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OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGER FRIDAf DECEMBER 17, 1909: 8 1.: AN ECHO OF THE WAR. urry County to Furnish Granite How Mr. SherriH, of Shiloh, Came Dr. Tait Butler in Progressive Far- for a Monument to the Man a Sur-! Out Ahead in the Matter of the mer Talks About This Prevalent ry Soldier Killed. ' Wagoners and the Dog. ; and Unpleasant Malady-What to A dispatch from Mt. Airy says: A: Mr. W. E. Sherrill, of Shiloh town- Do. monument of beauty and magnificent ship, who last Thursday cnaseu a , Among lne most common troubles 4n proportions is being built at the j party of wagoners to Cleveland to re- . wnicn cause discomfort, and under quarry of the Nroth Carolina Granite j cover a dog which he believed they 5 wrtain conditions lead to more se orporation, near this place. It will ' had taken, and recovered $20 in lieu j rioug consequences, are "colds" and l)e erected over the grave and honor j of the dog, now has the dog, also ine j tUe ..gripjK.- These troubles are se the memory of a noted officer of the j cash. j rious only when aided by previous Ttederal army, General Reynolds, who j The incident was reported in the j disease or other depleting condi tvss shot from his horse and killed ; last issue of the Landmark. A par- t5ons or wnen complicated by oth mring a memorable battle at Gettys- j ty of four men.with wagons.who said j er leases. Their frequent occur tmrg,&Pa.f in 1S63, during the civil j they were irom Lincoln County, on rence however, and the aggregate ?war between the states. The monu- : route to Virginia, camped at Mr. t SUffering which they directly or indi gent is being constructed in sections Sherrill's home in Shiloh township ! rectiy assist in causing, make them end the sculpture w ork will cost j last Wednesday night. Mr. Sherrill among the most important minor trot 'tfir.0 000 besides the cost of the stone ; it has just been discovered that the 1 man who killed Gen. Reynolds was : ti Confederate sharpshooter; that his j name is Frank Wood, and that he . still lives in his native county, Sur-, fore day and departed. A little la- j utory causes. These merely weaken ry, in which is located the town of ter Mr. bnerrill missed his valu lb'e I tne resistance of the body to the in Mt. Airy and the famous quarry out ; dog, for which he had refused $20 . Iective or causative agent. Such a Df which the stone for the magnifi- ! and learned from a friend, who had statement regarding "Colds" will not icent memorial is being built . seen the wagoners after they left ; De acCepted by most readers of the Wood, so the story goes, belonged ' camp, that they had the dog in the progressive Farmer, but it is to Capt. Reeves' company of volun-; wagon. j tlie opinion of the best medical au- teers that went from Surry to fight Mounting a horse Mr. Sherrill rode ! tne opinion of the best authorities for their dear southland. The sharp- j hurriedly to town and invoked the . to-day and best accounts for all the Khooter"s son is employed at the ! aid of the officers. Eputy Shreiff ; tacts aild conditions involved in "tak-ro-k quarry and his duties are those Thompson, at Cleveland, was notifi- iug Cold." of sharpening tools for the Italian j ed and Mr. Sherrill boarded No. 36 ; Apart from those steps which sculptors who are now preparing the for Barber, the first stop of that ; should always be taken to prevent monument in sections. The design I train out of Statesvilie. Leaving the ; an infection, or the spread of a " is one of magnificence. A woman life-: size is carved out, also a battalion Cleveland two nines ana joinea jii cleanliness and thorough ventilation of infantry, artillerj and cavalry. ; Thompson. who was waiting for him. are the most effective agencies in It will require several trains to ( The two came up the road toward ; combatting these two affections, transport the monument in sections ! Elmwood and met the wagoners be-; ye do not believe in hot baths o Gettysburg. The work will not jtween Cleveland and Elmwood. To : except just before going to bed or lie completed before some time next j say that they were surprised to meet j under special conditions; nor do we jear. Mr. Sherrill, at whose nome they had insist ou cold baths except for Frank Wood, the sharp-shooter, is j stopped the night before, coming to j those who are strong and prefer reticent. He will talk very little a-; meet them, 20 miles from where they j them. For the average person a iKut how Gen. Reynolds was killed had last setn him, expresses it but ; batn taken in a room of comforta Jut some of his comrades who were j' mildly. Otticer Thompson and Mr. j Dje temperature with the water at -on the sharp-shooting line the day Sherrill drove back with them en to ? only a sightly lower temperature General Reynolds lost his life, tell ' Cleveland, where the officer invit- than that of the body will give the 4he story and it is an interesting ed them before Magistrate Rosebro, j best results. one. They say that Wood was lying '. telling them