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rOLimE XXXH OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 17 . NUMBER 83
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THE WAR IN THE AIR
tiiF KNOCKOUT BLOW TO GER
T MANY IS IN SIGHT.
(EDITORIAL)
General Pershing is right The
American Army will deliver the
knockout blow to Germany and the
stars and Stripes will float over the
council table when peace terms are
peereSecretary of War promises an
aggregate of twenty thousand bomb
fn planes, scouting and observation
lanes, ana battle planes, completed
and manned by the time the Nation
al Army moves to France.
If it be true that this prodigious
number of air machines, completely
crewed, can be made ready for busi
ness within a reasonable length of
time, it will be a masterstroke. If
we could send a fleet of twenty
thousand bombing .planes, together
with the requited number of battle
planes to pretect them if we could
put this number in the .air for one
stupendous drive above the German
naval bases before the National Ar
my moves, we doubt very much if
the National Army moves at all.
After three years operations in
the trenches are more or less stale
mate. Winter is coming on and
with it the necessary inactivity that
rough weather demands. Economi
cally, Germany may be able to hold
on for another two years. The war
as it is being fought is costing the
Allied nations many millions of dol
lars daily. Every day gained to
ward the ultimate victory which
must be ours and a lasting world
peace will be money saved, lives
spared and real estate left unde
stroyed. Heligoland, the Geman Gibraltar,
is regarded so nearly impregnable
from the sea as to make the cost of
a combined atack by the Allied fleets
a sacrifice too great to risk. But
Heligoland could do comparatively
little against a great air fleet flying
high enough to minimize the effecti
veness of anti-aircraft ordnance.
The most apparent, the most sensi
ble move we have at our command
to win this war is, with the aid of
the fleets, to make one superhuman
aerial effort to bomb to ashes the
German naval beses and the defenc
es which protect them.
It can be done. Planes will fall,
ships will sink, men will die, but the
net gain would guranatee us against
the prolongation of the world gony.
Months, perhaps, of dilatory attack
and counter-attack would be reduc
ed to a few hours of peace-promoting
demolition. We are wasting
men, money, munitions and food by
any persistent unrealization of the
fact that a concentrated aerial bom
bardment of Germany's defensive
and offensive positions on the North
Sea will win this war.
Let us toast the day, then, when
from the chalk cliffs of Suffolk an
overwhelming number of American
aircrafts will swarm across the
Chanel-head to wreak the great re
prisal that will bring peace from a
tyrannous foe.
HOME GUARD COMPANY
Will Organize and Elect Officers at
Court House Friday Night.
There will be a meeting of the
chosen for the County Council
fense (Home Guard) at the
juse Friday night immediat
r the adjournment of the
ss meeting. The object of
.-ting is for the purpose of
ung the organization and
acting officers.
The only information given out by
- W. Parham, chairman of the
vilie County Council of Defense
that the Home Guard company
ljl be a substantial, good-looking
f men.
Effective October 20
'be Seaboard Railway Co. will
e the depot for receiving freight
ft. P- m- from October 1st to April
and 4:30 p. m. from May 1st
t0 Sept. 30th.
J. A. DUKE, Agt Seaboard Ry.
Effective October 20
ine Southern Railway Co. will
"ose the depot for receiving freight
P- m. from October 1st to April
juth and 4:30 p. m. from May 1st
t0 Sept. 30th.
W. B. PITTARD, Agt. S. Ry.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
ers tvf is to remind property own
s that assessments for street pav
1QS must be paid by
in OCTOBER 25TH, 1917.
terpt to meet the bonds and in
ttm! ,fallinS due in New York, on
November 1st.
Drnn n?1 paid y the above time
property Will be advertised and sold.
OotnK B- HINES, Tax Collector.
Ctober 12th, 1917. adv
eerat ?u K" Wood former ouction
acceni a Fariner's Warehouse, has
estnhr? a Position in the furniture
wwl ment of Mr- J- Rot. Wood,
Staff glad to see his
ORDERED TO APPEAR FOR
iniSHJAl, EXAMINATION.
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The Granville County Exemption
Board has notified the following
named persons to report at the of
fice of the board in Oxford on Thurs
?fi'nForidF and Satrday, October
18-19-20 for physical examination:
r Order No.
Lucious Downey ... . 4ni
Warren Hopkins
Walter Morton Iao
George Downey iX?
