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OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13,1916
NUMBER 99
THE SPIRIT OF OUR UNIVERSITY
"AN
INTIMATE VIEW OF PRESI
DENT EDWARD KIDDER
GRAHAM
Honor and Integrity Predominates
the Student Body Oxford Boys
V11 Organized and Equipped.
On our visit to the State Newspa
per Institute held at the University of
North Carolina last week, it was our
pleasure for the first time to grasp
the hand and get an intimate view
of President Edward Kidder Graham,
the great educator.
Of all the great men that have pre
sided at the head of the great seat
of learning we dare say none ever
towered above the present head. He
impressed us as being as firm as a
coner-stone and as gentle as a child.
Ye doubt that there exists anywhere
a student body with a higher regard
for its soverign head.
A view of president Graham's face
on the campus, in the halls, or where
ever seen, is an inspiration to every
young man to put forth the best
energy that is in him. It is the most
democratic seat of learning in the en
tire Union; young men are placed up
on their honor, and honor and integ
rity is high. Even the shadows of
the great buildings, the pale moon
that flits across the heavens and the
thousands of lights that sparkle by
night from the great domortories and
liall speaks of a mighty force that is
impelling and out of it will come
our greatest men. now are you
getting along," we enquired of a
young friend, and with a twinkle in
the eye he replied: "l am here by the
grac? of God and I am holding on
villi tooth and toe-nail."
The Personal Touch
We were highly pleased to hear
President Graham pronounce the
name of each student from Oxford as
readily as if they ,had been members
of his own family, thus: Elliott Coop
er, Beverly Royster, Basil Horsfield,
J. K. Bryan, C. B. Taylor, Edward
Ballou, Rowland Gooch and Tom
Pace. After complimenting the Ox
ford contingent as a whole, President
Graham in referring to two of the
yorag men, used an original" phrase
that we never before heard applied
v.-ith equal force. He said that "they
are highly organized and well equip
ped." A Thoughtful Young Man
By previous arrangement, the local
committee assigned the members of
the press to various homes, the editor
of the Public Ledger being quarterd
at the hotel. Immediately after reg
istering, we passed across the campus
and met our young friend, Mr. Elliott
Cooper just as the shade of evening
began to gather. He was barehead
ed, as all good students are, and un
der his arm were a half dozen text
books. He greeted us most cordial
ly and did a thing that we greatly ap
preciated and will long remember.
Come with me," he said, "and be my
guest; I have a soft pillow for you
and I will be pleased to make you
comfortable."
University Properties
Those who have not seen the' Uni
versity plant in recent years would be
surprised to see the handsome groups
of buildings. The value of our Uni
versity property as reported by the
Federal Education Bureau, is placed
at $1,154,025. This total covers all
grounds and buildings, library, ap
paratus, machinery, and furniture. It
bas taken the state nearly a century
and a quarter to create this value in
university properties. As a matter
f fact what the State itself has in
yested in her University plant so far
Js all told less than $425,000; the
"diance. somp $70 0 000 rpnrpspnts
THE LOCAL, POSTOFFICE
Interesting Information Given And
Suggestion Made
Assistant Postmaster Critcher be
mg interviewed states that as the hol
iday season is now on he urges upon
tomi f1 the xford Postofflce
IZ X ii packaSes early, and advis
es that all parcels of any valued in
sured. "I urge upon all patrons of this of
fice now receiving their mail hv oitv
carriers to have immediately recepta
cles placed at their front doors or
some convenient place so that our
carriers will not be detained in deliv
ering mails. This will heln tbi of
fice greatly and give us far better
service," said Mr. Critcher.
Continuing, Mr. Critcher said
"The Post Office Department invites
your attention to the benefits to be
derived from the use of private re
ceptacles. Such receptacles, in the
form of a box or a slot in the door
obviate the necessity of patrons re
sponding to the carrier's call at in
convenient moments, permit the safe
delivery of mail at all times, and con
tribute materially to the efficiency of
the service. When not compelled to
await a response to his ring, the car
rier is enabled to cover his route
more expeditiously and make prompt
er deliveries, especially to those re
siding near the end of his route. With
a safe place in which to deposit the
mail at all times the earrier is en
abled to reduce to a minimum the a
mount of mail returned to the office
because of the temporary absence of
patrons to get prompt response to his
ring."
