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V r . J " 1 1 i 1 1 i , f - - .,'- - V PUBLISHED SEMLWEEKLYTOW" TY OFFER BRILLIANT OPPORTUNITIES AZL HOME PRINT. !; i- VOLUME XXXV s?:taD( NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1920 NUMBER. 3 NEWS IN SHORT FORM ! SINCE OUR LAST ISSUE. The last American soldier in France left Friday night for Ant werp. Raleigh's newest hotel, to be erected on the corner of Fayetteville and Davie streets, may be twelve in stead of seven stories high. The national executive commit tee of the prohibition party selected Lincoln Neb, and July 21, as the place and time for the 1920 national convention of the party. The executive committee of the North Carolina Bar association se lected Asheville as the place for the next meeting of the assoclaticn to be held June 2 9-July 1. John R. Besler, an' obscure mer chant who was murdered in his store Christmas eve at Brimingham, Ala., left an estate valued at $50,000 and so far not an heir has been discover- ed. As a result of Department bf Justice investigations into alleged profiteering in sugar in Raleigh, six warrants for local dealers were sworn out this week before United States Commissioner W. P. Bachelor. Thomas D- Varienhas wit cr: .vn from the race as district attorney for the Eastern district of North Carolina and Edward F. Aydlett, of Elizabeth City, is expected to be ap pointed. Land hunger is turning the eyes i of thousands of former British sol diers toward the United States and Canada and a tremendous exodus of these veterans of the imperial arm ies is expected to set toward the United States and Canadian prairies in the spring. Chairman Homer S. Cummings, of the Democratic National Commit tee, has written members of the Sou th Carolina General Assembly, urg ing them to ratify the equal suffr age amendment to the Constitution. The Oregon Legislature Monday rat ified the amendment. An antisedition bill, more dras- tic than that passed by the senate j Saturdav was reported to the house The bill would impose the death! U rs rrii-n4-irn rooilltilltr 1TI ! Ut'IUlliy 1U1 dgiiauuu i tiuiuuB less of life. Disfranchisement or deportation would be the penalties imposed upon persons who refused to u-stify on the ground that they wool, i iiicriiiiii ale thenisel.r-?s. Establishment' through' the Un ited States Grain Corporation of! $150,000,000 in credits would feed Europe until the next harvest with out imposing any burden on Ameri can tax payers, Herbert Hoover told the House Ways and Means Commit tee, which began consideration of Secretary Glass' request for authori ty to advance that much from the grain corporation funds. Notices signed by more than 50 nrominent citizens in the Southern section of Durham county, where many blockade stills recently have been discovered, were posted in con spicuous places in that vicinity Sat urday, announcing a-pledge to break up illicit manufacture of whiskey. The citizens, according to the not ices, are banded together with a pl edge to report or raid every block ade outfit discovered. . UNIVERSITY BOYS BACK1 PRESDDEXT WILSON University Joins in Nation-Wide Re ferendum Only Sixteen Votes Oppose League. Faculty and students of the Uni versity of North Carolina voting Tuesday with 700 colleges in a na-ticn-wide referendum on the league of nations, gave strong support to President Wilson's stand for ratifi cation of the treaty of peace and thei league of nations vithout ments or reservations. Out of a total of 1,166 votes casVi 719 backed the president and only 16 opposed the ratification of the treaty and the league The vote at Harward , University resulted as follows: For ratification without reservations or amendments 667: opposed to ratification in any form 128: for ratification with tne Lodge reservations 459: for immed iate ratification by compromise 1, 113. v The vote at Davidson College: Two hundred and forty-five of which six were faculty votes, were in favor of accepting the treaty without any re servations at all, five votes were for rejection outright, four were in fav or of the treaty with the Lodge re servations, while 25 votes were cast in favor of a compromise between the Lodge reservations and accep tance without reservation. The vote at the University of Sou th Carolina: With 232 students out of an enrollment of 550 voting de clared decisively lor the document as originally proposed. - DEATH OF CHILD Entered into eternal rest the four year old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. N. C. Daniel. A member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven. ; i . .. . Death of Good Woman Hilrs. "'Harris, the beloved wife of Mr. J.v G. Harris, : of Stovall,-died yesterday morning: The funeral and burial will take place at Storall at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon. LISTING PERSONAL . PROPERTY UNDER . 