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OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGER PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY—TOWN AND COUNTY OFFER BRILLIANT OPPORTUNITIES! yos , XXXVIII PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY -AND FRIDAY. OXFORD, N. C., TUESDAY. DECEMBER 11,1923 16 PAGES TODAY NO. 99 marriage and divorce rates • IN GRANVILLE .J.jjj.- STATE averages one divorce for every* 10.8 MARRIAGES (inmville County’s Divorce Rate Is One In Every 31.9 Marriages— Farmers Are Seldom Divorced. Based on the bureau of census re 0n marriages and divorces, show the nubmer of marriages for each e'lvcrce granted in each county, S. H.> Hobb-'- dr., department of Rural Social Economics, University of North Carolina, points out that there I j. an average of one divorce for ;ven- i *3 ,S marriages in North Caro lina. One-half of all divorces were grant ed in the ten counties with the larg , towns and cities. The divorce ...yhiein is an urban one. Our di . ,vce rate will steadily vise as we r' nae from a rural to an urban tf Ninety-three divorces in Bun ntbe against a total of 81 in the t sj twenty-five counties, all rural. i\ liters are seldom divorced. The divorce rate in Granville is on i one for every 31.9 marriages. I ISSUER COMPANY WILL PAVE RALEIGH '.warded Half Million Dollar Con ti art In the Capitol City. I Raleigh Correspondent) . . r mtracting to lay streets in Ral-1 at the rate of ten thousand i square yards every twenty days and j - ibmitting unusually low bids on j nt asphalt paving R. G. Lassiter &| Company, a Raleigh and Oxford con-j c on, submitted the proposal that i . r. the approval of the City Commis- j goners and will be awarded the con- j to ots for more than five hundred j thousand dollars worth of street im- i movements in Raleigh. The success-! fui bid was one of thirteen that were-' opened Wednesday afternoon in the] City Court room. -« Two large construction forces of] to- R. G. Lassiter Gampaay, one ofj them now at Smithfield and the other 1 P.t Henderson will move to Raleigh! immediately and work will probably j get under way at once. The head- j quarters of the company are in Ral-1 igh and much of the work will be under the personal supervision of'Mr. Lassiter. ■ • V OLD MAN DETOUR BURNED IN EFFIGY! impressive Exercises Conducted As Direct Iload From Richmond To Peteisburg Is Cleared. ( Richmond Times-Pispateh) ‘ Old Man Detour” was burned in efifSv last Saturday, thus marking la- completion of the concrete high way between Richmond and Peters burg. The delegation from Richmond r et the Petersburg delegation at Failing Creek, where ‘‘Old Man De tour," with arms outstretched and rearing an expression that registered disgust, was posted in the center of the road which marked the last bar !"-r of dust and ruts between Rich end and Ccckade City, and put him cut of business as far as this stretch of Virginia highway is con cern. BAPTIST GATHER AT GASTONIA d! l av Plans To Close Seventy H\e Million Campaign Next No vember and Plan For New Mere dith. (Walter Gilmore) Rastonia, Dec. 10.—The ninety R rd annual ‘session of thd North f r-olina State Baptist. Convention v/’ • assemble here in the First Bap (s' lunch tomorrow' afternoon. Everything is in readiness for the six °" s“ven hundred delegates.’ Many questions of vital concern to ,:'Ci denomination will come up for f'! ” mnent at this Convention. Oc Ju»yiug the center of the stage, per will be the matter oRclosing the l? Million Campaign the last of next ^0vemher. The ‘‘Greater Meredith” /Mif-ge also promises to be an out >r-s ding feature of the session. G00D~DATS WORK ()|,'U is Kill Four Wild Turkeys. U;bt Babbits, One Bird and Cap tl"V Still. p.i,ut-y Conrad Walters, Officers ■ 'll(l Jackson, of the police i -, Oxford last Friday at irl ' an<i returned late in the even , T a big stBl. four wild turkeys, p".rabb.Us and one bird. Wv. , ain'n? bow they did it, Deputv tbl . said: ‘‘We started out with t„ .“Nation of hunting rabbits: the f!ew up and killed them bit ,.n JW .an<1 we killed a rab atiVj ai‘?. finally- we ran across the * - "aich we demolished, and called 1 a day’s work.” . 