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try "irjv 43 PUBLISHED TWICE-A-WEEK WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS. 29. OXFORD, N. C, SATURDAY, JUNK 0, 1914. SIGNS OF THE TIMES. Air.re Vew Buildings Will me or 1 " AJorn -Main Street Before the Frost Touches the Vine ..m. v STRUCTURE WILL TORN AWAY ffththe advent of the new post a otolithic sidewalks, m ftu: a Hall have! j. v. . Hessr3- .' .i imnrnvfi their real v.l.llnO-C ill the vicinity of the which ?3! m wooden structure Tflc Ui" ' .. 4. I . od for more man a quauw ui itnrv on the corner of Main and . modern bneK uimus. of the inipiuYcicui.o Zn worked out, but in conversation Uhthe owners we ieam m., ct brick building win ue eiecieu 'dreadv for occupancy before the L touches the vine. The Halls L conservative people, and are not in to idle talk, and when they HTe it out that the old structure will ske way for a neat brick building means something to tne citizens oi Oiford. The biuming is assureu, Sat it is whispered around town that ie improvements in the vicinity of new post office is not connnea to ie corner in question. In all prob wiitv the west side of Main street, Lh of the Chamblee building, will receive some finishing touches in the shape of modern buildings in the bear future. We have claimed all along that ilen the new post office was com peted and the five miles of granoli thic sidewalks were laid, . there lould be an incentive to better things in Oxford, and mark the pre- iiction of well informed men about awn, you will see all of the old hooden buildings removed one by be to make room for more modern imctures. The only hitch in the grea scheme if progress that has set in is the lack if manufacturing plants to support the increased population incident to bore and better buildings. But there no question about securing manu- acturing plants if everybody will Jill in line and catch the step and ash. Let there be some conserted iction taken on this all important laestion at once, while the iron is id To those who have, it means a ioubling of their resources: and to lose who have little, it means im proved conditions for them also. In developing our resources it is a safe imposition to sav that all men Nd benefit, and that no man puld benefit to the exclusion of any wer man. SCHOOL BOARD MEETS The Granville School ttnarr! hAlrl a d meeting in the office of the wrintendent of School on Mnndav p Mr. Titus Currin chairman, and ,rs-1. a. Meadows and J. A. Morris ted around the table. An election hi o or.vii aord township near Gela was ap- wed and transmitted to the Board ' County rftmviiice;ni,n,n ".imoiiiuucia ClDlYi llg p to call n election in the terri fy named. Grassy Creek Dennl fr- o F School house, firul Stem riiatff F a small building near the 7 mgn school building. ar- B. F. Doan r.f t a before the Board and present- udims of his school district lasKed that it h cn CT an1 uppiicu Willi a, L better equipped school Mr t lr a n Und made application y. auu more commodious aol buildine w ,it., ,-u4v. h,,n "'- uwillCl WHICH AfW tran.flr.t: be Km- ""s sume otner rou- " wiu woara adjourned. 4r. W Q n Mozart im.ra son or Mr- Ntho v n' nas graduated lib jj wuuoi or Meaicme Ho v "uru next Tues- L..., " " xiiifiii in a Kncrnn i k Dr r . W serve for one hbavir,: ; , a brignt young larep, t'lrtuuatfid at the head riea cn r .and he will doubtless i ; I IB " ma I r Vs. x w or Mi ..JL h mm.. "VI fiViV mi l -n 1 m . m v? a i'.BjT v. u. 1 Ail r t A. 1 ss2 iwnlTHANI JL AlfW SfflAHshnls Tne me(iiation board conducted important sessions at Niagara Falls, and a peaceful solution of the Mexican imbroglio was 11CWS OliapdllUlO promised by Judge Lamar of the American representatives. The home rule bill received final passage in the English parlia Of tllC yCCl( ment, and Sir Edward Carson threatened armed resistance to its enforcement In the north of Ireland. Charles S. Whitman, district attorney of New York, tried Charles Becker, ex-lieutenant of police, for the second time and once again convicted him of the murder of Herman Rosenthal, state's witness. The American forces in Mexico advanced field artillery along the Interoceanic railroad to protect tha many bridges. -'; . . EARLY HORNING BLAZE Fire of Unknown Origin Break Oat in the Business Center of Oxford RODENTS SUPPOSED TO BE RE SPONSIBLE . SHORT LEDGER LOCALS. About People and Things That Are of Interest to The Public Ledger Readers GATHERED FROM THE TOWN AND COUNTY IAN' XriAfivr Arrntr-Tk lor nh.., W at 1 ' L Stedraan was 6 V Consressional Con- N ur' tK nsboro Wednesday atnatir. PPsition. Every cept 1&U let was represent W rson- There were thrift '"ber weeches made among' Lau. . 