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OXFORD TH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1916
NUMBER 78
GRAND PARADE
Aiii MARSH- RAY ELECTED CHIEF
iHSHAL OF THE GRAX-
" YILLE COUNTY FAIR
The Chief Marshal Names Paul C.
Venable, Ben AV. Parham and Dr.
W N. Thomas as His Aids.
At a meeting of the advisory board
of the Granville County Fair Associa
tica Thursday, Mr. Marsh Ray was
unanimously chosen marshal of the
Ray selects for his aids Messrs.
Paul C. Venable, Ben W. Parham and
Dr. W. N. Thomas. He authorizes
ti e Public Ledger to state that he
will name the marshals as soon as he
can cast his eye over the county and
determine the best material in each
community. This list will probably
printed in the Public .Ledger next
Vednesday.
It is the desire of the new Chief
Marshal that all of the business
houses of Oxford prepare floats for
the parade. In order to stimulate
this feature, he will offer a prize of
no. oo fr tne Dest float-
S Mr. Ray, the newly elected chief
marshal, is well known to the peo
ple of the county. He is associated
in business with his father, Mr. C. D.
Ray. He has the executive ability
and is abundantly qualified to dis
charge the duties of the high calling.
It will be his aim to make the parade
the grandest event of its kind in the
county.
While the Chief Marshal has not
a vet mapped out his entire plans,
it is understood that the Marshal's
ball will be a feature of the Fair this
rear, as in former years.
STAND BY THE SCHOOLS
The Teachers Are The Bulwark of
the State.
We learn from Prof. J. F. Webb,
our very able superintendent of
schools, that the outlook for the
schools of the county is very encour
aging this session.
Doubtless each of the schools of
the county have the very best faculty
that it is possible to obtain. The
beards of trustees "have done all they
could to start off right. But the best
of faculties and the most progressive
of boards cannot alone make a good
school. They must have the co-operation
of parents and patrons. With
out the hearty, active, sympathetic
co-operation the best work cannot be
be done.
Parents and patrons should know
the men and women to whom they
sre entrusting their children during
the young and plastic age. In place
of criticizine: the tearhers and finding
fault and creating dissension, they
should let them know that they are
;nterotpd in th'r work and should
"be willing to help them with their
"'iirothv nd r-oeration. The
teacher often needs the hearty co
operation of the parent in knowing
how o tporh the child and bring out
the best there is in him. Education
is a drawins: out process and to de
velop and draw out the latent powers
of the child a word from the parent
sometimes is able to onen uo the way
?o that the work may be more easily
and satisfactorily done. The teacher
needs the helD and sympathy of the
parent thronsrh the term, beginning
with the first da?.
SPEAKING AND PICNIC
General Royster and D. G. Brummitt
on the Program.
A very pleasant event is being
Planned for Saturday, October 14th,
at Caltolina Farms.
On above date the Junior Order
of Person and Granville counties will
Present the - school with Bible and
flag in their usual impressive man
ner. These ceremonies will be worth
ycur trip. Addresses will be made by
rn. B. S. Rovster, Supt. J. F. Webb,
Supt. J. A. Beam, Hon. D. G. Brum
mitt. Hon. Garland Winstead, Dr. J.
A. Morris, P. W. Knott and others.
They will discuss subjects vitally im
portant to everybody and you should
hear them. Dinner will be served on
Picnic grounds at 1 o'clock .sharp.
We want to see the people from
"Cth Granville and Person counties
Jjeet on this occasion and en.ioy
themselves, everybody invited. We
extend a special invitation to all
county and town officers in Granville
ad Person counties.
Superintendent J. A. Beam, of
Person county, will preside over the
neetinfig, and Mr. L. B. McFarland
ul deliver the address of welcome.
