THE DANBURY REPORTER.VOLUME XXXIII.

PINE LOG SCHOOL CLOSES.

A Very interesting And Enjoyable/ Time At the Exhibition?Big

Crowd Present.

The school at Pine Log, taughtby Mr. O. M. Pulliam, closed lastSaturday with an exhibition,which wa* attended by a largocrowd* A representative of theReporter bad the pleasure to bepresent. Mr. Pnlliam, the teach-er, who is noted as i>ne of the bes;

all-round teachers of the county,and possibly the best in the coun-try for getting up interestingentertainments and for excel-lence in training his pupils in theexercises, almost surpassed him-self at this function, and it was thegoneral opinion that the day hadleen a most enjoyable oue.

What wo co'isidered one of the..ost interesting features, and cer-

tainly the most spectacular fea-ture, of the occasion, was themarching and drilling of theyoung men and ladies, boys andgirls, on tho campus. There wereexacly 60 of the students in line,and so well had they boeu trainedthat, throngh an h >ur's marching,countermarching, etc., executingall kinds of intricate as well asdifficult figure*, we did not see asingle blunder. The little onesseemed perfectly under control,and did their parts with almostequal facility to the older ones.The marching was to the time ofsplendid music furnished by thestring band, of which Messrs.Win. Redman, and others werethe players.

Allothor interesting feature ofthe occasion was the address ofProf. Smith, Superintendent ofSchools. Prof. Smith paid a hightribute to the Pine Log school,showing that it was far ahead ofthe average State school both inenrollment and average attend-ance?

The exorcises were held bothin the forenoon and the afternoon.At 12 o'clock, everybody repairedto dinner, which was eaten in pic-nic style, each family with theirfriends attending their own spread.It was the good fortuue of thewriter to have received an invita-tion to the elaborate and hospit-able board of the Pulliams. Itwould be a waste of words to tryto tell what good things wc hadfor dinner, and how much we en-joyed it. Possibly there are read-ers of the Reporter who havebeen with these good people at

meal time. These would knowhow well we fared. Later we hadthe pleasure of also taking lunchwith Mr. and Mrs. Wade Carroll,who bad an excellent dinnerand a-plenty of it.

Among the largo crowd present,we recall the following:

Misses Beulah Pulliam, EttaGordon, Blanche Terrell, BettieGordon, May Gordon, Lillie Gor-don, Maltie and Mollie DeWitt,Jessie Fulton, Agnes Johnson,Claudia Johnson, Mallie Johnson,Eizie Easter, Rosa Carroll, CarrieJohnson, Ethel Sully, Pearl Tut-tle, Ora Fowler, Primmie Fow-ler, Myrtie Hartgrove, CoraYpung, Lezora Neal, Bertha Til-lotson, Dora Tillotson, MaryEllen Holland, Macy Pulliam,Novella Sally, Lennis Pulliam,Alverta Pulliam. Mary BelleSmith, Annie Blair, MinnieGlidewell, Ruth Glidewell, Har-riet Roes. Mr. and Mrs. WillWall, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Pul-liam, Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Pulliam,Mr. and' Mrs. Cbas. Morefield,Mr. aod Mis. Sid Kisor, Mr. andMrs. Wade Carroll, Mr. and Mrs.Thos. Tillotson, Mr. and Mrs.Wm. Gordon, Mr. and Mrs. Baker,Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Darnell, Mr.and Mrs. Clay Donnell, Mr. andMrs, James Meadow?, Mr. andMrs. John T. Carroll, Mr. andMrs. Joe Neal, Miss Martha

» Rosa, Miss Cora Boyles, Mr. and* Mrs. Jeff Smith, Mr. and Mrs.? Ped Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. J. M.

r . Reading, MTS. Brown, Mr. nndE J "8. Will Southern, Bud L:e» T ttle, Silas Carroll, Will Crr-

jfaj 1, Moses Terrell, G. M. Allen,j£. Fowler, J. A. Southern. A. E.

rMontbern and others.

wt.* The people of Stokes CountyEare certainly sticking to theirHtionie bank. The Cashiers of theI Bank inform the Reporter thatKibe Bank deposits are now nearly\u25a0376,000, and that the SIOO,OOOpEjuark looms up in near future.Kpld Stokes don't make any

but she generally makesH|pod ou a thing w ben she tries.

Sandy Ridge Items.Sandy Ridge, March 8.

