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I?^Tr \..l A llARP QUESTION? ??J| _ HAVE YOU A IIAUD QUESTION? ? VOL. XV. NO. 756. >t K||>jtv.tl, (1,.. y lcr Inn(. 9* i^qs"""ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., TUESDAY, SEPT. 19, 1922 l'llWisla-J Kury Tmsjay ;.n:l Kri.iuy by W. o. Saunders PRICE jM ??i^???????fc??^^?t KHaalwtli City. X. C. proposes state park of our entire coast ("apt. M. P. Hite ^ 5 Elizabeth City Thinks State Should Acquire Title to Strand from Virginia to Bogue Inlet . \'it think of the ? ikinv: a State !kirk North Carolina ! the \ irtjnia State Xori ,i to l>opue ? : , South ? It's a ;o e aei ive l !>y an l.liz I- titv mail who knows . > . ,iu?I dread- the day ! ohcst hue will e hand- ami the ? ???? .1: people can not s?t ? ???. :! I v. il'ioat the per ? . , ate nil ner. i ? M IV H.i ci>i|vi i-'ii tioii work i:i >. I". S. I(i. i >K: ? it-f. , ; i! ' <-r* Vi ! !*!-? vii) : !aii- f..r Nor:!i Car t'.a: x? -.v;.:; ! ' ? S..,nnl? .Hid l!i" to; ?i a. iii;. ?> !' i - trji: i'o " ifi n:'l - .- H'l ;?!<? Co;; til: !??;-(> >>r l?'^^ isolated at..; ? - l.'il ill llellK'lltl. I'.tit it will i|l|t'>t illll of :l few VIM'S |to>^:l>i|i; il?v will 1m. i:. t t-ry rii li ami it is nj* 'in ? I" fr;:r that tin* \\ a ?!?? ?? w I. |?a>s into private Yiml - ii-aih' a'S'i'ssihlc In f ? <i? .oat, t?.." :t; ?. o \ Carolinian mui hnut from tin ? -s ..f this coast. Ii-ii in its vr>. hallo- i;i its snri' i>r camp ?s samls without paying toll to iii' uiMicrs. Vast tracts will bo !?> tiro public altogether. Now ? iii:o. thinks Cap;. Ilito. for \ r: Carolina t>> ts.akc a ;? cat S:ar?' Park of the entire I'jas!. a ?m of 17." miles from Virginia ?? l: Inlet, with an average i ?f about a laiic. ("apt. llite's :bl be to biiihl for posterity t 1 r ul foii:ulatt?>n. taking title ?I- v. : v in oO or To years. The >? woii'ii begin acquiring title at v. iierever ^rsit ticf'rle birr, in :n. eotibl buy the 1 mil f'ota ???iii: owners siihject to tin- life es rlie present owner anil his ? i . prospectivi- eliiblren. The ? ?f the laml has almost i ,..w ami Ca|?t. Uite t'iink> . : i i-ffer-|ivi- effort - this ????;?! easilv be si--nre?| at the ? ? ? ? r's il-.itb at no net. 1 u r ?s, . if a nominal value, of. > l.u.l aere. were ofTcreti the ? III owner ill- WollM illlllieiliute|y ' s -?11h 1 pass tir|(. iii s !' r this eoiisiib-ratio;:. otli ? ass ;i|b- oil ileatll. while . pa.ss ti. !e when . I'Mreu attaitie'l majority. The ?piestion amounts to aroiiiul ?? a value of si.(HI ;-t aere a< an average?woi:M ? only SliMi.lNai.iMt ami if ? ? ?' -11 ? i J at the rat e <-l ?' M' > , yea - tin- whole park - ? "??j>iir?-il with ?:t the i-otit ?I:n? it. If the nuiit%-r r- j.nr on a community **r ser ' "? - - thru *>M*ak:?i? and ftews (l-ajwr i :ili:|i:ii;;ii- MTV lit t Ii? motley in ri'i|iiir>-<l ii> M-riiri1 til!** to ' Hit** -ay> In* would make li<? d .'I 'l fi-t re-tri**ti*?tis u- t<* use. ,i * n;t~ll lease ItllHi lli (III ! |io-i- eVI-ll : '/.in;:. i t.-.. I? 111 woiilil insist i>n in - i.t I t?> years on leases, hi i-m-otirage tin* li'tilding ?f num-r home- ami grant for this ii-rely nominal lig 1 a* ! -tiger term*. 1 hi any i-a-fil r ???r**ai i*?tts; I a la! > .il.if. I would liave most ainl ?-??ll ?iiJi* i*i? ' "it.- t.. friciul. ?'j?i?t. Hit** ly iti-.-li.-.-.l what is i:? liis mi i-iiti-rtainilig ami enligllt II- -ai?l: !'?? Mm r-ali/.** that you cutitiot ?in- ' t.?ati Uracil i ?*?'*:* l.-txM?a till* IH*lawan* ami' ? at i??? i ini-~i? 111 ? I" r *'?r*l> in .ill tSuit spa-** :t single I. >iay away from *M-**an ami lit** law will r* 'Mm i;j?. li., yoil rarr to see ??Hi.? a- ha|>|>?*n down her**.' *li*-ire to walk l?y the ol*l - ..a artii-d Klin d ? a-v tinm ami for any ohi ' to onii-r you away? Do you J a!! la*- .?a h*-a**I? of ?"' ".* lias- into tin* liaittl. ?? I . .* amilirrti land halllrra who 11**- r own iileasv.re as to not yott rati walk along An* tin* gradual ?*u- { ? Noii hen* jfintiersj '??asiiiiii-Mnt clubs und -ri, ?| . .. :? -?ittifii'iit iinlica w''*t lit ions will Ue on f-w il--ad'*-, when I***-* want a cottage at j. mi:-: t'umr "Nags Head." of the glider it* here now* ami t wentv years more will likely see some form of flyer as common as lite Ford of to-day. In that day the sounds will be uo bar and the beach es will be ns close to you as the Fair 1J rounds wo now. When that day rentes will you hear your ehil drt n say. 