The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-31
FARMERS OF NORTH CAROLINA
II % will ship ne such produc ct as yu have to sell, L will get TIT
sop market price make prompt returns.
eference COMMERCIAL NATI ONAL BANK
- Yours truly,
w. A. SIMPKINS.
< 4LEIGH, CAROLINA

real power is with those in the roots
hidden in the soil.
And in this nation, the real power,
the root Of the nation, is the mass of
people-tOO often, like the trees
roots, hidden below in the dark and
cold. But from those roots, from the
people, comes all the real power.
And when this nation, and you
osperou men, face a perilous stu
alton, as you have done in the past
and you will do in the future, o will
find the man to help you and to save
you, not at this table, not at Del
mOnicO'S. f"
Oxford maintains it's high place in
the educational life of the State. For
more than half a century the Horner
School, has educated many of the fit
test youth of the State. It is ideally
located and Horner, the younger, is
following in the footsteps of the illus
trious Horner, the elder. For thor
oughness, discipline and manliness
Horner has always stood second to no
preparatory school in h South.
Neither the elder nor the younger
Horner made numbers the chief
ambition. They have sought only the
youths resolved to study n prepare
themselves for the Work Of life. The
"Horner boys" have made good at
college and in the world, and it is a
distinction to have mastered the
course at that Did school that has be-
fore it a career as useful as it's past
has been honorable.
Prof. +. P. Hobgood, as president
of Oxford Female Seminary, is doing
been at the head Of q high
grade school for young women and
has conquered fire and other obstacles
and made Oxford Seminary better and
more successful with every passing
year. Combining ripe scholarship
with fine business Judgment, DR.. Hob
good has borne a large part in the ed
ucational development Of the State.
The public schools here are equal
to the best anywhere and the pride Of
the town. Oxford has On the whole,
the best churches of any town of
its population in the State, and they
exercise an influence that makes the
town like a city set on a hill in the
general excellence Of it's people.
A number Of handsome business
houses are going up. The factories
and warehouses are f~lourishing. A
pretty good test Of a town can be told
in the story Of the bank deposits. Ten
years ago Oxford had only one bank.
It was wisely ard progressively man
aged and had deposits in the neighbour
hood of $780, 900. 1t now has two
banks and they together have nearly
a million dollars on deposit. That
shows h people have money. The
farmers in the county have grown
more corr than in a decade. The
price of land has increased. There is
a spirit Of confidence and progress in
both town and county that presages
the best growth in the history Of OK
ford and Granville county. The issue
OF 100000 of bonds for good roads is
proof Of the progressive spirit that
dominates the people Of town and
county. No county in North Carolina,
except two or three, having cities OF
over. 20, 900 opulation, have taken
such a long step in good roads build
ing. This investment will pay hand
somely, for the building of good roads
is invariably followed by increased
value of lands. Granville is, of course,
raising much tobacco, for it has the
famous Brassfields country, where the
Brights became famous, but it's farm
ers are unwilling to continue to raise
tobacco for the prevailing low prices.
Much of the land is adapted to corn
and wheat, and the crops will be more
diversified in the future than in the
past.