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ELIZABETH CITY, N. tBDAY, MAY 2, 19 19
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STATE NORMAL MAY GET
$20,000 FROM ROCKEFELLER
Will Mean Immediate Carrying Out of $55,000.00
Building Program If City and County Co-operate
The colored State Normal
school at Elizabeth City is in a
fair way to get an appropriation
of $20,000 from the Rockefeller
endowed General Education
Board. It all seems to depend
now upon what the school trus
tees of Elizabeth City and Pas
quotank county will do.
The recent General Assembly of
North Carolina appropriated $35,000
for new buildings and improvements
for the State Normal. This sum was
$20,000 short of tbe amount needed for
the program outlined by the Board
of Trustees. The General Education
Board has signified a willingness to
supply this $20,000 out of its $53,000.00
endowment, if Elizabeth City and
Pasquotank county will show their in
terest in negro education to the ex
tent of supplying four teachers for an
eight months practice school to be
maintained at the State Normal. It
is pointed out that if Elizabeth City
and Pasquotank don't supply thfeste
teachers for such a school, It will have
to take care of so many colored pupils
in some other way.
Prof. E. E. Sams, of Raleigh, State
Supervisor of Teacher Training and
Prof. T. B. Attmore, of Stonewall, N.
C, a member of the Board of Trustees
of the State Normal were in Elizabeth
City Wednesday and held a conference
with members of the boards of educa
tion of the city and county. Every
man present pledged his support to the
proposition and official action will be
taken within the next few days. It
is pointed out that Elizabeth City and
Pasquotank county can provide for 160
colored students at the State Normal
hrin? S20.000 to this school. If
the city and county don't do this then
they will have just so many colored
students to provide for in some other
way and the State Normal will lose
$20,000 of Rockefeller money. It is not
generally known, but it is a fact never
theless, that the State Normal has for
several years taken care of about 125
resident pupils .that properly belonged
. ta tbe jtabluz BchQoW of the county.
The immediate plans for the improve
ment and extension of the St.te Nor
mal at Elizabeth City will, when they
materialize, make this a considerable
school plant with a total of eight build
inKs. Here is the program:
wFatsr and Seweraee System cost
at least, $10,000.
Barn and sheds, $2,500.
Practice School 4 rooms, $4,000.
Principal's Cottage (Now lives in
dormitory), $4,000.
Equipment for Liaundry Girls' In
dustrial Building, $2,500.
Boys' Dormitory, $30,000.
Boys workshop, $2,000.
TOTAL., $55,000.
Amount available from State Appro
priation, $35,000.
Amount needed to complete the Pro
gram, $20,000.
BISHOP DARST WILL
PREACH HERE SUNDAY
Popular Bishop of The Eastern Diocese
Coming to Celebrate Holy
Communion
The Rt. Rev. T. C. Darst, D. E., Bis
hop of East Carolina will celebrate the
Holy Communion and preach in Christ
Church at eleven o'clock and Preach
and administer the rite of Confirm
ation at eight o'clock this Sunday, May
4th.
Bishop Darst is well known in Eliz
abeth City where he has many warm
friends. He is especially gifted as a
speaker, a man humble of heart and
spiritually true. He always has a mes
sage to every congregation and the
public is cordially invited to hear him
Sunday morning and Evening at Christ
Church.
HORSE RACES AT OLD
FAIR GROUNDS TO-DAY
There will be horse, races every Fri
day afternoon at the 'Old Fair Grounds
at Elizabeth City, beginning at 2 o'clock
this afternoon. F. I Chappell who is
training a number of horses at the Fair
Grounds is responsible for this an
nouncement of interest to horse and.
sport lovers.
Among the entries for to-day's races
are Pony Boy II by E. Williams;
Gypsy Wood, by Elizabeth City Stables;
Belle Michael, by W. Burgess; June
Boy by W. E. Davis; Cuba Burii3, by
E- L. Davis; Storm King, by Elizabeth
City Stables; Lacomo C, by F. L.