'Let's run over to our cot tage on the beach" or will they say j 'The beach is tine, but they won't let you 50 near the ocean any tnoreV* | '"If the whole North Carolina I lleach is a siate park the state can lease little home sites alt along it. The state 1 an keep the whole beaeh free from fenees and armed guards. It can give every man his share of the beach and o-ean when our state has even ten limes the population it has today ami "Nags Head' is like Asbnry I'ark or Atlantic City. Let the state now deelare the whole beach a public park and take title when ii can. Let all the people own these beaches instead of a few Northerners with their armed guards." IS PROHIBITION TO BLAME FOR DIABETES? Statement That Diabetes Is on the Increase Borne Out By Local Facts l?r. Zeiias Fearing. I'ily 1 !<?;> 11 It Officer de-lares tint diabetes i* on I In* increase in Kli/.abctli Fit} ai <1 I bat tbv number ?f case* developed : here within tin* past ??:??? or two yrars is alarmiig. This newspaper asked 1 >r. Fearing about i?* cases because of statements made ??Ngwhrrc that America i- booming a nation of diabetics slice the ad vent of prohibition. J)r. Knianucl Donbeiser of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, of New York City, "declared in a statement the other day that prohibi tion and the result'ng influx of con fectionery and French pastry shops are making America a nation of hi; hetics. lie . explained that wit 11 the withdrawal of alcoholie drinks the men of llie country have turned to sugar as a substitute. This phenome non. lie said, was the logical result . of a biological law. "Take drink away from mail." said I>r. iJoiibeiser. '"and lie will naturally turn to something else as a substi tute. His craving for sweets is tiiu intensified. He becomes an inveter ate candy cater end a constant miuc-lier of pastries. "A person is Imruted more physi cally by pat roi.-i/.ing a French pastry shop (ban be ever- was by going in a saloon and drinking a glas^ of beer or light wine. Heaving out (lie sell ing of whijky. French pastry shops do more harm than the saloons ever did. Folitiniicd use of heavy sweets I between meals will soon make a healthy, normal man a diabetic sub ject." Mr. Fearing dors not profess to In prepared to say whether prohibition is responsible for the iiii-iciisi' of di abetes. but In- is convinced that the increase is alaruling ami that ?vi<r- , consumption of swim-Is is tli<* cause of it. Then- an- no French pastry shops in Kliy.abrth City, but Cora < oht ami other sweet drinks supply tin- same amount of sugar for those who have the craving. ELIZABETH CITY MAYOR BACK FROM PLYMOUTH ROCK Mayor W\ Ben Goodwin returned Sunday night from Boston, where lie attended the Biennial National Con-' veutioii of the Bed .Men of America. Mayor Goodwin was aeeouipanied by Mrs. Goodwin who slapped in Salis bury. .Md.. to spend a few days be fore returning home. A. C. Garret of this i-ity was at Boston also, us one of the five rep- 1 resent ill ives of the North Carolina I ted Men. While away the party vis ited < iimbridge I'niversity and oth er points of interest near Boston, in eluding Plymouth Knelt, wnere the Pilgrims landed in KKltt. The Bed Men ereeled a handsome nionnmeut to Massasoit. the friendly Chief of tlie Massachusetts Indians. WILD CAT KILLS CHICKENS laist Friday nivlil a monster wild eat raided the prize winning lloek of Brown Leghorn eliiekens ou Grceu hali Poultry Farm, in Chowan coun ty. and before the eat could be killed bad destroyed BS of the best of the Hock. Green hall Poultry Farm is owned by Newby & White of Hert ford. and lias grown to be of con siderable importance as an industry.1 and is still growing. The eat made bis entrance by digging under the wall of the building, this one being the only bouse 011 the place with a dirt floor.?Hertford Herald. _ _JK __ ' ? np?" 6 **" " r-4?t ? v[ j^ta ilT ' *OMIBBwJi wM i*tawwMm 1 ri*^u (1 '? g f g ^ ??1 | ! __?* Jfpfft ?<^wr*?* \ / .r - * /s Jj?* r/Jts***^ P r. r~"'~ -x,. 