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it 1Tfl 1 VOL. 22. OXFORD, N. C., FRIDAY JULY 2, 1909. NO, 45 FROGRESUVE MOVE. Building and Loan Association Be ing Organized for Oxford. On last Tuesday night a rather small but deeply interested crowd of citizens were present to hear a talk in the Court House given by Mr. E. L. Keesler, of Charlotte, Secretary of the Mutual Building and Loan Associa tion, situated in the Queen City. The result of the excellent speech was that the citizens present immediately decid ed that Oxford must have an associa tion. Numbers of shares were signed up for on the spot and the paper was the next day placed in the Office of Register of Deeds Powell where other signatures have since been added. There will be called a meeting very soon ot the signers in order to perfect the ortrani zation and get out the char ter. Mr. J. P. Stedman was made chair man of the meeting, Mr. T. G. Stem, secretary, and General Royster was requested to introduce the speaker. Mr. Keesler expressed himself as being carried away with our pretty town. He was surprised at the mag nitude of 3uch institutions as the Or phanage and the schools, the beautiful greenswards attracted his eye, and he referred very warmly to the reputation of Oxford its "intellectual, charitable, and educational interests", but he said that there was one poinr for criticism, this being the vacant, lots, which a building aud loan association must fill up. The institution of which Mr. Kees ler is the secretary is 28 years old and has never lost a cent in its history. Charlotte now has a million eight hunr dred thousand dollars of stock sub Bcribed.this being divided among four associations, the other like the Mutual having escaped losing a cent. Nearly three thousand new houses have 'ieen built through the associations, which are patron ked alik.- by ' the rich and poor, biaL' and wbt-e young and oh', men an I women. A building and loan gs-'.-eiatJori, Mr. Keesler, ie the one aciJ ouiy ju.solute leveller, the one p! - a hexe vvirybody meets on an ah iciy eq-. yJ looting. lie n -hoc! 0! operation is as fol lows: The par v;.:uv of a share is$100 and it ihl -e a -..proximately six and one-third years t-. mature this. When it is matured, t iri owner of the stock gets a check fw the 81 00 in cool cash. It take- twer-ty-hve cents to get the privilege of b voming a member; then twenty. Gra c-nts ii paid to the secre tary each Saturday until th stbek matures wnich, as stated, ia in about bis and a th;:d years. At maturity, the stockholder has paid in a trifle over 83, and his profit in cash is something over 816. By paying this twenty-five cents each week,any child, Poor person, or anybody who bo de sires, can by saving a mite of the money dually thrown away, have a Deat little sum that has accumulated and increased by bits without hardly taing conscious of it. On the basis Mtaeiity-five cents a share, any nnm b" of shares can be taken. Numbers of citizens have subscribed for lots of each, and many of these will in cre their stock. hile the saving feature which al- person who usually throws his Jey away to accumulate a tidy sum rom small Wt?e-klv savin as o-iVinor him 6 interest net on the investment (the"! being free of taxation to the holderj; while the ideas of frugality business methods and value of E?8tem ught, are in themselves suffi- !'ent to Inake the association a great , m Pgress, the loan feature is J 'laP even better. Loans,which are a e on a basis of two-thirds of the aiue of iu u the real estate security, are - six per cent, and are issued the plan of "first served come, first Applications are filed in in th.ar Her ad rigidly disposed of the Same way. giving every man iQ dlaQce, The interest is paid ee installments with the stock (Continued on page 8) ; , MR. JOHN B. ROLLER DEAD. Prominent Oxford Citizen and Bus iness Man Gone. Mr John B Roller, one of Oxford's foremost citizen's died at his hr.me last Thursday night of pernicious anaemia. For some time it was known that he was fatally stricken but the end came most unexpected; y. The funeral ser vices, which wns attended by an enor mous host of friends, were conducted by the Rev Dr A B Duuaway from the Baptist church Friday afternoon at 6 o'clock, the active pallbearers be ing, Messrs R L Brown, Dr E T White, C H Easton, A A Hicks, W H Hunt, Chas Bryan, J F Meadows, and