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3IL PUSUSHBD SEMI-WEERLI--TOWN AND COUNTY OFFRBRILLIAM' OPPORTUNITIES AZL EOtT VOL. XXXVI THE FARMERS ARE SLOW TO SIGN THE COOPERATIVE MARKETING CONTRACTS The Public Ledger learns that the farmers of Granville County are slow in signing the cooperative market ing contract. We are not advised as" to why the farmers. are slow to sign up. The Cooperative Marketing con tracts provide a strictly business, commodity, legally organized unce the laws of North Carolina, on a per manent basis, to get the best possible price for the grower for his cottov. and tobacco. Everything in the coi tracts has been proved and tested by growers in other cooperative organi zations. These contracts are a "New Declaration of Independence" for the farmer. Farmers' cooperative organization in California last year did a tota'i business of $275,000,000. The Cooperative-Marketing con tracts now being signed in North Carolina are the same contracts us ed in Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia and South Carolina and are based on the successful experience of 14,000 far mers cooperative associations in the United States- . HAKMXG ISSUES CALL FOR AN EXTRA SESSION Formally Summons the Congress To Wet To Receive Communications. Apiil 11 is the Date Fixed. Working Agreement Will Expe dite Legislative Business. A formal call for an extra session of Congress, to meet on April 11 and receive legislative .communications from the new administration, has been made by President Harding. None of the specific problems to be laid before the legislative branch were named in the proclamation, the President merely declaring that an extraordinary occasion required that Congress convene "to receive such communication as may be made by the executive." Mr. Harding already has indica ted, however, that the tariff and tax ation will be foremost in his message to the special session. He is ex pected to make a special plea for prompt relief to the nation's agricul tural interests and the list of recom mendations may touch .many other subjects, such as the railway situa tion, the merchant marine, and im migration. VICTORY MEDALS GOING BEG GING IN WASHINGTON NOW Two Million Bits Of Bronze; Remain Unclaimed By Former Servicemen. Washington, March 28. Out of 4,000,000 victory medals, which congress authorized as a special dis tinction for the men wrho saw service in the war with Germany, only 1,--500,000 have been issued, leaving some two million still in the hands of the government. The War Department is making a drive to locate former service men or their relatives, so as to distribute the medals and to get this going a detail of 24 officers, who have been withdrawn as recruiting agents be cause of the cut in th zize of the regular army ordered Congress, have been detailed to make a canvass of the ex-soldiers and facilitate dis- i tribution of the medals. For this j purpose the country has been divided into six districts and batch of field j clerks assigned to assist the officers, j North Carolinians who are ex-service men, should call for their medals while in the case of deceased sol diers, fathers, mothers, brothers or sisters beginning at the eldest where the parents are not living are en titled to receive the medals. AG KK.TLT CRAL DEPARTMENT ISSUES WARNING TO FARMERS Fanners Who Buy Mixed Seed Are Warned To Be Careful As To the Proportions. Washington, March 28. The Ag ricultural Department has issued a warning to buyers of clover-timothy mixtures, saying that so called clover-timothy seed mixtures which are widely advertised by certain seed firms at what may appear attractive prices, often contain so little red clo ver that they are of little if any more value than timothy seed, but actually cost nearly double the market price of that seed. These mixtures are us ually offered by the bushel, with the qualifying statement that a bushel weighs only 45 pounds. The Depart ment says that while this seed is of iered as clover and timothy with the claim that the different seeds occur in the proper proportions for seed m?;, while frequently there is not more 'than 5 or 6 per cent of clover i'ie.