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)XFORD XXXIX PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY -ANDFRIDAY S HUSHED SEMI-WEEKLY—TOWN AND COUNTY OMEfC BRTTHAOPPORTUNITIES. OXFORD, N. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4,1924 10 PAGES TODAY NO. M (t ON OAfUKu Kgcco MARKET ' CLiMBS HIGHER , of Growers FI-om Attracted By the '^rtlvho soid on the floors ^tiin warehouse in Oxford ^ another genuine , witnessed another genuine 'the prices climbed nearer ^ ' the !i'*e and let live" <:re!' n-as the heaviest break of L ail houses having on ^ and Friday more than handle before the - evening overtook them. ',°.L as high as $80 on many °\erc little dosed as low at . farmers averaged as high !tr hundred on their offer p,e general average for the $24.10. Het started off strong \sterdav and the present week ' lo surpass last week in price 2e. h "'as estimated that 1/°50.0t)9 pounds on the four tiJors. hut only three houses ,]d, and the average on all ,,he highest of the season. .[YOU GOT A WtNTER GARDEN Halt'a Variety of Twen j.J, y^ctabies in it Right 'lar much braging in the eariy .-"about the number of vege has in his garden, but sel ^ar anything about the winter y winter garden is just as ftant as the spring garden. The L;hat winter garden is imprac ;j,passing out. Read what the; jtSfMHeraidsays: [- it has not been shown hereto 'that a variety of winter vege M couid be raised in the home tt the exhibit of Mr. D. Hooper ! insat the Johnston County Fair } would certainly explode t :nch theory. Nearly everybody g a garden in the spring but it } ^areai gardener to have twenty pieties in October. Mr. San ction display the following ttaiws: rutabegas. tomatoes, egg j tLMiad onions, big head onions, * KM pepper, hot peppers, okra, j MttpHs, snap beans, carrots, turn hit! potatoes, roasting ears, !K, mustard, kale, collard, rad igehutter-beans, and cucumbres." ^rs. Cam Easton, Judge D. C. [i. J. F. Meadows and B. F. ! M are among the early Oxford j titers. Let them tell us about piety of vegetables in their j ;ier garden. member The Needy Orphans Ihhoniy tuee weeks t) elapse j Tr-r. :.ow aud Thanksgiving Day, I hdi to remind you that there ar e j itsands of fatherless children in ! !Mte that need your assistance, j !d the institutions caring for } M children are sorely perssed for j t Your contribution, iarge or iii.viUbe -tr^atiy appreciated dy 4trotie of tne institutions, let the peopte give as they have Kited. Surety the hundreds of Msands who have so richiy been Bscd can find enough gratitude in & hearts to give the income or Ktuct of a day's labor to help i*n Maintenance of the few'thousands titiidren so sorely in want. An Honest Man Mine Tax Returns Show That He Paid One Cent. Mnuch is being said about income ! Returns it is interesting to note! ^ here is at ieast one man Yho, yi§ bit towards keeping the fed-; * Mvernment machinery going.; ! Chicago Tribune states that a ! *ich of thg returns of that city; ^sthatDanieiO'Orrsentinhis^ -or one cent, and at that he did ^than severai hundred bootleg-! ^^d union labor chiefs, who gave ' the list, says the' !ranh° One fmds that girl steno Mers are contributing their Sammy- Miss ^0**0uckin appears to head the ,1^3 hard working fraternity . return of $47.44. This repre earned and looms h] the hordes of weaal hrfgirl stenographers ^a] rn the Blue Book, the t or the society col "tt they made the income tax ^iff MEETING Of WOMEN'S CLUBS H< t<! At Roanoke Papids Them. 11. ^^cting of Woman's -ith. Tuesday .November ,'^^-)ke Rapids. All club '%d<(f,''^rd'.a)ly invited and '^h. !. ^Oend. Carry your box ^ PreJnf ^ ^ Brodie of Hender district ises ^or a iarge atten the Oxford Club, it, ^ ' EDNA WHITE, Pres, btem Sec. Mechon Ret— gTA-TE L-l J. G. and A. s. Hall, drug have instaUed a powerful radio in their drug store and nave made arrangements to re ceive radio grams tonight. The election