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V - PU IBIL1C THE COUNTY PAPER PUBLISHED TWICE-A-WEEK WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS TEABE AT HOME THROW AWAY THE MAIL ORDER CATALOGUE AND TRADE AT HOME OXFORD, NORTH CAROLft JCTEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1915. VOLUME XXX. NUMBER 40. A v II 1L1 IP1 r. ft. Mr. t -I f- .... . " STORY OF THE SEA The Lusitania, an English i Carrying Many American Passerigers Tor pedoed Off IrishCoapt THE DEATH TOLL MORE THAN 1,000 The latest estimate of lives lost as a result of the torpedoing of the Cunard liner Lusitania by a German submarine off the Irish coast, last Friday afternoon, is 1,198. It is believed that almost all, if not all, the surviv ors, have been gotten ashore, and there is little hope of recovering any other passengers alive. Of the 188 Americans on board, seventy-three have been reported rescured. Of he dead many are women. The stories from Queenstpwn describe thebringing in of the bodies of a great number of women, many of them stXJl' unidentified. The Queenstown docks are also the resting places of thi bodies of several children. One dead iother still is clasping in her rij$darms the body of her three-month-old baby, lbfe the Lusitania left New York on Mav i j souls 1,231 passengers and &TO crew. Th of 291 ' the first cabin, 599 in the second. The lit of survivors shows' mv 6 far ety five second-class pasfj, j were were at lunch when tne u. bottom. ded V It is noticeable that comparative!; ed. Among the well-known Americ covered, and who consequently are fred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Charles Formaa and Elbert Hubbard vd,wi of New theatrical prclitcer al; brought ashore at Queenstoaj. IiAPHIC ACCOUNT. (London, May 9th.) Describing, the experience of the Lusitania, the steward said: "The pa ssengers . were at lunch when a subnjirine came up and fired two torpedoes which struck the Lus itania on tne st&-boar dside, one for ward anthe oir.- engine room. They cause'ttss explosions. "Captain Turner immediately or dered the boats out. The ship began to list badly immediately. "Ten boats were put into the water and between 400 and 500 passengers entered them. The boat in which I was, approached the land with three other boats, and we were picked up shortly after 4 o'clock by the Storm Cock. " "I fear that few of the officers were saved. They acted bravely. caaere .was onxyjiij-eeji ... uuu.ulw uoiii me lime iiie Miip nets su uir until she foundered, going down bow foremost. It was a dreadful sight." Sailed in Face of Warning. New York, May 8 The Lusitania, with a total of 1,251 passengers aboard.of whom IS 8 were Americans and with s. crew of 816, sailed from here last Saturday in the face of a warning published on the day of her departure by the German Embassy, which asseried that travelers intend ing to embark on British ships did so at the risk of the ships being de stroyed in accordance with the Ger man war zone decree. This warning, 'published as an ad vertisement, did not result in the cancellation of a single passage, nor did anonymous notes of warning, said to have been recevied by some passengers just before the big liner left her pier, deter any one from sail ing. . Reports from Washington that it was privately known in official quar ters that the Lusitania was to be tor pedoed at the first opportunity gave color to the opinion expressed in shipping circles tonight that the Em bassy's warning was intended to ap ply particularly to the Lusitania. Advertisements Warned. "Travelers intending to embark on the Atlantic volage," read the adver tisement, "are reminded that a state of war exists between Germany and her allies and Great Britian and her allies; that the zone of war includes the waters adjacent to the British Isles; that in accordance with formal notice given by the Imperial Govern ment, vessels flying the flag of Great Britian or her allies do so at their own risk." Sunday afternoon and night anxi ous friends and relatives of the Lusi tania's passengers besieged the Cun ard officers and the scene recalled those when the Titanic sank three years ago. Americans on Board. Among the well-known passengers on the Lusitania are Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Charles T. Bowring, of New York, head of the firm of Bow ring Brothers; Alexander Campbell, general