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NORFOLK SOUTHERN R. R. I PEANUT GROWERS TO IN A CLASS OF ITS OWN MEET IN SUFFOLK MAY 1 7 . Not Another Rail Road in The Country To Perfect a Cooperative Business Or- Like It, Says News & ganization With Capital Stock Observer Of $25,000 Don't you wish had one? v3 ck fou Over lour million bicycles are in daily use in the United States. Nearly a million more wilf come into use this year. RIDE A P. DeLON, 124 N.Poindexter Street. This is National Bicycle WMay 3 to 10. This is the week to buy a b;cyc,e to get the: greatest good from i? ?hw Spring. W. S. CARTWRIGHT, 125 N. Poindexter St. Kit..; 1 1 LE A personal letter to one of the News and Observer force written from a fin ancial center of the country tells an interesting story of the Norfolk South ern Railroad and the eastern part Of North Carolina, inspiring the News and Observer to say that this railroad Is without precedent among the Troads of the South, and perhaps of all the United States. To begin with it owns, so the letter says, all the stock of the John L. Roper Lumber Company, which has the biggest holdings of any lum ber company in the East, and besides owning the timber on the big end of a million acres it owns in fee probab ly half a million acres. Much of this land is capable of reproducing a crop of timber time after time, and such as is not so valuable in this way is being sold to a considerable extent for farming. The mills of the company make freight for the railroad. The farms make more freight, and the road is continually on its own land increasing its transpor tation business. Its timber lands are tfie largest body near to the coast and the big cities and markets of the North Atlantic, and the truck farms are also Inear the coast and the markets. There- fore, the road has not only freight for its line, but markets for its products soon after they leave its lines. It can put its products to the tidewater on its own lines, and find a market when it gets them at its own delivery ter minals. The report to the Interstate Com merce Commission on the value of the road and its properties is said to have exceeded by several millions its stock at face value and its bonded debt. "With the steady increase in the value of the lands it is selling to developers, and to some on a big scale for big schemes, it appears that the more land the com pany sells the greater is the value of its land, for that which is left increases in value about enough to make up the difference made by selling a portion Prom which it appears that the Nor folk Southern is in an enviable condi-. tion. ELIZABETH CITY HAS AN IMPROVED STEAM LAUNDRY Albemarle Steam Laundry Installs Much New and Modern Equipment U all three flavors F 0 In the sealed J TjZj packages j)ut look 2f iJt for the name Pf l4 UMslUEYS r I because it is your i f protection against inferior imitations i I just as the sealed f I package is protec- J m.A I tion against im- t pority- J 1cf I SPAfPn TlftHT II I I i kept Kiyn i I I I Z Flavor 'it LastsI h$ w i 1'! HOW IT'S DONE BY RALPH POOL. Say, Mister Local Voter, won't you kindly stop and think just why our City Government stays ever on the blink; just why the same old grafting bunch keeps always at the wheel, to steer the ship municipal upon a shaky keel. There's nothing strange about this fact, to puzzle any guy; it's plain as anything could be, and here's the reason why: The politician looks ahead and works both day and night to make the totals add hfe way upon election night; on Xmas eve he lies awake, and all his wits doth ply, to make Shank Smithers vote for him the fourth day of July. He never misses any chance to boost his plans along, and so for him each voting-time it just one glad, sweet song. If you would lift our town affairs from their graft-rid-ren state by kicking out the ruling crowd and their arch potentate, then you must make your efforts count, with this your end and aim: To ditch the big Boss Politick to beat him at his game. Take from his slate the simple plan of Work, and Work in time; thus help your City rise above corruption, graft and slime. "1 Elizabeth City now has one of the best equipped steam laundries in the state. The Albemarle Steam Laundry, Larry Ennis Skinner, proprietor, has recently 'installed a number of new and improved machines which put his laundry in a class with the best. An inspection of the Albemarle Laundry to-day will show one the ad vance that has been made in laundry methods in a few years. The old method was to cleanse the clothes with powerful . chemicals. Modern laundry machinery does fetter work with neu tral soap and Water. Many laundries still cling: to the old fashioned way of ironing: with machines heated by gas or gasoline. The latest type modern machines use steam and can not burn or scorch the garments. All ironing devices in the Albemarle Steam Laun dry are steam heated. Having enlarged the capacity of their laundry, the Albemarle Steam Laundry will give more attention to mail orders. They expect to secure agents . at all post offices. Where they have no agents they deal with the consumer direct by parcel post. A general call for a meeting of pea nut