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OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1918 NUMBER 0
FOOD ADMINISTRATOR DRAWS
TIGHT LINE IN GRANVILLE.
Mr. B. W. Parhain Will Enforce the
Law.
County Food Administrator B. W.
Parham, has been instructed by
State Food Administrator Henry A.
Page to take prompt and vigorous
action to the end that all purchasers
of excessive quantities of foodstuffs,
particularly flour, in Granville coun
ty shall return their surplus above
one barrel to the dealers without
delay.
Mr. Page evidently means busi
ness and Mr. Parham means busi
ness too, for he announces that the
State Food Administrator's instruc
tions will be carried out to the let
ter. Mr. Page's letter is of the
straight-from-the-shoulder type that
is characteristic of the man. He de
mands action and action right away.
In writing to the County Food Ad
ministrator Mr. Page instincts him
as follows:
'(!) That you demand of each
retailer in your county a complete
list of consumers who have pur
chased flour in excess of one barrel
during the past three months.
"(2). That you immediately no
tify the purchasers whose names
are submitted to you or whose
names you can secure that they
must return all flour in their poses
sion in excess of one barrel to the
dealers from whom they purchased,
those dealers being required to take
it back at the price they received for
it.
"(3). That you take every
means within your command to
remedy this situation just as
promptly as possible.
"(4). That you submit to us
promptly for indictment and prose
cution the names of any merchants
who withhold information and any
consumers who retain in their po
session more than one barrel of
flour after they have been given an
opportunity to return it to dealers."
NEW GROCERY STORE WILL
BE OPENED IN OXFORD.
Three Live and Energetic Young
Men Form Organization.
On investigation we find that the
often repeated rumor that Oxford
will have another large grocery
store is a "reality fact." Three
young men of broad experience will
launch the enterprise at an early
date.
"Write anything you please" said
a member of the concern to the Pub
lic Ledger, "but don't mention our
names at present. Everything is
practically in readiness for the
start, except a few minor details,
and upon these we are practically
agreed."
It is understood that the grocery
atove will be located in a handsome
building on the corner and that
ndthing in the State will surpass it
in veil t of sanitary equipment and
service. The close prices inaugu
rated in Henderson and Durham
will prevail here on a cash basis.
FORT SILL.
The Place That Tries Men's
Souls.
Major Thad G. Stem was in Ox
ford this week and talked freely as
to the conditions at Fort Sill, Okla
homa. It is a desolate place, said
the Major, and then he went on to
tell how a young and inexperienced
doctor tried to disqualify him for
service. ;
Major Stem was slightly sick and
reported to the post hospital for
treatment. A young doctor was as
signed to the case. He placed his
ear on Major Stem's chest and heard
a slight wheezing sound, and after
trentinr him nine days pronounced
it .1 case cf tuburcolosis.
This riled Major Stem's good na
ture and he demanded that another
doctor be called, and called he was,
and told Major Stem that he was as
sound as a dollar and to report for
duty at once.
Major Stem lost nine days of val
uable time by the Tom Foolery and
then graduated at the head of his
class.
NOTICE TAX PAYERS.
rf you have not paid your 1917
St and County Taxes please call
at office and io so now. I must
con or-t now to meet demands being
m; upon me laily.
Statements will be mailed you,
upon request. S. C. HOBGOOD,
Sheriff, Granville County.
THIS IS OUR WINTER OF
TEST
Serving food is a local prob-
lem for each community. Prices
and definite rules for every
one cannot be formulated. It
is a duty for each one to eat
only so much as is necessary to
maintain the human body
healthy and strong. This win-
ter of 1918 is the period when
is to be tested here in America
whether our people are capable
of voluntary individual sacri-
fice to save the world. That is
the purpose of the organization
of the United States Food Ad-
ministration -by voluntary ef-
fort to provide the food that
the world needsi
U. S. Food Administration.
DESIRABLE NORTHERN FARM
ER SETTLES IN GRANVILLE.
Mr. C. L. Faulk and Family Come
From Crawford Coutny, Pa.
Mr. C. L. Faulk, a -typical Penn
sylvania farmer, arrived in Oxford
last Saturday with his family and
will work a section of Mr. Knowl's
big farm on the National Highway
one mile north of Oxford.
