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" " '' PUBLISHED SEM-WEEKLY lgOfD COUNTY OFFER BRILLIANT OPPORTONFTIES ALL IHOHDE PRINT. volit3ib xxxn OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30TH, 1917 NUMBER 43 THS KED CROSS CHAPTER nfSllNGUISHED VISITOR INSPIR ES LOCAL. ORGANIZATION. patriotic Ladies in Charge of Re uniting Station on Main Street yames are Being Enrolled. Major General George W. Davis, United States Army, retired, for many years chairman of the Central Committee of the Red Cross at Wash ington, is in Oxford, the guest of his daughter, Mrs. R. C. M. Calvert. At the meeting of the commitee on organization at the home of Mrs. Calvert last Friday, General Davis talked informally on Red Cross meth ods with special reference to our loc al requirements. ien. Davis at Auditorium. General Davis, retired, for many years Chairman of the Central Com mittee of the Red Cross, has consent ed to talk this Tuesday night in the Graded School auditorium. No one is better qualified to explain the noble work carried on by the Red Cross than is General Davis. Former Pres ident Taf t is now the chairman of the Central Committee of the Red Cross, the position formerly held by Gen. Davis. Recruiting Station. The ladies have opened a recruiting station in the "vestibule of MrvA..H. Powell's office on Main street. Quite a number have handed in, the fee of $1.00 and enlisted in the noble work. : : BELIEVED TO BE INFANTICIDE Susie Allen, Colored, Faces Serious Charge. The remains of a colored infant found in the woods in Tally Ho Townshrip last Friday led to the ar rest and detention of one Susie Allen, colored. Dr. W. N. Thomas, the very able coroner of Granville county, took up the thread and wove it so tightly about the woman that she confessed to the concealment of the',, child's birth. ; , . i ; The woman was brought to Oxford and lodged in. the county jail, and at the preliminary trial Saturday morn ing she confessed to the concealment and coroner Thomas bound her over to the July term of court on the char ge of committing a crime contrary to the statue and against the peace and dignity of the state of .North Caroli na. Concealment of the birth of a child is a serious offense, approaching that of infanticide. OXFORD HARD HIT Southern Railway Asks Permission To Discontinue Certain Trains. The Southern Railway. Saturday filed frith the Corporation Commiss ion request for permission to take off a number of passenger trains on many sections of its lines in this state and consolidate and "mix" numbers of other trains with a view of reduc ing the consumption of fuel and coal and getting in position to more fully co-operate with the Federal Govern ment in the "war time problems and demands." ( The petition makes this statement of the reasons: "In order that the Southern Rail-, way System may meet its obligations to the National Government now in a state of war and toward conservation of fuel coal." An accompanying letter sets out that the proposed curtail ment are in compliance with resolu tions adopted by the associated rail roads of the whole country as set out. to resolutions recently adopted in Preparation for meeting the National crisis. -rvns included in the proposed discomiuances as affecting Oxford, is the Durham, Oxford and Henderson-service for Sunday as to 116 ?ali:; and the readjustment of the keyr-yilJe line and schedule. MUST TO QUALIFY. Ir- X. E. Cannady, of Raleigh, Ap i' rs Before Judge Hunt. Mr. N. E. Cannady, a native of Ox- a i 11 ' trance Commission at Ral .u Tvt,s the first to apply at the th r f Judge Cam Hunt, clerk of th CU: c' and suPPly the answers to carHQUGStions on the registration aras provided for that purpose. "UUtfe Hunt it. tinnVAile County Board of Registra rs ail iQrmer , -citizens who now thy. ------ must v qualify BUILDING NOTES. The Sound of the Hammer is Heard in Many Places in Oxford. Mr. Walter Crews is building a modern home on Williamsboro street. The meterials are being placed for the handsome home of Dr. Wat- kins on the west corner of Main andl Front streets. Ground has been broken at the east corner of Front and Main streets for the modern home of Dr. Ferebee. 