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? \ IIAU1) tJIKSTlON? ? ^"V1" NO 755, K";T-,t as Sc.-,,,! o?m Mmi r .l ti?- i-.->...?,- X Bvnu' " ';^:- " N ' ? ??? I ELIZABETH CITY, W. C. FRIDAY^SEPT. 15, 1922. k,?> -n., ,,y ,, ,, ?, ? , ,.? ??- ? ?J ^?i???^M^_ at Kliaabetli City, X. C. ? KltlV lis BIRTHRIGHT FOR A REMNANT OF CALICO Elizabeth City Boy Robs First & Citizens Na tional Bank of Nearly $25,COO By Quick Work and Is Missing . i. Svkos. jr.. tor inrcc \ trusted employe of the. b t & Citizens Xation.il ; V v; city ami half ihe hnest |wultrj ?>?l?otaiik County. : . !,,me. sacrificed . - ,,l made a coni . ,.K_of hi> lifehy steal . S25.UK) from the :;n ... which he wa> cm u.t: and becoming a ingi ..." ???? ::? justice. ?f >..11114 SyLes defal .a,,,,..;.::!!!.- wn- made l': week. He let. town ' . Sept. a careful audit , i** <??k. witii -i.lv ? f,,vv mlnMr ........ disclose* a shortage n a,counts whieii will ? wlii li is Hie amount jj bond, s te. like all other employes ?.f ... hank. v. a> under a ?>???!?> . K ielitv Trust sk Deposit ?\?.. C Baltimore. The Bondi.tx </<?? ; ?? =? motion machinery whirh -ms L,. riv. agencies ami the police of L> cities on the trail of the fu*i T> j,mnj: defaulter is the son of I? S>ke>. Sr.. MNV ,%t t,u' ..tfiee i f the Western l'nion x'.-raih fo- of this eity. His fath ai:.| mother are two of the most iMH.raMe. liard-workinx and highly eitixens of the community. TV. li.nl mailt* many sacrifice* for L'f..v ami after he had begun to U- good in the bank they helped _ ?? establish a poultry business ?V r little farm near the out ..... . f tlm city and the Sykes" : ?> Kartu had already , ... ,.f :he show plaees of the coun r.ir the hoy got another thins {...ad and went to hell before h* family. employes and friends b,? which way he was heading. A with a police court record. Vli whom the boy had been krep many, is also missinx from A? I*.* y. How Did He Get It The man in the street, unfamiliar tiie operations of a banking L,.,. is at a loss to understand jVu a young employe at a window ? tit. rear end of the bank, locked fr.i.ii the cases ?f the receiving v . ' ic pTiyins teller, and w:tii ... key 1,1 the cash boxes i:i the ft.;!;.! ill! pet his hands on so kurh as S-J.- mai. The faet is. an ?f S'jo.tiiO to is a mere in tin* bucket in tlit* total uuiij traii>:ti-tii>ii-i <>f a bank with re ami a ?|iiart?-r mil )i?n? like the First Jfc Citizens Na ?unal. Tin- transaction of tiiis t?ank :r. ? H'iif <iav often inv dve a turn ri-r < f as much as a million dol ors. i >: an average 'lay S1IHMKIO h deposit * arc paid in tiiru the re s' ?. a? ?. window while S1"?. Ss.~i.ihmi is going out thru the Mlows marked ??paying tel l*"" A: ' i.g other tilings the bank han "il?> iAo to notes ami drafts ? ir tit towa connections f.;r city a month. Young Sin*s iiyi] ? barge of these city col - Tip-re is a check on Sykes irtnr every fifteen days. I *11 A ;.-r I.~,rbefore his defalcation ?Icnartiucnt of the bank tiad aii-i r.-il. Sykes knew there tc" !> another audit until the *???!-. in September at the lat I' was vacation time, tbe t?ank "t ! In ami everybody helping -?an of everybody else's work. s '? ti advantage of an unusual "ttwtiinjry to watch the niftils for i: of town collections. It f,> sii.pl,. matter for hi in to get t for collection, collect for 'baft, tear up tin- rei-orils and money in his jnieket. It ?' possibly a week or feii ? s .c|| irregularities would ?I and he was planning ',r '?> 'I'liek get-away. way he had of getting was in issuing cashier's "***? A eiistomcr would pay to stv .sJihhi ;n exchange for a ''h'-ck. No om- utewhing. ? roithl |HM'ket the money, make I - theft would not be il tiie cheek went thru " s ami came back for ''?"ii from some our of town Sunday. Sept. was fol y Day. a national liol unlay. Sept. 4. For two s closed. Sykes ' . , . lung si, iluit lie could '' ??? I.. those two days to " flu- hank was dead. what In- did. ^ Had It All Figured Out ? young wail liuil every thing figured anil timed t? > a nicety. ll<? prepared his home folks for his departure by telling them that he \va> dissatisfied with his work at the hank. He saiil he wasn't getting a fair ileal ami that lie expected to ?