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VOLUME XXXV
V COUNTRY CLASH
SHORT HOURS HIT CROPS
Parmer Has Precipitated a
v;i;;i Issue Between the Coun
try and the City.
lie formers of the country met to
.:'aor in Washington the other day
Vl unsolved that the cities o? the
ran st cease from luring or they
,..;:? starve. '
:
they said "Work or
-,uid they, if it all work and
.- en the farms and all play anu
rk in the cities, soon the only
t'-.ii will be done will be done
v nan try.
Io dinged," says the farmer,
.- work fourteen hours a day
:C')-li who work only six!"
i
a country-against-city is-
United States, and it is a
1 itself when the fermer
-;.di.;ht-saving- lav." last
is ;e hard that even the i
!
v . i o v.' a 3 eve r r i a Jen.
evening to play
Tit-.
e t-"o manv
for the
ihc farmer. j
4 O
ill
,.Il,r Inhere for a short while he war; oe
our hired man go, nf tl? ,,1lM,rho . .,
" I j
-.1 t i -hot i a vpitlv i
- : i
momnip: wiin tins i
lopped off the city
ipg for pla3r. And
- :ire likely to have one j
-:rr wmie tho country
-wing the issue be
iir.ing is another issue
u;d country.
oucrtion of East against
urban-dweller. And I
t 1 he farmer is a pacifist 1
. 1
lev a mild militar-
i
i
IP: is iliinking of his hired
' kis boy.
y, "The war v,as a. great edu
. v the boys who survived it.
aw the world.
.- had their minds opened."
.r'ner is not so much against
ho is against the kind
' irion that opens his bay's
How much more fun there is in
iy than in the country.
-lakes the hired-man problem
"..'s- more difficult than it is.
thinks the farmer, will military
so in Congress
lie crushes
just as he
A
u daylight-saving.
oli may tell the city dweller that
; 1-
1 I 5 11
it ' ir,y be to him an open question
j,ist how much real difference four
i ; ;hs of physical training will
v.-n.- in a man's life.
But i-t is not an open question to
farmer.
vii opportunities for physical
t; : are right at home on a farm,
vkb ar hoe, with the ax, with the
''-iifork.
Yoii ii'..y say to the city dweller
that f"v months' physical training
wrh' : iust a nice vacation fcr his
boy at the expense of the government.
f-h,t the farmer hasn't the vacation
,!4
1 la
rgument does not appeal to
r rjrr;.,iy ag the vacation might
the boy where he would fall a
to the lure of the city and not
back
to wcrk the farm.
' rized labor in the person of
".r.-rers has just announced
' will vote for its friends in
;"."".!'ized labor in the city.
country, in the person of the
-nizerl farmers meeting inWash
; " a few days earlier, said that
' at ion had gone as far as it could
': "';U;n3 to labor.
f if-n't that the farmer is a hard
old reactionary.
not that his sympathies go out
i,: capitalist.
1 T' y hc- sees- it men must work in
l iii:s in order that men may
!'!c or the farms.
. yoTi cant have a thirty-hour week
cities and a sixty-hour week on
farms.
T you do, the farmer soon won't
'lav.', flny hjre(J man.
'e rhort-hour day is one of the
4he city.
i' 13 all very well, says the farmer,
10 : -p" that a man can do as much
v ' '''"' the factories in six hours as
in -;ht.
r"n't on the farms.
f (or lot him work eight hours in
f' cven'if in the last two he ac-
-: hcur day there will be no
vork the farms and you will
rve.
f wr lure of the city is high
' irrnor wants to see every man
"b'-U he can.
v'u can't consider wages in
'7 apart from wages on the
r-i either the farm stops or you
y T.i.r.re and more for your dinner.
tv farmers confront Mr.
at every turn. There is
0g
PC-:
th
'"-it'on between the country and
r,tv ani th3 two symbolize that
"?-r,tition.
, ;'ies bid, and bid effectiYely,
young men of the farms.
' "ompers should h-we Ms
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v
ivIAlNS OF A. JJ. KIMBALL
LAID TO REST IN ELM
WOOD CEMETERY, OXFORD
Noted Greensboro Attorney Passes
Away Victim of Blight's Disease, j.
Ashbell Brown Kimball, of Greens-1
boro, known as one of the leadinc'
attorneys not only of his home city.
dui ot trie state, died early Tuesday
at Sarah Elizabeth hospital, Hender
son, after a protracted illness of
Bright's "disease.