4 The home of Mr. Pritchard on Hancock, street is nearing completion. Mr, Priachard is a new comer to Ox ford and will represent the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company on the local market. The old Stradley home on Han cock street is being moved a few yards south to make room for a handsome new residence. The modern home of Mr. F. W. Hancock, Jr., at the foot of Main 'street, and that of Mr. Ira Howard, on Hancock street, are nearing com pletion. The Hancock home is an architectural beauty. Mr. Campbell is the contractor. POINTS FOR REGISTRATION. There is onlv One Registration Day, June 5, and all Men 21 to 31 , Must Register. In its campaign to stimulate in terest in registration June 5 for the army and navy the War Department has issued a memorandum emphas izing the seven, cardinal points to be remembered, particularly by the men who must register. The memoran dum follows: First, there is only one, day for registration, June 5, 1917. Second, every male resident of the United States who has reached his ewenty-first and has not reached his thirty-first birthday must register on the day set, June 5, 1917. The only exceptions are persons in the military oriravalservice of the United States. i-v ' Third, registration is distinct from draft. No matter what" gust claim you have, you must register. Fourth, Registration is a public duty. For those not responsive to the sense of this duty the-penalty of imprisonment, not fine, is provid ed in the act. Fifth, Those who through sickness would not be able to register should apply to county clerk for a copy of the registration card. The clerk will give instructions as to how .it should be filled out. Sixth, Any person who expects to be absent from his voting precinct on registration day shall apply as soon as possible to the registrar in the county where he may be stopping, or if he is in a city of ovetf 30,000 to the city clerk. The clerk will re cord the answers on the card and turn it over to the absentee. The ab sentee should mail this card to the rigistrar of his-home district by reg istration day. Seventh, Registration booths will be open from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m.. on registration day, June 5, 1917. THE MOVIE C ALAND AR. George M. Cohan in Broadway Jones" Fills the House., Those who saw "Broadway Jones" at the Orpheum Monday night testi fied that it was a great show. It will be repeated this Tuesday, mati nee and night. Special music by the Italian orchestra. - Wednesday, Ruth Roland and Frank Mayo in "Red Circle" series; Harry Fox and Grce Darling in "Reatrice Fairfax" series: Hearst- Pathe. News. Thursday, Margurite Clark in "Miss George Washington," a five act Paramount picture. .-' Friday, Pretty Billie Burke in "Gloria's;- Romance" series, -followed by a Fox two act comedy, "An- Aerial Joy Ride" and Hearst-Pathe News.- Saturday, matinee, and night, William A. Brady Presents Joe Col line in "The Imposter." Francis Ford, Grace Cunard in "Purple Mask" episode. ; V The Equal Suffrage League will hold their annual business meeting and election of officers on Friday af ternoon at five o'clock in the Library. A full attendance is expected. Those who pay as they go at the nresent time are not likely, to ex- ceeded the speed limit. ; .; SERMON TO ODD FELLOVS REV. S. K. PHILLIPS SPEAKS OF GOD'S DECREES. In accordance with a time honored custom the Oxford Qdd Fellows ob served last Sunday as the day for their annual sermon. These strong men marched under regalia to the Presbyterian church and heard Rev. S. K. Phillips, a member of the local lodge, preach a sermon of wonderful power, setting forth! the decrees of God as applied to the present day troubles of the world. .. - Mr. Phillips took his text from Matt. 25 : 28 the words of Christ who said, "Wheresoever the c areas is the vultures will gather together." He declared that the words were prophetic; that Jesus was rolling up the curtain of the future and look ing clear through to the end of his tory; that He was seeing certain points in human life utterly destitute of the life of God national carcases, corrupt and dead; and hovering ov er these points in history, had been and always would be, the vultures of God's Judgement. "And I believe," he said, "that Jesus saw this very day of ours as one of those gather ing spots for God's vultures." He declared that the words of the text were "a terse statement of a Divine Law which has operated with unerring certainty through all the course of history." "We can station ourselves," he said "at par ticular points in human events and watch the dial of time. Then comes that moment when even the line of God's mercy is crossed, the bell of time tolls an hour of doom and the crash comes with the gathering of the vultures." He cited the destruction of the Canaanittes, the captivities and suf ferings of Isreal, the fall of Jeru salem, the doom of Rome, and the crash that came with the French Rev olution. And then he turned to Eu rope todays r "I have said all the time that this has been fundamentally a religious war, and by that I mean that it can not be understood apart from relig ion; and our text reveals the real purpose of Jehovah God in this strug gle. - For years Germany has been adorn ing herself for the vultures and now they are upon 'her- She has forgot ten God and deliberately tried to put herself upon the throne of the uni verse which belongs to Him. She has cried science without reference to where man ends and God begins. She has cut God's word to suit her pattern. Her preachers and writ ters have denied its miracles and laughed its inspirations to scorn. Her scientific theories have made Jesus Christ a bastard impostor, by deny ing His claim that His mother's conception was immaculate, and His Father was the Holy Spirit. Her philosophers have not only killed the God of our Bible but have dug His grave and called upon the world to pay their last respects to Him. He was once ' good enough to worship but is now a mere relic of antiquity, too out of date for the shrine of a mighty German kulture. Her society is honey-combed with vice. Her cruelty has never been matched. 