Crawford Satterwhite 40
Walter Wilkerson Ifi
Edward Grant Yancey ... 407
D. Meadows 1(1o
Noah Morris Tnq
Wesley, Coleman . VVk
Edward Taylor 41Y
Ernest Burwell " 412
N. Edward Perry ."! 413
Bunne Andrews ". 414
Emmitt -A. Adcock .....'. 415
William Arch Tippitt 416
Hugh G. Minor 417
Elijah B. Moss '.'m 418
Walter H. Thomas " ! " 419
Rufus Edward Chandler !420
Andrew Meadows 421
John R. Ellington !!.422
Willie Lee Turrentine 423
Walter Roberson 424
Marion C. .Taylor 425
Thurman Lee Wheeler 426
J. Early Frazier 427
Ernest W. Evans 428
Jesse Royster 429
John H. Newton 430
Hughie Lyon 431
Harvey Baswell 432
James Hart 433
R. Marsh Ray 434
Willie Lewis 435
W. B. Taylor 436
Toney Jones 437
Solomon F. Clark 438
James T. Parham 439
Eugene B. Roberts 440
Hugh Lyon Whitfield 441
Horace H. Hicks 442
Albert Smith 443
John H. Pool 444
Otis Overby 445
Andrew M. Jones 446
Wade M. Currin 447
Cleveland Howard 448
Herman T. Lyon 449
Kings Culbreth 450
Mck Reed Howell 451
Willie R. Walker 452
Frank T. Cozart 453
Ben Allen 454
William H. Moss 455
Elmer F. Cole 456
Percy C. Williams 457
Clint R. Mangum 458
Hal Wortham 459
Paul S. Daniel 460
Marvin F. Moore 461
Henry Granvy Elliott 462
Broadus Hart n 463
Alexander H. - Veazey
.464
.465
.466
John L. Rogers
Alvin B. Lloyd
John .EL.. Roberta . . .,,
Leroy Corbet Hand
Roer-er A. Jones
.467
.468
.469
Luther Duke , 470
Walter William Cozart 471
Luther Patrick Stroud 472
Sim Wilkerson 473
Roy Pretty 474
Luther S. Dean 475
Norman V. Barker 476
George Lonnie Wright 477
Averett J. Ray 478
Chas. W. Hobgood 479
Ray Walker 480
Herman B. Harris 481
Robert O. Sheldon 482
John Barnes 483
Lonnie M. Latta 484
Walter G. O'Briant 485
Eulis Hobgood 486
Sam S. Parham 487
Allen Smith 488
Joe H. Lindsey 489
James Strong 490
Robert Young 491
R. Thaxton Averett 492
Andrew L. 'Satterwhite 493
Benj. P. Thorpe, Jr 494
Joseph E. Mitchell 495
Roger Philpot 496
Chas. B. Strickland 497
Walter Wilkerson 498
Zamie Arthur Edwards 499
Elijah Jones 500
Troy T. Newton 501
Horace W. Dement 502
Ben Spencer 503
Chas. Speed 504
Willie Woods fOo
James Thorpe 50b
James Walter Phipps 507
Haywood Nutall -508
John F. Scott 509
Gladys L. Holeman 510
Daniel Thomas Currin 511
Paul Green 512
Richard Guess
Cornelius Royster 514
Nelson Yancey lo
Louis M. Iinge ib
Goodrich Marrow 517
Walter Michiner 518
Robert O. Day 519
Cameron Philpot ozu
Willie T. Beasley 521
Frank O. Thomas : 5
Thomas S. Royster
Charlie Harris ot
Robert M. Kinton 525
Joe H. Satterwhite
Interesting Meetin;
iff
The Garden and Forestry depart
ment of the Woman's Club held a
most interesting meeting on Wed
nesday afternoon at the Oxford Li
brary. The chairman, Mrs. R. G.
Lassiter, presided over the meeting.
Mrs. R. H. Lewis, read with much
expression "The Forest Hymn.
Mrs. T. L. Booth read a very inter
esting paper on Friends of our For
ests and Mrs. J. P. Veasey read a
very entertaining paper on the Pre
servation of our Forests.
MEETING AT COURT HOUSE.
What the Red Cross Is Doing in the
War.
Hon. William A. Ellis, a distm-
. , Atlanta. Ga.. Will
eruisnea syeaci ' - .
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house this imaay .
will tell in a graphic way what the
Red Cross is doing, in the war. Ev
erybody is invited to hear the ad
dress. tTamcoc and Mules.
1 tvii naner Nelson &
Watkins announce the arrival of a
car load of horses ami wuw.
rillim u.noi.1.. .
