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OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGER PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY— •TOWN AM) COUNTY I tfpgXlX_PUBUSH^EVERyTO^p^ OXFORD. N. C ^DAY, JULY 11 1^4 16 PAGES TODAY NO. 55 |O.WJ)AVIS| ^rafk Nominee | pemocrau^ for President. c xv nryaii, Of Nebraska, j , j;(>r Vice-President—[ fl"' Brother Of William J. I **f , Of Political Fame. Bryan- oi [ KK^Asnclated Press Report) | Democratir national eonven-; ,aM it, tempestous session; j n brour111 '; jflose early Wednesday morning, ,5 . , befpre the country a ticket 2 ty John w. navis of West Virginia, with ^overnor c: w „ a{ Nebraska, in second place. Nominated on the* 103rd ballot tihe final dissolution of the dead * which had gripped the conven er 10 days. Mr. Davis began his j lice as the leader of his party by j ttin* precedent and addressing; S convention at its evening sess-i J and then going into conference; J*h convention managers over, choice of a nominee for the vice pres-j Meaty The Running Mate. Governor Bryan was chosen for j pad place on the ticket after his j (ileads had placed before Mr. Davis I (td als conferees an argument for j leleciton of a western man of proven j (MCtttive capacity, familiar with ag- i Culture and in sympathy with the { liberal sentiment of the countrv. j The nomination of the Nebraska! prernor. who is a brother of Wil- j iiam Jennings Bryan, took only one; billot receiving 709 votes. \ Davis Epitomized. Born Clarksburg. W. Va., April 13, j ISIS; Graduated Washington and j LmUniversity, 1892; Taught school, j fa Virginia. 1893; Graduated! Washington and Lee Law School,! l!!5; Served on law faculty, Wash- { iagton and Lee, 18 96; Engaged in j la^practice at Clarksburg, 1897; j Party floor leader, West Virginia' Legislature .1898; Democratic Coun- i ly Chairman. Harrison County, ! Va.. 1909; Delegate Democratic Nat tail Convention. 1904; President fa Virginia Bar Association, 1906; faliir Democratic State (W. Va.) Ewjtive Committee, 1908; Delegate’ Omocratic National Convention,! IMS; Elected to Congress, .1910; j Selected to Congress, 1912; Unan teiy recommended by House Ju- j teiary Committee for appointment1 t’lW States Circuit Court of Ap- j jw!s, 1912; Appointed Solicitor Gen- j f:al of the United States, 1913;! Sided Trustee, Central Presby- i Wan Church, Clarksburg. 1916; Ap-1 Nated member American High; Commission on treatment and ex- i ua&ge of war prisoners, 1918; Ap-! [Wed Ambassador to the Court of i:,(ameS' 1918; Member law firm of Jennings, Russell and Da-1 *7* Y°rk City. 1921; Elected J** Aat-rican Bar Associa i'C. UNIVERSITY I M.UMN1 ASSOCIATION I ^ H. Lewis Is a Member Of the ■ Koan) Of I>i rectors. Henry Lewis of Oxford nnw appoinied to membership on Km ,frd of directors of the ■Cy Tk AuSS°Ciation of the Kto tha ^orth Carolina accord ij./^ement made by BtociatioV Verett’ president of the Mr Lew'k ■®«aEBa uWaS graduated in 18 98 ■CB He was with the years ann , °! RateiS’n for sev m'% ma , ater with the Durham ip;:?" - rt.? Oxford are: Alexan Sleigh; H^lrd ttp-.'Pv a9, of Durham^ I. Hanoi’s ’98, of °x ■Kjckvx.; Ldv-^rd Winslow ’09, BPQXV" . as Bragg Hid H,■ of Ashcvir ' ': i': Crank Coxe, Weil, >95, B/’-i*?"’. Hartwell Hod ■5 do of Q;a- - S;*.rnuel Eakin MV ',R ‘ iromisburg, pa. W. N. B^il ana eCretary Daniel L. B?a ana C V L?arvey’ ’92. of V- Tillett, Jr., >09, |P:^r? r S?Vex; rS°f 50 YEARS AGO Tilley vv "— ■S an,i T- a i>hu<*r ln hlu( Ip?::?;.. m,, ■pP:;, r^’ZS'. KB. .tVwen 'iUnty. N. c. ,to ■ 2:w,,:0inpansr- of Dur ifMkjj j^ing T( , of “Durham fIB'i Vl5f), per M':c° ’ one pack ! ^0lle at $->4Urj(ire<i; 0Qe a< SOME INTERESTING AMd^Sviit 1 |C(<fRANVTI^0/^2^PUBWC0 ” PlBLISHFI> AT SASSAFRAS FORK, I I KANVILLE (OUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FIFTY YEARS AGO. ; ^°P> Of the Little Paper and the Ac companying Letter Was Gladly Received From Colonel William T. Gregory, Leamington, Ont. Editor