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VOLUME XXXIII. nFI ivisnr service must and ' SHOULD BE CURTAILED at Is the Opinion of Food Admin istrator Page. As the war progresses, the demand for labor becomes greater and great er. Non-essential labor is being o-reatly curtailed. Delivery service kV retail groceries is classed as less eential labor. It is recognized that come delivery service is necessary, in it is very ciear that the labor us in the delivery service by the re tail dealers of the country could be curtailed 50 per cent without work--ii" any hardship upon any consumer or9 any dealer. Such a curtailment in delivery service will release for productive work lens of thousands of men and youths. - In view of this situation,, mer chants are requested to begin imme diately an adjustment of their busi ness, so that by September 15 they will be able to confine theif deliveries to one delivery per day to each sec tion or community they serve. In every instance where it, is possible, the labor used in. such delivery ser vice should be reduced. Some of the men and boys engaged being releas ed for other work. In many towns and cities merchants could reduce their delivery cost from 50 to 75 per cent by organizing a co operative delivery service under the management of a capable superin tendent. Such a co-operative service could take over the delivery service not only of grocers but also of dry goods merchants and other dealers. The co-operative service is recom mended for the consideration of pa triotic and far-seeing merchants. PROFOUND MYSTERY SOLVED. Chief I. H. Hobgood Had Remark v able Dream. Three or four years ago, while Mayor Thad G. Stem was mayor of Oxford, the town Board purchased a number of galvanized trash cans and distributed them at convenient places along the streets in the busi ness section of the town. A few days ago Cihef Hobgood dis covered that one of the can was miss ing and he immediately started on a still hunt, hoping to locate it in some body's back lot. "Those cans were highly treasured by Mayor Stem and the Oxford Wo man's Club," said Chief Hobgood, "and I was almost on the point of dispair when I found that one of them was missing. It worried me so much I could hardly sleep for "two or three nights. However, on Sunday night I went to sleep and as I slum bered I saw a man take the can and set it in his wagon and drive away with it, and set it down at a cool spring about five miles from Oxford I Saw him in mv rIpoti fachinn the! llillt0 a 50i.r aiLd fiU l wit.h sour I- mash and build a fire under it 1 didn't think much about my dream on Monday, but when I had practically the same dream Tuesday night. I made up my mind to visit the spot and investigate. After explain ing the matter to Uncle Ned. Booth he consented to go with me, and . we roumi the can on the identical spot where I saw it in my dreams. They nad fashioned it into a distilling ket tle and filled it with sour mash and everything was in readiness to make whiskey as soon as the night come upon them." The officers brought the outfit to Uxlord and locked it up in the coun ty jail. Another remarkable thing is the fact that Chief Hobgood knew the man that he saw in his sleep take the can and lift, it intn his wa- ton, but he has no evidence to that effect. THE SOLDIER'S LETTER. Be Sure That the Address Is Right. To insure the delivery of letters to soldiers the matter of the address is of vital importance. The mispelling of a name or the use of initials where a word should Je spelled out may not only retard uie delivery of a letter but may pre sent its being delivered at all. Many ousands of letters are being con stantly received which cannot be Promptly delivered, if delivered at t ?n account of the manner in viich they are addressed. The ini uais A. c." may mean "Ambulance nror,??'". or "Administrative Company "a vlaVon Clearance-Office" while A- C. C. ' means "Aero Construction onipany," a. R. r-." - "American :;ed Cross," A. I. C. means "Avia "on Instruction Center," etc. Prf 5e nme of the soldier address d V0Ul? be written in full with the esignat'on of company and regiment r batte: and regiment, as well as "v1.1 of ' branch of the service to ttmcn he belongs. There are more Tuan ten thousand soldiers named Jones with the same initials, but all them are not in the same regi ment or division. It is therefore nec tsary to give both designation of wCi0mpany and the number of the uattahon as well as of the regiment. majority of the improperly ad eed mail shows carelessness rath an a lack of knowledge of the Proper address. PUBLISHED my NATIONAL WAR WORK COUNCIL. Mr. R. II. Lewis Elected Cbai of the WVir lv. ' rman yyu. iieaaquarters in Durham AT A - ' Z. D .DUNLAP. ed to Oxford Tuesday evening and were met at the Granville Commer- cla C!lu.b. rooms, by a large number or the citizens. The object of their visit was to organize the county for the approach- iiig campaign ot tne National Waf vvors council. Col. Ervin, who is the district chairman-made