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SEMI-WEEKLY
OXFORD, N. C, SATURDAY, APRIL, 5 1913.
VOLUME 26. NO. 31
PUBLIC
COUNTY DEMONSTRATOR.
Dr. Morris Writes Interest
ingly of Thing of Great
Importance.
I am constrained to write you a
few words by a most happy experi
ence of Friday, March 28, at a
public school entertainment, the
closing exercises of the Browning
Graded School.
The whole program is herewith
given:
Chorus Wake up time.
Address, Prof. E. C. Brooks.
Chorus The Contented Bird.
Essay "Bees," Miss Maude
Wrenn.
Scale song.
Oration "Corn," Ed Harris.
Solo Mrs. Ernest Parham.
Essay "Poultry," Miss Gracie
Cheatham.
Chorus - Santa Lucia.
Essay "Birds," Vallie Belcher.
Chorus Norse Lullaby.
Oration "The Horse," Lloyd
Dorsey.
ChorusWind Song.
Flag song.
Essay "Forestry," Bettie May
Cheatham.
Lover's Old Sweet Song.
Oration "Cows, "Willie Wrenn.
Essay on Boys.
Motion Song.
I believe in conservatism, and yet
when 1 witness real merit, especial
ly in the young folks, there is a
spontaneous desire to applaud a lit
tle. I am wholly within the limits of
conservatism when I say that every
part of the program was splendidly
performed
The striking feature of the whole
program was its sweet and harmo
nious rural echo, "Corn," "Poul
try," "Bees,' "Birds," "Forestry,"
"Horses," "Cows."
If these subjects do not awaken in
any mind and heart a genuine farm
house enthusiasm it is because
that heart and mind has never been
happy with such surroundings. To
such these subjects may sound com
monplace. Alas, that so many in
teresting things in this world are
commonplace! This sad-fact is an.
index to our dimness of vision while
we stand opened eyed before the
ideally beautiful. We take, many
of us, a trip to our capital to see an
inaugurated president "in all his
glory, "and cease not for a time to
tell of sights and wonders seen, but
have not a word to say of the
bird-bedecked forests, the flowers
beloved of the bees, and the stirring
life of the cornfield and the barn
yard, where cackles the cock and
hen, neighs and plays the mare and
her colt, and where gambols the
frisky calf around the mother cow.
It is the lot of some to live with
these scenes around them, and yet
be dead to them all. Not so with
those two teachers, Misses Ferguson
and Harris. They have had the
thrill of interest in the shrill cock
note in the trilling song bird, in the
busy bee-hive's buzz, in the roli ek
ing frolickings of all domestic ani
mals. I count those children happy
indeed to be intrusted to such teach
ers. Misses Ferguson and Harris
had on exhibition at the last county
fair that gave one a premonition
that they would develop something
unusual. A collection of the dffer
ent kinds of wood was made. The
specimens were polished so as to
bring out the species more distinct
ly. They have idealized country life
in such a way as to make it more
attractive, and I am writing this
letter to ask you to do this very
thing. All things have interest
when many invest them with in
terest. Nothing seems . interest
ing that goes unnoticed. The farm
house has interest in the most ideal
istic and interesting beauty. The
Great Teacher challenged all the
glory and splendor that nations and
cities could roll together when he
said "Consider the lillies." These
and so many other interests and
beauties cluster about the well-kept
farm house. But you may say,
"There are so many farm houses not
well kept." True, but is it not
largely because the idealizing teach
ers are so late coming? It is easy
to have confidence that the Whole
neighborhood has been elevated in
ideals by the work of that school.
I hardly know what to write of
the boys and girls. They sang so
sweetly ; they expressed in those es
says and orations thoughts so ma
ture and of such material interest
that to write the whole truth it
would read too much like laudation
pure and simple. If they keep up
the course of work set forth in that
program, the Agricultural Associ
ation of this county can certainly
SHORT LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.
About People and Things That
Are of Interest to Our
Readers.
It is time everybody had planted
their garden.
The Graham law building is near
ing completion.
The refrigerator is ready to re
place the coal bin.
The' County Commissioners will
meet next Monday.
Every day ought to be clean up
day this time of the year.
It goes without saying that every
woman is entitled to a voter.
Whatever may be said against it
a Polly is always better than a jar.
Get busy and capture one of the
Public Ledger prizes for your Car
rer. Clothing may comedown in price
at times, but there are no bargains
in law suits.
Some so-called friends are like
burglar alarms they go off when
there is no trouble around.
