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P U BLIG LEDGER
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18th; 1915
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THE ALFRED CASE.
The Smihfield Herald expenses its
sympathy for Mr. L. A. Allred, mem
ber of the General Assembly from
Johnston County, as follows;
"One of the sadest .casees ever
known in the town of Smithfield is
the downfall of L.H. Allred. Court
eous, affable and polite, he has made
many friends whose hearts are bleed
ing on his account. Trusted by every
body and honored by his countrymen,
he had what appeared to be a bright
future. But one day years ago in an
unguarded, moment he diverged slight
ly from the straigh and narrow path,
and used for his own purpose funds
intrusted to him.
Like hundreds of 1
others, he thought he would replace
it before it was needed. But it did
not stop there. The amount of mon
ey he could earn was inadequate to
meet his wants, and one step after
another, using funds which were not
his brought about his downfall. If
he were the only sufferer in his career
of misappropriation of other people's
money, the affair would not be quite
so tragic. But hundreds are made
to drink the bitterest dregs no hu
man sorrow could be greater than
theirs.
"It is ever the same story. The
desire to have the nicest and best, the
unlimited expence with the limeted
income, the building of handsome
and costly homes, the riding in fine
automobiles and yet for the past
few years this man has been living
a life of the deepest suffering. Not
brave enought to stop on his down
ward road, not brave enough to con
fess before it was too late, he went on
till he stood on the brink of the prec
ipice and then over he goes. This
case is an unutterably sad one, and
every heart in this community sor
rows with those who suffer most
But through it all, may we see the
silver lining, and learn the lesson
the greatest lessons of life are taught
through tragedies."
BICKETT AND BUSINESS
So much has been said in the public
press about the oratory of Hon. T. W.
Bickett, that there is danger that the
real strength of Mr. Bickett may be
obscured. For fifteen years before
he was ever heard of in this State as
an orator, Mr. Bickett was a hard
working office lawyer and during
these years he laid the sure founda
tion of his success. To this day,
in his own country, he is valued,
not so much on account of his power
as a speaker, as on account of his
judgment and common sense in ad
vising his clients about their business
affairs. As a prominent citizen ex
pressed it the other day, "Bickett's
office has been a clearing house for
the troulles cf the unfortunate, and
a conversation with him is well nigh
an inspiration to a man in financial
distress."
Something has been said about a
business Governor. If this means a
man who has a keen . sympathy with
the business life of the State, and has
the ability to comprehend a busniess
situation, then Franklin county with
a knowledge born of experience,
presents Mr. Bickett as a business
Governor.
THE TYPHOID CARRIER.
The State Board of Health has is
sued an official bulletin in which it
places the blame for the recent out
break of typhoid fever in Greens
boro on a "typhoid carrier" who
worked for the Buffalo Dairy. All
the epidemic cases occured on the
route of this carrier. The bulletin
says this man had two cases of ty
phiod fever himself, one when he was
a child and another about six or sev
en years ago. Three years ago while
this same man was in the employ of
another dairy, a small epidemic oc
curred on his route which epidemic
stopped as soon as the dairy was re
quired to stop selling milk. Sim
ilarly another interesting co-incidence
in the matter of the present epidemic
is the fact htat shortly after the Buf
falo Dairy was required to discon
tinue business the present epidemic
stopped. The State board does not
fail, to take advantage of the opppor
tunity to score the unsanitary con
ditions . found in the unsewered por
tions of the city of Greensboro.
NEW BULLETIN
Dr. J: K. Piummer has recently
prepared a bulletin on ground lime
stones for North Carolina farmers.
This bulletin gives "a description of
the deposits of limestone in the Pied
mont and Mountain sections of , the
State and the marls in the Eastern
section. . It also gives some informa
tion with reference to grinding and
using of this material. This bulle
tin will be available shortly.
MISUSE OF WEALTH
A big financial institution in New
York, the National City Bank, makes
the following statement in a recent
circular.
"If $10,000 is spent upon a dinner
there is, indeed, 'distribution," for
music, flowers, service, etc., but if the
same sum is spent ror araimng a
swamp a similar 'distribution' occurs
and there is also a permanent in
crease in the food supply of the com
munity.".
