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1 TT 1 T7T r c THE COUNTY, PAPER PUBLISHED TWICE-A-WEEK WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS TRADE 'AT HOME THROW AWAY THE MAIL ORDER CATALOGUE AND . TRADE AT HOME OXFORD; NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1915. VOLUME XXX. NUMBER 39. Htl -.1 .... r7 DISCUSS JTS MERITS EXAMINE THE IDEA BACK OF THE WORD. Clear-Headed Business Men See in the Proposed School lssne Much of Interest to Children of the County. (Communicated.) A number of people have express ed their uneasiness about the carry ing of the school bond issue because of the fact that in so many places there are already good buildings and they fear that these places will re turn an unfavorable vote. These are the very places where I antici pate the least opposition. I believe I know she people of Granville coun ty well enough to be confident that no such selfishness exists among them, A man who happens to get in among the first in a case of this kind and then is not willing to enter into a plan by which the others may have their turn w.'ihout waiting so Jons; belongs to that class of people vhu are not willing to play fair. I do not believe we have that class to any great extent in Granville county. One of the clearest indexes to the general growth of inteilicence amonf: the people in the rural sections is the fact that they are not so easily stam peded b ya mere word. A few years ago if you had just tossed the word Bond" up into the air in Granville cointy the people in tne country would have scurried to shelter like a envoy of pi aidges at tii . sight cf a hawk. Today it is true it makes them sit np and take notice but they do not run and hide. They examine the idea back of the word. They are willing to listen and discuss its mer its and demerits. They question carefully the principal involved and when convinced that it is the best for the interest of ali oucerned, they confidently grasp it, and use it as all nations and municipalities have done throughout the eivili.'.ed world. The luan who through prejudice or otherwise opposes all lorms of debt for permanent and productive im provement is putting his up against the combined judgment of the clearest-headed business men and the most sagacious statesmen of all of the greatest nations of the earth. J. W. F. OUR BOYS AND GIRLS (Comnvinicated.) If you will kindly giv eme space, I should like to present to the public a brief personal advocacy of the bond issue asked of the people of Granville county by the board of .education. Gen. B. S. Royster gave expression to the thought that certainly those who are already provided for would be considerate enough to come to the help of those not furnished with fac ilities for schooling their boys and girls. This, to my mind, is the ex pression of a very reasonable expec tation. The law limits the Board of Education to seven and one half per cent of the general school fund to be devoted to building and repair ing the schoolhouses, both white and colored, in the county. Ten years of close study and honest effort to make this meet the needs of the boys and girls of the county convinces me that it is too little. I can prove to any reasonable mind the truth of this statement, though I shall not here undertake it. Suffice it to say that the man holding a contrary opinion simply needs to study the public school system as I have studied it, and there is but one conclusion he can reach. It goes without saying that a good schoolhouse is a necessary prerequis ite to a good school. There are boys and girls as good as any in the coun ty who are without these good houses and henee are missing the oppor tunity which is their inalienable right of developing the highest type of manhood and womanhood possible to them. Some of them pass out of school this year; more of them next year; and still more of them each succeeding year, while they wait for that which comes too late to do them any good. This is the inevitable for them ,if more than seven and a half per cent of the general school fund is not provided by bonds or other form of borrowing. Appeal is made to those who have good houses along the line of Gen' Royster's thought. Remember, you who are provided, your provision came by the taxes of those who are not yet provided, at least in part. Now do the square thing, and help provide now, not next year, the means of giving all the girls and boys equal opportunity. There are yet districts in which the county has not yet been able to buy land and build houses, unless the board of education should simply make some other go without. This is the case in my own district and this is a special school tax district. But I have scrupulously avoided "featehring my own next". Public servants are