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(OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGER I r~~~==== * °° ~ AMP QFFER BRILLIANT OPPORTUNITIES --. ■ r VYx X EVERY -fc. fOL* --AjjD FRIDAY.** — OXFORD, N. C„ TUESDAY. AlfoTTST 3~PAGES TODaT^" mo 7, ■irginia farmers j t!7EEK TO PROBE | the co-operatives ; Donations Designed To Fi-| % Investigation Of the' nance . j Ltn. Va- Aug- 24 ~The eyes', V ,ers and dealers in tobacco in: cf'Z,0"„t heH of Virginia and North; tl! a were eagerly focused last j Caru°!'0‘u Halifax' County, where a! feeR t 0f indignificance is re-| Contracts are being circu-j p ■ monff members of the Tobac-; late“ a ,erS' Co-Operative Marketing! M Grr’oon in Halifax pledging do-i A880Cld a fund designed to finance! eati°n%nation of the so-called I *“'“Jr‘|Janization. The contract’ ,ip forth Uie allegation that co-j set? V marketing instead of being j iS injurious and those who j iene ‘ t,aper undertake to secure .'appropriate reue • . Tlie Movement Spreads. [ snorts reaching local officials ofj J" ool indicate that similar move-, he ire to he started at Danville, i Kmbur*. Blackstone and Lynch-! r Diligent effort here failed to ;!!ver what pool officials terms a; The organization, however,1 T noviiig to combat the movement; LlUi it spread and it was indicated; in: unctions would be resorted to. :b itJunder the act adopted by the; yUuia Legislature and design to. protect the “pool” organization. j Minis Ridicules Movement. Oliver J. Sands, director at large! of the Tobacco Growers' Co-Opera- j tive \sociation, addressing 500 farm-: ,rs at Farmville, Va., Friday, rial- j £ule(l the attempt of certain specula-: tive interests to stir up strife among; tlie members of the association. TOBACCO AT FAIRMONT BRINGS GOOD PRICESj For Week Were 685,523; Pounds, Which Brought Average' Of $20.90. I : (Special To Public ledger) ! Fail-mount. Aug. j25-—Taken! as a, whole, it would be t-o say that | the entire offering last week' were | from two to three per cent higher in' quality than the previous week. Mon-j day's sale averag-ec: $30.97. The; text day the market weakened a lit tle. making the Tuesday’s average' 119.86. Wednesday the market ral-' lid. the sales averaging $2h.3.7, Thursday’s sale found still higher average being $-21.5-8. Total sales for the week up to Thursday night, 68 5,523 pounds,; fhich sold for $153,256.36; average $20.90. The average for-the week previous was $18.70. SHOW YOUR COLORS NAT. DEFENSE DAY Plans are taking shape for Nat ional Defense Day to be observed j here September 12th. In view of this fact and in keeping with the De- j tense Day orders Lieutenant C. F. j Jones, of the Headquarters company j of the First Battalion 120th Infantry, is very anxious that men in rediness ■ to make the local military company op a full war strength of 76 men. The men that volunteer September 12th will serve only for that day. They will go through regular mobil ization Let us do our best to see D it that Granville county comes out Itid per cent strong. Confederate Veterans A t-tention! As announced in last weeks Pub-1 F Ledger, the State Reunion wilUhg, *n Charlotte September 16th7i ,‘di and 18t.h. This notice' to you | 5 0 ^certain how many veterans, l 0T veterans and daughters of j oniederacy will go—not want to go j Atul fail. | The railroad fare will be $6.55 for ;|ans and family for return tick-, r’aate for sons of eVterans $9.83 for! v,nJl!1 ticket- Please communicate; post' |!lle in person or inform me by t0' a (;lrif at once what you decide fjS s" That proper arrangements tioa > luat^e -01’ your accommoda W. H. WHITE, Adgt. A ' ery Valuable Public Servant i'<l iiny With a National jlr , imputation, tied wit>Cannady, who is identi &ieat 0l- Vle iN,orth Carolina Depart-j one of ,'nsurance, is regarded as Southe ,e.best inspectors in the suraace ’ >,ates- His lecture on in-1 to has ,"KS and appliances, which1 Ootabh i :1Vered in many states, is a He [s !ll!mPh of the Oxford'boy. of the the annual meeting •Pector Fire Insurance In-: vasnington this week and,1 V .,P"agruno ior an a-dd^e^s-* REGISTRATION