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PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY _ AND FRIDAY._ (OXFORD, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1924 12 PAGES TODAY Mil 33 ^OiDAlES READY ^ TO MAKE THEIR ANNOUNCEMENTS '.Suit l,,ta.U""t It"' County (Hi'cr Annouuce liifif Co"""' , . lnve of names hrixe various offices m , ,ir,y.- been ^tion^ s. Watkins, rmivihe. will be opposed nn'„Je of Representatives by or of South Granville. ^^^Taco a prominent young ToxR.nl asked Representa tvyor o desired a second .. W!"h"'s. tr be nm " , assured that h^ did, Jr declined to enter the race 'Th ri R'"W that Dr. Hardee 'T , - ns are iu the race it is hat the lawyer will enter 1 orominent and popular ^ ^ i Tdh Ho will also toss his aceforthe House, it is said, ^edtate E. D. Hunt. 'i-hpfnenusot^nonn ,-r , L-= for another term. and J. uuh who has served the conn-: nntsDai'^'^. n. County} ^ of the board of aspires to the office} Krif Both are good, strong! Icn and the race will be watched! ^voters throughout the conn-' ,/r.'patting the members of the, 'e t Board of County Comm,s-j Mrs on the back and requesting, them to announce for another ternm ^ u ESuH. ofPutchville, andLes e of Walnut Grove, aje m! ^ race for commissioners. Three, of the present ooaid ha\e. Ledger that Lh.yj will announce themseives later. One, member of the board stated that he, would rather not serve on a board if j at! the rest wore new and untried, rte^ MS %'vedon the board quite a, while, and states that the longer he , serves the better he is qualified to ^ ^Cmmtv candidates have until sun-; set on Monday May 26th to enter the j :e. From the present outloo^; ere is no telling what will happen tween now and then. , "Ml'E-4-LiFE-LEAGUE" 'Mctdcis In the tinted States Hn ciease Annually. A New York dispatch says: Plac-; 1^ the number of deaths by suicide hthel'nited States last year at be-i twpen 15,0(0) and 16,000, Dr. Harry; 11. Warren, president of the Save-A Life League." in his annual report.) attributed the majority of efforts at 3#de$trttcttouto the failure of mny parents, teachers and clergy-. EM, to impress upon children the sanctity of human life. "During the past, five years." Mm j Warren said, "about 1.000 children between the ages of 5 and 18 have, been on ttm suicide list. One girl) made twelve different attempts to , die.. Most oi these children and i'Wtng people ended their lives be-, Muse of unhappy home conditions 'Mleasant school experiences, youth-' t!!nmt-riages)500 last year in the} tutted States at th^ age of 15 being} ''Sedas widowed or divorced." matistics fathered by the league that among the suicides last j fMrwetetil physicians, 18 lawyers Mdjudgos.lt ministers, 6! bankers, 26 editors and '} ''em and ID) presidents and own large business concerns. 1 - "" ni'')M)mt!)i;isoa*e Situation fs ^''''"Ms.oYcitsuioK Aroused. .;'bashi!ir.. ';-;i,)! states that --.t"!thna:-y^.^,' have been taken '' t^*m<Yetma rit t() combat and foot and mouth disease --- ' . which threat -u '^placed by ad ticttpali freight .a'-.tnniobiie traffic out wARANTiKE ON WESTERN COAST ^''--ntsar J'^tsta,. Ihchotts^ J'^dtin'o.i Potion oi s i'estoc '* -'eprcisentatives today lergency appro 'h"< to surpass this md Secretary of cent once placed -'"'d ^^pct'ts in the athr^'^'"'^''^'' battle with the ^Ihe agg^^siv r/c.'.sjt-ia., ''Rfwtin An; ke regularity reasuresofkili fo ased herds and ,.... ''':e:.se< are going for "'bi'ttac'ii restocks^-. d thus far as a fdiottg of domestic ''rntry aggregate h tvhich are now earth. been buried in H'- ^et Q^'*^*''ed with at feast , ^ Bkre r ' argument d is to he punc -sbetai supply of cuss MEETING OF SEVENTH DISTRICT BIG SUCCESS MRS. JERMAX iS A ROWER Rosemary ( tab \\m He Xe\t Hos tess; Mrs. J. H. Rrodie, Of Hen de^on, Is Eiecteti President Of the Seventh District). The club women of the Seventh District of the State Federation showed how smart women do things by attending the annual conference held here last Wednesday, two hun dred and fifty strong answering the roll call. Mrs. R. G. Lassiter, presi dent of the district, presided over the meeting