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DGER BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM I'l'BLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF STATE. THIS SECTION OF STATE. AND OXFORD BANNER. mm Slogan-' Oxford Offers Opportunities for Mokes Schools Health. Factories and Prosperity." S K Nil-WEEKLY. OXFORD, N. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1913. VOLUME 2S.NO. OS PUBLIC LE BUSINESS WILL SOON OPEN UP STRONG. Shed Your Old Stock and Get Ready For the Large Tobacco Crop. You sell dry goods, not ice cream and soft drinks, and so you expect trade to be somewhat quiet during the hot weather. But determine to Ret your full share of what business is to be had during- the dull season, is the best advice we have for the merchants. Don't let your place of business take on a drowsy look with the passing of August, nor allow the public to form the opinion that your store is taking a long summer siesta. Don't lower your standards of neatness and order as the hot days go by. Let things continue to have the smart, up-to-date look which we trust has been maintained at all times. Push the sale on your strictly summer lines. You can't sell sheer dress fabrcis and fans in November. While your volume of business will not be as large during August as during April and May, it is just as important to attend to what there is. As the season advances, on no account fail to make a thorough clean-up on your hot weather goods. Carrying over any considerable amount of this stock until another year all that kind of thing be longs to the methods of a past age. The indifferent Citizen All towns have the indifferent citizen. The man who wants to be a valuable citizen has no right to be indifferent to movements of progress in his town or county. Ox ford has a few of just such indi viduals. It reflects on the pro gressiveness of a people for them to fold their arms and either neg lect or refuse to take a hand in pushing their county or town to the front. One of the character istics of the drone, which is a bet ter name for the indifferent citizen is to sit idly by and take all that is coming his way and condemn all that does not benefit him directly. When strangers note the backwardness of a town they attribute it right away to the people, and the fault finding old drones are an abomina tion to any community. The less we have of them the better off we are. Rawii ns-Keel There took place in Clayton Monday afternoon, August 4, the wedding of a popular young couple, Mr. A. G. Rawlins, of Raleigh and Miss Bertha Keel of Clayton. The wedding was a home event and took place at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Julian Keel. The bride s a most charming and attractive young woman, with many friends, among these a large num ber in Raleigh where she has spent some time. The bridegroom, Mr. A. G. Rawlins, the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Rawlins, is a native of Oxford and held in hign esteem. He is now with the United States Government postal service, in the transfer department at the Union depot in Raleigh, and has a large circle of friends. The Public Ledger extends congratulations to the hap py young couple. Going North Every train going north for the next two weeks will be crowded with merchants on their way to lay in their fall and winter stocks. Some of the Oxford merchants have already gone "and others will folr low in due season. Mr. Frank Bla lock, of the Long Company, left for the northern markets Monday and will be joined by Mr. Josh King in JNew York later in the week. The approaching busy season robs Ox lord ot one of her very fine young ladies Miss Lizzie Gooch, who left Monday via Norfolk and Old Bay Line for Baltmore, Phila delphia and New York. After a critical examination of the prevail ing fashions in the large millinery establishments in these cities Miss Gooch will accept a position as head milliner in one of the large cities of Virginia or North Carolina, and it is gratifying to know that she will not accept the flattering posi tion tendered in Philadelphia and be so tar trom home. Miss Gooch is an artist of rare ability, and whenever she sees a Paris model or picture hat that strikes her fancy she makes a sketch of it in a jiffy, color and all, and reproduces it at her pleasure. SMALL BROOCH LOST An ob long brooch with, coral ornament on the street Sunday. Finder re warded by returning same to C. H Easton. 