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DANBURY REPORTERDanbury, N. C., Wednesday, Feb. 8, 1922Volume L.

SOLICITOR GR AVESBACK HOME

Health Much Better?Caught In Blizzard?Attended Disarma-ment Conference.

Solicitor S. P. Graves returned to

his home in Mount Aiiy early this

week after a trip to Dultimore to eon-suit a specialist ir regard to histhroat which had heen giving himtrouble. The specialist was unable tofind any serious trouble with histhroat and an operation was notnecessary.

While passing through Winston-Salem Mr. Graves told the DailyJournal that he was now confidentthat his throat became worse whileprosecuting the docket there largelyon account of the condition of thecourt house, where the noise from thestreet frequently makes it difficult toexamine a witness or speak to thejury without talking at the top ofone's voice, and the strain proved toomuch. After two week's of rest Mr.Graves is again himself and histhroat is practically \yell.

He was accompanied to Baltimoreby Mrs. Graves. They spent sometime in Washington also. They werethere shortly after the Knickerbockertheatre tragedy and Mr. Graves saidhe never saw a city so grief stricken.It seemed that nearly every person he

met had lost a relative or friend inthe theatre wreck.

Mr. Graves also had the rare goodfortune of being in Washington onthe day the big meeting of the disar-mament conference was held whenSecretary Hughes made a publicstatement of the result of the con-ference. Representatives of the othernations also spoke on that occasion.Mr. Graves hud a seat in the galaryand says it was one of the most in-teresting occasions he ever witnessed.He was especially impressed with thesplendid English used by the Chineseand Japanese representatives in de-livering their addresses, but was dis-appointed to hear the French repre-sentative speak in blench and use an

interpreter.It was an inspiring scone, said the

solicitor, who is an ardent advocate ofthe League of Nations, to see theserepresentatives of a few of thegreatest nations assembled aroundthe big table all at work for 'vorKlpeace Hut he thought it would havebeen much more inspiring if all the

nations of the earth ha-l been repre-

sented, instead of only a few of themore powerful governments.

Mr. and Mrs. Graves were in Haiti-more when the big snow storm and

blizzard struck that sec'ion. He saidthat hundreds of pio:)h» slept in streetears the ivght the : now was the deep-est, because they were unable to get

bom .'. Others slept in drug stores;

down town and a:i> pla«.o they werecaught.

Wlrle he was away SolicitorGraves' son, William Graves, a capa-ble young lawyer, prosecuted thedocket for his father in the Superiorcourt at Rockingham c >unty. Andjudging from reports he did the jobwell, being almost equal to his father.

District ConferenceAt Mount Airy

The Mount Airy District Confer-

ence will convene in Central Meth-odist church, Mt. Airy, on Tuesdaymorning, Feb. 28th, continuing itssessions through Wednesday, MarchIst. It will be composed of the min-isters and delegates from the twentypastoral charges, 150 strong if theyall attenJ.

Every pastor and delegate is ear-nestly exhorted to be present. Beginnow to make your plans to come. Thecharges having a full delegation willhave public mention and will go onthe honor roll. Brother Boyer andhis leaders are already laying plansfor the generous entertainment of alldelegates and visitors.

Bishop U. V. W. Darlington, ofHuntington, West Virginia, will bepresent and preside at all the sessionsof the conference.

Sincerely,J. H. WEST, P. E.

Miss Elizabeth Fulton, daughter of

Mr. and Mrs. John G. Fulton, of Wal-

nut Cove, who is a student at Greens-boro College for Womer, underwent

an operation at Greensboro the pastweef, and is reported to be gettingalong nicely.

NEARLY 29,000,000POUNDS SOLD

Growers Have ReceivedAverage of $25.36 ForTobacco Sold So FarOn Winston Market.

Winston-Salem, Feb. ft.?Since theopening of the 10-'al tobacco marketlast September a total of 28,783,11)0

pounds of tobacco have been sold, forwhich the farmers received a sum of$7,300,135.34. Th'j average for theentire season to date has been $25.3Gper hundred pounds.

It is generally estimated that thecrop is nearly all in now?probablyabout 2,000,000 pounds yet to be sold.This will make the total for the entire season of 1921-22 approximatelythirty-one million pounds.

