North Carolina Newspapers

' "... " Z (.sJ k..K, t-s& 1-43 . .OSh. aVge .J j. .-ii; ;,y',:' ELIZABETH CITY, N. e FKlbAY, AUGUST. 22, 1919 NO. 579. SAUNDERS mmmmiUSBdim Ahehd EEESBETH CIW MIR c FIRST MWBBmMEB. FRGM : FIRST CONGRESS -j GAND DATE FOR CONGRESS IONAL DISTRICT a. Believes Revolutionary Aspect of Conditions In America Demands Injection of Vital Issues : Into What Would 0thmise:.Be:?4: Cut ( . and Dried Reactionary Contest YOUR HAPPIEST DRUGGIST I shall be a candidate for Con press from the First Congression al District of North Carolina, subject to the nomination of the Democratic party in 1920. Six months ago I stated that" I jiad no intention of seeking such -nomination and election. I have repeatedly stated that I have no political ambitions. That state ment is as true to-day as it ever v as. I am a candidate for rour Congress, not because of any ex pectations of being nominated and e'ected. or because of any desire tor the office. BUT BECAUSE I BELIEVE IT THE DUTY OF OME ONE WHO WILL CON DUCT CAMPAIGN ON LIVE 4XD VITAL ISSUE, TO ENTER THE CONGRESSIONAL CAM PAIGN' IX THIS DISTRICT. This country finds itself . to dav. nine months after the sign in? of the European armistice, in a state of political social and economic unrest such as it has never experienced before. We are in tne miu&t ui wtti dim itvviu tion on every hand and the old line politicians and reactionaries at the seat of government are ut terly incapable or interpreting the times and too timid to meet and face the new and strange conditions. In the face of the crisis at hand a are to have three candidates vior Congress from this district v;ho will have nothing new and via! to offer the people, their casters. Mr. Small has a splen- 41 record of personal service to -IvLviretii, oi his-'-coatk-tfe.--H-)r ample publicity. It is.hardly worth while to set forth a platform in this announcement of. my candi- dacv. Thru the columns of thisH newspaper I have already made my position clear on most subr jects of political interest. I have always treated the public frankly, believing in speaking out just what I thought about things. As the Representative of Pasquo tank county in the General As sembly of North Carolina I pur sued that policy and, kept my constituents freely informed of events at the State Capital and hundreds have told me that Twas the first representative they ever had at the Capital who let them' know that he was there and what he was doing-. If nominated and elected Congress method will and to your nursue the same keep my constituents informed of events at the nation s capital. That is one thing I can and will do that my opponents can't do and would not do. If nominated and elected I shall strive to cour teouslv and obligingly perform those thousand and one details of oersonal service required of a mpmher of Congress. I know that a Congressman's time is largely filled up with running errands for folks back home who know ho other way to get things done in Washington. Until I have further announce ments to make I shall be glad to meet and talk with those interest d in my candidacy At the pro per time I shall go before, the vo- i tar s- o re very couniy : m . i.it; i dis- has dipped into the Pork Barrel I trict in person and discuss ttipse -'id miYa nost office here, a court issues which I believe will be of r,i'p tVipr-e and a dredee in airaraniniint imoortarice in the creek out yonder. He has made coming campaign. many splendid political appoint ments and bound to himselt in this way many, of the strongest Democrats in the district. He has cent everybody some seed. K. S. Ward, Mr. Small's fellow townsman and opponent for the nomination hasn't even so much to offer. He is a better connoi seur of Scotch, perhaps, and can quote scriptures more glibly to his purposes. He expects to be elected by those who don't like Mr. Small. C. R. Pugh the Republican as pirant who will oppose Messrs. Small and Ward, has nothing' to offer the people except abuse of the record of Mr. Small. Mr. Pugh has no record of his own and the record of his party in Cong-res these six months indi cates that he must be as helpless ly and hopelessly reactionary as the most reactionary Democrat whom he denounces. Messrs. Small, Ward and Pugh are lawvers. The idea seems to 'r: that' this is a government of W. O. SAUNDERS