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BOARD OF EDUCATION
BPIXGS SUIT AGAINST THE COUN
II BOARD OF C03IMISSIONERS.
ra Grows Out of the Failure of the
Commissioners to Make Five Cent
increase Levy in the School Tax.
The County Board of Education
. r-xrH napers on me county
Board of Commissioners to appear at
!L Tiilv term of Granville County
iuDerior Court and explain why they
did not gram me uc cuuv aa
,,hnol nurposes, as requested and ex
plained by them at the last meeting
of the Commissioners.
Tn requesting the additional levy
of five cents, the Board or juaucauon
informed the Commissioners that the
price of everything had advanced ;
that the teachers would be required
to pay considerable more for their
board this year than in former years;
that the teachers could not pull
through on the small salaries they
now receive, and they were doubtful
if competent teachers could be secur
ed at the old salary.
The Commissioners listened with
patience to the request of the Board
of Education, and in these days of
patriotic conservation though that it
would be the part of wisdom to let
the tax remain as it was last year
25
cents on tne $iuu. wunug iuc
debate one of the Commissioners
were heard to remark that this is the
time to reduce taxes instead of in
creasing them.
The pending suit has caused con
siderable comment. The average
tax payer feels tbat the Commiss
ioners did the right thing in not
granting the extra five cents, but
those who are in sympathy with the
educational work feel that the denial
of the Bond of Commissioners was
nothing short of a calamity. One
side argues that we must squeeze and
save everything for the soldiers and
let the minds of the kids go to rot.
The other side argues that there are
too many people in Granville county
today that must make a cross (X)
for their signature. The most of
those who cannot sign their names
were born during or immediately af
ter the close of the War Between the
States, and it is argued that if we
retrench in school work too much at
this time we will have a gang of men
making their cross mark in years to
come. One old fellow remarkked:
"Oh yes; certainly we are willing to
feed 150 Granville county soldiers
and starve the minds of two thousand
children as long as they are in the
trenches."
There are a great many people in
the county who regret that this case
Tvas brought, or that it could not be
adjusted out of court.
OXFOttD BOYS TO GREENVILLE.
War Department Announces Assign
ments For Troops of Number
of States.
The War Department announced
Saturday assignments of National
Guard troops to training camps as
follows:
Fifth division, comprising troops
from Maine, New Hampshire, Massa
chusetts, Conniticut, Rhode Island
and Vermont to Charlotte, N. C.
Sixth division, comprising troops
pom New York State, to Spartan
burg, s. c.
Seventh division, Virginia, Dela
ware, Maryland, District of Colum
bia and New Jersey to Aniston, Ala.
:,ir;!i division, North and South
woima and Tennessee, Greenville,
S. C.
A8iuh division, Alabama, Georgia
aM Florida, ilacon, Ga.
Sixteenth division, Ohio and West
tfginia troops to Montgomery, Ala.
Seventeenth division, Kentucky
,anl Indiana troops to Hattiesburg,
Eighteenth division, Arkansas,
sissippi and Louisiona troops to
A1exandra, La.
STx5tice to DELINQUENTS.
.ou
taxes
to J.
uc auowea to list your
during July 1917 by applying
13. Pnwoll t -r-v j
be date' a11 delinquents will
Per cfrtained and charged with 25
corcw additional taxes- This is ac
it rjg law ana we must enforce
board 0n 1 impose tnis burden on the
' E.C. HARRIS., Chm.
anviiie11 wfbb, President of the
froiu the v?unty Fair' has returned
?d and rGaH?glnia Capes reinvigorat
mierest of th f campain in the
COUNTY
PROBABLE RESULTS OF
HOLLWEG'S RESIGNATION.
1 Internal informs
in Ger-
many.
2 Possible downfall of the
militarists, headed by the Kais
er. 3 Material change in the des
potic power wielded by the
Kaiser.
4 Probable announcement of
Germany's peace expectations.
5 Abandoment of the "in
demnity and annexation" policy
of Hollweg.
6 Popular suffrage in Rus-,
sia.
7 Decline of Prussian in
fluence in German councils.
PEACE!
CAPT. THAD G. STEM PROMOTED.
Is Now a Field Artillery
Major.
The Adjutant General Saturday an
nounced the following appointment:
"Capt. Thad G. Stem ,captain of
the machine gun company at Oxford,
appointed major of the field artillery
regiment and assigned to the first
battalion, which is composed of bat
teries A, of New Bern; B, of Wash
ington; C, of Durham."
The people of Oxford and Gran
ville county received the news of
Major Stem's elevation with genuine
pleasure. His promotion comes
through a superior knowledge of
military affairs.
LIEUTENANT TAYLOR RESIGNES.
