Dr. , B. K. Hays
Dec. 23,05
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VOL. 20.
OXFORD, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1907.
NO. 24
RUN OFF OF TRESTLE.
NARROW ESCAPE OF 22 PASSEN
GERS ON FREIGHT.
ine rassenger iar and two dox
11 r n i . i
cars Went Down 15 Feet No
body Seriously Hurt.
Saturday morning the belated
through freight train over the Keys
ville branch of Southern left Oxford
about 9 o'clock with EngineerWatkins
at the throttle. When he reached the
Buggy Body Factory one of the wheels
must have broken to a truck under a
box car near the end of the train, and
as it was down grade the engineer did
not feel the jerk, and when the train
reached the trestle two box cars and
the passenger car left the track and
rolled over in the ravine a distance of
15 feet, and were badly smashed up.
There were 22 passengers on the
coach, including of the Warrenton
High School baseball club, who were
on their way to play Durham. While
every seat in the coach was broken up,
stoves, lamps and every description of
turniture scattered over the car, only
one man was hurt, having received
only a slight wTound about his arm,
which was quickly attended by Dr. B.
X. Hays. The contents of the two
loaded box cars, which consisted of
meat, canned goods and groceries, were
scattered around the cars.
The accident caused considerable
excitement in Oxford and several hun
dred people visited the scene of the ac
cident and all wondered at the narrow
escape of the people m the passenger
car. One man happened to be in the
closet at the time of the accident and
the side of the car had to be broken
into to get him out, but wTas not hurt.
A force of hands was soon at work
on the wreck and in about five hours
the mail train from Durham to Keys
ville passed over the trestle,-leaving
Oxford about 3 P. M.
The wrecking train
Oxford until Sunday
did not reach
afternoon and
quite a large number of people went
out and witnessed the easy manner in
which a wrecking tram pull cars on
the track.
A Handsome Booklet.
The Seaboard Air Line Railway has
just issued their April folder, the cover
of which is designed most appropriate
ly with reference to the Jamestown
Exposition. While naturally the cover
advertising the fact that the Seaboard
is the Exposition Route, aside from
this, the worknfanship, design and har
mony of color are really strikingly
handsome. On one side of the folder
is an Indian Warrior's bust in all his
savage war paint, and with typical
beaded-leather ornaments festooned
around him. On the other, side, before
a cluster of bows, arrows and toma
hawks, is a sketch of an Indian girl
with such a wistfully curious expres
sion upon her comely countenance as
demands more than a casual observa
tion, the face is really a character
study. The whole effect of the folder,
with a rich orange background pres
ents, certainly a most novel attractive
appearance. A copy of this folder can
be secured by applying to C. H. Gat
tis, Traveling Passenger Agent of the
Seaboard , Air Line Railway, at Ral
eigh, X. C.
Marshall Rowland Shot.
Raleigh Correspondent of the Char
lotte Observer of Tuesday says:
Late last night R. D.' Black, white,
aged 16 years, was brought here and
jailed without bail privilege for the
mortal wounding of Marshall Rowland
also white, aged 18 years, near Wil
low Springs at 4 o'clock Sunday after
noon. Black was on a car at the rail
way station when a 12-year-old brother
of Rowland came along. Black asked
him where he could get some wThiskey,
and when the boy said he did not
know, Black attacked him, knocking
him down and treating him very bru
tally. The boy ran to the house of his
brother, Marshall, and the latter went
down to see what was the trouble. As
soon as Rowland approached, Blf fk
drew his pistol and shot at him five
times, two bullets taking effect, one in
the head and the other near the spine.
Oxford Boys Will Do Well.
Our young friend and townsman,
Dr. Edward Hobgood, has just been
elected Resident Physician of the Pol
yclinic Hospital of Philadelphia, the
next largest hospital in the city. His
term will begin January 1, 1908. He
will graduate from the Jefferson Med
ical College in June, having taken a
two years' course there after ' taking
two years in the Medical Department
of the State University. He will en
ter on his profession with thorough
equipment.
DOWN TO BIBLE TRUST.
Trusts Become so Common Every
where you Turn you Meet It.
"Trusts' has become such a common
word that we aire not surprised to meet
it anywhere and at any time. "Trusts,"
as used in the common, everyday sense
means combinations of capital or capi
talists presumably for the purpose of
raising the prices of commodities.