Recently Mr. Kimball had been
under the care of eminent specialists
at Johns Hopkins hospital, Balti
more. Less than a month ago he
was removed from that institution to
his country home, Kimball farms,
near Oxford. His condition thn
again became serious and he was
taken to the hospital in Henderson,
where for several weeks lie had been
making a valiant but losing fight
for recovery.
A. U. Kimball was born at I
.im v.. ail
ye-irr;
public
farm
. Granville county, 46
After attending the
ago.
d;;e institute and later entire- the
Univ;
he i i
ro;ty of North Carolina, where
actuated wUh hih hor.ors. St.b--
t.y. no went to Charlotte.
ii'-Vi ne became
, .
lembcr
f fi
iaeuity at Oak' Rid. nt thp snm
: :.. . - - - r
i-.ung uiiucr jii-.e Dit'K.
After securing his license Mr
Kim-
ball moved to Greensboro and be-1
came poointA-i win t t t"-:,, i
ho pr?Vtice' of' lw
tion had continySC
That asr:ccia-j
u n i n term n t e dl v
fcr 22 years, the style- of the firm be
ing King and Kim Vail.
Mr. Kimball was married to ?.TiaR
ter of the late vV. o. Donnell jind Airs
Oak Ridge. Mrs. Kimball survives,
3" i-b on adnp -n. Huntley.' His
-rents are not living. He is
m m w .
!rived by a brother, W. R. Kimball, of
j - j
henn, ot Oxford; Mrs. J. B. Allen, of j riage of Miss Selma Cullum in Wil
Henderson and Mi-s Alice' Kimball: ! thi v,eir
of Norfolk, Va. The members of j
his family were with him when the i
It was urst announced that the in-S
J.1 11 1 . TT- f -l 1
iv! lLituu wuni oe at ivimnaii rarm.
but the family later decided to lay
the remains to rest in Elmwood Cem
etery, Oxford.
Rev C. L. Whittaker, pastor of
the M. P. Church at Mebane, assisted
by Rev TX. C. Craven, pastor of the
Oxford Methodist Church, conducted
a brief service at the Kimball Farm,
where the 'remains of Mr. Kimball
rested over night. At the conclusion
of the services at the Kimball home,
the remains were conveyed to Ox
ford and laid to rest in- Elmwood
Cemetery at 5:30 o'clock Wednesday
evening. The palbearers were.
Active Messrs. J. W. Hester, R.
C Kelly, D. G. Brummitt, , L. F.
Smith, Graham Daniel, W. M. Thax
ton, J. B. Powell, B. W. Parham.
Honorary R. R. King, J. E, Whit
aker, Walter Averett, Sterling Smith,
Mason Gant, J. R. Renn, F. P. Hob
good, C. H. Easton, D. H. Currin, J.
F. White, J. T. Averettt, Carl Piper,
W. W. Devin. The ladies took
charge of the flowers. The floral
designs were numerous and beautiful
Teachers Pay.
(New York Post)
If there are still people in New
York inclined to resent the demand
of the impudent teachers for more
pay, they should look at Chicago,!
which has just granted increases of
$400 a year at a stroke. Elemen
tary teachers there are now to be
paid a minimum of $1,200; such!
teachers here receive $1,005 to begin
with. The high school teachers in
Chicago are now to be started at $1,
600, with a maximum of $3,400.
Here the minimum salary is $1,350
and the maximum is $3,150. Prin-)of
cipals in the Chicago grammar school
are to be paid as much as $4,250,
and here the maximum is $4,000.
Yet if there is any difference be
tween the cities in living costs, it
favors Chicago, where rents -are low
er way and cut the working week for
union labor to forty hours, that
would be a new, a formidable bid,
which the farmers will fi:ht just as
thev fought the competition under
the" daylight saving of the long, idle
evening in the city against the long,
laborious morning on the farm, and
just as they resisted exposure of the
farm boy to tha city's lure . under
military training.
The farmer cannot permit to hap
pen to him what happened to the city
householder.
The city householder has been vot
ing for years to legislate into the
factory his domestic servant. She
i3 there now and he is servantless.
An accidental upset in the labor
supply hastened the. result, which
was bound Jd come anyway.
The whole wordl cries "Produce!
Produce! Production is our only
salvation!"
Yet-we know not ho v to begin.
And the farmer says, "If you are
not careful you will even cut-off pro
duction at its source."
Labor, which has been lessening
its productivity foi vears, on the the
ory that it ha3 b" fooled all along
W canital and riven of the sweat of
Hp brow too freely, is in a mood for
noMtics, not for production. .
