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VOLUME XXXI. OXFORD NORTH CABX)LmA WEpNl V. ' - ' ' ' NUMBER 3
RETROSPECTIVE VIEW
ALL. BUSINESS MEN HAVE TAKEN
STOCK
It is Impossible to Put into Human
Language Two Fewer Words Car
rying Stronger Significance Than
"Ick Dien."
By this time the merchants, bank
ers and all business men have taken
stock and can tell to a fractional part
of a dollar where they stand. The
business people, the responsible peo
ple, the men in charge of big and lit
tle enterprises and undertakings,
have dug into their books to know
how they came out through the year.
Some have prospered; have paid fine
dividends; some have made but an
appearance of prosperity; some must
face absolute loss and fkid themselv
es this New Year worse off than they
were three hundred and sixty-five
days ago.
But, fellow citizens, the great ma
jority of us who are subordinates,
have we done our part? Have we
been kind? Have we been generous?
Whether, we be men or women or
boys or .girls approaching maturity
and its responsibilities, have we done
our best? One of the best things
about the English nation is. the mot
to that goes with the crest and coat
of arms of the Prince of Wales, the
prospective king and emperor. It is
"Ich dien." It means "I serve." It
was taken from the old kmg of Bo
hemia when Bohemia was a separate
and recognized government more
than four centuries ago. He was
stone blind and an aged man. "When
it came to a crucial battel, he had his
bridle reins, knotted into the reins of
two . of his bravest knights and so
charged into the thick of the strife,
wielding hia; sword, unable to see
where his blows fell but doing his
' best for his-country, his people and
liis kingdom, and -striking -at his foes
until death took-him. And the" victors
took the -two words and wear them
proudly to, this day. ;
. V . It is impossible to put into human
. . language two finer words carrying
-; - ;y stronger significance or more beauti-
. ful meaning: We are put into this
---i-world to- serve. -The intention of our
j . heinans to helD " other- tnonle. . to drv4
the vast, benevolent purposes bf the
Creator. And it is to us, each of us,
to look back oyer the year, to balance
up our accounts, to go over the daily
profit and loss, to look ourselves and
our records squarely in the face and
to try and realize how much good and
how much ill we have done. Have
we inflicted hurts we could have
avoided doing? Have we wounded
loving and trusting hearts with ugly
words or acts? Have we given bad
examples or good? Have we used our
influence and the very humblest and
smallest of us have influence spread
ing through our own circles, however
limited. Have we used it to make
our fellow human beings and the
world better and cleaner and happier,
or more unhappy and worse?
These are the things for us to con
sider individually, fellow citizens of
both sexes and all ages. Say not
that the world is hard and dark: We
have among us some men and some
women, under various denomination
al names, who consecrate and glorify
their lives by serving. Some or tnem
are persons of large ability who, if
they gave their minds and their en
ergies to- self service, - to the promo-
tion of theiir own interests, could be
very rioh and very powerful and
prominent.
Going over the books, considering
our lives and our work and acts from
day to day, all of us will realize that
-we have fallen short. The books will
show a debit against us. We have
done those things we should not have
done and left undone many things we
should have done. Therefore, it is
the right time for us to humble our
hearts, to bend our knees, to lower
our heads, to confess meekly to our
woa a nri the Almighty; to resolve
sturdily that through the year just
ahead of us, we will try to make the
kv iia-nce better, to make each
day record, faithful service done in
love, in kindness and in diligent and
v, ne lohnr and endeavor for those
above us and below us and all about
.,, in oiir homes, our shops, on our
in our offices, wherever our
lots may be cast, and whatever fate
may have given us to ao.
rwirvrrl Man Dead
colored, convicted
XJ KM KM ww-- v Jfl
lAdi A n en est nil rl sent to the roaas,
tA ioct Snnrinv at the home of nis
weak and feeble
i c'nriratik sfntpnce on the roads and
as a resort he was sent to the county
Home. Superentendent Daniel pei
mitted the old fellow to visit his son
whre he died last Sunday.
