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Dr. B. K. Hays Dec .23,05 -rf VOL. 20. OXFORD, N. O, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1907. NO. 23 1 II -v yi-i niPr- "III Hi OBJECTION TO BONO ISSUE A FEW SUGGESTIONS TO COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. Let Them Remove all Objections by a Few Timely Resolutions Which Will Make Votes. Gentlemen of the Board: Granville County must have good roads. We have reached the limit of progress with bad roads. Good work has been done on our roads, but they are still dirt roads, and the teeth of time will soon destroy them. We need macad amized roads. To get them we must have money, and to get the money we must issue bonds. The last Legislature provided by statute for the issue of 100,000 in bonds subject to a vote of the people. We take it you are in favor of that is sue, and will do all in your power to secure a majority of the registered voters in its favor. The Public Ledger believes a majority of the voters of the county are in favor of this measure, provided a few objections thereto can be removed. We believe that you can remove these objections and there by ensure the passage of the bonds. By so doing you will associate your names with the greatest improvement in the history of the county. The law provides that you may in your discretion appoint a Highway Commission consisting of five men se lected from different sections of the county. Many good citizens will vote against bonds unless they are assured that you are going to appoint this com mission. Your word that you will ap point five representative men to super intend the construction of the roads will settle that question and make votes for the bond issue. Others want to be assured that the money from the sale of bonds shall not be put on dirt roads, but shall be expended on building permanent ma cadam roads. And they are right. Taxes which will last for years ought to be spent only on permanent im provements. Again, some are fearful that the funds will not be equitably distributed j among the different townships. If you j appoint a commission the distribution of the work will rest with them, but 3'ou can remove this objection largely by announcing that you will appoint a commission of representative men. We therefore urge that at your next meeting you pass resolutions to the ef fact: 1. That you will appoint a High way Commission of five representative men. 2. That the funds arising from the sale of bonds shall be used only in constructing macadam roads. 3. That each Township shall receive its equitable share of road improve ment. Great Game of Ball. There was a rich game of base ball played Wednesday afternoon at Hor ner Park between the xiomer tecnool nine and the town's crack team com posed of Messrs. Frank Pinnix, Robt. .Wood, T. Lanier, W. A. Devin, Tom mie Howell, McRae Donald, Frank Johnson, Ernest Allen and Moses King. It was a great game and great ly enjoyed even if the Oxford boys do feel quite sore over the game. The score was 28 to 8 in favor of the ior ner boys. n B How's This Boys? "She drew nearer, swaying toward him with a movement of indescribable grace. The beguiling sweetness of her melting eyes; the tender appeal of her outstretched arms stayed the breath on his parted lips, crimsoned his brow with a bursting gush of blood from his heart and smote him with partial blindness. In an instant she was clinging about his neck, shaken from head to foot with a passion of blissful weeping." Old Lewis Residence Burned. Last Thursday the old time residence of Mr. Charles Lewis, near Oxford, was burned to the ground. The build ing was quite old, and a spark from the chimney caught the roof and as there were no men around that after noon the flames gained such a head way before assistance arrived the build ing was entirely consumed. Mr. W. L. Lumpkins and family occupied the house and Mr. I. P. Breedlove had all his furniture stored up stairs, which was destroyed. Mr. Lumpkins only saved a part of his furniture, and the loss falls very heavy upon both of these gentlemen. The house was in-; sured for $1,000. Young Men Wanted. To employ several good steady sober young men to work in Buggy Factory. lApply to Taylor-Cannady Buggy Co. MUST BE FRIGHTENED. Mr. Kitchin Has the Right to As pire to be Governor. There has been a good deal of "hot air" inflicted upon a long suffering public about a combine in the Fifth District, and it is a sweet morsel that some over anxious people roll under their tongues to keep up a prodding of Hon. W. W. Kitchm. We know nothing about such a combine and have paid little attention to the wild imaginings, especially of Republicans who seem as if they will die in a fit if they do not keep up a fire at Mr. Kitchin, but we will say this much if Mr. Kitchin aspires to be governor he has that right, and he has the abil ity and the learned acumen sufficient to make a governor the State would be proud of and we will - take him in preference to any one the officious Re publicans