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VOLUME XXXIX. DANBURY, N. C., AUGUST 16, 191!.

THE FIRST? ADVANCE OF

PROSPERITYTOLL ROAD TO BE BUILT

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Fine Macadam or Sand Clay Turn-pike From Walnut Cove intothe Heart of Stokes County==MassMeeting to Be Held At WalnutCove.

V. G. LAWSON KURT.

A Foul Ball Smashes His Nose -HeWa3 Watching the Game BetweenKing and Pink Grove

Mr. V. G. Lnwson, of Asbury,while watching the ball gamebetween King and Pink Grovehere Saturday, was hit and se-verely hurt by a foul- ball, whichentirely smashed the bridge ofhis nose. The hurt was extreme-ly painful, and Mr. Lawson hadthe sympathy of the big crowdwho saw him hit. Dr. R. H.Morefield, who was present,dressed the wound, which willprobably disfigure Mr.' Lawsonfor life.

Hov.' to Cure Peavine Hay.

Some time since one of ourcorrespondents said in The Pro-gressive Farmer that he hadused my plan for curing cowpeahay with success, and rightaway I was flooded with a hostof inquiries. Now, I have intimes past published my methodmany times, but it seems thatthere are many who have notread it. Begin mowing whenthe pods are maturing, but notdry. 1 cut in the morning tillnoon only. Put a tedder rightafter the mowers to keep thehay tossed up so as to facilitatethe wilting. That afternoontake it into windrows. Nextmorning turn the windrows,and that afternoon put the hayini > cocks as tall and narrowan will stand well. How longit shall remain in cocks dependson the weather and the stateof the growth. But as soon asyou c.*n take a bunch in handand give it a hard twist, andcan see no sap run to the twist,pi t it in the barn while theleaves are still limp. Do notpack nor tramp it in the mow,out let it settle naturally, andthen let it alone, and it will cureall right. Ifit heats slightly inthe barn, do not go to turningit to cool it, for if you do you willhave moldy hay. as the air willbring in the germs of mold.Peavines are easily cured if youwillsimply let them cure anddo not go to monkeying withstakes or scaffolds to spoil thehay by drying up the leavesand losing them. I have curedthe hay in the above way formany years, and have alwayshad good hay instead of thesticks usually seen without anyleaves. ?Progressive Farmer.

D. P. TATE IN TOILSMINISTER UNDER ARREST

Formerly Pastor At Madison ?

Later Sold Tombstones andMonuments.

Danville Va., Aug. s.?Chiefof Police J. R. Bell left last nightfor Tennessee to bring backto Danville the Rev. D. P Tate,who, while masquerading in thiscity as a Methodist minister andwhile engaged in the real estateand insurance business, swindledpeople here out of thousands ofdollars. Tate was arrested lastSaturday at Knoxville, Tenn.,and is being held by the policeauthorities at that place spendingthe arrival of an officerfrom thiscity with requisition.

There has been a delay ofseveral days in getting the ap-plication for requistion l>eforethe chief executive of Virginiaowing to the absence of thecommonwealth'B attorney fromthe city. The Knoxville policehave been notified several timesto hold Tate and no trouble isanticipated as to result of thedelay in securing the requsitionpapers.

The former preacher antici-pated prosecution before the ar-rest was made. Several weeksbefore the fleeing clergymanwas located and placed under,arrest, former Judge Shaw, ofGreensboro, came to Danville inthe interest of Tate. He ex-amined the warrants against hisclinet and secured other infor-mation about the case. It isrumored that another prominentlawyer of this city will be asso-ciated with Judge Shaw in thecase. The latter was in the cityagain this week gathering infor- \u25a0

mation that he hopes to be ofbenefit to Tate.

No new warrants have yetbeen issued against Tate,though it is thought that addi-tional charges will bo preferredwhen the case is called for trial.The most pathetic phase of Tate'sskyrocket financiering is thefact that many of his victimsare poor people from wham he se-cured all of their saving. In fact,this class of people constitutesthe majority of citizens whomhe duped into advancing himmoney under one pretext oranother. It was his method ofapproaching these people of hum-ble circumstances that has ar-oused public sentiment sostrongly aginst Tate. Garbedin the livery of heaven, he tookadvantage of his position as aMethodist minister to ingratiatehimself into confidences of poorpeople. He induced many ofhis victims to attend the severalchurches with which he wasprominently connected whilehere, and afterhe had impressedhis followers with the pety andand godliness he assumed, calledon them for advance of moneyor volunteered to invest theirsaving in enterprises that paidlarge dividends. Many of histransactions, while conceivedand executed in bad faith, arenot criminal. The police have,it is alleged, many cases againstTate that are both morally andcriminally wrong.

