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VOL. XXXVIII -—— — rmtl.tsmt, SEBtBt:EKLT—TOWN AKD COBWTY OFFER BBILMAN OPPOBTVNHTES. __OXFORD, N. C., TUESDAYjjANIfARYi l92R ni<r\ a TH!RTY PER CENT OF TOBACCO CROP SOLD About One-Half Of the Remainder To Re Sold Is In the Hands Of tin Co-ops. From thirty to thirty-five per cent of the Granville County tobacco crop is yet to be marketed according to the opinion advanced by both indepen dent and eo-operative officials. The conservatives fixed the figure at thirty per cent, while some placed the figure at 35 per cent for tl^e auc tion and co-operative market here Lively. . . Quite a lot of unsigned tobacco from adjoining counties . has been coining to the Oxford market ail the season, and there is no telling how much "foreign" tobacco will be handled here during the remainder of the season. This estimate of 30 per cent yet to be sold on the Oxford market this season does not include tobacco grown outside of the county. The Auction Houses. After the close for the holidays, the auction houses opened up yester day with light sales, which may imply that the farmers are not in a hurry to maket the remainder r f the crop. The price for all grades were practically the same as when the mar ket closed for the holidays. j He Co-ops. The Co- ops, after a close ter the holiday esason opened up this morn ing with every office man and help er in place. The opening this morn ing was light, which is generally the case immediately following the hol idays. Second Payment. Second payment on the co-opera tive weed may be expected by Gran ville County and this section of the bright belt between January 10 and 15. The co-operatives have been waiting some time for their second payment and will be glad to get the checks. EIGHTY NINE NEW NURSES IN STATE Making A Total Of 1000 Registewd Nurses In North Carolina Anr^mn^^ment is made of the suc cessful applicants for registered nurs 'i ir. North.' Carolina, frm number who stood the ex-* amination held by the state board of exam'n-rs at Raleigh on December 4. Of the 95 applicants all but six passed. The highest mark was made by Hiss Ida McAfee, of Ashville, Rochester Homeopathic School of Nursing. Her mark was 97. The second in the list was Miss Helen Moor, of the Roanoke Rapids School of Nursing, and Miss Reba Sanders, of the John Walker Memorial School of Nursing, Wilmington, who ties with a mark of 96. The result of the examination, with the licensing of the nurses maims the total of registered nurses in the state about 1,000. ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY PROPOSED Mcruuu^s Also Propose Exemption of Service Men Prom Poll Tax. E-eruption of overseas srevice men from the payment of poll tax, drastic amendment of the prohibition laws of the State providing among other things conviction for felony on the refusal of a drunk to tell where he got his liquor, and the substitu tion of sterilization and life impris oncrent for the death penalty for capital offenses were listed among the legislation offered in the House at Raleigh last week. Three public measures offered in the Senate would require all vehicles to display lights at night when on State roads, would allow the corpo ration commission to appoint freight inspectors, and would abolish sup erior court clerks, fee for jurors and witness tickets in all counties where the clerk is on a salary. MCBEE QUITS HIGH WAY COMMISION t*ov. Morrison Appoints Andrew AT. Kistler Governor Morrison has accepted the resignation of John C. McBee, of Mitcheii county, as a member of the state highway commission, and ap pointed Andrew M. Kistler, Morgan ton manufacturer, to succeed him. Mr. McBee seemed unable to sat isfy the people of the eigth distric, and in his decisions he was reversed twice by the highway commission meeting in a body, being the only member to have his decisions re versed. LAST CHANCE January is the last month in which to pay your taxes without penalty. All taxes paid during month of Jan uary Net. On February 1st one per cent will be added. Statement fur nished on request. 1-5-81 E. D. HUNT, Sheriff. WANTED YOUND LADY TO TEACH at home two small children of 5 And 6 years. P. O. B, 612. LOCAL POSTOFFiCE HAS GREAT RECORD Postoffice receipts are regard ed is aji infallible baro:neter of the business of a town. Oxford's I postoffice shows a rentarhable growth during the past two years as the following figures show. Receipts from sale of postage stamps, newspaper postage and box rents for the past three years: 1920 .. IS,000 1921 .20,100 1922 . .22,000 This is a good steady growth of postal receipts and compares favorably with any office in North Carolina. KAISER'S ESTATES ARE UNDER CLOUD Thirty Towering Castles.. Nearly a Million Acres <^f !