Mr. Faulk learned much about
the Sunny South through the public
ity deparment of the Southern Rail
way. He made a trip to Oxford one
year ago and was highlfy pleased
with our climate and the farming
conditions here. When he left
Crawford county, Pennsylvania, last
week the snow was fourteen inches
deep, and on his arrival in Oxford
he was agreeably surprised to find
that it had snowed here just enough
to "lay the dust."
Mr. Faulk and his excellent fam
ily are very desirable settlers, and
all good people will extend to them
a hearty . welcome. Although Mr.
Faulk has engaged to'tin the soil
and raise hogs and cows on the old
de la Croix farm, now the property
of Mr. Knowles, he expects to pur
chase a farm in the ; near future.
Mr. Faulk is what you might
term a "Pennsylvania Dutchman,"
the most industrious and best farm
ers in America. They eat their
breakfast and supper by candle-light
3 65 days in the year, and yon never
see them loafing around the court
house square so long as there is a
sprig of grass in the "tuber patch."
A SPLENDID ROAD MAN.
Mr. G, W. Roystea, of Bullock, is
the Man.
Mr. George . W. Royster, of Bul
lock, patrolman on the National
Highway between Stovall and the
Virginia State line, is one of the
best road men in . the State accord
ing to the report of the State High
way Commission. Mr. Royster not
only knows how the work should be
done, but he is willing to do it like
it should be done. During the rec
ent forty days of severe weather he
kept the road bed of his section
clear of ice and snow, and the re
sult was that he had the best seven
mile stretch of road between Rich
mond and Fayetteville.
Last spring the section of road
from the Virginia line on to Clarks
ville was in a deplorable condition,
but we learn that it is now in fine
shape, which is accounted for by
the fact that . the Virginia patrol
man copies after Mr. Royster.
Patrolman Royster being such a
splendid road man, we wish the
Highway Commission would trans
fer him to one of the sections a lit
tle closer to Oxford.
PAN-GERMAN PAPER OPENLY
CALLS FOR REVOLT.
London, Jan. 30. A dispatch to
the Exchange Telegraph from Am
sterdam says the Deutches Tages
Zeitung openly calls on the German
people to revolt against the present
regime.
"We, too," says this pan-German
organ, "have a Judas among us to
day. He .appears in the red coat
and mantie of Germany's hang
nan. Who will save Germany from
hese traitors but the German peo
ple? It is now 'Germans help your
elf, and God will-help you.' "
Although Emeperor William is
not named in the article, the. expres
sion "German hangman" is-meant
?or the kaiser, says the correspondent.
GERMAN EMPIRE APPARENT
LY IN THROES OF TREMEN
DOUS LABOR UPHEAVAL.
Thousands Upon Thousands of
Working Classes on Strike Near
ly Half a Million in Berlin Re
ported Idle.
THE SOCIALISTS IN CONTROL.
Ultimatum Is Delivered and Conclus
sion of General t Peace Without
Annexations or Indemnites De
manded. (Condensed Press Report)
Transcending in interest even
the great victory of the Italians ov
er the Austrians on the northern
Italian battle front is the political
and economic situation in Germany.
Here, apparently, a large part of
the country is in the throes of a
great labor upheaval, due to dissat
isfaction by the working classes ov
er the progress of the peace negotia
tions and over internal political con
ditions generally. Throughout the
country thousands upon thousands
of the working classes both men
and women have struck and in
dustries are affected.
In Berlin alone nearly half a mil
lion persons are reported on strike,
and hourly those who have quit
work are receiving reinforcements.
Likewise, in Kiel, the great shipyard
center, at the Hamburg Iron works,
and in the Rhenish Westphalian
mine region workers have thrown
down their tools and left their jobs.
Led by Socialists.
Leaders of the Socialists both of
the independent and the majority
factions evidently are in control of
the movement and for their pains a
number of the independents have
been ordered imprisoned.