Elizabeth City, N. C. August 22, 1919 . MAKES ASURVEY FOR NEWLAND DRAINAGE Newland township is in line for an extensive drainage project in connection with which it is planned to cut a dram age canal directly across the township hns rlrnnrinsr manv aOVes of valuable Carmine land in that community. F. O Ttarfoi Tirninne-f! Ensineer of the N. C. Deoartment of Agriculture, who mad a survey of the proposition this week states that the plan is entirely feasible He says that 60 per cent of the land to be drained is cleared, find would tnere fore be immediately available for farm ing. He gives an approximate estimate of the cost of the undertaking at $12 to $15 per acre. The section which it is planned to drain is in the heart of Newland township, and it will be a re gion of great fertility and productivity when the surface water has been drain ed away. i: "T : r1 GEORGE F. WRIGHT GEORGE F. WRIGHT, the popular mnaager of the Standard Pharmacy, Elizabeth City Rexall Store, has enter ed the ranks of good and useful citizen ship. Mr. Wright was married bright and early last Saturday morning. The bride is Miss Isa Parker, a daughter of Mrs. J. H. Parker, Sr., of this city. The marriage was at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. J. E. Moran, on West Main St. Mr. and Mrs. Wright are honey mooning in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Mr. Wright taking in the Rexall Druggists Convention at Boston at such hours as Mrs. Wright is willing. W. T. CULPEPPER BUYS POINDEXTER ST. CORNER Expects to Build For Culpepper Hard ware Co. on Corner of Poindexter and Matthews Streets W. T. Culpepper has purchased the property on the corner or l'omuexter and Matthews streets in this city, now occupied by a huckster's stand. The pro perty is 47 feet on Poindexter St., by S2 feet on Matthews St. and was owned by Misses Eldora and .Elizabeth sstnpson. Air. Culnepper : paid-thp- Misseft- Sampson $S,000 for the property. It is Mr. Cul pepper's intention to build a store for the Culpepper Hardware Co. The pro- nprtv is one of the best retail business. sites in the city. MRS. H. W. HEATH DIED SUDDENLY WEDNESDAY m :30 '".co" raced to aoie Xo one but a lawyer is run for any re- lesrislative office. And t is the trouble with this coun- :.y to-day. A Congress, of law ; " can not deal frankly and in--'' ir entiv with a restless and1 dis people, b,CAUSE THE LAWYERS ARE SCHOOLED I'XDER CORPORATION IN FLUENCES AND, AS A RULE, CAX SEE THINGS ONLY FROM THE CORPORATION VIEWPOINT. Mr. Small, an as tute corporation lawyer, has nev er abandoned his law practice since he entered Congress more than 20 years ago' and is to-day the employe of numerous cor porations who are not unmind ful of the fact that he is a Con gressman as well as a good law yer. Mr. Ward, who'asks you to give him Mr. Small's office, pro bably represents as many cor porations as Mr. Small. I don t know how manv- corporations. Mr. Pugh represents ; but I do know that it will not be Mr. Hugh's disposition, to .turn down retainers from them. I am not a lawyer; I do not re present any corporation; no cor poration has any strings tied to me. My interests are the inter ests of the plain people and 'I-believe I am more capable of inter preting their desires and fulfill- lrg their expectations than,, airy; !awyer who can aspire to repre-J aent them At the proper time I shall an nounce my platform and give it BAPTISTS tO CONFER HERE TUESDAY, SEPT. Mrs. Iloratio W. Heath died suddenly at her hoie on Pennsylvania Ave this city Wednesday evening, about 5 o'clock. At 5 o'clock Mrs. Heath was alive and showed no symptoms of un usual illness. Se took a dose of salts and laid down on a couch to rest. Half hour later the cook came in the room to ask her a question and found her still in death. Mrs. Heath was about 73 years old. Paralysis is thought to have been the cause of her death. She was stricken ihnnt thrift vears aso and -had never fullv recovered from the stroke. Mrs, Heath is survived by her aged husband inl hv twn dauehters. Mrs. R. E. Lewis and Mrs. Wm. Boettcher. Her daughter VniT7o Kppti snendins the summer at Swannanoa, in the mountains of West em North Carolina. Mrs. Boettcher was on her way home when her mother AiaA nnrl , arrived here yesterday morn ing. Mrs. Lewis will arrive to-day ts for the funeral had not been