with that grace for which she is noted. The address of welcome by Mrs. J. C. Robards; retir ing president of the Oxford Wo man's Club, was timely and to the point). The response by Mrs. S. P. Cooper, of Henderson, a former president of the State Federation, was a gem of thought and revealed her big heart which has long been en listed in civic, educational, cultural and social lines. A Handsome Picture. In her address, Mrs. Palmer Jer man, president of the North Carolina Federation, paused long enough to drop a tear. She said that the three years she spent at Oxford College, as a student, was a happy memory; that! the recent death of Dr. F. P. Hob j good, president of Oxford College,! and Miss Bettie Jordan, a former; teacher, filled her heart with sorrow.! On the rostrum with Mrs. Jerman! sat Mrs. S. P. Cooper, of Henderson.! It was a striking picture of beauty, j force and power. This was the firs! intimatg view that many of our peo-j pie had of the two noble women who i have accomplished so much. Mrs.! Cooper, a former president of the i State Federation, and Mrs. Jerman,; the present head, have always been! able to accomplish all that they have! set their hearts to do. Their beauty, } grace, culture and hard sense and quick wit and repartee cannot be dis puted by the politician, even though he be a broad-minded statesman. t Mrs. Jennan's Address. Mrs. Jerman stated that this is the ; fourteenth district meeting she has; attended this year without yet tiring) of hearing the reports which have! more or less a sameness. The pur-; pose of her talk was to bring the io-j cal clubs into a closer sympathy with: the State Federation. She empha-j sized the fact that the Federation is j made up of individual clubs which! alone are responsible for the work of . the Federation. She mentioned sev-; eral ways in which the Federation, can assist local clubs, pointing out; the fact that the history of clubs has. been that they were of short dura-; tion when their vision did not in-; elude a program broader than the lo- j cal community. She reminded the: women of the power that lurks in a; cup of tea and a cracker, if served at; the right time. Mrs. Jerman stressed local worn; as the most important and suggest- j ed numerous lines that clubs were j developing. But, she said, the wo-! men must also remember state-v me j issues and even national questions.. Uniform marriage and divorce laws^ and the eighteenth amendment are! national matters that should conce n ; all women. , ' Mrs. Jerman closed with a wotdj about citizenship, asking the women; what they were making of their chi-: zenship. With 50,000 club women; in North Carolina. represeut,m. country and town, the balance o power lies with the women, according to Mrs. Jerman, if they will take the trouble to inform themselves and then exercise their right to vote. She told the Club women in unmistakable terms that they have plenty to do without dabbling in politics; that the true club women are larger m thought, word and deed. Afternoon Session. \fter a most enjoyable and elabo rate luncheon at the Lyon Memorial building, the ladies assembled agnin in the auditorium at the Graded school, the feature of the afternoon session being the address of Mayqr Thad G. Stem, who spoke of the noble work accomplished by the Ox ford Club, and pointed with pride to our paved streets, parkways ano good health that the community en joys. The Music. The music on this occasion was up lifting. The Club song, composed by Mrs. Anne Woodall, of Oxford Col lege and sung by Miss Edna White. Mrs. Parham, Mrs. Barnhart and Mrs. William Webb was inspiring. The solo by Mrs. A. A. Wilson, whose cultured voice is captivating, was greatly enjoyed, there can be no doubt that the delegates carried home with them fond recollections of the meeting in Oxford. MOVED INTO NEW HOME Mr. and Mrs. Easton Parham have moved into their new home on the National Highway near Delacroix Springs. PMZRS TO BE /tWARDED — LISTEN, GRANVILLE COUNTY } HOYS! Comity Agent Blackwell Wants Some; Real Live W ide-Awake Boys To; Join tke Cotton Club. The Eastern Carolina Chamber of^ Commerce is offering three cashj prizes in each of the four cotton belts! to the ciub boys who grow cotton ac-j cording to the plans which have been sent out by Mr. S. J. Kirby, our State Club agent. Three prizes are offered in each belt, as follows: First prize.