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J PUBLICalXXDGEB ' TRADE AT HOME THROW AWAY THE MAIL ORDER CATALOGUE AND TRADE AT HOME VOLUME XXX. OXFORD, NORTH CAROUNAL SATURDAY, JULY 3RD, 1915. iJER 55. THOSE WHO PUSH THE COMBINATION THAT WILL MAKE G RAN VILLE GREAT The Co-operation of Every Man, Wo man, Boy and Girl in the County Should Be Enlisted. Combination has already made Granville county one of the best counties in the State, and combina tion can make it one of the best in the whole South. Let every man, wo man, boy and girl in the county think for five minutes and say: "Do I want my native .county to be the best coun ty in the South? Do I want my coun ty town to be the largest and best commercial and manufacturing city in the South? Do I want Oxford, Creedmoor, Stem, Stovall and every town and village in the county to continue to grow until the county is known to have the greatest number of large and small towns in the South? Do I want every merchant to prosper, every mechanic to have all , the work they can do, every farmer to have a fertile farm, nice painted farm buildings, with good improved stock, poultry, and hogs, with every kind of improved implements and with a large sized savings account in one of the county banks? Do I want it said that every man, woman and child in Granville county has learn ed that the saving habit as well as the making habit is necessary and that each one of them has a savings account in one of the banks, and that these banks are known the South over to be the best patronized banks with the largest amount of money, belonging to the farmer, their wives and children of any banks?" If you want to have these things come true and will do your part you can have what you want. We know of several men and women of Gran ville county who are doing their share of progressive work and if you will join in the combination, if you will encourage them with kind words, . if you can't do more, you can do that much for Granville county's success. It makes no difference how small you are, how little money you have or how little book learning, you can do -.-something. Let's sum up in this edi torial a few of the big fellows and the little fellows who are doing things. Dr. Morris, our County Demonstra tor is doing a work so valuable that it cannot be estimated in dollars. He has the co-operation of many people. He ought to have the co-operation of every man, woman and child in the county. He cannot do the good he wants to do unless you will help him. You may be a boy of twelve years of age and say: "What can I do" or a girl no older. You can join the corn club, the pig club and the tomato club and keep along with the great progressive werk. You may have an idea of your own, and it may be a good idea, but Dr. Morris can , tell you a w,iele let of things you do not know:' Now there is Mr. Eugene Moss, out at the Test Farm. He is doing a wonderful work. Oh, what a splen did opportunity to see and to learn things out there. Not enough of the farmers and their sons visit the Test Farm. It seems to this old plug edi tor that if he was a farmer he would call to see Mr. Eugene Moss very of ten and we would ply him with many questions. He is a splendid fellow and full of information. ' Now there is the Granville Com mercial Club. They are ever on the i alert to find something that will be of benefit to Oxford and Granville coun ty. All wealth is produced, hence production in the aggregate constitu r'te wealth. Every product possess ing value adds to the wealth of the community in the proportion that it is produced and in the price at which it is both sold .and bought. Some body gets the pTofit out of it whether it be the producer or the middleman or the consumer. Whether it be fac tory production or farm production, it is wealth, and, recognizing that as self-evident.the Commercial Club los es few opportunities to preach pro duction of every kind. The officials of the banks, the di rectors of the banks, the merchant depositors, the farmer depositors, the children depositors and the manufac turing depositors have all formed a combination, or they have signified as much by faith and works. They have each and every one of them said:" We want to so work to gether that we can, with what we have saved, do the greatest amount of good to the greatest number of people in this county. It is these men, these women, these children who have the money in the banks waiting to help along every good legi timate cause. And where some have failed is by not telling their children that they ought to save a part of ev ery dollar they earn and join these good banking institutions of Gran ville county by depositing in the sav ings department a part of every dol lar. And the boys and the girls should be permitted to say to their parents that they are committing a sin against