'REVALUATION ACT Discrimination Against Personal Pr operty Has Been Removed Low Rates Will Apply and Full Listing at Fair Value Required TO be Listed as of January First and Why $300 Exemption Allowed Farm Products Listed at Net Val ue Above Indebtedness. The Revaluation Act comprehends ! as complete listinj and valuing of!40 personal property as of real prop erty. This could only be accomplished by removing the discrimination ag ainst personal property brought ab out by the undervaluation of real property. This discrimination had reached the extreme point that a trustee list- ed in a North Carolina city personal property yielding an income of $900 and paid more than $800 of it in State, county, and city taxes. An army with banners could not produce a complete listing of per sonal property under such unrighte ous tax methods. This discrimination has been re moved. Real estate is listed and -valued at conservative May 1st cash market value. The tax rates that will aoply on personal property listed January 1st will be but a small fraction of the 1919 rates. The Revaluation Act brings this measure of justice and equity to the owner of personal property and de mands a full and complete disclosure in return. The same guarantee of proportion ately reduced tax rates that applied to real property applies to personal property. That is to "cay that the total revenue collected from all pro perty in 1920 cannot exceed by more than ton per cent the total revenue collected in 1919. Pardon the reiteration, for it f hat thig pledge inVQivIng the good seems not yet to be tuny understood faith and honor of the State, applies I to the tax rates to be levied by the counties, the cities, towns and special-tax districts, as well as the State Every tax rate levied in North Carolina, without, exception, Js em braced in its termsV and mustbe readjusted to the total value of both real and personal property listed. Personal property will be listed as j ot January tirst. Real property that has changed hands since May first will be listed against the new owner January first. If you built a house between these dates exceeding $100 in value it will be added to the list. If you had a ho ise destroyed be tween these dates exceeding $100 value it will be deducted. Why the chance- Lay first to January first? Two good reasons: First To give plenty of time for the job. Plenty of time to have the work done carefully and accurately, and plenty of time to make inquiry j and investigation if the taxpayer meeting a state mat is toting square has toted square. Most people tote square when given a chance. They have toted square on their real pro perty and as a general rule have pl aced a frir value on their real prop erty. The State doesn't tote square with those who do tote square unless it gives some attention to the lone some 'Minority who try to dodo even when the State does tote squ are, and their neighbors are toting square. The State intends to tote square all the way through, and some time and thought will be given m each ' to locatIng the tax dodgers, and to see that they bear their part. tvtq u- firat listine nermits no time fcr this sort of inquiry before the tax DOOKS musi ue maue uy- Second reason The straight cal pndnr vfiar is the logical year. Jan- , uarv firgt ig the -time for everybody to take an annual reckoning and strike a balance. Business enter prises now conduct their business on the calendar year basis. They keep their books on the calendar year basis with reference to rll reports to the Federal Government. It is un reasonable and illogical for the State to require an accounting on a different date. . No injustice is done by this change in date. This was-carefully considered by the Legislative Committees. It was considered that there were two par ticulars in which the change might result in increased tax upon the far mers,, and both of these provided The farmer needs no special attor ney at the seat of government - in his State. It has been and will be the policy to give the farmer not on lv a square, but a generous, deal. . -" Farmers make their oyrn provisi ons, and have more' on hnd Janu ary first than May first This was met by going the full limit of ex emption by the Constitution on cer tain kinds of personal property, which includes provicions--threa hundred