2t. GATHERED FROM THE TOWN AND COUNTY About People and Things That Are of Interest to Our Readers. The smell of gas is still abroad in town. The Graham & Devin law offices are about completed. There a plenty of watermelons on the market these days. Read change in advertisement of Oxford Ice Co. on another page. Oxford and vicinity was visited Monday afternoon by a fine rain. The luscious scuppernong will be ripe about the first of September. A. W. Graham, Trustee, adver tises land for sale in another col umn. Pleased to state that the improve ments to our warehouses will soon be completed. Let every man in Oxford ask him self what he can do for the progress of Oxford. Miss Emily Freeman, who has been sick, is out again to the pleas ure of her friends. Miss Willie Lee Thomas returned yesterday from Richmond much im poved in health to the pleasure of her many friends. R. T. Crews, of Tar River, has produced the largest squash ever seen in Oxford, and we hope he will save it for the County Fair. We are glad to learn that the Ideal Manufacturing Co. is now shipping large quantities of Dust Down, re puted to be the best made. The Oxford Furniture Co. is re ceiving orders every day for their popular styles of enameled furni ture and are busy filling them. Your attention is called to the sale of land advertised in another part of this paper by Wm. C. and Richard H. O'Briant, Executors. The gregarious and social habits of men cause them to gather in a bunch somewhere, even it is where refreshing cold drinks are served. The next big thing to be pulled off in Oxford is the opening of the best and most reliable tobacco mar ket in the State on September 1st. The men who are getting along best are those who keep right on working for a living. They make more than the men who think they can get something for nothing. Court adjourned Saturday and quietness reigns supreme around the Court House, while Clerk of the Court Shotwell is busy closing up the business of the Court. j Rumor has it thatjGraham Alex ander, the negro who killed Jim Jones, was seen in town the night he died, and of course his friends saw that no officer would get on his track. The change in the offices with a view to convenience and the re painting of the woodwork of the Owen warehouse has made a decid ed improvement in the looks of this house. One of Oxford's needs is an alert squad of industrial scouts not grow lers and kickers. They always go in advance of an army of industrial workers.' Get factories. Factories get people and pay rolls. Married at 11 :30 p. m. at manse, Jas. R. Callis, of Richmond, and Miss Mamie D. Parham, of Gran ville county, were accompanied by brides family and left Sunday for Richmond, the groom's home. The County Commissioners have awarded the contract for the erec tion of the modern buildings on the new site of the County Home to J. H. Campbell, and we feel sure the work will be, well done. The Granville Grays will return this Wednesday morningfrom camp and we trust Capt. Stem and his manly boys had a pleasant stay in the land of mosquitoes and sand flies. We want mo& good roads in old Granville and 20,000 more settlers occupying her lands. Our future prosperity and progress depends upon both. Good roads are sure to attract homeseekers. Don't for get that. It is easy to see that sanitary laws are indispensable for commu nity good and safety, and in order to get the greatest benefit from them, we should all lend our best support to their enforcement and be ready to obey them all the time. One of Our Best. It was Oscar Breedlove, the affa ble and popular clerk in Landis & Easton's dry goods departments for many years, who. purchased the interest of Morris Green in the Perkinson-Green Co. He is one of our best young business men and the Public Ledger predicts for him a successful business career. Entertains Whist CBuh. The hospitable B. M. Caldwell, of Carolina Lodge, royally enter tained the Gentlemen's Whist Club of Oxford, along with a few invi ted guests including Judge Connor. Saturday evening. The principle menu was delicious barbecue and brunswick stew, and Mr. Caldwell as is his wont proved a most de lightful host. En Virginia. Mrs. Sallie Abbitt and her sons, Edward- and William, have joined Miss Frances and Julian at Appo mattox, Va. , the old ancestrial home of Mrs. Abbitt's people and will spend some time there with rela tives, fishing and boating and enjoy ing the hospitality of the gentle people of one of the chosen spots of old Virginia, Representative Flood and other noted families as near neighbors. A Feast and a Farm. Lomie Smith, the genial pro prietor of the Exchange