accused 6f doing this, but not so here; and now we of this district feel the same need that I as a servant of the public have felt for other places before I acknowledged our own need. Our own need alone, however, is not the only impulse motive to asking the public to give relief. My district is simply one of several, and I feel the need of every one of them- The county can not afford to ig nore the acute importance of the need. Every farmer knows that teams standing still on a farm are not only profitable, but soon "eat their heads off." So a county which does not see to it that the boys and girls are provided every facility for learning to be high producers, fost ers not only profitlessness in its citizenship of the future, but by not ousting ignorance, invites poverty, and even crime. Help the boys and girls, fellow tax payers. It won't raise your tax rate. The Board will pay off the bonds out of the present levy ,and will build houses for . the needy schools. Whoever has bought land, or machines, or other property by partial payments has used the same principles in his business. J. A. MORRIS. Chills and fever have no terrors for the man who heads them off with Red Tone' Tatoules. 25 cents at The Lyon Drug Store. Money back if dissatis fied. THE OXFORD CLUB WOMEN LAUNCH MOVEMENT TO EQUIP STATE SANATORIUM (State Board of .Health.) Again the women have started something. This time it as a move ment whereby the State Sanatorium for the Treatment of Tuberculosis is to have more of the necessities and perhaps a few of the comforts in which it is so lacking. As usual, this, another movement started by the women, is worth while and com mends itself to every energetic wo man in North Carolina. It is more than worth while. It is imperative in its importance as a timely means whereby this worthy institution,over whelmed with the cries of tubercular sick clamoring for admission, shall be able to restore to health more and more of North Carolina's sons and daughters than the present meager, yer niggard, equipment can possibly permit. If the State is maintaining, even with limitations ,at Sanatorium, an institution where the sick are healed,' the lame made to walk and the withered restored, behooves it not her strong citizens to uphold ' the hands of this institution in the fight she is making against her greatest enemy, the great white plague? She should lack in no particular. Her support should be "made so sustain ing and her equipment so complete that her efficiency should know no impairment. Proven as she has her ability to heal and restore tubercu lar sufferers, she should not lack for means, but should be made adequate to meet the State's utmost needs. The women of the State have been first to see this and in consequence there has been started a movement called "The Sanitorium Equipment Fund." The credit of this movement primarily belongs to the Woman's Club of Oxford. Its leaders caught the vision of the Sanatorium serving in its greatest capacity but not with out the support of its strong men and women throughout the State. Accordingly, the Oxford Club, head ing the list with a donation of $50, launched the plan, whereby every woman's club in the State might con tribute, and thus give assistance to this noble institution. It propose; to be sponsor for all donations from other clubs till all shall have been given an opportunity a'nd a hearing. At the meeting of the Federation of the Women's Clubs in Goldsboro this week the movement will be fully explained and an impetus given the Work. On it will go and grow, and in due time, other clubs men's clubs will fall in line, and through these channels little donations will become big and will serve a great need. URGENT CALL FOR YOUNG MEN. The Ranks " of" the Granville Grays Are Too Thin. Elsewhere in this issue of the Pub lic Ledger is an interesting letter from the officials of the Granville Grays. The officers are desirous of securing the enlistment of a number of young men to swell the company to its , full quota. Real boys not molleycottles are wanted. The duti es are light and pleasant. They want the kind of hoys that have the divine spark of patriotism in their bosoms. The young men accepted for enlistment will be entitled to ac company the Granville Grays on their outing to Camp Glenn, Morehead City, during the hot days of August. Capt. and Mrs. J. H. Griffith, of Richmond, were the recepients of many hearty handshakes during their short stay in Oxford this week. Miss Edna, their attractive daughter, at Oxford College, will remain through the commencement before joining her parents in Richmond. Slight Blaze At 7:30 Thursday evening the fire hell rang and the firemen responded quickly to find the residence of Mr. Walter Crews on High street ablaze. The fire