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voL. xxxvm PUBLISHED SMB WEEKLY—TOWN A YD COUNTY OFFER BRILLIAN OPPORTUNITIES. 12 PAGES TODAY OXFORD, N. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 6,1923 NO 19 THE STREETS OF OXFORD THRONGED WITH PEOPLE The (.m min D:trkness Lifts ajtd the People Hejoic^ In the Sunshine (,f^!<mgerDay. sol !uay scratch and smite us a the good old summer time, but he j?eenis tim world's best friend, in these davg of late winter when he rises ear ner each morn, bringing a presage of hanger daylight, renewed fertility, and out door pastimes. The short days of winter have never been popular. Yet this curtain of early dark serves its purpose, and diut' out distractions that turn one from self improvement and from one's daitv tasks. In winter people find time to read their newspapers more thoughtfully, to ponder over good hooks, to enjoy friendly intimacies, but the returning sun brings a thrill of anticipation. The people of Granville are sun worshiping people, and the shut-in days of winter seems to theid the de feat of life. The returning sun gives them confidence in the Universe, and makes them feel that seed time and harvest shall not faii, and that it will continue to perform its loving ser vice for the welfare of humanity. The thermometer in front of Hall's Drug Store at 2 o'clock last Saturday registered 81 degrees. It was the warmest day Oxford experienced in five months. People Came from everywhere and it was the best trad ing day of the season, mostly in plows, paints and such other farming implements as would indicate that the farmer's busy season is at. hand. To give you some idea as to the floating population in Oxford last Sat urday. one of the young men in the Public Ledger office counted 386 cars parked on the streets at 3 o'clock. The largest number ever parked here on St. John's Day was 1264. The warm sunshine on Sunday brought the people out, and all of the Oxford churches were well filled at the morning and evening hours. The weather bureau , predicts cloudiness and occasional rains and normal temperature after the middle of the week. A BIG BLACK BEAR Drives An Automobile Through the Streets Of Oxford. Not since the days of tltp Italian organ grinder and his monkey has there been so much joy experienced here by young America as was caused by the visitation of a big black bear last Friday. Many people stood on the street corners and watched the a musing stunts which the apparently harmless and intelligent bear had in store for them. The bear, under the stern command of his Italian master, did his utmost to throw; a spirit of harmony and subtle grace around his every action, and when at last he drove an automobile through the streets he won the everlasting admi ration and affections of the little peo ple. The most amusing part of the program took place on the stage at the Orpheum Theatre during the evening, when the bear showed re markable intelligence. His front paws were encased in gloves and a muzzle was placed about his mouth. In an nouncing a boxing match the owner declared that the animal was perfect ly gentle. Several boys responded and squared themselves in front of the bear, but the youngsters were no match for the big black animal and those that he caught he crushed to the floor in a playful mood, but real enough to create a thrill. To cap the climax, the bear glided gracefully a round the stage on a pair of roller skates. JUDGE DEVIN HOLDS COURT AT LUMBERTON Lost Sotne Flesh During Recent Ill ness. After teaching the Oxford Baraca Class last Sunday morning, Judge Levin, who had been sick for more than a week, left in the afternoon for Lumberton, where he is holding court this week. Judge Devin lost some flesh, hut his complexion indicates health and strength. The Lumberton correspondent of the associated press, dated March 3, speaks of Judge Devin in the follow ing terms: ) "A civil term of Robeson Superior Court will convene Monday of next ^eek. Judge W. A. Devin, of Oxford, te preside. This term was to have begun Monday of this week, but on acount of illness Judge Devin was un able to attend, this being the first tune he has missed a day of court on account of illness during his nine and a half years on the bench. While here at the criminal term in the lat ter part of January Judge Devin made a most favorable impression on the People and officers of the county." *—The following Rotarians from Oxford have left for the Convention fa Petersburg: C. S. Garman, W. T. Yancey, C. O. Mainor, B. K. Lassiter, Rad J. R. Wood. SOCIAL CALENDAR [ Events Scheduled To Take Place In Oxford This Week. i ' —The Oxford Woman's Club will ; hold a meeting in the new club house tomorrow afternoon, Wednesday the! 7th. at four o'clock, to elect delegates! to the State Federation to be held in I Winston-Salem May 1 to 4. —In the High School Auditorium { tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock will} be presented the "Senior play "Mrs. Temple's Telegram." —Thursday evening at 8 o'clock