returns from all pa its of the United States will be for warded from New York City. You are invited to hear the re tuins at Hall's Drug Store until a late hour tonight. I iHE NAME OF THE FARMER IS WANTED An Interesting Incident On the National Highway. On their return from their summer home in the Catskiil , Mountains to their home in Florida, Mr. and Mrs. Healey wer ethe guests of Mr. and iMrs. M. P. Chamble last week. On i their way to Durham, Mrs. Healey's [attention was attracted by the large white bolls of cotton in a field along side of the National Highway a few miles south of Oxford, and she was overcome by a desire to possess a few bolls as a souvenir of her trip through Granville. The field of cotton is quite exten sive and they decided to drive over }the hill where they would not be de fected b$\the owner of the besfutiful tbolls, but the farmer had ears to hear land eyes to see, and while the tour lists held in.their hands two or three choice specimens the farmer appeared at the top of the hill, and in a loud voice said: "Ha, there, wait a minute!" As the farmer approached with a quick step and rather red in the face, Mr. and Mrs. Healey decided that it would be the part of wisdom to as sume a fictious name. "'Who are you and what are you doing here?" inquired the tourist. "I suppose you are acquainted with Mr. M. P. Chamblee, of Oxford/' j said Mr. Healey. "Indeed I am,'' answered the farm er; "you are his son, Travis, the young man who travels for the Devoe Paint Company, of New York. I thought you might be one of those fellows sent out by the Department of Agriculture to look for boll weevils, and I just wanted to let you know that I am not bothered with the lit tle scoundrel. Help yourself, lady to all the bolls you want, and please excuse me for appearing rude." With a vision of being-,delayed on a charge of pilfering a cotton field, the declaration of the good natured farmer brought instant relief to Mr. and Mrs. Healey. Mr. Chamblee is anxious to know the name of the farmer and tell him something about his very pleasant guests and hoiv they enjoyed the incident after it was all over. Acts Of Heroism Three Medals Given to Brave Tatr Heels. The Carnegie Hero fund Commis sion, at its fali metting in Pittsburg last week, recognized 48 acts of her oism by awarding three silver and 45 bronze medals. Three North Carolinians were included in the awards. Otis R. Whitehead, Ramseur, N. C., died attempting to save a fellow workman from drowning at Ramseur. May 31, 1922. A silver medal was awarded to his father. A bronze medal was awarded to Charles S. Foster, of Ronda, N. C., who saved an engineer from suffo cating at Benhan, N. C., Jhne 2, 1923. Edward Ashby Pipkin, route 2, { Morven, N. C., was also awarded a bronze medal. He saved a negress from drowning at Ansonville, N. C., January 13, 1923 RALEIGH TO HAVE ANOTHER HOTEL javeling Men of Two Carolinas W ill Erect $300,000 Structure (News and Observer) Plans for the Traveler's Hotel, a 300,000 hotel for the traveling men f the two Carolinas, were unani lously endorsed at a joint meeting f the local T. P. A. and U. C. T. ; he hotel will be erected on the cor-j er of Salisbury and Hargett streets, j ie site of the wooden building for- j lerly used as the Giersch Annex. i The hotel will be twelve stories igh with 125 rooms and baths, and ill have in connction with it a busi ess men's coffee shop. Work will be started immediately, nd the backers expect to have the otel ready inside of ten months. MR. D. N. HUNT RETiRES FROM POSTAL SERVICE After 20 years of faithful service mail carrier on Oxford Route 5, . D N. Hunt, highly esteemed citi n made his last round Saturday d' was placed on the retired list of e United States mail service at a niar monthly stipen. Mr Kilgo Hunt, substitute carrier years. * new fM.ag the sition made vacant by the resig tion of his father. ERA*'*-' f?OR SURPRISES