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VOLUME XXXI
THE METHODIST REVIVAL!
LAIUiE CONGREGATIONS
DR. STANFORD
HEAR
Interest Omvs in the Revival Ser
vices Now in Progress at the Ox
ford Methodist Chvirch Dr. Stan
ford's Sermons Are Very Impress
ive. Increased interest is manifested
from day to day in the revival ser
vices which have been in progress at
the Oxford Methodist .church for
more than a week and which is likely
to continue throughout the better
part of the present week.
Dr. Stanford, of Hickory, who is
assisting Dr. Willis, is one, of the
most learned theologians and sincere
speakers that was ever heard in Ox
ford. The thrill that he brings to
the vast throng that go out to hear
him is sensational only so far as the
divine truths of the message direct.
His modulated voice carries to all
parts of the church edifice and his
earnest pleadings for the Master's
cause naturally draws the repentant
to the mercy seat. By virture of his
splendid powers in presenting the
Truth many have been led to see the
Light. The congregational singing,
too, is an impressive feature of the
meetings.
The revival is still in progress and
the public is cordially invited to at
tend the meetings.
The services this Tuesday evening
will be devoted to a special message
to the young men of the community
and everyone of them are urged to
lie present. - .
IX HONOR OF BRIDE-TO-BE
Engagement of Miss . Elizabeth Han
cock and Mr. Rowland S. Pruette
Announce
On September the first, at the lov
ly home of General and Mrs. B. S.
Hoyster, Miss Helen R oyster gave an
elegant luncheon announcing the en
gagement of her cousin; : Miss - Eliza
beth Hancock, whose marriage to Mr.
Rowland Shaw Pruette of Wadesboro
is to take place on November 17th,
1916, which will be the twenty-fifth
anniversary of her mother's wedding
day. Miss Royster presided with grace
and dignity at the table, which was
beautifully laid for fourteen guests.
3sTo suggestion of the nature of. the
occasion was manifested in the ap
pointments for the first four courses,
and before the ice course was serv
ed, this being in the shape of slippers
and bells, the announcement was
made in clever rhyme by Miss Roy
ster. This was followed by appro
priate wishes and toasts from all
present, whereupon the bride-to-be
very charmingly expresed her appre
ciation of these good wishes. 0
Miss Hancock is the accomplished
daughter of Mr .and Mrs. F. W.
Hancock of Oxford, and the grand
daughter of President and Mrs. F. P.
Hobgood of Oxford College. Her pop
ularity is by no means confined to
her home town, her winning person
ality having won hosts of friends foi
her throughout the state.
Mr. Pruette is a member of the
leading law firm of Wadesboro, and
kas already won for himself an en
viable reputation both as a man and
a, lawyer.
Those present on this interesting
occasion were: Misses Elizabeth Han
cock, Helen Royster, Mary Royall and
Ethel Hancock, Sallie Webb, Mary
Shaw, Lucy Landis, Sophronia Coop
er, Estelle White, and Mrs. Arthur
Landis, of Oxford; Miss Sarah Se
ward, Petersburg; Miss Louise Cur
rin, of Richmond; - Miss Sunshine
Hicks, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; and Mrs. R.
T- Upchurch, Henderson.
ATTENDANCE ON THE INCREASE
Gen. Royster Talks to Large Crowd
of Men.
Now that the backbone of Summer
S been brrlrn fho nttfmrinnf!fi at
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the Oxford Baptist Baraca class last
Sunday morning was largely attend
ed, it was a great pleasure to the
class to have General Royster present
after an absence of two Sundays.
His remarks on the International
Lesson are the greatest of character
builders. We don't remember to
have heard anything more impressive
!an his talk last Sunday on 'The
Duties of Life." The old and young
hien of the town cannot spend a more
Profitable hour than in the Baraca
5ass and now is the time to get the
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oxford, north:
Despise Not the
Day of Little Things
WHAT GRIT AND DETERMINA
TION WILL DO
A few days ago the Public Ledger
mentioned the fact that there is a
splendid opening in Oxford for some
enterprising man to make a nice pen
ny by collecting old rags and waste
paper, but it does appear that the
humble business of collecting rags
and waste paper, is regarded in Ox
ford as being the wdrk of some old
witch. Money accumulated by the
sale of rags and waste paper is quite
as clean as that of any other business
and no honorable man despises the
day of little things.
