PUBLISHED SEHH-WEEKLY TOWN raUNTY OFFERS B1LLIIANT OPPORTOfflniEg ALL IHIOME FEME
VOLUME XXXI. OXFORD. .TH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5th, 1916
NUMBER 53
THE SOLDIER BOYS DEPART
ciRAXVIIXE GRAYS ENTRAIN
SATURDAY WITH SEVENTY
3IEN
The noble Granville Grays have
departed for Camp Glenn. They
.have gone forth to defend the honor
of the country, if need be, and lay
down their lives. For the past two
weeks they have been drilling and
sretiing in readiness, for active ser
vice. Many recruits were added to
the company and on Saturday morn
ing when they entrained at the Sea
board station for Camp Glenn there
was seventy men in line.
just Derore entraining tne men
were drawn up in line in front of the
waiting train and while the Oxford
colored band played patriotic music
the crowd of more than a thousand
people passed along the line and
shook the hands of the boys and bid
them God-speed on their journey.
The parting of some of the men was
especially hard and easily noticed.
Frequently we heard a muffled sob
-when the goodby was said. There
were present wives, children, fathers,
mothers, brothers, sisters and sweet
hearts to say what may be a last
farewell.
Dispatches from Morehead City ad
vise that the boys are there and are
measuring up to the standard of reg
ular soldiers to a remarkable degree.
For years the Granville Grays have
been noted as one of the best drilled
and disciplined companies in the
State. These young men represent
the best type of manhood in the
county and we are sure that when
the call for actual service on the bor
der comes that they will be found in
the front ranks, where they will ac
quit themselves with honor to old
Granville and North Carolina. We
are sure that everyone will join with
us in giving three cheers for the
Granville Grays!
God bless them.
TOE MEXICAN MEMORANDA
THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT
CHALLENGES CLAIMS OF
THE UNITED STATES
MEXICO CITY The Foreign Of
fice Saturday issued a memorandum
in reply to Secretary Lansing's re
cent note, in which the correctness
of assertions in the communication
from Washington were repeatdely de
Jiied. The memorandum contains 35
counts. Although not in the form of
a direct reply to the Washington note
it is considered equivalent to an an
swer to the document.
It expresses surprise that the
Washington Government should have
been pained at the tone and the con
tents of the Carranza document, since
it maintains that the United States
has sent to the Constitutional Gov
ernment not only one but many dis
courteous and even overbearing
notes.
Emphatically reiterating the Mexi
can Government's position denying
the right of the United States to keep
armed bodies in Mexico, the memor
andum denies energetically that the
Mexican Government has protected
bandits who had committed depre
dations in the United States and de
fies Washington to produce proof of
the assertion.
The memorandum asserts that,
hile it is true that the United Sta
tes arrested General Huerta, the mo
tive which prompted this act was not
a- purpose of aiding the constitution
alist government, but because the
"United States feared that General
Huerta was plotting with Germany.
The note concludes by declaring
that the presence of American troops
in Mexico invites rather than pre
vents bandit raids along the border.
The memorandum was jssued at
tte same time that the Foreign Of
fice authorized publication of Secre
tary Lansing's recent note.
James Linn Rodgers, special agent
0? the State Department, called at
the War Office today relative to an
inquiry from the State Department at
Washington regarding the disinter
ring of the body of Capt. Charles T.
Boyd, who was killed at Carrizal.
The Foreign Office promised Mr.
dodgers that it would issue the nec
essary orders to expediate the work
Jn order that the request of the wid
w of the dead American officer that
tne body be shipped to the United
states for buril shall be granted.
CARRANZ A STANDING PAT
Pay of the
National Guard
FUND FROM FEDERAL GOVERN
MENT FOR NATIONAL GUARD
AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY.
The enlisted men and officers of
the North Carolina National Guard
will receive pay from the United
States government at the same rate
as prevails in the regular army, ac
cording to rank. The pay of the mil
itia will date from President Wilson's
call, when the moblization order was
issued.
The following is the monthly pay
of the officers and men:
Enlisted men:
Privates, $15.
Privates in hospital corps, $16.
First class privates, such as engi
neers, ordance, signal corps, hospital
corps and quartermaster's corps,
$18.
Corporals, engineers, ordance, sig
nal corps, etc., $24.
