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SBMI-WKEKLY.
OXFORD, N. O., SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1913.
VOLUME 28. NO. 01)
DISCRIMINATING BUSINESS
1 MEN ARE. INTERESTED.
Some Plan Should Be Evolved
to Establish More
Enterprises.
Posted and discriminating busi
ness men, who are interested in
the growta of Oxford are deep
ly anxious to devise some means
whereby more new industries may
be brought to our midst. They say,
and there is substance in it, that
thpre can be no great growth until
there is a sufficiency of enterprises ,
triving employment to prospective j
pitizens
Our observation is mat a
large number of manufacturing
plants are seeking locations in the
South, and it is stated on good au
thority that more than 000 plants,
both large and small, located in
North Carolina in the last twelve
months. And another humiliating
aspect of the situation is that there
is a stream of Western and North
ern farmers daily locating in South
Carolina, Georgia and Alabama and
so few make any inqury as to Gran
ville county soil. Surely there is a
reason why we do not capture the
land hunters of the West and the
would -be investors of the North.
When the matter is thoroughly sift
ed it will be found that every en
terprise locating in the South was
superinduced by advertising mat
ter, either in magazine or pamphlet
form or otherwise.
Now that the matter has been
sifted down to bed-rock, it is high
time that the citizens of Oxford
get together and formulate plans to
induce men of means to locate and
invest their capital here. A neat
folder, setting forth our stock in
trade and distributed throughout
the West and North, would doubt
less bring results. Our Commercial
Club has such a movement on foot,
but they have not been able to get
the citizens sufficiently interested
to raise the finances to issue the
folder. This little booklet should
be issued by all means, setting forth
our stock in trade. It should tell
interested people what actually ex
ists here, and from its conclusions
one should be able to figure with a
degree of certainty as to what
should exist here; it should explant
what kind of factories would be
successful under average good man
agement. It should tell the true
condition of affairs as they exist to
day, for the truth must be told,
and the louder the better, for we
have mnay good things hidden from
the world.
They Need a Boss.
We see it stated in the papers
thai when the time came to pay the
bills in Louisburg, it was found !
that there was no money in the
treasury, though there was suppos
ed to have been a cash balance of
$5,000 The reported explanation
is that the treasurer had loaned
out the money to friends who had
failed to keep their promise to pay
it back. Louisburg needs a com
mission government about as badly
as any town the Public Ledger can
think of.
Honor Roil of Banks
Security is the foundation of
business, and we are gratified to
note the splendid showing of the
combined statements of the Na
tional Bank of Granville and the
Oxford Savings Bank and Trust Co.
as published elsewhere in this pa
per. That security is always fonnd
in the "Old Reliable."
FOR RENT At Lyons, three
horse farm well improved; two
settlements, makes fine tobacco.
Address I. C. Lyon, Stem, N. C. 3t.
THAT DWELLING ROOF Tin
shingles are the best covering I have
them. The nrice is riht. C. D. Ray.
FINE FARM FOR SALE.
Home of late J. Frank Cole, sit
uate 8 miles West of Oxford in
Walnut Grove Township, containing
400 1-2 acres of good tobacco and
grain land. Stumps removed in
most of fields for use of machinery.
Nice quantity of original growth
timber besides old field pine. House
contains 8 rooms, including kitchin
and bath room, with modern water
and sewer fixtures; g.,od buildings
for handling tobacco and grain ;two
tenant houses. Possession given
this fall or if preferred a good man
will rent next year. Sale to be
made Saturday, August 23rd, at 12
m., in front of the Court House;
will be sold in several tracts and
as a whole. Terms 1-3 cash, re
mainder one and two years. Prem
ises shown on request. For further
information address
SAM C. HOWARD,
aug.u.5t.pd Stovall, N. C.
GATHERED FROM THE TOWN
AND COUNTY
About People and Things That
Are of Interest to Our
Readers.
The old Gilliam residence is still
on the move.
It is an ill windshield that does
nobody any good.
The grading of Spring and Gil
liam street is about over.
In some runabouts two is com-
pany three are dangerous.
A bouncing young man has arriv
ed at the home of A. B. Overton.
A man is all right in his way as
long as he keeps out of your way.
Mrs. E. K. Howard is having a
new front put in her small store on
Ilillsboro street.
Note the change in the Oxford
Hardware Co's advertisement and
extend them your business.