FiAi0IlAliL AWU AIDS
LIST OF THOSE WTIO WILL RIDE
IN GRANVILLE COUNTY FAIR
PARADE.
Much interest is manifested in the
Granville County Fair parade on
Wednesday and Thursday morning,
October 24th and 25th. Headed by
a brass band, Marshall Grady Harris
and his aids will move out Hillsboro
street to the Fair Grounds, followed
by numerous automobiles in which
will be seated dignitaries and prom
inent citizens.
Chief Marshall.
MR. GRADY HARRIS
First Aids.
BEN THORPE,
T. O. MULLINS,
FRANK YOUNGS,
B. K. LASSITER,
W. L. MITCHELL,
B. W. PARHAM,
MISS HELEN ROYSTER,
MISS NELLIE WOODS,
MISS ETHEL HANCOCK.
Aids.
E. L. Glasgow, Jule Farish,. E. B.
Howard, Willie Critcher, W. H.
Hunt, Sidney Currin, S. H. Slaught
er, H. T. Jackson, Hubert Currin,
"Teb" Whitaker, Hugh Peed, Tom
Currin, Cameron Hunt, Kennon Tay
lor, Frank Cozart, Sam Cozart, Par
rott Hardee, F. Y. Yancey, E. B. Co
zart, W. P. White, L. W. Hall, Jack
Stainback, Garland Daniel, Roy
Crews, W. W. Bobbitt, Marsh Ray,
Joe Daniel, Scott Hunt, Thaxton
Averett, Joe Currin, Ernest Mitchell,
Fred Peed, J. G. Webb, F. W. Han
cock, Charles Whitaker, William
Dean, Jarvis Floyd, Herbert Currin,
William Dean, Ben Cozart, Bruce
S-iford. R. Davis Harris, Edward
Floyd, Ralph Floyd, Joe Gooch,
David Adcock, Lewis Jones, Sidney
Currin, Joe Currin, Filow White,
Wiliam Bragg, Brooks Bobbitt, Hen
ry Jones, Thomas Allen, Willie
Hays, Sid Hays, Ed Hays, Carlyle
Crews, Tom Woods, Wilie Adcock,
M. Dixon, Marvin Evans, Willie
Hart, Grover Peek, Herbert Gregory,
Chick Adcock, . .ath Adcock, Er
nest Hart, Johny G. Morton, Chas.
Royster, Burley Evans, Graham
Williams, Harvey- Green ways, ' .Tas
weil Morton, Nat Burwell, Dr. W.
M. Taylor, John Vaughan, Will Sto
vall, Ernest Evans, R. T. Gregory,
Jol. Burwell, Miss Alma Jones, Miss
Elivis Cannady, Mrs. Sam Watkins,
Miss Dorothy Royster, Miss Lillian
Taylor, Miss Mary Cozart, Miss Lil
lian Cozart, Miss Elizabeth Jones,
Miss Lucy Hardee, Miss Belle Can
nady, Miss Helen Knowls, Miss Mary
Currin Owen, Miss Clara Barbar,
Miss Bethee Mae Cheatham, Mrs. F.
W. Yancey, Miss Mae Averett, Mrs.
Will Stovall,- Miss Mary Webb, Miss
Betsy Ballou, Miss Ruth Bryan, Miss
Elizabeth Bryan, Miss Elizabeth
Niles, Miss Maggie Burwell, Miss
Lucy Parham, Miss Annie Gregory,
Miss Elizabeth Gholson, Miss Ruth
Parham, Miss Georgia Winston,
Miss Estelle White, Miss Mary Fish
er Hunt, Miss Margaret Capehart,
Miss Lottie Cottrell, Miss Ruth San
ford, Mr. Carter Evans, Ernest Ev
ans, Joe Burwell, Marvin Evans,
Harvey Greenways, Graham Wil
iams, Burley Evans, Charlie Roy
ster, John G. Morton, Taswell, Nat
Burwell, John Vaughn, Ernest
Hearst, Willie Hearst, Willie Stov
all, R. T. Gregory, Herbert Gregory,
Dr. W. M. Taylor, Mr. R. T. Thorpe,
Wilie, Fuller, Blunt Bryant, Lin
wood Bryant, .Burley Howard, Henry
Robards. Miss Lulu Moore.
LIBERTY BOND PREMIER
IT IS A BOND OF THE UNITED
STATE GOVERNMENT
Why is it called a Liberty Bond?
