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S i t MM PUBLISHED SEMH-WEI&KLY TOWH AMP COTUMTY QFFER BMLL3AOT OPPOCTTOETHE ALL MOTE PEMTT VOLUME XXXffl. OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, NUMBER 15 OXFORD TOBACCO MARKET WILL CLOSE FRIDAY MARCH 8 EUROPE SUDDENLY BECOMES RUSSIA IS NOW: FORCED TO FILLED WITH TENSE CRISIS. The Next Crop Will Be Sold On imr r A . " lllt xn , f That May at Any Moment Change The Oxford Tobacco Board of Trade at a meeting this week voted to extend the time of closing the market to Friday, March 8th. This -was made necessary by the long spell of bad weather, which hinder ed the farmers from bringing , the tobacco to the market. Many of the farmers requested that the time be extended. It is estimated that there is in the neighborhood of 250,000 pounds of the weed in the county yet to be sold. The Board of Trade unanimously adopted the plan of selling the to bacco next season on baskets. They also adpoted the coupon system. Many of the markets of the State nave given' the basket and coupon svstem of handling the tobacco a test and-all of them agree that it is the most satisfactory way to handle the tobacco. This method is the outcome of the scarcity of labor. GOING AFTER MOONSHINERS. SIGN PEACE BASED ON HUMILIATING CONDITIONS Sheriff Hobgood Has His Weather Eye Upon Them. The Public Ledger is glad to note the activity of the sheriff's forces in routing moonshine" stills, which it is reported have been springing up since the operation of the "Bone Dry" law. Vigilance on the part of the offi cers and co-operation with them by the good citizens of the county should make it hard for the illicit liquor maker. It is to be regretted that the operators of stills, recently destroyed, have made their get away. The destruction of the outfits will not suffice to check the "indus try." which is now said to be very nmfltaWfl ' There must be some . convictions and work sentences be fore the offenders are impressed with the majesty of the law and their experience can serve as a de terrent to others who may be temp ted to take the chance for the money that may be in the nefarious traffic. HANCOCK STREET. the Complexion of the War From Its Present Status and Bring About Final Mastery. (Washington Special) Europe has suddenly become filled with tense crisis, that may at any moment change the complexion of the war from its present compara tive passivity and bring about the final mastery. The relation be tween Germany and Austria are strained as they have been at no other time since the war began; the contending forces along the west front are on. the tiptoe of expectaey for thft delivery of a giant blow; the allies themselves are just passing through the final phrase of a criti cal situation concerning the autho rity of the Versailles war council, Russia is revealing an internal sit uation of growing confusion that may turn out to be the greatest crisis of all. But whether this be true or not, Von Hindenburg can put no trust m the permanence or any peace signed at Petrograd while the war continues in the west. The era of crisis now rife throughout Europe will be particularly liable to explo sive tendencies in Russia until the war ends on all fronts. Von Hin denburg's situation today is no less disquieting for him than it was yes terday. , ! Troops Advancing Into Russia Over 400-Mile Fronts Demand by Mass For Peace Brings Downfall of Three Successive Governments. SCHOOLS OF THE COUNTY TO HANDLE THRIFT STAMPS. Eight Families Now Reside on the New Thoroughfare. Hancock street, leading South from Front street, is the handsom est street in Oxford, save one thing, namely, mud. Enterprising citizens donated the street to the town and built side- County Superintendent Wrebb, Dr. J. D. Harte and Mr. A. W. Graham, Jr.,. Fired the First Gun. Superintendent J. F. Webb has been very busy for the past several days working up interest among the schools of the county, urging the teachers and children to wage an ac tive campaign for the sale of govern ment war saving stamps. "The first speeches of the Campaign among the schools of the county was at Knott Grove school Wednesday afternoon. Prof. Webb, Dr. J. D. Harte and A. W. Graham, Jr., made interesting talks, which were greatly enjoyed by the teachers and children. The speakers explained the details of the campaign and urged the children to stop spending money for foolishness and invest it in stamps. y Superintendent Webb states that good speakers will visit the other schools of the county to explain in The Russian bolsheviki gov ernment has capitulated and an nounced its readiness, although protesting