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rPTPAY, AUGUST 22, 1919, THE INDEPENDENT, ELIZABETH)CITY N.r C. PAGE FIVE mHMIIFIHHII"l" 1 RIOT AND STRIKE I INS URANC In these trying days of reconstruction with its de spairing social and political unrest riot, strike and; ex plosion insurance is almost as important as fire insur ance. ; -...-. : . Permit lis to point out to yQU the advantage of our AEAOLICIES covering loss caused by STRIKES, : RIOTSCIVIL COMMOTION : ANlJ : EXPLOSION which is expressly excluded from allfire msxircelom tracts. -II We invite dbrrespondence; or beittfer stillcalj atotSv offices and examine one of these policies. i. v DON'T WAIT-DELAYS TREBLE RATES Don't wait for a strike or a riot to get one of these policies. Rtes treble when strike or riot begins. The cost otherwise is comparatively-low and in these uncer tain times is money well spent Culpepp ier, -Griffin, Old & Grice Co. L. E. OLD, Mgr. Elizabeth City, N. C JlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllUlllllllllIII AT HOME AND ABROAD -A Review and Interpretation of "1 Gnrrent Events as Seen by P"" ; ' " G . r . P A C Tf A T, J. on an JtLii IllllllfeJ Are voti hitting - R are you missing? missing one of the few hot weather consolations. TAre you wide awake all through the , long sultry hours, or are you dopey and sluggish from the Heat? For an exhilarating mental pick-ms-vp, Pepsi - Cola is simply priceless Kill the Hot Weather, Keep Cool and feel like a Million Dollars 1 Irink Stimulating, Exhilar ating, Delightful PEPSI-COLA "It Make You Scintillate!' SHINGLES LIME - SAND CEMENT Prompt Deliveries, Quality Material, Fair Prices LAMBERT BROS. Inc. Water and Poindexter Sts. Elizabeth City, N. C. ' MMwwwwwywwywwMyyywwywiw A Fire-Piroof IRoof ; j : COSTS NO MORE THAN THE OTHER KIND Galvanized Metal Shingles, rust proof and fire resist lng, cost no more than good wood shingles. Lay them right on your old sheathing. Take less time to lay than wood shingles. They look better and are infinitely better because they wear longer and resist fire. Metal Shingles put on Christ Episcopal Church in this C1y 10 years ago are there to-day and look good as ever. Get my prices. , " ' E. J. C O H O O N (Succesors to COHOON & JACKSON Main and Water Streets Elizabeth City, N. C NOTICE Board of Commissioners of Currituck County, North Carolina: In accordance with the public local acts, of 1917, Chapter 95 this Board offers for sale to highest bidder for cash the Bonds of one thousand dol-r lars each, due thirty (30) years after .date of said Bonds. Interest to be paid semi-annually at the rate of six per cent per annum at the First and Citizens National Bank, of Elizabeth Cfty, North Carolina. Said Bonds to be numbered severally from 26 to 65 inclusive. Bonds to be dated Oc tober 6th, 1919. Said bonds are to be sold separately. Sealed bids will be received until noon Friday 12thJ day of September, 1919. Each bid accompanying a certified check of ten per cent of the amount bid. Said bids are to be addressed to T. WY Baxter, Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners, Currituck, North Carolina. Right reserved to reject any and all bids. WM. W. STUART, Chairman. T. W. BAXTER, Clerk to Board. cA.15-4t KAHLBAUM WHITEHURST Miss Marie Whitehurst of this city was married to Mr. William Kahlbaum, of Rolla, Mo., at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Whitehurst, on North Road Street, Wednesday morn ing. Mr. and Mrs. "Kahlbaum will make their home in Missouri! SUGAR AND There is a scarcity of OTHER FOODS sugar all over North Carolina, and at the time when sugar is needed for preserving fruits and pre; venting them from going to. waste. The most exasperating iiuus- xu. . connection with the scarcity of sugar is that it is needed ' for -preserving fruits and pre senting them from going-to waste. The most exesperating thing in . connection with the scarcity of sugar is that it is not due, it seems, to a small supply- in the hand's of the refiners. .The trouble is that the refiners are exporting sugar instead of delivering it 4 to the home market. On last Saturday a dealer ad vertised that he had 5.0&0 tons, ten mil lion pounds, of -export sugar in one -lot, and other export lots of sugar for sale. With this situation it is hard to under stand why the Government is not dealing directly with the refiners instead of seizing the sugar in the hands of large distributors bought to supply their reg ular trade. There is something