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S v. t; PUBL1ISIHIED SEM-WEEM- XWM AMD COILJMTY OFFERS IMLOAOT ' OPPORTUNITIES ALL IHIOME PRIMT volume xxxi. OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 17th, 1916 NUMBER 39 I1 ETT HERE ENTHUSIASTIC CROWD HEAR CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR He Made a Most Profound Impres sion On His Hearers in a Speech Covering One Hour and Thirty Minutes. The court room was filled Satur day to hear Hon. T. W. Bickett speak in interest of his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor. There were between four and five hundred qualified voters present and they cheered him to an echo. Brown ed by the sun and a hot campaign, lie is one of the finest campaigners we ever saw or heard. He was in troduced by Mr. B. F. Hester, that grand old Democrat of forty-four campaigns, as the next Governor of North Carolina, and thereafter the cheers were loud and long. Mr. Bickett began his address by stating that his mother was educated at Old St. John's College, Oxford, under the lamented Mills. He spoke of the close relationship that existed between Granville and Franklin his home county. He did not come to Oxford to discuss issues at this time, he said, but he did most heartily endorse President Wilson and the State Administration. In meeting the argument that Daughtridge is backed by the farm ing element and that Bickett is back ed by the lawyers, he scored a point. If the farmers had wanted a farmer candidate, he said, is it not reason (Continued on Page Eight) "MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM" THE OXFORD SHAKESPEAREAN CLUBS SCORE A SUCCESS The presentation of "Midsummer Night's Dream," Friday evening was a success due to the hearty co-operation of the Shakespeare Clubs, the high school and Mrs. Hicks' school. Mrs. A. H. Powell and Mrs. H. G. Cooper as managers, assisted by the members of the clubs, left nothing undone to make the entertainment worthy of the Tercentenary celebra tion of Shakespeare's death. The leading characters taken by Harry Wrenn,. as the Duke; James Taylor as Lysander; Ben Parham, as Demetrius; Frank Pinnix as Egeus and Dr. Luther Buchanan as Oberon were finely rendered. .Miss Ethel Hancock who impersonated "Puck" scored a charming success and won all hearts by her sprightly, nimble and attractive interpretation of the difficult part. Misses Annie Crews, Gladys Raw lins and Maria Paris, elicited great applause and acted their roles in beautiful style. The little fairies added greatly to the beauty of the scene in their inimitable costumes and fairy dance. Miss Nina Cooper as Titania was beautiful and bewitch ing, attended by beautiful little Julia Winston Taylor as the child from India. While all did surprisingly well from the opening chorus of fifty voices trained by Mrs. John Booth. The crowning attraction of the en tertainment was the "Mock Play" of "Phyraims and Thisbe," which was splendidly trained by Mrs. Bertha Paris, principal of Oxford High school. This play consisted of a re hearsal and performance at court, il lustrating how the common people presented their dramatic ideas. This scene was impersonate by Robert Parham as "Quince," William Webb as "Bottom." James Ballou as "the Moon" Edward Rawlins as "Thisbe," Henry Shaw as "the Wall" Linwood Urynn as "the Lion". The audience was kept in a con tinuous roar of laughter as William obb, without previous dramatic 'ex perience, rose to the occasion in most surprising manner and received high commendation for his interpretation f "Bully Bottom." The elegant costumes and the artis te enviornments of the stage impro ved in the grove on Horner Hill, beautifully lighted made the enter tainment a pleasing occasion, which the large audience fully appreciated, l seats were taken 'and , many stood tQr two hours to enjoy the play. Books Close May 20 See that your name is on the regis tration books. All candidates who ail to file notice of their entry on or efore May 20th cannot get their aame on the ticket. PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF GRANVILLE PERCENTAGE COST OF ADMINIS TERING SCHOOLS OF GRAN VILLE NOW LESS THAN IN THE OLD DAYS When any business grows it is na tural that the total cost of managing the business should increase some what in proportion to the increased amount of business done. The fair way is to treat it on a percentage basis. The public school business of "the county has increased considerably during the past ten years. The ques tion in the mind of the right-thinking citizen is, has the cost of admin istering and supervising the business increased out of proportion to the work accomplished and