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r PVBLMfltiD SEA' - &K-TOWN AND COUNTY OFFER B HILLIANT OPPORTUNITIES-AIL HOME PRINT . . -n t . VOL. XXXVI "OXFORD, N. C. FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1921 NO. 32" , rVK Till- UNITED t.v. (Si inn i nit t r. k;,L.l(e (o Wa-hiiiton aru Atlanta, v , ic:;ns a;,d on Towards tiie s,.it;;w San and Retain Via Ashe ;i!k .li.d Greensboro. i;: - craze oi Oxford at present I;; LiUJi civic on the floor oi me 1U Hauler warehouse, ana ready hour on ice, and cn a smooth, hard- j suriace road the rate is irom -u 10 5 iiiiles a hour. " SJiue of the skaters now qualify- 1115- at uie utaiiii " v-iiw-v, ., i' ihe near future, have an op- ;,u amity to try long distance skat- , ,n instead ot gliding around tne j tus of tne 44 C0Unties making no re mvscribed circle or a skating rink. , pcrt t0 tjie commission, and the n nor-WOl'k Oi hai'U-SUriaceu 1 nnptinn n tn whothor thav imot)- ,.,v,. which tne state and t ederai , Guverninents are now engaged 111 building will work wonders 111 more Vl-av? than one- The entire length of the Bankhead National Highway, va'uii passes through Oxford and Gnnville county, will be a smooth, l nid-uriace road- We get it from "oed auinornj iuat nmn Highway between biarKsvnie ana j - , ... j i uxiord and on to uuiiidm aim mu- , fora will be well underway before T I ,i.j-r i' . JLiiitrc uaua vi " i iuen. it is said, will be placed on the ; V.., ;:1 noh county through viiiu . Xp Biukhead Highway passes-"v.-hfn the great net work or u otli. hard-surface roads has been - i M.iered it will oe possiDie to see tlVinost of the United States on rol ler -?tes, provided the automobiles Co -;ot monopolize the thoroghfare. iv iliose days it will be posible for a -u;i;iav School to take their baskets .thoir nrms and skate ten or twenty miles down the road and Pic- v,u ni. in the shade of the trees In those days there will be thou sands of automobiles pass through Oxford to every one hundred that now pass; there will not be a hotel between Washington and Atlantic larce enough to hold the tourists, nor counting the thousands who will travel in eilded vans and camp by the wayside. In those days the town man can live out on the High way a distance of five miles and get here for business as soon as if he liv- ed only two blocks away; instead of j living cn tne DacK siae oi uis iaim the farmer will move up close to the j Hisrhwav. plant trees and ouiid a sidewalk to his next door neighbors. .Many ot tne -udhc xeuger icau- , ers may not live to see mis prupue&y fulfilled to the letter, but the pos sibility of hard surface roads is wonderful to contemplate. A net work of hard surface roads , in Granville county is worth more to the county than a half dozen rail lcads centering here. Are Ave "ready for the fulfillment of the prophesy? No, not until all the people of the community grasp the idea that all roads lead to Ox ford. THE NEW NORTH CAROLINA MARRIAGE LAW Editor Public Ledger: Virgilina, Va-, April 20. On Ap ril 13 a young couple passed through Virgilina on their way to Houston, Va., to wed. The writer had known the young man s father r.li hi Ufa anri Hr-nvo vHth him tn Houston. When we' arrived at Houston the father of the young man stated that he wanted to go to the register of deed's office to pro cure marriage license for the young couple. I informed the old gentle man that they have no such a lux ury as a register of deeds in Virginia and we went to the ofice of the clerk of the court and procured the li censes, and a minister was called in and the young couple were duly made man and wTife- I asked the contracting party why it was that they should come from fifteen miles south of Oxford to pro cure licenses and wed in Houston, a distance of 60 miles. The father of the young man ex plained that the new North Carolina marriage law requires a medical certificate to the extent that the groom shall be physically sound and that the bride free of tuberculosis. The doctor's fee, he said, costs from 15 to $10. This may be a good law, but the State and the ministers are lossing a neat sum of money, and