could name from now until Gabriel blows his trumpet. They can just keep on poping their pop guns at "Bill" Kitchin, but their paper wads have about as much effect on the peo ple who love him, endorse his course, and will stand by him, as it does to throw pin darts at a brick wall. Wil liam W. Kitchin has a clean, clear cut record for honesty, boldness, straight forwardness and ability, and that is more, probably, than some can say who have taken him as a target at which to throw peanut hulls. A shin ing light always attracts moths and bugs -especially the hum-bug variety. The truth is the Repubs are afraid of Kitchin. The mention of his name scares them into conniption fits -Durham Sun. Little Talks On Advertising. And it came to pass that after he had advertised his goods, there came unto him great multitudes from all the regions round about and did buy of him. And when his competitors saw it they marveled among themselves, saj'ing: "How be it that this man is busy while we loaf idly about our doors?" And he spake unto them: "In this fast age of push and rustle it is easier for a camel to enter the eye of a needle than for a man to flourish without advertising." Career of North Carolina Triplets. Fayetteville C orrespondent of Char lotte Observer says: In the year 1839 Mrs. J. F. Price, of Cumberland coun ty, gave birth at one time to two boys and one girl, who grew as fast and as hastily as other children, took the measles and the whooping-cough just as naturally, and recovered from them just as speedily. At the breaking out of the civil war the triplets were 22 years of age, and one or both of the boys went into the Confederate service. Shortly after the close of the war the family, parents and children, left this county and settled in Smith county, Mississippi, on a good farm which they purchased. The father and mother have passed away, but the triplets are living in good health, aged 68 years and claim to be the oldest triplets in the United States. One brother, J. F. Price, has been a popular hotel pro prietor at Jackson, Miss., since 1885. He and his sister, who is now Mrs. Nancy Phillips, of Calhoun county, have been married for many years, and have children and grandchildren, but Henry Price, who lives in Jackson, is an old bachelor. The family reun ion, which occurs every year, took place a few days ago. Took in the Clansman. Oxford was certainly well represent ed at the Clansman in Henderson Tuesday night and all greatly enjoyed the play, and the trip. The following persons went over: Misses Alene Cooper, Irene Hines, Lillie White,Lizzie Pearson, Mary B. Williams, Annie Crews, Fannie Greg ory, Julia Winston, Net Gregory, Jannet Gregory, Antionette Taylor, Helen White, lone Yancey, Miss Fisher, Miss Durham, Col. and Mrs. R. O. Gregory, Capt. and Mrs. Chas. Elmore, Mrs. Ed Osborn, Mrs. John A. Niles, Mr. and Mrs. John Paris. Mr. and Mrs. B. 31. Haubold, Mrs. Ella Peace, Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Britt, Mrs. E. K. Howard, Mott Pinnix, Dr. L. V. Henderson, Prof. D. H. Bland, Marion Taylor, Lennie Smith, Baldy Williams, Ernest McCall, Claude King, Jack Blalock, C. A. Taylor.Dr. G. A. Coggeshall, Eee Taylor, Gibson Howell, A. F. Morris, Robt. Mooie, Tommie Howell, Crawford Cooper, P. W. Knott, C. W. Knott, L. H. Knott, R. L. Hamilton, J. F. Meadows, Thos. Pruitt, Leak Peace, J. H. Cunning ham, Brooks Parham, Prof. Hay, Major Smith, A. ZollicofTer, J. A. Zollicoffer, Ernest Taylor, Willie Stea gall, J. H. Waller,J. G. Hall,Clifton Robards, Frank Lyon, J. B. Graham, C. A. Stacy, E. B." Grady, Robt Bul- jlock, Melville Bragg, Ernest Bragg. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. CULLED FROM THE VARIOUS PAPERS OF THE STATE. Tar Heel Items for Tar Heel Read ers-Some Happenings in Old North State. State Auditor B. F. Dixon will de liver the Memorial Day address May 10 at Reidsville, having accepted an invitation from the Ladies Memorial Association there to do this. North Carolina week at the James town Exposition will be from the 12th to the 19th of August, and this is the reason that date was suggested for the encampment of the National Guard there. Grand Secretary Woodell, of the grand lodge of Odd Fellows, says that order continues to grow. Five peti tions for new lodges are on file. There is to be a new lodge at Lewiston, in Bertie county. Prof. J. A. Jones, superintendent of the Fayetteville graded schools, has been elected instructor in mathematics in the Inter-State Normal and Socio logical Congress, to be held in Norfolk this Summer in connection with' the Jamestown Exposition. Following the killing of a negro man in Greensboro Tuesday and an other Wednesday night a negro, wo man named Mary Wharton came into fashion last night by getting her throat cut. The doctor took six stitches in the gash and thinks the woman will re cover. The other day, near High Point, a picnic representingfour generations was held. There were present, Mr. J V. Burton, and his son, and his son's son, and his son's son's son. A