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VOLlttlE XXXIII.
OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY, JIARCH 27, 1918
NUMBER 24
THE GREATEST CLASH
GEK3IAX LOSSES PLACED AT ABOUT ONE HUNDRED AND FLFTY
THOUSAND MEN BRITISH LOSSES ESTIMATED BETWEEN
SEVENTY-FIVE AND ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND.
Hinilenburg Has Fully One Million Men on Western Front Apparently He
Is-Trying to Separate the British From the French, Roll the British
Up to the Sea and Throw His Center and Left Against Paris Germany
AVill Soon Hurl Her Last Bolt.
The withdrawal of the British forces for the last three days along
the battle front in France was long ago planned in the event of the
Germans attacking in great force. This announcement conies from the
British front through the Associated Press correspondent, who describ
es the operation of the British army as a masterly withdrawals, made
possible by gallant shock troops in the front lines, who checked the ad
vance of the Germans, while artillery, machine gun and rifle fire work
ed appalling slaughter among the masses of German infantry as they
were sent forward, this enabling the main body of the British to fall
back deliberately andwithout confusion.
This army, 'it is declared, has been conserved, and up to the pres
ent very few counter-attacks have been made against the Germans.
Where the British have stormed the Germans' newly acquired posi
tions they have driven them back. But each mile of advance makes
the bringing up of supplies to tne German artillery and infantry more
and more difficult, and unquestionably the British strategy, as demon
strated since the beginning of the great attack, is to let the enemy, so
far as lie may, wear iiimself out against a powerful defense.
WASHINGTON, MARCH 25.
According to official estimated of the casualties occuring thus far
in the great west front battle, more than 200,000 men have been killed,
wounded or captured in the three days' fighting.
British estimates place the German losses at 150,000 men. While
nothing official has come from the front throwing a definite light on
the British losses they are estimated at approximately half those of
the Germans, between 75,000 and 100,000.
The figures, although merely estimated, were viewed solemnly by
military and diplomatic officials here today.
It was believed that such losses could not continue for long and
that a lull in the fighting must result.
METHOD OF OPERATION OF ARMIES DESCRIBED.
London, March 25. The Daily Main correspondent at the front,
telling of the battle now in progress, says :
"Along a considerable part of the front there was a series of re
doubts about a mile apart, each redoubt being held by a hundred men,
somewheat on the principle of the blockhouse in South Africa, with for
midable belts of barbed wire around them and a strong armament of
machine guns and trnech motors and provisioned for two days.
"All of them did valuable work in delaying the German waves of
advance. They were surrounded and subjected to a terrible fire, but
all held on during the first day of the attack until late in the af ter-
noon.
Thp (rprmflns snfpprprl most
mode of attack in crossing No-Man 's-Land consisted of a first wave of
two companies, marching almost shoulder to shoulder, with light ma
chine guns. A hundred yards behind came two more companies, close
ly followed by a number of machine guns. Next, after an interval of
two or three hundred yeards, came the light trench mortars, and the
battalion of staff. Again there was a space of two hundred yards and
then across prepared exits from the German trenches the field artillery
drove out into the open in columns, forming into line of battle as soon
as possible."
CALL FOR COUNTY DEMO
CRATIC CONVENTION AND
PRECINCT MEETING.
Complying with the plan of organ
ization of the Democratic party of
North Carolina, and m the action of
the State Democratic Committee, the
undersigned hereby call a conven
tion of the Democratic party of
Oranville County to be held in the
Court House in Oxford on Saturday,
April 6th, at 12 M. The object of
said Convention will be the election
f Delegates to the State Conven
tion, to be held in Raleigh, April
10th and the election of a new
County Executive Committee and
tne transaction of such other busi
ness as may come before the Com
mittee. Precinct meetings in all voting
precincts of the County are hereby
called for Saturday, March 30th,
J1 at 2 o'clock P. M., to be held
at the respective precinct voting
Peaces, for the purpose of electing
Precinct Committees in each pre
set and the election of a Precinct
aairman.
It is desired that each precinct
meeting will be fully attended and
at Vthers wiU be a larse attendance
6th County Convention on April
In the event of failure to hold a
precinct Meeting in any Precinct
v?l County Convention will pro
loe for appointment of a Com
mittee for such precinct.
his the 22nd day of March, 1918.
A. A. HICKS, Chariman
a m Granville Co. Ex. Com.
T- KNOTT, Secretary.
A New Feature.
See Charlie Chaplin at the Or
Pneum Theatre every Wednesday
!ndgroW fat.
Vacation Kindergarten.