started from a defective flue in the kitchen, the damage being slight. This is the second time recently that Mr. Crews has had this misfortune. The Twilight SleepAlong comes an eminent scientist and explains that twilight sleep is no panacea but simply a valuable adjunct to recogni zed methods applicable only in hos pital cases at institution where care fully trained surgeons have mastered the technique of the thing. Well, it certainly is a relief to know that it does not apply to a town. "KINTON FORK NEWS Debating Society Starts Off With Twenty Members. (Correspondence of the Public Ledger) As the young men of this com munity failed to meet the first time appointed.owing to a death, they met at Sunset High School last Friday evening and organized a debating so ciety, twenty joined that evening. Mr. A. R. Burwell, president; Mr. Oscar Lloyd, Secretary. Saturday evening they debated the subject: Resolved, That Capital Punishment Should be Abolished in North Caro lina. Mr. Oscar Lloyd and colleagu es, negative; Mr. Joe Brooks and col leagues, affirmative. The farmers were very glad to see the good rains which fell the first of this week, as crops were needing rain very. bad. There is an excellent crop " of fruit in this section this year. The public roads were worked about the last of April, so we have very good roads now. Miss Lillian E. Ragland, of Oxford spent two days at home last week. Mr. Will Nelson and Mr. Alfred Dean attended the "War Fleet" at Norfolk, Va., from Thursday until Monday. Mrs. Crawford Hobgood and Ovit Frazier were pleasant visitors of Miss Lillie May McAllister, Middleburg, Sunday. Mrs- Luck A. Kinton is on an ex tended visit to her daughters near Virgilina and Goshen. Mrs. Norman Hobgood, Mrs. Joe Pruitt and Miss Essie Frazier -were Oxford shoppers last week. Clover looks worse in this section than I have ever seen it before. Have you tried those small sugar cured hams at Taylor Brothers. It. CLOSING AT 6 O'CLOCK THE CLERKS WHISPEB SOME THING IN OUR EARS Possibly the Merchants Will Take the Matter Up and Agree Upon an Earlier Closing Hour. In passing along Main street yes terday a couple of clerks stopped us long enough to whisper something of a confidential nature into our ears. It sounded something like this: "We wish you would write something about early closing of the stores and put it in bold face type at top of column on the first page of the Pub lic Ledger so that the merchants will be sure to see it." We promised the young men that we would interview the merchants on this question and publish the findings. We started on our mission late in the evening, and seeing a merchant out in front of the store we asked him what was the state of trade. ' "We had fairly good trade today. I believe business is picking up some," said he.' "As a ; general thing do you sell much after six o'clock in the after noon," we ventured. "No, the country people get through trading and start home be fore six o'clock, but you cannot al ways tell who might want some thing." We ventured one more question and gave up the ghost. "Clerks, as a general thing, prefer to keep busy, don't they?" "O yes," came the quick response, "It makes all the difference in the world. If there is nothing doing you might as well close up early and let them go home." We trust that the mechants and the clerks will be guided by the light that is before them. We will gladly publish the names of the firms who will express a willingness to close at a certain hour. We can readily see that it would not be the part of- wisdom for one of more merchants to agree to close at a certain hour and leave the field open to other merchants. There should be a complete understanding among the merchants themselves. The public would readily acquiesce in any plan that the merchants saw fit to establish. The closing hour of all first-class stores in the large cities at this period of the year is six o'clock sharp, and some of the ultra fashionable places close an hour earlier. We remember that John Wannamaker, the great mer chant prince of Philadelphia, wanted to close his store early in the even ing, so that the clerks would have a little lime that they could call their own. Without consulting any of his competitors-: he hit upon a scheme that completely revolutionized the trading hours. The good housewiv es would refer to the page advertise ment carried by Wannamaker in the big morning dailies. Prices were quoted on a great many articles and the hour was always stated when the goods and prices would be withdrawn the hours ranging from eight to twelve o'clock. Other merchants took up the scheme and it wasn't long before all the merchants could very easily close at six o'clock, for the reason that there was nothing worthwhile being done after that