THE DANBURY REPORTER.
Volume 66
STATE MEN ARE
WORKING AT KING
IMPROVING THE STREETS OF
THE TOWN—STORK IS BUSY
AT KINO—PRESTON CHILD
DIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
King, Oct. 6.—A force of state
men were here the latter part of
last week putting down a priming
coat of oil on Depot street. They
will let this set for about eight
days to try out, then a coat of
stone and another coat of oil will
be put down. This improvement
will include Depot street from
the Lakes-to-Florida highway
through town reaching through
Walnut Hills one mile on the Be
thania road-
Howard Newsum had the mis
fortune to lose a fine barn of to
bacco by fire last week.
J. Lee Hartman of Miami, Fin.,
is spending some time with rela
tives here.
Theodore Newsum has returned
from Greenville, S. C., where he
attended the reunion of the 30th
division World War veterans.
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Boyles of
Seymour, Indipna, tare spending
aome time with relatives here
and at Winston-Salem.
Rev. J. N. Newsum of Roanoke,
Va., vitfted relatives be re !Hast
week.
A motorcade of about forty
Ws filled with Walnut Cove busi
ness men and citizens paid King
A vMt Thursday. They were a
jolly bunch accompanied by a
brass banj which made music on
the town
speeches were made by the boos
ters. Dr. E. M. Griffin made a
very appropriate talk welcoming
the visitors to King and turning
over the town key to them.
Dr. R. S. Helsabeck ha 3 return
ed Irom Richmond, Va., where he
spent a few days the guest of
relatives.
George Vest of West End,
Moore county, was among the
visitors here Saturday. Mr. Vest
is a former resident of this sec
tion.
Fred Boyles of Ronceverte, W.
Va., ig visiting h« parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Boyles, near Ca
pella.
Leon Stewart, young planter
of the Antioch section, was here
Saturday on business.
The F(delis class of the First
Baptist Sunday School entertain-
Ed the King high school teacher*
•t an oyster supper Friday even-',
ing at the home of Mr. and Mrs. ,
C. T. McGee on East Broad St.',
About forty people were present ,
for the occasion.
The stork is still on the job
>nd got tn another busy week,
the following births being record
ed: To Mr. and Mrs. Coy Ash
burn, a son; to Mr- and Mrs.
Bayne Waddell, a daughter; to
Mr. and Mrs. Nick. Haymore, a
•on; to Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Joyner, a daughter; to Mr. and
Mrs. Carl lawrnn, a son; to Mr.
and Mrs. Kenneth Smith, a
daughter; to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Barncastle, a daughter, and to
Mr. and Mrs. William Kfeer, a
daughter.
established 1872. Danbury, N. C., Thursday, October 7,1937.
Odell Reid Dies
At Sandy Ridge
Funejil services for Odell
Reid, 24, who died following an
automobile accident Sunday, were
conducted Wednesday afternoon
at 1 o'clock at Oak Grove Baptist
church. Rev. J. A. Joyce officiat
ed. Burial was in the church
cemetery.
Reid is survived by his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. R. Reid;
three sisters, Mrs. Audwilhi
Joyce, Mrs- Margaret B>own, and
Miss Evelyn Reid, and two broth
en,', Jennings and Nick Reid, all
of Sandy Ridge.
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Meeting- of Fine
Arts Club Friday
Evening, Oct I
The members of the Fine Arts
Club were delightfully entertain-
Ed on Friday evening, October I,
at the home of Mrs. J. J. Taylor,
with Mesdames J. J. Taylor and
A. G. Sisk, joint hostesses.
The meeting was called to ord
er by the president, Mrs. J. J-
Taylor, and after a brief business
session the following interesting
program of book reports was en
joyed. The first, "King Edward
the Vlll"—Hector Bolitha. wks
read by Mrs. N. E. Wall, after
which Mrs. Grace Taylor gave
an interesting summary of "How
to Win Friends and Influence
People,"—Dale Oarnegle^
There were seventeen present,
including Mrs. J. F. Brown, a we!
come new member, and Mr?. Nel-
lie McGirt, sister of Mrs. G. A.