dollors -in ralue. Exemp tion formerly allowed twenty-five dollars. There can be applied ag ainst this $300 exemption provisions houlhold and kitchen furniture, wearin- apparel, fire-arms, agricul rural implement tools of mechanics THE MONTHLY EVJEt'J OF PRODUCERS' PRICES (January 10, 1920.) Issued by the Division of Markets of the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, Raleigh: Cotton The holders of spot cotton are not ; masintr any eitort to marliet the balance of the crop4, being well'able financially to hold until they get their price, which in most cases is C9nts per Pound, middling basis. in musi tabes, uuiueis iu t: storing their cotton in Warehouses taking receipts for same, and in case they should need money, there would be no. "trouble in negotiating a loan. Hog Market The year closed with the better grades of hogs selling around $15. 00 to $15.50 cwt. cn northern mark ets, and the bulk at $14.20 to $14-45 cwt. on the Chicago market. While students of the market are predicting relatively low hog prices for January if the usual run of hogs to market materializes, they . seem to think that hog growers can look for better prices early next spring and summer,, especially if the pre sent financial embarrassment of Eu ropean countries is relieved so as to allow them to purchase more of our ! perk products. r Cotvpeas and Soybeans Cowpeas and soybeans continue to range $2. 50-$ 3. 50 per bushel in North Carolina markets, although prices on these commodities average higher in other States. With cow peas, there seems to be a strong call for seed from neighboring States. White Potatoes Leading markets quoted potatoes at the close of the year as follows, U. S. Grade No. 1, sacked per 100 lbs. $3.25-$3.60, and . 150 lb.' bags at $5-00-$5.75. Sweets New Jerseys steady 50 per hamper and at $i.75-$2 Term. Nancy Halls sold in Kansas City, St. Lou is, and Chicago at $1.40-1175. Stronger prices are expected by the end of January. ; Apples Dull ; Boxed apples range $2.75-325 for best stock in leading markets. JOHN WILKERSON CHARGED - - : WITH- ASSAULT- ON &T AN r John Is In Jail And Charity Satter white Unable to Appear For Hear- mg, While on his way to town Tuesday evening, Mr. G. F. Burnett, of Salem township, found Charity Satterwhite, a good old colored woman, laying by the side of the read in a stupified condition. He brought her to Ox ford and placed her in the hands of her relative. - When Charity recovered suffici ently to talk she said that she met John Wilkerson, colored, on the road; that an altercation ensured about money matters and that John whaled her with a , stick. The colored man was later arrest ed and brought to Oxford and con fined in the county jail pending a hearing. - The -hearing was set for Wednesday, morning, . but Charity was physically unable to appear and the hearing was continued. FIVE THOUSAND BELLS TOLL IN NORTH CAROLINA TODAY It is announced from Greensboro that arrangements have been made and plans perfected for the tolling of five thousand bells this morning throughout the state of North Car olina simultaneously announcing the death of John Barleycorn. This unique method of celebrating the be ginning of the operation of the pro hibition amendment to the national constitution is being launched by the law enforcement league campaign. Old John Barleycorn is not dead. He is only sleeping, and some of these days his political friends will come along and awake him from c his slumbers. The American people crave for a stimulant and Old John Barleycorn is their ideal. Unless he is planted deep in the ground and an iron railing placed around his toom, he will rise again and exert a mighty influence in the years to come. and libraries and scientific instru ments. The most important difficulty was the fact that farmers would hi-.ve on hand January first farm products raised for. market that would ordi narly bo marketed by May first. If in , debt the proceeds of the sale of such products would be apjlied to their debts 'and they would therefore have less taxable property May first than January . first, if not in debt their taxable wealth would be the same in either case as, if ppirty were sold before May first, they wo uld have either the morey or somo equivalent in taxable property. This difficulty was met by permit ting indebtedness to be set- off ag ainst the value of "cotton, tobacco, and other farm prodactc, on - storage in warehouses, in the hands of com mission merchants or agents in or out of the State, or in the hands of original producers, nnd held tem- porarly for market." i So with respect to these products the sreducing tax p?,yer lists only hi3 not worth, and ets and sires a perfectly good honest square deal. OXFORD TOBACCO MARKET More Than Eight Million Pounds Sold Low Grades Pull Down The High Averages. Mr. Henry, Osborn, secretary of the Oxford Tobacco Board of Trade, informs the; Public Ledger that 8, 100,000 pounds of tobacco direct from. the nands of the farmers was sold on the Oxford tobacco market up to the close of business Wednes day. The average of all sold up to the close down for the holidays was $71. 