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VOL. XXXV
,rVNil IK COUMI FARMERS
' DISPLEASED WITH THE
PRICE OF TOBACCO
om- M.uket
Opens Her Tuesday,
ntember 21 The Farmers Will
vice Tlieir Tobacco On the Ware-
Moor aim nau-u ivesiuis.
To say
that the larmers ot Gran-
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enuntv are aispieaseu wun me
lia nf tobacco on the East Caroli-j
pi markets this weeK is putting it
riildlv- toiutr UL "'"u men I
peth c- aKe Uitl ucau tt"u - "wiu"!"!' uuairman; u 1. Breedlove
. .. are more demonstrative ' Wyatt E. Cannadv t. t. t t m'
H predict the downfall of thejAverett.
tobacco repuuiic, n auj.ii a imug
ovists
But mere is a wise aim or-
jariv element among
the farmers
nv words goes a long way in the
hour of emergency
They are in fa-
their tobacco on the
vare'iouse noors m au uiueny man
ner, and if it does not bring a fair
price iaey propose to take the weed
home and hold it indefinitely.
The first reports sent out from the
easteni markets were calculated to
create distrust throughout the to
bacco belt, but the reports were mis
leading to some extent.
Dr. E. T. White, Messrs. C- W.
Bryan and S. C Garman were among
the Oxford people who attended the
sale at Rocky Mount last Tuesday.
tv. White states that the average for
ill sold on the Rocky Mount market !
on opening day was about $25 the
hundred. Opening day last year said
Dr. White, the price for the same
srade was from 5 to 10 cents higher.
b Dr. White stated that he would
prefer to see the markets open at a
low figure and build up gradually
than to see it open high and decline
later in the season.
Mr. Andrew Jamison attended the
opening sales at Kinston Tuesday.
He states that there is half enough
tobacco in Eastern Carolina to sup
ply the trade for the next twelve
months- There being an overpro
duction and the inability of foreign
countries to buy tobacco, Mr. Jami
son is fearful that the prices will be
much lower than last year.
It is estimated that the present
crop in Granville is one-third more
than it was last year. Quite a num
ber of well-informed tobacco men ex
press the belief that the crop will
bring as much as a whole this year
as it did last year- While there is
son:e consolation along that line, it
must be remembered that the present
crop cost the fanner at least 20 per
cent more to produce.
A PRETTY MARRIAGE
Mis Fiances
the Bride
Worthington Taylor
Of Mr. Graham W.
Harris
A marriage of much interest . was
consummated in St. Stephen's Church
on Thursday evening at nine o'clock
when Miss Frances Worthington Tay
lor became the bride of Mr. Graham
Waverly Harris. The church was
tastily and appropriately adorned
with candles and ferns- The wed
ding music was rendered by Miss
Mary Webb. Miss Edna White sang
0 Perfect Love." The wedding
Kit;- entered in the following order:
The ushers in full evening dress, six
brokers of the bride, J. L. Taylor of
Charlotte. D. K. Taylor, W. B. Taylor
of Wilmington, R. K. Taylor, H. L.
Taylor and Dick Taylor. The dame
of honor was Mrs- George L. Tillery
of Philadelphia, sister of the bride,
v-eDrini: rule green taffeta and carry
ing ro?p5 and asters. Next came the
Kains of honor Misses Carrie Harris,
ster of the groom and Idie Kerr
Taylor, sister of the bride, wearing
orchid taffetas, carrying showers of
asters and roses. The bride entered
on the arm of her father, J. A. Taylor
by whom she was given in marriage.
b:,A T,-ore a handsome creation of
Duchosse Satin embroidered with
ceed pearl and made with court train
carrying: shower of bride's roses.
was met at the altar by the bride
groom with his best man, Grady Har
Jjs. his brother. Rev. F. H. T. Hors
tield performed the ceremony that
Jiade them man and wife. They left
by auto for a wedding trip to north
ern cities-
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
ar-d Mrs. J. A. Taylor of this city, is
possessed of many personal charms,
attractive in appearance and of bright
intellect. The groom is the son of
Mrs. ii. w. Harris, and is a progres
JVfl youn? business man of Oxford,
faring the World War he served val-
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the 30th Division of M. G.