Mr. J. R. Sneed, who has been
sick for the past week with pneumo
nia, we are glad to learn is improv
ing. The repairs to the burnt part of
of the Oxford Buggy Co. building
is being pushed rapidly to comple
tion. The State Convention of North
Carolina Sunday School Association
will be held in Greensboro April 22
to 24.
Remember everybody can get the
Twice-a-week Public Ledger for $1
per year during the mail carrier's
contest.
Don't wait for the time to come
when you need friends to make
them. Make them now and let them
use you first.
On Wednesday evening Miss An
nie Taylor charmingly entertained
in honor of Mrs. E. H. Sholor, of
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Mr. T. C. Harris and family have
moved into the new dwelling re
cently erected by Messrs. Williams
& Sizemore on Front street.
What a good thing it would be if
the holes in the public roads were
filled up, as "spring time has come
gentle Annie."
Horner and Warren ton ball teams
will cross bats today, Saturday, at
Horner Park. Lee Meadows will
pitch and a good game is expected.
When Colonel W. B. Ballou fully
completes his large Colonial home
on Gilliam street he will have one
of the most attractive places in Ox
ford. The Edwards Hose and Ladder
Co. held their monthly meeting on
Thursday night and transacted im
portant business connected with the
Company.
Gives us Gen. Royster next time
for Congress and you can bet your
last dollar that he will not ignore
the wishes of his party and will
prove a working member.
Be sure and take in the Wake
Forest Glee Club at the Opera House
next Thursday night. Admission,
50cts, reserved seats 75 cents which
are on sale at Lyon Drug Store.
All the stockholders of the Gran
ville Farmers Tobacco Company are
earnestly requested to meet in the
Court House Monday, April 7th, at
10 o'clock. T. G. Currin, President.
North Carolina has advanced from
15 to 50 per cent in value of agri
cultural products in the last three
years. According to government
experts crops are better today than
ever before.
If any citizen of Granville knows
in what Company and Regiment in
the Confederate Army Paul D. Oak
ley served he will confer a favor by
informing J. G. Shotwell, Clerk of
Superior Court.
count on that community for real
support.
Now, if I seem to have enthusi
asm in the work of that school,
kind teacher, I want to say that I
shall have just as much in any
school conducted that way. I shall
plead for the country school. Bring
out your ideals of beauty, and the
beauty of things rural will respond
to your ideals; and when you shall
have reached this correspondence,
there will be born out of it those
visions necessary to lift the country
child out of the commonplaceness
of blindness to the beauty of en
vironment. J AS. A. MORRIS.
While cranking his automobile
Thursday night in front of Mr.
Wyatt Cannady's Dr. S. H. Cannady
had the misfortune to sustain a
fractured bone iu his arm.
Don't fail to attend the town con
vention this Friday night in Court
House. Turn out everybody and
nominate the best men that will
serve as commissioners, as every one
is for Capt. Stem for mayor.
Invitations have been issued by
the faculty of Oxford College to a
reception this Friday evening from
8 to 10 o'clock, the guest list being
limited to those who have called on
the faculty during the session.
Regular meeting of Oxford Lodge
No. 396, A. F. & A. M., will meet
Monday night for work in the Third
Degree. All members are hereby
requested to attend, and visiting
brethren cordially invited. T. S.
Waller, Sec'y.
Young lady get a move on your
self if you wish to wear the hand
some Gold Brooch offered to the
young lady who secures the largest
number of votes to any single Mail
Carrier that serves patrons in the
grand old county of Granville.
Our dear little friends Willie T.
Hicks and Joe Floyd want to make
some money and have decided to
open a shoe-polishing parlor is the
basement under the law office of
Mr. A. A. Hicks, and we hope these
bright boys will receive a liberal
patronage.
It is sincerely to be hope that the
County Commissioners will see that
the new roadc already built are kept
up and not allowed to wash away.
We take it that it would require a
regular repair force to keep them
in good condition. Filling up the
holes now would save a vast amount
of work in the future.
Record Broken.
Horner Brothers. Company have
ordered 1503 tons of Ober's Guanq
since January, more than was sold
all last year. April is yet be
fore them and that is the best de
livery month. Quality is what the
farmers demnad and that is what
they get in Ober's Guano. See adv
of Horner Bros. Co. in this paper.
Cooper-Evins.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry George Cooper
requests the honor of your
presence at the marriage of their
daughter
Mary
to
Mr. Thomas Moore Evins on the
evening of Wednesday the
sixteenth of April at eight o'clock
at Saint Stephens' Church
Oxford North Carolina.