crooked about this sugar business somewhere -The Government has been seizing eggs in cold storage, and some canned vege tables here and there, -but has . not ap preciably lowered the cost of foods. Meats that sold a year ago at forty cents a pound to-day are selling for fifty. On ly in Ohio where Governor Cox has ta ken the lead in unearthing hoarded food stuffs has anything been accomplished end it is unlikely that -there will be any permanent improvement there. The laws that protected us somewhat in wartime are no longer enforced, and Congress is wrangling over proposed new food laws as suggested by President Wilson not passing them. i THE FARMER AND ;The people of THE STRIKER the cities are loud in their outcries against farmers, especially the producers of milk. Last week the authorities in Ohio arrested and put in dail seven farmers who were representing the Ohio Farmers Co-Op-erative Milk Company. In New York State Attorney General Palmer is lend ing aid in proceedings by State officials against the milk producers. The farm ers are not letting these things pass without vigorous protests. They say that they are not guilty of profiteering; milk may be high in New York City, but the New York farmer gets less than 20 cents a gallon for inspected milk. "The National Board of Farm Organizations calls attention to the lact that if farmers shall be denied the right to do collective bargaining in the sale of their produces, if they are to be branded as criminals for doing openly what all business is permitted to do unmolested, that such class distinction will not always be borne with patience by the farmers of the country." So long as the packers and sugar refiners are allowed to feed fat their greed on the necessities of our people the protest of the farmers will have force. But the farmers would have to go much further than they have done, if they -are to matcathe. .strikers on ereat transportation systems in their disregard of the public welfare. -Should the farmers by agreement refuse to sell their produce their case would be more nearly like that of those strikers who proposed to tie up the transportation of all our railroad systems, and the interur ban lines in New York City. They at once brought serious inconvenience to the five million people of that city, and threw every kind of business and man ufacturing industry into confusion. This disregard of the public welfare and of the rights of - others 'cannot be justified except in cases of extreme emergency. The ugliest part of this New York strike is that it seems to have the sanction of the owners of the interurban lines, be cause the owners think that the strike will bring about an increase in the price of fares. Whether this be true or no the strikers are .showing an arbitrary disposition in their demand of a 50-per cent increase in waees already high. Nor is New York the only city to suffer. For the second time in four months Pittsburg is tied up by a car line strike. Such instance make stronger the argument for compulsory arbitration of such labor dis putes. PROMISE OF In the prevailing scar ABUNDANCE city of food it is good to know that Cuba is said to be har vesting the greatest crop of sugar cane in her history. In this country the su gar beet crop is 7,000,000 tons in 1919 against 5.000.000 tons in 1918. Our wheat crop this year was over a billion bushels, an excess of 100,000,000 bush els over the crop of 1918. Our corn crop is estimated at nearly three billion bushels, an . inerese of 250,000,000 bushels over that of 1918. Our estima ted cotton crop of 10,617,000 bales is less by a million bales than that of last year. In 1918 at the seven principal markets there were received 13,555, 000 cattle, almost twice as many as in 1914, the year the war began. The only reason why we should lack is that our present laws favors the food profiteers. It is time for Congress to act,. ANDREW CARNEGIE Andrew Car negie was buried at xarrytown, is. x., jn the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery on Aug ust 14. Only about forty people were in the funeral party. About the same number had attended the simple fStneral Approximately 500 boys from all parts of the State are now attending the an nual short cours for club boys at the. State College of Agriculture, which is provided by the farm demonstration di vision of the Agricultural Extension Service. The course lasts three days, and is arranged along thoroughly prac tical lines. "I Spent a $1 on Rat-Snap and