DATES ! OXFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS j Actual School Work WiU Begin Mon-! day, September 8. High school students will please emember that they are to report at the High School building in Oxford d°aysreglStrati0n °n the followinS Registration Dates. Prospective seniors at 9 o’clock luesday morning, Sept. 2. Juniors, Wednesday, Sept 3 Sophomore, Thursday morning, Sept. 4. Freshmen, Thursday afternoon, Sept. 4. School Work, behool work will begin Monday, Sept. 8, and it will be to you#' ad vantage to have vour course arranged before that time. C. G. CREDLE, Supt. HENDERSON TO EXTEND TRADING TERRITORY Merchants Take Steps To Solicit Trade in Adjoining Counties. It is perfectly legitimate for Hen derson or any other city or town, to try to enlarge their trading territory. Durham has invaded Granville on the South and now Henderson is to invade the east side. While the invasion goes on the business men of Oxford are quite content. This good old self-contented, arristracrat ic and satisfied town has long en joyed the reputation of habdling the best class of goods for less money than any town south of Nor folk. What is the use to strive for wealth and die young. We have more than three million dollars laid at our doors annually. It is true that the greater portion of this wealth rarely touches the tips of our fingers. The bulk of it finds its way to the northern and western states. Our citizens have never seen tfte necessity or tried to keep this money at home. For years and years Mr. Ham Powell, as president of the old Gran ville Commercial Club preached the doctrine of diversified manufactur ing plants and cooperation. The town is greatly indebted for all that Mr. Rowell' accomplished, but he was never able to arouse our busi- : ness men from their slumbers and I get that hearty cooperation that ! was due. When Mr. Powell gave ! the best that was in him and retired | from the boosting with a wounded j heart, the old town closed its doors ! to opportunities.y. Now that we ? are -peacefully | dreaming, and swapping .the few dol-; lars that we have one with the oth er, the commercial birds are camp ing around about. If we had a good live commercial organization we could shoo them off. The Ro tarians are doing a good turn for the town ,but even they are - criti cised in their good works. It seems almost like a hopeless task to arouse our business men from their slum bers and get the hearty cooperation that is necessary to increase our property values and maintain our institutions. Where there is cooperation, in dustries are invited to come in; where there is no cooperation oth ers come in without being invited and take what we have , and you can't blame them. While deploring our disposition to sleep at the switch and let things remain as they are, we do admire the spirit of the business men of Henderson who state what they want and then go after it. Here is the statement printed in the Daily Dispatch: “Henderson this year will try something new in the way of bring ing trade to town. A traveling salesman is to be put on the road to cover all of Vance and the ad joining cuonties and to have indi vidual, personal talks with farmers and folks who live in the rural com munities. If they don’t like Hen derson, he will find out why, and if they have a grievance or have been treated unjustly, he will seek to have the conditions remedied and try to bring abount a reconcilia tion. “It is planned that all the mer chants will go out in automobiles once a month into different direc tions and work up sentiment in fav or of Henderson and,try to get the good will of the rural folks and bring them to Henderson. “The traveling man is to go on the road the first of September and be out for four months, or until the first of January. “The monthly visits of the mer chants would supplant the work of the traveling man, or he theirs, as the case may be, both working to gether and in cooperation to the same end.” OUR COLONY IN CANADA GROWS Mr. R S. Green, of Tally Ho, left last week for Leamington, Ont., to engage in handling the.:tgbp.cco