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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 <n ^fe ^ a. farm, and just i no iA-!, forage farmer, no more or the a^'r,J!**y guilty of the practice iieve I Jtf f^^mer is guilty of, I be oonditir! something about t believe the farm, ana ,. ^t if he had a conveni* t and naa a convemei I be for anything th; Cntiia . auytmng tm [seU mor;t*^e ho would buy less an ' ' P. W. KNOTT. i hnttery should have wat ' ^ weeks. Stop ^ o ' y two nd Cattery Co. JUKUK5 UKAWM : For the July Te^n Of Granville County Superior Court, i W. A. King, W. T. Chambless, C. i G. Mangum, L. Elliott, Herman Cur ; rin, W. L. Adcock, S. M. Cutts, A. H. i A. Williams, T. B. Currin, J. T. j Eakes, H. A. Hart, B. M. Currin, Will I Walker, J. M. Currin, C. C. Ellington, ! J. E. Wilson, T. F. Tuns,tall, R. A. j Woody, H. L. Taylor, J. Y. Longmire, !S V. Morton, John Ellington, S. H. Whitfield, J. T. Blackwell, J. G. ! Lunsford, J. A. Tunstall, Graham N. } Overton, Henry Green, A. E .Stroud. } D. H. Wrenn, W. R. Currin, J. C. 'Winters, Otis.Faucett, A. A. Currin, W A. Currin, Lee Ball, Harper Clin ! ton, R. N. Fleming, G. W. Reggan, C. } G. Gordon, A. L. Noblin, W. S. Bur ! well, Jr RAILWAY TAX CASE _ ! The Taxes Involved Are Those Levied ! For the Calendar Year, 1921. (Washington Special) North Carolina's income tax law wag upheld by the United States su preme court this week when it af firmed the decision of the United States court for the eastern district of North Carolina. Action was brought by the Atlantic Coast Line, Norfolk Southern, Seaboard Air Line and the Southern railway, against A.} D. Watts, former commissioner, etj al. j They attacked the law, as it lev-! ied on them, as unconstitutional, in i that it violated the commerce clause,! the fourteenth amendment and also' the state constitution. The supreme! court held that the state was within i its rights even thought the roads were engaged in interstate com merce. NEW PRISON SYSTEM ,tj WORKING SPLENDIDLY! Prison Camps Are As Clean As the Average Hotel. Raleigh Special—The new prison system under which the whip and dark cell were banished as forms of} prison discipline is working spien-l didly, George Ross Pou, superin-j tendent of the North Carolina state' prison, declared following a return! from an inspection trip covering the prison camps which are a part of the State system. The physical condition of these camps, Mr. Pou stated, is "up to their usual high standard," and,} while the reports of sanitary inspec-j tion and rating by the state board of; health ig not yet available, Mr. Pou! asserted his belief that the average! score of the camps under his con-j trol will be higher than the average! score of hotels and cafes in the) state. } FORMER OXFORD LADY INJURED IN WRECK! } Airs. S. P. Kirkpatrick Hurt In Car! i Collision On Mt. Vernon Line. } A special from Washington says i } ten persons were more or less seri-! ously injured when two trains col-; lided on the interurban line last } Wednesday on the route to Mount} Vernon, and had aboard a number of! visitors to the Shriners' convention) in thig city. Among those who were injured was Mrs. S. P. Kirkpatrick, the wife of conductor Kirkpatrick who ran between Oxford nad Henderson three year ago. FRIEND A. P. HOPGOOD IS WELL AGAIN In Good Shape After An Illness Of Two Weeks. The old town never seems exact- j ly right if you don't see Mr. A. P. j Hobgood two or three times a week. This popular member of the Perkin son-Green Company was taken sick two weeks ago and he was quite ill for a week. He wag confined to his hou-se for ten days and lost an ave rage of one pound of flesh every day. He could well afford to lose a pound of flesh daily for three months and then tip the scales, at 195. When! he came down to the store yesterday! he announced that he is "s)till forty and fat and ready for a fishing frolic. DESTITUTE CHILDREN Clothing is Needed for Ten Little Children. Mr. J. E. Jackson, superintendent of welfare states that clothing is badly needed by ten children in the county, whose ages range from one to ten years. Six of these children were recently bereft by fire and the other four are objects of charity. If you have any clothing to spare that