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" J VOLUME XXXIV. SHOUT SIDE Hvlr OF TWENTY-FIVE MILES Inferior Crops Predominate Every where And the Roads Are In Bad, Shape. Mr. George Thomas, who is com piling data for the "Honor Roll of Granville County," which is to; be is sued in book form at an early date, invited the editor 01 the Public Led ger to accompany him on a trip which took us through one of the best farming sectionssf the county.. Old Darby Place. We followed the Virgilina road to a point about one mile north of Hes ter church, where. we turned to the left and passed the old Darby place, one of the finest spots in Granville county. Ten or a dozen large, well groomed oak trees and a velvety lawn are all that is left to mark the ancient dwelling spot of the Darbys. The oaks and the lawn would be a credit to the Capitol Square in Ra leigh, and we could but feel that they are silently awaiting for some rich man to come along and adopt them. The Home of Mr. B. F. Dean. Three-quarters of a mile to the south of the old Darby place we ar rived at the elegant home of Mr. B. F. Dean, situated in a magnificent elm grove. The first thing we did on reaching this most delightful spot was to unwind about forty-five feet of rope to get a cool drink from the well, the water from which we found to be about as cool as one gallon of Oxford water with a ' five pound chunk of ice in it. Mr. Dean is one of the good, wise men of the county who uses much labor-saving machin ery, raises his own supplies, lives at home and boards at the same place. The large dwelling, surrounded by neat outbuildings, reminds one of a small village, and the private road which passes through his property, and which is kept up exclusively by himself, is one of the best one-mile stretches of road that we have seen in the county. In Morton's Bailiwick. Turning sharply to the west at Mr. Dean's, we soon found ourselves in Morton Bailiwick. The Morton's seemed to have inherited from their ancestors about five square miles of the most choice . Granville county earth. Mr. John Morton, Jr., lives in a handsome home overlooking the eastern boundary of the reserve. We saw his very pretty wife on the broad veranda and ,merely inquired our way to the Morton's beyond. Out in the forest, just where we should delight to live the balance of our days, we arrived at the elegant home place of Mr. J. T. Morton and found everybdy on the place as busy as bees, cutting and hauling tobacco and getting it ready for the barn. After passing the time of day we passed on. - ; . 7- Home of Mr. J. W. Morton. As we approached the home of Mr. J. W. Morton, which is reached through a shady lane of oaks, our hearts were sad when we realized that the boyhood days of his fine son, who fell in France, were passed f tnere. The old sage of "Whippoor- UrJll D ,1 T S ... . J n i I- "in iccsl, wuicn we win nereaiter call the home of Mr. J. W. Morton, is a most delightful spot. No wonder his fine sons and daughters are al ways so bright and cheerful. The Crops. "In reaching the home of Mr. J. W. Morton, which is exactly ten miles northwest of Oxford, we saw a very limited amount of good tobacco, a lot of common tobacco and much that is inferior. The corn crop along the road we traveled did not come P to our expectations. On leaving Mr. Morton's we drove! direct south to the Oxford-Berea road. Along this road, some five miles in length, we saw some very. promising fields of corn and tobac co, but taken as a whole there is not .ttore than a fifty per cent crop in the section we covered, and it is re garded as the best farming section of the county. : , ' CONFEDERATE VETERANS WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE Jieport At the Court House Next Monday Morning. Capt. W. H. White, adjutant, re iuests the veterans of the county ' to assemble at the Court House next Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock. The city of Rocky Mount1 has ex tended a cordial invitation to every Confederate soldier in the State to attend the 1919 reunion to be held there August 5th, 6th' and 7th. .. . Quite a number of thev veterans fyom Granville have expressed a de sire to attend. Dr. C. W. Bacon, chief chemist or the tobacco office of the United states Department of Agriculture, is spending a few days at the Granville branch of