$100.00 Second prize . 50.00; Third prize . 25.00} This money is going to club boys. The four cotton belts have been laid; off by Mr. Franklin Sherman, State! Ertomologist, according to the darn-} age done by the boll weevil. The; First belt is along the coast, where } farmers have suffered most from the} ravages of the boll weevil. The sec-j ond belt is the next heaviest sufferer., The next greatest is the third belt,} while the Fourth belt comprises all j cotton growing counties not included j in the first three belts. We arg in } this last named belt and we there-} fore have the advantage over thej other sections, due to less damage ; to the boll weevil. Now. boys, it is left up to us to win } some of these prizes. It can be done : and we can do it. Think it over.! boys, and talk it over with your fath-; er, and lets start some club work that! will make the South sit up and take j notice. j Mr. S. J. Kirby, State Club Leader,; will be with me next week, to as*} sist me in organizing the boys into; Cotton Clubs. Get ready for us, we are coming. Yours truly, J. H. BLACKWELL, Co. Agt. DEPOSED GOVERNOR OF OKLAHOMA WINS! - t Ku Klux Judge Gave Him a Square j Deal. Oklahoma City Special says: Judge} A. S. Wells sustained demurrers of J.} C. Walton, deposed Governor to five} charges of converting public funds,} and freed Waltpn of all charges inj State district court today. The charges have been pending; five months. "I based by opinion solely upon the} laws of Oklahoma and I hope that J.j C. Walton would be fair enough tj} say that he got a square deal from at j least one Klansman," said Judge; Wells. i Walton was charged with having caused T. B. Edwards, his personal chauffeur, to be paid with funds of, the State health department. j The allegations were identical with. those on the same subject which were} included in the bill of impeachment j on which he was removed from office.; "Any State employe or deputy of; such who shall divert any funds from , the original object shall be guilty of: felony," said the Judge. ' He ruled that Walton could not, have done this, since the funds ai-j leged to have been diverted were in} the custody of Dr. A. E. Davenport,} then State health commissioner, J. K. Wright, county attorney, gave no tice of an appeal. } Tourists Compliment Oxford In Good Terms} Mr. and Mrs. John Dysart and Mr. and Mrs. George Hilligus and fanii'y passed through Oxford yesterday en-i route from Florida to their home in. Ohio! Mr. Dysart, spokesman for tne tourists, stated to the Public Ledger that if he had known that Oxford ! was such a lovely place and had such a glorious climate, his party wouin have spent three months here instead ! of going to Florida. the Honor Comes To Granville County; It is a pleasure to note that Mr. ; Frank W. Hancock. Jr., was chosen an elector of the Fifth Congressional, District at the State Democratic Con ! vention in Raleigh last week. Th'.s means that he will cast his vote in the electoral college next fall for Mr. McAdoo or the man who is fortunate enough to be nominated at the New, York National Democratic Conven-j tion, as it is a foregone conclusion i that the nomination is equivalent toj election. Revival Services At West Oxford Chapel j -- i Will Begin At 7:45 O'clo-ck Next Sun day Night. } Rev. N. B. Strickland, pastor of; Oxford, Circuit, will begin a series ofj revival services in the West Oxford^ Mill Chapel next Sunday night, April j 27, at 7:45 o'clock. The public isi cordially invited to attend these services. DR. SCANLON CHOSEN MODERATOR OF GRAN VILLE PRESBYTERY PRESBYTERY MEETS AT ROX BORO XEXT YEAR There Was Substantial Gains Last lear In a Xnnibet Of Churches Of the Presbytery. The Granville Presbytery, which was formed last year and embraces all of the Presbyterian Churches in the eleven adjoining counties former ly convened last Tuesday evening