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THE DANBURY REPORTER. Established 1872 J. R. STONE HAS SOLD OUT HIS MERCANTILE ESTABLISH MENT AT PINNACLE BOUGHT BY WILBUR LANE—CORRE SPONDENT TELLS ABOUT RIOT AT THE BASKETBALL GAME —OIIIER PLVSACL; NEWS. Pinnacle, Jan. 30—-During tin closing moments of an interest in r basketbail game between Pilot Mountain and Pinnacle here Mon day night, the school patrons of Pinnacle serged upon the basket ball court with fury of a March gale and staged what liked 10 have been a riot. With only two officers in at tendance, it was very little they could do to quiet the mob. After pleading for some time they left the building. After or der was restored the remainder of the game was played. Mr. and Mrs. John L. Chris tian, and Mrs. Kenneth Napier and Mis s Jean Carol Beck attend ed a theatre in Winston-Salem Wednesday night. Mr. G K. Napier has returned from Abingdon, Va., where h-i has been employed by the Ameri can Tobacco Company during the tobacoo season. Little MM Ethel Walk& is quite sick at her home near Piu nacle. Mr. J. L. Christian made a business trip to Raleigh Monday. Mr . J. R. Stone has sold his mercantile establishment to Mr. Wilbur Lane. Mr. Stone has bee;i a prominent merchant in Pinnacle for many years, Ifrs. Toe Napier, who has bee a "viaiting her parents in Pinnaclj has returned to her home in Troy. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Christian Visited friends in Westfield Sun day. Pinnacle, Jan. 31—Another car load of mules arrived in Pinnacle today. This is the first time that there has -, een two carload.) of mules sold i- "Mnnacle in one year since 1910. Mrs. J. L. Ch 'stian and daugh ter Mrs. John H. Smoyer visited Mrs. Smoyer's husband, who is seriously ill in the Veteran's Hos pital in Otecn, Tuesday. An Interesting court battle will take place Thursday afternoon v.i the courthouse in Datbury. Nine arrests grew out of the riot which occurred last week in tbe Pinnacle gymnasium. Deputy Shtriff Ray-! jnond Stewart is charged with as aault with a deadly weapon and Everette Fulk, Ernest Boles, Clarence Snyder and Scab Gordon, all of Pinnacle, are charged with Interfering with an officer while attempting to make an arrest. i Frank Gordon, also of Pinnack Is charged with participating in tfca fight. Charles Kallam, Leon ard Gordon and Roy Ftlnchum, i 1 toe k ball Mayers, are also c* irgiid with J ghtlng. The case *J'I b« tried befo- Justice Smith dm*. Volume 66 Danbury, N. C., Thursday, February 2, 1939. J. H. Spainhour y Dies in Stokes John Henry Spainhour, 81, prominent Stokes county farmer, died Wdnesday night at 10 o' clock at his home one mile £outi>. of King after a serious iliutss of i three days. He had been in declining health for more than a week. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom , : Spainhour, he was born in Stck;; i county in July, 1854. He was a member of the Antioch Methodist Episcopal Church. Spainhour's wife, the former Miss Martha Moser, died in 1931. | Surviving are three daughters Mrs. H. C. Jones of King, Mrs. I Floyd J. Stroup of Tobaccovi 11.?, and Mrs. Sam Moore of King; three sons, O. L. Spainhour oi | Rural Hall, W. E. Spainhour and I John Spainhour of King; and two | brothers, Jim Spainhour of Rural j Hall and M. T. Spainhour of King, j Also 41 grandchildren and nine j greatgrandchildren survive. Biff Trial Today Cases against Deputy Sheriff Raymond Stewart, indicted for assault and a number of other 3 charged with fighting and resist ing officers, were tried here to ds ■' before Justice J. T. Smith of King. The justice reserved his decision in the Stewart case. The evidence showed Stewart struck Kallam once with his fist and twice with his blackjack. The young man was not seriously hurt. It was disclosed at the trial that the principal of the Pinnacle school, where tlie riot occurred at the basketball game, had invited Stewart and Patrol man Stanley to the game to pre serve order. Frank and Leonard Gordon and • Roy Flinchum were fined $3.00 I each and cost for affray. A large crowd filled the court- I j room to hear the trials, and 'aw jyers of Danbury, Pilot Mountain, I Winston-Salem represented re spective parties. 1 Walnut Cove Couple Will Celebrate Golden Wedding' Walnut Cove. Jan. 30.—Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Hutchinson of Walnut ■Cove will be at home to their ; friends at ineir home «,n Monday, ! February 6, 1939, from two to four o'clock 'm the afternoon and from eight to ten o'clock during ] the evening. No formal invita i tions will be issued. The occa sion is their golden wedding Anni versary. G !?ia Sisk and two sons, John .d Paul, isitei Danbury IMi lay ' - * .'Ol ley Dal irby will de fend Mr. Stewart. Petree will represent the 6 at» The r Io Econo depart ment of the Pfijiacie Ju h h school will 'oonnor a faihlcn show next T. v Jay, wb- b Till be held in the school auditorium. CICERO KIGEIt DIED FRIDAY i KING HIGH DEFEATS (.UP. MANTON AT BAhKE'i'DAEL — WORK PROGRESSING ON AD IJITIOX TO HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING —WOMAN'S MIS SIONARY SOCIETV ENTER TAINED BY MRS. G. F. LAW SON—OTHER KING NEWS. I ■ King, Feb. 1 - Cicero Kige.', formerly of King, died at his home in Rural Hall Friday. The , deceased, who was 59 years old. had been engaged in the logging business for a number of years. I Surviving are the widow, two daughters and one son. Funeral and interment at the Friends ; Church at Perch Saturday after -1 noon at two o'clock, j D. C- Edwards of Charlotte was I here Friday looking after some j business matters, j The King high took from Ger- I manton school a double-header basketball game in the King gym nasium Friday night. Boy's score, King 29; Germanton 16. Girls, King 34; Germanton 19. Mrs. Annie Walker has about fully recovered from a recent ill ness at her home here. Joe Pulliam of the United States Navy, stationed at Ports mo-ih, -V*., is spending a twenty day furlough with relatives and friends here. The stork got by with a light week's work, only three births be ing recorded. They were: Tj ilr. and Mrs. Carl Webster, a daughter; to Mr. and Mrs. Percy jW. Shelton, a son, and to Mr. ■ and Mrs. Grover Fulk, a daugh- I ter. Dewey Long leased the llen-i --ris building on Main street and opened U P a meat market and grocery store. He seems to be enjoying a splendid business. The following patients under went tonsil operations here last I week: Miss Minnie Bowen and I Ollie Bowen of Pinnacle, Mrs. Gaston Meadows and B 'Hy Crom er of King, Route 2, Miss Marga ret Colleen Kirby, Mrs. Marvi-i Spease and James Howard Long of Tobaccoville. Attorney Charles R. Helsabeck of Rural Hall was here Friday attending to legal matters. | Miss Virginia New is quite sick at her home in West View, her many friends will regret to learn. Harmon Hendrix of Tobacco ville was here Friday on business. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert F. Mar shall have moved into their new home on west Main street, which was recently completed. Luther G. Smith, planter of the Dry Springs section, was anion*?' the business visitors here Satur day. Work is going along nicely on I the new addition to the higa school building. Mrs. G. F. was hostess to the Women's Missionary Sock j ly of King Baptist Church at her on Page 3.) j CROP AND FEEI) 1 LOANS NOW READY 11. AI.FOKU, HI;U) SIPKK VISOR. IS PKUAKH) TO UK IP FAKMEKS I \ OI.K ( I.K TAIX i:i;srKicTio\s. Applications l'or emergency crop and feed loans for 1939 a: now biir.g received at Danbury. North Carolina l.y J. H. Ail'jr.i F«.-ki Supervisor of the Emergen'. Ci'op and T \ : Lr-in Section >• the FR. M v'! ''it Administration. The will be made, as in the past, only to farmers whoc* cash requirements are small and cannot obtain credit from anv i other source. The money loane 1 will be limited to the farmer's im mediate and actual cash needs fo: 1 growing his 1939 crops or for th • purchase of feed for livestock. Farme*s who can obtain the funds they need from an indi vidual, production credit associa tion, bank, or other concern are | not elfgible for crop and feed loans from the Emergency Crop and Feed Loan Section of the ! Farm Credit Administration. The loans wilii not be made to stan dard rehabilitation clients whose | current needs are provided for by | the Farm Security Administration, j formerly known as the Resettle (ment Administration. As in the past, farmers whj obtain emergency crop and feed | loans will give as security a first lien on the crop financed, or a first lien on the livestock to be | fed if the money borrowed ia to ;be used to produce or purchase feed for livestock. Where loans are made to ten ants, the landlords, or others having an interest in the crops financed or the livestock to be fed, are required to waive their claims in favor of a lien to the Governor of the Farm Credit Ad ministration until the loan is re • paid, ; Checks in payment of approved : loans will bo mailed from th-j Regional Emergency Crop and Feed Loan Office at Columbia, South Carolina. Danbury's Oldest J Citizen Reaches 82 Friends and relatives rejoice with Mr. H. M. Joyce in his reach ing his 82nd birthday, which is to morrow February 3. While Mr. j Joyce has recently been confined .for several weeks with cold, his J general health is good. He is Danbury's oldest citizen. H. M. Joyce is fast recovering , from a recent illness which has j kept him confined to his home for several weeks. *** * * Mrs. Rev. S. S. Oliver ia ser iously ill at her home in Roanoke,: Va. She wa 8 formerly Miss | Mamie E. Pet per of Tanbury. ! Mrs. 