Was this crisis in the world s pro
duction brought on by the war or
was it merely revealed by the war?
OFFER; BRILLIANT OPPORTUNITIES-AIL HOME PRINT,
OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA,
I TOMORROW'S BRIDES WILL
BAKE BETTER BISCUITS
Mrs. Lillian W. Caiehart, Our Home
Demonstration Agent, Is Start
ing Something That Will Echo
Down the Years.
What cooks there will be in a few
jcoia, ciuu n u w pupu itii i lie giii ui
Granville County will be among the
young fellows with everlasting appe
tites ! The Home Demonstration
Agent, Lillian W. Capehart, has
started something that will echo
down the years and take away one
more subject from the jokesmiths.
No more can they make fun of the
bride's baking failures, for a "Better
Biscuit Ccntest" is going to bring out
a new generation of cooks.
Here in the land of the far-famed
biscuit, they're out to make' better
biscuit! It's enough to make one
wish to live beyond the threescore
and ten, or at least to be young again.
Mrs. Capehart says that one-third,
by weight, cf air food eaten by the
average person consists of cereals.'
and the largest part of this is bread,
which makes it important from a
health standpoint to see that the
bread is cf good quality. Before the
contest she effers to talk to Schools
women
clubs on breadmaking,
big list of premiums
lor 'the winners in t
t, which
to be
'will -he decided on March 2 7
while a preliminary contest
j - - ii V- V i, ' i.' -l l- . I 1 I 1 .- 1 , Kit KJ
ITT. Tv . . n.. r
neici wim two
nvar.iiiini:; criv.-sn in
iiome uenionGtration Clubs tor ex
hibits' at their own schools.
rr.i.
i he
premiums for the- big ccntest.
includes sacks of flour, cash nrizes.
and cooking utensils donated by deal- i
er;
bani
md individuals.
STOVALL NEWS LETTER
(L. C WILKERSON)
Messrs C. E. Earl and W. C.
Taylor have returned from Charlotte
with a new Buiek car for Dr. W. L.'
Taylor.
Mrs. Lewis Wilson and Miss
Pattie Culluin are attending the mar-
The vote for tho $25,000 bond)
issue last Satnrdav s?t.pr.d K7 for annl
iu against, it looks as it tne citizens
might vote a good- sum to mend our '
Ktreets.
We are glad to note that there
has been very little flu here, the few
cases being confined almost exclu
sively to the colored people.'.: -'.-. .'r-
The Stovall Boy Scouts observed
February 8th taking sick people
things that they enjoyed, nor did they
forget the three old heroic veterans
of the community.
The'car of our good doctor got
sick on the road and he left it for
dead. A man came along without
headlights and ran into the sick car
and smashed badly. No car should
be run after dark without lights, and
such is the state law.
Miss Ida Jackson, who teaches
at Creedmoor; Miss Alice Taylor,
who teaches at San ford and Miss Ju
lia Burwell, who teaches near Mt.
Creek, are at home on account of
their schools having closed as a pre
eautionarj' measure.
I stated last week that the case
of smallpox which -was quarentined
here cost the community $65.00, but
it only cost $31.80. One other case
has developed. The man refused to
be vaccinated, but the remainder of
his family was successfully vaccinat
ed. This particular case has not
been quarentined, but there is very
little danger of him spreading the
(disease
On Wednesday morning, February
1, Mr. and Mrs., Lee Wilson were
made sad by the death of their bright
little baby girl Hazel Viola- She
was taken with measles which was
followed by. pneumonia
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Wison desire
to thank their friends through the
Public Ledger for the kindness shown
them during the sickness and death
their baby
FIVE DEATHS IN ONE
HOME FROM INFLUENZA
A sad story comes from the home
of Mr. Ocborn Hinshaw, who lived
at Snow Camp, Chatham County.
Mr. Hinshaw's family of seven, fath
er, mother and fiv.e children, were
suffering with the flu for about
eight days. On last Friday evening
at 6 o'clock Mr. Hinshaw died; Sat
urday morning about 9 o'clock the
youngest child, Catherine, aged 2
years, died; at 12 o'clock another
child, a boy, Frank, aged 5 years;
and at 6 o'clock the oldest child,
Melvin, aged 9 years, died. Some
time during Saturday night Mrs.
Hinshaw's mother (Mrs. Martha
Thompson) died. This made a to
tal of five deaths in one home in less
than 36 hours.
Send For the Doctor .
