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THE PUBLIC LEDGER. OXFORD, N. C, - AUGUST 25, 1893 ECIIOS FROM THE PEOPLE. NEWS FROM Dl FFLRENT SECTIONS OF GRANVILLE COUNTY. What is OoiiiK on in Iiflereiit Sec tions as Gathered by the Inllic r.elger Reporters Views of Corres ponlents. lre. MT. ENERGY MORSELS. SUCCESS CURING TOBACCO PERSONAL HORSE DOCTOR DEATH, ETC. The community at large are bless ed with good health. Col. E. Dalby, of Hester, is visit ing Mr. J. T. Bullock. The curing of the tobacco crop is a perfect success in this section. Mr. W. T. Howard, of Henderson, paid a visit to L. R. Wagstaff , the past week. We are glad to learn that George A., bright little son of S. J. Rogers, who has been suffering from rheu matism, is improving. We are sorry to announce the death of Mr. Burt Hockaday from consumption at the home of his pa rents, near Grissom, on the 13th. We had the pleasure of meeting at the home of W. J. Mangum Saturday our esteemed friend, G. M. Bragg, a professional horse doctor of Poco moke. Mr. Bragg is a whole team, as he causes the deaf to hear, the lame to walk and the blind to see. Last Sunday some of our boys had the pleasure of meeting Miss Nannie Lawrence, of Creedmoor, at the resi dence of Mr. S. J. Rogers, which gladdened their hearts. Come again fair Miss Nannie as we can assure you a pleasant time as several of our young men are strictly on the carpet. J. E. The editor would be glad to hear from J. E. often, and hope he will continue to let the people know what is going in Ms section. PUSH PARAGRAPHS. THE CROPS ARE LOOKING WELL OTHER NEWS. Mr. Charlie Stovall, of Big Rock, was at our church Sunday. Dr. T. T. Frazier, of South Bos ton, Va., paid us a pleasant visit last week. Several of our young people at tended the Flat River association at Mt. Zion last wreek. All of them were highly pleased with the hospi tality of the people at that place. Our Sunday school has a very good attendance now and our breth ren seem to have been very much re vived by the preaching of Rev. Mr. VanDeventer who assisted Brother Stradley in a revival last week. The hearts of our people was made sad by the terrible accident that oc curred on the A. & D. R. R. last week, but this ought to impress us of the fact that we should be ready for we know not when the hour of death cometh. We are glad to have in our midst Mrs. Rosa Apt, of South Boston, Va. Mrs. Apt has just returned from N. E. Conservatory of Music, Bos ton, Mass. She adds greatly to the singing in our Sunday school and is a splendid worker in the school and prayer meeting. We have passed now from sowing to reaping time. Our crops (consid ering the drought) are good. Hav ing made good crops of wheat our farmers will make corn enough to make "buckle and tongue meet.' m i ... -i j-ooacco is ripening up some and a few of our farmers have begun cut ting. It is feared that it will not cure good. The people of our neighborhood who have heard Brother Herring, of China, think his plan right as to the work of foreign missions and our church expresses a desire to hear him. We do think Mr. Herring ought to have a hearing in every Baptist church and let the people decide for themselves what plan they think best. Dutch. , Jits, dizziness, hysteria, wakefulness, taa dreams and softening of the brain quickly cured by Magnetic Nervine. Sold by J. G. Hall. STEM STEMMINGS. RELIGIOUS PERSONAL TWO YOUNG TRAMPS, ETC. Mr. L. D. Burwell continues to buy large quantities of sumac, roots and herbs and is known around Stem as the old root doctor. We are sorry to report the contin ued illness of Mrs. H. F. Moore. She is confined to her bed with typhoid fever. She has the sympathy of the entire community. Rev. V. A. Sharpe, assisted by Rev. N. H. D. Wilson, of Franklin- ton, conducted a revival of religion at the Stem M. E. church during last week. Several converts and many backsliders reclaimed, the whole church revived and built up in the most holy faith. Alas! the watermelon season is about ended. The quantity this year has been exceeding abundant, the quality very good and prices to suit the most penurious. We have seen 40 pound ones sold for 5 cents. The peach crops in this section are fine, apple crops very good and acorns and persimmons in abund ance. We have read President Cleve land's message to Congress and will say it is the first time I have ever known him to dodge anything. He just stopped a little too soon before he recommended any means of