0ur townsman, Mr. who set forth the in fV'kn OTApo rni, L "H1QU of at coo. iuc rimo ,e i0r stedman, which uon ftlaybrS f who the Republi- 3 equivolent to elec- lne out against him. FOR SAT. ;ani worT un good quali- RAY any where. w. T. 2t-pa Porch Repaired The front porch at the Walters House has been re paired. . Front Repainted The front of the store next to the Johnson warehouse has been repainted. Looks Much Better- The Easton House looks much , better since it donned the coats of white paint with green blinds. The Building Line The Moore Lumber Company announce else where in this paper a large supply of building material. - . The Suckers It is said a sucker Is born every minute, but a stump sucker is hard to deal with as well as a tobacco sucker. fjiood Animal Mr. P. L. Thomas son, of Tally Ho, is now the owner of the nice black mare used "by Breed love & McFarland in their business. At His Old Post We as well as the public are glad to see Mr. G. T. Elliott back in the Express office as he is courteous and polite. Ice Cream The Methodist Phila theas will serve ice cream and cake on the Church lawn this Friday even ing from 6 to 10 o'clock. Pushing . the . Work Contractor Clements is now getting right down to business and pushing the work of putting down the sidewalks. New School Building The contrac tor has gotten busy and will have the new Colored School Building ready for use the coming session. Another Automobile Mr. W. T. Murray has purchased a Roadster to use in his machine business, which he finds more convenient than a wagon.- - - '- ; - ' ' ' Sale of House and Lot B. S. Roy ster. Commissioner, advertises in an other part of this paper a house and lot for sale, and you are asked to read it. Very Poor Prospects From the present outlook we have the poorest prospects for a crop in Granville we had for many years, and our farmers are very blue. , Sale now On With flags and bun ting flying about their building the make-ready sale of Conn & Son's goes merrily on. See their adv. on last page of this paper. Some Better The friends of Mr. Jas. Walters, of Tally Ho township, who was stricken - with paralysis. will be glad to learn that he has ral lied some from the stroke.' Covered In The commodious res idence of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Horner, on Gilliam street, has been closed in and work on the inside will be pushed as fast as possible. New Typewriter The County Com missioners have purchased a new Book typewriter for the Register of Deeds office, and the one now; in use in that office win be transf ered to the Clerk's office. V Rented His Home Mr. Sam Hob good having purchased a home in Henderson and will move his family there in August, has rented his Oxford residence on College street to Mr. Hershey. ; - Look Out Autoist-We are request ed to call the afiention ot automo biless to great danger in not proper ly signaling when they approach a street corner, a -dangerous curve in the-road and a creel: or river bridge. This is important, so don't forget it! LOOKING FOR LOCATION ENGINE JUMPS TRACK. MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE. Manufacturers Looking for Location Impressed With Sites on Sea board Near Town " r Will possibly build at an EARLY DATE In all probability we will'. see. one or more manufacturing plants locat ed on the Seaboard Railroad east of town withi a year. Wehave con versed with parties who are looking for a good location and they, inciden tally remarkedthat there are several admirable sites in the vicinity where the Seaboard crosses the Henderson dirt road. No definite plans have been entered into as yet, but it is un derstood that the parties have con sulted the railroad company about building a side