THE INDEPENDENT, ELIZABETH CITY, N. C
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FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 19
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Mail Orders Given Prompt Attention.
NORFOLK, VA. . '
Woolens at Reduced Prices
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You'll find it interesting to note the extent to which we ,
have reduced the prices of Woolen Goods.,
The list includes the most favored sorts
Plaid - Former $4.50 All-wool tnpea
Skirtings, 54 inches wide, t in
clusive patterns. Shown in black
and white and colors.
Now priced at $3.98 a yard.
Former $1.50 Wool Mixed
Plaid .Sittings, also . showfi in
stripes and checks, 40 inches wide.
Fine for kiddies' wear.
Now priced at $1.29 a yard.
VrmPr $4.50 All-WoOl
Skirtings, of extra fine quality,
shown in the newest Spring ef
Eeets; 54 inches wide.
Now priced at $3.98 a yard.
Former $3 . All-Wool Plaid
Skirtings, 54 inches wide, in the
newest Spring color combinations
and patterns.
Now priced at $2.49 a yard.
Snow Flake Suitings, 54 inches
sride. An extxra good quality for
suits, coats and skirts. Shown
in tan, brown and in Copenhagen.
Now priced at $1.49 a yard.
--Former $4 and $4.50 Velour
Coatings, all wool and full 54
vinches wide. Shown in tab, brown,
French blue, navy, reindeer and
l?lack.
Now priced at $3.50 a yard.
Homespun Suitings, aJ wool, 54
inches wide. An extra good qual
ity. Shown in tan, Copenhagen,
dark tan and French blue.
Now priced at only $1.98 a yd.
Plume Street First
Former $3 Novelty Checked
Suitings, all wool and 54 inches
wide. Shown- in navy, tan,
brown and Copenhagen.
Now priced at $2.49 a yard. .
Floor.
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The House of Arlher Morris
111 West Plume Street
NORFOLK
VIRGINIA
uReady-to-Wear" For All Occasions
WEDDING GOWNS
Ready-to-Wed and Made-to-Your-lndividua! Mea.ura.
WEDDING VEILS AND ORANGE BLOSSOMS
" Sold Separately and Reasonably Priced.
RIDING HABITS
Separate Breeches in White, Khaki and Shephard'a Plaid,
TAILORED SUITS
Made To Order from Original Designs.
MILLINERY DEPARTMENT
Hats Made and Retrimmed in Our Own Workrbomt
COLD STORAGE DEPARTMENT
Furs Stored, Cleaned, Glazed and Repaired.
TAILORED WAISTS AND SEPARATE SKIRTS
Hemstitchina , Accordion Pleating
WORKDAYS
AND REST NIGHTS
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Many find coitee a disturbing
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and use
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.Protection
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pany of New York will protect you. Ask about our new
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D. C. Twif ord
District Manager
426 Hinton Building
Elisabeth City, N. C
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A Digest of Everything Worth
, " Knowing About; Old North
' State Folks and Things
A heavy . east wind in "the section
around Wilmington saved track of all
kinds irom a threatened frost.
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The crop of strawberries in Pender
county, will be readyfor shipment about
April 20, which is from two to three
weeks earlier than usual. ,
A through Southern passenger train
from Goldsboro to Asheville, making the
trip in ten hours with eight stops, looks
to be a development of the near future
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The Commercial Bank of Wilson, an
inrtitution chartered by leading colored
men of the county, opened its doors to
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ti:e puuuc on jxiu , jl wim ioo uepusii
ors. ;
At a meeting ot-the Board of 'Trus
tees' of the Training School in Green
ville, the sum of $325,000 was appro
priated for permanent improvements to
the x school.
Fire totally destroyed the plant of
the Neuse Veneer and Box Company,
in New Bern; causing a loss of between
$75,000 and $100,000, partially covered
by insuranoe. .. '
A peanut lodged in the throat of the
year-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. C. A.
HufFins of Greensboro, caused its death
following an operation for the removal
of thei obstruction.
