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f THE DANBURY REPORTER ! Established 1872 Volume 71 Hanging Rock Road == Jeff ress IMPROVE THE ROAD TO HANGING ROCK NOW. k E. B. Jeffress, former chairman of the State highway commission, says in today's Greensboro News: "Recently the decision of the highway depart ment to proceed with some road construction with the funds which Governor Broughton re cently allocated for secondary roads, enabled the department to proceed at once with surfacing an , approach road from highway No. 66 to the new state park known as Hanging Rock park. This , to be finished in time for the park to be >pened this summer. ,ni bis is an urgent state responsibility and } ought to be proceeded with immediately, because /• with the tire and automobile situation as it is f iany folks who have been able to take long trips J to the seashore heretofore will not have a place \ for an outing unless this park can be brought in ; to use. It will give a nice week-end recreational p®ace within of the big industrial cities of ; the piedmont area. "Regardless of so-called allocation, the high- L JWy department ought to £nd mdney enough to. at least straighten the existing road, widen the ► bridges and put on a surface treatment so that people can go to this park in comfort. In addition to serving Hanging Rock state park this county road will also serve Moore's Springs, which al- I* ways has been a very popular place for many people from this section, and will serve Vade Mecum, where the North Carolina Episcopal dio- I cese has a summer program every year, bring ' ing people from over the state. They deserve a ( better road than now exists. This work should be V done immediately—in time for the spring and \ summer seasons. ' "It was held off because of an effort of the high -1 way department to divert highway No. 89 by y this way and use federal funds, but federal funds are out of the picture, making it now pos sible to use state funds on this road." MORGANTON MESS We have received from W. C. Dowd, editor Charlotte News, a copy of the expose of the Mor ganton State hospital conditions, written by Tom \ P. Jimison, a former inmate of the asylum. The details of this report read like an account U of the corruption and horrors of medieval times where there was no law except the will of some tyrant who imprisoned his victims in castle dun geons, to rot and starve. This mess is a stigma upon the good name of the state that should be wiped out and punish ment meted out to those who are responsible. The next legislature must go into this thing deeply, and provide that there shall be no repeti tion of such disgraceful conditions at a state in stitution. • L NORTH CAROLINA'S CIGARETTE TAXES y This state paid .$330,468,577 into the Federal lJ treasury from cigarettes last year. This was $48,887,659 more than we paid in the year 1940. Virginia paid in $232,829,752. North Carolina and Virginia's total of $563,- ■) 810,329 compares with $107,617,751 paid in cigar f ette taxes by the rest of the states. ] Great is tobacco and great are North Carolina j and her sister state. I , 5 .1 i / Danbury, N. C., Thursday, Mar. 5,1942 ***** Published Thursdays NOW HERE'S JACOB RUPPERT WITH THE NEWS Good evening, everyone: There's a lull in the fighting on the Saliva front. You see, it all happened in this way: It was 4 o'clock in the evening of Monday, when i the race began between the blizzard and Robert Mabe's houn that had up and went mad. The race to see who could bite the keenest and the mean est. It was a very exciting time, yes a very exciting .time. The snowstorm drove in on the teeth of the ; north wind, swirling and swishing and seething. Robert's houn drove in on the same wind, swip : ing and sniping and teething. The populace rushed to cover. Kids made for home. Housewives slammed doors. Visitors in town became snowbound. County commissioners, tire rationers and draft functionaires were ma rooned. Others also beered. Yes, it was a very exciting time. Irate citizens began to challenge each other: "They say it's bit everything. Why don't they kill those dogs. They, too, might go mad." " WWy in the hell don't you kill yourn?" Soon the mails couldn't arrive. Cars were danc ing on the Stevens hill like high school girls jit- Iterbugging on Sunday evenings. Big trucks went sidewise and blocked the highways. Towards night, to add to the exasperation, the lights went out. Trees reposed on the Duke wires. Yes, it was a very exciting time. By the time