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YOL.JXXXVIH PUBLISH HP ^E!)H-^EKLY—TOWN AM) COUNTY OFFER BR1LLIAN OPPORTUNITIES. _OXFORD, N. C., FRIDAYjjANUARY^26l923 % Ain a TOBACCO GROWERS CELEBRATE AGAIN euaanixed Farmers Take Home Sev en Million Hollars This Week. ;:!e's:h. Jan. 25.-—The Tobacco t;.-ewers Cooperative Association es t, shed another record last Mon day when it made the biggest pay r'.ent ever distributed in a single day to tobacco farmers in Virginia and Korth Carolina. Members of the association doubled their money at 54 towns of the old !)tdt and carried home the best part of seven million dollars in "hold cash. This week's sudden tidal wave of prosperity has caused wide spread satisfaction among the organized growers and the merchants, bankers ami fertiiizer men who have reaped a rich harvest from the second cash payment of the association in Vir ginia and Western Carolina. Celebrations and mass meetings at several points marked the second g!stribution. Oliver J. Sands, execu tive manager of th<j( association, ad dressed a mass meeting of growers at South Boston where the farmers of Halifax county received $800.f 00 as the second advance and members of the association declared their average of i!18.80 per hundred received to date was as much as they got for last vear's crop The third cash payment of the as sociation will begin next month with 0- members in South Carolina. S. D. FRISSELL. MEMORIAL WINDOW IN ST. STEPHEN'S To the Memo!*) Of Miss Mary 1. Homer. The Woman's Auxiliary of ^t. Stephen's Church held a mooting Monday afternoon with Miss Jean nette Biggs. The leader for the meeting was Mrs.) R. H. Lewis, Jr., who had prepared a delightful pro gram on the assigned subject ' Valle Crucis," a subject which is dear to the hearts of every member of the Auxiliary on account of The connec tion with it of Bishop J. M. Horner, and Miss Mary E. Horner who died laboring there. Quite a number of members were present which showed the interest in the work of the Auxiiiary. Those participating in the interesting program were Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. S. M. Prichard, Airs. J. C. Horner, Mrs. H. G. Cooper, Mrs. Will Landis. Thirty fiv edoilars was collected toward the Sophronia Hor ner Scholarship at Valle Crucis. It was announced by the president that the order had been given by the Aux iliary for the Memorial window to th^ memory of Miss Mary E. Horner and it was expected that it would be piaced in the church by May. Miss Horner served for some years as President of the local branch of the Auxiiiary and is lovingly remembered by hundreds of "Old Horner Hoys" and others with whom she was asso ciated in church wor't in Oxford. The Chairman of the Program Committee. Airs. S. H. Prichard bad the Year Books containing the pro grams, ready for distribution at this meeting. TWELVE WEEKS OF SUMMER SCHOOL Chapel Hill, Jan. 25.—Instead of running for only six weeks, the University summer school will this year be operated for two terms of six weeks each. The first term will open Monday, June 16, and close Saturday, July 28, and the second will open Monday, July 30, and close Friday, Septem ber 7. This doubling up is the direct re sult of an urgent request from, the State Superintendent of Public In struction, and from the teachers of North Carolina. There are so many teachers demanding summer instruc tmn that the University cannot pos sibly meet the demands in one term. GOVERNORS BOAT BILL GIVEN REPORT Entire Committee Rports Hill Out 8 robably Come Up In Senate Next Week. (News and Observer) following a general quizzing of O. Womble, rate clerk the corp oration commission, for an hour and minutes in which more than a of Senators and Representa joined, the Senate committee ! water commerce Wednesday unan imously reported favorably the bill advocated by Governor Cameron ^ orrison for the appropriation of ^.000,000 to buy and operate a state me of steamships. The House com ji'ttee, to whom the bill has not yet ^een referred, did not vote. . Your battery should have water every two weeks. Stop at Ox Battery Co. WANTED YOUNG LADY TO TEACH nt home two small children of 5 6 years. P. O. B. 612. MR. HUBERT CURRIN S ; LEGS BADLY CRUSHED ! —. j thain Bwke White He Wa.s , "Snaku^g" Logs. ! Mr. Hubert Currin, the fine son of . Mr. Fred Y. Currin, Oxford, Route 1, met with a painful accident hist Tuesday morning while "snaking" logs on his father's place. When the chain broke it swiped him across both legs just below the knee. The young man was rushed to Brantwood Hospital, < and upon ex amination it was learned that the bones in both legs were broken and one leg was badly mangled The skilled surgeons at Brantwood have set the broken limbs and the young man is resting well. DR. PEACOCK WILL PROBABLY RETURN -- i Governor Hardee Has Extradition Case Under Advisement. ! Tallahassee,^ Fla., Jan. 23.