Public Ledger: Doubtlessly many of your readers I know that the now thriving little jtown of Stovall was once known by j the euphonious name of SASSAFRAS I r ORK, but there are few, very few, | if any, among them who remember i that a real live newspaper was pub ! lished there half a century ago. j Thinking that it would interest i you, I am enclosing copy number two I of volume number one of “PRO j BONO PUBLICO” published on July 21st, 1874, at Sassafras Fork, Gran -ville County North Carolina by Eu I gene L. and Frank S. Harris. As ; will be noted the leading item was -■ us the present where-a-bouts of Biela’s comet) Turning to the second page of ’PRO BONO PUBLICO” we find that Captain Davis had lately spoken at Sassafras Fork and that among other things he had requested every voter to make himself a committee of one ' to see that every one was duly reg istered before election day. : The Ledger’s older subscribers \ j will recall that Capt. Davis was the: late Supreme Court Judge Joseph J. Davis and that he was then running for Congress in the then metropoli-: tan district. Further on we read that the Pickwick Picnic Club had re-! cently staged a very enjoyable picnic j at TOWNSVILLE where the beauty j and wit of the neighborhood had as-1 (Facsimile of First Page) PRO BONO PUBLICO. _ _m_ Vol. 1. Sassafras Fork, N. C., July 21, ‘74. No. 2. THE COMET We have learned during the last half century that many comets which come in the reach of our vision are not, as was once supposed, erratic bodies, but belong to the solar system and move in paths as fixed as the orb its of the planets. Certain comets, having a brief peri od, return to the field of vis ion precisely at the predict ed time; but one of these, Biela’s comet, has lately mysteriously and totally dis appeared. But in addition to thse comets that belong to our own system there are others which either move in orbits so vast that they make but one revlution a bout the sun in millions of years t»r else are really wan derers in the interstellar spaces. To this class the new comet belongs. It has never before visited us with in historic times, and it may never visit us again. Prob ably it comes from the in conceivably remote regions of space, and is now for the first time subject to the sun’s attraction. Be it how it may, the advent of a comet is of more import ance now than ever before. Since the invention of the spectroscope no comet has - appeared of sufficient size or near enough to the earth to permit of a close examina tion with that instrument. If the new comet proves to be as brilliant as claimed it will be, the vexed question of the nature of cometary matter will doubtless be de cided. The spectroscope will tell us what materials are in its nucleus and tail— whether it is solid or gaseous i and incandescent or not. I about a Comet which was the first of any size that had appeared since the i invention of the “spectroscope” and the editor expressed the opinion that j the hithero vexd qustion of com | etary matter would soon be decided. I It will also be noted that “Biela’s ; comet had mysteriously and totally ! disappeared about that time. Pos i sibly this was the identical comet (that the celebrated humorist adver jtised for and described as “being | about fifteen hands high, with flax mane and tail and slightly string halt etc.” (Will the editor kindly tell sembled. The day was warm but the merry dancers regarded it not, j enlivened by the sweet music. Ye I editor does himself proud in the de-, scription of the dispersal of the gay ! nick-nickers. Listen to him: ‘Seem-; ingly, very soon, we were admonished; by the sun’s decline of the shortness : of all earthly joys and very reluctant-1 ly friends took leave of friends and j all set out for their homes—then to j their couches, to live over in their dreams the enjoyments of the day.” ! (Continued on Page Five) DISTINGUISHED GUESTS OF DR. HORSEFIELD ! Last Tuesday Professor