in the Oxford Presbyterian Church. Rev. W. McC. White, D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. of Raleigh, preached the sermon. It was a strong discourse on the "Resurrection." which was greatly appreciated by a congregation that taxed the seating capacity of the Church. The Xew Moderator. Rev. D. H. Scanlon, D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Durham, was elected moderator to succeed Dr. White, pastor of the First Church of Raleigh. He is one of the strongest preachers in the South. Queen's College. Among the communications read Wednesday morning was a request from Queens college at Charlotte, to the effect that the Granville presby tery accept one-fourth ownership of the college. Transferred. Upon request Marshall W. West, a member of the presbytery and a se nior in the Union Theological Semi nary at Richmond, was transferred from the Granville Presbytery to the East Hanover Presbytery in Virginia, j Rev. J. H. Gruver. present Home! Mission superintendent of the Gran- j ville presbytery, was received in the! Granville presbytery from the French, Broad presbytery of the Nothern i Presbyterian church, after examina-; tion of his views of theology and ex-' perimental religion. To Aid Certain Churches. Rev. A. J. Crane, member of the! synod's committee of home missions, j gave a report in which he asked for, further prosecution of the cam-; paign opened last February to fur nish financial aid to ''Churchless churches and manseless ministers." kvhich was favorably accepted. Three New Churches. An interesting report of the com- ' mission to establish thre^ churches! in Raleigh was made. Rev. F. F. j Comerford, pastor of the Oxford Presbyterian church, was a member i 3f this committee. The Colleges. Dr. White of the Raleigh church' made a very encouraging report of j the successful year's work done at! Peace institute where 300 Presby-! terian girls are being educated. } Dr. Scanlon's oral report of David-; (Continued To Fifth Page) . DENTAL AMOCMWON j Dr. H. O. Lineherger. Of Haleigh, Is New President. After a three days session in Ral-; eigh, the North Carolina Dental So-j ciety adjourned its 50th anniversary convention Wednesday afternoon. Dr. I. H. Davis, former president of! the society, and Dr. J. K. Bryant andj Dr. S. J. Finch of Oxford, who at tended the convention were Re pressed with the speeches of Dr. Percy B. Howe, assistant professor of* Dental Research at Harvard Univer sity, and Dr. Weston A. Price, emi nent Cleveland O.. dentist. "Diet—Its Relation to the Devel opment of the Teeth and Its Relation to the Oral Cavity" was the subject of Dr. Percy B. Howe's address to the convention Wednesday morning. A large number of the degenerative diseases of the body are caused by decay of the bone substances of the physical system he declared, bringing in the relation of diet by declaring that food plays a large part in build ing up and preserving the bone struc ture. People become acclimated to foods just as they do to climate, he stated, offering illustrations fo show that a person thrives best on the goods grwn in the territory in which he lives. j Dr. H. O. Lineberger, of Raleigh, was elected president, to succeed Dr.' R. M. Morrow, of Burlington. The 19 25 convention goes to Rinehurst. I COMMENCEMENT AT PROVIDENCE SCHOOL — The closing exercises at Provi dence school will take place Thurs- i dayievening. May 1. at 7:S0 o'clock.; The exercises will consist of a play, songs, pantomines. etc. Certificates of honor and other awards wiil be ^ presented the same evening, as there will not be any exercises on Thurs day, as was formerly planned. j Providence is one of the best schools in the county. Mr. Carl H. Ragland is the principal, with the ^ assistance of Miss Lee Holloway, Mrs. R. Y .Crews and Miss Mary Hoi-! loway. The Co-Ops To Pay Another $1,000,000 Another million dollars will be divided among members of the To bacco Growers Co-operative Associa tion in Eastern North Carolina not later than June 15, according to au announcement made by officials of the marketing organization following a meeting of the directors in