the funds dis bursed? The public schools ' of Granville were never in a better condition than they are at this time, and it is also gratifying to note that there are none better in the State. Faithful service all along the line has served the county well. In the year 1905 the cost of col lecting for administering, and super vising the public schools of the coun ty was 14 per cent. closing the same service was render ed for 8.7 per cent. In fact there never has been a time in the history of the public schools of the county when the percentage cost of adminis tering the school was less, not even in the old days when the county sup erintendent was paid less than $400 a year. IMPORTANT MEETING Literature and Library Extension Department The Literature and Library Exten sion Department of the Woman's Club will meet Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the home of Mrs. A. H. Powell. Those who are interested in this department are requested to attend promptly at the hour named, as there will be an important business session from four to a quarter to five, after which an hour will be given to an in teresting program in observance of the Tercentenary celebration of Shakespear. This department cordially invites every member of the Woman's Club to attend the Literary Program.which will begin at a quarter to five. MRS. A. H. POWELL, Ch'm. JUDGE DEVIN IN OXFORD Will Remain Here Three or Four Days. Judge Devin came in from Green ville, Pitt county, Saturday, where he held court last week and is spending a few days with his mother. He will hold court in Durham next week, and go to Alamance for a two week's term. He will preside over the Beau fort county court late in June, and we notice that he is going to run up with some trouble a,t Snow Hill, Green county, early in July. Green joins Wayne and they have had two or three lynchings down there during the year and its up to Judge Devin to interpret the law to them. We would not be surprised to hear that they call out the malitia to keep back the crowd when the case comes up. DR. DUNAWAY COMING Former Oxford Pastor Will Stop Over in Oxford. Mr. J. F. Meadows is in receipt of a letter from Dr. Dunaway, of Acco mack Court House, Va., advising him that in all probability he will stop over in Oxford to shake hands with friends on his return from the South ern Baptist Convention which is in session at Asheville this week. Dr. Dunaway was a former pastor of the Oxford Baptist church and his many friends here will be glad to see him. "THE ROSARY" Teaches a Good Strong Moral It Iesson. "The Rosary" is coming to the Or pheum Thursday, May 18th. This is the play that has attracted so much attention throughout the country. It is the same play that so many of the Oxford people wesnt to Raleigh last fall to see. "The Rosary" is as good as any sermon, giving comfort to the .old and instructions to the young. It was written by Edward E. Rose from his wonderful stage production and is absolutely pure and wholesome to old and young alike. OUR STANDING ARMY TO MUSTER TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOUR THOUSAND MEN. Backed by a Federalized National Guard of 425,000 as a Reserve, Constitutes the Final Agreement by House and Senate Conferees on the Army Bill. Report Also Pro vides for Government Nitrate Man ufacturing Plants $iot Exceeding $20,000,000 and for Boards to In vestigate Advisability of Establish ing Government Munition Plants and Mobilization of Industries. (SUMMARY) A standing army of 206,000 fight ing men capable of being expanded in emergency to 254,000 and backed by a federalized National Guard of 425, 000 as a reserve, finally was agreed on Saturday by House and Senate conferees oh the army bill. The agreement will be reported to Con gress early next week and the meas ure, the first of the Administration preparedness bills, is expected to be In the year justbefore President Wilson for his sig nature soon afterward. Victory for National Preparedness Advocates of adequate National de fense regard the conference agree ment as a triumph. ' The compro mise between the House and Senate measures was effected after weeks of struggle against an insistent demand from House conferees for a standing army of only 140,000 men. Minimum Strength in Five Years The minimum enlisted strength would be attained under the confer ence agreement within the next five years and it is stipulated that at no time shall the total be less than 160,000. i Provides for Nitrate Plants The conference report - also pro- vides for the Government nitrate manufacturing plants not exceeding $20,000,000; for vocational education in the regular Army and for estab lishment of