1 \ HERE is a reduced facsimile of a map by Capt. M. P. Hitc, of Elizabeth City, showing the location of a proposod State Park, bequeathing the beauty and rec cation,".I possibilities of this most delightful area to all posterity. What do you think of it? TWIDDY CASE UP THIS WEEK Most Brutal and Cowardly Crime Ever Committed by a Local Policeman Perhaps the most serious case on the docket of the Su perior Court in session in Eliz abeth City this week is the ease of the State vs. (Jcorgc Twiddy. Ralph Cuthrell. Lin wood Cartwright, 11. S. Sey mour and Pete Sawyer. *all charged with assault with deadly weapon with intent to kill. The prosecuting witness in the ease is Davis Overton, a 16-year-old moron negro. In tli<' early morning of Sunday. April 2. I'.cJll. Twiddy, who is a night pHlirrman in Elizabeth City, organized a nosse and went three miles or more into Pasquotank Coun ty to look for the negro hoy. Davis Overton, who was wanted bv the eounly authorities on a rliargr of vagraney. Twiddy liad no warrant for the bov and Sheriff Chits. Iteid has stated that. Twiddy had uo au thority to "o iu the futility for the boy. Kut 'J'widdy has a thirst for negro blood. .Messrs. X'ynifHir. < iirinnjin iiim f'tii ln-ell. wlio accompanied Twiddy 1 ami helped liitu in tin- man ?limit an Camden County men in ill knew abso lutely nothing about tin- negro tlu-y won' limiting for. Tliey Just went along to help Twiddy. at Twiddy's ropiest. Tin- negro boy was fotiiul in a shanty on tin- 1'nrki-r fiit-in on Umly Komi. several miles from town. It was hardly daylight when Twiddy lliishi-d his prev. The boy. seeing five armed white men pursuing him. ran. As lie rail he was shot by one of lite party. A "2 ealibre steel bul let penetrated the boy's back just below the twelfth rib. narrowly missed a kidney, traveled obliquely upward thru his liver and right lung and bulged behind n rib in bis chest. Twitldy and bis men left the boy to die and eame baek to town, saying nothing about the shooting. Four days later the boy was found weak, emaciated and exhausted frotu loss of blood in a ditch far from the road, lie was taken to the 1'asipiotunk i Municipal Hospital and hovered he-1 tween life and death for weeks. His recovery under the surgical care of l>r. John Snlibu was nothing short of marvelous. A more cowardly, brutal or un called for crime was never committed by a police officer lit the police his tory of Elizabeth City. For weeks Twiddy walked the streets without having a warrant being served upon him. Finally he an-1 his alleged ac complices were haled into court, giv en u preliminary hearing and hound over to tin- Superior Court under bonds of SoU each. The Hoard of Aldermen by whom Twiddy is em ployed as u policeman never did any thing about the ease at all and Twiddy remains on the police force with two mnn-killines to bis credit. Twiddy confidently expects to In* ;?f j ipiittcd l?y the Court this week, in [which cast* the life of a negro with j in three miles of Twithly will hardly be worth a lmir of paper hreeebes in ! a rainstorm. MAY CLOSE DISMAL SWAMP CANAL NOW House Kills Bill to Buy Canal For $500,000: May Result in Clos ing Waterway j The refusal of Congress to buy i the Dismal Swamp t'aual for S.?OtI. two mav result in closing the j miles of waterwav connecting the I'u.si|uotunk Kiver in North Carolina with the Kli/aheth Kiver in Virginia, i It was elaiined as operating at a loss when several months ago (lovern tnent engineers recommended its pur ehase as a measure of justiee. since the operation of a free canal paral lel with it had virtually put it out i of business. The House killed the hill Saturday by a vote of 77 to LM.t. no Kcpukli rnn members voting for it. ( otigress tuatt Ward made a determined stand for the passage of the hill. In his } speech before the House Mr. Ward said: '"The Dismal Swamp canal was here in line condition, serving this large area, representing what is now L'K.tttMt population, with acres of holdings. .Tt.tttHI acres in active cultivation. The (loveriiment saw- lit to take over the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal and make it toll free, in furtherance of the great ' ? - :... I III eoltsirilci lug nil in..i.iv. ; waterway from New Knghiml to the South. When thin was (lone, ship ping was diverteil from the Dismal Swamp (.'anal to the extent that its ineotue would not sustain it. It must go under, according to the report of your