THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872
Report Of Red
Cross Contributions
I , In Stokes
Stokes county's quota of contri
butions for the Red Cross is $5,-
480.00. Of this amount $2,271.52
has Been raised. The sum of $3,-
206.48 is yet needed to complete
the Stokes quota. The drive will
end next Wednesday, the last day
of the month.
Townships reporting to date
are as follows:
Sauratown $890.80.
Yadkin 861.02.
Quaker Gap 151.45.
Meadows 251.10.
Big Cr egf 2.00.
Peter's Creek 35.00.
Beaver Island 80.25.
DanEury and Snow Crek town
ships have not yet reported col
lections received.
Letter From
Bob Simmons
Editor Danbury Reporter:
I have got 3 sons in the army
and another one has done regis
tered, but they haven't called him
yet, apd J am not able to work as
I have been. There are lots of fam
ilies haven't got any. It is going
yery tough with me. My wife isn't
aole to work at all. She has been
in care of the doctor for several
years. t
I hope the war will soon end.
Your* truly,
808 SIMMONS,
> il Danbury, N. C., Rt. 1.
a;
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Big Preparations For
Poultry Raising
' i i i
It is said that the of
the county are making greater
preparations for chickens and
eggs ever known before. The food
question is regarded as a serious
one for the future, and along
with vegetables poultry products
have a high value.
Somebody has said if you give
the old hen a fair show, she will
feed the nation.
Carried To Sanitarium
Sheriff J. J. Taylor and Regis
ter of Deeds R. L. Smith this
week carried Everett Lawson and
Luz James to the Oteen sanator
ium in western North Carolina
near Asheville, Lawson and James,
SC3E£d~couriiy men, are in very
deliCuie heaTTn.
Call From Peter's Creek
"
Paid us a pleasant visit today:
Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Nicholson
of Lawsonvile. Mrs. Nicholson was
before her marriage to Johnnie,
a daughter of George Robert Mar
tin.
Last Sunday their daughter,
Mrs. Novella Sheppard and Mr.
and Mrs. Coy Rhodes, all of High
Point, visited them at their home.
They reported Jack Martin very
W. .
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Volume 72
Death Of Mrs.
Nina Heath Mabe
(Written by a friend.)
Mrs. Nina Heath Mabe, aged 43,
wife of Tenaie Mabe, of Danbury,
Route 1, died at her home Thurs
day morning at 5:45 o'clock after
an illness of two months.
Surviving are the husband ana
one daughter, Nina Ruth Mabe of
the home, and the following child
ren by a former husband: Mrs.
Paul Priddy and Euel Nelson, oJ
Martinsville, Va., and James Nel
son, of Stuart, Va.; five grand
children, and live s.'s'ers, Mrs.
Brockley Gray, Mrs. Jim Ot.'.''r.P,
Mrs. Nora Dollyaide, Mrs. Cr ts>
Gray of Stuart, Vt., and Mr.s
Leonard Stevens, of Danbury;
three brother, Buck Heath of Ba>
sett, Va,; Harry Heith, o f Stone
ville, and Moir Heath of Stuart »,
Va.; her father and step-mother,
Mr. and Mrs. Sanders Heath,
Stuart, Va.; and four step-child
ren, Douglas, Randolph, Lorene
and Josephine Mabe of the home.
Mr. Mabe has lost a loving com
panion and the children have lost
a good mother, but we feel our
loss is heaven's gain. She bore her
suffering patiently and greeted
everyone with a smile, and told
her loved ones she didn't fear
death at all but hated to leave her
husband and little children,
professed a hope while she was
in the hospital, and was tbe hap
piest person I ever saw during her
sickness. She sang many songs
as long as Bhe could and asked
others to sing and pray for her.
She often talked of her heavenly
home and told them she was a
bud that would bloom in heaven.
Funeral services were held at
North View Primitive Baptist
Church Saturday at 2 o'clock by
Elders W. J. Brown and Edd
Priddy and Rev. J. F. Manuel,
with interment following in Pet
er's Creek Cemetery.
