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r jl' ,-sr j w 2 11 ft N Is YJL. 22. OXFORD, N. C, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 5, 1909. NO. 4 e ? r 3 -2 County Commissioners. The County Commissioners had ;;r usual Mondav and Tuesday :. votings the first of the month, all the n embers, Chairman Lassiter and M-srs. Williford, Currin, Wilkinson, i Canuady being present. The usual number of rebates, small petitions, and general routine matters cane up and received attention. The most important matters were: A special meeting was called for next Tuesday when the commissioners, Mr. B. F. Hester, chairman, of the rood roads meeting and the committee appointed by him, are to meet together wit!) Judge Graham, and frame a road hill for Granville county to be present ed at ihe legislature. The committees, eonisting of two members from each township are: Fishing Creek, W. W. J ) rum mitt and B. L. Pitts; Brassfield, ( r. E. Allen and Dr. Morris; Dutch ville. J- X. Tilljr and Z. K. Lyon; Tally Ho, K. X. Clement and M. Blalock; Walnut Grove, B. F. Currin and J. C. Howard; Oak Hill, 11. A. Tlovd and G. B. Royster; assafras Fork, VT. 1j. Taylor and D. A. Jiur well: Salem, X. G. Crews and 15. J. Breedlove; Oxford, D. C. Hunt and r H. Caunady. A new public road was ordered to be made from Tar River to the road running from Mrs. Betty J. Bryan to Corinth church. The following were put ou the out ?Me pauper list at 81 each: Mrs. Mary Eliza Wheeler, payable to G.T. Sykes; Kliza II. Xeville, payable to Oscar Huirhes; Peggy Thorpe, colored to J. H. Lyon; Martha Oakley, Dutch ville, to Fleming Bros. Permission was granted G. B. Roj-s-t-:-T, Wilburn Bros., and others to operate a telephone line along the pub lic road in Blue Wing to G. B. R oys ters and extend it to Oak Hill when desired, provided it interferes in no way with public travel or the working of the road. D. C. Hunt and J. B. Powell were appointed to get up the delinquent tax list for 11)08. John Milton was appointed a com mittee to open road at Sandal's cross road. B. S. Royster and J. B.Powell were ordered to adjust the tax of I. C. Lyon, in Person and Granville. Chairman Lassiter was instructed to 2 ure the servicee of A. A. Chapman in locating new road at Providence. T. L. Cannady was instructed to in vestigate the road below Lyon's Mill and report at next meeting. Girls Give Dance. For a number of days the young ssen of the town have been kept on the jui vive. It was announced that he young ladies were going to give a dance, and there was much speculation as to the pairing off of the j'oung men, and as to which ones would be lucky enough to get a bid. The dance, which was rather more of a ball than a Ger man come off Friday night, and a rreat time was reported from all quar ters. The Granville Gray's Armory vvas used for the affair, the inteiior be ing decorated in blue and white. These were the couples: Miss Kate Horner with Kerr Taylor; Miss Julia Winston with Marion Taylor; Miss C. tarnes with Lee Taylor; Miss Lizzie Pearson with R. R. Herring;Miss Lily White with Gibson Howell; Miss May White with Bert Taylor; Miss M. Rucker with Mott Pinnix; Miss Bessie Hines with Tom Howell; Miss Annie Crews with J. C. Cooper; Miss Sophie Taylor with Major McGhee; Miss Irene Hines with Baldy Williams; Miss Lucy Smith with Graham Wil liams. Stas: Eugene Crews, Leu Mar row, R. H. Lewis, W. T. Coghenhour, Alex Hunt, Cortex Wrignt, Marshall Pinnix, T. Banks, of Chapel Hill. The Chaperones were: Col. and Mrs. J. C. Horner, Dr. and Mrs. T. L. Booth, Mr. and Mrs. Wade Britt, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Robards, Mr. and -Mrs. William Landis, Mr. and Mrs. Hillman Cannady, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Phelps, Mrs. Kate White, .Mrs. Annie Landis. When the small hours of the morn ing came the young men had an ele gant lunch spread for their partners and the chaperones. When you buy seeds, get the best you will iind them at Stedman's. Flower seeds at Stedman's in papers v.d some varieties, such as Sweet Peas, Nasturtiums, etc., by weight. