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V l LT" l PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY TOWN AND COUNTY OFFER BRILLIANT OPPORTUNITY SAZL HOME PRINT. STATE LIBRARY, OXFORD, N. 0- TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1921 NO. 65 I IN VICE FIGHTS fv York Pastor Says Wave j.'.lliUl inuinvtalitV JS sweeping ; - Minister lieiieves soutu j znnt In U. S. Where Vir- j is ' : r . 1j V!lIfIlt. lijU is I i1" Cal- r)tist church, New York City, known as- the most fearless vnry 1 vklely reornier that New York has Known ' evening and delivered three '''L,,- addresses at Warehouse Ta- His subject Sunday after- noon was r'5""u& ,v,u x" Babylon." He told of the ailv underlying evils lurking every Ium'O in the present day life and put r o t rons: plea for all christian L,!e'io light the forces. Although"! Jhere was a heavy fail of rain m the afternoon and night, more than 4 000 people heard him at the two -The Dance Of Death." nr Straton during the four years aI he has been a minister in Nw tha York has sprung one sensation after anotlur upon me iuCnuyui t fearless exposure of vice conditions and started grand jury invertigations into municipal poh ics, police depart-- ments and other fieids that haye been featured in all the MetropoL- . tan dailies and that have tar-reach- ins clreils of letter denouncing his con-! duct and many threatening, his life if he did not stop his 'exposures vice. One or two have been signed" in blood. He paid iio attention to anv of them. The subject of his address Sunday, ni-ht wis "The Dance of Dps th " i Any man who tells you that 1 he can glide over the floor with a handsome wonianr with the aroma of her ha!r in his nostrils and their cheeks touching, without a rise of passion, is either a half man ! .OHXUOACHSTKATOX A A Or EXPEKIEXCES After' enumerating all the sins en- jdo;ie no,thin' to m mJ tired- .J;s rendered by the modern dance, Dr. f. layin hTer waitl? for ttin Straton said: "The extreme styles 1 llIe sle 1 c n come to suPPer" A of women's dress, lewd pictures, the j For tne Past, Y? yearl gr?a public absorption in matters of sex fany young and old men have tried as revealed in the theater, in novels," to earn a llY1Dg that same way' in stas;e Droductions and the decay-! " ing of home life indicate that so- ; FINE VIEW FROM ONE ciety is on the toboggan. We are ) going precisely in the direction as j did Greece and Rome ana other ci vilizations. When absorption in sex became the feature of Roman life, the old virtues began to decay." "The South is the only section of our country today, Dr. Straton said, ! 'where the old standards of virtue i and Christian soundness are widely j prevalent, and the South contains the leaven of virtue and soundness ! that will save this nation. Here on- J ly is the wholesome home life, with j its cleanliness, its natural social! g'aces, its domestic virtues and its j reverence for Christianity widely disseminated. There may be some crudities in the South, but there is virtue and cleanliness still left and adhehrence to Christian ideals." Thin-skinned people did blush at the merciless invictiveness - and plainness of speech' of Dr. Straton when he rebuked such evils as the substitution of dogs for babies, im modesty in woman's dress and other indecencies that he claimed are con- ; $285,781.42; average $21.46. Dur fronting our modern civilization. lingjuly sales totaled 1,016,950 Dempsey-Carpentier Bout. j pounds for $83,645.10; average The Dempsey-Carpenter fight was $8.22. Sales for entire season, in the culminating note in brutality, as j cluding last week ,15932 pounds explained in his weird and last ad-;for $491,421.43; average $15.55. dress here Monday night to 3,000 j Good gra(ies of tobacco are selling people who crowded into and around j excellent and farmers are well the warehouse tabernacle. Worse j pleased. Over million and quarter . than the bull fights of Spain founded J poUnds are expected to be sold this on fraud and dishonesty, and the day j week. ' ' ' - of the fight was the day of the tough ... -element, included in-which were 5,- CATHOLIC PRIEST SLAIN 000 women, many of them profess- j ins Christians, and showed the ten- : dency toward degeneracy in America j today. This in substance, was the 7 . 