the following state ment: - . " "President Wilson has ordered that the Young Men's Christian Associa tion, the Young Women's Christian Association, the War Camp Com munity Service, the American Libra ry Association, the Knights of Cojuni bus, the Jewish Welfare, and the Salvation Army join hands in the campaign to raise a war work fund. "This is not to be a Y. M. C. A. campaign, nor a Knights of Colum bus campaign, nor a Salvation Army campaign. It is to be a campaign for the men over there in France and in. the cantonments on this side and on our brave ships everywhere, a cam jpaign v for the! maintenance or in crease" of morale. The dollars giv en to the common funds will reach the men through seven different chan nels, but every dollar will be made to do the maximum of work, and no matter what sign is painted over the door of anv hut and any hostess house, its doors "will be; open tO( ev erybody equally. , . "The total amount, one hundred and seventy millions, is tremendous, the largest single gift for which any people has ever been asked at one time, yet, compared with the figures to which the war has accustomed us, ..."".x ' Mr.' George Watts, of Durham, heads the work m JNortn tjaronna. and Col. Ervin's territory embraces seven counties, of which Granville is one. 1 j . . Mr. R. H. Lewis was elected chair man of the-work in Granville coun ty, lit accepting the honor. Mr. Lew is stated to the meeting that hv. is willing to shoulder any responsibil ity that will lead to the winning f the war. He said that, he hoped the people of Granville will rally to hv support and aid in every way possi ble to secure ...the county's quota, whatever the amount may be. . Mr. Lewis will publish a letter at an earlv date, explaining the work fullv. The coming campaign for 3170.000,000 will be launched m NMeaTobrez. D. Dunlan. State Director of the United War. Work Campaign for the North CarolinaDivision jnd Mr W. A. urwin, Qisuifi tuu., m,; nnnrt House at Will BUcrttV 111 i"V " " . 8 30 o'clock next Monday evening DISTRIBUTION OF SOIL Patrolman C, G. Sandeford Speaks of the Difference n xtr We were somewhat surprised to learn from Patrolman Sandeford of tie southern end of the State High way in Granville, that some people are averse to giving a.fSwav soil to mend the h,fW; mend e roal though their place, aTdsome will not do ever that Those who are filling to givers to be tojj?eriae,. are Uara 10 nuu, ;"aandford, and he It dM5bJS?S EStem,land- lort" ad Rodger Aiken, renter, - and he wanted "eand got it. rXt been W Jd ani was regdy the gram but wUTMtoSsn, Aaid Mr. Sandford: - . Public Ledger COUNTY OFFZf B 1.ULIANT OXFORD, NORTH . CAROLINA Saturday, seWmke ,4 nXBURGmf as been VIRTUALLY REACHED if .t.iW REACHED ALLIES - - FACTSTG :W;PR6BLEi ! Famous American -Military Critic I Says General Foch Problem Now Is to Drive permaiis Out Qf Hiii denburg Defense Sm Either by FntalrAttocks,:;;;, Flanking Attacks Fi'om Flanders and Lor "I'aine. " Now that the Germans are behind the old Hindenburg system defense, a new problem present itself to the Allied commander in chief. Foch; Must Choose. It is perfectly plain that Foch has to choose between two courses. He must seek to" follow up his partial o uv.v;e&stjs, wnicn - nave produced a wide swinging German retreat, eith er by a front-attack upon the Ger mans in their new position, or he must again resort to- partial blows with the purpose to turn the German out of their present positions by the threat of envelopment and capture. If Foch chooses the former method, we shall have one or a series of great frontal attacks aking place. . May Start Double Thrust. If Foch, attacking on the flanks, can get Cambrai and Douai on the north, can reach Vousiers in the east, we shall see a promtp resumption of the German retreat to the frontier. Heavy Rains-. A heavy rain still is failing over the whole area and many of the smaller streams vhave been flooded. In the Flanders lowlands J:he ground, has become almost impassable. There are no signs of the' weather clearing. Luckily in the Somme region the ground made .most difficult by heavy rain is behind the British. PRELIMINARY WORK OF LAUNCH ING THE Y. W. C. A. DRIVE Entertainment At the Home of Mrs. A. H.: Powell Nets Twenty-five Dollars. As a preliminary to launching : the Y. W. C. A. Drive in Granville later, and desiring some funds for organi zation purposes, Mrs. A. H. Powell, active in all good work; arranged for an entertainment sat her s home vlrist Tuesday everfihfromi 8 13'0 to 10:30 o'clock. The' event brought together a large and enthusiastic . audience, and f the program was indeed unus ually well arranged - ; s. s. Now and. then newspaper men. are confronted with v propositions that they cannot get through with in a satisfactory manner, and this is one of them. Mrs. Powell made her guests comfortable and; at perfect ease while Miss Grace Jean Sails, as sisted by Miss Helen Royster i and Miss Shamburger charmed them. Miss Sails is indeed a charming personality. She