Dear Editor:Please allow us a little space in

your paper.We are having some vory fine

weather in this vicinity at thiswriting. Hope it will stay goodquite a while, until the farmersare through" with plant land.

Mr. Johny Moore gave theyoung folks quite a nice timequilting last Saturday uight, andbest of all a party. We hopethere will be another party soousome where.

Mr. J. W. Joyce and familyvisited Mr. and Mrs. J. M. New-man yesterday.

Misses Lelia and Hallie Joycevisited Miss Florence Hill Sun-day. They report a nice time.

Misses Mary and Katie Martinvisited Miss Ella Ferguson Satur-day night and Hunday; guess theyhad a nice time as their best fel-lows called to seo them.

Mr. S. F. Hawkins -and familyvisited Mr. H. S. Joyce Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs L. L Joyce visit-ed Mr. and Mrs. 11. S. Joy ;e Sun-1day.

Miss Ella Martin came buck to!see us all last Thursday, and stay- jed until Sunday; wo were glad tohave her with us again; hope shewill come again 6oon.

Gness Mies Mamie Lawrencehad a fine time Sunday playingcroquet, as soma of hor bestfriends were with her.

We ask to be excused as this isour first writing.

TWO RED EYED GIKLS.

Mr. J. B. Voss Weds Miss Cora A.Boyles?Other Items From Ger-manton Route One,Germanton Route 1, March 'J.?

Our community was greatly sur-prised Sunday evening by themarriage of Mr. J. B. Voss toMiss Cora A. Boylos. The cere-mony was performed at tho resi-dence of Esquire J. H. Covington.

Mr. T. S. Boyles and sister vis-itod their brother at Mount Airythe past week, returning Sunday.

Mr. Nat Boles, Misses Claudiaand Mallie Johnson and LillieGordon spent Sunday at Mr. W.J. Johnson's.

Tue many friends of Mr. RileyCromer are glad to know that heis recuperating from his recentillness.

Mr. W. W. Ferguson visitedhis parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H.Ferguson, Sunday.,

, Mr. and Mrs. Forest Smith wentto Winston Sunday, returning theday following.

?Mr. W. R. Johnson, of.Wiuston,is expected to visit his parents thelatter part of this week.

Wishing tho Reporter and itsreaders suocess, I will close.

"SCAT."

Asbury School to Close March 18With Interesting Exercises Ad-dresses And Music?EverybodyInvited.

Brim Route 1, March 9.Mr. Editor :

Pleaso announce that our schoolwill be out on the 18th of Marchat Asburv and at 1 o'clock lawyerJohn Folger, of Mount Airy, willaddress tho school on education,then the program of the school; atnight Dr. J. Thoa. Smith, ofWestfield, will speak on prohibi-tion. We have the promise of twostring bands to make music, onein day and one at night. We cor-dially invite everybody to attend.We have two very fine youngspeakers, one in the day and theother at night. Miss FrancisMarshall the toaoher, is very muchinterested in prohibition, aud isvery anxious that all voting menof this country be present and es-pecially all her "Williams."

People are all at work now tomake up for the past bad weather.

Dr. J. J. Leak and wife are backfrom Stuart, Va., muoh improved.

Mr. J. H. Robertson, of Fran-cisco, was a viator at the Repqitori iHice Tuesday. Mr. Robertsonh; s been teaching in Forsythcounty the past school year.Since bis school closed he hasbeen visiting in Yadkin county,returning home last week.

Mr. W. D. Bennett, of WalnutCove, was liere Monday on hisway to the home of his father,Mr. W. R. Bennett, of DanburyRoute 1. Mr. Bennett, who re-cently spent some time at HotSprings, Ark., in the interest ofhis health, is greatly improved.

DANBURY, N. C., MARCH 12, 1908.

Strathooma, a thriving new townwith 4000, inhabitants, where woboarded the train for Calgary, 200miles directly south of this town.

The land around Calgary lieswell, but is on the dry belt, andthey do not always succeed inraising good crops.

We have a fine view of thesnow capped rookies from hero.

When we reached the boundaryline between Can. and the N. 5.,!the train was stopped and theconductor told us to open up our |grips for the custom officer to ex- jamine. I was very uncomfortablefor a while, as I had bought somenice Can. flannels, and a hand- |some fur coat, never once think-ing about paying duty on them.Before the officer came in, I un-wrapped the coat and put it on, andlaid wide open my suit case andwaited for the worst; but the offi-cer only pushed my clothes to oneside a little, so did not notice my igoods and took no note of my fur !ooat. Some passengers lie ex-,amined very rigidly.

