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OXFORD, N. C. TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1920
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Open For the Reception of
the First ot September. j
t. change has taken place ati
)d since Doctors Watkins,
;uul Bullock purchased the
two months ago and began
H 1HU) 11 lliUUt'Iil IlUoplliU.
v:w rooms nave oeen acid
rear end of the main build
! the ten-room building
od a hundred yards to the
been moved up nearer the
uikiir.g and the covered pass
that connects the two build-
been completed.
!' the carpenters' work will be
um hv the first of July, and
li'.s is done the painters will
. finishing touches. All of
Sidings and the water tower
painted dark-gray, said Dr.
and in the fall the trteo
trimmed and white washed.
dern Equipment.
beds, built especially for
iial service, witn the latest lm
ilveved woven wire springs and mut
ms. are now ready to be set up.
T.r. Bullock returned from Philadel-
and New York yesterday where
ient ten days purchasing equip
ment, including the most modern X
kay machine.
Rooms To Be Endowed.
Dr. Thomas stated that so many
inquiries had been received that the
management had practically agreed
that churches, fraternal orders, cor
paation and individuals would be
granted the privilege of endowing
wards, rooms and beds.
Lady Superintendent.
Dr. Thomas stated that they were
successful in getting a high-class
lady superintendent. She will arrive
during July and get things in readi
ness for the opening on September
first. Besides the superintendent,
there will be two trained nurses and
the number will be increased accord
ing to the demands.
The Farm.
There are thirty acres of farm and
pasture land attached to the hospital.
Ten acres have already been set out
in corn, and 100,000 hills of tobaaco
will be set out. There are 100
peach trees in the orchard Utterly
groaning under the weight of fruit
VTURDAY WAS BIG DAY
FOB O. MAX GARDNER S
FORCES IX GRANVILLE I
NO. 39
! NEXT SATURDAY IS THE
TIME-LIMIT OF CANDIDATES
Made Votes Here By the Stand He! 3 1 Anno-"lce Themselves On
Takes on the Labo;- Question 0i' Before That Date or Forever
court uouse was crowded 1nst ! Aftaroiiiie Vfri-i tnIi. Pm.
afternoon with people from i The nvW-v l.ivr ;tiiltp-. that
announce
selves two weeks in advance
The
Saturday
; 1 . XT rVouucy 10 near; candidates must
.l-v; uit,t,iiitiuibiit;u lieutenant gover
nor of North Carolina, one of me
three Democratic candidates for gov
ernor, outlined his stand en the pub
lic questions of the day. Those who
expected to hear a tirade against Mr.
Page and Mr. Morrison, the two oth
er candidates, or a long winded
speech on the revaluation act or wo
man suffrage, were sadly disappoint
ed. He met these issues by stating
that he stood four square on the De
mocratic platform; that these issues
are written in the platform and that
he is a full-fledged Democrat. Mr.
MB. JOHN T. BBITT PASSED
AWAY LAST SUNDAY MORNING
Was Well Known Newspaper Man
Fr Many Years Interment In
EInnvood Cemetery.
Mr. John T. Britt. founder of the
OXFORD WILL ENTERTAIN OVER
NIGHT THE BANKHEAD
NATIONAL HIGHWAY CONVOY
them
ef the
Public Ledger thirtv-four venrs a?.-;.!
w v -- .
street I
10:30
died
! last
at his home on College
Sunday morning at
rm7' c H "e af o'clock, aged 73 years. His sudden
June 5 Mext Saturday, jjay 22 , ib j death 7as a Bhock to thQ comnumitv. ;
the last dav- of jrrar. Candidates i ht,. t.- j. , ;
. . . " " : i3iiti c-imt? uuwn town iasi
i
!!.;:'.
?.r?e os a
tst sight you
ginna egg
ever saw.
-the pretti
The lar:ie
garden, too, is well advanced.