manager for John Dewer & Sons, London; Elbert Hubbard, pub lisher; D. A. Thomas, the wealthy Welsh coal operator and his daughter Lady Mackworth, an English suffra gette, and the Rev. Basil W. Maturin, Oxford, England. Mr. Vanderbilt was one of those credited with receiving anonymous letters of warning. All deprecated the possibility of danger of the ship, and Charles P. Sumner.general agent of the line, announced at the time that the Lusitania's speed of twenty five knots made her immune from submarine attacks. In addition to those on her pas senger list, the Lusitania carried thirty-six who were to have sailed the same day on the Anchor Liner Cameronia, which at the last moment was held in port by orders of the British admiralty, presumably to be sent to Halifax. Cargo Valued at $750,000. The Lusitania's cargo was valued at about $750,000 and contained a large quantity of war supplies. The ship's manifest included 280,000 pounds of brass and copper wire, $66,000 worth of military goods, and 5,471 cases of ammunition valued at $200,000, all of which was contra band of war. The ship itself, Cunard ' officials said today, was covered by $5,000, 000 war risk insurance. A revised list of the passengers (Continued on Page Two) ISAGRE i e had on board 1,901 engers were made up 'J1 in -tlfe steerage, cry first class and sev- that a Jirst-class passengeis Ge fcck sent the liner to the passengers were sav- bodies have not been re to have perished, are Al- Kl playwrigbt; Justus M 3y of Charles Froham, been recovered and f D I G 1 C (Editorial.) Americans everywhere and in every w h of life are exhorted to be calm an i patient under the great strain put upon the nation by the sinking of the Lusitania under ex traordinary circumstances. We wish that we could see in it the instant and immediate ending of the war. Ambassador Gerard has been instruc ted already to demand of the Ger man government a full explanation of the tragedy. The best we can do in the crisis is to wait patiently for President Wilson to be guided by the light that is before him. Weeks ago President Wilson warn ed Germany she would be held "to a strict accountability" if in pursuance nf hor near znne (fw rd the .fhlnTv i.rri -tva-. i..-siVw-,t- stroyed American lives. Well, Ger many has carried out her threat. What are we going to do about it? The assertion is made that the Lusitania was a non-combatant, just as her passengers were non-combatants. If she had no ammunition that could be used in her guns, the fact that she carried guns would not ap pear to affect her status in this re spect. If she had not been in the strictest sense a non-combatant sure ly Washington would not have left to the German embassy the task of warning our people to stay out of her- If she was not a non-combatant, it is set forth that we would have violated neutrality in allowing her to clear from an American port. There are those and among them some in high positions who see in these attacks an act of war against the United States. There are those who believ Germany actually desir es to frov. hostilities with this country, at least laughs at our power am is indifferent to our re- sentment here is every evidence that she rt ins unmoved under our protests, that no words of ours will or can erve her from that path of "dreadW ess' 'in which she has set her feet The SO Department maintains that Anier in citizens have a ngnt Vtions of war upon an J; that there can be no neutrality in so doing. to ship English v violation Relying upon this moral attature of our government, our citizens take passage, going about their private business, upon this ship. Because she has this freight aboard her, Ger many deliberately destroys her upon the high seas, with absolute disre gard, as it now appears, for the lives of women and children and men aboard her destroys them, too, in hundreds. Germany asserts a super ior sense of right and wrong, gives a construction of the laws that ought to prevail as amongst nations, con tradictory of 'our own; and takes re sponsibility thereof in slaying our citizens by wholesale. Before the great steamship' sailed, on May day, the German embassy at Washington had published an adver tisement which said flatly that any of the vessels flying flags of countries at war with Germany were liable to be destroyed in the "war zone" about the British Isles. It was generally known by