completed when this newspaper went to press. Under Management of L. D. Gase Directors, f Fair; Association expect a r air- or; Unusual Interest s Some Attractions Already. Booked (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs- HAS JNO. BOLICH KILLEDHIMSELF? Aged Man, Deserted by Pretty Young Wife, Mysteriously Disappears CHAS. H. ROBINSON Ask any one to name the ten leading long before citizens of Elizabeth City and chances are he will begin witn unas. M. Kooin- son. The name ot Unas, m. Kobinson is so inseparably linked with nearly every phase of the commercial, industrial and financial development of Elizabeth City that one cannot, think cf Elizabeth City without thinking of Chas. H. RobinsonT With true Yankee foresight, thrift and ndustry he has biulded well and -made money for himself in the bargain. He was born in Jefferson County, New York in 1848. In 1868 he came to Eliz abeth City as secretary and accountant for the Land & Lumber, Co. The Land & Lumber Co. failed in 1883 and Chas. H. Robinson, then 25 years old, went broke with iU The salvation THE INDEPENDENT'S dv hut this newsnaoer onines that he must have been a live wire in merchan dising. While in the mercantile business Mr, Robinson learned the" fundamentals" of banking, thru handling collections in this city and vicinity for .Norfolk bankers. Eltzaheth Citv then had no bank. In 1891 he organized the First National Bank, of Elizabeth City, with $50,008 capital stock. This bank, recently con solidated with the Citizens Bank and now known as the First &. Citizens National Bank, to-day has more than $3,000,000 00 resources and its latest statement shows deposits in excess of $2,000,000.00. Chas. H. Robinson is president of the First &. Citizens National Bank; presi dent of the Elizabeth City Cotton Mills; Army- matte, ."A- mastms&w dowtt-Dutpprsident jOT,XMt.iizapein.-iuy rrvMciy he is never out" had not bjn placarded j Mills; personally owns several of the best - . a V A on tne ouiooaras ot tuzaoein ouy ai that time. But young C. H. Robinson needed no such inspiration. He went quietly to work to reconstruct his small business blocks in Elizabeth City; is ac tive in the affairs of the wholesale dry goods firm of C. H. Robinson Co. and the Camden Ferry Co., owns several fortune and in 1878 he embarked in the ; fine farm properties anu expeuia iu mercantile business in this city. That was on doing things. Feolinz the necessity of deepened spirituality before the real work of the Baptist 75 Million Campaign begins1, Dr. W. R. Cullom State Organizer" for the Campaign, has arranged for a large num ber of "nitercessional conferences" to be held at places in every section of the State. One day will be spent in each conference andUhe motto will be "Inter cession With God and Conference With One Another." Baptists everywhere are urged to at tend at least one of these conferences, preferably the one most convenient ti them. The conference for . northeastern North Carolina will be held at Elizabeth City, Sept. 2, 1919. URGES PEOPLE TO BOIL THEIR WATER NO EXAGGERATION . I do not make exaggerated state ments about my work. Very re markable . results of ten follow the correction of bad vision by proper , ly fitted glMses It does not fol low that bad eyes are responsible for all ills and that the fitting' of eye glasses is a panacea for every ailment. My. especial claim to your patronage is based upon my long nnnnled with my unusual f acuities for testing the vision, grind ing the lenses and fitting the glass es on the premises. Upon investi gation you will find that I can. give the same service you would expect to find in a metropolitan city. DR. J. D. HATHAWAY Optometrist Phone 999 Bradford Bid. City Health Officer says l nis erecau- tion is Necessary in Fight Against Typhoid The City and County Health Officers of Pasquotank are urging tne impor tance of boiling all drinking water, get ting rid of the flies, cleaning up in gen eral, and typhoid vaccination in an ef- tx-y rher lr thp snread of typhoid in ally able and e this section. While the Health Officers- give out the encouraging news tha j there have ben no new cases of typhoid fever during the past week, the danger of a general9 outbreak of the fever can only be avoided by the co-operation oi every individual householder in observ ing necessary measures of