they were charged with 1 As to ventilation, it is an easy behind a log when General Reyniolds j xode out in front of his command.and arising from his saddle gave the coin-i jaiand : "Forward men give 'em hell!" One of Wood's comrades who knew 4is record as a marksman, said: "Frank, can you hit him?" Frank, who was never known to Jiirk a duty in those days, very j promptly replied: "I don't know, but I'll raise my I bights and try him one." At the crack of Frank's rifle Gener- 1 Reynolds fell dead from his horse, j Thus, 46 years after the death of ; Gen. Reynolds by the hand of Frank t Wood, during one of the greatest mat-lies m nistory, is iouna me son 01 aoj to someoouy in tne vicinity or ; following day s work. The ventila the man who fired the fatal shot em- Elmwood and that as scon as the ca- ; tion of the sleeping rooms, then is iloyed to sharpen the tools for the ; nine could get away he naturally j best and most effectually attained fc'culptors of a monument being hewn ; made tracks for home. But as to ; by sleeping in the open air From out of granite in the father's county : this Mr. Sherrill is not concerned, j the standpoint of preventing the which is to stand for ages to the He has his dog and $20 extra Christ- j snread of thp infortinn - o-Q1-.,,. -memory of one of the famous officers 4he Civil War. M B PERRY GETS BIG SUM. Commander Peary Gets Big Sum of $50,000 From Hampton's Maga- zine for His Story ot Discovery. "it seems probable that many years Twill pass before an author receives j a higher price for his literary pro-; luct than Commander Robert K. Pe ary receives from Hampton's Maga zine for his own story of the discov- -r.hi ft.i,r cor. Hamnton's a, lean cool $50,000. No rate per word : 2s specified in the contract, but it is generally estimated that Comman- , der Peary is receiving $1.18 cash for every word that he w rites for Hamp- ton s Magazine, tienj. n. namptuu, editor of the magazine, makes tnis j ed at the home of Miss Hallie Jones statement: j Saturday evening. All report a very "If you have a desire to estimate pieasant evening Jie rate per word that will be earn- by Peary with his north pole story ; E && you would be safer at placing it at : &t T 2.50 per word than $1.20 VVe haTe!p for bought only American and Canadian j be Vmgazine rights, and Stoke s ! m. ln toe High School Auditorium, rights cover only these countries, j That leaves all the foreign rights to j The drop curtain and stage fix cell. When they are figured up,the tures for the Auditorium of our High totals should amount to $100,000 or j School will be ready for the debate, even $150,000. . -Peary is not a good business man. ! tt The midr examinations of the As a matter of fact, he is a poor j gin Monday the JL, Mrs. Peary has been business i h. On Wednesday the fall term nead of the family, and the comman deruever .;;eS an opportunity ' to .... praise her for the mnaner in wmcn , she has labored nad borne the brunt ot his quarter of a century of jvork , 5n the arctic. Peary and Mrs. Peary. 3iave sacrificed the material comfort j -fo this artic ideal. Every dollar I they could spare from ac tual living expenses has been used to equip ex. ! Deditions, so that, when Peary re turned a few months ago, there was anighty little money in the Peary aank account." Exchange. -Best Water-ground Country Meal j at. L. THOMAS, i NOW HAS DOG AND THE $20. talked with the men and in the con- ; versation they boasted of having cap- j tured a dog wmcn tney naa 10 buueu ;! rter, but said they would get another. ; Next morning they broke camp be- ; train at Barber he walked back to i stealing a dog and would have to return to Statesvilie to answer. The men denied stealing the dog but they were very nervous and embar- ; irassed, and one, more Irighicned thai j his companions, gave the w hole case 'away by saying that the dog had probably broken loose and returned ij nome. j The wagoners were so anxious to j avoid returning to Statesvilie that j they proposed a compromise and Mr. Sherrill agreed to accept $20. The J men paid $20 and the cost, a total of $28.35 and departed. Mr. Sherrill j returned home and Friday night his j dog arrived, sound and well. The j theory is that the wagoners sold th. ! i mas money and is content. It is about as dangerous to steal a dog nowadays as it is to steal a horse, and folks who pick up dogs not their own had better not pass through Iredell. Only a few "weeks ago a party of wagoners were follow- de to Statesvilie on account of miss- ing dogs and were made to surrender the dogs and pay costs. STEM NOTES Things Stirring in Live Community Folks Preparing fop Christmas De-, a a.e to oe ne.a un na. Mr. J. H. Gooch has had gas lights installed in his store and bank, Miss Willie Lee Washington has been visiting relatives and friends in Durham the past week. The Epwortn League was entertain-1 I '"ii wuae lur tne nnstmas noii- f e spring term wU, begU, .Taniiarv SrH Reporter. 