Fine Cows. . j
shortly be in the market for three or
tour fine cows. Pure milk and but
te: and plenty of it, said Br. Thom
zt. is absolutely essential. There :s
a fine pasture and a running stream
on the place.
A Great Work.
Ir will do you good to go out to
nmvwocd and look around. As
institution nears completion one
can but feel that God .is answering
the prayers of the community. We
x: -- a hospital; we need a hospital,
- e are going to have a modern
hospital, one that will be a credit to
Oxford and Granville county.
Page, he said, has a private plat
form of his own and Mr. Morrison is
wavering on some of the issues.
Introduced By Major Stem.
Major Thad G. Stem introduced
Mr. Gardner in graceful language.
He referred to him as being strong
in statue, mind and heart; free and
unfettered; one who has given the
best in him to promote the interest
of the State and the Democratic par
ty; that he has been successful in
everything that he has undertaken
from a plowboy to president of the
Senate; that the same grit and deter
mination that brought him througn
college is characteristic of his busi
ness and public life broad-minded, 1 j
open ana iree. continuing, Major
Stem stated that some one had in
timated that one of the other candi
dates would live on Blount street,
Raleigh, after the first of next Jan
uary. I do not know what particular
property the other .candidates have;
purchased or leased on Blount street,
but on and after the first day of next
January O. Max Gardner will occupy
the governors' mansion, which hap
pens to be located on Blount street.
(Applause).
Mr. Gardner's Speech.
Mr. Gardner said in part:
"In the face of attacks made upon
me by failure to answer the series of
questions propounded in the ques
tionaire submitted by the officials of
certain organizations in North Caro
lina, I most emphatically assert that
I stand cquarely uyon my declara
tions and that I have no apology to
offer to any class or group, for the
deliberate course pursued. From
articles appearing m ia;vor papers
and from the lips of Jim Barrett, one
of the organized labor's leaders in the
State, the State Federation of Labor
j have determined to .secure my defeat,
because I am unwilling to have my
hands tied and be subservient to them
and their organization or to anv
can rrct the blanks trom Mr. J . 15.
Powell at the First National Bank
It is conceded on all sides that
the present board of county commis
sioners have been very faithful io
the trust imposed in them, and it
would be good policy to elect them
for another term. The last two
years has been very trying on the
board, and it is doubtful that a ma
jority of them will consent to seive
another term.
Commissioner Peed Endorsed.
Commissioner J. L. Peed, of Dutch
ville, has stated that he desired to it
tiro from the board. He has a splen
did record and if it was left to the
business men of Oxford they would
keep him on the beard. During the
last few days Ave have heard the fol
lowing business men of Oxford in
dorse Mr. Peeds record and desire
that he serve another term. Among
the number were: Gen. B. S- Roys
ter, Major Will Landis, Judge W. A.
Devin, T. G. Stem, A. A. Hicks, W.
W. Devin, E. B. Howard. A. H. Moore,
B. E. Parham, F. W. Hancock, Sr.,
E. Jackson.
House of Representatives.
' Elsewhere in this paper will be
found the cards of Hon. B. W. Par
ham, of Oxford, and Mr. J. S. Wat
kins, of Virgilina Route 2, candidates
for the House of Representatives.
Friday and, as was his custom, shook
hands with every friend he met.
came into tne runnc .Ledger ci
lice and looked over the exchanges
carefully. He stated that he did
not sleep well the night before on
fr0fmnt rf tooth noVifi' tint tV fnnfli !... . .
.u.v iaticnai Highway
mm ut-tsii puiieu uui and lie leu liiucn California.
The Convoy Consists of 210 Men,
Twenty-two of Whom Are Distin
guished Persons, Traveling With
Seventy Trucks.
The business men of Oxford are be
stiring themselves to get things in
readiness to entertain the convoy of
! the Bankhead National Hiehwav.
which will arrive in Oxford Friday
evening June 18, and remain here
over night.
