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? VOL. XIvT NO. 730. &"SaEto?^aS"NMc? j?.'?. mT" ELIZABETH CITY, N. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1922. ^ 'XKACT'V' $1 JO A YEAR THE INDEPENDENT WILL HAVE HOME OF ITS OWN Contract Let For New Building To House Offices and Shop of This Newspaper and Its Printery i THE IXDEPENDEXT is to ?ave a home of its own. contract having been awarded L. B. Per ?v of Elizabeth City for the con traction of an office and shop :'or this newspaper. The build will be of brick construction, to cost approximately $5,000. The building will be located n Matthews St. between the evidence of A. B. Houtz and the property owned by the or ier of Red Men. The lot has a ntage of 50 feet on Matthews St. and a depth of 100 feet. It is a nearly unobstructed view : Main St. looking toward the ttnty Court House and I". S. '\ O. Building, convenient to e postoffice. easily accessible the downtown public and in a ition to be readily spotted by -itors and sightseers. The building will be 32 feet . te. inside measurement, by 91 \vt depth. It will set back five t from the sidewalk and will .ve a six foot loggia in front. . ! >rned by three arches open ing on a brick or tile floor or ivement. Tlte front elevation ' have none of the architec tural marks of a commercial ??Ting, but might be taken for ublic library, club or a studio. : he building will have seven teen inch walls on a 2S-inch ting. The floor will be of ce ?.nt. floored with wood except here exposed on a floor level for machinery. There will be two offices and an entrance hall n the front of the building, wailed off from the work room ? main part of the building in the rear. The work room. 32 feet wide by "3 feet deep will be flooded with light from fifteen or more -reel sash windows glazed with <:? able strength glass. Xepon <et slate composition shingles ave been specified for the roof, another departure from the ch ap. unsightly roofs so much used in the construction of small buddings. [?rank K. ?Hutty, who was an mincer and architect before he a:ne a musical director, and w - is as industrious and ambi ? in designing and supervis :r the construction of a build . as he is in staging an opera, the architect for THE INDE PENDENT'S building and is putting his best into it. Mr. fiurty says he purposes to show jr.-t how much beauty, comfort u: i utility can be realized in tli -*? times with a modest build in; appropriation. Starting in a single upstairs 'frice room fourteen years ago. i i K INDEPENDENT has nev er had enough room to accom modate its growth. In a narrow -tore room about 20 by 70 feet ?it has worked for more than 12 years, since it got out of its ?r 'Mnal upstairs office room. The new building will not only pro v <!<? more space for the paper's pres ?nr ??luipnient. but will contain ample - ? i for many contemplated additions id in p'ovcmenfs to the present plant. A ? civ automatic job press has already ii <?rde.ed to add to the job printing i pi -lit ami negotiations are now be ing made for a new. larger and more - ?! newspaper prflss to replace the i ? s on which the paper is now I " d In its new home THE 1XDK |1T:\1>EXT will have every facility and ? :>?' room for the production of a B" ' -kly or daily newspaper should Hit i" in- ^o ambitious. ! > .mpiire its new building and oth ?>'' in i rovemcnts this newspaper goes ? ' ?vi into debt again, staking much on i in Elizabeth City and Xorth ? ? ii North Carolina and upon its H' ? Sility to serve the publicity and ; need- of this city and section, i- never been a time when THE B - d.l EN'DENT wasn't in debt, hav B - ne in drt>t successively for press B ;--setting machinery. other equip i d the lot on which it will build, "infract for the new building or its completion not later than 1!>22. Construction will begin 11 * * * * * * ? * * * * * #1 * HE VOICES THE * SENTIMENTS OF MANY * __ * * Elizabeth City. N. C. * * March 17. 1922. * * Mr. W. 0. Saunders. * "The Independent." *? My dear Mr. Saunders: * I have just read your editorial. * * "The Curse of a City" and want * j * to thank you for it. It is timely * * and true. The "dissipation" to * * which you call attention will cer- * * tainly leave its impress rpon the * | * intellectual and moral life of our * j * citizenship ? upon the rising even * * more than upon the present gen- * * eration. * I congratulate you upon your * * clear vision and courageous voice * * of warning. | * Sincerely yours. G. F. SEYFFERT. * GRAND JURY RAP IMMODEST DRESS Tells "Woman's Law and Order' j League" What To Tell Mothers of Girls It Elizabeth Citv mothers will : look after their Flapper daugh ters and sec that thev are more j ? . , modestly dressed, a for e s a i d ; Flappers w ill not be subjected to i rude remarks from the cake j eaters and other idlers who as j semble ou street corners to j watch the afternoon parades of ? silk hosiery. Such is the re j markable advice from the Grand | Jury in the Superior Court in : session in # Elizabeth City this week, tho the jurors didn't use J exactly the language of the : newspaper man. The grand jury's indictment of im modesr dress is mentioned incidentally J in a reply to a communication from something calling itself the Woman's ? I .aw and Order League t'. >*. A. A com munication from this mysterious league was published in this newspaper, i-sue of Friday. March 10. The same com munication was sent to the grand jury, insisting that the jury do something to break up prostitution, gambling, boot legging and other immoral practices common in this as in other cities. I'hc coiumunic.-.tion specifically mentioned rude remarks being addressed to young | ladies on the streets <>f the town, by J corner loafers. The grand jury, of which Tom Skin ! nor Mann of this city is foreman, tried I its best to identify this Law ?fc Order ! League and get some member of it be j fore the jury. Grand juries can't bring I bills nf indictments against unknown of* ' fenders of the law for unspecified of fenses against the law. Being unable I to get a line on the Woman's Law & | Order League, the grand jury with j some show of disgust and impatience (drew up the following resolution: j "To the Woman's Law and Order League. "We the Grand Jury of the Superior Court of Pasquotank County. North Carolina term beginning March 20th. 1022. have a letter signed by the Wo men's Law and Order League of V. S. A. This letter being of an anonymous nature, we have exhausted all means of our wits to ascertain who this league or order consists of and what the mo tive or evidence can he to prompt the writing of such a letter, to no avail. "We therefore now resolve that if the Women's Law and Order League of C. S. A. will have one or more of their representatives appear before this or the Granil Jury of any future term of Superior Court of this county; that there will be a thorough investigation of any charges made and all means in our power will be used to better con ditions as pointed out by your letter. Be it further resolved that your or ganization take steps and request the mothers to see that their daughters are attired in a more modest manner so as not to invite the insulting remarks front the young men of our city as charged. "We wish to make our city a better place in which to live and the co-op eration of any organization with this end in view is earnestly requested. "By T. S. MANN, Foreman." A SUPPLEMENTARY PRIZE. The McAdams' Evangelistic Farty of fers a prize of a family bible to the married couple who will bring the Ing est number of children of their c.v u to the tent on Parsonage St. next Sun day. This newspaper supplements the offer by offering one of Mrs. Margaret Sanger's books on birth control ;o (he winning couple. I They Show Them Because They're Clean <6 NO DIRTY HANDS or unclean faces in the Elizabeth City primary schools. One of the duties of the modern school teacher is not only to teach the young how to read, write and figure, but to teach them how to live. Children are taught to be tidy, to have a care to thoir personal appearance, to keep hands clean, faces shining and teeth brushed twice daily. Every morning the thoughtful teach er tells her little charges to show their hands. Up go their hands instantly, without hesitation, because the little folks keep them clean under teacher's super vision. The picture is from a Saunders snapshot photo made on the school ground. TOO MANY ILLITERATE WHITE WOMEN HERE Census of 1920 Exposes the Illiteracy of Adult White Women in North Carolina. There are 222 illiterate white women | in IV.V1V !ai:!c County, according to ad vance reports of the I". S. Census of 1920. Pa- iiiotank's av< rage of illiter ates among white women i- 9.2 per cent which compares with the state's average of 10.4 per cent. We are. a hit better than the state average, but woefully behind the u. tionpl average of 2 S per c? nf of w: lie illiterat ? females 21 years old al.l over. Here are the .!g-,rys fi r several Nwtlieasteni khmi ties. < i]>i! d by those enterprising en rributors to th ? I'niversity of North t'erolina News Letter: County. Per Ct. 1 l!it. No. lliit. Chowan 7.2 02 I'eaufort V" 224 (iafes sit ]i:;i Hertford vn 111 Currituck V" 91 Washington v<". 117 Camden 9.2 74 Pasquotank 9.2 22.2 Perquimans 10.." 120 Carteret 10.4 244 Hyde 10..". 