at the Woman's Club, Dr. Caldwell, of the University will give an illustrated talk on the wonders of Egypt and the j Valley of Kings 3000 years ago. Dr.; i Caldwell is most profound and inter- j esting and comes to Oxford under the j auspices of the Woman's Club. For further information see Mrs. Calvert} and Mrs. Powell. —The lecture of Dr. Parson, of the; ! Applied Art School, scheduled for ! Friday evening, has been called off on account of sickness of the speaker. —The Rook parties announced for March 9th and 10th at the Woman's! Club have been postponed due to the j great number of other entertain- i ments planned for the week. MAIL BOXES MUST ' BE PROCURED SOON Order Of Postmaster General Regard ing Delivet-y Of Mail Effective In Oxford—Postmaster Rogers Is Dis posed To Be Lenient, But He Says j the Order Must Be Coinplied With.! Under the decree of the United) States post office department the de-' livery of mail to homes throughout ( the nation has stopped where no mail j boxes or receptacles have been pro-j vided for the reception of mail. Thousands of homes throughout the! nation are affected and many peo- j pie are forced to visit the post offices j for their mail. Oxford will not be af-! fected for the time being, it was { learned yesterday, and all the people j who have not yet supplied them selves with mail boxes will be al- j lowed a little more time to get them,! said Postmaster Rogers. Continuing,! Mr. Rogers said: "Many homes in Oxford have not I yet secured their boxes, although the i majority have done so. Names of; those who have failed to secure boxes ; will be taken?, however, and the list' will be turned over to the post ofice i department. j "The order went into effect March! 1st, andtmany cities throughout thej nation are affected by it from the very beginning by having the deliv I ery of mail to their homes stopped, rquiring them to get it from the gen eral delivery windows." PRESIDENT HONORS SENATOR SIMMONS j ' _ , ; ; Thanks The President But Declines! To Accept. j Washington Special: In the clos-} . ing hours of Congress, President; ' Harding named Senator Carter Glass, ! Democrat, Virginia, a member of the ^ debt commission, but he declined to ! j serve. The appointment was on Sat-; ! urday last tendered to Senator Sim- i i mons, who is sick at his home in , j New Bern. Senator Simmons wired } Senator Overman to thank the Presi-; ! dent for him and to express his re ; grets that he was unable to accept. i FREAK OF LIGHTNING ! t ' ! Wrecks Cradle But Does Not Wake! Child. ! Gretna, Fla., March 3.—Lightning! struck the home of Mr. and Mrs. ^ {J. S. Herring at this place today, j i wrecked a "kiddie koop" in which j ! their 3-year-old infant was sleeping, ] j burned a hole in the floor near the i ! child and never roused it from its ! slumber. The parents of the child} were severely shocked by the light-! ning. j AVOIDABLE DEATHS TheLives Of Twenty Thousand Peo ple Are Snapped Out Annually. The statistics show that two of the most prominent sources of mortality in 1922 was pistol toting and auto mobile speeding. The death toll from the two causes was more than 10,000 each. Here are the facts: 'Twenty thousand lives that could have been saved ended because of the illegitimate use of pistols and the carlessness of some fool automobile drivers. "That is a terrible indict ment to write against the civilization we boast of in this countiy, a civili zation that has not yet developed a proper appreciation of the value of a human ilfe," says the Charlotte Ob We are doing practically nothing to stop this great slaughter. 'uomsodsipu! inooM mojj paja -Aooe-i seq umLta luuotg *H SIMULTANEOUS REVIVAL SERVICES BEGIN MARCH 12 PaistfHTg Of Three Of the Churches Have Secured Speakers To Assist. Just one more week and the great Simultaneous Meeting will be in pro gress. After much indefinite delay in rounding up suitable speakers for these services, three of the pastors re port that they have secured their men. The churches that will actively participate in the meeting are, the West Oxford Baptist Church of which Rev. E. G. Usry is pastor; the Metho dist Church of which Rev. E. M. Snipes is pastor; and the Presbyterian Church of which Rev. F. F. Comer ford is pastor. Up until the last week the First Baptist church of which Rev. J. D. Harte is pastor, was eargerly plan ning to enter into this campaign, but during the past few days the members of that church have found it neces sary to withdraw their former inten tion on account of reasons known to the se veral pastors and members of the various churches. Although their church will, not be represented by a speaker from the .outside, the pastor of the church promises the aid and cooperation of all the members of said church in, every wayi possible to make the meeting a signal success. During the next few days the peo ple of Oxford and surrounding coun try will see many posters and cards in public places together with a large banner stretching across Main street, advertising the meeting and