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1915
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o inch Oscillating fan only 16.00
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Carolina Power & Light
Company.
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Having purchased the entire bus
iness of W. D. Stimson the
Oxford Jewelry
Company
OXFORD, N. C.
Offers its services to the public,
and invites you to caU and
inspect its complete
stock of
DIAMONDS,
WATCHES
RINGS
SILVERWARE
ORNAMENTS
An expert watch repairer is at
your service, and absolutely guar
anteed. Anything desired not in
stock will be ordered for you.
Prices reasonable, and all goods
guaranteed to be as represented
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For years the old reliable Johnson Warehouse has been noted tfor its
high average of prices. This year I have the house by myself and I intend
to keep up the high record that has been made in the past. I will use every
effort to get you the top-notch price for every pound of tobacco.
Mig Lie
If you can't
way and see the
your headquarters. Plenty of stables.
k Ilfflds of
Good Ligkts, fel Ftow Sipifflce, : ; '
Yours For Highest Prices
Johnson- Warehpiiseo
SAM WATKINS, Prop. ' '
Mocks om
Attornoys-at-Law.
OXFORD, - - - N. CAROLINA.
Practice in State
We grow them. Roses, violets,
Vallies, and carnations a spec
ialty. Wedding and funeral
flowers arranged in the latest
artistic styles.
BLOOMING POT PLANTS:
Ferns, palms and many other
nice plants for the house. Write
for our Spring Price list of rose
bushes, , shrubberies, hedge
plants, evergreens and shade
trees. -
Our Business Is
Late Cabbage and Collard
Plants reay now.
J. L. O'Quinn & Co.
FLORIST, Raleigh, N. C.
Phones i
Store 42, Greenhouse 149,
B. S. ROYSTER,
ATTORN E Y-AT-LAW
practice: in state and
federal courts
offices odd pellows'bldo
HUlsboro St., OXFORD, N. C.
Public Ledger Want Ads are read
by the people. If you have a want
let them know it. Small cost.
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MISS OREVi'S SECRETARY
Dy JEANNE KILBY.
Carlotta Drew pushed away the ac
count books that littered her desk
and sighed wearily. .
"Oh, dear, I never can make these
books balance," she panted. "I wish
Miss Smith had not been so stupid or
MXOa "ollBU "veuiy. i simpiy can t
ewt mong wunout a secretary." . - .
"You might try one of the secre
tarial schools," suggested Mrs. Marsh,
bending over her embroidery. ;
"I will I must have someone at
once.", -O: ' O -, 'y'f-ys;--. , . , ,
Carlotta picked up the receiver and
telephoned her wishes: 7 ;
"Send: along anyone who is fairly
intelligent," she wailed at last.
"There," she said, looking defiantlv
at ner aunt, "tney are sending up a
young man.
a young man!" echoed Mrs. k
Marsn. "Are you crazv. Carlotta?"
'Only desperate, Aunt Anna."
1 shall send him away again.'
Not until he has straightened out
my accounts. I make them say that
I, have spent just four dollars instead
of five hundred in the last month, and
yet my .cheekbook shows I have over
drawn my account." - ..
"What a muddle!" sighed Mrs.
Marsh. "You really ought to marry
a good business man, my dear, some
one who can look after you and your
property." : :
"I met - a . man last summer," she
began. Then, biting her lips to keep
back a secret she had not dared con
fess to anyone but herself, she added
gayly, "I'm going out, Aunt Anna.
If the young man comes tell him to
straighten out my books. I'll be home
before he leaves." . (
It was an hour after Carlotta's de
parture when Biggs brought in a card.
"Mr. Anthony Lester:" !
"Humph!" sniffed Mrs. Marsh,
looking coldly at the tall, self-possessed
yfflinman whoregarded ; her
9 "
come along any-
our warehouse
g sal
um
III
so affably. "My niece is out" at pres
ent. She wants you to wait until she
returns. No use wasting your time,
though. Miss Drew said you might
straighten out her books there on
the desk find out what the 'trouble
is."
Lester smiled and sat down at the
desk. Presently Mrs. Marsh noted
that ' he was working busily over the
offending accounts.
He worked ; so steadily that Aunt
Anna's heart warmed toward him.
She would reward him with a little
amiable conversation
. "Are you married?".
she asked
abruptly.
Good heavens no ! " he , laughed.