growers at Suffolk,. "Va., Saturday, Mav 17. at 11 A. M. in the city hall is being sent out to the peanut growers of Virginia and North Carolina. The special object of this meeting is to perfect a cooperative' organization with all the functions of a selling and buying agency. The minimum capi tal stock is to be $25,000 and the shares are to be of a par value of $5 each. I No one grower will be permitted to own more than 20 shares, if the recommen- datlons-of . the special committee issu ing the call are carried out. At this meeting each-township or magisterial district is to have one dele gate or representative, who should be selected at a meeting of the growers ! of such political unit called for this purpose. It is proposed that the seat ing in the hall be by counties and that each county be asked to name its nom inees for membership . on the board of directors of the proposed organiza tion. However, any peanut growers of these two states will be most welcome to the meeting and a full attendance is requested. One point made perfectly clear in the general call is that the new organiza tion will in no way take the place of the Virginia-North Carolina Peanut Growers' Association, organized two years ago. This Association will con tinue its work of awakening an indus try on the part of the growers in the development of the peanut industry. Through it the growers will have their appeal to the United States and the state departments of agriculture for specialists to study the problems of the peanut industry. Financial assist ance on the part of the state legisla tures will be asked for the promotion of the peanut just as is done for the fruits at the present time. It is pointed out that the meeting at Suffolk will be strictly business with talking cut out and with everything in shape for quick action. The com mittee on charter will meet at Suffolk Friday, May 16, for the purpose of drawing up the plans to be submitted and will have its report ready for the . meeting as soon as called. The growers of northeastern North Carolina are urged to arrange for their local meetings at once and to have a full representation. A full delegation from these counties will show that the peanut growers of this section are in full sympathy with this movement to perfect a business organization and that they are deter mined to do their full part to bring it about. SQUEEGEE TREAD SAYS FARMERS SHOULD LIVE ON THE FARM County Agent Nyegaard Tells What He Wants To Do For Cam den County i SALE OF PROPERTY FOR TAXES ADDITIONAL TRAVEL PAY DUE 1,500,000 SOLDIERS Additional travel pay is due to the million and a half men who have been honorably discharged from the army, navy and marine corps and sent to their homes, places of residence or to the oiiginal points from which they were mustered into the service. Public Law No. 300, enacted Febru ary 28, 1919, authorized the payment of five cents per mile as travelling ex penses for these discharged men, but prior to that date the rate allowed was three and a half cents. It is ob vious, therefore, that the men entitled to the differences between five and three and a half cents are those who have been discharged between the dates of November 11, 1918 and Febru- ar-r 9 11 for those discharged subse- j ' . quent to the last named date receive- the full five cents per mile to whicn they were entitled. Manv. if not all the men, now know of Public Law No. 300, and are apply ing to the Red Cross Home Service "Workers for instructions as to the method to pursue to obtain the differ ence due them. The Government, how ever, has made it very plain that it is not yet prepared to mail checks cover ing this difference and correspondence containing questions in regard to the matter merely clogs the machinery and in no wav hastens a settlement. As soon as the matter is adjusted in such shape as to make these checks avail able, sufficient publicity will be given the whole subject so that every man may know that the time has come to make the necessary application. THE CCD RELIABLE YEAST POI"JDEB To insure digestibility, wholesomeness, deli- mxt YtttnSJ , cacv and fine even texture of your rolls, biscuits. j55gSgpll gems and cakes use Rumford, -.the belrfflg iiri B powder of positive purity and efficiency U Every pound of Luz? laiuae Coffee comes to you in an air-tight tin can. The original goodness of the coffee is all there sealed in 1 Luziaxrne retains its flavor. GUARANTEE. If. aftar asinc enttra eoo tenta of tb. ctn mccordlnc to directions. TO ar mot aattatiad in evarr respect, ywu grocer will retiuKt the money you paid lor tt. coffi The Retty-Tor G Mew Urteaixs For the non-payment of Taxes due to the City of Elizabeth City for the year 1918, I will sell at the Court House Door in Elizabeth City, on Monday, June 9, 1919, at 12 o'clock M.t the follow ingr city lots for the City Taxes, and lands located in Elizabeth City Town ship upon which Graded School Tax has not been paid. An additional cost of 95 cents is added to all Taxes here in specified making a total as here shown. GEO. H. WOOD, City Tax Collector White Humphries and Bro., 1 lot 2.63 Jenkins, Mrs. M. A- 1 lot 16.22 Morgan, Chas., Est., 3 lots 34.26 AAnreran flhas.. Est. AeL for Children, 1 lot 4.98 Phillos, S. W., 2 lots 10.51 Sykes, J. W., 1 lot z.iz Tillett. Ms. Pattie. 