the Experiment Station, aomg some laboratoryjvork on to- PUBLISHElinrMLWEEKLYTOWN HfD COUNTY OFFER BRILLIANT, OPPORTUNITIES-. CHICAGO IS GETTING. A GOOD STRONG TASTE , OF THE COLORED MAN Victims of the Race Riots In Chicago - t Date Number Fifty Dead and Five Hundred Wonndftdl Chicago has always .been aslaugh-' , , atta wnen tney can't get bogs and cows they turn their , tention to the negro race, whom mey, peuea and fattened for the oc casion. An editorial in the Char lotte Observer points the wav: T. THE NEGRO'S HAVEN. . thl Alutin. of a nero hr Into St "U" a Chicago lath- w'th?A3as bUt, a 'ct the .Wte pepI y have Sil was anloy of , the Chl- " loJ me the negro wag welcomed StS !0? S refue om perse cution in the South. He was assur edof friendly treatment In the Windy City, even to the point of social equal- i5he nere congregated I k, '? Jves, as they have a habit of doing, and selected a fine res idential section on the South side as their colonization base, and this they soon overrun. The whites who had lived there were Impelled to move elsewhere and property values depre ciated, at a rapid rate. The negroes took charge of that part of the town, making themselves at home in .the parks that; had been the favorite rec reation places of the whites and mak intr themselves officiously assertive, as is their characteristic. Then, as the negro population increased smaller colonies were settled in other parts of the city and "the negro problem was in full bloom for Chicago. The en mity between whites and blacks has been in demonstration for ninths and there was needed only occasion for a visitation ; of the wrath of the white man upon the negro. The negro re ciprocated the feeling. There was an open reign of race hatred and it was .the most natural, thing In the world that there should have been an out break following the Washington i cldents. Chicago did not realize the tremendous proportionsx its negro pop ulation has assumed . until that popu lation spontaneously lined itself up in open war against the whites. . There were one hundred thousand of excited and maddened negroes swarming the streets at the height of the trouble. Many of these did not wait for an at tack -but themselves turned their guns loose at . any white people they might see. An automobile full " of . white people speeding along the streets was a favorite target. Goaded to -savagery, the negroes turned to firing and looting houses and breaking into stores, while the whites, made utmost exertions to kill every negro in sight. "Kill the coons!'' was the slogan, and ijynen nimr was a popular cry. And scenes of , this sort were enact- ed in a city supposed to be another of the negro havens in America, in a city "h"8" irevrj hvc viciously assailed the' South : for allege;? per cction of the. negro and Invited th negro to flee there for peace and saf-! viy. m ms supposea Jixy -or Refuge the negro is today being hunted and shot as if he were a mad . dog. SURL NEWS NOTES. Some Fine Person County Tobacco ; Will Find Its Way to the Oxford Market. - Quite a number of farmers ' in this section have cured primings and the color is fine. v-. Protracted meeting is on at Mt.' Harmony, this week and much inter est is manifested. ; 4 The association will; begin at Shilo Saturday and a large atten dance is expected. 4 This section was also visited by the recent heavy rains. We are glad to say that the Surl section is very hilly, which accouuts for good tobac co crops and some fine fields of corn as we have seen in many years THOMAS FRAZIER. A GOOD DAY'S WORK Our County Health Officer Visited; Amis Chapel Wednesday Dr. Cannady motored to Amis Chapel Wednesday and found a large number present and ready and will ing to take the vaccine treatment a-j gainst typhoid fever. . seventy-nve people bared their arms to the good doctor. ' . ' v Dr. Cannady tried to reach Amis Chapel some time ago, but the roads were in bad shape and he postponed the trip until a more, convenient sea son. : - .' - - The vaccine treatment is the out tome of the best scentific knowledge and Dr. Cannady was highly pleased with the interest manifested by the good people at Amis Chapel, : so much so that he win eimeL gu ui send some one at an early date to 'complete the job. , ' THE GRANVILLE WAREHOUSE The Big Structure Is Nearing Com- - pletlon. Vri, nro