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VOL. 20.
OXFORD, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1907.
NO. 40
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.
Charity and Children: Our obser
vation so "far, under the reduced rate
Jaw, is that the passenger business has
increased from 2d to oO per cent 1 he
branch lines appear to be doing a very
heavy business.
A town in Ohio boasts of a preacher
who is 101 years old and has preached
regularly for sixty years. No doubt
he gets the blues every time he notices
that Ohio hasn t improved very much
since he started on the job.
By a vote of 159 to 16 the Georgia
House passed the negro disfranchise
ment bill, which previously was adopt
ed by the Senate. The lower branch
of the Legislature made "a few minor
amendments to be concurred in by the
Senate.
Wilfcesboro Chronicle: Mr. Fran
cis Soots, of - Rock Creek township,
some 8 or 10 miles from Wilkesboro,
was in town last week. He is up near
70 vears old and last week was the
first time he has been in town since the
surrender in 1865.
"A new use for the telephone was
found by a Cheyenne justice the other
day, when he tried and fined over the
telephone two defendants who 'were 50
miles away. Verily we are living in
a fast age." The telephone sometimes
tries all of us. This is no joke.
Says the Washington Post: "A wo
man writer boldly discusses Women
and Their Backs. If she would compile
all that is said behind them, it, might
prove to be mighty interesting reading."
When you go to talk about a woman
behind her back, it certainly makes
her get her back up.
The Associated Press dispatches tell
us that at a conference between Presi
dent Roosevelt and Attorney General
Bonaparte, it was decided, "that here
after violations of the law by corpora
tions will be met by prosecution of the
heads of the great combines rather than
of the companies they represent."
The International Paper Company
is said to be behind the print paper
merger now being brought to a suc
cessful close. It is said that within 12
months the International Paper Co.
which was incorporated in New York
in February, 1898, with an authorized
capital of $118,000,000, will control
the print paper market of the United
States. To do this the company will
expend from $30,000,000 to $50,000,
090 in buying up the plants in the
middle West.
Men holding high positions ought to
be careful and weigh their words, es
pecially in charging a jury in Carteret
county. Judge PurnelPs charge to
the grand jury at Beaufort was lis
tened to by a large crowd of people,
white arid black. And of course there
were those who desired to evade the
laws in a dry county. It pays, they
think. A colored gentleman said, after
hearing that charge, that it was the
first time in his life that he knew it
was a commendable act to sel a man
in a dry town a little whiskey.
Morehead Coaster.
Marshville Home: The most eco
nomical man in the State lives near
Concord. He's more saving than the
man who climbed over the lot fence to
keep from wearing out the gate hinges
and got up off the bed to turn over to
keep from wearing out the bed clothes.
When that Cabarrus man goes to town
and begins to feel sick at the stomach
he leaps on his mule and gallops home
to vomit in the back yard so the ducks
can get it. (It this makes any of you
sick, you can just step around to the
back yard and be relieved.)
DR. S. RAPPORT will be in Ox
ford Tuesday, September 3rd, at Dr.
Henderson's Dental Office, for the
purpose of examining eyes and fitting
glasses. I will fit you with suitable
glasses in any style of steel or gold
frames from $2 up including the exam
ination. 2t.
Letter to J. B. Roller, Oxford, N.C.
Dear Sir:, Why do people send us
such tales as this?
. D. G. Smith, Madison, Flai,had his
mother's house painted Devoe 11 years
ago, and the hese looks better to-day
than other houses painted with other
paint 3 or 4 years ago.
-' They are full of good will for Devoe.
, Yours Truly
( F. W. DEVOE & CO.
.Baird & Chamblee sells oar paint.
THIS WAS RANSOM.
How he Got rid of an Importunate
Seeker After an Office.
W. W. Long, formerly of North
Carolina,, tells The Washington (Post
hotel lobby man this story of theiate
Senator Ransom:
"I recall an incident at the National
Hotel in which Senator Matt Ranaem
gave an exhibiton of quick thinking
and ingenuity that was remarkable.The
Senator was bombarded by an army
of office-seekers every day. They came
early in the morning and remained
late at night. Every time the Senator
left the hotel he would go cautiously
to the head of the stairs and peep over
the balustrade to see how many were
waiting for him.
"One morning Congressman 'Baldy,
Williams and I were standing at the
entrance to the hotel, and we saw the
Senator come down the, stairs. He
stopped for a moment and surveyed
the crowd from" the first landing, then
he made a bee line for the door, which
he reached after repelling dozens of his
constituents with the hurried remark
that he was needed in the Senate.