|iiit them sometiine without notice. When he left home on Sunday morning. Se|?t. 3. he said lie was go ing to Norfolk and would be back Monday night. When he failed to show no Monday night his father. J. 1>. Sykes. Sr.. suspected that the boy was gone for good. The father did not suspect that the boy was guilty of any wrong doing. Mr. Sykes himself went to the hank and roi?! the Vice-President AV. (J. (Jaith er that he did not believe his son would return to his job. Mr. Sykes thought the hank ought to know this. This wcs the tirst intimation the bank had that anything was wrong and it started a quiet investigation whieh revealeil the fact that young. Sykes had skipped with sonic of the bank's money. The Woman in the Case AA'ith the disappearance of young Sykes. people about town began t?> recall his connection with one Pene lope Lyons, a 22-year-old grass wid ow living at .*>37 Chestnut St. Sykes had been keeping company with the Lyons woman since the first of Ap ril and some of his friends aver that he had completely lost his h"tid over her. Penelope Lyon- ha<! been separat ed from h??r husband Henry Lynns of tlii> city whom she married live years ago. Ho was yininscr than herself. Sin* was of medium tniihl. dark complexion. with brown hair ami ryes. On January 1." of this year she figured in a rasp in City Police Court, rharvi'il with disorderly con duct Willi iwo prominent young Klix abetli City men. policcmcti testifying that sh?> was caught, locked with one of these men in a wareh??tse at a late hour of night. The court rec ords show tiiat the trio plead guilty by submitting the case and the men were fined ten dollars each, the wo man paying her part of the costs. It is related of her that she arose iti the height of the .McAdains tent ! revival meeting here one night and declared that she wis tilled with Je sus Christ and expected to live bef ? f,.r j.yer after. A week later sin was taken lip by police. Sykes had been keeping company with this woman and during July they were said to have spent several days at Nags llead together. The woman was noticed with a consider j able sum of money. Cpoti her re turn she is rumored to have stated that it was her expectations to get what the hank laid before she was thru with Sykes. This and other rumors to the effect that she and Sykes were infatuated with each oth er and had run away to live together, are stoutly dcuicd by the girl's moth er. .Mrs. Nannie II. Hay nor. who asks that her denial be stated. V.nt about the last of July, tin- girl told her mother she was going away from Klixubetli City. it. was her intention to enter a hospital as a student nurse and remain in train ing for three years. On Tuesday, the first of August she took the nf i ternoon train from Klixabetii City, l'oliee say that she had live or six hundred dolltys with her. A day or two later she wrote home from Kieli moud. Va.. where her husband Henry Lyons is working as a boileruiaker. She evidently didn't find a place in a Richmond hospital for only a few days before the disappearance of Sykes. messages were alleged to have been received from her at Chicago. 111. Along at this time Sykes was also suspected of getting letters from her. Elizabeth City police working on the case say they have definite clues that Sykes and the wmiia.i spent a night in iialtimorc. went to .lohiis town. !?.!.. and were working their way west with Salt ake City. I'tah as their permanent destination. The l.yotis girl has failed to write her mother since a few days before the disappearance of Sykes. Hut her mother says it was formerly not un usual for her to write home no oft en er that: once every three months. BOLL WEEVIL IS NOW ON TWO SIDES OF US Found in Chowan and Evidence of Its Work Found in Cur rituck t tne may expert the cotton- boll weevil to put in appcarnnee in l'ns (piotniik any day now. The weevil has crossed Alhetnarle Sound and has been found in several farms in Chowan County within the past week. Signs of the boll weevil have also been found <?u the farm of Sheriff K. K. Flora of Currituck, near Sha-.v boro, ci'-i II' miles from Klixabetlt City. The diseovery was made by Judge John II. Kerr, who was Sher iff FloraV gnesf last Sunday: -fudge Kerr has observed the boll weevil el isely tliruout t!ie State and pro fesses to know its work when he sees it. .fudge Ketv says he found a eotfoii boll that hud been pene trated by a weevil, on Sheriff Flora's farm. A careful scare I# of many