We are personally , acquainted with
a young farmer who rented an eight
acre farm a few years ago; He bor
rowed $600 from a local bank to buy
stock. He paid strict attention to
business. He was very industrious
which is the same thing as saying he
was thrifty. In six years he owned
$6,700 worth of stock and machinery
and made an $8,000 payment on a
$30,000 farm.
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A Connecticut newsboy did just as
well with a smaller start. It took him
six years to save $100. Remember, a
newsboy handles pennies, not dollars.
This money he invested in a lot on
the edge of the city. The war came
on, and his profits increased so that,
in a year or so, he was able to pay
off the mortage on his lot. A few
months ago he received an offer of
$20,000 for this lot, because it was
needed by a munition plant. ' Luck,
you say? Well, perhaps; but how
about the original $100 that he saved
penny by penny and the money that
he earned and saved with which to
pay off the mortgage?
It's often the little saving that de
velops into a good investment. Av ten-year-old
boy was given 10 cents in
"planting time two ; years ago. ;;-He
bought a package of cucumber seed
with it and raised a nice patch of
that vegetable for the local market
which brought him $6 in money.
With $5 of this money he purchased
a ewe lamb and cared for it. Last
spring the mother sheep had two lit
tle lambs, so now the boy has three
sheep for his investment. The mo
ther sheep is worth-$10 and the
lambs $5 each, making a total of $20
he has earned with his 10-cent in
vestment in a year and a half. Be
sides, he sold the wool of the mother
sheep for $2.45, with which he has
opened a bank account. Now this
bey has learned his lesson on thrift,
and he knows it's not luck, but that
money makes money when it's wise
ly expended.
Georgia, is bringing up a popula
tion of capitalists through its pig
clubs. The enrollment of members of
the pig clubs for this year has reach
ed more than 2,500. The first year
977 joined, the second year 1,468,
and this year 2,500. In order to be
eligible as a member of a pig club in
Georgia a boy must own a pure-bred
pig, and he must feed and care for it
in the manner. outlined in a course of
instructions. There are now seventy
two county pig clubs. Of twenty
counties that have been organized for
three years, sixteen are now produc
ing their own meat supply, and sev
eral are shipping their surplus to oth
er markets. Community curing
houses and icing plants have been es
tablished in various points and the
boys bank their pig money.
WILL OPEN STUDIO HERE
A Young Lady of - Rare Musical
Talent
It is a pleasure to note that Miss
Hutchings, the talented sister of Mrs.
W. G. Pace, will open a studio and
remain in Oxford. . She has made
many friends in Oxford during her
visit, the guest of her sister.
The office building of the late Col.
L. C. Edwards on College street is
being made ready for the reception
of her class on Monday, September
11th. i
Miss Hutchings is a pupil of the
celebrated William Nelson Burriett,
New York City,and she has an ex
perience of seven years as teacher of
voice in the large Southern cities.
She is noted in solo and concert work
and is a favorite in Birmingham and
New Orleans. Her coming to Oxford
lends prestige to the music talent of
the community.
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State library.'
TOBACCO BREAK
WAREHOUSE FLOORS COVERED
WITH GOLDEN LEAVES
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One Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Pounds Sold Head Men of the
Rig Companies Aie Here.
Tobacco began to roll in late Mon
day evening "and at the crack of day
on Tuesday morning great streams of
wagons were seen on every avenue
leading to Oxford, and still they
come. By ten o'clock, when the mer
ry voice of the auctioneer was heard
for the first time this season there
were no less than 150000 pounds
on the floors of the five warehouses.
Those in a position, to know where
of they speak tell us that the quality
of tobacco offered is of a better
grade, taken as a whole, than was
anticipated on opening date. The
sales had not actually begun at the
hour we go to press, ; but the five
hundred or more farmers present
wear a smile of expectancy. That
living prices will prevail there seems
to be no doubt.
CHEAP WATER RATE
Oxford Has the Lowest Rate of Any
City in the. State
We wish to call down the esteem
ed Asheville Times -on its published
statement about haying the cheapest
water rate in, the State. It says:
"Asheville with her almost natural
gravity system, continues to stand
first in the low rate column of the
State. Following the changing of
rates by the Queen City's board of
water commissioners, Charlotte after
September 1, will rank second.
"Asheville furnishes water con
sumers 7 ; 500 gallons:, at the rate of
- - --- .'tis-'
$1.50 and Charlotte under her new
rate will furnish 6,750 gallons of
water at the rate of $1.50. Charlotte
under her old rate is now furnishing
only 4,500 fallons for $1.50.