In view of the prosperous condi
tion of the country, Mr. Critcher real
izes that it will tax the force of the
Oxford office to handle the business
this Christmas. He is looking care
fully into every detail and systema
tizing the work with a view of hand
ling it to the best advantage.
SHOP WINDOWS GAILY DRESSED
REAL, SANTA CLAUS AVILL SOON
BE SEEN IN SEVERAL
STORES.
And Both Kiddies and Fond Parents
Will Have the Pleasure of Buying
From a Real Old Saint Nicholas
Heavy Sales Expected by Local
Business Men and Holiday Orders
Have Been Unusually Large Dur
ing: the Season.
A COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS TREE
Several windows of the large bus
iness houses throught the city are
gaily attired in the brilliant and
gaudy dress heralding the approach
of the joyous Christmas-tide, and
from the present indications, it will
For the Night of Saturday, December
the 23rd.
(DR. F. H. T. HORSFIELD)
Rector of St. Stephen's Parish
At.the request of and working in
conjunction with the Woman's Club,
a representative committee has been
appointed by the Sunday Schools of
Oxford to arrange a Community
Christmas Tree for the night of Sat
urday, December twenty-third. Fur
ther details will be published later.
The idea of this Community Tree
is to give open and public expression
to the true Christmas thought; to
make it full of its own native beau
ty and attractiveness, rather than
with the usual noise.
The story of the Christ Child is
not be many more days before many love for 11S w1s hill1reT1. tv tpnripr.
HOME FROM CHINA
Ab-
Mr. Bullock Returns After an
sence of Four Years
Mr. S. F. Bullock, who for the past
four years has been stationed at
Shanghai, China, representing the
British-American Tobacco Company,
and wife are visiting relatives in
Granville county. They reached
Creedmoor Monday. Leaving Shang
hai on November 4, Mr. Bullock has
been traveling toward North Carolina
for the past month. He arrived at
San Francisco a little more than a
week ago and lft immediately for
Creedmoor, making the entire trip di
rectly across the continent. Mr. Bul
lock left for Shanghai in 1912 and
has been located at that place since
that time.
of the other large establishments will
join the rank, and let their windows
speak in glowing and thrilling accent
of the many pleasures that will soon
be on hand, and happy occasions to
transpire with pictures of old Kriss
Krinkle coming up some ice-covered
hill just as fact as his little reindeers
can carry him.
Many of the local firms have made
unusually large orders for this year,
and it is expected that the sales of
seasonable requisites will nearly
double those of the .peast year. The
principal toy stores are also antici
pating great sales, and shipments of
many different novelties have already
oeen received, though the usual ex
tensive advertising has not yet been
distributed. Some of the merchants
it is stated, will have old Kriss Krin
kle himself in their stores through
out the holiday rush, and it is
thought that with this feature the
kiddies and the grown-ups too, will
spend a little, longer time lingering
around the toy counters presided
over by old Saint Nick.
It is not known at juts what date
the many special features for the
coming joyous days wilUbe presented
to public gaze, but it is an assured
fact that greater efforts than ever be
fore will this year be inaugurated by
the local business meni in making
both the sales and pleasure of the oc
casion surpass even the fondest ex
pectations of the kiddies, and - fond
.parents. Jgy w -
r Kriss. Krinkle in aUJBlsoxywlll
participate in the salefc at some of the
stores, but announcements have not
yet been made as to what stores his
Royal Majesty will be. Of coures,
however, his stay will be a very short
one as his trips to other parts of the
world will take a great length of time
naturally, he 'will want to spend the
end of the holidays with Mrs. Santa
Clause.
est expression of the Divine solici
tude. Thus it seems a fitting priv
ilege that, as a Community, we
should give a public welcome to the
simple representation of the storied
past, bright with "the true Light,
which lighteth every man that
cometh into the world."
