THE DANBURY REPORTEROLUME XXXIX.

FROM J. W. KURFEESON LATE SCHOOL ELECTION

ItDiscouraged, He Believes the

rim Will Sooa Come When the'wpk Will Vote For Schools.

, Editor :

'be battle 1M uvr, but we arery to Hay the victory wa* uotu tor our |crade<l neliool. Weaomewhat like tbe old woiuau

\u25a0 when «be prayed for tht moun-ato be removed, "It waa about\u25a0re expected." Intact we proctl-ly saw tbe end from the bo-ning. We have tieeu «<» manyb caw* where It took two oree elections to carry It. We are;at all dlecoura***!, and feel sure,t victory will l*e our* ere loug

doee not prevail Ju«t whendesire It, but doe« always pre-I soouer or later. This euui-

gu will do gou<t. It will serveeaveu, and alter while it will liegluwork. Tbe men who have chlld-tbey love, aud really at heartuttoseetbem grow in Intellect asII as In stature, and votedlinat this school proposition, willite course of time, in their coolI sober moments, regret their

of yeeterday.fedo not criticise the honest far-r who voted aKalnst the taxiply ltecause he felt It a burden,

i We tblnk lie wps wrong: we think itwould soou have been a pleasurelu-

stead of a burden to him,i but be has a perfect right to his op-I tniou and we do not criticise him,

or aoy one else whose honest con-victions were different from ours.

- "The rneu whom we criticise are '.hosewho saw fit to deal in gross liiisrep-reaeatatton, and we will udd wilfullolerepreeeutatiousat that. We say

| wilful because we know some whoL dealt ID them have had some advan-

tage of education and ure creditedwith being too well posted not toknow better than to make state-ments which, when put t" theteat, were each time proven to l»e

false. It comes with poor grace fora man who has had educational ad-vantage to say toa cltlxeu who liasbeen lees fortunate, that the school

facilities are good euough for hfschildren and Itwill never do to votea tax to better thein. But you clt-laens watch rightclose and see Iftliefacilities you have are good euoughfor that man's children. Not 011

your life. A man like we have pic-tured knows the advantage of abetter education than can lie ob-tained around (ieriuanton withureeeut facilities, anil ifyou'll watchclose some who fought to keep downbetter opportunities at home, willsoon be, IfIndeed they have not al-ready been, sending their children

elsewhere. They will lie sending

th*"» off where some one else has

I spent hard-earned money ami pre-h pared better school advantages.u Some of you cannot do this. YouI willnot lie able, and your children

I therefore will have to grow uppoor-

f lyprepared to face a nrogresslveage. On the other hand the sousand daughters of certain ones whoopposed the school tax will be com-ing home from College well equipped

rf for life..

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What Ifought for, and what anumber of other good clt:*eusfouglitfor, was a system of co-operation toMtablUh at home, right In our owncommunity, a permanent High

Nchool that every child, rich andpoor alike, could have equal advan-tage of at least a High School edu-cation.

lam proud of the stand I tookand 1 feel sure each aud every manwho stood with me feels proud, aud

era long we will have many recruits/ from the opposition. One or two

men cannot run a good school, but"In union ther* Is strength."

A system of co-operatlou like wehad before us would have equally

distributed tbe burdens upon everymfcn In this district In proportion to

his wealth. If he owned but littlebe would have but little to pay. Ifbe owned more he would have moreto pay. Ko after all It would have

- been equal.We nave men In our community

who have 5 or 6 children who payf only a poll tax, but most any of us

whs pay more can pay It easier

than they.I would be the last man to grum-

ble at paying more tax than someleas fortunate fellow Just liecause hischildren had equal school advant-age with mine.

On* child, be It rich or pt»or. Is asgood bv nature us another and

should "have equal opportunity todevek>p those God given faculties

whldl should be highly prised bvevery father and mother In the land.

I hhve not au unkind word orthought for a single man because lievotea against thrschool proposition.