the Washington government that the Germans had in mind the Lusitania when the warning was given. It would appear that there were those who received warnings not to era- hark. warning's known, and it w m persons un- sported that one of these, Alfred nderbilt.tore up the message with comment. It behooves eve merican citizen to sit still in the t.. Above all, let the nation be t kful, and give praise that Woo w. Wilson sits in the presidential chair and holds his country's honor and safety in the strong, clean loving hands of a statesman and a patriot. MRS. R. F. HUGHES DEAD She Was Reared and Educated in Oxford. Mrs. R. F. Hughes, a former resi dent of Granville, died in Raleigh Sunday night and her remains were taken to Greensboro for interment Surviving her are her husband and two daughters, Mrs. Alex J. Fields, of Raleigh, and Mrs. W- H. Bain, of New Bern. r 4 J I J I (!m r ciass v r c fco 1 m WORK FOR NEW BOARD OLD LAWS TO BE REPEALED BE FORE CREATING NEW ONES The Repeal of the Fire Limits and the Hog Limits Discussed From a Signtific Standpoint. Editur uz the Publik Leger: Now thet the pepul hev kussed out the old Bord and kased them to quitt the job in disgus more or les,' we feel it inkumbent to writ you as to the dutys of the new Bord an what they shud do. The men in South Ox ford met the night after the election an' furst decided what we wuz aginst Later on we will decide what we want- You fust hev to clean of the ground before you build your house. Les' repele all the old laws before we pass new ones. Fust. We air aein fire limmits.' Ef they has to be a fire limmit it might as well be up close to the court house as out in the su-burbs where some of us pore folks liv. They ain't no need pertecktin' the rich an' lettin' the pore folks go by. We deman' the repele uv thte fire limmits. Secund. We air agin the hog lim mits. We air in faver uv buildin' two big hog-pens 'round the cort-house. We could hev one fur each precinct. Then we can do away with all the other pens an' can fatten a hog fur ev'ry fam'ly in town at the town's expense. Babe Hobgood don't hev enuf to do nohow. So let him an' the town team go around each morn in' an' gether up the slops fur the town hogs Third. Let the Bord repele the lik ker law an' make the express office, like it use to be. They hev a ginerul deliv'ry at the post office an I bul leave in a gineral deliv'ry at the ex press office. Fourth. We air agin the water waggin. The Lord made us out of dust an' I recken we ain't no better than any other dust an' maybe ain't so good as sum. A man ought not to be agin his own flesh an' blood an' our flesh an' blood is dust from the beginnin'. A man can't be true to the Bibel an' be agin dust. So away with the water waggin an' quitt makin' mud in lu uv dust. Fifth. We are agin the prokras turnation as iz practised on sundary ockasions on the coners uz the streets The gang is so wicked they ar libel to bring 'bout rasial trubles to say les sabout the disliks uv the gineral publik and the wimen in purticuliar, expexturating on the latter with im puniti, as it were. Sixth. We air also aginst Civic Leges. Ther air tryin' to run ev'ry thing in Oxford an' the United States too. They air always messin' roun' tryin' to git the Bord to clene up the town an' the streets, an' it is prefer ter remain filthmr still. We think the Bord shuld repel the Civic Leges on general prinsipuls. They ought to set down on them to say the leas. One thing I like to forgot an' thet's very important, vis, to-wit, namely: His Honur. Mayor Thad G. Stem. Boys, he iz agin us agin all our de mans'. He iz fur the fire limmits an' the hog limmits an' fur the water waggin' an' fur the Civic Leges. He ought to be shamed uv hisself an' him a teacher in the Sunday Skool. PLUVIUS LADY LOST HER HAND-BAG Restored By Means of a Visiting Card. Last Friday afternoon Grant Hunt, an honest old colored man, found a lady's hand-bag on the street and made haste to carry it to the Court House and place it in the hands of Mr. Cam Hunt, who immediately ex amined the contents of the satchel with a view of restoring it to its pro per owner. On opening the bag he found a nice little gold watch fasten ed to a wristband. .Neatly engraved on the watch were three initials in Old English script, viz: "J. D. B." Among the other dainty things in the bag was an embroidered hand kerchief, but there were