The bride to be is one of Oxford's
most cultured young ladies, and
is popular.
Mr. Evins isaprosprous business
man of Spartansburg, S. C.
Reception at Mrs. Gregory's.
A reception in honor of Miss Floyd
Taylor, of Richmond, was given at
the residence of Col. R. O. Gregory
Thursday afternoon. The home was
tastily decorated, the color scheme
being yellow and green. The enter
tainment was one of the most elab
orate given in Oxford during the
season.
At the door were Miss Annie Crews
and Mrs. E. H. Crenshaw. Mrs.
J. C. Robards escorted the guests
to the punch bowl and Mrs. Josiah
Cannady and Miss Martha Ferebee
served punch. In the receiving
line were Mrs. R. O. Gregory, Miss
Fannie Gregory, Miss Floyd Taylor,
of Richmond, Mrs. Bonitz, Miss Net
Gregory, Miss Josephine Brown,
Miss Jennttee Gregory and Mrs.
W. A. Devin, Mrs. M. C. Taylor.
At the entrance to the dining room
whee Miss Irvin Stark, Mrs. N. H.
Cannady, Miss Annie Taylor, Mrs.
Niles escorted them into the dining
room where they were served by Mrs
Mrs. Lanier, Mrs. Chapman, Mrs.
R.L. Brown. Mrs. James Powell, and
from the dining room were escorted
by Mrs. Will Landis, Mrs. J. S.
Rogers and Mrs. W. B. Ballou to
the coffee where " Mrs. William
W. G. Pace and Miss Jennette Biggs
presided, assisted by Mrs. B. S.
Royster and Mrs. W. Z. Mitchell.
Therefreshments were elaborate and
of a tempting character.
Little Miss Charlotte Easton re
ceived the cards at the door.
JOHN POWELL, the youngAmer
ican pianist, pronounced by critics
of Europe to be without a peer
among contemporary pianist, will
be at Oxford Graded School Audi
torium Friday night, April 11th, at
8.30 p. m., under the auspices of
the Woman's Literary Club, the
Shakespeare Club, the Woman's
Civin Club. Reserved seats $1.00;
general admission 75c. ;schools 50c. J
Stem Stemmings.
L. W. Hall visited his parents
last week.
We are sorry to note the illness
of Mrs. Thomas Gooch.
C R. Cash, of Richmond, spent
Sunday with is parents.
W. H. Whitaker, of Danville, is
on a visit to his father.
Irving Mangum, of Oxford, was
on our street Tuesday.
Mrs. J. T. Gooch, who has been
quite ill, is much improved.
W. C. O'Briant, of Route 6, was
a Creedmoor visitor last week.
B. F. Farabow purchased a fine
horse last week fom L. Whitaker.
Mayor E. E. Bullock is having
his residence painted a deep yellow.
Pros Suit, of Oxford, spent Sund
day with relatives in this ommu
nity. H. N. Green and L. D. Farabow
spnet the week with friends in Dur
ham. G. W. Stem, of Route 3, has just
completed a new room to his dwel
ling house.
Mrs. C. H. Washington, of Tally
Ho, is on a visit to relatives in
Louisburg.
Material is on the ground for the
erection of a shop by J. E. Duncan
and R. W. Farabow.
Eliza Haden, of Route 2, an old
colored woman 69 years old, died
last Tuesday afternoon.
Miss Bailey Daniel, of Northern
Ganville,is on a visit to her sister,
Mrs. W. J. Webb, of Tally Ho.
We regret to note the continued
illness of J. M. Farabow, of Route
3, who improves very slowly.
W. C. O'Briant, of Oxford Route
6, and Vassar Roberts, of Route 1,
were Oxford visitors Saturday.
Lonnie Roberts, of Route 1, and
Thomas Oakley, of Tally Ho, pur
chased new buggies last week.
H. R. Goss, of Wendell, who has
been on a visit to relatives in this
section, returned home Tuesday.
E. W. West, of Richmond, is
having a siding put in from near
Shoe Fly crossing to the Webb
place.
Large crowds attended the union
meeting at Camp Creek last Sun
day. It reminded one of an Associ
ation. Farmers are badly behind with
their work in this community ow
ing to the heavy rainfall of the past
month.
G.' F. Mayes returned home last
week from the A. and M. College,
where he attended school the past
winter.
Large quantities of guano is be
ing hauled from this plae, which
we presume indicates a large crop
of tobaccco.
Jerome Eakes, who has been in
Rchmond for several months has
returned home and will engage in
farming this year.