per manent relief. We are satisfied with his message ourselves; it is better than we can do and we are loth to grumble at our servants when they do anything that beats us. Several young ladies from a dis tance are visiting friends at and around Stem. They are too numer ous to mention, buffice to say their presence has completely smashed the Old Bachelor's Club. The presi dent has disbanded his club and all the members are following his ex ample doing their best to get mar ried. Young ladies, please encour age them. They are a nice, clever set of gentlemen. Verily our people should be thank ful for the many great blessings they enjoy. The Irish potato crop was good, the cabbage crop good, wheat crops the best in 10 years, oat crops good and the finest crops of corn and tobacco for years. Our people should by all means stop complain ing of hard times, quit arguing poli tics, try and live friendly with all the world and stop grumbling for thev certainlv have need to be thankful. I see, Mr. Editor, from your last issue your ire has been by some means aroused. A man would infer some of our Third party friends had i -r made threats to whip you. I am sorry if they did but rest easy and keep quiet. Never borrow trouble. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. I am truly sorry people will use such harsh words about each other when discussing politics. Kind words turn away anger while harsh and unkind ones stir up strife. A recent change in schedule of the freight trains on the R. & D. R. R. makes it Very inconvenient to some of our people. Two freight trains have been annulled, leaving us with but one day fi eight and this one is going North. The day train bringing freight from the North reaches Stem at 3:05 a. m a very odd time for lazy people to do any traveling, so virtually we have but one chance to go South a day that being the regular mail passing here at G:27 p. m. Two very bright looking boys, ap parently about 16 years of age, tramping through the country stop ped at Stem Mondav night. Both were out of money and yery hungry. One gave his name as Hugh Saum and claimed to be from Manassas, Va. The other gave his name as Sim Griffith, from Durham. They gave accounts of how they had beat rides m empty box cars and under passenger cars to various places in Virginia and North Carolina. Both could write their names neatly hav ing been learned in free schools. This is a bad way to live and all boys should be apprehended and put to work. They claim to be tired of tramping and said they had rather be in jail so they were being fed free of cost. FAIRPORT FLIRTATIONS. HE WAS ALL SMILES PERSONAL OTHER NEWS. Mrs. Nannie Parham, daughter of Col. S. S. Royster, and little Nannie, her youngest daughter, are visiting Mr. H. J. Robards and sisters near Clay. Miss Mary E. Blalock, of Person county, is visiting Misses Annie and Alice Latta, of Fishing Creek, to the great pleasure of one young gent if no others. Mr. W. P. McGuire, of Richmond, Va., has been visiting for the past week in the Fairport section. Who would fail to guess what was the in centive as we have not heard from him before. The patent apple peeler becomes ashamed of itself when it sees some of Vance county's ladies visiting our section with knife in hand peeling and slicing the fruit with the capac ity and velocity of a whirligig. Messrs. Monroe Ellington and Bob Knott have been on a trip to Frank lin county looking to find some place better than home which they say they have found. Would dislike very much to part with such good Demo crats but they are jewels and will shine in any community. Misses Sarah and Tempe Burwell, of Henderson, are visiting Mrs. Jno. D. Williams, of Fairport, and we suppose that the patience of the ge nial and jovial John and the hospi tality oi Mrs. Williams will be taxed to the uttermost by callers during their stay in our hospitable little town. We met Mr. G. W. Dean a few days ago; found him all smiles, and upon enquiry found that he was then in possession of one of the prettiest little black head natural conse quences that has ever made its ap pearance in the Shady Grove neigh borhood. "Three cheers for Wash ington." We attended a wayside Sunday school near Shady Grove lately. Mr. Hicks is superintendent. Children were plentiful bnt teachers few. An old gentleman visiting the school was called on tor a taiK. ie gave the children some good advice and told the grown people they were good looking and promised to