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' '"P ,f JIUJIuJLJjJl PUBLISHED TWICE-AAVEEICrAVEDNESD AYS AND SATURDAYS. VOLUME 29. OXFORD, N. C, SAYIfRDAT, OCTOBER 24, 1914. NO 89 raNFOftCEMENTS ON THE WAY GERMANS SEND EVERY AVAILABLE MAN TO THE FIRING LINE ALONG THE NORTH SEA COAST Railways Working Well While FreshO Troops are Transported Over Them One Way, Wounded Soldiers the Other. CONDENSED WAR NEWS (Ixmdon Cable, Oct. 22.) Fighting of the most desperate character is in progress in west Flan ders and northwestern France. The Belgian army, supported by the al lies, is holding stubbornly to the line of the river Yser, and thus far halted determined efforts of the Ger mans to advance along the coast. This is announced in the French official communication issued this af ternoon and is admitted in the re port of German -general headquarters, which says fighting has been going on since Sunday in the vicinity of Nieu port, which stands at the crossing of the river near the sea. Further to the South the allies are attempting to advance toward Lille for the relief of that city, which has been in German hands for sometime. They also are pushing on to the North and south of Arras. Their ef forts yesterday to advance on Lille, where the Germans hold strong positions, were repulsed, according to the German report. To the south, at he bend of the line, the Germans continue furious but futile attempts to break the French line. Along the Meuse in thj east, according to the French account! the Germans have failed to repulse the French who debouched along the territory in which is situated the Camp Des Romaines, now in the hands of the Germans, in an attempt to cut out that portion of the German army which is thrust towards St. llihiel. Generally speaking, the French claim to have male progress at vari ous points along the front. Paris reports that the allies have destroyed 11 German machine g-iins, two (if which were armored, near Labassed, and a battery of German heavy ar tillery in the environs of St. Mihiel. Both sides are bringing reinforce ments to the western front, where a supreme struggle is on. The Germans are not bringing new troops from the east but are throwing every available man in Belgium into the firing line. They seem to have the railroads working well, alhough they must have been seriously damaged during the battles of August and September. Troops are being transported over them and Dutch sources report that train after train of wounded is being taken back to Germany. In the fighting in this open country, where the men have not the protec tion of elaborate entrenchments the losses must be heavy, everywhere en deavors are made to carry positions by assault. German and Russian reports agree that the situation In the east has not changed, although the armies are in close touch along the east Prussian frontier and across Poland and Gali cia. In Galicia, however, the Austri ans claim to have repulsed Russian attacks and to be making progress in their campaign to drive out the in-Taders. THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY RO YSTER-HO W EIITON Handsomely engraved invitations have been issued reading as follows: Gen. and Mrs. Beverly S. Royster Invite you to be present at the marriage of their daughter Mamie to Mr. Richard T. Howerton, Jr. on Tuesday evening the tenth of Nov ember at half after eight o'clock Baptist Church Oxford North Carolina At Home after the twenty-fifth of November Shelby, North Carolina No cards issued in town. Miss Royster, the bride-elect, is a young lady of rare attaniments. She comes from a long line of intellectu al ancestors, being the eldest daugh ter of Gen. and Mrs. Beverly Royster and the granddaughter of President Hobgood, of Oxford College. She is a social favorite throughout the State. Prof. Howerton, the groom-to-be is a young man of sterling worth and is numbered among the learned edu cators of the State. Photos to be Exhibited in Local Store Windows at Early Date Capt. D. H. Winslow, United States Superintendent of Road Construction, called on the Public Ledger Wednes day and exhibited the pictures of scenes along the National Highway in Granville county. These pictures will be mounted and exhibited in local show windows at an early date. Capt. Winslow says that the manu facturers Record and Western road enthusiasts are anxious to secure a copy of the pictures. The picture of four miles of road out on the Provi dence road is attracting wide spread attention and favorable comment. Capt. Winslow handed us a copy of the rules of the National Highway governing the patrolmen. They are of interest to the general public and are as follows: Inspect your road, its entire sec tion during a rainy day and locate all pond holes. Use the road drag immediately af ter a rain. Fill all depressions with good ma