THE DANBURY REPORTER
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Established 1872
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€XT€NSION WORK \
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F. R. Farnham -Jy nsion Da" v
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Specialist from State College, will
spend Tuesday and Wednesday,
December 2 and 3, on dairy farms
in Stokes county. Picture show
••lectures will be given at the fol
lowing places:
TuesJay, December 2
10 a. m.—A. M. Carrol's Store
2 p. m.—N. G. Covington's Store
4 p. m.—Fred Fowlers hom«
7:30 p. m.—Francisco High
School
Wednesday, December S I j
.. ,10 a. m.—R. M. Smith's farm J
™ 2p. m.—A. T. Steel's farm
4:30 p. m.—S.L. Hill's farm
* J. W, Crawford of the LandL'se
Office of Raleigh will accomfimy
Mr. Farnham part of the time.
The entire discussion will be very
interesting and instructive to
farmers at large and espicial'y fine
for dairy and poultry farmers. It
is -hoped all farmers of each re
' spective community will attend
their meeting. Such timely topics
lB winter feeding for milk produc
tion* housing dehorning and pas
ture making will 3e sunoe of th>;
subjects touched upon by th,i
specialist.
R. M. Smith recently purchas
ed t«To purebred Jerseys for foun
dation animals.
B. P. Baity reports that his
lock of 1741' chickens were found
be. free Irom pollorum diseaßo
when leetec by the agricultural
authorities. Mr. Bailey further re
ported some interesting facts by
Stating thai 352 barred rocks on
the third f oor of his large poult
ry house produced 244 eggs, or
£9 per cent, for one days aver
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age. Three hundred an eighty-nine
reds on the second floor produced
265 eggs, or 68 per rent. Dim
lights, sufficient .to permit te hens
to eat ar.d drink day and night,
are used in this modern poultry
bouse.
THIS WEEK
'IN DEFENSE
President Roosevelt sent identi
cal letters to UMW President
Lewis .and to the steel company
representatives Benjiman Fair
less, Eugene Grace and Fran'i
Purnell stating "work in the cap
tive miijies must recommence...
issue in dispute. ..does not
justify a. stoppage of work in a
* grave national crisis...**
The President asked the four
leaders to "allow the matter of
the closed shop in the captive
mines t!o remain in status quo for
the period of the national emer
gency." or else to accept final
arbitration. He said any agree
ment reached would have no ef
fect o£ the UMW's. closed shop
-Agree nient already in effect with
regular commercial twines. "**" v
Volume 66
STOKES SENDS
I 17 MORE MEN i
TO FORT BRAGG
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j The following registrants have
teen called by Stokes county draft
board No. 1 to report here this
morning at 8:30 to be sent to Fort
Bragg for military training:
I Wendell Vest Keiger, Tobacco
ville. |
I Howard Franklin Gordon, Pin
nacle.
I James Russel Mabe Danburv.
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Arnold Vestal Chapman, Wal
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nut Cove.
! Moir Lawrence Bennett, Nor
folk, Va.
William Harvey Lawson, Fran
cisco.
| Silas Martin, Walnut Cove.
Willis Odell Ashby, Danbury.
I Jerry Randolph Dodson, Sandy
Ridge.
Ralph Allen Neal, Pine Hall.
Matt Jesse James, Winston-
Salem.
John Thomas Scott, Germanton.
Joseph Hiram Tilley Hampton,
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Virginia.
| Fred Abraham Stevens, Dan
i bury.
Joseph Edgar Moorefield. Pin
nacle.
Cazzie Mabe, 4,
Buried Today
Cazzie, the four-year-old son o!
Mr. and Mrs. Creed Mabe of nea.
Danbury, died Wednesday at the
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home at 2 o'clock after an illness
of three days.
| Funeral services were held to
'day at the home with Elder W. J.
j Brown, Miller Vaden and Watt
Brady in charge. Burial was i.i
'the family cemetery.
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j In a message to the CK> conven
tion in Detroit, the President said
unless democratic freedoms are
protected from the "w or 1 d
scourge" of Hitlerism, "free trade
i unions and all other free institu
tions will vanish." To protect thess
' freedoms, he wrote, "we must
, produce guns, tanks, planes and
i ships without delay and without
I interruption, and the American
people and their Government are
( determined that we shall have
them."
Arming of Merchant Ships
President Roosevelt signed the
legislation to repeal the three key
sections of the Neutrality Acc.
The President also requested from
Congress a new $380,050,000 ap
propriation for the Navy, includ
ing $120,000,000 for "defense in
stallations" on merchant ships.