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given th t an ap plication will be made to the General Assembly of North Carolina to amend the charter of the town of Stovall. D. A. 15 UR WELL, Mayor. If you want vegetable or flower seeds of the best quality and true to name, get them of J. P. Stedman. j Enthusiastic Meeting. : Monday afternoon many of Gran- ville's most prominent citizens met in I the Court House at 12 m. to discuss the question of good roads and come I to some decision in regard to takino- reeded action. Judge A. W. Gra 1 ham, Speaker of the House, hy special permit came over to be present at the meeting. t here were invited to ad dress the assent 1)1 y two very prominent men interested in good roads and the building up of public highways. They were Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, of the State University, and Mr. W. J. Hurl but, Agent of the Land and In dustrial Department of the Southern Railway. After the convincing argu ments of those three gentlemen, and when some very spirited free discus sion was indulged in it wras decided for the chairman, 'Squire B. F. Hes ter, to appoint two prominent men from each township to go with him be fore the county commissioners to frame a bill to be presented to the legi el atu re. There was but one nay voted that one being Mr. Ben Thorpe. A fewT how ever had expressed themselves pre viously as opposed to the bond issue but in favor of direct tax. Immediately upon the opening of the meeting Squire Hester was placed in the chair anil Messrs. i 1 irinius Cheatham and F. M. Pinnix were made secretaries. Judge Graham asked for a talk from Mr. Robert Lassiter, Chairman of the Commissioners, who made a few remarks and insisted upon Judge Graham making the speech. The judge, enthused by his subject, made the best talk he has delivered in j'ears.and opened the way for a most enthusiastic meeting, so much so that it evoked rather a sharp repartee be tween several prominent citizens. The judge was followed by Dr. Pratt, whose statistics made interesting by strong argument made a deep im pression upon his bearers. Mr. Hurlbutt, the representative of the Southern, who came all the way ! from Washington to attend the meet ing added great force to the already unanswerable reasonings of the two former speakers. When speeches, limited to o minutes each, were called for from the assembly there were many responses and much argument with the good roads element in the lead at every point. Among those who became prgminent in the discussion were: Judge Gra ham, Dr. Pratt, Mr, Hurlbutt, Mr. Lassiter, r. A. A. Hicks, Mr. G. L. Allen, of Brassfield, Mr. Ben Thorpe, Mr. Oozort, Mr. Billy Brown, Mr. D. X. Hunt, Mr. S. C. Lvon, Mr. D. T. Winston, Mr. S. C. Lyon, Mr. D. T. Winston, Mr. W. P- Wilkinson, and a few others, most of them being strongly in favor of the new road. Two of the things that made the people sit up and take notice were communications from the post office department which called for better roads for the rural routes in Granville county, or some of the rural routes will be taken off. It is being consid ered now whether or not to take off Route 7 and another one. Upon motion of Judge Graham the following resolution was unanimously adopted: "That the sincere thanks of the cit izens of Granville county be extended to Dr. .Joseph Hyde State Geologist,of our State and Mr. W. J. Hurlbutt, assistant Industrial Agent of the South ern Railway Co., for their attendance in this meeting and their instructive addresses upon the subject of improved system of public roads. Mrs. Whitfield Dead. Last Monday week, about b:o0 in the evening, Mrs. J. W. Whitfield died at her home, near Wilton after having been sick but twelve days, her death being due to paralysis. She leaves behind her husband, who is a very prominent citizen in the Southern part of the county, and four little chil dren: Irene, David, Joe and Harold, all of whom are under 8 years of age. Mrs. Whitfield was the daughter of Mr. Robert Fleming, of Creedmoor, and was about o7 years of age at her death. She had been married about ten years. The funeral services w ere conducted by the Rev. Mr. Coltraine, of the Franklinton