10BACCO MARKET TO CLOSE FOR HOLIDAYS Close Wednesday, December 19, and Reopen On Tuesday, January 8 At a meeting of the Tobacco Hoard of Trade,, held yesterday, it was decided to close on Wed nesday, December 19. and open on Tuesday, January 8. This applies to the auction houses only. IV • 5!. Mitchell, manager of the local pooling station, will aimounCe the closing and open ing date later. DAVID AND GOLIATH Mr. John W. Hester Replies To Hon. T. T. Hicks. Elsewhere in this paper will be found the genteel reply of Mr. John W. Hester to Hon. T. T. Hicks. We use the word “genteel” advisedly, because we recently received a com munication from an over enthusias tic member of the Co-operative To bacco Asoesiation who stated that "contract breakers should not only be sent to jail, but they should be stood up by the wall and shot.” The writer offered to pay advertising rates to have it inserted, but we de clined it because the Tobacco Asso ciation does not stand for violence ip any form. The Association hopes to win out by honorable means or not at all. MRS. W. R. KIMBALL GOES TO WINSTON-SALEM Will Take Up Social Service Work At the First Of the .Year. Mrs. W. R. Kimball will leave Ox ford Janufery 1st. to enter upon her duties as Social Service workers at the Y. W. C. A. in Winston-Salem. Mrs. Kimball was offered this work in September but returned here to fulfil her contract to teach. Requests from the Y. W. C. A. for Mrs. Kim ball, release caused the school board to see the great need of a worker in the field there, and as thig freed must be met at once they "have released Mrs. Kimball from her contract here to. <*iter this large field of work. There are three thousand working girls in Winston among whom work ers in Social Service are. needed. Mrs. Kimball carries with her tfrp good wishes of her co-workers for her suc cess in this new field., C00L1DGE HEARD HERE I His Message To Congress Came! Through Perfectly. The first address of President Coolidge which was •delivered doCon gress last Thursday, was heal'd in Oxford by radio. This is the first time radio facili ties have ever been given the Ameri- j can public in hearing the address of a! president to Congress. The message | came through perfectly and the ap plause when punctuated several of its j passages was distinctly audible. The response was particularly warm, I when Mr. Coolidge endorsed Secre tary Mellon’s tax reduction plan. To the listener Mr. Coolidge appeared to be reading his address which he did in a monotone without oratorical frills. Owners of smaller stations probably were disappointed in not getting the message, this being due to the curtailment of daylight radius j which reduces the capacity of smaller] stations to receive at a considerable distance. DR. COOK HAS TO WORK Tlie Millionaire Malefactor Scrubs Floors Qf Prison. Word has reached the department of justice at Washington that Dr. Frederick A. Cook, polar explorer, sentenced at Fort Worth, Tex., for oil frauds, has taken to floor scrub^ bing. Twenty of the prisoners, according to the report, were confined in a] large room in the upper story of the j Fort Worth jail. The warden threat-j ened to remove the stove unless the] prisoners kept the space about it clean and the next day he went to the room and found Dr. Cook at worfc with the rest, with a brush and soap. Dr. Cook’s wealth at the time of his conviction was more than $1,000, 000, according to justice officials. STORES WILL SOON BE OPEN EVENINGS Stores of Oxford will be open a few evenings before Christmas for the accommodation of the shopping public, but exact arrangements for| this have not as yet been completed.! It is thought that probably an agree men will be reached among the mer chants whereby they will be open evenings during the week before Christmas, and also on Christmas Eve as well. Decision as to this ar rangement will be reached probably in a day or two, it is thought. 1 SOME STRAIGHT TALK - Hj j the spirit that should PROMPT OUR CITIZENS i • _ | 'Tli© Tilings That Are Babiy Needed In Oxford. 1 Our town has* no commercial or | sanization looking to the establish : ing of new manufacturing enterprises I in Oxford. An overall factory, a laun dry or most any establishemnt that will employ labor will be of great benefit. Manufacturing plants are badly needed here, and no active organiza tion here to secure them is a reflec i tion on the business men of Oxford? ■ We not only need new manufac ! turing plants, but more encouraged ! ment should be given to our enter | prises. Our citizens need to knovs? I that the way to make a town better | is for all to support and help make : better and stronger the institutions i we have; that is-as much necessary ! for our business men to trade with ! their home institutions as it is for [ their home institutions and others to j trade with them. The rule must ap | ply both ways before it will work suc ! cessful. / ; Oxford needs no more merchants, i no more lawyers, no more banks, no j more doctors, no more of most any I kind of business that it already has. j The town is not large enough to jus ! tify the proper conduct of more than i it has at present, and further dupli j cation will tend to weaken all. \ % j A united effort on the part of the j citizens of Oxford is the only means | by which the business interests of | our town can be saved from the de | minition bow-wows. Trade at home I and work with a eye-single for the j up-building of Oxford should be ! slogan of our people. BERGDOLLCAPTOR FACES 3-YEAR TERM Captor Was Swayed By Patriotism and $f>0,000 Reward. Moshach, Baden, Dec. 10.