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g-- ' ' " ."l ' ' " PUBUSHESi) gEM-WEEKLY - TOWN AMP ie xxxn JPWCE OF APPLE BRANDY TllF MOKALLY STUNTED ARE A(-AIX CONFRONTED 10i7 Vintage of Pure Apple lb,.-mb " ehlS Ketailed in Granville County at Ten Dollars the dallon. ..HoW would you like to have come pure apple jack?" . I don't know, how much is it ff0..T ial0v where you can " get all vf)U want at $10 the gallon." llrisht, I would like to get a vrrle for" the old woman." The above is practically the con-,-prtion that passed between two JLh-toned gentleirn on the streets rfWord last Saturday. From what the Public Ledger others, we infer that there are a W men in Granville converting tiieir apple cider into brandy and that tliev sell a little of it to their f iends purely for the "stomach sake." The manufacture and sale, it would seem, is confined to a very select few; or in other words, you must be a high-toned gentleman to get into the inner circle. Those who thought that old booze had gone out of fashion and i dead and forgotten, are entirely mistaken. Though the manufacture of all manner of intoxicants were prohibited in the United States on and after the eight day of the pres ent month, an Oxford gentleman who last week quenched his thirst at the Metropolis, informs the Pub lic Ledger that the saloons in New York stand open all the time and tie supply seems not to diminish. And do you know that we have among us a great many people of little faith in the goodness of things. And in this we would not exempt all of the deacons and elders, for some of them are intensely human on a cold frosty morning when a little nip burns and bites the ton gue. Why, it was only the other day that one of these good old souls quoted in our presence the old fa miliar doggerel: "Old John Barley corn crushed to earth will rise asain the eternal years of God are his." ; GERMAN SPY IN OXFORD Colored Men Run Him Out of Town. One of the most reliable colored men in Oxford told the Public Ledger that a man passed through Oxford last week and told him and other colored men that he was a cap tain in the United States Army and that he was en route from Wash ington City via Norfolk and Oxford to Fort Oglethorp. According to our information, the 'captain" told the colored men that he v.as in a position to know what he was talking about; that he lived in Washington and had access to the var records; that the records re vealed the fact that the Germans are slaughtering the American sol by the tens of thousands; that fte 75,000 sent to the trenches tfere killed the first day. e According to our information some of the colored men were not filing to credit the storv of the captain," and told him so. It was t"rther related to the Public Ledger quick the "captain" jumped lc his fordcar and drove away , en he neard one of the colored uen whisper "German spy." COHX & SON'S BIG SALE Beams FrMay, September 28th and Continues Fifteen Days. this reliable firm opens the great sale m the history of their - bus kT An outPouring of depen--dbie merchandise such as Oxford TfiffeVe before known. It will be Jl CVl lny sale 15 days during -i.cn their stores must ho lrfnt no- five u nc mufat ue litjyt a,;- buyers puisive witn eager For rjlontns Qon & Son,g buyers aVL n preDarine: for this erent uiea with thp , ; rooDing pul I " 1 curi e market of the East se es nt numerous desirable purchas ed ?vroumous concessions that sail t? em t0 luo " Prices on their e never before h nrd. It is gener- chani v 11 SOrt of desirable mer tesdr been steadily advanc citv ftf the hiSh cost and scar fohac,raw materials. Though ties f ded buyinS of huge quanti haTe o' spot cashC0hn & Son's cMitinrT COme the gneral market over tn and are enabled to turn sirahi0U auanHties of new most surpri. d?Pendable goods at equalled ' 1 ana absolutely un t0 buy at pnSgSo U Wftl pay you ert but t Utfit not only for pres- chn & cJ(:r, future needs. Read the last rTn S var advertisement on ry their eif this Paper and hur -nr.l 1 1 f A CHAPTER OF CRIME. Tkree White Girls Were Assaulted in the State Last Week. Minister Goes Wrong. (Chapter 1.) Earl Nevels. a nesrro harVrn was jailed , in Raleigh last week uuargea witn an assault upon Mrs. Floyd Celie, who indentified him as a man who entered her home during the absence of her hus band and forced her to vield tn hi i command at the point of a revolver. moD gathered at the jail and the authorities took him to the penten tiary for safe keeping; later the mob gathered at the . penitentiary and the authorities became alarmed and took the negro to Charlotte. Chapter 2.) Lying unconscious at the corner of her father's corn field in the sub urbs of Dunn, Miss Adelaide Jeffries sixteen year old daughter of one of the wealthiest farmers of that sec tion, was found early Friday morn ing by a rescue party, and was un conscious at the time the party came upon her. Acording to the story the young woman is said to have told, she was attacked when she stepped into her back yard, her as sailant throwing a cloth over her head when she was attacked, pre venting her from making