Illfantrv TT uc-ne nwarripd
ll D. S. C- Medal for bravery and al
o decorated by the Prince of Wales
at V, ashington.
w of town guests were Mrs. Pierce
joanson of Weldon, Mrs. F. M. Sham-
i.jp, Xewbern, Lucy and Mary
Warrenton, Mr. and Mrs-
Oth'
' .' 011 and rhildrpn nf TTpster. Mr.
ai-d Mis. R .p. Taylor and Miss Sallie
i'oi of Louisburg, Mrs. Robert
"tfiiier, Norfolk, J. R. Mitchener and
H. Speed of Franklinton, J. C.
wbardr,. Mr. and Mrs. George L. Til
y of Philadelphia, J. L. Taylor of
ynarlotte, W. B. Taylor, Wilmington.
Engagement Announced.
, fi Ti fl "!Ttu Pliorlos TlonriHn
Mr
XXClil. J.t3
Ltlea,nam announce the engagement
"if tnoir daughter, Bettie Mae, to Dr.
francis Cicero DcDowell, of Zebulon.
marriage is to take place in
November.
Bl""1i0Qp bjttery should have water
Iir? every two week Stop at W1I
,ar Service Station.
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valujjussiunERS PUT
IN TWO FULL DAYS !
Fixing the Tax Levy, Discussing the
Road to Brantwood and Other
County Matters.
The County Commissioners met
last Monday and worked faithfully
until late Tuesday evening. The
two days' session was made neces-
- j me Lai. icy anu otner ur-
gent business. All of the
members
J- Ennls
iicbcui, as ionows :
vxiora-Henaerson Roa4.
Owine to tho faH- thot v
been much delay in the completion
ot me uxrora-Henderson
road, the
commissioners appointed Chairman
uavis and Mr. J. B. Powell to go to
Raleigh and see if the work cannot
be. expedited. The commissioners
had hoped that the road would be
completed before the tobacco mar
ket opened, and now they propose to
see that it is completed before bad
weather sets in, if such is possible.
The Rubin Hart Road.
The Reubin Hart road in Oak Hill
township was under discussion. It
was assertained that this road would
be about four and one-half miles
long.
The Veasy-Walker Road.
The Commissioners agreed to
build three small bridges for W. R.
Walker on the Veasy-Walker road
in Dutchville.
The Nathan Burwell Land.
Mr. Frank H. Gregory, of Stovall,
was appointed to assess the dam
age caused to the lands of Nathan
Burwell by the road force and report
at the next meeting.
Tax Levy For 1920
State 13
County School 21
General County 10
Roads 22
Total
State .
School
.66
.39'
1.50
Poll Tax.
County 09
Total
$1.98
Special School Tax Levy.
(Fishing Creek)
9
12
11
11
10
(Brassfield)
10
11
20
11
25
12
12
15
16
12
.10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
12
10
10
(Dutchville)
(Tally Ho)
(Walnut Grove)
(Oak Hill)
(Sassafras Fork)
Salem .... 6
Oxford No- 4 10
Oxford Graded 15
WORK OX GRANVILLE COUNTY
FAIR PROGRESSING FINELY
Community Exhibits Will' Be a Great
Feature This Year.
The various agencies, working in
the interest of the County Fair, are
pushing things along toward a suc
cessful climax.
The space in the building is rapid
ly being assigned to those desiring
space for exhibits. Any one plann
ing to exhibit would do well to speak
for a space if they wish to get a de
sirable one. The community exhi
bits will be a great feature, of this
year's fair. Interest runs high in
the several communities and this
years exhibits promise to be of a
higher class than ever before.
The amusement features are of a
high class and everything points to
a big fair. Get ready for it, every
body!
CHIEF MARSHAL OF THE
GRANVILLE COUNTY FAIR
rMr. K. L. Street Win name wis .as
sistants In a Few lays.
Mr., K. Street has been appoint
ed chief marshal of the Granville
bounty Fair and is busy getting
things in shape for a big parade. He
fmp at- his new duties as chief mar-
? shal with a great deal of enthusiasm
and energy, and the Fair directors
feel tnat mey uave mc
push this important feature of the
county fair. Mr. Street will name
his assistants in a few days.
Miss Eleanor Huske and Master
Isaac Huske, of Fayetteville have
returned home after a visit to their
sister, Mrs. R. H. Lewisr.
TunafiS Alline and Elizabeth
Wicks have returned from a delighFl
ful visit to Danville.
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IrUrtD, N. C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,
TAD A rrf nnAiirnnn a
A "VV UrliU VY JliliO
LOW PRICES IN EASTERN CAROLINA
Sales Are Stopped and the Weed Hauled Home
Growers To Take Concertd Action To Keep the
Crop Off the Markets.