? In my seal and enthusiasm I may

have said things I should not haveMid. Many uT us lu tbe heat ofargument over points of dtffereuce,oamany subjects, get more or less6idlid, ttud if wot careful sftj' thlijif*Weahould have left uusald. If thin

hasten the cane on my par frit wasaa «(tor ofthe head aud uot of lU*Wat, and I am sorry. May theLonl over role It all In some way forgood, and may the day soou cqrnewhen, not only Qermanton ami com-munity, but the eutire eouuty ofStokes will wake up to Ita duty lubehfif of roa<'« and schools, and

oeaaa to be poll* 'ed at us a "backnumber" In the iaruh of progressBOW going on from the mountains

I to the sea.JNa w< KIJRFBKB .

J D. Humphreys ha*pnflned to his bed wfch«?* two or three days,tow much improved.

FROM D. S. WATKINSTRAVELING IN VIRGINIA

Stokes Naa Sees Some StrangeSights Oa the Other Side of theNouatains.

Earlhearst, Va., June 4.Editor Reporter:

I will try to give a little de-scription of this country. It ismade up of long mountain ranges,with narrow valleys between.Leaving Fincastle I went aroundby Buchanan byway of SaltPeter Cave (a cave of salt peter)to Eagle Rock. Here two largelime kilns are doing business,employing several hands. Backbyway of Fincastle across themountain to New Castle, thenceup the mountain where Meadowcreek goes rushing down themountain several hundred feetto New Castle, the finest waterpower that I ever saw. Theycould pipe the water several hun-dred feet over the town. Thisvalley is called Sinking Creek.It seems to be a valley high upin the mountain. I stopped overnight with a Mr. Abbott. Hesaid that the creek was full offine trout, but the land was post-ed. Said a few days back hewent across the mountain toBack Creek and caught sixtyfine trout?as many as he caredto carry home. From there Iwended my way across the moun-tain to Fort John's creek. Here Imet a lawyer from Richmond,stopping at a Mr. Huffman's.Young Miss Huffman said thatjust below the house there wasa hole in the creek and the finestfish she ever saw. We went tohunting bait and finally we gotthree Daits and one hook. Imade a bargain with the lawyerthat he was to catch the fish andI would carry them. I alwayswant the isasy job. At the creeksure enough there was the nicestfish floating around I nearly eversaw. The water seemed to beabout waist deep, just as clear asa crystal. You could see greatlarge spotted fish swimmingaround. They soon got the threebaits and we had nothing to dobut go back to the house andfeast on ham and eggs, and goto bed and dream of the fish wenever caught. Next morning Ivery reluctantly hitched up myhorse and drove towards AllHealing Springs and from AllHealing I had to cross anothermountain to Point Bank, thencedown Pat's creek to Covington,Dunlap's creek to Earlhearst.I spent Sunday with a Mr. Carter.He has a roller mill, store, farmand pond full of fish. Here isthe greatest freak of nature Iever saw. Just below the mill isa falls fifty feet high. The wa-ter runs over and turns the rockand fills up, and changes itscourse. Ithas run around treesand formed rock and the treeshave rotted out and left theirimpressions. You can. see theimpressions of the limbs, alsothe leaves. You can see theleaves plain enough to tell whatkind. They are not petrified.We went into a cave about fortyfeet wide. Here is the beautiful-est sight I ever saw. The waterhas run over here in time andformed rock just like icicles, inall shapes and forms and colors.The rock is very hard. You canbreak it and see the layers likethe growth in timber. Mr.Carter says he has to take outhis millwheel once in awhile andcut the rock off where the waterstrikes the wheel the hardest.Ithas the most rock inside thebox that the wheel run in. Inten years it got to be five inchesthick. He had to cut it out togive the wheel room to run. Heshowed me where poles lay acrossthe creek and rocks formed. Youcan find where it has formedaround sticks and the sticks haverotted out and left it hollow. Hesaid that in August he could puta stick in swift water for twentyfour hours and itwould be rightgritty. They have recentlyfound a crack in a rock and went'in and found a cave under a fiveacre field. Meadow says the caveis as large as the field and isover hanging with this rock likeicicles and the creek runningthrough. I did not go into it asI did not care to eraw| into suchcracks. Now this may seemfishy, but anyone doubting itcan coins and see several parties

DANBURY, N. C., JUNE 14, 1911.