track in the, event they decide to build. The Public Ledger is highly pleas ed to know that the parties seeking the location are delighted with Oxford. The nearest approach they could get to Oxford on the Southern is more than one mile from the bus iness center of town and this they declined to consider. The Seaboard, on either side of the road for more than a mile, is an ideal location for manufactoring plants and we would not be surprised in later years to see every foot of the ground covered with them. .. In our conversation with the gen tlemen who are looking for a suitable location, they preferred that we would not use their names at pres ent.'., 1 " .' THREE SHORT ITEMS Getting Better We are pleased to learn that Mrs. James B. Powell, who has been sick is convalescent. Return Thanks We are requested by Mr. Frank Spencer and children to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all the people for their kindness and sympathy in their great bereavement. Seven Ministers The Congrega tion of the Baptist church was well supplied with ministers Sunday night as their- were seven present. They svere: Rev. G. T. Lumpkin, Revr Up-church,- Rev. George Tunstall, Rev. Stringfield, Dr. R. H. Marsh, Dr. A. P. Tyer, and Rev-. R. A. McFarland, of Scotland Neck COMING AND GOING Miss Norflet Hunter, who has been taking a special course at the Univer sity is at home for the summer. Mr. W. E. Dorsey, of Route 3, and a candidate for County Commissioner from Fishing Creek township, was an Oxford visitor Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Howard and fine hr.on, Frank, of the Grassy Creek sec tion, were numbered among the Ox ford visitors Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. John. Dean and child ren. Misses Lillie, and Allie, Walter Luther and " Aubrey , all of Moriah J section were, Oxford visitors Wednes day. . v.: - ;'; Jl ::y. ,:. : Miss Mary Williams, who is teach ing school in Tarboro, 1st the guest of the Misses Webb on College street for a few days while enroute to her home in Newton. ,- ' : The Southern Oxford-Henderson Mix ed Train Met a Disastrous Wreck Wednesday Afternoon- , ENGINEER D. G. TYLER WAS SER- IOUSLY HURT V " - The Southern Oxford-Henderson mixed train met a disastrous wreck Wednesday afternoon on the out skirts of Henderson. The engine left the rails at a public road crossing just west of the city limits, plunged down into the side ditch, creeled oyer on its left side and slid forward in the mud some 20 yards or more. The tender was thrown squarely across the .track, torn entirely from its trucks and turned . over on its side. . . : ; - V-'f"..'-;"' From about this mass of wreckage engineer J. D. Tyler was picked up a Very seriously if not fatally injured man. He had evidently been hurled from-his seat to the ground and it is feared sustained serious internal in juries, the extent of which could not be ascertained before he was hurried off on a fast Seaboard train, for a Richmond hospital. . The fireman escaped without the slightest scratch. Some six or more freight care and the two passenger ' coaches at the rear in. which there were a number of passengers did not leave " the rails. The passengers got a good shaking up but no one was hurt. The railroad people say" the wreck was caused by several inches' of dirt left on the track at the public road crossing by a squad of road builders engaged at that, point. Personal Items About Folks and Their Friends Who Travel Here and There SOME YOU KNOW AND SOME YOU DO NOT KNOW THE STATE CONVENTION With probably the slimest attend ance that has characterized any Dem ocratic state convention in recent years, the 1914 convention was con vened, at noon Thursday, in Raleigh, being called to order Jjy State . Chair man Thomas D. Warren, of New Bern. The representation of the vir ibus sections of the state ' was, of course, complete, and the rank and file of those attending. Were a ret of sturdy, able and determined men, but not in the least given to any special out bursts or manifestations of enthusiasm. The platform pled ges Democratic - party - to longer schools of six months in every sec tion of the State. State-wide Primary law with- cor rupt practice act is demanded. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER We are authorized by the friends of Mr. Hubert Faucett to annbunce that he will be a candidate for Coun ty Commissioner subject to the Dem ocratic primary of June 2.0th. . : LOST ONE FIRE DEPARTMENT Bridle, between Exchange Hotel and Walters Boarding House. Fin- v der please return ; toFire .Depart- " ment. . ... -. ,.- ' MISS SALLS RETURNS HOME Miss Helen H. Sails returned liome last Tuesday night, after completing a year's work as teacher Of English and Gerhian in ; the Dillon IJigh School,' South;"' Carolina. Miss Sails came to Oxford directly from Randolph-Macon Woms n's College, Ta., where she attended the twenty-first commencement of the College. . The most impressive feature" of the Com mencement exercises was the Inaugu artion of William A. Webb as Presi dent of Randolph-Macon Woman's College. - Delegates from nearly for ty colleges and universities , were present, and letters of greetings from President Woodrow Wilson, Hon, P. P, Claxtoh, and others were read. The charge" to the Incoming president was delivered by President W. P. : Few, of our own -Trinity Col lege. " ' . ; ' ' congressmen; returned ' VAH the Congressmen in North Car clina .have been returned excepting j Hood, of Goldsboro, " defeated Fai- j Son in the Third and the Tenth will ? go to another primary- The Repub-j licans in a ' few of the districts con template bringing out candidates. ' Adtertfslgfn 13ie - Public -r Ledger. Mr. B. T. Hicks, of Bullock, was in town Thursday. Mr. Wesley Knott, of Enon, was in Oxford Wednesday. - Mr. W. S.t Suit, of Wilton, was in town Wednesday. Mr. J. H. Evans, of Route 4, was in town Wednesday. -. ' , Mr. W. D. Vaughan, of Lyon, was in Oxford Thursday. Mr. Ed. Jones, of Mt. Energy, was in Oxford Thursday. Mr. Ira Lyon, of Stem section, was a town visitor Thursday. Mrs. W. B. Glenn, of Henderson is visiting relatives in Oxford." Mr. N. G Crews, of Dabney sec tion, was in town Wednesday. Mr. W. T. Crews, of Tar River, was in Oxford Wednesday. Miss Lillian McFarland is at home from Morganton D. & D. School. Mr. Charles Mdrris, of Wilton sec tion, was. in Oxford Wednesday. Mr. Clarence Breedlove, of Route 5, was in town Wednesday. Mr. G. L. Allen, of Brassfield town ship, was in Oxford Wednesday. Miss Ethel Clement, of Route 1, was on our streets Wednesday. Mr. W. J. Webb, of Tally Ho, was in tewn a short time Wednesday. - Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Long, of Route 5, were on our streets Thursday. Mr. Luther Freeman and daughter, of Route 6, wer6 in town Thursday. Miss Norma Burwell is at home from - teaching school at Greenville. Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Blackley, of WiUon, -were on our streets Wednes day: '' j ; . .. -. : Messrs. Charles and .' Thurman Knott; : of -Route 1, were in town Thursday. . Mrs. H. Dorsey is on a visit to her daughter, Mrs. Will Gulick in New York City. Mrs. I, H. Davis and pretty little Miss Margaret, are visiting relatives in: Richmond. . - Mr. 'M. W. Clement, of Grassy Creek section, was a town visitor Wednesday. , - - - Messrs. J. D. Haithcock and W. A. Aticock, of Tar River section, were in town Thursday. - Mr. Robt. Walters, of Chalybeate Springs,' was an Oxford visitor Wed nesday. - 1 Messrs. Frank Blackley and J. W. Ross, of Wilton were Oxford visitors Wednesday. : - ' Mrs Sam Watkins and children are on a visit to her old home near Buffalo Junction. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Currin, Jr., of Route 2, were among the Oxford shoppers -Thursday. Mrs. Wesley Knott-and Miss Aver ett, of Route 1, were on our streets Thursday afternoon. i Mrs. W. H. Cheek, of Henderson, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. A. S. Hall on Gilliam street. , Mr. and Mrs. D, G. Crews, of Tar River, were among the Oxford visit ors Wednesday. - Mrs. Virginius Cheatham and daughter, of Watkins section, were on our streets Wednesday. " A fire of unknown origin, but sup posed to be the work of rats, broke out in the room over the Southern Express office about four o'clock Thursday morning. The flames look ed very angry for a while, but the alert firemen soon had the fire under