Saved the Price of a Hog." James McGuire, famous Hog Raiser of New Jersey says, "I advise every farmer troubled with rats to use RAT-SNAP. Tried everything to get rid of rats. Spent $1 on RAT-SNAP. Figured the rats it killed saved the price' of hog.", RAT SNAP comes in cake form. No mixing with other food. Cats or dogs won't touch it. Three sizes 25c, 50c, $1.00. Sold and guaranteed by CITY DRUG STORE, CULPEPPER HDW. CO., and G. W. TWTDD Y. A.22-4t flSAVES LABOHfS A v- SAVES TTCSE J j J services, whiCh were Conducted by a Presbyterian minister in the Lenox, Massachusetts, Congregational Church. But it is needless to asy that the small number of mourners is . not indicative of lack of popular appreciation of Mr. Car negie's great benefactions. In hundreds of pulpits last Sunday reference was made to Mr. Carnegie's gifts, and while some of the preachers were not so cer tain about the'rest of his soul, all had only praise for his god work.' in found ing, libraries, and colleges and institute's for the advance of medical science. His total benefactions " we're ,$350,695,650, It is estimated!" that his wea at ' the time he died was $500,000,000. :He had not avoided .the disgrace-1 of .dying chi but he had made an honest effort, Hd he kept all his money he would probacy ly been worth a billion. He was born iu; Scotland, was a poor boy, came, to the United States early in life, and found here the. land of opportunity. His will has not yet been made public. He leaves a wife and one daughter, Mrs. Roswell Miller. . COTTON It had been- supposed that when trade was resumed with Germany there would be a firm and steady' de mand for all the cotton that the United States could furnish. But such is not the case. Some one has been able to bring it about that shopping for cotton for Germany is very hard to secure, and shipping rates are so high that 30-cent cotton cannot be laid down 'at Hamburg for less than a dollar a pound. At this price the German consumption of cotton is considerably curtailed. The New York and Liverpool markets seem to be un der the control of the spinners who bear the market in i he face of the most un favorable crop prospects that have ever obtained. Some think that we shall not gin this year more than 8,000,000 bales. The causes of this poor crop are, cold in May, lack of proper fertilizers, lack ofv. cultivation owing to scarcity of la bor, injury by rain, and boll weevil and red spider. ANOTHER VET0 Again President Wilson has vetoed the repeal of the so called Daylight Savings Law, though the repeal was passed by "a vote of 3 to 1 in the House and of more thna 4 to 1 in the Senate. It is to be presumed that these Senators and Representatives know what the people want. But Mr. fWilson does not seem to care what the people want when his whim is contrary. He cleaims that the Daylight law is an advantage to industry, as if the indus tries of the country were not depepdent upon the products of the farm and he is very much mistaken in his assumption that the farmers are alone in finding the present arrangement burdensome. It is especially hard on mothers and house wives who have to do their own work. Little children cannot be put to bed by law nor can people change their time of gping to bed to keep pace with the turning up of the clock. The result is that many are robbed of - needed; sleep and rest. But Mr. Wilson thinks he knows. So he insists on keeping a war emergency measure of doubtful benefit even in war upon an exasperated peo pie in time of peace. - :A the fcssf mS&' " . fcf benefi&af - .. 1 1 to geU s -f Flavor j MUCH TO INTEREST ONE IN A NEWSPAPER PLANT Many Wonderful Labor Saving Machines Required in the Production of Your Copy of The Indepndent The mechanical details . of newspaper like THE INDEPEN DENT will interest thousands of rural readers who have never been inside a modern print shop In no industry is labor saving ma chinery employed more effective lv than in the oroduction of a j modern newspaper. To begin with, most 3f the type mat ter in the paper is set by machinery. The pictures used, to illustrate the news and advertisements are made by machin mm- - i 1 ' C J ery. many or tne piaies 01 me yicturea e sees in the ads in this newspaper are made right here in the shop; THE INDEPENDENT being the only paper in northeastern North Carolina equipped to do this work. After the machine production of type and illustrations, comes the machine pro duction of the printed newspaper. Eight pages ot XiiHi hn