Your attention is called to the
administratrix notice of Mrs. Emma
Cozart in another column.
The Wake county people could
not see a million dollar road bond
issue and give it a 'black eye."
Master Frank Smith was success
fully operated upon in Richmond a
few days ago for some throat trou
ble. In quoting prices of automobiles
salesmen seem to think that the
prospective bnyers carry shock ab
sorbers, The Public Ledger is informed
that Col. Roger Gregory has sold
one of his small tracts of land near
Stovall for $40 per acre.
Man who wins is an average man;
Not built on any particular plan,
Not blest with any particular luck;
Just steady, earnest, full of pluck.
Airy girl will cheerfully give up
a dollar to a fortune teller in ex
change for the information that she
is going to be married within a
year.
Public Ledger force tenders its
many thanks to Sam Daniel, the
progressive and painstaking Super
intendent of the County Home, for
two fine watermelons.
There are men in this world who
will go a part of the way with you
and then desert you to go with the
other fellow who doesn't have such
a rocky road to travel.
If we all would lay our preju
dices aside, bury the tomahawks
handles down, and unite for the
common good of Oxford it would
prove a blessing to us all. Let us
trv it
Mrs.M. P. Chamblee.who has been
at Westbrook Sanitarium, Rich
mond, for several months is geeat
ly improved and will return home
with Mr. Chamblee this Friday
evening.
Baldy Williams, the pleasant and
painstaking prescription clerk at
Lyon Drug Store, is spending a few
days at Panacea Springs, and the
veteran Dr. Frank Hancock is sub
ing for him,
The reliable First National Bank
; of Oxford makes a very excellent
midsummer statement published on
another page. This bank is wisely
and safely conducted and enjoys a
large patronage.
The many friends of Luther Rus
sell, the popular merchant of Berea,
were glad to greet him in Oxford
Wednesday, as he makes himself
scarce about Oxford since he has
been on "the carpet."
We learn that S. R. Skinner, of
Lexington, Ky., an experienced to
bacconist, will buy tobacco for the
W. A. Adams Co. on Oxford's fine
market the coming season and will
meet with a cordial welcome.
Ott Lee, one of our oldest color
ed citizens, passed away Thursday.
He was 87 years of age and had
been in bad health for more than a
TT" "1 L 4 I nV
year, we possesseu -x k.uiu uispu-
sition and everybody liked Oncle
Ott.". We trust it is well with
him.
W. A. McFarland has purchased
from John Mayes the cottage he has
occupied for several years on Asy
lum St. He is one of our progres
sive business men and we are glad
to see him acquiring property in
Oxford.
There will be a big basket pic
nic at Bullock August 23rd in the
inlerest of the farmers. Every
body invited to come and bring
something good to eat. Several
good speakers will be present Be
sure to remember the date.
Pick Out Your Man
If you desire to nominate some
of your neighbors as candidates for
the Public Ledger's Farmers prizes
why send their names in with some
votes. Let's get the wagon and
harness ball rolling good by the
middle of September. The prizes
are worth working for, as they go
with farm equipment.
Those Who Take Liberties
Municipal and county officials
grow in usefulness by experience
when they have the capacity. How
ever ,they don't even have time to
take root when new officials are put
in every year or two. After a short
experience then comes the test of
efficiency, but some seem to do their
worst the longer they serve. They
are few, of course, but they take
all sorts of liberty with an office
till they finally tire the people and
lose out in the long run. Wilming
ton Star.
Tobacco Board of Trade.
This important body met a few
days ago and discussed the best
time to open the live and high
averaged Oxford market. It was
decided to open on Monday, Sep
tember 1st, for the season which is
expected to be a live one, as there
will be great demand among our
buyersf or new crop of tobacco. The
hour of beginning sales was chang
ed from 10 o'clock to 9 o'clock in
the morning and Col. Ballou who
has had the honor of being chair
man of the sales committee for
twenty years, was continued in that
important position.
W. G. Pace, the excellent buyer
for the American Tobacco Company,
was elected president of the Board
of Trade with J. F. Meadows as
vice-president, and Marvin Minor
secretary and treasurer
Of Interest to Farmers
A large amount of the tobacco in
the county is spotting up badly,
perhaps worse this year, where we
had frequent showers, than ordi
narily when the seasons not been so
frequent, and a large amount of
this trouble is caused by the lack of
a liberal supply of potash, At the
Experiment Farm the plats without
any potash has diseased so badly
it is almost worthless, while the
plats with plenty of potash does not
show any of this disease.