Below the Canadiau lino, westrike a belt of alkali soil which isvery barren.

Our next stop was at Great ;Falls, Montaua, on the Missouririver. This is a tine new town,with nice depot, several excellent ihotels, splendid P. O , and largestores, with more nice cafeß to itssize than any place we visited.

The fare in all these westerntowns is extraordinary. They |have the finest meals I ever saw.Iwent through the meat marketsin Can., aud the Western Statestoo, and have never seen such finebeef and mutton as wo saw there, j

At Great Falls wo saw a splen-did new cafe going up, to cobtseveral thousand dollars.

We cross the Missouri riverhere near the Great Falls, (fromwhich the town takes its name),on a bridge ono quarter of a mile jlong, and water very deep. Wo !crossed Titon river near here on ja bridge one mile long, and 300 jfeet high. We passed down thecanyon of the Missouri, with highmountains on either side, goingthrough numerous mining camps,where the scenery was most weirdand desolate to behold.

Next we arrived at Butte, Mon.,which is the great miniag city ofthe west, and a very wealthy place.We come into this city on the up-per side, and pass tho deep min-ing shafts, sunk many hundredfeet into the mountain sides. Iwas quite anxious to decend inone of the elevators, and see howit looked, but as they were shutdown while we were there, I wasdenied this privilege and perhapsit was well, for I was told after-wards, that I would have beendrenched with water, had I gonedown.

The station is at the lower sideof the city, and there is a very 1

I handsome and commodious depot. |Streets are not so wide ns in ,

many of the new towns and cities jin Canada, but have splendid .street car service. There are jmany splendid buildings here, andlarge up to date department stores.There we saw the most beautifuljewelry displayed in the windowsof any place we had stopped.

There were a great many finesaloons and we were told it is avery wicked city. We spent oneday looking over this place, andat 5-30 p. m., boarded the trainfor Pocatello,, where we changedcars for American Falls out on abranch road of the Oregon ShortLine. Leaving Butte, we passedthrough a deep canyon, along bigCoal River, where tall mountainsofcrumbling rooks were perfectlybare, on account of so muchmineral in them. Here we sawmiles of snow fences built to catchthe drifting snow, and prevontthe deep B. R. cuts from beingfilled with it, and blookading thetrains, the account of which Ihave often read, but never fully jrealized how awful it must be,until I passed along that way. j

That is the bleakest countrywe traveled. We passed very nearYellow Stqne National Park,whioh place I have always oravedto visit, but unfortunately for usit bad just closed for the season.

Miss Annie Martin returnedto her home at Gideon Thursday,after attending school here forsome months.

Mr. L. P. Grogan, of Camp-bell Route 1, was a visitor at theReporter offioe Friday. Mr. Gro-gan is a prosperous farmer andgood oitizen of his section.

Marriage of Mr. Frank Hill and MissAlice Dalton?Other Campbell

Items.

Campbell, March 6.?MissSallie Mcßride, spent two weekswith her sister Mrs. FannieHill.

Miss Ethel liillwent last Tues-day evening to have her toothpulled.

Mr. and Mrs. Hill started for(ireensboro Wednesday morning;

i guess they will arive today,Miss Lindy Nelson came home

[last week; guess Mr. Banner Hillis glad to hear she has come

i home. I guess he went up thereto see her Sunday.

Miss Ethel Hill and Miss SallieMcßride visited Miss Ida BijgsSunday.

Mr. Wes Priddy and Mr. Gil-mer Watkitis passed Mr. J. R, JHill's last Sunday; guess thoywere going to see their girls.

Miss Sallie Mcßride spentThursday night with Miss EthelHill.

Miss Alice Dalton and Mr.Frank Hill wore married last Sun-day at the home of the bride.

Miss Ida Biggs has worked hersome line pillow tups this week;guess she is aiming to get mar-ried soon.

Mrs. Fannie Hill has namedher baby Lettie Sue.

Mr. Hubert Martin visited Mr.John HillFriday.

I think they aimed to have afino dance up at Mr. Dick Brown'slast Tuesday night and it was sobad thnt nobody couldn't getthere.