these little tots can wear please see Mr. Jackson. MR. H. E. CREWS SICK The Public Ledger readers will re gret to learn that Mr. Herbert E. Crews, the grand old man at Wat kin's station has been quite sick ever since the district conference. It is said that he is slightly improved this morning, <-LUS!NG OF OXFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS The 1932-1933 Session Was Noted l^or Its High Ideals and Achieve ments. TWENTY-ONE DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES AWARDED T!ie Session Came To a Close With An Inspiring Address By Mr. W. T. Bost. The closing of the Oxford City Schools was marked on Tuesday night by the graduation of one of the lar gest classes in the history of the schools and one in which occurred a wery "Singular fact, the number of boys exceeding that of the girls. Every one of the twenty one mem ber have signified their intention of entering college in the fall, entrance having been made now. A large and enthusiastic audience greeted the speaker of the evening. After two choruses by the graduat ing class and the invocation by Rev. F. F. Comerford, B. K. Lassiter in troduced the speaker of the evening. Mr. W. T. Bost, a well-known Ral eigh correspondent of the State press. Mr. Rost's Address. The subject of the inspiring ad dress was. "Christian Education," in which the speaker opened his re marks by showing the conflict be-! tween Christian and secular educa-! tion, in which both -systems are filled with Christian principles. He pre faced his remarks with an explana tion of our ideal situation in the North Carolina schools by which, pu-} pilg are allowed credit to be given! for Bible studies in the Sunday} Schools. Our State Schools are a re-} flection of our Christian Education,! the object of which is truth and the! end, freedom. Mr. Bost stated fur-} ther that we are in the world to be made and that our State Schools are} making us, in the process of which, I mental faculties must be developed,! that we may interrogate an inner} consciousness, from which is gotten j knowledge. Education means to! know how to have a love that shall have respect for opinions of others, how to have a hope to see the world beyond but not scorn the world be low; and a faith that never become in fanatecism. Education gives un conscious power to move to next step in life! every effort today opens into greater effort tomorrow. We are here to grow by doing things. He closed his address by pleading with the graduating clasg to go into life to play heroically the tasks set before them, realizing that it is better to be than to do, surcharged with the mind} of Christ Jesus, living in sweet and} blessed unconsciousnes. ^wiiomrsifMp meoai. The Davis Scholarship Medal was presented to Miss Catherine Ragland by Prof. W. W. Barnhart in a few appropriate words. The annual re port was made by the superintendent, Prof. C. G. Cradle, at which time he read the honor roll for the year. Col.' H. G. Cooper, Chairman of the Board ] of Trustees, presented the Diplomas j to the Senior Class. Little BoPeep j Usry, Mascot of the Class, gave a toast and a song. Class Roll.. Lillian Walters..President Martha Cann rdy .... Vice-President Beth Cannady .Secretary Ben Medford . Treasurer', Augusta Carroll, Florence Dean,! Carrie Duncan, Mattie May Lyon, Catherine Ragland, Mary Etta Tuns tall, Ruth Upchurch, Bailey Currin, Edward Gill, Jesse Knott, Henry Phipps, Thomas Royster, Winston Taylor, Madison Usry, Jack Usry, James Webb, Nathan Wolf. Scholarship Hotior Roll. First grade, Sallie Webb, teacher. Julia Brent Byrum, Baby Jane Hunt, Dorothy McFarland, Eleanor Mayes, T. G. Stem. First gra.de, Sadie Vinson, teach er. Florence Alston, Marguerite Harris, Rowena Taylor, Frances Up church. Second grade, Sadie Parham, teacher. Mildred Bullock, Lynwood Hobgood, Eliza Lewis, Annie May Taylor, Graham Wheeler. Second grade, Ella Clement, teach er. Larue Cooke. Ruby Keller, Frank Taylor, Mary Williams. Third grade, Ella Johnson, teach er, Fannie Gordon, Katherine Hogue Jamieson, Lucile Smith, Ruth War r en, Frederick Webb. Third grade, Sarah Clement, teach er, Edna Farrar, Dorothy Grimm, Marshall Hurray, Menneth Muse. Fourth grade, Mildred Harris, teacher. Katherine Blalock, Green ville