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BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM
PUBLISHED IN
THIS SECTION OF STATE.
NEWSPAPER IN
THIS SECTION OF STATE.
AND OXFORD BANNER.
Our Slogan-' Oxford Offers Opportunities for 'Hones- Schools Health. Factories and Prosperity."
SEMI-WEEKLY.
. OXFORD, N. 0.s SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1913.
VOLUME 26. NO. 37
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CONTEST TALK OF TOWN
AND COUNTY.
Now Is the Time to Get Sub
scribers and Vote For
Your Faithful Carrier.
The mail carriers are off in a
bunch! The prizes are worthwhile
and the patrons of the Rural Routes
are working like beavers to capture
the prizes for their faithful carrier.
From now on the contest will be
on in dead earnest, and interest is
increasing each day.
This will be the only election
held this year, or next, where you
can stuff the ballot box and vote
early and late. There will be lots
of fun connected with the contest
-good wholesome fun- and you do
not want to miss it. No one can
figure with any degree of accuracy
at this time who will be the winner
The patrons have an equal chance
and all are anxious that their carrier
will capture the capital prize. Its
subscriptions you will want to
hustle for, as that is what gets the
most votes. Start out by asking
for long time subscriptions two,
three, four and five years but take
short ones also. Don't let any get
way from you. Don't expect some
thing for nothing. We are going
to giveaway every prize advertised,
so get busy. If subscription is
taken during the life of the contest
the Public Ledger is only $1 per
year.
Graded School Honor Roll.
Eighth month honor roll for Ox
ford Graded School:
First Grade Thomas Booth, May
Lee Critcher, Thomas Cannady,
Rux Currin, Jack Cannady, Cam
Easton, Myrtle Fargis, Bettie Sue
Green, Stuart Green, Alice Hall,
Eizabeth Hobgood, Alma McFar
land, Alfred McFarland, Edward
Mitchell, Minnie Munich, Ben Med
ford, Myrtle Royster, Pauline Se
chrest, Paul Thorp, Sidney Taylor,
Parker Leigh Tigner, Madison
Usry, John Williams, James Webb,
Sam Wheeler.
Second Grade Billy Abbitt, Eu
genia Currin, R. M. Currin, Mar
garet Davis, Carrie Duncan, Charles
Elmore, Joe Floyd, Charlie Green,
Pattie May Green, Elsie Huzeck,
Martha Lumpkins, Inez Patterson,
Joe Renn, Edwin Shaw, ElnoraTay
or, Jannie Thomasson, Ruth Up
church, Lillian Wiliford, Bertha
White.
Third Grade Augusta Carroll,
Billy Devin, Charles Easton, Hugh
Easton, Effie Lee, Mabel Sizemore,
Bernie Usry,
Fourth Grade Lillian Cheatham,
Moore Fasran. Roy Fuller, John
Perry Hall, Ruth Howard, Eizabeth
Hunt, Annie Landis.Idie Kerr Tay
lor, Rives Taylor, Olive Webb,
James White,
Fifth Grade Louise Currin,
Sam C. Hall, Frank Murray, Zela
Newton, Ruth Parham,
Sixth Grade Julian Abbitt, James
Ballou, Treva Garman, George
Hunt, Robert Parham, Marion
Sneed, Joe Taylor,
Seventh Grade Joseph Bryan
Elizabeth Floyd, Edith Howell,
John Hal!, Henry Shaw, Joe Rag
land, Irene Pierson.BessiePitchford.
Eighth Grade Muzette Daniel,
Alleine Hicks, Lorene Peed, Bux
ton Taylor.
Ninth Grade Ruth Shaw,Hettie
Hunt, Alva Lee Currin, Carrie Har
ris, Tenth Grade Basil Horsfield,
Mary Shaw, Dorothy Hunt, Grace
Critcher, Harry Renn.
A Card From Prof. Pitts.
For the good of our school and the
students involved I am asking the
mothers not .to allow their daugh
ters to engage in plays out in town
until after our school closes. We
believe they have all they can do in
getting ready for examinations and
commencement. I am frank to say
that students who give us the least
trouble and make the highest grades,
never had time to do such work.
They are too busy and too much
concerned about their standing in
school to even let such a thought
enter their minds. It is a Question
with some mothers now as to wheth
er they would rather that their
daughters enjoy the social pleasures
for a season at the risk of passing
the final examinations or not. We
teachers know what a demoralizing
influence getting up plays at this
season of the year has upon pupils
and trust that none will engage.