no initials on it. With this meager information in hand, Mr. Hunt had practically made up his mini to advertise the lost property in the want column of the Public Ledger. We happened to step into the Court House about this time and Mr. Hunt showed the bag to us and requested lis to write a small advertisement. We asked Mr. Hunt if he had examined the bag and contents very carefully, and he said he had. We told him if there was a lady present she could tell us the name of the owner in a jiffy. He was curious to know why, and we told him: "You just look in that little pocket on the outside of the bag and see what you find. He did, and there found a neatly engraved visiting card with these words on it: "Mrs. Jefferson Davis Brooks." We publish the incident merely to point out two things: First It is not only a wise thing to mark all valuable articles so they can be identified, but it is also the part of wisdom to have a card or a letter about one's person or luggage when traveling. We saw the necces ity of this one time while we were doing newspaper work in Philadel phia. A very pretty young lady fell dead at the Broad Street Station. Her remains were taken to the mor gue and lay there fifteen days await ing identification. The only mark of identification was the one word "Ruby" engraved on a locket. She was a beautiful, golden haired girl, elegantly dressed, but; despite the publicity of the press throughout the entire country her remains, as was afterwards learned, went to the disecting table . Second It has been said, and with a degree of truth, that the finding of lost property is a strong tempta tion to people otherwise strong. "Every man has his price," is an old saying. If a person finds $1,000 and turns it in, as the report goes, that person can be entrusted with a $100,000. We therefore commend the old colored man, Grant Hunt, the finder of the satchel, to all good people. Ward off malaria by taking Red Tone Tabules in time. 25 cents at the Lyon Drug Store. Money back if dissatisfied. OFFICER JUIIE JOB CAPTURES U FRAS F-P Seeing the Off Violaters'Fl Fired nppn TILL IN SASSA TOWNSHIP. ,T Approaching, the the Bushes and S.OfBcers.;. ; Moved by a formation knol Sheriff Hobgc Booth, Chief V chins ; were ?se. of duty and in nly to the officers, f Deputy Sheriff eler and J. A. Hut .h . early - Saturday an automobile and morning to ent proceed , leisur jy- out toward the Virginia Stte i?Me,v; A stern resolu tion "had gathered about their browi and they wereVas dumb as jpystet's. The by-standerf jijinew that there was something . wrAig.: somewhere and they also knewfihat the four big men were cana.ble offhandline' a. hie iob Wd in the end it proved to be a big iob one that would test the metal or tne Desi or i.s..; At a point t"S"d;;miles east of the National Highway and only a few yards from thetate line they peep ed through " tKQfcleep undergrowth and discovered he outlines of a still. As they cautiolisly approached they heard some one. run down the branch in the opposite , direction. While they were making an examination of their find,' a solid shot from an army rifle came dangerously near. The officers fired one shot in return" and proceeded withvthe work in hand. The still was a bran new copper vessel of the - latest design, under which the wood had been placed and set off with a match, but the fire had not gained any considerable headway when the officers : came upon it. There were nine', tanks, holding all told about eighteen hundred gallons of sour mash, ready for use, and over by a tree were found, eight bushels of meal and two' bags of malt. While the officers were, upsetting the tanks a fucillade of shots were fired from the rear some two hundred years, at a point where tKey had left their au to car. The hiding place of the enemy was obscured by the heavy undergrowth and the best the officers could do was to-fire in that direction, and when they1 did so they heard some one yell as. in pain. The offi cers fought their, way up the hill and secured their car, and hastily de stroying the mash, malt and meal they placed the still in the car and came to town, i It was a good day's work, fraught with danger, but the officers seem to think that their hides are tough and they are deterijiined to make Gran ville the cleanest county in the state at all hazard. : i ' 4 'ON TO RICHMOND.'" Fifty of the Granville Boys