'Her exploits have . all been selfish. Her government has robbed the individ uals of his God-given freedom and injected the venom of its plots into the heart of practically every nation worth considering. She has stopped at nothing and stooped to everything blood-curdling and base in character. Such is Germany; and when she planted her wicked feet in little Bel gium, God saw v it, was time for the vultures to gather. Never in all his tory has He permitted a nation to stand who has thus vaunted her achievments and stood for the things that Germany represents. And there's no doubt as to the issue of this strug7 gle. It will continue until the car case is devoured, and Wilhelm with his assumed divine-partenership and all its hell-born intrigues are hurled back to the pit from whence they have come. - After peace 'has come the air will be purer, and the world athrob with the Spirit of that Christ whose Brotherhood is marching on ward to triumph." ' Mr. Phillips pointed out in conclus ion that America and her allies have deep lessons to learn. "There are many things within our own nation that must go, if we too are not to see someday the gathering hosts of God's vultures upon our own hori zon," he said. "We must turn back to God as never before and start within our own borders a great con structive warfare against the forces of evil that have .he power to crush us. Drunkenness, commercial dis honesty,, skepticism, luxury,. Sabbath breaking and sexual impurity ,-these must go, if the vultures are to be kept away: from our shores." " SAINT JOHN'S DAY Will Be Observed This Year on Sat , urday, June 23d. St. John's Day will be observed at the Oxford Orphanage this year on Saturday, June 23 rd. The Grand Master made a happy selection when he appointed Dr. B. X. Hays, of Oxford to deliver the oration on this occasion. He is one of the most interesting speakers in the State and whether in or out of d.oors, he never fails to hold the audience. Gen. B. S. Royster will introduce the spea ker? T ... ,v Everything is being made ready for the glad occasion, and as .usual the barbecue dinner will be a feature. Mr. R. L. Brown, Superintendent of the Orphanage, is corresponding with the railroads with a view of handling the usual large crowd. . . . - HOW MANY .WILL REGISTER. Estimates of Eligibles For Selective Draft Vary by Small Odds. Probably 1,800- men will register in Granville county for, the govern ment's selective draft registration on Tuesday, June 5, according to the best estimates of the county officials and others who are familiar with the population of Oxford and' .the county combined. Estimates run from 1,500 to 1,800, including Oxford. While these estimates are based primarily upon the voting" strength of the county, this is not regarded as an absolutely reliable barameter. ' There are those liable to register for conscription who "do not vote, and many who do not' vote are not liable to the duty of registration for the draft measure. For instance, the draft law requires that every man between the ages of 21 and 30, both inclusive, or up rto .the day of the 31st birthday 'shall register, be he married, single, Jew, Gentile, white, black, single, -natural-born, naturalized, or alien, sick or in good health. All men of every race, class and color within the prescribed age limits is affected by the government's draft requirements. Many negroes and aliens who for one reason or another do not and are not entitled to vote in an elec tion will not escape liability to reg ister , Men above 3 1 years of age who do vote will not be affected. Registration does not necessarily mean that the man registering will be drafted into the army, according to a War Department announcement. It merely means' that is the govern ment's methods of providing a way for ascertaining the number of men within those age limits. METAL THIEVES Four Negro Boys Land in the County Jail. Gus Lewis, Lewis White, Peter Har ris and Joe Gooch, colojjed, were ar rayed before mayorMitchell on Friday last charged with stealing 150 pounds of brass from Mr. J. E. Jackson, the well known saw-mill man of Granville. . Chief Hobgood