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OXFORD. N. C. SATURDAY. JUNE 22nd. 1912.
OUR STATE TICKET.
For Governor:
LOCKE CRAIG,
of Buncombe.
For Lieutenant-Governor:
E. L. DAUGHTR1DGE,
of Edgecombe.
For Secretary of State:
J. BRYAN GRIMES,
of Pitt.
For Treasurer:
B. R. LACY,
of Wake.
For Auditor:
W. P. WOOD,
of Randolph.
For Attorney-General:
T. W. B1CKETT,
of Franklin.
For Superintendent of Public Instruction:
JAMES Y. JOYNER.
of Guilford.
For Insurance Commissioner:
JAMES R. YOUNG,
of Vance.
For Commissioner of Agriculture:
WILLIAM A. GRAHAM,
of Lincoln.
For Commissioner of Labor and Printing:
M. L. SHIPMAN
of Henderson,
For Corporation Commissioners:
E. L. TRAVIS,
of Halifax.
GEO. P. PELL,
of Forsyth.
For Justices Supreme Court:
WILLIAM A. HOKE,
of Lincoln.
GEORGE H. BROWN,
of Beaufort.
For Judge of the Fifth Judical District:
HOWARD A, FOUSHEE.
Call for Democratic Primaries.
By direction of the Granville County
Democratic Executive Committee, the
undersigned hereby calls a ballot-box
primary for the selection of nominees
for the Democratic party for the vari
ous county and township officers and
a member of the House of Represen
tatives for Granville county, to be held
at the several polling places in the
county on
Saturday, July 20, 1912,
between 1 p. m. and sundown, said
primary to be held under the following
rules and regulations:
1. Any person desiring to become a
candidate in said primary shall signify
such purpose by filing notice of
his candidacy, either orally or in
vrth3g. with the Chairman or Secre-
tafytfof the County Executive Com
mittee not later than July 12. and be
fore his name shall be placed on the
ticket shall pay the fee required as his
pro rata part of the expense of con
ducting such primary.
2. It shall be the duty of the Chair
man and Secretary of the County Ex
ecutive Committee to prepare and for
ward to the poll-holders in each pre
cinct ticket on which shall be printed
the names of all persons who have
filed notice of their candidacy for the
various county and legislative offices
and who have paid the fee as above
required and such ticket shall also
have one blank space underneath
each office to be voted for and five
such blank spaces underneath the
names of the candidates for County
Commissioners.
3. At each polling place three boxes
shall be prepared by the poll-holders
for the reception of tickets, in one of
which the votes for township constable
shall be placed, in one the votes for
delegates to the county convention j
shall be placed, and in one the votes
for member of the House of Represen
tatives, Sheriff, Register of Deeds,
Treasurer, Coroner, Surveyor, and
members of the Board of County Com
missioners shall be placed.
4, The voter shall signify his choice
for the respective offices by erasing
the names of all but five of the candi
dates on the ticket for County Com
missioners and all but one of the can
didates on ticket for each of the other
offices.or by writing in name or names
of such person or persons as he may
desire to vote for in the blank space
or spaces provided and by erasing the
other name or names on the ticket.
5. It shall be the duty of the pre
cinct executive committee or such
other Democrats as may so desire to
provide tickets for delegates to the
county convention and for township
constable.
G.The primary in each precinct shall
be conducted and held by two pall
holders to be appointed by the chair
man of the County Executive Com
mittee upon -recommendation from the
several precinct executive commit
tees. 7. At the primary on July 20 each
precinct shall select the number of
delegates to the county convention to
which it is at present entitled under
the plan of organization, which num
ber for the several precincts is as fol
lows: Dement 3, Bell Town 3, Wilton 7,
Grissom 3. Creedmoor 6, Wilkiiis 4,
Stein 5, Geneva 4, Howard 3, Berea 2,
Oak Hill 3, Buchanan 3, Bollock 2. Sto
vall 3,Salem S.North Oxford 9 andSoiith
Oxford 8.
8. In voting for delegates to the
county convention each voter shall
have the right to vote for double num
ber above provided for at each precinct
and the requisite number receiving
the highest number of votes shall be
delegates and an equal number from
each precinct receiving the next high
est number shall be alternates.
9. The poll-holders shall take down
in writing the names of all voters who
participate in said primaries at the
time of voting, and shall send a certi
fied list of said names to the county
chairman with the returns from said
precinct.
10 Immediately upon the conclu
sion of the voting at each precinct tin-poll-holders
shall open the boxes and
count the ballots cast in the presence
of such Democrats as may choose to
be present and shall certify the result
under their hands upon blanks to be
provided by the county chairman for
that purpose, which said returns shall
then be sent by the first mail or by
some other safe means to the county
chairman.
11. On Wednesday. July 21, the re
turns from the various precincts shall
be canvassed, tabulated and the
result of said primaries ascer
tained bv a committee composed of
the chairman and secretary of the
County Executive Committee, B. F.