engineers. The people living in i the territory thru which it runs, say if it noes under, our only opportun ity of transportation is taken from ' us by an act of the Government. I Is it right that this should be done? Can the Government in justice to these people afford to do it?" What is the situation in Congress as to the Dismal Swamp Canal fol lowing tlit4 rejection by the House of the Senate amendment providing for the purchase of this waterway by the Government? The answer is that the fight for the project seems to be. over this ses sion. but that it may have a better ehnnee at the next session than it I did at this, when it really came much l nearer bein;p successful than would I appear from the vote. DOESN'T HAPPEN TO BE OUR DR. CLAUDE KELLAM The Dr. I!. C. Kellum held in Nor folk on a cliurge of iirst degree mur der in connection with the death of i a pretty 21-year-old telephone op I erator of Cape Charles, Va., is not the Dr. Claude Kelluim formerly of Camden County, now of Norfolk, and well known in this city ami section. The Dr. Kellain under arrest in Norfolk is not known here. He was arrested last Saturday morning fol lowing the death of the Cape Charles girl. He is accused of having per formed an illegal operation result ing in the girl's death. A woman rooming housekeeper was indicted I with him. INDICTED HERE ON CHARGE OF ! WHITE SLAVERY > B. J. Ashley of Cho wan Accused of Taking New York Man's Wife Away I Charles Powell, a night watchman of Brooklyn. X. V.. lost his wife on June 16. 1622. j He found her this week on a farm in Chowan County, liv ing with another man. 15. J. Ashley, the man with whom Mrs. Powell was living was I indicted under the Mann W hite Slave Act l>y the L*. S. Deputy Marshall J. W. Wilcox i of this city and is now under a $400 bond for his appearance in the Federal Court here on jOet. 12. 1922. Ashley was given a iiroliniitiury hearing before tlie 1*. S. Commissioii | er at Kli/.nbetli City Monday after noon. 4'has. Powell, the husband of the delinquent woman had been in Kli/.abeth City since Saturday nn l.uown to his wife and her lover on it farm in Chowan Comity .">*> miles away. 15. .1. Ashley is ;i native of Chowan County. prominently connected in, thai couuly. He had been away from home for several years. part of which time lie was in the Navy, lie showed up in Chowan this summer with a lillle Mick-cyed. hluek-haired Irish woman of 2S years whom he in trodueed as his wife. "I'liey settled down to life on the farm of II. 15. tioodwiii. a relative of Ashley, near Kdciiton. Til ineantiine ('has. Powell. who claims lie never saw Ashley until this week, was seeking his wife. The Powells lived in a rooming house in llrooklyu. N. Y. There Ashley met Mrs. i'owell several weeks before their elopement and I'owell didn't know anything about it. Months af ter the disappearance of his wife. I'owell says he learned that -'ic had been intimate with Ashley and had gone away with him. Some one hud seen a wire from Ashley from Kdcn tnn. N. C. I'owell sent photos of his wife and Ashley to Chief of Po lice Hubert son. of Kdenton. who iden tified them and notified I'owell to come. Powell met Chief Robertson in Kli/.abeth City Saturday afternoon and a Federal warrant was procured for Ashley's arrest. Powell is an englishman, small, dark, nervous, neat of appearance, i He was in the lobby of the Southern Hotel Monday when Deputy Marshall Wilcox walked in with Ashley and Mrs. Powell. I'cholding his wife for the first time since her disappear ance. I'owell was iiotieeahlx agitated and secured control of himself with great difficult,v. He lost eon I t'ol of himself again at tin' preliminary inn and when Ashley had testified that lie took Mrs. Powell away because , Powell was cruel to her. Powell walked over to him. shook a clenched lis| in his face and said: '"You lie, you dirty, contemptible cur!" lie was sieged by the Deputy Marshall and pushed out of the room. Ashley and Mrs. Powell were es corted out of town by the Marshall, both fearful of a more serious dem onstration from Powell. 15. .1. Ashley is a man of apparent I ly .'