When he reached the door he stopped
for a moment to talk with Mr. Wil
liams and myself. The halt was fatal.
An elderly ministerial-looking man
came up and laid his hand on the Sen
ator's shoulder, and began: 'Secretary
Carlisle has promised me a position as
chief Of division if you will go to, the
Treasury and indorse me.'
" 'My goodness,' exclaimed the Sen
ator, has it come to this? Do you
Brother Barrett, want a public office?
I am surprised, If it were possible
for me to change places with you I
should gladly do it. I would rather
be in your position as a savior of souls
than United States Senator. Go back
home and continue your good work.
Don't even' wait till you get back, but
begin at once and save Williams'
soul, and Billy Long's soul, and my
soul.' Brother Barrett was thoroughly
shamed and when he had gone the
Senator said, Well, I got rid of him
pretty nicely. I wish they were all
as easy. J hen he saw the approacn
ing crowd of constituents, and beat a
retreat"
Educational Matters.
The most important official body in
the county is the board of education.
The most important single official is
the supenntentendent of instruction.
Other officers deal with business and
the humdrum, every day affairs of
men. These officers deal with the
minds of hundreds of children, and on
them depends the future It is need
less to state their necessary qualifica
tions. We have a board of education
that is fitted for its tasks and a county
superintendent who will advance the
cause of education. We bespeak for
them the support of the people of the
county. Hold up their hands and
help them.
Death of Brother of Mrs. Haubold.
Mr. N. W. CrostOn, a brother ofj
Mrs. B. M. Haubold, died in a hospi
tal in San Leandro, Cal., Aug. 7th.
of typhoid fever. He had past the
fever stage and was improving, though
very slow, when a sudden change for
the worse set in, and only lingered a
short while after that. Only one week
before death he wrote a letter to his
sister (Mrs. Haubold) himself, saying
he hoped to be up in a short while,
and all information from hospital au
thorities intimated hope of an early re
covery. ...
He was a native of Halifax county,
Va. About three and a half years
ago he enlisted in the United States
Army and was stationed in the Philip
pine Islands the whole time. He re
turned to the States in May and was
discharged in Vallejo, Cal. He had
only landed a few days when he was
taken sick, which resulted in his death.
Two brothers and two sisters survive
him: Messrs. R. A. Croston, of Dan
ville, Va.; W. T. Croston, of News
Ferry, Va., and Mrs. B. M. Haubold
of Oxford, and Mrs. J. O. Morris, of,
Farmville, Va. . !
We join Mrs. Haubold's friends in
extending much sympathy to her and
the other members of , the family.
For Sale: A good No. 5 Under
wood Typewriter. R. G. Kittrell, 2t.
JlF 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.'
Orino Laxative Fruit SYrup is sold un
der a positive guarantee to cure constipa
tion, sick headache, stomach trouble, or
any form of indigestion. If it fails, the
manufacturers refund your money. What
more can any one do. J. G. Hall.
Subscribe to Public Ledger.
DEATH DF COL ROGERS.
BURIED SUNDAY AFTERNOON
WITH MASONIC HONORS. V
Served the People of Granville as!
Sheriff and Commissioner
Was a Good Farmer.
Col. Clinton AT. Rogers, one of the
prominent farmers and citizens of
Brassfield township,died Sunday morn
ing at the home of his son-in-law, Mr.
R. P. Taylor, in Oxford, after an ill
ness of about a month, surrounded by
all the members of his-family.
He was taken sick at his home in
Brassfield township and was brought
to the home of his daughter in
Oxford, and after 3 weeks illness pass
ed "beneath the shadows."
Col.Rogers was 71 years old.and until
his health began to give way, was a
successful farmer as he owned two fine
farms in Brassfield township, and most
highly esteemed by his neighbors as
he was kind hearted and obliging.
He was a good business man, and
served the people of Granville faith
fully and well as Sheriff and County
Commissioner
Col. Rogers was pleasant and com
panionable, and will be much missed
in the community with which he was
so long identified, and the members
of his family have the sympathy of
the community in their bereavement.
He leaves one son and two daugh
ters, Air. James Rogers, of Railway
Mail service, and Mrs. R. P. Taylor
and Mrs. S. H. Brown, and several
grand children, of Oxford, to mourn
his taking away.