Will At As near as can be ascertained there are eighty-eight Confederate veter ans in Granville county. About fifty of this number have signified their intention to attend the reunion to be held in Richmond early in June. We see it stated in a Richmond paper that the old boys from this section of the State will be quartered at Camp Henry. Judge Graham is ex pected to arrive Jrom New York on June 1st and. accompany the Gran ville veterans to Richmond. We notice in the papers that sever al counties in the State have set aside sufficient funds to pay the rail road fare of all their veterans who desire to take in the reunion. Among the counties voting funds for this worthy cause, Franklin is the most generous. That county has 300 sol diers and the County Commissioners have voted sufficient funds to pay the railroad fare of every man who has the credentials showinig that tie is a bona-fide resident of Franklin and a veteran of the Civil War. We will not have the old patriots with us very long. The ranks are growing thinner every day-We wish that old Granville, like Franklin, would make it possible for the eighty-eight survivors to answer the roll call on Shocho Hill in June.Many crave to go, but unless means are provided their hearts will never again be revivified by the fife and drum and marshal tread of their comrades. To furnish the means to make the trip, would come as a re veille to some who cannot otherwise go to Richmond. MOTHER'S DAY IN OXFORD The Beautiful White Flower Was in Evidence Everywhere. Mother's Day was fittingly observ ed by the Baraca Class of Oxford Baptist church. General Royster supplied a basket full of white car nations and as the members filed into the class room young laides of the Philathea-class "pinned the beautiful flower on the lapel of their coats. A flower is beautiful at any time, but it never seemed quite so cheering as it did on this occasion when worn by a room full of sturdy men. Mr. B. W. Parham, - in response to a call, made a beautiful and impressive talk, in which he told the class of Mother's undying love and the many sacrifices she had made for them. The meet ing was simple and home-like, and that was the beauty and the power of it.' The day was" generally observed in Oxford. Nearly every man, woman and child wore the beautiful white flower. We saw two gentlemen, one a bachelor, call at the home of Dr. E. T. White early Sunday morning and the beautiful white flower was plucked from the garden by Miss Edna White and presented to them with the grace and courtesy for which she is noted. OUR NEW HOME 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 new home of the PUBLIC LEDGER. We shall be glad to see you at any time. AUTOCAR HITS BUGGY RALEIGH ROAD WAS SCENE OF ACCIDENT. Mrs. Leak Peace and Companions Were Badly Shaken Up and Frightened by the Impact. While Mrs. Leak Peace, Mrs. Sac kett and two children were riding out Raleigh road Sunday evening, a car driven by one Fred Overby, col ored, dashed into the rear of Mrs. Peace's buggy, demolishing it and throwing the occupants to the ground, Mrs. Peace received a hard blow on the head and the other occu pants sustaining light brusies. The accident occurred within the corpor ate limits at a point where Raleigh road crosses the branch. Several eye-witnesses testified that the car driven by. the colored man was going at a rate above twenty miles at the time of the impact; others testified that it did not exceed ten or fifteen miles an hour Justice T. L. Buchannan tried the case Monday morning, and Mr. John W. Hester appeared for the defen dant Overby. After hearing the evi dence and Mr. Hester's presentation, the Justice fined the defendant Over by $20 and the cost of the action, one Jim Thomas, colored, owner of the car, obligative to repair the damage of Mrs. Peaces' buggy The accident caused a great deal of uneasiness as to the damages sus tained by Mrs. Peace, but we are glad to report that she is resting well. The good people of Oxford rejoice that the occupants of the buggy es caped, with their life and limbs. There are those among us who fear that a fatality awaits some one on the public highway under the same cir cumstances that Mrs. Peace and her companions in the ill-fated buggy were crushed to the ground. The officers must be diligent or else there will be fatalities in the community. We have no doubt in our mind that if the car driven by the colored man last Sunday had been within the time limits there would have been no accident. The officers must be se vere where life and limbs are in peril. 