OCTOBER 20. 1911.
117e want to supply your
v v drug store wants.
We carry everything a
good drug store should.
When you have a pre
scription to be filled,bring
or send it to us.
We specialize' oni pre
scription work.
Your sick' room wants
will have onr prompt at
tention. Our store is a store for
the well as much as the
ill.
In our toilet goods and
perfumery department
we display a complete
line of goods that should
appeal to you.
You can shop with us
by phone or messenger,
and we give these orders
just as careful attention
as though you came your
self. Our store is the Nyal
store in this locality.
We are agents for the
well known Nyal Reme
dies, and we do not hesi
tate to recommend them
since we know exactly
what each remedy is com
posed of.
L Frank F. Lp,
A. A. HICKS.
T. G. STEM.
Attorneys af Law,
OXFORD, N. C
Assocaite Counsel,
T. T. HICKS,
Henderson, N. C.
Prompt attention given to all bust
ness intrusted to our care.
THIS $50.00
Cream Separator
will be given as a pre
mium in the county
fair for the best display
of dairy products and
dairy animals. It can
be seen at the Court
House.
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1879 J. G. MALL 1911
Leading Druggist Seedsman
oi Granville County.
Doctors Prescriptions and Family Receipts a
Specialty, Compounded by Regis
tered Pharmacists.
Pure Drugs and Medicines, Every Kind.
Agent for "REXALL" Remedies. Every one is guaranteed. If
not satisfied after taking any of these medicines yonr money returned
You cannot lose.
SPECTACLES and EYEGLASSES
that suit your eyes at reasonable prices. Money back if not satisfied.
Two registered optometrists.
High Grade Graden and Field Seeds.
horse: and cattle powders.
HJ. F. Ropster's Special Horse Bower. Hall's Celebrated Hog Powder prevents
and cures Hog Cholera and adds one pound of meat for every cent s worth of the
powder fed to hogs.
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MOST FASHIONALE STYLES? IN STATIONERY.
Box Paper, Tablets and School Supplies. Depository for Public School Books.
Bibles, Teachers Bibles Family Bibles and Testaments at every price,
Fountain Pens from SI to 87.50. Guaronteed Razors and Pocket Knives.
Large Stock of Toilet Artlcle,Extractfli and Other Perfumes, Combs and
Brushes, all Kin as of Soaps, Toilet and Talcum Powders.
CONFECTIONERIES, FRUITS AND CANDIES.
Huyler's, Fenways and other high grade Chocolates and Chocolate Bon Bona.
They axe the BEST.
PANACEA, GENUINE. CHLORIDE CALCIUM WATERS AND ALL OTHER
KINDS OFMINtfRAL WATERS, ALL THE MOST POPULAR SODA
FOUNVA1N DRINKS.
THE - BEST - ICE - CREAM - ON - EARTH.
Your Friend J Qa HALL 0xIor. Norn Carolina.
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$100 Reward, $100.
The readers of this paper "will
be pleased to learn that there is
at least one dreaded disease that
science has been able to cure in all
its stages, and that is Catarrh
Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only pos
itive cure now known to the medi
cal fraternity, Catarrh being a con
stitutional disease, requiring a con
stitutional treatment. Hall's Ca
tarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system.there
by destroying the foundation of the
disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the consti
tution and assisting nature in do
ing its work. The proprietors have
so much faith in its curative power
that they offer One Hundred Dol
lars for any case that it fails to
cure. Send for list, of testimonials.
Address F. J. Cheney & Co-, To
ledo, Ohio.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for con
stipation. Rex Dyspepsia Tablets
Relieves gas in stomach, distress
after eating, stomach nervousness,
diziness, headache, heartburni,heart
palpitation and other ailments caus
ed by faulty digestion. Price 25c.
Prepared by United Drug Company,
Boston, Mass. Sold in Oxford only
by J. G. Hall, 22 Main street. The
Rexall Store.
Valuable Land for Sale.
I have for sale 50 acres of land
within two miles of Oxford. Price
reasonable, and the . terms , can be
made to suit purchaser. T. Laniei
Keep the
Children
Well
!A" teaspoonful
of medicine in
time often , pre
vents a siege of
sickness and saves the little
ones a lot of suffering.
We have pure, wholesome
remedies for all the different
ills of children.
REXALL WORM
CANDY is the most de
lightful medicine you could
give children, and at the
same time it is a, safe and
sure cure for stomach and
intestinal 7crm3, round
worms, whip worm3 and pin
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SPEED OF MAN
Kansas City Star.
