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PAGE FOUR PUBUCUEDGER AND QXFORDy BANNER Entered as second-class matter at Ox ford postomce Published Semi-Weekly by BRITT & COBLE Jno. T. Britt. Dan. A. Coble. Editors and Owners Price of Subscription One Year $ 1 50 Sim Months .75 Three months 50 Advertising Rates Onfi Pais-e 1 time . . 18.00 Half page 1 time . 10.00 Quarter poge 1 time 5.00 One page 2 times 80.00 Half page 2 times ........ 15.00 Quarter page 2 times . ' 9-00 One Column 1 time 3.00 One Column 2 times . 6.00 One Col. I mo.each Ins't 2.50 Half Column 1 time 1.50 Half Col. 1 mo. each Ins't 1.25 Quarter Column 1 time 1.00 Quarter Column 2 times 1.50 H Col. 1 mo. each Ins't 75 Heading notices 1 cent a word each insertion Cash must accompany ad. unless parties have account with us. The Illinois Senate is equally divid ed between Democrats and Republi cans, while a Bull Moose senator can cast the deciding vote. Secretary Josephus Daniels will get $12,500 in the compromise of the Wake Water Company action. It is 16 2-3 per cent of the amount sued lor. Promissory notes for money bor rowed or owning are invalid now un less stamped with internal revenue stamp at the rate of 1 cent for each $100 or fractional part of $100. . PUBLIC LKDGElt WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1014 ' i ii There are being mailed from the of fice of the Secretary of State revised lists of automobile owners in all the counties of .the State as licensed for the current year, the number in the State being 14, 7 00. The fiscal year for the . automobile licenses runs from June to June, so that this is a mid year list and is for the information of county officers and automobile dealers. , The State colony at Gardner, Mass., has a modern Rip Van Winkle who has been asleep for ten months. He knows nothing of the present war and physicians claim he may sleep for years. Statewide prohibition carried in Colorado in the recent election by a majority of 11,572, according to the official canvas compiled last Friday. The vote for the measure was 129, 589 and against 118,017. If some men can't get fame one way they are perfectly satisfied to get it some other way. In order to prove to the world that he is its champion pie eater, a New Jersey man has eat en 5,000 pies in four months- Eleven hunters dead and twelve wounded is the toll of this year's hunting season in Minnesota. The period is only 20 days- The number o deer and moose killed is the larg est in the records of the game ward en's department. At Afton, Oklahoma, an officer saw :a man with a heavy grip.- Thinking the man a bootlegger, the officer forc ed him to open the case. As he 4J4 jso about a hundred snakes wriggUid out.' The officer is, according to re ports, still shaky. Commissiojjer Young says it's the "business of the insurance companies to pay the war revenue ta? on insur ance policies issued in the futsF9,ajd the public is notified not to pay this tax, as the insurance companies are liable for it. Maj. W. W. Wood has resigned as stamp deputy of Greensboro and W.I. Underwood, editor of The Patriot.has fceen elected commissioner to succeed iim, Greensboro sells about $7,000 in tobacco stamps and to this is now added the war revenue stamps. In the opinion of the leaders of both parties this session of Congress will he devoted largely to the appropria tion measures, and it will keep both houses working full time in order to dispose of them by the time Congress automatically ends on March 4. . The income tax law caused the de duction of a total of $16,000 from the salaries of Representatives in Con gress for the current year. The de ductions were made in the checks is sued by the sergeant at arms to the personnel of the Hows. The money will be turned back into the treasury. Salisbury is setting the pace oa weights and measures. Coal sold In that place must be weighed and pass ed on by the city and a policeman is empowered to see that it is done. What a lopping off there would be in weights in many towns were this law in force. The total production of cotton in the United States for the season of 1914-1915 will amount to 15,966, 000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight. The stipulated production in North Carolina is 950,000 bales and in South Carolina 1,500,000. Texas leads in production with 4, 560,000 and Georgia is second with 2,650,000. Though to be without precedent is the remarkable case of Mrs. A. M. Snyder, of Mendota, 111., who gave birth to -children five weeks and