North Carolina Newspapers

' '-V " v VOLUME XXXIII 4 TO V "OF rvnM VV TERRITORY OPEN TO AMERICAN ARMY rennan Forces Pushed Back From One to Two Miles; Twenty-five Thousand Germans Taken By A niericans in Drive; Process of Cleaning Up St. Mihlel Salient Continues. The crowning1 event of the week in ihp war was the American achieve ment in the wiping out of the Ger- linps at St. iuiniei mm me re- Spture of 15& square miles of French territory that had been under reman occupation for four years. Their lines were advanced 13 or more iviles in the direction of the German hnnier and twenty-five thousand pris oners taken to the rear. Thous ands of native French people who Md been held in bondage by the . Germans were released and the victo rious 'Americans were the center of nmv manifestations of rejoicing, v hile the Paris and London papers were proclaiming their fame. Great A ictory. Thprp is no disputing that the V.nche made a poor suuwmg, uul ub Sis for the first time up against an f "" - , i 1 i, 1 ,.,;r.on nrmv. nennne: division oe- ude division on a solid front,- and he liked neither its pace nor its deter mination. It was a great victory for o new armv, with new staffs,in a new countrv, because it was a victory for exactness in thinking and precis ion in working. -Battle Line Shortened The sharp and decisive victory of the mericans has put a new aspect on the entire situation. The line had been largely contracted shortened bv '2 miles so as to make effective use"of a larger number of troops, wnile tne tfriusu mm r Culu uy- tunities to the nortn ana soutn navej hoon vnstlv imoroved. rne Amen- cans stand m a position to tnreaten the German base at Metz and makes more certain the fall of St. Quentin and the St. Gobian fort, that in turn laving Laon open to capture. The Cheinin des Dames and in fact all the key positions to the German de fense of their borders are brought within the easier possibilities of cap ture. The door to direct invasion of German territory stands open to the American First Army. White Bread. Prisoners and refugees .alike are greatly impressed by the fact that the Americans are eating white bread regarding it as. a particularly omi nous sign for Germany. FIGURES OX NATIONAL REGIS TRATION NOT YET AVAILABLE Granville County, As Usual, Goes Over the Top. The Granville County Exemption Board vvras one of the first counties in the State to tabulate the returns from the registration last Thursday and file it with the draft executives. By the assistance of Mrs. Rena Hunt and Miss Edna White, and possibly others, the Board was enabled to complete the report and mail it for ty hours after the polls closed. That was a very fine niece of work con sidering the fact that there were i more than twenty-five hundred reg-! istrants in the county and about one hundred Granville men who sent nil card from outside of the county. ti n , mi. l 1 in.- uidu puwer oi uranvmecuuii- r eral Crowder with partial returns in I hand, estimated Sunday that an en rollment beyond 13,000,000 is assum ed. CAMP SEVIER PUTS ON AIR OF MUCH ACTIVITY Many Troops Arrive to Become Part of New Divisions Lately Organized. ' Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C, sept. 16. Since Friday more than .000 troops have arrived at Camp Jsevier most of them having been transferred here from Camp Jackson Columbia. Several thousand .addi tional troops are expected here dur ing the week. Since organization of the new twentieth division, which is to train here, was begun several weeks ago, this camp has assumed an air of new life, and hustle like unto the days when the thirtieth di vision which trained here- arid which is now fighting in Flanders, was at its height. Since the coming of the oth and 50th -regiments of infantry e 220th signal battalion and oth organizations forming the neu Jieus of the twentieth, all camp ac uities have been on the increase, the hostess house is crowded each evening with many enlisted men and so are the various "Y" halls, the camp library and other places of amusement and recreation through out the great camp. . NOBLE EXAMPLE. Young Man Transferred From Class Four to Class One. ' A young Granville county man last week called at the office of the exemption Board and requested to e taken from Class four and be Placed in class one. " Things have changed since I was Placed in class four," said the young man. "Now thnt mV wif has a com petency and can manage to get a Jng, I win thank you to place me I1 class 1 and send me to the front as soon as possible." . . the young man seemed greatly leased When tho Ttnnrrl tnld him tO arrange his affairs as quick as pqssi- PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLTTOWNp COUNTY nw i HUN LINE WILT, "R.TTxr FROM ANTWERP TO METZ This Means the Siirrvrwi V ' Pt 15. The Gpr. , mans are constructing a n!w - line. from Antwpmo Jlew ?rdl?SAto. advic today" Tife forts at Antwerp are beini re! be known as the Pariifal lTi dl?5elillm''toMelSSiSS tant tortress in German 1 All sace.