It would be a bad thing if our peo
ple took all its financial and econo
mic opinions from the bankers and
brokers of New York City, but the
above statement will stand the test
anywhere.'
a sumptuous dinner, costing a
thousand or ten thousand dollars',
means an expenditure winch does
some good to some people. Never
theless, it is a misuse of wealth, and
it is decidedly undemocratic.
You can waste the wealth of the
earth and the labor of man in war
and in luxury. If you improve the
land, devise useful inventions, erect
needed buildings, then wealth is well
used.
WHY WORRY?
The following extract from one of
the recent publications of the Board
of Health expresses a great deal in a
few words on the subject of heredity
in its relation to health.
"Why worry about heredity? Take
what you have inherited into your
own hands and under your own will
shape it into what you would have it
to be. If you have inherited a weak
body, by right living you can stren
gthen it; if you have inherited weak
lungsf you can make them strong by
keeping them filled with fresh air
day and night; if you have inherited
any predisposition to any disease qr
weakness, you can overcome this
tendency by cultivating good habits,
especially those counteracting the
weak tendencies. Why worry?"
BUREAU OF
CROP
ESTIMATES
(Weekly News Letter)
Of the total number of farms in
the United States, according to the
last Federal census, the number
worked by owners was shown to be
3,948,722; the number operated by
managers, 58,104; and the number
operated by tenants, 2,354, 676.
Approximately 8 per cent of- the
corn acreage last year was cut for
silos, 11 percent cut green for. feed,
and 81 per cent matured for the
grain, according to estimates made
by county crop reporters of the
Bureau of Crop Eestimates.
During .1914, 3,600,000 dozen eggs
were shipped from Shanghai, China,
to American Pacific Coast States;
their value was $540,000, equivalent
to 15 cents per dozen. The freight
rate from China to Pacific coast ports
via regular lines is $8 per ton (17
cases of eggs to the ton, making a
rate of approximately 1.6 cents per
dozen). Refrigerator space costs
$16 a ton.
A cable report dated June 23, 1915
from the International Institute of
Agriculture at Rome, to the United
States Department of Agriculture,
forecasts the 19 15 harvest of winter
wheat in European Russia (54 Gov
ernments )tts 301,508,000 bushels,
and the winter rye crop, 941,736,000
bushels. These are increases over
year of 40.3 and 19.6 per cent, res
pectively. The figures refer appar
ently to all European Russia except
Poland
The prices of meat animals hogs,
cattle, sheep, and chickens to pro
ducers of the united States increased
0.8 per cent from May 15 to June 15
in the past five years prices decreas
ed in like figure of prices for these
meat animals wras about 5.1 per cent
lower than a year ago, 4.7 per cent
lower than two years ago, but 2.5
per cent higher than the average of
the past five years on June 15.
IMPORTANT MEETING
The Demonstration Agents of the
State will meet at the A. & M. Col
lege, West Raleigh, August 16th to
26th inclusive, for their annual Sum
mer School and Conference. All
white agents who expect to attend
will obtain lodging in the College
dormitory and meals at the College
dinn
Mvti
ts and Better
Mutts Some-
time ago the Raleigh News and Ob
server announced that they would be
ginto publish the famous cartoons
of Mutt and Jeff in the issue of Aug
ust 10th, but we would like to know
which Mutt they refer to as they had
so many in that issue.
BEST PAINT
What is it?
Devoe.
How Devoe?
It's 160 years old; but that isn't
how.
It has long been the best; but that
isn't how.
It has been developed by use and
study, by study and use, that .is how,
and approved by experience, many
years; that's how.
It commends itself by long lasting
and small paint-cost; not cheap by
the gallon, but cheap by the job and
cheap by the year and ten years,
cheap by -the lifetime.
That's how.
Acme. Hardfvare Company sels it.
LECTURING ADAM AND EVE
Somewhat Humorous Painting in Ger
man Church, Work of Artist of
the Middle Ages.
In the Church of Saint Sebaldus at
Nuremberg' there is a delightful mural
painting which makes one merry even
to recall it. The subject is the Garden
of Eden. Adam and Eve are being
lectured by an elderly man in flowing
robes with a long white beard. His
beard alone would more than supply
Adam and Eve with the covering they
lack.