giving the names of the expected speakers. While this meeting is to be held in only three churches at the present we want to insist that it is "Everybody's Meeting." If you are not in the hab it of attending church begin with the first service and you will discover yourself lining up with the church work before the meeting closes. Watch the Public Ledger for a special announcement Friday. CHM'N PUB. COM. KU KLUX ARE IN THE SADDLE Milliken Bill, Parsed By House De feated On Roll Call Vote, 3d To 11. The KuKlux Klan, defeated m it^ oposition to unmasking legislation in the House emerged victorious in Lhe Senate last week. Following an impassioned appeal by Senator Johnson of Duplin, in be half of "twenty-five thousand red blooded North Carolinians whc are members of the Ku Klux Klan," the Senate pased an anti-masking bill that has been officially endorsed by members of the Klan, refusing by a record vote of 36 to 12 to accept the Milliken bill, which passed the House over the protest of the "Invisible Em pire." Senator Hicks and Representative Watkins, of Granville voted against unmasking the Ku Klux Klan. JANITOR IN TROUBLE Negro Manufactures Liquor In Base ment Of Postoffi<ce and Transports It In Mail Sacks. Goldsboro, March 5.—Making whis key stilbs m the basement of the postoffice and carrying them and bottles of whiskey around in mail sacks is the latest fad of blockaders and bootleggers, acoording to Sher iff Grant, Deputy Chink Rhodes and members of the police force who found the part of a worm for a still and four or five bottles with the sa vory smeell of alcohol in the base ment of the postoffice Saturday. REV. J. D. HART iS !N NORFOLK Rev. J. D. Harte, pastor of the Ox ford Baptist Church left yesterday foi Norfolk, where Mrs. Harte has been under medical treatment for some time. Mr. Harte stated to the Public Led ger that there has been no change in Mrs< Harte's condition for JLhe pasl ten days, and that he goes to Norfolk in hopes of finding her condition such as to enable her to return home. A GRANVILLE BOY Capt. M. E. Thom assort Visiting the Scenes Of His Boyhood. Capt. M. E. Thomasson, of Yale Va., accompanied by Mrs. Thomasson nee Sollie Cottrell, are visiting rela tives in Granville. Capt. Thomas son is a native of Tally Ho, and be fore movnig to Virginia twelve years ago served on the Oxfor dpolice force They ar& the guests of Mrs. Thomas son's mother on Oxford Route 7. WE HAVE A NICE CAB LOAD OF pigs and shoats, from Georgia, in oculated against cholera. Fo! sale at the Oxford Body Co. It C. W. BRYAN & SON. —Yonr battery shonld have water about every two weeks. Stop at Ox ford Battery Co. REMAINS OF MR. J. L. ERWIN WILL i ARRIVE HERE TODAY ! - ! * ""era! From St. Stephen's Church ! At 2.30 O'clock—Interment At ' Elmwood Cemetery , j Mr J. Locke Erwin, a former citi-! jzen of Oxford, passed away suddenly! tin Charlotte Sunday night. The re-j I mains will reach Oxford at 1 o'clock! this afternoon. The funeral will be! held from St. Stephen's Episcopal! Church at 2.30 o'clock, Dr. Horsfield i officiating, assisted by Rev. S. S. Bost, of Durham and probably other visiting ministers. The remains will; rest in Elmwood Cemetery at thej grave side of two of his children. Mr. Erwin was for a number of! ; years secretary-treasurer of the Ox- j ! ford Cotton Mill. He was born in j [Morganton 63 years ago. He mar-! j ried Miss Ida Taylor, of Easton, Md.} ! Mr. Erwin was for A number of ! 'years the head of the Erwin Yarn ! agencies with headquarters in Phil I adelphia. He retired from business i a few months ago and returned to his } native state, settling in Charlotte. ] A number of prominent people' } from over the State will probably at- j ! tend the funeral here this afternoon.! i BLUEBERRY CORNERS DISTRICT SCHOOL GREAT SUCCESS! _ ! ! Large Crowd Witness the Play At the I Graded School Auditorium Last j } Night. ! The play entitled 'T'he District j ' School at Blue Berry Corners," pre-! ! sented by the Philathea class of the j I Oxford Baptist church was greeted i by a packed house last night at the Co (lege Street graded school. The cast was composed of the very best talent in Oxford. The charac ters wore costumes that were in keep ing with the play. The play started with a meeting of the school board to j : decide on a teacher for the coming j {term. After interviewing several of j tt%^4&ppUca.nts to determine their fit-i ness for such a high-class educational j institution, Mr. Hezekiah Pendergrass j was elected. After getting things in! order the pupils arrived and by their, school day antics afforded muqh mep- j riment. Every class of pupil, com-j mon to that day and time was pres-; ent, from the dunce on up. As the school year draws to a close the commencement exercises are in ' order. The visiting committee and j the school board are on hand to com i pliment the children on their wonder i ful achievements and delightful reci j tations. j It was a typical school^scene of j yesteryear, and those present who ; could remember that