Hotel, pro cured a half dozen choice Granville county watermelons last Saturday and placed them on ice for twenty four hours, and at 4 :30 Sunday af ternoon he cut them open, rang the bell and invited everybody present to join in the feast. An old fellow from way up in Canada, who never tasted a melon before, said that he never saw anything come as near "striking the spot" on a hot day, and he at once began to inquire the price of Granville county land, and learning that it can be had for $200 an acre he swore that he would never return to Canada to live. Granville Forest Survey. The U. S. Forest Service work ing in co-operation with the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey is continuing the work of se curing a complete Forest descrip tion of North Carolina by regions. Mr. T. V. Keefe of the Forest Ser vice has been spending two weeks in Granville county securing esti mates of the amount and kinds of standing timber. When all of the counties of the Piedmont Region have been covered, the results of the survey will be published in bulletin form by the StateGeological and Economic Survey giving com plete descriptions and estimates of the timber by counties, also recom mendations how to secure increased yield and better timber from areas now in forest growth. Your Picture on a Screen. The exhibition of the scenes in and around Oxford drew large crowds to the Opera House Friday and Saturday nights last where they were thrown upon the screen. A snap shot of Chief Willi ford, pac ing his beat in front of the Court House, minus a coat and "billy," was cause for an uproar. The best picture shown was that of our two large fine fire horses and their handsome driver. There were several pictures taken of the recent Farmers' picnic at the Fair Grounds, in which we discern, many familiar faces from many parts of the county. The pictures of each of the ap proaches leading to the Monument, taken on a busy day, makes an in teresting scene. Taken as a whole, the local pictures is a popular fea ture of the moving picture show and brings one very close to home. Wherein We Rest Our Case. The Charlotte Observer says: "Every county in the State is sing ing a song of rejoicing. From the reorts in the papers we doubt if North Carolina ever knew a year of more bountiful crops. Cotton is blooming and not only that the wheat crop was the best harvested in years, the oat crop was fine, there never was so great a crop of corn and in the tobacco belt, which has been extended into some of the central counties, the plants are not only doing finely, but the market holds out promises of higher prices than have been prevailing. While we give thanks to God for these conditions, we must throw the re sponsibility on the Democratic party. These big crops were plant ed, produced and harvested under a Democratic Administration, and it is only fair that the party be given credit for it. Death of Mrs. Norwood. Mrs. Lucy Norwood, age about 70 years, died at the home of R. I. Daniel Saturday evening after a long illness with cancer of the stomach. She was the daughter of the late Wm. Critcher, and leaves behind a number of brothers and sisters to mourn her death. The funeral took place Sunday after noon and the interment was in the old family graveyard near Enon. In Camp. Rev. S. K. Phillips, his wife and Miss Evelyn Howell have left town to camp for a while on the York River opposite historic old York town. The Oxford party will be joined by a party from Richmond and take the Baltimore boat at West Point on Wednesday. Mr. Phillips will be away from town for three Sundays, but the union ser vice will be held in his church next Sunday at 8:15 p. m. A Pleasant Retreat The cornfields of old Granville was never more g'orious. To enjoy them to the full, pluck a good sized watermelon and work your way in until about the center of the big field. Somehow, no matter how hot it may be elsewhere, among the rows of tasseled.and silkened corn it is always cool; and there is al ways a breeze: a soft little breeze that fluttering along starts a de lightful rustle through the ranks of green. We love the sensation that steals over us as we sit hidden away there munching the melon, eyes rested by the outlook of living green walls; senses lulled and charmed by that gentle, all-pervad- ing rustle. We remember as a mere child the happy hours of July and August spent. among the corn rows, enjoying for the first time these same pleasures that will never grow old to us. in the Arms of Jesus. Sometimes in the April-kissed springtime, the little flower we welcome as the snow-drop, droops and dies, but its delicate face has inspired us to hope, and perfumed our life with thoughts of purity. It was even so with the infant son, the precious bud of humanity that came to the home of Mr.