Alford, a welcome _
During hour Mr 3. J.
P. Brown and Mrs. R. R. King
were lucky prize winners in two
novel contests.
The hostesses, assisted by
daughters, Angela and Nellie
Louise Tay'or, and Katherine
Sisk then served a delicious salad
course.
Mrs. Neman White is quit?
at he r home her friends will re
gret to learn.
The remains of Joseph, the 7-
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Hob-
son Preston, who died at their
home in Clio, S. C., Friday were
I brought back here for burial.
The funeral service which was in
charge of Rev. Paul Herman
Newsum, was conducted at the
First Baptist church Sunday af
ternoon at 2 o'clock and burial
followed in the church cemetery.
I Planters in tbis section are
very busy preparing and market
ing tobacco. They are receiving!
satisfactory prices for their i
weed.
Mrs. Opal Pulliam of Keraer»-
ville, was a week-end visitor to
relatives here.
R. B. Reynolds of Mountain
View was amtong the business
visitors here Saturday.
Mrs. Mat Hall and daughter,
Miss Galatis Hall, have returned
from Capel'a where they spent
several days the guests of Mr
and Mrs. Boss Hall.
Robert Marshall of
and Miss Mary E. Helper of Rufal
Hall underwent tonsil operations
in the Stona-Helsabeck CttQic
Saturday morning, ; ,
Terrible Tragedy
At Sandy Ridge Today
SEAB NELSON KILLS HIS WIFE BY SLASH
ING HER THROAT WITH RAZOR-TKEN
ATTEMPTS TO KILL HIMSELF - NOW
CONFINED IN DANBURY JAIL AND WILL
PROBABLY BE TRIED FOR MURDER AT
NEXT WEEK'S COURT—HIGH FEELING IN
COUNTY OVER TilE DISTRESSING AF
FAIR.
In her humble cottage tonight
at Sandy Ridge lies Mrs. Bessie
Neison, aged 32, dead with her
throat cut from ear to ear.
The terrible deed was ac.omp-
lished this morning at 10 o'clock
by her husband Scab Nelson,
who is now pacing his cell in Dan
bury jail and must answer at the
ba>- of North Qv jlina justice at
Stokes court next week
He will be for murder in
j the first degree. Feeling runs
i high in the cour.ty for thi- is or.e'
of the most dastardly and revolt-1
ing ciimes in the history of the
! county, and a S' re at crowd will !
! hear solicitor Allen Gwyn pross-
Icute the murderer for his life.
| Mrs. Nelson was killed in the
presence of her six small children.
f
She was chased by her husband
j up stairs, jumped through a win-
I dow on to the porch and then
,to the ground. He followed h;r
with a razor in his hand, seized
he, a nd as she screamed and
i plf.aded he thrust her head back
! and almost severed it ffom the
I body. She died almost instantly,
i This ip the te|!t|fmony (of the
' | children who helplessly saw their
mother die.
Neighbors attracted by th;
screams pf the mother and the
! children rushed i n
Nelson then made a superficial
attempt at suicide, slashing his
| own throat. Prevented from this
he pretended to attempt to jump
into a well.
He was carried to a Stuart hos
pital where his throat wound was
'dressed and found not serious.
Deputy Sheriff Cleve Lawson of
| Lawsonville brought him to jail
here.
j Nelson is a man some 30 yea l s
or more of age.
1 Mrs. Nelson was at Nelson's
Funenal Home tonight, lying
peacefully in a casket awaiting to
be transported in the hearse black
| to her home. She was a good,
NickStevens
| Sells High at Madison
I sold a load of tobacco at
Madison this week as follows,
with Webster's and Planters:
202 lbs. @ 38 $76.76
116 lbs. @ 24.50 28.42
240 lbs. @ 39 93.60
118 lbs. @ 27 31.81
Total $230 64
I am well satisfied with my
price. I will say Tom Frank
Webster knows tobacco, and
holds hs bid.
