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Thursday, Apr. 16, 1942 Severe Blow To Danbury FAILURE OF PROJECT TO NAVIGATE DAN RIVER WAS UNFORTUNATE, YET JT'S AN ILL WIND WIND TFYVT BLOWS NO GOOD. It appears that from some cause the project of navigating the Dan, and the Reidsville edi tor's amb'tion to sail from Leaks ville in a beautiful little steamer to Danbury, met with obstacles. ! Danbury's growth has no " «doubt been somewhat retarded by the dissipation of this pretty ■dream of 67 years ago. Yet at * this peculiar time of so many submarine sinkings we do not think it practicable to revive the plans to make this a seaport town. The editorial below from the Reidsville News, appeared in the .• Danbury Reporter of September 3, 1875: Sometime ago Major Morehead made a contract with the Roa noke Navigation Company by which he leased for ninety years, ■with all the rights and and pow ers of that company in the Dan river. He has made a proposition tOjthe people of Danville to bear half the expense of a survey. To this some dissented, and a com petent man has been engaged to go from Danville to Danbury and report the falls, cubic yards of rock, and ascertain wing-dams necessary to be built and give i y sluice 30 feet wide and of suffici ent depth for navigation. The bateau navigation will be improv ed and go forward step by step t as may be deemed advisable un til the highest point is reached which is possible to attain in the Dan. Then if steam is found to be practicable it will be finally adopted. If we can only succeed with firstclass bateau navigation we t would be gainers by more water j from the present neglected condi- J tio«i of the river. There are par- j ties above us on the Dan interest ed in iron ores, and we are al most sure of interest.ng them to open up the coals. The Dan is a noble stream and penetrates a back country rich in undeveloped minerals; its valleys and mea dows are the finest for grazing purposes, and growing wheat, corn, rye, oats and clover. Tribu tary to it's stream are the rich growing tobacco regions of Rock ingham and Stokes counties, and portions of Henry and Pittsyl vania counties, Va. We can't see 4 that stream on Dan river would be less practicable than on Staun ton river, where Mr. Bruce has been so far successful in his ex periment of stream navigation. That Dan river is susceptible to the highest extent to bateau nav igation is not one moment wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmwmam WELDERS WANTED NO DELAY —OUR GRADUATES ARK EMPLOYED UP ON GRADUATION. We have graduates earning "l» to SIOO a week. You can learn to weld in (i Weeks. U. S. NAVY CERTIFIED WELDING INSTRUCTORS Day and Night Classes Reasonable terms—Convenient payment*—: Pay part after emploved—FßEE PLACEMENT SERVICE SOUTHERN WELDING SCHOOL WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. 1206-12 Reynold* Rd. doubted; and we may confidently look for a successful introduc tion of steam ere long on its bosom. The best time, in our opin ion, to undertake a survey would be in October, the loveliest month of the year when the stream ia perfectly clear and the water at its lowest. Like the editor of the Danville Times, we shall not rest satisfied till we can sail from Leaksville, or some poirt on the Dan, in a beautiful little steamer to Danbury.— (Reidsville News.) Other items of interest appear ing in that issue of the Reporter are as follows: A tolerable respectable knock down, gouge and scratch came off between four persons at Chas. Smith's barroom Thursdav. Danbury will probably soon j boast of a brass band. Several ot young men are making an ef ; fort in this direction, and we | wish them success. Mr. Scrogg'3 school opened on Tuesday morning, with a few pupils. Others will soon be in at tendance. We hope our citizens will take an iterest in thi3 mat ter, for there is nothing of equal importance to the rising genera tion as an edcation. Mr. N. M. Pepper has been ap pointed by the County Commis sioners to get up a map of the county as laid off in townships, with the villages, water courses, roads, etc., which Mr. W. Shars wood, of Philadelphia, proposes to have lithographed at his expense, and will present several copies for the use of the county. The County Commissioners were >n session on last Monday, attending to county matters. Mr. |J. T. W. Davis, the Register of Deeds, whose health had given away, resigned his position. M»\ G ; deon M.tcheil wr.s appointed and qualified to assume the dut ies of his position more accurate ly and faithfully than any man we have ever known in Stokes county. • We want 500 pounds nice honey-comb, and 5,000 pounds of wax. Pepper & Sons. Hon. Jefferson Davis has been invited to deliver the address at the Salisbury Fair. The colored people of Winston have been holding a series of re ligious meetings in the court house. New tobacco in Danville brought 525 a hundred. It came j from Granville county, N. C. THE DANBURY REPORTER ™ The Wadesboro Argus says I that Col. Carraway, the "Civil | Righter," is no longer allowed to j drink at the "white man's bar" j 'n Wadesboro. He applied there! for a drink the other day, and he I was informed by the proprietor that there was a place in the basement where "we colored brethren" got their drinks. Charlotte Democrat: If the Democrats have control of the Convention we presume ex-Gov ernor David S. Reid, of Rocking ham, will be the President; if the j Republicans have control, Hon. | Oliver H. Dockery, of Richmond county, will be made President. We will pay cash