- A retreat to s h a lme would mean the surrSideilng gium FranC and half Be?- IiARGE ATTENDANCE AT OXFORD COLLEGE THIS SESSION Many Counties -of North Carolina and Virgiiiia Represented. With more than 120 college wo Wren, re,sent' Oxford Collegl last Wednesday entered upon the most ausipcious session in the history of the institution. GranVille and the nearby counties furnish their quota witn a sprinkling from the oe,.' a -id WMtpVn nnrto 0 j ff fSR?"?' ? Stateand the, south-side counties nf Viro-inio' With the arrival of these young women, the college, which had been closed for, the summer months, pre sents an animated appearence. -Prefacing his sermon; last Sunday morning, Dr. J. D. Harte, pastor of the Oxford Baptist church, said that the community was indeed indebted to Dr. Hobgood, president of Oxford College for bringing so many fine girl to Oxford. Addressing the young women, he said that he was glad -to see so many of them present and ex tended to them a most cordial invi tation to make his church their church horn whilo ir nfrt - - THE STORY OF A TRUNK. The Same Thing Over and Over ,. Again. The Public Ledger learns that a farmer in the southern part of the county was last week robbed of $150 in money, a Liberty bond and notes worth $300. It is said that the mon ey and papers were in a trunk. It is believed that a negro who was loit ering in the vicinity broke into the house. The authorities are on the watch for this individual.. There can be little sympathy for the man in these enlightened "times who. forfeits the security offered by the banks, around which is thrown every safeguard, and hides his money in his sock or about f the cracks in the home, if at some unsuspecting moment the thief breaks in - and steals all that he has. Not only do the banks offer abso lute security but they keep money in circulation and help drive the wheels of industry which make possible the marketing of the crops. The banks gladlv offer depositors for money and all valuable bonds and papers. The man who declines to avail him self of the opportunities thus offered and suffers loss has only himself to blame and he must suffer the conse quences. ' CRESDMOOR SOLDIER . m.T WAS KILLED IN FRANCE . A, : - . oiL, : nranvfin This Is th e First Southern Granville -JSSum irives 'TiiflrPrpAnmnnit Times iNews gives thP Cnr- tne - lUilU V lii w " wno vv tt .iea 111 aciiuu iu r i auw. . m . . Official mtormauon -waa.m-w w death of Corporal Commie W. Wheel er, who was killea in ac""" V1 France July 20th. Corporal Wheelr er was a member of Company B. 18th Infantry of the regular United States Army, havingenhsted more than two years ago. This nfthe first Southern Granvillelboy,. soiarsw know, that has given his life m this titantic struggle, but as , wehave a great many "over there,' we may. expect many others to go in the same Corporal Wheeler was the son of Rev. ana. ivirs. . . -Grissom section of the county and was born June 10th, 1898. Pior to his -enlistment in . the army had made his homih Creedmoor and was a brother of Mr. O. E. Wheeler of the Allen-Lyoff Company, and Miss Maeie Wheeler of the boutnern TeleplSm Company, tesidceSnSVenS other brothers and sisters and nu merous other relatives. KING GEORGE SEES nv THE GRANVILLE CO. BOYS British Monarch Iiefar,gUn of North Carolina G6" re: King George of England, on a re cent visit toS the Belgian front r ll?WntryN NaionS member. .Information to tnis eneci SlSntalired in; !e"e eYed by thp Daren ts of Major -Don K. agon, of Graham, who Is to command of thlinrGeSrge" recently paid a visit to heS fnThlle the North Caro thafort0Scott. according to reports, with the fine showing made by the Tar Heel troops. . Middy Suits. . Elsewhere in this paper 'company announces the MiMtaWcesi KILLIANT OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA Wednesday. - September 1 ' TEUTONIC