Earnest E. 1 Smith, of the History Department of the High School System of the Bor i ough of Brooklyn, New York City, 1 with his wife, paid a flying and most (unexpected call on the Rev. Mr. Hors (field and daughter. Years ago. Prof. Smith was a mem | her of Mr. Horsfield’s parish in Cam I bridge, New York, and the valuer , supintendent of the School System of j that town. Prof. Smith and wife ; were touring from Northern New j York to Asheville, N. C. Of course ! they thought Oxford the most beau tiful town they had passed through on their journey. As the day was one of the innumerable birth-days that have fallen to the lot of the rec tor, he took it for granted from past experience that something pleasant ■ would happen to him on that day, ! and it sure did. Exchanging per sonal experiences, admiring the rec tory and recalling incidents in the old' life of the Cambridge High School, Miss Mona Horsfield was a pupil in those days, filled the hours , with interest and merriment. A MAD TOURIST j They Are At It Again At South Hill. i All tourists do not swear, but once in a while you will find one that ex presses himself in the foreign lan guage of old Satan, i The highway between Oxford and South Hill is in splendid condition, but the agent that stands at the forks of the road at South Hill still in sists that it is not, and he advised a J tourist the other day to come to • Oxford via Henderson. The road i force is relocating the Ox - ford-Henderson road at a point in Vance County, and there is plenty of » mud at that particular point, accord* - ing to the statement of the tourist i who got stuck and broke the axle of - his car, and he blames it all on the t man at South Hill, who he described in language not fit to print. DR. SPRUNT DIES IN WILMINGTON Prominent Business Man and Lead ing Citizen Of Lower Cape Fear City. Wilmington, July 9.—When Dr. James Sprunt passed paecefully away in his sleep at the home of his neph ew, Walter Sprunt, on Greenville Sound at 10 o’clock today. Wil mington lot an honored and beloved citizen and North Carolina one of her | foremost and most distinguished i sons. While the end hcjl been mo mentarily expected for the past three days his demise nevertheless has saddened Wilmington in a way that no other death in many years has 1 done. It is realized here that Dr. Sprunt had made for himself a place in the hearts of this communi ty peculiarly his own, and that in a business, social, literary, charitable and civic sense the niche cannot be filled. Oxford Boy Wins Medal Daniel Dudley Moses of Lynch burg, grandson of Mrs. Della "Bonitz ' of Oxford, led the graduating class ! at V. M. I., and also received the first | Jackson-Hope Medal, the most ! prized award in the whole year’s work. Oxford people are proud of this fine young man who often visits in Oxford. THE CAROLINA POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY B. S. Jerman Succeeds the Late Col. Chas. E. Johnson As President. (Raleigh Correspondent) At a special meeting of the Boards of Directors held in New York July 9th, Mr. B. S. Jerman, of Raleigh, was elected President of the Carolina Power & Light Company and its sub sidiary, the Yadkin River Power Company. Mr. Jerman succeeds the late Col. Chas. E. Johnson of Raleigh, rrho was president of the two compa nies, and who served in this capacity for many years. CAPT. WILL FLEMING ! ! BUYS THE GRANVILLE j WAREHOUSE LOT! the consideration was i $8,300. j To Erect Business House At An Early j Date. That devastated area fronting on! Hillsboro street and extending back along side of the old cemetery, caused I by the big fire last spring, will be built up at an early date. The lot fronting Hilsboro street, on which the Granville Warehouse stood, has been purchased by Capt. Will Fleming, the consideration be ing $8,000. The Cooperative To-l I bacco Association owned the proper ty and transferred it to Capt. Flem I He states that a business build iing, or buildings, will be erected on ; the lot at an early date. J Horner Bros. Co. has also bought [ . a valuable lot in the burnt district. | This well-known and progressive firm J | has not intimated as to what use j j they will make of the property, but l they will probably build a warehouse! | to store the large shipments that are f i constantly arriving. SYMPATHY FOR THE PRESIDENT’S FAMILY; - i The Remains Of Their Son Rests In a Little Cemetery In Vermont. Washington, July 9.