fo v 500 bush els of good wheat. Pepper & Snra. " I We notice a good deal of wheat coming into our market. Ii is f> better sign of prosperity that our farmers are selling breadstuffs rather than buving them. I Mr. A. H. Joyce is attending Surry court this week. Mr. R. T. went with Ivm. We are not aware that the latter is a member o:" the bar, but suppose he went "to court," too. | THIS COUNTRY OF OURS Don't be afraid to look in the face of tomorrow. It's goihg to be ours! It's going to belong to America. Its strength will be ours and its faults will be ours. It will be just as good or as bad as we make it. So don't be afraid to look in its face. We're going to win this war. Why? Because we have to! Winning may take longer and cost more than any of us now like to think, but losing would cost a lot more. So we'll win. Fjven if it's a fight to ex haustion. Even if the victory is to the side that can put the last ten thousand planes in the air. Those last ten thou sand planes must be ours. We alone can turn victory into peace. Our ways have always been by choice the ways of peace. Our major battles have been fought against disease and ignorance. Our greatest victories have been won against poverty and drudgery. Here in America we have set up the world's highest standards of living, of education, of health, of personal free- human dignity. Labor-saving machinery, mass pro-' duction these are American ideas. From a full nc .per advertisement by Gimble's. n century old firm ojier.itin;; di'jKutment Philadelphia, Pittsburgh ;,:i.l Milwaukee. The advertisement .1 ppearcd recently in NYw York dailies Stokes Lumber Co. WALNUT COVE, l\l. C. The season has closed at Pied | mont Springs, and Capt. Taylor j and his family, who superintend ! Ed the hotel, will be welcomed to ! the'r home as our closest neigl;- I bors, in a few days. A noble specimen of the true gentleman, Mr. Thomas Gallo way, passed through our village yesterday morning, on his way home from Piedmont Spring.-!. We struck farewell hands with the hope to meet again. On the 2nd instant John Dun- I can was brought to jail on * peace warrant sued out by Col umbus Smith. He remained in limbo about an hour, when he was released upon bail —his bond being in the sum of SSO. Dr. McCanless, the Republican representative of the county to the Constitutional Convention, left on last Sunday for Raleigh. We will look for him back by Christmas if the funds in the Treasury hold out. Deputy Sheriff W. M. Wall of Pine Hall was in Danbury today. Mr. Wall is one of Sheriff Taylor's most popular and efficient olli cers. H. D. Club Meets At Lawsonville Lawsonville.—.The Lawsonville H(ome Demonstration Club met Wednesday afternoon, April 1, at the home of Mrs. P. H. Robert son with eleven members pres ent. They were: Mesdames C. M. Mabe, R. A. Robertson, Thornton Walter Lackey, Roy Martin, B. O. Sheppard, Z. R. Sheppard, Jamei Martin, P. H. Robertson, -Clar ence Alley and Miss Blanche Robertson. The meeting opened with p song, "Is Everybody Happy?". The major project was "Future Security Through Conservation." A demonstration on how to take care of the things that we use in our home and on the farm and make them last longer in the fut ure was given by Miss Craft, the home agent, which was very in teresting. After the business session a:j (interesting contest was held >»v Miss Blanche Robertson. T'.i pr ze was awarded to Mrs. C. M. Mabe. Delicious refreshments Were served by the hostess, assist.-1 by her daughter, Miss Blanche Robertson. They were intended to make life richer —not to destroy it. We created the automobile to free man from the shackles of distance. It was not our idea to convert it into a chariot of death. We gave man the wings of an angel— and he used them to become a vulture. We have drawn the blueprints >f a better world. If it's ever built, we'll have to build it. That's why the peace will W- made this time by ourselves and thoe who think the way we do. We'll make the peace and we'll keep the peace. It will be a peace and not a truce. It will he a peace in which men dare to plant their fields and women dare create new life. And the vast armament plants will flood the world with those things that make life easier and happier. It will be a peace that will last—not for a year or for a generation, but for enough generations so that all men shall learn that the world holds wealth, enough for everybody when thev lean: to share and not to destroy it. And those last ten thousand planes they will be the last that take to the air in anger. PUBLISHED THURSDAYS } Committee Meets The newly elected County Committee, Jacob Fulton. J. Moir Hawkins. T. M. Smith, met >n the Association office on Wednes day, April 15. and selected L. F. Brum'field, as secretary of the Association and A. M. Cuudie as treasurer. The committee also made an annual report to the ft'tate Com mittee with reference to the Soil Building Phases of the Agricul tural Conservation Association. Mr. and Mrs. Dallas C. Kirby and son, Bobby, will spend the week-end in Greensboro the guest of Mrs. Bynuni C!e«z and Mrs. H. K. Marshall. VV. M. Ful[ , of Walnut Cove, general agent of the Security I-»ife and Trust Company, was in town Monday. Mr. Fu'.p is one of the livest insurance men in the state, ir.d represents tin- fastest gr w i:a company ir. this or any other stnte. Willi !'.i F. Marsha!!, who op erate-. ' ..!• ft: k\- Lumber Com pany Walnut Cove, was in Danbury Tuesday attending to some business matters.
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