parts of the field failed to dis-dose a single weevil, but the suspicious bore the peculiar teil tale marks of the boll weevil's ravages. CHARLES BANKS HELD IN SENSATIONAL CASE Virginirn-Pilot Wan Under S500 Bond in Perquimans t liarlie Hanks. nn agent for tlie \orfolk formerly >i resident of this city, is under n X5<Mi bond for 1.1 - appearance :it the Oc tober term of ilo- Superior Court in Perquimans County in a case in which a twelve-year-old girl is named. The arrest created a sensa- , tion in Perquimans where .Mr. Monks is quite as well known as in Kliza beth City, and the strange thing about the ease is that no one in Perquimans seems to know what it is about. The girl in the ease is the twelve year-old 'daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Klisha tioodwin and wife, of llert f ?rd. Mr. ltanks was arrested by Sheriff Whit Wright Saturday night. August L'ti. after he had taken the girl for a short ride ip his automo bile. Sheriff Wright trailed the Hanks' flivver from Hertford to" a point on the road a few miles from town where it turned round ami started back to Hertford, before making the arrest. The ehild insists that Mr. Harks did nothing wrung and the parents protested against Ids arrest. Projuine-Ij citizens of Hertford went on the defendant's bond. Street talk in Hertford says nothing will eotuo of the ease, but Sheriff Wright insisted upon his 1 man being held -and there is a story about some one peeping thru a win dow and seeing something before the automobile ride took plaee. Mr. Hanks is about 70 years old t and those who know him best are incline 1 to scout the idea of anything wrong. ?Mrs. I. It. 'Miller, of Caroleen. is in a serious condition probably fat ally injured at (lie .Rutherford hos pital. suffering from the effects of two bullet wounds, and Prohibition Officer Evan Ilooser. Deputies John Wesson and Pearly Hoyle. and Carl Short, the last named the driver of the officer's ear are held under .$500 bond, as a result of an attempted search of an automobile near Casar. , No whiskey was found in the car. *****:;: * * * * * * ONLY TWO OUT OF * * EVERY 100 GET AWAY * ? * Ninety-eight of every * * 100 fugitive bank default- * * ers are caught and* v brought to justice, ac- * cording to J. f. Hacker, * * representing the fidelity * * Trust & Deposit Co., of * * Baltimore, bondsmen for * * J. D. Sykes, Jr., who was * * here this week invesiigat- * * ing Sykes' defalcation. * * "the fact that Sykes has * * a woman with him lessens * * his chances of long elud * ing us," declared Mr. * * Hacker. Mr. Hacker made * * the further interesting * * statement that an average * of 15 defalcations are re * ported by banks thruout * the country every bus: * ness dav. J:***#****** Youth Who Made a Mess of His Life ? - =? THIS is John D. Sykcs, Jr., who swapped a goad home and a prom ising future for loss than $25,090 in stolen money. ^ SUPREME COURT DISSOLVES INJUNCTION The Supreme Court has af firmed the opinion of Judge Bond denying an injunction against the building of the highway from "Blackhead signpost to Bundy's gate." The action brought by Dr. W. A. Peters and others, against the Pasquotank Highway Commission, asking a permanent | restraining order stands dissolved | .in an opinion of Chief Justice Clark, which reached the Clerk of | the Court here Wednesday. This opinion cites former Su preme Court opinions to the ef I feet that the Supreme Court is not capable, and has not the pow er to control the exercise of pow er constitutionally vested in coun ty officials selected by the people. Further, that the decision of these matters rest entirely with the local officials, and the courts are not empowered to supervise I the action of an administrative board because of a difference of opinion that may occur. The Foreman-Bundy Road thru Mt. Hermon Township will now ' be built! NO LONG WAITS BETWEEN DATES Independent Readers Will Now Get Their Paper Twice a Week Instead of Once The next issue of TIIK IXI >10 I'KXI>KXT will be published on Tuesday. Sept. 2!