"Greensboro, Durham, New Bern
and Wilson each with a rate of 6,000
gallons for $1.50, rank next. Ashe
ville's city water department is said
to be one of the best paying city util
ities in the South."
Now, Oxford furnishes 9,000 gal
lons of filtered water for $1.50. The
water is supplied by an artesian well
five hundred feet deep and is abso
lutely pure. So we think that the
Asheville Times should publish to the
world that Oxford has not only the
best but the cheapest water rate in
the State.
THE LUCIOUS BIVALVE
Hon. D. G. Brummitt and The Legal
Aspect.
The fact that this is the month of
September and that Mr. Marion Tay
lor, the sanitary groceryman, will
orn have in stock the lucious - bi
Talves, brings to mind the old saying
that: "It is unseasonable and un
wholesome in all months that have
not an R in their name to eat an
oyster."
Of all the Oxfordtonians whom we
know, Representative D. G. Brum
mitt is the most particular when se
lecting a raw oyster. He judges an
oyster as he would a Rambrandt, and
his opinion of an oyster is as solid
as his opinion on a legal question,
which is 100 per cent sound.
OBJECT TO EMBARGO
Tobacco Planters Get Full Support of
Government
Full support of the government
was promised by Secretary Lansing
to 75 tobacco planters of Virginia,
Maryland, North Carolina, Kentucky
and Tennessee, who were in Wash
ington last week to protest against
Great Britain's action in renewing,
restrictions upon tobacco shipments
to neutral countries. A demand that
the restrictions be removed probably
will be sent by the State Department
shortly.
Lay in a Supply of Wood
The fact that he weather is some
what cooler than it was last week is
attributed to j.he f act-that Hughes
and Fairbanks are returning from
the Pacific slopes. They are expect
ed to create a blizzard in the South
ern States in the near future. Bet
ter get in a supply of wood and coal
before the gold dust twins arrive.
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6th, 1916
Let Us Go After
Meat Packing Plant
ARMOUR WILL LOCATE EITHER
IN OXFORD OR HENDERSON
Since the publication of Mr. C. D.
Ray's letter in our last issue regard
ing a meat packing plant for Oxford,
the Public Ledger learns through a
reliable traveling man, who visits
Oxford frequently, that Armour de
sires to open a meat packing plant in
this section, preferatly in Henderson
or Oxford.
Inasmuch as the old market house
is a dead weight on the town, we
suggest that the Town Board of Com
missioners and the Granville Com
mercial Club, jointly, take up the
proposition with the Armour people.
A meat packing plant located in
Oxford would be an nicentive to turn
Granville and the surrounding coun
ties into cattle producing counties.
OFFICERS TAKE VACATION
Pitch Tent in Northwest Granville
and Shoot Squirrels
Sheriff Hobgood, Deputy Connie Wal
ters, Chief Sam Wheeler and Special
Officer Hutchins, left Oxford last
week with a camping outfit and pitch
ed tent in the northwestern part of
the county near the Person 'County
line.
The purpose of the expedition was
to slay squirrels and live for a couple
of days close to nature.
They pitched their tent in a hickory-nut
grove near a cool spring of
water and slept on beds of straw cov
ered with, quilts.
On the morning of the first day,
bright and early.the squirrels in large
numbers appeared in the trees about
the camp and the hunters soon bag
ged a sufficient number for a Bruns
wick stew,, but on the second day it
was necessary to make an excursion
into the woods to find the squirrels.
Their principal diet , for two days
was stewed squirrel. The other sup
plies they carried with them.
MISS LONG'S REPORT
She Was the Distmguished Guest of
Miss Lyon
Miss Lola Long, president of the
State Philathea Union, who was the
guest of Miss Hettie Lyon recently,
while making a tour of the State, in
serts an interesting letter in the
Philathea Herald, from which we
take the following paragraph:
"If any Philathea is ever discour
aged and inclined to lessen her efforts
let her spend six weeks, as I have
spent the last six, and be convinced
that a new day has dawned for Phil
atheas in Dixie. Even though it was
the warm vacation season; the attend
ance was splendid in every class,
while the business meetings I had the
pleasure of attending were conducted
in the most approved manner. It
was my great pleasure while visiting
Miss Hettie Lyon at her lovely home
in Oxford, to visit her well known
class in their beautiful room in the
splendid Lyon Memorial Hall. This
class has been honored in having a
picture and description of their room
appear in the Ladies Home Journal
for September."