- and Mrs. Kendal Street of our town. The sunshine of love could not warm his life nor the affection of parenthood beguile him from drooping. His breath went out Monday morning like the exhalation of a sweetly fra grant minion of the woodlawn and in his stead was left only a holy and beautiful memory a memory that will last and sanctifv as long as parental existence. "Sleep on in thy beauty By sorrow unblighted By sin undefiled. Like the bird of the ark Thou hast flown to thy rest From this wild sea of strife. But laden with golden wheat.' Deep sympathy is expressed for the grief -stricken parents. The funeral and burial will occur this Tuesday afternoon from the home on Main street at 5 o'clock and the interment will be in Elm wood Cemetery. The man with slit trousers isdif ferent. He don't care to be seen in public. Nominations in Farmers Contest. The following farmers have been nominated in tne Public Ledger's Farmers Contest: SALEM TOWNSHIP. Roy Crews 800 SASSAFRAS FORK TOWNSHIP J. E. Frazier 500 Geo. Royster... . 500 OAK HILL TOWNSHIP. J. S. Watkins 500 WALNUT GROVE TOWNSHIP. W. R. Williams , .' 500 Bennie Currin 500 TALLY HO TOWNSHIP. Carl Piper 500 P. L. Thomasson 500 DUTCH VILLE TOWNSHIP. W. H. Daniel 500 J. H. Perry 500 BRASSFIELD TOWNSHIP. Otis Jenkins 500 Will Dixon 500 FISHING CREEK TOWNSHIP. B. R. Pitts ,. ... 500 Now is the time to take ad vantage of this great opportu nity and help your farmer friend win a prize. SOME YOU KNOW AND SOME YOU DO NOT KNOW. Persona! Items About Oxford Folks and Their Friends In General. C. A. Jordan spent the week end n Durham. Sam Jones, of Culbreth, was in Oxford Monday. Harry Williams left Monday for Buffalo Springs. Will Howard, of Route 4, was in Oxford Saturday. Robt. Adcock, of Oak Hill, was in town Saturday. B." R. Pitts, of Route 2, was on our steets Saturday. Miss Ethel Clement, of Route 1, was in town Monday. Will Morton, of Route 4, was a own visitor Saturday. A. B. Howard, of Route 4, was pn our streets Saturady. C. H. Parham returned Saturday rom a visit to Greenville. Gen. B. S. Royster spent Monday and Tuesday at Camp Glenn. Miss Nett Gregory is having a good time at Buffalo Springs. Frank Dorsey, of Florida, is on a visit to his old home near town. Sam Watkins returned Saturday from a visit to Buffalo Junction. Miss Hixie White has returned irom a visit to iriends in (jreens- xro. Postmaster C. D. Osborn spent a few days the past week at Buffalo Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Lucius Currin and children of Wilton, visited Buffalo Sunday. Miss Fannie Gregory left yester day to spend a while at Elerbe Springs. Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Jones spent he week end with relatives in Henderson. Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Long and daughter, of Route 5, were in Ox- ord Saturday. W. R. Williams and son, of Walnut Grove township, were in town Saturday. Will Tom Cannady and Tommie Howell will leave today for a visit to Atlantic City. Mr. and Mrs J. A. Fisher, of Richmond, are visiting Mrs. Louis de Lacroix near town. Misses Blanche and Lola Adcock, of Route 5, were among the Ox ford visitors Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. T. Lanier and Mas ter Roger left Monday for a short sojourn at Buffalo Springs. Mr. and Mrs. W. Z. Mitchell are numbered among the pleasant guests at Buffalo Springs. Mr. and Mrs. W. T, Yancey and son returned yesterday rrom a week's visit to relatives in Person county. Miss Susie Hines who has been visiting Miss Irene Hines on Ral eigh street returned to her home in Milton Saturday. Judge George Connor and family left Oxford Sunday morning for Roxboro where the Judge is hold ing Court this week. Senator A. A. Hicks is listening to what the "wild waves are say ing" at Atlantic City, and we hope he will have a good time. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. White, Mr. and Mrs. Luther White and Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Turner were at Buffalo Springs Sunday. Mrs. E. T. White, Misses Helen and Edna White and Carrie Harris have returned from a delightful trip to Asheville and Waynesville. Mrs. Otho Lyon and two children arrived in Oxford Monday night from Oklahoma on a visit to Mr and Mrs. J. A. Taylor on Raleigh street. Mrs. W. B. Smoot and children after spending a month with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Cheat ham, left for her home in Salisbury Monday. The many friends of Mrs. T. B. Crawford, of Winston-Salem, will be glad to know that she is visit ing Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Cheatham for a month. Ernest Taylor, Frank Spencer, W. D. Rives, Gordon Hunt, Vasser Melichampe, Dr. Nick Cannady and Capt. C. D. Elmore were at i Buffalo Springs Sunday. SECOND DAY OF FAIR WILL BE "OXFORD DAY." Enthusiasm Manifested on Every Hand for Success of the County Fair. At a meeting of the Merchants' Association, held Monday evening, it was decided to close all stores in Oxford from 11 to 3 o'clock on the second day of the Fair. Other busi ness houses, factories, etc., are ex pected to close during the same hours, thus affording everyone an opportunity to turn out and cele brate "Oxford Day." The farm ers of Granville county, as well as the business men of Oxford, are unanimous in the opinion that the Fair to be held in October next will far surpass all previous efforts. The premium list is very attractive and will bring out the very best of everything produced in the county. Everybody is looking forward to the annual event with pleasure. Sweet Potato Blooms. Prof. J. C. Horner is not only one of N.orth Carolina's finest educators, but a good farmer. He expects to raise a 1000 bushels of the famous Nancy Hall sweet pota toes this season, which aie now coming in. We did not know be fore yesterday that sweet potato vines bloomed, but Prof. Horner showed us a vine with a cluster of purple blooms on it. Rare Musical Treat. On Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock the people of Oxford are invited to enjoy a musiical at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Cooper. They will have with them at that time as guests Mrs. Simmermon and her daughter, Miss Katherine Sim mermon, of Virginia, both of whom are such rare musicians. The en tertainment is for the benefit of St. Stephens Reredos fund, for which the guild is working so faithfully. Miss Eva Minor has kindly consented too add to the attractions of the occasion by ren dering a few vocal selections. We regret that the excellent program came in too late for publication. Baraca Class Entertains. One evening recently the Metho dist Baracas gave a most delightful reception to the Senior Philatheas of their church. The lawn in front of the Lyon Memorial building was effectively lighted by japanese lan terns while palms, ferns and bloom ing plants adorned the interior of the building. A speech of welcome was made by Mr. Jordan, with other speeches by Mr. Neese and Mr. John Hester. Miss Hettie Lyon, President of the Philatheas, grace fully responded to these speeches of hospitality. Recitations and songs together with conversation among those present rendered the evening very merry and enjoyable. Most tempting refreshments were served by the Baracas themselves. At about 10:30 we disbanded with a feeling that the Baracas are ideal hosts. P. Interesting Young Men. Messrs. J. du P. Oothmizen, P. Koch and W. Worrall, of Africa, are guests of the Exchange Hotel. They are government students sent to America to study general agri cultural conditions with special reference to tobacco and cotton. They are of English parentage, highly educated and are a fine set of young men. They have been in the United States for five years and will return to Africa this fall. They report directly their findings to General Botha, Prime Minister of South Africa, who is largely re sponsible for the agricultural awak ening in his country. Mr. Koch, the most talkative of the young gentlemen, is of noble birth. He states that there are about 7,000, 000 pounds of tobacco raised in Af rica. His government, he says, now employs five Amercan tobacco experts. Tobacco, he says, thrives very nicely in Africa in an altitude any where from 3,000 to 7,000 feet above sea level, and he sees no rea son why they cannot raise it in abundance. The young men are in our midst primarily to study the light type of tobacco and the pro cess of curing it These young men have traveled all the way from California through the Southern States and speak of the hospitality shown them by the Southern peo ple, and they think the world and all of Superintendent Moss, of the Experimental Station. FOR RENT Fine tobacco aw" grain farm. New buildings, goo location. Applv to T. LANIER 2t.lw.
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