1 Key-note of Dr. Straton's suojeci. "Our Relapse Into Paganism as Il lustrated by What a Preacher Saw at the Demsey-Carpentier Fight." Dr. Straton explained that he had an invitation to go to the fight from a newspaper syndicate, that his church board favored his going in the belief that it would result in ?ood. ilThe fight was revolting to every instinct in me," said Dr. Stra on, adding that if the time should ever come when he wanted to do such things, as some preachers and many church men do, he would do it hi the open. The fight was a normal carbuncle w:ih the poison of the entire system gathering together at one point, breaking down the firm flesh and breaking forth, he said, likening this to the state of New Jersey, the weakest spot. . .' ' Dr. Straton described what he termed the mob of 90,000 people, sheltering, seething, sweating and swearing and gloating on the humil iation of a man, saying that the sub (,oi!3cious mind of the public is al ready revolting , against the event, that an awakening is being shown even in the secular press. That he liked sports, healthy clean sports, was asserted by Dr. straton, who said that many people (Continued To Page Five) Mr. B. K. Lassiter Returns. Postmaster, B. K. Lassiter. who vr as granted leave of absence a few eeks ago so as to recuperate his health, has returned to his post of aty much improved in health. GRANVILLE COUNTY BURNS TWO THOUSAND GALLONS OF OIL DAILY Worth Carolina automobiles burn gauuuo ui gctsuime everj "y, u uuuuieu uuu uuy luousauu 01 them covering an estimated mileage of 2,397,802 miles. .In a year, fig ured on the same basis, the auto mobiles in the State will consume a total of 79,663,420 gallons and cov er approximately a billion miles in travel. The State has not as yet compiled its report of the consumption in each of the 100 counties of the State. Granville being an average county, the consumption will not fall short of 2000 gallons daily. THIRTEEN PERCENT ILLITE r RAJE IN NORTIT CAROLINA Native Whites Are 8.2 Pet., While Colored People Are 24.5 Pet. Washington, Aug. 15 A, total of 13.1 percent of ' North Carolina's population, counting 4only those ten years of age or" more, can not read or write, the Census Bureau an- nounced Saturday. The native wniteav are 8.2 percent illiterate, d th(X negroes 24.5 percent, the f h w Danville fJounty. The natiye wMtes Qf Granvil are 6 5 percent illiteratef -and the negroes 25.9 at percent, the figures ' . THE KIND OF HELP THE FARMER GETS Last-week a farmer, in Fishing Creek came to Oxford to attend some 1 J J "1 . , 1 1 1 " i J i t business inai required nis aueuuon. He returned home in the afternoon and went over to the field to see how his hired man was getting a long. He found him lying in thf shade of a tree, smoking a cigarette. incui a&jvcu. nit; uuas, ixuyc; OF GRANVILLE HILL TOPS The Electric Lights In Oxford, Hen derson, Durham aiul Raleigh Vis ible At the Home Of Mr. J. Wal ter Howell. Mr. J. Walter Howell, who resides on Kittrell Route 2, Granville coun- ty, informs the Public Ledger that on dark nights he can see from his home the electric lights in Oxford, Henderson: and Durliam. Mr. Howell lives about 8 miles southeast of Oxford, about 9 miles from Henderson and about 26 miles from Durham as the crow flies. It is about 40 miles from Mr. Howell's heme to Raleigh. On very dark nights he can see the halo that hangs above the Capital City. AVERAGE PRICE OF TOBACCO ON FAIRMONT MARKET $21.46 Fairmont, Aug. 15. Sales of to bacco on the Fairmont market last ! week totals 1.331,232 nounds for BY METHODIST MINISTER a Case Wherein The Flesh and the Devil Met. Brimingham, Aug. 12. Father James E. Coyle, for many years pas tor of St. Paul's Catholic church, died at a hospital last night after having been shot three times by Rev. E. R. Stephenson, Methodist minis ter. . . "I remonstrated 'with him for mar rying