—President and Mrs. Coolidge tonight took their boy Calvin back to Vermont to be buried in the family plot of the lit tle cemetery at Plymouth. ; A simple but impressive funeral ! was held in the East room of the j White House late this afternoon, at- j I tended b ygovernment officials, rank-1 | ing military officrs, members of the j diplomatic corps, and intimate I friends of the family, i On the White House lawn several ! thousand persons stood with bowed I heads during the ceremony, having I come to give visible expression of! | their sympathy. Typical of their New England re | serve, President and Mrs. Coolidge i i repressed outward manifestation of • [their grief. Opening the service, the pastor read the twenty-third psalm and then other verses of scripture. These in cluded John XIV verses 1-3; 15-20 and 25-27 and Romans VIII. [ A brief stop this morning will be I made at Northampton, Mass., where | Calvin was born and where services ! will be held for him. From there j the party, including members of the I President’s cabinet and others close to him in personal and official life. I will proceed to Plymouth. Burial j will be there late in the 'afternoon in [the lot where the President’s mother ' and sister lie. I | Local Legion Will Picnic Next Monday ! E. C. Gunter, of Durham, ad ' dressed the Earnest F. Hart post of j the American Legion at its regular | monthly meeting held last night it ■ j the Granville Grey’s Club, oh the . i value of joining the Legion. He ex | pressed the opinion that every soldier of the World War should identify •! himself with the Legion in order that ! the soldierly brotherhood might i be perpetuated in the lives of the ! j American citizenry. Mr. Gunter I made a strong sympathy with the 1 Legion as he has been instrumental ; in the erection of a memorial in | Durham to the soldiers that fell in i the War. j C. D. H. Fort and Waverly Harris, ' j the committee on “eats,” made a re •jport. It was unamousfy decided to 1 j have a picnic supper at Gholson Pool j Monday afternoon at 5 o’clock July !14th. ' i Much discussion was given to the i filling of application fdr adjusted 1; compensation. The chairman of the 1 j committee on adjusted compensation ' earnestly requested tnat all vetrans eligible for compensation make ap ! plication at as earlier date as pos sible in order that the committee J might get this work through before ,; the fall when other work wil be |; pressing. ; Home Demonstration Agent For Granville i j _ ! Nothing of importance engaged the j attention of the County Commission j ers at their regular meeting last Mon • day. A number o fwomen with a I progressive turn of mind called on the board and suggested that a Home . Demonstration agent for the county j would be a step in the right direc tion. The question was not pressed ; at this time and the Board deferred • the matter. A home demonstration , agent, it is said, would greatly , strengthen the Granville County - Farmers’ Exchange and also the Curb •Market. > ‘ It is understood that the State , would pay $1,200 annaully if the - county would raise a similar amount • to establish the home demonstration work. THE JULY TERM OF SUPERIOR COURT i - OXE WEEKS’ TERM ; - i j Will Convene Monday, July 21, Judge' J. H. Cranmer, Of Southport, Pre-j siding. j The one weeks’ term of Granville j j County Superior Court will convene j Monday, July 21. Judge J. H. i Cranmer, o fSouthport, who is one of I the most popular and e able jurists