Chappell; Water Vale, by E. I Wil
liams; Miss Nancy, by L. Sherlock; H.
E- W., by L. C. Relfe.
NEWS OF OUR STORES
The advertisements in this week's
INDEPENDENT are full of news for
INDEPENDENT readers. Most read
ers of this newspaper read it ads and
a11; the few who haven't got that habit
do well to try it this week.
M. Leigh Sheep takes a full page
0 tell of his stock moving sale, shop
Ping news of real money value to the
women folk.
Sharber & White Hardware Co. have
unusual attractive offer for house
wives. They enable any one to equip
their kitchen with a complete set of
aluminum ware by paying a small sum
each week.
SELL DISTRICT
HIGHWAY BONDS
Will Lose No Time Building
Highway From Edenton to
Norfolk, via E. City
$250,000 of the bonds of the
Northeastern North Carolina
District Highway were sold last
Saturday to the Powell-Gerrard
Co., of Chicago at $105.52, or
$5.52 above par. The bonds
bear 6 per cent, interest. ' As
soon as these bonds can be
printed and the money secured,
the District Commission will
proceed to the business of build
ing the proposed permanent
highway between Edenton and
the Virginia line, via Elizabeth
City, Shawboro and-Moyock.
The District Commission pur
posed to issue a half million in
bonds, to enable them to care
for the assessments of property
holders who will bear one-fourth
of the cost of the road. But the
hill creatine the commission
failed to provide adequate taxa
tion to pay the interest on and
retire bonds to that amount.
The commission will issue and
sell more bonds as soon as the
revaluation of property in the
district has been made. The de-
hay in selling-thev bondswjl, noU
necessarily mean a delay in tne
construction of the road.
POTATO GRADES GOING
IN EFFECT JUNE 1ST
r M Mrkts Looks For Co-
operation of Northeastern North
Carolina Growers
According to the law passed by the
last legislature North Carolina is to
have-official grades for Irish potatoes.
The trades adopted by the unitea
states Food Administration and the
TAtartment of Agriculture have been
made the legal grades for North Caro
lina. These grades will be ercecuve
June 1st, 1919. After this date the
KTorth Carolina growers if they grade
their potatoes win. be obliged to grade
om-riinz- to standard. It is for
tUCUA f-"-- o
th grower to decide whether or not
he will grade his potatoes. If he does
grade them he will be expected to mark
them either Grade 1 or Grade 2 ac
cording as the potatoes grade one or
two. A copy of these grades may ue
obtained upon application to the uivi
, if.i,ota West Raleigh, N. C.
glOn Ul juoiavwi
Regulations as to marking and brand
ing will be issued at a later date.
It is hoped that all growers will co
ooerate to secure the proper enforce
m.nt of the law. Thus each grower
will do his part to establish the repu
tation of North Carolina for a number
one product. Machine graded potatoes
brought last year one to two dollars
n barrel more than ungraded potatoes.
If all growers grade their potatoes it
would mean a saving to them or aooui
a half million dollars annually.
The Division of Markets will fur
it, insnectors to interpret the grades
insofar as feasible. All associations in
the State who have properly quaunea
inspectors may have them licensea up
on application.
ANNOUNCEMENT
I hereby announce myself a demo
cratic candidate for Alderman for the
Fourth Ward. Any support will be
appreciated.
cA.25-tf J- P. GREENLEAF.
HATHAWAY SAYS
If you wear glasses, have
your eyes and glasses both
examined from time to time,
and go to the place where you
can afford to pay a reason
able price for real professional
work. Remfember your eyes
are your bread-winners. Take
care of them.
You have your teeth ex
amined twice a year. Why
not your eyes? They are
more important.
DR. I. D. HATHAWAY
Optometrist
Phone 999 ; 1 Bradford Bldg.
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HEADS VICTORY LOAN
w. p. DUFF
W. P. DUFF is chairman of the Vic
tory Loan Committee of Pasquotank
and a live chairman he makes. The
accompanying picture is from a snap
shot photo taken by W. O. Saunders
while Chairman Duff was off his
guard.
