrs. Evelyn McNairy, Stokes
superintendent of welfare; Mrs
N. E. Pepper, her assistant, and
Miss Evelyn Page, who is the
i chief of child welfare work in the
| county, attended a State confer
ence- of social workers at Raleigh
this week.
Dallas Kirby
At Mocksville
Mocksville, Jan. 28. Dallas
|C. Kirby, local attorney, was
| bound over to Superior Court
j for operating an automobile
while intoxicated and he and
Dr. P. H. Mason, local dentist
were each fined SSO for an as
sault on Police Chief B. I.
Smith after a hearing Monday
before Magistrate F. R. Leagans.
The defendants appealed to
Superior court in the latter case.
The charges were based on an
alleged occurrence last armistice
day when Chief Smith attempted
to arrest Dr. Mason for drunken
ness and was resisted by him
I and Kirby, according to the
complaints. Chief Smith was in
jured in the affray.
Born
To Mr. and Mrs. Frank Law
son, a baby girl. The mother anil
■ child are doing fine.
i
i ( Mr and Mrs. Fred Gurner, of
spent the week
end here with friend*.
Danbury, N. C n Thursday, Jan. 28, 1937
TERRIBLE AFFAIR
NEAR STONEVILLE
ED MIZE KILLS FOUR PEOPLE
INCLUDING HIS SWEET
HEART MISS FRANCES
GROGAN, HER PARENTS,
MR. AND MRS. BUD GRO-1
GAN, AND HIMSELF—TRIED
TO KILL YOUNG THOMAS
GROGAN.
Ed Mize, 50, shot and killed
his sweetheart, Miss Francos I
j Grogan, 27, and her parents, Mr.
| .ind Mrs. Bud Grogan at the
Grogan home, four miles north
of Stoneville, Tuesday afternoon
and then shot himself at his 1
!iome on the Mayo river, near
j Martinsville, Va., within the
next two hours.
Mize left the bodies of his
ictims Ivjn" in the one-room but
after a futile attempt to slay|
Thomas Grogan, 16, brother of
the youn» woman with whom he
quarrelled before ihe mass slay
ing.
Dr. C. R. Wharton, of Ruffin,
Rockingham county coroner, said
Mize killed the three members of
the Grogan family and that an
inquest was unnecessary.
Later, Sheriff Davis, of Henry
county, Virginia, said that Mize
had shot himself, and the Henry
county coroner signed a certifi
cate stating that death resulted
from Mize's own hand.
Thomas Grogan was quoted by
his uncle, Samuel Martin, as say
ing that Mize came to the Gro
gan home shortly after 1 p. m.
i
and asked for Frances.
"I want my money," Mize was
quoted as saying.
"I haven't got your money,"
the girl replied while nursing her
three-year-old daughter, on her
lap. "I've only got $4 and you
can have that if you want it."
"I don't want that, I want my
money," Mize replied. "I'm
j going to have my money or I'm
going to have blood."
> Thomas Grogan was quoted is
• saying that Mize then drew his
t pistol and began shooting. He
i fired a bullet into Frances' head
1 while the child was sitting on
t her lap. The child tumbled to the
■ floor, striking her head on the
. floor and began crying.
r Mize then shot Mrs. Virginia
. Grogan in the back of the head.
> She fell dead in front of the
. door.
l Meanwhile, Mize had left the
I Grogan home in a truck with a
1 boy known only to investigating
• officers as "Jack." He had re
l mained in the truck while Mize
e had gone to the Grogan home.
Chief of Police G. E. Franklin,
of Stoneville, who made the in
vestigation, said Mize and Miss
Grogan had been keeping com
pany for sometime and recently
- made a trip to Florida together.
! During the trip, Mize is al
leged to have given Miss Grogan
some money, some reports said
f it was S4OO. He left Florida and
- returned home.
Young Grogan then fled from
A Good Insurance ]
Company and a Live
Agent

W. M. Fulp, of Walnut
Cove, was here Wednesday in the,
interest of his insurance com-!
pany, the Security Life & Trust j
of Winston-Salem^
Mr. Fulp is just back from the (
annual meeting of the stock- j,
holders and directors of ;.he ;
• i 1
company, at which a very fine ,
j report was made by the officers ,
of last year's business. Each de
partment showed substantial
'trains and fine progress. Business
i ;i
was increased 16.5 over the pre- [
vious year.
Mr. Fulp is the agent of the
Security Life & Trust Company j
| in this territory and enjoys a,
splendid patronage of Stokes
! people.
I
22 Counties Report
Schools Are Closed
Raleigh, Jan. 26. State j
school authorities said today that
22 counties had closed rural'
schools because of rains.
Roads were left muddy and in
some counties bridges were be
lieved dangerous because of the
long rains.
Schools in Rutherford and Ca
tawba counties closed Wednesday.
S. W. Pulliam
Wills Estate
To His Wife
S. W. Pulliam, leading business
man of King who died recently,
leaves the bulk of his estate to
1 i his wife. The will of Pulliam,
■now a matter of public record,
'
'was probated here this week.
I After making provision for
! the maintenance of the King
Moravian church cemetery, and
of the M. E. church cemetery,
i
near King, Mr. Pulliam devised i
i I
his estate to the sole use of his
i
wife.
The estate is worth around I
! $40,000.
s
p the hou&e and said he did not
I know what became of his father,
i Rescues Little Girl
5 After three shots had been
s fired, young Grogaa returned to
the house and got the three
i year-old child to take her to
. safety. Young Grogan said that
s while he was running Mize fired
three shots at him from the
s door of the Grogan home, but he
i was not hit.
