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- H ' I': PUBLISHED TWICE-A-WEEK WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS. OUR SLOGAN-OXFORD OFFERS OPPORTUNITIES; FOR H0ME5. 5CH00LS AND PROSPERITY." OXFORD, N. C, WEDNESDAY, DEC 10, 1913. VOLUME 28. NUMBER 102 Ci.il-. lJ i.;c;. THE MINISTERS DEPART SESSION CAME TO A CLOSE MONDAY Conference Will Meet in Washington Next Year Of all the utterances, addresses and lectures during the stay of the North Carolina Conference the ser mon by Bishop McCoy at the Metho dist church Sunday morning was an event in the religious life of Oxford. The Bishop's kind and courteous manner throughout the session won for him a warm place in the hearts of every member of the Conference, and the sermon, marked for its deep spirituality, came as the crowning glory of a week of toil for the advancement of Christ's Kingdom, which was delivered to the largest congrega tion ever assembled in Oxford. Among the many things taken up during the session was the propos ed change of the name of the the church for Methodist Episcopal South, to Methodist Episcopal Church in America. The defeat of this change of name was a fore gone conclusion and the NorthCaro lina Methodist Conference placed itself in the list of the majority of the conferences of Southern Method ism by casting 136 votes against the change, and twelve for it. There is a feeling that the church is being hampered in the north and northwest by the name south and among those who expressed them selves as favoring the dropping of all geographical distinction were . Ivey. who declared that ! the change was bound to come but he didn't favor the present change, W. B. Cooper and Gen. Julian S. Carr. General Carr than who there is no more loyal Confederate sol dier, expressed himself as so anx ious to see the name south done away with , that he would like to vote yes for the proposed name if he were a member of the confer ence. J. M. Culbreth presented a reso lution, which was adopted by the conference, and became a memorial to the general conference without having been referred to the com mittee on memorials to the general conference. "Resolved, That the North Caro lina Conference hereby memoralize the general conference to take the necessary steps to require of candi dates for. admission- on trial the satisfactory completion of a course of instruction equivalent to that required by the commission to the freshman class of. an A grade college." The following was appointed to constitute the committee having in charge the matters of the erection of a building on the Southern Assembly ground to be known as the headquarters building of the North Carolina Conference: R. L. Flowers, W. B. Cooper, Dr. E. T. White, C. E. Weatherby. S. B. Underwood, C. S. Wallace, J. G. Brown, M. T. Plyer, L. P. Howard and M. Bradshaw. The committee on temperance recommened as the next necessary step to be taken, that which will secure a law to prohibit railroads, express companies and all other carriers from shipping and deliver ing intoxicating beverages into the State, and urged that Congressmen be called upon to support such a bill . The report rejoiced over the passage of the Webb bill, and also over the enactment of the search and seiz ure act by the General Assembly of North Carolina. Another report of the ccommittee on temperance recommended that preachers be urged to refrain from the use of tobacco for prudential reasons, and because that its use hinders rather than helps their in fluence for good. The order of the day having arrived, the conference laid aside ail business and entered upon the solemn memorial service for the dead, those members who during the year have joined the heavenly conference and reported to the highest head of the church, the Continued on the Eighth Page. SHORT LOCAL PICK-UPS GATHERED FROM THE TOWN AND COUNTY About People and Things That Are of Interest to Our Readers. The County Commissioners have had a telephone booth placed in the Sheriff's office. Read the change in advertise ment of the Carolina Power Co. on another page. The King's Daughters will meet with Mrs. C. G. Elliott Thursday morning at 11 o'clock. There will be a box party at the Concord school house on Thursday night, Dec. lltH. A cordial invi tation extended to all. Judge Devin held Orange Court last week and spent the week-end at home, and this week is presiding over Durham Superior Court. We find that a number of sub scribers are behind on their sub scriptions and will thank them to call and settle. Don't put it off. Time is up for paying State and county taxes the first of January. Better step lively or Sheriff Hob- good '11 get you if you don't watch out. Two fine turnips weighing 5 and 5 1-2 pounds each were laid on our table a few days ago by Robert T. Critcher, a progressive farmer of Route 1. R. T. Critcher, of Route 1 rolled into Oxford Monday morning with a load of tobacco, which he . sold at Banner warehouse for the nice sum