recited a group of seven poems, through which ran a golden cord that unites and "makes us all akin," and several other group of poems. With her soft dove-like voice she brought a tear or a smile at will. "It was indeed the finest piece of work seen here. She sel dom looks at her notes and keeps her hearers spell bound from start, to fin ish, and above all seems not to exert any effort. , The people of Oxford are justly proud of Miss Grac-4 Jean Sails, She is at the head of the department of oratory, Bernau School, Gainesville, Misses Helen Royster and Sham berger were indeed a-cse assistants. The& soldier boys who read this will please remember that they were fore most in the thoughts of those who were present at this most delightful entertainment. 75,000 PRISONERS TAKEN BY BRITISH IN A MONTH Marshal Haig, In an order of the day. THE REGISTRATION. Heavier In Granville Than Was Ex- pected. The returns from all of the pre- Linton uf mIylo thS the r egVtration throughout the Lte?ed--Xut thirty more than -was GX AsCtseodon as the local Exemption ttotrd fits the draft numbers to the rlgrahts the , Public Ledger will publish the entire list. Tobacco Selling High. - Mr I W. Mangum, owner ot tne . Mr', X. m Warehouse, is more XeW, ESf inTng " his. reputation for Prls On the second page hJghft Tner'the farmers will find eeSffignBonncement of Mr. Mangum. - wni eive 25 cents cash to first iJliSirinff me last years annual person bringing er t -pinAPT Fair Premium List, W. L. PEAOL. - - - - -. : OVPOHTUN1T1ES-A K.L HOME PRINT. expect great n s Wy ! WTTft I4S HCRIiEO AT i: KMV SOON . Washington, Sept. : 11. The houi when General Pershing's army will be thrown into the bat tie is rapidly approaching, in the opinion of many' officers and officials at the War Department. The German withdrawal is do clared to be nearing the point when Marshal Foch will make use of every available weapon to ' prevent the enemy from making a stand iii bis old positions a- lng the Hindenburg line. . MRS. CARRINGTON DEAD. Sister of Dr. G. S. Watkins Dies In Ashevilie. a- Mrs. Luther Carrington, highly es teemed Christian lady, died in Ashe vilie Wednesday last. She had been in ill health for some time .and was under medical treatment at Ashe vilie when the summons came. Mrs. Carrington was a native or Granville county avid lived Dractical ly ail of her life in Mountain Creek section. The remains reached Ox ford Thursday at rioon and were con veyed to the home of Dr. G. S. Wat kins, a brother of the deceased. The funeral and interment,, con ducted by Dr. J.-D. Harte, were held at Mt. Creek church Thursday af ternoon. ,. The deceased is survived by a de voted husband, four - brothers and three sisters, namely: Dr. G. S., Dick, Robert and John Watkins; Mrs. Probus Wilkerson, Mrs. Milton Hob good and Mrs. Burch, of Edenton. COLr. OSBORN IN OXFORD. His Health Has Greatly Improved, v Col. W. H. Osborn, former com missioner of Internal Revenue, Is spending a few days in Oxford, shaking hands with old friends and incidentally looking after his busi nessx interests here, said that he had been in all, parts of the Union with in the past, few years, and that there is not to be found anywhere in the United States a -more congenial and upright people than right here in his old home town and county. He said that whenever he heard the names of the old families pronounced Currin, Hobgood, Lassiter, Landis and others it always thrilled him. . .CoL Osborn has the happy faculty of knowing every body in Granville by the. family resemblance as for in stance wnen he shakes the hand of a young man whom he has never be fore met, he searches his face and says: "You are the 'grandson of Wil liam and the son'of Sam." CCol. Osborn. is looking 'real well, and he is just fat enough to be jo vial. LOWER GASOLINE IN SIGHT. Soon to Be Fixed, Fuel Administrator Announces. Fuel Administrator Garfield an nounced that he expects soon to fix a price for gasoline for domestic con sumer as well as the government and the allies at a figure lower than the present market price. He is await ing further reports on the situation before taking definite action. No intimation was made as what the fixed price will be. to MOONSHINE FOR SALE. Is It The Real Stuff, Made In Ken tucky? ' Cards reading as follows have been distributed in Oxford : "Moonshine for sale; made in Kentucky; get -wise ask your friend. It is the real stuff." It has got the public guessing. ' Appointments to Give Typhoid Vac cine. Bullock, Wednesday, September 18 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.; Tar River, Thurs day, Sept. 19, 2 to 4 p.m.; Cornwall, Friday, Sept. 20, 2 to 3 p.m.; Oak Hill, Friday Sept. 20, 4 to 5 p.m.; I earnestly urge all who havent taken the vaccine and who are accessible to these, points, -to be presjent at the dates and hours designated. SAM.L H. CANNADY, M. D., County pnysician. CUT OUT THE CAP G It Would Be Well to Make It "ger many." It would be most appropriate to cease the use ot the capital "G" in