Volume LI. Danbury, N. C, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 1924

THE OLD ROCKHOUSE IN STOKES

WHO PAYS THESTATE TAXES V

I)R. R G. TUTTLETO LEAVE STOKES

DEDICATION OFREYNOLDS SCHOOL

REPUBLICANS TOMEET HERE MCII. i

JIiir h School Girl At lleidsvilleWrites Interesting Story OfLandmark Situated In Qua-

ker Gap Township.

Called ii)i)iiby her teacher towrite a story, Nellie Sheffield, a

tenth grade student of thelleidsville high school last weekwrote the following about the

old Rock House, one of the mostinteresting landmarks of thecounty, situated in Quaker Gaptownship, some 12 miles westof Danbury:

In Stokes county, not tar fromMoore's Springs, stands a very

old house which is three storieshigh. The house is built ofwl iie rock and wood, but :il!tin wood work has decayed,lea\ing only the rock structure.

During the war between theWhigs and Tories, .fudge By-iimi's groat grandmother lived:i! this old l'ock 'louse. Herir. \u25a0\u25a0 was .Martin, and she wasI iu<t a littlegirl. One dayn!\u25a0 i" phying under an old ap-(?!?? iree in the yard a Tory

? ked up and seized her andor: \u25a0 ;.''c<i iier away, taking at r ?:I .vhich led to a dark, deepcave, known now as Tories'Den. Though very much fright-em d she was thoughtfulenough to tear small piecestrom her red calico dress anddr< p them along the lonelytrail. A short while after shewas kidnapped a band of menwent to look foi her. Aftermany days of searching bymeans of a compass and the lit-tle pieces of cloth from tnodress which she dropped on theway the men located this den,where she had been hidden.When they found her she wascrouched in one side of the denaway down under the hugerock, half starved and nearly

frozen. She was taken at onceto her mother at the rock house.

This den is of great interesttoday to the summer visitors inthis part of North Carolina.Many have visited the cave buthave never followed it to theend for fear of rattle snakeswhich exist in large numbers inthe mountains.

NELLIE SHEFFIELD.Grade 10, Reidsville School.

All Thi' Taxes Paid By the Av-

erage Farmer lines To Sup-

port Mis Own County?Only

Auto Tax Goes To State.

Will Take Up Practice Of Medi-cine In Twin City?EngagesOffices Over Fairview Drug

Store.

Winston-Salem, Jan. 28.?Dr.R. G. Tattle, who has had a

popular practice at Walnut Covefor the past fifteen years, hasmade plans to move to Winston-Salem, and will engage officesover the Fairview Drug Store,where his brother, Dr. R. D.Tut tie, dentist, has offices, ac-cording to announcement madeyesterday.

Dr. Tuttle is one of the best

known physicians of the coun-

try district, both in Forsyth

and Stokes counties, having awide practice in both. He has

had a steadily growing prac-tice in Winston-Salem for sometime. It "."as due to the growth

of his practice here, in a large

measure, that prompted Dr.I nlfie 'o move his oilices to til..-Twin City

Travel To FloridaIs Heavy Xow

Gov. Morrison, Dr. Rondthaler

and Dr. Perisho Are Expect-

ed As Guests and SpeakersOn this Occasion.

Will Hold Convention and ElectDelegates To State Conven-

tion. Name Chairman, Etc.?

Precinct Primaries Feb. 23.

Up to the j'ear 1921 a largepart of the State taxes were ob

taincd from a general property

tax and everyone who had prop-erty listed on the tax books

paid something to the support

of the State government. Butthe Legislature in 15)21 abolish-ed the property tax as a sourceof revenue for the State andadopted the income tax as themain source. Immediately thesupport of the State govern-

ment was shifted to a new an.lrelatively small class of tax-payers.

The general property tax isused exclusively for local coun-ty purposes, while the Suiteoperates on revenues ivceivcdfrom income tax payers, indi-vi In: 1 and corporation; inheri-tance, liceiis", franehi «? taxes,

i! ? tilt I h'o m earrings fro'",

the ?ren« ,ial depaitiv.cnts of theStale.

Prat ticallv the entire burde iof State support falls on oururban dwellers and the corpor-ate businesses >f the State. Theproperty tax is all spent locallyfor county taxes.

Pinnacle, Jan. 20.?Prof. W.G. Nicholson, of the ReynoldsMemorial School, reports that

the school is progressing nicely.

There still remains some workto be done, he said, to complete

the school equipment, and it ishoped to have this done in time

for the Group Commencement,which is to be held at theschool in March.

It is the desire of the com-

mittee that the new lightingsystem, which is a gift fromMr. Reynolds as a part of theequipment for the school plant,be installed at once, in orderthat the building may serve thepeople better as a communitycenter.