THE COUNTY CANVASS
Candidates and SneUbinders WiU
Shell the Woods,
politics will besin to warm up in
4 Granville after next week and
rine: October Democratic and Re
ican candidates and spellbinders
In 'shell the woods." Everybody
b given an opportunity to hear
onuses of who will save the coun-
Beware of the
Old Cider Barrel
IT CONTAINS ALCOHOL AND IS
PRODUCTIVE OF MUCH EVIL
It comes to our ears that much
hard cider is being consumed in some
places in Granville, but the . evil
thereof did not impress us until we
read the following paragraph in the
Smithfield Herald:
"In some neighborhoods the cider
barrel is found at the cross roads and
the country store and at many homes
From it is sold drunk-making drinks
to children and drunkards and to all
who will buy them day or night and
in many instances on Sunday. It is a
sad sight to see men and boys stay
ing around and going to and from
a cider barrel any day, but it seems
much worse on the Lord's Day. The
man who sells cider seems indifferent
to the effect his goods have on the
public. Recently a church member
of age and standing brought a jug of
cider to the husband of his niece
when he knew that the young man
had an appetite for strong drink and
was almost sure to get drunk on the
ciden brought him. The curse men
tioned in the Bible as coming to the
man who puts the bottle to his neigh
bor's mouth seemed to have no in
fluence on him. It did not deter him
from selling the cider. When we
have no fruit for man or beast we
say "what a pity," but when we have
a good crop of it and so many lie
around the cider barrel we see the
other side of the case."
THIRD REGIMENT OFF
Granville
Grays to the Mexican
Border
The North Carolina National
Guard have departed from Camp
Glenn for the Mexican border. The
First Regiment left last Monday, the
Second left Tuesday and the Third,
of which the Granville Grays are a
unit, left Wednesday. The North
Carolina Guard will be quartered at
El Paso, Texas!
Washington, Sept. 28. National
guard organizations from Virginia,
Alabama, Georgia, Florida, New
Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New Jer
sey, District of Columbia, New York,
Connecticut, Michigan, Minnesota,
Colorado and California were order
ed to the Mexican border today by the
War Department.
Instructions were sent to General
Funston ordering him to select 10,
00 6 National Guard infantry now on
duty there and return them to the
State mobilization camps.
Six thousand National Guardsmen
are included in the call.
Today's order will send South vir
tually all of the Guardsmen now in
the mobilization camps of the States
named, and will leave only about
10,000 troops in all the country that
have not seen service on the border.
Within a short time the remainder
probably willbe ordered out, releas
ing more of the organizations now
under General Funston's command.
The gradual return and mustering
out of all National Guardsmen is ex
pected to begin after that.
AN INCURABLE
Cleveland Mitchell, Coloured, Lan
guishes in County Jail
Last week Cleveland Mitchell and
his wife, Rebecca, both colored, were
arrested and sent to jail on the
charge of theft. Rebecca later gave
hnnd and -as released, but Cleveland
failed to give bond and he languishes
in the county jail with one foot on
the brink of the grave.
Dr. B. K. Hays, town and county
health officer, has visited the colored,
man in his cell, and after a critical
examination found that the prisoner
is in the grip of death the terrible
white plague there not remaniing a
sufficient vital force to fight the
dreadful disease.
It being extremely dangerous to
the other inmates of the jail, and the
fact that the poor man should be with
his relatives, Cleveland Mitchell, the
incurable was released on his own re
cognizance. """
A NOVELTY
Mr. Willie Lee Currin Establishes a
Precedent
On Thursday last Mr. Willie Lee
Currin of Providence, came sailing
into Oxford on a fordcar loaded with
tobacco.Merely to tease the warhouse
men he made out as if he was go-in-
to a distant market, but knowing
a good thing when he sees it, he lit
it the Minor Warehouse. The tobac
co belonged to Mr. W. G. Averett and
br-oueht the following prices: 15 3-4.
26 1-2, 28, 33 1-2, 32 1-2 25, 20,
17 1-2 total forfoad, $155.7t.
Mr. Nelson's Condition Serious
News reaches Oxford this Friday
morning that Mr. Matt Nelson who
S confined in a Richmond hospital, is
in a critical condition.