The record for the season of 1920_21 shows that 60,580,994 pounds weresold for $13,131,639.92. A compari-

son of these figures for those of thecurrent market year shows that onlyabout half as much tobacco will besold by closing time, which will likelybe about the latter part of March.

At the beginning of the season itwas generally estimated that the cropwould be about two-thirds of that oflast year, but as the end draws nearit can be very plainly seen that onlyabout one-half the amount will besold this season as was sold last.

The unusually dry season last sum-mer is responsible for the shortageof the crop in a large measure.There was some reduction in theacreage, but not anything like enoughto cut the crop in half.

It is generally understood that theacreage to he planted during the com-ing spring will be considerably largerthan that of last year. It will likelyequal the crop of the year 1920, whenone of the largest crops ever grownin this section was harvested.

No time for closing the market atWinston-Salem has yet been fixed bythe Tobacco Board of Trade. Indica-tions are that the crop will he prettywell all in before there is need of is-suing a hurry up call to the growersto finish marketing.

A local warehouseman stateil thismorning that in nearly every in-stance now a sale by a grower meantthat be would not be on the marketany more this season. There is quite

a little tobacco in the remote sec-

tions of several adjoining counties,it is thought, but fair weather is ex-pected to rush this all in pretty soon.There is very little tobacco aroundWinston-Salem now.

The warehouse floors now presenta checkerboard apfiearance, due tothe fact that so many grades of dif-ferent quality are offered. One grow-er may come in with a load of six oreight different grades, for which hewill receive from 2 to 80 cents per

found. This is what causes the aver-age to fluctuate from day to day.

Electric Car LineMt. AiryTo Virginia

Mt. Airy, Feb. 2.?A delegation ofcitizens representing the Kiwanisclubwill go to ilillsville, Va.. Feb. 4th toattend a conference of citizens ofCarroll county, Va., regarding build-ing an electric ca'r line from JacksonFerry, Va., to Mount Airy,

j This step grew out of a mass meet-

j ing of citizens of Carroll county heldrecently in Ilillsville when one of thelargest and most r"presentativubodies of citizens met to discuss uv. <

project and appointed a committee taconfer with citizens from thi3 place.This car line would be of great bene-fit to this entire section and the citi-

zens of Carroll express tfi< mselves asbeing very much in earnest about theproject and want Mount Airy tohelp put it across.

Danville Market Sells26,000,000 Pounds

Danville, Va., Feb. 2.?lndicationspoint to the Danville tobacco marketselling 32 or 33 million pounds of to-bacco before the close of the presentseason. The statistical report for

| the season was issued today by the

! President of the Danville tobacco As-sociation, and shows that so far thisseason Danville has sold nearly 26million pounds of the weed.

Mr. L. L. Spencer, of Mayodan,Route 1, was a visitor here today. Mr.Spencer, who is a former Stokes man,has been living in Rockingham county

i lor several years.

MRS. LOU JAMESDIES FROM BURNS

Mother of J. Eny andSterling James, of theWalnut Cove Section.

Walnut Cove, Feb. 7.?Mrs. LouJames died at the home of her son,M>\ J. Kny James, a few miles northof here yesterday. Her death was

the direct result of burns received a

few days since. Her clothing caught

fire from some cotton which she waspreparing to pick. The cotton waslaying before the fire drying out atthe time it ignited, setting Mrs.

James* dress on fire. The deceasedwas about 72 years of age. She wasthe mother of Messrs. J. E. and Ster-ling James. There are also a numberof other relatives.

This section was visited by anotherconsiderable snow last Monday

night. The snow measured four tosix inches in dobth, and had it notbeen for the rain just before it fell itwould have been several inches deep-er, nodoubt.

Several Walnut Cove c.itizens at-tended the meeting of the countycommissioners at Danbury Monday.

Considerable tobacco is passingthrough now enroute to market. Ifthe season holds out it will likely allbe sold within a few weeks.

Deputy Collector C. M. Jones spentSunday with his family here, return-ing to Winston-Salem Monday morn-ing.

STOKES MENIN TROUBLE

Jack, David and EctorHicks Arrested ByRevenue Officers InPine Hall Section.