one day apart. The baby, a five-pound boy was born the latter part of Oct ober. The second child, born last week, weighed aeen pounds.and also js a boy. Both infants and the mother are doing well. Surgeons say there Is no case oa record which approach es this. t In his famous Boston speech, Hen- ! ry W. Grady expresses himself thus of our 'goodly Southland: "A perfect climate, above a fertile soil, yields to the husbandman every product of the temperate zone. There by night the cotton whitens beneath the stars, and day by day the wheat locks -the- unshine in its bendefl sheaf. In the same held the clover steals . me fragrance of the wind and the tobac co catches the quick, aroma of tb rains." MUST PAY FOR THE PAPER Jud,e Gecrge Thomas of Colu buo, Neb., recently decided that if a man accepted a paper that is sent him he must pay for it. The decision was rendered in the case brought by the Columbus (Neb). Telegram against a man for $2.35. The Telegram had been sent to the man's home and he had accepted the paper. When called upon to pay for it he refused and suit was brought. When Judge Thomas heard the evidence he in structed the jury to bring in a ver dict for the Telegram. Judge Thomas ruled that the old common law prin ciple that what a man received and used he was bound to pay for applied in this instance. Farmers always plant safely when they produce something to eat. . It they all grow tobacco they will find out by sad experience that the de mand for tobacco next year will be about like that for cotton over whelmed by over production. There is a demand in North Carolina for $20,000,000 worth of food and feed stuffs. It is a wise farmer who pro duces that for which there is a large home demand. Next year the world, including ourselves, will need more of bread and meat than it will of tobacco. Business is once more finding itself on firm ground.When the very foun dations of finance and commerce rocked four months ago in the eco nomic convulsions attending the out break of the war in Europe it was difficult to believe that a sure footing would be reeoyered in anything like the comparatively brief . interval which has since elapsed. j?h banking and business s community, however, kept its head despite the difficulty ol keeping its feet, and as a result al most normal - conditions have been estored. New York Sun. If a member of your tamily died, would you print the obituary on a bill board? If your wife entertained, would you send an account of it to the theatre programme man? If you were to enlarge your business, would you advertise it in a hotel register? If you Wre going to have a wedding in your family, would you get out a handbill? You would send such items to a newspaper, wouldn't ypu? Then Avhy don't you put your adyertiae- ments in a newspaper? Every nian who uses a billboard is adding to nature faking- The newspapers build your town. The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot thinks the - Atlanta Constitution is "too sweeping ifli its assertion when it de clares that "the United States, with the possible exception of China, is the only country on tbe face of the globe, which cut off entirely from tbe rest of the globe could be self-sus taining for an indefinite period." WelJ, we might manage to make a good liyiag and go on living off each other, as we do when a high Repub lican tariff shuts us in from a large part of the trade of the world, but even then, isn't it true that most of our boasted prosperity comes from our financial and trade relations with the world? In the -rounding up of the compila tions for the forthcoming biennial report by State Department of Ed ucation, it develops that the rural school library movement has reached suck prppprtions that there are now in the State 1:3, 70 original libraries and 1,490 supplemental. Of this number 102 original anjj Q supple mental libraries have only been re cently issued in the completion of the fiscal year of the department, Novem ber 30. In these libraries the State invests $10 each, the county and the community $10 each, making $30 for each original library and for the sup plemental libraries the investment is $5 each for State, county and com munity. This makes an investment of above $407,100 in original libra ries and f 22,450 in supplemental libraries. EIGHT SETS OF TWINS The wife of West Graves, a negro of Caswell county, has just presented her husband with the eighth consecu tive set of twins. The young couple have been married about 13 years, the knot having been tied