terial. . On no account use worn out ma terial, sod or sand from ditches. Remove all glass, tin. cans, nails, old iron,- etc., from the road bed. Renew all defective plank at cul verts when necessary. Should your road surface be very rough, a spike toothed barrow used while the. road is wet will improve an earth, sand-clay, top-soil or grav el surface : Cut the weeds both sides of the road. Use a mowing machine for this purpose if practical. Cut all brush at inside of the curv es and at railway crossings and culverts- --- - '." " -" Remove the ridge - between the wheel cut and the gutter by using the one-horse cultivator and then use the drag to push the material toward the ditch. See that all culverts are clear.with outlets and inlets in good order. Paint all guard rails at culverts and bridges, etc Renew all signboards, mile-posts, etc., when necessary and give the traveling public all the advice in re gard to the routes within your power. See that all labor and teams in your employ render full and satis factory service. Receive all information and criti cism from the general public in a courteous manner. PLEASURE AND PROFIT When you tome to the Fair next week you. will want to see all that is going on. There is no better place in Oxford than at the Long Com pany's stores which is situated on the corner immediately in front of the Court House. This well known firm extends to you elsewhere in the Public Ledger an invitation to make their store headquarters and it is a pleasure for them to display goods whether you buy or no. HEARTY INVITATION The Perkinson-Green Co. extend a hearty invitation to all good people of Granville county to come to the Fair and make their store head quarters. Everything you may want for the fall and winter is there in great variety See their adv. else where in the Public Ledger. , PIERIAN LITERARY SOCIETY The Pierian Literary Society of the Oxford High School held its weekly meeting in the auditorium of the Ox ford Graded School on Friday, Octo ber 16. The President read a chapter from the Bible followed by the Lord's prayer in concert. Roll was called and the minutes of the last meeting read. The subject for the evening was Columbus, and the papers were read as follows: Discovery of America Miss Geor gia Winston. Letter from a School Boy to His Teacher on Columbus Day Miss Mary Day. Anecdote of Columbus Miss Annie Pendleton. original Letter of Columbus Miss Helen Royster. Composition Miss Muzette Daniel. Columbus The Gem of the Ocean By the Society. . It was an hour which all enjoyed. The Society adjourned to meet Friday, October 23. LOCAL HAPPENINGS About People and Things Thatr of Interest to The Public Ledger Readers GATHERED FROM THE AND COUNTY COMING AND GOING Personal Items About Folks and Their Friends Who Travel Here and 'There TOWN . SOME Closed In The large new JiomVof YOU KNOW AND SOME YOU DO NOT KNOW Mr. Robt. Faucette of Route l.was COLORED GRADED SCHOOL The large and convenient Graded School building for the colored chil dren has been completed by Mr. Lak el, the contractor, and the school will open next Monday and the child ren will at once get ready to attend school in more comfortable and suit able rooms, supplied with modern conveniences. Prof. M. D. Coley, a well equipped colored man of Mt. Olive who stands high as a school teacher, will be the principal and will be assisted by a corps of good teachers. Mr. A. S. Hall has been closed innd on the big break Wednesday. the porches are being built. . .r' 7 ( Mr. John R. Daniel, of Berea. was Repairs Completed The J needed in town Wednesday, repairs to the Owen Warehouse ttie -1 Mr. Chas. Floyd, of Wilton, was in been completed by Ex-Sheriff Wheel-. Oxford Wednesday. er & Co. : Show Windows A number of flur merchants now have attractive shai? windows, displaying in a tastly man ner what they have on sale. StfeJ ! Thumb Cut Mr. Dudley Fuller while sharpening a grass blade Tues day morning got the tip end of one of his thumbs clipped off. Try Electric Man The Electric "jhoe men on Hillsboro street does good work, and you are them a trial. Mr, E. P. Wheeler, of Stem, was in town Wednesday. . v Mr. J. N. Watkins, of Cornwall, was in town Wednesday. Mr. Will Dixon, of Wilton, was a town visitor Wednesday. Mr. Thos. Bobbitt, of Route 3, was 'Mr. S. T. Puckett, of Route 4, was in Oxford Wednesday selling tobacco, an, Oxford visitor Wednesday. Mr. Thos. Longmire, of Dickerson, asked to --give'" was a town visitor Wednesday. ' r-' J.' i-t I Mr. II. F. Moore, of Stem section, Nejv Curbing Mr. Henry Hunt nd j. was on our streets Tuesday. Mr. W. H. Walters have had a gritf Mr. J. L. Kmton, of Route 4, was lithic curbing and gutter put aowi.a:iown visnor weanesaay. in front of their respective home3,i r4 i Mr- w- J- Downey, of Route 7, was Bad Street It is given up nowjtfcat a Iowa visitor Wednesday. College street Is much worse-!an"j ' ftir. Graham Royster, of Buchanan, any road leading into Oxford, anittas an Oxford visitor Wednesday, less it receives some attention j -Mr. R. L. Watkins, of Route 1, was in bad shape this winter. -,fiin Oxford Wednesday. Gone to Annapolis Master Hejr ,Mr. B. T. Hicks, of Bullock, was in Cooper, the Third, went to Richmond town Wednesday. Wednesday morning accompanied lr. B. M. Pugh, of DeWitt, Va., Miss Belle Cooper to join his pjatemtfrwas an Oxford visitor Wednesday, who 50 to Annapolis to make :i.he$rH -:Mf- Lee Green, of Stem, was in Ox home for two years. ' t.'a?5d!'