PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLYTOWN AN
unis xxxiii.
rV UAA MAN MADE
SEDITIOUS REMARKS.
rranged Before United
Tom L'i,x
.states Commissioner Frank W.
Hancock, Jr.
Tom Cox, an unlettered white
residing near Stovall, was ar-V-ed
before United States Com
rliVsioner Hancock in Oxford last
e,d; v charged with seditious re-
L - ; roiri to seen re poun-
, but the charges were such as
Vt appeal to the legal fraternity,
i,.,,!, v.-Vre plenty to prosecute but
I'tn defend. Mr. B. W. Parham,
oinnan County National Defense,
Wr.nud that he was present to
Jpp-cnt the people, and General
llovier v.-as the prosecuting attor-
necllries Wilkins, a sworn witness,
tHfVthat Tom Cox said he would
!W buv bonds or help the Red Cross
if he had a house full of money;
tb- V miy man who voted the Demo
nic ticket should have his head
cut off; that if he had a chance he
would not shoot the kaiser, but
vould kill Wilson.
Wilkin's testimon ywas corobor
ated by another witness. Cox had
the faintest recollection of having
vvuic the remarks. He stated to
the court that he did not see how lie
could have made them; that he had
men 25 cents to the Red Cross last
winter and that he recently bought
$4.0i worth of War Savings Stamps.
In the course of the hearing it de-vetc-iW
that Wilkins, the witness,
and Cov were at outs. Cox said
that on one occasion Wrilkins threw
rocks at him and ran him into the
house.
Cox appeared to be about halfwit
ted. Pie acknowledged to the court
that he can neither read or write.
"How in the world is it Mr. Cox,"
inquired Attorney Parham, "that
you know so much' about the war,
if you cannot read?"
Pointing to Wilkins, Cox said:
"That man Wilkins was always tell
ing me something about the war."
"What did he tell you," inquired
Mr. Parham.
"I don't know what all he did
say," said Cox, "but he told me that
he hoped the Germans would drop
a bomb on the capital at Washing
ton nnd blow it five miles away. He
bothered me so much about the war
me and my wife didn't want to talk
to him."
General R oyster read the law
bearing upon the case and pointed
to the fact that the utterances of
Cox subjected him to a fine of $10,
000 or thirty years imprisonment.
Following the reading of the law,
General Royster made a terriffic
speech, denouncing in strong terms
h'" utter contempt for any man,
high, or low, rich or poor, who
would utter seditious remarks at a
time when the life of our sons and
the Nation are in peril.
Cox is the first man to be tried in
Granville county under the espion
age act. Commission Hancock han
ded the case nicely. After weigh
ing th? evidence closely he placed
Cox under a $2 50 bond to appear at
the noxt term of Federal Court. Cox
has a growing crop, and this had its
influence with. Commissioner Han
cok, who feels that Cox will ma
ture his crop and that the law will
also be vindicated.
LOOKING BACKWARD.
A e-.vs Item of Interest Twenty
Years Ago.
The following is from the files of
Charlotte Observer dated July 1,
i 5 f i S :
"Judge A. W. Graham, of Oxford,
J1'3 bis brother, Dr. G. W. Gra-h:;n:-
of this city, hat there is
some excitement in mining circles
Granville and the adjoining coun-
just over the Virginia line. Three
Parties have been prospecting for
!"110r mines an have purchased
:'y' lt is thought these . sales
Viil lead to new discoveries and
Real Estate.
ih Granville Real Estate and
tJcT' Company is handling three
racte farnis near Oxford and several
Uages and dwellings in Oxford.
-e announcement elsewhere in this
Paper.-
T IS FLUES AND YOU WANT
save money, write Samuel Dav
ls Clarksville, Va.
OXFORD, NO
WILL EXAMINE ALL
NEW REGISTRANTS
FOR AUGUST DRAFT.
State draft executives were
directed by Provost Marshal
General Crowder Saturday to
have local hoards call up for
physical examination immediat
ely all new registrants under
the new selective d-raft law
who have been placed in Class
1.
District and local hoards and
district medical advisors will
he instructed to speed up their
work- so as to have the new
men ready for the August calls.
THE BAPTIST BARACA CLASS.
Judge Devin Will Be Present Every
Sunday for Six Months.
Judge Devin, who was recently
elected teacher of the Baptist Bara
ca class, expounded the Internation
al Lesson to the class last Sunday
morning. Although the weather
was very warm there is a deep in
terest in the work.
