THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872
Of People arid Things
Robert Browder Buys
--George Piiddy Farm
••—Other King News.
'""~ L (By E. P. NEWSUM) '
t The battleship that won't stay
sunk—the Lexington.
> King, Dec. 10.—Mr. and Mrs.
Ringo White have returned from
Norfolk, Va., where they spent .a
few days the guests of their son,
Nome White, who holds a position
with the Virginia Traction Com
pany.
James Wolff of Walnut Cove,
formerly of King, was among the
visitors here Saturday.
Announcement is made of the
marriage Saturday of Edgar Mea
dows of Tobaccoville to Mrs. Cleo
Caudle of King. They will reside
In Pilot View.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Slate are
spending some time visiting rela
tives in Detroit, Michigan.
Guy Walker of the U. S. Army,
stationed in Alabama, is spending
a furlough with relatives here.
The following patiente under
went tonsil removal operations
•here last week: Charles Kallam,
; of Pinnacle; Miss Anne Davis, of
Germanton, and Mrs. Herman
Wolff, of King.
: Robert Browder has purchased
the George Priddy farm contain
ing 55 acres. Consideration $1,525.
Mrs. John Beasley, who has
been undergoing treatment in a
Winston-Salem hospital, is suf
ficiently improved to be removed
to her home on east Main street.
Vest Wall is confined to his.
home by illness his friends will
regret to learn.
•. Theodore Newsum made a busi
ness trip to Winston-Salem Fri
day.
Banks Turner was carreid to
the Baptist Hospital, Winston-Sa
lem, last week. He will undergo
an operation for a back injury.
Friends of Mrs. L. K. Pulliam
will regret to learn that she is
right sick at her home on west
Main street. Her "condition is
somewhat improved however.
And that's the news from here.
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• I
Indian Convicts Remov
ed From Robeson
County To Stokes
Some Of Them Lifers
And Considered Dan- ,
gerous.
Seventy-seven Indians from,
Robeson county were last week |
' removed to the Stokes county ]
State highway camp at Meadows. J
Robeson county has quite a
large population of Indians. Many |
»f them were in prison Robe-1
pon. Because the Stokes camp t
fess reo&tfr base largely deplet
ed of it« colored inmates, the,'
Volume 71
HIGH LIGHT OF
TOBACCO SEASON
Remarkable Sale Of Tobacco
I Made By Woman And Daugh
ter Of Flatshoal, Stokes Coun
ty—Greatest Average Yield A
Big Prices—Probably A Stati
Record.
Lsat week on the Winston-Sa
,lem market at Taylor's Ware
| house, was made possibly the mos
i outstanding sale of tobacco grown
in the State in the year 1942.
j Mrs. J. M. Carroll and 17-year
'old daughter Mary Ann sold 189'
I pounds of tobacco grown on on
acre of land for $881.45.
Mrs. Carroll and Miss Mar
Ann are the wife and daughte
of Deputy Sheriff Mose Carroll, o
Germanton, Route 1.
For pounds per acre and pric
received, this sale will possibly bi
a record in the 1942 season amonj
the markets of the State.
After all commissions by thi
warehouse- were deducted th.
Flatshoal lady and daughter go
a clear check for $881.45.
The Reporter man questions
the growers as to how it wai
done.
They said they used five sacki
of 3-10-6 fertilizer. On seconc
working oU or 60 pounds of sod;
was applied. On the third working
they used 20 pounds of potasl
and 20 pounds of soda and hal:
a sack of grain fertilizer.
If this record can be beaten ir
Stokes county or North Carolina
the Reporter will appreciate the
details.
State authorities decided to osc
the Stokes camp exclusively as an
Indian prison.
It is learned that some of these
prisoners are lifers who were
serving for the commission of
capital crimes, and several of
them are considered rather dan
gerous and are consequently
closely guarded.
Guards who will attend theso
prisoners, who are to be worked
on the roads, are Hardie Smith,
Lon Sisk, G. H. Crutchfield and
Edgar George.
J. H. Keaton of Vade Mecuin
vas here Tuesday night.
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The Reporter acknowledges the
eceipt of a nice mess of pn
rom Mr. and Mrs. Lem Mabe of
toute 1.
BUY WAR BONDS & STAMPS
Judge—After this, you had bet
er stay out of bad company.
Cuiptit— Yes, SBr, judge. You
ron't see men again in a hurry.
Danbury, N. C., Thursday, December 10, 1942
1 RALPH WALDO AND HIS
IRREFRAGIBLE LAW
. | Recently Harvard University conferred added
. encomiums on the sage of Concord, by celebrat
t ing his memory with appropriate ceremonies.
s' Once upon a time a Stokes county man was
handed by Fate a lemon.
He used it to start a lemonade stand.
" : You can put a fellow on a rock for a living and
* first thing you know he is selling building stones.
1 Physical handicaps, alleged adversity, hit you.
Others dance, go on fishing parties and excur
. sions. You have to sit down at home a bundle of
* disconsolate inertia. But you turn to the Bible,
2 Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad, Dickens and El
bert Hubbard.
" The final laugh is on the ribald crowd. Nature
J very nicely provides for you the balance.
