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PUBLIC LEDGER PAGE FIVE f3 10 PEOPLE AND THINGS E. Cren- dealer Sliding a house to rent on Wnisobro. f f building a new residence m 0xford' near 11 u r'nrrin. ' rreatness Oxford's greatness 011 much in her achievements, is ;;P possibilities tnat sue yu&&- httt in tae y t a hne lemon yiaui. e where is one large healthy Wfli"-'. window of Judge on Cam Com chuck'11' the window of Judgt Uu" pmirt UnnsP. Hunt's omceu. - Several corn "ond a good time is report- O It. 1 from va arious parts of the county and chicken pie is r iii suppers ant fsu"L of the day . , yew Cur Surl correspond- found elsewhere in this paper ien ,w he enjovs reading the big ;2S T- of the Oxford Market, as ir& , ; tha Public Ledger ware- f'ul,u : vprtisements. 5e rtu.- . - Note some F!' . "A.. icinpss is better cbants say v; , twrfvp of our ner' twelve THOSE WHO 60 AND COME Mrs. G. N. Duke, of Tar River, was an Oxford visitor Saturday. Mr. E. F. Currin, of Tar River, was in Oxford Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Otho Hester, of Route 5, was on our streets Saturday. Mrs. J. H. Damiel, of KeysviHe, Va., was an Oxford visitor, Saturday. Mr. A. D. Pitts, of Route 2, was on our streets Saturday. Mr. J. W. Wrenn, of Route 3. was an Oxford visitor Saturday. Mr. J. H. Harris, of Route 6, was in town Saturday. Mr. Thomas Howard was in Oxford Saturday. of Stovall, Mr. Will Hight, of Dickeison, was among the Oxford visitors Saturday. Mr. W. H. Whitaker, of Stem, was an Oxford visitor Monday. Mr. W. A. Adcock, of Tar River, was in Oxford Monday. .u,r v3vp seen it m All admit that there has " . a narked improvement during K oU few weeks. Better prices ;r tobacco is doing the work. , R.iritv Something seldom seen , this section at this time of the Vris a second crop of blackberries. leal L nf Rasland's store there r several bushes loaded with the .mn-i crop and tfte oerries aie 1115 ;T110re lucious that the first crop. Xothins Better For the man of modern means and a wage-earner, the fuming and loan association ranks hove any other financial institu tion both as regards safety and fair returns See financial statement ot hP Oxford Building and Loan Asso ciation elsewhere in this issue of the public Ledger. .. Bar Parcel Post Service formal order was issued Satur day by the Postoffice Department di recting postmasters hereafter to re fuse to accept parcel post packages for Germany, Austria and Hungary. The order was necessitated by the re fusal of the steamship company which has been carrying this mail to accept it in future. Full Dinner Pail The Furniture factory is in full operation again and the whistle and whir of machinery sounds mighty good to the people in West Oxford. This means that con siderable money will trad its way to the channels of trado m this commun ity, and some of those who thought that western chickens were good en ough for all occasions will on Thanks giving Day dine on turkey. Worth Remembering The Health 3ulletin suggests that you swTat con sumption by purchasing Red Cross Seals; that measles often paves the way to consumption; that your nose is nature's dust strainer breathe through it; that great epidemics from little sore throats grow; that common sense is the best protection from colds, that fresh air in the lungs is better than money in the bank; that to avoid pneumonia keep your window open. Money Order Returned While in Boston last May Justin Rankoff. the Russian who operates the picture ma chine at the Orpheum Theatre, mail ed a letter containing a money order to relatives in Russia. The letter was last week returned to him from Petrograd, Russia. It had been opened and carefully examined and across the face of the money order and the first page of the letter the following polite message had been added with a rubber stamp: "Im posible to Deliver." Mr. P. C. Blackley, of Route 2, was in Oxford Monday. Mr. Sid Hayes, Hester was in Ox ford Monday. Mr. Bill Thomasson, of Stem, was on our strets Monday. Mr. Thos Monday. Hunt, was in Oxford Mr. Robert Walters, of Fuquay was in Oxford Tuesday. Springs Messrs. Matt Nelson and Fred Peed motored to Raleigh and Wen deli Tuesday. Mr. A. T. Strothers of-the south ern part of the county, was in Ox ford Saturday. 9 Mrs. K. M. Farrior and sctn, of Kena-nsville, are the guests of Mr. H. J. Robards. Mr. B. "M. Caldwell, has gone his winter home at Orlando, Fla., spend the winter. to to Miss Marie Meadows, of the State Normal College, spent the wTeek-end at home. Judge Graham arrived from New York Saturday and is attending the two week's term of Granville Super ior Court. TOON N w Tfimmi Pay AT 1 ) 7 cLb u f j 7 4J9 WAR AM tito Big Ht shall b IT tin BEE CmmmLiBB air mA thew- wanut J my pEeaoMir t ICES im Ewot all got GiraA W. Z. 'MITCHELL Tlk Firnirii f tlht FA m "He bedded sixty bushels. From "The local market used his entire Cadet William Powell, the bright son of Mr. J. B. Powell, came over from Mebane-Bingham school and spent the week end with his parents. 