0ffice.Desk and 8ffla Safe Fjp 1 W1" ell by Public Auction at the Curt House door in Oxford, on ru, iiu, a nice Oak, roller-top Office desk and small iron safe. Call at niy office and see it any time between now and that date. Tjiis the lSth day of December, i A. A. Hicks. Atty., for American Safe Co. Dec 17, 2$ . Assignee PREVENTION OF COLDS. bles affecting the health of those on j the farm Both are essentially in- fectious that is, botli are Que 10 -germs." Overheating, drafts, exhau; tion and exposure are merely contrib- catehing disease," personal or. body question in the South. Probably the most serious defect in the ventila tion of our homes is to be found in tne sleeping rooms. A serious and intelligent consideration of the prob lem of ventilation t of the sleeping rooms can, we believe, lead to but one conclusion. The place to live and sleep is in the open air. Farm- ers by the nature of their work,live largely in the open air and, shame that it is, too frequently sleep in rooms with either no ventilation or with ventilation so defective as to cause them to spend one-third of their time in an atmosphere so foul with their own exhalations as to se- Hously impair their vigor for the ......xw, VI foCi iil." from one member of rhp fimil-r to i ; the other, certain common practice i , should be avoided. In the first plac ' ; seperate beds should be provided I for each member of the family. I j large families this way sometime: j ; be troublesome, but the expense an- j j extra work is easily justified by the beneficial results. When "cold" and j : "grippe" developes in any member'' of the family,that member should be ; isolated as far as possible. At least ' the clothing and handerchiefs used by ! j tnat member should be boiled or othe j wise di&infectedprom ptly after u Tha .miv, ,. j ine common family tow-el se. and the j common drinking bucket offer such j an affected member a splendid op- j portunity of obtaining "companions Jffln misery." When colds and th n pe are recognized as infectious dis eases there will be fewer instances where "the whole family have colds" or "the grippe' has run through the whole family." DEATH OF A GOOD MAN. Mr. W. T. Lumpkins, of Salem Suc- combs to Pneumonia November 30 Was Very Highly Thought of. W T. Lumpkins, of Salem Town ship, aged 49 years died the last day of November of pneumonia and was buried at Salem December 1st. He levaes a wife and one little girl a mother, one sister, and five broth ers to mourn his loss. Mr. Lump kins was a man of few words and at tended to his own business. He was a manw hose influence was felt for good. He will be greatly missed by his family, his relatives, his neigh bors, and his Church. He was al ways ready to help a distressed brother or to do a good deed. The Rev. A. S. Barnes naid hi fine tribute when he delivered the ifuneral sermon. . May the Lord bless and comfort the bereaved, and may all the family meet him in heaven. Cranberries and Cranberry sauce- .' . - '. ' , yl- -: THOMAS. M RS. WALTER CLARK DEAP. Was Daughter of Gov. William A. Graham, and Sister of Judge A. W. Graham Very Talented Woman. The State lost a very distinguish ed woman last week in the death of Mrs. Walter Clark, wife of Chief Jus tice Walter Clark, and sister of our townsman, Judge A. W. Graham. The News and Observer gave the follow ing account of her.: italeigh was profoundly saddened yejsterday by the death of Mrs. Su san ' Washington Clark, wife of Chief Justice Walter Clark. Her death, will be mourned in countless homes throughout the State, for no gentler and nobler woman ever lived in Nor th' Carolina. Death came at 11:07 o'clock yester I d&y morning For many years Mrs. Clark had been a sufferer from ch ronic bronchitis, and a week ago she developed pneumonia, which hastened the untimely end. Thursday her con dition had improved, and there was strong hope of her recovery. But eai ly yesterday morning it was known that death was near and relatives wnere summoned to her bedside. ?"Mrs. Clark was born March 9, 1S51 in Washington City, when her father, Hon. William A. Graha.m, the most distinguished North Carolinian of his dajr, was Secretary of the Nav y, in the adminisrtation of President Fillmore. She was educated at the famous girls' school of Misses Nash and Kolloch, at Hillsboro, and after ward at Madame Rostan's School in New York city. In both these schools Mrs. Clark was distinguished for scholarship and her personal beauty and high-bred charm of manner drew to her many personal friends. Her girlhood was spent in Hills boro, where she was married Jan uary 24, 1874. She made Raleigh her home for her entire married life. Mrs. Clark was the only daughter of Governor and Mrs. Wm. A. Gra ham and the youngest of the chil dren to survive. Her family is as follows: Mrs. J. Ernest Erwin, of M01 ganton; Captain David Clark.of Char lotte; W. A. Graham Clark, Special Agent of Department of Commerce and Labor of the United States Gov ernment, and who is now in Brazil; Walter Clark Jr., city attorney of Raleigh; John W. Clark, of Concord; Thorne M. Clark, of Halifax Counts', and Eugenia G. Clark. Her surviv ing brothers are Maj. John W. Gra ham, of Hillsboro; Maj. William