J. A. PITTS.
DR. BEN J. K. HAYS
Mav be found in his office from
10 a. m. to 1 p. m. daily except
Sundays. -
GATHERED FROM THE TOWN
AND COUNTY
About People and Things That
Are of Interest to Our
Readers.
And many a homely woman pre
sides over a happy home.
A woman with electricity in her
hair should turn the switch.
Mrs. Julia Minor has had a new
roof put on her residence on College
street.
Make the best of your life. You
may never get another chance to be
happy.
Don't let us overlook the differ
ence between a progressive and a
demagogue.
We are gratified to learn that Ox
ford's three buggy factories are busy
filling orders.
Instead of working so hard to
pull down why not change off and
help build up?
The leaves are growing rapidly
now and will doubtless be grown
by the 10th of May.
Note the "Hot Point" advertise
ment of the Carolina Power & Light
Company on the 4th page.
There is a sunken place on Col
lege street opposite the Johnson
place that should be filled up.
You are asked to read the change
in the advertisement of the Na
tional Bank of Granville on another
page.
Tell me ye winged winds around
my pathway roar, will the time ever
come when knockers will knock no
more.
The good old spring time has
come at last as Mr. Sam Parker was
riding around Wednesday in his
shirt sleeves.
The time will soon be here for
those who have comfortable homes
to leave them and go to some wa
tering place and suffer.
Your special attention is called
to the change in the furniture ad
vertisement of Hughes-Smaw Fur
niture Co. on another page.
Our bright and dainty dears
In tighter dresses are viewed,
But ere the Summer girl appears,
Comes the Spring lass-itude.
We learn that Mr. Jonah Veasey
is going to make some decided im
provements in his residence on Gil
liam street and when completed will
occupy it.
The weather is beginning to get
warm and you will have to Keep
cool, so read the cooling advertise
ment of the Oxford Ice Company in
another part of this paper.
We are glad to learn that Mrs.
W. H. Upchurch continues to im
prove at a hospital in Richmond and
it is thought she will be able to re
turn to her home in Oxford in two
weeks.
Hurrah for Vance county ! It has
voted the sum of $200,000 for good
roads. We congratulate the people
of th; county upon their wise step
as good roads are a blessing to the
people.
The Gas Company will have their
office in the Hunt building, next to
the law offices of Hicks & Stem, and
is having it fixed up and Mr. Harry
Williams will soon be ready for
business.
It is said the best home is that in
which a husband shares with his
wife the responsibility of making
the home what it ought to be. A
house with two heads is better than
one with one head.
The many friends of Mr. J. R.Hall
will be glad to learn that he is able
to get about the hospital on crutch
es and will soon be able to come home
to the joy of his sweet wife and
daughter and the delight of his as
sociates. Billy Sunday, the baseball evange
list, gives us a new version of
David's feat in slaying Goliath with
a stone picked from a brook and
hurled from his sling. Said Billy
in one of his sermons: "David hit
the geezer on the cocoa right be
tween the two lamps and made him
take the count."
Upchurch & Currin, the pains
taking undertakers and embalmers,
have added another fine hearse to
their excellent equipment for the
! burial of the dead, and their ser
vices can be secured at any hour,
day or-night. Have also just received
a nice line of new furniture, baby
carriages, refrigerators, chairs, etc.
Go and see these pleasant gentlemen.
After fortune has smiled on a
man he can afford to laugh and grow
fat.
One way to help things along in
Oxford is to quit cussin' the other
fellow.
John Brown now has the pleasure
of riding around in a haudsome new
automobile.
Court commences Monday and our
able legal lights are ready for the
trial of case.
A noise like filling up the holes and
ruts in streets ought to be heard in
these parts soon.
Enforcing the prohibition law is
like mending a leak in a dam as
fast as one is stopped, another
breaks out.
Indeed, it is a pleasure to us to
say that we are not trying pull
down, but to build up and do all
the good we can.
Has any body heard whether we
are to vote on the $5,000 worth of
Street Bond at the coming munici
pal election or not ?
I. E. Doggett has a 5-lb game
hen that produced a dozen eggs that
weighed 2-pounds. On one of the
eggs was a distinct spider with legs
extending from the body.
Three cheers for Lee Meadows !
He won the first game against three
pitchers in Raleigh Thursday at the
opening game between Durham and
Raielgh, witnessed by 4,000 people.
Remember that under the law an
automobile has the right to half
of. the road or street, and it is
to be hoped that in future all trav
ellers will recognize the rights of
each other.