sanitation, and in employing every possible precau tion against typhoid infection. In a short time the Healtb depart ment announces, there will be given a. series of free typhoid innoculations, at designated places, and the State Board of Health is insistent that everyone who has not already taken the treatment should avail "themselves of this, oppor- .in;"tr t rniTi immunity from the most tUUllrJ W O dreaded of summer pestilences. . ' E. CITY SCHOOLS OPEN SEPT. 15TH Four Additional Teachers And More Rooms Added For New Term A free business course in which bookkeeping:, typewriting; and shorthand will be taught, and a domestic science department are among- the worth while additions to the curriculum of the Eliza beth City High School for the coming session, which will begin Sept. 15. The business course will be open to pupils who have finished the first two years of high school and the work be un der the supervision .of Mrs. Byrd Barrett, a business teacher of re cognized ability. In connection with the domestic science course, which will be conducted by Miss 1 eresa Drew- Prof. Sheep hopes to form a ctess ofyoung matrons to receive instruction in cooking, -tt-z-v-iririQ c-i-if f ii-ipnt time mav be V1UVU OU.-AXW- - allowed for this work. . Efficient Corps of Teachers By long and diligent search Prof. S. toiident of the City Hr.i holies he has secured unusu 1 A PLAY AT MOYOCK ff icient teaching faculty for the approaching session, au oi we hish school teachers have had previous, teaching experience and bear the highest recommendations from their former sup erintendents. Prof. A. B. Combs has hr. Ko.aWtoii nrincipal of the High School, a hieh deeree of C Sixth Grade: Mrs. Elizabeth Pool, Misses Julia Derflinger and Linda De Lon. Fifth Grade: Mrs. H. C. Pearson, Mises Osie Riser, and Marie L,eB.oy. Fourth Grade: Misses Annie Canada, Nettie White, Kathleen Edgerton, and Alice Brockwell. Primary School Teachers Mrs. Minnie Brooks has been reap pointed principal of that wigglesome ag gregation of kiddies termed the Primary snnl - The teachers in the Primary School will be: First Grade: Misses Shelton Zoeller, e.,-: atsrons Kntherine Hinton, Janet PUPlC ATntthews and Mary Bradley; Grade: Misses Emma WUlis, Florence Bell, Margaret Harris and Mrs Etta Etheridge. TWrl Grade: Mrs. L. E. bkinner, r;nc T.oiin iAinr snail. Alice jiauv.nttiu AJV m.. , nnd Willie Jackson. Trr additional teachers have been employed this year, raising the total of i. . -i.. fomiH-x- tn fl. of whom 8 tPhors are in the High School. Prof. SWn states that he is experiencing rrp.nt difficulty in finding boarding places for 10 or 12 teachers coming from, other ot,i lio Kiis-srests that if the peo pie want to have the right kind of school 4.1, rnf provide board at reasonable Lllv J ui""" i-' " v m rates -for . these teachers- imnrnvements unaer way .; - . Around S2.500 is being spent this sum r on improvements to the school plant which have been- made necessary by the ctoiW increasing school population. Two additional rooms are ues in what was formely: the basement of the High School building, at the south end, considerable earth has been tanen an ample amount of lignt and nvenv. to insure and freedom from dampness. .The rooms thus formed wil bT equipped in a thor oughly modern mannr, and wil be among the most desirable classroms in the build ing. At the Primary School, it has been pri j 54.v. j nQxassgnr to erect . a partition di- i t:i, n nae Tiiif wxlu luuuu iv v LIZ r"; one of e J-ejoo-o jwo. One of the most mysterious cases of-disappearance in the po lice annals of Elizabeth City oc curred last Tuesday, when John Bolich, cotton mill employe, left home at 2o'clockxin the after noon, to go fishing and has neith er" been seen nor heard of since Bolich's wife left him about two weeks ago, and since her leaving he, has been very despondent ha viner several times threatened suicide, and. the fact, that he was wearing his every day clothes, and carried very little money with him when he went away, is the basis for;, a widely current belief that he has taken his own life. . V- . ; - . v. . When last seen, Bolich, who lives across the railroad on Parsonage street, was going into the" co anjry in the direc tion of the Weymouth farm. A thorough search of that neighborhood, by the po lice Wednesday : afternoon failed to" re veal 'any trace of the man, and every ef fort to locate him has met witn utter failure. Bolich is described as a red com- plexioned man,' 40 or 45 years old, about feet tall, clean shaven, and weighing around 225 pounds, and a tritle- gray around the temples. - He" wore a light gray : shirt, a pair of , light-colored .trou sers,- and a4Isek- f eit - hat -at tfce tins of disappearance.