PUBLIC LEDGER ANJD OXFORD BANT1SJEIR
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Economizes Butter, Flour,
Eggs ; makes the food more
appetizing and wholesome
T&e only Baking Powder made
from Roys! Grape Cream el Tartar
that can run it successfully, and wish
you continued success in your efforts
. to build up Oxford and Granville coun-
ty.and should receive the co-operation
tobacco is a thing of the j 0f all the warehousemen and business
past in this section for this season. j men. CLAW HAMMER
Miss Carrie Averette, of Creedmoor,
is visiting Miss Lula Daniel this week. !
Tar River Topics.
Rr.ads! Don't say anything we have
the worst in the county
Stripping
Mr. A. A. Rice is putting up a new
corn mill at Tar River which he will
complete in a few days.
Misses Lee and Lessie Moss, of Tar
River, visited Misses Katie and Annie
Dixon, of Wilton, Saturday evening.
Misses Cora Sand ford and Esther j
Bragg and Mr. Claude Sanford. of Ox- j qjjp
ford, visited Miss rsora Sadler Sunday.
Misses Willie May Currin, of Hester,
and Annie Belle Smith, of Tar River,
visited Miss luiogene Daniel last Sat
urday and Sunday.
We had a regular summer time rain
Honor Roll.
The following is the honor roll for
Fishing Creek, district No. 4.
Second Grade Martha Cannady,
Bailey Currin, Allene Yancey.
Third Grade Corinne Cannady
Janie Currin, Raymond Daniel.
Fourth Grade Zack Burnett.
Teacher Miss Cora Phipps.
Maj. Graham Preaches Corn
And Hog.
Speaking before the North Carolina
Berkshire Association in Charlotte
Thursday, Major W. A. Graham. Com
missioner of Agriculture, told his au
dience of the value of breeding good
iog meat, declared that cotton had
never been king, and said that no pro
duct would ever be king when to pro
duce it the farmer had to go in debt
The real king in North Carolina.he said,
is corn. He compared the figures of
com production in North Carolina and
the western states and showed how
North Carolina was forging ahead.
"The department of Agriculture," said
Major Graham, "is receiving letters
every day from western farmers who
desire to take advantage of the fine
soils in this state," and he prophesied
that a new era was dawning. The
department of agriculture is bending
its energies to make an acre produce
more.
Major Graham preached the hog and
hominy religion. Incidentally, heboid
his auidence that the Berkshire hog
had never been distanced for ham and
bacon purposes. He did not think we
should altogether abandon cotton for
corn in which case corn would sell
for less than what it cost to produce,
but he urged diversification many
crops, the home supplies first, and the
so-called money crops afterwards.
Well, I Must Go. j
One night not long since, one of our j
gay young gents called on his best
girl, and after staying a short while
began putting on his gloves saying,
"Well dear I must go."
"Why, you are not going ,to leave
me so soon are you ? said she.
"Yes," said he, "I would give ten
years of my life, dear, to stay one
hour longer with you, but the lodge
meets to-night, and if I am not there
I will be fined twenty-five cents.
Davie Record.
The Mail Man and the Road.
A exceedingly profane citizen of Ari
zona, when he once carelessly sat upon
a cactus plant, acrose black with rage
but swore never an oath. When so
licitous friends inquired for the cause
of his unprecedented silence he ex
plained that in spite of his extensive
vocabulary he had nothing to say be
cause he could'nt do justice to the sit
uation. Similarly, the rural mail car
riers who have been abusing the roads
all winter have utterly subsided since
the last snell of wretched weather
struck them. They can't do justice to
the situation.
That is what a good farmer said about our Tobacco
Market today. We believe he is right, we can con
scientiously say tobacco
Is Higher Than Ave Have Ever
Seen It.
Certainly so in many years. Wrappers sold today from $40.00
to $65.00 per hundred, and the warehousemen didn't y them.
Good ones seems to be in great demand, and almost without limit.
Cutters range from $30 to $38 per hundred, in fact all bright
tobacco is out of sight, with fillers holding their same strong po
sition. Get us a load ready and don't fail to come to the
where the highest prices and a cordial welcome awaits you.
Yours to serve,
MANGUM & W ATKINS.
st Colored Man in State.