—sen tence of three'years for Corliss Hoyd en Griffis, of Halimton, O., was recommended last week by State's Attorney Nebel f,or the attempt kidnap Grover ’CleveTanS' Bergd'drC American draft evader. Nebel also urged three years for j Karl Eperber, of Paris; one year for] the Russian Prince Faust Gagarin j and six months for Eugene Victor! Nelson of Chicago. A patriotic desire to get the notori-1 ous draft dodger, who impudently de- j fied American laws and scoffed at ] American authorities and the attrae- j tion of a $50,000 reward, were ad- j vanced by Griffs and accepted by the, Court as impelling motives for thej two Americans involved. There also | was a hint aobut a newspaper stunt with the idea of yielding a big story for the favored newspaper and pic-! tures for a movie enterprise, but the j Court didn’t go deeply into this as- j pent of the case accepting Griffs’ I statement that the several thousand j dollars with which he financed the enterprise were his private resources. J CITY SCHOOLS TO CLOSE DECEMBER 21 ' I Christinas School Holidays Will Ex-1 tend Through Eleven Days. | . Friday, December 21st, has been fixed aa the date of the closing of the schools of the city of Oxford for the Chri*stmas hilidays, according to j anouncement by Prof. C. G. Credle, j superintendent of city schools. Classes will open again on Wednes day, January 2nd, giving the pupils a holiday period of eleven days. It is customery for the county schools to arrange their own holi day periods, the cdmitteerndn in each instance working ..out the arrange ments. Since thei". , county school's operate on a basis of so many months of work, the longer the Christmas holiday, the longer the term ex tends into the summer. In many districts it is thought advisable toi cut the Christmas season short and complete the year’s work earlier in the year, releasing boys for farm work. THE MEANEST MAN He Told the Children That Santa 1 laus Has Just Died. There lives £>n a side street in Ox ford the “meanest man in the world.” This man gathered his little ones about his knee the day before Christ mas and told them that Santa Claus had just died. We once knew a man who gave his little boy twenty-five cents each week for doing all the chores and then j would lead him to the gas meter and | permit him to drop the quarter in it, the child believing the meter to be a Christmas savings bank. Thqt was a mean trick, but nothing to compare with the story that Santa Claus is deads Removal Notice. T>?. G. S. Watkins has removed his office to the room over Lyon’s Drug Store. iO-23-tf SOCIAL SERVICE EXCHANGE OR GANIZED HERE i TO RELIEVE DESTITUTION j The Woman’s-Club and Each Of the Churches Represented. The County Welfare Board met last Saturday and enlarged their scope of work and usefulness by or- ! ganizing a “Social Service Exchange.”! Each church and the Woman’s Club! are represented in the organization.! There is so much destitution in the county something had to be done, and! done quick: A widow and her six I children are reported as being prac-i tically down and out. They are bad-; ily in need of food and clothing.! Their names and age follows: Ada.; 6 years old; Lydia 5; Bessie 4; Pearl; i4; Theodore 13, and Ruby 18 i months. -< There are numerous cases in the j county just as distressing. Old! clothing and food will be gladly re-j eeived at the room in the Hicks j building, or at the office of Mr. J. E. j Jackson, welfare officer, in the court house. i _ The Plan. (Contributed Later) Since the County Welfare Depart ment was started, many have had a growing realization that the social service work of the various organ izations in town should be co-ordi nated. Each has operated regard less of the others and the result has seemed confusing. It ha*s now been arranged with the glad concurrence of ail, that repre sentatives from the various churches and societies sluftl meet at stated in tervals to discuss specific problems, so that there ‘Shall be* no more over lapping of social service, no duplicat ing of assistance in some cases or negelct in others. Two conferences have been held, consisting of two members from each Of the churches and one from each of the following organizations: the Red Cross, the Woman’s Club, the Pa rent-Teacher Association and the Welfare Department. This committee .will be called the Socfap ^ervtce Exchange. It earnestly desires that the citi zens shall cooperate by giving infor mation of needy , cases and by con-i tributing money and second hand clothing. /Any contributions can be left with Mr. Jackson at the Court House'’ and the committee will endeavor to use them wisely.’ BOY KILLED ON THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY i Rulin'*- Bicycle and Blinded By Auto Headlight. Last night about 7:30 o’clock Mr. Lakewood, of Durham, who was driv-! ing a car. met Sam Chambers, who * was riding a bicycle, near Knapp of! Reeds, the head-on-collision result-j ing in the death of the said sixteen j year old colored boy. Mr. Lake-j wood was following a large car, and j when the boy pased the big car he J pulled to the center of the road and met the Lakewood car and was killed | almost instantly. The boy was tak-j €n to Stem. Coroner W. D. Bryant empanelled | a jury and hastened to the scene. The: jury decided that the death was pure-] ly accidental. DR. WILSON TO WED j Will Co To Riclunond For His i Bride. , j Cards, reading as follows, have ' been received by Oxford friends ofi the contracting parties: Mr. and Mrs. James Brannon Barker] request the pleasure of your company j at the marriage of their daughter j Amorette Elizabeth * to | Dr. Archer Alexander Wilson i on Saturday morning, the twenty-j ninth of December at half after ten o’clock Thirty-two hundred and sixteen j Seminary Avenue Richmond, Virginia. CHRISTMAS TREE COMMITTEES ] see us before buying your Candies, j Fruits, Nuts & Etc. 12-ll-4tx TAYLOR BROS. ! BISKI II DAttLLEFT, JO SHOP CASINO GOES UP IN MIDNIGHT BLAZE - . r I Th© Granville Warehouse, Next Door Had a Close Call. The municipal ciren whistle sound ed loud and clear upon the midnight air last Saturday night. The fire fighters sprang upon the truck al most instantly and in exactly two and one-half minutes poured a stream of water upon the blazing wooden struc ture knows as the “Casino,’’ the .pro perty of John Young, colored, sit uated on Hillsboro street and adjoin ing the Granville Worehouse. It was one of the hottest fires in the hstory of Oxford, and the rats, as large as Guinea pigs, ran helter-skel ter for a more congenial clime. The intense heat caused the warehouuse to lock like a smoldering volcano, and if it had not been for the brick wall that warded off the heat that building, too, would be a ruin today. The fire wa^ of unknown origin. It started in the center of the building on the upper floor and it was a seeth ing furnace before the alarm was sounded, but it stands today as a shell, exhibiting in unmistakable terms the powess of our fire depart ment. John Young, th^ owner of the pro perty. state's elsewhere in this paper that four brick buildings, in keeping with the progress of Oxford, will be erected on the lot at once. .» RADIO IS A SUCCESS ^ Message' In Congress Applauded On New York Sidewalks. (New York World) | For the first time in history, the | voice of a President of the United ! States delivering his message to Con I gress in Washington was heard on the ! sidewalks of New York. Clearly'’and distinctly, word for i word and syllable for syllable, it came without a break from beginning to end. Thousands grouped or^, street corners ai’ound “loud speak ers” heard it as plainly as though they stood within earshot of the Cap itol. “The President has a good radio .voice*” the .cojxyaegt everywli^re. At the end the hand-clapping and cheers of the thousands on Gotham’s streets swelled into a din the fainter applause caught by the radio in the House of Representatives. POPULATION CENTER OF THE STATE; . - 1 , j Near Mount Vernon Springs In Chatham County. •Washington, Dec. 10.—The exact center of population of Norti; Caro lina as determined by the Todl’teenth census was located in Lattitnde 35 degrees, 36 seconds and 48 seconds north and Longitude 79 degrShs, 31 minutes and 27 seconds west, accord ing to an announcement made by the! Census Bureau. The exact location of this spot, according to the report, v/as three miles southwest by sout of Mount Vernon Springs in Chatham county. The movement of the center shift ed between 1910 and 1920 1.7 miles from point to point while the direc tion of the movement was 0.7 miles southward and 1.5 miles eastward. OFFICIAL mile post It Would Sei've Well If Placed At the Juncture Of College and Hillsboro Streets. The zero milestone, located just be hind the White House at Washington, cn Meridian of Longitude Zero, dedi cated to the nation and accepted by President Harding, i*s the starting point for road measurement east, west, north, south of the capital of the nation. It is forty miles to Baltimore. It is also forty-five miles to Baltiiriore, depending on the part of Baltimore to which one measures! It is two hundred and sixty-five miles to the City Hall in New York, etc. Every town in America ought to have a milestone, on which should be ; stipulated the distance from Wash ington. If the stone in our town was placed at the juncture of College and Hillsboro street it would be a great convenience to tourists. It would cost little and can be financed by the Oxford Woman’s Club or the Rotarians. A litle re search would compute its exact dis tance from the zero milestone in Washington to Oxford and other points. 