00 per hundred, which was a frac tion higher, than any market in the state. The inferior quality which has reached the market since the holidays has, of course, reduced the general average bf all sold. Tobacco men estimate that there is something like eight -hundred thousand pounds now in the hands of the farmers oJLthe county. The remainder could be marketed in one week if the farmers brought it in, but there is no particular hurry on the part of the buyers. DECIDE ON SUGAR PRICES FOR "NEW YEAR'S SUPPLY Cost To - Consumer Will Be 17 1-4 Cents Pound Under The Arrange ment. New York, Jan. 14 A price of 14 3-4 cents a pound for granulated su gar refined from the new crop has been established for the wholesale and manufacturing trade by the Am erican Sugar Refining Company. When the refining price .was fixed at nine cents by the suar equaliza tion board, it allowed a profit of one half cent a pound to wholesalers and one cent to retailers, making the re tail price 10 1-2 cents. Allowing middle man an additional profit of one cent a pound, making . their, mar gin 2 1-2 cents, the price per pound to the consumer would be 17 1-4 cents. AN EXPRESSION FROM NORTHERN GRANVILLE Editor Public Ledger: Virgilina, Va., Jan. 13. I do not agree with the fellow who says that the town is the best place to rear a family. There is more sly and sneaking wickedness in town than there is in ! the country. I will admit that tnere 1 es, out it is passingly 'stranger that to get a drink of booz. Such be ing the nncn T ooV nirlii!! va fllA i worse community, the one in which it is made or the one in which it is sold? - I do not uphold any one in making or drinking it, but I do say that there are worse and more disagree- able things being done now than taking a drink occasionally. I am glad to say that the community in which I. live there Is right much tem perance, and it is a rare thing to see an intoxicated man. I am at a loss to know where that place is in Granville that there is so much intemperance, unless it is just a little the other side of (censored). I was at a big land sale in Virgi lina some time ago and 1 did not see or smell any liquor, nor did I see anybody that was drinking in the crowd of five hundred or more peop le. How does that sound for the ncrthern part of Gran.iile and' old Virrrilina, which was rated for ,its hospitality and drinks in the past? G- A. MR. .FRANKLIN JACKSON BRINGS RRH)E TO OXFORD . The Statesville Landmark says: "MissxHelen Beam and Mr. John Franklin Jackson were married Friday, evening, January 9, at- the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Beany. The marriage was- a quiet affair. Mrs. A. J. Sal ley furnished the wedding music and Rev. L. D. Thompson 'conducted the marriage service. The bride wore a suit of blue tricotine. Immediately after the marriage the couple left for Oxford, where they will make their home, the bridegroom being employed there. The bride has been employed as stenographer with Mr. Isidore Wallace here for the past two years." ... Mr. Jackson is with the Granville Motor Company and the happy coup le are guests of the Exchange Hotel at present.' . ' GRANVILLE MAN HIT IN CAR AND KILLED BY FLORDDA LIMITED Mr. O. C. Pruitt, a Prominent Saw mill Operator Killed At Franklin ton. ' ' ;":. Mr. O. C. Pruitt, who was em ployed by the Jeffreys-Flyers3 Com pany to furnish timber for their plant, was instantly killed yesterday morning in , Franklinton. He was seated in his , car and was crossing the railway trae when he was st ruck by the Florida Limited. He was badly mangled. Mr. Pruitt's home was at Maple ville, Franklin County. He spent miich of his time in Granville Coun ty and was well known here. ' He leaves a wife and four children V Churchhill Godfrey v , will ; be electrocuted toda in th state pris pn for an alleged -criminal assault on a little- nine-year-old girl at Smithfield, Johnston county, last May. ) FARMERS MUST RUSH THEIR TOBACCO TO MARKET I The Markets Are to Be Closed For the Season on Wednesday, Febru ary 11 The Oxford Tobacco Board of Trade authorizes the Public Ledger to state that the Oxford market will close down for the season on Wednesday, February 11th. All of the markets in this section of the State will close on the same date. - Farmers are notified that they must get their tobacco to the market before the 11th day of February. NEWTS LETTER FROM THE CAPITOL OF TALLY HO (W. R. Mangum) Work is progressing on the new garage building of The Gran ville Auto Company. Mr. McCullen Tunstall, of Hes ter, has been appointed census ta ker for this township and entered upon his work Monday. Mr. J.