Sometime in an unguarded moment you lose
8 your right arm. Don't worry. Its strength slowly
i infiltrates into your left. You emerge with a jab
/that discourages your adversary. Pearl Harbor
5 1 was a masked blessing. It put America in super
s gear.
J Under the Emersonian law of compensation,
L all expenses are paid back. If you are short on
one sector, you become long on another. It is all
; a matter of debits and credits. Nothing is ever
3 lost. If you kill my dog I kill your cat. Nature
plays a game of tit-for-tat.
11 Now, dear brethren, we know you are confus
ed by this display of metaphysical disquisition,
' but we will illustrate by recounting a tale of two
: Stokes county hunters which we will designate
! as:
THE ADVENTURES OF ALEX SOUTHERN
,| AND JERRY BAKER.
\\ Twas in the early fall of this year at Flatshoal.
! Alex and Jerry are close neighbors and close
friends.
i Alex is long and lank and lean. Jerry is short
and scrawny and cross-eyed. Both are fine hunt
ers.
Now Alex came in one day with the news
that squirrels were so thick in the hickory woods
half a mile toward the foot of the mountain that
I the noise of their falling hickory nuts sounded
like a hailstorm tearing up a tobacco patch.
j Jerry scratched his head, grinned and said:
"Let's git 'em." '
You see the game law was not yet out and the
reason Alex told Jerry was because he was
afraid to shoot squirrels, as Jerry would tell on 1
I him.
! The funny part about it was that Jerry already
knew about the squirrels and would have been
lin on'them himself but was afraid Alex would
tellonhim. j
So when Jerry said "Let's git 'em," Alex
agreed, and it was decided that they would hunt
together, and then neither one could squeal on
jthe other.
j That evening they went down to their places at •
the foot of big trees some 50 yards apart. No use
to have" dogs, as the squirrels were romping and
dancing up and down the hickory trees and olay- 1
ing with the nuts as they ate.
Soon the guns began to pop. All the two hunt-
EDITORIALS
Published Thursdays
OLD OFFICERS
NEWLY INSTALLED!
Bonds Are Renewed And Every-
| thing Moves Along Smoothly
Under The Court House Dome. (
' At the court house Monday
j Sheriff John Taylor, Clerk J. Wat: i
I Tuttle, and County Commissioners ;
I Howard Gibson, Harvey Johnson
|
• and Preacher j. A. Joyce renew-;
. ed their bonds and were newly in- t
- stalled in the business of running
! Stokes county's public affairs.
| The new Coroner S. P. Christian
was also sworn in.
There was quite a crowd around,,
; ers had to do was to sit quiet and shoot and re
load.
; Long about sundown as the animals began to
r show signs of being- gun-shy, Alex picked up his
) game and had six fine fat squirrels. But at that
" moment Jerry walked up with 13 bushy-tails on
" his shoulder.
"The hell," thought Alex, who had imagined
» Jerry would not kill a thing, being cross-eyed.
[ Alex was right much crestfallen as they walk
* ed on home together. He felt like his prestige
' had been kicked in the pants.
5 Jerry crowed. Alex says: "Jest you wait. My
gun needs cleaning out."
■ Next evening at 4 o'clock Alex and Jerry were
, 'back again, and the squirrels were as plentiful
>! as ever.
: | Their guns were soon popping. At the quitting
J time, Alex had 5, and then Jerry came up with
:' 11 on his string.
As they trudged back home Jerry crowed again,
but Alex said nothing. He lay awake all night
■! trying to figure out what was the matter. There
1 was bound to be some trick.
He got up about day-break with an idea in his
' mind. He didn't exactly believe in witches, but
he knew there was something hoo-dooing
! about this thing. No sa wed-off cross-eyed ga
loot could out-shoot him like that. He would
slip up behind Jerry when they went back again
and see how Jerry was having so much dam luck.
That evening after the two hunters had taken
their accustomed places and the guns began
popping again, Alex carefully laid down his
shooting iron and slipped out into the woods and
came up softly behind Jerry and right close to
him, and Jerry didn't know it.
| Alex watched Jerry shoot and every time he
shot, down came a fat squirrel to the ground.
Then Alex watched the squirrels, and as he
watched, the solution of the problem suddenly
came to him.
j He noticed that when Jerry aimed that the
squirrel Jerry was aiming at would sit perfectly
still while Jerry let him have it. The squirrel did
not know Jerry was looking at him.
| Whereas when Alex had aimed at a squirrel, the
squirrel would often dart behind a limb or hide
I himself in the branches.
Thus was again clearly demonstrated the
j truth of the Emersonian law of compensation.
The moral of this? story is: Never fool with a
cross-eyed man.
* * * * Number 5,681
notwithstanding the raw cold day.
j There was a good deal of hand
shaking from the friends of the
officials who were congratulate
ed for the confidence the people
I reposed in their integrity and
i ability.
The regular meeting of the
board of commissioners was held,
at which the transactions were o£
i a routine nature.
|
Richard McKenzie, son of Mr.
and Mrs. L. M. McKenzie, Jr., of
i
Germanton, who has been a pa«
tient at City Memorial Hispital
for several weeks, has returned t«
I his home.
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I Bl'Y WAR BONDS & STAMPS