!"i years, tall, spare of built and has light hair and blue eyes. His ! bond was fixed at $-H)0 and II. (>. I tioodwiu and Ceo. S. (Goodwill of I Chowan stood surely for him. WHEN JACK MUNDEN SPAT A MOUTHFUL ! There probably wouldn't have been anything to it. but Jack .Miliidiii stepped to the window and ejected a big mouthful of tobacco juice into the night air back of the Shrine Club. The whole mouthful landed sipiare in the face of nighf policeman P.en Ttoughton who was snooping about in I the darkness trying to see what went 1 oil in the rooms of a Shrine Club. The next day warrants were is- | sued for nine prominent Elizabeth ! City Shriuers. charging them with gambling. The affairs was hushed ' up. so far as police court records show, but Officer Houghton hasn't gotten over that baptism of Ja -k t Mlinden tobucco juice yet. (tumbling I is not permitted in the rooms of the | Shrine Club and responsible Shriuers i say that the police are welcome to do all the spying they want to do. i The Shriuers have another rule now | that members shall not spit tobacco juice out of the back windows of tin* club, an extra lot of cuspidors being < provided in the card rooms for the j1 I likes of .Tuck Monden. ? PUTTING YOUNGER MEN IN CHARGE OF AFFAIRS r- 1 \ JAMES TAYLOR YOUNG Taylor, just 25 years old, is tho Democratic nominee for the office of Register of Deeds in Cur rituck County, where the nomina tion is equivalent to elecfion. Cur rituck's next Register of Deeds is another result of the modern spirit that prompts voters to give the younger men a hand in the adminis tration of government. The fast growing idea that the yn.nger ele ment have had better educational ad vantages and more efficient training to fit them for such work, against older heads of an earlier day, is no less apparent in the progressive county of Currituck than elsewhere. "It won't hurt to give the youngs ters a chance," says Major E. Wood house. the venerable Currituck vet eran to whom this newspaper is in debted for the above picture. WHIPPING THE DEVIL AROUND THE STUMP No Waitiiio for Sand for Camden Ferry Road, When It Can Be Duij From Stinking Gut 1 sins solid ni ihe rate of OIK) ions a day, the Camden Kerry Hnad is gelling in shape. according in <?. K. McXiitt. engineer in charge, and will probably be read* to concrete by Oct. 1.". Already half the steel reinforce ment for the road and a fourth of the concrete has arrived in Klizabeth City and is waiting to be unloaded. Mr. MeXuit Males ilial 15.000 tons of sand will be used to lay the road bed from Stinking Gut to lite bridge. The sand is brought down the river from I lie Dismal Swamp Canal, in a bargie carrying ?1(10 ions. The sand is brought ashore on lighters and during the wails between loads sand is scooped from the bottom of the river to keep Ihe trucks busy. It ? was accident ally discovered that sev eral feet of sand lay in the bottom of Slinking (Jut. Mr. MeXutt is dig ing this sand out and lias already 1 placed about SotMl worth on the road without extra expense. Vsing I he sand from the hoi torn of the liver has several advantages. Ii is saving several hundred dollars b?r sand, saving the time of the I rucks and keeping I hem busy, as well as deepening Stinking fitil. Stink ing (iiu now boasts a depih or thirty feet, the greatest depth of any wat erway in these parts. PERSONNEL UP LUAi 1 GUARD GETTING STEADY No Enlistments in Seventh District This Year, Old Men Being Returned Home The personnel of the Seventh (.Twist (itianl District is settling down to iiurinnl. There have been no en listments in tli?? district to (ill va cancies this year. lint men from dis tricts north of here luivc been trans ferred to the Seventh. All of those men were natives of the Seventh District. Old men remaining in the stations for some time add to the efliciency of the serviveo. There have Intel! fetv changes; the following be ing the men Itrought back in the dis trict. since .tannary first: \V. U. Toler. ('. D. Tolcr. .I<?lin K. Readmit), Dock -Fitlelier, Luther (J. Hooper. A. Harris. John J'?. (iray. Emmet Evans, Fred O'Neal, YY. Jl. Eeacliam. Theodore S. Miiigell. An - gnstiis AI. Austin. Herbert I/. (iurd, tiud Baxter Af. Jennett. The following men have been ap pointed keepers of stations with the rating of Chief Boatswain's Alute: AY. (5. Kthoridge. Station 171. Nags Head; YY. H. Lcwark. Station 17.'