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- This paper has enlisted
with the government in the
cause of America for the
period of the war
HOW MUCH. MONEY.
Money is a funny thing:.
A year ago there was in circula
tion $45 of actual money for each
one of us.
During the year we have each
bought an average of $100 Liberty
bonds. We paid for them with mon
ey. How much money is left? A lit
tle mere than we had a year ago.
FLOOD OF HITMAN IT Y.
Here is a startling fact! More
persons now cross the Atlantic
Ocean a week than ever crossed it
in any one week prior to the war.
That is fact number one, but it
is fact number two which has start
ed over Germany a wave of terror.
Fact two is this:
Nearly every person who crosses
the Atlantic Ocean now wears the
uniform of the United States.
This flood of humantiy is headed
for Berlin, and no wonder the Post
dam Gaing trembles.
CONGRESS OF NATIONS.
There are about seventy-five in
dependent nations in the , world.
Each has a capital and a flag.
Since thirty-knot ships, mile-a-minute
trains, telegraph, telephone,
aeroplanes and wireless have woven
the people of the world into closer
communication than were the Thir
teen Colonies during the Revolution,
a congress to represent at all times
these seventv-nve Powers seems
reasonable. t
Such a congress would prevent
any Teutonic bull in future from
playing havoc in the china shop.
THE LEGAL RUBE.
Ceasar said he would rather
first in a village than second
Rome.
Except when absent on official
business Washington always lived
on a farm.
For a little while Jefferson prac
ticed law in a village, but like the j
Man of Mount Vernon the author of j
the Declaration of Independence
was a farmer. j
Madison, another Virginia Presi
dent, lived on a big farm not far
from his mentor, Jefferson.
Adams, Franklin and Hamilton
were city men, but John Marshal,
our country's most illustrious judge,
never saw as big a city as Raleigh
prior to the time he became .Chief
Justice of the United States.
Lincoln managed to become the
coiintrv's foremost statesman of h:s
century on a farm and practicing
law in villages.
Gladstone loathed London and
preferred to be known as a country
gentleman.
But a few of our Presidents have
come from large cities. McKinley
went to the White House and so did
Garfield and Hayes go there from
Ohio during the last forty-one years
and not one of the three lived in
the biggest Buckey towns Cincin
nati, Cleveland and Columbus.
President Wilson is not a city
man, and "Any ' Jackson preferred
farming to any other business, and
he died admidst his beloved fields at
the Hermitage.
For almost half a century the
most conspicious men in tne Amer
ican Congress were Henry Clay,
John C. Calhoun and Daniel Web
ster. Clay and Calhoun were typical
Southern farmers and derived none
of thoir vast and varied abilities
from the cities.
Of the big men in Congress dur-
after the Civil War a very
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OXFORD ORPHANAGE SHOE SHOP
will repair your shoes nicely.
Will send for them and return
them promptly. Call Phone 24
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IT WILL. PAY YOU TO KEEP
this one: Resolved, That during
the year 1918 I will send my or
ders for
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to the Printing Department of the
Oxford Orphanage.
There's a reason.
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heavy,
return
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large majority were from little
towns.
Turkey is now demanding
seession of the Russian Black
fleet, which shows how little
Turkish hired man knows his
pos
Sea the
boss.
- The conscientious objector who
would rather go to jail than fight
will probably regret his decision
when he hears the victory jubilee
parade coming up the street.
WANTED A COOK, APPLY TO 60
King street or Andrew Jamieson,
W. A. Adams Company factory.
June292tx
FOR SALE FIVE PASSENGER
Ford in good condition. Bargain
to quick buyer. K. L. Street, at
Lyon-Winston's. J54tx
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material of any kind you want,
such as flooring, ceiling, siding,
mouldings, windows, doors, blinds
lime, cement, plaster, laths, terra
cotta pipe, wire fencing etc., see
or write, C. D. Ray and Son.
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STRAY PIG BLACK BORE PIG
White spot in;: face. Please no
tify Chief Hobgood or R. J. Wood,
at BlackwelFs - store. Jn262tx
FOR RENT BAY WINDOW ROOM
for rent over Union Bank. Apply
to J. T. BRITT. June263t
As for sending that many sol
diers an average of 4,000 miles by
land and sea from their homes to
the battlefront- well, it is another
world's record for Uncle Sam.
BATTLES ON SUNDAY.
It is a curious thing that many
of the hardest battles of the present
world war, as in former ones, were
fought on the Sabbath.
