North Carolina Newspapers

1 Tr-.'TTT V U-l - TBICAX CASUALTIES FOR U THE WEEK TOTAL, 3, 758 vMngton, Aug. 10. Including -jounced today, army and ma- . . -.r-.T'ilS casualties ictciYcu r.eas and made public since Mon- j a,v when me iu v. T aine-Aisne front began to come ..Vio lid lUt 0 i z Q tntal o, t oo. Of these O TC A 'c coldiers and 608 marines. V The army lists combined and the list show Army. Marine. Killed in action . . pled of wounds . . pied of accident . . pied of disease . . hissing i'1 action Wounded severely Vv-cunded, degree determined . wounded slightly Totals 163 4 9 5 1 2 333 . 20 13 41 30 2 571 52 un- ThP 0 112 casualties, total deaths includine 291 lost at sea, men killed aciiors dead of wounds, disease ac iiderts and other causes numbered 7 716 soldiers, 6,883; marines, go 3 The wounded aggregated 10, S74 soldiers, 9.048; marines, 1, g6 ard the missing, including priso ners,' 1,5 2 2 soldiers, 1,431; marines 91. While the proportion of the deaths for the week as cr mpared with the wounded was large, attention was called today to the fact that the cas ualties being reported now by Gener al Pershing represent an accumula tion as the result of the fighting which began July 15 and it is not to be assumed that the ratio of killed iind wounded will be maintained when the final toll of the Marne Aisne victory is complete. JORMER WEALTHY CITIZEN - DIED AT COUNTY HOME Destitution Follows Long Period of Sickness. Mr. Jack Blacknall, who formerly owned considerable property in Ox lord and was recognized as one of the wealthiest men in the county, died at the County Home of the Aged and Infirm last Thursday after a linger ing illness. The deceased was a generous, kind hearted man and never spoke ill of any one. It can be truly said that he himself was his worst enemy. The deceased at one time owned and resided at the magnificent home at corner of College and Penn streets now the home of Mr. R. S. Usry. The- burial services, conducted by Dr. Willis, pator of the Oxford Meth odist church, were held Friday after noon and the interment was in Elm wood. ABSENTEE VOTERS. Judge Cam Hunt Is Looking Them Up. Judge Cam TTimt is n Vmv rnnn these days. He is looking up all of! ages to include all men between 18 the absentee voters and mailing to' and 45 years. Orders were issued by their address blank forms to be filled j Secretaries Baker and Daniels direct out and returned. It is a big job to j ing that no voluntary enlistments be u. en ui me aDsentees. some oi i t"eni are over seas, and others are m the cantonments in this country. The Public Ledger begged, plead-! ed and urged that the soldiers be ' Permitted to register and fill -outi Acinus before they left home, hut those who were supposed to attend to it failed in their duty. It was not the fault or the duty of Judge Hunt. but at this late hour he has taken Jt upon himself to register as many of the absentees as possible. AGF LIMITS FOR CIVILIANS AT TRAINING SCHOOLS ih War DePartnient authorizes tQe following statement: The maximum age limit for admis--on of civilians to Central Officers' Gaining Schools remains at 40 Jears, on date of entrance. Services at St. Stephen's. pr. Horsefield, rector of St. Steph-' church, resting a few days in t, ciuinonzes the Public Led-. ger to sav that he will reach home Thpp6 t0 hld services next Sunday. ! sa Pul)lic Ledger was mistaken in ; that th StePhens last Sunday. tv T 1rayer Service. xriii h " ssry grayer service, r-ext at at the Methodist church fed h, Mday afternoon, at 6 o'clock, Sali3 Salls and Miss Helen I PUBLISHED SEMI-WEE T V j'rf at. ; OXFORD, NORTH OAHOLINA WETP . v THE GRANVILLE COUNTY FAIR, j Mr. W. I,. Peace Has Been Selected Secretary and the Fair Will Be Held October 29th and 30th. Mr. W. L. Peace hp by the Granville County Fair Asso- z : ctijr UI me yis fair to be held in Oxford at the fair giounas on Tuesday and Wednesday October 29th and 30th. In an inter view with him he says that the people of Granville may expect the biggest and best fair ever held in the county, W. L. PEACE. that the exhibits will be the best in the fair's history, and that he is al ready in correspondence with some of the big amusement attractions rela tive to