of $412.13. Gowan's Pneumonia Cure is a household necessity this season of the year, as it is a splendid reme dy. Read advertisement in an other column. Our young farmer friend, D, G. Currin of Route 5, was on tobacco market Monday and sold a small barn of the weed at Banner ware house for $204.55. Register of Deeds Powell is ex pecting to issue a goodly number of marriage licenses between now and January 1st, as he delights in making people happy. G. C. Myers, of Richmond, effi ciently assisted Frank Spencer the past week in handling the tele graph reports of the proceedings of North Carolina Conference. H. E. Crews, of Watkins, was in town Monday and informed us that Mrs. J. V. Wrenn continues quite ill and W. L. Burroughs had been taken to Watts hospital at Durham for treatment for rheumatism. One of our wags remarked Mon day afternoon when he saw a large number of preachers making for the depot: "I tell you right now it will take them preachers a week to pick the Granville county chickens out of their teeth." All the boys and men and the la dies too, love to put on their best looks during the holidays, and for that reason we call their special attention to the advertisement of the Eureka Pressing Club in another column. It does first-class work. Once again Upchurch & Currin, the live furniture dealers of Col lege street, calls your attention to number of suitable articles in their line that will make choice Christ mas presents which they are offer ing at special prices. See adver tisement on the last page." Register of Deeds James Powell who hLs a kind heart contributed to the joy of 560 people for the year ending December 1st, as he issued 280 marriage licenses. He has made a good start tor another year as the past week he issued 14, 7 white and 7 colored couples. Constable J. T. Poythress got the scent of some corn whiskey and fol lowed it out on the Stovall road, ! until he reached the home of John Chavis, colored. On searching the house he found 25 pints packed in a box. John was arrested and give ibond for his appearance at Court, THE TOBACCO MARKET. GOOD PRICES PREVAIL AS A RULE There Yet Remain a Good Quantity of the Better Grades in the County Prices are just about the same as they "usually are during heavy breaks. Some piles bring as much if not more than usual and others fail below. Of course prices are not as all round as satisfactory as they were a couple of 'weeks ago, but they are about as good as any one could expect them to be con sidering the amount of tobacco that is being thrown on the market. Much of the tobacco is in too high order and some real wet. Then, too, the breaks are rough. More common stuff is putting in its appearance every day now and this pulls the average price down. Granting that prices are off some and there are some who deny even this, it cannot be said that tobacco is low. One of the largest breaks of the season was last Friday, when it was necessary" to continue the sales Saturday. There was fairly good breaks both Monday and Tues day. . Praise for Exchange Hotel The large number of ministers who were entertained at the Ex change Hotel during conference all speak in glowing terms of the jovial landlord and his good lady. There were also two banquets given at the Exchange to , i mportan t Conference Committees ''during the sesstoni-it has been demonstrated that the genial Lonnie has a faculty of pleasing ministers as well as com mercial men. In Search of Game Rev. Lane and Willie Hicks con cluded they would take a hunt Fri day afternoon and went out into the woods near the old Hicks Mill. They soon spied out on the limb of a tree an opossum, and up with the gun and pulled away, but it failed to fire. The parson said: "Hold on Willie, I'll climb the tree and shake him out.' And ur the tree went the parson when the 'possum slid quitely into a hollow of the tree, but the parson kept climbing until he reached the hollow and was rewarded by pulling two fat ones out of the hollow, to the joy of Willie. They managed to get the 'possum down the tree and brought them home. CRISP LOCAL ITEMS. There are now 7 prisoners in the County jail. In order to have plenty of eggs quit killing the pullets. The Womans Civic Club will meet Wednesday afternoon at 3 :30o'clock in the rooms of the - Commercial Club. We ask you to read the sale of personal property advertised in an other part of this paper by Mrs. C. D. Niles, Executrix. If you want your Township Far mer to win one of Public Ledger's subscription prizes get to work as we will close contest on 18th. We are indeed sorry to learn of the serious illness of our dear little friend, Susie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.W.D. Bryan, and we truly hope this sweet bud of promise will be restored to health. LOST Ladies double case gold i watch with fob, with gold dollar on fob. Bird nest-engraved on one side. - Liberal reward if returned to J. P. Floyd, Oxford, N. C. 2t. FOUND about a month ago a buggy robe which owner can get by calling on J. W. Farabow at Stem, YOUR TAXES MUST BE PAID. It matters not whether you be an individual or a corporation, whether you be a large or a small tax payer you must settle now or collections, will be forced. The-schools and the State have the law to force me and I must collect to meet their demands. This means everybody .., 11.