The funeral took place Sunday
afternoon at 6 o'clock from the resi
dence of Mr. R. P. Taylor conducted
by Rev. C. G. Christian and largely
attended. At the conclusion of the
services the Masons, of which the de
ceased was an honored member, took
charge of the body, and on the arrival
of the funeral cortege at Elmwood
Cemetery consigned all that was mor
tal of their departed brother to the si
lent tomb with the honors of that An
dent- Order, aftex. which the ..sacred
mound was covered with beautiiul
flowers. Peace to our old friends
ashes.
Floral Bearers were: Messrs. A.
A. Hicks, F. P.' Hobgood, J. G. Hunt,
W. H. Hunt, B. S. Royster, S. D.
Booth.
Pallbears: Messrs. Robt. Butler,
L. B. Turner, E. H. Crenshaw, F. H.
Gregory, Wm. Landis, Josh King, Cv
A. Carroll, Pete Bullock.
Berea vs Lyon.
Berea base ball team crossed bats
with the Lyon boys Saturday, August
17th, the second time. Two weeks
ago they played at Lyons station and
the heavy weights from Berea walked
off with the game. Saturday the
Lyonites came to Berea in full force to
try if possible ta win, but great defeat
awaited them. There were a large i
crowd out to see the game and at v3
o'clock play ball was call 3d and Lyon
took the bat and succeeded in landing
2 men home, which made them feel
good to lead off so well. Berea'sturn
then came and 4 of the boys scored.'
The game went on until the fifth in
ning when Hawk Newton, who did
the twisting for Berea, laid off his cap
and took more tobacco, showing the
boys a trick or two that they, will not
forget. Lyon had fallen but their
brave leader, Herbert Lyon, gathered
his forces together and made one more
desperate charge, but the heavy weights
sent the ball with lightning speed far
out into the field, though they were
real ball players from the city of Lyon
station, the country lads of Berea had
so severely bagged the game that the'K. uiyuie 18 .mov"J aiu"S UP w"
i . iAnt n :4. the other connties of the State, as to
city boys couldn't with all their might
get it back. When the game came to
a close, the city boys playing 9 innings
and the heavy weights only 8, the
score stood Lyon 6 and Berea 14.
This is the difference between the city
tenderfoot and the country farmer. B.
Watts Law Did It.
The preliminary report of the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue for the
present fiscal, year shows that the ag
gregate collections of internal revenue
in North Carolina have decreased
over three-quarters of anillion dollars
since the Watts law went into effect.
To be exact, internal revenue collec
tions in the State are $738,598.32 less
this year than they were in 1902, the
year before the Watts law became op
erative. In that' year the. Federal
government collected a total of $5,
618,659.50 for revenue purposes.
Each succeeding year has shown a di
mnnition of' internal revenue receipts
in Tar Heeldom. The collections last
year were $4,952,325.96, and this
year they have fallen to $4,880,061.
WILTON WHISPERINGS.
NEWS GATHERED BY OUR REG
ULAR REP0RT0R.
Crops, Personals, Sudden Death,
Great Revival of Religion
at Mt. Carmel.
Crops look
some better since the
late rains.
; Mr. N. E. Faucett spent the past
week at Jamestown.
Mr. Joe Peace Jenkins spent a few
days at home the past week.
i Mrs. T. L. Jeffreys and children are
visiting relatives m Charlotte.
Mr. J. E. Whitfield helped to swell
the crowd at Jamestown last week.
Mr. R. W. Harris, of Oxford, was
in the village a few days ago on busi
ness. -
V Mr. Philo White and sister, Mollie,
spent a few days at Wakefield among
relatives the past week.
I Mrs. L. A. Preddy is spending this
week in Franklin and attending the
meeting at Mt Olive.
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Mrs. Joe Freeman and children, of
Henderson, are visiting relatives in
Grove Hill section this week.
: Mr. and Mrs. Ruffin Blackley and
children spent a few days the past
week at Wakefield with relatives.
Mrs. Francis Armstrong and Mts.
Mary Johnson, of Durham, spent the
past week with Mrs. W. H. Champion.
Mrs. Nannie Kirkland and son, of
Duiham, are visiting Squire W. P.
White and other relatives near Wilton.
Rev. Tom Usry and family.of Fish
ing Creek township, are visiting his
mother and other relatives near Wil
ton. - Mr. B. W. Allen and family, of
Benson, are visiting Mr. June Jenkins
and other relatives in this section this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Otis Jenkins are very,
py tnow aSi a fine, . boy. arrived at
their home near Brassfield church a
few days ago.