The convoy will leave Washington
City on the morning of June 14 on a
trip of 3600 miles over the Bankhead
to Los Angeles,
SHOES ARE AS DEAR AS
THE PUBLIC WILL STAND
sas:
fl.
other class or organization, for that
matter. They have thrown down to j turerr, is
A special from Lynn, Mass
Indications that the peak in wages
to shoeworkers has been reached ana
that the manufacturers have deter
mined on a downward scale in prices
are contained in a call issued today
by President Harry Ryan, of the
Joint Council of the United Shoe
I Workers, for a convention of union
workers in this city on May 22: The
renewal of a peace agreement with
the manufacturers to become effec
tive Sept. 20. is to be discussed, but
no agreement will be signed by the
unions until a satisfactory adjust
ment cf wage scales is made, accord
ing to Ryan.
He says he has been informed by
members of the Lynn Shoe Manufac
turers' Association that they can not
consider another increase in wages,
but mai:y are willing to maintain
the present scale for a certain pe
riod. The attitude of the manufac-
oetter
He had suffered from internal
troubles for several years; he knew
that his days were numbered; that
he would fall to sleep suddenly, and
he was waiting the Master's call.
His beloved wife, Mrs; John T. Britt,
and his son and his wife, Capt. and
Mrs. Wade H. Britt, were with him
when the end came.
Mr. Britt was a native of Wayne
County. He came to Oxford many
years ago and married Miss Emma
Mitchell, the daughter of Dr. Mitch
ell. He founded the Public Ledger 3 4
years ago and gave the best years of !
j his life to the upbuilding of Oxford?
and Granville County. He remarked
to the editor of the Public Ledger
the day before his death that one of
the proudest days in his newspaper
career was the day on which Gov.
Aycock came to Oxford at his solici
tation and made an educational ad
dress, which gave to Oxford the
splendid school building on College
street, for which he had worked for
many years to accomplish.
Mr. Britt was elected Clerk of the
court and served one term, from 19
02 to 1904.
After retiring from the Public
Ledger seven years ago, Mr. Britt ac
cepted a government position, which
kept him in Washington while con
gress was in session. He came home
a month ago to plant his garden and
set the house in order for the recep
tion of Mrs. Britt, who followed him
i Mr. Britt is survived by a wife, and
tjfro children, namely, Capt. Wade H.
Jyritt, of Oxford, and Mrs. George
'Hobbs, of Rutherford, New Jersey,
who arrived Monday morning.
Mr. Britt was a member cf the Ox
ford Methodist Church, and he ask
ed God to guide him in his daily
walks.
Funeral services will be held from
the residence at 3 o'clock this after
noon. The ceremony will be in
charge of Dr. R. C. Craven, pastor of
The Route.
The route through Virginia and
North Carolina is as follows:
Leave Washington June 14.
Arrive at Richmond June 15.
Arrive at Dewit June 16-
Arrive at South Hill June 17.
Arrive at Oxford June 18.
Arrive at Raleigh June . 19 and spend
Sunday.
Arrive at Hillsboro June 21.
Arrive at Goldsboro June 22.
Arrive at Salisbury June 23.
Arrive at Charlotte June 24.
I The Convoy.
Secretary cf War, Hon Newton D.
Baker, has authorized a Convoy of
the Motor Transport Corps of the
United States Army, seventy trucks
in all, as follows:
Officers Headquarters Command 20
Motor Transport Company 78
Service Park Unit 35
Engineers Department 20
Medical Department 15
Observers 20
Distinguished Persons 22
SWEETS POTATO CAR IS
COMIXGTO GRANVILLE
Brings a Message To All Interested
In the Sweet Spud.
Though the sweet potato is sun
only a jack in the game compared to
tobacco, he has attained the dignity
of traveling in a special car and is
touring North Carolina to let 'em
know- he's enlisted in the fight a
gaiiist the wilt.
County Agent Dove has been work
ing Lor some time to get the sugar
spud special to come to Oxford or
some other point in the county, and
while no date has been set the car
is expected to arrive early in June.
