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THE DANBURY REPORTER. Volume 66 Francisco Beauty Contest Saturday Night Miss Pattie Hart, Hiss Inez Jessup, Miss Irene Mabe. "Minn Thelma Shelton, Mary Lou Dalton, Miss Norma Forrest, Miss Mildred Arlington, Miss Ethel Owen- Miss Rachel George, Miss Bessie Overby, Miss Una Mae Ward, Miss Miargaret Smith. Everything is set for the Beauty Contest at Francisco high school Saturday night, March 12. Above is a list of twelve at tractive young ladies whose names have been presented by friends as candidates for "Mim Francisco," the most beau ffful girl of Francisco school dis trict. There are several others yet to be offered for this honor. This is in keepingwith the series at beauty contests being held at the high schools of Stokes coun ty, sponsored by the Danbury Re porter. At the Fra*oisco school Satur day night there will be a splendid program of addresses, songs, recit ations, readings, fancy dancing, JNkea, stunts and skits, every being free and everybody cordially invited. No charge for admission. Music will be furnished by the King Merry lfrkers, headed by young Tom New. This gang produces excel lent music. There will be free refreshments for the crowd. Immediately after (Be program, the election will be held to de termine "Miss Francisco," who will be in line at the close of the 'series of beauty contests for se lection as "Miss Stokes County, when the most beautiful younjr lady of the group selected at the high schools will be named as a candidate in the national beauty ' show for "Miss America". This honor will be one to be prized by any young lady of the State, as the iucky candidate may attain fame and fortune, movie contracts and national celebrity. Every person who p.ivs one dollar on subscription to tae Dau bury Reporter will be entitle l 10 oast 1,000 votes for his choice as Miss Francisco; old and new subscribers may vote j n the same count, 2 years, 3 years, or more, the more years you j*ay for meaning an increased ratio in the scale of voting. The table is pub lished elsewhere in this paper. One-third of the net proceeds of the entertainment and the vot ing contest will be given to Fran cisco school. This is a fair op portunity to help your lady friend as well as t° make a con tribution to the Francisco school fond. v Every person who does not al ready take the Reporter is invit ed lo subscribe, and every old —hscrlber may pay up back dues Established 1872. Danbury, N. C., Thursday, March 10, 1938. €OURT JURORS. STOKES CITIZENS DRAWN TO SERVE AT APRIL TERM. FIRST WEEK. SNOW CREEK TOWNSHIP. R. O. Joyce, J. H. Hawkins, Lincoln Brown, J. A. Spencer, H. C. Vernon, Earl Moore, Jim Steele, R. T. Mhrtin, R. O. Shel ton, P. M. Mordfield, Morris Stov all, J. D. Nance, G. E. Ferguson. MEADOWS TOWNSHIP. D. M. Green, J. C. Ferguson, J. Y. Southern, Sam J. Lewis, P. O. Southern, Paul Southern. BEAVER ISLAND TOWNSHIP. Frank Poore, J. E. Dalton, Ralph Mitchell, Hunter S. Joyce. P. O. Fry, Lee Essick, A. J Collins, R. E. Hunter. SAURATOWN TOWNSHIP. Settte Bowman, R. L. Joyce, L. M. Welch. PETER'S CREEK TOWNSHIP. J. N. Lackey, Richard Mabe, W. R. Fagg, A. M. Flinchum, Tommie J. Tilley. BIG CREEK TOWNSHIP, R. G. Smith, W. J. QaFdwell, YADKIN TOWNSHIP. J. W. Mitchell, W. 0- Baker, S- C. Covington, J. W. King. DANBURY TOWNSHIP, kollis Rhodes, SECOND WEEK. > SAURATOWN TOWNSHIP. Edgar Wall, Edgar Bowman, P. G. Smith, Paul Westmoreland. J. C. Redman, P. H. Fulton, J. F, Manuel, QUAKER GAP TOWNSHIP J. S. Lawson, L. A. Lynch, John H. Nunn. Jno. W. Bunnell, DANBURY TOWNSHIP. Leste r A'ley, E. L. Alley. MEADOWS TOWNSHIP. M. J. Young, Lefton Lewellyn. YADKIN TOWNSHIP. J. R. Napier, O. O. Giiabs, J. R. Bowman. PETER'S CREEK TOWNSHIP. J. E. Nelson, A. R. Manring. BEAVER ISLAND TOWNSHIP. Odell Joyce. BIG CREEK TOWNSHIP. N. F. Christian, Ralph W. Christian. SNOW CREEK TOWNSHIP. W. B. Hawkins, Jim Dot Hicks Dies At Meadows Jim Dot Hicks, aged 79, died at his home at Meadows Sunday morning at 4 o'clock, of a heart affection. Mr. Hicks is survived by his wife, who is 85. There were no children. The funeral was conducted from Clear Springs Primitive Baptist church Monday, Elders J. W. Tuttle and J. A. Fagg officat- Ing. >»lr. Hftks wa" r, member of Clear Springs church, and was baptised 20 years ago by Elder Fagg. or subscribe for one o r more yea"® advance, under the tame term#. THE REFERENDUM I NEXT SATURDAY COUNTY AGENT ADVISES WHERE 1 FARMERS MA Y { VOTE RESULT WELL BE KNOWN LATE SATURDAY NIGHT. I According to an announcement' released by J. F. County « Agent, the following places have' been selected