NICK STEVENS,
Lawsonville, N. C.
Boctlw
looking young woman with a"
att> active face, dark hajr, and
:ong dark lashes He r clothes,
drenched in her blood, lay in the
undertaker's room, telling their
gtuesome s'.o'y of this hilurt
breaking tragedy.
She was dressed in a becoming
• obe.
Nelson was not drunk at the
time He was cruel and overbear
ing to his wife, and had beaten
her more than once, so neighbu's
Slay.
The children &ay he hed cursed
and abused his wife all day and
the night before the killing.
The Reporter inquired for the
motive that must have actuated
the n4an. Was it jealousy, or
was he crazy?
Not no one believes he was
crazy, but just plain mean tend
brutal and terribly overbearing. I
There was no cause for jeal
ousy, they say, as Mrs. Nelson
wia a pure and upright woman-
Sheriff John Taylor was "at the
'Nelson home and in the Sandy
Ridge community making an in
vestigation until after midnight.
lib waa able t 0 discover no
reason why Nelson should have
been to commit the
crime
Mrs. Nelson was a daughter of
Mi*, and Mrs. Jack Woods who
live near High Point.
The children are Lois, Helen,
Pauline, Ruby, Bobby and Dennis.
She is also survived by three
brothers, Homer, Curtis and
James Woods, and a sister, Mrd.
James Ballard, a'l of High Point.
Funeral services will be con-
I ducted at the Pleasant Grove
Baptist church, Patrick county,
Va., Friday aferaoon at 2 o'clock
Elder J. A. Fagg, of Winaton-
Salem, and Elder Luther Tucker,
of High Point, will officiate.
Burial will be made in the church
graveyard.
Z. R. Moran Badly
Hurt When Mule
si Team Runs Away
Z. R. Moran, prominent citizen
and farmer of Meadows, is still
confined to bis room and bed
from an accident which happened
to him recently. He was hauling
wood when his team, a oair of
spirited young mules, took fright
and ran throwing Mr. Moran out
and dragging him 'ome distant.
no bones were broken ' 3
4'as terribly bruised and shocked.
I*9 has not been able to wn'.k
piace the accident several weeks
•go.
Another Homicide
In Patrick—Killer
Claims Self Defense
J. H. Creecy of Stuart, Va.,
J who hauls coal from West Vir
' ginia to Stokes consumers, was
here Wednesday and reported
another homicide in Patrick
which occurred last Saturday
night.
■
; Oeecy says a fellow by the
name of Mayberry shot and kii!-
!ed one Rcece near Chap Tatum's
| Saturday night. Reece took the
I
load m the back of the head, dy
ing instantly. Mayberry sur
rendered to Stua''t officers, and is
now in jail, claiming self defense.
Creeey says a boy of Will Rog
, erg was also shot Sunday.
Important Ruling
As to Social Security
In a statement received todiy
iby J. N. Freeman, Manager oi
the Social Security Board's office
in the Nissen Building, Winston-
Salem, N. C., Commissioner of
5 , Internal Revenue Guy T. Helve -
ing announced that employers
'subject to tax under Title Mil of
the Social Security Act will be
' required to file only one informa-
tion return for the peiioj July 1
to December 31, 1937. This is
.the return on Forms SS-2 and
| S£W2a on which the employer re-
ports to the collector of internal
revenue the amount of wages paid
to each employee. These returns
I are used both for verifying the
accuracy of the monthly Federal
J social security tax returns and as
a basis for crediting wages to the
accounts of employees in the
| Federal old-age benefits program.