Navy Secretary Knox said the
first armed U. S. merchant vessels
will be plying the seas within a
week. He said ships plying both
the Atlantic and Pacific will be
armed. The arming of the ships
will require three to four mouths
(Continued on page four)
Danbury, N. C., Thursday, Nov. 27, 1941 * * * *
(An Editorial.)
IN DEFENSE OF A LADY
Gene Tunney, former heavyweight champion,
now in charge of navy physical training and ath
letics, publishes in the last issue of the Readers
Digest a strong, almost vicious attack on the
cigarette.
He says smoking shortens life, and you have a
much less chance of reaching 60 if you smoke. He
quotes Dr. Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins who
"found that among 100,000 heavy smokers (over
10 cigarettes a day), 53,774 die before the age of
60." Among the same number of nonsmokers. Dr.
Pearl found "that only 43,436 die before that
age."
Tunney goes on to say that no one has ever de
nied that nicotine is poison, and tells again the
old story about what one drop of it will do to a
shaved rabbit, and that the nicotine dissolved out
of "a few cigarettes and placed on the tongue of
a grown man would kill him in 15 minutes," etc.
The first person who ever smoked a cigarette
in Danbury was a man who lived here when I was
a kid. 1 thought so well of the way he blew the
.•-moke through his nose that 1 learned the fasci
nating art myself.
The other day I visited this pioneer nicotinist
at his home over in Virginia. He has not walked
any for several years, due to a hip injury. He sits
and reads and smokes cigarettes all day, with a
fine clear mind. He is now past 80.
I asked him how long he had been smoking cig
arettes. He said:
"Only about 65 years."
Tobacco is not good for young people with bud
ding intellects, but for maturer years when a per
son is old enough to have sense, it is the greatest
consolation of this era.
No person has ever experienced the most exalt
ed satisfaction of thephysical and mental cosmos
who has not sat down after a hearty meal and
slapped in a large chew of tobacco.
In such a time you are quite willing to let the
rest rest of the world go by while you ruminate
and philosophize on the vicissitudes.
Thea-e is a keen elation of the spirit as you
reach encouraging solutions that otherwise
would be severe headaches.
If the evidence we have presented is not suffi
cient to convince, we will introduce good and
credible witnesses in corroboration.
First—Mr. Carl Ray, efficient deputy sheriff,
who consumes a long black plug of "Detective"
every day, and who never chases a law-breaker
without first putting in a fresh chew.
Second—Mr. Jim Lasley, who keeps a quarter
of a pound of the "consolation" packed away in
his left jaw, and who can hit a fly at 10 paces.
Now is the time for all good smokers, chewers
and snuff-dippers to come to the aid of Lady Nic
otine.
THE BULL'S TAIL
American labor, which is by far the higest paid
in the world, made a serious mistake in following
John L. Lewis, whose name is now mud as far as
strikers are concerned.
Somebody put a crimp in the tail of this swash
buckler last week. He relinquished his hold and
:the big coal strike that was destined to strangle
(production in the steel factories fizzed out.
But Lewis dared a little too far. His ambition
and greed and conceit while leading to his own
downfall, has seriously endangered the rights
and privileges gained by the labor organizations
during the last two decades.
For, now, Congress is aroused and anti-strike
legislation is being framed. Laws that will make
it a crime to halt the defense program by unwar
ranted strikes is sure to be passed.
No 4 jsore will . the .bulkvisaged Lewis* have- the 1
power to help Hitler with dangerous sabotage.
Published Thursdays
HAWKINS MICA
MINE MUDDLE
COMPLICATION SI RKOI ND- 1
ING THE TITLE ENGAGES \
LEGAL ASSISTANCE—HIS
TORY OF THIS CELEBRATED
MINE, DEVELOPED FIFTY '
YEARS AGO BY PEPPER
MINING COMPANY.
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The old James Hawkins mic.i
mine, now biing workid, lias rt- |
jcenUv cornr into publicity '
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I ing over c. !arge scope of the
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country.
! The government finds need for '
, mica in its defense program, large- |
ly it is reported in the mar.ufac- j
:ture of airplanes, and so the price j
for this rare mineral has skyrock-1
etei inducing speculators to make'
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frantic efforts to control rmca,
properties whenever found.
Tin tiistory of the old James,
Hawkins mine extends back more
than half i» centrv. It was first de-;
vtloj*\i by the Pepper Mining
Company, who 50 years ago took
fine quantities of mica from 1
this mine, selling it to northern
interests at good prices.
The Pepper Mining Company
was composd of the late N. M.