-Wednesday fcellinS tobacco. The Raleigh Fair A goodly: nujnrj i Dr. John Bullock, of Creedmoor, ber of Oxford and GranviUe.yipIefas'.an Oxford visitor Tuesday. attended the State Fair in Raleigh i airs, tuck, or beima, is visiting this week and found It bne of f-vl her brother, Mr. Thos. W. Winston. best held in several years as tKei.Jf -MT. T. Coley, of Dutchville town were more and better exhibits. :;--va-lliip,"i was on our streets'Wednesday. Automobile -Trouble If you get v ju. worxnam, 01 ttouie a, into trouble with your automobDI was in oxford Wednesday, why Sam Booth is just the maato'jBM1,'-I; . Harris, of Creedmoor.was you out as he is -a fine machtoist .and- on streets Tuesday afternoon, knows how to do good work. . See! t Mrs. E. C. Harris, of Route 3, was his card in another column.; H ' f on UJ streets Wednesday. Doing Well We are much pleasedf? ; Mrs. -Blackwell, of Stem, was an to . learn - that- MrsvT. L, mhnaU- visitor Wednesday, v v . who" was operated upon at RockyT Williani ;Hedgepeth,rOf?Sti!m Mount for appendicitis, is doing well, f sectin"was an xf ord "visitor Tues- ; : n . j . 1 ' 5 V nmcu win uc guuu new a iu xit;x j - many friends, Mr an Mrs. Roy Badge tt, of Box Party The public is cordially Route 1, were on our streets Wed- invited to attend a box party which ' hesday. will be given at the Mountain School ! Mr. and Mrs. Norwood, and child on the night of the 27th of October, I ren of Creedmoor, were Oxford visit beginning at 8:00 o'clock promptly, ors Wednesday. Proceeds will go to the school. j Mr- J- E- Frazier, of Route 7, was Younff Counle WTed Married in among the large number of farmers Mecklenburg County, Va., near Sou dan, by Dr. R. H. Marsh, October 21, in town Wednesday. Mr. H. M. Bragg, of Stem, was on Mr. James A. Woltz, of Granville our large oreaK or tooacco weanes County. and Miss Ollie Jones, daueh- day. ter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert and Delia Jones. Mr. M. L. Coley, of Green's was numbered among the Oxford visitors Don' Forget Friends Look at the Wednesday, label on your paper and if you are be-j Mr- Sharpe Newton, of Lyon, was hind on your subscription you are on the Di& break of tobacco in Oxford asked to renew between now and the ' Wednesday. 15th of November at the low price of $1 for the Twice-a-Week Public Led ger. Send on the dollar and, don't put it off. Busy Week The warehousemen, Mr. Ruben Parrott, of Lyon sec tion, was in Oxford Wednesday sell ing tobacco. Mr. J. S. Watkins, of Cornwall, was" on the tobacco market Wednes- buyers, bookkeepers, and everybody j "ay- connected with Tobacco business in Mr- w- A- Sherman, of Berea sec- Oxford has had a strenuous week as I tion' was on our tobacco, market this about a million pounds of tobacco i week. was sold on this market. There were ! Mr- Martin Daniel, of Berea sec farmers here from Person, Vance and j tion' was in Oxford this week selling Mecklenburg county, Va., selling to bacco. Quo Vadis Coming The people of Oxford will have an opportunity to see Quo Vadis, a triumph in photo graphy, at the Orpheum next Mon day night. It is one of the great dramas in which the pictures excel the personal actors in the cast. See details of adv. on last page of this paper. KILLED ON RABBIT HUNT William Lee Kluttz, 15 years old, the stepson of Rev. Paul Barringer, of Mt. Pleasant, a well known Re formed minister, died in Salisbury Friday afternoon from the effects of a gunshot wound accidentally inflict ed by a boy friend .while on a rabbit hunt in Rowan county. The load of shot entered the boy's back and pene trated the lungs. DANGER OF BURNING LEAVES. The season for burning leaves and child fatalities therefrom is on us. It is as natural for a child to wish to play with fire as it is dangerous for it to do so. A season never goes by that we are not reminded of the dan ger by reading .of the death of seri ous injury; from this cause.The child finds matches that should have been placed out if its reach. The pile of leaves is the next step, then comes the . fire and often the fatal conse quence. The practice of older peo ple burning leaves is pernicious and should be stopped. The child is quick to learn and does not