>. ami liereaftet there will be ?ii issue every Tnesila.v and every Friday. The Friday is sue will be printed Thursday after noons as heretofore, be-ause main rural readers eouhl not get a Friday paper printed on a Friday in tinu for their Sunday reading. Advertisers will please take notiet 111 it advertising eopv for the Tues day edition should be in this offici as early as possible after the Fri day edition is published and nevet later than Monday afternoons. Merchants having Friday and Sal unlay sale announcements to maki should use the Tuesday edition oj TIIK lXDKI'KXHKXT by all means Headers of TIIK IXDKl'KXDKX'l generally are highly jdeased with tin twice-n-week idea, which fuet ha? been attested by the mail order sub scriptions for the paper during tin past two weeks. The cash subscrip tion receipts for the paper for tin week ending Saturday. Sept. ! reached a total near S'JtMi.tHi. Subscribers in the city who do not have postotfice boxes will receive tin paper by carrier, paying S'J.-To a yeat or 2." cents a month for carrier ser vice. Kdward old w ill have charg< of the city carrier service and wil see that the paper is delivered ti you promptly. If you are not al ready a subscriber. give your sub scriptiou to Kdward old or send il direct to this office. WHAT AYDLETTS BANK STOCK IS WORTH NOW The advertisement of ten share; of First & t'itizciis National lianl stock for sale by K. F. A.vdlelt Int ra i set I the question. what is thi; stock worth"' The answer is inter esting. Mr. Avdletl |turehased tei shares of stock in the bank in Jinn 11104. when the capital stock was in creased from SiiO.OOO to $100,000. lie liaid $120 it share, or a total of .SI. 2oo.no fo- the stock. Mr. Aydlett has1 received in divi dends on iInit stock since June 11101 a total of Sl.SSO.nO. or $020.00 inori than lie paid for the stock. The book value of First iV: Citi zens National Hank Stock to-day i> S17.~i.oO per share, or Sl.7o0.00 fot the 10 shares. .Mr. Aydlett has re fused an offer of $22."i.OO per slian for this stock, or $1.0.10.00 mo.a than he paid for it. Mr. Aydlett Ims been advertisin; his stock for sale since lie was dropped from the Hoard of Director! of the Hank several months ago. bn he may not be so anxious to sell a: his advertisements represent him ti he. BIG RATS IN CITY MARKET ADEPT IN OPENING CLAMJ The i|tiestion. llow does a rat op en a elamV is referred to the Wash ington Hureau of The Independent Fish dealers in the City Market ii Elizabeth City have quite as mucl trouble with rats as do the dealer: in meats. According to these fisl ' dealers, rats are particularly fond o clams and the dealers will show yot piles of clatn shells olt the Hours (> their stalls every luoruiug, ever, shell stripped clean of its meat. On dealers thinks lie would like to hav a troupe of tame rats to open clam for him: Good eyesight is inexpensive. $e Dr. J. D. Hathaway, Optometrist l Elizabeth City, N. C. ad> I Young Defaulter's Lady Friend ' THIS is Peggy Lyons, the young | grass widow with whom J. D. Sykes. Jr. kept company. She has laft town too. , SEAPLANE CALLED TO SAVE WOMAN For tin* tliinl time recently an air plane was railed Tnesdav to save the life of a patient at llnlterns. .Mrs. 1'tuli .lenriette. MO-yen r-old wife of a member of the crew of the Light house Tender Columbine, was tab'it suddenly ill Tuesday atternoon and iier life was despaired of. A wire was sent to the Naval base at Nor folk and in six hours' a seaplane bearing a doetor had brought the woman to a Norfolk hospital. I n.tka Jennette. keeper of llatteras light bouse and brother-in-law of Mrs. ."lennette. accompanied her to Nor folk. Altlio her life wfls despaired of Tue-day Mrs. Jennette is reported as improved Wednesday. Her hus band aboard the Terder Columbine Was summoned by radio to her bed Side." LOW K. R. RATES FOR THE FAIR Everything Shaping Up Fine For Elizabeth Ctty's Greatest I , Reduced railroad rales will be of fered by the Norfolk Southern to . persons attending the Elizabeth City Fair, according to Buxton White. Secretary, who is in re-eipl of a let ter from the general passenger ag ent of the road. Mr. White says r lie is making an effort to have the steamboat lines of Elizabeth City do . likewise. Fireworks for the Fair have ar . rived, consisting of MO eases. Fire works will be a feature three nights of the four, each night having for ( the progrnm ~>1 displays and eight set pieces, the entire display last ing over an hour. Set pieces spell , ing words will llfirc in the heavens, one of which is "Hello Kids, an en tertaining thing for the youngsters, tin the last last night