ELIZABETH CITY GIRLS
GOING INTO BASEBALL
Several Girl Teams Being Organized
In The Elizabeth City
High School
BY RALPH POOL
Sing a song of baseball,
Of merry hits and twirls -
Say! They've really made it
The new game of the girls.
Now if you don't believe it.
You doubting sort of guy,
Just beat it to the High School,:
And see as well as I.
Hearken, ye masculine devotees of
the horsehide pellet! Perk up and
take care, lest your pennants be snatch
ed from you by the eternal and adorable
feminine, garbed in the habiliments of
Cobb and Wagner, of Mathewson and
Walter Johnson. Hist! The charming
schoolgirls of our fair jCity.are j?repar
ing io maxe tneir aeDut in tne ume-
honored and distinctively American
game of baseball.
Under the leadership ef Miss Minna
Pickard, of the High School faculty,
the girls of each High School grade
are planning to organize a baseball
team, the several teams forming a sort
rf (ntra.BPhnnl 1an with cramoa tn.'aent OI me XWewawr AUlomODIlB AS
be played according to a regular sched
ule, the team winning most games to
be awarded the pennant. Now for the
line-up.
We, being nothing more or less than
a mere insect oi a male, would never
dare voice an opinion as to what'dear
young ladies would be most eligible for
jobs as catchers; indeed, they all catch
admiring glances from our eyes, when
ever we pass them on the street, but
in truth our hearts overflow with an
guish at the thought that some of
their beautiful countenances must nec
essarily be concealed from our enrap
tured gaze by that horribly disguising
protector, the baseball mask. Really,
this is too distressing to think of. It
will be far better to have the teams
consist of eight players each, with the
catchers left out.
On the field, the pitcher always oc
cupies a post from which the player
can most readily see and be seen by
the fans in both grandstand and bleach
ers. Besides the pitcher is the chief
center of attention, and constantly the
object of general interest. The short
age in catchers will most likely be made
up by a surplus of candidates for pitch
er. We have known many delightfully
and deliciously demure dimpling dam
sels, and none of them ever minded
being the center of interest and ad
miration. Now as to the basemen beg pardon,
we mean basewomen they should be
blithesome maidens of the sort who, at
a quarter to nine, take ten minutes
to powder their noses and sprint to
school in the remaining five, with never
a tardy charged against them. Base
men must be speedy on their feet.
As all fans know, fielders are chosen
chiefly for their hitting ability. There
will be no difficulty on this score. Every
one of these delightful High School
maids makes a hit with us. (No,
Mehitabel, we are not fishing for a
iob as umpire. Anyhow, our wife
wouldn't let us.)
In order that everything be O. K.
from the start, with nothing important
left out, it might be well to pick a
suitable title for the new league. We
modestly and humbly suggest that this
new association be termed the L. Xi. L.,
or more fully, the Lilting Lasses Lea
gue. We make no charge for this
valuable suggestion.
Here's wishing Miss Pickard and her
baseball galaxy the most successful
of seasons! We sincerely hope that
every team may win each and every
game, so that each athletic aggregation
may win a pennant, all for itself.
Mrs. Jennie Pritchard tells you that
she is back from the northern markets
with a full line of new millinery for the
Prichard Millinery So.
L. B. Perry . announces the coming
of the new Chandler, an event awaited
with interest by many prospective
automobile purchasers.
AS AN AMfcmcXN
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Your country l4WjpiJoteting:
your rights, youierties, your
welfare. Still maHUijl possible
for you to live as American.
As an American yiSWyi always
receive protection. Tfjvernment
realizes its duty toand ,eeds
no urging in the prf Of mance of
this duty. V ' -f'c' :.
As an American jPthould not
fail to realize and areiate what
voup aovernment iaHfeyou. You
should be awake to -fts: present sit-
uation. You should knpw: why btl-
lions of dollars are Reeded.
As" an Americarifftu-: should f
render the same hIpi:o the gov-
erriment that it rdrs to you.