humanity and hindering the prosperity of Granville county by keeping money in their homes where thieves may steal it, where fire may burn it or rats destroy it; that they may hide it in some out of the way place and die without telling anyone where it is Besides all these risks they are losing the interest they ought to have. Recollect the little that Jane has been saving, the hun dreds that William Smith is keeping to repair his house, and the $200 that old man W. C. Winterall is saving to make his crop on and the $5,000 that T. M. Jade has hid away for safe keeping are only a few of the many instances that makes up the half mil lion dollars of idle money that is in the hands of the Granville county people. And this half million dollars would give to the people of the county every year twenty thousand dollars that they are now losing, would enable them to have more thousand dollars more profit and would enable them to have more mon money to loan the farmers for buying improved stock and tools. The man ufacturers could get more money to pay for material that they would buy of the farmer for wages they would pay their employees and in turn these farmers and employees would turn the money over to the merchants. THE TUT RIVER ASSOCIATION PREPARING FOR THE BIG EN TERTAINMENT. The Two Days Session Will Be Called to Order by Judge Devin on the Morning of July 13th. Below is a list of the committees appointed to prepare for the enter tainment of the Flat River Associa tion which meets with the Baptist church of Oxford July 13 and 14th. meeting. Often four or five thous and people are present. The enter tainment is a very huge undertaking. The Baptist people are making large preparation for the occasion. The pastor instructs us to say that the church will be very grateful for any contribution from the other denomi nations towards the entertainment of the delegates or the furnishing of dinner. He also advises that any who ex pect to do so will please notify some member of the committee on dinner and home, or the pastor, Dr. G. T Lumpkin. Conveyances will be furnished to those wishing to furnish dinner to carry the dinner to the grounds, if so desired. Any one wishing this will please notify Dr. Lumpkin. Committee on Homes and Dinner West of College Mrs. R. I. Daniel, Mrs. W. Z. Mitchell, Miss lone Yan cey. East of College Mrs. H. M. Shaw, Mrs. W. A. McFarland, Mrs. Harry Williams. West of Gilliam Mrs. John Webb, Mrs. B. E. Parham, Mrs. W. R. Trog- den. East of Gilliam Mrs. A. H. Pow ell, Mrs. J. D. Brooks, Mrs. H. J. Council. Committee on Hospitality J. F. Meadows, B. W. Parham, Samuel Watkins. Committee on Water and General Conveniences. R. M. Currin, A. F. Morris, M. P. Chamblee. Committee on Tables and General Preparation . C D. Ray, W. L. Currin, A. P. Hobgood, H. J. Council, J. Robert Wood. Committee on Finance. R. M. Ray, Earnest Howard, Row land Gooch. AN EXACTING MASTER - There is No Play Time For the Farmer. There is a great deal of difference in the manner in which the town men and the farmers transact busi ness during the summer months. You approach a town man these days and he is very apt to tell you that he will f 'attend to it in a day or two;" but if you will take a jaunt to the country and look tOjthe right and the left you will see the farmer with his sleeves rolled back and as busy as a German general. The field is his war zone and Nature is the gen eral. The farmer knows that there will be no waiting, and that it will not be safe to "put it off." When the .wheat is ripe it must be cut; when the hay is ready for the mower it will not wait; when the fence falls down it must be rebuilt before the stock escapes; when there is a piece of wire lying around loose it must be picked up before it does damage. The milk must be churned when it is ready, and not at the farmer's con venience. And so on through the whole list of farm duties. So the farmer soon acquires the habit of ' aoing it now," or his farm is sold for taxes. We saw our old friend Mr. Herbert Crews in town Tuesday and he was as busy as a bee in a tar bucket try ing to find a bolt to match one that had given away about some of his im proved farming machinery. To tell the truth, he slipped on his coat with out rolling his sleeves down and he left home without putting on his col lar. We tried to "corner him," but he told us that the threashers bet him that they would reach his home before he returned from town, and off he went. THE BIG POW WOW. Peace Pipes, Tomahawks, Paraphana lia and Feathers. The order of Red Men is growing nicely in Oxford. The Camp now has nearly fifty braves. The public will be permitted to see some thing of the Red Men in the near fu ture. They have ordered paraphana lia, uniforms, feathers, peace pipes, and tomahawks and as soon as these arrive we may expect to see a paw wow. The