Sergeants, $30 to $36.
Junior Sergeants-majors, $40.
Senior Sereant-majors, $45.
First class sergeants, $50.
Engineers, $65.
These rates of pay are increased
by 20 per cent additions for foreign
service and are increased with each
successive re-inlistment.
Officers: s
Second lieutenant (increasing with
time of service), $141.67 to $198.33.
First lieutenant (increasing with
time of service,) $166.67 to 233.
Captain (increasing with, time of
service,) $200 to $280.
Major (increasing with time of ser
vice,) $250 to $333.
Lieutenant - colonel (increasing
with time of service,) $291 to $375.
Colonel (increasing with time of
service,) $333.33 to$416.67.
Brigadier-general, $500.
Major-general, $666.67.
Lieutenant-general, $916.67.
In addition to these rates of pay,
subsistence and clothing are provided
for the men in service.
UNION MEETINGS
In Effect During the Month of
July
It was announced from the pulpits
Sunday that during the month of
July there would be a union meet-
g of the Methodist, Presbyterian
and Baptist congregations each Sun
day night during the month.
Under this arrangement Dr. Willis,
pastor of the Methodist church, rilled
the pulpit at the Baptist church.
Taking Christ as the "Light of the
World," he preached one of the
strongest sermons ever heard in Ox
ford a sermon full of consolation
one in which Christ was revealed in
his tender love and mercy.
The union meeting next Sunday
night will be held in the Presbyter
ian church. By this arrangement
the congregations of Oxford are
rought in closer touch with eacn
other, and that alone tends toward
strengthening the blessed ties tnat
bind. It will ensure a large congre
gation at each of the evening services
during the hot month of July; or at
least that is the object of the union
meetings.
NEW TOBACCO BUYER
A Native Son of Old Granville to be
sOn Oxford Market
Mr. l)ebie Cash, a son of Woodson
Cash, born and reared in Tally Ho,
has been appointed by the American
Tobacco Company a buyer on ' the
Oxford market. Mr. Cash has had
large experience on the Eastern Caro
lina markets.
Raymond Hitchcock Coming
The inimitable Raymond Hitch
cock is starred in the leading role of
a three-act motion picture feature
produced by the Lubin Company and
based upon the "Ford Flivver," to be
known as "the Wonderful Wager."
The picture has many startling and
comical scenes of circus life and a
night fire scene in which forty or
more houses were burned to the
ground. "The Wonderful Wager"
comes to the Orpheum theatre as the
attraction for Friday night next.
- Mayor MitcheU
During the absence of Mayor Stem,
who is a staff officer of the Third
Regiment, Commissioner W Z.
Mitchell is Mayor pro tern of Oxford.
ONLY WAY OPEN TO AMERICAN
TROOPS IN MEXICO IS
NORTHWARD
Promise Given That No More Border
Raids Will Occur Army Officers
Believe Actual Hostilities With
Mexico Imminent.
(SUMMARY)
WASHINGTON That the de facto
Mexican government will reiterate
that it cannot permit movements of
American troops now in Mexico in
any direction except towards the bor
der but. will accomDanv statement
! by a declaration that it is now fully
prepared to prevent any further ban
dit raids against American territory
was the belief expressed in reliable
quarters.
It became known that the reply to
Secretary Lansing's ultimatum has
been ready for presentation to the
United States ever since the order
was issued for the release of the
Carrizal captives but that it is with
held pending the completion of cer
tain military movements by the Mexi
cans. What action President Wilson will
take upon a reply of this character
is known only to himself. That an
immediate crisis is not looked for
was indicated when the house leaders
decided to take a recess over the
Fourth of July.
NEW YORK The department of
of the east, under command of Major
General Leonard Wood, has complet
ed preliminary plans for mobilizing a
volunteer army of 250,000 men in
the event of hostilities with Mexico.
Concentration camps in the various
states have already been selected.
Monday army officers admitted priv
ately that they considered the Mexi
can situation had reached - a most
cHticalbintr-.''" r-
The outbreak of actual hostilities
(Continued on Pagfe Eigrht)
EUROPE
ONE MORE MIGHTY PLUNGE, AND
GERMANY WILL LIVE OR
DIE
The British Have Launched an At
tack on a Scale for Greater Than
Any in History The German Em
pire Trembles for the First Time.
