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OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGER FRIDAY. JULY 9. 1920 THfc PUBLIC LEDGER AND OXFORD B A NNER PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY DAN A. COBLE Editor and Manager C. EDWARDS COBLE Advertising Manager SUBSCRIPTIONS One Year .$2.00 Six Months 1.00 Three Months .60 Correspondence on all matters of in terest news items notes or sugges tions for better methods of f rm or in dustrial developments, improvement of roads, schools, etc. is earnestly solicited. NON-DELIVEItY OF PUBLIC LEDGER Please notify us of railure to get the Public Ledger at any time. We use the greatest caution possible In mail ing oujt and wish to know of failures in delivery. OBITUARY NOTICES Brief news items of deaths, Immed iately after decease, of twenty to thirty v words without cost. Life Life sketches (obituaries) at rate of l-2c per word.. To get prompt atten tion count the words in copy and send cash, stamps or check with the copy. Entered at the Post Office at Oxford, North Carolina, as second-class rnat ter THIS NOMINATION The primary campaign has ended. The Democratic party has chosen its candidate for Governor. From intact and in good shape. The Mor cho&en any one ana not have made a mistake. Morrison, Gardner, Page all there are worthy repre sentatives of the pirty and of the North Carolina spirit and traditions. Now we must turn our faces to ' wards the November election. Of course, Granville county will elect the Domecratic country ticket and give a good majority to the state candidates. But this is a year in which simply a "good majority" may not be sufficient. It may be that every Democratic vote in the county will be needed for the state ticket. The county can easily give 1,500 majority to the Democratic ticket if the leaders and workers will devote themselves and their efforts to the jdxiy as completely as they recently have to their favorites for Govern or. And after all that is the test of a Democrat. Every man who worked at the polls for Morrison or Gardner last Saturday ought to work there on election day in No vember. It's a poor Democrat whose devotion to faction a man is less than his loyaltly to the party or to priciple. The campaign ends with the party intact and in god shape. The Mor rison men have won aid can afford to rejoice. The Gardner men have loyally accepted the result and on every hand they are heard pledging their support to the winning man. Together the two factions will and must move forward against the common enemy. Having settled its family quarrel in state and couny, with face to the front, the parf t girds itself for the preservation of good govern- ment and the perpetuation of Dem ocratic control. VALE BRYAN! San Francisco appears to have been Waterloo for Mr. Bryan. And as a prophet of mighty abandoned at last by those who were once glad to follow him and Ivit desolate, dis appointed and yet undismayed amid the debris of all his hopes, the Commoner is no small or insignifi cant figure. It has been fashionable to sneer at him. He could weep in public and peoples and parties will never trust any man wha does that. He brought' little of elemental wisdom to his, party. He will take little of sound philosophy away from it. But Bryan has many of the great vir tues of character that are native to original America and the present Middle West. Any man who stands up and fights for an idea nntil he is batter ed down in his trucks deserves a word of praise in massing. THEY ALL DEMAND IT BABIES HELP PAY FOR WAR Even Talcum Powder Has Been Levied Upon to Meet Expenditures Duo to Slaughter. The posi&em4'. L. ha$ hit tbies. Iff & n babies. In the Homf SectorSWilliara'G. Shep herd says: ..olOOU.OOd will go Into Uncle Sam's coffers from the pock ets and purses of soda water drink el's in 1920. t?Fplks. who ,ike bowling or billiards or 'pool will give about a million and a half to Uncle Sam. Peo ple who play cards will give hirn two and a quarter millions. Automobiles and motorcycles will bring him in 50 cents a head from the whole 106,000, 000 of us. We'll give him about $55, 000,000 for going to theaters and mov ies. "Every one of the 106,000,000 of us, indeed, will give Uncle Sam an aver age of two cents a day, directly, for pleasure and conveniences, with baby paying tribute for his talcum powder, mother and sister paying tribute for their perfumes, father paying tribute for his cigarettes and athletic club dues, all the kids paying tribute for the