The Dilworth Home Building Com
pany, a million dollar concern, has just
been organized in Charlotte, for the pur
pose of building moderate priced lomesN
for salaried people.
The fifth annual session of the Wes
ley Bible Class Federation of the North
Carolina Conference, Methodist Episco
pal Church, South, is being held in
Goldsboro, this week.
The new furniture t exposition build
ing at High Point is eleven stories high
and covers a half acre of ground." It
has more floor space . than any other
building in the State. . ,
Professor J. Henry . Highsmith, State
inspector of high schools, is considered
a favorite in the list of men mentioned
to succeed Roland Beasley, as commis
sioner of Public Welfare.
The Durham Hosiery Mills this week
received one of - the largest orders for
hosiery in the history of the mills. The
order was from a .New York firm, the
name not being made public. . . .
John ' W. Carr, Jr., has been elected
superintendent of the. public schools of
Durham county to succeed Prof. Hol
land Holton, who resigned to head the
department of education of Trinity col
lege. . "
The Wake Forest Glee Club Orches
tra with Dr. Hubert M. Poteat, as di
rector, are touring the western section
.of North Carolina and several points in
South ' Carolina, on ' their Spring con
cert tour.
A merry crowd of from ten to twelve
thousand people, hundreds of whom
were costumed in gay attire, represent
ing all periods of history, celebrated the
turning on of Burlington's $15,00 white
way system.
1,000 farmers attended a mass meet
ing in the court house at Greensboro
and voiced a protest .against the present
high valuation of real estate in Guilford
county and requested that it be reduced
331-3 per cent.
J. G. Lassiter, of Norfolk, Va. died
a( the home of C. E. Blount in Wilson,
as the result of a bullet wound in his
forehead. It is thought that Mr. Las
siter accidentally shot himself while
cleaning his pistol.
Louis Graves, a North Carolinian who
has won exceptional success in news
paper and magazine work in New York
City, will go to the University of North
Carolina next fall as professor of the
college of journalism.
Mrs. William Sullivan, was shot and
killed by an unknown party, as she was
returning to her home near Winston
Salem. The house had been robbed,
and in order to cover up the work the
partykilled Mrs. Sullivan.
Governor Cameron Morrison has ap
pointed A. D. Watts, of Statesville, as
Commissioner of Revenue with powers
and duties heretofore borne by the
State Tax Commission, under provisions
of an act of the 1921 legislature.
The tobacco market closed in Win-stcn-Salem
for 1920-21 season and sales
for year footed up 60,554,408 pounds,
thus breaking all previous records by
twenty million pounds. It brought $3,-
120,775.55, an average of 22y2 cents per
pound.
Henderson county will start imme
diately upon a million dollar highway
construction movement. The coming
summer they expect to pave the Dixie
highway from the Buncombe county line
to the South Carolina state line, near
Tuxedo.
The contract has been awarded to lay
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'"i" juure yurus . oi street paring
and sidewalk in Hickory, at a cost of
$2.91 per square yard for paving or a
total of $161,000 for the street work,
while the cost of sidewalks will be
around $11,000.
It is reported that 20 miles of th 35
mile railroad from Wenona, in Wash
ington county, to New Holland, in Hyde
county, is completed. This road will
have a connection with the Norfolk
Southern at its northern terminus, it
is understood.
The Asheville .Times, Republican af
ternoon newspaper, has hn nA r
Burdett; D. Hiden Hamsev and
Gray Gorham, all three formerly mem-
Ders or. tue staff, of the Asheville OiH.
sen. They announce the politics of the
Times will be flndependeut.
The . United States .Good Roads As
ksociation - and the Bankhead National
Highway Association, will ?meet in
Greensboro, April 18-23. "Many notables
have been invited to attend this meeting,
and the Bureau of Public Roads agreed
to furnish the best exhibits of road
scenes, road models and a moving pie
ture outfit ' for the occasion.