It will be in charge of sweet potato
experts from the N. C. Division of
Horticulture, State Department of
Agriculture, who are cooperating
with the Seaboard Air Line and the
Atlantic Coast Line railroads in boos
ting sweet potatoesc as a cash crop in
rotation with cotton and tobacco.
A feature of the exhibits carried by
the special car is a model sweet po
tato storage house built to exact scale
according to government plans.
Houses built by these plans will keep
sweet potatoes over a period of sev
eral months without loss and so per
mit a longer marketing period. Plans
will be furnished free to persons who
want to build storage houses.
The exhibit also includes types of
containers; charts and pictures, and
examples of correct packing; and oth
er information concerning the sweet
potato industry which has already
proved its value as a money crop in
other southern states.
OUR COUNTRY COUSINS
ARE PRONE TO JOKE
Mr. Cam
WHAT WILL THE CENSUS
ntiiHES FOR OXFORD SHOW?
?nt issue of the
in your opinion
i.auor Public Ledger
You stated in a rec
J'uohc Ledger that
the census figures for Oxford would
not show more than ten per cent in
crease in population during the past
ton years.
barely more than ten per cent of
me the gauntlet of battle and 1
cent it without reservation, I
willing for the people of North Car
olina to decide whether one group or
element" shall control and dominate
the State or whether all the people of
tho State shall continue to govern.
"If the officials of the State Fed
eration or Labor have the right to
submit a questionaire seeking to
pledge a candidate for governor upon
numerous different propositions,
then every other organization in the
state has a similar right, and if the
merchants cf the state, the manufac
turers and bankers, the wholesale''
dealers, the great, body of tmorgan
ized farmers and laboring peopie
the Oxford Methodist Episcopal
to the liking of the I church, nrl bv Dr. Hors field, rector
maintain that the ; Cf St. Stephen's church, of which
. Britt and her sen, Capt. Wade
Britt, are members. The inter-
who
not
i
i shoeworkers
am i manufacturers are receiving more ; t
today for their product than ever be-; h
fore, and that the public tendency is ; ment will follower at Elmwood Cem
for still more
msive footwear.
THE REPUBLICANS NOMINATE
FULL COUNTY TICKET
Mr. W. D. Merritt, Candidate For
Congress, Addressed the Conven
tion. About four or five dozen Republi
cans of Granville County met in the
court house last Friday and nomi
nated a full county ticket.
Mr. W. D. Merritt, a lawyer oi
Roxboro and the Republican candi-
generally, who belong to no organi-1 date for Congress in this district, ad-j
He eolond population of the count zation, should all extrcice their right
i ;"ill0CKea tn (mnrd flnrin? thft to msisi upon pausing u ccuiuiuc.ic,
part five years to work in the big to-'-acco
industries.
Quite a number of the colored peo
ple have gone north or moved away
irom the county during the past few
Jfears. Some of them drifted back,
-'it the most of them have remained
away.
vvhon the census report comes in
the figures may how a slight decrea-
in population in the districts ot
the county, but I think that Oxford
iil show an increase of 20 per, cent
least during the decade.
H. P. C
(OL. CAMERON'S CAR STALES
OS BANKHEAD HIGHWAY
Tn Sight of the Promised Land and
Couldn't Reach It.
"raveling in a modern high-pow-er
?ar, Col Benneham Cameron, pre
J;Pn.t of the Bankhead National
jii.way Association, reached a red
three miles north of Oxford
as. Monday night and remained
all night long.
ro the south of him, a distance of
line miles, shone the bright light
ll f hospitable city of Oxford,
Much lights accentuated the tall
rch towers.