movies and their trips to the cor ner soda fountain. , "The war did it all, too. We're pay ing just ten times more to Uncle Sam in internal revenue this year than we did in 1914. We paid so little then one-tenth of iy2 cents a day and we paid it so indirectly, that few of us realized that there really was such a person in the world as Uncle Sam. At last the old party has found us. Since then a lot of us have fought and died for him. And if he's worth dying for he's worth supporting." MAY DEVELOP GUM MARKET Opening of Mesopotamia to Civiliza tion Likely to Add Largely to the World's Supply. As law and order come nto the wild and unsettled mountains of Mesopo tamia, especially; when new roafrs and the eventual railway connect the northern Kurdish country around Mo sul with the rest of the world, many a now useless . tree and shrub will doubtless be put to service as a con tributor of gum. The gums of Meso potamia have many commercial uses, and the unsystematic tapping and trading that now brings the product on pack animals to Suleimanaya, where merchants buy. it from the Kurds and sell It again to other mer chants in Bagdad, is a mere sugges tion of the industry that may be de veloped by enterprising promoters who may have observed the extent of this natural resource in Mesopotamia and looked further afield than Afeppo and Bagdad for markets. Now that Brit ish occupation has opened the land to western ideas,- it would not be sur prising if the gum industry grew to be a source of considerable national wealth, and an important factor in creating a new Mesopotamia. BOARD BE IT ORDAINED BY THE ; , J..; OF COMMISSIONERS OF OXFORD. i . - Chapter 10 of the Ordinances of the Town of Oxford be amended and f . M. . - ..ill . . .. ' that on and after July 1st,- 1920 the following special taxes shall apply and are hereby levied in lieu of the special taxes enumerated in said Chapter 10. j , 1. On ah automobiles, the owners of which reside in the town of Ox : ford, $1.00 per year. On all automobiles or motor vehicles used for hire, $1.00 per year. 2. On all motor vehicle agencies, for each line handled, $15.00 per year. 3. On all garages and repairing of automobiles $15.00 per year. ,4. On all buggy factories, olfactories where parts of buggies are manu factured, $15.00 per year; 5 On all wholesale or i retail merchants, including lumber merchants where inventory of 'stock l is $10,000 or less, $5.00, from $10,000 to $20,000.00, $10.00, all over $20,000.00, $15.00 per year. The amount of tax levied and collected shall be based on the inventory for the year said tax becomes due and collectable. 6. On all cabinet makers and repairers, $5.00 per year. i "V 1 1 ' " 1 .1 ... . 1 . - i. . un an Dunaiug tuuiractors $25i.UU per year, SUBSCRIBE TO OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGERS concrete contractors SAY "DIAMOND DYES" Don't streak or prin your material in a poor dye. Insist on "Diamond Dyes." Easy directions in package. 2S. 29. 33. 34. oO. 37. as. "CORNS" Lift Right Off Without Pain Oxford, Like Every City and, Town In the Union, Receives It. People with kidney ills want to be cured. . .When one suffers the tor tures of an aching back, relief is eagerly sought for. There are many remedies today that relieve, but do not cure. 'Doan's Kidney Pills have brought lasting results to thousands. Here is Oxford, evi dence of their merit. Mrs. S. H. Kearney, Route 6, Box 1, says: "Lifting and doing heavy housework weakened my kidneys and this caused me some annoy ance. I had severe headaches and was also very dizzy and black specks would come before my eyes, back was sore and stiff, too. Doan's Kidney Pills were recommended to me so I got a box and began taking them'. My back soon got stronger and in a short time -the headaches and dizzy spells disappeared and I was entirely cured. I have had no trouble of this kind since." Price 60c, at ali dealers. Don't ' simply ask for a kidney remedy 'get Doan's .Kidney Pills the jsame that Mrs. Kerney had. Foster Milburn Co,. Mfgs., Buffalo, N. Y. Doesn't hurt a bit! Drop a little "Freezone" on an aching corn, in stantly that COrn ctops hurting, then shortly you lift it right off with fingers. Truly! Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of "Freezone" for a few cents, suffi cient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and the calluses, without soreness or irritation. PONT BE BALD How to Make Hair Grow Strong, Thick and Lustrous. If your hair Is thinning out, don't wait another day, but go to J. G. Hall's and get a bottle of Parisian sage, the truly efficient hair grower. Don't say: "It's the same old story; I've heard it before," but try a bottle at their risk. They guar antee Parisian sage to stop falling hair and stimulate a new growth, banish all dandruff and almost in stntly stop scalp itcji, or money back. UO t ' Parisian sage contains just the elements needed to firoperly invigo rate the hair, rcfots if s afprime fav orite with' (ksqriiDapnJ; jladies be cause it mates tnerhai so soft and lustrous, and appear twice as abun dant. Partisan sage is inexpensive and easily obtainable at all drug store's. $10.00 per year, painters $5.00 per year. 8. On all grist and flour mills $10.00 per year, on all grist mills $5.00 per year. . 9. On all electrical supply houses the same tax as that' levied on mer chants according to inventory. 10. 4On each electrician $10.00 per year. 11. On all fertilizer agents or dealers $10.00 per year. 12. On all house movers $5.00 for each house moved. 13. On all itenerant manufacturers or vendors $2.00 per day. 14. On all oil wagons or tracks $10.00 per year. 15. On all newspapers $10.00 per year. 16. On all job printing establishments, $10.00 per year. 17'. On all real estate dealers .collecting rents $15.00 per year, without collecting rents, $10.00 per year. IS. On all auction sales conducted by non-residents $10.00 for each sale. 19. On all sewing-machine agents or dealers, $10. CO per year. 20. On all warehouses selling leaf tobacco, $25.00 per year,. on all buy ers of tobacco except warehousemen $10.00 per year,--on all stem-, merles $15.00 per year. 21. On all piano, organ and Talking-Machine dealers or agents $10.00 per year. - T2. On all iutcnerant feign painters $10.00 per year. 2o. On all tailors .flO.OO per year, on all pressing clubs $10.00 per year, or tailoring and pressing club combined, $20.00 per year. S4. On all plumbing supply houses the same tax as that levied on mer chants according to inventory of stock. 25. On all plumbers $10.00 per year. 26. On all auctioneers except auctioneers of tobacco sales only, $5.00 per year. On all baby racks $5.00 per year. On all bill posters $JLO.'0O per year. On all bagatelle tables $10.00 per year. 30. On all bowling alleys $25.00 per year. 31. On all bottling works for the. bottling of pepsi-cola, cocoa-cola, or other similar preparations, $25.00 per year. 32. On all brokers $5.00 per year. On all barber shops $2.00 per year on each chair used therein. On all barbecue or other refreshment stands, $1.00 per day. On all bicycle dealers $5.00 per year. On all bicycle repair shops $5.00 per year. On all commissioned merchants $5.00 per year. On all circuses, menageries, Wild West, dog and pony shows, one- half of the amount of tax levied by the State, whether given in town or within one mile thereof, not to exceed $5.00 for each separate exhibition. 39. On all slight of hand performances, theatrical plays, rope dancing; or tumbling "or wire dancing $10.00 for each performance. 40. On all other shows of whatsoever kind given for profit and not therein otherwise enumerated, $10.00 for each performance. 41. On all exhibitions of artificial curiosities, $10.00. 42. On all coal and wood . dealers, $10.00 per year. 4'6. On all one-horse drays, hacks, carriages, buggies or other vehicles run for hire, $1.00 per year. On all two-horse drays, hacks, carriages, buggies or other vehicles run for hire, $2.00 per year. 44. On all Express companies doing business in the town $20.00 per year. 45. On all electric light and power companies doing 'business in the town $50.00 per year. 46. On all fruit tree dealers or agents $5.00 per year. 47. On all gas companies doing business in the town $20.00 per year. 4b. On all hotels a like tax as that levied by the State, not to exceed $12.50 per year. , 49. On all horse dealers or traders $5.00 per year. 50. On all itenerant occulists $5.00 per year. 51. On all peddlers or itenerant . vendors of patent medicines, soaps, stationery or any other article whatsoever $2:00 per day or $5.00 per year. 52. On all itenerant merchants $20.00 per year. ( 5b. On all junk dealers $25.00 per year. 54. On all livery stables $15.00 per year. 55. On all Merry-go-Rounds, Ferris Wheels or Flying Jennies $25.00 per year each. - , 56. On all Moving-Picture shows $25.00 per year, on all vaudeville shows $25.00 per year. . 