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OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGER, FRIDAY, JULY 5f 1907. JUNE WEDDINGS. When you get an imita tion to the marriage of a Mend or relative of yoiirs, the first thought is "what shall I give them for a bri dal present?" The second thought is "where can I get what I want. The answer to both questions is just as easy as falling off a log. Just think of : DRUG STORE and go right there first. He can show you just what is ajuitable and the nicest goods you ever saw for the money in Cut Glass and other wear suitable for bridal presents. Ice Creams & Cold When the days grow long And the sun shines hot, Think of Hamilton's And forget it not. His is the store With the Electric Fan Where you cool so quick, You can't understand. Hamilton's Ice Greams Are the best that is, And his drinks and ices Are so cold, G-e-e W-h-i-z! When you go out for a drink Just go there first, For he has, just the kind That will quench your thirst. R. L HAMILTON Be Dose,bottles 2 doses 10c, 8 doses 25 cents. Notice 2 2 There is a great demand for good rented houses at a figure that assures a good rate of interest on the in vestment. 3For Sale A number of desirable build ing lots and residences. OR RENT. Only one honse vacant. J. J. NILES HI ESTATE -AND- Office in White Building. Br. L. V.Henderson DENTIST. OXFORD, - - N.C. Office over Hamilton's Drug Store. At Creedmoor every -Saturday, of isflce over Citizen's Bank. apl.26. MHEADTHlf 1 ACHE If Bro! SHORT POINTED LOCALS. BRIEF LOCAL HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK. Items to Keep Reader Informed of What is Going on in Around Town and Country. Mr. Titus Currin lost a good horse Sunday with the colic. ' Mrs. C. D. Osbom is bavins: some repairs made to her lot fence. A "gully washer and - trash mover" visited this section last Friday night. s Dr. T. L. Booth is having grano lithic put down in front of his resi dence. ...... Messrs. R. L. Brown and T. Lanier are making good progress on their new residences. t , ; $ When a girl is a high flyer it doesn't necessarily follow that she is cut out to be an angel. Cast your eye on the change in the advertisement of the C. A. Stacy Co. on this page. $ Note change in the advertisement of Oxford Savings Bank in another part of this paper. S Mr. W. A. Adams is making some needed improvement to his stein mery on Herndon Street. Mr. Isaac Harrfs is building a good size market near the corner of Broad and Hillsboro Streets. Don't air your family skeleton. People know enough about it when it is kept locked in the closet. Messrs. Dorsey Oakley and Ernest Harper, who are quite busy all the week, enjoyed a hay ride Sunday. The Southern Railway freight office will be closed July 4th, and will not receive or deliver any freight during that day. $ The Board of Education met Mon day, and did not complete their work, and adjourned to meet again next Monday. If men thought as women think thej should, and women did as men do, they would do more thinking than they think about doing. S Mr. Roy Currin, who lives a few miles from town, has purchased the Meadows residence on Broad Street and will move to town this fall. The editor is sorry that the people who have visitors will not let Kim know it as it is a pleasure to us to chronicle the comings and goings of their friends. J' S Mr. C. A. Carroll raised a lemon this year that weighed 142 ounces, which was large enough to make a good pitcher of lemonade this hot July weather. Friday Mr. Charley Pruitt, who lives a few miles from town, had his horse to fall on one of his legs breaking it Glad to learn that he is getting along; nicely. $ The merry-go-round pulled up stakes Friday and left for Burlington, and will be greatly missed by some of our young courting couples and the dear little girls and boys. S The Board of Directors of the Ox ford Orphan Asylum, at a recent meet ing, elected Drs. Hays & Booth pby- sicians tor tne institution ror twelve months. They have accepted the ap pointment. We publish elsewhere an advertise ment of Littleton Female College to which we wish to call special attention. This institution has had a remarkable history