following is a list of the flint rocks: Prophet J. L. White. Sachem J. B. Magee. Senior Sagamore Leo Byrum. Junior Sagamore T. R. Lanier. Chief of Record E.E. Woodworth Collector of Wampum J. J. Par ham. Keeper of Wampum D. F. Lanier Guard of Wigwam F. C. Spencer. Guard of Forest Robt. Noblin. PICNIC AND SPEAKING Things Are Shaping Up for Big Day at Caltolina Farm. The Public Ledger was honored with a call from Mr. W. T. Calton on Wednesday last. He tells us that they are going to have something to do out at Caltolina Farm on Satur day, July 17th. The program has not been made out as yet, but you can always rely on something nice when Mr. Calton has a hand in it. The report was current that the pic nic was to be held July 4th, but that is not the case. Things are shaping up for a big day on the 17th. In all probability General Royster and oth er notables will be present to enliven the occasion. Mr. Calton, backed by the entire community, is behind a movement to erect a commodious community building at Caltolina. . would pay their doctors and dentists bills and give more to the ministers. In a word, if you help get into cir culation this idle money you help ev eryone in old Granville. gts RfjH OVER NIGHT AWOKE TO FIND HIMSELF WITH A NEW BANK ROLL. An Interesting story of Old Farmer Biiren and His Kegs of Yellow Gold. We have visited in our rounds one or two "boom towns," but the "Magic City" over at the juncture of the James and the Appomattox rivers is ! just a little ahead of anything we have experienced. Oxford's ex-chief of police, Mr. A. Williford, has just returned from over" there and he tells us that it re minds him of a combination as gigan tic as a half dozen circuses as large as Barnum s shows. The town has sprung up so quick it taxes Rich mond, Petersburg, Norfolk and the fish from the two rivers to supply the demands. Should a boom like that strike Ox ford the railroads would be compell ed to run twenty-five extra freight trains every day to haul the brick, stone and other building material. Of course the workmen would have to sleep in tents just as they do over at DuPont until they could build houses. We like to speculate on these things because Oxford is going to take on life some of these days, but the increase will be gradual. An Interesting Story. C. H. Buren, an old farmer at City Point, Va., has awoke from his solitude and slumbers to find himself with a new bank roll of $15,000, an additional income of more than $500 a month, and 30 acres of level land in the heart of a community of more than twenty thousand people. For 37 year.s, Buren has eked out a living on a farm of 114 acres near the scenes of activity. He was there at the time of the Civil War, and as a boy received a stray bullet from the Federals. He secured his little farm some years after the war, and has been able to earn a small livelihood from it. Then came the big Dupont powder plant' a quarter of a mile from his farm. The Burens early benefitted from this activity, as two of the Bur en boys went to work in the construc tion department at $5 a day, and have kept steadily at their employ ment. The Burens had no further thought that opportunity was still hanging around. The plant units gradually went up, and the army of men at work was in cerased. A month ago, a stranger- dropped in at the Buren farm, and- asked its price. Buren said he want ed to keep his house and a few acres of land, but would sell 30 acres. A bargain was immediately closed at $110 an acre. Two days later another stranger dropped in, seeking more land. He tempted Buren with an offer of $200 an acre for 54 acres of the tract, and this ibargain was also closed. Today this jlract is selling in lot "subdivisions at tie rate of from $3,000 to $5,000 an acre. Streets, sidewalks and sew ers are being put in, and a modern city is springing up. ' Around Buren's home other land owners sold tracts. Tnese were laid out in city divisions, and within the past week more than $500,000 has changed hands in realty sales. ' Bu ren's 30 acres, with the farm house in the center, now stands in the heart of the city building activity. Offers to buy this tract do not tempt him yet. Last week he was offered $1,- 000 an acre spot cash for the 30 acres, rne otter aid not move mm. The next day the offer was increased to $1,5 00 an acre, but Buren clung to his land. VWhy should I sell?" said the old man. "If the land is good enough for others, it is good enough for me for awhile. I always wanted to live in a city, anyhow, and here I am right in the midst of one without having to move. "I am renting tent space on the farm and making 100 a month out of that, with space going every day, 'my two boys are working at the plant, and I am renting my teams out for $15 a day. I am making more money than I ever saw in all my life, so why should I be