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s i ' :v ii: it' ; --fit. i 1 1 MM " PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY TOWN AND COUNTY P UJyJ.1 (Ji PER h lilLLIANT OPPORTUNITIES-ALL HOME PRINT. s jruiSJJ, JNOKTH CAROLINA SATTTPr a tttxtti "'xi x . i i i iv r. i v i in o i - i J-'J, JL7LO t Verbis xxxiii. ;77oHV DAY AT THE OXFORD ORPHANAGE preparations Under Way to Cele brate the Event Tuesday, June 25th. John's Day will be celebrated 'liVovford Orphan Asylum Tues l ! TT,rt 125th. R-.jsi Raymond B. 'Enfield, who has a reputa- ... v.ifrT. will deliver the fion as au ofl,ive. He is a man of striking ,1 litv and the oration will be n Ballon, of Oxford, will deliver "dress of welcome. 1? ORPHANAGE liAiTAidUA axxj DRILL. The Orphanage Military Company composed of : of the older boys, ,i ? !v;v;' hcon drilled since winter y,x "serat. John Baker, will give an eviiibition drill. BMIKWTE AMD REFRESHMENTS The usual barbecue will be served at the various stands on the ground. LAKGE CROWN EXPECTED. . There wove no special rates giv en by the railroads last year, yet the crowd was in keeping with former irom the immediate, sur- round uiii ioi iinvi iviuii'Tuv iiiu iKtf'ked here, but it safe to esti mate that at least 5,000 people will SOLDIEI1S CAPTTTRF, tittct & TOWN OF OXFORD. Nmty-si Men and Thirty Motor 7 ;ks Come Down 'the auonai Highway. NUMBER 47 ZT ; P was advised that a detacJ nt of the United States the abov in- tiles vrdl themselves of the privilege of beins! present and renewing old ac quaintances beneath the cool shade of the towering oaks. WROXG REPORT. A . -eport which was started in thw. rt n to the effect that St. Johri's Dav would not be celebrated date. ibis year is entirely without foim- lne Mayor o-n tii nr0fi a nnrt1-pv of t,, men d later fn the day drove, out tow Stovall to meet the troops anf extend to them the keys of thf ivn. In the mean time the Red vross chapter got busy, and when the soldiers landed at' four o'clock they were bombarded with ice cream cones, cakes and lemon ade. The troops struck- camp in the Graded School Grounds and lit the fire and by the time the coffee was good and hot, fried chicken, sand wiches, pickles and cakes began to arrive in baskets on the arm of matrons and maids who desired to pay homage to the gallant boys. Lt. Bixby was in command of the detachment. The ninety-six men, mostly nothern boys and as polite and courteous as dancing masters, were , from Camp Wadsworth, Spar tanburg, S. C. They belong to the ammunition train and were en route from Newport News to Spartanburg with new ammunition trucks. The soldiers received a warm wel come here, and they appreciated the many courtesies and favors shower ed upon them by the old and young. They declared that Oxford is the prettiest and most hospitable city they had ever seen. The men broke camp here at an early hour Thursday morning and took -up their journey to Spartan- UTOH S DEAD 1 KT.ICE TO OWSEBS . vm "AD- i OF THRESHING 5IAOHIXKS 4- 7 . , jl. j, f -lif, HUISi-S ; County Food Administrator B. W.I i4llulul jnumuigaies important Ruling; burg via Greensboro. They are scheduled to,, go abroad at an early An impromt'u dance was given at the Armory in honor of the sol- ladies taking kjlng for partners, nnd ninonsr tlie soldiers. but noi cided to postpone it one day and dancing, was Corporal Sieberling hold it on Tuesday, June 25. Miller, of the Buckeye Mower and Reaper Works, Akron, Ohio, heir tb millions . T , , A 11 t ie Armory in nono dation. St. John's Day proper falls z young on June 2Uh, hxrt the tact that it part were not lackjm falls on Monday tnis year it was de- nrif1 mnT1 tlP4 Rnldi ?,IEAXS OF RAISING REVENUE. Method to Tax Chauffeurs, Gasoline Silk Skirts and Soft. Drinks. New and untapped sources of revenue which may be drawn upon to supply war funds for the govern ment Avere brought to the attention of ways and means committee on the eight billion revenue bill. Among the new txes suggested vrerp a tax of 25 cents a gallon' on gasoline, a tax of from $10 to $50 on chauffers, tax on slik shirts, shoes, costing more than $6, and pajamas costing more than $2, and heavy consumption taxes on coffee, tea. tobacco and soft drinks. The taxes were suggested by Oliver M. rpgu professor of banking at Harvard university. TOWN HOARD MAKES AP PROPRIATION TO HOME GUARD Hancock Street Receives the Atten tion of the Town Fathers. At a meeting of the Town Board Tuerday night a committee was ap pointed to look into the question of paving Hancock street. A good rev eaup comes from this new street mi the Board feels that the prop erty owners are entitled to consid r.tion. The committee was in structed to report at the next meet ing. The Board voted $200 toward equipping the Home Guard with r-3?