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THE DANBURY REPORTER. Volume 66 H ALLEGED KILLERS K AWAIT COURT jj * DEFENDANTS IN ' THE GEO. g| W. TAYLOR MURDER CASE jE MUST FACE TRIAL APRIL H 7OR B—HEARING HERE P FRIDAY BEFORE JUSTICE I! JOHN L. CHRISTIAN; R| Last Friday in the court house H % here, piacked to capacity, a hea»- % ing was given the defendants in the murder affair of Geo. W. Taylor, who was found dead it: I • his car on the Dry Hollow roac near Walnut Cove March 16. Justice John L. Christian of §i Pinnacle presided at the hearing, and bound over Clyde Byrd and ii the negro McDonald to gf : Sdurt, which convenes April 4. |i Wednesday, April 7, will prob fc aMy be the date of the trial. UNo further evidence has been! given out regarding this terrible i aCkir, which is largely surround-1 I W with mystery, though it is! ■Med that damaging clues are in Mm possession ot Sheriff John I **or which will be divulged at aw trial. Viere is strong suspicion that *• murder occurred at flame fhfaa other than in the dead ■MI'S oar, and that he was killed Md bqpught to the place where Hfef car and bodr wero found. ||9,000 Permanent w Prison Tamp To Be *-• I ltjeded Near Meadows K is Idamed that the N. C. { Jfctte highway department has 4Mded to locate a permanent ' jMbacki camp, near Meadows, and,' Jb ttie vicinity of the present con- j 1 -*l* camp, which will be acztp-;' P«L The new quarters will be : Modern in every respect. The 1 Utildinga will be of brick, and the ' •fractures will be enclosed in a 1 *gh iron fence. The cost of the 1 . % projecct will be at leest $40,000. 1 It is believed that the ridge east 1 «f the present camp will be the 1 site of the new quarters, which will be Joaated on the county ( kwme tract. 1 i New Business For Danbury t/ Miss Mae Broun Smith of Greensboro and Danville, is re ported to be engaging quarters here in connection with the Booth 4.CWe, to operate up-to-Jate beau ty parlor and barber shop for meo and women. Miss Smith is said to be an expert facial artist, *> manicurist and French hair dresser. J. J. Booth is this week having bis headquarters consid er erably enlarged and beautified. Tuberculin Tests. The Stokes County Health De partment administered the tuber culin test to every high school child who wished it and to every child in the lower grades who had some definite reason tor ' taking It At a later date, it is hoped l"Bt for an X-ray to each child j tMat a partltivs reaction. , Established 1872. -' + H ~ ft W. R. Badgett, Surry County Man, For Solicitor The Mount Afry News Says: Political interest in the icontest for Solicitor in this district was considerably increased this week | with the announcement by At torney W. R. Badgett of Pilot Mountain that he would enter the Democratic primary and beoome a candidate for the position. Mr. Badgett is one of the most experienced lawyers of the coun ty and has long been affiliated with the Democratic party in the county and state. He has always aligned lam self positively against the liquor forces and taken the lead in the county for tie prohibition cause. (Political Advertising.) Terracing Work To Begin i The tei«aciqg unit which has been idle sinoe last November, due to wet weather, will begin wortt again in a day or so. The unit at the beginning a£ bad weather vke on the farm of J. S. Lawson sear King. Up to date there has been fa, large number of requests for terracing and road work lanu it ia being planned to route the machine in a way as to accomodate the lament number of farmers with the least amount of unnecessary travel. The present route under consid- eration is byway of Capella, Roes' Store, WloJnut Cove hnd into Pino Hft.ll community. Any one along this route desiring the services of the unit, whether constructing terraces, road work |or any other work the unit can pertform, should (make 'their re quests kr»own to the County Agent's office at au early date if they have not already done 80. Mrs. Dr. Butler Addresses Young People's Society Rev. Mr. Covrtan /filled his regular appointment here at the Presbyterian Sunday morning and evening. Prior to the evening service the Young People's Society met in the