very rare occasion, indeed. The eldest of the quartette is eighty-seven years and the youngest three months. " Last vear the house which stood in Raleigh and in which President An drew Johnson was born was purchas ed through, a gift made-by Mr. George Foster Peabody, of Virginia.' moved to Pull en Park and there yery rareful Iy restored." ' It is the plan to ake it a museum of relics of.the Presilnt. The home of M. C. Quinn, invalis bury, was discovored to be on fire about midnight Thursday night and parties who broke the door down to get in, found Charles McCormick, a negro, secreted in the kitchen. He was ar rested for setting the building on fire and it is expected that he will be tried for arson. A pathetic death scene was witness ed at High Point, Friday when Mrs. J. G. Lawson and her six-months-old baby lay dead at their home on Wil lis street. The child died only a few hours in advance of the mother and both were buried in one coffin, the babe resting on the bosom of the mother that had nursed it. North Carolina furnishes some not able instances of longevity. Rev. George Bromsfield, who died at Hu ron, Ark., a short time ago, aged 108 years, was born in this State in 1799, and went to Arkansas when 24 years old, and was in the Methodist minis try nearly all his life. He left 14 children, 50 grandchildren, 87 great grandchildren, and 12 great-great grandchildren. W. C. Lynley. of Powder Springs, Ga., and Lloyd Andrews, of Seven Springs, N, C, both young men em ployed at Wilmington several months as industrial insurance solicitors, are believed to have been swept out to sea and drowned in a fifteen foot launch which was found stranded on the beach near Middle Sound, twelve miles be low Wilmington. It is learned that on Saturday after the baseball game at Wake Forest College between its team and that on the A. & M. College there was a pretty lively fight between several stu dents of the two colleges at the railway station, the origin being the carrying J of a red umbrella, to the top of which a white handkerchief was tied by one of the A. & M. students. Things were quite lively for a few minutes, but nobody was seriously hurt. A. B. Breese, a flagman, of Selma, was robbed in Benson last Friday by two negro laboTers on a Coast Line work train. The robbers secured only a pair of shoes and some clothing, though Mr. Bresse had a hand grip, said to contain $300 in' cash. He was knocked down and severely but not se riously injured. The negroes were promptly taken and given a prelimina ry hearing before the Mayor of Ben son. In default of bonds they were committed to Smithfield jail to await trial. GIVE BRASSFIELD JUSTICE THAT IS WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE CRYING FOR. Mr. Glaude L. Allen Speaks Plainly on the Road -Bond Issue and Working the Roads. The greatest question before the peo ple of Granville county at this time is the bond issue for road improvements. I am a firm believer in good roads, and I believe the only way to get money enough to do much road build ing is by a bond issue. I don't think it wise for an individual or a commun ity to go in debt for runing expenses, but some times it is good judgment to go in debt .for permanent improvments; and I look upon building good roads as such improvements, and one that will be worth a great deal to us as well as the rising generation. While lam in favor of good roads I am also in favor of justice being done to every section of the county in the building of roads, and of all the money spent in the county in building roads Brass- field township has never got a pennies worth; in other words the road force has never done any work in this town ship, and the only reminder we have that there is a road force at work in the county is when we are called upon to pay our road tax. I wasr informed by one of the Com missioners a. few weeks ago that when the road force finished the Kimball Turnpike they would be sent to Brass field, but from the proceedings of the last meeting of the Board of Commis sioners it seems that if that was ever the plan it has been changed. Bpeak ing of the Kimball Turnpike reminds me of what I heard a gentleman say a few days ago: "that the Kimball's out figured the Commissioners in that deal.' That reminds me ol the old negroes idea of figuring when he said: "An 0 for an 0 and a figer for a figer, All for the white man and none for the nigger." It seems - in that case it was all for the KimbalJ?s.and very little for the people, atid$& 'the road , figu ring a far RrilS'sflWw-'- f' 4"Wa tv" -rrX-ra Vi" rf - d in rt tbfv i4atM i-sK atldI)eroent and .work to J J-FIoyd's and-then move to" IutefTRtev Will some one who is in authority please tell the people of Brassfieldwhy that is, and if the work done from Dement to J. W.Floyd's is to be credited to Brassfield township when only one and one half miles of the road is in Brassfield. How is that? If the object of working the De ment road is for the benefit of Brass field why is it that they do not com mence at