my daughter, Ruth, to a man against whom we had lodged ob jections," said the prisoner. "I called him a dirty dog," said Stephenson. "He struck me," con tinued the preacher, "and then I shot him." Father , Coyle was, shot on ifoe porch of St. Paul's rectory. MORRISON WANTS STATE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE It is announced from Asheville that Governor Cameron Morrison will press the appointment of a sec retary of commerce and manufactur ing at the next session of the gen eral assembly. It is the opinion of the governor that some one should be always on the alert for the commercial and manufacturing interests of the com monwealth and to this end will press the legislature to make provision for a state officer and prescribe' his du ties. ' Pietro Dellagra, Italian farmer of St. Helena Pender county; 12 mri5s from Wilmington ,is,in a dy ing condition at Wilmington after beirigshot and fatally wounded by a negro. Reports said a posse of 20 men. not officers, had taken the ne gro in Pender county. DR. W. D. o N S'inflay eveiiing t X O ClOCK ) the Oxford Union Service in the Warehouse Tabernacle will have a' piaachor Dr. W. B. Riley, of Minneapolis, Minn. He is pastor of a great church of 3000 members, i? one of Americas foremost preachers A TENTED CITY ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF OXFORD Capt. Blair Has Called In All Of Trr; m 1 ' . - Pftn(1 i?flmpi,f ' Good, Juicy Beefsteak Aill Take a His Horses and Road Equipment. TtombleTn Price Soon. Capt. Blair, one of the best road- i One-of the leading-farmers " of men in the State, who has done j Granville county informs the Pub much road work in Granville county, j lic Ledger that he is selling all his finds himself without a contract. It j cattle on account of the' long dry is the first time in several years , spell and tne pr0Spect of not produc that it became necessary for him to ; ing enough to feed them, call in his vast equipment and store ! other farmers tell us that they it. Capt. Blair's residence is at the east end of King street. Since call ing in his sixty odd horses and mules, wagons, dragsshovels and plows and erecting the tents on the premises the surroundings takes on the appearance of a "tented village," or a circus. The enforced idleness of horses and equipment for a week or a month would cost Capt. Blair a pret ty penny. With $50,000,000 road work to be done in the state, Capt. Blair's vacation is a matter of only a few days. ; YEAR WITHOUT A SUMMER And It Seems T!hat We Are To Have a Summer Without Rain. According to the opinion of some of our aged citizens, this has been the, hottest and driest summer in their recollection. The ground ha3 not been saturated with rain since the middle of May. In times ast there was also a year without a summer, we una an account 01 tne summerless year in a back number of the Richmond Ditpatch: "The year 1816 is known in Vir ginia, North Carolina and some oth er, states as the 'year without a sum mer.' From the diary of Abner Courtiney, of Petersburg, Va., are ex tracted the following fragments concerning that summer season: "May Ice froze from a quarter to a half inch thick. Corn was planted two or three times and was froze out. SA melancholy hue seemed to seal the fate of all vegetable life. June The coldest June on record. Killing frost occuued ' on several T ,'flr t 55 ?4per cent of production signed were killed." Julv A month oil.' . . nn , . heavy frost and ice. On the morn ing of 5th ice formed as thick as window glass. r August Ice formed a half-inch in thickness, and every thing green was destroyed." Local Showers Brings Relief. Copious showers throughout the county on Saturday and Sunday broke the backbone of the hot spell that had gripped this section for for ty days. The temperature at Hall's drug store Saturday morning before the. first shower, w;a,s 90 degrees in th shade. At this same hour Tues day morning it was 65 degrees. Dr. George T. Harding, father of President Harding, slipped away from his home in Monroe, Ohio last Friday an. went over to Marion, Mich., and married Miss Alice Sey erns, his stenographer and office as sistant. On his return to Marion, Dr. Harding took his bride tb her home and then was driven to his own home four squares away. Before leaving his bride, Dr. Harding said "Good night, Alice, I'll see -you to morrow. ' . '' ' ''' 1 4 Ml RILEY JJ1W1C JC-AlJUCltUl Ul liltCl- naticnal fame. He will preaciixon "The Scientific Accuracy of the j Scriptures." All these are open to the public. No admision charged. A free will offering wil! be made. Every person who comes should bring his purse. 