Family Dependencies Will Keep the
Young Man at Home.
It was announced from the Adju
tant General's office Saturday that
Lieutenant Vernon W. Taylor, Com
pany E, Oxford, Third Regiment, had
tendered his resignation and that the
same had been accepted.
Mr. Taylor was a lieutenant in the
Granville Grays and saw service on
the Mexican- boarder. No man's
heart beats truer than his, and -while
he would like to be in the thickest
of the fight, he owes it to his wife
and children to remain with them.
BRINGS HONOR TO OXFORD
Lieutenant Beverly-' S. Royster, Jr.,
Assigned to Battery C.
Governor Bickett announced Sat
urday that the two lieutenants for
Battery C, the Durham organization
which Captain McLendon heads, will
be Beverly S. Royster, Jr. of dxford,
and S. M. Gattis of Hillsboro. Lieu
tenant Royster is the son of General
B. S. Royster, and Lieutenant Gattis
is the son of Solicitor S. M. Gattis, of
Hillsboro. At present Lieutenant
Royster is in the artillery section of
the training camp at Fort Orgle
thorpe. THIEVES ENTER STORE.
Help Themselves to Hams and Break
fast Bacon.
One night last week thieves enter
ed the grocery store of Mr. L. Thom
as on College street an'1 helped them
selves to the most choice pieces of
meat. They effected an entrance by
turning the lock on the rear window
of the store with a wire and prying
out the big iron bars.
Shortly before the closing hour on
the night of the robbery, Mr. Thomas
selected out two nice large hams and
six pieces of breakfast bacon and
placed them on a box near the win
dow. There was an abundance of
other meat and groceries at hand,
but they took only that which was
selected by Mr. Thomas. They seem
ed to realize that he is an excellent
judge of meat and they let it go at
that.
DRAFT MAY-START SATURDAY.
WUh Many Districts Yet to Report,
That is Earliest Possible Time.
Washington ,July 16. On the bas
is of advices today from various
States where the organization work
of the exemption boards had not
been completed, War Department of
ficials said the drawing could not be
held before next Saturday, at the
very earliest.
CARD OF THANKS
I wish through the Public Ledger
to express my sincere thanks to all
those friends who so kindly offered
assistance and conveyances and ten
dered their sympathy in the time of
my deep distress at the death and
burial of my son Gordon Crews.
Such kind acts can never be forgot
ten. L. L .CREWS, Tar River.
Commissioner Harris was in town
Monday looking after town affairs.
UPHEVAL IN GERMAN AFFAIRS
POLITICAL TURMOIL WHICH HAS
BEEN CONVULSING EMPIRE
CAUSED RETIREMENT OF DR.
VON BETHMANN- HOLLWEG,
WHICH IS PROBABLY ONLY
FIRST OF FAR-REACHING DE
VELOPMENTS .WHICH ARE
BOUND TO AFFECT FABRIC OF
WHOLE EMPIRE AND HAVE
MOMENTOUS CONSEQUENCE ON
PROGRESS OF THE WAR.
ChanceUor's Resignation Came Un
expectedly, and Just When He Had
Apparently Triumphed Over His
Opponents His Retirement Ap
pears to Have Been Forced By the
Crown Prince, Whose Hostility for
the ChanceUor is of Long Standing
Section of German Press is
Clamoring for a Joint-Dictatorship
by Von Hindenburg, and Other
Pan-Germanists, Which Does Not
Augur Well for Realization of Pro
posed Prussian Reform.
London, July 14 (British Admir
alty per Wireless Press,) Dr. von
Bethmann-Hollweg, the German Im
perial chancellor, has resigned.
Dr. George Mihaelis, Prussian un
der secretary of Finance, and food
commissioner, has been appointed to
succeed Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg.
The message relating to the resy
gnation of the imperial German
chancellor was circulated through the
wireless stations by the German gov
ernment and was received by the
British admiralty. It says also that
the emperor has accepted the resig
nation of Dr. von Bethmann-Holweg
and named Dr. Michaelis to succeed
him.
Abdication Rumor.
The political situation in Germany
is still far from a solution, judging
from the fragmentary news premit-
ted to pass the censor. Rumors of
the abdication of Emperor William
and a strike at the reichstag have re
ceived no confirmation.
A Berne despatch says an official
telegram has been . received there
from Berlin announcing the resigna
tion of General von Stein, the Prus
sian minister of war. The import
ance of his retirement lies in the fact
that the Prussian war ministry is in
reality the war milistry for the Ger
man empire, and that General von
Stein i a staunch suporter of the
pan-Germans, who are the bitterest
opponents of peace without annexa
tions or indemnities. General von
Stein recently arroused the ire of the
socialists by taking partin the dis
tribution of pan-German propaganda
against peace efforts.