- ' o r iinn-inrn I Sheriff of Granville County. APPOINTMENTS READ. RALEIGH AND DURHAM DIS- TRICTS Preachers Take With Them Pvsassnt Recollections H T of Oxford Th session . came to a close at noon Monday w.th the reading of the 4 appointments, amid scenes of praise for Oxford and the hospital ity shown, the visiting ministers and delegates. RALE I G H DISTRICT John H . Hall: Presiding Elder. Cary Circuit, B. P. Robinson. Clayton Circuit, G. S. Bear den. Fotir Oaks Circuit, G. W. Star ing. Frank lihton Circuit, A. J. Par- ker.vis Garner Circuit, J. H. Buffaloe. Granville Circuit, M. D. Hix. Kenley Circuit, J. M. Benson. Louisburg, A. D. Wilcox. Miilbrook Circuit, J. W. Martin. Oxford, A. P. Tyer. Oxford Circuit, L. H. Joyner. Princeton, M. W. Dargan. I Raleigh Central J . H. McCrack en; Edehton street, J C. Woo ten; Ed en ton street , J. O." Guthrie, supernumerary; Epworth,C.B. Cul breth j.:Jenk ins Memoral, R. F. Tay lor, c " ' - .". ' SeIma J;G. Johnson. ' ' Smjthfield, A. S. Barnes. Tar "River Circuit, C. R. Canipe. YourriUleCircuit.BrC. AllrecL. JZebillon jCircait B. Perry. 5rrbrabth;deDartment of Jvr Li- Curimnggim. : -Superintendent North Carolina Anti -Saloon League, R. L. Davis. Raleigh Christian Advocate Edit or, L. S. Massey. Methodist Orphanage, Superin tendent J. N. Cole. Nashville Christian Advocate. Editor, T. N. Ivey. Assistant Secretary Epworth League, J. M. Culbreth. Financial Agent Louisburg Fe male College, A. D. Wilcox. DURHAM DISTRICT H. M. North, Presiding Elder. Burlington, D. H. Tuttle; Bur lington Circuit, J. W. Hackney, supply. Chapel Hill, Walter Patten. Durham Rranson church, R. E. Atkinson, Carr church. A. L. Or- mond; Lake wood, E. C. Durham; Mangum street, C. J. Harrell; Memorial, L. P. Howard ; Trinity R. C. Craven; West Durham J. A. Dai ley; Durham Circuitr W. P. Constable. Graham, R. G. L. Edwards. Hills'joro Circuit, J. M. Ormond. Leasburg Circuit, J. A. Martin. Milton Circuit S.F. Nicks. Mt. Tirzah Circuit, J. J. Boon. North Alamance Circuit, F. B. Noblitt. Pelham and Sandy Grove H. C. Smith. : Pearl Mill and Bethany. L. M. Hall, suoply. Person Circuit, C. R. Ross. Roxboro, N. C. Yearby. South Alamance, W. F. Galloway. Yancey vi He Circuit, to be sup plied. Head Master Trinity Park School, W. W. Peale. Secretary Y. M. C. A. in China, E. E. Barnette. Student Vanderbilt University, G. M. Daniel. Conn & Son's Xmas Sale The Christmas sale put on at Cohn & Son is of the greatest im portance to every one. Their stocks are very heavy and this means that shoppers have an excel lent opportunity from which to select. This is not a remnant saie by any means, as there are no brok en lots.and every article is reduced. This enterprising firm will clear out their up-to-date winter stock in the next few days, and the bar gains that await you are numerous. It would seem that they have cast their profits to the wind and shut their eyes to their costs and made prices that compel quick action. Read adv. of this popular mercan tile establishment on the second page of this paper. MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE. SOME YOU KNOW AND SOME YOU DO NOT KNOW Personal Items About Oxford Folks and Their Friends in General. Charley Wheeler, of Route 6, was town Monday. J. H. Renn, of Route 6, was in town Monday. Rux Cannady, of Route 1, was in town Tuesday. T. A. Averett, of Route 0, was in town Saturday. J. C. Adcock, of Tar River, was in town Mondaj. Elijah Pittard, of Route 2, was in town Monday. Mrs. T. L. Daniel, of Berea, was in town Saturday. E. H. Breedlove, of Route 7, was in Oxford Tuesday. Miss Pearl Rogers, of Lyon, was in Oxford Saturday. O. S. Huff, of Berea, was an Ox ford visitor Tuesdaj George Parham, of Route 5, was a town visitor Monday. Miss Etta Washington, of Stem, was in town Saturday. J. H. Bridgers, of Henderson, was in Oxford Saturday. - Will Adcock, of Route"1 5, was on tobacco market Monday. V Mrs. N . T. Green, of Stem , was an;Oxfcfd.jaitor-tttrayv. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Hunt, of Kit trell, were in Oxford Saturday. S. Mize, of Hester section, was on tobacco market Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Hamlin Cheatham, of Route 3, was in town Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Crews, of Route 5, were in town Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Phipps, of Route 1, were Oxford visitors Mon day. W. S. Newton, of Route 3, was among the throng in Oxford Satur day. Graves Day and daughter, of the Stem section, were ,in town Satur d ay. Miss Martha Ferebee returned a few days ago from a visit to rela tives at Tarboro. Mrs. Sarah Mangum and daugh ter, Miss Unice. of Stem, were Ox ford shoppers Saturday Miss Helen White returned home last week from a visit to Mrs. W. M. Gulick in New York. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Brummitt, and attractive daughttr, of Route 2, were in town Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. ,W. Farabow and daughter, of Stem, were among the Oxford shoppers Saturday. Our old highly esteemed veteran friend, Ruffin Buchanan, of Route 2, was in town Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Sam. Fleming and Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Crews, of Hes ter, were in town Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Brummitt and Mrs. Tilden Barnett, of Shady Grove, were in town Saturday. Mrs. John Gooch. who has been, spending some time with her sick mother in Clinton, has returned home. W. Ll Umstead and W. H. Hall, two of Knap of Reeds, excellent citizens, were among the Oxford visitors Saturday. S. P. Phipps, of Vance county, who spent the past week with his brother, J. M. Phipps, on Route 1, was in town Monday on his way home! Mrs. Chloie Reavis and Mrs. M. Davis, of Louisburg, and Mrs. R. P. Hunt, of Youngsville, visited Mrs. Kate Cheatham on Henderson ! street. Miss Lucy Patton, one of the po lite and accommodating milliners at The Long Co., was called to her home in Morganton Monday on ac count of the illness of her mother. THE MINISTERS PLEASED THEY WERE ROYALLY EN TERTAINED "A Town of Elegant Homes and Fine People" is What They Say. Now that the ministers have de parted for their homes, declaring that they were royally entertained and found much beauty in Oxford, is caust for quiet reflection. A town has character as well as human beings, because, after all, the town is made up of human be ings. The civic character of a town is based-upon the character of its human units, and the sum of these units and their prevailing characteristics stamp the town in its entirety with as clean-cut a f ac imile as the die the coin. That is what the ministers saw and felt in Oxford. That which is best in human ac hievement is always the product of the combination of that which is best in the sum of human activi ties which produce it. As a man to achieve the best-that is in him must have a well-rounded charac ter, and must cultivate symmetical ly his powers of mind, heart and body, so must a community which desires to grow into the true full ness of power, seek to develop along all the different lines which will give it real power and stability. What the ministes really saw was the composite character of the citi zenship of Oxford and the elegant homes and lawjis- allther natural jU tgfdwth of naturaHeMV irohmentv Thus it is that the churches and our commercial organization, composed of all kinds of men, have been able to accomplish that which the min istes saw and felt in Oxford While they saw much here to please them, and will extol the hospitality shown them, and will laud the town for its civic beauty, they doubtless noticed also that Oxford is slow to accept its natural advantages to the full. It is left for the business men and thinking men to give to Oxford that impetus towards sym metrical development that will make it fulfill what ought to be our manifest destiny, both municipally and commercially. Presbyterian Notices. To the Public Ledger: The Presbyterian congregation were very much inconvenienced and greatly dissappointed on Sunday, because the condition of Gilliam street was such that they had to forego all their services. The mud could of course have been crossed, but church carpet and furniture would have suffered, and all who worshipped there would have gone, not dry-shod like the Israelites through Jordan but wet and laden with a bountiful supply of Granville clay. It is hoped that the Street Commitee will not stop now until the public building is made as accessible as before. It used !obe easily reached even in the worst weather, but now! ? Let the steps be fixed; the gutters dug, curbing placed, and the street macadamized as before ! Rev. Dr. Horsefield will conduct the Wednesday night prayer service at the Presbyterian churh at 7:30 o'clock p. m. He wiil lecture on Psalm 123d, in .continuation of a series of lectures which the pastor has been making on the "Pilgrim Psalms." Rev. R. A. White, or Henderson, will preach in the Presbyterian church on next Sabbath, as Mr. Phillips will be - away, conducting a revival service in the Hender son church. Mr. White is a new preacher in Albermaile Presbytery but has already won a warm place in the. estimation of Henderson people, and has on several occasions been heard in Oxford. He is a clean cut thinker, a safe theologian and a preacher of much force. The public is invited to hear him. S. K. PHILLIPS. NOTICE Bring your gims, pistols and locks to R. W. Brown & Co, for quick repair. Keys filed also. 34 Main street 4t. t
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