Because the proceeds of the bond
will help defeat the Prussian tyran
ny and insure liberty for you and
vonr children.
Should I buy a Liberty Bond? It
is a duty to lend a dollar to my
nntrv if I have a dollar and my
country needs it.
Do i give this money to my coun
try? No, I only lend it.
"c- I f?ft my money back? Any
day I want it.
Can I be sure that I shall get it
back? Surer than I would be if I
invested the same dollar in any oth
er property in America.
Why? Because the United States
has the power to levy unlimited
Continued On Page Five
THE WEATHER
Overcoats Are In Evidence On the
Streets of Oxford.
There was a , number of over
coats in appearance on the streets of
Oxford this week. The thermome
ter dropped down to 42 degrees
Tuesday morning, and. had it not
been raining there would have been
a a killing frost in all probability,
entailing a heavy loss.
tvio weather bureau predicts a
few warm days ahead, but most of
the days wil lbe cool or com, says
the bureau.
FOOD ADMINISTRATOR FOR
GRANVILLE COUNTY.
Hon. Henry A. Page Names Mr. B.
W. Parham.
Ninety-nine men and one woman
have acepter their appointment as
county food administrator and are
enlisted in Federal Food Adminis
trator Henry A. Page's North Caro
lina volunteer army.
Food Administrator Page has
named Mr. B. W. Parham as the
proper one to inform and illuminate
the citizenship of Granville county
on the causes and consequences of
such a war and the capital impor
tance of combining a Nation's whole
strength to the end that the war
may be won.
Mr. , Page chooses from Scotland
county Miss Emily Walker, one of
the most efficient young women in
the State. She is assistant county
superintendent and was the choice
in a county whose citizenship by de
cent is arounsed to the meaning of
such a war as this. Sex and poli
tics have been waived in the effort
to put at the head of each county
the person .who will build up the
best organization and who can get
closest to the people.
MAKING READY FOR THE
RECEPTION OF NEGRO TROOPS
Will Be Placed to Fill Up Gaps in
Three National Guard Divisions.
(Washington Special)
Redistribution of the forces in
national army cantonments in the
South, Middle West and East is or
dered b ythe War Department in or
der to fill up three National Guard
Divisions in several States to war
strength, and in order to provide
for the sending of negro troops to
the camps.
The National Guard divisions to
be filled up are the thirties, thirty
first and thirty-ninth, all composed
of troops from the far Southern
States. Dratfed men from the na
tional army cantonments at Camp
Jackson, at Calumbia, S. C Camp
Gordon, at Atlanta, and Camp Pike,
Little Rock, Ark., will be transfer
red to fill the gaps. Theremaining
men' atr the three - camps-will s be con
solidated at Camp Jackson.
GERMANY FALLING BACK.
Has Made Her Supreme Military
Effort and Has Failed.
(Washington Special)
Germany's military strength now
shows a clear decrease for the first
time since the war began, according
to a review based upon data of the
French general staff made public
here.
Worn down and driven back by
the never-ending pounding of the al
lies on the western front, the state
ment says, the Germans have made
their supreme military effort after
drawing heavily upon their inactive
armies in the east and calling out
their 1918 part of the 1919 reserves.
Thus, while the allies have reach
ed and are prepared to maintain
their full strength while awaiting
the coming of America's great army,
the enemy's resources are diminish
ing at the very moment when the
military situation demands that they
increase.
"This shows," concludes the
statement, "the decisive character
attending the operations of 1918,
when three great democracies, En
gland, France and America, will
unite their entire strength in attack
ing the enemy, in conformity with
the only sound principle of war."
THE HOUSE OF HIGH AVERAGES
Luther W. Stark Is the Auctioneer
at the Farmers Warehouse.
It will be pleasant news to the to
bocco grawers throughout this en
tire section to learn that Luther W.
Stark is now the auctioneer at the
Farmers Warehous. It is gener
ally acknowledged by the tobacco
nists that Mr. Stark is one of the
best and most popular auctioneers
in the State. He counts his farmer
friends by the thousands. They
know for a certainty when they
place their tobacco in his hands they
will receive the, cream of the mar
ket. The name of Luther Stark is
o household word in Granville and
adjoining counties. With Mr. Stark
as auctioneer and Mr. Parham as
bidder, the sales at the Farmers
Warehouse goes with a sweep, and
the clerical force, too, is exception
ally prompt and reliable. Such o
thing as hanging around for ' your
check at the Farmers Warehouse is
a thing of the past. See announce
ment on the last page of this paper
for the high averages at the Farm
ers Warehouse during the last few
days.