There's a trust in everything we eat
even if we can't get trust at the gro
cery store. We must ride on trust
controlled cars or in trust-made wag
ons, wear trust-made clothes, heat our
houses with trust-controlled fuel and
cool our water with trust-made ice, eat
trust-cured hams and trust-killed beef
in short, we must trust to the trusts
for everything despite the seeming ii
disposition on thepart of the trusts to
trust us tor anything:. As before re-
marked,however,we have grown accus
tomed to living under a trust regime and
have begun to regard it as a matter of
fact born of necessity. If we had any
rights or opinions of our own concern
inar wiiat we should eat or wear we
didn't care to assert or express them
We were content to let it go at that,"
meekly accepting whatever was offered
us and paying the prices asked, trust
ing to our own consciences for a reward
in the Hereafter, wniie Knowledge
of that Hereafter might to some of us
have been vague and indefinite even
the most ignorant of us were confident
of our ability to gam such knowledge
without the aid or consent of any trust
through the Holy Bible. Now, alas,
that, prop, the support upon which our
consciences and hopes securely rested,
has been knocked from under us, for
there is a Bible Trust. The Bible
Trust admits that it is that it gives
us scriptural reading in doses measur
ed by its own hand and at its own
prices and in the manner which it
elects. Think of that, and then find
consolation, if you can, in the fact that
trust iniquity can so no further. It
-
has reached the limit.
How to Kill Your Town.
Kick.,
Keep kicking.
And don't quit kicking.
One pull one way and one t'other.
Go to other towns and buy your
goods. v
Denounce your merchants because
they make a profit on their goods.
Knife every man that disagrees with
you on the method of increasing busi
ness. Make your own town out a very bad
place, and stab it every chance you
get
Refuse to unite in any scheme for
the Betterment, of the material inter
ests of the people.
Tell your merchant that you can
buy your goods a great deal cheaper
in another town and charge him with
extortion.
Keep every cent you get, and don't
do anything of a public nature unless
you can make something out of it di
rectly.
When you say anything of your
town say it in such a way that it ' will
leave the impression that you have no
faith in it.
Patronize outside newspapers to the
exclusion of your own, and then de
nounce them for not being as large as
the city papers.
Concert Tour.
The Oxford Orphan Asylum Sing-
in g Class of 1907 willstart
upon its
eastern trip the first of May. Ihe
second or western tour will, probably,
besrin the last of July, after several
weeks interval of rest by the Class at
the institution in Oxford.
The excellence of these entertain
ments is known to the people of North
Carolina.
The work of our orphans' homes ap
peals both to the heart and to the
judgment. It merits our sympathy
and support. Interest in this cause is
already great and it is growing.
The patronage accorded these con
certs each year has. been increasing.
They have been a true success and we
bespeak for them even enlarged suc
cess this season.
An Announcement.
Dr. Coggeshall begs to announce
that he has returned to Oxford and
will continue here the practice of his
profession. ''
He has taken offices in the new Dr.
White building directly over the new
postoifice where he will be glad to wel
come those Who may wish to consult
him.
Office hours: 11 A. M. to I P. M.
and 4 to 5 P. M.
Telephone call No. 23.
FOR Tomato plants and cuttings
call on Mrs. R. T. Smith. 2t
THE $100,000 BOND ISSUE
ONLY QUESTION BEFORE US IS
MACADAM ROADS.
Mr. Wm. H. Harrison Discusses
the Importance of Macadam
Roads in Granville.
Mr. Editor: In the opinion of the
writer the one great question before
the people of Granville county at this
time is the road question. True there
are other questions of education and
development along other lines that are
alwars before us and are important,
but the real question at present is the
making of permanent roads. This
question demands our consideration,
and if, we do not settle it wisely at
this time, then- our good county, peo
pled with as good people as there are
on earth, and possessing natural ad
vantages equal to the best, must take
a backward step. Our county cannot
hold the enviable position it has held
in the past, without improving its high
ways.. The failure of the present proposed
bond issue-means probably that road
improvement would be checked for
years to come, as whoever goes to the
Legislature two years from now will
hardly take any interest in road legis
lation of any kind if our people vote
down the measure now before them.
It is needless for me to here speak
of the general advantage of good roads
in saving time, in saving wear of
vehicles, and in comfort, convenience
and general 'utiltity. In my opinion,
Mr. Editor, the following plan would
do much towards making road work
effective and also helping to carry the
bond issue:
1 Let it be understood that only
macadam roads are to be built out of
bond money, as our people are already
convinced that dirt roads, as a perma
nent improvement, are a failure.
2 Let there be an equal distribu
tion of funds m each township in the
county, which seems to be the only fair
and equitable plan.