Man is the speed maniac of the
universe in the heavens, on the
earth. Physically, the clumsiest.soft
earth. Physically, the clumslest.soft
est and most helpless of animals,
he has pitted himself against the
fleet-footed beasts, the arrow wing
ed birds and the drating fish.
How has he succeeded in this un
equal contest?
If a pan-animal track meet were
called man would find that his one-hundred-yard
dash record of 9 3-5
seconds would put him somewhere
between the pigs and the goats
The animals have developed;' athle
tes with whom our Marathon run
ners would compete in vain. In
deed, many species owe their ex
istence solely to the ability to out
run other animals more liberally
provided with teeth and claws. Oth
ers again have developed speed
because they are pursuers and need
it to prey on the specis that supply
their food-
If, therefore,man had sought to
conquer the animal" world by physi
cal prowess alone he would have
had to learn to outrun the wolf anc
all his other enemies of prehistoric
days He would have had to do his
one-hundred-yard dash in something
less than eight seconds;
But instead of letting himself be
chased about by the wolves.man us
ed his brain and became a crafty
cave dweller, and slinger of stones.
And for an aeon or two speed in
the pursuit of food was his only
care, and never again was of more
than secondary importance in that
respect. The era of rabbin versus
brawn ended with man victorious.
But not until long after this did
man begin to rival the animals in
speed only when he had . time
to look around and take an ameteur
sorting interest on which his life
depended. It all started with the
man who invented the whell. From
chariot races to motor races, . how
ever, was a long road. The horse
was motive power, but never suc
ceeded in doing better than he and
man could do without wheels
horseback. Then came steam and in
a few years the race-horse reocrd
of 35 miles an hour was passed, and
with it and after it the speed of
other and fleeter animals was ecli
psed And now man, with a long
distance motor record of 83 miles
an hour, and other dashes that go
far above the 100 mark, can boast
of being the fastest thing on earth
And ins the heavens and the wa
ters under the earth? In the water
man appears to be about equal with
the fishes, though not by physical
prowess, of course, nor over the
same track. Swimming, 100 yards
has been made in a fraction under
minute. But what is this to the
100-yard dash of the swordfish,
whose top speed is estimated by
some naturalists at a mile a min
ute? Nor would this comparison be
fair to the fish, for to compete with
him we must go to his level. And
this is only possible in our subma-
rines, which we consider doing well
if they make 10 miles an hour.
It is remarkable how few nafcural
sts have recorded the amazing
speed of fish or dwelt upon their
beautiful solution of the roblem of
water friction.which so hampers our
submarines. Fut anyone who has
seen the silver flash of a darting
trout after a fly whisked away from
him by a fisher, ox has stood on
the deck of an ocean greyhound anc
seen the porpoise make rings around
the ship, will be slow to assert
man's supremacy in the water. Yet
aeain. whoever has seen a motor
boat crest-sweeping at full speed
could hardly refrain from champion
ing it. Few fish, if any, he would
say with some reason can swim
a long distance at the rate of 40
miles an hour; a motor boat can
make that. So, to give the casting
vote to our own family, it may be
considered that honors are about
even between man and fish, ' al
though the swiftest we can go by
our own physical power is about
12 miles an hour.the average speed
of the Oxford and Cambridge boat
races.
In the air, of course, we can do
nothing alone. Without our craft
iest engineers we cannot mount for
two seconds into the bird world
For to go up in a balloon is to be
so much at the mercy of the ele
ments that we hardly open our eyei
to the world of flight, but see it
only as a diver sees through his
dim glass the wonders of the ocean-
and with other restrictions still
more nearly resembling his.
Our aeronautical engineers are
said to have conquered the air. But
have they? Not while the hawk
flies.
Yet . there are some astounding re
cords. At Mourmelon this September
Nieuport carried two passengers with
him on his monoplane at the rate
of 64 miles an hour. Those three
were flying faster than, the pigeon
can fly and would' have outdistanc
ed the rook by several miles am
hour. Hubert Latham has made 75
miles an hour in his Antoinette
monoplane. But a wild duck will of
ten make 90. .The British Govern
ment recently inaugurated the first
areial , postal service; between Lon
don and Windsor. Letters were car
ried at the speed of 102 miles an
hour.