The tobacco growers in Eastern North
Carolina are mad and disheartened because
ot a fifty per cent reduction in the price on
Tuesday, the opening day, as compared with
last year. Greenville warehouses closed
shortly after opening and angry farm
ers threatened violence if the sales con
tinued. Sales were also discontinued at
Farmville and Ayden, but the larger mark
ets remained open though the price slumps
caused a lotxf the weed to be hauled back
lome and many indignation meetings were
ield. .
The movement to organize for holding for
fair prices continues to gain headway; and
yesterday Johnston county farmers joined
Wilson and Vance county tobacco growers in
the organization of a State-wide and South
wide organization to take steps' tor holding
tobacco off the markets.
Wilson, the largest bright leaf market in
the world, opened with a million pounds on
hand in t its six warehouses. Seemingly the
price has dropped out and at noon the grow
ers held a mass-meeting in the court N house
and adopted resolutions calling on the tobac
co farmers of the State to keep their tobacco
at home until prices improve.
The average for the Smithfield market be
ing about one-third of last year, brought con
sternation to both farmers and business men,
and here again a mass-meeting was quickly
called. Congressman Edwaard Pou and oth
er leading citizens promised their support of
the movement to secure a fair price for to
bacco or else keep it at home.
With a quarter of a million pounds mark
eted at Rocky Mount, sales were the lightest
on record, the average being about 20 to 25
cents, which was the average for the easern
, markets, as compared with 30 cents for last
year, estimated.
Kinston took on six hundred thousand
pounds and Goldsboro a million and while
grave dissatisfaction was expressed over the
prices paid, there were no rejections, report
ed. - Leaders counceled discretion with the
hope that conditions will improve.
MEETING OF THE
FLAT RIVER
ASSOCIATION
At Mountain Creek Church Wednes
day, October 3.
The next session of the Flat River
Association will meet with Mountain
Creek Church on Wednesday after
second Sunday in October. The
church clerks are instructed by the
executive committee to prepare re
ports from July first to October first,
: fifteen months this year instead of
twelve and are also urged to mail
the letters to clerk of the Association
in time to be tabulated before the As
sociation meets.
The standing committee appoint
ed at last association have all been
notified by letter.
If for any reason any one on the
committee can not report please noti
fy the moderator now, so that some
one else may be appointed
E.
E.
B. MEADOWS, Moderator.
G. USRY, Clerk.
BIG PAY DAY NEXT WEEK
Over Three Million Dollars. Will Be
Paid Out in This District.
There will be another pay-day in
North Carolina Sept. 5 when the
government will be prepared to dis
tribute more than $500,000 as inter
est on bonds of the- third Liberty
Loan bought here. In the fifth Fed
eral Reserve district the payment
will amount to $3,918,000: in the na
tion at large it will be $88,750,000.
The official records show that 81,
582 subscriptions were received to
the Third Liberty Loan in the Old
North State, the total amount sub
scribed being $24,582,250. In the
district there were more than 858,
000 subscriptions, the holdings ex
ceeding $186,000,000. Since many of
the bonds bought in this State were
paid for from the savings of the
people, the United States Treasury
Department suggests that the bond
holders increase their rate of in
come still further by investing their
interest in other government bonds
or in Treasury Savings Certificates
pr War Savings Stamps. -
A FORGER AT LARGE
IN GRANVILLE COUNTY
Capt- Tuck, of the Clarksville po
lice force was in Oxford yesterday
on the lookout for a man who is
charged with forging several checks
in Clarksville recently. "The man
is in hiding somewhere in the
county." said Capt Tuck, "and I
will get him sooner or later."
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AKEi 1V1AU U V HJK
MEETING OF TOBACCO
GROWERS OF GRANVILLE
P. WT. Knott, former president
of the Granville County Fann
er's Union, has called a meeting
of the tobacco growers of the
county to be 'held at the court
house Saturday, September 18,
to discuss the tobacco situation.
Be on . hand promptly at 2
o'clock.
MOONSHINERS ACTIVE OVER
IN THE HURRICANE
Whiskey Manufacturing Plant Cap
tured In Highly Respected Neigh
borhood. A rumbling noise has been heard
over in the; Hurricane for some time,
which moved Sheriff Hunt to make
an investigation. He dispatched De
puties Lyon - and Curl, two of his
most trusted men, to the scene of
activity last Monday afternoon.
; After a long tramp through the
woods, the faithful officers came
across several barrels of sour mash
in the highly respected," peaceful and
law-abiding neighborhood in which
Mr. Herbert Davis lives.
"That is the last piace in the
world I would expect-to fine a whis
key manufacturing plant," said De
puty Lyon.