crop.; The Public Ledger now" has 31 sub-j scribers in Canada, all from Gran- ' yille county, V-. \ .y .Sw-.: STATE WILL ASSIST IN BEAUTIFYING THE HIGHWAYS State Agriculture Department Pled ges Mrs. R. G. Lassiter Its Co operation. “Not club women only but men and women not connected with club life are interested in knowing that the State Highway Commission as sures the club women of the State that it will co-operate in every way, possible in assisting them in their; work of beautifying the highways of North Carolina,” says Mrs. J. Henry Highsmith, publicity chairman of the: North Carolina Federation of Wo-, men’s Clubs. “Leslie R. Ames, I chairman of the highway beautifying j committee, in writing to Mrs. R. G.; Lassiter, state chairman of Forestry J pledges not only the cooperation of. his department, but that of Mr. H. M. j ; Curran, forester specialist of the Ag-j ! ricultural Department, and Mr. Holmes of Chapel Hill, State fores-; ter, N. C. Geological Survey. In ad- j dition he says that the patrolmen i along the highways will be instructed j to assist in the planting of shrubs! and trees and to preserve any work j which rftay be done along this line, j “In this connection it may be said that Mr. 'Frank Page, State highway commissioner, deplores the fact that neither the Highway Commission nor any other agency has any legal sta tus to enable it to prevent any de predation or abuse to trees, shrubs i or flowers along the highway. Evi dently law to protect the beauty is j what is most needed at this time.” | MR. W. S. STARK DEAD j Interment In Elmwood Cemetery t This Afternoon At 4 O’Clock. j Mr. Walter S. Stark, highly es^ teemed citizen of Oxford, died at his • home on Calahan street ' yesterday j morning, age 72 years. His health j had not. been good for some time, but j was not considered serious until a I few days ago, when it "Became neces sary to adminsiter heroic treatment. Mr. Stark spent his life in the to bacco business having been connect with the Oxford tobacco market for many years prior to which he was connected with the Henderson tobac-1 co market. He was reared in the Tally Ho section of Granville county where he made his home for many years^ He moved to Oxford some "20 years ago. He has a host of friends in this and surrounding counties. . In addition to his widow, Mrs. j Walter S. Stark, he is survived by I one daughter and one daughterin-j law, Mrs.vG. A. Wilson, of Stem, and; Mrs. Edwin Stark, of Manasquan, j New Jersey. He is also survived by j two brothers and two sisters, L. W. j Stark, of Oxford; Rufus Stark, of! Wilson; Mrs. John B. Mayes, and: Mrs. A. A. Crews, both of Oxford. i Funeral services will be conducted! from the home of the deceased this I afternoon at 4 o’clock by Rev. Isaac! Hughes, pastor of the Episcopalj ! church of Henderson, assisted by I R ev. Edward Davis, of Franklinton. j i Interment will be made immediate-! ! ly afterward in Elmwood cemetery. | j The pallbearers as announced are: j Active Walter Crews, Elbert Crews, i ! John Mays, Jr., Melvin Mayes. Rufus! [Stark Jr., Kaiser Stark, T. G. Stem, | Sidney Currin; honorary—R. H.; ! Lewis, Will Landis, Cam Easton, A. j i A. Hicks, A. A. Chapman, Irvin1 ; Mangum, F. M. Pinnix, T. Lanier, C. j i D. Ray, J. F. Meadows, Gus Hall. J. j ! R. Hall, W. H. Hunt, J. B. Powell, | 1 N. H. Cannady, Ellis Cannady, Dr. E.j T. White, John Stem, W. H. White,; j Ivey Allen, Judge A. W. Graham,/ j Gen. B. S. Royster, J. F. White, J.j M. Baird, Mr. Zehner, Elvin Jones, | i Herbert Rouhdtree, Bob Walker, M. j Id. Oakley, H. G. Cooper, Arch Tay- j i lor. $8,000,000 IN AUTOS AND GAS TAXES! _ i A Raleigh dispatch says: Ap- j proxirataely $8,000,000 in automo- i bile and gasoline taxes was collect- | ed in North Carolina during the j year 1923-24 by the automobile de- | partment under the management of Joe E. Sawyer .according to a state ment issued here by Secretary of State W. N. Averett, under whose j general supervision the department | operates. To be exact the figures of the sec- j retary show that $7,954,000 was col- 1 lected. Of this amount, $3,975,000 j was the taxes collected on motor ve- j hides licenses and $3,979,000 was j the taxes collected on gasoline sold.: The moior vehicles operating under \ paid licenses were given as 260,667 j passenger cars, 24,879 trucks and . 