connection with germany, which country may cease to exist geogra phically if America pours three or four millions more into France. CULBRETH COMMUNITY FAIR. To Be Held at the School House Wednesday, Ocober 16. - Judging from the handsome prem iums offered by the Culbreth Com munity Fair Association, which will be held at the Culbreth School house Wednesday, October 16th, the fair will be equal to any-ever held in this section. The next edition of the Public Ledger will contain the prem ium !ist. Best By Test. There is a best in everything. In gas and kerosene engines it is the Associated Line. Handledxclusive ly in this territory by the Oxford Hardware Co. See announcement on the third page of this paper. ; NUMBER 73 ? DR. WHITE AND THE WAR MAP. Ticing the Germans On Their Re treat To the River Rhine. Newman in Oxford reads the war news withmore intelligence than does Dr. E. T. White. After devour ing the front page of the morning and evening paper, he resorts to a map of the war zone and carefully notes the changes of the battle-line. He is so well informed as to foretell where the next blow would fall. Another well informed man about town is T7r. .Tnhn TTnTl who wnnlr! rather do without his breakfast than miss seeing a war map.. There are some people who read the war news only in the most super ficial, way because' they cannot pro nounce the names of the French and Russian towns in which the world's greatest tragedy is staged. They never . study the war map showing the daily niovjss made by the allies and the central powers without which one can no more understand the progress madtf by either side than one could understand a game of checkers without studying the posi tion of the "men" on the checker board for the winning of this world war depends" almost entirely upon the winning of territory of getting "across-the Rhine" to Berlin! If we are to do our best work to ward winning the war, we must be intelligent about the metho'ds adopt ed and the progress made by-our men at the front. The newspapers of the country are spending a lot of money and putting a lot of work into the job of present ing to their readers the facts about the war all the facts that may be printed by anybody. There is no reason why even the average workingman may not be as well informed about the problems of the war as the most learned high brdw. HIGH TAXES TO BE PERMANENT The Burden of. the War Debt Will Weigh Heavily For Many Years. - Mr. Kitchen has prophesied that the annual budget of the United States will be $4,000,000,000 for many years after the war and that the Government will have to contin ue to levy heavy taxes on the wealth of the nation to meet its burdens. It has been known that the burden of the war debt would weigh heavily for many years, but Mr. Kitchen is the first man in a position of author ity to make a definite estimate of the tax bills of the future. Here are his figures: Interest on the war debt, $1,250,000,000; maintenance of the army and navy, $1,000,000,000; pensions and insur ance, $1,000,000,000; ordinary ex penses of the Government, $750, 000,000. Total, $4,000,000,000. Mr. Kitchen's figures may be a lit tle too high, but if the war contin ues longer than is now expected they are niore likely, to-be a little too low We are doomed to an era of big tax bills. The necessity of raising enor mous and unprecedented sums in times "of peace ought to " develop lax experts who will devise a way to raise the money by a more equitaoie distribution of the burdens than is provided for in the war-revenue bill now before Congress. STOVAXL. NEWS NOTES. --Miss Dosy Cutts has returned from Virginia. , -c Miss Emly -Smith, of Oxford Rt. 5, is the guest of Miss Bertha Earl. Miss. Lythgo, of Richmond, is also the guest of Miss Earl. Mr. Zack Williams has entered the High School at Oxford. Mr. Reid Wilson left Wednes day to join the navy. Miss Lillie Wilkerson, accom panied by Mrs. J. T. McDonough, left for the north last week to buy her fall stock of millinery. The Radcliffe Chautauqua will hfi here Sent. 18-20th. . Registration day caught some of the old bachelors in this section, and they all have long facesT '; Misses Lillie Wilkerson Ruth White, Ruth Norwood, Mollie Hester and L. C. Wilkerson motored to Durham last week. Mr. R. C. Puckett Is sporting a new Buick 6. Miss Mollie Hester, Miss Ruth Norwood and Miss Ruth White vsi ited Oxford last week. -The following Boy Scouts have been awarded medals by the govern ment for doing war service : Walter Taylor, Zack Williams, Allen Ken nison, Joe Davis, Lex Davis, Gordon Spicer, Bert Spicer. These medals will be presented next Friday night at the Chautauqua. Something For the Family. Landis & Easton is showing a very attractive stock of fall goods. It would be well to read their ad on the fourth page of this paper and purchase before there is an absolute scarcity of cotton and woolen goods. This old reliable firm is sharing lib erally with their customers- ,
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