And as the government : is con-
stantly ready to protect you re-
regardless of the number of calls,
you should be readjr;and eager to
respond to its present, appeal the
Victory Liberty Loa?.;r
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ON SELFISHNESS
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The war on autocracy of kings hav
ing been won, we "m now giru
our armor for a warden autocracy at
home, political auxocracy, economic
autocracy, industrial autocracy. 1 pe
war on autocracy haslet begun. We
mut break down organized selfish
ness and implant thefamily spirit in
communities. Theses human adjust
1 2 t I
ments
must De manjf t oeToro we can i
real democrafen which there
:. j.mMMew f ooDortunitv and demo-
f UHnr. We must SUDDlant the
..ifi.hn.M iif men with a desire to
serve; we must supplant organized
.h with bro.nized service: we must
supplant ignorance WitS ideals. The
.,11 h. hAUr ; for ftbnsecrated lives.
Such in brief was theTmissage brought
to the social servicl fonference in
. . .x l.iAm u.. rt. .1 .
EJizaoexn visy jnp;ii; 1
v f B.wlor University. This
- .r-, r.orta that Dr. Kessler's
u lata fir Dublication in
u: t.H. h. h.a released ideas in
this community that wiltkeep..
NORFoiic citySeianager
VISITS EUZ4B3ETH CITY
8poke at AnnaiPinnersf ths.jCham-
-: . ";-bar- of -Comi
Man Urr0 --
A . number of notable 6ut of town
the Elizabeth City Chamber of Com-
merce held in Masonic Hall last night,
Thursday, May 1. Among the. visitors
were Charles E. Ashburner, CityMana-
er ot Norfolk; John A. Lesner, presi
sociation; Moe Levy, president of the
Norfolk Rotary Club; S. Benson, vice
president and Harry O. Nichols, sec-1
retary of the Tidewater Automobile
Asociation.
FATHER IDENTIFIES SON'S
CORPSE AFTER 4 MONTHS
The bodv of the stranee white man
found in Pasquotank river last January
and given pauper burial in Camden
county was identified this week as that
of Isaac Zebleman. 19 years old. of St.
Louis, Mo. His father identified the
body by a signe't ring worn on the little
finger when the body was exhumed by
Ziegler & Son at the elder Zebleman's
request this week. The father took the
remains to St. Louis. Young Zeble-
man was on a lumber barge bound from
New Bern to Philadelphia when he
met his death. The body laid in the
river for several weeks before it was
discovered and when the .Camden
authorities got it they had no way of
identifying it. '
ROANOKE INSTITUTE HOLDS
COMMENCEMENT NEXT WEEK
Roanoke Collegiate Institute holds
its commencement exercises next week,
Sunday May 4 to Friday, May 9, inclu
sive. This school is supported by the
Negro Baptists of northeastern North
Carolina and is doing good work for its
race under President C. F. Graves and
his faculty.
THRONGS SEE THE TANK
Throngs of spectators marveled at
the U. S. Army Tank which was ex
hibited here Wednesday for the bene
of the Victory Loan campaign. More
than a thousand saw the Tank do stunts
on the old baseball grounds on West
Main street Wednesday afternoon. Dr.
B. C. Hening took advantage of the
crowds on the ball grounds and, mount
ing the tank, made one of his money-
baiting speeches, raising $11,000 in Vic
tory Loan subscriptions in about 15
minutes.
E. CITY DEBATERS AT
CHAPEL HILL TO-NIGHT
Two high school teams of two debat
ers each, chosen from the 41 winning
teams sent to Chapel Hill this week for
the final elimination contests, will face
each other tonight in Memorial Hall,
University of North Carolina, in a clos
ing contest for the Aycock Memorial
Cup. The subject for debate this year
is: "Resolved that the United States
Government should adopt a policy re
quiring one year ' of military . training
of all able-bodied men before they
reach the age ,f 21." '. Four Elizabeth
City debaters, two affirmative and two
negative, are among the contestants'
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James Clifford .(Affirmative),' ina mae
LeRoy,- Norman Trueblood, (Negative).