9 Cohn & Son's Sale. Cohn & Son't sale started last week and will continue ten days longer. They were busy as bees selling thousand of dollars worth of goods. This shows that the people of Oxford and Granville county real ize that when Cohn & Sons advertise a sale it means bargains and money savings for every one- Even if you were there at the first day of the sale it will pay you to go there again for many fresh bargains will be placed 6a &J-5dai!yC e-wilr' EiS ts3t!-Lf savings are not confined to a few de partments, but include everything in point to attend Cohn & Son's sale and their two big stores. Make it a tell your friends as you will be doing them a favor. Read their advertise ment on the last page of this paper. It means money saving for you. PLANT TOBACCO SPARINGLY Let the Figures Show for Them-: selves. In advising farmers to plant tobac co sparingly it is well to pull the proof on him. He is like the man from Missouri, "Show me." The following figures is about the strong est argument against planting a big crop we have yet seen. The Virginia sun-cured warehouses and manufac turers reported 13,654,647 pounds April 1, against 12,725,275 a year ago; Virginia dark warehouses and manufacturers had on hand last April 51,243,993 pounds, against 54,045,869 last year, and the Bright Yellow district of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina report ed 335,667,629 this year .against 282,340,568 a year ago. HOME DEMONSTRATION WORK Increased Interest in the Work.Three Thousand Girls Enrolled in the Clubs. According tot Mrs. Jane S. McKim mon, in charge of Home Demonstra tion Work in North Carolina.the membership of the Girls Canning Clubs has increased from fifteen hundred in 1914 to three thousand at present. As an indication of the interest tatken by the people in this line of work, Anson, Alamance, Edgecombe, Forsythe, Granville and Moore coun ties awarded the girls important places in the commencement exercis es. In Moore county, an automobile decorated so as to represent a giant tomato was given an important place in the commencement parade. This float together with the white caps and aprons of the girls was one of the most attractive features of the parade. A PEN PICTURE Ridley Park and Down In 'the Deep Woods Beyond. Nature originally did much for Ridley Park and the deep woods be yond with its lovely rocks, rills and glens capped with blue cerulean and silver-tinted skies. We love to ramble in the deep recesses of the forest out there where nature blends so harmoniously as to make its beauty and grandure almost unbe lievable to those who have not visit ed this quiet and lovely spot so near to Oxford. Ridley Park is that beautiful, plat eau lying just immediately to the east of General Royster's corner,and it is planked on the east by the deep forest, perhaps a short mile from the heart of town. The young peo ple love to roam through the wood land and commune with nature- It has its "Park Isle Way," its Hiawa tha Rock," it's "North Brook," "Middle Rock," Seminole Rock," "Cherokee Rock," "Table Rock," and "Last Chance Rock." It's beau ties are there to be enjoyed by old and young who care to avail them selves of its comfort and charm. Time is money to the working man. Sickness . means impairment of bis working capital. "When a man is "a little off his feed" Red-Tone Tabules will improve his appetite and diges tion. 25 cents at the Lyon Drug Store. Money back if dissatisfied. COUNTRY EXPECTS FIRMN Coroner's Jury Finds Appalling Crime Was Contrary to all Laws of The Civilized Nations DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS STRAINED NOTICE OF ELECTION An Election Will Be Held in Gran ville, June 19th. Elsewhere in the Public Ledger will b efound a notice of the election to be held in Granville county on Sat urday, June 19th, 1915. Read the notice carefully and be in a position to do your duty at the polls. The Public Ledger is heartly in favor of strengthening the schols of the coun ty. All the wise and able men with whom we have conversed are in fav or of this particular bond issue. 