V K I X K SPAY, 31 AY 31st, 1916
LEGAL ADS
VDMIMSTRATORS XOTICE
Having" qualified -as administrator of
the t-itate of It. S. Callahan before the
I if
. ':i i, county, I hereby give notice to all
persons indebted to his estate to come
forward and make immediate payment
n the same. Persons holding1 claims a
,,lin,t hia estate will present them to
in- for payment on or before the 5th
thiv of May, 1917 or this notice will be
v!itad in bar for their recovery.
Vi.i.v 5. 191 6- w- H- CALLAHAN,
Admr. of R. S. Callahan, Dec'd.
Hicks & Stem, Attorneys.
SALE OF VALUABLE FARM
pv virtue of authority of power of
Kale contained in Deed of Trust execut
ed to the undersigned by Joseph R.
Iloycroft and wife, dated March 7th,
li10, and recorded in Book S4, page
4.-.. of records of Deeds of Trust of
Granville County (default having been
,nade in the payment of the debt there
to secured), I shall on
.MONDAY, JUNE 19th, 1916
to the highest bidder for cash, at
the Court House door in Oxford, the
fallowing described tract or parcel of
land:
In Dutchville Township, known as
the R- T. Roycroft home place, and be
ing the lands sold by D. C. Walker,
Mortgagee, Nov. 5, 1894, bounded on the
Xoi th by the lands of L. A. Wilkins and
Polly Veazey, on the East by the
Amanda Cash land, on South and "West
bv the lands of D. C, Walker place,
containing 140 acres, more or less, be
the lands whereon said Joseph R.
Royeroft was living at the time of exe
cution this deed of trust and on which
he continued to live up to the time of
his death. Time of sale, about hour
of noon. Terms cash.
A. W. GRAHAM, Trustee.
SALE OF LANDS
Persuant to a judgement and decree
of sale made by the Superior Court of
Granville County, in the sepcial Pre
ceeding therein pending, entitled "B.
S. Royster, Administrator of W. J. Bad
gett, dec' vs. J. A. Belcher and others,
I, shal on
Monday, June 5, 1916, at 12 O'clock M.
the same being the first Monday in June
1916, offer, for sale, to tre highst bid
der, by public auction, for cash, at the
Court House door in Oxford, the fol
lowing described tracts of land.
FIRST TRACT
Beginning at a stone, the Southeast
corner of the Dower Tract and running
thence S. 77 w. 47.50 chs. to a stone
near the branch thence N. 82 l W. 10.75
chs. to a iron wood tree m North Fork
Creek; thence along said creek N. Zy2
E. 7.75 chs. ti an Ash and White Oak on
said creek; thence with the meanders
of said North Fork Creek to an iron
wood tree, the Northwest corner of the
Dower Tract on said Creek; thence S.
24 E. 19.25 chs. to a stone; thence N.
77 E. 25.75 chs. to the beginning, con
taining 103 acres, more or less.
SECOND TRACT
Adjoining the lands of John Riggan,
J. M. Daniel, J. H. Morris and others,
and bounded as follows: Beginning at
an oak stump and running thence N.
1314 E. 18.80 chs. to a stone; thence N.
86 v. 16.67 chs. to a stone; thence
S. 4i W. 13.63 chs. to a stake; thence
S. 66 E. 14.39 chs. containing 24
acres.
The said two tracts of land will be
sold seperate then the two tracts will
be offered together, the highest bid will
be reported to the Court.
This May 1st, 1916.
B. S. ROYSTER, COMMISSIONER
SALE OF VALUABLE LAND
Ey the virture or power of sale con
tained in the Last Will and Testament
of Absolom Yancey, deceased, late of
this county of Granville, I shall, on
SATURDAY, JUNE 17th, 1916
at 12 o'clock m., offer for sale, to the
highest bidder, by public auction, for
cash, at the Court House door in Ox
ford, the following described tract of
land:
Situated in Sassafras Fork Township
Granville County, North Carolina, and
in Clarksville District, Mecklenburg
County, State of Virginia, adjoining the
lands of J. E. Callahan, Mrs. Victoria
Buchanan, C. R. Yancey, G. B. Buch
anan, Mrs. Minnie Clack, Sam Howard,
and perhaps others, contains 204 7-12
Acres, more or less, according to plat
and survey recently made by R. T.
Gregory, surveyor.
The purchaser of these lands will be
entitled to receive the rents from the
same for the year 1916.
Possession will be given January 1
1917.
Parties desiring to look at these
lands with a view of bidding for them
at the sale will apply to the undersigned-
This May 15, 1916
WILLIAM E. YANCEY,
Executor of Absolm Yancey, dec'.
E- S. Royster, Attorney.
AMIXISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Please take notice that I have quali
ned before the Clerk of the Superior
C-ourt of Granville County as Adminis-
dl0r of the estate of my deceased
broth
er, the late Wesley Young Thorpe.
AH Persons holding claims against said
estate will present them to me for pay
ment on or before the 10th day of May,
or this notice will be plead in bar
their recovery. Persons indebted to
ls estate will please come forward
nd make payment. This the 13th day
Hay, i9i6i
BENJAMIN P. THORPE,
Admr. of Wesley Y. Thorpe, dec'd.