- Still, 'the-hawk. t would have been
a faster carrier. Not his record,
but his ordinary high speed is 15t
miles an hour, and he can swoop
with the velocity of a bullet. So in
this year of grace, 1911, we must
be content to be supreme on land,
an equal in water and a dangerous
competitor, but not conqueror, in
the air unless, indeed, some re
cord comes before the year changes
to prove that we have outrivaled the
swiftest of all winged creatures-
Don't forget to be ready to pay
your tax when the sheriff comes
to your locality.
CONFIDENCE.
We Back up Our, Statement With
Our Personal .. Reputation and
Money.
We are so positive that we can re
ieve constipation, no matter how
chronic it may be, that we offer to
urnish the medicine free of all cost
f we f ail-
We think that it is worse than
useless to attempt to cure constipa
tion with catharic drugs Cathartics
may do much harm. They may
cause, a reaction!, irritate and weak
en the bowels, .and make constipa-
ion more chronic.
Constipation is often accompanied
and may Jte caused by weakness of
the nerves and muscles of the large
ntestine or colon. To expect a cure
you must tnereiore tone up and
strengthen those parts and restore
them to healthier activity.
The discovery of the active princi
ple of our remedy involved the la
bor of skilful research chemists.This
remedy produces results such as
are expected from the best of the
best known intestinal tonics, and
it is particularly prompt in its re
sults. We want you to try Rexall Oder-
les on our guarantee. -They are ex
ceedingly pleasant to take and are
ideal for children- They apparently
act directly on the nerves and mus
cles of the bowels, having, it would
seem, a neutral action on other or
gans or glands. They do not purge
or cause inconvenience. If they do
not positively cure chronic or habit
ual constipation and thus relieve
the myxJadsJL-a.ssoci&t or dependei
enronic . aliments, your 1 money will
be refunded. Try Rexall Orderlies
at our risk. Three sizes of packages,
10c. 25c- and 50c. Remember, you
can obtain Rexall Remedies in this
community only at our store The
Rexall Store. J. G- Hall 22 main St.
Sheriff Wheeler is trying to make
record collection of taxes and
you ought to help him by paying
your tax promptly.
WEIGHED 650 POUNDS.
Schober Could Eat a Wholei Turkey
at One Meal.
The larget coffin ever built in
New Jersey was constructed to hold
the body of George Schober of
Jersey City, a wealthy retired butch
er. Schober weighed 650 pounds,and
twelve strong men acted as pallbear
ers. Schober was six feet tall. He
was a jovial man and an enormous
eater, and at Christmas and Thanks
giving he was in the habit of hav
ing prepared for his consumption an
entire turkey with its necessary gar
nishments. At each meal Schober
ordinarily ate as much as his wife
and four sons together. His usual
breakfast consisted of a dozen eggs,
a pound or two of ham, the grea
ter part of a lbaf of bread and two
quarts of milk,? It is said Schober
was always hungry-
About a year ago his weight be
came too much for his bones, and
he was forced to retire from busi
ness. The undertaker had to call
on four men tq assist in lifitng the
man to prepare ;him for burial.
The coffin was six feet seven inch
es high and thirty-nine inches wide.
It was built of one and a half inch
chestnut. ' I .
To get the coffin out of the house
one of the windbs was removed, as
none of the doors was wide enough.
Schober was a I Mason. His father
was tall and tnifct, and his friends
cannot explain his enormous size.
WOIEtt HAIR
Tt
Easy to Make it Spit Luxuriant and
Radiant.
. .
Many women hate hair so dull
and faded that it, fe actually re
pulsive.
These women have, orobably never
heard of PARISIANS SAGE the invig
orating hair dressing that is being
used by thousands of refined women
throughout America-!
If your hair is fang or thin or
faded or lifeless; if you have dan
druff or itching scalp, if youi? hair
is not as fascinating! vs you 'would
like to have, it, go tap. g. Hall's
his very day, ask for a fifty cent
bottle of PARISIAN SE and start
at once to make yoiirhair perfect
and even glorious. II
PARISIAN SAGE is piaranteed to
give satisfaction, or sftuey back.
Girl, with Auburn tail on every car
ton. For sale by JQ Hall and
druggists everywhere, V
BRAINY PAUPERS.
Brilliant Inventors Who Reaped
Pitiful Rewards.
DIED IN POVERTY AND WANT.
Some Men of Genius Who Were Doom
ed to End Their Days In Obscurity,
While Their Fruitful Ideas Made
Millions and Fame For Others.