Rich mond Tuesday. The announcement of the second payment follows the statement by Richard R. Patterson, leaf manager of the Association, that it has sold over 23,000,000 pounds of tobacco within the past 30 days at satisfac tory prices. MILLIONS OF BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED The Vote In the State Is Estimated At From 300,000 To $500,000. (Raleigh Cone spondent) The slowness with which thg Demo cratic candidates are filing notices of ! candidacy for the State Senate in the districts of more than one coun : ty, is the all-absorbing topic in poli itical circles here. A Shower Of Checks. The candidate for State and con gressional offices have until Satur day evening, April 26, to file notice of candidacy. The county candidates have until May 27. But ten out of more than thirty demo cratic candidates for the senate j who must file with th^ elec- i tion board have sent in the $5 to Sec- j retary Beasley. F. W. Thomas, j Asheville lawyer, sent forward his! check for $20 and filed notice of hisi candidacy for Associate Justice of the; Supreme court on the Republican j ticket. Lindsay C. Warren finds the; cost of running for congress more ex- j pensive than for a State office and j with his notice came the $50 checks asked of all congressional candidates, i That of E. T. Aydlette, of Elizabeth ! City, has not reached the office so far but it will get here before the week j ends. Millions Of Tickets. Until the list is complete, Mr. , Beasley is unable to estimate how ; many tickets he will have to get. printed for the primaries but with a vote variously estimated at from; 300,000 to 500,000 the order will be ! well into the millions. This applies to all the state offices and to the tickets for Senator Simmons and! Amadis (Mike) Whitener, Mr. Sin.-, mon's opponent. Second Primary Looms. There is almost certain to be ai second primary for the lieutenant, governorship unless all four candi-^ dates, W. C. Feimster. of Hickory; J. Elmer Long, of Durham; Thomas! Contee Bowie ,of Ashe, and Capt.; Rob Reynolds, of Buncombe, sign a . pact before the day of the first strug-! gle agreeing to let the high vote de cide it. The recent convention talk, indicated an effort in this direction'; and nothing would please State; Chairman Dawson better. Coolidge Will Be Republican Nominee Has Eight More Than is Accessary For a Choice. Accomplished victory for President, Coolidge in the campaign for the Re-, publican nomination claimed by Wil ; liam Butler, the Coolidge manager,; in a formal statement in which he said 56 3 delegates instructed or fa vorable to the President had already been selected, eight more than neces In the list furnished to Coolidge "either by instruction ,by indorse ment or by personal pteference j were the'New York delegation of 91; and others not bound down by man-; datory orders, but which he said pi -. ferred the nomination of the Presi dent. . According to Mr. Butler the Loo.-, idge delegations thus far chosen " arej Colorado 15, Connecticut 17; lloii da 10. Idaho 11. Louisiana 13. Maine: 15. Michigan 33, Minnesota 7, Miss issippi 18, Missouri 2 6 (13 to be elected), Nebraska 19, New Hamp shire 11, New Mexico 9, New Yoik 91. North Carolina 19, (3 to be elect ed). North Dakota 13. Oklahoma 12, (11 to be elected), Rhode Island 1-h j South Carolina 11, Tennessee 12 <15 to be elected), Yirginia 17, Washing ton 17, Wisconsin 1, Hawaii 2, Phil : ippines 2. "OLD HURRTCRAfH' j Noted W'iter Spends Day In ! Oxford. Mr. J. A. Robinson, better know as "Old Hurrygraph," spent Wednes day in Oxford and divided his time between the Federation meeting and the session of the Granville Presby tery. He occupies a desk in the edi torial rooms of the Durham Herald, and we may expect to see at an early date a polished article dealing with what he saw and heard in Oxford this week. The people of Oxford are al ways glad to see this sprightly young man of seventy summers. GROWERS WILL PLANT ABOUT SAME ACREAGE The Georgia Grower Win Make a Sad Mistake. (Trank Parks. State Statistician.) Viewing th^ tobacco crop as a vhole. there is an expression inten tion to