BUILD GOOD ROADSYADKIN CITIZEN WRITES

la No Uacertaia Toaea Oa the Sub-ject of Progress For Stokes Couaty?The Inestimable Damage Of aDo-Nothiag Policy.

Rural Hall Route 2, June 4.Mr. Editor:

I am glad to see an awakeningof interest in our county on thesubject of good roads. I thinkthis question of paramount im-portance to all others, when weconsider the future of our countyand people, and the welfare ofour children.

I am not an advocate of maca-dam roads, unless we had a morethickly settled and a wealthiercounty. Paving the roads withrock, and leveling down to a twoor three per cent, grade, is toocostly for us now. But what weneed is one of the less expensivemethods of building roads, andyet a method which will 'insureenduring roads, and roads thatwill make traveling and trafficboth easy and quick.

I am a farmer, and what I haveI have by many years laborI have made at hard labor, and Ibelieve that our county should becharge of men who are carefulin the expenditure of the people'smoney as taxes. But I do notthink that a do-nothing policywith regard to reasonable countyimprovements is wise or econom-ical. The people in the back-woods districts of Stokes countyhave for many years been payinga heavy and burdensome taxwhich there should be somemeans adopted to relieve themof. For instance on fertilizerswe haul, we must pay at least 20cents tax to bad roads, becausewith good roads, we could haultwo bags where now we canhaul only one. On flour we paya road tax of 20 cents per 100pounds, and oh Daisy Middlingswe pay at least 30 cents per. bag.Every farmer knows this is true.If we buy from our home merch-ant, we must pay the liaulingprice which he has added. Ifwe haul from the depot ourselves,with our own teams, we pay thetax just the same by our inabilityto haul a full load. Take all theother commodities on which wepay the road tax?salt, hardware,corn meal, com, hay, etc., andyou can soon figure out theenormous expense of bad roadsto the peple of Stokes county.What do you suppose it costs thefarmers of Stokes county tomarket their tobacco over thebad roads? It is estimated thatwe produce 7 or 8 millions ofpounds. Estimate one-half ofthis to be hauled from interiorfarms, and you must stagger atthe cost of hauling, to say noth-ing of the time consumed, thewear and tear of vehicles, whichis at least 15 per cent., and thewear and tear of stock, at least25 per cent. Friends, readers,farmers of Stokes county, theinjury to the property of thepeople of the county by our dornothing policy with reference toroads, cannot be estimated. Wecan ten times easier pay a directtax for building good roads thanwe can pay the indirect bad-roadtax.

It is said by a well informedfarmer of Guilford county, thatit is five times easier for a laborerto make a dollar in a-county withgood roads, than in a countywhere bad roads are a handicapto every kind of business andindustry. The same writer in-forms us that all kinds of indus-tries flourish, and farm lands in-crease in value, where there aregood roads. This would seem toinclude every avocation, then whyshould any person oppose thatwhich is the life of our county?

These are my views on thesubject, and I would be glad tohear the opinion of others on thequestion which, in. my mind, ismore important than any otherconsideration which confronts us,

PROGRESS.

The uniform success that hasattended the use ofChamberlain'sColic, Cholera ahd DiarrhoeaRemedy has made it a favoriteeverywhere. It can always bedepended upon. For sale by alldealers.

are three-miles from here. OldSweet is one mile further in W.

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No. 2,04

IN OLD ROCKINGHAMFINE OUTLOOK FOR POOLING

This la the News Brought Back ByStokes President R. L Naaa, ofthe Uaiaa ?Tobscco Crop Will BeCat Oee-Half.

Mr. R. L. Nunn, President ofthe Stokes County Farmers' Un-ion, spent Saturday night hereon the way to his home at West-field from Rockingham where hehas been lecturing and organiz-ing for a week or more in theinter&t of the Union. Mr. Nunnbrings very encouraging reportsfrom the Rockingham farmerswho, he says, are alive andawake for the Union, and addsthat they willpool several million

B>unds of tobacco this fall. Mr.unn attended a large and en-

thusiastic Union meeting atWentworth on Saturday. Speech-es were made by many promin-ent Union men, and a greatamount of tobacco was pledgedfor a pool in the fall.