nville Warehouse, which is ninff no on Hillsboro ' street west of I the Exchange Hotel, is nearing com pletion. It is the largest warehouse in this section of the state and it will be well lighted. The roof is now eing pnt in placend Mr. Builock Who is giving close attention tc i the work, says that everything will be in apple Pie order when the market op- enSMAY REINSTATE POLICIES Discharged service men who let theireovernment insurance lapse are en the Privilege of : reinsteting their policies within 18 months with out paying of back premiums, under an order signed by Secretary Glass. OXFORD, ' NORTH CAROLINA, I GRANVTTTJi! fYYTTttrTrvtc HAV. u AJLVTi.- ORAIJLE RECORD GOES , DOWN IS HISTORY The Uncollected War Pledges Are Comparatively Small. A . letter was recently sent to the press of the State saying that the un collected pledges to the- amount of several thousand dollars are still outstanding in the United War Work Fund given in the various counties f the State last fall, in which Gran ville county was included. Seeing the item in the last issue of the Public Ledger, tar. R. H. Lewis, the able chairman of . the War Work Fund campaign - in Granville, called the attention of the Public Ledger to the fact that Granville county's uncollected pledge is only $279.55. The entire transaction, as figured out by Mr; Lewis, is as follows: Granville's pledge .... $12,027.95 Paid cash 11,748.40 Uncollected . . . . . . .... $279.55 It is stated that only three coun ties in the State has an absolute clear sheet, which implies that Gran ville stands nead the top of the col umn. MAKING STRONG MEN OUT x OF. WAYWARD BOYS The Son of the Late J. T. Poythress . - Is Growing in Grace and Knowledge. Rev. E. G. Usry, pastor of the WestN Oxford Baptist church, who at ,t ended the. mobile school at Concord N. C, last week, has a good word for the Jackson Training School, near Concord, which he visited and inspected and noted the methods em ployed to make wayward boys strong men and respectable citizens. There are about 125 boys at the institution at present, said Mr. Usry; they are well fed and properly, hous ed and - they move : with clock-lik e precision, - 'v They wear a neat uni form of' cotton blue at this season of the year and, said Mr. Usry. Every thing impressed him as being scru- Pulously clean and the moral atmos- phere wholesome and pure. The Poythress Boy. The little Poythress boy who -ttj will be remembered was frequently in trouble here, is at the Jackson Training School, where a half dozen other Oxford boys should, be if their parents expect to make anything out of them. Regarding the Poythress boy, Mr. Usry said that he - never saw: in all of his life anything tot equal the. great transformation - that has taken place. The supennten dent told Mr. Usry that Poythress is obedient, studious and -kind to his companions. ' More Buildings Needed: Mr. Usry said that there should be more buildings erected at the Jack- son Training School to admit the nunarea or iuui c uuj o who are knocking at the floor. unfwhat the people want is construc- account of the great .worK accom plished by the institution. Mr. Usry is of the opinion that it would be a wise move on the j)art of the Legis lature to provide more funds for the institution. He went so far as to advocate the withdrawal of some of funds ro lavishlv expended at; some of the colleges of the State to ,try, and cheese according to the mar be used in the enlargement of the i'ket reports of th$ agricultural - ex- Jacfeson Training School. 8,000 A3IERICAN TROOPS V WILL REMAIN IN GERMAN x Will Probably Be Composed of Eighth Infantry, Company; of En gineers; One of Military Police and Artillery. :,"CV .' i': .. Washington, July 31. After Sep tember 1, the Allied army of occu pation in Geramany will be compos ed largely of- French and . i Belgian troops. . ' The firstrdivision of the American irmy will begin entraining for Brest about August 15. This would leave . total of 8.000 troops in the Army 0f Occupation. This force would i a compauy cu6iu0) . " of military police and a, company of artillery. ; J'-'-; THREE THOUSAND TONS OF BARB WIRE TO BE SOLD The War Department will offer at nnWin niiotinn here Sentember 3 more than 3,000 tons of barbed wire purchased to form ; entanglements and stockades in France, but which is now advertised