hour; if there was, it was on a side street. DRY GOOD STORES. Since writing the above the follow ing undersigned dry good merchants have agreed to close their store at 6 p. m., beginning Monday, May, 10: The Long Company Perkinson-Green Company. Oxford Hardware Company. The Green-Hunt Company. Cohn & Son. Landis & Easton . Mrs. K- L. Street & Company. GROCERYMEN SIGN UP Beginning Monday, May 10, the undersigned grocerymen have agreed to close their j stores at 6:30 each afternoon except Saturdays, and on Saturdays at 10 o'clock, p. m: Taylor Brothers W. W. Alston Howell Brothers. Breedlove & McFarland- L. Thomas. THE TWO ROADS. The Town Patriots and the Out-of-Town Patrons. Which road? This is the great question every community is facing today. In our community there are only two kinds of people and they travel on just two roads. There are the "Home Town patriots" and the "out-of-town patrons." There is the "Trade at Home" road and the "mail order" road. Which class are you in? What road are you taking? It should be easy to decide. All roads lead to Oxford. OLD SALEM COLLEGE Reunion of Alumnae to Be Held May 21-25. Mrs. J. G- Hunt, of Oxford, presi dent of. the class of '80 Salem Col lege, is in receipt of official informa tion concerning the General Re union of Alumnae to be held May-21-25. This will be the One Hundred and Thirteenth Commencement and will be marked by many interesting exercises among which will be the unveiling of the Emma A. Lehman Memorial steps. The speakers will be the Rev. Bertran Brown of Tar boro, who delivers the Baccalaureate sermon and Dr. C. Alphonso Smith, of the University of Virginia who will make the commencement ad dress. NOTED LECTURER Bion A. Bntler Receives an Ovation at the Commercial Club. Bion A. Butler, the King of North Carolina Boosters, made a profound impression on the Granville Commer- cial Club Thursday night. The as sembly hall was crowded to hear the distinguished farmer, writer and booster. v General talks were made in fjrvor of the proposed school bonds and the Club went on record as hcartly en dorsing the measure. DEATH OF NOBLE WOMAN THE REMAINS OF MRS. CHEAT HAM LAID TO REST. The funeral services of Mrs. J. T. Cheatham Wednesday afternoon at the old home place on Henderson road, five miles east of Oxford, was largely attended by -the people from the countryside, Henderson and Ox ford. The burying ground where rests the remains of this noble woman dat es back more than one hundred years. There reposes the remains of James Cheatham, the elder; James Cheatham; second; James . Theodore 3heatham, third in line and husband 3f this good woman; who fell upon sleep in Wilson on Tuesday morning last. THE PALLBEARERS. Rev. A. Whitfield Cheatham, E. G. Landis, William Landis, C. H. Landis C. C. Cheatham, nephews of the de ceased. Honarary- Messrs. W. Z. Mitchell, W. B. Ballou, Alex Cooper, J. B. Owen, E. T, White, A. A. Hicks, D. B. Kimble Will Brummitt, I. J. Young, Will Young, L. Thomas, M. P. Chamblee, N. G. Crews, J. A. Belcher, Ula Cozart; W. D. Watson. SKETCH OF HER LIFE . (A. A. Hicks.) The subject of this', sketch, Elizabeth Hamlin Cheatham, was born in the cty of Petersburg, Va., February 26, 1844. She was the daughter of Charles Ham lin, Esq., of Petersburg-, Va. When the fighting got to "be so. tierce that it was too dangerous for- them to remain in Petersburg.Mr Hamlin, and two daugh ters, the subject of.this sketch and her older sister, Mollie '.afterwards marri ed to Capt. A. Landis, come to Oxford as a place of safety.' One of her brothers, Mr. William Hamlin, lost his life in the Crater Ex plosion near Petersburg. The other brother Mr. Wood Hamlin died about ten years ago. For several years after the war she taught as an assistant at Pleasant Hill Academy and in the year of 1868 she was happily married to Mr. James Theodore Cheatham, who belonged to one of the old families of the community and moved with him tq his residence where, his father and lived for more than a century. There she and her, husband lived until his death March 29th, 1966, since which titme she has resided most of the time with her son Charles Hamlin Cheatham at the old homestead, making frequent visitations to. the homes of. her other children. There were ten children born to this union, Virginius Taylor Cheatham, Clifton B. Cheatham, of Henderson, Charles Hamlin Cheatham, Mrs. Rebec ca Ferebee of Newbern; " Miss Olivia Cheatham, James Theodore Cheatham of Wilson; Mrs. Bessie C. Allen, of Au burn, N C, Mrs. Tazzie Baker, of Louisburg, and Mrs. -R. A. Shirley of Norfolk, Va. These children were all reared and educated at the old homeplace and were all present at her funeral. Mrs. Cheatham and her husband were Methodists and did much to build up Hermann church, where for a long time they held their membership, but in after years they connected them selves with the church at Oxford, it being more convenient for them to at tend there, and .