"Your extravagances and unnecessary
expenditures doom your - sisters in
heathenism and deny them the bread of
life" declared -Dr. J. F. Love, corre
sponding secretary of the foreign mis
sion board, Richmond, Va., in an address
before the Woman's Missionary Union
Convention jn session last week in Rocky
Mount.
M. L. Shipman, Commissioner of La
bor and. Printing, has announced that
four or five free employment bureaus
Wilt be established in the State within
the next tbirtyVdays. In reach place
where such a. bureau is established, the
city and cotjty-. will be asked to fur
nish a stenographer and telephone ser
vice, while all - other expenses will be
p&fd by the State and National' govern
ments.; . .
A'meeting of the "Board of Directors
of the State Hospital at Raleigh was
held in, the-office of Governor Cameron
Morrison on Wednesday morning, and
the directors of the' Morganton institu
tion was held at the same place 1 on
Thursday morning. These meetings
were held for the purpose of organ
izing to divide the management 'of the
institutions for the insane, which had
formerly been , consolidated under one
board of directors.
H. A. Campbell, Inspector of the
Bureau of Explosives, U. S. Govern
ment, has reported to Stacy W. Wade,
Insurance' Commissioner as - a result of
an inspection that nearly half a mil
lion pounds of high explosives, includ
ing T. N. T.,- dynamite and black pow
der, -stored by. the State Highway Com
mission, several explosive manufactur
ing . concerns, and Raleigh dealers llA
miles .southeast of Raleigh is a menace
to safety by reason of improper storage
methods. Tw large truck loads of high
explosives were left on the road to
the magazines without any attendant
or. guard, and 100 boxes of high ex
plosives were stacked outside , of the
magazine: . . .
"There is' not a single licensed stock
salesman in North Carolina," declares
State Insurance Commissioner Stacy H.
Wade, in commenting upon the proba
bility that there will be a spring awak
ening of blue sky wildcat stock exploit
ers in the State. . Last year concerns
of this type flooded North Carolina with
worthless securities in oil, mines and
patent, promotion schemes, bankrupting
many people,; especially . among 'the
farmers. Investors are warned to be
on the lookout for stock and bond sales
men of the orooked variety. Mail order,
offers. of alluring stock should especial
ly be carefully scanned, because at pres
ent the State has no way. of breaking
up this method of selling fraudulent
stock. Nine-tenths of these mail order
promotion schemes are fakes, accord
ing to the insurance commissioner.
WORK BEGINS ON ROADS
IN PERQUIMANS COUNTY
Asphalt on a Concrete Base Te Be The
Type of Construction Employed -..v
In Roads in That County. ? -
The Hertford Herald tells us that S.
E. Washburn of the Carolina Engineer
ing Company of Wilmington is in Hert
ford in charge of the hard road improve
ment by the county, and has things well
under way. Grading- was begun last
wpek for the paving of the road toward
Belvidere, and considerable progress has
been made. Mr. Bishop of the engin
eering firm wasalso in. Hertford a few
days last week" completing necessary de
tails for' the. prosecution of the work.
- Mr. Bishop says the' work undertaken
now, and under contract, - will require
approximately a year to complete. The
type of " road determined, upon by the
commissioners, he 'says, is the best pos
sible rinder the circumstances. It se
cures the greatest mileage of hard
roads.it- is "easy to add to in width;
the specifications call for construction
and material thaf are of the highest
Character. He predicts that" Perqui
mans county people will be entirely sat
isfied with . thejr roads when they are
completed and in use.
Besides the Belvidere road, contracts
for building include the road to Bur
gess and that to New Hope. .Approx
imately five miles will be constructed
on each line under the present con
tract. The roadway is to be nine feet
wide and will be laid in the middle of
the graded road. The construction calls
for a base of five inches of cement
covered .with a two-inch layer of sheet
asphalt. The materials are to be the
best manufactured and are to be ap
proved by the engineer before being
used. Every barrel of the asphalt is to
be ' laboratory tested, and the county
stands to get a type of road that, will
be practically everlasting under pres
ent requirements of transportation.