circuit, and the burial toek place in the old Mitchell burying ground. Will BeGreatly Missed. Oxford has been extremely un fortunate in losing Mr, and Mrs. J. Locke Erwin. who went to Concord last week, when they will in future I make their home. Mr. Erwin had ! such an attractive business" propo ' sition made to him that he had to j leave us He and Mrs. Erwin have j made many friends who are dis ; tressed at their departure, and wish ' for them the best things that a ' happy and prosperous life can givi Judge Graham's Talk. After listening to Judge Graham's argument it was found practically un answerable. He discussed first the lUUUll U IS III Ml I l( II I I I II IT II liriPB -lllfl showed how Vance was fixing up their roads that have been drawing away trade that had been Granville's for years. There is a tax of 20 cents per hun dred alreadv in fo ri'ft whifh hrimr3 In each year about 814,000 Hitherto I cerest 1,1 ne worK and his knowl the disnensarv has been diviner 000 I ce of tne Problem of good roads of its receipts to the road appropriation but this 5,000 is now gone forever. Work to the extent of $20,000 a year has been done, but now in order to keep up this same amount each year an additional tax of 10 per cent( mak ing the total tax 30 per cent) will have to be made. Therefore, something HAS TO BE DONE whether bonds are voted or not, or the road work must be decreased. The tax valuation of property in the county making allowance for panic depreciation is -$6,500,000, but this 1 r & - ' year under better conditions it will - ... . ... easily he s, UUU,UUU. it $10U,UUU is borrowed, say at 5 per cent, though it could probably be done for a smaller interest, the interest would be but -S5,- 000 per year, and to help the property pay this there are 3173 polls on the count', 1882 of which are whites. This showed the advantage of the bond issue. An issue can be made for MO years or for so long as is deemed best, and the yearly expense for roads will be less by nearly fifteen thousand than is now the case. In other words to continue road work at present rate it will require a 30 cent tax, which with the school tax of from 30 to .50 cents, with the poll tax and other taxes will run up the rate to $2 on the hundred or 2 per cent which is very heavy. To put the bond issue at $100,000, and keep the interest going would re quire but 7 cents on the .$100 valua tion (exclusive of poll tax), the total valuation for tax being placed at 7 million of dollars. To borrow twice the amount used as an illustration, or $200,000 would require to keep the up the interest only 15 cents on the $100, or just half of what will be re quired if the roads are to be worked hy direct taxation upon the present scale. Dr. and Mrs, S.D. Booth in Durham Dr. and Mrs. S. D. Booth went over to Durham Friday afternoon and returned home Saturdar afternoon. The doctor, though still weak from re cent illness,is able to get around quite lively now and is recuperating nicely. The Durham Sun of last Saturday says: "Dr. and Mr. Samuel Booth, of Oxford, spent last night in the city as the guest of the famiy of E.T.Rollins. Dr. Booth returned home this morn ing and his wife later in the day. They came over here with Mrs. Simp son, of Winston-Salem, who spent the night with the family of Mr. Rollins and left this morning for home." A Crafty Fellow. Mr. Hurlbutt related how a crafty farmer he knew of made a neigh bor very sick. In their county an issue of bonds for good roads was made. The route was engineered through the crafty 's farmei's place. "How much damage are vou go ing to ask' the engineer wanted to know. "There ain't no damages at all," said the farmer. ''You just bust right through wherever you want. That new fenoe don't make no dif ference. It can be moved if it is in the way." The crafty farmer's neighbor way a different sort of fellow, however. He asked for right of way about what his whole farm was worth. Result,the road work wasbothered. When the crafty fellow was toldthe circumstances, he simply said,' just wait.'' He went over to his neighbor and said ' what will you take for the farm.'' Finally it was bought for 5. 