in Stokes county where growers m&y vote in the 1 flue-cured tobacco referendum on' Saturday, March 12: Big Creek township. Sam Moir's store, near Francisco. Beaver Island township, Dillard Danbury township, court house, c Danbury. ; .V 4 # *. Meadows township. Palmyra school. Peter's Creek, LawsDonviHe school. Sauratown township, Jacob Ful ton's store, Walnut Cove. Snow Creek township, Sandy Ridge school. I . Upper Yadkin township, Pin nacle, in the Brow n Building. Lower Yadkin township, King school. Quaker Gap township, Reynolds school. Mr. Brown explained that the Little Yadkin river i n Yadkin township was the dividng line between the two voting districts in the township. Farmers on the northern side of the river will vote at Pinnacle. All farmers in the other part of Yadkin town ship will vote at King. The polls will open throughout the county promptly at 7:30 a. m. Saturday. March 12. The polls will close promptly .at 1 p. m. on the same day. Under no circumstances can any votes be accepted before or after these hows. The polls in each township will be in charge of a community referendum com miteeman appointed by the coun ty committee of the Agricultural Conservation Association. Mr. Brown said that there will be no voting by proxy o r agent. For a vote to be accepted it must be cast in person. Only farmers who were engaged in the production of tobacco i n 1937 are eligible to vote in the referendum. By this it is meant that a farmer should have actually grown tobacco in 1937 or received a definite lamount of the proceeds from the crop, such as rent or fo r other pur poses. No farmer, (whether an individual, partnership, corpo ration, firm, association, o r other legal entity) shall be entitled to more than one vote in the refer endum, even though he may have been engaged in 1937 i n the pro | duction of flue-cured tobacco in ( two Or more communities, coun ties, or states. A duly authorized office of an association, corpora tion,, firm or other legal entity shall be allowed to cast its vote. In the ease of tenants where sever- al persons such as husband, wife and children participated in the production of flue-cu r ed tobacco in 1937 under a lease or sharecrop ping agreement, only the person, or persons, who signed or entered into the lease or sharecropping agreement, shall be eligible tc : vote. The rules and regulations relative to the referendum do not state a definite age limit to the age of voters. If a landowner has children who were given a j definite acreage of tobacco in 1 1937 and they received part or (all of the proceeds therefrom, such children are entitled to vote. If a tenant had sons or daughters who received a definite share of , tobacco acreage in the 1937 crop and such tobacco acreage for the tenants sons or daughters was considered when the oral or writ- ten Bharecropping agreement was made, such children are eligible to vote. The question has come up as to whether o r not a man*3 wife is eligible to vote in the referendum. A man's wife is eligible to vote if she owns a farm or farms on which tobacco grows in 1937 from which she received a share of the proceeds of the tobacco crop as rent. A man's wife- is also eligible to vote if she in the produc tion of a deifiinite acreage of to hacco in 1937 and received all of or part of the proceeds thereof. A register of eligible voters is being prepared at the county of fice and a copy of this register wiU be in the hands of each com munity referendum ' committee. Any person appearing at the polls ah~3 demanding a ballot shall receive one and will be al'owc. to vote; however, the committee men in charge of the polls have the township wherein he resides, vote where it cannot be determin ed that such person voting is eligible. Al voting will be done by secret ballot. In a case where a landlord owns a farm in two or more townships, such landlord wi'l be expected to vote only in the township wherein he resides. Under cases of this kind, tenants would vote in the township where in the farm on which they grew tobacco is located. Landowners owning a farm in two or more counties will be expected to vote within the county where they reside. If a landowner owns a fa r m in Stokes county only, but lives outside the county he would be expected to vote in this coun ty. As soon as the po'ls are closed at 7 p. m., the community refe rendum committee will immediately proceed to tabulate the voting at each voting place in the county. As soon as the referendum com mittee has completed the tabulat ion of votes at dach voting place a notice of the vote wiU be posted at each voting