^and anti foiest with Humnrg Ixxlges, V illas, Parks a,nd Pr ivate Horrses, Jewels and Art Treasures Worth Millions Are Involved. I Four years ago had Princess Schoe : naich Carolath been betrothed to the . king of Prussia and emperor of Ger ! many she could have contemplated I reigning over the greatest royal es tates of Europe. She could have I viewed prospective co-partnership in ! the administration of 30 towerinng I castles, nearly a million acres of land ! and forest with hunting lodges, villas ! parks and private houses, to say noth ! ing of jewels and art treasures worth : millions, says the New York Herald. { Today ^cot even William Hohenzol ! lern knows wheather he owns any I part of the silent castles, the empty i country seats or the parks and for } ests. He does not even know ] wheather he owns a stick of furni . ture in his former palace. He can ! not call the easy chair in his library } his own nor could he promise his ) bride a single ladle from the once ! royal kitchens. R0TAR1ANS ENJOY TRIP TO DURHAM _ Banquet Punctuated With Songs, Fun * 'aid'd' i The Oxford Rotary Club, together ! with the Raleigh and He .derson Clubs, was entertained Friday night by the Durham Club in the m w Dur ham High School Building. One hundred and twenty-five members of these clubs joined in the festivities of the occasion, consisting of an ele gant banquet, with singing, fun and serious thoughts interspersed. Charles Mainor spoke witiq great credit to himself and the Oxford Club on ''The Rotarian and his Morality ," and a stunt put on by the Oxford Club, under the direction of Andrew Jamieson, brought forth much laughter. The spirit of Rotary reigned supreme and all voted the ev ening a great success. GENERAL NEWS —Practically all danger of another coal strike in the unionized bitumi nous fields April T pf this year has now passed, in the opinion of the fde eral coal commission. —The face value of new life msur ance policies taken out in the United States the past year exceeds $6,000; 000,000, a gain of more than 100 per cent over 1913. Government offi cials attribute the big showing to a decided gain in the material condi tion of the people. —A bill designed to help break up bootlegging by making the buyer of outlaw liquor equally guilty with the seller was introduced by Representa tive Upshaw, Democrat, Georgia, who recently charged in the House that public officials do not all practice what they preach in regard to prohi bition. —me autnorizeu oiograpny ot junu Wanamaker' will be written by the Rev. Dr. Russell H. Conwell. pastor of the Baptist Temple, Philadelphia, and work upon this document will be begun at once. Dr. Conwell says i that the work will be a labor of love and that it was the desire of the dead "merchant prince." No date for pub lication has been announced. —Dr. Miller Reese Hutchison, for many years chief engineer of the Thomas A. Edison laboratories, has been selected to lead a new crusade against the boll weevil in the cotton fields of the South. The post was tendered Dr. Hutchison by the Amer ican Cotton Association, which in, .connection with an Atlanta, Ga.. or ganization, has undertaken to raise ) $2,500,000 to fight the weevil. _For the first time in American ! history the picture of a woman will j appear upon postage stamps when ! the new series being prepared by the Postofficet Department is issued on January 15. The woman portrayed will be Martha Washington and her picture will appear on a four-cent stamp. Other stamps of th^ new se ries will show pictures of George Washington, Franklin, Jefferson and Monroe. ' < ' " _Your battery should have water about every two weeks. Stop at Ox ford Battery Co. MR. E. C. HARRIS IN FAVOR OF BUILDING ! NEW COURT HOUSE ! - I JAIL TO BE ON TOP OF THE MODERN STRUCTURE ! - } A Light Bond Issue That Would Be ' of Lasting Benefit to ail the !'eo- : pie of the County. To the People of Granville Co. r j The last time yom elected me one of your county commissioners, I had i in mind to do my very best to start some plan to build a new Court House. I talked the matter over i with a few of our good business men, every one of whom said to me "I ! hope you yill succeed." I traveled a good distance on the ! train one day with one of the best ! judges in the State and told him ! what 1 had in view; he grasped mv i hand and said "if you will do this, ' your name will go down in history ! as one of the great men of your coun- ! ty push it, I bid you God speed." I ! I had scarcely taken the oath of! i office before war was declared j t against Germany and her allies. So ! j I though best to drop it, having nev- ! !er mentioned it to any other mem i ber of the Board. ! For six months I have been think j ing of writing an article for our i county paper, agitating the matter I again as the war has passed and our i present board is discussing the mat- I j ter of remodeling the old one or i } building a new one. Having been ! ja commissioner 12 years I thnik I ;know just how they feel about the i matter. 