3 Let a highway commission be es
tablished by our Board of Commission
ers such commission to be made up of
representative .men Jrom various, sec
tions of the county who shall employ a
man who thoroughly understands the
making of macadam roads;and let the
commission have the general charge of
road building in the county.
We offer this as a suggestion to our
able Board of Commissioners, knowing
that they have the interests of the
county at heart and will be glad lo
consider all suggestions looking to road
improvement.
Yours for good roads,
WILLIAM H. HARRISON.
False Alarm of Fire.
About 8:30 o'clock Tuesday after
noon a false alarm was turned in say
ing that the Oxford Seminary was on
fire. Our fire boys turned out prompt
ly rolled up at the Seminary in a few
minutes, followed by a large crowd of
citizens. Question now arises who was
it that turned in the false alarm?
Falls and Breaks Her Hip.
The many friends of the aged and
beloved Mrs. Lucy Russell in Gran
ville will indeed be sorry to learn that
she had the misfortune Sunday morn
ing to fall and break ono of her hips.
She is visiting her daughter, Mrs. J ,
A. Webb, on College street, and Sun
day morning about 11 o'clock was go
ing down the back steps, and owing to
being very weak fell breaking her
hip. She was discovered and carried
into the house, and Dr. T. L. Booth
was sent for, , who did all he could to
relieve her suffering. Although Mrs.
Russell is 83 years of age she is quite
cheerful under her misfortune, and is
receiving every possible attention from
her loved ones.
Died Away From Home.
Mr. G. W. Walter, a young man
from Richmond, Va., who worked for
Mr. J. F. Edwards, died rather unex
pectly Saturday morning in his room
on Hillsboro Street. The young man
had been sick for several days, but
wras up and about the streets up to the
day before he died. He was a good
tinner and had been at work for Mr.
Edwards several week. The good
hearted Frank Edwards turned his
body over to Undertaker J. R. Wood,
telling him to nicely prepare the body
for burial, and then went to the tele
graph office to inform his people in
Richmond of his death. They instruct
ed Mr. Edwards to ship the body to
Richmond for burial.
I can sell you the genuine Cyphers
Incubator made byithe Cyphers Incu
bator Co., Buffalo, N. ' Y., for cash or
credit W. H. Britt Agt.
OXFORDS NEW POSTOFFICE
ONE OF NEATEST AND MOST UP-TO-DATE
IN THE STATE.
Dr. E. T.White to be Congratulated
Upon Erection of a Handsome
Building and New Postoff ice.
The progress Oxford has made in the
past ,few years is a source of much
pleasure to the editor as he has in sea
son and out of season worked for the
upbuilding of the grand old town
through the columns of the Public
Ledger, oftentimes under discouraging
circumstances, but it well said that
there is a silver lining to every cloud,
and it is now shedding its bright rays
upon Oxford. With the establishment
of successful manufacturing enterprises
the town took on a new life and con
tinued to prosper until our post office,
under the excellent management of
Mr. Leak Peace, last year was placed
on the second class list, bringing joy
to the hearts of the people.
lo add to this pleasure the govern
ment leased from Dr. E. T. White
one of the elegant stores in the White
Building, on Main street, which Dr.
White converted into one of the hand
somest and most attractive post offices
in the State. He has put in the very
latest and most up-to-date fixtures, both
convenient and attractive, under the
approval of the government, contain
ing 400 combination lock boxes and
drawers, all finished up in oak, and
our postmaster and cierKs are more
i . til
than delighted with their beautiful and
convenient home.
As to Dr. White he is one of Ox
ford's most honored and greatly es-
teemeci nusiness men, ana nas taKen a
great pride in the erection of his hand
some building, which is an ornament
to the town, as well as the equipment
of the new post office. t
It is a pleasure to the editor to ex
tend to Dr. White warmest congratu
lations in his successful efforts to add
so much to the looks of the business
part of Oxford, and to furnish the peo
i . i i i i
pie witn sucn a Handsome and conve
nient post office.
-1 f-fe Smallpox at Wakef ield
We learn from the papers that there
is a great deal of small pox in the
Wakefield section of Wake county and
there is complaint by the people of a
lack of quarantine or of any care in
preventing people sick with the disease
coming: and groins: at will. It has been
some time among the negroes and now
is spreading fast among the whites.
Making a Good Impression.
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vv e are pleased to hear from some
of our business men that Mr. Clifton,
the new agent of the Seaboard in Ox
ford is proving a polite and accommo
dating official, which will be appreciat
ed by our people. We could never
understand wny an agent or his clerks
thought they were the "whole cheese"
and treat the patrons of their road with
perfect indifference and oftentimes are
discourteous. The public love to
travel with a polite conductor and
train crew, and come in contact with
civil and courteous agents.