The world today is so hard, with
Bethlehem's plain, and many another
hill and plain, wet with sorrow's
tears, that it may be a relief for us to
come together in our common Faith,
in the spirit of Christian gracious
ness, and brotherly kindness, and
with some of the innocence, maybe,
of the Holy Child Himself. Among
the conventionalities of the life that
now is, it may be well for us to open
our hearts to a freshened thought of
the simplicity of the Holy One com
ing into human life. It may even be
a benediction to picture the heavenly
Star guiding us Gentiles to the young
Child; to see the wondering shep
herds with their sheep, and to gather
around the symbolic Tree- as simple
little children, caroling our joy for
God's inestimable gift. The idea
seems good enough to show a Bless
ing for our Community.
CHURCH MUSIC
DOWN ON
THE BORDER
vv 1 1 r n In TV n 1
and other friends, and the increase
ln values due to passing years. The
0utlay of the State in University pro
perties has averaged less than three
Thousand five hundred dollars a year
J?nng the 122 years of University
history.
North Carolina Officers Plan to Have
' Club
A special from El Paso states that
officers of the North Carolina brigade
are planning to organize a North
Carolina club. If the plans go through
says the report, a fine stone club
house will be built fifty by twenty
four feet in dimensions. Blue prints
for it have been prepared by the
North Carolina engineers. The build
ing will stand midway between the
First and Third regiments and will
have a reading room, card tables,
stage for amateur theatricals and
dancing floors. The issuing of lum
ber for winter quarters, long delayed,
will be started tomorrow. This
would seem to indicate that some de
finite plan has been dcided upon at
least and that we are to remain here
for some time.
THE METHODIST APPOINTMENTS
DR. WILLIS RETURNS HERE AND
REV. C. A. JONES GOES TO
NEW BERNE
GUILTY OF MURDER
THE METHODIST ORPHANAGE
Sum
Xeedeil Institution frvr NVw
Equipment
The annual report of the trustees
1 the Methodist Orphanage, located
VnilaleiRh' was submitted to the
jorth Carolina Conference of the
thodist Episcopal Church, South,
session at Durham Saturday. The
Port showed there are at present
JJ children in the orphanage. Fifty
th6 be received soon. During
Past year $27,000 was contribut
a,i w.the suPPort of the Orphanage in
uait!0n to the assessment
eceiveq from the conference. The
ton J e(:s. asked for $1,400 to be ex
year.
equipment the coming
Mrs. Sail's Mother Dead
new i Alfred Sails received the sad
hel 1 Saturday of the death of
pi .ther, Mrs. C. E. Everest, in
Sail, burgh N- Y. Miss Helen H.
on q ?rnved here from Rocky Mount
Saturday afternoon.
TTnir whinned out a pistol and shot
Lew 'Seeker, the manager of the Car
nival Company, to the ground. The
landed in the Granville
county jail and Seeker was sent to
Watt's hospital, Durham, for treat
ment. ,. ,
On Friday last Seeker died of the
wounds that failed to heal. His re
mains were shipped to his home in
Lebanon, Ohio. The negro is in jail.
He is charged with using reprehensi
ble language in the presence of Mrs
Seeker and when Mr Seeker spoke
to him he shot him to the ground. It
is understood that Mrs. Seeker will
testify at the February term of Court.
Will Award Medal
The Shakespeare Club, gratified at
the success of the Shakespearean de
clamation contest instltuhbLhooT
last vear in the Oxford High School,
havecided to offer prizes in a sim
ilar contest this session. As before,
the contest will be held in the school
auditorium, and will be .open .to mem
bers of the Seventh, Eighth, Nintn,
and Tenth Grades. It will be held Un
February, the exact date to be an
nounced later.
Our Good Friend Dr. Tyer Goes to
Littleton, and L. H. Joynea Goes
to Fayetteville.
In the appointments read at the
closing sesison of the North Carolina
Conference in Durham Monday we
glean the following:
Raleigh District
Presiding Elder, J. E. Underwood.
Benscn Circuit, J. T. Stanford;
Cary Circuit, B. R. Robinson; Clay
ton, T. A. Sikes; Four Oaks Circuit,
T. E. Davis; Franklinton Circuit, J.
H. Buff aloe; Garner Circuit, E. B.
Craven; Granville Circuit, B. H.
