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... i 1 ! r . i if. ,V r.- s. .' T 1 " . VOLUME XXXIV. KNVV XOT THE HARD TASK OF A CONGRESSMAN Inflections on the Possibility of Hon. I). (J. Brummitt Becoming A Representative In Congress Of course the people of Granville county would gladly support Hon. D. G. Brummitt for Congress, but just think for a moment what it means these days and times .to be a congressman. There was a time when the farm er, as a class, looked on his repre sentative in Congress with a great deal of envy. He could not under stand how the government could iv the Congressman such a magni ficent salary as five thousand a year and be regarded as economical. Then the Congressman's salary was in creased to $7,500 a year, and how extravagant it appeared to some! But that time is past. No longer dees the average farmer who owns home and is out of debt, look with envy on the hard worked Con gressman. Today there are many farmers in Granville county whose gross income for 1918 was far above the salary of $7,500 his Congress man receives. The farmer can live at home 'and save the big expense of living in Washington the Con gressman is required to pay. And again Congress now remains in ses sion most of the time, winter, spring through the hot summer and the fall. But that is not all the story. The farmer lves the free, easy and hap py life in the open. He is not bound down by rules and regulations. He can come and go when he pleases. He can have the best of things to' eat right fresh from the farm and enjoy God's pure fresh air every hour of the day. He is not required to spend the hot days of the summer in the hot and stuffy city where no ijresh. breezes from off the fields ever come. Not so with the Congressmen. He is required to be ready at a mo ment's notice to go to Washington, sit in the halls of Congress and help to make the laws that a' large ma jority of the people will criticise. When he does the best he can there is always some one who is ready to throw brickbats at him. Ofttimes he is not even given credit for hon est and pure motives in the. guidance of his actions. He must live the summer through in the hot ctiy. He must occupy his seat every day till late in the night, and when he gets away for even a day or two he must ask for leave of absence. Then he must pay such high rices for the honor of living in Washington that at the end of the year Jie wonders what has become of his salary, not to say anything of the pre-election expenses in this day, of high cost of running for office. Verily, the lot of the Congressman is no soft snap these times. Instead of the farmer envying the Congressman, the Con gressman has a just fight to envy the farmer. FAMOUS DOCTOR HAS REMEDY FOR THE FLU Also Pneumonia and Other Diseases; Homerpathiac System of Treatment. New York, June 19. Influenza and pneumonia are no more to be feared than a boil on the back of the neck, according to Dr. Chas H. Duncan, one of the founders of the Volunteer Hospital, who, in an ad dress here Tuesday, erore the con vention of the Allied Medical Asso ciations of America, described his method of combatting Spanish in fluenza by means of "immunizing a patient to his own poison." Upon 246 patients ill with pneumonia and influenza last winter, Dr. Duncan said, he had used the treatment "without a single fatality or any complications." THE DISTRICT NURSE. A Healthy Citizenship Means a Prosperous Community. The district nursing service which is being financed for six months by the Granville County Chapter of the Red Cross has already proven a real blessing to the people of the coun ty. The people who recognize this are urgently requested to be think ing about a plan for arranging the finances to continue this splendid work. Those who are interested in seeing the work continued can help wonderfully if they will write to Mrs. Candace R. E. Brown, chairman of the nursing activities committee, so that some idea may be gained as to the support that may be expected from the people. A healthy citizen snip means a prosperous community. 9 Two good games of base ball on r" John Day at Horner Park, (adv) A. 3IORE WILDCATS 3lT NEWPORT NEWS Newport'- News, Va., 19. More "Wild Cats" from North Carolina, June" men South Carolina and Tennessee, mem bers of the 322nd infantry ar rived yesterday on the trans port Matsonia. which sailed from St. Nazaire June 8. The total aboard was 3,296 persons. Resides the infantry regiment there were 29 French wives aboard; Company B, of the 310th supply train; 189 - con valescents, and about 250 cas uals. ' j Mr. and Mrs. Charles Landis received a telegram from their son, Sergt. Mark Landis, stat ing that he had arrived at New- port News. Several other Ox. lord and Granville comity sol- diers are in the unit. THE ZONE OF NO MAN'S LAND. . The Oxford Police Are Very Kind and