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I r -1 .'"..;,;"V! V "-JC"- ,6 PUBLIC LEDGER DEC; 24TH 1913 " j-y v I ? '. t 1 ? I Hz iff I ? ! it. 1 ft; t . - 5 3 'ill ! '!; 2 I 7l SJ. '.4 1 ! Ifi! .4 , i'l't -17 fi 4.3 . OS, fdil' 0 4- 111 :4; i - 4 5 'if GOOD WORK OF UNION. ' - r SOME OF THE IMPORTANT PROBLEMS Only Nine of the Counties of the State Not Represented The best meeting ever held by the Farmer's Union of North Caro lina come to a close at Shelby last week. Three new county unions have, been organized leaving only nine of the one hundred counties) nf th State unorganized. There is $3,000 more in the treasury than and the Union is not onlv expanding into all counties, but also improving its condition in all anMi counties as have local unions. The old officers were re-elected with some changes in the member- ship of the executive committee as follows: President, H. Q. Alexander; vice president, J. M. Temlepton; state lecturer, J. Z. Green ;state secretary E. C. Faires. The executive committee consists of C. C. Wright, of Wilkes; W. B. Gibson, of Iredell: and W. H. Moore, of Pitt; re-elected, and Clarence Poe. of Raleigh, and S. H. Hobbs, of Sampson, elected for the first time. It was decided to abandon the nolicv of having a mid-summer meeting and the next annual session therefore will be in Decem ber, 1914. Perhaps the most important ac tion taken was the unanimous en dorsement of the proposition to have a law allowing neighborhoods where most of the land is owned bv one race to say by vote of the majority of the qualified voters that in future no land should be sold to a person of the opposite race provided the action is approv ed by a reviewing judge or board of county, commissioners as being necessary to their peace and safety. The preamble recites: "That the crowding of undesirable negroes in white communities makes social conditions intolerable for white .women and families, lowers land values owned by the white people and often drives white families to other sections." The resolution declares that the immoral mixing of the races is the greatest menace to the supremacy of the white race and demands drastic legislation on this subject. The attorney general is requested to prepare the neccessary blanks and circular of instructions for having the clerks of court put the Torrens system of registering land titles immediately into force when the law becomes effective January 1st, and the clerks of court are re- quested to appoint examiners of titles at once. Another resolution asks the sec retary of the treasury to extend the time of his crop loans till March 1. The idea of having "civil service week' set apart by the government next November was unanimously endorsed, as was also a movement for getting the heads of the various state institutions and departments together to devise plans for more effective co-operation. Farm Life School. In last Sunday's Industrial Sec tion of the Richmond Times-Dis patch there appeared an interesting story about the Farm Life School at Jamestown, not far from Greens boro. This is a most interesting scnool ot its kind which teaches 1 lL 1 1 uuui uoys anu gins out principally young women some very interest- nig u nigs aooui iarm me ana now io maKe ine iarm pay. it does not cost very much for the girls and young women to find out here how to make the farm pay, for, says Mr. Winters, the man who wrote the story of last Sunday, "By the operation of a mess hall on the co- operative basis, the actual cost per student for good board and accom- modations for the school term of eight months in the year is only 17 cents a day. The growth of the school has been phenomenal, as since its esiauusnmeni inree years ago the enrollment has jumped from .'i. A ll forty-four to 110 pupils. I While the farm life school is an -outgrowth of the public school system of North Carolina of only tnree years, ago, its success durinsr its experimental stages is an assur ance of its permanency in the school life of the State. The local law of Guilford county, providing for the Jamestown school in 1911, has been incorporated in the laws of North Carolina, with the Legislature ap propriating $25,000 for the Dro yiouon oi tne idea at the rate of l! 4 1 Mm. .uu.ii..t eacn year, itiej -" -..j.ws me acu xo promote the teaching of agriculture rrr ri 111 loe Pudiic MwwV. I aiucu jy an annual ap- portionment of $2, 500 from the State. ... . ' - Eight counties in the State have taken advantage of the appropnai tion bv raisiner the additional funds for the establishment of 1 the school, and it is expected that very many more will come in next year. Culbreth Cullings Mrs. Elijah Daniel is visiting in Richmond. Latt Duncan, of Person county, is visiting Ed. Howard. Miss Gertrude Jones is at home from Oxford College for the holi days. George Arrintgon, who has been very sick for some time has lm- proved. Mrs. Bettie Daniel, of Chalay- beate, spent a few days with her son the past week. x Mr. and Mrs Herman Harris have moved to Fuquay to maKe their future home. Stovall Short Stops. . W. P. Slaughter ws in Oxford Saturday. C. C. Currin was on our streets Saturday. Mrs. Dyer has moved in one of the Dickerson flats. r Harry .Norwood, of Richmond, is a Stovall visitor this week. . A party of drunken negroes were arrested here last week and lined $14; L. C Wilkerson has returned home from taking cotton census for Granville county. J. P. Williams, of Viriglina Route 