1,447 motorcycles. * ; The total cost operating the auto- j mobile department including perrna- j nent improvements, the cost of lie- < ense plates and postage used in de- j ■livering the plates to the purchas- ■ ers, was $316,561. Mr. Everett stated. -. '-V %% “ ‘ Oxford’s Present And Past ■ ■_ And Future Growth Discussed' OLD CITIZEN SPEAKS OUT Wants Us To Hold High the Torcnj Liven lo Is By Our Departing * orefathers. ‘One of the things that has im pressed me most deeply in looking around and seeing how the old townj fo^a pr°m“,”T SaM Francis'B- Hays * Pub 1C Ledger man> “is the re cent rapid development of lower Hillsboro Street and Johnson Ave nue. New business houses and new residences are in evidence on every side down that way and construction iS stlB going on. I was surprised t0 SHs that the old meadow between Johnson Avenue and the Southern Kfuhvay. which in my early days was the bottom of Kyle’s pond, has been improved by the erection of the new stores, offices and warehouses of the ^ rum Construction Company, and tnat alongside of this large plant E. H. Crenshaw has built a row of bun galows as well as a large store for ^lenshaw & Talton, with modernly equipped apartments overhead. Com ing on up Hillsboro Street I noticed so many improvements that I can not even specify them, the Cooper garage bring one of the more prominent and U'<- i...nse now building across the street for Mr. Hulse’s automobile tag factory being another.” Mr. Hays, a native of Oxford and always deeply interested in anything pertaining to its affairs, is spending several weeks with his relatives here. For over a third of a century—with a few short intermissions—he has been a member of the editorial staff of The Druggists Circular, a New York monthly publication for retail druggists, and the leading magazine of its class in this country. After speaking about the large amount of building that has been done on Horner Hill, Hancock Street, Coggeshall street and for a couple of miles north of Oxford on the Nat ional Highway, and the pretty park ing all over town, Mr. Hays made some comparison between the old streets and the new. ‘‘Our forefathers of a hundred years ago,” he said, “Showed great good sense in making the streets of the town wide and straight, without the faintest idea that Main Street, College Street. Hillsboro Street and (Continued On Last Page) Advertising Is Key To Retail Success (Richmond Times Dispatch) Advertising—this was the keynote of today’s session of the Southern Retail Merchants Conference here today. T. K. Kelly, of Minnea|)olis, president of three banks there and found er of a sales system, declared that in all the failures of retail merchants in the last three years “not -twenty per cent ad vertised religiously.” Predicts Fewer But Better Newspapers New York, Aug. 24.—‘‘Fewer newspapers we are almost certain to have, and with a larger income at their disposal, the suvivors ought to be better newspapers,” said John W. Cunliffe, director of the Columbia school of journalism, in his annual report made public Saturday by Nicholas Murray Butler. ‘‘The pride of the journalist in his profession is not yet dead, very far from it,” said Dr. Cunliffe, “and this is a most valuable response which ought to be encouraged and devel oped for the public advantage.” —Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Lewis anti family have returned from a pleasant trip through western Carolina. They were accompanied home by their daughter, Miss Patty Lewis, who has been spending the summer in a Training camp for Young Ladies. NEW SUBSCRIBERS | We are quite busy adding I new subscribers to our mailing j list and marking up renewals. I We have in a perfect record of i all names handed in by mem- j bers of the "‘Salemanship Club.” j Have no worry along that line. | The names will be properly ar ranged and credit given on our