C I) Ray. These were the hono rary pallbearers: Messrs R W Lassi ter, B S Royster, S H Cannady,W B Bailou, J H Bullock, C H Landis, S W Parker, B . W Rogers, and F P Hobgood. The deceased is survived by his widow and four children, Jo seph R, C Easley, Hallie Hall, and John Baker Roller. One sister, Mrs. R A East, and one brother, Mr Wal ter K Roller, both of Virginia alsc survive. fMr Roller who was in his 53rd year was an active business man, being possessed of much executive ability.He is a man will be greatly missed. His character is best described by a friend under ancther caption. Jthi B. Roller. J. B. Roller was born in Ohio February 25th, 1856, and died Ox ford June 24th 1909. When he was about fifteen years years old his parents came to Hali fax county, Virginia, and lived on a far 11. Within a year or two they moved to Halifax Court House. When about 18 years of age Mr. Roller was sent to Blacksburg to attend the Virginia Polytechnic In stitute from which school he grad uated. On November nth 1885, he was married to Miss Sa'He A. Eas!ey,of Halifax county, Virginia. His pa rents were Lutherans, and he was reared under the influences of that church. He was a Christian for a number. of yeais before he identifi ed himself with any church. In 1S93 or '94 he united with the Ox ford Baptisi church and soon there after was elected deacon, which of fice he filled faithfully until his death. Truly it may be said of him ' he was a faithful mar." Natura'ly he had a retiring disposition and never sought prominence. He was wise in counsel, methodical in bus iness and conscientoius in the dis. charge of duty. .He might have been chosen to fill positions of greater importance if he had been ambiuous and self-seeicing. He had excellent capacities for business, but seemed content to exercise his gifts in the narrower spheres of life. Whatever he undertook to dp he did well. Fidelity was one of his.crowning places. If he felt thLt he could not give any enterprise the time and energy which he be lieved it ought to receive he would not undertake it. Financial consid erations were no temptation to him when he thought he could not rea der equivalent service. By his ac curacy, judgment, and integrity he won for himself the confidence and esteem of the entire business com munity. He was ind.eed an impor tant actor in the commercial life of Oxford and Granville coanty.He was always quiet, re&erved, courte ous. He was gentle in tone and manner and even under provoca tlon exemplified the truth of the proverb "A soft answer wria away wrath.' as a compamuu c was genial, as a friend he was sin cere, as a husband and father he was affectionate ar d self-sacrificing As a citizen he was useful and exemplary, ready "to render to all their dues. As a christian he was loyal to what he conceived to be duty and was willing to give his en ergy to accomplish a worthy object v . . . (Continued on page 4.) THE BOOZE TRAFFIC. Sheriff and Police are Developing into Good Sleuths. Where are those folks who said that Sam Wheeler and Luther Roberts were sroing to let the blind tigers pass with a wink? Thosa two fat officials started very quietly on the booze deal er's trail some time ago and at present three handlers of the ardent are mournfully poking their noses through Connie Walter's public inn and won dering if the weather will be very hot when they strike the county roads. The crafty Harrison Mallory.color ed, and Paul Jones, white, have been tried by the mayor and bound under bonds of 8200 and $300 for their ap pea ranee at next court, and the well known and inimitable Monk Royster, copper colored and thickheaded, is also in the cooler wondering how much the officers have found out. Chief Roberts had been suspicious of Paul Jones, a white man of about 28, for some time. Jones has not done anything much since April lst;he has been shy of public places for sometime and had recently adopted the practice of travelling in back lots and operat ing in devious paths. The chief kept his weather eye skinned and finally was rewarded by arresting Jones, a mule, and two gallons of corn Thurs day night. J he prisoner was sitting in his bugary which for some time has been a portable barroom, and operated from a base a mile and a kalf in the country. He is like the little hoy the calf ran over he hasn't anything to say, but Walter Lynch, Oscar