000 which was then considered a very high price. The crafty one, immediately af ter buying the property, hunted up the-good road superintendent and said T have bought that farm. Now bust through where you darn please They did so and the farmer sold it a short while afterwards for $10, 000. twice what he paid for it. And the othei fellow felt badly f )T a long time. Something New Drop in and see my elaborate line of Spring and Summer samples now on disply. 1500 different patterns to se lect from. Suits from $15 to $H5. Every garment I put out is guaran teed in every respect. M. C. Taylor, Merchant Tailor. White Building. 2t. Railroad Interested. Mr. W. J. Hurlbutt, of Washing ton, D. C, Agent of the Land and j Industrial department of the Sou ". . - - i tne way from his home to meet with the good roads people. H. regretted the invitation came to him too late for him to prepare a set speech and gather statistics. He did,hosvever, succeed in demonstrating his in agitation. Mr. Hurlbutt made a splendid injprdssion and later in an inte view he expressed himself as great ly impressed with the fine type of citizenship that came out to be in attendance. He said that he was surprised to see such a good turn out, and spoke very kindly of our people and our county The Southern railway, he said in his speecli at the meeting, was a pioneer in good roads agitation, and was deeply interested in every ! county through which the Compa- -J j ny's lines p .ss. Nine years ago, a special train of 17 cars, equipped ! with road working crews improved I machinery, and employed experts in good road building was kept continuously travelling through the Sr uth for seven months, the ex pense of the undertaking being one hundred dollars a day. This, the speaker said, ought to be suffi cient guarantee of the roads inter est. The results from this cam paign move than paid for itself and brought about amazing returns. His business has carried him over all sorts and conditions of roads and his experience has been that the prosperity of a country is more vitally connected with its high wax s even than with railroads or steam boats. Lcrd Macauley. he pointed out, said that good roads was the greatest invention in the history of the world, with the exception of the alphabet and printing. Time, now-a-days, and not di tance is the compelling factor, Tf e speaker has met merchants in Mis sissippi who had to go after their own goods in wagons over the old "blazed trail''. and it took from six der supervision. weeks to two months or more to Since May 1st, a shoe and harness get home. Today, a telegram or a shop 16 by 20 was built, and about teiephonemessage saves all that on July 29th a 40 by 40 granerv was lie time, to say nothing of the wear gun and is now completed. The farm and tear of machinery, of teams, j inor was reported in satisfactory condi- inere are 050 nines or puoiicjtion roads in Granville, and Mr. Hnrl butt showed that a bond issue of j $360,000 would build at least $300 miles of fine roads. The U. S. government has inves tigated the condition of 1900 coun- ties 10 snow uie average cubi - hauling crops with the average number of miles each load has to be carried. In those 1900 counties the aver- . -i iliZG ioau 01 colluii Weib uy.uicu 1 1.0 1 miles, the average number of pounds 1702, and the average cost ! was put at 16 cents per hundrad. , F 1 , r 1, 1 The average load of tobacco was carried 9 4 mile,, 1500 pounds beir g the average load, and the cost was estimated to be 10 cents per 100 pounds. Taking the tobacco statistics,each load of tobacco cost a dollar and a half to market on the average. Good roads would permit the lO id to be doubled, or 3000 pounds could be carried in a great deal less time, thereby saving at least a dol lar and a half per load, over and above gain of time, and saving in wear and tear of teams, etc. In Bradley and Hampton coun ties in Alabama, weie found some interesting fact. In the former county several years ago an elec tion for $90,000 worth of bonds was held. Jt was defeated, as also was a second trial. The third time the issue was carried by a very small majority and then an injunction was asked from the court by the minority though it was not given. Before $50,000 of the funds were used, petitions were brought in to ciouDie tne Dona issue. 