In as easy attitude, with neither
haste nor anxiety, he is pointing out
to them the error of their ways. He
is as detached in manner as though he
were a professor lecturing at Leipsic
on the fourth dimension of space.
Adam is somewhat dejected and re
clines upon the ground. Eve, un
abashed, with nothing on but the ap
ple she is munching, is evidently in a
reckless mood. She looks like a child
of fifteen, with her hair down her
back; the defiance of her attitude is
that of a naughty little girl.
The world-old problem is under dis
cussion, but with an air of good hu-A
mor and cheerfulness on the part of
the lecturer, as though there were still
tinis injthe world, as though hurry
ute, as though possibly the world
would still go on even if the problem
were left unsolved, and this first leafy
parliament adjourned sine die. New
York Telegraph.
BARRED FROM HALL OF FAME
Painters of Humorous Pictures Un
justly Treated is the Assertion
Made by Writer.
In literature a man has every
chance, if he can, to be as hilariously
unbridled as Mark Twain and still
take his place unchallenged on the
shelf with the greatest; on the stage
he may be as essentially a humorist
as Joseph Jefferson, and yet go down
in history with a halo around his mem
ory; even in the uncorporeal sphere
of music he may be as light and bi
zarre and impish as fancy will permit,
without in any way jeopardizing his
artistic dignity.
But let him attempt any such gala-
hearted display in terms of paint and
the most staid academician and the
most perf ervid Futurist bang their door
with equal vigor in his face, writes
Louis Baury in the Bookman. Which
in this .day, when there is more talk
thanv efer before of the development
of a really national art, seems just a
trifle rash.
That a brilliant spirit that without
mission or message or school craves
only the privilege of making holiday
with facts and pelting Impartially with
their own say inimitable, irreverent
confetti every head that bobs up in
the carnival of civilization seems too
thoroughly American to be consigned
always to the lighter, more ephemeral
pictorial avenues.
Value of Mother's Stories.
Sarah Louise Arnold says: "Life
shows us that the stories which are
heart at the mother's knees are an es
sential part of our heritage. The child
who is deprived of this possession will
always miss the charm of literature,
the joy of poetry, the swift imagina
tion which enables us to share in that
which is foreign to our intimate ex
perience. Except as this appreciation
is assured, in childhood, it is never
won."
Aside from the literary and artistic
value of stories there is no greater
force than they for the preservation
of the purity of a child. Fill his mind
with their rich imagery, their stirring
deeds, their ideals set his fancy go
ingabout the mysteries of nature, let
him fellow, the adventures of great
heroes, and there .will be little room
left in his life lor sordid or evil
things. "
The best way to banish darkness is
to let in the light. To tell stories to
your children is your duty and your
privilege.
Everyman says that the Italian sol
dier is still the man "who eats scarce
ly anything, drinks water only, lun
ches on a little paste and a glass of
water and dines on a few beans."
Germany would probably like a weak
ened appetite something like this for
its Russian prisioners of war.
Miss Grace Schaeffer, director of
canning club work in Guilford coun
ty, has arranged a very attractive
display of the canned goods, jellies,
pickles, etc., made by the girls of the
canning clubs in the window" of one
the department stores. The goods
are all of the "4-H Brand," the brand
of the Guilford girls, and the ladies
of Greensboro tpok notice, the win
dow being surrounded all afternoon,
In the middle of the window in big
letters appeared "Trade at Home, al
ways!" that is for the benefit of the
grocers, and it is predicted they will
take the advice, and also that none
of the goods canned by Guilford girls
this year will have to be sold out
side the county.
BUSINESS LOCALS
THE READERS OF THE PUBLIC
LEDGER SCRUTINIZE THIS COL
UMN VERY CLOSELY. THIS CLASS
OF ADVERTSING IS A VERY EF
FECTIVE WAY OF SECURING RE
SULTS. THE RATE IS 5 CENTS A
LINE EACH INSERTION, AVER
AGE SIX WORDS TO THE LINE.
STRICTLY CASH WITH ORDER
UNLESS THE ADVERTISER RUNS
A REGULAR ADVERTISEMENT
WITH THIS PAPER. NONPARELL
READING NOTICES AT BOTTOM
OF COLUMN ON FRONT PAGE 10c.
A LINE. NO AD. TAKEN FOR LESS
THAN 20 CENTS. -
W ANTED SEWING WANTED. Mrs.