Black, Johnston Circuit, J. G. John
son; Kenley Circuit, C. P. Jerome;
Louisburg, N. H. D. Wilson; Mil
brook Circuit, L. E. Sawyer; Oxford,
R. H. Willis; Oxford Circuit, B. C.
Thompson; Central, Raleigh, S. E.
Mercer; Edenton Street, Raleigh, M.
Bradshaw; Epworth, Raleigh, R. F.
Taylor; Jenkins Memorial, Raleigh,
J. W. Potter; Selma, c. K. Proctor;
There Will Be an Interesting Paper
By Rev. S. K. Phillips
" The . isio Department of the Wo
man's Club will hold its second meet
ing of the year on Wednesday after
noon at, S.30 . o'clock in the. lecture
room of the Presbyterian church. The
subject of the meeting will be
"Church Music." There will be a pa
per by Rev. S. K Phillips and selec
nons or cnurcn music sung by a
quintet of good singers. All mem
bers df the club are cordially invited
to attend, also any others who may be
interested.
THE OXFORD TOBACCO MARKET
isoard ot Trade Announce Holiday
Closing and Opening Dates.
The Tobacco Board of Trade has
announced that the local tobacco
market will be closed for the holidays
arter tne sales on Thursday, Decern
ber 21st, to be opened for business
Monday, January 8th, 1917.
CHRISTMAS SAVING CLUB
The Carnival Negro Must Stand Trial
for His Life
It will be remembered a negro, a
inpmhpr of the carnival company
nlavina- an engagement at the Countygmithfield, S. A. Cotton; Tar River,
j. A. lee; loungsvine uiuun, x. v.
Allred; Zebulon Circuit, G. W. Star
ling; Superintendent Anti-Saloon
League, R. L. Davis; Editor Raleigh
Christian Advocate, L. S. Massey;
Superintendent Methodist Orphanage
A. S. Barnes; Editor Nashville Chris
tian Advocate, T. N. Ivey; Confer
ence' Missionery Secretary, N. H. D.
Wilson.
Warrenton District
Rev. Dr. R. C. Beaman is return
ed to the First Church, Henderson,
and Rev. W. G. Lowe is sent back for
a third year to North and South Hen
derson. Rev. L. E. Thompson is
made presiding elder of the Warren
ton district.
. nocro ad bf Victor Kap-
,on the second page of this paper. R. S. V. P.
Brown-Grego.ry
The following handsomely engrav
ed cards have been issued:
Mr. and Mrs. Richmond Lee Brown
request the pleasure of 's
company at the marriage of
their daughter
Josephine
and
Mr. Charles Alexander Gregory
At home
cn Saturday, December 30th, 1916,
at 9 o'clock
Oxford, North Carolina.
The National Bank of Granville Issue
452 Checks
The savings of 452 men, women
and children in the 1916 Christmas
Savins: Club of the National Bank of
Granville is $8,500. Checks for this
amount is being mailed to all mem
bers.
This money means a sure enough
Santa Claus in the homes of some
that otherwise would not have been
so fortunate. But the beautv of the
Christmas club is to create in the
young a determination to save. The
1917 club opens December 18th.
ELECT NEW OFFICERS
To Serve
Coming
Six
During the
Months.
The Baraca Class of the Oxford
Baptist church last Sunday elected
the following officersto serve during
the coming 6 months, beginning Jan
uary first: Mr. Ira N. Howard, presi
dent; Mr. Thornton Yancey, vice
president; Mr. Oscar Murray, secre
tary and treasurer; Mr. H. H. Bur
roughs, assistant secretary and treas
urer; Mr. J. Ben Comer, press report
er. It is useless to say that General B.
S. Royster was re-elected as teacher,
for indeed the class would have to
search far and wide to find another
teacher the equal of General Royster.
His teachings are always of good
sound doctrine, and his manner of
teaching is very easy to comprehend.
Every Sunday a fine body of men ga
ther to hear the General expound the
International lessen.'
The retiring officers have done a
splendid work and their efforts are
worthy of commendation.
Master Minds of Minstrelsy
The Price-Bonnelli Greater New
York minstrels, one of America's
leading burnt cork organizations,
with 30 white artists, will entertain
the audience at the Orpheum Theatre
Thursday night. The press places the
singers, dancers, acrobats and musi
cians of this troupe above any organi
zation of the kind in this country.
