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Ar . .... . r Y mm T I I tfi - ' OXFORD, N. C, FRIDAY MAY 28, 1909. wn9n ? t THE ACADEMIC CONTESTS TOOK PLACE LAST NIGHT AT THE OPERA HOUSE. la Spite of Bad Weather, Exercises Were Held in Presence of Good Audience-Carried off well. L-i?t night at the Opera House, in the presence of a filled house, the first Of the commencement exercises wor - held when the academic program was very creditably gone through with. The examinations were closed lat. Friday and the cadets have been auiseiessly working over their several stunts ever since. Each contestant has a great deal to be proud of.the ex ecution demonstrating much natural ability and a very praiseworthy appli cation. The numbers on the programme were, as is always the case, equal ly divided between the two Societies, the Washington and the Franklin, and the rivalry between these two bo dies is almost as keen as is exhibited .between the companies themselves. SOCIEEY CONTESTS. The Washington Society: Declamation The World as a Whispering Gallery J. U. Vann. Oration The Old Actor's Story J. U. Emmett CALL HAM POWELL. Don t Forget Your Banquet Tickets, Mr. Visitor. Han Powell has two kinds of banquet tickets, red and whit. .H every banqueter must have one or the other in order to pass the ffentW n who camps at the head of the banquet hall. The two colors, reds for the locals and whites for the visitors, were deem ed sufficient, but Colonel William Landis is worried because he says it's not enough. He wants a blue one. Just a Little Too Late. Sheriff Sam Wheeler took another booze hunting expedition last Wednes day night with deputies Mose King, Connie Walters, and iNed Booth. He' got a tip that a distillery down in urassheld was just about right to be seized and took his deputies out after midnight. The quartette drove about 4 miles south of Wilton, or in the "Capit J Square of the Hurricane" as he put it, and found where operations had just been going on, the still cap and worm gone. The four waited un til about seven o'clock hoping to catch the owners, but there was nothing do ing in that line. Thev destmvAd about a thousand gallons of beer and came back home wet and bedraggled. 3YS ARE GATHERING FROM EVERYWHERE FOR REUNION. Numbers Arrived Yesterday Afternoon and Night and To-day Trains Bringing Many More. PROUD DAY FOB BOYS OF OXFORD AND GRANVILLE A NOTABLE MAN. AMENITIES BETWEEN GIANTS Essay Benedict Arnold R. P Eubanks - ! Interesting Meeting Between Colo- ueoaie egauve; -nesoivea tnnt n . R. , auu mi . nuiuer. Programme To-day NConsists of Competitive Dumbell Drill at 10; Manual of Arms on Parade Grounds at 1 0:30; Baseball 11:00; Alumni Address 4:30 P. M. Opera House; BANQUET 9:00 P. M. Until the postal savings bank system should be adopted in the United States." The Franklin Society: Declamation "Dixie Remembers her Dead" A. R. Phillips. Oration The Message to Garcia R. B. Scott. Essay "New Florida" A. E. M el lon. Debate (affirmative) "Resolved that tha postal savings bank system should be adopted in the United States." DISCLAIMERS CONTESTS. 1. J. P. Garcia "Not Guilty." 2. J. U. Emmett "Ben Hur" 3. R. B. Vance "Distinguished Confederate Veterans." 4. J. O.Pollard "The Death Pen alty." 5. Henry Callis "Emmett on Be ing Found Guilty of Treason." 6. Marsh Roy The Ride of Jenny McXeil. 7. A. E. Mellon Skimpsilly. The marshals appeared very trim and bonny in their regalias, and hand led the crowd with considerable credit. These marshals,a very clever septette of young gentlemen, were: MARSHALS A.E.Mellon, Tampa, Fla.,Chief R.S, Reinhardt, Jr.Lincolnton N.C H.B.Ferguson, HaIiiax,N.C. R. M. Joyner, Farmville, N. C. K. B. Scott, Greensboro, N. C. J- A. Hancock, Wiuston-Salem W. D. Boykin, Boy kins, S. C. Don't miss the bargains at Hamil ton Drug Co. Special sale for 15 8 Only. If vnn n.nn4- n j nam, vL'fir.an r nr nnwpr eds of the best quality and true to Daifle, get them of J. P. Stedman. An old clipping recently run across contains tins interesting item: ''At the centennial celebration of the University of !North Carolina in loay, there were present two men, each of whom had contributed mag nificently to the education of the youth of the State. They were James H. Horner, of Oxford, and Major Robert Bingham, of Mebane and Asheville. Said Major Bingham : But the alumnus is with us today who is the Nestor of the private