-services being weekly - inste&fj. of- ov4felyv hew ever a consistent, - Christian church member, was' a kind neighbor and was ever ready to help any who were , in trouble or in need of assistance, as all knew who lived in the circle of her ac quaintance. At the time of her death, of pneu monia, she was visiting her son, Theo dore Cheatham, at Wilson, X. C. Her children, her neighbors and her friends met at the old Cheavham ceme tery five miles from Oxford, May 5th at four p. m. where the burial service was conducted by her pastor Dr. A. P. Tyer, assisted by her nephew. Rev. A. Whit Cheatham and Rev. C A. Jones, and her body was quietly laid to rest by the side of the body of her husband. We shall see her no more .here, but will retain sweet remembrances of her sweet and gentle spirit while she was here. NEWN PAINT MILL M- A. King & Co's Product on The Market. A new manufacturing company, though small in its scope, has been launched in Oxford, with Mr. M. A. King at the head. Work on the mill has progressed for sometime and the company is now in a position to turn out several gallons of high grade paint daily. The paint is already on the local market and it is pronounced to be equal to the best of its kind. Mr. King will expend his energies to supply the local demand . before reaching out to secure additional trade.As soon as the business grows, and it surely will, it is highly pro bable that the company will put on a half dozen traveling salesmen. We wish the new company an abundance of success. See their announcement elsewhere in the Publie Ledger. LEE MEADOWS MADE GOOD The Oxford Boy Makes His Debnt in the National League. Pitcher Lee Meadows, the Oxford twirler, pitched his first complete major league game against the Cin cinnati Club last Sunday, and suc ceeded in holding that, team to seven scattered hits and one run, all of which was sufficient to win the game for St. Louis by the score of 3 to 1. Both pitchers were given fault less support by their team mates, but Meadows failed to yield hits when hits would have counted for runs in favor of the Reds. Accord ing t othe Cincinnati sport scribes, Meadows' speed and assortment of curves were completely bewildering to the opposing batters and at no time was he in danger of being scored on. He was a trifle nervous, however, and walked four men dur ing the afiine innings, but none of them scored. Only one of the seven hits yielded by Meadows went for ex tra bases and this was a tow-bagger by Griffith in the fourth frame.Grif fith later scored on an infield out tan d a sacrifice fly to deep center. Mead ows also figured in a double play, which closed the seventh ininng Meadows to Hullins to Miller- OUR NEW MME When you pass along Main Street and reach the corner at the post office, turn to the east on Littlejohn Street and land up sharp at the hew home of the PUBLIC LEDGER. We shall be glad to see you at any time. IT IS A SAD CALAMITY THE YELLOW JOURNALS ARE MISLEADING. There is Crude Material in Granville, As Well As Elsewhere Fit For the Cartoonist. It is sometimes saddening to see the tendency of the big city dailies to have fun at the expense of the county papers. Some of them have for years carried a supplement en titled "The Bingville Bugle," which has caused many a laugh, but it is a sad calamity in eo far as it reflects on the integrity of the most reliable citizenship. Throughout the rural districts of the entire country are to be found crude material for the car toonist. We have right here in Ox ford the most original ape-like char acter to be found anywhere in the original thirteen states. He is a conglomeration of law, religion and polities, seasoned by the reading of "Tom Paigne," "Judge Strong's Points in Every Day Lawand " Jekyl and Hyde." As this man represents nothing in particular, it would be in consistent to quote him in anything. The touch of the artists' pen would distinguish him among the sons of men, but to depict him in song and story as a composite- of the citizen ship of old Granville would be mis leading. You point out to a child a person from another state, and should that person be large or small, the child gets the impression that all the people in the distant State are either large or small, as the case may be- Therefore, we believe the big yellow sheets are out of place in a righteous community. In this day of quick transportation and rural free delivery there are few intelligent people so"far back" as not to take a daily paper. The farmer nowadays has his city daily just as regularly as the man in the city, but he gets it only a little later. But it is