BATTLE ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT
The Teutons Appear to Be Dazed and
Confused.
Washington, July 16. The whole
Russian front from the gulf of Riga
to Roumania! is reported in official
dispatches today from Petrograd to
the Russian Embassy here to be alive
with battle. The Germans are said
to be rushing up troops from the
Italian front.
Petrograd, July 16. The Russions
captured yesterday sixteen officers
and 900 Austro-Germans in the
fighting in Eastern Galicia. The
Russians are continuing their great
offensive.
From Julv 1 to July 13, the state
ment savs. 834 officers and' 35,809
men were captured by the Russians.
MEETING PROMPTLY AT FIVE.
Granville Comity Committee Council
of National Defense.
It is specially urged that those
who expect to attend the organiza
tion meeting of the Granville County
Woman's Committee of the Council
of National , Defense will meet
promptly. The hour for the meeting
is five o'clock and it is imperative
that the meeting begin on time in
order that the ladies from the county
can get back to their homes before
dark.
A special effort will be made at
this meeting to incourage Commun
ity Singing of tne jNationai Anixim&
and Hyms, as well as other patriotic
Community services.
The meeting will be held in the
Oxford Baptist Church this Tuesday
afternoon at five o'clock.
Coal Facts.
Read the letter of C. D. Ray &
Son on the last page of this paper and
get acquainted with the "coal facts.
The- W heels Are Turning.
The White Roller Mills is now in
full blast and the company will take
all of your wheat and corn at the
full market price.
Mr. Bert Taylor motored over from
Raleigh Saturday to visit relatives.
I FACTlr
"Patriotism leaves profits out
of the question."
"We must make the price to
the public the same as the price
to the government."
"Your patriotism is of the
same self-denynig stuff as the
patriotism of the men dead or
maimed on the fields of France,
or else it is no patriotism at all."
"The fact is that those who
have fixed war freight rates have
taken the most effective means
in their power to defeat the ar
mies engaged against Germany."
"This is a day of her reckon
ing and every man amongst us
must personally face that reck
oning along with her."
"It is just as much our duty
to sustain the industries of the
country, all the industires that
contribute to its life, as it is to
sustain our forces in the field
and on the seas." -
LARGE CROWD AT FUNERAL
The Remains of Mr. G.
B. Crews
Laid to Rest.
The remains of Mr. G. B. Crews,
whose untimely death occured at
Norlina last Wednesday, were laid to
rest last Friday at the old home
place, several miles south of Oxford,
where his boyhood days were spent.
A more picturesque landscape cannot
be obtained in the county that that
which greets you from the porch of
the old Colonial home, flanked in the
rear by towering oaks of, two hun
dred year's growth; off yonder in
the distance is the valley of the
winding Tar, and on either side of
the sloping hills burst into view
many pretty fertile farms. These
were familiar scenes to the young
man who went out into the world to
battle for life and came back in the
embrace of death. Doubtless his last
thoughts were of these scenes and the
loved ones as his soul took its flight
to the para&ise above.
People came from tar and neaar
and there stood in the oak grove a
half hundred automobiles and as
many hrose-drawn vehicles. A brief
service was held in the house, con
ducted by Reverned Miller, pastor of
the Presbyterian church, Littleton,
assisted by Reverned Thompson and
Rev. S. K. Phillips, of Oxford. We
don't think we ever heard a prettier
talk than that by Rev. Miller, pastor
of the lamented, or more fervent
prayers of the ministers who assisted
him. Amid the sorrows there came
light and the blessed assurance of
life beyond the grave. The sad par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Crews, and
other members of the family, whose
heart were bowed in sorrow, were
the recepients of much genuine sym
pathy.
A quartet composed of four singers
from Oxford, namely: Misses Berte
Hutchins and Bessie Howell and Rev.
S. K. Phillips and Mr. W. W. Fuller,
with Miss Hutchins as leader, sang
tenderly "Abide With Me," "Beauti
ful Isle of Somewhere," and other
songs.
The family plot lays north of the
residence about a quarter of a mile.
A double set of pallbears carried the
remains to their resting place in a
neat and well kept cemetery which is
shaded with cedar trees. Besides
the large number of white people
who were at the graveside we noticed
fifteen or twenty colored people
whose hearts were touched with sor
row. The pallbearers were: Messrs. W.
A. Hester, L. E. Adcock, H. A. Mac
on, J. S. King, S. T. Green, A. A.
Hicks, E. L. Currin, Ben Currin, A.
J. Montague, D. L. Haskins, Earnest
Walters, J. T. Critcher and J. P.
i
Hunt.