as being particu larly adapted for the needs of stock men The minimum amount to be sold in one lot will be two tons. GEORGIA WONT RATIFY. The Georgia Legislature, follow ing the example of the Alabama body has refused to ratify the, Federal suf frage amendment. ; The Senate vote 'against the ratifying of themend taient was -39 " toi 10 and the House .vote 132 to 24. ' 1 FRIDAY, AUGUST V1919. SENATOR CUMMINGS PREDICTS OAER WHELMING DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IN 1920 ELECTIONS Claims People at Large Out of sympathy With Actions of republicans in Washington (Washington Special.) Homer S. Cummings; chairman of the Democratic national committee, Who has returned to Washington af ter a two months' tour of the States west of the Mississippi river, said m ms opinion the great Imass of the People, regardless of party affilia tions, favor: a speedy ratification of the peace treaty. : ; Regarding the political outlook for 19 20, Mr. Cummings ' said : Republican Incapacity. ' r "There is every reason for believ ing that the Democrats wili be suc cessful inJ920. We are just-now passing through an interlude of Re publican incapacity on Capitol Hill, which the people will not care to re peat. ; - "My sincere belief, based upon per sonal observation, is that the people are overwhelmingly in favor "of the league of nations," : said Mr. Cum mings "I believe further that . they are satisfied with the covenant as it stands and are not impressed with the alleged necessity for senatorial reservations or interpretations, -v A Hearty Response. - : "They see in the league covenant not a political issue but a ' great humanitarian association created to prevent future war. - One who has traversed this great country. as I have, cannot fail to note that the people will respond to the appeal of the President for the ratification of the treaty, and that the senate," tak ing its cue from public sentiment; will give official sanction to the great work of the President and his col leagues in the peace conference. ; "Here in Washington, where par tisanship is . strong, one? finds bitter opponents of the league and of every thing else proposed by the adminis tration, but that- is not true of the country! at large. ' On the Pacific coast ;in; the: inter-mountain region and in the middle states most of the grat Republican newspapers are as earnestly advocating the aWptl6h"oTf the treaty as. are the Democratic and independent' newspapers. '"People Demand Action. "My view is that the people want the treatv ouicklv disposed of so that congress may turn its attention t0 important domestic and ; economic subjects. There are many related U j Questions of reconstruction which ought to have immediate attention. The people have no patience with those attending statesmen' who waste time in useless investigations of the conduct of a war which has been won and won gloriously, nor with those -bitter partisans who seem to think they were elected to make lengthy j speeches attacmng me jrresiueuu tive action, not:, cism." destructive criti- MARKET PRICE FXR BUTTER IN THE STATE VARIES North Carolina records a great va riety of prices for butter, eggs, poul- tension service. While Scotland Neck is selling home made butter for 40 cents per faound, Asheville is. paying 45 cents "Raleigh, Durham and Charlotte are f in the 50 cent class, while Fayette- Ville and Salisbury top the list with 60 cent butter. . - i - : -1 Those Drices oaid" by" - merchants Tor farm products, .that is, wholesale nnntatinna. In other lines ' differ ences are also found, though not as pronounced as in the butter market. Eggs gravitate between 40 and 45 cents in the State markets, while chickens run from 30 cents in Fay etteville to 45 cents in , Goldsboro, and hens .from 25 to 30; cents thru- out the State." Hogs bring from $20 'try hame 38 to 50 cents a pound. REWARD I FOR PONCHO .VILLA Twenty-Five Thousand DoUars For His Capture, Dead or Alive. " ; El Paso, Texas; - July 29. Gov ernor Andres Ortez, of the State of Chihuahua, has offered a reward of $25,000 gold for the capture, ; dead or : alive, of . Francisco Villa, accord ing to a Mexican merchant who was here today from" Chihuahua City. He said the offer appeared in an ad vertisement in one of the Chihuahua newspapers. . The United . States government spentx twenty-one