in a hurry to make more? Maybe when things get a little too crowded around me I will sell every thing but the house. I like this city just as much as I liked the old farm and I am going to stick here." Buren's luck has not changed him any. He takes a philosophical view of the good things which have so unex pectedly come his way, and is in no hurry to start spending his newly found wealth. . "There is only one difference that I notice," he said whimsically a few days after receiving his payment on his tracts. "People never used to bother about me, but now they cross the road to talk to me. Funny what a little money does, ain't it?" Buren has a husky family of five or six children, . one of whom has a farm of 400 acres a mile and a half from the new community around the old man's farm. The stir of activity has reached out to this tract, and be tween the father and son, the two are likely to be the Astors of the new Southern city. OFF ON MOTORCYCLE TOUR Masters James Ballou and Edwin Hicks off On a Long Bike Mastess James Ballou and Edwin Hicks, each about fifteen years of age and physically strong, started on a motorcycle, tour last Tuesday morn ing that will take them into several counties of the State. They had cal culated on reaching Kinston the first day and Fayetteville the second day, though it was understood that they might change their route. A brief message from them Wednesday ad vised parents that they had reached Goldsboro. It is barely possible that they followed the Norfolk: Southern down to Newbern, thence to Jackson ville, Onslow county and on over to Wilmington and up the Carolina Cen tral to Maxton, the home of old Henry Berry Lowery, and thence to Fayetteville. You can never tell where a couple of good strong boys, with plenty of gasoline and strong motors, will go. To them a lit tle jaunt of one hundred miles before breakfast is like pie. , We hope the little fellows will get along all right, in fact we know they will. : ATE FAIR EDITORS OF ST. 'E CALLED UP- ON" TO BOOM EXPOSITION Bion H; Butler's Appointment as Press Agent Announced by Captain E. J. Parrish -President of the Association. ) i ' , Captain E. J. Parrish, president of the State Fair Association, has sent out circular letters to every news- LARGER si . r w-. A3 paper editor in North Carolina an- poor student, which ultimately result nouncing the appointment of Mr. ed in eleven nations going - to war Bion H. Butler a3 fair press agent. With the announcement of his ap- pointment Mr. Butler is sending out a letter calling on the editors of North Carolina newspapers to aid in making the next North Carolina fair an exposition instead of a fair. He also calls on the people of the state to prepare large exr jb'its and to go to Raleigh, October It- to 25, prepared to do their best. if Captain - Parrish . also encloses in his letter a stirring call to arms. It reads in part i follows: "This grand old state should begin taking her bearings on new lines. The opening of thel Panama Canal opens up and tend$to move things southward. At preient there is no shipyard south of Newport News, Va. Mr. Bion H. Butler s authority for the statement that 'a -great corpora tion with $4,000,000' capital, is pro posing to build a shipyard at Mobile, Ala. Thus, ' you see, f, the tendency is to move south.- Undoubtedly at this time there are two ships', being built in America shipyards for every one built a year ago. We want, and must have, ships to carry our commerce. Trade with South America is expand ing, and a new commercial world is opening up to the United States. War is wrecking European factories and mills, and setting up barriers be tween nations," consequently turns all the world's thought .to the United States. Whether war continues or not, Europe and the rest of the world must call upon the United States for our goods. When the war ends they must come to the United States for such equipment as will restore them to a self-helping state. "As far as the eye ican penetrate, the future presents an era of agricul tural and industrial activities. Is not North Carolina to shjare in this un usual condition of affairs? It looks as if an era of great progress was ahead of us, and while-we may not realize the magnitude of it, we can join in and share in it to the best of our ability. To this end we must make , North Carolina'known to it self and to the world." V , , The remainder of the note is filled with interesting data" concerning the fair management. . ' ; , ; IVjlI . XJ.UU XX. J3UL1CI newspaper men of full of enthusiasm. nr. "r : tt t 1 letter to the Carolina is asks that every editor join in th' poster move. went and to arouse:.