- Upon leaving his home Tuesday, Bol ich told his eldest daughter, an attrac tive girl of 18, that ue was going fish ing and would be back in time for sup per. When night came and he did not return, his three daughters became alarmed, and went over to a neighbor's to spend the night. The police were notified, of his disappearance .Wednes day morning. Bolich came to Elizabeth City from Gastonia, N. C. about five montns ago, and obtained employment- at the Eliza beth City Cotton MM. He is described as being sober,; honest and industrious, and has never left his family without making necessary arrangements for someone to stay with them, while he was away. His wife, who is 24 years old, is the stepmother of his three young daughters, and she was concerned in tne recent trial of Police Officer Grandison Phelps, who was charged with her ab duction, but was acquitted in police court Monday, the evidence not being e-h to make a case against him. It is stated that Bolich was much irnrried bv the trial, in which his wife's character was questioned, and this, add ed to his despondency over her leavnig him two weeks ago, further bears out the suicide theory. I!s daughter, Dora, savs that her father had a pistol, which he was thinking of selling last week, but it is not known whether or not he dis posed of it. A thorough search of the premises by the police failed to revepl the weapon. The girl f arther . states that Bolich has threatened three times to end his life, and, upon occassion sne. broke a bottle ot earDonc acm j.etnus that he would poison himself with it. There is also a suggestion that Bolich may have met with foul play but there is nothing to support Svtch a belief. The three children of Bolich are Dora, aged 18, Ivar, aged 15, and Daisy, aeed 11. If Bolich does not return safe and sound, they planco return to Gas tonia and make their home with mem- hors of his family there. For the pre- ,4- v,ott ore Ktavine at the home or Li. T. Allen, a neighbor wno lives ueai- by. The local police - are making every effort ' to locate Bolich, but tnus rar 4.1, lioira. hoATi unable to find even a lucj ; clue as to his whereabouts. day and Friday, November 4, 5,' 6 and "7 are the dates for Eliza beth City ,1919 District Fair.'set by the directors of the' Albemarle Agricultural Association Tuesday night. i . The Elizabeth City fair follows the" Edenton Fair which will be held Oct. -27, 28, 29 and 30; and the. State Fair which will be held Oct. 14, 15, 16 and 17. . The Fair Association finds it self getting down to work a a late date on its fair for this year,, owing to difficulties encountered in 'securing a secretary. The Chamber of Commerce finally solved i the problem by lending the Fair Association its own sec retary, Lorenzo D. Case. Case is going to run this fair and if given a free hand he will make a success of it. Case knows fairs and what they ought to be. He also knows crowds and what crowds like. ' Mr. Case hasn't got far enough with his plans yet to tell us what features to expect" of this year's fair, but even at this early date he has closed for several attrac tions; Sibley s Shows will furnish the midway attractions and pro mise to bringeveral new; shows with them. Among the free open air, attraction's will be "something brand new to this section, day light fireworks. , -The directors of the Fair Asso--xaatic34&-.4u-hple.; last-year on account of the Influenza pan-: demic and this has had the effect , of making them over cautious in the matter of expenses this yean ' They have provided for two big days horse races, whereas some think they should have .made all four days big racing days. The premium list is now in the hands of THE INDEPENDENT printers. Advertisers desiring space in this premium list should make application at once to Sec retary Case or to W. O. Saun ders. The premium list will be ready for distribution . in about ten days. COST OF CITY LIGHTS ; REDUCED BY ONE HALF Elizabeth City Light and Power Co. Re . duces Rates When Pressed by New City Manager past year. The -other teachers in the a a "Prnf. SheeD points out, these are the locf nossible additions to the existing High School will be Miss Catherine s. jen recognizeu liers in North -Miaa Tn PI lift i-aSS. ..v" " . m nrA A .