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! "2 1 T - V . PUBLISHED TWICE-AWEEICVEDr3SDAYSv AND SATURDAYS. OXFORD, N. O. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1915. VOLTJMK XXX. .NO. If) USED THE AMERICAN FLAG SEA-BORNE TRADE OF GREAT BRITIAN NOT DISTURBED . ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS THE CROP LIEN SYSTEM FULL TEXT OF SENATOR CUR . RIN'S BILL CUP,; SCHOOLCHILDREN THOSE. WHO GET;;ON THE HONOR ' v. v:"vf -:; BOLL: " ':. " ' . PERSONALLY - MENTIONED THE FINANCIAL STATEMENT GATHERED FROM THE TOWN AND COUNTY SOME YOU KNOW AND SOME YOU : DO NOT KNOW THE GRANVILLE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION Little News of the Battle in Central Poland The Ijosses are Probably Enormous. Happenings That are of Interest to the Many Readers Of the Public Ledger. A Measure That is Creating Consider able Adverse and Favorable Discus sion in Granville. A Full-Honor RoH is One of the Best Personal Items About Folks and Their Friends Who Travel Here and There, There Will Be a Three Days Fair This Year October 13th, 14th, And 15th. News Items Jo Reach The Public PIfM If3 mi -n 1111 ji 11 11 u 11 1 11 11 n 11 11 SUMMARY. OF WAR NEWS The British steamer Lusitania us ed the American flag in crossing the Irish Sea, and an inquiry by the American government into the sub ject of belligerent governments using the flags of neutral states probably will result. The incident bears out, in a measure at least, the German al legation that British merchantmen have been advised to employ the flag of a neutral nation under certain conditions. The captain of the Lusitania, ac cording to American passengers, claimed the right to use the Ameri-r can flag to protect neutral passen gers and mails abroad his ship. The text of the German memo randum regarding the retaliatory measures undertaken by Germany against Great Britian, with respect to the waters surrounding Great Britian and Ireland, including the English Channel, specifically notes that shipping north of the Shetland Islands, in the eastern area of the North Sea, and in a strip along the Netherlands coast thirty miles in width, is not imperiled. Germany expresses hope that neu trals "will show no less considera tion for the vital interests of Ger many than for those of England, and will aid in keeping their citizens and property out of this aree." Only meagre news has been re ceived from Central Poland to indi cate the trend of the great battle being waged west and southwest of Warsaw, where Field Marshal von Hindenburg has been hurling his re inforcement army furiously against the Russian lines, in another attempt to break through to Warsaw. LlH; : ; , ........ It is believed the battle continues, and it appears certain there has been heavy loss of life. In the west the customary artil lery duels continue, but it is com paratively quiet in that theatre of operations. AN EXPLANATION Mr. J. B. Powell Seta Matters Straight At the regular meeting of the Board of County. Commissioners held the first Monday in January, 1915, said Board passed a resolution re questing our Representative to in troduce a Bill allowing them to pay the Clerk to said Board a salary of seventy-five dollars per month in lieu of all other compensation for ser vices rendered them, such as making out tax books, drawing orders, re cording the proceedings of their meetings, making out annual reports and various other duties that are too numerous to mention. Many con scientious citizens of the county think that. the Board passed this Resolution paying the Clerk this sal ary. If you will stop in your excite ment you will recall the facts that the Board is not a Legislative Body and could not vote a salary prohibit ed by the existing statute. This compensation if passed by the pres ent Legislature would give the Clerk for all duties rendered said Board otherwise than computing the tax books thirty-five dollars per month. This is not an apology of the Board and is not from the Board, but it is to those who desire to be informed of the facts, and is from, Respectfully yours, J. B. POWELL. Swat Him, Doctor The pleasant weather for the past few days has a tendency to bring out the pesky flies. We "fixed" the' first one we saw and as soon, as he had finished the job we thought of the patron Saint of Ireland who drove all the snakes from Emerald Isles, and then we thought of Dr. Hays, our ex cellent County Physician, who can drive alj the flies out of Granville if the' people will do what he wishes them to do, and it is an easy task at that. Unless their breeding places are eliminated before many succes sive warmer days eome the increase will begin to be very noticeable. If the horse stables are cleaned up once a week and the manure put out of reach, the fly will find it much more difficult