Ultimatum-; Delivered
r The socialist; potjer Vorwarts an
nounces that the. "Berlin strikers
have now become more numerous
and threatening. They - have ad
dressed to the government an ulti
matums of eight clauses, the last of
which calls for the institution of
equal suffrage by direct secret bal
lot. RALEIGH, N. C, JAN 29. 1918
B. W. PARHAM, Food Admr.,
OXFORD, N. C,
NOTIFY ALL MERCHANTS
THROUGH THE PUBLIC
LEDGER NO EXCEPTIONS
CAN BE MADE TO FOOD AD-
MINISTRATION T RULING
FORBIDING SALE OF
WHEAT FLOUR EXCEPT IN
COMBINATION WITH EQUAL
AMOUNT OF OTHER CER-
EALS, INCLUDING CORN
MEAL, HOMINY, GRITS, OAT-
MEAL, RICE, . BARLEY
FLOUR, EDIBLE WHEAT
SHORTS OR MIDDLINGS,
CORN FLOUR, CORN
STARCH ,SOY BEAN FLOUR.
HENRY A. PAGE.
KNITTING MILL FOR OXFORD.
Plant Will Be Located on Williams
boro Street.
Mr. H. M. Shaw has leased for a
term of years the one-story brick
building on William sboro street
west of the Oxford Buggy Company
and immediately in front of the old
market house, which will be con
verted into an up-to-date knitting
mill.
Mr. Shaw has already placed an
order for the necessary machinery
for a good daily output. It is his
intention to enlarge the plant as the
business expands.
URGENT CALL.
Issued to the Patriotic Women of
Oxford.
There will be a meeting of the
Oxford Unit of the Woman's Com
mittee of the National Defense on
Thursday the 7th of February at
3 o'clock in the Library. Every
patroitic woman of Oxford is a
member of this unit. The chairman
of the different departments are
asked to be ready with their reports.
Ask the Farmers.
The farmers say that there is
nothing better than Ober's. It is a
household -word is Granville. .The
price, too, is right. See Horner
Brothers Company.
WHY NOT SEND CORN TO
EUROPE
-
We cannot send them corn
because they have not enough
mills to grind it and are not
familiar with its use as food.
Even if they knew how to use
corn meal, it is not suitable for
. shipment because it is so liable
to spoiling. The oats, rye. bar-
ley, etc., that we send them
will not support them unless
mixed with wheat.
We must send them more
. wheat and to do this we must
eat less wheat bread.
WOMEN'S BIG MEETING
IN HENDERSON FEB. 6.
District Meeting Including Granville
County, Louisburg, Macon,
v Weldon and Other Places.
Mrs. C. A. Johnson, president of
the State Federation of Woman's
Clubs, has accepted an invitation to
make one of the principal addresses
at the district meeting of Woman's
Clubs to be held in the Chamber of
Commerce in Henderson on Wednes
day, February 6th.
Another address of much impor
tance and great interest will be that
of Mrs. J. R. Chamberlain, of Ral
eigh, who is chairman of the Wake
county Council of National Defense.
Her subject is Women and War
work.
The district includes the clubs of
Oxford and Granville countyT Louis
burg, Macon and Weldon together
with the Henderson and Vance
county community clubs, and the at
tendants will be representatives
from these organizations. The meet
ing, however, will be open to the
public and all women are invited to
attend.
One feature of the program will
be a talk by Mrs. A. H. Powell, of
Oxford, who will represent the
North Carolina Children's Home,
she being a member of the State
Social Service Department commit
tee. The meeting will be called to or
der at 10:30 o'clock. The Hender
son Woman's Club, will be hostess to
the visitors, and dinner will be serv
ed at the Vance Hotel.
The afternoon session will open
at 2 o'clock, and will include Mrs.
Chamberlain's address, closing at
4:30 o'clock with a luncheon serv
ed by the Home Economics Depart
ment. TWO FARMER'S INSTITUTES
IN GRANVTLLE NEXT WEEK.
Large Attendance Expected at Enon
and Wilton.
Two Farmer's Institutes have
been advertised to take place in
Granville county next week at
Enon on Tuesday, February 5, and
Wilton on Wednesday, February 6.
At each of these places a special
program for women has been ar
ranged by Mrs. A. L. Capehart,
County Home Demonstration Agent
and we hope a large crowd will be
present to show their appreciation.,
Mrs. Capehart will be assisted by
Mrs. M. M. Davis. City Agent, In
charge of Home Demonstration
work in Raleigh and Durham. Mrs.