At last the great offensive of the
Allies is on, and in the opinion of the
wrld the German Empire is on the
verge of diospair.
Russia's tremendous drive in the
east, Italy's overwhelming offensive
against the Austrians in the Trevino
and the French counterattacks in
force at Verdun, all within the last
few weeks, had prepared expectation
for what is now taking place the
British "big push."
After months of comparative in
activity, which had brought bitter
criticism, the British have launched
a mighty attack on a scale far great
er than any in history. From the
Yser to the Somme, along a front of
nearly ninety miles, the British shel
ed the German lines for four days,
with an expenditure of munitions
which, it is said, required the use of
more than a million shells a day, and
which resulted in the "leveling of Ger-
wirfr entanglements and even in the
cutting off If the German from their
rear. The curtain of fire, both be
fore and behind the enemy trenches,
was so dense that no living thing
could pass through it.
Then over a front of more than
twenty miles north of the Somme, the
British launched a smiultaneous at
tack, which seems to have found nec
essary only the "cleaning-up" of the
trenches. With a loss of life report
ed to be "comparatively light," the
British have occupied sixteen miles
of German front.
That the Germans, -who have been
preparing for such' an offensive for 1
months, will permit this advantage to
continue, without further resistance,
is not to be thought of. They have
been massing troops behind their
lines in great numbers. When they
advance to the threatened points, the
world may look for battle and death
and destruction that will cause the
Champagne and Mons and the Meuse
to be forgotten.
Don't Forget That
Credit is Capita
DIRECTORY OF BILL PAYERS T.O
BE TAKEN IN GRANVILLE
Do you pay your bills promptly?
Or do you pay slow? Or-do you pay
at all?
These questions will be answered
by the entire community to the busi
ness and professional men of this en
tire section ; of the State by a direc
tory, which is now being considered.
It has been the unanimous consent
of the business men to adopt a sys
tem by which all have their, names
printed in a directory for instant in
formation to the merchant as to just
how they have paid their doctor,
druggist, dentist, grocer, dry goods,
merchant, hardware, coal dealer,
real estate, jewelry, furniture,' plum
ber, publisher and printer, and every
one to whom you owe money, or who
extends you credit.
The system is by no means a new
one. For 26 years the Merchants'
Mercantile Agency has written credit
directories for over 3 8 States in the
Union, and more than-5,000,000 men
are supporters of the guide, and more
than 20,000,000 of people are rated
in this system.
When this section of the State has
been completed it will mean that the
whole of the trade territory tributary
to Oxford, Vance, Person, Durham,
Wake Mecklenburg counties will be
literally interwoven with the credit
rating as every other town and sec
tion has already been rated, so it is
up to everybody to settle in part, if
not in full, and get a good rating be
fore the directory is published.
The business and professional men
want to be fair, but it is stated, peo
ple will have to be governed precisely
as you act. ''Credit is Capital." Have
you the Credit? If you have, keep
it.
PROSPERITY NOTES
Street Paving
Petitions have been signed to pave
Gilliam street from Spring to Wil
liamsboro streets; Littlejohn from
Gilliam to Main streets, and Wil
liamsborostreet from Bell street to
Horner Hill. This gives to Oxford
about three and one half miles of the
best paved streets in the State.
BusinessBuilding
It is understood that Mr. J. G.
Hall has under consideration details
regarding the erection of a business
building on the corner of College
and Hillsboro streets within the next
ninety days. The corner is consid
ered the best business location in Ox
ford and it is practically certain, that
Mr. Hall will erect a handsome brick
and stone structure.
Real EstateTransf erred
Mr. Gus Hall has sold his residence
on the corner of Gilliam and Little
john street. The purchase price paid
for the property nor the name of the
purchaser has not been made public.
RESULT OF SECOND PRIMARY
Taylor Defeats Crews By Small
Majority
The primary last Saturday in Gran
ville to select one County Commis
sioner was a quiet affair. The con
test was between T. G. Taylor and
L. L. Crews. The complete returns
from,t?e CUnty'f!t. W'lkmS DOt
heard as follows- .., .
laiui .........
Crews 210
The official report will follow in
our next issue.