'Via. Fiinchum is reported seriously 11 at her home near Pied mont Bpin*». She is Buffering from an attack of pneumonia. I'. C. A. HAS SPLENDID YEAR L. E. I RANT'S, SiOKE* IJOi. IS MANAGER or THf* \-v;- tI.VItON TO HELP l-'A KM —VI All's RECORD GOOD PROMT. M> lnlx-i s oi liie W i.is'. . Pro-' : 'ion Credit Assoc'-.; i '• . y'lleiK.-. I il fifth i.K!iuu! • - nol-.it:.«? eiiisj Oil SulUt .. ~h. In at '.- reports by ofT • r- • ing that last yesi this . cooperative short-1 i-rin crei'ii oi • ganizntion made loan.- total ing .$138,029.00; that the r.iembc now own capital stock amounting to $10,185.00: and that the asso ciation has built up a reserve jf 59.291.00. ■ The Association serves Alle i ghaney, Ashe, Caldwell, Davidson, Forsyth, Stokes, Surry, Watuaga, ; Wilkes, and Yadkin counties, and there was a good attendance from every section. The meeting was held at Winston-Salem in the Courthouse building. I Directors r-lee'ed were E. S. Welborn and N. C. Speas to serve for 3 years. Other directors who» • terms did not expire this year are Paul J. Vestal, A. B. Hobson, and W. H. Hardy. Reports were made t o the meet ing by W. H. Hardy, E. S. Wel born and L. E. Francis. Net earnings for the year as shown iby the reports were $1,573.75. j Ernest Graham, President o'. Production Credit Corporation of Columbia, spoke on the neccssi'y 'of a special credit system fn agriculture. He said that ade quate credit facilities have al | ways bec-n available for industry but that the business of produc ing crops is altogether differed | from the business of making au j tomobiles, turning out ste» 1 an.l ! elcctiicnl products, etc. j "In agriculture," said Mr. : Graham, "we have small units operated by individuals; in in dustry, we have large t -,its op erated by corporations. agr.- culture we deal with livi.i things plants, and animals; in idustry we deal with mechanical process es. In agriculture we depend Ito a large extent on seasons with | the natural hazards great; in in dustry we have a continuous op eration with natural bn»ardi ; limited. In agriculture we have long production periods making 't ! pratically impossible to effect 'quick adjustments to meet j changing conditions; in industry : wc have short production periods | and adjustments to meet changing condition.! can be more readilj made." Mr. Graham said that a recog. nition ol ttio apodal credit neeil'i of agriculti're resulted i n the es tabliahment of tho productioi, re lit tsfiociatk»na. These a HiO ciatic is, 1j h, 'd, ar; Cioperativa* f hty hav ti sfrn • manage- j meet a trol; tbev a perma-j nent, a l.t sources of -ed.t i for thei. ...bers; they give con-, Number 3,48(» CONSKUVATiON ( AkKIUS STOKES ' UORJ'J \ /\ i UK HI lAtJ IT IN IV\G TOWN SMJI'S—I«»I i; (Ol Vims fx fins IHM.uct. j -• •:. v.i*.' , i;i favor . i'i .1 i i i' Hivt-i soil : •• t v:". • .! Jir.g ti> : ' • v - " V> . - ,i:i J«ui - ...i . •: . •.1. • >«. iii: • • r!. ■ ! voivr-j no • "i" ; i ■ :'i;. :.!•;> Tut t!v Km. news to the Wi.-.sion paper say.-; t !n- vote was :»!l j.jr ai d ltd ag.iinst. giving tin proponent? :A *>*3.s [xr cent, majority. Townships voting heavily in favor of the proposed district were: Yadkin, Sauratown. Quake?" On p. Danbury, Beaver Island and Bij; Creek. .Ninety-four of the 116 ; lotos cast against the projec' were from Meadows and Peter's !Creek townships, j Dr. Hege At Danbury Camp Dr. J. Roy Hege, district health ; officer, Tuesday night addressed .the corps of the CCc tamp in Stokes county on public health l topics. ! Dr. Hege stressed the precau • tions to be taken to promote both personal and environmental pub j lie health, and explained general ly some of the work the public health department does. Death of Father of Mrs. Jas. Jones j Mi. Wiley Ragland died las: ""CCJE c::' vis buried Wednesday. Jr.r'tnry ££, r.' !;is home at Ok foH. Mr, was tlu father i.f Mis. James Jonc3 o* ' Walnut Cove. King- or WaJnut CoVe? . Mi 1 . Editor: I.' ii»f . e this legislature elects ; liquor fti »res for .Stokes county, .many V.liiu* C'uvo citizens are . wondering if King would not iy a better place to establish a store in view of their "excellent" law .enforcement system? Up then l the traffic could be helj in check so much better with their bone I "dry" officers? WALNUT COVE VOTER. Kesiffns Miss Ha no Oliver, public health nurse in the Stokes county divi sion of the public health district, i.as resigned her position to take special courses, venient mce: they havo ade quate canitr. . they have the | advantage of „ ..-virion and as sistance of the oductio 'redit iUorporati ol Columbia, | "With the a ishnioi ,», a | Production Cr» iit Syston. the other units undei 'UFTV. io of the 'a. .1 CT !'t \ mi? ;."t jti n," edd Mr. Grahmi, 'aprrkul. jture no v hns a c»\ it jßy?*em suit 1 j the cr iu netJ. ,of the farm business."
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