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PUBLISHED SEHI-WEEKLY TOWN AND COUNTY ' OFFER' BMLLIANT OPPOKTUF AIXJHME PRINT VOLUME XXXIII. OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1918 NUMBER S THE PATRIOTIC FARMERS OF i Hiere Are Entirely Too Many Abie Bodied Shirkers in Town There AViis Never a Better Time Than the Present to Enforce the Va grant Laws. ' . The importance of an ade- quate food supply, especially for the present year, is super- lativei Without abundant food, alike for the armies and the people now at war, the whole great enterprise upon which we have embarked will break down and. fall. I call upon young men and old alike and upon the ablebodied boys of the land to turn in hosts to the farms and 'make certain that no pains and no labor is lacking in this matter. PRES- IDENT WOODROW WILSON. The Granville county farmers as a class seldom complain; but the Public Ledger has heard a number of them express deep concern as to the scarcity of labor. This is the Question uppermost in their minds, and it is the question which should be the immediate concern of the Government. It is known that the exodus caused a great shortage in. labor on the Granville farms. Better wages at shop, factory, camp and munition plant was responsible for another part of the shortage, but what the farmers feel most direct ly is the shortage imposed by the draft for that has entailed the most serious of all invonveniences, because of the character of the help thus withdrawn. Granviile farmers, whether justly or not, are quite outspoken in their dicontent over some of the decisions in the draft ing of farm labor, but without go ing into a discussion on that point the fact must be admitted that the farmers have been badly crippled through response to the draft law. It is for the Government to devise some plan by which this labor shor tage may be relievd, and while the Government is very properly giving "first aid" to the munitions and shipbuilding plants, it seems to be overlooking the more urgent neces sities of the producers of the coun try's food supplies. We could not too urgently call the attention of the Government to the situation on the farmrs, nor could the fact be too strongly im pressed that the time when the farmers must have help is fast drawing near. The year's crop of corn, wheat and other products which may be expected this year is going to depnd upon the labor equipment of the farms at the time when the crops are cast. The Granville county farmers, who are as patriotic as any other clars of men, and in many instances more, may be depended upon to grow bumper crops if they can find the labor to do it with, but it is cer tain that the country's pile of farm products the coming season is going to be measured by the amount of labor the farmers were able to mus ter in its production. Oxford is full of able-bodied farm shirkers and the same may be said of almost every town in the State. This labor might not be driven- to the farms, but it could be made to forogo the luxury of idle life in tov.i. It could be put on the move and kept going until it made up its mi id to return to honest work or so- v kind. There never was a bet tei time than the present for an en- y for qu CO) inent of the vagrancy laws, and so good a time may never jam. It should be the deter ' i every town to rout out ln this day and time ioyment for everybody V should be employed. mi i the- 1 the re and br Oriana Guano. ett & Company, at e sole agents of the cel W.. Harg: i ebrated Oriana Guano for Granville Co'inty. There- is an interesting statement in reference to this brand on the second, page of this paper. NOTICE TAX PAYERS. If you have not paid your 1917 Stc and County Taxes please call at -office and do so now. I must collect now to meet demands being map upon me daily. Statements will be mailed you, upon request. S, C. HOBGOOD, Sheriff Granville County. CONSERVATION OF FUEL. General Royster Has The Situation in Hand. Dr. Garfield's fuel conservation order was strictly observed ' in Ox ford Monday. General B. S. Roy ster; fuel administrator for Gran ville county, set a good example by closing his office in the Odd Fel low's Temple. As fuel "administro tor he could have had a fire all day; as county treasurer he coifld have had another fire all day, and" for other publis service in which he is engaged he could have had the third fire , all day. Finding him out in the cold, Judge Cam Hunt called him into the Clerk's office and gave him a table. General Royster views the fuel situation of the country seriously. He not only