an out cry. (Chapter 3.) Armed with Winchester rifles and shotguns a band of fifteen citizens of the Bahama section of Durham county patrolled the countryside for miles awund Saturday t on a deter mined hunt for John Long, charged with shooting Miss Nellie Ball, a member of one of the leading fam ilies of the village, Long penetrated into the forests after firing a 44 Winchester bullet from ambush When shot, the 2 2-year-old young woman was at the spring, situated 100 yards from the home, on the er rand of conveying a bucket of wat er and coolers of. milks to the house for the supper hour. (Chapter 4.) The press of the State Monday morning discloesd a scandle at Greensboro of vast proportions. A pastor of a leading church' of that city is in disgrace. He was con fronted with charges that he could not deny. The police officers had found the minister in a house of prositiution in a room with ar negro woman. It was charged that his visits to the house had been fre cment. He did not deny the charge. The meeting of the governing board of the church followed, and his dis missal was prompt. THIEVES ON THE RAMPAGE. Break Window in Hamilton's Drug - Store. - Bright and early last Saturday morning- clerks at the Hamilton Drug Store at the head of Main street, discovered that thieves en tered the store during the night, and upon examination found that tlie glass in the back door had been smashed and the cross-bar that fastened the door had been re moved. The entrance was made ex actly like the four other store srob bed in Oxford during the past ten days that is, the thieves hurled a brick against the glass door and stood at a safe distance for a few moments to see if the noise attract ed any one's attention. The fact that all of the four stores robbed in Oxford during the past ten days were entered in the same manner leads to the belief that one thief is directing the work. This belief is hightened, too, by the fact that in each and every instance the money drawer was the only thing molested. The thief only got ninty-flve cents at Hamilton's. Richomnd, a city of 140,000 in habitants, has only one robbery to every ten thousand inhabitants dur ing the year. Oxford, a city of five thousand population, has had five robberies during the past ten days. The thieves are getting so bold in Oxford we expect them to Soon call ut) the nolice by telephone or pick the banjo or play the graphaphone to atract their attention. PAINFULL Y HURT Nail Penetrates the Hand of Mrs. T. G. Taylor. .Last Saturday night Mrs. Thomas G Taylor went out to the chicken coop to select a chicken for Sunday dinner. In attempting to enter the coop a plank fell on her hand, and a ten-penny nail which protruded through the plank pierced her hand. Mr. Taylor was at Landis & Gas ton's store, and upon receipt of the message from home requested Dr. Daniel to hasten to Mrs Taylor a rescue. Dr. Daniel found the lady sitting in a chair and her hand bound closely to the plank, the nail having been clinched after passing through her hand. We are glad to say that Mrs. Tay lor is resting nicely and the good doctor does not apprehend any dan ger from blood i poison. COTJMTY .OFFER BMLLMOT CrUNITIES - ALL OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2g, 1917 MEET GERMANS AT OWN GAME UNITED STATES PREPARING TO CARRY ON FRIGHTFUL WARFARE. Will Outdo Germany Will Make it so Bad That She Will Be Glad to Quit. (Washington Special) The United States is going to meet Germany at her game of frightful warfare. Army men are at work on a plan of making war so frighful to Ger many that the Germans will wel come peace at any price. Beside poisoned gases and liquid fire, both of which ,it was announ ced today, would be employed by the American army, expert chemists are reported to be engaged in experi ments with a new substance which will carry the campaign a step fur ther and be the American' backfire against German methods. War will be carried against Ger many with poisons, flame and dyna mite dynamite from thousands of airplanes which will answer the Germans in their own language of "woman and children first." French fliers have, when occasion presented itself, conducted success ful raids on German towns. The British have not yet done so on any extended scale. The demand for airmen at the front have been heavy and the majority of the allied fliers have been engaged in work over the trenches. With the influx of the American thousands, however, and the new American machines equip ped with the already world famous liberty motor, hundreds of aviators will be available to conduct fleet op erations over the Teuton soil. Other thriving German manufacturing towns and cities will be visited. Hundreds of thousands of air bombs are already being manufac tured in this country. The contracts have not been made public. The American public has no realization of the scale on which, this kind of warfare is being planned. " The first hint of the fact that America already has reserves of poison gas and liquid -flame for use at the front when the American troops take over a part of the line was given in army