1 GRANVILLE COUNTY FARMERS ! . ARE SELLING THEIR CATTLE ON ACCOUNT OF DRY SPELL have sold or are trying to sell their cattle for the same reason. One farmer called at the Public j Ledger office to inquire if he would be permitted to butcher a tine tat steer and se"ll it on the streets of Oxford without a permit- He stat ed that he would be glad to get 20 cents a pound for steak and other cuts at a corresponding figure. THE SHORTEST ROUTE TO BUFFALO SPRINGS Mr. and Mrs. Sam C. Howard and pretty little daughter Betsy, were very pleasant visitors to Oxford yes terday. Mr. Howard stated that many Oxford people have found out the shortest and best road to Buf falo Springs, which passes his house. Instead of going via Charksville,, said Mr. Howard, they should turn to the west at Stovall; go via Grassy Creek and turn to the west in front of Church and continue that road three miles to the church on the right and the school house on the left; about 100 yards from this point take the road to the left through the woods, then turn to the right which is the1 main road that will take you within sight of Buffalo Junction, thence to the springs. GREENE COUNTY LEADS IN NORTH CAROLINA Greene county tobacco growers still hold the record for the largest percentage of the tobacco crop of 1920 signed up for cooperative mar keting. There are several 10, 20, 30 per cent counties, more with 40. 50, 60 up, but Greene, with 80, leads them all. It is true that she was among the first to, start signing, and that sev- 1 eral counties which have passed' their minimum continue to send in more tobacco contracts, but so far Greene is still out in front and challenging the field. THE SOUTH CAROLINA LEAF TOBACCO CROP NEARLY SOLD The remant of the South Carolina tobacco crop will have ben sold with ing a week or ten days, according to information reaching tobacco circles here. It is also reported in some parts that farmers have lived- up to the decision made recently that they would not cut any more tobacco, and they tiara plowed up the land. This is probably obacco which was ruined by the prolonged rain.? H. It. Morrow and Company, agents for the Studebater r automo bile and one or two makes of air planes, has failed, according to word from Charlotte, baaquartefs of the company. GOOD TOBACCO BRINGS A "ROUT AV ATJ-TTAIF! PRTPlTv: 1 j Number' Of Fa"sell Tobacco! For From $30 to $66 a Hundred j i On Lumbermen Market. Lumberto'ii, Aug. 15. Last ! v,eek vas the record bieaker of , the season on the Lumberton to ' bacco market, as well as on other markets in the county. Fanners, who Succeeded in growing a good crop of tobacco are receiving" wartime prices for it. while the off grades .are stiU selling low. One fanner sold a curing for more than $1,000 and a number of them have sold tobacco for from $30 to $66 the hundred. This week promises to be another busy one on the mar kets. It is expected that the crop will have been sold by Sep tember 10. The money received for the tobacco crop is having its effect in business circles. COLORED VOLUNTEER FIRE MEN OF NORTH CAROLINA GATHER IX OXFORD j Street Parade and Hook and Ladder i Race Tomorrow-Other Races i Thursday On HMSboro Streets. The colored volunteer firement of the State met in Oxford this morn ing for a three days' session. Presi dent Plummer, of Washington, N. C., delivered the opening address in the auditorium of Mary Potter's school this morning at 10:30 o'clock, followed by Mayor T. G. Stem, who welcomed the fire lighters to Oxford in good style. This