realize that it may not be so careful as its elders. ' There is really little excuse for the practice of -burning leaves. THE IMPERIAL TOBACCO PLANT MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED PEOPLE EMPLOYED AT THE LARGE WORKS TWO SHIFTS, WORK ING NIGHT AND DAY CARD FROM SUPT. PITTS Keynote of An Oxford Graded School Boy Reveals Valuable Secret to all Parents One of our former students hav ing gone to another town to school, writes back to one of his teachers at Oxford Graded School that the reason he can study there is that they have a two hours study every night under a teacher in a study hall. "In the mornings," said he, "we have a 40 minute study period in one room. In this period we do not have to study, but I usually get up the les son that I did not have time to get in the study hall. I can learn a lot in two hours. It is not like being at home where you can go off at night and don't have to study. You don't mind it so much when you know you have to do it. On one of our exami nations in literature I made one of the best grades in the class." It strikes me that this boy gives U3 the key note to the situation in Ox ford. Read it carefully and see if you and the school are both not fall ing down with your boy on this line. Is that boy of yours out at night when he should be studying? i J. A. PITTS. OThe Courteous Manager.- His Valu able Assistants and Mr. Wilbur Smith, the Wizzard of the Immense Plant. SWINGING ROUND CIRCLE ON BICYCLES Two bright wide-awake enterpris ing young men, Messrs. Ed. Barnard and John Culnam, of Marinette, Wis., passed through Oxford the past week after spending several days in the vicinity. They are both students of the Wisconsin State University at Madison, but are taking a year off to see their country, thinking such a trip as valuable from the education standpoint. They went east as far as Portland.Maine, crossing the Great Lakes on learner. " Theyleft their home on August 12th and .reached Oxford October 14 th, having wheel ed 2,256 miles and traveled 1000 miles by boat. They are visiting all the large cities and State Universities and acquiring all the information possible about each section of coun try. They plan continung their- trip through Atlanta, Mobile and New Orleans, whence they will take steamer for San Diego, Cal., via Pan- The mammoth plant of the Im perial Tobacco Company, which is worth a mint of money and is of in estimable value to the growth and prosperity of Oxford,, is now in full blast day and night. A visit to this hive of industry at an hour when its thousands of incan descent lights are aglow is a most in teresting sight. We were there Mon day night at the invitation of Col. Bailou, on whose broad shoulders the responsibility of the great plant rests, and what we saw was enough to fill the entire front page of a large city daily. We found Col. Ballou seated at a desk in his handsome private office looking through a batch of letters that bore the postmarks and stamps of the war zone, but he was none too busy to greet us with that pleasantry for which he is noted, and in a mo ment a door rolled back and brought into view the great receiving room of the plant where we saw more than a million pounds of leaf tobacco and from that point we followed the pro cess of preparation step by step through the stemery.the drying plant, the testing room, the weighing and packing department to the farther end of the great works where the hogsheads were loaded into a long string of cars on the sidetracks of the Southern Railway, ready for -the journey to Norfolk and across the sea. In our rounds we came across an isolated rooms, and on peeping through the glass door we saw the wizzard of the plant surrounded by innumerable delicate testing instru ments. Mr. Wilbur Smith.a recent graduate of the University of Virginia, presid es over this department. Samples of tobacco of various grades are convey ed to him on a drying belt, which he exposes to certain temperature, and when it receives his O. K. it is a guarantee that it will stand the salt sea air of the .trans-Atlantic voyage and the clammy atmosphere of the British Isles and the Continent. The word "beautiful" describes the machinery of the Imperial plant. It J is moved by a ponderous dynamo and ama Canal. From San Diego they will wheel to Oregon , and thence re-' the huge elevators and all else runs turn to their home in Wisconsin as smooth as a sleeping top, and the which they expect to reach some time only noise you hear is pleasant music In June, 1915. to the ear. Each department is fire-proof, and ANOTHER BLIND TIGER should the blaze attempt to lick its There was a little stir in municipal ! way through the door to the adjoin- tobacco. Mr. Geo. Elliott, of Creedmoor sec tion, was in Oxford Wednesday sell ing tobacco. Mr. Cliff Pittard, of Hester, was