—Gov I ernor Hardee, following a hearing late today, took under advisement the I question of whether Dr. J. \V. Pea I cock, who escaped last year from the j criminally insane department ot the j North Carolina Penitentiary, should I be extradited there to answ- r a i charge of breaking a penal institu i ton. It was indicated that a decision i was not likely for at least two days. ' Dr. Peacock recently was declared sane at Arcadia, Fla. MANY STUDENTS ON HONOR ROLL Fall TermHoMOr Roll At tni.crsily Shows High Grades Not lafie quent. i Chapel Hill Special: The Lniver [ sity Honor Roll, just published, con i tains the names of students who ave ! rage a grade of 2, which means {from 90 to 95 per cent. The high ! est grade is 1. I Nine students win the distinc tion j of having received the very highest ! possible grade on every single one of their courses; T'hese make tip what is called the "all ones" group. The nine are: W. J. Cocke, Asheville; J. F.; Cooper, Clinton; Miss Mabel Couch, ! Chapel Hill; Henry D. Duls, Char ; lotte; H. D. Parcell, Tampa. F^a.;' ) H. G. Klingenschmitt, Lockport, N. Y.; Y. Maeschima, Tokio, Japan; C.j tu. Smith, Capron, Ya.; Jules Welch. I Waynesville. ' Friends are glad to see that Wil I liam A. Devin, who entered the Uni ^ versify last fall, made 90 to 95 per I cent. He is the fine son of Hon. W.! ! A. Devin. NEW CORPORATION BUYS NEWSPAPERS Mr. S. A. Jones, Of Oxford, ts One Of the Own . Announcement of the purchase by the Henderson Dispatch company, a new corporation, of the entire liold ! ings of the Gold Leaf Publishing com pany. including the Henderson Daily Dispatch, and The Henderson Gold Leaf, semi-weeklv is announced. Henry A. Dennis, S. A. Jones and M. L. Finch are the sole owners. Mr. Denis, who had been with the ! old concern more than eight years, j becomes president and general man ager of the publications. He also ! will continue as editor of the paper. Mr. Jones, who has been associated with the publications eight years, is vice-president and will continue as superintendent of the mechanical de partment. Mr. Finch has been with the paper two years and is now sec retary and treasurer. Mr. Jones is an Oxford boy and has many friends here. ! GRISSOM'S BODY NOT BEEN FOUND Greensboro Man Sinks In a Florida Creek. Jacksonville Special: After an all-day search of Thomas creek, 20 miles north of here, officers were still at a loss as to whether anyone per ished when an automobile bearing a Greensboro, North Carolina, city li cense plunged into the stream Thurs day night and was submerged in the water until removed yesterday. The theory is that the driver of the car lost his life, but the stream has been dynamited along its course for a con siderable distance without any body ; being found. Thomas creek is about 15 feet in depth. The automobile was identified as blonging to H. A. Grissom, a Greens boro druggist. He left here Thurs day night and was to have wired his relatives when he reached Atlanta, but no word from him has been re ceived. Thomas creek is at the end of a "blind" road. GET YOUR GARDEN SPOT READY NOW Many people in this section hai?e received seed catalogues and are working out a well balanced system of planting. MR. JOHN WEBB iS CRITICALLY ILL Many friends throughout the coun ty win regret to learn that very lit tle hopes are entertained for Mr. John Webb's recovery. Mr. Webb was buyer on the Oxford } market for many years and was id< n ! tified with the business, social and i religious life of the community. He ! was taken sick more than a year ago, ^ but was able at times to walk up town and greet his friends. Hie was taken to his bed a few weeks ago and has grown weaker ^rom day to day. TO AMEND STATE PROmBIT!ON LAW To Make It Correspond To the Fed eral Statues. The Legislature is faced with the proposition of amending the State prohibition law so as to make it cor respond to the Federal statues. The bill that has been prepared is de signed to remove confusion and annul the features which bring the State law into conflict with the Federal laws. It is explained by Mr. Heriot Clark son, of Charlotte, that the amended act simply complies with the United States constitutional requirement that the State shall enforce the Jaws which Congress has adopted, y It is purely a police measure, putting on existing State, county and municipal officials "the duty of enforcing in North Carolina the fundamental law of the land." It is further defended that the amended law would not in crease the number o fthe State courts and officers. It merely makes boot legging a crime under the State laws. The suggestion act makes it possible to keep in North Carolina the larger part of the fines now going into the Federal Treasury. Experience proves that these fines will more than cover any added cost of administration— Charlotte Observer. THYSSEEN AND FIVE OTHEKSTHKrnNEtr Imposition Of Fuies Aegarded As Ex ample Of French Mildness. Mayence, Jan. 24.