4 SIX GOLD DOLLARS They Play an Important Part in a Drama to be Enacted. There are six one dollar gold piec es in circulation in Oxford that would play an important part iij a drama if they could be found F We are re quested not to reveal Rhe secret at present. Three of theVgold pieces bear date of 1853. There is just enough history connected with these coins to make it interesting. It would be well for those who have re ceived one dollar gold coins in the last few days to look at the dates on them, and if they conform to the date given above we will thank the owner to communicate with the Pub lic Ledger so we can inform the party of the first part. MUSIC TREAT. Professor and Mrs. Owen Coming in June. Within the next few weeks, just after commencement, Prof. R. B. Owens, assisted by Mrs. Owens as singer, will give an organ recital in the Methodist church of Oxford. Mr. Owens was for years oganist at Christ church, Raleigh, and is at present head of the Music Depart ment of St. Mary's College. Mrs. Owens is a pupil of Senor Van Hoose, Metropolitan Tenor,' New York City. isni'sicjtTeat. ma yA.be expected. SIGNS OF THE TIMES Six Prominent Men Join the Auto Brigade. Six Ford automobile cars were un loaded at the Seaboard Freight sta tion in Oxford Monday. Each of the following named gentlemen took a car: Messrs. Joe Baird, F. B. Bla Iock, W. D. Smith, W. T. Clement, T. S. Husketh, and Dillard. TRANSFER OF PROPERTY Valuable Residential Property on Main Street Changes Hands. Mr. Wilbur W. Smith has sold to Mr. W. B. C. Hershey, President of The Excelsior Seat Co., his Main street dwelling. The sale was made through the Granville Real Estate & Trust Co. It is understood that Mr. Hershey will make extensive al terations and repairs -.at once. The Public Ledger joins th.. people of Ox ford in extending a vey hearty wel come to Mr. and '1f. Hershey as nd Iff dents f O ? Plf IMI permanent residents J Oxford BREACH OF PlJKMISK CASE Colored People of f (Better Class Air Their Grievas Before Mayor SvTi. An interesting I ryX battle was pulled off late Fridibevening before His Honor Mayor Stem interesting because it concerned the better class of colored people. Gen. B. S. Roys ter was retained to appear for Blanch Hunt, the daughter of Grant Hunt, who swore out a warrant against Albert Albright for breach of promise to marry. Senator A. A. Hicks and Hon. D. G. Brummitt were retained - by the colored man Al bright. Albright came here from Burlington some time ago and iden tified himself with the better class of colored people. He made the ac quaintance of Blanch, who was care fully reared by her parents.and is an industrious girl, having been employ ed by some of the best families in Oxford. It was successfully proven that Blanch and Albright were frequently seen together at the church, the mov ies and at colored people's functions. An estrangement arose between Al bright and the girl along about the first of April, hence the trial. It was proven that. Blanch told her parents and her sister that she was engaged to marry Albright; in fact it was proven that the girl had purchased material and had fmade garments, presumably for the wedding. The lawyers entered, i nto the case with their accustomed vim and we watch ed the ou team " with a great deal of concern, for i there is anything in this world thVl thrills us it is the majesty of the iw pure, unadulter ated and undena in high and low places. The attorneys on both sides of the case acquitted themselves with dignity and honor; With the meager cooberative evi dence in hand 'His Honor dismissed the case. Yet there was something else taking plaee that brought to light that majestic spark of the law for which we had been seeking. All had left the court room, but in the ears of Albright rang the solemn ad moninition of Gen. Royster; his ap peal to reason and justice; the point ed finger and the flash of the eye. The shade of the evening gathered, and lo and behold there was rejoic ing down in Browntown Albright married the girl, and when we heard of It we saw the spark flicker about the old "digests and precedents." ESS The Coroner's Verdict. Kinsale, Ireland, May 10. The coroner's jury investigating the death attendant on the loss of the Lusitania returned the following ver dict today: "The jury finds that this appalling: crime was contrary to international law and the convention of all civil ized nations and we therefore charge the officers of the submarine and the German emperor and the government of