church and was delighted to have Mrs. Thelm a Neal Butler of Walnut Cove, make an i In teresting talk on "The Life and Habits of the Japanese." Mrs. Butler has lived in Japan since her marriage to Dr. Butler and has become very familiar with the Japanese customs. Her ad- , dr«* w*a highly enjoyed by the , Sodety. . | Danbury, N. C., Thursday, March 24, 1938. COURT APRIL 4 -l|BpSJlfr i? Qli3£lliHM - The Stokes county Temple of Justice as shown above will be a busy place beginning Monday, April 4, when the spring teem of criminal court convenes with a heavy docket. Two mu>dor cases are on the docket, and a multiplicity of minor actions. Judge Bivens will preside, with Allen Gwyn prosecuting for the State. BEAUTY CONTESTS ARE POSTPONED NO FURTHER SCHOOL SHOWS WILL BE PUT ON UNTIL EARLY FALL WHEN THE SCHOOLS REOPEN. It has been decided by the Reporter management that owing to the lateness of the season, no additional beauty contests of the [series being conducted at the high | schcols of the county by this liaper, will be put on until the early tail opening of the schools, \ when they will be eontinusd ac- j cording to program. Already several contests toavo been held which proved very suc cessful, but as it takas two or three weeks to properly advertise a show, the full progf\ajn could not be carried out before several l of the schools will be closed. The King show, which had been dated for the night of April 2. will not be held at this timo, but it is ptanned to put on King first in the ea'ly fall. Prenatal and Well Baby Clinic There will a prenatal and we'l baby clinic at Sandy Ridge Tues day, March 29th, at 1:00 ?• M„ in the late Dr. Dowdy's office. The physician in charge Will Lo Dr. J. L. Hanes of Pi/ie Hull, as- sisted by the county hea'th nurse. The clinic will be open for well babies and pre-school children. Dr Hanes will examine the children for physical defects and admin ister diphtheria vacinne to in fants over 6 months of age. The conductors of the clinic hope for good attendance. Colored patients are invited to the clinic. Miss Bess E. Dal ton, Supervis or of Forsyth, Stokes, Yadkin Nurses, called a meeting for the Stokes county midwives. J. *C. Wall Beltter. / Friends of J. C. Wall i glad to know he la much better from a very serious attack of double pneumonia. His condition considered critical a week ago. Today he is sitting up and on tltt wy to early recovery. i COLLISION NEAR MEADOWS SCHOOL T. H. AND WIFE SUSTAIN INJURIES IN ACCI DENT WITH E. R. VOSS ON CURVE—BOTH CARS BAD LY BATTERED—MR. VOSS UNHURT. , 'j To Jay about 5:30 P. M., on a curve near Meadows school 1 house, the automobiles of E. R. ' Vose of Walnut Cove and T. H. Sheppard of Sandy Ridge oollld 'l «d o n a curve. Mr. and Mrs. | Sheppard were quite severely battered and bruised, Mrs. Sh»p --j {tard sustaining fractured ribs and other injuries. Mr. Sheppard j received cuts about the head ag .well as other- hurtfs. Mr. Vora | was not injured. A lady, Mrs. Buck j Bullin, riding with Mr. Voss with her baby, was hurt. Both cars | were badly damiaged. I Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard were , driving north, Mi-. Voss south. Mrs. N. E. Pepper Entertains Misses Page and Patterson I (Reported for the Reporter.) Mrs. N. E. Pepper entertained at dinner Thursday evening hon oring Misses Evelyn Plage land Ruth Patterson of the local Wel fare Department. The table had as its central decoration lovely spring flowers and was lighted with tall green tapers, carrying out the St. Patrick's Dfey color scheme of yellow and greeni. Covers were Haid for six and places were marked with shiamrock place cards and baskets filled with mints. I County Wide Midwife Meeting There was a county wide mid wife meeting at Dianbury in the nurse's office Monday, 21st. Every midwife was required to i attend this meeting if she wished to continue practicing midwifery, due to recent laws set up by the Stokes County Board of Health- | Tom Gray of Route 1 m In town Wednesday. REPUBLICANS MEET AT DANBURY T. G. NEW RESIGNS CHAIR MANSHIP RESOLUTIONS AISD CONDEMNATIONS DEjuEGATES APPOINTED, The Republican county con vention in session here March 12, t oondcraned