A. Graham, Commissioner of Agricul ture, Raleigh; Dr. George W. Graham of Charlotte, and Judge A. W. Gra- ham, of Oxford, ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Gen- eral Assembly. All Mrs. Clark's sons j and daughters are here except W. A. Graham Clark, who is in Brazil. Mrs. Clark joined the Baptist - 1 AW BOOKCASE, out 3 1 church in 1872 at 'Hillsboro, and up on moving to this city brought,, her letter to the First Baptist Church of Raleigh. No life could better illus trate the value of a Christian ideal than hers. She was a devoted and consecrated church member, loving to assist in all religious, charitable and philanthropic work. She was a woman of broad culture, of unusual literary attainments, of such wide qualifications to master anything she undertook that she was prized in the church, in social realms, in patriotic organizations, in literary circles and in all associations of which she became a member. The beauty of her character and the sim plicity of her Christian womanhood gave her such an influence over her friends as few women possess, and this was exerted to a marked de gree throughout North Carolina. Her scholarship was second to that of no woman in the State. She was a re markable linguist, being a brilliant French scholar, and she inherited from her father a gift that made her extraordinarily proficient in Latin studies. The death of no woman in North Carolina in this generation has caus ed more universal sorrow7 than that of Mrs. Clark." CHRISTMAS SHOPPING. Few Remarks Submitted About This Great Question That Bobs Up A- fresh Every Year. From Charlotte Observer. Just about this time every year there is a great deal said in the news papers about early Christmas shop ping, urging the people to make their holiday purchases as early as possi ble, all of which advice is very good and should be taken by those who are financially so situaetd that j they can do so. There is no doubt ! that early shopping helps the store-! keepers and relieves the clerks of ! overwork at the last moment. But j it must be remembered that there is j a large class of people who cannot j complete their holiday purchases any 1 day Men whose salaries are paid weekly and whose household expsm ses, economically administered and there are thousands of them in this and every other section of the country are not in financial condi tion to supply their families with lump sums at any specified time to do the extra buying. They have to save a little out of each week's wag es for the extra Christmas purchas es. Realizing this fact, we are not j one to blame the people generally j for postponing their holiday purchas- ! es. Of course we advise all who are ! able-those who have the ready mon- j ey to make their purchases early, ! but in behalf of the weekly or daily j turns,. W I i sjjss"1 m b MORTISE.D SPACE FOR AGENT5 NO OTHER PLACE IN THIS CITY Affords the buyer greater opportunity for the exercise of individ ual choice in the selection of Holiday Gifts and the satisfaction of knowing that he will not be offered a substitute of any adver tised article identified by the manufacturer's name. MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH-GRADE ARTICLES SEEK HIGH-GRADE REPRESENTATION. We are exclusive agents of the following wel!-kaown adver tised lines, n2mely: SlotVcrmckc "Elastic" Book Case. Stearns & Festers Felt Mattress, Rockford Sideboards, Statesvilie Suits. Come Alonrr and SUlcff Thai Xmas Present nnrf Haw a on Demand. Upchurch Bros. Oxford, - - N. C. WM wage-earners we beg the nolf yt:rii .and.hls 'clerkship be considerate to give the last comer with her few dollars or even pennies same consideration and ))oli((; ,V tention as is vouchsafed the Dan',, with a wellfilled purse. The ; chant or the clerk may be w,,, worn out with the day's work ot wal ing on customers. But how mjeV more weary may some poor num , woman have been through long wee!. in which extra work was done (, iH by a few dimes over and above ih demands of landlord and grocer njn, in this one day the children mir;!: be made happy wiht a few . from Santa Claus? There is; on more weekly pay day for the was, , earner whc gets his or her pav , the Saturday before Christmas this , year Christmas itself tails o; Saturday. Just suppose that C,!ir:s -mas shopping were restricted to tV week without notice long in ndvaini many poor little chlidren would h;iv no Christmas at all. Those who a: able to do their Christinas .shotMiin. whenever so inclined should thhiU of this, and should willingly, .uladh-. give the week after the last pay dr to the less fortunate who are, , force of circumstances, compelled 1 do most of their Christmas buyh; in that circumscribed time. INSURANCE that protects your life not in come only. Gowan's Preparation in the home insures against pneu monia, colds, croup, soreness in lungs and throat by destroying inflammation and congestion. External and penetrating. All Druggists. $1.00, 50c., 25c. In sure today. NAME m i r "cnnSS W5 ih ewr new-. -iwi 1
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