The moonshiners had . evidentally
intended to carry on a big business,
and with that end in view they had
selected a quiet place in a fine nei
ghborhood to ward off suspicion.
All of the arrangements had not
been perfected when the officers
came upon the scene. The three bar
rels of sour mash was ready for the
kettle, which implies that if the of
ficers had not broken into the ar
rangements the distillery would
have been in operation last Monday
night.
Deputy Lyon estimates that there
was enough beer to have made 35
gallons of liquor. Thirty-five gal
gons of liquor at $30 a gallon means
$1050. That's not so Dad. for a.few
hours work, but it is an awful risk
for any sensible person to take. '
Mr. S- C. Morton Jr., who has
been buying tobacco on the S- C
market during the summer is now on
the market at Smithfield.
1920
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THE ROAD TO BRANTWOOD
It Can Be Built For
$25,000
The county commissioners at their
meeting last Tuesday had under con
sideration the project to pave the
road from the corporate limits to the
Southern Railway Crossing of the
National Highway, a distance of a
bout three-eights of a mile. This
road is an extension of College street
and leads to the vicinity of Brant
wood Hospital.
Dr. G. S. Watkins, Dr. Nelson
Thomas and Dr. Jack Bullock having
made large investments to establish
a modern hospital, the individual
members of the county board are in
favor of a hand surface road from
the corpoate limits to. Brantwood
hospital, the road to conform to the
streets of Oxford, at a width of a
bout 20 feet. -
It was stated that a contractor re
cently estimated that the stretch of
road could be built for $20,000. Mr.
R. L. Brown, superintendent of the
Oxford Orphanage is willing to sub
scribe several hundred dollars, and it
is understood that other property
holders abuting the road are willing
to pay their proportional part of the
cost.
Since the first estimate of the con
struction was made a few weeks ago,
materials, stone, freight, etc, have
advanced, and it is understood that
the work would now cost $25,000.-
By virtue of the great necessity of
a hard surfce road the commissioners
are willing to vote $15,000 if the
town of Oxford, the State and the a
buting property holders will furnish
the balance.
There is a good healthy sentiment
in Oxford and all over the county to
extend the smooth surface road to
Brantwood. Many patients, it is
said, will arrive here on the trains
and a hard surface road will enable
them to reach, the hospital quicker
and in a much better condition than
if the road is rough.
THE BALLOTS FOR
THE NOVEMBER ELECTION
The Number Has Been Doubled On
Account of the Suffrage Vote.
The Raleigh News and Observer
states that within the next few days
printers will begin, work on the 5,
000,000 National, State and congres
sional ballots that will decide the No
vember election in North Carolina.
The number is the largest that , has
ever been ordered in the State, and
will require the steady work of the
printers for several weeks. They will
be mailed out before the 15th of. Oc
tober. There will be a million tickets
bearing the names of Cox and Roose
velt, Democratic national nominees,
and 700,000 dedicated to Harding
and Collidge. Another million State
Democratic tickets will be printed
and-' 700,000 for the Republicans
bearing the party nominees for all
State offices. Approximately 2,000,
000 congressional tickets will be
printed
The number of tickets required in
the election is determined by the par
ty vote in the last preceding national
election with an added 25 per cent for
the normal growth. The figures
this 3rear have been doubled on ac
count of the enfranchisement of the
women. So far no provision has
been made for the Socialist, Prohi
bitionist of other tickets that are in
the field in the State and the nation.
THIS GEORGIA WOMAN HAD
NEVER HEARD OF CHRIST
An Atlanta minister has found a
grown up white woman, uneducated
but of more than average intelli
gence, in the North Georgia moun
tains, who had never heard of the
crucifixion of Christ.
He tells a pathetic story of her
comment.
The circuit riding minister, visit
ing the little family for the first
time, told the story of the cross. They
followed it with rapt faces, and when
he had concluded the woman, leaning
toward him whispered hoarsely:
"Stranger, when did you say all
this happened?"
"A long time ago," he answered,
"nearly two thousand years."
"And they nailed him to that ther'
tree when he hadn't done nothin'
to hurt 'em; only jest loved 'em?"
."Yes."
She leaned further and placed her
hand impressively on his knee.
"War stranger,' she said, the tears
standing in her eyes, "let's hope it
aint so."
THREE STATES IN WHICH WO
MEN MAY BE TURNED DOWN
Louisiana, New Jersey and Miss
issippi are the only States in which
women may find themselves unable
to vote in the coming general elec
tions, according to suffrage leaders
in Washington. All other States
were said to have either' officially
held that adequate provisions for
this purpose already were on their
statute books or to have arranged
for passage of enabling legislation.