THE CITY BONDS
TOWN BOARD WILL RECEIVE
SEALED BIDS OCTOBER 5.
Actual Valuation of Taxable Property
Estimated to Be Four Million
Dollars.
The Board of Commissioners of
Oxford, will on Thursday, October 5,
at 8 o'clock p. m., at the office of the
Mayor, receive sealed bids for not less
than $170,000.00 nor more than
$180,000.00, of street improvement
bonds, to be dated November 1, 1916,
bearing interest at the rate of five
per cent, per annum, payable semi
annually, both principal and inter
est to be payable in New York. Ap
proximately $ 7 5 , 0 0 0 . 0 0 , of the issue
to be due in ten equal annual install
ments, and approximately $100,000
of the issue to be due in thirty years.
All of said bonds are general obliga
tions of the Town, and an unlimited
tax upon all the taxable property in
the -town is provided by law for the
paymRVthereof. Bidders will be re
quired to file with the treasurer of
the Board of Commissioners of Ox
ford certified check for $2,500.00,
payable to said treasurer.
Financial Statement of Oxford
Assessed valuation tax
able property (1915) . .$2,097,867.00
Actual valuation tax
able property, (est.) . . 4,000,000.00
Total bonded debt (not
including this issue) . . 90,000.00
Floating debt : . . 8,000.00
Population (1910) . 3,018
Present population (est.) .... .4,000
SCHOOL BULLETIN
Published in the "interest of the
Granville County Schools
Prof. J. F. Webb, superintendent
of the Granville County Schools, and
Miss Mary G. Shotwell, Rural Super
visor of Schools, have issued a neat
eight-page folio in the interest of the
Granville County Schools. "School
Bulletin" is the title of the publica
tion. It will make its appearance
once or twice a year and will be dis
tributed free to the schools' through
out the county.
Prof. L. C. Brogden, State Super
visor of Rural Schools, contributes a
lengthy article entitled "A Larger
Type of Rural School the need of
Granville County." Besides an array
of facts and figures bearing upon the
schols of the county, there is a hand
some picture of the . new Grissom
schools of the county ,there is a hand
Domestic Science Class at Stovall,
Oxford Canning Club and the Provi
denc School.
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FINE CLASS OF CHILDREN
4
Miss Mae White and Her Primary
Grade.
We passed the Oxford Graded
School the other morning just at the
hour when Miss May White let out
her class for the morning recess. It
was an inspiration to see the little
people at play. There must have been
more than a half hundred of them
and every one of them was as neat
as a pin and as happy as a lark. It
was indeed a lovely scene. . Miss
White stood close 6y and the children
seemed to regard her as their lovely
queen, and she, too, was as happy as
they.
The public, and especially the par
ents, can never reward such noble
service to the full! But it is within
the power of the public and the par
ents to make the work of the teacher
still more delightful to them.
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OLD LADIES' HOME
Capt. W. H. White Returns From
Fayetteville
We are pleased to learn from
Capt. W. H. White, of the director
ate of the Home for the Widows of
Soldiers at Fayetteville, that the in
stitution is in fine shape. There are
twenty old ladiei? in the home, says
Capt. White, and' they are contented
and happy. He related an instance
where an old lady with a withered
hand came to the home and handed
over $600.00 and asked to be admit
ted. There are two Fayetteville la
dies on the advisory board, says
Capt. White, and they take much in
terest in the home and the dear old
ladies. '
Evangelistic Meetings
Because pastor Rev. C. Almon Up
church is engaged in a special evan
gelistic meeting at Mt. Zion Baptist
Church at Berea there will be no ser
vices at Stovall Baptist church next
Saturday and Sunday morning.
Special evangelistic meetings will
begin at the Stovall church Sunday
afternoon at 3:30 and will be carried
on through the week. The Church
conference will be held the Second
Saturday afternoon.
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Will Teach in Washington
Miss Grace Jeane Sails left this
week for Roanoke, Va., to visit a
friend. Mrs. ,R. H. Willis. From
there Miss Sails goes to Washington,
D. C, to teach expression and dra
xnatic art in the Bristol School, a fin
ishing school for girls.