to multiply. ' . Miss Lillian Spencer week end with friends Junction, Va. spent the at Buffalo Prohibition in Oxford Not every man in Oxford who ad vocates prohibition wants the stopper shoved in too light. ,Now Keep Sweet "It is more blessed to give than to receive." Now will you consult your lable and send U3 that dollar? Welcomes Sunshine The farmers welcome the sunshine as it will give them an opportunity to burn their plant beds. Prominent Visitor Old Sol, who it will be remembered spent some time here last summer, spent a few hours in Oxford this week. Is Improving Mrs. Irvin Mangum, who has been suffering with an attack of grippe, we are pleased to learn is getting better. Growing Less and Less , From what we can learn there is less than a million pounds of tobacco in the hands of the farmers of Gran ville county. In Neat Sacks Purina Poultry Feed, in checker board bags, the best on the market, is handled in Oxford by Taylor Bros. See adv. on last page of this paper. The Reason AVhy The reason that the Public Ledger favors a law prohibiting the ship ment of -liquor into Oxford is to pre vent some of our people from making monkeys of themselves. Building Activities Contractors tell us that they are expecting building activities in Ox ford to begin in earnest as soon as the weather will permit. Such- talk is indeed significant and ; encourage ing. Report Unfavorable The committee in the Legislature to which the bill to reduce the com missions ; of warehousemen on the sale of leaftobacco voted unanimous ly against the reduction, and hence will be reported unfavorable. High Rate of Taxation Mud tax is higher than school tax and less elevating. The sheriff does not collect the mud tax, but it is be--ing paid and it is higher than the present price of wheat. Blame it on the War There are at least a half dozen prospective home purchasers in Ox ford at the present time, but each of the number appears to be waiting for something, they know not what. Blame it on the war and let it go at that. Young Ladies Will Camp As a result of a neat little adver tising folder, setting forth the ad vantages Southport enjoys, the.senior classes of the Greensboro College for Women and Peace Institute are going to Southport during the summer for a long camping expedition. Will Give an Address at Stovall. Mr. R. E- Graebel, representative of the Southern Railway will give an address at. the Stovall school on Fri day evening, February 19th. The Nation's Foundation will be the sub ject of his address illustrated with stereopticon slides. A Municipal Noise A noise is heard around' the corner as if the cmuing election for town commis. iiers would soon be a wide awake matter. It is said a meeting will be held at an early date to talk over the matter. This is all right. The people are the bosses. They can elect any man or set of men if enough get together. A Soothing Horn Discussing with Mayor Stem the advisability of passing a law compell ing all automobiles to be equipped with horns with a soothing sound, the Mayor replied: "The trouble about automobiles is that sometimes they will put a pedestrian to sleep, no matter what the sound of the horn." ' " The Reason Why "How come?" "How come what?" "The Public Ledger to have only four pages thia issue. - "Simply, because the business men of Oxford didn't help us to make it bigger." Business will pick up shortly and the merchants will be in a position to advertise. Virgilina on the Map The Farmers' Hardawr Go., of Virgilina, Va., is going to put Virgi lina on the map, They have arrang ed for a big cash sale to begin on February 16th and continuing for three successive days, ' They an nounce the most complete andl up-to-date line of staple hardware ever of fered to the trade at reduced prices. See adv. on last page of this paper. Senator Titus Currin spent a few hours in Oxford Saturday on his way out home to spend Sunday with his family. While ift conversation with him on the street several of his con stituents came up and congratulated him on the stand he has taken on the abolishment of the present crop lien system. The Senator explained that ho had consulted a large number of the people of Granville before, going to Raleigh and that he found a ma jority in favor of abolishing the pres ent crop lien system. v:'-'r Being antxious to secure as nearly as possible an expression of the will of the people of Granville the Senator will be in attendance at the Mass Meeting to be held in the . Court House at the noon recess of Court next Saturday. SENATOR CURRIN'S BILL A Bill To Be Entitled An Act To Abolish The Crop Lien System. The General Assembly of North Caro lina do enact: y . .fy Section 1. That Sections two thous and and fifty-two, two thousand and fifty-three, two thousand and fifty - four, two thousand and