obvious that a city daily cannot give a quarter column of space to an item to the effect that Mr. So-and-So of the Four Cross Roads is building a new store. Yet that news is just as interesting to the people of the Four Cross Roads as is some city papers' hews to city people that a new department store is to be opened in the retail district. Both the city daily and the town paper have their own separate fields to fill. It is its province of the town .paper to tell the happenings of its community. These happenings may look funny in print to the editor of the city daily, but it is not for him that the country paper is published And the country paper is not read in the "way back" regions alone, ei ther. Many a city man takes, time to tear the brown wrapper off the little paper aad forget th-bi g : -worl d- about him, and the big city dailies, while he reads about the old folks down at home.A city man who thinks in millions might be supposed to be the last in the world to find interest in the fact that Miss Bessie, daughter of Ben and Jane Snooks, is married to John Jones. But human nature has strange involutions'. The city man and Ben Snooks may have been boys together, chums in many a youthful adventure, and Jane then Jane Smith may have been his first sweetheart. Who knows all the reasons why many a city man likes to read over and over the Public Ledger from his old home?It is enough that his own heart knows. The country editor's calling is not one which promises vast riches. He must have devotion to his work, and, considering what he gets out of it, he delivers a surprisingly high class of goods. The men who makes city dailies do not repose for a large portion of the time on downy beds of ease,but after all, the editor of the country paper has the hardest work to do of any man in the newspaper business He may not just exactly come up to the ideas of the editor of a big city daily, but he suits his own subscribers, and even some editors of city dailies know that that is the highest test. JAPAN RUSHING ON CHINA Big Fleet of Jap War Ships are Taking in Supplies The Associated press service, dat ed Tokio, May 5, says the delibera tions over the situation between Jap an and China continue. A big fleet of warships is taking on supplies at Sasebo ; - Japanese in the province of Shantung are concentrat ing at Tsing Tao and those in Man churia are preparing to take refuge in the railway zone. The "Kotumm" says it learns from an authoritative source that the United States is endeavoring to medi ate between Japan and China and that this is one reason why the cabi net deliberations have been pro tracted. A. G- ELLIOTT PASSED AWAY Was One of Durham's Best Known and Most Liked Citizens. Mr. A. G- Elliott, one of Durham's oldest and best known citizens pass ed away at his home in Durham Wednesday last, the cause of his death was paralysis. Mr. Elliott was a native of Granville county,' having moved to Durham 30 odd years ago. There were few men in Durham any better known or more generally lik ed than Mr. Elliott. Of a high char acter, courteous and kind, always considerate of fthe feelings of others he endeared himself to all with whom he came in contact. His business ability and manner of doing business won him hosts of friends. The deceased is survived by a mother, Mrs. Susan-R. Elliott, of Granville county, a wifie .three sons, Messrs. A. G- Elliott, Jr., a civil en gineer with headquarters in Wash ington, N. C..P. .T. Elliott and George Elliott and one daughter, Miss Ruby Elliott, of Durham.. -Also he leaves two sisters, Mesdames D. W, Eakes and J. F. Currin, both of Granville county, and one brother, Mr. J. B. Elliott, of this city, a member of the firm of Barbee & Elliott, merchants. Just received another shipment of Armours small supar cured hams. They are fine. Taylor Brothers. 5-8-lt. STOVALL SHORT STOPS FROM THE BEAUTIFUL LITTLE TOWN OF NORTH CAROLINA (Correspondence of the. Public Ledger) NARROW ESCAPE Mr. Will Daniel suffered a narrow escape in Stovall this week, when his horse became frightened . at a pass ing automobile, capsized the buggy throwing Miss Norman Fullerton, of Bullock and Mr.Daniel to the'ground. Fortunately neither was hurt very badly. RARE PLANT. Mr. John Dean is the fortunate possessor of a lemon plant which has produced - a lemon weighing twe pounds. The plant is full of other smaller lemons. PRETTY FLOWERS. Stovall is at present a beautiful little town as the. leaves on the many trees are almost , grown and there is such a profusion of roses blooming. Among the prettiest roses to be seen are at the homes of the Pucketts, Whites, and Wilkerson. TEACHERS DEPART To the great regret of their many new friends, the teachers of the Stovall High School, leave on Friday for their homes; Miss