the present county I administration for failure to rustic: | closer tax collections, for rais ing land valuation, for increasing the tax and for allowing 'county payrolls to increase, de ' maided a publicatioa of the ' county's receipts and disbu rse -1 merit a annually, condemned ' fraudulent elcclio* practices, I 1 the absentee tfcllol and crooked 1 markers in elections, pledged ■itaolf to an annual 'eduction of county obligations and the re 'duction of taxes. The sales tax w r a/: condemned. T. G. Nov,', chairman, tendered | his I'OL'lgnatfon, Delegates to t!ie Republican ] State Convention vrcrc elected. | Upon motion of C. M. Jonc>, :T. G. New was asked to continue ,as chairman until April 20, when a new chainmn and executive committee would be elected. H. McGee was chairman of the meeting and N. E. Wall acted! as secretary. Miss Grace Taylor At High Point' A special from" High" Point of March 19 says a talk on the Con stitution of the United States was hdard by the Utopian Study Club of this city, when Miss Grace Taylor, 0 f Danbury, was guest speaker. Miss Taylor is president of the Young Democrats Club of Stokes county. | The meeting was held at the j home of Mrs. Rodney Snow. An 'arrangement of green and yellow flowers was used. Mrs. Snow l presented the speaker who told' of the framing of the Constitu tion in 1787. She spoko of amend ments and statutes tedded since then. ' Tea was served. Mrs. W. A. ' Hayes presided over the tea ' fcbl*. f Number 3342 SENATOR BAILEY ON THE JOB HIS fOB Is TO TEAR DOWN THE NEW DEAL, AND DIS CREDIT PRESIDENT ROOSE VELT. The following article comes in ;i di!-i»alch from Washington, and is written by the editors of the V» asshiiigioa Mei • y-CJo-Round, independent and non-partisan; How cl se oitl guard Demo crats and lii publicans aie work ing together against the new deal and how fierce is their ven detta was illustrated by a secret conversation which toolt place in the Senate lounge the other day. The lounge is reserved l'o r sen ators only and in it they read the papers, take catnaps, and while away their time during a dull debate. On this particular occasion Josiah Bailey, anti- Roosevelt Democrat from North Carolina was chatting with Wal- ( I tc-r E. Edge, staunch Republican jand formerly Hoover's ambassad jor to France. s j Edge was entitled to sit in the Senate lounge because he was ance senator from New Jersey, and he effusively congratulated > the Democratic senator 011 hia anti-new deal speeches. "You are doing a g«cat job. j senator, » great job," Edge told | Bailey. "There is no oae in the | Republican party rjoing >ua j 'ly as work as you are expos- the evils and danar;is of this j regime. You taunt get your speeches out to the people; they jmuet be broadcast all over the country." i. I "Thai is already done, Benatoj-," Bailey assured him. : "More than a million ;uid a lialf of my speeches have been j ordered from the Government Printing Office by twenty o;ran !(nations and are being dist.ibute-i in every section of the land." j "Pplcndid, splendid!" exclaimed E'.lpro. "Tliat'f? the way to pro ceed." j "Yes, it is very encouraging." | said Builey, "but there is a great deal more to be done. The in surance companies ought to co j ■ operate. They should be contact ed by the proper persons and mailing lists obtained of their policy holders. There are mil j lions of their policy holders who ' should be warned that their . money and property are being jeopardized by the policies of ( this administration. That'B an excellent suggestion, senator," declared Edge. "It should be acted on at once. That lis the class of people we want to ! reach. And I want you to know , j that I nni with you 100 per cent. jMy time 13 all my own now. I J have nothing to do and I am ready to help you in any winy I ! can * * am enlisted in your cause (for the duration of the fight." I Note—The pointing of 1,500,- 000 oopies of one of Bailey's speeches, even at the cost-of production prices of the Govern ment Printing Office, would come to more than $50,000. and their mailing, A free congreßßion&l frnnk ' WDU,d the government l«,ooa
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