IN THE ELECTION TODAY i It Will Be Two Or Three Days Be i fore the Result In the Nation Is Known. ! From the best intimation at hand ; as we write it looks like Coolidge will i carry the following States by consent jof all prognosticators: Maine 6; Vermont 4, Massachusetts 18; Rhode Island 5; Connecticut 7, and Pen nsylvania 38—a total of 78 votes. In {addition he will probably carry (this i'is not conceded by LaFollette or Da vis) Ohio 24; Illinois 29; Michigan 15; Iowa 13; Kansas 10; Utah 4; ! California 13; Oregon 5; New Hamp shire 4—a total of "sure" and "proh ! ab^" of 195 votes, or 71 short of !enough. [ Mr. Davis will carry as "safe" iTexas 20; Louisiana 10; Arkansas 9; I Mississippi 10, Alabama 12; Georgia ,14; Florida 6; North Carolina 12; .South Carolina 9; Virginia 12—a to jtal -of 114 "safe" votes. In addition {the following States are counted for {him: Arizona 3; Nevada 3; NewMex iico 3; Oklahoma 3; Nebraska 88; {Missouri 18; Tennessee 12; Ken tucky 13; West Virginia 8.—a total of 200, or 66 short of enough. * In order for Mr. Coolidge to get 71 needed he must carry all the "pro bable Republican" (which have been given to him and includes Kansas, j Iowa and Michigan, about which {there is much doubt) and must also carry New York, New Jersey and Qelaware and Indiana. If he fails to carry all of these—Indiana will go anti-Coolidge from best reports— then he must go West to get 9 votes. There is not a single State west of the Mississippi river counted safe for him unless it is Utah, and we have already gven him of these westerp States California, Oregon, Utah.! Kansas, Iowa. So we say look for the surprise ofj your life today. In all "progressive communities"—and we mean by that anti-Coolidge communities—the reg istration is very heavy. In the con servative communities—and we mean by that the Coolidge communities— the registration is normal. In the language of Davis "the Dem ocrats have in their power to win this 'election if they will to do so." R4SP MOMf Cotton Seed of the Big Boll Variety in Demand Over at the Granville County Pro duce Exchange you will see a small sign announcing to the world that seed of superior variety are in de mand. On inquiry we learn that there will be a scarcity of Cleveland Big Boll and Mexican Big Boli Cot ton seed next planting season; that !Mr. J. Y. Crews, manager of the Grnayille County Produce Exchange, ihas orders for all the sound seed j of these two varieties that he can [procure. Carrying the investigation a little j farther we learn from Mr. J. H. Blackwell, County agent, that a con servative estimate places the yield of cotton seed in Granville this season at 25,000 bushels. The Granville County Produce Exchange is pay ing today 25 cents per busliell more than they are selling at the mill, making a total gain of $6,250 to the farmers of Granville if all the seed were of the two famous big boll varieties. Mr. J. A. Hartsell Dead Remains Laid To Rest At Corinth Church. Mr. John A. artsell, highly es teemed citizen and well known Gran ville county farmer, died last Friday night at his home on the Oxford Creedmoor highway after an illness of several months, aged 72 years. He is survived by his widow. Mr. Hartsell was a good farmer and a very pleasant man. It was his de light to excel others in raising the finest melons, and it was his boast to have a ripe watermelon on the Fourth of July. He was very gen erous and kind, and was ready to go; at the call of the Master. Funeral services were held from i Corinth Church Sunday afternoon, Rev. George T. Tunstall officiating. Interment followed at Corinth. Gen. B. S. Royster paid a beautiful tribute to the memory of Mr. Hartsell. The pallbearers, announced, were: , Gen. B. S. Royster, S. H. UUsry, Jos-j eph Overton, A. H. Graham. D. F. La- j nier, W. H. Long. C. R. Jordan and' David Eakes. War Finance Agency Moves To Atlanta Winds Up the Business In North