-Hit not enough to be of any value in the crop. HOMi: OF COLEMAN NEAR HOUSTON IS DESTROYED i The dwelling and the farm out houses of Joseph Coleman, a negro held in connection with the brutal murder of William Rickmon ner Houston, Va., recently, were burned to the ground by a large crowd of men who were revealed to distant eyewitness as the flames leaped up. Coleman with" seven other negroes held as suspects have been removed ii oni Houston. Some of them were taken to Lynchburg jail for safe keeping. Your battery should have water w?e evry two weeks- stP a Wil' lard Service Station. Ur i itiOiCiU uii LliA PROVES. THAT GC ' ,T TIY Estate library, Economist Halbeit P. Gillette Shows' figures. Says Costs Wages Will Remain 60 Per Above 1913 Level. aiu1 Cent Chicago, March 26. The bot tom level of the decline in the price of commodities will be reached in May according to Halbert P. Gil lette, editor of Engineering and Con tracting. Gillette has devised a mathemat lfal formula for determining the av erage price of commodities and for predicting prices several years in ad vance. Prof. E. W. Kemmerer of Prince ton and Prof. Irving Fisher, of Yale, had previously worked out formulas for determining the trend in prices. Gillette's formula gives the index or average price of commodities. His method involves the use of only five variable factors,, the data for every one of which may be founc in the statistical abstract of the United States census. He has tested his formula by ap plication to prices extending back 30 years. In each instance, one is able to predict" the average price commodities for any year during t of past 5U years. Hence it is a demonstrable form ula, which has had added confirma tion by the fact that nearly a year ago he did predict the prices wilier are now prevailing. Through a systematic study of the per capita production, bank deposits and clearings, labor wages and com modities during 330 years, Gillette predicts: That good times are near at hand. That the lowest point in the slump in prices will be reached in May. That the new average level of prices will be 60 per cent high er than it was in 1913. HARMON'S LIFE INSURANCE A Policy Fox, $200,000 Was Handed To Him Just Two Hours Before He Was Shot. The shot that speeded the death of Jacob Hamon, Oklahoma National Republican Committeeman, last November, and for which Clara Smith Hamon has just been pro nounced "not guilty" by jury, afso prematurely turned loose a half mil llottdollars insurance ;; : moneyr--Of this,' according to information at the State Insurance Department, a policy for $200,000 was handed to Harmon just two hours before he was shot, and was in his coat pocket. It was delivered by Kellie Roach, .State a gent for the International Life of St. Louis- This policy, however, was distributed among 14 other companies- Harmon had been a boss oil operator as well as republican p6w er, and was reputed to have been worth thirty million dollars, made out of oil well and boom town promo tions in Oklahoma and Texas- It is also stated that the entire insurance cash, which was available by Dec 15th, was needed to pay off accumu lated and maturing Federal and state taxes, income, inheritance, etc- i er . . tseam ,gir M0RE B0XDS yyERE ' FOUND BY HALIFAX FARMER At ! Stolen From the Halifax Bank Houston, Va. Word comes from Houston, "Va., that W. W. Edmunds, a farmer last week found negotiable paper worth $50,000 stolen from the bank at Houston, secreted under a straw stack. This loot was found about five miles from where about three months ago another farmer named Lampkin found a steel box contain ing many thousand dollars worth Ot cash and bonds also taken from the Halifax bank, which wTas blown by yeggmen, one of whom was cap- J tured not long since, tried and sen tenced. The farmer was removing straw from the stack when his pitchfork revealed a pile of paper. He lost no time in discovering where it had come from because of the name of the bank being on some of the paper. Edmunds guarded the find until he had sent another man to a telephone TTp pnllPfT thP Pennle's Bank of Elba. and F. Q. Smith, the cashier, hasten-' ed to the spot, about nine miles from Gretna, and lost no time in making full identification. PASTOR C A. UPCHURCH RESUMES HIS WORK Will Hold Services At Mt. Zion Church Next Saturday and Sunday . . Three New Deacons To Be Or dained. The regular monthly services at Mt. Zion church, Berea, will be held next Saturday at 2:30 P. M. and Sun day at 11 A. M. Three new deacons recently elect ed are to be ordained. Pastor Up church will be at his post His little son, Ewin, who was so sick has recovered sufficiently to be brought home from the hospital and to allow his father to return to his post. .. " . . . . THE FARMER'S PART OF A DOLLAR'S WORTH OF TOBACCO According to Dr. C C. Taylor, of the State College, the tobacco farm er, gets 8 cents out of the dollar you spend for tobacco today. OXFORD, N. C. FBIgAYJVlARCji 