military training compa nies for volunteer citizens whose transportation, clothing and subsist ence expenses while in training would be paid by the Federal Government. Training Camp Feature The training camp feature, as final ly approved, is regarded as compen sation in a measure for the Federal volunteer reserve of 261,000 men which Senate conferees were forced to abandon on insistence from the House. Government Munition Plants Other salient features of the meas ure provide for a board to investigate the advisability of establishing Gov ernment munition plants and a board to recommend mobilization of indus tries. Authority is given to the Gov ernment to seize and operate private munition plants in time of war. OXFORD COLLEGE NOTES SENIOR AND EXPRESSION CLASS ES IN SHAKESPEAREAN COMEDY "Twelfth Night" to Be Presented on the College Campus, 3Ionday Evening, May 22d. One of the most delightful and in structive features of Oxford College Commencement will be the play, "Twelfth Night," to be presented on the College campus by the Senior and Expression Classes, assisted by a number of students from the English department, at eight o'clock Monday evening, May 2 2d. The classes have rehearsed the play over and over, and with the special costumes for the en tire play, furnished by Joseph C. Fisher & Son, Philadelphia, will out rival the "Camp-Fire Girls" of last December, which in itself was a great triumph. "Twelfth Night" is a joyous comedy, considered by some critics (Continued on Page Eight) THE GRANVILLE GRAYS The Soldier Boys Will Leave For Charlotte. The Granville Grays, about fifty in number, will leave for Charlotte next Friday to participate in the fes tivities incident to the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence on May 20th. General B. S; Royster will be in command of a division of the State troops; - PREDICIS HE A VY LOSS OF CROPS THE LONG DRY SPELL HAS WROUGHT DAMAGE, SAYS THE FARMERS Enormous crop losses will be suff ered by Granville farmers this sea son, according to reports from all sections of the county. Granville's lyargest money crop is at a stand still, farmers say, and it is doubtful that even with) seasonable rains the condition of the tobacco vwill be more than one half normal. Corn and other crops planted re cently have not yet come up owing to lack of rain and sufficient moisture to cause the seed to germinate. The farmers entertain hopes for the seed crops in the event of seasonable rains but these crops will necessarily be late as well as somewhat curtailed, say the farmers. It "is claimed that the wheat crop has also suffered greatly from the drought, and will be at least 25 per cent short of normal. The farmers say that it has been impossible to prepare the land for planting in many places on account of the dry condition of the soil. Of the large number of farme visiting the Public Ledger office every one has stated that their fruit crop is promising up to the present .time, but there can be no doubt that the farming element as a whole, are greatly distressed over the outlook for bumper crops this year. The Public Ledger is not inform ed as to the actual conditions of the crops in this section, and of course must depend upon the reports that come to us first-handed from the farmers themselves. We hope that the conditions are much better than they seem at this writing. As, for the tobacco crop, it is gen erally believed by all well informed men that a half crop will bring quite as much money as an abnormal crop. The big companies have let it be known that it is quality and not quantity that is wanted. DISTRESSING ACCDDENT Mr. J. Robert Wood Falls and Sus tains Broken Ribs. Mr. J. Robert Wood had the mis fortune Saturday night to fall from the rear platform at Perkinson-Green Company's store and break three of his ribs. He entered the store by the back door and was waited upon by Mr. Claud Allen. On returning to the platform he turned round and bade Mr. Allen "good night." That is the last thing he remembres. He fell a distance of about three feet, landing violently against a sharp rock. With three broken ribs, he got up unassisted and made his way home. Dr. Cannady was called and dressed the wounds, and Mr. Wood is resting as well as could be expect ed. OFF FOR ASHEVILLE Dr. Lumpkin and Rev. C. A. Up church Drive Through Country Doctor and Mrs. G. T. Lumpkin and Rev. and Mrs. C. A. Upchurch left early Monday morning in an auto car for the Southern Baptist Conven tion, which is in session, at Asheville this week. The distance from Ox ford to Asheville is about 200 miles. MRS. BOOTH'S SCHOOL OF MUSIC Interesting Program at the Oxford Graded School. One of the