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Golden Belt Fair.
The Golden Belt Fair at Hender
son is attracting large crowds this
week from Granville county. The
fair will continue through Saturday.
This Friday is Ladies' Day, Races
every day at 1:30. adv
THE BANKHEAD HIGHWAY
PATHFINDING COMMITTEE WILL
LEAVE WASHINGTON OCT. 30.
Mr. J. A. Rountree, secretary of
the Bankhead Highway Association
writing from Birmingham, Ala., in
forms the Public Ledger that it has
been definitely settled that the Path
finding Committee and official party
to locate the Washington, Atlanta
division . of the Bankhead Highway
wil lstart from the Capitol steps at
Washington on Tuesday morning,
October 30th at 9:00. It is ex
pected that the start of this path
finding party will be one of the most
auspicious gatherings of good roads
advocates and distinguished officials
of the government that ever assem
bled in the country. . Secretary of
War, Baker, Secretary of Agricul
ture, Houston, will make short ad
dresses. An effort is being made to
secure the presence of President
Wilson and have him deliver a short
message of good will to the people
in regard to the Bankhead High
way. Secretary, J. A. Rountree has al
ready commenced to arrange details
of the trip and is notifying the
towns and cities through which the
Bankhead Highway traverses the
day and hour the Pathfiinding party
will visit their respective towns. The
official party will be composed of 25
prominent citizens in automobiles.
An effort wil be made to have as
many stops, short talks delivered
enroute as possible. The headquar
ters of the aBnkhead Highway As
sociation are already receiving num
bers of suggestions in regard to
stops, and offers from towns and
cities that desire to tender ban
quets and luncheons to the official
party. The greatest enthusiasm pre
vails from Atlanta to Washington.
In the party will be, acording to
the announcement, Congressman T.
S. Plowman, president of the Bank
head Highway Asociation;( Senator
Bankhead, of Alabama, for whom
the highway .is named; Senators
Martin, of Virginia, Overman, of
North Carolina; Smith, of South
Carolina; and Hoke Smith, of Geor
gia. "Besides these Congressmen
there will be a party of road ex
perts, -a number of newspaper cor
respondents and others.
The party will make the trip by
automobile, and will travel through
Virginia, through Oxford, Hender
son, Raleigh, Durham, thence on to
Greensboro, and back to Washing
ton by way of Reidsville, Danville,
and other Virginia points.
THE INCREASE IN POSTAGE.
New Law Effective On And After
November 2nd.
Detailed instructions to post
masters on the increased letter mail
rates which become effective Novem
ber 2 under the terms of the war
tax bill, have been isued by Post
master Burleson. They do not ap
ply to mail to most foreign countries
which are fixed by international
treaties, but they do apply to all do
mestic mail, and under that classi
fication is included mail to Canada,
Mexico, Cuba, Panama, the United
States postal agency at Shanghai,
and all persons in the military ser
vice of the United States in., Europe.
The Postoffice Department' issued
these instructions:
"Potsmasters shall, on and after
November 2,' see that postage is paid
at the rate of 3 cents an ounce or
fraction thereof on letters ond other
first class matter except drop letters.
All drop letters, that is, letters mail
ed for delivery from the office at
which posted, including those for de
livery by city, rural or other carrier
of such office are requested to have
postage paid on them at the rate of
2 cents an ounce of fraction thereof.
Postal cards are required to be pre
paid two cents, and, therefore, the
one-cent postage stamp affixed to
them in addition to one-cent stamp
impressed on such cards. Post
cards (private mailing cards) bear
ing written mesages must have 2
cents postage prepaid on them."
FACTORY WORKMEN MAKE
$70 WEEK AT BRISTOL, CONN.
Bristol, Conn., Oct. 9. Good
wages were paid in this city before
the war, high wages were the rule
after hostilities broke out, "now an
aro of extravagant wages seems to
have set in," acording to the presi
dent of the Manufacturer's Asoscia
tion. Workmen in factories here
are getting $50 a week in many
cases, while $70 and upward is not
uncommon. All lines of manufac
ture are affected.
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Inviting Prices.
' Eleswhere in this paper will be
found the announcement of R. G.
Stem, the live merchant at Hester.
A chance to save a dollar on shoes,
dry goods and notions. By a prev
ious contract Mr. Stem is in a posi
tion to sell flour at a nice saving to
the customer.
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