Anthony Seward, colored, who lives
in Warren county, is said to be 118
years old. Mr. Charlie White, of
Drewry, gives the fowing sketch of his
life in The Warrenton Record:
Anthony Seward by name, who lives
last Monday night which washed up j in Warren county, has reached the
things right much and overflowed the I advanced aged of 118 years. No sup
branches of the river. ; positions attached to this statement.
Though no contemporary of Irs early
While over at Oxford a few days ago
Mr. S. T. Daniel treated himself to a
nice set of wagon harness. This is the i
manhood exists, his age is well au
thenticated. For 72 years he was a
first time Mr. Daniel has bought a set
j slave owned by the Seward family.
of harness in thirty-five years. It must
have been made of good leather.
Oak Hill Oracles.
; For 100 years he has been actively en
gaged in farming. When be was 110 j
years old he cleared a "new ground" j
an ox.
Solomon and His Wives.
King Solomon had a thousand wives.
And all the world since Solomon's
day has stood up on its hind legs and
clapped its hands to applaud Solomon's
wisdom.
Far be it from me to dispute the
announced verdict of the centuries
in regard to the old Jew's capacious
think tank. Let me rather add to his
glory by suggesting that he also de
serves the palm of the bravest man
on record.
One thousand wives Great Jehos
aphat !
Think of it! Pause a moment and
allow that awful thought to penetrate
to the innermost recesses of your in -telligence.
One thousand she-women all be
longing to one man !
Wise? He had to be. It takes the
wisdom of the serpent to invent lies
enough to keep peace with one wo
man. Imagine having to make excuses
for a thousand.
And suppose old Solomon went off
j fishing with the boys, to be gone a
Wife's Club Scatters.
Determined to put a crimp in his
wife's ambition to become a social
leader Thomas Yingling, a wholesale
butcher, of Wheeling, W. Va., who
climbed up the sausage ladder link by
link until he acquired a fortune, en
tered the drawing room of his home
yesterday while his wife was presiding
over a card party, and attaching a
washing machine to the electric fix
tures proceeded to set a good example
for the women present by doing the
family washing.
Without waiting to remove the suds
from their afternoon gowns the wo
men fled from the place and left Mr.
Yingling in full possession.
Some of those who delayed their
departure said that it was a regular
Yingling circus when Mrs. Yingling
told her husband wSiat she thought of
his action.
4T
Our farmers still have a right good j
sprinkling of tobacco on hand vet.
getting round with his mail this year. . and walks to meetings wl
and broke tne land with
, e it weeK, or so, and started to kiss nis
He lives three miles from Manson . ' .
, , , , . . . wives goodbye. Counting four kisses
and when he needs anything at the , . ....
,, ,. to tne minute, which is pretty lively
n.,- r---n a . i o hr-A 1 i i ir i t u i i, ; kissing even for married folks, (I am
Our mail earner has nad a nam time and a half a miles from his church, ! . f , ... v . . .
, 1 speaking now or real kisses), it would
henever the s .... . '
take him tour hours and ten minutes
i c . , i i i - '- ij xx ix ion nic; juu. auu uciuic lie KUt
i . .. j i. c i. i : nis ran lies exrenr rnai ms nenr np is
nave uou supply 01 porn on liailu. ---- --- ----- - -- -- , tnrough his kisser
The writer killed two that weighed 250 j a 11Lilc fgu. mien asu y um ,
an! i-",o nni!nHc i reporter if he ever had any aches or !
Hod kiinndw nvrnrd our r.eonle ' weather is fit. He is in possession of!
o X" x
i pains ne replied: Miguty seldom, j
C uj.cnu auuouu ma(iBm, mighty seldom."
ciiricai n;ness oi Mr. nunk uumpass, i
would feel like an
automatic rubber stamp.
! Jr suDDOse his wives went awav to
spend a week with their various kins
people. As they went out at the front
stop
He married a vonnrf wife after he
ai.d everything possible is being done ; was a hundred years old. One of his ! 3ate tne whole thousand would
to restore him to health. i descendants of the fourth generation ; for one last word.
T , , , ! remarked, "Unc" Anthonv ain't never j The sbpranos would bePin: "Don't
It does not seem possible that corn ?fwinp tfir d:p sftrT1Phnk rinn hav forget'"
ter knock him in de haid at judge- The altos would take up the refrain:
ment." I "Don't forget to put"
! The mezzo-sopranos would swell
to get
and feed stuff has commenced
scarce this early in the year. We say
raise less tobacco and more corn, oats
and wheat, along with plenty of meat,
and live at home.
