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.-5 ' . - .." V tr . - ; .;".V-i.--;. YTOLUME XXX. OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, lStli, 1915. NUMBER 68 P OXFORD TOBACCO MARKET THE BIG COMPANIES HOLD OUT ENCOURAGEMENT The Next Step in the Drama is for all Hands to get Into a Receptive Mood The All-Important Ques tion of the Horn is to Transact Business in a Business Like Way All eyes are looking to the open ing day of the 1915-16 tobacco sea son in the bright belt. The Oxford market will open on Wednesday, September 15th and it is practically certain that Creedmoor, Henderson, Durham and possibly other points in mis section win open on tne same date. There is. a feeling hereabouts that "times" will take a sudden spurt for the better when the doors of the five big Oxford warehouses are thrown open on Wednesday, September 15th The reports coming from South Car olina are encouraging. The prices have advanced since the opening date and are said to have reached a very satisfactory point now. The Public Ledger is informed that the larger companies, buying in this district, are making their usual preparations and the farmers report the curing process is proceeding splendidly. The 1915-16 crop of tobacco is a complex question. The big compan ies state that tobacco has more than kept pace with ail other enterprises, and that it is today the magnet which draws money from all parts of the globe. Long before the war started it was generally conceded that the toDacco industry wouia stand any emergency, and we fail to see at this time why the demands should not be even greater than ever before. There were more than 100,000,000 pounds of tobacco raised in the ter ritory contributory to the war zone annually up to the present year. When the war broke out, only the old grannies were left at home to plant a few hills of tobacco in the corners of the hedgerow. That is the extent of the European crop this year, with a growing demand in the trenches for the weed. In the last month there has been booked in the BMtedSta lt?Hliyi,flgi,Ssfegrni6,re thanTa .hundred : million., cigarettes, which- is scarcely enough to last the allied army more than a week. It is given out as a positive fact that the sol diers in the trenches are suffering for tobacco and that they must have the succulent weed. With the f ac torses running day and night to sup ply the demand, we fail to see where the hitch is coming from unless it is the inability of the big companies to properly negotiate sales, and ho one would expect them to take undue risks. If there is such a thing as reading between the lines, we can see a determination on the part of the big companies to push the 1915 16 crop to the fullest extent. It would be fatal for them not to do so. The Public Ledger is of the opinion that the circumstances surrounding the present crop now being cured and and houses is such as to warrant the assertion that the big companies are rather inclined to encourage fu ture production. The future prosperity of Granville county is largely dependent upon the market price of tobacco. We are ad vised that there, is a fair crop, and a fair crop and a fair price is not a bad combination, but it is devoutly to be wished that " it will be more. Should the crop sell well, the Public Ledger would yet feel alarmed as to the restoration of confidence in the community. The hording tendency is yet with us; there are men in the community who would actually discuss hardtimes in the face of a gold cure. We must first of all things get in to a receptive mood. We must transact business in a business like manner. The buyers tell us that the Oxford market is in a position to handle the crop. Surely that is encouraging. - Now let all hands get busy and go after the crop. It is up to the ware housemen to invite the farmers to their warehouses and tell them what they wish to do. Let us have a com plete understanding and move along in a business-like way. Unless we put our best foot foremost things will drag along and finally peter out. Ensign Bobbitt Last week Con gressman Stedman wrote to Mr. Comptom Bobbitt, his appointee to the Naval Academy, stating that he would, if Mr. Bobbitt so preferred, appoint him to the Military Academy to take effect at once, or that he could wait and enter the Naval Aca demy February, 1917. We inter viewed Mr. Bobbitt and learn that he prefers to enter the Naval Service, and as the mental and physical ex aminations are very rigid he feels that the year's delay will better en able him to qualify. 4 PERSIAN OATS FOR SALE NICE, clean lot of seed. Oxford Orphan Asylum. Also Alfalfa Hay for sale. 7-18-8t. PUBLIC LEDGER ENLARGED ' HEREAFTER THERE WILL BE EIGHT ATTRACTIVE PAGES . The Enlargement Enables Us to Clas sify the News and Carry the Household Department on Wed nesday and the International Sun day School Lesson on Saturday A Convenient and Inviting Form tor Aadvertiscr and Reader Alike It will be noticed that this issue of the Public Ledger makes its ap pearance in an enlarged form. This is done with a view of classifying the news and adding two important departments. The modern folding machine which we have just installed makes it possible to print, fold and trim the paper all at one clip at the rate of two thousand copies per hour. The Public Ledger goes into near ly every home in Granville county. The low price of $1.00 in advance, or $1.50 when carried over for twelve months, makes it possible for the twice-a-week