to sign a peace com- -pact under the hard terms im posed by Germany. Notwithstanding this fact, Teutonic troops are advancing eastward into Russia over a front of 400 miles, from Riga in the north to Lutsk,, a scant 50 miles firom the east Galician border, on the south. .Apparent ly thus far the operation has met with no opposition. The northern reaches of the Dvina river have been crossed by the enemy, the important railroad town of Dvinsk, whence roads run north-eastward to Petro grad "Vmd eastward to Smolensk, has been captured, and Lutsk, one of the famous fortresses of the Valhynian triangle and forming the ; gateway leading eastward to Kiev, has been en ' tered without the Russians at tempting to stay the foe. The official announcement of the capitulation was signed by Nikolani Lenine and Leon Trot zky on behalf - of the people's commissaries of Russia. It pro . tests against Germany attacking a country which has, declared the war at an end and which is demobilizing its armies on all fronts, but under the circum stances, it says, the government regards itself forced formally to declare its willingness "to sign a peace ; upon the condi tions which had been dictated by the ; delegates of the quad ruple alliance kt Brest-Litovsk. EXTRACT FROM LETTER WRIT TEN SIXTY-FOUR YEARS AGO. We Scarcely Know What High Prices Are At the Prsent Time As Com pared With the Civil War Prices. In looking over a bundle of old documents, Esquire A. P. Overton, THEY WENT DOWN INTO EGYPT AND FOUND PLENTY. What Does Mrs. Henry G. Cooper and Other Cooking Experts Think of This Menu? A committee of International Red of Fishing Creek, discovered a letter Cross men went down into Egypt to that was written the 20th day of see what England was doing to its March, 184, by Mrs. Mary A. Allen, many thousands of Turkish prison the mother of Mrs. A. P. Overton, to ers. Result: her brother, who was at the front it was found that a Turk was bet somewhere in Virginia, from which ter off in a British prison camp than we are permitted to take the follow- he was at home. ing paragraph: In one camp were 6,200 soldiers "The wheat and oat crop are very ana officers captured on the Sinai soiwy; they were very much injured peninsula. The Public Ledger sub by the heavy frost, fallowed by so mit3 to Mrs. Henry G. Cooper and much dry weather. Wheat is sell- other cooking experts that this is not ing for $20 -per bushel, and corn for a bad menu for war prisoners: $100 per barrel. Our taxes are aw- Breakfast Bread; milk. ful I paid $23 last week and will Lunch Meat stew; vegetables; have to pay again this fall. I ex- rice; bread. pect to go, to Oxford Tuesday to give Supper Bread; soup, rice; milk. my list and pay my tax and carry Extra, when 'y ordered Chicken; my small portion of meat to the tie pigeon, rabbit; butcher's' meat; lem- master. I will then do the best I Qns. . eggs; cheese; curdled milk. can with the money I have in hand. At a Dig detention camp of Turks, I bought two bushels of potato seed wnere there were many women and last week of Mrs. Tunstill. She children, this was found to be an would not take the Confederate average menu for one day; money for them. They were selling Breakfast Porridge; milk, cho- for $15 per bushel. colate; butter; bread. "The substitute men were exa- Lunch Haricot soup; ragout 01 mined last week and a great many beef ana potatoes, of them got clear somehow. I wish Dinner Rice soup; hashed meat my boy Ecky had a mill and worked (m0ussaka), with vegetables; eggs; 15 hands or more. If you win write tea? with a lead pencil. J eaii rub it out and answer on the same paper, as we cannot get any paper, at all here. This is written oh an old letter-sheet that was rubbed out." SOME LINES OF GOODS WITH DRAWN FROM THE MARKET walks at their own expense, and now there are eight handsome residenc-, detaU the government's campaign es on the thoroughfare, from which ; fQr gale Qf war savlngB stamps properties the town reaps a nice lit- and certificates in which Granville tie sum. You never hear those who reside on Hancock street and deposit it in thing unless it is mud. And it is strange to say that those who live on Front street and along up on the east side of Main street complain , more about the mud on Hancock county is urged to buy stamps to the amount of $500,000. It was figur ed out that the children and their parents, of Knott Grove school, must come across with about five thous and dollars. Superintendent Webb said that Woolen Blankets Will Be Hard to Get Next Fall. Mr. josh King, buyer for the Long Company, is back from the northern markets and talks inter- AstiTisrlv of