numbered among the Oxford visitors Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hobgood, of Berea, were on our streets Wednes day. Mr. Herbert Faucette, of Bullock, was among the many visitors in Ox ford Wednesday. - Mr. J. D. Newton, of Route 7, was among the large crowd of farmers in Oxford Wednesday. Mr. C. C. Chandler, of Knap of Reeds, was on the' tobacco market Wednesday, Mr. Sam Veasey; of Knap of Reeds, was in Oxford Wednesday selling to bacco. Mr. E. A. Day, of Person county, was in Oxford Wednesday selling to bacco. IVir. and Mrs. R. G. Stem and daughter, of Hester, were numbered with the many Oxford visitors Wed nesday. Mr. Will Montague, of Hester sec tion, was on the tobacco market Tuesday. " Mn Ben Bennett, of Creedmoor, section, was -on our large break of tobacco Wednesday. Mrs. Virginius Cheatham, of Wat kins section, was in Oxford Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Lester Montague and daugh ters spent the week at the old home in Wake county. . Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Whitfield, of Stem section, were among the Oxford shoppers on Wednesday. Mr. Yancey Oakley, of Stem sec- ... itt 3 r . 1 Chief Williford arrested one Wash Kinton, colored, in rear of Upchurch & Currin's with twenty-four pints of tho ardent. Kinton explained to the Chief that he received the liquor through the- express office, but there being the usual mist about such things the Chief brought Kinton be fore His Honor Mayor Stem. In the progress of the hearing two white men came forward and said that a gallon a piece of the whiskey belong ing department it would melt a pew ter bolt, release ponderous weights and hermetically seal the doors be tween the two departments. On suggesting that the people should have an opportunity to see the plant in operation, Col. Ballou said that he would be pleased to ex tend an invitation to all good people as soon as the painters, scrub women and some other minor details are out of the way. It must be ac knowledged that Col. Ballou is a ed to them. Theie was also a color- very busy man with the responsibility ed witness present who testified that this same Wash Kinton tried to sell him some whiskey the night before. Mayor Stem, with his usual lecture to those who handle the vile stuff, bound Kinton over to the Granville County Superior Court in the sum ot $100, and failing to give bond Kinton was locked up in the county jail. A PLEASURE TO FIT lEET Tlje shoe department of the Green Hunt Company is replete in styles. It is now possible, so varied are their lasts, to get a shoe that will fit snug- of such a large plant on hi3 should ers, but happily he is surrounded by an excellent office force, namely, Messrs. Lee Taylor, W. B. Tyer and C. A. Carroll. In walking through the plant we saw more than five hundred people busily engaged in the various de partments. Col. Ballou explained that much of the tobacco we saw come from towns near Oxford, ship ped here to be prepared and packed for foreign ports. He said that when the current was turned on the plant early Monday morning it was expect- ly without cramping your foot. It is ed that it would not be turned oif un a pleasure to this firm to .fit feet.See til Saturday night, and he thought their adv. Ledger. elsewhere in the Public ' LARGEST BREAK RECORDED Those in a position to know say that the sales of leaf tobacco at the Johnson warehouse last Tuesday was the largest in the history of Oxford. This is the warehouse run by Man gum & Watkins, and they sold 88, 000 pounds. The other four ware huuses reached the handsome totals of 75,000 and 80,000. The large break had a salutary effect on busi ness, we are glad to say. BEST MAKE OF MOTORCYCLE IN , first class condition, for sale at a bargain price. Don't-put this off for you will miss the opportunity you'll never have again. Address JOHN A. BAKER, Oxford. 4tpd tion, was among the large crowd of farmers in Oxford this week selling tobacco. this would be the case week week for some time to come. after Help it Out It is to be hoped that all the people of Oxford will aid in giving the barbecue for the enter tainment of the great political gather ing in Oxford on the 31st.- DON'T TRIFLE WITH YOUR EYES. When your eyes need attention you cannot afford to wait until you go about one-fourth blind. The best and safest way for your eyes is to see an Eye Specialist of reputation. Dr. N. Rosenstein, of Durham, will be at Oxford, Tuesday, October 27, stopping at the Exchange Hotel, and at Creedmoor, Wednesday, October 28 th, stopping at the Cen tral Hotel, for the purpose of ex amining eyes and fitting glasses. Dr. Rosen3tein's work needs no in troduction. He has been giving the people of thi3 State the best Optical service for the past eleven years. It. Vt... ?
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