Sorry to learn that Mrs. Wm.
Stimson, one Oxford's fine ladies,
suffered a stroke of .paralysis Wed
nesday night, but today, Friday, is
slowly improving, and trust she will
soon entirely recover.
We see that in the organization
of Constitutional Commission our
townman, Capt. W. A. Devin, was
honored with the chairmanship of
the most important committee
that of on Article 2, Legislative De
partment. Yes, Cordelia, you'll have to step
around lively if you want to wear
gold brooch set with pearls offered
as a prize to the lady that secures
the largest number of votes for any
single Carrier in the county in the
Public Ledger contest.
What this county needs is more
good roads like the one leading out
of Oxford and on by Knott's Grove
Church. There is no finer invest
ment for any people anywhere than
a road that will carry a load any day
in the year, no matter what the
weather is.
Owing to a change in the law
governing listing of taxes, all prop
erty must be in as first of May in
stead of first of June as heretofore.
Tax listers will soon make their an
nouncements, and all liable to tax
are requested to list 'property and
give in their polls.
We heard a man say the other
that he was afraid Oxford would
soon become a town of knockers if
it kept up the present lick. We
hope not, and trust we all will re
solve to stop knocking and unite in
helping to push the good old town
forward. Remember in unity there
is strength.
The Philathea class of the Meth
odist Church will have a Lantern
Social in the Lyon Memorial build
ing this Friday afternoon and night,
April 25th; from 4 to 10 o'clock.
Attend and get sandwiches, tea and
coffee for your supper along with
ice cream and cake. This Class will
appreciate your patronage.
Mrs. Bettie O'Brien, who died in
a hospital in Durham Monday was
i brought to Stovall Tuesday for in-
I . i r ni n l 1
termenc. me iunerai was conuuc
ted by Rev. George -Tunstall in the
prespnce of a large congregation of
sorrowing relative and friends. She
was about 60 years of age and truly
a faithful soldier of the cross and
has fallen "Asleep in Jesus."
SWEET POTATO Slips now ready
for sale at 20 cents per hundred by
J. C. Horner.
THAT DWELLING ROOF Tin
shingles are the best covering I have
them. The price is right. C. D. Ray
I HAVE for rent a new pasture
for cattle. Apply to G. C. Daniel
for further information. 3t
WE DO electrial work and carry
a full line of supplies. Mason
Plumbing Company. pd.
ALL WORK promptly attended
to by expert mechanics. Mason
Plumbling Company. pd.
A. F. and A. M. to Meet.
There will be a special communi
cation of Oxford Lodge No. 396,
A. F. and A. M. on Monday night,
April 28th, at 8 o'clock, for work
in the Master's degree. All mem
bers requested to attend, and breth
ren from out of town lodges cordi
ally invited to be present.
T. S." WALLER, Secretary.
Cohn & Son sale Ten Days
Longer.
This live bargain firm says hun
dreds have already taken advantage
of the bargains offered at their sale,
but the coming week they propose to
eclipse all past selling records by
giving bargains in values that must
be of real interest to all women who
desire to economize in the purchase
of their personal wants. Now is the
time to buy your summer goods at
Cohn & Son.
To the Fire Boys.
When the fire bell is ringing and
your house is burning down,
And you look in your pajamas like
a dancing circus clown;
Oh then comes Captain Wadie with
his boys so brave and true,
And their faces, though not pretty,
look like angels sent to you :
So here's to you Captain Wadie
With your voice down in your
boots
As you holloa -out your orders,
And the boys they up and scoots ;
You're something of a singing
man,
For chickens you've a craze,
But send me Captain Wadie
when my house is in a blaze.
When you wake up in the night time
and your house is full of smoke,
And you try to call up "central"
all the time about to choke,
When you know that Pete Wood's
coming
With his dashing, dauntless steeds,
And the boys spring on the wagon
as it passes at full speed,
You are glad that Johnie Wil
liams has forgot he is a dad,
And Lawyer Stem, the Captain,
Why he's just our own dear
- Thad,
You are glad that there are
Taylors
Who have then all else forgot,
And though you have not "an-
tied" yet they open up the
pot.
When you're far off in the country
and the wind is blowing high,
And the resin from heart shingles
tells you they are fat and dry,
You are thankful for insurance and
for neighbors quick and kind,
But Sam Wheeler and the boys are
the things that ease your mind.
So here's to you Sizemore,
Mitchell, Marrow, Williams,
' Jones and King,
For we know just what will
happen
When the bell begins to ring.