Fullerton to Orange, Va., Miss Wells to Bull's Gap Tenn., and Prof. Smith to Asheville. NEW STREET. It is rumored that a new street will be opened up between Mrs. Anna T. Younger'S and Mrs. T. E. Crutchers. This will prove a great convenience. Mr. Coley Gill was a visitor to our town on Monday. NATIONAL COLORS The National. Highway, which pass es through Stovall, has been beauti fied by the painting of all bridges with the national co.lors, red, white and blue. Each telephone pole is also painted with the same colors, each band of color being about six inches in length. PERSONAL ITEMS. Mrs. Gilfrey, of Washington, D. C, is visiting at the home of Dr. W. L. Taylor. Miss Fannie Currin, of Henderson, Route 2. is visiting . her father, Mr. Sam Currin. Mrs. Jack G. Harris, who has been critically ill for several weeks is con valescing very fast. The Rev. N. Collin Hughes, Arch deacon of the Convocation of Raleigh was a Stovall visitor last week. THE BICYCLE FOUND A Small Public Ledger Advertise ment Did the Work Mr. J. N. Pittman is one among a thousand to testify to the drawing power of a small advertisement in serted in the want column of the Public Ledger. A couple . of weeks ago his bicycle' was stolen from in front of J. G. Hall's Drug Store. He wrote-out -a small -adv and inserted it in the Public Ledger. The little ad made its rounds of the county and finally brought to light the real cul pret Arron Neal, a colored boy in the employ of Green Moss, out at Bell Town. The little adv. insisted that the wheel be returned to Mr. Pittman and that Arron Neal be pun ished to the fullest extent of the law. Mr. Pittman got the bicycle and at the hearing some one furnished se curity for the colored boy. VIRGINIA BEACH CLOTH Th New Popular Cloth is Handled by Local Merchants. At the textile exhibit in Reidsville, last Fall, the Leaksville Cotton Mills of Spray made a display of goods in tended for Summer wear by men, as well as women. It was then that the "wear cotton" movement was sprung. The new cloth is now appearing in spring suits, and if we are to judge from a sample displayed by an up-to-date Oxford merchant we infer that it is a great success. It is known as "Virginia Beach" cloth. It is stout of texture, excellent in finish, and in color a little darker than Palm Beach and lighter than khaki. It 4s not only makes a comfortable Sum mer attire, but quite a stylish one. The Leaksville Cotton Mills has shown what our home factories can do when they try. The Virginia Beach suit ought to spring into in stant popularity. DEAD FDLIi THREE TRENCHES. New French Explosive Decuples Work of Guns. In the Paris Bulletin des Armees of a day or two ago appeared a short but very significant phrase: "We may say that we have now a new explo sive which has decupled the power of our guns." Side by side with this bare official statement, it is worth while to place the account of a recent bayonet charge as given in a provincial paper of standing. It is a letter from a soldier. He writes: "We had to carry three Boche trenches, and it looked as if it were going to be a stiff , job. Behind us our artillery 100 guns, 75s, 90s, and 105s began to thunder. The shells burst so close together that the air seemed to be on fire. At the word of command we dashed forward bay onets fixed. We expected a hail of bullets. But not a single shot. When we reached th first trench we stop ped aghast. All were dead in it every one. In a corner a 'mitraileur' was still standing, but he was only held upright by the claim that bound him to the machine gun. He was dead, like the rest. "Then we went on to the second trench, and to the third. Never a shot was fired. They were all dead.There was no one needed but the grave digger. Even the veterans who had been through the war since the be ginning had never seen anything like it." FEDERATION OF WOMENS CLUBS One Hundred and Twenty-One Clubs in the State now Compose the Federation. After a pleasant session of the Federation of Women's Clubs in Goldsboro, they adjourned to meet in High Point next year. Mrs. A. C. Avery, recording secre tary reported that during the year the Federation has grown frpm 100 to 121 clubs, two having withdrawn. 21 having joined. A membership of 4,000 is represented. THE NEW TOWN BOARD NOTHING OF A RADICAL NATURE CONTEMPLATED. Handicapped For Funds, But the Floating Debt is the Smallest it Has Been in Several Years. As to whether or not the newly elected Board of Town Commission ers will hold a caucus before it is . 