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PUBLIC LEDGER
SUGGESTIONS OF A SOLDIER.
ORPHBUM THEATRE
Letter From a Soldier Boy at Camp
Jackson.
Editor Public Ledger:
Please allow me a short space in
your paper to give a few ideas of
how the boys are getting along at
Camp Jackson. I presume that there
are some folks in Granville that
don't realize the present time, and
are studying about the boys away
from home, as some are talking that
way now. The boys are getting as
good treatment at Camp Jacks6n as
the government can afford, and if
some of the self-minded would take
as much interest in the boys as the
government, it would make them
happy to think of you. I realize
that the majority of people are in
terested in the boys away from
home. I would like to ask every
body in the county to send the boys
gifts from home.
The boys, each and every one, are
proud to receive anything from their
home county. Anybody can send
anything to the camp; it does not
make any difference what it is, but
I would make several suggestions as
to what the boys need most: Pil
lows, shoe brushes, books, maga
zines, newspapers, Sunday school
books, etc., and the boys will ap
preciate cigars, cigarettes, tobacco,
of any kind, and especially news
papers from home. It doesn't mat
ter if the paper is a few days old, it
will be new news to them to know
of the happenings at home. All the
above things can be sent direct to
the boys. They don't need any
rifles, ammunition or anything of
that kind, because they have the fin
est kind o fthat line to feed the
Germans with.
The officers treat the boys the
best they possibly can, and the cap
tain does not drill the boys over
four or five hours a day. There is
a school here for the boys who hav
en't any education, learning them to
read and write, etc., and making
men out of the boys, so everybody
wake up and do their part. If you
can't soldier, you can do other good
things to help.
What I have seid in this letter is
for all the boys who are home sick
and when vthey don't hear from
home you can tell by their faces that
they are disappointed, so please do
not print my name in full.
H. B.
Strong Bill at the Local Playhouse
This Week.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER, 23rd,
Kathlyn Williams and Wallace Reid in
"Big Timber"
Paramount in five acts.
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER, 24th.
Edith Storey and Antonio Moreno in
"The Shop Girl"
Vitagraph Feature in Five Acts. Fair
Day Show starts 1:00 p. m.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER, 25tli.
Pauline Frederick in
"Tlie Love Tliat Lives"
Paramount Drama in Five Acts. Fair
Day Show Starts 1:00 p. m.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER, 26th.
William Duncan & Carol Holloway in
"The Fighting Trail"
Series no. 3
Ford Sterling1 in Two Reel
Keystone Comedy
and Mutt & Jeff
Matinee 3 p. m.
Mrs. Smith Reccommends Chamber
lain's Tablets.
"I have had more or less stom
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N. Y. "When suffering form attacks
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER, 27th.
Marin Sais in
"The American Girl"
Western Complete in Two Acts.
Hank Mann in
"His Final It low Out"
Comedy in two Acts
Final Episode of
'Pearl of the Army"
and Ileurst-l'uthe News
Matinee 3 p. m. Prices 15 & 10c.
EVOLUTION OF THE SUBMARINE
SALE OF LAND
By virtue of an Order or sale
made by the Superior Court of Gran
ville County, in the Special Proceed
ings entitled "G. L. Allen, Execu
tor of Robert B. Allen, dec.' vs. R.
B. Allen and wife Martha Allen and
others, I shall, on
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1917
at about 1 o'clock p. m., sell to the
highest bidder, by public auction,
for cash, at the court house, door in
Oxford, the following described
tract or parcel of land:
Situated in Brassfield Township,
Granville County, adjoining the
lands of H. D. Mangum, J. S. Rog
ers, H. P. Estes and others, con
taining about 18 acres, more or less,
and being the same land conveyed, to
Robert B. Allen by H. D. Mangum
and wife.
This October 22, 1917.
G. L. ALLEN, Com.
B. S. ROYSTER, Attorney.
LAND SALE.
The home tract of land of the late
Hillman H. Barnes, will be sold at
public auction to the highest bidder
pf tip roiiTt hnvqe t Vn.nce COUntv.
SATTTi?T)AV. NOVEMBER 17, 1917
at 2:00 o'clock, p. m.
This tract of land consists of 350
acres and will be divided into three
tracts :
1 tract of 100 acres.
2 tracts of 125 acres each.
For further information apply to
E. C. HARRIS,
Oxford, N. C.
A. T. BARNES,
Henderson, N. C.
J. T. BARNES.
Henderson, N. C.
No.
This it a prescription prepared especially
for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER.
Five or six doses will break any case, and
if taken then as a tonic the Fever will no
.'etum. It acts on the liver better than
Calomel end does not gripe or sicken. 25c
D. G. BRUMMlITT
Attorney-at-Law
Hillsboro Street
OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA
It is an . American
Indention.
It is now 130 years since Bush
nell, who invented an American sub
marine during the Revolution, wrote
a long description of his boast to
Thomas Jefferson.
Jokesmiths called Bushnell's boat
the "turtle." The inventor himself
wrote to Jefferson in October, 1787
that the "external shape of the sub
marine bears some resemblance to
two tortoise shells."
There was enough air in the "tur
tle" to keep a man alive under wat
er for 30 minutes.
The crew was a solitary individ
ual who carried .one torpedo which
could be fastened under an enemy
warship. In New York Harbor dur
ing the Revolution, the British man-of-war
Eagle barely missed destruc
tion at the hands of a Brushnell sub
marine. Writing a century later of that
old-time inventor, John P. Holland
declared:
"The 'turtle' could have saved
Washington from capture in 1814."
Napoleon gave Robert Fulton
10,000 francs to make experiments
with his submarine, but finally re
jected it.
That was four years before Nel
son, at Trafalgar, ended Bonaparte's
dream of an invasion of England.
Fulton was working on a new
submarine 80 feet long, which he
named the "Mute," just before he
died.
Ten years before the Civil War
began , a man named Phillips built
a boat, and taking his wife and chil
dren in it, and spent a day on the
bottom of Lake Michigan. But,
said Holland, it was no good as a
marine warship.
The Confederates used a half
breed submarine in Charleston Har
bor, and With it sank the Union
warship Housatonic. That boat did
not entirely submerge, was rowed by
eight men while another handled the
torpedo.
John Holland began his subma
rine experiments forty years ago
one year after our Centennial. He
said of all attempts at under-sea
craft before his time, the best was
Bushnell's that had been asleep for
a century.
Willim C. Whitney, when Secre
tary of the navy, was the first Amer
ican official in authority to put an
O. K. an the submarine.
M
miry ml
Oxford, N. C.
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