A doctor who was superintendent
of the Sunday-school in a small vil
lage asked one of the boys this ques
tion: "Willie, will you tell me what we
must do in order to get to heav
en?" -;'
Said Willie, "We must die."
"Very true," replied , the doctor,
"but tell-me what we must do be
fore we die."
'.'We must get sick," said Willie,
"and send for you." :
It is undrrstood new that chur
ches can be closed in the. interest of
public health. Judge Connor savs
t, r-yer decided adversely on th
-"V7! f - 'hat the only que'.on was ore
;f en.cft that - officials can clou
any stitwfinrt.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20 1020
BOARD OF HEALTH ANNOUNCE
THAT PUBLIC MEETINGS
ARE STILL PROHD3ITED
Searching investigation of the in
fluenza situation in Oxford justifies
the County Board of Health in con
cluding that public meetings of. any
sort should not yet be allowed in
the town. This included the open
ing of schools," churches, places of
amusement, clubs, societies or other
meetings. :
In the county also where influen
za is at all prevalent these rulings
Should- apply. Selfprotection de
mands the, refraining from meeting
where the infected might come
J . A. MORRIS, Co. Health 0fficer.
By order Co. Board of Health.
VAST IMPROVEMENTS IN-TIBS
.INFLUENZA' SITUATION HERE
The Doctors Are Discharging Their
Patients In Large Numbers.
Only six new cases of influen
za, have been reported in Oxford
this 'week.' ' Our doctors are of the
opinion that the peak Gf the disease
woo vnpViQf' in ita interim' rf iVr
; " 7" " ; nouses are bulging with the cpeci-
coumy several days ago.. Only ajmcns, along comes the buyers from
few new cases in the county have j-the cities and inspect the potatoes in
been reported since Tuesday, and I bulk and place their bids. The pota-
Ai . !toes wouid be carted to the nearest
charging their
patients
in large
numbers.
CONDITIONS AT THE OXFORD
OIIPUANAGE MUCH IMPROVED
Two Little Boys Died of Pneumonia
Only FiityCMldren Now on the
. Sick List. - .'..-'. " -
The influenza situation at the Ox
ford Orphanage has greatly improv
ed during the last couple of days,
said Superintendent R. L. Brown
yesterday. ' .
At the beginning of" the present
Week there vere more - than one
n,.0..i iirirAn wn'with the flu
11U11U1VU V11IUX Vll X V . " V- y w
and two little boys died of pneumon
ia. - - , . - . : " :
There are now only-' "about fifty
children en the sick list, said Mr.
Biw., ,a the -moifx f thenvxive
about v,s?U. iwo ot tne 'cmraren
are down wUh pneumonia., but they
are much better.
PRAYER BREAKES UP DAACK
The Young People Could Not Stand
The Pressure.
A writer in the Charlotte Obser
ver says that Mr. Mm. Puckett, a well
known and loved citizen of the Hope
well section of that county, was an
elder in the church and an all round
good man 25 years ago; who at heart
was opposed to the old country dance,
even; but who allowed the young
people to over persuade him to allow
them to have a little dance at his
house. It was an honor to be a guest
in that home, and there was a fine
crowd of young people present, and
the dance had proceeded to the point
where one set had been danced out,
the music ceased, and all was com
paratively quiet. Uncle Bill had
been a n erven"- spectator all the while
and right in tho midst of a lull some;
half-f.rjrik rowdy .. drove up in the
front vard and yelled out: "Ain't
old Bill Puckett, a big elder in the
church, a nice man to be having a
dance rt his house?"
Uncle Bill heard the banter, ana
withe vt a word came out in the floor
and F-ricl to Nc.al Williams who
was
calinc-figures
"Neal,
let's
open
this next set with prayer." With
that Mr. Puckett fell on his knees
and began a prayer, such as is seldom
heard. It was as if a guilty con
science was talking to its Master. It
was no few words and over with, but
a prayer pleading, and from the
heart. - When at last he had finished,
and he and Neal had arisen, they
were alone. All the dancers had
fled the room and most of them trud
ging homeward.
GEN. ROYSTER IS WELL
AND STRONG AGAIN
Things never seem exactly right
to the people of Oxford and the
county unless they see Gen. B. S.
Royster often. He was confined to
his home several days recently and
many were the inquiries as to his
condition. He is now able to come
down to his office and things in this
community seem brighter by his pre
sence. MRS. BICKETT STRICKEN
WITH FLU AFTER NURSING
ATS EMERGENCY HOSPITAL
(Raleigh News and Observor)
Mrs. T. W. Bickett, wife of the gov
ernor, is ill at the mansion with in
fluenza, which she supposed to have
contracted "iiile nursing at the em
ergency honital.