Death of Son ofCapt. W.-H. White.
We are sorry to learn from a Sac
remento, Cal., paper of the death of
Mr. Edward G. White, son of Capt.
W. H. White, of Oxford. He died
in that city on the 10th instant after a
short illness with pneumonia. He
leaves a devoted wife, and one sister
Mrs. J. J. Nowell, of Atlanta, Ga.,
and one brother Mr. Roger White, of
Manila, who is now on his way home,
and dear father to mourn his death.
He was in his 35th year,and had been
living in California for a numbefof
years. The editor extends much sym
pathy to'the loved ones in the loss they
have been called upon to sustain.
It would be a Crowning Act.
The abolishment of the first floor of
the Opera House as a market as it
gets tougher and tougher as the days
roll by, and converting a part of it into
an Armory for the gallant Granville
Grays and a part for municipal pur
poses would go down in history as the
crowning act of the Board of Commis-
sioners in the interest of a trust bled j
people. We dare say no people was i
ever afflicted with a more hide-bound
monopoly than the market house trust
which has been skinning the people of.
Oxford for several years. It is a
wonder the people of the town have
submitted to it as long as they have as
the tax on the housekeepers is enorm
ous. m m
THOSE who are in need of good
horse feed will be glad to learn that L.
Thomas has just gotten in another car
load of that excellent Timothy hay.
I T0 B0ARD of commissioners,
Editor Endorses What Mr. Harri
son Says on Road Question.
In this issue we publish a commun
ication on the road question from Mr.
Wm. H. Harrison, of Oxford.
While we endorse his article, yet
the editor wishes to go a step further
and make another suggestion to our
Board, which we believe is of impor
tance, if we -wish to carry the bond is
sue. The suggestion we make is this:
Let politics (be entirely eliminated in
consideration of the road question and
in the selection of a Highway Commis
sion. We offer this suggestion because
it is important that we enlist the sup
port and co-operation of all our people,
irrespective of party. We need tlie
support of every man be he Democrat
or Republican, prohibition or whiskey
man, if we are to carry the bond issue,
which we consider of greatest impor
tance to our people at the present.
The men selected should come from
different sections of the county.
We believe the following gentlemen
would make a most excellent Commis
sion, and should be glad to see them
appointed: A. W. Graham, J. H.
Gooch, Graham Royster, Glaude Al
len and Clinton M. Rogers.
We would also,urge upon our ex
cellent Board of Commissioners the im
portance of prompt action on this mat
ter, as the time is short. We are
sure that the Board must realize that
a most important work now rests upon
them one upon which depends large
the future of our good county and we
hope and believe they may be equal to
the emergency.
Cutting Scrape Saturday Night.
Some of our colored people got
rough and rowdy Saturday night
about 10 o'clock, which resulted in a
carving scrape. John Mallory, a
rather bad character, and Sherman
Thorp and a man by the name of Jones
become involved in a quarrel and a
regular fight ensued. After quiet had
been restored it was found that Mal
lory had been badly cut about the face
and on one arm by Sherman Thorp.
Mallory was taken to the office of Dr.
Watkins who dressed and sewed up his
wounds, which are not of a" dangerous
character.'
Sorry to Lose Them.
tt -r- i i i
lenderson sustains a real loss in
the removal of Dr. and Mrs. G. A.
r" in. e i m i
uoergresnaii to uxrorci. lney came
here about seven years ago and the
Doctor soon established himself in a
good practice and both in the high re
gard and affectionate esteem of our
people. Cultured and scholarly, ge
nial and companionable Dr. Coggeshall
is a most engaging and agreeable gen
tleman and he and his excellent and
accomplished wife added much to the
social and literary life of the town.
They came here from Oxford and as
their only daughter has since married
and lives there they decided to go back
and make that place their home in the
future. Henderson's loss is Oxford's
gain. Henderson Gold Leaf.
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Deep Interest in Old Home.
The following letter from a young
county man to the editor shows the
deep interest he feels in his old home:
Pomona, N. C, April 20, 1907.
Dear Sir: From this week's Public
Ledger I see that Oxford and old
Granville are waking up, indeed are
about to be wide awake. It is certain
ly a great pleasure to me to see the
good-roads movement, and I sincerely
trust our people (I say "our" because
am a Granville county man) will
give, this bond issue for good roads a
a sweeping victory. This county
(Guilford) has a good many roads
macadamized, and is still at the good
work. Of course everybody knows
what a boon it is to have a good nice
road instead of mud hub deep.