Cheap Meats in
Granville County
THE AVERAGE COST PER HUN
DRED POUNDS SET FORTH
In view of the fact that the lead
ing business men and farmers of
Granville are investigating the possi
bilities of establishing a meat pack
ing plant in Oxford, it is pleasing to
note that the Fedral Department of
Agriculture has been investigating
the cost of beef production in the
South, from which report it will be
seen that the final results are in our
favor, as follows:
Interesting Figures
"The average cost per hundred
pounds of raising a calf to weaning
time was $9.10 in the corn belt and
$7.22 in Pennsylvania, as compared
with $3.53 in North Alabama and
$3i. 5 7 in West Alabama.
"The average cost per hundred
pounds or raising a calf to 12 to 15
months old was $11.79 in the corn
belt and $7.24 in Pennsylvania, as
compared with $4.41 in North Ala
bama and $4.69 in West Alabama.
The figures for the corn belt, Penn
sylvania and North Alabama are bas
ed on raising a calf to the age of 12
months and those of West Alabama
to the age of 15 months.
Great Opportunities
"While the investigations of the
department in the South were carried
on in localities in North Alabama
and West Alabama, conditions in oth
er parts of the South, including the
States of Mississippi, the whole of
Alabama, Georgia, Northern Florida,
South Carolina, and parts of Tennes
see and North Carolina are so similar
that the results that were obtained
in the Alabama experiments are indi
cative of what may be done in the
entire territory and demonstrate the
great advantages of the South for the
production of beef cattle.
"The figures compiled by Mr. Ward
do not cover profits, but it is obvious
that the profits are substantially
larger in the South. As pointed out
by President Harrison, even if the
animals should be sold at cost of pro
duction on the basis of Mr. Ward's
figures, the farmer would have re
turned to him- every- passible expen
diture of money, pay for his labor,
and 6 per cent interest on his invest
ment and his lands would be improv
ed by the manure obtained from his
herd."
GOOD ROADS MEET
Henderson Will Link Up With The
National Highway.
At the invitation of the Henderson
Board of Trade, Mr. D. H. Winslow,
of Washington, D. C, Federal good
roads engineer of the United States
Department of Agriculture, addressed
that body Wednesday night, explain
ing how Vance county may secure its
share of the recent Federal appro
priation of x $75,000,000 for good
roads, and there was a general dis
cussion of the proposed improvement
of the highway between Henderson
and Bullocks, in Granville county, to
connect with the National Highway.
JHRYSANTHE3IUM SHOW
Important Meeting to Be Held Wed
nesday. There will be an important meet
ing of the Woman's Club at 3:30
Wednesday afternoon, October 4th,
at the Commercial Club. The sub
ject of interest will be the Chrysan
themum show. . The managers this
year are Mrs. J. C. Robards and Mrs.
N. H. Cannady.
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GONE TO NEW YORK
Miss Sallie Webb Will Take Special
Course
Miss Sallie Webb, the fine daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. John Webb, leav
es for New York City this week to
enter the Training School for Kin
dergarten and Primary Teachers in
affiliation with New York Univeristy.
Miss Webb looks forward to her
stay in New York with much pleas
ure, especially in joining her sister,
Miss Fannie, who is engaged in ap
plied art.
: "
Attention Teachers
Realizing the great need of help
of an inexperienced teacher in the
primary grades, I have arranged to
give two hours on Saturday, October
7th, to assist them in the teaching
of phonics. All teachers are expect
ed to use this method based on bul
letin, "How to Teach Reading." The
discussion begins at 11 o'clock in the
Graded School building. Teachers
are not compelled to attend but I feel
sure those who do not fully under
stand phonics will avail themselves of
this opportunity. It is the etacher
who is willing to study and learn
who gets results.
MARY G. SHOTWELL.
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Cover Wide Territory
Tobacco growers from six counties
sold tobacco on the Johnson Ware
house floor Thursday and everyone of
them were pleased.