?, Kill Devil, near Kilty Hawk: \Y. II. Harnett. Station lStl. Hatter-, us Inlet. Their appointments were recently confirmed by the Navy De pa rtmeni. (i. (?. Snow iif Station 177 near Duck, and 0. J. (iray of Station 181 near Kittle Kinnekeet have been ap- ' pointed but no eoufirnied. FOR SAKE: An upright piano heap. Apply to Airs. J. D. Hatha- , way, U04 Matthews St. Phone 818-W. I pti*nhi>tll City. x. (!. |).8,22-1t i NEW BANK HERE DOING BUSINESS ON BIG SCAL ??? + Two Hundred Representatives in As Mai Counties To Handle Millions In j Loans For Farmers i REVIEWS PLANS FOR THE FAIR Buxton White Tells Readers of This Newspaper More About the Big Fair ^ Buxton White. Secretary Manager of the Albemarle District Fair for October 10 to 13 inclusive, reviews the plans for the Fair in an inter esting interview given this newspaper. Mr. White says: "Preparations for tlit* Albemarle District Fair arc in full swing and arc going forward with great rapid ity. The Fair Grounds is the scene of much activity daily, and the prog ress being made assures ns that ev erything will be in readiness for the opening of the big gala week of the Albemarle Section. -The new agricultural building which will mean a distinct addition to this and future fairs, is Hearing completion.?only the floor and roof remaining to be finished. This build ing will house the county exhibits, which arc expected to make ipiite it feature of the agricultural side of this year's exhibition. "As an incentive id general con >i ruction, rivulry in making si>< ex|io sition of the agricultural. industrial and natural resources of Northeast ern North Carolina, for the education of our own people, and an advertise ment to the world, the association has offered liberal prises for county exhibits. Special effort is being made to have every county in the district including Currituck. Camden. Pasquotank, Perquimans. Chowan. Dates. Washington. Tyrrell. Hyde and Dare send exhibits. "Efforts along these lines have been meeting with most encouraging results and the indications are that at least eight of the ten counties will lie represented at this year's Fair. "The agricultural building will also house the exhibits of farm crops, fruits, vegetables, women's work, and school work. Another feature exhi bit of this building will be that of the N. C. Experiment station of the State College, which will be of es pecial* interest to all farmers desir ing to increase crop production. "The race track has been thoroly worked over, graded and ditched, putting it iti good condition for the large number of horses which are al ready on the grounds training for the log races. Ten or 12 more horses are expected to come in this week lo begin intensive training. All sta bles have just undergone a tlioro ov erhauling and all necessary repairs have been made. "There is being added to the grandstand another set of steps for the use of colored patrons, and a special section in the stand proper is being set aside for their use. The exhibition ball under the grandstand will be used this year for commer cial displays entirely, and the space in this building is rapidly being let lo merchants, manufacturers* and banks, whose booths will make a popular attraction to fair visitors. "The crowded condition in the livestock building last year will be relieved this year by the construction of pens to take care of the swine exhibits outside of this building. The facilities for showing poultry are ai SO being enlarged by extension of the poultry sheds. "The fences all over thj grounds arc being repaired and the fence on the west side of the race track is being extended all the way down to the stables to keep the crowds back from the stretch. "All the buildings, fences and oth er constructions arc being given a new eout of whitewash, which when finished will give the entire pli.nt a fresh spick and span appearance for I'll ir Week. "Adequate provisions are being made for water and sawdust to keep down the dust which usually is con siderably annoying at big races. "The season-ticket selling cam paign in which the association is giving away two automobiles has got ten under way with a rush. New contestants are getting in the race every day, and early indications are tiiat the sales will exceed all former expectations, and in themselves as sure by far the largest attendance ever obtained by a fair in this sec tion." ?Sheriff Al. Blue of Moore County has resigned, and will devote his en tire ^me to grow ing peaches, apples ; and tobacco. Elizabeth City is rapidly I coining the most widely a vertised town in Virginia a North Carolina and is regal ed as the financial stronglu of the two States by thoi ands who never heard of Elj abcth City until a few wee ago. and all as the result the extensive organization a financial institution that d ly recently opened its doorsv this city. ? | So quietly has the Virgini?