of. the State, will preside. MR. LEON HINES, TOWN CLERKj RESIGNS - | Position Is Tendered To Mr. Walter! Stradley. Mr. Leon Hines, who has been the j j efficient and obliging clerk oLthe.' town of Oxford for two years, has re- j signed his position and will enter j upon his duties as traveling salesman j for the Oxford Manufacturing Com-j pany on and after August 12th. His j territory will be the whole Southern i: States. He will take orders for the | | sale of auto tin tags and other lines | l of printing on metal and wood, it is I said. ! In accepting the resignation of Mr.: ! Hines the Town Board tendered the j i position to Mr. Walter P. Stradley. j I _ I I Miss Frances Webb Sails For Parish _ Miss Frances Webb, the talent- j ed daughter of the late Mr. John j Webb, sails from New York tomor-' row for Paris on the S. S. Minneton-j j lea. Miss Webb is an artist and she j j is associated with the New York ! Home Pattern Company, safe rnanu- ; facturers of patterns for the Ladies Home Journal. Miss Webb will be a guest at the Hotel de Crillon, while in Paris. Her company is sending ; her abroad to attend the fall open ings of the French model houses; she ■will visit Deauville, the fashionable; summer resort of France, where she [will be joined by Miss Martha Dod | son, fashion editor of the Ladies ' Home Journal and the two will go over to London to visit the British Empire Exposition and will sail onj th eHomeric from Cherbourg on Au- j gust 20th and reach New York on! August 27. Oxford people are just-j ly proud of this distinguished youngj lady artist. j Mr. W. B. Taylor Laid To Rest He Was a Promising Young Man. Stovall, N. C., July 9.—The death of Mr. W. Boyd Taylor, which oc curred in a Richmond hospital last} Sunday night, brings sorrow to a i large number of people who knew! jhim. He was a graduate of the State j ! College, and during the World War j . j was attached to the Aviation service. | pi The remains reached the home of] p 1 his mother, Mrs. Alice Boyd Taylor; near Soudan on Monday. The inter nment was at Tabernacle M. E. . I Church, near Townsville, Vance ' County, Tuesday afternoon. He is r J survived by his widow, who was Miss t! Gladys Newton, one daughter and t one son. The surviving brothers 3 and sisters are: John J. Taylor of ’ Soudan; Mrs. Chesley Morton, Oak ; | Hill; and Misses Alice and Anne Tay [ lor, Soudan, Virginia. ON EXTENDED JOURNEY . Mr. and Mrs. daggers and Miss Daisy , Smith Are In Europe. [ Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Jaggers, of r Hillside, New Jersey, and Miss Daisy Smith of Oxford, who sailed from , i New York last week, reached Havre, 1 France, July 8, according to a cable > gram received by Mr. L. F. Smith, t father of Mrs. Jaggers. They will j visit Italy, France, Holland .Sweden, - Switzerland, Belgian, Scotland and . England and return to New York ('September 6. ; ENROUJ'E TO FLORIDA Two New York Boys Pass Through Oxford On Bicycles. Jack Pierson and Roger Graillat, j Brooklyn boys, are cycling from New j I York to Florida, a distance of 1,275 | !! miles. To win the wager they must j ' | make the trip in 17 days, traveling '(not less or more than 75 miles per j t j day. They passed through Oxford j 1 j Wednesday on schedule time. j Thomas Pool Draws j 'j a 15-Year Sentence! i - * ! -j Richmond, Va., Juy 10.—Thomas ■,G. Pool, former cashier of a bank at i.Virgilina pleaded guilty yesterday to ■two counts of an indictment charg !' ing him with misappropriating the >' bank’s funds and by agreement of ;icounsel will be sentenced to 15 years, t. imprisonment. Pool was taken into court on a stretcher. HICKS’ MEMORIAL * HOSPITAL IS NOW OPEN FOR INSPECTION Mr. R. L. Brown Invites the Public To Inspect the Splendid Equip ment. H 1 The first intimation that the Hickg' Memorial Hospital at the Oxford Or pnanage was completed came last Sunday morning when Mr. R. L. rown requested the ministers of the town to extend an invitation