—The six Ger man industrialists, headed by Fritz Thyssen, who were arrested by the French occupation authorities in the Ruhr for refusing to carry out orders given them to insure reparations de liveries from their respective plants, were convicted here today by court martial. In each instance fines were imposed in francs. The aggregate amount, translated into the Ameri ca mnoney, was $20,000. OXFORD TOBACCO MARKET IS ACTIVE The Oxford tobacco market has been quite active during the past few days. There was a rush at both the auction and Co-operative Warehous es, more than 100,000 pounds being offered. Local warehousemen ex pect a steady market for the next two or three weeks. It is understood here that the sea son will not close before the first of March. A TOUCH OF WINTER IS FELT HERE Just enough sleet and rain to cov er the streets with a thin layer of ice last Wednesday morning is all Oxford got of the storm reported to have ap peared in various sections of the State Tuesday night. It was the first touch of real winter felt here. WOOD-DICKERSON Impressive Ceremony Performed By Rev. B. H. Black. Mr. Willie W. Wood, of Durham County, and Miss Lilly 1. Dickerson, of Vance county? were united in marriage last Monday by Rev. B. H. Black at the Methodist parsonage on High street. The knot was beauti i fully and impressively tied by the of ficiating minister and the happy young couple left for Durham county, where they will make their home. STOVALL NEWS —Mr. John Slaughter surprised his friends last Saturday when he took a fair young lady, Miss Virga ; Fitz, and motored to Oxford, found Justice T. G. Taylor, who united them in marriage. Following the cere mony the happy couple visited rela tives at Baskerville, Va. —The little girl of Mr. W. C. Daniel is much better. —The children of Mr. A. M. Earle are recovering from chicken pox. THE PRESIDENT IS RECOVERED Washington, Jan. 25.—President Harding returned to his desk today for the first time since he was taken ill with the grippe more than a week ago. He immediately delved into an accumulation of official papers. MRS. R. W. HARRIS NOT EXPECTED TO LIVE ! Ailment Will Not Yield To Medical { Tivatment. : j^rs. R W. Harris, highly esi.e. ried I lady of Oxford, the mother of 'INS ISTS. Waverly, Grady and Hdmond .Harris and Mrs. Oscar Breedlove, of i Oxford, and Mrs. Fizer, of Header { son, is not expected to survive many i hours. } Mis. Harris has been at Braatwood i Hospital for two or three weeks, ! where skilled physicians are doing j all that can be done to prolong the ! life of this good woman, but the ail jinent is such as not to yield to medi i cal treatment. MASTER JAMES BLACK !S IMPROVING ! Many friends wiii be pleased to i learn that Janies, the fine little sen { of Rev. and Mrs. B. H. Black, who I was accidentally shot in the abdo men a few weeks ago, is improving. It was necessary to open the wound to remove an obstruction, and the operation was performed by Dr. Booker at BrantwOod last Sunday, and the brave and cheerful little boy is getting along nicely. ! TOO MANY MUDERS IN UNITED STATES } Stai-tlbig Figures (liven Out By Sir * Basil Thompson. ! Greensboro Special: Sir Basil : Tompson, K. C. B., regarded as the i original Sherlock Holmes, the world's greatest detective, the most noted criminologist in the world, during the world war at the head of the British secret service depart ment and now head of Scotland Yard, ; England's great police and detective agency, lecturing here tonight, re vealed some startling facts, compar ing British and American crime fig ures. I^ast year in the United States thege were 9,500 murders, in Eng 9%tnd cleared up and the newspapers of i England are demanding why they ! were not. I In one penitentiary in Illinois I there are as many prisoners as in all ! the prisons of Canada. ) He attributed the much greater a ! mount of crime in the United States I than in England to delays in meting I out punishmnt and to under-policing. ! UNIFICATION OF CHURCH APPROVED Cincinnati Special. The report ot the committe of ten on unification of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, was approved in a, joint ses sion of the two commissions this af ' ternoon and then referred back to a ' reorganized committee of 16, which j will work out detail of the plan to be j submitted to another joint conmis i sion meeting which will be held on a I date to be selected later. ONE PERCE^ WILL BE ADDED FEB. 1. A Penalty Of One Percent Will Be Added To 1938 Taxes If Not Paid By February 1st. Only a few more days left for citizens, of Granville County to pay their 1922 taxes before