it would seem that that doctor's fee, as prescribed by law, is exhorbitant FARMERS HARDWARE CO. ENOUGH LIQUOR TO STAGGER GRANVILLE COUNTY Twelve Thousand Quarts Of Liquor and Much Rare Wines Disappear I' loin ISewport News. ThrpP0 eWS' Va" APril 21 thoi?S,n4ihundred and eighty-four S vermouth cocktails and SerS 50 cases of rare wines l. Vv skies dlsaPPeared from New l oi t ews yesterday. ine liquor was the best obtain n cordinff t0 customs officials. impt wm be made to run ; J ii those who took it away. It honi??insiR5ed t0 a Philadelphia, "t'1 And Yas aboard tfle Italian reamer Ansado Seventh. lllfl fe were 1,000 cases of ver- rnnnol0-11 the ShiP' S is 12.000 co?&Vu eTYery quart t0 supply 32 coSs -Had the vermouth been Su te? lnt0 cocktails and served chiM t0 eveiT man. woman and wV? Vi l?e city tb-ere would have the population at a little morl than 5,000. (VvreLklerbllrs voted two million of nVbond issue for the buThiins NJttrd surface roads. hr?0111, batte,T should have water c eZ!ry two weeks- 6tP Wil- - wvice oiation. lY-FOi r COUNTRIES AYE- . RAGE TuZ TTY-EIGHT PER ,Ivi' v IN VALUATION Inspiration Of Time For Reporting! motion By County Board-; Finds i ,1 ili Counties Not Making Re- ;;c;rt; Ten Mud 'Present Values j ..-air. Granville County Asked for iss i-,s Reduction. (News and Observer) Horizontal reductions in property heard from when the statutory time amit lor reports to the State Tax j Commission expired Wednesday I.Two counties had declared for. new vaiuttiiuii, iinu leu naa aeciareu .present values fair and just value. Some doubt obtains as to the sta- subseauentlv file renort.s of rednn- i j fions wiil nely remain in doubt un- til after the organizatiori of the )venue commission Mav 1. which tak- ; esover all the functions of the tax i commission including the review of j the action of county boards of com- , inissioners. Time L.imit Ami! i Under the law passed at the past Eession of the General Assembly, the county board of commissioners ' W V' ' - T T.J A U a. J 111 Vy.M I Fora mvpprpn Tn n ppt n-n Trip Tirs.r Tuesday in April and determine i wliotliof tliovo chrtum ho n hnr 7nti. tal reduction in property values, There will be a number of dis and if there should be, the percen-i tinguished persons among the visi tae of reduction that should be I tors, namely: Dr. Henry Louis made- The law directed that report j Smith, president of Washington and of the action of tne county ooaras oe submitted to the tax commission for review not later than April 20 Faces Knotty Problem. Wridely scattered as are the coun ties, and as widely divergent as are tne'actiona 0f the commissioners in the several counties, approximation of the result and equalization of in ter-county values will likely devel op into one of the knottiest prob lems that will confront the new re venue commission. Under the law, the full commission only has juris diction as an equalizing board, -charged with maintaining an equal ity of values among the counties. uperauve iuaj x No action will be taken by the tax k commission as at present constitut ed ana tne entire matter will be transferred to the revenue conmusr sion -when it becomes operative May j H Tvrn member of the present com- mission would discuss the situation vesterdav, except to nazara me up- in inn tnnt the time limit set up in v . , i ii. . w ili the law could very likely, be held the Rnhmission of any report from the 44 counties not heard from at all Thi Eastern Counties Eastern counties furnished the most drastic reductions, ranging from 25 to 50 per cent, but among them are counties that declared a gainst any present reduction in values- Wilson county presents the most sweeping attack on the present valuation by declaring for 60 per cent. Wilson's values were, seven teen million before 1919, were rais ed to sixty-three million in 1920, and would now be reduced to twenty-six million. Dinners Not Heard From. Among the counties missing from the tabulation are Robeson, North ampton, Ashe. Bertie, Harnett, Gas- ton and Craven. nepreseuutiLivco of these counties in the General As- com hi v fmisrht for bills that would provide for