Winston-Salem Journal, Feb. 4th.Three brothers from Stokes

county found themselves deeplyentangled in the meshes of thelaw here yesterday. All werehailed before United States Com-missioner by Dr. C. G. Bryant,

deputy marshal, who arrestedtwo yesterday morning, and withthe assistance of W. T. Fletcher,prohibition agent, caught theother day before yesterday.

The brothers are Jack, Davidand Ector Hicks. They hail froma country home four miles northof Pine Hall in Stokes. Besidesbeing under bond for killing JoeCard well some six months ago.

Jack Hicks is now on bail undera charge of manufacturing liquor.

He must answer to the murdercharge in Stokes county superior

I court, at the spring term. Toi the charge of blockading he mustanswer when his name is calledfor a hearing before Commission-er Beckerdite on February 8.

The other two Hicks brothers,

David and Ector, will be given ahearing on the same date on

> charges of blockading and resist-ing officers.

! It was during Christmas weekI that the Hicks brothers first be-came involved with the agents ofUncle Sam. At the time Prohi-bition Agent W. H. Ashburn, of

i Surry, accompanied by Chief-of-I Police, E. C. Ziglar, of Mayodan,

found a still hidden in vinesabout fifty yards from Jack

1 Hicks' home. They destroyed itand were followed by Ector and

! David Hicks, who are alleged toj have held up the officers withj guns and threatened them.

I Tuesday of this week Dr.| Bryant and Mr Fletcher went in! search of the Hicks and found

, Jack at his home, arrested andbrought him to the city. Yester-day Dr. Bryant went alone insearch of Ector and David Hicks.He found tbem sitting aroundthe fire at their home in companywith six or eight other men.Neither attempted to resist or toescape, but surrendered without

I protest to the deputy marshal

JOHN LEAKEGOING TO KING

Accepts Bank Cashier'sPlace? PreparationsFor Best Fair Yet.

King, Feb. 2.?The directors of theStokes County Fair Association methere yesterday and fixed the datesfor the holding of the Stokes fairthis fall, the dates being October 17,18, 19, 20 and 21, five days and fivenights. A number of other businessmatters were acted upon. No painsor expense will be spared to makethis year's fair the biggest and bestever held here.

Mr. John A. Leake, at present with

[ the Wachovia Bank & Trust Company

lat Winston-Salem, has accepted theposition of cashier of the Farmers'Bank and Trust Company at thisplace, and will remove his family toKing. Mr. W. E. Hartman, at pres-ent cashier of the bank, has resignedand will devote his time to otherbusiness in which he is engaged.

A Newsy LetterFrom King

King, Feb. 6.?Mr. TheodoreNewsum, who taught in theWestfield High School last yearand who is teaching in the Pin-nacle High School this year, hasbeen appointed assistant deputyfor the Modern Woodmen ofAmerica in district No. 2 whichembraces sixteen counties, ex-tending from Virginia to SouthCarolina. He will devote hisspare time to the work until Maywhen his school expires, afterwhich he willdevote his wholetime to the work.

Dr. and Mrs. H. G. Hardingspent Sunday with the Doctor'sparents, at Farmington.

The directors of the StokesCounty Fair Association met here |last week and fixed the dates for

I this year's fair October 17, 18.1920, and 21. five days and nichts.No pains or expense will bespared to make this the biggestiardbestfair in the history ofi the association.

Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Tattle, ofRural Hall, spent Sunday withrelatives here.

Mr. John Leake, of Winston-Salem, has accepted the positionas Cashier of The Farmers' andMerchants Bank, relieving Mr.

I W. Everett Hartman. who re-signed to take up other work,

i Mr. Leake resigned his positionwith the Wachovia Bank & TrustCo. where he had been employedfor some time to take this posi-

| tion here. He will move his

i family here in the near future.Mr. Chas. Hutihins, of Win-

ston-Salem, spent Sunday with, relatives here.

I Mr. Jame9 Hauser has purch-ased from Mr. Luther Petree hisresidence and small farm consist-

l ing of 16'. acres. Consideration; $3500 00. Mr. Petree will moveto Moore county.

Mr. and Mrs. *Fred E. Shoreand Fred E .Junior, are spendinga few days in Roanoke, Va.. withrelatives.