1 just feel like every one of them really thinks the right thing j j to do would be to build a new one, ! but knowing the only way to do it ! ! would be by a bond issue and they j perhaps think this would not n^eet jwith the approval of the people, j Hence I am addressing this to the ! good people of our county and not j to our commissiners alone. Should it i j not be far better to build a new one ! and it would be more desirable, con- j j venient and safe in every particular ] ! than any alteration or adding to i I could possible be. I I have often viewed the old build [ ing and grounds with an eye to add ! ing to and remodeling, but I have .never been able to see how.lt.co Hid be done at all satisfactorily. Some- i thing should be done soon, nearly every grand jury for six years have ! recommended more and better vaults i for our valuable records. Until now ! nothing permanently has been done. ! Those who have to daily; search public j records know something of the in- } convenience and loss of valuable j time in doing so; besides I have ! been reliably informed quite a number of valuable books are una voidably exposed to fire, and it is only a -matter of time (probably) a great many things will be thrown into chaos by fire. My fellow country-men, thtnk on these things. I am no architect t and don't propose to attempt to plan } the building further than to say I ; think it should be three stories, the ! third story for a jail. It seems to j me that the building we need could : be built for around $175,000. Where ' is this to come from. I don't see t any source but a bond Issue. ! Doubtless many will be surprised at i my being in favor of a bond issue. I } must say I am opposed to bond is sue generally, but this would be no common occurance—only one in a hundred years or more. I have written this to no special party, sect or for self aggrandise ment, but to the people of the whole county to get the matter before our people and sincerely hope they will not be too free to criticise or express their opinions until they first give it careful thought and view it from every angle—not looking at it from any selfish or jolitical point of view, i After having dpne this, would be } glad to have you express your can- } did oppinion in any way you may i deem proper. E. C. HARRIS. ' Jan. 5th, 1923. STATE NEWS —Further evidence of the gigantic) building boom which is to be inaugu-} rated in New Bern during the com-) ing year is seen-in the fact that ap proximately eighty permits for new structures within the city limits have been issued. —Thomas Mott Osborn, noted pris on reformer, whose work at Sing Sing and in the United States Navy's prison system won him international fame, will be the principal speaker before the North Carolina Conference for Social Service which meets in Ral eigh, January 24-25. —The yield of fish and oysters in East Carolina waters this year, ac cording to the report of the com missioner of labor and printing, a mountedtoinvalue $2,034,430. In quantity the aggregate is made up of $16,915,387 pounds of food fish, 1, 160,824 pounds of shrimp, 500,000 bushels of oysters 41,157 bushels clams, 138,596 gallons escallops, 65, 434 dozen soft crabs, and 3,186 gal lons of crab meat. For carrying on the industry, boats, nets and other apparatus to the value of 3,859,573 are used, giving employment to near ly 11,000 persons. MASTER JIM BLACK IMPROVES SLOWLY Much Sympathy Expressed For Rev. and Mrs. B. H. Black, the Par ents. Master James Black, the fine lit tle son of Rev. and Mrs. B. H. Black, who was accidentally shot by a play mate while he was skating on Front street last Thursday morning, is re covering from the wound slowly it is said. The sharp-pointed ball which en tered the abdomen, was extracted by (Surgeon Jack Bullock at Brant wood Hospital, and if no complica tions set in the brave little boy will soon recover. It was at first thought, and so stated in the Public Ledger, that the ball struck the hard pavement before it entered the boy's stomach. After the ball was extracted it was seen that it did not strike a hard sub stance, or it would have been bat tered. The sympathy of the entire com munity goes out to Mr. and Mrs. Black in the affliction visited upon their bright little son. They bea,r it with Christian grace and fortitude which emphasizes stronger than words can express the fallacy of fond parents, or friends, placing firearms in the hands of children. PECULIAR CASES ON CITY COURT DOCKET Six Raleigh Boys Accused Of Barking Like Dogs On Fayetteville Street. (News and Observer) A case unique in the legal annals of the State of North Carolina and perhaps pregnant with judicial pre cedent will be tried this morning in the City Court when six Raleigh boys will be arraigned before Judge Har ris on the terrible and heinous charge of "barking like dogs on Fayetteville street." Clifton Beckwith, city prosecuting attorney last night stated that the legal aspect of'the case was most com plex. He asserted that as there was no city, ordinance specifically pro hibiting barkin g, that he wouid prob charge the boys with terrorizing the populace into thinking that an epi demic of hydrophobia was in progress. The Raleigh boys are tame com pared to the gang of Oxford boys who terrorized the citizens on Christmas Eve, when they upset out-houses, turned cattle into the street, removed chairs from the pOrch and turned on spigots. A MEMORIAL SHAFT IN DURHAM COUNTY To Mark The Spot Where General Johnson Surrendered To Sherman Family of Samuel F. Brown, whose estate is owner of the Bennett Place near Durham where General Johnson surrendered to General Sher man, intend to carry out his desires and erect a memorial on the land, if the state will keep it up, members of the Morgan family have assured Rep resentative R. O. Everett. Samuel Morgan was founder of the Vir ginia-Carolina Chemical Company which made him wealty. He re moved to Richmond and has since died. R. O. Everett intends to intro duce a bill into the lower house of the state assembly seeking a pro vision for permanent care of the memorial in order that it may be erected.