Mr. Nunn says Rockingham isdry like Stokes, and he predictsnot over half a crop of tobaccofor the two counties.

Mr, Nunn says Rockingham is agreat old county, with a big-hearted people who are progress-ive, hospitable and kind.

ZEB NUGENT CAUGHTAND SENT BACK TO THE PEN

Seatenced to State Prison For aTerm of Seven Years in 1893Escaped Soon After Began Term.

The State penitentiary author-ities have just gotten back ZebNugent, who was sentenced toseven years from Stokes county18 years ago, in the year 1893.Soon after being sent to theState prison from the Danburyjail, Nugent made his escape.He tells the penitentiary author-ities that he has visited manyparts of the world, and served inthe Spanish-American war sincehe left Raleigh. Nugent's pa-rents live near Mount Airy, andhe had gone back to visit the oldfolks, when the Sheriff of Surryarrested him.

Subscribed the REPORTER

HOW'S THIS?We offer One Hundred Dollars

Reward for any case of Catarrhthat cannot be cured by Hall'sCatarrh Cure.

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F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, 0.We, the undersigned, have

known F. J. Cheney for the last15 years, and believe him perfect-ly honorable in all business tran-sactions and financially able tocarry out any obligations madeby his firm.

WALDING, KINNAN& MARVIN,Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0.

Hall's Catarrh Cure is takeninternally, acting directly uponthe blood and mucous surfacesof the system. Testimonials sentfree. Price 75 cents per bottle.Sold by all Druggists.

Take Hall's Family Pills forconstipation.

GOOD ROADS AS AN ECONOM=ICAL QUESTION.

Outside of the influence of bad roads against edu-cational and religious development and outside ofthe adverse influence of bad roads through intensify-ing the loneliness of country life, the loss to farmersand to all others using bad roads is in the aggregatestaggering. We complain bitterly against the rail-roads for freight charges and yet put up with thecost of hauling over bad roads so many times great-er than the cost of railroad freights per mile that wecan but be amazed at our own failure to utilize ouropportunities. Every wheel that turns over a badroad adds to the cost of living and doing business;every farmer is daily paying a toll through the heavyburden of bad roads which, in the aggregate cost isfar more than this taxation, both State and national.In fact as an economic problem pure and simple, thequestion of good roads is of more vital concern tothe American people than the question of protectionor free trade. There is no other economic problembefore the country of more importance for the peopleof all classes and all sections than that of good roads.While bad roads mean undeveloped educational andreligious activities, continued loneliness of countrylife, lack of prosperity on the farms as compared withwhat there might be, and many other disadvantages,good roads on the other hand mean the highest edu-cational and religious advancement, a more generalprosperity of all classes, the elimination of the lone-liness of country life, and the keeping at home oftens of thousands of people who without good roadswill continue to crowd to the cities, often to theirown disadvantage and to the disadvantage of thecities. Well-rounded national development can onlycome through the highest development of the agri-cultural districts, and this can only come throughthe highest development of all religious and educa-tional activities and social possibilities. The coun-try must be made as attractive through good roads,and the blessings which they bring, as the city, orotherwise we shall have a continuation of the tre-menduous drain from the country to the city, whichhas been one of the dominant features of our nation-al growth during the .last quarter of a century.?Prom Address of R. H. Edmonds, Editor of theManufacturers' Record.

BOOMING THE FAIRTO MAKE IT THE BEST YET

Dates For Stoke kFiir October 17,18, 19 ?Othei atems of King.

King, JuneC>.? The farmersare the worst _>hind with theirwork they ha *been for yearsdue to the drjf/eather.

The wheat <f>p in this sectionis looking fin<|J

Mrs. W. N. vest is visiting herdaughter in W, Va.

Efforts are being put forth tomake the coming fair, Oct. 17,18, 19, the biggest and best everheld in old Stokes.

Mr. J. M. Alley was here fromDanbury Route 1 Wednesday oflast week. Mr. Alley said thathe had set out more than half ofhis crop of tobacco in spite of thedry weather, and that it was do-ing splendidly, making as good astand as he ever had.

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