N. M. Clement, of Route 3, and
Gibbons Renn, of Providence, each
had telephone installed in their res
idence the past week.
There are four cases of measles
in the family of T. W. Bullock and
one at C. L. Eastwood's. It seems
that the disease is making a clean
sweep.
E. A. Latta returned Saturday
to Buie's Creek High school af
ter spending several days with pa
rents near Culbreth. He will finish
at this school this session and take
a law course later on.
The members of Stem Church
held a laymens' meeting last Sun
day with two services. Henry Um
stead,of Bahama, Obie Winston, of
Creedmoor, S. A. Fleming, of Hes
ter, J. B. Mayes, W. S. Gooch and
J. E. Duncan delivered speeches,
A goodly number were present.
On Monday next the closing exer
cises of Stem High School will
begin with a public debate at 3.30
p. m. On Tuesday at 2 o'clock Dr.
Morris, the county demonstrator,
will deliver an address on agricul
ture. He is a good speaker and is
making a special study along this
line of thought. On Tuesday night
at 8 o'clock the graduating exer
cises will be held in the auditori
um. The public is cordially invited
to attend
A union meeting was held with
Mary's Chapel church in Creedmoor
section last Saturday and Sunday,
two services on Saturday with ad
dresses on that day by Prof. J. B.
Vernon, W .S. Gooch, Dr. Sykes
and Mr. Rogers, from Pleasant
Grove church. There was one ser
vice on Sunday, which service con
sisted of a sermon by the pastor
and an address by Claud Allen and
Mr. O'Neil.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE
Personal Items About Oxford
Folks and Their Friends
In General.
Mr. R. W. Lassiter was in Dur
ham Thursday.
Mr. Walter Crews was in Rich
mond Wednesday.
Dr. Cannady returned from a trip
to Richmond Thursday.
Mrs, James Horner was a Rich
mond visitor this week.
Mr. John Bullock, of Bullock,
was in town Wednesday.
Mr. Lucius Burnett and son, of
Route 6, were in town Thursday.
Mrs. Will Jones, Raleigh, visited
Mrs. Sam Booth the first of the
week.
Mr. and Mrs. William Smith, of
Wilson, were Oxford visitors this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Baird and chil
dren are visiting relatives in Rich
mond. Mr. Nat Jones and daughter, Miss
Bedie, of Route 1, were in Oxford
Friday.
Mrs. Bettie Gregory, of Stovall,
is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Jas.
Powell, on Henderson street.
Mr. Ed Duncan, of Stem, passed
through Oxford Thursday returning
from a visit to relatives at Skip
with, Va.
Rev. S. E. Mercer, President of
Carolina College at Maxton, spent
last Sunday with Rev. L. H. Joyner
on High street.
Mrs. Willis Boddie and Miss Sal
lie Taylor, of Louisburg, were the
guests of Mrs. C. D. Fort on Ral
eigh street Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Josephine Brown returned
Wednesday from a visit to Rich
mond accompanied by Miss Floyd
Taylor, one of Richmond's pretty
young ladies.
Mrs. W. H. Upchurch, who has
not been well for several months,
has gone to a Richmond hospital for
treatment, and hope will soon be
restored to health.
. Your Chance, Young Lady.
Something nice for the Ladies !
We are offering an Extra Prize a
Handsome Gold Brooch with Pearl
Setting to the lady who secures the
Largest Number of votes for any
one Carrier in the connty. So get
busy young lady today among your
friends and win this handsome gift.
There Will Be No Service.
Dr. J. B. Weatherspoon will
leave to-day for Chattanooga, Ten
nessee, to be absent until Wednesday
next. An effort was made to se
cure Rev. C. A. Jenkins, a former
pastor and resident of Oxford, to
preach, but he could not come ; there
fore there will be no preaching at
the Baptist Church next Sunday.
No Killing Frost.
Frost of the killing kind comes
sometimes in April, but not often.
It has not been known to come as
late as April 15, but such instances
are very rare. The reason the fruit
is sometimes killed in this month
is that when it first blooms there is
awax or glue like covering that pro
tects the bloom, but in April it is
far enough advanced to dispense
with this protection and even a
slight freeze sometimes puts it out
of business.
Appointments Soon.
Mafor Stedman, member of Con
gress from the Fifth district, an I
nounces that he will send in a batch
of names next week with his recom
mendations to appointments to post
ofliices in this district. The first
recommendation will be for the
postoffice at .Winston, Mt. Airy,
Elkin, Roxboro, Chapel Hill, Bur
lington, Oxford, Elon College, East
Durham, Reidsville, Madison, Spray
and Leaksville.