Carolina. (Raleigh Correspondent) Formal action was taken here merging the North Carolina agency of the war finance corporation with that at Atlanta, now the southern! headquarters of the corporation. THE CHAMBLEE-LOYD HARDWARE COMPANY ORGANIZED HERE FOUR FAROE PLANTS MERGED ! LVTOONE (Mr. M. P. Chamblee and Mr. Ben i Lloyd, Of Virgilina, Unite Their Li I terests. t By the consolidation of four hard ware concerns Oxford becomes the hardware trading center of ail this section of the state and Halifax and Mecklenburg counties in Virginia. By merging the large hardware business I at Zebulon and the Farmers hard 'ware store at Virgilina with the Acme [and the Holeman Store, Oxford has [one of the'largest hardware stores in I the state. I This arrangement was perfected ;last week by Mr. M. P. Chamblee, of [Oxford, and Mr. Ben Lloyd, of Vir I lina. both members of the firm being ; hardware men of long experience, i The hardware business at Zebulon, I owned by Mr. Chamblee, and the im mense stock of goods owned by Mr. iBen Lloyd, the same being the Farm ers hardware store at Virgilina, will I be moved to Oxford and consolidated i with the Acme and Hal Holeman 'stocks, and as soon as this has been [done the store will open under the name and style of Chamblee-Lloyd . Hardware Company. Attention. is ! called to the announcement of this ! firm elsewhere in this paper. [ By this consolidation Mr. Cham j blee will remain in Oxford and our I town acquires two very fine citizens namely Mr. Ben Lloyd and Mr. Sprag *gins, of Virgilina. Messrs. Jame9 fDean and Roy Clark, who have been with Mr. Holeman for some time, will be with the new firnt. Halloween Pranks Shatered glass, the remains of milk bottles broken Friday night by thoughtless youngsters celebrating [ Halloween, clattered the streets ofi Oxfrod in some places, causing a few i motorists some trouble early Satur- j day morning. "I realize that it was a thoughtless ; act on'the part of the youngsters,"! said a motorist, "but it is neverthe- ! less a misdemeanor and should not be ! tolerated by the policemen." j Taken as a whole, the young people^ j of Oxford behave much better than the children of other places, and they should not be blamed for the [acts of two or three thoughtless boys. j No dower pots or chairs on the ithe front porches were removed or ! broken, and this fact alone speaks iweli for our young people. Need No Search War rant To Stop Cars f Richmond, Va., Nov. 2.—The Fed j era! court of appeals here upheld the conviction recently in the district court at Greenville, S. C., of F. D. Smith, of Rockhill, S. C., who was fined $500 on a charge of transport ing 216 bottles of jamaica ginger in an automobile. Smith sought to have the conviction laid aside on the grounds that officers, using a flash light, without a warrant, searched the car. The court held that under the crcumstances a warrant was un necessary and declared 'it is not an unreasonable search to turn a flagh lgiht on an open automobile." Prize To Be Awarded For the Most Appropriate Name Of Tourist Camp. Mr. Henry Osborn, who is building a tourist camp and filling station on the National Highway one mile north j of Oxford, announced yesterday that he had received to date more than 300 "names from which to select thej name for the tourist camp and filling station. All names must be in hand^ by Monday, Nov. 10, at which time the committee will select the name and award the $10 to the successful contestant. MERCHANTS OF OXFORD TO DECORATE j ON ARMISTICE DAY . _ ! Old Glory Will Float From Many Flag Staffs Here. At the meeting of the local post! of the American Legion plans were adopted to display the colors here on Armistice Day. The Post has 60 flags, 6x4 feet, which they propose to sell to the business houses, or others! who want them. These flags will be mounted on poldb 12 feet tall. Thej Legionnaires will drill holes in the sidewalks, at