Considerate The new municipal law establish ing an automobile parking zone in4 Oxford went into effect last Monday morning. The zone where no motor driven vehicles are permitted to parK is designated by a white stripe painted on the pavement and em- braces a small area around the mon - ument at the head of Main street. Everybody regards the new law as a step in the right direction, but-Allied troops, to which the existing there are numerous violations and military commission will be subor there will continue to be violations dinated. until the people become thoroughly: Modification of Treaty. dcquamiea witn tne prescribed zone. As matters now stand, it is a man's job to keep the zone clear. The people of the town are familiar with the requirements but it will require many days to educate the outside wprld. There is no disposition on the part of the police to arrest any per- !Json for the first offense, but be unto the man who parks his car - in the forbidden zone the second 'time. So far only one man has been required to pay a fine, and that was 'because he refused to move his car when the police requested take it out of the zone. him to HON. CAMERON MORRISON SPENDS DAY IN OXFORD The Distinguished Candidate Made 3Iany Friends Here. Mr. Cameron Morrison, of Char- lotte, an avowed candidate for Gov- j ernor, spent part of last Tuesday in i Oxford. His florid complexion, short gray hair, pleasant features and jo-' vial manner caused many people to; "ask in a whisper who the distinguish ed visitor was, and when they were" informed that it was Hori. Cameron: Morrison, of Charlotte, the universal Verdict was that "he looks good to me." Mr. Morrison is a leading lawyer of the State. He is not over forty five years of age and he has espous ed the cause of Democracy for more than twenty years. Time ana again when he could have been elected to a high office he istood aside without M murmur and espoused the cause Of the party nominee with the vigor that is akin to thunder. " Mr. Morrison has a number of strong friends in Granville county a mong the professional and business men. His policies for the past twontv veara has endeared him to the people of the whole State, and .i feeling is that he is .worthy of the high office he seeks at the hands of the people. r Mr. Morrison will speak in Oxford "at an early date. - TO ANNOUNCE PREMIUMS. Government Will Reduce T?ntAK On Wheat. Freight tural flow of L wheat from the farm, periodical nromi,,ms covering the storage charges will be added to the basic price at various guarantee markets, according to an announcement Julius H. Barnes, United States wheat director. The premiums vm not be introduced during July, when Vi r '-loeti basic nrices prevailing iui ""v War will remain in effect, lor eacn; ..ir,r mnnth. however, prem - BUtuccujus ' , ' , , , , i iums will be announced 30 days ni7black. All persons who bought n- advance Mr. Barnes also announccenge tags last year should have re ed railroad rates f rom inter-moun- -6eived notice of the new tags from - tnrritnrv t O . , .f oaa rkthorS! should 'tain and iracinc cuaai i,... j - TJalveston and New YorK soon WA" be reducea. iu j the equivalent of 33.6 cents per "bushel. 4TfiX AND END AGONY, SIGN AY ERMN RESIDENTS wTin WAdnesday. June 18. "a the treaty and be through with. the agony, is the gist of the com- ment of the peopie iu ucmu EMIAVEEKLYTQ WN AND COUNTY OFFER B IULUANT OPPORTUNITIES. OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, AVn,L ALLOW GERMANY ARMY OF 200,000 MEN ; This Is One of the Changes In the j Peace Terms Which Has Been Kept Secret Other 3Iodifications. Paris, June 19. Germany is to be allowed an army of 200,000 men j'for three years. This is one of the j 6hanges in the peace terms which has been sedulously kept secret. " The reason given for this doubling 'of the previous number of effectives .Is the impossibility of adjusting the I armies of Austria, Poland, Czecho- I CU... 1.1. J oiuais.iii aim otner new states pro portionately to the previously ar ranged 100,000 men for Germany. A general reduction of armaments is to be negotiated immediately. Admission to League. Germanv's admissinn tn tlio Ipp- j-gUe of nations is fixed, for "the near 'future " ' Her admission will enable Ger many to bring up for discussion her economic propositions. Germany De given four months to submit jto the Allies proposals dealing with ; ner total indebtedness through re parations, and methods for the pay- - mPnt thprf She may propose merchandise and labor - A clause deals with the protection by the league-of nations of German -minorities inhabiting the districts taken from Germany. Another deals . with the inter-Allied civil commis- sion, which will administer the left bank of the Rhine, occupied by the Among the modifications to the i treaty which are acceeded to by the conference are frontier