Mrs. Bickett was the first woman
to volunteer her services, when it
was announced the hospital would p
opened. :M
Prizehonse For Sale
See the legal notice of A. A.
Hicks, commissioner, on the sixth
page of this paper announcing the
soift of nq Dudley prohc'e nt the
i "house door next fvfonciay at
inoon.
THE GRANVDLLE COUNTY
SWEET POTATO ASSOCIATION
County Agent Dove- Has Started the
Ball To Roll.
County Agent Dove, who is a close
student of soils, climate and other
agencies that enter into successful
production, is fizhtinsr "tnhnr "wilt"
with n fniMn v,. t
vfill adopt hi3 plans.
Mr. Dove claims that
Dutchville
township, where the wilt predomina-i
tes more or less, can be made to pro
duce sweet potatoes worth more in
dollars and cents than the tobacco
crop grown on the same soil in its
most palmy days.
Mr. Dove has had the ear of the
farmers in the wilt section of the I
county for some time, and quite a
number are enthusiastic over his
preposition to side-tract tobacco ana
plant largely of sweet potatoes. Po
tatoe houses, costing -less than to
bacco barns, will be built for- tne
safe-keeping at potatoes in all kinds
of weather.
The question of finding a market
for the sweet potatoes is not worry
ing Mr. Dove one iota. His plan is
to form an association, konwn as
"The Granville County Sweet Potato
Association," and "when the potato
and these cars would be made up in-
j to trains and dispatched as a "pota
! to special."
"I am least concerned about the
question of marketing the potatoes
than any other feature of the work,"
said Mr. Dove. Continuing, Mr.
Dove said: "All that is neeessarv to
make the venture a success is the
willingness on the part cf the farmers
to produce the potatoes. As fine a
specimen of sweet potatoes as I have
ever seen grown were produced in
Granville County south of Tar River.
The soil in Dutchville is peculiarly
adopted to a specimen of good size
and rare flavor. The potatoes can
be kept in excellent condition in the
potato houses for any length of time.'
Mr, Dove is of the opinion - that if
tbe farmer-sjesgage- in producing po
tatoes extensively they will , neer
agam return to the cultivation- of to-baccbl-.;rHc
"gsve as his reasoii Ihe
i fact tb at there is less labor attached
to raising potatoes, snd that a good
--crop is always sure.
Mr. Dove said that the improved
potato digger, owned by one man, or
several men as the case might be, is
equipped to dig all the potatoes of a
township at very little cost to the in
dividual grower.
DUTCH TO WATCH KAISER
BUT WON'T. SURRENDER HIM
Holland, Replying to Allies, Will
Promise to Guard Former Mon
arch Closely -The Allies Agree
To . Germany Proposal To Try
War Criminals.
A London special says that Ger-
j many nas been informed she may try
men accused by the Allies, while
Holland may intern William Hohen
zollern and satisfy the allied powers.
Notes to this effect were sent to Ber
lin' and The Hague by the supreme
allied council. The former Kaiser's
crimes as charged by the allies are:
Responsibility for the worhi war,
costing 10,000,000 lives.
Bombardment of hospitals and
other undefended places.
Destruction of merchant and pass
engers ships without warning and
without examination.
Wanton destruction "of religious,
charitable, educational and histori
cal buildings and monuments.
Use of deleterious and - asphyxiat
ing gases, explosive, and expanding
bullets, poisoning of wells, directions
to give no quarter.
; Abduction of girls and women for
immoral purposes and attacks on
women. ' v
Putting hostages to death, pillage,
confiscation of property, wanton dev
astation .of property.
Deporting, ' torturing starring and
massacring civilians; also interning
civilians under brutal conditions and
forcing civilians to labor in connec
tion with military operations.
GRANVILLE COUNTY FARMERS
NO LONGER TOBACCO FOOLS
They Are Going To Produce Some
thing to Eat.
Those who are disposed to be
lieve that the Granville County farm
ers will put all of their land and
their energies into the cultivation ot
tobacco this year are badly mistaken.
. The labor supply will be about the
same as last year; therefore no ad
ditional tobacco acreage is contem
plated. The farmers will have a
care for the production of foodstuff,
in which endeavor they had such en
couraging results in the past year,
and they arVrr. deluded by the ap
parently . higli f;,;-i-es of 60 cent to
bacco, for they l. xw that 60 cent to
bacco now is about the equivalent of
25 'cents when compared with prices
of the necessities of life. They are
going to try to hold to their usual
tobacco acreage, but at the same time
they will go more largely irto the
production of foodstuffs.