I'he Western Group Commen-cement will be :i !,;?>? event forStokes county. Governor Mor-rison expects to attend and de-liver an address; Dr. Howard E.Rondthaler, president of SalenCollege, will deliver the address!n formal dedication of the Roy?nolds Memorial school; Dr.Perisho, of Guilford College,will also be one of the speakerson this occasion, and the pro-gram calls for an all-day ses-

sion.The date for the exercises

has not been fixed, the commit-tee, acting w : th the county

superintendent of schools, J. C.Carson, desiring to fix a date

that will be convenient to allconcerned

A call has been issued fo»*

the assembling of the Stokes

county Republicans in conven-

tion at Danbury on SaturdayMarch Ist, for the purpose <:ielecting delegates and alter-

nates to the State, Congression-

al, Judicial and Senatorial con-ventions, and to elect a countychairman, and to attend to anyother business that may comebefore the convention.

The Republicans voters areasked to assemble at their re-

spective voting places on Sat-urday before the convention,

Feb. 2'., and elect delegates andalternates to the county con-

vention. One (It-legate will bo

elected for each lifty votes ia>t

f.ir governor in the 102') elec-tion.

DeYoo Predicts BadWeather In Februarv

Win.-ton-Stlem. Jan. ."»().

Travel to Florida these daysover the Southbound railwayind Atlantic Coast Line is heav-ier than the average person

realizes. Winston-Salem peo-ple are getting more and mor>in the habit of spending a partof the tme during the winterin Florida, and in a number ofdifferent resort in that Statenow are many Winston-Salempeople.

It is stated that on last Sun-day twenty-eight Winston-Sa-lem people left on the 1:45 Pull-man for Florida, arriving ntJacksonville next morning -ntme for breakfast. A stop of

minutes is made on this trip at

Florence for supper, the sleepergoing straight through to Jack-sonville.

DeVoe, the famous weather

prophet, predicts that there willbe some bad weather during thecoming month. His predictionsfollow:

Ist to 2nd, cold and clear. Oilthe 3rd a storm will form ove;*

Texas and move northeast-ward, causing snow over the

northern and rain over thesouthern states. 4th to sth,

snow and rain. 6th to 7th mod-erating. Bth to oth pleasant.

lOh a storm will form over Tex-as and move eastward: rain inthe Gulf states, and a cold wave

The individual who pays onlya property tax contributes nota thing to the support of theState government, unless heowns an automobile, and if hedoes he pays a license tax anda gasoline tax which is used ex-clusively on the roads for con-stuction and maintenance.

Relatively only a small percent of our people contribute tothe support of the State. Exceptfor the auto and gas tax, our

farmers pay practically noth-ing. The support comes fromthe individuals who can affordit, and from corporations char-tered by the State, from licen-

ses granted by the State?ingeneral from sources receiving

direct services from the State.

Following is the tentativeprogram for the commencement

and dedication of the building:

Song, America the Beautiful.Invocation, Prof. Nicholson.Address, Dr. Perisho, of Guil-

ford College.Music, Reynolds High School.Address, Gov. Morrison.

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Dedication of Reynolds Me-morial School building, Dr. H.E. Rondthaler, President .ofSalem College.

Basket dinner.

over the northern states. 11thto 12th snow and rain, loth to14th cold wave. 15th to 16thpleasant. 17th a great storm

over the middle west, traveling

eastward, causing a blizzardover the northern and rain overthe southern state?. 18th to

10th snow and rain. 20th to21st cold wave over northernstates. 22nd to 23rd clearing.

21th to 25th pleasant. 26thcold wave advancing from thePacific coast. 27th to 28th astorm forming over the lowerMississippi valley. 20th coldand unsettled.

A railroad man stated theother day that from 80 to 85Pullman cars loaded with win-ter visitors on the AtlanticCoast Line railway are arriving

in Jacksonville practically eachday now. He stated that Flori-da is having a tremendous sea-

sun. there being every reason tobelieve th-it it will be a record-

-1 reakcr Iron the st uvlpoint ofM,c number of tourists spend-

intr a while there during thewinter.

It is a fair, sane, and progres-

sive method of raising revenuefor the State and it was onlythrough its adoption thatNorth Carolina was able to en-

gage in her pre/ram of pim*-

Spelling match, two studentsfrom each school participating.

Debate: Resolved, that theIntel-Allied War Debts ShouldBe Canceled?between Reynoldsschool and either Francisco or

Pinnacle High School.