Flowerbearers were Mesdames
C. M. Dillon, D. B. Young, J. B.
Young, Nod Oakley and Erby
Wood.
Pallbearers were Mavin Dillon,
Otha Wood, J. B. Young, Jack Al
ley, Noel Oakley and WiTbert
Tucker.
To Hot Springs
Paul T. Taylor, of Taylor's
Warehouse, is spending a while at
Hot Springs, Ark., to receive
treatment for a recent attack of
rheumatism.
Court Next Week
The regular spring term of
criminal court will convene next
Monday. The docket is the small
erf for years and will probably
last from one to two days, hardly
three. The is his Honor J.
Donald Phillip* of Rockingham,
Richmond county.
TheTollowing week will be civil
oowt. " "
Danbury, N. C., Thursday, March 05, 1948
.WHEN THE POT CALLS THE
KETTLE BLACK
Stokes county has been excommunicated and
ostracized from the community of holier-than
thou counties.
As the bull was issued by the Forsyth county
Union Republican we are not sure yet whether
it was a political or ecclesiastical manifesto.
Now, you see, it all happened this way:
Some weeks ago the Reporter published some
statistics furnished by a local minister in which
it was shown that out of a population of 22,656,
Stokes county had 16,744 citizens who do not be
long to any church.
Following this disclosure the Union Republi
can went holily aghast. It severly rebuked Stokes
people for their irreligiousness.
The Republican said: "Now we know what is
the matter with Stokes county. Such a record is
a shame on any county."
The Republican continued its sermon 1 "When
Stokes county people pay no more attention to re
ligious matters than these figures show, the sec
ret is out. That's what's the matter with Stokes
county."
The Reporter was very much crestfallen. We
set out to find why Stokes was so bad, as compar
ed with other counties, especially our pious neigh
bor to the south. Soon we were supplied with
some data pertaining to the spiritual status fo
Forsyth, and here is what we found:
Population 126,475.
Church members 47,749.
Non-church members 78,726
Thus we learned that while the unchurched
population of Stokes is about 73 per cent., the
non-church members of Forsyth amounted to 62
per cent, of its population.
Then we proceeded to analyze the comparative
ecclesiastical data of the two counties.
It was revealed that Forsyth is a county with
one of the largest cities in the State, while it has
several good sized towns. Forsyth's population
is largely urban, while that of Stokes is mainly
agricultural, thinly settled and isolated.
In cities or thickly settled communities condi
tions are vastly more favorable to quickly secur
in large church accessions on account of facilities
for easy and effective organization for mass tac
tics, team work, etc., in religious campaigns that
bring in the members. This gives an important
advantage, so everyone knows.
Again, the 1940 census figures for Forsyth
show a negro population of 41,152 —nearly twice
as many people as live in Stokes. It is a well
known fact that our colored friends are much
more susceptible to church membership than
whites as they belong to a race which is intensely
emotional. This factor, we T)elieve would enter
very largely into the question of attachment to
church or other religious influences.
The Stokes negro population is very small,
while the figures indicate that 12,000 negroes
help make pp the Forsyth church membership,
leaving 35,749 whites.
However, the fact must be admitted that neith
er Stokes nor Forsyth is in position to boast of
its ecclesiastical status. u v .^
Published Uhwrsdays
News Of King
(By E. P. NEWSUM)
"The coma back town." If you
ever visit King you will want to I
come back.
King, March 25.—Loyd Wolf :
formerly of King, has been pro
moted to sergeant and presented
with a medal for bravery in ac
tion against the Japs in the Solo
mon Istanffs.
Oscar Hauser is having some
repairs made to his home on Pul
liam street.
Chief Air Warden, Theodore
Newsum, was well pleased with
the blackout here Thursday night
which was absolutely one hun
dred per cent.
Frank Sisk of the Navy, sta
tioned at Bambridgc, Md., ii
spenuing a furlough with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Oliic Sisk, on
west Main street.