his trip. Some lines of goods have been withdrawn from the market entirely, says Mr. King, while other. lines are more reason able in price than was anticipated. NO SURPRISE IN WASHINGTON. woolen blankets will be hard to get Announcement of the purpose of next fall, the government having the bolsheviki government of Russia laia its heavy hand on all of the to sign a peace treaty based upon woolen mills. the humiliating conditions imposed Mr King is to be congratulated by the Germans caused no surprise on being able to negotiate for an ex in off icial circles, . in view of the , tensive stock of goods for spring " At one big camp of war prison ers only one man died of typhoid in six months. The health was normal for that part of the world normal also in the fact that 20 per cent, of all the Turkish soldiers were suffer ing from sore eyes. But how this paragraph in that Red Cross report startles an Ameri can: "The number of illiterates being very high, or 98 per cent, letters are comparatively few." Think of that! Only one soldier out of every fifty in the Turkish ar my can write. In the American army every sol dier can read. Yet we have pacifists and slackers who tell us that Amer ica is not worth fighting for. street than those who live on Han-, . . , . t f th cock street. There is a reason: The j scnools of the county, and that vir wheels of vehicles pick up the mud j q them wm iye ft good nrt WnnfrfV tr eet. and deDOSlt m large quantities on the handsome granolithic pavement on Front and TVIain streets. You can see traces of Hancock street mud all the way up to the postoffice, a distance of about a quarter of a mile. Some years ago Main street was paved with crushed stone and through neglect it was only a few years until the mud accumulated on top of the stone to the depth of six or eight inches, and it will be the same thing again at Front and Main streets unless the Town Board lend their attention to the condition of Hancock street. account in placing stamps hands of many children m the HENRY WEST IDENTIFIED. GRANVILLE CO. WOMAN'S COMMITTEE TO MEET. There will be a joint meeting of the officers of the Granville County Woman's Committee, Council of National Defense and the chairmen of the units of the Committees, next Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the Oxford Library. The meeting is of great importance, and those who are thus called are urgently re quested to be present. v Handsome Oars. The Oxford Overland Company are selling the handsome overland cars as fast as they arrive. The car load lot received ten days ago went like hot cakes, and only two cars of the second car load lot on hand. See the adv. elsewhere in this paper and place you order. The Negro Says he is From Granville County. (Raleigh News and Observer) . Henry West, a negro, who claims Oxford as his. home, is in jail here under a thousand dollar bond, charged with attempting an assault on nine-year-old Margaret Doolittle last Sunday afternoon. West was identified by the little girl in the po lice court, and also by Anthony Davis, colored, who lives a short dis tance from the Doolittles, and where the little girl had been sent on an errand. MR, JAMES OSBORN, AN OX FORD BOY WINS PROMOTION. Now the Manager of the Bennetts ville and Cheraw Railway. The many friends of" Mr. James Osborn learn with pleasure that he has been promoted to the manage ment of the Bennettsville and Che raw Railway. Mr. Roy Osborn, a former agent of the Seaboad at Ox ford, now the agent at Hartsville, S. C, will probably accept a more re sponsible position on his brother James road. failure of the attempt of the Rus sians to influence the German so cialists to prevent an attack on un resisting people. An irresistible demand by the great masses of the Russian people for peace had brought about the downfall in turn of three successive governments: that of Czar Nickolas; that of Prince Lvosk and that of Kerensky, Lenine and Trotzky, ac cording to the official understand ing, were fully aware that their re gime would share the same fate if they failed to respond to the over whelming demand of the public. There was danger of overthrow from the more patriotic Russians through accepting degrading terms of peace, but having carefully calcu lated the chances, .it-is believed that Lenine and Trotzky finally decided in the face of the renewed German advance into Russian territory that their only hope of maintaining con trol of the government lay in com plete submission to the German de mands. -such a peace treaty, as now ma, be signed, according to the official view, must depend for its vitality and legality entirely