BEG FOR PEACE IS TB CRY OF THE CENTRAL POWERS Emperor Charles - Makes First S en sational Move 4h Expected Peace Offensive' of Teutons Austrian Peace Overture Does Not Contem plate Interruption of War During Negotiations. "Force," force to the utmost, " force without stint or limit, the righteous and - triumphant force which shall make right the law of the world, and cast ev ery selfish dominion down in the dust," wiU be the answer . of President Wilson.' (Washington Special.) Overshadowing in interest 'even Marshal Foch's hammer blows" a gainst the harried Germans, is the Teutonic bid for peace made through the imperial government of Austria Hungary. The formal plea of Emperor Char les to the belligerents for "a confi dential and noii-binding discussion on the basic principles for the con clusion of peace" comes as the first .sensational move in the "peace of fensive" which has been expected since the German arms began to stag ger back" from the fierce thrusts 01 the British, French and Americans. Washington and the allied capi tals hailed the call for a conference on neutral soil as another . German ruse to get better terms than' they might expect when the war has been carried to the Rhine. - They were convinced ' that Austria, whose , peo ple have long been war-rweary, had been called upon to bear the onus of making peace overtures and thus save the face of Germany. FIVE CORPS, INCULDING -TAR HEEL MEN IN UNITED STATES ARMY MAKING DRIVE (By the United Press.) Part of - the First" Field Army, which is understod to be engaged in the big Metz drive .gains thecredit for the first all-Ameriean. offensive. : It consists of five corps of six di- visioneah,Cbut how divisions are engaged has not yet been disclosed. The make-up othe First Field Army as announced re cently (now possibly altered) is as follows: 3 First Corus- First, Second, Twenty-sixth, Forty-second, Forty-first and Thirty-second Divisions under Major General Liggtt. - Second Corps Seventy-seventh, Thirty-fifth, Eighty-second, Thirtieth Twenty-eigth and Fourth Division, under Major General Bullard. Third Corp s Third, Fifth, Seven-ly-eighth,'Eightieth, Thirty-third and Twenty-seventh Divisions,, under Ma jor General Wright. , -r-il-T. Fourth Coros Eighty-third, Eighty-ninth, Thirty-seventh, Twenty ninth, Ninetieth and Ninety-second Divisions, under Major General Reed Fifth Corps Sixth, Thirty-sixth, Seventy-ninth, Eighty-fifth and Ninety-first-Divisions, under Maaor Gen eral Bundy. , MLLITARY HIGHWAY PROPOSED. It Will Pass Through Oxford. Conferences were held in Washing ton last week to promote tne move ment .of converting tne Bankhead highway, leading from Washington to I Los-Angeles, into a military' high way under government control. - A bill has ,tfeen introduced m the House by Representative Stephens of Mississippi proyMmg f or a . muitary road from Washington to Memphis, but Bankhead highway advocates are seeking to have the entire road con ?tructed and maintained as .a mili- be held on December 10, wfien aaxa Meittoljioraie plan nf the proposed military loan. PARENTS HEAR FR03I CORPORAL WINFIELD :aylor War Department States That He Is Sate and Souna. TTavine not heard from his son fnr morl than four months, Mr. J. A Tavlor requested the war depart mentoracrhis is with the American Marines m FTnrit't was the joy "in the Taylor ,?aL7a nlford Sunday morn- Ttn Mr Taylor-received a mes- s w hiij son Corporal vvwueiu Tavlor is site tod sound. The war from him. n Annt of Mi- Booker Being Ini On Account oi liTance Mrs E B. Meadows, of Culbreth, rnmitv chairman of health work, has cure health exhibits, xor the fairs to lie held inithe county this, falL Dr. SotirT nf the State oBard of Health wrUes Mrs Meadows that it will be ITLvSS'tn rimDly with her re- exhibit this year on ac llTJ? SStfer being in France. of Mr,Boo,er betoS OPPORTUNITIES A T,L H0& 18, 19X8. LEGAL, ADVISORY QOARD ASKS FOR? COMPETENT HELP To Assist Registrants In Filing Out n5ilin few' days the Local f?rJ: ffr GJanvi"e County, will be gin sending out questionnaires to the registrants of September 12. It will be absolutely impossible for the law yers of thiB town to assist all of the registrants-in filling out these ques tionnaires. Jhey could hot do it if they should give the whole of their time to .the work. But it is not ex pected that they should do it all. It 1S Pecteol that others will help. The Legal Advisory Board will ar range to