insists that Dr. Gar field's Monday closing order must be complied with, but he says that it is the duty of every one to con serve as much fuel as possible not only on Monday but every other day. General Royster and Mayor Mitchell were again in consultation as to the fuel situation in our midst. NECESSARY FARM SUPPLIES. State Food Administrator Henry A. Page Issues Statement. Raleigh, Jan 28. State Food Administrator Henry A. Page an nounced today that exceptions to the Monday afternpon closing order as applied to food stores will be made by his organizetion only upon proof of pressing necessity for such exceptions. Exceptions allowing supply stores to remain open will likewise be made only where press ing necessity is shown even then the execption will apply only to the handling of fertilizers, seed and oth er necessary farm supplies. Under no circumstances is a dealer suppos ed to assume that he is priviledged to stap open without the direct and definite permission by County Food Administrators or County Fuel Ad ministrator. WORTHY POOR RECEIVE HELP. Colored Woman Burns Bed Slats to Keep From Freezing. In his rounds last week Chief Hobgood found a family of colored people, in destitute circumstances. The mother of the. family of chil dren burned the bed slats to keep from freezing ( and there was not a speck of food in the house. Upon investigation Mayor Mitch ell learned that the family was worthy of help and he accordingly directed Chief Hobgood to supply them with a limited amount of fuel and food. - - THE OXFORD TOBACCO MARKET There AVill Be Several Good Breaks Before the Colsing Date. It is estimated that there is at least 600,000 pounds of tobacco of the 1917 crop yet to be sold on the Oxford market. The indications are that there will be two or three big sales when the weather will permit the farmers to place their tobacco on the market. The buyers are eager for the remainder of the crop at good figures. The market will close for the season February 28th. DON O. MITCHELL DEAD. Former .Oxford .Citizen .Dies, in Seattle, Wash. Mr Don O. Mitchell, son of the late Col. R. J. Mitchell, died in Seattle, Wash., last Friday. The news of his death reached Oxford Saturday through a telegram to his sister, Mrs. John T.' Britt, who now resides in Washington City, where Col. John T. Britt holds a govern ment position. Though Mr. Don Mitchell has been away from Oxford for tweny five years, the older citizens remem ber him well and speak kindly of him. MR. P. L. PAR HAM DEAD. Funeral and Burial This Tuesday Afternoon. Mr. P. L. Parham, an esteemed citizen of Providence section died Monday, aged about 60 years. The funeral and interment will take place this Tuesday afternoon. Judge Devin in Durham. Hon. W. A. Devin spent the week end in Oxford and left Monday for Durham where he is holding a one week's term of court. THE NATION WAS PLACED ON WAR DIET MONDAY. Rationing System Prescribed By President Wilson and the Food Administration Outlined. 'VICTORY BREAD" IS THE WORD Reduced Food Consumption Asked Fos- Purpose of Creating Larger Surplus for v European Allies Two Wheatless, One Meatless and Two Porkless .Days a Week, Ef fective Last ; Monday. Curtail ment to Be Accomplished Largely By Voluntary-' Effort, But Law WTill Be Used Where Applicable. The American people were placed on a war bread diet Monday as part of a war rationing system prescrib ed by President Wilson and the food administration. "Victory bread," the administration calls it. The rationing system as present ed by the President in proclamation and Food Administrator Hoover iu a list of regulations, forms the food administration's 1918 food conser vation program, 'Of which the chief f eatrues are : A , baker's bread of mixed flours, beginning Monday with a five per cent, substitute of other cereals for wheat until a 20 per cent, substi tution is reached Februery 24. Sale by retailers to householders of an equal' amount of substitute flours for every pound of wheat flour purchased at the time the wheat flour is bought. Sale by millers to wholesalers and retailers of only 70 per cent, of the amount of wheat flour sold last year. Two wheatless days a week Monday and Wednesday and one wheatless meal a day. One meatless day a week -Tuesday and one meatless meal a day. Two porkless days a week Tues day and Saturday, : V GRANVILLE CO UNTY'S f FIGHTING STRENGTH Six Hundred Men Placed in Class One; the Fighting-Wing. of the . Army. According to the records of the Exemption Board about 600. men have been placved in Class 1. These men are selected from the 1960 "reg