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL
FINALS APRIL 23-29
Twenty-Nine. Teachers to Go Out From
This School This Month.
Farmers co-operative organizations
in California last year did a total busi
ness of $275,000,000.
'Dr. J. Lv Peacock, president of Shaw
University, will deliver the annual comr
mencement address for the colored State
Normal School at Elizabeth City on
Friday evening, AprU 29. Prof. N. C.
Newbojd,' state director of Negro Edu
cation, will deliver the diplomas. Twenty-nine
young colored men and women
will graduate " at this institution . this
year, to go out into these northeastern
North Carolina counties to teach in the
colored public schools. The number of
graduates is entirely too small to meet
the demands for trained colored teach
ers, but the school is growing . in use
fulness and will turn out larger num
bers, .better equipped for : educational
service when the school" itself is better
equipped to handle a larger number of
students. - .
The recent session of the General As
sembly appropriated $400,000 for " Im
provements in the three colored normal
schqpls in this- state and it is confidently
expected that about $200,000 of that
appropriation will be spent at Elizabeth
City, where it is most needed. Improve
ments contemplated for the school here
include a ew girls' "dormitory, dining
room and kitchen;' the present girls'
dormitory to be converted into a dormi
tory for boys. Other improvements con
templated are a model practice school,
a dormitory for the principal and teach
ers, a water and sewerage disposal sys
tem. ' " ' " -
Some improvements have been made
in the school equipment this year; no
tably the addition of a laundry and do
mestic science department.
The principal of the Elizabeth City
Colored State Normal School is Dr. P.
W. Moore, a Conservative, efficient and
practical educator and a citizen who has
the confidence and esteem of the white
people as well as the respect of his
own race. In the education of colored
youth for -the profession of teaching it
is all important to train them in the
broadest principles of imW-ro.,?..,
operation and goodwill. The teachers
the colored public schools will mod
life -and character of .the1 coming E
eration of colored people. The t '
need entertain no fears of the result
obtained at the local state normal sch i
under Prof. Moore and his carefully
lected faculty. 8ft"
NOTICE.
A regular meeting of the Pisherm
Commission Board will be held in l
office at Morehead City, April iSS?
1921, at 10 o'clock a. m., for the tran '
action of business. All persons bavin
matters- for consideration will be glaSe
heard, under the rules. y
JOHN A. NELSON
' .' fisheries Commissioner.
M. L. WDLLIS, Secretary. c.Apr.l-2t
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION.
Having qualified as Executor of the late Sn.
rhia K. Chatman. I hereby eive notico f
-persons Indebted to his estate to come forwarf
and make immediate settlement, and thope hold
ing claims, against the same to present then
for' payment within . twelve months from th
date of this notice, or it will be pleaded in t,
of their x recovery. .
if THOS
March 81.- 1921.
LAMB.
PApr.8-6t
NOTICE.
I hereby announce myself a candidate
for Alderman for the First Ward for
the election m may, )4i. i promise
to give my best ' service for my ward
ana city at large, a am ior gooa schools
good streets and every sanitary improve
ment that is possible to have. I am
opposed to our town taking over any
property from any corporation where
the town is not the special beneficiary
Tours respectfully,
c,Mar.25-tf S. S. BURGESS.
"I Lost My Best Customers Thru
Rats," Writes J. Adams.
"Used to haVe the busiest Restau
rant in town until news spread that
the kitchen was infeste with rats;
lost a lot of my best customers until
I tried RAT-SNAP. Haven't a pest
in the place now. Restaurants should
use RAT-SNAP." Three sizes, 25c, 50c,
$1.00. Sold and guaranteed by Cul
pepper Hardware Store, City Drug
store, G. W. Tiddy, John C. Bond,
Edenton; W: A. Liggett, Edenton;
Sawyer's General Store, Camden.