fifty-five, to j Tfehih Grade iSuzette Daniel, Al thousand and " fifty-six, 1 and ; two v lelLe Hicks. - thousand and fifty-seven of the reyis'-j al of one thousand' nine hundred andjv - Market five, be and the same are hereby re tV : ( pealed. , vThe Oxford Tobacco Market is still Section 2. No chattel -mortigdge- doiyi business, but not as much as upon unplanted or growing ; crop's Warehousemen would like to see shall be valid to pass , any to sell several hundred against creditors or ehTBt'- Pads set and the hope is valuable ' consideration -unWtlCyeryt fanner who has any to crops are matured. , .: -:- V - . ? Section 3. This act shall bff:'in"ef - feet from and after thef first; day 'of; January, nineteen hundi ::d- teen. THE HOME TFJLJ2GltlT? CC Two Thousand Dolfcaw WRlT Mr. Rives, the local manager of the Home Telegraph and Telephone Company, promises better services .in Oxford. Heavy wires and poles that will stand the sleet and wind storms will be marshalled into service, this spring. This means that twenty-fiye thousand feet of copper wire cable will be swung throughout the town and the system extended out beyond the corporate limits in all directions. Three hundred set wire cable will be used on Hillsboro and Main streets. New poles are to be erected by the Carolina Power and Light Company and it has been definately settled that the Telephone Company will have their poles on one side of the .street and that the Carolina Power and Light Company's poles will be on the opposite side of the street. This means that Oxford is to have an up-to-date telephone system, one that will stand the storms. RETURNS FROM EXTENDED TRIP Mr. Ilillman Cannady Visits Eastern Shore of Virginia and Maryland After an absence of two weeks Mr. Hill man Cannady returns from an ex tended trip in the interest of the Taylor-Cannady- Buggy - Company, which took him to all the towns and cities on the Penensula of Virginia and the eastern shore of Maryland, and during the entire trip he never heard a word about the war until he reached Richmond. Mr. Cannady ays that business is comparatively steady in all the towns he visited and that he met with more success than he anticipated. A goodly number of orders for buggies were secured. Mr. Cannady is much encouraged byhis trip and states that the Taylor-Can nady Buggy Company will resume work on a' small scale and increase the force as fast as the orders come in. Heretofore the great bulk of the Oxford-made buggies were sold in the cotton belt, the section that re ceived the hardest blow, but now that they are to be introduced into a sec tion of the country not influenced by the war we hope that our buggy fac tories will soon be. working overtime. Friday afternoon, February 12th, at 4 o'clock, at the home of; Mrs".; A. H. Ppwell, for the work of the Kings' Daughters an attractive and varied program of- giving pictures, recita tions, songs and refreshments,; Ad mission 25 cents. Public cordially invited. ' - adv. CONCRETE BRICK WALKS BUILT. One dollar per sq. yard, Curbing, 20 cents per foot. Sample may be seen at residence of Mr. H. M Shaw. Oxford Brick '. & Tile Works. ' it ,Firs Grade-Mittie Lee Blackwell, Jacb'raii& Green, Henry Hall, E. iKidwardSam Parham, Tabitha Patterson, Doris Watkins. ; Second. Grade Betsy Baird, Lucy TaylpfiBaird, - Liizzie Blackwell, Matt CurriftvJ Charlotte Easton, ; Virginia Hart; Inez Hobgo6d,Ed Hulse, Louise Jeffreys; Lloyd Magee, Elizabeth Lumpkin, Inez White, " - . Thir4 Grade Thomas Booth,Thomas Cahha$yf Eugenia Currin, CanvEast on, Alice Hall, Courtney Peace,Thom aa Rofiier, Madison Usry, Jack Usry, JohttpVSPliams, James Webb. Fbttrth Grade Pattie May Green, llarvey lagee, Inez .- Patterson, Dora Woolf, iT "FifthtCrade Ruth Bryan, Sarah Co'vingtpn, Hugh Easton, Charles Eastern,!,;. Effle Lee, Robert Sellers, BernjUsryf Sarah Woolf. SJxtbf Grade Ruth Howard, Eliza bcfiHunt, '-"Idle Kerr Taylor, Olive wo;-v.-.;; . .. - ; vSeitenth Grade Agnes Cannady. SahtiillIRuth Parham. vExiith .:- Grade Emmie Cooper Medf d, Earle Hunt. - .Nh Grade Elizabeth Floyd, Ida fvyaltcnk H vxu nasten it to tne market. The wjeatEer. is all right now for handling - 40"1" warehousemen say, and .ttf; onght to be some fair breaks in fCTEVIVAL SERVICES ... TS y Join The Oxford mm v Despite iih&XLxxia':'the- revival services : now in progress at the Oxford Eaptist church were well attended' : ' &!ernoon - and evening lhroughout&e week, and on Sunday morning; the first bright day of the series,. the church would not begin to hold the-great throng that knocked for admittance. The solid and whole some scriptural sermons delivered by Dr. McDaniel, of Richmond, is having a good effect on the community. The style cf: Dr. McDaniel 's sermons is the mighty truth magnified." He j discourages any tendency towards