to all good people to inspect the splendid equipment. Many have accepted the invitation and are loud in their praise of the plant. Descriptive °ne erlters the front door he sees the spacious reception room, to the right of which is the room to be occupied by the head nurse. Passing on into the long hall there are two wards of 10 beds each, one on the right and the other on the left, Oil either side of the long hall that leads to the# convalescent play room are a number of provate rooms, the dental office and a number of closets. The convalescent play room opens tip into a spotless white dining room fof the use of convalescents, and on the left is the kitchen. Taking the ele vator near the front of the hall one passes up to the second floor where he finds another long hall.’ at the rear of which is a sun parlor and nur ses room, on either side is a ward with 12 beds each. Passing from there on down the hall one sees more private rooms'and on tha left side a well lighted operating room. The hall leads into the contagious disease ward, which is cut off from the rest of the buiding. This ward is divided into two wards with eight beds each and opens to a porch at the rear of th ehospital. Gifts Of Friends. York Rite guard of Charlotte gave a modern dental equipment which represents about $1,600. The follow ing private rooms were furnished ad follows: Oxford lodge No. 396 in hon or of Dr. Sam Booth and Dr. Thomad L. Booth, both of whom are much i loved by the people of the orphanage; j Mrs. Beverley S. Royster furnished i one room In honor of her father the i late Dr. Frank P. Hobgood; one room furnished by the Lydia chapter No. i 109, O’ S. of Rocky Mount; and ott I the second floor there are two pri !vate rooms furnished by George S j Holderness. of Tarboro. Dr. Daniel In Charge. ! Dr; N- C. Daniel is in charge of the j hospital; Mrs. Bell Austin is the head | nurse, and Dr. R. F. Waller is the i dentist. I TOBACCO CROP NOW AT CRITICAL STAGE — j Tlie Eestimated Yield In Granville 1 County Is 65 Per Cent Of Last j Year’s Crop—Mr. Eugene Moss j Hands Out Some Good Advice, j The tobacco crop in Granville coun* } ty is in a very critical state now, and [only has a few more days time left [before the plants will be advanced to ja stage from which it cannot mater ially change. At present the most i liberal estimates cannot place pros pects at more than 65 per cent of the 1913 crop in either yield or quali i ty. It is tru there are a few indi : vidual farmers who have very good : prospects, but the great majority are [ in very bad shape. We did not have j a day that was dry enough for plow j ing in crops last week and it has thrown everybody badly behind with their work. Similar conditions that prevail in Vance, caused by wet weather, led a ! group of farmers of that county last jweek to visit the Granville County j Test Farm and advice fro mMr. Moss. Those making the trip were J. G. j Puckett, David Hoyle, M. T. Green ! way, H. Stewart and O. H. Parham, j Among the interesting observations j relative to fertilized test plats, per ■ haps the most outstanding single fea j ture pointed out by Mr. Moss was the ; benefit derived from magnesia-lime i stone. One half of each plat was I limed and the other half left as a [check. The benefit from the lime I could be seen from a distance. [Another verv noticeable thing was | the benefit of acid phosphate in has tening the growth and maturity of the weed. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE The Seaboard Air Line Railway announces in this issue of the Public : Ledger a change in the arrival and j departure of trains for Henderson land Durham from Oxford. The re- ^ j vised schedule to go into effect Sun fday, July 13th. i _____________ AERIAL PICTURES Scenes In and Around Oxford. Messrs Fillmore and Porter, who are doing commercial flying here, .will take several aerial photos to morrow of scenes in and around Ox ford if the weather will permit.