As an illustratipn: One plat con
taining 400 pounds per acre of phos
phoric acid; 150 pounds per acre of
sulphate of postash, is not diseased,
but the plat next to it containing
250 pounds of dried blood and 400
pounds of acid phosphate is very
badly diseased.
On the same field where we have
reduced the potash one half the dis
ease is showing up slightly, but not
quite so badly as where we have
left out all the potash consequently
we believe a large amount of this
trouble, says Manager E. G. Moss,
is caused by a lack of a sufficient
amount of sulphate of potash.
Mr. Moss is anxious for as many
farmers as can to visit the Experi
ment Farm in the next few days
before the tobacco is cut and see
the great difference in the two plats
situated side by side. It is a most
valuable lesson and one every far
mer should learn well.
Northslde Notes.
Dr. H. E. Satterfield, of Dur
ham, was the guest of E. F. Beck
Sunday
Miss Ruth Fleming, of Stags
ville, spent the week end with Mrs.
Will Suit.
Miss Winona Suit is visiting her
grandfather, N. H. Fleming, at
Bahama.
Miss Minnie Cannady, of Dur
ham, spent the week end with Mrs.
B. E. Green.
Miss Ethel Keith has returned
from Greenville where she attended
the summer school.
Miss Bettie Green and little neice
Mary, are on a visit to Mrs. Mamie
Smith at Ridge Crest.
Stump Cash and daughter, of
Durham county, were the guests of
Dudley Cash Saturday night.
Misses Ruby and Clyde Hobgood,
of Durham, are spending the week
with their sister, Mrs. Anna Currin.
Master Willie Roycroft, of Wen
dell, who has been spending the sum
mer with his uncle, John Roycroft,
returned home Tuesday.
"We never know how fine and sweet
His mercy, till we see how those
Who stumble by the way, whose feet
Know of tener the thorns than rose
Have seen so little its grace,
Have won so little for their share,
Oh, Lord, take mine; with lifted face
I tell Thee I have much to spare !
Stem Stemmings
MissAnabel Farabow was an Ox
ford visitor Tuesday.
W. C. Stem, of Oxford Route 6,
had a tobacco barn burned Friday.
Miss Fannie Bragg, of Route 3,
is on a visit to friends at Pine Top.
H. G. Wheeler, of Route 3, spent
the week end with friends in Dur
ham. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Nance, of
Route 1, were Oxford visitors Satr
urday. Miss Ettie Washington, of Tally
Ho, is on a visit to friends in Win
ston Salem.
Miss Helen Cozart, of near Ox
ford, is visiting Misses Lillie and
Mary Cozart.
Mrs. E. A. Burton, of Winston
Salem, is on a visit to Mr. and Mrs.
J. H. . Gooch
We are sorry to learn that E. A.
Freeman, of Hester, is quite ill
with typhoid fever.
R. W. Eddins and wife, of Dur
ham, are on a visit to Mr. and Mrs.
E. P. Wheeler, of Route 1.
J. B. Mayes, traveling salesman,
spent the week end with his par
ents Mr, and Mrs. J. B. Mayes.
James Chavis, colored, of Route
1, had the misfortune to have a
barn of tobacco burned last Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Green, of
Harnett county, are on a visit to
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Green, of
Route 1.
Mrs. W. J. Cary and little daugh
ter, Theodosia, of Durham, are on
a visit to Mr. and Mrs. W .H.
Thomasson.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Overbey, of
Oxford, Route 6, were the guests
of Mr. and Mrs. F. Meadows, of
Culbreth, Sunday.
Misses Pearl Reavis and Ethel
Church, of Henderson, who have
been on a visit to Mrs. A. S. Car
rington, of Route 2, returned home
last week.
Paul North, who has been on a
visit to his parents at Jackson,
stopped over and spent Friday night
with his grand-parents Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Stem and returned to
Trinity College Saturday where
he is doing some work this sum
mer. A mule fell into a well thirty
feet deep, last week which Abner
Newton is having dug on his farm
in Tar River section. One joint of
piping had been. laid when the mule
which was hitched to a scoop ap
proached too near the edge and
tumbled in.
On Friday, August 8th, Mrs. T.