2. has moved to Stovall, we welcome, him to-our town. Miss Lessie Hutson, of Rich mond, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. C. E. Earl, this week. There will be a Christmas tree here December 25, beginning at 7 p. m.; all are welcome to attend. Presley Davis, who has been at tending school at Warren ton, re turned -home Friday to spend the holidays. Miss Sallie Davis, who has been attending school at Statesville, ar rived home Friday to spend the holidays. Mrs. Sallie Baker, who has been spending some time with her moth er. Mrs. A. T. Younger, returned to Spartanburg, S. C, last Friday. There were 1,277 bales of cot; ton, counting round as half bales, ginned in Granville county froua the crop of 1913 prior to December, 1913, as compared with 1,351 bales ginned prior to December, 13, 1912. Will Daniel, who had the mis fortune to lose one of his eyes last week by a wire cutting the ball, went to Memorial hospital at Richmond and had it taken out Friday, he has our deepest sym pathy. There will be a play given here December 26, in Dickerson Hall, known a3 the "Sweet Family, be ginning at :aup. m. ine pro ceeds of which will go for the benefit ot the Methodist and Bap tist churches. Come one and all. Personal Items Ex-Postmaster J. W. Brown, of the road, is at home for the joyous season. Miss Janie Hunt, who is attend ing a Washington City school, isat home for the holidays. Miss Hixie White, who is at tending school at Greensboro, is at home for the holidays. Mrs. John R. Hall and daughter are spending Christmas with rela tives in South Carolina. Miss Annie Furman, of Salisbury graded school faculty, is at home Ior ine nristmas noniaays. I' . Miss Norma" Burwell, a member 0f Greenville Training School fac ulty, is at home for the holidays. NOTUCE I have a fine Bay mare for sale, ten years old, works well every where that I have hitched her. She , is a fine traveler to a buggy and one of the best plow horses I ever saw. I bought her three years ag last March and have made four crops with her and would not sell under any circumstances if 1 was going to continue farming but I have sold out my land and am going to town to live and haven't any use for a horse. Any one wishing- to see the horse can call at the Sears place, 8 miles south of Oxford , 2 miles north of Cannady's Mill. Address, J. M. Sears, Route 2. Kittrell, N. C. It pd w ain iiuu- January ist, young man for sewing machine business, will furnish board and Iodgeing and : pay salary. " Apply in own hand writing and state salary ex pected. M. care of Public Ledger: EVERYTHING carried in a first- class jewelry store will be found at L. C. Wilkerson, Stovall. Reduced prices on everything, all goods guaranteed . . call and tret vour Xmas presents. Greatly redded prices on cut glass, also a nice line ' of diamonds at a bargain. NEW CODE IS ADOPTED 8TATE, NAVY AND ARMY TO SPEAK COMMON LANGUAGE. Keys Are Sometimes Lost and Discov ered in the Possession of Indi viduals Who Make Effort to Hold Up Uncle Sam. 4 When the United States next goes to war her armed forces and her more subtle "forces or diplomacy will "speak a common language for the first time, tor there has recently been completed a secret code for common use be tween the etate, war and navy de partments. Heretofore the three departments, which include all the forces that would come in con tact with an enemy in war time, have used secret codes peculiar to eacn. The state department has employed several codes, the war department sev eral others, although chiefly one, me Breeley code, and the navy depart ment others. They have points In common, but they are nevertheless distinct codes. The key to one would not afford a translation of a message written in another code. The new interdepartmental code is designed not only for use in war but in such emergencies as would require quick secret communication between representatives of the various divi sions. Code keys have a habit of getting lost. It is to the interest of foreign powers to know the secret language a possible antagonist may speak. Any multiplication of codes increases the opportunities for valuable information of this character to get lost or stolen. For instance, the code now chiefly used by the state department is about four years old and was adopted chiefly because the old code had become the common property of several nations across the water. When George von Lengerke Meyer, formerly ambassador to Russia, and more recently secretary of the navy, was in St. Petersburg, a diplomat visited him one day to offer to him a little book. The book had mysteriously found itsway' to Bucha rest and had fallen, as "such books have a habit of falling, into the hands of a foreign office. When Mr. Meyer saw the book he at once recognized the state department code key. , Some time later a letter came to the American, embassy in Berlin 6tating that the writer possessed a similar key. He offered to sell; it, suggesting that possibly the United States for eign office would not care to have its secrets the common . property of all Europe. The embassy asked the writ er to submit a specimen page "of the book to prove his assertion. .,The spec imen was mailed to the embassy' and compared. There was no question of its genuineness. - But instead of spending good Amer ican gold to retrieve the volume, the then ambassador informed the state department that its code was no longer-secret. "The man who owned