Gordons and work by the Iron Bridge to Brassfield Church, or on to Grissom, as four fifth of the heavy hauling done from Brassfield to Oxford is done over the road by the Iron Bridge. One dollar spent on that road would be worth five spent on the Dement road to Brassfield town ship. I am in favor of the bond issue, but from what I have heard from some of the people in Brassfield I believe be fore the election can be carried here the people will have to have some as surance that their part of the bonds will not be the old nigers part, as it has been in the many thousand dol lars spent on the roads in' the county for the past few years. Yours for good roads and justice, G. L. ALLEN. Announcement. I have moved my law offices to the New White Building, on Main Street, first door to the right over the New Post Office, where I will be pleased to see my clients and friends. I now have plenty of room and entire privacy in transacting business. Every person in the County is cor dially invited to call and see me. I want you to know where I am and learn the way to my office, whether you have business for me or not. I am giving my entire time and attention to the law, and offer my services to the public in all civil and criminal cases and Special Proceedings, in the Settle ment of Estates and in all Legal Con sultations. I am also prepared to give all court bonds for clients. Yery truly, HENRY M. SHAW. Enters Real Estate Business. Mr. J. A. Niles has entered the Real Estate and Insurance Business, and has opened an office up-stairs in the White Building, Main Street, and you are invited to read his advertise ment in another part of this paper Mr. Niles is one of Oxford's reliable young business men and will be glad to serve you at any time. THE SEWERAGE ACT. We Urge Citizens of Oxford the Im portance of its Adoption. We publish elsewhere in this issue the full text of the Act of the last Leg islature authorizing the town of Ox ford to vote on an issue of bonds for sewerage. We cannot urge too strongly upon the citizens of Oxford the importance of seeing to it that this measure is car ried at the election on May 7th. To defeat this important improvement would mean a serious blow to the town, a turning back from the splendid progress that has been made here in the last four or five years. A town cannot stand still. It must either go forward, or backward. We have ar rived at that stage of the town's growth where sewerage has become a necessi ty. The town needs sewerage, not only as a public improvement, but in the interests of health and cleanliness. Sewerage is needed to carry off the surface water, and to prevent stagnant pools and ditches. Sewerage is need ed to carry away unclean matter from the residences and buildings. Sewer age is needed as a preventive of di sease which has so fruitful a source in these things. We need Sewerage because our wa ter system is incomplete and of little real advantage (save for fire protec tion) without it. We cannot use the water freely without providing for the carrying off of the water after it has been used. So important a measure for the health, comfort and convenience of the people of Oxford should enlist the hearty support of all, and we trust but few, if any, will vote against it. The Water Company has contracted to furnish the water, and it has invest ed too much money here to fail to pro vide a .efficient supply. No uneasi ness need be had on that score. The cost has been carefully estimat ed by the engineer who made the sur vey and drew plans at about $86,000. Bonds can be issued for that amount at five per cent, and the interest on bonds and sinking fund requirements met . without adding one cent to the tax'. rate or reducing the expenditures 1" CotUe.imp'royemonfjt,:iis con- VA.tivelyvestiiriatecl tfc'lie taxable property in Oxford thi yedr ' will amount to 1,500,000. The increase in taxables this year, with same rate, will more than take care of interest and sinking fund on bonds. So that the town is financially able to put in this great improvement. The registration books for this elec tion will open April 1 6th at the office of J. K. Wood, Esq., the registrar. Don't fail to register, and don't fail to vote for Sewerage. The Royal Arcanum. The grand council of the Royal Ar canum, in session at Raleigh last week, elected the following officers: Grand regent, S. M. Brinson, New Berne; grand vice regent, H. E. Bonitz, Wil mington; grand orator, F. W. Han cock, Oxford; grand secretary, Dr. J. Howell Way, Waynesville; grand treasurer, A. M. Powell, Raleigh; grand guide, H. C. Chedester, Ashe ville; grand chaplain, J. T. Hedrick, Lexington; grand warden, J. M. Nor wood, Raleigh; grand sentry, W. S. Floyd, Reidsville. A. J. Evans Statesville, was elected a grand trus tee, and H. CDockery, Rockingham, and D. M. Miller, Salisbury, repre sentatives to the supreme council. The next meeting will be held at Winston Salem. The Royal Arcanum appropriates $1,200 for the extension of the order and for visits by the grand officers