State-wide reduction of from 25 to 50 per cent horizontal reduction. No reports have been heard from them, and if the guess of the commission is correct, they are debarred from further action this vear. The Board To -Act. Approval of the revenue commis- j sion. composed or corporation vuui missioner and Revenue Commission er A. D. Watts, must be forthcoming before the action of the local boards becomes effective. The prophesv is made that some adjustment will be made 'in property values, toward the end of equalization among the counties, and less toward the sweep ing reductions ordered. . i Question Of Rate Raise. With the submission of the reports J frnm the counties comes the ques- tionof whether the mdmd Mnn- tv .with its reduced property values, will be able to get along with income nrnri ded for in the constitutional tax limit, and the question of wheth c limn, auu tuc 4ucDuuu " " the county will be allowed to use er all of the 15 cent limit, wnen it is provided that the State may levy five cents, if it needs it. Question Of Taxation. The question of the division of the 15 cent limit between the county and the State has been raised about the capitol, but thus far the Attor ney General has not been asked to pass officially upon it- It is under stood that he is of the opinion that the countv may be restricted to 10 cents, and in that event, the county will be even harder driven to live on the income of a ten cent rate a gainst a radically reduced valuation. MRS. BERGDOLL LOSES Supreme Court Upholds Verdict Given Lawyer For Fees. , The Supreme Court of Pennsyl vania Tuesday sustained a verdict for $10,000 obtained by Henry J Scott against Mrs. Emma Bergdoll, mother of the notorious slackers and army deserters, Grover and Erwin Bergdoll. . Mr. Scott represented her in court principally in 'her defense to charges against her in connection with aiding her sons. She refused to pay his fee, asserting it was ex cessive. ' Major E- R- MacKethan, favor ably known in, Oxford, won in the democratic primary at Fayetteville for mayor over M. .B. Williams and William C Mclntire by a majority of about 705. Major MacKethan led in every Tvard in the city. TOWN CONVENTION For the purpose of nominat ing candidates for the office of Mayor and Commissioners for the Town ov Oxford, a Conven tion, or mass meeting, will be held in the Court House Friday "ight, 'April 29th, at 8 P. M- Democratic Voters, men and ladies, a'e urged to be present - ' T X I I lJ Chni. Dem. Ex-Coiu. j There Will Be Many Distinguished Persons In the Gathenng. The eleventh annual convention of the North Carolina Baraca-Phi- inf-hon TTninn nnpnArl fl fniir daVS session in Henderson yesterday ev-1 euing. Meeting m connection wnu this larger body also is the Junior Earaca-Philathea Association or iNorth Carolina, and the two together .re-U'oini one of the largest gatherings cf the kind in the State, A sufficient number of cars will depart from the court house at one o'clock this afternoon to bring the delegation to Oxford. ine aeiysaies win piuuaui ay rive aDOUt 6 O ClOCK aim xemam here two hours and thirty minutes Refreshments will be served and , i.iik uliici icaiuira ui be a drive about town and a visit to IhP UXTOrQ Uronaiiasti- L,ee university, lumei vout DnxMdsnn Colleere in this State: Dr. Forrest J. Prettyman, pastor of the First Methodist church, Knoxville, Tenn., and former chaplain of the United States Senate; Dr. Weston Bruner, pastor of Tabernacle Bap tist church, Raleigh, Mrs. T. W. Bickett, wife of the former Gover nor ,and numerous others. The four days session will come to a close in Henderson Sunday afternoon- It will be the biggest day of the session and Regan Opera house has been engaged for the oc casion. STATE CAN GET ALL MONEY NEEDED FOR NEW PROGRAM Council Of: Stale Hears Report From Governor and Treasurer On i- nances. (News and Observer) "We are going ahead with our building program with absolute con fidence and knowledge that the State, can get money as it needs it? declared Governor Morrison Wed nesday, following a meeting of the Council of State in which the Gov ernor and State