AfJn and again throughout the
;.snt the chauffeur tried to drive
'icar up the red hill, but to no a
dh. There were also several oth
' cars stalled on the same hill, and
'r msery lives company" the night
made tolerable for the most dis
"inshed good roads in the United
he would be pledged m advance upon
every conceivable question and would
be so hedged about that it would be
impossible for him to exercise that
freedom of thought and action in of
fice that is so essential to a faithful
and intelligent discharge of his pub
lic duty.
"I boldly declare to you today
that I shall be elected governor ab
solutely unfettered by public pledges
and private promises to any class or
group or I will not be elected at ali.
"My conception of the high office
of governor of North Carolina is the , xew Invention To Measure Ruts
dressed the convention along party
lines.
The following county ticket was
naminated:
Senate J. H. Gooch.
House F. J. McDuffie.
Sheriff J. E. Duncan.
Register R. C. Smith.
Coroner Dr. W. B. Bullock.
Treasurer R. S. Jenkins.
Commissioners C. G. Royster, J.
Rogers. L. V. Peace, H. A. Stem,
;' etery.
The pallbearers as announced are:
Active A. H. Powell, J. B. Mayes,
Sr., B. K. Lassitor, J. B. Powell, Ed
wards Coble, Burnice Britt, Dr. John
Bullock, J. P. Floyd. Honorary
R. L. Brown, T. W. Winston, B. S.
Royster, W. H. Hunt, J. G. Hall, W.
Z. Mitchell, W. T. Yancey, A. A.
Hicks, Dick Lewis, John Paris, Har
ry Williams, J. B. Booth, C. W.
Bryant, S. C. Morton, F. W. Hancock
Sr. Flower bearers Mrs- John
Booth, Mrs. T. W. Winston, Mrs.
Delacroix, Mrs. John Paris.
Total 210
It is understood that the convoy
will sleep in tents and do their own
cooking, but the citizens are expect
ed to furnish amusements and show
them every courtesy possible.
Mr. Cameron Makes Request.
Hon. Benneham Cameron, presi
dent of the Bankhead National High
way Association, has issued the fol
lowing to the citizens along the Bank
head National Highway:
Every county should see to it thai
the roads through it are put in the
very best condition at once, for it is
most important to secure a good re
port on the fitness of this route for
military purposes, as well as commer
cial use. This is the South's oppor
tunity to secure this great transcon
tinental highway as a military road.
The purposes of this trip are to as
sist in the development of a system
cf national highkays, by bringing be
fore the public in an educational way,
the necessity for such a system; to
provide extended field service in con-:
r.nd men in motor transportation; to
recruit personnel for the various
branches of the army; to secure data
on road conditions throughout tne
territory in the immediate vicinity of
the highway along which the convoy
will operate; and to secure data re
lative to the operation and mainte
nance of motor vehicles.
As President of the Bankhead Na
tional Highway, as well as a citizen
of North Carolina, 1 desire to urge
the people to cooperate in fixing the
roads and giving the Convoy a mag
nificent reception as it passes throu
gh the great State of North Carolina-
S.
L.
M. Carrington.
THE WORLD'S AULTITUDE
RECORD IN AN AUTO
CK-NSrs GIVES RALEIGH
POPULATION OF 24,418
is J - Population of Raleigh, N. O.
lean t .accordin to tne census bu
of'r' Jhi s rePresent5 an increase
JOnJenyears.
i(S Battery should have
ter about every two weeks. Stop
at the Willard Service Station.
oDen way to the untrammeled service
to the whole of the people of the
State. I like the thought of freedom
of action in office. I accept the op
portunity of approaching the per
formance of all public service abso
lutely unfettered by pledges and
unhampered by promises.
"My platform is the platform of
the democratic party. I am content
to stand upon that declaration of
principle, to defend the enunciation
of policy, to carry the banner into the
thickest of the fight and so to meet
all comers.
t rrioii itn nn man in my sympa-
thy to the laboring people of North
Carolina; in my admiration for the
splendid, service they are rendering
the State and I make to them the
same sacred promise that I make to
all the people of North Carolina,
w if t nm elected governor, they
shall have an absolutely square deal
for every hour of my term, in every
matter in which they are interested
and it is within my power to serve
them. - , .