1 lot 11.77 White Delinquents Howard. J. W.. 1 lot 9 1.73 Rirl. T. T.. 1 lot 2.02 SSra.lliners. "T A.. 1 lot 4.41 White, S. W., 1 lot 1.20 Negro Rftwser. W. C. 1 lot . 1.55 Brickhouse, Isaac, I lot 6.73 Brinkley, Ira, 1 lot 1.95 Burgess, Joseph, 1 lot 1.79 Cherry, Ermon, 1 lot v . . 5.81 Cobbr P. DeSoto, 1 lot 5.97 Dixon, Nellie, 1 lot 1-79 Dozier, Ellen, 1 lot 2.63 TTMno-o- "RliVm. 1 lot 5.55 Glover, Ed.. Est., 1 lot 9.34 Glover, Wm., 1 lot 10.93 Gritnn, i;nas., x lot Griffin, J. E. & W. A.,. 1 lot 1.95 Hoggard, Jos. S., 1 lot 6.98 TrkVinoriTi - Tfte Ernest. 1 lot 6.31 Lane, Emma G., 1 lot 10.03 Lumdsen, Jas. E., 1 lot 1.79 Mebane, Jno., " 1 lot 6.31 Vowhv Virerinia- 1 lot 19.33 Owens, Luther, 1 lot 6.31 Perry. J. E.. 1 lot 2.30 Rogers, Dave, Est., 1 lot 2.15 Spruill, Jno. H., 1 lot 2.29 Tillett. J. B., 1 lot 7.15 Turner, Martha, 1 lot 4.96 Watkins, Clarence, 1 lot 1-35 Txrv.1KU Alfarv 1 lnt 5.72 11 ucuu.x - J XK7hia naniel 1 lot O.OD 11 mbb) - nrru "WT 9. tnta ...... J-l.D I ?l mw;, wv. ' A Txrv. ioViiiT-at Tniiasi. 1 lot l.-U Nanm Ditlinfluantl Bond, Clifton, 1 lot $ 9-32 Davis, Caroline, x ioz Gallop, Chas. Est., 1 lot 8-66 Godfrey, Lyda, 1 lot 2.30 Johnson, George, 1 lot - HT T? 1 Irt 10.58 Jones, Thomas, 1 lot ' Lane, Amy, 1 lot J-JJ nn inr 17! 1 lot O.al Owens, Demos. Est.. 1 lot z.w t.ij non "WT 1 lot ........... O.9o nciui .v. .... Sanders,. T. J.. 1 lot...... Spellman, Louisa, 1 lot Spruill, . J. - T., 1 . lot Stewart, --.J. W.. 1 lot .. White Alberta, 1 lot 'Every farmer., should ... plan, -to live at home this year," says John Nye gaard, County Agent of Camden. Mr. Nyegaard explains: "By this I mean that he should raise plenty of vegetables for home consump tion, sufficient feed stuff for his live stock, and raise plenty of hogs to, fur nish meat for family use. "There is also money for the farmer in raising hogs for the market. They can be grown on grazing crops, fat tened on peas, beans, potatoes, peanuts and hardened on corn and then shipped to market by the car load lots. . To make these shipments calls for cooper ation among farmers. There is money in raising a good bred of any sort of live stock, therefore it is my intention to organize a Breeders Association in Camden County, some time in the near future. It is my earnest desire to as sist every farmer in this county in se curing better breeds of live stock. "My chief aim this year is to help secure better methods of farming; im proved farm implements; better breeds of live stock; better roads; better mar keting system; and to arousethe farm ers to the urgent need of cooperation in all things. I am here to serve the farmer in any and every possible way. therefore do not hesitate to call on me. IS THE MULLET DOOMED? Is the mullet to follow the shad? It is becoming more scarce each year, judging from an article quoted by the New York Fishing Gazette. This is sure to result if a change is not made in the mesh. When 3 7-8 to 4 inch was used it took from 90 to 100 to fil a barrel; with the mesh now used (2 1-2 Inch) it takes 200 to. fill a bar rel. It is suggested that the mesh be gradually enlarged until it is back to the old measurements, otherwise these nopular fish will become as scarce as the shad. The Southerners would miss the mullet more than the shad. Some thing should be done at once to save these popular fish from destruction. . 1.85 . 5.89 . 9.91 . 10.58 6.31 wulo j-u-?i - - : - - - . . . a Whitehurst, Armour, Heirs. 1 lot .7 THESE DURABLE SOLES VORN BY MILLIONS "After giving Neolin Soles a thor ough trial, I would not go back to the soles I used to wear even though toe cost, were less. I receive twice the service from shoes with Neolin Soles, writes G. P. Jones, of Omaha , More than 10,000,000 pairs of Neolin Soles have been put on American shoes. realize the ad- r CVpiC virus. . - 7. , J x vantages of this stienUfically-made sole its long wear, its uvw proofness and its final economy. Good shoe stores everywhere- sell Neolin-soled shoes in many styles for men, women, and children. And any repairman will re-sole your worn shoes with Neolin Soles made by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.. Akron, Ohio, who also make Wingfoot Heels guaranteed to outwear all nther lieels. - Working: with pre cision, certainty, and relentless energy, American business, men, turned warriors, gave a demonstration of' efficiency never to be forgotten. They learned their efficiency in American corporations 1 earned to make sure they were right, then go "full speed ahead.' For1 that is the spirit of American business: that, for instance, is how corporations buy their tires. Take the Iten Bisf cuit Co., in Omaha, for example. Out of a thousand Diamond Tires used in 1918. 995 ' made marks between 7,200 and 18,000 miles. There's an example Of American efficiency for you efficiency in the production of big mileage tires at a rea sonable price, and effi ciency in knowing how to buy big money's worth. Standard Drug Company ' Elizabeth City, N. C. CokUn Goto Park Sa FrmneUco
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