We are sorry to say that Mrs. Budy
Ross was stricken with paralysis Au
gust 11th and died on Wednesday
last. She was a good woman, and
will be greatly missed in the neighbor
hood. She was buried at Mt. Carmel
church, and the burial was largely at
tended. She leaves behind a husband
and two small children and other rel
atives to mourn her sudden death.
Rev. J. D. Wicker, of Jonesboro,
closed the most successful revival
meeting ever held at Mt. Carmel
church Friday. The attendance upon
the meeting was very large which re
sulted in 38 professions of religion
with 28 additions to the church. Mr.
Wicker had no assistance but the spirit
of the Lord was among the people.
There will be 24 baptized at Evans
pond on the second Sunday in Septem
ber at 9:30 o'clock a. m.
WHEEL WRIGHT. -
Graded School Announcement.
The eighth session of the Oxford
Graded School will begin Monday,
September 2nd, 1907. Examinations
for prospective students to the different
grades will be held Friday and Satur
day, August 30th and 31st. Students
promoted' conditionally on any subject
must have such condition removed by
Monday of the secontf school wreek.
C. T. GO ODE, Supt.
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Granville's Increase is $800,000.
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increased valuation of property. Gran
ville made an increase of Eight Hun
dred Thousand Dollars,Oxford adding
more than $200,000 to this amount.
The total valuation of property of
Railroads, Telephone and Telegraph
Companies in the county amounts to
the nice sum of $1,805,126.72. We
consider this a splendid showing for
our county, as Oxford is growing. and
our farmers are in the main doing well.
A Happy Occasion.
On last Sunday at a family reunion
dinner at the home of Mrs. Ella C.
Peace, their mother, there were pres
ent: Lieut W. G. Peace.wife and little
girl, lately returned from the Philip
pine Islanks; Leak Peace, Assistant
Postmaster, wife and baby; Samuel L.
Peace, Cashier of The. National Bank
of Henderson; Alexander W. Peace,
Assistant Manager of The Southern
Life Insurance Company, of Fayette
ville, and wife; Merrill Peace, Mailing
Clerk of" the Oxford Postoffice, and
Miss Etta F. Peace five sons and a
daughter of the late Capt. A. S. Peace.
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We have a large list of subscribers but
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Get us at least one beside yourself.
You can easily do this if you will de
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Respectfully,
J. T. BR ITT.
Live County Superintendent.
The public school system largely
we may say chiefly to be most effec
tive must depend on a live county su
perintendent, Mr. J. F. Webb, who
succeeds Mr. R. G. Kittrell, in Gran
ville, is well equipped and gives prom
ise of doing fine work. Edgecombe is
fortunate in securing Mr. Kittrell.
News & Observer.
All Enjoyed the Exposition.
Capt Brooks Parham and his gal
lant soldier boys returned Saturday
morning from Jamestown where they
joined in adding honors to the Old
North State. More than 50,000 peo
ple attended fromrvorth Carolina, and
Gov. Glenn was strictly in the lime
light and the lion of the hour. We
"are glad that the Granville Grays and
all others from Oxford enjoyed their
visit to the great Exposition last week.
Woman's Literary Cluh.
The program of the Woman's Lit
erary Club for the seventh season of
its successful existence is out. The
Club's work this year consists of a
study of certain English poets. Meet
ing will beheld at members' residences
every fortnight from September 10th
to May 20th. The officers of the club
are: President, Mrs. J. G. Hall, Vice
President, Mrs. S. H. Cannady; Sec
retary, Miss Margaret Currin; Treas
urer, Mrs. R. L. Brown; reporter,
Mrs. Kate Hays Fleming.
Strict With Their Daughters.
New Guinea parents have in opera
tion a system that would not meet the
approval of the average American girl.
Every night they send their daughters
to bed in a little house at the top of a
tree, and when the girls have gone up,
the ladder is removed, so that there is
coming down until the parents allow it.
Elopements under these circumstances
must be difficult, and parents no doubt
sleep the sounder for knowing that
their girls are unable to take their
walks abroad until their elders see fit
for them to do so.
Mr. John Lawrence Dead.
The editor is called upon again to
write of the death of another one of
his old county friends, Mr. John Law
rence, which occurred at his home
near Wilton on Friday last His al
most sudden death . was a shock to his
family, neighbors and friends.