"T chriii spek the common good ot
all our people in the harmonious de
velopment of all the State. I be
lieve in our state, and in the glory
of its future. I would preserve, her
fmHoMiii strife of classes ana
see her happily welded into a great
HzenshiD. welcoming
the dawning of a greater day and the
building oi a imei
and Rills.
Joseph K. Costallo, of Philadel
phia, has invented a pedometer,
which registers the distance up and
down one travels in an auto over a
rough road.
He recently made a test of the ma
chine on the roads in New Jersey, a
State noted for good roads, and found
he traveled a mile and three-fifths
up and down to something less than
fifteen miles the machine made in a
forward direction.
It would be interesting to know
how many miles up and down a poor
fellow would travel between Oxford
and Stem.
MR. WILLIAM E. MEADOWS
TAKES HIS OWX LIFE
Easton Tells On Them a
Thing or Two.
Ever since the campaign was
launched in the county to raise more
corn, hay and other foodstuff, quite
a number of the farmers are dispos
ed to joke about it, while a select
few pull their hair and fume and
fret over some immaginary griev
ance which is not plain to the aver
age man.
One of the good-natured kind Was
inclined the other day to joke with
Mr. Cam Easton about the serious
question of raising more foodstuff.
"If you gentlemen in town," said
the farmer, .-"would raise, more food
stuff in your gardens "and spend
less for gasoline to travel over the
county to tell the farmers what to
do, you would be better off at the
end of the year."
The farmer did not know that he
was talking to one of the bast and
most expert town gardncrs in all
the State. Mr. Easton owns about
five of the most fertile acres in the
corporate limits of Oxford and he
prides hlirilf ? hb ability to pro
u? !h- v-ry bt cf everything
grown in this section.
"I make it a rule," said Mr. Eas
ton, addressing the farmer-, "to raise
my own supplies. I now have five
or sixt barrels of corn in my crib and
I have enough meat and other home
products to see me through."
"You are better off than most of
the farmers," said our country cous
in, "and your advise to the farmers
to raise more foodstuff is very
wholesome indeed."
THE OXFORD'S WOMAN'S LIT
ERARY CLUB ENTERTAINS
RAILWAYS OF SOUTH ASK
HIGHER FREIGHT RATES
No Increase In Passenger Fares is
Asked.
Washington, May 17. The rail
ways of the South have asked the In
terstate Commerce Commission to
grant an increase of approximately
31 per cent on all freight rates, in
the annlication it is stated that with
the percent wage scales and costs of
fuel and other important materials it
will be necessary to secure such an
increase in freight rates to enable
the railways to earn six per cent on
value of the property used for trans
portation purposes as provided lu
the recently enacted Transportation
Act. '
He Had Been In the State Hospital!
For the Insane.
STEM, N. C, May 17.
The sad ending of Mr. William
E. Meadows, which occured last
Friday night, cast a gloom over tnis
community.
The poor unfortunate man became
mentally unbalanced some years
ago and was taken to the State Hos
pital for the insane for medicax
treatment. After a few months he
returned home apparently well, and
nothing was noticed wrong with him
until recently when it was noticed
that he was not himself.
It is indeed sad to relate the de
tails of the awful tragedy. Last
Friday night, while alone in his
room, he inflicted a gash on his
throat from which he would have
recovered, but he left the house,
barefooted and undressed, and went
to the barn and fastened a rope about
his neck and climbed to the top of
the barn and fastened the other end
of the rope to a rafter and hanged
himself.
The remains were viewed Dr. Nel
son Thomas, coroner, who found that
an inquest was unnecessary.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon from the home of Mr.
Meadows on Oxford Route 6, con
ducted by his pastor, Rev. B. H
Black, who was assisted by Rev. L.