122 Tyrrell 10.0 01 Dare 10.7 1SG I New Hanover County, of which Wil mington is the county seat, leads the state with only 2.1 per cent illiterate white females, while Wilkes, far tip in the mountains, is at the foot of tin list with 22.2 per cent illiteracy. Tin greatest illiteracy is found in the moun tain counties. In round numbers there are 44.000 illiterate native-borne white women in North Carolina according to the 1920 census. If assembled they would till a city the size of Charlotte, or nearly so. They numbered -it.-y-t away dock yonder in 1ST?0; seventy years later they were only 1.42s fewer. Which means that illiteracy, like landlcssness, poverty, and feeble-mindeduess, is a self-perpetuating "social iil. The actual numbers are little changed from year to year, although the ratios dwindle: from 17 per cent in 1810 to 10.4 per cent in 1020. More than nine-tenths of the white illiteracy of North Carolina is in the country regions, and almost exactly four-fifths of it is adult illiteracy. Il literacy of all ages, races, and sexes is mainly a problem of rural adults in the South. Loss than one-twentieth of it is in our towns and cities. In general the Albemarle counties make the best showing, the mid-state counties the next best showing, and the worst showing of all is made by the lower Cape Fear country, the contig uous Tidewater, and the mountain coun ties. New Ilanover with its county wide school system stands out as a bril liant exception, both in 1010 and in H)20. but even New Ilanover overtops the average of native adult white fe male illiteracy in the country-at-large ?.1.1 per cent in New Ilanover against 2.S per cent in the United States. FREIGHT TRAIN ENTERS DEPOT FOR ITS ORDERS Norfolk Southern southbound freight No. SI. with engine No. 22.", in charge of Conductor Bernard: Ferret, engin eer; Howell, fireman, and White, flag man. backed into the N. S. depot at Edenton, about "> o'clock Tuesday morn ing. practically demolishing the baggage room and starting into the lunch room. Engineer Ferrat thought he was on the main line but instead was on the side line leading directly to the side of the depot. The box cars struck the depot, which is of concrete and wood construction, with such a force that the bumper on one was completely wrecked. The cars were backed up on the pave ment going thru the concrete of the outer wall into the baggage room, push ing the ice box out of its way. breaking down the chimney and bulging the par tition between the baggage room and the lunch room an arch. No one was hurt. Dick Ferriboult, the colored porter, had just left the baggage room or he would have prob ably been killed. Altho the damage has not been estimated, a new roof, new walls and new chairs are needed. One man said that we are living in a fast age now for a freight train to go into the station get its own or ders. , I ' ... ' ?' ' V'... MAYOR GOODWIN NOT 10 RESIGN Municipal Ownership Commit-! lee Functioning Arn'c ably Again Elizabeth Oit> "s special Committee to whom lias Ic on il legated the task of giving tl:e eity mtiiiieipnlly owned lights, water ami sewerage i- functioning ami cably this week after a flare-up last week which threatened to disrupt th committee attd bring about the rosig natiott of Mayor Goodwin himself. The Hoard of Aldermen appointed a committee composed of two of its own mouthers and the Mayor to work with | two similar committors from the Chain j brr of Commerce and Ketail Merchants' Association, making tt joint committee of nine. This committee was to thresh over all the faets and submit a rec ommendation to the Hoard of Alder men. The Aldermen were to be relieved of all the work of listening to experts and getting figures and the Aldermen were to finally pass upon their work. Hut last week some of the Aldermen got sore because they ilidu't know what the committee was doing. Things were going on inside the committee meet ings and all the Aldermen wanted to listen in and hear everything that was going on. At this point Mayor Good win's patience was nearly 'exhausted and lie threatened to resign rather than be eternally in a row. Hut something happened and Mayor Goodwin will not resign. Everything seems to be hnr lnouious now and all the Aldermen can attend the committee meetings if they want to. The committee is now wait ing upon Col 1 >abncy Maury, water ami sewerage expert who ouee before made a survey of the public utilities proper ties here. Col. Maury is expelled here any day now. I'pon bis suggestions and report the committee may recom mend some definite action. Several members of the committee are inclined to favor the suggestion thrown out by this newspaper last week: to proceed with the building of an electric light and power plant and thereby force the Crooke companies into a respectful at jtitudc toward the city's offer to buy tlie* water and sewerage