Now PhysicianFor Sandy Ridge

Matthew Smith, of Snow

Creek township, who was a vis-itor here todav, reported thathis section had recently beenblessed with a new physician.The young man, whose nameMr. Smith could not recall haslocated at Sandy Ridge, and atpresent is living with the fam-ily of Mr. Euel Hutcherson. Itis hard to secure a physician insome sections of the county, asthe few doctors in the county

are usually kept going nightand day, and a new one is very\u25a0welcome in most communities.

But even now we are notspending recklessly or extrava-gantly in North Carolina. \Y>-

have finally and with due delib-eration entered the group of

progressive States, and no

State in the Union is getting asmuch for thi> money it is spend-

ing as North Carolina.?S. If.H. in University News Letter.

Co-Ops Pay CottonGrowers In Full

Raleigh, Jan. 30.?Over a

quarter of a million dollars hasgone out from the Raleighheadquarters of the North Car-

olina Cotton Growers' Co-opera-tive Association to members ofthat organization who deliveredlong staple cotton, according to

officials of the organization

here.

Indications arc also that thefruit and vegetable crops willbreak all records this sea*in,

though the large production isaffecting prices to some extent.

The declaration contest will

then be held, with contests

between boy students and alsogirl students of each school in

the western district of the

county. Prizes will be awardedto winners in each sex.Supt. of Schools J. C. Car-

I son, of Germanton, was here

. today attendng to some affairsI in connection with the schools.

Mr. Carson has treated himselfto a new car.

G. D. Watkins, of Campljell,was a visitor here today.

I

John Fez Mabe, a farmer and}pood citizen of Danbury Route

1, had the misfortune to get

his foot badly mashed Saturday

when it was caught under a

falling tree in the woods wherehe was chopping wood.

Durng the afternoon athleticcontests will also be held. Prof.R. 11. Latham, of the Winston-Salem school system, has beenasked to provide competent

indues for the events. Thisfuture of the program promi-

*o l>o interesting.

This was the final payment

on long staple cotton and close-*the business of the associationin the matter of the 1922 crop.

Farmers are preparing bedsfor tobacco plants now.

DANBXJRY REPORTERNo. 2,702

ROAD OFFICIALSVISIT STOKESBURG

Find It Necessary To Cut Out

Grade Crossings To ConformTo Highway Law?LocationDefinitely Settled.

Walnut Cove, Jan. 28.?Our

town lias about recovered fromthe shock of Thursday night's

lire, when the stock of goods of

C. I!. Brody and the buildingin which the goods wore locatedwent up in smoke. The Jonesdrug store building, near by.was also burned. Roth build-ings were owned by J. B. Wood-ruff.and it is stated that neitherMr. Br'ulv or Mr. Woodruff car-

; ' icd ui.y insurance. The sto<.!;

:of good* w:is valued at proba-bly SIO,OOO, while the buildings

' were worth half that much. The! origin of the fhv is not known.I State Highway CommissionerA. S. Hanes, accompanied b\*

1 '). U Hester, ehief lac." i.. en-| gineer for the Stai-. . !(.?>.

Currier, district engine ? .

ted Stokesburg or S«-in!' \\ i'-

nut Cove a few days since \\i;ii

a view to seeing if it was »>ra ?

tit aide to make some c 1 mg-'.s

in the State's survev for a inw-.l

surface road from Fill]) to Han-bury It was decided after ,i

| careful investigaton ofthe mat-

ter, that it would not be con-

forming to the State road lawif they failed to cut out the t\v»

grade crossings on the X. <£? W.

| railway, and the report of the| engineers to the highway com-mission will confirm the survey

|as already made. It was stated| that the matter was definitely| settled so far as the State is

concerned. It was not stated

when contract would be let forthe construction of the road,

i but it will likely be in the early.

I spring.

I Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Sanders| entertained at quite a delight-

j fill dance at their lovely horn.'] in South Walnut Cove Monday

; evening. Dancing was enjoyed

until a late hour, when delicious| refreshments were served.

Miss Sadie Hutchorson ha.sj entered Lawrence hospital to

1 study nursing.

Mrs. Grace Matthews and

Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Jovce andichildren, of Winston-Salem,were the guests of friends here

| Sunday.

Misses Dollie and Sadie Ful-

ton. students -it the X. C. Col-| lege, Greensboro, spent th-»week end at home here.

Miss Estelle Uierson. of the1 Twin City, spent Sunday her?with home folks.

Mesdames P. W. Davis, H. If.

Davis. Jacob Fulton and MissLucy Burton were shopping in

i the Twin City Monday.

Mrs. W. J. Snow, of Elkin, is! spending a few days here withrelatives.

I Miss Velma Burge expects to

| leave next week for Asheville: where she will enter a hospital

| and take training as a nurse.i '