come back and do better next time. We see in the last issue of the Public Ledger Brunette says she sees where she might get after the Fairport flirt but for fear will re frain. I can truthfully assure her there is no danger in him; that he too is all smiles as well as the 215 pounds of sweetness that arrived in her city of McFarland the other day from South Carolina. Hope your visits mav be more frequent. We do enjoy them so much. We notice a Providenceite writing from Hargrove asks the question why Fishing Creek B. B. club did not turn up at the time appointed and then gives the reason himself why it failed. He claims that F, C. club is afraid to meet Providence. You are mistaken in that my friend. A more plausible reason is that they are waiting for Providence to have a little more practice so as when they do come the game may be a lit tie more interesting. We passed the house of a friend the other evening and stopped as usual. I soon found' that one of its inmates had been invited to a lawn party and ice cream eating. The prospect for going looked gloomy and the tears rolled down the beau tiful cheeks which aroused our sym pathetic heart and we too joined in soliciting that a conveyance be pro vided for her, and the last time we saw her she was sailing rapidly in the desired direction. Hope she was in time. Summer. The Old Way's Ooott Enough. Cooper's Warehouse at Henderson, N. C. , wants your old tobacco to supply de mands from his buyers. Sells promptly for HIGHEST MARKET PRICES. PAYS FOR it in currency "the old way." "Every tub must stand on its own bottom." Cooper's at Henderson, is more solid than ever before. Carry him your To bacco. aug25-lt. Inflamed itching, burning, crusty and scaly skin and scalp of infants soothed and cured by Johnson's Oriental Soap. Sold by J. G, Hall. CLAY COMMENTS. CONDITION OP MR. WM. B. CREWS PERSONAL, ETC. Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Clay spent Sunday before last in the Enon sec tion. The cane crop is very good in this section. It will not be long before the cane mill will be around making lick-me-sop. The dry weather is showing our farmers that they will soon have to roll up their sleeves and go into the fodder fields and there sweat as it were great drops of blood. There is a man in this section who has built a barn this season and he informs us that it only cost him $1.20 in money. Beat that if you can. Brother Goobers, do you call that pride. Several of our gentlemen and la dies attended the Flat River Asso ciation at Mt. Zion. The ladies were Misses Lizzie Tunstall, Sallie Usry and Cora Satterwhite and others. We are pained to chronicle the sudden and unexpected change in our friend Mr. Wm. B, Crews. His condition is very unfavorable. We hope that he may soon recover if it be the Lord's will. Mr. J. B. Elliott, Miss Cora Sat terwhite and Mrs. D. W. Eakes spent Sunday in the Mountain Creek neighborhood. One of our boys wanted to go to Mountain Creek but conscience forbade it. Mr. Willie T. Crews, who has been spending some time in this section with his uncle William, was called home on last Thursday to the bed side of his mother in Durham w&o has been quite sick for some time. She has since died. Our farmers are all getting very busy now curing tobacco. I guess we will have to alter our statement about some of our friends making fine cures as one of them stopped his fires and nailed up his barn door to keep the children out of it he says. As I have been so successful as to call Brunette to the front with the many other regular correspondents I will now ask where is Leopold? Come again brother Leopold as the girls over this way enjoy reading your letters very much because you are a young man. There will be two big snows next winter according to the fogs. Won't we have a big time, boys, sleigh riding. I Would advise you not to take two girls on one seat and drive two miles from homo and over a log and break down as one of our boys did do. You recollect it Miss Mat- tie. It seems that Snakeville is a lively town and that they enjoyed the flood very much. I would like for Still worm to tell us where he was at the time as he does not bring himself in at all. I presume he was examining Mr. Tom Newton's watermelons to see if they had grown any since the night before. Mr. Editor, as Mr. R. R. Best has left your beautiful town to go to Chapel Hill I will say a few words for him. I was a student under Mr. Best at Corinth academy and all through