In his remarks, Judge Devin fre
quently touched on the historical
points in the Bible Lands, upon
which the armies of the world war
are encamped, thus connecting the
lesson with the events that are now
shaping the world. The Internat
ional Lesson for the present quar
ter, as presented by Judge Devin,
will be worthwhile to the class.
Judge Devin will preside at courts
in nearby counties for the next six
months, and he stated to theclass
that he hopes to be present every
Sunday morning; and it was then
proposed that all those who would
meet Judge Devin every Sunday
morning in the class room hold up
their hands, and the right hand of
every man in the big class went up.
one man voting with both hands.
-THES OXFORD TOBACCO MAR- "
KET THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO
M. Thomas Frazier's First Trip to
Oxford.
Mr. Thomas Frazier, of Surl, Per
son county .tells the Public Ledger
that he accompanied his father to
Oxford with two loads of tobacco in
July 1886 just thirty-two years
ago. The .tobacco, oe said, was
sold at the Old Meadow's Ware
house for $117.77 clear creek. It
took a very good tobocacco to aver
age 10 cents at that time, said Mr.
Frazier.
A. Hobgood, ran the old John
son; Minor ran the Minor; Robert
& Rires ran the old Meadows;
Bullock & Mitchell ran the Banner;
Hubert Cozart ran the Center Brick.
Some of the warehouses were filled
with tobacco that hot July day. Mr.
Frazier states that he saw Mr.
Thomas Washington and Mr. A. T.
Vaughan selling tobacco that day.
SIX GRANVILLE BOYS OFF
TO CAMP SATURDAY.
Fifty More To Leave During the
Month.
Six fine looking boys entrained
here Saturday for Camp. J. F.
Yow went to Camp Jackson, and the
destination of the other five was
Camp Greenleaf, Fort Oglethorpe,
Ga., as follows:
Phecian Freddie Frazier, Corbett
L. Meadows, George L. Mathews,
Arvid Frazier,- Nathaniel L. Ad
cock. THETOBACCO CROP.
The Weed Sells High in South Car
olina. Tobacconists returning rom the
South Carolina market bring back
cheering reports of the prices ob
tained for the weed, and they advise
the North Carolina planters to take
care of the precious veed
save even the leaves from the plant
beds.
Reaching For the Moon.
"A whirlwind of action and a riot
of fun, and typically Fairbanks, is
the way the managers describe the
new Douglas Fairbanks film.
-Reaching for the Moon." produced
forArtcraft. coming to prpheum
Theatre next Thursday. With New
York and Italy as backgrounds, ex
traordinary "film punches" are pre
sented, interspersed with flashes of
real comedy. The reproduction of
the Venetian settings are well done,
with picturesque canals and roman
tic gondolas.
CAROLINA WEDNESDAY ttttv m -,n,o "
JULY 10, 1918 NUMBER 54
INTER-ALLIED WAR COUN
CIL DEMANDS INTER
VENTION WITH RUSSIA
Urges It Be Immediate Report in
Hands -of President and it is Re
lieved He Will Concur In it.
(Washington Special.)
Immediate intervention in Rus
sia, both military and economic,
has been urgently recommended by
the inter-allied war council and
General Foch. The council report
is in the hands of President Wilson
has been since July 3 and allied
diplomats believe he will concur in
he refuse, the possibility
is held out that Great Britain,
France, Italy and Japan may "go it
alone" upon the recommendations of
the war council.
According to advices received
here, both Great Britain and Focli
expect to land several thousand
troops in Sibria. Already British..
French, Japanese and American ma
rines have landed at Vladivostok.
BLACKNALL FAMILY
FUNERAL HELD LAST
SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
Father Wife and Daughter Buried
In One -Large Grave Side By
Side.
Funeral services for the three
members of the Blacknall family at
Kittrell victims of O. W. Blacknall's
act committeed Saturday afternoon
when he shot jand instantly killed
his wife, his 2 4-year-old daughter,
Miss Kate and then turned the
weapon upon himself and ended
his own life, were here; n,: the home
in Kittrell Sunday evening at 6 o'
clock, and burial took place in the
town cemetery -only a few hundred
yards from the. residence.
IMr." Blacknair iwas president and
general manager of the Continental
Nurseries. Both Mr. Blacknall and
his wife are said to have been
atheists, without any belief in God.
THE W. S. S. DRIVE.