uniirjiiis umi x are equivalent to one flat, sheet of papes 35 by 48 inches. The paper is printed on flat sheets of this size. But" the reader couldn't handle a sheet that large, so it is necessary to fold and trim the papers to a handy size. Here another machine comes into play. The folding machine used by .this newspaper is a marvel of mechanical Ingenuity. Setting "up, printing and folding the paper does not end the work of the ma chines. It is important to get the print ed paper, quickly into the hands of more than 3,000 subscribers. The paper goes to press about 3 o'clock every Thursday afternoon. To reach the bulk of the subs cribers on Friday the papers must be in the post office in Elizabeth City that evening. Here another wonderful ma chine plays its part; with our Belknap Rapid Addressing Machine, electrically operated, we can address papers to sub scribers at a rate of more than 1,000 aa hour. And every address will be neat and legible. THE INDEPENDENT uses the same mailing machine used by the Ladies Home Journal. The Literary .Digest and other big publications. Not another newspaper in North Carolina uses this system. - With, all the machinery- required for its publication, THIS UNDlUi'JliWJJJUJNi finds itself in cramped quarters, but its publisher and its employes will always welcome interested visitors. : One can find much of interest in a newspaper plant. . NORFOLK, VA. There are thousands of positions open in the commercial world and with the Government for Bookkeepers, Steno graphers Typists and other office assistants. YOU, can get one of these positions if you have the necessary technical knowledge:' We have trained man thousands of young men and women for such positions ; we can train YOU. . - . r' - Write for particulars. Address, J. M. RESLER, President. Invest in This Attractive Home Building Proposition DIVIDENDS ABSOLUTELY ASSURED Homes Were Never in Greater Demand in Elizabeth City , PROSPECTUS Whereas E. F. Spencer and associates have acquired West Main St. property adjoining the residences of W. A. Pinner and C. R. Pugh. Three hundred (300) feet fronting on Main St. by, two hundred fifty three feet (253) deep extending to Cherry- Street by three hundred feet, on said Cherry St ; and whereas E. F. Spencer and associates are desirous of converting the said property into a Hous ing Corporation for the purposes of constructing residences in Eliz abeth City it is therefore proposed : That those whose names are subscribed hereto in the amount set opposite their names agrees with E. F. Spencer and those whose names are hereto subscribed to take and pay for stock in the Cor poration to be organized for the purpose herein set forth, for which. rifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000) shall-be subscribed and stock is sued to the subscribers hereto in amounts equal to the amounts, hereto subscribed. - - Ten per cent of the: amount subscfibedare" herewith paid tb the Trustee herein after named, the balance payable subject to the call of the . Board of Directors of the proposed Corporation. But E. F." Spencer reserves the right to cancel such subscription and return all nibneys paid provided the minimum sum of Fifty Thou sand JJollars $50,UUU) shall not be subscribed within sixty days. That the said Corporation to be formed shall build ten or twelve bungalows arranged according to plans hereto attached to be determined by the Board of Directors of the proposed Cor poration. . '" That JLZ. F. Spencer and the associates will sell the-fcind above described to the proposed Corporation. at the price of Twelve Thou sand Dollars (12,000) and the said F. Spencer will expect to re ceive for his commission in soliciting stock in the proposed Corpor ation five per cent, which he hereby agrees to take in stock, in the proposed Corporation. - That G. R. Little, Clerk of Superior Court, shall be named as Trustee for all fundspayable to the proposed Corporation until the same is amy organized. Optimistic Thought. Station is no criterion of wisdom; Diogenes lived in a tub ; Seneca in a sua lace. ' I hereby subscribe for . . '.. . ; . . shares of stock in the above proposed Corporation at a par value of $100.00 per share. Enclosed find my check for $ '. ........ covering ten (10) per centof the par value, of stock purchased. . (Signed) . Make Check Payable to G. ' R. Little or E. F. R. Little, Trustee and mail same tor G. Spencer,- Elizabeth City, N. 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