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VICE PRESIDENT
MARSHALL MAY 5
Second Citizen of The Land To
Speak Here Next
Monday
Thomas R. Marshall.
"Vice President Thomas R. Marshall
will speak at the Alkrama Theatre in
ikla r Mnnlfir nfcVit Mfl V K Tt will
vnj -
be his first visit to Elizabeth City and
one of a very few lecture dates he will
"U m me SQUIB ims oyimB
mr. marsnau cumra rwummcuucu
a really good speaker at. a time when
Elizabeth City is assured that ail na
tional celebrities are not necessarily
Brood speech makers. Vice President
Marshall hasn't the personality of men
like Ex-President Taft and William
.Tennines Brvan. but he has a line of
, ,
talk that usually goes with the crowds.
He took the stump
changed that state from the Repub
Ucan to the Democratic column, he be
ing elected governor 01 umie. u
!ter on he polled more than 6,000,000
i votes for the highest office in the gift
of the people, except one,
Mr. Marshall's subject for Elizabeth
ntiv will Kf "National Tendencies." He
Was -secured for the Elizabeth City en
i gasement,.y . Clarence,.R. ,Pugh . who is
ly low prices.
WANTS A CO-OPERATIVE
LAUNDRY IN SALEM
Safem Man Says Rural Communities
Must Solve The Laundry Pro
blem Real Soon -
xjow are we southern people going
to get our clothes washed when . the
I Present generation of colored washer
women dies out? The new generation
of colored girls are not incunea to
liontr hmnhiv linnn the wash tub as a
mean3 of livelihood. Even the present
feneration, used to the scrubbing board
and the flat iron are not satisfied with
their calling, but it isn't remunerative
enough. Our white women who have
been dependent upon the Negroes for
this sort of labor and who have come
to look upon washing ana ironing as
a lowly menial task, certainly are not
going to do their own washing the old
fashioned way if they can get out oi
it. And so every Southern community
is about to face a laundry problem.
What are we going to do with it?
J. G. Brown, an enterprising young
farmer of Salem Townsnip. Pasquo
tank county, is trying to show his
neighbors how to solve the problem.
Mr. Brown has unfolded his plan to
this newspaper, ue says me uuuimuu
ity laundry is the thing. Mr. Brown's
idea is to organize and estamisn a co
operative laundry in salem township.
tt thinks there are at least a hundred
farmer families in Salem township who
could profit by such a community en
terprise. Even fifty families could
afford to finance the undertaking and
get their laundry done at cost, taking
all the drudgery away from so many
farm homes.
"We impose too much drudgery on
our wives on the farms", says Mr.
Brown. "We wear our women out with
menial work done without labor sav
ing appliances. "We men have labor
saving, machinery that really saves
labor. We have very little labor sav
ing machinery for the home. Washing
machines such as we buy our wives
are not suited to washing clothes oiled
with the dirt of the farm. Machines
that would really take the work off
wives are too costly for individual
family use; the only way out that I
see is for neighborhoods to cooperate
and establish their own steam laun
-isa An experienced man can be em
ninvAd reeularly to look after the plant
and girls from the neighborhood can
be employed as needed to help handle
V10 work.
It will be interesting to see how
TV, Tmwn comes out with his prop-
o5lrt. how his neighbors will take
n the idea. This newspaper is with
him. He is. certainly, on the right
track to solve a problem tnai t
neighborhood will presently
solve.
have to
The North Carolina Cotton Associa
tion will meet in Raleigh this week,
to consider the exporting and finance
corporation, and the proposition i
ttvW the Association permanent.
Delegates will be. elected to atwno u.B
' rfM at New Orleans
May 15-16.
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PRIVATE TARKINGT0N IS
DONE WITH WAR FCiREVER
This Elizabeth City Boy Made a Good Soldier, But
War Gave Him the Rawest of Raw Deals
COMMITTEE ABOUT TO
ADOPT CHURCH PLANS
Elizabeth City -Methodists May Build
Church Patterned After Norfolk
Edifice
The Building Committee of First M.