Treasurer B. R- Lacy laid before that body the result of their investigations of the money situation in New York. On every hand, according to the Governor, they found assurances in New York that money would be a- vailable within a short time at the legal rate of interest in North Caro lina and that by the time large sums are required for the building pro gram laid out by the 1921 session of the General Assembly, North Ca rolina can get the required amounts at favorable rate of interest until the five per cent bonds can be sold- Money can be had now in New York for six per cent, but it carries the stipulation of maintaining de posits at three per cent in the New York banks. According to the ma thematics of the Governor and the State Treasurer this would in effect e tantamount to an interest rate of nine per cent- And money is not required on such terms. Followig the meeting of the Coun cil of State Governor Morrison is sued a statement in which he said: "We can undoubtedly finance the nrosrram we have undertaken. It will be proceded with as rapidly as possible, and every contract and obli gation of the State met without a minute's delay." DISCOVERY OF OIL ALONG THE DAN RIVER Having Most Everything Else People of North Carolina Will Have No objection To A Oil Eyery land Qwner along Dan Riv. er near Mayodan. Rockingham coun ty, is "figuenng" on what he will ao with his income if a real "gusher" fmin(i nn no lond found on Jim land An interesting report reaches Winston-Salem to the effect that most encouraging .traces of oil had been discovered in the Mayodan section and throughout that part of the State. The person who brought the news said that several holes had been sunk and that in each instance the fluid had been found. He seem ed to think that prospects for sucr cessful development were particular ly promising along the Dan river as far down as Clarksville- The journal made inquiry over the long distance telephone and as certain from responsible sources that some leases on lands had been ,taken in the Mayodan vicinity and that an oil land expert, who has had wide experience in the Texas fields, says that the indications in the May odan area are more favorable than those which first were found in. that portion of Texas, whereat oil wells have brought incaluable wealth and have attracted throngs from all parts of the country. VISITING PREACHER OF NOTE Will Fill Dr. Craven's Pulpit Next Sunday Morning. Interesting services will be held at the Oxford Methodist Church next Sunday at 11 A. M. The sermon will be delivered by'DivJ. K. Pfohl, pastor oN . the Home Moravian Church, Winston-Salem, N. C- Sunday School at 9:45 A. M. No service at night The public invit ed. R. C. CRAVEN, Pastor. 0XF GH SCHOOL 'i REMAINS OF PRIVATE OAKLEY MR. W. H. UPCHURCH ENTER ; PUPILS ACQUIRE PRAC- I AND WEST WILL REACH TAINS A SOLDIERLY j TICAL KNOWLEDGE j OXFORD TOMORROW MORNING i ' 1 L L . ' r i The soldiers ho escorted the re- , Tenth and Eleventh Grades Visits' tiiz- Court Rooms. The pupils of the tenth and elev- ! . en tn grades of the Oxford High j I octiuol filed into the court room at1 eleven o'clock Thursdav to nrnin o- i and. were given seats immediately ! icai ui Lue uai. inev were sr- mous Taylor-Meadows case and rp the jury retire- The next case tak en up was of minor importance, but erved to show the young peome the ! real machinery of the. court. ! . The young people watched the judge, the jury and lawyers vrith much interest. GRANVILLE COUNTY REAL ESTATE CHANGE HANDS consideration $150 T. Lanier. Trustee to J. H. Peace, 1.86 acres, consideration $200. Greely Harris to S- V. Morton, 46 1-2 acres, consideration $1000. S. M- Watkins and wife to Junius Burton, 38.38 acres. Oxford Town ship, consideration $3108-78. T. Lanier. Commissioner to Joseph Humphries, 56 acres. Walnut Grove Township, consideration $1 500. Wm- Wilson and wife to J. P Williams, Jr., right of way across land. John H. Royster and wife to S-' V. Morton, a certain tract of land in ?Qankn HU1 Townsh.