When we have little ups and
downs
We wish you were in hell,
But we're grateful that you
answer at the first stroke
of the bell. H.
Rare Musical Treat.
Misses Laura Robertson, of New
York, and Miss Rosa Powell, of
Wake Forest, will give a recital on
Tuesday evening, April 29th, at
8:30 o'clock, in the Chapel of Ox
ford College. These young ladies
have studied for years with such
eminent teachers as Sanger, Kliban
ski and Frank Croxton. Miss Powell
has been heard in Oxford with great
pleasure. In hearing these artists,
both in solos and duets, the music
loving public will have a rare treat.
r -y
Rural Carriers Contest.
Turn in every available vote
for your Carrier now as the num
ber of votes for each subscriber
positively will not be increased
during the life of this contest.
The following is the standing
of the contestants up to Friday
at noon:
Carrier No. 1 Oxford 2,400
Carrier No. 2 Oxford 5,200
Carrier No. 3 Oxford 2,700
Carrier No. 4 Oxford. . . . 2,700
Carrier No. 5 Oxford 1,800
Carrier No. 7 Oxford. . . . 2,300
Carrier No. 2 Virgilina.. 300
Carrier No. 2 Northside . 400
Carrier No. 1 Hester 4,800
Carrier No. 1 .Stem 3,200
Carrier No. 2 Stem. . " 1,300
Carrier No. 3 Stem. . .... 100
Carrier No. 1 Creedmoor. .1,200
Carrier No. .2 Creedmoor. 300
Carrier No. 1 Franklinton 300
SOME YOU KNOW AND SOME
YOU DO NOT KNOW.
Personal Items About Oxford
Folks and Their Friends
In General.
Ed Pruitt, of Route 4. was in Ox
ford Thursday.
Wesley . Knott, of Enon, was in
town Wednesday.
Dr. J. A. Morris, of Wilton, was
in town Saturday.
S. R. Puckett, of Route 4, was
in town Thursday.
John Morton, of Bullock, was in
town Wednesday.
Mr. Nat Jones, of Route 1, was
in town Thursday.
W. W. Adcock, of Route 4, was
in town Thursday.
Judge Graham was in Washing
ton City Thursday.
Mrs. D. Currin, of Route 6, was
in Oxford Wednesday.
Mrs. J. A. Taylor is on a visit to
relatives in Charlotte.
Hill Li nth i cum, of Durham, was
in Oxford Wednesday.
Will Daniel, of Route, 4 was a
town visitor Thursday.
Norman F. Hobgood, of Route 4,
was in Oxford Wednesday.
Mrs. Wm. Pace is on a visit to
her daughter in Baltimore.
Philo White, Jr., of Wilton, was
on our streets Wednesday.
Fred Currin, of Route 1, was in
Oxford Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. Emma Lynch is visiting
Mrs. W. B. Bullock at Hester.
. J. G. Royster and son, of Bul
lock, were in Oxford Thursday.
Robert Burnett, of Enon section,
was a town visitor Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Johnson, of
Route 6, were in town Thursday.
Mrs. Willie Lee Currin, of Route
1, was on our streets Wednesday.
Miss Lakel and sweet little niece,
were Henderson visitors Wednesday.
Mr. M. H. Parish, of Cannady's
Mill section, was in town Thursday.
J. W. Morton and daughter, of
Route 4, were in Oxford Wednes
day. Mrs. James Horner returned a
few days ago from a visit to Rich
mond. Winfielu Taylor, of Sanford, en
joyed the week-end at his home in
Oxford .
Otho Daniel, a promising young
bachelor of Route 1, was in town
Wednesday.
Mrs. H. G. Cooper and son Wil
liams are on a visit to Miss Mollie
Horner at Valla Crucis.
Mrs. Wm. Horner, of Henderson,
is visiting her son, Mr. James W.
Horner, on Gilliam street.
Dr. J. F. Sanderford and Post
master Perguson, of Creedmoor,
were Oxford visitors Wednesday.
Mrs,. Ed. White has returned from
a visit to her daughter, Miss Hixie,
at Greensboro. She also visited
friends in Winston-Salem.
W. E. Massenburg, J. T. Size
more, Jr., Waverly Harris, W. H.
Fleming, George Dorsey and Carl
Wortham witnessed the game of
base ball in Raleigh Thursday and
also saw the destruction of News &
Observer's great plant.
News and Observer Burned.