I was married for twenty years and
I never ' had one single regret. My
husband has been dead for ten years.
Ours was a perfect marriage," sighed
Mrs. Marsh, , now on . her favorite
topic, "and I dislike to hear young
people laugh flippantly at matri
mony." i ;:: --- . " ' :
Lester colored. "I assure you," he
said gently, . "I had no intention of
laughing. It was the idea of your
thinking I would be -here" His
voice trailed into embarrassed si
lence.
Aunt Anna Marsh sat up stiffly and
regarded him over the tops of her eye-
glasses.
"Young man," she said sternly,
"when . you came here tthis afternoon
did you know that my niece, Miss
Drew, is very, very rich indeed?"
Lester had the grace to blush quite
perceptibly.
"Yes," he said at last.
"I thought so " she said.
Lester got up and paced the floor.
Now he', was scowling in a most un
pleasant manner, but even the black
look didn't mar his handsome face.
"Can't a man marry a rich girl
; without being called a fortune hun
ter?" he suddenly asked.
"No!" exploded Aunt Anna indig
nantly. ; ' V
"Does your niece share your views
that every man no! I won't doubt
her for an instant!" He turned to
ward the desk.. v w ' .j;.j
The door flew open and in came a
radiant Carlotta, her blue eyes agleam
with, the glad light of surprise andl
ner cneexs agiow. ,
she cried, - and she went straight into
the arms of the "secretary young
man," who held her closely.
Aunt Anna shut her eyes upon this
horrifying sight. . ;
"And there is the poor secretary
waiting in the hall," cried ; Carlotta,
releasing herself from Lester's arms,
"The secretary! Carlotta Drew, who
Is this young man?" demanded Mrs.
Marsh in a tragic tone.
"Why it's Anthony Lester, the man
I almost told you about it's a secret
that we , love each other, and I sup
pose now our engagement must be an
nounced. Who did you think he was,
auntie?" she asked curiously.
Lester gallantly came to the rescue
and Aunt Anna never forgot it. She
took him to her heart even before she
discovered that he was considerably
richer than Carlotta.
"Why, who did you think he was?
repeated the girl curiously.
"Mrs. Marsh . asked me to help
straighten out your accounts," he in
terposed tactfully. "I've brought or-
der out of chaos, but there's still one
more thing to settle"
'A small, dapper-looking youth, with
owlish, spectacled eyes, entered the
room meekly.
"This is Mr. Mook, the secretary.
Aunt Alina,' said Carlotta.
fCopynght, 1915, by the McClure News-
paper Syndicate.
ROOMS FOR RENT ONE LARGE
and one small room m the Mitchell
Building. Apply to J. T. Britt
nnv to Fight Tuberculosis
Ti. - m n nnor read las year before
the Bexar County Medical Society
and published in part In the Louis
ville "Medical Progress," Dr. J. W.
Carhart, of San Antonio, Texas, a
physician who has devoted much
time to the study of tuberculosis,
said: "Since lime salts constitute
three-fourths of all the mineral sub
stances of the human body, theiy
must be supplied in the foods or
supplemented in mineral prepare- .
tlons, or natural starvation ensues
with tuberculosis unchecked. The
widespread and unchecked spread of
tuberculosis and other preventable
diseases Is due largely to the. decalcified-(lime
lacking) conditions, of
multitudes throughout the civilised
W Thus from another authoritative
medical source comes .justification
for the use of lime in the treatment
of tuberculosis. j
Since this is one of the ingredi
ents of Eckman's Alterative, much
of the success attending the wide
Snread use of this remedy doubtless
i? due to the combination of this
salt in such a way as to render it
lasily assimilable. It causes no
stomach disturbance and since it
contains neither opiates, narcotics
nor habit-forming; drugs, It is safe
tEckman,s Alterative has effected
remarkable results in - numerous
Saes of pulmonary tuberculosis
Consumption) and allied chronic af
fections of the throat and bronchial
Passages.: In many Instances such
conditions, apparently, have yielded
CSPlceaIey
it, ask him to order or send direct
tEe Laboralw delphta:
For Sale By J. G. Hall. Oxford N. C.