-s. it is estimated that the Sps will cost at least $1,400. Just ynsre the balance of the money is to come from is not plain at this writine ' COLORED MBS WILL ENTRAIN i1 'Si3 uimju jttvw 2ifcT Ai 4 KA1IS OA HOSPTAES. LOADOX, June 12. The Germans bombarded Dritish hosisitals in France seven times between May 15 and June 1, ac cording to a statement made in the House of Commons by J. I. MacPherson, Under - Secretary of the. War Office. The casual ties numbered 991. These were as follows! Killed -Officers, 11; other ranks, 318; nursing sisters, 5; woman's auxiliary corps. 8; civilians, G; total, 348. Wounded Officers, 18; oth- saniis, 534; nursing sisters, -w a ttil. J. ROUT, WOOD PUR- HfASES RAWLINS PROPERTY The handsome residention prop rty on Main street, the former ricrae of Mrs. Rawlins, in front of U1e residence of Mr. John Webb, purchased by Mr. J. Robt. tp-?V .this week- Mr- Wood con nvT i!"ate3 extentive improvements the near future . rorxx THE COST REFORE YOU START. Travelers on All American Roads Inst Pay Three Cents a Mile. The new passenger rate of three nts a mile went into effect last Monday morning. Fmd out the distance you wish to yaei and multiply by three, and iou have it. tfjTwork in an office 4,l13 oman who is a college 9o nate and typist. Address No. oot, care the Public Ledger. J152tx Also List of White Men Going to Cr.mp Jackson June 25. The Granville County Exemption Board has notified the following colored men" to be in readiness to entrain June 21 for (Jamp Taylor, Louisville, Ky. : James Hatchell, Otis Jones, Lon nie Harris, Warren Hopkins, Rob ert Peace, James Crosby, Roy Smith, iinwocd Taylor, Henry W. Rog ers, Len Parker, Lee Otis Burton, Henderson Downey, Robert Taylor, Collie Lyon, Ernest Garner, Em mitt Kersey, John Daniel, James H. Moore, Green Clayton, John A. Chavis, Ben Allen, Melvin Julius P oyster, John Henry Peace, Dorsey Cheatham, James Tally, George C. Branch, Walter Moss, Ja-mes Ed ward Jeffreys, Esquire Allen, C. A. Hall, Daniel Ellexson, Ike Crews, Sonny Shanks. The following white men will en train June 25th for Camp Jockson: Norman Jones, Norman. A. Roy croft, Ollie Arrington, Ernest B. Howard, William Jones, Fred Dan iel, George L. Cox, George E. itts, Jubal Otis Jones, Gary B. Taylor. RED CROSS NEWS. The Surgical Dressings Depart ment of the Granville Chapter of Red Cross has received the absor bent cotton to complete the allot ment order of large cotton pads and the Surgical Dressings Rom will be open during the summer months on Wednesday and Friday mornings from 8:30 to 1 o'clock. The allot ment order which must be comP" ed by July 1st, is for 1050 large cot ton pads and the supervisor is nj, ing the ladies to be present on the above days' and help in this work. Made Donation. Stem Auxiliary made a donation of $93.22. the past week. This amount being the Proceeds from miscellaneous sale held at Stem. Membership of $2.00. The Red Cross Drive. The returns from the recent Red. Cross drive in Granville is being tabulated , and made ready to be printed in the Public -Ledger. TOTAL CASUALTIES TO DATE. Following is the total of cas ualties in the American Expe ditionary Force since it went to France: . , , Killed, in action (incliid- in 297 willed at sea 1073 Died of wounds Died of disease A-u" Died oi accident and other I causes. ..... ' Wounded in action . . . . .419U Missing in action (mclud- ing prisoners) Total S to Front to Carry GunTA W hole Divisions Cut to Pieces. reiich camion and machine guns have reaped a heavy toil T- Tdaj' TIle ground over winch the French made counter-attacks was literallv strewn with dead, says lh- K a as Respondent at the front." The French surprised the Germans, who until thn thought they were masted of the situation. The Geimans re tired in disorder and brou-ht horses to the front in full gall lop m order, to carry away the guns. " Kveiy prisoner taken seems horror stricken at the slaugh ter of his comrades. Starvation and fremient rio BICKETT PUTS LID ' DOVvN ON VAGRANCY 70 STARS ADORN TABLET AT OXFORD GRADED SCHOOL. Suga? Dealers. All dealers in sugar are hereby notified that by order of the Wnited States Food Administration the! maximum quantities of sugar that! ina.y ue soia nave oeen reduced to five pounds for country consumers and two pounds to town consumers. The maximum quantity that mav be sold for