mailing list in due time. Please be patient! THE EXTRA SESSION (General Assembly Ends After Com pleting Task For Which It Con vened. (Raleigh Correspondent) The North Carolina general as ! sembly adjourned sinedie here at j noon Saturday after handling the matter for which the governor had called it into special session, ..reject ing the proposed amendment to the federal constitution dealing with employment of children under 18 years of age and passing about 8 00 local bills. The Port Hill. The providing for the creation of a port commission was passed. In addition a referendum will be held in November on the question of a bond issue of $8,500,000 for the develop ment of port facilities and the opera tion of a ship line if the latter step is deemed necessary by the commis sion. East and West Railroad. The legislature also passed a reso lution creating a commission to in vestigate the possibilities of an east and west railroad for the state. The commission is authorized under the resolution to investigate the status of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley railroad and the advisability of in stituting suits to recover the proper ty for the state. The railroad for merly was owned by the state. The State Fair. The state fair will be operated by State college for 10 years under the terms of a bill passed whereby the property of the fair is turned over to the college and the institution as sumes a debt of $70,000 which is outstanding against the'fair. Child Labor Law. The state child labor law was amended during the session so that working of children under 14 years of age in any occupation whatsoever or during vacation is prohibited. (GRANVILLE COUNTY CROPS WORTH ABOUT $3,000,000 The concensus of opinion here is that the tonage of the present crop of tobacco in Granville county will range between eight and nine million oqunds, with a general average rang ing between $25.00 and $30,00 per hundred. Bankers and others in close touch writh conditions also esti mate that the Granville county cot^ ton crop will bring a total ranging between $600,000 and $700,000. It is estimated that the tobacco And , cotton crop in the county will bring a total of $3,000,000. It is pointed (out that “times will be normal’’ des pite the heavy rains in the early part j of the season and the shortage of i the corn crop in the county. ! HAM-RAMSAY REVIVAL 1 _ I The Ham-Ramsey revival is on at ! Henderson. Service at 10 a. m. and 7:45 p. m.; no service on Mondays; ; 200 people from Wilson Sunday, and (many from Durham and other towns. Oxford was well represented. About 6000 in all. About 100 went for : ward for prayer. The singing is very fine. The meeting will help you. Saint and sinn^v ought to go. Tim Laymens Federation taking ac tive part. D. N. Hunt. ! i i List Of Nominees In “Salesmanship Club” And Votes Accepted For Publication! This does not represent the full standing of any of the members, as it j it is to their best interest not to publish all their votes: Miss Jeannette Longmire, R: F. D., Oxford..32,000 : Miss Edna K. Lumpkin, Stovall .31,800 j Miss Mary D. Crews, Diihney .31,500 j Mrs. A. B. Clifton, Route 2> Oxford .31,500 | Miss Rosa Parham, 66 King Street. Oxford.31,600 . Miss Gladys Duke, Route 2, Oxford.» -30,600 j Mrs. P. W. Knott, High Street, Oxford.31,000. Mrs. Cary Parham, Route 3, Oxford.31,000 j -Mrs. Louis Thorp, Berea . 1 . . .'.39 OOO I Mrs. Sam Moss, Providence..28,600 | P. H. Guerrant, Route 3, Oxford .. ^ L............ . .28,500 j Mr. A. J. Tilley, Rougemont j... ...27,500 i Miss Flizabeth Medford, Oxford ..26,500 ! I. E. Harris, Creedmoor > . . .25,000 J W. R. Man gum, Stem ",.•..20,000 Miss Pauline Waller, Northside .. . ..20,000 Mrs. S. M. Evans, Rojite 4, Oxford.20.000. L. C. Wilkerson, Stovall ..• • • ..^..... . 20,000 Alene Pittard, Nelson, Va.. • ..... v. .20,00 Caster Longmire, Route 6 . .