-' tausiasra for exhibits from his coun "If you will take it on yourself to arouse your county jto' arranging for an exhibit at the State Fair you can get your people interested. Don't you think your folks will feel kind of funny to go to the fair and see the sandhill country, with its meager nat ural' resources; making a fine show ing, and your county, with its natural abundance, showing nothing?" This is one paragraph of the letter of Mr. Butler. Other parts of the letter were along the same lines And are full of enthusiasm. In fact, Mr. Butler's start is sure to wake North Carolina editors, and the results will be looked forward to with interest. HERRING-CARROLL WEDDING Beauty and Simplicity Characterize Oxford Wedding. ' (Communip ated.) Characterized by beauty and -simplicity was the wedding ceremony which united Miss Rebecca Louise Carroll and Mr. George De .Lamater Herring, at the home of the' bride's sister, Mrs. John W. Gooch, Wednes day afternoon, at 2:30 o'clock and was very quiet, only members of the immediate families, and a few inti mate friends being present. The stately wedding march from Lohengrin and Mendelssohn's were well rendered by Miss Ruth Cook, of LaCross, Virginia. The beautiful ring ceremony was unusually im pressive. Rev. W. N. Johnson, pastor of the Wake Forest Baptist church officiated, assisted by Dr. G. T. Lump kin, pastor of the Oxford Baptist church. During the ceremony Mac Dowell's "To a Wild Rose" was soft ly played. The room was artistically, decorat ed with ivy, potted plants, sweet peas and field daisies. An improv ished altar covered with ivy and dais ies formed a beautiful back ground. The bride wore an exquisite gown of crepe meteor trimmed with real lace and carried a bouquet of brides roses showered with lillies of the valley. Her veil was made in the new cap effect and was caught with orange blossoms. After refreshments were served to the guests, the bridal party left in automobiles for Henderson where the bride and groom took the south bound train. The bride wore a handsome sand colored tailored suit with accessories to' harmonize. The young couple came from two of the most prominent families of Samp son county. The bride is the daugh ter of Capt. F. M. Carroll, of Clinton, and was educated at Meredith Col lege. The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Herring and received his education at A. & M. College. He is one of Sampson's most progressive farmers. The many beautiful gifts received showed to some degree the populari ty of the young couple. The gift from the groom was a handsome pink cameo set with pearls. Meet Us Half jWay We have on our mailing books a, number of sub scribers owing us for more than one year. The postal regulations will not permit us to carry a delinquent subscriber for more , than , twelve months. We . regret?-; very - much to take their names off! the mailing list, but we must conforiin to the postal laws. We trust thai every subscrib er will notice the labjel on their paper and at least meet ua half way. ONE LONG YEAR GF WAR i GARVIO PRINZIP, A STUDENT,SET ALL EUROPE ABLAZE One Year Ago Last Monday Francis Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, Wras Assassinated, Precipitating Eleven Nations Into Wat One year ago Monday the Austrian archduke, Francis Ferdinand, and his wife were shot and killed in the little Bosnian town of Serajevo by Garvio Prinzip. It was the act of Prinzip, a These nations are.on one hand, Great Britian, France, Russia, Serbia, Jap an, Belgium, Italy and Montenegro, and, on the other, Germany, Austria ana lurKey. rne war to date, ac cording to conservative estimates compiled from the best available re ports, has caused a loss to the vari ous belligerents of more than 6 mil lion men, dead, wounded and prison ers, and more than five hundred ships. Of these about 120 were war vessels. The outstanding results on land are these: The greater portion of Belgium is under the control of Germany. Germany has been driven from the Far East. A part of the Dardanelles is in the possession of the allied troops. Portions of France and Russia are in the possession of German troops. A strip of Alsace has been taken from Germany. . On the continent of Africa parts of territorial possessions have been lost by both sides. Various island possessions of Ger many have been taken by the forces of the allies. Italian troops are in possession of a strip of Austrian territory. The outstanding results at sea are these: German and Austrian mercantile shipping has been driven from all the open seas. German and Austrian war vessels having a total displacement of ap proximately 257,000 tons have been destroyed. War vessels of the allied nations having a total displacement of ap proximately 192,000 tons have been sent to the bottom. The greater portions of the Ger man and allied fleets in the North sea remain intact. Except for communication through Holland and the Scandinavian na tions Germany is cut off from the rest of the world. Efforts-on the part of