their coming here. He is bus ily engaged getting up the premium list which will be about same as last year, with good crops of tobacco and cotton a record breaking attendance may be expected. ELEVEN FINE BOYS ENTRAIN FOR CAMP WADSWORTH The following recruits to the Na tional Army entrained in Oxford at seven o'clock last Saturday morning for Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S. C".. i FRED Li. FLETCHER. WILLIAM A. BLALOCK. BUCK DUKE HOWELL. JESSE B. CARROLL. RAY B. THOMAS. WILLIAM B. ADCOCK. ED. O. FLEMING. HENRY B. BRYAN. WM. R. FRANKLIN. JESSE JAMES BULLOCK. CHRISTOPHER E. CONE. , NO MORE ENLISTMENTS IN THE ARMY AND NAVY Voluntary enlistment in the army , and navy were' completely suspended! last Saturday to prevent disruption of industry pending disposition of V.a'Kill nrnnnsin? to extend draft accepted atter toaay uum imuici ders. ThR orders also exclude civilians from nnnointment to officers' train ing camp until further notice. ; x v r : ! WAR INDUSTRIES BOARD. B M. BARUCH, Chairman. - To Publishers of Newspapers: The Priorities Board of War Industries Board has listed Paper Mills as an essential industry, and has rated them in Fourth Class for priority for coal, on the distinct understanding that the greatest pos sible economy in the use of paper be exercised, and that the RE DUCTION INTHE USE OF PAPER BY BE FIFTEEN PER CENT ON WEEKDAY EDITIONS AND TWENTY PER CENT ON SUNDAY EDITIONS. , DISCONTINUE SUBSCRIPTIONS. (Paragraph 2, Rules and Regulations, Paper Section, War Indus tries Board) TT, "ntqrONTINTJE SENDING PAPERS AFTER DATE OF EXPIRAr TION OF SOTSOTrraON UNLESS SUBSCRIPTION IS RENEWED ANDsS"Note:-The above is one of posed on newspaper publishers by the government and must be com plied with by all newspapers. Paper naanufacturers have pledged Themselves not to supply paper to any newspapers that faUtc observe all rules and regulations of the War JSl ioi,r that nil Daners must tion policy.) Subscribers will please examine the printed date on t he. r paper d promptly renew their subscriptions, as the paper win oe aisc an tinued at expiration wiuium r": It in no sense implies a aiStrUSl . . strenuous war times have brought to conform to. "T..v nrine of $1.50 until further advances in priees of ND COUNTY OFFER wtMH vmxjsb BRILLIANT ""i uiiiixiio x uu ja.uiu.rj FORTY THOTISAnI TAKEN BY vm, AT 1 IN OFFENSIVE IN PicARDY I ToLnTt fUmb Includes ! '"w ameers More Tho i Guns Also Canturedrr" ' vv on Becomes Pkotfot S sistance Enemy Thiovvhig in Re serves in Effort to Prevenf the a! hes Gaining Noyoh-Ham Road Paiis reports unofficially that 40,- ITJS. en since tal number of Germans captured m Marshil Foch's two great drives to 75,000. The number of guns far taken by the Allies in the two offensives totals almost 1,000 ROAD CHOKED $ITH GUNS In making back tfvard the Rhine the Germans have blen dropping so many cannon and machine guns, ri fles and war bags for the pursuing Allies to pick up that the road be tween Pennine and Ham is chocked with guns left by the fleeing Huns. More than 1,000 generals, colonels, officers are answering their names in prison pens behind the lines. Eleven divisions of Generals von Hit ties and von Marwitz have been iden titled by prisoners taken. . WORK OF AVIATORS. All the bridges across the Somme between Peronne and Ham, a stretch of about 15 miles, have been destroy ed by allied aviators, The Germans have been attempting to throw teish porary bridges across the stream and the allied airmen are now systemat ically bombing these improvised structures. THE OLD HINDENBURG LINE If the Germans can be forced out of the ground about Bapaume, the famous "ridge" of the old Somme days, then a new section of the front will be set in motion and-there will be no chance of a German halt ' even a temporary pausewest of the old Hindenburg line: " : . ' IMPORTANT ROAjj CAPTURED. Rorts'indjkeftt the pursuing Allies are givmg the enemy rio" rest by day Or. night, the chase having been kept up at a vigorous pace throughout all of Saturday night,, so that Sunday morning f oulid FochS men yet further into the territory the Germans had been holding. The most important incident of the day was the capture by the French of the