Well, Mr. Editor, we are glad that
vou have gotten back home on the
Public Ledger as you are the only man
TOBACCO FARMER Wanted An
experienced tobacco man with stock
the rising sound: "Don't forget to put
out-
to take charge of splendid two horse j And the contralto voices, lifting the
farm near Fuquay Springs. Good ! words in one grand final burst of music,
buildings and best tobacco land. Write : would finish the hymn: "Don't Forget
at once to A. Gales Johnson, Cardenas, : to Put Out the Cat !"
N. C. 2t ! Poor old Solomon! Ex.
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R. W. LAS3ITER, President. Z. W. LYON, Vice-President.
W. H. HUNT, Vice-President and Cashier.
Absolutely Safety Always
PURSUING the policy of its directors, nothing is
left undone by this bank which will contribute
to the security of money intrusted to its care.
LARGE resourses, ample cash reserve, adequate
capital, a growing surplus, a long and honor
able record of careful management, insurance abv
solute security for depositors.
FIVE statements o$its condition are made in the
year to the Comptroller of the Currency. Two
examinations are made yearly by a National Bank
Examiner, and the liability of its stockholders cre
ates a guarantee equal to the par value of the shares
held.
4 Per Cent, on Time Deposits
This is a SAFE bank for you to deal with.
Capital $100,000.00 Surplus $30,000.00
Small Farms.
It is strange, when people see and
know the advantages of small farms
well tilled and thickley settled neigh
borhoods, that they still persist in
holding on to the large tracts of land,
paying taxes on them and getting no
returns. If every farmer in the County
will just look over his lands and pick
out the rich spots off of which he har
vests most of his crops, he will be sur
prised how few of the acres he farms'
are really profitable. The unproductive
acres of poor land require just as much
work and harder work than the rich or
well fertilized plots, yet the return al
most nothing and the labor and time
expended on them, unless it be simply
to improve them, is lost. With this
fact in view it is wiser to put all the
energy, all tne effort aDd fertilizer on
the few productive acres. When the
people who own the lands of this coun
try realize and act on this principle and
sell their surplus land, that they can
not profitably farm, to others at low
prices, to desirable settlers then our
part of the country will begin to go
forward.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
It is a pleasure to me to announce
to our many friends and patrons that
we are again ready for business at the
same old stand and will be grateful to
continue to receive their patronage
which we highly appreciated in the
past. Will continue to keep a choice
line of groceries, feed stuff, along with
notions and shoes, and will be glad to
supply your needs in our line at the
lowest possible prices.
Yours to serve.
HOWELL BROS.
Phone 78. Next to National Bank.
We have for rent at the present time two or three desir
able dwellings. If you want one of them, better hurry for
Oxford has few vacant dwellings.
Now is the time to buv a lot and build YOUR OWN
HOME. We can make it easy for you.
WE WRITE INSURANCE IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.
Granville Real Estate & Trust Co,
A. H. POWELL, Presides?, j. A. NiLES, Secretary & Treasurer.
BROWN BUILDING MAIN STREET
NEXT DOOR TO COURT HOUSE. OXFORD. NORTH CAROLINA.
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Reduced the Prices of Incandescent Lamps.
Carbon Lamps up to 18 candle power incandescent
New price 20c, Old Price 20c.
Carbon Lamj;s 32 candle power New Price 20c, Old Price 25c.
Mazda Lamps 25 watt, New Price 50c, Old Price 65.
Mazda Lamps 40 watt, New Price 65c, Old Price 75c.
Mazda Lamps 60 watt, New Price 80c, Old Price $1,10.
Mazda Lamps 100 watts, New Price $1.10, Old Price $1.40.
Limps 250 watts, New Price $2.25. Old Price $2.75.
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HEATING DEVICES.
Gib Irons, Now Price $3.50, Old Price $4 00
Toasters, New Price $3.00, Old Price $3.25.
6 inch 1 heat stoves, New Price $3.00, Old Price. $4.00.
6 inch 3 heat stoves, New Price $6.00, Old Price $6.00.
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