Hlck & Stem. Attorneys.
SUBSCRIBE FOR PUBLIC LEDGER
HEALTH MOT
(Dr. B. K. Hays, Health Officer.)
Are Flies Useful?
The question is often asked, are
flies of any use in the world? They
certainly are. Do not let there be
any doubt in your , mind about it.
Flies are very useful. Leave a dead
dog or cat in the back yard during the
hot months of summer. In a few
weeks time you will find the body a
seathing mass of fly maggots. In a
few more weeks you will find that the
dead dog is being eaten up and by
the end of the summer he will be
gone. The-maggots will have des
troyed him. They would destroy a
human body in exactly the same way
and they destroy human excrement.
There is not a day that every fly a
bout the house does not visit the
privy atnd eat his fill of human ex
creta. Not only does the fly eat it
but he carries a good deal of it off
on his feet. Sprinkle a little flour or
lime in your privy in the morning
and you will find that most of the
flies crawling over your food at din
ner have white feet. This observa
tion in the American camps during
the Spanish war caused the soldiers
to lose their relish for the food. But
it did not keep twenty thousand of
them from coming down with typhoid
fever.
Flies are useful to destroy filth
just as wolves are useful to rid a
field of dead cattle and snakes are
useful to catch rats.
Pensions Cut $6,000,000
Pensions will cost the American
people $6,000,000 less this year than
last under the annual pension bill,
as reported by the appropriations
committee of the house of represen
tatives. The total is $158,065,000,
or $2,500,000 less than the estimates
submitted. Pensions paid under a re
cent special act creating an army and
navy medal roll of honor will come
out of the general fund.
The country's annual pension bud
get has decreased steadily since 1913,
when it reached a.- high mark of
$174,0.00,000.
The LenOir News says Mrs. D. F.
Mast of Valle Crucis, Watauga coun
ty, went to Fayetteville a few days
ago to set up and give instructions
on the old hand loom. Mrs. Mast is
one of the few North Carolina wo
men who are pastmasters in this
work. She enjoys the distinction of
furnishing the Blue Room of the
White House with hand-made rugs,
gifts to President Wilson.
Whooping Cough
One of the most successful prepar
ations in use for this disease is
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. S. W.
McClinton, BlandOn Springs, Ala.,
writes, "Our baby had whooping
cough as bad as most any baby could
have it. I gave him Camberlain's
Cough Remedy and it soon got him
well." Obtainable everywhere. adv
SALE OF LAND
Pursuant to authority contained in a
certain deed of trust executed by D. A.
Moore and to the undersigned, default
having been made in the payment of
the note secured thereby and being re
quested so' to do by the holder of said
note, I shall on
MONDAY, JUNE 5th, 1916
sell at public auction at the court house
door in the town of Oxford to the
highest bidder for cash the following
described lot or parcel of land:
Situate in the town of Oxford on Mc
Clannahan street, fronting on said
street 100 feet and running back there
from in paralell lines to the warehouse
lot of W. H. Fleming. Same being the
lot of land conveyed by R. G. Elliott
and wife and Hettie Sizemore to Mrs.
Martha G. Moore on the 6th day of
June 1910. See deed book 109, page 51.
Time of sale 12 o'clock M.
B. H. GREGORY, Trustee.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
Department of State
CERTIFICATE OF DISSOLUTION
To All to Whom These Presents May
Come Greeting:
Whereas, It appears to my satisfac
tion, by duly authenticated record of
the proceedings for the voluntary dis
solution thereof by the unanimous con
sent of all the stockholders, deposited
in my office, that The Head-Easy Com
pany, a corporation of this State, whose
principal office is situate at McClanna
han Street, in the town of Oxford,
County of Granville, State of North
Carolina (John R. Hall being the agent
therein and in charge thereof, upon
whom process may be served), has com
plied with the requirements of Chapter
21. Revisal of 1905, entitled "Corpora
tions," preliminary to the issuing of
this Certificate of Dissolution:
Now.Therefore, I J. BRYAN GRIMES,
Secretary of State of the State of
North Carolina, do hereby certify that
the said corporation did, on the 13th
day of April, 1916, file in my office a
duly executed and attested consent in
writing to the dissolution of said cor
poration, executed by all the stock
holders thereof, which said consent and
the record of the proceedings afore
said are now on file in my said office
as provided by law.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereto
set my hand and affixed my official seal
at Raleigh, this 13th day of April.
A. D. 1916. J. BRYAN GRIMES.
Secretary of State.,
ROVIDENCE PERSONALS
(Correspondence Public Ledger)
Mrs. M. D. Oakley has returned
from a visit to her sister, Mrs. Hege-
beth of Stem.
Mr. Frank Currin has a new son at
his home.
We are glad to learn that Mrs.
Dudley Wheeler is some better.
Mrs. Smith, wife of Capt. Smith,
has been sick for a few days. Hope
she will soon be well.
Mrs. W. R. Kimball has returned
from Greensboro and other points.
Miss Annie Way Satterwhite has
returned from Oxford College, where
she completed a normal course.