-ns-v13 .a irrflfl- , : a .t- i oa it: will soon be nee-? Albertson, who has long been recogr ""TZr llun mowing of the finest teachers m iNorm esarry, uu au - - ot 1 tt: TVT;r,n attendance, to budd a new high school bunding "It is suggested that a as one Counts who holds, a degree from wm throp Normal College; Ralph W. Holmes, gfhduate of the University of North Car-a-rA . rhi Beta Kappa man; M. F. Keister, honor graduate of Mfflsaps Col- on a lot sumcieiiwy iBigc w - pie space for playgrounds 'and athletic field. in the Colored Schools The colored schools of the city will employ 10 teachers for the coming year, lege, m Mississippi; s- r .511 h nrmcinal of Barrett, oi tne juomenuy anad. huuoiu .v.. - ; v Toung people from Moyock, N. C. and Northwest, Va. will give a play entitled "Civil Service" at the High School Build ing in Moyock, Tuesday evening, August 26: i. .The entertainment is for the bene fit of the Centenary Fund pledged by the rWesley Bible Class. Admission 15 and 25 cents. , ' SPEAKERS FOR INSTITUTE m T 3 anflMrB.i).u".v : rpwi other teachers em' Science aM Busmess aepax . : MrO. - Brown, Mr PCCtlV in th. Grammar School ! 1 T. Doles. Mrs. Katy I,, Williams, Mrs.. in llio ui : .i,. Xle TVTntnriV Overton. MlSS- Miss Hattie Harney wm again ,d? yiu.- rvuiu uhd, - - . t Lirz Lcsbwu w- o auu 4vw - -ia Orammar School. ers in this department of the Graded Schools will be as followsi - Seventh Grade: Misses Hattie Harney, Martha Elliott and Frances Purris. Jones, and Sarah Sewyer. These schools are also overcrowded, and additional scholroom space must be provided in the near future. Instructive and interesting features of the County Teachers Institute 'to be held at Elizabeth City . for two weeks begin ning August 25, will be the address of Miss Jennie. Burkes, .associate director J of the American Bed Cross, on Friday, August 29, and the Btter Babies and Home Economics lecture of Miss Kate Brew -Vaughn, of, the State Bureau of Child Hygiene, during the same week. Mrs. Yapghn'is a recognized authority n ' these subjects, and -; the - ladies ' of ,Eliz. City; and Pasquotank county should avail themselves pi . tms opppnuiuy, w hear her.' " . ' Supt. H. B. Smith of the New Bern Pii-o- srlinnl. and Miss Hattie Parrott, of the State Board - of Examiners nd In ntitiitA Conductors, win have charge of the institute. Elizabeth City will be lighted for the next three years by the local Electric Light and Power Co. on a contract by the terms of which light will be sup plied to the city at less than half the present rates. Under the old contract whieh expired over two. years ago, but upon the basis of which the Light 'Com pany has continued to furnish light and power up to the present, a charge of f 1666 g-3 per.SO.candlepower' lamp per year was made, while by the terms of the new contract GO candlepower will be supplied for $16.00. t Bids were also entered by the Wels- bach Street Lighting company of Phila delphia, a gaslight concern allied with the local Gas company. They demanded the exclusive right to light the city for a five-year period, with not less than 300 lamps, the latter to be delivered to the city and erected at the city's ex pense. - Their price was $35 per 60 can dlepower lamp, more than , double the new rate, of the Light company,' and their bids were rejected."" The remarkable difference n the co8t of lights under the new contract, com pared with the Cost of lights under con tracts with the old. Mac Sawyer admin-, istration, indicates something .rotten thia side of Denmark.- ' ; Ifyou are not getting. THE INDE PENDENT, fill ; In this blank,, pin yoHr check or money order for $1.50 to IT and try It for a; year.,; It will make you think and men and wo men who don't think In these try- ; ing times are lB.a'fair"ifay to get ,; crowded off the earth, v : THE INDEPENDENT, - Elizabeth City, N. C. : ' ;i Inclosed find $10 for which; send THE INDEPENDENT for one year to the undersigned ' ; ; Name .a t - p. o. "7 Write it plainly -. mm Mi- I G'. if? C; i.