plants. I NO ONE SEEMS TO WANT THIS $4 PER DIEM HONOR! No Candidate For the General Assem bly Has Announced Himself in Pasquotank No one seems to be begging for the honor of representing Pasquotank County in the next session of the X. General Assembly. With the June Primary only ten weeks off. no candi date has yet announced himself or her self for this office. F. P. Cohoou is feeling around with a view to announc ing himself a candidate and James Hol lowed has been suggested by some of his friends. C. A. Cooke, who repre sented the county last time says he doesn't want it any more. The office pays a salary of four dollars a day, wh'ch is a dollar a day less than a self respecting man wants to live on at the state capital. W. 0. Saunders, who represented the county in 1919 says he doesn't want the office again AND NOW FOR ANOTHER RETAIL GROCERY STORE D. It. Morgan & Sons have leased the stand corner of Main and Itoad Sts., opposite the Southern Hotel and will open a retail grocery there within the next .">0 days. The stand is owned by Dr. L. S. Blades, and is now occupied by the Studebakcr automobile agency. It was formerly occupied as a grocery and is considered one of the best groc ery locations in the city. It is also reported that the Morgans have ac quired a new interest in the downtown retail grocery of Ira B. Parker & Co. With the wholesale store of I). It. Mor gan & Co. behind them, the Morgan re tail stores promise to make lively com pel ition when they get going. Stout Men don't have to worry any more about getting a suit to fit. We have them here for you in sizes up to 50. adv. D. WALTEft HARRIS. EVERY GROCER SHOULD ! ENVY SMILE LIKE THIS ? ??? | _ __L_m EDGAR A. TOWE THEY call him "Smiley." The smile | revealed in the picture wasn't just i posed for the camera?it's natural: he { wears it in and out of business hours j and takes it to bed with him nights, j And that smile ought to make him aj fortune in the grocery business, because people who patronize a grocery store | expect the man behind the counter to j put in a smile with every scoop of su gar and every bar of soap. Edgar I "lowe is a store manager for the Pend-J er Stores. Wherever D. Pender drops I a new thai" store. Edgar Towe gops in j and gets that store going before it is I finally turned over to a resident man-1 ager. He is now in charge of the I Pender store at Elizabeth City but ex- j pccts to be called off any day to start | a new Pender Store in another town, j In meantime that smile is illuminating j the Elizabeth City store and making j friends for Pender's. Edgar Towe is j a native of Chapanake, Perquimans County, is 22 years old, single and stis-i cepiible. Photo by Zoelier. GOVERNOR MORRISON TO SEE THE SHAD CAUGHT Executiivc and Fisheries Commissioners to Make Trip Over Fishing Grounds Next Week A spoei.il meeting of the X. C. Fish eries Commission Itonnl will ho hold at | Kdenton Monday afternoon. March -7. at 3 o'clock p. in., at which all members of the Commission arc expected to lie present. Governor Cameron Morrison will join the Commission at Edenton and the Governor and the Commission ers will make a trip over the upper Xnrth Carolina Sounds studying shad fishing operations and the industry gen erally. The party will touch at Manteo and possibly other points, concluding the trip at Morehead City or Beaufort on Friday. March 31. The members of the Commission are J. K. D'xnn. Trenton. X. C.: S. 1'. Han cock. Beaufort. X. C.: E. II. Freeman, Wilmington, X. C.: Dr. .T. C. Bauni, l'oplar Branch. X. C.. and W. O. Saun ders, Elizabeth City. Fisheries Com missioner John A. Xelson himself will convey the party over the Sounds on the Fisheries Commission yacht Atlan tic. CLEAN UP, PAINT UP AND DRESS UP AT SAME TIME Elizabeth City Will Merge Two Cele brations in One During Week of April 2 to 8 "Dross up yourself, dross up your homo and dross up your surroundings" is tlio slogan for Dress-Up Week to bo observed in Elizabeth City from Ap ril 4 to April 8. Elizabeth City mer chants have bestirred themselves dur ing the past week and are still bestir ring themselves t<> make the biggest possible showing of new spring mer chandise in their respective stores dur- j ing the advertised week. Dress-Up | Week will not be a week of special sales, but a week of unusual merchan dise displays at reasonable prices to make everybody's thoughts turn to new i appareling, new home furnishings, dec orations and the like. National Clean Up and Paint-Up Week, April 2 to Ap ril 8, ties right in with Dress-Up Week and Elizabeth City is going to paint up and clean up, as well as dress up. Full particulars of what promises to be one of the biggest events staged in Elizabeth City will be published in this