LOST OR STOLEN Gold watch
with A. R. M. on crestcase. Long
gold chain attached. Liberal reward
to any one returning them to Mrs.
A. L. Capehart, Oxford, N. C.
THE WAKE FOREST COLLEGE
Glee Club will be in Oxford at the
Opera House on the night of April
10th. Reserved seats 75c, general
admission 50c. Tickets on sale at
Lyon's Drug Store.
WANTED Orders for doing em
broidery and hemstitching. Address
B," Oxford, N. C. pd-lt.
NOTICE The annual meeting of
the stockholders of the Oxford Build
ing and Loaa Aosociation will be held
next Monday, nfeht, the 8th, in the
court housj at 830.
THE TOWN CONVENTION.
This Friday Evening in the
Court House a Full Ticket
Will Be Named.
A primary convention of the Dem
ocratic voters of Oxford will be
held in the court house this Friday
evening at 8 o'clock. The object
of the meeting is to nominate a can
didate for Mayor and seven Com
missioners. The right of any citi
zen to run for Commissioner is un
disputed. We understand that the
gentlemen who compose the present
Board are candidates to succeed
themselves. We also understand
that some of them have opposition,
with possibly others to enter. It
is not our purpose in this present
dicussion to take sides so far as the
personality of the candidates are
concerned, or draw distinctions be
tween them as to their ability and
qualifications for the position they
seek. Such course might not be con
sidered entirely proper. It is pro
per, however, to consider the
phases of the situation that are
most certain to redound to the
town's welfare. It will not be de
nied that inefficient or unfaithful
men could spoil a good system and
bring it into disrepute. The first
thing, then, for the citizens to ask
themselves is whether their servants
have been faithful. Have they
been successful? If they have not,
wherein have they failed? They
have had to blaze new paths. They
have had to formulate details of
procedure.
With the accumulated knowledge
of town affairs it is very doubtful
that a superior Board than the pres
ent one could be found at this time
to handle the affairs of the town.
The real issue is the town's welfare
and not the welfare or the personal
ambition of any man Tho holds
office or wants to hold an office.
We trust this idea will not be lost
sight of and that no personal pre
ference will intervene to obscure
the main point the town's welfare.
And remember that none of the
town offices pay much. The Mayor
gets more than the rest, but he is
by no means over-paid. The Com
missioners get very little in money.
They get a good deal of "cussin"
and some praise now and then. Let
no one disdain the office of "town
father," for it is an ancient and
honorable one.
To Play Good Ball.
The indications are that the citi
zens of Oxford will be favored with
good ball this summer. Capt. W.
A. Devin and Mr. W. H. Fleming,
backed by a number of public spirit
ed citizens, are behind a project to
link up Oxford, Henderson, Louis
burg and Weldon, which will consti
tute a circuit. The details have not
been fully worked out, but of the
$400 needed as a guarantee to insure
that the game will continue to the
end of the season, two hundred dol
lars have been pledged. The project
so far meets with the hearty ap
proval of the public spirited citi
zens of Oxford, and doubtless the
funds will be raised. The four towns
of the league will make a very in
teresting little circuit. The best
men obtainable will be engaged for
the entire season and we may con
fidentially expect to see some good
ball this season.
NOTICE ! NOTICE !
SALE OF VERY VALUABLE
LAND to be sold at public auction
at the court house door at Oxford,
Saturday, April 12, 1913, in tracts
as follows:
First tract, the Wilder home,
lying on the left hand side of Ral
eigh Road, 150 to 160 acres. .
Second tract, same side of road,
containing 120 acres.
Third tract, lying between the
Kittrell and Raleigh Road contain
ing 65 acres.
Fourth tract, lying between the
Raleigh and Kittrell roads between
the creek and 65 acre tract, con
taining 184 acres.
Fifth tract, lying on the south
side of creek, containing 40 acres.
Every tract has settlement on it
except the 40 acre tract on south
side of creek. This land lays only
two miles from Oxford on the best
road in the county. This is very
fine tobacco land and plenty of
wood on each. Terms of sale, one
third cash, balance in one, two and
three years. For further informa
tion see the undersigned.
W. H. FLEMING,
A. A. CHAPMAN.
SEED Sweet Potatoes. $1.00 per
bushel. J. C. HORNER.
DR. C. D. H. FQRT, DENTIST, can
be found at bis office every morning
and evening from 8 p. m. to 6 p m.