E. Church South of this city, after a
visit to Norfolk, Suffolk and . vicinity,
where they inspected a number of
churches, have about decided on the
type of structure they ; will adopt for
the new Elizabeth City church and ex
pect to have their architect on the
ground at an early date. The type of
building that appeals most strongly
to the committee is that of Park View
Baptist Church in Norfolk. Something
like the exterior design, including the
massive dome of that edifice, will be
adopted, with interior modifications
to suit the peculiar .requirements of
the Elizabeth City church.
The building committee of the First
Church is composed of C. E. Kramer,
chairman; Rev. J. M. Ormond, J. P.
Kramer, W. J. Wopdley, . and J. W.
Foreman. The committee is anxious to
have ground for the neww church brok
en this summer. The proposed edifice
will cost $60,00 to $75,000. More than
$28,000 of the building fund subscribed
under the ministry of Rev. J. L. Cun
ninggim two years ago has been paid
in.
FROST HITS POTATO
GROWERS HARD LICK
Currituck Escaped Frost, But Sand
Storm -There Stripped Sweet
Potato Vines
The potato crop in the Elizabeth City
section has suffered' a serious set-back
and growers will lose many thousands
of dollars as a. result of a heavy frost
and freeze Thursday night,1 April 24.
Only the Currituck growers escaped
the Currituck potato belt lying between
Currituck sound and Albemarle sound
is, protected against frost by. its pecu
was a sand storm which stripped. . the
young sweet potato plants of their
leaves, leaving only the stems, giving
the crop a serious set-back.
The loss from frost can not be esti
mated because much depends upon the
weather conditions of the next few
days. The growers may get by with a
loss of about 20 per cent, of their crop.
Unfavorable weather may set them
back forty or fifty per cent.
ELIZABETH CITY MUST
BUILD PUBLIC DOCKS
Can Not Get Deeper Channel Until It
Shows Government Its Good
Intentions
Elizabeth City will have to bestir it
self and build municipal docks if it is
to profit by recent legislation looking
j, r nfeonnel r.f the
Pasquotank River from Elizabeth City
to the Albemarle Sound.
Congressman Small got a bill thru
the last Congress calling for a survey
for a 12 foot channel from a point near
the Dare Lumber Co. mills above Eliz-
abeth City to the Albemarle Sound, say. That was one oi ,
This survey is preliminary to getting worried him, just as it worries thou
an appropriation for this river im- sands of other American soldiers who
provement. The object is, of course, to are JIJt
give JfiiizaDetn jiiy me oeneui m me
12 foot depth of the government in
land waterway. But the River and
Harbor Act of March 2, 1919 abso
lutely shuts Elizabeth City off from
any such benefit as ' proposed by Mr.
Small's new survey, unless Elizabeth
City builds municipal docks and there
by convinces the government that it
deserves the contemplated improve
ment. Section 1 of the River and Har
bor Act should be carefully studied
by Elizabeth City business interests.
It reads as follows:
"It is hereby declared to be the policy
of the Congress that Water terminals
are essential at all cities and . towns
located upon harbors or navigable
waterways and that at least one public
terminal should exist, constructed, own
ed, and regulated by the municipality,
or other public agency of the State
and open to the use of all on equal
term3, and with the view of carrying
out this policy to the fullest possible
extent the Secretary of War Is hereby
vested with the discretion to withhold, t
unless the public interest would serir
ously suffer by delay, monies approp
riated in this Act for new projects
adopted herein, or for the further im
provement .of existing projects if, in his
opinion, no water terminals exist ade
quate for the rtafflc and "-open to all
on equal terms, or unless satisfactory
assurances are received that local or
other interests will provide such ade
quate for the traffic and open to all
retary of War, through the Chief of
Engineers shall give full publicity, as
far as may be .practicable, ; to this pro
vision." FOR SALE: A good milch cow, gives
3 gallons of milk a day. Apply to
RICHARD STEVENSON, R. F. D. 1,
Elizabeth City, N. C. cM2-lt
FOR SALE-. passenger Ford car, first
olaoa rendition. Good tlrSS. ' ADPly tO
n O. MARKHAM. City. cA.25-tf
Claude R. Tarkington, an
Elizabeth City boy who was
sent to a U. - S. army training
camp on August 6, 1918, return
ed from overseas and arrived in
Elizabeth City Saturday night
to - find a motherless baby boy
15 days old. His wife of 16
months, who was formerly Miss
Allie Williams, died Saturday,
April 13 while her husband was
about to embark at Brest,
France for America. Friends of
Mrs. Tarkington had tried for
weeks to get Private Tarking
ton released from military ser
vice so that he could be with his
wife when the baby was born.