ex- citement, and his sermons are so plain that a child is attracted by the logical utterances and the hardened sinner aroused to a sense of duty. As a means of the revival- - more than fifty have confessed faith in . Christ and will join the church. The reviv al services will come to a close this Tuesday night with a sermon by Dr. McDaniel. THE RECORDER'S COURT Rocky Mount Attorney Answers In quiries of Committee -Mr. . R. L. Fountain, of Rocky Mount, in answer to inquiries made by a committee acting for the Gran ville Commercial Club writes as fol lows: "The Recorder's Court of Nash county has jurisdiction of all misde meanors in criminal matters and civil jurisdiction up to five hundred dol lars; in matters arising out of con tract and. tort matters up to two hun dred dollars. The court has been very beneficial to us. It is a great saver of expense to the county and relieves the Superior Court Docket. We do not have the expense of -keeping crowded iail,3 with criminals like we did under (he old system. Of course the usefulness of the Court de pends largely upon the kind of Re corder you elect. He ought to be a man of some ability.' ' We fail to see the necessity of a Recorder's Court for Granville county- We think that our present court facilities arc ample to meet all" the demands of justice, nor have we dis covered any demand for same on the part o ur. citizenship. , Providnece School Mr. . R. E. Graebel, representative of the Southern Railway .will give an addrGssat providence school cn Fri day February, 19th, at noon. His address will be the Nation's Founda-. iicn based on the schooL the farm j and . the" home. Dr. Hays will also ; be present and make an address on health. ; All patrons of " the school Jtq asked to moot . at the school r bull ding cn Thursday a f tcrncon to Jio.l yard cjjsnrodi'of tc dbrij frcn: the now building. .. . y 'Church Mr. John Moss, of Wilton, was an Oxford visitor Saturday. t Mr. Joe Gooch, of Wilton, was in Oxford Saturday. Mr. Hugh A. Jordan, of Henderson, was an Oxford visitor Sunday. Mr. Will Crews, of Clay section, was in town Saturday. Mr. W. J. Currin, of Route 7, was on our streets Saturday. Dr. Morris is attending the Agents meeting in Henderson this week. Miss Renn, of Route 6, was on our streets Saturday. Mr. Roy Crews, of Salem section, was in Oxford Saturday. - - Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Harris and son, of Route 3, were in town Saturday. Miss Gertrude Powell is visiting her old home near Smithficld. Mr. Thos. Fleming, of Lyon, was cn our streets Saturday. Mr. Graham Daniel, of Providence, was in Oxford Saturday. Mr. Will Dixon, of Wilton section, ?as in town Saturday. Mr. M. Murray Robinson, of South Boston, Va., spent Sunday in Oxford Mr. Zeb Overton, of South Gran ville, was in town Monday; Mr. W. H. Averett, of Creedmoor, was in Oxford Monday. Mr. D. T. Winston, of Oak Hill township, was in Oxford Monday. Mr. John Brummitt, of Route 2, was an Oxford visitor Monday. Mr. ; Geo. Royster, of .Route 6, was in town Monday. Mr. and Mrs. John Burnett, of Route 5, were in Oxford a few hours Saturday. ' Miss Hattie Harris, of Route 3, was among the Oxford visitors Satur day. Representative Brummitt returned from Raleigh Saturday and attended Court Monday and Tuesday. Mr. W. T. Blackwell and daughter. Mrs. Stem, of Route 3, were among the Oxford visitors on Saturday. Mr. John Stedman returned to Ox ford from' Chapel Hill Saturday and remained until 'Tuesday looking after some business matters. Good Pictures The Orpheum Theatre and its mov ing pictures have not only been a dif fuser of morality but of education to our people as none but high class pic tures are put on the circuit, and are enjoyed nightly by a large number of our citizens who find it a delightful place to spend an hour in profitable entertainment. In speaking of mov ing pictures President Schurman, of Cornell University, says that the "moving picture show has proved the most powerful agent for the upbuild ing of sound morals in college stu dents, and is making manly fellows of his students. Instead of going to saloons and guzzling beer they spend 10 cents to see a thrilling four reel drama -and return home with all the excitement they want." We wish the affable proprietors of our cosy theatre continued success in the en tertainment of our people. It Isn't Your Town It's You Finding Dr. McDaniels, the noted Richmond divine In the Commercial Club rooms Saturday with a spare moment, we ventured the assertion that we have a nice little town here. "Yes," he said, "Oxford is a fine town and there are a lot of good people here, but 1 suppose there are i few knockers here." "Yes, Doctor, we have them, too." Reaching for his pocket book he leisurely fished out a poem, read it in his characteristic good style and