have one o"r more lawyers up-stairs in the Court House each day during the period in the ques tionnaires are being sejit out. It will also have the assistance of several others who have already signified their willingness to help in the work A large number of those who acted as registras on September 12 have agreed to help the registrants to d limited extent in their immediate sec tion. Several others have filed their names with this Board for work at the Court House. But the number already obtained is not sufficient. All men in the town or county patrio tic enough to be willing to help in this work are requested to give their names, to the undersigned so that a complete corps of workers and assis tants may be organized at once. D. G. BRUMM1TT, Chm., T. LANIER, '. B. W. PARHAM, - Legal Advisory Board. TRIBUTE TO OUR DEAD. - Those .Who Have Died in Paris Hos pitals rruried in France. Upon the eastern slope of Mount Valerian are buried the 280 Ameri can soldiers who have died in Paris hospitals. Although the cemetery has been in use only three months it is sought out by reverent American visitors and the graves, marked .by the intertwined colors of the two re publics, - are constantly --decorated with flowers, says a Paris dispatch. Not content with acting as god mothers to the American soldiers who return to Paris on furloughs, French mothers, whose sons ,have died that liber tjr might live, have a dopted the boys from the United states even in death. To each little cross on Mount Valerian there is pin necLa card showing that some woman has vowed that the grave never shall t be -witnour a" wreath: or V vase - of flowers. Some of the florial pieces are of elaborate workmanship. From the slopes of Valerian the beautiful panoramax of the Paris re gion' spreads out, for the imposing hill is one of the most effective de fences of the city. Visitors have said it seemed to them that even in death the young Americans are stand ing guard over the Paris they -died to protect. The oldest grave in the cemetery is that of Private Bought of the 102nd infantry, who died March 2i5, last. Most of the plates tacked - to thewooden crosses bear more recent dates and the majority say that sol dier lying there belonged to the ma rine corps. "Mort Pour la Patrie," read the inscriptions. N LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Must Be . Paid Cash in Advance. So far as the Public Ledger is con cerned, legal advertising has been a very unprofitable business.. Hun dreds of cases have been properly ad vertised in the Public Ledger for which we vhave never received one red peimy. Now that the Government requires the publishers to pay cash in advance for-every line of advertising, the publisheis must protect themselves against loss. To carry a legal ad vertisement from four to six weeks and get nothing for it was bad e nough, but to carry it now and pay the Government war tax ; renders such legal advertising not only un profitable but undesirable. There fore, the columns of the Public Led ger are open only to such legal ad vertisements "as are paid in ad vance. " ' ' ATKINSON-ROLLER. . t The Groom Formerly. Lixed in ' Oxford. In the presence of a large assem blage of officers and enlisted men, the marriage of Miss Margaret Roll ing Atkinson, daughter of Mrs. S. J. Atkinson, Champe, Va., to Lieut. John Baker Roller, son of Mrs. S. L. Roller, of Cluster Springs, Va., was solemnized Tuesday evening, Septem ber 10 th, at the Post Chapel, Fort Moultrie, S. C, R v. Alexander Sprunt of the First Presbyterian church of Charleston, officiating. The bride, was given in marriage by her brother, Mr. Thomas T. At kinson, Lieut., Donald R. Conard of of the Z 5th Artillery, C. A. C, acted as best- man. The wedding march was played by the Post Band. Lieut. Roller is assigned to'Battery "B" 75th Artillery, C. A. C, The bride and groom will be at home at quarters 1013, Fort JVIoultrie, until Lieut. Roller is ordered overseas. OXFORD CHAUTAUQUA. Three Big DaysSept- 19, 20 and - - 2) st. Many people in Granville county will be interested in a visit to the big chautauquaf tent on September 19, 20 and 21st. Music, lectures and high class , entertainment. See the full page announcement inr this paper 1 9 '. 'RINT. a NUMBER 74. n - r ROUSING MASS MEETING. h ; - ;e Numbers Hear Speech of State S Director Dunlap. 4 -xit a mass meeting of citizens pre sided over by Dr. E. T. White in the Court House on Monday night, the United War' Work Campaign by the Y. M. C. A;, Y.