I xi the close of the Graded school,
Ornl pen a Vacation Kindergarten.
or i?La limited number taken. See
r phne me for terms.
MAY WHITE.
OF THE WORLD-WAR
from the machine firun fire. Their
FROM FOOD ADMINISTRATION.
The People of Granville Are Urged
to Meet the Demand.
Owing to the shortage of wheat
and to the demands for flour for
war purposes, the Federal Food Ad
ministration announces that as a
military necessity the wheat con
sumption in this country must be
reduced fifty percent. I wish to call
upon the people of Granville County
to meet the demands of the situa
tion. Our people have so far been
reasonably patriotic in their efforts
to conserve food, and the Food Ad
ministration has tried to be reason
able in enforcing the regulations. I
think that most of our people now
realize -the necessity of such conser
vation and are familiar with the
food regulations. I, therefore, de
sire to give due notice that the food
regulations will be strictly enforced
insofar as the Administration is
able to do so.
Hotels, cafes and boarding houses
must observe the wheatless Mon
days and Wednesdays as well as the
other food regulations. Merchants
must absolutely obey the law in re
spect to combination sales and sell
flour to nobody except in combina
tion with other cereals. Provided
that flour in quantities not exceed
ing forty-eight pounds may be sold
to farmers upon the certificate that
they have produced and are . using
the substitute cereals in equal quan
tities with the flour.
B. W. PARHAM,
County Food Administrator.
Fine Baby Boy.
Born to Doctor and Mrs. Nelson
Thomas in Durham Sunday, a fine
bouncing baby boy. Mother and
child doing well.
Handsome Furniture.
If you have not visited the furni
ture store of Upchurch & Currin
recently, take an hour off and let
them show you something nice in
mahogany and old ivory furniture.
The stock is large and very attrac
tive. -See announcement on the
5th page of this paper.
COUNTRY PUT ON WHWAt
RATION POUND AND HALF
ONLX TO EACH MAN.
The Consumption of. Wheat Must at
Once Be Cut in Half Adminis
tration May Confiscate Wheajt
Being Hoarded By
Farmers.
Herbert C. Hoover, Food Admin
sitrator, has announced that the
country must go on bread rations.
In explaining the drastic action, Mr.
Hoover makes it clear that it was a
war step. It means a cut of fifty
per cent, in normal consumption.
Householders and restaurants
must not use to exceed one and a
half pounds of. wheat products per
person a week.
The monthly consumption of 42,
000,000 bushels of wheat must be
cut to 21,000000 bushels in order
to supply the allies.
Furthermore ,the probability was
strongly accentuated that farmers
who are holding their wheat for
the higher price of $2.50 a bushel
as provided in the Gore amendment
may have their stock requisitioned
by the government.
While the rationing system ' will
be voluntary, the food administra
tor, by his power of limiting the
distribution, can make it practically
compulsory.
The chief provisions of the ration
ing system are: -
1 Householders to use not to ex
ceed a total of one and a half
pounds per week of wheat product
per person. This means not more
than one and three-quarter pounds
of victory bread containing ttie re
quired percentage of substitutes
and one-half pound, of cooking flour,
macaroni, crackers, pastry, pies,
cakes, wheat breakfast cereals, all
combined.
2 Public eating places and clubs
to observe two wheatless days per
week, Monday and Wednesday, as
at present. In addition thereto not
to serve to any one guest at any
one meal an aggregate of bread
stuffs, macaroni, c,rakers, pastry,,
pies, cakes, wheat breakfast cereals'
containing a total of more than two
ounces of wheat flour.
3 Retailers to sell not more than
one-eighth of a barrel of flour to
any town customer at any one time,
and not more than one-quarter of
a barrel to any country customer at
any one time, and in no case to sell
wheat, products without the sale of
an equal weight of other cereals.
4 We ask the bakers and grocers
to reduce the volume of victory
bread sold by delivery of the three
quarter pound loaf where one pound
was sold before, and corresponding
proportions in other weights.
There is no limit upon the use of
other cereals, flours and meals, corn,
barley, buckwheat, potato flour, etc.
THE CANVASSING C03JMITTEES.
They Are Entitled to a Most Cordial
Reception.
(Statesville Landmark)
Did you ever think about the
work of these canvassing committ
ees you whose chief hope is that
they will let you alone? The peo
ple who canvass for Liberty Bonds,
War Savings Stamps, for Red Cross
donations and the like they are
busy people, with work to do 'in their
own business, "the same as you and
I." But somebody has to do this
disagreeable job, and so they make
a sacrifice of time, pay their own
expenses when there is an expense
account, and go out and do the work
because somebody has to do it. They
get no pay, direct or indirect, in the
form of cash. Their only reward
is the consciousness of duty per
formed, disagreeable though it may
be.