million dollars - in the attempt to capture Villa and fail ed.. -The reward of 125,000 for his arrest is small in comparison, but it is a plenty and you may expect to heap of his : being shot at any mo ment.'' . - ' - : MJt HOME PRINT. THE WAR DEPARTMENT IS OFFERING FOODS DHIECT TO THE PEOPLE At Least $125,000,000 Worth Bacor Corned Beef, Roast Beef, Hashed Beef,: Fresh Meats and Poultry to Be Sold At Once. . , Washington, Aug. 1. With every postmaster : and - carrier throughout the country acting as a salesman, the War and the Postoffice Departments- have got -under way the Government plan to help the Nation drive from its doors the high-cost-of-living through the distribution "at cost Tof approximately $125,000, 000 worth of surplus army food stuffs. - - . - - . - Thexfoodstuffs will be v dis tributed by parcel post, and the prices to be quoted at each post office will represent the brigl nal cost of the foodstuffs to the government and the parcel post transportation charges from ;5the nearest War . Department -depot . having the foodstuffs in storage, the prices quoted, officials said, ; would be considerably below the . prevailing market prices. COLORED ORPHAN DAY Large Number of the Best Colored : . People Assemble Here. An orderly crowd of the best col ored people of this section of the State, numbering three or four thou- sand, gathered in Oxford and at the colored orphanage "on" "the outskirts of town Wednesday to celebrate Col ored Orphans "Day;. - The annual eVeht was marked by gdbhior ad' an enthusiasm for the "success "of the orphan work as it is being ! conducted' by : Dr, Cheat ham," superintendent W ;th'e - orphan- age. Several of 'the colored, people drove - to tbwnVin autb'mdbiles they purchased during the 'period of high prices. -r The horses and horse-drawn vehicles' which they drove, showed a remarkable 'improVentent over pre- 'der Underwcod was ron hand and de vious years. ' livered excellent sermons both days. Negro Comes to Grief. . Mr Bacon Hardee left Thursday " -The only disorderly conduct no- for a visit to Hhhurst, Va. We. sus- ticeable during the day made ite apr ' t)ea.ranc!e. on the orohanaxe grounds, which was soon quelched by order of Dr. Cheatham, A negro appeared on the grounds slightly under the in - fluence of Jiquor.. j Special officer j Hobgopd.v of v the icountr: onstalbul l&ry''arre8tea'the.'negTbi;':'4AUPon ex- animation found seven A pints of lr rquor in his possessiofiU-The hearing bound the1 prisoner over; to court in default of ;$25aondVft4 ; ; Automobiles Busy. Aargitfumber ' bff atitomobiles, labeled for ?hire, made frequent trips trom the business - section of Oxford to the orphanage grounds. There ; was some fear of a collission on theiaH q Jordan is considered one highway, but the event passed off without a single mishap. The ' Modern Dance. Mr. B. E. Parham tendered " the use, of the Farmers' Warehouse for uptown neaaquarters. xne noor was swept and made - ready for the dance. Rag-time music floated from the doors and windows from early morn until dewy eve and then some more. The serpent dance", some- thing entirely new in these parts, seemed to have been one of the spe cial, features of the occasion. Only a slim,.suple girl can go through the "serpentine," for it is necessary for Tier to cling to her partner like an ivy vine Clings to ah old - chimney, but there was the slow "dead clutch" 'dance that suited those who were not auite so auick and suDle, but had the same clinging propensities. ; V f V The dancing feature was separate and distinct from the orphan Work and it is not endorsed by the old heads, and if they had their way the I uaiivc nuuiu uc itji"'l'u fcw-w ' as it is in Raleigh and some other places in the State. HONOR BUTTONS READY nr FOR ALL IN WORLD WAR Can Be Obtained Upon Presentation of Honorable Discharge. ; Washington, July 31. The vic tory buttons - commemorating ;, ser vice in the world war is now being distributed by. the War Department to every man enlisted in the -American force since April 6 , 1917. Two hundred thousand' silver buttons have been "maiuf actured for distri bution to men wounded , in the war. Approximately 500,000 bronze . but tons for men who served abroad but who were not wounded, have al ready been -manufactured. ; j Manu facture of the bronze buttons will be continued at