23, 1921 j - 'i - t RTTLER SAYS COMMITTEE SHOWN NO CONCERN FOR SUCCESS OF PARTY 4 ges Flagrant Defiance Of Com- ., JE'tsioii Decency and Denounces the j Pow-Wow s a "Hog Combine un iiaa vi$i Selfishness." Marion Butler, with beard nicely trimmed, his sling full of rocks as large as goose eggs, attended the pow-wow m Greensboro last week. The way the pie was dished out made him mad an'd he retired to the hotel and smeared wrar paint on his face an inch thick and departed for Wash ington with a chip on each shoulder Referring to the hungry crowd as that of a "hog combine," Mr. Butler makes the dust fly as follows: "The action of the majority of the republican state committee -hovn that they were not in the least concerned about the success )f the republican party in our state or the success of the admin istration. Every, suggestion of har mony was spurned and spat upon. It was clear that they met determin ed on one thing, and one thing only, and that was to take all of the offi ces and divide them among the mem bers of the committee. To do this they formed a 'hog combine' on the inside of the committee, just large enough to cover all of the important offices, and then agreed to vote for each Other, to the exclusion of ev erybody else, and in utter defiance of every appeal that they should put up for positions the be"st qualified and most deserving men, in the in terest of efficient government ser vice and also in the interest of the party. -Their action was a flagrant de fiance of every sense of common decency; it was a case of faction alism and selfishness run mad." ALL WOMEN 'MUST REGISTER FOR THE TOWN ELECTION Mayor and Board Of Commissioners To Be Elected On Monday, May 1. The women of Oxford registered for the general election last , fall ; they registered for the Oxford school district bond election, but they have not registered for the town election in Oxford on Monday, May 1. All the women should register if they want to vote. All who have come of age during the past two years and all new comers and all who have moved from one ward to another ward wiH i have tcr registe in order to 'Vote"'ihta'eibwhlcir6n.'' Major Will Landis, wiio has been the Chairman of the Oxford Demo cratic Executive Committee for twenty years, will name the date of the town convention at an early date to nominate a mayor and board of commissioners. The present mayor and, board of commissioners have given such gen eral satisfaction there is no desne on the part of the public to displace them. Every qualified voter you meet would regard it as a public ca lamity should Mayor Stem decline the nomination. VIRGINIA APPLE BELT WILL BE IN BLOSSOM ' ONE MONTH EARLY Winchester, Va., March 28 The three million apple trees in the Shenandoah-Cumberland district will be in bloom this year by April 1, or fully a month earlier than usuai, growers here say, and many or chard owners are preparing smudge, pots to send up a smoke screen to protect the budding fruit from pos sible frost damage. The apple belt extends from Staunton,' Va., to Har risburg, Pa- EASTER OBSERVED HERE Special Programs Appropriate To Occasion Held In Churches. All of the Oxford Churches last Sunday celebrated the anniversary of the resurrection of Jesus- Most of the churches m town and county f nf farad oTprpisps a nnrnnri a te to j V.- Viwww " A the occasion. Special musical pro- prams were sriven in narctically all of the churches, and the Sunday schools studied the Easter lesson as usual. The pastors preached on sub jects bearing on the significance of Easter, and its meaning to the world. Practically all of the business houses of Oxford were closed in hon or of Easter Monday. Fishing par- ties and outings of various kinds claimed the attention of individuals and several groups of citizens, who i took advantage of the favorable I weather to secure a bit of recrea tion. Swallowed Tooth a"d Died. James B. Broad, comptroller of the Dupont company, at Wilmington, Del., died in a hospital there Sunday from lung infection caused by a tooth which slipped down his throat during a dental operation about a month ago. The tooth wras discov ered by X-ray. Poor Encouragement. (Winston-Salem Journal) There is little encouragement for the farmer to plant cotton or tobacco when he can go on the market and buy it cheaper than he can raise either of these crops- Thursday evening at 7:30 at the Lyon Memorial Buildirrg there will be a- meeting of the members of the committees in charge of .the enter tainment of the Baraca-Philathea delegates who will be in Oxford Fri day