\ . .26,000 Miss Francis Cheatham, Route 3, Oxford.20,000 Miss Annie Gray Currin, Route 5, Virgilina, Va. ^. . . .20,000 PUBLIC LEDGER OFFERS AN EXTRA PRIZE BRAND new ford roadster It Makes No difference What You Have Already Done In the Public Ledger “Salesmanship Club,” You Have Just As Good a Chance To Win the Ford As Anyone. As a special inducement for new “8 t0 enter and t0 spur those tnat have already entered on to re newed efforts, the Public Ledger Salesmanship Club” offers as an ex i a prize a brand new Ford Roadster. mnnpv fmemb®r turning in the moat money for subscription payments be ginning Monday, August 25 and end Saturday September 6, the Pub lic Ledger will award the Ford as an extra Prize. It makes no i feience what you have already one in the race, you have just as good a chance to win the Ford as anyone. So now is the time to send in your name and begin to take an active part in the great race for these handsome automobiles as everyone is starting on an equal basis in so far as the Ford is concerned, and at the same time you will be pilingg uf? votes toward the winningg of the regular prizes. Remember that this extra prize in no way conflicts with the winning of the other prizes and the wise ones will get busy this week while their work has a double value, namely: Every dollar you collect this week will apply on the big extra vote offer and pil eup votes for you toward the winning of a grand prize, also they will apply on the winning of the Jiandsome Ford Roadster. Another Vote Offer. There is another offer given will ing workers in the “Salesmanship Club” campaign to further enchantse their possibilities of winning a fide brand new motor car. It will, ap doubt, be a pleasant surprise to each and every one who is in the,race 6) succeed to know* that they will hay» another opportunity to further In crease thefr vote total this weelf. The new offer is a very liberal ottk indeed, and can be made the means of securing enough votes to car# one to victory, it follows: Yon Get Credit. 17MOO extra votes will be credit ed upon each and every “club” of $30 worth of subscriptions turned In this week. Not quite as good art Of fer as the one which- ended last Sat urday but is a far better one than will be in effect next week. The main thing to keep in mind is that all subscriptions turned in this Weak ! will count you more vote?'’than fit any other time during the cathpaigli, I also, every dollar turned in for Sub scription payments will count toward I the winning of the Ford Roadster. •-. Mrs. Fuller Laid To Rest At Berea | The funeral of Mrs. Henrietta Ful ler, 63, widow of the late L. H. Ful ! ler, former merchant of Berea, was ' held last Friday afternoon from the home of the deceased on Broad street, with Rev. C. A. Upchurch, Of i Nashville, a special friend of the d« | ceased, officiating and Rev. J, D. I Hart, pastor of the Oxford Baptist j church, assisting. The interment , was at Berea. | Mrs. Fuller had been in bad health j for some time, having been confined i to her bed for 11 months. She was a member of the Methodist church, j Surviving are three daughters and two sons: Miss Ida Fuller, of Ox ford, Mrs. W. D. Fulcher, of Louis burg, and Mrs. R. L. Dixon, of Tim iberiand; J. W. and E. T. Fuller of Raleigh: She is also survived by six brothers: J. P. and John Floyd, of Oxford; Henry and Charlie Floyd; of Wilson; Frank Floyd, of Knoxville, Tenn.; and Dr. R. F. Floyd, of Louis burg. Mrs. Fuller was the daughter of the late Rev. J. B. Floyd. The pallbearers were: Arch Mc Farland, Oscar Breedlove, Joe New ton, W. T. Yancey, Charlie Fargis, Henry Thorp, T. Lanier, John Paris, C. B. Keller, Mr. Davie, and Dr. W. N. Thomas. Visits The Scene Of Of His Boyhood Mr. O. D. McFarland, of Odessa, Fla., accompanied by his wife and children, is visiting his mother, Mrs. Fannie McFarland, at Berea, and his brothers Messrs. W. A. and Lester McFarland. What Would You Do? What books would you take to a desert island? What would you do if you had only one more year to live. What would you do if you had $20,000,000? Helen Stein, intelligent young sec retary of Nathan Straus, replied to that last question, “I’d go crazy." —Miss Frances Barbee, of Raleigh is spending several days with Mis£ F«mces Jackson: ' ^
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