Bank Statement
the Nationa
... i t in TrllS
paper maintains that solidity roi
i.,-i, ,tiAii if nas been notea ai
oT-c Tt is indeed a pleasure
to have-in the county a bank so ac
commodating and well man-
ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH I THF MflxVI VW--C ' SEKV1CES
Interest Manifested in Special Service
Public Cordially Invited
The Mission at St. Stephen's Epis
copal Church was started on Sunday
morning. A special service for the
children was held at 3:30 in the af
ternoon and the night service at 7:30.
The Rev. Mr. Lewis N. Taylor preach
ed splendid sermons at both morning
and night services. This young
preacher was born and reared in
Granville County and we take special
pride in hearing such high praise of
his work and sermons. -
Rev. V. H. Filkins, Rector of
Trinity Church, Arlington, N. J., ar
rives in Oxford Monday afternoon and
conductede the Monday night service
and will remain throughout the Mis
sion. Many of our Oxford people
heard Rev. Filkins when he preached
the ordination sermon of Rev. Lewis
N. Taylor in Oxford and remember
him as an unusually pleasing and in
structive preacher. We can look for
ward to some very fine preaching
during this week at the Episcopal
Church, by both Rev. Mr. Filkins and
Rev. Mr. Taylor.
The public is cordially invited to
attend all of the services which will
be held in the Episcopal Church.
Services will be held at 10:30 a. m.,
3:30 p. m., and 7:30 p. m.
THE SUPREME COURT BENCH
Judge William R. Allen, of Goldsboro
Endorsed
Upon the death of Justice Lamar
of the United States Supreme Court,
the North Carolina delegation in Con
gress, the Raleigh bar and many lead
ing lawyers of the State got busy in
the interest of Assoiate Justic Wil
liam R. Allen, of Goldsboro. The
Public Ledger, too, would rejoice to
see Judge Allen promoted to the
United States Supreme Court bench,
but it is not likely that President
Wilson will henor the State with
many more fat positions.
In this connection it is interesting
to note that President Wilson and
William Howard Taft, former Presi
dent of the United States are on the
best of terms, and it would not sur
prise us in the least should President
Wilson appoint Mr. Taft, in view of
the fact that Justice Lamar was an
appointee of President Taft. He was
a'Democrat imd-acceprted his office at
the hands . pf a Iepublfo&u, president
aa. dKtms; associate benc5?t
Judge Lurton. Mr. , Taft looked a-
bove partisan party lines when cast
ing about for jurists to fill the vacan
cies in the highest tribunal in the
world.
It is understood that should Mr.
Wilson consider Mr. Taft, a great
many Democrats would raise a howl
on the ground that there are too
many deserving and qualified Demo
crats to appoint a Republican. The
same cry was heard when Mr. Taft
made his appointments but he did not
heed them. Mr. Taft is a man of wide
judicial experience, temperament and
aspirations. His ability as a jurist
has been attested in no better way
than the good judgement displayed in
his appointments to the Supreme
Court.
The sentiment of the Democratic
press throughout the country is to
the effect that President Wilson could
do no better than to ignore party
lines and tender the vacancy existing
now on the Supreme bench to Mr.
William Howard Taft, former presi
dent of the United States.
BAD MAN HITS OFFICER
Ben Allen Captured With More Than
me ljaw aiiows.
Chief Wheeler, Special Officer
Hutchins and Policeman I. H. Hob
bood got wind Saturday night that
two suspicious looking colored men
were headed toward Oxford. The
officers went out and met the two
men about a mile north of town.
One Of the men proved to be Ben
Allen, an old colored offender. The
other man made a hasty retreat. Ben
stood his ground and frailed officer
Hutchins over the head with a bottle
of liquor, and Hutchins retailated by
knocking Allen down.
Allen and his partner had more
whiskey than the law allows, which
the officers brought to Oxford along
with Allen.
In municipal court Monday, Mayor
Stem sentenced Allen to the roads for
a term of twelve months.
THE LAST CALL
Green-Hunt Stock of
The
Goods
Must Go.
Elsewhere in this paper will be
found a full page advertisement in
reference to the special sale of the
remainder of the Green Hunt stock
It would seem by reference to the
prices that Horner Bros. Company
intends to clean up the stock at this
special low price sale.
Aged Citizen Dead
Mr. W. R. Cox, 87 years of age,
died at his home near Belltown last
Friday. The internment was at
Knott's Grove Saturday. Rev G. T.