Mr. Lawrence was about 65 years
of age and while he had been in feeble J
health for some months he was as well j
as usual a few days ago. . He had suf
fered a previous stroke of paralysis
and then came the second stroke, this
causing his death in less than forty
eight hours from the time he was
stricken. He was a confederate vet
eran and member of the Masonic or
der, the interment being conducted by
the Masons Saturday afternoon at the
home and largely attended.
There are eight of the children liv
ing, three sons and five daughters. He
also left a wife. One daughter, Mrs.
J. R. Pace, lives near Oxford.
The editor joins the many friends
of the family in extending deep sym
pathy in the hour of great grief.
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.
The town of Mount Airy will vote
September 15th bn a proposition to is
sue $15,000 in bonds for the benefit;
of the graded schools.
It seems to be regarded now as cer
tain that the trial on the capital charge?
of poisoning of Dr. and Mrs. D. S.
Rowland will be held in September.
Albert Lyman Cox, son of Gen.
William R. Cox, and grandson of the
late Bishop layman, is the chief mar
shal for the North Carolina State Fair
at Raleigh this year.
Mrs. Susan Dills and her grandson,
a youth of 16 years named Cope, were
killed by the caving in of a mica tun
nel last Monday on their farm in Can
ada township, Jackson county.
Fire broke out in the Southern Rail
way's storehouse at Spencer early Sun
day morning and did considerable)
damage, destroying many valuable
records, as well as supplies and mate
rial.
Michell Kirkintoll Was shot and
killed Sunday evening by Frank Jen
kins ten miles from Waynesville.
Jenkins returned home unexpectedly
and found Kirkintoll in the company
of the former's wife.
Mr. Hight C. Moore has resigned as
Sunday school secretary of the North
Carolina Baptist State Convent ion in
order to become field secretary of the
Sunday School Board of the Southern
Baptist Convention which has head
quarters at Nashville, Tcnn.
The remodeling of the First U;iptist
church in Raleigh is almost completed
and it is the present plan to have a
celebration the second Sunday in Sep
tember in honor of the opening of the
greatly enlarged and beautifkd building.-
Such a ceremony has already
been held in the Sunday school rooms.
The Confederate veteran drum corps
in. Raleigh last week lost by deatli
both its kettle drummers. It is desired
ed that a fifer, who is a veteran and
who served in a North Carolina regi
ment, shall make himself known to
Wiley Johnson, of Greensboro, or J.
J. Lewis, of Raleigh, in order that the)
drum corps may be maintained.
The State superintendent of public
instruction reports the issue of war
rants for five new rural school libra
ries in Buncombe, four in Mocre and
one each in Surry, Pender and Alex
ander counties. He also reports thab
three school districts in Columbus
county, two in McDowell and one in
Wayne have voted for special tax ,
The pistol duel that took place at a
negro Baptist church, in the Hopewell
section of Mecklenburg county, last
JFriday was a fierce one. Five shots
were fired, four of them taking deadly
effect. Bud Moore and Luther Reid,
two country negroes, were the partic
ipants. Each received two wounds
and there is little hope for the recovery
of either.
James Rucker, the confessed negra
rapist, was executed in the jail yardafc
Asheville August 20th. The negra
maintained his nerve to the last, refus
ed a hyperdermic of morphine offered
by the attending physician, walked
with steady tread from the jail build
ing to the scaffold, mounted the gal
lows without any assistance and went
to his death without a tremor or tha
twitching of a muscle.
Gov. Glenn has returned from New?
York City. He has been a very great
center of attraction there, bunday s
New York Herald devoted more than
a page to him with a number of illus
trations. 1 hey call him now "light
ing Bob Glenn." As a matter of fact
the railway fight which is now on i
one for blood, as the sporting men say
in other words a fight to a finish.
Mrs. D. W. Kessler, wife of a
prominent Salisbury man, and daugh
ter of one of Salisbury's wealthy citi
zens was brutally assaulted and thrown
in a creek about seven miles from Sal
isbury by an unknown negro. She
climbed out of the water and with dif
ficulty made her way to the home of"
her father-in-law, where she wa3 visit
ing at the time, but is in a serious;
mental and physical condition as a re
snlt of the attack. ' Her assailant has.
not yet been captured. ' '
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Keep the pores open and the '?P ;,ar j x,
when you have a cut, birfV.
scratch. De Witt's CarbohzedVltcH y..t)t "
Salve penetrates the oyr&s and healslmick-
ly. Sold by J. G. Hall. ' '
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