6 Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Sholar, of Chattanooga, Tenn., are visiting Mrs. Lucy Powell on Raleigh street. Mr. Sholar will take a business trip to New York City while here. SAVEET POTATOES PROFITABLE What Can Be Done in Lee County Can Be Done in Granville Mr. S. R. Winters, a Granville county boy, now the Durham corres pondent of the Raleigh News and Observer, went over into Lee county recently. In telling of Mr. Will Ed ward's experience with sweet pota toes in Lee conuty Mr. Winters says: those beds he gathered and shipped to local markets 88,500 potato plants The market price ranged from a dol lar and fifty cents to two dollars a thousand. His total income from that source was $152.75. Two dol lars for nitrate of soda represented his cash outlay. Seed potatoes, man ure and labor might thus be repre sented: Potatoes were worth sixty dollars, labor, twenty-eight dollars, bedding and manure ten dollars. This still left a profit of fifty-two dollars and seventy-five cents. "He marketed 400 of the 500 bushels produced, at an average mar ket price of eighty cents a bushel. The total income was $320. Figur ing his expenses for labor in handl ing, storing and barreling at twenty cents a bushel, the other items of ex pense are thus distributed: Cost of bedding three cents; plants, two cent waste by shrinkage and rotting, five cents. These figures place the cost of production at thirty cents a bushel. crop. A railroad ainimg-car service was his biggest customer. A division covering a distance of 200 miles en gaged nine bushels a week from Sep tember to May. The potatoes were packed in apple barrels and delivered at the local station. They were as sorted in three grades fancy, med ium and "strings". "The potato diary kept by Mr. Ed wards reveals the cultural methods he follows: The land is broken in March to a depth of four itnehes. Subsequent workings with a harrow are made between March and June to produce a mellow seed bed. Ten two-horse loads of stable manure are applied to the acre. Six hundred pounds of commercial fertilizer are used, the analysis being ammonia, three per cent; potash, ten per cent; phosphoric acid, eight per cent. The plants are set the first of Ju'ne. The rows are three feet apart and the plants are set eighteen inches apart in the row. Four cultivations with the plow and two with the hoe are given. "His methods of storing sweet po tatoes through the winter months are significant, since he attributes a large share of his success as a potato grow er to thils matter. Here is what his diary records: Potatoes are dug af ter the first killing frost. They are hilled in the patch in conical-shaped mounds, each containing thirty to forty bushels. A one-horse load of pine straw is used to each hill, th straw being piled to the depth of a man's arm. Then a sprinkling of earth, just enough to hold the straw and to exclude air, is heaped on the mound. The hills are capped at the top with straw when (no wooden shel ter is provided. A variety of potato easily subject to 'sweating' is best stored with the straw cap, rather than under a wooden shelter. The temperature of each hill is taken at regular intervals. From October to early spring the potatoes are kept in the hills." A Proud Grand Father Born unto Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Howerto-n last Friday night a fine son. Thus, Gen. B. S. Royster be tomes a proud grand-father. GOD BLESS THE ORPHANS Remember Them on Thanksgiving uur kind Father above has blessed ub ail wuh peace and plenty, and in recognition of this, the President of S V lted states and the Governor !w!ith Carolina nave set apart iAursday, November 25th, 1915, as thiM0nal Tnanksgiving Day. On "us blessed occasion the good people th!fmere should give liberally of rl eans to the orphan work, ir respective of color, politics or relig eH,slp the many institutions and u mere is mot some needy fnrJVn your own community I0rget not the lowly widow. or-and One four-pint Aluminum Percolator pK0GRA3I OF P. U. MEETING Plans Complete For Big Convention In Durham tion !fPS?gram for tne state conven Un?n5 Nortn Carolina Farmers' in nfwhich is to be held this week WrKam' beSinning this Tuesday, tW ,Ter 16' amd inning through retaSJ yl' has been sent to tne sec taries of all the local unions. oaVe meetinss will be held in the somp!mL0f Music' wnicn is the hand and ?n eatre between Richmond Kubn ?ta An addresses will be Deonil large number of Granville people will attend. ORE TOEli OHLY-- W f HIT r ! - One 8nd IB The Best Range at the Right Price. The Aluminum Cooking Ware FREE. One six and one-half quart No. 8 Aluminum Tea Kettle One two-quart Aluminum Double Rice Boiler One four-quart Aluminum Preserving Kettle one-pint Aluminum Measuring Cup One Cent a Meal for One Year In almost every home there are practically one thousand meals a year prepared on the stove. Many people hesitate about paying five or ten dollars more to secure a reliable range one that will cook these thousand meals a year with the least trou ble and at the lowest cost. If you should add just one cent to the cost of eveay meal for the first year only, you would soon make up the difference between the range and the range that will last a lifetime. Suppose your cheap range uses one cent's more of fuel in cooking ea?h meal, or only three cent's worth more a day. In one year this range has cost you ten dollars extra ten dollars more for fuel than the better range. Every year means that much more money burned up. Suppose the better range does cost ten dollars more at first than the cheap one. The extra cost is nothing It amounts to only one cent a meal. It will save that one cent a meal in fuel alone. ' In one year it will save the extra cost, and in ten years it will save you one hundred doUars, not counting what you savemissing big repair bills. You can open a bank account in your kitchen by buying a SOUTH BEND MAXJjEABIjE RANGE. An expert demonstrator from the factory will be at our store one week. He will tell you about the Patented Aluminum-Fused Copper Bearing Flues. And prove to you WHY it is the BEST RANGE MADE. ONE WEEK ONLY November 17 to 23 Oxford Hardware Co. A
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