the first one per cent is added as a penalty, Sher iff Hunt announced yesterday. Begininng February 1, one per cent of the assessment will be add ed as a penalty for non-payment, one i per cent of the total amount will be ! added each month. I REV. MEL TROTTER IN GREENSBORO Evangelist Gained Nation-wide No tice In Famous Divorce Suit. The Greensboro Record announces that Rev. Mel Trotter, celebrated mission worker and evangelist, who gained nation-wide notice by reason of the sensational Trotter divorce suit, tried at his home, Grand Rap ids, Mich., last summer, will conduct a series of meetings at the First Pres byterian church, Greensboro begin ning nex^ Sunday, lasting a week, twice daily. CARD OF THANKS AND APPRECIATION We desire to express to our friends and neighbors in Oxford and throughout the county our sincere ! thanks and appreciation for their i kindness and sympathy during the illness and death of our son, husband and brother, W. Brodie Newton. We shall always hold in grateful memory every act and word to us in our sad bereavement. May God bless all of you. MRS. R. L. NEWTONi Mother. MRS. W. B. NEWTON, Wife. BROTHERS AND SISTERS. This Jan. 25, 1923. ! FRANCES PROPOSAL ! TO GERMANY ) _ i Conditional Upon Germany Raiding An International Uoan Of three i Biliion Gold Marks. Paris, Jan. 24:—France is wiliing to grant a two year indemnity mora torium to Germany on condition the j Germans pay $500,000,000 in gold I and goods in the meantime and i pledge the nation's wealth to the Al i lies, it was revealed through an '' nouncement of the new Freucn Re } parations plan. ! Following are the chief outlines of [the French conditions: j 1. Moratorium to extend two j years. ! 2. In the meantime Germany I must pay 1,000,000,000 gold marks jin foreign currency and 1,500,000, ! 000 gold marks in goods and ma ! terials of various kinds. ; 3. Germany must transmit to the Allied Reparations Commission a 25 ; per cent mortgage on all real pro perty (as security) and a quarter of the shares of all corporations. 4. Germany must permit the j Reparations Commission to auction ! off the German State-owned railways, ; the salt and tobacco monopiies and ; other monopiies to the highest bid ;der,' the benefits to apply upon the j reparations owned by Germany. ; The French offer is conditional ' upon Germany raising an inter I national loan of 3,000,000,000 gold j marks, fully subscribed by February j 15, when the offer exxpires. i The plan provides that France ! shall retain the Ruhr coal fields and ! other penalties untii the mortaro j ium expires. ! LEE MEADOWS AT LEESSURG, FLA. Owns A Neat Little Bungalow and thickens. Lee Meadows, the famous Oxford ball pitcher with the Philadelphia Nationals, is now occupying his neat bungalow at Leesburg, Fla., whch he erected during the fa)L and winter. *' Mfr J7 M. MeatH!^'wtirfeave this week to spend some time with his son at Leesburg, Fla., where the Phila delphia team will be in training. DISEASE BAFFLES MEDICAL MEN Baltimore Special:Baffling every effort of physicians of Johns Hop kins hospital for the past seven weeks to diagnose the disease front which he was suffering, Dr. Daniel i Eugene Eagle, 26 years old, died Tuesday at that institution. Heads j of ail departments were called in, ! physicians unattached to the hospital were taken into consultation but the nature of Dr. Eagle's illness re mained a mystery until an autopsy disclosed that death was due to an I abscess of the liver, j Dr. Eagle was graduated from Uni ; versity of North Carolina in the i class of 1917 and from Johns Hop jkins in the medical class of 1922. ! Interment at Statesville, N. C. DURHAM NEW FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Organization of the Southed Fire Insurance company, with head quarters in Durham, and a pail in capital and surplus of $200,000, is announced. : The officers are: R. H. Wright, president; Gilbert C. White, vice president; James O. Cobb, vice presi dent and treasurer; and J. Fuller Glass, secretary. Mr. Glass will be general manager of the company. MAINTAIN 30 CENT AVERAGE AT WILTON Total Tobacco Sales For Year Run Over Forty Million. Wilson Special: The total amount of tobacco sold on the sales ware house floors up to last Thursday night, according to official figures furnshed by H. B. Johnson, super visor of sales, 41,286,654 pounds, which brought $12,394,226.28, an average of $30.01 per hundred. HOW HE WILL SPEND HIS INHERITANCE Walter Browning, 48, Fort Worth i (Tex.) bachelor and hermit, inherit ed $100,000 from a long-lost rela tive. With it Walter says he'll get I married, buy new clothes, take a trip ! to New York, see a world series hall game—then buy a small farm near Fort Worth and work it. ARBUCKLE PICTURES NOT SHOWN HERE Moving pictures in which Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle appears will not be exhibited at the Orpheum Theatre is the decision reached by the manage ment of the local play house some time ago. !N MEMORY OF ! ZEB M. OVERTON i —_. ' Today our community is shrouded ! in gloom, yet over it hangs (Jod'S rainb :\v of promise, "I'll never leive thee, nor forsake thee." The entire neighborhood is bowed in . grief over the sudden passing of Mr. I Zeb M. Overton, the son of Mr. and i Mrs. A. M. Overton. Zeb was ill only j three days with pneumonia, and while all that an eminent physician, ioving relatives, and kind neighbors could do. was done, but to no avail. His heart was too weak for the trying dis ease. and on Jan. 18th, 1923, Thurs day morning at 6:30,'his gentle spirit took its flight to realms above. He leaves' a mother, father, six brothers, two sisters, a devoted wife, (who was Miss Annie E. Crews before mar riage), four small children, the youngest of whom is three years of age, and aj host of friends and rela tives to mourn his loss. The follow ing children survive: Leonard, Rosa Lee, Katherlyne, and Mary. The funeral service was held from Providence church, by Rev's B. H. Black his pastor,' and Rev. Geo. j Tunstall friend of the family. His i favorte songs were sweetly sung by j the choir, 'Safe in The Arms of Jesus" I "Sometime We'll Understand," and I "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere. Then } his body was laid to rest hi the , Averett cemetery, beneath a great mound of lovely flowers, which were tokens of love and the high esteem in which he was held. Zeb was a Christian and a devout member of Shady Grove M. E. Church since early boyhood. He was ever true < and faithful to the charge which God i gave him. He loved his home and ' family devotedly, and always found joy and pleasure in working and making those in his charge comfor table and happy. He was a good husband, a loving father and a kind neighbor. While we feel the less so i keenly, and shall miss his sunny life j about us, we know that God in his ; wisdom has some wise purpose in all ! of his plans. We can only say to the [heart-broken loved ones .that Heaven is all the dearer to us now, and that another star has been placed there to shine out and bebackon us to Him. Death is always sad but distressing ly so, when the reaper claims one, seemingly so much needed here, and the first link in a chain of so large a family of nine children. O, may that broken hearted mother and fath er think how good and kind. God has jbeen to spare them all their jewels I for these many years, and while Zeb can not come to you, yet you may ! go to him. The prayers and deepest } sympathis of the entire community i go out to the bereaved wife, v ho i8 still in bed with grippe, and- the four little dependent children who are looking to her as mother and father [both. May these grief stricken i hearts be able to say, "The Lord gave. ! the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord." R. L. D. THE MOTHER'S AM BILL SHOULD PASS Among the bills which the, present legislature will consider, and which we trust will pass, is one providing for a Mother' Aid fund to assist mothers in caring for their father* less children at home instead of send ing them to an orphanage. The plan has been tried out to some ex tent by Rev. M. L. Kesler, superin tendent of the Baptist Orphanage At Thomasville and so far ims wprked successfully. It has proven cheaper to care for children in their 4ysyn home under their mother's care than to keep them in an institution. Forty two states in the union already have systems of mothers' aid. The purpose of the bill has been concisely stated by Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson, Commissioner of Public Welfare, who says: "Mothers' aid is designed to take care of the child whose mother ia mentally, morally and physically able to care for it but not finally." The widow, the deserted wife, or the wife whose husband is in a penal or ele mosynary institution may become beneficiaries of the act. "No insti tution can care for the child as weH as the normal mother," she declared. 'The family is the natural unit of so ciety and yet we are continually breaking up the family by placing children in institutions." SEMOUS WAVE OF GRIPPE SPREADING Washington Jan. 25.—A serious wave of grippe which threatens to assume the proportions of an epidem ic is hovering over the entire coun try, the United States Public Health Service anounced tonight. From all sections came taports that the disease was widespread. The region of the Southern States is that which so far, has been hit hardest of a?l. Executive Board Meeting. An important meeting of tho Executive Board of the Woman's Club will be held Wednesday after noon at 3:30 o'clock in the Library. / _—
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