Germany under whose orders they ' acted with the crime of wilful whole sale murder." The Affidavits. Queenstown, May 9, by the way of London, May 10. Affidavits by Miss Jessie Taft Smith, of Ohio; Dr. How ard L. Fisher, of Washington; Major F. Warren Pearl and Robert Rankin, of New York, are the only perman ent records of the Lusitania disaster obtained by the United States con sulate here. The affidavits were cabl ed tonight to Secretary Bryan. The Stars and Stripes. At noon today the bodies of iden tified Americans covered with stars and stripes were removed from scat tered morgues and placed side by side in the Cunard offices on the wa ter front. As they were carried through the streets by British sailors the crowd uncovered. Cheap brown coffins contained the bodies of the dead. Three Torpedoes Fired. London, May 10. Three torpedoes were fired at the Lusitania, according" to Rev. Mr. Guvien, of the church oT England, Sanadian railway mission. He said the third found its mark, while the last boat was being low ered. "The crew stood stolidly on tht? deck," he said, "and surveyed their handiwork. I could distinguish the German flag, but it was impossible to see the number of the submarine which disappeared after a few min utes." Condensed Washington News. (Washington Special, May 10.) German Ambassador calls at Stafe Department and expresses regretl y , fTesif!revit "-will "call': Cabinet mej(ti, ing tms Tuesday. v The blowing up of the Lusitania;: may sever diplomatic relations with: Germany. Berlin claims ship was armed. German Ambassador receives note threatening to blow up the Embassy, Entertainment at !lhoboth. The children from the Methodist Protestant Home, High Point, will' give an entertainment at Rehoboth, near Watkins, next Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. The public is cor dially invited and urged to be on time. WHAT THE BULLETIN SHOWS More Than One Million Dollars Sent Out of Granville Every Year The Granville county fails to the" extent of more than a million dollars to support her population in home grown eatables is the verdict of figur es that have been compiled showing: the comparative statistics of various North Carolina counties. , . This state ment goes to show that this county can easily afford to raise more meats,, bread and foodstuffs, and can them afford tot sell it cheaper than the western states that have to ship it hundreds of miles. Every time there is talk of diver sified farming or the raising of more eatables some farmers put forth the. plea that the demand is not great, enough and that they would raise stuff that could not be sold at any ' profit. However, this bulletin that has just been compiled shows beyond' doubt that Granville has to depend! ' upon the outside world to supply more than a million of life sustain inig products each year. The report just issued shows the urgent need in a way that brings the issue close home. No amount of talk can get arouncf this proposition. There is no county in North Carolina that comes very near supplying its own residents, al though Alleghany county comes clos est with an outside expenditure of." only $19,000. Alleghany farmers have for several years been raising: more cattle and have adopted diver sified farming. NEWS NOTES FROM SURL Plenty of Frying Size Chickens andf Other lroduce. Correspondence of the Public Ledgei Mr. Charley Russel and son, Robert who lives in this community goes to Durham every week with two wagon, loads of chickens and eggs and other produce. They said they sold 200" frying size chickens one day last week. Mr. J. W. Noell, tax lister, was at Surl on the 7th, and the people was prompt in listing property. Mrs. J. R. Welch and Miss Carrie Welch have been on the sick list for the past week. Mr. E. T. Chanlder has a fine lot of clover this season. He told his friends that he would give them sl wagon load if they would come after it. Eggs are plentiful in this section; this spring, prices ranging about 15 cents per dozen. Messrs. Sam Oakley and Jack: Welch planted some tobacco on the 7th instant. Mr. Bud Cates has certainly done a lot of two-horse plowing during: the last fifteen years. Seasonable rains during the past ten days have certainly livened up things in this section. T. F. t r 1 : i t ft ' I r - -f - -
Oxford Public Ledger (Oxford, N.C.)
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