by Squire vTiMioii when he was justice of the peace. A remarkable circumstance thereof is the fact that in eacn set oi twins was a boy and a girl. There are eight children living, one of each set having died. One negro was killed and three others injured while unloading ft ear load of poles at Graham last week.. While at work one of the supports that held the timbers on the cars gave way and they were caught be neath the logs, The injured were placed in "the hospital here and are recovering. They are Henry Boyd, Murray Counts and Jeff McLennon. Mr. W. S. Stevens, who is known throughout the length and breadth of the -county as "Judge" Stevens, was sworn in for the seventh time as Clerk of the Superior Court of Johns ton county. He has already served in this office for twenty-four years. He is regarded as one of the best and most efficient clerks in the State. He keeps the office in such condition that almost every grand jury calls especial attention to it. He has such a hold on the people of the eounty that he had ao opposition whatever this year, either in the Democratic primary or the . general election. Smithfield Herald. IN A DIL.EMA From a well known travelling sales man, who represents a wholesale hjuse which deals exclusively in fine white cottcn goods and linens, we learn that one of the big problems hla house now faces is that of obtain in j its lines of goods. Its two sources of supply have been practically cut off the American manufacturers having gotten cold feet and quit business, while the European manu facturers, who have been selling im mense quantities of these goods in this country, have been knocked out by the war. American manufacturers of cheaper grades of cotton goods haven't the nerve and the money"to put in the machinery to produce the finer grades, the available supply of which is now said to be rapidly di minishing. Wilmington Star. WORKED ONLY FIVE MONTHS IN ELEVEN A farmer in this county was no tified recently that he must pay off a lanci mprtagage. he came to a Smithfield attorney to see if he could get the mortgage transferred. In conversation about the matter the farmer admitted that he ha d not worked over five months this year to December 1st. The attorneys told him that was a poor way to pay off debts. Most people work very well and some of them work so much they make life a burden by so doing, but it must be admitted that some do lose lots of valuable time. Every man should want to accumulate something,and to do this is neces sary to make time count. Farming requires twelve months work every year, and those who lose too much time may expect to fail. For some time it has been almost impossible to get any work done and one reason for this is that so many people will not stick to work. Times would be better now if certain people had plac ed more value on time and not lost so much of it. Smithfield Herald. NO MERRY WIDOWS IN CHINA There are no merry widows in China. When a Chinese husband dies his widow is despised by every member of her family as a woman who has in curred the wrath of the gods. This and other conditions among Chinese women was described by Mis HieDing Lin at a meetings of the Wo man's Trade Union League in Schil ler Hall. Miss Lin is a senior medi cal student at the University of Illi nois. "Widows are not the only suffer ers in China," she said. "After a for mal introduction i$ is customary for one to ask May I know your honor able age?" in order to determine the correct form of address. "An older person is addressed by one form of 'you,' while a person younger than oneself is addressed by another form. "The teachings of Confucius were blame-I for the condition of Chinese women. " 'Ignorance is woman's virtue,' is a teaching of Confucius which every man bears in mind," said Miss Lin. "The chief vices of women, accord ing to Confucius, are that they eat and talk too much and fail to obey their mothers-in-law. '.'Only when a woman becomes a moter-inrlaw goes she obtain com plete liberty.'' Miss Lin added that in China it is commonly peneye women have no souls. Chicago Paper, MOTHER MARY Looming large upon the Christ mas horizon is the figure of Mother Mary. She embodies that mother love which, until her Son was born, was earth's loftiest ideal and ex ample of unselfish love. What sacri fices mothers are making the world around to create Christmas happi ness for others. Let us lay a Christ mas wreatlj of rejf, for love, and of green, for mem pry, upop the name of motherhood today, ' ": "CARIKTER" GOOD A