Pace, Lucy Wheeler, Baldy Wil liams. Fourth grade, Kathleen Covington teacher. Fannie Lou Cozart, Eliza-j beth Hamilton. Albert Jones, Sidney j tUsry. - j Fifth grade, Carrie Fuller, teach-j ier. Elder Hunt, Lee Roy Pittard, Estelle Remsen, Edwin Warren. ^ Fifth grade. Claire Harris, tear'; er. Wilma Blackwell, Pansy Lant Alex Thomerson, Bailey Webb. Sixth grade, Mrs. W. R. Kimball, teacher. Sophia Hunt, Pattie Lewis, Wilma Long, Katherine Steagall, Julia Winston Taylor. Sixth grade, Lila Currin, teacher. ... . „ , (Continued On Page Five) REVIVAL AT OXFORD BAPTIST CHURCH ^ ? Lumpkin Will Preach ^ext Sunday Morning—Rev. Geo. T. Waite Of Richmond To Take T o the Revival Work Monday Night. The revival services to be neid in the Baptist church will begin Sunday morning with a sermon by Rev. G. T. Lumpkin, 'vho will be visiting in Oxford with his family, on their way to their new home in Winston Salem. The pastor will preach at the evening hour. Rev. Geo. T. Waite of Richmond will be here to take this work up on Monday night, and wall continue for ten days or more. The time and the conditions are just right for a good meeting and the pub lic generally ig invited to all of the services. The hour for the day services during the week will be announced perhaps on Sunday. The Oxford people will give Dr. Lumpkin and the members of his family a cordial welcome back to their old home, and no doubt a very large crowd will hear him preach Sunday mom A REAL ROMANCE Dr. George N. Thomas and Wife Graduate. Many people here will remember with pleasure Mr. George N. Thomas who held a clerkship in the Gran ville County War Office and later with the First National Bank of Ox ford. About the close of the World War Mr. Thomas married Miss Burnice Wood, the fine daughter of Mr. J. Robert Wood. Following his mar riage he studied medicine at Wake Forest College and graduated with honors at that institution two years ago with high honors. For the past two years he has been studying at Jefferson Medical Coliege, Philadel phia, where he graduated last week; and became a full fledged doctor. In the meantime his pretty and in dustrious wife, nee Miss Burnice Wood, has not been idle. She will graduate next week from the Virgin La Normal school at Fredericksburg. Her father, Mr. J. Robert Wood, will j attend the graduating exercises. It is not definitely known where Dr. i Thomas will hang hig shingle, but it} is understood that he wili be con-j nected with one of the iarge hospitals! in the North for one year. LOCAL CONTRACTOR HAS B!G JOB The Bynum Construction (ompany Will Build Three School Houses At Greensboro. The Byrum Construction Company has been awarded the contract to build two high class school houses in Greensboro and one about five miles from the city. The work must be completed In time for the fall term. Mr. Leo E. Byrum, head of the company, will spend one or two days a week in Greensboro until the work is com pleted. The following left for Greens boro this week to push the work: Chandler Watkins, Paul Walters, Cam Eastom Jr., John R. Sneed, Wil lie Sneed, Will Mitchell. THE SWIMMING POOL To Be Officially Opened For the Sea son Tomorrow Morning. Capt. J. 1. Stegall states that the Boys Scouts' Swimming Pool, which was recently donated to them, will be thrown open for the season tomor row morning. Quite a number of young people enjoyed the dip last night and today. The Gholson pool, three miles north of Oxford is nearing completion. It will be an ideal pool when it is filled with fresh water. LOCAL WELFARE BOARD The New Members Are Rev. F. F. Comerford and Mrs. R. M. C. Calvert. The State Board of Charities and Public Welfare this week appointed two new members on the Granville County Board of Welfare. One of the vacancies was caused by the death of the late Rev. R. C. Craven, and the other by the resignation of Mrs. Mary Cooper Evins. Mrs. G. C. Daniel remains on the board, the two new members being Rev. F. F. Comerford and Mrs. R. C. M. Cal vrt. ON THE HIGH SEAS Col. W. B. Ballou Is Returning From Europe. A postal picture card from Col. W. B. Ballot, dated at Bristol, Eng., May 26, and showing the ruins at Verdun, France, says: '*1 have just returned from a mo tor trip through the battlefields of France