place. The chair man of each community referend um committee will then report to Fred A. Kirkman May Run For Senate Fred A. Kirkman was here Tuesday. Mr. Kirkman inti mated to some of his inquiring! friends that he may be a candi date for the State Senate from the 23rd district, composed oi Stokes a"d Surry. Mr. Kirkmar who is a resident of Surry county at Mt. Airy, is in business Rt Winston-Salem, where he has offices in the Reynolds building being engaged in contracting a" engineering. He retains his resi dence at Mt. Airy. Mr. Kirkman has scores o' wa r m friends in Stokes, where he frequently visits. He has not yet indioated hi; decision, but he hag committed to his friends that be la consider ing avowing his name to go bo fore the Democratic primary. Mrs. J. W. Hall Honored On Her Birthday«/ Mrs. S. P. Christian delightful ly entertained at an "old fash ioned" birthday supper, honoring he r sister, Mrs. J. W. Hall. The table had as its central decoration the lovely birth cake, lighted by Call green tapers i:i crystal holders. A St. Patrick' Day color scheme was carried out. the places haing marked witi. I shamrock place ca r ds, and bask ets filled with green and white mints. Guests were: Mrs. J. W. HaK, Miss Janie Martin and Mrs. N. E. Wall. Vance Alley Hurt. Y'ance, young son of Giibei". Alley at Hartman. while playing iat school Tuesday broke a i shoulder bone. He was attended by a physician. the county committee at the county office at Danbury as early ag possible on Saturday night, March 12 and make a repot to county committee of the votec obtained. Returns of the county voting will be posted as soon as possible after the returns have been obtained at the court house. Returns throughout the flue-cur ed tobacco states will appear in the Sunday morning papers on March 13. If two thirds of the producers voting in the referendum favor marketing quotas such quotas will be esablished throughout the entire flue-cured tobacco belt in 1938. If more than one-third of the producers voting i n the ref erendum do not favor marketing quotas, there will be no quotas established in 1938. There will be no such thing as tobacco control in one sfote and no tobacco con trol in another state. The refer endum applies to the entire tobac co flue-cured belt. Number 3,340 TO OKLAHOMA AFTER LEFF SISK SHERIFF JOHN TAYLOR AND DEPUTY CLEVE LAW SON i LEAVE ON 15-HUNDKED | MILE TRIP—IS SLAYER OF SAM LAW SON IN JAIL AT I SHAWNEE ; AWAITING STOKES OFFICERS?—CRIME COMMITTED MORE THAN 34 YEAR AGO—FEW WITNESS ES LIVING. Thirty-four years ago, lust De cember, Leff Sisk shot Sam L#w son to death at Kelly Sisk's place, ne\a* Lawsonville. Tuesday morning of this week Sheriff John Taylor and Deputy Sheriff Cleve Lawson left Dan* bury for Shawnee, Oklahoma, where a person supposed to be Leff Sisk, is in jail waiting the arrival of the Stokes county, North Carolina officers, whb will bring Sisk to Danbury jail to stand trial for his life. Provided, of course, that the incarcerated men is Leff Sisk. It was the 28th day of Decem ber, 1903, that a crowd gathered at Kelly's warehouse, where drinking, horse swapping, a«*i eorouaing were in order. Liquor flowed freely. Throughout that LawsnvilU - Smithtown section those days men carried guns on hips. Many homicides have oc curred in that region the last 40 years. This particular day Sam Law son and Robert Nelson engaged in a fight. We quote from hear say—people who have memories reaching beck a third r,f a mi tuiy. Most of the wittn\sacs aio ■ "•ad, ago. Aicgy Caii.pbi'U, Epp Lawson, John Bulge a n j Dick Joyce were then-so it i-s told the Reporter. Lj:wson and Nelson were fight ing tlwt duil December day— j Lawson was using a fence rail on Nelson. Nelson was a brother in-law of Sisk. Sisk took it up. Lawson turned on Sisk wh , pui;. Ed his gun and fired, th«.- Irat bul'et striking Lawson's loot, Lawson came on with hU fence rail. Sisk fired the second time, the ball striking higher up in Lawson's leg. Sisk took a third shot, and Lawson, with a bullet in his groin, never recovered, but died a few hour s later. Sisk boarded the tilain at Stonevilie on Dec. 30, 1903, and the last hea r d from him was that he spent a night at Buchanan, I Virginia- the day following. Recently, news reached Stokes i officers that Leff Sisk was at | Shawnee, Oklahoma, where he | was preaching in the denomina tion of "Church of God." Communications were estab lished between North Carolina and Stokes officers, which led to the conclusion thiat the slayer of Sam Lawson Was found. (Continue #a
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