newspaper next week. Don't miss next week's issue. SURFMEN'S MUTUAL TO MEET HERE IN APRIL i Annual Convention of Men From U. S. Coast Guard Convenes April 18 The Surfmen's Mutual Benefit Asso ciation, the fraternal and benevolent as sociation of U. 8. Coast Guard, will hold its annual convention in Elizabeth City on Tuesday and Wednesday, April IS and 19, 1922. Elizabeth City will provide entertainment for the visitors as is its custom, but there will not be such an elaborate program this year as last. The Coast Guard will dispense with their customary program of water sports and life-saving demonstrations and devote themselves more to the bus- j iness and social features of their con vention. t I NORFOLK CAPITALISTS BACKED THIS BIG STILL So Say Men Caught with Prize Outfits on Church es Island, but Commissioner Wilson Lets Man Who Knows Go Under a $300 Bond STATE FACING A ] KNOTTY PUZZLE How To Hard Surface Camden 1 Ferry Road Without Bottling Us Up? How to handle traffic ir and out of Elizabeth City while building the Camden Ferry Road is a problem confronting the State Highway Commission and engineers who have been work ing on the problem for several months have reached no definite solution of the problem yet. Will Elizabeth City be bottled up for a period of several months this summer while the only desirable road connecting this city with the lower and more populous sections of Camden and Curri- J t*ick counties is blocked by con-' struction work? Xcarly two miles of this road is thru j marsh and swamp. It has taken nearly I :t quarter of a century to pet the" foun- j dation for the road that now exists and ' it is utterly Impracticable to huihl a ! new road alongside the existing road, i leaving the old road for the use of traf-; fie while the new road is being built. The state must build on the present j road bed. Eren this roadbed is not j suffieient and much of it will have to be., piled heavily before the hard surface road is laid. 1 Rut while the state is building on ; the present roadbed, where is fraffic 1 going? It can't turn off the road into ? a fathomless marsh. There is the old ' Lamb Ferry Road two miles farther up the river, but that road is at present impassable and considerable work ' would have to be put on the Lamb For- 1 ry Road to* make it stand up under I traffic for a period of several weeks. 1 And so that is the problem confront ing the State Highway Commission and its engineers. Engineers are trying to work out a plan by which one side of the new road may be built at a time, leaving a single track road on one side. Traffic on one end of the road would have to wait for the traffic from the other end to move over. The construction of a new bridge at Elizabeth City presents no suqh prob lem. The new bridge can be built alongside the present bridge, leaving! (he old bridge in use until the new j bridge is completed. But how to build J that road without bottling up Elizabeth City. That is the problem. ELIZABETH CITY GIRLS TAKE TO BARBER SHOPS Mere Man Must Wait For Shave While Misses Get "Bobbed" and Shampooed. Just when the increasing popularity J of the safety razor begins to make the barber wonder whether his customers are about to desert him and drive him to find some other vocation or line of employment, the barber begins to find a new line of customers and source of profit from a totally unexpected direc tion. Women are beginning to patron ize Elizabeth City barber shops now that boxed hair has come into style. The writer of this newspaper had to wait his turn in a Main Street barber shop the other day with three young women in the chairs ahead of him. The bobbed hair girls have discovered that the male barber is the best hand avail able for keeping their hair trimmed and properly shampooed and the younger set are not at all bashful about going to a regular barber. The older girls and women will follow their example in time and it is not at all improbable that we will see quite as many girls and women as boys and men in the barber shops of thf future. You're next! CHEAP LENSES There are no bargain days nor substitutes for good eye glasses. Cheaper materials can be substituted for al most anything except a cor rectly fitted lense. "Cheap" lenses oftentimes cause trouble of a more serious nature than the de fects they are supposed to correct. Only people who have been trained to recognize defects of vision and to know how to make a proper correction are capable of advising on such an important subject as lenses. Avoid trouble by consulting reliable professional people and taking their advice. DR. J. D. HATHAWAY Optometrist Bradford Bldg. Elizabeth City, X. C. | The release of Walter Jones under a $300 cash bond by order of