his school teaching at Cor inth. He was mild, gentle and kind to his students and it was ever his intention to impress upon the minds of his pupils the value of a good character, politeness, obedience and love toward their school mates. It was always a pleasure to have Mr. Best with the scholars at their re cesses and to join in with them in any haimless amusement. It made the students have more love and re spect for him. Well, Mr. Best, good bye. "May all the blessings God can give bring peace around you while you live." Shoe Pegs. English Spavin Liniment removes all Hard, Soft or Calloused Lumps and Blemishes from horses, Blood Spavins, Curbs, Splints, Sweeney, Ring-Bone, Stifles, Sprains, all Swollen Throats, Cowghs, etc. Save $50 by use of one bottle. Warranted the most wonderful Blemish Cure ever known. Sold by J. G. Hall, druggist, Oxford, N. C. Recommend Johnson's Magnetic Oil for rheumatism, neuralgia, sprains, bruises, lame back, it quickly relieves' pain. Sold by J. G. Hall. TRINITY TOPICS. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONFERENCE PER SONAL AND OTHER NOTES. Miss Venia Hart, of Oak Hill, is yisiting her sister, Mrs. J. C. Ad cock. Miss Annie Shotwell, after spend ing some time with her cousin, Miss Hettie Lyon, of Oxford, has returned home. We had the pleasure on Tuesday of shaking the hand of Mr. Youth, of Buchanan. Miss Rebecca and May Dean, of Dean, were the welcome guests of Miss Hattie Currin Tuesday night. We congratulate Mr. Hustler and Mr. Limber Jack. When vou tell a ie tell one that people will believe. Mr. Bud and Miss Londa Frazier, of the Mountain Creek section visit ed Miss Maggie Knott Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Sion Rogers, of Creedmoor, accompanied by his sister, Miss Morato, are visiting their aunt, Mrs. R. D. Royster. The school near Mr. H. S. Lyon's, taught by Miss Lena Pleasant has closed and she will return home in a few days. She has proven herself to be a painstaking teacher. Mr. J. W. Chandler, of Push, Va., (Mr. Dutch) called by to see Goob ers on Tuesday evening last. He was on his way to see his best girl. We had the pleasure of attending the Mt. Tirzah Circuit bunday School conference Saturday. The Trinity singing class was represent ed, and behold, when we arrived at Mt. Tirzah who should we see but he venerable Sim Peed, of Stem, accompanied by a goodly number of the talented singers of his section. Mr. Peed and his trained singers joined in with the Mt. Tirzah class, but we are bound to say Trinity rides the white horse. Goobers. CULBRETH CULLINGS. PICNIC ON BOWLINGS MUUMTA1W OTHER NEWS. Mr. Joe Clement is visiting rela tives in this place. Mr. J. J. Meadows is curing two barns of tobacco this week. Dry weather is beginning to tell on the crops through this section. . Mr. Geo. Watkins and wife were the guests of Mr. J. J. Meadows last week. Mt. Zion church has called Broth er J. H. Lambreth for their next pastor. Rev. J. G. Blalock after taking in the association has left for his home at Hickory, N. C. Miss Pauline Cole, of Atlanta, Ga., is on a visit to Misses Bessie and Maggie Howard. Miss Percy Beasley, who has been visiting the Misses Cannady, has re turned to her home near Lyon. Mr. Shackleford, who has been visiting his old schoolmate Mr. J. F. Meadows, left last Sunday for his home in Virginia. Mr. Sam Gooch and his sister Mrs. J. H. Meadows, after a few day's stay with relatives and friends in this section, have left for their home in Durham. A crowd of young people went picnicing on Bowling's mountain on last Saturday much to the enjoy ment of the young people who had sweethearts. We were inclined to disbelieve the chicken story that our Berea friend told us of some weeks since until last week, when we saw things with our eyes that convinced us that such a thing might be so. One man during the association eat so much shoat that you could hear a hog grunt everywhere he went. This is a positive fact. Mr. A. Hobgood was at the asso ciation last week. (We will not state why he came.) He stated that the association was a success with the exception of one thing that there were a great many people in Oxford that would like to have attended the association but they did not have ways to come out. If the Mt. Zion people had sent their carriages and buggies down and brought them out he says he thinks the association would have been a complete success. Hustler's Chum
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