Now and again a man is born whose
brain fairly bubbles with inventive
genius. New ideas stream from him.
and all branches of science are mas
tered with hardly an effort.
Such was Frederic William Martino,
one of those many brilliant Italians
who left their native land to seek
fortune in a foreign country.
Martino came to England, and his
name is most familiar from the Martini-Henry
rifle, the breechblock of
which was one of his numerous in
ventions, i
It is an irony of fate that Martlno's
name should go down to posterity
solely through a warlike Invention
which he himself thought little of
when his greatest work was done in
the cause of peace, for Martino was
the discoverer of the process for con
verting basic slag into manure, a dis
covery which has put millions into
the pockets of German manufacturers,
but from which he himself, It is
stated, never reaped a penny.
The fluted rib for umbrellas, a new
process for the extraction of nickel
from its ore, a new development of
platinoid immensely important In
electric worts and a brilliant Inven
tion for the redaction of gold ore,
these are only a few of Martina's dis
coveries. And yet he was so lacking
In business capacity that tn spite of
bis extraordinary output of valuable
ideas he died at Glasgow in 1903 a
comparatively poor and obscure man,
while dozens of others have been made
richer by his genius.
In 1660 the chemist Lenoir patented
a motor driven by an explosive mix
ture of air and gas. He used electric
ignition obtained from a battery and
a Ruhmkorff coil, actuating a sparking
plug very similar to that tn use In the
modern motor. The system of valves
by means of which the suction of the
piston drew In the charge of gas for
the next explosion was also designed
by Lenoir.
In 1862 he actually produced a car
which, if crude, was similar in all re
spects to that in use today, save that
he employed coal gas Instead of petrol,
and this he actually drove himself
through the streets of Paris.
Yet for reasons similar to those
which caused, the failure of Martino be
never received the reward of his gen
ius, and It was left for Daimler, nearly
thirty years later, to produce the first
of the practicable autocars.
Lenoir died In 1900, poor and un
known. Three years later, in 1903, the life of
George Shergold came to an end in
Gloucester workhouse. Shergold, orig
inally a shoemaker, was the inventor
of the safety bicycle. He built a ma
chine of this order in the year 1876,
the front wheel of which was twenty
seven inches and the rear wheel some
thirty-one inches in diameter.
In 1900, when it first became gener
ally known that the man whose inven
tion had made millions for others was
as poor as when he had cobbled shoes,
a public subscription was raised, and
for some time an allowance of 5 shil
lings a week was made to Shergold.
But the funds became exhausted, and
poor Shergold ended his life in the
workhouse.
How many people have ever even
heard of Scbeele? Yet this poor Swed
ish chemist was perhaps the greatest
discoverer of facts that the world has
ever known.
We always hear in England that
Priestley was the discoverer of Oxy
gen. Yet Scbeele made this most im
portant of all chemical discoveries si
multaneously with Priestley. And It
was Scheele who discovered chlorine
gas. Chlorine is perhaps the mo6t
important of all gases in commercial
chemistry. It Is the great bleacher
that gives us white linen or white
straw hats. It is also the best disin
fectant known. It Is essential to the
manufacture of the great pain killer,
chloroform, and it is used extensively
for the extraction of gold from its ores.
Chlorine's value to the world has
been Incalculable, yet Scheele, the man
who discovered it. lived hungry and
died a pauper.
Professor Gore died a comparatively
poor man, yet Gore was the inventor
of the modern safety match, of the
method of electrodeposition commonly
known as electroplating and of many
other processes which have put mil
lions into the pockets of manufactur
ers. Gore's book, "Electrometallurgy,"
published in 1870, is still a standard
work on the subject. London An
swers. Value of Cinders.
A few years ago great heaps of cin
ders piled up, often being dumped into
low places where new earth was need
ed. Manufacturing concerns were glad
to get rid of the accumulations. But
now the cinders are in' great demand
for use tn the foundation for cement
and concrete work. They form a per
fect drainage material, and it has been
found that frost acts very lightly on
them. Furthermore, concrete work in
hlch cinders are used is said to be of
extreme durability. When cinders are
ground and mixed with cement the
mass becomes very hard.
The road to success Is as easy as the
road to rainBenjamin Franklin.
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS
I will be at the places . named
below for the purpose of collecting
1911 Taxes.
Fair Port Wednesday, November
1st-, 1911.
Wilton Thursday, November 2nd.
1911.
Creedmoor Friday November 3rd.,
1911.