--" consideration. Sr.,r t n0ionw t D t TTi-n-vnr iR6"-?1?? in Oxford township! consideration $7500. Sell Thornton and wife to G. W. Jones, a certain tract or parcel of land in Walnut Grove township, con sideration $4000. H. T. Overton and others, to Gra ham H. Overton, a certain tract of land in Brassfield township, consid eration $350. Emma C- Turner to Miss Lela Routon, a certain lot in the town of Oxford, consideration $1100. H- T. Overton and others to Z. V. Overton, a certain tract or parcel of land in Brassfield township, consid eration $300- Smith Hester to A. A. Hicks, a certain tract or parcel of land in Ox ford township, consideration $150- tr'Wf Bryan and wife- to J. B. El lis. 53 3-4 acres, in Salein township, consideration $853.65. Alex Cooper t oC- P. Sellers and others a certain tract or parcel of land Salem township, consideration $2660. A MOST PLEASANT VISITOR Col. Wr. W. Fuller, Of New York, Spends Night In Oxford. The people of Oxford and Granville county will long remember Col. W. W. Fuller ,of New York, for the tri bute he paid to the memory of the .late Col. W. H. Osborn, who was laid to rest in Elmwood Cemetery here a few months ago. The remarks of Col. Fuller were, published in the Public Ledger and in most of the state papers, and the Public Ledger had a call for 250 ex tra -copies of the paper containing the eulogy. He is a native of North Carolina and is proud of his State, f He is a large handsome man and is naturally the center attraction of any group. A large number of friends called on him at the Ex change Hotel Wednesday evening, and as he sat in a big arm chair talking to them he was the picture of health, and joy and contentment. Col. Fuller was accompanied by Capt. Frank Fuller and the fine lit tle son of Mr- Jones Fuller, of Dur ham, who were on their way to New York City. LIST OF MARRIAGE LICENSE Recently issued By the Register Of, Deeds. "There is not enough giving in marriage these days," remarked Register "of Deeds Chas. G- Powell yesterday as he handed us the fol lowing list which covers a period of several days: - White. Hardie Currin to Fannie Gray Averett, of Granville. ' James -T- Yancey to Thelma L. Hester, of Granville- . John E. Mason to Mary E. Davis, of Granville. Ovid L- Mangum to Elsie Lee. Chappell, Creedmoor Colored Joe Wilkerson to Lucy Speed, Granville. . T Bill Barnes to Maggie Lyon, Ox ford. James A- Jones to. Mary Frances Green, Granville. THE GAS RATE IS CUT TEN CENTS IN OXFORD Raleigh, N. C, April 22- tfhe North Carolina Corporation Commis sion yesterday ordered decreases in gas rates for sixteen North Carolina cities ranging from ten to thirty five cents per thousand cubic teet gross- . The cities affected and their rates include: Oxford and Henderson from $2-60 to $2.50; Greensboro from $2.10 to $1-85; Charlotte from $2.10 to $l-85r Blue and White. A special passenger car from Greensboro, attached to the Durham Henderson train and loaded witn happy delegates , en route to tne Baraca-Philathea convention m Hen derson, passed through Oxford yes terday afternoon, the car was at tractively decorated with the colors of the Baraca-Philathea Union. 1 " J?uuer .Announces Fun- iitiiisciiie"is roi Aomor-.; row the Remains of Oakley Wiil i Rest In Ebnwood Cemetery and I the Bt ody Of West Will Le Taken i to Mt. Creek Church. Information has been received ; that the bodies of Privates Thomas ! will be taken to Upchurch & Cur- rin's undertaking establishment where thev will remain nntii thl funeral. I The list of pall-bearers has been ! revised as fnll for Pvt. Thomas L. Oakley: James t i. bteagali, Jame; J. WTalters, Wil liam Hill Powell, R. C. M. Calvert Albert H. Taylor, Beveley S. Roys terr Jr., Kennon TavJor and Ja ries M. Ellinp'tnn Jr. r - . Pall-bearers for Pvt. Tenny B. j see Carrol, T. C. Loyd, Leo Norwood and John B. Mays, Jr. The armed escort, will be in charge of Sgt James E. Mathews. Sgt Mathews was appointed 1st Sgt. of Co. E., 120th Inf. (The Granville Grays) after Sgt. John Byruni was wounded in the Somme offensive. The other members of the escort are as follows: John E. Pittard, Bud Harrison, Robert Fort. Willie G. Mathews. John Frazier, W- H. Ar rington, Louis Thorp, Jr., Hugh F. Peed and Ewing