of the Fair will . lie held the Marshall's Mall which , promises to be a hie event. Mr. White lias just returned from a tour of several counties in the in . terests of the exhibits for this Kali. , lie announces that the agricultural exhibits will be looked after in Caiu , den County by IT. C. Fcrebcc and , I'. W. Stevens: in Currituek by .1. K. Chandler; in Pcnpiiiiians by I.. r W. Anderson: in Chowan by X. K. ] Unwell; in Washington hy .1. It. ,. .lohnsoti; and I ho fisheries exhibits ? from I hire County by Assistant State Fisheries Commissioner Thro. t S. Merkins. Premium lists for the Fair have been issued and Mr. White reipiests all interested parlies who have not ? received one to advise him immedi ately so that the book mav he sent. COLORED DENTIST WEDS Dr. F. C. Cooke, young colored , deli list of Elizabeth City was mar i rietl Thursday in Norfolk to Miss < Mabel II. Allen, who for the past i live years lias been an instructor in f music at the State Normal School i here. She is a graduate of the New f England Conservatory of Music. I he v ceremony was performed by Rev. S. e P. Cooke, father of the groom. Dr. e Cooke is of considerable promim nee s in the social and fraternal life of his race in this city. II For your eyes' sake see Dr. ,T. D. t i Hathaway, Optometrist, Bradford r! I Blclg., Elizabeth City. N. C. adv. COBCON SELLS WHITE TRACT ? ! Transferred It Once But Got It Back and Sells It Once Again One of (lie largest real estate transactions recorded in this county in recent weeks is the transfer of thirty-one and a half acres of land 1 011 West .Alain St. extended. The deed is from Waiter I,. Column and I wife to T. S. White of Hertford and .1. Ai. Weeks of Elizabeth City., in consideration of SI.'l.OOO. $">00 of wKieh was paid in hand. This land was onee known as the .ToHir<? T. While tract and is bisected by the State Highway from Carl Commander's corner to West Alain Sr. Some months ago when there wa? a heated controversy as to whether, the State Highway from Hertford should enter Elizabeth City via Eli-, ringhans Si. or West Alain St.. Air. Column was accused of favoring the Alain St. route because lie owned the property which lie has just sold. Air. Column, who is General Coun sel to the State Highway Commis sion. protested his guiltlessness of sellish motives and disclaimed owner ship of I lie land. Sure enough, there appeared on record as of Feb. 0. 10'JU. a deed from W. I,. Column con veying his interest in the land to 1). f. Twiford. a local real estate man. The land remained in D. C. Twi ford's hands until a few days prior to the recent sale, when It. C. Twi ford transferred the land hack to W. I,. Column. The records in the light of recent local history are interest ing. The lands transferred from Co lumn to Twiford. from Twiford back to Column and from Column to Alcssrs. White and Weeks are de scribed in the deeds as follows: ''Itounded on the north by the right of way of the Norfolk South ern Railroad Company and the lands of the West End Land and Develop ment Company, on the East by the said West End Land and Develop ment Company: the land belonging to l'asquotank County; the lands of .loshua Davis and others; on the west by the lands of J. Ai. ltrite and I he south fork of Knobbs Creek: and containing .'11 acres more or less, and which tract of land is known as the .letjiro T. White lands formerly owned by the said Norfolk Southern Railroad Company, and conveyed to the said Walter L. Cohoon by the said Norfolk' Soul hern Railroad Company by deed of record in the office of the Register of Deeds of Rasipiotank County in llook 4.". page 1M. and reference to which deed and a map accompanying, is hereby made for the purpose of a more definite description. Rcing the same land purchased hv the said T. S. White and .1. AI. Weeks from said W. L. Cohoon 'by and of even dale here with. and this deed of trust being given to secure the balance of pur chase money and being one and the same continuous transaction.'' HALF AROUND THE * WORLD FROM HOME Takes Five Weeks to Come Hero From His Home 7.000 Miles Be neath Us, An Ceylon Seven thniisninl miles beneath lis lies the Island of Ceylon. no larger than the state of South Carolina. Wit kin it live four and a half million people. Among these people lives I>r. \V. I', .laeocks. who is now visit - irg