Attorney General Roberson, of Miss
issippi, has written the national wo
man's party headquarters that the
State constitution requirement of
registration at least four months
prior to an election precluded any
hope of women voting in -that State.
A somewhat similar situation exist
in New Jersey and Louisiana.
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THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS CLAM
ORING FOR MORE PRODUCTION
There Is No Other Way By Which the
Country Can Prosper.
(The Pathfinder) "
Some city people have a great way
of wanting to stay dressed up and
live a life of ease and pleasure, and
yet expect the farmers out in the
country will produce the foodstuffs
for them at starvation prices. They
expect that vegetables will be raised,
picked, washed, taken to the market,
handled and delivered by somebody
for a mere song but they are reck
oning without their host. s Ex-Sen-titor
Joe Bailey, of Texas, sounds a
warning when he says:
"I want to tell the men of labor
that if they insist upon this univer
sal eight-hour .day the time will come
when it will be applied to the farms
as well as the factories. If every
body else is entitled to rest, at th
. end of eight hours, the American f ar-
Imers are htitled also to that same
privilege. And I tell you city folks
you might as well make up your
mind he will take it. and whpn hA
Ldoes and the lean years come, when
me Diignt tails on the fields, when
the crops are short,, a large part of
the American people will go to bed
half hungry half the nights in the
year.
"The farmer is not going to con
tinue to produce large crops and sell
them at the low price which large
crops will bring if he is compelled to
buy his merchndise at a high price
because produced on short hours and
at high wages. You might as well
make up your mind to that You
city folks are now complaining at the
high cost of living but it has only
reached the ceiling today; it will
reach the sky when the frm
'working eight hours a. day as you
want to in the cities.
"Of course at first the farmer
will not know exactly what to do
with that extra four hours, but he
will learn. He can learn to play as
well as any of you. The best of, them
probably will. learn to play golf, as
some of you do, and the others will
learn to play hell, as so many, folks
have done."
Mr. Bailey hits the nail on the
head better than any other man we
know of. He sees that things have
been going the wrong way and he is
going to help straighten them out
if telling the plain, truth will do it.
The truth may not be welcome, but
it is wholesome. There are thou
sands of abandoned farms in niany
of our states and there is no reason
for anyone to go hungry or pay high
prices who -is willing to di hia liv
ing out of Lioihcr rar'h.v-; .
Obviously these city people who
are always com plaining at food pric
es must be making more money at
their present work than they could
make raising and selling foods. Oth
erwise they would give up what they
are now doing and go to supplying
foodstuffs, in which they claim there
is such big profit If it is such a
simple matter to raise and market
food and if there is such a wide mar
gin of profit in it. as the kickers sav.
i why don't some of them show us how
to produce and retail these necessi
ties cheaper?
If they want to prove that foods
can be raised and handled on a smal
ler margin, let them go to it; a hun
gry world will bless them.
PLAYS ROLL PEACEMAKER
Mr. J. E. Jackson Has Made Splendid
Record In Welfare Work Iri TJie
County.
. It is a difficult matter to give a re
'view of the work of Mr. J. E. Jack
son, who is at the head of the Wel
fare Work in Granville. It is diffi
cult to give an adequate review be
cause Mr. Jackson's work covers a
'Scope that it is impossible to des
cribe in detail. The many probelms
that come into the lives of humans
seem small to the public, but they
are gigantic to the individual, and
sometimes when they go unsolved
have far-reaching effects on the pub
lic that was indifferent before. The
solving of these problems sometimes
saves the world from a criminal, and
it is the solving of these problems
that keeps Mr. Jackson busy.
Since Mr. Jackson began work lit
tle more than a year ago, he has
found permanent homes for a great
number of children. This week a
homeless little boy was safely anch
ored in a good home, also the wid
owed mother was found a place
where she could work and support
herself. Mr. Jackson is making it,
possible for a number of children to
attend -school that have never at
tended before. Many little folks who
do not understand how to handle the
big problems of life have found Mr.
Jackson a safe counselor. Misunder
stood little boys who didn't mean to
be really bad have told Mr. Jackson
just how some unfortunate affair
happened, and he has straightened
out the whole thing for them.
Mr. Jackson has had a try at the
troubles of the grown folks too. Many
times he has had a hand in the quell
ing of troubled waters in cases of do
mestic trouble. It is appalling that
so many married couples in the
county have had dangerous differ
ences. There are numerous pother
cases and instances in which : Mr.
Jackson's services have proved val
uable, but it is hard to get statistics
upon the broad field that he covers
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