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P 1 1 R I IP Cm, my JLJ J p :Jy ii i, V: i- ft- EVERYBODY. COME TO THE GRANVILLE COUNTY FAIR, OCTOBER 1 5th AND 1 VOLUME 28. COMMISSIONERS MEET. JURORS DRAWN FOR NO VEMBER TERM New Roads and Roads Or dered Worked and Bills Ordered Paid This body met on Monday, October 6, with B. I. , Breedlove acting chairman, J. N. Tilley, Z. W. Allen and C. N. Floyd. It was ordered that $2,000 be paid Dr. Hill as soon as the finances of the county would permit for building road near Virginia line. Mary McGhee was- put on outside pauper list at $1.00 per month. The following jurors were drawn for November term of court: First Week A. A. Bullock, C. P. Wheeler, A. D. Pitts, S. A. Mitchell, W. J. Currin, W. D. Vaughan, E. T. Husketh, J. B. Adcock, G. F. Downey, J. W. Mitchell Jr., H.P.Webb, W. H. Morton, W. T. Wilkerson,' L. G. Puckett, H. A. Strother, W. T. Hunt, J. W. Crabtree, P. B. Evans, E. G. Moss, Richard Wortham, J. O. Dean, F. G. Dickerson. J. T. Gooch, J. M. Baird, B. D. Eakes, A: H. Powell, A.T.Williams, H. C. Currin, K. T. Blackwell, J. A. Dean. 8. E. Currin, A. B. Chappell, R. G. Stem, H. C. Pearson, H. T. Hobgood. Second Week. H. C. Milton, W. J. Clement, M. P. Chamblee, J. I. Stegall, L. G. Blalock, C. B. Adams, E. G. Hobgood, R. C. Preddy, W. G. Dickerson. W. F. Dement, L. A. Veazey, W. A. Slaughter, S. P. Mangum, W. W. Brummitt, Wil liam Faucett, -J. L. .Tingen, A. F. Dickerson. , Ordered that the road in front of Elijah Currin, known as the Stovall road, be opened according to survey, provided it does not cost the county over $10 for land. Ordered that Mrs. Ann Briggs be put on the outside pauper list at $1.00 per month. R. H. O'Brient was furnished six joint of 12 inch pipe to be put in road at no expense to county. " Ordered that a road be opened from Lee Minor's, Mrs. Bettie Stem, W. J. Adcock, W. R. Gooch, E. R. Crews, R. G. Stem and C. F. Burnett, provided it will not cost the county anything. - Ordered that Coley Daniel be put on outside pauper list at $1.00 per month. Ordered that the matter of Stephen Jones in regard to listing of land be referred to Gen. B. S. Royster and A. A. Hicks. Ordered that Sher i ff S C. Hobgood have phone booth put in his office not to cost over $12 or $15. Ordered that the hands on the Creedmoor and Felllowship road be allowed to open it up according to the survey already made. Carolina Power Company was allowed $40 rebate on property list ed. A Close Call A representative of the Thornhi 11 Wagon Company, accompanied - by Sam Webb, were touring the county Monday in a specially constructed automoblie, distributing advertis ing literature and tacking up signs. Out at Gela the machine turned turtle and pinioned the representa tive's head to the ground. Mr. Webb called for help and the young man was taken from beneath the car unhurt save a slight bruise. A good Thing Some weeks ago we inserted a small advertisement for Dr. B. Holly Smith, of Baltimore, and the following letter to the Public Ledger will explain itself- ' 'Thank you so much for your efforts to secure me a dog. There are evidently a great many dogs in North Carolina and your paper must have a wide circulation. If all of your advertisers get such results as 'I have, it. must"; be .-a 'very-valuable advertising medium. Thank you ' very much. Very sincerely yours, DR B. HOLLY SMITH." OUR stores will be closed Satur day, October 11th on account of hol iday. Will open Saturday evening at 6 P. m. COHN & SON, " The Leader. SHORT LOCAL PICK-UPS GATHERED FROM THE TOWN AND COUNTY About People and Things That Are of Interest to Our Readers. You are asked to read the admin strator's notice of C. A. Stovall on last page. Isaac Breedlove, who has been very sick, we are glad to iearn is some better. . If you wish to buy good Harnett county lands read advertisement on another page. L. T. Evans and family are now occupying the improved Johnson residence on College street. "Have you a little fairy in your home?" If so, do not fail to enter it in the Better Baby Contest! The consumer pays all the freight. Excessive intra-State rates especial ly burden the farmers of the State. The Ladies of Episcopal Church expect to hold their Annual Baazar on the 19th and 20th of November. We aie now enjoying Indian sum mer" with beautiful moonlight nights and lovers are in their glory. Be sure and read the important change in the advertisement of the National Bank of Granville on an other page. The friends of Eugene Lewellyn, a former resident of Oxford, will regret to learn that he is critically ill in Asheville. Your attentson is called to the sale of land advertised on last page by B. S. Royster and W. H. Lyon, Jr., Commissioners.