Public Ledger to enter the homes of every person in the county. We shall print the International Sunday School Lesson from week to week in our Saturday's edition with the hope that the paper will reach all parts of the county in time for every man, woman and child to look over and study the lesson before the Sunday School hour. We add the Household Depart ment with a view of printing many valuable recipies. This department brings the people of Granville very close together. If we can secure the best recioies we feel that the de partment will accomplish much good in the community. We trust that the ladies of the town and county will contribute to this department, and as it is purely , an educational feature we trust that they will per mit us to credit all original recipies to the correct author. Wre shall appreciate any news item written or phoned in from the town and county. In fact, we desire to get in closer touch with every part of '. old (iranyle... . Boys and girisi respondents. They are . in closer touch with the life in their neigh borhood than are the older people We shall appreciate short news items from some of these bright children. MR. BRITT OX STANDARD You Set Yoiii Watch Back as Go West TIME You In spring of his recent trip to the Panama Exposition, Mr. J. T Britt, who was accompanied by Mrs. Britt, visited their daughter, Mrs George Hobbs, in New Jersey before journeying across the continent. In leaving New Jersey, Eastern time, the same as it is in Granville, and journeying to Chicago, Western time they set their watches back one hour When we ate dinner at 12 o'clock in Oxford they looked at their watches in Chicago and saw that it was only eleven o'clock; while it is ten o'clock at Denver, Mountain time, and nine o'clock at San Francisco in the Paci fic time belt. This arrangement is standard time and is based on sun time. Fifteen degrees or 15 meridi an spaces of one degree each corres-v ponds to one hour. This explains why Eastern time is three hours ear lier than Pacific time for the sun rises in Oxford three hours before San Francisco is turned to the sun. MOSQUITO BITES Don't Scratch Them Use Baking Soda or Ammonia (State Board of Health) Mosquitoes bites are unpleasant things. Sometime they (are worse than unpleasant. They may result in quite a sore or serious infection, especially on children, or they may even be the first intimation of a rap idly approaching case of malaria. A mosquito bite should never be scratched as a sore is likely to be formed. Especially should the fin ger nails be kept away from it. We know that this is hard to do, be cause finger nails are collectors of all. sorts of germs, many of which we would not want to get a start in a sore mosquito bite. The best thing to do for a mos quito bite is to thoroughly bathe it with a strong solution of ordinary baking soda or a weak solution of ammonia, or any other alkali. This relieves the itching and the conse quent tendency to scratch it and the place soon gets well. Sometimes a Danaage soaked with a solution of soda or ammonia will bring quick re lief. Campine Partv Mr. Carroll and his family and a number of children residing in their neighborhood on Broad street, returned Friday from a week's camping expedition at Sou dan. The sun had tanned their faces and they resembled a band of nice looking Gypsies. Thev reDort a large catch of fish and a fine time. THE W A I : THE CRY OF THE GERMANS , "OX TO PETROGRAD" ; -iJ While Things Are Comparatively; Quiet on the Western' Front i the-' Teutons are Forcing the Russkinr Back With a Prospect of Tftfcfcjg Petrograd. It was generally "believed that wisControversy as to the number of saw was as far East as the Geriharr cared to venture, but if we are to b lieve the dispatches the Kaiser it !ir said "On to Petrograd." It begi; to look as if Germany can hold il English and French armiesf ipkt" West at bay while the Kaiser'trTv invade Russia to any depihsj'O;!! select, and there is much k,t'er tory in that direction. " " . ':c Russia undoubtedly has fight le' in her yet, and with the chance of r -taining her centuries-long arabiti'. ' at Constantinople, she ' will disli s mightily making a separate;- ; pea; with Germany. But if Germany ca, take Petrograd there may be ndthif else to do. T The Public Ledger quite CSS with Dr. E. TWhite, who is a gre- admirer of the German people, til if the Kaiser should elect to subdi Russia and let it go at-that the woi would be satisfied: -The Preside :l t has requested everybody to be n V tral, but there are those among - :r and we could name a few right fcxef in old aristocratic Oxford who :hje felt all along that England a;;d France was in mighty bad company when they took on the .Russians Jauci. the Japs and V a Dagoes. '';'- With his biood thoroughly iif;it. would seem that the Kaiser .intends to make a finished fight with 'Russify The taking of Warsaw is a mere' .in j cident of the colossal plan which coh templates forcing Russia to her. knee. extorting from her a separate rpeacB, Can she do it? Now, let us see;, jXJr many on the west faces two foes,: and her own ally is unable to assist ner effectively. But on the east er many faces only one enmj(h$dvher ally ean help her) to "drive h; ofhf hlow that may split RusMa efe:irallJA4hsae.feft,s v,: because"-. ; his.. allies. Having planted herself in TtjHlfw'est where her enemies cannot bue her, Germany, with Austria's assistance, now turns and deals with a single enemy. It is two against one