far back say i that it was acted with such realism i that it carried them back to their childhood days. . ^ Great pains were taken by all in ^ terested in the play to have it as ! near perfect as possible, and it was i well worth while to the Philathea ! class who gave it in order to raise ! money for the new church building to ' be erected soon. j The musical program that was pre sented between acts was received i with much applause. It was stated last night after the ! performance that the management } had been requested to present the I play at some of the neighboring i towns. ! MR. E. G. CREWS SICK Goes To Richmond For Medical Treatment. A severe case of grippe left Mr. Elbert G. Crews, popular official of the First National Bank of Oxford, in a weakened condition. Complica tions set in and it may be necessary to perform a surgical operation on the ! back of his neck. He was taken to ' St. Luke's Hospital, Richmond, yes terday for treatment. THE WACHOVIA BANK Merges With the Merchant's Bank Of Raleigh. Winston-Salem, Feb. 5.—The mer ger of the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company with the Merchant's National bank of Raleigh, following a meeting of the officials of both banks in Raleigh last week, forming a combined institution of more than $30,000,000, gives to North Carolina the largest banking house in the Carolinas and Virginia. FEBRUARY WEATHER As Recorded At the Granville Coun ty Test Farm. Maximum temperature on the 3d was 70; min. temperature on the 24th was 15; total amount of rainfall dur ing the month 2.26 inches; greatest amount in 24 hours was 1.08 on the 27th; total amout of snow 4 inches. THE LAST HOUR OF THE NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY Lawmakers Close Shop and Depart For Home. * . (Raleigh Special) Raleigh, March 5.—Some time be foer midnight on this date the 67th General Assembly will have finished its work, most of its members will have turned homeward, carrying with them whatever satisfaction there may be in the fact that they have just been through a session in which sen sation and uncertainty have played a tremendous part, in which precedent has been smashed and new paths laid. Proponents and opponents alike de clare that the most far-reaching thing done in this General Assembly is the exemption of foreign stocks from taxaxtion. Proponents declare that it is the dawning of a new day of industrial freedom. Opponents are skeptical of some of the measures that have been enacted into law. A WEAK CONGRESS Senator Simmons Brands Expiring Congress As Worst Of AH. New Bern, March 4.—"The weak est and most inefficient Congress in our history," is the characterization to which the 67th Congress is en titied, Senator F. M. Simons declared in a statement given at his home here last night. 'Speaking broadly," Senator Sim mons said, "it may be asserted that this Congress, with its large Repub lican majority and its boastful prom ises of wonderful accomplishment of progressive, remedial and construc tive legislation has not only failed in all of its promises, pledges and pre dictions, but it has left a record so barren of accomplishment, so replete in its shortcomings and pitiable fail ures, as to entitle it to be charac terized as probably the weakest and most inefficient Congress in our his tory." NEW TOWN SPRINGS UP Situated, Six Miles South Of Salisbury. Salisbury special: The erection of a cotton mill to be known as the Swink Manufacturing Company and the building of the town of Swink were announced here today. The project is to cost approximately $2, 000,000. W. J. Swink of China Grove, and C. A. Cannon of Concord, are at the; head of the company. The company has bought 400 acres of land and necessary right of way for power and sewer development. The site of the new town is on the main line of the Southern Railway, six miles south of Salisbury. BASEBALL SEASON Manager Lee Gooch Announces Dates Of Preliminary Games. Manager Lee Gooch, who took up his residence in Durham last week, gave the foilowing information to the Durham papers: 'Reading will probably open the Durham preliminary baseball season here on April 7th. A game is sche duled for April 6th in Henderson and for the 7th in Durham. Two games are also due with Wake Forest and one may precede the Reading game. On the 11th and 12 th of April Rocky Mount is slated to play here, and on the 16th and 17th the Bulls and the Tar Heels will meet in Rocky Mount. Trinity will be met April 3rd and some other games are in the making." MR. D. N. HUNT'S PICTURE — ! In the First Number Of the North Carolina Postman. Volume 1, No. T, of the North Caro ! lina Postman, an eight page folio ' published at Eurlington, has made its ; appearance in good and neat form, i The initial number contains & letter ! and a picture of Mr. Hunt, the pop i ular letter carrier on Oxford 5, who is ; also Chaplain of the North Carolina I Letter Carrier's Assiciation. Be i neath his picture is the following in scription: "Brother Hunt is an inspiration to every carrier