school work in this State. He is a brilliant man in intellect; a kingly man in person. He is the most striking and efficient man that I j have ever seen m the class-room. It is he of all others who should re spond to this toast and you will not do justice to the man, to the private schools, and to yourselves, if you do not on this auspicious day hear the words of wTisdom from James H. Horner, of Oxford. Mr. Horner' rose to his great height, slightly embarrassed by the compliment, looked a moment at Major Bingham and said with un conscious grace and simplicity that he was not a speaker, and that what ever he may have done of useful ness, or whatever success he may have attained in his profession, was the result of having sat at the feet of the greatest teacher that North Carolina has known, the eminent Colonel Bingham, the father of the friend that had so kindly introduced him. Coming as it did in such im promptu style, and pitched on the tender note given it by Mr. Horner, the meeting of the two great educa tors caught the attention of the au dience completely ; and as the sig- j niheance 01 the Horner and Jsmg ham families was more strongly im pressed by the sight, the enthusiasm was intense. - The incident was one of the happiest of the celebration There has at last arrived the da v. tho 9Rth nf ir i 1 , that the old students of tW Hnm SIT. " i T'rYJ ,s 'mer r . i , ; . . r living iu uxiora ana Granvilip I nnntv Maim Imn 1 !- T c , 1 , v. . anvme 7 ou wuinug jor wim so much solicitude and pleasure For many weeks every one has ruminated of the days that have glided back into , , n .iuuucuil UUW mail V Will fleeamh la Kara nn tUl. jii , J " " luiB oUKUlCIOUS oooa . sion nnri Ha hnvo nn,.n f a. . i . . . 1 a utLt U.UC( iwicLtiug mac tney are judges, doctors, lawvers preachers, statesmen, business men, or what not. sawyers, Jiverj tram as it arrives from the four quarters brings numerous happy men fever.shly anxious to rejoin those whom they have not seen in man many years, perhaps. duy' 1 he Association of Old Horner Boys of Oxford and Granville county with outstretched hand greets every one of these old schoolmates and classmates The citizens of the town are proud that it has in it the Horner School and proud that so many of the old students are today coming to revive the memo nes of the p:isc and a2ain live over the happy, deviKmay-care, but instructive way to make them what e!T t 11 y Oxonian and Granvilian's proudest thing to say mat the matrons, whom Horner Boys havo al charming, and the lasses, the matrons of the futnre, are helping them zuild the latch string:, over keenincr it in view of ftvrw Olr? u u .& wise, or acred and foolish. . Schoolmates. Classmates, Friends. Kin quaintances, everything in this old burgh,everything in this old county, ejects you! .May this day be one of evftrlasfino- nlonro tr ; : as it is to us in the honor and gratification of your presence and your pieas ure. We are erlad. verv elad to h-A vr vnn wlfV. ,,0 The Fiooiamme To-day: At ten of the clock, this nice and hnnnv dav tha ao . . ... ri ' ""j "" taucw iu uunipeie over at the school with the dumbbells, which is th , . . . v-.,. l ui me uav. "iau ui vjriuuu unci jLOmf so 111- un tne nail-hour, or at ten-thirty, the Manual of Arms arpordincr tn T- 4. j i t , Butt, fills the second number of the programme. according to Mr. terested his eager listeners that the in thirty minutes more, in the event of their examinations, allowing strke oi the bell for recess passed their attendance, a nine of old Horner boys from Chapel Hill will attempt to unheeded. A rare achievement, show the cadets something new in the handling of the leather sphere. judging from my own experience At tour-thirty in the afternoon, when dinner has become a matter of histo- L a 1, , experience, r7f after the siesta has been taken by the lazy.there will be a gathering of the at.Scho1 aild 111 colle when the public when the Alumni address will be deliered by the Hon. Francis D. V01ce of tne teacher was at once Winston, of Bertie, the ex-lieutenant-ffovftrnor hpinw nno, M' ti,Q t,.- . j drown pd in tho TmKKnK n i lolliest of the address makers. The address of welmmo will Ko mQ,ia K-i, j 1 t i r i 1 o r , , . j) gcu- iuou liic uwr uu me sounaincr eral tne Hon. Beverly S. Kovstpr. and the. intrnMn.,nrW c,.u u m I , , , & VK!to ti, .J, "I,:" " : A v u x-ol such bell . "ui,. i.tnii.1 mii mivo piaue in ine u'pera riouse. And the Bwnquet, it will begin to hapnen about nin? in t.hn n;nn- rQ. in the A uiiUoruim. Knf. what; wi h Hni'nr. L 1 . ,.,,, Nrntps if Hnvnoi. i l . -' - - u ..... 