*;Cat liii:i Joint Stock Land Bank of t city gone about its organization ti many Elizabeth City people will , surprised to know that in llu months this bank lias built up uirj gnnizutiou with a representative"] every one of the two hundred coi ties in North Carolina and Virgin Sixty-three of these representutii ure banks and every represent#! is using the newspapers' in bis eo ty and vicinity to tell about the \ giitiu-Carolina Joint Stock L Hank at Elizabeth City with its n lions to lend to fanners. The Virginia-Carolina Joint Stt Land Hunk, formerly u Norfolk stiiutioii was moved to Elizab 1 City in June of Ibis year. Norf never did much with the Joint-St Land Hank and Northeastern No 'Carolina needed it. The First A: ( izeiis National Hank group of t eity quietly nvquired the majority the bunk's stock ami brought j bank to Elizabeth City. With its capital of X-.Ki.UOO. tH Virginia-Carolina Joint Stock Lafl Hank is empowered to lend four ujfl lion dollars to farmers on approifl real estate. The bank had loaaH only Sii."it).(Kit MM i during it< ocisie^B in Norfolk, leaving $J,3o0.<>00.(X)fl be loaned here. Applications for dl and a half millions of this umoifl have been tileil with the bank within the past three months, a iitijH ber of which applications have I ' ready been approved. Three government appraisers |H now Working every day on the rifl 'of applications in hand und tliJH more appraisers are to he puljH this week. It is hoped to have ? machinery of the bank so orgnii^| at an early date that loans nuiy|^| approved und the money uvuilable tfl the borrower in thirty to sixty The two und a half million dolhtfl of applications now in hand til from every section of Virginia afl Nortji Curolina. The average ii|dfl cation is for a loan of $10,000. inuxintuin amount the bunk may tafl to any one individual is $.".7..'dki n there are many npplicafioiis fl maximum louus. Only about (JO per ccut of the an plieants offer approved security I it may be several months yet befofl the bank will have loaned up to fl i present resources. Hut that willfflfl lie tlie end of lending, because ? bunk can get more money to imi&H any time by increasing its mpffl ? stock. It is authorised ?<> h'luUjH the extent of fifteen times amount of its capital, plus the c^H till; to get another four milliom^J lend. th<> bunk only lias to incrfl| its stock by $?10,000, wliieb i??fl small mutter of financing for tfl ; group in control. TH WASTE BASKET MAKES GOOlfl ICE BOX UNTIL EMPTlEl i A liber waste basket one of ifl kind ihiii is watertight makes a irafl iee eIleal when stuffed with iicwmH j pers. A live pound piece of ice keep 'J I hours iu such n waste ket stuffed with old newspapers.^? certain professional man in I'ili/.abM City who discovered this fact. ngH his waste basket to keep his apiH eider cool and wus enjoying iee e4l apple juice right out of his wgM hasket until t lie w ?>ni:in who up go: in ahead of him one moral? a utl emptied the hasket. Now etc J body in the hiiihiing is on to him ofl he doesn't dure put iee iu his wjufl basket any more. BLACKWELL MEMORIAL BAPTISTS TO BUjlfl The members of Ithick'.vcll Memo? inl ISaptisl Church are lookiug abed to new building plans which will ffl elude a special room for It. Y. l't I<Q gatherings, Woman's Missionary >?fl eiety uieeliugs. in addition to severlJ Suuiluy School class rooms. No del J inilo time has \et been set for Qfc| building, Lutl the hoard of dcaopjB and the members have vxpreuiafl themselves as favoring s"ch builtiM? ns the present ueeds of the chiiffl tnav demand.
The Independent (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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Sept. 19, 1922, edition 1
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