upon the out come of the great war. Being made under absolute compulsion and by what is regarded as nommg than a faction of the Russian people., the allies in a peace conference would demand that it be disregard ed " Violates Entente Principles. Accepting as accurate the . state ment credited to Trotzky in his re Sort upon the Brest-Litovsk negotia tions, that the German terms m cluded, the retention of Poland Lithuania. Riga and Moon isana and an indemnity of 800.000.000 bounds, it is pointed out that the proposed treaty will be indirect vio ?r .P w nf all peace pnnci- lauon "" tonte V ww and summer. Millinery, says Mr. King, is very pretty this season. THE PENALTY IS DEATH. Soldiers Absent Fr om Camp Lee Without Leave. The Public Ledger is advised that several soldiers from Camp Lee are absent without leave. General Breck says the government heretofore has been very lenient with -the men. He has been informed that relatives and friends have urged some soldiers to remain away from camp. ' "Desertion in time of war is pun ishable by death," General Breck as serts, "and' although it has not been inflicted upon any soldier, it will in the course of time." BICKETT OPPOSED TO ANY PAR- TSATVT CAMPAK5N THIS YEAR. A MOUNTAINEER RUNS AMUCK IN OLD GRANVTLLE. by the Wilson, DONT FORGET THE DAY AND dates, February 25 to March 2, inclusive at Davis' Majestic sale at Clarksville, Va. nioa iaia uuwu i mnn anri "President bPut of the- often quoted Teutonic aclarations of "no annexations and no indemnities." However, it teken for granted that there will be attempt to disguise these de mands and deny that they constitute either indemnity or annexation. Would Have Democratic and Rermb- l'can Counties Remain So; Di vide Doubtful Ones. SnPflTHne at Goldsboro Tuesday under the auspices of the war sav ings and Red Cross workers, Gov ernor Bickett declared against any sort of a political campaign this year in North Carolina, desiring to . have those counties that are markedly democratic name the officers there without republican opposition and these counties that are definitely re publican name the officers therein. s to those considered doubtful, there could be an equitable division between the parties. A Native of Granville. We are carrying an advertisement of the Royster Fertilizer in this pa per, and the Lyon-Winston Com pany, distributor for this section, states that there is an increase sale of the Royster products this year. Mr. Royster, the manufacturer' of the Royster Fertilizers, is a native of Granville county and is a broth er of Mr. Graham Royster. The Hills In This Section Are Not High Enough to Hide the Smoke and Drown the Noise. For more than one year the offi cers of the law have had their eyes on W. A. Murphy, who resides on the Oxford-Roxboro road, at a point on Crooked Creek out beyond Be rea near the county, line. The old fellow came to Granville two or three years ago and married a wom an in that section. Smoke was of ten seen in the early morning, hours in the vicinity of Murphy's home, and wherever there vas a crowd the name of Murphy was whispered in an undertone. Murphy claims to be a native of Burke county, and he looks it, but the officers believe that he came from the tall hills of Virginia. The sheriff's force, armed with a search and seizure warrant took a trip to Murphy's home last Wednes day and s found several jugs with some whiskey in them. There were evidence at hand, too, that suggest ed to the minds of the officers that Murphy was a manufacturer. Murphy was brought to Oxford Wednesday and placed in the coun ty jail to await the preliiminary hearing Thursday afternoon. A large delegation from the Berea section was on hand to see what was about to happen to Murphy. He employ eble council, Graham & Graham, to defend him. General Royster ap peared for the State and there was something doing every minute, but some of Murphy's neighbors did not want to tell all they knew. Justice Dee Hunt presided and after digest ing the evidence in the case, placed Murphy under a $500 bond. Secretary of War Baker has been visiting Southern army camps this week. He did not, however, stop at Camo Greene. Charlotte, as was ex- J pected. r ORPHEUM THEATRE DOING ITS PART TO WHIP THE HUN The War Tax at the Local Play House Amounts to $100 Every Month. The war revenue derived from the sale of tickets at the Orpheum Thea tre amounts to $100 every month. The war tax on the tickets sold for the Coburn minstrels Wednesday night amounted to $25.00. Every time you. see the movies you feed a soldier. i 5 - ( ! i i V, Is I I : . I t
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