rectilcations for West Prussia, a plebiscite for - Upper Silesia, with a guarantee that - Germany shall be given mineral -products there: modification in the clauses relating to finance, ecoriomH -ics ailQ Waterways and a promise to witn a fun nst of persons to be tried f or the responsibility of the war. Taking up the subject of penalties the reply enters into a discussion of -the immiate musp of the war. and says that the conflict was brought about through the decision deliber- !. ntnl v to Von Vir the ct n fpcm m rvf Rpr- j lin, Vienna and Budapest. WILL NOT PAY PENSION MONEY UNTIL DECEMBER 15 Eligible Persons Should Make Appli cations For Pensions On Or Before July 7. Many Confederate veterans and wives of veterans are making inquiry of the- clerk of cou.--s office every week regarding pension money ap- parently laboring under the opinion that the new state law providing tor ; the payment of pension money semi annually has taken effect. The new law provides for the payment of pen sion money next December 15 and semi-annually thereafter. No pen sion money will be paid until that , date t mi The Granville county pension board will meet at an early; date for the purpose of revising the pension list of this county, striking out the ! names of veterans or their widows who have died in the past year and adding names of eligible persons who make applications. All v.eter- ! ans or their widows who are eligible to he listed as pensioners suuuiu "tare tne ones wno are cnargeu wnu application for, pension money ou u ; before the pension board meets, said Judge Cam Hunt, cierK oi me ux ONLY TEN DAYS REMAINING IN WHICH TO GET TAGS - OnlV Regulation License, Furnished By State, Will Be Allowed On Machines After July. 1. Motorists of Granville county have ten days more in which to secure their new auto licence tags trom the Secretary of State, J. Bryan; Grimes. The new tags must be on machines by July 1. - After that j.date the police department intends complying to the minutest details tne law forbidding machines to -cardboard tags announces tne license has been applied for, that it pays well. A rgood thing in .. , i kAnira n afj i : i- ni;fTor "ha coves' or mat tne macmne uciuu6s - dealer j - . Th new tags are yellow me secreiaij omv. w-- make immediate application w sbwcwi j .... , 'nounced. IN THE CASUALTY XIST. Rias? Roberts, of Stovall, Died of Disease. . The commanding general of the American Expeditionary. Forces . re- pprts: "Rias Roberts of Stovall, uieu uiocaac. FRIDAY, JUNE 20,1919. THE SEVEN ROADS THAT LEAD TO BERLIN The Line of March If ' the Germans Fail to Sign. "1 mi i . , - V ainea neets will, land! troops on the Grman coast. 2 The British and Belgian sol diers will advance from the occu pied region of the Rhine countrv in the north. - 3 American forces will enter the city of Coblenz. 4 French troops in Alsace and Lorraine will march through Ba varia. 5 Italian troops vill cross Tyrol into Germany and advance almost due north. 6 Czecho-Slovalc eoldiers are but a step across the border, from the German capital. - 7 The army of the new Polish republic is already fighting with the Huns in Eastern Germany, nearest of all to Berln. THE NEXT TOBACCO CROP. Early Estimates Place the Growing Crop in Granville at Twenty Million Pounds. A number of tobacco men who have cast their weather-eye cn the growing crop estimate that it will tip the scales at , twelve million pounds if it escapes the hail storms in the near future. Tobacco men .here express the opinion that the ncxtt crop will sell as high per pouifu if not higher, then the last. Those in a position to know whereof they, speak say that if the growing crop yields as much mon ey as the last crop the farmers will continue to wallow in clover. GOOD MEN OUT OF CHURCH. They Thought They Had One Of Them But He Dodged On a Technicality.8 There is one old .' fellow about town who attends church regularly 'and is quite generous1 in the support of the Gospel, but he. is not a mem ber of any church, and he has be 'come so "sot'"' in his-views that he "feels that he is as good outside x-of "the church as he would be in it. At a recent revival , in Oxford the life-line was thrown out to this par- ticular old chap several times, butfMondapy night. About nine o clock he wouldn't take hlod of it. ' Other means were used to induce fhim to place his name on the rolls of the church, but he . is opposed to to "sprinkling," opposed to "bap tism" and the "laying on of hands." You may land an old sinner now and tben at a revival meeting, but when" they try to land one who sub scribes to everything .but the creed they might as well leave "Ephriam with his idols." i No one would dream of denying that there are good men outside the church. The church; does not claim a monopoly of the spirit of Jesus or of goodness. On the contrary, good ness is and should - be welcomed wherever it is found.: You can . lead a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink. TWO HEADS BETTER THAN ONE Messrs. F: W. Hancock, Jr., and B. K. Lassiter Are the Men. The two above named gentlemen making the Granville county fair a success this year. They are both on the job already and they are formulating plans to 7 put the fair over in good shape. These two secretaries are not say- j ing that it will be the "best fair ev- -er hut that it will be what the far- mers of the county n-ce it. Mr. Hancock says that a county fair should tell what aid; how the farm ers in that county are doing in bet ter farming. He says also that if none of us cared for a good time or if all of us raised the best stock, corn, cloverralfalf a, cotton, tobac co, beans and : babies we would not 'need to hold a fair. He says that it is the cheapest form of adveraising th farmer or countycan get: and farming is like fertilizer, he says; it is not serving the majority unless andnt is distributed. That is what fairs are for and as long as we discover 'new things in farming we will have Tairs, he says. Help these men put Granville county on ."one of the 'best" list. A Royal Welcome. On .the third page . of this paper it will be seen that Perkinson-Green Company, the Store of Quality, ex tends a hearty-.welcome to the people of this' section to jnake their store headquarters on St. John's Day. This old reliable firm takes pleasure in showing goods, and answering ' all questions. X ' ALL HOME PRINT. v OUR STEM NEWS LETTER. Accidents, Marriages, , Personal Mention and Other Items. (W. R. MANGUM.) Mr. Lyman Farabow was the vic tim of an auto accident Sunday! nisht. As h w roh,rnJn ! a top buggy by himself about 12 o'clock he was crossring the bridge just below Mr. J. C. Hopkins when 'Hubert Laws, colored, who was driv ing a Ford going at a rapid rate of speed ran into his buggy, demolish ing two wheels, breaking the perch pole and shafts. Mr. Farabow turn ed nearly out of the road just as he had crossed the bridge but it seems that Laws failed to slow up or turn but as the law requires. Mr. Fara- i bow was thrown out of the buggy, me norse oreaking loose just as the car struck the vehicle, and sustained very severe bruises. Upon investi gation Laws, admitted his liability for the accident arid agreed to make full reparation. Mrs. E. .B. Wilkins, of Tally Ho, attended the funeral and burial 'of her sister, Mrs. Joe Latta, in Dur ham county Sunday. This good wo. 'man had been married only eighteen months and was sick only a short while and died at her home near Gears Mill Saturday. June 7. The deceased was a consistent member: of Rose of Sharon Baptist church and was greatly beloved for many hoble traits of character and numer ous deed of kindness to those in her community. The remains were tak en to the -home of her father, Mr. Jesse H.. Wood, where, the funeral "was held Sunday afternoon conduct ed by Rev. L. M. Hobbs, pastor of Tally Ho church and interment made in the family burying ground near by. She leaves a husband, three sisters and three brothers, to whom we extend sincere sympathy. Mr. and Mrs.. E. ' L. Jones, of Bloomfield, Ky., spent the week end with Mrs. W. H. Jones. Mr. Jones has for several years been in the em ploy of the Liggett Myers Tobacco Co., and stands among their most successful buyers. He will be sta tioned on two North Carolina mar- kets a part of the coming season and! , , , -j i i will .wind up after Bloomfield. I world and write stories that made Thomasson, of Tally Ho,other mfin see the dreams thev had Mr. J. B happened to a very painful accident ne was waiKing out in ms jaiu auu stumbled and fell against a chicken coop, his entire weight striking the keen edge of the coop just across his breast, inflicting a very painful in jury, as a result of which he has been confined to his bed a . portion of the time. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Jones attended the marriage of Mr. James W. Hoi- man and Miss Dixie which was sol emnized in the home df the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hester, of Oxford route 1, Tuesday, June 17. The groom was a. jesident of Stem ten years ago and is a brother of Mr. H. F. Holman, of Oxford, and Mr. R. D. Holman, of Stem. The bride is the accomplished young daughter of ex-county superinten- Ment, Mr. Frank Hester. Mr. W. W. Bowman purchased a Studebaker six last week. Mr. R D. Holman and wife and Mr. Parrott B. Hardee, son of Dr. and Mrs. P. R. Hardee, arrived at home Tuesday night after a twelve months' stay in France. He was in the ambulance corps and became I thoroughly familiar with stern and ; vnnlitiao rf mar l Miss Daisy Hbbgood, of Oxford, was the pleasant guest of Miss Pearl Carrington last week. HANDSOffi BUDLDING GOING UP ON COLLEGE STREET The Byrum-Hunt Company Have the Contract. Ground