1, i uu i:iri 1. 1111 1 (i 1 r lx i. t- i i . . -. 1 1 1 v . i 1 1 M u I k :i I 1 1 1 1 bird whispereth that several chests are burdened with suppressed English that Graves, the elder, himself an ex- Comment of the Hon. R. H. Battle About the Late Mr. Horner. The Hon. E. H. Battle, of Ral eigh, in a newspaper article written some years ago, says of the late James H. Horner: lhe fast of the four notable teachers I would mention is James H. Horner, the founder of the Hor ner fechool at Oxford. He was younger than the other three, and was graduated from our university with the highest honors in 1844. "He had been a pupil of Col. Win. J. Bingham, and largely adopted his methods of instruction and dis cipline, though perhaps with some improvements. His students sent to the University did not much attract my notice until the latter part of my course as tutor in the institution in 1S57. The proficiency of a large class he sent up in that year, when I examined them for admission into Greek and Latin, struck me forcibly, and I was satisfied that he who had so prepared them had attained the first rank as a great teacher The success of those pupils and others who sat at his feet, afterwards, such as the four Winston brothers, Bishop Kobert Strange, and some of their predecessors or successors, possibly as distinguished as they at school or since, has proved that my opinion then formed was wTell founded. His enthusiasm in the classroom, especially when the recitations were m the Ancient Languages, has been described to be by some of his stu dents as intensive, and it was com municated to the pupils. As he would stand in his classes, nearly six and a half feet high, with his face aglow and unconsciously ges ticulating with head and arms, as with rapid words he delivered the thoughts of the great writers and orators of Greece and Borne, so in- PROGRAM FOR THURSDAY WHAT WILL BE DONE IF ANY DECENT WEATHER COMES. The Competitive Drills Between the Companies, the Manual of Arms DriII,FieId and Track Athletics The programme as scheduled for Thursday opens in the morning with a competitive drill between the com panies at 10 o'clock. This event which tikes place on the Campus is a very pretty spectacle as the cadets are per haps better drilled this year than in many years before, and this is the big gest event in the selection of the com pany that wins the colors. This will be followed by Butts iManual of Arms drill. At 3:30 o'clock the annual field track athletics will come off. Polo vaulting, long and short distance jum ping, foot races, putting the shot, and the other usual stunts necessitating skill and endurance will be pulled ofl So interested in these events are the cadets, so anxious are they to preserve every bit of strength and wind, that they are going to bed tonight,Lkegood fe!lows,every man hoping and striving for glory in the award of athletic hon ors. At 9:30 the Cadet Hall is the cul minating event of the commencement of the year 1909. The floor of the Auditorium will be put in excellent CDnditionand every voung heart thrills at the very mention of the cadet ball. Precisely at 12 midnight the music will stop, the dancers will pause a few moments and, the presentation of Col ors will take place This august and anxious scene, in the eyes of every ca det, will bring happiness and glory to the members of one company and des olation and woes to the va"quishcd. Which is it to be? HE GOT A LICLING "Soon after the War Between the is ornate, highly polished, and bound to be removed from those chests. As perienced teacher of hih rank ps to how long these things will go on or what will be the manner thereof, Uncle I M- V7 I S I Ben is the doctor. Anxiously will evrvbodv all awn ht hp nnA m. tabiisned the Horner and Grave; w J J - . -n . .. iiuu J I LI io 11WCLU. Out of sheer pleasure in anticipating this day and in the hope that it might not come amiss, the editors of the Ledger had made preparations to side-track the usual routine of the paper and make of this issue of the publication something of a remin iscent edition, arriving a day ahead of schedule time. The pa per s patrons and friends have always been unusually kind.and tjh's