Hester, D. A. Burwell and N. G. Crews.
This committee shall meet in the com
missioners' room in the Court House at
11 o'clock on said day in the presence
of such Democrats as may choose
to be present, and in case this com
mittee shall ascertain that any candi
date has received votes sufficient to
give him a majority of the delegates to
the county convention, then such re
sult shall be certified by them to the
county convention under their hands
with a statement of the votes received
by each candidate voted for for such of
fice. 12. In case this committee shall as
certain from said returns that no one
of the candidates for any office has re
ceived such majority, then and in that
case a second primary shall be held on
Saturday, August, 3, 1912
In the second primary the ticket
shall contain only the names of the
two candidates receiving the highest
number of votes for such office in the
first primary and no votes for any
other candidates shall be counted in
such second primary. Said second
primary shall be held between the
hours of I o'clock and sundown on
said day and shall be governed by the
rules hereinbefore and hereinafter
provided. In case either of the two high
est candidates voted for for any office
shall not desire to enter a second
primary, such primary shall not be
held, but the other candidate shall be
declared the nominee.
13. A County Convention composed
of delegates elected at the first pri
mary is hereby called to meet in the
Court House in Oxford on
Saturday, August 10, 1912,
at 12 o'clock M. for the purpose of rat
ifying the action of the primaries and
of transacting such other business as
may properly come before it.
14. In tabulating the vote cast for
various candidates both in first and in
second primary, each precinct in the
count shall preserve its present rela
tive strength as set out in paragraph
7 hereof and each candidate shall re
ceive such proportion of the vote from
each precinct as the votes cast for him
bears to whole number of votes cast at
such precinct for all the candidates
voted for at such precinct for the office
for which he is a candidate.
15. All Democrats who are or will
be entitled to vote in the November
election and who intend to support the
nominees of said party in the County,
State and Nation are entitled to and
are invited to participate in these pri
maries. 16. The pollholders at the several
precincts shall have the right to decide
whether any person has the right to
vote in the primaries; provided, that
no man shall be prevented from voting
unless both pollholders agree in decid
ing against his right to vote; provided,
further if any person shall be challeng
ed on the ground that he is not a Dem
ocrat, it shall be sufficient if such
such person shall pledge himself not
to vote against the nominees of the
Democratic party in County, State
and Nation in the general election for
the year 1912.
D. G. BRUM MITT,
Chairman Granville County Dun. Ex.
Committee
T. G. Stem, Secretary.
Sale of VsiuaDIo Property gr Ral
eigh Road.
Under and by virtue of the authority conferred
upon nie by a certain deed in trust executed by
Robt.Shepard and wife on the 1th day of August,
15M0, whic h will be found registered in the Registers
oi'lice in Hook HI, page tf8 for failure to pay the debt
secured thereby and at the request of Rev. li. Shep
ard, I will sell by public auction for cash at the
court house door in Oxford on
SATURDAY, JUNE 2!hh, 1912,
at 12 m -that house and ten acres of land known
as the Shepard place, situate near the Colored Or
phan Asylum on the West side of the Raleigh road,
adjoining the lands of the Colored Orphan Asylum,
John Kktreli and other;;, bounded on the south by
the Colored Orphan Asylum property, John Wil
liam:? and Joe Harris, on the West and North by
that part of South Oxford now owned by lJage &.
Me! 'ii'le and ot hers and hounded on t he East by
the Raleigh road, it iK 'uig the house and 10 acres of
land which has been occupied and cultivated by the
said R. Shepard and his tenants for many years.
A, A. KICKS, Trustee.
This the 2r.th day of May, 1912.
Trustees Sale of Land.
I'-y viri ue of a deed in trust executed to me on the
14th day of Nov nibei. KM 1, by Jacob Cuptou and
Frances Cupton his wife, to secure the na ment of
certain bonds to James T, Cozart. default having
been made in the payment of said kJt, 1 will sell
for cash by public auction at the court house door
in Oxford, on
MONDAY, JULY 1st. 1912.
at 12 in. that house and tract of land on the east
side of the Cos hen road near the Jordan place and
known as the Arthur Hester and Willie Hester place
containing three acres more or less, H aid tract of
land adjoins the lands of Rev. J. T, Peace, Thomas
Joi.es. Wvatt Roberts and the Granville Jordon
home place and is the same tract of land sold by B.
H. i.'o ii t to An
May, 1912.
Imr Hester. 1 ins tiie.'.uin (lay oi
A. A. HICKS. Trustee.
Executor's iNTotloe.
Having ipialilied as executor of the will of Mrs.
Martha 1'. (loss, deceased, before I he Clerk of the
Superior Court of (IranvUIe County. not ice is hereby
given to ail persons indebted to said est&te to come
forward and make immediate payment of same,
i't-rsons holding claims against sairl estate wiil pre
seiii ttieni to me on or before t he 2!lth day of May
191.1, or this notice will be plead in bar of their re
covery. May 2fth, 1912
R. Z. GOSS. Executor
(in,29.4t.pd) of Martha P. Goss, deceased.