response to May or Stem was made by T)r. J. W. Grimes, of Washington, N. C, an in a short speech Dr. G. C. Shaw "Wel comed the Firemen to our City and xiumes. au aiiieie&uug uiugiaui, interspersed with instrumental and vocal music, is in progress at Mary Potter's , school this afternoon. The street parade will take place on Hillsboro street tomorrow morn ing at 10:30. The hook and ladder race will take place tomorrow af ternoon at 2:30 on Hillsboro street. Hose and reel races will take place at 10:30 Thursday morning, follow ed by other races. Oxford All-Star Base Ball team wil1. h.avec a fne at the colored ball park in South Oxford each day dur- fng the convention PREMIUM LIST OF THE GRANVILLE COUNTY FAIR Farm and Field Crop; Horticulture Froducts; Home economics ro- ducts, School Exhibits, Etc. The premium list of the Granville County Fair, to be held Tuesday, Yednesday and Thursday, October 4-5-6, has been issued in neat form. Mr. J. E. Jackson, manager of the , I fair, is sending copies of the 50- page booklet to all parts of the county. If you fail to receive a copy, the first time you come to Ox ford call at any of the stores or at Mr. jaefcsons onice m tne uoun House and get a copy. The premium list should be in the hands of every farmer. Premiums will be awarded for field products, horticultural pro ducts, home economic products, poultry and school exhibits. In. or-' der to make the premiums in the a- bove departments as large as pos sible live stock was omitted this year. The amusement feature this year is larger, stronger, and better thanrjwas finished in June 1880. Sixty- V ever before. KINSTON SCHOOLS TO GIVE CREDIT FOR BIBLE STUDY (Kinston Free Press) The giving of credits in the Kins ton high school for students' work in the Bible schools of the city sets a- precedent, at least in this part of the country. Ministers state that the idea was introduced at a State Sunday school convention, and that its adoption here will be its initial try-out so far as they know The lo cal plan differs in some respects from that proposed at the conven tion, t Students will be given one high school unit for four years' work in the Sunday schools. This will be based upon a minimum of, study of 45 lessons of 40 minutes' duration, or an equivalent, the lessons to con form to the public schools' stan dard "and to be graded as to time and content by the educational au thorities. HEAVY TOBACCO MOVEMENT FROM SOUTH HILL, VA. In connection with leaf tobacco movement over-the Southern Rail way during the season recently end ed, a total of 9,910,384 pounds- was shipped fromSouth Hill, Virginia, the wole of which was handled from origin to destination without a com plaint or claim. The fact that this record was established with the lim ited facilities at South Hill adds ad ditional glory to the effort of Agent G. W. Hardy and his organization at that point. So. Railway Bulletin. The Lucky Numbers. The drawing of the coupons that were issued at the recent sale con ducted, by Landis & Easton took place on last Monday morning and the lucky .numbers are as follows: town number. 052382; county num ber 0 5 2 0 9 3 . Mrs. Easton Parham held the lucky number for Oxford. No one has yet claimed the county prize. OXFORD-HENDERSON BRANCH OF THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY WAS BTBY CONVICT One Must Be Mere Than Forty ! Years Old To Remember the" Event. . The current . number of the Or- phan's Friend contains an interesting ; article by Col. Fred A. Olds 'embody ing a complete history of the North Carolina State Prison boiled down to I one page, from which we take the following paragraphs. The act to provide for the erection of a penitentiary was ratified April 1 12, 1869. A penitentiary was re I quired by Article II, Section 3, of jthe constitution of 1868. This act j required it to be built at or aar lialeigh, on a site selected by the commissioners, Abern L. Harris, Al fred Dockery, Samuel F. Patterson, Alfred Howe, and George William Walker; the site to be not less than 12 nor more than 2 acres.1 . I Prison Site. ; The site