Miss Lillie Brown and MissJennie Joyce visited Miss EthelHill last Monday nvening,

TWO BLUEYED GIRLS.

Meadows Items.\ Mr. George Neal bought n tine| horse last week.

A musical entertainment wasj given at the home of Dr. NealMonday night.

Miss Mary Lawellyn, of Farm-ville, Ya., is visiting her sister,Mrs. Grace Neal of Meadows.

Most of the young people ofthis place went to the Pine Logschool closing Saturday.

The infant son of J. A. Neal,who has been sick fur a week, ismuch better.

Miss Ivizzie Easter has a goodattendance to her subscriptionschool.

Five preachers preached atClear Spring Sunday.

The sou of Mr. James Darnelis very low with pulmonarytuberculosis.

Mr. J. D. Young, of Hartman,was hero yesterday.

\u25a0A GREAT GRAIN AND GRASSPRODUCER.

j Lee's Prepared AgriculturalLime is now recognized to bo the

j greatest grain and grass producerknown. It uot only produceswell but is a great land improver,being the most concentrated prep-aration of lime the planter canuse, Getting a good 6tand ofclover is a hard thing to do onmost laud and those who haveused it say that Lee's Limo neverfails to give yon a good stand. Itis cheap and is well worth trying. 1The preparation used with otherfertilizer is also tine for tobacco.A top dressing of 100 or 200pounds, gives good body andheavier leaves, as well as preveutsfiring. It will destroy sheepsorrel invariably find makes a finotop dressing for wheat. Mr. J. D.VVaddil, Walnut Cove, Stokescounty, N. C., writes: "I bought10 tons of Lee'a Prepared Agri-cultural Lime last spring for ontsand clover, applying 500 poundsper acre, as recommended. I

j made the best crop of oats I havegrown for a long time, and have a

| splendid stand of clover. Theclover is now looking better thanany I have had for seasons, as Ihave failod to get a stand foryears."

Messrs. J. F. Miller, of RuralHall, and W. G. Moore, of Moore'sSprings, have purchased a carload of this lime and in order tointroduce it in this section areselling it at. the low price of $13.50a ton at Rural Hall. If you aroexpecting to sow any spring oatsor clover soon you will do well towrite either of the above namedparties, who will be glad to fur-nish you any information youmay want about the matter.

PASSING THROUGH A FINECOUNTRY.

Mrs. James M Wall Continues HerInteresting Account Of a Trip

Through the West.

Our next stop was at Ltshburnin the newly formed Province ofSascatehewan, which embraces alarge portion of the great valleyalong the Saskatchwan river, andcontains some of the most fertilesoil in the world. This town whichis only one year old, is on the mainline of the Canadian Pacifio Rail-way and has two grain elevators,one livery stable, one hotel, tworeal estate offices, four stores,school building and church, with25 nice residences and splendiddepot. We spent two nights anda day here, and getting a hackand guide, spent the day drivingover tho prairie, looking at thenew settlers' farms; and they cer-tainly are a prosperous and thriv-ing settlement. But it was so coldthat day, the 20th of September.Wo wore long fur coat 9, and saton buffalo robes with another overour laps to keep comfortable whiledriving. We could see very dis-tinctly the olsl Buffalo trail, whichis a narrow-beaten path, leading tothe water, for they followed theirloader in single file, many thous-ands iu a gang, years ago beforethey were killed out.

We saw badgers, gophers andcoytoes, in large numbers.

The prairie grass makes finehay, and we saw hundreds of finecattle grazing on it, and fatterthan any stall fed beeves in ourcountry. The horses and sheepwill paw the snow off the grass inwinter and live well on that alone,it is so nutritious. Scattered allover the prairies we see what thesettlers call sloughs (sloss), whichas a rule are almost round as awheel and vary iu size from 25feet in diuiuetor to one mile, andon their wateis, which are perfect-ly clear, but not very deep ormiry, we saw large flocks of wildducks, and sometimes wild geese.Here too, the herds of cattle,sheep and hors?s water. I couldbut think what an ideal pastureland, for the immense herds ofbuffalo, wild cattle and horses,which afforded sport and subsis-tence for the Indian hunters longyears ago. I thought of the largeprarie fires which sweep overthis country after frosts, devastat-ing everything in its path, andalmost wished if one should passthat way soon, I might be privi-leged to witness it, for the set-tlers told us it is a grand sight.Each land holder is compelled bdlaw, to have a fire guard arounyhis home, which greatly lessenstho danger and frequency of thesefires. The fire guard is made byturning with a broad plow, severalfurrows of tho grass, then skipton feet and turn more grass after-wards burning off between the

i fallowed land.The 21st of September we start-

ed for Edmonton, 425 miles NorthWest. We crossed the Sasca-tehewan River on a bridge 700 feetlong and 300 feet high, at one ofthe old Hudson bay ports, justabove the city.