darkness had fallen from the wings of night, reports came in that deputy sheriffs bristling with six-shooters and blackjacks were preparing for the massacre, in the morning at sunrise. All dawgs were to be killed—yes killed till they were dead—dead-dead. In the meantime Robert's houn, its appetite cloyed with town dawg meat, struck out across the country into Peter's Creek where it gnawed a number of pigs and cows, till somebody shot it. Yes, shot it to death. No more will it scratch its friendly fleas, nevermore will it suck the lus cious egg in neighbor hen houses. No, nevermore, no nevermore. And the victims of his cunning still are running, still are running. Yes, still running. Next morning county seat people rose early to see the pile of dead canines. A pyramided heap of mangy houns, of mongrel curs, of bench-leg ged fice, all grades of demised dawgs lying in one huge mound like tanked Nazis on the Lenin grad moor. But not a durn dawg was in sight, dead or alive. Nothing but the driven snow, only the driven snow that enwrapped the landscape, the sheath ed cedars looking like veiled brides. And Dallas Kirby with his knee boots on. Only the veiled brides, and Dallas Kirby with his boots on. What was the matter, yes, what was the mat ter? It seemed the blitzkrieg had petered out with the blizzard—run into a sort of cul-de-sac. • As everybody was estopped by everybody else. It was a case of who's going to start something— a question of mutual ownership, mutual posses sion, mutual guilt. Tune into this station again next Thursday. Yes, tune in again. Thank you, Gabriel Ruppert. W. N. REYNOLDS AND OTHER PROMINENT PEOPLE VISIT DANBURY At six o'clock in the evening 54 years ago, W. N. Reynolds of Winston, and -J. Spot Taylor oi! Danbury, wrestled in the grassy ])lot next to the old street well. Several fails were taken by each —I think they quit "yj-.'O. i These young men were the best friends in the world, and the friendship lasted. J. Spot Tay lor died in 1928. \V. X. Reynold -is chairman of the board of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., still iiving and in good health. Now i saw this bout. I was a kid but remember it well. At that time W. N. Reynolds and many other prominent people were summer guests at the Taylor and McCanless hotels, each house taking' care of more than a hundred guests. There was no hotel then at Piedmont Springs, though the last hostelry at that popular resort was com pleted one year following this incident, opening for guests June 1, 1889. The incidents mention ed herein occurred August 16, 1888, according to the files of the Danbury Reporter. Now here is a list of a few of the guests being entertained at the Taylor and McCanless houses at that time. Read the list and see how many are still living. Among them are representatives from some of the most distinguished families in the State: , Misses Kate and Lillie Bitting (the former later became Mrs. W. N. Reynolds), Lecie and May Tate, Mary Gorrell, Kittie Mae Penn, Mary Sue Motley, Julia Smith, Mary Walker, Marion Richardson, Haigh, Maggie Clack, Mabel Brown, Lou and Mary Martin, (Miss Lou afterwards became Mrs. Dr. J. H. Ellington. She is living at Sandy Ridge.) Maggie ,Watt, Lizzie Set tle, Cora May Scales, Cora Lou Hay, Lemma Car ter, Wimbish, Marion Follin, Emma Martin, El ia Griffin, Mary Hardy, Georgia Liipfert (after wards Mrs. Thomas R. Pepper). Going back to the wrestling match between W. N. Reynolds and J. Spot Taylor. Each was a magnificent specimen of physical manhood, each weighed more than 200 pounds. Many of the guests from the hotels and lots of Danbury peo ple were present, forming a ring around the par ticipants. The bout afforded much entertainment to the spectators. x , j; (Bob Carmichael of the Winston Journal-Sen tinel, and the editors of the Reidsville Review the Madison Herald, the Stuart Enterprise and the Danville Register are invited to copy. Manv of the people whose names are mentioned above -were residents of Winston, Reidsville, Danville. Madison and Stuart.) N.E.P. BUS LINE STUART TO WALNUT COVE. The Reporter has been agitating for several >eaisa bus line from Stuart, Va., via Lavvsonviile and Danbury to Walnut Cove. Now is the time to start it. Buses can get tires, and the bus over this route will have almost a monoply of travel. It will pay hand over flst. . The first to get the franchise will be lucky Above all the line will be a great public service, Number 3,643
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