Smith. Pall-bearers, escort and others who will attend the funeral services ! of Pvt. Thomas L. Oakley will meet at upchurch & Currins store at one o'clock Sunday afternoon April 24th. The remains will be taken to Elm- wood Cemetery where the funeral services will be held. Immediately after the hnriv nf Thomas L. Oaklev is laid to rest, pall-bearers escort and others who will attend the fun eral .services nf Pvt. Tennv Vt. West will return to Upchurch & uurrms unaertaKing estaDiisnment to accompany the body to Mountain Creek Church. FuneraJ services will be held there at four o'clock. It is requested that all ex-service men who can possibly do so will at tend both funerals in uniform. The uniform, will be O. D. Service. E. E. FULLER. TOYLOR WINS THE FAMOUS TAYLOR-MEADOWS LEASE The famous Taylor-Meadows case, involving the ownership of 30 feet of land along the north side of the prize-house on Williamsboro street, which had previously been before three juries and twive before the supreme court was given to the jury the fourth time at 11 o'cock yesterday morning after a three day's battle of heavy weight lawyers in Granville County Superior Court The jury had the case from eleven a. m. until 9 p. m., at which hour Deputy Conrad .Walters notified Judge Horton at the Exchange Hotel that the jury had agreed in favor of Mr- Taylor. a xkt n.ni,0m p, n n c,, mitt, A. L. Brooks, of Gerensboro, tw. a rn,Ti e tct -iri . vv iti inn. ii iv . ii ili w m T iiiiiiii: auu oaiuca a. jiajnui, ui tvesi vii- ginia, represented Mr. J. A. Taylor. Mr. J. F. Meadows was represented by Royster & Royster, Hicks & Stem, W. B. Parham, and T. T. Hicks, of i Henderson. BATCH OF NEWS FROM THE CAPITOL OF TALLY HO Stem, N. C1., April 21 Fire of un known origin swept over the Seth Meadows place on Route 2, last Monday and burned over two hun dred acres of land, destroying every thing in its wake- About fifty men fought the flames all the afternoon, firing against and doing everything possible to check the flames which were brought under control about sunset The Road Force. The coutity bridge and road force has been-putting, in some good work the past "week, on the road leading from Stem to Tally Ho school house. Two splendid "bridges, which were badly needed, have been put in, the road scraped and other work by the road force. If the commissioners would only have the bridge over Betsy Green branch, (which was granted more than a year ago in re sponse to a petition of the citizens of the community asking for same) put in this ;joad would be in prime condition, ; and .our people would be very grateful. Chief Whittaker Busy. Chief Whitaker continues to get the numbers of ; the ; speeders who seem to try tof Show their con tempt for our-small town by racing through at a break neck speed, but Secretary ' Grime's' is furnishing a clue that will bring them to justice. METEOR SHOWERS HOT METAL ON GEORGIA COMMUNITIES Macon, Ga., April 21. A meteor or a series of meteors, .passed over middle and Southern Georgia about 9 o'clock yesterday morning explod ing and showering hot metal as heavy as' iron. It was seen at Ma con. It exploded at Cordele, Pitts, some distance east of Cordele, and Albany, southwest of here. At Pitts, in Wilcox county, more than a dozen heavy explosions were heard, followed by a report crack ling in the air for several minutes Red hot metal, some pieces weigh ing six pounds each, fell to the earth trailing black smoke. The sky was cloudless. The majority of the pieces fell in open fields and so far as known no one was injured. All you have to do to name ten Great Leaders of Men is to name ten Women. mams of Eakes, Clark and Elliott lu uxiora, arriving here at 745 last Saturday morning, had until the following Monday morning to re- gSken.T?Sr at Ho" to MJ- w- H. Upchurch that he, ruld llke very much to accompany j said Mr. Upchurch, and he took him it0 Mt- Creek and showed him every I courtesy possible while he was his guest. - : . . : have been delivering bodies of M ed, States for some .time," said tne soldier, "and I have never scan such & display of love and-affection anywhere as is manifested in