homesteader of Roundup, Mont-, who signs himself w. H. B., has writ ten to County Judge Rothberger ask ing him to "hunt up" Mrs, Grace Parker, who recently obtained a di vorce in the County Court. W. H. B. is, lonesome and wants a wife. His letter follows: "Judge Rothberger: "Dear Sir: Judge, do you think you cood have time to hunt up the laidie you just divorced by the naim .of Mrs. Grace Parker and have her wright me with a vue to a nother step in matarmonial life. My age is forty-one, high 5 feet 4inches. Just proved up on a one-quarter section heare. Can send good refearance to carikter." BEING ABLE TO GIVE The gift of being able to give is rich Christmas largeness. Some one unknown to us has put it into verse "Look on all His gifts around thee gifts that make it joy to live; nest of all. O royal kindness He has given the power to give, He has filled thy hands with bless ings, wnicn tie diqs inee scat ter wide; Calls thee friend, and not His ser- vant.friend to labor at his side" DON'T FORGET THE OXFORD lOc Even if Santa Claus had helped us buy the holiday goods w are showing our store couldn't have been made to look more like a corner of his great Christmas Gift Shop. Of all these various kinds of gifts, we have the biggest, best and most tempting priced display ever shown In this town.Christ mas things from literally all the world have been gathered here for you. OXFORD 10c STORE Next to Carolina Power and Light Co. THANKS WHEN WE GET IT We modestly suggest That Christmas draws near. And a little will pay For this -paper a year, if you send it in time You perhaps will decree That we-uns and ours Shall partake of tur-kee. We give your our thanks And this gentle hint, For that little you send Direct from your mint. RUN an advertisement in our WANT column, and see what surpris ing results you will get in return. COAL! COAL !! 2,000 lbs. 1,000 lbs. 500 lbs Splint $ 6.50 $3.25 $1.75 Pocahunta tump $ 7.50 $3.75 $2.00 Anthracite ... $10.00 $5.00 $2.65 Discount for cash $ .40 $ .20 $.10 Thou. HiaAnnnta An nnt annlv tr customers who have unpaid bills. The usual charge, 2cts per 100 lbs for putting m the house and 3cts for carrying up stairs, and a rebate of 50c per ton t3 those who haul their own coal will be made. All coal kept under cover and screened before delivery. OXFORD ICE COMPANY r If You Want to Fight go to Germany. If You Want to Talk War go to England. If you Want to Become" Independent Attend Our Mi CI ON I IT -O Ideal WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10.30 A..1VI. We have sub-divided into small tracts the Filmore Adcock Home place, which lies two and one half miles south of Creedmoor on th3 Oxford and Raleigh road. The soil produces splendid crops of tobacco, corn and all crops grown in this section. There is a good dwelling, four good tenant, houses, fobaccp' barns, two large5 stable barns, one large smokehouse, corn crib, carriage house and a number of smaller outhpuses, J'wo orchards with Splendid bearing fruit trees,a fine grape vine on the place. One hundred and twenty-five acres of this land is as fine low grounds ' as' can - be found anywhere. Good pasture land. 1,000,000 feet of Timber, oak ancf pine, estimated to be on the prop erty, and nearly 1,000 cords of cord-wood. NOW, REMEMBER, that you can buy these small farms at your own price the terms will be easy. Go out and take a look at the property. Real estate values are increasing every year, Just be cause no more land is being made; but our population is growing all the time, people are doing more intensive farming these days, and what a person used to get off of one hundred acres, by the present day method you can get off of fifty acres. You make a small -cash payment, and the crops on the place will pay tjie balance. Remember, it is the man who backs his judgment with his mon ey, who has money wiUi which to back his judgment. FREE BIG BARBECUE DINNER FREE Be Sure to Meet Us on the Ground DON'T FORGET THE TIME, PLACE AND DATE. WE SELL, RAIN OR SHINE LADIES ESPECIALLY INVITED Good IVIusic by Own Stair Band For Further Information See Our Special Representative at Creedmoor SALE CONDUCTED BY Home Office - - qREEJNVILLE, N. C. "THE PREMIER AUCTION PEOPLE" J OXFORD The Only Dependable Market For Your Tobacco Tin 1 4 IS LEADER BECAUSE OF LONG EXPERIENCE AND HARD W0RH FOR THE FARMER. MAKE THE BANNER YOUR SELLING PLACE AND JOIN THE THOUSANDS OF SATISFIED CUSTOMERS WHO SELL WITH ME. YOUR FRIENDS, W. Z. MITCHELL.
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