handed it to us with the remark that he hoped it might do some good. THE POEM (Charleston Gazette) Tf you want to live in the kind of town Like the kind of a town you like. You needn't slip your clothes in a grip And start on a long, long hike. You'll only find what you left behind Now there's nothing that's really new It's a knock at yourself when you knock your town. It isn't your town It's you. Real towns are not made by men afraid Lest somebody else f?ets ahead. When everyone works an.d nobody snirks You can raise a town from the dead. And if while you make your personal stake - - Your ifeighbor can make one too. Your town will be what you want sea, ' ' It isn't your town it's. YOU. to . NOTICE Because of the bad condition of. the roads there will not be a teachers' nleeting on the second Saturday of February. Next meeting will be an nounced later. " J. F. WEBB, Supt. County Schools. -Sale of Land . We call attention to the sale of val uable lands advertised elsewhere in this paper by A. A. Hicks, trustee. Mr. Eugene Crews, who did so much the past year to make the Granville County Fair a success, has accepted the permanent secretary ship of the Fair with headquarters in the rooms of the Commercial Club on College street. Mr. Crews recent ly returned from a meeting of the Fair Secretaries held in Greensboro, where he gained much advanced in formation, which he has already ap plied to making the 1915 Granville County Fair the greatest fair ever held in the county. We learn from Secretary Crews that there will be a three days fair this year October 13, 14, and 15th. There will be an Oxford Day, an Edu cational Day and a Farmer's Union Day. It is understood that the Fair As sociation will sell $1,200 shares of stock to enlarge the grounds and add a trial track. With a small balance in hand there is every assurance that the Fair is a permanent fixture in Granville. Mr. Thornton W. Yancey, treasurer of the Granville County Agricultural Association, makes his report cover ing the receipts and disbursements for 1914 as follows: Receipts Balance on hand Jan. 24, 1914 $ 52,39 From State Treasurer. ... 100.00 From Agricultural Depart ment of State 180.00 From advertisements .... . 61.00 From Colored Fairs 150.00 From Concessions 133.50 From cash premiums donat ed . 82.50, From Gate Receipts 2,163.10 Total $2,922.49 Disbursements General Expense $ 942.17 Paid part payment of Secre tary salary 117. 0Q Premiums paid by Associa tion. ... ... . . . . v . .... 1,293.50 Paid note In' favor "of B. M. Caldwell . . . 200.00 Paid note In favor of Nat- ' ional Bank if Granville.. 247.00 Balance cash in bank 122.82 Total $2,922.49 STEADY FLOW OF GAS The Southern Gas Improvement Com pany Makes Improvements The management of the Southern Cias Improvement Company announ ces the acquisition of a number of en gineers said to be very efficient in their work, and state that they are now prepared to give high class and satisfactory service without initerrup tion. It is announced that a consid erable sum of money has been spent in additions and enlargements, and in the installation of a duplicate set of apparatus at Henderson and that the service in Oxford will hereafter be uninterrupted. The directors of the company are: John D. Shattuck, gas expert affiliated with big gas plants in the east and as far south as Tam pa, Fla.; W. F. Harold Brraun, Her man Stein, Clarence E- Kuemmerle, and E. C. Worrell and J. C. Kittrell, the latter two of Henderson. Tickle Sally Neal and Dye One cold morning about 4 o'clock, says the Winston Tobacco Journal, when wagons were being unloaded for a big sale at one of the houses one- of the proprietors was standing near the scales watching the weigh ing of tobacco. The first negro roll ed his truck on the platform and called out the name of the farmer so as his name could be entered. "Tickle," cried out the negro. Roll ing his truck off he was followed hy the next one, who called out "Sally," and then the next one followed and called out "Neal & Dye." There it was in quick succession. Tickle- Sally Neal and Dye. Sale of Real Estate We call attention to sale of land by T. Lanier, trustee, on back page of this paper. Your State and County Taxes were due October 5, 1914. 1915 is lure and your unpaid taxes is a liability on me. Besides I am called upon daily for money to satisfy the State school,. County and Road Funds, with noth ing in hand to pay over. It Is a busi ness proposition now. They have the law to force me. After this you uill be called upon personally unless you call at office and settle. B ready. The law fo.rces me to collect and the expense too great to make more than one trip. If you haven't paid year taxes this notice is for you. S. C. HOBGOOD, SherilL i ' :-.'-
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