to all the subordinate councils. There are now 2,900 meirbers in the state, a gain of nearly 300; two new councils have been formed during the past jear. For awhile after the increase in rates, made a few years ago there was a decrease m membership but now there is a sain. A very fine address was delivered by C. E. Hoadley, of Connecticut. Reunion of Confederate Veterans. The Confederate Veteran of Gran ville County will meet in the Court House in Oxford on Wednesday May, 1st, to elect officers and make prepara tions to attend the Reunion at Rich mond from May 29th to June 3rd. A full attendance is requested. Every veteran who expects to go is requested te send in his name before the date to James K. Wood, Adjutant, as the au thorities in Richmond wish to know how many to prepare for. The rate will be one cent per mile including the trip to the Jamestown Exposition. A. W. GRAHAM, Commander. J. K. WOOD, Adjutant ITEMS FROM EXCHANGES. NEWSY, POINTED ITEMS GATH ERED FOR OUR READERS. Short and Seasoned, Wise, Pert, Gay and Solemn Things Talked About in the Merry-go-Round. Naturalists tell us that only 10 per cent, of all the animals on earth have backbones. That is about the same proportion of men who've got 'em. Mr. Roosevelt stands pat on the rail road, but they say his pats are. jolts, and not only hits their tenders bell cords but they cannot' stand for his bumpers. At Churche's Ferry, South Dakato, a judge ordered the Great Northern Railroad's depot closed for a year, be cause it permitted the storage of beer in violation of the prohibition law. A Dakota man, aged sixty, has married a girl of twenty while his son married the girl's mother, aged forty four. People with nothing else to do can busy themselves with this latest relationship puzzle. Mrs. Ruth Clayton, 1 00 years old, of Hancock county, Ind., had a spell of sickness recently and all her gray hair camei out. Last week a new growth began and it was black. Mrs. Clayton is planning a horse back ride on her 1 01 st birthday. Moore county has joined the good roads movement. The Carthage News says: The ordering of an election on a proposition to issue $200,000 of bonds for the building and improving of the highways of our county is an import tant step in the direction of progress and prosperity. According to the figures compiled by the census bereau at Washington a divorce suit. is filed every five minutes during working hours of court officials and a divorce granted every three minutes in the United States. This Has been the average for the lat twen ty years, and census officials say the number is increasing at an alarming rate. Simon Tresherfell ten stories down an elevator shaft in New' York, and wasn't hurt. His only complaint was when a workman arrived to pick him up a corpse, that he had caught cod coming down, -'Here I have gone all winter without catching cold, and now just because I move a little too fast down the shaft, I got a cough. Wouldn't that jar your slats?"That really wasn't hurt much. Elmore Sheppard, known as Big Eno, 17 years old and weighing 640 died at Appleton, Wis., last week, of fatty degeneration of the heart. He was the biggest boy in the world and was gaining a pound a week. Last winter he gained 40 pounds. Two years ago he could no longer enter a railway coach. The body was so big it had to be prepared for burial and put in a special coffin out of doors. When some newspaper men pub lish things that some people do not like to have in print, the scribe is call ed a cur. When he refuses to publish some things he is called a cowardly cur. Some people's idea ol the news paper business is that the newspaper man should cur-ry favor with them. Hardly a day passes in a newspaper shop that does not require exacting and discriminating judgment in han dling matter for publication. Harry K. Thaw is greatly distressed over the mistrial in his case in New York, and when his wife visited him at the Tombs prison she completely broke down; his attorneys will apply for bail and will confer this week as to their programme; District Attorney Jerome will strongly resist bail and will insist that the slayer of Stanford White be held for murder in the first degree; a rumor that Thaw has changed his counsel is denied; one of the Thaw ju rors has created asensation by publish ing over his signature the proceedings in the jury room. E. II. Harriman appeared at the Tombs police court in New York to prosecute his former stenographer Frank W. Hill, for selling to a news paper from his stenographic notes his famous letter to Sidney Webster which letter caused President Roosevelt to de nounce Harriman as a falsifier;a news paper man testified that Hill made oath to his stenographic copy of the letter and offered it for sale in various news paper offices. IF YOUR watch has gone on a strike and your clock has quit striking why bring them to W. D. StimBon and he will adjust the matter prompt ly and properly.. Located at Paris Dry Goods store.
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