The News and Observer's hand
some building and plant was com
pletely destroyed by fire Thursday
evening last. The mailing list and
many of the valuable records were
also lost. The fire started in the
basement and leaped up .through
elevator shaft. Temporary arrange
ments have been made for its pub
lication until a new plant can be
installed. The people not only of
the State but of the whole nation
deeply sympathize with Hon. Joe
Daniels in the great loss.
Capt. Devin a Busy Man.
Capt. W. A. Devin, who is now
on the Governor's staff, was called
to Raleigh Monday to sit on a court
martial. He returned home Tues
day antl as soon as he became set
tled rdown to business the Govenor
summoned him to Raleigh on im
portant business. In the near
future Capt. Devin, as chairman,
will sit with the Legislative branch
of the State Commission at Greens
boro and later with the Commission
in Raleigh, which will be followed
this fall or winter by the extra ses
sion of the Legislature.
WHEN THE AUTOMATIC FIRE
ALARM SOUNDS.
If Seated in the Opera House
Do Not Get
Excited.
The automatic fire alarm which
has been installed in the tower of
theOprea House, was recently heard
during the trial tests five miles
from town. It is dissimilar in tone
to any other bell in this part of the
State, and many people who heard
it for the first time were curious to
know what it was. The bell has a
soft mellow tone at distance of sev
eral hundred yards, but the sudden
ness and nearness of the clatering
sound is calculated to make one
jump. It hangs in the tower of the
Oprea House and in case of fire the
ponderous hammer is sure to fall on
the bell. If you are in the Opera
House when the alarm is sounded
do not get excited. Even if the
building is on fire it is the best
policy to keep your wits about you.
One night not long ago when the
Opera House was crowded the old
bell, which was indeed mild com
pared to the present automatic
alarm, sounded and the people be
came terror-stricken and jumped
over seats and rushed to the doors
and windows, and one poor fellow
was ready to leap to the pavement
when he was pulled back and told
that the fire was in another part
of the town. In case of fire keep
your wits about you.
Joyous Outing.
The. bright and dear children of
Mrs. A.A. Hicks' school is enjoy
ing an outing to-day, Tuesday, and
will have the time of their lives.
As the little ones are being taught
the history of the county Mrs.
Hicks could not have pick out a
more perfect day to explain to them
the unfolding of the beauties of
nature. They will visit Stem and
Duncan Springs and view the rug
ged banks of Ledge of Rock Creek
on their way home.
Baraca-Philathea Prog ram.
The following program will be
rendered at the Oxford Baptist
Church,Sunday 27th, at 3:30 P. M.
Public invited:
Song Service.
Prayer Dr. J. B. Weather spoon.
How to keep me and use me
Mrs. L. T. Pitchford.
The Pastor and Class Rev. S.
K, Philips.
Report from Convention Miss
Nuvelle O' Brian.
Helpful hints from Charlotte
Miss Pauline Howard.
Things to do Mr. D. A. Neese.
How Juniors may succeed Miss
Lillian Spencer.
Song.
How to make the class attrac
tive Miss Gertrude Powell.
Why I am a Philathea Miss
Myrtle Fagan.
My idea of a Class. Mr. C. A.
Hurst.
An Ideal President Miss lone
Yancey.
Report from Convention Miss
Bessie Howell.
Remarks at Random Hon. W.
A. Devin.
Song.
Benedi ction.
Miss Margarita Scott Dead.
Miss Margarita Scott died at
her home in Oxford Tuesday even
ing,after an illness of about a year.
The deceased was a most estimable
lady and has devoted her life to
the cause of mission duties in for
eign countries during thirty-three
years, having entered the mission
ary service of the Episcopal church
and spent many years in Africa.
Returning to her native country,
she spent four years in Florida
then came to Oxford and spent the
last four years of her life here,
where she manifested at all times,
great interest in the Episcopal
church work.
While in Africa she took charge
of a hepless negro child, who has
remained with her until her death
as a faithful servant and humble
personage in her home. This ser
vant, Dorothy, will now go, as Miss
Scott directed, to the learning of
the work, of a trained nurse at St.
Augustine school in Raleigh. Dr.
Hunter arrived Wednesday morn
ing to accompany the remains to
Raleigh for burial there. The funer
al service was held at the home at
tended by the Auxiliary of which
she was a member.
TWO FRESH COWS FOR SALE.
Apply to the DeLacroix plantation.
2t pd.
PAIR OF home raised young mules
for sale at the de Lacroix Farm lp