M. Hubbs, of Creedmuor. The ac
tive pallbearers were: Messrs J. E
Duncan, J. H. Daniel, J. P. Walters,
S. H. Brinkley. W. S. Gooch and P.
L. Thomasson; honorary: J. H.
Stem, J. M. Bullock, W- H. Whitaker,
W. T. Wilkerson, T. W. Bullock, R.
D. Holeman and J. C. Hopkins.
Lecture On Serbia, May 20th, By
Mrs. Lindsey Patterson.
The Woman's Literary Club has
issued invitations to the members of
the Woman's Club, The Shakespeare
ciuD, ine neviewer s uiud, ana a
number of other friends, to a lecture
on Serbia at 4 o'clock, next Thursaay
afternoon, the 20 th of May in the
Lyon Memorial Building. Mrs. Lind
sey Patterson of Winston-Salem will
be the honored guest of the Club, and
the speaker on this occasion. It
will be remembered that Mrs. Patter
son went on a commission to the
Balkan States for the U. S. Govern
ment, shortly after the war, and has
only recently returned, and the Club
considers itself fortunate in having
such a distinguished visitor.
The lecture will be full of interest
and information. Mrs. Patterson
will speak in a Serbian costume,
which she wore at the Queen's pal
ace, and the four young girls who
will act as ushers will also wear the
native dress of the Balkan women.
During her travels in the Balkan
Country Mrs. Patterson collected
many works of art which will be on
display after the address.
Seldom has Oxford had such a
treat in store, as is offered by tne
Woman's Literary Club on this occasion.
MR. EUGENE G. MOSS POINTS
IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
It Is Not Too Late Yet To Plant
Some Other Crop To Take mo
Place of Wheat
Editor Public Ledger:
The May 1st. crop report for the
United States gives the official fore
cast for winter wheat at 484,647,
000 bushels compared with the crop
for last year at 731,636,000 bushels,
an estimated shortage of 243,989,
000 bushels, practically one-third
less wheat than wao produced in i'j
19. There is no possible chance to over
come this shortage with spring
wheat, however favorable seasonal
conditions may be in tho spring
wheat area. From all reports a
vailable, labor conditions are Jusi
as bad in our own community, ,if
not worse.
It is useless to expect a bumper
crop when only 72 men out of a nor
mal 100 are working on the farms.
It is now very generally predicted
that flour will be not less than $20
a barrel and hard to get before next
year this time.
There is plenty time to provide
some other crop that may be very
largely used next year in the place
of wheat. E.. G. MOSS.
Mention of the name of William
H. Taft in connection with the re
publican presidential nomination
serves to recall the fact that only
one ex-President Mr. Cleveland
has been elected President.
HAS LIVED IN A CAVE
Ohio lrouth Returns to Face Trial
After Two Years.
Chillicothe, Ohio, May 17. Af
ter nearly two years of hiding in the
caves of Hocking Valley, near Adel
phia, Ohio, in the fear that he would
face a firing squad if discovered,
Carl Amerine, an alleged deserter
from the 48th division, has surren
dered himself to military authorities
at Camp Sherman, near here. He
was furnished food by his wife.
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If you desire to vote you must
register on or before next Saturday.
See that your name is on the Book
FORMER GOVERNOR GLENN
FOUND DEAD IN BED
Died In Royall Alexandra Hotel In
Winnipeg Early Sunday Night.
Winnipeg, May 16. Robert B.
Glenn, former governor of North Ca
rolina, and a member of the Inter
national Great Waterways Commis
sion, was found dead in bed at the
Royal Alexandra hotel here tonight.
He came here for his health. Burial
at Winston-Salem, N. C.
Dr. Emmett To Wed.
The following announcement in a
Huntington paper is of interest to
friends in Oxford: "Mrs. Archibald
Pleasants Cone announces the en
gagement of her daughter, Annie
Cleveland, to Dr. John Morehead
Emmett, of Hunington, W. Va'., for
merly of Oxford, N. C."
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