his brother, F. <i. Jaeoeks of this eity. Ceylon lies near the coast of In ilia. To get here from there re quires five weeks of travel. One must take a bout from the island, make the long trip thru the Suez Canal ami the .Mediterranean Sea to Euglund. ami then to America. It will take aivt-lher six weeks to re turn. 1 >r. Jaeoeks has been doing re search work for the Rockefeller Foundation now endeavoring to erad icate, hookworms front the Ceylonese. Ceylon has a population which goes ba refoot. "With the exception of a few thous and Furopcans, the inhabitants of Ceylon's 2.j,(MIO square miles are na tive defendants of the airy an race di vided into about 70 branches. They derive their living chiefly from tea. quinine, cinnamon, and the pearls of the oyster beds, i The island has cities as large as New Orleans, with every modern ap pearance. Jewelry, lace and machin ery tire made in Ceylon. Dr. Jaeoeks was obliged to travel l.'t.OtlO miles in order to get to Eliz abeth City. NOTICE c ? ? Miss Elizabeth Raker will open her music studio Monday. Sept. IS. l'upils please register at once for hours. v S.lo-.'ft Don't neglect your eyes. Set i Hathaway. He Knows. adv. HANGS OUT HIS SHINGLE IN HIS OLD HOME TOWN ?J. HENRY LeROY. JR. | HERE is one of our Elizabeth City1 boys who isn't going to chase rain bows in quest of his pot of gold. Young Mr. LeRoy has settled down in his home town for the practice of law. associating himself with the law firm of Meekins & McMullan. Mr. LeRoy is a Wake Forest man. He got his license to practice law in January 1920, but did not engage in practice at once. He served as in structor of mathematics at the N. C.! State College for the past two years. He returned to Elizabeth City re cently after attending the summer term of Wake Forest Law School. GAP AND STARE AT TWO SKIRTLESS GIRLS, Folks Stop Their Work As Girls in Old Garb Hike Thru Town Elizabeth City forgot all about the* bank robbery Tuesday when two j coatless and skinless young women! strode down fbe streets with mar-J tial tread. The populace proved there? has been no surfeit of viewing what the short skirt has revealed. The girls were skinless, but they wore khaki Army breeches and khaki | shirts wide open at the collar, and [ comfortable canvas hiking shoes. On1 their shoulders they 'carried small J knapsacks containing only a tooth brush and a few bandannas. These two young women were: Misses Elizabeth and Winifred Itau shenbush of Uoehester. X. Y.. who were hiking to Cape flattens Hanks. They left I'.altitnore Wednesday morning, tramping thru Virginia by ; way of Fredericksburg and Newport News. Dresesd as men they are sharing the lot of the masculine sex. and they look husky enough to make their way anywhere. The young women make hikes: their hobby and last year tramped | thru New York state to Canada where they have a lodge. They de clare that nowhere have they met I with so much hospitality ami consid eiatiou as in the South, and nowhere were they stared at so much as in Elizabeth City. They went to Man teo on the steamer Trenton, expect ing to continue on to Ilntterns for a two-day visit before returning. FARMERS MAY SHOOT DUCKS ON THE FARM Camden Man Discovers Wild Fowl Fond of Soy Beans Loft in the Field Duck shooting in Eastern North 1 Carolina is not going to he conlineil to the Sounds and marshes in future, but farmers can shoot- wild ducks and geese from their ,'iel 1;, is the I or.;'lion of Nathan Burgess of Cam , din. who is a veteran hunter and the crack shut of his neighborhood. Mr. Burgess says that ducks are fond of the so.v bean tiiat is now extensive ly grown all over Eastern North Carolina and will come to the fields for it just as soon as they get on to it. He found wild ducks in his own field last winter feeding on the beans left in the soil. At least, one-fourth of the soy beans grown on any farm are never harvested: either the beans burst in the pod and scatter over the field, or the harvester fails to jiick the vines clean. These beans left on the ground swell from the moisture of the earth and rains, sprout and make delicious morsels for all animal life. It is not generally known however that wild ducks and wild geese are eager for these sprouted beans; but Nathan Burgess says they are and says the ducks will come to the fields as soon as they know what