was broken this week on College . street for a handsome two story press-brick building to be known as the "Sam Watkins' Block" The Byrum-Hunt Company have the contract and we believe that the building will be ready for occupancy by early fall. The block has a frontage of 96 feet and it extends back 100 feet. There will be three handsome stores on the ground floor. The sec ond floor will be sub-divided into rooms. Tho contractors state that it will be one of the handsomest build ings in Oxford. LCOCK AVERAGED 121 MILES PER HOUR IN OCEAN, FLIGHT .The Vimy biplane in which Cap- tainAlcock and Lieutenant Brown crossed, the Atlantic averaged 1 2 1 miles per hour in making the 1960 'mile trip in sixteen hours and twelve minutes. -In- nautical measure, the distance from St. John's to Clifden," Ireland, is 1680 knots. NUMBER 40 IT IS FUN WATCHING THE TRAVELING PUBLIC Conclusions - Drawn From Observa tions of Travel-Worn Bag. It is always a pleasure to watch " raveling pudiic around a busy railway station. On a recent trip to Durham we noticed a brown travel ing bag on the floor of the railway station a few feet in front of where we were seated. It was not a new bag, and it was travelworn. Made of good leather, its bruised sides had withstood the wear of many long journeys. A la bel of the American and Indian steamship line that sends its ships from New Yprk to Capetown ,and Calcutta pasted on one side of the bag testified that the owner had sail ed beneath the Southern Cross. Then half scratched off was the la bel of a hotel in Nome. It had been rained upon. The suns had scorch ed it. Yet it. held its shape like the thoroughbred bag it was. N We began a series of imaginations about the owner of that travel worn brown leather bag on the station floor. First we pictured the owner as a young mining engineer, one of those men who accomplish things, who had mined diamonds in South Africa and gold in Alaska. The sturdy handle of the bag was worn a dull brown by .the grasp of some strong hand, just such a big hand as 'the young mining engineer would surely have. Next the owner was a slim girl. It's odd, but it's true that people all have some young person to play the part in their dreams. One never imagines anything interesting about a middle aged person. The youth of this slip of a girl was won derful. She was of an adventurous turn of mind, and she hunted ro mance and adventure on the seven seas. Oh, she made a delightful play out of life, sailing on an old barken tine in the South Atlantic. We could see the sunny blue eyes and the bright smile of a girl like that. Again the bag might belong to a dreamy young man who ever so of ten would yield to the call of the . . . . . j . , lot of-copy paper in this brown bag 7and go' away off to the corners of the been to prosaic to dream. A careless young man with long, slender fin gers, 'who picked the romance out- of life and showed it to other folks, surely he was the man who owned this bag. L And then an elderly fat man, oh a very fat man, came laboring up, wheezing as he walked. He was so plump of face that his ' little eyes were almost hidden. With visible j effort he picked up the brown bag and passed out of the station. As he passed he dropped a pamphlet in our lap the fat man, the owner of the bag, was a vendor of patent med icine. SHERIFF OF VANCE COUNTY INDICTED BY GRAND JURY With J. A. Poythress He Is Charged With Indulging In Gambling. (Henderson Daily Dispatch.) Following an inquiry in superior court Tuesday by Judge George W. Connor, presiding, as to where the sheriff was and why he was not in attendance upon the present term of rcourt, the grand jury has returned ;,;nfmnTit itroircf Sheriff J. "R. C I chai.ging nim together with J. fA. Poythress, with engaging in a eambling game. Sheriff Bell was wanted as a witness in a case that J was on the docket for trial Wednes day morning, and was called and 'failed. The case went over. Just when the indictment charging gamb ling will be heard is not known. Many cases, most of them of a minor nature, have been disposed of by the court. The case of Fritz Shell, charged with abandonment, was nol prosed with leave. Charges against J. A. , Poythress, accused of retailing were disposed of by an alias capias and continued. METHODIST PAPERS COMBINED Rev. L. S. Massey Editor With Rev. H. M. Blair of the North Caro lina Christian Advocate Assistant. By vote of the- North Carolina Metodist Conference and the West ern North. Carolina Conference at their recent sessions the Raleigh Christian Advocate and the Chris tian Advocate of the Western Con ference have been combinedand will be published from now on, begin ning this :week, in Greensboro, under the name VNorth Carolina Christian Advocate.". ' Two good games of base ball on St. John's Day at Horner Park, (adv) 4 r f - i. 'M I. I fi n 5 J H 'If f t ' ii