liberty whs taken with them, practically all of the matter thcit usually appears having been omitted. But, alas, the pains and preparations of mice and men often fotne to grief and, good sirs, that is just what has been done in pis unfortunate printshop. in order that there might be no hitch, every contingency that could be thought of was provided agamst but one, and that one, the unexpected, as usual happen ed. The shop was shut up throughout two days, all plans hav heen abandoned but a tiny," infantile ray of hope having peeped ver the dark clouds the next day, heart was again taken and, Jn what remaining time there was, these pages have been gotten together in some manner and are handed out timidly, shamefac e"ly, hut in the deepest hope that you will take the will for the de,!,l., and will make the resident old boys happy by being hap py yourselves. Hang the luck, but here's to you, just the same. "fc-. - n i 3 v IM ?-' i "hi ' lX ,: ! My::, m . ... ..,'. : .. .; --- V . - - V "t , - ; There is much interest in tennis among the cadets, and Company B. pins its faith in this quartette of oung stalwarts. es School near Hillsboro, where Col Tew had conducted a military school with growing success, shortly before the beginning of hostilities. "The school commanded a large patronage and excellent teaching was done by the principals and such assistants as Mr. H. Morson, who then began life as a teacher, and Monroe Horner, the elder son of Mr. J. H. Horner, but the strain conse quent upon the change proved too much for Mr. Horner and his health became so much affected that it was thought best for him to return to Oxford, and with the help of his two sons (Junius M., now the Bishop of Asheville, having com pleted his scholastic education), and others, and re-established the Hor ner School. This was done, and his health being partially restored, he was able on the old plantations again to do excellent work. "The venture redounded to the ad vantage of the family and the com munity; as the present high stand ing of the school, under its old name with Jerome Horner as a principal, with domitories, its session time all filled, shows. But the burden soon proved too heavy for the old founder longer to help bear as in his zeal he would do and after a successful career as a teacher for about forty years, he passed to his rest." ' m o m m . Shopworn goods are few with us, but what there are must be sold. Cost is not considered at Crenshaws,next door to Crenwillo Drug Co. Main St Mr. Horner Denies the Charge but He Got a Good One. A certain report has been going the rounds for a great many years, but Mr. Rome says that it is very largely a mistake. He kind of mum bles and gives some sort of explana tion; but he admits that there is a modicum of truth in it. At any rate he hasn't the nerve to deny the whole thing. It was this wav. When he was a young man, a young blood from college, he came tripping up Horner Avenue one crisp, snowy morning. His breath, frozen by the low tem perature, was as smoking as if he had just been exhaling the smoke of one of those flat, odoriferous, black Turkish Trophies. A gang of chattering boys up at the house were begging a holiday of the late founder of the school. He was stand ing listening to the importunities, but had told them that there was nothing doing in the holiday line. However, spying Mr. Rome clipping up the avenue at the rate of a hun dred miles an hour, more or less, Mr. Horner said ; ;Boys, if you'll take Rome down and give him a good beating I'll give you a holiday." In less time than it takes to tell it, if the report be true, Mr. Rome went down and before he rose again, in the words of the narrator, "he got the darn'd- est licking mortal man ever had." Mr. Horner says it ain't so, that is, some of it ain't so, but he is an interested party and has never vol unteered to name anv witnesses. "Mr. Farmer you know.and your neighbor knows that Davis will sava you money on hasdware. and implements of all kinds: I buy in car lots such thing? as wire fencing; barb wireIainwire cook stoves, ranges, mQvTSIrakjes, cultivators, roofing;, and: . man p)ijer:''things too numerous to - merrtionv . A" postal brings results, write ' me -at ,cnce, Davis, Clarksville, Va-" V-' ; : - Rhode Island Red pullets and hens of the best strain. Apply to J. P. Stedman.
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