BETTER
MAIL SERVICE
Southern Road Will Handle Mail Be
tween Oxford and Henderson
(Special to the Public Ledger)
WASHINGTON The residents of
Oxford an dthe people served by the
rural carriers, through the , Oxford
posteffice will be glad to learn that
the Postoffice Department has au
thorized the Southern Railway to
handle mail on train No. 115, which
will enable Oxford people to .receive
their mail early in the morning and
the rural routes several hours earlier.
This service will be inaugurated a
bout July 10th. C.W.
- Miss Lillian. Tayolr is spending
some time in' Greensboro, the guest of
Miss Lena Coble.
FLAT RIVER ASSOCIATION
SESSION TO BE HELD AT ISLAND
" CREEK CHURCH
Much Interest Manifested in the Ap
proaching Session, Which Will Be
Held Wednesday, July 12th.
The good Baptists throughout this
section are moving with one accord
to make the annual session of the
Flat River Association, which will be
held at Island Creek Church Wednes
day, July 12th, an event of great
spiritual uplift.
The meeting this year will be held
in one of the strongest communities
within the bounds of the Flat River
Association and the good people in
the old historic section of Williams-
boro, irrespective of denominations,
are going to kill the fatted calf.
Year after year the picnic feature of
the Association grows in interest and
out of it comes a greater religious
awakening. If the weather is fair on
Wednesday, July 12th, there will be
at least three thousand people at Is
land Creek Church.
Island Creek Church is in Vance
county, near old historic Williams-
boro. To reach it from Oxford, fol
low the old Williamsboro road. We
judge that the church is about 12
miles northeast of Oxford and about
the same distance from Henderson in
a northwesterly direction.
Churches
The following thirty-six churches
compose the Flat River Association:
Amis Chapel, Antioch, Beulah,
Bethany, Bullock, Corinth, Creed-
moor, Concord, Dexter, Enon, Fel
lowship, Florence Avenue, Grassy
Creek, Hester's, Island Creek, Knap
of Reeds, Knott's Grove, Mary's
Chapel, Mt. Zion, Mountain Creek,
Mt. Harmony, Mill Creek, Oxford;
Olive Grove, Olive Branch, Peace
Chapel, Pleasant Grove,Poplar Creek,
Providence, Rock Spring, State Line,
Stovall, Sharon, Tally Ho, Tabb's
Creek, West Oxford.
ATI ORGANIZATION NEEDED
LOOKING TO THE COMFORT OF
THE FAMILIES OF SOLDIERS
A number of the leading citizens
of Oxford have expressed a deep con
viction that an organization looking
to the care of the soldiers' families
should be formed at once. It is ar
gued that the soldier boys, moved by
a sense of patriotism, answered the
call of the president and that it is no
more than right that the good people
of the town and county should con
tribute to the comfort of their fam
ilies. Inasmuch as the pay of a private
soldier is only fifty cents a day it is
self evident that the families of some
of them will need financial assistance
in the event a prolonged war follows.
On the night of the smoker tender-:
ed the soldiers by the business men
in the Armory, the soldiers were com
forted by the assertion made by
speakers on the floor that the ma
terial welfare of their families would
be loked after in their absence. The
statement made on the floor of the
Armory was all right so war as it
went, but what s needed is an organ
ization that will prosecute the work.
Not all of the families of the sol
diers will need financial aid, but
every one of them should be the ob
jects of tender solicitude.
In forming an organization every
member of the "home guard" should
give so much every month, and if all
will subscribe the little that is re
quired to meet the demand would in
deed be very light to each individual.
The "home guard" should create the
fund and the good ladies of the town
could distribute it without embar
rassing any one.
The Hay bill appropriating $2,
000,000 for dependent families of
National Guardsmen called or drafte
ed into the present emergency was
passed by the House Saturday. The
bill which now goes to the Senate al
lows not exceeding $50 per month to
the dependent families, in the discre
tion of the Secretary of War.
Possibly the Hay bill will pass the
Senate and reach the President's sig
nature, but that will not relieve the
"home guard" of the great responsi
bility of looking after the families of
those who have gone to the front.
The Hay bill makes it more urgent
to form a local organization.
Mr. and Mrs. Wade R. Brown, of
Greensboro, are the guests of Miss
Mary Webb.
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