the key may have sold copies to every foreign office in Europe. To buy one copy would- be no guaranty: that the secret was retrieved. So it was discarded and the new one adopted.. The code now used is made up Of arbitrary combinations of five letters each. Each of these arbi trary words, which are pronounceable because of the alternation of conso nants - and vowels, denotes another word, or phrase, there is just one way We Desire to Close out Our Stock of Genera Which is in good shape, at a reduced wholesale price. This is a good op portunity for any one wishing to enter the mercantile bussiness. . - - HUFF & SHERMAN, BEREA, W. C. TO THE PEOPLE OF OXFORD & GRANVILLE C0UI1TV: BriHt and Hcippy- .New Year finflW WLtES HE At EOTVtEiiKfi TRUST CO Street. Rcl Estate. Hasverlntr what the code word means and that Is to look in the key. the code dictionary, f- ' . " - Every department of the. govern ment and even several of the 'bureaus In various departments have their own secret language. Codes are used for two purposes, secrecy" and economy. The code is regulated primarily by the requirements of Jelegraph compa nies. By international agreement tel- -v. AAmTtanicfl stAiiri for the same rate as is charged for a single word any pronounceable combination, in any one of eight languages of five letters by telegraph or ten letters by cable. If the combination is unpronounceable a charge is made for the transmission of each letter. New "Yellow Peril." There is a yellow peril at the White House, anL from the president down, all the inhabitants thereof are in mortal terror of it. It is a fine young nest of yellow jackets,- with stingers that are no re specter of persons. The yellow jackets were dislodged from their comfortable home, in a huge elm in the White House grounds by the recent storm, and are buzzing all over the place now. No one in au thority has been stung as yet. If a man and his wife are one, how many was Solomonand his out fit? It was a joint stock company. . REGULAR ANNUAL MEETING of stockholders of First National Bank of Oxford will .be held in banking room second Monday in January, 1914, at noon W. H. HUNT, Cashier. FOR SALE My Elmwood farm of 300 acres, 7 miles north of Ox ford, fine land, good barns and large ten room dwelling. My price not half of actual worth. Terms to suit purchaser. Write J. M. M. Gregory, Durham, N. C. lt.pd NOTICE OF SUMMONS. North Carolina. - Granville County. In Superior Court Before the Clerk - C. B. Edwards and M. P. Chamblee vs Mrs. Rebecca Kim!. Miss Mollie Lanier. Mrs. M. L. Chewning. Miss Ruth Lanier. Chas. Lanier and , wife ... ... Lanier, and Miss Ada Lamer. The defendants in the above entitled action Mrs, Rebecca King, Miss - Mollie Lanier. Miss Ruth Lanier. Chas' Lanier and wife Lanier and Miss Ada Lanier will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced against thera in the Superior court of said county for the partition of land described in the petition in said action. And the defendant-will further take notice that they are required to appear before the clerk of the Superior court for said county on the 24th day of Jan. 1914 and answer or demur to the petition in said action or the relief therein de manded will be granted. This Dec. 19th 1913 Dec.24th.4t. J. G. SHOTWELL. C. S. C Beware of Drug Habits! ; If you have a cold Gowan's King of Externals, will scatter the in flammation, and a cold is simply inflammation. You just rub Gowans on. No dangerous fumes to inhale. Gowans penetrates, is all quickly absorbed and scatters congestion and in flammation. " Colds may bring r Pneumonia Gowans breaks 'the cold; Croup comes quickly Gowans heads it -off, by penetrating No fumes to inhale. No drugs to take. Just rub it on. . Gowans Sells at 25, 50, $1 Druggist Guarantee It. GOWAN MEDICAL CO. Concord, N. C. 1 ami Insurance,": ' Oxford. N. C. mm Merchandise DURING THE PAST YEAR WE HAVE GIVEN EVERY PURCHASER GOOD. HONEST VALUE IN LUMBER AND BUILDING MATERIALS FOR THEIR GOOD HONEST MONEY. DURING THE YEARS TO COME WE PROMISE TO DO THE SAME. WE CAN MAKE NO BETTER RES OLUTION. WE THANK YOU FOR THE PATRONAGE GIVEN US DURING THE PAST YEAR AND WISH YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR. C D RAY Oxford, N. C If you are a customer of the National Bank of Granville you have assurance of personal interest in your business success. We make it a part of our business to give such time and attention to our customers as their interests require We make it a point that every business 'transaction with our patrons shall -be satisfactory. We want each one to feel that they are free to come to us in all matters where our experience and advice will be of value and assistance. When - we speak of the "service" rendered to customers we mean the best-service, alt that you reasonably expect from your bank. Our service includes a hundred and one little details, all of which go to make of our patrons "satis fied customers.1' If you have had no business with this bank, we feel con fident you will appreciate the Service we can render. Th Bank of CAPITAL AND E. T- WHITE, H; G. Pres. ' : USEFUL "PushtheButton-andRest" : :tM Wfl - f ' Rest asy Charis, Sectional Book; Cases, Mahogany Bed . " V . Room Chairs, Ladies Desks, V - ' ", nVE CHINA CLOSETS AT 20 PEiii! AND ijfir Your Gr an villte SURPLUS $120,000. COOPER, V. T. YANCEY, Vice-Pres. Cashier. SEE THEM vuyinruinjn National. I ! -11
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