To the People of Granville:
The intent of the W. S. S.
drive is to secure from each
Township its full quota. With
that end in view I urge the
chairmen and committees of the
several Townships to continue
ilie drive until their full quotas
have been subscribed. Those
who have already enlisted are
urged to increase their pledge,
and those who have not enlist
ed must do so at rre, or Gran
ville will he listed as a slacker
county.
JOHN AVEBB, Co. Chm. W. S. S.
CALLED TO NEW YORK.
Rev. G. T. Tunstall Will Leave
Next Week.
Rev. G. T. Tunstall, pastor of
Enon, Hester and Grassy Creek
churches, who was granted leave of
absence by his several congregations
for one year after August 1st, has
received an urgent call to report at
New York as soon as possible to
undergo the tests for overseas ser
vice. Should Mr. Tunstall stand the
physical tests he will probably go
abroad in ten days or two weeks.
DISTINGUISHED YOUNG MEN.
Cadets Ballon and Webb Return
From Plattsburg, N. Y.
Messrs James Ballau and William
Webb, cadets at the V. M. L, and
who spent six weeks at the officers
training" camp at Plattsburg, New
York, are spending their vacation m
Oxford. Having qualified in all of
their studies. They return home
with numerous credit marks of
which anv one would be pround.
Young Ballou, who is a close ob
server, states that they are bett ing
ten to one in New York that the
war will be ended in sixty days. In
this connection it is also interesting
to note that several of the big daily
papers up north express the opinion
that the war will come to a close
next September
Intercessory Prayer.
Intercessory Prayer will be held
at the Oxford Baptist church at 6
o'clock .Tuesday evening, Jul 15,
led by Mrs. J. C. Robards.
D M Cald of Moriah, called on
the Public Ledger Tuesday.
SERVICE FLAG IN THE
OXFORD BAPTIST CHURCH
Inspiring Service in Memory of Jjie
Young Men in the Army and
Navy.
A few weeks ago Dr. Harte, pas
tor of the Oxford Baptist church,
announced that he would like to see
the names of all the young men of
the church who are in the Army and
Navy engraved upon a scroll and
hung upon the inner wall of the
church. The ladies of. the Mission
ary Society of the church took up
the work with the result that a
handsome service flag is displayed
in front of the organ, and on the
wall to the right of the pulpit hangs
the scroll upon which is written in
bold letters the names of thirty-two
young men who were either mem
bers of the church or Sunday
school and who are now in the Ar
my or Navy.
Devotional Service.
The services Sunday night were
devoted entirely to -:he memory of
the young men in the Army and
Navy. The service was very impres
sive throughout, the large congrega
tion joined in singing the "Star
Spangled Banner" other pat
riotic songs, and an appropriate
poem read by Dr. Hcbgood,. presi
dent of Oxford College. The LXXXV
Psalm was most impressively read
by Rev. G. T. Tunstall, after which
Dr. Harte read the names on the
scroll, as follows :
The Scroll.
DALLAS M. BUCHANAN
KILOR S. BOWLING
A. W. BLANCHARD
DR. N. E. CANNADY
. CLYDE CANNADY
JAMES R. CARRINGTON
FRED L. CLARK
LUTHER "H. DAVIS
JAMES M. ELLINGTON
CHESTER CARL ELLINGTON
JOHN H. FRAZIER
LEE-C. GOOCH
ROWLAND L. GOOCH
CLYDE E. GOOCH
J. FRANK GOOCH
ERNEST B HOWARD
ROY. D. HOWARD
LUTHER A. LIGON
BALDY S. MOyil
W. FRED PARHAM
ALFRED HOOD PARHAM
HUGH L. PEED
FRED L. PEED
CHARLES G. POWTELL
WM. HILL' POWELL
BEV. S. ROYSTER, JR.
ROYAL H. ROYSTER
WM. C. ROBARDS
JENNINGS J. Wr ALTERS
GUY WHEELER
JOHN GRAHAM WEBB
ROY WILLIFORD
Mesdames B. E. Parham and
John G. Hall sang a duet; the choir
rendered the inspiring anthem com
posed by Mrs. Kate Hays Fleming,
an Oxford lady, and the congrega
tion joined, in singing J. Wrilbur
Chapman's patriotic hymn, "God
Keep and Guide our Men."
PRESS NOTICE.
As a Chield, Did You li:er Cry For
the Moon.