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DARE HOLDS COUNTY -
SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT
And fifteen Schools Participate In Its
Biggest Educational Event.
Interest in educational affairs in Dare
seem more centered with a woman
superintendent of instruction in charge
of things. Thru the efforts of Miss Ma
bel Evans, and despite bad weather, half
the day, Manteo witnessed the biggest
county commencement last Friday ever
held there. Of the 24 schools in the
county 15 were represented, which
speaks well for a section split" up by
turbulent waters. About 800 people
were present to see the affair done up
in shape.
Prizes were offered by many of the
business people of Manteo and the var
ious schools entered its best pupils.
Spelling matches were won by the
schools of Stumpy Point, Wanchese and
Mann's Harbor. The- Manteo school
won the prize for the best general ex
hibit; the Buxton school was presented
with a teachers' desk for improving its
school building most without county aid;
Rodanthe- school gave the best recita
tions by the fourth and fifth grades;
and the East Lake school won the prize
for making the best appearance in the
parade. Manteo school also gave the
best free-hand writing exhibit.
Among the prize winners were Alvin
Hooper and Frances Wise of Stumpy
Point, who exhibited the best examples
of boys' and girls' handiwork respective
ly; Margaret Meekins of North End
school, who won the prize gf the best
recitation below the fourth grade; .Dor
othy Drinkwater of Manteo, for best
recitation above the sixth grade; Ralph
Davis of Manteo for fifth gtade recita
tion; Hubert Jennett of Buxton for sev
enth grade declamations; Ruth Nixon of
Stumpy Point for best 50-yard dash by
girt below 12; Hugh Basnight of North
End for best 100-yard dash by boy
above 12; and Ira Spencer of Mann's
Harbor for best high jump. A repre
sentative of Salvo school made the best
broad jump, and Ralph -Davis of Man
teo also made the best 50-yard dash by
a boy below 12. v
TThe educational address of the occa
sion was delivered by Dr. E. W. Knight
of the University of North Carolina, and
music and other features contributed to
ward the enjoyment of the affair.
NOTICE O FCNTRV.
North Carolina, - Entry No. 178.
Dare County.
Jesse T. Guard. Claimant, ha vine produced to
the undersigned Entry-Taker, a writing- signed by
himself, that h lays claim, and enters a certain
parcel or tract of land, vacant, unappropriated
and subject to entry. The. land is situated, in
Dare County. Atlantic Township.
The natural boundaries are as follows:
Beginning- at the water edge of Jess T.
Guard's north line, running a westwardly course,
on hundred yards; thence running southward
ly course about two hundred and twentv-Bva
yarda; thence a eastwardly course to said Jesse
T. Guard's south line.
This entry being of land covered by - water
and for the purpose stated in 7648- fo Con
solidated Status of North Carolina. The Num
ber of acres claimed are 6.
This Entry made -this 80th day of March,
X821.
S. K. inEEKTNS,
p.Apr.8-4t Entry Taker.
WIT ATOTE I
'HIS promises to be a consignment year. Buy-
.IL ers are not likely to make the scramble for
produce this season that they made last season.
You've got to watch the selling end closer this sea- j
son. Connect up with an experienced shipping I
agency with old established connections. It pays
in the long run.
I have never tied to any one or two houses and the old true and g
tried commission merchants with whom I have dealt for a number S
of years are the best on their respective markets.
I have strong, steady and reliable outlets for everything you fj
will produce this year and believe it will be more than ever to your g
advantage to get in touch with me early. p
Here Are My Connections- You Can't
Better 'Em
NEW YORK CITY
SMllTH & HOLDEN, 303 Washington St. j
S. H. & E. H. FROST, 319 Washington St.
QLIVIT BROS., INC., Cor? Washington & Duane Sts
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
J. P. WILSON, 116 Dock St. - '
JAMES SAWYERS & CO., 222 Dock St. '
J. L. CULVER, 114 Dock St. - .
NORFOLK, VA.
PARKER BROS., Roanoke Dock !
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