who is fortunate enough to attend the convention. He always has a friendly greeting for the car riers and a good word for the cause of the organization. As a worth while tribute to his life of useful i ness to the cause, and to show him in ' what esteem he is held by the carriers I of the State, he has been elected ! Chaplain for life of the North Caro i lina R. L. C. A.' {PRAYER MEETING NIGHT ! Next Wednesday Evening At the Usual Hour. There will be a prayer! meeting in the Oxford Churches next Wednes day evening at the usual hour. The Christian Register says there is a preacher in Kansas who should have his salary raised for making the fol foling announcement from his pulpit: 'Brethren, the janitor and I will heid our regular prayer meeting next Wednesday evening as usual." LOCATION OF HARD SURFACE HIGHWAY SOUTH OF OXFORD John W. Hester Points Out Some Of tiie Tilings Favorable To t!ie Creed moor Routing. The prottabilities are that the loca tion of the hard-surface highway south of Oxford will he determined within the next thirty days. The sur veys of thei routes by Creedmoor and Stem to Durham have been com pleted, and, in spite of what the writer and others have said about the difference in distance of the two routes, the surveys show only a slight advantage in favor of the Creedmoor route. So difference in distance is not likely to determine the location of this important piece of roadway. But as an advocate of the Creed moor route, I am not one whit dis concerted by the results of the sur veys. The^*e are too many other things favoring the Creedmoor route for any of its advocates to be the least perturbed. On either route there are two railroad crossings— the Southern and Norfolk & Western —and only two. By the Creedmoor route there will be an underpass and an overpays, the former under the Southern beyond Gorman and the lat ter over the N. & W. at high ground needing no abutments just out of Durham. On the Stem route there are two overpasses and both over slight cut^, necessitating expensive abutments at each. So it can be safely said that the cost of getting over and under the raliroads on the Creedmoor route can be effected at half of the cost of the two overpasses on the Stem route. On the Stem route there are four rivers; on the Creedmoor, two. On the Stem route three bridges will have to be built; on the Creedmoor route, one. The es timated cost of the three bridges on the Stem route is $90,000.00; the one on the Creedmoor route, $30,000.00. Difference in favor of the Creedmoor route $60,000.00. Certainly, there is no reason why it should cost more per mile to construct a road over the Credmoor rbute than it will over the Stem route. So the gain in the dif ference in the cost of bridges and the railroad crossings in favor of the Creedmoor route is clear gain and not inconsequential —$60,000.00 and then some. But economy alone should not de termine the location of any great road construction or development. (Continued To Page Four) (IMPROVED SERVICE PROM!SED OXFORD Seaboard Promises To Put Better Equipment On O x f ord- Hendorson Road. Better equipment on the Seaboard ! road running from Oxford to Hender son and Durham has been promised ! by the officials of the Seaboard rail ! way, according to Burke Hobgood, : secretary of the Durham chamber of i commerce, in a statement to the [Durham Herald. The improvements will be in the addition of modern and i better roiling stock over the line. ! The representatives of the road themselves ! admit that the service should be iihproved, it was stated. These representatives state that the improvement would have been made ! before now but for the shortage of ! equipment and the slowness in which ! it is being made. i BUSINESS FAILURES WERE LESS NUMEROUS New York. March 6.—Business fail ! ures during February, 1923, were 24 ! per cent less numerous than for the } same month in 1922. according to sta tistics compiled by Bradstreets. The January total of failures for this year ] was one-fifth less than that of last year. Liabilities of firms that failed dur ing February were 45 per cent less than those of last year, while the Ha bilitiees of January failures were 49 per cent less than those of the same period in 1922. HOW FAR ARE YOU FROM THE AVERAGE? ^ 1 The Cleveland Trust Company quotes figures based upon many thou sands of transactions which show that the typical purchaser of an aitomo ;bile may be described as follaws: He is a married man 33 years old. He has a bank account and carries life insurance. He buys a $1,400 car and pays $700 down. He pays the balance at the rate of $100 monthly. His monthly income is $350. He owns real estate in which his equity is $5,000. He has personal property worth about $2,000. This is not his first car. Appointment's Rev. E. G Usry will preach at Con cord on the second Sunday, and at West Oxford on the on the first in stead of West Oxford on the second t and Concord on the 1st as was for merly understood.
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