The floralbearers.were: Messrs E.
G. Crews, W. W. Crews, J. W. Crews,
J. Y. Crews, R. Y. Crews, W. Z.
Mitchell, W. W. Brummittfi J. E.
Jackson, E. R. Crews, E. B. Mangum,
W. T. Currin, J. G. Smith, L. F.
Smith, E. L. Smith.
Many were the pretty flowers laid
on the grave by loving hands
The many friends in Oxford sym
pathize with Mrs. Scott Hunt in the
death of her monther, who passed
away at her home in Richmond Mon
day. Mr. Blanchard, of the Hugh-Smaw
Company is spending the week at
Wilmington.
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Mrs. I. N. Howard and children
spent the week end with relatives in
Virginia.
THE FALHETO TOBACCO MARKET
BREAK FIRST SALE IS FOUR MIL
LION POUNDS.
Quality of the Weeds Is Best and
Quantity Greatest- Average 18
Cents Higher Prices Looked "For
in Oxford.
Tobacco sold at the opening of the
South Carolina market last Thursday
was in the largest quantities and
brought the highest prices ever
known in the history of the South
Carolina markets, according to re
ports brought back here by Col. Bal
lou and other tobacionists of this sec
tion who attended the opening.
Col. Ballou'said that the average
for all the markets in the entire State
was approximately sixteen cents per
pound, and that the opening sale
Thursday totalled 4,000,000 pounds.
The South Carolina press says the
general everage for all sold was 17
cents. The price paid at the opening
compares, it is said, with an aprox
imate average of twelve or thirteen
cents last year, and a considerably
smaller price in 1915.
South Carolina's yield this year.
Col. Ballou thinks, will be the great
est ever, according to indications of
the first two days of the season. The
quality of the weed offered, virtually
all of which was primings, has never
been of such a high grade, it was de
clared. There was a great demand
on the part of the buyers, all of
whom seemed to have orders in large
volume.
The South Carolina opening in
cluded the border markets, just
across the State line in North Caro
lina, but in the extreme southeast
ern part of the State only, the crop
in that section usually being spoken
of in connection with the South Car
olina crop.
Col. Ballou and other, well known
tobacco men think that the price for
tobacco-this year will -be perhaps the
greatest in the history of the crop in
this section of the State. The weed
has had unfavorable weather in this
part of the State, but it is rapidly
improving, and a big yield of a high
grade of tobacco is expected. No date
has been set for the opening here,
but big prices are looked for when
the season does start.
Early Opening Favored..
There is a growing feeling in this
section, shared alike by the farmers,
warehousemen, buyers and business
men, that the sooner the market op
ens the better it will be. The un
settled conditions abroad argues in
favor of an early opening.
DELIGHTFUL HOUSE PARTY.
At 4Nine Oaks," The Colonial Home
of Mr. Willie Thoa-p.
One of the most delighful house
parties ever enjoyed in old Granville
county is being given at the Colonel
home of Mr. Willie Thorpe in hon
or of his niece, Miss Marie Stark, of
Oxford.
The house guests are: Misses An
nie Gregory of Stovall; Emma, Jan
et and Josie Hall, of Warrenton;
Florence Perry, of Macon; Martha
Clement of Mocksville; Norma Bur
well and Gertrude Powell of Oxford;
Pansy Seay, of Blackstone, Va.; and
Faith Edean, of Clio, S. C; Messrs.
Haulk and Arch Alston of Warren
ton; Luther Stark, of Gela; Lewis
Smith, Lindsey Taylor and Ben
Thorp, of Oxford; Lieut. Thad Paris,
of Philadelphia, Pa.; Kimbra Sheeks,
of Mocksville; Dr F. A. Alston, of
Birmingham, Ala.; Capt. William
Laughinghouse, of Florence, S. C;
Col. Nat V. Daniel of Panama; Wil
lie and Richard Thorp.
Chaperones: Lieut, and Mrs. S. C.
Broddie, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Alston.
INAUGURATES BIG SALE
Pieces At Landis & Easton's Cannot
Be Duplicated.
The general public will be interst
ed to learan that the old reliable firm
of Landis & Easton have inaugurated
a big sale. Any one that is at all
posted must admit that everything
handled by the dry goods merchants
increase in price by leaps and
bounds, but Landis & Easton bought
right and they are selling right.
Some of the articles they enumerate
on the fifth page of this paper will
be worth double the money in a few
motnhs, and some of the articles they
mention cannot be duplicated in a
very short space of time. The gener
al public will commend this old re
liable firm for not holding their
croods for hierher nrices. Live ana
let live is the motto of Landis
Easton.
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