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MILLINERY
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Need of Millinery of all
Kinds
WILL - DO - WELL
TO CALL ON
. J. T. BRITT
Next Door to
LINCH'S JEWELRY STORE
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Reduced. !
NOW 13 THE TIME
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Secure Bargains !
MRS
OXFORD,
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
THE PASSING LOCAL EVENTS OF THE
DAY.
What is Trannpirinjc Around and
About Us, In Town and County
The Movements and lolnics of Peo
ple Ton Know. Ktc.
Our stores commence to display
Christmas goods.
The officers-elect are now get
tin g bonds ready.
Lookout ! You had better give
a little attention to paying your
taxes.
While crops are short there is
an over-production of office-seekers
just at this time.
Mr. J. K. Wood has been ap
pointed magistrate in Oxford town
ship in place of W. K. Thomas re
aigned.
The organ grinder, accompanied
with the usual monkey, was in town
Friday to the great delight of the
small boys.
Do not fail to renew your sub
scription to the Public Ledger if
you want to keep up with home and
foreign news.
We learn from the Durham Sun
that, the Messrs. Duke have in their
generous liberality given $10,000
more to Trinity College.
We ask you to read the change
in A. Landis & Sons' advertisement,
and advise you to take advantage of
the bargains now being offered.
Our townsman, Crawford Biggs,
is a member of the University Ball
Team, that has been victorious in
several games during the past week.
J. R. Moore, at Providence, we
learn, has two pigs 11 months old
that weigh over 300 pounds apiece.
Granville is really coming on rais
ing meat.
We have received the Record,
published at Warrenton by Rev. B.
F. Long. It is neatly printed and
well edited and should receive a
good patronage.
The Third party started out with
the intention of getting the earth
with a picket fence around it, while
the nearest they came to it was to
be flattened at the polls.
A sneak thief stole ten pounds
of butter out of R. L. Jones' wagon
under the shed of Wilkinson's Ware
house on Wednesday. We trust the
thief will be apprehended.
The Thanksgiving Dinner given
on Tuesday by the ladies of the
Baptist church in aid of their new
church was a nice affair, and a large
number of people enjoyed it.
-Albert Renn, 13 years old, son
of Jas. A. Renn, is no doubt the
youngest stationery engineer in the
State. He handles the rock crusher
engine with as much pains and skill
as if he was an old veteran in the
cause.
A new post office has been es
tablished at White Rock Alliance
Hall by the name of Sunset, with
Mr. R. W. Hobgood as postmaster.
H. Hobgood is merchandising there
and will be assistant postmaster.
We learn the mail will be tri-weekly.
Mr. Tf. L. Taylor, Jr., a popu
lar young farmer, of Stovall, and
Miss Lalla Jackson, one of the bright
jewels of Union Level, Mecklenburg
county, Va., were married on the
23rd of November, at the residence
of the bride's mother, Mrs. Alice
Jackson, Rev. J. H. Hall, of the
Oxford circuit officiating. Imme
diately after the ceremony Mr. and
Mrs. Taylor left on the Atlantic and
Danville for a northern tour. 1
N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1892.
The North Carolina Baptist Con
vention will meet at Raleigh, De -cember
Sth. This being "the Cen
tennial Missions," the session will be
an important one and will be largely
attended. '
There are quite a number of our
merchants and warehousemen who
do not advertise in the Public Led
ger, and they are losing trade by
not keeping their business before
the public.
We met quite a number of our
Third party friends in town during
the week, who take their defeat
good naturedly, and say they hope
the Democrats will give them the
reforms so much needed.
Some of the colored people were
much excited over the comet, fear
ing that it would strike tke earth
and destroy it on Sunday, and con
sequently held prayer meetings at
several places in town that night.
Our Third party friends cried re
form, reform, and now they Itaye
got it in one particular. They re
lieved two white men of a seat in
the Legislature and put two negroes
in their places. We calL this reform
of a black nature.
Mr. R. L. Lumpkii&s, and Miss
Lola Smith, the attractive daughter
of Mr. Robt. Smith, of Salem town
ship were joined together in holy
wedlock on Thursday, the 24th of
November, Squire R. A. Oil, of Sto
vall, officiating.
Mr. R. H. J. Blount, one of the
oldest citizens of Durham, died in
that city on Saturday suddenly at
the residence of his son-in-law. Mr.
R. D. Blacknall. He was 73 years
old, and was a member of the Pres
byterian church.
Cold weather at Hog Island has
greatly interfered with the slaughter
of ducks, but while the ducks escape
Cleveland's shot-gun Cleveland es
capes the Democratic office-seekers,,
and, after all, that's his principal
comfort at Hog Island.
Joe Webb, the furniture man,
has just received an elegant line of
new goods, and asks you to call and
see them. He has the most attract
ive line of fancy rocking chairs ever
brought to Oxford just the thing
for a Christmas present.
We want all of our friends to
aid us in increasing the subscription
list of the Public Ledger, as we
want to make it one of the best
weekly papers in the State. We are
for genuine reform and the up
building of our town and county.
Come to our assistance everybody.
Every good Democrat in Gran
ville should be a subscriber to the
Public Ledger. The price is $1.50
a year, and it is your duty to stand
by a paper that labors for your
party and your county and town.
Will you aid us now as an organized
effort is made to break down the
paper?
Next Monday will be an impor
tant day. It is first Monday and the
beginning of a new fiscal year in
matters political. On - that day all
the newly elected county officials
must give their bonds and be inau
gurated into their respective posi
tions. The occasion will bring many
people to town.