Weaver, Willie Saunders, Spencer Oakley, and Bert Cutts.had enough to say to make the mayor refer him to Judge Biggs at the next term and to justify Judge Biggs in referring him to the road superintendent. Old man Mallory did have a little to say'but it was in a very tiny and weak voice. "Some have told wrong about it," he said, but he does not doubt that he has sold whiskey to some of them. The 'some" referred to were Herbert O'Mary, white, Laz Evans, colored, Lonnie Tinsley, color ed, and II. G. Duke,the latter having had to' make some explanations a month or two ago along these same lines. Sheriff Sam, the portly,pinched the old man, Lonnie Tinsley, who is a paint artist one week and booze ar tist two, having furnished the tip. Mallory's late place of business, or rather a branch of it, was back of Bul lock c Mitchell's warehcwe,and Lon nie who seemed to be the transporta tion company, was caught red-bunded in active gervice. Sheriff Sam held a conference with Lonnie in Connie's hostelry in one of the apartments, where sketches of, the life of Mallory with side lights on his business were gone into. That was the beginning of his trouble. The.coucluding chapter will be written from Granville county roads. At present he is out on bail, a kinsman having shackled himself with a mortgage to got him out. Monk is on the anxious list. When the police get through investigating his case, the size of his trouble will then be learned. Over a little matter of ten cents Saturday night in the Busy Bee Res taurant Charlie Yow and a Greek named Jim Harris indulged in a little argument that Officer Roberts did not approve ot The same idea of disap proval w.as found in the mayor's sys tem and Yow was held up for f 5 and half the costs. Harris was at first as sessed for $3 and the remaining half of the costs, but after sitting in reflec tion ortr the case for a -while Mayor l, mm jx vt.tu ine naii, remitting the $3. Half a dozen citizens were tempora rily converted into cops on the twenty fourth and allowed to wear billies and a gun.but everybody behaved too well nd there was no chance for the bud- Iding officers to gain glory. Murray Thomasson did find a poor innocent on, the outside of a couple of drinks tak ing a quiet snooreless snooze under the MRS. HILLARD DEAD. Last Member of Distinguished North Carolina Family Passes Away. After an illness of just one week there died on Friday the 25th, Mrs. Mariah Nash Johnston Hilliard, wife of the Rev. Francis W. Hilliard, the deceased lady being the last member of the distinguished Johnston family living in the State. Surrounded by her family, Mrs. Hilliard peacefully passed away at 7:45 in the evening, and the funeral services were conduct ed from St. Stephen's Episcopal chureh on the following Sunday. Mrs. Hilliard leaves these Borrow ing relatives surviving, a husband, the Rev. Francis W. Hilliard; five chil dren.Misses Margaret, Katherine, and Elizabeth Hilliard and Messrs. Foster HJliard, of Memphis, Tenn., aqd Ire dell Hilliard, of Georgetown, South Carolina; a brother, the Rev. Gabriel Johnston, of Yonkers, N. Y., and a sister, Mrs. Helen S. Perry, of At lanta, Ga. Mrs. Hilliard was the daughter of the Revf Samuel Iredell Johnston, of Edenton, and Margaret Anne Bur- gynne, of Wilmington, and was born in 1836, she being therefore at her death 73 years of age. Her great grand father was Abner Nash and she was colatterally deocended from Gov. Gabriel Johnstou and Gov. Samuel Johnston. Her parents lived in Wadesboro during her infancy, her father being at the time rector of the parish in that town, but when Mrs. Hilliard was about two years of age, Mr. Johnston moved to Edenton, bringing him near er to his native home in Bertie, and he served for the next 30 years as pas tor of St. Paul's. It was here in her girlhood that she met and married the Rev. F. V. Hi! hard, of Lowell, Mass., x2y had just finished his course and received his graduation at Harvard. The marriage took place in Edenton in 1857. Ox ford people well remember the cele bration of the golden wedding two yen rs ago. Mr. Hilliard succeeded his father-in law in St Paul's and served ten years during which time the children were born. In 1897 they moved to Oxford where the Misses Hilliard had pre ceded them in 1892 when the Hilliard School was founded. Mrs. HiiliarJ died on the anniver sary of the birth of