Lumpkin, pastor of the Oxford Bap
tist Church, preached the funeral.
The deceased was a noble follower of
the immortal Lee.
I Ilk - l!inWWtA; "SllIM
TO
BE HELD 1
HOUSE THURSD4
To Study Ways ofcilricreC -ag Pro
duction, Ways ofjMarSc; Farm
Product, Purchasing?, .-thods,
Roads, Telephone
We herewith submit 15 outline
plan for organizing: the c into a
voluntary society hich l 1J ... have
for its purpose the :all. rounu rfrove-
ment of business; i eaucauc: j.ai, and
social conditions. -xne i& 'organiza
tion idea?' is in the air becoming
more and more- established: in the
hearts and minds of the ptopleKin a
more or less desultory ancj pasmodic
condition, it is true but nevertheless
it is nere, ana tne reasuu m isbecom
ing better established as bne of the
working principles bfr the tlay is be
cause there-is a greater Lied for it
than ever before. ; In .'. fa we have
reached a point in . Granville County
where we cannot getaj?ng without
some form of "Getting. together for
the common geed." I' - "
With this thought in mind, we, the
officers of the Farmers' Union, Gran
ville Commercial Glb aha the Gran
ville County Agricultural Association,
hereby issue a calj fof a mass meeting
to be held in tne yvjif-v fouse at ox
ford on .
Thursday, Jarioaj'j 13th. J
We hope every 'nian :who has the
good of his county at heart, and is
willing to put his shoulders to the
wheel and. help move .11 .forward to
better things, will, be present on that
day.
P. W.' KNOTT, V ' '"
Pres.- Farmers' Union.
O. A. DANIEL, - . :
Sec. Farmets Union.
A. H. POWELL , v
. Pres. Comrnercial Cljub.
B. W. PAR'llAM, ,
Sec. Commercial Club.
B. m: caldt 'ELL, ;
Pres.' Agrtl-ssbciatibn.
E. T. CREWX
Sec; iisociation.
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THE PUBLIC
i2a
It tne Jitiz
Resolve
to Plan ancT
tely.
Because the streets and stores of
Oxford are not crowded at this time
of the year there are those a-
mong us who argue that the times are
much harder nor than they were a
-. m
year ago. une mismess man last
week showed us his day book and
compared it with the same day of
the week and month of the previous
year, and because the sales Jast week
i t 1 . . i xi.
were one-nair ie mau iuey
were a year ago he got blue in the
face and swore that the war is ruin-
ng the country.
No man in Oxford has a right to
complain of hard times. The facts
in the case are as plain as the nose
on your face; namely, there are too
many consumers and not enough pro
ducers in Oxfora. me rarmers or
the country onl produce a handful
of tobacco and t e sit nere and wait
for them to sell i: and put the money
in circulation. If we fall short a few
dollars we charf? it up to hard times
or the skill of a competitor.
what is true his year will be true
next year, unle?- the business men of
Oxford get thei neaus ana neans to
gether and put : stop to it. We must
acknowledge tlt we are in a rut as
much so as tU soldiers of Europe
are in the troches. They expect
something to iPJen and so do we,
but it will never happen until a lead
er enlists their energies.
Some people are alarmed because
Oxford-does not grow as rapidly as it
should, but lad it ever occurred to
you that there5 Just as much danger
of Oxford goi backward as there is
prospects of it bounding forward?
There are twenty-six thousand peo
ple in Granville county dependent up
on the sale eight or nine million
pounds of tacco at most it will
not sell for iaore than $1,500,000.
As an instaof what manufactur
ing plants ifl40. it-is only necessary
to point tcHopeweJl, the Virginia
powder to lth lts monthly pay-
roll of $900
Wo rniietliave more manufacturing
nlantsTf expect to prosper. Nine
mfllion pnds of tobacco wiU not
clothe andVed6,000 people any too
e nJro f od size industry is equal
rf1.1- un.-e tobacco crop of Gran
to the en' T . . i. nA
Iet us go after it, and
ville cou'
if we cat -' E let's get a hun-
dred sm?
ones.