German railroad center of Chaul nes, which occupies a pivotal point in the battle front and which was the key to the southern line of the Ger man salient. i SOLDIERS BURY COMRADES AS ONE ACTS AS CHAPLAIN From "the front" continue to come instances of the unusual heroism of soldiers. Here is one contained in a cable dispatch: "Upon a highway north of Chartreuve I came across three youngstrs busy under terrific shellfire burying two fallen com rades. There was no chaplain around, so one of the trio said . a few words of the burial ser vice, his companions standing uncovered beside him. They made an impressive, unforgetta ble picture. emorce a rntift. "V" nualities. These Ui JUUl 1 r.nrA iflt wft are forcea about conuiuu . p ttiA nrooon t nT will remain iui paper. OPPnrrrrvo rr. T 1 In n XT IK rrmT - t owviuis RECRUITING &A"AA1A WILL B REOPENED An Opportunity Extended to the xoune Ladies of oung Ladies of tne CountT. ! The 41 J, The committee, i enrollment of young women fo- the Student . Nurse Reserve Training Schools have decided to reopen the recruiting station in the store of Mr. J. Root. Wood, Friday, August 16, and Saturday, August 17, from 10 to 12 a.m. . Some of the publicity material was late in arriving so the people in the country, did not hear of the campaign till it was half over. Several young ladies came in for information regard ing the enrollment and we feel cer tain ' that when they have - giv en it their careful and prayerful con sideration they will return to enroll. Therefore we are going to give them another opportunity to serve their country. The service which we are asking calls for the best that the womanhood of America can offer in courage, de votion, and resourcefulness. The ar- my needs every nu-seit can get to 1 VAV VTA. (.11 ,M-Ml. UlUl tt X XKs J XXX j ed States student nurse reserve is e quivalent for women to the great na- tional army training camps for sol diers. It is probable that even with "the ban removed from women with rela tives in the army there will not be a sufficient number of nurses to meet the need "over there." The normal sickness among 5000, 000 men, not! including wounds in battle, is 100, - f C f TVo ies ilia cmolloct norncn. VVV. XV XO HIV KiJJ-A w VIV V v- VWd tage under normal conditions. Add to this the large casualty per centage and we can ship all the train ed nurses in the United States and still have too few to meet the need. Surely that this is one of the best ways in which women of strong bod ies and steady minds can serve. Five young ladies from the town have enrolled and we sincerely trust the county will give hgr share of patriotic women to help Granville furnish her full quota. -Let us show that we know how to answer the gov ernment's call to the women of the country. v uMMITTEE. JUDGE DEVIN AT ROXBORO THIS WEEK Just a Private Word About the Dis tinguished Son of Old Granville. After a brief rest Judge Devin left for Roxboro early last Monday morn ing where he is holding court this week. He will preside at courts in the nearby counties for several weeks and it is hoped that ht will reach Ox ford every Sunday. Now that Judge Devin is out of town and not likely to see this copy of the Public -Ledger, we are going to tell some of the things that we have heard and seen during his vaca tion. The fact that Judge Devin, busy man as he is, is the teacher of the Oxford Baptist Bar.ca class gives rise to the belief that at some future time he will heed the call of God to nrpar.h the Gosnel. He is known all over the State as -the righteous judge" and one of the best expoun ders of Scriptures, and it was only S the other day that we heard Dr. I Harte, pastor of the Oxford Baptist church, say to a crowd of men mat it is his intention to ask Judge Devin to fill his pulpit some of , these days. The conversation drifted ome one in the crowd On, a nil remarked that "a righteous judge" would make a ( righteous preacher, a righteous Governor, a righteous , Congressman and a righteous Senator. Judge Devin is largely responsi ble for the bells in Oxford, to ring at seven o'clock in the evening to re mind the people to engage in momen tary prayer. We were present the other evening where there were gath ered