HEALTH NOTES
, (By Benj. K. Hays, Health Officer
Typfioid Vaccination. ,
About fifty people are receiving ,
the typhoid vaccination at my office
every Saturday afternoon. The vac
cine is furnished by the State and is
administered without charge every
Saturday afternoon from three to five
Of the two hundred and fifty people
who have taken the treatment so far
only two or three have been made
sick by it and no one has been unable
to be up and at work on the follow
ing Monday. In the entire history
of the treatment, including practical
ly every soldier now engaged in the
European war as well as every per
son in the American army and navy,
no death or permanent injury.has re-
suited from the vaccination. The
life of asoldier makes hint-peculiarly
subject to typhoid fever, and yet, as
a -result of the compulsory vaccina
tion now enforced in the United Sta
tes army typhoid fever has practical
ly disappeared from among " the
troops.
Health Work injthe Canal Zone
When Dr. Gorgas, in the year 1900
went to the city of Havana to fight
yellow fever he found that for the
preceeding ten years . the average,
numbr of deaths in the city from the
disease was five hundred. v After
eight months work spent in fighting
mosquitoes, backed by federal auth
ority, yellow fever was stamped out
of Havana and has found no foot
hold there since. Gorgas was then
sent to Panama to fight malarial and
yellow fever there. These . two dis
eases had in some years killed as
many as one half the workmen on
the canal, and, in fact, had made the
continuation of the work impossible.
When Gorgas began his campaign a-
gainst mosquitoes in the cities of
Panama and Colon the Governor
wrote back to this country and beg
ged that this theoretical fool be re
moved and a man of some practical
sense be placed in his position. Gor
gas converted a pest hole into a
health resort, and the average death
rate today in the canal zone is less
than that in American cities.
Five hundred deaths from one dis
ease' in a city of two hundred and fif
ty thousand people shows a most a-
larming condition. And yet, to ev
ery two hnudred and fifty thousand
people in North Carolina tuberculos-
is kills six hundred and sixty annual
ly. If a case of small pox appears
in Oxford the whole town is set agog,
if a dog with rabies runs through our
streets the town throws a spasm, but
the well known fact that ten people
within one mile of the court house
in Oxford die every year of tubercu
losis makes so little impression that
we do not even enforce the law a-
gainst spitting on the side walks.
Oxford's J)eath Rate. ,
The death rate in the town of Ox
ford is sixteen per thousand popula
tion. It could easily be reduced to
twelve per thousand DODulation.
Counting the population in Oxford
and immediate vicinity as five thous
and we see that there are four deaths
per thousand population or a total of
twenty deaths in Oxford every year
tnat are entirely unnecessary..
Now.
let us suppose that the people in Ox-
ford have, no desire to prolong their
lives except for the purpose of sav-
ing funeral expenses, and let us sup
pose that the average funeral, costs
fifty dollars.; Then twenty unneces
sary deaths and funerals costs this
town one thousand dollars every
year. If we put an economic value
of one thousand dollars upon the in-
dividual then Oxford pays an annual
tax of twenty thousand dollars
for
unnecessary ? deaths.
The Negro Death Rate
It is answered that the high death
rate is largely among negroes. This
is true, but the greater number of
whites in Oxford makes - the total
number of deaths in the two races
about equal. Suppose the white peo-'
pie had no interest in the death , of
the negro population save as it ef-
fects the whites. " There is no known
disease which affects negroes to
which white people are not subject.
The relationship of the two races is
such that disease in the negro is of
more danger to whites than disease
among the whites. The cook with
tuberculosis is a far .greater danger
to an entire family than the members
of the family suffereing with the dis
ease would be to one another. The
rsamA thine- is triift of a. "tvntioid car
rier, rne nurse tnat naroors aip
theria "germs in her throat is certain
ly more dangerous to an infant than
the infant's father would be were he
a "diDhtheria carrier." .Personally I
regard the most important work-that
any- southern health officer can do is
to improve the health conditions a-
mong the colored population.
is cheap;' and Devoe is not -the only
good paint; it is one of a dozen; and,
very likely, the only one in your, town
there are hundreds of middling
and bad.
You can see what chance there is
of another good one there: perhaps
UlitJ 111 ICU Cll. IUC 1UIFDI. '
Bad paint is dearest; middling is
dear; costs 2 or 3 times as much as
the best. . . ,
No matter about the cost a gallon;
that isn't it ; the cost a square foot
the cost a job ; better yet the cost a
year. . .
There's a whole education in paint
in this advertisement.
' Av DEVOE. ;
- Acme Hardware Company sells it.