good eat ing is at ha ml for them. He advises i farmers not to frighten away the ; .!? first birds tbut come, but (ire u cbauce to familiarise tbcmseMlM with the lay of the laud and edffl uiunicatc with other birds. jfl I TO HAVE FERRY ROAD INI SHAPE FOR FAIR WEEH After That, Motor Barges Will Handle Trail fie Between Elizabeth City and 9 Camden jfl Spite of all the worry afl talk, the handling of traflH between Elizabeth- City ai^B Camden while the hard .sifl facing of the Camden FeqH Road is under way is going 1 be nicely taken care of, afl cording to G. E. McNutt, tlH construction engineer jfl charge of this aggravatfij^H road project. As to taking care of the crowfl that will coiue from Camden, Cui^H tuck and other points North to Elizabeth City Fair, Sept. 10, ll.rfl and in. Mr. McNutt snya be will h(H the road itself in condition to- t#H care of the Fair crowds und will clos,? the road until the Fair in ov^M The work of cross piling the road^| nearly completed and the buildingf^H u fifteen inch dirt fill on the corqH roy will begin in earnest next wajjfl Mr. McNutt expects to have the fill completed in ten days or ffl weeks, which wilt make 1111 excell|^H dirt road that will take care of-^H traffic until after the Fair. The dfl till will be made with clay, sand gravel from the hanks of the DiaflH Swamp Canal, the first barge of which is expected to unload M^H day of next week, tine barge ld^H of sand gravel from Chesapeake is already in i>ort. When the road is closed after ll Fair, the hard surfacing will beflfl and Mr. McNutt believes be will the road completed and open to tr^J fie before Christmas. In meuutime two barges are be^H ei|uippcd with 28-inch propell^H driven by heavy gasoline engifl|^| These barges will carry six to ci^H automobiles each and will make hoffl ]y trips between Camden and betli City. If the two barges sufficient to handle the tm^H Mr. McNutt says he will put third barge. These barges are ing equipped and will b<> ready to^H in operation in ten days. It is 'e^H mated that this barge service cost $3,500 to $4,000. The idea <>f using tne nnipj^H Ferry ltoad or T.amb Ferry ltowH l>luce of the barges is regarded absolutely unfeasible by State HI^J way Engineers who figure thutfl would cost $7,000 to put eUVFr of these roads in condition to c^fl any considerable traffic for evei^H short period of time. In iiieautiiuc Mr. McNutt is f^H ing pretty sore about u lot of I criticism and newspaper talk by pH pie who think they know more aMH what to do than the engineers llie^J selves know. Mr. McNutt is abtH convinced that a lot of tho talkij propaganda. He says that much has been said about the Camden ry Hoad is to be discounted. He proved the claim that there kfl bottom to th(> road this week ulH piles driven in the weakeat spo^H Clovers Cut Itridge hardly vhoflH under the blows of a 2.1 hammer at 30 feet. At 20 feet tflj piles moved only six inches uodfl (lie blow of tliis hammer, .. wfl lu meantime, until Mr. gets his dirt fill mudr, travelers attempt to negotiate the Cant^l Ferry Hoad ure having a hard t^H of it on the corduroy, wbict) is nf the price the public has to for any improvement. ( McXtRtiH regarded as one of the mos* cup^H construction engineers in the of the State Highway Coiun:isi^| aud liis assurance that conditions not going to be as bud us some anticipated should be received w|H credence aud enthusiasm. THIS WILD DUCK FLEW NOT LESS THAN 3,000 Mllfl How far can a duck fly? MauaH hunter of wild birds in Kasf^H N'ortli Carolina has often propoui^| such u (piestion in his mind withV a satisfactory answer being at h^H Now the 1'. S. Biological Survej^B getting some interesting dope on |H subject. The longest range flight fl record is that <>f a blue-winged handed September 24, 1020, at M small lake about 20 miles uortlJH ' Toronto, Ontario, and killed months and seven days luter in I Carotii Swamp, near I'ort of SpflH on tin* island of Trinidad, just const of Venezuela. The elidfl est flight that this bird could uH made would be over 3.000 miles. j| ?Of the f?.."K)0 children of scfciB ! age in Hertford Couuty, 3,<300 affl negroes.
The Independent (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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Sept. 15, 1922, edition 1
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