plant the same acreage in 1924 as was pianted in 1923. The trends of particular types differ, however, the controlling influences being the rapid increase in cigarette manufacture and consumption, the improved foreign demand for certain types, and the poor demand for others. Th^ trend of cigar and cig arette production has had an evi dence effect upon tobacco prices and prospects. Cigarette manufacture has increased rapidly in recent years. The acreage o fburley and the flue cured type has accordingly made con sistent increases and so far the prices have been fairly maintained. The combined acerage of the principal cigarette types—hurley and flue cured—was 1,169,000 acres in 1923. Notwithstanding this large acreage these types outrank ali except the better cigar types and Maryland ex-* port in price per pound to the grow er and there is an apparent intention further to increase acreage. The most significant change in acreage for 1924 is indicated in the bright or fiue-cured section of Geor gia. where cotton was particularly hard hit in 1923. The production of this type has extended into about 30 new counties. and experimental patches are reported from many other sections of the state. Increased plantings are also being made in the old tobacco counties. A hazard exists in any such violent increase in tobacco production as the inexperience of the growers plant that contemplated in Georgia, due to ing the first crop of tobacco, the ex pense of providing curing barns and other necessary equipment, and the uncertainty that present prices will be maintained. The stocks of leaf tobacco held by manufacturers and dealers on Janu ary 1st, as shown by the department of commrece report of January 31, 192 4, were approximately 11 per cent in excess of those held January 1, 1923. Stocks of Virginia sun cured were about 4 per cent higher, Virginia, dark. 41 per cent higher; Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro lina and Georgia, bright, 14 per cent higher. VISITING ODD FELLOWS PLEASED WITH OXFORD Eighth District Wei! Represented At the Meeting Here. Wake. Johnson, Durham, Vance, Franklin and Granville Lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows met in Oxford Lodge No. 103 last Tuesday afternoon and night. The meeting was presided over by H. W. Price of Raleigh. President of the district. J. E. Jackson, Noble Grand of the local Lodge, delivered the ad dress of welcome at the afternoon session. The Second Degree was put on at the night session by Oxford Lodge. Several fine addresses were made during the meeting, whicn were in teresting and instructive. Committees were appointed and other work of importance was carried through. The next meeting of the Convention will be held in Raleigh. Edgar Womble and G. W. Gray, supervisors, of Raleigh: Grand secie tary John D. Berry, of Raleigh, and W. S. Bagwell of Durham were among the visiting members of the Order. Ail of the Lodges of the Dis trict were weli represented. GRANVILLE COUNTY PEOPLE IN CANADA A letter from Mr. B.P. Elliott, a Granville County man in Canada, says: "I want to say a word in re gard to the Granville county people here this year. The killing frost here last falil seemed not to have made any difference with them as there are more here this year than last. Roy Daniels. Hugh Russell, Connie Duke and Garland Rowling, all from Granville, were recent arrivals. We are contemplating an increase in the acreage of tobacco and also of food and feed, such as potatoes, tomatoes and all kind of early vegetables and hope there will be an increase in price." MM. Z. B. VANCE DEAD Second Wife Of North C arolina's Most Distinguished Statesman. Mrs. Zebulon B. Vance, widow of North Carolina's most distinguished Statesman and hero, died Tuesday evening at her home near Black Mountain. ' She was 8 4 years of age. Mrs. Vance was married to the late Senator Vance in 18 80. At that time she was the widow of John S. Martin, of Louisville, Ky. She was bom Sep tember 24. 1840, in Oldham county, Ky., the daughter of Samuel Bledsoe Steel and Anna Brown Steel.
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