The fiercest battle of the War of
Rcses was waged on Palm Sunday,
1451. Ten years later the Battle
or Barnet was fought on Easter
Sunday. Ramillies was fought on
Whit Sunday, 1706." It was on
Sunday that Wellington issued his
famous order, "Ciudad Rodrigo
must be carried by assault, this ev
ening." Napoleon lost at Waterloo
on the Sabbath .Washington won
the Battle Monmouth on Sunday,
June 28, 1778. Both the Battle of
Bull Run and the Battle of Shiloh
were waged on Sunday.
War knows no holiday and re
spects no holy day.
The kaiser may be rushing
troops to save Austria, but the time
has come when no matter how
swiftly he runs from one gate to the
other he won't be able to keep his
Nemesis on the outside.
GERMAN KULTUR.
This is wholly true. It could be
appropriately asked when there has
ever been under the present dynas
ty a time when Prussia had a re
sponsible civil government a gov
ernment not subsewient to the mil
itary clique which has ruled with
the mailed fist and the sword and
finally plunged a score of nations in
to war to satisfy its military ambi
tion and greed of dominion?
It is declared in the Reichstag
that "everybody cheats, steals,
grabs, from jailbird to Court Cham
berlain, who cheats the needy home
worker out of his scanty earnings
and pockets millions; poor people
can only buy clothes at the official
clothing department by bribing the
salesmen with tips or food." No one.
denied these remarkable statements?
which were only a part of what was
said concerning general criminality.
The "Navy Department says that
no enemy submarines have been
sunk off the American coast, but
Mr. Daniels must admit that the
fiction writers have done a nice
piece of bombarding in that direction.
240 BUSHELS PEAS.
400 BAGS RED DOG.
250 BAGS BROWN 3HDDLING S.
TOBACCO, CORN AND POTATO
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LYON-WINSTON CO. J12tf
LATE CROP IRISH POTATOES
for July plantings "delivered by
parcel post $3.00 per bushel. L.
M. Simpson, Oxford, Rt. 7.
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Tomorrow you can have a
chance to get a genuine Col
umbia Grafonola at rock
bottom prices and on
very easy terms. For 10 per
cent, down we will deliver to
you at once this handsorile
Grafonola complete, and any
fiverecords. You can pay the
balance in small weekly
sums at your convenience.
Think what you get:
A Genuine
Columbia
Grafonola
With 5 Records,
in small weekiy payments.
The Columbia Grafonola
is everywhere j-eeognized as
the supreme instrument for
the home. Columbia records
are inexpensive but they give
you all the best of popular
and operatic music. Of
course you have always
wanted a phonograph in
your home, and here is your
chance to get a gneuine
Grafonola on easy terms that
you ian easily afford.
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Columbia Grafonola.
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actly as illustrated. Powerful
Silent Motor, Bayonet Faint
Tone-Ann, Exclusive Colum
bia Tone Leaves, Graduated
Dial, Speed Regulator.
This Special Offer for To-morrow Only
AS OUR STOCK OF GRAFONOLAS AT THIS RE
MARKABLY LOW PRICE IS LIMITED, WE AD
VISE YOU TO COME EARLY TO AVIOD DISAP
POINTMENT. Hughes - Smaw
OXFORD, -:- -:- N. CAROLINA.
C. A. REECE; Manager.
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Chester pigs, two months old.
Goodrich Wilson, Stovall. N. C.
June 262t
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This country is about to ex
change prisoners with Germany, but
it is quite likely that were the Hun
troops given a voice in the matter
in the matter they would vote in
the negative.
More man 69,000 masters, of
ficers, and seamen on American
merchant vessels traversing the war
zones have been insured by the
United States Government. .This
insurance totals more than $115,
000,000. Claims under the insur
ance are so far a little more than
$180,000. 0
Reimer R. Regan, an automobile
mechanic of Greensboro, received
injuries in a wreck Sunday that
caused his death. In passing an
other machine his car went into a
ditch and turned over, the steering
wheel striking him in the stomach.
He was about 30 years old and
leaves a wife and two small chil
dren. BARGAIN BARGAIN ONE
wheat and oat thresher purchas
ed last season and used only day
or so and as good as new and
guaranteed to be absolutely al
right at a bargain to quick buyer.
The advance in price of separa
tors since last season places this'
machine at a great sacrifice in
price. See LYON-WINSTON CO.
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In Use For Over 30 Years
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Car load latest models just received. We can
save yon fifty dollars if you purchase now.
The price of the car will be advanced $50 by
the manufacturers August 1st.
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