canning and preserving is twenty-five pounds and this amount may oe soia only upon certified oerore. Merchants nre further that thev vcw ?,t lrr an o ni -n oi i w VL A-t tl vLUUl tailed record, of every sale of sugar from this date. This record should La!3 Cvb advised show the name of fivprv mirpiiQoor of sugar for cash or otherwise, the date of purchase and the amount purchased. A failure on the nart of any merchant to comuly with IN NORTH CAROLINA. these regulations will meet with iira oi ien, Kicn, Poor, Blak or White, Will Be Sent to War Department For Files JJs. our Wdiers auu ClOtilinS' .miiT,t 'C3 X? and treason and mnrA' Tfl...1- miirripr Bickett Says ,ih a proclamatton to the peoole of thn Bntn , asking ihem to report cases "of v rancy or idleness Ail cit.v nrl "utu ijxusecute to the li r ;r Vclsciucy wmch comes be- Names of men, who, upon request of the county councils of national defense, x refuse, to work will be for warded to Washington and the list will be used later as a basis of an : ,ro. , xaM emption boards to jjui m Class 1 all able-bodied oetween the ages of 18 and 50 who refuse to do regular work, the Gov i prompt action. Threshing Machines. -Under the order of the United States Food Administration, notice is hereby given to ' the owners of threshing machines and also to the producers of wheat that July 8th is the date fixed for the beginning of wheat threshing in Granville coun ty. , The attention of threshing ma chine owners is further called to the fact that in Person County July 15 is the earliest date on.whicn wheat ah . city and county officials throughout the State have. been no! mit all ! mav be threshed and the Food Ad ministrator of that County requests that threshing machines from Gran ville County shall not come into Person County before that date. B. W. PARHAM, County Food Administrator. 11; women's auxiliary coigns. 7; civilians, 73; totals 643: ALLIES OUTNUMBER THE GERMANS TWO TO ONE. If We Don't Crush Them It Will Be Own Fault. Can 120. men whip 140 men if 100 other men stand behind the 140 to help them? That is Germany against the Al lies 120 against 240. France, Italy and England not including England's Indian posses sions have 140 million population against 120 million in Germany, Austria, Bulgaria and European Turkey. Back of France, England and Italy's 140 million sand America's' 100 million. We don't count Japan and Portu gal and India and France's African colonies, but just the white races of the Allies. We ountnumber the Germans ex actly two to one, and if we don't crush them it will be our own fault. We have the man-power to do it. OAK HILL TOWNSHIP COiKSTOTHE FRONT. Votes Extra Tar to Rsprove the Schools. District number five of Oak Hill Township voted a special tax for schools - last-: -Tuesday- - This is the fourth district in this township with special tax. This idea is slowly growing in the county. Every year shows an increased number of dis tricts that vote the extra -tax to im prove the schools. The number of districts by townships are as follows: Tally Ho Dutchville Fishing Creek Sassafras Fork Oak Hill . Salem ..." Brassfield . . . Walnut Grove o 4 4 4 o o 2 1 Total 30 In addition to this the teritory around Oxford embraces in the Ox ford district is a rural tax district. Eleven years ago there were just 10 special tax districts in the coun tv and the amount of special tax districts in the county and the amount of special tax was $1300. At present the number is thirty and the special tax amounts to over $13,000. The voting of local tax for schools is a fair index to the interest a community has in the education of the children. The time will come when a man will be ashamed to say that he lives in a district that is not progressive enough to have a local tax for schools. , A List Of Those Who Have Placed Their Lives Upon the Altar of Their Countrq. The service flag presented to the Oxford Graded School by General B. S. Royster now adorns the vesti bule of the school building. The tablet bearing the names of sixty pupils of the-'school who are now in the service of their country, hangs upon the wall facing the front en trance. Ten more names of those who have attended the school will be added to this honor roll, making a total of one ycung lady and sixty nine young men who have showed a willingness to make the spreme sac rifice for their country. The list follows : Miss Frances Hays, Stnaiey Aver ett, Compton Bobbitt, James Booth, Dallas Buchanan, Harvey Bullock, William Bryant, Ashburn Cape hart, Clyde Cannady, Raymond Hunt, Elliott Cooper, Sol