istrants of the county. At this writing we are unable to assertain what proportion of .the registrants are distributed in each of the oth er classes. The fighting strength of Gran ville county during tlje war between the States; was about 2,400. Sur vivors of the war tell us that there was a great scarcity of provisions in the county at that time. It is ell at this juncture to re mind the farmers of Granville that there will also be a great scarcity of provisions here long before we transport half that number across the sea, unless they get .busy and plan to produce the food. "THE LOST EXPRESS. The Orpherim Will Be Closed Tues day Fine Bill All the Rest of the WTeek. -As per order of the fuel adminis trator the Orpheum will be closed i Tuesday night, but the mil tor rne remainder of the week is of unus ual interest. "The Fatal Ring," in which Pearl White is seen at her Kacf onH ttpIpti Holmes in the . Lost Express," are some of the lead- ing features. MARRIED MEN DRAFTED- Seventv-One Have Married in Granville Since Registering. ! In compliance with, a new ruling j of the Provost-Marchal General, the Granville County Exemption Bo?rd on Friday last mailed out 71 letters to the men in the county who have married since registering These men must show cause why they could not be placed in Class 1, the fighting wing of the army. - Club Asked to Participate. The Oxford Woman's Club has received an invitation to attend the Seventh District meeting of Feder ated Clubs to be held in Henedrson February 6th. All members of the Oxford Club who will attend this meeting please notify Mrs. John Webb at once, so that she may let the Henderson ladies know how many to expect. The . meeting will be one of interest and- profit. CHAMPION OF THE WORLD. Mr. Eatman, a Granville County -Farmer, Wears the Honor Wth Becoming Modesty. Mr. H. H. Eatman, who is crdit ed by'th& United States Department of Agriculture- as producing the largest yield of cotton to the acre in the United States during the year 1916, as explained in the Public Ledger last week, wears the distinc tion with becoming modesty. His Pleasing Personality ' Mr. Eatman is an easy-going farmer, about 60 years of age, we judge, and is typical of the old Southern gentelman. As he passed along the streets of Oxford Saturday he was approached by such men as Dr. White, Col. Cooper, Senator Currin, Mr. James W. Horner, and others with uncovered heads, who were anxious to congratulate him for bringing the great honor to Granville county. Congratulatory Letters Simeltanious with the announce ment of the public press throughout the country, congratulatory letters and inquiries began to shower upon the modest Granville county farmer, who the government selected from among the millions of farmers and placed him before their vision as a model for future generations. Large Correspondence. One of the penalties of popular ity i is a large correspondence, and to meet the demand Mr. Eatman will be compelled to" install a couple of typewriters. - A fortuns is now within his graps, but he is too mod est to reach out and take it. He has on hand about 200 bushels of the best cotton seed ever grown. They are worth - about $50.00 a bushel to the planter, but Mr. Eat man is not the. kind of a man to boast the prices and sell broadcast an inferior seed. Mr. Eatman's Record. Mr. Eatman grew an average of S, 000 pounds of cotton in the seed to the acre on three acres. The av erage yield of cotton for Granville county in that year was 570 pounds of cotton; the average yield for the State of North Carolina was 602 pounds to the acre, while the aver age production for the United States in 1916 was 447.4 pounds. Mr. Eatman's Farm. Mr. Eatman's farm, upon which errew the celebrated cotton, is sit uated on the outskirts of Oxford at a point where the Oxford and Hen derson highway .crosses the' Sea board railroad. It contains about 50 acres in all, and 'is very fertile. REDUCTION IN SUGAR. Further-Cut' in the Maximum Price of Flour is ilntimated. . Ralegih. Jan. 28th. Notwith standing the fact that the Food Ad ministration has frankly and read ily granted a few merchants per mission to sell flour on hand at more than $12.50 per barrel and'sugar at more than 10c a pound where they have shown that the delivered cost of the product has approached the figures sent, a further reduction in sugar is announced as a certainty and a still further cut in the min imum price of flour is intimated as a possibility. In very few instances have North Carolina jobbers ben found to have exceeded the margin of 50c a barrel allowed