and is one of the most success ful schools in the South. Some Indianna girls have formed a club and determined not to marry any man who has net at least $4,000. In time to come, most of the members of that club can go as delegates to the Old Maid's Convention. Among the Granville county pen sioners are Mr. John Ross, .88 years old, and his son, James W. Ross, 67 years, father; and son, who served through the Civil War. Both of them are enjoying good health for their re spective ages. ' The C. A. Stacy Company, of Ox ford, has been chartered to do plumb ing, gas fitting, electrical" and power installation, etc The capital stock authorized is $50,000; subscribed $15, 000. Incorporators: Messrs. C. A. Stacy, W. H. Hunt, and S. W. Parker of Oxford. Mrs. Pell, who has been quite ill for some time, does not improve any.i iMiss Maud Parham, who has been numbered with the sick, is better. Mr. Sam Ellis, who was very ill the; first of the week, is slowly improving. Our idea of a brave woman is one who isn't afraid to talkj back to the COOK. Now don't kick about "the weather. You swore in May that you wanted to see it hot! Beauty is only skin deep, but ugli- ness generally goes right through to the soul. $ r Read the resale of land advertised in another column by T. Lanier, Com missioner. Your attention is called to the exec utrix notice of Mrs. Rachel E. Brown in another column. Hon. W. W. Kitchin is to deliver an address at a picnic at Whitsett on the 24th of August. s - A man would much prefer to be handed a bouquet than to be given a piece of your tongue s Our young people en joyed a very delightful German at the Horner Bar- racks Wednesday night. Texas is about to establish a shot gun quarantine against consumptive. Don't go to Texas to die. It seems that the "hot-enough-for- you" fellow didn't freeze to death in May. He is still with us. k$ Mr. Shroyerhas finished the cement floor in the basement dining room at the Oxford Orphan Asylum. $ A nice thing about a fat girl is the way 3tou can hug her without scratch ing yourself on the sharp edges. Mr. Wm. H. Harrison, who has been confined to his room several days on account of sickness, is put again. An Alabama bard is singing of the "Poetry of Prunes." As a rule, bards are full of both poetry and prunes. S Our friends Albert Crews and Ear ley Moss, of Tar River, have fine to bacco crops and have finished sucker f .."...::., ., , Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Landis, of . Hen derson, were the guests of Major and Mrs. William Landis on Front street Tuesday. The nice new iron front fence for the Old Cemetery arrived some davs ago and has been put up, and is a decided improvement. The many friends of Mrs. S. H, Brown will regret to learn that she is suffering with another severe attack of rheumatism. Newspaper Artist "What should l can tnis picture or the buxom society T" 11 .1 f . I t . I girl in her new bathing suit Editor "Much m little. 3 Give your servants holiday and at- tend the souvenir lea given by the iaaies iia oocieiy on uie rvectory r J ! ' A .1 O il. . T i I i ti a t a in , I'tVY1J " V- - $ Mrs. Henry Hunt handsomely en tertained the Social Club at her pretty home on Front street Wednesday af ternoon. Choice and dainty reiresh ments were served. A health journal states that people would be much more companionable ana joiner ii loeywuuu. eat uu.ous. The usual effect though is to make friends-more distant. ' S - No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure and good, without the world being better for it, without something being hp.InAd and ?nmtorted bv thft Vftrv ex- l H il U i " I J ' i The stockholders in Taylor-Cannady Buggy Company, Oxford Cotton Mills, T3 r nt c f :n j xti-:,i n..i, r J( I V 11 1U Liiu iianviiai un. Ttcic made happy the first of the week by receiving checks for semi-annual divi dends. 