Then too I see you are going to, vote
for a sewer system.
Surely the old town is coming to the
front, and I want to say, Hurrah far
Oxford and Granville.
Yours truly,
O. J. HOWARD.
Now is the time to buy Incubator
and broodeiwfor cash or credit. W.
H. Britt, Agt.
IF YOUR watch has gone on a
strike and your clock has quit striking
why bring them to W. D. Stimson
and he will adjust the matter prompt
ly and properly. Located at Paris Dry
Goods store.
Pure Bred White Leghorns and
Barred Rocks, Pullets 50 cents, Roos
ters 60 in lota of not less than 4.
For sale by J. C. Horner.
I want to sell you an Incubator and
brooder. Cash or credit. - W. H.
Britt, Agt.
j jTEMS 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.
In Chicago John Temple Graves in
a speech" at the twenty-seventh annual
banquet of tfie Iroquois Club, declared
that Roosevelt and Bryan are the two
greatest men in the world.
In Chatham county a few days ago
Walter Evans crushed the head of
Wiley Smith with a rock, from the
effects of which the latter died 24 hours
later. Both colored. Evans is in iail.
A bill has been introduced in the
Wisconsin Legislature to compel wo
men of means to support their invalid
husbands. All Legislatures should
pass bills to compel mean husbands to
support their valid wives.
An Indianapolis woman's club de
mands that the city employ chaperons
in the public parks to prevent young
couples from courting. The city can
get all the chaperons it wants to, but
it is not on record yet where any of
them outwitted Cupid. ,
The earthquake on Friday in tha
Phillippines was felt in several prov
inces and was the severest in 3Tears,but
no lives were lost; at Iliolo fire broke
out and burned the native quarter,
rendering from 8,000 to 10,000 people
homeless: in Manila fire destroyed
1,100 Nipa houses.
More people will die in China of
starvation, exposure and famine-bred
disease within the next four or five
months than were killed in battle or
died from wounds or disease in ths
Napoleonic wars, the great civil war
in the United States, the Boer war in
South Africa and the late Russo-Japanese
conflict.
"There are two ways of breaking up
lawlessness. One is to convict and
punish the lawbreaker. At best this
is a poor method; but it is the best so
ciety can do for those trained for tha
commission of crime. Let the grand
juries find true bills, let the petit ju
ries find verdicts of guilty,letthejudgeg
impose adequate penalties and let them
be suffered,
The satisfaction on the part of tho
general public at the promptness with
which the corporation commission ha?
availed itself of its new and more ex
tended powers under the various acts
of the last Legislature is very marked.
As a matter of fact the commisson has
gotten right down to work and in or
dering improvements of road beds, of
rolling stock, of freight and passenger
stations and of schedules it has certain
ly done well.
Ihe report from Washington that,
the field is fighting Taft because Roose
velt is for him, and that "the reaction
aries" are at the bottom of it to defeat
the President's policies, looks like pol
itics as it is worked by those White
House people who are "no novices."
The political programme at the White
House is for the 1908 Republican Na
tional convention to meet and ratify
the nomination to be made by Presi
dent Roosevelt.
Announcement was made that John
B. Bundren, who on April 1 was 101
years old, will be united in marriage
to Miss Rose McGuire on her 100th
birthday, August 26th, 1906, on Mr.
Buddren's estate near Tatasville,Tenn.
Mr. Bundren and Miss McGuire were
sweethearts in Tennesse in their youth,
but neither has been married. Miss
McGuire's parents would not let her
marry Bundren in youth and took her
to England to live. Bundren went to
California and acquired considerable
wealth.
Secretary R. D. W. Connor, of the
North Carolina Teachers' assembly, an
nounces the completion of the program
for the annual session in Durham J une
11-14, presenting, he says, the most
attractive array of speakers ever of
fered to an educational gathering in
North Carolina. The program is filled
with a vanty of subjects of interest not
only to teachers but to the general
public as well. Besides all the prom
inent educators of this state there will
be a number having inter-state and
national reputation, including P. P.
Claxton, University of Tennessee; Dr.
O. T. Corson, Ohio; Miss Martha
Berry, of Rome, Ga.; Dr. Chas. W.
Kent, University of Virginia; O. J.
Kern, of Illinois; C. B. Martin, su
perintendent of schools is South Caro
lina. FOR Sale Fine
years old: in foal to
gray mare; 7
Gregory Jack.
A. F. Dresel, Nelson, Va., Route 1.