The handsome new residenceof Mr. Chas. S. Fowler in WestEnd, is nearing completion.

Mrs. Will R. Keiger, formerlyof this place, died at her home inMt. Airy yesterday after a ling-ering illness with cancer.

The Junior Order UnitedAmerican Mechanics gave a bigoyster supper to their membersSaturday evening. Fair ViewCamp of Winston-Salem attend-ed the supper.

J. Wm. MitchellIs Seriously 111

News is received here that Mr.John Wm. Mitchell, of BeaverIsland township, is seriously ill.He has been to a hospital, butwas brought home again, thephysicians pronouncing his casecancer of the liver and hopeless.

Dr. Gilbert Petree, of Winston-Salem, was here this week visitingthe family of Mr. N. O. Petree. Hehas leased offices liiid W ir.ston_Salemand expects to locate there soon forthe practice of his profession.

Mr. W. W. George, of Francisco,was among the visitors here Monday.

CHILD DROWNEDNEAR MT. TABOR

Little Four - Year - OldBoy Falls Into Pit OfWater Store Rob-bed At Germanton.

Germanton, Feb. <. ?The four-year-old child of Mr. anil Mrs. James War-ren, who reside near Ait. Tabor, inStokes county, was drowned Fridayafternoon in a pit of water near thehome of Mrs. Warren's parents, M>\and Mrs. John Burroughs, a few milesfrom Germanton. The mother andson had gone over to the home of theboy's grandparents to sp.-nd the day.When it was discovered that the ladwas missing, search for him was ins-tituted and his body was found infour feet of water in the pit dug- lastsummer by Mr. Burroughs to keepmilk in during the hot weather.The recent snow when it melted tilledthe pit nearly full of water. The lit-tle tracks of the boy were seen lead-1ing to the pit where he had been look-ing into it and had accidentally fallenin it.

Burglars Friday night broke intothe store of James Brothers at Ger-manton and carried off about S3O insmall change, the money beini* takenfrom the cash register. A large num-ber of cigars and cigarettes were alsotaken. These wen.- the only thingsmissing, though the thieves openedthe safe but failed to find moneyas the owners did not keep their

; money in the safe.

Valentine Party ;

Other Campbell NewsCampbell, Feb. 6.?We are having

lots of sickness in this section, duelargely to the bad weather prevailingat this time. Mrs. Tom Shelton andalso Mrs. Sanford Snider, of this sec-

tion, are among the sick.Mr. William Smith, who has been

spending some time in West Virginia,returned here last Friday.

Those who visited Miss CurtieSmith Sunday were Messrs. Carl Hill,

jKarl Handy, Marion Clark and Misses

I Lucy and Clarice Smith and 11a

1 Handy.

There will he a Valentine party andvoting conk'St at Siuithtown schoolhouse on the night of February 11th.

It is reported that some of the boysaround Smithtown carry their own

wood along when they go visiting.Kio;> up the good work boys, you will

! always be welcome when you do that.I

News Of Route One.Danbury Route 1, Feb. 7.

Mr. J. R. Bennett is on the sick

list this week, we are sorry to

note.Misses Maggie and Nannie |

Oakley spent Saturday night with jMiss Hi 11a Stephens.

Miss Rilla Stephens pave herfriends a party Saturday night.

Among those present were| Misses Alma Mabe, Maggie and 'Nannie Oakley, Messrs. Jesseand Sandie Mabe, Roy Martin,Jones Nelson, Berkley and RalphSheppard. Harry Lawson, Eugene

Pringle, Marion Stephens andAlexander Flinchum.

Misses Mayanaand Alma Mabespent Thursday night with Mrs.J. R. Bennett.

Among those who visited at (J.

C. Mabe's Monday night wereMissea Alma, Bertha. Clara andMayana Mabe, Messrs. Marion,

Rellie and Leonard Stephens,Jesse and Matt Mabe.

Miss Alma Mabe spent theweek end with her sister, Mrs.J. R. Bennett,

Mr. Rufus P. Mabe and son,

Sandie, returned to their homein Montgomery county Tuesday.

Misses Bertha and Clara Mabespent Saturday and Sunday withtheir brother, Mr. J. S. Mabe,

near Walnut Cove.Miss Alma Mabe returned to

her home at Ether. N. C., Tues-day.