- There will be a meetiug of the King's Daughters at the home of Mrs. C. G. Elliott this Wednesday morning at 11 oclock. The Shakespeare Club met at the hospitable home of Mrs. J. A. Niles Saturday afternoon and enjoyed a very entertaning meeting. .Judge W. A. Devin finished a two weeks term of court at Durham Friday and spent the week-end at home. He commenced a two weeks term at Graham Monday. Friends in Oxford have received the announcement of the death of Mrs. A. E. Taylor, of Easton, Md., mother of Mrs. J. Locke Erwin of Concord, which occurred at her home in Maryland after a long ill ness. We are requested by Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Adcock, of Cornwall, to re turn their sincere thanks to their neighbors and friends for their acts of kindness jand . sympathy during the sickness and death of their lit tle son. C. H. Parham returned Saturday from Canada by way of Niagara Falls and New York City. He stop ped over in the latter City to see his brother Frank. He was pleas ed with Canada, but found nc place as good as old Oxford. When you have a little item, SEND IT iN. : No time like the present to begin; We'll appreciate it too Just like we always do If you'll promptly send your little item in. - The Oxford Camp of Woodmen of the World will unveil a monument to the late A. S. Davis at the fam ily graveyard near the home of Mrs. Ann Davis, on Sunday, Oct. 12th, at 1 o'clock. The public cordially invited to attend. The Public Ledger is the only twice a-week paper published in this terxitory. The people believe in it as 41 new, yearly subscribers were sent in Saturday and Monday. You can get the paper now at the low price of $1 a year. ' - ". Dr. J. P. Stedman and daughter, Miss Laura, were called to Fayette vi He. to attend the funeral of Mr'. Hall, a brother-in-law of the doc tor, who was suddenly taken sick in Raleich a few days ago, and died soon after reaching his home in Fayetteville. ' 'r PUBLISHED TWICE-A-WEEK OXFORD, N. Q, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 8, 1913. THE TEACHERS MEETING ADDRESSED BY DR. J. A. MORRIS. Miss Shotwell Discussed the Problem of Community Interest. Owing to the inconvenient train schedule from the southern part of the county, it has been arranged to hold the meeting for the ccounty teachers at three places instead of calling all to Oxford. A group of seventeen teachers can easily reach Stem, and about twenty find it more convenient to go to Creed moor, so those points have been designated as the meeting places for the teachers in the southern part of the county. The others will meet in Oxford. The first of these meetings was held at Stem last Friday at 2 o'clock, Oxford Saturday morning at 11 o'clock and Creedmoor Tues day at 2 o'clock. At all of these meetings practically the same pro grams were carried out. Miss Shot well discussed the problem of get ting the community interested in the school and emphasised the need of greater skill in teaching the pri mary grades. She especially, dwelt on the importance of paying mdre attention to reading. She also spoke of the plan of having a larger school exhibit at the county fair. Dr. Morris took up the question of teaching agriculture in the schools. He showed the necessity of teaching country children more about those things that were right at their doors and had a bearing on their occupation. He insisted that it is no more difficult and im practical for a lady teacher to teach agriculture than it is for her to teach geography or history. He brought into the room and used to illustrate his talk a number of plants and weeds that were familiar to most of those present. He promised to go to the schools and help to get this work started and also insisted that each teacher should make some preparation to teach this subject. The county superintendent led in a discussion of the compulsory at tendance law and other matters of the business side of the school work. The first book in the reading circle, "Country Life and the Country School," was distributed to the teachers. Each . teacher of the county is expected to take the Jour nal of Education and read several books prescribed for professional improvement. ; Bargain Sale Still On Cohn & Son big money , saving bargains is still going on. They claim to give you better values for every dollar spent with them than any other store in Oxford. Further more they can point with pride, to a host of people who know from ex perience thattheir claims are con siderable more than mere advertis ing talk. Cohn Son's great bar gains on last page speak for them selves ; they are proof what they say. Crap Shooting Messrs A. Williford, Frank Spen cer . and Tom Poythress learned Sunday morning that a game of crap was in full swing in a house near the Southern passenger station and soon surrounded the house. Surie enough the game was going on, and when they knocked on the door Ely Hester, Tom and Jewell Harris, all colored, jumped up as soon as the'door was opened. Kly Hetser concluded he would take a leaving, with Frank Spencer right after him, who over hauled Ely in Elm wood Cemetery and brought him back and the three were march ed up town to the lock-uy. FOR SALE Two well bred colts, 2 yers old, ready for work. . Bar gain for quick buyer. ' , BEN. K. LASSITER. FOR RENT Desirable ; tobacco and grain larm. New. buildings. Apply to T. LANIER. o-8-4t. FOR SALE One fresh young jersey cow, also fine lot of pigs and shoats. Apply at DE