—Durham Herald. GRANVILLE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH Dr. W. X. Thomas Takes the PLace Of Dr. Tom Booth, Resigned. One of the time-honored institu tions of the county is the Board of Health. It has always been under the direction of the best men obtain able, who gave the best that is in them. It is to be regretted that Dr. Tom Booth's health is such as to cause him to withdraw from the board after long and faithful service. In casting about to get a good man to take his place, the board elected Dr. W. N. Thomas, who brings to the board much energy and wisdom. SON BORN TO MR. AND MRS. G. W. HiLL Mr. and Mrs. George Washington Hill are being * congratulated upon the birth of a son in their home, 570 Park Avenue, New York City, on Sunday, December 17th, 1922. The child will be christened Percival Smith Hill the 2nd, after his grand father, Percival S. Hill, President of the American Tobacco Company, of which the boy's father, Mr. George W. Hill, is Vice-president. —Mrs. J. D. Harte, wife of Rev. J. D. Harte, pastor of the Baptist Church, is in Norfolk to receive med ical treatment ' WHAT ALLIES WANTED WHAT THEY MAY GET The present allied reparations re vision is the third the Allies have ! made in an effort to secure a "final" i fixation on Germany's obligations. On January 23, 1321, the total rep arations were fixed at 226,000 - ! 000,000 gold marks (approximat- ! oly $55,000,000,000), payable in I annuities extending to 1963. On April 27, 1931, the damnd was! } modified to call for a total of 132,000,000,000 gold marks (ap I proximately $31,416,000,000), t payable over a period totaling ) forty-one years tToday both France and England are 1 agreed on a reparations total of ! 50,000.000,000 gold marks (ap i proximately $12,000,000,000), the British iixing the year for final ! settlement as 19 54. ; T ra! ;ce, however, demands inuited ! ia e productive guarantees, or economic sanctions by occupation i of the Ruhr, to / insure against : German defaults. I <'i-eat Gritian demands the appiica i tion of "such penalties as the Al j ties mutually agree upon" only t after Germany has defaulted. LOCAL NEWS ; —The Eastern Star will meet } promptly at 7:30 o'clock next Thurs ; day evening. I —A meeting of the Parent-Teach ers Association will be held in the Graded school auditorium on Thurs day night at 7:30. —Mr. J. H. Morris, who lives on the north end of Broad street, lost I a fine cow last Friday night. As ) there was no signs of sickness or im proper food, the cow's death is shrouded in mystery. , —A rain storm, accompanied by thunder and lightning, visited this section early last Monday morning. The loud peals of thunder and the vivid lightning would have been a credit to a warm summer day. —A large ripe tomato, pluckeu from the garden of Mrs. G. W. Roys ter near Providence last week, speaks well for the soil and climate of Gran ville. It was perfect and the frost seemed not to have touched it. LETTING IN LIGHT AND WARM SUNSHINE i The South End of Gilliam Street Is ! a Mode! of Good Workmanship i There were twenty-one large j trees on either side of the square on Gilliam street before the workmen j laid the axe at their roots a few ! days ago. Ten of the fine elms on ! this quare, which are distributed at j j proper intervals, will be permitted to j stand. The square was rather dark and j damp before the trees were cut, but j the light of day, the hood of warm j sunshine and the hard surface plac- ] ; ed by the R. G. Lassiter Company ! has made it one of the most cheer ful and inviting blocks in Oxford. It is a model piece of workman ship. TOKEN OF LOVE TO JUDGE DEVIN Ptesented By the Oxford Baptist Baraca Class. The Oxford Baptist Baraca Class, of which Judge Devin has long been the teacher, last Sunday presented to him as a token of love and esteem 'The Life of John Marshall," neatly bound in four volumes. Pastor Harte presented the gift in graceful terms, and the manner in which Judge Devin received it showed that the class and the token is close to his heart. MAJOR STEDMAN WANTS A MEMORIAL ERECTED TO COLORED "MAMMIES" Washington, Jan. 7.