NEGRO MAN ROBS HORSE.
Silas Harris Caught in the Act of
Stealing Corn.
Last Saturday a farmer came to
town and hitched his horse in the
stables in the rear of the Banner
Warehouse and placed enough corn
in the rack for his meal.
As soon as the owner of the horse
departed, two men saw Silas Har
ris, colored, creep up and take the
corn out of the rack and place it in
a bag. The two men
officers and the arrest and denten
tion of Silas followed. In munici
pal court Saturday, Mayor Mitchell
bound Silas over to the April term
of court.
LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE.
Mrs. Candace Brown Heads the
Woman's Organization in
Granville. . ,
Mrs. Candace Brown has been
named chairman of the Woman s
Liberty Loan work m Granville
county. The selection of Mrs Brown
was a wise one. All of the
women of the county are urged to
rally around her in th 51
The campaign of the third Liberty
Loan will be inaugurated on April
6 the anniviersary of our declara
tion of war against Germany.
FARMERS MUST FDLE
AFFIDAVITS SEEKING
HELP CLASSIFICATION.
Farmers seeking to have their
help given deferred classification in
the draft must file affidavits with
local draft boards. Attention was
called to the fact that the boards
have no authority to give deferred
classification otherwise.
. "If farmers whose hands are af
fected in this new call fail to file
affidavits they should have no cause
for complaint if their men are tak
en from them at this critical time,"
the statement says. "It will be
useless to protest later."
SIMPLB7IES LIBERTY LOAN
Payments by Bond Subscribers to
Be Made Easier By New Method.
The Liberty Loan Committee is
planning, an invocation in respect to
the handling of bond purchases
made on the partial payment plan.
In the last campaign most of the
banks .used cards, and every time
the subscriber made his weekly
payment of $1 it was punched. Some
few institutions used small books,
containing fifty slips, with stubs,
and upon payment one of the slips
was torn out and stub stamped
"paid."
While heretofore it has been nec
essary for the bond subscriber to
make his weekly payment at the
bank or trust company where he
filed his subscription, under the
proposed arrangement the subscrib
er will be able to turn in his money
at any bank. The book system will
be used, and banks receiving the
payments will forward the slips to
the Liberty Loan Committee's offic
es, where the payments will be
checked up. It is proposed that the
banks should jointly purchase a
block of bonds on behalf of the
partial payment plan subscribers
and hold them until the bonds are
fully paid for. As the subscriber
completes his payments a bond will
be delievered to him" ,
MONSTER CANNON
OF GERMANS IS 70
MILES FROM PARIS.
Much Speculation Over Character of
Gun Little Military Value.
Paris, March 25. The German
"monster cannon" whilh has been
bombarding Paris has been located
in the forest of St. Gobain, west of
Loan, and exactly 122 kilometres
(approximately 76 miles) from the
Paris city hall. The gun bombard
ed Paris during the greater part of
Saturday and Sunday.
It is a very delicate piece of ma
chinery, which must be handled by
expert mathematicians and gunners,
as the loading and pointing is a dif
ficult task. Each shot costs about
$4,000. "This is a ftew conception
of our enemies," the newspaper
comments.
BE A SELF-STARTER.
Prof. J. F. Webb Leads the County
in Number of Speeches.
One of the most enthusiastic
worker in Granville for the sale of
war savings stamps is Prof. J. F.
Webb, who has made forty-two
speeches to date, and he says that
the half has not been told. "Be a
salf-starter," is the induction of
Prof. Webb.
One of the most enthusiastic cen
ters in the country is the Enon Com
munity. Gen. B. S. Royster and
Hon. B. W. Parham made strong
speeches at Enon last Friday night
to a packed house.
Enon community is expected to
purchase $6000 worth of war say
nigs stamps and war saving certi
ficates, and the hustling community
regards the task as an easy one.
MUST SEPARATE THE
SHEEP FROM THE GOATS
Voters Must Pay Their Poll Tax Be
fore April 1.
It is necessary for voters to pay
their poll tax before April 1st. In
order to separate the names of the
patriotic voters from those who do
not nay their poll tax, the sheriff is
-equired to furnish the Clerk of the
Court a list of all who have paid so
that their names can be placed on
the record for inspection by Novem
ber 1st.
NEAT BRONZE TABLET.
Defending tne Cause of God, Hu
manity , and America.