- H. Gooch, director of the First National Bank, Oxford, attend ed the annual meeting of the stock holders in Oxford Tuesday. Mr. G. W. Stem, of Route '6, and Mr. W. R. Ellington, of Hester, each purchased a Ford touring car last weefc. : Mr. W. T. Jones, of Lynchburg, spent Monday night with his mother Mrs. W, H- Jones. He came in on a new six cylinder Studebaker which he purchased a few days ago. . Mrs. P. R. Hardee and daughter, Miss Lucy, attended the funeral 6f Mrs. Hardee's mother Tuesday, the deceased, Mrs. Bacon, haviifg died at her home in Hendersonville, Sun day, in the eighty-fourth year of her age. Mrs. W. C. Bragg, formerly of Wilson, is spending a few days with relatives in this section. Her hus band, Mr. W. Cleveland Bragg, has recently purchased the J. L. Martin farm near Gorman, which is one of the most beautiful country homes in Durham county. i-S-rMr. W. TUden:Rjohertsj)vWenj. dell; visited relatives km Route ; l7 Sunday. He is the son of Mr. E. P. Roberts of Route 1 and -"as raised in this community. -We are glad to nbte that he has been quite success- iui, navmg recently sola one piece of real estate for -$20,000.00. There will be .preaching at Tal ly Ho next Saturday and Sunday, the time of preaching having been chan ged from the Fourth to the Third Sunday. Hereafter Sunday School wil be held at Tally Ho church in the morning instead of the afternoon on Second Sundays. Mrs. Charlie Hill, of Route 2, died January 11th, in- the fifty-fourtn year of her age, after a short illness with pleurisy. Mrs. Hill was a de vout member of Camp Creek Primi tive Baivtist church and was a wo man of strong Christian character, without ostentation, meek and low ly, but pious in her ever7 day walR in life. The remaines were inter red in Camp Creel: burying ground Monday afternoon amid scenes of sorrow seldom witnessed at a bury ing. Tne deceased leaves hehind her husband, five sons and three daughters to whom we extend our heartfelt sympathy. APPOINTMENTS IN THE STAND ING ARMY MEDICAL CORPS 1. For the purpose of filling ex isting vacancies in the medical Cor ps, United States Army (Regular) examinations of all eligible appli vants will be held on March 15, 19 20, in the United States. " 2. The examination will be open (a) to persons who have had mili tary service in the World" War, and (b) ' to civillians. Applicants other than those in the military service must appear for examination with out expence to the Government. 3. Selected applicants will be au thorized by proper authority to ap pear at a designated place for exami nation. Examining boards will be convened by instructions from The Adjutant General of the army and will apply such -procedure as may be directed by the Surgeon General of the Army. . , SMALLPOX IS RAGING THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY There Has Been No Fatality So Far As Is Known. There is no disputing the fact that smallpox is prevelent in Granville County. Dr. Morris, our excelent health officer, admits that it is a light type of the disease, but never theless it is leaving its mark on the face and body of a number of people. Mr.-Rufus Boyd the mail carrier who is recovering from a severe case, had the disease in its most agrova ted form. , , v There are a lot of people in the county who believe that the disease which is prevalent in the county fa nothing more than German measles, but if they could see the scars on Mr. Boyd they would,.be rconyincfid that it is genuine smallpox - - Dr. Morris urges the people to be vaccinated as early as possible and stop the spread of the disease. r - WAS SHY IN HER "MANNERS 'Wf t m Observation of Sweet Passenger Who W fi; '" - Became Vampire. '. ' : '- i-i) A girl sat in the parlor car of a v-$Ji w railroad train. She vas a pretty li M iu creaiure. uui so any in ner ft every manner that a man blushed at pi kK razing at her. She looked like a girl from another age, the age when your grandmother was a young g?.rl, and girls loved to be feminine. Her