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There is a movement on foot,£nd now assuming practicalshape, to tap the heart of Stokescounty with a fine macadam orsand-clay road, to be in opera-tion within six or eight months.The promoters and backers ofthe road include some of theleading public spirited men ofStokes county, as well as a

I pumber of wealthy citizens ofadjoining counties and cities.

The proposed road will be atoll line leading from WalnutCove to the lower edge ofPeter's Creek township, pierc-ing the county more than halfway. It will be built by aStock company chartered underthe laws of the State, and willdo a legitimate business, erect-toll gates at every convenientpoint on the line, chargingreasonable fees for transporta-tion of all kinds.

The exact route of the tollroad has not yet been definitelydetermined, and will depend on

availability ot right of way,etc. The company which under-takes the building of this road,which will mean so much forStokes county, willask that theright of way wherever mostpracticable may be tenderedwithout charge from the people,as wherever the road runs itwill mean the increasing of the

['ldjacont property values from ahundred to a thousand per cent.,and it is expected that allcitizens, realizing the greatneed of the avenue of com-merce, willappreciate the bene-fits to be derived, and will en-courage and co-operate withthe company. The Reporterrecalls a few years ago when.the right of way for a proposedrailway in a certain section ofthe county was given so grudg-

> ingly by the citizens, and someof them showed such a disposi-tion to exact excessive charges,that the road was abandoned bythe promoters. Let no man in

JStokes county ever throw a, stumbling block in the way ofthe advance of progress. A

sthousand times better pay theroad to come your way. Thereare men in btokes county whowiU give one-half of their farmsfor a good road by it.

The toll road is a great suc-cess wherever tried. There areMveral of them in Virginia,nmny in the north, one nowbuildirg from Blowing Rock toLinVille, N. C., one now buildingfrom Danville, Va., to Caswell,N. C., county-seat. They are

Eing investments for thekholders, while they are oftlculable advantage to the

community traversed. They areof really more advantage thana d|lroad in these days ofautomobiles and traction engines.Immediately after the buildingof this road you willsee a mark-ed impetus given to business of

tall kinds in the county. Hun-dreds and thousands of visitorswill spend many months in theRZjbar with us, and the farmers

fver a wide area of the countytrillfind a first-class market at;heir very door for produce ofiM kinds at the very highestprices. It will mean of vastlynore importance to the farmers;han the tobacco erop.

Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, theState Geologist of Chapel Hill,wtil himself go over the pro-jifeed line and offer the expertuiowjedge and experience in

she' laying out of the route,Kr)|ile it wul be surveyed by afcoppetent civil engineer, who

willso design the way thit notmore than a two or three percent, grade may occur anywhereThe cost of the road will befrom $40,000 to $50,000, and itwill be a modern turnpike inevery respect on which an au-tomobile may reach Danburyfrom Winston, Charlotte,Greensboro, Danville, Durham,High Point or anywhere at aspeed of 40 mites an hour.Two horses can easily pull 5,000pounds, while the road willnever get muddy. It will bean outlet for our tobacco andlumber, our rock and produce,of all kinds, and an inlet to the!investment, the capital and thewealth of the outside world.

Let every citizen, every man,woman and child of Stokescounty welcome the coming ofthe advance guard of prosperity.Let no person discourage it,speak illof it; or hinder it inany way, for the good Lordknows we need it, when ourcitizens are every day givingup in discouragement over theadverse conditions, and movingout to other counties whereconditions exist which we couldso easily have here. How manyof our best citizens have left usin the last five yearo and in-vested the savings oi' a lii'etime in Guilford county ? Howmany of our boys have soughta living in Forsyth county dur-ing the last twenty years, andthere built up fortunes and edu-cated their children where thereare schools and churches andencouragement to business ofall kinds ? Every neighbor-hood in the county feels thekeen loss of farmers who havemoved west or to other places,taking with them their ac-cumulations of a life time.Every good citizen who leavesus does us an injury which maybe reckoned in dollars anilcents. Every life-saving thatmoves away from us makes usin that degree poorer. Whatwe need is the inward trend ofmen and money that bringslife and business and happiness,not the outward drain whichparalyzes our most vital re-sources.