2 CAR LOADS OF APPLES Apples, Oranges, Tangerines, Grape Fruit and Celery. The two car loads of fine fruit, consigned to J. H. Berry, the fruit man, which is.being unloaded in the Seaboard yards, attracts much atten tention. See announcement of prices and variety elsewhere in this paper. WE HAVE THE PRETTIEST LINti of stationery ever shown in Oxford. Give the “Write” gift. i 12-ll-5tc HALLS DRUG STORE. THE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING IS ON IN EARNEST | Scores Of Extra Salesmen Are Beift$ Pi'essed Into Service. I “I can hardly realize that Christ* : ma*s is almost here," is a daily com* | ment exchanged by individuals j throughout this town and county. I ®ut dismissing the proposition with j that will not in the least defer the date for the holiday festivities. The hour glass continues to drain and everyone may as well be “up and about" their Christmas shopping. It’s to everyone’s advantage, too, for ! stocfrs, are now complete and assort* j ments are plentiful—a condition that cannot obtain in the last days of the shopping season. The wise will both do their shopping and their mailing early. In this there will be found the greatest service and satisfaction. The thoroughness with which the merchants of Oxford have prepared for this season is shown by a stroll through the business district. Un precedented business is already start ed and will increase in volume right up to tl^e eve of Christmas, as is al ways the case. Scores of extra ‘salesmen are al i ready on the floors of the merchan ! tile establishments throughout the j city, and all are busy filling the j wants of a jolly throng of Christmas shoppers. Stores in every line Of merchandise are being rushed al ready and as the season advances ad ditional sales forces will be required, • and merchants are already lining Up j their reserve safes forces to call as | emergency or demand arises. Stores • are chuck full of gift novelties, as ! well as dispensing the more staple | merchandise in their lines for gift I purposes. 1 Truly, this Christmas promise to | be one of- the happiest ever for this j town and section—happy for the rea ! son that the shoppers who-have never been able to meet their needs with greater ease, for the merchants who have striven so splendidly to this end, and for those who will receive the merchandise that is now being distributed from local counters throughout this section. NEGRO ELECTROCUTED i Goss Makes Complete Confession To An Oxford Colored Preacher That He Was Guilty Of Attack On Spruce Pine Woman. (Raleigh Correspondent) John Goss, convicted engro, con victed of an attack upon a white wo man in Mitchell county; paid the pen alty with his life at the State Prison here last Saturday, being electro cuted at 10:30 o’clock. Before being taken to the electric chair Goss made a complete confes sion to Rev. D. L. Thomas, negro preacher of Oxford, and also repeated his statement to prison officials. Four shocks were required before the prison physicians pronounced the negro dead. “I am ready to go,” Goss told prison officials who called at his cell at the hour for the death march. He did not show the slightest nervous ness. About seventy-five persons saw the electrocution, -including several negroes. Goss was serving a fifteen year sen tence for an attack upon a negro in New Hanover county when he es caped from the Mitchell county camp last summer. He was a trusty and had only a few days more to serve when he attacked the aged white wo man near Spruce Pine. JUDGE DEVIN AT HILLSBORO THIS WEEK Judge Devin finished up a lengthy docket at Durham last week and is now presiding at Hillsboro. His Sunday School class was very glad to have him present last Sunday and regrets were expressed that he will preside in some eastern counties of the state early next year and cannot be with them every Sunday. CO-OPS TO MEET HERE In the Court House On Saturday Dec. 15th. A very urgent meeting of the To bacco Growers Association for the county will be held at the Court House in Oxford at 12 o’clock, Satur day, Dec. 15. E. Y. FLOYD, Sec. NOTICE Regular Annual Meeting, of the stockholders of the First National Bask, of Oxford, N. C., will be held on^Tuesday, January 8, 1924, at 2:00 o'clock P. M. W. H. HUNT, President. 12-7-lt*-5w-c i | -_ ••_- t -—Your battery should have water about every two weeks. Stop at Ox ford Battery Co.
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