Trustee's Sale of Land-
Under and by virture of the authority conferred
upon me by a certain deed in trust executed to ine
by John B. Campbell on t he ."list day of July 1900,
which is registered in the ollice of the Register of
Deeds of Granville County in Mortgage Book 50.
page 571, default having been made in the payment
of the debt secured thereby and by consent of the
said J. P. Campbell, 1 wili sell for cash by public
auction a t the court house door in Oxford on
FRIDAY, JULY 5th. 1912,
at 12 m. the tract of land convoyed and described
in said mortgage to wit: That tract of land at or
near Bullock Station adjoining the lands of W. B.
Royster on the West. Lands of G. W. R.oyster on the
North, lands of Mrs. Jennie E. Royster on the South
and bounded by the right of way of the Southern
Railway, Ben Winfield, Keavis Paschal and others
on the East, containing 1S0..H:5 acres more or less.
Tiie lots of Ben Winiield and Reavis Paschal will
not be sold. 1 ids the :Jrd bay of June, 1912.
W. A. DEVJN, Trustee.
Hicks & Stem, Attorneys.
Publication of Summons-
North Carolina, Granville County,
In Superior Court, May 25th, 1912.
D. T. C'ottrell. Mary Hunter CottrelJ. his wife, S. A.
Smith, and Leilia E. Smith, his wife, J. A . Cot"
treii and Emma Pleasant, Plaintiff
vs
Robt. L. Lumpkins, Louisa E. Lumpkins, R. O.
Smith and Francis R. Smith, Defendants.
State of North Carolina:
To Robt. L. Lumpkins, Defendant.
Take notice, this is a Special Proceeding for sale
for partition of twenty one acres of land in Salem
Township, Granville county, and it being made to
appear to the court that you are interested therein
and that you are a non resident of the State of
North Carolina, you are hereby commanded to ap
pear at this office on Saturday the 28th day of June
1912, demur to or answer the complaint filed herein
or the relief prayed for in said complaint will be
granted. Herein fail not. This May 25th. 1912.
(may 29. 4t) J. C M H OTWELL. C. S. C.
Certificate of Dissolution.
To ail to whom these presents may come Greeting:
Whereas, It appears to my satisfaction, by duly
aut bent Seated record of the proceedings for t he
voluntary dissolution thereof by the unanimous
consent of all stockholders, deposited in nty office,
that The White Canning Company, a corporation
of this Stale, whose principal ofilce is situated in
the town of Oxford, County of Granville, State of
North Carolina (J. F. White, being the agent
therein and in charge thereof, upon whom process
may ue served;, n as complied wim ine require
ments of Chapter 21, Revisal of 19(15, entitled
"Corporations," preliminary to the issuing of this
Certificate of Dissolution:
Now, Therefore, I, J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of
State of the State of North Carolina, do hereby
certify that the said corporation did, on the 14th
day of May, 1912, lile in ray office a duly executed
and attested consent in writing to the dissolution
of said corporation, executed by all the stockholders
thereof, which said consent and the record of the
proceedings aforesaid are now on file in my said
office as provided by law.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereto set my
hand and affixed my official seal, at Raleigh, this
14th day of Mav, A. D. 1912.
J. BRYAN GRIMES,
(Seal) may 25. 4t. . Secretary of State.
Commissioners Sale of Land.
Under and by virtue of a certain order and decree
ot the Superior Court of Granville County rendered
in the special proceeding entitled P. S. Lewis and
others, Ex Parte, I shall sell by public auction at
the court house door in Oxford on
MONDAY. JULY I5th.l912,
the house and lot of land situate on Jawbone Street
i containing aliout three fourths of an acre, adjoining
the lands of Nat Venable on the North, the Asylum
lands on the East and James Royster on the South
and fronting on Jaw Bone street. Terms one half
cash, balance in twelve months. This the 13th
lay of June 1912. A. A. HICKS, Commissioner.
SALE OF REAL ESTATE.
By virtue of an order of the Superior Court of
Granville County in the case entitled H.L.Perry,
administrator of Thos. Crews deceased vs Thos.
Crews, Anderson Crews. Ben Crews and others, 1
shall sell for cash to the highest bidder by public
auction at the eour house door in Oxford. N. C., on
MONDAY, JULY 1st, 1912,
at 12 o'clock the following tracts of land owned by
Thos. Crews, deceased. One tract containing about
thirty seven acres adjoining the lands of J. II. Breed
love, Bartlett Young, Agne Paschull and others.
Also one tract containing twenty acres adjoining
the lands of Bartlet Young, M. A. Gregory, W. A.
Hart and others. II. L. PERRY, Adm'r
of Thos. Crews, deceased.
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good location. Apply to E. G. Crews,
at National Bank, Oxford, N. C.
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