B. A. Murray, Raleigh street. 2tx
CHEAP COAL. ORDER DURING
August while Summer Prices are
on. C. D. Ray & Son. aug
FOR SALE TWO WELL TRAINED
fire horses and hose wagon com
plete in excellent condition. For
information write, W. H. Britt,
Foreman, Oxford, N. C. 2t-x
PEACHES FOR BOTH CANNING.
preserving and pickling; all kinds
of vegetables all fresh picked and
in first class order. Drop me a
postal. F. B. Farmer, Route 5,
box 2, and I will serve you prompt
ly. - . 7-14-2t
BEST TOBACCO KNIVES MADE
Tobacco twine, thermometers and
lanterns, also fruit jars, etc., at
Lyon-Winston Co. -7-tf
LET US MAKE YOUR TOBACCO
flues. We have the very best iron
that can be bought, all elbows and
T's made during summer months
while we have plenty of time to
make them right and brace them.
Old flues repaired promptly. Ox
ford Hardware Co. 7-1 0-4 w
ROOMS FOR RENT ONE LARGE
and one small room in the Mitchell
Building. Apply to J. T. Britt
DO YOU NEED A WELL? TTAVP!
one drilled and be sure of good
pure water. Work guaranteed.
Write or see E. A. Ingold, Stem,
N- C. aug-x
"MONEY" THE MINT MAKES IT
ctuu unaer tne terms of the Con
tinental Mortgage Company, you
can secure it at 6 per cent for any
legal purpose on approved real
estate. Terms easy, tell us your
wants and we will cooperate with
you. Petty & Company, 1419 Lyt
ton Bldg., Chicago. 5-1-3 m
FOR RENT OR SALE MY SEVEN
room house on Rectory street, has
hot and cold water, sewerage, bath
electric lights, gas large garden,
telephone. Possession given Sep. 1.
W. L. Peace. . 7-18-4tx
GREATEST GOOD -
Kead the list of those who
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cash August 12th., and
relund ot their
P. C. Blackley
Miss Isabella Bradsher
C. H. Breedlove
W. H. Britt
Violet Bullock
Duke Currin
Geo. Dorsey
Lizzie May Ellington
Mrs. J. W. Floyd
Charlie Green
Miss Hannah Howard
Mollie Hicks
Clara Johnson
Mrs. L. G." Lee
Miss Beulah Moore
W. A. McFarland
H. G. McFarland
Mrs. N. C. Gill
Mrs. W. F. Oakley
Fred Oakley
"Fannie Overby
Miss Rachel Parham
Miss Rachel Parham
Mrs. Tyer
S. H. Usry
Mrs. E. G. Usry
Mrs. Sam Usry
Special Prices On
All Oxfords.
Largest Stock -----Lowest Prices
Headquarters for everything in Dry Goods, Notions
Clothing, Shoes and Furnishings. Quality,
the word supreme.
!FerIdiison-Greeii Compaiy
THE STORE OF QUALITY.
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WILL TRADE BRICKS FOR WOOD
Oxford Brick and Tile Works.
Yards near Southern depot. Phone
2 6 5-J lt-x
FOR SALE ONE PROOF PRESS
$10; one addressograph, $15;
both F. O. B. Oxford. Address
Public Ledger.
LOST A PAIR OF GOLD NOSE
glasses between Lyons drug store
and colord Orphan Aslyum. Re
ward if return to C. H. Moss R-2
or the Public Ledger office. ltx.
Want to Buy, Sell
or Rent a House.
Hire Help.
Find Lost Articles
Tell If Mere!
Expert Tire
Shrinking,
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE I
WILL DO WORK AT THESE
PRICES, FOR CASH.
Shrinking Tires for all Soving
Wheels $1.00
PUTTING ON NEW TIRES
xU Size $2.V5
xM Size 3.00
1x4 Size 3.00
16x5-16 Size 3.00
14x5-16 Size 4.50
YOU WILL FIND ME AT THE
GARMAN WHEEL CO., NEAR
THE SOUTHERN DEPOT. SAT
ISFACTION GUARANTEED.
T. R. FRAZIER
OXFORD N. C.
GREATEST NUMBER
traded at this store for
received in Cash a
purhchases.
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