them for the handling of the flour. PHYSICAL EXAMINATION JN GRANVILLE WH.L BEGIN SAT. Forty Men are Notified to Appear Daily on and After that Date., The Granville County Exemption Board has designated Saturday next as the day on which the physical ex amination of all registrants will be gin.. The men will appear in group es of forty on and after that date, excepting Sundays. All in Class 1 will be examined before Class 2 is taken up. It will require about 18 nays to examine the men. The ex amination will take place in the Court House and they will be ex amined by local physicains. The Blessed Day is Coming. What a day that will be when the tidings are flashed oversea and land that peace has been declared! From tpn thousand time ten thous and steeples what bells will ring out, as if they were human things, their wild delight at the long-hoped-for-event! Never, in the history of the world, will there have been such & day of universal joy. BEGIN NATION-WIDE CAMPAIGN AGAINST. MOONSHINE LIQUOR. Internal Revenue Department Places Granville County in the Drag Net. Discovery that manufacture of ntbonshine whiskey is increasing rapidly in borie dry states, and that quantities have been sold ilicitly to sofdiers in Southern camps caused Internal Revenue Commissioner Roper to announce ; a . nation-wide campaign against illegal distillation i nco-operation with state govern ors. The military camps where moon shine liquor has been sold most, in spite of precautions of military and civil authorities are Camps Wads worth, Spartanburg, S. C, Sevier Greenville, S. C, and Oglethorpe, at Chattanooga. . State laws forbidding importa tion and the Federal tax of $3.20 a gallon have driven Jthe price of crude corn liquor about many camps to $8 and $12 per quart, according to evidence gathered by revenue agents. Special effort will be made to clean out stills in the dry states. Illegal manufacturing is thriving best in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Kansas, according to reports of rev enue agents. BIG AUCTION RUMMAGE SALE FOR RED CROSS. A Committee has been appointed by . the Granville County Chapter of Red Cross to ask for contributions from the people of Oxford and Granville", county for any of the things named in this article, to be sold in February. The proceeds to be used for purchasing wool and other supplies needed by the Red Cross. The exact date of the sale will be given later, but all who can and will contribute toward it , are re quested to leave their names and state what articles they can give, at the Red Cross rooms, corner Main and College steets and they will be notified when and where to send the articles. We hope and believe that this will give a great many who cannot give large cash contributions an op portunity to serve the Red Cross. The following articles are desir ed: Clothing, shoes, hats, rugs, curtains, pictures, trunks, furniture, canned fruits and vegetables, meat, poultry, eggs, butter, etc. SEE POSTER IN WINDOW. Grocerymen Become Members of th Food Administration. A large number of North Caroli na retailers are lining up with the Food Administration in fine shape. Approximately 2500 grocers in North Carolina -have become mem bers of the Food Administration, pledging themselves to give their customers the benefit of fair and moderate prices. All of those re tailers will be supplied with posters to display in their windows to show to the public that there are mem bers of the Food Administration and are co-operating. Something like 150,000 out of 350,000 groc ers in the United States have sign ed the Food Administration pledge and the campaign is still on. Red Cross Work. There will be a rook party in the Granville Comercial Club rooms Fri day night, February 1st, at eigth o' clock, for the benefit of the Red Cross. Men and women, boys and girls are most cordially nivited to attend. The Red Cross is in need of funds with which to buy wool .nd other materials. Tickets may be secured and tables reserved by calling at the Red Cross rooms. Admission 25c. Come and help in a good cause and at the same time spend a pleasant evening with your friends. Y. Feed House Blown Down During a severe wind storm rec ently the big three-room feed house of Mr. Claude M. Grissom, near Fairport, blew down. The big tim bers fell on one of his fine cows, but fortunately.it was not killed. In such an hour - of national crisis as that which now confronts us every loyal citizen will cheerfully forego certain of the rights he might justly claim in times of peace.
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