If you should undertake topick tobacco worms off one byone, in some sections your neigh-bors would laugh at you andwonder if you knew that Lee hadsurrendered. Get an Acme ma-chine and you will wonder whyyou never thought of it before.You can not afford to hire a manto pick tobacco worms when youcan do it for less than his board.Price $1.90. For further infor-mation address ACME DISTRI-BUTING CO., Reidsville, N. C.

Mr. Knight, of Leaksville,spent Monday night in town.

bound to make it a handsomelypaying investment for the stock-holders, to say nothing of theimmediate and direct benefits tothe county which willbe tapped.

A mass meeting will be held atWalnut Cove very soon at whichtentative plans will be adopted,organization effected and thestart made.

The Reporter will give fullparticulars in due time.

The automobile feature of theroad makes it a big thing. Thereare thousands of machine ownersIn Greensboro, Winston, Char-lotte, High Point, Salisbury, andother places who invariably fol-low the good roads. The auto-mobile has come to stay, and itis the greatest developer of therural districts since the adventof the steam railways. Thequickness, the pleasure, thegeneral facility of travel by theautomobile brings our summerresorts close to the homes of ahundred thousand citizens ofNorth Carolina, South Carolinaand Virginia who willwith pleas-ure to themselves, and profit tous, visit us yearly if we bid forthem. And eur Winning stroke forthe patronage of the people whohave money and don't mindspending it, is the building ofthe gateway to our cool moun-tains and our fine mineral waters.

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Every merchant, farmer andcitizen should take stock in theroad, showing his welcome andencouragement to the enterprise.It means great things for ourcounty, and its coming willbene-fit every person in the county.The mere expenditure of $50,000in the county will be a big thing.Hundreds of hands and teamswill be emploped. After the roadis built, regular employment willbe given to a number of officials,?toll gate keepers, etc., whilethe up-keep of the road will alsomean the expenditure of a con-siderable sum yearly. The roadwill be kept at all times in first-class condition, and traffic overit will grow daily. The chargeswillbe so regulated that no per-son can afford not to use it. Forinstance, say an interior merch-ant has 2,000 pounds of goods inthe depot. He can have thembrought up in less than half thetime, and at five times less cost,and not hurt his team, ratherthan drag them in over the rocks,holes and through the mud.Would it not pay him to spend50 cents toll in this case: Aregular automobile car willmaketwo or three daily round trips,carrying passengers, mail, ex-press, etc., qaickly and cheaply.Transportation creates trade,and the traffic on the line is

THE DANBURY REPORTERNo. 2,14

KILL % BY THE TRAIN.

Thomas S ; Sharp Loses His Life

3 Rural Hall.

Losing footing on the stepof a freigl £ ar, while beginningto climb tLo tron ladder at thecar end Thomas Settle Sharp, apopular and well known youngman of Greensboro Thursdayafternoon at about 8 o'clock atRural Hall in Forsyth county, fellacross the railway tracks underthe heavy wheels of the train onwhich he was working and wasso terribly crushed and mangledin a sickening grind of the wheelsthat he died one hour later atWinston in the Twin City hospi-tal. Both legs and one of hisarms were cut off, and injuriesto the rest of his body that werein themselves of almost fatalconsequence, were received.Although it were known by thetrainmen who picked him up thathe could hardly live but a fewminutes, he was rushed to thehospital, where, perchance, hissuffering might be alleviatedand his wounds made easier tobear.

Young Sharp was running be-tween Winston and Wilkesboroon a local freight train, and wason the return trip to Winstonwhen his death occurred. Hehad just finished coupling carsand was climbing onto the stepwhen a sudden movement of thetrain overbalanced him and caus-ed him to fall under the wheelswhere he was crushed beforetho train could be stopped.

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f SEEN EROM THE OUTSIDE.

K A recent outing In Stokes county brought home to M

£ one of The Weekly staff the great need of that coun- %

# ty, good roads. Stokes is rich in natural resources, Cbeing a fine agricultural county, with minerals, wa- #

J ter-powers, mineral springs, charming mountain %

# scenery, etc., thrown in for good measure. If she CV had macadam roads she would soon become one of M

J the wealthiest counties in the piedmont section. %

# Many of her citizens are awake to this fact. A large CV land owner remarked in the writer's presence a few M? weeks ago that he would cheerfully consent to the j# doubling of his taxes if the increased revenue were CV applied to building good roads in Stokes county. Mr When representative citizens begin to talk this way %

# it means something.?Webster's Weekly, of kelds- CV ville, N. C. #