Davis will give a talk on the food
situation in general and will give
special advice as to food for chil
dren. War recipes and practical
demonstrations in cooking will be
given.
The Food Administration tells us
that the word "save" has been over
emphasized in the public mind and
the word "substitute" over-looked.
We all know that "we cannot with
safety to the health, especially
whefe. children are concerned, cut
out certain articles of diet unless we
substitute those of equal food val
ue in ue in place of same. . One of
the main objects of this meeting is
to study this subject, in which all
women should be particularly in
terested at present.
The meeting opens at 10:30 a. m.
Come early, bring your lunch and
attend both sessions. X.
Of Interest to Farmers.
The farmers will profit by reading
the special announcement of the
Lyon-Winston Company on the 4th
page of this paper.
Mrs. W. J. Long and pretty little
daughter, Wilmer, have returned
from an extended visit to Greensboro.
THEIR HEARTS ARE IN
THE RIGHT PLACE.
The Call of the Soil Appeals Strong
ly to Prominent Oxford Citizens.
Prominent citizens of Oxford eith-
er own or recently purchased or
rented farms and will this summer
devote their time, talent and means
to cultivate them to their full ca
pacity. The call of mother earth
has appealed to these gentlemen
since early childhood, and now,
backed by a patriotic impulse, they
are determined to redouble their
energies and help feed the starving
world.
Mr. J. F. Meadows, the popular to
bacconist, recently purchased a
handsome farm out beyond the Fair
Grounds and will give much of his
valuable time to its cultivation. He
has also purchased a couple of fine,
strong mules and engaged sufficient
reliable labor to make the venture
a thing of absolute pleasure and
profit. Mr. Meadows will produce
those things which the starving
world calls loudest for.
Mayor Mitchell also has a fine
farm near Oxford and has contract
ed with reliable labor to produce a
good yield of the needed articles of
food. The chief executive of Ox
ford will roll back his sleeves and
give much of his personal attention
to the farm, thereby dignifying lab
or and setting a noble example.
General Royster also owns a
couple of farms in the county and
he will see that his lands will yield
more this year that ever before, or
will know the reason why.
Mr. I. W. Mangum, the popular
warehouseman, owns several valu
able tracts of land in Granvile and
he is now arranging to concentrate
his energies and labor to cultivate
them to their full capacity. "Ev
ery acre in Granville should be made
to produce something for the next
five' years," said Mr. Mangum.
Dr. E., T. White, popular member
of the Granville" County Exemption
Board, is what you might term an
"agriculturist." An agriculturist is
one who never takes off his collar,
but this summer he will remove his
collar and make frequent trips to
the interior of the county and insist
that his farming operations are car
ried on according to the needs of
the starving world.
Mr. John Webb, whose good opin
ion we always court, is a good farm
er. He has organized his forces
and will insist that his lands yield
more than ever before.
The greatest and most surpris
ing item of news was sprung upon
the community this week when
Breedlove & McFarland announced
that they had lear.ed a handsome
farm and that one of the members
of the popular grocery firm would
give his undivided attention thia
summer to its cultivation.
Capt. Will Fleming is the owner
of two good farms, and he will re
double his energies this spring and
summer to their cultivation. Capt.
Fleming has been very successful in
growing hogs and cattle, and it will
be his aim this summer to eclispe
his record.
- Mr. Sam Watkins, the popular
warehouseman, owns several farms.
He is a worker and things always
move when he places his big honest
hands on the helm.
There are other gentlemen in Ox
ford who either own or are in the
market -for a farm. It is stated that
all the reliable help that is needed
for their cultivation will be avail
able when the. tobacco season clos
es. OXFORD MERCHANTS AGREE
TO CONSERVE FUEL.
Will Open Stores at Nine O'Clock
A. M. and Close at Five P .M.
Besides closing their stores all
day each Monday for the next eight
weeks, the leading dry goods mer
chants of Oxford have agreed not to
open their stores until nine o'clock
on the mornings of other business
days, and to close at five o'clock in
the evening, except on Saturday, at
which time the closing hour will be
later.
A Handsome Display.
Although the weather has been
very inclement, the big store of
Landis & Easton is radiant with the
touch of spring. Ladies will read
with interest the special announce
ment on the fifth page of this
paper.