general orders today. These orders detail certain forces six companies of 540 men each and a headquarters plantoon for each army for "gas and flame service." Under the new unit system an ar my will comprise three corps of ap proximately 2,000 men each. At tached to each army will be many other special units, including min ing forces, a water supply service, detachment, motor truck companies, pontoon parws, forestry engineers, railway engineers to maintain a standard guage railway serviee on the lines of communication. PATRIOTIC MOMENTS General Royster Will Address . Au dience at Orpheum. It has been the desire of the committee for some time to get Gen. B. S. Royster to make a four min ute patriotic speech at the Orpheum. He has at all times stood in readi ness to do his bit, but in each in stance the Government laid hands on him and called him elsewhere. ,1,,, y,e jjoc surrendered the ad jutant generalship of the State, -he is frequently consulted and is in close touch with the War Depart ment at all times. The General has promised to make a four minute ;rjeech at the Orpheum next Friday rht,. . Newspaper men state that he can say more in four minutes en m any speaker they have ever heard. ; HON. JAMES R. YOUNG COMING. (. Will Deliver Address in the Court House Thursday Night. Hon. aJmes R: Young, of Raleigh, will deliver an address on the sub ject of building; and loan in the court house next Thursday night at eight o'clock. The public is cor dially invited to hear this - distin guished speaker on this very inter esting subject. The . ladies are es pecially invited to be present. The Duroose of this address is to cele brate the maturing of the first series of the Oxford Building and Loan As sociation. Be a Well Dressed Man Go to Horner Bros. Company and get a suit of Hart Schaffner & Marx clothing if you want something good and nice. The price, too, is right. See announcement on the third page of this paper. , GOVERNOR CALLS FOR MILITIA A Wave Of Crime Spreads Over the State. Governor Bickett on Sunday last issued the following: Whereas, it has been made to ap pear to me that conditions now pre vail within the State calling for the use and service of ah effective force for the maintenance of peace and order; Whereas, the companies compos ing the organized State Guard are now. absent from the State, having been duly called into the national service; and, Wheraes, by an act passed at the last sesion of the General Assembly, entitled "An Act to revise the mil itary laws of the State of North Car olina and to increase the efficiency of the militia," ratified the 6th day of March, 1917, all able-bodied male citizens of the State and all able-bodies male residents therein who have signified their purpose to become citizens between the ages of 18 and 45, unless exempted by spec ial law, are constituted and declar ed to be the unorganized militia of the State and made subject to the call of the Governor for the purpose indicated : Now, therefore, I, Thomas W. Bickett, Governor, by virtue of au thority vested in me by the general laws, and more especially -by the provisions of said act, do make this my proclamation and call into the service of the State the asid unor ganized militia - as described and designated in said act between the ages of 31 and 45, to the number of 5,000, not less than 25 in any one county, and the remainder to be ap portioned to the larger counties, as the Governor may designate, to be selected by draft and forthwith or ganized and equipped as provided by said statute and the regulations to be immediately framed and pub lished pursuant to the same. NO REST FOR THE DOLLAR. It Earns aBig Day's Pay For a Big Day's .Work. The lazy dollar is in bad straits. Its excuse for sheer idleness, or ev en a two per cent indolence, has been swept away by the endless op portunities -for investment in prt vate and public enterprises. Dol lars that ..have grown hook-wormy in retirement are now beset on ev ery side by courteous bonds mun icipal, State and Federal -with at tractive inducements to lucretive usefulness. In these boom times for invest ment there is something almost in consequential in the announcement that 4,000 farmers' organizations have been formed to borrow an an ticipated total of $150,000,000 from the twelve Federal Farm Banks dur ing the coming year. Applications for nearly $24,000,000 in loans came from the farmers during the single month of August. Although Uncle Sam is prepared to furnish much of this cash from other sources, much of it will be raised by the sale of good interest bonds. And this operation will pro ceed quitely at a time when war loans totalling many billions are being absorbed by the general pub lic. Literal conscription of wealth in the United States is still far off, but the spirit and need of our strenuous times make it next to impossible for a dollar to avoid earning for its owner a. bdi day's pay for a big day's work. 4 OLD RELIABLE WAREHOUSE Messrs. Watkns & Fleming Doing Big Business Much interest is centered in the big sales at the Johnson warehouse. The prices axe better this week ''nqfl tbv wee last week and the destination of the skyrocket prices are not in sight Hold your breath while you read the announcement of the Johnson on the5th page of this paper. TAYLOR-ARRINGTON Granville Man Goes to East Caro lina for Bride. Mr. William Roy Arrington, of Providence and MissZete Taylor, of Fort Barnwell, Craven county, were happily married September 17th. Mr. Arrington met Miss Taylor in Kinston where she was visiting her sister. The bride is a daughter of Mr. George I. Taylor. The young couple will make their home in Providence. . : Household Economics. The Household Economics depart ment of the Woman's Club will meet on Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the store of Mr. J. Robt. Wood. This promises to be a very interesting meeting and the chair man, Mrs. J. D. Brooks is very de sirous that a large number of the ladies will avail themselves of a pleasant and profitable hour. HOME PRINT NUMBER 77 BIG DAK AT PEACE CHAPEL MORE THAN ONE THOUSAND PEOPLE WELL GATHER THERE NEXT SUNDAY ! Dr. Vann Will Be There Thfr Will Be a Picnic On the Grounds Spiritual Songs Will Ascend to the Heavens. The choirs of Rev. E. G. Ursy's four churches have been practicing for some time, getting ready for the all-day meeting at Peace Chapel next Sunday. The editor of the Pub lic Ledger had the pleasure of ac companying Messrs. M. P. Chamblee and J. K. Wood to Peace Chapel last Sunday morning and we got a taste of what is coming. The sing ing was nothing short of an inspira tion and the sermon by Rev. E. . G. Usry still lingrs in our memory. We have never heard a stronger petition for peace upon the earth than was uttered by Mr. L. L. Gresham, nor have we ever seen a congregation with more rev erence for God and an abiding inter est and welfare for their fellowman. We may have witnessed elsewhere in our travels churches with more religion, but' for genuine Christian ity the congregation at Peace Chap el stands close to 'the throne of Grace. The Program Next Sunday As stated above, the four church es of Reverend Usry West Oxford, Concord, Dexter and Peace Chapel are looking forward with great interest to the all-day meeting at Peace Chapel next Sunday, begin ning atl0:30 o'clock in the fore noon. The program is a most in teresting . one. Mr. W. L. Howell will deliver the address of welcome, . and Dr. Vann, one of the strongest preachers in the Baptist denomina tion, who is secretary of the Board of Education of the Baptist State convention, will deliver, the inspir ing message of the day. The meet ing throughout will be enlivened with sacred songs. Miss Lessie New ton is the organist, and Mr. Claud Gresham is leader of the choir. West Oxford, Concord and Dexter cpngregations are going over there next Sunday and-try-and out-sing the Peace Chapel choir. Will they do it? Well, we don't see how they can. The Spread Next Sunday. They are going to have a grand spread in the grove next Sunday and they are not depending upon the "five fishes and the two loaves" to feed the thousands of peojle who will gather about the table. The congregations say to you come, and they mean what they say. Peace Chapel is at Fairport in a section where men's souls and bodies grow to full statue; and there are many pretty young ladies and handsome matrons in the congregation and we violate no secret when we tell you that their pastor last Sunday cautioned them from the pulpit to beware of the "fashion god." The Sunday School It was our pleasure also to attend the Sunday School at Peace Chapel last Sunday morning and there was much interst manifested in the les son. Mr. Jim Moss is a very en thusiastic superintendent; Mr. Lee Howell .teaches the senior Bible Class, and we noticed across the isle that pretty Miss Myrtle Overton was expounding the International Les son to the Woman's Bible Class. Ev erything in the Sunday School in terested us. As we looked about the sanctuary we counted sixteen bald heads; twenty children under five years of age; a host of young men about the draft Rge; many pretty young ladies and handsome matron ladies, some of them living as far as three miles from the church. We greatly enjoyed the two hours spent at Peace Chapel last Sunday and commend the congrega tion for their zeal for the Master. It also pleased us very much to see that their pastor, Rev. E. G. Usry, is entrenched in their hearts. SHOULD FACE FIRING SQUAD All Traitors Should Be Shot At Sun Up. There are about six men walking around in Granville county plotting in the interest of Germany. These six men no doubt feel that they are statesmen without a job. One of the six wandered off to a town outside of Granville last week and got pinched for a seditious" re mark. That leaves only five of the kantankerous sort in the county, and they should be made to face the firing squad at sun up. That is the way to deal with traitors, go after them. Doctor and Mrs. Nelson Thomas accompanied Mr. Josh King to Hal ifax Sunday to spend the day with Mr. King's mother. They made the trip in Mr. King's handsome car. I', r
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