Tr.;3 announ:c:.";-.l i- o." iiitc'-
eel t 0 the hundreds of thousands
of employers who are required to
file this type 0 f return. Instead
jof requiring a return for the cu'-
! rent quarter which ends Septem
ber 30 and and another return for
J the quarter ending December 31,
the employers will make one six-
month return, which will not
alter the filing date for the tax
returns on Form SS-1 which must
continue to be made by emplcy-
e>s each month, and that delin-
i quency penalties are being assert
ed when employers fail to file the
monthly tax returns on time.
It was also pointed out that in
fornfetion return Form SS 3 call"
for wage data only from the first
day of the quarter in which the
employee dies or attains age 65,
but that in view of the authoriza
tion of the six-month information
return period, every employe'*
filing a Form SS-3 pertaining to
such period should include wages
from July 1, 1937, so that com
plete data may be available for (
the employee's tax and wage ac
counts.
Tobacco Moving
Farmers are happy with the
good prices for tobacco. Loads of
the golden leaf are racing thru
every hour. At the present •'ate,
the crop will be sold before'
Thanksgiving. Much money i s be-,
ing £)ut into circulation. Buying j
pewjitt supp'iii is the order of
the'day. I
Number 3,317
FIGHT POSTPONED
UNTIL NOV. 27
CORBETT PKiDDV, ACCREDIT
ED CHAMPION, MOVES IP
Tin; I>ATJ£ TO ACCOMMO
DATE A SPRAINED HAND
EACH FK.HTEiI'S OPINION
OF Till; OTHER.
L/
Corbet t Piiddy, the Stokes
heavyweight champion, eame over
today and asked that the date of
his proposed with Eob Mo>'e
field bo changed from Octob' r 30
t 0 November 27.
Piiddy, who s..\'s lie in training
hard, claimed to have an injured
hand which he hurt while punch
ing tin bag.
He says he will beat Minefield
to a frazz after the first round
I or two. and that the Walnut Cove
jii-i. ->t in hisr class, but that
'• • • np-ding the exercise he
i wi! in;, to b- at him up
It is learned that Ivloiefieli
s:iys he is tired of Co'b's blowing
in the Danburv paper. F2- is
willing to concede that Piiddy is
• first class bluff, but he b> only
a third-rate fighter. He says lie
! wi'l welcome the opportunity to
1 knock the North View gas out
1 of him.
j He added that he did not be
lieve Priddy'a hand vtes hurt,
nohow, and that when Nov. 27„
j arrives P> iddy will want I i
' postponed syain. •
SUNDAY BASE It ALL
CHAMPIONS OF SURRY  OJ'N
| TY VS. CHAMPIONS
STOKES COUNTY. "
j' '
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' Danbury, winner of the Stokes
County League Champion, will
play Toast, winner of the Surry
County League Championship,
here next Sunday, October 10th,
at 3:00 P. M., to decide the win
ner of the two Leagues Toast
is reported to have a strong
team, having finished on top of
their league, while Danbury will
be at full strength and put forth
every effort to stop the Surry
Champions at Riverside Park
next Sunday. Robe'tson o r Book
er will be on the mound for
Toast, while Norman White is
slated to pitch for Danbury
Funeral Rites For
Mrs. Dr. Joyce
Attended By A 1
Large Crowd
* a *v
A large crowd of friends from
far and near attended the funeral
of Mrs. Dr. C. W. Joyce of Fletch
er, Okla., here Tuesday afternoon.
The services weie conducted
from the M- E. Church by Rev.
T. J. Houck, pastor, assisted by
Rev. Helsabeck of Rural Hall.
Interment was in the family
plot at the Danbury cemetery.
Honorary pn'lbearers wci: I.
M. Gordon, of Pilot Mtn ; Dr. W-
C. Slate, of Spencer; C. M. Jone»,
of Walnut Cove, HI M Joyce, B.
P. Christian and Dr. R. H. More
field, of Danbury.
Active pallbearers were: Ed
Taylor, James B. Joye, J. J,
Taylor, J. Scott.