clothes were not old-fashioned. She had a demureness that raodern , girls do not usually carry, with them. She read 'a book most of the , time. When she wasn't reading her quiet V. eyes were watching the scenery. Although the several male passen gers on the train looked at the sweet- v faced girl often, there was not a , man on the train so far as the girl was concerned. She did not over look them with a haughty - stare. They were just not there so far as she could see. Her artlessnes3 was something at which to marvel. She sat quietly in her chair, her shirts neatly tucked about her aiir kles. And she read her book or viewed the scenery. . Passengers wondered h this f ra-. gile bit of innocence was traveling far. The men passengers felt that she should have some man to shield her from the dangers of the world. The woman decided that she was a novke on her way to some convent with all worldliness gone from her heart. There was none on that car, either man or woman, who dared: violate the sanctity of the barriers that the girl's maidenly reserve had? erected about her. The train stopped outcome C t-of- the-way sidetrack for a tiresome Iffli ill wait. For nearly an ' our tho triin w oO,ii!:i j stood th W w-- - : t . .'(ft iff. f "il er did not lose her dignity with -iny 'f: display of restlessness. She quietly t mi sat in her chair and mid her hnni- , ' wi- j Then a porter passed throiuh the; car and the girl, languidly laying a- V, side her book looked up at the man ? and spoke. . There was no anger, no. impatience in her voice, only slight weariness. She said, anl in the quietness her sweet voice was plain-) lv audible throisrh the rsr . "What in Tlfll 5ro urn ctanrlino' hern :-. -! The young woman immediately"!!! tainea it to tne ena or the journej v , i J5ut tne women ; ; assonsers; : vwent f home S tolling abaTt-the" 'ampbrll- tney saw on the tram. SAYS SUGAR WAS HIGHER AFTER THE (ML WAR "The people today are no worse off in the price of sugar than they were 50 years ago," according to Charles Hampson, of Buffalo, N. Y. "In 1869 my people in England ship ped me to the United States to join my family, who had preceded me Sy several years, and they thought I would like a voyage on a sailing ves sel. 1 was in consequence the only passenger on the North German brig Fortuna, which sailed from London ? on May 26.,. 50 years ago with 350 -hogsheads of sugar, 100 barrels of root sugar and 25' tons of second hand railroad iron consigned to New' : York. This sugar was sold on the'; docks, in Brooklvn for 14 1-2 rnts a ' pound gold, and I remember on thatv IK J l! day gold was at a premium of 65 per .r;:.f.j cent- I know because I changed :;I 'MM what little gold I had for American '! currency on the day we landed, July 9. That sugar was , what we com-" monly designated as muscovado. x It was-an uii refined sugar, and proba bly when refined was sold at 18 cen ts gold, or nearly 30 cents a pound : in paper money, so when people now are exercised over paying 15 cents a pound they ought to hark back to the price of half a century ago.,rT HIGHER PRICES FOR FOOT- WEAR IS PREDICTED Dealers Declare the Top Prices For Footwear is Yet to Come.- Tne national Shoe Retailers As sociation in Session at Boston this ' ;jf week explains why higher prices may 'j vfe'st be , expected. The committee's re- v L'SfM poft says: ..v; :: ': "Shoes now on sale were made ; jl from leather costing 60 cents to $1. - J! 00 a foot. Shoes now being : made "Mi'if-. for spring are from materials cost- J:C ing 80 cents to' $1.25: a foot, plus;- higher costs for, other materials and additional grants to lobor, .with less ri pff! pairs per man produced." y i Prices will go down, it is said, "when there is more leather and less "when strikes cease and labor, con-; y nected with shoes buskles down and produces more pairs." The shoe dealers advise people to . shine their own shoes. Aside from the saving in expense, i the report says, "it is important to know that the heat or friction burning o the shoe shiner .is responsible for most - : .ij REPORT PLOT TO SINK ALL , ; ' ; SHIPS TO GO TO ALLIES An exchange telegraph disjatch . from Berlin quoted the newspaper. . it 1J. XI -1 1 j? reineu, as asserting a uigu vreuiau naval official had informed the gov- ; ernment of a plot, to s.toke.!Ups, demanded . by the v allies compen sation for the Scapa Flow r sinking. There was no confirmation of .the alleged plot from any other source. . - ; 3 ifl 'Jl f AM. rlki r. fin Irf: l!8! mm mm : Jit' II t m - m hi- M "V.
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