Oxford tor the fallen heroes. TTsnaiiv in ! towns the size of Oxford there is a sn.ort ceremony, and in the big cities, uuiug is nustre and s scarcely any cere- I ' Speaking of th remains nf Ton- nie B. West and Thomas L. Oakley, Mr. Upchurch 's soldier guest stated that the caskets are numbered, the lowest number having precedence on the transports and at Hoboken, the American shipping point. You will notice, he said, that when the remains of Oakley and West ar rive the caskets will bear a mucn larger number than those contain U1,?. e remains of Clark, Eakes and Elliott He said that he had ob- ' served that the transports send a cablegram as soon as they depart from foreign ports, giving a list of the dead soldiers aboard. The transports, he ' said, do not always contain as high a number as was re ported. When this is the case he- said, the next transport begins to ioaa wun tne smallest number on j the Caskets: You may exnect the remains qi west ana uakley about one week later than the arrival of those last Saturday morning, he sad A SMART YOUNG LADY Miss Jeannette Longmire Is Deputy Clerk With Power To Administer Oath. One of the most pleasant and smartest young ladies of all Gran ville is Miss Jeannette, the pretty daughter of Mr. T. Y. Longmire of Dickerson, who has been in (he of- n,?.tfud&e Hunt' clerk of the court, for the past two years. Her knowledge of the office and her kmd and gentle treatment of the patrons has won for her the ad miration and esteem of the business men and farmers of both town and . county. Miss Longmire reached the age of 21 years this week, and the . j event was very appropriately observ er in tne cierK's office. As a preliminary to what was to follow, in came General B. S. Roys ter, who praised Miss Longmire for her ability to help along with the af- Pn -? wfm 4-Xm. J m a m. ui me county, ana informed if tnat tb:ere was a movement on ; IOOt tO enlarge her DOWers. Misa . ' -- ' enlarge her nowers. Miss Longmire took it all good-naturedly and wondered what would happen next. , Judge Hunt, who resembles the i graven image of the law, arose from his seat and requested Miss Long- mire to hold the Bible in her right' ihand while he. administered the oath of office, and when :he' finished reading the statute and pronounced Miss Longmire deputy clerk with power to administer oath and affix seal, she raised the Bible to her lips. She wears her new honors with becoming grace and dienity. NO TAX PENALTY THIS YEAR Attorney General Manning Has Rul ed That No Penalty Whatever May Be Collected For Delayed Payment of 1920 State Taxes. Max Abernethy, writing from Ra leigh, says Attorney General James S- Manning interpreting an act of 1921 General Assembly rules that no penalty whatever can be collect ed on the delayed payment of, 1920 State taxes. , .," The ruling of the Attorney Gen eral is made at the teiiues't of Major Baxter Durham, State Auditor, who has been called upon, by;: the sheriffs to know whether the penalty for 1920 taxes, after May 1, 1921, should be assessed. Major Durham is now advising the sheriffs and tax collectors that no penalties may be added in the collection of last year's taxes. After quoting the 1921 act the at torney general says: "The law as finally enacted differed very mater rially from the bill which was first introduced. In the progress of that bill through the houses, a substitute was offered for it and that substi tute was adopted and became the law above set out The effect of this law, in our mind, is to do away entirely with penalties for not pay ing taxes promptly so far as the 1920 taxes are concerned." ATTENTION, UNREGISTERED VOTERS OF OXFORD Again we call attention to the un registered voters of Oxford, and es pecially the women to this fact: That unless t!hey register they can not vote for a period of two years in any election held in the town of Oxford, unless a new registration is held, and that is the exception, instead of the rule. Don't forget that unless you reg ister on or before he 26th you can not vote in the municipal election for two years.
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