and Blgium." ** Col. Ballou is now on the high s^as enroute to New York and his home in Richmond. COUNTY BOARD TAKES UP SCHOOL BUDGET BOARD OF EDUCATION ANI COUNTY BOARD WILL MEE1 ! The County Commissioners Refuse T( ; Crane License To Clairvoyants anc j Fort; me Tellers. i The County Board of Commission ) ers at. their regular meeting Jast Mon i day declined to adopt the county -school budget as presented for theii [ consideration by the County Board I of Education. They were willing to I set aside the same amount as last , year. No agreement having beer I reached, the Beard of Education will i meet the County Commisioners on ! Saturday, June 16 to discuss the I question. In case the two Boards I cast a tie vote, the Clerk of the court ! will cast the decissive vote, according ! to the new law, which also states states that the commissioners have 30 days from the 28th of May to ad ! just the budget. The Court House. Mr. F. B. Simpson, the Raleigh ar chitect who submitted plans some time ago to remodel the interior of the court house was before the board. The board suggested that he make a working drawing plan and report at the next regular meeting. Mr. Simp-son stated that the foundation and walls of the court house are in fine shape. Undesirables. . There was a fortune teller before the board seeking to operate, a for tune-telling tent in the environs of Oxford. The board refused to grant license to any fortune teller or clair voyant to operate in the county. SheepkiMing Dogs. An unknown sheep-killing dog did considerable damage to Mr. S. M. Watkins' fine flock of sheep. The board appointed a committee to as certain, if possible, whose dog it was, assess the damage and report at the next regular meeting. CO-OPS HERE TO GET ANOTHER PAYMENT Directors Elect Officers In First Meeting New Board, Directors of the Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Association in the first meeting of the newly elected board at Raleigh last Tuesday authorized another payment to be made to the member growers of dark fired tobac co in Virginia, next Monday, June 11, on all tobacco delivered to the association since February 17. Satisfactory Prices. There will be further payments to the members in every other belt ac cording to the announcement of the association's directors when the grad ual sales of tobacco which are now taking place at satisfactory prices have brought in sufficient funds to warrant further payments. Export Company Big Buyer, Richard R. Patterson in charge of the big co-operative's leaf depart ment, stated that he is strictly ad hering to the association's policy of marketing instead of dumping tobac co and that all -sales are being made at the association's prices. Among recent customers who have purchased from the co-operative are the Export Leaf Tobacco Company, and Patter son Brothers. Directors Name Officers. George A. Norwood, Goldsboro, president; Joseph M. Hurt, vice pres ident, from Virginia, from William son, vice president, from South Caro lina; M. O. Wilson, secretary; James H. Craig, treasurer, and Oliver J. Sands, executive ' manager. The directors also named an executive committee for the coming year as fol lows: Oliver J. Sand-s, chairman; George A. Norwood, Joseph M. Hurt, Bright Williamson, S. F. Austin, J. A. Brown and Norman Williams. CHILDREN'S DAY Fine Program For Next Sunday Afternoon. The congregation at Salem Church is noted for its good people and fine children in the Sunday School. The children will celebrate Childrens Day next Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. If you have a spare hour next Sunday afternoon you can spend it ! profitably at Salem. Pastor Black is doing a fine work at; this church. ORPHANS TO GRADUATE Grand Master Poteat Will Deliver the Address. Dr. H. M. Poteat Grand Master of ! the North Carolina Masons will de liver the address at the Oxford Or phanage on Monday evening, June 18. There are 17 bright boys and girls in the graduating class this session. Twelve of these will attend college, making a total of 27 children of the Oxford Orphanage in college. ROAD CONDITIONS (Richmond Times-Dispatch.) Richmond to Oxford via National Highway—Road generally good. 11 is closed from Stop lY to Dutch Gap road. Detour via