fifteen or twenty people. They were chattering away when the ev ening prayer bell sounded. Judge Devin slightly raised" his hand and bowed his head. There was not a word said for more than one minute, and we are sure that eevry one pres ent asked God to guide and be with our boys in the great conflict over seas. When some one spoke to Dr. Horsefield about thi incident he rub bed his hands and remarked, "Isn't it just fine of our public servant!" x Wants Good Farm. Horner Bros. Company, announce elsewhere in this paper that they de sire to buy a farm for a customer. . x . NUMBER 64. s HON. CHARLES M. STEDMAN VISITS OXFORD j The Fifth District Congressman Is le and Hearty. ! Hon Cnas- M- Stedman, Congress- ; man from the Fifth District, spent last Friday in Oxford. He passed in and out among his friends all day and in the evening a large number of citizens called at the Exchange Hotel to shake his genial hand. Major Stedman is hale and hearty and inclined to take on flesh despite his activities in Congress. Not one word did he say about his opponent, Mr. John W. Kurfees, the republican candidate for Congress. Kurfees is making a campaign and Major Sted man is not. Kurfees' plan of work is to criticise the war policies of the administration; yet no one knows better than he that it was not hu manely possible to keep out of this war longer than we did if we were to maintain any self respect at all as a nation. In all great war measures before Congress the leaders of the Eepub- ernment glory to them for this loy- alty on their part. - . When Mr. Kurfees criticises any of the great war measures passed by Congress then he must also criticise the biggest and best brains of the Republican party ror without their aid and support these measures could not have passed. Maior Stedman went direct frnm 1 0xford to Washington, - - ? I 3 SPECIAL PRAYER MEETING Revival Service To Begin At the Oxford Methodist Church Next Sunday. Revival services are to begin at the Oxford Methodist church next Sunday, and in preparation for these services a series of prayer meetings are being held this .week in different parts of the town. The places of meeting are as follows: Monday night, at Mrs. J. H. Bullock's on Broad street; Tuesday night, at Mr. D. K. Taylor's on Front street; Thurs day night, at Mr. W. B. Ballou's on Gilliam street; Friday night, at Mr. W. W. Fuller's on Rectory street. The meetings' are being conducted by Rev. R. H. Willis, pastor of the Meth odist church, assisted by the other pastors of the town. When weather conditions make it advisable these prayer services are held in the open j air where every one can be as corn- fortable as they would be -if sitting on their own lawns. All are invited to attend. CROWDER CALLS FOR MEN N. Carolina to Send 4,500 Whites to Camp Jackson; 2,738 Negroes to Camp Greene. Calls for 130,207 lraft registrants qualified for general military service to join the colors before the end of August,""were issued tonight by the, provost marshal general. One hundred thousand white regis trants from 43 states are ordered entrained between August 26 and August 30. Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia are directed to furnish 30,207 negro registrants to entrain August 22-24 These orders bring the number of men called out in August to about i O A A AAA n Vi 1 4. i , j ovv,vw, c-u-c uuiuuci vuiucuiyiiiivu ill ; the present military program. North Carolina will furnish 4,500 to Camp Jackson, and 2,738 negroes to Camp Greene. THE OXFORD TOBACCO MARKET Will Open on Wednesday, September 4th. The warehousemen of Oxford, Hen derson and Warrenton met 'in Hender son last Saturday, and voted to open the market in the said towns on Wed nesday, September 4th.- Some of the warehousemen thought that the date agreed upon was too early, but they decided to stand by the decision of the majority. All of the four Oxford warehouse es are practically ready for the open ing. There is some little change in the office force of some of the ware houses, which will be announced in the Public Ledger later The roof of the new Mahgum warehouse is now being placed, and Mr. Mangum as sures the Public Ledger 4hat he will be ready for business by September 1st.