most pleasing entertain ments of the year is the annual con cert given by Mrs. John B. Booth's School of Music. As usual, a full house greeted Mrs. Booth and her bright pupils from the intermediate grades in the auditorium of the Graded School Monday night. Mrs. Booth possesses a faculty that never fails to bring out the best that is in her pupils. We don't know how she does it, but presto change and the little one sings like a mock ing bird: There were twenty-two numbers on the program, some of them difficult of rendition, in which the pupils reflected credit upon their teacher and themselves. FOR COMMISSIONER To the voters of Granville: I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of County Commissioner subject to the rules governing the Primary, Your friend,' WILL" A. PARHAM. PROF. PHILLIPS RALEIGH EDUCATOR BECOMES HEAD OF OXFORD SCHOOLS An Inspiration to Students on the Gridiron, on the Diamond, on the Platform and in Literature. (Raleigh News and Observer) Prof. Guy V. Phillips, for three years head of the English department of the Raleigh high school, has for mally accepted the offer of the super intendence' of the Oxford graded schools. Professor Phillips, during his con nection with" the Raleigh high school has taken an active lead in the en couragment of those activities out side the school room. The high school students on the gridiron and on the diamond, on the platform and in literary effort, have largely been under his direction. During these three years Raleigh has consectively won the State football championship and has been represented in the Caro lina finals in both baseball and de bate. At the same time the "High School Enterprise" and the "Rattler," the school annual, as well as the lit erary societies, have been promoted by his work. The call to the superintendency of the Oxford schools, of which there are three, represents the taking up of larger duties and the entry into a larger field of executive work. Professor Phillips' successor will be selected some time during the summer, it is thought. INVENTOR CALLED DREAMER GETS $2,000,000 FOR CENT-AND-A-HALF SUBSTITUTE FOR GASOLINE If Louis Enricht's secret formula of one and a half penny-a-gallon substitute for gasoline is true, the editoir of the Public Ledger will buy a fordcar and visit every" family in Granville county. If his secret for mula is all that it is claimed to be, the farmers of Granville will soon have no need of mules. It is no longer a secret that Louis Enricht has sold the secret formula of his penny-and-half-a-gallon substi tute for gasoline for $2,000,000! Enricht's neighbors in the little village of Farmingdale, New York, down on Long Island, thought En richt dreaming when he claimed he could operate an automobile with a mysterious green liquid he invented. But the Maxim Munition Co., fig ured the formula so good it has agreed to pay $1,000,000 in cash and $1,000,000 in stock to the inventor. The process of manufacture, ac cording to Enricht, is very simple. Four ounces of a strange chemical mixture, green in color, is stirred in to five gallons of water. The solu tion goes into the auto's tank and the auto runs just as it would if fed with gasoline. Henry Ford visited the inventor, who is 70, and he came away con vinced that Enricht's discovery was genuine, it is said. The cost of manufacturing the li quid is about one and one-half cents per gallon. Here is as much of an explana tion of his invention as Enricht is willing to make: The addition of his "green mystery" to the water in the "gas" tank of an auto releases the hydrogen gas in the water. The hy drogen passes into the carburetor, where it comes into contact with the nitrogen of the air, taken into the engine through the air intake pipe. The explosive energy to drive the engine is the result of this combina tion. Just after he announced his dis covery, Enricht stopped making his fluid because, he said, he didn't dare go to drug stores to buy ingredients. "I can't go anywhere without be ing followed by detectives working for the oil companies," said Enricht. Maxim company officials say they will produce a substitute that will be used by every auto owner and knock the bottom out of the high price of gasoline. FOR COMMISSIONER At the solicitation of many voters of the county, I herewith announce my candidacy for the office of Com-misisoner- of Granville County, sub ject to the action of the Democratic primary. I will appreciate the suf frage of the voters of the county and promise to give my best servcle if elected. . J. LUTHER DANIEL. i i lv .. it J 1 1 4 i 4 " ( 'I O. I t -, ! : -f 't ' 1 5 - m
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