her oldest daugh ter and it was singular that.as she had planned to have a family re-union on that day, they were all present. Since coming to her adopted home in 1897, Mrs. Hilliard has won many lasting friendships find was beloved for her many beautiful traits of char acter. Hei death though anticipated for many days came as a great shock to the people of Oxford. A great concourse of friends were present at the last sad rites, and the fioral tributes were very beautiful. Card of Thanks. I desire to thank for both myself and family the friends and neighbors who were so kind in their attentions to our mother during her death and ill ness and to assure them that we feel under a deep and undying debt of gratitude. L. F. Perkinson. Youngsville Game Postponed. There was to have been a game of ball with the Youngsville team last Saturday, but the elements put an end to the prcceeding8,for a big rain storm came up just about the time for the game to have been called.The Youngi ville team, a nice looking bunch of handlers of the sphere, came in on the 3:30 Seaboard, and had jo g& back on ine return train, without hgyiag cross ed bats with the locals. Manager Devin will try and have another bout with them at a date to be announced later. shelter of an elm, and transferred him to the lockup, but the chief very re gretful turned him out and let him go home to snooze some more,there being found nothing" harmful or pernicious about him. - GRANVILLE MAN DROWNED. Mr. A. L. Royster Drowned Mon day in South Carolina Canal. Already being in gloom over the death of several of its very best peo ple, Oxford again was giyen sad intel ligence when it was learned that Mr. Arthur Lee Royster, son of L. A. Roy ster, Esq., was drowned in the canal at Columbia, S. C, last Monday. The wires were kept busy for particulars of the tragedy, and grief stricken friends spent hours searching for the body which was found two miles from the point of going into the water. In order to secure it, the canal which is eight reet deep had to be drawn off and public utilities such as lights and street cars were put out of service for eight hours. Nine young men, intimate friends of the deceased accompanying his re mains left Columbia Wednesday morn ing at 5:25 arriving in Oxford over the Seaboard at 3:30, These gentle men, Messrs. J. F. Weaver, G. M. Bishop, W. F. Harper, B. McBride, J. P. arbey, B. L. Boswell, Frank Hanna,J. P. Dodson,and C. E. Johns son, attended the funeral service which were held from the house Thurs day morning at 9 o'clock under the auspices of the Masonic Fraternity, and returned to their homes in Colum bia immediately thereafter. The first four with Messrs J. M. Baird, J. J. Medford, Newman Fuller and F. H. Gregory, were the active pall bearers: the others with Messrs. I. H. Davis, J. B. Powell, W. A. Devin, Sam Watkins, Otho Faucette,M. P. Cham blee, and Tbos. Pruitt, being the flower bearers. Great numbers of friends of the family attended the funeral and saw the masons lay the deceased brother in his last resting place. Mr. Royster is survived hy a father and mother. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Roys ter, four sisters, Misses Mabe', Pearl, Irving and Julia Royster, and two brothers, L. P. and Thomas J. Roys ter. The unfortunate young man who was 31 year of age was fast rising in ine raiiroaa service anu in im; fix i years of his residence in Columbia h d J become ' Xtreinely popular. This is well testified by the nine grief-t-ticken friends who brought his body hon:e to bi be buried and who so lavishly cov eretT his bier with flowered. The ac-i tion of these kind friends was exceed-' iugly touching and beautiful. Speaking of the occurrence, the State, of Columbia says: "When news Was received yester day morning about ten o'clock that young Royster was drowned it was hard to believe. Known as a power ful man physically and as an excellent swimmer even in the canal, the most treacherous stream in the state, it was thought and hoped that therq was some mistake. Those who went down as soon as possible learned that the re port was all too true." "The drowning of Royster was tra gic. Accompanied by his closest frsends in Columbia, Mr. Frank Har per and Mr. Robert Hanna,the former a train aespatcher and the latter clerk at the Columbia Hotel, a trip up the canal was made in a boat, the object being to