—The gov ernment of the United States was asked yesterday to pay a belated trib ute to the "faithful colored mam mies of the South" by providing a site in the national capital for a monument in their memory. Re presentative Stedman, Democrat, North Carolina, the only Con federate veteran in the House, pro posed in a bill that Congress grant i permission to the Jefferson Davis Chapter, United Daughters of the I Confederacy, for erection as a gift to the people of the country of the monument on public ground here. } The old colored mammy, enshrin ed in the hearts of a multitude she led through** the turbulent and try ing period of childhood, has been praised in song and story, but there I is no marble shaft testifying to her faithful service generations ago. AIR. FLEMING S NEW HOME ON THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY Mr. and Mrs. Len B<r Fleming have about completed their comfortable and picturesque home on the National Highway, in the northern suburbs of Oxford near the Delacroixx spring. Electric lights and water will be in stalled. tJ THREE PER!SH IN F!RE AT RALEIGH Fit^men Is Radiy Burned While Try* ing To Rescue Victims—Sixty Au tomobiles Destroyed—Damage Es timated At sioo.ooo. ^hree persons were burned to death and another burned seriously, a fire man injued and 75 automobiles de stroyed in a fire early last Saturday morning when tne garage operated by Isaac Simpkins, on East Morgan street, Raleigh, went up in figures. The dead are: Mrs. Isaac Simp kins, her four year old son add a negro nurse. The following con densed report is taken from the Ral eigh papers: Isaac Simpkins was burned badly when he attempted to re-enter the building to rescue his wife after having jumped from a second floor window with his daughter. Carrolll Besk, a fireman,fractured his arm in two places when a sudden burst of flames from a window caused him to lose his balance on a,ladder and fall. Simpkins and his family lived in an apartment over the garage, and were trapped by the fire, which was started by an explosion, according to ' the fire department. The flames } spread rapidly. Rushing to a win ! dow, Simpkins urged his wife, hold , ing her small son in her arms, to ! jump. She refused. The man caught his daughter and jumped.. He rushed back into the building in an attempt to rescue his wfie, but was driven back by the flames. He was so badly burned, hospital physicians stated he is not expected to recover. Simpkins, his clothes burning, was ; standing beneath the window where : his wife had appeared when firemen ) arrived. ! jump, motner, jump," he called. : The only answer was a scream. I He pleaded with the crowd to save ; his wife and child. Fireman Beck I was attempting to reach the window : when the flames caused him to fall. } Fireman were not able to reach the ; room in which the bodies were found I until 7 o'clock, nearly three hours i after the fire started. Dinty Moore i and W. G. Brewer, who also had l rooms on the second floor of the } building, escaped by sliding down a ^shed in the, rear. Between GO and 80 automobiles weFe Tn the garage. The loss on the building and auto mobiles was estimated at $100,000, all partly covered by insurance. DEVOE'S WEATHER FORECAST FOR JAN. Cold Wave Predicted %o Form and Move Southward on the 18th. Tenth, rain over the Gulf States; snow over Western states. 11th to 12th, equally. 13th to 14th, cold wave over Western states. 15th, storm over Gulf states; local gales. ICth to 17th, storm moving out to sea; colder. On the 18th a cold wave will form over the western states and move southeastward. 19th to 20th, cold and blustery. 21st and 22nd, pleasant. On the 23rd*a storm will form over Texas, moving northeastward, bringing a snow storm from Texas to Maine on the 24th to 25th. 26th to 27th, north west gales and snow. 28th to 29th clearing. 30th to 31st, clear and cold. NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL GUARD The National Guard Throughout The Country Is 8,744 Officers and l!&0,* 914 Enlisted men Announcing that three units had been admitted into the North Caro lina national guard during the- past sixty days, a record for this Season of the year, officials of the adjutant general's department stated that? only four more organizations Were? tP be hlled to complete the state's quota and that applications for these al ready have been hied The three units admitted are Bat tery D., held artillery at New Bern; 115th., ambulance company, Eden ton, and Company B., 105th., engi neers, Morganton. "Of the total amount of federal funds expended on the national guard in this state last year,"** said Major Gordan Smith, "approximate ly $190,000 was in actual ca^h' and distributed among individuals And firms in about thirty counties.^ The past year was the most active in the history of the guard." MR. WM. G. PACE, JR.. GOES TO COLUMBUS, O. Sings Himself Into the Hearts of the People. Oxford loses one of its Rnest young men, Mr. William G. Pace, Jr., who has^gone to Columbus, Ohio, to make his home, and is connected with the Huntington National Bank of that city. This young man, the son of Mr. W. G. Pace, the well known tobacconist, sang himself into the hearts of the people here, and he will no doubt capture the hearts of the people in the Ohio cap* ital city in like manner.
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