of tie prison, bought from fMiss Kate "Rnvlnn pnst $n AAA Work bega0 ln' 1870 theTpV Inff nrf - Contractors: ?2 7 B'l " f "'T' ' W"e Ji LV"; . illl' i j. kji. j.o i j. liicj' wcie yam j$68,88. The total cash expded on building up to Nov. 1, 1871, was $143,957, William J. Hicks was the architect and also the superintendent of the building. Onet Indian. There were in the prison Novem ber 1, 1871. white males 69, females 1: negro males 257, females 16; to tal 343; one being an Indian; the only one ever in this prison. Of the prisoners 108 were under 20, and 177 were married; 264 could neither read nor write; six under sentence all for mnrHpr ' Th T?f cost of feeding convicts was 11 cents a day, guards 23 cents. 'The prisoners made all clothes and shoes used. Scurvy Broke Out. Dr. William G. Hill was. the phy sician. In July, 1871. scurvy broke out and 63 cases were treated. Dr. Hill in his report said: "This terrible disease is rarely met with in tnis country many physicians nev er having seen a case of., it. . It is due entirely to lack of fresh vege tables. As soon as discovered I or dered full rations of Irish potatoes three times a week for the prisoners and onions and potatoes daily to those sick with it: apples and lemon juice -being also- freely used. The remarkable drought this summer caused an exceeding scarcity of vege tables in all this section." Prisoners Shot. July 9, 1878, a desperate attempt was made by two white and six col ored convicts to scale the stockade while the other prisoners were at supper, but the guards killed one ana wounaea another. The prisr oners made all the iron doors for the cells and in two years. 1877-78 laid M 1 M ft-4t 1 ji 1 1 644.216 brink in tho main hnild- ing. The brick were, made inside the prison to which the clay ' was hauled. This plan saved cost as the , brick were made at $2 per thousand. Oxford-Henderson Railway. November 1,1878, there was 1, 102 convicts and in 24 months from that date 942 were . received. November 1, 1880, 245 were build ing the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley railway, 55 were on the State Uni- versity railway. The exterior wall :i seven convicts were building the Ox ford & Henderson railway. In- two years the prison earned $648 more than all expenses. Percentage Of Deaths. In 1881 it was. found that the mor tality among the convicts at work on the Western N. C. railway was nearly double that among thoseon the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley rail way; in spite of the fact that the former were picked men and the lat ter rejected men. Ninetenths of those on the. high mountain work were negroes and the winter cojd was too severe for them as they were chiefly from the milder counties of the east.- Negro Convict Hero. December 30th, 1882, tweifcy-two convicts at work on the Western N. C. railway were drowned by the sinking of a flat boat at the ferry across the Tuckaseigee river. Forty-five men were on the boat, and someone cried out that it. was sink ing. A panic resulted. The legisla ture made a full investigation of this occurrence. Sam Pickett. . a .negro convict, was the hero of the occa sion, saving some persons and get ting a full pardon from Gov. Jarvis. Insurbordination. April 16, 1887, the first overt act of insurbordination in all the history of the prison occurred. In the even ing a large number of convicts be came, greatly excited and claimed to be terribly alarmed because a con vict who had armed himself had to be knocked down and disarmed. Some claimed he had been killed and 60 refused to go into their cells. Troops were sent to the -? prison but the convicts next day all surrendered and were appropriately dealt with. .. ' 1 -. Examination For Teachers. There will be an examination for teachers' certificates held in Oxford August 30th and 31st. J. F. WEBB. 1 i Yotrr battery cadd havt watott ftbect Tcry two Ct? at Wil- lard gtrrio Ctstlta. n v l 1 4 1 1 1 1 V ' 1 T it fir. rii 1 5 fft . Ir: v. b f mi 3 1 1 1 if it -.,.TV, bis it' a 1 a X V: X
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