was able to get a confession from one of the boys, whi ch implicated the other three. The evidence was so strong against them, Mayor Mitchell sent the bunch to jail to await the July term ofcourt. Thieves also invaded the Public Ledger office a few days ago and car ried away 100 pounds of linotype t metal. We have a detective on the case and the chances are that the j thief will be apprehended and brou ght to justice. ; v JUDGE DEVTN IN OXFORD. His Pockets are Full of Legal Doc uments. I This is Judge Devm's weeK De tween courts and. he is npoying the short interval of rest immensely in tne emDracing aimuBucic home town. However, we notice that a large batch of letter mail follows him, and possibly he hears the old court house bell ringing all the time. He will hold court 4 in Raleigh next week . - n Club Will Present Play. The Culbreth Community Club will give a play to the public Saturday niirht. June 2d, at 8 o'clock. There will be no charge for admission and everybody is cordialy mvitea. ice cream will be served after the play. Mighty hard for the angler to backyard farm. As soon as he un earth a worm it is down with the hoe and up with the fishing rod. NEGRO CONFESSES CRITIE LEE EDWARDS ACKNOWLEDGES THAT HE KILLED HIS WIFE. Shot Her in The Face, at Close Range and Threw a Lighted Lamp Against The Wall. The Bell Town tragedy a few months ago,, in which Lee Edwards was charged with the murder of his Wife and setting fire to the bed on which she slept, is fully explained in the cenfession which Edwards made toMr. Hunneycut, warden of the Stite Prison, where he is confined for thirty years. yhen the trial came on at Oxford a few, months ago, the circumstantial evidence was so great Edwards -drew a deathVsentence at the hands of Judge Kerr. Every one who was familiar with the evidence in the case had no doubt in thieir minds as to the guilt of the, negro. Special Officers Hutchings, of Granville, Jwho attended Federal Court in Raleigh last ek, states that Mr. Hunneycut, warden of the State Prison, told him that LeerEd wards had confessed to the killing of his wife. The warden told Mr. Hutch ings that the negro told nlm that he and his wife quarreled on the night previous to the morning of the mur der; hat he got upearrjrand lit the lamp that the sight of her lying on the bed still further enraged him and that he reached up and got the gun and shot her in the face at. close range; then, he said, he threwt he range; then, he said, he threw the left the burning building. If our memory serves us right, a charred pice of skull bone with the semblance of lead in it, was placed in evidence at the trial. Two weeks ago Governor Bickett, commuted the snetence of Lee Ed wards, to thirty years hard labor in the State Prison. - CRIME ON THE INCREASE. Farmers in the County Want to Im port Blood-hounds. Mr. T. W. Burch, of Route 1, made a hasty trip to Oxford last Saturday morning to invoke the aid of blood hounds .to run down the thieves who invaded his chicken house in the wee small hours of the morning and took therefrom five of his finest white leg horn hens. This was the second visitation of the thieves and in each Instance they pinched off the heads of the chick ens and threw them on the ground, taking the chickens with them and by the stream of blood that flowed from the necks of the chickens, Mr. Burch was enabled to trace the thei ves in the direction of Oxford. Mr. Burch is very indignant and alarmed at the frequency of the thie ves. Those who commit similar crim-. es would also burn a man's home or his barn. There being no blood-hounds near er Oxford, than Greensboro, and the expense of bringing them here is so great, Mr. Burch abandoned the idea, preferring as it were to use a double barrel shot gun . loaded with buck shot. NEGRO SHOT FROM AMBUSH. Tragedy Near Lewis Station Early Sunday Morning. In response to a telephone message early Sunday morning, Dr. Nelson Thomas hastened to the old Bab cock place near Lewis station, a few miles north of Oxford, and found Tit us Daniel, colored, suffering from a gun-shot-wound. Dr. Thomas administered heroic treatment and ' stayed the negroe's life, and from last accounts his chances of recovery are about even. The negro was hit in the back by a pistol ball, which was imbedded in the vital parts. It is not known who fired the shot. Arrests will probably be made later. SENT TO THE ROAD. Sim Elkerson Caught With the Goods on Him. . On Saturday last Dectective Hutch ings saw a white man by the name of Dean under the influence of whiskey, and learned through him that Sim Elkerson, colored, was. the preambu lating blind tigei 1m Municipal Court Monday morning Mayor Mitch ell sent Elkerson tQbe roads for six months, andJDean ;w,ai axed..to the amount of $20 and costs
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