The comet fiasco goes far to
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prove that n mere is any ciass or
wild-eyed theorists and dreaming
cranks who know less about siderial
disturbances than a Third party pol
itician does about steamships, it is
the coterie of much learned gentle
men who get their names into the
papers as professors of astronomi
cal erudition. ,
PERSONAL SAYINGS.
OF PEOPLE
IN AND OUT
TOWN.
OF THE
linef Mention of the movements of
You Friends and Acquaintances
who Visited Yon and Whom You
are Visit in if.
Hon. A. H. A. Williams
Thursday in Raleigh.
Miss Lucy Hobgood, of Durham,
visited Oxford this week.
Mr. R. K. Best is on the Federal
jury at Raleigh this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes Frazier,
were on our streets Tuesday.
W. P. Roberts, of Binford. Store,
Va., visited Oxford this week.
D. C. Parks, of IIillsboror is on
a visit to his sister. Mrs. Routon.
Mr. E. Robert and two sons of
Hampton, called to see us on Wed
nesday. Mrs. W. A. Bobbitt is on a visit
to her home in the grand Democrat
ic State of Georgia.
S. Otho Wilson, the Chief Gid
eonite of North Carolina, was in
Oxford on Tuesday.
R. L. Jones, of Oak Hill, sold
tobacco in Oxford on Wednesday
and called to see us.
Miss Ada Peed, of Stem, spent
several days the past week' the guest
of Miss. Annie Beasley.
A. B. Spencer is now in the
Stem section making improvements
for some of the good people.
Mr. Geo. Brooks, of Person
county, has returned to Oxford and
is now with J. D. Brooks & Co.
Mrs. Sallie Crews, of Salem, is
on a visit to her daughter, Mrs.
Chas. Fleming, at Wilson, N. C.
We enjoyed a visit on Tuesday
from Mr. S. L. Puryear, one of the
veteran Democrats of the Buchanan
section.
Mis L. W. Waller, one of the
charming school teachers of the
Dutchvill esection, was on our streets
Monday.
R. M. Hester, who has been
at home for several weeks, has re
covered and returned to Greenville
on Monday.
We had the pleasure of meeting
in Oxford Messrs. C. M. Busbee and
R. T. Gray, two prominent lawyers
of Raleigh.
We had the pleasure of meeting
in our office on Tuesday J. H.' Dan
iel, a thrifty young farmer of the
Wilton section.
Allan Thomas and J. A. Cash,
of Durham, and Eugene Hicks, of
the R. & D. Railroad spent Sunday
in Oxford with friends.
Miss Verna Peed, of Hargrove,
after spending some days in town
the guest of Miss Viola Jones, re
turned home Wednesday evening.
The gifted and talented editor
of the Chatham Record, Mr. Henry
A. London, was in Oxford on Tues
day, and it was our pleasure to meet
him in our sanctum.
Messrs. E. N. Crews, Hayden
Crews and W. H. Daniel, all true
blue Democrats, of Salem section,
honored us with a visit on Monday.
It is always a pleasure to us to meet
such good and true men in our of
fice. Mr. A. K. Smith, of Johnson r
the last urbane and efficient enroll
ing clerk of the Legislature, is again
candidate for the position. He made
a splendid officer and gave univer
sal satisfaction during the meeting
of the General Assembly, and should
I be re-elected by all means.
$1.50 PER ANNUM.
On last Thursday night the saw
and grist mill of Mr. John W. Sto
vall, near Stovall, was destroyed by
fire. The cause is not known, but
it is thought to have been acciden
tal. The lawyers in attendance upon,
our court from a distance were John
W. Graham, Hillsboro, J. B.
lelor, Raleigh, N. Y. Gully,
Bach-Frank-
llinton, and Nathan Lunsford. of
Person county.
W. W. Kitehin, the gallant
standard bearer of pure Democracy
in this senatorial dislriet, was in Ox
ford Tuesday shaking hands with
the host of friends he made in Granr
ville. He will ever receive a warm
welcome from our people.
Mrs. Wm. Barnett, one of the
oldest ladies in Fishing Creek town
ship died on the 24th of November.
She was a good woman, true friend
and neighbor, and will be greatly
missed. She had been sick for some
months.
Mr. E. E. Paschall, of Rich
mond, Va., was in Oxford Saturday
shaking hands with his old friends.
He was one of the editors of The
News of Oxford several years ago,
and is well known in Granville. We
had the pleasure of meeting him in
our office.
Rev. W. W. Walker, who has
been rector of St. Stephens' church
for the past five years, preached his
farewell sermon to his congregation
oh Sunday last. He has served them
faithfully, and we regret yery much
to see him leaye Oxford. He has
accepted a call at Americus, Ga.,
and our best wishes go with him to
his new field of labor.
Tobacco breaks continue to be
good and prices still have an up
ward tendency. The campaign is
over so lay aside whatever prejudice
may have been engendered and let
us all pull together for the upbuild
ing of our town and county. Farm
ers of Granville, patronize and
stand by your county town as it is
to your interest to do so.
- The executive committee of the
State Farmers' Alliance have been
investigating matters, and it is
learned the committee will soon pub
lish a report of its investigation of
affairs. It has also been learned
that an order has been issued to the
effect that S. Otho Wilson was on no
account to be given any position in
the State business agency of the Al
liance The Executive Committee of the
State Alliance held a three days ses
sion in Raleigh last week. It made
a very searching investigation into
the State business agency affairs
and made an order that the books
of the agency were to be open any
time to any sub-Alliance which is a
stockholder. The State Alliance
organ pledged itself in future to
deal no more in politics.
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