Stem Saturday,November 4th, 19 11
Berea Monday November 6th.
1911.
Wilbourns Store.Tuesday November
7th, 1911.
. Stovall Wednesday November 8tt
1911.
Dexter Thursday November 9 tit
1911.
I hope everybody that owes tax
will meet me on above dates and
pay, and save trouble and cost for
I must collect the taxes by January
the 1st.. 1912. All taxes that is not
paid before November the 10 th will
be put in the hands of Deputies
with instructions to collect at once
which will be trouble and cost for
both of us.
S- M. Wheeler, (4t)
Sheriff.
SALE OF VALUABLE LAND
Pursuant to autnority vested in.
me by an order of the Superior
Court of Granville County, made
on the 12th. day of October, 1911
in a proceeding wherein A. A.
Chapman Is plaintiff and John Hes
ter et al are defendants, I shall
en Wednesday the 15th day of Nov
ember, 1911, sell at public auction,
at the Court house door ini the
town of Oxford.to the highest bid
der for cash, the following lot or
arcel of land. Same being known,
as the Henry Hester home pktce
fronting on the road leading from.
Oxford to Williamsboro, joining
the lands of R. O. Gregory and oth
ers and containing 40 acres more,
or less, also one acre of land near
the above tract joining the lands?
of C. H. Landis and others. The
above described lands will be sold
subject to the life estate of Mary
Hester in the same.
Time of sale 12 o'clock M.
T.Lanier,
Commissioner.
Valuable Town Property For Sale.
As agents for owner we shall on,
Monday Oct- 23, 1911 at 12 o'clock"
M. sell to the highest bidder by
Public Auction at the Court House
door in Oxford, N. C, the following
described property situate ini the
town of Oxford.
1st. That desirable two-story 9
room dwelling and lot known as
the Roller Home Place, situate cor
ner High and Gilliam Streets, front
ing 126 feet on High street and
running back to a depth of 187
feet. Good stables, barn and oth
er Out houses. Excellent neighbor
hood, convenient to churches.schools
Post office and business section.
A high-class home place. Seldom ia
such an opportunity presented.
2nd. That desirable lot on King
Street .fronting 100 feet on King
Street and running back a depth of
about 400 feet. Small dwelling in.
fair repair- Beautiful grove, splen,
did garden spot. In one of the
prettiest residence sections of
Oxford.
We will be glad to show these
properties to parties interested. Reas
onable terms will be announced.
For further particulars call to see
Granville Real Estate & Trust Co.
Agents, Brown Building, Next door
to Court House.
Oxford, N.C.
SALE OF VALUABLE LAND
Pursuant to am order and decree,
of the Superior Court of Granville
County in the Special Proceeding en
titled "Thomas Oakley and othera
vs. Roger Aiken and others,"
shall oru
Monday, October 30th 1011,
at 12 o'clock M., offer for sale to
the highest bidder, for cash, at the
Court House door in Oxford, N. C,
the following described tract of
land lying and being in the Coun
ty of Granville:
In Tally Ho Township and bound
ed oru the North by the lands of
Joe Thomas, on the East by the
lands of James Jones and Mrs.
Bowles, on the South by the landa
ot Frank Meadows and Logan Jonea
and on the West by the lands of
Moses Cash and L. A. Bullock, and
containing 137 1-2 acres more or
less, it' being the land devised by;
the late William Hobgood, deceased,
see Will Book 23, page 236, in the
office of the Clerk of the Superloi
Court of Granville County.
This Sept. 25, 1911.
D. G. Brummitt.
Commissioner.
NOTICE OF SUMMONS.
North Carolina, Granville County.
In Superior Court, Before the Clerk.
A. A. Chapman
vs.
Jim Hester, John Hester, Lot Arring
ton et al,
Lot Arrington, Jacob Arrington,
Lula Arrington, Carrie Arringtoa
and Sue Arrington, named as de
fendants in this action will take
notice, that the purpose for the
same is to sell for a division that
tract of land in said County on the
road from Oxford to Williamsboro,
including one acre detached from
the same, which was willed , by:
Henry Hester to his widow for her
life and then to certain of hla
children.
Said defendants will further take
notice that they are required ta
appear before J. G. Shot well, Clerkt
of said Court on or before the 12th
day of October, 1911 and answer or;
demur to the petition in said action
or else the relief demanded there
in will be granted.
This Sept. 11th, 1911.
J. GShotwell,
Clerk Superior Court,