57. On all omnibuses $10.00 per year. 58. On all Opera Houses $15.00 per year. 59. On all Piano and Organ Repairers or tuners $5.00 per year. CO. On all restaurants $10.00 per year. 61. On all: retailers of soft drinks for fountain and bottled drinks $10.00 per year. For bottled drinks only $5.00 per year; 62. " On all skating rinks $10.00 per year. 63. On all slot machines $10.00 per year. C4. On all shotting galleries $20.00 per year. 65. On all . pumps for delivering gasoline pr other oils on sidewalks or streets $5.00 per year. 66. On all telegraph companies doing business in the town $10.00 per year. 66 1-2 on ail oil companies doing business in the town $10.00 per year. 67. On all undertakers $10.00 per year. 1 G8. On all water companies doing business an the town $20.00 per year. 69. On all ice dealers $15.00 per year. 70. On all poles on sidewalks or streets of the town twenty cents each - ijer year. . - 71. On ail encroachments on the streets by porches, piazzars, steps, cellars cr others ten cents per square foot per year. 72. On all fresh fish dealers $3.00 per month; on all dealers in fresh meats alone $10.00 per month; on all dealers in fresh meats and fresh fish combined $12.50 per month,. Sec. 2. Licenses issued by the Town under the provisions of this Chap- ter shall be for twelve months herein otherwise specif :eG and shall ex pire on the 30th day of June of each year. Such license thus obtained shall be a personal privilege and shall not be transferable nor shall any abatement in the tax be allowed. ' Sec. 3. Licenses shall be issued by the Clerk to the; Board, , who shall keep a record of such licenses in a book to be kept for such purposes. The clerk shall feport to thjfioard of Commissioners at each of its regular meetings theIfjber6f licenses issued by him, the namesof the nersons to whom issued and the amount received. ' Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of ie clerk to collect all'license taxes here in provided' for and assessed against residents of the town during the month of July of each and every year, and against all non-residents or itenerants, wfhen such persons shall begin to do or to engage in the business herein subjected to taxation. I Sec. 5. That any person, who shall begin to do, or to engage in doing1, any of the things herein enumerated for which the payment of a lief i . .. ense tax is required without having secured a license therefor, shall be Statement By the Gas Company- An accident at. the 'gas works has resulted in Henderson and Oxford being temporarily without gas. We used every effort tore pair the damage on July 4th, the elate it oc curred, but were unable to procure the needed material on the holiday. Temporary repairs are being made and we expect to resume supplying gas today, Meanwhile a representative has gone to Philadelphia to procure from the erectors of the plant the material required for per manent repairs; he should return in a day or two. The event is extremely embarrassing to us and we regret it more than we can say, the t i convenience it has caused our consumers. We can only add that it was due to effects impossible to foresee and ask you to suspend judgement pending its complete adjust ment. Southern Gas Improve ment Company. ' ' '''''' ... ' t '' ' . EAST CAROLINA TEACHERS TRAIN ING SCHOOL. e A STATE SCHOOL TO TRAIX TEACHERS FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF. XORTH CAROLINA.. EVERY ENERGY IS DI RECTED TO THIS ONE PURPOSE. TUITION FREE TO ALL WHO AGREE TO TEACH. FALL TERM BEGINS SEPTEM BER 29, 1920. FOR CATALOGUE AND OTHER INFORMATION ADDRESS ROBT. H. WRIGHT, President, fined no, exceeding $50.00; license andtalLeosts accrue provided, that if such person shall pay said accrued before trial .the . action shall be dismissed! IBY-PBBUG LEDGER WANT ADS. Protect Your Crops Against Damage By m nil w (fwivi IP I Millions of dollars of loss to crops have been caused by Hail Storms during the past few years.Great losses from this cause have been sustained by farmers in the Carolinas so far this year. Only those who were insured were protect ed against the loss of the time, money and labor invested in those crops! WILL SIMILAR STORMS HAPPEN IN GRANVILLE COUNTY! Your crops are valuable to you! Can you afford to lose them? Protect them with a Hail Policy issued through this office. We are also prepared to take care of your requirements for Fire, Life and all other forms of Insurance. Granville Real Estate & Trust Company A. H. Powell, Pres. Jno. R. Hall, Sec-Treas. REAL ESTATE, ' INSXJRANC,' INVESTAIENTS BOPlTr Telephone 88 Main Stiwt - . , Oxlora, 4. 1