Misses Ellie DanieLand Daisy Roy
ster attended the commencement at
Oxford College.
Messrs. Fred Daniel and Dorsey
Arrington have returned from a de
lightful trip to Charlotte.
Mr. Beverly Eakes had the misfor
tune of losing a horse recently.
Mr. C. P. Wheeler of Hester was in
our village Thursday.
Miss Maggie Burnette is visiting
relatives near Hester.
Farmers Thankful
Our farmers are very thankful for
the nice showers we had this week
and are taking advantage of the good
season. Some had already watered
and planted tobacco while others
waited until the rain came.
Mrs. Sallie Bryant is visiting rel
atives near Lyon.
A Timely Warning
It is not unusual here to see an
automobile or motorcycle going the
highway so fast that you can hardly
tell what it is. Those who have lit
tle children live almost constantly in
dread of an accident or death. We
think that it would be wise to go a
little slower especially in passing
through a village. There are some
people who are very careful and
watchful and those should be an ex
ample for others to follow. It is
very wise also for parents to keep
their children out of the roads, but
sometimes they have to go on an er
rand or in a case of necessity, and the
little tot will sometimes go out un
noticed, and so we say to all, beware!
Last of the Baptist Convention
The registered delegates in attend
ance on the Southern Baptist Con
vention in Asheville numbered 2,125,
the largeset in the history of the Con
vention. The last day of the Convention res
olutions were passed asking a na
tional prohibition law and urging
that the District of Columbia be made
prohibition territory. Another reso
lution urged that better police pro
tection be given to public speakers,
it being declared that "it is alarming
to note the frequency with which
freedom of speech and of press is be
ing interfered with by mobs in our
cities and towns." In these resolu
tions the Convention also expressed
itself as "against mob violence by
whomsoever and against whomsoever
directed."
It was explained that the protest
against mobs interfering with speak
ers had reference chiefly to mob vio
lence in various parts of the country
against persons lecturing on religious
subjects.
In the course of debate on this
subject speakers denounced the bill
pending in Congress to make the
Postmaster General the "supreme
censor of the denominational and sec
'ular press," by giving him authority
to refuse use of the mails to publica
tions attacking religions.
Ends His Life
Col. John L. Phillips, of the Uni
ted States army medical corps, com
mitted suicide in Washington last
week by shooting himself through
the head. He was in poor health
and had been a patient in an army
hospital for some time. He was 57
years old and a native of North Caro
lina, being a son of the late Samuel
F. Phillips, of Chapel Hill.
Durham has been selected as the
meeting place of the 2 2d annual ses
sion of the Association of Colleges
and Secondary Schools in the South
ern States. The date of meeting is
November 15-17. The association is
made up of 37 colleges and' 43 sec
ondary schools.
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who help it perform its mis-
skm help the paper but that
isn't all. They are public
benefactors. They help the
, public.
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OXFORD, N. C.
OBITUARY NOTICES
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in newspaper offices, the Public Ledger
is compelled to make a small charge for
Obituary Notices. Obituaries 50 words
long are inserted free of charge; when
they exceed this number, one cent for
each word should accompany copy.
Where this regulation is disregarded,
the editor will understand that he is
authorized to abbreviate.
IN MEMORY OF HERMAX CUTTS
Dear Herman from us has gone,
How sad it is to me to think
His Smiling face no more upon earth
I'll see.
Oh! dear one, thous hast left us.
How it grieves my heart.
To think that you and your loved ones
So soon on earth did part.
Thou are gone; I miss thee, Herman;
But I know you're free from care,
And when here my work is ended.
I will meet you over there.
Now Herman we all will try,
To do our very best hereafter,
And then we will meet you,
In the sweet bye and bye. C.M.D.
The congregation of the First
Methodist church of Salisbury will
tear down the present church build
ing and erect one to cost $50,000.
HOUSE MOVING
Let me raise or move your HOUSE. See
the house of Mr. B. F. Taylor, as a sample of my
work, in which not a chimney or any plastering
was broken.
LEO E. BYRUM
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The Big Store on Main St
Oxford, Eo C.
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For all floors use Marble Floor
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Good Behavior
(Statesville Landmark)
Attention is called to the fact that
in the great crowd in Charlotte Sat
urday there were no arrests for
drunkenaiess or boisterous conduct.
The unregenerate might say that
this is accounted for partially by the
statement of the South Carolina vis
itor to Charlotte's celebration, who
alleges that he had to pay $2 for a
pint of spirits. That price for blind
tiger liquor, and the difficulty in ob
taining it even at that price, was
calculated to tend to soberness.
If he will consent to make the race,
William Jennings Bryan may be , se
lected as the candidate for President
of the Prohibition party.
"Chamberlain's Tablets Have Done
Wonders for Me."
"I have been a sufferer from stom
ach trouble for a number of years,
and although I have used a great
number of remedies recommended
for this complaint, Chamberlain's
Tablets is the first medicine that has
given me positive and lasting relief,"
writes Mrs. Anna Kadin, Spencer
port, N. Y. "Chamberlain's Tablets
have done wonders for me and I value
them very highly." Obtainable every
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