This is a beautiful place on avery high bluff, overlooking thismagnificent river. It has splen-did hotels, two fine school build-ings, elegant churches of all de-nominations, very broad streets,mammoth department stores, anddouble street car line, with excel-lent service. They have a splen-did fire department, horses weigh1650 lbs., hook and ladder wagon30 feet long, fine omnibus to carryinjured people from fires, pre-sented by the sisters of oharity.New P. O. in course of erection,to cost one quarter of a milliondollars.

In summer during longest days,the sun rises at 3-30 a. in,, andseta at 9 p. ra. You oan formsome idea from this faot, how farnorth this city is, if you do notrecall the exact location on themap. We were told that 125miles north of this place, the sunrises at 2-30 a. m., and sets at tenp. w., and they are not oompelledto light a lamp through the night.We saw them dredging the riverfor rocks to make pavements, andwere told they get as muoh asSIO.OO or $12.00 dollars worth ofgold per day from the bed of theriver.

When leaving Edmonton, wecrossed theSasoatehewan river justback of the town on a wagonbridge, aud drove one mile to

No. 1878

| VARNER SAWMILL OUTFIT SOLD

Purchased By Jas. Wall and J. T.Vernon at the Price Of s6oo?

Of Gann's.

Gann's, March 9.?The farmersare about dono eowiug tobaccoseed except a few who sow in themoon, and they will sow this week.Some burned their beds, whileothers sowed without burning.

Messrs. Jas. Wall and J. T. Ver-non purchased the Varner sawmill outfit at the sale Tuesday atsix hundred and some dollars. Tbeoutfit is easily woith one thous-and dollars.

Mrs. T. J. Gann has been on thesick list for several days, but isout again much improved, we areglad to note.

Mrs. R. G. Richardson, Sr., isno better, we regret to say. Shehas something like eczema thataggravates her quite much.

Mr. D. L. Blackburn, of Reids-ville, brother-in-law of the writer,is in a hospital in Danville for anoperation for kidney trouble.

Miss Bercha Dunlap is visitingat Mr. A. H. Martin's.

Mr. Ben Martin and Mies CoraJoyce visited Miss Bercha Dun-lap at her home near Gideon to-'*day.

Mr. J. 1?. Smith passed hereyesterday on his way home, hav-ing given the bond of ten thous-and dollars required of him by therevenue department. "Truly theway of the transgressor is hard."

Miss Lillian Johnson is visitingher uncle, Mr. J. J. Johnson, nearDillard.

Somebody please tell us what ismeat by "suit pending and at is-sue in the Superior Court," asfound in Section l*.)lf>, revisal of1905, as thero are some in the jurylist for next court that have suitsagainst them and in their favoragainst otheis on the docket.

Deposits Still Rising.

The deposits of the Bauk ofStokes County are still rising,having reached the high water-mark of $75,300 00 this week.Give your account to tho bank ofyour own county, and thus pa-tronize a home isntitution. Ifyou are a merchant, you wouldnot like for your neighbors to dotheir trading at Winston. If youare a physician, you would notlike for your neighbors to sendto Forsyth or Rockingham orPatrick or Surry when they need-ed a doctor. Whatever be yourcalling, place your money withthe bank that is helping you paythe taxes of the county, and thathas a record for safety and con-fervatism that no othor bank intho State can show.

The Reporter has just receiveda big shipment of the very nicestlinen aud rag envelops and writingpaper and can furnish it to youwith your business card printed onit at about what you have beenpaying for it without the printing.

Miss Sadie Petree is expected[ home this week from Germanton;where she has been teaching

1school.There will be a prohibition dis-

cussion at Meadows school housenext Saturday night. The speak-ers will bo R. W. Hill, R. P.Glidewell, J. C. Wall and Chas.Hutcherson. Everybody invited.