Cooper, W. E. Chapell, Lee Cheatham, Luther Davis James Ellington, Robert Fort, Frank Furman, William Grant, Frank Gooch, Rowland Gooch, Clyde Gooch, Eugene Gleen, Ernest Hart, William Medford, Fred Parham, Hugh Peed, William Pndleton, Stan ley Penny, Marshall Pinnix, More head Emmitt, Waverly Harris, Loomis Hales, Kilgo Hun, Robert Kinton, Joe Lassiter, Arthur Lan dis, Augustus Landis, Mark Landis, William Landisr William Hill Pow ell, Joseph Roller, Bev. S. Royster, Roy. H. Royster, Joe Ragland, Neil Roberts, Joe Stedman, Tom Spencer, Ben Smith, R. T. Smith, Bert Taylor, James A. Taylor, Kin ton Taylor, Lindsay Taylor, Win field Taylor, Jennnigs Walters, Guy Wheeler, John Graham Webb, Roy Williford, John D. Williams, Char-" les Fort, Francis Bradsher, Will Jackson, B. G. Moore. OXFORD BOY IS IN THE BIG BATTLE. STORM IN GRANVILLE. "Cheating the Public." A William Fox 1918 cinemelo dramatic message dealing with food profiteering and the child labor problem, will be shown at the Or pheum Theatre Monday, June 17. The scene of the story is a fac tory town and the life depicted there is declared to be a cross sec tion cut from human nature. The production, though strong in love interest, tells pricipally of the struggle of the people of the town to earn an honest living under al most impossible handicaps imposed upon them. - Another car load of Chevrolet cars just received by the Blalock Motor Company. Those who get in on this shipment will save money See announcement elsewhere in this paper. . Cheap Fuel. - Read the stipulations of the Gas Company on the second page of this paper. - J Residences Unroofed and Wheat Crop Damaged. The storm that passed over northern . Granville late last Wed nesday evening did considerable damage in its track. The wheat crop in many places was leveled to. the ground. The residence of Mr. Grover Green at Sunset was un roofed. The store of Mr. S. M. Evans, at Oak Hill was badly dam aged. The cook room at the home of Mr. Robert Laws, above Oak Hill, was unroofed. Mrs. Laws and child were in the room at the time, but they escaped uninjured..- The storm struck the northwest ern corner of the county and swept eastward to Williamsboro and on down through Vance to Henderson and beyond, doing much damage to crops and dwellings. GERMANS' DDFFICULTIES CONSTANTLY INCREASING. (Paris Special) Every , foot the enemy ad vances now brings him farther into territory which is thor oughly well known to the al lies and prepared for defense. Therefore his task becomes mo mentarily more difficult. The aUied staffs are prepar ed to meet every eventuallity and display the most perfect confidence in the outcome. Sergt. Win field .Taylor First Gran ville Boy to Reach ' the Trenches. Winfield, the fine son of Mr. and Mrs. Arch Taylor, is the first Gran ville boy to reach the trenches. He enlisted in the Marine six months ago and qualified as a sharpshooter three months later and accompanied Col. Harbord to France. . He ,is with Co. Haburd, who is now commanding the American Ma rines, fighting so valiantly and suc cessfully against the Germans on the Marne front. In the present driver" achieving honors that, are making them the heroes of the word, the Marines for the past week have faced the heav iest bombardment of gas and shells that was ever hurled by an enemy. Few men will ever witness a more severe battle than is raging around Winfield Taylor at this very hour. If the enemy ever reaches Paris or the Channel ports they must pass over his dead body. J. SPRUNT HILL BUYS WAREHOUSE. One of the Largest Properties of , the Sort in North Carolina. Changes Hands. ' Seventeen thousand five hundred dollars was the price paid by Mr. John Sprunt Hill for the Farmer's Warehouse, Durham, Tuesday, when it" sold at public auction. Mr. Hill also purchased a goodly number of warehouse fixtures) pay ing approximately $700 for the out fit. The total cost to Mr. Hill was a little more than $18,000. The warehouse is one of the lar gest in North -Carolina. It was erect ed several years ago, and for three or four seasons was conducted by tobacco men. j DO YOUR DUTY. The People of Granville Must ile- spond. By June 28, it will be known what 'America'sresponse was to the call of the Government through War Savings Campaign. NOTICE. : - Secure Your License' Before July 1st. The last Revenue Act, Section 89, prescribes an absolute penalty of twenty per cent, should you fail to pay your license tax before July 1. Send check and your license will be forwarded. S. C. 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