find a: site for a small boat house for a club recently formed among the rowing crews in the city. After rowing up the canal about two miles the three got out of the boat on the east bank and walfied up to the locks, inspecting the available places. At the locks the party crosge fiver to tks west hck and walked down be low the old wooden bridge, opposi te he point wberg h boat had been fasten ed." "Royster offered to swim across the stream for theloat. Stripping to his undershirt, which he kept on to avoid sunburn and wearing his hat to pro tect his head, he started across. The canal at this point is about 175fee"t wide, but this is not a long swim, if allowance is : made for the current, (Continued on page 4.) r ST JOHN'S DAY Biz Crowd Attends Celebration ori The Twenty Fourth A great crowd of people, estiraateoS to be from 9,000 to 1 0,000, iB3emhIe& in Oxford on St John's Day.the 24th. and witnessed the exercises arranged for its benefit. The weather wa fines although the evening of the 23rd was unsettled and presaged bad tilings for- the 24th that fortunately were never realized. While the attendance from the country was not above normal, the ex cursionists by rail exceeded the num bers brought here in any former year. the attendance of men of no-o being especially large. Capt. Brown of the Southern says that at least 80 0 or 1, 000 were brought in by his road 40G coming over the Southern route frorra Henderson alone, and Agent Osborra of the Seaboard places the number ' that used his road at 2 000. which he says is a very conservative estimate All during the morning almost up to the beginning of the exercises, the' country people were arriving and Col lege street held a continuous swarm oi moving and perspiring folks. Heretofore, the visitors on Sl John's dap have always kept very close to the Asylum grounds,but this year two amusements were kept- going in the? centre of town, this bringing down town hundreds and thousands who would have remained on the Orphan age grounds. The fact that this did not materially reduce the appearance? of there being as large a crowd as us ual shows that the attendance this year was up to the high water mark. KXERCISKB. At 11:30 there was the usual spec ial communication of the Grand Lodges of Masons in the Masonic Hall, with these officials: Samuel M. Gattis, Grand Master J. C. Horner, Deputy Grand Ma.st.or; J. Bailey Owen, Senior Grand War den; E. B. Meadows, Junior Grand Warden; Leo D. Heartt, Treasurer;, William W. Wilson.Grand Secretary,, M. L Winston, Grand Chaplain; W E. Moss, Senior Grand Deacon; F. 1. Hobgood, Jr., Junior Grand Den (.; Marshall Delancey Haywood, Grand Marshall; E. S.Merritt, Grand Sword: Bearer; A. B. Andrews, Jr , Oraiu Pursuivant; A. S.Webb, Grand Stew ard; J. C Walker, Grand Reward;R. H. Bradley, Grand Tiler; Marshall Do La nee j Haywood, Grand Histo rian. At the conclusion of the Granc? Lodge meeting.the exercises were held under the big trees, where an enea mous crowd had gathered. In addi tion to the officers enumerated above,, there wciie present numbers of other prominent and distinguished masons, and quite a good many men of promi nence who were not members of tho fraternity. Notable among these vis itors: Dr. R. J. Noble, of Selma, past grand master; Mr. N. B Broughton. of Raleigh, director; Mr.G. Rosenthal, of Raleigh, secretary. There were al so present who were not memberp oi" the order, the Rev. Dr J. N. Cole, of Raleigh, f uperintendent of the Metho dist Orphanage, aad Mr. T. F. Lloyd; of Orange county, one of the foremost cotton mill men of the state. The Hon. Samuel M. Gattis, ei Hillsboro, G. M presided ovejf the; exercises with that grace and ease for which he is so well noted. - He is fx great, fine-fine looking fellow, very much like president Taft in appear ance., R13 opening remarks were good! JLnd to the point. The address of welcome was made? by Dennis G.Brummitt,eRquire,mayor of Oxford in an eminently appropri ate and ite:citous manner. It took: but fifteen minufe deliver t,liut ia 1 that fifteen minutes the spe saicu just what should have been said omitted noihing. The Grand Master requested Mr. N. B. Broughton, of Raleigh, to -respond to the address, ' which that gentleman did most happi ly, albeit be averred , that gnap judg - Continued on ; ps& 4.) lll,,!l -II
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