11 was i" - creased to $100,000, anu uie uunus were sold for $210000. the interest being 5 per cent for 30 vears. The year before the issue hardly half a dozen farms were sold, and the fig ures in farm land ran from 5 to &10 Der acre. Six months later! farms were sold along the roads at J t js ;0onei 0i (not Solomon ) W. ! market price wherever it is carried, 0 from $1 5 to $25 per acre. There Coo er now The governor has shown ! get the worth of the article in question, were made 153 miles of goodroads. hig wooJ taste tQ appoint as one of hlrf J There are 0b counties in the Stan Hampton county voted $100,000 j aide"s.de cainp our late townsman and ! with 50,000 miles of roads ar.dOVEU WUIUI-UiUU1 w iu, at 4 per cent, and the lend tn the county was increased from 25 per cent to 40 per cent, based on sale values, not estimates. Green county, Tennessee, was greatl impressed by the working of the good roads crew from the j soutnern, wno omit a raue 01 roao. $r5o.ooo; last fall another $100.00 was issued; and it is dow thinking of issuing $150,000 more. Good Sound Sense. When we take up this matter, we must have a regular engineer who knows his business and pay him a salary- Judge Graham. After an experience of travelling over and watching good roads, a bond issue has found the cheapest means of having good roads Dr. Pratt. .It is time and not distance that counts, and gocd roads are the great est time saves. Mr. Hurlbutt. We have just got to have good roads and we might as well make up O it mind Mr. Hunt. How to build roads? Why depend upon engineering skill. What are the three most important factors in road building? 1st drainage 2nd drainage and 3rd more drainage Mr Hurlbutt. A farmer does not loads his teams for the good roads lie passes over but for the bad roads Dr. Pratt. live in Oak Hill. I have been on the board of commissioners 2 years and I have had a great deal of good roads work there. But I want to say I represent not Oak Hill only but the whole county and you will always find me doiDg all I can for good roads. Mr. Wilkinson. Colored Orphan Asylum. The directors of the Colored Orphan Asylum have rendered their report which covers the time from January 1st 1008 to December 1st 1908. The report shows the Orphanage to be in very good condition and that many additions have been made within the year. Fortr-one more children are being cared for than were in the insti tution the first of the year. These are the statistics in regard to the children: Boys No. Jan. 1,1008 40 Admit during year lb' No. in charge 5i Self supporting 2 Removing Oct. 3l 54 Girls H5 27 92 2 90 Total 105 43 148 4 144 During the j'ear a blacksmith shop and wood-working shop 30 by 20 was erected, and shoeing, me iding, repair- j ing is being done by the children un- Numbers of other changes were e' " .. fected dunno- the year,and small sums " J. ' expended in carrying mem ouu The 3Tield from the various crops were reported 100 barrels of corn, 200 t peas, 400 sweet potatoes, 100 Irish potatoes, 200 peanuts, 100 onions, 58 . wheat 05 tacks of fora ro300 gallons sv and &. , of turn;ps ior j winter use. Qn of th(j Qf wof)d the directors are asked to buy forSoOO a certain tract of 20 acres, which has 1 1 .... ' , . , i I he cost of the new buildings were: ! , U u tllu Blacksmit h shops 8400 200 1,000 200 SI. 00 160.75 137.00 Shoe and harness Granerv School room for infants Total Repairing old buildings Tools for shops Sum total 2,007.75 disbursements The receipts and show: I" Receipts Appropriation Band Concerts Lodges Shops Other items 5,000 00 1,000.27 400.85 1 38.20 205.85 j From farms Donations, etc. 040.44 Total SS,793.07 Disbursements: j Salaries and wages $ 2,643.00 clothing j Subsistence j yy"ood and 0i 1,000 2,500 700 7r i Current expense New buildings (Q7 7" Sundries Total j-. toi. DOI W. cooper. fine fellow, Mr. Sol W. Cooper. In , addhion to bei one o the.staunc!l j untfcrrificd Col.Cooper Is fine material! on ' T for an