FAIR EXHIBITS
FULL DISPLAYS OF AGRICULTUR
AL PRODUCTS AND LIVE
STOCK ESSENTIAL
Getting Ready For The Big Three
Day's Event, Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday, October 25, 26
and 27th.
Just twenty-five days remain be
fore the opening of Granville County
Fair. A great amount of work re
mains to be done, and the officers of
the association are putting in hours
daily planning and soliciting exhibits.
The fair is intended to be the best
ever held in the county. ,
This appeal is made to farmers,
who comprise the bulk of the popula
tion to which the big event caters, to
furnish exhibits. Choicest specimens
of tobacco, grain, fruits and garden
truck; finest hogs, cattel, sheep hor
ses and mules are wanted to make
the agricultural and livestock dis
plays what they should be. They
were surprisingly fine last year, but
it is intended to make this year's
fair about three times as big as that
one.
The chances are that a number of
people from outside the county.will
attend the local fair this year," its
fame having spread abroad in pre
vious years. These folks will want
to see what this section offers, and
nothing should be concealed from
them. A little trouble, timidity, or
anything else with a tendency to
hamper progress ehould not be allow
ed to keep the planters from coming
up with their exhibits.
THE CHAUTAUQUA A SUCCESS
Patrons of the Orpheum Theatre
Highly Pleased.
The universal verdict is that the
Radcliff Chautauqua which closed a
three days' engagement at the Or
pheum Theatre Thursday evening
was the best traveling organization,
taken as a whole, ever heard in Ox
ford. The theatre was literally pack
ed at each of the , performances and
every number on the program elicit
ed loud applause. It would seem
that in the company which visited
Oxford the. Radcliff -Bureau had se
lected the best talent obtainable.
While each number on the program
was highly entertaining, it would
seem that the Gamble Concert Party
was the most pleasing to the
audience.
Dr. Nation, manager of the troupe,
eulogized Oxford in glowing terms.
He spoke of our fine streets, the ele
erant homes, churches and schools. He
had traveled through many States,
he said, and he had never seen a pret
tier town than Oxford or faced, a
more refined audience. They go a
way, he said, with a warm place in
their hearts for Oxford.
The citizens generally are loud in
their praise of Messrs. Harris &
Crews, managers of the Orpheum, for
bringing the Chautauqua to Oxford.
MR. CORTEZ WRIGHT IN OXFORD
Will Remain Here Until After the
November Election
Mr. Cortez Wright, a member of
Senator Simmon's clerical force, ar
rived in Oxford this week from New
born, where he spent a few days with
the Senator following the adjourn
ment of Congress. No less a person
than Col. Osborn, Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, says that there is
no better informed man in Washing
ton' on the political situation of the
entire country than is Mr. Wright.
Other noted men in the Natidnal Cap
itol state that the political acumen of
Mr. Wright is something remarkable.
"Mr. Wilson will have a substantial
majority at the November election,"
says Mr. Wright.
Federal Aid for Roads
Some two weeks ago an important
meeting was held in the Granville
Commercial rooms with a view of de
vising ways and means of securing
for Granville the proportional part of
the $75,000,000,.of the Federal aid
road fund. A committee was ap
pointed to look after this very im
portant matter and report as soon as
possible. If our memory serves us
right, Dr. E. T. White is chairman of
the committee. Other counties in
the State have acted, and in view of
the fact that there is a limit to all
things it is about time that Granville
puts in her claim or abide a delay of
three years.
Fire At Franklinton
Fire of unknown origin at Frank
linton early Wednesday morning
completely destroyed the store of Ben
Ballard on the main street, with a
total loss toUhe stock of dry goods
and farm implements on hand. The
burned structure was of brick, and is
understood to be one story. Practical
ly nothing was saved from the con
tents of the building. At one time,
bef ere the flames had been brought
under control, it was thought that
other buildings would be burned, hjit
the hard work of the energetic buck
et brigade prevented the fire from
spreading.