a sit uation that spells disaster to the sole antagonist. If it be conceded, that Germany single-handed could whip any single adversary, how can Russia hope to stand up against Germany and Austria combined? t If Germany had planned to segre gate her enemies and tackle ;them singly, she could not have arranged the situation more to her advantage. She catches Russia- short of ammuni tion and at a season when maneuvers on a large scale can be executed. The west front, the Dardanelles and. the Balkans are deadlocked, and the na val situation permits Germany to turn her strength against Russia. By following up the fleeing Rus sians and beating them wherever they may be; by taking city after city, even Petrograd itself, Germany and Austria are evidently determin ed to efface Russia from the list of enemies. They will offer to make peace with Russia if she will desert her allies and if they hammer , her hard enough she will be compelled to make peace. Self-preservation makes any treaty a scrap of paper. The agreement of the allies not to make separate peace becomes a scrap . of paper if the enemy actually .beats any one ot tnem and torces it to make peace. . Faith in the Allies The Pall Mall Gazette, London, says : The allies now know beyond the last shadow of doubt that they have it absolutely in their power to con quor Constantinople, open the strait and strike one blow which will neu tralize everything the Germans have done in the eastern theatre and will insure a triumphant termination or the war. Here diplomacy, as in the time of Hill and Marlborough, must be the mother of certain victory. There could be no forgivenessin the present or in the sight of posterity for the statesmanship of the quad ruple alliance should it now show it self unequal to -its opportunities in the Balkans. " j "Bulgaria has declared at last that she is ready tb throw her lot with the allies under terms hot impossible. They are reasonable. They are in accord with every principle and inter- est for which the allies are fighting, and we can now believe a settlement will not be reached in return for the immense sacrifices and efforts by the allies whictt have been, and will yet be, necessary to save Serbia from destruction. The quadruple entente is entitled to expect from Serbia con cessions in Macedonia which will be repaid over and over agains -by ac quisitions elsewhere and will make certain the triumph of the common cause." JEHT HISTORY REVIVED JE EXECUTION AT HARRIS ttJRG BRD3GE NEAR OXFORD Colored Woman Owned by Mr. Nor livood and Charged. With Pouring JMelted. : Lead Into Heir Master's 'Head While: He Slept, Was the First of Three Women, to he Exe cuted in North Carolina. omen executed in North Carolina by has ; developed the fact that at asi tnree negro women have paid :e death penalty. It all came about nen Mrs. Ida Ball Warren and amuel P. Christy were sentenced to Jte for the murder of Mrs. Warren's jusband in Winston-Salem. At the ,4jhe it was stated that if Mrs. Warren ?s electrocuted, she will be the first yroman to suffer capital punishment Jh orth Carolina. we gainer tne following running laocount of the execution of three ;Wonien in the - News and Observer, which says that immediately after Ward the report was circulated that Wilkes county had the record for the only woman executed. Just as quick ly, Wilkes denied the statement and jMr. J. J. Irvin of Cameron came for- ward with the story of the execution of a woman in Rockingham county in the early eighties. Now Mr. J. R Young, Insurance Commissioner, re calls the execution of a negress in Granville county and Mr.'S.V. Laugh- tnghouse of Raleigh claims to have been an eye witness to hanging of a negro woman in Pitt county. The Granville county hanging, Mr. Young remembers on account of cir cumstances connected with it. Ac cording t his memory, a-negro man and. woman, Matthew and. Jo, owned by a man named Norwood just before the war between the States, murder ed their owner by pouring melted lead into his head while he slept. The execution took place at the Harrisburg Bridge a mile from Ox ford on the Henderson road and the two negroes were hanged on the same scaffold Mr: Young stated yesterday that he father was a physician at the time and after the execution secured one of the bodies and had the skeleton mounted keeping it in his office for medical purposes. Mr. Laughmghouse says, . "l saw. a negro woman and two negro men, all three harged upon the same gallows at the same time in Pitt county just before the war between the States, some time during the latter part' of the fifties of the first of the sixties. I forget the date as I was only a school boy at the time, but I was a witness to the fact." GRANVILLE AT THE EXPOSITION Scenes Along the National Highway Admired by the Great Throng Capt. D. H. Winlow, engineer of the National Highway, says that the photograph of the school house and scenes along the National Highway in Granville, which are on display in the Government building at the Pan ama Exposition, are greatly admired by the large .throng that daily visit the great fair. We hold this as one of the best means of advertising our resources. It will be remembered that these pic tures were on display in Oxford be fore they were sent to the Exposition and they attracted a great deal of favorable comment at home and it is not surprising that they are greatly admired by the great throng that gather at the Exposition from all parts of the world. It certainly does bring old Granville into prominence as nothing else would, and doubtless we will hear from it in a substantial way some of these days. GETTING READY FOR BUSINESS Merchants Will go North and Lay in , a Good Substantial Line of t Goods. 