One of the most appropriate tab
lets we have seen adorns the door
of Gen. B. S. Royster's residence.It
is 3x5 inches, wrought in copper
bronze, and contains the following:
"This is the home of a soldier
defending the cause of God, Human
ity and America."
Mrs. Street's Mother Dead
Mrs W. L. Lewis, mother of Mrs.
K L "street, died early Monday
morning at her home in -Rozboro.
Mrs. Street was with her .when. the
end came. The funeral will be held
this Tuesday afternoon.
THE PACKING PLANT THAT
DID NOT MATERIALIZE.
Some Were For It, But the Knock
Kicked it Over the Fence and
ItvDied in the Boming
About one year ago things looked
bright in Oxford for a meat packing
plant. Several meetings were held
and the livest business man in Ox
ford was selected to head the enter
prise; a campaign for raising funds
was .mapped out and the various
committees in due time reported
$30,000 subscribed.
Everything moved along nicely
for a couple of weeks, and then the
knockers asked the committee if it
would be possible within the next
few years to keep the plant busy.
That was the hostile blow that
led to comouflague. A committee
consiting of Ex-Senator Titus Cur
rin, M. P. Chamblee and R. C. M.
Calvert were appointed a committee
to visit packing plants in Georgia
and report their findings. The com
mittee returned and filed their re
port and offered to bak up their
judgement of the packing industry
by subscribing liberally to .the pro
posed enterprise. r
"At this stage, the entreprise took
on new life and it did seem to the
beholder that such men as Messrs C.
D. Ray, Henry G. Cooper, Dr. E. T.
White, Senator Currin, Mayor Mitch
ell, Ham Powell, M. P. Chamblee,
W. H. Hunt, General Royster, D. G.
Brummitt, John Webb, J. F. Mead
ows, and the like of them, were pre
destine to walk the streets of Ox
ford veritable hog barons. But a
strong lawyer with little faith in
the enterprise said in open meeting:
"I know the farmers of Granville,
and I defy any man present to point
successfully to any farmer in the
county who will obligate to produce
25 hogs."
That was the final blow that shat
tered the air castle and put the
committee to sleep.
Baring on this question we read
with much interest the following As
sociated Press dispatch dated at Tif-
ton-.-eatT-: ';" :: f.?.
"For the shortest month of the
year the Tif ton packing plant broke
all recordh south of the Mason and
Dixon line for the first month's run,
killing 12,000 hogs during Febru
ary, after opening the first day of
the month. During the first month
of its operation the plant paid over
half a million dollars for hogs to
farmers.
"For the past few days more hogs
have been offered than could, be han
dled, perhaps 100 carloads being
turned away. Last night there were
5,000 hogs in the pens, enough for
two week's killing, and a constant
stream is on the way despite the cry
of the management that it had
enough.
"Farmers are ready for plowing
now and need the hogs out of their
fields. It is expected that in a few
weeks the plants will be1 anxious for
the stock they are obliged to refuse
now because they have no place to
keep them.
"Three years ago the Moultrie
plant could not secure hogs enough
to keep it going. This year, al
though its capacity has been three
times increased and plants 'have
been opened at Tifton, Statesboro,
Waycross and Savannah, several
train loads of hogs have been ship
ped to plants north and east to re
lieve the congestion."
SCHOOL CHILDREN PARADE.
The Governor Was Too Busy to Re
view the Line of March.
An item of news that the Public
Ledger tried to get and failed was
the parade of the Oxford school
children on Monday, March 18th. We
were told that the children would
pass in review? of Governor Bickett,
who was scheduled to make a speech
in the Court House - at the noon
hour. All was comouflague with us.
It seems as if General Royster had
charge of the Governor, and that
Mr. B. K. Lassiter was chairman of
the meeting. We were also aware
that Superintendent Phillips was
in charge of the children, but there
was a hitch somewhere and the Gov
ernor left Oxford without seeing the
three hundred .fine children, each
waving a war savings stamp as they
passed the court house. It was an
inspiring sight, worthy of the Gov
ernor's notice, but the Governor was
much fatigued from travel and
speaking it is said, and he hastened
to deliver his speech and get home.
A photograph was taken of the
children assembled in front of the
postoffice, from which a cut will be
made, and it will be printed in the
Public Ledger as soon as we can get
our hands on it. ,
THE COLORED SOLDIERS.
Seventy-five Men Will Entrain Here
Next Saturday.
The Granville County Exemption
Board received orders to entrain seventy-five
colored men next Saturday,
March 30 th, without fail. The men
will go to Camp Grant, Illinois.