LA CROIX Farm. - ' ' 2tpd WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS. SUPPLY AND DEMAND. NEITHER HAS REACHED ITS LIMIT Granville Tobacco is Equivo lent to the Coin of the Realm. One of the most perplexing ques tions the farmers have to deal with is that of over-production. Discuss ing the situation from the view point of the tobacco grower we can say with a degree of certainty that there is no danger of an over-production of the bright type of Gran ville tobacco. It'is true that there are a number of tobacco growers scattered over the four quarters of the globe, but the tobacco produced in Granville is in a class to itself. Our methods of raising and curing tobacco is studied in all parts of the tobacco prodcing world, but there is something in the air and soil of old Granville that precludes compe tition. The world is getting too big for anybody to understand the whole world of one commodity, but there is one thing certain, the Granville tobacco growers need not worry about the question of demand and supply. As far as the world's de mand and Granville's production is concerned, neither has not yet reached anything like the limit. The price of certain grades of to bacco do move up and down, but this can be accounted for by the difficulties encountered by the man ufactures and the work of specula tors, but the better grades on the Oxford . market is as solid as the proverbial bushel of wheat which our forefathers established as the equivolent of the coin of the realm. The imperial edict depriving the Chinaman of his opium will tax the tobacco growers of the world to their uttermost to supply the de mand should the Celestiasl turn to tobacco as a stimulant. Improving Church The Ladies Aid Society of the Presbyterian Church are having the church repaired and improved which will require about a month to com plete the work, aud have arranged with the Managers of the Orpheum Theater to use the auditorium for the Sunday services while the Pres byterian church is beinjr repaired and repainted. Oh, the Babies Entries were made Saturday at Land is & Easton 's store for the Baby Contest, at which" time forty babies were enrolled and still they come. The final examination will be made next Friday in Commercial Club Rooms, and will be in charge of the physicians of Oxford, one medical assistant and two trained nurses from Raleigh. The Union Bank. The greatest concern of the aver age man is the fear at some time to face idleness with a family de pendent on him. But terror does not assail the man who has perisist ently saved a part of his earnings by depositing it in the Union Bank of Oxford where it will draw 4 per cent interest. This-laank is con servatively conducted by Cashier J. S. Bradsher and we ask you to read the advertisement on another page. Abreast of the Times The Public Ledger's - slogan has always been "shop at home, ' ' yet even some women who know better will sometimes go to a neighboring town to buy a hat. If any of these towns had stores more stylish and better hats, there might be an ex? cuse, but it is acknowledged that Oxford's millinery stores as well as other stores lead the procession. Death of Mrs. Ballou's Sister Col. and Mrs. W. B. Ballou and Mr. and W. D. Bryan were called Saturday by telegram to the bed-; side of Mrs. Cawthorn at Li ttleton whose death- occurred Sunday after noon. Mrs. Cawthorn is wel) known here as- the":: sister. Of Mrs. Ballou, having visited Oxford a number of times, and has the sympathy of her many friends in town. Mr. R. L. ; Brown also attended the funeral.- MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE. SOME YOU KNOW AND SOME YOU DO NOT KNOW Personal Items About Oxford Folks and Their Friends in General. Ernest Parrott, of Lyon, was in town Monday . W. J. Currin, of Route 7. was in town Monday. Edgar Crews, of Hester, was in Oxford Monday. , Wayne Gooch, of Clarksville,was in Oxford Sunday. J. T. Sizemore, Jr., is attending the Richmond Fair, W. S. Gooch, of Stem, was on our streets Wednesday. J. H. Perry, of Creedmoor sec tion, was in Oxford Monday. C..W. Bryan and daughter, Miss Annie, are attending the Richmond Fair. Miss Fanny Webb left Monday for Northampton county to teach school. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Overton, of Route 6, were in town shopping on Monday. - J. A. and A. A. Green, of Stem, section, were on tobacco market on Monday. Miss Isabel Fleming spent the week-end with her sister, Mrs. D. G. Brummitt. Mrs. W. R. Harris and daughter Willie are taking in the Richmond fair this week. Dr. and Mrs. G. T. Sikes, of Grissom, were among the Oxford visitors Monday. Col. Roger Gregory returned Sat urday from, a pleasant visit to his brother at Chase City. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Lyon and child, of Hester section, were Ox ford shoppers Monday. W. I. Burchett and B. W. Nevil, of Grissom section; were on the to? bacco market Monday. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Blackwell, of Route 3, are attending the Rich mond Fair this week. Mr. R. W. Lassiter and daughter, Miss Katherine, left. Monday on a visit to New York City. Sam Hobgood, a buyer on Hen derson market, spent the week-end with his family in Oxfcrd. Mr. and Mrs. Lucius Currin, of Wilton, were among the, throng of shoppers in town Monday. Miss Martha Parker Brinkley returned to Oxford Saturday to the pleasure of her many frends. Mrs. Tillery after a pleasant visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Taylor, on Raleigh street has re turned to her home in Wilmington. Messrs. W. H. Hunt, Henry G. Cooper, John A. Niles and James B. Powell are attending the Amer ican Bankers Association in session in Boston this week. Mrs. Irvin Mangum and son and Mrs. J. F. Meadows and daughter and Mrs. I. H. Davis and daughter are visiting relatives in Richmond and are taking in the Fair. Miss Katharine Elliott has re turned to her home in Wilmington after a visit of a month to Mrs. C. G. Elliott. Miss Katharine made many friends in Oxford by her ge nial and cordial manners who re gretted to see her leave. " After spending a few days at Chapel Hill Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Farrior returned Saturday and are now on a visit to the bride's pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Robards, on Front street where they will spend a few days before leaving for Texas. ' ' IF it is cook stcves, - ranges or heaters, then do nothing but come and see what Davis has to offer you. We sell the Majestice, Enterprise, Live Oak ' and Excelsior stoves. If Davis don't save you money then he will pay your railroad fare. Remember Davis pays the freight: 6th, 1913 COME NUMBER 84 THE BIG COUNTY FAIR. THE RULES AND REGULA TIONS Everything Moving Along Nicely and a Large Crowd Expected We approach the fourth fair held by our association with greater confidence and expectation than ever before. We trust the people of the county will do their part in making the exhibits. And we promise that members of the association will do all in their power to make the 1913 fair the largest and best of the four. The following are the rules and regulations: 1. The gates will be opened for admission to visitors at 8 o'clock a. m. each day and close at 6 p. m. 2. All the employees of the fair, including police must be promptly on hand at their posts at 8 o'clock a. m. each day of the fair and re main on duty until 6 o'clock p. m., except night force. 3. Every reasonable effort will be made by the officers of the So ciety and those in charge of the grounds to protect the property on exhibition from loss or damage, but the Society will not be held respon sible should loss or damage occur. 4. Drunkenness, quarreling or the use of profane or obscene lan guage will not be allowed on the ground; nor the presence of fire works, petroleum, gunpowder, or any other dangerous or objectional material whatever. 5. Persons desiring space for the exhibition of articles or machinery not entered for competition should apply to the Secretary as early as possible giving the name of the ex hibitor and article, place of resi dence and the amount of space re quired. 6. No peddling, hawking or selling of any kind will be allowed in the buildings or on the grounds except by a special license obtaind from the Secretary of the Society. 7. The distribution of hands bills or other advertisements is strickly prohibited about the grounds or buildings, except under directions of the Superintendent. 8. No article or animal will be entitled to space until the proper entry has been made. After an article or animal has been entered for a premium it cannot be removed until the close of the Fair without permission of the Secretary or the supervisor in charge of the depart ment ; and if any person removes an article or an animal without such permission he forfeits all claims to m t ill a premium; even n tne same enaii have been awarded . 9. The exhibition of articles not mentioned in - the Premium list is solicited. Thesf will be asssigned to proper departments, displayed too visitors, and reported on by the judges. j In the Days of Reformation A crowd that come up to the fullest expectation of the managers of the Orpheum Theatre witnessed the Dresentation of Leopard s Spots" at the popular play house last Saturday evening. No one having read the book written by Tom Dixon can get the true signifi cance of -the back ground as it ap pears in the play. Every actor tak ing part has power and this served to keep the interest up.. That such conditions did actually exist years ago, the play was not overdrawn, save in one instance as the younger generation may suppose, but it is so far removed. from that period it is hardly worth while to keep the incidents live. The author gives a negro character in the play the power to hypnotize a cultured white girl, which is not true to life. It was Dixon's intention to ap pear in the play, but he received a wire at Henderson and hurried on to New York. A black sjlk. watch fob with gold trimmings was picked up on side walk in front of Landis & Easton's store, and the owner can get the same by calling at this office and paying for this notice. if