I Young Grogan found his
- father's body lying on a bed be
e hind a door when he returned
to the home after leaving the
i, child at the home of his uncle,
- Sam Martin, about 100 yards
3 from the Grogan home.
Mize committed suicide within
y an hour after the three members
•. of the Grogan family were slain.
A single funeral service will
i be held for the Grogan family at
1 the home of Sam Martin today
1 at 2 o'clock. They will be buried
in separate graves in the family
a cemetery near the home.
1* .
DAVID A. WHITE (
HANGS HIMSELF
GERMANTON FARMER COM- I
MITS SUICIDE IN STABLE
AT HIS HOME XO CAUSE
ASSIGNED FOR ACT.
I
David A. White, Gcrmanto.n
farmer and life-long resident of
Stokes county, was found hanged
in a stable on his farm lat '
Monday afternoon, his body I
suspended by a rope from a :
rafter.
Mr. White, about SO. had ap- '
parently been in good health, '
and no reason could bo lound '
for his act. He left his home 1
about 4 o,clock, and after bein, '
igone for some time a search was
j started which resulted in the dis
covery of the body.
Mr. White is survived by hi.
■ wife, one son, Evan White, of
Germanton and one sister, Mrs. 
W. R. Petree of Stokes county.
I Funeral services were conducted
at Corinth Christian church Wed
nesday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
' burial followed in the church 1
I I
i cemetery.
Death and Burial
Of Nathan H. Scott
Rites were held in the
church here Monday for Nathan
H. Scott, aged 44, who died at
his home a mile south of Dan
bury Saturday night after a lin-;
i
gering illness of paralysis. Ser
vices were conducted by Rev. J.
W. Manuel, of Walnut Cove and
by Pastor Davenport of the Bap
tist church here. Interment fol
lowed in the Danbury cemetery
' !
The deceased is survived by
his wife, Mrs. Mallie Scott, and
seven children, J. W. Scott, of
Yanceyville, and Louise, Topsie,
' Juanita, Odell, Herbert and Ho-;
i 1
' bert Scott, all of Walnut Cove,
j Route 1.
Stokes at Wake Forest
Two Stokes county men are
among the 1,000 students en
-1 rolled at Wake Forest college
1 this session, a check-up this
' week revealed.
, i
| Both of thiese men are from
I
Pinnacle. They are:
! J. H. Bowen, son of Mrs. J.
W. Bowen.
C. T. Hicks, son of Mr. and
Mrs. R. H. Hicks.
t Bowen is a member of the
. junior class while Hicks is a
I senior in the academic school.
Alex Southern
« Makes Good Sale
, Alex E. Southern made the fol
lowing sale of tobacco at Taylor'-
, S Warehouse, Winston-Salem, last
I week:
I
100 pounds at 45.
' 44 at 66
I 200 at 5L
r 106 at 56.
116 at 45.
Number 3,381
ON WITH
THE DANCE
PRESIDENT'S BALL AT DAN
RIVER PARK VEXT SATUR
DAY NIGHT ROOSEVELT'S
SPEECH TO BE RADIOED
BY E. M. TAYLOR THE
PROGRAM.
(Report I'd.)
Tlu- Provident's Ball will bo
h'ld a! Dan River park on
Saturday night. Jan. 30. 8 P. M.
The building will be comfortably
hcatc!. with g'«i lights and a n
excellent floor. Thi hall will be
decorated for The occasion with
Georpc Washington's picture,
Roosevelt's picture and tha
American flag.
' bis birthday cake— thrca
'it* ited with Roosevelt's
"* eagle and American
flag, uri'es, etc. will be on the
cake. Inside the cake will be
birthday fortunes. Each slice
will be sold for 25 cents. Mrs. N.
F!. P:rror, of Danbury, will be
in charge of the cake selling.
Mrs. Cable Mallonee will be in
! charge of a good orchestra.
The biggest crowd that has
I ever assembled in Stokes county
i 9 expected at this dance to have
[ a pleasant evening.
Through the courtsey of E.
M. Taylor, Radio Dealer of Wal
nut Cove, Roosevelt's speech
will be broadcasted.
A floor show will be present-
I
ed at intermission.
Five minute talks will be
given by Mr. J. L. Christian..
Dr. ar.:J Mrs. J. L. Hanes, Law
rence Macßae, Gilmer Sparger,
Grace Taylor Stuart, and Ralph
Scott.
Everyone is asked to register.
Later the r gister will be sent
to Warm Springs.
Chaperonos will bo: Dr. and
Mrs. J .L. Manes. Mr. and Mrs.
Tom Preston, Mr. and Mis. Cal
vin Wright, Mr. and Mrs. James
Charles Thompson, of Pinnacle,
Sheriff and Mrs. J. J. Taylor.
Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Sisk, Dr. and
Mrs. R. H. Morefield, Mr. and
' j
, Mrs. Jacob Fulton, Editor and
, Mrs. N. E. Pepper, Mr. and Mrs.
jT. J. Byerly, Mr. and Mrs. Car
los Davis.
j Mrs. R. W. Sands and her
j helper will collect the money and
tickets at the door.
Buy your tickets from Lois
I I
Martin, Mrs. Mary Gentry,
i Claudia Keal, Mrs. Jake Zimmer
i man, Mrs. Gilmer Sparger and
1 Frances Pet tie.
j Everybody is invited to come
| and help make Roosevelt's
, birthday ball a big success.
Mrs. J. Frank Mar.in has rone
" to Pi.tsbur-. P'!„ •:> visit
mother w'-o i 3 ill. ?.'••«. Martin is
! i n~.? ? ve o." Plttr'njrr.
|
W. W. Rhodes, of Danbury
Route 1, was in town today.
Reed Venable, of Route 1, was
in town Monday.