H. Stem departed this life at her
home near Willow Springs. Since
the death of her son about a year
ago she had been in failing health
and her death was not unexpected.
Previous to her marriage, she was
Miss May Lynch, of this county,
and resided in this communty until
a few years ago. She gave her
heart to God in the days of her j
youth and united with Tally Ho
Baptist church where she was a
regular attendant and consistent
member until she moved away when
she transfered he membershp to
the baptist church near Willow
springs where she held her member
shirj at the time of her death.
Grief over the death of her son had
impaired her mental faculties, and
together with a complication of
diseases hastened her premature
death at the age of fifty. The ; re
mains were brought by rail to
Hester Saturday and carried from
there to the home of her brother,
S. F. Critcher, and there taken in
charge on Sunday by R. O. W.
Winston, undertaker, of Creedmoor,
and carried to the old Stem burying
ground on Route 3, where they
werel aid to rest Sunday afternoon,
the burial services being conducted
by Mr. J. H. Stem, of Route 3.
She leaves behind a husband, T. H.
Stem, and three daughters, Mrs.
A. B. Chapel, of Willow Springs,
and two small girls to whom we
extend our sympathy in this hour
of grief.
Bull-Frogs on Main Street
It would prove a good thing for
the health of Oxford if some one
would interest themselves enough
to have the back lots in the busi
ness blocks and the streets well
cleaned up. It is a humiliating
fact that bull-frogs were born 'and
have their habitation in one of the
mud holes on Main street in the
business center of Oxford, and like
the frogs of Pasquetank they can
be seen jumping from bank to bank.
SOME YOU KNOW AND SOME
YOU DO NOT KNOW.
Personal items About Oxford
Folks and Their Friends
In General.
John Webb was in Raleigh Wed
nesday. C. A. Wortham is on a visit to
Oxford.
Ed Pruitt, Route 4, was in town
Saturday.
Ed Hunt, of Route 5, was in Ox
ford Saturday.
J. T. Daniel, of Route 1, was in
town Thursday.
B. M. Caldwell was a Raleigh
visitor Wednesday.
John Morton, of Bullock, was in
town Wednesday.
A. E. Bobbitt, of Wilton, was in
town Thursday.
M. L. Oakley, of Providence, was
in town Thursday.
B. L Breed love, of Route 5, was
in town Wednesday.
Leonard Mitchell was at Buffalo
Springs Wednesdday.
H. A. McGhee, of Route 7, was
in town Thursday.
J. S. .Bradsher spent a few days
in Roxboro this week.
George Parham, of Route 5, was
a town visitor Saturday.
Miss Eliza Pool, of Raleigh, is
visiting friends in Oxford.
William Farabow, of Hester, was
a town visitor Thursday.
J. D. Haithcock, of Hester sec
tion, was in Oxford Thursday.
Zack Allen, of Providence, was
an Oxford visitor Wednesday.
Waldo V. Andraws, of Maine, is
visiting Dr. Sails near Oxford.
Prof. H. W. Baker, of Stovall,
was on our streets Wednesday.
J. T. and Walter Averett, of
Route 6, were in town Saturday.
Billie Williamson, of Northern
Granville, was in town Thursday.
Abner Newton and B. F. Currin,
of Route 2, were in town Thursday.
Abner Overton, of Cannady's
Mill, was a town visitor Wednes
day. Henry Osborn has returned from
a most delightful sojourn at More
head City.
Presley Davis and Miss Annie
Davis, of Stovall, were in Oxford
Thursday.
W. W. Wheelers and J. W.
Loyd, of Grissom, were in Oxford
Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Grissorrv,
of Route 3, were Oxford visitors
Wednesday.
Miss Belle Cooper has returned
home from spending the summer
at Waynes vi lie.
James Floyd has returned from
a visit to friends at Enfield and his
aged father near Roxborx).
Alf Hobgood has returned to Ox
ford and will be with Leggeit &
Myers the comming season.
Harvy Renn, who is spending the
summer near Providence, spent the
week end at his home in Oxford.
Dr. Nick Cannady returned to
Hampton, Va,. Wednesday after a
two weeks stay at his old home in
Oxford.
Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Bonitz
have returned to Chicago as" Mrs.
'Josiah Cannady continues to slowly
improve.
Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Cooper and
daughter, Miss Allene ,of Fayette
ville, were the guests of Col. and
Mrs. W. B. Ballou Tuesday night
en route to their home from Buffalo
Springs.