3 At the last communication of the Oxford Lodge of Odd Fellows the fol- lowing officers were installed: I. H. Davis, N. G.; L. F. Perkinson,V. G.; J.'B. Powell, Recording Secretary; J. P. Royster, Financial Secretary; J. E. Howell, Treasurer. The Sun, New Bern's new morning paper, was issued ' for the first time Sunday. It is , an 8-page paper, and the rays of Brother R. M. Phillips, the brilliant editor, glisten over the pages. May this Sun never set and always shine brightly in the interest of the good old town of New Bern. MOVING OF BUSY THRONG. PEOPLE YOU KNOW AND THOSE YOU DON'T KNOW. The Faces of Those Caught in Pass ing Coming and Going by Our Man-About-Town. Mr. N. G. Crews, of Dabney, was in town Tuesday. I ? Prof. R. G. Kittreir was in Tarboro Wednesday on business. Mr. and Mrs. V . L. Dorsey, of Watkins, were on our streets Monday. Mr. T. T. Bobbitt, of Baltimore, was an Oxford visitor Saturday and Sun day. Miss Lottie Hart of Dabney, visited friends in town a few days the past week. Mr. J. H. King, of Route 1, was in town Monday and called to see the editor. . , . ' Mr. J. P. Chappell, of Northside, was in Oxford Saturday and called on the editor. Mrs. W. H. White returned Mon dav from a visit to Norfolk and the Expositiori. Miss Hester, of Greensboro, was the guest of Miss Hettie Lyon a few days the past week. Miss Pauline Howard is visiting: tne family 0f Kev. J. A. Hardaway at Newnant Ga.1 $ Messrs. F. H. Gregory and Elijah Wells left Tuesday to take in the Jim town Exposition. Mr. and Mrs.Oakley,of High Point, are visiting their daughter,Mrs.Hearst in West Oxford. " Mr. S. W. Tingen, of Route 1, was on our streets Monday and dropped in on the Public Ledger. $- Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Hicks, of New York, are at "Brantwood" their sum mer home, for a while. $ Dr. I. H. Davis returned Saturday evening from attending the Dental As- . s soeialion fciaiibn a( Morehead City. Mrs. .Bernard and daughter, Miss Imogene,of Danville, are visiting Mrs. W. A. Devin on High street. Dr. and Mrs. E. T. White, and three daughter, Misses Helen, Edna and Hixey, are at Panacea Springs. $ Mrs. Bettie Lanier returned home a few days ago from an extended visit to Richmond and the Exposition. S Col. William Osborn, of Greens boro, was in Oxford Monday on his way to join Mrs. Osborn at Buffalo Springs. Mr. T, F. Smith, our firm looking and hustling Chief of Police, returned I ' Friday from taking in the Jimtown Exposition. - 3 Mr w a Parlim wbr i ,nrpt. ed in saw milliner at Wendell, snent C3 I Saturday and Sunday with his family in Oxford. Mr. L. G. Patterson, a prominent tobacconist of Smithfieldi visited his old home naar Dexter several days the past week. We learn that Mrs. ,4Lex" Davis and Migs gue RobardSj ot Henderson, were the sts of Mrg CHff R6hards a few days the past week. . Mt l h r of Brownsville T who is visiting relatives in Granville and Wake, was in Oxford Mond and called on the PublicLed- J "w QQXi Messrs. Z. W. Lyon and Frank Ljon and Mr and Mrs. John ebb are attending the meeting of the lo- bacco bacco Association at Norfolk this week. Miss Blanch May, the very popular and pleasant milliner of Messrs. Long, Blalock & Haskins, bade her friends good - bye Friday and left for her home in Greensboro. $ Mr. Morris Green, of the popular clerks, of Long, Blalock & Haskins, left Tuesday to spend a while at Pan acea Springs while his family went to Durham to visit relatives, Midshipman Henry Cooper and Misses Lilly White, Mary Cooper and Alene Cooper, three of Oxford's faci- nating young ladies are enjoying a house party at the hospitable home of Mr. C. J. Cooper in Fayetteville. Mr. Will Long is at Panacea springs this week. Miss Kate de Lacroix has returned from Buffalo Springs. Capt. Baldy Hunt, of Townesville, was in Oxford Tuesday. Mrs. Thomas Winston left yester day for Selma to visit relatives. Dr. Henderson and Mr. Thomas Pruitt went to Norfolk Tuesday. Misses Fannie and Jannet Gregory left yesterday for Buffalo Springs. The mining man, W. T. Harris, of Vigilina, was in Oxford yesterday. Mrs. Joe Renn and children have gone to the country for the summer. $' Miss Sarah Daniel, of Satterwhite, is visiting Mrs. J. S. Brown on Col lege street. -v . $- Mr. and Mrs. Ashtbn Chapman ar rived home Monday evening from West Virginia. Mrs. Matt Currin, of Cornwall, visi ted Mrs. Dr. Watkins on College street the past week. S Miss Lague, the pretty milliner of Miss Mary Belle Gregory, left Tues day for her home in Maryland. Mr.; and