afternoon, April 22. A VETERAN TOBACCONIST GIVES TLMELY WARNING (Southern Tobacco Journal) We make no excuse for our persistence in calling atten tion of the trade to the danger of producers of tobacco plant i"g too much tobacco the com ing season. Now is the time to , act. Now is the time t0 use every legitimate means to in duce the tobacco farmer to re duce Ills acreage, and to pay more attention to the cultiva tion and to the handling of his cioj). Now is the timeto urge ' upon formers the fact that the world can only take so much tobacco, and no more. Now is the time to insist that the far mer use more caution in the handling of his tobacco, and to beg him that the best tiling for Mm to do is to class his tobacco properly. OXFORD IS THE PRETTIEST TOWN IN NORTH CAROLINA The People Of Kiiiston Claim That Homor, But They Are Sadly Mis taken. An enterprising Kinston corres pondent of the State press claim more for his town than the actual facts will admit. Kinston ha- a population ol 10,000, and they claim that they have the widest and best streets and more mileage . of pave ment than any town of its size any where. The fact is, Oxford has less than one-half the population of Kinston and we have more mileage of paved streets and sidewalks tnan they have. They brag of the width of their main thoroughfare, which is 50 feet from curb to curb with 18 feet of sidewalk bn either side to the building line. , Oxford's Main street is 72 feet wide from building line to building line, and our sidewalks are ten feet wide, which is eight feet less than the sidewalks in Kinston, but the streets of Oxford are of somewhat better proportion, admitting of heavier trafic. The correspondent also claims that "they adorn their streets with trees and ample grass plots between curb and sidewalk, providing the founda tion for the best paved town of its size anywhere." Oxford, too, is a head of Jheni. on that proposition. Herejiswh claim, as appeared ia the State press last week: "Kinston today claims not only the best paved streets anywhere, but more mileage or pavement than any town of its size in the country. The early builders of Kinston are to be congratulated on their foresight, their methodical skill and ardent de sire to see Kinston rise to- a premier city of the South, for they planned not only a city beautiful but a city of future greatness and expansion. "And the men and women of today carefully carry on the work of pro viding for the continued expansion of their home town. The early set tlers thoughtfully planned a main thoroughfare 50 feet from curb to curb, with 18 feet of sidewalk on either hand to the building line, thus giving Kinston the unique distinc tion of having the widest business street in the South. They adorned their streets with trees and ample grass plots between curb and side walk, providing the foundation for the best paved town of its size any where." FORMER SERVICE MEN GIVEN 5 YEARS TO CONVERT INSURANCE Washington, March 28- The War Risk Insurance Bureau has sent out a warning to all former service men that their war-time or term insur ance must be converted into perma nent policies before March3, 1926- Passage of the joint resolution by Congress which construes certain war laws as though a state of peace existed, automatically made effec tive provisions of the War Risk In surance Act for the conversion of war-time insurance into one of the three permanent types, according to the bureau's announcement. CAN SEE THE SMOKE FROM HIS FRONT DOOR We all want to make Granville county a good place in which to live. It is a rich county, and to a certain extent, an enlightened one. But in morals and religion, we are not mak ing the progress we should make. In these we are not keeping up with our progress in other achievements. A farmer who lives only a few miles from Oxford says that he can stand in his door and see the smoke of more than one whiskey still. "Why don't you report them," we "I must admit that I am afraid to report them for fear of them burn ing my property." was the answer. We are forced to the conclusion that the great moral force of pub lic opinion is strangely quiet m this particular. It is the duty of every one to report violators- - It is a notorious fact that whis key can be procured easily in vari ous parts of the county. The result s painfully apparent Constantly we hear of crimes of violence- fights and even homicides and in trouble is traced to its source, the cause is found to be illicit whiskey. And very few of the offenders are properly punished. ; OXFORD BASEBALL TEAM