aide-decamp. Top av avening t'ye, Colonel. IF YOUE watch has gone on a , - " 'i"- , and he will adjust the matter prompt - iv ana properly, locateaat rans uij Goous store. Compliments New Clerk. Clerk Shot-well is perfornin " th? ! duties of his office like a veterMn Omv would tiot suspect that lie had jusL gone in office two months ago, hi ef ficiency is so marked. Judge Long paid Mr. Sholwell a. very pleasing compliment upon that, gentleman conduct in office. Bad--Ts7t NoS? This is food for thought. It comes from the Lincolnton News: ;Mr. Clay E. liutledge has purchased a. farm in .Mecklenburg county five mil s northwest of Charlotte and will mover his family next month. We regret to lose such a progressive citizen larmer as Mr. Rutledgs,. but he sajrs the good roads of Mecklenburg are taking him there. We wish him success but hope? he will return to Lincolnton when we have good roads, too." Let's have nothing like this in Oran - ville. Correction of a Mistake. "You got me down wrong !ai. week," said Squire A. I. Overton as he ran up with a reporter Monday "How's that, 'Squire. "Vou said 1 said I stopped over on my way to town with a family that hail 14 children in it. Vou misunder stood me. I said 1 ran across a fam ily thai had 14 children but it wasn't on the way to town." "Well, where was it." "Xever mind, but you can say I ran into the family on my rounds. I'll say this much, it was on the road to Tally Ho, but 1 ain't going to say any more. There were 14 children, sevens boys and seven girls and the oldest ain't but 10. Now, you see it yon can find anyhpdy to beat it. Then I'll tell j'ou more about it." The Woman's Literary Club. The Woman's Literary Club hcau part of the year's plan of work Janu ary twelfth at the home of Mrs. Flem ing. "Scott the Poet" was presented by Mrs. Hrown in a true and interesting paper, which showed careful research on her part. She brought out the dignity and earnestness of Scott's work that tells no more of th'4 r "mari e than of the history of Scott and the Scot.ts. Miss Currin's paper put one in sym pathy with Lock Katrine, atid 1 he limpid beauty of the scoJch lake scen- j ery. 1 he many pictures whicf; sfu; , -n . ' ... j used for illustration irave vividness to the entire subject. Both of these papers were very pleasingly read Scott's Lady of the I.ake.irom which tli'j members of the club rend, Lf rows lovelier in its rare nature descriptions, with old acquaintance. "The Chase" is the classic hunt ol Lnglish literature, while XI. XIL and XJH of canto first, i e one of its nublest and yet most charming pen landscapes. "The western waves of ebbing day' Roiled o'er the glen their level way, l Kach purple peak, each flinty spire Was bathed in floods of living fire. MRS. H. M HICKS. Four car loads of poultry, field a no.' hog fencing in stock to be sold in t he next thirty dajs at Samuel Davis,. Clarksville, Va. Rhode Island Red pullets and hetiH of the best strain. Apply to J i A- . man Dr. Pratt's Speech. Dr. .lames Hyde I'ratt, State eo Jo ist, of the University of N. C, upon 1? i invitation of Gen. Royster and .lut'go Graham appeared before the good roads meeting 1 uesdaj and made u telling, sensil)le talk that will do a great deal of good. Dr. I'ratt, who i. a very handsome and agreeable, as well as a thoroughly well posted man. He said that he had travelled over thousands of miles of public roads which he compared to the veins in the ! human system, the railroads being the i main arteries. 11 is not, "cio we want good roads,"but how can we tret them,' eo -00 - 'the speaker declared, when he had fin -' ,;u-' ! 1 ,i 1 . . . a i- i ished demonstrating how the cot of ! carrying any thing over public roads imust l)d DKDUCTKD from the j pa LF of these counties within the j past three years have had bills in the legislature relative to roads, It is not the distance tin at count.-, i but the condition of the roads to be. (traversed inmost cases. A man iii I loading his team does not load for ood roads but loads what he thinks ; h (.arry over BAD PLACES ; , condition Tho ; . ! continued on page four.
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