Mrs. Geo. W. Hobbs, of Rutherford, N. J., are visiting the family of the editor on College street. Mrs. Emma Lynch returned Friday from an extended visit to relative at Franklinton, Henderson and Hester. Messrs. Joe F. Meadows and W. A. Adams left Tuesday for Norfolk to at the meeting of the Tobacco Association. The attractive Miss Fisher, who has had charge of the millinery department of Landis & Easton, left for her home in Baltimore Tuesday. Mr. Z. E. Lyon, of Creedmoor, and one of Granville's truest and best citi zens, was in Oxford Tuesday visiting his sister, Mrs. Wm. L. Mitchell on Broad Street. Mrs. C. D. Ray and daughter, Miss Annie Lee Currin, Miss Reid, Misses Florence and Augustus Landis, and Miss Mary Rbysterj left Tuesday for the Jamestown Exposition. ;: - . s Miss Katherine Hilliard returned a few days ago from Omaha, Neb.,where she was connected with the city schools, to spend her vacation at home and her many friends were greatly pleased to see her Ex -Sheriff S. A. Fleming,of Hester, was in Oxford Monday and was glad to see that he had laid aside his crutches which he had Ito use a few weeks on account of getting his leg hurt on a wagon. Mrs. F. W. Hancock after an ab sence of about 10 months at Dansville. N. Y., and other places for the rheu matism, returned home Saturday to the joy of her husband and bright chil dren, and other relatives. Mr. Bernard Cozart, who has the honor of exhibiting the largest hog in the country near the main entrance at the Jamestown Exposition passed through Oxford Saturday to spend a few days at his home near Stem. SEE the new cold wave refrigerator at Baird & Chamblee. Out of town will be back July 15th ready for busi ness. W. D. STIMSON. Watchmaker. I "CALL ON US," just to push the buttom, and we will promptly respond and open the door. No "slip up's" occur when ELECTRICAL BELLS, are put in by us. The ring is clear and distinct when callers call to see you. Isn't it embarrassing to have a bell that don't work? It really is. That never happens if we do the work. Our price is a fair one. Phone 282. jAm . I l ;;;;rl Ao STACY CO Panacea Wa!er Is conceded'to be the only wa ter that is a sure Specific for Ghronic 'Diarrhoea and Dys entary. .. For . teething children' and Gholera Infantum it has no equal.Teething children should drink no other kind during the summer months. ' ' Dyspepsia and kindred dis eases in all their forms suc cumbs to its use. For sale by J. G. Miami. " The best ice cream in town so the ladies say and all foun tain drinks. New line tablets, stationery and other supplies arriving al most daily. We have a supply of Galla diums, tube roses and carma bulbs. Also any kind of flower seed. . Use Dentifoam for the teeth contains no acid or grit. Rec ommended by all dentist. Try a bottle and be convinced. The knives that cut, The Razors that cut, The Scissors that cut, are all guaranteed at Hall's Drug Store. Spectacles and Eye Glasses that fit your eyes. Satifac tory fit every time or your money, back. Prices right 25 cts to $10. ' Prescription Department. Is under my special care. Pu rity, accuracy and 28 years experience is what I offer you. Send your prescriptions to me and you will get exactly what your doctor wants you to have J. G. HALL, Druggist, Oxford, N. C. X L O'duinn & Co. The Leading Florists ol NORTH CAROLINA. All cut flowers in season, Roses and Caranations A Specialty. Wedding bouquets and Flo ral Designs arranged in the most artistic style, at short notice. Palms and Ferns, And all pot plants for house decorations. Bedding plants in great variety, Rose Bushes, Shrubries, Evergreens, Hedge Plants, Shade Trees. Vege table Plants in season. Mail, telegraph and telephone orders promptly exeouted by J. L. O'QUINN B CO., Kaleigh, N. C. mar. 22.6m. Phones 149. INDEPENDENCE IN PLUMBING methods is bringing us our reward. We have thrown off the shackles of tradition as regards high prices and careless work. JULY PLUMBING is no cheaper with us than that done in the midst of winter. For we are always moderate in our charges,prompt in our service and thorough in work manship. That's our idea of good plumbing. '
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