A MODEST REQUEST
Promises To Be More Careful in the
Future
After enumerating his troubles to
the Public Ledger, a subscriber
makes the following request:
"I guess you heard that they pulled
me. I forgot myself and wouldn't
have had it to happen for the world.
It don't make so muci difference a
bout myself, but just for the sake of
my wife and children and other
people I wanted to ask if you would
do me a little personal favor of leav
ing it out. You know that I have
always been a steady subscriber and
I just thought. that maybe you could
leave this out this time. It won't
ever happen again, you can just bet
on that, and this is the only time I'll
ask you."
Will Don Uniform
Master Junius Cooper, the fine Ht
tle son of Col. and Mrs. Henry G.
Cooper, and for more than two years
the very able messenger of the Bank
of Granville, will enter Horner's Mili
tary school at Charlotte this month
and don the cadet iniform. A finer
boy never breathed and here's bank
ing on him wherever he goes. " A
very fine boy, Henry Shaw, Jr., re
lieves Junius at the National Bank
of Granville. '
NUMBER 71
THE SHERIFFS REPORT
THE COLLECTIONS FOR 1915 TO
TAL $115,169,16
The Amount of Taxes Remaining Un
collected From Insolvents, Deaths
. . and Removed is Only Four-Fifths
of "One1 Percent.
Sheriff Hobgood turned over to the
County Commissioners Monday his
annual settlement of taxes collected
in Granville county' for the year
1915. His report, which was made in
detail, accounts for every cent hand
led, the total collection being $115,
169.116. This is an increase of $10,
000 over the previous year.
The insolvencies are only four-
fifths of one percent. This is the
closest collection ever made in Gran
ville county since the dog was taxed,
and we believe it is the closest in the
State. It is a remarkably record
considering the fact that the books
were turned over to Sheriff Hobgood
forty-six days late, on account of the
3J3 per cent having to be added on
real estate. It speaks well for
Sheriff Hobgood and the lawabiding
citizenship of the county.
On the insolvent list appears the
name of one man who gave in a sub
stantial tax assesment and left the
county, the same being uncollectable.
If it had not been for this one item
the insolvencies would have been con
siderably less than four-fifths of one
per cent on a total collection of
$115,169.16.
SCHOOL OPENED MONDAY "
Superintendent Phillips is the Right
Man in the Right Place -
A large number of parents were on
hand at the Oxford Graded School
Building early Monday morning to
see their children started off in the
right direction. The session was
opened with prayer and appropriate
remarks by f5r. Willis, Gen. B. S.
Royster and Dr. Hays. Dr. Hays' re-,
marks wepe confined to one word ut
tered several times "toothbrush,
toothbrush, toothbrush."
It Is the consensus of opinion that
Superintendent Phillips is the right
man in the right place. He asks the
parents to co-operate with him in
bringing about the desired results.
The enrollment this year is larger
than it has ever been.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEET
No Business of Great Importance En
. gaged Their Attention.
Only matters of a routine nature
came before the County Commission
ers in their regular monthly meeting
Monday Bills that were contracted
during the month of August were or
dered paid. The minutes of the meet
ing will appear in the next issue of
the Public Ledger.
CHAUTAUQUA COMING
Orpheum Theatre Three Days in
September
Harris & Crews, managers of the
Orpheum Theatre, have booked a
magnificent Chautauqua for Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday 26, 27
and 28th of September. The pro
gram as rendered by high class
artists, is elaborate.
QUOTES FIGURES
See What Samuel Davis Has to Say
in This Paper
You will find scattered throughout
this paper several notices of the big
hardware establishment of Samuel
Davisthe man who pays the freight.
Mowers, roofing, ranges, gasoline and
oil engines are only a few of the
articles he quotes at close figures.
Oxford College
Oxford College has opened and the
students fromall over the State be
gan to arrive Tuesday. It is a great
pleasure to see the pleasant faces of
many who were here last session but
new faces predominate to some ex
tent. Arranging Program
Preparations are underway at the
Oxford Baptist church to observe
State-Wide Go-to-Sunday School
Day;'.' which is set for the fourth
Sunday in September.
Public School Examination
There will be an examination for
colored teachers on the 13th day of
September. J. F. WEBB, Supt.
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Mr. J. A. Dean of Moriah, was in
Oxford Saturday. ''
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