New School Building
H. F. Wendle, architect, has lo
cated in Oxford and has an office
upstairs in the Mitchell building.
He wdll have charge of the con
struction of the large 3-story build
ing to be erected for boys by the
Mary Potter School Board of Trus
tees. The building will be 110x51
feet and will stand near the Girl's
building.
FOR RENT Fine tobacco and
grain farm. New buildings, good
location. Apply to T. Lanier.
JUST RECIEVED a new lot of
bicycle and all kinds of bicycle
goods and tires Prices made right
at R. W. Brown Co., Bicycle store,
34 Main street. 4t
tHE POWER OF CONCENTRATION.
It Requires Both Harmony
and Concentration to
Build a City.
Concentration of eff ort and atten
tion to details are two of the prime
elements in the success of any enter
prise. The man who starts out,
directs his efforts to one end and
watches that business like the
mother hen her chicks will achieve
success nine times out of ten. By
concentration, the weakest living
creature can accomplish something,
whereas the strongest, by dispers
ing his strength, may fail to ac
complish anything. The drop of
water by continual falling bores its
way through the hardest rock. The
hasty torrent rushes over with a
hideous uproar and leaves no trace
behind. Powder unconfined spends
itself in the air, but confine it in a
ten-inch gun and it hrows a several
hundred pound shell a half mile and
pierce the side of a vessel covered
with 1G inches of steel. Men of a
single purpose have changed the
world, whie others without a de
finite aim have worked hard all
their lives only to tear down with
one hand by diffusiveness what the
other built up. Scientists claim
that if 50 acres of sunshine could
be concentrated it would run all of
the machinery of the world. The
sun will, perhaps, shine out on the
earth forever and never set any
thing on fire. But focus its rays
with a sun glass and it will melt
solid granite and change a diamond
into vapor. If all the business men
of Oxford would harmonize and
concentrate their energies to build
up our town what a glorious city
Oxford would be.
Philathea Meeting
At their regular business meet
ing Tuesdav afternoon, August 12,
the Philathcas elected the follow
ing officers: Miss Hettie Lyon,
president; Mrs. Ernest Bragg, first
vice-president; Miss Edna White,
second vice-president; Miss Ger
trude Powell, treasurer; Miss Car
rie Fuller, teacher with Mrs. Sam
Averette, as assistant; Mrs. Leak
Peace secretary with Miss Lillian
Spencer as assistant. A beautiful
gold brooch pin was presented to
Miss Lyon as a token of the appre
ciation of the class for long con
tinued efficient, unselfish, conse
crated service to us. Delicious two
course refreshments were served by
several members of the class as host
esses. In spite of the drizzling
rain forty-six members were
present. Mrs. L. F. Smith, Misses
Willie Lee Thomas and Burdette
Joyner, three of our members, who
were recently operated on at St.
Lukes Hospital, Richmond, were
reported in fine condition. Miss
Sula Broughton, our class nurse, re
ported a week old little Baraca at
the home of Mrs. Bailey Murray,
one of our loyal members. L. P.
Death of J. W. Wheelers.
We were indeed sorry to learn
from M. W. WTieelers, who was in
town Thursday, of the death of our
old friend, J. W. Wheelers, which
occurred at his home near Grissom
on the Dth inst. after an illness of
several weeks. He was 59 years of
age and devoted member of the
Mary's Chapel Baptist Church for
30 years and a member of the great
Masonic Fraternity for 28 years.
He was looked upon as one of the
best men in that section of Gran
ville, and highly esteemed by all
who knew him. He leaves a family
and many relatives to mourn his
death. His old pastor, Rev. J. W.
Atkinson, conducted his funeral in
the presence of about 300 neigh
bors, friend and brethren. After
the funeral services were over the
Masons took charge of the remains
and consigned them to the tomb to
await the resurrection morn. May
he rest in Peace.
Read Public Ledger Blind
folded. A mental feat that has never been
accomplished by any mind reader
or mentalist, is the reading of a
newspaper without seeing it and
while blindfolded and yet this is
what Ita, the young California girl
who is this week performing at the
Opera House, will attempt to do
this Friday night,
Why Not Clean Up.
It would prove a great benefit to
the health of Oxford if some one
would see that the lots in the rear
of the business houses and other
buildings were cleaned up as they
are getting in a filthy condition
along with some of the streets.
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