control. The room in which the fire origina ted was occupied by Mr. Sam Gar rett, but he wa3 not in the room at the time. Mr. Baldy Williams, who occupies a room over the Lyon Drug store, was disturbed by the scent of smoke which either creeped through the wall separating his . quarters from the rooms over the Express i office in which the fire originated, or by the breeze blowing it in the front window of his room. Feeling a sense of suffocation, -Mr. Williams t turned in the alarm, and at the first stroke of the ponderous bell the i horses and their driver was off to the scene of the fire. The damage is comparatively light, Mr. Garret losing his bed room furn iture and some clothing; the front windows of the building were demol ished and the records in the Express office were drenched by water. A large crowd gathered about the burning building and it was the con sensus of opinion that the firemen us ed tact and judgment in subduing the flame before it reached the wood en structure occupied by the Greeks on the corner of College and Hills boro streets as a fruit stand. It is a well known fact that once the flames reach this old building the firemen will have their hands full. On reaching the fire the firemen found a splendid water pressure, but unlike former conflagrations the crowd did not hinder the firemen in their quick and decisive moves. At this juncture it is due to say that the fire bell is a great success. It makes no difference in what part of Oxford a fireman may reside, the first stroke of the hammer never fails to bring him to a sense of realization that the lives and property of the community are at stake. FUNERAL OF MRS. SPENCER The funeral and burial of Mrs. Frank C. Spencer, whose death was announced in the last issue of the Public Ledger, took place from the Methodist church -Wednesday after noon and was largely attended. Dr. A. P. Tyer conducted the last sad rites. Mrs. Spencer was a member of the Philathea class, and as a mark of es teem twelve members of the class, dressed in white, accompanied the re mains to Elmwood Cemetery in auto mobiles and placed a profusion of flowers on the grave. They were : Mrs. W. H. Walters, Mrs. G. C. Dan iel, Mrs. E. C. Hunt, Mrs. Cleveland Moore, Mrs. J. P. Floyd, Mrs. Thad Parham, Miss Annie Wilson, Miss Lillian Hunt, Miss Elizabeth Mc Swain, Miss Ilallle Wood, Miss Nan Glenn, and Miss Carrie Fuller. The, pall bearers wore white ties and the emblematic white flowers on the lappels of their coats. Mrs. Spencer was 36 years old. Three brothers of the bereaved hus band and father attended the funeral. They., were: Messrs. D. W. Spencer, of .Darlington, S. C; A. B. Spencer, of Bennettsville, S. C; and Wright Spencer, of Richmond, and sister, Mrs. W. J. Michael, of Broadnax, Va. Mrs, J. R. Chapell, ,a life long friend of the deceased, came over from Dur-bam. LOST WATCH FOB . TUESDAY . with gold cross and lady's brooch : attachod. . -Reward if returned to J. E. ROUARK, Hughes & Smaw Furniture Company. . , ltpd. Wn.L BE ORDAINED Next' Sunday, Trinity Sunday. the Rev. Lewis N. Taylor, will be ordain ed to the Priesthood by Right Rev. Jos. Blount Cheshire, D. D. Bishop of North Carolina. . The candidate will be presented by Rev. Robt. Bruce Owens, rector of the Church of tho Good Shepherd, Rocky Mount, N. C, formerly rector of St. Stephen's. The ordination sermon will be preached by the Rev.jF. T. H. Horsneld. The Rev. Julian E. Ingle, of Raleigh, will act as the Bishop's Chaplain. . The Rev. B. S. Lassiter, of Marion, N. C, will also assist in the service. Every one is most cordially invited. The service will begin at eleven o'clock. ; DURNED COMMON There has been a. great Improve ment in the common school system of North Carolina. An old-fashioned gentleman, .'being asked whether there were any common schools when he was a boy, assured his interroga tor that the schools he attended were so durned common- that the seats for the children to sit on were made of inverted slabs from a caw mill and none of them had a back rest at that. BRING BACK RAIN COAT SOME one took out of Lyon Drug Store my rain coat with name on. collar. 2t-pd FRANK FURMAN
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