-W. C'A., and allied organizations, was opened in Gran ville county. "- State Director Z. D. Dunlap ad dressed, the meeting, explaining the work of the campaign ahead. He urged that everyone get squarely be hind President Wilson and support dur boys in the trenches in France by doing the duty here at .home which is nearest at hand. Major Dunlap is a strong and forceful speaker and his fine address was en joyed by the large audience present. The chairman of the campaign for Granville county, Mr. R. H. Lewis, announced his organization as fol lows: F. M. Pinnix, Treaturer; T. C. Har ris, Secretary; J. W. Horner, Chair man for the town of Oxford. Miss Bennett.H. Gregory had al ready been announced as chairman for-the. Y. W. C. A., and '.to this com mittee is entrusted the-task of rais ing Granville county's part of this great War Fund of $170,000,000.00. W. A. MURPHY ARRESTED. The Little Dicky Birds Talk to Sheriff Hobgood. Sunday night while he peacefully slumbered in his forty thousand dol lar castle on Cherry Hill, the little dicky : birds entered the gold-plated sanctum of Sheriff Hobgood and told him that W. A. Murphy, who lives out- beyond Berea, near the Person Granville line, is. a rank moonshiner. . JJXxO to a sycamore tree near the still and you will find Murphy's ov eralls hanging on a limb, and in the pockets 'is a bunch of incrimination evidence," said the dicky birds. "After you have found the still and destroyed it," said the little dicky birds, ''go to Berea and you will find Murphy in a store." Monday at noon Sheriff Hobgood, accompanied by Uncle Ned . Booth and Chief I. H. Hobgood, followed the instructions of the "ltitle dicky birds and returned to Oxford with the said W. A. Murphy and locked him up in the county jail. He had not given bat! when this article was written. CAIN KILLED ABEL. Spectacular Electrocution" In the State Prison. , " (W. T. Bost.) " Baxter Cain, murderer of Abel Harris, both night watchmen at the Salisbury-Spencer electric railway barn, hopped on a leg and a crutch to the electr.'.c chair this morning, hurij-. ed himself into it, took three appli cations of jovinian fire and lay back dead in "satisfaction" of the law. It was in minor respects the most spectacular electrocution of three do zen or more now recorded in the an nals of death at the State pen. Nev er had been anybody named Cain e lectrically baked fo killing anybody named Abel. Never :had a victim single-footed his pilgrimage of death ana with such marked aplomb, as this Rowan county -man who never saw a hand that he did not think was raised against him. Never did the prisoner use his last lap in life to such inspection as did Cain. The electricchair to him was the most in teresting thingm the room and he looked it over as though he had nev er seen its match before. OXFORD IS A BUSY PLACE. Join the Procession And You Will Be All Right. Oxford is an exceedingly busy place these days. Farmers are bringing their tobacco here for miles and mil es around. The high prices paid here attracts people from far and near. Not only are they glad to bring their tobacco here where they can get good prices but they are also glad to come- to Oxford because it rs a hustling little city whosetarge stores are filled witn the goqds they want. The big general stores, the big dry-goods and clothing stores the up-to-date millinery stores and the smaller grocery stores are all busy as a hive of bees. Their efficient and accommodating clerks are always on the alert and are seeking to please their many customers. Our beautirui pavea sireeis uc iuc pride and admiration ormany hun-A dreds of folks who come here to visit and to trade. There come bad and rainv days but the principal business streets are no trouble at all. No one gets stuck in the mud in trying to SW.cc Tt nil shows that the progres- sive spirit of Oxford is Its oest advertisement. A And that leads is to conclude by saying, "Join the procession and you will come to Oxford all right. LIST OF REGISTRANTS. Exemption Board Posts Complete Copy In Corridor of the Court 'House. - The Granville County Exemption Board Monday posted a complete list in theJSourt House of all registrants between the age or is ana 4&. The Public Ledger will publish the entire list as soon as the order num bers have been assigned. The draw ing will probably be held in-: Wash ington next week.