No. 2,602

A. L. BUNKERFOR STOKES

Made Director To Rep-resent Tobacco Grow-ers of This District?R. J. Petree Gets Ex-cellent Vote.

Winston-Salem, Feb. 7.?Delegatesrepresenting Forsyth, Davidson, Yad-kin, Alxander, Davie, Stokes, Cald-well, and Surry counties, which com-pose the Winston-Salem district ofthe Co-operative Tobacco Growers'Association, met at the court househere today and effected a district or-ganization and elected one member ofthe board of directors that will gov_ern the work of the association inthe tri-state organization.

A. L. Bunker, of Surry county, was

elected director on the first ballot. He

received 15 votes and R. J. Petree, of

Stokes, got nine. The election of Mr,

Bunker was made unarjimouM.

The meeting was called to order byE. S. Millsaps, of Statesville, andC. H. Gryder, of Alexander, was madetemporary chairman and R. A. Free-man, of Surry; W. M. Mackie, of Yad-

kin, and C. G. Hunter, of Forsyth,were named as credential committee.

A. L. Speer, of Yadkin, was chosenpermanent chairman, and C. H. Gry-der, of Alexander, as Secretary.

E. S. Millsaps, of Statesville, ex-plained the purpose of the meetingand described the qualifications of adirector, emphasizing theof placing the proper man in this po-sition of trust.

A resolution was adopted urgingthe board of directors to continue thecampaign for members until July 1,1922, requesting also that the mem-bership fee remain the same.

Mr. Bunker, who will represent thisdistrict, is one of the most successfulfarmers in Surry county. He hastaken an active part in perfecting theorganization in his county. Surryleads all other counties in this dis-trict in number of pounds of tobaccosigned.

The delegates in attendance at themeeting today were as follows:

Alexander county, C. H. Gryder;Caldwell, W. F. Palmer; Davidson,M. L. Adderholt; Davie, M. J. Hen-drix; Forsyth, W. C. Michael and

G. Uicitcr; Iredell, Robert Gaither;Stokes, T. Joyce, G. A. Hanes, C.M. I'iiuser, S. F. H:\vkins and R. E.L. Francis; Sum, J. I.uther Wood,

It. 11. Freeman, George Arrington, U.(J. I. J. Stone, J. W. Johnson,\V. 1., ilanes ;in«l F. W. Dod-son; Yad-kin, M. W. Mackie, A. L. Speer, C.W.Poindexter.

Mr. and Mrs. PhillipsWill Sail On Feb. 16

Tlia various friends of Rev. A. R.

i i hii:ipt: will be interested to note that

i in a>.'i his v fv are sailing Feb. 16th] .'t .N.w York for Buenos Aires,

1 Argentina, where Mr. Phillips will bej located and engaged in educational

j work for the Baptist denomination.Mr. Phillips, wiio is a native of th's

county, residing at Dal'. >n receivedhis training for this spoi l tl work at

I Wake Forest College, arid at the

I Southern Baptist TKiulogital Semi-! nary at Louisville, !.

I'nder the enlarged work of the

1 Baptists through the seventy-fivej million dollar campaign, the educa-

; tional work in Buenos Aires is beingj strengthened and several teachershave recently been added to the in_

! stitution there. Miss Emily Beck, of! Oklahoma City, will sail by the same

j boat along with Mr. and Mrs. Phil-j lips, and will be matron in the school.

The citizens of Stokes will be verymuch pleased that they are represent-ed in Buenos Aires by one of the cit-izens of the county, and especiallywill those citizens be pleased who areinterested in the evangelization of so

great a country as Argentina.

Collinstown, Feb. 6.?A number offamilies of this section have casesof intluena again.

Misses. Iris Hunuley and Lillie MaeGeorge, teachers at Asbury, visitedthe former's mother the past week.

Misses Ethel and Geneva Hutchensvisited Misses Gene and Lucile TatumSaturday and Sunday.

Mr. Townes, of Martinsville, Va.,was the guest of Miss Lucile Tatamat Peter's Creek the past week end.

Miss Cassie Hutchens, who is at-tendig school at Stuart, Va., visited-her parents here Sunday.

ROSARY.