their own expense, to insert the flag staff. The Hags willj present a handsome appearance aSj they are lined up along the street. The committee will pass around^ among the business houses today and take orders for the flags. PREMKMfS AWARDED The Chrysanthemum Show, Held In the Armory Wednesday and Thurs day, Oct. 29-30, Was a Success. Chrysanthemums. Best 6 white, $4.00—Miss Leah Kittrell. Second best 6 white, $3.00—Mrs. Pete Bullock. Best 6 yellow, $4.00—Miss Leah Kittrell. — 2nd best 6 yellow, $3.00—Mrs. J. D. Brooks. Best 6 pink, $4.00—Mrs. Pete Bul lock. / 2nd best 6 pink, $3.00—Mrs. J. D. Brooks. Best 3 incurved white, 3Z.00—Mrs. J. D. Brooks. Best 3 reflex white, $2.00—Mrs. J. D. Brooks. i Best 3 incurved yellow, $2.00— Miss Leah Kittrell. Best 3 reflex yellow, $2.00—Miss Ora Rose. , Best 3 bronze, $2.00—Mrs. Pete : 3ullock. ' Best 3 red, $2.00—Miss Ora Rose. Best 3 pink, $2.00—Miss Ora Rose. Best 1 incurved white, $1.0&— I Miss Leah Kittrell. Best 1 reflex white, $1.00—Mrs. J. D. Brooks. i Best 1 incurved yellow, $1.00— ' Miss Leah Kittrell. ^ Best 1 reflex yellow, $1.00—Miss Ora Rose. Best 1 pink, $1.00—Miss Leah Kit trell. Best 1 bronze, $1.00—Mrs. J. D. Brooks. Best 1 salmon, $1.00—Mrs. Pete Bullock. Best 1 red, $1.00—Mrs. J. D. Brooks. Best basket pompons, $2.00—Miss Leah Kittrell. 1 (Continued on Page Five) Light On The Subject County Agent Blackwell Makes An important Announcement. Dear Fellow Cotton Planters: Due to a very small per cent of the cotton acreage having been planted to ] the improved Big Boll varieties and due also to weather conditions that prevailed over a large portion of the (cotton belt, it behooves us to be very careful about sowing our cotton seed for planting next year. We should not sow seed from cotton that was op en during this spell of weather for most of them are rotten or badly damaged therefore you cannot expect to get a stand of cotton next year planted with such seed. Neither should you plant cotton seed tha was diseased with boll rot anthrasnose for if you do you can not hope to make a full crop of cotton next year. If your cotton rotted badly this year with this disease it will be still I worse next year everything being i equal. i It is very important, fellow , farmer that you save enough good seed for your own planing as good planting seed will be scarce next sea son and prices will be high. I am in formed by Mr. J. Y. Crews, our mar ! keting agent, that he has an order for quite a quantity of Cleveland Big \Boll seed such as was purchased for you this spring at 75c per bushel, which is well above the price paid at the gin for Mill Seed. I would sug gest that you get in touch with Mr. Crews before you sell your good seed at mill prices. By all means be sure to save enough seed for your own needs. Yours Truly, J. H. BLACKWELL, County Agent. A Progressive Step Coast Line To Open Double Track System Richmond To Florida. Wilmington, Nov;. 2.—Comple tion of its program of double track ing its lines from Richmond to Jacksonville, Fla., two years ahead of the time originally scheduled was an nounced yesterday by the Atlantic Coast Line railway general offices here. Bids will be opened Saturday for the last stretch of double-track ing. The work is to be completed next year, as compared with a pro gram calling for its completion by 1927. Close Estimate Dr. Holliday, president of Oxford College, estimated this morning that Coolidge will be elected president. His estmate of the electoral vote is as follows: Davis ..209 Coolidge .28 3 j LaFollette ..39^ G. B. Of A. The first regular meeting of the Granville County Board of Agricul ture will be held in the Court House Saturday, Nov. 15, at 12:30. Every member of the Board is urged to be present. C. W. ALLEN, Secy. MR. BRUMMITT IS WE OF THE STATE'S BEST CAMPAIGNERS Candidate For Attorney-General Viv idly Reviews Scandals. Mr. D. G. Brummitt has made at least