Sirtv - rt tobacco did not make
fool- - of the Granville County
fe- ' ..
NUMBER 14
SOME OF OXFORD'S SPLENDDD
ASSETS ENUMERATED
A List of the Tilings That Oxford
Needs Most.
Let us for a moment ponder the
question as to what Oxford needs to
make it bigger and better.
We - have some s; dendid, assets.
Our' first is citizenship, and that can-
ot De exceeQe1 m quality in any
town in the whole South. Our sec
ond is clima.te. It is better than
the much . vaunted climate of the
western part of our State, known as
the "Land of the Sky," and without
any desire to exaggerate it is the best
average climate in the whole country.
Those who have traveled, and ex
perienced climatic conditions in Eu
rope and North and South America,
are best qualified to attest to this,
and it is not challenged that the
Piedmont .climate 'is without a peer
in the world.
Next, we have in .succession, good
water, lighting system, and splendid
ly paved streets, with modern com
forts and conveniences in our homes,
and as good a health record as any
town in North Carolina, not except
ing Aslieville, which claims to be tne
healthiest town in the State. Our
school system, not only in Oxford,
but throughout the county, is splen
did, and 'is -steadily getting better.
There are no better churches in any
town in the State. .
We are located on the Bankhead
Highway, a 3,000 milo military road
between tho Pacific and Atlantic
We are spending an equivalent of
around two hundred thousand dollar
on good roads in Granville County
this summer and by next winter we
hope to be linked up with good roads
in adjoining counties and make as
favorable a. showing as any county
in the South.
Our farming population is waking
up to the value, and the imperative
need of diversification. The result
will be the beautifying of our county
by the laying down cf grasses, and
the reduction of the present excessive
timber areas, and the erection of
more modern dwellings throughout
the country.
What Oxford needs most 'is 'a
Chamber of Commerce to act ;as a
balance wheel and give us prestage
in the world at large. . "
There are some improvements of
an absolutely essential nature that . ,
we have not. and whichwe certainly "
niut provide .before" we catraPULiit
wr-aree'utitied to - bring industries,
and a splendid class of labor to our
town. - '
We have not a laundry. We have
not a dairy. We have not a solitary
public, park. We have no rendez
vous where our country folks can of
fer their produce for sale without
peddling in at private houses which
they are extremely averse of doing.
' Each one of these developments
could be made to pay some of them
beyond computation in mere dollars
and cents.
If we had a real live Chamber of
Commerce we could present our
stock in trade to the world in such
glowing terms that we would cap
ture everything that we went after.
DANVILLE TOBACCO BOARD
PLANS NEW SALE REGULATION
The executive committee of the
Danville tobacco board of trade has
made several recommendations de
signed to speed up the sales of leaf
tobacco in that city next season in
order that the market may be better
prepared to cope with a glut.
If the recommendations are adop
ted, next season will open two weeks
earlier, on the first Ilonday in Sep
tember, auctioneers will be allowed
to sell 260 piles per hour instead of
the present 210.
Buyers cf tobacco who in the past
have been allowed to move their to
bacco piles in order to get second
and third bids on the same foor, will
be prohibited from doing this more
than once. Several other technical
points in the mode of selling tobacco
are also urged in order that loss mo
tion may be eliminated.
FIFTY DOLLAR BONUS FOR
EACH MONTH IN SERVICE
Specific Settlement for Soldiers
Which American Legion Will Ask
for.
A Washington dispatch says that a
bonus for ex-service men and com
pulsory military training were an
nounced as the principal aims of the
legislative committee of the Ameri
can Legion, members of which were
in-Washington for a series of confer
ences with congressmen.
It is claimed that on account of
the dilatoriness of Congress, the leg
ion was determined to press the mat
ter by asking for a specific settle
ment by the government of a $50
bonus for each month of service oer
formed during the war. Such a bon
us, it was-estimated, would cost the
government approximately fl,900,-
rooo.ooo.
The legion already has gone on re
cord as favoring compulsory military
training.
THERE IS NO INFLUENZA
AT OXFORD COLLEGE
The friends of . Oxford College will
be glad to learn that there is not a
case of influenza in the institution.
On Wednesday , last Dr. Hobgood,
president of the college, said that
the institution was enjoying the best
of health and that not a girl j of the
large student body is in the college
infirmary.
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