'.-.lie Ledger, guarantees to
. . ne ,'-'-ford during the year 1916
bring to ri g plant a payroii
a manuf? ua year.
f ri!'0''Ie Oranville Commercial
Will . ntee to do as much?
The P-
merchant's Association
Will f
0 do as much?
lcjdge.
pr2Si?c- citizens of Oxford promise
Will cn?
to do a? '
Rev. B. C. Waller, D. D., of Asheville,
and Noted Chorister Coming
TMine Public Ledger:
-Will you allow me through your
columns to announce in greater de
tail the Revival services planned to be
,held in the Baptist Church January
lbth-28th. We have secured the
help of Rev. B. C. Waller, D. D., as
Evangelist and as chorister Mr. M. J.
Babbitt, one of our Home Mission
lingers. Both of these brethren are
experts in their line. Dr. Waller is
pastor of the largest Baptist Church
in North Carolina, having a mem
bership of over 1800. His Sunday
School has aa enrollment of over
1,500. ,Perhaps he preaches to more
people than any other pastor in the
State. His Evangelistic work has
been most successful all over the
South. He is a man of magnificent
address, fine command of audiences
and magnetic speaker. It is very for
tunate that we have secured the co
operation of such a splendid speaker
and gifted worker as Dr. Waller and
we promise the people of this com
munity a great spiritual feast.
Mr. Babbitt has been working in
evangelistic meetings for several
years under the auspices of our Home
Mission Board and is a sweet gospel
singer. Once more I wish to extend
an invitation to the singers of our
town to come and cooperate with us
in making a great chior for the meet
ing. Mr. Babbitt will arrive in town
Sunday and take charge at both ser
vices. We are hoping to have a revival
that will extend to the utmost limits
of our community and that every
church in the town may be greatly
blessed. We therefore urge the oth
er churches to co-operate with us in
this effort to reach the lost of our
town. Our first thought will be to
bring sinners into the kingdom of
God..
Come and help the cause of our
cOmmon Lord. The public is most
cordially invited to all of these meet
ings. There will be two services a
day. The hour will be. announced
later. G. T. LUMPKIN, Pastor
. THE MONROE DOCTRINE
iAnjerica for Americans' is the Gist
vlrzzttf
v-unou
of : gmmMubtmu
well to r ememberhattgn as far
back as the famous farewell address
of Washington which was delivered
in September, 1796. Washington
then announced as a fundamental
principle of American foreign policy
that this country will refrain from
meddling in the political affairs of
Europe.
The converse of this that the
United States will not tolerate inter
vention in American affairs on the
part of European nations was made
the second principle by President
Monroe in his celebrated message to
congress, December 2, 1823.
This message was called out by the
probability that the "holy alliance,"
a league of four European powers,
would endeavor to control the Span
ish countries of South America.
As President Monroe laid down
"that the American continents, by the
them, the two principles read: First,
free and independent condition which
they have assumed and maintain, are
henceforth not to be considered as
subject s for future colonization by
any European powers."
Second, referring to the Spanish
American statees which had achieved
their independence, that "we could
not view any interposition for the
purpose of oppressing them or con
trolling in any other manner their
destiny, by any European power, in
any other light than as the manifes
tation of an unfriedly disposition to
ward the United States."
The new Pan-American doctrine,
which is so frequently discussed with
reference to plans for national de
fense, implies the acceptance of the
Monroe doctrine by the countries of
South America.
IMPORTANT CLUB MEETING
Annual Meeting of Granville Com
mercial Club Thursday
The annual meeting of the Gran
ville Commercial Club will be held in
the Club roms on Thursday night.
General Royster's address which was
posponed at the last meeting will be
delivered, and plans for the New Year
will be discussed. A fine meeting is
expected and every member of the
Club is urged to attend.
CLEAN SEEDS
lt,is necessary for the farmers to
have their tobacco seed thorough
ly cleasned and now is the time to
attend to it. Bring or send them to
me and I will cleanse them free of
charge. E. G. Moss
Supt. Granville Test Farm
Our friend M. L. Coley," an old
Jefferson Democrat from Northside,
was a pleasant visitor to the Public
Ledger office Saturday.