But there's a lot of red tape in
the army. .:' Private Tarkington
was released too late.
Claude Tarkington is broken with
grief and will never again be the light
hearted boy he was when he kissed
his bride farewell on that eventful day
in August 1918. He will never feel
the same toward his country again.
War has put a hot iron on his heart
and left a scar that time will never ef
face. He will tell you that no matter
how many wars may be declared in
future, he'll never, never go to another
one. .
Claude Tarkington made a good sold
ier. His discharge papers give . the
lie to the many reports that he had
trouble with an officer at Camp "Wads
worth. It was told that an officer had
accused him of faking a bad foot and
that Tarkington resented the - lie and
slapped the officer's face. It sounded
like Tarkington. Even his friends be
lieved the story, but thought not less
of him for his. characteristic display
of manliness. But there was nothing
to that report. - His discharge papers
show that his conduct was "very good"
that he was never absent, without
leave and that he had merited the die-
in the-front line trenches in the Meuse-
Argonne region from September 20, .
1918 until the signing of the armistice.
No one except his wife ever heard
from him after he reached France. He
says the soldier got very little writing
paper and that he never . did have
enough paper to correspond with his
friends. He says a soldier over there
HddRn't cret much of anything. He
says the soldier's big meal in a day
consists of a portion of badly cooked
chunks of beef or horseflesh and a little
of the liquor it was boiled in, a. potato
cooked with the skin on and a mug
of coffee that is some times too strong
and some times too weak, but never
good coffee. He says the officers live
in fine style and get plenty of sweets,
but the private's tooth for sweets is
seldom satisfied. He says he has seen
doughboys pay $5 for a slice of bread
spread with Jam. .
Asked what he left the American
soldiers doing , in France at this late
date, ne saia: x
roads for France, working to. overalls
just UKe our convict 7 . "'Il
here on our county roaas.
what the American soldiers were doing
building roads for France? he couldn t
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SOUTH MILLS TOWNSHIP
WILL GET STATE AID
Anxious For Pasquotank Highway
Commission to Begin Their Link
in Interstate Road
South Mills Township, Camden coun
ty will get State and federal aid on its
highway project connecting with Pas
quotank and Norfolk County, Va. The
State .Highway Commission has assur
ed South Mills that it can get the state
and federal funds, according to Daniel
Ed. Williams of South Mills who was
in Elizabeth City this week.
In order to get a permanent high
way from Elizabeth uity
jiouth, Va. via South Mills and the
Dismal Swamp Canal, the people of
South Mills township agreed to buna
that link of such a highway thru their
tnwnshiD. The last General Assemmy
authorized the township to bond for
$50,000 to build this road. Pasquo
tank will meet them at the Camden
county line near Hinton Corner. South
Mills will carry the road on to the
Virginia line, along the banks of the
Dismal Swamp Canal. NorfoiK coun
ty, Va. will do the rest.
"The only thing that's worrying us
now", says Mr. Williams, "Is a fear
that you Pasquotank folk are going to
be slow about building. your end of
the road. We hear a lot of talk about
building to Weeksville first, we warn
you to build to Hinton Corner first.
To The Voters of 8econd Ward:
I am still in the race for one of the
aldermen from our ward. I have no
nets, I belong to no faction, but stand
for an honest, Just, and economical ad
ministration. .
This was my platform, when I was
MniiMtui tt T-iin-.fi.nd.it is now.
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