Chesterfield. C. H ! SCHOOL HOUSES MUST BE MADE SAFE '; ^ " c Marshals Brockwell and Ellis Cannady Are On the Job. (Raleigh Special) { Asserting that the Cleveland, S. C. ijhre in which seventy-six persons lost t their lives, has arroused the interest of citizens in school buildings, Stacey W. Wade, commissioser of insurance, announced every school building in North Carolina will be inspected by officials of his department and where changes are pecessary orders issued for them to be made before the beginning of the fall terms. I The inspections will be started this week, the eastern section of the state being visited first by the in spctors, operating under a state law, a large part of which was written by Mr. Wade, covering all tclasses of buildings and giving the commission er full authority to make changes in the interest of protection. While I do not believe we have any buildings in North Carolina similar to the one in which the Cievelanl fire originated, I intend to find out wheather changes are nec I essary in any of them. The people jar thoroughly aroused to the situa i tion and I am sure we shall have I their corporation. I have written the ^county superintendents and mem bers of county school boards, ask I ing their assistance, j Especial attention will be given j to the number of exits and fire es capes. We have some of the best {school buildings in the South and } even in the small ones I know of no instance where kerosene lamps are used for lighting purposes. ' "We intend to leave nothing un done to see tha^ each school building is put into proper shape before the fall terms begin," he said. Fire Afarshals Brockwell and Can nady will start the inspection this week. GEORGE J. GOULD'S W!LL Wilt Filed For Probate Sets Up Fund For Three Born Out Of Wedlock Toms River. N. J., June 7.—In the will of George Jay Gould, filed for probate Monday in the Ocean county court, bequeathing a fortune esti mated at $36,000,000 to his widow and ten childreh, Mr. Gould made public acknowledgement for the first time that he was the father of George Sinclair Gould, Jane Sinclair Gould and Guinivere Gould, born put of wedlock before hig marriage to his second wife, Mrs. Guinivere Gould. Although the three children of his second wife, whbse father Mr. Gould acknowledged himself to be in his will, are excluded from inheriting j their father's sl^are in the original [Jay Gould trusty they are provided ! for in two trusts set up for their { benefit. Their exclusion from shar ing in the Jay Gould trust is brought about by the legal definition of'the term "lawful issue." By the ter mg of the will, the late Mr. Gould's share in his father's es tate is distributed equally among the seven children of his first mar riage. . A trust fund of $4,000,000 is created for the use of Mrs. Gould during her lifetime and is to be divid ed among her cnildren in the event of her death without a will. The residuary estate estimated at $16,000,000 is left to the executors to be divided in ten equal parts, a share going to qach of the children by both marriages. POSTOFFICE ROGERS Messrs. B. K. Lassiter and Assistant Postmaster Henry Critcher Attend Trial. Mr. B. K. Lassiter, who was post master when the Oxford postoffice was robbed of $35,000 three years ago, and Mr. Henry Critcher, assis-t tant postmaster, attended this week the trial of the three men held in Raleigh on the charge. Neither one pf the Oxfdhd wit nesses recognized either one! of the yeggs, who spent a day or two in and around the postoffice before they blew the safe. i One of the yeggs, 65 years old, con fessed that he was implicated in the robbery here. Argument in the case closed yesterday afternoon. METHODIST PICNIC Three Hundred Will Go To Durham Next Wednesday. The Oxford Methodist Sunday School will picnic at Lakewood Park next Wednesday. It is estimated that if the day is fine there will be 300 in the party. 1 The Oxford Baptist Sunday School spent last Wednesday at Lakewood, and they are loud in their praise of the recreation feature of the park. TO ORGANIZE B. Y. P. U. At Tally Ho Church Sunday, Juno 17. Rev. H. T. Bryant will preach at Tally Ho Church a^t 6 o'clock on Sun day evening, June 17. Following The sermbn a*B. T. F. U. will be or ganized.