Pepper and Jas. A. Pepper, and
J. W. Pepper. J. W. Pepper, livinj
I now at Cbristiacsburg, Vs.. was
. in_nfcgtr \J~ th'- fempanv
Later the price of mica c!e» li/i-'
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'ing to an impnlfitable level, the |
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Pepper Co., who onlv held a lease
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on tlie mineral sights of the land. 1
discontinued operation*.
A.v the years went by Jwues 1
|Hawkins, the owner of tue mica,
iditit Henry Whi'.aki i ol Pilot Mt.
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•bought the heirs out and disposed
'of one-third interest in the mine to'
'Alex Joyce of Patrick county, Va.
for 52.000.
j Different' parties were later in
•terested in the property.
i Finally during the depression
the property was sold for taxes,
and a party in Mitchell county,
! North Carolina, became the owner,
'and still holds his interest but
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j has made a sale to a Philadelphia
concern at §22,000.
I This was probably a conditional
'sale, as the Philadelphia concern
engaged Charlotte lawyers to in
vestigate the title, who found that
in the tax foreclosure proceedings
by the county Alex Joyce, the
owner of the one-third interest,
was not made party to the suit.
Learning this state of the mat
ter, Fred Pepper of Walnut Cove,
went over and purchased Joyce'.-
interest, Joyce giving the impress
ion that his wife, who would have
held a dower interest was dead.
■ But no sooner than Fred had
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completed his Ue -i :han he le..rr.
that Mrs. Joy-.e w.is sti.l living ir
Oklahoma. inp-.tm d by A. J.
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Ellington attorrev, Fx.*d went 'o i
f
'Oklahoma and secuied a quit
deed from Mrs. J iyc?.
Another angle is that tit'e in
vestigtion showed that one of the
mines, or part of one of the mines
! was located on the land of Percy
Morefield, who was bought out on
la $5OO option by "W/G. Petree. Mr.
1 Petree has also been to Oklahoma
* * * "Number 3,01 '1
Changes Made In
Emergency Crop Loan
Office
; W. R. James, field supervisor ol"
Forsyth county in the emergency
jcrop loan service, was here this
week.
Mi. James formerly had super
vision of Forsyth, Yadkin and
Surry in this government service,
now yields Surry to (I. U. All'ori
; late Stokes supervis«»i, who i ns
'been transferred .to Surry. Mi
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James will now visit Stokes ro_,-
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ularly, as this county has been
transferred to ljis supervision.
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JAILED
Watson Broadstreet and Her
! Bert Beeson, both of Walkertown
'v.vrt arrested Saturday by Patrol
man Bristol Dellinger and weiv
jailed after a warrant for trar.- - -
' fKii:ing li'juor was sworn. The/
'were released under bonds >l
ench for their appearance at the
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January term of Superior Cour'.
iThe hearing was before Jus'.i v
of the Peace P. C. Campbell,
j Oscar Gerry, Curtis Souther:*
arid Fred Wall of Walnut Cove and
Meadows were arrested Thursday
by Special Deputy Cftrl Kay mi
charges of public drunkm ss. They
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were released upon payment of
finer and costs. ... "»
| Krnest Neal, George Bolton and
j Marrtr. Bolton of Walnut Ctivo
were arrested and jailed Saturday
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'by Deputy Sheriff Burke Smith.
Special Deputy carl Ray and Pat-
Jrolman Bristol Dellinger for pub
lic drunkness. "thirty days lor the
Boltons; 1 Ernest Neal", fine' a:vl
cost.
| Officers Cleve Laws on a:i i
Rufus Mabe of Lawsonville ar
rested Ed Collins and Otis Mr-
Adams, of Peter's Creek Town
ship, Sunday for public drunknes-.
Both men were fined. ;
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THREL MEN OF SAME
.NEIGHBORHOOD. COMBINEI*
AGES 2 GZ YEARS
Mr. and Mrs. Dixie Wood, of
the North View section, visitet
Danbury Tuesday. Mr. Wood in
forms the Reporter that his fath
er. Sol Wood, now past 80, is ?
peart as a trtrltet ,u; I gets out;
and wo*k°. J. 1). 'i ■.». :? :;){.•■*, S
living nearby, now 92, is in fairly J
,sood health and his brother, P. H
H.. of the same neighborhood, no>t* J
past 90 is in delicate health
nothing" serious.
Here are three citizens residnH
in the same community
combind ages reach 262 years.
R. C. Bodenh unmet* of
I ton was business v'snor here
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l in the interest of hi. title. •
Next D. c\ Kirby was engage
by Patrick county interested
ties, and Mr. Kirby, too, has
a trip to Oklahoma.
So it appears that the real owi:H
ership of Hawkins mica mine,
bracing only about 30 «cr«sv
be a subject for settlement by
court*. |K