PUBLISHED SU H WEEELY_TOWN AND OOTTNTV ru t t r. „ —_' OFFER BRILLIANT OPPORTUNITIES. VOL. XXXXXH_OXFORD, N.C.. FRIDA Y^mNE^. 1923 NO. 46 6RANV1LLL CAMPS GET CLEAN BILL " ^1<1 endon flakes Report That prisoners Wei! t ed and Welt Treated. Inspection of the prison camps and chain gangs of Granville by the so licitor for the Tenth Judicial District, ^ j - L. P- McLendon, of Durham, reveals according to his official re port that the prisoners are generally ^ell housed, well fed and humanely p-eated. but that the cages are still being used a-s sleeping quarters in ,he road camps. Granville county ig .dven a clean bill of health. " J. Ennis Davis, Chairman of the county board accompanied Soli citor McLendon on his tour of inspec tion in the county. Good Showing In Major McLendon's report to the attorney general. Granville makes a. Jood showing. The prisoners are well housed in both State and coun ty camps, bed lnen and clothing is changed properly and laundered reg ularly, a varied menue which con tains sufficient food of good quality is served with meat once or twice a day However, in the road gangs, the men sleep in the steel cages, with canvass curtains to drop in coid or wet weather, as the only walis* apart from the latticed flat iron bars. The State at Large. Solicitor McLendon, making his investigation of prisons in Granville, Durham, Person, Alamance and Orange in company with the chair man of the board of county commis sioners of the county, has acted in accordance with the request of At torney General Manning's depart ment at Haieigh. Prison scandals in Florida and other states, attack upon North Carolina state peniten tiary. nnh oitter assaults upon some ofthec-ountysystems in North Car-! olina, with the result demand from i organizations outside the state for an investigation of Tar Heel prison con- ! ditions, led Governor Morrison to undertake a State-wide investgaton through the State's own legal chan nels. As a result Attorney General Manning instructed solicitors to make inspections covering their particular districts. A LONG JOURNEY Hamlin Landjs, C. E. and Herbert Moss To Set Sail For China. Mr. C. E. Moss, who recently re turned from China to vi-sit relatives in Granville, will motor to San Fran ('sco next week, accompanied by his brother Herbert, of the county, and Hamlin Landis of Oxford. On reach ing San Francisco they will sell their car and set sail for Shanghai, China. ^ Judge D. C. Hunt, Cierk of the oourt, signed their passports this , on the comer of which is past ed a photo of the man to whom is THE PROPOSED PRODUCE MARKET "L having .% Setting System a Larg 1""'"^ M farmers Are Bayer Instead Of Seilers. Editor Pubiic Ledger: much interested in on Lei ^ three questions asked in th last issue of the Public Ledger, avi asked that same question ofte km ,*^d, I was conf rabM^.t movement to inaugr of y to market the produ< farmers was an ei bhHiod fact. Ig it possible th; imth, ^dich gained sue fom. t t nnd winter ' hs ds way is the dusty archives? ^nviile county people hav thought to the gres firm question Of marketing th f ^-uct ^ dave failed t arm'Ad ^ '^tually taking pla< A nr conservative t yon;! n ^0 not have to go b( fhm 'e borders of our own-State t (i'.mmlar enterprises in f^^mg a selling system a ers °f our fm*mers are buy tl,p being sellers. When mpth,«t'"' ^1^ around him such easy cHitip.- f ' ^ buying, and such poor fa he fbe same products, in? ^ gravitates toward buy tratp h could rai-se, and concen cron eon the one ^ sale. We in is mark f^ue where there only t facilities for one crop wherp f s condition never exists tor anvt^ bas a stable market you hr i can raise; there ous far! ^ versification and prosper o"nt^r and a live marketing we have ^ arrive at this conclusion farmer'! ^ ^now the workings of a yearfpf having spent 39 ! being