j HAD A ROYAL BATTLE WITH BUFFALO BISONS More Than Two Thousand people Witnessed the Closely Contested Game At Homer Park Yesterday Afternoon Manager Of the Buf falo Team Compliments the Ox ford Boys. One of the best and cleanest games of ball ever played in Oxford was witnessed by more than 2000 peopie at Horner Park Monday afternoon when the Oxford team held the Buf falo team of the International Lea I gue down to two run??. The Oxford team made third oase as many times as the Buffalo team, but two of the big bisons man aged to slip to the home place and score two runs. Early in the game George Hooke" Wiltse, the Buffalo mana ger, saw what might happen and he whispered to his men not to take any chances. Every fly ball sent to the field fell into the hands of Baker, Hales, Gooch or Harris of the Oxford team, and neither one of them fumbled or made a wild throw to base. The Oxford team was up against a polished aggregation. Ed Miller, the ktar first sacker of the Bisons and the league last year,: played at se cond; Walter Keating, the regular short-stop, was on the job at the left hand side of the middle cushon; Bennie Bengough played third and Manning, a youngster from Buffalo semi-pro circles, handled the wrork behind the bat In the outfield Wiltse worked three pitchers. Carl Schutz, a semi-pro from To ledo who had a record of fifteen strike outs . to the game last year, was in the box and was relieved by Kaes, another Bison of whom much is expected. Tragresser, a catcher who comes from the. Phillies, got in the . game for a time. George Wiltse, manager of the Buf falo team, complimented the Oxford boys for their skill and courtesy. There was no betting or bickering during thfv entire game- GOVERNMENT PLANNING TO GET BERGDOLL FROM GERMANY Two Americans Are In Prison In Ger---Jnaay Fp Aristing Him. . " Washington, March 28. Secre- j tary of State Hughes and Secretary or war weeks will hold several con ferences in the next few days on steps to make effectual the demand of the United States that Germany surren der Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, weal thy Phiadelphia draft dodger, and release the men imprisoned in Ger many for trying to capture him. Carl Neuf and Franz Zimmer, A merican detectives, have been sen tenced to a term in prison by the cri minal court at Mosbach, Baden, for illegal assumption of power in at tempting to arrest Bergdoll, Ameri can draft evader, last January. Nuef, against whom a charge of bodily in jury was preferred, was sentenced to jail for 15 months, while Zimmer's term in prison was fixed at six months. The additional charges as gainst Neuf arose from a bullei wound suffered by a woman when a revolver was fired during the attempt to capture Bergdoll. DR. HUFHAM CLAIMED BY DEATH Venerable Baptist Divine Passed A way Sunday Night; Funeral At Scotland Neck. Rev. J. D. Hufham, D. D., one of the best known and most highly es teemed Baptist preachers in the State and referred to by many as "the Baptist bishop of North Caro lina," died Sunday night after a brief illness with pneumonia at the home of his daughter, Mrs- Single ton, at Mebne, where he had lived for the past few years- Funeral will be held tomorrow morning at Scotland Neck and the services will be conducted by Dr. R T. Vann. MRS. HARDING SELECTS HER SOCIAL SECRETARY Miss Laura Harland Is Well Ac quainted With the Social Life Of Washington. (Christain Science Monitor) Mrs- Warren G- Harding has se lected as her social secretary Miss Laura Harlan, daughter of former justice Harlan of the Supreme Court of the United States. Miss Harlan, who has lived in Washington all her life, is well ac: quainted with social and official con ditions here- She has served suc cessively as social secretary with Mrs. George W. Wickersham, wife of the Attorney-General in the Taft administration, with Miss Nona Mc Adoo and later with Mrs. McAdoo during her husband's term as Secre tary of the Treasury. She served in similar capacity with Mrs. Wm. C Phillips, wife-of the Assistant Sec retary of State; Mrs- Frank L. Polk and Mrs. Norman H. Davis, wives of Under-secretaries of State, and also assisted Mrs. T. R- Marshall, wife of the former Vice-President Be ginning with Lady Reading, she has been the American social adviser at the British Embassy for three reg imes. She has also assisted Mrs- T A. LeBreton, wif e of the Argentine Ambassador. NO. 25 THE CULTIVATION OF TOBACCO IS MORE OR LESS A GAMBLE Farmers Plant High Grade Tobacco and It Turns Out To Be Low Grade. " Farmers ik Granville county seem to be pretty