4 Now that the time for our mer chants to go North and lay, in their stocks is at hand, we took it upon ourselves to interview them as to their "confidence in the future. They were frank to admit that trade has been a little better during the sum mer than they expected, and that their stocks are getting low. From all that we could gather from the personal interview.all of our will lay in their usual supply of good. They feel that they must do this to they feel that they must do this to maintain the high reputation of Ox ford as a trading center. Mr. Lan dis, of the firm of Landis& Easton, remarked that he would lay in a stock of goods that would compare in texture and finis with any found in Raleigh or Richmond. Mr. King of tbte Long Company admitted about the same thing, adding that Oxford could sell goods a fraction lower than Raleigh, Richmond or any' of the nearby places. We are sure that the high reputation of our merchants will be thoroughly maintained in both quality and quantity. IT'S DP TO THE YOUHG MEN UPON THEIR SHOULDERS REST THE RESPONSIBILITY liThe Older Generation the Genera- noii xijuix iiiiwie uxioru ana uran ville All It. Is Today Is Passing Away Only a Few of the Original Town Builders Are. Left Among us for Counsel. In discussing the roads of the county, especially those that lead in the wrong direction,, an honored Ox ford business man remarked to us that we must look largely - to the young men of the town and county for the future growth and prosperity In taking stock we find that the young men have a very strong hold onjthe affairs of the town and county and whether they like it or not the responsibility is theirs. They can no longei minimize their importance in the, scheme of things. The older generation the genera tion that made Oxford what it is to day is passing away. Some of the original town builders are left among us for counsel, but they can no long er fight in the trenches. That is the young hian's work. Whaht can the young business men of Oxford do? Can they organize and work together with a unity of purpose for a common cause, and that the good of Oxford? If they can they can do anything, for unity of purpose can accomplish anything Questions in plenty will present themselves no need now to hunt them up. The first thing and the big thing is unity of purpose and unity of action preparedness for the work that is sure to come. Civic spirit civic pride that is the basic thing, and when you have caught it and organized it into unity of pur pose you have set going the greatest power for good that can bless a com munity. The Commercial Club of Oxford should be three times as large as it is. It should have three times as much enthusiasm as it has. It should have more young men in it, for it is L thK naturalmeoium- thorugh : which the community spirit can make itself felt. It should reach out beyond the artificial boundaries of the town and take in the live farmers of the county not for exploitation, but for the good of all for the farmer is an es sential part of the town and the town man is an essential part of the coun try. As a matter of fact Oxford reaches out to the last man that trades with Oxford, and the farm reaches in to the home of every town man who buys the products of the farm. The young men and the farmers should be as'ked to come into the Commercial Club not for their money, but for themselves; for their enthusiasm and co-operation, which are worth more than money. If the present dues are too high, reduce them. There is an exclusiveness about large membership fees; and exclusiveness never built a town or made one grow. And money can be had from other sources; it is not to be 'supposed that a successful civic organization can be run wholly on its membership dues. Once let every man in business bring himself to realize that every other man has as much right to be in business as he has, so long as he obeys the laws, and he will be ready to consider the benefits of co-operation for the good of the town, the surrounding community and himself. With every business man, every pro fessional man, and every live farmer within ten miles of Oxford an active member of a live boosting organiza tion, and with all of them filled with an enthusiastic determination to work for the upbuilding of the town and country, there is nothing that can not be done. Now its's up to the young business men of Oxford get behind such an all-inclusive civic body, and to fur nish it with enthusiam. And when this is done a thousand ways will ' open up in which this good town and county can be benefited. SPECIAL SALE CONTINUES The Splendid Stock of the Green- Hunt Co. The extraordinary low prices which Horner Bros. Company has placed upon the Green-Hunt stock of goods which they bought at the re ceivers sale, makes things move. It was indeed a large stock of elegant eoods. and as the goods are sold cases which have never before been oDened sroes on the shelves, affording the general public at all times an op portunity to make a selection. See the adv. elsewhere in this issue of the Public Ledger. BEST TOBACCO KNrVES MADE Tobacco twine, thermometers and lanterns, also fruit jars, etc., at Lyon-Winston Co. 8-7-tf FTVE GOOD FARMS FOR RENT Apply to T. Lanier. 8-4-tf V ;1 V