A VISIT TO HOPEWELL
WHAT AVE SAW THERE IS FIVE
MINUTES
Land Values Puzzle Real Estate Men
There is Hope for Booming
Hopewell.
In our rambles during Christmas
week we stopped off at Hopewell, the
Virginia powder town, for two hours.
We saw in the first five minutes of
our stay more than we wanted to see
and the language we heard was fully
as revolting.
No boom town in the western min
ing days ever had a more sudden
growth than Hopewell, Va., which
mushroomed in a few months from a
quiet hamlet on a Virginian plain to
a roaring, scraggly, money mad city
of 40,000 and kept growing every
day.
We rode from Petersburg down to
Hopewell in a jitney. The first im
pression that one gets of the place
is that it is the "toughest town south
of Hades." The town is under mar
tial law, and the first thing we saw
on landing was a soldier clubbing an
Italian on the head with the butt of
his gun. While standing thus ap
palled a Norfolk and Western passen
ger train dashed through the town
and killed a man within a few feet
of us. Later in the day a soldier
shot a Russian for smuggling whiskey
across the dead line, but we did not
wait to see it done. We stepped into
a restaurant, not to eat, but merely
to see, and while there a man, part
ly under the influence of liquor, step
ped up to the cashier, with pistol in
hand, and told him that his charges
$1.25 for a meal, was exhorbitant. He
backed out of the door with the pistol
in his hand, and to our inquiry the
proprietor said that the best thing
that could be done with such fellows
was to "black ball them."
But there are some splendid men
in Hopewell, but they are terribly in
the minority. We. found four young
men, one an acquaintance of "ours
from up the, state. .They took us to
their little tar paper shack they built
down on the river bank, where they
sleep and do their own cooking. The
young men are clerks and each draw
$70100 every two c weeks. Their tar
f paper.; abode was , very : pleasant .ana
thfarnyible -?was in evidence.-
?rt; tayv.
!Wrn
e threes factories -two forj,niak-
ing guncotton and one" for acid mak
ing now stretch over 167 acres of
ground and employ about 20,000 men
working in three eight hour shifts
every day in the week. And there
are perhaps 5,000 more who come to
reap the harvest of pay nights, and
the payrolls have amounted to $900,
000. A man can't stay out of work
in Hopewell unless he wants to.
Until early in the preceeding year
Hopewell was a mere siding on the
Norfolk and Western railway, where
there was a small plant for making
guncotton, but with the coming of
great orders - for munitions factory
buildings sprang up like magic, and
men flocked there by the thousands
in answer to the demand for labor.
Narrow streets, filled all day with
jostling men and bouncing jitneys,
lined with one and two story shacks
of wood and corrugated iron, which
at night shone a mulittude of lights
and buzzed with the rancous music of
dance halls and saloons, where pistol
shots rang out unheeded, and any
small happening might turn into a
riot. That Hopewell, the "bad Vir
ginia boy." But since the advent of
a competent police force and the
State Guard, they have partially suc
ceeded in fastening the lid down.
There is hope for Hopewell!
Real estate along Main street is a
puzzle to real estate men. Before
the big fire a shack nine feet high and
about 20x100 rented for $250 per
month. For $30 a month one could
rent a parcel of land 8 by 15 on
which to establish a rickety booth
and sell anything. Not long ago an
acre of land just outside Hopewell,
which would have brought not more
than' $200 a year ago, sold for $20,-
000.
We want to see Oxford boom, but
not along the same lines with Hope
well. Annual Meeting The annual meet
ing of the stockholders of the Gran
ville County. Fair. Association will
meet at the Court House next Thurs
day.
HAVE YOU PAH) YOUR TAXES?
ALL PARTIES NOW OWING TAX
ES FOR 1915. WILL PLEASE
MAKE IMMEDIATE SETTLEMENT
YOUR TAXES WERE DUE ON QCT.
1st, 1915. 1916 IS HERE AND THE
DIFFERENT FUNDS ARE MAKING
DEMANDS UPON ME DAILY. I'M
FORCED TO COLLECT NOW TO
MEET THEM. PLEASE ATTEND TO
THIS MATTER PROMPTLY.
YOURS VERY TRULY,
- S. C. HOBGOOD,
SHERIFF GRANVILLE CO.
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