the rate of 250,000 a yeelr until all the. demands are sup plied. ; y; ;;-:, :Sk. . Tliese buttons can be obtained at the virions army posts, recruiting stations and zone supply offices upon presentation of honorable discharge, NUMBER 61 FR05I CAPITAL OF TALLY HO 1 JCW. R. MANGUM.) . ? , . Stem, N. C, July 31. . Essie Jones, a young, colored ' toan, met with a tragic death Monday afternoon about four o'clock. He - commenced ; work at Bowman's saw mill near Knap of Reeds Monday and -was engaged in carrying away lum- 1 ber from the saw when his pant leg -caught in: a piece of timber which threw him against the saw which cut open his leg from the bottom of foot upwards above the knee joint where . it was almost completely severed from his body. Dr. P. R. Hardee was -rushed to the scene and" found- the negro m such serious condition that " ne nastened with him to Lincoln hos pital, Durham, where despite all that . could be done for him, death result ed in about 30 minutes. The body was taken out to Bahama and buried Tuesday. ' ' - - v Dr. W. S. Cozart and wife were . the guests ofMr. and Mrs. W. S: . Cozart of our town Thursday night.- This is the first visit Dr. Cozart- has made to his parents since his return from France where he has been for the past year. 1 He returned to his practice' at Hoil Springs Fri day, but : expects to take a special medical course in some northern city ' at an early date. v - -Farmers are run over with work' mainly housing tobacco. The most optimistic estimate we have" :v heard . placed upon the damage to corn and tobacco, especially tobacco, is one third loss. It is the general belief that there will be the lightest crop saved in many years' and of a very inferior quality. Wildfire and dis ease is rapidly spreading! A protracted meeting will com mence at Tally Ho church Monday after the third Sunday in September with two services a day and dinner jon the grounds after Monday. , Regular quarterly meeting was ' held a Robert's Chapel : church ; last Saturday and Sunday. Presiding El- pect thaUihafi a lady ixionoV in tnat section. . - r . --Mr. W. L. Umstead .ofKoute 1, (purchased a new car last week and , is in the list of joy riders. FARMERS CONVENTION THIS YEAR- TO OFFER INTERESTING PROGRAM Agricultural Authority and Demonstrator Has Been secureu r -1 ' For August Meet. "Sam Jordan, famous missionary of better farming in Pettis county. Mis snnri; will be one of the chief at- f Vractions on the program of the far- f mers'- convention which will: be in session in Raleigh on August z t , ; o . cf tne most successful county . dem- iMistrat ion agents in the United States, and those in charge of the nroeram believed they were unusual- fortUnate in being able to get him 1tn come to North Carolina aunng ine session of the farmers' convention. Few men in ; the United States have made such a record for the in- . traduction of better farming meth- 0g an ; better community spirit 'han nag Mr. Jordan, and it will be along these lines that he will speak in a; lecture which-he calls "The T-Crimson Trail of a New Idea." IT IS ALL A MISTAKE 7 4 ABOUT OVERMAN BEING CONVERT TO SUFFRAGE Senator Never Authori2d Article ' Forum Published. : Washington, July '. 31. Senator Lee S. Overman is not a "convert" to the cause of woman suffrage, and he 'wants lit known in North Carolina ftTas soon as. the correction can be ....... T . j A. -t J . 1 mm 1 made. Reports to that effect- are quite erroneous, " says the senator, and there has been a distressing mistake, for which a magazine is primarily, responsible." . ; ; - A PERPETUAL ROW. ' - The row over the management of the Soldiers' Home at Raleigh is con tinuous. The inmates seem to ; be chronic .complainers. At a 'meeting bf the directors last week the super intendent Dave Milton, was excoria ted and defended. The veterans want a "comrade" as superintendent. The 'directors appointed a committee to consider a change. - LUDENDORFF BLAMES KAISSR FOR CLAIMS - REGARDING BELGIUM Berlin, Tuesday, July 30. Respon Mbility for the crown council's, decis ion in.l917that Belgian territory must be held was placed upon the former German Emperor by General Ludendorff, in a letter5 published to day: by a Berlin newspaper, - - . V ' - . f 1 i "if -it j J "ft V 1 -7. ; i C''- SSi-i'!
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