'ormally inducted into office next Tuesday night, is purely conjecture. The incoming Board has a right, if t so desires, of turning out every nan holding a town office and re lacing them with men of its own ielection, and no one has the right to ,say nay. The exercise of favorit ism has always been the prerogative Df each changing administration and always will be. It matters not how well the police or any other depart ment may have been organized and systemized, it is possible for a new Board to step in and disrupt the whole thing in the twinkling of an eye. All this and more too could hap pen, and does happen in cities where graft and corruption exist, , but it is entirely foreign to Oxford. We believe that the new Board and the entire citizenship recognize the true worth of every official of the town government. The old Board raked the country with a fine tooth comb in search of a man quali fied to fasten the lid down on vice. They found ex-Sheriff Wheeler, a busy contractor and builder, and told him for the "love of Mike" to lay down the chisel and the saw and go with them. There was joy in the old town when Wheeler took the oath of office. It was the strongest trump in the hands, of the old Board and when it was gently laid upon the placid waters of the "Panama Ditch" their sins were washed away. Yes,, the new Board should, and doubtless will recognize the valuable services of Mr. Hines, our very efficient tax collector. No man could render a more uniform and faithful service. The new Board with Mr. Hines as tax collector, would not be quite the same Board without his assistance We feel that the Board would do a wise thing by enlarging his duties and incidentally enlarging his salary. And then there are other good men connected with the town government that should be recognized in a sub stantial and befitting manner. The new Board goes into office greatly handicapped for the lack of funds. But there is one thing in their favor; namely, the floating debt is smaller than it has been for years, it now being about $2,500, if we make no mistake. We bespeak for Mayor Stem and the new Board the hearty support of all the good citizens of Oxford. That they will serve us faithfully and well' there can be no doubt. The following is the certified vote for Mayor and Commissioners as polled last Monday: FOR MAYOR. Thad G. Stem. 73 COMMISSIONERS R. S. Usry 78 A. H- Powell 78 W. Z. Mitchell 79 W. H- Hunt 7 8 C. D. Ray 7 8" W. A. McFarland 7 8 W. A. Parham 79 FOREST FIRES The Law is Severe When Careless ness is the Blame. In view of the many fires that have got beyond control in certain localities of the county this spring, it is well to quote the new law on forest fires, to wit: "Leaving any fire before it is ex tinguished; setting fire to grass land,. brush land or wood land .except it be one's own property; setting fire to one's own woods without notifying: adjoining owners; kindling a camp fire until a sufficient space has been cleared off around it; leaving a camp fire without fully extinguishing it, and accidently or negligently start ing a fire wothout extinguishing it. These are provisions of the law pass ed by the Legislature only two or three months ago and yet it looks as if the forest fires this Spring have been more numerous and more . de structive than usual. THE JITNEY LINE ' ' The Initial Car Will Be Put onV " in June. A jitney line for Oxford is almost' in sight..' Funds were easily secured f for one car, but those who are closer ly identified with the movement be lieve that two cars will be required from the very start. Dr. W. N. Thomas, who is a lead ing spirit in the movement feels very much encouraged with the prospects of receiving the cars and having them in operation by the first .of June. The line is to be incorporat ed under the name and style of the: "Oxford Jitney Passenger and Trans fer Comapny." The limousine style of cars will be used at first, but the company expect to exchange these later for the more modern Pay-as-you enter cars. The company will, operate under a franchise. DIES ON BALL GROUND University Student Falls Dead After- Practice. Game at Chapel Hill. A light game of baseball on the University campus at Chapel Hill, Wednesday afternoon, ended sadly in the death of Augustus Tompkins Graydon, of Greenwood, S- C. Young Graydon, with a number of other students was practicing base bal on the campus between the libra ry and the fraternity houses when suddenly he fell to the ground almost unconscious. Immediately he was taken indoors and in five minutes; from the time of his fall he was dead. Three doctors had been summoned and 'were unable to save him. Dr. Abernethy pronounced his death due to heart trouble, a leakage of tbe mitral valve and dilatation of the left ventrical. Malaria is. caused by a specific pois on for which Red-Tone Tabule? are a specific antidote. 25 cents at the Lvon- Drng Store. Money back It dissatisfied. ( v:: 1 i I 1 1 1 v.. 6 M . -i
Oxford Public Ledger (Oxford, N.C.)
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