Cephus Payne is quite SICK at
his home just west of town, hi.s
friends will regret to learn.
William Fowler suffered a heart
atack at hi s home last week. His
| condition is not regarded as ser-
I ious.
I Scales and Thomas Dalton of
j DalTon were amo-g the business
visitors here Saturday.
J. E. Booze of the U. S. Army,
stationed at Fort Jackson, S. C.,
is here on furlough. He is a son
of Charlie Booze.
The following patients under
went tonsil removal operations
here last week: Mrs. Paul Wilson,
of Pilot Mtn.; Miss Betty Anne
King, of Winston-Salem; Mrs. Re
becca Brim, of Madison, and Jes-,
sie Lynch, of Woodland Heights.
Coster Collins, who holds a po
sition i 0.! shvy.',rds at Nc«-
port News, V;'.. is spending a lew
days with his fanrly en Dwp t
street.
Sergeant Julius Holman King
has returned to his command at
Colorado Springs, Colo., after
spending a furlough with his
brother, Fount King, on Spruce
street.
R. B. Reynolds of Wilmington
is spending a few days with rela
tives here.
And that's the news from here.
i
R. R. King Surveys
And Maps Hanging
Rock State Park
A survey and mapping of Hang
ing Rock State Park and other
Stokes County lands owned by
the State Department of Conser
vation and Development have been
completed by R. R. King, Dan
bury's expert engineer and land
surveyor.
Permanent markings were plac
ed at all corners and all lines
were marked and painted to pro
tect against trespassing.
Surveyor King is a bridgebuild
er of national reputation, having
constructed bridges in Texas, Ok
lahoma, New Mexico, and other
Sta tag, besides work in North
Carolina.
* * * * Number 3,699
STOKES ASKED TO (
HELP PREVENT
FOREST FIRES
J The fire season is getting clo*«
er as each day passes, fortunate
ly precipitation, or rainfall is the
governing factor, of which w«
have had an abundance for the
past six months. Though clouds
may gather and if rains today,
! with favorable conditions it is
possible for a forest fire to break
out within forty-eight hours after
a good shower.
In the Western States lightning
is a common cause of forest fires,
but in our Eastern States negli
gence and carelessness accounts
for 99 per cent, of our forest
fires. In other words, our fires are
man-caused. Today, as never be
fore, we must talk, think and
work in the strongest terms of
Victory. This second World Watf
must be won: the sooner the bet
ter. Your sons and brothers have
gone to the front lines, and your
daughters are serving. We, on the
home front, must and are doing
our bit but there is another un
sung hero, our forests. Our Gov
ernment is calling for timber;
: timber for ships, planes, medical
! supplies, wood alcohol for gun
.powder and a thousand other pro
ducts to be derived from wood.
(Today, more than ever before,
wood is replacing steel that is
I much needed on the Bring line.
; We, in the United States, are
blessed with an abundance of nat
ural resources, but we are cutting
our forests faster than they are
producing.
| Fire is the greatest enemy of
destruction to a forest. Tree
'growtn is either killed or retard
ed; after fire follows disease and
insects. These always prey on the
weaker or injured trees,
j Nation-wide Fire Control is the
I key to success in the present and
'future conservation of timber, our
I greatest natural resource. Our
I forests should be considered and
handled as a crop only, instead of
producing a product as corn, etc.,
each year, it takes many years to
produce sawlogs. It must be re
membered that soil too poor foe
agricultural purposes will grow
trees. Fire is especially injurious
to young or second-growth timber
as it may kill entirely the young
stand. We must protect our wood
land. Besides the aesthetical value
I
and products derived, industry and
I .
employment runs into the millions
I
of dollars each year. It has been
said that the children of today
are the citizens of tomorrow;
thus, the community woodlands
of the present are the products of
tomorrow.
To control forest fires within
[ our State, the North Carolina
Forest Service enters into a co
operative agreement with each
desiring fire control. Fire
I towers are located, roads built,
I telephone wire strung, equipment
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