the Germans to place the British Isles in a similar predicament has resulted in the sink ing by submarines of hundreds of vessels flying the flags of the allied and neutral nations. The sinking in this manner of the Cunard liner' Lusitania with the loss of more than one hundred American lives precipated a request upon the part of the United States . that such practices insofar as they might men ace Americans, be stopped. - On May 23, Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary after having de nounced early in the month the triple alliance treaty. The declaration of war was quickly followed by raids upon the Italian coast cities by Aus trian aeroplanes. The Italian army struck across the border into Austria with Triest and Trent as objectives. During all this time the allied war ships in the Dardanelles had been keepinig up practically a continuous bombardment of the shore forts.Num erous warships of different types were sunk. Transports were hurried to the scene and troops were landed. On June 3 the Austro-German forces reoccupied Przemysh. During June the Serbians inaugu rated a campaign to secure a seaport on the Adriatic. Troops were sent across the border into Albania, with the seaport of Durazzo as an objec tive. Montenegro also dispatched troops into Albania, an independent nation recognized by the chief pow ers at the close of the second Balkan war . Dirigible airships and aeroplanes made numerous raids during the win ter and spring. London and Warsaw were the objective of a number of trips made by Zeppelin airships, while Paris was visited "by hostile aeroplanes. French and British aircraft atacked various points in Germany, dropping explosive and fire bombs "Is He Farming?" (Lee County News) We saw passing the other day young man from the country with bale of hay, a bag of shipstuff, one sack of corn and one one-horse shov el plow on his wagon, when a man present asked: "Is He Farming?" The question was a natural question of course, but what could you ans wer? He was either a beginner or a failure. If he had bought a farm and this was his initial start his load was all right, but if he had been farming last year and was pitching another crop, his load was all wrong. What future is before the fellow who this early in the spring must be gin buying feed for his stock? The question is worth considering and an alysing and if you belong to the class who must begin this early to buy feed, stop where yOu are and make some new resolutions. Resolve first that you will go home and plant some quick growing forage crop, that you will plant some early vegetables, and that for eight months this year you will raise all your supplies for the table and for your stock as you go along and be sure that while you are doing this you are making the surplus for the next four months, so that this fall when you gather your crop only a small portion will have to go for running expenses during the summer. z Will Address Baracas Prof. . J. Edward Allen, of Warrenton, who is State President of the Baracas and Philatheas, will address the Metho dist Baracas and Philatheas at the Sunday School hour Sunday morning. Everybody is invited. LOST $5.00 REWARD FOR IX- formation that will lead to Jack's recovery. She is a lemon and white spotted Pointer. Disappeared from home on Tuesday night, June 22. E. E. Fuller A HOUSE FOR RENT JOE PITT- man. (7-3-tf.) UNITED STATES MAIL BOXS TEN HAVE BEEN PLACED AT CONVENIENT POINTS IN OXFORD Ten neat iron mail boxes have been placed in convenient places in Oxford for drop letters. Assistant Post master Critcher is making out a sche dule which will be posted at each box, giving the hours at which the i mail will be collected by the carrier. The carriers will make three deliver- ies a day, as heretofore, and collect from the boxes on each of the three rounds. The boxes are located as follows: Corner Alexander and College. Corner Cherry and Goshen. Corner Broad and West. Corner Broad and Hillsboro. Corner Lee and College. Corner College and McClannahan. Corner Williamsboro & Railroad Avenue. Corner Main and Sycamore. Corner Front and Coggshall. Corner Front and Raleigh. While the ten boxes will be a great convenience the town is only partly covered. It will be noticed that all i which Americans would sail at their of that part of the town lying east I own risk, or whether she was an un of Bell street has not been supplied armed merchantman. In the latter with boxes. It will require about fif- teen more boxes to cover the town as it should be, and possibly as soon as the necessity is pointed out to the proper postal officials at Washington the requesite number will be granted. Of the ten boxes that have been placed none bear the star. (). In large cities the government places star boxes only in the districts where the mail matter is the heaviest, and