fifty speeches in the State dur ing the present campaign, and the newspapers are ioud in their praise The Wilr and campaigner. Where Mr correspondent, here Mr. Brummitt spoke last Thursray night said: tim former brilliant speaker of the house, and our next attorney-gen he """ Story PUbS. °' Mr. Brummitt spent the malof Of^tate^ ^ discussion of state issues, but put an emphasis h campaign that hardly °f the ^te candidates. . In a speech of remark able brevity for a subject of so many ramifications he .detailed the ind ents in the oil scandals and pictured An attitude of President Coolldge to ward them. "The presidential office should receive the respect it deser ves. he said, "but a people have the right to assess the qualities of a can didate whether in the White House or only seeking it. Judged by his past performances, the Republican candidate for President does not have the courage or the capacity for leadership so necessary in that great office." I Mr. Brummitt, as it his wonted di ; rections, began at the beginning, A^ ;ril 29, 1922. and Wd bare the cate gory of crimes of the Republican I party, showing that the transfer on ;May 31, 1921, was made when Pre&< ident Harding signed the order and the control of these oil lands went to Secretary Fall of the interior. The committee reported the transfer il legal and that congress had jur^tic tion over these lands. The lease# were made privately and without competent td Sinclair and Doheafy." The Oxford Mfg. Co. Now Pleasantly Located In New Quarters. The Oxford Manufacturing Codp jpany, which was chartered a few ! ***^nt^s ago to do a general line of i printing on metal, wood, paper and I fiber, is now located in the new Cren shaw biock of buildings on Hillsboro ; street. Mr. E. G. Hulse is tiie^ man } ager in charge, and it was our plea sure to be shown over the plant by ' him yesterday. ! The wonderous stamping machine, las large as an overgrmvn elephant, ! opens and closes its jaws as fast as {the machine is speeded. Its teeth jare steei dice, between which the 'steel plate, such as an auto tag, is I placed, and when it comes out it t bears the name of the city or town, {state and number. Then follows the i finishing process, such as cutting the tholes and glazing the plates in the desired colors. The whole process {is very interesting. — I Under ordinary circumstances i! i would be dangerous to feed the Steel j plates into the jaws of the ponderous [ presses, but these new machines are I equipped with a safety device by {which a gate closes and shoves the j hand of the feeder out of danger, t Mr. Leon Hines is the traveling ! agent, and it is a pleasure to note ; that he has booked a number Of ; handsome orders from this and other j states. A Helpful Hint I What a Few Grains Of Rice Will Accomplish. j A good housewife states to the } Puhlic Ledger that in uamp rainy : weather the salt in the salt shake? jofttimes becomes absorbed with {moisture and will not shake out whe^ ;we want it to. It hardens and forma i lumps when it dries and we have to take it from the shaker and put in new salt or else crush the lumps again. This is not only inconvenient and a waste of t%me but is also not necessary. By placing a few grains of rice with the salt in the salt shaker you will do a lot to remed this. The rice being larger than the salt will not shake out with the salt and it will tend to absorb most of the moisture, thus leaving the salt dry and able to shake out through the small holes in the top of the shaker. Revival At Baptist Church Continues Much Interest Manifested In the Meetings. The strong appeals of Rev. F. A. Bower, who is preaching afternoon and night at the Oxford Baptist Church, draws large congregations at each service. Pastor Harte announces that the protracted meeting will continue through Thursday and possibly to* the end of the week.
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