well agreed on cutting down the tobacco acreage this year, and it is devoutly hoped they will one and all stick to the plan agreed upon. It is a conceded fact that if as much tobacco is raised in 1921 as was pro duced in 1920 it will come near bankrupting every tobacco manufac- " turer and leaf dealer in the country and the weed will not be worth haul ing to market; that a 50 per cent crop this year will bring more mon ey to the farmers than a 100 per cent crop; that under no condition does it pay to raise low grade tobacco Of course no farmer plants low grade tobacco. Everybody plants fine tobacco, but the larger per cent of it turns common before curing and marketing time. If every farm er could know before hand how much of his crop would grade common the planting would not be nearly so large. It is this uncertainty or gam ble that causes over-planting. A farmer sees one of his neighbors av erage $30 or $40 or $50 a hunched for a load of tobacco and he knows for a dead certainty that he can raise as fine tobacco as anybody on earth. So he proceeds to plant a big acre age of this fine tobacco. Maybe he may sell it for $10, $20 or $30 per . hundred and come out fairly well, and then again he may be lucky to sell it from $1 to $5 per hundred. It all depends on seasons, soil, work, and dozens of other factors from planting to selling. Trading stocks or cotton and grain futures is a very mild form of gambling compared with raising to bacco. Hence the gambling streak in the average American farmer shows up about tobacco planting time and frequently causes over production especially of the common grades- We hope our Granville county farmers will not get the, gambling fever 0 them too strong this spring. , WHAT DAVH) SAID ABOUT FAR MER'S PRESENT PREDICAMENT Two farmers were overheard a few days ago discussing general condi tions on the farm and they agreed that the prospect was not bright, in j fact; was loomy 2nd that the approach ? I of planting time had never found ' farmers so down-hearted and discou raged. It was indeed on. a. minor key to which these good and . hard working men pitched their seed time song- David in the long ago, said, "He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubt less come again with rejoicing, bringing sheaves with him." Last spring the people on the farms and elsewhere were never more cheerful, hopeful. Prices of products of field garden and dairy were high and the prospect was that they would go higher and yet higher. There was , talk of a dollar-a-pound tobacco and everyone, almost, was widly jubilant at the thought of a wonderfully pro fitable and abundant harvest- They certainly went forth rejoicing last spring when seed for- planting was carried afield- But before the crops of last year were harvested prices had so fearfully fallen that there was no profit on scarcely any crop. They went to the fields white unto the harvest with sad hearts- Let us hope that there will be a change of conditions this year and that" it may be truly said that those who went forth to sow, weeping, rejoiced at harvest time because profitable crops had been made. CLEAN-UP-WEEK To Be Observed 'In North Carolina April 4.9. The State Insurance Department mailed out last week, over one hun dred thousand pieces of literature, posters, pamphlets, slips, and circu lars, to parties in all sections of the state requesting same for local distri bution in connection with Clean-Up-Week observance April 4-9. A "great many packages have also gone to City officials, Safety League and Wo man's club authorities. In addition to this, the Insurance Department Bulletin, especially devoted to Clean-Up-Week activities, will go to 20,000 other readers. BAPTIST WOMAN'S CON VENTION THIS WEEK Number Of Oxford Ladies Will Go To Rocky Mount Mrs- B. E. Pafham, Miss Isabell Parham, Miss Mary Webb, Mrs. C D. Ray, Mrs. A. H. Powell and Mrs. J. D. Brooks will attend the Baptist Women's Convention in Rocky Mount. Mrs. B. E. Parham and Miss Isa bell Parham will be the guests of Mrs- W. H. Fleming; Miss Mary Webb w rift be with Mrs- Will Adams; Mrs. Ray and Mrs- Powell with Mrs. J. C. Braswell, and Mrs- Brooks will be the guest of Mrs- F. S. Spruill. THE NEW PUBLIC ROAD LAW The Farmers Claim That It Contains An Unpopular Clause- The farmers and others who are subject to work the public roads of the county are up in arms against the new road law so far as it compels them to work the roads up to the age of fifty years instead of forty-five years. , ..." . . V -
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