collectors visit the star boxes every half hour from 9.30 o'clock in the forenoon to 5 o'clock in the after noon. It would seem that it will be some time before Oxford will be hon ored with the big blue star. LASSITER-SIMMONS MARRIAGE Fhe Daughter Of M. II. W. Laiter MarrieM In Washington. (Washington Post, July 1) A beautiful wedding was solemnized Wednesday at noon at the Church of the Epiphany when Miss Katharine Leigh Lassiter, daughter of Mr. Robt. W. Lassiter became the bride of Mr. Berkeley Leo Simmons. The cere mony was performed by the Rev. Dr Van Winder, of Jacksonville, Fla., uncle of the bride, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Hall, assistant rector of the Church of Epiphany. The chancel of the church was dec orated with white roses and trailing vines. The bride, who was given in marirage by her father, wore a hand some gown of white chiffon over lace and a picture hat of white tulle, trim med with white roses and touches of silver. She carried a shower bouquet of orchids and lilies of the valley.The maid of honor, who was Miss Amy Shields, of Jacksonville, Fla, wore white georgette crepe and a large crepe hat .trijmmed with pink, roses. The " matron of honorr Mrs. Robert Gilliam Lassiter, of Oxford, N. C, sister-in-law of the bride, wore a gown of pinik satin taffeta and a large pink crepe hat. The two otler atendants were Mrs. Richard Thomas Beer, of Washington, .and Miss Josephine Brown, of Oxford, N. C. They wore gown3 of white georgette crepe and large pink crepe hats. All the attendants carried arm bou quets of pink roses and white sweet peas with long pink tulle streamers. The best man was Mr. Robt. Walling, of Philadelphia, and the ushers were Mr. Carl R. Kurtz.Mr. Douglass Corn well and Mr. George N. Rayj all of Washington. Immediately after the ceremony a breakfast was served at Mr. Lassi ter's apartment in the Woodward. Later Mr. and Mrs. Simmons went North on their wedding trip, the lat ter wearing a stunning gown of black and white striped taffeta and a small black toque trimmed with white chif fon flowers. She carried a black and white striped parasol. After July 15 Mr. and Mrs. Simmons will be at home at 1840 Mintwood Place. Among the out-of-town guests were Mr. Robert Gilliam Lassiter Mr. B. Kr Lassiter and Mr. J. T. Lassiter, all of Oxford,; N. C, brothers of the bride; Mrs. Van Winder Shields, of Jacksonville, Fla., and Mrs. Robert Walling, of Philadelphia. MUSIC AND REFRESHMENTS Mr. J. Robert Wood Entertains Bap tist Baraca Class. Mr. J. Robt. Wood converted a large space in his store into an im posing assembly room and handsome ly entertained the Baptist Baraca Class Thursday evening. Mr. Wood was unanimously elect ed president of the Baraca Class re cently and it was his desire that the members gather at his store Thurs day night and have a royal good time. Mr. Wood named his several com mittees and read an interesting paper on Baraca work. There were more than one hundred people present in eluding a number of ladies, the wives. daughters and sweethearts of the Ba racas. A large graphaphone fur nished the music, dialogues and speeches, and with the elegant re freshments served the evening 'was a most enjoyable one. . CUPID'S PRANKS Miss Fannie Wyatt and Mr. S. R. Winters Married. It was learned in Oxford a few days ago that Miss Fannie Wyatt and Mr, S. R. Winters were married in Nor folk last Christmas and that they pre ferred to keep it a secret until Mr Winters completed his studies at the University of North Carolina. Miss Wyatt is an exceptionally bright and attractive young lady.She was for a long time bookkeeper for the late L. B. Turner and has made her home with Mrs. Turner for a number of years. Mr Winters was a newspaper cor respondent at Chapel Hill for a num ber of years. He is now writing special atricles for the Country eGn tleman, the leading farmer's journal of the country. He has lived all his life at Stem. Death of Child. The two-year-old baoy of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Davis, who reside near Dickerson, died Wednesday. The interment was at Bethel church Thursday afternoon. MULE SHIP TORPEDOED CARRYING MULES FROM NEW PORT NEWS TO WAR ZONE Twenty Americans Go Down Off the Coast of England, The Work of a German Submarine. All Washington is excited as a re sult of the sinking of the Dominician freight liner Armenia, flying the British flag and carrying a load of mules from Newport News to Eng land Monday night near Eddiston light, Cornwall, England, on board of which were a score of American muleteers. Twenty-nine men in all were lost and ten injured. The Ger man submarine U-38 did the work. The news created a sensation in official quarters, as it was the first case of loss of American lives since the sinking of the Lusitania. The ac tion of the Washington