STATE NEWSPAPER INSTITUTE
4
NEWS PRINT PAPER IS THE PUB
LISHERS' NIGHTMARE
Three Days' Session at Chapel Hill
Big Men on the Program Strong
Committee Off For Washington.
Nearly every editor in the State
attended the Newspaper Institute in
Chapel Hill last week. Mr. E. E.
Britten, editor of the News and Ob
server, presided over the meeting
with that easy grace which character
izes his writings. Thursday, the
opening night, Hon. William Howard
Taft, former president of the United
States, spoke on "Our World Rela
tionship." In all, there were twenty
one numbers on the program, cover
ing three days..
Dr. Talcott Williams, from the
chair of Pulitzer School of Journal
ism, Columbia University, New York,
spoke on the "Newspaper and the
Nation." Prof. Walter Williams.
dean of the School of Journalism,
University of Missouri, spoke on
"Journalism, a New Weapon for Most
Effective to Promote Democracy."
He paid a glowing tribute to the un
iversity of North Carolina, and said
he felt himself fortunate in speaking
in a state rich in romance and his
tory. Democracy has many definitions,
and he gave several. True democra
cy is the chance for every man to
make the best of himself. News
papers disseminate the news, the lad
ies not excepted. The new interpre
tations of the present is for the many.
There is a change in the contents of
the papers of the present day, mak
ing all knowledge common know
ledge. It opens the doors of oppor
tunity to the many. Furnishes food
for opinions. Most effective to pro
mote. Modern journalism is a wea
pon for democracy. Justice and truth
flourish in the light of publicity. The
wages of sin is publicity. Moses was
the great ancient editor. A man is
more often made to say, by a report
er, things he didn't mean, the things
he did say. Journalism is the ser
vant of society. Do we lack rever
(Continued on Page Eigrht)
A NOVELDISTILLEliY
Captured By the High Sheriff of
Granville (
Sheriff Hobgood on Saturday last
got an inkling that a gang of negroes
were manufacturing whisky on the
southside of the county, near Rogers
Quarters, some twenty miles from
Oxford.
The Sheriff, accompanied by Chief
vVheeier and Officer I. H. Hobgood,
left Oxford at ten o'clock Sunday
night and reached the scene of action
about the bewitching hour of mid
night. They smelt the smoke and
sour mash before they saw the blaze,
below a ledge in a deep revene. The
operators evidently heard the ap
proach of the officers and retreated to
the tall timber and watched from a-
far the destruction of their handi
work.
Crude Looking Affair
The still was a home-made concern.
two five gallon lard cans being solder
ed together and used for the kettle.
The cap, which was not larger than a
man s hat was fashioned out of cop
per. It is estimated that the plant
had a capacity of about one gallon
of liquor every two hours. The indi
cations are that it had been in use
for several days.
Sour Mash
Ususally the sour mash is made in
close proxmity to the still, but in this
case there was a radical departure
from the old style of doing business.
In looking for the sour mash, meal
and malt, the officers, in their vigil
encircled the still, and when well out
on the hill side a fulillade of shot
were fired at them as the lawbreakers
fled to parts unknown. The officers,
however, were successful in finding
the base of supplies. Returning to
the ledge to get the still they depart
ed by a small road, by the side of
which stood a wagon, on which was
a couple of barrels of sour mash
ready to be converted into poison, the
kind that kills. The driver of the
wagon evidentally heard the ap
proach of the officers in time to un
hitch the hores and with them make
lis escape. The wagon and still is
now in the hands of the sheriff. The
still is the most crude looking thing
of the kind ever seen in Granville. It
is worthy of a place in the State
museum, snerin Hobgood will take
pleasure in showing it to any one who
cares to see it, the aldies not excepted.
Lieutenant Stegall Here
Lieutenant James I. Stegall, of the
Granville Grays, returned from El
Paso Monday and will remain here
until after the holidays. He is look
ing well and brings a message of love
from all of the boys.
-They say that shoes may cost
twenty dollars a pair, and if such a
thing comes to pass you will prob
ably see a lot of Granvillians ram
bling around in ancient Greek garb.
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