U. S. Commissioner Tully B. Wilson of this city may have lost an opportunity to the Fed eral authorities to uncover one of the most formidable moon shining and bootlegging opera tions ever attempted in North eastern North Carolina and bring to book some of the men higher up in this profitable game. Tn n mid in a house on Church Isl nnd, Currituck County. Inst week rev enue officers captured one of the most elaborate out fits ever found in this state. It was a pretentious outfit built thruout of copper and designed to de liver a daily output of a hundred gallons of pure whiskey. The still was being installed and was not ready for operation. Three young white men were found in the house with the dis tillery. They were Walter Tones, a man about 38 years old: Cbas. MeDon ald, 28 years old. and Win. Wilson, 32 years old, all of Norfolk. They were arrested and brought to Elizabeth City to stand trial at the April term of Fed eral Court. At the preliminary hear ing last week their bonds were fixed at ?."00 each. \ Rut Commissioner Wilson reduced Tones' bond to .8?,00 this week: .Tones forked oyer the cash and left town. There is no evidence that .Tones was either a moonshiner or a bootlegger, lie claimed to have been a navy yard mechanic and lie was on Church Island to install the big distillery for Norfolk parties. McDonald and Wilson were young men lie claimed to have brought to the island with him as helpers. The throe of them landed on the island one night and were under arrest the next afternoon before they had gotten a lay of the land or done very much on the job. Jones says he took the job be cause he had been out of work for weeks and had to do something. Mc Donald and Wilson toll the same tale, only adding that they didn't know what they were supposed to do on Church Island fill they got there. The three of them talked freely in the presence of the writer Monday night and de clared that prominent Norfolk business men were the financial backers of the Church Island project and would see them out of their dilemma or they would know the reason why. And sure enough, .Tones received .8300 from some source Tuesday morning and left town. He left McDonald and Wilson in jail, a sore pair. But they will get out too if there is anything to the story, be cause the men higher up are not going to leave them here to turn state's evi dence. McDonald says he will tell ev erything he knows if the parties who got him into the mess don't get him out. But it is evident that the man who knew most was the first one out. Ex-Service Men. Roth McDonald ami Wilson are ex service men. McDonald is a clean cut, sober, healthy young man of pleasing address and some education. He has a wife and two children. lie relates an enviable war record. lie says he volunteered in August 1017 and went over seas three weeks after his enlist ment. wtih the 04th Aerial Squadron, lie says he served on five fronts, in cluding the Argonne, the Verdun Sector and Toul Sector. After the war he was with the Army of Occupation from Nov. 18, 101S to April 1(1. 1010. He says he has two medals to show for his personal bravery in action. Wilson, four years older than Mc Donald claims to have been a volun teer, but never went overseas. Tell One on Pugh. In his cell ,in the county jail here Monday night .Tones talked freely of himself and of his arrest. He says thnt the revenue officers treated them fine and advised them to employ C. R. Pugh for their attorney, telling them that Fugh stood in with the Judge and could get them off. Asked what revenue officer told him that Pugh stood in with the Judge ar.d could get him off. Jones said the officer who told him that was Deputy T. C. Bnbb, whose headquarters are at Eliza beth City. Mr. Babb denies emphati cally that he told Jones any such thing. It would be interesting to know whether Mr. Pugh has an arrangement with Revenue Officers to pimp or tout for his law business? Mr. Pugh is him self a Federal employe in the depart- ? ment of the U. S. Collector of Internal Revenue, but no one in Elizabeth City ?unless it is Mr. Babb?ever heard of C. R. Pugh standing in with Judge Henry G. Connor or being in a posi tion to influence Federal Court deci sions by reason of the Federal job he holds. Anyway, Mr. Pugh didn't get a retainer in the case of .Tones. Pugh was out of town when the men were landed in jail here and they got another lawyer, W. L. Cohoon in fact. LITTLE BOY DIES Kitt Mullen, age 6 years aud 7 months, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Mul len Wilson, of Weeksville, this county, died Friday morning, Mar. 17. ' The child had been ill with pneumonia^ind spinal meningitis. The funeral was at the home last Saturday and interment in Hollywood Cemetery. j ?