government, however, depends almost entirely on whether the Armenian was chartered by the British government and was, in fact, a transport of war aboard case, even though carrying contra- band ship should have been subjected to visit and search and those aboard transferred to a place of safety before the destruction of the vessel was at fempted, officials hold. In the absence of conclusive infor mation on these points, officials de clined to say what effect the sinking of tne Armenian would have on pend ing negotiations between the United States and Germany. Rifle Shot Fired. From the messages received it ap pears that in addition to the torpedo at least one shot was fired from a disappearing rifle. The consul's re port said the wireless house was "taken by second shot." It was not made clear whether the Armenian first was ordered to halt and resisted capture requiring a second shot or whether the submarine atacked with out warning. The fact that the num ber of the submarine was given in dicated that he had come to the sur face to make the attack. Mules are contraband of war, ac cording to all the lists of the belli gerents.so there can be no doubt as to the contraband character of the Armenian's cargo. Officials will make an effort to learn, however, whether the vessel was armed and whether she was a part of the British naval forces before the opinion of the Stale Department when the case will be disclosed. Wilson and Lansing Notified All dispatches received were promptly telegraphed to President Wilson at Cornish, N. H; and Secre tary Lansing at Amherst, Mass., and it was considered probable that they would communicate with each other while in New England. X - r ' rne r inai Aiissing iasi. f The list t Of missing, asfinally rna!e from Armil iiftrongla report, Is L lea- lows : E. Williamson, 'St. Louis, l-r-lw J. M. Munroe, New Orleans. ' B. M. Granberry, Montgomery ,Ala. S.R. Sutton, Cartersville, Va. Harry Stone, New York City. Brown, cattle carpenter, Har- risburg, Pa. ' Dr. J. S. Viso, Porto Rico. R. H. Brooks, or West (chief fore man of muleteers), London, (natur alized American). Henry LeRoy, Jackson and Speed, Richmond, Va.; Wall Foley and Lit tle.Newport News, Va.; King.Small, Kikert and; Oakes, Norfolk, Va. Smith, Portsmouth, Va., (all negro muleteers. Germans Acted Fairly. (Later) Captain Trickey'j of the British steamer Armenian, in an interview said he surrendered to the German submarine only when his ship wao afire in three places, her engines were out of action, and a dozen of the crew had been killed by shrapnel fire. "The submarine, as a signal for us tostop," said Capt. Trickey, "first, put a couple of shots over our bows . when we were four miles off. I put . my stern to him and ran for it." I MR. E. T. CREWS SINGS A SONG Blue Ribbon Winners at Oxford '. Promised for State Fair at Raleigh (News and Observer) Granville county this year will ' make the finest display at the North Carolina State Fair that it has ever made. This was assured when Mr. E. T. Crews, secretary of the Gran- -ville County Agricultural Fair, who was in the city yesterday to attend -the meeting to put into effect plans to boost North Carolina, had a con ference with Secretary Pogue, of the State Fair. Mr. Crews said that this year Ms association was offering very liberal premiums in all departments and had induced the blue ribbon winners at Oxford to take these exhibits to the coming State Fair here, the object being to show the State what the grand old county of Granville can do. The fair at Oxford last year was a good one and a still better one is ex pected this year. The various county fairs of the State are learning the value of co operating with the State Fair here. Things are getting very active in the office of Col. Pogue now. The first forms of the premium list is in the hands of the printer and the pub lication will soon be ready for distri bution throughout the State. Applications for space are coming in and all signs point to record break er for 1915. Practical Training In this time of industrial opportunity, it is gratify ing to see what a firm grasp the men trained at the Agricultural and Me chanical College are taking on the industrial life of the State. These men not only know how to do things. but they are doing them with credit to themselves and to their college. They are making over old farms and dairies. Many of them are directing cotton mills. On rur railways and highway you find them with transit and rod. - They are sought by men who need draughtsmen and machin ists. Young men who are ambitious and determined to make headway in life are in increasing numbers mak ing their way to this busy institution. The fall announcement in this paper will interest scores of young men. 1 x 1 7 .
Oxford Public Ledger (Oxford, N.C.)
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