Most people have, but very few
people have attained it. Douglas
Fairbanks as a grown-up dreams of
xttaining the moon. His dreams
almost come true in the way he
dreamed it, and then he found he
didn't want the moon after all.
However, the details are best ex
plained in his newest photoplay,
"Reaching For the Moon," at- the
Orpheum Theatre Thursday, July
11.
REMAINS OF 3IRS, VENABLE
LAID TO REST IN ELMWOOD
The remains of Mrs. Kingsbury
Venable, who died in. New York last
Wednesday, reached Oxford Satur
day evening. Owing to the late
nss of the hour the remains were
taken to Elmwood Cemetery and
were laid to rest just as the even
ing shadows were beginning to
lengthen. The burial services were
conducted by Rev. S. R. Oglesby,
pastor of the Oxford Presbyterian
church. The pall bearers were:
Messrs. H. G. Cooper, John Webb,
C. H. Landis, B. S. Royster, T.
Lanier, R. P. Taylor, Arch Taylor,
Harry WTilliams.
Mrs. S. J. Southerland, daughter
of the deceased, accompanied the re
mains to Oxford.
WILSON WILL VETO BILL
FIXING PRICE OF WHEAT.
Will Refuse to Sign $28,000,000 Ag
ricultural Appropriat ion
Measure.
(Washington Special)
President Wilson will veto the an
nual agricultural appropriation bill
because of the rider agreed to by
both senate and house fixing the
minimum guaranteed wheat price at
$2.40 a bushel.
The wheat price provision is at
tached to the annual agricultural
appropriation bill, carrying $28
000,000. - '
Officials estimated that if the
$2.40 price for wheat is approved,
the price of flour rcald be increas
ed by approximately $2 a barrel
with an increase of from two to
three cents in the price of a loaf of
bread. With ,$2.40 as the basis
price, wheat probacy would sell in
New York at S2.75 a bushel.
SUNSET NEWS.
Mr. J. H. Morris had as his guest
last week end his daughter, Mrs. R.
L. Cutts and his grandchildren, Har
ry T. Cutts, Mabel Cutts and Mr.
and Mrs. A. L. Eudailey. He took
them over to Hester's church, this
being the old home- church of Mrs.
Cutts. She was delighted to see
such a beautiful place of worship at
her old home.
Big Day at Hester.
On July the first the people of
Hester met for the purpose of clean
ing up the church grounds. The
interest was manifested by the
crowd which numbered- about one
hundred and fifty. The girls were
pleased to find the old stumps
at the front of the church removed
from their resting place of about a
hundred years. They gave such a
cheer it seemed as if a political
speech had been made. All work
ed "faithfully,, and the grounds were
much improved.
Will Sell Church.
We expect now soon to sell the
old church. Any one wishing to
buy will do well to see one of the
trustees: L. R. Puckett, E. G. Hob
good, J. H. Morris.
Rev. G. T. Tunstall.
The people are much grieved to
loose their beloved pastor. He has
served them faithfully. He feels
the patriotic call and he has decid
ed his duty is with the soldier boys.
So we will try to give him up cheer
fully with the hope of having him
back with us some nme in the fu
ture. Let us all pray for a speedy and
righteous peace.
THE NEW POSTAL LAW.
Publishers Are Compelled to Make
Close Collections.
Owing to the fact that the price
of everything has more than doub
led in the printing trade during the
past two years, it becomes extremely
important to publishers to make
close collections and conserve ma
terials in order to weather the
storm.
The new postal law, which went
into effect July-1, exacts a heavier
postage on all papers" mailed to the
various zones outside of the county,
and there is a similar rate on all ad
vertisements carried in the paper.
If the advertiser swindles the
publisher the publisher not only
looses the cost of the advartisement
but also losses the advertising pos
tage required by the new law.
Publishers are also required un
der the new postal law to account
for every paper mailed to- the va
rious zones and pay the additional
zone rate of from one-fourth to
three-fourths of a cent per pound.
The Public Ledger will not in
crease the price of the paper nor the
advertising rate, as many publishers
contemplate doing, but we will be
compelled to inaugurate sagacious
measures in all departments of the
paper. With this issue we are re
vising our mailing list with a view
of eliminating a nuniber of sub
scribers who are in arrears. We
will ask you to glance at the lable
on your paper and if you fail to get
it after this date you will please
understand that your subscription
has expired, and "we will thank you
to renew at once.
Messrs. John Booth and W. L.
Lewis have joined the buyers on the
South Carolina tobacco market.